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        "text": "Janet Cosh was the only child of Dr John and Louise Cosh (née Calvert). Janet attended the University of Sydney, where she studied English, History and the Classics. She moved to the Southern Highlands in 1934, where she took a keen interest in local history and the natural environment. In her late sixties, Janet devoted her life to the study of the native flora of the Southern Highlands, New South Wales and became a highly respected amateur botanist. After Janet’s death, her bequest to the University of Wollongong provided funds and botanical resources which were used to establish the Janet Cosh Herbarium. Janet Cosh was born in Sydney in 1901, the only child of Dr John and Louise Cosh (née Calvert). Janet was an educated woman who attended Sydney University where she studied English, History and the Classics. From 1923 to 1926 she taught Latin and English at her former school, Normanhurst Girls School. Her passion for natural history and botany was inspired by her parents and also her grandparents. In particular, her maternal grandmother Louisa Atkinson was a botanist, natural historian and writer who collected for the notable botanists Rev. Dr. William Woolls and Sir Ferdinand von Mueller. Janet’s great grandmother, Charlotte Barton, raised four children under very tragic circumstances but still managed to write the first children’s book to be published in Australia, A Mother’s Offering to Her Children (1841), which mentions native flora and fauna and was an early example of Australian themes and experiences including colonisation and its effect on Aboriginal people. In 1934, Janet moved to the Southern Highlands, New South Wales with her parents after her father retired from his medical practice in Sydney. They purchased ‘Netherby’ in Moss Vale where Janet lived for the rest of her life and was a member of the All Saint’s Church at Sutton Forest. She was a dutiful daughter and cared for her parents until they died, her father in 1946 and mother in 1956. By then in her fifties, this quiet reserved woman was able to devote her time and passion to a systematic study of the history of the Southern Highlands and later botany. In both of these areas of interest she left permanent and accurate records. Janet is mentioned in the Australian Geographic (2019) as an ‘incredible Australian woman in botany’. Janet collected cuttings from local newspapers and The Sydney Morning Herald, especially about local history and conservation. She was a member of the National Trust and founding member of the Berrima District Historical Society in 1960. The Royal Australian Historical Society encouraged and supported local societies by teaching research and cataloguing skills. From 1964 to 1977, Janet was the local society’s archivist. In the late 1960s, Janet concentrated her attention to the study of botany and collected numerous plant specimens to add to her knowledge. She made significant contributions to plant taxonomy, providing a rigorous basis for understanding the ecology and biodiversity of the native flora in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. Janet was a frequent visitor to the Fitzroy Falls Visitors Centre, Morton National Park, where she stored her specimens. It was here, in the 1970s, that she met and befriended Pat Hall, Special Duties Officer at the time and later Manager of Education, Information & Tourism at the Centre. In turn, Pat introduced Janet to local people with an interest in botany. Funds from the National Park Foundation were used to establish the Janet Cosh Room at the Fitzroy Falls Visitors Centre in March 2000 as an education resource for the community. Don Tilley was a ranger and he met Janet when he caught this old woman picking plants illegally on Water Board land until she produced her NSW National Parks & Wildlife scientific licence which made them both chuckle. They became friends with a shared interest in the native flora. Don recollected that Janet had an impact and influence on everyone she met and most especially on him, ‘She was that particular about identification and was able to name even the smallest plant’ except in 1982 Don collected an unusual Hibbertia which Janet and others after her could not identify. In 2001, Belinda Pellow collected another sample and sent it to an expert in South Australia. Toelken, H.R. (2012) identified and published it as Hibbertia accaulothrix in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. As an amateur botanist, Janet was highly respected and was often in consultation with professional organisations such NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service and taxonomists at the National Herbarium of NSW, the Australian National Herbarium and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Insights are provided into Janet’s keen intellect by the many examples of letters exchanged with these authorities from prominent personnel such as L.A.S. Johnson, J. Armstrong, J.D. Briggs and D.A. Johnstone, which are wonderful examples of the polite and lengthy communications by mail in the 1970s. However, Janet was not averse to challenging senior botanists about their plant identifications and was quite disdainful about the use of common names. A number of the letters from the National Herbarium of NSW are acknowledgement of donations Janet made over the years. Significantly, Janet was the first donor to the National Herbarium of NSW Research Fund in response to a request in the journal Telopea in 1973. Over thirty specimens that Janet collected were considered to be worthy of incorporation into the National Herbarium of NSW. Some were significant species, for example, threatened Grevillea rivularis collected at Carrington Falls in 1976 and rare Zieria murphyii collected at View Point, Bundanoon in 1973. Janet’s botanical fieldwork was thorough and methodical and her field notes were precise. She was extremely proficient at map reading, having been recruited during World War II to locate and map various routes from the coast across the Southern Highlands to the inland. She was also interested in the accounts written by early travellers and explorers and perused old maps and acquired extensive knowledge about the geography of the Southern Highlands. Specimen locations were always recorded clearly and accurately. Range extensions of several species were documented by Janet as well as new locations for rare species such as Phyllota humifusa, Hakea constablei and Acacia chalkeri. Each specimen was identified by Janet using various systematic keys such as the Flora of the Sydney Region and by consulting with the National Herbarium of NSW. Janet amassed a collection of botanical books and maps, which she annotated prolifically and succinctly. Janet shared a keen interest in the ecology of plants with her friends Ros Badgery and Rachel Roxburgh, both resilient women. They all enjoyed exploring the bush and studying the native flora and fauna. They were also concerned about the conservation of the natural environment. Ros and Janet became friends in 1963 after the death of Dorothy Farran, a mutual acquaintance who was in their congregation. Ros was given Dorothy’s copy of ‘Moore & Betche’ published in 1893, the first official botanical flora. Janet was given some other botanical books. Janet asked Ros for help with botany but Ros said later that, ‘With her brain she outstripped me in no time’. After her family died, Ros managed a 2000 acre property in the Southern Highlands on her own for 65 years. Most of the property was declared a Wildlife Refuge in 1968, which would have pleased Janet immensely. Rachel and Janet probably met as members of the National Trust, the Berrima Historical Society and the National Parks Association in the 1960s when they became aware of their mutual interests. Rachel was a woman of strong convictions, rarely given to compromise and was described as ‘patrician in bearing and manner’. She was undaunted by politicians, municipal officers and bureaucrats. But from all accounts she was in awe of Janet Cosh and Janet was never daunted by her brusque manner towards others. They had some great adventures together while they were out collecting. On one occasion, they went to investigate the flora of Rodway Nature Reserve, an open forested plateau with steep cliffs near Berry off the end of Drawing Room Rocks. They couldn’t negotiate their way back in the dark so they spent the night there with a camp fire to keep warm, much to the consternation of the local constabulary! Rachel wished to study subjects in ecology at the University of Wollongong and was rather upset when informed she had to pay student fees for services she would never use except the library. Dr Rob Whelan, lecturer in biology, found a solution by allowing her to attend lectures and complete assignments in 1982 without being enrolled. Kevin Mills was a PhD student at the University of Wollongong studying the Illawarra rainforests in the 1980s when he met Janet and Rachel in the Southern Highlands. Between these friends and their association with Dr Rob Whelan they developed a keen interest to establish a regional herbarium in the Illawarra. It is very likely these connections informed Janet’s decision to include the University of Wollongong in her will. Janet made bequests to various organisations including The Royal Historical Society; All Saints Church of England, Sutton Forest; NSW Parks & Wildlife Foundation; Sydney City Mission; National Herbarium of NSW, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney and the University of Wollongong. The bequest to the University of Wollongong, which included substantial funds and botanical resources, was ‘to be used for the herbarium or botanical research’ in accordance with her last will and testament. Dr Rob Whelan (later Emeritus Professor, University of Wollongong) ensured that the specifics of Janet’s bequest were adhered to. As of 2019, the integrity of Janet’s bequest has been upheld. The Janet Cosh Herbarium was established in 1991. Janet’s botanical resources included a collection of over 1600 specimens, about 1500 botanical illustrations, a library, numerous field notebooks, photographs, vegetation surveys and maps. At the time, this also allowed Dr Kevin Mills’ research specimen collection to be incorporated into the Janet Cosh Herbarium. Janet’s collection included excellent examples of recycling using envelopes, notepaper, cardboard packaging, old Christmas cards and even the reverse side of her father’s watercolour paintings to record notes, drawings and mount specimens. Apparently, Janet was quite dismissive about her father’s numerous watercolours. They were later assessed by an expert and deemed to have no artistic value. Belinda Pellow, an expert botanist, was the first curator of the Janet Cosh Herbarium and responsible for developing a herbarium from Janet’s bequest. Belinda was one of the authors of the 5th Edition of Flora of the Sydney Region (2009). It is worth noting that Janet used the first edition, which she split in half for ease of carrying in the field. The purpose of a herbarium is to store a collection of dried, preserved and catalogued plant specimens for identification and reference purposes whereby each specimen verifies the existence of an individual plant at a particular place and time. The Janet Cosh Herbarium facilitates botanical research, teaching, expertise in plant identification and the management of native vegetation in a regional context. Janet’s botanical illustrations and plant specimens provide meticulous details of plants and their environment. The data she systematically recorded in the field are still being used as a taxonomical reference to assist with plant identification. Over the years, the collection has continued to grow with contributions from local botanists, researchers, students and the community. As at 2019, the Janet Cosh Herbarium holds almost 12,000 specimens and facilitates the teaching of undergraduate students, provides support for post-graduate students and research staff and has inter-departmental links, for example with the Faculty of Creative Arts to curate exhibitions of Janet’s botanical illustrations and other projects and the Faculty Management Division to establish Campus Tree Walks for social and educational purposes. Janet’s bequest to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney was for the purpose of contributing to the National Herbarium of NSW. According to Barbara Briggs, one of the foremost Australian botanists and from what was known of Janet’s interests and intentions, this was interpreted as support for any aspect of systematic research, collection management and public information about scientific programs. Various projects have been implemented including an inaugural studentship in 2001 to contribute to research in plant taxonomy or to encourage young scientists to consider a career in plant taxonomy or ecology. This bequest also enabled the Scientific Division to be more active and entrepreneurial than would otherwise have been possible. Activities associated with Janet Cosh’s bequest are documented and acknowledged in various Annual Reports and publications such as the journals Telopea and Australian Systematic Botany. Janet was highly respected for her botanical knowledge and was an inspiration to all who knew her. She made many significant contributions to plant ecology in the Illawarra and Southern Highlands which may be summarised as follows: collected over 1600 plant specimens and prepared over 1500 annotated illustrations which formed the foundation of the Janet Cosh Herbarium prepared a herbarium of 1500 specimens for Fitzroy Falls Visitors Centre, Morton National Park contributed to the knowledge of the National Herbarium of NSW recorded meticulous field notes discovered range extension of several plant species and discovered new locations of rare plants collaborated with professional botanists contributed to the establishment of several nature reserves including Robertson Nature Reserve, Stingray Swamp and Cecil Hoskins Reserve prepared vegetation maps for Morton National Park compiled many species lists which have been included in natural history booklets, for example Eastern Rim Wildflower Walk (1985) and publications relevant to the Southern Highlands, for example Fitzroy Falls and Beyond: A guide to Shoalhaven (1988). In the months prior to her death, in October 1989, the elderly Janet and Rachel became concerned with the decimation of the South East Forests of NSW. Travelling in Janet’s Subaru Brumby ute with their swags in the back, they made several trips to the area to document the impact of forestry practices in that region. Janet was still collecting specimens just a few weeks before she died and was planning a collecting trip to Fitzroy Falls. In honour of Janet Cosh, Flowering Wonderfully, the Botanical Legacy of Janet Cosh was compiled in 2012. Janet is one example of a large group of women of her era, with independent means and a keen interest in natural history, who have contributed to our knowledge of science in a quiet but significant way. In fact, she was an early exponent of ‘Citizen Science’. As her friend Rachel Roxburgh said in Janet’s obituary, ‘In the field of botany, the records Miss Janet Cosh left will enable students to know exactly when and where to find plant species and the University of Wollongong’s appreciation of her purpose would give Janet great pleasure’. Jean Clarke, Fellow of the University of Wollongong, has spent many years since her retirement working as a volunteer in the Janet Cosh Herbarium and devoted much of her time curating and preserving the Janet Cosh historical collection. Most of this collection was transferred to the University of Wollongong Archives in 2018. Jean provides assistance to curate the collection in the archives. It includes rare books, journal articles, letters, newspaper cuttings, photographs, field notes, botanical illustrations and other material donated by Janet Cosh. This collection complements the Cosh extended family collections held in the Mitchell library, Sydney and the National library Canberra. The plant specimen collection, including those collected by Janet Cosh, is stored in the Janet Cosh Herbarium, School of Earth, Atmospheric & Life Sciences, University of Wollongong and managed by Professor Kris French. This entry was prepared by University of Wollongong Fellow Jean Clarke, Janet Cosh Herbarium. Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Atkinson and Cosh family pictorial material, ca. 1842-1973 Cosh family papers, 1870-1923 Cosh family - further papers, 1866-1998 Papers of Janet Cosh Postcards addressed to Janet Cosh Royal Australian Historical Society Four photographs including list of names of the sitters and a letter from Janet Cosh (1.11.1980) National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Janet Cosh photographic collection ca. 1901-ca. 1920s National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Patricia Clarke, 1887-2010 [manuscript] Papers of Janet L. Cosh, 1826-1983 Author Details Jean Clarke Created 5 August 2019 Last modified 28 August 2019 Digital resources Title: Janet Cosh Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Boronia deanei, Fitzroy Falls Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Telopea mongaensis Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Red Cross Archives series reference: V99 Comprises meeting minutes from a range of Victorian Division sub-committees including those administering rehabilitation, and convalescent homes including: ANZAC Farm (Janefield) and ANZAC House (Brighton), Home Hospital, Central Depot, Caulfield Rest House, Rockingham House, Philadelphia Robertson House Management, Edgecliff House, Kooringa/Lady Dugan Hostel, Convalescent Home for War Nurses, Rehabilitation. Also includes departmental committees relating to fund-raising and public relations committees: Disabled Soldiers’ Furniture (DSF) Factory, Cycle Committee, Welfare and Auxiliaries committees, Library services, Junior Red Cross, including their Cadet Voluntary Aid Detachment Sub-committee minutes, Registration functional services, Transport division, Commerce and Industry, Men’s section, Policy committee, Women personnel, Woodwork, Social services, Blood transfusion, Special stores sub-committee, Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD), Victorian Joint Committee of St John and Red Cross, Educational sub-committee, Cavalcade (pageant committee), Army and Nurses, and Ex-service Assistance, Emergency Services Appeals, including Central Committee Wireless Broadcasts. Note that some records contain terms which reflect the attitude of the period in which is was written, and may be considered inappropriate today. This series has been artificially arranged by the Red Cross Archives in 2015. Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 9 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Gwen Pinner was a significant figure in the medical profession in Canberra. In addition to her work as a radiologist, she conducted a tuberculosis survey of the Australian Capital Territories and Queanbeyan and was involved in the establishment of the John James Memorial Hospital. As a child, however, it was her role of presenting a bouquet to the Duchess of York at the opening of Parliament House in 1927 that created an enduring image. Mancell Gwenneth Pinner was born on 24 June 1922 in Melbourne, the eldest daughter of John Thomas Pinner and Mancell Jeanott (née Drysdale). Her father, chief accountant and a member of the Expropriation Board of New Guinea, was in New Guinea at the time of her birth and was stationed there for much of her early childhood. In 1926 the family moved to Canberra where John had been appointed assistant-accountant in the Federal Capital Commission. Aged four, Gwen was selected from a ballot of some 500 children, to present a bouquet of roses to the Duchess of York at the opening of Parliament House on 9 May 1927. Dressed in a new white frock and bonnet for the occasion, she was accompanied up the steps by Captain J.H. Honeysett, a World War I veteran who lived next door to her family. Although Gwen later recalled little of the day, it was reported that she ‘appeared to feel no embarrassment in the presence of her Royal Highness, and, having carried out her part, skipped gaily across the lawn back to her waiting mother.’ Initially the family lived in Ainslie and Gwen attended Ainslie Public School. Dux in her final year, she was awarded a scholarship to attend the Canberra Church of England Girls’ Grammar School (CCEGGS) in 1934. Three years later the family moved to Deakin where Gwen and her sister, Jean, could walk across the paddocks to the school. At CCEGGS Gwen continued to excel: she captained the Basketball and Tennis teams; won the 1938 Lady Isaacs Prize for the best essay by a school girl; and was School Captain and Dux in her final two years. In 1939 Gwen was awarded a Canberra scholarship by the Canberra University College to assist her studies in medicine at the University of Melbourne. She was one of eight female graduates whose degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery were conferred in March 1945. Gwen began working as an intern at the Royal Melbourne Hospital but she contracted tuberculosis and her recovery entailed a year-long stay in hospital and a further year recuperating away from work. It was an experience that probably led to her appointment as head of a survey team examining the incidence of tuberculous infection in the Australian Capital Territory and Queanbeyan for the Commonwealth Department of Health (part of an Australia-wide programme aimed at eradicating tuberculosis). The survey was conducted over several months in 1949 and involved about half the population volunteering to receive a preliminary tuberculin skin test. Tests were conducted in schools, offices, shops, hostels, hotels and at a regular clinic in the old hospital buildings at Acton. In June, Gwen conducted skin tests on Members of Parliament as part of a publicity campaign to encourage participation in the survey. While the incidence of active tuberculosis was low, Gwen believed there was considerable educational value in the survey as it resulted in a population that was ‘tuberculosis conscious’. The next year she conducted a similar survey of 904 people on Norfolk Island. Gwen returned to the Royal Melbourne Hospital working as an assistant radiologist. She continued to study and was awarded a Diploma of Diagnostic Radiology in 1952. Two years later she became the first woman to be awarded the Thomas Baker Memorial Fellowship to study radiology abroad. Gwen departed in early 1955 for London. During her eighteen months overseas she spent time in several countries including Britain, Sweden, and America. Striving to gain the most benefit from the fellowship, she divided her time between working as an honorary assistant in hospitals; studying short courses; attending seminars and symposiums; and observing doctors. Gwen returned from abroad to the family home in Canberra and joined Ron Hoy and Bruce Collings at their practice. She also worked as a consultant radiologist at the Royal Canberra Hospital and, over the years, served on various hospital committees. In 1965, Gwen, along with a number of colleagues, founded Canberra’s first private hospital, John James Memorial Hospital. By the 1960s and 1970s she was considered ‘the dominant figure in radiology in Canberra’. Gwen had been elected to the Fellowship of the Faculty of Radiologists (London) in 1957 and to the Fellowship of the College of Radiologists of Australasia in 1964. In 1984 she became the first female President of the Royal Australasian College of Radiologists. She retired in 1987. In 1988, sixty-one years after presenting the bouquet to the Duchess of York, Gwen attended the opening of the new Parliament House and was presented to Queen Elizabeth. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Births, 1922, http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/418015 Problem of Conflicting Loyalties: Among Graduates, 1945, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1101561 Bouquets for the Duchess, 1927, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1212957 Ainslie School, 1933, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2321318 Personal, 1933, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2320714 University College, 1938, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2485128 Girls' Grammar School, 1938, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2482478 Scholarships, 1939, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2490762 Girls' Grammar School, 1939, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2518231 T.B. Skin Tests for M's P, 1949, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2807526 Dr. Gwen Pinner To Study Radiology Abroad, 1954, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2908246 The day a Duchess Smiled on a Nation's Capital, Clack, Peter, 1997 Obituary: Dr Gwenneth Mancell Pinner, Faunce, Marcus, 1998 At Parliament House, 1927, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16366850 Gwen Pinner, 1997 Magazine Burrawai: The Magazine of the Canberra Church of England Girls' Grammar School, 1938 Burrawai: The Magazine of the Canberra Church of England Girls' Grammar School, 1939 Journal Article Obituary: Mancell Gwenneth Pinner (1922-1998), Davis, Awa, 1988 A Tuberculosis Survey of Norfolk Island, Pinner, Gwen, 1951 Report of an Epidemiological Survey of the Australian Capital Territory and Queanbeyan, Pinner, Gwen, 1950 Report of the Thomas Baker Memorial Fellow for 1954 to the College of Radiologists of Australasia, Pinner, Gwen, 1957 Two Parliamentary Openings, Pinner, Gwen, 1988 Magazine article The Opening of Parliament at Canberra, 1927, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66351151 Journal Medical Directory of Australia, 1951-1980 Resource Section Pinner, John Thomas (1888 - 1955), 2002, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pinner-john-thomas-11429/text20367 Pinner Place, http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/tools_resources/maps_land_survey/place_names/place_search?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkYyMDMuOS4yNDkuMyUyRlBsYWNlTmFtZXMlMkZQbGFjZURldGFpbHMuYXNweCUzRm9iamVjdElEJTNENjU1NTgmYWxsPTE%3D Official Opening of Canberra by His Royal Highness the Duke of York, 1927, http://aso.gov.au/titles/newsreels/official-opening-canberra/clip1/ Zepps, Katrina (1918-1981), Godden, Judith, 2002, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/zepps-katrina-12092/text21697 Book Shadows and Substance: The History of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, 1949-1999, Tate, Audrey, 1999 University of Melbourne Calendar 1946, 1946, http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/10573 University of Melbourne Calendar 1953, 1953, http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/10551 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Royal Visit, May 1927 - The Duchess of York receiving a bouquet from a young girl (Gwen Pinner) Royal Visit, May 1927 - The Duchess of York receiving a bouquet from Gwen Pinner [Copy photograph] National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Duchess of York receiving flowers from Gwen Pinner at the opening of Parliament House, Canberra, 1927 [picture] / W.J. Mildenhall Author Details Nicole McLennan Created 25 June 2012 Last modified 21 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jacqueline (Jackie) Canessa is an activist in her profession and a one time candidate for election: Liberal Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Heffron in 1999. After graduating in Medicine (MB from Newcastle University, 1996), Jackie undertook further training in psychiatry at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, working as a Resident medical Officer 1996-1997 and Psychiatric Registrar 1998-. She was Treasurer, 2004 and Vice President, 2005, of the NSW Branch of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatrists in Training. She joined the Liberal Party in 1996 and has been active in the Young Liberals, being a delegate to Young Liberal Council and a member of its Administration Committee from 1998. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Thelma Jessie Norris took her BSc in 1943 at the University of Melbourne and joined the Commonwealth Department of Health, then under the direction of Arthur John Metcalfe, who was succeeded in 1960 by William Refshauge, himself a notable University of Melbourne graduate. In 1936 she had won a Junior Scholarship, awarded by the Victorian Education Department, and in December the same year came dux of the Preston Girls’ School Intermediate Year. The school, founded in 1928 and renamed Preston Girls’ Secondary College, closed despite some student protest in 2013.[1] She later attended MacRobertson Girls’ High School. After graduation she joined the Commonwealth Public Service and the Australian Women’s Weekly reported: When Thelma J. Norris, B.Sc., of Melbourne, rang doorbells in house-to-house survey throughout Australia, her object as member of the staff of the Commonwealth Health Department was to gain knowledge of family budgeting and diet. She has now been appointed to the food and agricultural section of UNO to study diet of peoples of member nations, and has left for Washington. Appointment is for five years.[2] The work submitted for the MSc which she was awarded in 1960 when she had returned to Australia gives an indication of her research before her departure as well as investigations undertaken for the Food and Agriculture Organization. It encompassed the technique and interpretation of dietary surveys, a nutrition survey of Tasmania covering food consumption and dietary levels in the spring of 1945 and Vitamin C nutritional status in the spring of 1945 and autumn of 1946, a nutrition survey in Uganda from 1955 to 1957 as well as a study of anaemia in childhood in a rural area of Uganda and a review of food and nutrition in the island of St Helena in February and March 1958.[3] Thelma Norris’s most influential publication for the Food and Agriculture Organization, published as part of its nutritional studies series was issued in English, French and Spanish.[4] She worked in many countries, including Borneo and Kenya, where she was stationed during the Mau Mau uprising of 1952 to 1960. Her nephew recalled her amusement at being advised by her employer to take a gun with her. There is no record of her firing it. He also remembered her wonderful presents of tribal drums and spears – they did not always meet with parental approval. [1] Henrietta Cook. ‘Girls’ School Set to Close as Enrolments Fall Away’. Age, 4 July 2013, http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/girls-school-set-to-close-as-enrolments-fall-away-20130703-2pd0s; Julia Irwin. ‘Students Vow to Fight to Keep Preston Girls Secondary College Open’. Northcote Leader. 9 July 2013, http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north/students-vow-to-fight-to-keep-preston-girls-secondary-college-open/news-story/960e5a0a1d4720e40e5d8167cdba27ed [2] ‘Interesting People’. Australian Women’s Weekly. 24 May 1947: 10. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46464554 [3] Thelma J. Norris. Dietary Surveys: their technique and use in nutritional status studies. Thesis (MSc) University of Melbourne, Dept. of Science, 1960. [4] T. Norris. Dietary Surveys: their technique and interpretation. Washington: FAO, 1949. F.A.O. nutritional studies no. 4. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Model Jo Bailey co-hosted the television game show Sale of the Century from 1991 to 1993. She married Carlton football player Stephen ‘SOS’ Silvagni in 1996, and has two sons – Jack and Ben. The daughter of Barrie and Fran Bailey, Jo completed her secondary education at Tintern Church of England Girls Grammar School and Methodist Ladies College. She completed a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) at Swinburne. Bailey was employed as an undergraduate auditor with Price Waterhouse. Later she became co-host of Sale of the Century and presenter of Looking Good for the Nine Network. Published resources Book Contemporary Australian Women 1996/97, 1996 Journal Article Team work, Houston, Melinda, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 January 2002 Last modified 1 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A selection of the entries based on second generation Italo-Australian women’s experiences was published as Growing up Italian in Australia: eleven young Australian women talk about their childhood. Sydney: State Library of New South Wales Press, 1993 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Biographical notes by her niece. Two copies both signed, one dated 19 Jan. 1966, the other 27 Jan. 1966. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Collection comprises – 2 cassettes – 2hrs?Margaret Watts reads two chapters of her unpublished autobiography, ‘Faith is My Shield’. Chapter 5 ‘American Friends’ and chapter 8 ‘Hunger and Epidemic’. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Vida Goldstein ran for the Australian Senate in 1903. Though she was not elected, she was the first woman to be nominated for the Australian Parliament. One of five children, Vida Goldstein was educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College in Melbourne. As a young woman, she worked with her mother in the anti-sweating movement and developed an anti-capitalist perspective. Later, she became involved in the suffrage movement. She was a paid organiser for the United Council for Women’s Suffrage, and she founded the Women’s Political Association. From 1900 to 1905 she produced and edited a monthly feminist journal, Woman’s Sphere . When the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance was formed, Goldstein was elected as corresponding secretary. She helped to found the National Council of Women, and was the Delegate from Australia and New Zealand to the International Woman Suffrage Conference in Washington D.C. in 1902. Vida Goldstein was nominated by the Women’s Federal Political Association as a candidate for the Senate in 1903. She became the subject of heated controversy, stating her policies in feminist terms. Goldstein polled 51,497 votes but was not elected. A further four attempts before 1917 were also unsuccessful. After the award of state suffrage in 1908, Goldstein launched a new journal, Woman Voter. In 1915, she founded the Women’s Peace Army alongside Cecilia John, Adela Pankhurst and Jennie Baines. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book That dangerous and persuasive woman: Vida Goldstein, Bomford, Janette M., 1993 Woman Suffrage in Australia, Vida Goldstein, 1910? The Life and work of Miss Vida Goldstein, Women's Political Association, ca. 1913 The Changemakers : Ten Significant Australian Women, Suzane Fabian and Morag Loh, 1983 Nation builders : great lives and stories from St Kilda General Cemetery, Eidelson, Meyer, 2001 A History of the Lyceum Club Melbourne, Gillison, Joan M, 1975 Radical Melbourne : a secret history, Sparrow, Jeff and Sparrow, Jill, 2001 Votes for women : the Australian story, Lees, Kirsten., 1995 Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 The Australian Woman's Sphere, 1900-1905 The Goldstein Story, Henderson, Leslie M. (Leslie Moira), 1973 Audiovisual material Vida Goldstein 1869-1949 [slide], Sue Fabian and Morag Loh Resource Australian Suffragettes, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1998, http://www.abc.net.au/ola/citizen/women/women-home-vote.htm Goldstein, Vida (1869-1949), The National Library of Australia's Federation Gateway, http://www.nla.gov.au/guides/federation/people/goldstein.html 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition, Parliament of Victoria Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Colonial Eve : sources on women in Australia, 1788-1914, Ruth Teale, 1978 Double Time: Women in Victoria - 150 Years, Lake, Marilyn and Kelly, Farley, 1985 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book Section Vida Goldstein and the struggle for women's rights, c1998 The lady politician: Vida Goldstein's first Senate campaign, Bomford, Janette, 1996 A white woman's suffrage, Grimshaw, Patricia, 1996 Modernity and mother-heartedness : spirituality and religious meaning in Australian women's suffrage and citizenship movements, 1890s-1920s, Smart, Judith, 2000 Report Recommendations in favour of voluntary methods of dealing with venereal diseases: as agreed upon by the Women's Political Association and the Women's Convention, Vida Goldstein, 1916 Report of the National Council of Women of New South Wales of an Informal Conference with Mrs May Wright Sewell, President of the International Council of Women, Vida Goldstein, 1902 Resource Section List of Electoral Divisions Named After Women, Australian Electoral Commission, http://www.aec.gov.au/history/women/women3.htm Vida Goldstein of Komein Pine Grove Malvern, Public Record Office Victoria, 2008, http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/Goldstein%2C_Vida Goldstein, Vida Jane Mary (1869-1949), Brownfoot, Janice N., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090042b.htm Journal Article Vida Goldstein and the English militant campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union, Caine, Barbara, 1993 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers on various Australian women [19--] [manuscript] Papers of Ruby Rich, 1943-1948 [manuscript] Papers of Loma Rudduck, 1944-1968 [manuscript] Collections held by the Fawcett Library relating to Australia and New Zealand [microform] : [M2291-2314], 1858-1967 Vida Goldstein 1869-1949 January 1966 [manuscript] Papers of Leslie M. Henderson, circa 1880-1961 [manuscript] Correspondence 1897-1919 [manuscript] Papers of Baron Henry Stafford Northcote, 1908 [manuscript] State Library of Victoria Letters : England, to Henry Hyde Champion and Elsie Belle Champion, Melbourne, 1908 - 1949. [manuscript]. Letters, diaries and lectures Press cuttings book presented to Edith How Martyn, 1943. [manuscript]. The Goldstein chronicle, [between 1950 and 1973]. [manuscript]. Vida Goldstein 1869-1949: Biographical notes by her niece, Leslie M. Henderson, 1966 January [manuscript]. National Library of Australia [Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to her candidature for the Federal Senate in 1903] [Biographical cuttings on Vida Goldstein, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Scheme of proposed Women's Rural Industries Co Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre Women's Suffrage Petition 1891 Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Fawcett Library - collections held by the Fawcett Library relating to Australia and New Zealand [M2291-2314], 1858-1967 [Collection of pamphlets containing souvenir concert programmes and Australian biographies.] Author Details Clare Land and Jane Carey Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 15 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Index of membership cards. System closed 1 February 1980. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Grace Elizabeth Brebner (QPM) achieved many ‘firsts’ during her policing career, which began in 1942. She was the first police woman to pass her police driving test, the first female detective in Australia, and, in 1973, the first police woman in Victoria to be awarded the Queen’s Police Medal (QPM). Brebner was Officer in Charge of Women Police from 1956 until she retired in 1974. ‘Policing is not a glamour job,’ she said when she retired, and you ‘need to be able to put things out of your mind after work’, to do it well. But for any drawbacks encountered, she assured that there were many, many rewards. ‘I can’t imagine anything in the way of a job that would have been more satisfying and interesting over the years’. Born in Joyce’s Creek, Victoria in 1914, Grace Brebner spent her early years in central Victoria before her family moved to a farm near Mildura, in the Wimmera. As a young adult, she moved to Melbourne where she worked in sales and in cafes. ‘I used to earn 12/6 ($1.25) a week. But it was obvious there wasn’t much future in it, even after I became a manager,’ she said. ‘Then I read an article about policewomen. It sounded interesting, so I applied.’ Combined with the encouragement of a policeman and his wife, who she had been boarding with, this was all she needed to set her course. ‘One day I just thought I would like the police life.’ This was in 1939, and there had only been eight Victorian policewomen appointed to this point, with a waiting list of 300 women. It was three and a half years before her application was accepted, but for the 28 year old woman described as ‘5’5? tall with blue eyes, light brown hair, medium complexion, weighing 9 st 2 lb, and of ‘good’ appearance’, the wait was worth it. She became the 14th woman inducted to the Victorian Police service overall. Brebner wasn’t there long before the praise and commendations started to accumulate. In her first two years she was commended alongside two constables for work resulting in a conviction for a man for offences against the Black Marketing Act. In April 1945 she was commended with 5 other policewomen for having ‘successfully cleared up a bad case of murder’. In 1947, she was commended with four others for the role she played in ‘a delicate investigation’ that resulted in the conviction of two backyard abortionists. She was described as someone who was ‘very adaptable’ and who possessed ‘plenty of initiative and common sense’. Her ‘uncanny ability’ at disguise, and staying undetected during undercover work brought successful conclusions to many a case. In 1950, Grace Brebner was appointed to the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) and one year later became the first female detective in Australia after being first policewoman to qualify at the Detective Training School. She was second in the class: only 1.5 points behind the dux. She was not long in the post when she was required to capture her own quarry! Described by the press as ‘Melbourne’s first “high- heeled” detective’, Detective Brebner was on her way to work at Russell Street Police Station from her home in East Melbourne when she was accosted by an alleged sex offender. She tackled the man, who broke away. After a 400-yards chase during which she caught him again, only to have him break away again, several men intercepted the offender and assisted her in the arrest. She was known to have ‘acquitted herself remarkably well’, while she was in ‘the branch’. Because she was the only woman detective, naturally, she always worked with male partners, many of whom could not accept the fact of a woman detective and gave her ‘a hard time’. One of those who did enjoy working with her, Reg Henderson, said that because they both tended to blend into the background, they achieved a lot of success ‘because nobody took any notice of us two in the car’. Henderson and Brebner were often called to duty at functions at Government House, to keep an eye out, as a form of security. She would buy ball gowns and dress like the guests, which was a definite perk of the posting. ‘Often there was a barrister or judge I knew from the courts,’ she said, ‘who would ask me to dance’. In October 1953, Brebner was appointed to the squad tasked with solving the brutal murder of teenager Shirley Collins, whose body was found dumped at Mt Martha a month earlier. In 2019, the murder remained unsolved. It was the first time in police history that a woman detective had been assigned to a homicide squad to investigate a murder and as such, made the headlines. Many police and members of the public were still of the view that women had no place in investigating these sorts of violent crimes, but the management view was that Brebner’s gift with people and communication suited her to the task of interviewing all of the Collins’ friends and the teenagers she had met at dance parties. After working as the only woman in CIB for 6 years, Brebner returned to the Women Police Division in 1956, promoted to the position of Sub-Officer-in-charge. Upon arriving back to this Division, Brebner noted that police cars were spare and that policewomen were banned from using them. She sought out procedures for a police driving licence and applied for the test. She later discovered the examiner had been told to ‘fail her if you can – we don’t want any women driving our bloody cars’. She passed, and policewomen have been driving police cars ever since as well as police motorbikes and riding police horses! In 1957 Brebner was presented with a Chief Commissioners Certificate for her ‘qualities of leadership and her standards of efficiency.’ In 1971 she became the first policewoman in Vic to reach Inspector rank. Two years later she became the first policewoman in Vic to receive Queens Police Medal. Grace Brebner QPM retired in 1974, and when asked to reflect upon what special qualities were required to be a policewoman she insisted that ‘common sense’, ‘an interest in people’ and the capacity to ‘put things out of your mind after work’ were essential. When asked if being a policewoman made women hard, her response was interesting. ‘No, it is like children watching television,’ she said. ‘They become accustomed to the violence and adjust themselves to it’. An experienced woman police officer, remembering Grace Brebner in 2015, wasn’t so sure that being a trailblazing woman in the Victorian police force didn’t leave her with a hard edge. “She was a bitch, but she had to be,” said the officer, who called Brebner “Aunty Grace”. Policewomen during the 1960s and 70s had close relationships because there were so few of them. The older policewomen without children were often called “Aunty” by those coming up behind. Grace Brebner was one of those Aunties who made sure the next generation of women would be able to take the heat. Looking forward to having some ‘lazy time’ in retirement, Brebner planned on going for a drive to visit her brother in Queensland. She also planned on staying involved in ‘women’s and children’s welfare and mental health organisations.’ She vowed to ‘write a book, enjoy her house and garden in Mitcham, keep the bird bath filled, read, shop and ‘be available for anyone (at Russell Street)’. She died in 1984, before she had a chance to write that book. For there to be no biography of someone who so profoundly shaped policing for the women who followed her is a crime worth investigating. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 28 July 2020 Last modified 28 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: Not Applicable]??Comprises 98 gramophone records used by the Australian Red Cross to support a wide variety of activities including funding appeals, endorsements, interviews, speeches and music therapy for rehabilitation contexts.??These gramophone disks were from a variety of sources including the Australian Red Cross, the International Red Cross as well as commercial broadcasts and recordings.??Some notable speakers include: senior members of the Red Cross including Lady Brooks, Lady Edwina Mountbatten, Paul De Ruegger; scientists Sir Peter MacCallum, Dr. Eric Cunningham Dax; notable sportsmen Donald Bradman, Lewis Hoad, Bert Bryant and philanthropists Lord Nuffield.??CAUTION: It should be noted that these recordings reflect the attitudes of time in which they were created, and may contain language and views which may be considered offensive today.??Many of these gramophone disks are 16 inch in diameter or Broadcast size which are now rare. Scrap for Victory drives resulted in many early gramophone disks being recycled for reuse during the WW2 to reuse shellac. It was a common belief at the time that audio recordings were ephemeral. See: Fishman, Karen and McKee, Jan. Reference Librarian, Recorded Sound Section, Library of Congress. Scrap for Victory Library of Congress https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2015/01/scrap-for-victory/ (Accessed 15/11/2017)??Additionally, five of these Broadcast disks have etched b sides advertising the manufacturer RCA Victor and icon of dog listening to speaker. See items 2016.0077.00078, 2016.0077.00079, 2016.0077.00081, 2016.0077.00082, 2016.0077.00083 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of_gramophone_records?Some of the commercial play recordings used in Red Cross convalescent and rehabilitation homes have braille labels, these include: The Thirty Nine Steps 2016.0077.00039 – 2016.0077.00045; A kid for two farthings 2016.0077.00048 – 2016.0077.00055 and Life of Mahatma Gandhi 2016.0077.00068??To date most of these records have not been digitised. This series does not have a previous Red Cross control number; but many items do have previous control numbers which are retained.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sarah Powell was State President of the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen’s Mothers’ Association for 25 years and was made Life President. She was decorated with the OBE in June 1943 for her services in this organisation. She founded the Croydon Branch and attended their annual meeting on her 92nd birthday five days before she died. Sarah Jane Powell the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Skewes (the Skewes are able to trace their ancestry back to John Wesley, the founder of Methodism) was born at Collector in New South Wales. The eldest of ten children she moved with her family to Warrenheip, near Ballarat in Victoria, where her father became the school master and preacher. Here she became a teacher with the Schools Board, an organist for the local church as well as teaching singing and piano. On December 29, 1886 she married Samuel James Powell and moved to Warrnambool. The parents of six children the Powell family moved to Melbourne in 1905. Powell became president of the Coburg branch of the Australian Women’s National League as well as being the branch delegate to the Council. During World War I, in which she was to lose a son and brother, Powell became involved with the care and welfare of soldiers invalided home from the battlefronts. Following the war she became a foundation member of the Soldiers Mothers’ Association (later called Sailors’, Soldiers and Airmen’s Mothers’ Association – SS&AMA) in 1919. Powell became State President in 1921 and was made Life President in 1926. A member of the War Memorial Committee – later known as the Shrine of Remembrance, Powell represented the Mothers’ Association on the committee of the Kings Memorial. She founded the Croydon Branch of the SS&AMA. When this Branch opened a Home for widows or those separated from their husbands, one of the flatettes was named in her honour. In appreciation of her community work Sarah Powell was recognised by being presented with various awards including: • The Order of Merit from the Returned Soldiers’ League (later named Returned & Services League of Australia – RSL) for her devotion to the cause of the men who fought in the Great War in 1923. • The Coronation Medal at the time of the coronation of King George VI in 1937. • Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for social welfare work with the armed forces on June 2, 1943. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Edna M Lemke Created 1 June 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Mrs Sarah Powell Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Representatives from the Fathers and Mothers' Sailors' Soldiers and Airmen's Associations Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Acknowledgement of support Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0989gd.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0989ge.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 min 28 sec. 16mm/b&w/silent. Actuality footage, Television news footage.??The Minister for the Army, Mr Bob Katter, was on the move in NSW yesterday (July 12) visiting two of the Army’s officer training establishments. During the morning, at the Officer Training Unit, Scheyville (pronounced Sky-ville) near Windsor, NSW, he reviewed his first graduation. Afterwards, he flew by Army helicopter to the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps School at Georges Heights, Sydney, NSW. At Georges Heights, Mr Katter spent about one and a half hours inspecting training, accommodation and messing facilities at the Womens Royal Australian Army Corps School. The school has about 86 officer cadets undergoing training. It also conducts courses for recruits and for non commissioned officers. One of the best known soldiers at the school to meet the Minister was Corporal Digger, the school’s dog mascot. Mr Katter was accompanied during his tour by the Assistant Director of WRAAC, Lieutenant Colonel B. Maxwell, and the Chief Instructor of the school, Major M. Holmes. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: V05]??Comprises Rockingham Echo newsletters produced by residents of Rockingham for circulation amongst residents. Each booklet has an original screen printed cover on coloured paper, followed by a title page with the Editorial Group, Cover Design and Printer named. Each publication has an index; follow by reports on excursions, articles on sport, jokes, entertainment, quizzes, cartoons, poetry, short stories, and items of interest such as lists staff and their roles. See: Who s Who at Rockingham September 1961, p.21 (2016.0065.00001)??This is difficult to estimate the exact print run and the frequency of publication. Some years the publication is monthly, others are bi monthly, quarterly or a combination these. What is clear is that there are no publications in this set for the years 1966, 1971, 1972.??Rockingham Convalescent Home, Barkers Road Kew was established in 1940 as an 80-100 bed psychiatric facility for returned ex-service patients mostly from Heidelberg Repatriations hospital. In 1958 the name was changed to simply Rockingham upon the request of patients who objected to convalescent home which implied they were passive patients when their experience was of an active therapeutic community where stimulating activities and occupational therapy was provided such as weaving, ironwork, leatherwork, basketry and gardening which helped patients in their recovery. The facility continued to operate until 1977. See: Red Cross News, Dec 1988 Feb 1989, p.19. Rockingham where lives were put back together (2016.0064.00019).??See also: ROCKINGHAM HOUSE COMMITTEE MINUTES (2016.0071.00023); and files relating to rehabilitation in CORRESPONDENCE FILES, NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS (2015.0033).??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records of Catherine Helen Spence, author, humanitarian and reformer, comprising her 1894 diary, letters, manuscripts of sermons, articles written for publication, lectures, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, the text of the novel ‘Handfasted’, also reminiscences of and by Miss Spence. Includes literary manuscripts. Also included is a framed point-lace collar made by her in 1910 as a present for the marriage of Janet Doris Hübbe and Alfred Allen Simpson. Author Details Clare Land Created 16 December 2001 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Liz Jackson was a multi-award winning journalist who came relatively late to the profession. After working as a lawyer, and then as a ‘femocrat’ in the New South Wales Public Service, at the age of thirty-three she turned her hand to journalism. In 2005 she became the first female host of ABC Television’s Media Watch program. She left the ABC in 2013. Jackson passed away in 2018, having struggled with Parkinson’s Disease since she was diagnosed in 2014. Liz Jackson grew up in Parkville, near the University of Melbourne. In the 1970s, after completing an arts degree, she travelled to London where she studied to be a barrister. On her return to Australia she worked for the New South Wales Government. It was during this time that Liz Jackson moved into a home full of journalists, eventually shifting into journalism herself. ‘My life as a public servant seemed a lot less interesting than theirs as journalists,’ she said. ‘No one seemed to want to know what I did that day.’ Jackson joined the ABC in 1987. After spending seven years in radio, at Radio National and 2JJJ, she joined Four Corners as a reporter. In 2005 she became host of Media Watch and was also known for her work on 4 Corners. Events 1993 - 1993 Best International Report, ‘Somalia. Dying for Relief’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1996 - 1996 Best Application of the Television Medium to Journalism, ‘Telling His Story’ Australian Broadcasting Corporation (with Ashley Smith) 2000 - 2000 Coverage of Indigenous Affairs, ‘Go to Jail’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, (with Lin Buckfield) 2000 - 2000 Coverage of Sport, ‘Fixing Cricket’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, (with Lin Buckfield & Peter Cronau) 2002 - 2002 Social Equity Journalism (Highly Commended), ‘Putting The Children At Risk’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (with Morag Ramsay & Jo Puccini) 2006 - 2006 Coverage of the Asia-Pacific Region, ‘Stoking the Fires’, 4 Corners, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (with Lin Buckfield) 1985 - 2006 - 2006 Stoking the Fires’, 4 Corners, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (with Lin Buckfield and Peter Cronau) 2017 - 2017 A Sense of Self’ – ABC TV (with Martin Butler, Bentley Dean and Tania Nehme) Published resources Resource Section Liz Jackson, Pedler, Emma and Joseph Thomsen, 2005, http://www.abc.net.au/sa/stories/s1383221.htm Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 20 November 2007 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute books, 8 June, 1850-19 July, 1960, 4 August 1970-5 August 1975, 28 September 1981-29 August 1983. The collection includes also the minute book of the Industrial Home, 7 January 1861-19 August 1862. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 August 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dame Nellie Melba (née Helen Porter Mitchell) was an internationally renowned opera singer, celebrated for her magnificent coloratura (soprano) voice. Melba’s musical training began in Melbourne at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, and continued in France under Mathilde Marchesi. Her operatic debut was in Brussels, in 1887. Melba went on to perform in London, Paris and New York before returning to Australia to tour in 1902. She also toured Australia in 1909, 1911, 1924 and 1928. She founded a women’s singing school in Melbourne and wrote a singing manual and a memoir. Melba was appointed to The Order of the British Empire, Dame Grand Cross (Civil) on 3 June 1927 for services to Australia. She was also appointed to The Order of the British Empire, Dames Commander, on 15 March 1918 for giving fund-raising concerts to assist war wounded during the First World War. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1918 - 1918 1927 - 1927 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet.pdf Resource Section Melba, Nellie (1861-1931), Davidson, Jim, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100464b.htm Book Nellie Melba : the first Australian diva, Magee, Adrian, 1995 Popular Australian singers from the early years of sound recording [sound recording]. Volume 1., c1988 Nellie Melba, a contemporary review, Moran, William R., 1995 Nellie Melba : the legend still lives, Vickery, Marian, 1982 Red plush and black velvet : the story of Dame Nellie Melba and her times, Wechsberg, Joseph, 1962 Melba method, Melba, Nellie, Dame, 1926 Melodies and memories, Melba, Nellie, Dame; Beverley Nichols, 1925 Papers of Dame Nellie Melba, National Library of Australia 100 great Australians, Macklin, Robert, 1983 Evensong, Beverley Nichols, 1932 Australian nurses since Nightingale 1860-1990, Burchill, Elizabeth, 1992 The Shire of Lilydale and its military heritage : the First World War and its effect on the community, McAleer, A J, c1995 Victoria, the first century : an historical survey, compiled by the Historical Sub-committee of the Centenary Celebrations Council, 1934 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Book Section Melodies and memories; introduction and notes by John Cargher, Melba, Nellie, Dame; Beverley Nichols, 1980 Edited Book Dame Nellie Melba, Franklin Peterson, 1915 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Double Time: Women in Victoria - 150 Years, Lake, Marilyn and Kelly, Farley, 1985 Souvenir Dame Nellie Melba and J.C. Williamson Ltd. : grand opera season, June-July-August 1924, souvenir, 1924 Newspaper Article Dame Nellie Melba: Death in Sydney, 1931, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4264309 Death of Dame Nellie Melba: Australia's Greatest Singer, 1931, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16756845 Obituary [Dame Nellie Melba], 1931 Melba's keys to past, O'Connor, Shaunagh, 2003 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of Victoria Letters relating to Australia, 1856-1889 [manuscript]. Biographical file of information on Dame Nellie Melba, ca. 1961. [manuscript]. Scrapbook, ca. 1911-1937. [manuscript]. Letters, ca. 1916. [manuscript]. Papers, [manuscript]. Scrapbook, 1909-1931. [manuscript]. Papers, 1845-1870 [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Account book, 1902-1903 [manuscript] Miscellaneous papers re Caroline Chisholm and Dame Nellie Melba, c1833-c1953 [microform] Papers of Fritz Bennicke Hart 1898-1951 [manuscript] Collection of papers relating to Dame Nellie Melba, 1911-1928 [manuscript] Family papers, ca. 1869 - ca. 1945 [manuscript] Correspondence, [19--] [manuscript] The discovery of a Nellie Melba archive 1971 [manuscript] Papers of Dame Nellie Melba, circa 1908-1970 [manuscript] Papers of Dame Nellie Melba 1895-1923 [manuscript] Scrapbooks 1924 [manuscript] Letters and diary, 1911-1931 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Nellie Melba papers, 1901-1903 [Collection of pamphlets containing souvenir concert programmes and Australian biographies.] Performing Arts Museum Van Straten Collection Cochran Collection Papers of Lemmone, John, 1861-1949. Grainger Museum Percy Grainger: outgoing correspondence Correspondence: Nellie Melba to Rose and Percy Grainger Correspondence: \"Melba letters\" Correspondence: Letters between Percy Grainger and Nellie Melba Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music Records of Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music Author Details Clare Land Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "48 hours 40 minutes??A series of interviews with 25 South Australian women involved in a broad range of political activities. The interviewing program was developed as part of the State Library of South Australia’s celebration of the centenary of women’s suffrage in 1994, and supervised by the Oral History Officer, J.D. Somerville Oral History Collection, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Atherton, Qld. 1945-02-27. NFX76505 Corporal Alice Penman, with Private H. E. (Emily) Lewis, examining stocks of bottles of medical supplies in a cupboard at the regimental aid post, 65 AWAS Barrack. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Committee meeting minutes, Annual General Meeting minutes, Annual Conference Proceedings Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 26 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Local historian Christine Adams was born and raised in Broken Hill, New South Wales. After living in South Australia and Queensland, she returned to Broken Hill with her husband Paul in 2003. Christine Adams was the third child and only daughter of Vincent James Leonard and Beryl Helene (Helen) Leonard, nee Matthewson. Both sides of her family were well established in Broken Hill. The Matthewsons had migrated from Scotland and settled in the town by 1918. The Leonards – descended from James Leonard, once a convict stationed at Van Diemen’s Land – were living there from 1907. The marriage of Helen (a Presbyterian) and Vince (a Catholic) in 1935 caused some controversy within the two families. Their first son Desmond Vincent was born in July 1936, followed by Malcolm Thomas in May 1942. Christine was born four years later. Vince was a mine worker and the family lived first at Railwaytown before moving in early 1955 to a home in Queen Street, South Broken Hill, following the establishment of the Zinc mine housing co-op. Within months, Vince had been hospitalised with pneumonia. He passed away at the age of 42 in September 1955, when Christine was nine years old. His wife found work cleaning the mine-operated kindergarten before being appointed hostess of the Zinc Guest House, a temporary residence for dignitaries visiting the mine. Christine Leonard was educated at St Joseph’s Convent School in Broken Hill. A bright student, she developed a strong and lasting respect for the nuns who taught and cared for her there. Despite ambitions to study medicine, she left school at the age of sixteen following her mother’s first heart attack in 1961 and took on administrative work at the mines in order to supplement the family income. She became involved with the Young Christian Workers group, serving as secretary and treasurer and attending Sunday night dances. At 17, Christine met Paul Adams at a local party and they courted for eighteen months before she called off the union: she was Catholic; he was Church of England. In 1967 she married Barry John Midgley in the Sacred Heart Cathedral at Broken Hill. Ten years her senior and hailing from South Australia, Barry was working for International Computers Limited. The newlyweds moved to Adelaide, where Christine gave birth to two daughters: Anne-Louise (1969) and Kathryn (1971). Christine’s mother was remarried, to Norman Rawling, in 1963. In 1974, she passed away. By then, Christine was undertaking a childcare course in Adelaide and attempting to save her struggling marriage. In 1980 she and Barry moved with their two children and Barry’s mother to the Gold Coast, where Christine began work for Telstra, but the marriage was all but over. Several years later, by a curious set of circumstances, Christine found herself once again in contact with her former sweetheart, Paul Adams. Paul was then working at the University of New South Wales Arid Zone Research Station in Fowler’s Gap. He too was at the end of an unsalvageable marriage. After some years of phone contact Christine and Paul were reunited and finally married at Fowler’s Gap in 1991. They celebrated with a four-day wedding. Christine completed an Advanced Diploma in Applied and Local History at the University of New England, Armidale, in 2002. The following year, she and Paul returned to live in Broken Hill. For many years, Christine has undertaken research in local history and has several publications to her name including Way Out West: Pastoral Stories of Western New South Wales (2008) and Sharing the Lode: The Broken Hill Migrant Story (2004). Family history compilations include Shamrocks, Scythes and Silver (1998) and Goodnight My Son (1998). Christine assisted with the creation of the Broken Hill Migrant Museum and co-convened All Fired Up: The Broken Hill Fire Brigade Exhibition as well as the Broken Hill Sacred Heart Cathedral Centenary Photographic Exhibition. Published resources Book Sharing the Lode: The Broken Hill Migrant Story, Adams, Christine, 2004 Way Out West: Pastoral Stories of Western New South Wales, Adams, Christine, 2008 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Christine Adams Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 27 February 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "In the late 1950s Oldmeadow, with her husband Courtney, founded Oldmeadow Booksellers. In 1974, they opened Dromkeen, which has become an internationally recognised children’s literature museum. Born: 22 August 1921. Died: 4 August 2001. Oldmeadow trained as a kindergarten teacher before founding Oldmeadows Booksellers with her husband Court in the late 1950s. They promoted children’s authors and successfully conducted a series of meet-the-author sessions. In 1973, the Oldmeadows purchased a large 19th century farmhouse near Riddells Creek, Victoria, Dromkeen Homestead. They began a collection of original children’s book illustrations, manuscripts and early Australian children’s books. The Oldmeadows were jointly awarded Britain’s Eleanor Farjeon Award for their services to children’s literature in 1976. In 1982, Oldmeadow inaugurated the Dromkeen Medal, which is awarded annually to individuals for outstanding achievements in the field of children’s literature. She was awarded the Nan Chauncy Award in 1988, by the Children’s Book Council of Australia, as well as the Order of Australia Medal in 1989, for her services to children’s literature. Published resources Newspaper Article Joyce Oldmeadow, OAM, Dugan, Michael, 2001 Caring custodian of children's imaginations, Jones, Philip, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Joyce Oldmeadow, bookcollector, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Joyce Oldmeadow] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Bill Bunbury] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 August 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of the Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel Council 1967-1975; Minutes of Annual General Meetings of Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel Council 1968-1975; Financial statements and correspondence 1973-1975; Membership 1973. These are the records created by the Invergowrie Past Students Association after taking control of the Hostel in 1967 and forming the Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel Council and incorporating it as a company. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Various items. Formerly PR2771/1-. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Personal correspondence files, 1958-1993. Includes Student File 1958-1971, correspondence on Margaret Manion’s appointment to the Chair of Fine Arts and her award of the Order of Australia in 1989. Newspaper and magazine articles about Margaret Manion, 1979-1989. Copy of an address “Vasari and the Renaissance”, on the occasion of Professor Crawford’ Jubilee. Marked: “Prof. J. Burke?”. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Experimental documentary film contrasting the relationship between Aboriginal women and white men in the past and in the 1980s. The film juxtaposes contemporary images of black women with a voice-over of extracts from early journals of white settlers and sailors, in order to question the validity of conventional white history and to deny the image of Aborigines as passive and powerless. — General note: Additional credits: Philippa Harvey (Film editor); Gail Mabo, Cheryl Pitt, Lindsay McCorrmack (Cast). Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 digital audio tape (ca. 42 min.)??Sir Ernest Lee-Steere, pastoralist, speaks about his aunt, Kate O’Connor, who became an artist, how his whole family went overseas in 1924 and visited Kate in Paris who showed them the Louvre; how she won an All-Australian Art prize at age 86; how her father was believed to have shot himself but this remains a mystery; in 1910 on a journey back to Ireland Kate suddenly declared that she was only going as far as Paris and there she stayed; her inclinations as a suffragette; her relative poverty while living in Paris as an artist; how she cultivated some wealthy friends; how she became a Post-Impressionist painter, and her unhappiness at having to return to Australia in 1955. (From National Library of Australia catalogue). Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Doris Pilkington is the author of Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence; the story on which Phillip Noyce’s celebrated feature film is based. Doris Pilkington was born on Balfour Downs station, 60 kilometres northwest of Jigalong in the Pilbara district, Western Australia. Aged four she was forcibly removed with her mother to the Moore River settlement, 115 kilometres north of Perth. Doris attended the settlement school before moving to Perth, where she began training as a nursing aide at the Royal Perth hospital. She later moved to Geraldton and, after raising her children, completed her secondary education. She returned to Perth to study journalism at Curtin University. During a holiday at Jigalong, Pilkington discovered that her mother, Molly Kelly, was sent from Jigalong to the Moore River settlement at the age of 14, together with her two cousins aged eight and ten. The children escaped and returned to Jigalong by following the 1,000 kilometre long rabbit-proof fence – a journey which took them several months to complete. Inspired by these experiences, Doris wrote a novella, Caprice: A Stockman’s Daughter (1991), which won the 1990 David Unaipon award. She also wrote Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996), which was later turned into Phillip Noyce’s feature film, Rabbit-Proof Fence (2001). Published resources Book Follow the rabbit-proof fence, Pilkington, Doris (Nugi Garimara), 1996 Caprice: a stockman's daughter, Pilkington, Doris (Nugi Garimara), 1991 Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Shiner of light on stolen generation, Olsen, Christine, 2014 Fearless writer revealed the lives behind the Sorry Day stories of dispossession, 2014 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 20 May 2005 Last modified 4 September 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Information in the Senate minutes and Faculty of Medicine minutes, University of Sydney c1908-46. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Erica Underwood was the first woman Deputy Chairman of Council at the Western Australian Institute of Technology, the first psychologist trained in Western Australia, an ABC broadcaster and a founder of the University radio station 6 NR. [1] She was appointed to The Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) on 31 December 1977 for services to radio, education and the community. The daughter of William and Jessica Chandler, Erica’s career ambition was to become a psychologist. As no course was available in Western Australia she accepted a teachers’ college bursary and studied Arts at the University of Western Australia. After graduating, Erica became the first cadet in psychology at the Government Psychological Clinic for Children. The clinic closed during the depression and she completed her Teacher’s Certificate and taught for four years at Collie. [2] In 1934 she married Eric Underwood (later Professor) and they were to have four children. Professor Underwood, an agricultural scientist, became Professor of Agriculture at the University of Western Australia, and is widely known for his work on the effects of trace elements in nutrition. In 1949 Erica Underwood, along with two other women, was appointed to the Children’s Court bench to assist the magistrate. During the late 1940s she joined broadcaster Catherine King, presenting one session per fortnight on the ABC radio programme “The Women’s Session.” The programme was broadcast throughout the State and included music, live interviews and discussion on subjects from science and arts to cooking and parenting. It was based on the premise that women who were not in the paid work-force were thinking people with wide interests and concerns. [3] Together Erica Underwood and Catherine King travelled in the ABC van meeting the country women who listened to the programme. In 1966 Erica became the sole broadcaster of the show. Erica was involved in a variety of community activities. She was the first woman appointed to the Churchill Fellowship Award committee; the first woman government nominee on the Council of the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University of Technology) and in 1977 became the first woman Deputy Chairman (now Pro-Chancellor); Deputy chairman of the Western Australian Arts Council; and member of the State Advisory Committee of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. She was an official visitor to the Riverback Boy’s institution; a member of the Western Australian committee of the Silver Jubilee Appeal; and Chairman of the committee for the Citizen of the Year Awards. In 1981 Erica Underwood became the first woman to be awarded an honorary Doctorate of Technology from the Western Australian Institute of Technology. [4] She passed away in 1992, aged 84. Published resources Book Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2002 Last modified 5 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jacqueline Denise Templeton spent almost fifty years in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, although it was only towards the end of her career that she was able to devote as much time to research as many of her colleagues. She came to the University in 1952, taking her BA in 1956. Her initial focus was British history, but it was as a historian of Australia and Italian migration to Australia that she is best known and most affectionately remembered. After several years in England and improving her Italian while teaching at Marymount International School in Rome and the British School of Milan, she returned to the University in 1965 as Senior Tutor. In 1968 she wrote the first scholarly history of a Victorian hospital, for the centenary of Prince Henry’s. It was published in 1969, won several prizes and formed the basis of the MA she took in 1972.[1] The following year she published a study of the Melbourne Police Strike of 1923.[2] After spending two years on secondment to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet as a consultant to the Hope Commission, she returned to tutoring in Australian history and was promoted to lecturer in 1984.[3] From 1985 Jackie Templeton and John Lack taught a course on migration which led to two books.[4] Her own research concentrated increasingly on Italian emigration to Australia and work in Lombardy resulted in her collecting over 600 letters sent by Italians in Australia. These were deposited in the Museo Etnografico Tiranese and, in her translation formed the basis of a major scholarly work published in English and Italian shortly after her death. There is also a collection, made available through her colleague John Lack, in the Italian Historical Society Museum in Carlton, which includes originals and copies of documents: letters; photographs; personal travel documents; shipping records; and newspaper cuttings as well as the agent’s register of Valtellinese migrants who sailed to Australia with Lloyd Triestino from January 28 to February 28 1970. Jackie Templeton lived just long enough after retirement to complete her revision of the manuscripts. From the Mountains to the Bush: Italian migrants write home from Australia, 1860-1962 was published in 2003 and the Italian version appeared in two editions, the second including the text of the letters.[5] [1] Jacqueline Templeton. Prince Henry’s; the evolution of a Melbourne hospital, 1869-1969. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens, 1969. [2] Jacqueline Templeton. ‘Rebel Guardians: The Melbourne Police Strike of 1923’. Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Journal. no. 24 (1973): 103-27. [3] Australia. Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security. [Reports] Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1977-78. [4] John Lack & Jacqueline Templeton (eds.) Sources of Australian Immigration History. Melbourne: History Dept, University of Melbourne, 1988; John Lack and Jacqueline Templeton. Bold Experiment: a documentary history of Australian immigration since 1945. Melbourne; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. [5] Templeton, Jacqueline. Dalle Montagne al Bush: l’emigrazione valtellinese in Australia (1860-1960) nelle lettere degli emigranti. a cura di John Lack; traduzione di Paola Teresa Rossetti. 2a ed. con i testi delle lettere. Tirano: Museo etnografico tiranese, 2005. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 8 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Microfilm copy of sketch-books redrafted by the author, from the original sketch and note-books, for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. Made in 1965 by A.N.U. Library. Negative?1. The Moolaboola sketch-book — 2. The Cundarlee sketch-book — 3. The Avergne sketch-book Author Details Judith Ion Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This 18 page text is an offprint of Missionary review, July 1966. Sydney : Board of Missions of the Methodist Church of Australasia. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Reports 1911-39 and central council minutes 1914-37. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 volumes of textual material.??A 7018?1. ‘Ladies Committee book’, 7 June 1863-5 December 1911?(Request Microfilm: CY 1180, frames 1-201)??A 7019?2. Journal 30 September 1864-22 October 1870?(Request Microfilm: CY 1180, frames 202-450)??A 7020?3. Journal 1 May 1891-26 January 1899?(Request Microfilm: CY 1180, frames 451-628) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 18 May 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Maroochy Barambah is a distinguished indigenous musician whose career since the 1970s has spanned the genres of jazz, rock, musical theatre and classical opera. Maroochy Barambah, formerly Yvette Isaacs, of Gubbi Gubbi descent, was born in c.1950s at Cherbourg reserve in Queensland. Her early years were spent in the dormitory system, designed to sever Aboriginal children from their cultural heritage. She participated in the Aboriginal Inland Mission choir at Cherbourg and, when fostered out to a family in Melbourne, she went to school there under the Harold Blair Aboriginal Children’s project. In the 1970s she was awarded a Melba Conservatorium of Music scholarship, and subsequently formed her own jazz group. She became lead singer with indigenous rock band Quokka and participated in the Rock Against Racism concert in Hobart, Tasmania. She also took part in the television series Women of the Sun (1982). In the same year she changed her name as a statement of pride in her Aboriginality. In 1989 she performed in the Sydney Metropolitan Opera production, Black River, which won the Sounds Australian National Music Critics Award for the year and a film version has since been produced. In 1990 she played the lead role in the successful indigenous musical, Bran Nue Dae, and in 1991 was awarded the inaugural Aboriginal performing arts fellowship offered by the Aboriginal Arts Committee as she pursued a career as a classical opera singer. She also had the lead role in Beach Dreaming, an opera written not only for but about her, by Mark Isaacs. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Book Women of the sun, Maris, Hyllus and Sonia Borg, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 20 May 2005 Last modified 24 March 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Australian Women’s Army Service Association (NSW) was established in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1948 for the purpose of organising an Australian Women’s Army Service reunion. This became an annual event held at various venues and organised by a number of committees over the years. The Association was born of an informal meeting held in 1948 for the purpose of organising an Australian Women’s Army Service reunion. This became an annual event held at various venues and organised by a number of committees over the years. In 1950 it was proposed that any profit accruing from the reunion should be used to establish a fund with a view to forming an AWAS Association. At the final meeting of the 1954 Reunion Committee, it was advised that the AWAS Association was now a registered charity organisation and in future would be known as AWAS Reunions (NSW). It would work on behalf of the Women’s Wing of the War Veterans’ Home. By 1956, due to lack of interest, the Chief Secretary’s Department was advised that it was impossible to convene an Annual General Meeting and suggested that the registration of the AWAS Reunions (NSW) should no longer be continued, as it was not possible to abide by the Constitution originally submitted. Nonetheless, the annual reunions continued and were well attended. On 19 February 1960, a meeting was held and a draft of a proposed new Constitution was read. It was decided to circulate copies at the 1960 Reunion and, at a meeting held the following year, it was resolved that the Constitution or Rules of the Association, as circulated, would become effective as from 17 February 1961. The reunions continued each year at the Anthony Horderns Gallery. 1962 was a special year, being the 21st Anniversary of the formation of the Service, and this engendered much interest amongst those who served in the AWAS. Over 200 ladies had to be turned away from the reunion due to lack of space. A new venue was needed. Collections were always held at the reunion and over the years many needy causes benefited from the money given. As a special effort to mark the 21st Anniversary, a tree planting ceremony was arranged. An Australian Gum – Lemon Eucalyptus, was planted in Hyde Park on the western side of the War Memorial by Miss Joyce Whitworth (an AWAS Senior Officer), in the presence of Lt-General Sir John Northcott. A suitable plaque was placed beside the tree. Former members of the AWAS had been marching since 1946 in the Anzac Day March, and activities on this day had been organised by Mrs Amy Taylor. Each year more joined the ranks and soon Anzac Day became the second big event on the ex-AWAS calendar. In 1965 the format for the Annual Reunion was changed from a buffet meal to a sit-down dinner. This was a year of special interest to the AWAS Association, bringing as it did the announcement that Mr (later Sir) Roden Cutler had been appointed Governor of New South Wales. The AWAS were particularly pleased, as the Governor’s wife – Lady Helen Cutler (née Miss Helen Morris), had been a member of their organisation. Congratulations and good wishes were sent, followed by a letter asking if Lady Cutler would accept Patronage of the Association and attend the Silver Anniversary Reunion on 28 October 1966. Both requests were accepted. 1967 saw the introduction of the AWAS Association badge. An amendment was passed this same year at the Annual General Meeting, altering the Constitution to include the words “(New South Wales)” in the Association title. In 1962 the word “Anniversary” was used for the first time because it was the 25th year since the formation of the Service. Each subsequent Reunion has been known as “… Anniversary Reunion”, the 30th being held in 1971. At the Annual General Meeting held on 23 March 1972, Miss Joyce Whitworth stood down as President after 13 years in the Chair and a new executive was elected with Mrs Amy Taylor as President. On 4 September 1972 the AWAS Association (NSW) was registered under the Charitable Collections Act and received a new Certificate of Registration under the title of AWAS Association (NSW). A Welfare Trust Fund was approved with administrators to be the President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Association, with any two of these as signatories on all Trust Fund cheques. A new President, Miss Joan Lethbridge, was elected in 1974. Plans went ahead for a new Banner to be ready for the 1975 Anzac Day march. Miss Lethbridge remained President for four years. In 1978 Mrs Amy Taylor was again elected President and still holds this position. The AWAS Association (NSW) has gone from strength to strength over the years. This is mainly due to the hard working ladies who have served on the Executives and Committees. With the membership over the 1000 mark, the Association is the largest ex-Servicewomen’s organisation in NSW. The Association was a foundation member of the Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Assns (NSW) and supported this organisation with the Building of “Friendship Court”, 12 units within the complex of the War Veterans’ Retirement Village at Narrabeen. The money that was raised came from all centres of the State. The magazine Khaki, which is posted to all financial members, has become a very popular means of communication with members, particularly those in country areas. Khaki gives the members a chance to share in the activities of the Association. Welfare is a very time consuming job and the Welfare Officer, with a good knowledge of the numerous and frequently changing pension systems, ably attends to those who seek help. As members grow older, the burden on the Welfare Department increases, but committee members assist with hospital visiting, while numerous fund raising efforts over the years and donations from members have ensured that any call for welfare could be met without financial worry. The Association was able to finance the publishing of Women in Khaki, a book written by a member of the AWAS about the Service. Membership is growing as ex-Australian Women’s Army Servicewomen seek the fellowship of their own kind: this spirit of friendship, born during the service days, has never died. Published resources Newsletter Khaki / Australian Women's Army Service Association (NSW), 1977- Book Khaki-clad and glad : 30 years after, A.W.A.S. Association (N.S.W.), [1971] Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Copy photographic prints of the Australian Women's Army Service Association (New South Wales) activities during World War II Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Australian Women's Army Service Association (NSW) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 January 2003 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, minutes, newsletters, reports, membership details, files on committees and functions relating to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Australia Inc. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 9592 comprises administrative records of the Australian Federation of University Women. The collection includes minutes of Council and committee meetings, committee papers, correspondence, membership lists, conference reports, financial papers and publications of the Australian Federation of University Women, International Federation of University Women and various national associations (91 boxes, 2 cartons, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc04.061 instalment comprises records relating to the 2001-2003 triennium of the Australian Federation of University Women (4 cartons).??The Acc10.003 instalment comprises six volumes containing the minutes of the meetings of the 32nd triennium, 1 November 2000-31 October 2003 (3 boxes).??The Acc10.074 instalment comprises advocacy correspondence on a range of issues relating to women, reports to Council from state and territory associations, newsletters, papers for AGMs and Education Trust material (4 boxes).??The Acc12.126 instalment comprises conference and seminar papers from various conferences, including Australian Federation of University Women conference, Indigenous Education conference and the International Federation of University Women. Also, newsletters from the IFUW and AFUW, discussion papers on a range of AFUW policy issues, and council minutes (7 boxes). Author Details Jane Carey Created 28 July 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joan Williams was a prominent member of the Western Australian branch of the Communist Party of Australia. She was politically active from the 1920s, but began her career in journalism as a young woman already imbued with a strong political consciousness. The networks fostered through her membership in an elite group of Western Australian left-wing radicals were critical to the foundation of numerous Western Australian women’s and peace organisations. Under the pen name Justina Williams she wrote short stories, historical works, poems, biography and her autobiography Anger and Love. She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal accepting it on behalf of her “unrecognized sisters who serve the community”. As a young journalist Joan Williams learned about the organisational strategies operating within the European peace and women’s movements and began a lifetime involvement with Perth’s left-wing intelligentsia. Committed to initiating social change through public education Williams joined the Communist Party in 1939 drawn in by their concerns for social justice, women’s equality and opposition to war and fascism. Joan Williams’ activism spanned over fifty years. She was a foundation member of the Modern Women’s Club, the Western Australian Council for Equal Pay and Opportunity and the International Women’s Day Committee. In the 1950s Williams’ focus shifted to the concern for nuclear disarmament and, joining forces with the members of the Union of Australian Women, she established a locally based Waterside Workers Federation Women’s Committee to support strike action occurring at the time. In the early 1970s Williams became a foundation member of Women’s Liberation and the Women’s Electoral Lobby. Events 1935 - 1960 Published resources Journal Article [Joan Williams - brief biography (mother of 3)], 1992 [Joan Williams - awarded Australian Medal; biography], 1996 [Joan Williams - biography of WEL member, peace activist and writer], 1992 [Joan Williams - interview with feminist], 1996 Wharfies smile but the fight is not over., Tucak, Layla., 1998 Writing labor history in Western Australia : my experience with 'the first furrow'., Williams, Justina, 1988 Fighting to be Seen and Heard: A Tribute to Four Western Australian Peace Activists, Hopkins, L, 1999 Book Anger & love, Williams, Justina, 1993 The first furrow, Williams, Justina, 1976 Book Section [Justina Williams - brief biography of writer], 1988 [Justina Williams - profile of writer, with full page portrait], 1976 Edited Book Carrying the banner : women, leadership and activism in Australia, Eveline, Joan, 1940- and Hayden, Lorraine, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Joan Williams papers, 1934-2005 [Interview with Joan Williams] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Leckie Hopkins] Records, 1938-1973 [manuscript] Author Details Denise Tallis Created 23 March 2004 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interview with Judith Parker AM, Perth, 24 February 2012, transcript in possession of Leonie Christopherson, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 12 September 2013 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Country Women’s Association of Tasmania is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group and voluntary organisation working in the interests of women and children in both urban and rural areas. It was founded in 1936 in Launceston, with Mrs C. W. Peart as President, and grew quickly across the state. The Association was formed partly in response to the formation of similar groups in other states. Its major activities have revolved around the provision of services to its members, fundraising, the improvement of amenities in rural areas (initially with an emphasis on child health services) and social activities. The Country Women’s Association (CWA) of Tasmania was founded in February 1936 at a meeting in the Launceston Town Hall attended by around 80 women. The meeting was addressed by the State President of The Country Women’s Association of Victoria, Miss Elsa Grice, who outlined the history of women’s organisations throughout the world and the progress of the CWA in Australia. The Tasmanian Governor’s, Lady Clark, agreed to act as patron for the new Association and Mrs W. C. Peart (a clergyman’s wife and former member of the CWA of Victoria) was elected foundation president. A month later a similar meeting was held in Hobart, with addresses this time from the Bush Nursing Association, the National Council of Women, the Women’s Non-Party League and a past treasurer of the South Australian CWA. The motto adopted by the league was ‘Honour to God, Loyalty to the Throne, Service to the Country, Through Country Women, For Country Women, By Country Women’. Initially the Associations in the north and south operated separately. In 1937 they joined to form a single body, with a Northern and a Southern Division. During its first 18 months, 18 branches were formed and membership reached 550. This increased to 2500 members and 71 branches by 1940. From its establishment the Association focussed particularly on issues relating the welfare of women and children. In conjunction with local councils, they established numerous child health centres. Restrooms were also established in many regional centres to provide facilities for members when they had to visit town. Some of these also provided rooms for visiting doctors, clinic sisters, libraries and other community services. During WWII, as in other states, much of the Association’s energy was directed towards supporting the war effort. Twenty thousand camouflage nets were made, along with sheepskin vests, slippers, mittens and gloves. Thousands of pounds were donated to the Red Cross, Australian Comforts Fund and other causes and an ambulance was purchased for the AIF. Food parcels were sent to soldiers and British civilians. A Voluntary Aid Detachment was established which gave classes in first aid and home nursing. From the 1946 the Association produced its own semi-annual journal, The Tasmania Country Woman. From 1966, this became a weekly new sheet published in the Tasmania Farmers’ Federation Newspaper. From 1977 they again published their own News and Views. Handcrafts and home industries have been a particular focus of the Tasmanian Association since 1937 when committees were established to promote these activities. Numerous classes, craft schools and exhibitions have been held since this time. They have also published several cookery books. In the postwar years, choral and drama activities also became a prominent feature of the Association’s social functions. They also became interested in ‘beautification’ – planting hundreds of trees., shrubs and garden beds in public spaces. From 1942 to 1982 they also ran a Housekeeper scheme, although insufficient funds limited its success. In the 1950s and 1960s numerous holiday homes were established for members. They also showed an interest in new migrants and were represented on Good Neighbourhood Councils. Over the years the Association has raised funds to support or establish a wide range of community services – from community Halls and playgrounds, to aged care homes, to facilities for disabled children. They have supported the Asthma Foundation, St John’s Ambulance, and Meals on Wheels and provided emergency relief in times of fire and flood. In 2004 the aims of the Association included: -To encourage interest in current affairs, home management and cultural activities. -To support schemes which provide for: (a) Education in nutrition (b) Training in Home Economics and Home Management (c) To encourage the production of home grown foods and use of them to the best advantage. (d) Community Centres and/or Projects of Community value. (e) Children’s activities. (g) Child Care. (h) Youth Organisations. (i) Crime prevention. -To take interest in education at all levels. -To welcome and take kindly interest in all newcomers in every district. -To encourage tree planting, for home and town beautification and to assist conservation. Published resources Book The 21st birthday cookery book of the Country Women's Association in Tasmania, Country Women's Association in Tasmania, 1958 The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Getting things done : the Country Women's Association of Australia, Country Women's Association of Australia, 1986 Glimpses of gold : a brief history of the Country Women's Association in Tasmania, Miles, Ena., 1987 Playing our part : sixty years of the Country Women's Association in Tasmania, 1936-1996 : in celebration, a Roll-of-Honour, and graphic evidence, dedicated to our membership., 1996 The Formation and History of the Devonport Branch, Bligh, Marjorie and Jean Potter, [1986] A History of the North Eastern Group: Country Women's Association, Carins, Allison, 1986 More than tea and talk :the story of CWA in Taroona, 1942-1986, Acton, Amy, 1987 Newsletter News and Views / Country Women's Association in Tasmania, 1977- The Tasmanian Countrywoman, 1946-1972 Report The Official Annual of the Country Women's Association in Tasmania, 1948- Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian Historic Records Register Country Women's Association of Australia, North Bruny Island Branch Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Women's Land Army, Launceston, Tasmania Archives Office of Tasmania Minutes and associated papers Minute Book of the Frankford branch of the Country Womens Association. Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letters from Professor L.F. Giblin to his wife, to his sisters Edith and Ella, and his brother Allan; to Professor A.G B. Fisher et al. Letters from Melbourne University, the ANU, the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, to Mrs. Giblin. Correspondence between J.M. Garland and Dr. Rupert Scheider. Canberra diary of Mrs. Eilean Giblin. 31/8/1940-13/8/1941 ; 1/1/1942-18/10/1943.??List of Correspondents — Bennett, Samuel — Brigden, James Bristock — Clausen, Francis Felix — Copland, Sir Douglas Berry — Crawford, Sidney — Duffy, William B. — Dyason, Edward Clarence — Earp, Frank Russell — Exley, Harold James — Firth, Gerald G. — Fisher, Allan George Barnard — Garland, John M. — Gepp, Sir Herbert William — Giblin, Aella — Giblin, Alan — Giblin, Desmond — Giblin, Edith — Giblin, Mrs Eilean L.F. — Giblin, Emily Jean Mrs — Giblin, Lyndhurst F. — Gibson, Alexander Boyce — Gifford, John Liddle King — Hall, Mrs Edith M. 6Hytten, Torleiv — Johnston, Walter Lindsay — Lyons, Joseph Aloysius — McMinn, Jas. C. — Massy-Greene, Sir Walter — Niemeyer, Sir Otto — Pitt, George Henry — Reddaway, William Brian — Richardson, Martin — Schieder, Dr Rupert M. — Shann, Edward Owen — Sheppard, John — Simpson, George — Theodore, Edward G. — Wadham, Samuel McMahon — Walker, Edward Ronald — Wickens, Sir Charles — Wilson, Sir Roland — Wood, Gordon Leslie Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 July 2014 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Born in a small town on the Upper Nile, Ajak Kwai migrated to Australia in 1999. Founder of the band “Wahida”, she enjoys a reputation as a fine musician with an original sound. Ajak Kwai grew up in a musical family in the small town of Bor on the Upper Nile. She sang at all the village ceremonies and celebrations, later joining a local missionary choir that sang gospel music in their own Dinka style. The Sudanese civil war damaged her community during the 1990s and Ajak moved to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, before finally leaving the last of her family in 1992 to go to Egypt. There, she enrolled in a Seventh Day Adventist College, joined international church choirs and formed a female singing group, ‘Bor Band’. Bor Band performed traditional and original Dinka songs, but was influenced by the many musical styles in Cairo. In 1999, then in her mid-twenties, Ajak Kwai was accepted into Australia under the Humanitarian Aid Program. She migrated to Hobart, Tasmania and joined the small Southern Sudanese community living there. She threw herself into her studies: an AMES English language course and accounting studies at TAFE. Class members organising a ceremony asked if anyone could sing, and Ajak obliged. From there her singing career was reborn. She has been called upon to sing at many community and fundraising events including a welcome concert for refugees from Kosovo, for which she wrote her own song. She has been invited to perform at the Hobart Refugee Fundraising Concerts, Hobart Multicultural Ball, International Women’s Day events and other refugee awareness conferences. She sings in her native Dinka tribal language as well as in Arabic and English. In 2001, Ajak formed the band “Wahida” (Arabic for Unity). Later, in 2002, she began performing in various Australian festivals, often accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Martin Tucker. In May 2004, Ajak Kwai produced her first CD, Why not Peace and Love? Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "After marrying John Hubert Fraser Fairfax in 1899, Ruth Fairfax and her husband moved to Longreach, and then later Marinya, in Queensland. She was heavily involved in her local community teaching at the Sunday school, whilst also supporting the Bush Brotherhood and other Anglican organisations. She was awarded the Belgian Medal ‘de la Reine Elizabeth’ for her local efforts during the First World War. At a meeting in Albert Hall, Brisbane, in August 1922, Fairfax was appointed the first State President of the Queensland Country Women’s Association. After being elected President of the Queensland Country Women’s Association, Fairfax went on a six month tour of outback Queensland, during which she organised several branches. In 1926 she resigned as President of the Southern Division but remained State President until 1931. In addition to this, she was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1927. Visiting England from March 1929 to December 1930, Fairfax represented Australia at the International Conference of Rural Women’s Organisations in London in 1929, and on the Liaison Committee of Rural Women’s and Homemaker’s Organisations. On her return to Australia, she lived in Sydney, New South Wales and continued her work for the Country Women’s Association (CWA) as the New South Wales secretary until 1946, as well as fulfilling her role as a vice-president of the Associated Country Women of the World in 1934. Co-editing a book with Dorothy Catts entitled The Countrywoman in New South Wales, Fairfax also served on the boards of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of New South Wales, St Luke’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, the general council of the Girl Guides Association, was life governor of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales, a trustee of the Public Library of New South Wales and Chairman of the council of the Australian Board of Missions. In June 1935, Ruth Fairfax was appointed O.B.E. Published resources Resource Section Fairfax, Ruth Beatrice (1878 - 1948), Rutledge, M., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080487b.htm Book Section Ruth Fairfax, Grant, H. Book Fifty Years 1922-72, Queensland Women's Association, 1972 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records comprising three original letters written by Mary Lee, three proofs of letters published by Mary Lee in the S.A. Register, a photograph of Mary Lee in front of the Davies House at North Adelaide and a newspaper clipping re sale of the house. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Monthly title changed after 1998 to ‘Netballer Contact’. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 January 2007 Last modified 1 January 2007 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 38 minutes??A recording of a public forum presented by the Constitutional Centenary Foundation in association with the State Library of South Australia entitled ‘The River Murray – Test Case for the Environment and the Constitution’ and held in the Institute Building of the State Library of South Australia. The purpose of the forum is to explore how the River Murray, a key issue in the Adelaide session of the 1897-1898 Australasian Federal Convention, has remained a classic issue of relations between South Australia and the federal government. John Bannon, convenor of the SA Chapter of the Foundation, introduces Emeritus Professor John Lovering, President of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission who speaks to the topic The River Murray – constitutional solutions or complications; Dr Barbara Hardy, scientist and environmentalist, who speaks to the topic Science, the environment and the constitution in collaboration; and Dr Chris Reynolds, senior lecturer in constitutional and environmental law at Flinders University, who speaks to the topic The environment and the constitution. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "May Darlington Lahey was the first female Queenslander to practice law. Although her legal career took place overseas, Lahey can lay claim to being Australia’s first female judge. Lahey was born in Queensland and attended Brisbane Grammar School, followed by Sydney University. She was said to be a feisty young woman with the gift of the gab, and it was an uncle living in California that suggested she put her skills to use in the courtroom. By 1910 Lahey had moved to Los Angeles and enrolled at the University of Southern California College of Law. Lahey graduated on 11 June 1914 with an LLB (Honours). She was admitted to the Californian Bar the very next day, after which she specialised in probate law. In 1915 Lahey was appointed a Referee of the Probate Court. Lahey became an American citizen in 1916. She was a prominent figure in women’s organisations, such as the League of Women Voters and the Women Lawyers Club. It is reported that ‘she was renowned for her vivacious personality, Australian accent and talent for public speaking.’ Lahey became the second female judge appointed to the Los Angeles Municipal Court, on Christmas Day, 1928 – only seven years after Mary O’Toole became the United States’ first woman municipal judge and 37 years before Roma Mitchell’s South Australian appointment. She took office on January 3, 1929. A few days later, a reception was held in her honour, whereby more than 600 guests attended, including virtually all the Los Angeles judiciary (State and Federal), many leaders of the Bar and numerous local residents. Lahey was one of the most prominent members of the American Lawyers Club and she represented California at numerous prestigious legal conferences After 15 years on the bench, Lahey was unanimously elected the court’s first female Presiding Judge. She remained at the court until her retirement in 1965. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Larissa Halonkin & Alannah Croom Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 30 minutes??The Adelaide Trefoil Guild began in February 1945 and was the first registered in Australia. The Guild is affiliated with the Girl Guides Association of Australia and its main objectives are fellowship and the continued support of guiding. The recording features three of the longest serving members of the Adelaide Trefoil Guild reminiscing about its activities. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Bec Cody was elected to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly in the seat of Murrumbidgee in 2016 and served until the 2020 election when she lost her seat to fellow Labor candidate Marisa Paterson. She was active in Assembly committees, chairing the Select Committee on End of Life Choices in the ACT 2017–2019 and the Health, Aging and Community Services Standing Committee 2016–2020. Prior to entering the Assembly she was a hairdresser with her own salon. After leaving the Assembly she joined the ACT Mental Health Community Coalition as CEO before moving to a role of Director Business Partnerships with Queensland Labor. She raised two sons as a single mother. Bec Cody was raised and educated in Canberra. Her mother was a public school teacher and union member. Leaving school early to take up a hairdressing apprenticeship, Bec Cody completed her qualification at Canberra Technical and Further Education college and became a small business owner managing her own hairdressing salon. She raised two sons as a single mother having dealt with domestic violence. Bec Cody ran for the ACT Legislative Assembly in the seat of Brindabella in 2012 but was not successful. On 26 October 2016 she was elected in the seat of Murrumbidgee and represented this electorate until the 2020 election. She lost her seat to fellow Labor candidate Marisa Paterson. Cody was active in Assembly committees serving on the Standing Committees on Justice and Community Safety, Public Accounts, and Health, Aging and Community Services (2016–2020) and on the Select Committees on Estimates (2016–2018, 2019–2020), the ACT Election and the Electoral Act (2016–2017), the Independent Integrity Commission (2016–2018) and End of Life Choices in the ACT (2017–2019). On 15 March 2021 Bec Cody joined the ACT Mental Health Community Coalition as its Chief Executive Officer. In September 2023 she relocated to Brisbane taking up the position of Director Business Partnerships with Queensland Labor. While in Canberra she was involved with the Vikings Triathlon Club and Park Runs. Author Details Kathryn Dan Created 11 August 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1. The Echo – a radio play by Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland, undated?2. Hunting the Gowk – a short story by D’Arcy Niland, undated?3. Diary of a Spieler – a radio play by D’Arcy Niland, undated?4. Returned soldier – a short story by Ruth Park for ABC Weekly, undated?5. The Bunyip Kid – a short story by D’Arcy Niland, undated Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A long term local government councillor and a seasoned campaigner for her party, Maria Heggie was the Liberal party candidate for Cabramatta in 1984, 1988 and 1991. She was Alderman for Fairfield City Council in 1980-2004 and Mayor from 1987-1988. A lifelong resident of Cabramatta, Maria Heggie was elected to Fairfield City Council in 1980 and was prominent in many local campaigns such as those opposing the building of a toxic waste plant in the area, and the siting of a hotel next to the Greenfield Park High School. She was Chairperson of the Fairfield Drug Action Team in 1998 and a member of the Council’s Reconciliation Strategy Committee. In 2005, she was presented with a Local Government Outstanding Service Award for 24 years of service to Fairfield Council. She is married to David, and they have two sons. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1968, 1997, Date unknown; ‘Unpublished articles…articles rejected by journals’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1968-1969, 1987; ‘Copies of journals with articles by A. Blake & other such material’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1954-1989; ‘Biographical material & Celebratory messages – Birthdays & so on…’, including a copy of A Proletarian Life (1984) (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1952, 1977-1997; ‘Correspondence to A. Blake…’ Correspondents include Graeme Bell, Sue Bellamy, Mona Brand, John Brink, Margaret Brink, L. G. (Lloyd Gordon) Churchward, Communist Party of Australia. Sydney District Committee, Maurie Crow, Robin (Bob) Gollan, Itzhak Gust, Elizabeth Harrower, Ken Inglis, Kay Iseman, Jacques Leclerc, Jack Legge, Penny Lockwood, Roger Milliss, Stephen Murray-Smith, Overland, Helen Palmer, Anne Spencer Parry, Frederick G. G. Rose, Edna Ryan, Carmel Shute, Bernard Smith and University of Melbourne. Archives (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1966, 1984, 1998; ‘Correspondence – other things…Copy of resignation from CPA in A Proletarian Life’, including correspondence with Communist Party of Australia. Central Committee (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1968-1996; ‘Correspondence to Jack & Audrey’, with, among others, Bruce Armstrong, H. C. Begg (CBD Library & Subscription Service), Mona Brand, Peggy Dennis, Len Fox, Amirah Inglis, Ken Inglis, Edna Ryan, James Frederick Staples and Frank J. B. Stilwell (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1986-1994; ‘Correspondence to 7 from Jack & Audrey’, being mainly with Elizabeth Harrower and Bruce Johnson (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1963-1996; ‘Correspondence – AB. To newspapers. Reviews for journals’, including correspondence with Moscow News, Soviet Literature and Tribune, and issue of Overland, no. 144 Spring 1996 (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1993; ‘Correspondence concerning AB’s unpublished manuscripts on History of the EYL & its predecessors’, being mainly correspondence concerning deposit of copies in libraries, and with Ruth Crow (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1985-1996; ‘Eureka Youth League’, concerning its history and archives (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1994-1996; ‘Material on the photographic record of the EYL held by the Archive of the University of Melbourne’, including correspondence with Jim Adams, Bruce Armstrong and University of Melbourne. Archives (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1928, 1980; ‘Historical Material’, being photocopy of The Young Comrade, vol. 1 no. 1, Nov. 1928, issued by the Young Comrades Club of Melbourne, and excerpt form Tribune, 4 June 1980, concerning Second Women and Labour Conference, Melbourne, 1980 (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?196–1987; ‘Manuscripts of material by Audrey Blake [and jointly with J. D. Blake]’, being mainly articles and reviews, and including first draft of her paper, ‘he Eureka Youth League’, given at the Second Women and labour Conference, Melbourne, May 1980 (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1956, 1993; ‘Manuscripts of first ‘Notes’ ’56 plus – Manuscript additions to early ‘Notes on the Development of the Eureka Youth League & its Predecessors 1993’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1984-1985; ‘Material relating to A Proletarian Life : Correspondence with Kibble, Reviews, and letters from readers’, including correspondence with, among others, Stephanie Claire, Amirah Inglis, Kibble Books, Kath Olive and Edna Ryan (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1984-1986; ‘Material relating to the film ‘Red Matildas’…’, including transcript of tape recording of Audrey Blake and correspondence with Trevor Grahame, Co-Director of the film Red Matildas (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1964-1988; ‘Reviews of work by AB’s. Notices etc.’, with letter received from Jacques Leclerc (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1949-1988; ‘Speeches of A. Blake’, including talks, eulogies and coference papers, and a copy of the proceedings of the Second Congress of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, Budapest, Sep. 1949 (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1915, 1955-1998; ‘Working materials – AB and JDB’, being newscuttings and printed material with MS. notes (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1952, 1987, Date unknown; ‘The Youth Carnival for Peace & Friendship March 1952…’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2) Author Details Alannah Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence inward and outward and duplicate letterbooks, 1956-1974 (18 files, 5 vols). ?Annual reports, 1957-1974 (1 file). ?Proficiency Badge booklets and receipt books, 1957-1974 (15 items). ?Company and Pack Register, 1956-1970 (2 vols). ?Miscellaneous records, certificates, cards, pamphlets, camping booklets, posters, rosters, song booklets and handbooks, 1956-1974 (c250 items). ?Newspaper clippings relating to camps and certificates, 1960s-1970s (1 file).??Historical note:?The 1st Ajana Brownie Pack, WA, commenced activities in October 1956. In April 1959 the 1st Ajana Girl Guide Company was formed with Jessie May Sutherland as Captain. Because of distance, the functions of the local association were undertaken by the Ajana Branch of the Country Women’s Association and instead of the usual weekly meetings, Guides and Brownies met in the Binnu or Ajana halls, the Golf Club or out of doors, before or after church services, or while their parents played golf or tennis. ?The 1st Ajana Girl Guide Company ceased to operate in 1976 and the 1st Ajana Brownie Pack in 1979. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 15 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers in MS 10043 reflect the personal and professional life of Australian writer, Kylie Tennant. They include correspondence, personal documents, notes and notebooks, literary manuscripts, press cuttings, photographs and graphic material. The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence and research material, notes and drafts relating to Tennant’s literary works. The papers of Tennant’s husband, L.C. Rodd, are present throughout the collection, largely in the form of correspondence. Australian literary figures amongst the correspondents are: Kay Brown, Nancy Cato, Clem Christesen, Robert Darby, Beatrice Davis, Geoffrey Dutton, Miles Franklin, Mary Gilmore, Dorothy Green, Max Harris, Elizabeth Harrower, Tom Inglis Moore, Elizabeth Jolley, Nancy Keesing, David Martin, Stephen Murray-Smith, Nettie Palmer, Nancy Phelan, Hal Porter, Colin Roderick, Peter Scriven, Thomas Shapcott, Douglas Stewart, Judah Waten, Patrick White and Patricia Wrightson. Other correspondents represented in the collection by significant amounts of papers include long-term friend and Maitland City Librarian, Mavis Cribb, the Reverend Alfred Clint, Doris Chadwick, Jack Ross and Tennant’s children, Bim (John) and Benison Rodd (45 boxes, 2 fol. Boxes, 1 elephant folio).??The Acc09.183 instalment comprises lists of books auctioned in lots from Tennant’s estate, showing author, title, publisher, and date (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "She talks about daily mission life, school and includes excerpt from family letters. She also includes information about and interactions with various Dieri people. The collection comprises 2 copies of a privately printed memoir: ‘Down Memory Lane: Memoirs of Helen Jericho (nee Vogelsang)’ [no publishing details]. The first is typed whereas the second is printed and includes photographs. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 3 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The first contact between Poland-born people and Australia occurred in 1696, when several citizens of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth were included in the crew of Captain Willem Vlamingh’s Dutch expedition which explored the Western Australian coast. The first Polish settler in Australia was a convict who arrived in 1803 and became a successful wheat farmer in Tasmania. Later arrivals included a group of Poland born people who established a community in South Australia which grew to about 400 people by the 1880s. Some Poles joined the goldrush to Australia in the 1850s. The 1921 Australian Census recorded 1,780 Poland born residents and by the 1933 Census their number had almost doubled. Following World War II, many Polish refugees came to Australia and during the period between 1947 and 1954, the Poland born population increased from 6,573 to 56,594 people. Many refugees worked under a two-year contract in unskilled jobs and continued in similar work for a period after their contracts ended. There was further emigration from Poland to Australia after the Polish government relaxed its emigration laws with almost 15,000 Poland born people coming to Australia between the years 1957 and 1966. By the 1966 Census, the Poland-born population had reached 61,641 people. In the early 1980s there was further Polish emigration from Poland to Australia. The emergence of the Solidarity trade union movement and the declaration of martial law in Poland at the end of 1981 coincided with a further relaxation of Polish emigration laws. During the period 1980-91 Australia granted permanent entry to more than 25,000 Poland-born settlers, many arriving as refugees. The Poland-born population of Australia peaked at 68,496 at the 1991 Census. Since then the improvement in living conditions in Poland, as well as more stringent migration criteria, have significantly reduced the levels of Polish migration to Australia from the high levels of 1981-85. The latest Census in 2001 recorded 58,070 Poland-born persons in Australia, a decrease of 11 per cent from the 1996 Census. The 2001 distribution by State and Territory showed Victoria had the largest number with 20,400 followed by New South Wales (16,870), South Australia (6,910) and Western Australia (6,400). The median age of the Poland-born in 2001 was 54.7 years compared with 46.0 years for all overseas-born and 35.6 years for the total Australian population. The age distribution showed 1.5 per cent were aged 0-14 years, 7.5 per cent were 15-24 years, 20.3 per cent were 25-44 years, 32.2 per cent were 45-64 years and 38.4 per cent were 65 and over. Of the Poland-born in Australia, there were 27,260 males (46.9 per cent) and 30,810 females (53.1 per cent). The sex ratio was 88.5 males per 100 females. At the 2001 Census, the rate*of Australian Citizenship for the Poland-born in Australia was 95.9 per cent. The rate for all overseas-born was 75.1 per cent. Published resources Edited Book The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Jupp, James, 2001 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Gruszka Mietka papers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Political and personal papers, correspondence (including with Edna Ryan), diaries, note books, minutes, press cuttings, and printed material. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 29 August 2000 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This expansive archive was created throughout Irene Greenwood’s lifetime as a broadcaster, activist and participant in the peace and women’s movements. Greenwood kept meticulous and detailed notes and records, and the collection attests to the broad reach of her intellectual and activist endeavour. It includes 2,500 catalogued books, many with personal inscriptions and memoranda to Greenwood from the authors and notes Greenwood used in her broadcasts and writing still in the books; dated inwards and outwards correspondence with organizations with which Greenwood had membership or was associated; correspondence with newspapers and editorial staff; Greenwood’s personal diaries; scripts and reel to reel tapes of all the radio programs Greenwood wrote, produced and presented; ephemera and newspaper cuttings collected over many years of relevance to international, national and state feminism, women’s organisations and the peace movement. The audio collection includes interviews with Greenwood detailing her personal thoughts on many aspects of Western Australia’s women’s and peace movements and recordings that she made to guide researchers through the history of these organisations. There are videos produced by and featuring Greenwood, a film about her life and original documents and material relating to feminism and the peace movement collected by her mother Mary Driver. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Votes for Women sash worn by Louisa C. Cullen (Louie) ca. 1908. Cullen was a suffragette who participated in the militant demonstrations of the Women’s Social and Political Union (W.S.P.U.) in the United Kingdom. The sash was an important part of the suffragette uniform, and women were encouraged to visibly identify with the cause. The purple, white and green are the colours of the W.S.P.U. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 March 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The formation of the Greek Young Matrons’ Association was an overt attempt by second generation parents of Greek heritage to ensure that their children married Australian born Greeks like themselves. By providing them with an organisation which would offer social activities and cultural events in which young Greek people could participate, the organisers hoped that young Greeks would marry within the community. The Greek Young Matrons’ Association organised children’s concerts (performed in language) and debates for teenagers to participate in. The association also had an annual Ball at which young Greek girls of the second and third generation could make their debut and become known, and possibly seen and selected by an appropriate Greek Australian young man. The organisation was mainly made up of upper middle and middle class second generation Greek women. Parents hoped that participation in this organisation meant that their children would not only marry an Australian born Greek but probably a person from a similar social class. Published resources Report Greeks In Australia: 100 years of History, Costadopoulos-Hill, Maria, 1979, http://www.cybernaut.com.au/greeksinoz/ Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 June 2006 Last modified 20 March 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This cutting book consists of election material and some newspaper clippings from the Brisbane Courier.?The election material emanates from the Country and Progressive National Party and consists of pamphlets, “How-to-vote” cards, election fliers and broad sheets relating to both State and Federal elections between 1926 and 1935.?Electorates include: Aubigny, Buranda, Sandgate, Oxley, Fassifern, Nanango, Maree, Mitchell, Stanley, Cook, Brisbane, Mirani, Bremer, South Brisbane, Bulimba and Windsor.?One election card introduces Mrs. Irene Longman, the National candidate for Bulimba and states that she is the first woman candidate for Parliament in Queensland. This card seems to relate to the 1929 State election. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "5 sound files (approximately 255 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary Lee became secretary of the Women’s Suffrage League of South Australia in 1888. She served with the Female Refuge ladies’ committee, the Distressed Women’s and Children’s Committee and the Adelaide Sick Poor Fund, and was secretary of the Working Women’s Trades Union. Born in Ireland, Mary Walsh married George Lee in 1844 and they had seven children. By 1879 Lee was widowed. She sailed with her daughter to Adelaide that year to nurse her sick son, who later died. In 1883 she became foundation secretary of the ladies’ division of the Social Purity Society, working to improve conditions for women by campaigning to raise the age of consent to sixteen. The Society soon recognised that women’s suffrage was essential to their aims. Accordingly the Women’s Suffrage League was inaugurated in 1888 with Lee as secretary. It was mainly due to the combined efforts of Lee and close friend Mary Colton, who was President of the League from 1892 onwards, that suffrage was won in South Australia in 1894. Lee was a vigorous campaigner albeit sometimes abrasive, and she traversed South Australia to speak at meetings while also organising petitions, deputations and corresponding with women in the other colonies on how to organise suffrage leagues. In 1892 she visited Broken Hill in outback New South Wales to report for the Adelaide Sick Poor Fund upon the condition of women and children there after a major industrial strike. Lee took the opportunity to deliver an address on women’s suffrage at the Theatre Royal in Broken Hill, though the local paper reported only a moderate attendance. Prior to her visit Lee had written to the Barrier Miner and her letter was published on 1 September 1892: I congratulate my working brothers on their respect for law – their avoidance of all which might provoke to fund, or sew the seeds of an after-crop of bitterness – on their patience under misrepresentation and provocation… But Sir, this strike has one feature which renders it more profoundly interesting than any of its predecessors here, or elsewhere as far as I know, and which must secure it a prominent and distinguished page when the history of these colonies shall come to be written. It is the fact that the women of Broken Hill are the first great body of working women who have raised their voices in united protest against the glaring injustice that “the present Constitution will not allow them a voice in the framing of the laws under which they are compelled to live.”… May the memory of those woes and distresses which have awakened in the women of Broken Hill the spirit of liberty kindle that spirit to such a glow that the hearts of the “fathers, brothers, husbands and sweethearts” shall burn with the determination that the liberty which they prize so dearly shall be shared by those most dear to them; that the sons of freed men shall have freed mothers; that they shall bequeath to their daughters that grandest of human heritages -freedom! In 1889 Lee proposed the formation of a trade union for women and became secretary of the Working Women’s Trades Union when it was inaugurated the following year. She was a delegate to the Trades and Labor Council and committee member of the Female Refuge ladies’ committee as well as the Distressed Women’s and Children’s Committee. In 1896 she was appointed by the government as first female official visitor to the lunatic asylums, a position that she held for the next twelve years. Despite her work for social reform, she was not financially rewarded and her last years were spent in poverty. She died in her home in North Adelaide in 1909. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Fresh evidence, new witnesses : finding women's history, Allen, Margaret (Margaret Ellen), 1947- ; Hutchison, Mary and Mackinnon, Alison, 1942-, 1989 In her own name : women in South Australian history, Jones, Helen, 1926-, 1986 Mary Lee, 1821-1909 : Let Her Name be Honoured, Mansutti, Elizabeth, c1994 Book Section Mary Lee, Jones, Helen Resource Section Lee, Mary (1821-1909), Jones, Helen, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100048b.htm Edited Book S.A.'s greats: the men and women of the North Terrace plaques, Healey, John, 2001 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of South Australia Letters from Mary Lee Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Lee, Mary Author Details Anne Heywood and Robin Secomb Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "I. Correspondence, 1949-1956: A. Correspondence of Miles Franklin, 1949-1954, with various literary people in America. B. Correspondence of Bruce Sutherland, 1954-1956, re Miles Franklin. II. Papers re National Women’s Trade Union League of America, 1903-1950: A. History and proceedings of the League, 1903-1950. B. Life and Labor, publication of the League, 1910-1915. III. Miscellaneous papers, including biographical notes about Miles Franklin, 1879-1919. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 September 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Michele Adair is a local and political activist who has achieved much success in her local area. She was an Australian Democrats candidate for Barton in the House of Representatives in 2001, an Independent candidate associated with the Save Our Suburbs Party for Georges River in 2003 and a candidate for the Kogarah Municipal Council in 2004. Parliamentary and Local Government Career Local Candidate, Kogarah Municipal Council 2004 State Candidate, House of Representatives, Barton, 2001 Candidate, Georges River, 2003 Party: Australian Democrats 2001 Party: Independent, associated with the Save Our Suburbs Party 2003 Michele Adair grew up in Kyle Bay, a Sydney suburb, and at the time of her campaigns lived in nearby Oatley. She cared for her invalid mother and teenage children. She was educated at PLC Sydney, and was an American Field Service exchange student to the USA in 1979-80. She studied many undergraduate courses in adult education, management (M Man (UWS) 1996), accounting and business and holds a certificate in Service Administration and Strategy from Cornell University, USA . In 2005 she expected to complete a Masters degree in Public Advocacy and Action from the Victorian University of Technology. In 2004 she joined a large not-for-profit community organisation, having worked for the previous 17 years as an adviser in strategy and development to both public and private organisations. She taught part-time at TAFE over 10 years, and has owned and run a café and an architectural restoration business. She has also worked in the health and travel industries. Michele has been very active in local affairs. She was involved in the campaigns to influence high-density development in Oatley, to save the Chinese Market Gardens in Arncliffe, to prevent the loss of open space in Rockdale and to insist on air filters on the M5 tunnel. In 2002, Michele Adair was the convenor of a group called Concerned Citizens against Cook’s Cove, a proposed billion dollar development which necessitated the relocation of the Kogarah Golf Club. She has been an office holder in the P. & C. Associations of her children’s primary and secondary schools and has served on the finance and diversity committees of the YWCA. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Box 1?Scrapbook, 1984-1985?Minute book, August 1982-November 1985?Minute book, February 1986-July 1987?Membership lists, 1985, 1988?Correspondence relating to workshops, 1980-1987??Box 2?Correspondence, 1981-1990?Celia Starfield literary papers, 1944-1959, no date?Scrapbooks (2) relating to Celia Starfield including newspaper cuttings and photographs, ca 1900’s, 1940-1980?Papers relating to early correspondence courses, 1985?2 x certificates to Louise H. De St. Marton, 9 September 1975, May 1976??Box 3?Correspondence, minutes and Biennial Conferences (Federal Society of Women’s Writers) papers, 1978-1987?The Women Writer: Bi-monthly Newsletter of the Society of Women Writers (Australia), November 1974-June 1988??Box 4?Correspondence with other State branches of the Society of Women Writers (Australia), 1978-1987?Correspondence with the Federal Body of the Society of Women Writers (Australia), 1978-1988?Correspondence relating to grant applications from the Society of Women Writers (Australia) N.S.W branch, 1978-1989?Autographed copy of Sixty Years On: 1925-1985 by The Society of Women Writers (Australia) N.S.W. branch. Diamond Jubilee Anthology Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 cassette (ca. 30 min)??Crosio, local member for Fairfield and Minister for Local Government, speaks of her political background; her history in the area; involvement with local inhabitants; needs of the Indo-Chinese in the area; media treatment of the Indo-Chinese; resentment of immigrants in the community; the “Siege mentality”; local employment; services for migrants; English courses; future immigration and refugee programmes; settlement of refugees; unemployment problems; government committment. Transcript includes a copy of a press article on Mrs. Crosio. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection comprises correspondence, drafts, reviews and other writings. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Ester is a media scholar and media professional who teachers Journalism and Communication at Central Queensland University. She has enjoyed a long and varied career as a teacher and journalist that has spanned more than thirty years. As a media professional Helen Ester’s experience includes: Membership of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery-7 years Editor and founder of the Monitor , a newsletter and news service for members of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery Canberra Correspondent for Nation Review and the Far Eastern Economic Review Political Journalist with the Fairfax Bureau on theSydney Sun Working for the Australian Press Services Bureau on the Northern Territory News Television work has included working for SBS TV as a journalist/trainer and casual desk journalist. She has also worked for Imparja/CAAMA TV productions in Alice Springs. Ester was a journalist member of a delegation of three women who in 1979-80 went to Vietnam, Kampuchia, and the border camps for refugees on the Thai border on a visit arranged by the Union of Vietnamese Women and the Australia Vietnam Society. Other members were economist Melanie Beresford and trade unionist Aileen Beaver. She was given transcripts of the People’s Revolutionary Tribunal, held in 1979, while she was touring with the delegation. These transcripts are held with her papers in the National Library of Australia. Events 1979 - Published resources Newsletter Monitor, Ester, Helen Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Helen Ester, 1979-1980 [manuscript]? 1979-1980 [manuscript] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 21 August 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Collected during life of Pat Wardle 1910 – 1992. Includes diaries, correspondence, photographs, newspaper cuttings, talks, manuscripts, maps, certificates and plans. Includes papers of her mother (Patricia Tillyard), father (Dr Robin Tillyard), husband (Robert Wardle) and some correspondence with her sisters (Faith, Hope & Honor. Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 21 June 2012 Last modified 10 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Hon. Margaret Joan Beazley AO, AC was an Australian judge. She was both the first woman to sit as a Judge of Appeal on the New South Wales Court of Appeal in 1996, and the first woman to occupy the position of President of that Court in 2013. She retired from that court in 2019. She has been described as a “fierce advocate for women in the legal profession”, and in 2006 was designated an Officer of the Order of Australia for her “service to the judiciary and the law, particularly through contributions to professional and ethical standards, to the advancement of women in the legal profession and the community.” She was sworn in as Governor of New South Wales in May 2019, and made a companion (AC) in the general division of the Order of Australia on Australia Day, 2020 for her eminent service to the people of New South Wales, particularly through leadership roles in the judiciary, and as a mentor of young women lawyers. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Margaret Beazley for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Margaret Beazley and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Born in 1951, Margaret Beazley grew up in Hurstville in the St George area. She was the middle child of Gordon and Lorna Beazley. Neither of her parents had the education that she did – growing up during the Great Depression and WWII, “their opportunity to become educated in the formal sense irrevocably slipped by.” Her father worked as a milkman to support his five children. Nonetheless, both of Beazley’s parents were very supportive of education, and worked to ensure their children were provided with the opportunities not available to them. Beazley attended St Declan’s Primary School, Penshurst, before moving to St Joseph’s Girls High School, Kogarah for junior high school and Mount St Joseph, Milperra for senior high school. The latter two schools were run by “Brown” Josephite Sisters, named after the brown habits that they wore. The two years that Beazley spent at Milperra were particularly formative. She was taught by a number of inspiring women, including Associate Professor Patricia Malone, who was known to her as Sister Jude, and Nora Finnucane, known as Sister Stanislaus. Beazley has described these woman as having “immense intellects and… extraordinary vision, particularly regarding what women could do and should be doing.” The ethos of the school was that the girls could and should be encouraged to pursue tertiary education, and to follow the career path of their choosing. Beazley demonstrated leadership from these early days, being elected captain of both her junior and senior high school. Beazley commenced reading for a Bachelor of Laws at Sydney University Law School in 1970. That year also coincided with the publication of Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch, and is often regarded as a turning point in the feminist movement. Women remained a minority at law school, although Beazley’s class contained an unusually high number of women, many of whom went on to build very successful careers. Other notable alumni from Beazley’s graduating class include Professor Margaret Somerville and Irene Moss. Beazley graduated with Honours in 1973. After graduating, Beazley completed her articles with the law firm Winter & Sharp. She was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in February 1975, although had but the briefest career as a solicitor, being called to the Bar in March of the same year. Life at the Bar commenced for Beazley on the ninth floor of Selbourne Chambers. She read with Murray Tobias, who would later become one of her colleagues on the Court of Appeal. Beazley was the only female on her floor at that time. She has recalled the difficulty of this “peer deprivation” in her professional life, but developed a close camaraderie with members of the Bar and with her instructing solicitors. In particular, Beazley formed a friendship with the Honourable Justice Jane Matthews AO, the first woman to serve as a Crown Prosecutor, to be appointed as a Judge of the District Court of NSW and to be appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of NSW. As one of the pioneering women at the Bar, other difficulties which Beazley was required to contend with included the difficulty persuading male solicitors to brief a female barrister, and the pervasive attitude that women at the Bar should only work in Family Law. However, Beazley built a flourishing practice in equity, commercial and administrative law, and was appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 1989 – colloquially known as ‘taking silk’. In 1991, Beazley moved to the sixth floor of Selbourne Chambers. One barrister who appeared against her described her as “a friendly, co-operative, but also tenacious and formidable forensic opponent.” Whilst still at the Bar, Beazley gained a taste of judicial life. From 1984 to 1988, she served as a judicial member of the New South Wales Equal Opportunity Tribunal. In 1990 and 1991, she served as an Acting Judge of the District Court of New South Wales. In 1991 and 1992, she served as an Assistant Commissioner of the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption. In January 1993, Beazley was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, the first female appointment to sit solely as a judge of that Court. Whilst on the Federal Court bench, she was a member of its Finance, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Court Liaison and Gender Awareness Committees. In 1994, she was also commissioned as an additional judge of the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court and the Industrial Relations Court of Australia. From 1994 to 1995, Beazley was a consultant to the Australian Law Reform Commission, assisting with the reference on “Gender Bias and the Law”. This reference resulted in a substantial, two-part report addressing the failures of the law to deal effectively with violence perpetrated by men on women, and the specific laws and practices of the legal system that contribute to women’s inequality. On 29 April 1996, Beazley was sworn in as a Judge of Appeal on the NSW Court of Appeal, the first woman to be appointed to such a position. As she joked at her swearing in, she would be sitting alongside a “Chief Justice and eight wise men.” This would remain the situation until the swearing in of the Honourable Justice Ruth McColl AO in 2006. In 2006, Beazley chaired the advisory committee of the Judicial Commission of New South Wales which prepared the “Equality Before the Law Bench Book”, intended to enhance the ability of the courts to deliver equal justice according to law. Recognising that equality before the law will not always be achieved through treating everybody equivalently, the Bench Book provided guidance to judicial officers on taking into account different backgrounds, cultures, lifestyles and socioeconomic disadvantages. Beazley’s abilities as a jurist and leadership within the Court of Appeal recommended her for the position of President of the Court of Appeal. She was sworn in as President in March 2013, again making legal history by being the first woman to hold this position. In addition to her rich judicial career, Beazley has contributed to the development of the law through her involvement in academic activities. She is the Chair of the NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law, and the author of many articles on diverse areas of the law. In May 2008, she was awarded Doctor of Laws honoris causa (Hon LLD) by the University of Sydney. She is a co-author of the book “Appeals and Appellate Courts in Australia and New Zealand” (LexisNexis, 2014) with Dr Paul Vout and Sally Fitzgerald, and a contributor to Sappideen and Vines (eds), “Fleming’s The Law of Torts” (Lawbook Co, 2011, 10th ed). Beazley has maintained strong involvement in the community, including through her positions of member of the Advisory Board of the Centenary Institute, patron of the Toongabbie Legal Centre and President of the Arts Law Centre of Australia. In October 2013, Beazley was awarded Life Membership of the NSW Bar Association for exceptional service to the Bar Association and to the profession of the law. Beazley has used her influence to improve the number and status of women in the law. She has set a strong example through her own career progression, becoming one of the most senior women judges in the country. She has mentored and inspired many women to become barristers, regaling them with her own tales of battling what was an unshakable old boys club, and backing them to do it successfully even if that means precariously juggling family and life commitments. In 2012, Beazley was named one of the Australian Financial Review’s “100 Women of Influence” in the category of “diversity”, recognising women who have dedicated themselves to advocating for a more diverse workforce and who have helped make the change happen. In 2013, Beazley was the recipient of the Women Lawyers of NSW Lifetime Achievement award. For leisure, she relishes the company of her family including her two daughters and son, with whom she enjoys theatre, music and any form of sport (except boxing). Events 1974 - 1974 1984 - 1988 1990 - 1991 1991 - 1992 1993 - 1996 1994 - 1997 1994 - 1996 1996 - 2013 - Published resources Resource Section Margaret Beazley Biography, Brodsky, Juliette, 2011, http://www.nswbar.asn.au/the-bar-association/oral-history#/margaretBeazley Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Her Honour Margaret Beazley (with Kathleen Heath) Created 12 May 2016 Last modified 5 March 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 135 min.)??Jane Bennett talks about her family background; growing up on the family farm; her decision to have a career in farming; her early understanding of gender roles on farms; dairy farming and the low status of the dairy industry in Australia in the 1980s; agricultural class system or hierarchy in Australia; the role of mothers on the farm, their importance to their children’s involvement in the local community; social life off the farm, the Deloraine social set in the 1980s; religious diversity of the community; arts culture and the health of regional centres; hippies moving into the area in the 1970s; the importance of the establishment of the Rotary Club Craft Fair; why some rural communities are more successful that others; monocultural farming communities; geographical elements to successful communities and ‘Island Culture’; her interest in genetic engineering; her father’s decision to become a cheese maker; the start of a cheese factory in Tasmania in the 1980s; studying Dairy Technology at Gilbert Chandler College at Werribee; studying at Kent Business College in England in 2008; women as the agents for change in rural communities; Landcare; Australian rural cultural matters; effectiveness of government policies to change agricultural activity.??Bennett discusses the need for innovation, value adding, marketing and branding of food; Tasmanian economic future; how Tasmanian farmers must adapt to survive; the rate of change required being linked to developments in technology; the importance of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award to raising the profile of women; changing attitudes to women in agriculture over the last 15 years; their increased capacity to participate in farming activities; cheese making becoming fashionable by 2005; entering the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award; the response of the Tasmanian community to her winning the national award; her role in the formation of a Rural Youth Club; her interest in education and training; becoming a delegate on the Rural Industry Training Board, rising to President; working in England, problem solving; the role of Global Communication Technology to the growth of her business; Aldi Supermarkets; the experience of working with people outside agriculture; her application for a Vincent Fairfax Fellowship; opportunities made available and lessons learned through winning the Rural Woman of the Year Award; the importance of service to the community; Nuffield Farming Scholarship; travelling to Taiwan; impact of the feminist movement on people of her age; difficulties associated with the family enterprise for women who want to work in agriculture; her male mentors. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 27 April 2011 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection comprises – 9 cassettes – 9hours Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 October 2004 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On 29 November 1924 a ceremony of the Perpetual Profession of Dr Mary Glowrey, now Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart took place in the Church of St Agnes at Guntur (India). Mary Glowrey, who completed her medical training at the University of Melbourne, (MBBS 1910, MD 1919), was the first president of the Catholic Women’s Social Guild (now Catholic Women’s League). After receiving assurance from the Pope that she would be allowed to continue in her profession, Glowrey left Melbourne for India in 1920. At this time nuns were still prevented from practising medicine, She entered the Society of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, a Dutch order of nuns and spent the next 37 years involved with medical work in Guntur, India. Glowrey House, the Catholic Women’s League headquarters in Nicholson Street, Fitzroy, is named in her honour. Mary Glowrey, the third of nine children, spent most of her childhood in the Mallee at Watchem in country Victoria. Her mother provided the children with domestic and religious education, but she received the major part of her primary education at the local state school when it was established. She was confirmed in the Catholic Church at the age of nine. Her parents encouraged their children to continue their education and Glowrey trained as a pupil teacher at the local primary school before winning a state secondary scholarship to attend the South Melbourne College. She boarded at the Good Shepherd Convent, Rosary Place, South Melbourne. She won a University Exhibition and proceeded to the University of Melbourne to complete a BA degree, but was persuaded to transfer to medicine, graduating MBBS in 1910. Her first medical appointment was to the Christchurch Hospital New Zealand in 1911 as resident doctor. She was the first medical woman to be granted an appointment in New Zealand. On her return to Australia the following year, she took up a position at the Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. She later set up in private practice in Collins Street, Melbourne, but continued to assist at the Eye and Ear Hospital and also became Physician to out-patients at St Vincent’s Hospital, the Catholic public hospital in Melbourne. In 1915 she was inspired by the work of Dr Agnes McLaren, an English pioneer medical woman who had become a Catholic at age 61 and went to India at age 72 to establish a Catholic hospital for the care of Indian women. Glowrey decided that God had called her to go to India to improve the health of Indian women, but had to wait until the end of World War One to achieve her goal. During the period from 1916-1919, she became founding president of the Catholic Women’s Social Guild and, at the same time, to prepare herself for her work in India, continued her medical studies in the fields of gynaecology, obstetrics and ophthalmology. She left Melbourne on the ship ‘Orsova’ for India on 21 January 1920, arrived in Madras on 11 February 1920 and reached Guntur the following day. She was received into the Order of the Sisters of the Society of Jesus, Mary and Joseph on 28 November 1920 and became the first nun-doctor missionary. She had to gain special permission from Pope Pius XI to perform her medical mission work, for nuns had not been permitted to practice as doctors. She took on the name of Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart. She worked for the next 37 years in India to establish a Catholic Medical College, but did not live to see the St Johns’s Medical College Bangalore open in 1963. Mary Glowrey died in Bangalore on 5 May 1957. Events 2015 - 2015 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2019 - 2019 Glowrey Catholic Primary School opened in Wollert, Victoria, named in honour of Mary Glowrey Published resources Journal Article Tributes to a Medical Missionary Pioneer: Dr Mary Glowrey (Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart) - First C.W.S.G. President, Brennan, Anna T, 1957 Book Horizon in retrospect, 1916-1986, 1985 Australian medical nun in India: Mary Glowrey, M. D. Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart, Society of Jesus, Mary Joseph, Clinton, Ursula, 1967 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources Mary Glowrey House Mary Glowrey papers Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 November 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 10058 comprises a typescript notebook of approximately 280 pages in a small black ring binder, prefaced “Emily Evans, or, the Humourist. Begun Feb 11 1949”, and the typescript letter from Christina Stead in Lausanne to Edith Anderson, dated 20 February 1951 (1 binder, 1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A small collection of letters and photographs relating to Miss Pharo’s services to Lady Munro-Ferguson: Letters from Lady Munro Ferguson, Captain the Hon Bede Clifford later Earl of Chudleigh and others to Miss Pharo for the period 1900 to 1921. Most of these acknowledgements for Miss Pharo’s services and farewell notes on Miss Pharo’s departure from Government House. There is also a small group of subject files of copies of “out letters” from the Governor General’s office. These consist of official letters to various organizations: The Society for Welfare of Mothers and Babies; The Friendly Union of Soldiers’ Wives; The Imperial War Relief Fund and the soldiers’ Welfare Committee. The photographs in this collection are of Lady Munro Ferguson, Captain Clifford and Miss Pharo. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 February 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 13 October 2003 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen Best Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Group Officer Clare Stevenson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Lieutenant-Colonel May Douglas Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: IMP0063ga.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0413ga.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: 176103.tif Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Vols. ML MSS. 273/1-2 a. Correspondence, 1889-1930 Deals i.a., with the publication of her writings, recognition of her discoveries in geology, the design of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and her friendship with Daisy Bates. Vols. ML MSS. 273/3-5 b. Autobiography 1846-1930 including correspondence dealing with her life and writings. Vol. ML MSS. 273/6 c. Writings, 1903-1926. MS., typescript and printed. Vol. ML MSS. 273/7-8 d. Miscellanea, mainly newscuttings, including articles by Daisy Bates and typescript extract from the diary of Rev. George King, 1850-1853 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 7362 comprises handwritten letters by Nettie Palmer to Lucille Quinlan, 1928-1937, and manuscript articles and talks by Nettie Palmer. Subjects include the Maori poet Eileen Duggan, Katharine Susannah Prichard, literature in Australia, Henry Handel Richardson and M. Barnard-Eldershaw (Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw) (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 8914 comprises journals kept from 1975 to 1981, in which Eileen Watt writes about political events in Australia and overseas, social, economic and environmental issues, women’s affairs and cultural events, and aspects of personal and family life. There are also seven photographs, including some relative to the annual meeting of the Australian League of Nations’ Union, Canberra, 1938 (2 boxes).??The Acc10.017 instalment comprises the biography of Eileen Watt (in hard copy and on CD-ROM) by Gabrielle Watt, and, copies of genealogical documents relating to Eileen Watt, and her great grandmother, Bridget (Biddy) McCann, a convict in Hobart (1 packet).??The Acc12.013 instalment comprises a final addition of papers relating to the lives of Raymond Gosford Watt and Eileen Watt, from their daughter Gabrielle Watt, after their deaths. Documents include a copy of a pen drawing of ‘Wedgewood’, the home of Raymond and Eileen Watt, personal records and reports and the Last Will and Testament of Eileen Watt (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Emeritus Professor Sally Walker AM was the first female vice-chancellor and president of Australia’s Deakin University. Prior to holding these appointments, she was senior deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Melbourne, where she was also president of the University’s Academic Board, member of the senior executive, and pro vice-chancellor. Walker established the pioneering Centre for Media, Communications and Information Technology Law (now Centre for Media & Communications Law) at the Melbourne Law School and was its inaugural director. While at the Law School, she was Hearn Professor of Law. Walker was also secretary-general of the Law Council of Australia for a time. Appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2011, in recognition of her contribution to education, to the law as an academic and to the advancement of women. In 2014 she was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women. As a Principal at Deloitte, Walker continues to consult widely on strategic and leadership matters in the higher education sector. Sally Walker was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Emeritus Professor Sally Walker’s early life was spent on farming properties managed by her father in various parts of Victoria. Winning a scholarship to be a boarder at Melbourne Church of England Girls’ Grammar School (now Melbourne Girls Grammar), she was inspired to study law after the school enabled her to meet a number of successful women lawyers [Patterson]. In 1976 Walker graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours), winning the Supreme Court Prize for the highest-placed student in the final honours list, the Anna Brennan Prize and the Joan Rosanove Prize. While undertaking articles of clerkship at the Melbourne firm Gillotts Solicitors (later part of Minter Ellison), Walker completed a Master of Laws at the University of Melbourne. She left the firm soon afterwards to take up a position as an associate to the then Justice Aickin of the High Court of Australia. Following her associateship, she returned to Gillotts Solicitors and was later made an associate partner [Aiton]. The increasing importance of media and communication law had now captured Walker’s interest. She returned to the University of Melbourne, taking up a position as a lecturer in the Faculty of Law. After being promoted to senior lecturer and then reader in the Faculty, Walker was responsible for developing a new undergraduate subject – Media Law. In the Master of Laws program she also established the Graduate Diploma of Media, Communications and Information Technology Law. She also taught Trade Practices law, Intellectual Property Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Security Law and, in the Master of Laws program, Advanced Trade Practices Law, Defamation Law and the Law of Contempt of Court. In 1992 Walker was Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. She returned to the University of Melbourne the following year, and took up an appointment as the Hearn Professor of Law. Around this time Walker also became the first academic secretary to be appointed to the Victorian Attorney-General’s Law Reform Advisory Council. [Patterson]. Between 1995 and 2000, Walker was deputy vice-president, vice-president and president of the University of Melbourne’s Academic Board; she was a member of the University’s senior executive and a pro vice-chancellor. Walker also established the Centre for Media, Communications and Information Technology Law (now the Centre for Media & Communications Law). Walker became the second most senior executive at the University of Melbourne when she was appointed to the position of Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor in July 2000. Soon she was being called upon to be acting vice-chancellor in the absence of the then vice-chancellor, the late Professor Alan Gilbert [Patterson]. Among her achievements as senior deputy vice-chancellor, Walker reserves her greatest pride for the role she played in the ‘Academic Women in Leadership Program’, which aimed to encourage women to take up leadership roles in the university [Ketchell; Royall; Cook]. On the success of this program, Walker observed that “the more women there are in senior positions, the more other women, during the early stages of their career, will think it is possible and feasible for them, too” [Cook]. In 2003, Walker became the first female vice-chancellor and president of Deakin University. In the ensuing seven years, she oversaw research endeavours with India, augmenting student enrolments, increased the University’s financial reserves, and set up a new medical school. She also did much to attract and retain female staff, so successfully that she won an Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency award [Ketchell]. Fervent about higher education, Walker said of her time at Deakin that she was: “absolutely passionate about Deakin University. Passionate about rural and regional engagement. Passionate about access and equity to higher education. Deakin is my life. I really care about the future of regional Australia” [Aiton]. At the conclusion of her appointment as vice-chancellor in 2010, a scholarship was created in Walker’s honour to support students from low-income backgrounds to attend Deakin University [Scholarship]. Walker was also conferred with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws for her contribution to Deakin University, to legal education and scholarship and to higher education in general [Oates] and a building was named after her on the Geelong Waterfront. Walker has undertaken various consultancies for federal and Victorian government departments. She was a member of the National Selection Panel for the General Sir John Monash Foundation Scholarships and she remains a member of the Felton Bequests Committee. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2011 in recognition of her contribution to education, to the law as an academic and to the advancement of women. In 2014 Walker was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women. Now a Principal at the international professional services firm Deloitte, she continues to provide consultancy services across the higher education sector on strategic and leadership issues. This work often draws on her legal background. Walker has shown leadership by driving innovation in higher education institutions and by empowering women with flexible work practices. She has also done a great deal to encourage the promotion of women into senior academic and administrative roles. Walker’s contribution to law and society has been to demonstrate that education can transform lives and enrich rural and regional communities. Events 2014 - 2014 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Section From scholar to secretary-general, Patterson, Alicia, http://law.unimelb.edu.au/alumni/mls-news/issue-8-october-2012/from-scholar-to-secretary-general Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Sally Walker interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Sally Walker interviewed by Ruth Campbell in the Law in Australian society oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 5 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Sally Walker Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records of the Union of Australian Women (UAW) compiled mainly by secretary Beryl Miller, comprising minutes of executive, management and annual general meetings, photographs, papers about various action groups and campaigns like ‘Fair go’ Adelaide, UAW group against hospital privatisation, SACOSS, UTLC community and unions, prices action committee, trade union, meals on wheels, women’s advisory department (via Department of Premier and Cabinet) and the women’s information switchboard. Other papers include peace and anti-war group material such as Vietnam Moratorium committee and other anti-Vietnam war protest material like UAW and WIDF correspondence and radio press bulletins, Hiroshima day committee papers, French nuclear testing in the South Pacific papers, papers on disarmament in general. There are also papers which relate to anti-discrimination and include topics on equal pay, equal opportunity commission, the sex discrimination Bill, offensive advertising, pornography, equal opportunity and discrimination including prostitution, feminism and the decade for status of women, abortion, women in South Africa and Australian Indigenous people, especially women. There is also a section about conferences attended by the UAW, including Children’s Services, World March of Women 2000, education, housing and living standards, Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF), World Congress of Women, UAW national committee and conferences 1970-1985. Papers also comprising publications of the history of the UAW, UAW news sheets, news letters, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and videotape footage. There is also a series of photographs. There are correspondence papers comprising many items. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letter from Daisy Bates to Allen McKinnon, dated 11.11.1940, which includes reminiscences about the past and Aboriginal Australians and sends him one of her own books, perhaps to pass on to his own son. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 58 min.)??Conley, author of children’s novels speaks of her work as a writer and the discipline required ; she recalls her childhood and family life ; working in the WRANs and naval life ; the beginnings of her career as a full time writer; Betty Roland and the Society of Women Writers ; she explains the title of her book “The dangerous Bombara” ; the editing of her manuscript for her book “Gecko gully” ; she speaks of the theme for her novel titled “Lucas”. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1965, Patricia Conroy (nee Herlihy), established two partnerships with Martin Conroy in 1966 that have remained steadfast – marriage in July and then a business partnership in December. In the intervening period, the couple travelled to the remote north Queensland town of Mt Isa, where they established their firm, Conroy and Conroy Solicitors. Conroy was the first woman to practise in remote north-western Queensland, and she was one half of the first husband and wife partnership to practice state-wide, a partnership that endures still, in 2016. Patricia Conroy was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. Working in Mt Isa took some getting used to, and the remote location presented some challenges that practitioners from Townsville, let alone Brisbane, could never imagine, but there was plenty of work to be done and the Conroys quickly established themselves as hardworking and caring counsel. The mining town environment created a diverse professional landscape; from crime to conveyance and commercial work, the tragedy of personal injury and estate settlements and the complexity of family law, the Conroys handled the full complement of legal matters one could expect in a regional community. In so doing, it became apparent to Patricia the number of services, such as social workers, or marriage and financial guidance counsellors, Mt Isa lacked, because she seemed to be providing many of these services herself! Seeing community problems that needed solutions, she sought to find them. While running a successful partnership and raising a family of four children, Conroy contributed time and energy to important community initiatives. She was Foundation President of the Mount Isa Welfare Council, foundation member of the Mt Isa Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service and the Honorary Solicitor and Trustee of the Kalkadoon Aboriginal Sobriety House, to name only three organisations she contributed to. ‘One of the great advantages of being a lawyer,’ observes Conroy, ‘especially living in a country town, is that the public observes you to have flexibility and clout…’ She used that clout to make a difference to the lives of Aboriginal and other marginalised people living in Mt Isa, and to women who might not have otherwise sought help in the masculine mining town. Another advantage Conroy acknowledges is the importance of the support she had in the early year when she was establishing her professional practice and her community leadership. Be it the inspiration provided by her father, who left school at fourteen but with commitment and persistence became a solicitor and sole practitioner, the encouragement of her husband and partner at important moments, or the all day child care her children received from a ‘wonderful woman’, Conroy was conscious of the importance of support networks you could rely on, as well as the importance of trying to maintain ‘work/life balance’, before the phrase was even coined. After fourteen years in Mount Isa, the Conroys moved to Gympie to practise, where Patricia continued to work for community organisations concerned with the welfare of women and children. In 1985 they moved to Brisbane where she and Martin established Conroy and Associates in Toowong, and where they practised until retirement. Patricia was a member of the Council of the Queensland Law Society from 1996 – 2004, serving as a member of the Professional Standards committee for some years. She was invited to serve on the boards of energy providers, SEQEB and Powerlink, experiences that she found challenging and inspirational as they brought her in touch with outstanding people. She was a founding member of the Queensland Women Lawyers Association. If Patricia Conroy didn’t coin the phrase ‘women can have it all, but not all at once’, she certainly endorsed its truth by example! ‘The goals I set for myself,’ she says, ‘were to achieve a balanced life, to have a happy marriage and be a reasonable mother and at the same time have a rewarding professional life.’ By any measure, including her own, she has achieved those goals and made an important contribution to the legal profession, and community life in Queensland. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Patricia Conroy interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 May 2016 Last modified 31 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A committed Christian Democratic Party member, Ursula Bennett ran as a candidate for Bega in 2003 and then again in the House of Representatives for Eden Monaro in 2004. Ursula Bennett migrated to Australia in 1982, after a childhood in Germany, where, as a teenager, she was active in human rights and advocacy groups for the physically handicapped. She became a Christian in 1985 and an Australian citizen in 1986. Ursula campaigned on a platform to bring a bible-based worldview on legislation to the NSW Parliament. She is married and has seven children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Minute books of the Queensland Country Women’s Association. These minute books cover both closed branches and younger sets including: Burleigh Heads, Edmonton, Cairns,Garradunga, Weipa, Dysart, Richmond, Tugun Bilinga, Tully, Mirriwinni, Smithfield, Innisfail, Flying Fish, East Palmerston, Earlville, South Johnstone, Kilcoy, CoorparooGreenslopes, Sherwood, Mt. Tyson, Woodford, Toowong, Kedron, Palm BeachCurrumbin, Wamuran, Mt. Mac, Bardon, Narangba, Goomeri, Widgee, Hillview, Cloyna, Redcliffe, Pialba, Tansey, Upper Mt. Gravatt, Baralaba, Southbrook, Acland, Maclagan. Gemfields, Birkdale, Withersield, Kandanga and Hervey Bay Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Necia Mocatta devoted much of her life, energy and enthusiasm to the betterment and dignity of the lives of women and children. She believed that the family unit was the foundation on which a caring, prosperous society was built and focused her attention on strengthening it at local, national and international levels, rather then pursuing broad issues of gender equality. An astute and successful businesswoman, she became actively involved with the National Council of Women at a state, national and international level as president of both NCW South Australia (1980-1983, 1996) and the National Council of Women of Australia (1985-1988), and as a Board member (1988-1991) then vice-president (1991) of the International Council of Women. Necia Mocatta (née Homan) was born 14 January 1938 in Kadina, South Australia. She was educated in Kadina, followed by Paskeville and Girton Girls’ School (now Pembroke School). She married George Somerset Mocatta and had four children. When Mocatta and her family lived in Tintinara and Keith, her community involvement revolved around mothers and babies, the church, the school and general community activities. To give the children a better education, the family moved from Tintinara to Adelaide, where both Necia and George were involved in the real estate business. Later, Necia Mocatta became a licensed sales person and was the first woman auctioneer in South Australia, building a reputation for ethical practice as well astuteness. Mocatta’s interest in the National Council of Women began when she attended the South Australian branch as a delegate for the Soroptimists. She joined NCWSA in 1970 and, with her passion for organisation, hard work and efficiency, willingly took on executive responsibilities, becoming president from 1980 to 1983. She was made an honorary life member and agreed to be president again in 1996 when circumstances made it difficult to fill the role. She was national president of NCWA from 1985 to 1988. As national president, she looked to adopt business principles and practice; for example, she organised Qantas to supply sponsorship so Board members could attend conferences. Mocatta represented NCWA on various committees, including the National Forum of Non-Government Welfare Co-ordinating Bodies, the National Keep Australia Beautiful Council, the Parliamentary Disarmament Forum and the committee that established the Telecom Consumers’ Council. After her term as president of NCWA, Mocatta was elected a voting member of the International Council of Women Board (1988-1991), becoming an ICW vice-president in 1991. She attended many ICW conferences, including Nairobi in 1979, London in 1986, and Washington in 1988, which was also the centenary of the International Council. She also attended executive meetings in Kiel, Lucerne, Malta and Auckland. Mocatta directed the triennial conferences in Bangkok in 1991 and Paris in 1994. She was also ICW co-ordinator of Development Projects and liaison officer to Project Five O, an international co-operative enterprise of five women’s service clubs concerned with vocational and other training for women and girls in developing countries and countries in transition. Mocatta was a long-time member of the Liberal Party and served on the South Australian State Executive and the State Council and was vice-president of the Women’s Council. She became Mayoress of St Peters and a member of the Metropolitan Mayoress’s Charity Committee. Mocatta also held office in a number of other organisations, including the presidency of the Torrens Soroptimists and club representative to the Soroptimists Regional Council. She was a member of the Steering Committee of the Non-English Cultural Background International Women’s Conference held in Adelaide in 1994, a member of the Australian Institute of Management, president of the Rostrum Club No. 2, and a foundational member and NCWSA’s representative on both the Women’s Information Switchboard support group, and the South Australian Jubilee 150 Women’s Committee. A committed Christian, Mocatta was also on the board of the St Laurence Home for the Aged (now part of Anglicare) for 10 years. She was an active member of All Souls Anglican Church, St Peters, being a member of the Parish Council and a lay assistant, sidesman and a member of the Sanctuary Guild. Mocatta responded enthusiastically to the needs of women and families, not just in Australia but throughout the world. This interest was stimulated by attending conferences in Germany, Kenya and Korea, where she could see first hand the work of Five O. Necia Mocatta was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1990 for her services to the community and was awarded a Ruth Gibson Memorial Award by NCWA in 1992. She was awarded the Adrian Stock Award for service to Rostrum in 1993 and 1995. She died in Adelaide on 4 December 2000. Events 1988 - 1994 International Council of Women 1986 - 1986 South Australian Jubilee 150 Women’s Committee Published resources Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Book What's next? : the continuing history of the National Council of Women of South Australia 1980-2000, Hartley, Shirley, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] NCWA Papers 1984 - 2006 State Library of South Australia National Council of Women of S.A. : SUMMARY RECORD Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Necia Mocatta AM AIMM Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 1 November 2013 Digital resources Title: Nescia Mocatta Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: conference1988.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Elaine Battersby was a member of the Christian Democrat Party who ran as a candidate for Newcastle in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 2003. Elaine Battersby taught ceramics and jewellery for many years in the Newcastle area. Her campaign was based on a wish to see Christian ideals in government, and the family unit as the centre of all policies. She is married. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A collection of approximately 50 letters written to Richard Griffiths of New Court, Hereford by members of his family, including correspondence relating to the wardship and subsequent upbringing of Florence Griffiths Buchanan (1861-1913), an early female missionary to Australia. Also, a single letter dated 1 Mar 1885, from Florence’s brother Nigel Buchanan, written from Bundaberg and reporting on his life on the land, especially drought and stock losses. The letter is contained in its original stamped envelope, also addressed to R.J. Griffiths, Nigel Buchanan’s cousin. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Recommendations for King’s Birthday Honours 1945 [Col E C P Plant; Col A F B Cox; Lt-Col M A R Synnot; Lt-Col H Wilson; Maj E V Cash; Maj H L Foster; Maj J C Rishworth; Capt. R H Eades; Senior Sister Lt-Col Edith L Shaw; Matron Janet L Cook; Matron Marie E Hurley; Matron Clara J Shumack; Capt. [Sister] Kathleen P Bonnin; Capt. [Sister] Ellen M Fenner {nee Roberts]; Capt. [Sister] Jessie M Langham; Capt. [Sister] Ethel Youman; L/Sgt F J Mather; Cpl T B Moss] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 November 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anthea McIntyre Created 27 April 2016 Last modified 9 August 2016 Digital resources Title: Anthea McIntyre Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO21]??Comprises records arising from a range of youth activities such as conferences, national camps, training programmes, courses and other events. Records include rules of the organisation, reports on activities and operational priorities, statistics, historical notes, agenda, financial summaries, correspondence, training course material, booklets and camp ephemera.??Includes records relating to camps in Geelong, Mt Evelyn, Point Lonsdale, Perth, W.A, as well as a biennial National Gumbooya camps (Indigenous for meeting place) held throughout Australia. Also includes records relating to technical seminar for Asia Pacific region “Konnichiwa Japan 1970; an International Study Centre in Istanbul.?The Australian Junior Red Cross was founded in New South Wales in August 1914 by Mrs Eleanor MacKinnon, with the original aim of involving children in supporting the recuperation of soldiers, as well as assisting soldier’s children. Subsequently the movement evolved to focus on developing the humanitarian and public service ethos amongst young people through education programs, participation and activities that encouraged active citizenship and community participation. In the 1970s the Australian Junior Red Cross changed its name to Red Cross Youth and became part of the Youth and Education Service Department (YES), focusing on people under 30 years. See: Australian Women’s register: Youth and Education Services, Australian Red Cross (1914- ) http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0717b.htm??Researchers should also refer to: Victorian Division – Junior Red Cross Index Cards (2016.0072) pertaining to Junior Red Cross activities in schools. See also the National Office Poster series (2016.0076) and Junior Red Cross and Australian Red Cross Youth Publications (2016.0051), Junior Red Cross in Precis Department Notes (2016.0054.00009)??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lyma Nguyen, an advocate whose earliest memories stem back to the Indonesian refugee camp in which she was born, has devoted the better part of her young life to human rights; she has particularly concerned herself with advancing criminal justice domestically and in the international sphere. Nguyen practises at the Northern Territory Bar in Darwin and also appears before the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)). In 2009, Nguyen became the first Australian woman to be admitted as International Counsel for Civil Parties in the ECCC. She acts on behalf of ethnic Vietnamese Cambodians – as well as foreign nationals from Australia, New Zealand and the United States – who suffered during the Khmer Rouge regime. In recognition of indefatigable, pro bono work for the rights of ethnic minority Vietnamese in Cambodia, Nguyen was awarded an Australian Prime Minister’s Executive Endeavour Award in 2013. Lyma Nguyen was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Lyma Nguyen was born in a refugee camp on Kuku Island, Indonesia. Just days before her birth, her mother was taken from the dilapidated vessel that had borne the family from Vietnam and transported by helicopter to the Indonesian mainland. The story of Nguyen’s birth and the mystery of whether she was named for the call signal ‘Lima’, possibly used on the helicopter that brought her to safety, are told in the book, Boat People: Personal Stories from the Vietnamese Exodus: 1975-1996, edited by Carina Hoang. Nguyen’s earliest memories are of her childhood in the refugee camp, before settling in Brisbane via Perth, Australia. Educated first at the local primary school in Darra, Brisbane, before receiving her secondary schooling at Brigidine College, Indooroopilly, Nguyen’s interest in human rights was awakened when she became president of Brigidine’s Amnesty International group. In 2001, Nguyen began studying arts and law at the University of Queensland. Her law studies, focused on international law, peacekeeping and international institutions, and human rights law, would stand her in good stead for her future work, particularly at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. In 2001 – the time of the International Force for East Timor, the multinational, non-United Nations peacekeeping taskforce which was organised and led by Australia – Nguyen’s involvement with the United Nations’ Student Association at university saw her travel to Timor-Leste to teach English to children – including orphans – in Los Palos. Back in Australia, in 2002 she was elected president of the University’s chapter of Amnesty International. She also became a student councillor, supporting projects with the Red Cross and Oxfam. The same year, Nguyen returned to Timor-Leste, where she witnessed the withdrawal of the International Force for East Timor and the student rioting which resulted. In 2004, Nguyen travelled to south-eastern Nigeria where she taught French to high school students in Anambra State. The following year, her legal studies took her to Canada’s University of British Columbia. In 2006, Nguyen undertook an international clerkship with the Singaporean law firm, Drew & Napier LLC; it was here that she fatefully met Mahdev Mohan, who would introduce her to the work being undertaken at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Graduating with a combined degree in 2006, Nguyen accepted a position with the Department of Immigration’s Brisbane office. She was there only a short time before she felt drawn to Canberra to work as a legal officer with the International Transfer of Prisoners Scheme, International Criminal Law Division of the Attorney-General’s Department. While she was at the Attorney-General’s Department Mohan contacted Nguyen: he was preparing victim class action claims being heard in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal and wondered if Nguyen might be interested in assisting him. She was, and in 2008, Nguyen travelled to Cambodia where she made contact with the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Human Rights Organisation, which was conducting ‘outreach’ to the floating Vietnamese villages. Nguyen helped four complainants to fill out forms to submit to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. They would be the first of many she helped. After returning to Australia, Nguyen joined the Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in a legal policy role which was concerned with human trafficking, slavery and sexual servitude offences. In 2009, seeking prosecution experience, Nguyen successfully applied for a transfer to the Darwin office of the DPP. The same year, she was admitted as International Counsel for Civil Parties in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. The Tribunal was established in 2003 through an agreement between the Government of Cambodia and the United Nations and the Law on the Establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; Nguyen has noted that “[t]his was the very first time in international criminal law history that victims of crime were permitted to join the proceedings of an internationalised court as ‘civil parties’, with a mandate to support the prosecution, and to seek ‘moral and collective reparations’ for harm suffered” [Nguyen]. Nguyen’s ability to converse in French and Vietnamese has provided her with a crucial link to the minority ethnic Vietnamese Cambodians she represents at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, victims and claimants who have spoken “of horrific crimes – mass deportation to Vietnam, torture, cannibalism, rape, the singling out of members of their group, mass executions of family members, details about the methods of killing and torture; things that would make any ordinary person wretch and cry” [Nguyen]. All the time she was at the DPP, Nguyen continued to work doggedly, in her own time, at the Tribunal, initially with the non-governmental organisation, Access to Justice Asia. In 2010, with Australian Volunteers International and Legal Aid Cambodia, Nguyen prepared victim compensation claims for over 100 survivors, in cases that began before the Tribunal had finalised the trial hearings. Nguyen, working as an International Civil Party Lawyer in the Tribunal, represented a variety of victim groups, including foreign nationals from Australia, New Zealand and the United States who had lost family members through Khmer Rouge policies against foreign nationals. Together with national colleagues from Legal Aid of Cambodia, she has provided pro bono legal representation for victims across cases 002, 003 and 004, including for ethnic Vietnamese minority victims of Cambodia’s genocide, foreign nationals who are victims of crimes at S21 (the torture centre in Phnom Penh), and members of the Cambodian diaspora. In 2011 Nguyen completed a Master of Laws degree which focussed on International Law, at the Australian National University (ANU). Together with Christoph Sperfeldt of the ANU, she was author in 2012 of a research paper: ‘A Boat Without Anchors: A Report on the Legal Status of Ethnic Vietnamese Minority Populations in Cambodia Under Domestic and International Laws Governing Nationality and Statelessness’ [Nguyen and Sperfeldt]. The same year, Nguyen was enlisted by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a Law and Justice Civilian Expert on the register of the Australian Civilian Corps, for rapid deployment to fragile or post-conflict situations. In recognition of her dedication to the rights of ethnic minority Vietnamese in Cambodia, in 2013 Nguyen was honoured with an Australian Prime Minister’s Executive Endeavour Award for her work representing ethnic Vietnamese victims of the Khmer Rouge [Marcham]. In 2014, Nguyen was awarded a Churchill Fellowship. She used the fellowship to increase her expertise in the practice of international criminal justice by examining the operation of international courts and preparing victim representation in the genocide trial before the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. In June of the same year, Nguyen left her role at the DPP to read at the Northern Territory Bar in Darwin. Believing that “the ECCC could help repair race relations between Khmer and Vietnamese, in addition to finding justice for millions affected by the Khmer Rouge’s murderous rule” [Phan], Nguyen continues to have a significant impact on the lives of the Vietnamese ethnic minority and foreign national victims whom she represents in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Lyma Nguyen interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 21 September 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Folio 1: Legal opinions and documents (often relating to copyright), copyright forms, correspondence with the Australasian Performing Rights Association (A.P.R.A.), letters to sponsors concerning radio jingles, letters to Robert Menzies offering patriotic war songs (lyrics and music by Georgia Evans), transcript of the C.J. Dennis commemoration broadcast 16/11/1944, radio jingles written under the pseudonym Val Moore. (some dating from the 1930s); Folio 2: Songs from the C.J. Dennis commemoration broadcast (Georgia Evans adapted and set to music C. J. Dennis verse) “Er name’s Doreen”, “Stror ‘at Coot”, “The dawn dance”, “A real Australian austra-laise”, “The band is marching by”, “A letter to the front”, “Vernal promise”, “Rose and bee”; Folio 3-4: Songs, lyrics and music by Georgia Evans, including patriotic songs and childrens’ songs. Folio 3 also includes orchestral/band music. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The MS 8460 collection comprises papers relating to Marion Halligan’s prolific career as an author. There are drafts of her books, short stories and reviews and papers relating to her participation in numerous literary events. There is a large series of correspondence, the bulk of which is business related. Included is correspondence with literary agents Curtis Brown, numerous publishers regarding publication of Halligan’s books, editors of journals and newspapers regarding publication of her short stories, reviews, essays and articles and with organisations regarding personal appearances. There is also correspondence with other authors, many of whom have become personal friends. Correspondents include Carmel Bird, Judith Brett, David Brookes, Manning Clark, Robert Dessaix, Geoffrey Dutton, Roseanne Fitzgibbons, Mem Fox, Susan Hawthorne, A.D. Hope, Nicholas Jose, Stephen Knight, Drusilla Modjeska, Douglas Muecke, Michael Symons, Brenda Niall, Ric Throssell, Nancy Sawer and Barbara Kerr Wilson (33 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc04.092 instalment comprises correspondence, drafts, publishing material, printed material and other papers, including material relating to The living hothouse (1988), Eat my words (1990), Cockles of the heart (1996), Those women who go to hotels (1997), The gift of story (1998), Storykeepers (2001), The fog garden (2001), the Newcastle Regional Museum exhibition “How shall we live”, 2003, and miscellaneous writings, together with papers relating to the Word Festival (6 boxes, 2 cartons, 4 small cartons) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Megan Anwyl was elected to the thirty-fourth Parliament of Western Australia for Kalgoorlie at the by-election on 16 March 1996, representing the Australian Labor Party. The election was held to fill the vacancy consequent upon the resignation of Hon. Ian Frederick Taylor. Anwyl was re-elected in 1996, and defeated on 10 February 2001. Megan Anwyl was born in Melbourne in 1962. Her parents, John Anwyl and Jill Blackstock, were both highly qualified professional educators with well-developed egalitarian philosophies. Megan Anwyl gained law and arts degrees from the University of Melbourne, and practised as a solicitor in Melbourne and Kalgoorlie. She was elected to the Parliament of Western Australia for Kalgoorlie on 16 March 1996, representing the Australian Labor Party. Anwyl was re-elected in 1996, and defeated on 10 February 2001. Published resources Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 28 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anastasia Bekas was born in Greece in the late 1930s, the youngest of four children. She liked school and was a good student, her teachers encouraged her to attend high school. Unfortunately, she could not live this dream because, as was customary at the time, she had to leave school because her help was required to run the farm. She was a good, hard worker, but in the end her father encouraged her to migrate to Australia, as a way of avoiding the dowry he would eventually have to supply should she stay in Greece. The Australian government was keen to attract single Greek girls to the country at this time. As long as she had somewhere to stay, they would pay her fare. ‘You are healthy, you are going to Australia’, she was told. ‘So I have to go.’ She migrated to Australia, where her sister already lived, in December 1963 and arrived in Adelaide, where she would settle, on January 14, 1964. Adjustment was difficult, with the lack of English language skills being the major problem. Anastasia, like millions of other women who arrived in the waves of post war migration, had few skills, little, if any English but a strong desire to work. In the 1960s and 70s, when the provision of post-arrival migrant services and programs was demonstratively inadequate, this combination was a never-ending source of frustration for women who wanted to make a contribution. Anastasia describes this frustration in an interview done for the Thebartson Community Arts Network Project: ‘My sister said that young people were being brought here to help the country prosper. I couldn’t speak English, it was hard when my family wasn’t there to help me. My brother in law could speak English a bit. I wanted to work but he said it would be hard with no English. He helped me go to Social Security but I had to go to the interview by myself on the bus. I didn’t know how much to pay on the bus, the conductor took the right money from my hand. I didn’t understand anything at the office – they sent me home. I cried and cried. Then I got a letter telling me I had to go to school to learn English. I went to Thebarton Primary School two nights a week but we only learned words like bread, water, hello. I wanted to learn words that would help me to get a job. I had to persuade our teacher to teach these words.’ Published resources Book Postcards from home : a celebration of departures and arrivals - voices of women from non English speaking backgrounds, Thebarton Community Arts Network, 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Postcards from Home: Interviews with Thebarton Women from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds : SUMMARY RECORD [sound recording] Interviewers: Members of Thebarton Community Arts Network Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: My Wedding Day, by Angela Bekas Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 sound tape reels (ca. 118 min.)??Blackman speaks of her family background and studies ; her poetry writing and desire to write in a surrealist style ; her “Barjai” experience from age 15 to 20 ; her stay in London with husband Charles Blackman ; her involvement with the talking book library ; the changing art world in Australia ; her involvement with Chiron College. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Keelah Lam is a committed and active environmentalist. She represented the Australian Greens in the House of Representatives elections for Warringah in 1998 and 2001and in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Manly in 2003. Keelah Lam is an active and committed community member, interested in sustainable living, especially in an urban setting. Thee Sydney Morning Herald reported that she ran her 2003 campaign out of the back of a 1978 Volvo, and from the front room of her Fairlight home, which was equipped with a dry compost toilet. Her transport policy focussed on reducing car use. She is a founding member and co-ordinator of the Manly Food Co-op, a member of the Waste Crisis Network of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, and a member of the Manly Council’s community sustainability, waste and environment committees. She runs a successful small business and has four children. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Margaret Barbalet is an award-winning children’s author, a novelist, poet and short-story writer, a public servant and a historian (This entry is sponsored by generous donation from Christine Foley.) Margaret Barbalet was born in Adelaide and raised in Tasmania. She studied history at the University of Adelaide and says she spent much of her youth protesting against the Vietnam war. She taught at Mitchell and Canberra Colleges of Advanced Education, and as a researcher and historian she worked for the Commonwealth Schools Commission, Adelaide City Council and wrote a history of Adelaide Children’s Hospital. She has also been an analyst at the Office of National Assessments. As a children’s author she wrote the widely acclaimed The Wolf, which won the 1993 Human Rights Award for children’s literature, and was shortlisted for the Younger Readers Book of the Year Award. She was honoured in several categories of the Children’s Book Council Book of the Year 2004 for Reggie Queen of the Street. Barbalet’s published non-fiction includes Far from a Low Gutter Girl: the forgotten world of state wards, South Australia, 1887-1940 and a chapter in Canberra Reflects (2001), which accompanied an exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery. Her novels include Blood in the Rain and Steel Beach, which was shortlisted for the 1983 Vogel Award. Her other books include Lady, Baby, Gypsy, Queen (1992), The Presence of Angels (2001) and Paradise Hotel. Of varied genres, her work has been described as ‘capturing the territory of loss’. She is also a published poet. She was a member of Seven Writers – a group of seven Canberra-based writers whose work often vividly portrayed life ‘beneath the surface of Canberra’ – and as part of this collective she contributed to Canberra Tales (1988), republished as The Division of Love in 1996, an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. This work received an ACT Bicentennial Award. Barbalet has been awarded an Australia Council Literature Grant; an Australian National University H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship (1998); an ACT Arts Fellowship (1999); an ACT Literature Fellowship (2001); a National Library of Australia Harold White Fellowship (2001) and an Australia Council Literature Grant for a New Work Fellowship (2002). During a career at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1990 – December 2008) Margaret Barbalet was appointed Second Secretary at the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur in 1996. She was posted to Abu Dhabi from 2005-08. In 2001 she headed the Literature Committee for the ACT Cultural Council. She now lives in Sydney Published resources Book The Division of Love: Stories, Barbalet, Margaret et al, 1995 Blood in the Rain, Barbalet, Margaret, 1986 Far from a Low Gutter Girl: the forgotten world of state wards, South Australia, 1887-1940, Barbalet, Margaret, 1983 Steel Beach, Barbalet, Margaret, 1988 Lady, Baby, Gypsy, Queen, Barbalet, Margaret, 1992 The Presence of Angels, Barbalet, Margaret, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Seven Writers group, between 1986 and approximately 2000 Papers of Margaret Barbalet, 1974-1993 [manuscript] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Portrait of Margaret Barbalet 1991 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "45 minutes??Betty Riggs was born in 1911 and went to school at the Methodist Ladies College and the PGC. She became a nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1930. In 1936 she was nursing in Scotland so was there for the coronation of Edward VIII. Became ill in Scotland and went to a sanatorium in Switzerland and then returned to Adelaide. Joined the 2nd 4th AG and went to the Middle East where her first tour of duty was to nurse soldiers from Tobruk. Then went to Jerusalem and Colombo. Returned to Australia and continued nursing even though her health had suffered. Returned to Adelaide to care for her aunt Emily Verco and did a course in infant welfare. Accepted a job at the Adelaide City Council Health Department. Aunt died when she was 100. Retired at 60 and began travelling. Started working as a relief nurse at the Christian Rest Home and travelled to Europe and China, India and Bangkok. Participated in all the activities of the Lyceum Club. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Crommelin Biological Research Station records 1939-68; Warrah sanctuary trust correspondence 1940-55; Gosford District Flora and Fauna Protection Society Records 1948-55; Mosman Tree Lovers Civic League records 1932-34; general conservation research records 1931-66; letters from Nina Campbell 1912-70; personal documents 1881-1969 including correspondence and a typescript autobiography; diaries 1915, 1949-70; photographs 1887-1967; press cuttings 1904-66. Author Details Ailie Smith Created 21 November 2002 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour??Marjorie Ladkin, nee Soady, was born in Sydney, New South Wales, completed schooling in 1930 and worked as a clerk in her father’s manufacturing business. In 1933 she began training at the Sydney Hospital, and upon graduation worked for a nursing agency. She married in 1939 and during the war worked as a clerk in the Department of Labour and Industry. In 1954, when her children were at school, she took up nursing again and back in Adelaide in 1959 took an appointment at Abergeldie Private Hospital. In 1965 she was the first full-time secretary of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation (SA Branch). For the next ten years Marjorie gave herself wholeheartedly to the RANF which grew in membership, in its range of activities, and in strength as a professional and industrial organization for nurses. Marjorie retired in 1975. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Maxwell is a freelance curator, art valuer and consultant. She is best known as a curator of contemporary art in Canberra, where she lived from 1979 to 2014. Helen now lives and works on the south coast of New South Wales, where she organises art projects and exhibitions. Helen Maxwell is a Canberran who has not been afraid to deliver her own brand of desires through showcasing contemporary art in the ACT since 1989. As an assistant art curator with the National Gallery of Australia in the department of Australian Art, Maxwell was inspired and, more importantly, determined to branch out and create her own breed of gallery. The first incarnation of Maxwell’s distinctive spirit was aGOG, standing for Australian Girls’ Own Gallery and, as the name suggests, made a stir by showing women’s art only. The small ‘a’ for Australian was an equally deliberate point being ‘slightly anti-nationalistic’ in flavour. Speaking about the decision to exhibit solely women’s art, Maxwell said she felt very strongly about it at the time: ‘A number of people objected to it, argued with me and said it was sexist. But there were also many supporters to whom I will always be grateful and for me it felt right and that was important. I felt that the opportunities for men to show their work was still much greater than those for women.’ Setting up in a space in Leichhardt Street Studios, Kingston, Maxwell was amazed at the rapid response she received from artists, eager to exhibit: ‘You know the first exhibition was organised before I even knew whether I was going to open.’ From the beginning she was committed to bringing in artists from across the nation. While acknowledging it would have been easy to stock from the abundant local talent pool, Maxwell wished to deter any potential for parochialism and instead perhaps push the community’s boundaries. Personal politics is another prerequisite in Helen Maxwell’s selection criteria when choosing an artist to exhibit in her gallery: “When I look at artists’ work, the work has to be political, not necessarily overtly (though it may be) or in your face, but it needs to express an artist’s personal politics. It has to demonstrate at least a stance that they are taking in their life. At the same time they have to know how to use their medium to successfully express their views.” After ten years of running aGOG, Maxwell decided to shut up shop in 1998, and move to a larger space and broaden her product range – the result was Helen Maxwell Gallery, a large open warehouse space in Braddon near Canberra’s city centre. This new gallery enabled Maxwell to show larger, more financially viable works, and heralded a change in opening up to male artists as she felt the urgent need for a women’s only policy had abated. Helen Maxwell Gallery now offers a monthly rotation of new exhibits, showcasing contemporary art from Australia and the Pacific and has a stockroom of both Aboriginal and non-Indigenous art. Some of the artists represented are Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Vivienne Binns, Yvonne Boag, Tony Coleing, eX de Medici, Annie Franklin, Shayne Higson, Judy Horacek, Marie McMahon, Kate Lohse, Sue Lovegrove, Patsy Payne, Franki Sparke, Neil Roberts (1954-2002), Wilma Tabacco, Paul Uhlmann, Ruth Waller, Megan Walch, Judy Watson and Robin White (NZ). As well as running a successful, socially engaging enterprise, Helen Maxwell has also been an active member of Canberra’s cultural community, as a member of the ACT Cultural Council, and has served on the Interim Board of Management of the Canberra Museum and Gallery during its initial planning stages. She has also taught Curatorship (Theory and Practice) in the Art History Department at the Australian National University and has joined in sponsorship with the Canberra Times in offering the paper’s Artist of the Year Award. This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 18 May 2006 Last modified 12 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc09.002 comprises original manuscript scores by Penelope Thwaites including, Cold winter’s night; Papua New Guinea (1970); Giant land (1970); Psalm 121; The Lord Jehovah reigns (1975). The published material includes: Psalm 121; A Lambeth garland: the Lambeth waltz (arranged for piano duet) (1989); Reverie for soprano (baritone) & piano (1989); and, Dancing pieces: piano solo (1990). The photocopied music in the collection consists of, The moment for a miracle (1967) and Cold winter’s night (1967). There is also a copy of the book, Listen to the children compiled by Annejet Campbell (London : Grovenor, 1979) which includes Look at the children, words and music by Penelope Thwaites (1 fol. box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On June 5th, 2006, Beryl Mulder had telephone discussion with Dr Nikki Henningham (Executive Officer AWAP) about her lifelong and on-going role in multicultural politics and advocacy on behalf of migrant women. Throughout the course of the conversation, Mulder told a number of fascinating anecdotes:??1) In 1988 Beryl Mulder was appointed to the regional co-ordinators position in the Office of Multicultural Affairs in Darwin. An important principle of operation was what she called ‘The Jesuit Principle’, which states that ‘it’s is holier to be forgiven than to ask for permission’.??2) In the late 1990s, Beryl Mulder was advised by a supervisor in the Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs that she would have to give up her work on the Ethnic Communities Council of the Northern Territory if she wanted to retain her employment in the department. She was advised that a letter from the department secretary had gone out to that effect. Mulder called around her network of women colleagues in the department and, on their advice, called her supervisor’s bluff, demanding to see the letter. No such letter had ever been written, and the claim was widely regarded as the thin end of the wedge that was attempting to remove the word ‘multicultural’ from the department’s activities Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 October 2006 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Janice (Jan) Murray represented the ALP in the 1978 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Eastwood. Receiving no party help or funding, she nevertheless achieved a significant swing of 13.5% Before entering party political life, Jan Murray’s activism gave meaning to the feminist truth that ‘the personal is political’. In 1972, Jan fought a very public fight for the right to use her own name, rather than that of her husband, eventually changing back to Murray from Brown by deed poll. While many conservative women were appalled by her actions, and told her so in no uncertain terms, other women supported her and were grateful to her for opening up the possibility to them of keeping their own names after marriage. At the time of her campaign, Jan Murray was in her final year of an Arts degree from Macquarie University majoring in politics and English. She later graduated with first class honours. She was married to John Brown, MHR for Parramatta, and the mother of five children, born within seven years. She reverted to her maiden name by deed poll. She was a life member of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children, and a member of the Models and Mannequins Union. She was a regular guest on the Mike Walsh TV show, and in the 90s, a panellist on Beauty and the Beast. She came to prominence by refusing to disclose her financial interests under the Governments disclosure legislation. From 1981, she was the Principal in the PR firm of Jan Murray and Associates, which, over the next twenty years, handled some of the most significant public relations campaigns for the Australian tourist industry. She played a seminal role in the Paul Hogan “Shrimp on the barbecue” campaign and staged a celebrity breakfast for 10,000 people at the Gold Coast’s Palm Meadows Golf Course to launch the Greg Norman Golf Tournament. For Australia’s Bicentennial, the firm ran a radiothon and raised a million dollars for the staging of the First Fleet Re-enactment Voyage, and found individual sponsorships for each of the vessels. Jan was also involved, acting pro bono, in the Lord Mayor’s Bush Fire Appeal in 1995, which raised over $11 million. She was appointed to the Trust which was responsible for dispersing the fund. Jan Murray is in demand as a guest speaker, and in 2005 opened the Fourth National Public Affairs Convention in Canberra. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 sound tape reel (ca. 89 min.)??Keesing speaks of her early years; her schooling; writing poetry; the various jobs held; the Lyre Bird Writers; researching in the “Bulletin” for bush ballads; how she writes poetry; the themes of her poems. Keesing reads two of her poems: “Revelation” and “Children”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 91 min.)??Suzy Javor talks about her table tennis career; her life in Hungary; her World War II experiences; after the war joining a table tennis club; progression through the ranks; marrying her coach; her selection to the national team; playing in Romania, London and Holland; life behind the Iron Curtain in the 1950s; playing in Vienna at the time of the Hungarian revolution (1956); never returning to Hungary, waiting in Austria until the revolution was over; meeting up with her husband; life on the other side of the curtain; importance of sport to the Hungarian nation and the communist system; different training regimes; Australian Institute of Sport; the different approach to sport in Australia, Table Tennis in particular; racquet innovation and other technological changes and changes to the rules that have impacted upon the game; the talents and skills required in a good table tennis player; coming to Australia; the offer of help from the Victorian Table Tennis Association; the journey to Australia arriving May, 1957; early days in Melbourne; getting work; Kurt de Vreis; her husband’s work.??Javor discusses developing a table tennis network; her life at home with her baby; getting a part time job; English language difficulties limiting her social and employment options; moving to their own home; winning Victorian Championships; attempting to improve training regime; raising the standard of the game in Australia; son’s elite table tennis career; husband focusing on coaching; the table tennis community in Victoria; Albert Park Stadium; Australian women’s team finishing 12th at world championships (1963); World Championships in Prague (1963) reuniting with her Hungarian team mates; seeing her family for the first time since she left; her husband’s support and his importance to the development of the sport; Javor Cup tournament; relationship with and support from the Melbourne Jewish Community; member of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and her inclusion in the Australian Sports Hall of Fame (1987); importance of sport and public recognition of her talent and contribution; importance of her involvement in sport to her life course; life after playing competitively; prospects for making a living out of table tennis; importance of the recognition of her effort, contribution and the friendships made though sport. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The first group of papers comprising MS 5414 consists of photographs, an autograph book, student reports from Guildhall, and two scrapbooks containing cuttings, programs, music scores and some letters, including one from Peter Dawson. The second consignment is mainly music scores, including the operas Alaya, The jolly friar, the plays David and Myfanwy, Perhaps one day, and published works such as Some Australian songs for children and Four songs of Australia. There is also some correspondence with William F. Morriss, six discs and a manuscript titled “Edith Harrhy musician extraordinaire: a personal memoir” by her daughter, Honor Marianne Coutts. The collection includes about 154 letters to Harrhy from Con Daly (10 boxes, 4 fol. Boxes).??The Acc08.082 instalment comprises letters, family photographs (originals and copies of), manuscript and published music scores of Harrhy’s songs and other compositions, genealogical materials such as family trees, recital programs and clippings relating to performances of Harrhy’s works, pay slips from ABC, typescript of “A character reverence” (biography of Harrhy by Honor Coutts) (4 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers 1838 to 1944 including letters and newscuttings relating to Sir William Windeyer and his home Tomago House at Newcastle. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Townsville, Qld. C. 1943-10. Her Excellency Lady Gowrie, Honorary Air Commodore, WAAAF, inspects photographs on the wall at St Anne’s Barracks, covering the WAAAF Second Anniversary Sports Day on 1943-03-20. With her is Squadron Officer Gwen Stark, Staff Officer for WAAAF in North East Area. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives Series reference: NO33]??Note that three separate content lists for this series are available to researchers: 1 – in box (unit) number order, largely reflecting the order in which the series was received from the Red Cross; 2 in approximate chronological order; 3 in alphabetical order of file titles.??This series documents the very wide range of activities of the National Office (formerly known as Headquarters , Australian Headquarters or National Headquarters ) of the Australian Red Cross from its formation in 1914 as the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross Society. These activities include: administration, personnel, buildings and equipment, finance, the Blood Transfusion Service (see below), the Tracing Bureau, Red Cross Youth, shipping and stores, public relations, community services, handcrafts, field force/personnel, medical, voluntary services, development/international programmes, fundraising, awards, international humanitarian law, health and safety education, disaster services and correspondence with the Australian divisions (states) and with the International Committee of the Red Cross/Red Crescent.??Note that the series contains only a few records of the Blood Transfusion Service (‘Blood Bank’) Blood Services were operated by each state/division until 1996 at which time the semi-autonomous national Blood Service was established. Some correspondence of the Victorian Blood Service may be found in series 2015.0026 (Executive Correspondence of the Victorian Division), however it is possible that some records have been removed from these series and transferred to the Blood Service following its nationalisation in 1996.??From about 1940 the Red Cross National Office used a three-part hierarchical file classification system. A new file was created for each activity or topic each year. For instance, there are several files with the classification Correspondence Miscellaneous Braille Watches , each of these containing one year s worth of correspondence on this topic. Although elements of the system evolved over the years and terminology changed, it was still in use in the mid 1990 s by which time it had been incorporated into a computer-supported file control system. Some, but not all, pre-1940 correspondence files appear to have subsequently been arranged according to the post-1940 hierarchical system. Index cards and computer printouts which supported the system have been transferred to the University of Melbourne Archives as series 2015.0032. These provide a list of the file headings and clues as to the workings of the system. However a full listing of file titles was generated by the Red Cross Archives prior to transfer to the University of Melbourne in 2015 and this data, rather than the control records, is recommended as a first point of access to the correspondence in series 2015.0033.??This series was transferred from the Red Cross Archives to the University of Melbourne Archives in 2015. It is arranged in two distinct parts which are not strictly in chronological sequence:??Boxes (Units) 0001-0447: The bulk of correspondence dates from 1914 to 1970 but includes some later files. Some correspondence files have been bound into volumes or lever-arch folders and the classification system coding and file titles have been annotated on the spine of each volume or folder. There are often many different topics covered within one volume. For the purposes of archival description the titles of these volumes have been reconstructed by University of Melbourne Archives staff using the original classification system codes and headings where possible. The full range of file titles/topics covered by a volume is listed in the description column on the Records Description List.??Boxes (Units) 0448- 0791: The bulk of correspondence dates from 1951-1959 and 1970-1995. Correspondence is unbound and in files (in some instances original files have been replaced and file titles have been copied onto these replacement folders). Original file titles have been retained, however for clarity, elements of the classification system hierarchy have been added as prefixes to the file title.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 17 August 2015 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Young Women’s Action Group was formed as a independent feminist group to support, encourage promote and take positive action on issues of concern for young women in South Australia. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 18 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Senora Spencer was one of the world’s first female projectionists. Spencer, together with her husband, is credited for making cinema-going attractive to the Australian middle class through the introduction of films with popular musical scores and ambitious special effects. The beginnings of Mary Stuart’s career in Australian film are unclear. In one interview Stuart claimed to have become interested after her marriage, however in another she claimed to have been involved for several years before meeting and marrying her husband Cosens Spencer. Mary Stuart married Cosens Spencer on 14 February 1903 in Melbourne. In 1905, Stuart and Spencer opened the Great American Theatrescope at the Lyceum in Sydney. Throughout the run of the Theatrescope, which ended in 1907, it is claimed that Spencer was present at every screening to assist with the projection. In order to fill the time gaps in imported programs, the American Theatrescope (later Spencer’s Theatrescope and then Spencer’s Pictures) began productions of their own. While uncredited, it is likely that Senora Spencer was involved in their production. These include Happenings Taken at the Adelaide Show (1906) and Adelaide’s Fire Service (1906). By 1908, the company was producing enough footage to warrant the establishment of their own production unit. By 1909, the production unit had filmedAdelaide the City (c.1919), Zoological Gardens (c.1917) and Fighting the Flames (c.1917). The success of their enterprise enabled Spencer’s husband to acquire picture theatres across Australia, as well as overseas agencies for film releases that ensured the continued quality of programs. In 1911, Cosens Spencer placed the company and its various units (including distribution, exhibition and production) into the control of a public company. Whilst overseas, the board of directors voted to merge the company with Australasian Films and Union Theatres, into what was to become known as The Combine. As part of the agreement in which Cosens Spencer sold control of his company, he contracted that he could not, for a period of ten years, “either solely or jointly with or as manager or agent for any other person or company permit his name to be used in connection with any picture show business in the Commonwealth”. The contract was deemed broken when Senora Spencer began her own moving picture shows in Brisbane and Newcastle and was thought to be bidding on the lease of the Lyceum. The lawsuit was based on whether it was possible that all the business arrangements could have possibly been done solely in the name of Senora Spencer, without her husband’s backing or direction. That is, did Senora Spencer have the capacity to conduct business independently to her husband? After two days, the parties settled and both the Spencers agreed to stay out of the film industry in Australia for a further 7 years. Shortly after, they left for Canada. In 1930, Spencer’s husband killed an employee and fled from authorities. His body was later found in the Chilco River. He was presumed to have committed suicide. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Spencer, Cosens (1874 - 1930), Collins, Diane, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120041b.htm Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive [Barrett, Franklyn : Documentation] : [Barrett, Franklyn : 'Press Book' c1901-1935 : Page 09 : Clippings] [Spencer, Senora : Documentation] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A letter to David Sharpe from Jean Galbraith regarding a friend of hers who will be moving to Mount Beauty shortly (where David Sharpe and wife were then residing); two letters also to David Sharpe from Professor Thomas Cherry, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Melbourne (signed with his nickname, ‘Croc’). Author Details Elle Morrell Created 1 February 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On 4 October 1918 Molly Barr Smith was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for services to the Red Cross in South Australia during the war. On 5 May 1886 Molly Mitchell married Thomas Elder Barr Smith (1863-1941). The pair had six children. A company director and pastoralist, Thomas Elder Smith followed the philanthropic tradition of his father, Robert Barr Smith, and his uncle, Sir Thomas Elder. From the beginning of World War I Molly Barr Smith was an executive member of the South Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society. She was also chairman of the buying committee and co-ordinated the Red Cross Sock Club. On 4 October 1918, she was appointed C.B.E. (Civil) for services to the Red Cross in South Australia during the war. She died on the 16 June 1941, and is buried in Mitcham cemetery. Published resources Book A family affair, Legoe, M. I. (Mary Isobel), 1898-, 1982 Resource Section Smith, Tom Elder Barr (1863 - 1941), Linn, R W, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110683b.htm Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 23 April 2009 Digital resources Title: Mrs T E Barr Smith CBE Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Membership cards; correspondence; circulars. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Pru Goward in her new role at the Office of the Status of Women Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence with Mrs I.E. Sior, Mary Lange, Winifred Howie, Mr and Mrs Micken, Sir Charles Barclay-Harvey c1900-51. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Professor Enid Campbell, a leading Australian scholar in constitutional law and administrative law, was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 16 June 1979 for services to education in the field of law. Campbell, who was the first female dean of a law faculty in Australia, was bestowed with the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa by the University of Tasmania in 1990. Enid Campbell was born in Launceston and educated there at Methodist Ladies College where she was dux of the school. At the University of Tasmania she studied economics and law and graduated in 1955. Accepting a scholarship to Duke University (North Carolina) she completed a PhD that included the study of international law, jurisprudence and public administration. In 1959, Enid Campbell returned to Tasmania and became the first female lecturer in the Law School, teaching political science. The next year she took a lecturing position at the University of Sydney and from 1965 to 1967 was Associate Professor in Law. In 1967 she was appointed Sir Isaac Isaac Professor of Law at Monash University, a position she held until her retirement in 1997. Events 1967 - 1997 Sir Isaac Isaacs Professor of Law at Monash University, Melbourne 1985 - 1988 Member of the Constitutional Commission, Canberra 1982 - 1984 Member of the Law Reform Advisory Council, Victoria 1974 - 1976 Member of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration 1965 - 1967 Associate Professor Law at the University of Sydney 1962 - 1965 Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney 1960 - 1961 Lecturer at the University of Sydney 1959 - 1959 Lecturer in Political Science, University of Tasmania 1990 - 1990 Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) at the University of Tasmania 1976 - 1978 Member of the Council of the Australian National University, Canberra Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Enid Campbell, between approximately 1958 and 2010 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ethel Turner’s first book, Seven Little Australians, was published in 1894. Translated into ten languages, it was made into a stage play in 1915 and a film in 1939. In 1953 it was televised in Britain, and in 1973 and 1975 by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Ethel Turner migrated to Australia with her family at the age of eight. While attending Sydney Girl’s High School, she published Parthenon with her sister Lillian. She began writing in 1890. Ethel met Herbert Curlewis in 1891, and the pair were married in 1896 when he was an established barrister and she was already a successful writer of children’s stories. According to Heather Radi in her anthology 200 Australian Women, Turner contributed a ‘Sydney letter’ to the Tasmanian Mail and wrote for the children’s column of the Illustrated news. The Bulletin accepted her first story in 1892 and she published her first book, Seven Little Australians, in 1894. Radi notes that the book was criticised by some for not conforming to nineteenth century conventions in children’s literature, whereby good behaviour is always rewarded, but the book was enormously successful and remains so, with over 40 editions published. Published resources Resource Ethel Turner, Lilian Turner and Jean Curlewis ; A Family of Australian Authors, http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/usrpages/collect/ethel.htm Dark, Eleanor 1901-1985, National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/4998.html 'My Oath!' 102 Years of Seven Little Australians, State Library of Victoria, http://www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/slv/children/seven/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Johns Notable Australians, Johns, Fred, 1905 The Diaries of Ethel Turner, Poole, Philippa (compiled by), 1979 Seven Little Australians, Turner, Ethel S. and Johnson, A J (illustrated by), 1894 The Apple of Happiness, Turner, Ethel, [1911] Betty & Co, Turner, Ethel, 1903 Ethel Turner Birthday Book: A Selection of Passages from the Books of Ethel Turner, Turner, Ethel, L.T.T. (arranged by); with Kernahan, Coulson (foreward by), 1910 Brigid and the Cub, Turner, Ethel; [Copping, Harold (illustrated by)], 1919 Captain Cub, Turner, Ethel, [1917?] The Cub: Six Months in his Life: A Story in War-Time, Turner, Ethel. And Copping, Harold. (illustrated by), 1915 The Family at Misrule, Turner, Ethel. with Johnson, A J (illustrations by), 1895 The Sunshine Family: A Book of Nonsense for girls and Boys, Turner, Ethel and Curlewis, Jean, 1923 Authors & Illustrators of Australian Children's Books, McVitty, Walter, 1989 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Section Turner, Ethel Mary (1871-1958), Niall, Brenda, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120326b.htm Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Ethel Turner - literary papers and related papers, 1894-1951 Dowell O'Reilly - Papers, 1884-1923, with additional family papers, 1877-1944 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ethel Turner, [1887-1935] [manuscript] Literary manuscripts and correspondence, 1901-1926 [manuscript] Papers of Violet Braddon, 1916-1980 [manuscript] Papers of Sir William Cullen, 1880-1935 [manuscript] Papers of Eleanor Dark, 1910-1974 [manuscript] Photographs, 19-- [manuscript] State Library of Victoria Correspondence, 1928-1954. [manuscript]. Special Collections, Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA Ada Cambridge manuscript collection State Library of New South Wales Curlewis family papers, 1881-1966 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2001 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Membership cards, exit questionnaires, ex-member records. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 2 December 2002 Last modified 7 May 2012 Digital resources Title: Miss Aileen Lynch, Chief Officer of the NSW Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA) Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0395ga.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jane Stapleton was appointed Distinguished Professor of Law at the Australian National University, Canberra, in 2016. Professor Jane Stapleton has had a stellar international career in legal academia. In 2016, Stapleton, who had previously served as Research Professor in Law at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University, Canberra, since 1997, was appointed Distinguished Professor of Law at the University. The appointment followed her pre-election on 1 March 2016 as the 38th Master of Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She is due to take up the post of Master on 1 September 2016. Stapleton is currently Ernest E. Smith Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law; a Statutory Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford; Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn; a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law; a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy; and Emeritus Fellow at Balliol College. She is also a barrister of the High Court and Supreme Court of New South Wales. Stapleton’s first degrees were in science: she graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of New South Wales in 1974 and then went to the University of Adelaide, where she gained a PhD in the field of physical organic chemistry in 1977. Realising in the chemistry laboratories in Oxford’s Lemsfield Road where she was undertaking post-doctoral research that she did not have a passion for science, she changed direction and entered the Australian National University, a mature-age LLB student. She went on to win the University Medal and Supreme Court Judges’ Prize in 1981 before studying at the University of Oxford, where she earned a DPhil in private law in 1984 and, in 2008, was awarded a Doctorate of Civil Law. Following her graduation from the Australian National University, she worked as legal and senior legal officer in the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department before taking up a position as lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School. After a time, she went to Oxford, where she taught at Trinity College and Balliol College, before returning to teach at the ANU in 1997. Widely published, her research interests include private law of obligations; liability and compensations systems; comparative law; and the philosophical foundations of the common law such as causation, duty and good faith. She has held a number of visiting appointments in many jurisdictions. In 2012, Stapleton became the first woman to be appointed Honorary Fellow at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Stapleton also has the distinction of being the only non-US recipient to have been presented with the Prosser Award (2013), bestowed by the Association of American Law Schools upon those “who have made an outstanding contribution to the world of tort law scholarship”. Additionally, she is the only non-US Council Member of the American Law Institute. Professor Stapleton is married to the law academic Professor Peter Cane. Published resources Resource Section A conversation with Professor Jane Stapleton, Dingle, Lesley and Daniel Bates, 2012, http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archiveprofessor-jane-stapleton/conversation-professor-jane-stapleton Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Marina Loane Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 31 August 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Daphne Pirie was a nationally ranked track and field athlete who captained the Queensland women’s athletics and hockey teams and represented Australia in hockey. She then became a world-ranked Master’s Athlete, winning eight gold medals in international competitions. In 1989 she was awarded an MBE for services to hockey and appointed an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in June 2012. One of eight children – six boys and two girls – Daphne Pirie came to love sport at an early age. Her father, President of the Queensland Rugby League and a former champion sprinter, lost a leg as a Lighthorseman in the First World War and turned to sports administration on his return home. On Sunday afternoon outings the family would hold potato races by the creek. Daphne’s mother, who grew up on a farm in Rockhampton and worked hard to look after her children and her crippled husband, encouraged her daughter to get out and about and be involved in sport. School sport mostly consisted of air raid drills, but Daphne would swim at the Milton School swimming pool and run at the Exhibition Ground at State Primary School Athletics days. When the Queensland Women’s Amateur Athletic Association re-formed after the war, Pirie began running. Serious training began at the age of seventeen when she was sent with a junior team to Sydney by the Mayne Harriers’ Athletic Club in 1948. By 1955 she held 40 open championships in her State and was unbeaten in all events. In the early 1950s Pirie and others re-formed the Valley Women’s Hockey Club (disbanded during the war) as a social activity alongside the Valley men’s team. In her second year in the game Pirie made the State team, and by 1955 was in the Australian team. She enjoyed the team game, finding it easier than running – ‘running is tougher, and it’s individual’ – and was happy to switch between the two; playing hockey in the winter, running in summer, and working at Whatmore’s Sports Store in between. Daphne Pirie was married in 1958 and had her first child soon afterward. The family lived at the Gold Coast and Pirie began playing hockey at Murwillumbah. Not content only to spectate when her elite career was over, Daphne developed a career in sports administration. On Ruby Robinson’s retirement she was appointed to the Queensland Olympic Council, becoming its first female vice-president. She was founding president of Womensport Queensland and is a director of Gold Coast Events Management. She was awarded life memberships with Hockey Australia, Women’s Hockey Australia and Hockey Queensland and is a Hockey Queensland Hall of Fame Inductee. She was a board member of the Queensland Academy of Sport and President of the Gold Coast Sporting Hall of Fame. She was honoured by Womensport Queensland who, in 2006, granted her their inaugural 2006 contribution to sport award. Events 1989 - 1989 Services to Hockey 2003 - 2003 Inducted into the Queensland Hockey Hall of Fame 2002 - 2006 Vice Patron of Hockey Queensland 1987 - 1993 President of the Queensland Women’s Hockey Association 1991 - 1991 Queensland Women’s Hiockey Association 1962 - 1962 Captain – Queensland Women’s Hockey Team 1988 - 1988 Australian Women’s Hockey Association 1961 - 1961 Appointed an Australian Umpire 1951 - 1952 Queensland Track and Field Championships – winner 100 yards 1952 - 1952 Queensland Track and Field Championships – winner 440 yards 1956 - 1956 Queensland Track and Field Championships – winner 440 yards 1951 - 1952 Queensland Track and Field Championships – winner 880 yards 1949 - 1949 Queensland Track and Field Championships – winner High Jump 1952 - 1952 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Finalist 220 yards 1952 - 1952 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Member of the Queensland relay team to win run in third place in the 4 X 110 yards event. 1956 - 1956 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Third Place 440 yards 1956 - 1956 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Fourth Place 880 yards 1954 - 1954 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Second Place 440 yards 1954 - 1954 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Second Place 880 yards 1950 - 1950 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Finalist 220 yards 1950 - 1950 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Finalist 880 yards 1989 - Board member (since inception) of the Queensland Academy of Sport 2006 - 2006 Recipient of the Inaugural award 1993 - 1993 Founding President of Womensport Queensland (then named the Queensland Women’s Sports Foundation) 2000 - 2000 Pan Pacific Master’s Games Competitor -winner of the 60m, 400 m and High Jump events in the 65 years category 1950 - 1950 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Finalist High Jump 1950 - 1950 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Finalist Long Jump 1953 - 1957 Member of the Queensland Women’s Hockey Team 1960 - 1962 Member of the Queensland Women’s Hockey Team 1955 - 1955 Member of the Australian Women’s Hockey Team 1993 - 2000 Queensland Olympic Council Committee member 1997 - 1997 Elected Vice President of the Queensland Olympic Council Committee (The first woman to be elected to the position) Published resources Resource Section Interview with Daphne Pirie, Jenkins, Lesley, 2000, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/2000/S2000-Mar-2/http://brisbane-stories.powerup.com.au/women_sport/women_frames.htm Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham and Barbara Lemon Created 4 January 2007 Last modified 13 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Service record for Amy Glenthora Bembrick Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 August 2015 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Hindmarsh Women’s Community Health Centre was the first Women’s Health Centre in South Australia. The Women’s Liberation Movement recognised the need for a separate women’s health centre from the number of health related calls and personal enquires. Funding was granted in 1974 and 6 Mary St Hindmarsh was officially open in 1976. Because funding was through the state the feminist way of running the centre and the bureaucracy and its requirements often clashed. This was further complicated by the feminist groups involved in the centre. The Centre was run by a feminist collective. The Rape Crisis Centre evolved from the Health Centre. The Health Centre became a teaching centre for women’s health. The Centre produced pamphlets on both general and gynaecological health. The conflict with the Health Department eventually lead to the withdrawal of funding. With the intervention of the Women’s Adviser to the Premier the continuing need for a Women’s Health Centre was argued and the centre was moved to North Adelaide and became Women’s Health Statewide. Hindmarsh Women’s Health Centre continued with the Medicare payments to support other work of the centre. The Centre then became known as the Welling Place, providing alternative health including a vegetable patch for the community. 6 Mary St was demolished in 1989 for the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Gladys Gander was a once only candidate for election to Parliament: a One Nation Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Newcastle in 2003. Gladys Gander was 73 and retired from employment when she ran for election for the seat of Newcastle in 2003. She gave her address as Bankstown, a suburb of Sydney, so her candidature in Newcastle was intended to bolster the vote of her party leader, Pauline Hanson, in her bid for a seat in the Legislative Council of New South Wales. Although she was in first position on the ballot paper, she won only 2.4% of the votes cast. Her husband, Trevor Gander, aged 74, also ran for the One Nation Party, in the adjoining seat of Lake Macquarie. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 8 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. C. 1942. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Institutionalisation of Aboriginal children at Cootamundra Girls Home, and its affects on their lives; history of Cootamundra Girls Home; removal of children from families; interviews with Aboriginal women and former staff of Cootamundra; daily life; punishments; girls trained to be domestic servants, and their experiences; Aboriginal protection and welfare policies in New South Wales Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers consist of the catalogue of the first Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, 1907, held from 23 October to 30 November at the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings and articles written by Mrs Allan for the Argus regarding the Exhibition. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records, including minute books, annual reports, receipts and expenditure ledgers, member lists and correspondence; also includes legal documents, details of benefactors, and disbursements. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 September 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lindy Morrison, well known drummer and musician, joined the Australian Democrats to bring about change. She stood as their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Coogee in 2003 and for the House of Representatives seat of Wentworth in 2004. Lindy Morrison is best known for her musical career. She was a member of the 1980s band, the Go-Betweens, and played with Zero (sometimes spelt Xero or Xiro) and Cleopatra Wong. Lindy Morrison grew up in Queensland and her first job was as a social worker in Aboriginal community centres, an experience she said, fundamentally changed her life. Later, after two years in England, she returned home and turned to acting in political theatre at factories in Queensland. Then she moved into punk music and joined the Go-Betweens, touring Australia and the world. When the band broke up in 1990, Lindy Morrison changed her lifestyle and settled in Sydney. She has campaigned strongly for performers’ rights and has been a board member of the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) since 1993. She has worked as musical director or performer in shows, parades and festivals and has lead drum and music workshops with many groups. She is a director of the Music Council of Australia Board and is national co-ordinator for Support Act Ltd, the benevolent society for musicians and workers in the music industry. She campaigned on performers rights under the Free Trade Agreement in 2004-5. She has one daughter. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 25 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc10.053 comprises papers that document Kerry White’s career as a bibliographer, writer, judge of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Children’s Book of the Year Awards and member of the board of the Poetry Australia Foundation. They include correspondence; notes, working papers, drafts, manuscripts and proofs of the second and third volumes of Australian children’s books: a bibliography, Australian children’s fiction: the subject guide (1993) and Brilliant books list (The reading bug); “Bookphile” newsletters; Honours and Ph.D. theses; and CBCA judging papers. Authors represented in the correspondence include Marcie Muir, Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Christobel Mattingley and Bob Graham (16 boxes, 2 fol. Boxes).??The Acc10.130 instalment includes papers, largely correspondence, documenting White’s career as a bibliographer and writer, specialising in Australian children’s literature. The correspondence relates to White’s study, the Bibliography of Australian Literature Project (BALP), “Bookphile” newsletter, School magazine and the third edition of Australian children’s books: a bibliography. Correspondents include Marcie Muir, publishers and authors (1 packet).??The Acc10.176 instalment comprises a Christmas card from Penguin Books addressed to Kerry White (1 packet).??The Acc13.038 instalment comprises two sketches by children’s illustrator and photographer, Mark David. Sketches originally formed part of a collection of additional personal papers donated by Dr Kerry White (2 fol. Boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kerry Reed-Gilbert was an Aboriginal author, editor, educator and activist. A number of books of her poetry were published in her lifetime. She also compiled and contributed to numerous anthologies, and produced non-fiction related to her work as an educator and consultant. Her memoir, The Cherry Picker’s Daughter was published in 2019, shortly after her death. Her friend and fellow Wiradjuri writer, Jeanine Leane described her as ‘the matriarch of First Nations’ Writing in Australia’. Kerry Reed-Gilbert was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2019. “Kerry grew up on Wiradjuri country, living in Condobolin NSW, raised within a large extended family by her Mummy and Daddy – Joyce and Ned Hutchings. As she grew up, she came to know the troubled story of her biological parents. Kerry was only three months old when her father, Kevin Gilbert, killed her mother, Goma (nee Scott) in Parkes NSW in 1957. Kerry and her older brother (also called Kevin) were then taken in by their father’s older sister Joyce, and Joyce’s husband Ned. In her writing and in interviews, Kerry always refers to them as Mummy and Daddy. In addition to Kerry and her brother Kevin, Joyce Hutchings cared for her own three children, and three children of other family members. The Cherry Picker’s Daughter describes Kerry’s hard and precarious childhood. While being raised by Joyce in a loving home, Kerry and Kevin were officially wards of the state, and lived in constant fear of the ‘welfare’. The family were subject to covert and overt racism. Public policies and attitudes of the time meant that access to fairly paid work, adequate housing, and educational opportunities were severely limited. Most of their income came from working as itinerant fruit-pickers (for which they were paid significantly less than non-Aboriginal workers), and from Ned Hutchings’s work as a railway fettler, which often kept him away from home. Joyce Hutchings also took on other work like domestic cleaning, cooking, stick-picking and timber-cutting to keep the family afloat. When their home in Condobolin was destroyed by fire, they endured the uncertainty of temporary and makeshift accommodation for some time, until Joyce was able to buy a house in Koorawatha. Although The Cherry Picker’s Daughter is described by the publishers as a childhood memoir, it is also Joyce Hutching’s story, and a tribute to her resilience and dedication to her family. In 1971 when Kerry was 15, her father was released from jail, and he continued pursuing the activism, art and writing that he had taken up while in prison. Kerry frequently acknowledged that despite the difficulties of her childhood, she was luckier than many other Aboriginal children of the time, as Joyce was able to achieve what many others could not, and keep her family together. Kerry said ‘I’ve got all the goodness of this amazing family. I’ve got all the principles of this amazing Aboriginal woman – her strength, her dignity…[and] I got the fire in the belly of my old man’. After leaving school Kerry worked as a fruit-picker and became a mother to two daughters. In the late 1980s she lived in Wagga Wagga and pursued further study. Initially undertaking an Associate Diploma in Adult Education, she later completed a Bachelor of Arts in Adult Education. While studying she also worked in women’s housing, employment services and literacy programs in Wagga. She attended the 1988 Aboriginal protest at the Tent Embassy with her father in Canberra, this event fuelled her involvement in activism and calls for Aboriginal sovereignty through a treaty. In the 1990s she moved to Sydney and commenced working at the Office of Youth Affairs and established Indigenous employment programs with Telstra. She later started her own business Kuracca Consultancy, providing training in Aboriginal culture and history to government and community organisations, and consultancy services supporting research and evaluation related to Indigenous health, education, homelessness and other social issues. While working to advance human rights and social and educational opportunities for Aboriginal people, Kerry also found time for creative output. She practiced art and photography and had started sharing her poetry, supported by her close friend Anita Heiss. In 1993 she performed some of her poems at Writers in the Park at the Harold Park Hotel and in 1996 Black Woman, Black Life, the first collection of her poetry, was published. In 1997 she compiled and edited Message Stick: Contemporary Aboriginal Writing. In 2000 she also compiled and edited The Strength of Us as Women: Black Women Speak, which she described in the preface as an outlet for Aboriginal women to describe ‘their issues, their loves, their hurts’. In an ABC radio interview, she spoke about her hope that Indigenous women’s writing would flourish and not just be confined to autobiography and survival stories but might expand into other genres; asking ‘why can’t we write erotica…or murder mysteries?’. Kerry moved to Canberra in the late 1990s, to be closer to her youngest daughter and grandchild, and brought her eldest daughter and her children to live there too. Canberra also allowed for improved work opportunities. She was a founding member of Us Mob Writing, a Canberra-based group of emerging and established Indigenous writers. In 2012–13 she co-founded the First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) and became its inaugural chairperson. The last few years of her life were very productive, despite ill health. Publications she was involved with included A pocketful of leadership in the ACT (2016); Too deadly: our voice, our way, our business. Us Mob Writing (2017) and A pocketful of leadership in First Nations Australia Communities (2017). In 2016 the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) acquired an extensive collection of ‘Aboriginalia’ that Kerry had begun accumulating in the 1970s. The collection includes plates, figurines, badges, ashtrays, prints, and velvet paintings. Responding to criticism that such material demeans Aboriginal people, she said ‘We are masters of our own destiny and we will decide what we see as being culturally right for us. I believe these objects represent who we are as people, from then to now. Each piece represents Aboriginal Australia and we will own them.’ Kerry Reed-Gilbert received a number of awards for her writing and has been acknowledged as a generous mentor and supporter by many other contemporary Indigenous writers. In 2003 she was the recipient of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board fellowship for poetry and writing, which provided a two-month residency in New York. Her name was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2019. Through her writing and public speaking, she advocated against tokenism, for Indigenous people to be paid fairly for their contributions to public cultural activities and events, and for non-Indigenous writers to be more thoughtful in their portrayal of Aboriginal characters in their writing. She also challenged non-Indigenous Australians to engage with and acknowledge the history of colonisation and dispossession, and its ongoing impact on Aboriginal people. She passed away in Canberra in July 2019 surrounded by her daughters, grandchildren, other family and close friends.” Published resources Kerry Reed-Gilbert: her eulogy from my heart (Anita Heiss blog), https://anitaheiss.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/kerry-reed-gilbert-her-eulogy-from-my-heart/ Vale Kuracca: a tribute to Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Jeanine Leane, https://overland.org.au/2019/08/vale-kuracca-a-tribute-to-kerry-reed-gilbert/ Honouring The Words of the Messenger, 2000, https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/speakingout/kerry-reed-gilbert/11326982 Desperate Measures: Kevin Gilbert with Kerry Reed-Gilbert, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIMQ49tmcDo Archival resources Kerry Reed-Gilbert interviewed by Mary Hutchison in the Centenary of Canberra oral history project (2014) AIATSIS collection Author Details Kylie Scroope Created 20 April 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc05.022 comprises diaries, letters and personal papers, book notes, writings by Hanny Exiner including lecture notes, and publicity material and photographs; papers relating to the Studio of Creative Dance and Modern Ballet Group; files on the Graduate Diploma of Movement and Dance; articles on body therapy, dance forms and techniques, dance composition and improvisations, exercise, kinesiology and dance education, including some dance articles in German; and, material relating to film and video resources (14 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Folding containing articles and newspaper clippings. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Backhouse speaks of her life and achievements as a writer of novels, children’s stories, plays, filmscripts, a ballet and a musical. She describes her family background; attempted rape; early writing; mother’s inability to show affection; secretarial studies; writing poetry; enlisting in WAAAF; writing Against Time and Place; ideas for books; having books published; The Iron Horse; Enone and Quentin; reviews; themes; In Our Hands; C.H. Pitman; living in England in 1940s; encouragement to write detective novels; working at Korda Films with Paul Vincent Carroll, Leslie Arliss; working for American film-maker Slessor; European travels; writing thrillers, methodology, characterisation; book covers; nursing ill father; living with her mother after his death; rejected novels; The Fourth Picture; The Thin Line; Mirage, and its adaption to film; working as a co-producer; Freemasonry; writing for radio; Kal; Rosie Fishman; Dickens’ Magic; A History of Masonry; Windmill in the Sky; writing and clarity; unpublished works; aborted film Cry of the Gulls; Sparrows in the Square; The Fishbowl; Tune on a Samisen; The Young Vagabonds; musical composition; sponsoring children; painting; relationships with men; Muriel Wenborne-Haynes; her clothing shops; writing income. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Judy Hogg has had a lifelong concern for the socially disadvantaged leading to her interest in law and political reform, and her involvement in the women’s movement in Victoria where she was a founding Member of the Kew Women’s Liberation Group. She returned to university after having children and was fortunate to graduate from Law School as the Family Law Act came into operation in 1976. As she had written a thesis on this legislation, she was placed in a strong position for entering the work force in that jurisdiction. After working for several law firms, both large and small, and for Legal Aid, Hogg started her own firm in 1985. She invited her friend Janet Reid to join her and they formed Hogg and Reid (which amalgamated as Carew Counsel incorporating Hogg and Reid in 2013). The prime focus was Family Law which was dealt with in a non-sexist manner. Her philosophy was to ensure that the law was available to redress imbalances of power. Hogg has always contributed beyond her professional role, and has served in a voluntary capacity on many committees and boards of management, including those of Fitzroy Legal Service Parents anonymous Twin Care Domestic Violence Committee, Rotary Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Judy Hogg for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Julie Hogg and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Judy Hogg, an only child, was born in Melbourne in 1937. Her father, Peter Spier, was a successful Melbourne architect. During her childhood, he served in the Middle East and New Guinea in the Second World War, initially in the Infantry and then in the Engineers. He attained the rank of Major. After the War he was a Director of the Australian War Graves Commission and his work took him to Japan, other areas of the Pacific, and South East Asia. He was frequently absent from home. Her mother was not in paid employment. Judy attended Tintern and Melbourne Girls’ Grammar School (MGGS) (Merton Hall). Both were progressive schools. Ms D.J. Ross, the inspirational head of MGGS was a particular influence. Judy has had a lifelong concern for the socially disadvantaged leading to her interest in law and political reform, and her involvement in the women’s movement in Victoria where she was a founding Member of the Kew Women’s Liberation Group. Judy decided early in life that she wanted to have a career; she did not want to follow in her mother’s example of home duties. However, in the late 1950’s, she found the Law School at the University of Melbourne discouraging of women and did not complete her degree at this stage. She later returned to university after having children. She was fortunate to be graduating from Law School as the Family Law Act came into operation. As she had written a thesis on this legislation, she was placed in a strong position for entering the work force in that jurisdiction. After working for several law firms, both large and small, and for Legal Aid, Judy started her own firm in 1985. She invited her friend Janet Reid to join her and they formed Hogg and Reid (which amalgamated as Carew Counsel incorporating Hogg and Reid in 2013). The prime focus was Family Law which was dealt with in a non-sexist manner. Her philosophy being that the law was available to redress imbalances of power. She has, for example, successfully obtained orders for fathers to be the primary carers of children, and for women to obtain the control of a business. The objective of the firm has always been to resolve matters in a conciliatory manner with a minimum of expense and stress to the parties and to focus on the future needs of the children and their parents. Judy has always regarded it as important that the firm should provide a supportive environment for employees and in particular women returning to work after absence from work due to domestic responsibilities. She has had a number of articled clerks, continues to be a mentor to junior solicitors, and has had numerous work experience students. Many of these who have had such associations have achieved distinction in their careers. Judy has always contributed beyond her professional role. At the suggestion of a publisher friend, she wrote ‘Splitting Up’, a vital hand book for people facing separation and divorce in Australia”, now in its fourth edition. The book was designed to prevent people from making decisions based on incorrect assumptions about the law, to help them through a difficult period, and to put them in touch with resources. As well as the voluntary roles, that she has occupied, listed above, Judy has held the following appointments: Various positions on Committees at the Law Institute of Victoria Founding member of the Family Law and Psychology Association of Australasia Instructor in Family Law at the Leo Cussens Institute for Continuing Legal Education Member of the Social Secretary Appeals Tribunal Member of the Equal Opportunity Board of Victoria Board Member of Relationships Australia Board Member of Women’s Health Victoria Board Member of Peter McCallum Cancer Institute Royal Women’s Hospital Committee Breast Screen Victoria Committees Member of Panel of Expert Lawyers advising Mediators as to the state of Family Law Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Judy Hogg (with Nikki Henningham) Created 6 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Judy Hogg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "These Minute Books record minutes of meetings of the Lady Bowen Hospital Committee and entries include election of office bearers and surgeons, rules, funding and expenditure, admissions to the hospital etc. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 19 min.)??Murphy, a farmer, speaks of her upbringing on a dairy farm and later married a potato farmer, her family, running a potato farm, breeding first-cross merino ewes, lamb production, working at the Melbourne Show, food festivals, organising different types of dishes with potatoes, potato marketing and potatoes seen as a medicinal remedy. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lu Moo experienced life in Darwin for more than eighty years, living through three major cyclones and a war. More familiarly known as Granny Lum Loy, she was a well-known figure of the Darwin community. Lu Moo was born in Shekki (China) around 1884 and arrived in Darwin when she was approximately 10 years old. She was one of two adopted daughters of a Chinese family who started a grocery and general store in Darwin’s Chinatown. Lu Moo worked at her family’s store for several years, where she came to know many of the local people, including many Aboriginals. In approximately 1901 Lu Moo married Chinese mining engineer Lum Loy. Together they travelled to Wandi, a mining camp near Pine creek, where a large deposit of wolfram had been discovered. Later they moved to Brock’s Creek. In December 1906 she gave birth to a daughter, Lizzie Yook Lin and when her husband died in 1918, they both returned to Darwin. Eventually Lizzie married a prominent Chinese businessman and together they had nine children; many of which were delivered by well-known Chinese midwife Sarah Lee Hang Gong. In order to support herself, Lu Moo rented ten acres of land and single-handedly turned into a mango orchard of approximately 200 trees. Four years before the outbreak of the Second World War she sold the orchard and moved back to Chinatown to help her daughter run a café, while her husband was in Hong Kong for business. Upon her son-in-law’s return she rented another block of land and this time raised chickens and sold their eggs on to a local café. After the bombing of Darwin, Lu Moo was evacuated and moved with her daughter and grandchildren to Katherine. Soon after they moved on to Alice Springs, Adelaide (where they opened a fruit shop) and finally Sydney, where Lizzie eventually passed away. Lu Moo moved back to Darwin after the war. Her grandson Ron built her a house on a block of land given to her by her son-in-law. Here she set about building a garden which, unbeknown to her, would later be destroyed (and subsequently rebuilt) after Cyclone Tracy in 1974. Lu Moo passed away in 1980 at the age of 96 and her funeral was one of the largest seen in the community for many years. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound cassettes (ca. 120 min.)??Patricia “Pattie” Leighton, a farmer, speaks of growing up in Sydney, moving to Tasmania, her marriage, their first farm near Hobart, their decision to move to Western Australia, her trip across with the children, early days on the farm, living in the shed, early development of the land, tough financial times, re-entering the workforce as a preschool teacher, returning to the farm, shearing, further development of the farm (incl. their living quarters), the importance of the children working on the farm, their independent upbringing, the Wellstead community, the local Historical and Heritage Committee, reafforestation and land conservation, the continuing challenges of rural life, and the Rural Women of the Year Award. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Marion Strang established a home for the elderly at Broken Hill, New South Wales, in the 1930s. Marion Strang (nee Kerr) was born in 1871 in the district of St. Georges, Edinburgh, Scotland and was baptized in that city in St. Georges Church in Charlotte Square. The daughter of Alexander and Ruth Kerr (nee Johnston), Marion married David Strang in July 1897. They had a daughter, Jane. David Strang migrated to the United States in 1910, to settle in Utah, although it appears that Marion did not follow him there. Instead, she migrated from Scotland to Australia in 1925, arriving in Adelaide aboard the Hobson’s Bay on November 1 1925, following her daughter, who had migrated one year earlier. (It appears that Jane had no knowledge of her father’s movements during this period, only discovering that he was still alive after her mother’s death in 1941.) After arriving in Adelaide, Marion moved to Broken Hill where Marion found work at the Broken Hill and District Hospital. She became head nurse in charge of the section of the hospital for elderly persons. In 1932, when that section was closed by the New South Wales government for economic reasons, Marion rented a home in Wolfram Street to house those who had nowhere to go. With barely any money remaining, she raised a loan on her property back home in Scotland in order to furnish the home. Local businessman Frank Griff, together with the Broken Hill Country Women’s Association and many Broken Hill miners, assisted with financial contributions. The Old Folks Home, as it was known, moved to larger premises at Williams Street in 1939. Marion Strang stayed on as night nurse until her death in 1941. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Newspaper Article Wee hoose for auld folk, 1982 Old Folks' Home: New building is nearly ready, 1939 With the Old Folks in the Wee Hoose, 1937 Death of Matron Strang, 1941 Old Folks Now Living in their New Home, 1939 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Strang, Marion Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 17 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 audiocassette (approximately 60 min.)??Lady Nora Randall was one of the first members of the school’s auxilliary and talks about the work involved. Mothers of students Mrs. Gowing and Mrs. Cuppins talk about voluntary work, the Dutch nuns, uniforms, sports, fundraising and families of children who went to the school. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This collection is part of No.70 of the Victorian Women’s Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archive (VWLLFA)??Articles; bibliographies; calendars; conference papers, manifestos, programs, leaflets, legislation, agenda, questionnaires, discussion papers, periodical, minutes, contact lists, stickers, badges; newspaper clippings; AWAR newsletters; monographs; periodicals (vast number of titles; publications; songsheets; correspondence; leaflets; ‘Gays in the News’ monograph, correspondence, maps, leaflets, poetry; Australian gay Archives Newsletters; subject files regarding gays, lesbians, refuges, right wing women’s groups, sexual harassment in the workplace, trade union women’s organisations, women, WEL; records; cassettes. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Published articles and addresses 1964-1984; newscuttings on art, including articles by or about Ursula Hoff. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers relating to the history and activities of WEL and Women’s Liberation in the outer eastern suburbs; conference papers; reports and material on working mothers, equal pay and taxation. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Australian Army Nursing Service, which was actually a reserve, was established on 1 July 1902. The Service was staffed by volunteer civilian nurses who would be available for duty during times of national emergency. Members of the Service served in both the World Wars, staffing medical facilities in Australia and overseas. In 1949 the Service became part of the Australian Regular Army and is now known as the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC). IMPORTANT – Additional information about how to search for your own relative’s records can be found below. Click on details and scroll to the end. Prior to Australia’s Federation in 1901, each colony controlled its own defence force, of which the nursing services formed a part. In July 1902 the nursing services of each colony joined together to form the Australian Army Nursing Service. The Service which was part of the Australian Army Medical Corps was made up of volunteer trained nurses who were willing to serve in times of a national emergency. At the outbreak of World War I staff were recruited from both the nursing service and the civilian workforce. They served at field and base hospitals in Australia as well as in Egypt, England, France, Belgium, Greece, Salonika, Palestine, Mesopotamia and India. After the war the Australian Army Nursing Service returned to a reserve status. The Australian Army Nursing Service was one of only two women’s services (the other being Voluntary Aid Detachments) that were active at the outbreak of war in 1939. Initially the enlisted nurses were the only females to serve outside Australia. Members served in England, Egypt, Palestine, Libya, Greece, Syria, Ceylon, Malaya, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Island as well as throughout Australia. They served on hospital ships, troop transports, base and camp hospitals and some spent time in Prisoner of War camps. After the war members served as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan. In July 1947 members of the Australian Army Nursing Service were transferred to the Interim Army, and in November 1948 the Service was designated a ‘Royal’ one. In July 1949 the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service became part of the Australian Regular Army. In February 1951 the Service became a Corps and is known as the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC). The Pledge of Service was introduced during World War Two. AANS Pledge of Service I pledge myself loyally to serve my King and Country and to maintain the honour and efficiency of the Australian Army Nursing Service. I will do all in my power to alleviate the suffering of the sick and wounded, sparing no effort to bring them comfort of body and peace of mind. I will work in unity and comradeship with my fellow nurses. I will be ready to give assistance to those in need of my help, and will abstain from any action which may bring sorrow and suffering to others. At all times I will endeavour to uphold the highest traditions of Womanhood and of the Profession of which I am Part. HELPFUL INFORMATION TO ASSIST YOUR OWN SEARCHES The following information will assist you to search for Australian women who served in WW1, not women from any other country, and not WW2 servicewomen. If you are looking for a nurse in the Australian Army Nursing Service, go online to the National Archives and find the person’s army file there. If you need help after doing this, then contact this page via the comments – but only after you have gone to the National Archives of Australia for advice. www.naa.gov.au If looking for women who served in WW2, go here to find out if they did, in fact serve: http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/ Then go to this site to find their personnel record http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/defence/service-records/index.aspx There is an article written by Dr Kirsty Harris published in Ancestor: The Journal of the Royal Genealogical Society of Victoria this year that provides some search tips. ‘Researching Australian World War 1 Nurses’ can be found Vol 31, Issue 1 of the 2012 edition of the journal. Published resources Book A brief record of the Australian Army Nursing Service, 1939-1945, [1985?]. Captives: Australian army nurses in Japanese prison camps, Kenny, Catherine, 1962-, 1986 Desert, bamboo and barbed wire: the 1939-45 story of a special detachment of Australian Army nursing sisters, fondly known as the \"Angels in Grey\" and their fate in war and captivity, Murphy, Frances, 1983 Extracts from regulations and orders; seniority list, Army Nursing Services, Australian Imperial Force, 1917 The grey battalion, Tilton, May, 1933 The Khiva nursery, 1917 Lest we forget: Australian Army Nursing Service, Wellesley-Smith, Annette, 1944 The reflections of an old grey mare: a salute to those who served, Underwood, Polly, 1987 The Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps : an outline of the foundation and development of the Australian Army Nursing Service, 1953? Seniority list (provisional), Australian Army Nursing Service, 1918 Seniority nursing services, Australian Imperial Force, 1915 Standing orders for the Australian Army Nursing Service, 1944 Thursday Island Nurse, Burchill, Elizabeth, 1972 With the AANS: 1939-1945, Eadie, Edith D. K.; Australia Remembers 1945-1995 S.A. Committee, 1995 Australian nurses since Nightingale 1860-1990, Burchill, Elizabeth, 1992 Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 Army nursing services: Australian Imperial Force and Australian Military Forces., Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921), 1916 The Australian Army Nursing Service: a short history with World War One nominal roll and award citations, Smith, Neil C, 1996 Australian Imperial Force: order for nursing service, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd (1939-1946), 1914 The Australian Army: A History of its Organisation 1901-2001, Palazzo, Albert, 2001 Colonel Best and her soldiers: The Story of the 33 years of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps, Ollif, Lorna, 1985 Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999, Reid, Richard, 1999 Nightingales in the mud : the digger sisters of the Great War 1914 - 1918, Barker, Marianne, 1989 White Coolies, Jeffrey, Betty, 1954 A Woman's war : the exceptional life of Wilma Oram Young, AM, Angell, Barbara, 2003 Thesis Jessie Tomlins: an Australian nurse, World War One, Rae, Ruth, 2001, http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NU/public/adt-NU20020222.160609/ Resource Section Australian Servicewomen's Memorial, Southwell-Keely, Michael, 1999, http://www.skp.com.au/memorials/pages/00018.htm Unsung heroes : Australia's military medical personnel, Australian War Memorial, http://www.awm.gov.au/1918/medical/ Nurses : \"The roses of no man's land\", Australian War Memorial, http://www.awm.gov.au/1918/medical/nurses.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre [Recommendation file for honours and awards, AIF, 1914-18 War] Australian Army Nursing Service 6.10.1918?[Recommendation file for honours and awards, AIF, 1914-18 War] Australian Army Nursing Service 6.10.1918 (Recommendations for the Royal Red Cross) [Recommendation file for honours and awards, AIF, 1914-18 War] Australian Army Nursing Service 11.9.1918 to 24.9.1918 [Recruiting - Arrangements:] Australian Military Forces - Instructions for the Medical Examination of Recruits. A) For Mobilization B) AIF C) For Garrison Battalions D) AANS [Australian Army Nursing Service] 1940 Operation clean up DPR/TV/566 Archbishop Daniel Mannix, Catholic Chaplain General of the Australian Army with three unidentified representatives from the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), Women's … Colour patch : Australian Army Nursing Service, AIF Hospital tent of 3rd Australian General Hospital Balcony of troopers' ward, 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia A group of Australian Army Nursing Service nurses at the 52nd British General Hospital at Kalamaria Group portrait of Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) nurses, who were former prisoners of war (POWs), ob board the hospital ship Manunda on its arrival in Australia Holmes, Katie Ms - Thesis \"Between the lines: the letters and diaries of First World War Australian Nurses\". Army Women's Services Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 December 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A set of interviews recorded with surviving members of the Itzak Wittenberg Study Group (IWSG) discussing the history of the organisation; it’s aims, activities,achievements, relationships with other Jewish and non-Jewish groups; siting of the IWSG in both national and international contexts and it’s eventual decline.??Interviewers: June Factor, Susan Faine, Rebecca Grinblat. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Robyn Peebles ran twice for election, but her life is primarily devoted to church work. She was a Call to Australia party candidate in both elections for the House of Representatives seat of Bennelong in 1990 and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Gladesville in 1991. Robyn Peebles was the pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd in West Ryde, a suburb of Sydney. In 2003 she was awarded the Citizen of the Year Award by the Ryde Council for her services in instituting the Mayoral Community Prayer Breakfast, and her other community activities. These included being convenor for the Interchurch taskforce for Children and Youth, her work for the establishment of a West Ryde Chamber of Commerce and her work on the Granny Smith Festival Committee. She later became a director of Kingdom Living Ministries Ltd. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ivy Barnes was a foundation member of the women’s branch of the Australian Labor Party in Broken Hill, New South Wales. She was the wife of Edwin John Barnes, who was Mayor of Broken Hill from 1934 to 1937. Ivy Barnes was one of eight children of William Henry Sandy and Edith Alice Sandy (nee Payne). She married Edwin John Barnes on 21 December 1914 in Kadina, South Australia, and moved with him to Broken Hill in 1923. They had five children: Jean, May, Edna, George and Albert. Edwin was elected Mayor of Broken Hill in 1934, and Ivy became involved in raising funds for the sick and needy of the town. She took over the Clothing Fund from former Mayoress Catherine Cleeland, distributing parcels of clothing from a depot at the Protestant Hall in Beryl Street. She was also a foundation member of the women’s branch of the Australian Labor Party in Broken Hill, and served as vice-president. Ivy Barnes suffered a stroke at the age of 47, rendering her unconscious for several days before she passed away. The Town Hall flag was flown at half mast. Edwin was remarried to Ivy’s sister, Dorothy Alice Sandy. He passed away in 1964. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "3 digital audio tapes (ca. 90 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of FNC for 1990s Financial records 1987-1990s. Florence Nightingale Orations. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr the Hon Bernice Pfitzner, medical practitioner and Member of the Legislative Council, talks about growing up in Singapore and her family background, in particular her mother’s determination to have a tertiary education and go into teaching. In 1949 her mother was the first woman to be elected to the Singapore City Council. She discusses the difficulties in having such a busy, famous mother. Pfitzner then talks about coming to Australia during WWII and her early schooling, returning to Singapore after the War, choosing medicine as a career, difficulties with her family over her choice of husband, doing post graduate work in child development at University of London, returning to Australia and her decision to go into Liberal politics. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Melva MacGillivray was the first woman to drive a T-Model Ford to Broken Hill, New South Wales. Melva Crossing – or Tommy, as she was known – was the fourth of nine children, and grew up to be fiercely independent. The Crossing family left Broken Hill to begin farming near Adelaide, and Melva completed her education at the Methodist Ladies’ College in Wayville. At seventeen, Melva drove a T-Model Ford from Adelaide to Broken Hill, a long and arduous trip given that the road was little more than a track with plenty of creek beds and sandy stretches to be negotiated. In 1927 Melva married medical practitioner Ian Hamilton MacGillivray. They spent eighteen months in Edinburgh, Scotland, where Ian studied surgery, and returned to Broken Hill so as he could resume his medical practice. The marriage ended in 1933 and Melva moved to Adelaide. Melva MacGillivray was an active member of the Red Cross during the Second World War, and gave up much of her time for the Spastic Centre. She performed in musical concerts around Adelaide and, after her move to the Leabrook Resthaven in later life, she ran handcraft workshops and exercise classes. She became known affectionately as Granny Mac. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 16 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Francis Egan was co-proprietor of the Barrier Café at Broken Hill, New South Wales, during the First World War. In 1915 she famously tarred and feathered the president of the Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees’ Union (the HC & REU) after he threatened the livelihood of herself and her family by refusing to give her union membership. With her brother, Thomas Smith, Francis Egan owned and ran the Barrier Café in Broken Hill during the First World War. After a union dispute, however, the café was forced to close – with other business-owners, Egan had refused to comply with union demands around wages. Suddenly, she was faced with the impossibility of finding employment in the union-dominated city of Broken Hill. She sought membership of the HC & REU but her efforts were frustrated by the president of the union, Evan Marshall, who clearly bore her a grudge. A single mother with four children to support and no income, Egan became desperate. On 16 July 1915 she called Evan Marshall to her home, apparently to discuss union business. With the help of her friend Mrs Westmore, Egan locked Marshall inside and held him at gunpoint while she tarred his back, arms, chest, stomach and face, and covered him with pillow feathers. Marshall was then whipped by the ladies 29 times and, finally, paraded by them around the centre of town. Incredibly, the jury of local townsmen called to hear the case against Egan and Westmore found them not guilty. Furthermore, the Amalgamated Miners’ Association (AMA) was ordered to pay over £2,000 in costs and damages to Mrs Egan for conspiring to deprive her of a way of earning a living. Marshall became an object of ridicule in the town. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Tyranny of Unionism, Egan, Francis, 1915 Tar and Feathers, 1915 Journal Article White Cards/Black Feathers: The Political Gets Personal - Broken Hill, 1915, Macnamara, E.R., 1999 Book The Industrial History of Broken Hill, Dale, George, 1918 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library McCulloch, George Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 February 2009 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Australian Federation of Medical Women (AFMW) is a non-profit, non-government society with member bodies in each state. The Federation was formed in 1927, from existing associations of medical women in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, to promote and develop the formal practice of medicine among women. The first medical women’s association was formed in Victoria in 1895. Historically it has worked to remove barriers to women’s participation in the profession. Currently, the Federation sponsors numerous networking and mentoring programs for women doctors. It has branches in all states and the Australian Capital Territory. The Australian Federation of Medical Women is the parent body of medical women’s societies in each of the states of Australia and in the Australian Capital Territory. Representatives from the State bodies are elected to sit on the AFMW Executive. In 930 its membership was 170, reaching 502 by 1969. AFMW is affiliated with the Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA), which formed in 1919 and now is actively involved with the United Nations as a Non-Government Organisation. The aims of AFMW as part of MWIA are as follows: To stimulate, encourage and promote the entry of women into the medical and allied sciences throughout the world and assist its members in optimum utilisation of their medical training. To foster friendship, respect and understanding among medical women throughout the world without regard to race, religion or political views. To afford Medical Women the opportunity to meet at stated times to consider common problems together and gain the co-operation of medical women in matters in international health. Published resources Book A short history of medical women in Australia, Morgan, Elma Sandford, 1970 Newsletter Woman to woman: Newsletter of Australian Federation of Medical Women, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Australian Federation of Medical Women deposit Author Details Jane Carey Created 25 August 2004 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence including family, personal, professional and academic. Private papers (travel documents, photographs, postcards), articles, lectures and manuscripts. Published articles and addresses – 1964-1984. [NB. Some correspondence is in German]. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Album containing 43 photographs taken by Stephanie Clark when she attended the State Research Farm at Werribee in 1931. Photographs of the farm, friends, Barwon Heads. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises Barwick’s publications and conference papers; Barwick’s PhD.; work with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and the Aboriginal History journal; work on major research projects; incoming and outgoing correspondence; reference material, and collected genealogies of Aboriginal Victorian families. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 26 March 2009 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Fitzhardinge talks about his background as an historian; employment at National Library of Australia in 1934 as a research clerk and his publications on the history of the Church of St John the Baptist at Reid, A.C.T. and on Sir Littleton Groom. He then describes his work during WWII; involvement in the organisation of history courses for diplomatic cadets at Canberra University College and his view of Australian history and its study at the time. Fitzhardinge then discusses his work at ANU; his relationship with students and staff; Hancock’s influence; launch of ADB (Australian Dictionary of Biography) and his involvement with Basser Library. He then describes the societies that he has been connected with and his views on the writing of Australian history since WWII. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mary Ann Cannard was one of very few returned WW1 nurses granted a block of land to farm under the Soldier Settlement Scheme. Mary Ann Cannard was born on 18 January 1883 to William Cannard and Theresa (nee McCausland) in Allendale, 27km north of Ballarat, Victoria. Mary moved to Western Australia in 1912 and began three years of training to become a nurse at Fremantle Public Hospital in May 1914. On completion of her nursing training Mary enlisted with the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in 1917. Staff Nurse Cannard served with the AANS in India from 1917 to 1919 and was posted to hospitals in Bombay, including the Victoria War Hospital and Gerard Freeman Thomas Hospital. During her service Staff Nurse Cannard was hospitalised twice, suffering from influenza and malaria. Staff Nurse Cannard embarked at Bombay on 13 April 1919 and was discharged from service on return to Australia. Following her First World War service, Mary returned to nursing at Nurse Gidding’s private hospital in Mildura. In August 1921 Mary was granted a Soldier Settlement block near Donald, Victoria. The small farming block was adjacent to one held by her brother Herbert Cannard, who had served with the 2nd Pioneer Battalion, AIF. Mary continued nursing and together with her brother managed the property. In 1922 the Settlement Board investigated Mary on suspicion of “dummying”. Dummying was the term given to cases where applicants for Soldier Settlement blocks mislead the Settlement Board. It was believed that Mary had applied for a Soldier Settlement block only so that her brother could farm it. This was found not to be the case and Mary was praised for “working at her profession…to earn nearly enough to pay a [labourer] to work the block instead of coming to the [Settlement] Board for help”. Mary surrendered her Soldier Settlement block in February 1927 on account of ill health. Mary married Herber Mallalieu on 8 June 1922 at the Howard Street Methodist Church, North Melbourne. Herber was the eldest son of the Reverend Paul Mallalieu and served with the 23rd Battalion, AIF. Mary and Herber had a daughter, Joy, in 1925. From the 1930s Mary, Herber and Joy lived in Essendon. Herber struggled to secure ongoing employment for many years and all three suffered from bad health. Neither Herber nor Mary’s health problems were recognised as being directly linked to their war service, which prevented them from being granted war pensions. Between 1934 and 1957 Mary made numerous applications to the Edith Cavell Trust Fund to help pay their numerous bills. The Edith Cavell Trust Fund was established in 1915 by the Lady Mayoress, wife of Melbourne’s Lord Mayor Hennessy, to provide monetary assistance to sick and incapacitated returned military nurses. It was named in honour of British nurse, Edith Cavell who was killed by a German firing squad after helping Allied troops escape German-occupied Belgium. Herber died 19 March 1961. Mary Ann Mallalieu (nee Cannard) died 12 November 1962 in Drouin, Victoria, aged 79. Archival resources Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre 892/12 John Gustave Wilkinson Mary Ann Mallalien Mary A Cannard John Kennedy Watchem Witchipool 14 6 781--1-2 National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra CANNARD Mary Ann : Service Number - Staff Nurse : Place of Birth - Allendale Vic : Place of Enlistment - Fremantle WA : Next of Kin - (Mother) CANNARD Theresa National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office Folders of applications for grants, alphabetical series Author Details Jason Smeaton Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 10 January 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 57 min.)??Lyons speaks of her childhood, her family, her mother, her life on the farm, her husband, her real love and interest in cattle, her trip to France to get some Salers, her involvement in the market and the international market where she is on the verge of developing a new kind of Coonamble beef, her familial problems related to the health of her children, problems associated with drought and the support from people living in the cities; the Ross River fever, its effect on farmers and the possibility to be prevented, her role as a carer for people living on the land. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ruby Lindsay is perhaps Australia’s first female graphic designer. During the early twentieth century, Ruby illustrated books and also hand drew posters and black-and-white illustrations for newspapers such as The Bulletin and Punch. Ruby Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria, to parents Robert and Jane Elizabeth. At the age of 16 she moved to Melbourne where she attended the National Gallery School. Ruby occasionally drew posters and black and white illustrations for well-known newspapers, and also illustrated books such as William Moore’s Studio Sketches. In 1907 Ruby showcased her work at the Women’s Work Exhibition, held at the Melbourne Exhibition building. After submitting many pieces in competitive categories, Ruby won the First Class Diploma – a certificate which she had also designed. Ruby married Will Dyson in Creswick in 1909 and soon after they travelled to London with Ruby’s brother Norman. Whilst in London, Ruby continued illustrating books and sometimes collaborated on black-and-white illustrations and posters with her husband. In 1911, Will and Ruby had a daughter, Elizabeth (Betty). Sadly, Ruby died of influenza in 1919 at the age of 33. Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Lindsay Family Papers National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Ruby Lindsay Dyson's Autograph book, 1907 Poems in memory of a wife Ruby Lind (Will Dyson) (2 copies), 1857-1919 Lind, Ruby. Drawings of Rubylind (Mrs Will Dyson), 1887-1919 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 3 January 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ellen Ryan held licences for hotels in the Northern Territory from 1878, becoming a wealthy and successful business woman in her own right. She had a reputation as one of the Northern Territory’s best hostesses, organising a variety of entertainment for her hotel patrons and local residents. Ellen was one of the 82 Territory women who enrolled to vote after the franchise was granted to South Australian and Territory women in 1894. Ellen Ryan travelled with her parents and two siblings to Western Australia in 1853, moving on to Adelaide in 1856. In 1867 Ellen married Irish immigrant labourer William Ryan and six years later they moved to the Northern Territory, seduced by news of gold discoveries. They arrived in Palmerston on 12 July 1873 and soon travelled on to Yam Creek. Within a few weeks Ellen had leased the first hotel in the area, the Miners’ Arm Hotel, where she quickly developed a sound reputation. In the late 1870s Ellen returned to Palmerston and after a short stint at a local hotel, Ellen moved on to Southport where she took a lease on the Royal Hotel. In 1877 Ellen left her violent husband, taking out a formal protection order in May 1881 wherein she sited cruelty and drunkenness. With the news of a railway to be built between Palmerston and Pine Creek in 1884, Ellen moved her hotel to Port Darwin Camp. By the following year she had made enough money to expand her business. Ellen purchased more land on the goldfields and in Palmerston, and became involved in mining leases near Pine Creek. By 1885 Ellen and Eliza Tuckwell were the only two territory women listed on land tax statistics as earning more than 300 pounds per year. Ellen was a generous woman and donated money to many worthy causes. She even came to the aid of the Red Cross during the First World War, helping to raise fund and supply equipment to the front. In 1888, after a trip to Adelaide where she had consulted various architects, Ellen returned to the Northern Territory with fresh ideas of expanding her business. She began building hotels at Union Reef and on the Palmerston to Pine Creek railway line, and had plans for a grandiose hotel in Palmerston. After selling her Union Reef hotel in c. 1890, she focused her attention on her new hotel in Darwin. The 4000-pound North Australian hotel was opened in Palmerston in 1890. After six years of ownership, Ellen sold the North Australian and concentrated on running the Palmerston Club Hotel, which had been built in 1883 by Edward and Margaret Hopewell. However, in 1901, Ellen came to an agreement with the owners of the North Australian (now known as Hotel Victoria) that they would swap leases, with the pair taking over her lease of the Palmerston Club Hotel. Ellen was practically forced out of her hotels in 1915 when the Gilruth administration took over the wholesale and retail sales of liquor in the northern part of the Territory. Now in her sixties, Ellen moved to Adelaide, where she spent her remaining years in a home she fondly called The Shackle. Ellen passed away in May 1920 and, with no remaining children, her estate was split between her nieces and nephews. Archival resources State Library of South Australia Darwin Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 44 min.)??Holt, a farmer, speaks of her childhood, her schooling in Adelaide, her regret of not having done a course in agriculture, the fragility of the land, the Landcare schemes, the growth of Australia’s population in the future, the scarcity of fertile land under concrete construction, problems confined to the land: salinity, soil acidity, blue-green algae in dams and rivers, the division between city and country people, her farming period after she left medical school in Adelaide, running commercial cattle, her involvement in the local fire brigade, the Beef Improvement Association, the Breed-plan, her keeping up with the latest technology in breeding cattle, the history of her family, the future of her son and the farm. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection reflects the various aspects of her writing career and includes mss, scripts, paintings, correspondence, files, budget controls, scores and a demonstration recording of songs from the musical “Dicken’s magic”. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 October 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Folder containing articles and notes on her early teaching career. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 sound tape reels (ca. 136 min.)??Hanny Exiner (nee Kolm), a dance educator, discusses her experiences as a student with and dancer for Gertrud Bodenwieser and her Bodenwieser Ballet especially in Vienna. She describes Bodenwieser’s classes, Bodenwieser as a teacher and choreographer, and the Bodenwieser tour to South America in 1938-1939. During the course of the interview Exiner also discusses her own dance career in Australia, especially her activities as an educator and the development of her philosophy of using dance to promote well-being. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "65 letters written by Mrs H.G. Wheeler during World War I together with her card index of soldiers from central Queensland.??Arranged into 3 series. Digital copies available for selected items Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 1174 chiefly comprises correspondence between Vance and Nettie Palmer. There is also correspondence from contemporary literary figures such as Katharine Susannah Prichard, Marjorie Barnard, Frank Dalby Davison, Kate Baker, Guido Baracchi, Louis Esson, C. Hartley Grattan, Kathleen McArthur, Hugh McCrae, Leonard Mann, Bernard O’Dowd and Henry Handel Richardson. In addition, drafts, press cuttings, original manuscripts of other writers, photographs, material from various literary bodies such as the Australian Society of Authors and the Fellowship of Australian Authors (38 boxes, 64 security binders, 2 fol. Boxes).??The Acc10.018 instalment consists of a postcard from “R” addressed to Nettie Palmer, c/o Westminster Bank, London. Date unclear (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 September 2015 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Iris Clayton recalls details of her childhood in Leeton and her removal to Cootamundra Girls Home; includes an account of her experiences at the AIAS researching her family history. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Duration: 7 hours, 39 minutes??Interviews conducted as part of a research project on Cootamundra Girls’ Home Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Laverton, Vic. C. 1943. Section Officer Evelyn Ferrier (left) and Section Officer Honor Darling participating in an aircraft recognition exercise at RAAF Station Laverton in conjunction with the Volunteer Air Observers Corps.?Black & white – Film original negative nitrate other Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sue Galley is a once only candidate for election: an Australians Against Further Immigration candidate in the 2003 elections to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Albury. Sue Galley was a retired school teacher living in Panania, a southern suburb of Sydney, when she stood for the seat of Albury on behalf of the AAFI party. She is one of many women who have run for election in a token fashion, to boost the vote of the party to which they were attached. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "meeting minutes, correspondence with other peace activists and organisations around the world, anti-nuclear information, posters, banners, photographs of peace vigil during the Pine Gap peace camp and other peace actions Author Details Katey Bereny Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 18 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Meredith Hinchliffe has been involved with the arts in Canberra since 1977 when she joined the Crafts Council of the ACT as its Executive Secretary and then Director. She went on to work in organisations such as the National Campaign for the Arts, Museums Australia, ArtsACT, and the Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage at UC, and has also worked as a freelance arts consultant and exhibitions curator since 1997. Meredith is a specialist on crafts including ceramics, textiles and furniture, and is an approved valuer under the Commonwealth Government’s Cultural Gifts Program. She has written about the arts for numerous arts journals and regularly contributed reviews of crafts and visual arts exhibitions and books to The Canberra Times from 1978 to 2009. Meredith has been a long-time advocate and lobbyist for the arts, and is a significant patron of and donor to arts organisations, especially the Canberra Museum and Gallery. In 2022 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of her significant service to the arts. “Meredith Hinchliffe was born in Warwick, Queensland to Captain Leslie Maxwell (Max) Hinchliffe (1916–2003) and Marjorie Moffat Hinchliffe (1920–1998) née Smyth. She was educated in Australia and America, finally at Canberra Church of England Girls’ Grammar School, and the University of Canberra (then CAE, 1977). Meredith joined the Crafts Council of the ACT in 1977, and worked as its Executive Secretary and Director till 1986. In that time she curated many exhibitions of individual artists and groups across the media of ceramics, wood, textiles, leather, metalwork and, to a lesser extent, glass. She also showed at Craft ACT a number of touring exhibitions – e.g. an exhibition of Molas from the San Blas Islands of Panama. She went on to work at the Australian Bicentennial Authority (ACT and Island Territories), ArtsACT and Business Development in the ACT Government, managing grant programs. She served as the full-time Executive Director of the National Campaign for the Arts Australia Ltd in July 1996, and assisted with the successful campaign for ArtBank to be retained as a government entity. She built up a strong network of media contacts during this time, but lack of funding led to the Campaign being wound up in August 1977. In 2000 Meredith took on a project management position at the Australian Science Teachers Association and was then appointed Executive Officer of Museums Australia, the national professional association for museum workers and museums, in July 2002. She worked as Public Arts Project Officer for ArtsACT and has managed several public art installation projects. From July 2008 to April 2009 she was the inaugural Executive Officer of the Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage at the University of Canberra. From 1997 to 1999 Meredith worked as a freelance arts consultant, a role she has renewed at various times in the years since. Notable examples include curating the Survey exhibition of the Tamworth Fibre Textile Collection in 2010. In 2013, having catalogued the extensive holdings of furniture designed by Frederick Ward for University House at the Australian National University, she curated an exhibition of his exceptional mid-century pieces at the Gallery of Australian Design (Canberra). Most recently, as a Research Associate at the National Museum of Australia Meredith has been involved in working on the Trevor Kennedy Collection recently acquired by the Museum. Meredith is approved to value Australian ceramics, glass, textiles, jewellery, leatherwork, wooden objects and furniture from 1950 for the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program. She has written prolifically about the decorative arts since the late 1970s, including as a regular contributor to The Canberra Times from 1978 to 2009, writing review articles of crafts and visual arts exhibitions and books, and continues to contribute reviews to the Canberra City News. She has written many articles about issues of importance to the arts for a number of journals, including the National Library News, Smarts, Pottery in Australia (now the Journal of Australian Ceramics), Ceramic Art and Perception, Craft Arts International, Textile Fibre Forum, Object, Craft Australia, and the Italian magazine Studio Vetro. Meredith has long lobbied for, and donated to enterprises across the arts spectrum. She was a leading advocate in the movement to establish the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) as an independent, not-for-profit, artist-run initiative. It was created in 1989 as a collaboration between the ACT Government and representatives of Canberra’s visual arts community, leasing 35 affordable and professional studio and exhibition spaces to artists. With support from ArtsACT, the ANCA Gallery opened in 1992, presenting a program of art exhibitions and events and supporting critical approaches to contemporary arts practice. Meredith was a founding board member of ANCA in 1992 and a guest curator in 2013. She is a board member of The Childers Group, which was created in 2011 as an independent arts forum in the Canberra region, advocating support for the arts to governments at all levels, and engaging with the private sector, educators, the media and the broader community about the value of the arts. After inheriting a substantial legacy from her father, Meredith decided to make good use of it by donating to the decorative arts collections of public galleries. In addition to regular donations to the National Gallery of Australia and the National Museum of Australia, in 2004 she started giving a significant sum annually to the Canberra Museum and Gallery for purchase of artworks by Canberra region artists, with a focus mostly on decorative arts. In 2019 the Gallery reciprocated by presenting an exhibition of pieces from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund. She says: ‘Although I’m not wealthy, people like me can still make a difference…. I just believe in giving money to things that are really important, to support artists; I know how tough it is for them.’ Meredith Hinchliffe has also been a long-time volunteer and board member in a number of national and ACT arts bodies since the 1980s, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Friends of the National Museum of Australia, the Friends of the National Library of Australia, and the ACT branch of the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society. She was a board member of Ausdance ACT and chaired its board from 2009–12. In the ACT, Meredith’s contributions to the arts were recognised in 2000 with an ACT Women’s Award. In 2011 she received an Australia Day Medal from National Gallery of Australia and in 2022 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for ‘significant service to the arts through a range of roles and organisations’.” Published resources Fred Ward, Pioneer Australian Designer: His Life and Work in Furniture Design, Amy Jarvis and Meredith Hinchliffe, https://www.theaustralianafund.org.au/events/online-lecture-2-fred-ward-pioneer-australian-designer-his-life-and-work-in-furniture-design- Canberra Museum and Gallery, http://www.cmag.com.au/collection-search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=meredith+hinchliffe+collection Author Details Louise Moran Created 25 April 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ephemera complementing various aspects of the Kerry White children’s book collection published between 1900 and 2000. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "PORTRAIT OF MISS MARGARET IRENE LANG, FOUNDER OF THE RAAF NURSING SERVICE. IN UNIFORM, C.1945. THE SERVICE WAS FORMED IN JULY 1940 AND MISS LANG WAS MATRON-IN-CHIEF UNTIL 1946. (DONOR: M. KINKAID) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Folders of programs and miscellaneous pieces.??Material in the Australian performing arts collection (PROMPT) consists of programs and related items for Australian performing arts organisations, Australian artists performing overseas, professional productions performed in Australia (including those featuring overseas performers) and overseas performances of Australian plays, music, etc. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Kitty McEwan was educated at Ormiston Ladies’ College and became a freelance journalist working with Australian Home Beautiful in 1929. Interested in the game of golf, she began writing about women and golf, for the Radiator in 1937 and the Sun News-Pictorial in 1938. She organised fund-raising for patriotic appeals during World War II. In June 1942 McEwan was appointed superintendent in Victoria of the Australian Women’s Land Army, a position she held until March 1946. After the war she returned to journalism, writing for the Sun News-Pictorial from which she retired in 1966. Kitty McEwan served as honorary publicity officer and an executive member of the National Council of Women Victoria and a councillor of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. She died on 17 August 1969, aged 75 years. Kitty McEwan was a keen sportswoman and was a member of several sporting clubs and associations, including the Barwon Heads Golf Club and the Women’s Amateur Sports Council. She used her role as a journalist to promote women’s sport to a wide audience. Her efforts in this area have seen her commemorated publicly. In 2003 she had a street in the Canberra suburb of Mckellar names after her, and the pre-eminent Victorian sportswoman of the year receives the VicSport Kitty McEwan Sportswoman of the Year award. Events 1929 - 1966 Published resources Resource Section McEwan, Kathleen Agnes Rose, Hardisty, Sue, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150244b.htm Journal Article The Australian Women's Land Army : a brief history., McEwan, Kitty., 1967 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Letter, 1967 Oct. 26 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 December 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: First birthday party of the Australian Women's Land Army. Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Women’s Electoral Lobby compiled by Anne Gunter as a member of WEL Victoria. Contains: Submission to Government and inquiries by WEL, 1972-1996; Alive and WEL, Newsletter, 1973 to 2004; the WEL Papers, National Journal of the Women’s Electoral Lobby from 1972- on; WEL Information Kits; Anne Gunter’s folders containing WEL administration and submission documents; 1 folder CEDAW and Australia, that is, Australian responses to the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1988. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letters mention Daisy Bates.??Includes draft reply on verso. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (ca. 181 min.)??Campbell, Professor of Law, Monash University, speaks of her family background; her father, a solicitor in Tasmania with a varied practice; the selective education girls received during the War years; her artistic inclinations such as drawing and piano; her studies at University of Tasmania; her doctoral work at Duke University from 1956; her decision to teach international law at the University of Tasmania in 1959; how she taught at University of Sydney’s Dept. of Law; her promotion to senior lecturer in 1962 and later first Australian woman to achieve Associate Professor of Law; the writing of her three classic texts produced from 1965 to 1967; her study of legal history with Willard Hurst at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1966; how she wrote on U.S. freedom of information legislation here which lead to its introduction into Australia.??Campbell discusses how she became Professor of Law at Monash in 1967; the growth of the new law school and the central importance of building a first class law library; how female staffing of the school grew gradually to its current level of 50%; her involvement on government committees such as the Coombs Royal Commission in 1973 to review the Australian Public Service; the Advisory Council to the Law Reform Commissioner of Victoria in 1983/84; achieving increased funding for legal resources for many institutions with the 1986 Pearce Committee review of the standards of law schools; her work in 1985-1988 on the Constitutional Commission and writing a substantial part of the final report; and her ambition to rewrite Australian legal history. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Adelaide Rape Crisis Centre was formed after the Hindmarsh Women’s Community Centre, a free medical service for women had operated for a short time, and the need for a separate service became apparent with the numbers of women reporting past and present rapes and the lack of services for women and girls. The centre was modelled on the newly formed Sydney Rape Crisis Centre. They had three main purposes to support women after the rape, change attitudes to rape and to teach self defence. They organised the first Reclaim the Night March in Adelaide. The group made a submission to the Mitchell Report on Rape and Other Sexual Offences. It is now titled Yarrow Place.??Comprises: annual reports; notices of meeting; correspondence; financial records; training manuals; conference papers; reports; and journal articles relating to the day to day business and organisation of the Adelaide Rape Crisis Centre. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives Series Reference: NO3]??These are control records for the correspondence files maintained by the Australian Red Cross Society, National Headquarters between 1962 and 1991. The related correspondence can be found in series (2015.0033) ARC Series Reference NO.33. There are index cards from 1962 to 1984, and computer printouts from 1986 to1991 and 1994. They provide a listing of the correspondence headings and sub-headings used, with a separate list for each year. These records provide clues as to the workings of the file classification system used by the National Office. However a full listing of National Headquarters correspondence file titles was generated by the Red Cross Archives prior to transfer to the University of Melbourne in 2015 and this data, rather than the control records, is recommended as a first point of access to the correspondence series (2015.0033).??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 17 August 2015 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Townsville, Qld. 1943-09-18. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sydney WEL Newsletter Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Series AA 52/1 includes Campbell’s diaries and field notes relating to his archaeological and anthropological fieldwork in South Australia and interstate.??Item number 7 mentions Daisy Bates and Olive Pink. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 1 February 2001 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Date unknown; ‘On the rights of the Aborigines of Australia’, being ms. Lecture (44 ff) with annotations and alterations, bound in volume. (Call No.: A 1400: Issue microfilm copy at CY 528)?1829-1865; Correspondence of the Camfield and Windeyer families (Call No.: *D 30: Issue microfilm copy at CY 494)?1827-1928; Windeyer family papers includes correspondence; ‘Hermes’, 1890; University of Sydney examination paper, 1855; W. C. Windeyor’s address to the electors of University of Sydney, 1876; newscuttings and letters concerning Lady Windeyer and Margaret Windeyer; National Council of Women of NSW. Constitution and Report of Inaugural Meeting, 1896 (Call No.: *D 159: Issue microfilm copy at CY 2559) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Compilation of literary works brought together by the Aboriginal Treaty Committee for the purpose of fund-raising. These works include the following: Murray Bail’s original draft, typed with holograph corrections of “The drover’s wife”; Nancy Cato’s typed draft with corrections of the poem “Travel”. Alan Marshall’s complete set of drafts with corrections and additions of “Hallucination at departure”; Ivan Southall’s manuscripts of the book “The golden goose”; Kylie Tennant’s playscript “Here of nowhere” and Patrick White’s work on a projected opera based on “A fringe of leaves”. Other literary figures represented are: Patsy Adam-Smith, Dorothy Auchterlone, (Dorothy Green), John Blight, R. F. Brissenden, Manning Clark, H. C. Coombs, Bruce Dawe, Margaret Diesendorf, Rosemary Dobson, Geoffrey Dutton, Ray Ericksen, Sylvana Gardner, Stewart Harris, Gwen Harwood, Roger McDonald, Donald Horne, Mark O’Connor; R. A. Simpson, Geoffrey Page, Judith Rodriguez, Dal Stivens, Judah Waten, Judith Wright and Nancy Keesing. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 15 min.)??Keesing speaks about her collaboration with Douglas Stewart in editing “Australian bush ballads” and “Old bush songs” ; Keesing reads two poems titled “Lady and Cockatoo” and “Gypsie”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Dr Hurriyet Babacan was born in Turkey and migrated to Australia at the age of ten. A long and distinguished career has seen her work as an academic, social worker, policy officer, senior public servant, researcher, author and trainer. Born in Turkey, Hurriyet Babacan migrated to Australia with her parents and three siblings in 1971. Her early memories of Australia are of life in an ex-army barracks migrant hostel in NSW. Her father, a middle class academic in Turkey, became a member of the Australian working class when he joined the workforce at the steel mills nearby. Both of Hurriyet’s parents suffered injuries due to unsafe work practices in the factories of Sydney and Melbourne. For the young Hurriyet schooling was a struggle without English language fluency, and the experience of racism added stress. Despite this she did well at school in subjects where English language skills were less crucial such as mathematics and chemistry. Hurriyet went on to complete a Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Arts (Social Policy), PhD, Graduate Certificate in Education and interpreting/translation qualifications. Hurriyet’s parents engendered in her an awareness of social issues and social justice from a young age, and this has been reflected in her career choices. Over the last twenty years Hurriyet has worked as an academic, social worker, policy officer, senior public servant, researcher, author and trainer. She was a senior executive in the Queensland Government where she held the position of Executive Director, Multicultural Affairs, Women’s Policy and Community Outcomes Branch in the Department of Premier and Cabinet. She has also held lecturing positions in universities across Australia, and worked as a senior public servant in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Victorian Government. Dr Babacan currently holds a position at the University of the Sunshine Coast where she is the acting Head of Social and Community Studies and also Associate Director of the Centre for Multicultural and Community Development. She coordinates and lectures in courses in community development, gender, cultural diversity and social and human service practice. She has undertaken extensive research on a range of topics, including immigration and settlement, racism, health, family services, community capacity building, social exclusion/inclusion, child protection, ageing, women, globalisation and human rights. She has published widely and has completed work for UNESCO on gender and development. Her book on death and dying across six non-Christian religions has sold over 10,000 copies. She has also published a well recognised guide for migrant job seekers on addressing selection criteria. Dr Babacan has been involved with numerous community organisations over the past twenty years, co-founding many of them. The most recent include: DV Connect Inc, a state-wide domestic violence telephone counselling service in Queensland; Queensland Program for Survivors of Torture and Trauma, counselling service for survivors of torture and trauma; Women’s Sector Development project, a state-wide program to better connect women’s agencies across different service areas with government; Multicultural Development Association Inc, settlement services and case service delivery to newly arrived migrants and refugees which is now one of the largest service delivery agencies in Queensland; Centre for Multicultural and Community Development, University of the Sunshine Coast; Australians for Multiculturalism and Reconciliation; and Women Connect, a state-wide agency for development and mentoring of women for leadership roles in Queensland. Former Ministerial advisory positions include: Equal Opportunity Advisory Committee to the Premier in Victoria; Member of Legal Aid Commission Review Committee; Adviser to the Australia Council; Member of the National Settlement Advisory Council (to the Minister for Immigration); Member of Child Protection Council, an advisory body to the Minister for Families, Youth and Community Care in Queensland; and Multicultural Women’s Advisory Council to the Premier (Queensland) and Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission. Dr Hurriyet Babacan is married and lives in Queensland. Her husband is of Indian descent and the pair travel frequently. Published resources Report Investigations into funding of migrant women's re-creation groups: report, Babacan, Hurriyet, 1983 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "6 digital audio tapes (ca. 360 min.).??Hon Justice Elizabeth Evatt talks about the power of common law; the operation of a bill of rights; the review of the “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act”, which had just been completed and her work with the UN Human Rights Committee. She also talks about her career in law reform; her family background and schooling and her father’s influence on her decision to study law. Evatt discusses her work with the Law Reform Commission in London; the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission; heading the Royal Commission into Human Relationships and her work as the first Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 20 minutes??Joyce Kitto was born in Gladstone, South Australia. She spent most of her youth in Adelaide where she completed primary schooling, attended business college, and took an appointment in a office. In the early 1950s Joyce became a member of the Citizens’ Military Force Nursing Corps, which led to her decision to train as a nurse. She was a student nurse at Mount Gambier Hospital from 1954 to 1957. After midwifery training in Launceston she worked in Port Pirie and then became a tutor sister at the Port Augusta Hospital. In 1963 she studied at the College of Nursing, Australia in Melbourne for the Sister Tutor Diploma, and returned to Port Augusta for three years. In 1970 she was appointed tutor sister in charge of the newly established training school for enrolled nurses at Gleneden, Maryattville, where she remained until her retirement in 1985. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "25 minutes??Eva McLaren was born in Yorkshire and educated in England and Switzerland. She lived in India and met Ghandi. On a visit to Australia she met and married Captain Edward Smith McLaren. She joined the Lyceum Club and joined every circle except Italian and bridge, was president in 1948-49 and 1959-61,enjoyed many of the speakers such as Noel Coward and during the war years was convenor of the circles. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Suzanne Edgar is a Canberra-based writer of fiction, feature articles, poetry and reviews. (This entry is sponsored by generous donation from Christine Foley.) Suzanne Edgar was born in 1939 in Glenelg, South Australia, and studied at Adelaide Teachers’ College and the University of Adelaide. She moved to Canberra in 1963 with her husband Peter, a writer and historian (To Villers-Bretonneux, Australian Military History Publications, Syd, 2006). She has worked in adult education, and has taught Women’s Studies at the Australian National University. For c.25 years she was the research editor, South Australian desk, at the Australian Dictionary of Biography. She has published Counting Backwards and Other Stories (1991), many of these short stories being set in Adelaide and in Canberra, and the collection was short-listed for the Steele Rudd award in 1992. Edgar’s poetry has been published in The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Adelaide Review, Quadrant, The Australian’s Review of Books, and Eureka Street. She has twice won the C.J. Dennis Memorial Poetry Competition for Night Shift and Uriarra, while Chica and The Ring Maker have been short-listed for Canberra poetry awards. Her poems, ‘The Loneliness of Salt’ and ‘Enid on the Sofa’, were included in Les Murray ed., Best Australian Poems 2004 and 2005 respectively (Black Inc., Melb.). Among her other poems in anthologies, her sonnet ‘The Patriarch’s House by the Sea’ is in R. Walker and L Nicholas eds., Friendly Street Thirty, Wakefield Press, Adel, 2006; this sonnet was short-listed for the SATURA prize for the best poem in the book. Edgar has read at Friendly Street Poets, Adelaide. She often gives readings of her own and others’ poetry in connection with art exhibitions, at the National Gallery of Australia and at the Art Gallery of South Australia. She also writes film and book reviews, criticism and features in literary and scholarly journals. She was a member of Seven Writers – a group of seven Canberra-based writers whose work vividly portrayed life ‘beneath the surface of Canberra’ – and as part of this collective she contributed to Canberra Tales (1988), republished as The Division of Love in 1996, an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. The work was funded with an ACT Bicentennial grant. Edgar currently belongs to a professional poets’ group [no name] comprised of two men and two women who meet monthly at The Mull and Fiddle, to discuss work in progress. Her first collection of poetry, The Painted Lady, prepared with the help of a $10,000 grant from artsACT, is to be published in 2006 by Indigo Press, Canb. (eds. Alan Gould and Geoff Page). Edgar has contributed fifty-three biographical articles to the Australian Dictionary of Biography and one to The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. She is also an interviewer for the National Library of Australia’s Oral History Program. Published resources Book Counting Backwards and other stories, Edgar, Suzanne, 1991 The Division of Love: Stories, Barbalet, Margaret et al, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Seven Writers group, between 1986 and approximately 2000 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Portrait of Suzanne Edgar taken at Adelaide Festival 1990 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Deed of gift of land and effects’ of M. F. Crommelin at Warra to University of Sydney for establishment of Crommelin Biological Station, Pearl Beach, Woy Woy, 8 April 1947, with ‘Inventory and valuation of household and library effects, layout of buildings’ and letter from M. F. Crommelin, 9 February 1954 Author Details Ailie Smith Created 21 November 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rachael Wallbank is an Accredited Specialist (Family Law – LSNSW) and principal of the legal practice Wallbanks Legal. Wallbank represented and appeared on behalf of ‘Kevin’ and ‘Jennifer’ at trial in Re Kevin: Validity of Marriage of Transsexual (2001) 28 Fam LR 158 and on appeal in The Attorney-General for the Commonwealth & “Kevin and Jennifer” & Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission [2003] FamCA 94 whereby Australians who experience diversity or difference in sexual formation, including Transsexualism, gained the right to legally marry in their affirmed sex. Wallbank also acted and appeared for the Applicant Parents in Re Bernadette [2010] FamCA 94; the first case in Australia to authorise Phase 1 Treatment to suspend puberty for an adolescent living with the condition of Transsexualism (as an interim order in 2005) and the first case to challenge the Australian legal regime initiated by Re Alex (2004) FLC 93-175 which requires court authorisation of Phase 1 and 2 Treatments as a precondition to treatment. Wallbank is a member of the Legal Issues Committee of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and a founding member of the Australian and New Zealand Professional Association for Transgender Health (ANZPATH). Wallbank has written academically, undertakes lectures and presentations on the subject of the legal and human rights of people who experience diversity or difference in sexual formation and gender expression, especially with regard to Australia, and appears in the media as a public advocate and legal expert on the subject. The following additional information was provided by Rachael Wallbank and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Born on 4 March 1956, as Richard Wallbank, Rachael attended St Patrick’s College Strathfield in Sydney and the University of New South Wales. Rachael was admitted to practise as a solicitor on 4 July 1980. Rachael has three adult children. After having worked as a junior solicitor and later rising to Associate at Messrs Fred A. and John F. Newnham of Sydney, Rachael established her own legal practice, Wallbanks Legal, on 1 July 1985. Wallbanks Legal is a specialist practice concerned with Family, Wills & Estates and Succession Law. As is typical for those who experience the condition of Transsexualism, Rachael was aware of her female self in childhood. In the circumstances of the times, however, and although she was referred to doctors by her parents for being found dressing in her sister’s clothes and telling them “I’m really a girl” at about 7 years of age, the condition remained an untreated shame to be consciously ignored by all concerned. Rachael’s adolescence and young adulthood were extremely confusing, painful and shame-filled. Rachael publicly affirmed her female sex on 4 July 1994, undertook sex affirmation procedures including genital surgery and had her Legal Sex reassigned to female in New South Wales pursuant to that State’s births, deaths and marriages laws on 17 July 1997. Rachael is grateful that her life and legal career have presented her with the opportunity to achieve significant legal and human rights reform and to advance the understanding of Transsexualism as a naturally occurring form of diversity in human sexual formation and a form of intersexual disorder of sexual development with a clearly therapeutic medical treatment protocol and not a mental disorder or a psychological phenomenon. Re Kevin has been relied upon in several landmark international decisions; including I v The United Kingdom and Christine Goodwin v The United Kingdom, decided by the European Court of Human Rights. These decisions, which quote Justice Chisholm’s decision in Re Kevin at length and with approval, finally determined that there had been violations of articles 8, 12, 13 and 14 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in respect of the legal status of people who had experienced Transsexualism in the United Kingdom and, in particular, such people’s treatment in the spheres of employment, social security, pensions and marriage. As a result of these decisions the government of the United Kingdom introduced the Gender Recognition Act 2004. Re Kevin was also relied upon in the landmark decision of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Pasco County, Florida, in the United States of America in The Marriage of Kantaras. At page 673 of that decision Justice O’Brien said: ‘…it is essential that Kevin not be given a mere “citation” but studied for what it represents in the law. It is one of the most important cases on Transsexualism to come on the scene of foreign jurisprudence.’ Rachael continues to advocate for the abandonment of the requirement imposed by the Family Court of Australia requiring court authorisation of time critical therapeutic hormonal treatment for Australian adolescents who experience Transsexualism; with all the unnecessary suffering from non-treatment and self harm that inevitably results. Rachael deeply appreciates the fact that her children and her former wife were all obliged to share in the social and personal suffering associated with her Difference and her public affirmation of her innate female self and that, without the love and support of many people, and especially her children, this entry would not exist. Rachael’s favourite saying is that of Helen Keller who said “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Enjoying her 21st birthday as an affirmed female in 2015, Rachael is grateful to be recognised amongst the wonderful Australian women lawyers in this exhibition and to finally be one of those lucky people who no longer care if the family parrot falls into the hands of the town gossip. Significant presentations by Rachael Wallbank: A Critique of Re Jamie and the Role of the Family Court in Determining the Access to Medical Treatment of Young Australians Living With Transsexualism for the 30th QLD Family Law Residential 2015. The inaugural (2013) Isabelle Lake Memorial Lecture for the Equal Opportunity Commission Western Australia and The University of Western Australia ‘Medico/Legal Issues in the Treatment of Young People With Transsexualism”, XVIII World Congress of the World Association of Sexual Health (WAS) – 1st World Congress For Sexual Health (April 2007) Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia. ‘Human Rights and Diversity in Sexual Formation and Expression’, XXIII ILGA World Conference (March 2006) Geneva, Switzerland. ‘Children with Transsexualism – From Difference to Disorder’, The Fourth World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights (2005), Cape Town, South Africa. ‘The Different Roads to Reform’ presented at the 6th International Congress on Sex and Gender Diversity (2004) The School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. ‘Difference on Trial’ presentation and paper, 11th National Biennial Conference of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia 2004, Conference Handbook (2004) TEN, GPO Box 61A Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia’ Published resources Book Section Australia, Wallbank, Rachael, 2015 Journal Article Re Kevin in Perspective, Wallbank, Rachael, 2004, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/DeakinLawRw/2004/22.html Newsletter Re Alex - Through a Looking Glass, Wallbank, Rachael, 2004 Book Speaking Secrets: Sex and sexuality as public property, Joseph, Sue, 2013 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Rachael Wallbank Created 27 April 2016 Last modified 18 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Rachael Wallbank Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Comprises papers of Dr Ursula Hoff, including correspondence and photographs, relating to her study of Charles Conder. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 13 November 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Photographs taken in Tasmania in 1866 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 18 October 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This collection provides a documentation of the professional and personal life of Dr Ruth Molphy. The material includes personal documentation including passports, photographs, correspondence, receipts, papers, certificates as well as papers and certificates relating to cat breeding and other material relating to the National Seniors Association.??Box 17370 – Material relating to St Hilda’s school, book prizes, speech notes, etc.; Photograph album; Diary.?Box 17371 – Various papers relating to National Seniors Association; Copy of ‘Gould’s medical dictionary’; Bible; Small box containing a collection of medals and badges including some World War One medals, badges relating to cat breeding and showing and others such as ‘Queensland Branch of AMA, 50 years’ and Girl Guide badges.?Box 17372 – Photographs, correspondence, certificates, newspaper clippings and papers relating to breeding, showing and judging of Russian Blue cats and Merlow Cattery. Correspondence relating to M.B.E. award in 1987, correspondence and household papers, photographs.?Box 17373 O/S – MBE, award and ceritficate; Various educational, professional and other certificates and awards, rolled and stored in tubes; framed photograph; Binder containing papers relating to National Seniors Association.?Box 17374 O/S- Papers relating to judging of cats; Personal and family documents and certificates; Five passports; Household receipts, correspondence, Bank passbooks, newspaper clippings, business and personal papers; Soldier’s pay books for James Molphy, personal papers of James and Agnes Molphy. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A candidate committed to the preservation of public land, Barbie Bates ran as a candidate in the House of Representatives for Chifley in 2001, for Penrith in 2003 as a member of the Save Our Suburbs Party and as a candidate in the House of Representatives for Lindsay (Save the ADI site party) in 2004. Barbie Bates is a long-time resident of Western Sydney. She believes passionately in the importance of local opinion and campaigned to have the land being sold by the Department of Defence acquired and protected as a regional park and nature reserve. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 25 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Judith Parker has been an activist for human rights over a period of 50 years, with a special interest in the rights of women and children. She has been particularly active in the National Councils of Women, at state, national and international levels, and was only the second Western Australian to hold the national presidency (2000-2003). She was responsible for winning the right to hold the International Council of Women triennial conference in Australia (in Perth) in 2003, the first time Australia had hosted this event. Judith Parker has also been very active in the United Nations Association of Australia. In 2004, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia and, in 2009, she was invested as a Dame Commander in the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller, honouring her for her services to women and human rights. Judith Parker was born in in 1941 in Geelong, Victoria, the youngest of 8 daughters of Amelia and Thomas Sinclair. Her parents were both English-born and raised in Australia. Thomas Sinclair managed a series of building companies, and the family followed the building boom. Parker attended primary schools in Mornington, Victoria, and Telopea Park, ACT, followed by a secondary education at the Canberra Church of England Girls Grammar School, from 1953 to 1957. She remembers as formative experiences the training in logical thinking she received at the Grammar School, and the conversations she overheard between neighbours like Heinz Arndt and Manning Clark. In 1958, Parker won a scholarship to study at the Melbourne Kindergarten Training College. She supported herself by working night shifts in the Down’s Syndrome ward of the Kew Mental Hospital. She witnessed the transformation in that institution achieved by the reformer, Dr Eric Cunningham Dax, who did away with constraints like straitjackets for patients. From this experience, Parker took away an enduring interest in disability, especially as it affects children. The thesis component of her degree was a study of the effects of parental alcoholism upon small children. On graduating, Judith Parker worked in a Canberra pre-school, the beginning of 32 years in the ACT education system. When a supervisor refused to endorse her decision to enrol a blind student, she took the issue to the school parents and the press, and eventually won her case. A growing interest in dyslexia led her to take a post-graduate course in special education at Canberra University, and later a second post-graduate degree in community counselling. She put these skills to use during her last 4 years in Canberra by running a special pre-school for elective mutes-children who could not or would not speak. In addition, Parker ran a private counselling service assisting children through grief and loss. Judith’s marriage in 1962 to George Parker, an officer in the Customs Department, and the births of a son and a daughter, did not check her commitment to community engagement. Across this period, she held executive office in the National Council of Women of ACT, the Canberra Preschool Society, the Canberra Mothercraft Society, the ACT Teachers’ Federation, SPELD ACT (the Dyslexia and Specific Learning Difficulties Association), NALAG ACT (the National Association for Loss and Grief), the ACT Women’s Health Centre, and Anglican Women ACT. As president of Anglican Women, she initiated a series of forums about women’s rights within the church, generating much debate. Parker has made an enduring mark in all of these associations, none more so than the National Council of Women. She attended her first meeting of NCWACT in 1961 as a proxy delegate for the Children’s Book Council, and was ‘blown away’ by the ‘thinking’ women she met, like Alexandra Hasluck and Dame Pattie Menzies. She joined as an associate member, later acting as delegate for the Preschool Society, the Mothercraft Society, SPELD ACT and Anglican Women. She was quickly taken onto the executive and filled a number of roles, including as NCWACT spokesperson to Senate committees. She was also a NCWACT delegate to the UN Decade for Women Conference in Canberra, and to the ICW Conference in India. In 1994, George Parker retired, and the family moved to Waikiki in Western Australia. Judith Parker joined the National Council of Women of Western Australia as an associate member, became the state convenor on child and family, and took various positions on the executive including 3 years as vice-president. Most unusually, she did not hold a state presidency before standing for national president; her term as president of NCWA WA would occur a few years later, in 2005-2007. When Judith Parker nominated for the national presidency in 1999, the competition was unusually fierce, with 3 candidates standing for the position; Parker’s victory came despite being the youngest of the candidates and by reputation the most radical. She held the presidency of NCWA from 2000 to 2003. She lists amongst the achievements of her presidency the formation in 2002 of the Australian Women’s Coalition, one of 3 coalitions representing Australian women to government; NCWA, having been funded to provide National Secretariat services, was the designated agency for its establishment. Parker also takes pride in the establishment of the NCWA Young Women’s Consultative Group and, above all, the organisation of the Triennial General Assembly of the International Council of Women in Perth in 2003. To bring the ICW assembly to Australia seemed an impossible dream; the ICW president told Parker that ‘the women from Europe are not going to fly to Australia’. Parker made the dream possible by winning a Western Australian award that financed the preparation of the proposal to hold the assembly, by a passionate presentation of the proposal at the 2000 ICW general assembly in Helsinki, and, finally, by persuading the WA Lotteries Commission to make a very large grant towards the running of the assembly. The conference was a great success, confirming Australia’s high profile within the International Council of Women. During the 2003 General Assembly, Judith Parker was elected to the executive of ICW, with the portfolio of managing ICW projects worldwide. Over the next 6 years she ran 34 projects around the world to better the lives of women and girls. These included building water tanks in villages along the Kokoda Trail in Papua-New Guinea; setting up computer classes for women in Macedonia; establishing a women’s collective in Kenya to buy cows and sell their produce; starting a sewing centre in India for widows forced to become prostitutes; again in India supplying artificial limbs for people damaged by war and leprosy; and in South Africa two projects: one working with girl prostitutes whose parents had died of AIDS, the other teaching women to turn recycled materials into hats and bags and brooches for the tourist trade. In 2005, Parker was an ICW delegate to the ‘Beijing+10’ conference in New York-the special meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, which reviewed the achievements, and more particularly the failures, in the implementation of the Platform for Action set by the Beijing Conference 10 years before. On her return to Perth, Parker accepted the position of convenor of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations Association of Australia. In 2008, she took on the role of state president of UNAA (WA Division) and, in 2009, she was elected vice-president of the national body. She has been active in pressuring successive governments to further the cause of human rights in Australia, in particular to sign the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Parker has continued her commitment to local community organisations, taking leading positions in the Rockingham Historical Society, the Rockingham Family History Society, the WA Genealogy Society, the Rockingham Women’s Health Centre, and the vestry of St Brendan’s Anglican Church, Warnbro. She has also been a member of the Telstra Consumer Consultative Committee, representing women’s interests, and patron of the Partners of Veterans Association (WA). In 2009, she was the chairperson of the committee Honouring Creative Women in Western Australia. Judith Parker is the author of several books and numerous articles dealing with the issues of grief and loss, child development and the value of play. In 2004, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia, ‘for service to the community through the National Council of Women of Australia and a range of other organisations that benefit women and children’. In the same year, she was awarded the City of Perth Active Citizens Premier’s Award. In 2009 she was invested as a Dame in the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitallers, honouring her for her services to women and human rights. In 2012, she was a recipient of the United Nations Australia Peace Award. On her return from the ‘Beijing +10’ Conference, Parker told the NCWA that: ‘despite these developments all over the world, there continues a reality that women’s fundamental human rights are denied. They lack basic education and training; many are unaware of their human rights; and to others rights are unattainable. The challenge is to implement the agreed goals, strategies and commitments made by governments, including the Australian government. To achieve this, non-government organizations, governments and the U.N. must work together’. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 A Peoples Movement for the United Nations, United Nations Association of Australia, Western Australian Branch, 2009, http://www.unaa-wa.org.au/newsletter/1.03/newsletter.htm Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Newsletter NCWA Quarterly Bulletin, National Council of Women of Australia, 1999 Winfo, Office for Women's Policy, Western Australia, 2005 Resource Section A National Osteoporosis Prevention and Management Strategy, Casper, Dr Gabrielle, 2002, http://afmw.org.au/projects/40-a-national-osteoporosis-prevention-and-management-strategy Archival resources State Library of Western Australia National Council of Women of Western Australia records, 1911-2001 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection NCWA Papers 1984 - 2006 Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Judith Parker Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 7 November 2013 Digital resources Title: Judith Parker Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 79 min.)???The exhibition is made up of contributions from over 200 writers and others. They include new and unpublished works, specially-written poems, letters, extracts from music scores and illustrations for various works. Blackman intended selling the manuscripts at auction to support Chiron College, an innovative senior secondary school in Sydney, but decided that because of its quality and uniqueness it should not be split up. It was bought by two Jack & Eleanor Bendat and Kerry & Denise Stokes, and loaned by them to the Arts Council of Australia for display Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In 1982, Jenny Ow, of the Australian Council of Churches, organised the first Immigrant Women’s Speakout. Opened by Franca Arena a New South Wales parliamentarian, the speakout attracted 200 women from around the country, with the aim of encouraging them to speak out loud about the problems that migrant women confronted. Similar occasions followed in other capital cities around the country. Two very important organisations grew out of this occasion. One was the New South Wales Immigrant Women’s Speakout Association, the other was the New South Wales Immigrant Women’s Resource Centre, which was established in 1985. The importance of the speakouts was that they offered women from a variety of ethnic and class backgrounds the opportunity to share stories and solidarity. They allowed women the opportunity of breaking the stoic silence and to challenge stereotypes. A good example of this comes from a Japanese woman who ‘spoke out’ in South Australia in 1983: ‘I’m from Japan and I hope to express what my sisters feel. A lot of Asian women are quiet, we look submissive, small and very weak. But we are not so! Quietness doesn’t mean weakness. I would like you all to help erase this stereotypical or mythical image of Asian women. I hope I share this with women of other nationalities too. I’m Japanese, so they all think I’m a Geisha! I’m not a Geisha. I smoke and I drink and I ride a motor bike. So please help and let’s work together at erasing this traditional or I should say stupid image of women.’ And another paints a very gloomy picture: “Today a few of us women who had the courage and freedom to present ourselves came here today. There are many women at home that didn’t have the courage to come here and are slaves under the harsh working conditions and the bonds of their husbands.’ Published resources Conference Proceedings Records and Proceedings of the Speakout for Immigrant and Refugee Women, 1983 Book Section Double Disadvantage: Migrant and Aboriginal Women, Sawer, Marian, 1990 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 17 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The MS 9227 collection comprises personal correspondence, financial papers, correspondence concerning the writing and publication of Marian Eldridge’s various works, handwritten drafts, typescripts, copy-edit and page proofs, notes and research material, and book reviews. The personal and literary correspondence documents her relationships with other writers, friends, and members of the Eldridge and Stockfeld families. The principal literary correspondents include Geoffrey Dutton, Judith Wright, Vance Palmer, Gwen Harwood, Ian R. Mathews, John Barnes, Myra Roper, Edith Conley, Irene Summy, Anne Elder and Joan Mas. The personal correspondents include Eldridge’s mother, writer Gwen Stockfeld; her brother David Stockfeld; her children David, James, Elizabeth, and Catherine Eldridge; various Eldridge and Stockfeld relatives, and friends from Australia and overseas (30 boxes).??The Acc01/82 instalment comprises juvenilia, correspondence, drafts, articles, reviews, talks, and files on writing projects and literary organisations, teaching notes, research material on various writers, business and legal papers, publications containing Eldridge’s contributions, and condolences following her death (4 boxes, 10 cartons).??The Acc03/119 instalment includes diaries, 1954-1956 and 1964-1972, correspondence between Ken and Marian Eldridge, 1955-1990s, letters from Ken and Marian to their children, 1978-1979, letters from Brian Stockfeld to his mother and between Brian and Gwen Stockfeld, 1921-1970s, school magazines and other miscellaneous papers (2 cartons).??The Acc09/158 instalment includes five notebooks kept by Marian Eldridge on her writings, and three diaries she kept just before her death (1 packet). Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dr Hannah McGlade is a Nyungar human rights lawyer and academic who has published widely on many aspects of Aboriginal legal issues, especially those affecting the lives of Aboriginal women and children. Winner of the West Australian NAIDOC Student of the Year Award in 1996 (she followed this up in 2008 with the NAIDOC Outstanding Achievement Award), she was the first Aboriginal person to graduate from Murdoch University; she was also the first Aboriginal woman to graduate from a Western Australian law school when she graduated LLB (Murdoch) in 1995. She was admitted as a Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1996. In July 2016 she was appointed as a Senior Indigenous Research Fellow at Curtin University. In 2016, she has been a Senior Indigenous Fellow at the United Nations Office of the High Commission for Human Rights in Geneva, attending and assisting The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP). As well as publishing prolifically, McGlade has served on many tribunals, boards and committees throughout her career, including the board of the Healing Foundation, a national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation with a focus on building culturally strong, community led healing solutions to Australian Indigenous people by reconnecting them back to their culture, philosophy and spirit. She played a leading role in the return of historically significant lands, being the former Sister Kate’s Children Home, where she had been a child resident, to the local community and also in the establishment of the Noongar Radio station serving as the Managing Director of Noongar Media Enterprises in 2008. Her tireless advocacy on behalf of Aboriginal women led in 2013 to the establishment of the first ever service in Perth for Aboriginal victims of domestic violence. Named Djinda, a Noongar word meaning stars and in memory of the women whose lives have been lost to violence, the service is delivered in conjunction with the Women’s Law Centre and provides support to victims of family violence in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of metropolitan Perth. In 2016 McGlade remain an adviser to the service. Hannah McGlade was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. An advocate for schemes that enable and prioritise Indigenous people’s access to education, McGlade provides living proof of the transformative power of education. Growing up, she enjoyed learning and wanted to get a good education, but circumstances beyond her control led to McGlade leaving school before turning 16 years. A victim of abuse herself, she experienced family breakdown, homelessness and poverty and discontinued schooling to support herself and a younger brother, finding work in cafes and fast food take out places. At this time, Government initiatives to support Aboriginal access to education were fortunately available. Hannah enrolled at the Curtin University Bridging Course, and then the Bachelor of Communications degree at Curtin. She worked for the West Australia Aboriginal Media Association, reporting on Indigenous affairs and issues. In 1989, now living and working in Canberra, Hannah was admitted to the Australian National University’s inaugural Aboriginal entry program, which provided places and support to study law. She returned to Perth to complete her undergraduate degree in law at Murdoch University, where she also completed a Masters in International Human Rights Law in 2001. In 2011 she graduated with a PhD from Curtin University. McGlade’s research, supervised by Professor Linda Briskman, formed the basis of an award-winning book and was awarded a Vice Chancellor’s commendation. McGlade extended her formal education in 2014 at Harvard University by completing a Certificate in Global Mental Health, Trauma and Recovery. In 2011, McGlade received the Stanner Award for the best academic manuscript written by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander author, for her book based on her PhD research, Our Greatest Challenge, Aboriginal children and human rights. The strength of her writing and argument comes from her ability to blend personal experience with academic expertise and the benefit of professional practice. Described as ‘not a comfortable read’ the book is fearless in its analysis and assessment of Australian attitudes and responses to the abuse of children in Aboriginal communities. She argues that Aboriginal human rights discourses that focus on treaties and constitutional recognition ignore the plight of indigenous women and children and have been too often been supportive of Aboriginal men’s sense of entitlement. While the impact of colonization, trauma, racism and stigma is profound, ongoing and extensively documented in histories of Aboriginal Australia, the danger of these wide-ranging explanations in the context of violence in Indigenous communities is that the specific issues of child sexual abuse and domestic violence, and the human rights of Aboriginal children are lost, subsumed in the greater ‘pains’ of the dispossessed. It also means that the special needs and voices of abused women and children are ignored. ‘Within Aboriginal rights discourse, few women are prepared to speak about Aboriginal men’s violence’, she says, but this should not be taken to mean that gender is irrelevant, or that women might place more emphasis on racism than on sexism as the core problem. Women who do speak out, she says, often experience intimidation, marginalization and isolation. So-called ‘educated liberal’ responses that violence towards women and children is part of Aboriginal ‘culture’ and one that has to be accommodated by ‘white man’s’ law are seriously misguided and cannot continue. McGlade has used her legal training as an activist in a practical sense. In 1999, she successfully brought a civil case against Senator Ross Lightfoot who was found to have vilified Aboriginal people in 1997 by saying publicly that some aspects of Aboriginal culture were abhorrent, and that they were ‘the most primitive people on earth’. She has supported several Noongar elders and community members to assert their rights under Section 18C of Racial Discrimination Act. Her legal training has also been important to her work in the community legal sector where she was responsible for leading the establishment of the Aboriginal Family Law Services, providing legal, counselling and community education to regional Aboriginal women, families and communities experiencing high levels of family violence and sexual assault. It has also qualified her to work on a variety of tribunals. She was appointed to the State Administrative Tribunal, Human Rights stream in 2010 and later worked for four years (2012-2016) at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, starting originally at the Migration Refugee Review Tribunal, performing an important role in the review of government decision making. She continues to work as a member of the WA Mental Health Tribunal. Her academic writing, speaking, teaching and journalism are other channels through which she now develops her activism. Speaking on behalf of Aboriginal women is a privilege and a responsibility she takes very seriously, appreciating how the written word has power and leaves a legacy. ‘Writing’s been a great part of my life,’ she said in a 2013 interview. ‘I’m happy to have stood up for Aboriginal women – speaking up for what’s important for us.’ Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Our Greatest Challenge: Aboriginal Children and Human Rights, McGlade, Hannah, 2012 Book Section Native Title, 'Tides of History' and Our Continuing Claims for Justice - Sovereignty, Self Determination and Treaty, McGlade, Hannah, 2003 Newspaper Article WA Senator breached Race Act, court finds, 2002, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/26/1038274302455.html Article A History of Section 18C and the Racial Discrimination Act, Marlow, Karina, 2016, http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2016/08/16/history-section-18c-and-racial-discrimination-act Review Review of 'Our Greatest Challenge: Aboriginal Children and Human Rights', Worrall, Anne, 2013 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Hannah McGlade interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 19 September 2016 Digital resources Title: Dr Hannah McGlade Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc07/202 includes papers that relate to groups and organisations with which Clarke was associated, or on subjects in which she had an interest, dating mostly from the 1990s to 2008. Contents include cuttings, some personal and business correspondence, newsletters and ephemera. A number of files contain correspondence from family and friends and a few original family photographs.??The bulk of the papers in the Acc09/22 instalment comprise files relating to groups and organisations with which Jessie Clarke is associated, or on subjects in which she has an interest, dating mostly from the 1990s to 2008. The papers contained in the files include cuttings, some correspondence, newsletters and ephemera. There are a small number of files containing correspondence from family and friends, 1963-2008, and a group of files relating to the estate of Herbert and Ivy Brookes, ca. 1964-1977. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence consisting of one letter from each of the following people – Daisy Bates, Dame Nellie Melba, Sir William Campion, Lord Forster, and Lord Stradbroke; Diary of Lily Kerr-Pearse (nee Drummond), mother of Elizabeth Kerr-Pearse; it concerns her life at Government House, Hobart, from Jan. 27 1905, to September 26 1906. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "17 hours (approx.)??A series of interviews conducted by curatorial staff and volunteers at the Migration Museum as research towards the 1996 exhibition ‘Chops and Changes’. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc11.044 comprises manuscript scores of songs by Bene Gibson Smyth. The scores include an album titled “Song stories for children”, c1946; a musical play, “The wishing well … adapted from Stories told by Little Miss Kookaburra” (alias Hazel Maude, who broadcast bedtime stories in Australia), c1936; and individual songs. Some of the song lyrics are by Gertrude Hart. In addition, there is a sheet of typewritten poems by Queensland writer Mabel Forrest, with a covering note from the author, and photocopies of four photographic portraits (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Margaret Thornton is an acclaimed feminist academic in the field of feminist jurisprudence, discrimination, equal opportunity and gender studies at the Australian National University’s College of Law. She has degrees from the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales and Yale University. A prominent thinker and legal researcher, Thornton was the first female law professor to be appointed at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia; during her academic career she demonstrated a significant commitment to the development of La Trobe’s law school. Thornton founded the Feminist Legal Action Group and convened the first feminist jurisprudence conference in Australia. She has participated in numerous consultations with agencies such as the International Labour Organisation, and advised parliaments on legislation. She has also published widely. Motivated by social justice and a desire for equality, Thornton has been steadfast in her efforts to improve conditions for women in society, particularly in the workplace and in educational institutions. Margaret Thornton was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Margaret Thornton was born in Launceston and raised in north western Tasmania [Gender Institute]. After moving to Sydney, she attended East Sydney Technical College in order to matriculate. When the time came for her to enrol in a degree, she was discouraged from enrolling in Arts/Law by the University of Sydney after being told that law was not an appropriate choice for a woman. She then elected to study Arts [Margaret Thornton – Women’s Web]. Interested in the possibility of a career teaching ancient history and Classics, Thornton subsequently began tutoring at Macquarie University and enrolled in a Master of Arts degree. However, influenced by the Women’s Movement, she enrolled in a Bachelor of Laws at the University of New South Wales. She graduated brilliantly in 1978, winning the University Medal. She then embarked upon a PhD in discrimination law. While studying, she founded the Feminist Legal Action Group (FLAG) to run legal test cases for women. With the support of a Fulbright scholarship, Thornton moved to Yale University in the United States in 1979. There, in 1980, Thornton completed a Master of Laws. She returned to Macquarie University, where lecturers were encouraged to be generalists, and taught widely across criminal, tort, constitutional, property, discrimination, migration law and research methods. She became the Foundation Chair of Women in Tertiary Institutions and a member of the Women’s Advisory Council to the Premier, which advised on policy and all legislation before the New South Wales Parliament. Thornton’s dedication to discrimination law and equality in broader society, and in employment and education settings, is reflected in her active membership of the Federation of the Australian University Staff Associations at Macquarie University, the precursor to the National Tertiary Education Union. In the early 1980s, she was also Chair of the New South Wales Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (a federal body set up under ILO 111), which dealt with discrimination complaints at work. In 1986, Thornton convened the first feminist jurisprudence conference in Australia. In 1989 Thornton was a consultant to the Affirmative Action Agency. She was also a consultant to the International Labour Organization on pay equity in Australia. From 1990 to 2006, Thornton was Professor of Law and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, acting as Chair and Head of School 1991-92. In 2005, she was awarded a prestigious Professorial Fellowship with the Australian Research Council. At the time, Thornton’s research interests included discrimination law, feminist legal theory and the place of women in the legal profession. Her trailblazing books included The Liberal Promise: Anti-discrimination Legislation in Australia (1990) and Dissonance and Distrust: Women in the Legal Profession (1996). While at La Trobe, Thornton was a member of the Committee of Australian Law Deans; Victorian Council of Legal Education; Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria (Women’s Reference Group). She also served for several years on the Australian Research Council (Humanities and Social Sciences Discipline Panel, Appeals Committee and Council), in an endeavour to enhance the profile of law and legal studies in the academic community. In addition, she participated on the Comparative Commercial Law Advisory Committee at Victoria University and the UNESCO Social Sciences Network. Thornton was a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra (1993-1994); Fellow in Residence, New College, Oxford (1994); Visiting Fellow, Columbia University Law School, New York (1997); and, in 1988, a Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver and Visiting Professor, University of Ottawa Law School, Ottawa. (In 2003 Thornton returned as Visiting Fellow to the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, and to Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto; in 2008 she again returned to the Osgoode Hall Law School as the Barbara Betcherman Distinguished Visitor). From 1993 to 1996 Thornton lent her expertise as Honorary Consultant to the New South Wales Law Reform Commission’s Review of Anti-Discrimination, and from 1994 to 1996 as Chair, Federal Government Advisory Committee for the Gender Issues in the Law Curriculum Project (DEETYA), a project designed to develop gender awareness among law students. Thornton was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1998. The following year, Macquarie University established the ‘Margaret Thornton Prize in Discrimination and the Law’ in her honour. In 2000, she was appointed as the inaugural Visiting Professor (Program for Women Academics – Mentor & Role Model), Victoria University, under a program which allowed each faculty to invite an experienced woman professor from another university to work for a year ‘as a mentor and role model for female academics, run seminars, develop a research culture and work with VUT’s advisory groups and committees’ [Cook]. In 2001, Thornton was editor of the Australian Feminist Law Journal; she also held the PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal Visiting Chair in Women and the Law, University of Sydney. Over the next two years, Thornton continued to demonstrate her support for matters concerning women and the law, through her role as Convener, Feminist Theory Stream, Critical Legal Conference, and as a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. In 2006, Thornton became President of the Association for the Public University, a lobby group designed to draw attention to governmental changes in education and which inspired Thornton’s work on an Australian Research Council-funded project, the ‘Neo-Liberal Legal Academy’. In 2005, Thornton was invited to be a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and was a Director from 2007 to 2011, as well as Chair of the Law Editorial Board of the ANU E Press. She also occupied the role of Director of Research at the ANU College of Law. A long-time critical thinker on the place of universities in Australian society, Thornton’s research has investigated “the neoliberal turn in higher education, in particular the increasing marketisation of the sector and the commodification of knowledge” and the impacts on teaching and research [Markets]. She has noted that: “[universities] are moving away from seeing education as a public good towards seeing it as a commodity for which people pay” [Gender Institute]. In 2012, Thornton’s book, Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law, was published. It contained her observation that: “Despite the general decline in morale arising from the market embrace, the overwhelming preponderance of legal academics interviewed felt privileged to be part of the academy. This is the paradox of academic life. A passion for academic ideas – a belief in the freedom to think, to pursue interesting lines of inquiry, to write, to engage with and influence future lawyers – and to change the world – compelled them to remain…” [Thornton]. At its launch, Chief Justice French of the High Court of Australia reflected that: “[this] is a book which has the capacity to open and widen perspectives to all who are engaged in university governance and teaching and particularly the teaching of law” [French]. The same year, in recognition of her contribution to academia and broader society through her critical commentary, Thornton became an ANU Public Policy Fellow. She was also identified as one of ANU’s Inspiring Women in a publication of the Gender Institute at ANU. Although she acknowledges that there have been advances for women in the law since she herself graduated, Thornton has said that she does not “support a liberal view of progress – that things are always getting better. They are not necessarily.” She notes, for example, that “During the years of the Howard government, we saw a retreat from the idea of equality to a focus on the individual and the market” [Gender Institute]. She considers that unhelpful stereotypes which hark back to the late nineteenth century continue to dog women who practise law today, the result being that they may still be regarded with suspicion [Gender Institute]. Her current research, on work/life balance in the legal profession, has revealed, among other things, that women who juggle work and family responsibilities may be considered ‘disloyal’ because they are not available 24 hours a day and that this failure can result in their being overlooked when it comes to promotion and partnerships [Gender Institute]. She has warned “… the many bright young women who think discrimination stopped with their mothers’ generation” may need to look again [Thornton – ANU]. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Interview with Margaret Thornton, http://www.womensweb.com.au/sources/Later%20Stories/Margaret%20Thornton.htm Book Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law, Thornton, Margaret, 2011 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Margaret Thornton interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 11 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Not yet available Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 6 February 2004 Last modified 6 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Leellen Lewis was a once only candidate who represented the ALP in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Myall Lakes in 1995. Born in Sydney, Leellen Lewis was educated at St Patrick’s College, Campbelltown. After leaving school she did various courses in welfare work and human resource development. At the time of her campaign, she was employed at Workplace Employment Services, Taree, assisting young people to obtain employment. She was a member of the Taree City Council’s Youth Advisory Committee and the Forster branch of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Leellen was a member of the Australian Services Union . She is the mother of one son. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 8856 comprises personal and family papers; correspondence; drafts of published works; papers on mastectomy rehabilitation and the Mastectomy Association; papers relating to the small press Nadjuri Australia, 1976-1980; scrapbooks; papers documenting Flannery’s broadcasting career with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Station 5DN; papers relating to the South Australian State Heritage Branch, 1981-1986; and personal diaries (52 boxes, 2 fol. boxes).??The Acc06.121 instalment includes a typescript of a paper presented in Adelaide by Flannery for the Friends of Mawson, 2006 (1 folder).??The Acc13.100 instalment comprises an anotated script used by Ian Flannery during the 2005 recreation of a lecture by Sir Douglas Mawson on his return from the Australian Antarctic Expedition in 1914. Nancy and Ian Flannery were involved in the production of the live event, which was put on by the Friends of Mawson, Adelaide (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the League of Women Voters, Mascotte Brown stood as a candidate in the Legislative Assembly seat of Malvern at five Victorian state elections which were held in 1947, 1950, 1952, 1955 and 1958. She stood as an Independent Liberal candidate at all elections except 1955 when she represented the Victorian Liberal Party. Educated at St Gabriels’ College and Riviera College, Sydney, Mascotte Brown married at the age of sixteen. By 1955 she was widowed with two grown up children. During her attempt in 1955 she vowed that she would never give up trying: ‘As long as I am physically able, I’ll stand for politics, just to show my fellow women that only by continually struggling will they get anywhere in Parliament’. She was an accomplished musician with musical degrees gained in London. She held memberships of the following organisations: Royal Empire Society, the Business and Professional Women’s Club, the League of Women Voters of Victoria and the International Alliance of Women. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 26 August 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Digital resources Title: Mascotte Brown Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute books from closed branches of the QCWA. Box 16904: Bell 1923-1998; Tara 1951-1956; Box 16905: Brigalow 1956-2008; Newtown: 1991-2001; Box 16906: Dalby 1954-2004; Kogan 1963-1973; Bell Younger Set 1953-1960; The Caves Younger Set 1972-1979; Box 16907: Dulacca 1940-1950; 1963-2008; Dulacca Younger Set 1957-1966; Burncluith 1956-1993; Box 16908: Drillham 1948-1996.?Box 16909: Inglewood 1934-1989; Box 16910: Maclagan 1940-2010; Box 16911: Mirani 1939-1987; Kaimkillenbun 2002-2005; Grossmont-Rochedale 1990-1999; Box 16912: Southbrook 1955-2010; Hillview 1940-1998; Box 16913: Taroom 1950-2004; Box 16914: Wandoan 1939-2004; Box 16915: Meandarra 1947-1977; Noonga 1955-1977; Wallan Creek 1930-1936. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joan Bennett is a trailblazing solicitor who established the first law firm in Brisbane in which one of the founding partners was female. She has established several successful law firms and is prominent in the Council of the Queensland Law Society. Trailblazing solicitor Joan Bennett was born on 26 August 1942 in Home Hill, near Townsville. She had a close relationship with her father, Charles Beames, with whom she shared a brief professional association. Despite the set-back of rheumatic fever, Joan was both socially and academically outstanding at school. She was a prefect who won several scholarship awards and numerous prizes for languages. The general expectation was that Joan would marry and have children. Consequently, she did not feel pre-destined for a career in the law, despite her father and cousin being prominent lawyers. She enrolled in an Arts degree in 1961 at the University College of Townsville (later to become James Cook University). In her first year of university, Joan attended the North Queensland Law Association annual dinner with her father where she met Beryl Donkin, a trailblazer who became a generous mentor to Joan. After her first year, Joan transferred to the University’s Brisbane campus to study law. Joan delayed her degree between 1964 and 1966, when she married medical practitioner Geoffrey Bennett and had two children. In 1966 she commenced Articles of Clerkship with her father in his practice. Joan’s father sadly passed away in a car accident in 1967. Joan’s mother suffered a breakdown following her husband’s death and moved in with Joan and the young boys. After failing subjects, Joan made the difficult decision to leave her children in her mother’s care and move to Brisbane to complete her degree. She was strongly supported by Kerry Copley – a fellow student who went on to become a Queen’s Counsel. As a woman, Joan was discriminated against at university. On occasion Joan, along with trailblazer Quentin Bryce were removed from cases that were “too sensitive” for a woman. Yet when Joan was admitted as a solicitor on 16 December 1969, she was admitted along with several other women including Elizabeth Nosworthy and Elizabeth Gill. Joan tried to seek employment with Crown Law in Brisbane, but was denied amidst comments that women were not welcome in the firm. As a result, Joan decided that her only option was to set up her own practice. In 1970 she went into partnership with a colleague from university, establishing the first law firm in Brisbane in which one of the founding partners was female. The same year as Joan established her practice, her son was diagnosed with leukaemia. He tragically died the following year. Joan’s firm was successful but the partnership came to an end and Joan went into partnership with a former clerk and was joined by other partners in Bennett and Associates. Her firm quickly became one of the largest suburban practices in Brisbane. In 1984, Joan left the firm and established a practice in Mt Gravatt where she practised alone from 1992. Joan’s sister, Anne has been great of support to her throughout the practices, working as Joan’s bookkeeper since 1972. Joan was a foundation member of the Women Lawyers Association of Queensland in 1978 and has remained a member since that time, serving as social secretary in 1987-88, and in other capacities on the executive committee for a number of years. Joan was also an inaugural member of the Zonta Club, an organisation that advances the status of professional women. As women’s issues officer in 1978-79, Joan helped to organise and run the first major women’s forum in Brisbane. In addition, Joan was a member of the Legal Practitioners’ Admissions Board, a director for the Queensland Law Foundation and a member of the LawAsia Conference 2005. Her commitment to continuing legal education has seen her chair and participate in the Queensland Law Society Symposium Committee over a number of years. In 1998, with the encouragement of existing Council member and friend Patricia Conroy, Joan nominated for and was elected as one of few women on the Council of the Queensland Law Society. She is currently Vice-President of the Queensland Law Society’s Southern District Law Association. Published resources Book Section Joan Bennett, Moye, Helen, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nicola Silbert Created 9 May 2016 Last modified 28 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, minutes, newsletters and subscription lists. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, 1964-1984, mainly of the Abortion Law Repeal Association (NSW); the bulk of the correspondence is for the period 1971-1975 when Julia Freebury was secretary of ALRA and most of the letters sent were written by her to parliamentarians, doctors, academics, the media, other abortion rights organisations (Australian and international), etc.; correspondents include, Anne Deveson, Beatrice Faust, Gisele Halimi, Diane Munday, George Petersen, Malcolm Potts, Madeline Simms, Bertram Wainer, Jim Woolnough (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/1)??Papers concerning the campaign to repeal abortion law in NSW, including pamphlets, leaflets, etc., from ALRA (NSW), Women’s Electoral Lobby, Women’s Abortion Action Committee, ca.1970 – ca.1980 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/1)??Papers concerning various aspects of the abortion debate and related issues, including: ‘The law and practice relating to abortion: a critique of the law in NSW and England’, paper by Prof. Rupert Cross, 1968; ‘Abortion law and reform in Australia’, paper by J. L. Davies, 1970; transcripts of three episodes of the ABC television program ‘Four Corners’, 30 March 1968, 2 May 1970, 6 April 1977; transcript of the address by Dr Germaine Greer given at the Abortion Debate at Sydney Town Hall, 2 March 1972 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/2)??’USA Debate Papers’: leaflets, newsletters, journal articles, etc., from various abortion rights groups in the USA, including Catholics for a Free Choice, National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws, Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, Society for Humane Abortion, Inc., 1966-1983 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/2)??’UK Data’: papers concerning the campaign for abortion rights in Britain, including material from the Abortion Law Reform Association, leaflets, journal articles, newscuttings, etc., 1964-1984 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/2)??’Right to Life Leaflets’: material produced by the Right to Life Association and the Festival of Light, including pamphlets, flyers, newsletters, election ephemera, etc., 1971-1983 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/2)??Papers relating to the Royal Commission on Human Relationships, including submission by Julia Freebury, 1974-1977 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/2)??Printed items, including: ‘Report of the Committee appointed at the request of the Archbishop of Sydney to consider the adequacy of the laws in NSW relating to abortion’ 1969; NSW Parliamentary Debates, 11-12 August 1971; ‘Abortion: the Bobigny affair, a law on trial: a complete record of the pleadings at the Court of Bobigny, 8 November 1972’ by Michele Chevalier [translation by Beryl Henderson], Sydney: Wild & Woolley, 1975; ‘Proceedings of first Australian conference on adoption, 15-20 February 1976, University of NSW, Sydney’ (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/3)??Newscuttings concerning the abortion debate and related issues: comprising 1 folder of loose cuttings, 1967-1983, and 28 scrapbooks, 1968-1984, in chronological order, annotated and partially indexed by Julia Freebury?. loose cuttings, 1967-1983 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/3)?. scrapbooks, 1968-1969 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/3)?. scrapbooks, 1969-1971 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/4)?. scrapbooks, 1971-1973 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/5)?. scrapbooks, 1973-1976 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/6)?. scrapbooks, 1976-1984 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/7)??Material used at demonstrations, in Sydney, for abortion on request, including smocks, placards and stickers [1970s] (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/8X)??Papers concerning adoption, 1974-1980 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/3)??Scrapbook, mainly newscuttings including articles by Julia Freebury, concerning her campaign during the 1980 Queensland state election in which she stood, initially as the Australian Democrats candidate and then as an Independent, against Russ Hinze in the seat of South Coast (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/3) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 October 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 121 min.)??Mitchell talks about her long career in sport as a player, coach and administrator. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2011 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "During World War II, Joyce Tweddell became a prisoner of war (POW) when she was captured, together with many other nurses, by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in February 1942. She was interned in Sumatra for three and a half years before her recovery from the camp at the cessation of the war. She refused to accept the honour of an MBE in the early 1970s as she believed all surviving prisoners of war should have been awarded this honour. Joyce went to school at Petrie Terrace State School and Brisbane State High School. After school she worked and completed courses at Nunns & Trivetts Secretarial School before turning 18, and thus became eligible to enter nursing. She loved to go bushwalking and made the three day trip on horseback to O’Reilly’s Guest Lodge many times. Joyce trained as a nurse in Brisbane, graduated from general training on 4 April 1939 and joined the staff of Brisbane General Hospital (now Royal Brisbane Hospital). She also completed a Therapy Radiography course, which was unusual at the time because it was necessary to have studied physics and chemistry at school, and although this was a rare achievement for a female at the time, Joyce had done so. She received her results for this course after she returned from the war. Her mother received her qualifications while Joyce was interned. Joyce Tweddell enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) on 17 January 1941 and was ordered to active service in the 2/10th Australian General Hospital. She embarked on the Queen Mary for Singapore on 14 February 1941. She was aboard the Vyner Brooke, the last of three ships that left for Australia after the fall of Singapore on 12 February 1942. The Vyner Brooke was bombed in the Bangka Strait on 14 February 1942, and sank in approximately 15 minutes (a direct hit down a funnel exploded the bottom of the ship). The Japanese then returned and began firing machine guns at the survivors in the water. She and the surviving nurses and patients made for shore, and spent at least a day in the water. Many of their number were killed in the blast, shot in the water or drowned. To keep up their spirits, with no land in sight, they sang “We’re Off to see the Wizard” over and over again as they floated and kicked while holding a piece of board. They landed on Bangka Island. Joyce was captured, together with many other nurses, by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in February 1942 and held as a prisoner of war in Sumatra for three years. She was promoted to Lieutenant in December 1943. During captivity Joyce and the other prisoners lived in a series of prison camps starting at Muntok, then on to Palembang in Sumatra, to a camp in the jungle and finally to Loebok Linggau where they remained until found a month after the Japanese surrender. Of the 32 nurses that were captured, 8 died whilst prisoners of war. Those left suffered from lack of food, fought and recovered from the many diseases such as malaria, beriberi, Bangka fever and scurvy and they survived the way they were treated by the Japanese. Though the Second World War ended on15 August 1945, the prison camps were not informed of this until 24 August. The whereabouts of their final camp was unknown until locals mentioned seeing women working in the jungle, and led them to the camp. Joyce was recovered from the Japanese camp at 5am on 5 September 1945 and evacuated to a Singapore hospital. She returned to Australia on the hospital ship Manunda arriving in Australia on 27 October 1945. She was admitted to the Margate Convalescent Home on her return to Brisbane. From her internment she had contracted Malaria, Beri Beri, Chronic Amoebic Dysentery and Residual Debility. Joyce was discharged from the Army on 27 June 1946. She was employed by the Royal Brisbane Hospital as second in charge of the Radiography Unit and remained in that unit until her retirement as Queensland’s Chief Radiographer. Joyce retired from nursing in 1979 and took to travelling in earnest, usually with Flo Syer (nee Trotter) who had been interned also. Joyce never married. In 1993 Joyce and six of the surviving POW nurses returned to dedicate a memorial on Radji Beach, Bangka Island. Present on 2 March 1993 were Janet P. ‘Pat’ Gunther, Florence ‘Flo’ Syer, Jean ‘Jennie’ Ashton, Mavis Allgrove, Vivian Bullwinkel, Wilma Oram and Joyce Tweddell, as well as a group of Red Cross Nurses, relatives of some of the nurses who perished and supporting personnel. The Royal Brisbane Hospital honoured Joyce by naming one of their new buildings after her. The Joyce Tweddell Building houses the Infectious Diseases Unit, Cancer Care Unit, Radiation Oncology Unit and the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. Published resources Book Heroic Australian women in war: astonishing tales of bravery from Gallipoli to Kokoda, De Vries, Susanna, 2004 Resource Section Tweddell, Joyce : Service Record, Department of Veterans' Affairs, Australian Government, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=18321#summary1 Sister Sylvia Muir and Joyce Tweddell (1941), De Vries, Susanna, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1940/index.html#item-sylvia-muir-joyce-tweddell Resource The Australian Ex-prisoners of War Memorial, City of Ballarat, 2008, http://www.ballarat.com/memorial.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Queensland Office TWEDDELL, Joyce - members folder, Second World War Queensland army personnel (QFX) Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Group portrait in the hospital grounds of original Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) Staff and three physiotherapists who sailed from Sydney in January 1941 to staff the 2/10th Australian General Hospital (AGH) Group portrait of Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) nurses, who were former prisoners of war (POWs), ob board the hospital ship Manunda on its arrival in Australia National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra TWEDDELL JOYCE : Service Number - QX19070 : Date of birth - 03 Jul 1916 : Place of birth - BRISBANE QLD : Place of enlistment - BRISBANE QLD : Next of Kin - TWEDDELL ROSE Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Daisy Bates sends Prof. Fitzherbert the Yulbari wongga or Coast speech, informants Minbunga and Minjia, from Fowlers Bay and Yuria etc.and discusses sending him further vocabulary from Uleru or Ayers Rock and Eucla areas. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Built by the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society as a meeting hall in 1887, the building now known as Storey Hall, located on the Swanston Street campus of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Victoria, has a long, colourful history that includes its importance as a site for women’s social and political protest. Notably, during World War I, the venue was leased to the Women’s Political Association, who scheduled public meetings and rallies. The organisation’s purple, white and green flag was hoisted on the roof of the building ‘as a symbol of the sisterhood of women.’ Various International Women’s Day Functions have been held at the venue subsequently. In honour of the building’s importance to Victorian feminist activism, The Ashton Raggatt McDougall renovation in the 1990s made a feature of the feminist colours. The green and purple colours of Storey Hall bring to mind the hall’s earlier life as a place for feminist debate and Catholic activism. Built by the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society in 1887 ‘Hibernian Hall’, as it was then called, played a significant role in the organisation of St Patrick’s Day processions in Melbourne. By 1903 it was known as Guild Hall and Dureau Memorial Hall. During World War I the building was leased to a feminist pacifist organisation, the Women’s Political Association, and was the venue for many of Melbourne’s largest anti-conscription public meetings and rallies. Before being purchased, in 1957, by the Victorian Education Department, the building was owned at various times by the Eagle and Globe Steel Company of Sheffield, Melbourne Legacy and architect Bernard Evans, who later became Lord Mayor of Melbourne. In 1958 the hall was remodelled and named after Sir John Storey, an industrialist and member of the College Council for 15 years. Following the 1994 refurbishment the Royal Australian Institute of Architects judged RMIT Storey Hall ‘of architectural significance’. The building received several awards and commendations in 1996-1997 including the RAIA National Architecture Award (Interior Award), Victorian Architecture Medal, William Wardell Award (Institutional) and Marion Mahony Award (Interior Category). Published resources Resource Section Storey Hall, Ruwoldt, M L, 2001, http://www.rmit.edu.au/heritage/bldg16.htm Storey Hall, RMIT Building 16, http://www.rmit.edu.au/about/heritage/bld16 Book Radical Melbourne : a secret history, Sparrow, Jeff and Sparrow, Jill, 2001 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 October 2003 Last modified 12 January 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Donor Sydney Mail?Black & white – Print silver gelatin?Australia: New South Wales, Sydney Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 February 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 7904 comprises: 1. Manuscript and typescript drafts of poems, plays and prose. 2. Correspondence, 1978-1989. Correspondents include Dianne Bates, Eric Beach, Bruce Beaver, Jenny Boult, James Burns, Larry Buttrose, Geoffrey Dutton, Susan Hampton, Dennis Haskell, Elizabeth Jolley, Jean Kent, Kate Llewellyn, Cilla McQueen, Jennifer Maiden, Philip Mead, Jenni Mitchell, Rosemary Nissen, Geoff Page, Rosemary Porter, Judith Rodriguez, Tom Shapcott, Michael Sharkey, Cliff Smyth, John Tranter, Cornelius Vleeskens, Lyndon Walker. 3. Subject files. Files relating to the Australian Copyright Council, Compass, Directory of Australian literary magazines, National Word Festival, Poets Union and other organisations. 4. Printed material. Leaflets, posters, handbills, programs concerning poetry readings and workshops and issues of poetry magazines and anthologies. 5. Personal papers. Notebooks, journals, scrapbooks, photographs, personal letters (9 boxes, 1 fol. Item).??The Acc00.031 instalment provides a full record of Mansell’s life and writing for the period from the mid-1980s to 1999. Included in the instalment are correspondence and notebooks; drafts of prose, plays and poetry, including The choice of memory; papers relating to smaller projects, events and residencies; files on other writers that contain manuscripts as well as letters; and, audiotapes and photographs (9 cartons).??The Acc05.015 instalment comprises poetry and other writings by Mansell; works edited by Mansell and projects/joint ventures with others; correspondence, 1991-2004; PressPress publications including drafts, proofs and related correspondence; Shoalhaven Poetry Festival correspondence, publicity (including posters and flyers) and competition postcards; copies of stories and poems of other writers; South Coast Writers’ Centre minutes; miscellaneous publications; Q Theatre working scripts and Q Theatre and New Theatres programs; and, artwork and cloth items (8 cartons, 1 oversize item). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "May Matthews was a prominent figure in the labor movement over a generation. She represented Federal Labor in the 1932 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Ryde. May Matthews worked as an Inspector in the Child Welfare Department, and as a Migration Officer in the United Kingdom.in which capacity she accompanied 80 girls sent to Australia under the migration scheme. In 1927 May Matthews visited America as an official of the Industrial Mission to investigate conditions in manufacturing industries, especially women’s conditions. She represented New South Wales at many Labour conferences in Australia and went to London to a women’s conference in 1924. She was associated with Dr Arthur in many charitable appeals. She was closely associated with W. A. Holman and opposed to J. T. Lang, and she took a leading role in the Australian Labor movement for more than 30 years May Matthews was awarded a King’s Jubilee Medal 1935. Her obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald reported that her funeral was attended by representatives of many of the organizations of which she had been a member, including the League of Nations Union, the National Council of Women , the Good Film League and the Housewives Association. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 1 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Agnes Warren won a Walkley award for her reporting of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia in 1992. She reported from the frontline in Serbia and from a Bosnian refugee centre. She was also sent to report on the treatment of Palestinians after the 1991 Gulf War as well as nationalist demonstrations in Northern Ireland. Prior to taking on her overseas postings, she was the ABCs Industrial Relations reporter. While reporting on the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, Warren worked in very difficult conditions. In Vukovar, for instance, she would go out and collect sound effects and interviews during the day and produce them by night. Her pieces to radio were packaged in blacked-out hotels that were frequently under mortar or sniper fire. She had one candle for a week and edited her pieces on two cassette recorders from its light. Events 1980 - 1992 - 1992 Best Coverage of a Current Story (Print), ‘Report from Vukovar’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Report The Media Report: Women in the Media, Warren, Agnes, 1995, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/mstories/mr161101.htm Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (Australia) - records of the W.G. Walkley Awards, 1956 - 1999 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 November 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Queensland Women’s Electoral League (QWEL) was co-founded by Christina Corrie (wife of Brisbane mayor Leslie Corrie) in 1903. The Queensland Women’s Electoral League differed from the Women’s Electoral Franchise Association (WEFA) in that it was conservative, anti-socialist and pro private enterprise. Its membership was drawn from women in professions and wives of businessmen. Christina Corrie was one of the most well known women in Brisbane in the early 1900s and she used her notoriety to advance the causes of the many social, cultural and charitable institutions she supported. Christina Corrie was the daughter of James Drummond Macpherson and Georgina Wood Robertson and was one of seven children. She was born during a visit to Scotland by her parents from New Zealand. Following a short time in Christchurch, New Zealand, the family returned to Scotland when Christina reached school age. She completed her education in Wales, however the family later returned to New Zealand. Christina Macpherson married Leslie Gordon Corrie in St Thomas’ Church Enfield, Sydney, on 25 March 1899. They lived in Brisbane at Koronui, Bowen Terrace, New Farm. An architect of some renown, Leslie Corrie worked with two consecutive partners before practicing as an architect in a sole practice in 1911. He was elected alderman for Brisbane East in 1901 and served as Mayor of Brisbane between 1902 and 1904. Both Christina and her husband became significant members of the intellectual, social and cultural scene in Brisbane. Christina Corrie had a noteworthy role in the cause of the political advancement of women in Queensland. Her greatest contribution to women’s causes was her work as first president of the Queensland Women’s Electoral League (QWEL), which she co-founded with Margaret Ogg, who later founded the Brisbane Lyceum Club. The two women, both of whom were anti-socialists, were able to affect a major influence on the political development of women in Queensland. QWEL lobbied to win the vote for women in Queensland at state level, and on 25 January 1905 a bill was passed that gave full voting rights to Queensland women. As Mayoress, Christina Corrie ensured that the League attracted publicity and social acceptance. By 1919 the QWEL had grown to become a significant force, with their activities concerning women’s issues receiving regular press coverage. In 1908 Corrie and Ogg realised an objective of QWEL in founding a new club for women in Brisbane. Initially known as the Women’s Progressive Club, the name changed to the Brisbane Women’s Club (BWC) in 1913. The BWC still exists today as a social club for prominent and professional women. Due to ill health Christina retired from office in QWEL in 1913, and in a fitting tribute to her contribution to the League, was made Honorary President. Christina’s contribution to the Brisbane community extended a great deal further than her achievements through the Queensland Women’s Electoral League. She was actively involved in: Dr Barnardo’s Home National Council of Women Women’s College within the University of Queensland National Council of Women Crèche and Kindergarten Association Bush Book Club (Vice-president) Bush Nursing Association New Settlers’ League Moreton Club (President 1931-32) Lyceum Club Mutual Service Club Queensland Committee of the Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work The Red Cross Lady Lamington and Brisbane General Hospitals Social Service Institute Queensland Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Association Scribblers Leslie Corrie died at their residence on 2 August 1918. Christina still attended various social events following his death, and then on 11 October 1922 she married Andrew J Thynne in the vestry of St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Sydney. Andrew Thynne died on 27 February 1927. Christina kept up her various community interests and having been a foundation member of the Moreton Club in 1924, she became president in 1931-32. She was talented, competent and extremely committed to advancing the well-being of the women and children of Queensland. Published resources Book Scribblers: A Ladies Literary Society in Brisbane, 1911, Stewart, Jean, 2007 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 5746 Scribblers Papers 1911-2013 OM71-47 Queensland Women's Electoral League Records 1903-1967 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 14 August 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers of Dorothy Green include correspondence, notes, research material, manuscript and typescript drafts, notebooks, newspaper cuttings and photographs. The collection documents a wide range of Green’s works including poetry, biographies, criticisms and essays. The collection also includes some material collected and written by H.M. Green. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Housewives Co-operative Association (later the Housewives Association of Victoria) was formed in mid-1915 and soon became one of the largest women’s organisations in the state. The movement, reacting to the spiralling cost of living during World War I, initially aimed mainly at ‘bringing the producer and consumer into direct contact’ and providing discounted goods to members. In 1921, however, it also adopted a clear political objective: ‘To advocate the equal status of women and adequate representation on all boards and tribunals dealing with the home and the cost of living.’ From the 1930s the Association focussed more on the provision of training and information relating to household management and also became more involved in broader activism to improve the civil and political status of women and with other social reform causes. Inspired by the English Women’s Co-operative Guild (founded in 1883), the Association was led at first by broadly left–liberal women—President Ivy Brookes from the women’s section of the Liberal Party, others from the Women’s Political Association and Sisterhood of International Peace and some conservative women. The group struggled in its first few years, and by 1919 its executive was dominated by conservative women from organisations such as the Australian Women’s National League and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, particularly Eleanor Glencross and Cecilia Downing. In the 1920s the organisation adopted a more overtly political agenda and they also campaigned for the Victorian Electoral Act to be amended to allow women to stand for parliament. A serous split in the organisation in 1930, over the issue of prohibition (which was supported by most members of the executive but not by the then president Delia Russell) saw the movement decline substantially again, but it recovered by the later in the decade. In the 1930s the Association opposed tariffs and bounties and there was a new emphasis on information and training – with demonstration of domestic aids, lobbying for domestic science in schools and colleges, the establishment of a Resident Aid Home Service for the training of young women in housework (designed at least in part to encourage girls into domestic service) and numerous advice lectures and articles in the Housewife to do with housework, nutrition, mothercraft and other topics. From this point, the association also became more involved in broader activism to improve the civil and political status of women. During World War II the Associations functioned as a branch of the Australian Comforts Fund and formed war savings groups. In the immediate post-years, a breakaway organisation formed the nucleus of the New Housewives Association (founded in 1946 in New South Wales and 1928 in Victoria), a far more left-wing organisation which was later to become the Union of Australian Women. Although its fortunes fluctuated, the Association was certainly a large and influential group with a membership of over 20,000 in the 1920s, rising to 77,000 in 1938 (of a national total of 115,000). National membership peaked at about 175,000 in the late 1960s before an irreversible decline set in in the 1970s as the roles of women and the meanings attached to housework were reinvented or reformulated. Published resources Conference Paper Christian women and changing concepts of citizenship rights and responsibilities in interwar Australia, Smart, Judith, 1999 Journal Article A Mission to the Home: The Housewives Association, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Protestant Christianity, 1920-1940, Smart, Judith, 1998 A sacred trust: Cecilia Downing, Baptist faith and feminist citizenship, Smart, Judith, 1995 'For the good that we can do': Cecilia Downing and feminist Christian citizenship, Smart, Judith, 1994 Homefires and Housewives: Women, war and the politics of consumption, Smart, Judith, 2004 Book The Early years of the Housewives Association of Victoria, 1915-1930, Oldfield, Robert, 1989 Winning essays in thrifty meals competition : comprising full menus, recipes, and purchase lists carried out by the Housewives' Association, Temple Court, Collins Street, Melbourne, Housewives' Association Vic. Report Annual report (Housewives' Association Vic.), Housewives' Association Vic., 1915 Newsletter The Housewife: Official organ of the Housewives' Association, Housewives' Association, 1929 -1948 Calling all housewives / Housewives Association, 1965-1978 Calling all Housewives, 1965-1978 Book Section Modernity and mother-heartedness : spirituality and religious meaning in Australian women's suffrage and citizenship movements, 1890s-1920s, Smart, Judith, 2000 Thesis The Women's Movement in the New South Wales and Victoria, 1918-1938, Foley, Meredith, 1986 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Herbert and Ivy Brookes, 1869-1970 [manuscript State Library of Victoria Records, 1939-1985. [manuscript]. The University of Melbourne Archives Moore, Edith Eliza Harrison Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 October 2003 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jacoba Brasch was admitted to the Bar in 2000 and has developed a practice in family law, mental health law, and customs and excise. She has appeared in matters in most States and Territories of Australia and often appears in the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia. Jacoba has also appeared a number of times in the High Court of Australia with those appearances concerning customs and excise, as well as Family Law matters and the Hague Convention (child abduction). Prior to coming to the Bar, Jacoba spent the 1990s in law-related government jobs, including Press Secretary to an Attorney-General. In 2000, Jacoba completed an LLM at New York University as a Fulbright Scholar and NYU Graduate Merit Scholar. In 2010, Jacoba graduated with a PhD from the University of New South Wales where her doctoral thesis concerned what constitutes a fair, independent and impartial trial, using Australian courts martial as her subject matter. Jacoba holds a Bachelor of Arts, Masters in Public Administration (UQ), a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) (QUT), LLM (NYU) and PhD (UNSW). She has Chambers in Brisbane, Cairns and Melbourne. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Jacoba Brasch for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Jacoba Brasch and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Dr Jacoba Brasch QC recalls a defining moment from her high school years – she and four other Grade 10 girls had approached the Headmistress to ask if they could continue with both French and German in Grade 11 and 12 in lieu of biology – usually, only one language was permitted and biology was compulsory. “No!” said the Headmistress. “Why?” asked one of the girls. Said the Headmistress, “biology is a prerequisite for nursing, and you meet so many doctors that way.” Without underestimating the vital importance of nursing, the answer was seared in Jacoba’s brain, and from that moment, she determined to chart her own course, not constrained by traditional expectations. Ironically, of the five girls attending on the Headmistress that day, Jacoba later won a Fulbright Scholarship and is now one of Australia’s most highly respected family law barristers and a Queen’s Counsel. Another was awarded the Caltex Woman of the Year Scholarship to an Oxbridge university, ultimately becoming a professor in law, and another is also a leading Queen’s Counsel in criminal law. They were not allowed to drop biology. None of them married doctors. On completing her secondary education, Jacoba embarked upon a long list of university degrees, whilst always working full time and supporting herself, and then her family. Indeed, Jacoba jokes she has more letters after her name, than in it – two Bachelor degrees, two Master degrees and a PhD. Her family roll their collective eyes when she raises doing another BA “because I’d really like to know about Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for 15 days.” Asking the “why” question is something which has long shaped Jacoba’s approach to life, an attribute she hopes she is instilling in her daughters. At university, Jacoba studied politics at UQ, both at undergraduate and Master’s level; her Master’s thesis concerned the Role of Women in Local Government. At the same time, she worked at Channel 7 Brisbane and then for the Fitzgerald Corruption Inquiry inspired Electoral and Administrative Review Commission. Jacoba was then appointed Press Secretary to the Hon Dean Wells, Attorney-General of Queensland. This was pivotal for Jacoba, as it opened her eyes to the power, importance and symbolism of the law. Whilst working as the Attorney’s Press Secretary, Jacoba started a Law Degree, studying part-time and externally at QUT. She graduated with First Class Honors, and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Consequently, she undertook an LLM at New York University. On her return to Australia from New York, Jacoba was admitted to the Bar in 2000 and has developed a practice in family law, mental health law, and customs and excise. She has appeared in matters in most States and Territories of Australia and often appears in the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia. Jacoba has also appeared a number of times in the High Court of Australia with those appearances concerning customs and excise, as well as Family Law matters and the Hague Convention (Child Abduction). Jacoba was Junior Counsel to Tim DOJ North SC in a successful High Court challenge to the standard of proof by which customs prosecutions must now be conducted (Chief Executive Officer of Customs v Labrador Liquor Wholesale Pty Ltd [2003] 216 CLR 161). Jacoba also acted for the mother (without a Silk leader) in a high profile child abduction case which also found its way to the High Court of Australia (RCB as litigation guardian of EKV, CEV, CIV and LRV v The Honourable Justice Colin James Forrest [2012] HCA 47). However, Jacoba would say that she is most proud of some of the quiet pro bono work she has undertaken, including: acting for a woman to have her birth certificate changed from male to intersex; or, acting for the parents of a woman who was killed by her husband in securing for them decision making rights with respect to their grandchildren; or, acting for a young male transgender individual, to obtain an order from the Family Court authorising him to undergo hormone replacement therapy. Notwithstanding a leading family law practice at the Bar, and her own growing family, Jacoba completed a PhD which she started at ANU and then transferred, with her supervisor, to UNSW. Her doctoral thesis concerned what constitutes a fair, independent and impartial trial, using Australian courts martial as the subject matter. Upon the completion of her PhD, and thus with a little free time, Jacoba has been actively involved in the governance and policy leadership of the Bar Association of Queensland and the Law Council of Australia. She has held, or currently holds many leadership positions, some of which include: Law Council of Australia (“LCA”), National Chair, Domestic & Family Violence Taskforce; LCA, elected Member, Family Law Section Executive; LCA’s representative at a roundtable held by the Royal Commission into Institution Responses to Child Sex Abuse; Treasurer, Bar Association of Queensland (“BAQ”); Member, Bar Council, BAQ; Chair, Family Law Committee of BAQ Council; BAQ Nominee to the Law Council’s participation in private roundtables held by the Royal Commission into Institution Responses to Child Sex Abuse; BAQ Nominee to the Premier’s Domestic and Family Violence Task Force Summit; Member, Curriculum Advisory Committee, College of Laws, for the College’s Master of Applied Law (Family Law) and Master of Laws; Delegate, Australian Bar Association’s Advocacy Delegation to Vanuatu; Delegate, Australian Bar Association’s Advocacy Delegation to Bangladesh; State Judge, Fulbright Commission; Board Member, QUT Law Founder’s Scholarship Committee; Member, Quinquennial Curricula Review Committee, Bachelor of Laws, QUT. Jacoba holds a Bachelor of Arts, Masters in Public Administration (UQ), Bachelor of Laws (Hons) (QUT), Masters of Law (NYU) and PhD (UNSW). She took Silk in 2014. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Jacoba Brasch (with Nikki Henningham) Created 12 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Jacoba Brasch Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Founded in 1916, the Catholic Women’s Social Guild of Victoria/Wagga Wagga was renamed the Catholic Women’s League in 1970. The League is formed on a plan of parochial, diocesan, and general government. It is part of the Catholic Women’s League (CWL) of Australia, and has an international affiliation with the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations. It also has an international affiliation with the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations financed by the Diocesan Councils. At a branch level the Catholic Women’s League members • Support parishes • Address social and moral issues • Visit the sick and the lonely • Help the aged and disabled • Assist the homeless and migrants • Promote ecumenism • Support overseas aid and charitable organisations • Encourage education in faith and spirituality • Provide opportunities for social and cultural experiences • Financially support specific projects • Attend and organise CWL meetings and workshops Published resources Book Horizon in retrospect, 1916-1986, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 November 2003 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 55 min.)??Clare McShane talks about her early life in N.S.W.; the early days in Oatlands, Tas. Bringing up five boys on the farm; the need to value add to wool made on the property at Casavene; buying her first knitting machine, finding a partner, sourcing machine knitting wool; Coates Patons, Launceston; how her hobby changed status after the wool crash of the early 1990s, converting the hobby into a business; farming as a business; teaching aspects of business, training staff; creating a world class product, breaking into the Japanese market; developing the business, purchasing the factory in Oatlands (1995), inclusion of a café (2005); learning how to use CAD (Computer Aided Design); employing locals to be multiskilled in the industry; Italian boutique knitting; having to source Merino extrafine wool from overseas; the decline of the wool industry and the Australian apparel market; taxes and expense involved with using the wool symbol; Australian Wool Board; mentors.??McShane discusses travel to Scotland to study the cottage industry; submissions for funding development; winning Tasmanian Telstra Businesswoman of the year; living in Hobart, selling the property, their reasons for moving to Hobart; the importance of tertiary education for her children; fine tuning the business to move forward and keep it alive; the impact of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award; women in a male dominated industry, importance of recognising the validity of women’s opinions; importance of Rural Youth Organisation; Agfest; external boards that she was involved with; working on internet hub projects, working with Brand Tasmania; her confidence in Tasmanian agriculture, the need for people to embrace the change; environmental advantages of living in Tasmania; how the future lies in niche industry; using communications technologies to advance your business eg. eBay; her forty years in Tasmania. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 April 2011 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Folder 1?Newsletter. The Society of Women Writers NSW Inc. October 1987 to August 1994.?NewsWrite, the newsletter of the New South Wales Writer’s Centre. No. 16, May 1993.??Folder 2?Minutes of meetings, May 1988 to December 1991.??Folder 3?Minutes of meetings, January 1992 to June 1994.?Society of Women Writers Australia, members’ book list. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Leanne Castley has been the Liberal Party Member for Yerrabi since October 2020, and is the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the ACT Legislative Assembly. She is the Shadow Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Business, Families, Youth and Community Services, and Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence, and the Assistant Shadow Minister for Women, Environment, Heritage and Water. Leanne is also a country music singer who recorded an album, Perfect Day, in 2007. Describing herself as ‘the chick from Charny’ in her first speech in the ACT Legislative Assembly on 3 December 2020, Leanne Castley prides herself on the values of hard work and preparedness to ‘have a go’ that have characterised her life, both before politics and in the political sphere. Born in 1974, Leanne is a proud single mother-of-two, country music singer and lover of cars, motorbikes and engines. She has lived in Canberra since she was five years old, and was educated at Flynn Primary School, Charnwood High School and Copland College. A keen advocate for small business, Leanne’s first full-time job was as an accounts clerk at Gerald Slaven Holden and, with her former husband, she later operated three car yards, employing five staff. These ventures were successful for a time, but fell victim to the global financial crisis, as did Leanne’s marriage. A long career in IT followed. Leanne also gained a Diploma in Project Management, and took positions at the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Defence, managing teams of up to 10 people. She was encouraged by the ACT Liberal Party to contest the October 2020 election for the electorate of Yerrabi, and was thrilled and humbled to be elected. Leanne set out her goals as the Member for Yerrabi in the ACT Legislative Assembly in her inaugural speech on 3 December 2020: ‘The issues, views and aspirations of my electorate, that’s what matters to me. Yerrabi residents and families do not want politicians telling them what to do. They can do that perfectly well on their own. But they do want politicians to be honest, to listen and to fix problems. I assure the good folk in my electorate that my two feet will stay firmly planted in Gungahlin soil. I am the chick from Charny and I don’t want to lose that. That’s who I am.’ Published resources Castley, Leanne: Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory website, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/tenth-assembly-members/yerrabi/castley-leanne Leanne Castley: Canberra Liberals website, https://www.canberraliberals.org.au/our-team/leanne-castley Author Details Ros Russell Created 19 July 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A once-only candidate, untraced. She was an Independent candidate for Drummoyne in 1988. Louise Adam promised a fresh approach in Drummoyne and, in particular, stressed the need for adequate childcare for working parents, more preventive health care and encouragement and support for small business. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A. Novels, mostly unpublished, 190- – 1949?B. Short stories and sketches, 1905-1954?C. Plays, mostly unpublished, 1908-c.1952. Include Call up your ghosts, c.1945, written with Dymphna Cusack, and Tom Collins at Runnymede.?D. Film scenarios, 1920-c.1925?E. Verse, n.d. F. Joseph Furphy, c.1940, written in consultation with Kate Baker?G. Laughter not for a cage. 1951-1954?H. Essays and articles, c.1939-c.1946 Include articles on Joseph Furphy, c.1939-1946.?I. Talks, c.1937-c.1951. Include talks given on Joseph Furphy, 1940-c.1945, and Rose Scott, 1951.?J. Miscellaneous papers, c.1901-c.1954?K. Papers collected, c.1902-1951. Include notes on Tennyson by Joseph Furphy and verse, c.1902-1951, including poems by Mary Fullerton, Ray Mathew, 1951, Rose Scott, 1902, Ian Mudie Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 September 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Gae Pincus completed an LLB at the Australian National University. She went on to work in the Office of Women’s Affairs; as an Associate for High Court Justice Lionel Murphy in 1982. In 1983 she returned to the Public Service to work in a legislative capacity dealing with law reform within various government departments. She went on to establish and chair the National Food Authority before working for the international body Food and Agricultural Organization. The following additional information was provided by Cathie Humphries (formerly Gregor) and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Gae was the foundation Board Chair and CEO of the then National Food Authority which commenced operations on 19 August 1991 and which was the product of the micro-economic reform agenda in the early 1990s. Gae had the difficult and time-consuming task of guiding, and at some times, pushing the fledgling standard-setting agency to meet the high and differing expectations of government and other stakeholders at that time. In addition, the agency was committed to undertake a major review of the policy underpinning Australian food standards a no small feat considering the tangle of competing priorities. Gae is remembered by staff who worked with her as a woman of high intellect, who gave her all to achieve what she believed in. She demanded the same commitment from everyone else. This inevitably led to tension with the competing challenges the NFA faced. Despite on-going ill-health, but with the support of a very small Board of 4 part-time members, Gae set up systems to meet those challenges which held the agency in good stead in following years. Gae resigned from the NFA on 18 March 1995, but her pioneering vision of a combined Australia NZ food authority with a joint Code was fulfilled on 1 July 1996 with the foundation of the then Australia New Zealand Food Authority and on 20 December 2000 with gazettal of the joint Code. Unfortunately, Gae’s passing in August 2016 meant she missed the 25th anniversary of the NFA’s grandchild, Food Standards Australia New Zealand, which is still a central player in the food regulatory system in Australia and New Zealand, with an international reputation at the highest level. I was Gae’s executive assistant (EA) from January 1992 until I went on maternity leave in December 1993. Both Gae and I had worked as parliamentary staff – which came with different workplace expectations to those in the public service at that time. Because of that shared background, we got on well from the very beginning to the surprise of NFA staff, as we came from different sides of the political spectrum. She wasn’t the easiest person to work for and was extremely demanding, but there was a high level of trust between us and I very much missed not working for her when I returned to work. Gae always loved wearing dark blue and often wore matching patterned stockings. One thing she was particularly annoyed about was that she was born on 29 February – so that she only had a birthday every 4 years. She also told me the story once about how she changed her name at school to ‘Gae’, as she had never really liked her first name. Gae always remembered to buy me something special when she went overseas for work – not necessary, but always appreciated by me. Published resources Newspaper Article Gae Pincus, contributed to advancement of women's affairs and consumer law, Trainor, Gabrielle and Baker, Carole, 2016, http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/gae-pincus-contributed-to-advancement-of-womens-affairs-and-consumer-law-20161110-gsn0v0.html Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Interview with Gae Margaret Pincus, lawyer [sound recording] / interviewer, Sara Dowse Author Details Larissa Halonkin and Cathie Humphries Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Gae Pincus Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Dawn Lawrie, an Independent, was the second woman elected to the Northern Territory Assembly in 1971 as Member for Nightcliff. She represented her electorate for twelve years, until she was defeated in 1983. Dawn Lawrie grew up in Melbourne, but travelled to Alice Springs in the 1950s and eventually settled in Darwin in December 1960, where she gained employment as a public servant. After her parliamentary career, she established a community newspaper with her husband, Palmerston and Northern Suburbs Herald, which lasted for two years from 1983-85. She became the first Regional Director for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission, establishing the Darwin office, from 1986-88. She served as Administrator of the Cocos Keeling Islands from 1988-90. She became the first Northern Territory Anti-Discrimination Commissioner. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dawn Lawrie, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 20 October 2009 Last modified 3 November 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises correspondence and typescripts on various topics. The collection includes a transcription of a memoir by Sophia Smith, written ca 1924; a typescript on the possible fate of Ludwig Leichhardt’s last expedition; a typescript titled The Wills Tragedy, 1861, written by William Thomson; a typescript of Irene Longman’s speech to the Queensland Women’s Electoral League ca 1952; notes on the Bundaberg Brewery Company; numbers 20-25 of the Bundaberg Glass and Stoneware Club newsletter. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, medical reports and articles, case notes, and newspaper cuttings pertaining to Dr. Rae W. Dungan’s clinical work with polio sufferers in the 1930’s and the 1940’s and his collaboration with Sister Elizabeth Kenny.??Related material can be found in UQFL16. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 August 2004 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "3 sound files Author Details Helen Morgan Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "11 cassettes – 11hrs Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Two pieces of a china tea set with the Angel of freedom insignia designed by Sylvia Pankhurst and produced by Williamsons in Longton, England. The plate was gifted to Bessie Rischbieth by the Suffrage Fellowship, London, and the saucer was given by suffragette Miss Basil McLellan as a contribution to Rischbieth’s collection on the history of the women’s suffrage. The tea service was commissioned for the Women’s Exhibition of 1909 held in Knightsbridge, London, a fundraising event organised for the Women’s Social and Political Union who campaigned for women’s suffrage in Great Britain. The china was used in the refreshments room during the Exhibition, and pieces were gifted to organisers or could be purchased as mementos after the event. Rischbieth labelled the china with the following statements: “Original cup & saucer belonging to Mrs Pankhursts tea service – Presented to Mrs B.M. Rischbieth by The Suffragette Fellowship London” and “The indefatigable Suffragettes! A plate belonging to that period”. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 March 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "One 2010 Balance & Bounce wall calendar published by the Victorian Department of Health Aged Care Branch. Photograph of Mary Owen for October. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 23 August 2000 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "There is a long history of contact between Holland and Australia. In early 1606, William Jansz of Amsterdam, captain of the Duyfken (Little Dove) landed on Cape York Peninsula. A number of Dutch ships sank off the Western Australian coast in the 1600s and survivors reportedly established relationships with local Aborigines. By 1644, Abel Tasman had completed a partial circumnavigation of Australia which revealed, for the first time, the size of the continent. The resulting incomplete map of New Holland was not superseded until the arrival of Captain Cook in 1770. During the 1850s gold rushes Dutch merchant ships continued to visit Australia but immigration of the Netherlands-born remained negligible. Until 1947, when the Census recorded 2,174 Netherlands born, the number of people arriving from the Netherlands were offset by a large proportion of departures of Netherlands-born from Australia. This trend has continued to the present day, apart from a period of high migration during the 1950s and 1960s. After the Second World War, many Dutch people suffered severe economic and social dislocation in Holland. With an already high population density, a relatively small land area and the highest birth rate in Europe, the Netherlands faced a severe housing crisis and rising unemployment, due mainly to the mechanisation of agriculture. Dutch authorities actively supported emigration as a partial solution to the problem of overcrowding. Meanwhile, immigration policy change meant that Australia was looking for acceptable migrants from non-British sources. The hard working rural Dutch, with their linguistic and cultural affinities with the Australian population, were seen to be ideal immigrants. Both the Australian and Netherlands Governments contributed to the cost of passage, while the Australian Government accepted the responsibility for assisting settlement. As a result, during the 1950s Australia was the destination of 30 per cent of Dutch emigrants and the Netherlands-born became numerically the second largest non-British group. Their numbers peaked in 1961 at 102,134. The latest Census in 2001 recorded 83,250 Netherlands-born persons in Australia, a decrease of 5 per cent from the 1996 Census. The 2001 distribution by State and Territory showed Victoria had the largest number with 24,280 followed by New South Wales (20,290), Queensland (15,290) and Western Australia (10,470). The median age of the Netherlands-born in 2001 was 57.4 years compared with 46.0 years for all overseas-born and 35.6 years for the total Australian population. The age distribution showed 1.1 per cent were aged 0-14 years, 1.9 per cent were 15-24 years, 13.2 per cent were 25-44 years, 51.8 per cent were 45-64 years and 31.9 per cent were 65 and over. Of the Netherlands-born in Australia, there were 43,190 males (51.9 per cent) and 40,060 females (48.1 per cent). The sex ratio was 107.8 males per 100 females. At the 2001 Census, the rate of Australian Citizenship for the Netherlands-born in Australia was 79.0 per cent. The rate for all overseas-born was 75.1 per cent. Published resources Edited Book The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Jupp, James, 2001 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of the Wemyss family comprising papers of Thomas Brown Wemyss, his grandfather Thomas Brown, and his daughter Eleanor Evelyn Beatrice Wemyss. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Dr Constance Davey, psychologist and social worker, including typescript of her book ‘Children and their Law-makers’, research notes and letters received. Author Details Clare Land Created 26 November 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "An activist against immigration to Australia, Carolyn O’Callaghan was an Australians Against Further Immigration candidate for Bathurst in 1995 and for the New South Wales Senate in 1996. Carolyn O’Callaghan lived in Homebush when she ran for the seat of Bathurst in 1995. Her policy, as she explained it, was to prevent overcrowding in Australia, and she deplored immigrants who could not speak English and who were taking places in the education system that could otherwise be utilised by Australians. One of her leaflets expressed the belief that public health would be improved if immigration stopped. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1935-1954, 1966; Papers, being mainly publications of the Eureka Youth League and the World Federation of Democratic Youth, with copies of Declaration of Rights of Australian Youth (1935) by Alec Jolley, Melbourne University Labour Club, and circular concerning the Bush Music Club (Sydney, 1966) (Call No.: ML MSS 5916/1(2))?1946-1956; Issues of Challenge, 1951-1956, and Youth Voice, 1946-1951 (Call No.: ML MSS 5916/2X(2)) Author Details Alannah Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Mrs Helen Thelka Jericho mainly relating to her family and Bethesda Mission. (Helen Jericho’s father Hermann Heinrich Volgesang was one of the founders of Bethesda Mission on Lake Killapannina.) Papers comprise correspondence; journal of a trip to Kopperamanna; prayers written in the Dijeri dialect; history of the Bethesda Mission; photographs of the Vogelsang family, the Bethesda Mission and Dijeri aborigines; transcripts; and printed items. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Inscription: “At a reception in Sydney on September 9 Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent, who is on her first visit to Australia, chats with two famous athletes – Betty Cuthbert (centre) and Marlene Mathews (right).–Caption on reverse. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 January 2007 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Included here is a statement by Garnsey in support of Jessie Street’s candidature for Labor Party selection for the seat of Eden-Monaro (1943); letters to George Waite, delegate of the United Labourers’ Union (1922-24); correspondence and circulars on the League of Nations Union (1942); and material on the Friendship with Russia League (1941-43). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour 26 minutes??Mavis Cooper, nee Price, was born in Bairnsdale, Victoria and grew up in Melbourne. She trained as a nurse and moved to Jamestown, South Australia after she met her future husband, a farmer, on holiday there. After joining the Country Women’s Association’s choir in 1957, she was soon an office holder in the local branch. Mavis outlines the CWA’s aims and organisation in explaining her progression from Branch President to State President in 1974 and National President in 1977. She describes her efforts in travelling to meet and speaks with women so that she could correctly represent their views, and emphasises that many social issues concerning members are far from conservative and can be closely related to the women’s and environmental movements. She speaks of the growing consciousness amongst members of the CWA as a powerful lobby group. She also speaks of the organisation’s Women’s Suffrage Centenary activities and her hopes for the future. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes the papers of the All Australia Women’s Basketball Association and the All Australia Netball Association (previous names). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 January 2007 Last modified 4 January 2007 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Leslie Henderson including correspondence (1961-1974), photographs, newsletters and ephemera relevant to political, human rights, conservation, migration and library issues. Also includes scrapbook of sketches ‘1909- . Includes a number of photographs c. 1900 of unidentified school sports teams and families (MC 5, DR 6) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Gwen Parry Jones is a dedicated environmentalist who ran for the Australian Greens in the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly election for The Entrance. Gwen Parry-Jones has a lifelong connection with the Central Coast of NSW. Originally a teacher, she then ran a small business and later still, worked for the Child Welfare Department, dealing with children who had to appear before the courts. This made her very aware of the influence lack of education has on youth crime. In 1987 Gwen formed the Wildlife Animal Rescue & Care Society Inc. (ARC) and she has been active in the rescue, care and release of native animals ever since. She lectures at local schools regularly and is known as the Bat Lady. She is the co-director of the Wambina Flying-Fox Education and Research Centre. In 2004 she helped to organise the Wildlife Carers Conference. In 2005 she was a member of the working party set up to form the NSW Wildlife Rehabilitation Council. Along with others, her work contributed to the establishment of the new Popran National Park and the Ourimbah Nature Reserve. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article 'Bat Lady' remembered, 2015 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 24 July 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "An indefatigable worker and a contributor to every community in which she lived, Dorothy Frank stood as an Independent candidate for Temora in 1968 and was elected Alderman of Temora Municipal Council. Dorothy Frank was born in Wingham, NSW, the 2nd daughter of Richard and Mary Jane Wallace, dairy farmers. She was educated to Intermediate examination at the Wingham District School and later at the Taree Technical College, where she studied typing and shorthand. She worked as an office worker in Wingham while studying bookkeeping and accountancy. She married Norman Austral Frank, dairy farmer, on 18 July 1944, and they had four children. Their youngest daughter needed medical treatment, so the family moved to Baulkham Hills. Dorothy became the secretary for the Parramatta Veterinary Hospital and later set up her own business The Hills Secretarial and Duplicating Service. During this time she became involved in the Girl Guide Movement, the local Progress Association and the Baulkham Hills Chamber of Commerce, of which she was the inaugural secretary. After the Baulkham Hills business was sold, the Franks bought a hotel in Temora, and later a farmlet in the area. While living in Temora, Dorothy was elected to the Temora Municipal Council, the first woman alderman. When the council was amalgamated with the Narraburah Shire Council, she was again the only woman member. Following this success, Dorothy decided to run for election to the Legislative Assembly and was disappointed in the result, after travelling the electorate. In Temora she was patron of the Red Cross branch and Vice President of the local RSPCA branch. Later, she and her husband bought a farm in Cobram, Victoria, which they ran until 1991 when they moved back to NSW and settled in Dapto. In both Cobram and Dapto, Dorothy joined community organisations and usually held office in them. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 5 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "BOX 1?Reader’s Digest article on D’Arcy Niland, notes, roughs, two copies?D’Arcy Niland publicity clippings, 1946-1978?Miscellaneous D’Arcy Niland material: Includes letters and royalty slips relating to competitions/book prizes, 1949-1968; Letters from Will Lawson to D’Arcy Niland, 1948-1955?Cables to D’Arcy Niland re: winning prizes; Early cables about The Shiralee and some biographical material, 1948-1957?Dead Men Running proposal adapted for the screen by Doodie Herman . Includes 1st draft of the filme script; letters from Doodie Herman, Tim Curnow, Carl Schulz and notes on the meeting with Carl Schulz and Tim Curnow, 1994.?Letters concerning the appropriation of songs by Rolf Harris. Includes letters from songwriter and musician Leslie Raphael who set many of D’Arcy Nilands lyrics to music., 1971-1974???BOX 2?D’Arcy Niland notebook with jottings for ‘The Drums Go Bang’?Notebooks kept by Frank Niland. Includes several letters from Frank Niland written from the shearing shed Parewrrina and note written by Ruth Niland, 1992; Letters from Charlie Niland, 1954?Printed music ‘Travelling songs of Australia / D’Arcy Niland and Leslie Raphael’ (3 copies)?Illustrations for Walkabout article ‘Small World of Jamesy Rice’ (from Illustrated London News, 1863)?Film treatment of D’Arcy Niland stories (Staircase, Charter Pilot, The Ginger Giant) which were never produced. Includes correspondence between D’Arcy Niland and Chips Rafferty, Lee Robinson (Southern International) and copy of a letter to Joseph Janni (film producer of Robbery Under Arms), 1956-1957??BOX 3?The Little Fish / Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland, a television play for ATV London which was never produced. Includes storyline, discussion notes, 1st draft of script and correspondence with Stella Richman of ATV., 1962-1963?Correspondence between Ruth Niland and Cedric Emanuel concerning ‘Norfolk Island’, 1981, 1986?Carbon typescript of ‘Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island / written by Ruth Park with drawings by Cedric Emanuel’?Stage plays ‘Geraldine by Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland’ with note written by Ruth Park, 1997 and ‘The Harp in the South by Ruth Park and Leslie Rees’?Thesis ‘Female characters in Ruth Park’s children’s novels by Deborah P. Browne’, with a copy of letter written by Ruth Niland, 1993 and comments on this thesis, 1997??BOX 4?Letters (45) written by Ruth Niland and returned from Nancy Bruce in Wanganui, New Zealand, 1945-1981 (RESTRICTED)?Interesting letters from fans of Ruth Park novels and publishers Curtis Brown, Nelson,1975-1991?Ruth Park short stories (Lost Room, Understanding, Rivers Change Their Course, Two Odd Women, The Son, Mr Carvers Cow, The House to Themselves, The Mended Idol, Horses from Coromandel, The Lost Burja) which were published and in typescript, with a note from Ruth Niland, 25 April 1997. Includes a pieced together 1st draft of The Harp in the South?Ruth Park early poems?Correspondence between Neil Colquhoun, Ruth Niland and APRA concerning copyright infringment for two songs taken from The Frost and the Fire, 1972??BOX 5?D’Arcy Niland odd clippings (notes)?Fishing in the Styx: Correspondence with Penguin Books Australia concerning publication, 1992-1994?Fishing in the Styx: original typescript (in 3 parts)?Fishing in the Styx: research notes, storyline, permission letters, news clippings, 1992-1993??BOX 6?Personal correspondence?Letters (approx 80) from Ruth Park (some are signed with nicknames) to D’Arcy Niland with some replies, 1935-1955?Letters from E.M Park and Maurice Shaw (Ruth Park’s uncle), 1918, 1947-1956?Letters from D’Arcy Niland to Ruth Park, Boronia St Redfern, 8 August 1937-20 February 1942?Letters from Ruth Niland to D’Arcy Niland during his absence in New Zealand, 1945 and his on Walkabout in 1947?Letters from Ruth Park?to D’Arcy Niland?Letters from Alice Cannan to Frank Niland?Letters from Frank Niland and one of the grandmothers, also includes a letter from F. Bayldon, editor of The Messenger to D’Arcy Niland, 1939, 1945, 1962?D’Arcy Niland’s letters to Beres Niland while in New Zealand, 1946??BOX 7?Personal letters to D’Arcy Niland and Ruth Park, 1944-1962 (RESTRICTED)?Personal letters from Ruth Park to D’Arcy Niland, 1938-1944 (RESTRICTED)??BOX 8?General business and personal correspondence (answered mail, folders 1-8), 1981-1989??BOXES 9-10?General business and personal correspondence to publishers, literary societies, fans(answered mail, folders 9-12), 1989-1994??BOX 11?Book reviews for Ruth Park, 1986-1990?Book reviews, letters and prizes for Playing Beatie Bow, 1981-1984?Book reviews (Book Week)?Book reviews for Ruth Park (mostly for Frost and the Fire)?Book reviews for Ruth Park (many for Power of Roses)?Book reviews – Ruth Park?Sydney Morning Herald serialisation (Witch’s Train and other clippings)?National Times (Reviews, letters, directives), 1970-1975??Box 12?Ruth Park personal journal (Part 1 – July 1968-May 1976 (RESTRICTED)?Ruth Park personal journal (Part 2 – July 1968-May 1976 (RESTRICTED)?The Harp in the South controversay (complete file) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "11 hours 20 minutes??A series of interviews with women who have been involved with the Guides movement in South Australia. The project was organised by Sally Hopton, Archivist for Guides SA and has two parts; a series of interviews conducted in 2001 by Sally Hopton and a retrospective collection of recordings featuring interviews related to guiding in South Australia conducted during the 1980s and 90s. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marjorie Tipping’s extensive personal and professional papers are gradually being transferred to the State Library of Victoria. A list of works already transferred is included in the collection. Tipping’s correspondence and collection of materials dates back uninterrupted to the age of eight; her daily diaries to the age of 12.?Correspondence files are extensive, and include some prominent correspondents, and dual wartime correspondence of more than 1000 letters with late husband, journalist E.W. Tipping. Papers cover Tipping’s involvement in numerous left-wing organisations and campaigns, and other community groups; unpublished manuscripts, including notes for Tipping’s unpublished autobiography; lectures given and attended; newspaper clipping; published articles; arts and culture at the University of Melbourne, including writings for Farrago, and editorship of the Melbourne University Magazine. Author Details Clare Land Created 26 November 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Speeches, original documents, typescript transcriptions, photocopies, reports, printed material, press cuttings, albums and awards generated in the development of tertiary and secondary education and arts organisations in the Northern Territory. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 29 July 2014 Last modified 24 January 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Country Women’s Association of Victoria was founded in 1928. It is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group working predominantly in the interests of women and children in rural areas. It’s first president (1928-1932) was Lady Mitchell. The Association was formed partly in response to the formation of similar groups in other states. A major objective since its foundation was to ‘arrest the [population] drift from rural areas’-a problem which persists today. Its major activities have revolved around the provision of services to its members and the improvement of amenities in rural areas. The formation of the Victorian Association was prompted by a meeting organised by Lady Somers (wife of the then state governor) in March 1928. It was quickly strengthened by proliferation of local branches and the decision of the seven Victorian Women’s Institutes (the first of which had been formed in 1926) to join the new Association. By 1929 it boasted twenty branches with 1700 members. Since its foundation the Association has been involved in an enormous range of activities. The early influence of the Women’s Institutes ensured a strong emphasis on Homecrafts and Home Industries within the Victorian Association-a Committee was formed devoted to arranging classes and demonstrations in these areas. In 1932 the Committee established a scholarship to enable a country student to attend the Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy. In 1935 over 900 members from 71 branches sent 3000 entries to the its Handicraft Exhibition. During the WWII the Committee coordinated much of the Association’s war work and in the 1950s they organised craft classes for women prisoners. One early initiative was the formation of ‘Younger Sets’ – for girls and young women. By 1932 there were 28 of these groups-increasing to 97 by 1949. They engaged in fund raising and community worked as well as holding crafts classes and lectures on numerous topics including home economics, travel and literature. Other early activities included the provision of ‘rest rooms’ in regional centres (to provide facilities for visiting farm women) and the purchase of a holiday home at Black Rock (which extended over the years into a large complex)-to provide members with affordable holiday accommodation. They also helped establish a bush ‘Dental van’ in the 1930s, ran a ‘Home Help Scheme’ from 1940-70 and established numerous welfare, relief and scholarship funds. During WWII the Association devoted much of its energy to assisting with the war effort. They made over 150,000 camouflage nets, as well as sheepskin vests for flight crews, numerous other woollen garments. They also established a ‘Comforts Fund’ for soldiers and sent clothing and bedding to women and children in London. In 1929, the Country Women’s Association of Victoria was one of the 23 rural women’s organisation which attended a meeting in London, organised by the Marchioness of Aberdeen, to discuss the formation of an international rural women’s association. The meeting led to the formation of the Associated Country Women of the World in 1932. From 1945 it became affiliated with the newly formed Country Women’s Association of Australia. As of 1978, the organisation’s primary aim was ‘By community service to improve conditions in the country more especially as they affect the welfare of women and children.’ Over the years the Association’s branches have produced numerous cookery and handicraft books as well as local histories. In 2004, the Association’s website described its purpose and activities thus: ‘The Country Women’s Association of Victoria Inc. is an organisation based on friendship and self-development opportunities for women of all races, religions or political beliefs. It is an organisation where women from rural and urban areas can meet as one, as the Women of the Country. The CWA of Victoria is unique in that it does not have charitable status, is not totally a service club, nor a philanthropic organisation. It supports numerous charitable causes, particularly as they concern women, children and families. The CWA of Victoria is involved with Government departments in several programs including Wise Women Working and Diversity Victoria, which aim to bring together different cultures for a better understanding across racial borders. It also has input through the Victorian Women’s Summit conferences which reflect women’s opinions. The Social Issues Committee’s role is to research issues which effect women and children in our community, to lobby State and Commonwealth Governments to change things for the betterment of women and to keep members informed through “The Country Woman” magazine.’ (Issues it has considered include: Problem Gambling, Farm safety, Workcare, Aged Care, Medical indemnity crisis, Shortage of obstetric specialists in rural areas, Funding for Breast Care Nurses, Suicide, Domestic violence, Privacy Laws, Child Employment). It makes submissions on behalf of Members to Government, and recently conducted a survey of issues to concern to Branches across the State. ‘The CWA of Victoria is undertaking an adventurous program of establishing an Internet Branch to give women the opportunity to communicate with like-minded persons. Crafts are taught and encouraged at Branch, Group and State levels and choral and drama groups thrive at some Branches. A Statewide public speaking competition culminates with the final at the State Conference each year. A Scholarship Fund has been set up to assist with tertiary education for Member’s children. Scholarships for non-members are also available. The Welfare and Emergency funds are used to help people in with household and personal items in time of disaster. A medical research program is the recipient of the Thanksgiving Fund each year. Many weary Royal Agricultural Show patrons enjoy the CWA hospitality in the cafeteria at the Royal Melbourne Show.’ They continue to hold regular craft schools. Published resources Book Twenty-one Years: A Brief History of the Association Since it was Founded in 1928, Country Women's Association of Victoria, 1949 Handicrafts of the Country Women's Association of Victoria, Hamer, Janet, 1968 The History of C.W.A. in Wedderburn, Curnow, D. M., 1984 Tapestry of Achievement: 60 Years of the South Western District of the Country Womens Association, 1988? Through the Years 1934-1988, Central Wimmera Group, 1989 Murray Valley Group, CWA Victoria, 1934-1984, 1984 Brave days : pioneer tales, Clegg, Mary A., 1962 Constitution, rules and aims, Country Women's Association of Victoria, 1938 The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Getting things done : the Country Women's Association of Australia, Country Women's Association of Australia, 1986 Years of adventure, 1928-1978 : fifty years of service by the Country Women's Association of Victoria, Country Women's Association of Victoria, 1978 Companionship, Welfare and Achievement of Cowes Branch of the Country Women's Association of Victoria: The First Fifty Years of C.W.A. on Phillip Island, Cutter, June M., 1985 The history of Drysdale C.W.A. (Incorporated) 1948-1988, 1988 60 years of service: Bruthen Country Womens Association, Sievers, Pat, 1994 The Briagolong Branch Country Women's Association Golden Jubilee 1951-2001, Watt, Dorothy B, 2001 Sixty years of Sharing 1931-1991, Terry, Lorraine, 1991 A Touch of Time :Wangaratta C.W.A., 1929-1994, 1994 Thesis The Politics of Influence: The Work of the Country Women's Association of Victoria Incorporated in the Public Sphere, Crook, Karen, 1997 Journal Article Tea, Scones and a Willing Ear: The Country Women's Association of Victoria, 1928-1934, Roberts, Pam, 1984 Report Official Annual of the Country Women's Association of Victoria: Annual Report and Balance Sheet, 1939- Newsletter Victorian Country Woman, Country Women's Association of Victoria, 1989- Country Crafts/New Country Crafts, Country Women's Association of Victoria, 1930-88 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian Historic Records Register Country Women's Association, Merbein Branch Country Women's Association of Victoria Inc. Country Women's Association, Robinvale branch State Library of Victoria [Papers], ca. 1928-ca. 1975. [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Mildred Mattinson interviewed by Helen O'Shea for the Helen O'Shea collection of Australian folklore in its social context. 1989-1990 [sound recording] Phyllis Oldfield interviewed by Helen O'Shea for the Helen O'Shea collection of Australian folklore in its social context, 1989-1990 [sound recording] Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 27 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour??Veronica Brodie (née Wilson) was born at the Point McLeay Mission in 1946. She recalls her grandmother’s links with the Port Adelaide area where Veronica came to live in 1971. She speaks of her work with the local Aboriginal Community over the years including an Aboriginal Friendship Club for parents and children at the Port Adelaide Central Methodist Mission; the development of the regional Aboriginal Co-ordinating Committee; and Kura Yerlo, the Aboriginal Centre in Largs Bay. She discusses the stigma attached to her colour in the past and her current work with the Nunga Miminis Women’s Shelter.??Interview was recorded on 25 November 1990. Duration: 1 hour (1 tape). Partial transcript available (12 pages). Note that written permission is required – apply to the Mortlock Library for details. The conditions of use agreement is on file.?This interview was recorded as part of the Creating New Traditions: ‘The Port’ Past, Present, Future project for which a series of 24 interviews were conducted as part of a community arts project based at the Port Adelaide Community Arts Centre in the second half of 1990. This resulted in the publication, ‘Of ships, strikes and summer nights: a community arts project’ writer Catherine Murphy; portrait photographer, Josephine Starrs; lino-cut illustrators, Susan Bruce … [et al], Exeter: Port Adelaide Community Arts Centre, ca. 1991. The interviewees are both long term residents of the Port Adelaide region as well as more recent arrivals. The project also involved printmakers whose works illustrate the books. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "One of the oldest women’s clubs in Queensland, the Brisbane Women’s Club was formed in 1908 under the sponsorship of the Queensland Women’s Electoral League. Originally called the Women’s Progressive Club, the name was changed to the Brisbane Women’s Club in May 1912. Ardent feminist and women’s rights campaigner Margaret Ogg was one of the 59 founding members. The objectives of the club were to provide a social centre for women workers in the cause of reform and to encourage free discussion on subjects of public importance, including social, political and municipal matters. The club lobbied the Brisbane City Council and the State Government for the betterment of the community. In an effort to improve the life of rural women, the club was instrumental in the establishment of the Queensland Country Women’s Association in 1922 and the Bush Book Club in 1921. The Brisbane Women’s Club celebrated its centenary in 2008 and continues to provide a social and cultural centre with a philanthropic charter. Margaret Ogg is credited with founding the Brisbane Women’s Club and it was under her guidance members became a driving force to develop Brisbane into a better place for women to live and work. The Brisbane Women’s Club was a place where women were encouraged to take on leadership roles and fulfil their potential. The first club premises were in a building on the corner of Adelaide and Albert Streets. For many years contributions were made to a building fund and eventually the club bought its own building at 107 Albert Street in 1964. The Brisbane Women’s Club met every second and fourth Thursday of each month, with the second Thursday dedicated to social activities while the fourth Thursday was educational. Invited guests would present a paper at these meetings. In 1913 Margaret Ogg suggested holding frequent debates among members to encourage public speaking. The first debate was held on 3 August and the topic for discussion was ‘Should Women Enter Parliament’. During both world wars, the Brisbane Women’s Club ran the War Work Circle. Members would knit and sew for refugees and soldiers and raise funds for the Red Cross. They worked in groups to weave 126 camouflage nets and make over 2500 articles of clothing. Brisbane Women’s Club members served in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War. Club members met immigrant ships at the docks to welcome and assist young girls arriving in Brisbane. They also established the Traveller’s Aid Society in 1929, which assisted confused and tired travellers arriving in Brisbane to get to their accommodation or connecting plane, bus, tram or train. The club sponsored such reforms as: waiting sheds for tram passengers numbering tram stops name plates on trees in the Botanical Gardens dating milk bottles erecting a shelter shed on North Quay installing traffic lights at busy intersections the supply of milk for school children zebra crossings outside schools better street lighting equal pay for women the removal of the double standard in divorce laws the right of women to sit on juries the establishment of baby clinics changes to laws that would allow women to be elected to local councils and to sit on governing boards the introduction of domestic science for schoolgirls into the Queensland school curriculum The club had a strong connection with the National Council of Women, the Queensland Women’s Electoral League, the Brisbane Lyceum Club, the Queensland Deaf & Dumb Mission, the Queensland Bush Book Club, the Mission to Seamen, the Country Women’s Association and the Crèche and Kindergarten Association. Upon Margaret Ogg’s death in 1953, the club established a scholastic bursary in her memory. It was to be awarded to the girl who gained the highest marks in social studies in the Scholarship examination. In 1970 the Margaret Ogg Memorial Bursary was created for the best short story in the Warana Writer’s Competition for under 18 year olds. The winner received a book prize. In 2009 the Brisbane Women’s Club and Yvonne Haysom Bursary takes the form of a scholarship that is open to students of the Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University. It is valued at $1000 and is awarded annually to a female undergraduate studying in the creative arts. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Annual report and financial statements / Brisbane Women's Club 28405 Brisbane Women's Club Records 1908-2013 [Newsletter] / Brisbane Women's Club. 7976 Brisbane Women's Club Records 1908-2008 28386 Dining Room of Brisbane Women's Club [Work of Art] 1930 Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Ephemera relating to women's movement organisations Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gabrielle O’Donnell is a well known local government identity who has been a councillor for the City of Ryde from 1995-2008 and Deputy Mayor 1998-1999, 2005. She unsuccessfully attempted to enter the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Lane Cove in 2003 as an ALP candidate. Gabrielle O’Donnell was raised and educated in the Ryde area and completed her tertiary education at Macquarie University. She is a registered psychologist and works as a school counsellor. She is a member of the Australian Guidance and Counselling Association and the NSW Teachers’ Federation. Gabrielle O’Donnell was well known in her electorate when she ran for Parliament. She was first elected to the City of Ryde Council in 1995 and had served on a variety of Council Committees. She was a member of the Sydney North Advisory Committee of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and her campaign leaflet stressed her interest in the environment. In 2005 she was again elected Deputy Mayor of the City of Ryde Council. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 6 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Vanessa Goodwin is the Tasmanian Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Minister for Corrections, Minister for the Arts and Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council. She was elected to the Legislative Council as the Member for Pembroke in August 2009 and was the Shadow Attorney General and Shadow Minister for Corrections from September 2009 until the State Election in March 2014, after which she was appointed to her current roles. Vanessa Goodwin was born in Hobart in 1969, the only child of Edyth and Grant Goodwin. She attended St Michael’s Collegiate School and then completed an Arts/Law degree at the University of Tasmania, followed by the Legal Practice Course. She spent two years as a Judge’s Associate to then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, the Honourable Sir Guy Green AC KBE CVO, before being admitted as a legal practitioner in 1995. After working briefly for the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Hotels Association, Goodwin worked full-time in the family boarding kennel and cattery business while her mother was undergoing treatment for cancer. In January 1996 she was employed as the research assistant to then Governor, Sir Guy Green and continued in that role until September 1996 when she commenced her Master of Philosophy (Criminology) at the University of Cambridge. After successfully completing her Masters in Criminology, Goodwin returned to Tasmania and commenced working within the Department of Police and Emergency Management (DPEM), where she remained until her election to Parliament in 2009. During this period, Goodwin completed her PhD, Residential Burglary and Repeat Victimisation in Tasmania, through the University of Tasmania. As part of her research, she conducted interviews with 60 imprisoned burglars, with the findings from her interviews attracting national media interest. Goodwin played a key role in the development and implementation of the U-Turn program in Tasmania. This program targeted young people aged 15-20 who were at risk of, or involved in, motor vehicle theft. The core of the program was a 10-week automotive training course, with case management to address risk factors and a focus on literacy and numeracy support. The program was delivered by Mission Australia, under contract to DPEM, and based on a best practice model developed by the National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council. In addition to her work managing crime prevention projects and developing policy advice at DPEM, Goodwin conducted post-doctoral research on intergenerational crime through the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies. The criminal histories of six extended families over at least three generations were examined to determine the extent to which crime was concentrated in these families and to explore the linkages with other problem behaviours, including child abuse and neglect. Goodwin collaborated with the Australian Institute of Criminology to explore the role of gender in the intergenerational transfer of criminality within the families. Goodwin has a strong interest in sentencing and prison reform. She is pursuing legislative reforms in relation to sex offender sentencing, family violence, alternative sentencing options and to update Tasmania’s dangerous criminal provisions. She has also committed to the establishment of a Tasmanian Custodial Inspectorate. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Vanessa Goodwin (with Rosemary Francis) Created 22 September 2009 Last modified 31 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Vanessa Goodwin Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 10108 comprises a typescript draft of The sweet cool south wind, a novel Gantner wrote under her pseudonym Neilma Sidney; a small selection of correspondence regarding her support for writers’ colonies, 1983-1984, and her contributions to writing projects by others, 1990-1992. Also included is a typescript draft of The return, a novel written under the pseudonym of Neilma Sidney (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Manuscript poems, including a series entitled ‘Poems of Friendship’, and two volumes of poetry ‘Verses written for Christmas’ (1908) and ‘The Silver Wing and other poems’ published privately in 1939. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Born in Gorton, Lancashire, England, Doris Bardsley came to live in the Brisbane area of Queensland prior to World War 1. Trained at the Diamantina Hospital for Chronic Diseases, she completed her midwifery certificate in Melbourne before returning to Queensland (Qld) to serve as matron at St Denis’s Hospital in Toowoomba. In October of 1923, Bardsley joined the staff of the maternal and Child Welfare Service, devoting the rest of her life to the expansion of child-welfare services, as well as the improved education and training of ante-natal nurses. Doris Bardsley was appointed sister-in-charge of Queensland Government Baby Clinics on 9th April 1925 and oversaw the expansion of baby clinics during her twelve year term. During the 1920s, Bardsley was a delegate to the National Council of Women of QLD, supporting the expansion of child-welfare services and mothercraft education. In addition to this, she was a member of the technical sub-committee of the Mothercraft Association. She was appointed the position of acting-superintendent of infant-welfare in 1937, becoming superintendent in 1939. In this position, Bardsley helped with the development of residential homes for mothers and babies with feeding problems, introduced a correspondence service which offered ante-natal advice, and initiated mothercraft courses in secondary school. In 1942, Bardsley secured an agreement from the registrar-general to notify baby clinic services of all births in country areas. Serving as a councillor of the Qld branch of the Australasian Trained Nurses’ Association (1926-57), she was awarded the position of state president in 1949, and later national president in 1951. In this position, Bardsley represented Australian nurses overseas. She served on the International Council of Nurses from 1951, on the grand council and on the education committee. An advocate for the development of post-graduate education in the field of nursing, Bardsley later went on to become a founding member (1948), vice-president and president (1952-53) of the College of Nursing, Australia. She was elected a fellow in 1962. Between 1953 and 1961 she served as an adviser-in-nursing to Queensland’s Department of Health and Home Affairs. Bardsley was also a member of the Florence Nightingale Memorial Committee of Australia at a state and national level. Published resources Book New Lamps For Old, Bardsley, D., 1957 Resource Section Bardsley, Doris (1895 - 1968), Gregory, H., 2006, http://adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130133b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 48 min.)??Dame Ada Norris talks of her involvement within handicapped groups; the National Council of Women; Councils on the Ageing; her United Nations work; her interest in New Guinea; working with migrant women; old peoples welfare council; equality for women; womens issues; status of women throughout the world; her C.M.G. (1969) Author Details Elizabeth Daniels Created 12 September 2013 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "21 hours (approx.)??Recordings of a series of evening seminars presented for about two years from September 1979 at the Women’s Studies Resource Centre. The workshops were intended to be a forum at which people involved in women’s studies could meet and discuss their research. Margaret Allen, the donor of these recordings, was a lecturer at the Salisbury College of Advanced Education at the time and one of the organisers of the series. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Original typescript of Margaret Tucker’s book typed by her friend Miss Jean Hughes. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Joanna was the CEO of the International Women’s Development Agency from 2010 until 2017. Joanna’s experience in international development, foreign affairs, human rights, peace building and social justice ranges across four continents and 28 countries. Her former roles include: Country Director for the Burnet Institute in Myanmar; Country Director for Save the Children UK in Vietnam; and Regional Director for Africa with the Overseas Service Bureau. Joanna’s international advisory roles include UNDP, UNOCHA, UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNHCR, governments across Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific and multiple international and local NGOs. Joanna has provided policy, evaluation and management services in relation to disease control, humanitarian assistance, national strategic planning, organisation and capacity development and institutional strengthening within government systems and across civil society organisations and networks. She currently sits on the Board of the Australian Council for International Development and the Victorian Ministerial Council on Women’s Equality. In 2013, Joanna was named as one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence, and in 2016, she was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll for Women for outstanding service to international development, gender equality and peace building. Joanna was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2018 Australia Day Honours for ‘distinguished service to women in the areas of gender equality and individual rights through leadership and policy, development roles, and to the promotion of global health, peace and security’. As CEO of the International Women’s Development Agency, Joanna was responsible for strategic and organisational leadership to accelerate systemic change, women’s economic empowerment, safety and security, and women’s civil and political participation. IWDA is Australia’s leading international development organisation entirely focused on diverse women’s rights and gender equality. She led the research, policy and advocacy for women’s rights and gender equality in international settings with a focus on program partnerships with 30 other women’s rights organisations in the Asia Pacific region. As the international spokesperson for the organisation, Joanna provided expert, evidence-based advice relating to women’s rights and gender equality to national and international governments and other international stakeholders including United Nations Commissions, Councils or agencies, the World Bank, ASEAN, APEC, international human rights networks and the global women’s movement and supporting coalitions and alliances. Joanna has been engaged with Myanmar since her first arrival on Tsunami Day 2004 and experienced the Saffron Revolution, Cyclone Nargis, the constitutional referendum, and the 2012 & 2016 elections. Her multiple relationships include: · Country Director for Burnet Institute responsible civil society program partnerships across 10 states and divisions. Program focus was health, education, women, youth and human rights. · Organisational Development Adviser with Myanmar Anti-Narcotics Association over 7 years with this nationwide NGO of 12,000 members with a focus on harm reduction and demand reduction. · Evaluation Team Leader, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for the review of the Humanitarian Multi-Stakeholder Fund for Myanmar. · Senior Evaluator, United Nations Development Program to assess the Inter Agency Standing Committee (membership of over 100 organisations) contribution to humanitarian and recovery response to Cyclone Nargis. · Project Director, of the six nation Asia Illicit Drugs Initiative targeting drug treatment programs. · CEO, IWDA with oversight of programs partnerships with Chin, Karen, Shan and Palaung women’s organisations and other national organisations working to advance gender equality. · Founding member of Three Diseases Fund. · INGO representative on Government Committee to prepare Myanmar’s first National HIV Plan. Joanna’s four year residency in Vietnam from 1997-2000 included Country Directorship for Save the Children UK in managing child rights programs for ethnic minority primary education; poverty alleviation; microfinance for women; disability; early childhood care and development; people trafficking and sexual exploitation prevention; and HIV/AIDS. She also held roles as a Communications Strategist to UNAIDS and the Hanoi based representative for University of WA’s Community Health, Research & Training Unit. For close to a decade from 1987, Joanna worked across thirteen countries in Africa. As the Regional Director for Overseas Service Bureau she involved multiple development settings including refugee and exile camps, agricultural settings, industrial zones, small and medium enterprises, remote villages, institutions for health and education and public sector departments. She negotiated five Memoranda of Understanding between national governments and OSB. Joanna was involved directly in historical transitions in anti-apartheid activities with the ANC. Her strategic management included multiple partnerships with civil society, government and UN bodies in addressing human security and human development in South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Namibia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya and Tanzania. Joanna has a long history in international peace and security. She is a founding member of the Australian Civil Society Coalition for Women, Peace and Security. Her current work is located in fragile states, conflict and post conflict countries across Asia and the Pacific. This leadership and/or protection programs for women and girls in conflict and post conflict zones, exile settlements and refugees camps; addressing gender based violence and trafficking of women and girls; resourcing women’s increased participation in peace processes and leadership to improve issues pertaining to the socio-economic consequences of violence and conflict; and peace building programs with ethnic women organisations and the broader Myanmar women’s movement in convergence with the reconciliation process. Joanna’s engagement in international disarmament dialogues began in the mid 80’s as the leader for People for Nuclear Disarmament in Western Australia with attention to defence policy and treaties, militarization of the seas, peace treaties, arms limitation talks, non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, nuclear technology, IAEA safeguard systems, nuclear testing, peace education and conflict resolution. She was awarded the ‘Donald Groom Fellowship’ in 1986 to contribute to non-violent social change as a resident in Japan. Subsequently, as the International Coordinator for the Pacific Campaign to Disarm the Seas, Joanna worked in close relations with the International Peace Bureau, the Northern Atlantic Network and the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Campaign. Joanna’s national and international policy and advisory work includes advisory committee work for the Individual Deprivation Measure (IWDA/ANU/DFAT) and directing Policy and International Program Development for the Australian International Health Institute from 2002-4 and as a Senior Health Consultant to ACIL Pty Ltd from 2000-2. Events 2013 - Australian Council for International Development 2000 - 2000 Ministry of Social Welfare 2016 - 2016 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2013 - 2013 Australian 100 Women of Influence 2017 - Individual Deprivation Measure, Advisory Committee 2017 - Ministerial Council for Women’s Equality, Victoria 2014 - 2014 APEC Women and the Economy Forum, Beijing 2014 - 2015 Diaspora Action Australia 2013 - 2014 UN Security Council DFAT/Civil Society Consultations 2013 - 2013 Australian High Level Women’s Delegation to Burma 2014 - Refugee Council of Victoria 1987 - Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom 2013 - Australian Civil Society Coalition for Women, Peace and Security 2012 - International Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights Consortium Author Details Joanna Hayter (Alannah Croom) Created 5 September 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Co-founder of the National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women in 1970, Hyllus Noel Maris co-wrote the award-winning Women of the Sun, which was later adapted as a screen production by the ABC. Hyllus Noel Maris, of Yorta Yorta and Wurundjeri (Woiwurrung) descent, was born in 1934 in Echuca, Victoria. She spent her early childhood at Cummeragunja, where her grandmother imparted to her a detailed knowledge of her culture and family relationships in Victoria. Her family took part in the Walk-off from Cummeragunja in 1939 and settled near Shepparton, where Maris attended school. She subsequently moved to Melbourne, where she helped found the National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women in 1970. From this body grew the Aboriginal medical and legal services in Fitzroy, of which Maris was a co-founder. In the mid-1970s, she collaborated with the Austrian-born author, Sonia Borg, in writing Women of the Sun, a history of Australia over the previous 200 years, as seen through the experiences of a number of Aboriginal women. Adapted as an ABC television series in 1982, Women of the Sun won many awards, including the United Nations Media Peace Prize and the AWGIE award of the Australian Writers Guild. Maris was largely responsible for the establishment, in 1982, of Worawa College, Victoria’s first Aboriginal school. She died of cancer in 1986, and was buried at Cummeragunja. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Book Women of the sun, Maris, Hyllus and Sonia Borg, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 18 May 2005 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The records include minutes of meetings of the Anzac Fellowship of Women, 1925-1928, 1931-1939, 1958-1962, 1965-1967, Secretary’s reports 1924, correspondence, diaries, photographs, press clippings, publications and other material relating to the work of the Fellowship. The collection includes material from other associations also founded by Dr Mary Booth such as the Soldiers’ Club and the Empire Service Clubs. The records of the Soldiers’ Club, ca. 1918-ca. 1923 include day books, diaries, lists of members, report books and a staff time book. The Empire Service Club records include a minute book 1928-1940, register 1928, sketch book, lists of members, index to letters 1930-1936 and a petty cash book 1944. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Cheer Up Society Incorporated, comprising miscellaneous printed items, address presented to the CUS, stamps, badges and arm stripes, photographs, a dance program for the Jamestown branch and minutes, welcome home list, correspondence and raffle book for Kalangadoo branch. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 25 min.)??Durack speaks about her first drawings; the native people in her drawings; mediums used; her method of working. Author Details Judith Ion Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elsie Margaret Traill has been somewhat overshadowed in the historical record by her youngest sister, the artist Jessie Constance Traill, but she was a highly significant figure in the history of the University of Melbourne. Her £5000 donation to Janet Clarke Hall led to the naming of the Traill Wing in her honour and she herself carved both the entrance plaque to the new wing and the wall plaque that hangs which hangs in the Janet Clarke Hall Verdon Library.[1] Elsie Traill was the second daughter of George Hamilton Traill. Two others, Kathleen and Mina, joined the Anglican Community of the Holy Name and Jessie, as well as serving as a VAD in France during the First World War, made a considerable name as a painter and etcher.[2] Their father had been manager of the Oriental Bank situated on the corner of Queen Street and Flinders Lane and demolished after the bank went out of business in 1884. Their mother was an Army Captain’s daughter.[3] Elsie Traill’s career was distinguished by her philanthropy and by the time she gave to serving the organisations she supported. These included the Lyceum Club, as one of the founders and acting honorary secretary of its planning group and a member of its first committee, the Victoria League, Diocesan Mission to the Streets and Lanes of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind and most especially the Australian Red Cross. The Australian Branch of the Red Cross was set up only nine days after the declaration of war, and Elsie Traill, following her sister’s enlistment in the Voluntary Aid Detachment, established the first Red Cross Shop, in suburban Sandringham. Edwards notes that the shop, which later moved to Regent Place in the City, not only assisted servicemen by providing an outlet for their handcrafts, but also provided one for women to sell theirs.[4] Elsie Traill was assiduous in her services both to Janet Clarke Hall, where she lived from 1895 until she took her BA in 1898, and to Trinity College, from which the women’s college had sprung. She played an active part in establishing the Janet Clarke Hall Committee, which she chaired for some years, and served on the Trinity College Council. She was also the first woman appointed as Honorary Secretary of the Associates of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. [1] Sarah Edwards and Lisa Sullivan. The Art Collection of Janet Clarke Hall University Gallery, University Museum of Art August 7 to September 26 1997. Melbourne: Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne, 1997. p. 15-18. [2] Mary Alice Lee. ‘Traill, Jessie Constance Alicia (1881-1967)’. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990. [3] ‘Mr Traill’s Death’. Australian Town and Country Journal. 17 April 1907: 43. [4] Edwards and Sullivan op. cit. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 8 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A middle aged Aboriginal woman nurses her old white mother. During her tending of the old woman we feel her frustrations of duty, her suppressed anger, her own need for warmth and love, her personal loneliness. Her memories and dreams invade her nerve fraying routine until the old woman dies and we share the daughter’s immense sense of loss. Shot entirely in a studio, the power of the film lies in the artificially treated vibrantly coloured landscape and carefully constructed soundscape. The environment contributes another personality…an unbending, unchanging force. Inspired by ‘Jedda’, Moffatt resurrects the two primary characters and propels them 30 years into the future, transforming the relationship between child and mother into carer and invalid. — General note: Summary from http://www.chilifilms.com.au and ‘The Oxford Companion to Australian Films’.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Professor Clarke’s papers relating to the Australian Research Council, of which she has been a member from 1988 – 1990. Papers include agenda, background information including record of the inaugural ARC Working Party, 14 March 1988, records of ARC meetings, from the first meeting of the Interim Australian Research Council, 22 April 1988 to 23/24 November 1989. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 15 min.)??O’Connor speaks about the influence of the French Impressionists on her style; her stay in London and Paris; portrait painting; method of painting; reason for returning to Australia. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This file has a copy of the report on Attitudes of South Australian Women to Tertiary Education by Laurene Dietrich. There is a draft which has comments by Bruce Trucks about his interpretation of the report. The Principal’s speech on Graduation Day Roseworthy Agricultural College 1973 note that while the College was required under the law to admit female students and that this cut straight across a long standing tradition at Roseworthy they (College staff) believed that few girls will want to have the sort of education available at Roseworthy. There is a final report The Needs/Attitudes of Rural South Australian Women to Post-Secondary Education for Themselves and Their Daughters, by Laurence Dietrich Research Associate. There is a copy of Susie O’Brien’s Talk on The Ferals and the Droopers: a discussion of the informal learning environment for female students at Roseworthy College. Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Annual Reports, 1992-; Press cuttings Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Invergowrie Past Students Association Minutes, Reports and Accounts, Student Registers, 1938-1972. Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel records 1929-1980s: Prospectuses, 1929-70; Principal’s Reports, 1930-73; Visitors’ Books; newscuttings and memorabilia; Register of Students, 1964-1968; Invergowrie Council Minutes, 1968-75; Annual General Meeting Minutes, 1968-74 Invergowrie Past Students’ Association: Photographs of Students and Activities, 1929-1972. Photographs of subsequent functions to 1986; Minutes of committee minutes, 1949-87; Minutes of May Weatherley Memorial Appeal Committee; biographical notes and lists of past students Newsletters and correspondence 1950s-1986. Association of Heads of Independent Girls Schools of Victoria: Minutes Annual General Meetings, 1940-68; Agendas for Annual General Meetings 1961-66. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kay Daniels taught and published widely in the fields of women’s, social and colonial history. Until her two-volume work Women in Australia: An Annotated Guide to Records was published in 1977, it had been generally believed that women could not be included in history as they lived within the family and there were no records of their lives in the public sphere. She spent part of her life as a Commonwealth public servant in Canberra, contributing in areas of cultural policy and intellectual property rights. After graduating from the University of Adelaide in 1963, Daniels chose an interdisciplinary studies course offered by University of Sussex. It was here that she completed her doctoral thesis on the publication of novels in England in the 1890s, under labour historian Asa Briggs and literary critic David Daiches. From 1967 to 1988, Daniels taught history, applying the insights she had acquired to the new field of women’s history, at the University of Tasmania. With a grant funded from the International Women’s Year project, Daniels designed and supervised a project that set out to unearth in Australia’s official archives all materials relating to women. Women in Australia: An Annotated Guide to Records was published in 1977. She also attended early women’s movement conferences, as well as leading the fight to save the Cascades Female Factory and publishing the newsletter Liberaction. Daniels took leave in 1985, to head up the committee to review Australian studies in tertiary education in Canberra. The resulting report, Windows into Worlds, led to the establishment of many Australian Studies centres, and to the increased Australian content of much of tertiary education. She was the principal intellectual force behind the 1993 cultural policy statement Distinctly Australian, and also had significant input into its successor Creative Nation, after commencing work for the federal Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, in 1989. Before passing away, Daniels was awarded an adjunct professorship at Macquarie University and an honorary degree from the University of Tasmania. In 2003 The Kay Daniels Award was established to honour her work as a historian and public servant. It is a biennial award, sponsored by members and associates of the Australian Historical Association, the University of Tasmania and the Port Arthur Historic Site. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Kay Daniels: writer, historian, scholar and bureaucrat, Summers, Anne, 2001 Life of compassion drove gifted feminist, Flanagan, Richard, 2001 Enlightened voice of women's history, Roe, Jill, 2001 Destined for distinction, 2001 Journal Article Obituary, Roe, Jill, 2001 Kay Daniels 1941-2001, Roe, Jill, 2002 Edited Book Women in Australia : an annotated guide to records, Daniels, Kay, Murnane, Mary, Picot, Anne and National Research Program (Australia), 1977 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Marilyn Lake, 1964-1999 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 August 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jan Strom is a community activist, local councillor and outstanding citizen. She has served on the Coffs Harbour City Council from 1999 to 2004, being Deputy Mayor from 2000 to 2004. In 2003 she stood as an Independent in the Coffs Harbour elections of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Jan Strom has a strong background in marketing and events management. She says of herself that her work experience includes being a speaker, an actor, a fitness industry leader, a television presenter, a small business operator, a marketer, a university lecturer, a work place trainer, a community activist, a local government Councillor, a wife and mother. She lived in various towns and cities, as well as in Italy and the United Kingdom before moving to Coffs Harbour in 1982. She is married to Peter Strom and they have two sons. In 1983 she established Bootlace Productions and worked as an actor and producer for it until 1995. From 1982 to 1992 she was a television presenter with NRTV, and owned and ran Jazz Fitness. She has organised and coordinated many events including Southern Cross University Open Days, Jetty Festivals, Carols by Candlelight, and public lectures. She worked as Marketing and Community Liaison Officer for Southern Cross University from 1995 to 2001, while obtaining her Assoc. Degree in Management and Professional Studies (1997) and a Masters degree in Professional Management (2004). She also lectured at Southern Cross University in Business, and Tourism and Hotel Management. She is Deputy Chair of the Mid North Coast Regional Development Board, Chair of the Coffs Coast Food & Wine Festival, and an executive member of the Coffs harbour Chamber of Commerce. Although no longer a member of the City Council, Jan Strom continues to participate in a wide range of community activities. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc04.254 comprises printed versions of five e-mails from Susan Bambrick to Rosemary Turner, 7 October, 2004, forwarding the text of five speeches given by Bambrick from 1999-2002 (1 folder).??The Acc10.165 instalment comprises a collection of recipes titled “Memories of my mother’s afternoon teas, with recipes”, dated 2 October, 2010 (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Recorded on 18 March 1982. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 7 August 2019 Last modified 7 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sydney, NSW. November 1941. Group portrait of members of the first VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) contingent to travel overseas. The women are assembled on the boat deck of the Queen Mary, the troopship which carried them over to the Middle East. Two lifeboats are at rear on the edge of the deck. Known to be in this group are: Edna Bland, Joan Bryce, Yvonne Levy (Victorian Camp Commandant), Marjorie Brown (South Australian Camp Commandant), Marjorie Davis, Bertha Meggs, Lesley Long, Rae Batt, Molly Johns, Molly Oliver, Beryl Follows, Nan Liston, Ann Scots Girving, Elsie Paton, Gladys Battye, Molly Hales, Sheila Lennox-Biggar, NX76505 Alice Burns, Alwyn Smith, Edna Helliwell, Marie Robinson, Joan Petts, Joan Whittington, Dr Piper, Joan Shelaugh, Amber Bushell. (Donor A. Penman) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The JD Somerville Oral History Collection was established in 1987 as the central repository for unpublished oral history tapes and transcripts in South Australia. The collection is intended to provide an oral record of all aspects of the South Australian experience and particularly of those who are poorly represented in documentary records, such as low income earners, people of non-English speaking background, women, and country people. The collection also provides a representative sample of the various uses of oral history, such as academic, commissioned, local history, community arts, school and family history.??The foundation collection was a Jubilee 150 project ‘S.A. Speaks’ consisting of interviews with 45 men and women who were broadly representative of South Australia in the first decades of the twentieth century. Since 1987 the community has responded with enthusiasm to the Somerville Collection and the Library receives more than 300 hours of recordings each year from practitioners including genealogists, local history groups, post-graduate students and professional historians. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 May 2004 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Honourable Dame Roma Mitchell was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order on 1 January 2000. During her life Dame Roma achieved a number of firsts. She was the first woman Governor of an Australian State (South Australia, 1991-1996), the first woman Chancellor of a university in Australia (University of Adelaide, 1983-1990) and the first Australian woman Queen’s Counsel (1962). Dame Roma Mitchell’s father (Harold Mitchell) was killed in World War I. At the time her mother (Maude, née Wickham) had two children under the age of 10. Like many women of her time she had not been trained in any profession and she struggled to bring up her daughters. Dame Roma was educated at St Aloysius College, Adelaide. She won the David Murray scholarship which enabled her to study law at the University of Adelaide, receiving her degree in 1934. Dame Roma supported the issues of equal pay for women and for women to sit on juries (legislated in 1966). She was recommended by Don Dunstan (Attorney-General SA) to be appointed a Supreme Court Judge of South Australia in 1965, the first woman to be so appointed. Dame Roma was still the only women judge of the Supreme Court in Australia when she retired after 18 years in the position in 1983, aged 70. Dame Roma became the first woman Chancellor (1983-1990) in an Australian university when she was appointed to the position at the University of Adelaide. In all Dame Roma was associated with the university for over 60 years; first as a student and then a part-time lecturer in Matrimonial and Family Law for five years during the 1960s. In 1965 she became a member of the University Council. She was Senior Deputy Chancellor for 11 years from 1972. Dame Roma was awarded the degree of Doctor of the University for her distinguished service to the University in 1985. In January 1991 Dame Roma took up her appointment as Governor of South Australia (1991-1996). As well as being a member of the Queen Adelaide Club and Lyceum Club, Dame Roma was a member of the Council for the Order of Australia. Her interests included theatre, music and the visual arts and she was Vice-President of the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society (De Vries). In her chapter on Roma Flinders Mitchell in Great Australian Women, author Susanna De Vries wrote: ‘In June 1999, [the then] Hon. Governor-General Sir William Deane unveiled a life-size bronze statue of Dame Roma “as a permanent tribute to her lifetime achievement in South Australia”. The statue stands in Prince Henry Gardens, in front of Government House on North Terrace.’ Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1991 - 1991 Appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) 1971 - 1971 Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her services to Law 1991 - 1996 Governor of South Australia (first woman Governor in Australia) 1983 - 1990 Chancellor of the University of Adelaide 1965 - 1983 First woman to be appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia 1962 - 1962 First Australian woman appointed to the Queen’s Counsel 1934 - 1934 Admitted to the Bar 1996 - 2000 Chair of the Ministerial Board on Ageing (South Australia) 1991 - 1991 National President of the Australian Association of the Ryder-Cheshire Foundations 1981 - 1990 Member of the Council for the Order of Australia 1981 - 1986 Chairman of the Commonwealth Human Rights Commission 1991 - 1991 President of the Winston Churchill Memerial Trust 1979 - 1981 Chairman of the South Australian Parole Board 1994 - 1994 Awarded the Institution of Engineers Medal 1982 - 1982 Created Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her service to the community Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 S.A.'s greats: the men and women of the North Terrace plaques, Healey, John, 2001 Resource Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Dame Roma: glimpses of a glorious life, Magarey, Susan, 2002 State funeral, funeral Mass for the Honourable Dame Roma Mitchell AC DBE CVO, 1912-2000, St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Adelaide, Friday 10 March, 2000, 2000 The matriarchs: twelve Australian women talk about their lives to Susan Mitchell., Mitchell, Susan, 1987 Living in South Australia : a social history, Elizabeth Kwan, 1987 Greater than their knowing: a glimpse of South Australian women 1836-1986, National Council of Women of South Australia, 1986 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Sound recording Conversation with Her Honour Justice Roma Mitchell [sound recording] / interviewer, Hazel de Berg., Mitchell, Roma, Dame, 1978 Report Women's liberation and the law, Mitchell, Roma, 1971 Mitchell Oration 1989 : \"Looking back...looking forward\"., Mitchell, Roma, 1989 The web of criminal law, Mitchell, Roma, 1975 The External Affairs power in relation to United Nations Conventions, its effect upon the balance of power between Commonwealth and States, Mitchell, Roma, 1995 Resource Section DAME ROMA MITCHELL, 2002, http://www.abc.net.au/btn/australians/rmitchell.htm Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Review The Life of a Distaff Legal Pioneer, Dixon, Marion, 2002, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UWALawRw/2002/6.pdf Archival resources State Library of South Australia Dame Roma Mitchell : SUMMARY RECORD Interview with Dame Roma Mitchell [sound recording] Interviewer: Yvonne Abbott Launch of the second stage of The Honoured Women Oral History Project [sound recording] Launch of the Barbara Hanrahan Memorial Exhibition [sound recording] History of Medicine Library The right to live and the right to die - Dame Roma Mitchell. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hours 55 minutes??Mary Helen Newport was interviewed as one of the Honoured Women Oral History Project. She was born and did her primary and secondary education in Adelaide. Mary won scholarships to St. Aloysius College and Chartres Business College. She had the ability to go to university but the economic pressure (because her mother had died after a long battle with cancer when Mary was 12 years old) to work as great. When Mary Newport was old enough, she joined the Commonwealth Public Service, first in the Taxation Office in Adelaide and then in Canberra. During her Long Service Leave in 1959, Mary worked at Australia House in London and the Australian Embassy in London. She describes in detail the adventure of taking a friend’s letter to his parents in Czechoslakvia when it was behind the Iron Curtain. On her return to Australia, Mary Newport was invited to work with the Press Secretary of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies. Although, Mary was writing many of the Prime Minister’s statements, her salary was so minimal that the Government had to pay a subsidy to the boarding house where most public servants lived. When Sir Robert Menzies retired, the press team of Tony Eggleton and Mary Newport continued in the Prime Minister’s Department, first for Harold Holt, then Sir John McEwan, John Gorton and Sir William McMahon. She describes in great detail her work, the achievements and personalities of these Prime Ministers as well the working conditions for journalists and the social life in Canberra at that time. During this time Mary Newport completed a degree by part-time study at the Australian National University. She noted that the importunate demands of her work affected personal relationships. When the Australian Labor Party came into Government in 1975, Mary Newport returned to work in various Commonwealth Departments and assisted with various Commissions of Inquiries. From these investigations, Mary learnt a great deal about working conditions of public servants and the criminal activities within the Painters and Dockers Union. In 1988, Mary Newport resigned from the Commonwealth Public Service to become the first national media officer for the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Religion as well as interesting work was important for Mary Newport. Again she describes in detail her work, the reluctance of many bishops to become involved with the media and the challenges of being a pioneer, a mark of her working life. For example, she convinced the ABC to televise the Pope’s Midnight Mass at Christmas. She worked there until 1995. Throughout her interview Mary Newport acknowledges the difficulty of being a woman in what was effectively a man’s world of work. Mary Newport was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia and is a Dame of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. She acknowledged that there was some prejudice against Catholics in her workplaces. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: V02]??Comprises internally produced publications circulated to members to keep them informed of current activities, services, requirements, important news and service recognition. Titles include: Victorian Bulletin (1941-1947, incomplete series); News notes (published monthly from 1955-1986); Cross Talk (1981-2004); Cross Over (1987); Red Cross News (1982-1993).??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kim Appleby is a successful local councillor, having been elected, to the Auburn Council from 1999 to 2003. She was however unsuccessful in her one attempt to enter State parliament. She was an Independent in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Auburn by-election of 2001. Kim Appleby was born in Auburn and educated at secondary level at St John’s High School, later part of Trinity Catholic College. She was a councillor on Auburn Council at the time of her campaign for the state seat of Auburn, having been elected in 1999. She ran chiefly to indicate to the government that the area had been neglected. She was concerned about rising crime rates and the condition of Auburn Hospital. Kim Appleby was active in many community groups in the area including the Auburn Community Drug Action Team. She was also the prime mover in the establishment of a Heritage Working party for Auburn Council In 2005 she was involved in tertiary study, completing a Diploma of Business Management. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jillian Skinner, a Liberal Party member, has been a well known and active Member of Parliament for more than twenty years.. However in her first two attempts to enter parliament via the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of North Shore (1984 and 1988) were unsuccessful. Jillian’s luck finally changed in 1994 when she won the seat at the by-election. She was re-elected to the seat in 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015. Throughout this time Jillian has held the following appointments: Shadow Minister for Youth Affairs, 1995-1999, 2002-2003. Shadow Minister for Health, 1995-2003, September 2005 to date. Shadow Minister for Education and Training 2003-2005. Shadow Minister for the Arts 2003-2008. Shadow Minister for School Education April-September 2005. Minister for Medical Research 2011-2015. Minister for Health, 2011- Jillian Skinner was born in Melbourne in 1944, the daughter of Robert and Lois Coutts. She served her cadetship in journalism on the Melbourne Herald. She worked as a journalist for News Limited and Radio Hong Kong from 1962-1973, returning to live in Sydney in 1979. From 1984 to 1988 she ran Jillian Skinner and Associates, doing editorial writing, research, policy development and strategic planning. She is married to Christopher Skinner, and they have three children. When her children were small, she became active in P. & C. affairs in North Sydney and was a founding member of the North Sydney Occasional Childcare. From 1988 to 1994 she was Director of the New South Wales Office of Youth Affairs. She has held office in the Liberal Party at all levels, local, electorate and State. Elected to the Legislative Assembly at a by-election in 1994, following the resignation of Phillip Smiles, she was appointed to the Shadow Ministry the following year, after the defeat of the Fahey government. In 2005 she held first, the shadow ministry of Education and then Health. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection includes papers relating to Taperell’s candidacy for the NSW state government seat of Nepean, 1973; articles, reports and speeches on women’s affairs, 1974-1986; and papers created and accumulated by Taperell in her positions as Director of the Office of the Status of Women (formerly the Office of Women’s Affairs), 1978-1984, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, 1984-1985 and in affiliated activities. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 May 2009 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The records include an article, cards, circulars, constitution, films and videos, history of AWAS, letters, lists, memorabilia, minutes, newsletters, newspaper cuttings, photographs, reports, song, speech, statement of accounts, telegrams re cessation of hostilities. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 September 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Liberation through Education – With History of the Victorian Women Graduates’ Association, by Lesley Alves. Thesis submitted as part of the Final Honours Examination in the Department of History, La Trobe University. 21 October 1985. Mrs Ann Thornton’s personal copy. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Amy Rivett was a medical practitioner who specialised in gynaecology. She was a disciple of Marie Stopes and advocated birth control. During WWI she worked in several hospitals in Brisbane. After the war she moved into private practice, first on her own and then, from 1946, with her brother Edward in Sydney. She was a founding member of the Queensland Medical Women’s Society. Amy Rivett was educated at the University of Sydney (MB 1915; ChM 1918). Over the course of her career she worked as Superintendent, Hospital for Sick Children (Brisbane) 1915-17; resident medical officer, Brisbane General Hospital 1917; resident medical officer, Lady Bowen Hospital 1918; and in private practice, Wickham Terrace 1919-ca 1946. She studied in London and Vienna in 1936, and moved into private practice with her brother Edward in Sydney from 1946. As municipal medical officer in Brisbane she was in charge of the health of licensed prostitutes. She specialised in gynaecology and experimented in mental telepathy and extra-sensory perception. Published resources Resource Section Rivett, Amy Christine (1891-1962), Rutledge, Martha, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110409b.htm Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1948-1949; Diaries (3): 8 Apr.-1 Aug. 1948, 2 Aug.-26 Nov. 1948, and 27 Nov. 1948-15 Feb. 1949, concerning study trip of American and British libraries (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/1)?5 Sep.-15 Dec. 1961; Diary mainly concerning trip to IFLA International Conference on Cataloguing Principles, Paris, 9-18 Oct. 1961 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/1)?1963-1994; Pocket appointments’ diaries, being one for each year, except two for 1989, and excluding 1983 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/1)?1983-1988; A4 and quarto appointments’ diaries (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/2)??ca. 1913, 1933-1989; Correspondence, with enclosures including Future Projection for Women at Work, being her paper at the Victorian Employers’ Federation Women at Work Conference, Melbourne, 21 July 1969, and copy of Public Administration, vol. 5 no. 8, Dec. 1945, featuring her article, ‘ Employment of Women in the Civil Service’. Correspondents include Australian Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament, Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs. Division of New South Wales, Australian Freedom from Hunger Campaign. New South Wales Committee, Ruby W. Board, Business and Professional Women’s Club of Sydney, R. F. Doust, Mary Fairfax, Sir Vincent Fairfax, Eileen Furley, Irene Greenwood, Harold Casterton (Harry) Harper, Noel L. Lamidey, Andrea Lofthouse, Norman Mackenzie, National Council of Women of New South Wales, Ted Noffs, Fanny Reading, Bessie Mabel Rischbieth, Jessie Street, Nancy Bird Walton and Margaret Woodhouse (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/3)?1934-1990; ‘Letters of Library Interest and Documents’, being correspondence, with enclosures including her paper, Cataloguing and Classification of Special and Private Collections, delivered at the Library Association of Australia Conference, Melbourne, 27 Aug. 1975. Correspondents include Henry and Leo Berkelouw, Business and Professional Women’s Club of Sydney, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Jim Cleary, Gerald Fischer, Harold Casterton (Harry) Harper, Eleanor M. Hinder, W. H. Ifould, Phyllis Mander-Jones, John Andrew Osborn, Barrett Reid, G. D. Richardson and the State Library of New South Wales (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/3)?1948-1949; Letters received from her mother, Jane Arnot, Alison McPherson and a nephew. See also letters from Jean Arnot to family and friends, 1948-1949, 1961, at ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/15 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/3)?1959-1992; Postcards received and drafts not sent (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, AAD ON 2070/3)?1961-1975; ‘Vice Regal & Official Christmas Cards’ (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/3)?1964-1965; Correspondence concerning her nomination for MBE and congratulatory letters received (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/3)?1965-1991; References and testimonials for others (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/3)??1916-1969; Papers concerning her secondary education and employment with the Public Library of New South Wales (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1933-1994; Papers mainly concerning friends, colleagues and interests, including letters received, newscuttings and obituaries. Correspondents and/or subjects include James Allison, Zoe Emma Bertles, Freda Milicent Bryant, Flo Cluff, Alison Crook, Sir Vincent Fairfax, Film Australia, L. F. Fitzhardinge, Muriel A. Heagney, Theodora Hobbs, Millie Hoy, Marie V. Hurley, W. H. Ifould, Jessie Street Women’s Library, Beatrice Anne Stewart Instone, Bee Miles, Museum of Australian Childhood, Molly Newman, Wilma Radford, Barrett Reid, Edith Alice Sims, Jocelynne A. Scutt, H. L. White and Margaret Woodhouse (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1948-1949; Papers concerning overseas study trip. Includes correspondence with the British Council and the Carnegie Corporation of New York; professional itinerary and copies of her report, Visit to Libraries in Britain and America 1948-9; theatre programs; and menus from the ship, RMS Queen Elizabeth (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1959-1961; Papers mainly concerning the International Federation of Library Associations’ International Conference on Cataloguing Principles, Paris, 9-18 Oct. 1961 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1961-1962; Papers concerning ‘Committee on Cataloguing Paris Conference – LAA File’ (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1961-1967; Papers concerning Cataloguing Code Revision, including Australian working papers on 1961 IFLA Conference agenda items (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1962, 1972-1995; Papers concerning the Nita B. Kibble Literary Award and the Nita May Dobbie Award (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1962-1965, 1981-1993; Papers concerning her entries submitted to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, being the Reverend John McGarvie (1795-1853), W. H. Ifould (1877-1969), Nita Bernice Kibble (1879-1962) and Margaret MacPherson (1875-1956) (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1968; Papers concerning her retirement from the Public Library of New South Wales on 19 Apr. 1968, including testimonial under seal issued by the Library Trustees; letter received from G. D. Richardson, Principal Librarian, 26 Apr. 1968; farewell cards, invitations and tributes from outside the Library; letter received from Mollie Thomson, co-host of the afternoon tea party held in Jean Arnot’s honour; and papers concerning universal party organised by Wilma Radford at the University of NSW, 27 Apr. 1968, with letters of appreciation received (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1968-1971; Papers concerning her indexing the reprint volumes of The Sydney Gazette 1810-1811 for the Library of NSW, including correspondence with Frank Dunn, Dixson Librarian (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1968-1992; Papers mainly concerning her oral history interview by Anne Robertson for the State Library of New South Wales’ sesquicentenary and the Library’s acquisition of her papers. Includes her notebook compiled for the interview with details of her career and campaign for equal pay. (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1969-1991; Papers concerning her cataloguing of the Library of Camden Park, Menangle, N.S.W., including correspondence with the owners, Quentin and Antonia Macarthur Stanham, 1969-1971 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1980-1992; Papers mainly concerning the State Library of New South Wales and its Library Society and the Australian Library and Information Association, including correspondence, newscuttings and invitations (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1987; Papers concerning the Library Association of Australia’s 50th anniversary celebrations, Canberra, 2-4 Sep. 1987, including her talk on her first visit to Canberra for the launching of the Australian Institute of Librarians, 1937 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1993-1995; Papers concerning luncheons in honour of her 90th birthday, celebrated chiefly at Parliament House, Sydney, 19 Apr. 1993. Includes presentation album with letters received from, among others, Alison Crook, State Librarian; Jean M. Elliston, President, National Council of Women of N.S.W. Inc.; Premier John Fahey; Warren Horton, Director-General, National Library of Australia; Prime Minister Paul Keating; Kaye Loder, Convenor, National Women’s Consultative Committee; Di Manning, President, Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women; and G. D. Richardson; with a copy of Congratulations Miss Arnot (State Library of NSW Press, 1993), being augmented reprint of her 1946 ABC broadcast, Should Both Sexes Receive Equal Pay for Equal Work ? (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/6)?1994; Papers concerning Jocelynne A. Scutt’s book, Taking a Stand – Women in Politics and Society (Artemus Publishing Pty Ltd, 1994), including letters received from Jocelynne A. Scutt, 15 May 1994, concerning her essay on Jean Arnot in the book (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/6)??1950-1951, 1964-1965, 1979; Certificates concerning her appointment to MBE, 1965; her election to Fellow of the Library Association of Australia, 1964; her Honorary Membership of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1979; and copy of her report, Library Facilities in New South Wales Government Institutions, 1950, with note, 1951 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/7X)??1976-1994; File concerning British Empire Association, including circular letters received and printed material (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/8)?1948-1989; Files (2) concerning the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Sydney, including correspondence, membership lists, constitution and by-laws, material concerning the 40th anniversary of the Club, 1979; and the Club’s study tour of Papua-New Guinea, 15-29 July 1968 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/8)?1985-1995; File concerning the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women Inc. Division of New South Wales, including correspondence, news bulletins, and constitution and by-laws (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/8)?1982-1995; File concerning the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women Inc., including correspondence and copies of Federation News (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/9)?1933-1937; File of Kooroora Literary and Debating Society magazine, being five volumes: 1932-33, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1936-37 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/9)?1980-1994; File concerning the National Council of Women Inc., including correspondence, circular letters received, material concerning Margaret Windeyer and report of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales, 1892 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/9)?1990-1995; File concerning National Council of Women of New South Wales Inc., being printed material (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/10)?1978-1995; File concerning Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association, including circular letters received, reports and proceedings of the Association’s 9th (Canberra, 1961), 13th (Seoul, 1975) and 15th (Saratoga Springs and New York, 1981) international conferences (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/10)?1955-1985; File concerning the Royal Australian Historical Society, including letters received from John Bennett, 1985, and D. I. McDonald, 1983; talks; copy of obituary of Harold Casterton (Harry) Harper by Hazel King; and printed material (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/10)?1967-1995; File concerning the Royal Australian Historical Society and its Library and Library Committee, including correspondence, newscuttings and printed material (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/10)?1960-1965; File concerning the Women’s club, including correspondence, circular letters received and annual reports (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/11)??ca. 1937-1991; Literary papers, being mainly notes and drafts of talks and speeches, with related correspondence and newscuttings. Topics and themes: Travel, ca. 1949-1972, date unknown; National Council of Women, 1963-1966, date unknown; Public Service, ca. 1942-1945; Internationalism, 1966-1967; Old Sydney, 1979-1991; Bibliotherapy – Libraries, ca. 1937-1971, including New Anglo-American Code for Australian Libraries, 1967; Dedications in Books, 1946, 1988, date unknown; Local History, 1970-1978 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/12)?1937-1990; Literary papers continued. Topics and themes: Status of Women in the Christian Church, 1968-1980; Women in Australia – Norman Mackenzie – Status of Women etc., 1945-1975, 1990; Australia Day & Victoria League Coronation day, 1957-1984; ‘Articles, etc. & Speeches … Not Library’, 1937-1975, 1989, including ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’, 1937, Conference on Unemployment, 1961, Ruby Board, with prisoners’ Christmas cards, 1949, and pamphlet on the opening of Berrima Training Centre, 1949; Reminiscences of a Cataloguer, 1981; The Australian Subscription Library and the Royal Australian Historical Society Library, 197–1982, date unknown; Early Australian Newspapers, Sydney Gazette, Hobart Town Gazette, 1989, date unknown; ‘Speeches Miscellaneous’ concerning, among other topics, Christmas, retirement, missionary work, the Big Sister Movement, Sydney Harbour, Captain Cook Bi-Centenary, BPW Club of Sydney study tour of Papua-New Guinea, 1968, and Soroptismy (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/13)??1926-1989, date unknown; Newscuttings concerning librarians and libraries, including obituary of Edith Alice Sims (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/14)?1934-1994; Newscuttings mainly concerning Jean Arnot, being four folders: no. 1, 1934-1953, with letter received from Lorelei booker; no. 2, 1953-1961; no. 3, 1961-1967; no. 4, 1968-1994 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/14)?1952-1995; Newscuttings on a range of topics, with letters received from Irina Dunn, 1990; Irene Greenwood, 1978, 1990; W. Boyd Rayward, 1992; and the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre, Longreach, Qld, 1990-1991 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/14)?1968-1994; Newscuttings mainly concerning librarians and libraries, with letters received from, among others, Alison Crook and Wilma Radford; list of Kooroora Club members, 1968-1969; invitations; and copy of speech, ‘Australia’s Cultural Heritage’, by Sir David Smith to the A.C.T. Branch of the Royal Commonwealth Society, 5 June 1992 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/14)?1988-1990; Newscuttings concerning the property, Belltrees, at Scone, N.S.W., owned by the Michael and Judy White (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/14)??192–197-; Miscellaneous papers, including letters received from Jean Arnot to family and friends, 9 Apr. 1948-7 Feb. 1949, and to her sisters, Gillian and Mary Arnot, and Alison McPherson, 6 Sep.-7 Dec. 1961; photocopied specimens of handwriting of Library staff who have contributed to entries in the card catalogues, 192–193-; passports (2), 1948 and 1961-1966, with enclosed identity card, 1942,; travel documents for Paris trip, 1961, and New Zealand trip, 1973; and unused postcards, 194–197- (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/15)??1938-1990; Printed material, including order of proceedings of memorial ceremony for Emeritus Professor John Ward, AO, Patricia Ward, AM, Jennifer Ward and Moira Jennings at the Great Hall, University of Sydney, 21 June 1990, and of evening of tribute to Patricia Bruce Ward, AM, BA, DipED, FLAA, held at the State Library of NSW, 28 June 1990; and travel maps, 1938-198-, date unknown, including New South Wales Tourist Bureau regional maps, 1938 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/15) Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Victoria was founded in 1887 when the 12 existing local branches in Melbourne suburbs and regional Victoria joined together to form a Colonial Union. It is primarily dedicated to promoting total abstinence from alcohol and other harmful drugs and all members sign a pledge to this effect. Under its broader agenda of ‘home protection’ and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, and in its belief that the dangers of alcohol could not be tackled in isolation, the WCTU has pursued a very wide-ranging reform agenda mostly relating to the welfare of women and children. Importantly, influenced by its sister organisation in the United States, the Union became a major supporter of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Australia as it was believed that power at the ballot box was the only way to achieve their goals. While at its most influential in the years up to WWI, the movement continues today. The first local Union was established in Victoria in 1885 and the movement grew rapidly. The Victorian Union was founded largely due to the efforts of Marie Kirk and the Rev. Philip Moses who arranged the first Organising Conference in 1887. The foundation president was Mary Love, who had been a member of the Union in the United States prior to her move to Melbourne in 1886. At its first Annual Convention in 1888, the Union outlined its operational agenda of ‘Organisation, Preventive Work, Social Work and Educational Work.’ By 1891 it had 57 branches. By 1890 the Victorian Union had also committed itself to the suffrage cause: passing a resolution that: ‘As men and women are alike in having to obey the laws … they should also be equal in electing those who make the laws; and, further, that the ballot in the hands of women would be a safeguard to the home, in which the interests of women are paramount, and as what is good for the home is also good for the State, the enfranchisement of women would be conducive to the highest national welfare.’ In 1891 the Union sent a deputation to the Premier who responded cautiously that in order for him to take any action on the matter there would need to be united and representative agitation on the part of women. The Union thus approached the other two suffrage societies to discuss combined action. It was decided to launch a vigorous effort to gather signatures for a petition. They began a massive door knocking campaign which captured much attention. Never before had such large numbers of women taken to the streets in common cause. 30,000 signatures were collected and presented to parliament. The Union was instrumental in the formation of the Victorian Woman’s Suffrage League in 1894. The Union has also been involved in a range of other issues and causes. It was one of the first four groups to affiliate with the National Council of Women of Victoria in 1902. From its inception, the Union became concerned with children’s welfare. It campaigned for reforms in the ‘boarding-out’ system and the appointment of inspectors and the raising of the age of consent for girls from 12 to 16 years. In 1909 it established Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Victoria Kindergarten in Richmond, with an associated School for Mothers which held lectures by doctors and had visiting nurses. This was the first such institution in the State and was a forerunner of Baby Health Centres. The Kindergarten closed in 1953, but was reopened as an Occupational Centre for Mentally Retarded Children. From its earliest years it has also run a children’s branch, the Loyal Temperance Union. From its earliest days, the Union has also been interested in the welfare of working-class ‘girls’, forming Clubs for Girls and offering affordable accommodation and meals at various hostels and its headquarters. Other issues tackled by its various Departments of Work included prison reform, Aboriginal welfare, sex education, film censorship, early childhood education, peace and arbitration. In recent years, the WCTU has turned its attention to drug education, anti-smoking and gambling strategies and to the campaign against drink-driving. Published resources Book Forward in faith : an historical record of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union covering the years 1947-1973, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1975 Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 One of Australia's daughters : an autobiography, Cowie, Bessie, 1900 Golden jubilee, 1887-1937, 1937 For God, home and humanity : a history of the Geelong City Union of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1888 to 1988, Pargeter, Judith, 1988 Youth Book of Citizenship Service, 1933 The Busy Woman's Home Companion, 1924 From Vision to Reality: Histories of the affiliates of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1987 Report Annual convention reports / the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria (Inc.), Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria., 1956- Women's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria. Peace Department and Local Association, [1889] Oral evidence presented on behalf of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria…: to a Board of Inquiry into the operation of the Liquor Control Act 1968 at Melbourne, Bergon, M A, 1977 Annual Report, Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria, 1887-2001 Book Section Post-war women reformers and Aboriginal citizenship : rehearsing an old campaign?, Holland, Alison, 1999 Reading the silences: suffrage activists and race in nineteenth century settler societies., Grimshaw, Patricia, 1999 Religion and public life : Catholic women for this world and the next, Massam, Katharine, 1999 Temperate Feminists: Marie Kirk and the WCTU, Hyslop, Anthea, 1985 Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Journal Article Colonising motherhood : Evangelical social reformers and Koorie women in Victoria, Australia, 1880s to the early 1990s, Grimshaw, Patricia, 1999 Sex education debates and the modest mother in Australia, 1890s to the 1930s, Warne, Ellen, 1999 Temperance, Christianity and feminism : the woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria, 1887-97, Hyslop, Anthea, 1976 A Mission to the Home: The Housewives Association, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Protestant Christianity, 1920-1940, Smart, Judith, 1998 A sacred trust: Cecilia Downing, Baptist faith and feminist citizenship, Smart, Judith, 1995 'For the good that we can do': Cecilia Downing and feminist Christian citizenship, Smart, Judith, 1994 Prowlers in the darkened cinema: Australian church women's associations and the arrival of the motion picture in Australia., Warne, Ellen, 2000 Women Citizens of the New Nation: Reading some visual evidence, Quartly, Marian, 2002 Thesis The 'Woman Question' in Melbourne, 1880-1914, Kelly, Farley, 1983 Conference Paper Christian women and changing concepts of citizenship rights and responsibilities in interwar Australia, Smart, Judith, 1999 Newsletter The White Ribbon Signal: Official Organ of the Woman's Temperance Union of Victoria, 1891-1931 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria Australian Historic Records Register Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria Inc. : community organisation records Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 7 August 2014 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Typed manuscript (approx. 110 pages) titled: “Soldiers of the Queen – the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps 1951-1984”, relating the history of the Corps. Written by Janette M. Bomford, a recipient of a John Treloar Grant for research, in 1995. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This series comprises 856 posters used by the Australian Red Cross (ARC) for education and awareness campaigns across a broad range of activities.??These posters are controlled 28 functional grouping. Each poster is prefixed by its B-group: B00 General; B01 Blood Service; B02 ARC Blood Service NSW; B03 ARC Blood Service VIC; B04 ARC Blood Service WA; B05 ARC First Aid; B06 ARC Fundraising; B07 ARC Services (General); B08 ARC Services ACT; B09 ARC Services NSW; B10 ARC Services QLD; B11 ARC Services SA; B12 ARC Services TAS; B13 ARC Services VIC; B14 ARC Services WA; B15 ARC Youth; B16 ARC Principles of Red Cross; B17 not held by UMA; B18 not held by UMA; B19 not held by UMA; B20 International Committee of Red Cross; B21 International Committee of Red Cross – Principles of Red Cross; B22 International Committee of Red Cross – International Relief; B23 International Committee of Red Cross – Medical Relief; B24 International Committee of Red Cross – Museum Series; B25 International Committee of Red Cross – Tracing/Refugees; B26 International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; B27 International Projects – ARC; B28 International Humanitarian Law – ARC; B29 International Humanitarian Law – International Committee of Red Cross; B30 American Red Cross; B31 British Red Cross.??Individual previous control numbers (POS: barcode numbers) have been retained.??These posters have been created both by the Australian Red Cross and the International Red Cross. Two posters 2016.0076.00009 and 2016.0076.00483 use artwork by the graphic artist, James Northfield (1887-1973), but most often the artist is not known.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Elsie Rose Beatrice Bolam (MBE), born in St Kilda, Victoria in 1880, was awarded an Order of the British Empire – Member in January 1960, for services to the community of Marysville, Victoria. She was particularly honoured for her work as an unpaid community nurse, but was also highly valued for her role in promoting tourism to the Marysville district in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. She described herself as ‘Marysville’s best advertisement,’ because she came to the town with the intention of staying for only a year, but instead ‘stayed for a generation’. Sister Bolam lived most of her adult life in Marysville, working as an ‘honorary doctor’, a tourism officer and a guesthouse proprietor. She loved the native flora and fauna of the district and, in1922, donated a parcel of land along the Steavenson River to the community for the purpose of fencing it off to create a koala reserve. Elsie Bolam passed away in September 1965. She never married and lived most of her life in the Marysville house she bought in partnership with her dear friend, Lesley McGowan. She was dubbed ‘Marysville’s Florence Nightingale’. Elsie Rose Beatrice Bolam was born in St Kilda, Victoria in 1880 into a family that was under stress. The 1883 divorce petition of her father, Thomas Bolam, Inspector General of State Schools in Victoria, against her mother Eva (nee Gill) was played out acrimoniously in the daily newspaper reports of the Supreme Court proceedings, as each parent accused the other of adultery and other forms of mistreatment. A jury was never able to decide the case, so the couple eventually reconciled. The toll on Thomas Bolam’s professional reputation and mental health proved too great for him to bear; he died, possibly from an overdose of chlorodyne, in February 1884. His wife, who passed away in 1928 outlived him by over forty years. Elsie cared for her mother, one way or another, for most of her adult life. She stepped in to relieve Eva Bolam from her duties as Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages for the Armadale, Malvern and Toorak district when she needed a break and cared for her mother when she came to live in Marysville. Other than this, we know very little of the circumstances of Elsie Bolam’s early life and childhood. We do know, however, that Elsie trained as a nurse and that the relationships she established during this period would be life altering and life-long. One of them, with Miss Helena Brayshay, probably brought her to Marysville around 1914. Another, with Miss Lesley McGowan, was a close friendship that lasted a lifetime. We don’t know for certain when, where and how Elsie Bolam and Helen Brayshay met, but it is possible that Brayshay, born in 1863, a nurse and nurse educator, met Bolam while she was in training (in Melbourne or Beechworth) or in her early years working in small private hospitals. Likewise, Lesley McGowan (also a nursing sister) and Elsie Bolam possibly met when they were training. Eventually, they all ended up living in Marysville. Kerami, the guesthouse that Brayshay bought there around 1914, was the focus of their lives for many years to come. Brayshay probably bought Kerami in 1913 and she asked Bolam to take over the running of the place for a year in 2014. When the year was up, Elsie decided to stay in Marysville and the rest is history. After Brayshay died in 1919, leaving Elsie with some of the proceeds from her estate, Bolam, in partnership with Lesley McGowan (who had continued to work as a nurse in small hospitals around central and southeastern Victoria until at least 1916), purchased Kerami , which they then ran for several years. They obviously did a very good job of it: Kerami attracted a ‘social’ enough clientele to regularly make the pages of Table Talk. In 1920, they built tearooms, which they called ‘The Crossways’, near the Steavenson River Bridge. In 1922 Elsie donated a parcel of land to the community that was fenced and made into a koala reserve. Nursing didn’t bring Elsie to Marysville, but her dedication to her vocation is what made her ‘a legend’ in the area. After arriving in Marysville in 1914, Elsie Bolam served as town’s honorary doctor for thirty-five years, taking a break during World War 2, when she temporarily moved back to Melbourne to work as a tourism officer but also as part of Melbourne’s emergency services. Marysville’s permanent population was too small and ‘too healthy’ to support a resident full time doctor, so both Elsie and Lesley stepped in to offer assistance. Given that the nearest doctors were either at Black Spur and Alexandra (roughly forty kilometers away), they would treat many non-life-threatening injuries themselves. Elsie was ‘an expert bone-setter’ who ‘skillfully stitched many wounds – with sprained ankles and snake bites being her speciality’. During the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in nearby Healesville, Sister Bolam provided important assistance in organising the emergency hospital. Sister Bolam did all this without payment or recompense for her expenses. Early in her tenure, she made application to the Bush Nursing Association for financial help, but was advised that ‘her casualty station [did] not come within its jurisdiction’. In 1929 a Dendy Street, Brighton doctor provided some assistance with supplies. There is no record of Elsie receiving any other assistance. For thirty-five years, people would walk up the hill to the home that Elsie and Lesley McGowan shared above Woods Point Road in Marysville: with boils, sprains, cold sore, carbuncles, broken limbs and most of the maladies that beset humanity to find sympathy, kindness and often a cup of tea along with sound medical care. Elsie Bolam, like her good friend Helena Brayshay, was very active in the Marysville Tourist and Progress Association, serving as both president and secretary for several years. In 1937, she and Leslie were living back in Melbourne, where Elsie was appointed to a salaried position as a Marysville tourist officer to ‘put Marysville’s attractions before the public’. The pair remained there for the duration of WW2, returning to Little Kerami in the years after the war. In 1955 the people of Marysville honoured Elsie Bolam when she was chosen to be one of two people who ceremoniously flicked the switch that brought electricity to Marysville. ‘Now that we have electricity,’ she said, hopefully, ‘we may get a small hospital and perhaps a resident doctor.’ Until that happens, ‘we won’t a chance to retire,’ she added. Elsie Bolam and Lesley McGowan were staunch monarchists who would regularly attend the local cinema, dressed in their finest, if a film about the King or Queen was on the program. It is fitting, therefore, that Elsie received an Imperial Honour for service to her community. On 1 January 1960, Sister Elsie Bolam was named in the New Year’s honours’ list as a Member of the British Empire – Civil Division. That evening, 300 local people gathered outside the cottage where she lived to congratulate her and a public subscription was gathered to purchase a television set for both she and Lesley to enjoy. Elsie Bolam passed away on 4 September 1965 and was buried in Marysville cemetery. She left all her worldly goods to her dear friend Lesley Elinor Archibald McGowan, who passed away only a year later, at the age of 83. In 2009, the town of Marysville was destroyed by a firestorm as intense and deadly as any the community had experienced since white settlement. Kerami and Little Kerami were destroyed, although the guesthouse was rebuilt and still operates as an up market accommodation house. Elsie’s medal, which had been donated to the local history centre, was found in the ashes after hours of unstinting effort from Mary and Reg Kenealy. They arranged for it to be restored, and it sits again in the Marysville History Centre, a proud symbol of the good that ordinary women can do, and the enduring power and importance of female friendships. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2020 Last modified 9 March 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nikki Henningham Created 11 March 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Tanya Harding - Australian Olympic Softball Player Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Research; publications; reprints of journals; testimonials. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: V94]??Minutes of the Victorian Division Annual General Meetings, typed and signed by the Victorian Division Chairman and pasted into bound volumes.??All minutes are proceeded with a public notice, published in local newspapers announcing and inviting persons to the forthcoming annual meeting. These notices contained information on meeting date, place and order of business. Additionally all years contain the Agenda, Minutes as well as the published Annual Report.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A novelist, biographer and political candidate, Jeanne Forster Young passionately advocated proportional representation for women in parliament. She became president of the Democratic Women’s Association of South Australia. Jeanne Young was born Sarah Jane Forster, one of eight children of John Goodman and Sarah Jane Forster. She became a freelance journalist with the Register and joined Catherine Helen Spence in 1896 in campaigning for proportional representation in parliament. On 23 January 1889, she married the Foreign Editor of the South Australian Advertiser, Alfred Howard Young. They were to have three sons and one daughter. Jeanne Young was the first and only woman on the Board of Governors of the South Australian Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery (1916-1928). She was appointed to the Magistracy in 1917 and stood for parliament on a non-party ticket in 1918. During the First World War, Young was a member of the Central Red Cross and later became an administrator of the South Australian Soldiers’ Fund. She stood for the Senate in 1937 and was elected president of the Democratic Women’s Association of South Australia. After the death of Catherine Helen Spence in 1910, Young completed Spence’s autobiography. She founded the C H Spence Scholarship for Women, and in 1937 wrote Catherine Helen Spence: a study and an appreciation. Young produced several pamphlets on proportional representation, and wrote variously under the pen names of Jeanne F. Young, Sarah Jane Forster and Goodman Forster. On 9 June 1938, Jeanne Young was appointed to The Order of the British Empire – Officer (Civil) (OBE) for her services to social welfare. She died at Rose Park, South Australia in 1955. In 1994, as part of celebrations for the South Australian Women’s Suffrage Centenary, the centenary committee published Jeanne Forster Young’s novel, Jenifer. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1944, Alexander, Joseph A, 1944 Book An autobiography, Spence, Catherine Helen [edited and introduced by Jeanne F. Young], 1975 Catherine Helen Spence : a study and an appreciation, Young, Jeanne F, 1937 Jenifer : a novel / by Goodman Forster (Jeanne Forster Young 1876-1955), Young, Jeanne Forster, [1994] Proportional representation in a nutshell, Young, Jeanne F, [1945] Proportional representation : what it means and how it would work, Young, Jeanne F, 1931 Preferential voting in single electorates not a reform, Young, Jeanne F, [1920] The Senate - as it is and as it should be : a plea for proportional representation, Young, Jeanne F, 1917 Effective voting : an explanation of Hare's single transferable vote, Young, Jeanne F, [1917] Effective voting; how to vote, how to count votes! : diagrams showing inequalities and injustice of single electorates and block votes, Young, Jeanne F, 1911 Proportional representation, Young, Jeanne F, [1911] Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Jenifer (literary manuscript) The Grand Old Woman of Australia (literary manuscript) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 October 2002 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Copies of photographs, ca. 1880-ca. 1945 of Vida Goldstein 1949-1961, including an obituary and a?personal impression by L. M. Henderson and a transcript of a radio talk by Margaret Clarke. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "BOX 1?History of the National Council of Women in South Australia 1902-1980 / Barbara J. Pitt, 1981; Capital Women: A history of the work of the National Council of Women (ACT) 1939-1979 / Freda Stephenson, 1992; Water, our nation’s most precious resource: a series of three lectures presented at the N.C.W. Council Meetings in February, March and April 1997; Life and times of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia / Muriel Knox Doherty, 1996; Off the record: the life and times of Muriel Knox Doherty, 1896-1988 / R. Lynette Russell (ed.), 1996??Folder 1?N.C.W. News, no. 198, February 2004; National Council of Women of New South Wales Inc. 108th Annual Report, 1896-2004, presented at the Annual General Meeting 29 September 2004; photograph printed from newspaper clipping of Ruby Board, President 1938-1948, and colour photograph of Maureen Giddings (OBE), President 1970-1974; photocopy of manuscript notes from Executive meetings, 1992-1996??BOX 2?Photographs and captions from the National Council of Women of New South Wales Centenary Exhibition, Fountain Forecourt, NSW Parliament House, 16 April-30 June 1996??BOX 3?Folder 1?Pageant of Endeavour poster, 1970; Endeavour: women’s organisations in New South Wales, 1896-1978 / National Council of Women of New South Wales, 1980; papers, correspondence, etc. relating to Endeavour, and the Pageant of Endeavour exhibition, 1970-1987??Folder 2?Papers relating to the Centenary Year, including minutes, agendas, programs, and details of committee members, 1994-1996??Folder 3?Papers and correspondence relating to the Centenary Year, 1993-1996??Folder 4?Papers and correspondence relating to the launch of the Centenary Stamp Issue. Includes stamp, envelope, and postcard packs, 1988-1996??Folder 5?Papers relating to the compilation of the National Council of Women of NSW chronology, 1896-1996. Includes notes, drafts, photographs and copies of photographs, ca. 1985-1996??Folder 6?Papers, brochures, photographs, eulogy – Dr. Grace Cuthbert-Browne, cookbook, reports, etc., 1965-1997??Folder 7?Papers and correspondence relating to the National Economic Summit Conference, held in Canberra, 1983??Folder 8?Balance sheets, including some reports from auditors and accountants, as at 31 July 1976, 1978, 1986, 1990-1993??Folder 9?The Woman’s Voice, vol. 3, no. 8, 23 November, 1895; Bulletin [monthly publication of the] International Council of Women, multiple volumes between 1927-1943??BOX 4?Folder 1?International Council of Women brochures, ca. 1947-1969??Folder 2?Papers and seminars, 1969-1988??Folder 3?Papers, correspondence, questionnaires, etc. relating to issues such as children, health, abortion, disabilities, 1963-1976??Folder 4?Papers, correspondence, and reports relating to a survey on smoking by young women between 15-25 years, and the Australian Council on smoking and health, ca. 1973-1989??Folder 5?Photographs and resumes of Joyce Marion McConnell, and Dorothy Edna Annie Edwards, ca. 1950-1991??Folder 6?Papers, photographs, brochures, correspondence, menus, newspaper clipping, N.C.W. celebrations, 1975-1990, and ‘Women of Achievement’ luncheon, 1979??Volume 1?Papers, minutes, newspaper clippings, and reports relating to the N.C.W. N.S.W. Standing Committee of Health, Child and Family; the Health Convenor; and on abortion laws, 1962-1981??BOX 5?Sound recordings?5 sound cassettes: Annual Luncheon speeches, 28 June 1983; Seminar ‘Today’s Child’, 24 March 1984; International Year of Peace seminar, speakers D. W. Langshaw and E. Lomas, 16 March 1985; National Council of Women of N.S.W. 90th birthday celebrations (2 tapes), 26 June 1986; AIDS seminar, speaker Reverend Dorothy McMahon, 10 October 1987??1 sound reel: Tape of speech made by Mrs Hallenstein to ladies of Geelong regarding jury service, ca. 1967??Album 1?Collection of newspaper clippings on issues concerning women, including employment, social conditions, health, education, laws, etc.; also articles on the National Council of Women and its members, 1966-1996??Album 2?Collection of newspaper clippings on issues concerning women, including employment, social conditions, health, education, laws, etc.; also articles on the National Council of Women and its members, 1975-1976??N.C.W. Award (plaque mounted on wood) presented to Edith May Cox, 1994??BOX 6?Album of newspaper cuttings on issues concerning women, including employment, social conditions, health, education, laws, etc., 1964-1966??BOX 7-8?Banners used for the 1996 Centenary exhibition at Parliament House, Sydney. Originally from the 1970 Bi-centenary of Captain Cook celebrations??FOLDER 9?6 mounted poster panels from the Centenary exhibition, including images of women and N.C.W. members, 1996???MOTION PICTURES?The 16 mm film ‘Pageant of Endeavour’ produced by Cinesound Movietone Productions is housed separately from the records at MLMSS ….?VHS video ‘Family Awareness Project’ produced by the National Council of Women of Launceston is housed separately from the records at MLMSS ….?U-matic videos ‘National Council of Women of N.S.W. Seminar’, tapes 6-431 and 6-433, 29 May 1979. These are housed separately from the records at MLMSS 8222?For enquiries about this material please contact the Manuscripts Section Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "An Australian media personality, Libbi Gorr invented comic interviewer ‘Elle McFeast’ on ABC television’s Sweaty. Libbi Gorr participated in Law Revues while completing an Arts/Law degree at the University of Melbourne. After graduating she performed with an all-girl cabaret group call the Hot Bagels. Gorr was an articled clerk at Phillips Fox in Melbourne before returning to entertain audiences with her interviews and satirical observations of life and society. Published resources Newspaper Article The art of happiness, Sharp, Timothy, 2004 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 January 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Yvonne Isabel Nicholls nee Miles took her BA from the University of Melbourne in 1936 and her MA from the University of Sydney in 1972 with a thesis entitled Thai Kenaf: a case-study of a new cash crop in a developing country of Southeast Asia. Her interest in Thailand was sustained by a ten-year residency, during a life of travel, following her marriage in 1940 to Frank Nicholls (1916-2013) who had a long career in scientific administration in Australia and overseas.[1] The couple spent the war in England, where she headed the unit in Australia House charged with photographing and sending secret documents to Australia. On her return to Australia, Yvonne Nicholls took up an appointment in Economic Geography at the University of Melbourne, occupying various positions between 1948 and 1960, after which, in Thailand, she became principal of a former PEN English-language school, securing government patronage and overseeing its expansion to cover from kindergarten to Cambridge GCE level. In Geneva during the 1970s she published on environmental law.[2] An interest in ants led to her discovering a new species during a trip to the Otway Ranges. It was named Monomorian yvonnii by the CSIRO entomologist John Clark. Her 1952 pamphlet Not Slaves, Not Citizens was used during the Yes campaign for the 1967 referendum that gave the Commonwealth the power to make laws specifically to benefit Aboriginal people.[3] In Australia after 1977 she taught at several schools and the Council for Adult Education. Yvonne Nicholls was a frequent speaker in person, on radio and television. Her range of topics was prodigious, inspired by life in many countries. Her lecture ‘The Fascinating History of Sex’ was both popular and memorable. She told an interviewer: In sacred sex, for example, I describe rituals such as group sex in the fields, which was a fertility rite practised by the Incas in South America. When I talk about sensual sex I cite cultures such as ancient Rome where wives were the faithful watchdogs and married men sought beauty and sexual stimulation in their mistresses. Sinful sex, especially in the Judeo-Christian tradition, comes from the view of Eve as temptress.[4] When Bert Newton interviewed her on television he ensured that the legs of the grand piano were shrouded to avoid upsetting the audience. [1] Suzy Chandler. ‘Scientist and Movie Buff Who Helped Develop Radar and Played Leading Role in Establishing Film Festival’. Age (12 February 2013). http://www.theage.com.au/comment/obituaries/scientist-and-movie-buff-who-helped-develop-radar-and-played-leading-role-in-establishing-film-festival-20130211-2e8xh.html [2] Yvonne I. Nicholls. Source Book: emergence of proposals for recompensing developing countries for maintaining environmental quality (IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper no. 5) Morges, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1973. [3] Yvonne Nicholls. Not Slaves, Not Citizens: condition of the Australian Aborigines in the Northern Territory. Melbourne: Australian Council for Civil Liberties, 1952. [4] Mary Ryllis Clark. ‘It’s the Little Things in Life’. Age: 15 April 2004. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/14/1081838772488.html Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Florrie Hodges was only a teenager when her heroics at the mill settlement near Powelltown, Victoria, captured the national imagination. On Sunday February 14, 1926, she was at home with members of her family when they felt the full impact of the catastophic bushfires that surrounded them. Instructed by her mother to take the children to safety, she walked for miles with her three younger siblings, finally lying down on a train track and shielding them with her own body when there was nothing to do except allow the fire to burn over the top of them. They all survived, but Florrie received horrific burns to her legs and back. She was hospitalised for several months and left disabled and disfigured. Stories of the heroics of ‘the little bush girl of Powelltown’ emerged quickly after the fires were put out and Florrie Hodges became something of a celebrity. Her bravery was recognised far and wide and she was awarded a Royal Humane Society medal. The following details are taken from an article written by the authors and published in the Victorian Historical Journal, June 2020 John Schauble’s excellent article about Victoria’s Forgotten 1926 Bushfires (published in this journal in December 2019) reminds us of the importance of this event to reframing the relationship between Victorians and their environment. It also reminds us how quickly events can be forgotten, when bigger, seemingly more catastrophic, events happen subsequently. The 1926 fires in Gippsland have been ‘jettisoned to a more distant past’, barely memorialised in art, literature or history, despite killing more Victorians, proportionately, than any fires before or since except the 1939 fires. Schauble makes a strong case for the ‘Great Fires of 1926’ to be remembered better, as a turning point, a moment in time when Victorians reviewed their relationship to ‘the bush’ and reorganised their ‘social and practical responses to bushfire’. As well as understanding the social and political lessons learned from them, we should remember the 1926 fires better because of their human cost. They devastated small communities in Gippsland and the impact of that trauma is a living memory for descendents of some survivors. Through the story of Florrie Hodges, a teenager who survived the fires and became a celebrity for her heroics, we can explore themes that resonate nearly one hundred years later, such as the nature of celebrity, gendered narratives of heroics and intergenerational impact of unresolved trauma. It is the latter of these themes I’d like to reflect upon here, with passing reference to the nature of fame and heroics. Schauble highlights the remarkable story of Florrie Hodges, a fourteen year old girl from a mill settlement near Powelltown, whose heroics captured the national imagination. On Sunday February 14, 1926, she was at home with members of her family when the fire exploded about them. Instructed by her mother to take the children to safety, she walked for some miles with her three younger siblings, Rita, Vera and seventeen month old Dorothy, finally lying down on a train track and shielding them with her own body when there was nothing to do except allow the fire to burn over the top of them. They all survived, but Florrie received horrific burns to her legs and back. She was hospitalised for several months and was left disabled and disfigured. Stories of the heroics of ‘the little bush girl of Powelltown’ emerged quickly after the fires were put out and Florrie Hodges became something of a celebrity. Her bravery was recognised far and wide; she was awarded a Royal Humane Society medal and a testimonial fund launched and administered by the Timber Worker’ Union raised some £1000 to be placed in trust until she was 21, her father being very anxious about her future and the need to make sure that the funds were to be clearly available fo her own use. Politicians, unionists, even famous actors were keen to share the stage with Florrie at various events held in her honour. Important labour figure Jean Daley spoke at an event held in May and the actor, Louise Lovely, appeared at one in September, along with a range of other artists and the Returned Soldiers Memorial Band. If, as Schauble suggests, the 1926 fires produced little in the way of cultural product, it seems that what little emerged was focussed on a fourteen year old girl. A souvenir booklet was published, 100,000 photographs distributed to schoolchildren across the nation, Queen Mary and the Duchess of York proudly received photographs of the ‘Australian Heroine’, a special gramophone recording of Florrie telling her story was released and Mary Grant Bruce wrote a special version of her story that was published in the School Magazine. She, through her deeds, was variously described as ‘carrying the spirit of many a pioneer mother’, exhibiting ‘the endurance of a Spartan and the pluck and fortitude of Nurse Cavell’ and equalling the heroics of soldiers in the Boer and Great Wars. ‘The battlefields of South Africa, Gallipoli and Flanders,’ said Jean Daley at her testimonial, ‘had not furnished a braver deed than the act of heroism performed by the little bush girl of Powelltown.’ Florrie was very proud of the various honours and accolades she received, but using a modest heroes’ refrain familiar to all of us, when asked to speak, told people ‘she thought that any Australian girl would have done what she did’. And despite a small glitch with a poorly attended Sydney event, organised by the Feminist Club and the League of Child Helpers, after which Sydneysiders were scolded for rushing to greet ‘every visiting celebrity, but not the girl ‘descended of the race that gave the world the Anzacs’ who exhibitied, ‘the most outstanding act of heroism of the year, if not the decade’, Florrie’s story still resonated some years after the events. In a 1931 issue of The Freeman’s Journal, children’s submissions were published under the title ‘My Favourite Heroine’. Ten year old Enid Casey asked her readers, ‘Do you remember the story of Florrie Hodges’ and explained why she was ‘her favourite Heroine’. and during ‘fire season’ in 1934, the story of ‘the ‘Heroine of Black Sunday’ was retold, in the wake of severe fires in Tasmania and Victorian timber country. After this, there is little to be found about Florrie and her life after the fires. Perhaps, after the 1939 fires, all other fires paled into historical insignificance. Perhaps there are other reasons to explain Florrie’s loss of celebratory over the years that relate more directly to her own life experiences after the fires? Finding an online image of her bravery award and the purse presented to Florrie at the testimonial in her honour created a chain of correspondence between my colleague at the Australian Women’s Archives Project, Helen Morgan, and one of Florrie’s descendents, Joy Welch. Helen had been tracing stories of early twentieth century ‘girl heroes’ and was immediately drawn to Florrie’s tale. She found the name of the donor of the purse to Museum Victoria via their website and this act of curation provided her with a contact to Joy. Joy offered to collect stories at a family gathering to be held in early February. Florrie passed away in 1972 but several elderly relatives who remembered her were willing to talk about what they knew and remembered. Many of them became very emotional while doing so, but persevered because they wanted Florrie’s story better known. ‘They thought the importance of remembering and recognizing her bravery, [talking about] what had happened to her goes quite a way to explaining her life after the event,’ said Joy. It had not been a particularly happy one. A nephew, Stan Gleeson, now 87, remembers her well and speaks of his visits to her house in Lyonville, near Trentham. Florrie married her cousin, Bill, soon after the accident, when she was sixteen. Bill worked in the timber mill and he had a couple of serious injuries, so both he and Florrie would have been in constant discomfort or pain. They lived a very simple life. Florrie was remembered as a tough, no nonsense woman, who didn’t talk much. She never spoke of the fire, the attention afterwards or the impact it had on her or her body. Her preference was to seek company at the pub, where she was seen regularly, an uncommon sight in those days. Most other women were at home with the children but Florrie was often to be found at the local with her husband drinking. Due to the couple’s history, it seems that the extended family looked out for them as much as possible. Everyone knew they both had alcohol issues and everyone attributed that to the trauma they experienced. They had 6 children, with only four living to adulthood, and the trauma was intergenerational. Their daughter Nancy had a number of children that were mainly placed in care due to her alcohol issues. Their son Bill did not have children but he passed away in a Salvation Army home as a chronic alcoholic. Little is known about the two youngest children, but it is known that all of them had been in and out of care due to Florrie and Bill’s inability to care for them. The extended family tried many times to take them all in (especially the two little ones) but the State judged their own families to be too large to permit them taking in any additional children. Some family members who Joy spoke with still got emotional when they spoke about their parents not being allowed to take care of them – they didn’t want the children to be placed in an orphanage. They were acutely aware that if it hadn’t been for Florrie, their mother’s would have perished in the fire and they would not be there, in 2020 telling her story. It is important to Stan Gleeson that Florrie be remembered because the past lives on in the present. His son, a Country Fire Authority (CFA) member, rescued people in the 2009 Black Saturday fires. He suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), so Stan’s knowledge of Florrie’s story helped him to understand the impact similar trauma could have on his own son. He knows how trauma unresolved or dealt with can continue to play out for years to come. It has made a difference to them as they create a pathway to recovery for their son. In her email, Joy Welch sadly noted that ‘in saving others, Florrie lost herself’, and talking about it now, we can see the far-reaching implications, for Florrie, her children and her grandchildren. Even at the time, there were commentators who recognised that risk. Dr Irene Stable, the Medical Officer for the Victorian Education Department observed with some foreboding that: ‘The child will bear the marks of the fire throughout her life, as an external manifestation of her suffering; nothing will ever reveal the deep scar which this terrifying event has left on her memory; nothing will erase it….’ It’s fair to say that nothing ever did. Recognising Florrie’s story is to recognize the damage that continues to be done when past trauma is not acknowledged. It’s not just about celebrating bravery as achievement – it’s about remembering that for very many women and men, bravery as ‘achievement’ has come at a significant cost. Honouring the stories of brave women like Florrie helps us to reimagine what it means to be brave, and how careful we must be with our heroes. Events 1926 - 1926 Author Details Nikki Henningham and Helen Morgan Created 28 July 2020 Last modified 28 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Comprises 69 Glass Lantern Slides which are within three functional sets.??The first set (2016.0081.00001 2016.0081.00056) comprises 52 black & white slides used by the Red Cross for talks on activities in the war effort. Images of the activities including: Central Prisoner of War (POW) Agency, Switzerland; Red Cross staff using a Hollerith machine to calculate POWs; visits by International Red Cross Delegates to POWs camps to ensure conditions are met; packing medical supplies, Red Cross packing centres and warehouses, POWs receiving care packages. Activities within the camps: sport, music, peeling vegetables as well as labouring on road works. These photographs were compiled by the British Red Cross and St. John War Organisation and include a number of press sources photographs (see: 2016.0081.00056). Please note there are four slides missing from this set and are not held by UMA (2016.0081.00006; 2016.0081.00030 – 2016.0081.000032).??The second set (2016.0081.00057 2016.0081.00062) comprises 6 colour slides which were created by the Australian Red Cross Publicity Department for use in cinemas, with the aim of engaging the community about the need for membership, fundraising and blood donations.??The third set (2016.0081.00063 2016.0081.00073) comprises 11 colour slides with song lyrics of popular songs used in rehabilitation contexts post WW2. The lyrics of a chorus, or verse and chorus are typed; some of these slides are also illustrated.??Further photographic prints will be added to this series in the final transfer of records.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Circulars, correspondence, files. They are records of the State Executive of the CWA. and include suggestions on forming a branch, raising money to build a seaside home, arrangements for girls coming out from England under the Rural Help Scheme and reports from various branches. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 November 2017 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute books, with numerous reports etc. interleaved. 9 volumes. 1920-1949. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rebecca Gorman is an award winning Social Affairs journalist of more than twenty years experience, most recently working on Life Matters on ABC Radio National. After graduating from the Radio Course at Australian Film Television and Radio School in 1984, Rebecca Gorman joined 2AY in Albury as a copywriter, newsreader, weekend announcer. She then moved to Brisbane to 4BK as a journalist & news reader, then to 2WS in Sydney, before joining Triple M (Sydney) as the network’s NSW Parliamentary reporter. Three years later she left for South America and a two year adventure freelancing there and in the UK during the Gulf War. She came home again to take up a series of casual jobs throughout ABC Radio and TV before starting full time with radio Current Affairs AM, PM & The World Today. She then moved to Life Matters as a producer and fill-in presenter. Events 1985 - 1993 - 1993 Best Application of the Print Medium to Journalism (Highly Commended) Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 20 November 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Lampe won a Walkley Award in 1991 for her coverage of the so-called ‘Westpac letters’. She has been a business journalist with V since 1983. Before that Anne was the London correspondent for the Australian Financial Review.She has written about property, banking, insurance, superannuation, tax, commercial litigation and fraud. Anne is particularly interested in focusing on consumer issues and how policy changes affect consumer interests. Anne Lampe’s own statement of support for her application explained the story as follows: ‘The marketing of foreign currency loans and subsequent litigation by off-shore borrowers against major banks as their loan losses mounted has been aired in courts since 1988, with the banks vehemently denying that they were in any way negligent or incompetent in handling their borrowers’ foreign currency loans exposure and transactions. The Pacific Partnership/Westpac letters exploded one bank’s defence. ‘The letters showed mismanagement, staff incompetence and customer rip-offs on a large scale, involving millions of dollars of customer losses, illegal deal switching and secret commission taking on a big scale by dealers. ‘The lawyers’ findings in the letters were explosive, showing culpability of PPL as well as containing advice on how Westpac could control the damage. ‘It was to change the shape of foreign currency litigation, as well as focusing the attention of the Banking inquiry on the vexed question of who was to blame for the forex loan debacle. Events 1980 - 1991 - 1991 Best Coverage of a Current Story (Print), The Sydney Morning Herald – Fairfax Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (Australia) - records of the W.G. Walkley Awards, 1956 - 1999 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 November 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers in MS 8290 are arranged into 16 series. The correspondence series, 1969-1991, includes general, overseas and business correspondence. Among the correspondents are Janet Bell, Carol Mills, Joan Allan, Patricia Mullins, Mavis Thorpe Clark, Elizabeth Tomlinson, Barbara Ker Wilson, Michael Horniman, Mem Fox and Elizabeth Jolley. Other series include manuscripts of books and other works, 1963-1989; diaries, 1975-1992; letterbooks, 1972-1984; and, children’s art work and fan mail, 1970-1990 (51 boxes, 2 fol. Boxes, 1 map folio).??The Acc02.165 instalment documents Christobel Mattingley’s career from 1991-2001, and comprises publications, correspondence, subject files, drafts and background material (16 cartons).??The Acc12.006 instalment comprises correspondence, research notes, manuscript drafts, publicity material and reviews pertaining to various articles written for the National Library of Australia magazine as well as Mattingley’s books: Battle order 204; Ruby of Trowutta; My father’s island; Chelonia Green; and Maralinga the Anangu story. Also includes artwork, transcripts, publisher files, handbooks from the University of Tasmania, fan mail, agreements as well as information related to school visits and travel arrangements (16 boxes, 2 archives boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hr 41 min. Oral history.??(NX148142/N443790) Stocks (née McKenzie), Lila (Private)?Discussing joining VAD; training at Ingleburn Camp; posting to 114 Australian General Hospital; posting to 2/5th Australian General Hospital; New Guinea; nursing POWs; contact with American servicemen; uniforms; nursing duties; hospital conditions; social life. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pioneering Australian feminist Dr Anne Summers AO is a best-selling author and journalist with a long career in politics, the media, business and the non-government sector in Australia, Europe and the United States. Anne is a leader of the generation and the movement that has improved women’s rights in Australia. Her first book Damned Whores and God’s Police changed the way Australia viewed women. Her contribution has earned her community respect: she has received five honorary doctorates and in 1989 became an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to journalism and women’s affairs. She won a Walkley Award for journalism in the same year. Summers is a former editor of Good Weekend who regularly writes an opinion column for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She was a founder of the important feminist journal, Refractory Girl, in the 1970s. Anne Summers was born in Deniliquin, New South Wales on 12 March 1945, the first of six children of Eileen Frances Hogan and Austin Henry Fairhurst Cooper, a navigation officer with the Royal Australian Air Force during World War 2. As a baby, she moved with her parents, strict Catholics, to Adelaide, South Australia where she later attended the local convent and then Cabra Dominican College. While former politician and Age and Disability Discrimination Commissioner the Hon. Susan Ryan AO and academic and writer Dr Germaine Greer, who both attended Catholic schools, said nuns were their first examples of strong independent women, Anne said few of the Dominicans she knew encouraged girls to be strong and independent. ‘The school was run by women but they deferred egregiously to men, and especially to priests’ (Summers, Ducks on the Pond, p. 69). Family life was difficult because of her father’s alcoholism and violent moods; Anne said in her autobiography that from this she ‘learned to be tough and that was a gift’ (Ducks on the Pond, p. 65). Although she won a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend university, Anne’s desire to leave home and get away from her father led her to Melbourne where her local priest had arranged a job for her at the National Civic Council, B.A. Santamaria’s organisation which aimed to mobilise Catholic unionists against communism. She later moved to a job she loved in an antiquarian bookshop, before returning to Adelaide in 1964 where she worked in the University of Adelaide library and had some formative experiences. With new friend Diana Kenwrick (now Beaton), who felt equally trapped by family and society, Anne discovered Adelaide’s bohemian underground, very different from her suburban upbringing, and met journalists for the first time. Fascinated by their work, she began to imagine being a journalist herself. That year, aged 19, Anne experienced first-hand the vulnerability, trauma and pain of women with unwanted pregnancies when she travelled to Melbourne to have a backyard abortion. The birth control pill was not available to unmarried women and abortion was illegal, so women were exploited financially by a system of power and corruption involving disreputable medical practitioners and corrupt police. As a result, women risked their lives, future reproductive capacity and health. Anne began her studies in politics at the University of Adelaide, still bleeding from the botched abortion. She joined the university’s Australian Labor Party (ALP) Club and was elected president in 1966; the same year she joined Young Labor, becoming an office bearer soon after, and meeting major political figures of the time including Bob Hawke, Don Dunstan, Gough Whitlam, Arthur Calwell, Mick Young and Jim Cairns. She graduated with a BA (Honours) in Politics. Involved in the movement opposing the Vietnam war, she experienced divisions in her family and wider society because of prevailing polarised views. She became impatient with Labor’s approach and by 1969 her interest was captured by the radical student movement and the evolving women’s liberation movement. In 1967 Anne married fellow Adelaide University politics student and ALP member John Summers. They moved to the remote Aboriginal community of Musgrave Park (now called Amata) in the far north-west of South Australia where John was an Arts and Crafts Officer. After returning to Adelaide a year later, and working part-time while she continued her degree, Anne found that all the possibilities suggested by the women’s movement were increasingly incompatible with marriage. She left John and moved to Sydney where she began a PhD at the University of New South Wales but transferred a year later to the University of Sydney. During this time, Anne became increasingly aware of the issue of domestic violence and, with a small group, was determined to do something. After reading Erin Pizzey’s Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear, a book about setting up a refuge in England, the group decided to do the same in Sydney. As a result, Elsie Women’s Refuge was founded. During her postgraduate years in Sydney, Anne’s encounter with the left-wing, intellectual Sydney Push widened her political views. In 1971, she became active in Women’s Liberation in Sydney and in 1972 she co-founded the women’s studies journal Refractory Girl. In 1975, her best-selling book Damned Whores and God’s Police: The Colonisation of Women in Australia was published; in 1979 the University awarded her a PhD for this work. Anne had felt driven to write something that helped Australian women understand themselves better by placing the emerging critique of women’s inferior position in society within a specifically Australian historical and social context. She had been influenced by an essay by historian Ann Curthoys, ‘Historiography and Women’s Liberation’, in the Marxist journal Arena which had argued: ‘we must find out how the assumptions of female inferiority in public life and subordination in the home have operated in history, and ask why some societies differentiate more than others’. She also wanted to reveal the women who had been ‘hidden from history’. Published in 1975 in both hard cover and paperback and reprinted three times by the end of 1976, Damned Whores and God’s Police has been reprinted many times since then, selling over 100,000 copies. This bestseller was updated in 1994 and in 2002, and stayed continuously in print until 2008. A new edition was published on International Women’s Day 2016. Despite the difficulties in her family, family was important to Anne. She was bereft in 1976 when, just a few months after the debut of the book, her youngest brother Jamie died of cancer. In 1999, she dedicated her autobiography to her brothers, David Cooper, Tony Cooper, Greg Cooper and Paul Cooper, saying ‘some of this story is also theirs’, ‘and in memory Jamie Patrick Cooper 1959-1976’. Academia and the news media took Damned Whores and God’s Police seriously from the outset. The major Australian newspapers chose serious men of letters to review it: Manning Clark in the Australian, Michael Cannon in the Age, J. D. Pringle, its former editor, in the Sydney Morning Herald. Although she had challenged most of these men in the book, without exception they treated it as important and ground-breaking, giving the book status. Ironically the two most dismissive reviews were written by feminists: Jill Roe in the National Review, and former advisor to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, Elizabeth Reid, who described it in the Bulletin as ‘devastatingly bad’. After completing her PhD, Anne worked as a journalist on the National Times (1975-78), followed by: 1979-83 Political correspondent and Canberra Bureau Chief, Australian Financial Review, 1980-83 Canberra correspondent, Far Eastern Economic Review, 1983 Australian correspondent, Le Monde, 1983-86 First Assistant Secretary, Office of the Status of Women (now Office for Women) when Bob Hawke was Prime Minister, 1986-87 US Editor Australian Financial Review; North American manager and editor John Fairfax & Sons Ltd, 1989 Editorial Director, Sassy, 1987-89 Editor-in-chief, Ms. magazine. In 1987 Fairfax acquired the US landmark feminist magazine, and appointed Anne editor-in-chief. The following year, she and her business partner Sandra Yates bought Ms. and Sassy magazines from Fairfax, after raising US$20 million on Wall Street, in the second women-led management buyout in US corporate history, 1990-93 Editor-at-large, Lang Communications Inc., 1992-93 Advisor to Prime Minister Paul Keating, 1993-97 Editor, Good Weekend Magazine. In 1989 Anne was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for her services to journalism and to women. Anne was chair of the board of Greenpeace International (2000-2006) and Deputy President of Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum (1999-2008). In 2011, along with three other women, Anne was honoured as an Australian Legend with her image placed on a postage stamp. In November 2012, she began publishing Anne Summers Reports, a lavish free digital magazine that reported on politics, social issues, art, architecture and other subjects not covered adequately by the mainstream media. In September 2013 Anne launched her series of Anne Summers Conversations events, with former Prime Minister Julia Gillard in front of a packed Sydney Opera House. In addition to her classic Damned Whores and God’s Police, Anne has published 7 books: The Misogyny Factor (2013), The Lost Mother: A Story of Art and Love (2009, 2010), On Luck (2009), The End of Equality (2003), Ducks on the Pond: An Autobiography (1999), Gamble for Power (1983) and Her-Story: Australian Women in Print 1788-1975 (with Margaret Bettison, 1980). She writes a regular opinion column for the Sydney Morning Herald. Anne currently lives in Sydney with Chip Rolley, her partner of almost 30 years, who now has a senior position with PEN America in New York. Anne will join him there in late 2017. The revision of this entry in 2017 was sponsored by a generous donation from the later Dr Thelma Hunter. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1970 - 1990 1989 - 1989 Service to journalism and to women’s affairs. 1994 - 1994 2000 - 2000 2014 - 2014 2015 - 2015 2017 - 2017 1976 - 1976 Best Newspaper Feature Story, The National Times Sydney Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Australian Women and the Political System, Simms, Marian, 1984 Article The Literary Luncheon Series, http://www.smh.com.au/news/literarylunches/trio.html Feminist Fighter, Rayner, Moira, http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/FebMarch00/ray.html Back to the Future: Urgent Issues for Men and Women of Australia, Summers, Anne, 1997, http://www.actu.org.au/actu-media/archives/1997/back-to-the-future-urgent-issues-for-the-men-and-women-of-australia Dangerous remedies: ending the horror of backyard abortions, Summers, Anne, 2012, http://theconversation.com/dangerous-remedies-ending-the-horror-of-backyard-abortions-10472 Book Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia, Summers, Anne, 1975 Her Story, Australian Women in Print 1788-1975, Bettison, Margaret and Summers, Anne (compiled by); Roberts, Anne (photography by), 1980 Gamble for Power: How Bob Hawke beat Malcolm Fraser: the 1983 Federal Election, Summers, Anne; Cook, Patrick (cartoons by), 1983 Ducks on the Pond: An Autobiography 1945-1976, Summers, Anne, 1999 A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia, Sawer, Marian and Simms, Marian, 1993 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Uphill all the way: a documentary history of women in Australia, Daniels, Kay and Murnane, Mary, 1980 Conference Paper Children in Australia, Factor, June; Summers, Anne, c1985 The Curse of the Lucky Country, Summers, Anne, 1991 Videorecording Not a Bedroom War, c1993 Sound recording [Conversation with Anne Summers], Summers, Anne, 1975 Resource Section Memorable Summers, Summers, Anne, 1999 Political Science, Grey, Madeline, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0178b.htm Women's Liberation Movement, Magarey, Susan, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0139b.htm Public Service/Policy, MacDermott, Kate, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0446b.htm Movement against Domestic Violence, Murray, Suellen, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0404b.htm Journal Article The Impact of Feminist Scholarship on Australian Political Science, Sawer, Marian, 2004 Newspaper Article The operation that made me a criminal, Summers, Anne, 2012, http://www.theage.com.au/national/the-operation-that-made-me-a-criminal-20121102-28pgy.html Kay Daniels: writer, historian, scholar and bureaucrat, Summers, Anne, 2001 Lecture Her Rights at Work: The Political Persecution of Australia's First Female Prime Minister', Summers, Anne, 2012, http://www.annesummers.com.au/speeches/her-rights-at-work-the-political-perseucution-of-australias-first-female-prime-minister/ Site Exhibition Women Who Caucus: Feminist Political Scientists, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2017, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/caucus/ The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Anne Summers, 1967-2007 [manuscript] Flinders University Library, Special Collections Anne Levy celebration introducing Dr. Anne Summers National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Anne Summers interviewed by Humphrey McQueen [sound recording] Anne Summers interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] Anne Summers interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Pat Richardson scrapbooks relating to the Women's Electoral Lobby and women's events, 1977-2002 State Library of New South Wales Elsie Women's Refuge records, ca. 1974-2014 Author Details Niki Francis Created 9 January 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Photo Montage Julia Gillard Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Ann Summers Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1926-1927, 1937-1990??Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, 17 April 1958 – 18 May 1971 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 1)?Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, 15 June 1971 – 21 June 1977 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 2)?Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, 19 July 1977 – 18 June 1985 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 3)?General Council Meeting Minutes, 28 July 1955 – 25 May 1978 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 4)?General Council Meeting Minutes, 29 June 1978 – 25 August 1988 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 5)?Financial records : Cash books, 1926 – 1927, 1948 – 1990 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 6)?Financial records : Auditor’s Statements of Income and Expenditure, 1937 – 1965, 1982, 1984 – 1985; Register of receipt books, 1966 – 1974 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 7) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Vera White (née Deakin) the daughter of Australian Prime Minister Alfred Deakin and his philanthropic wife Pattie was appointed an Officer of the British Empire for her work with the Red Cross during the First World War. She received her award on 15 March 1918. Vera Deakin was born at “Llanarth” South Yarra, the youngest of the three daughters of Alfred and Pattie Deakin. She was educated first by her aunt – Catherine (Katie) Deakin who was an accomplished pianist. Vera then attended the Melbourne Church of England Girl’s Grammar School. She also studied the ‘cello and singing’. In 1913 she travelled with her aunt as chaperone to Berline and Budapest where she was a student at the Singing School and conservatorium of Music. During World War I, in 1915 with Winifred Johnson, she sailed to Cairo and set up, organised and administered the ‘Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau’ of the Australian Red Cross Society. In 1916, when Australian troops were sent to the Western Front, Vera and Winifred sailed to London, Vera with assistance of many Australian and English women including Lilian Whybrow (later Scantlebury) transferred the Bureau of London. Vera was awarded the OBE for her work. This was the first ever civilian list. She worked there (voluntarily) until 1919 when she became engaged to Captain T W White of the Australian Flying Corps (the only Australian to have escaped from a Turkish prisoner-of-war camp). In 1919 she returned home to Melbourne as her father was ill, he died in October 1919. Thomas White and Vera Deakin were married in March 1920, there were four daughters of the marriage – Lilian (Bennett) 1921-2002, Patricia (Sharp) 1923-, Shirley (Wadman) 1925-, Judith (Harley) 1929-. From 1929 Thomas White was a Federal member of Parliament. His wife Vera did a great deal for the constituents of his electorate (Balaclava, now Goldstein), particularly when her husband was overseas in the RAAF in World War II. Besides caring for her daughters, Vera was from 1931-39 a very active member of the Board of Management of the (Royal) Children’s Hospital and President of the Auxiliaries. She help to found with (Lady) Ella Latham the Victorian Society for Crippled Children and Adults at the of the polio epidemic. Later she became president 1961-66, then Vice-president in 1966 and worked on their committees until she was in her late 80’s. She was a member of the Limbless Soldiers Melba Welfare Trust from 1930. In 1935 she took her mother Pattie Deakin’s place as Trustee of the Sir Samuel McCaughey Bequest for the education of the children of deceased or incapacitated soldiers. She was the founder and President of The Anzac Fellowship of the Women of Victoria from its inauguration in 1935 until the 1950’s and then again from the 1960’s until her death. She was for many years on the Council of the Melbourne Church of England Girls’ Grammar School. Prior to World War II she helped the Victorian Division of Red Cross organise Emergency Training Groups and helped put in motion the mobilisation plans is 1939 all over Victoria. She with Lilian Scantlebury were Divisional Commandants and Honorary Directors of the Inquiry Bureau, as well as the Prisoner of War Department and Message Service to Occupied Europe from 1939-46. She was Vice-Chairman of the Society from 1949-51when she went to London when her husband was appointed Australian High Commissioner in London. While in London she was on the Council for the Care of Cripples and represented Australian Red Cross at conferences. With her husband she promoted and supported the Australian Musical Association in London, and she and her husband were instrumental in the appointment of the first Social worker at Australia House. Sir Thomas died in 1957 in Melbourne and Vera again became involved with Red Cross as a member of the Committee of the Red Cross Welfare Service and the first Chairman of the Committee for Music in Mental Hospitals. She also became patron of the Astra Music Society at its inception. She died at her home in South Yarra aged 87 in 1978 and was cremated. This entry was researched and written by Judith Harley, the youngest daughter of Vera Deakin White. Sources used to compile this entry: Australian Dictionary of Biography vol. 16 p. 535, Deakin papers at the National Library, family papers and Who’s Who in Australia 1977. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 Resource Section Unsung heroes : Australia's military medical personnel, Australian War Memorial, http://www.awm.gov.au/1918/medical/ White, Vera Deakin (1891-1978), Rickard, John, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160637b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Alfred Deakin, 1804-1973 (bulk 1880-1919) [manuscript] Papers on various Australian women [19--] [manuscript] Letters from Stella, Catherine and Pattie Deakin, 1909-1914 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 October 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Digital resources Title: Vera Deakin White Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "I. Copy of letter to Secretary of State for the Colonies asking permission to resign as Gov. Gen., January 1908. Also draft MS document (in handwriting of H.H. Share, Private Secretary) requesting Royal permission to resign.?II. Farewell letters, addresses, etc. from individuals and institutions, June-September 1908. Correspondents include Lord Elgin, Senator H. de Largie, Sir John Quick, Vida Goldstein (Women’s Political Association of Australia), Britomarte James (Writers’ Club) and Ambrose Pratt. Also addresses from various towns.?III. Programmes of entertainments, menus, etc. July 1908. Also newscuttings, July 1908, re departure of Lord and Lady Northcote. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Born Charlotte Waring in London in 1796, Charlotte sailed for Sydney in 1826 employed to teach the children of Hannibal Macarthur. On the voyage she became engaged to James Atkinson who was returning to his property at Oldbury, Sutton Forest; they married on 29 September 1827 and had four children. When the youngest, Louisa, was only two months old James Atkinson died aged 34, leaving Charlotte to manage a large holding, run far-flung outstations and control convict labour in a district beset by bushranging gangs. In need of male protection, she married the Oldbury superintendent, George Bruce Barton, who turned out to be violent, unpredictable, a drunkard and mentally disturbed, from whom she made a daring escape with her children. Fiercely independent, Charlotte succeeded in challenging the male-dominated legal system and retaining custody of her children. In 1841 while receiving no money from the Atkinson estate, she wrote A Mother’s Offering to Her Children, the first children’s book published in Australia. Charlotte died at Oldbury on 10 October 1867. Charlotte Waring Atkinson Barton (1796-1867), governess, grazier, feminist, author, was baptised in London on 13 March 1796, third daughter of Albert Waring, a barrister of independent means, and his wife Elizabeth Turner, who died when Charlotte was less than two. Reputed to be a child prodigy, from the age of ten Charlotte attended a school in Kent where she was instructed in the ‘general branches of polite female education’ including music, drawing and French. She studied painting under the celebrated painter, John Glover, then President of the Society of Painters in Water-colours. Immediately after leaving school at the age of about fifteen she was engaged as a governess in the family of John Lochner of London and Enfield, under an arrangement that allowed her to continue her education. After about four years she took a position in the family of Thomas Trafford, of Trafford Park, Lancashire, where she was in charge of five children, the eldest fifteen. Two years later she resigned because of ill health. At 30 she was engaged by Harriet King, to teach the children of her brother-in-law, Hannibal Macarthur at his property The Vineyard in New South Wales at the very high salary of £100 a year. She sailed for Sydney on the Cumberland in 1826 on the voyage displeasing Harriet King by becoming engaged to James Atkinson, a leading agriculturalist and grazier in New South Wales. Atkinson was returning to his property at Oldbury, Sutton Forest, after publishing his book, An Account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in New South Wales (1826). Charlotte dismissed Harriet King’s criticism of her engagement saying she ‘must be mistress of her own actions’. Charlotte Waring took up her position with the Macarthurs but left after seven months marrying James Atkinson on 29 September 1827 at St Paul’s Church of England, Cobbity. Her first child, Charlotte Elizabeth, was born at Oldbury on 22 July 1828; (Jane) Emily on 6 June 1830; James John Oldbury on 7 April 1832 and (Caroline) Louisa Waring on 25 February 1834. Two months after the birth of Louisa, James Atkinson died suddenly at the age of 34. Charlotte was left to manage a large property, run far-flung outstations, control convict labour in a district beset by bushranging gangs where there was a breakdown of law and order, as well as care for her children. In need of a protector, on 3 March 1836 at All Saints’ chapel, Sutton Forest, Charlotte married George Bruce Barton, superintendent at Oldbury. Her remarriage changed her legal position from being custodian of Oldbury to merely the lessor’s wife. The executors of Atkinson’s will, John Coghill and Alexander Berry, leased the property to Barton, who proved to be violent, unpredictable, a drunkard and mentally disturbed. In 1839 Charlotte fled from him with her children down the precipitous Meryla Pass through the wild gorges of the Shoalhaven River to a coastal outstation at Budgong where she continued their education, particularly inculcating a love of nature. In 1840 the family moved to Sydney and Charlotte applied for legal protection from Barton. In an unrelated matter that is an indicator of Barton’s violent disposition, he was tried for murder in February 1854 at the Bathurst Circuit Court and found guilty of manslaughter. Charlotte’s relations with the executors deteriorated, Berry referring to her as ‘a notable she-dragon’. She became involved in long-running legal battles, Atkinson v. Barton and Others, in which she fought to retain custody of her children and financial support. At one stage the master in equity determined that they should be taken from her and educated in boarding schools but this decision was overturned. At a time when she was receiving no money from the Atkinson estate, Charlotte published A Mother’s Offering to Her Children (1841). The first children’s book to be published in Australia, it was a collection of instructional stories arranged in the form of a dialogue between a mother and her four children. The anonymous author was ‘A Lady Long Resident in New South Wales’, but a contemporary review in the Sydney Gazette, where the book was printed, identified Charlotte Barton. Despite the disruption of continuing legal cases, Charlotte maintained a close-knit family life in an atmosphere of learning and scholarship. In 1846 the family returned to Oldbury. There, and later in Sydney and at Kurrajong, she particularly fostered the talents of her youngest daughter Louisa. Survived by a son and two daughters, Charlotte died at Oldbury on 10 October 1867 and was buried in the family vault at All Saints’ graveyard, where her first husband was interred. Charlotte was a small woman, 5 ft 1½ ins (156 cm) tall, of ‘particularly handsome and brilliant’ appearance with ‘full large black eyes, black hair which curled naturally and fine features’, well educated, with artistic talent and a great interest in natural history. Fiercely independent, as an abused wife and sole parent she succeeded in challenging the male-dominated legal system. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Patricia Clarke, 1887-2010 [manuscript] National Library of Australia Journal kept on board the \"Cumberland\" bound from England to New South Wales [manuscript] Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 9 August 2019 Last modified 9 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: V11]??Comprises index cards detailing Junior Red Cross group activities administered within participating schools throughout Victoria. Cards are filed alphabetically by school or associated Junior Red Cross group names. Each card includes the school/group name, the teacher/s who coordinated the group, details of Victorian Red Cross office-bearers for each year and a summary of the activities undertaken by the group. The activities and actions of administration of each group are identified on a separate card titled “Particulars”, which date and list actions of communication, donations, expenditure and membership letters from the Red Cross to the school group or visa versa.??This series has an alphabetical list of participating schools and the dates groups were active. Researchers are encouraged to review this list to determine whether there likely to be an index card for a particular school or group.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Pearl Gibbs was a major figure in Aboriginal political activism from the late 1920s to the 1970s. She was involved in organising the Day of Mourning on 26 January 1938 to protest the invasion; spoke for the Committee for Aboriginal Citizen Rights; supported Northern Territory Aborigines in their conflicts with a frontier ‘justice’ system; called for Aboriginal representation on the New South Wales Board; set up the Dubbo branch of the Australian Aborigines’ League with Bill Ferguson in 1946; became the organising secretary for a new Melbourne-based Council for Aboriginal Rights in 1953; was elected as the Aboriginal member of the Aborigines Welfare Board in 1954 and its only woman member; established the Australian Aboriginal Fellowship (with Faith Bandler) in 1956 and the first hostel for Aboriginal hospital patients and their families in Dubbo in 1960; and continued contributing to Aboriginal conferences throughout the 1970s. Pearl Gibbs grew up in the Yass and Brewarrina areas. After attending racially-segregated schools at Yass and Cowra, she worked as a maid and cook and married an English sailor named Gibbs. They later separated, leaving Pearl to raise their daughter and two sons. From the late 1920s Pearl started organising Aboriginal protests and from 1937 became a major figure in the Aboriginal political network. She was an early member of the Aborigines’ Progressive Association, appearing at meetings in Sydney’s Domain and drawing large crowds because a woman speaker was rare and because Pearl spoke with such fluency and passion. During the campaign for full citizen rights and an end to the Aborigines Protection Board, Pearl concentrated on women’s issues: ‘apprenticeships’ (’employment’ of Aboriginal girls as domestic servants by the Aborigines Protection Board), school and hospital segregation, health and the meagre Board rations on Aboriginal reserves. She successfully lobbied many women’s organisations, including the Sydney Feminist Club, and made wider alliances with centre and left political groups than other Aboriginal activist in New South Wales at the time. Pearl Gibbs was secretary of the Aborigines’ Progressive Association from 1938 to 1940; vice-president and then secretary of the Dubbo branch of the Australian Aborigines’ League in the 1940/50s; the organising secretary for a new Council for Aboriginal Rights in 1953; the Aboriginal member of the Aboriginal Welfare Board from 1954 to 1957; and vice-president of the Australian Aboriginal Fellowship in the 1950s. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Section Pearl Gibbs, Goodall, Heather, [1988] Book Turning the tide : a personal history of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Bandler, Faith, 1989 Journal Article Gibbs, Pearl, 1971 Gibbs, Pearl, 1962 Gibbs, Pearl, 1957 Gibbs, Pearl Mary (Mrs), 1954 Pearl Gibbs : Aboriginal Patriot, Gilbert, Kevin, 1983 Lovable Natives' and 'Tribal Sisters' : Feminism, Maternalism, and the Campaign for Aboriginal Citizenship in New South Wales in the Late 1930s, Haskins, Victoria, 1998 Aboriginal Sydney, Hoddle, Vance, 2003 Pearl Gibbs : A Biographical Tribute, Horner, Jack, 1983 2001 Eldershaw Memorial Lecture Founding Fathers, Dutiful Wives and Rebellious Daughters, Lake, Marilyn, 2001 Edited Book Before it's too late : anthropological reflections, 1950-1970 : Jane C. Goodale, Ruth Fink, Jeremy Beckett, L.R. Hiatt and J. A. Barnes, Gray, Geoffrey G (edited and compiled by), 2001 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Leonarda Kovacic Created 8 June 2004 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Elizabeth McKeahnie was a successful, independent pastoralist between 1882 and 1911, at a time when women generally did not run their own properties. She owned and operated Blythburn, an 810ha dairy and cattle property next to her parents’ property, Booroomba, near Tharwa. She usually worked the property singlehanded, when necessary employing only women to assist her. McKeahnie was also a poet, publishing poems in the local newspaper, particularly after the deaths of friends and relatives. The daughter of Charles and Elizabeth McKeahnie, who emigrated to New South Wales in 1838, Elizabeth McKeahnie was born and grew up in country New South Wales (in what is now the ACT). Over six-foot tall in adulthood, McKeahnie was an imposing figure. She apparently rode astride and carried an ivory-handled revolver. She was known as a skilled rider and horsebreaker, regularly travelling long distances on horseback to visit family and friends. As well as caring for her aging parents (her mother died in 1899 and her father four years later), she also ran her own dairy and cattle property independently. Among the women who worked for her, according to Canberra resident, Una West, who was interviewed in 1983, were Ruth and Grace Kirchner and Mary Ann Warner. One family story suggests that when she was too ill to do the milking, those men who volunteered to assist had to wear women’s clothing while completing the task. Mckeahnie seems to have been regarded as somewhat eccentric but her obituary also emphasized her ‘feminine’ qualities. She was remembered as a ‘gracious and warm-hearted lady.’ Always impeccably dressed…her conversational gifts were above the average, and, taken altogether, she was a woman as much higher in womanly qualities as she was in stature above the ordinary. McKeahnie’s homestead at Blythburn still stands and is on the ACT National Trust List of Classified Places. (Latitude: 42.224420° N, Longitude: 94.195630° W) The main structure, which consists of three rooms opening onto a verandah without interconnecting doors, still survives, along with a kitchen building. There is also evidence of further outbuildings. The building was lived in for several years during the 1940s, when one room was converted to a kitchen, but is otherwise reminiscent of McKeahnie’s occupation between 1882 and 1919. McKeahnie received Blythburn from her father in 1882 and after his death she bought adjoining land in 1905 and 1908. Her brother Charles assumed active management of the entire property in 1911, but McKeahnie lived in the house until her death. Like the rest of her family McKeahnie was active in the Presbyterian Church. Her family had a long association with St Stephen’s in Queanbeyan, where she is buried in the family plot. Her mother laid the foundation stones of both the church in 1872 and the manse eleven years later and her brother donated the McKeahnie Font, in memory of his parents and two daughters. A memorial tablet commemorating Elizabeth McKeahnie was unveiled inside the church in 1921. McKeahnie also wrote poetry, primarily in times of grief and distress. ‘My Darling Niece’ was written after the death in 1877 of her niece, Jane Elizabeth McKeahnie, and ‘In Memorial’ in 1907 for Charles, the son of her brother, Archibald. Several of her poems were published in the Queanbeyan Age. Other poems included ‘Effect of the Drought’ and ‘Gone’, neither particularly cheerful. ‘Gone’ was written in 1892, a few months after the death of Kenneth Cameron, who was also memorialized in ‘In Memory of Kenneth Cameron’. (1891) Cameron was a close friend who had proposed marriage to her. McKeahnie’s father refused to give his permission, although it is not clear why. Both were members of the same church and Cameron had no financial problems. He was twenty-one years older than McKeahnie. Neither Cameron nor McKeahnie ever married and legend has it that McKeahnie wore a black -banded wedding ring engraved with Cameron’s initials after his death. There has been a suggestion that Charles McKeahnie gave his daughter the Blythburn property as some sort of compensation for refusing to allow her to marry. A contributor to the Queanbeyan Age and Observer, writing about McKeahnie several months after her death, concluded ‘Nature seemed to point her for something else, but it was the old, old story of a wasted life and ‘what might have been.’ There is certainly a sense of disappointment in McKeahnie’s life, particularly in relation to her thwarted relationship with Kenneth Cameron, and some sadness is reflected in her poetry. Nevertheless, she seems to have been a well-respected and admired member of the local community. She had financial independence. She found enjoyment in her garden and her poetry and undoubtedly took pride in her ability to run a successful cattle and dairy farm. She remains remarkable as one of few rural women of her era to run a successful independent business on the land. Poetry (collected in Lyall Gillespie’s, Early verse of the Canberra region): Dear Land of My Ancestors (1876) Only A Dream (1876) Awa’ Cald Winter (1876) My Darling Niece (1877) What I Love (1878) In Memory of Mr Kenneth Cameron (1891) In Memory of Mr Kenneth Cameron: Fate (1891) Alone (date unknown) A Memoir (1895) In Memoriam (1906) Poetry (collected in Brian Moore, Cotter Country): Effect of the Drought (date unknown) Gone (1892) In Memoriam (1907) Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Classified Places: ACT National Trust List of Classified (C) or Recorded (R) Places, National Trust of Australia (ACT), 2008, http://www.nationaltrustact.org.au/?pageid=21 Book Early Verse of the Canberra Region: A Collection of Poetry, Verse and Doggerel from Newspapers, Other Publications and Private Sources, Gillespie, Lyall, 1994 Cotter Country, Moore, Bruce, 1999 Report ACT Heritage Register (Decision about Registration for Booroomba Station - Incorporating Blythburn, and Braeside and Adjacent Plouhlands), ACT Heritage Council, 2011, http://www.environment.act.gov.au/heritage/heritage_register/register_by_suburb Blythburn Conservation Plan - Stage 1: The Buildings. Report Prepared for Anna and John Hyles, ACT, Martin, Eric and Associates, 2000 Strine Design for Australian Department of Housing and Construction A.C.T. Region 'Blythburn Cottage conservation plan', Canberra Department of Housing and Construction, 1938 Resource Section Blythburn/2000/01, 2000, http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/SrlGjEPF183KcxkvMs_9-Q Elizabeth Julia McKeahnie, 2004, http://www.triviumpublishing.com/womenshistorymonth/featuredwomen/elizabethmckeahnie.html Journal Article Enterprising Gaels Become Pioneer Pastoralists, Corp, Tony, 1982 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Catherine Bishop Created 22 June 2012 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Elizabeth Julia McKeahnie Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "c. October 1941. Studio portrait of NX76505 Alice Burns, Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD). Miss Burns served in the Middle East and then in Queensland after the VADs became the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS). (Donor A. Penman) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc10.210 includes a scrapbook kept by Betty Hocking of newspaper cuttings and correspondence primarily relating to the ACT division of the Australian Family Movement, the Family Team (ACT Division), as well as the Lindy Chamberlain Court case; together with loose newspaper cuttings relating to ballet and other performing arts (1 packet).??MS 17.106 comprises Hocking’s manuscript Facing the Wind, originally compiled in the 1980s while Hocking was a Member of the ACT House of Assembly, concerning the case of Graham Potter. The case was investigated by the National Freedom Council, of which Betty Hocking was President (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers include autobiographical notes by Muriel Heagney, inwards and outwards correspondence 1936-1968, drafts and notes for Are women taking men’s jobs? (1936) and Arbitration at the crossroads (1953), and for other proposed books, for articles, papers and talks. Also papers relating to her role in the Australian Labor Party and a complete set of minute books and correspondence of the Council of Action for Equal Pay, 1937-1949. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 August 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Professor Marian Simms is internationally prominent for her work in the fields of gender studies and political science, ethics governance and Indigenous research policy. She has held senior academic and administrative roles in Australia and New Zealand and has long-standing interests in research culture and governance in New Zealand, Sweden, South Africa and Australia. She is a former president of the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA), a former editor of the Association’s journal, and has published prodigiously. Marian has attended the Women’s Caucus of APSA from its inception. From 2011 to 2016 she was Executive Director for Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the Australian Research Council. Marian Simms was born in Canberra and lived in the nearby country where she attended a country primary school, followed by Lyneham High School in Canberra. She won a Commonwealth University Scholarship and one of the University Scholarships awarded to the top 10 students in the ACT. At the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Marian studied Arts/Law and graduated with honours degrees in History and Political Science. Her honours supervisor, L F ‘Fin’ Crisp influenced her work. While he supported her academic research, Crisp’s belief that the private sphere, rather than the public, was particularly important for women inspired Marian’s commitment to address the gender gaps in his otherwise authoritative contributions to Australian political history. At the time Thelma Hunter was an enthusiastic first-year tutor of Marian, who introduced students to a wider societal perspective in her political sociology lectures and through her supervision. After graduation, Marian took up a teaching fellowship at the University of Adelaide rather than taking up a PhD scholarship at the ANU. After twelve very interesting months at the Adelaide Politics Department she accepted a postgraduate scholarship for a Master of Arts in Political Science at the University of Melbourne. She soon moved her research to La Trobe University when offered a Commonwealth Scholarship for a PhD. She was co-supervised by Joan Rydon, who had a prodigious knowledge of Australian and British politics and was Australia’s first woman professor of politics (1975). While Joan provided great critical insights into her PhD research on the Menzies Government and Public Enterprises, she was less supportive of Marian’s research on women’s activism of the period. Marian presented her postgraduate research at conferences in Australia and the United States and had papers published in Women’s Studies: International Quarterly (edited by Dale Spender), and Politics (the forerunner to the Australian Journal of Political Science). Noted political psychologist Fred Greenstein’s visit to Melbourne University brought Marian in contact with a group of influential women scholars from the United States of America who invited her to present her work in the USA. These scholars included Judith Stiehm, Joyce Gelb, Rita Mae Kelly, Jane Bayes and Mary Hawkesworth. Under Kelly’s leadership, several of this group were crucial to the establishment of the Gender, Globalization and Democratization Committee of the International Social Science Council (ISSC) in 1998, and the Globalization, Gender and Democratization Research Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in 2002. As a postgraduate student at both Melbourne and La Trobe, Marian lectured part-time at the University of Melbourne. This provided her with valuable experience and a platform for subsequent appointments at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (from 1990 the University of Canberra) and the ANU. She returned to her undergraduate university, the ANU, in 1985 as Lecturer in Political Science and was promoted to Senior Lecturer and then Reader, acting as Head of Department in 1996-97. She taught Political Science 1 for many years, and supervised many Honours, Masters and PhD students, some of whom are now senior academics and public servants. Marian also enjoyed visiting fellowships to the Research School of the Social Sciences during this time to work on several projects including the Ageing and the Family project (part-time 1985-86) and then the Reshaping Australian Institutions project (1995-96) where she worked on the future of Australian political parties. In 2002 she was appointed Chair in Political Studies and Head of Department at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, the first woman to serve in these roles. In 2009, Marian returned to Australia as Head of the School of History, Heritage and Society at Deakin University, Melbourne. In 2011, Marian was appointed Executive Director, Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the Australian Research Council (ARC). As an early career academic at the ANU, Marian was part of a small group, which established the first national survey of political candidates that included questions about attitudes to gender, among other things, that were being used in US and United Kingdom (UK) surveys. Marian subsequently used the gender questions in a set of surveys administered to Australian party elites in the mid-1990s funded by the ANU under the ARC’s small grants scheme. The Hon. Joan Kirner cited some of this research in the Victorian Parliament to illustrate that Labor Party conference and council delegates supported Affirmative Action as a gender equity strategy. The work was published in Australian and international journals and edited collections. In collaboration with Pippa Norris (US) and Joni Lovenduski (UK) and others, Marian also examined candidate selection systems for their role in the political under-representation of women and minority groups. Marian became involved in the Women’s Caucus of the APSA when it was founded by Carole Pateman and Marian Sawer at the 1979 APSA conference in Hobart. During her years as Executive Director at the ARC (2011-16), she presented regular reports to the Caucus’s Annual General Meeting on how women fared in ARC funding and updated the group on ARC’s gender and workforce policies. As a co-editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science (2011-16) she ensured that its annual reports showed the gender statistics in terms of submission and acceptance rates and publishing patterns, such as single versus multiple authorship. Marian’s publications list includes 5 authored/co-authored books, 9 edited/co-edited books, over 50 chapters in edited collections, a prodigious number of journal articles, conference papers, monographs, reports and published public lectures. She was awarded research funding by the ARC and its predecessor schemes, the United Nations Educational and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the National Council for the Centenary of Federation, and the Sequi-Centenary Council of New South Wales. An edited collection of papers on women and politics, presented at sessions of the Women’s Caucus of APSA in the early 1980s, prepared for Politics, was subsequently edited by Marian for Longman Cheshire (Australian Women and the Political System, 1982). In 1984 Allen & Unwin published A Women’s Place co-authored with Marian Sawer; a substantially revised second edition was published in 1994. Her books on political parties commenced with A Liberal Nation (Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1982), followed by The Paradox of Parties: Australian Political Parties in the 1990s (edited) (Allen & Unwin, 1997). Marian’s continuing interest in gender regimes was reflected in articles, chapters and seminar papers on gender and leadership, exploring the opportunity structures and barriers to women’s political contributions, including a 2008 article in Signs: The Journal of Women, Culture and Society, and research comparing Margaret Thatcher and Helen Clark published in Paul ‘t Hart and John Uhr’s book Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices (2008). Her work on the emergence of democracy included an edited book on the 1901 election (2001), a book on the origin and evolution of New South Wales democratic institutions, From the Hustings to Harbour Views (2006), her inaugural professorial lecture on ‘Settler Democracy’ in Australia and New Zealand (2004), and her co-edited volume on Political Parties and Democracy: Africa and Oceania (2010). This work both explained and critiqued these processes including their limitations in terms of equal representation for women and Indigenous people. Marian is active in the administration and evaluation of research. From 2005 to 2009 she was the inaugural convenor of the Humanities Research Cluster on Political Communication, Policy and Participation at the University of Otago. The cluster sponsored research on political communication in British, Australian and New Zealand elections, research workshops for postgraduates, public lectures and several high-profile visitors. From 2003 to 2006 she chaired IPSA’s Research Committee on Gender, Globalization and Democratization. The Swedish Research Council invited her to chair the process for selecting and evaluating new centres of research excellence in 2006 and 2008, and she served two terms as a member of the Social Science panel of the Performance Based Research Funding Evaluation in New Zealand (equivalent of Australia’s Excellence in Research for Australia). She reviewed the South African Indigenous Knowledges Program for the South African National Research Foundation; the final report was published in 2015. She has served on numerous boards and committees, including Deakin University’s Institute of Koori Education. Other activities have included the Quality of Governance Study Group, associated with the American Society for Public Administration, and the Gender and Politics Group, associated with the American Political Science Association. In her role as Executive Director for Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the Australian Research Council from 2011 to 2016 Marian ‘contributed significantly to Australian research, including undertaking extensive outreach to promote and improve the ARC’s research workforce policies, to support early-career researchers, women researchers, researchers re-entering the workforce after career-breaks and Indigenous researchers. She also contributed to national research ethics reviews.’ (ARC media release, 29 Nov 2016). From October 2014, Marian was Adjunct Professor at Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia and from 2015 she was Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, ACT, Australia. She was appointed a Fellow of St Margaret’s College, University of Otago in 2003. This entry was sponsored by a generous donation from the late Dr Thelma Hunter. Events 1982 - 1982 Potter Foundation postdoctoral travel award 2003 - 2003 For contribution made to Australian society’, specifically for her research on the 1901 election. 1988 - 1989 University of Southern California Published resources Resource Section Political Science, Grey, Madeline, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0178b.htm Journal Article The Legacies of Federation: The Case of the 1901 General Election, Simms, Marian, 2002 Resource ARC welcomes Associate Professor Therese Jefferson and thanks Professor Marian Simms, 2016, http://www.arc.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/arc-welcomes-associate-professor-therese-jefferson-and-thanks-professor Book A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia, Sawer, Marian and Simms, Marian, 1993 Edited Book Australian Women and the Political System, Simms, Marian, 1984 Lecture A Woman's Place: Women in Australian and British Politics, Simms, Marian, 1989 Book Section Political Science, Women and Feminism, Simms, Marian, 1984 Site Exhibition Women Who Caucus: Feminist Political Scientists, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2017, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/caucus/ Author Details Niki Francis Created 1 May 2017 Last modified 3 July 2017 Digital resources Title: Marian Simms Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes, music library, pictorial material, correspondence. Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 29 May 2009 Last modified 29 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Nova Peris Collection comprises fifty-three items relating to Nova Peris’ sporting and artistic career. It includes her gold medals from the 1994 Hockey World Cup, 1995 Hockey Champions Trophy, 1996 Atlanta Olympics, 1998 Commonwealth Games and the 2001 Australian National Championships. Also included are her team uniforms and ephemera relating to the two Olympic Games and one Commonwealth Games at which she competed. Her torch and torchbearer’s uniform from the Sydney Olympics Torch Relay, two commemorative coins she co-designed for the Sydney Olympics and her Order of Australia medal are also in the collection. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 November 2017 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 1924 consists of correspondence, notes, diaries, minute books, photographs and cuttings covering every phase of the careers of Herbert and Ivy Brookes. There are papers on the Liberal Party, People’s Liberal Party, Commonwealth Liberal Party, Brown Society, 1907-1921, Australian Protective League, 1918, National Union, 1917, Loyalist League, 1918, Board of Trade, 1918-1928, Tariff Board, 1922-1928, Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1932-1940, University of Melbourne, 1933-1947, National Council of Women, 1921-1970, Women’s Hospital, 1912-1970, International Club, 1932-1958, and the Lady Northcote Permanent Trust Fund, 1908-1969 (140 boxes, 3 fol. Boxes, 4 fol. Items, 1 framed item).??The main correspondents are: Sir Kenneth Bailey, Sir James Barrett, Sir Norman Brookes, S.M. Bruce, W.J. Cleary, Sir Joseph Cook, Bishop Philip Crick, Alfred and Pattie Deakin, Sir Frederic Eggleston, Sir Littleton Groom, Sir Bernard Heinze, W.M. Hughes, Arthur Woodward, Sir Richard Jebb, H. Price, Ina Fisher, Timothy Littleton, J.S. Crow, Philip Kennedy, Sir Walter Leitch, A.H.S. Lucas, Jane McMillan, Professor G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, Sir Walter Massey-Green, Sir Walter Murdoch, George Nicholas, Sir George Pearce, Sir Claude Reading, Staniforth Ricketson, Sir David Rivett, Rohan Rivett, T.E. Ruth, Rev. Charles Strong and Mary Allen.??Card index to correspondence available.??The Acc05.153 instalment comprises a pocket diary, 1970, the last kept by Ivy Brookes (1 folder). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 August 2003 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) is an Australian based non-government organisation, established in 1985, which undertakes projects in partnership with women from around the world, giving priority to working with women who suffer poverty and oppression. IWDA addresses economics, power, leadership, safety, security and systemic change to advance women’s rights and gender equality in Australia, the region and the world. The first IWDA meeting was held in 1985 by Ruth Pfanner, Wendy Poussard and Wendy Rose. That same year, the launch of IWDA was officially announced at the NGO Women’s Forum of the United Nations Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi. The IWDA office was opened in Melbourne with the support of volunteers and soon after the organisations first program was launched; providing health care training to women in the Philippines. IWDA became a full member of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (now the Australian Council for International Development) in 1986. In 2000, IWDA funded their 300th overseas project. Since the organisation’s inception in 1985, IWDA has worked with 194 program partners across 36 countries and territories. At the centre of IWDA’s development philosophy is the upholding of women’s human rights and the promotion of equality. IWDA’s projects aim to increase women’s skills and their confidence to participate in decision making within their families and communities, both locally and nationally. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records and audio tapes, 1985-1996. [manuscript]. Author Details Elle Morrell and Nikki Henningham Created 14 February 2001 Last modified 5 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 45 min.)??Casey speaks of her family and childhood; her reasons for writing; her art training; how she writes her books. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lulu Benstead began her singing career in Coolgardie and performed from 1907 until 1911 throughout the goldfields and New South Wales. She retired in 1934. Lulu Benstead was born in Alice Springs the daughter of goldfields pioneer Bill (William) Benstead and Triphenia Benstead. She studied with Mrs Jack Wilson in Coolgardie and performed regularly in the goldfields. Indeed, the Western Mail newspaper described Coolgardie as the ‘…musical centre of the goldfields’. She also toured Australia, performing in Sydney and in country areas with the Lulu Benstead Company. The Coolgardie Lulu Benstead Continental Musical Education Fund Committee was set up in 1907 to raise money for Lulu’s further musical education. In 1911 Lulu travelled to Paris and Berlin with the assistance of money raised from benefit concerts in Western Australia and donations from her Western Australian supporters. A report of one benefit concert in 1909 described her performance thus: ‘…a brilliant display of her beautiful soprano voice, and added another laurel to her luxuriant wreath of success’. A successful entertainer, Lulu performed in the USA, Canada and England singing vaudeville, comedy, comic opera, burlesque and revue. She retired from the stage in 1934, married Englishman Mr Stelling and lived in England. Published resources Newspaper Article Lulu Benstead, 1908, http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57581422 Lulu Benstead, 1909, http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57596393 Miss Lulu Benstead, 1909, http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57595769 Miss Lulu Benstead, 1925, http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/37644972 Book Daughters of Midas. Pioneer Women of the Eastern Goldfields, King, Norma, 1988 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 7 August 2012 Last modified 31 July 2015 Digital resources Title: Lulu Benstead Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "20 hours (approx. to date)??The second part in a series of interviews with South Australian women who are recipients of Australia Day and Queen’s Birthday honours. The interviewing program is funded by the Minister for the Arts and the Status of Women, the Hon. Diana Laidlaw, to celebrate the contribution of women to South Australia. The first series of interviews are held at OH 505. The project is supervised by the Oral History Officer, J.D. Somerville Oral History Collection, and the interviews have similar themes to those explored in the State Library’s Oral History of Women’s Political Activity, 1993-1994, held at OH 250. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Her correspondence comprises a large part of the collection. The papers also include addresses, articles, biographies, business cards, exhibition catalogues, diaries, documents, files, financial records, insurance certificates, inventories, invitations, invoices, journals, legal papers, lists, newspaper cuttings, notes, notebooks, photographs, printed material, references, sketches, and tickets. Some of the papers concern her father C.Y. O’Connor. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Doris Dillon was the founder and first matron of the Bush Church Aid Society (BCA) hospital at Ceduna, South Australia. The daughter of W.E.H. Percival, Doris was raised as a devout Christian – both of her brothers became clergymen. She trained as a nurse at the Royal Prince Alfred and Royal North Shore Hospitals before joining the Church Missionary Society (CMS). Doris was asked to set up a BCA hospital at Ceduna in remote South Australia. Her seven-bed hospital was opened in a galvanised iron cottage on a farm in 1926. With time, the hospital was extended to include more beds and a small operating theatre. In 1928 Doris married Rev. Fred Dillon, BCA missioner at Ceduna, and travelled with him to his various parish appointments. Widowed in 1959, she continued her involvement with the CMS and the BCA throughout her life. Published resources Edited Book Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Dickey, Brian, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 20 February 2009 Last modified 20 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A documentary from 1989 about strong, successful Aboriginal women in Western Australia. Includes interviews with Sally Morgan, Lois Olney, Helen Corbett, Alice Stack, Laurel Winder, Joan Winch, Pat Dudgeon, Denise Groves, Sue Lundberg and Helen Dorondorf; stills of Aboriginal people and the land; stories in two Aboriginal languages about life after the coming of the white man. Aboriginal music and dance are presented between the interviews. — General note: The interviews take the form of continuous portraits with voice-overs that are ‘out of sync’ with the image, as the director’s intention was for the voices to speak for all Aboriginal women.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A photographic record of the EYL from its formation in December 1941 to circa 1949, reproduced and prepared by Bruce Armstrong, a foundation member of the Eureka Youth League in Victoria. Four former members contributed photos to Bruce for reproduction. Photos are arranged according to five themes: Cultural life, educational life, public presentation, recreation, personalities. Most photographs are identified. Also includes a scarf from the 1952 Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship. Includes glass negatives of some prints. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This series consists of a small number of items associated with Mrs Zara Holt (later Dame Zara), wife of former Prime Minister Harold Edward Holt. It includes roneoed copies of travel diaries and letters written for distribution to family and friends when she accompanied Holt on his overseas visit (mainly 1957-1960), some personal correspondence, financial papers, unused stationery and other items of ephemera including the order of service on her death in June 1989. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 5 September 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nina Mikhailovna Christesen AM (née Maximoff) pioneered the study of Russian in Australia and founded the Department of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne in 1946. She remained at the head of the department until her retirement in 1977. In the 1987 Australia Day Honours Christesen was made a Member of the Order of Australia “in recognition of service to education, particularly to the study of Slavic language and culture”. Christesen arrived in Brisbane with her parents as a migrant in 1924. She had lived in St Petersburg until 1917 and then the Russian-Manchurian city of Harbin. She graduated from the University of Queensland, became senior mistress at St Aidan’s Girl’s School in Brisbane, and worked as a tutor at Women’s College. She met her husband to be, Clem Christesen, founder of the magazine Meanjin, after being recommended to him as a language teacher. In 1945, the Christensen’s moved to Melbourne, when the University of Melbourne offered to support Meanjin and its editor. In 1946, encouraged by members of the University of Melbourne Arts Faculty, Christesen established the Department of Russian Language and Literature, the first such course in Australia. In 1967 Christesen founded the journal, Melbourne Slavonic Studies (later Australasian Slavonic and East European Studies ) and in the same year the Australian Slavists’ Association (which later incorporated the New Zealand contingent). Published resources Newspaper Article Obituaries - Nina Mikhailovna Christesen, Armstrong, Judith, 2001 Book The Christesen Romance, Armstrong, Judith, 1996 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 2003 Edited Book The Half-open door : sixteen modern Australian women look at professional life and achievement, Grimshaw, Patricia and Strahan, Lynne, c1982 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Meanjin Editorial Records of C B Christesen Christesen, Nina Mikhailovna (1911-2001) Christesen, Nina Mikhailovna (1911-2001) The Half Open Door National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Dorothy Green, 1943-1990 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 August 2001 Last modified 14 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour 20 minutes.??A talk organised by the South Australian Centre for Australian Studies (Professional and Community Branches) in the Kingston Room at Old Parliament House to mark the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage, 1894-1994. The audience is welcomed by Brian Samuels, Acting Director of OPH, and the speaker is introduced by Elizabeth Ho, Interim Convenor of the Professional Branch. Dr Magarey’s talk examines the 1894 debates about women’s suffrage through a discussion of the roles of three individuals: parliamentarian Ebenezer Ward, reformer Rose Birks and a young prostitute depicted in the 1907 book ‘Darkest Adelaide’. Twenty minutes of questions and discussion follow the talk. Dr Leith MacGillivray proposes the vote of thanks. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2002 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interview with Lyn Johnson conducted by Catherine McLennan at Warragul on 13 May 2007, 36 minutes. This interview forms part of the Women on Farms Gatherings Heritage Collection at Melbourne Museum. Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 26 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records relating to the history she wrote of the transfusion service up to 1959, “An abiding gladness” (1965); family records. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Reference collection of proof sheets and documentation also available in Documentation Room. Contact Collections Manager.??Photographs taken by Juno Gemes between 1978 and 1994. Subjects include individual and group portraits; land rights protest; dance; photographic display during NADOC Week; community scenes Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lorraine Mafi-Williams was an extraordinarily talented woman who ran once for parliament, as an Independent in the 1995 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Ballina. She spent her lifetime in creative and caring activities. Parliamentary and Local Government Career Candidate, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Ballina, 1995 Party: Independent Lorraine Mafi-Williams was born in 1940 at Purfleet, New South Wales. She was forcibly removed from her parents when young, and did not meet them again until she was 15 years old. By this time she had finished school and had been working in domestic roles for several years. In 1967 she moved to Sydney and became involved with the Aboriginal Family Education Centre. She spent three years as a health worker. During the 1970s and 1980s Mafi-Williams became part of a powerful activist group in Sydney. With her cousin Mum Shirl and her niece Isabel Coe, she was instrumental in helping care for over 4,000 children of many ethnic backgrounds. As well as being politically active, Mafi-Williams was culturally and creatively active. She became involved with the Aboriginal Black Theatre Art and Culture Centre in Redfern and helped found the Black Theatre in Newtown. She took courses in film-making, worked as a film production assistant, and acted in a series of films and plays, including The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Women of the Sun, The Timeless Land and Pig in a Poke. In 1988 she secured funding of $29,000 from the Australian Film Commission and the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council to make her own film, Eelemarni, based on the life of a warrior of her Gidabal (Bundjalung) people. Lorraine Mafi-Williams was also a writer and storyteller. She wrote children’s stories based on traditional Aboriginal stories, short stories and poems. She edited Spirit Song, an anthology of Aboriginal poetry, published in 1993. She ran as an independent candidate for the state seat of Ballina in 1995. She wanted to establish a cultural sanctuary at Leavers Lake, near Suffolk Park on the north coast of New South Wales, and this brought her into conflict with others in the area. In the late 1990s, her health deteriorated and she was diagnosed with diabetes. She died in February 2001. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Book Women of the sun, Maris, Hyllus and Sonia Borg, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 18 May 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jane Macartney was a well-respected and much-loved member of both Irish and Victorian society during the nineteenth century. She dedicated much of her time to working with the sick and poor and was involved in the establishment of an Orphan Asylum, the Carlton Refuge, the Melbourne Home and the Lying-In Hospital. Jane was the wife of Hussey Burgh Macartney, the Dean of Melbourne from 1852 until his death in 1894. Jane Macartney was born on the 19th of January 1803 at Castle Bellingham in Ireland. Throughout her early life, Jane assisted in the establishment of a Girl’s School in a nearby underprivileged area. Together with her friends she raised enough money to construct the school house, as well as provide a wage for additional teachers. In addition to teaching at the school, Jane also took the time to visit those less fortunate living in the neighbourhood. Jane married her husband, Hussey Burgh Macartney, in March 1833. As a clergyman’s wife she taught every week at the Sunday school and also continued to care for the poor. After ten years of married life in Ireland, and the birth of eight children the decision was made to make the move to Port Phillip, where some of Hussey’s relatives already resided. Jane once again taught in Sunday schools when the family reached Victoria; initially settling in Heidelberg, followed by Geelong, and finally moving back to Melbourne at the height of the gold rush. Jane assisted with the establishment of an Orphan Asylum, the Carlton Refuge, the Melbourne Home and the Lying-In Hospital, at which she was a member of the committee. Jane and her daughters visited the Asylum and the Melbourne Hospital regularly until her busy schedule refrained her from doing so. One nineteenth century newspaper reported: ‘Ladies at the Orphan Asylum were often surprised that a woman beyond her eightieth year was able to travel so far and to take such a lively interest in all the details; but they did not know that, instead of returning home, she went straight to the Carlton Refuge, and ladies there, who wondered at the energy with which she entered into all the business presented to the committee, had little idea that her morning had been spent in exertions for another institution eight or nine miles away.’ Jane passed away at the Deanery in 1885. There were many obituaries published in the local newspapers and between three and four hundred people attended her funeral service. Archival resources Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc Jane Macartney : Diaries, 1859-Sept. 1884 (1866 missing or not complete) Macartney family papers Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 August 2017 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Oil on linen.??The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Purchased 1986 Author Details Helen Morgan Created 6 September 2002 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "As World War Two rages, a small team of scientists at Oxford University, led by Australian Howard Florey, make one of the greatest discoveries in the history of medicine: penicillin. As news of their funny yellow powder leaks out to the press, wartime Britain looked for a hero. Instead of Florey and the Oxford team, they choose someone else to shower with honours, Alexander Fleming, How it happened is a fascinating story of wartime scarcity, personal conflicts, and a sobering lesson in the damage done to truth by wartime propaganda.??There is documentation associated with the production of the television documentary held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Laura Margaret Tellick (1916-1992) enjoyed a varied career. Her theatrical talent showed itself early. In 1922 the Newcastle Sun reported a ‘fine entertainment’ in St Peter’s Hall Hamilton in which she was among those who ‘ably supported’ the stars of ‘Soot and the Fairies’.[1] She graduated BA DipEd in 1940 from the University of Melbourne and her involvement with the University continued long afterwards as she acted in and directed various theatrical productions with the Students’ Annual Revue and later, the Tin Alley Players. She became their President, adjudicating in that capacity at the second Tasmanian Drama Festival in 1948.[2] Peggy Tellick combined theatrical work with teaching and at the time of her Tasmanian trip (having previously worked at a school in Eltham) was teaching French and gymnastics at Camberwell High School. In the 1950s she took up journalism, writing in the Australian Women’s Weekly a feature article she described as ‘a theoretical drop of water engaged in wearing away a stony portion of top-management mentality’: The scarcity of women in public life in Australia could be due less to masculine domination than to feminine complacency. But I believe that, most of all, it is due to a strongly marked Australian characteristic – distrust of the unconventional. It is conventional for women to get married and concentrate on being wives and mothers. The woman who does not conform with this convention is therefore distrusted, persistently nudged back into what is felt should be her proper sphere.[3] In the early 1970s she worked in public relations for the British Nylon Spinners (Australia) Pty Ltd (later Fibremakers Australia). In 1978 Peggy Tellick took a new position at the University of Wollongong where: She was instrumental in laying the foundations for the good relations which the University still maintains with the local media. She rapidly became known as something of a campus character. Her career came to a sudden and untimely end when she suffered a massive stroke while attending a Christmas function in December 1979. Although severely physically disabled, Peggy lived in the Illawarra Retirement Trust Nursing Home at Towradgi until January 1992. Peggy endured the tedium of nursing home life with great courage and during this time she retained a remarkable memory and an acerbic wit.[4] [1] ‘Soot and the Fairies Fine Entertainment’. Newcastle Herald. 1 April 1922: 8. [2] Mercury. 10 April 1948: page 4; ‘Of Interest to Women: Melbourne Adjudicator for Drama Festival’. Examiner. Saturday 3 April 1948: 8. [3] Peggy Tellick. ‘No Room at the Top – for Women’. Australian Women’s Weekly. 4 April 1962: 4. [4] ‘Obituaries: Peggy Tellick’. Wollongong Outlook: the University Alumni Magazine. Autumn 1992: 23. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 16 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes of various committees, annual general meetings, statements of income and expenditure and scrapbook of newspaper cuttings. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "June Oscar, of Punuba descent, was born in 1962 at Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. She was sent to Perth for her secondary education at the John Forrest senior high school. She left school at the age of 16. After returning to Fitzroy Crossing, Oscar worked for the state community welfare and health departments. She later became a women’s resource officer with the Junjuwa community. She chaired the Marra Worra Worra resource agency until 1991, when she was appointed to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission for a two-year term as a commissioner. She was a principal of Bunuba Productions, which made the film Jandamarra, based on the life of ‘Pigeon’, the leader of Punuba resistance against European settlement. June Oscar is a proud Bunuba woman from Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. She is an advocate and activist for Indigenous people, their languages and culture, with a particular interest in children’s and women’s issues. June was appointed the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner in June 2017; the first woman to hold this position. She currently sits on the governing council of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AITSIS) and is the chief executive of the Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre in Fitzroy Crossing. She also chairs the Kimberley Language Resource Centre and is a member of the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre. In 2016 June won the prestigious Desmond Tutu Reconciliation Fellowship. She was awarded an Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2013 and two years earlier, she was recognized as one of the most influential women in the world. The year 2012 saw June appointed as an Ambassador for Children and Young People by the Western Australian Commissioner for Children and Young People. She was also an Australian delegate to the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues in New York in both 2009 and 2012. June has previously been the Deputy Director of the Kimberley Land Council and was also the first woman to chair the Marra Worra Worra Resource Agency (Fitzroy Crossing). In addition to her work on Indigenous issues, June has also been influential in the education sector. She developed a curriculum for an Indigenous Knowledge Program for Wesley College in Victoria and has been a member of many education committees. June has also worked as a director of Bunuba Films for more than twenty years. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 20 May 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "BOX 1?Typescripts of entries included in Endeavour, 1980-1981?Current file 11 April 1980?Material collected for Endeavour (typescript and manuscript), 1969-1980?Copies of questionnaire for updating information relating to women’s organisations in N.S.W., 1969-1978??BOX 2?Alphabetical files on women’s organisations, 1969-ca. 1976:?A?B+ C?D, E, F + G?H+I?J,K, L + M??BOX 3?Alphabetical files, 1969-1970:?N, 0, F + Q?R, S?T, U, V?W, Y, Z Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records comprising minutes (annual general meetings, executive committee, various circles, house committee and library committee), correspondence, reports, by-laws financial papers, members records, annual reports, papers documenting the history and activities of the club, photographs, calendars, conference papers, menus, oral history interviews and other papers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Associations (NSW) was established in Sydney, New South Wales on 20 January 1975, as a vehicle for uniting and representing the many wartime service women who served Australia. The inaugural meeting of the Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Associations (NSW) was held in Sydney on 20 January 1975 with five wartime servicewomen’s organisations as Founder Member Associations: • Australian Women’s Army Service Association (NSW) • Ex-AAMWS Association of New South Wales • Ex-WRANS Association (NSW) • The Ex-Servicewomen’s Association • WAAAF Branch, RAAF Association (NSW Division). The Council’s formation was due to the encouragement of the then Deputy Commissioner of Repatriation, Mr Bruce Auld. He suggested the establishment of a united body as a way of pursuing common objectives for the benefit of as many wartime servicewomen as possible. As a result a Joint Council was formed in order that the policies and representations of the Member Associations could be co-ordinated and means could be considered whereby through unity, common objects might be pursued for the benefit of as many wartime Australian female veterans as possible. Council has a restricted membership with state-wide membership but as a representative group it obtains and affords information and advice to kindred ex-servicewomen’s associations and other ex-servicewomen throughout New South Wales. Council keeps faith with the objectives and purposes for which it was established. All work is carried out in the interests of all Australian wartime servicewomen; it disseminates relevant information and acts as a joint voice for all; it preserves the memory and record of those who have died; it guards the good name and preserves the interest and standing of women who have served in the Navy, Army and Air Force; it assists in the provision of housing and other accommodation for Australian wartime servicewomen and it perpetuates the close spirit of friendship created by mutual service in the wars of the Commonwealth. Council’s most important achievement was the conception and completion of the ex-servicewomen’s building project: 12 self-contained units of The Friendship Court at the RSL Veterans’ Retirement Villages at Narrabeen for AAMWS, AWAS, WAAAF and WRANS. The units were handed over to the Board of the Veterans’ Retirement Villages on 31 March 1984 after 7 years’ hard work, not only by the Council but also by the ex-servicewomen of New South Wales and friends in the ex-service movement who assisted in raising money. The way they all related to this project was a source of inspiration to everyone and for Councillors it was a rewarding and enlightening time. There is a waiting list for admission from members of the four Women’s Services who do not own their own home and would find it difficult to provide themselves with one. Council placed a Memorial Plaque commemorating the WAAAF, WRANS, AWAS, and AAMWS in the foyer of the State War Memorial of New South Wales, Hyde Park, Sydney and it was unveiled on 7 February 1986 by Council’s Patron, Miss Clare Stevenson AM MBE, and dedicated at a small ceremony. Council commenced raising funds in 1987 for a State Memorial to the Wartime Servicewomen of New South Wales and finally on 16 February 1990 it was unveiled by His Excellency Rear-Admiral Sir David Martin KCMG AO, Governor of New South Wales at that time and dedicated in the presence of hundreds of war-time servicewomen, their friends and representatives of ex-service organisations from all parts of New South Wales, most of whom made its erection possible. It was the result of a labour of love. Erected in the Spirit of Friendship and located in Jessie Street Gardens in Loftus Street, Sydney, it is dear to the hearts of thousands of World War II servicewomen. Wreath laying ceremonies are held there on commemorative occasions. On 12 December 1991 a Tree Planting and Memorial Plaque Dedication Ceremony was held by Council at the western side of the main building of the Australian War Memorial to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the formation of the Australian Women’s Services in the Defence Forces. The tree was a mint leafed peppermint. Throughout the years Council has continued to make representations to the Governments of the day and has had its wins and losses. Council’s support of its Chairman was the main catalyst for Defence Service Home Loans being granted to all World War II servicewomen in the 1995-1996 Budget, irrespective of where they served. It pressed for the recognition of men as war widowers when their TPI wives died or other female veteran wives died as the result of their war service, knowing full well how dependent upon their wives many men in the World War II age group were. Discrimination was also an issue in both these cases and this was recognised after much lobbying. Council is well-respected in the ex-service community and has been involved in many Federal projects, e.g. inter alia its Chairman was invited to represent the Australian World War II female veterans at the official proceedings at the Entombment of the Unknown Australian Soldier; to take part in the planning of Wartime Servicewomen’s National Day in Canberra during the 1997 Australia Remembers Year and to be a member of the Advisory Group to the Australian War Memorial for the Australian Servicewomen’s Memorial in the Sculpture Garden at the Australian War Memorial. The Councillors all contribute to the reputation Council has for reliability, as well as deep concern and action on behalf of those it represents. An annual Church Service has been held since 1981 at The Holy Trinity Garrison Church, Millers Point, to commemorate the four Women’s Services and this is well-attended by female veterans, their families and friends. Council’s only fundraising function is an annual Friendship Luncheon which provides funds necessary for administrative purposes, the annual subscriptions from Member Associations being kept to a minimum to assist those organisations. Large State Reunions were held to celebrate the 40th, 50th and 60th Anniversaries of the formation of the four Women’s Services. Simply, Council makes it possible for female veterans to meet and to celebrate on a state-wide basis when appropriate. Councillors are proud of what has been achieved and of the assistance that has been given to fellow female veterans since the formation of the Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Associations (NSW) in 1975. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Council of Ex-Servicewomen's Associations (NSW) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 December 2002 Last modified 5 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The South Australian Country Women’s Association is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group and service association working in the interests of women and children in rural and urban areas. Although ostensibly non-party-political, in practice the group has tended to bolster conservative politics. The State association was formed in 1929. The first branch of the Association in South Australia was actually formed in 1926 at Burra by Mary Warnes. By 1988, nearly every small settlement in South Australia had a CWA branch and the Association comprised 270 branches with 7,500 members (at its peak in 1956 the Association boasted 277 branches and 14,000 members). The Association has engaged in an enormously diverse range of service and lobbying activities since its inception – from the provision of rest rooms and holiday houses for members, and handicraft and homecraft instruction, to the provision of health services in rural areas. Much of the Association’s energy has been directed towards providing relief in times of recessions, droughts, floods, war and disasters. Its size and scope made it one of South Australia’s most significant women’s organisations. Archival note: It is the policy of the headquarters archives to call in all paper-based material relating to all branches when no longer required. For many years the South Australian Association was also responsible for branches in the Northern Territory. The first moves towards forming a state-wide Country Women’s Association in South Australia actually took place in 1926 when Mrs T. Bowman, then president of the National Council of Women of South Australia, called a meeting of all country Mayoresses and wives of chairmen of district councils. No one replied. However, Bowman held an informal afternoon tea of country women which inspired Mary Warnes, of Koomooloo station, to establish the first CWA branch in Burra. Warnes saw the need for country women’s rest rooms, where children could be fed and tea made when women from rural areas had to visit town, and for the need to reduce the isolation experienced by women in the country. A Metropolitan branch formed in Adelaide in 1928,with a Metropolitan Younger Set forming soon after. By late 1931 there were8 branches and by 1937 there were 51 branches and six ‘Younger Sets’, totalling 3000 members. By 1946 this increased to 141 branches and by 1956 there were 277 branches with 14,000 members. By the 1970s members decreased to around 10,000, declining to 7500 by 1988. The early activities of the Association included the establishment of rest rooms in regional centres and the creation of a circulating library by the Metropolitan branch. They provided relief to rural families during the Depression and droughts of the early 1930s. From the 1930s they ran a kiosk and rest room at the annual Royal Show in Adelaide. In 1932 they also assisted with the establishment of the Baby Health Train, which provided much needed health services to remote areas, and worked with the Mothers and Babies Health Association. As in other states, handicrafts have featured prominently in the Association’s activities, and they have also produced numerous cookbooks and local histories. They also supported ‘Wool Week’ by holding exhibitions of woollen articles made by members. Many branches devoted their time to fundraising and organising social events. From the mid-1930s, several holiday homes for members were also purchased. During the war years, much energy was directed towards supporting the war effort, although normal Association activities were also continued. They assisted particularly with the Women’s Land Army, the nationwide CWA camouflage net making contract (of which 20,000 were made). Thousand of pounds were raised and donated to purchase medical equipment for the army, a trainer plane for the RAAF and to provide meals and other ‘comforts’ for soldiers in training camps, as well as large donations to the Red Cross. Almost every branch had an Emergency World Circle which made up various woollen garments and other items, as well as sheepskin vests. They also supported ‘Food for Britain One of the most immediate postwar developments was the flowering of music, drama and graphic art under the direction of the Combined Arts Advisory Committee for in 1947. Handicrafts activities also expanded – with numerous courses being held in branches across the state. The association also took an interest in new migrants and supported the work of the Good Neighbour Council. From 1957 they also held an annual Homemakers’ School at their headquarters and club in Adelaide as well as in regional centres. From 1934 the CWA was allocated a page in the Rural Review to report on its activities. From 1953-1971 they produced their own weekly newspaper, The South Australian Countrywoman. From 1971 this appeared as weekly segment of the Farmer and Grazier and from 1975 this became a monthly newsletter. Published resources Book 150 plus far west favourites, Country Women's Association of South Australia, Far Western Group, [1987] The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Getting things done : the Country Women's Association of Australia, Country Women's Association of Australia, 1986 Our First Forty Years: The South Australian Country Women's Association, Inc. Willunga Branch, 1947-1987, Young, Bertha, 1987 Kimba CWA, 1931-1981, Golden Jubilee, Kimba Country Women's Association, 1981 Fifty years of CWA at Tarcowie, 1988 So We Grow, 1954 The Passing Years, Snashall, Evelyn, 1946? Carinya 1956-1989, Ashby, Marjorie, 1989 In Their Own Words: History of the South Australian Country Women's Association from 1979 to 1999, Zabukovec, Victoria, 2000 The First Fifty Years: Golden Jubilee History of the South Australian Country Women's Association, Parker, Heather, 1979 A Continuation of the History of the CWA on Eyre Peninsula, Beard, Mary, 1985 Melrose CWA: 50 Years of History, Bishop, Jennette, 1989 The History of the Geranium CWA Branch 1946-2000, Hughes, Ann, 2000 Newsletter South Australian Country Woman, 1953-1971|| 1975- Report Annual Report, South Australian Country Women's Association, 1949-1981|| 1996- Journal The rural review: A weekly journal published in the interests of primary producers in South Australia, 1934-1953 Edited Book Musing and Amusing, Parker, Heather, 1981 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources NULL Country Women's Association of South Australia Australian Historic Records Register Minnipa Branch, Country Women's Association State Library of South Australia Interview with Mary Martin [sound recording] Interviewer: Neil Baron Interview with Kay Harding [sound recording] Interviewer: Neil Baron S.A.C.W.A., Kyancutta Branch : SUMMARY RECORD Interview with Joyce Candy [sound recording] Interviewer: Neil Baron Interview with Lorna Adams [sound recording] Interviewer: Neil Baron Interview with Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Walsh [sound recording] Interviewer: Margaret Allen Interview with Martha Kernich [sound recording] Interviewer: Neil Baron Interview with Valmai Webb [sound recording] Interviewer: Neil Baron Interview with Mavis Dawn Cooper [sound recording] Interviewer: June Donovan Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records presented to the ACT Heritage Library by June Laszlo (Hon. Secretary) 20 February 2001. Collection includes assembly and executive minutes. Stated date range is 1982-1994, although contains Memorandum and Rules of Association from September 2000. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 October 2013 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1942-1996; Red album mainly of colour photoprints, with printed material, concerning events and functions?1942-1993; Blue album mainly of colour photoprints, with newscuttings, of events and functions, including A. W. L. A. Bicentennial Reunion, Sydney, 15-18 Oct. 1988, and 50th Anniversary, 1991?1942-1997; Green scrapbook/folder mainly of newscuttings, printed material, letters received and photoprints?1942-1996; Green scrapbook/folder of newscuttings, printed material and letters received Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Interview with Laurel Macintosh, Brisbane, 26 June 2009, transcript in possession of Leonie Christopherson, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 11 September 2013 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Esma Banner worked in Europe for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) as an employment officer (c. 1945-50) and a welfare officer in a displaced persons camp (c. 1950-51). Esma Banner left school at fourteen to look after her sick mother. She attended a business college for one year in 1926. She then found a position as a shorthand writer and typist for a business and moved quickly through the ranks to the position of secretary to the Director. She worked there for thirteen years. When her mother died in 1940 she worked with her father in his haulage business as well as for a Sydney solicitor. Esma Banner started work with United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in 1944 in its Sydney office. From 15th to2 0th February she attended the 7th meeting of the Committee of the Council for the Far East at Lapstone Hotel, Glenbrook, NSW. She then worked in the Melbourne office of UNRRA for a period of three months. Whilst there she was selected to work in Germany with the International Refugee Organisation (IRO) and left Sydney for London on 28 June 1945. Her position as Area Employment Officer involved travel to places such as Munich, Nellingen, Ludwigsburg, Pforzbeim and Traunstein. Her final position in Germany was in a Displaced Persons’ Camp in Pforzheim. She returned to Australia in 1951. A few years later Ms Banner applied to the University of Sydney for a Diploma Course in Social Work and was accepted. On completion of her course she worked for the Department of Social Security for eighteen years at which point she retired. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Sydney Office Esma BANNER Author Details Cath Styles Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of the King, Clark, Langthorn and Wall families comprising correspondence, genealogical notes and photographs assembled by Dr A.W. Wall. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 24 January 2003 Last modified 31 July 2015 Digital resources Title: Sister Margaret Anderson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mathews, athletics coach and administrator, and former champion Australian sprinter, speaks about her family background; her success in junior athletics; competing against Marjorie Jackson; her training regimen; track surfaces in Australia; competing against Betty Cuthbert; her injuries; winning bronze in 100 and 200 metres at 1956 Olympics; her world records in 100 and 200 yards; winning two gold medals and one silver medal at 1958 Commonwealth Games; competing at 1960 Olympics; winning gold at Nigerian Independence Games in 1960; attending 1972 Olympics as women’s assistant manager; involvement with the Rothmans National Sport Foundation; and the formation of the Australian Track and Field Coaches Association. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 January 2007 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection has correspondence from these women scattered throughout the boxes and is still in the process of being individually indexed. The letters contain details of daily life and experiences of mission life. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 29 January 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary Quirk was the first Labor woman elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, and was an assiduous local member until deselected in 1950. She was first elected in 1939 during the Balmain by election and was re-elected in 1941, 1944 and 1947. In 1950 Mary contested the seat again, this time as an Independent, but failed. Mary Quirk was educated at Rozelle Superior Public School. She worked as a domestic servant, until she married John Kelly on 28 September 1898, in Balmain, Sydney. They had a son and three daughters before he died in 1926. She then worked as a shop assistant and joined the Shop Assistants’ Union of NSW. On 9 February 1927 she married John Quirk, Labor MLA for Rozelle (1917-20, 1927-30) and Balmain (1920-27 and 1930-38). After he died in 1938, she was elected at the by election for Balmain in 1939. She and John Quirk were strong supporters of Lang. She was the first Labor woman and the second woman to be elected to the Legislative Assembly, and the galleries were filled with women on the day she was sworn in. She was especially concerned with the interests of housewives and industrial workers. She lost preselection after two contested ballots in 1950 and was defeated by the official ALP candidate when she stood as an independent in June 1950. She became a director of the Sunshine Home for children. When she died, the premier James McGirr said that she had ‘added a special dignity to our Parliament’. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section HERstory: Australian Labor Women in Federal, State and Territory Parliaments 1925-1994, 1994 Resource Section Quirk, Mary Lilly May (1880 - 1952), Blackley, Leanne L., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160051b.htm Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 24 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers document Brett’s writings from 1979, including her poetry, short stories, novels, essays, newspaper columns, articles and reviews, together with several unpublished works, including a screenplay. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Folder entitiled ‘The Austr. Women’s Cricket Council [Meeting Perth, Jan. 1966] May Mills (President)’. Includes correspondence, constitution, newspaper cuttings, minutes, reports and other material. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "An Australian Greens activist and candidate for Monaro in 1995, 1999 and 2003, for the House of Representatives, Riverina in 2001, for the Senate in New South Wales (NSW) in 1998 and for the Tallaganda Shire Council in 1995. Catherine Moore was born in Sydney but moved to Monaro in 1981, and lives outside Braidwood, in a solar-powered earth house. She has been a member of the Greens since 1993 and is the founder of the Braidwood Greens. She has been Policy Coordinator and Convenor of the Greens 1996-7. In 2001 she produced a CD “Greensongs” and in 2003 she was the Greens’ national membership secretary. She was elected to the 1998 Constitutional Convention, and was an Australian spokesperson at the Kyoto Climate Change Convention. She has been involved in many campaigns, such as the Native Title and Reconciliation campaigns and the fight to restore water flow to the Snowy River. Catherine Moore is an active member of the Landcare organisation and her local Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade. Her election leaflet stressed the environment, public education, water policy and social justice. She has one daughter, whom she has home-schooled to HSC level. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 15 January 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The bulk of the collection dates from about 1919-1959. There is a scrapbook, notes, letters, publications and art catalogues relating to Vida Lahey’s life and work, and to art in general. The scrapbook contains photographs, and also some original sketches and watercolours, executed mainly during the artist’s travels in Europe after the first World War. The notes are chiefly travel notes written during the same period. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 November 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Newspaper clippings, photographs, memorabilia 1926-1976 (1 album). ??Minute and attendance books, 1926-1976 (20 vols).??Historical note:?Janet Cornes joined the Gympie branch of the Girl Guides Association in 1926, eventually attaining a commissioned rank. In 1947, Janet was appointed as District Commissioner for the Gympie, Maryborough, Bundaberg districts and between 1963 and 1967 served as Divisional Commissioner for South-east Queensland. In 1963, Janet was awarded the Oak Leaf Medal for meritorious service to the Girl Guides Association and was a member of the Trefoil Guide team 1967-1986. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 15 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of Miss Marion Sinclair consisting of her autobiography (original and typescript copy), original music scores, poetry, papers relating to the Girl Guides, Y.W.C.A., various schools and colleges, family papers, photographs, correspondence and miscellanea. Includes literary manuscripts. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A member of the Greens Party, Jo Clay was elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly as one of the five members for Ginninderra on 20 October 2020. She is the ACT Greens spokesperson for Arts and Culture, the Circular Economy and Transport, Active Travel and Road Safety. She has served on several committees, including as chair for the Planning Transport and City Services since December 2020, Environment, Climate Change and Biodiversity from December 2021, and as chair of Health and Community Wellbeing. After graduating in 1994 from Radford College in Canberra, Clay obtained her degree in Creative Writing and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Wollongong in 2000. She worked as a Legal Officer and Senior Legal Officer at the ACT Attorney-General’s Department from 2001 to 2003 and later as Project Manager with the ACT Law Society from 2004 to 2008. From childhood, Clay has been concerned about climate change and has become committed to urgent action. This commitment to environmentalism translated into her professional career, and she began working as an Operational Policy and Business coordinator for ACT NOWaste in 2004. In 2016 Clay became co-founder and CEO of the recycling company Send and Shred with national recycling expert Grahan Mannall. While running that business, she decided to set up a personal project with her family, The Carbon Diet, with the aim of cutting their household emissions, aiming for a 75 per cent reduction of their carbon footprint. Clay blogged about her Carbon Diet from 2018 to 2020. Clay’s commitment to tackling the climate crisis led her to run for the electorate of Ginninderra at the 2020 ACT general election. In her inaugural speech to the Assembly on 3 December 2020 she spoke of how it had never occurred to her to enter politics, but that she wanted more environmentalists at every level in parliament, leading her to ask ‘if not her, then who?’ Clay has been a member of the Standing Committee on Environment, Climate Change and Biodiversity, and she introduced a bill to amend legislation to ban fossil fuel company advertising at Canberra sporting venues. She has also been a strong advocate for a ’circular economy’ strategy, supporting Labor’s draft public consultation strategy in 2022. Published resources Clay, Jo: Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory website, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/tenth-assembly-members/ginninderra/clay-jo Never fly again? Go vegan? It was too hard, Clay, Jo, 4 November 2003, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/04/never-fly-again-go-vegan-it-was-too-hard-but-i-still-cut-my-emissions-by-61-and-it-made-life-simpler-and-better How parenthood led Jo Clay MLA to stop running from climate change and start fighting it, Twyford, Lottie, 3 March 2022, https://the-riotact.com/how-parenthood-led-jo-clay-mla-to-stop-running-from-climate-change-and-start-fighting-it/537471 The Carbon Diet website, Clay, Jo, https://www.carbondiet.com.au/ Author Details Jen Coombes Created 12 August 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The bulk of the papers comprise correspondence both with friends and of a business nature. There is a large series of letters written by Nicholas to her son Rix Wright and to her close friend Dorothy Richmond, which give a good insight into her day-to-day life and her art. Apart from correspondence with Howard Ashton and Henrietta Gulliver, there is little in the way of correspondence with other artists. Other correspondents include Will Ashton, Dion Boucicault, James Darling, John Galsworthy, Bernard Hall, John Masefield, Charles Masson, William Moore, Mary Raphael and Beatrice Tange. There are journals kept by Nicholas and her sister Elsie of their trip to Europe in 1907 and by Dorothy Richmond of the trip she undertook with Nicholas in 1924-1926. There are a large number of photographs, which include many of paintings by Nicholas. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "UM77. Minute Book, 1937-68, indexed. Minute book, 1969-1974. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 January 2007 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hours??Lenore Bishop, nee Wilson, was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia where her father was a butcher. After finishing high school she began working, first as a legal secretary, then as a journalist, and then with her husband in a hardware business. Lenore outlines her extensive experience of community work during her three children’s school years. Following the retirement of Mount Gambier’s first woman councillor in 1959, Lenore was asked to stand. She was re-elected two years later unopposed. Lenore explains her feeling of responsibility as one of very few women in local government and the qualities she believes women bring to the role. In 1964 Lenore nominated for mayor and was unopposed, becoming the first women mayor in South Australia. Lenore explains her achievements as mayor and also describes the added burden of the traditional mayoress role. Lenore retired from council in 1967 but returned as the region’s first woman alderman in 1972. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and other records relating to the Citizens Committee for the Preservation of King’s Park and the Swan River, including discussion of the proposed aquatic centre in King’s Park, Mitchell Freeway complex, Swan River reclamation, site of Perth Town Hall, preservation of the Perth Barracks; printed leaflets relating to conscription and pacifism; pamphlets relating to Aboriginal welfare, biographical notes about Bessie Rischbeith, file relating to antiques exhibition at Government House, 1932. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ukraine is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea in south-eastern Europe. The area of present-day Ukraine was populated only by Scythian nomads until the 6th century AD, when Slavic people begin to settle in the area. An organised political entity, known as Rus, evolved around Kyiv. (Russia, which later evolved around the principality of Moscow, did not yet exist). In the fifteenth century Ukraine became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and then of the Polish-Lithuanian ‘Commonwealth’ (Rzeczpospolita), until the eastern half of the country was finally annexed by Muscovy in the seventeenth century. With the annexation of the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth by Russia in 1795, the whole of Ukraine came under Russia’s rule until 1918. Ukrainians managed to establish an independent Ukrainian state in 1918, but it could not withstand simultaneous attacks by Poland from the west and Russia from the east. Ultimately the fighting ended in the partition of Ukraine between Poland and the USSR. Ukrainians suffered greatly under Stalin’s repression during the inter-war period. An artificially-induced famine, in which Ukrainians estimate about six million people died, was used by Stalin to forcibly implement the collectivisation of agriculture in Ukraine. Ukraine remained occupied by the USSR until 1991, when the latter was dismantled. It is believed that prior to World War I up to 5,000 Ukrainian workers had settled in Australia. Ukraine was a major area of conflict in World War II and many Ukrainians fled to Western Europe, where they were interned as Displaced Persons (DPs). The first Ukrainians began arriving from the refugee camps in late 1948. They came to Australia on assisted passages which included two-year work contracts with the Commonwealth Government. Among the migrants were priests, lawyers, doctors and engineers, but the vast majority were people from a rural background. The 1947 census did not list Ukraine as a birthplace, but the 1954 Census recorded 14,757 Ukraine-born. After that the number of migrants from the Soviet Ukraine was negligible, apart from some Ukrainian Jews. There was also limited migration of Ukrainians from communities in Poland and Yugoslavia. Migration from Ukraine has only been significant since independence in 1991. The 1996 Census recorded 13,460 Ukraine-born people resident in Australia (up from 9,051 at the 1991 Census). Most live in Victoria and New South Wales. The latest Census in 2001 recorded 14,100 Ukraine-born persons in Australia, an increase of 5 per cent from the 1996 Census. The 2001 distribution by State and Territory showed Victoria had the largest number with 5,800 followed by New South Wales (5,020), South Australia (1,490) and Queensland (880). The median age of the Ukraine-born in 2001 was 64.8 years compared with 46.0 years for all overseas-born and 35.6 years for the total Australian population. The age distribution showed 4.3 per cent were aged 0-14 years, 6.7 per cent were 15-24 years, 19.1 per cent were 25-44 years, 20.3 per cent were 45-64 years and 49.7 per cent were 65 and over. Of the Ukraine-born in Australia, there were 6,280 males (44.6 per cent) and 7,820 females (55.4 per cent). The sex ratio was 80.4 males per 100 females. At the 2001 Census, the rate of Australian Citizenship for the Ukraine-born in Australia was 94.5 per cent. The rate for all overseas-born was 75.1 per cent. Published resources Edited Book The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Jupp, James, 2001 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Ukrainian Women's Association in Australia of N.S.W. - records, 1949-1986 State Library of Victoria Music of migrant groups in Australia, [197-?]. [sound recording]. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: A New Dress Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: dance.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 hours??Irene Florence Jeffreys was born in London, England. She migrated to Australia in 1922 with her parents. Determined from the age of 12 to be an accountant, Irene attended Adelaide Technical Highschool and after beginning work at 16, studied for the Federal Institute of Accountants diploma at night at the School of Mines. In 1942 she was the first South Australian woman to qualify by examination for the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Irene’s accountancy practice and personal interests included much involvement in the Church of England, particularly the Church Missionary Society and the General Synod, where again she pioneered the involvement of South Australian women. Irene supported the movement for the ordination of women and is herself licensed as a lay preacher. Irene speaks in less detail about her many years of involvement in the National Council of Women. She concludes by describing receiving her OBE at Buckingham Palace in 1978. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Includes successive policy statements from 1980 to 1986, correspondence and statements from Liberal Party members, particularly Senator Margaret Reid, speeches, media releases, newscuttings Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The ABC has a number of taped interviews with Edna Ryan from 1975 to 1996. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 29 August 2000 Last modified 29 August 2000 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1. Family and personal correspondence, 1911-1959. 2. Travel diaries for 1927, 1946 and 1957. 3. Articles and broadcasts with accompanying notes, 1936-1950. 4. Collection of documents relating to the English Suffragette movement. 5. Papers relating to Australian women’s suffrage. 6. Papers relating to Rischbieth’s involvement in various women’s organisations. 7. Papers relating to the British Commonwealth League, which was formed in 1925 as a branch of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance. 8. Papers relating to the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance, which was founded in 1904 and in 1946 became the International Alliance of Women. 9. Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to Rischbieth’s 1935 appointment as Australian Delegate to the League of Nations. 10. Papers relating to the formation of the United Nations, 1944-1945, with reports of the U.N. Commission on the Status of women. 11. Subject files on various countries and subjects. The files include correspondence, pamphlets, press cuttings and other Papers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 March 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "GALAWA formed in the mid 1990s to collect and protect, precious material from the community. The GALAWA collection is housed securely in the basement of Murdoch University Library. A new committee formed in 2015 to revitalise the collection and we are working towards this. GALAWA is always interested in new members who wish to join and be a part of the committee, assist with archival work or to assist in other ways. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "(1) An album containing Christmas and New Year cards. (2) 3 folders of typewritten drafts of stories by “Brent of Bin Bin”. (3) Album containing postcards, some overseas, some of Australian country towns, especially Tumut, some Lampe family photographs. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 September 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, Jan. 1984 – Nov. 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 7630)?Correspondence, Nov. 1989 – Aug. 1992 (Call No.: MLMSS 7630)?Correspondence, May 1995 – Oct. 1996 (transferred from MLMSS 7362/29) (Call No.: MLMSS 7630) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Historical notes relating to Anzac Fellowship of Women, 1914-1970. the Australian Women’s Flying Club (incorporating the New South Wales Branch of the Women’s Air Training Corps.), 1938-1946, and the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps, 1939-1941 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Certificates of service (1985-1990); correspondence (1987-1997); minute books (1986-1988) and minutes (1986-1997); subscription lists (1975-1996); records of various committees and awards, and those dealing with the setting up of other Zonta Clubs in W.A. Author Details Jane Carey Created 4 August 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Olga Miller was a direct descendant and Elder of the Butchulla people of Fraser Island. She was an Aboriginal historian who wrote about and taught Aboriginal culture for over 40 years. The entry was written in consultation with family members. Olga was the youngest of seven children. Her father was a full blood Aborigine of the Butchulla people of Fraser Island and her grandfather, Willie Wondunna, was head of the Butchulla people. She spent her early life on Fraser Island but the family eventually moved to Maryborough for their children’s education. The Legends of Moonie Jarl (1964) was written by Olga’s brother, Wilfred Reeves, while Olga was responsible for the illustrations in the book. Olga’s other works include , Fraser Island Legends (1993), How the Water Got to the Plains (1997), Strings and Things from Long Ago and The Legend of Mount Bauple (2000). She published articles for school text books, wrote stories for animated films (Tree Duck, Butterfly, How the Water Got to the Plains, Why the Kookaburra Laughs) and wrote newspaper columns for the Maryborough Chronicle. Her work also included the Wide Bay Television presentations Legends of Our Land and Spotlight and presentations on Radio Maryborough (Legends of Our Land and This was our Town ). “Aunty” Olga effectively established herself as a one woman lobby group for the well-being of Fraser Island. Politicians, developers, tourism operators and the National Parks and Wildlife Service all consulted her before doing anything which affected the Island’s environment. She sat on boards and committees and kept a sharp eye on everything that happened there. She interpreted her protective role not in terms of possession but as a duty of care, a promise she had to keep to her grandfather and her people. Olga’s chief concern was to establish more protection for Fraser Island by enforcing the rules about access to vulnerable or forbidden places, speed limits and environmental damage. She saw the need to preserve the middens and other significant relics from the destructive consequences of mass tourism. Her wish and her challenge were to share the extraordinary beauty of the island with the world without changing its fragile face. The University of Southern Queensland (Fraser Coast Campus) established the Olga Miller Memorial book bursary in memory of Auntie Olga Miller. At least three bursaries are awarded annually and are available to Indigenous undergraduate students from the Fraser Coast Campus. Two bursaries are awarded to undergraduate students and one bursary is awarded to a Tertiary Preparation Program (TPP) or Indigenous Higher Education Pathways Program (IHEPP) student. At the end of 2008, the Olga Miller memorial garden was developed in the immediate surrounds of the newly constructed C block, at the Fraser Coast campus of the University of Southern Queensland. The entry was written in consultation with family members. Published resources Newsletter Author elder awarded honorary degree, Snow-McLean, Gus, 2003, http://www.usq.edu.au/resources/04jun.pdf Leaflet Recognition for Maryborough's Achievers, Maryborough City Council, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra [Descendants of the Butchulla tribe (Mrs Olga Miller)] Olga Miller Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Glenda Hiroko Gauci was the first Asian Australian woman appointed as an ambassador in the Australian diplomatic service. Glenda Gauci (pronounced Gaw-see) and her brother Michael were born in Footscray, Melbourne. Their parents, John and Hiroko, met in Japan when John was posted there with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force after WWII. They married and settled in Australia in 1957. Glenda attended Templestowe High School before graduating in arts and law from the University of Melbourne. Drawn by adventure and the opportunity to use her education, she had dreamt of being a foreign correspondent before deciding, at fifteen, that she would be a diplomat. She won prizes in politics, international relations and public administration and was the University’s inaugural exchange student with Tokyo’s Keio University. Later, she completed a Masters degree in international law at the Australian National University before joining the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1984. Gauci’s first posting was to Tokyo, where she moved with her husband, David Love. It was here that she gave birth to her two children, Dominic and Imogen. In 1994, she was seconded to the Canberra office of the then foreign minister, Senator Gareth Evans, as an adviser on northern Asia, before becoming trade counsellor in Tokyo in 1995. She worked with Alexander Downer when he attended a World Trade Organisation ministerial meeting, and the following year she was involved with the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. In 1998 she returned to Australia as an assistant secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, heading the South-East and, later, North-East Asia branches. In mid-2000 Gauci was named ambassador to Cambodia, one of only 12 women to have achieved that level of seniority in Australia’s diplomatic service at the time. A year later, she accepted the ambassadorial-level role of political counsellor at the Washington embassy. Following the events of September 11, she went to Guantanamo Bay, accompanied Prime Minister John Howard, and to George Bush’s ranch in Texas. In 2004, Glenda Gauci was diagnosed with lung cancer, though she had never been a smoker. Later that year a surgical biopsy confirmed she had mesothelioma, for which there is no cure. The cancer is caused by asbestos fibres, and develops between 20 and 50 years after exposure. Gauci’s father was a waterside worker who regularly handled asbestos material without being warned of its dangers, and could easily have carried the fibres home on his clothing. She is likely to have inhaled the fibres as a child. Glenda Gauci retired in 2006 and passed away the same year, aged just 47 years. Published resources Conference Paper Australia's Role for Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: North Korea's Missiles, Nukes and WMD, Gauci, Glenda, 2003, http://www.icasinc.org/2003/2003s/2003sghg.html Report Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Cambodia, Downer, Alexander, 2000, http://www.dfat.gov.au/media/releases/foreign/2000/fa026_2000.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 28 September 2006 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Admitted to practice in NSW in the early 1980s and having developed a strong reputation in personal injury law, Sally Gearin was recruited specifically to Darwin by the Northern Territory Attorney General’s Department in 1986. Rising through the ranks to become a senior litigation solicitor, she was called to the Bar in late 1989 by the then Head of William Forster Chambers, Trevor Riley QC, later to become Chief Justice Trevor Riley. Relishing the opportunity to back herself, and openly lesbian since 1978, Sally became the first woman to go to the Bar in the Northern Territory. She developed a vibrant practice and remained there for 20 years until her retirement in 2010. Having won more than 90% of her cases at trial, she was satisfied she had justified the faith of those colleagues who supported her early in her career. Always active in pro bono, she worked with others to establish the first women’s refuge in Darwin in 1988 and helped establish community legal services and refugee advocacy in the 1990s. In 1992 she was awarded a fellowship to travel to the USA with Judy Harrison, another woman lawyer, to research responses to domestic violence. Their subsequent book and recommendations were a blueprint for policy responses in the mid 1990s both in the Territory and nationwide. Sally currently (in 2016) sits as a part time legal member of a number of Tribunals in the Northern Territory. Sally Gearin was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Born in Sydney to Ellen (nee) Dempsey and Alan Louvain Tait, Sally attended St Kevin’s Primary School at Eastwood and then at Our Lady Of Mercy College Parramatta. Going to boarding school at age 14, she relished the nurturing of some of the nuns, who created a community of stability, intellectual pursuit in an environment where ‘daring to be different’ was celebrated, not vilified. Awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend ANU to study law in 1967, she embraced the student politics of the late 1960s together with the drug and drop out culture of the time. Returning to Sydney, Sally left her legal studies and went bush, got married and at 23 had a baby while pursuing the hippy lifestyle. Realizing eventually that this was not sustainable, and wanting to give her son the opportunities that had been given to her, she returned to Sydney to complete her legal studies. She became open about her sexuality in 1978 when she was 27 years old. It was perhaps the hardest thing to do, Sally says, to have the disapproval of many, including her mother, required a depth of courage in those days that steeled her for the difficult path ahead. Fortunately, she had a few wonderful male mentors in Sydney, who guided her through the often stormy waters of the male dominated profession she had chosen. At the Attorney-General’s Department in Darwin, she was involved in some major commercial and administrative law cases that broadened and deepened her legal experience. When Trevor Riley asked her to join the Bar at William Forster Chambers in 1989, she was well supported by the senior legal ranks of the Attorney-General’s department, Peter Conran and Meredith Harrison. They made it known that if she wanted to come back to Government, she would be always welcome. Once at the Bar she was initially briefed mostly by local women solicitors in the Northern Territory. Her practice at the bar soon expanded to not only personal injury work, but also administrative law, family law and human rights law. In commenting on this, Sally said … ‘It was difficult to know if the male solicitors did not brief you because you were a woman, because you were a lesbian, because they didn’t like you or because they didn’t think you were any good.’ This male exclusion attitude changed after a few years as Sally started winning cases at trial. As well as developing her practice, Sally was involved in important community and advocacy organisations. She was a founder of Dawn House, Darwin’s first Women’s Refuge, a founder of the NT Women Lawyers Association and a founder of the Australian Women Lawyers Association. She was also a founding editor of the Northern Territory Law Reports and President of the Northern Territory Chapter of the International Commission of Jurists. In this latter role she assisted with the establishment of the first Legal Aid office in Dili, Timor Leste, and was an observer at the International War Crimes Tribunals held there in during the United Nations administered transition to that country’s independence in May 2002. As mentioned previously, pro bono work has always been an important part of her practice, in both Sydney and Darwin. The motivation has always been quite simple, Sally says; …’I developed my passion for justice mostly by seeing injustice and powerlessness and wanting to do something about it’. In a 2010 reflection on how the arrival of women improved the culture of the NT Bar, Colin McDonald QC described Sally as a ‘pioneer’ whose arrival at chambers ‘brought a maturity, a depth and a democratic legitimacy to the contemporary life of Chambers…[as well as] a quality of life on a daily basis.’ Motivated by a desire and passion for the role of women in her profession, Sally represents the strength and determination necessary to be successful as a woman barrister and trailblazer. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Sally Gearin interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham (with Sally Gearin) Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 27 February 2017 Digital resources Title: Sally Gearin Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Muriel Heagney worked tirelessly for the labour movement in various capacities during her long life. Her major commitment, however, was to achieve equal pay for women workers. Born into a labour family, she joined the Richmond branch of the Political Labour Council (later the Australian Labor Party – ALP) in 1906, and was a delegate to the Women’s Central Organising Committee in 1909. Other positions she held included: membership of the Victorian central executive of the Australian Labor Party from 1926-1927; secretary of the Women’s Central Organising Committee; and ex officio member of the party’s central executive in 1955. She was a founding member of the Council of Action for Equal Pay which was established in Sydney in 1937 under the auspices of the New South Wales branch of the Federated Clerks’ Union and was secretary for most of its existence. It disbanded in 1948. She returned to Victoria in 1950 and continued to maintain her union and political interests into the 1960s. Her publications include Are women taking men’s jobs?, (1935), Equal pay for the sexes, (1948), Arbitration at the crossroads, (1954). She died in poverty in St Kilda in May 1974. Heagney made two attempts to enter an Australian parliament. She made her first attempt in 1933 when she stood as an ALP candidate in the by-election for the state Legislative Assembly seat of Boroondara, which was held on 29 April. This was and remains a conservative seat. She was placed second in a field of seven on the primary vote, with 20.54 per cent of the vote, but on the two-party preferred count she was placed third, with 24.36 per cent of the vote, after the winner Trevor Oldham (United Australia Party) and James Nettleton, another United Australia Party candidate. This was a creditable performance as the ALP had not fielded a candidate for that seat in the 1932 state election. She made her second attempt in 1956 at the age of 70, when she stood unsuccessfully for ALP pre-selection to the Australian Senate. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Are women taking men's jobs?: a survey of women's work in Victoria, with special regard to equal status, equal pay, and equality of opportunity, Heagney, Muriel, 1935 Arbitration at the crossroads, Heagney, Muriel, 1954 Resource Section Heagney, Muriel Agnes (1885-1975), Smith, Bruce A., 2001, http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0922b.htm Heagney, Muriel Agnes (1885 - 1974), Bremner, J., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090251b.htm Heagney, Patrick Reginald (1858-1922), 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090698b.htm Thesis Muriel Heagney and the Council of Action for Equal Pay 1937-1948, Francis, Rosemary, 1989 Book Section In the cause of equality: Muriel Heagney and the position of women in the Depression, Bremner, Jennie, c1982 Brazen hussies and God's police fighting back in the depression years. [Revised version of article published in Hecate, v.8, no.1, 1982], Stone, Janey, 1998 Famine relief on the Volga : Muriel Heagney's winter sojourn., Francis, Rosemary, 2008 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Journal Article Exercising political citizenship : Muriel Heagney and the Australian Labor Party 1906-1914., Francis, Rosemary, 2008 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, 1936-1968 [manuscript]. Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 15 October 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Daisy Bates sends Prof. Fitzherbert various vocabularies: Wirongu wongga informed by Binilya (9 p.) from Tarcoola area, Waldhadur or Mula wongga from Ibari (10 p.), Badu wongga from Bunjerin from Boundary Dam or Wardagana (1 p.) and Yulbari wongga from informants Ngindilya, Minbunga and Manjunya (3 p.)from the coast near Fowlers Bay. (25 p.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1931, Ellen O’Donnell, along with Zara Dare, became Queensland’s first female police officer, serving with the service for nearly 31 years. As Ellen was never officially sworn in as an officer, she did not wear a uniform or receive officer’s wages. She also was never part of the superannuation scheme. Her duties were restricted to assisting lost children, escorting female prisoners, and working with victims of domestic and sexual violence. Queensland’s decision to allow female officers into the police service was extremely controversial, with opinions divided across the state. The National Council of Women of Queensland (NCWQ) in 1911 drew attention to the need for women and girls in Queensland to be better served in matters of crime. There were no female police officers in Australia at the time and the NCWQ called for women, experienced and educated in social work, to be given the status of police officers. The appointment of two female police in New South Wales in 1915 was not enough to encourage the Queensland Commissioner of Police William Cahill to follow suit. By 1917 Queensland was the only state without female police. Newspapers and community groups began asking why. The Queensland Country Women’s Association (QCWA), the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, James Duhig, the NCWQ and the Queensland Women’s Electoral League (QWEL) all called for the appointment of women in policing. It was not until Irene Longman was elected to State Parliament in 1929 that the opposition to female police began to be broken down. As past president of the NCWQ and a member of the QWEL, Irene made a submission to cabinet in 1930, outlining the necessity for women to handle sensitive cases such as children, girls and women who have been involved in sexual assault cases. Although the decision was not unanimous, Cabinet consented to the appointment of women in the police force. Ellen O’Donnell, along with Zara Dare, accepted the offer of positions and the women were based at the Roma Street police station. When the time came to review their appointments and make them permanent, the Police commissioner William Ryan stated that they were well paid for the job they were doing, and although there was nothing under the Police Act 1898 to stop them from being sworn in, he considered that their swearing in would reduce the number of male police constables by two. Ellen kept her job by agreeing not to be sworn in. She never received the pay allowances and privileges of her fellow police, nor superannuation. The NCWQ continued to lobby to have Ellen and Zara made permanent, but Police Commissioner Ryan made it clear that if they were not satisfied, they were free to resign at any time. Ellen remained in the force until her retirement in 1962, working the entire time at Roma Street police station. Queensland police women were eventually sworn in three years after Ellen retired – in 1965. Published resources Resource 50 Firsts: Queensland Policewomen at Work, Queensland State Archives, 2009, http://queenslandfirsts.org/01_cms/details.asp?ID=39 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Ellen O'Donnell and Zara Dare: Queensland's first policewomen, Grant, Heather, 2005 Resource Section O'Donnell, Ellen, Grant, Heather, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1930/index.html#item-ellen-odonnell Book Journey to equality: an illustrated history of women in the Queensland Police, Prenzler, Tim, Jones, Lisa, Ronken, Carol, 2001 Archival resources Queensland State Archives Administration File, police Police Service File Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A Canadian (Eleanor Huntley) who married Spencer Cozens (Charles Cozens Spencer.)In 1906 was the first lady ‘projectioniste’ Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jan Barham has shown her passionate concern for the environment throughout her public career. She ran as a member of the Australian Greens for Ballina in 2003 and in the House of Representatives for Richmond in 2001. She was elected to the Legislative Council of the New South Wales Parliament, representing the Greens in 2011. Jan was also Deputy Mayor (2003) then Mayor (2004-2012) of the Byron Shire Council. She was a member of the council from 1999-2012. Jan Barham was educated at Figtree High School, Wollongong TAFE and East Sydney Technical College. Trained as a fashion designer, Jan Barham worked in fashion and clothing fields from 1987 to 1995. In 1995 she was appointed Parliamentary adviser and researcher to Ian Cohen, MLC, a job she held until 1999. She was secretary of the Tweed Byron Greens in 1993-4 and in 1994 was assistant secretary to the NSW Greens. She was closely involved in Native Title campaigns in the North Coast area that resulted in the first Indigenous Land Use Agreement in NSW and the establishment of the joint Aboriginal/National Parks and Wildlife Service management of the Arakwal National Park. Elected to the Byron Shire Council in 1999, she became the first popularly elected Green mayor in Australia. She has been a member of Cape Byron Headland Trust Committee from 1997 and on the Management Committee of the Arakwal National Park from 2001. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 25 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 sound files (ca. 250 min.)??O’Brien speaks about growing up in a sugar growing region; her schooling; being a governess on a property in Mt Garnet (1967-68); Brisbane; meeting her husband; working as a sugar chemist; young people in remote communities; life on sugar cane farms; current land use and the environmental impact in sugar growing areas; her marriage; living on her husband’s family property Craig’s Pocket; the challenges of childbirth and raising children in a remote community; the radio as a lifeline; distance education; School of the Air; moving to the Northern Territory (1993); selling Craig’s Pocket; Carmor Plains; Community involvement in the NT; involvement with Landcare; move to Roper Valley District (2001); good relationships with local indigenous people; her children; winning the State award for the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award (1996).??O’Brien talks about her concern for environmental issues; Ramsar Wetlands; volunteering; the need to make rural communities attractive to families and young people; the impact of locking up land in national parks; holistic land management theories; using Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WWOOFers) as labour; pastoralism with a conservation focus; Kakadu National Park; the lack of support for rural women; her leadership experience with ICPA, CWA, Royal Flying Doctor, Australian Women in Agriculture; building networks; participating in the Australian Rural Leadership Program (2002-3); leadership; serving as deputy mayor of the Roper Gulf Shire; writing a weekly column for Rural Press; being nominated for the national award; Australian Women in Agriculture Conference in Darwin; differences between Country Women’s Association and Australian Women in Agriculture; her daughter’s experience of life on the land compared with hers; her concerns about domestic violence, youth suicide, support for men and aged care in remote rural communities. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 27 April 2011 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 3 October 2003 Last modified 30 January 2013 Digital resources Title: Members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in Manila, after release from internment at Yokohama, at a prisoner of war (POW) processing unit on their way home. Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour??’Mara’ was born in Daugavpils, Latvia. Her parents lost contact with one another during the Second World War and her mother brought the family to South Australia in 1949. Mara and her sister were placed at the Goodwood Orphanage and their brother at the Brooklyn Park Orphanage for three and a half years while their mother worked as a nurse’s aid and established a new home. Mara learnt to speak English at the orphanage. She recalls finding many of the routines and regulations incomprehensible at first and her perspective as an ‘outsider’ provides different insights into the institution. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2006 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9993 includes two volumes: Management Committee papers, 2001-2005, and Imperial Honours (Office of the Status of Women), 2001-2003.??The Acc08.194 instalment comprises records of the Convenor of the Australian Women’s Archives Project, Anne Buttsworth. They include agendas and minutes of meetings for the period February 2001-March 2008, correspondence, news cuttings and printed material about grants, conferences and government policy (2 boxes).??The Acc13.150 instalment comprises material relating to the development and launch of the online exhibition to celebrate the Centenary of Canberra “From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women’s Contributions to Canberra”- http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg/. Papers include folders on each of the thematic categories developed for the exhibition, including research notes, newspaper cuttings and the final exhibition text; and a folder dealing with the exhibition launch, including the speech delivered by Roslyn Russell at the opening at Canberra Museum and Gallery on 21 February 2013, and congratulatory messages (1 box). Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nellie Robinson was elected as Alderman to the Toowoomba Council in 1961. In 1967 she was elected mayor of Toowoomba, thus becoming Queensland’s first female mayor. Nellie served the state for 14 years. The Queen’s New Year Honours list in 1979 made her an officer of the Order of the British Empire for “distinguished service to local government”. Nellie Robinson was educated at North State School, Glennie Memorial School and St. Hilda’s at Southport. In the 1930s she commenced a 3 year course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Without completing the course Nellie returned to Toowoomba at the outbreak of World War II. She taught briefly at Fairholme, and then became a driver with the Women’s Voluntary Auxiliary for the remainder of the war. Next she joined radio station 4GR for a short time, before moving to 2LM Lismore where she established her own women’s session on air. Nellie then joined her father’s grocery business which she carried on after his death in 1949, only selling it in 1967 when she was elected mayor of Toowoomba. She was President of the committee which raised funds to build the Senior Citizens’ clubrooms in Victoria Street & was dedicated to the development of East Creek Park. A Park on the southern side of Toowoomba is named in her honour. Miss Robinson had a particular interest in dramatic art and cultural activities and was a trustee of the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery and was actively involved in the Toowoomba Repertory Company. Nell Robinson retired in 1981 because of ill-health. She passed away on 19th September 1992 & is buried at the Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery. The Robinson Collection within the Toowoomba City Library is so named because of a generous twenty thousand dollar bequest from Miss Robinson. Published resources Resource Nellie E. Robinson - Queensland's First Lady Mayor, Toowoomba Regional Council, 2003, http://www.toowoomba.qld.gov.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=416&Itemid=691 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Nellie Robinson, Toowoomba Regional Council, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1960/index.html#item-nellie-robinson Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc08/2 comprises the choreographic score by Page (1988) for “Canon for four dancers” by Shirley McKechnie, which is understood to have been commissioned by St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne; choreographic score by Page (1988) for “Voyageur” by Laurel Martyn; photocopy of original unpublished orchestral score (1951-1952) by Dorian Le Gallienne and recordings (CD, DVD and LP record) for “Voyageur”, a ballet by Laurel Martyn for the Ballet Guild, Melbourne, and other papers relating to “Voyageur” (1 fol. box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Koula Kossiavelos is a magistrate of the Magistrates Court of South Australia. She has made a significant contribution to the Greek community, including as member of a long-standing steering committee which succeeded after ten years in establishing a Chair of modern Greek studies at Flinders University. She was a legal advisor and National President of the Pan-Arcadian Federation of Australia and an Australian delegate at the International Conference of Council of Hellenes Abroad. A former barrister and solicitor, she served articles with the firm Johnston, Withers, McCusker & Co before joining Martirovs, Kadis & Metanomski where she became a partner. Later establishing herself as a sole practitioner, she practised in a wide range of civil cases, including personal injury claims, family law, criminal-injuries compensation claims, civil litigation, industrial law and defamation. She continues to support community legal organisations and to promote a multicultural society. Koula Kossiavelos was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Koula Kossiavelos graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Adelaide in 1980, followed by a Graduate Diploma in Community Languages from the University of South Australia in 1981. In 1982, she was a participating student at the University of Athens summer school organised by Temple University of Philadelphia law school. During her university studies, Kossiavelos was a founding member of a Greek youth and music radio program. In recognition of her commitment to fostering the Greek community and the development of a broader multicultural society, Kossiavelos was granted a Commonwealth Government Australian-Greek Presidential Award in 1982 [PM]. This scholarship enabled Kossiavelos to study the legal system of Greece as it related to the Australian community. Kossiavelos served articles with the firm Johnston, Withers, McCusker and Co. In 1984 she joined Martirovs, Kadis & Metanomski as a solicitor; in 1986 she became a partner at the firm. It was here that she developed expertise in trial work and the conduct of civil law matters. In 1987 she represented Greek-Australian graduate students in raising money to support a Chair of Modern Greek at Flinders University [Flinders]. Between 1984 and 1989 she acted as honorary legal advisor to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and performed the voluntary role of duty solicitor at the Adelaide Magistrates’ Court. She was a member of the Citizens’ Advice Bureau and the Women’s Legal Service. In addition, Kossiavelos volunteered as a legal adviser at Thebarton, Norwood and Parks Legal Service. She has been an Australian delegate to the International Conference of Greek Youth Abroad and President of the Greek Australian Graduates Association. She also contributed as an Executive Board member of the Alumni Association of the University of Adelaide. Kossiavelos established herself as a sole practitioner in 1991; she practised in a wide range of civil cases, including personal injury claims, family law, criminal-injuries compensation claims, civil litigation, industrial law and defamation. During this time she was Legal Advisor and National President of the Pan-Arcadian Federation of Australia, and Australian delegate at the International Conference of Council of Hellenes Abroad in 2001 and 2003. From 2005 to 2006 Kossiavelos was the National Coordinator of the Australian Hellenic Council. In 2007 Kossiavelos was appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate. The Attorney-General Michael Atkinson noted upon her appointment that Kossiavelos had “thrown [herself] into serving others” and that she had “also been a stalwart of Greek organisations and migrant women’s groups” [Media Release]. Koula Kossiavelos has made a considerable contribution to the legal system in South Australia. She continues to support community and legal organisations, which provide services to migrant women in need, and to promote a multicultural society. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Koula Kossiavelos interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Koula Kossiavelis Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Copies of correspondence and papers relating to the Women’s Land Army, 1939-1946, covering clothes rationing and uniform, housing and billeting, conferences, wages, and related printed memoranda, circular letters and leaflets.??Copies made by the Centre from originals loaned by the family in 1982. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 May 2006 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "7 digital audio tapes (ca. 404 min.)??Carmel Bird talks about the beginnings of her writing; childhood reading; extracurricular activities; her parents and family background; schooldays; attending University of Tasmania, Hobart; gaining an Arts degree, teaching diploma; her teaching career; her first commercial publication; her marriages; her first experiences outside Australia; the birth of daughter (1975); how her second book came about (published 1983); Sybilla Press; self-publishing and promoting, ‘Cherry Ripe’; McPhee Gribble; her writing career; developments in her personal life; Penguin Books; Random House; the impact of ‘The Stolen Children: their Stories’; using a pseudonym; her idea for anthology to be published in 2000; next titles; her crime novels; her books for children; grants; changes in government support and publishing; her future prospects; formative literary influences and attractions; Tasmania and its influence, Heaven’s Gate and the northwest of Tasmania; characters, features and themes of her fiction; her view of life; ‘The white garden’, its symbolic meaning; her creative process.??Bird discusses fact and fiction; the effect of the dark side on the author; social versus private life; what she admires in other writers; the ABC book show; her love of teaching; tertiary creative writing courses; teaching in a private secondary school; her experience of casual university teaching; the place of sports and other celebrities in the book world; teaching and writing, allocating priorities; her enthusiasm for new technology and her website; writing essays; the practice of writing; necessary elements of fiction; film rights and films made her material; popular mystery writing, early 2000s; the financial reasons for writing psychological murder mysteries; satisfactions of writing popular fiction; critical reception of ‘Crisis’ and murder mysteries; Como Literary Festival; life at present; her happiness in solitary living, ability to find joy or entertainment anywhere; her creativity, quilt-making, wall hangings; editing work; her early editing experience; reflects on past, things she most treasures and things yet to do. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Maureen Lane is an outstanding health worker and an active local politician. As a member of the ALP since 1976, she was their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Ballina in 1991. That same year she was elected a Councillor of the Ballina Shire Council (1991-1992). Maureen was educated at Narrabeen Girls High School and completed her nursing training at the Royal North Shore Hospital in 1973. She was appointed the first community nurse in the North Coast Health Region in 1974. She also practised as a registered midwife and is a registered Diagnostic Audiometrist. In 1988 she received a Bicentennial award for her contribution to health care. She is married and has two children. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A socially and politically active health professional, Penny Bartholomew ran as an Australian Democrats candidate for Illawarra in 1999. A highly qualified nurse with midwifery, sick children and community health nursing qualifications, Penny has also worked in adult education and charity organisations. She migrated to Australia in 1986 and became a naturalised Australian citizen in 1996. She is interested in sport, alternative health care, the environment and community matters. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This collection consists of minutes from 1982-2011, financial records, correspondence, by-laws, reports, postcards, Christmas cards, invitations, news clippings, grant applications, register of women artists, gallery exhibition details etc. of the Zonta Club of Brisbane. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records of the Society of Women Writers (Australia), South Australian Branch, comprising minutes, correspondence, papers relating to events conducted by the Society, statements of Income & Expenditure, newspaper cuttings and audiotapes. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Heidi Yates is Head of General Practice at Legal Aid ACT, a position she has held since 2015. A well-known solicitor and human-rights advocate, Heidi has been appointed to roles including Executive Director of the ACT Women’s Legal Centre, advisor to the ACT Human Rights and Discrimination Commissioner and a Clinical Education Convenor at the ANU College of Law. Heidi’s professional reputation is well-established at a national level as an advocate for the development and funding of free legal services across Australia (particularly for victims of family violence) and as a trailblazer in gender-related law reform. Heidi has also been a spokesperson and advocate at a local and federal level for the removal of legislative discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. She has undertaken this work through roles including spokesperson for the community law reform group ‘Good Process’ and as the inaugural chair of the ACT LGBTIQ Ministerial Advisory Council. After just two years of practice, her work was recognised when she won the ACT Law Society’s Young Lawyer Award in 2008. In 2011, Heidi was also a state finalist in the Young Australian of the Year Awards. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Heidi Yates for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Heidi Yates and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. The principles of social justice have been a constant in my life, taking root early and ultimately informing my decision to pursue a career as a legal practitioner and law reform advocate. Born in Canberra, the second of four children, I grew up in a supportive family and community where the big questions were asked and debate was encouraged. I was a curious small person, and I asked a lot of questions. School should have been a good fit for me and although I did well academically, the experience was not without its challenges. In third grade we were asked to count how many corners there were in different geometric shapes. When we got to circles, a classmate quickly volunteered that a circle did not contain any corners. I put my hand up and alternatively suggested that circles have infinite corners, but that they are too hard to count because they are so close together. I was hauled in front of the class and told that ‘nobody likes little girls who are too smart for their own good.’ Looking back, I recognise I was only one of an infinite number of girls and young women who were ‘put in their place’ for providing an insightful response. Although it was an upsetting experience as a 9 year old, it ultimately revealed to me a more complex world, and marked the beginning of my aspirations to ‘level the playing field’ for those who may otherwise go unheard. I completed my education in the ACT and, like many of my peers, took a gap year after Year 12. I worked as an administrator, a piano teacher, an academic tutor, a netball coach and a boarding house ‘mum’ at a small boarding school in Suffolk before returning to Australia in 2000 to study Arts/Law at the Australian National University (including an exchange year at McGill University, Montreal in 2002-03). Legal Practice I had tossed up between doing social work or law at University. I settled on Arts/Law with a Women’s Studies Major, but never intended to practise as a lawyer. Instead of applying for a corporate clerkship at the end of my fourth year of law studies, I obtained an internship at the ACT Office of the Community Advocate. I had heard about the Office through my mother’s work and it sparked my interest as a place where ‘non-lawyers’ undertook community-based advocacy for vulnerable clients. In 2005, I was accepted into a graduate program in the Australian Public Service. I had applied to the department in which my father, a career public servant, had spent the bulk of his working life, keen to understand that world and the workings of government. It was the era of WorkChoices and when I found myself tasked with contributing to the creation of industrial relations policy aimed at stripping rights and entitlements from vulnerable workers, something had to give. I began seeking other options. In mid-2005 I joined the Legal Aid Office (ACT) as the Primary Dispute Resolution Program Manager. The interview panel noted that I had limited experience for the role but, in part due to my raw enthusiasm, offered to let me ‘give it a crack’. I began my Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice whilst managing the program and subsequently took on my first solicitor’s role in the Legal Aid Domestic Violence and Protection Orders Unit. Working on the ‘treadmill’ of cases churning in and out of the Magistrates Court, I became keenly aware of the systemic issues impacting the operation of the Domestic Violence Order system. In 2007, I joined the Women’s Legal Centre (ACT & Region) as a solicitor, welcoming an environment where my client work could be complemented by law reform and community education roles. The holistic approach of Community Legal Centres has always appealed to my sense of efficiency. It makes good sense when doing casework to identify recurring legal problems and then develop community education and law reform proposals to prevent and mitigate them. The efficacy of grassroots organisations pushing to improve systems, rather than tackling cases one at a time, has consistently driven my interest in law reform. In 2013, I spent an inspiring year working as an Advisor to ACT Human Rights and Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Helen Watchirs, before being appointed as the Women’s Legal Centre (ACT & Region) Executive Director. In this role, I fought hard (and successfully) to safeguard the Centre when the Federal Government brought the axe down on funding for the legal assistance sector. My work was part of a national campaign, highlighting the appalling social and economic consequences of cutting legal support for vulnerable Australians. In particular, I advocated the essential role of specialist, front-line legal services for women subjected to Domestic and Sexual Violence. In 2015, I returned to Legal Aid ACT as Head of the Commission’s General Law Practice. The position offered the opportunity to increase delivery and coordination of education, outreach and duty legal services to vulnerable clients across the region, particularly those isolated due to experiences of domestic violence, trauma and/or cultural marginalisation. Law Reform I have had an enduring interest in the intersections between gender, sexuality and the law that has driven my systemic law reform work. I work from the premise that Australia’s federal system provides unique opportunities for lawyers to work together, either as a unified voice for federal change, or as colleagues exchanging expertise to inform incremental state reform. Such reform is often ‘organically’ improved as individual jurisdictions observe the operation of new law or policy and seek to address any weaknesses or inconsistencies in their subsequent implementation. In this context, I have worked with colleagues across Australia to improve law relating to issues including relationship recognition, domestic violence and gender identity. I have been appointed to a range of national law reform roles including as convenor of the National Association of Community Legal Centres (NACLC) Human Rights Network; convenor of the NACLC Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex( LGBTI) Network; and convener of Women’s Legal Services Australia, the peak national body for women’s legal services in Australia. I have also been appointed to various government advisory bodies including the ACT Victims Advisory Board, the ACT Law Reform Advisory Council and as the inaugural Chair of the ACT LGBTIQ Ministerial Advisory Council. My professional engagement with law reform has been complemented and augmented by my involvement in community-based advocacy. In 2002 when I was undertaking my Arts/Law degree, the ACT Assembly passed a motion to remove legislative discrimination against LGBTI people. I joined a group of local community members intent on making this motion a reality. As a media spokesperson, community facilitator and legal consultant for the ‘Good Process’ lobby group, I was one of many Canberrans who rode the wave of political controversy surrounding parenting laws, discrimination legislation and Federal overturn of the 2006 Civil Unions Act. In 2014, the ACT became the first Australian jurisdiction to remove the requirement for sexual reassignment surgery as a prerequisite for change of legal sex, and to introduce a third legal sex category. My involvement in the 10 year push for this reform included representing transgender discrimination complainants; sitting as a member of the Law Reform Advisory Council tasked by the ACT Government to consider these issues; volunteering as a legal consultant to community-based intersex and transgender organisation ‘A Gender Agenda’; and chairing the ACT LGBTIQ Ministerial Advisory Council whose advice was sought on the details of the amending legislation. The passing of amendments to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2013 with bipartisan support in March 2013 was monumental, setting a new bar for recognition of sex and gender in Australian law. Legal Education and Good Governance Since 2008, I have been regularly involved in the teaching work of the ANU College of Law. As a course convenor, guest lecturer, tutor and assessor I have welcomed the opportunity to engage future colleagues in various aspects of social justice, in particular, about how experiences of intersectional disadvantage can impact an individual’s experience of the law. Reflecting the ‘hands-on’ focus of other client-focused degrees such as medicine and allied health, I believe that clinical law programs provide a crucial opportunity for students to ‘practise’ legal practice and better understand how the law is experienced by different parts of the community. Clinical courses are also a great opportunity to promote pro bono work with community legal centres as part of a well-rounded legal education and indeed, a well-rounded legal career. I have also made significant contributions to the broader community through volunteer board and committee work. Although a strong interest in corporations law may not generally be considered a ‘natural fit’ for a social justice lawyer, I have become a strong advocate of good governance. In 2012, I was fortunate to receive a scholarship from the ACT Office for Women to undertake the Australian Institute of Company Directors ‘Company Directors Course’ and have since worked as a consultant and facilitator with a range of organisations to streamline their risk-management and strategic frameworks. My board roles have included the National LGBTI Health Alliance Ltd, the Welfare Rights and Legal Centre Ltd and more than a decade on the ACT Domestic Violence Crisis Service Board including three years as Chair during a time of significant organisational change. The future Today, I commute to work in Canberra from the home I share with my partner, child, dog (on loan) and a growing number of chickens in Gundaroo Village, NSW. My work spans casework; community education and engagement; working with community and government on law reform; education of future lawyers; upskilling of community organisations to achieve their goals through good governance; and experimenting with our unruly vegetable patch. I haven’t stopped asking questions. What are the limitations of an adversarial system where one party can’t access legal representation? How can the law recognise the diversity and lived experience of sex and gender? How can the law protect survivors of domestic violence, and how can legal services best empower survivors to stay safe and move forward? These are questions that are unlikely to be answered in my lifetime, but I value the chance to be an active part of the dialogue. Events 2008 - 2008 2011 - 2011 2014 - 2014 Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Heidi Yates Created 27 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Heidi Yates Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 44 min.)??Guy speaks of her involvement with the Society of Women Writers ; the Society’s seminars ; immigrating to Australia in 1952 to begin a new life ; writing for A.B.C. radio. She provides biographical details. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Duration – 6:16 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 November 2002 Last modified 1 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A once-only candidate in an unwinnable seat of Redfern in 1959 for the Liberal Party. Mary Jane Beckett was Executive Secretary of Montefiore Home in Hunters Hill. Mary Beckett migrated to Australia c. 1952 with her parents and two siblings. She joined the Young Liberals in 1952, having previously been a member of the British Young Conservatives, and showed her loyalty to the party by standing for election in a very safe ALP seat. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection of minute books from the Queensland Country Women’s Association.??Box 15070: Chermside 1961-1996, Chermside 1966-1971, Chermside 1971-1977, Chermside 1977-1982, Chermside 1982-1988, Chermside 1988-1996, Chermside 1996-2001.?Box 15071: Chermside 2002-2004, Surat 1946-1954, Surat 1954-1960, Surat 1961-1968, Surat 1968-1979, Surat 1979-1988, Millmerran 1933-1939, Millmerran 2002-2004.?Box 15072: Innisfail Younger Set 1952-1957, Innisfail Younger Set 1957-1962, Cooyar 1999-2001, Pittsworth 1996-2000, Cambooya 2002-2003, Minbun 1928-1939, Weir River 1957-1961, Moonie River 1964-1976, Moonie River 1976-1984, Moonie River 1995-1999.?Box 15073: Lawgi 1996-2003, Injune 1953-1955, Injune 1985-1995, Injune 1996-2001, Prospect Creek 1959-1967, Prospect Creek 1967-1978, Prospect Creek 1978-1989, Rockmount-Stockyard 1969-1974, Yarwun-Targinnie 1946-1948, Childers Younger Set 1993-1995.?Box 15074: Talwood 1993-1996, Burnett Heads 1974-1984, Tamborine Mountain 1958-1960, Kalkie 1965-1966, Machine Creek 1931-1937, Haden 1990-1996, Haden 1991-1993, Haden 1993-1995, Haden 1995-1996, Haden 1996-1998, Finch Hatton 1989-2001, Taroom Younger Set 1959-1965.?Box 15075: Yelarbon 1940-1947, Yelarbon 1963-1964, Yelarbon 1964-1971, Yelarbon 1971-1975, Yelarbon 1975-1978, Yelarbon 1978-1982, Yelarbon 1982-1986, Yelarbon 1986-1992.?Box 15076: Yelarbon 1992-2000, Yelarbon 2000-2003, Wynnum North 1951-1955, Wynnum North 1955-1960, Wynnum North 1960-1965, Wynnum North 1965-1969, Wynnum North 1969-1974, Wynnum North 1975-1982.?Box 15077: Wynnum North 1982-1987, Wynnum North 1987-1991, Wynnum North 1991-1997, Glenarbon Beebo 1949, Glenarbon Beebo 1950-1953, Glenarbon Beebo 1951-1956, Glenarbon Beebo 1953-1960, Glenarbon Beebo 1960-1977, Glenarbon Beebo 1977-1979.?Box 15078: Wandoon Younger Set 1960-1962, Toobeah 1952-1959, Toobeah 1959-1967, Toobeah 1966-1975, Toobeah 1975-1985, Toobeah 1985-1990, Harrami 1952-1958, Harrami 1958-1967, Harrami 1968-1976.?Box 15079: Harrami 1977-1985, Harrami 1985-1996, Harrami 1996-1999, Sandgate 1926-1935, Sandgate 1935-1939, Sandgate 1940-1948, Sandgate 1948-1954, Sandgate 1960-1966.?Box 15080: Sandgate 1966-1974, Sandgate 1981-1988, Sandgate 1988-1994, Sandgate 1994-2008, Clayfield 1948-1950, Clayfield 1950-1958, Clayfield 1965-1970.?Box 15081: Clayfield 1972-1976, Clayfield 1976-1982, Clayfield 1982-1988, Clayfield 1987-1995, Howard Younger Set 1992-1994, Gurgeena 1956-1958, Gurgeena 1957-1959.?Box 15082: Gurgeena 1960-1967, Gurgeena 1967-1972, Acland 1936-1942, Acland 1942-1948, Acland 1948-1953, Acland 1953-1959, Acland 1959-1968, Acland 1968-1977, Acland 1977-1986, Acland 1986-1996.?Box 15083: Goomboorian 1947-1952, Goomboorian 1952-1954, Goomboorian 1954-1958, Goomboorian 1958-1963, Goomboorian 1963-1968, Goomboorian 1968-1972, Goomboorian 1972-1977, Goomboorian 1977-1983, Goomboorian 1983-1988, Goomboorian 1988-1994, Goomboorian 1994-1999.?Box 15084: Goondiwindi 1932-1938, Goondiwindi 1938-1945, Goondiwindi 1945-1949, Goondiwindi 1949-1954, Goondiwindi 1954-1958, Goondiwindi 1958-1962, Goondiwindi 1962-1968, Goondiwindi 1968-1973.?Box 15085: Goondiwindi 1973-1977, Goondiwindi 1977-1983, Goondiwindi 1983-1987, Goondiwindi 1987-1992, Goondiwindi Younger Set 1968-1974. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 30 minutes??An interview with Nancy Flannery about her knowledge of Thelma Thomas Afford’s life and work. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Hon. Justice Janine Pritchard was appointed to the Supreme Court of Western Australia on 11 June 2010. She was elevated to this position after a year as a Judge of the District Court of Western Australia, during which period she served as Deputy President of the State Administrative Tribunal. Prior to her appointment to the District Court, Justice Pritchard had worked in the WA Crown (now State) Solicitor’s Office (since 1991). Known for her powerful intellect and work ethic, Justice Pritchard has been an important role model for women planning to combine a career in law, and in the judiciary in particular, with family responsibilities. Her first child was present at her swearing in ceremony; her second was born after her appointment. While she acknowledges the challenges of maintaining a demanding career with a ‘hands on’ approach to family life, Justice Pritchard has demonstrated that working arrangements for the judiciary are capable of accommodating family friendly policies, such as maternity leave. Janine Pritchard was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Born in Gunnedah in New South Wales, Janine Pritchard lived in regional NSW for the first fifteen years of her life. The oldest of three sisters educated by the Catholic Sisters of Mercy, Pritchard finished her secondary education at Merici College in Canberra, after her parents made the decision to move to that city to advance their daughters’ education. Pritchard went on to complete a combined Arts/Law degree at the Australian National University, graduating with a BA in 1990 and with a Law degree with honours in 1993. Her last two years of her law studies were completed while working full time, because in 1991 she moved to Perth to take up a position as a professional assistant to the then WA Solicitor-General, Kevin Parker AC, QC. She was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1993. She undertook more formal education in the late 1990s, completing a Graduate Diploma in Women’s Studies at Murdoch University in 1997 and a Master of Laws with distinction from the University of London in 1999. Having completed her articles with the then Crown Solicitor’s Office, Pritchard remained in that office as a lawyer and in 2002 was appointed a Senior Assistant State Counsel. She had a very busy practice throughout this period but still found time to lecture and tutor in law at various universities in Perth. Her commitment to mentoring and supporting young lawyers is renowned, as is her active participation in organisations focussed on the advancement of women in the legal profession, including service as a board member of Australian Women Lawyers, the peak body for women lawyers’ associations around Australia, and as a Committee member for Women Lawyers Western Australia (WLWA). From 2012 – 2014, she was Chair of the Steering Committee for WLWA’s 20th Anniversary Review of the 1994 Chief Justice’s Gender Bias Taskforce Report. At her swearing in ceremony on 14 June 2010, the then Parliamentary Secretary to the WA Attorney General, Michael Mischin, listed Pritchard’s many achievements, commitments and responsibilities, observing that ‘ [f]rankly, I don’t know where you find the time!’ There have been occasions when Her Honour has wondered this herself. Her motivation for pushing through her gruelling schedule stems partly from a desire to create better structures that promote gender equity throughout the legal system, allowing young boys and girls to imagine women and men in leadership roles, in equal numbers. The following extract of her own address at her swearing in, quoted at length, reflects her concerns. I am also conscious that regrettably it remains the case that there is something slightly out of the ordinary about the appointment of a woman Judge, and in my case the appointment of a comparatively young woman. While I think that the appointment of women to Courts and Tribunals is generally well received within the profession itself, in the broader community it is interesting that it remains something unusual or worthy of comment. Three things have brought this home to me in the past year. The first is that when I was appointed, one of my friends who is a lawyer and who is married to a lawyer recounted that her son who was about six years of age at the time had told her that I couldn’t possibly have been appointed as a Judge “because girls can’t be Judges”. [M]y son, came home very confused because the tennis coach who goes to his day-care centre to teach tennis had asked the kids what their parents do. He dutifully responded that “Mummy is a Judge and Daddy is a lawyer”, only to be told, “No, darling. I think you must be wrong. Daddy’s the Judge and Mummy’s the lawyer.” More recently I was bemused to see that my appointment to this Court warranted media attention, not because it increased the number of women represented on the Court or for anything to do with my individual merits but because I have a husband with a senior position in the legal profession and [that was seen to raise the question of] how I would be able to manage my new position in view of my ‘hubby’s’ role – that was the term used. My ‘hubby’s’ role was apparently a matter of some concern. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Janine Pritchard interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Janine Pritchard Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Newspaper cuttings & various articles.??Notes by RGW & his wife Eileen Watt.??Some League of Nations Union Victorian Branch circulars. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO9]??Comprises documents relating to the history of the Australian Red Cross including manuscripts, reports, volunteer survey results, publications, pamphlets, posters newsletters and manuals on Australian and Britain Red Cross activities in WW2, and unpublished manuscripts by E.M. Webb “Australian Red Cross in War” and Stanley Addison “History of Service in World War Two” both of which aim to contextualise the Australian Red Cross s involvement in humanitarian activities during WW1 and WW2.??Also includes governance documents such as organisational charts, strategic plans, divisional organisation review, survey and marketing strategies, floor plans and administration. This series has been artificially constructed by ARC Archives in 2015.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 February 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "4 hours 52 minutes??A series of six interviews conducted by members of the Thebarton Community Arts Network with local women of non-English speaking backgrounds. The interviews were the first stage of a community arts project in which interviewees collaborated with interviewers to produce lino prints which represented aspects of their migration and settlement experiences. The project culminated in an exhibition at the Fig Gallery, Thebarton during November and December 1994. A catalogue of the interviews and prints was launched at another exhibition of the prints during the 1996 Adelaide Festival of Arts. Not all of the project’s interviews are represented in the J. D. Somerville Oral History Collection. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 30 minutes??Patricia Deal was born in Sydney and was a dressmaker before beginning training at the Rachel Forster Hospital at Redfern. She completed the course in 1957, and did midwifery in Perth the following year. In 1959 she joined the staff of the Repatriation General Hospital at Concord, New South Wales and has continued to serve in repatriation hospitals apart from a short term in Vietnam in 1969. In 1968 Pat studied at the NSW College of Nursing for the Diploma in Nursing Administration, and in 1971 she enrolled at the University of NSW to do a social work course. She transferred to the Arts Faculty and completed an arts degree in 1974. In 1977 she took leave from her post as Director of Nursing at the Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park (which she still held at the time of the interview) and studied for the Masters Degree in Health Planning, also at the University of NSW. Pat was actively associated with the Australian Army Nursing Corps for twenty five years, retiring with the rank of Major in 1986. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Canberra’s initial depiction as a civic utopia was captured and communicated by the hand of Marion Mahony Griffin. A remarkably talented draftswoman, Mahony Griffin was responsible for the plan and perspective renderings which accompanied her husband Walter Burley Griffin’s entry for the 1912 design competition for the new Australian capital. Lithographed onto cambric, the exquisite panels fanned out over twelve metres, shining with the golden, burnished splendour of the Australian bush. Conceived and created in less than ten weeks during a bitterly cold Chicago winter, Mahony Griffin enshrined a distinctively Australian landscape on the winning design, without ever having been to the southern site. Her grand vision was finished only when ‘toward midnight of a bitterly cold winter night, the box of drawings, too long to go in a taxi, was rushed with doors open … to the last train that could meet the last boat for Australia’. Marion Mahony Griffin’s creative force has hesitantly received richer recognition as her prowess as an architect and an artist have continued to be seen in a more independent light. Born Marion Lucy Mahony in Chicago, Illinois in 1871, Marion Mahony was the second woman ever to graduate from the architectural program at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1898 Marion Mahony became the first woman in Illinois to be licensed to practice as an architect, pioneering women’s participation in architecture in the US. After beginning her career working with her cousin, architect Dwight Perkins in Chicago, she went on to spend fourteen years with Frank Lloyd Wright, becoming his chief draftsman and architectural renderer. As a principal of the Prairie School, Frank Lloyd Wright became an architect of world renown. Marion Mahony his ‘capable assistant’, as he acknowledged her, escaped any recognition for decades to come. Although her thesis, ‘The House and Studio of a Painter’, articulated design elements that would become hallmarks of the Prairie style – rooms freely communicating with each other, lit by large groups of windows, with a workspace attached to the same axis as the house and courtyard – the credit extended to her during her time with Wright was limited to her decorative talents. Even handicapped by these slights of perception, Marion Mahony’s gifts shone regardless. The iconic, Japanese-style presentation drawings and watercolours which helped create Wright’s international reputation were Marion Mahony’s delicately defined incarnations: ‘She did the drawings people think of when they think of Frank Lloyd Wright’.[1] Indeed, later in life, she would claim that Wright had taken credit for her contributions to his Dana-Thomas House (1904) in Springfield, Illinois, and for some of the drawings in the Wasmuth Portfolio (1910) that helped make Lloyd Wright’s aesthetic accessible around the world. While dispute over the nature and extent Marion Mahony Griffin’s architectural influence continues to seesaw, it is clear that she was no mere draftswoman. As a fellow architect in Lloyd Wright’s studio recalled, on at least one occasion, her work was declared superior to the master’s: ‘I can well remember welcoming her advent because it promised an interesting day. Her dialogues with FLW who as we all know is no indifferent opponent in repartee, made such days particularly notable’.[2] Marion first met Walter Burley Griffin in Wright’s studio. Their relationship grew from canoe trips on Lake Illinois, ‘to escape the filth and eyesore of human habitation’. In her unpublished biography, ‘The Magic of America’, she wrote: ‘I was first swept off my feet by my delight in his achievements in my profession, then through a common bond of interests in nature and intellectual pursuits, and then with the man himself. It was by no means a case of love at first sight, but it was a madness when it struck.'[3] Marion and Walter married on 23 June 1911 and immediately launched into the preparation of a proposal for the international competition detailing the planning of Australia’s projected new capital city – Canberra. While won under Walter Burley Griffin’s name, it was through the auspices of his wife’s drive and delicate delineations that the Griffin plan was assured of success. Senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Western Australia, Christopher Vernon, believes the beauty of Marion’s drawings, ‘works of art in themselves’, gave the plan a compelling allure. ‘I think if you had taken the same design and didn’t render it in the same way, I don’t know whether it wouldn’t have won but it certainly would not have put them way above everyone else.'[4] After Griffin was appointed Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction in 1913, Marion moved with him to Australia on 12 May 1914. They set up house in Melbourne, with Marion managing a private architectural practice while Walter focused on the planning of the new national capital. The political winds blew ill from the beginning. The Griffins’ vision of democratic civic perfection was not shared by a fiscally focused bureaucracy. Their desire to create a work of art on a continent untainted by Old World complexities was not reflected in the realities of life in Australia, or embraced in the manner the couple envisaged. As Marion sadly maintained, ‘in the early days practically no-one wanted Canberra … [But Griffin] knew the people of Australia needed it and would awaken to the need’. [5] They had arrived during a turbulent period in Australia’s social and political history, but their poor timing coincided with the advent of the First World War which brought the construction of Canberra to an abrupt halt. Building began again, but Griffin found himself unable to work with the federal bureaucrats responsible for the capital’s construction. In 1920 a dispirited Griffin retreated to his and Marion’s Melbourne office. His general arterial axes were implemented in the 1920s, and in the 1960s the Molonglo valley was eventually flooded to form ‘Lake Burley Griffin’, but few of the details of the original plan were implemented. Whilst in Melbourne the Griffins’ practice produced designs for some remarkable houses, as well as Newman College at Melbourne University, and the Capitol Theatre. In 1921 they secured an option on 650 acres in Castlecrag, and founded the Greater Sydney Development Association (GSDA). After the disappointments of their Canberra foray, this utopian community finally allowed them to explore their democratic ideals in an affirming landscape. Marion was able to indulge her passion for drama here, and developed a community theatre (which is still in use today), acted in and costumed plays, taught local children, and generally functioned as the hub and hearth of Castlecrag. During their Castlecrag years the Griffins were increasingly committed to anthroposophy, a religious system seeking to heighten spiritual reality through cognitive awareness. The Anthroposophical Society in America relates their beliefs in relation to architecture as: ‘beyond blending beauty and function, buildings should be ecologically sound and reflect the character of the region or culture. They should provide an environment enhancing the physical, psychological and spiritual well-being of the people who work in them.’ [6] This avant-garde approach to ecology manifestly placed the Griffins ahead of their time. Through their anthroposophy connections (his friendship with a former Theosophist, Ula Maddocks), Burley Griffin obtained a commission to design a University for Lucknow in India and, after creating exhibition buildings and maharajah’s palaces; he reached a new zenith in his career. Marion stayed in Australia to run their practice, but left it in the control of their partner, Eric Nicholls, after determining that her husband needed her assistance. ‘Mrs. Griffin follows her man’, she wrote to him. Only months later, Griffin fell from a scaffold while working on site. He died of peritonitis a week later, in February 1937. A devastated Marion finalised their Indian affairs, turned down further job offers, returned to Australia to tidy up pressing commissions and then flew home to Chicago in 1938. On the eve of the Second World War Marion focused her attention on producing her autobiographical epic, ‘The Magic of America’. A thousand pages of script, photos, anecdotes, renderings and even silk swatches, ‘The Magic of America’, was what she called ‘my sort of biography of Walt’. No publisher ever came forward. As she neared eighty, Mahony finally arranged to deposit copies with the New York Historical Society and the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition to this manuscript, Marion also donated a series of ‘Forest Portraits’ which she had painted at a number of locales in Tasmania and New South Wales during 1917. These passionate depictions of local flora, painstakingly crafted with watercolour and ink on silk, are unmistakably works of art. Marion’s dream of Australia had been diseased by their disappointments, but her real love dwelled in nature and the colours of the Australian bush which she seemed to have grasped from the beginning. She once remarked, ‘The archangels who painted this continent did so with the softest of brushes – beautiful, pathetic Australia.'[7] Marion Mahony Griffin died a pauper’s death in Cook County Hospital in 1961. While the world may not have been ready to accept such an innovative artist and architect during her own lifetime, recognition has gradually been on the increase in the years since her death. John Notz, a Prairie School historian and trustee of Graceland Cemetery, arranged to have Mahony’s cremated remains moved from an unmarked grave to a columbarium that now bears a plaque with her name and one of her flower renderings; and the Royal Australian Institute of Architects presents an inaugural Marion Mahony Griffin Architectural Award. A recent exhibition at the Block Museum at North-western University in Evanston, Illinois, ‘Marion Mahony Griffin: Drawing the Form of Nature’, is the first devoted entirely to her graphic work. The ACT Assembly intends to honour her at Canberra’s centenary in 2013. As Christopher Vernon recently observed, Marion would have been much better off had she been born fifty years later: ‘If you look at her interests, things like conservation of the natural world, trying to design houses and cities in harmony with their environment, all of her interests have equal if not greater currency.'[8] An insight into her own dedication and her fight for equality is evidenced in her own words: ‘It was necessary for women to take up work in the same spirit as men did. If we wanted anything in the world we must pay the price for it, and to succeed in the more interesting lines meant the greater effort. As a man did so a woman must – work day times, night times. It must form the basis of her dreams. She must give it her Saturdays and her Sundays and go without holidays… any real accomplishment would always mean a life’s devotion.’ [9] This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 May 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "45 minutes??Aileen Bond was born in 1898, was educated at St Peter’s Girls’ School and did law at Adelaide University. Joined the Lyceum Club when it formed in 1922. In 1924 she married John Leslie Bond who was a minister and they moved around South Australia starting at Berri. Here her first child died at only a few months. Became involved with the Guides. World War II her husband enlisted and went to New Guinea and she and the four children lived at Brighton. After the war they lived at Clare and Victory Harbour then her husband was given an administrative job and became in turn an Archdeacon and then a Canon. After his death Aileen moved to Toorak Gardens, was involved with the Lyceum Club and at 84 was studying Italian at Flinders University. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gumbaingerri born of Bundjalung/Thungutti descent, Robyne Bancroft’s people come from the northeast coast of New South Wales. For many generations since colonisation, her family (matrilineally) have passed on their genealogies and oral traditions. Robyne Bancroft is a Goori Australian woman who has done much to bolster and broaden the identity of Aborigines, Archaeology and women in the ACT area and beyond. Gumbaingerri born of Bundjalung/Thungutti descent, Bancroft’s people come from the northeast coast of New South Wales. Proudly stemming from a strong matrilineal line, she is part of her family’s many generations of women on the matrilineal side since colonisation who continue their genealogies and oral traditions. While early white male anthropologists sought to learn about the lives of Aborigines by consulting solely with men, a whole female tradition was neglected. In the 1960s Bancroft’s grandmother, born in 1905 and fluent in three dialects, encouraged her to tell the tales to keep their traditions alive: Now, they come to ask us our stories – now, when most of us have forgotten so much. We have been so caught up in living day to day, and now there are very few of us left. Look who’s here – only three or four of us left. It’s time for you to come home my girl, keep our stories going, and take over doing what I do – talking to everyone about Goori people and our heritage. Perhaps tackling the field of archaeology and anthropology was a further way Bancroft could follow her grandmother’s wishes and spread the ways of her people. Even if this meant undertaking studies at the Australian National University as a mature age, single mother with a family, she was not to be deterred. Through her academic pursuits and as an Indigenous heritage consultant, Robyne Bancroft has striven to improve the understanding of Indigenous Australians by facilitating communication and consultation. Becoming a founding member of the Indigenous Archaeological Association (IAA), an independent archaeological body that represents the interests of indigenous archaeologists and provides a voice for Aboriginal people on archaeological issues is one such example. Her role as an Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Officer with Forests NSW is another. Creating active consultation between State Forests and Aboriginal communities has aimed to develop systems that better consider the landscape context of sites, thereby offering more efficient protection with the concurrent benefit of Aboriginal communities becoming more fundamentally involved in decision making. Bancroft strongly believes including Aboriginal people in consultative processes is the most effective way to develop policy which is most beneficial to Aboriginal Australians. Her positions on several cultural heritage committees, as the Aboriginal Representative on the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and her involvement in repatriation of ancestral human remains are some of the ways Bancroft contributes to a more holistic approach to Aboriginal Indigenous cultural heritage. As a founding member of the ACT Heritage Council and of the Multifunctional Aboriginal Children’s Services (MACS), Australians for Reconciliation Coordinator for the ACT and region and as an adviser on indigenous issues to the ACT Chief Minister, Robyne Bancroft has contributed greatly to dialogue within the Canberra region and beyond. As the cultural editor of The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Robyne Bancroft has helped define Aboriginal heritage and identity for a worldwide audience and is widely sowing the stories of her people. This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Sylvia Kleinert, Margo Neale and Robyne Bancroft, 2000 Archaeologists and Aborigines Working Together, Iain Davidson, Christine Lovell-Jones and Robyne Bancroft, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 May 2006 Last modified 30 September 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letters from : James Devaney (1945 Sept.14, 1951 Jan.29, 1970 June 3, undated) ; Ian Mudie (1944 Apr.15) ; Nancy Keesing ([1951]) ; Enid Bell (1968 Oct.1) ; L.H. Luscombe (1970 Aug.27, 1970 Nov.22) ; Ada England (1946 Mar.22) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Estonian Archives in Australia (EAA) was established by the Council of Estonian Societies in Australia on 5 January 1952. The EAA is one of the four Estonian Archives existing outside Estonia and holds an important collection of material relating to the lives and achievements of Estonians living outside Estonia.??Since 1994 the Archive has been housed in Estonian House, not far from the centre of Sydney. EAA are funded for their day to day expenses by the Council of Estonian Societies, the parent body for all Estonian Organisations in Australia.??The archive comprise mainly published material, personal papers and memoirs, records of the activities of organisations, photographs, sound recordings, films, artefacts, ephemera and textiles. A major part of the collection consists of more than 10,000 reprints of scholarly works by researchers of Estonian origin living all over the world. This represents the largest collection of such material anywhere in the world. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 September 2006 Last modified 4 September 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "May Moore was a successful photographer who worked initially in New Zealand and then in Sydney. She specialised in portraits of prominent people and artists, including society/celebrity portraits, with some wedding and children’s portraits. Moore is known to have introduced bromide paper and mounting boards to New Zealand. May Moore was born on 4 January 1881 in Wainui, New Zealand, one of seven children (the eldest daughter and Mina the second eldest). Their father, Robert Walter Moore, was an English immigrant who worked at timber cutting and farming, and their mother was Sarah Jane, née Hellyer. Her parents were not wealthy but were able to save enough money to purchase a small property in the small rural town of Wainui twenty miles north of Auckland where they brought up a family. Prior to this they had lived in various forestry camps. May’s hobby as a child was drawing and in 1900 she was admitted into the Elam School of Art and Design in Auckland, where she studied painting. Following graduation she was able to support herself financially through her sketches. In 1907 she participated in the New Zealand International Exhibition held in Christchurch, setting up a stall and selling her pencil sketches for 2/6 as well as pen and ink portrait sketches for 5/-. May moved to Wellington in 1908 and rented a space in a photographic studio where she painted portraits of prominent people, such as Sir Joseph Ward and his family, using oil paint. Her sister Mina, who was a teacher, travelled to Australia and on her return to New Zealand gave up teaching to pursue her new found interest of photography. At this time the Alexander Orr studio next door to May’s was placed on sale and the two sisters purchased it for £170, which was quite a large sum of money at the time. Prior to Orr closing his studio, May was able to learn camera handling skills from the existing staff and Mina the printing process, all of this in the space of six weeks. The Moore sisters were keen theatre-goers and were exposed to the impact of theatrical lighting and dramatic poses; this was to feature in the iconic style they developed. At the time, their clientele included many actors and in fact their earliest work was photographing the entire cast of an American theatre company. They were pioneers in the use of bromide papers and mounting boards in New Zealand and became very popular for their work, establishing a reputation for producing quality portraiture. Their characteristic style saw photographs taken close up, often head and shoulder shots, strong side lighting of half of the face, set against a dark background, a technique that allowed the sitter’s face to stand out, but which also created a sense of intrigue itself further intensified with the use of sepia tones. Jack Cato noted in his book The Story of the Camera in Australia that when they were starting out, they had to make do with the ‘meagre light from an ordinary room …’ However, he also wrote that this made their work so distinctive, that there was no need for either of them to sign their portraits (which they both did) because they were so obviously and exclusively their own. All their photographs used this low key approach, with a strong light on one side of the face and shadow on the other. ‘It was the light Rembrandt used for his paintings and was particularly suitable for men’ (Cato 136) During 1909-1910 May became unwell and took time off work. She travelled to Sydney for a holiday, and while there she got in touch with her creative friends and began her photography work again. She was encouraged by Alfred Hill to move her studio to Australia and Arthur Hill, the amateur art photographer, helped her find a studio and gain commissions. May rented a studio in the Bulletin building where she photographed cartoonists such as L. Hopkins ‘Hop’ and Low. She decided to stay on in Sydney and set up a permanent studio, which may have been at 139 King Street, furnishing the reception area with Persian rugs and employing a number of staff. In 1911 Mina visited May and they worked together until Mina moved to Melbourne where she set up her own studio. In 1914, with the outbreak of World War 1, both May and Mina were kept busy photographing hundreds of young soldiers before they set off for the battlefields in North Africa and Europe. The majority of their sitters however were people associated with the Arts, artists, actors, musicians, cartoonists and fashion designers. They would take the time to familiarise themselves with their sitters, so that they could capture their personalities. .On the 13 July 1915 May married Harry Wilkes, a dentist who closed his own practice to manage her studio as it was doing very well. The couple shared a love of literature and the Arts. May was described as a tall, striking and confident woman who dressed in loose Bohemian clothing. She retired in the late 1920s due to ill health but continued her creative endeavours through her miniature landscape painting which she did on commission. Up until 1928 her photographs were published in a number of magazines including The Home, Triad, Theatre and The Lone Hand. In fact, her portrait of the actress Lily Brayton as Cleopatra appeared on the cover of the Christmas issue of The Lone Hand. May reflecting on her career was to say ‘When I commenced work … some of the cut and dried photographers held up their hands in horror. It was necessary, they said, to stick to the beaten track, stodgy backgrounds and stiff accessorised. I had my own ideas, and determined, sink or swim to put them into practice.’ (Ebury) She died on the 10 June 1931 as a result of a spinal disease associated with the cancer that she had been suffering. Six months following her death a tribute exhibition of her work was held at the Lyceum Club, Sydney. Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic., Australia Macleay Photograph Collection, Macleay Museum Collection, NSW, Australia National Gallery of Victoria. The Shaw Research Library, Vic., Australia National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Events 1904 - 1928 1907 - 1907 May Moore exhibited her painted miniatures on ivory at the NSW Society of Women Painters 1907 - 1907 May Moore exhibited at the New Zealand International Exhibition 1996 - 1996 May Moore featured in National Portrait Gallery travelling exhibition The Reflecting Eye: Portraits of Australian Visual Artists. 2000 - 2000 May Moore featured in National Portrait Gallery exhibition Mirror with a Memory: Portraiture in Australia 1981 - 1981 May Moore featured in the George Paton Gallery exhibtion Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women's Art in the National Library's Collection, Carr, Sylvia and National Library of Australia, 1995, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/36337/20030703-0000/www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fence/picket.html Photograph Portrait of an Actress, Moore, May and Moore, Mina, 2000 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Mirror with a memory: photographic portraiture in Australia, Batchen, Geoffrey and Ennis, Helen, 2000 Book The Story of the Camera in Australia, Cato, Jack, 1979 Australians Behind the Camera: Directory of Early Australian Photographers 1841 to 1945, Barrie, Sandy, c1992 'I was only a maid': The life of a remarkable woman: May Moore: Reminiscences of May Moore as related to members of her family and to her friends., Burkett, M. E., 2003? The reflecting eye: portraits of Australian visual artists, Ennis, Helen, National Library of Australia and National Portrait Gallery (Australia), 1996, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/125722/20110309-0156/www.nla.gov.au/pub/ebooks/pdf/the+reflecting+eye.pdf Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Thesis Making Pictures: Australian Pictorial Photography as Art 1897-1957, Ebury, Francis, 2001 Resource Section Annie May and Mina Moore, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/group/references/annie-may-and-mina-moore-1/ Moore, Annie May (1881-1931), Hall, Barbara, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100546b.htm Magazine article Versatile May Moore- Photographs, Miniatures, and Domesticity, Hutton, Bruce R., 1925 A First For Women Photographers in Australia: Quick Thinking and Ladders Got the Top Shots, Bowen, Jill, 1981, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55457051 Newspaper Article May Moore, 1921, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125391061 Book Section May Moore and Mina Moore, Newton, Gael,, 1995 Archival resources National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive [May Moore : Australian and New Zealand Art Files]. National Library of Australia, Ephemera Collection [Moore, May : photography related ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 24 May 2016 Last modified 4 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sarah (Fanny) Durack battled local swimming authorities to become the first Australian woman to compete at the Olympic Games. In 1912, at Stockholm, she won the gold medal in the 100 meters freestyle event, beating her compatriot and training partner, Wilhelmina (Mina) Wylie. She went on to break numerous world records until she retired from competitive swimming in 1921."
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        "text": "45 minutes??Roxy Byrne was born in 1913. Her father Roy Sims was the first government dentist. In 1920 the family moved to the house on the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace. She attended Gillies Street Primary School and St John’s Church day school. From 1922 to 1929 she attended the Methodist Ladies College and acted in various plays. Dame Nellie Melba sang in 1927. 1930-1933 she attended Adelaide University and after graduation she joined the Adelaide Repertory Theatre. In 1950 the Repertory Theatre participated in a competition to celebrate fifty years of Federation. She met various celebrities including Robert Helpmann, Katherine Hepburn and Margaret Rutherford. She married Dr Dudley Byrne in 1940. He joined the AIF and was invalided out of Tobruk in 1944. Son John born in 1945. Various overseas visits. Cricket was a family passion and Bradman a hero. Participation in the Lyceum Club. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc03/127 comprises various items relating to artist Eirene Mort (1 box).??The Acc06/17 instalment includes manuscripts written by Mort on Mort family history (3 v.); albums of drawings and verse, 1870-1875; loose letters, cuttings and photographs; an album of exhibition catalogues and cuttings; correspondence, 1904-1980 (4 binders); and, a manuscript on French coinage, 1856 (1 box, 2 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This series consists of personal working papers of Justice Elizabeth Evatt whilst working as a Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission from April 1989 to September 1991. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 4 min.)??Keesing reads the following poems: “From Circular Quay” and “Gypsies”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Layne Beachely is a professional surfer from Manly in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In 2007 she is regarded as the best female professional surfer in history, having won the World Championship an unprecedented seven times. As a girl, Layne Beachley loved competitive sport, which no doubt assisted her to make a remarkable rise through the surfing rank. At the age of 16 she became professional, by the age of 20 she already ranked sixth in the world. Then in 1993 and 1996 she suffered from two episodes of chronic fatigue, which threatened to end her surfing career altogether. All but wiped out by this mental, physical and emotional challenge, Layne beat depression to stay focused on her ultimate goal – to be World Champion. She achieved this goal in 1998 when she won the first of six consecutive World Surfing Titles, going on to rewrite history with the greatest number of consecutive World Championship victories recorded by anyone, male or female. In 2003 Layne created the Aim for the Stars Foundation to support and promote the academic, sporting, community and cultural dreams of young women. She has also served on the board of international surfing’s governing body, The Association of Surfing Professionals, in an effort to promote women’s interests as the sport develops and grows. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 January 2007 Last modified 16 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers of MS 6201 are arranged in the following series: 1. Family papers and photographs, 1851-1970, including papers of Thomas Henry Prichard and Hugo Throssell and photographs of Ric Throssell. 2. Notebooks, literary fragments and jottings, 1914-ca. 1940. 3. Literary drafts of novels, ca. 1925-1950; short stories, 1903-1959; poetry, ca. 1894-1960; drama, 1909-1959; articles, lectures and broadcasts, 1908-1960; and autobiography, ca. 1962-1963. 4. Political writings and papers, 1917-1969. 5. Correspondence, 1908-1969. 6. Reviews and clippings by and about K.S. Prichard, 1908-1969. 7. Non-family photographs, ca. 1900-1960s. 8. Miscellaneous papers, 1905-1961. 9. Printed materials, 1926-1969 (24 boxes). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 May 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Margaret Court was one of Australia’s greatest sportswomen. She won 62 grand slam titles and, in 1970, was the second woman in history to win the Australian, French, U.S. and Wimbledon titles in a calendar year. Winner of the ABC Sportsman of the Year Award in 1963 and 1970, Margaret Court was appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) on 1 January 1967 for services to sport and international relations. In 1970 she also won the Walter Lindrum Award. In January 2003, Tennis Australia renamed Melbourne Park’s Show Court One to the Margaret Court Arena. She was the recipient of the 2003 Australia Post Australian Legends Award, and featured on a special 50c stamp. In 2006 she was awarded the International Tennis Federation’s (ITF) highest accolade, the Philippe Chatrier Award. In 2017, in the context of Australian debates about marriage equality, Margaret Court became a controversial figure, as many prominent people in tennis condemned her views on same sex marriage and the rights of transgender people. In January 2021, Court was awarded an AC in the Australian Day Honours Awards list, for eminent service to tennis as an internationally acclaimed player and record-holding grand slam champion, and as a mentor of young sportspersons. In response to criticisms that it was not appropriate to honout her this way, based upon her controversial views on the rights of LGBTQI+ people, an anonymous member of the Council for the Order of Australia said the award to address a gender disparity created five years ago when Rod Laver became the first tennis player to be made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC). When Margaret Court (née Smith) was thirteen years old Frank Sedgeman, the Australian tennis champion, told her that she was so talented, she could be the first Australian women to win Wimbledon. Eight years later she achieved that goal, and then spent the next decade or so creating tennis records. In 2007, she remains the most prolific winner, male or female, of major championships, having notched up 62 titles in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1960 and 1975, including seven straight Australian Championships between 1960-1966. She took the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. singles titles all within 1970 to become the second female Calendar Year Grand Slam winner at after Maureen Connolly, who achieved the feat in 1953. She is the only player to achieve a Calendar Year Grand Slam in doubles as well as in singles. In purely statistical terms, her nearest all time ‘rivals’, Martina Navratilova, with 56 majors, and Roy Emerson, heading the men with 28, are a long way behind. Court has 24 titles in singles alone, three ahead of Steffi Graf when she left the game. Putting this into some contemporary perspective, Roger Federer, with ten grand slam titles and Serena Williams, with eight, still have some work to do if they are going to catch her. As the citation to accompany her 1979 induction in to the International Tennis Hall of Fame reads, ‘For sheer strength of performance and accomplishment there has never been a tennis player to match Margaret Smith Court.’ Not bad for an ordinary girl from regional Australia. Born in July, 1942, Margaret Smith was, quite literally, a fighter from the moment she drew breath. Her mother nearly died giving birth to her and Margaret was very ill upon arrival. Fortunately, she lived to grow up and go to school in Albury, New South Wales, a regional centre in the state’s southeast situated on the Murray River. Her circumstances were not affluent. Her parents owned neither the house they lived in, a very modest, two bedroom, thin-walled, asbestos dwelling with a tin roof that stretched to fit a family of six, nor a car. Margaret was lucky, therefore, that she lived across the road from twenty-four grass tennis courts. She was also lucky that the coach there, Wally Rutter, spotted her and took the time to nurture her talent. It was Rutter who brought her to the attention of Sedgeman and it was Sedgeman who encouraged her to come to Melbourne so that she could make the most of her potential. At 16 she moved to Melbourne to widen her experience and to receive specialist coaching. In retrospect, she also thinks she was lucky to grow up a tomboy in a neighbourhood full of sports mad boys, with whom she regularly competed. She suggests, however, that it was ‘determination to succeed and to be the best’ rather than competitiveness that later drove her to succeed. Whatever the motivation, there is no doubt that she became the best, although she never really sat down to measure how good she was until she’d finished playing. She didn’t know exactly how many titles she had won until she retired and even then that was only because someone else (English commentator John Barrett) had counted them for her. This is not to say that Margaret was blasé about her success; rather it is an indication of her modesty and source of motivation. She did not do things for the glory and attention but because she always had personal goals. There were three in particular, throughout the course of her career, that drove her to ‘be the best’. The first of them, to be the first Australian woman to win Wimbledon, she met in 1963. The second, to win the Calendar Year Grand Slam (the Wimbledon and the Australian, United States, French Opens all in the one year) eventuated in 1970 and the third, to be the first mum to be number one in the world, she achieved in 1973. She tried coming back after having her second child but says that, at that point, she didn’t have a goal, so she knew it was time to give the game up, which she did in 1975. Margaret had natural talent, athleticism and strength; her court coverage was amazing and the power of her serve-volley game set her apart in the women’s game. She and one of her early physical instructors, Stan Nicholls, did things differently in order to capitalise upon and enhance her physical strength. She spent a lot of time in the gym lifting weights in an era when very few women did this as a matter of course. But she also attributes the power of her game to her early upbringing. ‘As a young girl, I used to train with the men. I practiced with the men all the time and I thought I had to serve-volley, because they wouldn’t invite me to play with them if I didn’t…I was brought up playing with the men.’ Consequently, she developed a style of game that saw her constantly serve-charging the net and, in so doing, introduced change into the women’s game. The British, who were unused to their female tennis players being so physically imposing and aggressive on the court, called her the ‘Aussie Amazon’. Apart from being strong, her physique gave her other natural advantages. People used to think she was taller than she was (5’9?) because she was all arms and legs. (Indeed her International Tennis Hall of Fame still describes her as ‘nearly six feet tall’.) In particular, her reach was ‘telescopic’; one of her regular opponents, Billie Jean King, called her ‘the Arm’, because of it. It was like it added extra inches to the length of her racquet. One can only speculate on how much better she might have been if, as a natural left-hander, she hadn’t been trained not to be at school, as was the policy at the time she was growing up. ‘Sometimes I wished I had’ve stayed lefty,’ she says. ‘I would have had probably a better serve.’ At times, it seemed that the only person capable of beating Margaret was Margaret herself. Sometimes she suffered from nerves and was accused, in modern day parlance, of choking, most famously against crowd favourite, Evonne Goolagong (Cawley) in the 1971 Wimbledon final. (Perhaps they might have bit there tongues if they had known she was pregnant with her first child at the time!) Seeded 1 in her first attempt at Wimbledon in 1962, and after having a bye in the first round, she got bundled out in the second round by an unseeded player named Billie Jean Moffitt (later King). It wasn’t one of her greatest days and she remembers phoning home talking to her Mum, who said “I suppose you’ll give up tennis now and come home.’ On the contrary, she replied, ‘No, I’m going to go on to America and I’m going to win everything,’ True to her word, she won the U.S. Championship that year, beating Darlene Hard in straight sets. Margaret was consistently excellent in both singles and doubles over the next four-five years, winning 29 grand slam titles in the period 1962-66. Towards the end of 1965, however, she began to get tired of life on the road and, having won all the grand slam events and thinking she had achieved all that she could achieve in tennis, she decided to retire the next year. She moved to Perth, Western Australia and tried something entirely different; she opened a boutique. Travelling had given her a taste for once clothes and she decided to turn her hobby into a business venture. Perth is also where she met her husband, Barry Court, son of then Premier of Western Australia, Sir Charles Court and brother to the future premier, Richard Court. This was a family that was very far removed from the tennis world – Barry didn’t even know how to score the game and his mother, when introduced to her said ‘Oh, that’s interesting, you have the same name as the tennis player’. In Perth, for a year or so, Margaret escaped from the world of tennis and refreshed. No struggles with administrators about the quality of accommodation she had to stay in when on tour; no dealing with media outlets curious about her personal life, Margaret enjoyed living life outside the tennis world. She married Barry in 1967 (the same year she was awarded an M.B.E.) and suggested they go overseas – Barry had never left the country and she was keen to share the life she had lead with him. ‘Maybe I’ll go back and play tennis and you will see where I’ve come from’. She returned to the game in 1968 and had the best two-season run in history in 1969-70, with seven majors, missing out only at Wimbledon in1969, where she lost in the semis to champion Ann Haydon Jones, 10-12, 6-3, 6-2. Her new goal, to win the Calendar Year Grand Slam was achieved in 1970. The Wimbledon final she won to achieve that goal, against Billie Jean King, is she says the game ‘means more to me than most probably means the most to her.’ With an injured ankle, she played two marathon sets (there were no tie-breakers then) to win 11-9, 14-12. She played again in 1971 until she discovered she was pregnant with her first child, Daniel. After he was born, everyone assumed she would give the game away for good. Instead, she decided she had something else to prove; she was going to be the first mother to be number one in the world. Not only did she go on to do this in 1973, she did it in extraordinary style, playing some of the best tennis of her career and winning 24 of 25 tournaments she played. In 1974, her second child, Marika, was born. Court started playing again but her heart wasn’t in it and so she retired permanently in 1977 around the same time she learned she was expecting the third of her four children. When she retired from tennis for good, life took a big turn, initially, not for the best. Brought up a Catholic, she regularly attended church but one day when she was attending a service in France given in French and Latin, she released how disconnected she was from her spiritual self, and how she needed more than the traditional church could offer her. During this period, she suffered from depression and was physically unwell; the world’s once fittest woman was weak, fearful and afraid to go to sleep. She experienced a crisis of confidence and a crisis of faith. It wasn’t until she began to attend Bible school in the early 1980s that the disparate threads of her life began to mesh again, and Margaret committed herself fully to the Pentecostal Church. In 1991 she was officially ordained to the ministry and a year later she established her own outreach ministry, Margaret Court Ministries Inc. In 1995 she entered into formerly unchartered waters by founding and establishing Victory Life Centre, of which she is the Senior Pastor. With an average Sunday attendance of 1300+ this makes it one of the Perth’s largest and dynamic churches. Recognised as an inspirational speaker as her new career developed, Margaret’s tennis achievements were also recognised in a variety of was at this time. In 1993, together with Rod Laver, she was inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame, the first players to be granted this honour. In 2002 Tennis Australia named the Number 1 Court at Melbourne Park, the home of the Australian Open, ‘Margaret Court Arena’ , in 2007 she received an Order of Australia. Margaret still plays tennis. ‘I know the spiritual side,’ she says, ‘I need to keep the outer man fit as well. And she still plays hard – she is still very determined. ‘I don’t think that ever leaves you,’ she says. ‘I’m a very focused person.’ Only now, instead of changing the game of tennis, she’s working at ‘changing nations’. Margaret Court’s Grand Slam Wins: Wimbledon Singles: 1963, 1965, 1970 Doubles: 1964, 1969 Australian Singles: 1960-1966, 1969-1971, 1973 Doubles: 1961-1963, 1965, 1969-1971, 1973 United States of America Singles: 1962, 1965, 1968-1970, 1973 Doubles: 1963, 1968-1970, 1973, 1975 French Singles: 1962, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1973 Doubles: 1964-1966, 1973 Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Talking Heads, ABC Television, 2006, http://www.abc.net.au/talkingheads/txt/s1774139.htm Book Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Great Australian Women in Sport, Brasch, Nicolas, 1997 Encyclopedia of Australia Sport, Shepherd, Jim, 1980 Court on Court : a life in tennis, Court, Margaret Smith, 1942-, 1976 A winning faith : the Margaret Court story, Oldfield, Barbara, c1993 Winning words : the creative power of what you say, Court, Margaret, 1999 Newspaper Article The Court of Champions, Henderson, Jon, 2000 Court's crusade, Pennells, Steve, 2001 Court honour bestowed on Australian great Court, 2003 Journal Article All-time Australian tennis great Margaret Court found her true from serving Jesus, Williams, Sue, 2003 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Margaret Court interviewed by Gail O'Hanlon for the Battye Library collection [sound recording] Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 11 August 2021 Digital resources Title: Mrs Court serving in Women's singles against Miss L. Hunt Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "[OM67-02/1-3] Includes manuscript for Squid. A tale of adventure of the wild days among the islands; manuscript of Memories of a Nature Lover. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4-part mosaic of pages bearing inscription: “Feminists of Australia Honour Mary Owen on the occasion of her retirement from the paid workforce on 7 February 1986. We thank her for her contribution to the Women’s Movement and look forward to the progress of women during the next decade,” and signatures of many, if not all, of the people attending the 1986 Mary Owen Dinner. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In 1919, Susan Benny was elected a member of South Australia’s Brighton Council, thus becoming Australia’s first woman politician. She held her seat for two elections and left local government after failing to become mayor in 1922. Born: 4 October 1872. Died: 5 November 1944. After her mother died, Benny went to a girl’s boarding school at McLaren Vale, then returned home and taught her younger sisters. She married, solicitor Benjamin Benny in 1896, and they had three daughters and two sons. During World War I, Benny was honorary secretary of the Seacliff Cheer-up Society and was a member of the local progress association and spinning and croquet clubs. Before becoming the local government member for Seacliff in 1919, she was a member of the Liberal Union Sturt District committee and president of the Brighton Women’s Branch of the Liberal Union. Suzanne Edgar and Helen Jones in their biography of Benny in 200 Australian Women : A Redress Anthology state that while with the local council, “Benny claimed credit for several improvements at Brighton: the opening of a cliff to enable free access to the beach; the installation of electric lights; and the allotment of reserves as a children’s playground and public garden. She successfully supported the abolition of segregated sea-bathing, so that families could swim together.” (p. 93) Also she attended night meeting, which legislators had commonly believed women incapable of doing. In 1921, she became a justice of the peace and heard state children’s, police and women’s cases. In 1926, her husband resigned from the Australian Senate, to which he had been elected in 1919, due to ill-health. He was later convicted of embezzlement, sentenced to three years hard labour and declared insolvent. Relying on inherited money to support her family, Benny moved into her husband’s city offices and operated the “Elite Employment Agency,” during the depression. She separated from her husband, who died in 1935 and remarried in 1940. The Brighton Council named a crescent and a community centre for women’s groups after her. Published resources Resource Australia's First Female Politician, Local Government Association of South Australia, http://www.lga.sa.gov.au/education/benny.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Section Benny, Susan Grace (1872-1944), Edgar, Suzanne, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070272b.htm Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2001 Last modified 7 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Photocopy of a typed transcript of a talk titled ‘Variety is the Spice of Life’, delivered circa 1974 and relating experiences as an immigration officer aboard the Cunard liner, “Georgic”, used as a troopship and migrant transport in the 1950’s. Talk describes voyage of 1st Royal Australian Regiment to Malaya and embarkation of French troops in Saigon after withdrawal from Vietnam. The author comments on cultural differences, particularly the chaos and “jungle hygiene” of the French troops compared with the routines and organisation of the Australian troops. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lillian Lever was nominated for the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1995, for the Queensland district of Capricornia. She and her husband, John, established the first privately run crocodile farm in Australia, in Rockhampton, in 1980. Given that, at the time, Lillian was a C.S.I.R.O. librarian, one might say that it was an interesting career move for her! But John had become fascinated by crocodiles in Papua New Guinea when he ran wildlife research stations there in the 1970s. He offered Lillian what she describes as a package deal; marriage and the chance to move from Melbourne to start a new business in Rockhampton. Koorana Crocodile farm opened in November 1981 stocked with captured crocodiles from the wild that were proving to be a danger to people. The fact that Koorana still exists and thrives is testament to the perseverance of Lillian and John. When they first started up, there were no guidelines for them to refer to on how to start up a crocodile farm. As crocodiles are an endangered species in Australia, there was no precedent for establishing a business and, according to Lillian, the people in the Department of Primary Industry believed them both to be mad! A chance meeting with the then Premier of Queensland, Joh Bjelke-Petersen at a function opened doors for them. They got the necessary permits which enabled them to begin the back-breaking work of building the farm. This job was no picnic. Says Lillian, ‘It was horrific at times. We couldn’t afford a tractor so we had to clear manually. We lived in a caravan with two of John’s sons from his first marriage and the heat in summer was unbelievable. We had to keep everything shut up because of the mozzies and often I’d get heatstroke while cooking – the only air conditioning we had was in the car, so John and the boys would bundle me up and take me for a drive so I could cool down enough to keep cooking! It was the shared vision of what we could create together that kept us going through that really tough start-up phase.’ Fortunately, that vision has born significant fruit, and Koorana is not only a personal success story for the Lever family, but an important local employer. Events 1995 - 1995 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Women's Business, Women's Wealth, Ellis, Amanda, 2002, http://www.wbww.com.au/womenarch.htm 1995 ABC Rural Woman of the Year Regional Winners, ABC Radio, 1995, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/previous95.htm#95reg Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 29 September 2010 Last modified 12 February 2019 Digital resources Title: Photograph of Lillian Lever Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes undated series of black and white and colour photographs of White and Lascaris with Dutton Family at Kangaroo Island, South Australia . Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Kathy Newman has devoted herself to politics and to the Socialist Alliance Party. She was their candidate in the following elections: Brisbane City Council, 1997. Senate, South Australia, 2001. New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Charlestown, 2003. Senate, Northern Territory, 2004. Kathy Newman is a dedicated member of the Democratic Socialist party and has been involved in politics in at least three states and the Northern Territory. She ran for the Brisbane City Council at the age of 19, winning more than 5% of the vote. At the time she was the Brisbane Organiser of Resistance, the socialist youth group. She later moved to the Northern Territory and in 2004, was the Socialist Alliance’s second candidate for the Senate. Over the previous ten years, Kathy Newnam had campaigned against mandatory detention for refugees, racism, wood-chipping of old growth forests and nuclear testing in the Pacific. She had campaigned for free education, environmental justice, independence for East Timor, and women’s rights. Kathy Newnam was listed as a student when she ran for the seat of Charlestown in 2003. She and her party opposed the pro-business and privatisation policies of the Labor Government and were critical of the law and order campaigns of both major parties. She won only 0.6% of the votes cast. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Describes her journey from Sydney in the ship Corea with calls at Queensland ports, reaching Thursday Island 9 Jan. 1883, arrival at Flinders telegraph station 14 Jan. 1883, and the journey from Normanton to Port Darwin, sailing from Port Darwin for Sydney 22 Aug. 1883 on the steamer Feilung. Gives details of i.a., meetings with Aborigines, hardships of the exploring party and the movements of its several members, the countryside and the towns and stations visited. The account ends 5 Sept. 1883 before the Feilung reached Brisbane, and includes lists of baby clothes, recipes, etc. The collection also includes part of a letter from the author at Katherine telegraph station to her father, Major G. C. Robinson, 12 July 1883, and a processed transcript of most of the diary, with excerpts from newspaper articles and maps of the exploring party’s route Author Details Elle Morrell Created 8 February 2001 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Speaker’s diary 1973 (shows date, location, group to be addressed and name of speaker/s); membership and other form blanks; newsletters; car sticker; correspondence; Photographs by Julie Millowick, press photo of Germain Greer Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nita Kibble was the first woman appointed as a librarian with the New South Wales State Library. Her career began by accident in 1899 when the signature on her application form was misread, and thought to be that of a man. Kibble joined the State Library of NSW in 1899 and established the Library’s first research department in 1918. In 1919 she was appointed Principal Research Officer, and retained the position until her retirement in 1943. Kibble raised her niece, Nita May Dobbie, from birth. Dobbie later established the Kibble Awards for Women Writers in memory of her aunt. Published resources Resource The Gentle Arts: Australia's women pioneers in the fields of literature, music and fine art., http://www.pioneerwomen.com.au/gentlearts.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Kibble, Nita Bernice (1879-1962), Arnot, Jean F., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090585b.htm Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 State Library of New South Wales - Jean Arnot interviewed by Rosemary Block about her life after she retired from the State Library. She also speaks in some detail of her colleagues Miss Nita Kibble and Miss Nita Dobbie, 1994. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 October 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: V61]??Inwards and outwards correspondence of the Red Cross Victorian Divisional Secretary (later Executive Director).??This series reflects the wide range of operational activities of the Victorian Division of the Australian Red Cross during World War II and subsequently (only a very small number of files pre-date World War II). These activities include fundraising, domestic and international relief, prisoner of war tracing, hospitals and rehabilitation services, a wide range of other social services, blood transfusion services, coordination and recognition of Red Cross volunteers and the governance, financial and other administrative operations of the Division.??File titles created by the Red Cross have been retained by the University of Melbourne Archives (refer to the Records Description List), although initialisations and acronyms which are not widely used have been expressed in full.?Several filing sequences are evident within the series. Four separate sequences of alphabetically arranged files cover the period 1942-1950 (see units 1-6, 6-8, 8-9 and 20-24). From the early 1950’s onwards many file titles are prefixed by an operational activity term (for example ‘Appeals’, ‘Blood Transfusion Service’ etc.).?There has been some amalgamation of files, for instance many 1947 have been amalgamated into a corresponding1948 file. Where this has been identified it has been documented. Researchers are advised to check the subsequent year’s file to locate records which have been carried forward into the next year’s filing system. Note that the National Executive Minutes (including Finance) are within Unit 127 see also (2015.0033).??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 17 August 2015 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nadia Tass is an internationally successful director, bringing a unique style of film to audiences worldwide. Tass has extensive experience in dramatic and musical theatre in Australia, which has translated into a distinguished style of film production. She has directed acclaimed films and top rating television movies in both Australia and America, and has received numerous Australian Film Institute (AFI) award nominations and multiple international awards. Nadia Tass was born in Lofi, a Macedonian village in the northern region of Greece. She moved to Australia in 1966 and her family settled in Melbourne. While in school, Tass had her first experience in the Australian television industry when she starred in an episode of Homicide. Whilst studying psychology at the University of Melbourne, Tass became involved in the Melbourne (particularly Carlton) theatre scene, including theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts. She has directed both classical and contemporary theatre at La Mama, the Pram Factory, Playbox, the Open Stage and the Melbourne Theatre Company; her pieces have received critical acclaim and box office success. After she visited her husband while he was involved in the filming of The Coolangatta Gold (Auzins, 1984), Tass decided to enter the film industry. Together with Parker, she established Cascade Film Productions in 1983. In 1986, Tass made her directing debut with the feature film Malcolm. Malcolm tells the story of a socially awkward man who uses his mechanical knowledge to rob banks. Malcolm won twenty one international awards and eight Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Director and the Byron Kennedy Award for the pursuit of excellence. In 1988, backed by United Artists (USA), Tass directed and co-produced the internationally successful Rikky and Pete. The comedy traced the journey of a brother and sister into the Australian outback. In 1989, Tass directed and produced The Big Steal. Released in Australia in September 1990, the comedy about a teenage boy, his car and a girl, was an Australian success. The film received nine AFI Award nominations. In 1990, she directed her first film in the United States. Pure Luck was produced for Universal Studios and opened in August 1991. In 1993, Tass directed the television miniseries Stark, based on the best-selling novel by Ben Elton. The considerable interest in the miniseries resulted in a shortened movie length version also being released. In 1996, Tass directed Mr Reliable which was nominated for three AFI awards. In 1998, Tass directed Rachel Griffiths, Ben Mendelsohn and Alana de Roma in Amy. Amy won twenty three international awards including the 1998 People’s Choice Award and Best Film, Grand Prix Cannes Junior and the Le Prix Education Nationale at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999, the Le Prix du Public at the Festival du Film de Paris in 2000, Grand Jury Award for Best Film for Outstanding Contribution to Humanity at the Asia Pacific Film Festival Hong Kong 1999, Best Feature Film, Grand Public, Best Actress (Alana de Roma), and Best Actor (Ben Mendelsohn) at Carrousel International du Film de Rimouski, Quebec, Canada 2000. Since 2000, Tass has directed four television movies in the United States: The Miracle Worker (2000), Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (2001), Undercover Christmas, Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004), Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (2005). In 2002, Tass’ musical production of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe premiered to rave reviews throughout Australia. The piece was adapted from the C.S. Lewis novel by her husband. In 2010 it was reported that for two years Tass had been seeking support from the Greek Ministry of Culture for her new film The Journey. The film is an international production with filming and production in Greece, France and America. The historical epic is set in both modern Greece and Greece during the Second World War. The Journey follows the true story of a Greek cabaret dancer who aided the Resistance whilst entertaining German troops. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Film, McFarlane, Brian, Mayer Geoff and Bertrand, Ina, 1999 Resource Section Nadia Tass (Director/Producer), 2010, http://www.cascadefilms.com.au/html/nadia_tass.htm Article Nadia Tass visits Athens for the film \"The Journey\", Papapostolou, Anastasios, 2010, http://au.greekreporter.com/2010/01/02/nadia-tass-visits-athens-for-the-film-%E2%80%9Cthe-journey%E2%80%9D/ Motion picture Malcolm, Parker, David, 1986 The Big Steal, Parker, David and Dann, Max, 1990 Rikky and Pete, Parker, David, 1988 Mr Reliable, Catchlove, Don and Hayes, Terry, 1996 Amy, Parker, David, 1997 Television Program Stark, Elton, Ben, 1993 Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive [Parker, David and Tass, Nadia : Interviewed by Paul Harris] Crisis at Hanging Rock : A Documentary on the Australian Cinema [Lewin, Ben ; Colosimo, Rosa ; Tass, Nadia ; Parker, David : Interviewed by David Stratton] Film Buffs' Forecast. [Source Material : Nadia Tass Interviewed About 'Amy'] ; Film Buffs' Forecast. [Source Material : Mario Andreacchio Interviewed about 'The Real Macaw'] Film Buffs' Forecast. [Source Material : Bruce Beresford Interview] ; Film Buffs' Forecast. [Source Material : David Parker and Nadia Tass Interview] Malcolm: Publicity Material Rikky and Pete : Script [Stark : Documentation] Mr Reliable : [Production notes listing the credits for the film] Amy : Alana De Roma (Amy Enker) (L) Sitting on the couch with Frank Gallacher (Dr Urquhaet) ® National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Nadia Tass, film producer and director, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 18 January 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Helen Durham is a leading international lawyer, focusing on international humanitarian law (IHL or the laws of war). With a passion for the protections afforded to civilians during times of armed conflict (in particular women) Helen has had a long term career with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. In 2014 she was appointed as the Director of International Law and Policy for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) headquarters in Geneva Switzerland and is the first woman to occupy this role in the institution’s 150 year history. In 2017, Helen Durham was made an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia ‘for distinguished service to international relations in the area of humanitarian and criminal law, to the protection of women during times of armed conflict, and to legal education’. Studying Arts/Law at Melbourne University in the late 1980s Helen was always active in matters of local and global justice, doing voluntary work with a number of Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), an internship in Bangkok and becoming interested in the need to create legal clarity around rape and sexual violence as war crimes. Starting her career as an articled clerk with the Labor law firm Holding Redlich and then moving to work for Asialink, she established a leadership program and explored the different ways human rights are understood by business and culture. Concurrently she commenced a doctorate in international law at Melbourne Law School examining the role of community groups and NGOs in international criminal prosecutions with the emphasis on cases dealing with sexual violence. After obtaining a Queens Trust Scholarship she was able to complete her studies at New York University and engage directly with the discussions being held at the United Nations on the creation of an International Criminal Court. In 1997 she commenced with Australian Red Cross as National Manager of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) program, working closely with Professor Tim McCormack and her team to build a stronger understanding and respect for IHL within the Australian academic sector, government, militaries and the general public. She was part of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation to the negotiations for the Statute of the International Criminal Court in Rome in 1998 and did a number of short missions for ICRC in the field to places such as Burma, Aceh, the Philippines and the Pacific. In 2002 Helen became Head of Office for ICRC in Australia based in Sydney and regional legal adviser for the Mission of the ICRC in the Pacific. For the next three years she travelled extensively in the Pacific, assisting governments ratify IHL treaties, implement these laws domestically as well as training military officers and non-state armed groups on matters such as the conduct of hostilities. Due to family commitments (son Alexander born in 2001 and daughter Hannah in 2004) Helen returned to Melbourne and took up the part time position as Director of Research for the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at Melbourne Law School, teaching in the Masters of Law program (Women, War and Peacebuilding) and also supervising a number of PhDs in international law. After a few years in academia Helen went back to Australian Red Cross as Director of International Law and Strategy, whilst continuing to teach and publish in the area of IHL as a Senior Fellow of Melbourne Law School. Combining her practical field experience and the ‘grass root’ work of the Red Cross during conflict and her research allowed Helen to focus upon bridging the gap between legal practitioners in the humanitarian sector and the academic community. In 2014 she was appointed to the Directorate of the ICRC in Geneva, with a portfolio which includes the legal division, armed forces delegates, academic outreach and policy/multilateral engagement. Presenting to the Security Council of the United Nations on the needs of women during war, visiting detainees in Iraq, lecturing at military institutes in Europe and Americas and providing training to diplomats in New York – her current position builds upon her experiences and the support gained from many over the years. In 2014 Helen was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women and in 2015 she was honoured with a Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Centenary PeaceWomen Award. Events 2014 - 2014 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Helen Durham Created 6 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Helen Durham Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Australian News and Information Bureau–Stamped on reverse. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Patricia Forsythe was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1991 until 2006. A member of the Liberal Party, she first ran for parliament in 1984 in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Newcastle. She didn’t run again until 1991 and was elected to the Legislative Council of New South Wales. She was re-elected in 1999. She resigned from parliament on 22 September 2006 to take up the position of Executive Director of the New South Wales Business Chamber. Patricia Forsythe was born in Newcastle in 1952, the daughter of jack and Peg Wingrove. She was educated at the Hunter Girls High School and the University of Newcastle, from which she graduated with BA, DipEd She taught in secondary schools from 1974 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1986. She worked as Executive officer for the Australian Soft Drink Association 1987-1988 and for the minister for Local Government and Planning 1988-1991. She was elected to the Legislative Council of New South Wales in 1991 and again in 1999. Patricia Forsythe joined the Liberal Party as a schoolgirl in 1968, and held many positions in the organization. She is married to David Forsythe and they have two children. Published resources Book Contemporary Australian Women 1996/97, 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 30 January 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Laura Jones is an Australian film and television scriptwriter. She has a particular talent for literary adaptations, An Angel At My Table and Oscar and Lucinda being two of her well known efforts. Ms Jones has been the recipient of three Australian Writers’ Guild Awards and twice won the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Screen Writing. She won the Australian Film Institute’s Byron Kennedy Award in 1997. She has served as a commissioner on the Australian Film Commission. Laura Jones was born in 1951, daughter of Australian novelist Jessica Anderson. She began her career writing plays for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, these included Cold Comfort (1985) and Everyman for Herself (1986). Her move into the film industry began in 1986 with her original screenplay High Tide. High Tide was produced by Sandra Levy and directed by Gillian Armstrong. Judy Davis won an Australian Film Industry Award for her performance as the lead character, Lili. Lili is a back up singer for an Elvis impersonator who gets stranded in a small coastal town. While stuck in the town, Lili befriends a teenager girl who is in fact the daughter she left as an infant. In 1990, she wrote the film script for An Angel At My Table, adapted from the autobiography of Janet Frame. The film, directed by Jane Campion, narrated the tumultuous life of New Zealander author Janet Frame. In 1996, The Portrait of a Lady was released. Written by Jones, the film was an adaptation from Henry James’ novel of the same title. Set in Europe, The Portrait of a Lady is the tale of a young American woman who challenged old-world sensibilities in order to find true love. In 1997, she wrote the psychological thriller, The Well. The film is about two very different women who form a tender, yet manipulative, relationship. When one of the women runs over a stranger on the road near their house, a battle of wits between the two women in triggered. Also in 1997, her third screenplay adaptation A Thousand Acres was filmed. The film was based on the novel by Jane Smiley of the same name, which itself was an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear. In 1998, Oscar and Lucinda was released. Written by Jones, the film was an adaptation of Peter Carey’s award winning novel. In 1999, Angela’s Ashes was released. The film was her adaptation of Frank McCourt’s memoir of the same name. In 2007, Jones wrote the British drama, Brick Lane. The film tells of a young Bangladeshi woman who moves to London for an arranged marriage. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Film, McFarlane, Brian, Mayer Geoff and Bertrand, Ina, 1999 Motion picture The Portrait of a Lady, Jones, Laura, 1996 An Angel At My Table, Jones, Laura, 1990 Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive Brick Lane : Original Release High Tide : Original Release Certain Women Oscar and Lucinda, script, sixth draft, 19.7.1996 The Well : Original Release National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Laura Jones, film and television writer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 4 January 2011 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pamela Curr stood as a candidate for the Australian Greens Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Brunswick at the Victorian state election, which was held on 30 November 2002. Pamela Curr has worked at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre which is Located in North Melbourne as Campaign Co-ordinator. She is active in securing the human rights of people who arrive in Australia seeking asylum. She is active also in the Victorian Peace Network. She was involved in the Fairwear campaign for more than five years, working to ensure decent working conditions for workers in the clothing and textile industry. Events 2009 - 2009 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 30 July 2008 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9216 comprises candidate electoral matter, e-mail and correspondence issued during the Constitutional Convention (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary Delahunty won the seat of Northcote (Legislative Assembly) for the Australian Labor Party, in a by-election in August 1998. She held the ministerial portfolios of Education, the Centenary of Federation, Planning, Arts and Women’s Affairs. Before entering politics, she was Managing Director of her own media consultancy company, also a former ABC journalist and long time member of the Journalist’s Union. She retired from politics at the state election in November 2006. Born: 7 June 1951. Delahunty received a BA (Hons) in Political Science from La Trobe University, before commencing a career in television news, current affairs and the arts. She reported nationally and internationally for the ABC and commercial television stations, producing numerous documentaries and anchoring live broadcasts. Delahunty is known for presenting ABC TV news (Melb.) and current affairs programs, the 7.30 Report and Four Corners. She also hosted the ABC’s national arts program, Sunday Afternoon. In 1983, Delahunty was awarded the Gold Walkley for journalism, for the story ‘Aiding and Abetting’ an investigation of the use and misuse of Australian aid moneys. She has been a four times recipient of the Deafness Society Clear Speaking Award. She was one of the early Foundation members of Emily’s List and the first Labor woman candidate to be supported by Emily’s List in Victoria and then win. Also she was the Victorian convenor and foundation member of the Australian Republic Movement and elected delegate to the People’s Convention on the Republic (held Canberra 2000), as well as being a former Director and long time supporter of the Victorian Women’s Trust. Delahunty is a Governor of the Dromkeen Children’s Literature Collection and Patron of P.A.L.S. (partnership and linking for the seriously mentally ill). Married to Jock Rankin (passed away 2002) with two children, she enjoys reading, theatre, dance and riding. Events 1983 - 1983 Gold Award (with Alan Hall) – Best Piece of Journalism – Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1983 - 1983 Best Television Current Affairs Report – with Alan Hall Published resources Resource Mary Delahunty. Member for Northcote, http://www.emilyslist.org.au/candidates/cand_mdelahunty.html Mary Delahunty, Member for Northcote. Minister for Education, Arts and The Centenary of Federation, http://www.vic.alp.org.au/people/northcote.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (Australia) - records of the W.G. Walkley Awards, 1956 - 1999 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 October 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Folder containing articles, photograph, cuttings. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Consists of photographs documenting Enid Derham s grand tour of Egypt, the Mediterranean, Europe, and England in 1927.??Series includes photographs of ancient monuments in Egypt, Greece and Italy, trekking through the Alps, along with photographs of buildings, landscapes and local people, Christmas in Switzerland, and the return trip to Australia by ship. Photographs are annotated on the back with descriptions and numbers, presumed to be by Derham. Photographs are divided into the following groupings based on the original numbering: 1-58 On Ship and in Egypt; 60-118 Athens & Greece; 119-175 Crete; 176-306 Greece (1927); 307-421 Italy; 422-527 France; 528-[599] England (1927); 600-706 England; 707-802 Europe; 803-[899] Europe; 900-985 Europe (cont’d); 986-1095 England; 1100-1173 England & Return to Australia. Series also includes photographs that are unnumbered, but are probably part of the same trip, along with copies of family photographs, and a large studio portrait of Enid Derham. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 December 2017 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 17 February 2009 Last modified 17 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 digital audio tape (22 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jenni Kemarre Martiniello OAM is an award-winning glass artist, poet, writer and photographer of Arrente, Chinese and Anglo-Celtic descent. Acclaimed for her glass works, she has been actively involved in professional and community education in Canberra throughout her career. Jenni founded the ACT Indigenous Writers Group in 1999. With fellow artist Lyndy Delian, she was instrumental in the foundation of the Indigenous Textile and Glass Artists (ITAG) group. Her advocacy for Indigenous artists, and her role in connecting them with other art organisations was pivotal in helping mitigate barriers due to discrimination against Indigenous Australians. Her leadership and advocacy continued through Kemarre Arts, a social enterprise she founded in 2006. It was the Australian Capital Territory’s first independent Aboriginal-run social enterprise and provided support to fellow Indigenous artists, offering writing and professional development. Through her internationally recognised art practice, creative writing and teaching, Jenni has a been a powerful cultural ambassador, educator, and activist. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to the creative and visual arts in 2022. Jenni Kemarre Martiniello was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2010. “Jenni Kemarre Martiniello was born Jennifer Avriel Longmore in 1949 in Adelaide, South Australia. Her father Richard was of Aboriginal and Chinese descent and her mother Betty of Anglo-Celtic lineage. Jenni had an early interest in art and took night classes at the Adelaide School of Art while attending high school. However, after graduating at age 18 from high school in 1967, she joined the Navy, ascribing her decision to a desire to do ‘something adventurous.’ Jenni worked as a radar plotter and weapons assessor as opposed to the traditional female roles of a cook or steward. She particularly enjoyed her work with weapons assessment at Nowra, New South Wales. Her two years in the Navy allowed her to meet women from across Australia, from different backgrounds and life experiences. A posting took her to Navy Office at Russell, Canberra, in 1969, where she met her husband, a first-generation Italian migrant, with whom she had four children. They divorced in 1979 after ten years of marriage. Martiniello later returned to school, studying sculpture at the Canberra School of Art, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985, and in 1991 a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Philosophy from the Australian National University. She enrolled in post-graduate studies in Professional and Community Education at the University of Canberra (UC) in 1992. Martiniello lectured in community and teacher education at UC, as well as teaching creative writing, cultural studies, and Indigenous art history at the Yurauna Centre, Canberra Institute of Technology. In 1999, she founded the ACT Indigenous Writers Group and in the same year edited Black Lives, Rainbow Visions: Indigenous Sitings in the Creative Arts, a directory of Indigenous peoples working in the visual, performing, and literary arts in Canberra. In 2002, she was awarded an ACT Creative Arts Fellowship to complete her novel Blossoms of the Mulga. She was Contributing Indigenous Arts Editor for Muse Magazine from 2000 to 2001 and coordinating editor for the first issue of New Dreamings: Indigenous Youth Magazine, 2002. She has won numerous literary prizes, including the Grenfell Henry Lawson Short Story Award (1999) and the Banjo Paterson Poetry Prize (2003). She has also been a judge for the New South Wales and Queensland Literary Awards. In 2006, Martiniello founded and became director of Kemarre Arts, an organisation supporting Indigenous artists through professional development programs, grant writing and publishing. It won the ACT NAIDOC Award for Most Outstanding Agency in 2012. She founded the ACT Indigenous Textile and Glass Artists Group (ITAG) with Lyndy Delian in 2003. ITAG advocated for Indigenous artists and connected them with other arts organisations, as well as hosting exhibitions and artist workshops. Martiniello and Delian collaborated in partnership with Canberra Glassworks to create the Honouring Cultures program, which gave regional artists the opportunity to develop their glassmaking skills and international artists the chance to participate in skills exchange and collaborative work programs. In 2011, as Thomas Foundation artist-in-residence at the Canberra Glassworks, Martiniello began experimenting with weaving patterns in glass, with a focus on traditional aboriginal practices. She was awarded the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art Award in 2013 for her work Golden Brown Reeds Fish Trap, inspired by woven fish traps from northeast Arnhem Land and Cape York. She used glass to make traditional Indigenous forms, melding a non-traditional medium with traditional woven objects to create her own interpretation of two art forms. Martiniello has won numerous awards and honours for her art practice, including the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Visual Arts Fellowship (2013–15) and the Bay of Fires Art Prize (2016). In 2018 she was a resident artist at the Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Studio in Norfolk Virginia and at Kluge Ruhe Museum of Aboriginal Art at the University of Virginia. Her works are held in major national and international public and private collections, including the Canberra Museum and Gallery, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, the National Library of Australia, the Australian Parliament House, the Belau National Museum and the British Museum. Martiniello previously held a position on the Advisory Board for the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the ANU. She is a former member and Deputy Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australian Council of Arts and has served on Advisory Boards of the Canberra Museum and Gallery, the ACT Writers Centre, CraftACT, AIATSIS Press and the Australia Council Multicultural Arts Advisory Committee. Martiniello was the ACT Senior Australian of the Year Nominee in 2018 and was awarded the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the creative and visual arts. “ Published resources Jenni Kemarre Martiniello reinvents the ancient Indigenous tradition of weaving, but with glass, Pryor, Sally, 2018, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6069128/jenni-kemarre-martiniello-reinvents-the-ancient-indigenous-tradition-of-weaving-but-with-glass/ Author profile: Jennifer Martiniello, http://macquariepenanthology.com.au/JMartiniello.html Jennifer A. Martiniello | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories, https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A12927 Award Extract - Australian Honours Search Facility, https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2010963 Australia’s Blak History Month Profile, 2021, https://www.blakhistorymonth.com/15-july-2021-jennikemarremartiniello Death Letter Projects, https://www.deathletterprojects.com/jennifer-kemarre-martiniello Archival resources Jenni Kemarre Martiniello interviewed by Mary Hutchison in the Centenary of Canberra oral history project, 2014 Author Details Jen Coombs Created 11 July 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Women’s Theatre Group was active in Adelaide from 1975 to 1989. They wrote, produced, directed, scored, performed and built the stage for their productions. They performed cabaret and theatrical works. All women productions were a first in Adelaide. The women worked through a collective. They won the Adelaide Festival Centre best production award for ‘Redheads Revenge’ in 1978. The other plays and cabaret include ‘Christobel in Paris’ 1975, ‘Caroline Chisel Show’ 1976, ‘International Women’s Day Concert’ and ‘Chores 1’ in 1977, ‘Chores 2’ and ‘I want I want’ 1979, ‘Out of the Frying Pan’ 1980, ‘Onward to Glory’ 1982, ‘Margin to Mainstream’ and ‘Women and Work, Women and Paid Work’ 1984, ‘Sybil’s Xmas Concert’ 1985, and 1989 ‘Is this Seat Taken’. The group includes the Women in Education Theatre Group and the Feminist Theatre Group. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 18 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Gardiner is a courageous fighter for principle who stood for the Australian Greens at the 2004 Randwick City Council elections and in the 2005 New South Wales Legislative Assembly Maroubra by-election. Anne Gardiner trained as a nurse at Prince Henry Hospital. She came to prominence in 2003 when she challenged a decision by her employer, NSW Workcover, to move her work base from Sydney to Gosford, on the grounds that it would affect her role as the carer of her youngest children. The case, in which she succeeded, set an important precedent as it was the first time the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal had dealt with carer’s responsibility under the Anti Discrimination Act. In 2004, with 41 fellow public servants she headed a ticket to challenge the leadership of the NSW Public Service Association and she and 12 others were elected, changing the balance of power in the union, previously dominated by ALP members. In the Maroubra by-election she got 19.5% of the primary vote, an increase of 11.1% Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Born and raised in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, Gabrielle Upton is a Liberal party Member of the House of Assembly, for the seat of Vaucluse, in the Parliament of New South Wales. On 2 April 2015, she was appointed as Attorney General for New South Wales, having previously held the position of Minister for Family and Community Services between 23 April 2014 until 2 April 2015. Prior to that she served as Minister for Sport and Recreation from August 2013 until April 2014 and Parliamentary Secretary for Tertiary Education and Skills, from May 2011 until August 2013. She was first elected to parliament in 2011. Gabrielle Upton was born and raised in the eastern suburbs of Sydney where she attended Brigidine College in Randwick and the University of New South Wales, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. Her legal career began as a banking and finance lawyer with legal firms Freehill, Hollingdale & Page and Phillips Fox, after being admitted as a Solicitor to the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia in 1988. Gabrielle and Alex Sundich married in 1990 and in 1993 they moved to New York where Gabrielle completed a Masters of Business Administration (Finance Management) at New York University’s Leonard Stern School of Business. Upon completing her MBA, Gabrielle worked as a banker with Deutsche Bank and Toronto Dominion Bank in New York financing the energy sector. Returning to Sydney in 1999 with her family, Gabrielle began the role of Legal Counsel at the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Gabrielle served as Deputy Chancellor at the University of New South Wales from 2006 until 2009, and on the University’s Council from 2002 to 2010. From 2005 to 2011 Gabrielle was the Deputy Chair of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards in Australia. She was also a board member of Neuroscience Research Australia, one of Australia’s largest research centres on the brain and nervous system, from 2007 to 2011. Gabrielle gained a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales, and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Gabrielle and Alex live in Darling Point with their two children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Webpage of the Honourable Gabrielle Upton MP: Member for Vaucluse., Upton, Gabrielle, 2015 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 November 2015 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "See author’s report held in AIATSIS Library: ‘Cootamundra : The Aboriginal Girls Home’ MS 3321.?A collection of photographs taken at Cootamundra Girls Home. Collection includes historical images of group portraits, education and recreation activities along with more contemporary scenes showing demolition work on the old home as well as photo portraits of former residents and staff. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Initiated by women already in the art world, the Women’s Art Movement (hereinafter named W.A.M.) was part of an international trend somewhat belated in Australia, which lead women artists to look at their position as women in society and to analyse their position as artists through a feminist frame. The W.A.M offered women artists support within an alternative group structure. The group began with the aim of supporting and promoting women artists, educating members on the problem of discrimination and working with one another to overcome sexism in the arts and society. Fifty women ranging in age from 18 to 65 attended the first meeting. As attendance numbers grew, funding was required. Such monetary resources were obtained from the South Australia Arts Grant Advisory Committee (A.G.A.C), the Community Arts Board (C.A.B), and the Visual Arts Board (V.A.B) for salary and administrative costs, workshops and the publication of the book Women’s Art Movement 1978-1979, Adelaide, South Australia, respectively. Members produced contemporary and often confronting art pieces that tackled subject matter that is specific to the life experiences of women. Rape, abortion, reproduction and motherhood were some of the themes addressed in a variety of mediums including: hand painting, sculpture, life drawing, lithograph, silk screening, installation art, patchwork and other folk art, film and photography, music, dance, street theatre and poetry. By the mid 1980s, the W.A.M had become a highly respected art movement both nationally and internationally. Published resources Edited Book Setting the pace: the Women's Art Movement, 1980-1983, Kent, Jane, 1984 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women's Art Movement: Summary Record Sylvia Kinder : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Robin Secomb and Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Patricia Clarke Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Lady Edith Bridges Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers of Natalia Davies, civil defence organiser, comprising Civil Defence Society and Women’s Air Training Corps papers, lecture notes, service record, badges photographs of civil defence exercises, press cuttings, scripts of short stories and plays, papers relating to Kampeter, lecture notes, certificates and correspondence of Amylis Laffer together with stretcher and trunk containing bandages, blackout papers, ground sheet, inert gas samples, gas mask and helmets Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 23 February 2010 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ailsa Thomson Zainuddin is a writer and academic who taught at the Faculty of Education at Monash University, specialising in the history of education. Her undergraduate courses at Monash on the history of education in Southeast Asia and the history of education for girls and women, were among the first of their kind in Australia. Her published writing in these fields includes the text-book, A Short History of Indonesia. Ailsa has maintained a close and enduring association with Indonesia, the country where her husband Zainu’ddin was born and raised, and where she herself lived and worked during the 1950s. Ailsa was awarded a PhD for They Dreamt Of A School, the centenary history of Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew; the school she herself attended. Ailsa was born to Boyd and Thelma Thomson on 8 April 1927 at Fairbank Private Hospital in Box Hill. Both Boyd and Thelma were teachers and the Thomson family was Methodist. Ailsa attended Methodist Ladies’ College (MLC), Kew from 1933 to 1944. Ailsa graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in history and english from the University of Melbourne in 1947. After graduating, Ailsa was a tutor in the history department, having been invited by Professor Max Crawford to join the teaching staff as part of the Postwar Reconstruction Training Scheme. During this time, Ailsa was active in the Australian Student Christian Movement. In 1953, Ailsa graduated from Melbourne University with a Masters on The Bulletin and Australian nationalism, supervised by Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark. Ailsa was research assistant to Manning Clark at Canberra University College from 1952 to 1954. At Havelock House in Canberra, Ailsa met Indonesian diplomat and former freedom fighter, Zainu’ddin. Ailsa and Zainu’ddins’ friendship was decisively platonic at first: both of them felt that romantic involvement was out of the question on account of the religious difference between them, and, in Zainu’ddin’s case, for reasons to do with his career as a diplomat. However, the two friends fell in love, and decided to marry. Zainu’ddin was adamant that before Ailsa made any final commitment, she must first experience for herself life in Indonesia, where the couple planned to live. Ailsa – her mind already more or less made up – departed for Jakarta in 1954, in a move she envisaged at the time as a permanent one. Ailsa and Zainu’ddin married in Jakarta on 10 December 1954. For eighteen months from August 1954, Ailsa worked in Jakarta at the English Language Inspectorate, part of the Ministry of Education. The Inspectorate was set up to establish english as Indonesia’s first foreign language, and Ailsa’s role included contributing to syllabus and assessment development, and delivering lectures on english literature to Indonesian teachers of english. Ailsa’s employment for the Indonesian Government was undertaken through the newly established Volunteer Graduate Scheme for Indonesia. In March 1956, the Zainu’ddins left Jakarta and returned to Australia, as Zainu’ddin had been appointed first Indonesian language teacher in the newly established Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Melbourne. Upon entering Australia, the couple were obliged to apply for exemption under the Immigration Restriction Act for their infant daughter, Nila. A second daughter, Lisa, was born two years later. In 1964, Ailsa graduated with a Bachelor of Education from the University of Melbourne. In 1965, Ailsa joined the Faculty of Education at the newly established Monash University. As the Faculty’s first appointment in the history of education, Ailsa developed and taught undergraduate courses in the history of education in Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia in the 19th and 20th centuries. In her courses on the history of educational thought and practice, Ailsa added to the Western thinkers included in the course, figures such as Rabindranath Tagore, Shinichi Suzuki, and also Raden Ajeng Kartini, an Indonesian national heroine celebrated for her advanced ideas about national independence as well as equality for girls and women. Additionally, from 1975, Ailsa pioneered a separate course on the history of education for women. This course had its origins in a suggestion made by Ailsa for a female counterpart to an ‘Images of Man’ course then offered in the history and philosophy of education. Ailsa was the Education Faculty representative at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Monash University’s Clayton campus. Among many other events at the Centre, Ailsa organised, and delivered a paper at, a CSEAS lecture series in 1979 commemorating the centenary of Kartini’s birth. She also edited the publication that resulted from the lectures, entitled Kartini Centenary: Indonesian Women Then and Now. From 1976 to 1994, Ailsa and her friend and colleague Marjorie Theobald ran a monthly discussion group for those undertaking or interested in research into the history of education for girls. The aim of the History of Education for Girls Group (HEGG) was to provide a supportive environment for women, including those returning to study later in life. Ailsa maintained an association with Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew for over fifty years. She was awarded a PhD from Monash University in 1983 for her centenary history of MLC, entitled They Dreamt of a School. Ailsa retired as a Senior Lecturer from the Education Faculty at Monash University in 1992. As a writer, teacher and scholar, and also through her involvement in the Indonesian community in Melbourne, Ailsa has influenced many people. This includes historian Janet McCalman, who has acknowledged the importance of Ailsa’s centenary history of Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew, for her own work, Journeyings: the biography of a middle-class generation 1920-1990. Ailsa’s love of history reflects the influence of her mother, Thelma, among other people. Thelma was a member of the 16 Club, a monthly reading group of women graduates of Melbourne University which ran for sixty years. In her published essay documenting the Club’s history and members, Ailsa describes the Club as having been present in the background of her own childhood. This is one example of an autobiographical element which is present in Ailsa’s writing as a whole. A prolific letter writer, Ailsa has maintained correspondence with a wide circle of friends, including many former colleagues and students. Among her correspondents was Kurnianingrat Ali Sastroamijoyo, a teacher and academic who was widely involved in the field of english language teaching and training in post-independence Indonesia, and with whom Ailsa worked in Jakarta during the 1950s. Kurnianingrat’s memoir, entitled ‘Other Worlds in the Past’, was published in 2017 in a work co-edited by Ailsa called Bridges of Friendship. Ailsa’s correspondents also included Manning and Dymphna Clark. In 1957, Manning dedicated his book, Sources of Australian History, to Ailsa and Zainu’ddin. Additionally, the publication Ever, Manning: Selected Letters of Manning Clark 1938-1991, includes excerpts from Ailsa’s correspondence with Manning Clark. Ailsa stopped using the apostrophe in her surname in 2015. Events 1985 - 1986 Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) 1957 - 1963 ‘Djembatan’ – Quarterly newsletter of the Volunteer Graduate Association 1948 - 1951 The History Department of The University of Melbourne 1961 - 1964 The Law School (British constitutional history) at The University of Melbourne 1963 - 1963 The Indonesian Studies Department at The University of Melbourne 1954 - 1956 Ailsa lived and worked in Jakarta under the Volunteer Graduate Scheme for Indonesia Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Zainuddin, Ailsa Remembering the Immigration Reform Group: Witness Seminar Monash University Archives Personal archives of Zainu'ddin, Ailsa Gwennyth Thomson (1927-) Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Papers of Ailsa Thomson Zainuddin National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Ailsa Zainu'ddin interviewed by David Walker in the Australia-Asia studies oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Ann McCarthy & Ailsa Zainuddin Created 26 October 2017 Last modified 28 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Three historical pamphlets on North Melbourne: Discovering our district; When Errol Street Boomed; When Railways Boomed; When Bull- dozing boomed. The photocopies c1966 are a cartoon and newsletter of the Progressive Clerks’ Union, an anti DLP organisation. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 20 min.)??Male, dairy farmer, speaks of her dairy farm background, her involvement in dairy cattle breeding after leaving school, how she and her husband developed a computerised feeding system for their dairy, her financial management of the farm, the need for farmers to keep up with the latest developments as agricultural professionals, hopes for their farm, and the features of their computerised dairy farm which is unique in Australia. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Eliza Tuckwell was a very successful business woman and landowner in the Northern Territory. She was one of the few Territory women to pay taxes on her income in 1884 when the South Australian parliament imposed taxes on income. Also, at the age of 59, Eliza was on of 82 women who enrolled to vote after the franchise was granted to South Australian and Territory women in 1894. Eliza Sarah Hemmings worked as a domestic servant in London however, to improve her employment and marriage prospects, she applied for a berth on a ship headed to Australia. Alongside fifty-five other single women, Eliza arrived in Port Adelaide in March 1855. After an initial appointment at St Peters College, Eliza soon found a job at a coach builder’s, followed by some flour mills in Hindmarsh. In February 1857 Eliza married Edward (Ned) Tuckwell and she gave birth to their first child, Mary Ann, in November that same year. She had four more children before 1868. The family left Adelaide in December 1869 and met Ned in Port Darwin in January 1870 (Ned had travelled north with Surveyor General George Goyder’s expedition party in December 1868). Together they had two more children; Charles Palmerston in 1871 and Eleanor in 1873. Ned also turned one of Darwin’s very first hotels, the Commercial, into a house for his family. With Ned’s death in April 1882, and in need of an income to support her family, Eliza opened a boarding house which she named Resolution Villa. She supplemented her income by acting as a midwife and nurse to the local community. The family property had been transferred to Eliza’s name after Ned’s death, and she became one of the first resident female taxpayers in Palmerston. In 1895, at the age of 59, Eliza was one of the 82 women who enrolled to vote after the franchise was granted to South Australian and Territory women in 1894. He daughter Eleanor had also enrolled to vote at this time. Eliza ‘Granny’ Tuckwell passed away in August 1921 at the age of 85. Archival resources Northern Territory Library, Northern Territory Collection Victor and Eliza Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Linda Lavarch was the first female lawyer elected to the Parliament of Queensland, Australia. In July 2005 she was appointed Minister for Justice and Attorney-General – the first woman to be Attorney-General in Queensland. As Attorney-General she oversaw the introduction of permanent drug courts in Queensland and the creation of the offence of identity theft. Retiring from state politics in 2009, Lavarch became involved in medical research and the not-for-profit sector, chairing the Not-For-Profit Sector Reform Council. Lavarch stood as the Labor candidate for the Queensland seat of Dickson in the 2016 Australian federal election. Linda Lavarch was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Linda Lavarch was born in 1958 in Brisbane, Queensland. After completing her secondary schooling at Miami High School on the Gold Coast, she attended Queensland University of Technology where she obtained a Bachelor of Laws. She has credited the Whitlam Government reforms which abolished up-front university fees and introduced a living allowance for students with giving her the opportunity to receive a tertiary education [JSchool]. Lavarch’s political awareness developed early; she joined the Australian Labor Party in 1982 and while at university was involved in protests against the Bjelke-Petersen government [JSchool]. In 1984 she married her (now former) husband Michael Lavarch, who become Federal Attorney-General in the Keating Government (1993-1996). Together they have two children. After graduating, Lavarch practised as a solicitor in Strathpine, Caboolture and Redcliffe; she also volunteered at the Petrie Community Legal Centre (now the Pine Rivers Community Legal Service) [Linda Lavarch]. In the early 1990s she worked with Legal Aid, chairing family conferences and working to resolve family disputes. In 1993, Lavarch became advisor to State Attorney-General Dean Wells on Legal Aid and Community Legal Centres [Proctor]. She entered state politics in 1997 as the successful Labor candidate for the seat of Kurwongbah. In doing so, she became the first female lawyer elected to the Queensland Parliament. From 2001 to 2004 Lavarch was chair of the Fishing Industry Development Council and deputy chair of the Small Business Advisory Council. Lavarch was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for State Development and Innovation in 2004; in 2005 she served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Energy and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy. In July 2005 Lavarch was also appointed Minister for Justice and Attorney-General – the first woman to be Attorney-General in Queensland. She would also assume responsibility for the portfolio of Minister for Women. Coincidentally, Lavarch became Attorney-General in the year marking the centenary of the Legal Practitioners Act 1905, which allowed women to practise as barristers and solicitors in Queensland for the first time [Proctor]. Upon her appointment as Attorney-General, Lavarch noted about herself that she possessed “a strong interest in ensuring public confidence in our legal system, and also in enhancing access to justice” [Cole]. As Attorney-General, Lavarch concentrated on community justice initiatives and the treatment of vulnerable people in the criminal justice system. She was responsible for the establishment of permanent drug courts in Queensland and for creating the specific offence of identity theft [FindLaw; Innisfail Advocate]. Suffering ill-health, Lavarch resigned as Attorney-General in 2006. Remaining a backbencher in the Queensland Parliament, Lavarch turned her attentions to medical research and sporting initiatives. From 2007 to 2009 she was Director of the Princess Alexandra Foundation, assisting in raising funds and awarding research grants to support scientists whose budding work has directly led to break-throughs in the areas of transplantation, cancer, diabetes, melanoma and Parkinson’s disease. In 2007 Lavarch was the Director of Hockey Queensland, chaired the Legal, Planning and Facilities Committee, and also headed the Hockey Judiciary [Company Directors]. Lavarch retired from state politics in 2009 and returned to private practice as a solicitor at Michael Hefford Solicitors. In 2010 Lavarch was appointed a Research Fellow with the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Non-profit Studies at Queensland University of Technology; here she was involved in developing model laws for the legal structures of, and activities undertaken by, charities and non-profit organisations. In 2014 she was appointed a Member of the Advisory Board [Pro Bono]. Lavarch’s involvement in the not-for-profit sector continued between 2010 and 2013, and included a role as chair of the Coast2Bay Housing Company, which provides affordable housing on the Sunshine Coast and in the Moreton Bay region of Queensland. She was Chair of the Not-For-Profit (NFP) Sector Reform Council, established by the Federal Government in 2010 to provide high-level sector advice on proposed reforms to improve the regulatory environment for the NFP sector in Australia. In 2012 Lavarch chaired and delivered a final report for the Not-For-Profit Tax Concessions Working Group, established to consider ideas for better delivery of the support provided through tax concessions to the NFP sector [Sydney Morning Herald]. Lavarch is currently the Director of Member & Specialist Services for the Queensland Nurses Union, a position she has held since January 2015. She is also Deputy Chair and a Director of the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation. She stood as the Labor candidate for the Queensland seat of Dickson in the Australian federal election held on 2 July 2016 [Linda Lavarch]. Across legal, parliamentary and board roles, Lavarch has promoted and contributed to access to justice, medical research and reforms to maximise the impact of the philanthropic sector in Australia. Published resources Book Section Elizabeth Hamilton Hart, Doherty, Siobhan and Whitton, Laura, 2005 Book Matter of privilege referred by the Speaker on 9 October 2008 relating to an alleged deliberate misleading of the house by a member, Queensland. Legislative Assembly. Members' Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee, 2008 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Linda Lavarch interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Rosemary Francis and Larissa Halonkin Created 4 August 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Linda Lavarch Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sylvia Gelman was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1981 ‘in recognition of service to education, youth and the Jewish community’. She was also appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2003 ‘in recognition of service to the community, particularly through a range of organisations concerned with issues affecting women’. These organisations included The National Council of Jewish Women of Victoria and Australia, the Young Women’s Christian Association of Victoria, and both the national and Victorian branches of the National Council of Women. Sylvia Gelman (nee Benn) was born on the 17th April 1919 in Fitzroy, Melbourne, the daughter of Maurice Benn and Elizabeth Jacobs, who had arrived in Australia from the UK in 1910. They had travelled to Australia for their honeymoon, and Maurice was so seasick on the way out he swore he would never travel anywhere again by sea. Their honeymoon lasted the fifty years that they were together in Australia. Sylvia was educated at University High School and the Melbourne Teachers’ College, University of Melbourne. She was a dynamic and memorable teacher of a wide range of subjects. After graduation she taught in several rural schools. Eventually Sylvia was appointed Senior Mistress at Mount Scopus College in 1953 and she was constantly greeted in such places as Hospital Emergency rooms by doctors and former pupils at social Maccabi Sports functions with enormous affection, saying ‘Mrs Gelman, you taught me and I wouldn’t be where I am today without you.’ Her passion was always education and she said, ‘There is a saying that if you educate a man, you are educating an individual, but if you educate a woman, you are educating a family. Women’s roles have changed a lot over the years.’ In 1938 Sylvia met her match in more ways than one. They met through their mutual interest in sport when Manuel Gelman, as the President of Associated Judean Athletics Clubs (AJAX), asked her to become Secretary of what is now known as Victoria Maccabi. They married in 1950. In those days female teachers had to resign from the Education Department schools on marriage. Sylvia did so but immediately started teaching at Mount Scopus. Sylvia and Mannie were a perfect team. Of equal intellect, they also shared a love of travel. They were partners both at work and play. In an anniversary tribute to Mannie in January 1993 Sylvia wrote ‘It was with you that I thrilled to the exciting sounds of Antonio and his dancers at the Zarzuella in Madrid, and, it was with you that I stood in awe before the paintings in the Caves of Lascaux touched by the spirit of their Cro-Magnon creators. They were married for forty-three eventful years until sadly, Mannie died later that year on 25 August 1993. In his memory, Sylvia established an Award for Teaching Excellence in the Faculty of Education at Melbourne University. His nephew Graham Solomon said ‘he had an insatiable appetite for the arts. If it had not been for him I would never have been able to envelope myself in the delights of the English language. I must give special thanks to Auntie Sylvia, for without her, the world would have seen only half the man that is Mannie Gelman.’ In 1992, in Melbourne, the French Ambassador Philippe Baud presented Mannie with the Order of the Legion d’Honneur for his contribution to his 60 years of promoting France’s language, civilisation and culture. Fluent in French, he inspired his students by his love of all language, so much so that the students at Coburg High School demanded that he teach them both French and Latin, when their choice was limited to just one language – and they won. In the 1970s, on retiring from teaching, Sylvia became a member of the National Council of Jewish Women in Victoria (NCJW) and editor of their newsletter. After three years in that role, the retiring President Mina Fink asked her to take on the presidency. As a relative newcomer to the organisation, Sylvia refused. She pointed out that Mina had two Vice Presidents who should be considered. For several months, Mina kept insisting she accept the role, even pursuing her target at their vacation retreat at Ocean Grove until she persuaded her. ‘What Mina wants, Mina gets’, was a catch phrase in the Fink and NCJW families at the time and proved to be correct once again. Fink, before she retired, had invited the global organisation of the International Council of Jewish Women to hold their next convention in Australia in 1975, the UN International Women’s Year, and Sylvia accepted the presidency with the proviso that it came attached with a suitable committee of skilled organisers elected to stage this conference. It did and they did stage a memorable and successful global conference. This would be the first International Council of Jewish Women Convention to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, and was also the first International Jewish Conference to be held in Australia. Sylvia persuaded the current Governor General, Sir John Kerr, to open the conference and when he arrived his aide explained sternly that he would have to leave as soon as he had finished speaking. He stayed and didn’t leave until the end. When the next national conference was held in Perth, Sylvia secured Governor-General Sir Zelman Cowan as that keynote speaker. Sylvia was appointed a Life Governor and Trustee of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia in 1988. In 2018 they formed a Sylvia Gelman Foundation in her honour to fundraise for educational bursaries for disadvantaged students, to support the smaller sections of the organisation and also to foster overseas speakers as scholars in residence. She did much to enhance and enrich the understanding of non-Jews in multi-cultural Australia, in the uniqueness of Jewish history and made a significant improvement in the understanding and tolerance between peoples of diverse religions and ethnic backgrounds. Through NCJW, Sylvia became their delegate on the Victorian National Council of Women (NCWV), eventually serving as Honorary Advisor to the Executive and was honoured to be named one of their Honorary Life Members, to be listed on the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2012) and be a recipient of the Sir John Monash Award from the Jewish Community Council of Victoria in 2011 for her outstanding contribution to the state. Gracia Baylor, a former President of NCW, once said of Sylvia, ‘She is a woman for all times, all seasons – ageless, blessed with a wonderful sense of humour, her intellect and her humanitarian view of life and an influence to all who come in contact with her.’ From 1987 to 1990 Sylvia was the President of the National Council of Women of Victoria and her stewardship marked a great period of productivity for the organisation. At the end of her term she became the Convenor of the Arts & Letters & Music Committee and organised the publication of a book of poetry by women The Whirling Spindle, which was a great success both as a record of the writing of women poets, and for the National Council of Women as an auspicing body. Other publications followed: From a Camel to the Moon: An Anthology for the International Year of Older Persons, 1999; Valuing the Volunteers: An Anthology for the International Year of Volunteers, 2001; Forever Eve: An Anthology Celebrating NCJWV 75th Anniversary, 2002. These books delighted many of the writers, many of whom had never been published before. An impressive public speaker, she said, ‘I urge people to undertake public speaking courses and get access to education in order for them to advance in all directions.’ Sylvia herself has initiated public speaking workshops to achieve this end. The Liberal Party of Australia Victoria Division invited her to speak at a one-day seminar. Sylvia explained that both the National Council of Women of Victoria and the National Council of Jewish Women of Victoria were strictly non-party political organisations, so any discussion of politics was not permitted. ‘No’ was the reply ‘We want you to speak on the role of your organisation to explain the work that you do.’ At one stage during her address she stated ‘that men, have always considered women as a side issue.’ One of the Melbourne dailies printed it as ‘Quote of the week’ and at the end of that year it was voted ‘Quote of the Year.’ Author Details Leonie Christopherson with Sylvia Gelman Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Sylvia Gelman Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Title: Sylvia Gelman Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Title: Gelman_img103.jpg Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Berlin, Germany. June 1946. Pictured, left to right: Squadron Officer Doris Carter, Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force; Squadron Leader P. Swan DFC; Flight Lieutenant J. Hooke DFC, RAAF, and Major Joan L. Christie of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service, light up their cigarettes in front of ‘Sans Souci’ Palace, Potsdam, during their visit to Berlin as members of the Australian Victory Contingent.?Black & white – Film original negative 35mm nitrate Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sister Mary Ita was one of the first six nuns to form the Sisters of Mercy at Broken Hill, New South Wales. The first six nuns to arrive in Broken Hill came from Singleton in the Diocese of Maitland, and founded the St Joseph’s Convent in February 1889. They were: Ann Agnes Callen (Sister Mary Josephine), Margaret Hennessy (Sister Mary Clement), Sarah Gallagher (Sister Mary Gertrude), Ellen Dwan (Sister Mary Patrick), Margaret Morris (Sister Mary Ita) and Mary Griffin (Sister Mary Evangelist). Sister Mary Josephine was appointed Reverend Mother of the Sisters of Mercy by Bishop Dunne. Under her leadership, they visited the sick and poor of Broken Hill, provided a home for orphans, and opened five schools in the town by 1896. Margaret Morris was educated at St Brigid’s Missionary School in Callen, Ireland, before making the journey to Australia to enter the Singleton Convent in November 1885. With Sister Mary Gertrude (Ellen Dwan) she volunteered to join the Broken Hill Community and went on to teach at the high school there for many years. She was Superior at Broken Hill from 1929 to 1941, Superior at Mt Barker in 1911, and Superior at Condobolin from 1942 to 1946. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 20 February 2013 Digital resources Title: Margaret Morris Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Working documents and copies of minutes and committee papers of bodies on which Ms Berger served.?Organisations: Royal College of Nursing Australia, Victorian Chapter?Australian Nursing Federation, Victorian Branch Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Subject files created while President and executive member of Liberty Victoria 1981-1996; c.178 audio tapes of programs broadcast for Liberty Victoria on 3CR, 1981-1988. Civil Liberty: Review of the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties, Vol 1, No 1 (New Series) December 1984 – Vol 11, No 3, December 1995. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Barbara Perry was a successful candidate, who was elected the first time she ran for Parliament as an ALP candidate in the 2001 by-election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Auburn. Barbara was re-elected in 2003, 2007 and 2011. She left Parliament in March 2015 after serving as a minister in previous Labor Governments. Prior to entering state politics she was a Councillor with the Auburn Council (1995-2003). Barbara Perry is the daughter of Ralph and Susan Abood, migrants from Lebanon. She is married to Michael Perry, and they have two sons. She was educated by the Sisters of Charity and the Marist Brothers. She graduated in law from the University of Sydney and worked at the Legal Aid Commission from 1990 – mostly in Family Law. Barbara Perry was the first woman of Lebanese origin to be elected to Legislative Assembly. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 2 August 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 audiocassette (approximately 90 min.)??Father Hilton Roberts talks about migrant families, ties with the church, ethnic groups in the area, English as a second language, the nuns who started Marymead. Margaret Wilson, Judy Agnew and Mary O’Donnell (all former teachers) describe the grounds and classrooms of the mid 1950s and 1960s, working conditions, lessons, concerts and school uniforms. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Copies of various reports, publications, submissions, articles on the status of women, child care, religion, equality and equal opportunity. Also letter to Jean Baker from the Secretary of Housing regarding home ownership and tenancy problems confronting women, 14 May 1975. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Haines speaks of her early involvement in Australian politics at the state level; the emergence of the Democrats in South Australia; her election to Federal Parliament in 1977 as a Senator from South Australia; the difficulties confronting a new member of Parliament; her relationship with the media as the female head of a political party; her relationships on a party level with the other major political parties; her election to the position of Deputy leader of the Australian Democrats in 1985 and then in 1986 to the position of Federal leader which she held till the 1990 Federal election; her activities since leaving Parliament in 1990. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 17 March 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Australian Local Government Womens’ Association constitution and Federal Convention and Annual Conference minutes and reports 1966-1974; ALGWA Victorian Branch Conference Proceedings 1967-1974 (1971 and 1972 Proceedings are missing). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Emily Renshaw was well known throughout the central west of New South Wales. She was Alderman of the Parkes Municipal Council from 1956-59, 1962-65 and 1971-74. She was also an ALP candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Dubbo in 1973 and for the NSW Senate in 1975. Emily Renshaw was a long term member of the ALP and widely known in country New South Wales. In 1975, when she was sixth on the party’s ticket, she polled better than the three male candidates at 3, 4, and 5. She had a long career in local government in Parkes, and was active in many local organizations. With Molly Edwards, she founded the Meals on Wheels scheme in Parkes. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article 31 years a council stalwart [obituary], Anderson, Ken, 1998 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 25 September 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc11.041 comprises research notes on Harry G. Horsford Sandeman (1856-1919) collated by a National Library of Australia staff member. The notes relate to Sandeman’s autobiography Gone out to Australia, 1882 (MS 3628a) (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Clara Harrod and her sister Emma were among the first white women to settle in the Barrier Ranges district of New South Wales. Clara and Emma Harrod, along with their brothers William and Charles Stayte Junior, were the children of Charles Harrod and Elizabeth Stayte. Charles Senior was the eldest son of Sir William Harrod of Gloucestershire and Lady Ambage. The family migrated from England to Australia in 1852, arriving in Melbourne on the Marco Polo in September of that year. By 1859, the Harrods were living in Swan Hill. Despite his aristocratic heritage, Charles was consistently in financial strife. According to Clara’s personal memoir, Charles offered Emma’s hand in marriage to local publican Henry Raines in exchange for land. Raines, a partner in Cobb & Co. who owned several tracts of land around the colony of Port Phillip, adopted Clara and paid for her education at Kyneton. In 1867, Clara and Emma set out on a 400 mile journey by horse to the Barrier Ranges in New South Wales, where Raines had settled on land at Mt Gipps Station. The inhospitable climate was made worse by an even less hospitable welcome from Raines when they did finally arrive, parched and exhausted. Already a heavy drinker, he became violent and abusive. Nonetheless, it was Clara Harrod who laid the foundation stone that year for Raines’ hotel, the Small Thorns Hotel (later the Mt Gipps Hotel). Henry Raines died in 1873. In 1877, Emma fell pregnant to Duncan McIntyre. She gave birth to a son, Montaglie Stewart McIntyre, in April 1878, but the child lived less than a year. Emma was later remarried to T.G. Alcock and moved to Mitchell, Queensland, in 1884. Clara Harrod married James Stewart Campbell at the Small Thorns Hotel, Mt Gipps, on 11 May 1871 and lived with him at Langawirra Station. Her first daughter, Clara Victoria Elizabeth Campbell, was born in March 1873. A son, Eion, followed some years later. The family lived at several different stations before settling at their property, Claravale, in Queensland. James Campbell died in 1908. As widows, Clara and Emma lived together at Mitchell. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 The Memoirs of Clara Ellen Campbell, Campbell, Clara Ellen, 1919 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Archival resources State Library of Victoria Family history and papers, 1871-1975. [manuscript]. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 9 February 2009 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sister Mary Evangelist was one of the first six nuns to form the Sisters of Mercy at Broken Hill, New South Wales. The first six nuns to arrive in Broken Hill came from Singleton in the Diocese of Maitland, and founded the St Joseph’s Convent in February 1889. They were: Ann Agnes Callen (Sister Mary Josephine), Margaret Hennessy (Sister Mary Clement), Sarah Gallagher (Sister Mary Gertrude), Ellen Dwan (Sister Mary Patrick), Margaret Morris (Sister Mary Ita) and Mary Griffin (Sister Mary Evangelist). Sister Mary Josephine was appointed Reverend Mother of the Sisters of Mercy by Bishop Dunne. Under her leadership, they visited the sick and poor of Broken Hill, provided a home for orphans, and opened five schools in the town by 1896. Mary Griffin grew up at Balranald, New South Wales, and was possibly working as a pupil-teacher at the Loreto Convent School in Melbourne when she met the Sisters from Singleton who were on their way to Broken Hill. She joined the group and taught at Broken Hill high schools until she was appointed Superior of the Mt Barker Convent in 1924. Sister Mary Evangelist spent several years as Superior of the Sisters’ Rest Home at Sans Souci, and as leader of the Deniliquin Community. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Macquarie was born in 1778 in Scotland. She married Colonel Lachlan Macquarie in Devon on 3 November 1807. In 1809 Macquarie was appointed governor of New South Wales, Elizabeth Macquarie accompanied her husband to the colony and kept a vivacious account of the seven month voyage to New South Wales.??The journal describes the voyage from England to Sydney on board the Dromedary and describes several ports of call including Madeira, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town. Elizabeth Macquarie comments on the events on the ship and daily activities whilst in port, such as places visited, church services attended and visits to and from friends. Mrs Macquarie also mentions that the frequent topic of conversation on board the ship was the state of the colony including Captain Bligh and the events surrounding the Rum Rebellion. Mrs Macquarie mentions people on the voyage including Judge Advocate Ellis Bent and his wife, General and Mrs Mead and Captain John Pascoe of the Hindostan?Rather than recording her experiences on a daily basis, it appears that Mrs Macquarie wrote up her impressions at specific times on the voyage or during port stopovers in Rio or Cape Town. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 January 2010 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "5 hours 3 minutes. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Victorian Branch Minutes 1945-1973 Minutes of joint meetings, FNC Victorian Branch and College of Nursing Australia, Victorian State Committee, 1951-1955 FNCA National Executive Committee meetings, 1974-1980 FNCA National Biennial Conferences, 1969-1981 FNCA National Policy Manual, 1948 Subject files, 1950-1984 Florence Nightingale Orations, 1967, 1983 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 27 min.)??Armstrong, a farmer, speaks of her upbringing, her job in Sydney as a nurse, the fruit farm she manages with her husband, the Orange Export Co-operative, the exportation of fruits to South-East Asia, improvement of the fruits to satisfy an international market using more modern technology, the Integrated Pest Management programs, the Apple and Pear Corporation, her striving for equality between the sexes, her husband’s involvement in industry groups and the cycle of harvesting of the various fruits she owns. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, 1902; Telegrams, postcards, Christmas cards, 1902-1917; Household accounts, 1902-1919; Photographs; Employment references, 1914; Copies of “The Collegian”, a magazine of South Melbourne College, 1905-7 Copy of “The Australian Womens Mirror” 1929 State School Programme, 1882. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Patricia Clarke Created 8 June 2023 Last modified 8 June 2023 Digital resources Title: Sybil Henderson Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Australian Federation of Graduate Women (South Australia) Inc. was founded in 1914 as the Women Graduates’ Club, a sub-society of the Adelaide University Women Students’ Club. Its aims as adopted at the first meeting on 7 July 1914 were “To provide social intercourse among women graduates” and “to deal with questions primarily affecting University graduates”. From 1923 the association became an affiliate of the National Federation of Graduate Women (then known as the National Federation of University Women). First established in 1914, in 1923 the Club affiliated with the Australian Federation of University Women (AFUW). The same year the Club affiliated with the Women Students’ Union (as the Women Students’ Club had become known), assuming independent status rather than that of a sub-society. It disaffiliated with the Women Students’ Union in 1929 and became The Adelaide University Women’s Graduates’ Association. It later affiliated directly with the University Union in 1934. In 1968 the name of the Association was changed to the South Australian University Women Graduates’ Association, following the establishment of Flinders University. After the Brisbane Conference of January 1974 all branches of the AFUW altered their constitutions and names in the interest of uniformity and greater unity, and the Association became the AFUW – SA. The Association was incorporated in 1981. In 2009, the name was changed again in line with the National body. The objects of the Association as expressed in the 1929 constitution were “to promote understanding and friendship between the women graduates of this and other universities and to keep abreast of modern developments in academic subjects of interest to students”. A bursary fund was established in 1929 and donations were made to the Australian Federation for scholarships and bursaries, the funds being derived from subscriptions and from the hiring of hoods and gowns (initiated in 1935). In the 1960s, a formula was established for the apportionment of funds for bursaries, and the Association began a separate fund to finance its own bursaries while still contributing to AFUW. And IFUW fellowships. The Jean Gilmore bursary was established in 1969 (initial value $500, open to all Australian women graduates proceeding to a higher degree) and the Doreen McCarthy and Barbara Case bursaries in 1979. Vocations Conferences for female secondary students were initiated in 1933 and held regularly (with the exception of the war years) until 1973. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Adelaide Archives Series 1388 - Australian Federation of University Women South Australian Branch Records Series 1554 - Australian Federation of University Women Publications Series 1396 - Australian Federation of University Women South Australian Branch Minutes State Library of South Australia Letter signed by Helen Keller to the Australian Federation of University Women, and book entitled 'The Silent Storm: A Story of Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller' by Marion Marsh Brown and Ruth Crone Author Details Jane Carey Created 28 July 2004 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Betty Feith is a teacher and volunteer whose work inside and outside the classroom has reflected her ideals of a peaceful, just and inclusive society, and her abiding Christian faith. Betty was a co-founder of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme for Indonesia, a programme established in the early 1950s that pioneered the concept of international volunteering as it is understood today. Betty herself worked in Indonesia in a volunteer capacity during the mid-1950s and again in the 1990s, both times with her husband, political scientist Herb Feith. Betty has taught at schools and tertiary institutions in Melbourne and Indonesia, and the Asian Studies and Indonesian history courses she taught in Melbourne during the 1960s and 1970s were among the first of their kind in Victoria. Betty has had a lifetime involvement in church and other service, including for the Christian World Service (renamed Act for Peace), the Division of Social Justice (Victoria) in the Uniting Church of Australia, and other ecumenical organisations. Betty is the eldest of four children born to George Maynard Evans and Ina Evans (née Shotten). The Evans family was closely involved in the Methodist church and Betty attended Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew from 1944 to 1947. Growing up, Betty’s involvement in church and community circles included Youth Club activities, Sunday School teaching and participation in the United Nations Club. Later, she was active in the Victorian International Refugee Emergency Council, helping to provide assistance to European refugees newly arrived in Australia, and she helped to establish the Victorian Committee for Interchurch Aid and Service to Refugees. As a student at the University of Melbourne, Betty was a campaign organiser for World Student Relief. At that time, and also in later years, Betty was closely involved in the Australian Student Christian Movement (ASCM). In 1952 she was selected to represent the Methodist Youth Fellowship of Victoria at the World Council of Churches Youth Congress in Travancore, India. In 1947, Betty met Herb Feith, whose Jewish Austrian parents had sought asylum from Nazism in Australia in 1939. Together, Betty and Herb undertook war relief activities, collecting door-to-door in Melbourne suburbs on behalf of Germans and other Europeans who were struggling with post-war shortages and hardships. Betty graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in history and english, and a Diploma of Education. As a newly qualified teacher, Betty taught at Swinburne Junior Girls’ Technical College, and Box Hill Girls’ Technical School. In 1950 Betty and Herb, together with a group of other University of Melbourne students and ASCM members, including John Bayly, Alan Hunt and Vern Bailey, set in motion a pioneering initiative in international aid focused on Indonesia. The main idea behind the programme – that Australian graduates would not only make available their technical expertise in response to the shortage of skilled graduates in the new Republic, but also take part in Indonesian society as a whole, living and working alongside their Indonesian colleagues – had first arisen during discussions at a World University Service Assembly that year. Betty was secretary of the initial planning committee of what would become known as the Volunteer Graduate Scheme for Indonesia (VGS). The Volunteer Graduate Scheme was the first incarnation of AVI (Australian Volunteers International), which has programmes in communities across Asia, the Pacific and the world. The founders of the VGS envisaged the initiative as an expression of unity and understanding across cultures, that would promote genuine understanding of and solidarity with Indonesia. Salary equality was a central aspect of the Scheme. Volunteer graduates worked on the same pay scales and conditions as similarly qualified Indonesians – a departure from the usual custom among expatriates working in Indonesia at that time. The VGS was officially recognised by both the Australian and Indonesian governments in 1954. In January 1953, while travelling home from India, Betty visited Herb in Jakarta, where he was then employed in the Ministry of Information. They became engaged, and were married on 29 December 1953 at the South Camberwell Methodist Church, Melbourne. From July 1954 to August 1956, Betty and Herb lived and worked in Jakarta, under the auspices of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme. Betty was employed in the English Language Inspectorate in the Ministry of Education, Instruction and Culture. In late 1957, Betty and Herb arrived at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where Herb completed his doctorate on the decline of Indonesian constitutional democracy. The first draft of Herb’s thesis was typed by Betty – an example of the close supportive role she played in Herb’s work. The Feiths formed part of a circle of friends and colleagues who were from Indonesia or working in the field of Indonesian Studies at Cornell at that time, among whom was Indonesian teacher and academic, Kurnianingrat Ali Sastroamijoyo, and Australian scholar and public servant, David Penny, and his wife Janet Penny The Feiths returned to Australia at the end of 1960, living for a year in Canberra before re-settling in Melbourne with their son David and their daughter Annie. Another son, Robert, was born in 1963. After returning to Australia, Betty and Herb remained closely involved with Indonesia and with promoting understanding among Australians of their nearest northern neighbour. The family lived in Jakarta for a year in 1967, during which time Betty worked for the Indonesian Council of Churches. From 1968, Betty taught english and Asian studies at various secondary schools in Melbourne, including Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School. From the 1970s she taught Indonesian history and Asian studies at tertiary level, chiefly at Burwood Teachers’ College and Toorak Teachers’ College (both of which later became part of Deakin University). From the late 1970s Betty co-led several study tours to Indonesia in her capacity as a lecturer at the Burwood and Toorak Teachers’ Colleges. In 1984, Betty completed a Master of Educational Studies at Monash University. For her Masters thesis, Betty wrote a history of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme, in which she documented the ethos of the Scheme as an ‘episode in education for international understanding’, underpinned by a belief in racial equality and a spirit of identification with the Indonesian Republic. This history was published in 2017 in a book entitled Bridges of Friendship. In addition to her community involvement with refugees, Betty’s church service has focused on issues to do with peace and human rights. In 1994, she and Herb co-led an international relations workshop with the Karen Burmese leaders in Manerplaw on the Thai-Burma border. Manerplaw was at that time the headquarters of the Democratic Alliance of Burma (now Myanmar), which formed in the wake of the military regime coming into power in 1988. For four years from 1996, Betty and Herb lived and worked in Yogyakarta, this time through the Overseas Service Bureau’s Australian Volunteers Abroad programme – the successor of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme. Betty, who had gained a qualification at Deakin University in teaching English as a second language, taught english at the University of Atma Jaya. Betty has described women in the Uniting Church as ‘householders (as it were) in the tents and caravans of faith and in life, as in mutuality we pilgrim together in life’s journey’ (Women in Ministry, 46). This expression of common purpose, and of ideals married to actions, reflect convictions central to Betty’s life and work as a whole. Events 1979 - 1979 Victorian Area Council of the Australian Student Christian Movement 1940 - 1950 Betty Feith was actively involved in the ACSM during the 1940s-1950s and in later years 1954 - 1956 Betty lived and worked in Indonesia under Volunteer Graduate Scheme Volunteer Graduate Scheme Actively involved in the Methodist Church throughout her life. 1996 - 1999 Betty lived and worked in Indonesia under Australian Volunteers Abroad program Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of Betty Feith - Transfer pending - Addition to Papers of Herbert Feith, 1946-2001 Correspondence from Herbert and Betty Feith to Anton Lucas, 1971-2001 [manuscript] Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Papers of Ailsa Thomson Zainuddin Author Details Ann McCarthy & Betty Feith Created 24 October 2017 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Musa enrolled in theatre studies at the University of New South Wales in the early 1960s and spent the subsequent twenty years teaching drama at secondary and tertiary level, including in Malaysia, while involving herself in theatrical productions of all sorts. In 1990 she became the editor of Muse, a monthly arts magazine, later becoming the Arts Editor for The Canberra Times and the founder and convenor of the Canberra Critics Circle. In 2015, she received a Medal in the Order of Australia for her service to the performing and visual arts as a critic and magazine editor and, in 2020, she was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll for her advocacy for the visual and performing arts in Canberra and Australia. Helen Musa was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2020. “Helen Musa was born to Lillian May (Maysie) Dunn (1915–2008), a double certificated nurse and radiographer, and Gordon Alexander Duff (1907–1964), a civil engineer. The Duff family moved to Forbes in New South Wales early in Helen’s life. The younger of two sisters (her elder sister was Diana Robyn Duff, 1942–1968), Helen was educated at Forbes Public School and then Forbes High School. She concluded her schooling (in 1960 and 1961) at Methodist Ladies’ College (MLC), at Burwood in Sydney, as a boarder having been awarded the J A Somerville Memorial Scholarship. A home replete with books, questions and ideas, a creative mother who directed and made props for the local musical and dramatic society, and attendance at concerts and plays touring Forbes, introduced and fuelled Helen’s interest in acting and theatre. She sang, wrote plays, and was involved in theatrical productions at school and these passions shaped her university studies. Armed with a Commonwealth scholarship, she chose to study (1962–65) at the University of New South Wales as it had, in 1959, established the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and, from 1961, had begun offering courses in theatre studies. She gained a Bachelor of Arts with 1st Class Honours enjoying subjects in both humanities and sciences. The stimulation and ferment of university life led to her involvement in debating, theatre, student politics, the choir at Christ Church St Laurence at Railway Square and writing for Tharunka (the University’s student magazine). Early signs of Helen Musa’s trademark independence, outspokenness and restless energy appeared consistently in school reports which noted her propensity to talk back and be forthright. She recalls that MLC prescribed Serepax for her, but this was short lived as she had an allergic reaction to it. In December 1966, having begun postgraduate studies earlier that year, she visited England (with a detour to Israel) on a Churchill Fellowship researching English provincial theatre records and how drama was taught there. Returning to Australia she embarked on doctoral studies (later abandoned) during which she tutored part time. Her marriage, in May 1965, to Alfred van der Poorten (1942–2010) ended in divorce in 1970 and she became drama teacher at Kambala School in Vaucluse, Sydney. Over the subsequent twenty years she taught at secondary and tertiary levels including at Mitchell College of Advanced Education in Bathurst (1971–72), the University of Newcastle (1973 and 1975–76), and Frensham School for girls in Mittagong (1982–86), all in New South Wales; and at Canberra College of Advanced Education (1974) and Canberra Boys Grammar School (1987), both in the Australian Capital Territory. A significant appointment, intellectually and personally, was as Lecturer in Performing Arts at the Science University of Malaysia, in Penang, teaching acting, directing, stage management, lighting, sound, and the history of western and Asian theatre. Taking up this role in August 1977 enabled her to experience and learn about Asian musical, dance, theatrical and religious forms and traditions and direct plays informed by them. While in Malaysia she directed eight plays including Hamlet in Malay. This introduced her to actor and poet Musa Bin Masran (born 1959) who starred in the production. Despite the play’s success its tour was curtailed following criticism that it was ‘deeply immoral’. In 1980, while in Malaysia, she married Musa Bin Masran, a devout Ahmadi Muslim, and converted to Islam. They have one son, Omar Musa (born 1984), a poet, novelist, rapper and woodcut artist. Helen Musa’s first job in theatre, in 1973, was as production and stage manager for the University of New South Wales Opera Company, established by Roger Covell. In 1975 she was Chief Dramaturg and head of play selection for the Australian National Playwrights Conference. As a teacher she balanced the academic with the practical, managing theatrical and other productions with students. In parallel, she worked on community theatrical productions (for example, with Hunter Valley Theatre Company), presented radio programs (for example, on the FM station in Bathurst and on 2CY in Canberra) and wrote reviews for a variety of papers and journals, including The Canberra Times. In the early 1980s she received a special writers grant from the Australia Council to write the history of NIDA and, in 1983, her edition of the stage adaptation of Steele Rudd’s On Our Selection was published. In 1990 she established, and has since convened, the Canberra Critics Circle a forum and resource for Canberra reviewers (of all major art forms) working in print and electronic media. The beginning of 1990 marked the start of another significant phase in her career with her appointment as editor of Muse, a monthly arts magazine published in Canberra. Six years later, she joined The Canberra Times as Arts Editor leaving that role a decade later in mid-2007. Following this she wrote for the Capital Magazine, a free bimonthly magazine, and Canberra CityNews, a free weekly magazine. In 2009 she became Arts Editor of the latter. From 2008-2010 she worked for the Asia-Pacific Journalism Centre. Her inaugural overseas trip as part of her Churchill Fellowship began a lifelong interest in travel and in the world’s cultures, particularly Islam. With the abatement of work commitments, travel, research on behalf of friends and the Australian Dictionary of Biography, studying languages and securing the future of the Canberra Critics Circle continue to be sources of intellectual stimulation. Guided by the dicta that one should question everything, that one should ‘say it straight’ and cultivate an inner life, she considers herself the eternal optimist. Asked to describe how others might describe her she nominates ‘big mouth’, ‘talks too much’ and that her enjoyment of the cut and thrust of debate could seem like ‘showing off’. In 2015, Helen Musa received a Medal in the Order of Australia for her service to the performing and visual arts as a critic and magazine editor and, in 2020, she was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll for her advocacy for the visual and performing arts in Canberra and Australia.” Archival resources Oral history recorded with Helen Musa Author Details Anne-Marie Schwirtlich Created 12 June 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound disk (CD-R) (ca. 58 min.)??Recorded for ArtSound FM ‘Conversations’ program. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marie Morris ran for election to parliament twice, both times as an Australia Party candidate. She stood for election to the House of Representatives seat of Phillip in 1975 and for the seat of Maroubra in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1976. At the time of her candidacy, Marie Morris had been a resident of the Phillip Electorate for 11 years and was concerned that the quality of life in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney was deteriorating. She was married with three children. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, notes, newspaper cuttings, speeches, pamphlets, reports and scrapbooks relating to the Labor Women’s Movement, including the Eastern Goldfields Women’s Labor League (1906-1909) and the Labor Women’s Central Executive of the W.A. Branch of the Australian Labor Party; also some personal papers and original poetry. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 September 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 17 February 2009 Last modified 17 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "5 sound discs (CD) (ca. 278 min.)??Elizabeth ‘Biff’ Ward, writer, poet and human resource consultant, talks about her family background; childhood memories of Sydney and Canberra; undergraduate degree at University of New England and moving to England for a few years. She then discusses her involvement in the anti-war movement; teaching experiences; establishment of Canberra Women’s Liberation; views on WEL (Women’s Electoral Lobby) and involvement in School Without Walls. Ward also discusses her work at the Canberra Women’s Refuge; women’s camp at Pine Gap; formation of organisation “Women for survival” and working as Equal Opportunity Officer at South Australian Institute of Technology. She then describes the establishment of her business Spectra Consultants in 1988 and her involvement in the book of poetry, “Three’s company”. Ward then talks about her continuing interest in Vietnam and involvement with veterans’ organisations; her plans for the future and her views on the women’s movement and its future. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 December 2017 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The records include the constitution and papers connected with membership ca. 1945-1957, correspondence 1933-1963, reports, balance sheets, agenda and minutes of meetings 1932-1962, financial records 1933-1963, skiing competitions 1936-1962. Also the papers of the Ski Council of New South Wales, 1948-1964 and of the Ski Tourers’ Association, 1951-1962. There is mention made of the Club’s War Libraries Appeal and Food for Britain Appeal Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Roslyn Gay Atkinson AO is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland, having been appointed to that position in 1998. In 2002 she also became the Chairperson of the Queensland Law Reform Commission, and served in that role until her retirement in 2013. Roslyn Gay Atkinson was born in November 1948 in Brisbane, to Oliver John Scott (Jock) Atkinson, DFC, and Heather Noelle Atkinson. She attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School (1962-1965), before graduating Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English language and Literature (1970) and Bachelor of Educational Studies (1975) from the University of Queensland. She obtained a graduate certificate in Speech and Drama at Rose Bruford College in the United Kingdom. Justice Atkinson initially pursued careers in the arts and education. She was a teacher from 1970 to 1974 and then became an Actor and Theatre Administrator from 1974 to 1978, before becoming a Lecturer of Literature, Drama, Film and Australian Studies at the Queensland Institute of Technology. In 1985 she entered the legal profession by becoming an Articled Clerk at Feez Ruthning. The following year she was an Associate to the Honourable Justice Brennan, then a Justice of the High Court of Australia. She was admitted to the bar in 1987 and practised there until her appointment to the Supreme Court. Justice Atkinson then completed a Bachelor of Laws degree with first class honours at the University of Queensland (1985). She received the Feez Ruthning Prize in Company Law (1983), the Ruthning Memorial Scholarship (1984), the Women Lawyers Prize (1984), the Virgil Power Prize (1984), the Morris Fletcher & Cross Prize (1984) and the Wilkinson Memorial Prize (1984). She commenced articles of clerkship at the Brisbane firm, Feez Ruthning (1985), and then served as Associate to Brennan J of the High Court of Australia (1986). On 23 February 1987, she was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland and commenced practice at the bar in Brisbane. Whilst in practice at the bar, Justice Atkinson also served as a member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal (1988-1990), a member (1990-1996) and deputy chair (1994-96) of the Queensland Law Reform Commission, a member of the advisory committee to the Law Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (from 1991), a member (1992-94) and later inaugural president (1994-1997) of the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal, and a hearing commissioner for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (1994-1997). She also served as a member of the management committee of the Caxton Legal Service and as subeditor of the Queensland Reports. On 3 September 1998, Justice Atkinson was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Thereafter she also served as chair of the Queensland Law Reform Commission (2002-2014). Justice Atkinson has made contributions to the development and strengthening of judicial institutions internationally. Her Honour served as President of the International Commission of Jurists (Queensland) from 2000 to 2013. Her Honour led a delegation to South Africa in 1999 to advise with regard to the implementation of Equality Courts and presented at Anti-Discrimination Law workshops for the South African judiciary in 2000. In 2005, Justice Atkinson gave presentations at a training workshop for Iraqi Judges on International Human Rights Law. Justice Atkinson was Delegation Leader for the International Bar Association’s Report on Independence of the Judiciary in Fiji. Her Honour is a Vice-President of the International Association of Judges’ Study Commission on the Independence of the Judiciary. Her Honour is a Member of the National Judicial College of Australia’s National Indigenous Justice Committee. In that role, she led a project in 2013 that was aimed at better informing courts and the legal profession in Queensland about many urban, remote and regional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Her Honour is also Co-Editor of the Equal Treatment Bench Book of the Supreme Court of Queensland. In 2015, Justice Atkinson was made an Officer of the Order of Australia ‘For distinguished service to the judiciary and to law reform in Queensland, through contributions to the legal profession and to promoting awareness of issues of injustice and inequality in Australia and internationally.’ Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Judicial profile of The Honourable Justice Roslyn G Atkinson AO, Supreme Court Library Queensland, 2015, http://www.sclqld.org.au/judicial-papers/judicial-profiles/profiles/rgatkinson Book Section Roslyn Atkinson, Fotheringham, Richard, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Supreme Court Library Queensland Created 10 November 2015 Last modified 28 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE) was formed out of a growing concern for, and a desire for action on, uranium mining and nuclear power. The women who founded WANE were members of the Campaign Against Nuclear Energy (CANE) but felt that sexism inherent in the hierarchical structure of CANE left women’s voices unheard. As such, the members of WANE felt that their direction and means for attaining their goal of a nuclear-free future had diverged from that of CANE, and WANE was formed. The two groups maintained strong links, as well as links to other women’s anti-nuclear groups and women’s peace groups.??WANE’s objectives included educating and activation of women, outside of appealing to women as mothers and carers. The exclusion of males was felt to better enable this, providing women with an environment free from the constraints of sexism that were felt to be inherent in the hierarchical structure of other anti-nuclear groups.?WANE aimed to work with women’s groups in unions against uranium, and educate and empower women to share this message amongst other women. The group’s primary concerns were regarding a nuclear-free future, as well as support for migrant and Indigenous women, and the support and investigation of alternative energy. WANE believed the implications of a solar future where inherent in feminist theory (for example, people before profits).?WANE produced and distributed a newsletter to its members. The group also helped organise Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND), supported women’s only actions such as the Sound Women’s Peace Camp in Western Australia and held dances to raise money. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 18 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Darlene Johnson is one of Australia’s most prominent indigenous filmmakers. Her films and documentaries are centred upon Aboriginal identity and the position of Aboriginals within contemporary Australian society. Darlene Johnson is from the Dunghutti tribe from the east coast of New South Wales. Johnson graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Technology, Sydney, majoring in Indigenous and Post-Colonial cinema. In 1996, Johnson wrote and directed Two Bob Mermaid: A Short Film About Aboriginal Identity. The short film was set in the summer of 1957, a period of racial tension as government policy shifted its approach towards Aboriginal rights. The film followed the story of a young Koori girl who ‘passes for white’ at the local swimming pool. Two Bob Mermaid won the Australian Film Critics Circle Award for the Best Australian Short Film in 1996. Today the film is used as a teaching resource in primary and secondary schools throughout Australia. In c.2000, Johnson wrote and directed the documentary Stolen Generations. The film employed personal testimony, archival footage and photographs to tell the history of assimilation. The Government policy of assimilation involved the systematic removal of Aboriginal children from their families. The documentary addressed the reasons behind the policy, how it was implemented and maintained, and how it continues to affect Aboriginals. Stolen Generations was nominated for an International EMMY as well as an Australian Film Institute award for Best Documentary. In 2001, Johnson wrote and directed the documentary Stranger in My Skin for Film Australia. She also directed the documentary Following Rabbit Proof Fence which traced the journey of three young Aboriginal girls from their communities to starring in a Hollywood movie. In 2002, Johnson wrote and directed the documentary Gulpilil: One Red Blood, about the Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil. Gulpilil was nominated for a Logie Award, an Australian Film Critics Circle Award and an Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) Award. In 2006, she wrote and directed Crocodile Dreaming. Crocodile Dreaming tells the story of a traditional Aboriginal community that upsets the spiritual world. As a result, a young man from the tribe is called to fulfil his ancient tribal obligation and find the power of his mother’s dreaming. It is his success that will restore peace and harmony to the natural world. The film received a number of international nominations and awards, including an AFI Award for visual effects. It was featured at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2007, and Flickerfest in Sydney 2008. It won the Audience Choice Award at the WOW Film Festival in Sydney and won Best Short Film at the Santa Fe Film Festival in New Mexico 2007. In 2007, Johnson graduated from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School with a Master of Arts (Hons). In 2008, she directed the documentary River of No Return. The film followed the story of Frances Djulibing, a 42 year old mother of three from the remote Ramingining community in North East Arnhem land. Frances had always dreamt of acting and stardom, despite living a traditional tribal life. Her acting break came with a role in the successful Australian film Ten Canoes (2006). The documentary highlighted the difficulties Frances faced in her attempt to reconcile her pursuit of an acting career with the cultural opposition from the ancient life of the Yolgnu. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Showcases, Screen Australia, 2010, http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/showcases/8478/bios.asp Darlene Johnson, Ronin Films, 2010, http://www.roninfilms.com.au/person/136.html Article Lights Up! - Indigenous Filmmakers, Hessey, Ruth, 2008, http://www.timeoutsydney.com.au/film/indigenous-filmmakers-28.aspx Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive Stolen Generations Two Bob Mermaid : A Short Film About Aboriginal Identity River of No Return Gulpilil : One Red Blood Crocodile Dreaming Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1927 Susan Francis stood as a Labor candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Bondi. She then stood as a Lang Labor candidate in the Waverley Municipal Council elections of 1932. Susan Francis was born on 14 October 1877 in Brisbane, one of five children. She became a domestic servant, though she called herself a housekeeper, when she married Arthur Rawlins, known as Francis, in 1897. They had three children, two of whom survived to accompany her to Sydney in 1911. From the early 1920s Nurse Francis, although unqualified, advertised herself as a midwife and attended many births in inner city Sydney. She was the subject of two enquiries before the Nurses’ Registration Board in 1927 and 1930 but was never prosecuted. She was well known for her work during the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, and widely liked for her tireless help for the poor. Susan Francis was active in the Labor Party and ran in the seat of Bondi in 1927, gaining 22.7% of the votes. She was president, then secretary of the Labor Women’s Organising Committee from 1928 to 1935 and led delegations to ministers, organised public meetings campaigned for candidates and was a delegate to the State Conference of the party. She was one of three delegates from New South Wales to the Interstate Women’s Conference in 1930. During the depression in the 1930s, Susan Francis helped to set up a hostel for homeless women and girls which opened in 1931, and she became matron of such a hostel in 1935. The regard in which she was held by the Labor Party was shown by the huge function put on in her honour in the Empress Room of Mark Foy’s department store, when she married again, in 1936. She subsequently became known as Nurse Francis Wilkes, and remained an active member of the ALP until her death in 1946. Published resources Resource Section Francis, Susan (1877 - 1946), Tracey, Sue, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10170b.htm Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Alisa Camplin is Australia’s first female Winter Olympic gold medallist, dual Olympic medallist, World Champion, World Record Holder and two times WC Grand Prix Champion. In 2017 Camplin was a director on four prominent Australian Boards – including the Australian Sports Commission, Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, Olympic Winter Institute of Australia and the Collingwood Football Club. The daughter of Geoffrey and Jennifer Camplin, Alisa Peta Camplin was born in Melbourne’s Mercy Hospital in 1974. With her two younger sisters, Georgina and Alexandrea, she was raised in Viewbank in north-east Melbourne. The family was sport-mad. Camplin recalls, ‘every week our whole family was at swimming lessons, ballet recitals, tennis lessons, hockey training and Little Athletics competitions all over the state. It was like being part of a full-time live-in sports camp’. A tomboy from the beginning, Alisa loved to play cricket and football, run through the paddocks, swim, ride bikes and play war games with the ten boys in her neighbourhood. None of them could beat her in a running race, even with a head start. At school she insisted on wearing the boys’ uniform and tried out for the boys’ cricket team. Aged five she was enchanted by the opening ceremony of the Moscow Olympics – here the dream was born. One day she would represent her country at the Olympic Games. By the age of seven, Camplin was breaking all the Little Athletics club records and beating the other girls by over 20 metres. Asked if she wanted to run with the boys, she accepted the challenge but it was tough competition and her first taste of losing a race. Determined to win again, she began training in the back paddock and before long was winning against the boys and taking out the Open Female All Stars events: ‘When I was younger, I rarely crossed a finish line without throwing up or dry-retching from giving so much – I always wanted to be the fastest, to finish first, to record my best time, to beat my opponent or break a record.’ Camplin won several state titles in the 800m and 1500m track events. Camplin began at Melbourne’s Methodist Ladies College in 1987 at the age of twelve. There she took up gymnastics – ‘I loved to tumble, jump, flip and twist, but I had neither flexibility nor grace’ – and was competing in her first state titles by 1989, winning three silver medals. The following year she attended trials for the national titles, but had to pull out because of stress fractures in her lower back. Forced to abandon the sport, she ‘followed a natural ex-gymnast’s progression into diving’ in 1991, attracted by the acrobatics. The move was short-lived as good coaches were hard to come by. In the summer of 1992, having completed her secondary studies, Camplin began sailing Hobie Cat catamarans with her best friend Kynwynn Jones. The girls crewed together in 1993 at the Port Stephens National Championships and finished second. When Sydney was announced as Host City for the 2000 Olympic Games, Camplin received a call from her old athletics coach, asking if she would be prepared to train with a view to competing in the marathon. She duly began to train but remembers ‘my heart was not one hundred per cent in it’. In 1994 – a fateful year – she attended a ski show in Melbourne. A trampoline had been set up by Mt Buller’s freestyle skiing program, Team Buller, and members of the audience were invited to try aerial manoeuvres in the trampoline harness. Camplin’s acrobatic skills were well honed. Encouraged by her friends, she ‘got in the rig and flipped around a bit’. She was soon approached by Geoff Lipshut (later CEO of the Olympic Winter Institute) and aerial skier Jacqui Cooper with an offer to begin training with the first Australian Aerial Skiing Development Squad. Camplin’s dream was still very much alive, and after some consideration, she took up the offer with the sole aim of making it to the Olympic Games. What followed was a long, hard slog. Camplin had been awarded an academic scholarship and entry into Swinburne University’s Bachelor of Information Technology degree, and she was determined to pursue her studies. It was in her second year at university that she began skiing and had to take on four jobs to help pay for ski lessons, mountain accommodation and petrol. She studied; coached gymnastics at MLC; worked for ANZ Bank; delivered pizzas; and cleaned houses. Every Friday night for three years she drove to Mt Buller at 10:00pm so as she could train over the weekend. It was not an easy ride: I endured ridicule from nine year olds who were better than me, plus spite and bitterness from those who thought my motivation for joining their sport was wrong. I also tolerated contempt from the alpine elite, as many of them thought my terrible skills and fancy team jacket made a mockery of their sport… It took seven years of my eight-year campaign before people began to believe that I might actually be able to win an Olympic Gold medal. Constantly fighting negative feedback on the ski fields, Camplin used the criticism as motivation: ‘Every person who said I wouldn’t make it stirred the fire in my belly and helped me train that much harder.’ After a shaky start in competitions at Lake Placid and, in 1997, at Breckenridge, Colorado, where coaches told her she was ‘the worst aerialist at training’, Camplin’s fight began to pay off. She finished seventh in her first Aerial World Championship event in 1999, and fourth in the World Cup finals in 2000/2001. 2002 was Camplin’s year. At the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, despite multiple fractures in both ankles, Camplin won gold in the aerial skiing event, scoring 193.47 for her triple twisting somersault or ‘back full/double full’. She had asked her family not to come to the event as she felt it would be too expensive for them, and would place added pressure on her – but her mother and sister Georgina had hidden themselves in the crowd, and Camplin’s joy was doubled when they surprised her after her win. Back home, Australia Post designed a stamp in her honour. Camplin and Steven Bradbury became Australia’s first Winter Olympic gold medallists that year. Camplin had achieved greatness but the battle was not yet over. She suffered from depression – or ‘post-success burnout’ – after the Olympic Games and had to fight (ill-informed) accusations that she was something of a one hit wonder. In the 2002/2003 season, Camplin won the World Championship and the World Cup title, breaking a world record in the process. She was named the 2002 Female Athlete of the Year, and received the 2002 Donald Bradman Award for the athlete who has most inspired the nation. In 2002 she also received the Kitty McEwan Award for Victorian Sportswoman of the Year and the Governor’s Award for Victorian Sportsperson of the Year (she received both awards again in 2004). In 2003, she was selected as an Australian Institute of Sport all-time top twenty-one athlete. Rino Grollo and Mt Buller named a new building at the World Cup jump site the ‘Alisa Camplin Winter Sports Centre’. Camplin had proven her point spectacularly. The stress of competing and meeting expectations meant that Camplin developed stomach ulcers and had a gastrectomy in 2003. She took some time out from skiing to pursue other interests. She worked with the Seven Network; represented Australia at the IOC Convention in Greece; gave much of her time to work with charities; spoke to school students and corporate professionals across Australia; joined the Board of Directors at MLC; continued employment with IBM and began consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers while the company supplied professional services to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Committee. Camplin recommenced training for the 2004/2005 season, but snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee and underwent surgery for a knee reconstruction, including a hamstring graft. Injury is inevitable in such a dangerous sport, and Camplin later recalled: ‘I have broken my collarbone, dislocated my shoulder, broken my hand, broken multiple ribs, ripped my Achilles tendon, dislocated my sternum from my collarbone, fractured both ankles, torn my knee ligaments twice, suffered nine concussions and also had a full knee reconstruction.’ After six months of rehabilitation, training began again and Camplin competed in the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, winning bronze with a score of 191.39. Camplin has retired from aerial skiing. She loves reading the classics and biographies of political figures, she is an amateur painter, and she has designed a range of thermal underwear. She continues her involvement with charities (including the Melbourne Citymission) and her television work has included commentary for the Athens Olympics and judging for Dancing on Ice . In 2006 Camplin began conducting ski tours to Colorado, including nine-day tours to Aspen and Steamboat Springs. Events 2003 - 2003 For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games 2000 - 2000 2002 - 2002 Freestyle Skiing 2006 - 2006 Freestyle Skiing 2019 - 2019 Member of the Order of Australia (AM): For significant service to the community through support for paediatric health care. Published resources Book High Flyer, Camplin, Alisa, 2005 Newspaper Article Camplin pins hopes on donor tendon surgery, Magnay, Jacquelin, 2005 Snow Queen Alisa Camplin, Hawkins, Joanne, 2006 Sound recording Alisa Camplin's Bronze Jump, El-Chami, Margaret, 2006 Resource Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 7 February 2007 Last modified 12 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Esma Banner was born by 01 January 1910. She left school at age 14 to look after her sick mother and attended a business college for one year in 1926. Ms Banner then started working as a shorthand writer and typist for a business and was promoted to the position of secretary to the Director; she worked there for thirteen years. When her mother died in 1940 she went back home to assist her father in his haulage business and also worked for a Sydney solicitor.??Ms Banner started work with United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in 1944 in its Sydney office. From 15th to 20th February she attended the 7th meeting of the Committee of the Council for the Far East at Lapstone Hotel, Glenbrook, NSW. She then worked in the Melbourne office of UNRRA for a period of three months. Whilst there she was selected to work in Germany with the International Refugee Organisation (IRO) and left Sydney for London on 28 June 1945.??Ms Banner’s position as Area Employment Officer took her to many towns such as Munich, Nellingen, Ludwigsburg, Pforzbeim and Traunstein. Her final position in Germany was in a Displaced Persons’ Camp in Pforzheim and this brought her home in 1951.??A few years later Ms Banner studied at the University of Sydney for a Diploma Course in Social Work and was accepted. On completion of her course she worked for the Department of Social Security for a period of eighteen years and then retired. Author Details Cath Styles Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Gay Murrell was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Supreme Court on 28 October 2013, thus becoming the ACT’s first female Supreme Court Chief Justice. Murrell was first enrolled as a solicitor in 1977, working in the then Commonwealth Crown Solicitor’s Office and the New South Wales (NSW) Legal Aid Commission. She was called to the NSW Bar in 1981, appointed silk in 1995, and has practised across criminal law, administrative law, environmental law, common law and equity. In 1996, Judge Murrell was appointed a NSW District Court Judge in 1996. She is former president of the NSW Equal Opportunity Tribunal and set up the first NSW Drug Court in 1998 Her Honour, Chief Justice Helen Murrell, attended the University of New South Wales, from which she graduated in 1976 with Bachelor Arts/Bachelor Laws degree. In 1981 her Honour attended the University of Sydney and obtained a Diploma of Criminology. Her Honour was admitted as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1977. From 1977 to 1981 her Honour practised at the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor’s Office and NSW Legal Aid Commission. From 1981 to 1996 Her Honour practised as a Barrister in criminal law, administrative law, environmental law, common law and equity. From 1994 to 1996 her Honour was the first Environmental Counsel for the NSW Environment Protection Authority. In 1995 her Honour was appointed Senior Counsel in New South Wales. From 1996 to 2013 her Honour was a Judge of the District Court of New South Wales. In 1996 her Honour was also an Acting Judge in the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales. From 1997 to 1999 her Honour was President of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal of New South Wales and then Deputy President of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal of New South Wales, Head of the Equal Opportunity Division. From 1998 to 2003 her Honour was the first Senior Judge of the Drug Court of New South Wales. In 1999 her Honour was a member of the United Nations Expert Working Group on Drug Courts, Vienna. From 2005 to 2013 her Honour was Deputy Chairperson of the New South Wales Medical Tribunal. Her Honour has had a longstanding involvement in judicial education and is currently active within the National Judicial College of Australia (NJCA). Her Honour was appointed Honorary Air Commodore of No 28 (City of Canberra) Squadron in April 2014. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Introducing the ACT's first female Supreme Court Chief Justice, Inman, Michael, 2013, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/introducing-the-acts-first-female-supreme-court-chief-justice-20130912-2tlr1.html Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Her Honour Helen Murrell Created 6 October 2015 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Helen Murrell Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sister Daisy (Tootie) Cardin Keast, of the Australian Army Nursing Service, relating her experiences as a prisoner of war to an interrogating officer of 3rd Australian prisoner of war reception group.?Black & white – Film original negative 35mm nitrate Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Folder containing newspaper clippings and articles. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dame Elisabeth Murdoch was widely regarded as the ‘queen of Australia’s philanthropic community’. She was Patron of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, Victoria and supported 110 charitable organisations annually. The daughter of Rupert and Marie Green, Elisabeth Murdoch was educated at St Catherine’s School, Toorak and Clyde School, Woodend. Rupert was the wool expert of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, and was well known in racing circles as a starter for the VRC and VATC. Marie – or Bairnie as she was known – was twice president of the Alexandra Club and once of the Victoria League. Years later, Dame Elisabeth would recall that ‘that was very much my mother’s milieu. She really was so very much attached to the English part of her heritage’. At the age of nineteen, Elisabeth was courted by Keith Murdoch, then in his early forties, and the pair were married in 1928. They had four children: Helen (later Handbury), Anne (later Kantor), Rupert, and Janet (later Calvert-Jones). While still a schoolgirl, Elisabeth had begun knitting woollen singlets for babies at Melbourne’s Children’s Hospital, and by virtue of knitting the greatest number, was given a tour of the institution. She was ‘devastated by what she saw’, and here the seed was sewn for later philanthropic activity. After school she volunteered one day a week at the Lady Northcote Kindergarten, another eye-opener. After her marriage, Elisabeth’s voluntary work became a central part of her life. Through Keith she had become very friendly with Mr and Mrs Henry Gullett and, in 1933, was ‘enlisted’ by Lady Gullett onto the committee of the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and by Lady Latham onto the management committee of the Royal Children’s Hospital. She maintains today that ‘of course I had that opportunity because Lady Latham and her husband knew Keith’ and wished to have the support of his Herald and Sun publications. Elisabeth dedicated her life to philanthropic activity. Asked why, years later, she claims that she felt so blessed in life that she was obliged to do the work ‘as a sort of thanksgiving’. Her own philanthropic work, she insists, was inspired by Keith’s and she says: ‘All the wonderful life I’ve had stemmed, I suppose, from my marriage, so I’m very conscious that I never would have made much of a mark… unless I’d married Keith and had the opportunities which he gave me and his position gave me.’ Sir Keith, as he became, passed away in 1952. Lady Murdoch went on to serve as president of the Royal Children’s Hospital management committee from 1954 to 1965, and was known for her personal touch in fundraising endeavours, hand-writing letters of thanks to each major donor. In 1963, Elisabeth Murdoch was appointed Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire. 1968 saw Dame Elisabeth become the first woman on the Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria. She held the position for eight years. In 1976 she co-founded the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, and served as its Chairman from 1986-88. Dame Elisabeth’s philanthropic activities continued throughout her varied career, and in 1984 she was a founding member of the Murdoch Institute (known today as the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute). An honorary fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture, she funded and helped to establish the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture and the Australian Garden History Society. In 1968 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Melbourne in acknowledgement of her contributions to research, the arts and philanthropy. Trinity College installed her as a Fellow in November 2000. In July 2006, BRW magazine wrote that ‘the 97-year-old mother of Rupert Murdoch is widely regarded as queen of Australia’s philanthropic community’. Today Dame Elisabeth supports 110 charities annually. Her philanthropic activities are too numerous to be listed here, but she has concentrated her efforts most particularly on: the Tapestry Workshop; the McClelland Art Gallery; the Advisory Council for Children with Impaired Hearing; Noah’s Ark Toy Library; the RSPCA; the Royal Botanic Gardens; the Maud Gibson Gardens Trust; the Chair of Landscape Architecture (Melbourne Uni); the Murdoch Research Institute; and Taralye, an oral language centre for deaf children. Dame Elisabeth Murdoch lived at Cruden Farm, Langwarrin until she died, in December 2012. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Book Elisabeth Murdoch: Two Lives, Monks, John 1929-, 1994 The Alexandra Club : A Narrative 1903-1983, Starke, Monica, 1986 Garden of a Lifetime: Dame Elisabeth Murdoch at Cruden Farm, Latreille, Anne, 2007 Resource Section Trinity has three new Fellows, http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/publications/trinity_today/summer2001 A Great Form of Love: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Lemon, Barbara, 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/ Book Section A Winning streak: The Murdochs, Browning, Julie, 2002 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, 1972 Aug. 17-27. [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dame Elisabeth Murdoch interviewed by John Farquharson [sound recording] Author Details Anne Heywood and Barbara Lemon Created 10 April 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (Cruden Farm) Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "During the 1970’s Sinn was employed as a designer with Prue Acton. Upon her return from London she started her own business called Hedgehog. Born: 22 Jan 1949. Died: 19 Aug 2001. During the 1970s Sinn work as a designer with Prue Acton, before travelling overseas. Upon her return from London she commenced a business called Hedgehog, where she produced intricate jumpers on knitting machines. Sinn donated the denim dress she designed for her first wedding to the National Gallery of Victoria. Published resources Newspaper Article Obituary, Clegg, Jill, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 September 2001 Last modified 24 March 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Brenda Niall’s research on Georgiana McCrae and the McCrae and Gordon families. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sydney-born journalist Geraldine Brooks worked as a Middle-East correspondent during the 1980s and early 1990s. Brooks worked for the Sydney Morning Herald before joining the Journal’s Australasian bureau in the mid-1980s and then transferring to the Middle-East. She spent several years as a Middle-East correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Brooks reported on the Iran-Iraq war, the Palestinian uprising and the Gulf War. From 1993 to 1994 she was the United Nation’s correspondent covering the peacekeeping operations in Somalia. Her first book Nine Parts of Desire: the Hidden World of Islamic Women was published in 1995. In 1999, Brooks was the recipient of the Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers for her second publication Foreign Correspondence. Her third publication, Years of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, was released in 2001. Brooks is married to American journalist Tony Horwitz and they have a son, Nathaniel. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2001, Herd, Margaret, 2000 Resource Geraldine Brooks, http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0398/brooks From Bland Street to Bosnia, Waldren, Murray, http://members.ozemail.com.au/~waldrenm/bland.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article The chronicler of chaos, Perkins, Corrie, 2001 Australia Day honours: David Walsh and Elizabeth Broderick among recipients, Davey, Melissa and Brereton, Adam, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jan/26/australia-day-honours-david-walsh-and-elizabeth-broderick-among-recipients Book Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, Brooks, Geraldine, c1995 Foreign Correspondence, Brooks, Geraldine, 1998 Years of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, Brooks, Geraldine, 2001 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Geraldine Brooks, journalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Janet Hawley, 1946-2006 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 October 2001 Last modified 9 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence; membership material; minutes; campaign notes; newsletters. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Champion sprinter and hurdler, Shirley Strickland (as she was then known), became the first Australian female to win an Olympic medal in a track and field event at the London Olympic Games in 1948. Shirley de la Hunty was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) on 26 January 2001 for service to the community, particularly in the areas of conservation, the environment and local government, and to athletics as an athlete, coach and administrator. She had been appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) (MBE) for services to athletics on 1 January 1957. Shirley Strickland studied nuclear physics, completed an honours degree and became a science teacher. In 1948 she won the Australian sprint and hurdles titles. Later that year she represented Australia at the London Olympic Games and became the first Australian female athlete to win a track and field medal. The champion sprinter and hurdler took part in three Olympic Games (1948, 1952 and 1956) and was the winner of three gold, one silver and three bronze medals. She also set world records and won three gold medals and two silver medals at Empire (later Commonwealth) Games. In 1950 Shirley Strickland married Lawrence Edmund de la Hunty and they had four children. In 1960 she was selected for the Rome Olympics but did not compete due to her third pregnancy. After retiring as a competitor Shirley de la Hunty continued teaching at various Perth high schools and later became a university lecturer. She maintained her interest in sport by coaching athletes including Raelene Boyle, and was involved in athletics administration as manageress of the Australian women’s team at the Mexico (1968) and Montreal (1976) Olympics. Besides sport Shirley de la Hunty is interested in nature and conservation issues. She has featured on ‘This is Your Life’ and ‘Australian Story’. A recipient of the Helm award (now World Trophy) and the Queen’s medal, in 1995 she was elected to the Australian Sports Hall of Fame. A Fellow of Edith Cowan University, Shirley de la Hunty won the Advance Australia Award in 1987. At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Shirley de la Hunty was an Olympic Torchbearer along with Raelene Boyle, Betty Cuthbert, Dawn Fraser and Cathy Freeman. 1948 National Championships 80 metre hurdles 1948 London Olympic Games 4 x 100 metre relay – silver medal 100 metre sprint – bronze medal 80 metre hurdles – bronze medal 1950 National Championships 80 metre hurdles 440 yards sprint 1950 Auckland Empire Games 80 metre hurdles – gold medal 4 x 440 yards relay – gold medal 4 x 660 yards relay – gold medal 100 yards sprint – silver medal 1952 National Championships 80 metre hurdles 440 yards sprint 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games 80 metre hurdles – gold medal 100 metre sprint – bronze medal 1955 World University Games 100 metre sprint – gold medal 80 metres hurdles – gold medal 200 metre sprint – bronze medal 1956 National Championships 440 yards sprint 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games 80 metre hurdles – gold medal 4 x 100 metre relay – gold medal 1960 National Championships 4 x 110 yards relay 1962 National Championships 4 x 110 yards relay Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1948 - 1948 Athletics – 80m Hurdles and 100m sprint 1948 - 1948 Athletics – 4 x 100m relay 1952 - 1952 Athletics – 80m Hurdles 1950 - 1950 Athletics – 80m Hurdles; 440y Medley Relay; 660y Medley Relay 1952 - 1952 Athletics – 100m sprint 1956 - 1956 Athletics – 80m Hurdles and 4 x 100m Relay Published resources Book Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Outstanding Women in Australia: Women in Sport, Rolton, Gloria, 1997 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Shirley Strickland, legend of the track, dies, Dowling, Jason and Evans, Chris, 2004 Strickland the first lady of Australian aths, Johnson, Len, 2004 Champion runs her race, Oakley, Vivienne and Collier, Karen, 2004 Enigma who lit the way for others, Reed, Ron, 2004 Resource Section Interview with Shirley Strickland de la Hunty, Hughes, Robin, 2006, http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/strickland/index.html Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The National Fitness Council of South Australia was a government advisory body established in 1939 that alerted individuals to the importance of gaining physical fitness, and encouraged community interest in open space and the “Quality of Environment.” In 1976 the Council was taken over by the Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport. From its inception the National Fitness Council offered women a decided role in the organization and promotion of recreation in South Australia. As most of its programmes were sex segregated, administrative and practical positions for women within the agency were assured. The Council continued to play a major role in fostering women’s sport in the post-war years. It provided coaching assistance in a variety of sports (including tennis, athletics, hockey, netball and was also instrumental in organizing and promoting new team sports. It was responsible for the formation of the South Australian Amateur Gymnastic Association in 1952, and the introduction of softball, cricket and court cricket to girls’ schools. In 1941, the Council expanded its activities outside the country areas into rural and regional South Australia. Through the provision of financial and administrative assistance, played a major role in the formation of the South Australian Women’s Amateur Sports Council which, in turn, was important in providing suitable playing grounds for women’s sport. Repeated attempts by the National Fitness Council and the South Australian Women’s Amateur Sports Council to get government assistance were partially rewarded in 1952 when the state government donated 19 acres of land for the development of a women’s sports field. This was the area that would become known as the South Australian Women’s Memorial Playing Fields. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Thesis A Fair Go?: Women in Sport in South Australia: 1945 - 1965, Randall, Leonie M., 1986, http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/ASSHSSH/ASSHSSH06.pdf Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Archival resources State Records of South Australia Miscellaneous records - National Fitness Council?National Fitness Council records?National Fitness Council records State Library of South Australia Papers relating to the National Fitness Council of South Australia Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound file Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 August 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Collection includes typescript manuscript of Working bullocks ; correspondence between Ric. Throssell and Stephen Murray-Smith ; correspondence concerning Dorothy Hewitt’s article on Katherine Susannah Prichard, Martin Andersen Nexo:A symposium ; containing an article on Nexo by Prichard. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 May 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Amanda brown was born in Middle Swan in 1956, and brought up in a European Jewish and Irish Heritage. She studied Photomedia Design at the Central Institute of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. Over the years, Amanda has observed and documented in images the Australian and international social, political and industrial landscape. Her photojournalism has been informed by a commitment to advocacy for social justice for indigenous and working people, both here and in the United States. In 1988, Amanda travelled from Perth with indigenous Australians and documented their journey in the Anti- Bicentennial march in Sydney. This march highlighted issues such as deaths in custody and the effects of colonisation on the indigenous Australian population. In 1998, she documented the waterfront dispute by wharfies striking against Patrick’s Stevedores at Fremantle wharf, Western Australia. In 2000, travelled to America and spent time with Native Americans in remote areas photographing the people and the landscape. This is an ongoing project that has also included documentation of journeys through American small towns of Greyhound buses. In 2000 she instigated a town bus service for the city of Gallup, New Mexico. Her advocacy has included work on behalf of incarcerated Native Americans, writing letters of support for parole and prison visits. She has spent time at the communities of Kaltukatjara (Docker River) in the Northern Territory in 2008 and Pukatja (Ernabella) in South Australia in 2010 as a community worker. These opportunities have enabled a personal insight and knowledge into indigenous remote Australian culture. Events 1980 - Published resources Resource 100 days of active Resistance, Vivian Westwood + Lee, 2010, http://ar100days.com Photos including: Wild it was Beautiful, Solo, Skyetching, City of Fremantle Festival of Photography, 2008, http://www.fotofreo.com/ Bienala Intercontinentala De Grafica Mica, Muzeul De Istorie, Aiud, Romania, 2006, http://www.aiud-art.ro Out of Site: Industrial, Breadbox Gallery, Artrage,, 2006, http://www.artrage.com.au/ Picture This, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2011, http://artgallery.wa.gov.au Ten Years Invisibility, 2011, http://www.pica.org.au Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 May 2011 Last modified 13 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Kerry Saxby became the most prolific world-record breaker in athletic history in Melbourne in February 1991 when she set a new record of 11 minutes 51.26 seconds in the 3 kilometer walk event. This took her number of world bests to thirty, which was one better than the previous mark, created by the distance runner Paavo Nurmi. Her world records have been established across a range of distances and venues, sometimes at mixed competitions. Saxby regularly trained with and competed against men and believes this contributed to her success. In the decade of competition when she was at her peak, she never finished outside the top five, and was only disqualified for losing foot contact with the track once. Saxby’s sporting achievements include representing Australia 24 times in major international competitions. She won 13 individual international medals, won a record 27 Australian National Championships, set 32 world records or world bests, and at 38 years of age she was the oldest athlete to win a medal at world level in 1999. She retired from competition in 2001, but not before achieving a very creditable 7th place in the 20 kilometer walk at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. In 2006, the Australian Institute of Sport selected her as one of their twenty-five ‘Best of the Best’. Kerry Saxby was born in young NSW in 1961 and moved to Ballina in northern New South Wales when she was thirteen. Initially a swimmer and middle distance running, Kerry changed to walking in 1981 competing with the Ballina Athletic Club. She won a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport in 1986 and was a scholarship holder until September 2001 when she retired from athletics. Saxby has lived in Canberra since 1986, when she first moved there. She married Ray Junna, an assistant coach for soccer at the Australian Institute of Sport. Since her retirement, Kerry has coached junior walkers in the Australian Capital Territory. In 2004 she became a director of the Bendigo Bank in Canberra. Events 1994 - 1994 Athletics – 10km Walk 1987 - 1989 1989 - 1989 1992 - 1992 1987 - 1987 1989 - 1990 1989 - 1990 1989 - 1990 2006 - 2006 1998 - 1998 1987 - 1987 1999 - 1999 1989 - 1989 1991 - 1991 1993 - 1993 1989 - 1989 1986 - 1986 1990 - 1990 1996 - 1996 Set the world record of 20:03.00 for the 5000 meter race work. The record still stands (2007) 1990 - 1990 Athletics – 10km Road Walk Published resources Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Sport Information Centre Kerry Saxby File Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 January 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Author’s manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, correspondence, and exercise books for various works Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 29 November 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Join the Women's Land Army Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Land Army Girls Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0393gc.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0764gd.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Helen Leonard worked with numerous women’s organisations including the Nursing Mothers’ Association (now the Australian Breastfeeding Association), Women’s Electoral Lobby, National Women’s Media Centre, CAPOW!, the National Breast Cancer Foundation, the National Foundation for Australian Women and WESNET. As a lobbyist and photographer in the women’s movement from the 1970s onward, she recorded the activities of many women’s organisations, building an extraordinary library of photographs and recordings. An only child, Helen was educated at Hornsby Girls High School. Aged 17 she enrolled as a student nurse at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital, and worked for three years as a nurse or dental nurse in various settings. Helen’s children, Christopher, Robin and Carolyn Inman were born within four years of each other. By 1973 Helen was an active member of the newly created Nursing Mothers Association (NMA), working at the local level in Group Leadership and counselling. Legislation in some States at the time meant that women could be charged with offensive behaviour for breast-feeding in public, and relatively few Australian mothers were encouraged to breast-feed. While running self-esteem and communication groups for the NSW Health department, Helen began representing the NMA at a national level. By 1988 she had been appointed to the National Women’s Consultative Council (NWCC) as a representative of NMA; was co-director of Distaff Associates; and co-convenor of WRITES, the umbrella for the Women’s Economic Think Tank, Refractory Girl, Women’s Radio Network and others. On behalf of the NWCC, with the Women’s Electoral Lobby, Helen organised the Women’s Tax Convention in Canberra. She began work as a consultant to the Office of the Status of Women in the Commonwealth Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Working with journalist, writer and friend Anne Deveson she explored the portrayal of women in the media, became an Australian expert, and founded the National Women’s Media Centre (www.nwmc.org.au). She also led the project to produce the 1998 National Women’s Media Directory, which registered women to provide expert comment to the media on issues of the day. In the mid 1990s, working for the NSW Department for Women, Helen coordinated state-wide International Women’s Day activities, the Women and Media Awards, and the Out of Line: 25 Years of Women’s Posters exhibition. She also created National Women’s History Month; This Day In History, which profiles the achievements of women; and The Australian Women’s Honour Roll, launched in March 2000. She moved to Canberra in 1998 to become National Executive Officer for the Women’s Electoral Lobby (Australia). From early 2000 she worked as National Executive Officer for WESNET (Women’s Services Network); as Iraq anti-sanctions Campaign Manager for the Medical Association for the Prevention of War; and as Manager, Government and Community Relations for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. She was Convenor of the Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women (CAPOW!), the peak national women’s organisation. Helen was posthumously awarded a high commendation in the community section of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Human Rights awards, 2001, for her “tireless commitment to the rights of women, and broader issues of social justice.” She is survived by her partner, Judy Harrison, and her three children. Helen’s family have launched an appeal through the National Foundation for Australian Women (www.nfaw.org or telephone 02 62874422) to raise funds to create an accessible archive of her historic photographic work. Edited from an Obituary by Marie Coleman Published resources Book Fabulous Fifties: when life really begins. Interviews with Australian women in their fifties., Jan Bowen, 1995 Newspaper Article Tireless activist for women's movement, Coleman, Marie, 2001 'Real dynamo' on behalf of women, 2001 Web-Savvy and wired into the women's movement, Coleman, Marie, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Anne Heywood and Clare Land Created 17 October 2001 Last modified 18 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Three notebooks: 1. Autobiographical account by immigrant Russian, “Vladimir” of events in Russia c. 1912-1914, when he and others in a radical left group were active and subsequently investigated and sentenced. The recollections, written in 1952, aim to discover the identity of the person in their group responsible for their arrest. 2 and 3. English language notes of an unknown Russian studying English c. 1917. (See copy of letter E. Govor to Juliet Flesch, 8.3.96). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "I Notebooks, 1919-1931 A. Miscellaneous notes on exploration of Antarctica, c. 1819-1829. B. Extracts from and notes on Allan Cunningham, 1816-1839, including botanical notes. C. Extracts from Robert Howard: Biographical Sketch of the late Allan Cunningham, 1842. D. Copy of ‘A Journal of a Voyage from England to Van Diemen’s Land and Batavia in the Ship Caroline of Calcutta R. L. Hare A.D. 1827-1828 by Rosalie H. A. Hare’. E. Copy of ‘The Voyage of Pedro Sarmiento to the Straits of Magellan in the year 1579’. II Letters to Ida Marriott, Nov. – Dec. 1937, mainly about the publication of her books Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Awarded the Australian Sports Medal on 30 August 2000, Heather McKay was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) on 26 January 1979 for her service to the sport of squash. She had previously been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 1 January 1969 for services to sport. An Australian representative in squash and hockey, McKay dominated ladies squash for two decades and lost only two squash matches in her career. Heather McKay (née Blundell) enjoyed a career of unparalleled dominance in her chosen sport and is one of Australia’s greatest ever sportspeople. During a playing career that lasted nearly twenty years, she won fourteen successive Australian Amateur titles in her sport (1960-73), sixteen British Amateur (later Open) titles (1962-77), the inaugural World Championship title (1976) and the World Championship again in 1979. She was named the ABC Sportsman (!) of the year in 1967. She lost two matches in all that time; one in 1960, the other in 1962. Even then, Heather McKay considered those losses to be steps towards later victories. The 1960 loss was to the late Yvonne West in the quarter final of the New South Wales Championship – a result she was tickled pink by considering it was the first time she’d played in the event after picking up the game the year before. She never lost an amateur title match in Australia again. The 1962 loss was to Fran Marshall, the reigning British Champion, in the final of the Scottish Championship. It was the last loss she would ever experience, and Heather was delighted with the result. It was the first serious hit out she had in Britain before her first attempt at the British Amateur Championship, a title she took from Marshall a few weeks later. These achievements are unmatched by other Australian sporting heroes, yet more Australians will be familiar with the accomplishments of Pat Cash, Shane Warne or the Brisbane Lions Australian Football League team than they are with McKay’s. She is a little frustrated by the lack of recognition, not because she needed it but because her sport could benefit from the publicity. Furthermore, she is confident the reason she has been overlooked has nothing to do with the fact that she is a woman and everything to do with her choice of sport. Heather McKay played squash. Despite there being a tradition of excellence in Australian squash at an elite level, and despite its popularity as a participant sport, squash in Australia has never had a high media profile, not even when an Australian woman was literally unbeatable. In fact, in a cruel paradox, the better she became, the less media coverage Heather McKay received. Her mother used to say to her, ‘I knew if I didn’t hear anything about you, that you had to be winning’. Clearly, if Mrs. Blundell relied on the press for news of her daughter’s achievements, she would be waiting a long time! Heather Blundell, born July 1941, was one of eleven children that grew up in Queanbeyan in New South Wales. Most of her brothers and sisters played sport regularly, some at a high level, in games like tennis, hockey, rugby and A.F.L. Her Dad was a champion country rugby league player and both parents played tennis. They actively encouraged all there children to live active lives and, as Heather says, ‘it’s just what you did in those days.’ Given that both parents were incredibly busy (Heather’s Dad worked as a baker by night and in his market garden by day, Heather’s mum had eleven children to care for) the children, the children had to entertain themselves. Sport was a cheap, accessible form of entertainment. While she was adept at most sports she tried her hand at, as a young woman Heather excelled at tennis and hockey. In fact, it was in order to keep fit for hockey that she initially played squash. After discovering the game when she was on holidays with a friend in Sydney, she came back to Canberra and, along with a group of other girls, made regular games at the ‘Squash Bowl’ in the city part of her training regime. It was pretty much hit and giggle stuff; they received no coaching, just a good cardio work out. Then one day when she was playing with a friend, Alan Netting, Alan told her that the New South Wales Country Championships were being held in Wollongong and suggested that they go down to them. After checking with Mum, who gave the plan the all clear, Heather and Alan joined the competition. She finished the tournament with victories in the Junior and Women’s titles, a performance that caught the eye of the late Vin Napier, president of the Australian Squash Association. He suggested that she should attend the New South Wales championships in Sydney. With the help of her mother and her grandmother made it to the quarter final and won the junior tournament, without ever having received any formal coaching, and with the NSW Country tournament her only experience. It was at this point that Heather decided to switch her focus from tennis to squash. This is not to say that she stopped playing other sports; on the contrary, she continued to play hockey throughout her squash career and well into her retirement from international competition. Indeed she was still playing good enough hockey to be named All Australian twice, in 1967 and 1971. But the fact that she never actually played representative hockey, because it clashed with her squash commitments, indicates where her priorities lay. After winning her first Australian title in 1960 (the first of fourteen straight), she was forced to make another choice; whether she was going to stay in Canberra and fiddle around, or further her career by moving to Sydney. Obviously, her meteoric rise in the sport suggested that she had the raw material to make the move worthwhile. The move was made easier because of the help of some good sponsors and friends. Spaldings (whose racquets she was using at the time) helped her to get a job at the Belleview Hill Squash courts, and Vin Napier put her touch with players and coaches who were generous with their time and advice. John Cheadle would have a hit with her once a week. Keith Walker taught her to think a bit more about the game, rather than just ‘hitting and hoping’. Heather spent her first year in Sydney listening, learning and playing a lot of squash. Having successfully taken on Australia twice, in 1961 and 1962, Heather thought it was time to take on the world. In the 1960s and early 1970s, the British Open was the unofficial world championship – an official world title did not come into being until 1976. Fortunately, she had an understanding employer, an enthusiastic and supportive state association and some helpful sponsors who regularly made it possible for her to find the time and money to take off to Britain for two months every year for sixteen years! She would play demonstration matches as fundraisers; the Australian Squash Association would provide some money, as would the Spalding Company and the cigarette company W.D. and H.O. Wills. All the money went through the New South Wales Association, who then arranged her travel and paid her an allowance; in the age of amateurism everything had to be arranged just so. It could not be seen that she was making money from her sport. In 1962, Heather flew across to London, knowing virtually no-one and without even a hotel room booked for her first night, in order to have a tilt at the British title. Stepping off the plane, she asked herself ‘Ok, what do I do now’ – it was a scary sensation. Fortunately, she was met by the late Janet Shardley (Bisley at the time) a renowned British squash champion. In what would become a regular feature of her annual migration, she stayed with Janet and her first husband, Joe and then, after Joe died, her second husband Ambrose. As Heather said, Janet was really her ‘second mum’, and both Joe and Ambrose were great friends. They were all vitally important to creating the stability that underlay her success in Britain over the next sixteen years, including that first year. Staying with friends, being billeted out while playing in various lead up tournaments around the country, spending a lot of time alone during the day because everyone else was working (‘I became a very good window shopper’ claims Heather); the life of an amateur sportsperson in the 1960s was a far cry from the experience of today’s professional sportspeople. There were no managers ensuring you ate and slept well in comfortable hotels, there was no coach scheduling adequate warm up, cool down and recovery sessions. There were no media or sponsor commitments. And of course, there was no money. Not unreasonably, Heather wishes that she had the opportunity to make more money from the game than she did, and believes that some of the restrictions placed on amateurs were ridiculous. (The people who insisted that she be classified as a professional because she didn’t pay for her half of the court where she practiced spring to mind as some of the most small minded!) Having said that, she still thinks that it was a great time to be playing the game. Precisely because their livelihood wasn’t at stake, amateurs could leave it all on the court and establish very good friendships off the court, friends who you could go out and have a drink, or catch a movie, with; friends who you looked forward to seeing again when you all met up at the next major tournament. She looked forward to hard games with players such as the English women Fran Marshall and Anna Craven-Smith and the Australians Jenny Irving and Marion Jackman, but she also looked forward to good times with them off the court. Why was Heather McKay so good? Apart from an extraordinary ability to stay fit and on the court, she was naturally athletic and very strong; she could get to balls that her opponents didn’t think possible and she could hit the ball so hard and accurately they couldn’t get it back. She was a technical perfectionist – ‘good technique doesn’t fall down when you are tired’. She played a conservative game, doing what she did well to the point that she virtually eliminated unforced errors from her game. She ‘took no prisoners’ on the court, but she did not ‘wipe the court’ with her opponents either, always preferring a good game to a whitewash. In the end, it was about fitness, technique and taking control of her own game. ‘I learned what was good for myself, what I enjoyed doing and what worked for me’. Her amateur status and late arrival to the sport may also have contributed to her career longevity, and hence, her extraordinary run. Heather McKay never suffered from the soft tissue and repetitive strain injuries that many of the current players succumb to. She recalls only one significant injury – cracked ribs. She can’t remember how she got them, but the impact on her game of having them was not serious enough to break her unbeaten run. When asked to speculate on the reasons for her durability, she suggests that she was one of the first squash players to include strength training and stretching as part of her fitness regime, and that this probably had an impact. The fact that she cross-trained, continuing to run and play hockey, was important. Attention to good technique was also a factor – applying good technique inevitably meant that the body was less likely to suffer stress. Good genes, good luck and, quite possibly, picking up the game at the age of eighteen and not ten, may have all played their part as well. McKay believes she was at her strongest and best between the ages of 29-31, an age by which many current day players are feeling old, injured or burnt out. Professionalism means that potential champions get identified early and receive excellent coaching and support. It also means that, sometimes, youngsters are required to specialise too early – meaning that the opportunities to cross train, and therefore avoid repetitive stress, are diminished. Heather recognises that these days it would be close to impossible to do what she did (i.e. pick up the game at seventeen and expect to become a world beater) but she does believe early specialisation does bring stress that needs to be managed carefully. Working as an assistant coach at the Australian Institute of Sport (1985-1999) gave her a lot of experience in managing this delicate balance. In the mid 1970s, however, Heather grew tired of the lack of financial support that accompanied her amateur status and turned professional. She and her husband moved to Toronto in 1975 where they were offered positions as club pros at the Toronto Squash Club, a huge, privately owned eighteen court centre that featured a gym, restaurant and pro shop; there was nothing like it in Australia. The McKay’s stayed in Toronto for ten years, moving to positions in different clubs in that period, and seeing the standard of Canadian Squash rise significantly in that time. It was while she was living in Toronto that she became the official champion of the world in 1976 by winning the inaugural Women’s World Squash Championship. This was a win with which she was very satisfied. She worked extremely hard for it, played incredibly well and, despite protests from some British officials who, for technical reasons, claimed that it wasn’t really an ‘official’ title, came away having achieved what she had set out to prove. She was the undisputed world champion. ‘I’ve got the T-shirt saying I’m the first’ – she received her second (and final) metaphoric t-shirt in 1979. At the age of thirty-eight, she decided that she didn’t have the time or inclination to put in the work that was required to compete anymore at the highest level. Heather and her husband loved their time in North America, but never anticipated retiring there permanently. Family and friends were in Australia and after nearly ten years of them, they had just about enough of the Canadian winters. A 1985 offer to join Australian men’s squash icon, Geoff Hunt, coaching at the A.I.S squash unit in Brisbane was just too good to refuse. She thoroughly enjoyed her position as senior coach, and learned a lot from Hunt, who was the unit’s head coach, over the thirteen years she was there. In 1999, she retired from the AIS, and from any informal involvement in squash. Heather still maintains a keen interest in the sport and is delighted to see the progress of world class players such as Sarah Fitz-gerald and the Grinham sisters, who went through the academy while she was there. She thinks Squash Australia is doing a great job promoting the sport, and maintains that it is one of the best ‘social’ games people can play, as well as one of the most efficient, in terms of the fitness benefits. ‘Forty minutes on the court and you have had a very good workout,’ she says. She still laments the lack of coverage the game receives, but puts this down to the difficulty of attracting large crowds to live matches and the problems of covering it for a T.V. audience. Four sided glass courts have helped, as have new peep-hole camera angles but, as Heather notes, ‘It’s very difficult for someone who has never played the game to sit and watch and appreciate the game fully. On TV you can lose the speed and the ball. People who’ve played can appreciate it, because they can appreciate what it takes to get to the ball. But those who haven’t don’t understand the effort and skill involved.’ Before Heather won her first Australian title, Pakistani champion Hashim Kahn, who Heather regards as one of the greatest players the game of squash has ever seen, observed for the benefit of the Canberra press that ‘this girl could be very good’. Fourteen Australian and sixteen British titles along with two world championships have proven him to be a good judge of talent and a master of understatement! Hopefully, it isn’t only squash players who can appreciate what it took for Heather McKay to achieve and maintain her extraordinary record. The world’s greatest ever female player of one of the most popular participant sports on the globe deserves better. Events 1985 - 1998 Squash Coach with the Australian Institute of Sport 1965 - 1965 Married Brian H McKay 2000 - 2000 Awarded the Australian Sports Medal 1979 - 1979 Awarded Member of the Order of Australia 1960 - 1973 Winner of the Australian Amateur Championships 1961 - 1973 Winner of New South Wales Championships 1961 - 1973 Winner of Victorian Championships 1962 - 1977 Winner of the British Open Championships 1976 - 1976 Winner of the World Squash Championship 1979 - 1979 Winner of the World Squash Championship 1977 - 1977 Winner of the American Championship 1979 - 1979 Winner of the American Amateur Racquetball Championship 1980 - 1981 Winner of the American Professional Racquetball Championships 1984 - 1984 Winner of the American Professional Racquetball Championship 1980 - 1980 Winner of the Canadian Racquetball Championship 1982 - 1985 Winner of the Canadian Racquetball Championships 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1967 - 1967 Awarded ABC Sportsman of the Year 2069 - 2069 Appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire Published resources Book Great Australian Women in Sport, Brasch, Nicolas, 1997 The Dictionary of Famous Australians, Atkinson, Ann, 1992 The Champions: Australia's Sporting Greats, Smith, Terry, 1990 Outstanding Women in Australia: Women in Sport, Rolton, Gloria, 1997 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Journal Article Interview with Heather McKay (AM, MBE), Dobrez, Pat, 2001 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Heather McKay interviewed by Nikki Henningham [sound recording] Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 audiocassette (approximately 13 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Justice Elizabeth Evatt, Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia, spoke on the Royal Commission on Human Relationships; the reasons for its establishment; reactions to the Commission’s recommendations; the Family Court; cases within the courts; problems raised and public access to the court. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "File 3. Charles Fawcett (Harold Charles), 1937-61; Correspondence, 1945-57, photographs, invitations, membership cards, Christmas cards, autographs, receipts and other papers. Correspondents include Christina Mawdesley, J. Howlett-Ross, J.C. Davies, Edith Harrhy, Sam Simmons, Louis H. Clark – Box 50 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Melbourne Orphan Asylum was established in 1853 to provide residential care for orphans. It evolved out of the Dorcas Society, which was the first women’s organisation to be established in Melbourne in 1845 on the initiative of Mrs George Cooper and Mrs William Knight and the St James’ Visiting Society. It aimed to assist the most vulnerable members of society by providing emergency support for families and almost unintentionally launched into residential care work with children. The St James’ Visiting Society became the St James’ Orphan Asylum and Visiting Society in 1851, and in 1853 the Melbourne Orphan Asylum. Initially run by a committee of ‘ladies’, with Mrs Perry, wife of the Bishop of Melbourne, president, they had to accept occasional assistance from a committee of ‘gentlemen’, as married women were not permitted to hold property in their own names or to act as trustees. A Committee of Gentlemen was formed in 1854 to assist the Ladies Committee. The rules adopted imposed a men’s business committee on the existing committee of ladies. Despite this unusual arrangement, it was the first organisation in the colony to include both men and women. Rule four of the new constitution stated that the Asylum was to be ‘under the government of a president, six clergymen and six laymen of the various evangelical branches of the protestant church, elected annually by subscribers. The ladies became the junior partners, allocated the ‘management of the domestic affairs of the institution’. Eventually the two separate committees had merged into one by 1875 when the Melbourne Orphan Asylum was incorporated. By-law 11 abolished the dual committee system , making provision for a single committee of eighteen men, including five ministers and twelve women. The Asylum was conducted on principles of the Christian religion of the evangelical branches of the protestant church. Orphans were admitted regardless of their parents’ creed or country. A matron was appointed to run the Asylum and orphans’ relatives were permitted to visit only once a month. It occupied its first site in Emerald Hill from March 1856, then made the decision in 1876 to sell the Emerald Hill site and move to Brighton. By 1883 the address was ‘Windermere’, Butler St, Middle Brighton. This institution remained in operation until attitudes to the welfare of children changed during the 1950s to embrace the family group, rather than the child alone, as the centre of welfare policy. This meant that the model of normal family life should also be applied to residential care. In February 1958 the Committee agreed to experiment with three family group homes. By 1963 the new headquarters were located at Glen Waverley, and all the children were housed in fourteen family group homes. This changed concept was reflected in the name change in 1965 to the Melbourne Family Care Organisation and in 1987 to Family Action. Published resources Book Asylum to action: family action 1851-1991, a history of services and policy development for families in times of vulnerability, Jaggs, Donella, 1991 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records of the Melbourne Orphan Asylum, [manuscript] Anne's story, 1974. [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Melbourne Protestant Orphan Asylum, Emerald Hill [picture] / A. Willmore sc Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc Miscellaneous papers re Melbourne Benevolent Institutions Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 October 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "5 sound files (ca. 273 min.)??Gyzele Osmani, born 1970 in East Kosovo, Serbia, talks about her early life; the dispersal of Albanians and life in her village; the effect of the political situation on the education of Albanian Muslims by 1984; her marriage and her five children; a blockade of the village by the Serbian army (May 1999); leaving the village and walking towards Macedonia; conditions in the United Nations refugee camp; Macedonian Red Cross; the children becoming sick; her daughter’s dislocated hip being diagnosed; meeting with Australian representatives but not understanding that Australia was only offering temporary protection; travelling to Australia with 400 other Albanians; the East Hills camp; contacting the doctors in Bandiana Safe Haven about her daughter’s hip; the journey to Albury-Wodonga, the facilities there; her daughter’s treatment in Wodonga hospital; being told on 3 March 2000 by the DIMIA that they had to leave Australia; Philip Ruddock’s earlier visit to Bandiana (1999); Michelle Harris; pressure from the Dept. of Immigration to leave the Bandiana Safe Haven; Bandiana becoming a detention centre (2000), how it changed.?Osmani discusses the family’s removal to Port Hedland, WA and the conditions in the camp; the system of numbering the refugees; getting to know the other refugees; the two mosques in the Centre; the playground equipment; schooling; the staff; the medical treatment available in Port Hedland; her family’s health problems; keeping a diary (in Albanian); the isolation block in Port Hedland; psychiatric problems amongst the other refugees; how they got out of Port Hedland; how other Albanians from Presevo were repatriated; Michelle Harris; Marion Le; the people who helped her; John Molony and Janet Mathews from the Kingston Baptist Church; her depression; speaking out in the media; being told of their release following Ministerial intervention; arrival in Canberra; first impressions of Canberra; permanent residency; studying English; her daughter’s hip and the need for a further operation; how her children have been affected by their time in detention; the Albanian community; her first job; studying Business Administration (2005); Melanie Poole; her story being published in a book by Eva Salis; speaking at a protest rally in Canberra against detention; SBS Insight Program (October 2001); the ABC Radio Eye program which won the 2003 Human Rights Radio Award; wanting to tell her story; her hopes for the future. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 25 August 2006 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc00/211 comprises correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, press releases, publications and newsletters, mainly relating to the Australian Conservation Foundation (4 boxes, 4 small cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1. Combined visitors book and scrapbook (known as “The Book of Words”) of the Pakies Club, containing photographs, pen and ink sketches, typescript poems and news clippings relating to Club activities and members. Names included in visitor book entries include Mary Gilmore, Walter Burley Griffin, Frank Dalby Davison, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Miles Franklin, Xavier Herbert, Nancy Keesing and Unk White. 2. Incomplete set of master copies of “Urge”, loosely bound in large folder: v. 1, no. 2, 9 March 1933; v. 1, no. 3, 9 April 1933; v. 1, no. 4, 9 May 1933; v. 1, no. 6, 9 July 1933; v. 1, no. 7, 9 August 1933; v. 1, no. 8, 9 September 1933; v. 1, no. 9, 9 December 1933; 1, no. 10, 9 February? 1934; v. 1, no. 11, 9 April 1934; v. 1, no. 11, 9 April 1934; July-August 1934; November-December 1934; February 1935. 3. Papers relating to the Burley Griffins: letters, photographs of Marion Griffin; architectural drawings; newspaper cuttings; 1990s papers about a Griffin designed house in Castle Crag. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Heather Henderson is the only daughter of former Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies and Dame Pattie Menzies. She was influential in the development of Australia’s capital city, Canberra. The transformation of Canberra from a paddock of public servants to a functioning civic community owed much to the sense and daughterly persuasion of Heather Henderson, née Menzies. Born in 1928, Heather is the only daughter of Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies, and was from the beginning very much the apple of her father’s eye. Unlike some offspring of politicians who often see little of their parents, Heather was a solid fixture in her father’s routine, whether personal or political. After initially turning down Joseph Lyon’s invitation to join Cabinet in 1934 because he did not want to burden his family with long absences from their home in Melbourne, Menzies reconsidered and accepted the positions of Attorney General and Minister for Industry. Heather’s older brothers Kenneth and Ian were enrolled as boarders at Geelong College in 1936. While opportunities for the boys to see their parents were limited, Heather who had become a weekly boarder at Ruyton Girl’s School, Kew, was able to enjoy home life more regularly. In letters written during 1944-46 to Kenneth, who was serving with the AIF, Menzies wrote regular news of young Heather, by now a senior student at Ruyton. Very much a teenager, willowy, orthodontic bands and good at tennis, Heather was also already politically astute, as Menzies commented, ‘her sotto voce comments in the galleries during speeches by such favourites as Forde and Ward and Evatt are really worth going a long way to hear’.[1] Sir Alexander Downer, one of Menzies’ ministers, observed how father and daughter seemed united by a ‘mystical understanding’ and assessed Heather as ‘the principal joy’ in Menzies’ life during the period he knew him. Despite her slim figure, she resembled him in facial features, sharing the same wit, incisiveness, some of his intolerances and, occasionally, that tongue which entertained audiences but sometimes lost friends [2] Heather lived in Canberra for long periods during Menzies’ two terms as Prime Minister in 1939-41 and 1949-66. She also accompanied her parents on overseas trips, including attending the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Travelling with Sir Robert and Dame Pattie on an unofficial visit to Europe in 1948, Heather demonstrated her sensitivity in assessing British suffering in relation to postwar food rationing. In a letter to her brother Kenneth she described her surprise at the unexpectedly good meals they had been having: Admittedly we’ve been mixing with the elite, & people with money are well fed. They can go for meals whenever they like & if they stay home they can afford to buy fruit and vegetables, which are dreadfully expensive . . . We have given a few tins of food away to maids . . . but we’re quite convinced that the people who need it are the poor people – quite apart from the rationing everything is terribly expensive. I’m blowed if I know how they exist. [3] Heather even entered the political lexicon of the day when, on one round trip including Washington, London and New Zealand in 1950, Menzies ferried a ‘very special present’ for his daughter, who was at the time studying music at Melbourne University: Its nature was a deep, dark secret and he wouldn’t let us in on it, but the parcel, he explained, was ‘enormous’, so much so that it had to be specially looked out for at every stage of his many journeys. ‘Heather’s parcel’ was, in fact, the subject of so much discussion by the members of the party that in the end it fell into line with the current trend for abbreviation, and by the time it reached New Zealand was referred to simply by all as ‘H.P’.[4] The mysterious ‘H.P’ was an evening dress, spectacular pink satin skirt and purple woollen top, purchased by Menzies in New York from a shop owned by a Mrs Livingston. He often went there and bought something for my mother or me. He would look round and pick some poor girl who looked roughly my size, and got her to try on whatever he had selected. H.P. was one of those selections. Heather was even more in the public eye in May 1955 when she wed Peter Henderson, then Third Secretary at the Australian Embassy in Djakarta. An estimated crowd of 2000, the largest mass of onlookers in Canberra since the 1954 Royal Tour, cheered the proceedings. Decreed by Sir Owen Dixon, Chief Justice of the High Court, in his toast to the bride and groom to be a ‘nationally known’ figure in her own right, the now Heather Henderson received a congratulatory cable from ‘All your friends in the household’ of Buckingham Palace.[5] In January 1956, Heather Henderson’s return to Canberra from Djakarta signalled a new period in her life as a married woman and acted as a catalyst for the development of the city. Canberra was still very much at the teething stage, possessing a meagre population of around 30,000, bereft of many basic facilities and lacking strongly defined social or structural cohesion. This stretched and ragged city, divided by the Molonglo flood plain, offered very little in the way of suburban infrastructure. Assisting Heather on the home search front, Menzies was struck by the reality of life in Canberra, as opposed to the more sheltered view from The Lodge. For Heather and Dame Pattie, even taking the baby for a walk proved difficult. The footpaths were poor or non-existent. A concerted campaign of family persuasion was launched on behalf of the capital: ‘I continually complained to Dad and I’m sure I had an influence in changing his attitude to the city’. According to Eric Sparke’s Canberra, the Chairman of the Public Service Board, Sir William Dunk, agreed with Heather’s assertion, as quite suddenly he was being ‘pushed around by the awakened Prime Minister with “Why this: Why not more of that? Who is responsible?”‘ [6] Under Menzies’ influence a Parliamentary Committee of Enquiry was set up to examine the situation – should Canberra remain a national capital in name only, or should it be developed? The Parliamentary Committee reported in favour of development. In 1958 the National Capital Development Commission was established and granted a charter ‘to design, develop and construct Canberra as the National Capital of Australia’. Up until the time of his retirement some eight years later, Menzies displayed an active interest in the capital’s progress. Canberra at last began to develop a civic atmosphere and the individuality worthy of a national capital. Sir John Overall acknowledges Canberra’s rebirth ‘is a reflection of the farsightedness of Robert Gordon Menzies and his interest and enthusiasm in clearing the way and making it possible for Australia’s young bush capital to be planned, developed and constructed to the status of a National Capital in the world scene’. [7] Heather and Peter Henderson had four daughters. Peter was Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs from 1979 to 1984 and died in September 2016. This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Letters to my daughter: Robert Menzies, letters, 1955-1975, Henderson, Heather, 2011 Book Privilege and Pleasure, Henderson, Peter, Graham, Faithfull, 1986 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 27 April 2006 Last modified 12 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A well known figure in Sydney political and socially active organizations and a staunch defender of civil liberties. Mary McNish stood for the Australia Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Willoughby in 1971 and 1973. At the time of her first candidacy Mary McNish was the NSW and National Secretary of the Australia Party, which she had helped to found. Prior to 1971, she was organising secretary of the JOBS project conducted by the Adult Education Department of the University of Sydney, which was responsible for pre-vocational training and final placement of 40 young Aborigines. Mary McNish was an active campaigner for the establishment of a library in Willoughby, the last municipality in the state without one. She was also an active member of the Council for Civil Liberties, and in subsequent years held all executive positions on it. She campaigned against the Queensland legislation prohibiting street marches in 1979, and in company with George Petersen, M.L.A., Senator George Georges, and 63 others, was arrested for her action. Mary McNish was born and educated in Queensland. She married (1) John Olsen, with whom she had a daughter, and (2) Alex McNish. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 7 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Justice Michelle May is a judge of the Family Court of Australia, Appeal Division and President of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration. Justice May has managed to combine her stellar career in the law with raising three (triplets) children. Born in England but brought up in Brisbane, Australia, Justice Michelle May attended primary school in Coorparoo and then secondary college at St Margaret’s Anglican School. She lived a simple but happy childhood, which included watching American sitcoms and television dramas of the 1960s, including the courtroom drama of Perry Mason. She was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend the University of Queensland to study an Arts Law degree. Before starting her degree, she spent a year in the United States (1974) on a Rotary Exchange Scholarship. She attended the State University of New York, where she completed a general study year, one that influenced her greatly. During her time away she developed a great interest in political theory, so she chose to major in that when she returned to Brisbane. She was tutored in her law subjects by both Margaret White (who went on to be a justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland) and Quentin Bryce, who went on to be Australia’s first woman Governor-General. After graduating with an LLB from the University of Queensland, she held the position of Associate to Judge Helman of the District Court of Queensland before being called to the Bar in 1978. Justice May was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1993. She was the first barrister with a predominately family law practice to achieve that level of seniority in Queensland. Justice May has served as the chairperson of the Family Law Panel of the Bar Association of Queensland and as a member of the Family Law Council. On 7 September 1995 her Honour was appointed as Judge of the Family Court of Australia, being the first female appointment to that court from Queensland. In 2003 she was elevated by the Attorney-General to the Appeal Division of the Family Court. That same year, she was appointed a Co-ordinating Judge, a role entailing administrative responsibilities for Queensland, Northern New South Wales and the Northern Territory. Justice May became involved in the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration in 2005 when she was appointed as a Council member. She was elected as a Deputy President in 2011 and elected as President in October 2013, a position which she currently holds. Events 2017 - 2017 Received for significant service to the law, particularly to the Family Court of Australia, to judicial administration, and to professional associations. Published resources Book Section Michelle May, Elphinstone, Kara, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 May 2016 Last modified 29 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 8 minutes??Dr Elma Sandford Morgan was born in 1890 in North Adelaide and brought up in a Baptist household. Attended Miss Martin’s school. At 14 her family sailed to Europe and Elma went to Cheltenham’s Ladies College for a year as a boarder. She returned to Adelaide in 1905. She studied piano at the Adelaide Conservatorium under Herr Reimann. She travelled with her family around Australia and in Queensland she met a doctor who suggested she do medicine. 1910 studied medicine at Sydney University. Studied for three years, then went with her family on a trip from China across the Siberian railway to Moscow. She graduated in 1917. She worked in Australia, London and at the Women’s Mission Hospital at Bewanee in the Punjab. Then in 1920 went to a hospital in Bagdad. Here she married Captain Harry Morgan and their daughter Rosemary was born in 1922. Son Gavin was born in 1925. Eventually settled in Sydney and she worked at the Rachel Forster Hospital. 1928 appointed Assistant to the Director of Maternal Welfare in the Public Health Department, and in 1929 first woman to become Director of Maternal Welfare in the Public Health Service. She was a district commissioner in the Girl Guides and a representative to the Australian Federation of University Women. Moved to South Australia as a Health Officer with the Mothers and Babies Association and helped set up Torrens House, a mothercraft training centre. During World War II joined the RAAN as a medical officer, was working in general practice, and for two years organised the Health Services of South Australia as the only woman member of the Parliamentary Commission. After the war she visited Europe and on return obtained a locum tenens as neoplasm registrar to the Anti-Cancer Foundation. She was appointed by the University of Adelaide to the Radio Therapy Department where she worked for eleven years. Retired in 1964 and then worked at the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service until she was 80 years old. During 1966-68 she attended the Medical Women’s International Association conferences in Rochester and Vienna and became president of the Australian Medical Women’s Association to work against bias according to sex and equal treatment of women doctors. Her main interest was preventative medicine and public health. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Seven Writers was a group of Canberra-based women writers who met regularly to debate and critique one another’s work. This entry was sponsored by a generous donation from Christine Foley. Beginning with three members in 1980, the group grew to include seven female Canberra-based writers by 1984. They were founding member Dorothy Johnston (1948- ), Margaret Barbalet (1949- ), Sara Dowse (1938- ), Suzanne Edgar (1939- ), Marian Eldridge (1936-1997), Marion Halligan (1940- ) and Dorothy Horsfield (1948- ). Members’ published works include short stories, novels, children’s literature, non-fiction, articles and reviews, and in diverse ways their writing vividly portrays life ‘beneath the surface of Canberra’. Collectively the group authored Canberra Tales in 1988, later republished as The Division of Love in 1996, an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. This was considered a landmark publication for Canberra fiction and received an ACT Bicentennial Award. Seven Writers raised the profile of Canberra-based authors, and in 1995 a photographic portrait of the group appeared in the National Library of Australia exhibition, Beyond the Picket Fence. After the death of Marian Eldridge in 1997, the group did not meet again for one year. Sara Dowse relocated to Canada in 1998. She returned to Australia in 2004. The members are still friends but no longer meet formally to critique one another’s work. Published resources Book The Division of Love: Stories, Barbalet, Margaret et al, 1995 The Fog Garden: A Novel, Halligan, Marion, 2001 Counting Backwards and other stories, Edgar, Suzanne, 1991 West Block: the hidden world of Canberra's mandarins, Dowse, Sara, 1983 Silver City, Dowse, Sara, 1984 Schemetime, Dowse, Sara, 1990 Sapphires, Dowse, Sara, 1994 Digging, Dowse, Sara, 1996 Dream Run, Horsfield, Dorothy, 1992 Venom, Horsfield, Dorothy, 2005 The House at Number 10, Johnston, Dorothy, 2005 The Worry Box, Halligan, Marion, 1993 The Apricot Colonel, Halligan, Marion, 2006 Cockles of the Heart, Halligan, Marion, 1996 Collected Stories, Halligan, Marion, 1997 Eat My Words, Halligan, Marion, 1990 The Golden Dress, Halligan, Marion, 1998 The Hanged Man in the Garden, Halligan, Marion, 1989 The Living Hothouse, Halligan, Marion, 1988 Lovers' Knots: a hundred-year novel, Halligan, Marion, 1993 Out of the Picture, Halligan, Marion, 1996 Self Possession, Halligan, Marion, 1987 Spidercup, Halligan, Marion, 1990 The Taste of Memory, Halligan, Marion, 2004 Wishbone, Halligan, Marion, 1995 Maralinga, my love, Johnston, Dorothy, 1988 One for the Master, Johnston, Dorothy, 1997 Ruth, Johnston, Dorothy, 1986 The Trojan Dog, Johnston, Dorothy, 2000 Tunnel Vision, Johnston, Dorothy, 1984 Springfield, Eldridge, Marian, 1992 Blood in the Rain, Barbalet, Margaret, 1986 Far from a Low Gutter Girl: the forgotten world of state wards, South Australia, 1887-1940, Barbalet, Margaret, 1983 Steel Beach, Barbalet, Margaret, 1988 Lady, Baby, Gypsy, Queen, Barbalet, Margaret, 1992 The Presence of Angels, Barbalet, Margaret, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Seven Writers group, between 1986 and approximately 2000 Papers of Sara Dowse, 1958-2007 [manuscript] Papers of Marian Eldridge, 1942-1997 [manuscript] Papers of Margaret Barbalet, 1974-1993 [manuscript] Papers of Marion Halligan, circa 1970-circa 2003 [manuscript] Maralinga cycle, 1988 [manuscript] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Seven Writers 1990 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lady Hilda Garran, wife of Sir Robert Randolph Garran, was an agent of social cohesion in Canberra’s earliest days. While Sir Robert Randolph Garran was a major force for Federation, collaborator on the Constitution and our very first federal public servant his wife, Lady Garran, was an agent of social inclusion during the teething years of Canberra’s establishment. ‘How far that little candle throws its beams.’ Whenever I read that line it instantly recalls to mind the personality of one woman, who, in a short space of years, exercised a profound influence upon the people of a whole city, and that city the capital of Australia – Canberra.[1] Hilda Robson, who became Lady Garran, was the daughter of John Shield Robson, a shipbuilder from Monkwearmouth, Durham and Caroline (nee Iliff). Most of the family emigrated from Britain to Australia after the business became unprofitable as a result of the increasing popularity of steel ships. John Shield Robson was a kinsman of William Shield, Master of the King’s Musick at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and writer of such memorable tunes, according to the Oxford Companion to Music, as ‘The Thorn’ and ‘The Wolf’. Ernest Iliff Robson, first Headmaster of the North Sydney Church of England Grammar School was Hilda’s older brother, and adept in both the classics and rowing, while elder sister Gertrude was a precursory model of adventurous spirit. Giving up the social and cultural swirl of Sydney, Gertrude took up teaching in missionary schools at Thursday Island and in Papua New Guinea. In 1917, stricken with fever, she was dead within two days, but was mourned and remembered as a woman of immense courtesy, respect and courage. [2] On 7 April 1902 Hilda Robson, also a schoolteacher, married Robert Randolph Garran. In the late 1890s Garran was instrumental in the drafting and amending of the Federation bill and the Australian Constitution. As Secretary of the Attorney-General’s Department from 1901 he was the founding member of the Commonwealth Public Service. While many departmental heads and constitutional lawyers come and go without leaving a strong legacy Garran, through his roles in national, British Commonwealth or international affairs left an indelible mark on the nation, its institutions, its political evolution and its laws. [3] While Garran garnered widespread admiration through this host of endeavours, it was his partnership with his wife Lady Garran and, together, their cast-iron commitment to the betterment of Canberra, which won many a heart’s affection. When the initial contingent of public servants reluctantly made the move from Melbourne to Canberra in 1927, a chorus of moaning rose from the conscripted recruits. Many found leaving family, friends and the lifestyle of metropolitan Melbourne for their new career, and a daily life of mucking in and making do in a formative backwater, decidedly unpalatable. Sir Robert and Lady Garran refused to bow to this dirge of woe and dismay, and instead dropped anchor and rallied to mesh Canberra into a cohesive community. Employing quiet persistence and gracious humility, Lady Garran became a crusader for the cause of kindness, friendliness and culture. She made it her business to extend a personal welcome to every new resident with whom she could establish contact. Arranging events, organising amenities and famously ‘stalking’ newcomers on buses and later pursuing them with gift baskets of fresh produce, Lady Garran almost single-handedly ‘spread the love’. Rivalled only by her husband, Lady Garran instilled through her unfailing efforts a true sense of neighbourliness, and helped to unite a potentially stratified society. Lady Garran could lay claim to helping bring about loving memories of growing up in Canberra, as conveyed by Dawn Waterhouse: Canberra was a party place with house warmings and welcomings, with card evenings or sing-songs around the pianola. Every one dressed in their best… Societies flourished, hikers took to the hills, the Aero club to the sky, the alpine club to the snow. The Repertory to the stage the artists to their trestles, the philatelists to their magnifying glasses. We all went for a dip at the Manuka pool or the Cotter. If we did not know everyone we knew them by sight and nodded and smiled.[4] As a mother to four sons, Richard, John, Andrew and Isham Peter, and as a wife in active partnership with her husband, Lady Garran’s death in 1936 was a great loss to her family, but also to the city to which she had made such a commitment and nurtured for ten years. This entry was prepared by Roslyn Russell, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 May 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A collection of piano music, published overseas, which belonged to Beatrice Tange, an Australian concert pianist of the 1930’s. Most items bear her annotations, and represent her concert repertoire. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 40 minutes??Ruth Hurn, nee Derbyshire, was born in Melbourne. She came to South Australia with her parents in 1920. During the early years of the Second World War she was a Red Cross volunteer at the Port Lincoln Hospital. In 1945 she commenced training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH). She nursed in Queensland for a year, before returning to South Australia where she had appointments at the RAH and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. She also successfully completed the Sister Tutor Diploma course at the College of Nursing, Australia. In the 1960s Ruth was matron first of the Naracoorte hospital and then at Port Pirie. In 1969 she was appointed Nursing Advisor to the Hospitals Department. During five years in this post, Ruth was associated with several developments in nursing education including the tertiary nursing course at Sturt College. After retirement from the Hospitals Department she spent five years as Director of Nursing at the Berri Hospital. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Collection of records, including minute books, visitors’ books, syllabuses, correspondence and membership lists from the Brisbane Women’s Club.??Box 14984: First minute book of the Women’s Progressive Club, 20 Feb 1908-17 May 1914; First visitors’ book of the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1915-2001; Second visitors’ book of the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1952-1971; Memorandum from M. Macfarlane re: Country Women’s Conference; Outward correspondence of the Municipal Sub-Committee 1918-1924;?Outward correspondence of the Municipal Sub-Committee 1924-1926; Minute book of the annual meetings of the Women’s Progressive Club, Apr 1909-Nov 1914; Australian Red Cross Society Certificate of Service awarded to members of the Brisbane Women’s Club for service during WWII; Membership cards from 1926 and 1928; Original war circle knitting book; Original colour photograph of a woman standing outside the club rooms in Albert Street, ca. 1970; Brisbane Women’s Club rules and constitution from 1913 and 1917; Annual report of 1930; Silk ribbon celebrating 90 years of the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1988.?Box 14985: Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, May 1914-May 1923 and Oct 1924; ; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Sep 1922-Nov 1928; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Dec 1928-Jul 1933; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Aug 1933-Sep 1936.?Box 14986: Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Oct 1936-Sep 1942; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Oct 1942-Oct 1950; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Nov 1950-Mar 1959.?Box 14987: Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Oct 1966-Nov 1989.?Box 14988: Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Mar 1959-Sep 1966; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Mar 1989-Nov 1993.?Box 14989: Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Apr 1993-Mar 1996; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Apr 1996-Jul 2001.?Box 14990: Correspondence for the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1908-1925; Correspondence for the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1930s-1940s; Correspondence for the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1950s; Correspondence for the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1960s-1980s; Brisbane Women’s Club correspondence, essays and short stories re: Margaret Ogg Memorial Prize, 1955-1980; Brisbane Women’s Club miscellaneous records, notes, correspondence and cuttings, 1922-1993; Brisbane Women’s Club insurance policies, 1924-1956; Brisbane Women’s Club ballet costume sketches; Brisbane Women’s Club donation records, souvenir booklet and list of condolence, thank you and get well cards, 1968-1970;?Brisbane Women’s Club photographs, correspondence and clippings re: ex-member Nell Stirling’s 100th birthday, 2000; Brisbane Women’s Club correspondence re: estate of Maud Walker, 1963-1976; Brisbane Women’s Club correspondence re: estate of Henrietta Smith, 1994-1997; Record of gifts and donations of the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1962-1976.?Box 15086: Minutes, cuttings and correspondence of the Brisbane Women’s Club Home Help Service, 1943-1951; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club Home Help Service, 1949-1951; Brisbane Women’s Club signature book for syllabus books and annual reports, 2001; Brisbane Women’s Club correspondence and lease agreements, 1923-1958; Brisbane Women’s Club reports, 1969; Brisbane Women’s Club charters, 1954-1978; Brisbane Women’s Club invitations, 1954-1988; Newspaper cuttings re: Vida Lahey, 1988-1989; Brisbane Women’s Club club news, 1975.?Box 15087: Brisbane Women’s Club members’ roll, 1908-1914; Brisbane Women’s Club members’ roll, 1916-1918; Attendance roll of the Brisbane Women’s Club annual meetings, Nov 1959 and Nov 1962-Nov 2001; Members’ roll for the Brisbane Women’s Club annual reports, 1979-2000; Members’ roll for the Brisbane Women’s Club annual and general meetings, 1924-1957; Brisbane Women’s Club membership lists, 1929; Brisbane Women’s Club membership lists, 1930-1978; Notes on the history of the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1968; Brisbane Women’s Club correspondence re: Queensland Country Women’s Association, 1922-1959.?Box 15088: Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club Civic and Civil Sub-Committee, Sep 1922-Oct 1931; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club Civic Sub-Committee, Apr 1937-Nov 1946; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club Civic meetings, Nov 1967-Sep 1970; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club 8th-56th annual meetings, 1915-1963; Cassette tape containing 4RPH interview with the Brisbane Women’s Club broadcasted on 7 Aug 1994; Video tape of the Bunya Mountains Special Edition featuring two programs: Pioneer Lady of the Bunyas – The Nell Stirling Story and Lars Andersen’s Amazing Timber Tramways.?Box 15101: Minutes of the Municipal Sub-committee, May 1912-Jun 1914; Minutes of the Municipal Sub-committee, Jul 1914-Aug 1922; Minutes of the Civic Sub-committee, Mar 1947-Sep 1955; Scrapbook, 1908-1961; Playscript ‘The Old Battle-axe’ by Ernest Briggs, 1913 and 1917; Original poem by Ernest Briggs ‘The Unseen Company’, 1964; Report on women as jurors by Mrs Juppenlatz, 1955; Hand-written address by Mrs Stevens regarding women in political life; Women’s Progressive Club magazine, 1911.?Box 15362 O/S: Annual syllabuses for the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1908-1974 (the years 1913, 1915, 1920, 1970 are missing)?Box 15363 O/S: Annual syllabuses for the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1975-2008?Box 15371 O/S: 8 photographs of Brisbane Women’s Club members. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A once-only candidate, Catherine Bell ran for Earthsave Australia in the 1999 Blue Mountains election. Catherine Bell was one of the candidates running for the newly formed Earthsave Party in 1999. The party advocated solving problems at the cause rather than offering band-aid solutions. Catherine Bell, being a natural therapist, was particularly interested in preventive health measures and wanted natural therapies covered by Medicare. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Correspondence “I-J” – includes: Col Sybil Irving, Capt. Jamison] (Aug-Sep) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 November 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Beatrix (Bix) McCay was the second woman to sign the Victorian Bar Roll when she did so in 1925. Unfortunately, her career at the Bar was cut short by a diagnosis of tuberculosis and the requisite sojourn in a sanitorium and subsequent convalescence. She nevertheless went on to contribute to public life through her involvement in numerous community organisations, including the Red Cross and the Girl Guides. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a tribute to Beatrix McCay written by her daughter in 2009, for which permission to reproduce has been granted for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Sophie Quinlivan (Beatrix McCay’s daughter) and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Beatrix (Bix) McCay was born on 8 January, 1901 in Castlemaine. Her only sibling, Mardie was 4 years older. Both spoke of a childhood in which one of the highlights was being read to by their father, both stories and verses he wrote for them and the “Thinking” games they would play. This ‘pre-school’ education in language, literature, classics and mathematics was delivered by no mean teacher – their father, James McCay was, in 1885, co-owner and co principal of Castlemaine Grammar School, was M.A., LLM., wrote for The Argus and from 1901 to 1906 was a member of the Federal Parliament, Above all, James McCay was passionate about the rights of women to obtain as good an education as their male counterparts, and he did all he could to ensure that his daughters received that good education. Bix’s early formal education was at Castlemaine with a brief interlude at the Ballarat convent. Her mother died suddenly in July, 1915, the same month that her father was wounded in Gallipoli so her latter secondary years from 1916 were spent as a border at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Burke Road, East Malvern. In 1918, Bix commenced her studies at Melbourne University, initially for a Bachelor of Arts, but in 1919 began a combined Arts/ Law course. She was in residence at Janet Clarke Hall from 1918 to 1920. She enjoyed university life, participating in many extra curricular activities including theatre, sport, particularly hockey and regular volunteer service at Yooralla Kindergarten for disabled children She bought a motorbike and became a familiar figure in breeches, leggings and leather coat around the University and, after graduation, around Melbourne town itself. To quote Smith’s Weekly’s Sidelights on 09.01.32: …. It was the said Bix who in her Janet Clarke Hall days used to startle the natives by careering around on a motorbike clad in breeches and leggings. In 1923, Bix graduated LLB (with honours) and in 1925 graduated LLM being, at that time, only the third woman to have done so. She did her articles with Moules Solicitors. In 1925, she was admitted to the ‘Bar’, the second woman to be admitted to the Bar, in Victoria. Bix read with Bob Menzies. She was the only woman at Selbourne Chambers at that time and it was with great joy and pleasure that she spoke of those two to three years. She had a great admiration for Menzies and I believe he respected her ability. She greatly enjoyed discussing points of law with other lawyers, was very quick mentally, was accurate in her analysis of material, had a good sense of humour and was a good speaker. I particularly admired her impromptu speaking. Unfortunately, her career at the Bar was cut short by a diagnosis of tuberculosis and the requisite sojourn in a sanitorium and subsequent convalescence. In August 1930, she married George Reid, my father, the marriage having been delayed considerably because of her lengthy convalescence. . Bix had always been very close to her father and the early completion of my parents’ home-to-be enabled her to personally care for her father in his final illness until his death in October 1930. She and George actually planned the house with a view to her father’s comfort, having a specially long bath to accommodate his wounded, unbending leg. From mid 1933, being a mother as well as a good wife claimed most of Bix’s time. Happy memories of my early childhood included wonderful bed-time stories, poetry and thinking games (styled on her own experience, I expect). When I was older, weekend meals could be very long because of great discussions. Guests were fascinated by their length and by the number of reference books which ended up on the table! During the 1939 – 1945 war, there was some discussion as to whether Bix should return to the law, but she felt she’d been out of it for too long and her child was still quite young. She therefore volunteered for the Red Cross Transport Services, for which women drove their own car on Red Cross duties. She did this from 1941 to 1947. My mother was a good and experienced driver – prior to her marriage the motorbike had been superseded by a car which, at this time, was a 1937 Oldsmobile. Red Cross Transport did do C.B.D. “waste collection” using a large truck on which Volunteers did training sessions. Manipulating this through the narrow lanes of the Melbourne CBD and manipulating the bales of waste from back door to truck was a challenge my mother accepted with alacrity and really enjoyed. My mother was associated with the Girl Guide movement from 1925, until the late 1960s. Initially she was a guider and later became a member of the State Council, and State Executive. She was convener of the Property Sub-committee. Also she drafted the first constitution for Victoria and was very much involved with the work relating to their Act of Parliament. On her retirement from guiding she was given the Emu Award. She was a Special Magistrate of the Children’s Court at Box Hill from 1937, probably up to the late 1960s. She used to sit on alternate Monday afternoons. She was an active member of the Children’s Court Magistrates Association and was vice-president for at least one term. In 1952, she also became an Official “Visitor” under the Children’s Welfare Act. In 1953, she was awarded a Coronation Medal. She was a great believer in Mens Sana in Corpore Sano and played golf once a week at the Croydon club where she was president of the Associates for a year or so. She was also a member of the Box Hill Archery Club. My mother was a great support to my father when he was a member of the Legislative Assembly. He won the seat of Box Hill in 1947, but lost it in the next election. He then regained it and held it till his retirement in 1973. People found it easy to pour out their troubles to my mother – she was a great listener and could often suggest a solution herself, and if she could see that their local Member’s help was what was required, she would assist them with preparing submissions to him. She was very interested in my father’s parliamentary activities and would often spend time in ‘the visitors’ gallery, especially when my father was speaking. Fate may have denied my mother a stellar career at the Victorian Bar, but I think she was very satisfied with the life she had. She was absorbed in her many voluntary activities in which her special talents and legal training were invaluable. Also she had a wonderful marriage, was best friends with her only child, had a loving family and an army of friends in all walks of life. Published resources Resource Women Barristers in Victoria: Then and Now, The Victorian Bar, 2007, https://www.vicbar.com.au/wba/ Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Sophie Quinlivan (with Nikki Henningham) Created 9 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Beatrix McCay Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Beatrix McCay Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: BeatrixWig_crop.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The collection comprises 20 manuscript record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record.?Diaries, 1931-1993?Correspondence with her family, 1916-1992?Correspondence with personal and literary friends, 1928-1992?Publishing correspondence and related material, 1951-1993?Papers concerning the novel ‘Four winds and a family’, 1946-1953, 1963-1974?Papers concerning the novel ‘Jungfrau’ by Dymphna Cusack, 1989?Papers concerning the novel ‘Come in spinner’, 1947-1992?Papers concerning the television mini-series ‘Come in spinner’, 1980-1993?Papers concerning books about Australia and New Zealand which Florence James was commissioned to write (not published), 1963-1992?Papers concerning her work as an editor and journalist, 1940-1991, nd?Papers concerning literature, writing method and talks about literature, 1947-1992?Papers concerning International PEN and Australian Society of Authors, 1955-1981?Travel diaries and related papers, 1934-1987?Papers concerning Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), ca.1960-1991?Legal and financial records, 1934-1992?Miscellaneous papers, 1951, 1972-1990?Personal documents and papers concerning family history, 1890-1993?Photographs, 1929-1991?Printed material, 1921-1990?Oral history tapes, 1991 Author Details Jane Carey Created 27 October 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "40 minutes??One of a series of interviews conducted by curatorial staff and volunteers at the South Australian Migration Museum as research towards the 1996 exhibition ‘Chops and Changes’. In this interview, Maria Gaganis talks about the role of the Greek community in the South Australian food importing industry. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO7]??Comprises documents relating to the establishment of the Australian Red Cross by Royal Charter, granting the rights, powers and the terms of reference of the society. This series comprises additions and amendments to the Royal Charter (1928) and Supplemental Charter (1999), as well as correspondence regarding it history in being recognised as a separate body from the British Red Cross (2016.0052.00001).??This series also contains records relating to governance the Rules of the Australian Red Cross Society, as well as comprising regulations, by-laws, rules, objectives and management of branches within the Divisions of New South Wales, Victorian, Tasmanian, Northern Territory, Western Australian, Capital Territory, Queensland, and South Australia as well as regulations of the Papua New Guinea Division (2016.0052.0028) which was previously attached to the Queensland Division. Further records relating to Papua New Guinea – Division Records (2016.0060).??Documents have been artificially arranged by the Red Cross – National Office and ordered chronologically.??Published resources relating to the Royal Charter and the Rules of the Australian Red Cross Society:?http://www.redcross.org.au/files/Royal_Charter_Consolidated_and_Fourth_Supplemental_Charter.pdf?http://www.redcross.org.au/files/ARC_RULES.pdf??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 February 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A former Australian Young Lawyer of the Year, Zoe Rathus is Director of the Clinical Legal Education Program and Senior Lecturer at Griffith University’s Law School in Queensland. She was previously a solicitor, and then co-ordinator, at the Queensland Women’s Legal Service, in whose establishment she played an integral part. In 2011 Rathus was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the law, particularly through contributions to the rights of women, children and the Indigenous community, to education and to professional organisations. Zoe Rathus was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Zoe Rathus graduated from the University of Queensland with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degrees in the early 1980s. One of Rathus’ Law tutors was Quentin Bryce, later Australia’s first woman to hold the office of Governor-General. Bryce was also a mentor and role model to Rathus when women in such positions were few and far between for female students [The Australian]. In 1983, Rathus was admitted as a solicitor, working at the time for Lillie and Associates, a small suburban law firm. She practised mainly in family and criminal law. She subsequently joined the firm Goss Downey Carne. In 1984 Rathus was one of those involved in setting up the Queensland Women’s Legal Service. (She recalls that Bryce, by this time the first director of the Queensland Women’s Information Service in the Office of the Status of Women, was a valuable supporter of, fundraiser and networker for the nascent Legal Service) [The Australian]. As a solicitor with the Legal Service, Rathus was an advocate for women who experienced domestic violence. She was chairperson of the Queensland Domestic Violence Council and assisted with the defence of Dagma Stephenson who successfully pleaded self-defence after the homicide of her violent husband of 22 years [Green Left Weekly]. In 1990, Rathus received the accolade of Australian Young Lawyer of the Year, awarded by the Young Lawyers’ Section of the Law Council of Australia. With the matter of women in the legal system continuing to occupy her thinking, in 1993 Rathus wrote what has been described as a ‘seminal’ report, entitled ‘Rougher than Usual Handling: Women and the Criminal Justice System’. The report was “[b]ased on the knowledge of women’s experiences before the law accrued from experience in the community legal sector, [and it was said to have] made an invaluable contribution to the reform of Queensland criminal law” [Galloway]. From 1995 to 1998 Rathus’ continuing contribution to gender issues and the law acquired an international focus. She became involved in consultations concerning a key policy document seeking gender equality for South Africa: ‘Justice Vision 2000? [Gender Policy]. Rathus became co-ordinator of the Queensland Women’s Legal Service in 1989. In this role, she enjoined the Queensland Government to make changes to stalking laws to increase women’s protection, and opposed funding cuts to Legal Aid which adversely affected women on low incomes who were involved with the Family Court [Courier Mail; Meryment]. In 1999, Rathus was deputy chair of the Women’s Taskforce Review of Queensland’s criminal justice system, which examined the impact upon women of the Queensland Criminal Code, court practices and the legal system. As a result of the Review’s findings, in 2000 law reform was enacted which provided increased protection for women and children in rape and child abuse cases [Monk & Parnell]. Rathus was presented with the inaugural Queensland Woman Lawyer of the Year Award by the Women Lawyers’ Association Queensland in 2001. Two years later she was the recipient of the Centenary Medal, for distinguished service to the law and women’s issues in Queensland. In 2005, Rathus became Director of the Clinical Legal Education Program at Griffith University. She was also appointed Senior Lecturer; she lectures on family law, particularly in relation to family violence and gender-related matters, and women and teaches ethics and professional practice, which includes consideration of diversity within the legal profession and access to justice. An inspiration to her students, in 2011 they showed their appreciation, with Rathus receiving the ‘Best Lecturer-Brisbane Award’ by the Golden Key International Honour Society for her work as Program Director [Griffith]. Also in 2011, Rathus was appointed as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia for service to the law, particularly through contributions to the rights of women, children and the Indigenous community, to education and to professional organisations. Rathus has, furthermore, been recognised with the Travis Lindenmayer Award for services to family law. She is a board member of the Innocence Project and also a member of the member of the management committee of the Immigrant Women’s Support Service. She was previously a board member of Legal Aid Queensland and the Legal Services Commission. Rathus was instrumental in establishing the Queensland Women’s Legal Service and her passion and longstanding advocacy for family law, for women’s and children’s rights and access to justice, continue to have an impact on communities across Queensland. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Zoe Rathus interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Zoe Rathus Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1. 20 notebooks of the 1940s containing research by Pizer and Holburn mainly into Australian radical poetry. (Box 1). 2. Draft typescript anthology of Australian poetry resulting from the above research. Precursor of the shorter published anthology “Freedom on the Wallaby” (1953). (Box 2). 3. Manuscripts and proofs of “The Sixtieth spring” (1982), “Fire in the heart” (1990) and “Equinox” (1987) – books of poetry by Pizer published by Pinchgut Press. 4. Correspondence with Angus & Robertson re her school anthology “Come Listen” (1966). 5. Notes on 27 half sheets by Muir Holburn for a talk on Adelaide Ironside, Inez Hyland and Lesbia Harford. 6. 17 small notebooks containing drafts of poems by Pizer, 1977-89. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nance Loney, a once only candidate (ALP, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Vaucluse, 1981), took an active part in matters of politics and public policy as a member of the New South Wales Labor Party and activist groups such as Citizens for Democracy, the Labor Women’s Conference, the nuclear non-proliferation movement, Eastern Suburbs Friends of the ABC and Labor for Refugees. Nance Loney was educated at Banbury High School, the University of Western Australia (BSc) and RMIT. She worked for 2 years as a hospital laboratory technician and then as a Methods Engineer in Textiles after graduating in science. She moved from Western Australia to Sydney in 1960 and from 1977 worked in the computing branch of the State Rail Authority. She was active in anti-uranium and disarmament movements, and was a Republican. A member of the Australian Computer Society and the Australian Transport Officers Federation, she was a director of the Trans National Co-Operative from 1979. Nance Loney joined the ALP in 1975 and held office at local and electorate level. She continued to take an interest in public affairs in later life, submitting a motion to the Australian Republican Movement’s conference in 2002, and making a personal submission to the Commonwealth parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Treaties on the subject of the US/Australia Free Trade Agreement in April 2004. In 2004 she was on the executive committee of the NSW branch of the Friends of the ABC and assisted the ALP candidate, David Patch in his 2004 House of Representatives campaign for the seat of Wentworth. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 13 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of Nancy Flannery including sound recordings made as part of Nancy’s research for her book ‘This everlasting silence: the love letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson, 1911-1914’ and photographs of friends and family of the Mawson’s who were interviewed. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The MS 5396 collection comprises correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, research material, corrected proofs, and photographs relating to Barbalet’s short stories and her books: Far from a low gutter girl: the forgotten world of state wards, South Australia, 1887-1940, Blood in the rain, and Lady, baby, gypsy, queen (5 boxes).??The Acc02.154 instalment includes drafts and papers relating to The wolf, the final draft of Blood in the rain, and correspondence, 1988-1991 (1 box).??The Acc03.146 instalment comprises papers relating mainly to the unpublished novel Joey, including several word-processed drafts, some handwritten pages and notes, and two photocopied cuttings (1 box).??The Acc03.245 instalment comprises drafts of Lady, baby, gypsy, queen (1 box).??The Acc04.073 instalment includes drafts of The presence of angels, plus proofs, cover proofs, and correspondence (1 box, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc04.192 instalment comprises correspondence relating to the children’s book The wolf, 1989-1990, drafts and marked up proofs of Steel beach (formerly called Joey), and the copyedited draft of Blood in the rain (1 box).??The Acc05.044 instalment includes a folder relating to Reggie, queen of the street, a folder relating to The presence of angels, an envelope of letters relating to Far from a low gutter girl, and an envelope of illustrations, text and proofs of Reggie (1 A3 carton).??The Acc05.074 instalment consists of files relating to the history of Adelaide Children’s Hospital (1 box). Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc01.312 comprises diaries and other papers recording Wilhelmina Volk’s life in Townsville and Mt Isa, and a voyage taken with her husband in 1936-1938, which ended in shipwreck near Broome, Western Australia (7 boxes).??The Acc04.175 instalment includes letters, 1938-1993, copy of birth certificate, and papers relating to Volk’s 100th birthday and newspaper cuttings (1 folder, 1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Hon. Justice Jane Mathews AO was the first woman to be admitted to full judicial office in New South Wales, and she has continued to pave the way for women lawyers on a number of fronts. Mathews became the State’s first female Supreme Court judge, as well as its first female District Court judge and its first Crown prosecutor. In addition to these positions, she has served as president of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and on the bench of the Federal Court of Australia. Other roles have included president of the International Association of Women Judges, following her involvement in establishing the Australian chapter of the organisation, and deputy chancellor of the University of New South Wales. Patron of the Women Lawyers’ Association of New South Wales, Mathews was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia for service to the judiciary, to the legal profession, to the University of New South Wales, and to music. Mathews passed away on 31 August 2019. Recognised as a trailblazer in her field, prominent lawyers said the ‘”adored” and down-to-earth Mathews, who had a deep commitment to social justice, left an indelible mark on the legal profession and the women who followed in her footsteps.’ Jane Mathews was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. It was seeing the film ‘The Winslow Boy’ at an impressionable age that motivated The Hon. Justice Jane Mathews to study law. After attending Frensham School in Mittagong, she entered the University of Sydney, later graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree. At a time when there were few female lawyers in the profession, Mathews succeeded in obtaining articles of clerkship at the Sydney firm Dawson, Waldron, Edwards and Nichols (later Blake Dawson Waldron): she became the firm’s first female articled clerk. After being admitted as a solicitor, Mathews practised briefly at a firm in Wollongong before returning to Sydney and joining the practice of Allen, Allen and Hemsley, where she was engaged in defamation work for the Packer Press [Jowett]. Mathews then embarked upon a career at the New South Wales Bar in Sydney; Mary Gaudron, who later became the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia, was one of only a few female contemporaries. A decision to decline family law work meant that Mathews mainly dealt with legal aid and criminal law cases at the Bar. From 1974 to 1976, Mathews was Counsel assisting the Royal Commission on Human Relationships, which looked “at all aspects of society including the more controversial issues such as abortion, prostitution, rape, incest and homosexuality” [Jowett]. At the conclusion of the royal commission, Mathews accepted the offer of a role as a Crown prosecutor in New South Wales. Again she was the first woman to hold such a position. In her work, Mathews came to focus on sexual assault prosecutions, after recognising the difference it made for female complainants to be represented by a woman prosecutor. In 1980, Mathews was appointed a judge of the District Court of New South Wales, her appointment significant for being the first time in which a woman had been appointed to the Court. She enjoyed the circuit work and collegiate atmosphere of the Court. Mathews became a part-time commissioner with the New South Wales Law Reform Commission and from 1985 to 1987 she also led the New South Wales Equal Opportunity Tribunal as senior judicial member at a time when anti-discrimination legislation was new and cases ground-breaking [Jowett]. In 1987, in yet another ‘first’, Mathews became the first female judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales; she was only the second woman after Dame Roma Mitchell to be appointed to a Supreme Court in Australia [Jowett]. In 1989 Mathews, then the only woman serving on a Supreme Court in Australia, attended a conference in Washington DC celebrating the 10th anniversary of the American Association of Women Judges (AAWJ). The event was life-changing for Mathews, who had felt the isolation of being the only woman on the bench [Jowett]. She returned to Australia and in 1991 founded the Australian Association of Women Judges. The AAWJ conference also spawned the International Association of Women Judges and Mathews was involved as treasurer and later president of the organisation between 2004 and 2006 [Jowett]. Mathews is also involved as patron of the Women Lawyers’ Association of New South Wales. From 1992 to 1999, Mathews was deputy chancellor of the University of New South Wales [Law Council]. In 1994, Mathews was appointed to the role of president of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; consequently she also became a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. Between 1994 and 1999 she was also deputy president of the National Native Title Tribunal, which had recently been established [Jowett]. In 2001 Mathews returned to the Supreme Court of New South Wales as an acting judge. Nearly 10 years later, she was appointed an acting judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory [Corbell]. Beyond the law, Mathews has a great interest in music, especially that of Wagner. She is a former president of the Arts Law Centre and a continuing member of the Council of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She is also a self-described ‘Italy-phile’. Mathews has been awarded honorary degrees by the Universities of Wollongong and Sydney. She has also been appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to the judiciary, to the legal profession, to the University of New South Wales, and to music. Mathews is a true trailblazer, embodying many ‘firsts’ in her considerable and wide-ranging legal career spanning both state and the federal courts. She has been a generous contributor to the development and reform of legal policy and case law, to fostering judicial leadership for women on a global level, and is an inspiration for all those who aspire to work in the law. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Section Interview: Acting Justice Jane Mathews AO, Jowett, Tina, 2015, http://www.nswbar.asn.au/docs/webdocs/BN032015_mathews.pdf Retirement of Hon. Justice Jane Hamilton Mathews, Speech by President of Law Council of Australia, 4 April 2001, 2001, https://www.lawcouncil.asn.au/lawcouncil/images/LCA-PDF/speeches/20010404matthewsretirement.pdf Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jane Mathews interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law pilot oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 12 September 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Associate Professor Jane Power completed her Law Degree at The University of Western Australia in 1983. She immediately commenced practice as an Articled Clerk with the Legal Aid Commission of Western Australia, specialising mainly in the area of Family Law. Jane continued to work in a part time capacity after the birth of the first of her three children, again concentrating in Family Law but also Juvenile Justice and minor Criminal Law. In addition to working for the Commission in Perth, she spent a number of years assisting as Duty Counsel and in the Advice Bureau in the Fremantle jurisdiction. She has also worked for a medium sized local firm and a sole practitioner. Jane currently holds the position of Director, Professional Legal Education at the Law School of The University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle Campus) having commenced the position in January 2012. She was previously the Associate Dean (Students) from 2004 – 2007, and Dean from 2008 – 2011. She was the second female Law Dean in Western Australia. She is responsible for the School’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme, for practitioners and serves on numerous practitioner related bodies. She continues to hold her Practice Certificate. Jane Power is the eldest daughter (and third of five siblings) of Joan and Ken Mckenna and attended school at Iona Presentation College (where she was a prefect) before studying law at the University of Western Australia; she was admitted to practice in 1984 having completed her Articles at Legal Aid Western Australia. She was the first law graduate of Iona Presentation College. Between 1984 and 2002 she practised mainly in the areas of Family Law and Juvenile Justice in both a full time and part time capacity with Legal Aid and a small private firm. She is married to barrister Tony Power of Francis Burt Chambers and has three adult children. Jane has always maintained a passion for pro bono and volunteer legal work and has held her practice certificate for this reason continuously since her entry into academia in 2002. She maintains a specific interest in the education of women at both secondary and tertiary level, and served on the school board (as Chair for nine years) of an all-girls school. Her PhD, conferred in December 2015, included Education Law. From 2005 – 2010 she held various positions with the Curriculum Council of Western Australia in relation to writing and marking year 12 exams in Politics and the Law. She is, or has recently been, a member of the following: Law Society of Western Australia (LSWA) Women Lawyers of Western Australia (WLWA) WLWA Gender Bias Taskforce Report Review Committee Graduate Recruitment Advisory Group (Convener) Law Society’s Graduate and Academic Standards Committee (Deputy Convener) Law Society’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Committee Law Society’s Francis Burt Law Education Committee Australian and New Zealand Education Law Association (ANZELA, Vice President WA Chapter) Australian Law Teacher’s Association (ALTA) Australian and New Zealand Legal History Association (ANZLHS) As a member of Women Lawyers of Western Australia Jane was co-convener of Chapter 2 of the Chief Justice’s Gender Bias Report Review 2014 (‘the Review’, published in October 2014), a member of the Standing Committee of the Review and is currently a member of the Review’s Implementation Committee. She is committed to advancing the prospects of women in the law and ensuring a fair and equitable participation in practice. She was nominated for Senior Woman Lawyer of the Year by the WLWA and Woman Lawyer of the Year by the Law Society in 2012. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Jane Power (with Nikki Henningham) Created 27 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Jane Power Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers concerning The Society of Women Writers (Australia), 1976-1992?Sound recordings, 1984 Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Savina Patroni talks about her Italian family background; her siblings; her husband emigrating after WWII following his brothers arrival before WWI; meeting her husband in Italy; her work as a dressmaker and tailor during the war; Milan; husband asks her to come to Kalgoorlie; coming to Australia by ship; Diphtheria; landing in Fremantle; the train trip to Kalgoorlie; their first house in Kalgoorlie, electricity on after five years; missing family; Italian neighbours; family move to live near her; food and refrigeration; learning English; husband’s work; birth of children in hospital; garden work, sending carrots and cabbage to market; her children’s careers; dressmaking; speaking Italian at home; carting water from the bush by bucket for the house and the water bag; outside toilets; coping with Australia; compares Milan to Kalgoorlie; Italian families living near Somerville Gardens; understanding dialects of neighbours; returning to Italy for a visit; men’s camps; first impressions of Australia; cousin visits from Italy and brought her own small gas stove; regularly writing long letters to Italy; how it is easier for men to migrate and then find work than women; her husband working with his brother; hotel work in Kalgoorlie. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 19 September 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Programmes and invitations associated with the visit of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of York in 1927. Programmes and entry tickets include a reception for the Duchess by the National Council of Women of Queensland; ceremony of conferring the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws on His Royal Highness The Duke of York; Garden Party in New Farm Park and a printed silk Commemorative ribbon.?Programme of a concert presented by members of the Brisbane String Orchestra in 1948 in aid of the Lady Mayoress’ Food for Britain Appeal Fund. The concert was conducted by Vada Jefferies assisted by Olwyn Jones and Robert Boughen and held in the Albert Hall. Also in the collection is a small greeting card in the shape of a fan from E.M.Gore to M.Blanks. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Thelma Bate was unsuccessful in her attempts to enter State and Federal Parliament, but worked for the community and for equality regardless of gender, race or creed throughout her life. She ran as a member of the Country Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Dubbo, 1947 (known as Harvey), in the Senate in 1951 and 1953 for Gwydir (now known as Kirkby) and in Kirkby’s 1953 by election for the House of Representatives. Thelma Florence Bate was born 3 August 1904, daughter of Olaf Olsen. She later took her stepfather’s name, Sundstrom, she was educated at Fort Street Girls’ High School and the University of Sydney, graduating BA 1928. After travelling abroad, she taught secondary school and in 1934 married a grazier, Richard Harvey, and went to live on his property near Ivanhoe, New South Wales. Widowed in 1946, she stood for the Country Party in the NSW Legislative Assembly seat of Dubbo in 1947 and was narrowly defeated. In 1949 she married Kenneth Kirkby. She ran for the Senate in 1951 and 1953, unsuccessfully, on the Country Party ticket. She was one of two Country Party candidates for the Federal seat of Gwydir in a by election in 1953, and was again unsuccessful. She later devoted her considerable energy to various organizations including the Country Women’s Association of NSW, which she represented in Toronto, Canada, 1953, at the Association of Country Women of the World. She was a member of the CWA for over 40 years, and served as secretary 1957-59, and president 1959-62. She was insistent that the Association include Aboriginal women and was an executive member of the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs. She was actively involved in establishing the International Houses at both the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, which housed international students in Australia on the Colombo Plan. It was for this work that she received the CBE in 1969. In 1958 she married Henry Bate, known as Jeff, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1968. She had no children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This series contains files relating to the wartime administration of the military forces of Australia including administration, compensation, defence and fixed defences, medical and dental corps. There are three identifiable groups of records within MP508/1. The general or War correspondence series, correspondence dealing with the AIF [Australian Imperial Forces] and correspondence dealing with ‘Civil Staff’ matters. These groups have been distinguished by the allocation of secondary number groupings within the multiple number series. These three groups of records have been registered as three separate Commonwealth Record Series (CRS) B1539, B1543 and B1547 but the records have not been physically converted. All records should be requested from MP508/1. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2002 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 124 min.)??Belinda Hazell speaks about Judbury in the 1950s when the apple growing industry was at its peak; her parents and family background; being a triplet; moving to the Huon Valley at 13 years; her schooling and going to technical college; working for the Apple export board; the vibrant apple industry in the early 1980s; the Rural Youth Organisation; going on an exchange to Sweden; getting married (1990); working for her husband’s family; Hazell Brothers business and properties; her involvement in a tissue culture project, in vitro micro propagating apple and pear root stock; working with quality assurance systems, environmental and occupational health and safety systems; leaving Hazell Brothers (2000); working for the Department of Economic Development in the Food and Beverage unit; establishing a quality systems consultancy with her sister; advising on food safety systems, occupational health and safety and human resources; her current business activities.??Hazell talks about the Rural Safety Advisory Council; Tasmanian Women in Agriculture; helping people to deal with change; enjoyment working with systems and emergent ideas; her sister Caroline and her work; her nomination for the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award (1997); being nominated as a Tasmanian Young Achiever for Tissue Culture work (1993); Ruth Paterson; working with traditional agricultural organisations to support families and communities; meeting with a delegation of agricultural women in Ireland; encouraging women to think about their opportunities; combining family and professional life; her hopes for her daughters’ futures; her confidence in the future of agriculture and horticulture in Tasmania; the decision to sell Forest Home; her excitement at the next phase of life; life after Forest Home; changes in Tasmania since 1997; the decline in apple industry; her concern about the lack of federal policy on the future production of safe, quality food; the impact of climate change. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 April 2011 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Western Australian branch of the Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW) was inaugurated in Perth in 1984. Some of its primary aims were to move the Anglican Church in Australia to admit women to the ordained ministries of the Church, and to encourage women to hear and respond to the call of God, and not be afraid of working towards fulfilling their vocations. At the Annual General Meeting, held in November 1994, it was agreed that the Perth movement had achieved its main aim and was disbanded.??Includes correspondence, financial records, invitations, membership lists, newsletters, research notes. Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "46 hours 30 minutes??Lithuanian language radio programs produced by the South Australian Lithuanian community were first broadcast in March 1977 on University Radio 5UV. From January 1980 the broadcasts were made at 5EBI-FM. Mr Algi Grigonis was the chief technician for the weekly program from its inception until his death in March 1992. He made a copy of each program with the intention of presenting them to an appropriate repository in Lithuania. Before proceeding with this plan, his family – with the assistance of Mr Leonas Gerulaitis, President of the Lithuanian Radio Committee – chose a sample of the programs for the Mortlock Library to copy. The sample deliberately emphasises programs with a South Australian, rather than a national or international focus, and does not include broadcasts later than March 1990 when news direct from Lithuania reporting the emergent independence movement dominated programing. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Zara Dare was 45 years-old when she applied for a position as a Queensland police officer. She had previously worked in China for the Salvation Army and, upon returning to Australia, she was an organiser of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Zara and her colleague, Ellen O’Donnell, commenced at the Roma Street Police Station in 1931. Neither of the women was sworn in and therefore did not receive the same pay allowances and privileges (including superannuation) as male officers. Zara’s work within the police force was restricted to looking after lost children, escorting female prisoners, and working with victims of domestic and sexual violence. Nine years after joining the police force, Zara retired to marry. It was not until 1965 that Queensland police women were officially sworn in and therefore entitled to some of the privileges enjoyed by men. The National Council of Women of Queensland (NCWQ) in 1911 drew attention to the need for women and girls in Queensland to be better served in matters of crime. There were no female police officers in Australia at the time and the NCWQ called for women, experienced and educated in social work, to be given the status of police officers. The appointment of two female police in New South Wales in 1915 was not enough to encourage the Queensland Commissioner of Police William Cahill to follow suit. By 1917 Queensland was the only state without female police. Newspapers and community groups began asking why. The Queensland Country Women’s Association (QCWA), the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, James Duhig, the NCWQ and the Queensland Women’s Electoral League (QWEL) all called for the appointment of women in policing. It was not until Irene Longman was elected to State Parliament in 1929 that the opposition to female police began to be broken down. As past president of the NCWQ and a member of the QWEL, Irene made a submission to cabinet in 1930, outlining the necessity for women to handle sensitive cases such as children, girls and women who have been involved in sexual assault cases. Although the decision was not unanimous, Cabinet consented to the appointment of women in the police force. Zara Dare, along with Ellen O’Donnell, accepted the offer of positions and the women were based at the Roma Street police station. When the time came to review their appointments and make them permanent, the Police commissioner William Ryan stated that they were well paid for the job they were doing, and although there was nothing under the Police Act 1898 to stop them from being sworn in, he considered that their swearing in would reduce the number of male police constables by two. Zara kept her job by agreeing not to be sworn in. She never received the pay allowances and privileges of her fellow police, nor superannuation. The NCWQ continued to lobby to have Zara and Ellen made permanent, but Police Commissioner Ryan made it clear that if they were not satisfied, they were free to resign at any time. When Zara resigned from the police force to marry, the Queensland Times noted her departure with a small article, headlined “Policewoman Wanted”. A women’s police unit, attached to the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB), was established soon after Zara’s resignation. Published resources Resource 50 Firsts: Queensland Policewomen at Work, Queensland State Archives, 2009, http://queenslandfirsts.org/01_cms/details.asp?ID=39 Zara Dare (1886 - 1965), Grant, Heather, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1930/index.html#item-zara-dare Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Ellen O'Donnell and Zara Dare: Queensland's first policewomen, Grant, Heather, 2005 Book Journey to equality: an illustrated history of women in the Queensland Police, Prenzler, Tim, Jones, Lisa, Ronken, Carol, 2001 Archival resources Queensland State Archives Police Service File Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Daisy Bates sends Prof. J.A. Fitzherbert 11 pages of vocabulary from informants Gauera (f) and Bijarda (m) from north and west of Eucla, showing some similarities with Bibbulmun words and differences and connections with Eucla, Bight and north of Eucla. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "During World War II Elsie Byth was an executive and/or committee member of a number of organisations. President of the National Council of Women of Australia in 1944 and the National Council of Women of Queensland (1940-1945). She was vice-president of the Australian Comforts Fund in 1940 and the Women’s Voluntary National Register; member of the management committee for the Queensland Patriotic Fund; member of the War Saving committee and the War Accommodation committee. Married to solicitor George Leonard Byth (Len) in 1917, they had four children. Her hobbies included music, flowers and fine needlework. Elsie Byth was president of the National Council of Women of Australia from 1945 to 1948 and the National Council of Women of Queensland (1940-1945, 1948-1952). As national president, the first Queenslander to hold the position, she saw the NCWA through the final stages of the Second World War, the beginnings of postwar reconstruction and the re-establishment of international links via the International Council of Women. Active in the Australian National Committee of the UN (ANCUN), she was Australia’s second delegate to the Status of Women Commission in 1949. She maintained her commitment to international cooperation for the remainder of her life through the United Nations Association of Australia and also through the Pan Pacific and South East Asian Women’s Association. She was responsible for the NCWA’s first major engagement in the Asia-Pacific region when she organised a ‘Pacific Assembly’ in Brisbane in September 1948. Elsie Frances Byth was the daughter of John Gasteen of Brisbane. She was born in Brisbane on 14 September 1890 and educated at Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School and the University of Sydney. On 10 August 1917, Elsie married George L. Byth and they had 3 sons and 1 daughter. Elsie Byth performed a wide variety of roles in the National Council of Women, state and federal. She was president of the National Council of Women of Queensland from 1940 to 1945 and, again, 1948-1952. In between these terms of office in her home state, she was president of the Australian Council (1945-1948)-a critical period that included the end of the war and postwar reconstruction. During her presidency, the 1946 conference agree to a Launceston delegate’s request to allow branches that had ‘attained a sufficiently large affiliation as almost to equal in importance the parent Council in the capital city’ to communicate directly with the Australian secretary and international secretary, a step that was to create difficulties with regard to Tasmanian representation for the next 60 years. After her term had finished, Byth became a state delegate (1951, 1954) to the NCWA, an NCWA representative at the Pan Pacific Women’s Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand (1952), and Australian convenor for Radio and Television (1954). Elsie Byth was especially active in the international outreach of the Council movement, leading the NCWA during the period of reengagement with the re-formed ICW after the war. Under her presidency, the NCWA telegraphed a resolution to the secretary of the United Nations conference in San Francisco in April 1945 to ‘request in all future planning no discrimination against women on account sex and principle equality of status and opportunity be established for all citizens’. During 1946 and 1947, her board undertook the successful reestablishment of the Australian Liaison Committee of international women’s organisations on the lines of the Liaison Committee operating in London, as well as participating in the rival Australian National Committee of the UN (ANCUN) established in 1947 with government support to promote UN ideals and provide names of suitable persons as representatives of Australia on international bodies. Byth was also responsible for inaugurating a regional focus among the Australian Councils with the sponsoring of a ‘Pacific Assembly’ in Brisbane in September 1948 for the purpose of increasing knowledge and understanding as well as promoting ‘tolerance’ an appreciation of ‘interdependence’ and the ‘desire to be “a good neighbour”‘. Opened by Senator Annabelle Rankin and addressed by such luminaries as Professor G.S. Browne, as well as representatives of embassies of countries in the Pacific region, the conference received wide press coverage, its final session resolving to recommend compulsory study of international affairs in Australian schools and universities. The event marked the beginning of the NCWA’s identity as part of a regional network beyond the European and American spheres. Elsie Byth was a member of the United Nations Association of Australia for 30 years serving in a variety of roles, including as president of the Queensland division 1945-59. In 1949, the Australian government chose Mrs Byth as its representative to attend the third session of the Status of Women Commission (CSW) in Beirut, Lebanon, from 21 March to 4 April, following Jessie Street (1947-48). She was selected from a ‘panel of names’ submitted by ANCUN. At the CSW meeting, the USSR representative, referring to the significant number of women in paid employment in her country, informed delegates that Australian women received only 50 per cent of men’s wages. As the official Australian spokesperson at the Commission, Elsie Byth attempted to divert criticism of Australian government policy by stressing that the differences between men’s and women’s wages in Australia had declined during the past ten years. She advised delegates that an appropriately assessed ‘family wage’ would prevent the need for married women to search for work in order to ‘supplement the family income’. Nevertheless, the majority of CSW delegates agreed to a resolution supporting equal pay. Following instructions, Byth abstained from voting, despite her personal commitment, and that of NCWA, to the principle. The position Byth was obliged to take was consistent with the Labor government’s view that the ILO was the appropriate body to discuss ‘rates of pay, hours and conditions of work for both sexes’. Byth’s confidential report to the Australian government after her attendance at the CSW sessions explains this further, indicating that she followed the Department of External Affairs’ instructions to counter communist accusations directed towards Australia’s industrial relations system and that of other British Commonwealth countries. It seems highly probable that Byth’s advisor, Eileen Powell, as a former employee of the Department of Labour and National Service, was entrusted with the task of ensuring that Byth supported the Australian government’s position. This government attitude to the question of equal pay continued to be a problem faced by Australian women delegates to CSW during the 1950s and 60s. Within Australia, Byth and her successors continued to agitate for remuneration without discrimination based on sex. Elsie Byth was also involved in a great many other community organisations in a voluntary role, for example, UNICEF, Brisbane Women’s Club (president 1933-1936), the Queensland division of the Australian Comforts Fund (vice-president 1940-1945), the wartime state Women’s Voluntary National Register (vice-president), the Management Committee of the Queensland Patriotic Club, and the War Savings Committee. She also held a number of government appointments for which she was nominated by the NCWA, for example, on the federal consultative committee on Imports Licensing Control, the Commonwealth Council of Medical Benefits Fund, and the ABC. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1953. Prepared by: Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Events 1940 - 1945 President of the National Council of Women of Queensland 1944 - 1948 President of the National Council of Women of Australia 1940 - 1940 Vice-president of the Australian Comforts Fund 1933 - 1936 President of the Brisbane Women’s Club 2017 - 2017 Married G. Leonard Byth, they had 3 sons and 1 daughter Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1947, Chisholm, Alec H, 1947 Book The first fifty years in the history of the National Council of Women of Queensland, National Council of Women of Queensland, 1959 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Newspaper Article ON THE WAY TO BEIRUT Status Of Women Commission, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18107446 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Various Locations National Council of Women of Australia [Queensland Branch], Mrs G.L. Blyth. Brisbane. National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Applications for positions by Byth, Elsie Frances National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1936-1972 [manuscript] John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 7266 National Council of Women of Queensland Minute Books 1905-2004 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 October 2003 Last modified 24 October 2013 Digital resources Title: Elsie Byth Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Byth-to-Beirut.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "After ten years as a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, and four years prior to that at Bennett & Co., Jenni Hill is now (2016) a partner at the Perth office of international law firm, Clifford Chance. She is a litigation specialist, representing clients in the energy and resources sectors, and advising on corporate and shareholder disputes and investigations. Committed to promoting equality of opportunity in the legal profession, Hill was a joint winner of the Western Australian Women Lawyers Association Woman Lawyer of the Year award in 2011. When at Norton Rose Fulbright, she chaired a Workplace Flexibility focus group. She is on the board of CEOs for Gender Equity, an initiative of the Western Australian Equal Opportunity Commission launched in 2014 to promote gender equity in the corporate sector. A woman who is ‘astute at picking her battles’ and developing strategies ‘for the long term’, she intends to change discriminatory corporate cultures by asserting influence from within. Jenni Hill was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Except for a couple of years when her family lived in England, Jenni Hill grew up in Hobart, Tasmania, moving to Canberra in 1981, where she finished her schooling. Both her parents were teachers, a fact she is sure contributed to her ‘not remembering a time when she didn’t think she would go to university’. The excellent education she received at both the Friends Quaker School in Hobart and Canberra Church of England Girls’ Grammar made it certain. Hill graduated with a BSc/LLB (Hons) from the Australian National University in 1992. She was admitted as a solicitor in Western Australia and the High Court of Australia in 1994. Before graduating, Hill received many graduate offers from Sydney based firms but decided to make the move to Perth, where she had been offered a position as associate to Justice Walsh of the WA Supreme Court. A preference for the lifestyle options available in smaller cities, along with some personal connections (her best friend from university days, (the Hon. Justice) Janine Pritchard, had moved across to Perth), convinced her to stay, rather than return to Sydney to take up her graduate offer. What she hadn’t counted on was the time and effort it took to find a local firm to take her on to complete her articles; preference was given to local graduates, despite her excellent CV and experience. Fortunately, a colleague who she had worked with at the Supreme Court offered to put in a good word for her with Martin Bennett at Bennett & Co, and her career in litigation in Perth was launched. Thus, the experience of discrimination, as well as the importance of networking, were demonstrated very early as she progressed up the ladder. From her time as an associate, Hill had early exposure to criminal law but from that experience decided it wasn’t for her. She, nevertheless, wanted to do court work. She had always imagined herself a litigator; she enjoyed mooting as a student (she was a member of a successful all women team in her fourth year at university) and enjoyed the process of preparing and presenting an argument. Fortunately, working at a smaller firm, like Bennett & Co. gave her the opportunity to forge a career in litigation where court appearances were common, even for less experienced lawyers. Large top tier firms were less like to give recent graduates that sort of control and experience. From those early days, she has developed a reputation in Perth that has earned the respect of colleagues and clients alike. While developing a profitable practice and seniority in the industry, Hill has also felt a deep responsibility to improve corporate and legal cultures to promote and encourage diversity, not only in terms of gender, but also with regard to ethnicity and age. Recognising that her education has created opportunities for her she feels a responsibility to ‘use [her] sphere of influence to change what [I] can … to assess whether I have influence or power in a situation and then to use that for good’. This led her to be involved in initiatives such as the Workplace Flexibility task force when she was at Norton Rose Fulbright and the Western Australian Opportunity Commission project, CEOs for Gender Equality. She hopes that these types of initiatives will make combining work and family life easier for women and men coming through. She doesn’t accept the view of some more senior figures, who faced challenges and ‘pulling up the ladder after them’ say ‘well it was hard for me, it can be hard for you, too’. ‘I don’t accept that,’ she says. ‘It’s like saying I got bullied at school so you should be bullied so you know what it feels like’. Understanding where she is most effective means that she might not ever end up at the Bar. ‘That used to be a personal dream,’ she say, ‘but at the moment I actually think that my sphere of influence is probably better placed in the role that I have now.’ Working in a large, global firm, ‘diversity is a key issue’ …. There are fantastic opportunities for me to try to leave a lasting legacy.’ She hopes she can be part of a change, working from within. ‘I really do strongly believe that there is an obligation on… senior women to speak up and to try to change.’ Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jenni Hill interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Jenni Hill Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A once-only candidate for State Parliament (Liberal Party candidate for Bankstown in 1950), Blanche Barkl instead became a successful local councillor. She was Alderman for the Bankstown Municipal Council from 1948-54 and 1959-62, and was Bankstown Mayor from 1951-53. Blanche Barkl was the first woman elected to Bankstown Municipal Council (1948), and the first woman elected Deputy Mayor (1949) and Mayor (1951-53). She also served as Divisional Commissioner, Girl Guides Sir Joseph Banks Division. She and her husband, Jim, had two daughters. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personal website of Romaine Rutnam, archived by the Australian Women’s Archive Project through the Australian Women’s Register in January 2011. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 3 February 2011 Last modified 4 February 2011 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, diaries (1969-1975); typescript drafts of Courier-Mail “Medical Mother” column (1951-1979); Australian Home Journal (1965-1973); articles for the Newcastle Sun (1974-1979); drafts of broadcasts for 4BK “Medical Mother” programme; drafts of books; miscellaneous writings; lecture notes; speeches; newspaper cuttings, subject files; journals; books and pamphlets; scrapbook on Mothercraft Association of Queensland; photographs. Author Details Jane Carey Created 4 August 2004 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 cassettes – 3hrs Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nicole Lawder first entered the ACT Legislative Assembly in 2013, representing Canberra Liberals in the electorate of Brindabella in the Tuggeranong region. She was re-elected in 2016 and in 2020 and will retire from the Assembly at the 2024 election. Prior to her parliamentary service Lawder worked in the public service and as chief executive of the community organisations, Deafness Forum of Australia and Homelessness Australia. Born in 1962, in Penang in Malaya, the youngest of Joan McDonaugh and Oxley Gordon-Brown’s three children, Nicole Lawder had both an elder brother, Lee Nigel Gordon-Brown, and an elder sister, Alison Kim Gordon-Brown. Her mother was a secretary, her father a member of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The family returned to Queensland in 1963 after the posting to Malaya which was followed by many further postings around Australia. Lawder’s primary schooling was completed in 1974 in New South Wales and her high schooling in 1979 in Victoria. She gained her undergraduate degree at the Australian National University (Bachelor of Arts in Psychology) followed by a Masters in Business from Swinburne University of Technology. She married, in January 1982, Timothy John Lawder who also served in the Royal Australian Air Force. They had two children, Catherine Louise Lawder and Alexander James Lawder. Service in the RAAF took the family around Australia and to the United States returning to Canberra late in 1988. Nicole and Timothy Lawder divorced in 1993. In 1998 she married Peter Badowski, the child of European refugees. Lawder began her career in 1989 at the Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communication complex as executive assistant to the director. She then managed the centre’s public affairs and its visitors’ centre. Various public affairs roles in the Australian Public Service followed as did a period with Deloitte Consulting. She cites the 2002 shootings at Monash University which left two people dead and five injured – including her brother, Lee Gordon-Brown – as the catalyst for the decisive change in the direction of her career. In a 2016 interview with Ginger Gorman of the website HerCanberra, Lawder said it made her re-assess her purpose in life and prompted her ‘to work in the community sector’. This, in turn, led to her interest in politics and her support for gun control. Lawder served as Chief Executive of the Deafness Forum of Australia (2006–2010) which supports Australians who are deaf or hard of hearing to live well in the community. She then took up the appointment as Chief Executive of Homelessness Australia (2011–2013), a national peak body providing advocacy for the homelessness sector and a unified voice seeking to prevent and respond to homelessness. She served as a Member of the National People with Disability and Carer Council (2008–2013) and on several government and other boards and committees. Her involvement as a volunteer in the Canberra community has included serving on the board of Tuggeranong Football Club, volunteering for Ronald McDonald House (which supports families with seriously ill or injured children), her local Community Fire Unit and the Red Cross. Lawder entered the ACT Legislative Assembly in June 2013, filling the casual vacancy resulting from the resignation of Zed Seselja in February of that year. She served as Deputy Leader of the Opposition (October 2016–October 2020) and as Opposition Whip (February 2022–October 2024). Lawder has held multiple shadow ministries, for example, Arts, City Services, Environment, Heritage, Water, Family and Community Services, Housing, Planning and Infrastructure, Seniors, Urban Services, Veterans’ Affairs and Women. Her commitment to accessibility and inclusion is reflected in her membership of several standing and select committees of the Legislative Assembly including Cost of Living Pressures, Economy, Education and Community Inclusion, Estimates, Justice and Community Services and Public Accounts. Lawder’s wide range of interests has included being a keen squash player, vegetable gardener and cook, cheese making and basket weaving; being a Game of Thrones devotee and having a predilection for colourful jackets and statement brooches. On leaving the Assembly she aims to continue to serve the Canberra community and will embark on her doctoral research at the Australian National University, in the School of Politics and International Relations. Published resources Lawder, Nicole: Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory website, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/tenth-assembly-members/brindabella/lawder-nicole Nicole Lawder, Wikipedia entry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Lawder Looking out for the vulnerable, Jean, Peter, 6 July 2013 The moment: Nicole Lawder, Gorman, Ginger, 19 May 2016, https://hercanberra.com.au/life/people/moment-nicole-lawder 'Jeered, grabbed', MLA's abortion story, Bladen, Lucy, 5 August 2022 Brindabella Liberals MLA Nicole Lawder won't contest 2024 election, Fenwicke, Claire, 20 October 2023 Author Details Anne-Marie Schwirtlich Created 21 July 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Lespar Collection includes many out of print and hard to find books, the largest collection of lesbian novels in Australia, an extensive collection of journals, pamphlets, ephemera, magazines from international, national and state sources and the complete recordings of “Out of the gilded cage” radio shows. The collection is in two sections, the first being material collected by Karin Hoffmann and the second being the archives of women’s organizations and personal lodged after the collection moved to the Murdoch repository. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "I. N.S.W. BRANCH??1979-1981; Minutes, 13 Mar. 1979-14. Apr. 1981 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1981-1982; Minutes, 12 May 1981-11 Dec. 1982 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1983-1984; Minutes, Feb. 1983-Oct. 1984 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1984-1986; Minutes, Nov. 1984-Apr. 1986 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1986-1991; Minutes, May 1986-June 1991 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1983-1987; Green plastic clip-folder of incomplete duplicate minutes, with related papers (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1978-1984; Meetings’ attendance book (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1984-1991; Meetings’ attendance book (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1965-1976; ‘List of Members 1965- ‘ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1974-1978; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)?1988-1992; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)?1965-1978; ‘W.I.L.P.F. Resignations and Deaths’, being letters received (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)?1986-1990; Daybooks (3), being registers of correspondence and telephone calls (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)?1977-1978; ‘Australian Conferences’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)?1965; Papers concerning Australian Co-operation Year Convention, Canberra, 17-20 May, 1965 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)?1988-1991; Papers concerning Women’s Action Network (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/3)?1960-1986; Financial records (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/3)??II. AUSTRALIAN SECTION??1971-1972, 1976, 1982-1989; Minutes of Committee and Executive meetings (incomplete) (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/4)?1984-1989; General correspondence for Executive meetings (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/4)?1986; ‘Policy & Action [Statement] 1986’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)?1984-1989; ‘O’seas Sections’, being correspondence with overseas sections (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)?1981-1987; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)?1980-1984; Financial records (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)?1986-1988; Papers concerning W.I.L.P.F. International Executive Committee (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)?1986-1989; Further papers concerning W.I.L.P.F. International Executive Committee (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)??Branch files, including correspondence and printed material:?1982-1988; ‘A.C.T. Branch’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)?1989-1990; ‘Wimminews (A.C.T.)’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)?1988-1989; ‘N.S.W. Branch’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)?1981-1987; ‘Queensland’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)?1982-1988; ‘South Australia’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)?1982-1988; ‘Tasmania’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)?1982-1987; ‘Victoria’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)?1963, 1981-1987; ‘W.A. Branch’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)??1986-1988; Papers concerning the Indian Ocean Zone of Peace Peoples Conference, Fremantle, W.A., 19-22 Sept. 1986 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)?1985-1987; Papers concerning the Great Peace Journey, 1986-1987 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)??Policy and Action files:?1982-1988; ‘ACDP [Australian Coalition for Disarmament and Peace] – Current’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)?1985; ‘Australian Pacific Women’s Peace Conference, Sydney, 28-30 June 1985’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)?1984; ‘Aust. Red X – International Humanitarian Law 1984’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)?1986-1988; ‘Belau’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)?1985-1987; ‘Catholic Commission for Justice & Peace – Inquiry ’86’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)?1982-1985; ‘C.N.F.A. [Coalition for a Nuclear Free Australia] (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)?1984-1987; ‘C.T.B. [Comprehensive Test Ban] Treaty Petition 25-10-84- ‘ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1987; ‘Conservation – ‘ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1982-1986; ‘Disarmament’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1975-1988; ‘East Timor’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1985-1988; ‘East Timor’ [2nd file] (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1987; ‘H. Evatt Foundation – H. R. [Human Rights] in Pacific Conference 11/87’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1983-1988; ‘Federal Status of Women’, including correspondence with Office of the Status of Women and Affirmative Action Agency (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1987-1988; ‘Fiji’, including issues of Movement for Democracy in Fiji Limited Newsletter (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1988; ‘Fiji’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1985-1987; ‘Gabriela [A National Women’s Coalition of Organizations] & Philippines’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1983-1988; ‘Human Rights’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1985-1987; ‘IYP [International Year of Peace]’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1988; ‘Japan’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1985-1988; ‘Kanaky’, including Australians for Kanak Independence (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1987-1988; ‘Kanaky’ [2nd file] (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1987; ‘Kerguelen [Island]’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1984; ‘Kurds’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1984-1992; ‘Land Rights – Aust.’, including papers concerning Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1986; ‘Libya’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1986-1987; ‘Marshall Isles – Micronesia’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1986-1987; ‘Nuclear Ships Safety – Senate Cttee – Submission 1987’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1987; ‘Overseas Aid – 1987’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1987-1988; ‘Palestine’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1984-1987; ‘Pax et Libertas’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1982-1987; ‘Peace Education” (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1984-1988; ‘Peace Games / War Toys’, including National Action Against War Toys (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1982-1988; ‘Peace Research Centre, ANU’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1987-1988; ‘Public TV’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1984-1988; ‘South Pacific – Jt. Parlt. F.A. & Def. Cttee – Submission 1987’, including papers concerning the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade (Subcommittee on the South Pacific) and the South Pacific Commission Pacific Women’s Resource Bureau (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1986; ‘Sub[mission] to [Office of] Status of Women 1987’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?198-; ‘Tahita’, mainly concerning French nuclear testing on Murora Atoll (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1986-1987; ‘Union [of] Australian Women – Aust. [U.A.W.] & W.I.D. [Women’s International Democratic Federation]’, including correspondence with World Congress of Women (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)?1982-1986; ‘UNAA Status of Women’, including minutes of meetings of U.N.A.A. National Status of Women Committee, 1982-1985 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)?1985-1986; ‘United Nations Decade for Women’ mainly concerning The Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women adopted by the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the UNs Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Nairobi, Kenya, 15-26 July 1985 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)?1983-1988; ‘UNESCO’ concerning the Australian National Commission for UNESCO (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)?1990-1991; ‘UNIFEM [United Nations Development Fund for Women National Committee]’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)?1987-1988; ‘UNSSDIII – 1988 [Third UN Special Session on Disarmament (UNSSODIII)]’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)?1982-1985; ‘Uranium 1984 & 1985’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)?1986-1988; ‘Uranium 1986+’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)?1987; ‘War Toys / Victim Toys’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)?1969-1985; ‘West Papua’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)?1983-1987; ‘West Papua’ [2nd file] (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)?1987-1988; ‘Women’s Policies – Political Parties 1987 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)??Records concerning the 24th International Triennial Congress, Sancta Sophia College, University of Sydney, 15-22 July 1989:?1986-1989; Minutes of meetings, with related papers, of the Congress and Programme Committees (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/14)?198–1990; Files, including Congress programme; Congress and Seminar Participants’ Reports and Registration Reports; Branch correspondence, 1987-1990; Workshops, 1986-1989; Liaison Reports; Congress Resolutions; Finance Committee; Congress Pre Papers; Opening Address; Official Opening Speakers; and Congress Reports (Post) (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/14)?1989; Card file of Congress registrants, arranged alphabetically by country (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/15)?1989; ‘Participants’ List’, being Congress registrants and Seminar participants (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/15)?1989; Seminar files (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/15)?1985-1989; Files, including Congress-Prior Publicity; Dispalys; Entertainment; Venue (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/15)?198–1989; Correspondence files concerning, among others, overseas sections, and Congress accounts (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/16)?1989; Report of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom : Women Building a Common and Secure Future, Sydney, Australia, 14-25 July 1989. Geneva, Switzerland : Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, International Secretariat, 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/16)??1980-1986; Records concerning the Junior Media Peace Prize (JUMPP), organised by W.I.L.P.F. and the United Nations Association of Australia, including correspondence files (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/17) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1. Six exercise books containing a handwritten draft of the novel “Old Blastus of Bandicoot”. 2. Typewritten draft of “Old Blastus of Bandicoot: a play in three acts”. 3. Photocopies of press cuttings concerning early settlers of the Monaro District. Also includes photographs, Brindabella Visitors’ Book, 1887; publications (2 boxes) including mostly works by and about Miles Franklin, some are autograph copies and some contain newsclippings and correspondence. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 September 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 digital audio tapes (ca. 308 min.)??Ryan speaks of her childhood as the youngest child of feminist Edna Ryan, how she spent her adolescence largely alone with her mother as both her elder siblings had left home and her mother was recently widowed; the influences on her growing up in a politically active household including the impact on her of her mother’s political involvements and the emotional expectations imposed on her as a daughter; her current project in writing a biography of her mother, her education including her participation in the burgeoning cultural life of Sydney in the 1960s, her move to Canberra in the late 1960s where she was employed as a Manning Clark’s research assistant which motivated her pursuit of postgraduate studies in Canberra and Sydney; her doctoral thesis on Tasmanian Aborigines lead to groundbreaking work though her thesis remained uncompleted when she returned to Canberra soon after the election of the Whitlam Labor government in 1972, her involvement in the Priorities Review Staff report on child care.??Ryan speaks of her subsequent work in the Secretariat for the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission and in the Women’s Affairs Section, which was then a branch of the Dept. of Prime Minister and Cabinet; her resignation from the Commonwealth Public Service in the mid-1970s in order to pursue her academic career; following appointments in Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide, she currently holds the Chair in Australian Studies at the University of Newcastle and heads the School of Humanities at its Ourimbah Campus; her philosophy of education; her hopes for her students as citizens of an Australian democracy. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 29 August 2000 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 48 minutes??Heather Crosby, nee Gumley, was born in Oxford, England. Her father’s calling as an Anglican priest took the family first to India and then to Australia. Her Australian-born mother, played a prominent role in the parishes in which they lived, and Heather and her sisters were encouraged to gain tertiary qualifications. Heather came to Adelaide to study social work and married in 1944. She helped her husband establish his general practice in Blair Athol, and they had two daughters. Heather became involved in community work and began her association with the YWCA in 1960. She describes the organisation’s growing political role, professionalisation, and identification with feminism since then. She describes her work as President and Executive Director of the Adelaide YWCA, and as a member of the National Council and the World Executive. She also speaks about changes in her religious beliefs, describing herself as a ‘post-Christian’. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The first branch of the Ukrainian Women’s Association was formed on September 13th, 1949 in Cowra migrant camp. Mrs. I Polensly was the inaugural president. Ukrainian women were holding meetings in all the migrant centres across Australia, however Cowra is always considered to be the cradle of the U.W.A in Australia The Ukrainian women who came to Australia in the period immediately after the second world war were highly organised at a very early stage. This, in part, can be explained by the fact that they regarded themselves to be simply ‘renewing’ pre-existing associations that were established in the Ukraine some years earlier. The National Women’s Council founded in Ukraine in 1919 served Ukrainian women during the period of Ukrainian independence and continued its work in exile in Prague, Czechoslovakia until 1937 when the Ukrainian Women’s Association in Lvov, Western Ukraine took upon itself the task of founding another co-ordinating centre – the World Association of Ukrainian Women. World War 2, however, terminated the work of this co-ordinating body. As well as organising events and services for the local community, the organisation took a keen interest in the position of women back in the Ukraine. They circulated petitions to bring attention to human rights abuses of women under the Soviet system. For instance, the following petition was circulated in 1975: ‘Among the violations are an alarming number of arrests and the persecution of Ukrainian women, who have been sentenced under the Criminal Code for simply raising their voices in defence of basic human rights and dignity, opposing the forced russification of the Ukrainian language and culture, and objecting to the state imposition of atheism and suppression of the freedom of worship and the pervasive police control of private and family life. Therefore, in the name of humanity and justice and in the spirit of the International Year of Women, we petition this House of parliament to intervene before the Government of the USSR and request it to grant amnesty to Ukrainian and other political prisoners in the USSR, and to allow them to return to their families and homeland with the restoration of all their citizen’s rights. In particular we request that you intervene on behalf of the following women political prisoners: Stasiv-Kalynec Iryna Onufrivna, Strokata_Karavanska Nina Antonivna, Svitlychna nadia Alexeivna, Shabatura Stefania Mychailivna, Oksana Popvych, inmates of camp p/ja ZH/CH 385/3 Potma, Mordovian ASSR, USSR. Under these conditions, it was impossible for some immigrants to leave their politics at the door. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Ukrainian Women's Association in Australia of N.S.W. - records, 1949-1986 State Library of New South Wales Ukrainian Women's Association in Australia of N.S.W. - further records, 1949-1995 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Inscriptions: “Official badge of the Women’s Social and Political Union and Australian and New Zealand Group”; “International Alliance of Women. Congress Badges worn by B.M.R. as Honorary Member International Board”–In ink on handwritten notes accompanying badges. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 March 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The first woman alderman, mayor and among the first women JPs and MPs in New South Wales, Lilian Fowler was a blunt and tenacious politician, who worked on behalf of women and the underprivileged. Labor candidate for Newtown in 1941 (unsuccessful), 1944 (elected) and 1947 (elected). Lang Labor candidate for Newtown-Annandale in 1950. Alderman Newtown Municipal Council 1928, first woman alderman in NSW, re-elected 1935-37, 1938-40, 1941-44, 1948. Mayor 1938-39. Lilian was educated at Cooma public school, and married Albert Edward Fowler, bootmaker, on 19 April 1909. She became Secretary of the Newtown-Erskineville Political Labor League. For 20 years from 1917, she was electorate manager for F.M. Burke, anti-conscriptionist Labor candidate for Newtown. Her Labor activism included being a Central Executive member of ALP 1920-21, 1923-25, and President of Labor Women’s Central Organising Committee, 1926-27. She was instrumental in pressuring premier Jack Lang to institute widows’ pensions and child endowment. Mrs Fowler was active in Newtown Municipal Council from 1928 – she established playgrounds and instituted a 40-hour week for council employees. From 1941 she stood against her former employer Burke, as a Lang Labor candidate. She remained critical of Labor’s centralist tendencies and of bureaucratic consolidation in labour and municipal politics. The Federal electorate of Fowler is named after her, as is Lilian Fowler Place, Marrickville, NSW, and Fowler Reserve in Newtown, NSW. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Book Section HERstory: Australian Labor Women in Federal, State and Territory Parliaments 1925-1994, 1994 Resource Section Fowler, Elizabeth Lilian Maud (1886 - 1954), Radi, Heather, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080578b.htm Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 5193 comprises correspondence of the Australian National Council of Women and its later body with government departments and state branches; executive minutes and reports, 1963-1968; various conference agenda, speeches and reports, 1936-1973; various committee reports; constitutions; newsletters for 1964-1967 and reports of United Nations conferences (8 boxes).??Associated materials: Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 MS 7583, MS Acc GB 1993/1502, MS Acc07/96. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 September 2013 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of G.W. Goyder and family, comprising notebook and press cuttings about railway matters; notebook of J.H. Goyder while at Frome Downs and Netley Stations; reminiscences of Edwin Mitchell Smith, nephew of G.W. Goyder; correspondence; diploma from Roseworthy Agricultural College, papers of Mrs Mary Anne Goyder as Girl Guides Commissioner, scrapbook of material relating to G.W. Goyder, collected by his granddaughter Margaret Goyder Kerr and photographs. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour 10 minutes??Isobel Richardson was born in Indianapolis in the United States. The family returned to South Australia when Isobel was four years old and, by the time she began secondary school at the Walford Anglican School for Girls, had settled in Blackwood. Isobel trained as a nurse and specialised in infant welfare, working for many years with the Mothers’ and Babies’ Health Association. She explains how she first heard about the Oxford Group and Moral Rearmament. The movement’s emphasis on self-knowledge, moral absolutes, the involvement of people of all faiths and nationalities, and working on a global scale responded to Isobel’s needs and interests. She describes her involvement with MRA which has, after her retirement, working at the MRA centre at Panchgani in India. She speaks of other South Australians involved in MRA and comments that many traditional MRA issues, such as Australia’s relationship to Asia, are now concerns of the wider community. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes 1939-1953; Standing Committee papers 1941-1946 (Schools Board and V.U.S.E.B.); correspondence regarding Beaurepaire Centre 1956-1959; minutes of the Organizing Committee of the World Congress of Physical Education, Melbourne 1956; papers relating to a proposal to establish a degree course in Physical Education 1960-1970; lectures in Preventive work by Charles Hembrow, written in 1938. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 January 2007 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises letter to Leslie Henderson, 7 May 1974, containing biographical information concerning the Goldstein and Champion families. Also, “The dignity of labour: contentment found in home service” written by Lizzie Kavanagh after 60 years’ service with the Goldstein family. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mai Ho arrived in Australia in December 1982 with two small daughters and sixteen dollars. By 1997 she was Mayor of Maribyrnong. Twelve months later her daughter, Tan Le, was voted Young Australian of the Year. Raised in Saigon’s District 5 at the outbreak of the Vietnam War, Mai’s childhood was characterised by constant threats to safety in the midst of tremendous political unrest. Mai was strongly influenced by her anti-communist father, who published a controversial bilingual political magazine for American and Vietnamese soldiers. He encouraged her to understand and help others, and urged her to consider the possibility of escape from Vietnam. Aged sixteen, Mai married a wealthy pharmacist eighteen years her senior. By 1981 she was preparing to escape Vietnam by boat. In early morning darkness, she left with her daughters Tan and Min, her mother, sister and brother, and 161 fellow passengers. Her husband was to join her a fortnight later. An indescribably awful journey ended with rescue by an English vessel and transport to a Malaysian camp. Here Mai worked as a translator before gaining passage with her family to Australia. Housed in the Midway Hostel, Maribyrnong, Mai began work picking fruit to support her family. Her husband, she learned, did not intend to join her after all. The family moved to Footscray, where sheer persistence obtained for Mai a position in Quality Control for the Holden factory. She was the first female inspector at Fishermen’s Bend, Port Melbourne, where she earned more than the Vietnamese men working on the factory line. While raising two children and working full time, Mai took on and completed a Bachelor of Arts (human resource management) and tertiary qualifications in computer operations and health science (beauty therapy). In 1987 she opened her own computer business and prospered. By 1990 she felt secure enough to open her own beauty salon. Meanwhile, conscious of the struggles of those in her position, Mai set up a Vietnamese community support service. With her own savings she co-financed a venue, electricity and a telephone. At the age of twelve, her eldest daughter Tan was manning the telephone and helping people to fill out government forms. By 1992, Mai decided to stand for the local election. With strong support, she was defeated due to hundreds of uncounted informal votes. The following year she joined the Labor Party, and this time was victorious. She returned to her country of birth in 1995 with the Australian Consultative Delegation to Vietnam, the first delegation to investigate human rights there. By 1997 Mai Ho was Mayor of Maribyrnong. The same twelve-year-old Tan who was answering the telephone would become president of the Australian Vietnamese Services Resource Centre (as it is now known) by the age of eighteen. In this role she implemented counselling, training and employment programs, and refuge services for Vietnamese women. Despite some racist ridicule at school, Tan had maintained outstanding academic results and graduated to university at the age of sixteen. Awarded a KPMG Accounting Scholarship in 1997, she went on to complete a combined Bachelor of Commerce/Laws at Monash University in 1998 and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor two years later. In 1998, Tan’s contribution to community service was recognised nationally and internationally when she was awarded Young Australian of the Year. In 2000 she co-founded a wireless technology company, SASme. The company has grown to become a leading wireless technology provider in Australia, with branches in Asia and Europe. Still young, Tan’s has already been a distinguished career with appointments on the Australian Citizenship Council and the National Committee for Human Rights Education in Australia; as Ambassador for the Status of Women and Ambassador for Aboriginal Reconciliation; and as Patron of the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development Program. Her strong public profile and breadth of experience mean she is frequently called upon for public speaking engagements. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 25 September 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc07/94 comprises correspondence, manuscripts, research material, reviews and other promotional material for various publications and editions including Too many men (1999), You gotta have balls (2005), New York (2001), and Between Mexico and Poland (2002); notebooks; notes and drafts of poems; and, professional ephemera (81 boxes, 2 cartons, 1 small box, 2 fol. Boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Leeann Gill is the only woman in Victoria, quite possibly Australia, qualified to coach Australian Rules Football at Victorian Football League Level. A Level Two accredited coach, she coaches the under-16 boys at the Rowville Junior Football Club, where she has been a coach for eleven years. Working her way up through the ranks, she is now the club’s most qualified coach. In 2005 she won the 2005 Australian Football Coaches Association Female Coach of the Year award. Leeann Gill’s experience as a coach of a sport played mainly by boys and men has not always been easy. Some parents have withdrawn their children from the team, rather than have them be coached by a woman. When she took over the under-9s, another coach declared that she would not be able to do the job properly because she hadn’t played the game. When her team made the finals and his didn’t, she proved him wrong. ‘I’ve had coaches turn their backs on me and walk away when I went to shake their hand after the game,’ she recalls, ‘…usually when the team I coached had won.’ Gill believes she has the skill and knowledge base to coach at the senior level, but notes that the greatest barrier to her doing so is a psychological one. What would prevent her is the level of acceptance by the players. ‘I don’t think they’re quite there’. She does think, however, that women could take on roles at an Australian Football League Level, as assistants or in the recruitment area. Published resources Newspaper Article She's the coach, man, Critchley, Cheryl, 2005 Videorecording Game Girls, Cannell, Mirriam, 1997 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 April 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Aine Ranke is a committed environmentalist who represented the Australian Greens in the following elections: House of Representatives, Paterson 2001, 2004 New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Maitland, 2003. Aine Ranke has lived in the Maitland area for most of her life. She is a committed environmentalist and is very active in the Hunter Region Landcare Network, representing Maitland land carers. She has been prominent in the rehabilitation of a local watercourse in East Maitland. Aine Ranke has taught business management, accounting and computing at T.A.F.E. and expressed her support for public education and a TAFE system that is adequately resourced in her campaign statements. In 2003 Aine held office in the Maitland and Hunter Region Landcare Network, the Maitland Youth Enterprise and the Maitland City Council’s Greening Plan Reference Group. She was also convenor of a national working group to encourage community input into Earth Summit 2002. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "There is a separate folder with four letters from her amongst a huge volume of missionary correspondence some of which is from Frieda Strehlow and other missionary wives. The letters are in the process of being individually indexed. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 29 January 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Athletes including Marlene Mathews from Australia competing in the track and field events held at the M.C.G. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 January 2007 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Photographs mounted for exhibitions, 1926-1988 (20 boards). ?Minutes of the ACT Local Association, 18 Dec. 1930-20 Aug. 1943 (1 vol.). ?Official diary of territorial commissioner Patricia Tillyard, 1935-1936, 1938-1943 (1 vol.). ?Collected records of guide and brownie units, 1936-1963 (7 bundles). ?Log book of First Canberra Ranger Unit, Aug. 1944 (1 vol.). ?Log book of Third NSW Lone Guides Unit which became the 1st ACT Lone Guide Unit from Dec. 1945, kept by Lucy Wheatley, 1944-1947 (1 vol.). ?Notebook written by Lucy Wheatley about camping and camps, 1946-1949 (2 vols). ?Collected records of ranger units, 1947-1966 (1 small box). ?Records of the Mount Majura Guide District, 1957-1983 (1 bundle). ?Notes, documents and photographs, 1961-1987 (1 bundle). ?Correspondence, finance documents, training documents, historical notes, 1964-1985 (3 boxes). ?Master set of local journal, Guiders Gas, 1976-1988 (1 bundle). ?Programs for special occasions, 1977-1988 (5 items).??Historical note:?The Girl Guides Association began in Canberra with the formation of a lone company in 1927 under New South Wales headquarters. The company was replaced by a local association in December 1930 which became a district of New South Wales in 1931 with Mrs C.S. Daley as district commissioner. The ACT Division, formed in 1935, was commanded by Patricia Tillyard as divisional commissioner until 1943. Region 14 (Australian Capital Territory and the Southern Tablelands) was formed in June 1968 and divided in 1975 into three autonomous zones which work through region headquarters to New South Wales headquarters. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 15 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 18 min)??Lahey speaks of her childhood and schooling in Queensland; changes that occurred in her life due to World War I; travelling overseas in 1915; her interest in landscape painting; her method of work when painting from nature. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 November 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Described by her son, Simon Morcom, as a “Lifelong fighter for peace and justice, tempered with an off-key sense of humour. A mentor and an inspiration,” Elfrida Morcom was a Communist Party of Australia candidate for Collaroy in 1956 and 1965 and candidate for the Warringah Shire Council in 1965. At the time of her campaign, Elfrida Morcom had lived in the French’s Forest area for 15 years and was widely known for her advocacy of the needs of the district. She was an active trade unionist, and a member of the Railway for Warringah Committee and the local Progress Association. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letter and manuscript of the book ‘Brightening landscape- the world of Ruby Hammond’, by Margaret Forte. 212 pages. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Knight, Myra, ‘Necia Mocatta AM AIMM’, typescript biographical note, in the possession of Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Author Details Elizabeth Daniels Created 12 September 2013 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "26 minutes??Winifred Wall was fourteen years old and attending Adelaide High School at the outbreak of the First World War. Winifred went on to study medicine at Adelaide University in 1918 and she speaks of the example of older women doctors. She discusses her unquestioning response to the war as well as its positive impact on attitudes to working women. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Rosa Praed covered many genres in her extensive bibliography, including books for children as well as adults. Rosa Murray-Prior began writing in her teens, contributing résumés and stories to the family’s handwritten Marroon Magazine. She married Englishman Arthur Campbell Bulkley Praed, and four years later Rosa and her husband returned to England, where she continued to write. Praed revisited Australia only once, however she continued to rework her memories, and published her autobiography My Australian Girlhood in 1902. Other biographical work included Australian Life; Black and White (1885). She maintained contacts with relations and friends in Australia until her death. Writing as Mrs Campbell Praed, she produced more than forty-five books over the next four decades, approximately half of which deal with Australian material. Praed was the third child of Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior and Matilda Harpur, niece of poet Charles Harpur. Murray-Prior established a pastoral station in Queensland where he became a member of the Legislative Council and served as Post-Master General to three Prime Ministers during the latter half of the 19th century. Her father’s political career in Queensland exposed Rosa to political discourses and the social world of the colony. These experiences were often reflected in her later books. She was educated at home by her mother and private tutors. She married on 29 October 1872 at St John’s Church of England, Brisbane. Within a few weeks of their marriage, Arthur Praed took Rosa to his cattle station, Monte Christo, situated on Curtis Island, off the Queensland coast between Gladstone and Rockhampton. Rosa was glad to leave behind the lonely existence on Curtis Island to travel to England with her husband. In 1882 Praed published Nadine, an intense psychological study drawing on the life of Olga Novikoff. She collaborated on four books with the Irish politician Justin McCarthy, who wrote voluminously to her on the progress of the Home Rule debate of the 1880s. She edited these letters as Our Book of Memories (1912). Her talents also extended to writing a dramatic play, Ariane, based on her novel, The Bond of Wedlock (1887). This ran for 100 performances in London’s West End in 1888. Rosa separated from her husband in 1897 and began living with a psychic medium, Nancy Harward. Much of her later fiction, some of which was written with Harward, reflects her devout belief in the supernatural. Her work includes acute analyses of the colonial mentality, especially of society women, whilst historical events and personages often supply background and characters for her novels. Rosa moved to Devon with Harward in the early 1920s and lived there until her death. Published resources Book Rosa Praed (Mrs. Campbell Praed), 1851-1935 : a bibliography, Tiffin, Chris, 1989 Ada Cambridge, Tasma and Rosa Praed, Beilby, R and Hadgraft, C., 1979 In mortal bondage : the strange life of Rosa Praed, Roderick, C., 1948 Rosa! Rosa!: a life of Rosa Praed, novelist and spiritualist, Clarke, Patricia, 1999 Resource Section Praed, Rosa Caroline (1851 - 1935), Tiffin, Chris, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110282b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection OM78-58/15 Rosa Caroline Praed Letter ca. 1886 OM64-01 Rosa Caroline Praed Papers ca. 1885 - ca. 1930 TR 1921 Rosa Campbell Praed Correspondence 1909 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Letters 1901 [manuscript] Papers of Patricia Clarke, 1887-2010 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Mrs. Campbell Praed [picture] / photo, Elliot and Fry Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Jessie Katherine March, missionary teacher, comprising letters from New Britain, including letters from former students in Kuanua language, letters from past pupils of Croker Island Methodist Mission, letters written at Otford, New South Wales, letters from Brachina, diary extracts, reminiscences and photographs of New Britain, children evacuated from Croker Island, Flinders Ranges and Ukurumpa, Eastern Highlands Papua New Guinea, together with transcriptions and biographical notes by Heather Graham. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Brentnall was state president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in Queensland from 1886 to 1899 and afterwards an honorary life president until her death in 1909. She first called for women’s suffrage in her presidential address to the WCTU annual convention in 1888. The WCTU formed a separate suffrage department in 1891. Forceful, eminently capable and with fine organisational ability, Elizabeth Brentnall had been mistress of a large girl’s school before her marriage. She was the daughter of a storekeeper in Mansfield, Nottingham. In 1867 she left her position as headmistress of the Wesleyan day school for girls at Bacup, Lancashire, and followed Frederick Thomas Brentnall to Sydney where they married. Frederick Brentnall, a moral extremist, opposed votes for women, except with the property qualification, which placed him in direct opposition to his wife’s political ideology. Elizabeth and Frederick had two daughters; Flora, who in 1893 married Edgar Bridal Harris, a well established shipping agent, and Charlotte Amelia. Like her mother, Flora, was a confirmed suffragist and ‘Y’ organiser for the WCTU. Published resources Book A Journalist's Memories, Browne, Spencer, 1927 Resource Who's Who in Brisbane 1900?, Centenary of Queensland Women's Suffrage 2005, 2005, http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/Act_Centenary/whoiswho.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The albums include newscuttings, memorabilia and photographic prints. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence and copies of minutes of various meetings relating mainly to National Council of Women, Launceston, and their relationship with National Council of Women of Tasmania. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 18 October 2013 Last modified 18 October 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Established in 1922, The Queensland Country Women’s Association was declared by letters patent to be a Body Corporate on the 13th July, 1926. It is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group and service association working in the interests of women and children in rural areas. Although ostensibly non-party-political, in practice the group has tended to bolster conservative politics and has supported traditional family roles for women. Historically, it was, however, also a progressive force in many ways, particularly in its encouragement of country women to take an active part in public affairs, and also in its lobby for and provision of services to rural areas. Given its size and scope, it was arguably the most influential women’s organisation in Queensland in the twentieth century. As of 2004 membership was open to all women over 16 years of age are welcome. (Younger Set and Associate Members from birth). Its website described its role and activities thus: ‘The role of the QCWA has been to improve education, health and welfare for, and to enrich the lives of women and children and hence the family, particularly in the isolated areas of Queensland … QCWA activities: – Providing training programs at live-in Summer Schools, Younger Set Leadership Schools, Rural Computer Workshops, Health and Literacy Seminars Awarding Bursaries to primary / secondary / tertiary students Providing crisis, disaster and emergency help Giving assistance through the Rural Crisis Trust Fund to families in need due to prolonged drought Special interest groups including Handcraft, Music & Drama, Public Speaking, Dressmaking, Cookery, Knitting & Crochet, Floral Art and International involvement through Country of Study A Social Issues Fact Finding Team which continually monitors issues of concern affecting rural, regional and remote Queensland QCWA facilities for the public include: – Student Hostels in Brisbane and Country centres – tertiary, secondary and primary levels Aged Care Facilities – affordable long term accommodation Accommodation, Ruth Fairfax House, Brisbane – close to hospitals for Patient Transport Support Holiday, Respite and Emergency Accommodation from Gold Coast to Cairns Child Care Centres, Kindergartens, Playgrounds, waiting Mothers rooms Hospital Haven – Tea Rooms Halls – Restrooms Royal Flying Doctor Service Clinic Room The Queensland Countrywoman – QCWA publishes its own magazine “The Queensland Countrywoman” – 10 copies per year posted to every member. QCWA’s National Involvement – affiliation with Country Women’s Association of Australia (CWA of A), with consultative status to the Australian Government of the day, but remaining autonomous. QCWA’s International Involvement – affiliation with Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), the World’s largest organisation of rural women and home-makers, with consultative status to several United Nations humanitarian committees such as UNESCO, WHO, UNICEF. ACWW strives to improve the standard of living for all women and their families.’ Published resources Book Country women : [history of the first seventy five years : the Queensland Country Women's Association], Pagliano, Muriel, 1998 The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Getting things done : the Country Women's Association of Australia, Country Women's Association of Australia, 1986 Fifty years: 1922-1972, 1972 Resource Section Berry, Dame Alice Miriam (1900 - 1978), Taylor, Helen, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130202b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian Historic Records Register Country Women's Association of Australia (Queensland), Emu Park Branch Country Women's Association, Qld, Blackwater Branch John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 3282 Queensland Country Women's Association Records 1923-2002 OMGL Queensland Country Women's Association, Rosewood Branch Records 1926-1984 The Queensland Country Women's Association, Burnett Division The Queensland Country Women's Association 5465 Queensland Country Womens Association Records 7984 Queensland Country Women's Association Records 1926-2008 5813 Queensland Country Women's Association Minute Books 1924-2013 28574 Queensland Country Women's Association Records 1923-2010 National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Address of welcome - Queensland Country Women's Association and National Council of Women in Queensland Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mabel Dowling Taylor, nee Woods studied physiotherapy at the time when its practitioners were referred to as masseurs. In 1906 the Australasian Massage Association (later the Massage Registration Board) was formed, initially offering a two-year course which extended to three years in 1933. Melbourne students attended classes run through the University’s Department of Physiology. Mabel Woods received her diploma of Massage, Medical Electricity & Medical Gymnastics in 1935. The Association was renamed the Australian Physiotherapy Association during the Second World War, but the University of Melbourne Department of Physiotherapy was not established until 1991. Mabel Woods married Geoffrey Edward Acteson Taylor (1902-1981), a Ballarat pharmacist, in 1938.[1] She remained in practice in Ballarat, where she brought up their three children, for over thirty years. The University of Melbourne Archives holds not only her annotated student notebook and framed diploma, but also tennis trophies awarded in 1929 and 1934 as well as a photograph of the man she was to marry with Colin McKenzie Henry, a future Air Commodore. Mabel Taylor’s papers, held in the State Library of Victoria, reveal an enterprising and enthusiastic traveller and diarist. She kept not only daily journals and trip books, but mementoes such as the certificates awarded to people who crossed the Equator on ocean liners, together with menus from trips in the Concorde as well as on ships and a short autobiographical note. Her copy of a souvenir album of the trip to Canberra by the Victorian Branch of the English Speaking Union, which she herself does not appear to have taken, provides some fascinating views of the capital city under construction.[2] Mabel Taylor was involved with the Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship, was a donor member of the Ballarat Historical Park Association, and had a keen interest in Ballarat and its history. She was awarded a posthumous Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 1999 for service to the community of Ballarat. [1] ‘Weddings of Widespread Interest’. Argus. 2 May 1938: 7. [2] ‘English Speaking Union Victorian Branch Inspection of National City’. Canberra Times. 10 September 1926:1, 6. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, ca. 1948-1995 [manuscript]. Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 8 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The North Hobart screenings featured the films: Me and My Little Girl (Linda Blagg) — Monster (Sally Trevena) — Maidens (Jenny Thornley) — Cinemandrew (Barbara Levy) — Paralysis (Barbara Levy) — A Handful of Jellybabies (Sophia Turkewicz) — Turning (Cynthia Connop) — Come On (Elizabeth McCrae) — Time Changes (Sue Ford) — Linda’s Film (Linda Forster) — Aah (Doreen) — Dialogue (Rosalind Gillespie) — The Selling of the Female Image (Carole Kostanich) — We Aim to Please (Robyn Laurie and Margot Nash) — Ladies Rooms (Susan Lambert, Pat Fiske, Sarah Gibson, Jan McKay) — Ailsa – A Woman Sculptor (Sarah Gibson) — Fresh Ruins (Claire Jager) — Apartments (Megan McMurchy) — Katie (Daro Gunzberg) — The Carolina Chisel Show? — Gentle Birth (Barbara Chobocky) — Getting it On (Gilly Coote) — Charlene Does Med at Uni (Margot Oliver) — Not Take it anymore (Vicki Molloy) — All in the same boat (Debbie Kingsland) — Elsie (Liz Rust) — Super Duper — My Friend Jo (Rosalind Gillespie). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Information in file S279 c1913-50. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1996; National Council of Women of NSW Centenary Stamp Issue : Program for the launch of the stamps, 8 August 1996; complete set of the issue comprising 1 first day cover, 2 maximum cards, 1 post office pack, and 2 gutter strips of 10 stamps of each of the two stamps Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes, cash and correspondence books of various Taggerty organizations, comprising: Country Women’s Association, Taggerty Branch, cashbooks, 1947-1952, 1952-1967 and 1967-1968; Taggerty Rural Fire Brigade, correspondence and minute book, 1928-1969; Returned Soldiers’ Comfort Fund, Taggerty Branch, minute book, 1939-1940; and Taggerty School Centenary Committee, minute book, June-December 1975. Author Details Jane Carey Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marmburra Wananumba Banduk Marika has been an active member of the Aboriginal arts scene since 1980, working with prints and film. On Australia Day 2019 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) ‘for distinguished service to the visual arts, particularly to Indigenous printmaking and bark painting, and through cultural advisory roles’. Marmburra Wananumba Banduk Marika, of the Rirratjingu clan of the Yolngu people, was born in 1954 at Yirrkala in the Northern Territory. She received a traditional education as well as attending the Yirrkala mission school. In 1973 she moved to Darwin and the following year became secretary for the Northern Land Council. In 1980 she moved to Sydney, where she began her career as an artist. Marika has had a number of solo exhibitions of her prints and has been an artist-in-residence at the Sydney School of Art, East Sydney Technical College, Flinders University, the Canberra School of Art and Warrnambool TAFE. She has also worked with Film Australia as a translator on the film Women of the Sun and has appeared in three others: Bride for All Seasons!, Flight into Hell and Cactus. She directed Banduk, which won the major International Children’s Film award, and was involved in the making of a documentary, Dream-Time, Machine-Time, for ABC television. In 1988 Marika returned to Yirrkala, and became manager of Buku-Larrngay Arts and Crafts. In 1992 she was elected vice-chairperson of Dhimurru Land and Sea Management, the Aboriginal board of management for northeast Arnhem Land. She was also chairperson of the Aboriginal Visual Arts Committee of the Australia Council for the Arts. She has been a member of a number of bodies, including the Australian National Gallery, the Yirrkala-Dhanbul Community Council and the Mawalan Gamarrwa Nuwul Association. Events 2019 - 2019 Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Book Women of the sun, Maris, Hyllus and Sonia Borg, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 18 May 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Persons photographed: Back row, L-R: Jean Bartman, Isabel Flick, Cyril Knox Bill McGrady, Eric Craigie, Jean Macintosh, Alan Knox, Delma Wright, Mr & Mrs Robins (missionaries); Middle row, L-R: Betty Armstrong, Vivian Knox, Carrie Knox, John Knox, Roy Knox, Ada McGrady, Betty Binge, Liz Ellis, Bobby Clevens (partially hidden behind Kathy Haynes), Billy Bartman, Rex McGrady, Kim Binge; Front Row, L-R: Ursula Lansbrough, unidentified baby, ? Binge, Anna Haynes, Ursula Haynes, Kathy Haynes (with hat), unidentified, George Cubby. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "R. Francis, C. Carter and A. Tundern-Smith Created 1 July 2004 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Booth papers 1899-1957 including correspondence and related records 1899-1957 (these include records relating to Booth’s early professional career and her involvement in the Anthropometric Committee of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science); records relating to the Centre for Soldiers, Wives and Mothers (Letterbook) 1917-17; documents concerned with the Anzac Fellowship of Women 1921-57; newspaper cuttings 1933-1937 (mainly re ANZAC Festival). See also publishing file from Angus and Robertson Archives 1922 [ML MSS 314/12 pp581-3]. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection of working papers and printed material (both published and unpublished) relating to the work of campaigners Ruth and Maurie Crow, including Ruth Crow’s work with women and children in Brunswick during WWII, and Maurie Crow’s in the Clerk’s Union, and the pioneering work they did from the 1960’s onwards in relation to public participation in urban planning, building neighbourhood communities and creating a sustainable future. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Susan Mitchell holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide, a Master of Arts (Drama and Film) from Flinders University, and a PhD in Creative Arts from the University of Western Sydney. She worked as a high school teacher in Adelaide and London before becoming a lecturer in literary studies at the South Australian College of Advanced Education. Later, Susan took up the position of senior lecturer in communications and creative writing at the University of South Australia. She is also an Emeritus Professor at Flinders University. Susan has worked as a screenwriter and editor and was Australia’s first television critic on Today at One. As a radio broadcaster, Susan worked in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney, and she has hosted her own series of interview programs. Throughout her career, Susan has written for numerous major newspapers and magazines in the United States and Australia, including The Australian, The Bulletin, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. She is also the author of fourteen best-selling and highly-acclaimed books. Susan has been a Director on the Literature Board of The Australia Council, on the Board of Film Australia and the Board of The South Australian Tourism Commission. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Susan Mitchell, circa 1987-circa 2002 [manuscript] State Library of South Australia Radio tribute to Barbara Hanrahan by Susan Mitchell [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Susan Mitchell collection [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Susan Mitchell, author, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Academy Library, UNSW Canberra General correspondence, July-December 1993 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "3 hours 30 minutes??A recording of a forum presented by the State Library of South Australian in conjunction with the South Australian Centre for Australian Studies and the Constitutional Centenary Foundation in which South Australian women from government and politics speak about the historical perspective of women in parliament; a pioneer woman in politics; the inside story of South Australian politics; women presidents of political parties; and a survival guide for women in politics. The forum was held in the lecture theatre of the Institute Building, North Terrace, Adelaide. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Joan Chambers joined the Mortlake branch of the Liberal Party in 1969 and was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly for the seat of Ballarat South in the Victorian Parliament in 1979. She served on the Subordinate Legislation Committee in 1979 and the Public Review Committee, 1980-82. She suffered defeat at the 1982 election, but was an unsuccessful candidate again in the 1988 election. In 1992 she stood as an Independent candidate in the Legislative Assembly seat of Ballarat West. Joan Chambers was the daughter of James McNab Murray, a company manager and Annie Hale Shaw. Educated at Ormond State School, Tintern Church of England Girls’ Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, she qualified as a secondary school teacher in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and Diploma of Education. Her teaching career included appointments at Kyabram High School in 1952, Hampton High School 1953, Mortlake High School 1968-77 and Ballarat High School 1978-79 and 1982-1990. On 15 November 1953 she married John Alexander Chambers, a soldier settler farmer. They had six children, two daughters and four sons. Her community involvement included serving on the Ballarat Regional and Alcohol Dependence Association and the Ballarat Emergency Accommodation Committee. She was a member of the Mathematical Association of Victoria and a Presbyterian-Uniting Church Elder. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 27 May 2005 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Jeannie Ferris was elected as a Senator for South Australia to the Senate of the Parliament of Australia in 1996. She died in office in Canberra from ovarian cancer in 2007. During her parliamentary career she was appointed Government Whip in 2002. Using her parliamentary position to increase awareness of ovarian cancer, in 2006 Ferris formed a parliamentary inquiry into gynaecological cancers with Senators Lyn Allison and Claire Moore. The outcome of this inquiry resulted in a unanimous report across party lines calling for increased research and awareness of the cancers. The Commonwealth Government later agreed to the report’s recommendations. Ferris succumbed to the disease in Canberra, on 2 April 2007. Following her death, a DVD produced by Kay Stammers with support from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing was dedicated in her memory. Originally from New Zealand, she settled in Canberra in 1967 where she worked on The Canberra Times. She moved to the ABC later, working in the parliamentary gallery. She worked for Liberal Party Senator Nick Minchin before entering the Australian Parliament. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Resource Section A strong voice for women's health (Jeannie Ferris 1941-2007) - obituary, 2007, http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/a-strong-voice-for-womens-health/2007/04/03/1175366237688.html Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc11.023 comprises papers that reflect Audrey Drechsler’s long involvement as an activist in the Women in Agriculture movement. The collection includes papers relating to early conferences; programs and papers relating to annual Women on Farms Gatherings, the first of which was held in 1991; and papers relating to the Central Victorian Women in Agriculture Group, which was set up after the first International Women in Agriculture Conference held in 1994 (1 box). Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Emilia Baeyertz conducted evangelical missions throughout Australia (Victoria, South Australia and Queensland), New Zealand, Britain and North America. The daughter of wealthy Jewish parents, Emilia left school at thirteen. When her first fiancé died, she suffered a breakdown and was sent to Australia with her brother to recover her health. Living with her sister in Melbourne, Emilia met Anglican bank manager Charles Baeyertz and married him in October 1865 without informing her family. With Charles, she settled in Colac and had two children. In 1871, Charles was killed in a gun accident and Emilia converted to Christianity shortly thereafter. She began jail and hospital visits, Sunday School teaching, and door to door evangelism in the Jewish community of Melbourne. She was an active member of the Young Women’s Christian Association and undertook evangelical missions to Sandhurst (Bendigo) and Ballarat. From 1880 she was conducting missions throughout South Australia, and the Baptists reported over 100 conversions as a result. Emilia moved her campaign to Victoria, Queensland, New Zealand, and finally Britain and North America. Published resources Edited Book Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Dickey, Brian, 1994 Thesis The Baptists in South Australia, 1863 to 1914, Walker, J.S., 1990 Book Emilia Baeyertz, Evangelist: Her Career in Australia and Great Britain: An Historical Study and a Compilation of Sources, Evans, Robert, 2007 Six New Addresses: Delivered by Mrs Baeyertz, Baeyertz, Mrs, 1904 Popular Revivalism in South Australia, Hilliard, David, 1982 Resource Section Cartoon of a woman preaching, 2006, http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=462 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 20 February 2009 Last modified 7 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Her artistic life, influence on French impressionists. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This series consists of the personal papers of Dame Zara Holt, wife of former Prime Minister Harold Edward Holt. These mainly cover the period 1946 to 1989,?although several items were accumulated subsequently by her eldest son Nicholas.??Correspondence, newspapers, press cuttings and magazines account for most of the records in the series. Many of these items relate to the death of Holt in December 1967 and his memorial services in Melbourne a few days later and in Westminster Abbey, London in January 1968. Some include complete issues of major daily Australian newspapers and press cuttings from US newspapers, collected by the Australian News and Information Bureau in New York. The correspondence includes two files of condolences addressed to Nicholas Holt, one relating to Holt’s death and the other to Dame Zara’s death in June 1989. Another file includes a list of Holt’s personal papers deposited in the National Archives by the Prime Minister’s Department in 1968 and an inventory of his personal effects.??Other items in the series relate to an overseas visit the Holts made in 1957, social engagements, fashion (including Dame Zara’s fashion business ‘Magg’) and to members of the Holt family in more recent years. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 September 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "File 1: Roneo copies of EYL education courses and constitution F2: Articles by or on EYL in general CPA literature, c.1940s-50s; F3: EYL publications: five pamphlets; F4: CPA publications on youth; F5: pamphlets on World Youth Festivals and carnivals, including Austral- ian involvement, 1950s; F6: R D Walshe ‘The Eureka Stockade 1854-1954’; F7: photocopied pamphlets by or about EYL, 1940s-1950s. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Examines the work of five Aboriginal artists – Bronwyn Bancroft, Arone Raymond Meeks, Jeffrey Samuels, Tracey Moffatt and Fiona Foley.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Adela Pankhurst was a feminist and pacifist whose political affiliations shifted from communism to strong anti-communism over her lifetime of activism. Born in England, the daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, Adela was involved with the British suffrage movement from her teenage years and then the Women’s Social and Political Union which was founded by her mother and sisters in 1904. She later became estranged from her family and moved to Melbourne in 1914 partly for health reasons. Once there she worked with Vida Goldstein and the Women’s Political Association and campaigned against conscription particularly with the Women’s Peace Army. She also joined the Victorian Socialist Party. She married Tom Walsh, a fellow anti-conscriptionist, in 1917. After the war they moved to Sydney and had five children. They were foundation members of the Communist Party of Australia, but soon withdrew. Adela’s evolving anti-communism became starkly apparent when, in 1928, she founded the Australian Women’s Guild of Empire. Pankhurst used this conservative patriotic organisation as a platform to advocate the need for industrial cooperation, and she frequently spoke out against strikes. She ended her public life in 1943 with her husband’s death. Adela Pankhurst toured Australia in 1915 with Vida Goldstein and Cecilia John to set up branches of the Women’s Peace Army in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Walsh, Adela Pankhurst (1885 - 1961), Papadopoulos, Sophie, 2002, http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE1124b.htm Pankhurst, Adela Constantia Mary (1885 - 1961), Hogan, Susan, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120729b.htm Book Adela Pankhurst: The wayward suffragette 1885-1961, Coleman, Verna, 1996 After the war what?: Being papers on The Duties of labor, and, The Unity and morality of the nation, Pankhurst, Adela, 1917 Australia and the Empire, Walsh, Adela Pankhurst Book Section Feminists, food and the fair price: The cost of living demonstrations in Melbourne, August/ September 1917, Smart, Judith, 1995 Brazen hussies and God's police fighting back in the depression years. [Revised version of article published in Hecate, v.8, no.1, 1982], Stone, Janey, 1998 The Australian Women's Guild of Empire, Castle, Josie, 1980 The unwritten history of Adela Pankhurst Walsh, Summers, Anne, 1980 Newspaper The voice of the people: The people's welfare is the nation's strength, 1940 The Empire Gazette, 1929-1940 Pamphlet Conditions in Japan: Lecture, Walsh, Adela Pankhurst, 1940 Industrial co-operation: Policy speech of the Australian Women's Guild of Empire, Walsh, Adela Pankhurst, 1931 Is communism possible in Australia?: Special to \" Advance! Australia\", Walsh, Adela Pankhurst, 1929? Journal Article The Enthusiasms of Adela Pankhurst Walsh, Damousi, Joy, 1993 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Thomas Walsh and Adela Pankhurst Walsh papers, 1905-1961 [manuscript] Thomas Walsh and Adela Pankhurst Walsh papers, 1905-1961 [microform] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst Walsh, leader of suffragette movement, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 February 2001 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection comprises correspondence, diaries, notebooks, speeches, drafts, articles, poetry, subject files, Ellis Rowan source material, art work, photographs and other papers relating to Maie Casey’s interests in art and family history, her books An Australian story (1962), Melba revisited (1975) and Rare encounters (1980), her involvement in the International Sculpture Competition (1953) and her role as the wife of the Governor of Bengal and Governor-General of Australia. There are also some papers of John Cotton, Theodotus John Sumner, Sir Charles Ryan and Ellis Rowan. Major correspondents include Princess Alice, Kazu Aso, Princess Marthe Bibesco, Rosemary Dobson, Donn Casey, Princess Pantip Chumbhot, Sir Paul and Alix Hasluck, Anthea Hastings, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Hudson, Sir Charles and Natasha Johnston, Angela Limerick, Frank Logan, Peter Masefield, Shudha Mazumdar, Cynthia Nolan, John Oldham, Elizabeth Salter, Sir David Scott, Clement Semmler, Louise Walker, and Patrick White. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes reports of the Training Institute, Deaconess Sub-Committee and Deaconess Association.??Items/Issues Held: 25th (1922/1923) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 May 2009 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nina Crone was Editor of the Australian Garden History Society journal, Australian Garden History, and a former headmistress of Melbourne Church of England Girls’ Grammar School (CEGGS). Crone worked in broadcasting, education and management in Australia, England and Switzerland. She was appointed a Fellow of the Australian College of Education and received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2000. Daughter of James Kinning and Grace Gwendolen (née Hall) Crone. After completing her secondary education at Presbyterian Ladies’ College (PLC), East Melbourne, Crone in 1953 graduated from Melbourne University with a BA.. From 1957 to 1964 she was a teacher in Europe and Australia as well as obtaining her Bed from Melbourne University in 1962. From 1965-1974 she was a radio and TV producer for the ABC Schools Broadcasts and in 1975 became Headmistress of CEGGS. Crone is a former member of the Vic. State Advisory Committee for School Broadcasts, member of the Buildings Advisory Committee Australian Schools Commission 1979-1981, member of the Academic Committee on Education (Vic.) 1975-1980, committee member Australian College of Education (Vic.) 1974-1979. Also Crone has been a council member of the Girl Guides Association (Vic.), committee member of the United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) Vic. 1962-1964 and a member of the Lyceum Club Melbourne. Published resources Edited Book Planting the Nation, Whitehead, Georgina, 2001 Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Journal Article Honouring Nina Crone, Dyson, Christina and Aitken, Richard, 2012 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2002 Last modified 31 March 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letter, 1967 Oct. 26 from Kitty McEwan to Mrs Brookes enclosing a copy of the statement of receipts and payments for 12 months ended 30th June 1967 for the Australian Women’s Land Army Ex-members Welfare Patriotic Fund. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 August 2003 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 hours 4 minutes??Peg Christian grew up on a sheep property near Yass. For her, an only child, the animals, especially horses, were her friends. Peg was nineteen and studying Veterinary Science at Sydney University when her father died and the property was sold. Although her mother strongly believed in the education of girls, she did not consider that her nineteen year old daughter could run a sheep property. Indeed, Peg Christian speculated that her mother always thought that her daughter’ s veterinary work ‘wasn’t anything terribly important’. Peg Christian was a boarder, first at Frensham and then at Abbotsleigh independent girls schools. She reflected on the advantages of single sex schools and the Headmistress’ support for her ambition to be a vet. Peg Christian recounts in detail the veterinary science curriculum, its strengths and weaknesses, the impact of World War II and the social life at Sydney University between 1938 and 1943. She was the twelfth woman in Australia to graduate in veterinary science. After graduation and before her marriage, she worked in a small animal practice on the North Shore. Peg Christian stressed the importance of treating the owners as well as their animals. When her husband took up an appointment as a government laboratory veterinarian in Alice Springs, Peg Christian opened her own private practice in the family home. For this she is featured in the Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame, Alice Springs. In 1952, the family moved to Adelaide and again Peg Christian started her private practice in the family home. Peg Christian is best known for her work with native animals, especially joeys, wombats and kangaroos. She learnt by trial and error because care of native animals was not included in her studies at Sydney University. As a pioneer in this work, Peg Christian’s memories are a valuable record. She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 1984. Voluntary work has always been important to Peg Christian, from being a an air raid warden at Sydney University, through the CWA in Alice Springs, to the Girl Guides, the RSPCA, and Cleland Reserve in Adelaide. She retired from private practice when arthritis caused her to lose the feeling in her fingers. Peg Christian2s philosophy is that humans are responsible for animals. They do not have dominion over them. She also believes strongly that if you want to change something you must become involved with it, without being too aggressive. She reflected on modern day feminism. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Textual records, graphic materials, photographs including daguerreotypes, negatives, photo albums, photograph of a nurse in uniform, 1916, letters, school exercise book for cooking class, 1916. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 15 November 2019 Last modified 15 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jules Bastable ran as the Australian Greens candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Maroubra in 1999. The following year she also tried for the Randwick Municipal Council, but was again not elected. Jules Bastable settled in Australia in the 1980s and graduated from the University of New South Wales with a law degree. She was the legal adviser in the office of Ian Cohen, MLC from 1999 to 2002. Jules Bastable is now a policy officer in a NSW Government Department. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lorna Sharp was born in Gnowangerup in 1934, the third child of George Samuel Powell and Hansina Johnson. First World War veteran, George Samuel Powell moved to Jerramungup to live on his father’s Boer War service farm. He was murdered in 1930 and the family moved to Albany, where Lorna and her two brothers Leslie and Paddy went to school. In 1948 the family moved to Kalgoorlie, where Lorna’s mother worked in hotels. Lorna continued her schooling at St Mary’s Catholic School in Kalgoorlie, working in a milk bar at night to put herself through her education. She left school to begin work at 14 as a junior office assistant at the Producers Market on Brookman Street, Kalgoorlie. She enrolled in nursing, but after a year returned to Kalgoorlie to work for HW Davidson, who owned a pickle factory and were distributors for Mills and Ware biscuits. Lorna Powell left work and married Robert Corbett (Bobby) Sharp on 4 April 1953. They have five children, Robert, Janet, Colleen, Norman and Beverley. While her children were still at school Lorna returned to the paid workforce and began her career in real estate with agent Pat Engelbrecht. After several years in real estate, she worked for a year at the offices of a drilling company, but she returned to real estate, and became a partner in Wade’s Real Estate Agency in 1970. She was the first person in the Goldfields to gain a Real Estate Licence. Lorna completed studies in accountancy and in 1975 became sole proprietor of Wade’s Real Estate Agency, which became Kalgoorlie Real Estate. Lorna is still involved with the real estate agency, now a family business, together with her daughter Colleen, her son-in law Gavin and her son Norman. Published resources Magazine Goldfields Magazine, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Lorna Sharp interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald [sound recording] Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 7 August 2012 Last modified 5 October 2012 Digital resources Title: Charlie Furia, Lina Furia and their daughter Teresa Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Lorna Sharp with her staff Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Lorna-Sharp-seated-front-middle-with-her-staff-2011.-Courtesy-Lorna-Sharp.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Approximately 160,700 photographs, negatives, slides and contact prints in colour and black and white. The archive includes Penny Tweedie’s photojournalist activities including war and conflicts in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The archive documents her interraction with Aboriginal Australia beginning in 1975 leading to a number of published works and the 1999 Walkley Award for photojournalism. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 8 August 2019 Last modified 8 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jennie Birch was a once only candidate for election and is well known in the developing olive oil industry in Australia. She represented the Australian Democrats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Barwon in 1991. She failed to be elected. Jenni Birch was born in Victoria in 1945 and graduated BA, Dip Ed From Melbourne University, majoring in politics. She taught for the Victorian Department of Education for two years. After she moved to New South Wales she worked as a Community Liaison officer for the New South Wales Department of Education, and more recently, has been a part-time teacher of literacy and numeracy at the Moree College of TAFE. She is married to Peter Birch and they have two children. In 1983 the Birches settled out of Moree in north-western New South Wales and in partnership with Will and Margi Kirkby, established Gwydir Grove Olive Oil. Peter held a Churchill Fellowship in 2002. And Jenni accompanied him on his study of olive growing and processing. By 2005 they had established the largest table olive processing plant in Australia. Gwydir Grove Olives has participated in the Anuga International Food Fair in Cologne, Germany and been part of the NSW Exhibition at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco in January 2005, and is expected to exhibit in Seoul, South Korea in October-November 2005. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Left to right: Alwyn Crawford, Gladys Batty, Beryl Foll and NX76505 Alice Burns, kneeling, holding ‘Mustapha’ the camel. (Donor A. Penman) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "18 hours 35 minutes (approx. to date)??A series of interviews with 10 South Australian women who are recent recipients of Australia Day and Queen’s Birthday honours. The interviewing program is funded by the Minister for the Arts and the Status of Women, the Hon. Diana Laidlaw, to celebrate the contribution of women to South Australia. The project is supervised by the Oral History Officer, J.D. Somerville Oral History Collection, Mortlock Library of South Australiana and the interviews have similar themes to those explored in the State Library’s Oral History of Women’s Political Activity, 1993-1994, held at OH 250. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Professor Carole Pateman is a British-born political scientist and academic who is internationally renowned for her contribution to feminist political theory and democratic theory. Carole taught in Australia from 1972 to 1990, during which time she played a central role in introducing feminist critique to Australian political science. In 1979, she and Marian Sawer co-founded the Women’s Caucus of the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA) to improve the status of women in the profession of political science and make women visible in the political system. Carole Pateman was born in Sussex in south-eastern England to Beatrice Kate (nee Horscroft) and Ronald Bennett, who had both left school at 14, but encouraged their daughter’s education. At the age of 11 Pateman passed the Eleven Plus examination required for entry to the academically-selective Lewes County Grammar School for Girls, which she left at 16. She worked in clerical positions for several years before attending Ruskin College, an independent adult educational institution in Oxford for working class students. From Ruskin, Pateman won entry to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, where she studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) for a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (1967) and then a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) (1971). In 1972 Pateman moved to Australia where she was Lecturer (1972-75), then Senior Lecturer (1976-79), in the Department of Government at the University of Sydney, and Visiting Fellow, Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (1975). From 1980 to 1989 she taught at the University of Sydney as a Reader in Government, in addition to taking a series of visiting positions at Stanford University, Princeton University, and the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. When Pateman arrived in Australia she had an established international reputation in political science through the publication of her book Participation and Democratic Theory (1970) based on her DPhil thesis. Since published in four languages in addition to English editions, the book promotes a participatory vision of democracy and criticises the theory of democratic elitism. Pateman argued that elitist theories by the likes of Schumpeter, Berelson, Sartori, Dahl and Eckstein are based on an inadequate understanding of the early writings of democratic theory and that much sociological evidence has been ignored. The book is considered a major contribution to political theory, along with The Problem of Political Obligation: A Critical Analysis of Liberal Theory (1979, 1985), and The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism, and Political Theory (1989). Her 1988 book, The Sexual Contract, which challenged the liberal idea that the power of the state does not contradict the freedom of individuals because it is founded upon their consent, has been credited with bringing feminism into mainstream political theory. APSA awarded Pateman the Benjamin Lippincott Award for the book in 2005, and it has since been translated into 10 languages. In total, Pateman has written, co-written and edited 17 books. In 1979, Pateman co-founded the Women’s Caucus of the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA) with Marian Sawer. In 1980, she was elected to the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and in 1981 she delivered a landmark presidential address to the Australasian Political Studies Association about the failure of the discipline to construct the status of women as a political problem. Pateman continued to publish works challenging the masculinist tradition of political theory and despite being the most cited social science academic in Australia by a wide margin, her applications for political science chairs at Australian universities were unsuccessful and in 1990 she moved to the United States of America to take up the role of Professor of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles. In 1993, in recognition of her major contribution to political science, Pateman was elevated to the rank of Distinguished Professor. From 1993 to 2000 she was Adjunct Professor at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; and from 2006 to 2008 Research Professor at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Professor Pateman has held fellowships at several esteemed research institutes, including Stanford, Princeton, and Uppsala. She was president of both the Australasian Political Studies Association and the International Political Science Association. In 1991, she was elected President of the American Political Science Association, the first woman to occupy that position. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2007 was named a Fellow of the British Academy. Her scholarship has been recognized with many prestigious honours and awards, including the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (2012). In honour of Carole’s contribution to political science in Australia, APSA presents the biennial Carole Pateman Gender and Politics prize to an APSA member who publishes the best book on gender and politics. Following many years living in the United States, Professor Pateman moved back to the United Kingdom in 2017 where she continues to research and write. This entry was sponsored by a generous donation from the late Dr Thelma Hunter. Events 2015 - 2015 Fellow, Learned Society of Wales 2013 - 2013 UK Political Studies Association Special Recognition Award 2012 - 2012 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science 2010 - Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences, UK 2007 - Fellow, British Academy 2006 - 2006 DSocSci Honoris Causa, Helsinki University 2005 - 2005 DLitt Honoris Causa, National University of Ireland 2004 - 2004 UK Political Studies Association, Lifetime Achievement Award 1998 - 1998 DLitt Honoris Causa, Australian National University 1996 - Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1993 - 1994 Guggenheim Fellow 1988 - 1989 Kerstin Hesselgren Professor, Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences 1980 - Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia 1986 - 1987 Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 1984 - 1985 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Published resources Edited Book Australian Women and the Political System, Simms, Marian, 1984 Who's Who in Australia 1996, Sharpe, Neill (Researcher), 1995 Book A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia, Sawer, Marian and Simms, Marian, 1993 Participation and Democratic Theory, Pateman, Carole, 1970 The Problem of Political Obligation: A Critique of Liberal Theory, Pateman, Carole, 1985 The Sexual Contract, Pateman, Carole, 1988 Resource Section Political Science, Grey, Madeline, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0178b.htm Fellows in the Australian Learned Academies, 1954-2010, Grimshaw, Patricia and Francis, Rosemary, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0451b.htm Journal Article The Impact of Feminist Scholarship on Australian Political Science, Sawer, Marian, 2004 Resource Carole Pateman winner of the Johan Skytte Prize 2012, Uppsala Universitet, Medfarm Play, 2012, http://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/2931 Department History, Department of Government and International Relations, 2014, http://sydney.edu.au/arts/government_international_relations/about/history.shtml Site Exhibition Women Who Caucus: Feminist Political Scientists, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2017, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/caucus/ Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Australasian Political Studies Association, 1956-1996 [manuscript] Australian National University Archives Pateman, C Pateman, C Author Details Niki Francis Created 1 May 2017 Last modified 5 December 2017 Digital resources Title: Carole Pateman Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes minutes 1882-1949; receipts 1921-1943; expenditures 1919-1943; visitors’ book 1903-1948 (includes records of baptisms 1931-1938 and marriages 1936-1937); annual reports 1944-1945 and 1948; and insurance policies 1875-1943. The collection is of an administrative nature and does not include personal case files. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 August 2003 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The correspondence consists of reports from unions and other labor organisations to J. F. Neill, A. J. Edwards, H. J. Hawkins, and George Waite of the I.W.W. Club, Sydney. There is also some general non-I.W.W. correspondence, including letters to/from Frank Anstey, F. G. Tudor, Tom Mann, W. M. Hughes, Robert Hogg, Henry Dobson, Tom Baker, Harry Cook, Josiah Thomas, J. Sinclair, J. W. Bilson, J. C. Watson, W. G. Higgs, Ben Willett, Charles M. Barlow, Tom Tunnecliffe, F. J. Riley, John Barnes, H. Scott Bennett, J. R. Wilson, and E. J. Holloway. A further set of correspondence written to R. S. Ross and the Victorian Socialist Party, includes letters from C. J. Cough, Maurice Blackburn, W. Maloney, James Mathews, John Mullan, Frank Brennan, “Jack” Curtin, Charles Gray, Cecilia John, Vida Goldstein, and Albert Blakey. The organisations represented in the correspondence include the Sydney Labor Council, the Russian Association, Qld., the Trades Hall Council, Melb., the Women’s Political Association of Victoria, the Australian Peace Alliance, the Socialist Federation of Australia, the International Socialist Club, and several anti-conscription groups. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On 9 June 1938, Isabella Younger Ross was awarded the Order of the British Empire for her services as secretary to the Baby Health Centre Association of Victoria. Born at Warrnambool Victoria, Isabella was educated at the universities of Melbourne and Glasgow. In 1916 she married John Ross and they were to have one son who died on active service in New Guinea. Isabella worked as a Clinical Assistant at the Queen Victoria, Royal Women’s and Children’s hospitals. Actively involved with infant welfare she helped establish the first Victorian baby clinic at Richmond in June 1917 and became a central figure in the Victorian Baby Health Centres Association. A member of the Melbourne Lyceum, Isabella Ross was president from 1938 until 1940. A plaque commemorating her can be found at the Queen Elizabeth Maternal and Child Welfare Centre, Carlton. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1944, Alexander, Joseph A, 1944 Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 Book Australian nurses since Nightingale 1860-1990, Burchill, Elizabeth, 1992 'This Mad Folly!': The History of Australia's Pioneer Women Doctors, Hutton Neve, Marjorie, 1980 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 October 2002 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Microfilm : CY 3703, frames 66-108??Item 1?Manuscript report, accounts of meetings of National Council of Women of New South Wales, 7 November 1895??Item 2?Manuscript report, accounts of meetings of National Council of Women of New South Wales, 26 June 1896??Item 3?Manuscript draft of constitution of National Council of Women of New South Wales??Item 4?Bills and receipts (5) for printing pamphlets and cards for the National Council of Women from Samuel E. Lees, printers, stationers, 1895-1896??Item 5?Papers of Margaret Windeyer, 1895-1897 including holograph letters and incomplete manuscript notes of a speech made at the inaugural meeting of the Council Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hr. Oral history.??Discussing pre-war employment; joining the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corp; enlisting in the Navy; training at Navy Office, Melbourne; posting to HMAS Harman; leisure in Queanbeyan and Canberra; meeting and marrying during her naval service and the nature of war time romance and a war time, “true navy” wedding; separation during the war and divorce afterwards; working with Y Section; security; disparity in pay between male and female members of the Australian Navy; uniforms; changes to HMAS Harman after 1944; demobilisation; post-demobilisation retraining; adjustment to civilian life. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lily Addison competed in the All England Tennis Championships at Wimbledon in 1919. She served with the Australian Army Nursing Service 1917-19 in Greece and England. Known as Lily, Marion Lillian Addison had moved from Adelaide to Melbourne by 1910. In 1906 she first won the Victorian Ladies’ Tennis Championship. As a tennis player she had significant success in Australia and often played doubles with her brother J. J. Addison. She was the South Australian Ladies Tennis Champion in 1906, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911. She was holder of the Victorian Ladies’ singles championship and mixed doubles title in 1909. In 1910 she won all three events in the New South Wales Tennis Championships – the ladies’ singles, ladies’ doubles and challenge pairs. In 1911 she was both Victorian and New South Wales State Ladies Tennis Champion. In late 1913, at the age of twenty seven, she commenced nursing training at the Melbourne Hospital, graduating in early 1917. She enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in August 1917 and was posted to a number of British military hospitals in Salonika, Greece. In 1918 she suffered lung trouble. After the Armistice, in February 1919 she transferred to the 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital in Dartford, England. In June 1919 she played in the All England Tennis Championships at Wimbledon. She defeated Mrs Tucker, 6-3, 6-1 in the first round. She was beaten by Mrs McNair in the second round 12-10, 6-2. She also competed in the mixed doubles with Max Decagis and beat Mrs L. Mauser-Doust, 6-3, 11-9. She returned to Australia in July 1919 and by November that year had returned to local tennis, being selected in the Victorian team to play against New South Wales. In 1921 she was again nursing at the Melbourne Hospital but still managed to win the Victorian title for the fifth time. In 1925, Lily Addison held a position as Sister with the Australian Army Nursing Service Reserve. It appears she did not marry. In 1937 she was a Sister at the Adelaide Hospital but in 1940 is recorded as living in Mont Albert, Melbourne. In 1972 she lived in Kew. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Thesis Not just 'routine nursing': the roles and skills of the Australian Army Nursing Service during World War I, Harris, Kirsty, 2007 Journal UNA, 1903-76, http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19124337 Newspaper Article N.S.W. Tennis Championships - Miss Addison wins three events, 1910, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15160351 Trained Nurses' Association, 1916, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1623647 Lawn Tennis, 1919, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20370689 Lawn Tennis - All England Championships, 1919, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20370878 Lawn Tennis - All England Championships, 1919, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12384231 Victorian Championships, 1921, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15990440 Letters to the Editor - Played the Game, 1940, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11309498 Article Using the online community to 'create' history, Henningham, Nikki; Morgan, Helen; Harris, Kirsty and Thomas, Graham, 2010, http://www.womenaustralia.info/blog/2010/06/22/using-the-online-community-to-create-history/ Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Addison Marion Lilian : SERN S/NURSE : POB Adelaide SA : POE Adelaide SA : NOK M Addison Marion L Author Details Kirsty Harris Created 23 June 2010 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc11.134 comprises papers documenting Eve Mahlab’s careers as a lawyer, businesswoman, women’s rights activist and public speaker. The papers include news cuttings, particularly of letters written by Mahlab to newspaper editors and articles about Mahlab published in newspapers and journals; speech texts and notes; articles; submissions; biographical information; and, correspondence. Groups and companies with which Mahlab was associated, and which are highlighted in the papers, include the Women’s Electoral Lobby, Mahlab Recruitment, Liberal Feminist Network, Westpac and the Australian Women Donor’s Network (1 fol. box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Born to English parents, and daughter of the Surveyor General, Mary Emily Twynam married wealthy pastoralist James ‘Jim’ Cunningham and became an important and formative figure in the developing pastoralist community in the Tuggeranong district. She was a compassionate, sensitive and intellectually curious woman whose capacity for friendship and kindness turned her homestead ‘Tuggranong’ into the social focal point of the community. Her early married years were taken up with raising eight children and battling with the bouts of serious depression that would shadow her for her entire life. As her children grew she found time to indulge in her love of gardening as well as pursue her passion for poetry and the written word. Cunningham was also an outspoken advocate for conscription during the two referenda in 1916 and was dedicated to fundraising for soldiers in the Great War. Mary Emily Twynam was born and grew up in the New South Wales township of Goulburn. Her family home ‘Riversdale’ was a place she always remembered fondly. Her father, Edward Twynam came to the colony in 1855 from England and prospered as a surveyor. He would eventually go on to become the Surveyor General. His wife Emily Rose was an accomplished artist who left behind many beautiful woodcarvings and etchings. She took a keen interest in the natural world and Mary Emily seems to have inherited a love of gardening and nature from her. From the archival material that exists Emily Rose appears to have been a loving and kind mother to her children. Mary Emily however, developed a close bond with her father that would be one of the cornerstones of her whole life. They shared an interest in literary pursuits and both possessed keen and inquiring intellects. As an adult Mary would often run drafts of her poems and ideas by her father. Like other young women of her class, Mary was educated at home by Governess Miss Nora Martyr. ‘Riversdale’ was to occupy a special place in Mary’s heart for her whole life indicating that she had a warm loving and happy childhood in the place she would call ‘Home’ until her death. On 24 April 1889 a 19 year old Mary Emily was married to successful pastoralist James ‘Jim’ Cunningham, who at 39 was 20 years her senior. It was a marriage partly borne of duty, but one which would become, if not passionate, stable and affectionate. After a honeymoon abroad in Europe the couple returned to Australia to settle at ‘Tuggranong’ (spelled this way to distinguish it from the surrounding Tuggeranong district). ‘Tuggranong’ was one of a number of properties owned by Jim Cunningham and his brother Andrew Jackson Cunningham. ‘Tuggranong’ like the brothers’ nearby property ‘Lanyon’ was a large sheep station on the eastern banks of the Murrumbidgee river; up to 50 000 sheep were shorn at the ‘Tuggranong’ sheds. The brothers also had properties on the western side of the river as well as holdings in the Cooma and Forbes districts. Both ‘Lanyon’ and ‘Tuggranong’ would come to occupy an important part of Mary’s heart and life with both providing her a deep sense of place and belonging. She also left her mark on both properties with her skilful and committed gardening. Mary Emily was already pregnant with the couple’s first child by the time they settled at ‘Tuggranong’ and on 2 June 1890 Jane Cynthia Cunningham was born. Seven more children would follow in the next 12 years. During this period Mary’s first documented battle with what we would now call depression or postnatal depression occurred. Mary herself never referred to these battles in her letters or notebooks, but references to her breakdown in 1902, after the birth of her son Alexander ‘Pax’, are found in her family’s letters. In October 1903 Mary’s sister, Edith wrote from ‘Riversdale’ to her friend Stella Miles Franklin and expressed relief and gratitude at Mary’s restoration ‘from the dead’. Despite her personal struggles with such darkness Mary remained a much loved, and loving, member of her community. She took to her role as a successful pastoralist’s wife with gusto attending balls, getting involved in fundraising activities for the parish church as well as other causes like raising funds for a local hospital. The homestead itself became the social hub of the district and Mary and Jim hosted many fine gatherings there. When the new military academy at Duntroon was opened in June 1911 Mary warmly welcomed the cadets. Many of them would call on ‘Tuggranong’ whenever possible, probably in part due to her teenaged daughters, and a few would keep up correspondence with Mary when they were serving overseas in the Great War a few years later. Her involvement in the community and her loyal and giving friendship were all the more admirable as in these years she lost both her eldest daughter Jane Cynthia to appendicitis and her beloved mother just a few short weeks later. By 1914 with the Great War well and truly looming large the family moved to ‘Lanyon’. The move was precipitated by the death of Andrew Jackson as well the changes afoot with the planning for the new Federal Capital. There were uncertainties about how quickly ‘Tuggranong’ would be reclaimed as Commonwealth land and so a move to ‘Lanyon’ afforded the family some stability. At this time the couple offered ‘Tuggranong’ to the Commonwealth government as a convalescent hospital for the duration of the war, but this offer was not taken up. The war also caused other shifts in the Cunningham family and in the texture of Mary’s everyday life. Always a staunch supporter of Empire, (her Empire Day bonfires for the Tuggeranong district were big affairs) Mary was unequivocally supportive of the war. Her eldest son, Andrew would go on to distinguished service with the First Light Horse Regiment, and her sister Joan served as nurse overseas for the duration of the war. Mary herself became a passionate fundraiser and like many of her class a committed advocate of conscription during the campaigns in 1916. To the disapproval of some of the conservative people in her community she took a public role in joining a local pro-conscription committee. In the winter of 1915 she threw a ball at ‘Lanyon’ to raise funds for the Red Cross, and in 1917 she took the post of president of the newly created War Chest Flower Shop. The War Chest was established in 1914 as fundraising group that aimed to support all soldiers, not just the wounded ones like the Red Cross did. The position meant Mary had to travel between Sydney and ‘Lanyon’ of which she was now involved in managing as her husband had succumbed to chronic ill-health. The Flower shop, based on Elizabeth Street in Sydney, sold fresh produce, fresh flowers and over time Mary would come to sell some of her poems in the store too; a move she relied on her father to help her make with him often acting as critic and editor of her work. The Flower Shop was a successful venture and they eventually moved to larger premises on George Street. Despite the growing pressures and gloom of her ailing husband Mary, as always, formed supportive intellectually stimulating and loyal friendships, she struck a particularly affectionate relationship with the young artist Grace Cossington-Smith during these years. After the war Mary’s life changed. Her son Andrew returned from war in 1919 but had been broken by his service and eventually descended into alcoholism. He took over ‘Lanyon’ as Mary was now based in Bondi, Sydney with Jim whose health was too poor to be in the cold southern climate. Andrew proceeded to publicly disgrace the family and mismanage ‘Lanyon’ to the point that it was publicly auctioned off in 1926, much to Mary’s dismay. ‘Tuggranong’ was also gone by this stage having been taken over by the Department of Defence in 1922; it became the Official Historian, Charles Bean’s residence for the duration of the history’s writing. Both of these losses came after a deeply felt loss of Jim, who died on 28 December 1921 after years of poorly healthy. For a woman so bound to community, place and family Mary was adrift in many ways. After Jim’s death she went ‘home’ to reside at ‘Riversdale’, but the final hurt came with the death of her father in 1923 after just a brief illness. After this latest grief she split her time between ‘Riversdale’ and ‘Fairwater’, a property near Ulladulla that she acquired in 1927 after the sale of ‘Lanyon’. Here Mary withdrew into her herself and unlike in 1902 her family was now grown and busy with their own lives and did not rally around to pull her out of her darkness. She died alone at ‘Fairvale’ (her daughter’s home) at the age 61 on 15 November 1930. Her death certificate refers to her refusal to take drink or food and of her ‘unsound mind’. Her son Andrew found her body and had her buried at the family cemetery at ‘Lanyon’ where her husband and four of her daughters also lay. With the end of her life so came the end of an era of her family’s proud pastoral heritage and deep ties with the land and people of the Tuggeranong valley. Read more about Mary Cunningham’s activities during World War I at the exhibition Canberra Women in World War 1: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Newspaper Article Funeral Notice. Mrs. M. Cunningham, 1930, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16731622 Marriage Notice, 1889, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page1385549 Silver Wedding, 1914, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31401528 Resource Section Cunningham, James (Jim) (1850-1921), http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/cunningham-james-jim-278 Cunningham, Mary Emily (1870 - 1930), http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/cunningham-mary-emily-1639 Lanyon Homestead, http://www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au/lanyon/ Twynam, Edward (1832-1923), http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/twynam-edward-1648/text1756 Resource Tuggeranong Homestead, http://www.tuggeranonghomestead.com.au/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Mary Cunningham: An Australian Life, Horsfield, Jennifer, 2004 The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918: Australia during the war, Scott, Ernest, 1938 Journal Article Beautiful Colours to Arrange: Mary Cunningham, Mistress of Tuggeranong, Horsfield, Jennifer, 2003 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Letters, 1910-1960 [manuscript] Letters, 1858-1931 [manuscript] Papers of Cunningham family, 1834-1902 [manuscript] Author Details Kim Doyle Created 22 June 2012 Last modified 9 February 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Clare Grant Stevenson – personal and family papers, 1927-1988?Clare Grant Stevenson – papers, 1941-1947, concerning the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force?Clare Grant Stevenson – photographs, 192–1981?Clare Grant Stevenson – miscellaneous papers, 1941-1992, of Joyce A. Thomsoon concerning Clare Grant Stevenson and the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force, including research material for and a copy of her book, The WAAAF in Wartime Australia (1992) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 May 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Red Cross Archives series reference: V17 Comprises citations for awards conferred by the Victorian Division of the Red Cross including: Service Awards, Laurel Wreath and Gilt Rosette, Award of Merit, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Bars to the Service Award, Long Service Medals (1999-2005). This cards are arranged alphabetically and were created by Member Services Department. Additionally there are files ‘Who’s Who in Red Cross’ containing newspaper clippings and Red Cross newsletter articles regarding award recipients. These files were maintained by the Public Relations or Membership departments of the Victorian Red Cross. Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 9 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Barbara Hanrahan was an artist, printmaker and writer. She was born in Adelaide in 1939 and lived there until her death in December 1991. Hanrahan spent three years at the South Australian School of Art before leaving for London in 1966 to continue her art studies. In England she taught at the Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall, (1966-67) and Portsmouth College of Art (1967-70). From 1964 Hanrahan held a number of exhibitions principally in Adelaide and Sydney, but also in Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, London and Florence. Hanrahan’s novels include The Scent of Eucalyptus (1973), The Peach Groves (1980), The Frangipani Gardens (1988) and Flawless Jade (1989). Barbara Hanrahan was educated at Thebarton Girls’ Technical College before commencing a three year Art Teaching course at Adelaide Teachers’ College. At the same time she completed art classes at the South Australian School of Art. Following the completion of her Diploma of Art Teaching, Hanrahan began teaching art in schools as well as enrolling for evening classes with the newly established Printmaking Department at the South Australian School of Art. In 1961 she was appointed assistant lecturer in Art at Western Teachers’ College, Adelaide. In the same year she participated in a four-artist exhibition at the Hahndorf Gallery, and was awarded the Cornell Prize for Painting. She taught at the South Australian School of Art from 1963-66. Hanrahan left for London in 1966 to continue her art studies. She taught at the Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall, (1966-67) and Portsmouth College of Art (1967-70). In the early 1980s Hanrahan, with her partner Jo Steele, returned to live in Adelaide, where she established her own studio. Hanrahan’s writing career began in 1973 with the publication of her first, largely autobiographical, novel The Scent of Eucalyptus. Other titles soon followed and her last novel, Good night, Mr Moon, was published posthumously in 1992. During her life Hanrahan held a number of exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her works are held by the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, and many regional galleries. Published resources Resource Guide to the Papers of Barbara Hanrahan, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-327774322/findingaid Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Launch of the Barbara Hanrahan Memorial Exhibition [sound recording] [Barbara Hanrahan tributes] [videorecording] : Barbara Hanrahan Memorial Exhibition Introducing Barbara Hanrahan: Artist and Writer 1939-1991 [videorecording] : Barbara Hanrahan Memorial Exhibition Interviews with Barbara Hanrahan, Mem Fox, Colin Thiele, Christobel Mattingley and Max Fatchen [videorecording] Interview with Barbara Hanrahan [sound recording] Interviewer: Beate Ursula Josephi Radio program 'Profiles in South Australian Writing' [sound recording] Producer: Beate Ursula Josephi Compilation of recordings relating to Barbara Hanrahan [sound recording] Interview with Barbara Hanrahan [sound recording] Interviewer: Suzanne Hayes Radio interview with Barbara Hanrahan [sound recording] Interviewer: Elaine Lindsay Radio tribute to Barbara Hanrahan by Susan Mitchell [sound recording] Radio tribute to Barbara Hanrahan by Tony Baker [sound recording] Recording of a Women Writers Forum [sound recording] Addresses by Barbara Hanrahan and Max Fatchen [sound recording] Barbara Hanrahan : SUMMARY RECORD National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Barbara Hanrahan, 1958-1992 [manuscript] Papers of Carmel Bird, 1987-2000 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Barbara Hanrahan, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of New South Wales Dale Spender - papers, 1972-1995 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Daily record of events kept by Jane Macartney, the wife of the Very Reverend Dean Hussey Burgh Macartney. These mainly relate to family life, ministerial work of her husband and the role Jane Macartney played in society: her involvement with numerous benevolent societies and institutions, committee work, Sunday school teaching, visitations to the poor and the sick, social life and general domestic existence as it was for the upper social classes during this period which gives an overall impression of a woman’s life and work in this environment., Particular reference to several well known families, and details of social activities, the place of religion in one’s daily life, the importance of public transport, suburban social visits as far as Brighton, the extent of the Macartney’s travels in Victoria; ministrations and work re early hospitals and orphanages; general references to family life includes details of births, baptisms, sickness and deaths, past-times, notion of the extended family, the belief in God and life after death and general importance placed upon family life and social relationships. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 August 2017 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jessie Hockings (nee Miller) was a child when her family migrated to Australia from England. After leaving London on 31 July 1909, they arrived in Brisbane on 20 September 1909. They then travelled to a property at Dulacca in the Western Downs region of Queensland. In February 1923, at the age of 23, Jessie Miller married Frank Hockings and almost immediately moved to Thursday Island, where Frank and his brother ran the Wanetta Pearling Co. World War 2 interrupted those operations and the family moved backed to continental Queensland to run a dairy farm at Springbrook, which they purchased in 1945. Sadly, Frank passed away in 1952, but Jessie remained on the farm for another thirteen years. She moved down to the coast at Southport in 1965. Regardless of where she lived, the Queensland Country Women’s Association (CWA) was a constant feature of Jessie Hocking’s life. She was a member for roughly sixty years, maintaining a tradition that ran in the family. Her mother, Jessie Strathearn Miller, was president of Dulacca (Qld) CWA and a younger sister was the secretary-treasurer of the same branch. Jessie was a founding member of the Springbrook CWA in 1957 and a three-time president during the 60s to 80s. She was secretary-treasurer of the Thursday Island branch during her time up there. As well as the CWA, Jessie volunteered at the Red Cross, an aged care residence, and the local hospital ladies’ auxiliary. In 1982, a British Empire Medal for Meritorious Civil Service, which she received on her 82nd birthday, acknowledged Jessie’s community work, which she continued to do until well into her 80s. Jessie Hockings passed away in 1991 and is sadly missed by her family and friends. Her legacy lives on in an educational bursary awarded every year by the Springbrook-Mudgeeraba CWA. Since 1992 the branch has presented a local primary school student with the Jessie Hockings Encouragement Award. The $200 bursary aims to help a family ease the financial burden of their child transitioning to high school. It represents her prevailing belief in the importance of a good education. The following essay was written by Avril Priem and published in the Winter 2020 edition of the CWA Queensland magazine. It is reproduced in full with permission. THE LADY AND THE LEGACY Story by Avril Priem For 27 years, Springbrook-Mudgeeraba CWA has presented a local primary school student with the Jessie Hockings Encouragement Award. “This $200 bursary aims to help a family ease the financial burden of their child transitioning to high school,” says president, Robyn Keene. Who was Jessie Hockings? Jessie Hockings was a founding member of the Springbrook CWA in 1957 and a three-time president during the 60s to 80s. Well-respected and much-loved in the district, her belief in supporting education prevails through her legacy. Jessie’s granddaughter, Lorraine Mitchell, says her grandmother did not attend school while growing up on the western Downs. “Instead, she had lessons at home because there was no money for boarding school.” Lorraine continues, “We affectionately called her Grandy. She was eloquent, well-read, an accomplished pianist and singer who held her audiences spellbound. She could quote Shakespeare, whip up a delicious strawberry mousse or make luscious brandied cumquats.” Prickly pear, pearly shells and dairying As a young girl of nine, Jessie Miller emigrated with her family from England in 1909 to the Dulacca district, west of Miles. In contrast to ‘England’s green and pleasant land’, their new country was hot, dry and peppered with prickly pear. Lorraine recollects the family story: “When they first arrived from Brisbane with a month’s supply of groceries, a 7-pound billy of golden syrup had burst over everything and there was no water to wash it off. Water had to be carted in barrels from a waterhole three miles away. The family lived in bush tents for 14 months while great-grandpa Miller built a house, a dam with pick and shovel, and tried to clear the land of prickly pear by hand – an impossible task. They eventually left that grant of land and developed Myalla, their wheat and beef property.” At 23, Jessie married Frank Hockings and moved to Thursday Island – to stay for 18 years. Frank and his brother Norman ran the Wanetta Pearling Co. When Japan entered the war in 1941, Thursday Island became an Australian military zone. The armed services requisitioned the luggers and pearling came to a standstill. Lorraine explains what happened next: “In 1942, Australian civilians were ordered to leave within 24 hours. Grandy and her three children – my mother Robin, Peg, and David – were evacuated to Brisbane. Leaving her home and life on TI was very stressful for her. Grandpa Frank joined his family later and for a time worked in the Rocklea munitions factory that made hand grenades.” In 1945, the Hockings took up a dairy farm at Springbrook in the Gold Coast hinterland, and began the hard work of milking twice a day for 20 years. Lorraine’s childhood memories are of lush paddocks, spectacular scenery, banana passionfruit growing under the verandah, and finger limes growing in tree stumps. And inside the farmhouse: “the woodstove, Grandy’s roasts and home-baked pies, a sweet cordial made from finger limes, and hot porridge for breakfast served with brown sugar and fresh cream from the dairy.” In the CWA Being in the CWA ran in the family. Jessie’s mother was president of Dulacca CWA and a younger sister, the secretary-treasurer. On Thursday Island, Jessie was the branch secretary-treasurer. “As a Springbrook CWA member, she was often on the phone organising events, or chatting with members, supporting them and their families,” remembers Lorraine. “Grandy was gifted with a wonderful kind heart. Her positive energy and enthusiasm enveloped those around her.” After Frank died of a heart attack in 1952, Jessie and family kept the farm going until 1965. She then moved from mountain to coast but continued to attend Springbrook meetings, getting a lift with her friend, Lola Hicks, who had also been a president over the years. Lola would motor up in her 1965 Humber Super Snipe. As well as the CWA, Jessie volunteered at the Red Cross, an aged care residence, and the local hospital ladies’ auxiliary. “She was a hospital ‘flower lady’ for 15 years and used to say that a bit of flower power helps cheer up the day for both patients and staff,” smiles Lorraine. Jessie was also renowned for her jams, pickles and chutneys, all made from garden produce given to her by family, friends and neighbours. A local newspaper reported that in one year she cooked up 491lbs or 222kg! Her jars of tasty home-mades were given away for fundraising or entered into shows and CWA competitions. Her Madras chutney won the CWA state final two years in a row in the 70s. In 1982, a British Empire Medal for Meritorious Civil Service acknowledged Jessie’s community work, which she continued to do until well into her 80s. “She was thrilled to receive a BEM,” says Lorraine. “It coincided with her 82nd birthday, so it was a double celebration.” Jessie Hockings passed away in 1991 at the age of 91. She was a quintessential CWA lady and true to the CWA Creed was always giving – and looking up, laughing, loving and lifting. Events 1982 - 1982 Jessie Hockings was awarded a British Empire Medal for Meritorious Civil Service in acknowledgement of her community work across several decades. Author Details Avril Priem Created 24 September 2020 Last modified 9 November 2020 Digital resources Title: Jessie Hockings celebrating on the day she was awarded a BEM Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records relate to the Geelong Branch of the Victorian Women Graduates’ Association.?Committee and general minutes including records of dinners 13 Feb 1967 – 15 September 1981; correspondence 1977-1982; material relating to careers nights and conferences 1966-1974; A.F.U.W. constitution and by- laws as amended 20 November 1974, and as revised by 23rd conference and council, Sydney, 1976; nomination for an award in the Order of Australia. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Lyceum Club (Melbourne), established in 1912, was directly modelled on the lyceum clubs of England. Membership is restricted to women graduates and other women who had distinguished themselves in art, music, literature, philanthropy or public service. A group of women interested in forming a lyceum club in Melbourne first met in 1910. Later that year, Ethel Osborne, who had been instrumental in organising this meeting, London’s Lyceum Club and reported back to the group on its operations. In 1912 Osborne was elected foundation vice-president of the new Lyceum Club (Melbourne). Its founders in Australia, as in London, hoped the Club would gain equal standing with the prestigious male clubs of the day. They were to provide a base for elite women’s influence and advancement. As reflected in its admission requirements the clubs were particularly committed to furthering women’s professional careers. They provided an arena in which elite professional women could form strong networks and cultivate useful contacts. Indeed, the Clubs were explicitly designed to provide a space for female networking – both locally and internationally. The Lyceum quickly became Melbourne’s premier women’s club, and by 1930 claimed 900 members. The Club continues today, although its influence has diminished. Founding members included: Dr Janet Lindsay Greig, Miss Jessie Webb, Miss Enid Derham, Dr Constance Ellis, Dr Georgina Sweet, Dr Jane Greig, Flos Greig, Mrs Ray Phillips, Miss Alice Michaelis, Mrs Mary Barden, Miss Dora de Beer, Miss Stella Deakin, Miss Elizabeth Lothian, Mrs Ida Latham, Mrs Eleanor Latham, Miss Mona McBurney, Miss Mary Baldwin and Mrs Jessie Nott. Published resources Book The Lyceum Club, Melbourne 1912-1962., Gillison, Joan, 1962 Memorandum and articles of association of the Lyceum Club, [Arthur Phillips, Pearce and Just], 1915 Qualifications for membership and rules for Lyceum Club, Melbourne A History of the Lyceum Club Melbourne, Gillison, Joan M, 1975 Jessie Webb, a memoir, Ridley, Ronald T, 1994 Literary Women: A checklist of work by members of the Lyceum Club, Melbourne, Stuart, Lurline, 1993 Report Annual report / Lyceum Club Melbourne, [?1912-] Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records, ca. 1920-1979 [manuscript] History of the Lyceum Club, and papers, 1970-1975. [manuscript]. Records, 1912-ca. 1970. [manuscript]. Records, 1910-2013. [manuscript]. Papers, 1916-1974. [manuscript]. Papers, 1975-1985. [manuscript]. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 27 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ascham is one of the oldest non-denominational girls’ schools in Sydney, established in 1886. The archives comprise the official records of the School and donations of personal papers, memorabilia and photographs given generously by former students, staff and families.??The archival collection holds the following format-based collections drawn from both the official records of the school and donations received from the school community:?- Paper records, including: the School Admission Register dating from 1902; Headmistress’ Annual Reports, dating from 1915 (digitised); Council Minutes from Ascham’s incorporation in 1937; Prize lists dating from 1900 (digitised); papers of the Old Girls’ Union, 1915 to present.?- Publications, including: Charivari, the school magazine, from April 1903 (digitised); Ascham Old Girls’ Magazine (formerly Newsheet), 1943 to present; weekly newsletters and student newspapers.?- Photographic collection, dating from 1895, in the process of being digitised.?- Book collection, including: a fine collection of early edition Victorian novels; Miss Margaret Bailey’s personal library; prize books, dating from 1887; books about Ascham and its alumni.?- Uniform collection, dating from 1920s, with replicas of the first uniform introduced in 1895.?- Memorabilia and museum artefacts, dating from the 19th century.?- Cartographic collection, including building plans dating from the 19th century.?- Audio-visual collection, including film, sound, video and digital recordings.??The Archives are open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays throughout the year. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 November 2017 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Flockton is remembered for her beautiful botanic illustrations. A species of eucalypt was named in her honour. Flockton settled in Australia at the age of 19 and according to Payne, Flockton was a member of the Royal Art Society of NSW where she exhibited her work from 1894 to 1901. She illustrated J H Maidens’ works Forest Flora of NSW and A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus. Maiden was the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, where Flockton was employed for 26 years, from 1901 to 1927. A lithographic artist she published a book, Australian Wild Flowers, containing twelve plates printed by colour lithography and also produced decorative borders for a souvenir book, Greetings from Australia. (Source: Australian Garden History.) Published resources Journal Article Margaret Flockton, Payne, Christine, 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2002 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Elizabeth Byrne graduated with an MBBS (Honours) in 1947, after which she worked at various hospitals in both Victoria and London. In 1961 she qualified as a member of the Royal Australian College of Physicians and until 1966, was appointed an honorary physician to out-patients at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital. In addition to working as a clinical assistant and an assistant physician, Helen held a university appointment as a clinical tutor at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Helen Elizabeth Byrne did not study Medicine as her first choice. She initially took her MA in French and Italian studies and, graduating in 1933, won the W.T. Mollison Scholarship, using it to travel to Perugia to undertake the course in Italian literature and art offered to foreign students at the Università per Stranieri and to Rome where studied at La Sapienza. She noted on her return that the buildings in Rome were shabby and ‘The hand of Mussolini is very much in evidence in the universities, for no criticism of the Fascist regime is tolerated.’[1] She gave a talk on 3LO ABC in 1935 on ‘Some Things We Could Learn from the Italians’.[2] In 1942 she began studies towards the MBBS she took with Honours in 1947 and worked at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital before going to London in 1950, spending two years at the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith and various other London hospitals. After two years back at the Queen Victoria, she joined Claire Crittle (1921-2006) in general practice in Burwood. She qualified as a Member of the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 1961 and was appointed as an honorary physician to Out-patients at the Queen Victoria until 1966. She was also Clinical Assistant at St Vincent’s Hospital in 1961 and Assistant Physician at Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1963 until her retirement which coincided with the end of the honorary system in Victoria in 1975. At the Royal Melbourne she held a university appointment as clinical tutor to fourth year medical and dental students and served as Acting Honorary Physician to Outpatients in 1967 and 1968. Helen Byrne’s Italian proved a great benefit in dealing with newly arrived migrants and she learned Modern Greek to be able to communicate with others. She was a member of the Australian Medical Association, the Victorian Medical Women’s Society and the Lyceum Club, which she joined in 1932. She was also a devout Roman Catholic. The College Roll of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons tells us that ‘She made a quiet and self-effacing but significant contribution to the medical and cultural life of her era.’[3] [1] ‘Home from Italy: Miss Helen Byrne’. Argus. 4 May 1934:10. [2] Argus 2 May 1938: 15. [3] M. Henderson. ‘College Roll: Byrne, Helen Elizabeth’. https://www.racp.edu.au/page/library/college-roll/college-roll-detail&id=2 (no longer available online). Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 7 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Nancy Bird Walton was Australia’s youngest female pilot. She was awarded imperial honours for her work with the Far West Children’s Health Scheme. Nancy Bird Walton was born in Sydney in 1915. In 1933, at the age of 17, she became the youngest Australian woman to gain a pilot’s licence. One year later she obtained her commercial licence. In 1937-1938 Walton operated a charter service in Queensland followed by a two year world tour studying civil aviation. In 1950 she founded the Australian Women’s Pilots’ Association. She won the Ladies Trophy in the South Australian Centenary Air Race from Brisbane to Adelaide in 1936 and came fifth in the All Women’s Transcontinental Air Race, America, in 1958. Walton was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) in 11 June 1966 for her work as pilot to the Far West Children’s Health Scheme. She was also appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia on 26 January 1990 for ‘service to aviation, particularly the participation of women in aviation’. Events 2001 - 2001 Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Book Nancy Bird [videorecording] : born 1915 : aviatrix, Hughes, Robin and Heimans, Frank, 1992 Nancy Bird, born to fly, Flynn, Randal, 1991 My God! its a woman : the autobiography of Nancy Bird, Walton, Nancy Bird, 1990 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Resource Nancy Bird-Walton (1915-), Australian Pioneer Aviatrix, Naughton, Russell, 1999, http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/nancy_bird_walton_bio.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources State Library of South Australia Yarn spinners [sound recording] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 Shirley Anderson - papers, 1928-1997 Series 01: Nancy Bird Walton further papers, 1933-1995 Edwards and Shaw (Firm) - further records,1945-1984 Series 02: Nancy Bird Walton further photographs, ca. 1930-1991 Collection 05: Nancy Bird Walton scrapbooks, 1938, ca. 1997-2001 Nancy Bird Walton further papers, 1935-1984, including diaries and scrapbooks of press cuttings Ros Bowden - interviews conducted for radio programs and documentaries, ca.1975 - 1989 Nancy Bird Walton aggregated collection of papers and pictorial material National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Lady Helen Blackburn, 1944-1990 [manuscript] Papers of Nancy Bird Walton, [1933?]-2005 [manuscript] Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Walton, Nancy B (Commander, Women's Air Training Corps (WATC)) Walton, Nancy-Bird (Women's Air Training Scheme) Mrs Nancy Bird-Walton with Lady Wakehurst, wife of the Governor of NSW, in front of Squadron Leader F.C. Mackillop and Gwen Stark Miss Nancy Bird, Aviatrix with Flight Lieutenant McKillop and Gwen Stark Lady Wakehurst, wife of the Governor of NSW, Squadron Leader F.C. Mackillop and Gwen Stark Miss Nancy Bird Walton, wearing the uniform of the Australian Women's Flying Club, with Squadron Leader F.C. Mackillop, Gwen Stark and Lake Wakehurst, wife of the Governor of NSW The Women's [Australian] Flying Club Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jane Hill, a member of the Australian Labor Party from 1978, served as the Member for Frankston in the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian Parliament from 1982-85 and as member for Frankston North from 1985 until 1992, when the seat was abolished. She was an unsuccessful candidate in the Legislative Assembly seat of Frankston East at the Victorian state election, which was held on 3 October 1992. Jane Hill, daughter of Alexander Henderson, a railway guard, and Annie Crombie, a nursing sister, completed her primary and secondary education in Dimboola at the local state and high schools. She worked as a Mothercraft nurse in Melbourne before her marriage on 20 January 1956 to Barrie Hill, a stockman and Commonwealth public servant and moved to the country. They had two sons and two daughters. After her return to Melbourne in 1969 she worked as a catering officer at the Frankston Nursing Home from 1974-82 and was a Frankston City Councillor from 1979-82. A member of the Seaford-Pines branch of the Australian Labor Party and president in 1980, she was elected to the Victorian Parliament in 1982 and served until 1992. Published resources Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1983, Draper, W. J., 1983 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 June 2005 Last modified 31 March 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Various items.??Some items within this collection indexed separately. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jennifer Boswell ran for election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Charlestown on behalf of the Christian Democrat party in 1999 and then again in 2003. Jennifer Boswell was retired when she ran for the seat of Charlestown in 2003. She was then a volunteer with the Newcastle City Mission. Her stated aim was to help people with personal and educational problems. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 9 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pantjiti Mary McLean was a Ngaatjatjarra woman from the Western Desert region who grew up leading a traditional life. In the 1950s she left the desert, walking to the Warburton Ranges with her husband and son, and then on to Cosmo Newbury in the Eastern Goldfields. When her son was taken by the government and placed in the Mount Margaret Mission, she followed and worked in the area as a stock woman mustering sheep. During this time a daughter was born and was also taken from her. In c.1970 she moved to the Kalgoorlie Native Reserve, and then c.1980 to the Ninga Mia Community in Kalgoorlie, where she lived as a respected elder until 2008. She then moved into Kunkurangkalpa Aged Care. During the 1980s Mary produced craftworks and traditional paintings, but a breakthrough came when she participated in the Warta Kutju (Wama Wanti) Street Art Project and met fibre artist Nalda Searles who became her friend and collaborator in 1992. Mary preferred painting and developed a unique figurative style of her own that captured her memories and stories. A sell-out exhibition of her work in Fremantle in 1993 launched her career. Commissions came her way and her work was exhibited around Australia. Mary won many art awards, including the prestigious Telstra Indigenous Award in 1995. In 2001 she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by Curtin University. Her work is represented in all major public and many private collections around Australia. Published resources Catalogue Pantjiti Mary McLean. A Big Story: Paintings and Drawings, Mclean, Pantjiti Mary, 2005 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Author Details Nalda Searles Created 13 August 2012 Last modified 9 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Pantiji Mary McLean Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Pantiji-Mary-McLean-2002-at-Nalda-Searles-home.-Photograph-courtesy-of-Nalda-Searles.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Biographical and career details on Edith Morgan, a social worker and Head of Community Services at Collingwood Council between 1972 and 1983. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 10 December 2019 Last modified 10 December 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 27 minutes??A recording of the proceedings of the party held to commemorate the beginning of the redevelopment of the State Library of South Australia, held in the newly emptied chamber of the Mortlock Library (Jervois Building). The event commences with music from the Four Seasons String Quartet. Bronwyn Halliday, Director of the State Library, welcomes guests, talks about the vision for the new State Library and introduces the speakers: Geoffrey Coles, Deputy Chair of the Libraries Board; The Hon. Diana Laidlaw MLC, Minister for the Arts, who talks about the commitment of the Government to the new Library and the future of the Mortlock Chamber; Valmai Hankel, Senior Rare Books Librarian, who shares memories and anecdotes from staff and introduces the choir, Flight of Ideas. Bronwyn Halliday closes the formal proceedings. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Describes the life and work of Ellis Rowan, a painter of plant and bird life, with details of her early life at Killeen, ‘Vauclause’ in Richmond and ‘Derriweit’ in Mount Macedon; marriage to Captain Frederick Rowan: travels throughout Australia, New Zealand, America, England, Germany, West Indies and Papua New Guinea. Also includes an index to her illustrations., Overall, an interesting account of one of Victoria’s notable women artists and comments on the Australian Government’s purchase of her works., NOTE: John Cotton, the naturalist, was Ellis Rowan’s grandfather. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 105 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 72 min.)??Lorna Hayter (nee Byrne) speaks of her family background; her studies; the problems of being accepted in an all male environment at the School of Agriculture, University of Sydney; working for the Department of Agriculture; joining the Australian Women’s Army Service; hosting a radio program for the ABC; taking up the editorship on the ‘Land Newspaper’; Hayter gives her views on Australia as a primary producing country. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 August 2003 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lillian Frank was a high profile Toorak (Victoria) hairdresser who built up her own business as well as undertaking fundraising for charity. On 11 June 1977, Frank was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her involvement with charities, including the Royal Children’s Hospital and Odyssey House in Melbourne. On 10 June 1991 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her service to the community. Lillian Frank settled in Melbourne during the 1950s. Originally from Burma, her family fled upon the Japanese invasion, leaving behind all their processions. After spending the rest of the war in a refugee camp in Calcutta, at the war’s end she and her family went to London. During the 1950s she came to Melbourne to visit her sister, and stayed. She married restaurateur Richard Frank in 1956 and they had two daughters. Setting up her own hairdressing salon in the 1960s, Lillian Frank was the hair stylist for Jean Shrimpton when the latter wore a mini skirt at the Melbourne Spring Carnival. Frank’s involvement with the carnival continues as a judge of the Fashions on the Field at Caulfield Racecourse, and on the final panel at the Melbourne Cup. A society columnist for the Herald-Sun for many years, Lillian Frank has held committee positions and organised society gatherings especially to fundraise for Victorian charities. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Newspaper Article The 5th fashion season, McManus, Bridget, 2002 Resource Section Lillian Frank - A Short Biography, http://www.achievers-odds.com.au/topachiever/lfrankfull.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 October 2002 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Centenary Memorial Book; Letters and compliments slip (within the book). Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contain newscuttings and other material relating to Australia and Australasian writers. Manuscript, typescript, printed. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 November 2017 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of meetings, 1929-1990; cash book and record of subscriptions, 1914-1974; cash book of receipts and expenditure, 1948-1977; miscellaneous newsletters and history of The Mothers’ Union, 1971, 1974-1976, 1987-1989; prayer; scrapbook, 1985-1989; Mama Mia: the official organ of the Mothers’ Union in Australia and Tasmania, Aug 1989. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 September 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Edith Morgan was the first social worker appointed by the Collingwood Council (1972), and worked to improve services such as childcare, community health and housing. She received the Order of Australia medal for service to the community in 1989 and was later recognised for her service as an advocate for social justice, women and the disadvantaged. Edith Morgan was born in 1919 in Essendon to John Donald Coldicutt and Edith Gertrude Rowe, and grew up part of a large family. She left Melbourne (‘ran away’ in her own words) for Adelaide and married William George Morgan there when she was 22. Later in life, in conversation with Geraldine Robertson, she carried the memory of her childhood as one of disadvantage towards girls in relation to education (‘I was always bitter about the fact that the girls in my family could not go on.’) She and her husband moved to Sydney, where their four children were born. In Sydney she became involved with the Communist Party and was a member of the Union of Australian Women from its beginning. The family returned to Melbourne in 1956 and Edith enrolled in a social work degree at the University of Melbourne. Of this she remarked, ‘It was a conservative degree I did at Melbourne University, aimed at controlling the population, but aren’t all those things aimed at controlling the population? Whether we call it community development or whatever it is, you are trying to turn a population a certain way. I disagreed with this. I wanted to work for change.’ Edith worked for change for the rest of her life. In 1972 she became the first social worker appointed by the Collingwood Council and worked to improve services such as childcare, community health and housing. In her view, ‘if you give a service for ‘poor’ people, you’ll give a poor service. You’ve got to be saying ‘This service will be for all people, including the poor’ (Robertson interview). She became an advocate for the rights of older people and helped found the Older Persons Action Centre and Housing for the Aged Action Group. In 1989 she received the Order of Australia medal for service to the community. As Chairperson for the Victorian Consumer Forum for the Aged, Edith was awarded Victorian Senior Citizen of the Year in 1991, followed by a Centenary Medal in 2001, for service as an advocate for social justice, women and the disadvantaged. She was posthumously inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2005, and left bequests in her will to the Older Person Action Centre and the Union of Australian Women. Archival resources City of Yarra Libraries Edith Morgan Edith Morgan [audio book CD]: a service for the poor, or a poor service? Author Details Helen Morgan and Geraldine Robertson Created 10 December 2019 Last modified 10 December 2019 Digital resources Title: Terry Scheikowski and Edith Morgan Type: Image Date: 16 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour 30 minutes (approx.) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Tasmania is primarily dedicated to promoting total abstinence from alcohol and other harmful drugs and all members sign a pledge to this effect. Under its broader agenda of ‘home protection’ and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, however, it has been involved in wide range of social and political reform activities mostly relating to the welfare of women and children. Importantly, influenced by its sister organisation in the United States, the WCTU became a major supporter of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Tasmania as it was believed that power at the ballot box was the only way to achieve their goals. While at its most influential in the years up to WWI, the movement continues today. The first branch of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Tasmania was formed in Hobart in 1885, but was very short lived. Influenced by the visit of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union missionary Mary Leavitt in 1886, three new branches were established. By 1894 there were 14 local Unions in Tasmania with a membership of 280. In the 1890s the Hobart Branch worked with the Chinese community and prisoners and advocated broad ranging social and political reforms including women’s suffrage. During World War I they fought for early closing and distributed literature on venereal disease. For the state body, departments of work in the 1890s included scientific temperance instruction, hygiene and heredity, the franchise, legislation and petitions. They also fought for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act. From the 1950s, the Union retreated from broader reform goals and concentrated their efforts directly on alcohol and drug related issues. Record notes: The records of individual branches are listed here. Some are contained with the records of the state body, others are separately located. Published resources Conference Paper A few viragos on a stump : the womanhood suffrage campaign in Tasmania 1880-1920, Pearce, Vicki, 1985 Conference Proceedings Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Tasmania ... annual convention, 1893- Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Archives Office of Tasmania Records of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Tasmania Minutes of convention meetings, annual and committee reports of the Womans Christian Temperance Union of Tasmania The University of Melbourne Archives Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria Author Details Jane Carey Created 31 May 2004 Last modified 9 November 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Red Cross Archives series reference: V93 Meeting minutes of the Red Cross Victorian Division Council Finance Sub-Committee. Minutes of the first meetings are incomplete and do not represent all meetings from 1939. From late 1939 until 1987 meeting minutes have been typed and signed before being pasted into large volumes. In 2006-2007 this sub-committee became the Australian Red Cross Victorian (ARCV) Audit & Risk Committee. Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 9 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ivy Verna Peace Bennett, who trained with the London Institute, was the first ‘lay’ psychoanalyst in Australia. She practiced In Australia from 1952 to 1958. Ivy Bennett was born in Wagin, Western Australia, in 1919, the second youngest of six children born to Mary and Ern Bennett. She grew up at Lake Grace, in Ballardong boodja country some thirty kilometes away. With a small population of several families in 1920, Lake Grace a Western Australian Wheat Belt town, is 345 kilometres from Perth along State Route 107. It is the main town in the Shire of Lake Grace. Her first school was the local one teacher school. At the age of twelve she won a scholarship to Albany High School where she became a boarder. She matriculated to the University of Western Australia and subsequent scholarships funded her degree in Modern Literature. A chance encounter with Experimental Psychology when she was employed in a summer job as a Reader for the University of Western Australia’s Professor of Education, Robert Cameron, changed her career direction. In 1943 she completed her Master’s degree, ‘Some Aspects of the A Social Behaviour of Pre School Children’ under the supervision of Dr Lionel Fowler, head of the Department of Psychology. Simultaneously she was appointed as a lecturer on Dr Fowler’s staff. She became involved in the Department’s Child Guidance Clinic supervised by a Scottish Psychiatrist, Dr Murdoch from the Heathcote Mental Hospital. She gathered experience in vocational psychology work for the RAAF, participated in a research project examining the effects of Rubella in pregnancy on unborn children and worked with returning War Veterans at Western Command General Hospital. In 1943 she was awarded a Hackett Scholarship and intended to study Child Psychology with Florence Goodenough at the University of Minnesota. However, the monetary exchange rate during wartime rendered that plan unviable. Her first application for a British Council Scholarship in 1944 was rejected because she was too young. She reapplied successfully the following year and, on 1 January 1946, departed for Britain. Her plans to find a venue for further study were hampered by post war conditions. However, Anna Freud, to whom Bennett was introduced by another Australian expat psychologist, Ruth Thomas, included Bennett in her first training program at the Hampstead Clinic in 1947. Under the supervison of Kate Friedlander, a follower of Anna Freud, Bennett commenced research for her doctorate, later published as Neurotic and Delinquent Children. Bennett worked with children who had come to Anna Freud’s Clinic from Belsen and Thereisenstadt after the War and was a regular attendee of Anna Freud’s “Wednesday Meetings”. Bennett also commenced training at the London Institute of Psychoanalysis and in 1951 gained Associate Membership of the British Psychoanalytical Society. In 1952 Bennett fulfilled her goal of returning to Australia and established her psychoanalytic practice at 32 Bellevue Terrace near Kings Park, thus becoming the first BPAS accredited lay analyst in Australia. She attended and presented at meetings of the Melbourne and Sydney Institutes of Psychoanalysis. Bennett also became a founding Member of the Australian Association of Psychoanalysts, which was established in December 1952. In Perth, Bennett conducted reading groups and seminars for members of the medical and psychology professions. Nancy Stewart, a local psychologist, travelled to England, with Bennett’s support, to train with Anna Freud. However isolation from the Melbourne and Sydney centres, and it appears, lack of support from medically qualified colleagues led to her decision to return to Britain for further training. Her plans were also changed by her decision to marry and emigrate to the United States of America in 1962. Her husband, Eric H. Gwynne-Thomas (1917-2008), was an English-born educational scientist. Three years later she moved with him and their daughter, Elizabeth, to Kansas, where her husband became Professor of Education at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC). Ivy Bennett Gwynne-Thomas became a member of the Topeka Psychoanalytic Society, and in 1965 she was a founding member of the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Society. From 1968 to 1980 she taught at the UMKC Medical School. Retired since 1993, Ivy Bennett died from leukaemia at the age of 92 on 2 December 2011. Author Details Christine Brett Vickers Created 20 November 2019 Last modified 20 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Hope Hewitt was born in Sydney on 30 October 1915, the third of four daughters of Robin and Pattie Tillyard. The family lived in New Zealand from 1920 to 1928 before moving to Red Hill, Canberra following Dr Robin Tillyard’s appointment as first head of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) entomology division. With their striking looks and academic and sporting abilities the sisters (Patience, Faith, Hope and Honour) became well-known identities in the new capital city. All played sport; Hope excelled at tennis and hockey. In 1934 she caused some angst for tennis officials by wearing shorts, then a ‘new fashion’. Hope was an outstanding student at Nelson Girls’ College, New Zealand and at Telopea Park High and St Gabriel’s in Canberra. She won a scholarship to study arts at Sydney University and then fine arts at Sydney Technical College. She graduated Bachelor of Arts with first class honours and Master of Arts. Early in 1937 she was involved in an accident while driving her father from Canberra to Sydney in which Robin Tillyard was killed and Hope seriously injured. In May she and her mother left for England where they spent nine months. Late in 1938 Hope returned to Europe to study painting in Paris under Jacques Ernotte, a distinguished artist and set designer, but the outbreak of World War II forced her to flee to London leaving behind canvasses selected for showing at the prestigious Salon d’automne. In London she and her older sister Pat drove ambulances before returning to Australia on S.S. Rotorua which carried children evacuated from Britain. During the voyage one of the ships in the convoy was sunk by a torpedo fired from a German U-boat. In 1942 Hope married public servant, Lenox Hewitt (later knighted) at Scotch College Chapel, Melbourne and accompanied him to London when he was posted to the Australian High Commission. After they returned to Canberra in 1953 she studied at Canberra University College (subsequently part of the Australian National University) graduating Bachelor of Commerce from the parent body, the University of Melbourne. She began teaching in the English department at the College and after holding temporary positions was appointed to the new position of Lecturer in 1958. Under Professor A D Hope she specialised in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and the 18th and 19th-century English novel, inspiring students with her love of literature and theatre. From 1960 she was a member of the Commonwealth Literature Censorship Board and in 1968 was appointed deputy chair of the National Literature Board of Review which succeeded the Censorship Board. On sabbatical leave from Australia’s National University (ANU) in 1964, Hope studied with the renowned Shakespearean scholar Lionel Knights in Bristol. Then, and on later visits to London, she attended performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Old Vic and other British theatre troupes and, years later, could recall the productions in astonishing, colourful detail. She was an enthusiastic supporter of Canberra Repertory Theatre attending performances and reviewing their productions for the Canberra Times. She was the first woman appointed to the board of the new Canberra Theatre serving from 1968 to 1976. At a time when it was unusual for married women to work, she combined a demanding, full-time career with raising four children, supporting her husband’s career and helping to care for her mother, Pattie Tillyard. For many years she contributed theatre reviews, book reviews and poetry to the Canberra Times. In her large and beautiful garden, she raised chickens and grew vegetables and fruit that she cooked, preserved and gave away to friends and good causes. She sewed, knitted and did patchwork and weaving often sitting on winter evenings in front of an open fire knitting a sweater while she marked students’ essays or prepared her next lecture. Hope also served on the council of Garran College at the ANU and contributed to the Canberra community as a hospital volunteer, English teacher to new arrivals, and supporter of several charities. Like her mother, she was a feminist, believing that women needed to earn their own living and take a lead in their community. She had extraordinary energy and willpower. She enthusiastically supported her children’s multiple activities and was delighted with their varied careers: Patricia as a social activist and cabinet minister in the Blair Labour government in Britain (Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 2001-5 and Health Secretary 2005-7); Antonia (died 1990) as an interpreter with the European Commission in Brussels; Hilary, an architect, one of whose designs was her aunt Pat Wardle’s house in Garran; and Andrew, a captain with Qantas and a farmer near Hall. Hope Hewitt died at Brindabella Gardens nursing home in Canberra, aged 95. Published resources Newspaper Article Obituary, Hewitt, Patricia and Hewitt, Hilary, 2011 Magazine Who's Who in Canberra, 1989 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Canberra & District Historical Society The Papers of Patience Australie Wardle National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Lady Hope Hewitt interviewed by Mark Cranfield [sound recording] Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 21 June 2012 Last modified 20 September 2012 Digital resources Title: Hope Hewitt and C. L. S Hewitt (later Sir Lenox Hewitt) married at Scotch College Chapel, Melbourne, in 1942 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Deborah Shnookal was a student activist who ran for election once in New South Wales, before building a career in writing and editing. She represented the Socialist Workers Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly election for Phillip in 1976. Deborah Shnookal was active in the Melbourne Women’s Liberation Movement for some years before moving to live in Sydney. She was Chairperson and one of the organisers of the Melbourne International Women’s Day rallies in 1975 and 1975 and during 1975 worked full-time for the Women’s Abortion Action campaign in Melbourne. At the time of her candidacy, she was a staff writer for Direct Action, the paper published by the Socialist Workers party. In 2002 she was Latrobe University in and she has subsequently edited several books for Ocean Press in its Radical History and Radical Lives series. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 6 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A Kaurna woman, Gladys Elphick was born in Adelaide and brought up on the Point Pearce Reserve. Elphick’s life long work against discrimination and exploitation of Aboriginal people included her formation of the Aboriginal Women’s Council and, with others, a legal aid service, medical service and the Aboriginal Community Centre in Adelaide. Also well known as ‘Aunty Glad’, Elphick was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1971 for services to the Aboriginal community. In 1984, during National Aborigines Week, Elphick was named South Australian Aboriginal of the Year. Horton (ed) (1994), Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia; Healey (2001), S.A.’s Greats. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 A Question of choice : an Australian Aboriginal dilemma; A collection of papers Advancement of Science Congress, Adelaide, 1969., Berndt, Ronald M., 1971 S.A.'s greats: the men and women of the North Terrace plaques, Healey, John, 2001 Book Living black: blacks talk to Kevin Gilbert, Gilbert, Kevin, 1977 Aboriginal people and their communities today, Years 5-7., 1988 The Kaurna people : Aboriginal people of the Adelaide Plains : an Aboriginal studies course for secondary students in years 8-10., 1989 Survival in our own land : 'Aboriginal' experiences in \"South Australia' since 1836; told by Nungas and others, Mattingley, Christobel and Hampton, Ken, 1988 Turning the tide : a personal history of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Bandler, Faith, 1989 As we've known it : 1911 to the present, Graham, Doris May; Graham, Cecil Wallace, 1987 Living in South Australia : a social history, Elizabeth Kwan, 1987 Race relations in Australia : the Aborigines, Gale, Fay; Brookman, Alison, 1975 Sketches of outstanding Aborigines; Extracts from an Australia Day address at Maughan Methodist Church P.S.A., Adelaide, on Sunday, January 29th, 1956., Rowe, Gordon, 1956 Some Aboriginal women pathfinders : their difficulties and their achievements, Beeson, Margaret J (compiled by), [1980] Journal Article Current problems of Aborigines, Elphick, Gladys, 1970 The role played by Aboriginal women in South Australia, particularly among urban Aborigines, since 1945, Jackson, Russ, 1986 Newspaper Article Gladys battles for her people., 1981 Aboriginal Honour for Glad, Hirst, C., 1984 Everybody knows her as Auntie Glad, 1979 Permit system keeps people on reserves : changed attitude must come from whites, Elphick, Gladys, 1969 Nunkuwarrin Yunti celebrates 30 years. SA, Brown, Christine, 2002 High-flyers at Wilto Yerlo / Students soar at Wilto Yerlo. Koori Mail Education, Brown, Christine, 1999 Honours for Aborigines, 1972 Archival resources"
    },
    {
        "text": "Press cuttings book “presented to Edith How Martyn for Women’s Service Library, London, by Vida?Goldstein, Melbourne Australia 1943.” Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contains records of: the United British Women’s Emigration Association, 1888-1901 ; the British Women’s Emigration Association, 1901-19 : Colonial Intelligence League, 1910-19 ; and the Women’s Migration and Overseas Appointment Society, 1919-67. Also contains personal papers of: Mary Billinghurst, 1891 ; Teresa Billington-Greig, 1942-54 ; Elsie Bowerman, 1948 ; Josephine Butler, 1885-1902 ; Kathleen Courtney, 1937-54 ; Vida Goldstein, 1902-19 ; Edith How-Martyn, 1872-1951 ; Norman Mackenzie, 1945-60 ; Helen Nutting, 1947-59 ; Agnes Maude Royden, 1928-53 ; Patricia Shaw, 1948 and Louisa Twining, 1858-61. Also includes an autograph collection of correspondence relating to suffrage, 1906-56 ; general women’s movement, 1862-1949 ; emancipation, 1888-1951 ; general/personal, 1862-1972 and industry, 1957-58 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Dorothy Hill was the first female Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1956); the first Australian woman elected to the Royal Society (1965); the first female President of the Australian Academy of Science (1970); and the first woman in an Australian university to be president of her university’s professorial board (1971-1972). Hill was Research Professor of Geology at the University of Queensland from 1959-1972 and published widely on palaeontology, stratigraphy and geology. She was awarded the CBE in 1971 for services to geology and palaeontology, and received an AC in 1993. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Journal Article Dorothy Hill 1907-1997, Campbell, K.S.W. and Jell, J.S., 1998 Article Dorothy Hill 1907-1997, Campbell, K.S.W. and Jell, J.S., 1998, http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/hill.htm Finding Life in Ancient Corals: Dorothy Hill, Sherratt, Tim, 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_hill.htm Resource Section Hill, Dorothy (1907 - 1997), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000494b.htm HILL, DOROTHY, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=N&VeteranID=1191187 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Dorothy Hill - Records Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Dorothy Hill Papers Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Essie Coffey, Aboriginal activist and musician, discusses her life and career. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This series consists of about 195 photographs, four sound recordings and four films relating to Prime Minister Harold Edward Holt and his wife, Mrs Zara Holt (later Dame Zara). The material mainly covers the period when Holt was Prime Minister (1966-1967), although many of the photographs relate to his earlier career, particularly as Minister for Immigration (1949-1956). Several items relate specifically to Mrs Holt.??The photographs include official portraits, family photographs, Australian News and Information Bureau and other official photographs covering a wide range of Holt’s official engagements both in Australia and overseas. A number of the photographs relate to Mrs Zara Holt as wife of a senior political figure, both before and after Holt’s death. A few relate to the first year of her subsequent marriage to another politician, H J P (Jeff) Bate and to her fashion business ‘Magg’.??Two of the sound recordings relate to Holt. One of these includes the speeches made at the historic Commonwealth Parliamentary Association luncheon given in Westminster Hall, London in May 1953, when Holt was Chairman of the Association, and the other is a recording of the speech he gave at the 36th Session of the International Labour Conference the same year. The other two recordings are the song ‘Dame Zara’, by the group ‘The Wheelbarrow’, and a cassette tape of Mrs Holt responding to ‘Dorothy Dix’ questions. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 September 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Council minutes of the Australian Trained Nurses Association 1904, 1922-44 and Annual Reports 1922-35. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interviews with four Indigenous women talking about native title issues – Mary Lou Buck (Dhan-gaddi native title claim), Elizabeth Hoffman (Yorta Yorta, Cummeragunja), Matilda House (Ngunnawal) and Angelina Stuart (Adnyamathanha)??Field tape number(s): 1 – 4; Field tape description(s): 1 x C60, 3 x C90 cassettes; Field tape speed(s) 4.75; Mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Photocopies of letters written to Anton Lucas by Herbert and Betty Feith. Anton Lucas is Head of the School of Political and International Studies at Flinders University, Adelaide. Includes copies of Nonia Community Newsletter (1978-1979).??Originals are in private ownership. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 October 2017 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Unitarian Christian Church, Wakefield Street, Adelaide and Osmond Terrace, Norwood, and Tranmere, comprising minutes, annual reports, church calendars, correspondence, marriage registers, membership register, cash books and financial records, indenture of land sale, photographs, newspaper cuttings, memorandum, abstracts from minutes, subscription lists for erection of church, list of seat rents, trust deeds, rules and constitutions, library catalogues, orders of service, sermons and lectures, posters, architectural plans, and printed material. A later donation comprises a manuscript sermon possibly written by Francis Duffield or Frederick Smith; Duffield’s name and Mount Barker address are written on one of the small pieces of paper accompanying the manuscript. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Maudie Naylon was the last fluent speaker of the Ngamini and Yarluyandi languages. Maudie Naylon Akawiljika, of Wangkangurru and Arrernte descent, was born in the Simpson Desert in c1885. Despite her exceptional traditional knowledge and the fact that among Wangkangurru and related groups women shared in practically all ceremonies, anthropologists never asked her for information – only men were asked to sing or relate traditional matters. Although her main language was Wangkangurru, she also had a command of Yarluyandi, Lanima, Ngamini and Jauraworka. With her death in Birdsville in 1980, Ngamini became extinct and Yarluyandi lost its last fluent speaker. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 20 May 2005 Last modified 24 March 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Various records 1908-89 including autobiographical material written for inclusion in “Women physicians of the world: autobiographies of medical pioneers” (1978) [3 boxes, ML MSS 5195]. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Manda Ravlich emigrated to Broken Hill from the former Yugoslavia, and became a central figure in the town’s emerging Yugoslavian community. Manda was born and grew up in Kozica, former Yugoslavia. At the age of 19 she married Ante Ravlich, who had returned to Yugoslavia after travelling to Australia for work in 1911. Manda gave birth to their eldest child, Nick, on 6 March 1923, and later that year Ante returned to Australia. Ante worked on sugar cane plantations in Queensland in order to pay for his wife’s and his sister Mara’s fare to Australia. After spending five weeks journeying by ship, Manda and Mara finally arrived in Australia in December 1924. They were supposed to be disembarking at Sydney and travelling to Cairns to join Ante, however they were met at Port Adelaide by Mr Okmazich, a friend of Ante. He informed Manda that her husband was waiting for her in Broken Hill, where he had found employment working in the mines. The two women travelled to Broken Hill by train and arrived at the house that Ante had bought in a horse and sulky. The house was a little old log cabin with running water but no electricity and dirt floors in the kitchen. Life in Broken Hill was a shock for Manda. The landscape and climate were vastly different from her home in Yugoslavia, and she had to deal with cultural and linguistic barriers as she spoke little English. Manda also struggled with home sickness and a sense of isolation as there were only five other Yugoslav women in Broken Hill when she arrived. Manda and Ante had two more children: Millie, who was born in October 1925, and Stanislav in 1927. While her husband worked in the mines, Manda had to supplement their income by taking in Yugoslavian men working in the mines as boarders. On top of her own housework and looking after her children, Manda washed and cooked for these young men, sometimes taking in six at a time, to make an extra 25 shillings a fortnight. Manda and Ante’s hospitality extended to other members of the Yugoslavian community in Broken Hill, and their house became a meeting place where one could enjoy a game of cards and a glass of wine. During the Depression in the 1930s, many young Yugoslavian men came to Broken Hill from West Australia looking for jobs, and Manda, compelled to help these men with no wives or families, housed, fed and washed for them free of charge. Manda and Ante returned to visit Yugoslavia for the first time in 1959. They were both active members of the Broken Hill Napredak Club. Manda died in Broken Hill in 1991, aged 89. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Book Sharing the Lode: The Broken Hill Migrant Story, Adams, Christine, 2004 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Broken Hill Social History Project [sound recording] Manda Ravlich interviewed by Edward Stokes in the Broken Hill social history project [sound recording] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "24 Boxes including submissions by Elizabeth Durack. Author Details Judith Ion Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rosalind Philippa Phillips was, for much of her long life, better-known as a music critic than for her own compositions and performance as a pianist. Her talent, however, had been noticed early, with a comment, which would not be published today, in the Graphic of Australia that: Linda Phillips, who was honoured at the recent Conservatorium concert by having a number of her own song compositions sung, is only in her ‘teens, and is really a musical genius. At the age of three she was able to sit up to a piano and play correctly without music, and at the present time, rarely, if ever, uses a score. She is dark, petite, nervy, and is a member of the Jewish persuasion – always lovers of music.[1] Linda Phillips attended the Melbourne Conservatorium at the University of Melbourne and the Albert Street Conservatorium, where she was able to concentrate on composition rather than performance. She quickly became known for the songs in which she set her own lyrics to music, also enjoying a career as a pianist, especially on the ABC. After the death of her husband (Adolph) Maurice Kauffmann in 1945 Linda Phillips began her journalist’s career with the Melbourne Sun, where she was to work until 1976 and for the Australian Musical News. She was an adjudicator of the Sun Aria Contest, published poetry and contributed to scholarly journals.[2] In Meanjin Papers she made an eloquent plea for the publication of a broad range of Australian composition: Australia must have her devotees of Beethoven and Chopin, of Romberg, of Irving Berlin – even of boogie woogie, and the sentimental ballads that ‘touch all hearts.’ The last two are among the best commercial speculations; but is there no place for ‘middle-brow’ music which, is pleasant to hear, not too difficult to play or sing, and not too abstruse to understand? Such music should receive encouragement, along with the greater works which Australians are writing, and will not be discouraged from undertaking.[3] Her compositions fell out of favour as Australian music became more modernist while hers remained untouched by the changing fashion. Those influenced by her study of Jewish and Middle Eastern melodies remain the most popular. She was awarded an OBE in 1975 and named Composer of Honour by Monash University in 1994. [1] ‘Girls’ Gossip’. Graphic of Australia . 5 October 1917: 27. [2] Linda Phillips. From a City Garden. Melbourne: Endacott, 1922. [3] Linda Phillips. ‘Creative Music in Australia’. Meanjin Papers. v.5 no. 4(Summer 1946):312-315. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 15 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dramatic trilogy comprising three self-contained ghost stories which are not related to each other but which form a cohesive whole: 1. ‘Mr. Chuck’ about a white woman and an Aboriginal boy as lovers — 2. ‘Choo Choo Choo Choo’ about an Aboriginal family living beside a rail-line — 3. ‘Lovin’ the Spin I’m In’ about group optimism and pessimism.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 7073 comprises manuscripts, research notes, typescript drafts, galley proofs, draft notes and correspondence concerning writing and publication of Summers’ book Damned whores and God’s police, and her autobiography Ducks on the pond. Correspondents include Henry Mayer, Melanie Beresford, Ann Curthoys and staff of Penguin Books. The collection includes a cuttings book containing press cuttings about Summers and Damned whores and God’s police; files of research notes; cuttings; and, correspondence on a wide range of topics including women and poverty, single parents, family, Caroline Chisholm, child care, aborigines, rape reform proposals, suicide, women unionists, education, prostitution, racism, Womens’ Electoral Lobby, Adela Pankhurst Walsh, women and the media.??The collection also includes material relating to the journal Refractory girl and the publication of Her story: Australian women in print 1788-1975. There are papers and material relating to Gamble for power; papers relating to the “free Sandra Willson” campaign and Ms and Sassy magazines; transcripts and video tapes relating to the ABC TV program “Anne Summers in conversation with six Aussie men” (1994); and, various papers relating to women’s issues (66 boxes, 7 fol. Boxes).??The Acc07.177 instalment includes a wide range of correspondence; files on various publishers and projects; and, material relating to The end of equality, Ms and Sassy magazines, Good weekend and Greenpeace International (19 boxes).??The Acc08.057 instalment comprises papers relating to Summers’ role as advisor on women’s issues to Prime Minister Paul Keating, including letters, briefing notes, press releases and press clippings; a range of publications containing material generated or arranged by Summers; Privilege, a play by Summers commissioned by the ABC; 1974-2007 speeches and lectures, comprehensive; papers relating to New York, National times journalism, and the Office of the Status of Women; three rolodexes of business cards from Summers’ time in New York, 1987-1992; one rolodex of business cards from Summers’ time as editor of Good weekend; and, material relating to journalism and employment by Fairfax. Also contains some digital and audio material (12 boxes, 1 carton). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 January 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, from 1968, Prue Sibree served as the member for Kew in the Legislative Assembly in the Victorian Parliament from 1981-88. Daughter of William Turnor, retail dairyman, and Patricia Kidd, secretary, Prue Sibree was educated at Chalgrove Girls’ School in Box Hill and Strathcona Baptist Girls’ Grammar School in Surrey Hills. She completed her tertiary education at the University of Melbourne, gaining a Bachelor of Laws in 1967. She practised as a solicitor from 1968-81 and established her own firm, Prue Sibree & Co. in 1979. On 9 August 1969 she married Mark William Sibree, a computer specialist. They had a son and two daughters. Her community interests included membership of the Citizens Welfare Services Board in 1973; membership of the Victorian Consumer Affairs Council 1976-81, the Metropolitan Transit Council 1979-81 and the University of Melbourne Council 1983-88. She was Chairman of the Kew Freedom from Hunger committee 1981. Published resources Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1983, Draper, W. J., 1983 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 3 June 2005 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ellen Arnold was the first missionary to serve with an Australian Baptist missionary society. Ellen Arnold migrated with her family to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1879. Her father was Alfred Arnold, a jeweller and Congregational lay preacher. Ellen joined the Flinders Street Baptist Church and trained at Adelaide Teachers’ College in 1880. After a brief teaching stint, she applied to the South Australian Baptist Missionary Society and departed for Faridpur, India, in October 1882. She and her friend Marie Gilbert were the society’s first Australian workers. Arnold returned to Australia to convalesce in 1884, but was back in Bengal by 1885 with four new female recruits for the society. She supervised medical, educational and building projects before shifting to Comilla in 1886 on behalf of the New South Wales Baptist Missionary Society. In 1892, Arnold moved to Pabna where she spent a good portion of her life preaching and setting up schools and dispensaries in the villages of Atailkola and Bera. She played an active part in forming the East Bengal Baptist Union. In 1919 she declined to accept the Kaiser-I-Hind medal for public service in India. After a brief return to Australia in 1930, Arnold returned to Ataikola where she continued her voluntary work until her death in 1931. Published resources Resource Section Arnold, Ellen (1858-1931), Ball, G. B., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070100b.htm Edited Book Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Dickey, Brian, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 20 February 2009 Last modified 20 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour 3 minutes. Author Details Margaret Allen Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Heather Powell was the first female union secretary in Broken Hill, serving with the Clerks’ Union for 23 years from 1977. In 1994 she was elected to the Barrier Industrial Council (BIC) executive. Heather retired in 2001. With five brothers, Heather was the only daughter of Lance Joseph and Eileen May McQuillan. Her great-grandparents on both sides migrated from Ireland in the mid 1840’s and settled on farming land in South Australia and Bendigo respectively. They were among the pioneers of Broken Hill, settling there in 1885 and 1886. Heather’s father and brothers all worked at the mines and union matters and politics were regularly discussed at home, absorbed by the young Heather ‘like osmosis’. Her mother, in Broken Hill tradition, could not undertake paid work outside the home but raised her six children as well as volunteering for the St John’s Ambulance, the Red Cross blood bank, polio immunisation, meals on wheels and home care. In 1988 she was awarded the Broken Hill Citizenship medal for her services to the community. Educated at St John’s, then St Joseph’s Convent School at Broken Hill, Heather held ambitions to be a doctor or a teacher but the family was not wealthy and she accepted a commercial scholarship with the mines. The scholarship paid her school fees with the promise of a job at the mine following matriculation, but the job was declined on her behalf by the headmistress of St Joseph’s who declared that ‘a monkey can be taught to use a machine: you have a brain’. Instead, Heather took up a secretarial position with the De Franceschi family. After some years Heather moved to Sydney and continued secretarial work. She married Barry Ellis, bought a farm on the North Coast of Australia and had two children, Louisa and Luke. After some years they moved back to Sydney but finding the urban lifestyle too stifling, she decided to move back to Broken Hill in 1975 to enable the children to enjoy a free, independent and safe lifestyle. Heather began work for the Clerks’ Union in 1977 as union secretary (the first female) and retained her position for 23 years. In 1994 she became secretary of both the Clerks’ Union and the Shop Assistants’ Union and was elected to the Barrier Industrial Council (BIC) executive, charged with resolving disputes, setting up a system of delegates, and drafting policy around employee wages and conditions. She was elected vice-president of the Barrier Industrial Council in 1996. In 1998, she amalgamated her two unions with the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) in Adelaide. Heather married Michael Powell in 1996 and retired from the Barrier Industrial Council and the Unions in 2001. Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Heather Powell Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 16 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photographs and other records relating to Dow’s pharmacy; plaque commemorating Dow family. Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 20 January 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Speech given at the launch of the book ‘Tenacious of the Past: The Recollections of Helen Brodie’. 19 December 1994. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Zelda D’Aprano was an active unionist and an activist in the women’s movement. She chained herself across the doors of the Commonwealth Building and later the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in Melbourne, Victoria in protest against the inadequacy of the decision on the Equal Pay case in 1969. D’Aprano was one of the initiators of the Women’s Action Committee in 1970, and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Melbourne in 1971. She was a member of the Australian Women’s Party and was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from 1950-1971. Doctor of Laws honoris causa, Macquarie University, 2000. Left school aged 14. Married at 16. Resumed study aged 37, and completed the Leaving Certificate in 1963. Worked as a machinist in the clothing trade. Qualified as a dental nurse in 1961 and worked in this capacity at Larundel Psychiatric Hospital for 15 years. Qualified in Chiropody in 1967. Employed as a clerk in the Meat Industry Union, and as a mail sorter at the General Post Office. D’Aprano was involved in campaigns around Equal Pay for women, the gender-bar at public bars, the Miss Teenage Quest, entitlements of pregnant workers and women’s participation in left-wing and workers’ movements. D’Aprano was also involved in establishing the Women’s Liberation Centre in Little Latrobe St, Melbourne, and was a representative of the Women’s Liberation Movement on the International Women’s Year committee, 1975. She self-published an autobiography, ‘Zelda: the Becoming of a Woman’ in 1977; republished by Spinifex Press as ‘Zelda’ in 1995; Spinifex also published D’Aprano’s ‘Kath Williams – The Unions and the Fight for Equal Pay,’ in 2001. D’Aprano has spoken in numerous forums around Melbourne, as well as on radio and at conferences and has written many articles for magazines, particularly the Women’s Liberation Newsletter. In 1995 she received a Special Mention Award from the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies (Canberra) for ‘An Outstanding Contribution to Australian Culture’. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Videorecording Zelda D'Aprano, Robin Hughes and Linda Kruger, 1996 Book Zelda, Zelda D'Aprano, 1995 Zelda : the becoming of a woman, Zelda D'Aprano, 1977 Human sexuality, Zelda D'Aprano, Australian Union of Students. Women's Dept. , Conference on Women and Health (1975 : University of Queensland), 1975? Kath Williams : the unions and the fight for equal pay, Zelda D'Aprano, 2001 Article Thirty years on, how much has really changed?, Sheil, Fergus, 1999, http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990628/news/specials/news5.html Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Resource Section Williams, Katherine Mary Isabel (1895-1975), D'Aprano, Zelda, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160657b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives D'Aprano, Zelda D'Aprano, Zelda D'Aprano, Zelda State Library of Victoria Papers, 1971-1987. [manuscript]. Papers, 1912-1980. [manuscript]. Papers, 1972-2001 [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Demonstration outside Fairlea Women's Prison, Melbourne, ca. 1970 [picture] Author Details Clare Land Created 16 August 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Interviewer Julianne Schwenke.?1 sound cassette (630 min.) Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 9 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records relating to the life and work of Elizabeth Johnston, nee Teesdale-Smith, including: International Women’s Day Certificate of Community Service (1993); statement of academic record, notebook and other items relating to Woodlands Church of England Girl’s Grammar School and Old Scholars; death certificate; correspondence; speech to Australian Services Union National Women’s Conference; several transcripts of hearings of the Sex Discrimination Board (1976-1977) of which Elizabeth Johnston was chairperson; papers relating to her work with the Federated Clerks Union, SA Branch; application, work history and notice of appointment as Assistant Crown Solicitor (1976) in the public service; handwritten notes relating to the proposed Emergency Housing Office. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A peace, environment and health activist, Margaret Perrott was a Democratic Socialist candidate for Illawarra in 1999 and a Socialist Alliance candidate in the House of Representatives for Cunningham in 1996 and 1998, and for Throsby in 1993, 2001 and 2004. A doctor with a special focus on the welfare of children, Margaret Perrott is a veteran peace movement and environmental activist. She has been involved for many years in organising International Women’s Day and Reclaim the Night activities in Wollongong. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 29 August 2005 Last modified 25 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Vol. ML MSS. 2024/1 a. Minute book 25 Oct. 1907-16 Nov. 1907. Folder ML MSS. 2024/2 b. Miscellaneous papers, being letter received, 18 Dec. 1907 and annual report, 1908 Author Details Jane Carey Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Antoinette Kennedy was the first woman judge to be appointed in Western Australia when appointed to the Bench of the District Court in 1985. Justice Antoinette Kennedy has been a leader and a mentor in the legal profession and has achieved many ‘firsts’ that have allowed others to follow in her footsteps. These include: She was the only woman from her year at high school to attend university She was the only woman from her graduating class at the University of Western Australia to gain articles of clerkship She was the second woman to join the Independent Bar in Perth to practise as a barrister She was the first woman judge to be appointed in Western Australia when appointed to the Bench of the District Court in 1985 She was a founding member of Women Lawyers of Western Australia Inc. (she ahs been a Patron of that group since 1999) She was the first woman to be appointed Chief Judge of the District Court of Western Australia in 2004. Published resources Journal Article An Interview with Chief Judge Antoinette Kennedy, Fletcher, Catherine, 2010, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UWALawRw/2010/8.pdf Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 27 January 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hours 37 minutes.??Deirdre Frances Jordan was born in Loxton, South Australia. After attending the local primary school she boarded at St Aloysius College, Adelaide. She won a scholarship to Adelaide University and in the third year of her BA studies joined the Sisters of Mercy. In 1948 Deirdre completed a DipEd and embarked upon a teaching career at St Aloysius. By 1954, aged 28, she was headmistress, a position she held until 1968. During this time she also completed an MEd at Adelaide University. Deirdre then joined the Education Department, where she held positions including Senior Lecturer and Chairman during the 1970s and 80s. She also completed an MA(Sociology) and a PhD. Her association with Flinders University began as a Foundation member of its Council in 1966 and culminated in her appointment as Chancellor in 1988. The interview focusses on her status as a religious and a woman in her educational roles, as well as her research concerning Aboriginals and adolescents. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "20 minutes??The opening announcement for this broadcast includes the following information: ‘We have as our guest a lady who has long been a protagonist of women’s interests in South Australia, and who has herself set an example of how diversified those interests can be in personal life. Miss May Mills was born at Millbrae in South Australia’s Native Valley, the daughter of farming parents, and after learning and practising the tasks of running a farm, she turned to teaching as a career, and served in both primary and secondary schools, in country and city; but perhaps she is best remembered for her many years at Unley High School. She retired from teaching in 1960, but has long been an active member of the National Council of Women; was one of the founders of the South Australian Film and Television Council, is past President of the Royal Commonwealth Society, is President of the South Australian Women’s Cricket Association, and she was the L.C.L. candidate for Edwardstown in 1961 State elections.’. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc03.165 comprises cuttings, scrapbooks, typescript articles, passport and numerous photographs. People in the photographs include Sally Baker, members of her family, Gough and Margaret Whitlam, Jim Cairns and Doris Day. It also includes a file of biographical material on newspaper editor Lindsay Clinch, Sally’s husband.??The Acc05.027 instalment comprises a funeral service and obituary. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mahboba Rawi founded the aid organisation, Mahboba’s Promise, in 1998 to assist Afghanistan’s people in rebuilding their lives after two decades of war and oppression. Born in 1965 in a middle class suburb of Kabul, Mahboba Rawi was one of nine brothers and sisters. Having joined street demonstrations following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, her family feared for her safety, and Mahboba left Afghanistan for Peshawar in 1982. In 1984 Mahboba married an Afghan man who was a permanent resident of Australia. Living in Sydney, she worked as a cleaner before the pair shifted to Glen Iris, Melbourne, where she worked as a machinist for a clothing company. Here she gave birth to a son, and two years later back in Sydney, a daughter. Following the tragic death of her son in 1992 in a freak drowning accident at the Kiama Blowhole, Mahboba threw herself into study. She passed year 11 and 12 before completing an Advanced Community Welfare Course at Granville College in 1996. This same year her second son was born, but Mahboba’s marriage had broken down. From here, Mahboba began work with the Afghan Women’s Group, drawing Afghan women out of the more traditional approaches to living and into the ‘Australian way’. She began swimming classes for migrant women through the Parramatta City Council. On seeing a letter from Dr Nasrin Seddiqee in Peshawar detailing the horrors of the refugee camps there, Mahboba and her English class raised a small sum. Dr Nasrin sent thanks and pleaded for more help. From here began Mahboba’s Promise, providing financial and practical support for projects on the ground that focus on improving living conditions and education standards for women and children. Recognised in recent years by UNICEF and a variety of Australian community groups and media outlets for her work on behalf of some of the world’s most traumatised people, Mahboba has made a difference to the lives of women in Australia and abroad. Published resources Book Mahboba's Promise, Rawi, Mahboba with Vanessa Mickan-Gramazio, 2005 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dymphna Cusack was one of Australia’s most prolific and translated writers. Educated at St Ursula’s College, Armidale she won an Exhibition and Teaching Scholarship to the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education. While at the University of Sydney, she developed life-long friendships with fellow authors Florence James and Christina Stead, and lawyer Marie Byles. After graduating she worked as a teacher until her early retirement in 1944 due to ill-health. Cusack’s literary career took off in 1935 when her first novel, Jungfrau, was published to critical acclaim. A further eleven novels, seven plays, three travel books, two children’s books and one non-fiction book followed. Two of her novels were collaborations: Pioneers on Parade (1939) with Miles Franklin; and Come In Spinner (1951) with Florence James. Cusack’s books were translated into over 30 languages worldwide, making her one of Australia’s most translated authors. Her anti-bomb play, Pacific Paradise (1955), written in response to the United State’s atomic tests on Bikini Atoll, sealed her reputation across Asia, Eastern Europe and the Pacific. During the 1950s and 1960s Cusack spent long periods overseas with her partner (later husband) Norman Randolph Freehill, a journalist and founding member of the Community Party of Australia. After returning to Australia in 1962 she became associated with Faith and Hans Bandler, leaders of the Aboriginal rights movements. In 1963 Cusack was a foundation member of the Australian Society of Authors. In 1975 she was named Woman of the Year by the Union of Australian Women. In 1976 she refused the Order of the British Empire due to her republican ideals, but in 1981, soon before her death, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contribution to Australian literature. The following list represents some of Cusacks more important publications: Novels Jungfrau (1936) Pioneers on Parade (1939), with Miles Franklin Come In Spinner (1951), with Florence James Say No to Death (1951) Southern Steel (1953) The Sun in Exile (1955) Heat Wave in Berlin (1961) Picnic Races (1962) Black Lightning (1964) The Sun is Not Enough (1967) The Half-Burnt Tree (1969) A Bough in Hell (1971) Plays Shallow Cups (1934) Red Sky at Morning (1942) Morning Sacrifice (1943) Three Australian Three Act Plays (1950), comprising Comets Soon Pass, Shoulder the Sky, and Morning Sacrifice The Golden Girls (1955) Pacific Paradise (1963) Travel books Chinese Women Speak (1958) Holidays Among the Russians (1964) Illyria Reborn (1966) Children’s stories Kanga-Bee and Kanga-bo (1945) Four Winds and a Family (1947), with Florence James Non-Fiction Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid (1953), edited and introduced only Biography Norman Freehill with Dymphna Cusack, Dymphna Cusack, T. Nelson, West Melbourne (Vic.), 1975 Dymphna Cusack, A window in the dark, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1991, introduced and edited by Debra Adelaide Events 1963 - 1963 Helped establish the Australian Society of Austhors 1975 - 1975 Named Woman of the Year by the Union of Australian Women 1976 - 1976 Refused to accept the Order of the British Empire due to her republican ideals 1981 - 1981 Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contribution to Australian literature Published resources Edited Book Yarn spinners : a story in letters, Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin, North, Marilla, 2001 Book Dymphna Cusack, Freehill, Norman, 1975 A window in the dark, introduced and edited by Debra Adelaide, Cusack, Dymphna, 1991 Caddie, a Sydney barmaid : an autobiography / written by herself ; with an introduction on by Dymphna Cusack, Caddie, 1953 Come in Spinner, Cusack, Dymphna and James, Florence, 1951 Heatwave in Berlin, Cusack, Dymphna, 1961 Book Section Dymphna Cusack (1902-1981), North, Marilla, 2002 Resource Section Dymphna Cusack (1902-81), Middlemiss, Perry, 2006, http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/cusackd/cusackd.html Cusack, Ellen Dymphna (Nell) (1902 - 1981), North, Marilla, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170280b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Florence James - papers, 1890-1993 Miles Franklin papers, mainly literary manuscripts, [1900-1954?] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Correspondence and literary papers 1887-1954 [microform] Papers of Nancy Cato, 1939-1995 [manuscript] Papers of Dymphna Cusack, 1937-1983 [manuscript] Papers of Donald Crick, 1955-1993 [manuscript] Pacific paradise, 1955 [manuscript] Cuttings book of Dymphna Cusack, approximately 1951-1983 National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra CUSACK, Ellen Dymphna (Freehill) [76 folios of which 24 contain exemptions] Ellen Dymphna Cusack [154 folios of which 101 contain exemptions] CUSACK, Ellen Dymphna Volume 2 CUSACK, Ellen Dymphna Volume 3 Eternal Now by Dymphna Cusack National Archives of Australia, Sydney Office Drama and Features - Correspondence with Playwrights - Dymphna Cusack Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 14 September 2009 Last modified 16 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc12.131 comprises a personal copy of ‘Poll Cott: a tale of a termagant’, signed by Colonel John Dean, together with hand bill of Dean’s lecture entitled ‘Poll Cott’ to be held Monday, 1st July (year omitted) at the Salvation Army Citadel in Parkhead and 3 personal letters from Mary “Poll” Cott to Dean dated between 1902 and 1903. Includes lecture syllabus and hand written prayer meeting program (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 52 minutes??Alison Gent, nee Hogben, was born at Rose Park, Adelaide and brought up by her widowed working mother. Alison attended Walford School and went on to gain an MA at Adelaide University. She married an Anglican priest in 1947 and they had five children. She explains her deep interest in the church and her awareness of inequities for women. Alison returned to part-time tutoring and saw publicity about the proposed Women’s Liberation Movement in 1970. She describes early activities, including marches and demonstrations. In 1980, the year that Alison and her husband separated, she began a discussion group about the ordination of women, her interest stemming in part from her personal frustration. She also explains her involvement in the Movement for the Ordination of Women, which began in Adelaide in 1984, and her continuing commitment to both Christianity and feminism. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records of the S.A. Division of the Sportswomen’s Association of Australia Incorporated comprising minutes of state meetings, national Executive and annual general meetings, perpetual trophies awarded 1979-1996, papers about the awards, constitutions and rules, judging procedures, programs of state and national awards ceremonies, scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings about Australian sportswomen who were recipients of Association awards, brief histories of the S.A. Division and national body, memos and correspondence lists of national Association, reports about the Association and its identity, and women in sport, papers about sponsorship arrangements with Ansett and Foundation South Australia for the annual national awards. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Collection of souvenir programmes, newspaper cuttings and other miscellany relating to Girl Guides and other interests. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ros Kelly was elected with a large majority as the first woman member of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) House of Assembly and later became the first Labor woman federal minister in the House of Representatives and the first to give birth while holding office. Ros Kelly was educated at St. Ursula’s College, Ashbury, and obtained a BA DipEd from the University of Sydney. She worked as a high school teacher from 1969 to 1974. She moved to Canberra in 1970 and was elected the first woman member of the ACT House of Assembly from 1974 to 1979. She also became the first woman chair of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Schools Authority from 1978 to 1979 and a foundation member of the ACT Legal Aid Commission from 1978 to 1979. Kelly has been patron of numerous ACT sporting clubs and a member of many ACT ethnic, social and community associations. In 1980 Kelly was elected to the federal seat of Canberra with one of the largest swings against the then Liberal government, and in 1983 she became the first federal parliamentarian to give birth while an MP. In 1987 Kelly became the first Labor woman federal minister in the House of Representatives. As member for Canberra, Kelly was secretary of the Federal Labor Caucus from 1981 to 1987 and held office as minister for the portfolios of Defence, Science and Personnel from 1987 to 1988; Communications and Aviation Support from 1988 to 1990; Arts, Sport, Environment, Tourism and Territories from 1991 to 1993; Environment, Sport and Territories from 1993 to 1994; Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories from 1994 to 1995. She also served as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women until 1994. Kelly resigned from federal politics in 1995, and has worked as a senior executive in environmental management since that time. She is currently on the Board of Trustees of the National Breast Cancer Foundation, a trustee for the World Wide Fund for Nature and a board member of the Westpac Emergency Helicopter Service. In 2004 Kelly was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to the community through promoting corporate environmental responsibility and fostering dialogue between business and conservation groups, to the Australian Parliament, and to women’s health. She has two children. Events 1978 - 1979 Chairperson of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Schools Authority 1978 - 1979 Foundation member of the Legal Aid Commission Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2004, 2004 Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Canberra 1991, 1991 Book Capital women : a history of the work of the National Council of Women (A.C.T.) in Canberra, 1939-1979, Stephenson, Freda, 1992 A history of Australia's capital, Canberra, Davies, E. V., 1990 Canberra 1954-1980, Sparke, Eric, 1988 No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 Resource Section Primary description of person CP 529; Hon Roslyn Joan Kelly. Registration of person: 23 January 1991, 2004, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CP+529 Resource A brief history of the ACT ALP, 2004, http://www.act.alp.org.au/about/history.html Women's suffrage timeline, Sawer, Marian, 2002, http://www.wcc2002.asn.au/suffrage.htm Members of the House of Representatives since 1901, 2003, http://www.aph.gov.au/library/handbook/historical/representatives/index.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources NULL Australian Council for Women - ACW - Collection - NJSN_AC-005 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ros Kelly, 1992 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Ros Kelly interviewed by Mark O'Neill [sound recording] Ros Kelly interviewed by Peter Sekuless [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Roslyn Joan Kelly, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Ros Russell Created 27 February 2004 Last modified 23 October 2015 Digital resources Title: Women members of parliament (l-r) Senator Margaret Reynolds and Ros Kelly with 1908 Women's banner - Old Parliament House Canberra, 1988 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Series 01:Ruth Park, 1938-1976?Item 1?a. Correspondence, 1938-1957. Correspondents include Eileen May Duggan, 1938, James Cowan, 1939, Eve Langley, 1941, Vance Palmer, 1944, Thomas Lewis Mills, 1952 and Dame Mary Gilmore, 1957??Item 2?b. Memoir on Eve Langley, 1940-1942, written in 1976??Item 3?c. Miscellaneous material, n.d.??Series 02: Eve Langley, 1960-1961?Item 4?Correspondence, 1960-1961. Correspondent being June Langley, 1960-1961 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Blaxell was an active and long-term member of the ALP. She was an ALP candidate for Ermington in 1991 and House of Representatives candidate for Dundas in 1983 and 1984. Margaret Blaxell worked as a nurse and public servant. She joined the ALP in 1974, and was campaign director for the seats of Dundas in 1977 and Ryde in 1978, 1981 and 1984. She was appointed to Ryde Hospital Board and Ryde-Hunters Hill Area Health Service. She was married to Greg Blaxell, and they had three sons. Events 1959 - 1959 General Nursing Certificate 1984 - 1984 BA Sydney Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 16 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kid First Australia is the trading name of The Children’s Protection Society (CPS), which was founded in 1896 as the Victorian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. An initiative of the Governor’s wife, Lady Sybil de Vere Brassey, its aims were to protect children from cruelty and neglect, to advance the claims of neglected, abandoned and orphan children to the general public, to co-operate with existing societies for this purpose and to enforce the existing laws for the protection of neglected children and juvenile offenders. It was one of the few secular non government agencies in the child welfare field and it operated on the philosophy of persuading or, in the last resort, compelling parents to fulfil their responsibilities. It became the Children’s Protection Society in 1971. Changes to welfare policy and legislative reform in 1985 meant a change in the Society’s role but not in the objective to reduce child abuse and neglect. In 2018 the Children’s Protection Society changed its name to Kids First Australia. Kids First Australia provides support services to children, young people, and families, such as counselling, treatment and theraputic healing for cases of absue and neglect, youth homelessness prevention, and mentoring and education services. The Society operated through a committee of ‘leisured upper-class women financing and overseeing the small salaried staff that had direct contact with the clientele’. The first object was to compel parents to discharge their duties and if it could not be done by persuasion, then they would put the law into force. Their uniformed inspectors followed up reports of ‘child cruelty’ by visiting the homes, issuing warnings and undertaking follow-up visits to ensure that the situation had improved. Only as a last resort did the Society exercise its statutory authority to bring such parents before the court. In 2004 its mission is ‘to provide leadership in the prevention and reduction of abuse and neglect by delivering innovative support services to children and their families, raising public awareness of the extent and impact of child abuse and neglect and to strengthen families and communities to create safe environments for children’. In 2018 the organisation changed its name to Kids First Australia. The organisation’s vision is one that acknowledges that ‘all children and young people thrive in resilient, strong and safe families and communities.’ Published resources Book Confronting cruelty: historical perspectives on child abuse, Scott, Dorothy and Swain, Shurlee, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records, 1896-1985, [manuscript] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 17 March 2004 Last modified 20 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 sound files Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records of the Temperance Alliance of South Australia, comprising minutes of the Executive Council, Cabinet, Finance Committee, Literature Committee, Women’s Fair Committee, Advisory Committee and Early Closing of the Liquor Bar Committee, 1884-1969; minutes of the Australian Temperance Council, 1924-1964; membership cards; newspaper cuttings; correspondence relating to the Alliance Fair, 1963-1969; duplicated copies of proceedings of the Royal Commission on the Licensing Act, 1966; Church Service return sheets, 1963-1968; results of a market survey on total abstinence, 1970; printed material including copies of ‘The Patriot’ and ‘The Alliance and Temperance News’; photographs, and minutes of the Executive Committee of the S.A. Band of Hope, 1916-1968 and their banner. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary Marguerite Leneen Forde was admitted as a solicitor in Queensland in 1970, one of only six women in her graduating class. After a distinguished legal career, she was appointed Governor of Queensland a position she held from 1992 until 1997. When she was appointed, she was only the second woman to hold the position of governor of an Australian state and the first to take on the role in Queensland. In 1998 Forde was appointed to Chair the Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions. Her report was handed down in May 1999. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Leneen Forde for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Leneen Forde in May 2015 for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project, and is reproduced with permission. The Honourable Ms Leneen Forde AC was born Mary Marguerite Leneen Kavanagh in Ottawa, Canada in 1935. She attended St Joseph’s Girls Primary School and Lisgar Collegiate, Ottawa, and received a Diploma of Medical Technology from Ottawa General Hospital in 1953. Moving to Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, in 1954, she secured work as a haematologist at the then General Hospital. In 1955, she married Gerry Forde whose father was the Australian High Commissioner to Canada (and previously Prime Minister of Australia for a week). Her husband ran a successful legal practice but after battling cancer for over a year, he passed away on Christmas Eve in 1966. Following her husband’s death, Ms Forde commenced full-time studies for a degree in Law at the University of Queensland, graduating with a Bachelor of Law in 1970. This achievement was particularly notable not least because Ms Forde was at that time widowed with five children but also because she was one of only six women in her graduating class of 170 students. Admitted as a solicitor in 1970, Ms Forde was later employed by Brisbane-based law firm Cannan & Petersen to undertake estate work. Given her own experiences, she brought great empathy to the position. And because she was a widow, she was a role model for female clients, most of whom were not used to making decisions about their lives. She became a partner in the firm in 1974. As a solicitor with 22 years of practice in Queensland, Ms Forde demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the continuing development and promotion of her profession. She was a Senior Counsellor and member of the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal of the Queensland Law Society; a Committee member of the International Bar Association, Estate Division; and served as Chair of the Queensland Supreme Court Probate Rules Review Committee. She was also Chair of the Social Security Tribunal, and was the first Convenor of the Queensland Women’s Consultative Committee. In 1973, Ms Forde became the founding President of the Queensland Women Lawyers Association where she was instrumental in advancing and promoting women within the legal profession and combating gender discrimination in this occupational group. The Association and its members also supported Justice for Juveniles, the establishment of the Youth Advocacy Centre, changes to inheritance laws for defacto partners, and supported women victims of domestic violence. In 1971, Ms Forde became a member of Zonta, a world-wide organization of executives and professionals working to support and advance the status of women through service and advocacy. In 1990, she was elected as Zonta’s International President – the first Australian woman to hold this position – and presided over a board comprising members from Belgium, Switzerland, India, the USA, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Her leadership style was to discover what each member had best to offer and to encourage it. Following a distinguished legal career, Ms Forde was appointed the 22nd Governor of Queensland in 1992 – the first ever woman to be appointed to this role in Queensland, and the second only in any Australian State. During her five years as Governor, Ms Forde travelled the State extensively to meet ordinary Queenslanders, realising that she could use her role as an important conduit between communities and the Government. She was renowned for her tremendous capacity to communicate with people from all walks of life. In 1998, Ms Forde was appointed Chair of the Commission of Inquiry into the Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions. She described this appointment as one of the most significant contributions that she has made to public life. The Forde Inquiry heard evidence from over three hundred people who had been abused in orphanages and detention centres across the state. Having gained the trust of those who came forward to tell their stories, Ms Forde was profoundly affected by what she heard. She was pleased that having to confront the terrible things that happened to them as children had enabled some of them to move forward with their lives. The forty-two recommendations of the final report set out the ground rules for major changes in legislation, policy and practice in child protection. The community was well-served by the appointment of Ms Forde, who brought to the inquiry not only an astute legal mind but also her notable humanity and compassion. In response to the report, the Queensland Government established the Forde Foundation to assist persons who had been a ward of the state or had been a child resident at a Queensland institution. In June 2000, Ms Forde was elected as the fourth Chancellor of Griffith University. She was the first female Chancellor of the University and the University’s longest serving Chancellor having served for fifteen years. In this role she provided outstanding leadership and guidance to the governing body of the University and to management in developing the University’s strategic direction and ensuring good governance. In addition to chairing the Griffith Council, she served on a range of key University committees, officiated at numerous graduation ceremonies in Australia and overseas, and was a wonderful ambassador for the University at a long list of international, national, and local events. Ms Forde also contributed to developing and enhancing the University’s relationships with industry and with government, and forged strong links with local communities and organisations. Active in Australian and Queensland community life, Ms Forde has served as the Chair of the Forde Foundation Advisory Board, President of Scouts Australia, Chair of the National Defence Reserve Support Council, and as a member of the Queensland Ballet Board. She has also served as Patron of ‘Rosies’, the Karuna Hospice Service, the National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame (Alice Springs), the Alzheimer’s Association of Australia (Darling Downs and South West Inc) and the Foundation for Survivors of Domestic Violence. The diversity of her interests and community involvement, together with her boundless energy, are also apparent in the list of her other accomplishments. Significant appointments have included Chair of the Board of the Office of Economic Development for the City of Brisbane, Director of the Queensland Small Business Corporation, Director of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research Trust, and a member of the Brisbane Institute, the Institute of Modern Art and the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties. She was also made an Honorary Ambassador, City of Brisbane and Office of Economic Development. All these organisations have benefited from Ms Forde’s support and expertise, and they have also benefited from her impeccable reputation – for honesty, for integrity and for her unshakeable commitment to social justice, equity and fairness, particularly for women and for the disadvantaged in the community. Ms Forde’s significant service to the community has been extensively recognised. In 1991 she was named Queenslander of the Year; in 1993 she was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia ‘in recognition of service to the law, to improving the status of women and to economic and business development’; she was a recipient of a Centenary Medal in 2003; and in 2007 she was the recipient of a Queensland Greats award. Ms Forde holds the honorary degree of “Doctor of the University” from Griffith University, the Australian Catholic University, the University of the Sunshine Coast, and the Queensland University of Technology. She has also been awarded a “Doctor of Letters” by the University of Queensland. Born Leneen Kavanagh in Ottawa, Canada, Leneen worked as a medical laboratory technician in Ontario and studied part-time for a Bachelor of Arts before moving to Australia in 1954. In 1955, she married Francis Gerard Forde, the son of the Right Honorable Francis Michael Forde, former Prime Minister of Australia and High Commissioner to Canada. Forde worked in the Haematology Department of Royal Brisbane Hospital for two years prior to full-time legal study following her husband’s death in 1966. She graduated a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland in 1970 and from 1971 was employed as a solicitor at Cannan and Peterson. In 1973, Leneen became the founding President of the Queensland Women Lawyers’ Association. In 1974, she was made a partner at Cannan and Peterson and that same year, represented Queensland in the Australian Women Lawyers’ Association. In 1992, Leneen Forde was appointed Governor of Queensland, a position she held until 1997. In 1998, she was appointed Chair of the Commission of Inquiry into the Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions, a position she held for one year. She has been involved with the following groups and organisations: Chair Defence Reserves Support Council 2002-06 Forde Foundation Advisory Board. 2000-07 Board Member Starlight Foundation since 2008 All Hallows School Council (Queensland) since 2008 Member Board Governor’s Queensland Community Foundation since 2008 President Scouts Australia 1997-2003 Vice-President Scouts Australia since 2003 Board Member Queensland Ballet since 2000 Chair Queensland Government Forde Foundation 2000-06, Brisbane College Theology Board 1999-2000 St Leo’s College Board 1998-2000 Brisbane City Council Arts and Environment Trust 1999-2000 Commissioner Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions 1998-99 Patron Forde Foundation since 2007 Chaired Queensland Supreme Court Probate Rules Review Committee 1988-1990 National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame since 1999 President of the Scout Association of Australia Convened Queensland Women’s Consultative Council 1991-1992 Chaired Office of Economic Development for the City of Brisbane 1991-1992 Member Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal – Queensland Law Society Member Queensland University of Technology Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Committee Member Queensland University of Technology Council Member Queensland Small Business Corporation Member. Women Chiefs of Enterprise International since 1989 Member Zonta Club Brisbane Inc. since 1971 Member Zonta International Foundation Board 1986-1992 President Zonta International 1990-92 Chaired Social Security Appeals Tribunal during 1980’s Member Queensland Law Society since 1971 Member of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties during 1970’s Founder Queensland Women Lawyers Association 1976 recipient Centenary Medal 2003 Queenslander of Year Award 1991 Woman of Substance Award Queensland Girl Guides’ Association 1990 Paul Harris Fellow Rotary Club Brisbane 1990 Published resources Book Women Who Win, White, AnneMarie, 2002 Resource Section Leneen Forde (b1935), National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame, 2000, http://www.pioneerwomen.com.au/leadfound.htm Leneen Forde, Supreme Court of Queensland Library, 2003, http://www.sclqld.org.au/schp/exhibitions/witl/biographies/forde.htm Edited Book The International Who's Who of Women: A biographical reference guide to the most eminent, talented and distinguished women in the world, Sleeman, Elizabeth (ed.), 2002 Report Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions, Forde, Leneen, 1999, http://www.communityservices.qld.gov.au/community/redress-scheme/documents/forde_comminquiry.pdf Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Book Section Leneen Forde, Currie, Susan, 2005 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Wives of former governors of Queensland : inaugural Janet Irwin endowed lecture / delivered by Her Excellency Mrs. Leneen Forde, A.C., Governor of Queensland, 13 August 1994 31096 Leneen Forde Papers 1990s Author Details Leneen Forde (with Lee Butterworth) Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Francine McNiff was a major benefactor of the University of Melbourne, funding Chairs in Human Rights (Law School) and in Criminology (Arts) and a Scholarship Fund for doctoral researchers in medical jurisprudence. McNiff also bequeathed a large sum to her alma mater, Monash University. It was the largest bequest the university had ever received from an alumnus. The donation established a Francine McNiff Chair in Criminal Jurisprudence and funded two PhD students from disadvantaged backgrounds annually, to study criminology. Francine McNiff was educated at Star of the Sea College. She graduated B Juris, LLB from Monash University; then did graduate work at the University of Edinburgh (Diploma in Criminology). She returned to teach in the Law School at Monash, from which she then graduated LLM by major thesis. She taught at Monash for some 10 years and was Sub-Dean Graduate Studies. Francine was admitted to practice in 1980 and was a Consultant with Martin Bartfeld & Associates, Solicitors, while still teaching at Monash. She was then a Principal Legal Officer and sometime Acting Director of the Policy & Research Division of the Victorian Law Department. On 30 August 1983 she was appointed a Children’s Court Magistrate – the first woman Judicial Officer in Victoria. Francine came to the Bar in November 1987 and read with Joseph Gullaci. She practised for some 23 years, and was a member of the Bar Council in Susan Crennan’s year as Chairman. For the last many years illness prevented active practice. In 2010 she allowed her practising certificate to lapse, and in 2014 she transferred to the List of Retired Counsel. She passed away in 2015. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In 1996, as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours, Fleur Spitzer was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to women. She was recognised in particular for services to the ageing through the work of the Alma Unit, Australia’s first multidisciplinary research and teaching unit focussing on the health and well-being of women aged 65 years and over. Established in 1993 at the University of Melbourne with an endowment from Spitzer, the Unit moved to Victoria University before closing in 2005. Fleur Spitzer was one of three siblings born to a Polish father and an Australian mother of English descent. Her maternal grandparents arrived in Australia in 1889 – her grandmother regularly met ships docking at Station Pier to offer temporary board free of charge to those with nowhere to go. Spitzer’s father emigrated from Poland as a nineteen-year-old in 1922. Her husband, Vic, emigrated from Hungary with his parents in 1939 and became an entrepreneur, establishing a series of private hospitals. Relatives of Spitzer’s father joined the family in Australia in the 1930s and 1940s, and Spitzer became increasingly aware of the impact of racial discrimination. In later years, this awareness would feed into her philanthropic endeavours on behalf of refugees and asylum seekers. As a woman, Spitzer was equally alert to the impact of sexual discrimination. Her involvement in the women’s movement from 1973 was highly formative. By 1990, the year of her mother’s death, she had developed an interest in myths and stereotypes around women and ageing. Armed with an inheritance from her mother, she established the Alma Unit for Women and Ageing at the University of Melbourne. The Unit later moved to Victoria University, but folded in its twelfth year. Similar work has since been taken up by Monash University. Prior to the establishment of the Alma Unit, Spitzer worked as a volunteer with Court Network Victoria, offering personal information and support to people attending the various courts. She became president of the Network’s committee of management. In later years she served as vice president of the Australian Association of Philanthropy (now Philanthropy Australia). Spitzer found a mentor in Jill Reichstein, and continues to channel a significant proportion of her philanthropic funding through the Reichstein Foundation. Spitzer heads the Melbourne Community Foundation’s Ageing Well Theme Fund, is a member of Philanthropy Australia and the Arts Victoria Centre, and an associate supporter of the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA). Her interests still include the well-being of older women as well as indigenous Australians and asylum seekers. In 2003 she offered seed funding for a pilot project, Access to Justice in the Modern Campaspe Region, which resulted in the establishment of a community legal centre with the support of the Buckland Foundation, the Ian Potter Foundation and the State government of Victoria. Events 2004 - 2004 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 January 2003 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "45 minutes??Esther Bright worked in the Education Department for 40 years as an infants teacher and finally as Inspector of schools. She talks about her family who migrated from England, living in the Adelaide Hills, Sir Ross and Keith Smith, visit of the Prince of Wales, teacher training in Adelaide, Victorian era style of teaching, the depression, helping the children, career as a teacher, Principal of Pennington school, migration, marriage and women teachers, joining the Lyceum Club, becoming an Inspector of Infant schools, conference centre at Raywood, teaching refresher courses for teachers, Aboriginal children and reading difficulties, travel, and the Lyceum Club Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Belonging to the small aristocracy of the Ionian Islands, Lady Diamantina Bowen married Sir George Fergerson Bowen on 28th April 1856, who later went on to become the first governor of Queensland, Australia in 1859. An advocate for the underprivileged, injured and infirm, Lady Bowen founded many benevolent and charitable organisations, particularly in the field of public health, and was instrumental in the development of health care services in Queensland. Career Highlights: During her life, Lady Bowen established the following organisations: The Lady Bowen Hospital (now the Royal Women’s Hospital), established in 1863. This was one of the first hospitals to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates. Brisbane Servants Home, also established in 1863 to train young female servants. Diamantina Home for Incurables, focused on the care of terminal ill patients. Princess Alexandra Hospital, beginning as the Diamantina Orphanage in 1864. This later became the Diamantina Hospital for Chronic Diseases in 1901 before finally changing names to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in 1956. Since her death in 1893, Lady Bowen has been, and continues to be commemorated. Among the many place names commemorating her are: the Diamantina River and shire in outback Queensland, Roma Street in Brisbane, Queensland the Lady Bowen Park in Brisbane, Queensland, Diamantina Falls in Victoria, the towns of Roma in Queensland and Western Australia, The Greek Club of Brisbane erected a bronze statue of Lady Bowen in recognition of her work in Brisbane’s Greek community. In 2004, The Princess Alexandra Hospital opened the Diamantina Health Care Museum in her honour. The museum tracks the genesis of modern health and nursing care by conserving evidence of past hospital practices. The Lady Bowen Trust, was established by the Queensland Government in 2006, with the aim of reducing homelessness. The Diamantina Institute opened at the University of Queensland in 2007, focusing on research into cancer biology, immunology and metabolic medicine. Published resources Resource Lady Bowen, Cazalar, L., 2006, http://eresearch.griffith.edu.au/brisbanememories/index.php/Lady_Bowen Bowen, Diamantina (1833 - 1893), Gilchrist, Hugh, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10053b.htm Lady Bowen Trust, http://www.ladybowentrust.org.au History of the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harris, O., http://www.health.qld.gov.au/pahospital/history/contessa_roma.asp Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Diamantina, Lady Bowen: Queensland's First Lady, Prentice, U., 1984 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 8 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 cassette (ca. 90 min.)??Thomas speaks about playing women’s cricket in 1950s; her childhood in an Aboriginal children’s home; becoming a nurse; racial prejudice she suffered; present situation of Aboriginals; the Adnyamathanha people; providing health services to Aboriginals in remote areas; playing cricket for Australia; playing hockey; her husband and son; and Aboriginal beliefs and customs. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 31 December 2006 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Louisa Macdonald was the first Principal of the Women’s College at the University of Sydney. As Principal of the Women’s College, Macdonald played an active role in university life. She was involved in the Sydney University Women’s Association, which she helped found in 1892; the University Women’s Society (University Settlement); and the Women’s Club. During the 1890s she was also active in the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales and the Women’s Literary Society. In 1907 Macdonald was the first woman to stand for the University Senate, but was defeated. Events 1970 - 1970 Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in classics, University of London 1970 - 1970 Master of Arts, University of London 1970 - Worked as a private tutor, and as a researcher in classical antiquities at the British Museum. 1970 - 1970 Moved to Australia to become the founding Principal of the Women’s College, University of Sydney 1970 - 1910 While Principal of Women’s College, Macdonald continued to pursue her interest in classics, lecturing and cataloguing the Greek vases in the Nicholson Musuem of Antiquities. 1914 - 1915 Vice-President of the Classical Association of New South Wales 1919 - 1919 Returned to London, where she joined the council of the University of London 1907 - 1907 First woman to stand for the University of Sydney Senate, but was defeated Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Miss Louisa Macdonald 1858-1949, The Women's College, 2009, http://www.thewomenscollege.com.au/louisa.html Resource Section Macdonald, Louisa (1858-1949), Alexander, H., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100245b.htm Book Letters from Louisa: A Woman's View of the 1890s, Based on the Letters of Louisa Macdonald, First Principal of the Women's College, University of Sydney, Beaumont, Jeanette and W. Vere Hole, 1996 The History of the Women's College within the University of Sydney, Hole, W. Vere and Anne H. Treweeke, 1953 Pamphlet A mask / designed by Louisa Macdonald ; verses composed by C.J. Brennan and J. le Gay Brereton, Macdonald, Louisa, 1913 Archival resources University of Sydney, Archives A mask/designed by L.M. Archives of the Women's College, University of Sydney State Library of New South Wales Letters by Louisa Macdonald, 1892-1898 Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 24 September 2009 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Professor Verity Burgmann is a leading Australian political scientist who has taught in Europe and Australia. She was the first female professor at Melbourne University’s School of Social and Political Sciences and has been active in the Women’s Caucus of the Australian Political Studies Association from its early days. She has a long history of radical political activism, including for Aboriginal land rights, the anti-Apartheid movement, female prisoners’ rights, the Public Education Group and environmental groups. Verity is currently Adjunct Professor of Political Science in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. Read more about Verity Burgmann in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Verity Burgmann was born in Sydney, Australia on 17 September 1952 to Lorna Constance (née Bradbury) (1915-2004) and Victor Dudley Burgmann (1916-1991), the youngest of four children after Jon (former civil engineer), Dr Beverley Firth (former public servant) and Dr Meredith Burgmann (former Labor MLC and President of the New South Wales Legislative Council). Lorna Burgmann named Verity after Verity Hewitt, well-known Canberra bookshop proprietor, with whose sister Mary Lorna had shared a flat while a student at Sydney University. Fourth-generation graduates, Verity and her two sisters became the first three sisters in Australia to all achieve doctorates. The family’s strong intellectual and social service ethos shaped their lives. Verity’s paternal grandfather Dr Ernest Henry Burgmann was a politically progressive churchman who served as Bishop of Goulburn (1934-50) and Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn (1950-60). Her father Victor Burgmann worked in radar research during World War II then at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), becoming CSIRO Chairman in 1977. Former NSW Labor politician, Verity Helen Firth, is her niece. In 1975 Verity completed a Bachelor of Science (Economics) with First Class Honours at the London School of Economics (LSE) where she was awarded the Harold Laski Scholarship for best undergraduate essay and the Bassett Memorial Prize for topping her final year in the Department of Government. She returned to Australia in 1977 where she completed a PhD on Revolutionaries and Racists: Australian Socialism and the Problem of Racism at the Australian National University in 1981. From mid 1975 until early 1977, Verity taught British Government at South London College and worked in the India Office Library as research assistant for an academic writing about communism in Kerala. Between 1978 and 1980 she tutored part-time in General Studies at the University of New South Wales and in Government at the University of Sydney, where she was impressed by political theorist Carole Pateman and concerned by her departure to the USA. After one year as full-time tutor in History at the University of New South Wales, she moved to Melbourne with her husband, where she worked as full-time tutor in Political Science (1981) and History (1982-83) at the University of Melbourne, then as Post-Doctoral Fellow at Deakin University (1984-86) and University of Melbourne (1986-87). From 1988, she lectured in the Political Science Department at the University of Melbourne, subsequently the School of Social and Political Sciences. In 2003, she became its first female professor. Verity remained an active member of the National Tertiary Education Union while working as an academic. Briefly in the late 1980s, Verity was the sole female academic above tutor level in her department. Joined soon after by three new female lecturers, these young women academics discovered their male colleagues referred to them as ‘The Gang of Four’. Finding Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA) conferences similarly male-dominated, Verity became active in the Women’s Caucus of APSA, especially encouraged by, and collaborating with, Carol Johnson, Marian Sawer and Marian Simms. She became President of APSA 2002-03 following a year as its Vice-President. Verity was elected to the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) in 1999 for her scholarship in labour history and politics, social movements and Australian studies. Within ASSA, she was especially inspired by the activism of Patricia Grimshaw and Jill Roe, who did much to confront ASSA’s patriarchalism. As Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts between 2004 and 2007, she chaired more than fifty selection committees presiding over new academic appointments. However, following significant regime change in both the Faculty and the School of Social and Political Sciences, Verity felt beleaguered and bullied, and so decided to leave paid employment at the University of Melbourne in January 2013. From 1 April to 30 July 2013, Verity was Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at the Institut für Englische Philologie at the Freie Universität Berlin. On her return from Berlin, she became an honorary Adjunct Professor of Political Science in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, with the support of Monash Dean of Arts Rae Frances and Monash Politics Professor James Walter. Also in 2013, she was appointed an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, where she is Director of the Roger Coates Labour History Project and Reason in Revolt digital-scholarship platform (accessible at www.reasoninrevolt.net.au), an online resource of primary source documents of Australian political and cultural radicalism from the 1850s to the present day. In addition to more than 70 refereed journal articles and book chapters, Verity is the author of Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (2012); Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia, with Hans Baer (2012); Power, Profit and Protest (2003); Unions and the Environment (2002); Green Bans, Red Union, with Meredith Burgmann (1998); Revolutionary Industrial Unionism (1995); Power and Protest (1993); and ‘In Our Time’: Socialism and the Rise of Labour, 1885-1905 (1985). She is editor of Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe, with Andrew Milner and Simon Sellers (2011), and the four-volume A People’s History of Australia, with Jenny Lee (1988). Her work has been translated into Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean and Swedish. She regularly presents papers at conferences overseas and in Australia, including invited keynote and plenary addresses. Verity has a long history of radical political activism, beginning in 1971 when a first-year student at the University of Sydney. She became involved in supporting Aboriginal land rights. She joined the anti-Apartheid movement, specifically the campaign that disrupted the tour of the racially selected Springboks Rugby Union team and forced cancellation of the impending South African cricket tour. While protesting at the Sydney Cricket Ground during the Springboks versus Wallabies match, she and her sister Meredith Burgmann were arrested for interrupting play. Verity succeeded in reaching the centre of the ground and kicked the ball out of the scrum. She received a $400 fine for ‘offensive behaviour’ while Meredith received a jail sentence that was suspended on appeal. Through this campaign, Verity met Gary Foley and became involved in support for Aboriginal land rights, especially the Tent Embassy established in January 1972. This political activism during the early 1970s brought her to the attention of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO); she would later discover through accessing her ASIO file that not only ASIO but also MI6 in Britain kept her under surveillance. MI6 became interested when she commenced a relationship during 1971 with Peter Hain, pioneer of the international sporting boycott of racially selected South African teams and leader of the UK Stop the Seventy Tour campaign. Verity discontinued her Arts degree at the University of Sydney and moved to London in July 1972 where she lived with Hain and his family, mixing with South African expatriate political activists, while commencing her politics degree at the LSE. Also in London, Verity joined the International Socialists, a Trotskyist-influenced organisation, which argued that the Soviet Union and similar Eastern Bloc countries were not socialist models but ‘state capitalist’ countries just as deplorable as capitalist ones, and emphasised militant rank-and-file working-class activism rather than reliance on reformist politicians and union officials. Back in Sydney and Canberra from February 1977, Verity campaigned for female prisoners’ rights through Women Behind Bars, influenced by Virginia Bell and Julie McCrossin; marched in Sydney’s first Mardi Gras demonstration in 1978; and supported Indigenous rights campaigns. In Melbourne in the early to mid 1980s she was frenetically active in People for Nuclear Disarmament, even during the pregnancy and after the birth of her first child. A long-time critic of private school education including her own at Abbotsleigh, a private Anglican school for girls in Sydney, and experiencing the effects of underfunding of her sons’ local state high school, Verity became involved in the Public Education Group from the late 1990s onwards; she has frequently served as an office bearer in this organisation. Since early this century, she has joined in climate movement actions through participation in summits and demonstrations, and speaking often and writing much about ‘red-green’ issues, based on her scholarly work on the green bans movement and trade union environmental activism. In 1977 Verity married the British-Australian cultural theorist and literary critic Andrew Milner whom she met at the LSE; they have three sons (David, James and Robert) and a grand-daughter Norah, named after the strong, female protagonist of Mary Grant Bruce’s Billabong books. The revision of this entry in 2017 was sponsored by a generous donation from the later Dr Thelma Hunter. Published resources Resource Section Verity Burgmann, Harrison, Sharon M., 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0498b.htm Political Science, Grey, Madeline, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0178b.htm Resource Fellows List, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2017, http://www.assa.edu.au/fellows-list/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia, Sawer, Marian and Simms, Marian, 1993 Edited Book Australian Women and the Political System, Simms, Marian, 1984 Site Exhibition Women Who Caucus: Feminist Political Scientists, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2017, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/caucus/ The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Niki Francis Created 23 April 2014 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Verity Burgmann Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Verity-Burgmann-Lisbon-Demo-2011.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "TYPE OF WORK Literary Work : APPLICANT Elizabeth Kenny : DATE OF APPLICATION 14 May 1935 : DATE COPYRIGHT REGISTERED 23 May 1935 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 December 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "BOX 1 Records of Centenary Year, 1996?Large size sample of two centenary postage stamps, mounted on cardboard??Folder 1?Australia Day luncheon; 1896-1996 Chronology, January-May 1996??Folder 2?Exhibition at New South Wales Parliament House; re-enactment of first meeting held 26 June 1896; Centenary Dinner, April-June 1996??Folder 3?Civic reception at Sydney Town Hall; Centenary stamp launch; Foundation Day luncheon; Annual General Meeting; A woman’s walk through the history of Sydney University, June-September 1996??Folder 4?Thanksgiving service at St. James; papers relating to the first meeting; minutes of Centenary Committee, May 1993-December 1996??Folder 5?Centenary year publicity and marketing material; papers, correspondence etc., 1994-1996??BOX 2 Captain Cook Bi-centennial celebrations, 1970?Folder 1?Souvenir programme of the Pageant of Endeavour, Sydney Town Hall, 22-29 April, 1970??Folder 2?National Council of Women of New South Wales publication, ‘Endeavour: Women’s Organisations in New South Wales 1896-1978’, 1981??Folder 3?Photographs of segments in the Pageant of Endeavour, Captain Cook Bi-Centenary celebrations, 1970??BOX 3?Published books, Untamed by time / Ruth Marchant James: 1987; Women, world war and permanent peace / May Wright Sewall: 1915; Life and labour in Shanghai / Eleanor M. Hinder, 1944; The splendid vision / N.E.S. Griffiths: 1993; India: torture, rape & deaths in custody / Amnesty International, 1992; A book on South Australia: women in the first hundred years, 1936; Women in Australian parliaments and local governments past and present / A. Viola Smith, 1975; Official history of the Lord Mayor’s Patriotic War Fund of New South Wales / C. O. Badham Jackson: 1947; Book of dedications, 1990; The pre-school child and society / John Bostock and Edna Hill, 1946; A woman in a man’s world / Helen Moyes, 1971??Folder 1?N.C.W. News, No. 189, May 2002??BOX 4?Published books, Centenary gift book / Frances Fraser and Nettie Palmer (eds): 1934; The vision unfolding: Deaconess Institution 1891-1991; Nothing new under the sun: a history of the Toronto Council of Women, ca. 1978; High living: a study of family life in flats / Anne Stevenson, Elaine Martin, and Judith O’Neill, 1967??Folders 1-4?Papers, brochures, newsletters, publications, photographs, etc. relating to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995??BOX 5?Papers, brochures, newsletters, publications, photographs, conference papers, newspapers and cuttings, business cards, etc. relating to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995??BOX 6?1 cassette (unlabeled) from the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing?Not to be issued – master tape only. For access please contact the Curator of Oral History??Papers, brochures, newsletters, maps, publications, invitations, photographs, negatives, conference papers, newspapers etc. relating to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995??BOX 7?Published books, International Council of Women combined third and fourth annual report of the seventh quinquennial period / compiled by Anna Backer: 1922/1924; The International Congress of Women ’99: women in professions / Ishbel Aberdeen (ed.), 1899; The International Congress of Women ’99: women in industrial life / Ishbel Aberdeen (ed.), 1899; The International Congress of Women ’99: women in social life / Ishbel Aberdeen (ed.), 1899; International Council of Women quarterly review, October-December 1961, no. 7; Transactions of the National Council of Women of the United States … / Rachel Foster Avery (ed.), 1891; Art and handicraft in the Woman’s Building of the World’s Columbian Exposition / Maud Howe Elliott (ed.), 1893; Memorial of the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893??BOX 8?Published books, Report of the First Post War Conference … Philadelphia: Power and responsibilities of freedom, 1947; International Council of Women report of the triennial council meeting, 1963; Report of the 18th triennial meeting of the International Council of Women, 1966; Report of the centennial celebrations and 25th plenary conference of the International Council of Women, 1988; Report of the 26th plenary conference of the International Council of Women, 1991; International Council of Women bulletin, March 1952, October 1957; President’s memorandum regarding the Council meeting of the International Council of Women, 28 September-9 October 1936, 11-21 July, 1938; International Council of Women combined first and second annual report of the seventh quinquennial period, 1920-1922; The International Congress of Women ’99: report of council transactions / Ishbel Aberdeen (ed.), 1899; The International Congress of Women ’99: women in education / Ishbel Aberdeen (ed.), 1899; International Council of Women quinquennial meeting, 1914??BOX 9?Book 1?National Council of Women of New South Wales minutes of executive meetings, July 1985-July 1998??Folder 1?National Council of Women of New South Wales biennial reports, 1966/1968-1976/1978; National Council of Women of New South Wales annual reports, 1978/1979-1995??Folder 2?N.C.W. News, May 1960-October 1973??BOX 10?Folder 1?N.C.W. News, January 1974-November 1984??Folder 2?N.C.W. News, February 1985-November 1993??BOX 11?Executive minutes, August 1988-July 1996???BOX 12X?Enlarged copies of photographs?1. The NWTUL biennial conference, New York, June 1915. Secretary-Treasurer Miles Franklin?2. [Frances Willard?], ca. 1874-1898 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 September 2013 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Series 01: Private correspondence, 1916-1964.?A. Correspondence with overseas students, 1961-1964.??B. Unidentified correspondence, 1916-1964.??C. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1944-1964.??Series 02: Correspondence with various charities and institutions, 1940-1964.?A. Associated Country Women of the World, 1938-1964.??B. Country Women’s Association of N.S.W., 1930-1964.??C. Other miscellaneous bodies, including Far West Children’s Health Scheme, 1940-1964 Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 September 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary Windeyer was president of the Women’s Suffrage League of New South Wales from 1891-1893, and co-founder of the Ashfield Infants’ Home and the Temporary Aid Society. Born in England, the second daughter of nine children of Jane (née Ball) and Reverend Robert Thorley Bolton, Mary migrated to Sydney with her parents while still a toddler. She married William Charles Windeyer in 1857 and the pair had nine children, including one daughter who died in infancy. Three years after their marriage, William was elected to parliament. He rose from Solicitor-General to Attorney-General, to Judge. Heather Radi describes Mary Windeyer as a ‘charity organizer and champion of orphans’ welfare and women’s suffrage’. She pushed for better care of orphanages, and favoured foster care with loving families. She helped to establish what later became the Ashfield Infants’ Home – a foundling hospital, open to mothers with illegitimate children – and opened her own cottage home for orphans. In the 1880s, following her husband’s promotion of legal forms allowing for desertion as a case for divorce, she began to push for increased employment opportunities for women. With Lucy Osburn she organised an Exhibition of Women’s Industries, promoting nursing as a profession, and raising enough money to set up a Temporary Aid Society to help women in financial difficulty by providing them with small loans. Later, with her daughter Margaret and others, Mary helped to establish a women’s college at the University of Sydney. Mary Windeyer became Lady Windeyer in 1891 when William was knighted. That year she was honorary secretary for the second Australasian Conference on Charity and a committee member of the Thirlmere Home for Consumptives. She was president of the Women’s Suffrage League of New South Wales from 1891 until 1893 and a member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. She sponsored, Radi tells us, a ‘silk-growing cooperative, a shorthand writers and typists’ society, and hospital training for nurses’ and organised the women’s industries section of New South Wales’ exhibit in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, USA. In 1893, Lady Windeyer’s proposal for a women’s hospital led to the opening of a district service that became the Women’s Hospital in Crown Street, Sydney. Lady Windeyer died in 1912 and was buried in the Anglican section of the Raymond Terrace cemetery. Her estate was valued at £11,408. Published resources Resource Section Windeyer, Mary Elizabeth (1837-1912), Radi, Heather, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120604b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Book The Windeyers: Chapters of Family History, Windeyer, Victor, 1992 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Lady Mary Windeyer and Margaret Windeyer, 1894-1926 [manuscript] Papers of W. C. Windeyer, 1838-1944 [manuscript] State Library of New South Wales Windeyer family - Papers, 1827-1928 Windeyer family papers, 1829-1943 Photographs relating to the Windeyer family, 1829-1943 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 20 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Review of Olive Pink Botanic Gardens, Alice Springs. 2005.?Working papers include: 2 files, spiral bound notebook, Olive Pink Society Bulletin vol 6 no 2 1994, article on Olive Pink in Bush Mag; Journal of the Outback) (Spiral notebook also contains notes of research and meetings on weeds, ca 2004) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jennifer Fowler is an internationally renowned composer who was born in Bunbury, Western Australia. She works as a freelance composer in London, where she has lived since 1969. Jennifer Fowler was born in Bunbury, Western Australia, in 1939. She studied at the University of Western Australia, during which time she won several composition prizes. While still a student, her pieces were performed in the Festival of Perth and broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). In 1968 Fowler spent a year working at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Utrecht on a Dutch Government scholarship. Since 1969 she has been living in London where she works as a free-lance composer. Fowler’s output includes orchestral works, chamber pieces, works for voice and instrumental ensemble, solo music and vocal ensembles. Her international prizes include an award from the Academy of the Arts in Berlin (1970), joint winner of the Radcliffe Award of Great Britain; first prize in the GEDOK International Competition for Women Composers (1975) and the Miriam Gideon prize from the International Association of Women in Music (2003). Fowler’s works are regularly performed at international festivals; past performances include the ISCM World Music Days, the Gaudeamus Music Week (Holland), the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music (UK), the International Sydney Spring Festival and Women in Music festivals in USA, UK, Italy and Australia. She has received commissions from organisations including the British Broadcasting Commission (BBC), the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), the Festival of Perth, the Music Board of the Australia Council, The Song Company (Sydney), Donne in Musica (Italy) and Women in Music (UK). Published resources Resource Jennifer Fowler Website - Contains Biographical Information, News, List of Works, Audio Samples and Contact Details, Fowler, Jennifer, http://www.impulse-music.co.uk/fowler.htm Australian Music Centre entry for Jennifer Fowler, Fowler, Jennifer, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/fowler-jennifer Grove Music Online Entry for Jennifer Fowler, Fuller, Sophie, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/10067 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Journal Article Of Small Bagpipes and Double Basses, Fowler, Jennifer, 1994 Archival resources NULL Jennifer Fowler Collection Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Incl. protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking especially women and children; Incl. Materials by Vicki Dunne (Member for Ginninderra) relating to real-life trafficking and to film The Jammed (2007); “Organised Crime and people smuggling/ trafficking to Australia Australian Institute of Criminology Trends & Issues, no. 208, May 2001; Trafficking and the Sex Industry: from Impunity to Protection (Parliament of Australia); ‘On the dark side’ The Canberra Times 2007; ‘Illegal Immigration’ Lynch; ‘The Jammed’ Project Respect 2007; ‘Globalized Female Slavery’ Said It: feminist news, culture, politics 2007; Maltzahn, Kathleen ‘Policing trafficking in women for prostitution’; ‘The slave traders of Sydney’, AFPA journal, Autumn 1997; David, Fiona, ‘Human smuggling and trafficking: an overview of the response at the Federal level’, Australian Institute of Criminology Research and Public Policy Series, n. 24; “Talk to U2A Batemans Bay 2.4.2008: Human trafficking in Australia”; “Trafficking prevention – its time for action”, by Elena Jeffreys, 2008; “Anti-trafficking measures and migrant sex workers in Australia” by Elena Jeffreys, in Intersections: Gender and sexuality in Asia and the Pacific,19, Feb 2009. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Greenwood discusses her life and views on feminism and the women’s movement in Western Australia.?Broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Commission programme “In person”, 1 Aug. 1982. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Australia’s first world champion skier, Kirstie Marshall won seventeen World Cup gold medals. She was named Australian Skier of the Year six times and Victorian Sportswoman of the Year four times. A member of the Australian Labor Party, Marshall was elected as the Member for Forest Hill in the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Victoria in 2002, and re-elected in 2006. She retired at the November 2010 election. Educated at Mentone Girls High School, Firbank Anglican Grammar School and Taylors College, Kirstie Marshall commenced skiing in 1986. In her first international season she was Australia’s top ranking winter sportsperson, finishing 10th in the world. In 1992 she was crowned Grand Prix champion. Two years later Marshall was Australia’s flag bearer at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer where she was placed sixth in the women’s aerial skiing event – the nation’s best Olympic result at the time. In 1997 Marshall became Australia’s first world champion in a winter sport, and she competed in the Winter Olympics at Nagano in 1998. Marshall set several world records over the course of her skiing career and became the first woman in history to score over 100 points on a single competition jump. Marshall was Director of the Olympic Winter Institute before being elected to the seat of Forest Hill in 2002, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She was re-elected in 2006. Today, she is a Member of the Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee and is involved with over forty charities annually. A practiced public speaker, she makes regular television appearances. Kirstie Marshall was awarded an OAM for her contribution to skiing and sports administration on the Queens Birthday Honour List in 2003. She is married with two children. Published resources Book Victorian Parliamentary Handbook, no. 8, the 55th Parliament, 2004 Resource Victorian Parliamentary Handbook Electronic Edition, 2005, http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/handbook Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Kirstie Marshall wins Forest Hill, Mottram, Murray, 2002, http://www.theage.com.au/articles Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Author Details Rosemary Francis and Barbara Lemon Created 25 November 2005 Last modified 3 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The letters, written to friends in England from Strathmore, Glebe Point, Wallabadah station and the Women’s College refer to happenings during the foundation years of the College and also contain comment on Sydney society of the period. Part of a letter to Miss Macdonald, 1 January 1895, by an unknown writer, is at the end of the reel Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Contents : I. PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1923-1963?II. PROFESSIONAL FILES, ca. 1919-1963?A. Farmer and Company, ca. 1919-1926?B. Young Women’s Christian Association of China, 1896, 1927-1937?C. Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (1928), 1928-1929?D. Employers’ Federation of Shanghai, 1931-1945?E. Shanghai (China). Municipal Council, 1933-1954?F. International Labour Office, 1942-1948?G. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1934-1952?H. Great Britain. Foreign Office, 1944-1954?I. Board of Trustees and Rehabilitation Affairs, 1947-1950?J. United Nations, 1937, 1949-1963??III. SUBJECT FILES, 1918-1975?A. Individuals, 1924-1963?B. Organisations, 1951-1971?C. Miscellaneous, 1918-1975??IV. WRITINGS, 1927-1963?A. Autobiography and related papers, 1957-1963?B. Other writings, 1927, 1945, 1952-1959??V. GENEALOGICAL PAPERS, 1837-1970?A. Hinder family, 1837-1970?B. Tuckerman family, 1952-1966??VI. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, 1914-1974??VII. PAPERS OF AND CONCERNING AGATHA HARRISON, 1916-1962??VIII. PRINTED BOOKS, 1837-1970??IX. PHOTOGRAPHS AND REALIA, 1916-1968??X. PAPERS OF A. VIOLA SMITH, ca. 1850-1975?A. Hinder family genealogy and chronology?B. Correspondence concerning Hinder family genealogy?C. Genealogical subject files – Hinder family – Paternal line?D. Genealogical subject files – Hinder family – Maternal line?E. Genealogical subject files – Tuckerman family?F. Subject files – Organisations?G. Subject files concerning Eleanor Hinder’s immediate family?H. Miscellaneous personal papers?I. Papers concerning the estate of Eleanor Hinder Author Details Jane Carey Created 28 July 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "ALRA newsletters; copies of “Abra”; minutes of Victorian Civil Liberties Sub-Committee for Investigation of Problems of Abortion 1966; draft report of ALP sub-committee on Health and Social Welfare 1970. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Printed under photograph “Dame Florence Cardell Oliver. First woman Minister of the Crown in any State Parliament in Australia. Minister for Health W.A. & M.L.A. Subiaco. 1915 President first W.S.G. at Albany.”??1 photoprint, mounted : b&w ; 32 x 23 cm. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "11 boxes of papers and associated records pertaining to feminist activities in Canberra, including a typed copy of the minutes of the Canberra Women’s Liberation movement 1970-1973. Author Details Patricia ni Ivor Created 3 May 2000 Last modified 29 September 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Panhellenic Women’s Movement was a broad-based, progressive women’s organisation established in 1977 in order to assist and represent Australian women of Greek heritage. The goals of the Panhellenic Women’s Movement were as follows: 1.To advance the social and mental development of its members, the cultivation of friendly relations and solidarity amongst the members of the organisation, 2.The accomplishment of women’s equality in society; professional, social and political, 3.The cultivation of friendly relations between Greek women and the Australian people, as well as other women’s organisations of the other nationalities and with all Greek organisations, clubs and brotherhoods, 4.To make claims for working rights, 5.To support every effort for maintaining world peace Organisations such as the Panhellenic Women’s Movement were extremely active in their attempts to network with other women’s organisations. The fact that we know of their existence is proof of this – they corresponded with the Union of Australian Women (UAW) quite regularly and their letters can be found in the UAW archives. Evidence that they (and no doubt other migrant women’s organisations) had an impact on the thinking of established women’s organisations can also be found in this correspondence. A note in the UAW records, with the Panhellenic Women’s Movement correspondence, notes the following: ‘Our work is two-fold – on the one hand to become cognisant of the problems of migrant women and to assist them with regard to language, job opportunities, conditions etc. and by takin up the various issues contained in the Charter for Women Workers Rights, on the other hand, by extending solidarity to women in their homelands – for example, protesting at the closure of the Progressive Women’s Organisation’s office in Turkey, protesting about the atrocities against women in Chile and Uruguay.’ Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Papers re: Panhellenic Women's Movement Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Irene Greenwood discusses civil rights, equal opportunity, discrimination, law and legislation in Western Australia and Australia in relation to the Australian Bill of Rights and the Western Australian Equal Opportunities Bill.?sound cassette (ca. 30 min.): mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers relating to the Women’s Electoral Lobby campaign on enterprise bargaining; miscellaneous personal papers. Includes files, press cuttings, correspondence, pamphlets, leaflets, serials and arbitration case files. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 23 August 2000 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A lifelong political and social activist, Evelyn Barron served a full 12-year term in the Legislative Council of New South Wales (1964-76) as a member of the ALP. Prior to this she had unsuccessfully run as an ALP candidate for Collaroy in 1953. Evelyn Barron joined the ALP in 1938. She was a member of the Central Executive of the party from 1957 to 1964, and president of the Women’s Central Organising Committee in 1964. She was President of the NSW Women Justices Association, 1958-60, President of the League of Women Voters, 1961-62. Evelyn Barron was also active in a number of other organisations including the Civilian Widows’ Association, the Good Neighbour Council, the NSW National Council of Women, and the Australian Women’s Charter Movement. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 5 April 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Contents: Reproduction of book’s cover — Poster for launch at the Northern Territory Library, 4 June 2009 — Launch speech by Nicholas Hasluck — Pictures of the Library launch — Selection of pictures from the book used in the accompanying exhibition at the Library — Pictures of some of those who attended the launch, “Sunday Territorian”, 21 June 2009 — Letters to booksellers — Web page advertising the book, The Bookshop, Charles Darwin university — Display of books, The Bookshop, The Galleria, Smith Street Mall — Article/interview, “Off the Leash”, June 2009 — Article, “The Darwin Sun. 27 May 2009 — Review, Keith Suter, Radio 2GB, Sydney, June 2009 — Article/invitation, The Chung Wah Society newsletter, Darwin, May 2009 — Listing of book in “Gleebooks Gleaner”, Sydney, May 2009 — Review, Peter Ryan, “Quadrant, July-August 2009 — Article, Christopher Pearson, “The Australian”, 23 May 2009 — Book of the Month, July 2009, Northern Territory Library — Extracts from reviewers’ and readers’ responses to the book. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 July 2018 Last modified 31 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1968, Paulette Bisley (nee Parkinson) became the tenth woman to sign the Victorian Bar Roll. Although she spent most of her career pursuing activities outside the legal profession, she credits the legal training and experience she received for helping to ‘shape and define different parts of my life. It made me stronger and helped find my voice that I could use to help others.’ Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Paulette Bisley for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Paulette Bisley and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. My career at the Bar was fuelled by ignorance and optimism. I attended Elwood High School, a newly established high school, and matriculated in 1962. I received a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend University. My elder sister went to Monash University to become a teacher but I chose to go to Melbourne University to study law. The University appealed to my love of history. The Law School was somewhat confronting. There were very few women and they were mostly private school girls. There has always been snobbishness in Melbourne about schools but up until then it did not concern me. At Law school, indeed at the University, the refrain was often, “but tell us where did you really did go to school”. My parents had decided that a University education was better than paying for a private school – the stipulation being “unless we were brainless” and then they would have to use connections to find a vocation. I confess to enjoying myself at Law School to the detriment of my studies. I met my future husband at University. I passed, but many law books were left unread. As a High School girl without inspiring marks it was very difficult to get Articles. I ended up, through my husband’s family connections, to be Articled in Dandenong. I was set to work with an unqualified Law Clerk in Common Law. The practice was commercial and the partners largely left the Law clerk to his own devices. This was my first experience of being marginalised by a male. The clerk corrected every sentence I wrote and I dumbly believed he was helping. He hid my work and made me appear foolish in front of the partners. He was later sacked when he did this to a male colleague. The politics of the office left me cold and the Bar beckoned. My inspiration came from the young barristers whom I had briefed. I knew I was bright and with the arrogance of youth and lots of encouragement thought I would become a Barrister. My admission to practice was moved by Richard McGarvie QC. Since I was a woman it was decided that I would most likely only succeed in a practice in Domestic Relations. Bear in mind I had no connections whatsoever with the legal profession, and no old school ties to help. But encouraged by a family that believed women could do anything, and with the financial and positive support of my husband, I was prepared to have a try. My Master was a specialist in Matrimonial Causes as it was then. There was no formal training to be a barrister and you relied on learning from your Master. I signed the Bar Roll and was told that a Bar Council meeting was held to determine the length of my dress. I was never sure if that was true or not. My borrowed wig (when I needed one) perched upon the bouffant sixties hair. I engaged a Clerk, put a desk in the corner of my Master’s room, and awaited a brief. My Clerk was very supportive and encouraging. The only woman at the Bar then was Molly Kingston. I was too much in awe of her to seek any advice and she certainly did not make any attempt to welcome me. The other women were absent as Joan Rosenove had retired and Lynne Opas was in New Guinea. My Master had no idea what he should do with me so did nothing. Not once did he help, just kept saying “have a go, have a go”. I quickly realized this was largely because work I received was nothing to do with Domestic Relations. It was largely motor accident damages described in those days as ‘crash and bash’, drunk driving, petty crime and the Imprisonment of Fraudulent debtors. The cases were mostly in the Court of Petty Sessions but sometimes in the County Court and rarely in the Supreme Court. None were to do with Matrimonial Causes. Cramming at night, I survived and learnt much from the men on my floor who were very supportive and helpful. I was known as Bisley Mrs. I could never pluck up the courage to eat in the Dining Room which was on the top floor of Owen Dixon Chambers. I could not eat in my room as my Master I discovered, to my horror, spent his lunch hour reading girlie magazines. I was appalled. Most barristers were supportive but many thought it would be fun to tease and make suggestive remarks. I was often asked what was in my brief case, was it the shopping and did I carry my books in a shopping bag. I was often asked out but I learnt quickly to say no as their motives were less than honourable. I duly finished my six months, slightly terrified but exhilarated at the same time. I set up Chambers in Tait Chambers. I was often told that “this case is hopeless but since you are a woman you can talk the magistrate/judge around.” I was also advised, tongue in cheek (I thought so), to wear a low cut dress in front of some Magistrates. I did not. Without adequate training and lack of support of a Master, as my practice started to build up I was becoming out of my depth. Supreme Court appearances to do with Company Law, which I had not studied, were fearful. I was and am still indebted to Harry Emery, Kevin Mahony, Charles Wheeler, Graeme Uren and the other men on my Floor for their support at this time. My biggest fear was that they would be on the other side of a case and could not help. Despite the loving support of my husband who believes that women can do anything, I had what is called an anxiety state. I was supplied with a prescription and told to continue working. Neither of those options was a match and I decided it was time to leave practice to start a family. My thought being that I would have children, resume study and then go back to work. However it transpired that an overseas posting when my youngest child was in prep meant I had to make alternative plans. We stayed away eleven years but my legal career was my passport to many different roles. My husband worked for Exxon Chemical Company and we went first to Connecticut, USA. I learnt quickly that I could not work for money (no visa) but could do volunteer work. American women were not ashamed to put volunteer work down on their CVs. I learnt to do the same. I became involved in their Newcomer Group, that was very active as most of the population of our town was itinerant. American women moved at least every three years. These were often professional women who gave up a lot for their husband’s career. My law degree was highly respected and gave me entrée to many interesting and exciting activities including being a docent at the Wilton historical society. I could say it helped define me and my time at the Bar gave me confidence to express myself. From Connecticut we went to Hong Kong. I was never a lady who ‘lunched’. It was important to me that the social issues that arose for women in the expat life be addressed and support systems put in place. In Hong Kong I became the Secretary of the English Speaking Members Department of the Young Womens’ Christian Association (YWCA). In this role I determined the activities of the organisation. My law degree was highly regarded by the Board of the Association, the members of whom were all Chinese. Indeed when it came time to leave because we were moving to Tokyo they refused to take me off their books. They even suggested that I fly back to Hong Kong weekly. On $6000 Hong Kong dollars a month I did not think so. I was told that the Chinese husbands would allow their wives to attend this very British department because I was a barrister. The YWCA with its ‘At Home’ programme for newcomers taught me how to understand the problems relating to relocation. There were many issues, particularly for women who had had busy professional lives but now could not work and lacked friendship groups, family and an inability to network. Asia in those days was very trying for intelligent western women. In the programs we developed we were able to provide the framework from which they could launch themselves into a productive life. Again I became involved with history and museums as I had done in America. In Japan I had to really stand on my own two feet as my husband was often away and we relocated into a largely Japanese community. Very little English was spoken in the 1980’s. Friends were made through the Australian-Japan Association. Again my law degree opened doors and earned me initial respect. I was asked at one stage to speak on the role of women in Australia – I had not lived in Australia for some years so I spoke to academics at Latrobe University who had completed research in this area. I was a bit depressed as women had not progressed very far. I returned to Australia hoping to study for a social work degree and to prepare I decided to volunteer and do the course for the Citizens Advice Bureau. It was from this role that I was nominated to sit on the Legal Aid Review Panel. Then life changed again. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995. And in 1997 we left for Singapore for a final posting. In the meantime we had started a vineyard in the Yarra Valley which was demanding my attention. In Singapore I again looked to museums to hold my interest. I became a docent and trained with Singaporean colleagues. Believe it or not they were the first ever Singaporeans trained as docents for their museum (the first Museum was started in 1819). Again my law degree was my currency. I also worked with the Australian Association and worked towards making life easier for newcomers. Depression and anxiety were common among many women. Many were successful in their careers but had chosen to accompany their spouse, take a few years holiday and have a bit of fun. However many found that it was very difficult to start a new life. This was where my experience at the YWCA proved helpful. I also worked on the Magazine committee of the Tanglin Club where my Law degree gave me entrée. We returned home to Australia in 2001 and since then I have been involved in the vineyard and my three acre garden which is open often for the public for charities. I am now Chairman of the Trust of the Regional Museum of the Shire of Yarra Ranges amongst other interests. While I left the Bar many years ago the experience helped shape and define different parts of my life. It made me stronger and helped find my voice that I could use to help others. It has proved to be my entrée to a very different life than I had imaged when I first entered the courts in my borrowed wig. Published resources Resource Women Barristers in Victoria: Then and Now, The Victorian Bar, 2007, https://www.vicbar.com.au/wba/ Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Paulette Bisley Created 4 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Paulette Bisley Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Talk entitled: ‘The use of art history in the art museum’, given at the Art Association Conference, 1974. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 13 November 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Slides to accompany thesis, ‘An anthroposcopic and anthropometric study of the skeleton of a full-blood Tasmanian Aborigine (Truganini)’, B.Med.Sci thesis, University of Tasmania?Creator/photographer – Meumann, Frank Olaf?Photographs of the skeletal remains of Truganini Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 October 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes.??Interview taped in January 2006 with Matina Mottee, a long time advocate on behalf of women of culturally and linguistically diverse background. The interview was conducted in Mottee’s home and features some external noise. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 June 2006 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Rebecca Irwin holds the position of Senior Manager Government Relations and Public Policy at the global resources company BHP Billiton. An experienced leader and negotiator, she has served in the upper echelons of Australian government, including the Attorney-General’s Department and as a Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister, since graduating with first-class honours in Law from the University of Sydney in 1995. In May 2000, Ms Irwin made history when she became the first Australian woman lawyer to address an international tribunal, in her capacity as counsel for Australia in the Southern Bluefin Tuna Case against Japan. She has been a first assistant secretary in the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and in the Department of Agriculture; she has also been a senior executive working on national security and law enforcement policy with the Australian Federal Police and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra. A former associate to the Hon. Justice Margaret Beazley (later AO) of the Federal Court of Australia, Sydney, Ms Irwin practised as a solicitor at the law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques. The recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, she has a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in the United States. Rebecca Irwin was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Rebecca Irwin graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in 1993 and a Bachelor of Laws (First-class Honours) in 1995. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and a Lionel Murphy Scholarship for 1996-7, she declined the latter in favour of the former, going on to attend Harvard Law School, where she graduated with a Master of Laws and won the Laylin Prize for best thesis in international law. After returning to Australia, Ms Irwin became associate to the Hon. Justice Margaret Beazley (now AO) of the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney. Admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia in 1997, she practised as a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney, advising on competition law and trade practices. In 1998, Ms Irwin changed direction, taking up a role as principal legal officer in the Office of International Law, Attorney-General’s Department, Canberra. There, Ms Irwin advised on the consistency of government policy with international law across a range of matters and also on the implementation of international law in Australia and treaty negotiations. In 2000, Ms Irwin created legal history in her capacity as counsel for Australia in the Southern Bluefin Tuna Arbitration Case against Japan. The countries were in dispute over whether southern bluefin tuna, a valuable migratory species of tuna which ranges over southern seas near the Antarctic and is prized in Japan for sashimi, was recovering from a state of severe over-fishing. The case was heard before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Hamburg, Germany, and an arbitration hearing on jurisdiction in Washington DC, USA. Ms Irwin was the first woman to have a speaking part, in presenting material, to the Tribunal – thus making her the first Australian woman lawyer to address an international tribunal. That year, Ms Irwin was awarded an Australia Day Achievement Award by the Attorney-General’s Department. In 2001, Ms Irwin was seconded to the Office of the Attorney-General as a departmental liaison officer. During this time she was closely involved in the Government response to 9/11, increasingly advising the Attorney on national security issues. She then returned to the Office of International Law in the Attorney-General’s Department as assistant secretary. Ms Irwin led delegations on multilateral treaty negotiations which concerned the Timor Sea treaty, Indonesian maritime boundary, United Nations (on the independence of East Timor), and commercial negotiations with the international oil and gas industry. Continuing her public international law litigation work, she also appeared as junior counsel in the PetroTimor litigation in the Federal Court of Australia. From 2005 until early 2008, Ms Irwin worked as assistant secretary responsible for domestic security, in the National Security Division, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra. She built and led a branch responsible for counter terrorism and law enforcement; transport and border security; critical infrastructure and emergency management; and the National Counter Terrorism Committee Secretariat. During this period, Ms Irwin was panel chair at the American Society of International Law Conference, and participated in bilateral homeland security briefings in Washington DC. She was also a member of the Australian delegation to Indonesian Regional Counter Terrorism Conference. Ms Irwin was presented with the Australia Day Achievement Award in 2006 by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. In early 2008, Ms Irwin took up the role of senior adviser in the office of the then prime minister, The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP. Ms Irwin was the lead adviser for four portfolios: Attorney-General and Home Affairs, Immigration, Special Minister of State, and the Status of Women. From 2009 until June 2010, Ms Irwin was employed by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship as first assistant secretary. In this role she drove research and analysis on medium to longer term policy issues across all areas of immigration policy and operations, including skilled migration, population, refugees and irregular maritime arrivals, border protection, citizenship and multicultural affairs, and service delivery. The result was the establishment of a research program to build policy capability within the Department. Once more demonstrating her capacity to bring exceptional leadership, policy knowledge and relationship-building to bear on a new environment, Ms Irwin became national manager policy and governance in the Australian Federal Police in Canberra. Ms Irwin again managed a new division within the Australian Federal Police, developing strategic policy on law enforcement, policing and national security. From 2012 to November 2014, Ms Irwin was employed by the Department of Agriculture as first assistant secretary in the Live Animal Division. Given the task of building a new division to manage live animal export matters, Ms Irwin led and managed a national team while working closely with Australia’s agricultural counsellors at overseas posts. Since 2014, Ms Irwin, in her role as Senior Manager Government Relations and Public Policy at BHP Billiton, has guided the company’s engagement with the Australian Government in Canberra across a broad range of matters concerned with the economic, industry, environment and international policy. As part of BHP Billiton’s global public policy team, Rebecca also works with her counterparts in the United States, United Kingdom and Asia on key policy matters which affect the company’s operations. Ms Irwin also works with a number of think tanks and policy analysts on emerging policy and political trends. She is a member of the Institute of Public Administration. Leadership and strategic policy development in the public sector, advocacy in international tribunals and lead knowledge on agriculture, immigration, international law and national security have enabled Ms Irwin to foster the important relationship between the public sector and business in Australia. Ms Irwin is an inspiring woman who drives innovation and change and has made a significant contribution to Australia’s key public and commercial institutions. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Rebecca Irwin interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law pilot oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 11 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO26]??Comprises annual reports received by the National Office of the Australian Red Cross from its state and territory divisions and from the Blood Service. Annual reports of the National Office itself are not included in this series – refer to Series number 2015.0027.??Contains annual reports from the Divisions of the: Northern Territory (1941-2001), Queensland (1914-2004), Australian Capital Territory (1953-2001), Western Australian (1915-2005), New South Wales (1915-2005), Norfolk Island (1940-1947). Tasmanian (1915-2005), South Australian (1915-2006), Victorian (1914-2007), as well as from the National Blood Transfusion Service later known as the Blood Transfusion Service (1989-2006). University of Melbourne Archives holds a digital copy of the Annual Reports of the Victorian Division of the Australian Red Cross for the years 1914-2006, which are available to researchers upon request. The digital copy was made by the Red Cross and has been made from another version of the Victorian Division minutes – not the one maintained by the National Office as part of series 2015.0029 – and in places there are annotations or attachments in one version which differ from the other version.??See also published Annual Reports including Financial Expenditure (2005 – present) http://www.redcross.org.au/annual-reports.aspx??Some Victorian Division Reports digitised and available on request.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 64 min.)??Whittle speaks of the heartaches of her divorce ; meeting her present husband and subjugating her own interests for the time being ; she speaks of her plans for the future. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The archival holdings are organised in the following collections:?1 Private Collections?2 Archives of the Community?3 Printed Material?4 History of organisations?5 Photographic material?6 Visual aids?7 Recordings of events?8 Ecclesiastical items?9 Costumes?10 Library??Women’s committee material can be found in the archives of the community Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 June 2006 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9726 includes correspondence between Dr. Veronica Condon (ne?e Syme) and Sister Veronica Brady in the form of letters, postcards and email, and two photographs of Veronica Syme and Pat Brady taken in 1945, and notes on the correspondence, by Condon (1 folder).??The Acc07.154 instalment comprises Condon’s biography of her father, Sir Geoffrey Syme, a bound volume with spine title “Geoffrey Syme, Vol. 1”, signed by the author and numbered “Copy 3” (1 box).??The Acc08.167 instalment includes a news clipping from The Age on David Syme, photographs and details of a dinner party in honour of the late Sir Geoffrey Syme at the Alexandra Club, Melbourne, 14 February 2008, and, a typescript of an article on David Syme and Geoffrey Syme by Veronica Condon (1 folder).??The Acc10.078 instalment comprises a letter from Condon to Brenda Niall, together with Niall’s reply, detailing incorrect information about Condon’s mother, Lady Veronica Syme, contained in Niall’s book, The riddle of Father Hackett: a life in Ireland and Australia (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nikki Henningham Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Magistrate Nerida Wilson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Collection of pamphlets, press cuttings, petitions, and other documents relating to women’s suffrage, dating from ca. 1884 to 1902.Online images available via the State Library of NSW at: http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/albumView.aspx?itemID=1063989&acmsid=0 ; Digital order number a9594. Author Details Jane Carey Created 11 February 2004 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Series B883 consists of service documents for people who served in the Second Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) for the Second World War. The series is controlled by AIF service numbers: a single number series with alphabetic regional prefixes (based on place of enlistment) and an X prefix (indicating enlistment in the AIF). Additional ‘F’ prefixes were used for female enlistees. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 6 August 2012 Last modified 1 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Hon. Margaret Wilson QC was a barrister and judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. She is known for her contribution to mental health law, as the first judge of the Mental Health Court and as the Commissioner who inquired into the closure of the Barrett Adolescent Centre, as well as for the part she played in procedural and substantive law reform in Queensland through her membership of the Rules Committee and the Queensland Law Reform Commission. Margaret Wilson was born in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1953. Her parents were not lawyers – her father was a civil engineer, and her mother, a former nurse, was active in community organisations. Like many parents, they valued hard work and education, and with their encouragement, Margaret excelled in her studies. In 1970, she completed her schooling at Clayfield College as school captain and dux and won an open scholarship to study at the University of Queensland. Initially enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts, Margaret majored in Japanese language and culture. In her third year of study, she undertook two subjects in the TC Beirne School of Law, beginning her lifelong interest in the law. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1973, and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours in 1976, winning a number of academic prizes. Margaret entered the legal profession as an articled clerk at Feez Ruthning & Co (now Allens) and was admitted to the bar in 1979. She developed a broad practice, advising and appearing in all areas of civil litigation, including administrative law. In 1992, she was appointed Queen’s Counsel. Outside the demands of her practice, she was a member of the Bar Association of Queensland’s Committee (now Council), a Legal Aid Commissioner and board member, and a member of The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for the State of Queensland. In August 1998, Margaret was appointed a judge of the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Queensland. It was a time of significant change in the composition of the court, and in the way civil and criminal cases were conducted. She was the fourth woman to join the Supreme Court. In her role as a Trial Division judge, Margaret sat on a number of high-profile cases, including a civil jury trial about the sexual assault of a pupil at a boarding school in regional Queensland, and the State’s first judge-alone murder trial. She was a Commercial List Judge from 2009 to 2011, and an Additional Judge of the Queensland Court of Appeal from 2011 to 2012. Soon after her appointment to the bench, Margaret joined the Rules Committee where she served actively for 12 years. Comprised of representatives of all levels of Queensland courts, the Registry of the Supreme and District Courts and the Department of Justice, the Rules Committee finalised Queensland’s Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 – one set of rules that applied to all civil proceedings in the Magistrates, District and Supreme Courts, simplifying litigation for the benefit of all who came before the courts in their civil jurisdiction. It also formulated the Civil Proceedings Act 2011 (Qld), which updated the statutory infrastructure supporting the Supreme Court of Queensland in significant respects. It repealed and replaced an array of provisions, many dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries, about the judicature system and some aspects of substantive law, as well as provisions about the structure of the Court, its registry and its officers. Margaret was impressed by the shared commitment and co-operative approach of everyone on the Rules Committee, and she took pride in its quiet achievements under the leadership of Justice Glen Williams and then Justice John Muir. In 2002, Margaret became the first judge of the Mental Health Court. That Court’s primary function is to determine the sanity and fitness for trial of persons charged with criminal offences. It was set up on the inquisitorial model, constituted by a Supreme Court Judge assisted by two experienced psychiatrists acting as assessors. The new Court benefited from the legacy left by its predecessor, the Mental Health Tribunal, which had been established in 1985. As the Court’s first judge, Margaret performed a pivotal role in developing new procedures, consulting Health Department officers and medical experts, and presiding over the Court as it sat in Brisbane, Townsville and Cairns. Margaret’s interest in court architecture led to her serving on an advisory committee associated with the design of the new metropolitan courthouse for the Supreme and District Courts of Queensland. It facilitated liaison between the judges, the architects, the builders and relevant Government departments involved in what was a significant public works project. The new building was opened as the Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law in August 2012. Margaret retired from the Supreme Court of Queensland in April 2014. Early retirement was a big decision for her, but she felt comfortable it was the right one. As she was leaving the court, she reflected on the previous fifteen and a half years as a period of enormous privilege and continuous challenge in her life. But she had always believed that there is a time to come and a time to go in all things, not least in public office – that renewal is important for any institution and for individuals. She vowed not to lose touch with her friends in the legal world, or to forsake her interest in the law. Later that year Margaret was appointed as a Justice of the Solomon Islands Court of Appeal and as a part-time member of the Queensland Law Reform Commission. She embraced both of these new roles with enthusiasm and industry. Margaret savoured the opportunity to participate in reshaping Queensland law in response to a number of contemporary challenges. The Queensland Law Reform Commission made recommendations for reform in a number of important areas over the six years she was a commissioner. These included civil surveillance and the protection of privacy, termination of pregnancy, expunging historical gay sex convictions and extension of mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse to the early childhood education and care sector. She holds Justice David Jackson (the Commission chair), her fellow commissioners and the small team of exceptionally talented legal and administrative officers in the secretariat in the highest regard. Despite frequent and intense pressure to meet tight deadlines, they never deviated from the pursuit of legally sound and practical solutions to what were often complex issues. The Commission’s reports were produced by true collaboration in a harmonious and mutually respectful environment. In September 2015, Margaret was commissioned to inquire into the closure of the Barrett Adolescent Centre, a facility for the treatment and rehabilitation of young people with severe and complex mental illnesses. The Queensland Government implemented all of the recommendations in her report, including the establishment of a new facility, Jacaranda Place on the campus of Prince Charles Hospital. She is presently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne Law School, exploring sub judice contempt of court and the internet. In 2019 the Women Lawyers Association of Queensland Inc conferred its Woman in Excellence award on Margaret. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Her career has been, and continues to be, one of diligent service in and to the law, marked with many professional successes. She has always set high standards for herself. As a judge she strove to approach every case with an open mind and to ensure all parties were given a fair hearing and the opportunity to respond to the case against them. She worked hard to produce summings-up and reasons for judgment that were thoughtful and expressed in clear and simple terms. Margaret is a very private person, embarrassed by focus on her personal qualities. She is independently minded and resilient, but quick to acknowledge the contributions of others and to ensure that they feel valued personally and professionally. She has often said how much she enjoyed working with the young people who were her associates – and they have consistently commented on her generosity of spirit, patience, kindness, and ability to relieve tension in the courtroom (for her associates, counsel and court staff alike). Her unique blend of personal and professional qualities is part of the rich tapestry of Australian women lawyers. Published resources Book Section Margaret Wilson, Keenan, Sarah and Batch, Margaret Mary, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Mei Ying Barnes and Margaret Wilson Created 9 May 2016 Last modified 16 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Journal kept by Rose Scott between 7 October 1889 and 17 December 1893. On the inside of the front cover is written: ‘Days & Strengths in a Womans Life’. Also included are a number of miscellaneous pages which were found interleaved throughout the journal. Author Details Jane Carey Created 29 October 2004 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Shirley Berg is best known for her leadership of Public School Parents’ organisations. However, she was a member of the Australian Democrats and was their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, for Fuller, in 1978. Shirley Berg was president of the Federation of Parent and Citizens Associations in the 1980’s and had previously been President of the Federation of School Community Organisations. She has been a tireless campaigner for public schools over several decades. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "There is additional documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Women teachers talk about their careers, the education of women, gender roles etc. Author Details Clare Land Created 22 October 2002 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On 26 January 1998 Nina Buscombe was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community through the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Victoria, the Victorian School for Deaf Children, the Victorian Council of Social Service, and Zonta. In 1987 she was honoured with an Anzac of the Year Award for her contribution to the community and the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Victoria awarded her a Life Governorship and instituted The Nina Buscombe Award in her honour. The only daughter of Sydney and Celia Buscombe’s six children was raised in the Box Hill area of Victoria. From October 1942 until 1946 she served with the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) at Cerberus, Lonsdale and Magnetic. Buscombe joined the Ex-WRANS Association (Victoria) when formed in 1966 and for a number of years she assisted as Honorary Secretary/Treasurer and Honorary Auditor. Following World War II Buscombe completed an accountancy course at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) through the Repatriation Scheme. She spent 1952 and 1953 in England and later worked as an accountant, assistant secretary and volunteer to fundraising committees and auxiliaries with the Victorian School for Deaf Children, before retiring in 1980. Buscombe also was a member of various committees with the Victorian Girl Guides Association for over 10 years, the Victorian Council of Social Services Combined Charities Christmas Card Shop for 18 years and Zonta (Melbourne/Yarra Branch) for over 20 years. In 1981 she became involved with the Motor Neurone Society (later the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Victoria – MNDAV) and helped create the national body. The association recognized her contribution by awarding her Life Governorship and establishing a travel bursary – The Nina Buscombe Award – in her honour. Published resources Journal Article Nina Buscombe, OAM, Buscombe, Tom and Ryan, Brenda, 2003 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 3 December 2003 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series consists of typed copies of historical notes relating to the Northern Territory. Includes six documents titled; “List of names linked with Northern Territory history, and a list of ships” (no.1), “History of Darwin today” (no.2), “The Malays” (no.3), “Our Aborigines” (no.4), “Bibliography of the Northern Territory (chronological)” (no.5), and “Derivations of Northern Territory place names” (no.6). The original manuscript was left to the Bread and Cheese Club, Melbourne. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Prior to her election to the House of Representatives as the member for Bennelong in 2007, Maxine McKew was an award-winning journalist with thirty years experience. She hosted a number of programmes on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television and radio, most recently Lateline and The 7.30 Report. In 2000 Maxine took up a position with the Bulletin Magazine as a regular contributor of feature interviews with prominent political business and arts/entertainment figures. She is the winner of both a Walkley and a Logie award and is the recipient of a Centenary Medal for services to broadcasting. She remained in the federal Parliament for only one term, as she was defeated at the 2010 election. Maxine McKew was only five years old when her mother died. Her father had a drinking problem and was ill-equipped to take care of her so, after her mother’s death, she lived with her grandparents, who ran a corner shop in the Brisbane beachside suburb of Scarborough. Her grandmother – who McKew regards as the main influence on her life – did most of the work, rising at five to take deliveries, doing the washing in a big old copper, cooking for the family and spending her evenings keeping the books. After three years with her grandparents, McKew’s father remarried. Maxine moved back with her father and had to adjust to living with a stepmother and an increasingly ‘unwell’ father. It was not a happy time. Her stepmother, now a good friend, kept the household together. ‘She ran a very tight ship. As I get older, I am more and more like her,’ says Maxine. Maxine was educated by the Sisters of Mercy at All Hallows’ School, where she was known to be a very good student. She began a degree at the University of Queensland but dropped out. Says McKew, I was bursting to get out there and make enough money to fly away from Brisbane, and I did.’ She travelled to London and worked as a typist with the BBC. From there, her career in journalism developed. She returned to Australia and started with the ABC in Brisbane in 1976 as a cadet reporter for the original This Day Tonight programme. She worked in Adelaide and in Canberra on Nationwide in the 1980s and was also news anchor and reporter on the Carleton/Walsh Report. She was then appointed to the Washington Bureau in 1986. The early nineties saw McKew take up a position as chief political correspondent in Canberra for ABC Radio on the AM and PM programmes. McKew moved to Sydney in 1993 and worked on the business programme The Bottom Line. When the host, Kerry O’Brien, moved into the anchor spot for the 7.30 Report, McKew in turn became Lateline presenter. In that capacity, she interviewed a host of national and international figures, including Tony Blair, Shimon Peres, Chris Patten, Fidel Ramos, B.J. Habibe and Aung Sang Suu Kyi. In the late 1990s, McKew branched out into print journalism and combined her successful ‘Lunch with Maxine McKew’ column for The Bulletin magazine with stand-in anchor duties on both the 7.30 Report and Lateline. For the past ten years, McKew has also been part of the ABC’s federal election commentary team, along with Kerry O’Brien and Antony Green. In 2006, McKew resigned from the ABC in order to seek out ‘new challenges’. Chief amongst them was winning ALP pre-selection and then election for the Sydney seat of Bennelong in the Federal House of Representatives in November 2007. This she did, and on 29 November, 2007, newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that McKew would be his Parliamentary Secretary for Early Childhood Education and Child Care. Maxine McKew delivered her first speech in the House of Representatives on 14 February 2008. Events 1976 - 2006 2007 - 2007 1998 - 1998 Broadcast Presenting – Australian Broadcasting Corporation Published resources Newspaper Article Agent of Influence, Simons, Margaret, 2003, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/07/1068013376610.html Book The Battle for Bennelong: The adventures of Maxine McKew, aged 50something, Saville, Margaret, 2007 Resource Hansard, Parliament of Australia, 2008, http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/reps/dailys/dr140208.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Beyond the Disconnect: Practical Ethics (Interview with Maxine McKew), Lumby, Catharine and Probyn, Elsbeth, 2003 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 November 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 3341 comprises an invitation to a Women’s Literary Society meeting, August 1894; a letter of 17 June 1897, from Sara S. Nolan, colonial president for the New South Wales Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, to Lady Windeyer; and, a letter from Reverend F.B. Boyce to Miss Windeyer, 29 June 1926. The collection also includes two newscuttings, relative to women’s suffrage, taken from The Daily telegraph, 25 December 1923 (1 folder). Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lyla Daphne Elliott joined the Australian Labor Party in 1955, and was a member of the Legislative Council in Western Australia from 1971 until 1986. Lyla Daphne Elliott was born in Geraldton, Western Australia, in 1934. She was educated at Reedy and Waroona State schools, and completed her Junior Certificate at St Joseph’s Convent, Waroona. Her father, Albert Elliott, worked as a brewer, tool sharpener and fitter and turner. Lyla described her background as ‘working class,’ and her parents as ‘decent living people who struggled all their lives…although not to the point of poverty.’ In May 1976, Lyla married Edwin John (Jack) White, at Caversham, WA. Elliott joined the Australian Labor Party in 1955, and was secretary to the General Secretary of the State Executive of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), F.E. (Joe) Chamberlain, for almost twenty years. She was first elected to the Legislative Council (LC) for the North-East Metropolitan Province, succeeding Ruby Hutchison (the first woman elected to the LC) when she retired in 1971. During her fifteen years in the LC, Elliott consistently raised matters of community concern, particularly those involving injustice. In her inaugural speech Elliott drew urgent attention to the plight of Australia’s indigenous population, and continued to throughout her career to give special emphasis to issues directly affecting women, including equal opportunity, abortion legislation, and family planning. Elliott also chaired a task force for the Burke Government on domestic violence, and worked to address other concerns including child welfare, housing, care of the aged and mental health patients, the treatment of disabled people, animal welfare and nuclear disarmament. Lyla Elliott was the first woman to hold the post of Chairperson of the State Parliamentary Labor Party, from 1978 to 1986. She served extensively in the Labor Party policy committees, including ten years as convenor of the ALP Health and Social Welfare Committee. Earlier, from 1974 to 1976, she was the first woman to be Deputy Chairman of Committees, a position she again occupied from 1983 until her retirement from Parliament in 1986, after which she spent time studying History at Edith Cowan University. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Lyla Elliott] [sound recording] / [interviewed by R. Jamieson] [Harold Peden Memorial Lecture by Lyla Elliott; Book launch of Blacklegs by Bill Latter] [sound recording] Lyla Elliott papers, 1962-1985 [manuscript] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 16 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "From 1974 to 1993 Margaret McAleer served in the Parliament of Western Australia. She was the first non-Labor member of the Legislative Council, and served as Whip from 1980 to 1993. Margaret McAleer was born in 1930 to medical practitioner James McAleer and his wife Kathleen. Margaret was educated at Stella Maris College in Geraldton, Western Australia, then at Loreto Convent in Claremont, Perth. She completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (History) at the University of Melbourne, and during this time became a member of the Liberal Party of Australia. She travelled to Europe in 1951, then returned to Perth and studied at the University of Western Australia. During the mid-1950s, McAleer became a director of the Woopenatty Pastoral Company, and through the 1960s was actively involved in farming with her brother at Arrino near Three Springs, about 300 kilometers north of Perth, Western Australia. She served for seven years on the Three Springs Shire Council, and was also a member of the Pastoralists and Graziers’ Association, Farmers’ Union, Country Women’s Association, Business and Professional Women’s Association and Karrakatta Club. In May 1974 Margaret McAleer became the first female non-Labor politician to sit in the Legislative Council, after an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Senate in 1970. McAleer’s extensive farming experience ensured that the needs of her rural constituency were always high on her Parliamentary agenda. She was re-elected for the Upper West Province in 1980 and 1986 and then for the Agricultural Region in 1989. From 1980 to 1983 she held the position of Government Whip, and was Opposition Whip from 1983 to 1993. In 1990 McAleer served as Assistant Shadow Minister for Women’s Interests, and was also member of a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association delegation to Zimbabwe. She retired from politics when her term expired in May 1993. In 1985, McAleer married Angus Cameron, who died in 1988. Margaret McAleer died in 1999 after a long illness. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Margaret McAleer, politician] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Erica Harvey] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Manuscripts, research notes, correspondence, publications. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A distinguished health professional, Margaret Atkin was also recognised for her service to the Australian Labor Party. She ran as their candidate for Gordon in 1976. Born in Sydney, Margaret Hennessy grew up in Kingsford and was educated at St Vincent’s College, Potts Point. She trained as a general nurse at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 1952-56 and then did midwifery at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Paddington. Margaret went to London in the late 1950s, worked in various English hospitals and married, in 1960, English-born Ted Atkin. The Atkins returned to Australia in 1962 and settled in Wollongong until 1966, when they moved to Sydney and Margaret began working at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in North Sydney. She did further training in psychiatric nursing in the 1980s and worked at Ryde Psychiatric Hospital until her retirement in 2001. She was a Director of the Northern Area Health Service from 2002 until its disbandment in 2004. Margaret joined the ALP in 1974 and was awarded a McKell award for service to the party in 2003. Her campaign in Gordon in 1976 was complicated as she was working on night duty at the Mater and had five small children to care for when at home. It is remarkable then, that she outpolled the DLP sitting member, although she did not win the seat, which reverted to the Liberals. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Hope Hewitt reminisces about her childhood and youth in New Zealand and Australia; her studying years in Europe; her private life which took her back to Europe as the wife of Sir Lenox Hewitt and her working life as a female university lecturer, writer, poet and critic. Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 21 June 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Patricia Clarke is a writer, historian, editor and former journalist, who has written extensively on women in Australian history and media history. Several of her publications are biographies of women writers and others explore the role of letters and diaries in the lives of women. Since the 1980s she has played an active part in national cultural institutions and community organisations in Canberra and her work has been recognised by a number of awards and grants. Patricia Clarke was born in Melbourne in 1926, the daughter of John Laurence Ryan, teacher, and Annie Teresa neé McSweeney, bookbinder. Educated at St Anthony’s School, Alphington, and Notre Dame de Sion, Sale, Victoria, she matriculated with honours in 1942. Her studies at the University of Melbourne that included economics, pure maths, English and political science subjects, were interrupted by illness for four years with tuberculosis, which led to a reappraisal of her goals. In 1951 she joined the Commonwealth News and Information Bureau and became the only woman journalist in its Melbourne office, transferring to its Canberra branch in 1957. In 1961 she married Hugh Vincent Clarke (1919-1996), writer, public servant and former prisoner of war in Thailand and Japan. While raising five children, Patricia worked as a casual but full-time journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Commission in the parliamentary press gallery (1963-68); as the editor of Maxwell Newton’s weekly business newsletters (1968-74) and Canberra representative for Daily Commercial News (1968-74) and Editor of Publications with the National Capital Development Commission (1974-79). Since the 1980s, Patricia has published 13 books, innumerable articles and 15 book chapters on women in Australian history and media history. Several of her publications are biographies of women writers and others explore the role of letters and diaries in the lives of women. In 2004 she was awarded a PhD by Griffith University for her thesis, based on six of her books, entitled ‘Life Lines to Life Stories. Some Publications about Women in Nineteenth Century Australia’. She has also played an active part in Australian cultural institutions and community organisations in Canberra. She has been a contributor to and member of the Commonwealth Working Party for the Australian Dictionary of Biography since 1987. At various times she served as President, Vice president and Councillor of the Canberra & District Historical Association (1987-2004 and 2013 to date) and edited the Canberra Historical Journal from 1987-2000. She was a Committee Member of the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies from 1993-2003, was on the Manning Clark House committee in the first part of the 2000s and from 1995-2001 was founding honorary secretary of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA). Elected an Honorary Member in 2001, she was a member of ISAA’s ACT council until 2018. A Committee Member of the Friends of the National Library of Australia from 1997-99 and its Deputy Chair in 1998, she represented the Australian Society of Authors as a member of the Library’s Fellowship Advisory Committee from 1997-2017 and chaired its National Folk Fellowship selection Committee 2003-17. She has been an active member of the Canberra committee of the National Foundation of Australia’s Women’s Archive project and served on the ACT Historic Houses Advisory Committee between 2010-16. She has been a Consultant to the Media Hall of Fame from 2011 to the present. Her work has been recognised by a number of awards and grants. She was awarded a NSW Premier’s Department Cultural Grant in 1883; Literature Board Project Grants in 1986 and 1988; a NLA Harold White fellowship in 1993; in 1995 she was joint winner of the Society of Women Writers non-fiction award and was awarded a one-year Fellowship by the Australia Council Literature Fund and a two-year Fellowship in 2000-01; she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in June 2001 ‘for services to the promotion of Australian history through research and writing, to the study of Australian writers of the nineteenth century and to the Canberra and District Historical Society’. She was made a Fellow of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies in 2002 and an Honorary Fellow Australian Academy of Humanities in 2005. In 2016 she received the Friends Medal of the National Library of Australia for her significant contribution to the NLA over many years. She is currently working on another book. Events 1995 - 1997 Vice-president of the Canberra & District Historical Society 1997 - 1999 President of the Canberra & District Historical Society 1989 - Member of the Commonwealth Working Party for the Australian Dictionary of Biography 1993 - Committee Member of the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies (ACT) 1995 - 2001 Founding Honorary Secretary of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA) 1997 - 1999 Member of the National Library of Australia’s Friends Committee 1999 - 1999 Vice-president of the National Library of Australia’s Friends Committee 1989 - 1989 Australia Council, Literature Broad Project Grant 1993 - 1993 Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia 1995 - 1995 Joint winner of the Society of Women Writers non-fiction award (for Tasma 1995 - 1995 One-year Fellowship from the Literature Board at the Australia Council 2001 - 2002 Two-year Fellowship from the Literature Board at the Australia Council 2001 - 2001 Awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) For service to the promotion of Australian history through research and writing, to the study of Australian women writers of the 19th Century, and to the Canberra and District Historical Society 2002 - 2002 Awarded a Fellow from the Federation of Australian Historical Societies 1987 - Councillor with the Canberra & District Historical Society 2000 - 2002 Committee Member at Manning Clark House 1951 - 1961 With the News and Information Bureau, Melbourne, Journalist Grade D, Canberra, Journalist Grade C 1963 - 1968 Casual Journalist Grade B with ABC in Canberra 1968 - 1974 Journalist (Grade A) /Editor of weekly business newsletters with M Newton publications 1974 - 1979 Editor of publications (Journalist Grade A1) with the National Capital Development Commission 1985 - 1985 New South Wales Premier’s Department Social History grant 1987 - 1987 Australia Council, Literature Board Project Grant 1998 - 1998 Member of the National Scholarly Communications Forum (representing Australian Society of Authors) Published resources Edited Book The Equal Heart and Mind: Letters between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney, Clarke, Patricia and McKinney, Meredith, 2004 With Love & Fury: Selected Letters of Judith Wright, Clarke, Patricia and McKinney, Meredith, 2007 Newspaper Article Rich addition to area history, Clarke, Patricia, 2002 The Federation decade, Bryant, John, 2001 Those perfect English ladies, Clarke, Patricia, 2001 Women who shaped an era, Clarke, Patricia, 2001 \"Comfort women\" of the colonies, Clarke, Patricia, 2001 Fascinating letters inspire novel, Clarke, Patricia, 2001 Fighter for women's rights, Clarke, Patricia, 2001 Journal Article Rosa! Rosa! : a life of Rosa Praed, novelist and spiritualist, Kingston, Beverly, 2000 Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist, Evans, Julie, 2001 Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist, Ferres, Kay, 2002 Nettie Palmer : search for an aesthetic, Clarke, Patricia, 2000 Book The governesses: letters from the colonies 1862-1882, Clarke, Patricia, 1985 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Patricia Clarke, 1887-2010 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Patricia Clarke interviewed by Ann Moyal [sound recording] Patricia Clarke interviewed by David Walker in the Australia-Asia studies oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Mary Sexton & Ann-Mari Jordens Created 3 November 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "25 minutes??Dorothy Somerville talks about the first meeting of the Lyceum Club, the early members, membership, her schooling at the Brownhill Creek School in Mitcham and the Methodists’ Ladies College, Adelaide Law School, and the university rowing club Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Items/Issues Held:?no.1 (1984:Apr) – no.2 (1984:Jul)?no.4 (1985:Jul) – no.34 (1994:Oct)?no.35 (1995:Spring) – no.38 (1996:Winter)?no. 39-40 (1997)?no. 41-55 (1997:Nov. – 2002:Mar.) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 September 2006 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Members of a women’s hockey team representing South Australia; third from left front is Evelyn Tazewell and fourth from left front is Nessie Magarey. Nessie (Agnes Campbell) Magarey was born in 1887 and died in 1965. Both women were leaders in SA and Australian Hockey. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 September 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1. Correspondence, 1933-1992. Correspondents include many literary figures?2. Appointments diaries, 1974-1991?3. Bibliography of literary works, 1987-1990?4. Poetry, 1978-1993?5. Novel, ca. 1980 (unpublished)?6. Short stories, 1952-1992?7. Reviews and articles, 1967-1991?8. Lectures and speeches, 1972-1989?9. Autobiographical material, 1913-1992?10. Notebooks, 1946-1980?11. Folklore, 1979-1991?12. Jewish literature and history, 1963-1992?13. Historical writing, 1960-1988?14. Papers re Andras Dezsery, 1988-1991?15. Legal and financial records, 1954-1991?16. Papers re The Keesing Studio in Paris, 1984-1992?17. Membership of Boards – Literature Board, Winifred West Schools, Kuring-Gai College, Geraldine Pascall Foundation, Overland Society, 1973-1992?18. Travel, 1983-1990?19. Miscellaneous, 1980-1992?20. Bibliographic records and printed material, 1980-1993 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour??Eve Ainsworth was born in Adelaide, South Australia and was adopted in infancy by the couple whose name she was given. Eve’s childhood was spent at Tarcoola and Port Augusta, and later at Ashfield. In 1933 Eve began training at the Hutt Street Private Hospital, and did midwifery training in Melbourne. She was called up for duty with the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1941 and went to the Middle East later that year. On her return to Australia Eve nursed in Queensland, until her marriage in 1944. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A founder of the Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service, Olive Brown was central in the fight to improve Aboriginal health services generally in the Canberra region. An inspirational figure and tireless promoter of community services, Olive Brown was a central combatant in the fight to improve Aboriginal health services in the Canberra region. While most widely recognised in Canberra as the founder of the Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service, Olive Brown had a varied, rich life before arriving in the capital in 1987. After training as a teacher’s aid at Sydney University, Brown worked for the Rural Bank. Utilising her natural beauty and iconic Australian looks, Brown also modelled for the Australian Wool Board and David Jones in the 1960s. She starred as part of a ‘bunch of Australian beauties – blondes and brunettes, out-doorsy or sophisticated, of European or indigenous stock’ in a 1969 feature called ‘Beautiful Australians’ in Vogue magazine. Winnunga Nimmityjah, which means strong health in the Wiradjuri language, was established in 1988 by a group of local Ngunnawal people, the Traditional Owners of the lands that form the ACT. Inspired by the influx of people from across the nation around the time of the opening of the new Parliament House in May 1988 and the Queen’s visit, Olive Brown recognised the need to set up a temporary medical service at the Tent Embassy site and enlisted the support of Dr Sally Creasey, Carolyn Patterson (registered nurse/midwife), Margaret McCleod and other volunteers to assist. Thus Winnunga was created. From this transient beginning, formed by the movement of people, Winnunga became a permanent entity, taking up residence in the back rooms of Shortcuts, a youth support centre in the city. From 1989 to 1990, Winnunga ran a clinic twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday mornings) and on Saturday mornings. The current Winnunga Medical Director, Peter Sharp, began work at Winnunga in 1989. Other staff worked as volunteers. The then ACT Minister for Health, Wayne Berry, was shocked by its accommodation in a visit to the service in 1989. In 1990 he was able to provide a small amount of funding. By January 1990 the service began full-time operations. In 1991 the clinic was operating out of the Griffin Centre, from 1998-2004 in Ainslie and is today located in Boolimba Crescent, Narrabundah. While the centre has struggled to gain adequate funding and resources, and to keep up with an increasing demand for its services, it has persevered despite the challenges. Olive Brown’s vision of a community empowered to know and own information about itself, therefore enabling self-determined planning and decision making is central to Winnunga’s fabric and drive. In Chief Investigator Michele Moloney’s dedication to “‘Bumpa Shooters’ A study of the smoking habits among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community of the ACT region”, she noted Brown’s conviction that health care needed to be reintroduced as a process in Aboriginal people’s lifestyles: ‘That not only do we need to have access to Aboriginal services, but we also need to be at the forefront of identifying the issues and developing the processes which will ensure wellness and holistic health.’ It was this fundamental component which she saw as Aboriginal people’s right to self-reliance and self determination at community, family and individual levels. Olive Brown’s frenetic activity as adviser, helper and friend drove her to help set up the Aboriginal Children’s Service, the Murralingabung Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Drug and Alcohol Organisation, and be active as a member of the executive of the Diocesan Pastoral Council of the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn for two years, and a member of the Council for four. Her active commitment to the ACT Aboriginal community and beyond continued until the end of her life. As her sister Kaye Mundine noted in her obituary, it said a lot about the pace and nature at which Olive Brown lived her life that it ended while meeting with friends early on a Sunday morning, 31 January 1993. This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Resource Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service, http://www.winnunga.org.au Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 May 2006 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marian Eldridge was an acclaimed short-story writer, novelist and poet, and was instrumental in establishing the ACT Writers Centre. Her legacy is the Marian Eldridge Award to nurture promising women writers. (This entry is sponsored by generous donation from Christine Foley.) Marian Eldridge grew up on her parents’ property, ‘The Gap’, near Lancefield in Victoria. She graduated Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne in 1957. She married Ken Eldridge in 1958 and lived at Traralgon, Victoria until 1966 and in Canberra from 1966 to 1997. The couple had four children. Eldridge worked as a high school teacher of English and History in Traralgon, Victoria and in the ACT, and as a literature tutor at the Centre for Continuing Education, Australian National University. She became a prolific short story writer, and collections of her work were published in Walking the Dog (1984), The Woman at the Window (1989) which earned high praise from the New York Times Book Review in 1990, and The Wild Sweet Flowers: The Alvie Skerritt Stories (1994) which chronicled ‘the life of a fairly typical Australian family’. Her work also appeared in a number of newspapers and academic journals and more than twenty short story collections. She also published a novel, Springfield (1992), which used healing of the land as a metaphor for healing its characters, who were damaged by drug abuse and the Vietnam war. In 1996 she wrote twelve poems that were published in the Senate Hansard of 19 June 1997. Eldridge was a book reviewer for the Canberra Times and the Australian Book Review, and became the first literature co-ordinator for the ACT Arts Council in 1986. She was writer-in-residence at Darwin High School in 1989, received an ACT Arts Bureau Literary Fellowship in 1992 and an Australia Council Literary Board Grant 1994. She was a member of Seven Writers – a group of seven Canberra-based women writers whose work vividly portrayed life ‘beneath the surface of Canberra’ – and as part of this collective she contributed to Canberra Tales (1988), republished as The Division of Love in 1996, which was an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. The work received an ACT Bicentennial Award. Eldridge’s other awards included: the Robin Hood Committee Annual Literature Competition (1972); the Canberra Times /Commonwealth Bank national Short Story Award (1981); the Syme Community Newspapers Short Story Competition (1983) and International Year of the Family Award in the NSW State Literary Awards (1994). Marian Eldridge was instrumental in establishing the ACT Writers Centre and in the last few months of her life she expressed a desire to further nurture writers. Through a cash donation from her estate, the Marian Eldridge Award was established in 1998, under the auspices of the National Foundation for Australian Women, to encourage an aspiring woman writer to undertake a literary activity such as a short course of study, or to complete a project, or attend a writers’ week or a conference. Six awards have been given to date. Eldridge Crescent is named after her in the Canberra suburb of Garran where she lived and wrote for 30 years. Published resources Book The Division of Love: Stories, Barbalet, Margaret et al, 1995 Springfield, Eldridge, Marian, 1992 Photograph Collection of Marian Eldridge photographs, 1994, http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an20811737 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Seven Writers group, between 1986 and approximately 2000 Papers of Marian Eldridge, 1942-1997 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Marian Eldridge interviewed by Heather Rusden [sound recording] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "-Folio 1: 3 Latin lyrics: At beauty’s altar?- Take thou this rose?- Fire in my heart?- and, Thoughts at dark.?- Folio 2: Nightfall at the river / by Miriam Hyde ; [lyric by W. Alder Mollison]. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Karin Geradts stood as a candidate for the Australian Greens Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Broadmeadows at the Victorian state election, which was held on 30 November 2002. She stood again unsuccessfully at the 2006 election as the Greens candidate in the seat of Yan Yean. Karin Geradts lives in Hurstbridge and is a primary school teacher. She is committed to conserving the natural environment and is a member of the Cottlesbridge Landcare and the Green Wedge Protection Group. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 30 July 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "54 pages of correspondence from Kathleen Fitzpatrick to Mr and Mrs John Pitt. Correspondence including loose page letters and aerograms. Kathleen Fitzpatrick writing from Rome, Palermo, Rapallo and Madrid, Spain. Mainly personal correspondence but includes references to giving a lecture about Australia to the International Women’s Society in Milan (1961) and another about Henry James to the British Institute in Milan (1961) while she was on leave from Melbourne University; discussion about planning further university leave; and arrangements relating to the lease of her property in Grattan Street, Carlton. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minute books, 2 September, 1890-24 September 1893; 21 November, 1916-22 July, 1925. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 October 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs held the positions of President of the Australian Human Rights Commission (2012-2017) and, since 2012, Vice-President, Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank. Prior to taking up these appointments she served as dean and Challis Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney (2007 to 2012) and as director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (2005 to 2007)."
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    {
        "text": "Folder containing a collection of transcribed letters to newspapers written by Mary Lee during her visit to Broken Hill in 1892 (compiled by Elizabeth Mansutti in 1994). Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Series 01?N.S.W. Bush Nursing Association records, 1911-1975??Series 02?Photographs, negatives and objects from the N.S.W. Bush Nursing Association Records, ca. 1920-1975??Series 03?Slides from the N.S.W. Bush Nursing Association Records, 1963, 1968-1970 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Born in Brisbane, Kate Auty was educated, and has worked, all over Australia. The former Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, she is now an academic who continues to work as a barrister. Auty was the inaugural Koori Court magistrate (Victoria) and Aboriginal sentencing court magistrate in the goldfields and western desert (WA). She has been a Mining Warden (WA). She was also a senior solicitor for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (Vic, Tas., WA). Other diverse roles have involved developing justice e-technology in remote and regional settings, and chairing the Ministerial Council on Climate Change Adaptation (Victoria). Auty’s board memberships extend to having chaired the National Rural Law and Justice Alliance. She presently chairs the Boards of NeCTAR, the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne and a La Trobe Research Focus Area. She is a member of the advisory boards of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority Advisory Committee on Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences, the University of Melbourne Community and Industry Board for the Office of Environmental Programs and the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Kate Auty for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Kate Auty and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Kate Auty is a Queenslander by birth but has lived and worked all over Australia. Her parents moved around Australia as her father worked in veterinary and agricultural contexts and Kate has continued to explore the country both in employment settings and leisure activities with her partner Charlie Brydon. Kate’s first schooling was received at the Ord River Research Station where she was exposed to Aboriginal culture through other students and the grand and profound Indigenous art and iconography of the region. From the Ord River, schools as diverse as Surfers Paradise (Qld) and Parap (NT) Primary Schools and the Darwin and Balwyn (Vic) High Schools provided a sound public school education, notwithstanding state and territory vagaries. The benefits of a well-travelled education and a family interested in reading and contemporary issues played out in awards of a Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship in Darwin and a Commonwealth Tertiary Scholarship in Victoria. Interest in Australia, as a cultural geography and a landscape, were instilled in Kate (and her three siblings) as a function of the family’s highly mobile lifestyle, travel for pleasure, and working on a cattle station south of Darwin on weekends and during school holidays (1967-1970). When the family left the Northern Territory to relocate to Melbourne, Kate’s older brother Peter (who had just completed his matriculation with distinction) set out to ride the family’s stock horses to Melbourne. He did this, for the most part, by himself, occasionally picking up with droving teams, until Kate joined him at Bourke (NSW) from where together they continued overland to Melbourne (1971-72 Christmas school holidays). Kate’s tertiary education commenced with the study of arts (history) and law as a dual degree at the University of Melbourne. During her time at university Kate was an active member of the Feminist Lawyers group at Melbourne and through this group she formed enduring friendships with women who were studying at Monash. Kate was also a member of the Folk Music Club at the university. It was at Melbourne that Kate renewed her interest in Aboriginal issues, meeting Sandra Bailey (the first Yorta Yorta woman to gain a law degree) and Rochelle Patten (a senior Yorta Yorta woman who has been instrumental in the genesis of the Yorta Yorta Climate Change Group and the Shepparton Koori Court). These two women have remained significant others in Kate’s life since 1980. Both of these great women have been pivotal in informing Kate’s views about Indigenous exposure to the Australian colonial and post-colonial legal systems. Upon graduation Kate worked for a small criminal law firm in the western suburbs of Melbourne and it was there that she became more exposed to the iniquities of the legal system as it played out in the lives of the working poor of a large metropolis. Lessons from that time, about access to justice, continue to provoke Kate in her work. Kate now (2015) holds the following qualifications: 2012 Graduate/Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors. 2006 Graduate Diploma International Environmental Law, UNITAR. 2000 Doctor of Philosophy, La Trobe University, shortlisted Margaret Medcalfe awards for research excellence (WA). 1999 Certificate of Refugee Interview Training. 1994 Masters of Environmental Science, Monash University. 1979 Bachelor of Arts (honours)/Bachelor of Laws, University of Melbourne. Kate’s Masters in Environmental Science has promoted significant career shifts into roles in academia and as the Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability (2009-2014). Her interest in taking up this study was prompted by a discussion with another important woman in her life – Louise Kyle, who was also a public school scholarship law student and feminist law student at the University of Melbourne. Kate’s doctorate arose out of her Arts (honours) thesis which explored the 1927 Royal Commission into the Killing and Burning of Aboriginal People in the Forrest River District of the Kimberley in 1926. It also built upon some research undertaken when appointed as to advise Commissioner Patrick Dodson in the RCIADIC in WA. Kate was encouraged to undertake this study by another important woman in her life, Professor Sandy Toussaint, anthropologist. In each of these post graduate endeavours Kate had the support of her mother Jean (an interlocutor, typist and proof reader) and of family members who took a keen interest in the research she did. As you might expect Kate’s employment history has been varied. From 1980-1999 she held the following positions: Solicitor Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (1980-1983) – here she worked as a solicitor-advocate across the whole state and was involved in the early efforts to attain the repatriation of cultural material and skeletal remains and early land rights discussions. She remains a close friend of the first ALS CEO, Jim Berg – himself a pathfinder and mentor. Solicitor VLA (Superior Courts) (1983). Self-employed principal in legal firm Auty and Popovic – Kate and Jelena Popovic established a welfare law practice in inner Melbourne which represented many women’s refuge clients and Aboriginal people. Senior Solicitor RCIADIC Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia (1988-1991) – this role saw Kate work all over Victoria, Tasmania, into New South Wales and across Western Australia where she was involved in re-examining specific cases, establishing community conferencing models for discussion of justice issues, and liaising with multiple government departments and agencies and organizing commission hearings and witnesses as with any case preparation. Once her role in the eastern states concluded Kate was invited to join the staff of Commissioner Patrick Dodson to develop the Western Australian RCIADIC community conferencing model and draft report content for the Commissioner. Lecturer and cross-cultural course-developer of the Graduate Diploma/Certificate in Environmental Heritage and Interpretation (Deakin University 1992-1994). Barrister (1992-ongoing, currently Academic List) – a practice in criminal law and administrative law. After the death of her mother in 1999 Kate was appointed a magistrate in Victoria. Initially she worked in Melbourne where she was delegated to the role of the magistrate involved in the development of the Aboriginal Justice Agreement (whilst continuing to work in the ordinary jurisdictions of the court). In 2001 Kate assumed the role of senior coordinating magistrate in the north east, based in Shepparton. It was there that the first Koori Court was ultimately established, in collaboration with the Yorta Yorta people with whom Kate had continued long friendships from her time at the University of Melbourne. This work also drew upon her involvement in community consultation and built upon models derived from the RCIADIC work of the previous decade. The north east Magistrates Court region comprises nine courts – Corryong, Wodonga, Cobram, Mansfield, Myrtleford, Wangaratta, Benalla, Shepparton, Seymour – and whilst acting as the regional Co-ordinating Magistrate and building the Koori Court work Kate worked in all the jurisdictions of the region including as: Magistrate – criminal, civil and family matters. Inaugural Koori Court Magistrate. Coroner. Children’s Court Magistrate – criminal and family matters. Member, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. In this role Kate contributed to the ordinary and extraneous work of the court in the following manner: Coordinating Magistrate – establishment of significant community consultation processes and the Koori Court (Shepparton) and the Aboriginal Bail Justices program and Aboriginal Liaison Officer position (Melbourne), setting up the protocols and providing guidance about the creation of the position of Aboriginal Justice Worker attached to Koori Courts. Preparing Senate Select Committee oral and written submissions on justice and regional contexts. Contributing to discussions, papers and seminars on law reform initiatives in sentencing diversion, family group conferencing, the adult corrections cautioning program, mental health court trials, and the disability court pilot program. Production of materials for cross cultural awareness and professional development for Magistrates and County Court Judges. Engagement with diverse community projects involving the Royal Children’s Hospital Intellectual Disability Project , Goulburn Valley Community Health Service, Rumbalara Aboriginal Co-operative , Wangaratta Family Violence Integration Project, and the Human Rights Commission. Kate resigned from her Victorian position once the Koori Court was well bedded down and went to work in the Western Australian Magistracy and as a WA Mining Warden where she remained until 2009. Her interest in doing this arose out of the RCIADIC work and her research interests. It also simply looked interesting. Kate and her partner Charlie Brydon both moved to Kalgoorlie, with Charlie taking up positions with the Goldfields Land and Sea Council as a lawyer and the WA WorkCover Directorate as an arbitrator. The region where Kate worked in WA also comprised nine courts – Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie, Norseman, Esperance, Laverton, Leonora, Warburton, Warrakurna, Kiwikurra). Her formal appointments included: Magistrate. Aboriginal Sentencing Court Magistrate. Industrial Magistrate. Coroner. Mining Warden. Children’s Court Magistrate. In this role Kate contributed to the ordinary and extraneous work of the court in the following manner: Community conferencing to establish the Aboriginal Community Courts in Norseman and Kalgoorlie. Development of cross cultural training for court staff. Development of sentencing training materials for and delivery of the information to senior Aboriginal people involved in the Aboriginal Community Courts. Development of WA Aboriginal Bench Book. Commentary on reports by the Auditor General, Equal Opportunity Commission; and the reference on ‘Aboriginal Customary Law ‘ by WA Law Reform Commission. Presentation to the Commonwealth Bail Act Reform Initiative, Steering Committee of Attorneys General. Boards and other memberships in WA during her time as a magistrate/mining warden : Member, Under Secretary of Treasury Policy Round Table. Member, Chief Justice’s Cultural Awareness Committee. Member National Judicial Council Australia, Aboriginal cultural awareness committee. Chair, Kalgoorlie Courts redevelopment committee collaborating with University of Melbourne, Hassells Architects, WA Department of Justice, regional Aboriginal court user organizations. Chair, DotAG Aboriginal Justice Committee – establishment of Aboriginal sentencing courts. Member, DOIR Mining Act (WA) review committee. Member, Australian Institute of Judicial Administration – Aboriginal cultural awareness committee and steering committee Aboriginal Sentencing Courts conference (Mildura 2007) and steering committee Aboriginal Cultural Awareness conference (Qld 2009). Member, Australian Research Council Linkage Projects: Universities Canberra and Melbourne – Information Technology and Remote Western Australian Courts and Designing Safe Courts (architecture, sociology and justice). Member, COAG Tri-state Justice (WA, SA, NT) Project – developing inter jurisdictional legislative and procedural programs in remote courts in collaboration with contiguous jurisdictions and judicial officers. Member, WA Magistrates Courts modernization of courts’ technology committee. Returning from WA and in the period 2008-2009 in Victoria Kate was appointed as: Inaugural Charles La Trobe Fellow, La Trobe University – examining cross cultural community development, courts, and Indigenous women’s participation in processes. Chair, Ministerial Reference Council on Climate Change Adaptation. Member, Premier’s Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee. Member, Department of Treasury and Finance Green Procurement Task Force. Currently Kate is appointed to the following positions: 2014-2017 – University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor’s Fellow. 2010-ongoing – Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law and Business, La Trobe University. 2014 – ongoing – Member of the Victorian Bar, Academic. From the period 2009 Kate has been or continues as a member of the following boards/committees: 2009 – ongoing Member, Murray Darling Basin Authority Advisory Committee on Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences. Chair, National eResearch Collaborative Tools and Research Board (Commonwealth Super Science initiative – University of Melbourne host organisation). Chair, Humanities Research Focus Advisory Board, La Trobe University. Chair, Melbourne Sustainable Societies Institute Advisory Board, University of Melbourne. Member Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network Board (Commonwealth Super Science initiative – University of Melbourne host organisation). Member University of Melbourne Office of Environmental Programs Community and Industry Advisory Board. Member, Sustainability Research Focus Advisory Board, La Trobe University. Member, Faculty of Law and Business Advisory Council, La Trobe University. Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Retired positions 2009-2014: Member, Education for Sustainability Advisory Committee, Monash University (retired 2014). Member, La Trobe University Institute for Social and Environmental Sustainability External Industry and Community Advisory Board and Internal Advisory Board (retired 2012 when the Institute ceased due to a university restructure). Member, RMIT-UN Global Compact, Cities Program. Member, Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand. Inaugural Chairperson, National Rural Law and Justice Alliance (2012-2014). Kate continues to engage in pro bono public speaking on issues of Aboriginal justice and environment. This takes her all over the state and she is fortunate to have the Vice Chancellor’s Fellow appointment as a backstop for this work. On a community level Kate is a member of the group Strathbogie Voices in the north east of Victoria where she currently lives and she also enjoys membership of the Euroa Environment Group and Euroa Arboretum. In her community she is actively working with other volunteers promoting a discussion about environment and climate change (see www.strathbogievoices.com.au). In 2015 this community development work has produced the Euroa Environment Series and, from 2014 into the future her energies (when not being expended in board and other appointments) will be directed to the encouragement of participation in all our democratic processes. Published resources Resource Section Kate Auty, 2015, http://heresheis.org.au/environment-sustainability/2013/02/professor-kate-auty/ Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Kate Auty Created 12 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Kate Auty Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A letter dated 29 December by Rosa Praed to Mrs Harris, apologizing for her being unable to accept an invitation Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Unemployed Women’s Union was a response to the economic downturn of 1980. They wanted to debunk the myth of working married women as the cause of unemployment, defend the right for all women to work, and as a support group for unemployed women. The picketed employers, published a newsletter, spoke at rallies, wrote letters to newspapers and politicians, and applied for jobs en masse.??Papers of the South Australian Unemployed Women’s Union comprising minutes of meetings; membership records; contacts; newspaper cuttings; promotional leaflets; and conference information. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Gillian Rolton is Australia’s first female equestrian gold-medallist. She has won or placed at the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the Trans-Tasman’s and international competitions in Europe and Australia. A schoolteacher from Adelaide, Gillian Rolton was a Show and Dressage rider from the age of ten until her early twenties. She began Eventing and Showjumping at twenty-one, and has been competing at an international level since 1984. Rolton was long-listed for the Olympic Games at Los Angeles and Seoul, but missed out on both due to injury (to the horse in the first instance, and to herself in the second). In 1992 she was a late inclusion the Australian equestrian team competing at the Barcelona Olympic Games after she beat all male members of the team in the final selection trial at Savernake, England. Competing alongside Matt Ryan and Andrew Hoy, Rolton rode an excellent round on Peppermint Grove on the final day of competition, and became the first Australian female equestrian to win a gold medal. Rolton achieved even greater notoriety after the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. Thrown twice from Peppermint Grove in the cross-country section, Rolton remounted and finished the course despite a broken collar-bone and two broken ribs. The Australian team, comprised of Andrew Hoy, Wendy Schaeffer, Phillip Dutton and Rolton, won gold. Since 2003, Rolton has been coordinating and coaching the EFA National Young Eventing Rider Squad. She is an FEI International Eventing judge and is on the Board of Adelaide International Horse Trials. Events 1996 - 1996 Equestrian – Three Day Event (Team) 1992 - 1992 Equestrian – Three day Event (Team) Published resources Book Free Rein, Rolton, Gillian, 2003 Resource Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 January 2007 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mary Coutts Michie was the wife of George McCulloch, who masterminded the syndicate behind the BHP Company in Broken Hill, New South Wales. The daughter of a miner, William Smith, Mary married Frans Mayger (also spelt Meaker) at Burra, South Australia. In 1885 the Maygers were employed by George McCulloch at his Mt Gipps homestead near Broken Hill, with Mary as housekeeper. Frans died in May that year after falling from his horse, and Mary moved to Melbourne. There she met with George McCulloch once again and returned to Broken Hill as his fiancée. The pair were married in the Strand Registrar’s Office in London on 11 May 1893, and travelled for two years in Britain, Egypt and Canada. They had one son, Alexander. George McCulloch died in London in December 1907, leaving his £436,000 estate to his wife along with a collection of art that was subsequently auctioned for a total of £136,859. In 1909, Mary married Scottish artist James Coutts Michie. He too died in London, in 1919. During the First World War, Mary presided over a Red Cross Hospital and was decorated with the Order of the British Empire for her services. Mary Coutts Michie visited Broken Hill once again in 1925. Adding to donations by George McCulloch, she gave a series of paintings to the Broken Hill City Gallery. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Broken Hill, Kearns, Richard Hugh Bell, 1974 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library McCulloch, George Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 23 January 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Beverley Giegerl is a long serving local Councillor who ran for election to parliament only once: as an Independent in the 1988 elections to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Georges River. She has better luck in 1991 when she was elected to the Hurstville City Council. She has been re-elected several times and will serve on the council until 2007. Beverley Giegerl was elected Vice President of the Metropolitan Public Libraries Association of NSW in 2000, and President in 2003. She was Chair of the LGSA Standing Committee for Community Services and Planning and the LGSA Library and Information Services Reference Group. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Justice Margaret McMurdo AC is the President of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland. She was the first woman appointed as the presiding judge of an appellate court in Australia. McMurdo was born in 1954 in Brisbane, the youngest of six children born to Gina, a homemaker, and Joe, a commercial law solicitor and ultimately senior partner at Thynne & Macartney. She attended New Farm State School and Brisbane Girls Grammar School (1967 – 1971) before studying law at the University of Queensland. During her university years, she volunteered at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1975. On 16 December 1976, McMurdo was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland. She worked in the Public Defender’s Office (1976-89), holding the office of assistant public defender (1978-89). McMurdo then practised at the private bar in Brisbane (1989-91), holding a commission to prosecute. She was a part-time member of the Criminal Justice Commission Misconduct Tribunal (1990-91). McMurdo was a founding committee member (1978-82) and then president (1980-81) of the Women Lawyers Association and a founding member of the Department of Children’s Services Serious Offenders Review Panel (1978-83). McMurdo was appointed a judge of the District Court of Queensland on 29 January 1991, being the first woman to be appointed to the court. She also served as a judge of the Children’s Court of Queensland from 1993. On 30 July 1998, McMurdo was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the second president of the Court of Appeal. She was the first woman appointed as the presiding judge of an appellate court in Australia. McMurdo was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2007 and awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003. She was awarded the Queensland Law Society’s Agnes McWhinney Award in 2006. She was awarded the degree of Doctor of the University by Griffith University (2000) and by the Queensland University of Technology (2009). McMurdo was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws of the University of Queensland (2012). She has also served as a trustee of Brisbane Girls Grammar School (1994-98) and a member of the council of Griffith University (from 2003). On 23 January 1976, McMurdo married Philip Donald McMurdo who later became a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. They have four adult children. The following additional information was provided by Anne Crittall, Associate to the Honourable Justice Margaret McMurdo AC, 2014 – 2015, and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Justice Margaret McMurdo AC is the President of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Margaret Anne Hoare was born in 1954 in Brisbane. Her father (Joseph Harold Hoare) was a commercial law solicitor and ultimately senior partner at Thynne & Macartney. She was the youngest of six children. She attended New Farm State School and Brisbane Girls Grammar School (1967 – 1971) before studying law at the University of Queensland. During her university years, she volunteered at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1975. On 23 January 1976, she married Philip Donald McMurdo who later became a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. They have four adult children. From 1975 to 1976 she worked as associate to his Honour Judge Alan Demack, later the Honourable Justice Demack, first in the District Court of Queensland and then in the Family Court of Australia. On 16 December 1976 she was admitted as a barrister. She joined the Public Defender’s Office as its first female paralegal. She was an assistant public defender from 1978 to 1989 appearing regularly in high profile cases in all Queensland courts and on two occasions in the High Court of Australia. She was also a founding member of the Department of Children’s Services Serious Offenders Review Panel (1978 – 1983). In 1989 she commenced practice at the private bar in Brisbane where she practiced primarily in criminal defence work. She also held a commission to prosecute and developed a growing civil practice. In January 1991 she became the first woman appointed a judge of the District Court of Queensland. At 36, she was also the youngest judge ever commissioned to the Queensland District Court. She convened the District Court Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee. From 1993 she also served as a judge of the Children’s Court of Queensland, the first woman to be appointed to that role. Justice McMurdo was appointed President of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Queensland in July 1998. She was its second president and the first woman appointed as the presiding judge of an appellate court in Australia. Her Honour has a deep commitment to education, serving as a trustee of the Brisbane Girls Grammar School (1994 – 1998), a member of the Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Law Advisory Council (1991 – 2011) and a member of the Griffith University Council (2003 – 2013). Justice McMurdo has been awarded the Centenary Medal (2003) and the Queensland Law Society’s Agnes McWhinney Award (2006). In 2007 she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for “service to the law and judicial administration in Queensland, particularly in the areas of legal education and women’s issues, to the support of a range of legal organisations, and to the community.” Her contribution to the law has also been recognised by a number of tertiary institutions. She was awarded the degrees of Doctor of the University by Griffith University (2000) and by the Queensland University of Technology (2009), and an honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Queensland (2012). She is a founding fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, a member of the American Law Institute, and a Queensland committee member of the Australian Association of Women Judges (2014 – 2015). Justice McMurdo’s passion for social justice has permeated her career. In 1978 she co-founded the Women Lawyers Association of Queensland (WLAQ) and was its president from 1980 to 1981. Her Honour was patron of Southside Education Centre, a school for disadvantaged young women who have not flourished in mainstream education (2001 -2009). She mentors Indigenous law students from Queensland universities through regular work experience placements. Her Honour is currently patron of both the Women’s Legal Service and QPILCH’s Civil Justice Fund. She has been a member of the Zonta Club of Brisbane for over 35 years. Her Honour’s leadership in promoting excellence in judicial administration, legal professional ethics, protection of the rule of law, judicial independence, and the advancement of women and disadvantaged groups are evidenced by her published articles and speeches. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Margaret McMurdo, Goss, Caitlin and Currie, Susan, 2005 Resource Section Judicial Papers and Judicial Profile of The Honourable Justice Margaret A McMurdo AC, Supreme Court Library Queensland, 2015, http://www.sclqld.org.au/judicial-papers/judicial-profiles/profiles/mamcmurdo Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Anne Crittall (with Nikki Henningham) Created 13 October 2015 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Margaret McMurdo Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lynne Kosky was elected Member (ALP) for Altona in 1996. On the election of the Labor Government at the 1999 Victorian state election, she held the portfolios of Finance, and later Post Compulsory Education, Training and Employment. After her re-election at the 2002 state election, she was appointed the Minister for Education and Training. She was re-elected at the 2006 state election and held the portfolios of Public Transport and Minister for the Arts. In January 2010 she resigned from the parliament, citing serious family health problems as the reason for her resignation. She died at Williamstown on 4 December 2014."
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        "text": "Margaret Irene Lang first served in Solonika with the Australian Army Nursing Service in the First World War. During the Second World War, she was Matron-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service. She completed her training at the Wangaratta District Hospital and the Women’s Hospital (later Royal) in Melbourne. Lang was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 8 June 1950 for service with the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service during the Second World War. [Source: http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0572b.htm]?overall: 54.8 x 40.8 cm; framed: 64 x 50 cm?oil on canvas on board?Australia: Victoria, Melbourne Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Folder containing notes, photographs and newspaper clippings. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 February 2009 Last modified 13 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc10.159 comprises personal and professional correspondence, curriculum vitae, reviews, programs, photographs, flyers, invitations, articles and mementos that document Liedtke’s career as a dancer and choreographer, her time as a student, her accidental death and the instigation of the Tanja Liedtke Foundation. A descriptive listing created by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation, including biographical and contextual information, can be found in Box 1 of the collection. Eight posters transferred to Pictures collection (3 boxes).??The Acc12.052 instalment comprises a poem, programs, flyers and news cuttings relating to Liedtke (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Further copies [some being photocopies of originals held here, and supplied to WEL people organizing commemorative celebrations] of early membership lists etc. gathered for the purpose of organizing celebrations in 1992, 1997 etc., and Mary Owen Dinners. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Fay Lo Po’ retired in 2003 after a distinguished public career in NSW politics. A long time member of the Australian Labor Party, she served in local government (on the Penrith City Council) before winning the seat of Penrith in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1991. Lo Po was re-elected in 1995 and 1999. While an MP, she held a number of portfolios, including Minister for Women, Community Services, Fair Trading and Consumer Affairs. She was Shadow Minister for Housing in 1994-95 while the ALP were in opposition. Fay Lo Po’ was also heavily involved in local politics in the 1970s and 80s, culminating in a term as Mayor of the Penrith City Council in 1990-1991. She was Alderman of Prospect Electricity (1980-1987, 1991-1992) serving as Chair. From 1986-1987. She was Chair of the NSW Women’s Advisory Council, a Member of the Metropolitan Waste Disposal Authority, Chair of the NSW Board of Adult Education and Patron of various groups. She was appointed an AM in 1984. Parliamentary and Local Government Career Local Government Member Penrith City Council 1971-74, 1980-95 Mayor Penrith 1990-91 State Government Elected, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Penrith 1991, 1995, 1999, Shadow Minister for Housing, 1994-95 Minister for Consumer Affairs, 1995 Minister for Fair Trading, 1995-97 Minister for Women 1995 to 2003 Minister for Community Services, Aging and Disability Services, from 1997 to 2003 Retired 2003. Published resources Resource Women Members of the NSW Parliament, Parliament of New South Wales, http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/web/PHWebContent.nsf/PHPages/LibraryCompendiumwomenmp?OpenDocument Women Members of the Parliament of New South Wales, Robert Lawrie, Manager, New South Wales Parliamentary Archives, http://sites.archivenet.gov.au/nswparla/HTM%20pages/GuidePages/Women/members.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2001, Herd, Margaret, 2000 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 17 October 2001 Last modified 2 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Raelene Boyle represented Australia at four Olympic games as a sprinter. She was appointed a Member of the British Empire on 15 June 1974 for services to athletics, and was named ABC Sportsperson of the Year in 1974. Named by the National Trust as one of ‘100 Living Treasures in 1998’, Raelene Boyle was an Olympic torchbearer at the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. Raelene Boyle, daughter of Gilbert MacDonald and Irene Joy (née Wilkinson) Boyle was educated at Coburg High School. At 17 years of age she was selected to represent Australia in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. She won a silver medal in the 200-metre sprint and ran fourth in the 100m. She also won medals at the Munich (1972) and the Montreal (1976) Olympics. She did not complete in the 1980 Moscow Olympics. At the Montreal Games in 1976, Raelene Boyle was the first Australian woman to be given the honour of carrying the Australian flag into the opening ceremony. She finished fourth in the 100 metre final after a slow start and was disqualified for a false start in the 200 metre semi-final. Raelene Boyle had been favourite to win the gold medal in her favourite event. The electronic starting device registered a clean start, but the starter, Jack Fisher, recalled the athletes. He claimed Boyle had jumped the gun. Film of the incident later showed she hadn’t – even though she did move her shoulders. Raelene Boyle completed in the Edinburgh (1970), Christchurch (1974), Edmonton (1978) and at Brisbane (1982) Commonwealth Games. After retiring from competitive athletics, she completed a horticulture course at the Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture (Burnley) and worked as a landscape gardener for the then Prahran Council. She has also been involved with coaching and television commentary. Raelene Boyle was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996 and has since assisted in raising awareness of the disease, becoming a founding member of Sporting Chance Cancer Foundation in 1997. Events 1968 - 1968 Athletics – 200m Sprint Event 1972 - 1972 Athletics – 100m and 200m sprint events 1976 - 1976 2007 - 2007 Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) 1970 - 1970 Athletics – 100m and 200m, 4 x 100m Relay 1974 - 1974 Athletics – 100m and 200m, 4 x 100m Relay 1982 - 1982 Athletics – 400m 2001 - 2001 Awarded a Centenary Medal ‘for service to Australian society through the sport of athletics’ 2000 - 2000 Awarded an Australian Sports Medal for ‘outstanding contribution as a competitor (Athletics)’ 1974 - 1974 Awarded The Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) (Imperial) ‘in recognition of service to the sport of athletics’ Published resources Book Encyclopedia of Australia Sport, Shepherd, Jim, 1980 Australia at the Olympics, Andrews, Malcolm, 2000 Resource Section Raelene Boyle, http://www.national.com.au/Community/0||||2173||00.html Edited Book Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Newspaper Article On the Boyle, Reed, Ron, 2003 Resource Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 5 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers of Daisy May Bates, 1863-1951, welfare worker and anthropologist, comprising correspondence, including letters written by Daisy Bates from Wynbring Siding, Streaky Bay and Pyap, photographs showing Daisy Bates at Streaky Bay with the Thompson family and at Pyap, and a description of marriage customs of Aboriginal people of south west Western Australia. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 28 November 2002 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: First Officer Margaret Curtis-Otter Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 digital audio tapes (ca. 241 min.)??Hon. Judith Cohen, solicitor, speaks on her Jewish family background; childhood and schooling; family encouragement; arts/law at Sydney University; difficulties facing women lawyers post-World War II; memorable class members and lecturers; early experience of law; boat cruise to Europe; meeting husband and moving to Melbourne; her husband Sam Cohen; Alf Conlon’s think tank; Sam’s legal and political careers and Jewish activities; 1950s Labor Party split; period off work with small children; her return to work; Diploma of Education and teaching experience; death of her husband; return to her law career; appointment to the Arbitration Commission; the importance of positive discrimination; issues raised during her period as a Commissioner (introduction of maternity leave, parental leave and part-time work, bringing nurses into a uniform federal award, superannuation); working in the Northern Territory; various appointments; the General Insurance Claims Review Panel; her pioneering position; contemporary women lawyers; the problems associated with megafirms; the role of alternative dispute resolution; the differences between being a lawyer and a judge; Doc Evatt; Arthur Calwell; Bill Hayden; meeting Harold Wilson; Anthony Mason and her travels. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Autobiography:?Folder 1. “Holywood”: birth, life and practice in Ireland. [34 pp.]?Folder 2. {Untitled]: Matriculation 1889, medical course, London studies, Tubingen, Boer War, back to Ireland. Melbourne 1904 -, commenting on the state of the University and on its staff (chiefly the Professors) in his day. [ pp.] Letter, n.d. but written in retirement, on the McClelland Family to which he was related. Publications including his A Primer of Dietetics, 6th ed.1943; German Grammar for Science Students, 1906 (with Ethel); Selected Essays, 1943. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 May 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "4 sound files Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 August 2015 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "May Mills was played a prominent role in the development of women’s sport in South Australia. She was President of the South Australian Women’s Cricket Association and the Australian Women’s Cricket Council in the 1960s. Prior to that she was President of the South Australian Women’s Amateur Sports Council, the body that successfully lobbied the then Premier, Sir Thomas Playford, to secure access to playing fields for the dedicated use of women. Trained as a teacher, she taught at Unley High School for thirty years. She became the first female President of the South Australian Institute of Teachers in 1943. Apart from her interest in women’s sport and teaching, Mills was active in a number of other spheres of public life. She was the first President of the South Australian Film and Television Council, a founding member of the Australian College of Education, a Life Vice-President of the National Council of Women and a Life Member of the Royal Commonwealth Society. She was the first women in South Australia to secure a license to drive a motor car. May Mills contribution to women’s cricket was recognised in 1984/85 by the creation of the May Mills Trophy for the Under 18 national Championship. This competition ran until 1995/96. The extent of Mills’ involvement in public life gives proof to the old aphorism which tells us that if you want something done, ask a busy person. May Mills wasn’t just busy, however, she was canny. She saved thousands of dollars of development costs by enticing major corporations to test their heavy machinery on the ovals, therefore getting them cleared and levelled at no cost to the sporting clubs. She organised parties of youngsters to plant almond trees around the oval and then, when the trees began to bear fruit, organised other children to harvest the crop, thus creating another source of funds through their sale. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Archival resources State Library of South Australia South Australian Women's Memorial Playing Fields Trust : SUMMARY RECORD May Mills : SUMMARY RECORD Radio interview with May Mills [sound recording] Interviewer: Lynne Arnold Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Office files (phonelog books), correspondence, material for publication; subject files; publications of other organizations; reports etc. from government departments and Quangos; copy of Elspeth Preddey’s “Women’s Electoral Lobby Australia New Zealand 1972-85”, (Wellington 1985) – a potted history. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence 1859-1908 including letters from W.B. Clarke, W. Woolls, and F. Mueller, manuscript of part of ‘A Voice in the Country’ published in the “Sydney Morning Herald” 1861-70 and newspaper cuttings on Calvert and Woolls and articles by Mueller [A4496]. Full copy of ‘A Voice in the Country’ with newspaper cuttings of other articles by Calvert 1861-70 [A4497]. Watercolours of ferns, apparently intended as illustrations for a book on Australian ferns [40 items, A4498]. Calvert sketchbook including sketches and watercolours of Oldbury, birds, plants and butterflies, and practice drawings [A4499]. Calvert sketchbook including watercolours and sketches of scenes [A4500]. Sketches by Calvert and others including five specimen plates for book on Australian animals and birds to be published in Germany [A4501]. Notes by Louisa Calvert; copies of presentation books [ML MSS 3849]. See also uncatalogued materials [Pic Acc 4928]. Ambrotype of Calvert [MIN 180]. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 5 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "TS notes written up by Marie Olive Reay from original research carried out by Camilla Hildegard Wedgwood on Manus Island, c. 1933-34. the material was transferred from the Department of Anthropology. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 November 2003 Last modified 19 November 2003 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Beveridge was a Foundation member and President of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) in Tasmania. Elizabeth Beveridge (née Reader) immigrated to Australia with her family while she was still a child. She married Frank Beveridge of “Alva” Hagley at St Andrews Church Launceston, in 1912. They were to have three children. Prior to marrying, Elizabeth assisted at a small private Progressive School at Trevallyn. She also taught music and singing. After her marriage she continued to conduct award-winning mixed and children’s choirs. She became well known in musical and literary circles, especially for her love of monologues and readings. A keen gardener and embroiderer, Elizabeth contributed to all facets of life in her community. She helped raise money for charity through her “Concert Party” which she organised and toured to country centres. During World War II, she conducted community singing to raise money for the Comforts Fund, and introduced camouflage net making classes. Elizabeth strongly supported the Show Judges Association, Child Health Clinics and the Red Cross Society. She was President of the Wilmot Branch of the Australian Women’s National League. She was organist at the Hagley Presbyterian Church, where she taught Sunday school and organised Fairs and Flower Shows. Elizabeth was honoured by being named Patron of the Hagley Community Club and Hagley Farm School, where she taught music and drama. A memorial to her is located in the Hagley Recreation Ground and trees are planted in her memory. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2002 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Elizabeth Beveridge Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Edith Bonny’s Matriculation Certificate 29 March 1890. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "4 hours 6 minutes. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 digital audio tape (ca. 56 min.)??Dr June Factor speaks about the involvement of her parents and her self in the Itzik Wittenberg Study Group since its inception in the 1960s. She speaks about her father’s (Saul Factor) background and active role in the Itzik Wittenberg Study Group (IWSG); the background of other IWSG members who survived the WWII by escaping over the Polish- Soviet Union border; the subsequent influence of years spent in Soviet Union by most of IWSG members; the politically left wing nature of the IWSG; IWSG’s attachment to the Jewish culture, Yiddish language and culture; the Bund Group, ideologies and history of Bundist movement; her schooling at the Peretz school, run by Bundists; the Kadima and its role in Jewish community.??Dr Factor speaks about the IWSG’s beginnings after Six-Day War,1967; broad political views of the Jewish community in Australia from 1941; growing anti-semitism in Poland as a response to Jews being involved in politics after WWII; her father’s role in the IWSG; IWSG’s close ties with the Polish Consulate, Polish seamen and the Soviet Consulate; her father’s involvement with the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, Communist Party, Socialist Party and his interest in Cuba; Australian Jewish News being a battleground for all major issues; IWSG’s lack of interest in the next generation taking over the Group. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mairi Petersen is widely known and respected in the labor movement, particularly in Illawarra. She stood as an ALP candidate in the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bligh in 1976. House of Representatives for Wentworth in 1975. City of Shellharbour Council in 1995. Mairi Petersen was born in Maclean on the north coast of New South Wales and completed her Primary Teacher’s Certificate at Newcastle Teachers’ College. Her first appointment was to Kellyville Primary School in the north west of Sydney. Subsequently she taught at Forest Lodge, Darlinghurst, Fort Street, Clovelly and Glenmore road, Paddington in the inner suburbs. Later she moved to the Illawarra area and taught at Mount Warrigal, Albion Park Rail and Shellharbour primary schools. Mairi Petersen married (1) Robert Gould (marriage dissolved) with whom she had a daughter, Natalie, and (2) George Petersen, MLA for Illawarra 1968-1988 (died 28 March 2000). Together the Petersen’s ran an environmental radio programme on the community radio station 2 VOX-FM for eight years. Mairi Petersen has travelled widely, particularly to third world countries, and was a member of the Cuba Work Brigade. She has been an active member of Amnesty International for many years and has taken part in many other community activities. She and George Petersen were long time members of the Illawarra Folk Club and Mairi has sung with the Trade Union Choir. She is active in the Illawarra section of the Australian Society for the Study of Labor History, and has been a member of the Council for Civil Liberties for many years. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sister Mary Clement was one of the first six nuns to form the Sisters of Mercy at Broken Hill, New South Wales. The first six nuns to arrive in Broken Hill came from Singleton in the Diocese of Maitland, and founded the St Joseph’s Convent in February 1889. They were: Ann Agnes Callen (Sister Mary Josephine), Margaret Hennessy (Sister Mary Clement), Sarah Gallagher (Sister Mary Gertrude), Ellen Dwan (Sister Mary Patrick), Margaret Morris (Sister Mary Ita) and Mary Griffin (Sister Mary Evangelist). Sister Mary Josephine was appointed Reverend Mother of the Sisters of Mercy by Bishop Dunne. Under her leadership, they visited the sick and poor of Broken Hill, provided a home for orphans, and opened five schools in the town by 1896. Margaret Hennessy (Sister Mary Clement) and her sister Elizabeth (Sister Mary Ligouri) were among four Postulants brought to Australia from Ireland by Bishop Murray of Maitland in the early 1880s. They entered the Singleton Convent on 2 February 1882, and left for Broken Hill in 1889 when Sister Mary Clement was in her mid-thirties. She was appointed Assistant to the Reverend Mother and, as a qualified primary school teacher, was placed in charge of St Mary’s School at Railwaytown. Sister Mary Clement was also charged with care of the girls at St Ann’s Orphanage, and served as Superior of the South Broken Hill Convent from 1907 to 1908, and 1910 to 1911. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 A guide to the records of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia, Ryan, Mary, 1984 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 16 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Established in 1927 by Dr Fanny Reading MBE, the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (Vic) provides community support to vulnerable people, promotes a harmonious multicultural society, works to advance the status of women and supports projects in Israel. Inspired by Jewish values, the NCJWA (Vic) aims to create a better world for women. Programs the NCJWA (Vic) runs include: Caring Mums, a home-based, non-denominational free service that provides emotional support to mums of newborn babies and women during pregnancy. Empowering Single Jewish Women and Effective Relationship Programs, which aim to support single women to manage the emotional upheaval post separation and promote the development of positive relationship skills. Support for the elderly programs. Support for Women from the former Soviet Union. Interfaith Activities. Status of Women activities, which involves a commitment to promoting human rights through equality, access and equity for women and girls within the Jewish and broader communities. Support for Israel fundraising activities. Opportunity Shop activities. The Melbourne Council of Jewish Women (from 1929 the National Council of Jewish Women, Victoria Section) was established in 1927 at a meeting held at the home Fanny Reading’s parents (Reading had established the first Council of Jewish Women in New South Wales in 1923). Within a week the Council boasted 80 members. The founding president was Marie Patkin. A Junior Section of the Council was established in 1929, which held numerous social events (after WWII this re-established as the Social Set and later Alma). From the outset, the Council raised money for numerous local and international Jewish causes and relief efforts, and concerned itself with migrant welfare work. Since the establishment of Israel, the Council has supported numerous programs for the new Jewish State. During WWII, they contributed to the broader Australian war effort in a similar fashion to most women’s organisations of this time. In the years after the war, much of the Council’s effort was direct towards assisting with the settlement of new migrants. There were also numerous fund raising activities and other social services such as Meals on Wheels, and support for those with disabilities. From the 1970s, issues relating to the status of women generally have also been a focus. Over its long history, the Council has been involved in an enormous array of issues, as well as charitable, educational and social activities. The Council continues today as a non-profit, voluntary, organisation for Jewish women, acting for their advancement and for social justice generally. Published resources Conference Proceedings First Jewish Women's Conference, May 21st to 27th, 1929, 1929 Newsletter The Council bulletin / National Council of Jewish Women, 1926- Book Making a Difference: A History of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, Newton, Marlo Leigh, 2000 Forever Eve: An Anthology Celebrating NCJWV 75th Anniversary 2002, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 September 2004 Last modified 26 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Miles Franklin’s place in Australian literary history was assured when on her death in 1954, she made provision for an award for Australian literature. The Miles Franklin Award is the most prestigious for an Australian author to receive. Although she spent almost twenty-four years away from Australia, working mainly in Chicago and London, she was committed to pursuing the notion of the unique Australian perspective in literature. Despite her early success with the publication of ‘My Brilliant Career’ in 1901, she struggled to gain the recognition she believed she was capable of achieving. Nevertheless on her return to Australia in 1932 she entered the Sydney literary scene enthusiastically and had many of her works published. Miles Franklin, the eldest child of John Maurice Franklin and Margaret Susannah Helena, nee Lampe, was educated at home and after 1889 at Thornford Public School, when the family moved to Stillwater. They later moved to Cranebrook near Penrith in 1902. After working as a governess in 1897, Miles Franklin, completed her first novel ‘My Brilliant Career’ in 1899. It was published in London in 1901 after being rejected for publication in Australia. Writing was her means to independence and she left for the United States of America in 1906. She spent nine years working in Chicago for the National Women’s Trade Union League with fellow Australian Alice Henry. She continued to pursue her writing career. She moved to London in 1915, worked briefly at a creche run by Margaret McMillan in Deptford, as a cook, as a volunteer in Macedonia with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service, and as a secretary. She remained in London until 1927, but visited Australia in 1923-1924 and again in 1927. She returned to London in 1930 in search of publishers, but settled in Australia permanently in 1932 after her father’s death in 1931. During this period she wrote under the pseudonym ‘Brent of Bin Bin’. Despite the demands of her ageing mother, Miles Franklin became a major personality on the Sydney literary scene, supporting new publications and fellowships for Australian writers. She maintained her commitment to an Australian literature until her death. Her published works include: My Brilliant career (1901) Some everyday folk and Dawn (Edinburgh,1909) The net of circumstance ( London 1915) Prelude to waking Old Blastus of Bandicoot ( London 1931) Bring that monkey All that swagger My career goes bung Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book All that swagger, Franklin, Miles, 1936 Childhood at Brindabella: my first ten years, Franklin, Miles, 1963 My brilliant career, Franklin, Miles, 1902 My brilliant career; My career goes bung, Franklin, Miles, 2004 Old Blastus of Bandicoot: opuscule on a pioneer tufted with ragged rhymes, Franklin, Miles, 1931 Back to Bool Bool: a ramiparous novel with several prominent characters and a hantle of others disposed as the atolls of Oceania's archipelagoes/ by Brent of Bin Bin, Franklin, Miles, 1956 Bring the monkey : a light novel, Franklin, Miles, 1933 Cockatoos/ by Brent of Bin Bin, Franklin, Miles Guide to the papers and books of Miles Franklin in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, 1980 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary, Ferrier, Carole, 1999 Laughter, not for a cage : notes on Australian writing, with biographical emphasis on the struggles, function, and achievements of the novel in three half-centuries, Franklin, Miles, 1956 Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography, Joe, Jill, 2008 Edited Book The diaries of Miles Franklin, Brunton, Paul, 2004 My congenials: Miles Franklin & friends in letters, Roe, Jill, 1993 Yarn spinners : a story in letters, Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin, North, Marilla, 2001 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Section Franklin, Stella Maria Sarah Miles (1879 - 1954), Roe, J.I., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080591b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection National Council of Women of NSW - program for the launch of the Centenary Stamp Issue and a complete set of the issue, 1996 National Council of Women of New South Wales further papers, 1895-1981 National Council of Women of NSW Inc. - further records, 1926-1927, 1937-1990 Papers relating to National Council of Women of New South Wales, 1895-1897 National Council of Women of New South Wales further records, 1895-1997 Miles Franklin papers collected by Bruce Sutherland, 1903-1956 Miles Franklin papers, mainly literary manuscripts, [1900-1954?] Miles Franklin - The Book of the Waratah Cup, 1902-1908, 1944-1954 Florence James - papers, 1890-1993 National Council of Women of New South Wales records, 1895-1976 Miles Franklin - Papers, 1841-1954 [Collection of pamphlets containing souvenir concert programmes and Australian biographies.] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Miles Franklin 1887-[ca. 1931] [manuscript] Papers of Miles Franklin 1877-1933 [manuscript] Correspondence and literary papers 1887-1954 [microform] Papers of Myrtle Rose White, 1940-1961 [manuscript] Records, 1928-1994 [manuscript] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 3 September 2004 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Vera Leckie grew up on a series of remote sheep and cattle stations in outback New South Wales in the early twentieth century. Vera Leckie was the daughter of Thomas Halfpenny, who migrated to Australia in the 1850s at the age of 15 and worked for his uncle at Turkey Creek Station near White Cliffs in New South Wales. He regularly drove the punt over the Darling River to Wilcannia. Camped on the riverbank was George Chapman, who worked for the brewery in Wilcannia. In May 1881 Thomas married Chapman’s daughter. The Halfpennys ran several pubs in succession in the remote west and lived on outback stations while they raised a family of seven boys and two girls. In later years Vera recorded her childhood memories and described the strings of camels led by Afghans bringing supplies to the stations, and returning to Broken Hill with bales of wool. Vera was educated at Tibooburra before going to boarding school in Adelaide. When her brothers went to war, she and her sister worked on the family station and lived on goats’ meat, milk and butter. She met her future husband, Jack, in 1922 and married him on 16 March 1926. She and Jack raised their own family of three children in the Moree district before moving to Nowra on the south coast. Vera’s brief memoir is held by the Outback Archives in Broken Hill, New South Wales. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Leckie, Vera Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 31 January 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "18 minutes. The rights to this recording belong to Radio 5AN. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jo McCubbin stood as a candidate for the Australian Democrats in the Legislative Council Province of Gippsland at the Victorian state election, which was held on 18 September 1999. She was a candidate again at the 2002 election, which was held on 30 November 2002. In the 2006 election, which was held on 25 November, she stood as an Independent in the Legislative Assembly seat of South Gippsland. Jo McCubbin, a resident of the town of Sale in Gippsland, is a paediatrician who is committed to working for a healthy planet for all children. She describes herself as an environmental activist. She was a founding member of the Gippsland Women’s Network, is a member of the Project Management Committee of the East Gippsland Arts Network and a member of Doctors for the Environment. She is a descendent of Australian artist Frederick McCubbin. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 29 July 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes, correspondence, financial material Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 hours (approx. to date).??Lyn Breuer talks about her happy childhood, father working for BHP in Whyalla, involvement in theatre, attending South School, men landing on the moon in 1969, working class culture, father’s death at 57. Tape 2. Whyalla South Primary School, Whyalla High School, being a prefect, first boyfriend was Graham Jose – later an Olympic cyclist, getting married at 24. Tape 3. Leaving school, job offers, moving to Adelaide, moratorium marches, starting at Flinders University, left in first year, working in the Department of Taxation, married in 1971, having two children, divorced after 18 years. Tape 4. Working at the CES after the birth of her son, job at TAFE to get young women into non-traditional areas and women returning to work after having children, at TAFE from 1989 to 1997, coordinator of the Women’s Studies Programme at TAFE, children were 2 and 10 when her husband left, at 40 years of age nominated for local council, elected to Whyalla Council and was there for 8 to 9 years, satisfying work, became Deputy Mayor after three years, 1994 conference Women, Power and Politics, stood for pre selection when Frank Blevins retired. Tape 5. Campaigning in the two years up to the 1997 election, women in politics, media, stand on refugees, Woomera Camp, Baxter camp, treatment of children, attitude of community towards refugees, 1997 election, gained over 50% of the vote on election night, election to the National Executive of the ALP, factions dominate the Labor Party. ‘More Working Women’ series Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 March 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers, correspondence, minutes and other documents being Miss Connor’s copies of records of organisations in which she was involved: RVCN, Florence Nightingale Committee and so on. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Helen Baillie was an Aboriginal rights activist and a nurse. She was passionate about Aboriginal issues and was involved in various Aboriginals rights organisations. In addition, Baillie opened her house on Punt Road as a hostel to Aboriginal people from the 1930s to the 1950s. Baillie attended the Aldworth Girls’ Grammar School in East Malvern and on completion of her study she travelled to England to undertake midwifery training at the London Maternity Hospital. In her late thirties, Baillie returned to Australia and it was during her sea journey that she became enthralled by the work of Mary Bennett, an internationally renowned activist on behalf of Australian Aboriginal people. In 1932, Baillie formed the Victorian Aboriginal Fellowship Group and became their Honorary Secretary. In 1933 she also became involved with the Victorian Aboriginal Group; a group with similar objectives to the Fellowship. The Victorian Aboriginal Group co-ordinated a meeting to launch their campaign in September 1933, which brought together a considerable number of groups, including the Aboriginal Fellowship Group, The Women’s Citizen’s Movement, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Also involved were the Student Christian Movement, the United Aboriginal Mission, the Society of Friends and the Victorian League. Helen Baillie spoke at the meeting, alongside many others. Whenever an opportunity arose to present Aboriginal issues before a public audience, Helen Baillie took it. This was the case when she was made a delegate for Australia at the convention of the British Commonwealth League in 1935. Bailie was a life member of the Australian Aborigines league and she also liaised with the Association for the Protection of Native Races in Sydney and the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society in London. After 1951, Baillie became a member of additional activist groups, including the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Council for Aboriginal Rights. In addition, Baillie volunteered as a nurse for the Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War and also worked for the Spanish Relief Committee in Melbourne. Events 1931 - 1932 Formed the Victorian Aboriginal Fellowship Group 1935 - 1935 For Australia at the convention of the British Commonwealth League Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra BAILLIE, Helen National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Joan Kingsley-Strack, 1908-1978 [manuscript] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 7 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 44 min.)??Plant speaks of what brought her to farming, starting the group Poll-Hers, her husband being a state president of the Poll Hereford Society, funding the recipe book about beef, promoting poll herefords and beef, involvement of her daughter in the breeding area, changes of ownership of farms and its effect on the younger generation, stress experienced by other families in the rural community, means used to encourage people to cheer up in times of hardship, lack of rain main problem, future of the beef industry and positive approach from the Army. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Professor Zsuzsoka Kecskes is a newborn intensive specialist and academic with research interests in neonatology, especially the neonatal brain, higher education, and patient-centred care. She has held senior positions at the Australian National University, the University of Wollongong and in hospital settings. In 2014 she was awarded the ACT Australian of the Year. Professor Zsuzsoka Kecskes was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2014. “Professor Zsuzsoka Kecskes was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1965. She received her medical degree in medicine and higher degree from the University of Hamburg in 1990–91 and spent time studying medicine in the United States and Switzerland before moving to Sydney, Australia in 1994. She completed her training in neonatology in Brisbane and was awarded a PhD in Medicine by the University of Queensland. From 2001 to 2022 she worked as a neonatologist in Canberra Health Services and was Director of the Department of Neonatology from 2007 to 2015. She contributed to development of quality systems across the health service, chairing the Clinical Ethics Committee, the Policy Committee and the Aged Care Quality Standards Health Care Standard 2 (Partnering for Consumers) committee. Professor Kecskes was a leading figure in the design and development of the neonatal intensive care unit at Canberra’s Centenary Hospital for Women and Children. Professor Kecskes commenced as an honorary lecturer at the Australian National University in 2001. She developed the neonatal curriculum which was taught from the inception of the ANU School of Medicine and held positions of Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning Phase 2) 2015–18, Deputy Dean Medical School 2018–20, and was Interim Director of the ANU Medical School from March 2020 to July 2022. Professor Kecskes developed a quality and safety curriculum and was Chair of the Professionalism and Leadership theme in Phase 2 at the Medical School, for which the team was acknowledged through a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2022 Professor Kecskes was appointed Dean of Graduate Medicine at the University of Wollongong. She holds honorary Professor status at ANU. Her research interests are in neonatology, especially the neonatal brain, higher education, and patient-centred care. In 2014, the Australia Day Council awarded her ACT Australian of the Year for her work with families to design a safe, family-centred Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and for the implementation of the NICUcam, a web-based design for parents and families to view their baby when they are not able to visit.” Author Details Kathryn Dan Created 12 April 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Zonta Club of Perth, a women’s service club, was founded in 1971. It is part of Zonta International, a world-wide organisation of business and professional women working together to advance the legal, political, economic and professional status of women. Zonta clubs support Zonta International service and award programmes, and also provide support for local community projects by fundraising or active involvement, particularly those dealing with women’s issues such as economic self-sufficiency, legal equality, access to education and health, and eradication of violence. District 23 of Zonta International was created in 1989, covering Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, and divided into four areas. The first conference of District 23 was held in Perth in 1991. Western Australia forms Area 3 of District 23 and as of 2004 comprised 6 Zonta clubs: Bunbury Area, Dunsborough Area, Peel Region, Perth, Perth Northern Suburbs Area, and Swan Hills. Published resources Report Annual Report, Zonta Club of Perth, 1973- Book The history of our club [The Northern Suburbs Zonta Club], Bohan, Lucy., 1988 Newsletter Inzert, 1987- Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Records, 1975-2004 [manuscript] [Collection of material relating to the Zonta Club of Perth] Author Details Jane Carey Created 4 August 2004 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nina Bassat is a Holocaust survivor and former lawyer who was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2004 Australia Day Honours List ‘for service to the community as an executive member of a range of peak Jewish organisations and through the promotion of greater community understanding’. The first woman to be president of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, she also served as president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry – the first Holocaust survivor and first woman lawyer to attain that position. Janina ‘Nina’ Bassat (née Katz) was born on 8 April 1939 to Izydor and Hadassa Katz (née Wargo?) in Lwów, Poland. Soon afterwards, the country was invaded – first by Germany and then by the Soviet Union – and World War II was declared. On 25 July 1941, Bassat’s father, who had graduated from the University of Lwów law school but, unable to practise law as a Jew, was instead employed at the Lwów brewery while pursuing a doctorate, was taken away and killed. Bassat and her mother would eventually spend more than a year in Lwów’s ghettoes – Bassat once narrowly avoiding being taken to the Be??ec gas chambers – before escaping and going into hiding. After the War, the surviving members of Bassat’s family – her mother, maternal uncle, and maternal aunt and cousin who had been interned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and then at Bergen-Belsen – and she wound up in a displaced persons camp in Bad Wörishofen, Germany. Concerned that her now eight-year-old daughter could neither read nor write, Bassat’s mother arranged for her to have a governess. It proved an unhappy experience for Bassat and led to her attending the town’s local convent school instead – its only Jewish pupil. Following the death of Bassat’s aunt; rejection of their applications to go to what was then Palestine; and fuelled by a desire to get as far away from Europe as possible, the stateless family of four arrived in Australia in February 1949. At first, Bassat attended Hutton Street Primary School (now Thornbury Primary School), later transferring to Wales Street Primary School when her uncle bought a house for the family in Darebin Road, Northcote. After a stint at Fairfield Central, she entered University High School where she completed Years 9 to 12. While a student, she worked in the milk-bar which her mother and step-father (Abraham Teicher, whom her mother had married in 1953) owned in Brighton. At 16, she met her future husband, Robert ‘Bob’ Bassat, who had recently finished school. Born in Egypt, Bob had lived in Belgian Congo, attended boarding school in South Africa and was about to begin studying engineering at the University of Melbourne. The couple married at the Toorak Shule on 23 February 1960, Bob having graduated the previous year. They would have three children: Sally, Andrew and Paul. Having obtained a Commonwealth scholarship, Bassat embarked upon a Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Melbourne in 1957. In 1962, following the birth of Sally, Bassat deferred her law degree which she had been undertaking part-time and completed the arts degree she had also commenced. In 1965, pregnant with Andrew, she took up the postgraduate study which was then required, along with articles of clerkship, to practise law. In between having her children, Bassat taught English as a Second Language. She also lectured in Australian literature at the Council of Adult Education. Being a woman who was also married and had children, Bassat struggled to find someone willing to offer her articles. Local Brighton firm William Kosky and Associates finally took her on in September 1974. Admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 3 May 1976, she remained with the firm for a further 18 months before setting up her own practice in 1980; she specialised in litigation, property, succession and family law. (For approximately 15 years, she was heavily involved with matters concerning gett (Jewish divorce)). She combined the running of her practice with significant involvement as an executive member of a number of peak Jewish organisations, and was active at state, federal and international levels. Bassat was president – the first woman elected to that position – of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) (1996-1998; 2011-2014). Helping those affected by the 1997 Maccabiah bridge collapse was a preoccupation during her first term as JCCV president and during her term as president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) (1998-2001). In 2011-12, the issue of child sexual abuse galvanised Bassat and her colleagues to convene a child protection reference group to develop and implement a strategy for the community. Bassat was co-author of a submission to the Victorian government and gave evidence at the parliamentary Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Organisations in 2013. It was around this time that she also chaired Maccabi Australia’s Committee of Review into Sexual Abuse Allegations. With her appointment as president of the ECAJ, Bassat became the first Holocaust survivor, first woman lawyer and second woman (after Diane Shteinman) to attain that position. During her term, she was occupied with a range of matters, including the inappropriate use of Holocaust imagery, issues relating to Nazi war criminals and the promotion of Aboriginal reconciliation. An initiative during her presidency was the setting up of, with the assistance of the Pratt Foundation, an Australia-wide telephone hotline which enabled thousands of survivors across the country to make claims – particularly of slave labour – for restitution. Beginning in 2000, Bassat served as a board member and honorary secretary to the New York-based Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She has been a board and planning committee member to the Claims Conference (also based in New York), that is, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc, the mission of which ‘has been to provide a measure of justice for Jewish Holocaust victims, and to provide them with the best possible care’. From 1998-2001, while serving on the Claims Conference board, she was also Australian Jewry’s representative to the executive of the World Jewish Congress Inc. Other organisations to which Bassat has contributed her time and expertise over many years include Jewish Care Victoria, the International Council of Jewish Women and the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia Victoria, of which she was vice-president between 1985 and 1996. For over a decade from 1997 she was a trustee of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia Foundation. Since 2008 she has been a trustee (now director) of the Jewish Holocaust Centre Foundation. Bassat has won praise for the part she has also played in supporting interfaith projects. She was recently active in Kynnections, a program ‘bringing young people from diverse religious, cultural, religious and linguistic backgrounds to participate in project based activities to create social cohesion and harmony in Victoria’. She is a former deputy chair of the Parliament of the World’s Religions’ Melbourne board of management. Bassat’s outstanding communal service has been recognised through a number of awards. In 2000, the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia honoured Bassat with an achievement award. The following year, she was made an honorary Maccabian, ‘in recognition of outstanding contribution in assisting the victims of the bridge tragedy at the 15th Maccabiah – July 1997’. In 2003, Bassat was an early inductee onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia ‘for service to the community as an executive member of a range of peak Jewish organisations and through the promotion of greater community understanding’ in the 2004 Australia Day Honours List. In 2007, she was named Woman of the Year by the Women’s International Zionist Organisation (WIZO) Victoria, and in 2009 she received the General Sir John Monash Award for outstanding service to the Victorian Jewish community. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Nina Bassat interviewed by Kim Rubenstein Author Details Marina Loane Created 10 May 2018 Last modified 10 December 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Meegan Fitzharris was first elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly in 2014 and served until July 2019 in a range of ministerial roles including Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Minister for Medical and Health Research, Minister for Transport, Minister for City Services, and Minister for Higher Education, Research and Training. Meegan Fitzharris was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2012. Meegan Fitzharris was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1972. Her father was a policeman and the family moved around, including living in Singapore for some years. She moved from New Zealand to Australia in 1998 after completing a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Otago (1993–96) and a Master of Arts in International Relations at the University of Auckland (1996–99). While studying she also worked as a university tutor and undertook internships with Oxfam in Auckland, and at the United Nations in New York, in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General and Division for the Advancement of Women. After arriving in Australia, she worked with the NSW Police, in a role related to security planning for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She then moved to Canberra, initially working in the Australian government National Office for the Information Economy, and later became a senior policy officer with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) developing and coordinating policy advice on significant national law enforcement issues for the AFP Commissioner and Minister. She was described by an AFP colleague as a brilliant policy writer. From 2005 to 2007 she worked for the federal Attorney-General’s Department, again in a senior policy role, addressing national security and counter-terrorism issues across government. Between 2007 and 2012 she became a mother to three children (two daughters and a son) with her husband Pierre Huetter, combining motherhood with work as a consultant, providing training in policy development and effective communication. In 2012 she became a senior advisor to Andrew Barr, who was then Deputy Chief Minister in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly, with portfolio responsibilities including Treasury, Community Services and Housing. She later became his Chief of Staff, and was in this role when he became Chief Minister for the ACT in 2014. In addition to paid employment roles, she has been an active volunteer across various community, education and sporting organisations. Fitzharris was a Labor party candidate in the 2012 ACT election, but did not win a seat. When Katy Gallagher resigned as ACT Chief Minister in 2014 to stand for the Australian Senate, a countback of the 2012 votes resulted in Fitzharris being elected as the member for Molonglo, taking up a seat in the ACT Assembly in January 2015. She was re-elected to the Assembly in October 2016 as the member for Yerrabi. During her relatively short political career she held a number of key ministerial positions, including Assistant Minister for Health, and later Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Minister for Medical and Health Research, Minister for Transport, Minister for City Services, and Minister for Higher Education, Research and Training. Development of the first stage of Canberra light rail was a major initiative within her transport portfolio responsibilities, with construction commencing in 2016 and opening to passengers in 2019. As Health Minister she commissioned a major review into staffing issues, after complaints of bullying and harassment and a poor workplace culture in ACT Health. She also chaired the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Health Council. In June 2019 Fitzharris announced her intention to resign from her ministerial roles, and step away from politics. She left the Assembly in July 2019, stating that her main reason for leaving politics was for her family and noting that her children would be in high school through the next term of government. In an interview at the time she said, ‘I hope that other working mums and dads — indeed people of all ages and backgrounds — consider running for public office. It is an important role; and it is more than a job. It is deeply important to our community that good people of all political persuasions put their hand up to represent their community, join the contest of ideas and take responsibility for decision making.’ After leaving politics Meegan Fitzharris became a Senior Fellow in Health Policy and Leadership in the College of Health and Medicine at The Australian National University (2019–2021), as well as working again as a consultant. She chaired a planning group established by the Queensland government to investigate opportunities to build on reforms and innovations initiated through the state’s COVID pandemic response. The group’s report Unleashing the Potential: An open and equitable health system was released in August 2020. She became a board member of Dementia Australia in 2021. In early 2020, she was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer which was successfully treated. She lived in New Zealand from late 2022 until May 2023, undertaking further study. She has since returned to Canberra and is pursuing new career opportunities. Author Details Kylie Scroope Created 11 July 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Hodgetts speaks of moving to Western Australia from Scotland, building up a Hereford stud, the death of her husband, coping with the farm and being a single parent, working towards financial security, introducing Gelvies into the herd, recent travels, and hopes for the future.?Recorded in 1995. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of David Fowler, James Fowler, George Swan Fowler, James Richard Fowler, Dr Laura Margaret Hope (nee Fowler), and George Swan Murray Fowler, and comprising letters, legal documents, letterbooks, plans and specifications, photographs, biographical notes and other papers. A later donation comprises papers relating to Dr Laura M Hope and her husband Dr Charles H.S. Hope (series 52-72), her brother James Richard Fowler (a letter, book register and private cash book and ledger, series 73-76), and his grandson David Murray Fowler, comprising letters and telegrams sent to his family while he was serving in the R.A.A.F. in World War II, certificates of discharge, R.A.A.F. instruction notebooks, newspaper cuttings and air pilot’s map of south east England (series 77-82). Additional photographs added to series 27, with 11 of these added to the South Australiana Database, and family trees of the Fowler, Millar, Wright, Murray and Rogers families to series 43 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 February 2010 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Patti Warn was the first female president of the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. Patti Warn attended the University of Tasmania from 1962 to 1965 during which time she became involved in student politics. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, Patti worked as a research officer for ABC’s Four Corners program. In 1973, Patti was appointed private secretary to the Federal Minister for External Territories. The following year she was moved to the Prime Minister’s office, where she was employed as Gough Whitlam’s media secretary. In 1975, Patti became the first female state secretary of the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party. Patti was the assistant private secretary to Senator Don Grimes in 1980. In the same year she stood as the Labor candidate for the Division of Bass in Tasmania and also became the vice-president of the Young Women’s Christian Association in Canberra. Events 1976 - 1980 Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) Archival resources Archives Office of Tasmania Photograph - Patti Warn - ALP candidate for Bass National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Patti Warn, public servant, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Notebook by Beth Le Page (Cheney’s predecessor); Cheney’s notes on technique; correspondence; laboratory notebooks by White, Cheney and Binns; slide index; copies of photographs of chromosomes; copy of publication entitled “The Life and Publications of Michael James Denham White 1910-1983”; photocopy of the register of cytological numbers; copy of the article by Jenny Cheney and Professor W.R. Atchley entitled “Morphometic Differentiation in the Viatica Group of Morabine Grasshoppers”. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gymnast Marina Sulicich represented Australia at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Marina Sulicich was the second child of Croatian-born parents Vera and Dusan Sulicich. Her elder brother Visko was dux of Broken Hill High School and became a mining engineer; her younger sister Duska became a journalist for the Age in Melbourne. Marina showed an aptitude for gymnastics at primary school age and began gymnastics classes at the YMCA. She attended Broken Hill High School, then Willyama High School. Spotted by gymnastics coach Ollie Maywald, she joined the Broken Hill Gymnastics Club and began to compete at state and national level. Travel to championship competitions was often subsidised by the fundraising efforts of Broken Hill residents. In 1976, Marina won the under fourteen State title in Adelaide and went on to win the National title in Launceston. She competed at international level in Hawaii and New Zealand, and was invited by American coach Jim Gault to join his club for training in California, which she did on two occasions in 1977 and 1978. In 1977 she also travelled to China to compete with top gymnasts there. Marina was a member of the Australian team at the Commonwealth Games of 1978, and once again took home the Australian open National title that year. She represented Australia at the World titles in Strasbourg in 1978 and Fort Worth, Texas, in 1979. Marina was profiled by the Australian Women’s Weekly in October 1978: ‘Australia’s highest hopes – certainly at the World Gymnastics Championships, will be with tiny, 14-year-old Marina Sulicich of Broken Hill who has the grace, nerve, skill and charm to emulate Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci’. In 1980, at the height of her gymnastic career, Marina represented Australia at the Olympic Games in Moscow. It was the first time an Australian gymnast had made the all-round individual finals. She was ranked 33rd in the top 36 gymnasts at the Games. Marina Sulicich retired from gymnastics after the Moscow Games and completed her secondary school education, followed by two years study in accountancy. She began work with the Broken Hill City Council and married Brett Morris in 1995. Brett and Marina have two daughters, Isabella and Savannah. When the Olympic torch visited Broken Hill in 2000, Marina Sulicich lit the flame. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Newspaper Article History-making performance by three Australian gymnasts, 1980 Hard Road to Top for Young Gymnast, 1980 Magazine article Competing in World Championships in France: Australia's gymnasts are a well-balanced team, 1978 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Sulicich, Marina Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Amy Glenthora Bembrick, born at Grenfell New South Wales, served with the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War I in Salonika. After her marriage to Charles William James Gumbley, an Anglican Minister, she was active in Adelaide during the Second World War as ‘camp mother’ for disadvantaged boys. Amy Glenthora Bembrick was born at Grenfell New South Wales on 26 October 1893 to Alfred Bembrick and Elizabeth (nee Fowler). She was descended through her father from Mary Ann Southwell (1837-74) a daughter of Thomas Southwell, a pioneer settler at Parkwood, a property on Ginninderra Creek then in New South Wales now in the Australian Capital Territory. She was related to Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) nurse, Gladys Boon, and they shared similar experiences during the First World War. After her family moved to Epping, Amy Bembrick trained at Western Suburbs Cottage Hospital, Croydon, Sydney. She enlisted aged 23 on 10 May 1917 giving her religion as Methodist and naming her father Alfred Bembrick of Epping as her next of kin. She was recruited following a request from the British Government for Australian trained nurses to staff four British military hospitals in Salonika in northern Greece. In response to the request three units, each of 91 nurses, embarked from Australia in June 1917 and a fourth unit in August. The first three units began duty in Salonika in August 1917. The fourth was delayed in Egypt and reached Salonika later. Altogether 42 Australian sisters and 257 staff nurses served in Salonika. British and French forces had arrived in Greece in 1915 to fight Bulgarian forces invading Serbia, to regain control of the Balkans and prevent enemy forces taking areas leading to the Suez Canal and the Middle East but they saw only intermittent action over the next three years. Most patients at the military hospitals were British soldiers and Bulgarian prisoners of war. Many were not battle casualties but suffering from diseases including malaria, dysentery and black water fever. The Australian nurses, who had enlisted for service overseas with the expectation that they would nurse Australian soldiers, were disappointed that this was never the case in Salonika. They also felt they had been relegated to the war’s sidelines with action on the Balkan front little reported at the time. The final battle against the Bulgarians in September 1918 was not reported in the London Times in any detail until 1919. All the nurses in Salonika felt the bitter cold and snow in winter and the intense heat in summer in hospitals set up in tents or primitive huts. In winter there was not enough fuel for the braziers to heat the tents and by morning the blankets on patients were stiff with ice. Most nurses suffered from malaria which was endemic and those with recurrent malaria were repatriated to Australia. By August 1918, 46 nurses had been invalided back to Australia. Nurses wore heavy mosquito nets and clothing that covered every part of their bodies in an effort to ward off mosquitoes but they sometimes discarded extra coverings when they made nursing impossible. The sites of some of the hospitals were near swamps which became quagmires in winter and mosquito breeding grounds in summer. Amy Bembrick sailed on HMT Mooltan on 19 June 1917 for Egypt and arrived in Salonika on the Osmaniah in August 1917. She was posted briefly to 52nd British General Hospital (BGH), then to 50 BGH, a hut hospital at Kalamaria on the outskirts of Salonika where she remained for most of her service. At the beginning of February 1919 she left for England where she obtained three months leave from 25 March to do a course in domestic economy at the Battersea Polytechnic, London. Amy boarded SS Canberra to return to Australia on 23 July 1919 and was discharged on 15 September 1919. She had been promoted from Staff Nurse to Sister in Salonika but this was not ratified until just before she left England. She was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. In 13 July 1922 at Woodford Bridge, Essex, England Amy Bembrick, 28, married Charles William James Gumbley, 30, whom she had met while nursing in Salonika. He was then Corporal Bill Gumley serving with the British Army and he later became an Anglican minister. From 1939 to 1945, the family lived in Adelaide where Rev. Gumbley was rector of St Luke’s Church of England, Whitmore Square. During this time Amy was ‘camp mother’ to hundreds of children from needy families who attended annual boys’ camps and she also helped in providing free hot lunches for two hundred children during the winter months. Amy Gumbley died on 13 June 1949, aged 56, at All Saints Anglican Rectory, Hunters Hill, Sydney, where her husband had been rector since 1945. She was survived by three daughters, who all trained as nurses, and a son. She is commemorated on the Grenfell World War I Memorial and the Epping World War I Roll of Honour. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Mettle and Steel: the AANS in Salonika, Wadman, Ashleigh, 2015, https://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2015/01/13/mettle-and-steel-aans-salonika/ Book Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 More than Bombs and Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at work in World War I, Harris, Kirsty, 2011 The Southwell Family: pioneers of the Canberra District 1838-1938, Gillespie, Lyall, 1988 Book Section Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18. Vol. III: Problems and Services, Butler, A.G., 1943 Resource Section Bembrick, Amy Glenthora, 2013, http://nurses.ww1anzac.com/be.html Article S.A. church worker dies in Sydney, 1949, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130193044 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Bembrick Amy Glenthora : SERN S/Nurse : POB Grenfell NSW : POE Sydney NSW : NOK F Bembrick Alfred Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 8 April 2015 Last modified 17 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Medical Women’s Society of NSW was founded in 1921 to advance the interests of medically qualified women in professional practice. It was active in establishing the Australian Federation of Medical Women and continues to work for medical women in New South Wales. After its foundation, the Society’s first action was the establishment of a hospital staffed entirely by medical women. The New Hospital for Women and Children was opened on 2 January, 1922, at 11 Lansdowne Street Surry Hills. In 1925 it was moved to George Street, Redfern, and became known as the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children. It also became involved in forming the Australian Federation of Medical Women and became affiliated with the Medical Women’s International Association, formed in the USA. in 1919. Currently, it also has representatives on the National Council of Women of New South Wales and on the New South Wales Medical Defence Union. Historically, the Society was involved in achieving significant outcomes for medical women, including, obtaining equal rights on hospital residencies and pay. It has also financially supported medical students and makes recommendations to State Government inquiries on health related matters. As of 2004, the Society was involved in the following activities: Mentorship program for young medical women. Joint seminars with the Women’s Lawyer’s Association and the Women’s Dentist’s Association. Bi-annual weekend seminars for members and their families. Awarding an annual prize for the top female medical graduate at each university. Coordinating two general meetings each year with guest speaker(s). Responding to enquiries from overseas medical women graduates. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Medical Women's Society of New South Wales records, 1970-2003 Author Details Jane Carey Created 26 August 2004 Last modified 1 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour approx. (to date) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 March 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A.L.G.W.A. minutes of meetings; correspondence; membership files; reports; conference material. Interview tapes with Jean Baker, Gracia Baylor, Pat Brown, Faith Fitzgerald, Dorothy Laver, Kerry Lovering, Jan Plummer – interviewed by Lynne Strahan, December 1984 – January 1985. Cassettes for Annual General Meeting and dinner, speakers – Carolyn Hirsh, Pauline Toner and Steve Crabb. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.)??Lady Wilson talks about her grandparents, parents, husband, working life, children, Red Cross, etc. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "14 digital audio tapes (ca. 15 hr. 4 min.)??Factor speaks of her Jewish family arriving in Australia from Poland at the age of 2 fleeing Nazi Germany; how her mother arrived on Black Friday, 1939 amidst devastating bushfires; her family background; Max Factor, the cosmetics manufacturer; settling Carlton, Vic. ; Australian culture of the 1930s; her first memories of Australia; Jewish social life in Victoria including the Peretz School, which taught Yiddish; the difficulties of learning Hebrew; her foster sister, Jacqueline; her attendance at a selective university high school from 1951-1954; how she began writing at school; receiving a government scholarship; her increasing political activism and joining the Kadimah Youth Group from which she learnt many folk songs; her studies in English and History. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "6 albums, comprising photographs, postcards, sets of tourist cards of people, buildings, landscapes, mostly from tours of Europe, United States and Africa. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 7 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sister Mary Josephine was one of the first six nuns to form the Sisters of Mercy at Broken Hill, New South Wales. The first six nuns to arrive in Broken Hill came from Singleton in the Diocese of Maitland, and founded the St Joseph’s Convent in February 1889. They were: Ann Agnes Callen (Sister Mary Josephine), Margaret Hennessy (Sister Mary Clement), Sarah Gallagher (Sister Mary Gertrude), Ellen Dwan (Sister Mary Patrick), Margaret Morris (Sister Mary Ita) and Mary Griffin (Sister Mary Evangelist). Sister Mary Josephine was appointed Reverend Mother of the Sisters of Mercy by Bishop Dunne. Ann Agnes Callen, as she was born, was educated by the Dominican nuns in Newcastle and took up a teaching position at the Denominational School at Scone. She entered the Singleton Convent in 1878, as did her sister Bridget two years later. Professed in 1880, Sister Mary Josephine spent some time at the Morpeth Convent and was thirty years of age when she moved to Broken Hill. There she served as Reverend Mother for sixteen years. From 1902 to 1907 she was at the Mt Barker Convent. She returned as Superior of the South Broken Hill Convent from 1912 to 1919 and again from 1929 to 1932 with a stint at Brighton, South Australia, in the interim. Under the leadership of Sister Mary Josephine, the Sisters of Mercy visited the sick and poor of Broken Hill, provided a home for orphans, and opened five schools in the town by 1896. Later, in the 1930s, Sister Mary Josephine designed a series of correspondence lessons in religion for children living in remote areas. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 A guide to the records of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia, Ryan, Mary, 1984 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 16 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 sound files Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 August 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute Book, 1904-1946; Monthly Reports book, 1942-1944; reports, rules, newscuttings and other material 1928-1982 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 25 May 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Note to W.S. Macleay from Atkinson, n.d. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 5 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pixie O’Harris was an artist and author particularly of children’s books. On 1 January 1976 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for services to the Arts. In 1953 she was awarded the Queen’s Coronation Medal and in 1977 she received the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal. In 1977 she became patron to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Sydney. Pixie O’Harris was the daughter of George Frederick and Rosetta Elizabeth (née Lucas). Her father was an artist who was chairman of the Royal Art Society Cardiff. The fifth of nine children she was educated at Sully village school and Allensbank Girl’s School Wales. At age 14 she was a member of the South West Art Society. The Harris family migrated to Australia in 1920 and settled in Perth before moving to Sydney the following year. It was while on the ship to Australia that she adopted the name ‘Pixie.’ Being referred to as ‘the Welsh pixie’ and not liking the name Rona, she decided to use Pixie. A change in her surname followed after a printer at the Sydney Morning Herald added an apostrophe to her second initial. During her career she contributed poems, stories and illustrations to many publications as well as illustrating the work of other authors. These included Frank Dalby Davison, Lydia Pender and Kenneth. On 16 July 1928, Pixie O’Harris married Bruce Pratt, editor of the Australian Encyclopaedia. At the time of the births of her three daughters, she found the hospitals cold and clinical and decided to paint fairy-style murals for children. Over 50 children’s hospital wards, schools, day nurseries and baby clinics throughout New South Wales have been decorated with her work. Events 1920 - 1920 Fashion artist, Perth Western Australia 1924 - 1924 Caricaturist for the Triad magazine 1925 - 1928 Artist 1936 - 1939 Editress of Humour 1977 - 1977 Patron of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children (Sydney) 1977 - 1977 Recipient of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal 1953 - 1953 Awarded Queen’s Coronation Medal 2028 - 2028 Married: Bruce Pratt and had three children 1976 - 1976 Appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Authors & Illustrators of Australian Children's Books, McVitty, Walter, 1989 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Pixie O'Harris papers, 1913-1987 Pixie O'Harris - further & associated papers, 1910-1994 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 19 November 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dr Clare Burton was a strong advocate and activist for social change, particularly in the area of equal pay for women. Her academic research fed into policy and practical change in the workplace. Clare Burton was raised in Canberra, where her Methodist upbringing may have instilled in her the tireless work ethic she displayed in her efforts to bring about social change, promoting greater equity and justice for all. Burton graduated from the University of Sydney with a university medal and first class honours in anthropology in 1963. She married Peter Krinks and the pair had three children: Rachel, Stephen and Kate. She completed her PhD at Macquarie University in 1979, exploring theoretical explanations for women’s subordination, and began her academic career at Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education (later University of Technology, Sydney), where she became an Associate Professor. Burton was awarded the Australasian Political Studies Association Women and Politics Prize in 1984 for her essay ‘Public and Private Concerns in Academic Institutions’. Her monograph Redefining Merit became an essential companion text for practitioners of employment equity. Major publications include The Promise and the Price: the struggle for equal opportunity in women’s employment (1991), Subordination, Feminism and Social Theory (1985) and Women’s Worth : pay equity and job evaluation in Australia (1987). In 1989 Burton became the New South Wales government’s Director of Equal Opportunity in Public Employment, and in 1992 served as the Commissioner for Public Sector Equity in the Queensland Goss government. In 1993, she chose to work independently as a researcher and consultant in employment equity, being much in demand as a consultant, adviser, and speaker. In the 1990s Burton conducted about a dozen university equity reviews as well as reviewing both the Australian and New Zealand Defence Forces. She was a dedicated member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) and worked on WEL submissions on the 1997 Federal Public Service Bill and the 1998 review of the Affirmative Action Agency. She also convened WEL policy groups. Burton was a member of the Network of Women in Further Education, the Black Women’s Action in Education Foundation, the National Foundation for Australian Women, the Australian Political Science Association, the Australian Sociological Association and the Institute of Public Administration Australia, and was a founding member of the National Pay Equity Coalition. The Australian Technology Network, with Clare’s friends, colleagues and family has established the Clare Burton Memorial Fund to commemorate her life and continue her work by providing a scholarship in Dr Burton’s specialist field. Published resources Book The Promise and the Price: The Struggle for Equal Opportunity in Women's Employment, Clare Burton, 1991 Subordination, feminism and social theory, Clare Burton, 1985 Women's worth : pay equity and job evaluation in Australia, Clare Burton, Raven Hag, Gay Thompson., 1987 Enterprising nation : renewing Australia's managers to meet the challenges of the Asia-Pacific century : managing for diversity, Clare Burton and Carolyn Ryall, 1995 Report Redesigning women's work : a case study in the community sector, Clare Burton, 1995 Gender equity in Australian university staffing, Clare Burton, 1997 The beauty therapist, the mechanic, the geoscientist and the librarian : addressing undervaluation of women's work, Rosemary Hunter, 2000 Monograph Redefining merit, Clare Burton, 1988 Gender bias in job evaluation, Clare Burton, 1988 Issues paper Equity principles in competency standards : development and implementation, Clare Burton, 1994 Book Section Merit, gender and corporate governance, Clare Burton, 1999 Resource Tributes to Clare Burton, Equal Pay Watch Australia, 1999, http://www.users.bigpond.com/rj_gj/clare/tributes.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Face to face: the power of sisterhood, Jane Cadzow, 1987? The Burton girls, Marion Frith, 1994 Feminist put equality on agenda, 1998 Resource Section Australian Women's Honour Roll B, CAPOW, http://www.capow.org.au/Honourroll/honourroll-b.htm Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Clare Burton, 1987-1997 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Clare Burton, public servant, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Clare Land Created 11 October 2001 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence; submissions; progress reports; pamphlets; information sheets; minutes of meetings; press releases; conference material. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 audiocassette (approximately 87 min.)??Audrey Dau, former acting principal (1964-1973) talks about her work at the school, changes introduced, activities and prizes, her transition from teacher to principal, appointing a migrant teacher, and building extensions. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jennifer Paull is a one time candidate for election and is well known in her area of health sciences. In 1999 she ran as an Independent for the seat of Drummoyne in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Jennifer Paull completed a B.Math at Wollongong University, a Dip Ed And a Bec. At the University of New England, and a Dip Osteop. at the Int. Coll.Osteo. She then established her osteopathic clinic in Drummoyne in 1989. She is a member of the Osteopaths Registration Board, appointed personally by the Minister for Health. She is a lecturer in the University of Western Sydney School of Exercise and Health Sciences. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Comprises letters from Daisy Bates to Reverend John Mathew. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "At the age of 15, Shane Gould won five Olympic medals at the Munich games in 1972. During her short career she was the holder of every freestyle world record from 100 metres to 1500 metres. On 13 June 1981 Shane Gould was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to swimming. Educated at Turramurra High School, Shane Gould was coached in swimming by Forbes Carlile. She broke seven world records (her first at age 14) during her three year career, but did not compete at any Commonwealth Games, and only competed at one Olympic Games (Munich 1972). She was the first woman to break the 17-minute mark for the 1500 metres. Prior to the Munich Games, Shane Gould held every world record from 100 metres to 1500 metres. At the Munich games she won three individual gold, one silver and one bronze. Twelve months after the games, Gould decided to retire. At the age of 19 she married Neil Innes and moved to the Margaret River area in Western Australia. They had four children before their marriage broke up during the 1990s. Shane Gould was the winner of the ABC Sportsman of the Year 1971 and 1972, being the first person to win the award two years running. In 1972 she was named Australian of the Year and in 1974 voted the world’s all-time best woman freestyle swimmer. In 1994 she was awarded the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Order and was an Olympic Torchbearer for the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Games. Her autobiography, Tumble Turns was published in 1999. Olympic Games, Munich, 1972 200 metres freestyle swimming gold medal 400 metres freestyle swimming gold medal 200 metres individual medley swimming gold medal 800 metres freestyle swimming silver medal 100 metres freestyle swimming bronze medal Events 1972 - 1972 Swimming – 200m and 400m freestyle; 200m Individual Medley 1972 - 1972 Swimming – 800m freestyle 1972 - 1972 Swimming – 100m freestyle 2018 - 2018 Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) 2001 - 2001 Awarded a Centenary Medal ‘for service to the sport of swimming in Australia’ 2000 - 2000 Awarded an Australian Sports Medal 1981 - 1981 Awarded The Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) (Imperial) ‘in recognition of service to the sport of swimming’ Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Book Great Australian Women in Sport, Brasch, Nicolas, 1997 Australia at the Olympics, Andrews, Malcolm, 2000 The Champions: Australia's Sporting Greats, Smith, Terry, 1990 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sandra Nori served as the New South Wales Minister for Small Business and Minister for Tourism. She is the Member (ALP) for Port Jackson. After completing her secondary education Petersham Girl’s High School, Nori attended the University of Sydney and graduated with a Bachelor of Economics. Before entering Parliament, as a Member for McKell in 1988 she was a co-ordinator at the Sydney Women’s Health Centre; a Health Worker at Leichhardt Community Health Centre; Research Officer to Peter Baldwin, former Federal Member of Sydney and a former member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal. Since entering parliament her service includes being Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer and Minister for State Development. Minister for Small Business since 1999 and Minister for Tourism since 1999. Nori has two children and her interests include: women’s issues, education, housing, planning/the environment, consumer affairs and transport. She enjoys music, ballet, ballroom dancing and paragliding. A member of Italian community organisations, Nori is a supporter of several women’s groups including the National Foundation for Australian Women, Women’s Network Collective, Women’s Health in Industry Inc. and the Women’s Electoral Lobby. Published resources Resource Women Members of the NSW Parliament, Parliament of New South Wales, http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/web/PHWebContent.nsf/PHPages/LibraryCompendiumwomenmp?OpenDocument Women Members of the Parliament of New South Wales, Robert Lawrie, Manager, New South Wales Parliamentary Archives, http://sites.archivenet.gov.au/nswparla/HTM%20pages/GuidePages/Women/members.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2001, Herd, Margaret, 2000 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Sandra Nori, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Inner West Council, Balmain Library, Local History Archive Issy Wyner Collection Box 27/2/1-4 Public transport Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2001 Last modified 24 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "WEL Victorian Administration Minutes of Co-ordinating Committee 1987-1996; Minutes of General Meetings, 1988-1999; AGMs 1988-1999; constitutions 1975, 1981; Correspondence 1983-1999; issues files; State Conferences, 1977-1999; WEL and Federal Elections 1989-1990; WEL submissions nationally and interstate. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "7 sound files (approximately 556 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lynnette Schiftan was the ninth woman to sign the Victorian Bar Roll (1967) and the second Victorian woman to take silk (1983). In 1985 she was appointed a Judge of the County Court of Victoria – the first woman to be appointed to a Victorian State Court. A Victorian Bar News article published at the time of Schiftan’s appointment to the bench quoted her reflections on the early days of her legal career: ‘I experienced a great deal of prejudice as a female barrister, from the community generally, from solicitors and from the Bench. However, I suffered no such prejudice from other members of the Bar, who formed a protective barrier around me, which I remember with great affection.’ She was also treated well by the majority of her ‘brother judges’, several of whom ‘were accepting and helpful particularly as it was a Court in which I had never practiced. I had three judges come to me separately unbeknownst to the other two and say, “you haven’t done much crime like this, have you. Okay how about you come at 7:30 in the morning and I’ll help you.” All offered a list of things to consider.’ When Schiftan resigned from the bench in 1988, she was still the only female member of the Victorian State Judiciary. In March 1988 she joined Coles Myer as General Manager Legislative Affairs, a role requiring her to monitor the company’s compliance with relevant legislation and to represent the company in an advocacy role as necessary. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Lynne Schiftan for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Lynnette Schiftan and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I was born on 6 March 1942 and grew up in an Australian Jewish house; conservative middle class and if anything with an English slant. It was a close and very sheltered household in all sorts of ways. We observed Shabbat every Friday. It was a small gathering of family members; we lit candles, had a simple meal and talked to each other. We were liberal Jews and that identity informed our values. I attended Methodist Ladies College and the experiences there reinforced the conservatism of our home. The year I was born was also the year my father, Philip Opas, signed the Victorian Bar Roll, thus becoming a barrister. My earliest memories, of the law and the Bar were at the age of five or six. My father babysat often. When he worked on weekends my sister and I would accompany him to Selbourne Chambers. These particular Chambers were built over an old wine cellar. The old wine smell remained combined with musty books it left an indelible memory – decades on I still remember quite clearly. The floors had brown linoleum floors with diamond patterns and highly polished banisters that made for a good slide for two little girls. The chambers became a playground for my sister and me. We tried on wigs, dressed up in gowns and saw grown men, colleagues and friends of my father’s dressed up just like us. I also recall the rushing around, the noise and finally doors shut because serious conversations were taking place. When I returned as an adult and a barrister the building had been demolished and replaced by new chambers opposite the Supreme Court. By the time I was a young teenager, I was a well-seasoned observer of the theatre of Court. When the Courts went on circuit to regional centres such as Bendigo, Ballarat, Horsham and Mildura during School Holidays, the family would accompany him. I sat in the Court and listened. By then I had a real knowledge of the roles and importance of the various individuals necessary for the operation of a Court. I absorbed it all and thought it was exactly what I wanted to do in later life. When the time came my parents were adamantly opposed to my entering a Law Course. In that time the solution was easy – I obtained a Commonwealth Scholarship and entered Melbourne University Law School. My father was concerned that if I did Law I would fail and my mother was certain that a female lawyer would never marry. I graduated with a very average LLB from Melbourne University in 1965. In 1966 at the age of 24 I began my legal career journey. As it happened I returned to a very familiar regional city to do my articles. I was articled to Bruce Garde of Hillard Rice and Garde in Mildura in northwest Victoria – a well-established and regarded firm in the region. I was paid a salary of $70 per week, which covered board and a car much needed for local work and also my trips home to Melbourne every weekend. The firm’s main client was the Council, it also acted for local businesses such as wineries, orchardists, cooperatives and very occasionally took general legal work and some petty crime alleged against family members of major clients. Just as it is today, greater numbers of Indigenous Australians lived in regional rather than metropolitan areas. For the first time I witnessed the challenges facing Aboriginal Australians. There was a community living in humpies on the banks of the Wentworth River at Dareton NSW. I was shocked to my bootstraps at the conditions and began to realise that life for some people was a terrible struggle. There was a disproportionate representation of Aboriginal Australians charged with a range of offences mainly alcohol related including drunkenness in a public place, graduating to theft, crimes of violence and murder. The local Wentworth Magistrate seemed to be constantly fighting authorities trying to keep young Aboriginal Australians, in particular, out of jail. He succeeded if the offence of drunkenness in a public place, drunk and disorderly or similar offence was a first time appearance but for “regulars” there was no alternative. The women and children I saw were listless and lacking any reasonable support. I also became aware that violence against women and children was commonplace. An issue that I came to learn beset both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. Unbeknownst to me it was also an issue that would define my career in years to come. In 1967 I returned to Melbourne to complete my Articles at Ridgeway Pierce Freedman and Murray. It also happened to be a leading firm in divorce. I didn’t know anyone who was divorced. No one in my parents’ circle was divorced. Handling these cases further unveiled what was until then the closeted world of the marital home and domestic violence. The day after I was admitted to practice, I signed the Bar roll on 12 October 1967. I was 25 years old, I was the ninth woman ever to do so and the first to join the Bar without some years’ experience as a solicitor. I joined the Bar unhampered by legal practice or maturity but there was no plan B – I was going to be a barrister. I was “taken in” by my father’s clerk – Mr Jim Foley (I always called him “Mr Jim”.) I read in the chambers of Mr. Austin Asche (as he then was – later a Family Court Judge and Administrator of the Northern Territory – his practice was solely Matrimonial Causes). “Mr. Jim” accepted me on condition that I took no work other than Magistrates’ Court for two years. He promised that he would then ensure I had a practice. I was sent all over Melbourne doing mainly very minor accident cases but gradually the work changed and I began to appear for what was then known as “deserted wives”, usually seeking or enforcing maintenance orders. I was as ‘green’ as could possibly be and Mr. Jim was incredibly supportive and very generous with advice. One of his offerings was. He told me that no matter what I was never to cry in front of anyone and if overcome I should go quickly to the “ladies”! He didn’t want anyone to see me as being weak. But when it came to the matters of child custody or inter family violence the learning curve was steep. One way of ensuring work in the earliest days as a barrister was to appear in cases pro bono and this I did as often as possible. My clients were mainly “deserted” wives” – a terrible term -as they were mainly women and children fleeing domestic violence. I married Peter Schiftan on 2 November 1968. Peter brought his four years-old son, Daniel, into the marriage. Shortly thereafter the three of us went to the Territory of Papua New Guinea for almost two years. There, in 1969 I was admitted to practice and opened the Law Office of Cyril P McCubbery on Bougainville Island ( in our kitchen in a woven matting house) where we were living. Peter worked for Bougainville Copper as a General Manager and I was approached by the consortium of Bechtel Western Knapp Engineering to become a Contracts Engineer with responsibility for translating contracts from American English to Australian English whilst also retaining the right of private practice. I frequently appeared in the “Kiap Court” (local Court) defending expatriate men accused of various criminal offences. The penalties to be applied were usually fines or expulsion from the mine lease and repatriation back to Australia. There were Australian Maintenance Orders to be enforced – not very successfully as Bougainville was a fairly tough place and the expatriate men were seriously tough individuals. Wage garnishee orders worked for a time but the men simply moved on to defeat the effect. There were serious work related accidents and as the Papuan workforce was drawn from various warring New Guinea Tribes a great deal of inter-tribal violence including murder. We returned to Australia in 1970 and immediately resumed practice at the Bar in my own Chambers. I developed a Matrimonial Causes Act practice – doing undefended divorces. It was a pragmatic decision because the list of cases would be completed in the morning and I could then collect our child, Daniel, from Kindergarten/ School. There was no tax deduction for child minding and in (1972) HCA 49 Lodge v Commissioner of Taxation that situation was reinforced – child minding expenses incurred to enable a woman to derive assessable income were held to be domestic in nature and therefore not a tax deduction. We could not afford any alternative but at least I was at the Bar. In 1972, at 29 years of age and after our daughter, Kate, was born I again returned to the Bar. By this stage we could afford home help and that also allowed me to take on more complex work that involved days of hearing at a time. During the mid-1970s there were a few more women practising at the Bar. I was senior enough to take on readers. There were six readers in all :- Julia Langslow, Elizabeth Curtain (later Justice Elizabeth Curtain Supreme Court of Victoria) Sue Blashki (later a Magistrate in the Magistrates Court of Victoria) Carolyn Douglas (later Judge Carolyn Douglas of the County Court of Victoria) Clare Grey and Mary Slade. The work at the Bar was increasing and becoming more complex. It was a very busy but good time. By this stage my involvement in Law relating to families had spanned 18 years, I was well established and pursued interests outside the bar. I made myself available to the Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA). There were other ad hoc groups providing emergency accommodation after family violence to women and children. These services were woefully inadequate. I appeared for many of these women seeking Protection Orders and Maintenance whenever possible. By the time I became involved with CASA it was known that I had a particular interest in sexual assault and that led to me chairing the sub-committee at the Bar on sexual assault. I became the patron of Inner East Foster Care. Working extensively in the general area of laws relating to “family”, it became obvious that the provisions of The Matrimonial Causes Act 1959 no longer met the needs of a changing society. Men and women were disadvantaged by the stringency and limitations of the grounds for divorce as provided by the Act and the ‘fault concept” within the Act did not assist parties to have suitable ongoing relationships where children’s custody and access were involved. Simply put, marriage was an institution still seen through the prism of religious requirements. I became actively involved in lobbying for change and was a foundation member of a group ultimately named Family Lawyers Association of Australia. There were many papers presented, articles written and politicians lobbied on the need for change. After a year of intense lobbying, the Family Law Act of the Commonwealth of Australia (FLA) was finally enacted in 1975. The FLA meant couples no longer needed to show grounds for divorce, but instead, just that their relationship had suffered an irreconcilable breakdown and that they had lived separately for a period of one year. Thereafter, I regularly lectured on various aspects of Family Law Act:-Leo Cussen Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Melbourne and Monash Universities as well as presenting papers at conferences in Australia, United States and Canada. In 1976, I was appointed to the Bishop Committee Inquiry into the Maltreatment of Children. At the time there was no suggestion of endemic Institutional sexual abuse. Child sexual abuse was not a focus of the inquiry and it was only mentioned in the context of domestic violence. We had no submissions then or at a later committee on endemic institutional abuse. It is a stark contrast to the current (2015) Royal Commission into sexual abuse. The revelations are deeply distressing .From 1986 I was among those advocating mandatory reporting of sexual and all forms of abuse of children. In Vitro Fertilisation or IVF research and advancement had made great leaps in a decade and by the time I was appointed to the Waller Committee Inquiry in 1982. It took us two years to deliver a report to the Victorian government, permitting IVF to be legalised for the benefit of married couples. Legislation then followed. It is interesting to now note that no comment was made concerning a child’s right to know the identity of a donor and no provision was considered to give families the medical history of the donor. Amendments in recent years now facilitate that option. My extra-curricular interests continued with appointments to the Ethics Committee of the Victorian Bar – Family Law (1983-984), member of the Commonwealth Family Law Council (1984) and convenor of the Sexual Abuse Sub Committee of that Council (1986). By late 1984, I became one of three female QCs in then practising in Australia. Joan Rosanove QC was appointed a QC in 1954 – there were no other women silks in Victoria between Mrs Rosenove and me. South Australia appointed the first female QC, Roma Mitchell, in 1962. It took almost two decades before the second female silk was appointed – that is Mary Gaudron in NSW, and the State of Victoria followed three years later with my appointment as one of her Majesty’s Counsel. It is particularly pleasing to see many women now with most senior roles in the law. There is no Court without a woman. Bar Societies are or have been chaired by women but the proportion of women appointees is far below their proportion of the profession as a whole. There is a dearth of appointees from the migrant population of practising Lawyers and no Aboriginal Australian on any senior Court of record. Almost two decades since I embarked on a legal career, I was appointed a Judge of the County Court of Victoria – the first woman to be appointed to a Victorian State Court. My appointment did not meet with universal approval. At the private swearing in the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court strode into the room and ignoring my husband and our two children, instructed me to take the Bible in my right hand, administered the Oath of Office and left without another word. In the County Court matters were not much better as far as the Chief Judge was concerned. I never had Chambers of my own in 3 ½ years. I was moved from Chambers to Chambers occupying Chambers belonging to a Judge on leave. My personal books and belongings were never unpacked. There were no toilet facilities for any woman on the floors occupied by Judges. There were “Judges” toilets and “Associates” toilets on each floor. I asked for provision of facilities but was told there was no budget for such provision. I went home and did not return until I invited the Chief Judge to a press conference I was about to call on day three. Facilities were provided at my insistence for all women on that floor with a door label that said “Women”. But as I said in the 1984 autumn issue of the ‘Victorian Bar News’, “I experienced a great deal of prejudice as a female barrister, from the community generally, from solicitors and from the Bench. However, I suffered no such prejudice from other members of the Bar, who formed a protective barrier around me, which I remember with great affection.” Similarly, several of my brother Judges were accepting and helpful particularly as it was a Court in which I had never practiced. I had three judges come to me separately unbeknownst to the other two and say, “you haven’t done much crime like this, have you. Okay how about you come at 7:30 in the morning and I’ll help you.” All offered a list of things to consider. I was continuously sent to Circuits in the Latrobe Valley. At that time Latrobe Valley had the highest crime rate in the State and according to police data, this remains today with domestic violence topping the list followed by drugs. The next three years brought more appointments and responsibilities: The Advisory Board to the Standing Committee for the Centre of Human Bioethics Monash University (1985), Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (1985), deputy president of The Accident Compensation Tribunal (1986), Convenor of the Sexual Abuse Sub-Committee of the Family Law Council (1986), of which I was still a member, Board Member of Queen Victoria Hospital Prince Henry’s Hospital and an Inaugural Board member of Monash Medical Centre. I chaired the non – clinical Ethics Committee in each hospital at which I was a board member. At 46 years of age I was a County Court judge, a wife, a mother, a weekend farmer – serious farmer. We were working seven days a week; we had children who had sports activity from one end of Victoria to the other. I had obligations to my family as a whole, I insisted on doing everything so no one could say I was a bad mother but, it was exhausting. Three and a half years after my appointment to the County court I remained the only female member of the State Judiciary and in early 1988 I resigned. My resignation unleashed a tsunami of disapproval. Amongst the criticisms was that I ‘set back the course for advancement for women for generations.’ This came from women lawyers and the members of the press. I didn’t see myself as responsible for all women and I wasn’t prepared to accept that responsibility. At the end of all of this I was absolutely rung out and I no longer held interest in fighting constant battles with the Court. I did not enjoy the work of a judge. At the Bar there was a collegiate environment that was absent from the bench, there was also excitement and competition. I had no idea what I wanted to do or could do. In March 1988 I joined Coles Myer as General Manager Legislative Affairs requiring monitoring the company’s compliance with relevant legislation and to represent the company in an advocacy role as necessary. I appeared at Industry Enquiries and oversaw he legal services of the various businesses. I dealt with Trade Practices issues and the like and was appointed an Associate Director of Coles Myer Ltd and a Member of the 16 person Executive Committee responsible for the running of the businesses and reporting to the Board. There were no other women on the Executive Committee and it appeared to me that that was unlikely to change within a reasonable time. At the time I left in 1998 the aggregate businesses had a turnover of $17 Billion with a workforce of 165,000 people. I have found that the Law provides extraordinary opportunities in many diverse ways. It is my belief that the analytical training which forms an integral part of every Law Course can be massaged into any activity one desires to pursue. Even the Court process of advocacy for one’s client within strict ethical boundaries allows an understanding of issues in dispute which in the best scenario modifies extremes and displays a recognition of outcomes which although may not satisfy the protagonists absolutely, gives rise to a solution which serves the parties well. In the criminal sphere robust advocacy and rejoinder permit the revelation of weaknesses and strengths, which allows juries to deliberate with a clear understanding of facts. That of course is the ideal and activities do not always lead to such results but to my mind the process is sound. It is distressing that more than 40 years after I signed the Victorian Bar Roll, an exercise such as this is deemed necessary. It was always my hope that by now, 2015, there would no longer be a need for discussions concerning equality of opportunity within or outside the Law. There are Judges who happen to be women in all Courts but their number is far less than the community presence would dictate. There is no Aboriginal judge in any senior court of record and we have yet to see representation from migrant groups to the extent that they are represented in the community at large. The State Bars have many women as members and in some States women chair their Bar Council. Solicitors firms have an ongoing underrepresentation of women at senior partnership level. It is all taking too long. There seems to be little political or legal fraternity will in ensuring more rapid change via judicial appointments, senior partnerships and representation of all parts of the Community – being the Community the Law is required to serve. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Women Barristers in Victoria: Then and Now, The Victorian Bar, 2007, https://www.vicbar.com.au/wba/ Magazine article Victorian Bar News, 1985 Lynne joins her father in the ranks of QCs, Waby, Heather, 1985, http://www.vicbar.com.au/vicbar_oral/images/raising_the_bar/LynneOpasQC.jpg Book The Family Law Act in practice., Opas, Lynne, 1976 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Lynne Opas, Family Court barrister, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Lynne Schiftan (with Nikki Henningham) Created 13 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. C. 1942. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Di Gibson ran only once for election to the parliament of New South Wales: in 2003 as an Independent for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Wallsend. Di Gibson, who lived at Maryville, when she stood for the seat of Wallsend in 2003, said that she was contesting the election to give people a choice. She believed that they had been taken for granted and deserved better representation, particularly in the areas of public education, public health, public transport and public safety. She outpolled both the Australian Democrat and the Christian Democrat candidates. Di worked as a teacher for students with disabilities. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nydia Edes was the first female Alderman on the Broken Hill City Council and a recipient of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal who worked tirelessly throughout her life for the improvement of women’s conditions. Nydia, the youngest of 8 children, was born in the mining town of Kadina in South Australia in 1901. Her father, Walter George Thomson, was a mining engineer. After his death in 1907, Nydia’s mother Mary Louisa was left to raise her large family on her own. At the age of 16, Nydia became secretary of the Moonta ALP Ladies’ Committee, signalling the beginning of her long connection to the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She was also the secretary of the campaign committee for her cousin John Pedler, who became the local member of the South Australian State parliament. As mining in the Copper Triangle district in South Australia began to slow in the 1920s, Nydia’s older siblings married and sought work in other towns. With her mother and older sister Sarah, Nydia moved to Broken Hill in 1926, joining other family members who had moved there looking for work. Nydia was employed at Goodhart’s department store and joined the Shop Assistants Union and the local branch of the Labor Party. She eventually became Mr Goodhart’s assistant and was one of the principal buyers for the store. In 1931 she married Cecil Edes, a timberman who worked for the Zinc Corporation, and in 1933 gave birth to their daughter Margot. The challenge of bringing up a child and maintaining a household did not prevent Nydia’s continued involvement in politics. In May 1939, she helped form the Women’s Auxiliary of the ALP in Broken Hill and remained a member for fifty years, serving intermittently as president, secretary and treasurer. Throughout her life, Nydia campaigned for women’s rights, specifically equal pay for equal work, equal opportunity and legal equality. She was a regular contributor of letters and articles to the local press on the subject of issues concerning women. She strongly believed that women could and should contribute to local government, and wrote to the local paper that “it is only a simple matter of commonsense to have a woman actively participating in civic affairs”. Accordingly, in 1962, Nydia ran for the council election as an ALP candidate and became the first female Alderman on the Broken Hill City Council. In 1968, following her disagreement with a caucus decision, Nydia tended her resignation from the Labor party and ran successfully as a Labor Independent in the next election. She held her office as Alderman until 1974. In addition to her political activity, Nydia was a tireless volunteer for numerous and diverse community organisations. In the depression years, Nydia worked for local charities providing food, clothing and healthcare to struggling families, and during World War Two she served for six years with the Broken Hill and District Hospital Red Cross Voluntary Service Division. In 1935, Nydia was made a Justice of the Peace. She was a founder of the first rural branch of the Women Justices’ Association in Broken Hill and became its first president. Nydia was a member of the Housing Advisory Commission from 1950 until 1970 and was secretary of the Far West Children’s Health Scheme. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Broken Hill and District Hospital for 30 years, and was awarded Life membership in 1971. In recognition of her services to the community, she was awarded the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977. In spite of her time consuming political and voluntary work, Nydia never let her commitments encroach upon family life. A traditional Christmas dinner was the only sacrifice that her daughter Margot White recalls, as Nydia’s position on the Hospital Board involved visiting every patient in the hospital on Christmas morning. Nydia died in Broken Hill on June 26, 1992. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 People and Politics in Regional New South Wales, Hagan, J, 2006 Newspaper Article Room for us, says woman councillor, 1971 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Nydia Edes, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Edes, Nydia Private Hands (These records may not be readily available) Interview with Margot White Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Papers of Nydia Edes Author Details Georgia Moodie Created 23 January 2009 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Maria Petkovich Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: 12-ALP-Womens-Branch.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Glynis Nunn is the only Australian to have won an Olympic multi-discipline athletics event. She won gold in the heptathlon at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Glynis Nunn began competing in athletics at the age of nine, when still a student at Toowoomba South State School. At fifteen, she won six events in the State championships and set records in five. She qualified for the Commonwealth Games in 1978 but couldn’t compete due to injury. The heptathlon replaced the pentathlon in 1981, and prior to the 1982 Commonwealth Games, Glynis moved to Adelaide to train with Olympic coach John Daly. It was there that she married her first husband, decathlete Chris Nunn. Glynis won gold at the inaugural Commonwealth Games championship in 1982. Having left her job as a physical education teacher in 1983 to concentrate on training, Glynis Nunn won gold at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984, beating American favourite Jackie Joyner by just a few points. Nunn also made the finals for the 100m hurdles and the long jump, and was placed fifth and seventh respectively. After the Games, she switched from the heptathlon to hurdling. She won bronze in the high hurdles event in the 1986 Commonwealth Games, but was later plagued by injury. Nunn left competitive sport in 1990, by which time she had remarried. She now has an extensive background in sports coaching, and has worked as a sprint coach for the Brisbane Lions AFL football team. Nunn-Cearns lectures in fitness and is sought after for public speaking engagements. She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for her contribution to athletics. Events 1984 - 1984 Athletics – Heptathlon 1982 - 1982 Athletics – Heptathlon Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Book Official Australian guide to the Seoul Olympic Games, 1988, Nunn, Glynis (Olympic coordinator), 1988 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 25 January 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "International Women’s Day (IWD) Collective, not to be confused with the IWD Committee formed in 1938. The IWD Collective was form by the second wave of feminism and was concerned with the IWD March the festival or picnic after the march and the IWD Dance. They organised speakers and have themes for the day, produce posters badges and tshirts (this does not happen each year). Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Alison Megarrity was the (ALP) member for Menai in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. She was first elected to the seat in 1999 and was re-elected in 2003 and 2007. She did not seek re-election at the 2011 state election, but stood as a federal candidate in the seat of Hughes at the 2013 election, but was unsuccessful. Prior to Alison’s time in state politics she was a Councillor with the Liverpool City Council (1994-1999). Alison Megarrity grew up in central western NSW where her father was a railwayman. She was educated at Our Lady of Mercy College, Parramatta and Macquarie University, from which she graduated BA. She worked in public sector organizations dealing with housing, education, and consumer affairs before winning the seat of Menai in 1999 at her first attempt. She was active in the ALP, being a member of the Chipping Norton branch and holding office not only in the branch but also in the Moorebank and Menai State Electorate Councils. She was elected to the Liverpool City Council in 1994 and represented it on the Chipping Norton Lakes Authority and the Georges River Combined Councils. She was a board member of the Whitlam Leisure Centre, deputy convenor of the Georges River Environment Alliance and Chair of the Chipping Norton Community Centre management Committee. She married Robert Megarrity, in 1982 and they have two sons, Liam and Glyn. She served as Assistant Speaker from May 2007-March 2011. She was also Parliamentary Secretary, Assisting the Minister for Infrastructure and Planning and Natural Resources, 2003-2005, as well as Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Attorney-General, Minister for the Environment and the Art, 2005-2007.. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The collection consists of recordings relating to the Snowy Mountains Scheme; the Whitsundays; history and influence of Irish in Australia; Broken Hill; Palm and Fantome Islands; migrants; five ABC radio programs: The Snowy, The People behind the Power; The Irish in Australia; Palm Island, A Punishment Place; Broken Hill, the Seventh State; Connections, Muslims; and the book ‘Minefields and miniskirts’, about Australian female veterans involved in the Vietnam War. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 February 2009 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hr 50 min. Oral history??Discussing nursing training; reasons for enlistment in Air Force; nursing duties at Point Cook, Vic; embarkation for New Guinea; description of journey to Kiriwina, Trobrian Islands; pay rate for RAAFNS; contact with American servicemen; leisure; description of Air Evacuation Scheme; categories of injuries that required Air Evacuation Services; nursing duties during air evacuation flights; nursing POWS. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Clare Martin gained the distinction of becoming the first Labor and first female Chief Minister of the Northern Territory in 2001. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory at a by-election for the seat of Fannie Bay in 1995. This seat was formerly held by the Chief Minister Marshall Perron, member of the Country Liberal Party. She was re-elected in 1997, assumed the leadership of the ALP in 1999 and went on to win the 2001 election. In addition to her role as Chief Minister, she held the ministerial portfolios of Treasurer, Arts and Museums, Young Territorians, Women’s Policy, Senior Territorians, Communications, Science and Advanced Technology. She won the 2005 election with an increased majority, but resigned from Parliament in November 2007. Born: 15 June 1952. Martin obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Sydney University in 1972. From 1978 to 1994 she was a Senior Journalist and broadcaster with ABC Radio and TV. She worked in both Sydney and Canberra before relocating to Darwin in 1985. Martin and her partner David have a son and daughter and her interests include: reading, music, politics and sport. Source: www.nt.alp.org.au/people/fanniebay.html accessed 10/10/01 Events 2019 - 2019 Officer of the Order of Australia (AO): For distinguished service to the people and Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory, and as a community advocate. Published resources Resource Clare Martin - Member for Fannie Bay, http://www.nt.alp.org.au/people/fanniebay.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2001, Herd, Margaret, 2000 Book No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Clare Martin, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 October 2001 Last modified 12 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Folder containing Vera’s memoirs (typescript) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1. Correspondence, 1944-1972. 2. Receipt books, 1964-1972. 3. Tape recordings of conference sessions. 4. Special subject records. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 October 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers in MS 7401 include 40 letters received by Brenda Niall while researching her book Australia through the looking-glass: children’s fiction 1830-1980; drafts of her book Martin Boyd: a life and correspondence relating to its publication; copies of official documents and papers accumulated while researching Martin Boyd; copies of notes by other researchers, particularly Terry O’Neill; interview transcripts, photographs and copies of Boyd’s novels, short stories and poems. The correspondents include Nance Donkin, Simon French, Eleanor Spence, Colin Thiele, Patricia Wrightson, Ruth Park, Desmond O’Grady, Arthur and Yvonne Boyd, Geoffrey Dutton, Alan Shadwick, Terry O’Neill and Graham Pollard (14 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc06.113 instalment comprises the typescript of an interview conducted in 1985 by Desmond O’Grady with Luciano Tombini, an Italian boy who was very important to Martin Boyd when he settled in Rome (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A collection of the personal papers and manuscripts of Rosa Caroline Praed, comprising correspondence, press cuttings, royalty statements, notebooks, diaries, and legal documents. The collection also includes the manuscript for the book “Soul of Nyria”. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Justice Julie Dick is a judge of the District Court of Queensland, having been appointed to the bench in 2000. She has also served as an acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. She served as president of the Queensland Children’s Court 2007 – 2011, having been appointed a judge of that court in 2001. Judge Dick was an articled clerk between 1973 and 1975. She was admitted to the bar in December 1975 and appointed Senior Counsel in November 1997. She had an extensive practice in criminal law, appearing in nearly fifty murder trials and many other high profile criminal matters. Judge Dick was a member of the Law Reform Commission (Criminal Law Subdivision), a member of the Committee of the Queensland Bar Association and a member of the committee overseeing the 1997 Review of the Criminal Code. She was the inaugural Parliamentary Criminal Justice Commissioner between 1998 and December 2000 when she was appointed a District Court Judge. She was the President of the Children’s Court of Queensland from 2007 to 2011, Acting Supreme Court Judge in 2011 and a member of the Higher Courts Benchbook Committee since 2000. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Helen Moye about Julie Dick for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Julie Dick and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. It was about a quarter to five in the afternoon. People were streaming out of the Brisbane Law Courts complex in George Street. Bridget was heading off to the park with her father, while her mother took the baby, who was due to be breast-fed. This was part of the daily ritual. That day, though, Bridget noticed something interesting in the rush of people going about the business of the law. “Mum, did you know that boys can be barristers too?” Yes, she did know. Julie Dick, barrister-at-law, knew that very well. Since being called to the Queensland Bar in 1975, she had been one of that body of legal professionals of whom, even in 2005, only 15.6 per cent are women. This is despite the fact that in recent years women have comprised at least half of the law graduates from Queensland universities. In 1997, Julie, the then newly appointed Senior Counsel had expressed optimism that the developing institution of women at the Bar would offer encouragement to other women. She was, however, also on record as acknowledging the continuing difficulties experienced by women in being briefed, particularly by larger firms, and particularly in the area of criminal law. Today, with the perspective of over four years on the Bench, her concerns have not abated. “Since I have been a judge, I have seen many, many female prosecutors, in fact sometimes it seems as though they are in the majority, but I still do not see an equal number of women appearing for the defence.” It has been her observation that, for women, hard work and creditable performance are not, in themselves, sufficient to guarantee recognition and further opportunity. A complicating factor has been those female practitioners who, perhaps in response to perceived prejudice, “[do] not really dare to be women lawyers.” In such an environment, it can also be the case that women do not “dare” to recognise or encourage other women. In the end, the career of Judge Julie Dick does not reflect that experience. In the words of Roberta Devereaux, this is a woman and a lawyer “confident and happy in her own skin,” successful on her own terms, and one who has been “a great supporter of other women.” In her turn, Judge Dick acknowledges the example and support of Barbara Newton, who, as Public Defender, ensured that she was briefed regularly and in high profile matters when she returned to practice in 1989 after a break in which she gave birth to four children. The break showed no signs of upsetting the rhythm of a career well on track. After marrying in 1984, Julie had given birth to Michael in 1985 and then daughters Jennifer (1986), Christy (1988) and Bridget (1989). Her return to practice saw her appearing in a number of significant trials (usually funded by the then Public Defender’s Office). In 1992, three days’ after the conclusion of a five-week robbery trial, her youngest daughter Kathleen was born. An hour after the caesarean birth, Julie received a phone call from the Legal Aid office, checking her availability for another trial, set down for three weeks time. She accepted the brief. Her support network at that time consisted of a nanny and her husband, solicitor Terry Mellifont. The nanny stayed until Kathleen commenced primary school, but Terry has remained a constant, ever since Julie started work as his articled clerk in January 1973. Julie acknowledges the enormous contribution he has made to her being able to pursue her career, and to the “wonderful children” and “warm, loving home” they share. TJ Mellifont and Company was a small, busy general practice, with Terry as sole practitioner. Dealing with a wide range of matters, including industrial, criminal, civil, defamation and family law, it offered Julie exposure to a cross-section of the law, as well as considerable in-court experience, from the Magistrates Court to the Federal Court on circuit from Sydney. She recalls days on which there might be 12 or 13 appearances to coordinate in various courts on the one morning. Increasingly, within this spectrum of activity and high energy, the role of solicitor sitting in the office seemed to lack the allure and excitement of what she saw and experienced in court. She became engrossed in the “complete theatre” of court and litigation practice, the tactics and legal argument, and “loved everything about criminal trials, from the picking of the jury through to the verdict.” Professionally, this experience inspired her move to the Bar. Personally, it was an eye-opener for a young woman who had spent most of her childhood in a home where “the pantry was full and everyone was happy.” Working in that practice, Julie Dick first realised that not everyone shared her comfortable circumstances; and it was in this period that she realised there was more she could do to help her clients-such as the young single mother, pregnant, with toddler in tow-than to lend them money, only to find it being spent immediately on cigarettes. Julie Maree Dick was born on 21 June 1952 in Brisbane, the third-born (and first daughter) of the nine children of Frank and Norma Dick. When Julie was young, the family moved to the Gold Coast, where Frank, an electrician by trade, expanded into the building industry and flourished in the first wave of development to hit the area. It was a life that offered freedom and security. The only address needed for a taxi-ride from Coolangatta to home was “Frank Dick’s house.” Sundays meant a trip to the beach with Dad, while Mum had some peace and quiet at home. There was ·sailing, singing around the pianola, and teenage socialising with siblings and their friends. There were two memorable holidays-to South Molle Island and Fiji-and there was school. Julie’s mother and father had both been educated in Brisbane, at Lourdes Hill College and at St Laurence’s College respectively. Her own education began in 1957 at St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School in Coolangatta. From 1965 to 1968 she attended high school at Star of the Sea in Southport, during which time her scholastic ability became evident. She received academic awards and each year there was happy competition with friend Josephine Morton for dux of the class. She remembers in particular the encouragement of her class teacher from Grades Eight to Ten, Sister Xaviera. High achievement in Junior (Grade Ten) meant inevitable streaming into the sciences for the final school years. However, Science and Maths classes had to be undertaken at the local Brothers college because so few girls enrolled in those subjects. This unconventional arrangement was bypassed in favour of Julie’s transfer to St Rita’s College in Brisbane, where she completed her secondary schooling as a boarder-a chronically homesick one. It was quickly obvious to her that this was a far bigger pond than the one in which she had swum to date: there was more competition. It was also only one of many ponds-there was a much larger world out there with people from different backgrounds. She was also finding her science-based subjects difficult. Her father encouraged her educational pursuits and aspirations, but their talk of a career in medicine or pharmacy was pragmatic rather than heartfelt; this was a student who craved the humanities. Nonetheless, Julie excelled at St Rita’s and became a prefect. Norma Dick’s preference for her daughter would have been hairdressing, “a wonderful profession for a young woman;” however, having won a Commonwealth Scholarship, Julie enrolled in Arts Law at the University of Queensland in 1970. For the next three years she enjoyed the safe and sociable environment of Duchesne College, becoming involved in the college committee, including one year as social secretary. In second year, Julie decided to pursue law studies exclusively. There was no identifiable prompt for law either as a course of study or a profession, and no family connection to it. The character of Sir Thomas More in the Robert Bolt play A Man for All Seasons had mesmerised her in high school: his bravery, his scholarship, his ethics and his commitment to the law. She also remembers reading Great Trials of the Twentieth Century as a child, and To Kill a Mockingbird (many times). It was the court scenes which captured her imagination and, again, the private introduction to lives so different from her own. Once at university, Jurisprudence provided a first insight into what the law was really all about. However, it was only after commencing as an articled clerk that Julie’s practical experience of the law and of those seeking its help enlivened her sense of justice. With that came a growing appreciation of human weakness and miscalculation-rather than evil intent -in some of the matters needing resolution. As an articled clerk, living alone for the first time and working long hours, Julie started to feel overwhelmed. She felt she needed to tweak her direction, to refocus and re-energise. On the urging of Terry and Tom Quirk, then a junior counsel and later a District Court judge, Julie relinquished university study in favour of the Bar Board examinations, which she successfully completed in 1975. She was admitted as a barrister on 18 December 1975 (and later, in 1992, as a practitioner of the High Court and Federal Court of Australia). In March 1976, she completed her Articles. It was a bold move, she concedes, going to the Bar so early, and she pays tribute to the friendship, professionalism and high ethical standards of each of her original colleagues in chambers-John Jerrard, Kiernan Dorney and Frank Wilkie-and Basil Martin, her pupil master. Indeed, one of Julie’s particular concerns with the profession today is the frequent apparent ignorance (or avoidance) of the basic ethical rules which characterised the behaviour and practices of colleagues such as these. Notwithstanding the support of her colleagues, Julie suffered “the usual difficulties” -such as developing sufficient self-confidence, engendering the confidence of briefing solicitors and managing a business. Then there were the slightly less usual difficulties-those attached to being a woman at the Bar. With few other women in active practice at the time, there were even fewer with long experience who could serve as role models. There was also discrimination, and Julie notes that, even after establishing an extensive criminal practice, she was “very rarely briefed by firms in crime with private clients. Most of my work came from the Public Defender’s Office.” Still, her advice today to women coming to the Bar is to cultivate the habits of persistence and hard work and to avoid thinking that “to have a practice like a man, you have to act like a man.” Her personal style reflects a certain self-sufficiency, directness and honesty. Her professional style is characterised by intelligence and wit, “a good forensic mind,” commonsense and an ability to empathise with clients and yet maintain an appropriate professional distance. Not surprisingly, as her confidence and experience developed, so did her practice. It also shifted from a general practice to a criminal practice, partly the result perhaps of the amount of work she was undertaking with legally aided clients through regular briefing by the Public Defender and, later, the Legal Aid Office. At a time when other colleagues made the decision that to accept such matters would inhibit their career and their income, her readiness to do so was not entirely self-serving, although the high volume of work in itself did provide a valuable basis for developing her skills and expertise. Julie Dick soon came to believe that it is the responsibility of practitioners and governments to ensure that those who come before the courts, charged by the State, receive the defence to which all are entitled. Significantly, her own workload reflected that commitment to the rights of legal aid clients. This philosophy of fairness, compassion and contribution is evident in the record of her dealings with clients, colleagues, the broader profession and the community over the years. She served as a member of the Bar Association Committee from 1995 to 1998; a member of the Litigation Reform Commission (Criminal Law Subdivision) until it was disbanded in 1997; and has served as a member of the International Law Reform Commission since being introduced by former High Court Justice Mary Gaudron in 1998. She was the Bar representative on the Criminal Case Management Committee chaired by Justice Margaret White, which resulted in the successful Committals Project. In 1997 she contributed as a member of the Advisory Working Group for the Criminal Code Review which passed into legislation; and she was the government-appointed legal representative on the Podiatrists Board of Queensland from 1995 to 1998. Since her elevation to the Bench, she has served as a member and convenor of both the District Court Criminal Law and Conference Committees, and as a member of the District Court Strategic Planning and Benchbook Committees. She particularly counts her participation in the Benchbook Committee among her positive achievements. The Benchbook, a manual for guidance in Court proceedings, assists judges in ensuring, for example, that appropriate matters are taken into account in summing up at trial. It is equally relevant (and available) to others, such as legal practitioners and juries, who can be assisted in their understanding of procedures and protocols and, by extension, the execution of their responsibilities. In addition, she has made an active contribution to continuing legal education for both solicitors and barristers, including presenting papers, conducting seminars, and acting as facilitator and judge in moot and advocacy programs for several Queensland university law schools and the Bar Practice Course. She has strong views on the importance of continuing education for all, including judges, and is vocal in her response to criticisms directed at judicial travel to conferences, many of which are held overseas. She stresses the importance of promoting and utilising opportunities to network with peers and colleagues from other jurisdictions as a means of learning from and contributing to the international judicial community and, by extension, the administration of justice. Julie actively endeavours to broaden her knowledge, in order to minimise the risk of developing an insular or insulated perspective. She points out that conferences also provide exposure to broader areas of concern than strictly “black letter law” issues-recent examples being genetics and ethical investments-which are likely at some stage to be directly or indirectly relevant to the range of issues and people coming before the courts. From her early years, Julie was a practitioner who went the extra mile, for example, when those working with her needed flexible employment arrangements to care for children; or when she managed to appear for a client, having split her lip in an accident en route to court on the North Coast and having had 12 stitches. That memorable day continued with her driving back to Brisbane, calling home for the cutting of her child’s birthday cake, and then dropping her instructing solicitor back at the office. Such stories add a telling dimension to a career which began auspiciously as a barrister with 13 not-guilty verdicts in her first 13 trials and went on to include over 40 murder trials (many of them “leading cases in this jurisdiction”) and other high profile and complex matters across the range of rape, robbery, arson, drug trafficking, fraud, corruption and perjury. In 1980 Julie had received a commission to prosecute on behalf of the Crown and in that capacity had appeared frequently before the District and Supreme Courts. By the mid-1990s her practice had begun to diversify and she was also appearing regularly in the Medical Assessment Tribunal, the Industrial Court of Australia and Administrative Appeals Tribunal, as well as in disciplinary tribunals such as the Queensland Nursing Council and Psychologists Board of Queensland. In 1998 Julie was approached by the Parliamentary Criminal Justice Committee (PCJC) to take the newly created role of Parliamentary Criminal Justice Commissioner for Queensland the first such role in Australia. Broadly, the function of the Commissioner was, “Upon request, [to assist] the PCJC to discharge its role in monitoring and reviewing the activities of the CJC [Criminal Justice Commission],” as well as functions in relation to the Queensland Crime Commission and the Queensland Police Service. The concept and practice of civilian oversight of law enforcement authorities was innovative and relatively untried at the time, and the role of Commissioner was an important and powerful one. It was not the time for a token gesture in the direction of political correctness. So it was particularly significant that the first incumbent was a woman, and one whose appointment had the enthusiastic support of a bipartisan committee. This was an appointment based clearly on merit. At the time, Julie expressed the view that wherever there is great power vested in an organisation, there is a need for commensurate accountability. She saw her role as charged with managing that accountability. Initially, however, she was faced with the practicalities of establishing an office, engaging staff and developing documentation and procedures. She recalls the first three months as being an isolated, lonely time, as she and her sole staff member confronted the challenge of making it all happen. Later, her team consisted of two solicitors/investigators, a document controller and a personal assistant. Meanwhile, she was learning about managing staff, adapting to a working environment which involved strict reporting responsibilities and an unfamiliar administrative framework, and coming to grips with the finer points of administrative law. In her two years in the role, she conducted 27 investigations during a time which was highly politically charged and fraught with controversy. The Queensland Criminal Justice Commission was still reeling from the investigation into it, known as the Connolly-Ryan Inquiry. Having inherited that inquisitorial responsibility, Commissioner Dick found herself reviewing the extensive records of the Inquiry, as well as interviewing the approximately one hundred and fifty complainants. Her investigations, and the confidentiality requirements attaching to them, were strictly circumscribed by the legislation. This did not prevent complaints (which might have been better directed towards the legislation) assuming the force of projectiles targeting the role of the Commissioner. Most notably, the investigation into alleged leaks from the CJC to the Courier-Mail-and the parties’ responses to that investigation contributed to the difficult situation. The death of both of Julie’s parents during the period of her appointment further challenged her resilience. She describes herself as “pretty robust,” but was conscious that she could not always protect others from the consequences of her position. She later learnt that her appointment to the Bench of the District Court of Queensland on 14 December 2000 had brought private tears of relief, as much as of congratulation, from her oldest daughter. It had started as an attraction to the excitement of criminal law, to “the discipline. . . And the predictability of the Criminal Code,” and the rules of evidence which support it. This fascination continues to underpin Julie’s work. “I am there to act within the law,” she says; policy matters are outside the jurisdiction of judges, whose responsibility it is to administer justice. This is not to suggest that the law-or judges- should be static, or ignore the changing world, with its advances in technology and evolving social imperatives. Judge Dick has been involved in the most recent review of the Queensland Criminal Code; daily, she sees ways in which technology can be deployed in the operations of the court (for example, the pre-recording of evidence by children); and progressively, she sees trends in the types of offences that come before her. As a judge of the Children’s Court since 2001 (and with the perspective and experience that comes from being the mother of teenagers), Julie Dick worries that children are growing up too fast. She believes that the nature of material available on television, music video and film is creating in child viewers a false perception of reality, mortality and accountability: the beaten victim gets up to fight on, or reappears in the sequel; the perpetrator is defiant and proud; but the consequences appear in soft focus, if at all. What she is now seeing is a flow-on effect of that distorted perception, an increase in sexual offences in the Children’s Court. The “new problem,” she says, is crimes “by kids against kids.” Her experience also suggests that, more broadly, crimes involving street violence and amphetamine addiction are on the increase, and “getting uglier.” In the face of these trends, her particular concern is for the education of children, suggesting a front-end program of education and information, since “penalties aren’t going to solve the problem.” She suggests that such programs might involve not just medical and legal professionals going into schools, but children actually attending court to see the consequences of violence and drug use first-hand. At the other end of the spectrum are jurors, who have no choice but to confront the horrors which often unfold during the course of a trial. Judge Dick is sensitive to the impact this can have on individuals; she has adopted the practice of forewarning jurors that they can expect to be challenged and affected by what they see and hear, and that no front of bravado is necessary. Counselling has recently become available for jurors at the conclusion of trials. Judge Dick says that nothing much surprises or unsettles her in the courtroom. Her early training, during which she learnt to approach each matter with special attention to detail, and the years of experience which taught her how to read and manage people, are serving their purpose. She also brings a certain style and attitude to the role, reflected in her wry comment that “there’s always fun in the law.” Perhaps this refers to the sharp minds and quick wits of those who, daily, need to consider weighty matters with compassion; detachment and efficiency. And perhaps it can also partly be attributed to “the happy and loving family life . . . [which] puts everything into perspective.” Judge Julie Dick does not see a career in law through rose-coloured glasses. She advises young women wanting to combine a legal career and a family to consider the sacrifices that both they, and their families, will need to make. Young men might benefit from that same advice. She keenly anticipates the benefits to society of a judiciary which is representative of the women and men who are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices and who exhibit the necessary merit. Published resources Book Section Julie Dick, Moye, Helen, 2005 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Helen Moye (with Nikki Henningham) Created 12 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The records include:?1. Council minutes, 1899-1965?2. Membership records, 1914-1942, 1969-1971?3. Files relating to: the formation of the New South Wales Nurses’ Association, 1929-1937; Edith Cavell House, 1916-1975; and the College of Nursing, 1934-1972?4. Sister Tutor Section minutes, 1848-1960?5. General business files, 1961-1977 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 27 May 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "15 minutes??Winnie Levy grew up in Western Australia. Her father was a sea captain. She attended the White Gum Valley School and won a scholarship to the Perth Modern School. Completed a degree in French and Mathematics at the University of Western Australia and then went to the Sorbonne for two years. Returned and taught French and became a French tutor at the University. When she married she had to resign. Had a baby and then returned to study Law. Moved to Adelaide and in 1945 was admitted to the Bar and practiced for 23 years. Overseas holidays. Leader of the International Circle in the Lyceum Club. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Marion Halligan was an acclaimed author of novels, short stories, reviews, essays and gastronomic writing. (This entry is sponsored by generous donation from Christine Foley.) Marion Halligan was born and educated in Newcastle, New South Wales, and worked as a school teacher and freelance journalist before becoming a prolific writer in her forties. She moved to Canberra in the 1960s and her first published short story appeared in the Australian Women’s Weekly in 1969. She married Graham Halligan and they had two children, Lucy and James. Her fiction books include: Self Possession (1987), The Living Hothouse (1988), The Hanged Man in the Garden (1989), Spider Cup (1990), Lovers’ Knots: A Hundred-Year Novel (1992), The Worry Box (1993), Wishbone (1994), The Midwife’s Daughters (1997), The Golden Dress (1998), The Fog Garden: A Novel (2001), The Point (2003), The Apricot Colonel (2006), Murder on the Apricot Coast (2008), Valley of Grace (2009), and Goodbye Sweetheart (2015). Halligan has published numerous short stories, including those in her Collected Stories (1997) and Shooting the Fox (2011), in Best Australian Stories 2003, and those in Out of the Picture (1995), commissioned by the National Library of Australia and structured around works in the library’s Pictorial Collection. Her food and travel writing includes Eat My Words (1990), Cockles of the Heart (1996) and Taste of Memory (2004). She co-authored Those Women Who Go to Hotels with Lucy Frost in 1997. Her work is inspired by personal experiences and the places in which she has lived. Her novel The Fog Garden draws on the experience of losing her husband to cancer and Words for Lucy (2022) is about her daughter’s death in 2004. She contributed writing on life in the 1970s for a Canberra Museum and Gallery exhibition, and also developed a play, Elastics (performed in 1987). She has curated a permanent exhibition for Newcastle Regional Museum, How shall we live?, and has written a series of restaurant performances entitled Gastronomica for the Melbourne Festival. She was a member of Seven Writers – a group of seven Canberra-based writers whose work vividly portrayed life ‘beneath the surface of Canberra’ – and as part of this collective she contributed to Canberra Tales (1988), later reissued as The Division of Love (1996), an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. The work received an ACT Bicentennial Award. A chronology of Halligan’s other awards includes: Patricia Hackett Prize (1985) H.M. Butterley-F. Earle Hooper Memorial Award (1986) ABC Bicentennial Literary Awards (finalist 1988) Steele Rudd Award (1989) Geraldine Pascall Prize for Critical Writing (1990) NBC Banjo Award for Fiction (shortlisted 1990) Prize for Gastronomic Writing (1991) Age Book of the Year Award (1992) & Age Book of the Year Award, Imaginative Writing Prize (1992) ACT Book of the Year Award (1993) NBC Banjo Award for Fiction (shortlisted 1993) Nita Kibble Literary Award (1994, shortlisted 2002) Newcastle University Newton John Award, for creative and innovative work (1994) ACT Book Reviewer of the Year (1997 joint with Sara Dowse) Age Book of the Year Award, Fiction Prize (shortlisted 1998) Miles Franklin Award (shortlisted 1999) The IMPAC Dublin Award (shortlisted 1999) Queensland Premier’s Literary Award (shortlisted 2002) Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book Sth East Asia and South Pacific (shortlisted 2004) ACT Book of the Year Award (2004) for The Point ACT Book of the Year Award (2010) for Valley of Grace ACT Book of the Year (shortlisted 2023) for Words for Lucy Halligan was Writer-in-Residence at Charles Sturt University in 1990 and a prolific writer of literature reviews and essays published in numerous major Australian newspapers and journals. She was chairperson of the Literature Board of the Australia Council (1992-1995) and has been chairperson of the Australian Word Festival. In June 2006, Halligan was awarded with an AM – General Division, ‘for service to literature as an author, to the promotion of Australian writers and to support for literary events and professional organisations.’ The ACT Writers Centre was renamed Marion in 2022 in joint honour of Halligan and Marion Mahony Griffin. Published resources Book The Fog Garden: A Novel, Halligan, Marion, 2001 The Division of Love: Stories, Barbalet, Margaret et al, 1995 The Apricot Colonel, Halligan, Marion, 2006 Cockles of the Heart, Halligan, Marion, 1996 Collected Stories, Halligan, Marion, 1997 Eat My Words, Halligan, Marion, 1990 The Golden Dress, Halligan, Marion, 1998 The Hanged Man in the Garden, Halligan, Marion, 1989 The Living Hothouse, Halligan, Marion, 1988 Lovers' Knots: a hundred-year novel, Halligan, Marion, 1993 Out of the Picture, Halligan, Marion, 1996 Self Possession, Halligan, Marion, 1987 Spidercup, Halligan, Marion, 1990 The Taste of Memory, Halligan, Marion, 2004 Wishbone, Halligan, Marion, 1995 The Worry Box, Halligan, Marion, 1993 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Seven Writers group, between 1986 and approximately 2000 Records of Curtis Brown (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1962-2002 [manuscript] Papers of Marion Halligan, circa 1970-circa 2003 [manuscript] State Library of New South Wales Dale Spender - papers, 1972-1995 National Library of Australia, Oral History Collection Oral history interview with Marion Halligan, 1995 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 4 July 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On the slopes of Capitol Hill, overlooking a vast plain and the wandering Molonglo, Lady Denman pronounced in a clear voice, ‘I name the capital of Australia – Canberra’. It was Wednesday, 12 March 1913. While Lady Denman performed the naming rites her husband, the Governor-General, Lord Denman, laid a commemorative foundation stone. The site for the city was selected in accordance with Section 125 of the Constitution which stipulated that the federal seat of government would be located within the state of New South Wales, but not within a 100-mile radius of Sydney. While playing her role in the creation of Canberra with aplomb, Lady Denman was destined for a higher realm of public duties, later becoming famous as ‘chairman’ of both the National Federation of Women’s Institutes and the National Birth Control Association in Britain. Lady Denman was born Gertrude Mary Pearson in 1884 as the only daughter of Sir Weetman Pearson, an engineer, oil industrialist and newspaper baron who was the Liberal Member of Parliament for Colchester between 1895 and 1910; was created a baronet in 1894 and later became 1st Viscount Cowdray. Miss Gertrude Pearson was called Trudie by her family and learnt much from their lead. She became a sound businesswoman in the mould of her father, and a keen philanthropist and political worker in the tradition of her mother (both mother and daughter served on the executive committee of the Women’s Liberal Federation). Her mother, Lady Cowdray, an ardent supporter of the suffragette cause, was as proficient in the world of politics as she was in the ways of a society hostess. In 1903 Trudie married Thomas, the third Baron Denman. In 1911 Lord Denman was appointed Governor-General of Australia and thus Trudie became first lady. As a young woman with two small children, Lady Denman embarked on a challenging posting in a distant country. It seemed Lady Denman’s acceptance in Australian society was a ‘foregone conclusion’. As the Sydney Mail reported, among her well known attributes an enthusiasm for all forms of sport would strongly appeal to the people of the Commonwealth. [1] Indeed, Lady Denman proved to be exceedingly adept in all spheres of public life during her time in Australia. As observed by Punch, the Lord and Lady Denman are ‘helping the social whirl spin always a little faster. They are in everything – not merely placid, critical spectators, but cheerful, enthusiastic gaiety-makers. They enjoy themselves thoroughly, and help everybody else too. It is the proper spirit to have in Vice-regal personages. It helps them, and it helps us.'[2] This boundless enthusiasm was particularly evident at a Melbourne tennis tournament hosted by the Lawn Tennis Association at which Lady Denman and the Private Secretary, Mr. Vernon, played in the mixed doubles handicap: Lady Denman has gained a whole army of friends by her action in coming down into the arena in this way. She was undoubtedly nervous on Saturday, when a huge crowd gathered around the court on which she was playing, but everybody in that crowd had a real honest feeling of good-fellowship for the lady who was so much of a sport that she had climbed down from the high horse of Vice-royalty and entered fully and whole-heartedly into the games and amusements of ordinary people like ourselves. It makes a whole heap of difference, you know. There is a much warmer feeling of regard for a Vice-regal lady who, hot and perspiring, is to be seen skipping and hounding about a tennis court than for a stately person who merely bows to folk out of a State carriage.[3] Lady Denman’s name was commemorated in the launching of a ferry boat, the Lady Denman at Jervis Bay on 5 December 1911. The ferry was built on the shores of Currambene Creek, Huskisson, by Joseph Dent for the Balmain Ferry Co, and remained in service on Sydney Harbour until 1979. Now housed and preserved at the Lady Denman Heritage Complex, the Lady Denman holds memories for many Australians. Lady Denman’s relentless public displays however were very much a dutiful chore and, while she conducted herself with diligent decorum, it was not one to which she was temperamentally suited or relished. She found officialdom monotonous and the pedestal on which she was placed by a well meaning public alienating, leading to an exhausting and lonely life. Her relationship with Lord Denman was also strained as the marriage had failed to develop into one of intimate companionship.[4] Homesickness, private strain and the burden of public duties combined to adversely affect Lady Denman’s health, and in May 1913 she returned to Britain to rest and recuperate. Lord Denman remained as Governor-General until 18 May 1914. Lady Denman’s departure was felt keenly. She had identified herself with many movements, of which her involvement in the National Council of Women was central. In a letter to the Editor a member of the National Council of Women described the ‘real feeling’ demonstrated at a farewell party held in her honour: ‘There is no doubt that Lady Denman’s vivid personality, sound business head and untiring energy have combined with her broad sympathies to make her the last woman Australia would willingly part with and it was with quite undisguised regret that the members of the National Council finally said goodbye to her.'[5] On her return to Britain Lady Denman became a Director of Westminster Press Limited, and was invited to become the Chairwoman of the Women’s Institute Subcommittee which had recently been established by the Agricultural Organisations Society. When the National Federation of Women’s Institutes was formed in 1917, Lady Denman became the first National Chairwoman. Believing strongly in the right and ability of women to conduct their own affairs, Lady Denman was a remarkable leader, setting an exhausting example: 1930-1954: Chairman, Family Planning Association 1932-1938: President of Ladies’ Golf Union 1932-1953: Chairman, Cowdray Club for Nurses and Professional Women 1934-1939: Member of Executive Committee of Land Settlement Association 1938-1954: Life Trustee, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust At the outbreak of the Second World War, Lady Denman was invited by the Minister of Agriculture to become the Honorary Director of the Women’s Land Army, and for this she earned the Grand Cross of the British Empire in 1951. Lady Denman died in 1954. This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives DENMAN, Lady Gertrude Mary (1884-1954) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 May 2006 Last modified 17 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 50 minutes??Pam Spry was born in Adelaide, South Australia and grew up in Woodville. She began training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1945, followed by appointments as Staff Nurse and Charge Nurse. She did midwifery training in Sydney and also nursed at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. On returning to Adelaide Pam worked at the Red Cross Blood Centre until 1959, then became Charge Nurse at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. In 1970 she returned to the RAH as a Supervisory Sister. She was Director of Nursing there from 1973 -1984. Over the years Pam also contributed to the Florence Nightingale Committee, the South Australian Health Commission, the Education Committee of the Nurses’ Board, the Planning Committee for the first basic tertiary nursing course at Sturt College, and the SA Branch of the Australian Nursing Federation. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "An indefatigable and very successful campaigner, whose support in her community continues to grow. Clover Moore was Alderman of the South Sydney City Council from 1980-81 and Alderman of the Council of the City of Sydney 1981-87. She was elected Lord Mayor of Sydney 2003. Clover was also elected as an Independent to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Bligh in 1988, 1991, 1995, 1999 and 2003. In 2007 she was elected to the new seat of Sydney and relinquished it in 2012. In the 1990s Clover Moore held the balance of power in the Legislative Assembly, with two other independents. She is renowned for her hard work and her community attachments. She continues to hold the position of Lord Mayor of Sydney. Clover Moore was born in Sydney, one of three daughters of Kathleen and Francis Collins. She was educated at Loreto College, Kirribilli and Elm Court Dominican Convent, Moss Vale. She matriculated to Sydney University, where she studies arts (B.A. Dip.Ed.) and lived at Sancta Sophia College. After graduation she began work as English/History teacher at Fort Street High School. And then lived and taught in London and Europe for several years. She married Peter Moore, an architect, in 1972 and they have two children, Sophie and Tom. The Moores returned to Australia in 1975, and in 1980 she ran and won a seat on South Sydney Council. She has been in public office ever since, serving on the City of Sydney Council and in the Legislative Assembly, to which she was elected from Bligh in 1988. From 2003 she was both Lord Mayor of Sydney and the MLA for Bligh, and from 2007 Sydney until 2012. She continues to hold the position of Lord Mayor of Sydney in 2016. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Clover Moore - further papers, 1976-1994 Clover Moore - papers, 1982-1989 Clover Moore further papers, 1980-2009, being Bligh-Sydney Electorate Office Archives Clover Moore further papers, 1988-2012, being Bligh-Sydney Electorate Office Archives Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc07/14 comprises correspondence from and to Romola Templeman. The correspondence is arranged in broad categories including early days, personal, art school, and by subject and correspondents. Also included are papers relating to Templeman’s painting career including catalogues, exhibitions, painting sales and prices, cuttings, reviews, notebooks recording expenses and commission/sales, and scrapbooks created by Templeman at various times in her life (10 boxes, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records of the Adelaide Hockey Club, formerly Aroha Hockey Club, comprising minutes, membership lists, match results, rules, programmes, correspondence, historical notes, photographs and newspaper cuttings.?Series list available at the Mortlock Library Reference Desk Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 September 2006 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The proceedings of the first National Congress published with Sixth National Conference and Annual General Meeting of the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia Inc.??Some issues also available online at: http://ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au/atmhn/www/members/fecca-ar9495.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 September 2006 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "45 minutes??Elsie Haselgrove talks about her childhood in Glenelg, her family, Kangaroo Island, Proclamation Day and the Glenelg jetty, schooling at Hadleigh College and St Peter’s Girls School, studying at Adelaide University, father’s death, the Depression, joining the Lyceum Club, inter-varsity hockey team, studying Geology under Douglas Mawson, English with Professor Strang and Anatomy with Professor Wood Jones, gained her diploma in 1926, married and moved to Renmark, five children, became president of the Guides’ Association, Renmark community, husband’s move from Angove Winery to Mildara Wines, moving to Adelaide for children’s schooling, became Divisional Commissioner in the Guides, buying the Guides own property in Gawler Place, involvement in the South Australian Hockey Association, and the Lyceum Club Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "ABC radio programme “Flying out of the West” Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence 1951-1956 re material for anthologies Australian Bush Ballads Vol. I and Old Bush Songs Vol. II edited by Douglas Stewart and Nancy Keesing – also miscellaneous articles and cuttings. Collected material – a draft copy of Old Bush Songs; duplicates and variant versions of material, with book lists and notes on sources; rejected material. Also notebooks containing comment on verses in the Bulletin, 1881-1931, and in libraries, including the Mitchell Library Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A tireless worker for the rights of women, children and ‘the little people’, Gertrude Melville became known as the ‘grand old lady of the Labor Party’. She was their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Elections for the Eastern Suburbs in 1925 and for Hurstville in 1932 (Federal Labor party). Gertrude Melville was finally elected to parliament as a Member Legislative Council in 1952 to 1958. Prior to her attempts to enter parliament, she was Alderman in the Cabramatta-Canley Vale Municipal Council from 1944 to 1948, including a period as Mayor (1945-48). Gertrude Melville was educated at St Peter’s Convent Surry Hills, Sydney. She married Arthur Melville, in Sydney on 2 December 1903 and they had five sons. She died in 1959. Her portrait by Miriam MacRae is held by the NSW Legislative Council. Gertrude joined the Labor Party in 1904 and was a member of Central Executive 1922-26, and 1950-52. She was president of ALP Central Women’s Organising Committee 1947-52. Child endowment in NSW is said to have originated from a motion she moved at her local branch, Randwick, in 1918. She ran unsuccessfully against Millicent Preston Stanley [please link] in 1925. Gertrude Melville joined Federal Labor after the Lang split and campaigned against Lang in 1932 election. She said that Lang’s withholding of the payment of child endowment and widows’ pensions made her decide to contest the seat of Hurstville in 1932. Later she opposed the industrial groups in the Labor upheavals of the 1950s. She was elected by both houses to fill a casual vacancy in the Legislative Council in 1952, under the reconstructed constitution (1934-78). She served one term. In 1958 she was involved in a public controversy about police corruption. Published resources Book Section HERstory: Australian Labor Women in Federal, State and Territory Parliaments 1925-1994, 1994 Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Resource Section Melville, Gertrude Mary (1884 - 1959), Ritter, Leonora, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150411b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 5 April 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Reply to Phoebe Kirwan’s suggestion that Daisy Bates write about Aboriginal people for the Brisbane Telegraph. Includes references to cannibalism. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jessie Clarke, daughter of Ivy Brookes and grand daughter of Alfred Deakin, trained in social work and was professionally active in the Port Melbourne, Victoria, area. She studied in New York in the 1930s, was a junior delegate to the League of Nations Union in Geneva and an activist on behalf of refugees. She founded the Nappy Wash delivery service in the period after the Second World War. Jessie Clarke, the granddaughter of Alfred Deakin (Australian Prime Minister 1903-1910) and the daughter of Ivy (née Deakin) and Herbert Brookes, enrolled at the University of Melbourne in 1931. She graduated with an Arts/Social Work degree and continued her studies in New York before the Australian government offered her a position as junior delegate to the League of Nations Union in Geneva. Later, with the war imminent, she returned to Australia and became president of the Victorian International Refugee Emergency Council. A few days after the outbreak of World War II she married William Anthony Francis Clarke, the son of Sir Frank Clarke, MLC, whom she had earlier taken to task for his reported remarks in the Legislative Council about ‘rat-faced refugees’. Clarke worked with the Lord Mayor’s Patriotic and Welfare Fund as a voluntary social worker dealing with the problems of army wives and relatives at first in Sydney, where her husband was stationed, and later in Melbourne. In 1946 the Clarkes decided to start a napkin wash service in response to the post war baby boom. Nappie Wash, which grew to become the second largest such service in the world, was largely a family affair, with 13 relatives and friends providing the initial capital. At various stages of its history members of the family have been directors of the company which was sold in 1975. Clarke, whose husband died in 1953, was a foundation member of the Australian Assistance Plan set up by Prime Minister Whitlam. She was involved also with community health groups such as the Abbeyfield Society, Melbourne-South Yarra Group, Broadmeadows Community Health Centre and the Melbourne District Health Council. Published resources Book Section Jessie Clarke: Founder of Nappie Wash, Tipping, Marjorie, 1985 Journal Article The Jessie Clarke Collection, Gladwin, Frances, 1998 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jessie Clarke interviewed by various interviewers [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Jessie Clarke, managing director of Nappie Wash Ltd, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of Victoria Papers of Jessie Clarke, [ca. 1900-1990] [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Jessie Clarke, 1954-2008 (bulk 1990-2008) [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 November 2003 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This series includes original source material dating from 1949 as well as photocopies of published and unpublished material, photographs, and notes made by Waterhouse in researching and writing University House As They Experienced It: A History 1954-2004. Author Details Louise Moran Created 21 June 2012 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Cecilia John, who sang ‘I Didn’t Raise My Son to Be a Soldier’ until banned by the government under the War Precautions Act of 1915, founded the Women’s Peace Army with Vida Goldstein. Interested in social questions, John was a member of the Collins Street Independent Church, the Women’s Political Association and wrote for the Woman Voter. She established the Children’s Peace Army and ran a women’s co-operative farm, the Women’s Rural Industries Co. Ltd, at Mordialloc, providing employment to women in financial need. The daughter of Daniel and Rosetta (née Kelly) John, Cecilia John came to Melbourne during her early teens to study music and singing. To pay for her training she established a poultry farm at Deepdene. By 1911 John was a successful teacher of singing and voice production as well as a poultry expert. She also joined the Collins Street Independent Church, distributed anti-conscription literature for the Australian Freedom League and supported Vida Goldstein in her campaign for election to Federal parliament in 1913. A member of the Women’s Political Association she wrote for the Woman Voter and with Goldstein established the Women’s Peace Army and became its financial secretary. At anti-conscription meetings she sang ‘I Didn’t Raise My Son to Be a Soldier’ until banned by the government under the War Precautions Act of 1915. She also formed the Children’s Peace Army and the People’s Conservatorium. Along with Ina Higgins, John ran a women’s co-operative farm, the Women’s Rural Industries Co. Ltd, at Mordialloc, providing employment to women in financial need. Following World War I John attended the Women’s International Peace Conference at Zurich with Goldstein. She also worked for the International Red Cross in Geneva and the Save-the-Children Fund in London where she became involved with the Dalcroze Eurhythmic system of dancing. In 1932 John became principal of the London School of Dalcroze Eurhythmics, a position she held until her death on 28 May 1955. Published resources Resource Section John, Cecilia Annie (1877 - 1955), Gowland, Patricia, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090484b.htm Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Book That dangerous and persuasive woman: Vida Goldstein, Bomford, Janette M., 1993 Radical Melbourne : a secret history, Sparrow, Jeff and Sparrow, Jill, 2001 Put up the sword, Pankhurst, Adela, 1917 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia Miss Cecilia John on \"why I am a Bolshevik\" Scheme of proposed Women's Rural Industries Co National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Unemployment / W.P.A. Women's Labour Bureau Correspondence 1897-1919 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 December 2003 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mack discusses her career as a nurse from 1920 onwards; Parkerville Children’s Home 1930-1932; Sister Kate’s Home 1935-1944; Mount Margaret Mission 1945-1948; Warburton Mission 1949-1955; her family and family life; mission work. Author Details Clare Land Created 22 October 2002 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "There is additional documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Vols. ML MSS. 2117/1-2 a. Correspondence, 1888 -1921. Deals i.a., with the publication of her writings, recognition of her discoveries in geology and an attempt to gain an official appointment for Mrs Daisy Bates. Box ML MSS. 2117/3 b. Writings, 1903 -1920. MS., printed with MS. Notes. C. Material re G. King’s publications and scientific activities, 1894 -1906. MS., printed. D. Miscellaneous personal papers, including King family biography, 1907 – 1910. MS., duplicated typescript, printed. E. Miscellaneous papers re correspondence, with annual reports of various societies and souvenirs in German of World War I. MS., newscuttings, duplicated typescript, printed. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joan Innes Reid influenced many lives as a pioneering social worker and the first woman councillor (and deputy mayor) in Townsville, North Queensland. In 1953 she was the only practicing medical social worker in Queensland outside of Brisbane. Joan also actively involved herself in community work, helping to establish medical, humanitarian and cultural institutions in Townsville. In 1976 she joined the staff of the James Cook University and became the first woman to be awarded an honorary degree by the University in 1995. In 1984 Dr Innes Reid was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of her community work and in 1989 she received life membership to the Australian Association of Social Work. The Joan Innes Reid prize in social work awarded by James Cook University is named in her honour Joan Reid spent her early life in country Victoria, raised by her mother and a large extended family. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1936 with a Bachelor of Arts before moving to Canada where she studied social work and completed her Masters thesis. Upon returning to Australia in 1953, Joan assumed the role of medical social worker at Townsville General Hospital. She was the only medical social worker practicing north of Brisbane, where she serviced a population of over 250,000. Joan worked with the Queensland Country Women’s Association, helping to fill the needs of homeless women – particularly those who were pregnant and unmarried. She also made fortnightly trips to Cairns to visit thoracic patients, running art and craft lessons as a form of occupational therapy. When hospital authorities observed the success of her methods, an official occupational therapy unit was established. Joan was also a major player in the 1957 creation of the North Queensland Subnormal Children’s Welfare Association (later known as Endeavour). She was also a foundation member of North Queensland Prisoners Aid Society (PAS), which promoted rehabilitation while on the inside and supported families left behind. Frustrated by not being able to meet community needs quickly, Joan decided to run for Council, becoming Townsville’s first female councillor in 1967; a part-time position so she could continue her hospital work. In 1973 she became Deputy Mayor, and a year later was appointed Townsville Council’s first Social Worker. The arts remained her greatest passion, and as chair of the council’s cultural committee, she was behind the establishment of the civic theatre and art gallery’s, and helped set up the Townsville Museum. Dr Innes Reid joined the James Cook University, Townsville in 1976 as a senior tutor in Behavioural Sciences. She was renowned for her life-long commitment to community development in the region and her efforts were instrumental in the introduction of the Bachelor of Social Work degree at the university, where she was employed as the first field coordinator in the social work program. Dr Innes Reid was a foundation member of the Townsville University Society in 1961. She served on a number of committees including the Council of the College of Advanced Education, the Halls of Residence Committee, and the University Ethics Committee before retiring in 1981. A commemorative plaque honouring Joan Innes Reid’s contribution to Social Work and Politics in Townsville was unveiled by Mayor Tony Mooneyat at a ceremony on Thursday 28 August 2003. Published resources Resource Tribute to Joan Innes Reid, Thorpe, Rosamund, 2009, http://www.jcu.edu.au/sass/swcw/JCUPRD_021264.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Dr Joan Innes Reid, Bernard Moulden, 2001, http://www.jcu.edu.au/div1/registry/council/reports/vcreports/VC-Report-March-2-01-web.pdf Dr Joan Innes Reid (1915 -2001), Grant, Heather, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1960/index.html#item-joan-reid Book Section Joan Innes Reid (1915 – 2001), Grant, Heather, 2005 Book Tropical odyssey : of a pioneer social worker in North Queensland / Joan Innes Reid with Ros Thorpe, Reid, Joan Innes and Thorpe, Rosamund, 1996 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1871; A History of John Fairfax (1804-1877) & Family, 24 Oct. 1805-28 October 1871?23 May 1882-3 Feb. 1883; Diary of a trip from England to Paris and Florence and return to England Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jan Mayman is an independent journalist based in Perth, Western Australia. She has worked as an investigative reporter in Australia and the United Kingdom for over 20 years, writing for The Sunday Times Insight team as well as The Age in Melbourne, The Canberra Times, and The Guardian and The Independent in London. In 1984, Mayman won the Gold Walkley, the highest honour in Australian journalism, and the Bronze Walkley for best newspaper report for her investigation into the deaths of several Aborigines who were in the custody of West Australian police. Human rights groups supported her investigation’s claims of human rights abuses, and her reports helped prompt a two-year Royal Commission inquiry into the deaths, leading to reforms within the Australian police and prison systems. Mayman also co-produced and wrote a documentary film about the neo-Nazi movement in Perth, Western Australia, which was a finalist for a 1993 Walkley Award for best television journalism. Throughout her career, Jan Mayman has taken a special interest in Aboriginal affairs. In the late 1980s she was writing frequently for the political journal, Australian Society, and produced a number of feature articles that tackled highly controversial subject matter including Aboriginal deaths in custody, and government corruption. An article by Mayman in January 1988 – ‘Why Joan Winch Needs $650,000’ – profiled Winch, then chair of Curtin University’s Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Aborigine of the Year and winner of the Sasakawa Prize from the World Health Organisation for her work in Aboriginal health. According to Winch, Western medical systems weren’t working in Aboriginal communities. Aboriginal people responded best to health care administered by other Aboriginal people. Winch, who had previously operated a mobile medical unit which she drove around the Swan Valley fringe-dweller’s camps, hoped to set up an Aboriginal health college offering education in trachoma, diabetes, pneumonia, ear and eye infections, alcoholism, and gastroenteritis. In April 1988 Mayman reported on the upcoming Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody under the leadership of Justice Muirhead. The Commission was set up partly in response to the Vincent report, produced by a committee of representatives from Aboriginal affairs, police and corrective services departments. It was ‘packed with disturbing statistics and vivid graphs’, said Mayman, but was largely shelved by the government, with 26 of its 32 recommendations set aside indefinitely. The report noted that 35.6% of all sentenced prisoners in Western Australia were Aboriginal, as were 91.7% of sentenced and default prisoners held in police lockups. Mayman noted carefully: ‘With a WA state election due early next year, cynics suggest the WA government has decided the risk of a few more black deaths is less electorally dangerous in a deeply conservative state than a full-blooded attack on the social, economic and cultural factors behind the West’s extraordinary black incarceration rate’. By December 1988, Mayman was noting with frustration that the West Australian Premier, Police Minister, and Police Union Society, were all united in their criticism of the Muirhead inquiry. Mayman didn’t shy from criticism of the government, and in October 1988 wrote a damning report – again in Australian Society – on the corruption inherent in government deals with big corporations. West Australian entrepreneurs were making fortunes from gold, nickel, iron ore, bauxite and diamonds, but the billion dollar Petrochemical Deal, driven by the infamous Alan Bond and Bond Corp, was Mayman’s particular focus. As part of the ‘Petro Deal’, the WA government would support and invest in the building of a new petroleum plant, while Bond Corp would take over responsibility for a government pledge to rescue Rothwells merchant bank to the tune of $150 million. Environmental problems including the potential leakage of cancer-causing chemicals were not being considered, and Mayman observed that many former conservation leaders were now working in government jobs or as part of lucrative consultancies. She reminded readers of the sale of Robert Holmes a Court’s Bell Group, when the Bond Corporation and WA government each bought an equal number of shares for a total of $340 million, and when the National Companies and Securities Commission was prevented from making a full investigation by ‘the shield of the Crown’, disallowing inquiry into government decisions. A second article, ‘You take the profit, we’ll keep the waste’, examined the environmental cost of the lucrative sand-mining industry in response to a proposal by French company Rhone-Pouenc Chimie Australia to build a plant producing the rare earths phosphate, monazite. The mineral resource would bring $300 million per year to the state in exports but projects like these, warned Mayman, were threatening some of the state’s most spectacular wilderness areas, and environmentalists were being oppressed by politically powerful mining companies. Mayman worked at Channel Seven for a time, but was dismayed by the network’s racist approach to news, and found that it was generally uninterested in reporting on Aboriginal affairs. On one occasion, she notified the newsroom of a violent police raid on an Aboriginal community in the Swan Valley. Rather than visiting the camp to interview residents who were willing and ready to tell their story, reporters went to a nearby park where they found a group of Aboriginal mourners who had been to a funeral, and conducted interviews there instead. The mourners had been drinking, and reporters came away with inflammatory material threatening violence to the police that only served to exacerbate the situation. Mayman left the network in disgust. In 1984, Jan Mayman won the Gold Walkley award for her news reporting on Aboriginal deaths in custody. Nearly a decade later, in 1993, her documentary film Nazi Supergrass was a finalist for the Walkley award for best television journalism. The documentary traced the development of the Australian Nationalist Movement, which conducted a violent campaign of racial hatred in Perth from 1986 to 1989, targeting Asians, Jews and Blacks. The group was arrested and convicted based on the evidence of one of its members, Russell Willey, who talked in exchange for immunity. Willey was interviewed for the film in secret locations and disguised his appearance. Nazi Supergrass was narrated by Mayman and Steve Bisley, directed by David Bradbury, and produced by Anthony Buckley (copy held at the National Film and Sound Archive). Events 1984 - 1984 Best Piece of Journalism Newspaper, Television or Radio, Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Freelance 1984 - 1984 Best Piece of News Reporting, Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Freelance 1980 - 2010 Published resources Journal Article Why Joan Winch Needs $650,000, Mayman, Jan, 1988 The Issues WA Still Won't Face, Mayman, Jan, 1988 Behind Closed Doors, Mayman, Jan, 1988 WA Resists Reform, Mayman, Jan, 1988 You take the profit, we'll keep the waste, Mayman, Jan, 1989 If only we are prepared to listen: Aboriginal deaths in custody in Western Australia and proposals by the Perth City Coroner, David McCann, for reform of the colonial inquests system, Mayman, Jan, 1989 Videorecording Nazi Supergrass, Mayman, Jan, 1993 Book The Indigenous Public Sphere: The Reporting and Reception of Indigenous Issues in the Australian Media, 1994-1997, Hartley, John and Alan McKee, 2000 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon and Nikki Henningham Created 6 November 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers of Rose Scott (1869-1925), which form the bulk of the collection, consist of personal papers, and the records of organizations of which she was an office-bearer – Womanhood Suffrage League, 1891-1902, Women’s Political Educational League, 1902-1909, National Council of Women of N.S.W., 1896-1925, Peace Society of N.S.W., 1907-1924 and others, together with many leaflets and newspaper cuttings. (Call No.: MLMSS 38/20X-76X)??For ‘Woman Suffrage, Leaflets and Press Cuttings on Australian and Overseas Movements’ see CY 1295 (MLMSS 38/39) Author Details Jane Carey Created 11 February 2004 Last modified 27 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Typescript book of poems entitled “Gifts and remembrances” by Marjorie Pizer. Pinchgut Press, Sydney, 1979. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A proud Tanganekald and Meintangk woman from the Coorong region and the south east of South Australia, Irene Watson was the first Aboriginal person to graduate from the University of Adelaide with a law degree, in 1985. She was also the first Aboriginal PhD graduate (2000) at the university, winning the Bonython Law Prize for best thesis. Her research motivation has been clear from the outset: to gain a better understanding of the Australian legal system that is underpinned by the unlawful foundation of Terra Nullius. Watson’s work has made a significant impression on everyday legal practice in respect of centring an Indigenous perspective in the long processes of law reform. In 2015 she published Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law the first work to assess the legality and impact of colonisation from the viewpoint of Aboriginal law, rather than from that of the dominant Western legal tradition. Watson has been involved in the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement in South Australia since its inception in 1973, working as a member, solicitor and director. She has taught in all three South Australian universities and was a research fellow with the University of Sydney Law School. She is currently a research Professor of Law at the University of South Australia and she continues to work as an advocate for First Nations Peoples in international law. Watson was involved with the drafting of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples between 1990 and 1994 and has more recently, in 2009 and 2012, made interventions before the UN Human Rights Council Expert Advisory Committee of the current position of Indigenous peoples. In 2016, Watson was appointed The University of South Australia’s inaugural Indigenous pro-Vice Chancellor. Irene Watson was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. A longer essay detailing Irene Watson’s career is in development. Published resources Resource Irene Watson: SA's first Aboriginal lawyer welcomes young graduates, Thorpe, Nakari, 2016, http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2016/05/11/irene-watson-sas-first-aboriginal-lawyer-welcomes-young-graduates Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Book Aboriginal peoples, colonialism and international law : raw law, Watson, Irene, 2015 Looking at you looking at me : an Aboriginal history of the South-east, Watson, Irene, 2002 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Irene Watson interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Professor Irene Watson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records consisting of papers relating to various publications, research notes on Daisy Bates, school broadcasts, wool promotion, Harry Butler and the C.J. Dennis centenary, correspondence with various people and photographs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Gladys Berejiklian is the first Armenian descendant to be elected to the NSW Parliament. As a member of the Liberal Party she was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (Willoughby seat) in 2003. She was re-elected in 2007, 2011 and 2015. Her positions in 2016 included Treasurer and Minister for Industrial Relations. Gladys Berejiklian was born and raised in Sydney, where her parents had immigrated to in 1960. She attended local schools and studied the Armenian language at Saturday School held in the Willoughby Primary School. Gladys joined the Liberal Party in 1993 and was President of NSW Young Liberals in 1995-6. She was an unsuccessful candidate for the Constitutional Convention of 1997 for the Australian Republican Movement. She has been active in Armenian community organizations in the Willoughby-Chatswood area and served a term on the Armenian National Committee of Australia. In 2000 she visited the USA as a delegate from the Australian Political Exchange Council. She worked on the staff of the Liberal Senator Marise Payne. In 2003 Gladys Berejiklian was elected in a close race for Willoughby after the retirement of former Liberal leader Peter Collins, and in her maiden speech, thanked those who had voted for her even though they could not pronounce her surname. She was a member of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee in 2003 and in 2005 held the shadow portfolios of Mental Health, Youth Affairs, Cancer and Medical Research and was Shadow Minister assisting the Leader on Ethnic Affairs. She has graduated with a BA (1992) and Grad Dip International Studies (1996) from the University of Sydney and a M.Comm (2001) from the University of New South Wales. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records of WAAC including the campaign highlighting risks of Depo Provera as an injected contraceptive for women. Also includes material of Women’s Liberation House. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 29 October 2004 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Gningala Yarran-Mark has a law degree from the University of Western Australia and has established a successful career working in Western Australian resources companies working in management positions. In 2016 she holds the position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Co-ordinator at UGL Limited, having also worked for Jacobs, Sinclair Knight Merz and BHP in similar roles. She earlier worked as Associate to Justice French at the Federal Court, the first Aboriginal law graduate in Western Australia to attain such a position, and as a Public Prosecutor for the Western Australian Department of Public Prosecutions. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Gningala Yarran-Mark for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Gningala Yarran-Mark and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I often get asked about role models and how important they are to the journeys we make. The greatest role models in my early life consisted of a mother and father who strived to make the most of their circumstances and built the family home on strong values such as hard work, ethics, discipline, commitment and determination. My mother would often quote simple life messages that I live by, one of those quotes, “Education is the golden key that unlocks many doors”, was a motivator for the attainment of higher education. My father had the most significant influence in my decision to become a legal practitioner. Before the establishment of the Aboriginal Legal Service as we know it today my father, David Yarran and his cousin-brother Ivan Yarran were the very first Aboriginal court officers for the Aboriginal Legal Service in Perth, Western Australia. My father was quick witted and highly intelligent, in fact my mother would often refer to his stunning intellect. Sadly my father did not get the chance to go to University. My father grew up in an era where Aboriginal children were barely allowed a primary school education let alone advancement to a University qualification, in fact the primary school Principal needed to provide written permission in order that an Aboriginal young person gain entry to high school. My father’s advocacy functions started in my early years on the Mt Magnet Reserve in the 1960’s, he was often called upon by the local police to act as mediatory between the police and many of the Aboriginal persons coming into contact with the criminal justice system to ensure our community where given an opportunity to be heard and for the police to extract information that was not forthcoming in many instances because of the mistrust of the police compounded by language barriers. Our household would be “shattered” by the untimely death of my father’s dad who unfortunately died in police lock-up after having been removed from the streets for vagrancy, despite the fact that he had a fixed address and resided with my mother and father. My grandfather’s death fuelled my father’s determination that no other family should have to suffer the indignity of the loss of a family member in “questionable” circumstances. My father was a part of a delegation to the steps of old parliament house in Canberra to fight for the rights of Aboriginal Australians to have adequate legal representation at a time of heightened hostilities toward Aboriginal people who were forced to live on the periphery of society. I grew up witness to endless phone calls in the middle of the night from distressed Aboriginal persons in lock-up concerned for their physical well-being and a steady stream of peoples seeking advice and information from my father once the Aboriginal Legal Service was established. I remember through all of this my father maintained a brutal regime to ensure others were represented, educated, comforted and consoled. I recall as a 10yr old girl I declared that as my father was the very first Aboriginal court officer I would go on and become the first lawyer in the family. Reflecting back I can recall responding to my grade 5 teacher when quizzed on what I was going to be when I grow up, I emphatically answered that I was going to be a lawyer. My household had undergone some considerable changes as a young child, my mother and father divorced, my father was deceased at age 42, mother deceased at age 49. As a result of the volatility of the household I did not go to University as originally planned, I left home early as a result of a falling out with my mother. I was married at age 19 and a mother of 5 children at age 26. Finally at the tender age of 31 I was ready for the rigours of University after having worked in a number of areas including health, education, employment and training both in government and Aboriginal community controlled organisations. I was accepted to the Aboriginal Pre-Law program in the summer of 1996. In that same year I bumped into my grade 5 Teacher who asked me whether I was a lawyer yet and I was able to state that I was embarking on my journey, sadly neither my mother or my father were alive to see me take this enormous leap of faith. I made it through the Pre-Law program and was offered a place at the University of Western Australia, I was ecstatic. There is really no description for the enormity of the task of completing a University degree, particularly with a household full of children. Whilst I was an exceptional student at school, particularly in English, thanks to my mother and her passion for reading. I recount the story to my children about how my mother had me reading “Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee” as a 13 year old, not because I had to, but because she had described the horrors of a history I wanted to better understand as it was similar to the atrocities committed on my ancestors. My learning journey was one hell of a ride. In my first year I failed dismally, only able to successfully complete one compulsory unit. From that day on I vowed and declared that I would apply the same commitment, dedication and attention to detail that I applied to all of the other challenges that I had faced prior to commencement. If anyone ever states that they achieved single handedly I would suggest that they may in fact be embellishing the facts, in my experience no one ever makes it on their own. Coming from a large extended Aboriginal family I had many hands to make my learning journey that much more bearable. I had brothers that would extend themselves financially to support my household, sister-cousins that would step in as ‘mothers’ to my children and wonderful friends that encouraged me and were gracious enough with their time to spare me a listening ear. One friend in particularly I referred to as ‘my wise one’, who coaxed me, consoled me, counselled me and cheered for me when I finally finished. Finishing was not without its ups and downs. My ups included the following; 2000 Gloria Brennan Scholarship recipient 2000- 2002 Vincent Fairfax Fellowship – inclusive of a research project in Fiji and attendance to an ASEAN Conference in Bangkok, Thailand 2001 Aboriginal Student of the Year – UWA Aboriginal Student Corporation 2001 University funding to attend the World Anti-Racism Conference in Durban, South Africa 2004 Aboriginal Scholar of the Year Award for NAIDOC Perth Some of the more trying times included the commencement of divorce proceedings in 2000 and the subsequent sale of the family home meant I found myself homeless as a single mother with 5 children to care for. Fortunately for me my extended family came to my aid and I was housed for a time whilst I completed my studies in order to secure full time employment and re-entry into the labour market. Upon my 2002 graduation I was successful at obtaining a post as an Associate to Justice Robert French at the Federal Court, the first time an Aboriginal law graduate in Western Australia had ever attained such a position. It was particularly refreshing to receive a message from Justice French when he was appointed Chief Judge to the High Court of Australia that history had been made in that moment I was appointed. After completion of a 12 month term at the Federal Court I made application to do Articles at the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and was successful. It was the first time that an Aboriginal law graduate had successfully applied to complete articles with the Director of Public Prosecutions in Western Australia. I was admitted in 2004 and completed my restricted practice whilst at the Director of Public Prosecutions in Western Australia and was the first Aboriginal State Prosecutor in Western Australia. Upon graduation I was aware of the need to give back to my Aboriginal community and I did this by being a Mentor with the Law Society of Western Australia. Another of my mother’s pearls of wisdom was a quote that stated, “once you have reached your goal it is incumbent on you to give back to others who may follow”. My parents had grown up in a world where our Aboriginality meant ‘exclusion’ and my mother was of the view that for those of our community that were resilient enough to climb to the top of their chosen profession we needed to provide support and encouragement for others to aspire to great things. My mother lived by her philosophies and I am still reminded today of how many people’s lives she transformed by being a positive, outspoken, resilient remarkable women. I exited the legal fraternity in 2007 to embark on a new journey into the world of mining and business. My learning journey is not yet complete I will graduate with Master in Business Leadership in 2016 with the view to attain a PhD shortly thereafter. My passion for learning has inspired my 5 children to go on and complete University education. Of my 5 children I have the twins in the performing arts, one a graduate of WAAPA (WA Academy of Performing Arts) the other a final year student at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art), my eldest daughter is a Sports and Exercise Scientist who is going on to do Medicine in 2016, my second youngest daughter will finalise her Political Science and History Arts degree in 2016 and my youngest daughter will finalise her Environmental and Sustainability degree from Murdoch University in 2016. I continue to give back to the community by involving myself in committees and reference groups across such areas as Law and Justice, Health, Native title and business development. Legal training and experience as a legal practitioner gives you a greater understanding of technical frameworks that then allows you to create opportunities for training others across a range of disciplines. I work with a number of student support services and donate my time talking to young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about the importance of education and the importance of making a difference in your family and your community, raising the awareness about how to positively impact your own life and that of others. I will continue to seek out new adventures and new experiences to add to my arsenal before I exit this life. Part of my new pathway is in the presence of an amazingly supportive and inspiring husband who challenges me to challenge myself and my community. I look forward to the next part of my journey as a newly married women with a powerhouse for a husband and an empty nest now that my children have all left home. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Gningala Yarran-Mark (with Nikki Henningham) Created 4 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nee McKenna. Lawyer 1936-1991. Law practice in Kalgoorlie and Perth, women in the legal professional, career of Eric Heenan MLC. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 6 August 2012 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Catholic Welfare Organisation (CWO), an initiative of the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix on the outbreak of World War Two in September 1939, foresaw the need to establish service canteens, hostels and rest rooms, in addition to catering for the spiritual needs of servicemen and women. Its objectives were to promote the spiritual welfare of the Catholic members of the fighting forces and to cater for the material welfare of all the fighting forces, regardless of creed. On the retirement of the inaugural president, Dr A L Kenny, Mary Daly was appointed to the position in 1941. She held that office until the completion of the work of the Catholic Welfare Organisation in 1948. The Catholic Welfare Organisation’s role was two fold. The Catholic Chaplains who were allocated to the various military units met the spiritual needs of the service men and women. The Executive of the CWO aimed to provide a substantially built appropriately equipped and dignified Catholic Chapel in every military camp. Catholic women assumed responsibility for the day to day running of the amenities hut in Elizabeth St Melbourne. The canteen, which was open for thirteen hours a day, was staffed by members of the Catholic Old Collegians’ Associations of the Girls’ Schools, the Ladies’ Committees of the Catholic Boys’ Schools and the Catholic Women’s Social Guild. Women also formed Catholic Welfare Organisation auxiliaries in many Victorian Catholic parishes. They helped to raise funds, knitted, sewed and collected comforts for the benefit of men and women of the services. Women were responsible also, for the Catholic Welfare Organisation’s Hospitality Bureau, which placed troops in hostels, guest houses and private homes. Although the Reverend Dr Stewart was the Director, the major credit for the success of the CWO was attributed to ‘the untiring energy and great organising ability of its president’, Mrs Mary Daly. Published resources Book Catholic Welfare Organisation: its work for the men and women of the Services during World War II, September, 1939-June,1948., 1948 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Catholic Church Archdiocese of Melbourne Catholic Welfare Organisation records Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 19 December 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Selections from collections of Australian and New Zealand interest. Contains papers of: 1. Sir Thomas Lewis, 1919-21 re cardiological matters; 2. Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, 1919-55 re “Married love”, family planning in Australia and N.Z.; 3. Sir Edward Mellanby, 1946-55 re medical research, visits, etc. 4. Prof. Percy Cyril Claude Garnham, 1939-84 re malaria, parasites etc.; 5. Sir Ronald Bodley Scott, 1966, 1979 re tour of Hawaii, Australia, Hong Kong and Brunei; 6. Sir Leonard Rogers, 1915-35 re leprosy; 7. Abortion Law Reform Association, 1937-74 re abortion law in N.Z. and Australia; 8. Lister Institute, 1902-33 re anti-plague serum etc.; 9. Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, [ca. 1957]-74 re societies in N.Z. and Australia; 10. Medical Women’s Federation, 1913-16 re women doctors; and 11. National Birthday Trust Fund, 1936 re nursing and maternity services in New Zealand Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 15 October 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Biographical documents, 1900s-2007; correspondence, c1905-2005; correspondence regarding Ursula Hoff, 2003-2008; diary (in German), 1939 + English translation, 2004; research notes, 1929-2003; photographs. Also, details of Ursula Hoff’s funeral and published tributes and obituaries, 2005- 2007. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 13 November 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection is arranged in folders, chronologically by date of tours and include background research, planning, correspondence with community hosts, photographs, publicity, feedback from participants and illustrated reports by Daphne and Dom Gonzalvez.??BOXES 1-2?Three overview albums of Changing Sydney tours and Reclaiming the Past [prototype of Travel at Home, across communities]?Files for all tours and events, including programs, introductions, correspondence with hosts, pictures, and feedback:?A day at the Khmer Buddhist Temple [Bonnyrigg], 8 September 2001?Polish Club [Ashfield], 6 October 2001?Chinatown, Old and New, February 2002?A Taste of Italy [Leichhardt], 6 March 2002?Islamic Sydney [Lakemba and Auburn], 29 June 2002?Uruguayan Club [Hinchinbrook], 21 July 2002?Changing Sydney Day, Museum of Sydney, 28 September 2002?China North [Cherrybrook], 15 February 2003?Estonian House and beyond [Surry Hills], 12 April 2003?Indonesian Sydney [Randwick], 10 May 2003?Greek Heritage, 28 June 2003?Ancient India, Modern Sydney, 19 July 2003?A Common Future [Jewish and Muslim Communities], 17 August 2003?Local Heroes: Father Patrick Colbourne, Leichhardt, 18 Oct 2003?Chinese-Muslim Friendship tour [Auburn Gallipoli Mosque], 29 November 2003?Pad with notes and correspondence on organisation??BOXES 3-4?Two overview albums of Travel at Home tours?Files for all tours:?Traditions of Power [Chinese and Indian communities], 14 March 2004?Gum Trees and Curry Leaves [Seven Hills area], 15 May 2004?Teamwork for the Good Life [Cabramatta and Bonnyrigg], 19 June 2004?Japanese Sydney [Eastwood], 23 October 2004?Russian Sydney [Strathfield], 30 October 2004?Nordic Sydney [CBD], 19 February 2005?Nordfest [Frenchs Forest], 23 April 2005?A Day in Africa: the Tanzanians [Granville], 30 July 2005?A Day in Polynesia: the Samoans [Bankstown], 27 August 2005?With the Indian Community [Mays Hill], 24 September 2005?A Day in Laos at the Temple [Bonnyrigg], 8 October 2005?With Turkish Australians [Auburn], 5 November 2005?French Heritage [Hunter’s Hill], 3 December 2005?Coptic Community: Egyptian Australians [Rhodes], 18 March 2006?Burmese Community [Granville Community Centre], 15 May 2006?Portuguese Community [Marrickville area], 16 September 2006, and 17 February 2007?Illustrated reports 2004-2009: Russian Sydney, 30 October 2004 and Japanese Sydney, 23 October 2004; Illustrated reports for Coptic Community [Egyptian], 18 March 2006, Sikh Community, 29 April 2007, Burmese Community, 20 May 2006, Sierra Leone Community, 28 July 2007, Portuguese Community, 16 September 2006, repeated 17 February 2007, Iranian Community, 23 February 2008, Baha’i Community, 17 May 2008, Serbian Community, 23 May 2009??BOXES 5-6?Overview album of Travel at Home tours?Files for all tours:?Sikh Community at the Gurdwara [Parklea], 29 April 2007?Sierra Leone Community [Granville Community Centre], 28 July 2007?Around the Cooks River [Wolli Creek], 27 October 2007?A day with the Iranian Community [Harris Park], 23 February 2008?Sydney Murugan Temple festival [Mays Hill], 20 March 2008?Baha’i Community [Ingleside], 17 May 2008?Harbour Heritage, 26 July 2008?Along the Parramatta River, 15 November 2008?Botany Bay and Beyond, 21 March 2009?A day with the Serbian Community [Blacktown and Newtown], 23 May 2009?Explore the Outer West [Parklea], 1 August 2009?Spring Gardens [Glenorie], 3 October 2009?A day with the Filipino Community [Blacktown], 16 March 2010?Weddings [Parramatta], 10 May 2010?Wildflowers and Native Plants [Berowra Ridge], 21 August 2010?Around the Inner Harbour, 6 November 2010?Two overview albums??BOXES 7-8?Communities in Action: Ashfield, 26 February 2011?Industry to Leisure: Waverton, 28 May 2011?A Sustainable Day [markets and community gardens], 27 August 2011?A day exploring Smart Buildings and Sites [inner city], 5 November 2011?History Trail and Local Produce [farms in the northwest], 25 February 2012?Riverside History and a Taste of Old Europe [Five Dock area], 19 May 2012?Coastal Gardens and Reserves [Northern Beaches],18 August 2012?Churches and their Communities [Concord and Annandale], 27 October 2012?Cruising peaceful waters beside the ocean [Royal National Park], 2 February 2013?After the Olympics [Olympic Park], 25 May 2013?Exploring Sydney’s Past and Future [Rouse Hill area], 31 August 2013?Red Cow Farm [Sutton Forest], 26 October 2013?Cruise back in time [Hawkesbury River], 1 February 2014?Old and New on the CBD Fringes: Glebe, 24 May 2014?Stained Glass in Sydney [CBD and Kings Cross], 30 August 2014?A Garden in the Mountains: Wildwood [Bilpin], 4 October 2014?On and around the Harbour, 31 January 2015?Portrait of the Artist: Shen Jiawei and Wang Lan [Bundeena and Gymea], 12 May?Hidden History: Sydney University, 22 August 2015?An Australian Oasis: Mt Annan Botanic Garden, 31 October 2015?Studio and Gallery Tour [Glebe and Blacktown], 12 February 2016?Gardens and Pots [Southern Highlands], 29 October 2016?Illustrated reports for Filipino Community, 16 March 2010, Communities in Action [Ashfield area, historical and new communities] 26 February 2011, Churches and their Communities [historical and environmental; Concord and Annandale], 27 October 2012, Portrait of the Artist: Shen Jiawei and Wang Lan, 12 May 2015, An Australian Oasis [Mt Annan Botanic Garden and Campbelltown history and art], 31 October 2015; Studios and Gallery [Blacktown and Glebe], 10 February 2016. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 July 2018 Last modified 31 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A political activist who ran for the Communist Party of Australia in Newcastle in 1932. Catherine Barratt was also a candidate for the Newcastle Municipal Council in that same year. Catherine Barratt was reported to have got a good vote in the Municipal elections in Newcastle in 1932. She was, for many years, a prominent and militant member of the ALP, and became a member of the State Executive of the party. She resigned “because of the anti-working class actions of the Lang Administration” and then joined the Communist Party. Catherine was well known in the Newcastle district as a fighter for unemployed women and for children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ann Lawler was an active party member and candidate for the Citizens Electoral Council during the election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Maitland, in 1999. She was the Candidate for Hunter in the House of Representatives in 1998, 2001, 2004. In 2003 Lawler re-contested the seat of Maitland as an Independent candidate. The Citizens Electoral Council of Australia was deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission on 27 December 2006 by the application of Schedule 3 of the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Electoral Integrity and Other Measures) Act 2006. Ann Lawler was born and bred in Maitland, where she and her husband, Tom, run a transport business. They have three children. Ann ran as an independent candidate in 2003, though her campaign literature stated she was “backed by the Citizens Electoral Council”. Her campaign opening was reported as being the largest and most enthusiastic ever held in Australia by the CEC, of which she was the NSW Secretary. In previous campaigns, her leaflets had openly declared her to be the Citizens Electoral Council candidate. Following Lyndon LaRouche’s theories, she predicted a great financial crash. She was in favour of Australia becoming a republic based on the United States model. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 11 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "15 sound files (ca. 1116 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO6]??Comprises periodicals, pamphlets, books and small posters produced by the Youth Department of the Australian Red Cross for the purpose of promotion and education. There are long but incomplete sets of periodicals, such as, Australian Red Cross Junior (1945-1975) and NSW Junior Red Cross Record (1943-1949); as well as singular purpose publications relating to topics such as civics, community involvement, food, health, home nursing, refugees, managing libraries, preparing financial budgets, music and song, debating, as well as personal safety on the road, in the home and on the farm. Also includes teachers resource kit on International Humanitarian Law and tracing patterns for five different sizes of ARC Cape.??This series has been aggregated from the National Office as well as the divisions of New South Wales, Victoria, Northern Territory, Western Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Papua New Guinea. There are also International Friendship Books with Thailand, Japan, New Zealand, West Germany, India, Greece, Philippines and Canada.??The Australian Junior Red Cross was founded in New South Wales in August 1914 by Mrs Eleanor MacKinnon, originally aimed at involving children in supporting recuperating soldiers, as well as assisting soldier’s children. Subsequently the movement evolved to focus on the development of a humanitarian ethos amongst young people through education programs, participation and activities that encourage active citizenship and community participation. In the 1970s the Australian Junior Red Cross changed its name to Red Cross Youth and became part of the Youth and Education Service Department, focusing on people under 30 years. (Australian Women’s register: Youth and Education Services, Australian Red Cross. (1914- ) http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0717b.htm)??Researchers should also refer to: ‘Junior Red Cross (VIC) Index Cards (2016.0072) pertaining to Junior Red Cross activities in schools; Junior Red Cross and Australian Red Cross Youth Records (2016.0058) and the Poster series (2016.0076).??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Emeritus Professor Mary Hiscock was the first full-time female academic appointed to the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne. In 1972 Hiscock again made history when she became the Faculty’s first female reader. She was a pioneer of the study of comparative Asian Law, introducing Asian legal systems to students at the University of Melbourne for the very first time. Hiscock was later Chair of Law at Queensland’s Bond University, where she taught Contract and International Trade Law and was also Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) from 1994 to 1997. She has been an expert adviser to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the Asian Development Bank; in addition, she has been a delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). A member of the Australian Academy of Law, Hiscock is currently Emeritus Professor of Law at Bond University. Mary Hiscock was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Emeritus Professor Mary Hiscock’s early years were spent in Melbourne, where she attended Genazzano FCJ College in Kew before graduating from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree in 1961. At university, Hiscock was involved with the ‘Melbourne University Law Review’. She was awarded the Julia Flynn Memorial Prize in 1956. After graduating, Hiscock tutored briefly at Melbourne’s Faculty of Law before embarking on a Doctor of Laws at the University of Chicago, supported by Ford and Fulbright fellowships. Hiscock was one of the first women at the University of Melbourne to undertake post-graduate study at a university in the United States. After declining an offer to practise law with a New York Wall Street firm, Hiscock returned to Melbourne and in 1963 accepted a position as a full-time academic in the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Law, thus becoming the first woman to be appointed to such a position there. Although contentious, and condemned by some male colleagues, the appointment had the support of such highly regarded scholars as Sir Zelman Cowen and Frank Maher [Farrar]. In the mid-1960s Hiscock joined forces with David Allan (later Professor David Allan AM) to conduct research into Asian contract and securities law. Hiscock and Allan went on to marry in 1980; in 1987 the couple were co-authors of Law of Contract in Australia. By now an authority on Asian law, Hiscock pioneered comparative law courses; for the first time the Melbourne Faculty of Law’s curriculum gave students the opportunity to study the laws of Asia as well as traditional European legal systems. In 1969, Hiscock was elected chair of the Women Lawyers’ Association in Victoria. In this capacity, she was involved in the preparation of the National Council of Women Case in the historic first national Equal Pay Case with the Australian Trades Council Union [Farrar]. In 1972, at the young age of 33, Hiscock again made history when she became the first woman reader at the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne [Campbell]. There were no professorial appointments at the time and it would not be until 1989 that Cheryl Saunders became the first female professor at the Law School [Timeline]. Hiscock left academia in the late 1980s to practise commercial law. She undertook articles of clerkship at Mallesons Stephen Jaques, an experience she found “challenging and invigorating” [Farrar]. Returning to academia, in 1993 Hiscock was appointed Chair of Law at Queensland’s Bond University, where she taught Contract and International Trade Law. She also served on various committees at the University including as chair of the Research Committee. She was Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) from 1994 to 1997 [Farrar]. In 1994 Hiscock was a Fellow of the University of Melbourne residential college Janet Clarke Hall. Between 1995 and 2002, Hiscock was chair of the International Law Section, Law Council Australia and chair of the International Academy Commercial and Consumer Law [Pearce]. Hiscock was also an expert adviser to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; consultant to the Asian Development Bank; and a delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). Hiscock is currently Emeritus Professor of Law at Bond University [Farrar]. She is also a member of the editorial boards of the Australian Journal of Asian Law, Melbourne Journal of International Law, and the Asia-Pacific Law Review. In addition, she is a member of the Australian Academy of Law. Hiscock has inspired with the senior academic positions she has held, and as one of the first women to obtain post-graduate legal qualifications from a university in the United States. Her pioneering of the study of comparative Asian law saw a generation of law students benefit from the opportunity to consider legal systems other than their own. Hiscock’s expertise in international trade and investment, with an emphasis on international contracts and comparative law, has been influential within academic institutions and significant international institutions such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Mary Hiscock interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law pilot oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 digital audio tapes (ca. 143 min.)??Judy Horacek, an artist and cartoonist, speaks of her family background and his childhood in Victorian country towns and Melbourne, family encouraged her to draw and write from an early age, education in a Catholic primary school and Siena College, Camberwell though her family was not practising Catholics, type of curriculum followed in college, drawing techniques she acquired, influences on style drawn from cartoon books, Punch, Nation Review and Leunig, Age and Herald dailies, Weg’s Weekend cartoons, undertook Arts at University of Melbourne majoring in fine arts and English literature, undertook part-time jobs to earn money to travel overseas in Italy, Germany, France, Czechoslovakia and England, returned to university to complete an honours degree then a Diploma of Museum Studies, started cartooning.??Horacek discusses joining a Melbourne writing group but decided she wanted to combine words with drawings, her developing interest in political and social issues, began cartooning for community group publications while undertaking temporary work as a typist and secretary for Community Services Victoria, after failing to get a job as a museum curator she decided to become a cartoonist, undertook book illustrations for Fitzroy Legal Services, Fringe Network, Fringe Festival and the National Cartooning Exhibition, illustrating for the Legal Services Bulletin, Health Issues Journal, Australian Society, Australian Left Review, Meanjin, eventually she published some of her own work in Life on the Edge, cartooning for the Age and then the Australian, the influence of Kaz Cooke and overseas women cartoonists, her techniques and themes usually drawing women, her strong commitment to political issues, her production of her own postcards and greeting cards, further publications of her own work include Unrequited Love, Woman with Altitude, Lost in Space, If the Fruit Fits, when working with ideas get the words first, her exhibitions. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Clean typescript of the novel “Maralinga cycle,” later published as “Maralinga, my love” by McPhee Gribble/Penguin. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection includes papers, newsletters, bulletins and the like relating to the many activities Mary Owen has been involved with. These include women’s issues and social welfare issues such as pensioners, the homeless, and the unemployed. Also included are diaries and miscellaneous files (including the Order of Service for the celebration of Mary Owen’s life held on 27 April, 2017 at the Melbourne Town Hall). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Irene Greenwood tells about her 85th birthday party at Cockburn Sound Women’s Peace Camp and reads a letter to the women there.?1 cassette (ca. 45 min.) : mono. Recorded December 1984 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Although there was some Latvian migration to Australia in the aftermath of the abortive 1905 revolution against Tsarist Russia, the most significant wave of Latvian emigrants arrived after the second world war. During the war Latvia was under Soviet occupation and the Latvian people were subjected to oppression and mass deportations. By 1945, 156,000 Latvians had escaped to western Europe. They were among the 12 million war refugees awaiting resettlement in Displaced Persons camps. Approximately 20,000 Latvians arrived in Australia between November 27, 1947, and the end of 1952. The latest Census in 2001 recorded 6,620 Latvia-born persons in Australia, a decrease of 18 per cent from the 1996 Census. The 2001 distribution by State and Territory showed Victoria had the largest number with 2,120 followed by New South Wales (1,940), South Australia (1,040) and Queensland (710). The median age of the Latvia-born in 2001 was 72.8 years compared with 46.0 years for all overseas-born and 35.6 years for the total Australian population. The age distribution showed 0.8 per cent were aged 0-14 years, 1.8 per cent were 15-24 years, 2.3 per cent were 25-44 years, 26.6 per cent were 45-64 years and 68.6 per cent were 65 and over. Of the Latvia-born in Australia, there were 3,070 males (46.4 per cent) and 3,550 females (53.6 per cent). The sex ratio was 86.4 males per 100 females. The age and gender distribution of the population, along with the significant decrease of numbers over time is of concern to members of the Latvia born community in Australia. Without a critical mass of new arrivals, community heritage organisations very often struggle to survive. Those who still need them and rely upon them find it difficult to keep up services as the population ages. Published resources Edited Book The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Jupp, James, 2001 Book Latvians in Australia, Putnins, A., 1981 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Latvian Community Museum Oral History Project: SUMMARY RECORD [sound recording] Interviewer: Mara Kolomitsev Interview with Dzidra Knochs [sound recording] Interviewer: Bronwyn Mewett State Library of Victoria Reminiscences of a woman migrant from Latvia, 1944-1948 ca. 1970-ca. 1979. [manuscript]. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In July 2002, the Australian Workers Heritage Centre celebrated the opening of Stage One of its national $8 million project, Women in Australia’s Working History. The first stage is an exhibition, A Lot On Her Hands, featuring the working experiences of a diverse range of Australian women. The Australian Workers Heritage Centre is a museum style complex opened in 1991 in the grounds of the old Barcaldine State School in southwestern Queensland. Many of the original structures have been reinvented into exhibition space, telling the stories of Australia’s working history through objects, art and multi-media presentations. Historic workplaces of yesteryear, including a one-teacher school, police watch-house and railway station, have been relocated to the centre from throughout Queensland. The exhibition A Lot on Her Hands is a major component of the Working Women project at the centre. It looks at the experience of Australian women in paid and unpaid work, from both the perspective of the individual and in the context of the broader issues in our nation’s history. The exhibition features a diverse range of Australian women, some known to us, others less well known but equally inspirational. The title reflects the understated resilience of the women represented in the exhibition. Some of the individuals featured include: Ruth Hegarty, a child of the stolen generation and indigenous advocate; Louisa Lawson, newspaper proprietor, suffragist and mother; Mary Barry, business woman and goat farmer; Joan Kirner, Australia’s first woman Premier. Published resources Book Songs of the Unsung Heroes: Stories and Verse Celebrating Australian Women and their Work, 2002 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 26 June 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers consist mainly of secondary source material relating to women’s issues. They include journal articles, newscuttings, notes, papers, reports, information circulars and women’s journals. A substantial amount of the research material (6 folders) has been collected on the campaigns for equal pay for women both in Australia and overseas. Other subject files include women and the media, women in the Australian Public Service and women’s organisations. There are also papers from women’s conferences and miscellaneous copies of various women’s journals and newsletters.??The papers were received by the Library in 1991. They were once part of the collection of the Womens Studies Unit at the Australian National University. Author Details Patricia ni Ivor Created 3 May 2000 Last modified 29 September 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Articles; biographical notes on prominent Western Australian women; broadcast talks; calendar; cards; constitutions of Women’s Service Guilds (1916, 1924); newspaper cuttings; files; invitations; minutes; shopping lists; programs; reports; scrapbooks; services sheets; issues of “The dawn”; stationery. The material relates mainly to women’s issues, and the Women’s Service Guilds in particular. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "NS3724 Business papers??NS3716 Annual reports??NS3717 Strategic business plan??NS3720 Statistical data??NS3722 Newsletters??NS3718 Minutes of meetings of management committee??NS3721 Working Women’s Centre survey 2004??NS3723 Fact sheets and booklets??NS3719 Minutes of meetings of annual general meetings Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The records consist of papers relating to the formation and early minutes of the Women’s Information Switchboard. Also included is a booklet ‘Domestic Violence Phone-In Report’ based on a phone survey conducted in 1980. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 February 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Greenwood’s views on feminism and International Women’s Year. Copied from Australian Broadcasting Commission’s National Radio programme. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The records include annual reports, membership records, newsletters, conference papers, photographs of early women graduates and papers relating to other State and Territory branches of the AFUW, and its international umbrella body, the International Federation of University Women [IFUW]. There is also a collection of oral histories with notable women graduates undertaken by the AFUW from 1981 onwards – see inventory for detailed listing. Author Details Jane Carey Created 28 July 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Box 1?Documents on women’s wage rates and equal pay campaigns, Spanish civil war relief committee, housing problems ca. 1937-1983??Box 2?Union of Australian Women, child endowment, child care, living standards, ca. 1946-1988??Box 3?Personal papers, International Women’s Year 1975, International Women’s Day ca. 1954-1999??Box 4?Union of Australian Women, Bankstown, 1982-1990; International Women’s Day Committee, 1965-1971; various publications on working women??Box 5?Women’s issues, Save our sons campaign, Vietnam peace material, various journals relating to women and union issues.???Box 6?Documents concerning Australian Union of Women and International Women’s Day: women and unions, UAW national state, unemployment, price control, consumer protection, inflation, the Dismissal ca. 1936-1975 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "20.47 metres of textual material (90 boxes, 13 outsize boxes)?51 sound recordings?289 posters??BOX 1?Women’s Liberation – Occasional Papers and newsletters c. 1970-1976?Includes folders:?Africa?Asia?Britain?The Left Britain?Enough?Shrew?Canada?Kinesis newsletter?Body politics?Take 1?The other woman?Pedestal??BOX 2?Women’s Liberation – Occasional Papers and newsletters c. 1970-1976 cont.?Includes folders:?Europe?International?Xilonen?New Zealand?The Women’s Page?Spectre?Do it now?Every woman?Farrago?USA?Spokeswoman?Centres for Women’s Studies and Services?Tricks Comics?The common woman?Battle Acts?It ain’t me babe??BOX 3?Women’s Liberation – Occasional Papers and newsletters, USA c. 1970-1976?Includes folders:?Female Liberation Newsletter?Herself?The Feminist Press?Velvet Glove??BOX 4?Women’s Liberation – Occasional Papers and newsletters, USA c. 1970-1976 cont.?Includes folders:?Majority report?Prime time?Real women?Up from under?Pandora?Marin Women’s News Journal?Lavender woman??BOX 5?Women’s Electoral Lobby – Submissions, Conferences and Newsletters, ca. 1970-1978?Includes folders:?WEL Exploitation of Persons Seminar 1978 Adelaide??BOX 6?Women’s Electoral Lobby – Submissions, Conferences and Newsletters, ca. 1970-1978?cont.?Includes folders:?WEL Broadsheet?WEL Conference 1973, Canberra?WEL National Conference 1981, Sydney – papers?WEL National Conference 1982, Canberra – paper presented by Eva Cox??BOX 7?Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) Newsletters, ca. 1973-ca. 1980?Including: WEL NSW Newsletters, 1973-1980 (incomplete), WEL New England Newsletter, 1973-1974??BOX 8?Women’s Liberation Sydney group papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1980?Including folders:?Lesbians – General?Camp Women’s Association newsheet, ca. 1972-1973?Sydney University Women’s Group?Macquarie Women’s Liberation Group?University of New South Wales Women’s Liberation Group?North Shore Women’s Liberation group?OWL Older Women’s Liberation?Sydney University sexism strike, 1973?Queensland Solidarity Group?Women’s Liberation House, Chippendale, papers, 1970-1974?Theory and Action Group?Women’s House Spartacist Debate, 1977?W.A.N.E. Women Against Nuclear Energy?Women and Psychology Group?Women in Solidarity for Peace?Rozelle Women’s Liberation Group?South Sydney Women’s Centre?Women’s Warehouse??BOX 9?Women’s Liberation – Interstate – various papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1975?Includes folders:?Conferences – Melbourne?Leaflets and others – Women’s Liberation Victoria?Miscellaneous publications Women’s Liberation Victoria, ca. 1970s?Position papers and bun fights?Melbourne Women’s Theatre Group and others?Melbourne Fin journal, issues 2-4, ca.1975?ASIF journal, various issues, ca. 1973??BOX 10?Women’s Liberation – Interstate – various papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1975 cont.?Includes folders:?Leaflets and others?ACT position and theory papers?Canberra Women’s Liberation Newsletter, 1971-1973?Out from Under journal, Canberra, 1976?ACT Women Against Rape – Anzac Day March, Collective Newsletter 1981?ACT Wimmin Ews 1979-1981?Tasmania Women’s Liberation – papers, ca. 1970s?Liberaction, Hobart Women’s Action Groups, 1970s?Brisbane Women’s Liberation Newsletter, 1970s?Leaflets, Submissions – Queensland, 1970s??BOX 11?Interstate Women’s Liberation publications, ca. 1970-ca. 1980?Includes folders:?Alice Springs leaflets and others?Aprons Sting newsletter?Western Australia leaflets and others?Grapevine newsletter?South Australia?Empire Times?Our bodies our selves?Women’s Liberation newsletter, Adelaide?Women’s Liberation News, Adelaide??BOX 12?Occasional papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1979, cont.?Including folders:?Working Women’s Group?What every woman should know – papers related to a publication?Working Women’s Charter Campaign, ca. 1976-ca. 1980?Janet Oakdew campaign to work as a train driver, ca. 1974-ca. 1976?Right to Work Campaign?WERK Women’s Employment Rights Campaign?Wages for Housework?Equal Pay submission, ca. 1972??BOX 13?Occasional papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1979?Includes folders:?Abortion?Anarchy?Art?Birth control?Black, migrant women?Child care??BOX 14?Occasional papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1979, cont.?Includes folders:?Class and women?Cultural feminism?Economy?Education?Family politics general?Health?Herstorical?International?Law?Woman and the left??BOX 15?Occasional papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1979, cont.?Includes folders:?Lesbianism?Organisation?Peace and ecology?Philosophy?Power?Prostitution?Psychoanalysis?Radical feminism?Rape?Sexuality?Sexual politics?Sexism?Sociology?Student politics?Work??BOX 16?Women’s Liberation Sydney papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1980?Include folders:?Control Abortion Referral Service, 1973-1979?Women’s Health and Resources Foundation?Bankstown Women’s Health Centre?Child care??BOX 17?Student papers on women’s issues, mainly newspaper cuttings, ca. 1970s?Direct Action?National Women?Nation newsletter??BOX 18?International Women’s Liberation Publications, 1970s?The Second Wave?International Bulletin?The Circle, lesbian feminist publication??BOX 19?Liverpool Women’s Health Centre papers, ca.1970-ca. 1979?Includes: Minutes, handouts, budgets and reports, general and personal correspondence, funding submissions, conferences, press releases, newsletters, campaigns??BOX 20?Women’s Abortion Action Campaign (W.A.A.C.) papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1977?Includes folders:?Infant Life Preservation Bill, 1977?Lusher Motion and Hunt Inquiry – Medical benefits for abortion, 1977-1978??BOX 21?Papers and correspondence related to the abortion debate, ca. 1973?Includes folders:?Abortion Bill, 1973?Abortion letters – personal correspondence addressed to Hon C.R. Cameron MP?Lamb – McKenzie, Abortion, 1973?Member for Griffith?Newspaper clippings on the Abortion Bill, 1973??BOX 22?Broadsheet: New Zealand’s feminist magazine, various issues including special editions, ca.1972-ca. 1979??BOX 23?Women in media, papers, ca. 1972- ca 1977?Includes folders:?Australian Women’s Broadcasting Co-op (A.W.B.C.) papers, Job Selection, ca. 1976?Women in radio?Women’s media groups??BOX 24?Government – IWY (International Women’s Year) 1975?Includes folders:?Government Advertising and Media?U.A.W. – Unions – Others; General?Others?United Nations Material?Government General?National Research Program?Grants?Australian National Advisory Committee??BOX 25?Interstate Women’s Liberation – Victoria?Includes folders:?Melbourne Women’s Liberation Newsletter, ca. 1972-ca. 1981?Lesbian Newsletter (Melbourne), ca. 1976-ca.ca 1980?Working Women’s Centre and others, ca. 1975??BOX 26?Women’s Advisory Council and other Government letters, ca. 1978-ca. 1984?Includes folders:?Government letters and journals??BOX 27?Women’s Liberation papers, ca. 1972-ca. 1979 – Local Groups, Campus Groups, Interest Groups?Includes folders:?Glebe Group?Sydney Bread and Roses?The Cauldron Hall Collective (notebook)?Burwood Group?Christian Women Concerned?Feminist Legal Action Group?High School Group?Hurstville Group?Leichhardt Locality Group?Lesbian Teachers Group?Lesbian Mothers Group?Lesbian Feminist Collective and Radicalesbians newsletter?Lesbians – Gay Liberation, Camp C.A.M.P., 1972-1974, 1975-1976, 1977-1979?Lesbian group minutes – Radicalesbians??BOX 28?Sydney Women’s Liberation newsletter, ca. 1970-ca. 1979?Subscription book, 1971??BOX 29?Women’s Liberation Conferences, ca. 1974-ca. 1976?Includes folders:?Women’s changing roles, 1974?Women and psychology, 1974?Women’s Studies conference, Adelaide, 1975?Women and madness conference, Melbourne University, 1975?Women’s health in a changing society, 1975, notes, proceedings etc.?Australian Women’s Trade Union conference, Sydney University, 1976??BOX 30?Women’s Liberation Conferences, ca. 1976-ca. 1979?Feminism and sexuality, Melbourne, 1976?Women’s studies conference, 1978?Rape laws and sexual offences, 1978?Women and law seminar, Sydney, 1978?Australian Women’s Education Coalition (AWEC) National conference, 1978?NSW Mid decade convention, 1979??BOX 31?Women’s Liberation Conferences, ca. 1970-ca. 1974?Women’s Liberations conferences 1970-1971?Mount Beauty conference 1973?Women’s commission 1973?Sorento National Lesbians conference 1973?Alternative Trade Unions Women’s conference Sydney 1973?Women and Violence forum 1974?Women and Girls : our experiences in the schools, Sydney 1974?National Conference on Feminism and Socialism 1974?National Consultation 1972??BOX 32?Women’s Liberation Conferences, ca. 1975-ca. 1978?Alternative Women’s Health conferences?Alternative Trade Union and Working Women’s Action Sydney 1975?Anarchist Feminist conference 1975?Beyond the Radical Belt Sydney Uni 1975?National Conference on Abortion and Contraception Sydney 1975?Women’s Commissions -General correspondence and financial statements 1975?-Bankstown, Campbelltown, Liverpool, North Shore, Parramatta, Penrith, St. George?Sydney?Sydney Women’s Liberation Conference 1976?Marxist Feminist Conference 1977?Working Women’s Charter Campaign 1977?Socialist Feminist Forums Sydney 1978?Lesbian Feminist conference Sydney 1978??BOX 33?Women’s Liberation Conferences, ca. 1970-ca. 1980?Women’s Lesbian Feminist Conference Minto 1979?Sydney Women’s Liberation Conference 1979?Collectives Conference 1979?Women and Violence conference 1980?Women in Education conference 1970-1979 (including minutes)??BOX 34?Sydney Women’s refuges, ca. 1971-ca. 1978?Elsie Women’s Refuge?Liverpool Abortion Defence Campaign, 1975-1977 – Liverpool Women’s Health Centre?Marrickville Refuge, ca. 1975-ca. 1978?Louisa Lawson House?Bonnie Refuge, ca. 1977?Betsy Women’s Refuge and Crisis Centre, 1977??BOX 35?Women’s Liberation Conferences, ca. 1978-ca. 1982?2nd Women and Labour conference Melbourne 1980?1st Women and Labour conference Sydney 1978?3rd Women and Labour conference Adelaide 1982??BOX 36?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980?Refractory Girl, Issue 1-19 : 1972-1980?Womenspeak Vol 1 No. 1-Vol 5 No 5 : 1975-1980?Scarlet Women No. 1-No. 11 : 1975-1980??BOX 37?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980 cont.?Magdeline 1973-1979?Women’s Magazines various incl. Sister and Join Hands ca. 1970-1980??BOX 38?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980 cont.?Various Socialist Feminist journals ca. 1970-1980?Women’s Electoral Lobby journals ca. 1970-1980?Women’s Outside??BOX 39?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980 cont.?Various Australian and International Women’s Liberation journals related to film and media, including Ramparts, Women and Film. Includes also various reports and working papers ca. 1970’s??BOX 40?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980 cont.?Various leaflets, booklets and reports, ca. 1970s??BOX 41?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980 cont.?Including Vashti’s Voice, Melbourne, ca 1972-ca. 1979?Lesbian Newsletter, Melbourne, ca. 1978-ca. 1980?Sibyl, Perth, ca. 1975- ca. 1982?Hecate, St Lucia, ca 1976-ca. 1978??BOX 42?Women’s Liberation Publications – International, ca. 1970-ca. 1980?USA?Women journal various issues 1970-1978?Notes from 2nd and 3rd year of Women’s Liberation, 1970 and 1971?Our bodies ourselves a course by and for Women?UK?Red rag 1972-1975??BOX 43?Women’s Liberation Publications – International, ca. 1970-ca. 1980 cont.?Spare rib 1972-1979 various issues??BOX 44?Women’s Liberation miscellaneous files, ca. 1972-ca. 1978?Includes folders:?Aboriginal Women, Angela Davis, Canberra booklet,?Anti-War MOUT, Budget protests 1978, Child Welfare, Elections 1977, 1975 Election Crisis, Festival of Light and Right to Life, International Solidarity, Men, Migrant Women, Womens Advisor?Women’s Resources directory, Women’s Trade Union commission, Amidale Womens group, Newcastle and South Coast, Older Women’s Liberation, Steel Works campaign, Interviews and transcripts 1972, Germaine Greer et. al.??BOX 45?Women’s Liberation miscellaneous files, ca. 1972-ca. 1978 cont.?Includes folders:?Health Action group?Health-General Abortion Campaigns?Bessie Smyth?Pre Term Abortion Law Reform?Family Planning??BOX 46?Women’s Liberation journals and newsletters, ca. 1972-ca. 1974?Women’s Domestic Needlework group, Women’s Art Movement, Women and Film, Sydney Women’s Film Group- correspondence and minutes, 1972 Women’s March Action campaign, International Women’s Day 1973 and 1974, Three Marias 1974,??BOX 47?The First Ten Years of Sydney Women’s Liberation Collection 1969-ca. 1980 – Women Behind Bars papers??BOX 48?International Women’s Day 1975-1979 and International Women’s Year 1975??BOX 49?Leichhardt Women’s Health Centre papers, ca. 1973-ca. 1975?Includes folders:?Summary sheets, 1974-1975,?General correspondence and campaigns, 1973-1974,?Official opening 8th March 1974,?Newsclippings 1974,?Requests for information and AMAX??BOX 50?Women’s Liberation journals and newsletters, ca. 1972-ca. 1974?Includes folders:?Me Jane, Feminist Bookshop, Awful Truth Show, Rouge, Refractory Girl, Womens Speak, Songs chants etc, Spring Festival of Women’s Creativity, 1973, Words for Women, Women Action Theatre??BOX 51?The First Ten Years of Sydney Women’s Liberation Collection 1969-ca. 1980 – Women Behind Bars papers??BOX 52?International Women’s Year 1975 news cuttings?Includes folders:?1976 cuttings, job appointments during International Women’s Year, sexism, incidents, anti lib, Germaine Greer, conferences 1975, Arts Media, Elizabeth Reid, Ads, cartoons, trivial, crap, Media attitudes, Jan – June 1975??BOX 53?International Women’s Year 1975 news cuttings cont.?Includes folders:?July to December 1975, Mexico conference 1975, loose cuttings??BOX 54?Political parties and groups, ca. 1970s?Includes folders:?Women and ALP, Anarchist Feminist material, Communist Party Australia Sydney Women’s Collective, Communist League, International Socialists, Socialist Party of Australia, Spartacist League, Socialist Workers Party, Union of Australian Women??BOX 55?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980 and other papers?Includes:?Mabel Collective papers ca. 1976-1978 including minutes, accounts?Scarlet Woman papers ca. 1975-1983 including minutes??Box 56?Misc. Publishers lists, Distribution, Reviews, United Associations – some newsletters?Includes:?Germaine Greer, Misc. 1974-1977??BOX 57?Misc. Publishers lists, Distribution, Reviews, United Associations – some newsletters cont.?Includes folders:?Misc. undated, Booklists from publishers and bibliographies, books printing distribution and reviews, United Association of Women – newssheet 1972-1976?Pre Womens Liberation ca. 1964-1971??BOX 58?Everywoman Press Publications ca. 1970-ca. 1978, including journals?Includes:?Sydney Women’s Liberation newsletter, August 1978 – February 1978?Magdalene ca. 1976-1978?Refractory Girl, ca. 1970’s?Camp Ink ca. 1970’s?Scarlet Woman ca. 1970’s??BOX 59?Everywoman Press Publications ca. 1970-ca. 1978 cont.?Includes folders:?Misc. Women’s Liberation booklets ca. 1970’s?New Pages (Everywoman additional material)?Printed ephemera, Everywoman files??BOX 60?Everywoman Press Publications ca. 1970-ca. 1978 cont.?Includes:?Health leaflets, Sales tax forms, Letterheads and stickers, correspondence out??BOXES 61-63?International Women’s Liberation publications, printed material, ca. 1970-ca. 1975??BOXES 64-65?Sydney Rape Crisis Centre papers, ca. 1974-ca. 1979, including leaflets, reports, bibliographies, statistics and minutes?Includes folders:?H. Correspondence regarding speaking engagements?I. Australian Union of Students, Bibliography, Child Care Conference?J. Collective Herstory, Crime and Women, Doctors and Hospitals?K. Domestic violence, Government statement?L. Housing, Institutional criminology, media?M. Migrant, NSW Labor Women, Sexual Offences Referral Centres complaints file, Women and health, Odds and Sods?Rape Crisis – Handbooks, leaflets and stickers, Anzac Day?Rape Crisis – Aims, funding, reports and statistics?Minutes, 20/4/1975-18/12/1979??BOX 66?International Women’s Liberation publications, printed material, ca. 1970-ca. 1975 includes Spare Rib magazine??BOXES 67-73?Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre papers, ca. 1976-ca. 1984?Including folders:?Minutes 1974-1979?Control and Management?Women’s Health Survival Kit?Monthly Cycle?Budget and Letters to Government?Insurance policies?Press clippings?Women’s Health and Resources Foundation – Articles of Association?Healing Woman: History of Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre, by Joyce Stevens?Correspondence and Campaigns, 1976-1979?Newsletter, Speculum Speaks ca. 1980-1984?Handouts – original artwork?Handouts – Self help, Breast care, Sexuality, Stress, Vaginal infections?Handouts – Activities at the Centre?Handouts – Health, Contraception, Pregnancy, Abortion, Gynecology, Hysterectomy, Menopause, Menstruation?Interagency Meetings, 1975-1979?Intercentre Correspondence ca. 1975?LWCHC Reports, 1974-1979?LWCHC Collectives?LWCHC Abortion Film – ‘As a matter of fact’?LWCHC Abortion Kit?Control 1973-1976?Louisa Lawson House Application 1981?’Blue Stocking’ newsletter, ca. 1976-ca. 1980, a publication of the Australian Women’s Education Coalition?LWCHC ledgers and accounts books including: Chris’s Book, 1977; Appointments Books – 1974, 1977; Donations account 1975; Film Night Journal, 1979; Health Education Diary 1977; Film and Cassette Diary 1977; Visitors Comment Book, ca. 1977, Communications Book, ca. 1978?A File Folk Story – subject thesaurus??BOXES 74-75?Australian Student Publications ca. 1970’s?including Honi Soit, On Dip, Farrago, Tharunka, Togatus, Lot’s Wife, Woroni and Cold Comfort, National U, Rabelais, Union Recorder, Nucleus, Medusa, Inquest, Arena, Misc. Alternative Papers, Women’s Department News, Women’s reports and newsletters, Australian Conferences, Alternative News Service??BOX 76?Off Our Backs, Washington DC, various issues 1970-1979??BOX 77?Australian feminist publications ca. 1971-ca. 1975?Including:?Women’s Sociological Bulletin, ca. 1973-ca. 1979?Women’s Day, July 1973?Women in Employment ca. 1972?We Women ca. 1975?Unions are for women too, 1976?Pandoras Box Women’s Writings, ca. 1976?Women in Sport by Pam Waugh, ca. 1977?Women Unions 1976?Women’s Survival, ca. 1976?Sex, booklets published by Sydney University and University of NSW, 1973-1976?Papers and proceedings First National Homosexual Conference, Melbourne 1975??BOX 78?News clippings and scrapbooks, ca. 1970-1975?Greer scrapbook or the greery road to liberation; articles, interviews, reviews of Germaine Greer?Women’s Liberation House publicity and pamphlets?Sydney Morning Herald clippings, 1970’s?Northshore Times?Digger??BOXES 79-82?News clippings and scrapbooks ca. 1975-ca. 1985 cont.?Including miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, and folders containing cuttings labelled:?Women’s rights, achievements, status and related issues – Bankstown Women’s Health Centre?Political parties and unions – publications?Abortion and contraception?Government statements including Child Care?Women and Education – Bankstown Women’s Health Centre??BOX 83?Mejane journal papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1975, including correspondence, subscription lists, invoice books and bank books??BOX 84?International Women’s Year (IWY) 1975 papers, including;?National Advisory Committee newsletter?IWY Film Fund?Media and Arts Conference?Women and Politics Conference papers and leaflets including New Dawn?United Nations Conference Mexico 1975??BOX 85?Scrapbook related the Abortion clinics, ca. 1974?Correspondence to and from the Words for Women publishing collective Glebe, N.S.W., ca. 1971-ca. 1973??BOX 86?Sydney Morning Herald, Sun, Sun Herald, National Review and National Times newspaper clippings related to Women’s Liberation, including indexes to articles, ca. 1970-ca. 1974. Articles are tipped onto plain sheets, indexed, and annotated.??BOX 87?The Australian and various other newspaper clippings related to Women’s Liberation, including indexes to articles, ca. 1969-ca. 1974. Articles are tipped onto plain sheets, indexed, and annotated.??BOX 88?Badges and stickers, mainly related to women’s and gay liberation, ca. 1970- ca. 1980??BOX 89?Large format scrapbooks including newspaper cuttings, New Dawn newsletter, various issues, ca. 1975, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog, Berkley Publishing, New York 1973??BOX 90?Every Woman Press large format publications, ca. 1970-ca. 1975, including Women Write catalogue, Koori Bina, Women and Work, and Everything. Also includes miscellaneous small format posters, printed ephemera and large format calendars.?Women’s Health Centre Visitors book, ca. 1974.??BOX 91X?Large format scrapbook, ca. 1973, containing newspaper cuttings related to rape. Two large scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings related to International Women’s Year 1975.??BOX 92X?Mabel Australian Feminist Newspaper various issues, ca. 1975, Right to Choose various issues, ca. 1973-ca. 1980, Mejane various issues, ca. 1971-ca. 1975. Oversize womens stickers, ca. 1975??BOX 93X?Handmade doll, stitched linen with Women’s Liberation logo, 50h x 25w cm??BOX 94X?Women’s Commission (unfinished) protest banner handpainted on linen, 3m x 3m folded. Purple on white??BOX 95X?Protest banners (2) painted on linen, 2m x2m. Peace dove logo, purple on white.?Women who care remember Nov. 11, blue on white??BOX 96X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts ca. 1970-ca. 1980, printed on cotton in various colours, approximately 60 x 40 cm each.?Includes:?Double headed axe (logo) on back of long sleeve shirt?Women against nuclear energy?Eve was framed?Smash sexism?Women voter power?Women hold up half the sky?Rape crisis centre??BOX 97X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts cont., printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Repeal all abortion laws?The future is female?Sappo Gertrude…?Call me MS.?I am a humourless feminist (green)?Its great to be a woman??BOX 98X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts cont., colour printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Woman (brown – in various languages)?Womans Liberation logo (purple on lilac)?Womans Liberation logo (purple on beige)?Women on the airwaves ABC?Women Write on?I support Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre?Man in shadow with gun (image – black on yellow)??BOX 99X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts cont., colour printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Women are rising – smash rape – Canberra Rape Crisis Centre?On guard – a girls own adventure?WEL (Womens Electoral Lobby) logo?Its great to be a woman?Women’s Liberation logo (pink on maroon)?Miss Piggy says make cops into chops (red)?Justice is a woman??BOX 100X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts cont., colour printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Superwoman?Women’s Liberation logo (purple on lavender)?Woman (in various languages – olive)?Call me MS. (green)?Free Sandra Wilson?Dead men don’t rape (white)?Doiley power??BOX 101X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts cont., colour printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Gay Lib?40 if she’s a day?If the unemployed are dole bludgers what are the idle rich?I am a humourless feminist (royal blue)?I joined a women’s group feminists are everywhere?Women’s Liberation logo (black on red)?Women reclaim the night (blue)??BOX 102X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts cont., colour printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Revolutionary cricket player (image – black on green)?Miss Piggy says: make cops into chops (red)?Women’s Liberation logo (green on blue)?Wonderwoman (on white)?Women are half the worlds people…??BOX 103X?Women’s Liberation sweatshirts cont., colour printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Every mother is a working mother?Make the ruling class tremble?Dead men don’t rape (pale blue)??SOUND RECORDINGS?23 sound recordings being sound cassettes relating to WEL including recordings of interviews, meetings, radio broadcasts, ca. 1977-1979.?Call No. MLOH 812?Sound recordings not to be issued – master tape only. For access please contact the Curator of Oral History.??POSTERS?289 First Ten Years Women’s Liberation posters, ca. 1969-ca. 1979 (Call No. POSTERS/2015/237-526) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "An active and life long member of the ALP, Irene Anderson was interested in social justice, particularly for women. She was an ALP candidate for Kirribilli in 1973. Irene Aspinall married Joe Anderson, long-time General Secretary, Painters & D, Meg. Irene joined the Australian Labor Party in Marrickville and subsequently held branch office positions in the Dulwich Hill, North Sydney and Ben Boyd-Cammeray branches. She was a delegate to the Labor Women’s Organising Committee for more than 20 years, and was Treasurer of it in 1964. She was also a delegate to State and Federal Electorate Councils over many years. She was one of the Australian Delegation to the International Alliance of Women Conference in India in 1973. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Volumes of records (4) 1980-1981, 1984-1988, including correspondence, minutes and newscuttings, and literary papers 1986-89. Papers of Forza e Coraggio (1989) including authors’ manuscripts submitted to ANDIA [Associazione Nazionale Donne Italo-Australiane] Alitalia Literary Competition.??SOUND CASSETTES?MLOH 61/1-5 (formerly at TR 1197-TR 2201)?’The Role of Women Today in Australia and Italy’, Proceedings of the Second International Conference, Sydney, 24 Sept. 1988??MLOH 61/6 (formerly at TR 2202)?Radio 2EA broadcast, 15 March 1990, of N.I.A.W.A. (NSW Branch) meeting on International Women’s Day, 10 April 1990, at the APIA Club, Leichhardt??Pictorial material (located at Pic. Acc. 6945): Video of highlights of ‘Noi Do Italiane’, First Conference on the Contribution of Italia Australian Women to Australia, Sydney, 26 Oct. 1985, located at VT 83. Audio tapes (located at TR1197-TR22) of proceedings of ‘The Role of Women Today in Australia and Italy’, being the Second International Conference, Sydney, 24 Sept. 1988. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 September 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Leontine Cooper was Queensland’s most significant writer addressing the rights of white women during the movement for woman suffrage in that state. By the late 1880s she had emerged as one of the key activists who contributed to progressive movements in Australian political life and Australian feminism. Cooper wrote short stories for the Boomerang and in the mid 1890s edited Queensland’s only women’s suffrage newspaper, the Star. For a short time she edited Flashes, a society newspaper, and for a while wrote ‘Queensland Notes’ for Louisa Lawson’s feminist journal, the Dawn. In 1889 Leontine Cooper led a breakaway group from the Woman’s Equal Franchise Association, which became known as the Queensland Woman’s Suffrage League. Cooper was concerned that the women’s suffrage movement should not be ‘captured’ by the Labor Party, and become subject to party politics. Leontine founded and served as inaugural president of the Brisbane Pioneer Club in 1899 which, like its London namesake, was a progressive women’s club. Leontine Cooper was the eldest child born to Frenchman Jean Francois Buisson and his English wife Dorothea (nee Smithers). She spent her early life living in the inner-London precinct of Battersea, and then at seaside Brighton, and married her husband, Edward Cooper (a surveyor), in London in 1866. She arrived in Brisbane on the ‘Royal Dane’ in November 1871, and during the 1870s worked briefly as a school teacher at Chinaman’s Creek (now Albany Creek), and subsequently Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School, where she taught French. During the 1880s and 1890s Cooper became a prominent Brisbane literary figure, serving on the influential Brisbane School of Arts committee, and playing an active role within the Brisbane Literary Circle, where she mixed with a number of leading social and political figures within colonial society. It was also during this period that Cooper emerged as a social justice and women’s suffrage advocate. She was, for many years, a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty, and in 1891 served as Queensland Government appointee to the Shops and Factories Royal Commission. Leontine Cooper does not appear to have been related to pioneering medical practitioner Lilian Cooper who arrived in Brisbane in 1891, and who was also a significant 19th and early 20th century Queensland feminist figure. Published resources Journal Article 'There is no question more perplexing at the present time and more frequently discussed than women's place in society', Jordan, Deborah, 2004, http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/Act_Centenary/articles/09_Jordan.doc Only a Woman, Cooper, Leontine, 2004 Emma Miller and the campaign for women's suffrage in Queensland, 1894-1905, Young, Pam, 2002 Resource Section Cooper, Leontine, 2008, http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A$IQ Leontine Cooper, Ferrier, Carole, 2005, http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/Act_Centenary/whoiswho.htm Book Section Women's Suffrage Struggles, Ferrier, Carole and Jordan, Deborah, 2004 Book Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Gyzele Osmani fled Kosovo in 1999 with her husband and five small children. Accepting temporary refuge in Australia she was housed in the Bandiana Safe Haven where her youngest daughter received medical treatment for a dislocated hip. Refusing repatriation in March 2000 because the situation in the Presevo Valley was unsafe and her daughter needed further medical treatment, the family was interned for seven months in the Port Hedland Detention Centre before being released to settle in Canberra. Now an Australian citizen, Gyzele is studying Business Administration and her story is the subject of a prize-winning essay and radio program. Gyzele Osmani was born on 15 May 1970 in East Kosovo, Serbia, in the village of Ternovc , Bujanovc community , in the Presevo Valley, to Albanian Muslim parents. Her father was a farmer and she had three sisters and two brothers. She left school in Year 8 when she was 14, as the local high school was converted into a military barracks. She was helped by a tutor who lent her books and taught her Serbian and a little English. She then trained as a dressmaker. In 1991, when she was 21, she married Qenan Osmani a local carpenter and upholsterer, and by 1997 had five children, the last of whom were twins born in July 1997. In May 1999 the Serbian soldiers blockaded the village, conducted a house-to house search and ordered the people to leave. Gyzele and her family walked for eight hours to Macedonia. When she finally reached a UN camp she discovered the hip of her baby daughter, Albinota, had been dislocated from being carried so long. She wanted medical help for her as soon as possible so accepted Australia’s offer of asylum, not realising it was only intended to be temporary. She arrived in Australia on 15 July 1999 and after five days in a camp in East Hills, Sydney, was taken to the Bandiana Safe Haven in the Albury-Wodonga area. Albinota had three unsuccessful operations on her hip over the next ten months. On 3 March 2000 the Albanian refugees in Bandiana were told they would be repatriated as the United Nations had restored order in Kosovo. The thirty Albanians who, like Gyzele were from the Presevo region in Serbia where the UN had not intervened, knew it was not safe to return and refused to return. On 15 April 2000 twenty-one Albanians were sent from Bandiana to the Port Hedland Detention Centre. After seven months there, she and her family were released on the decision the Minister for Immigration, Philip Ruddock, following intervention from Canberra migration agent Marion Le and other Canberra-based refugee supporters, who also helped her family rebuild their lives in Canberra. She and her family were granted permanent residence in Australia on 15 May 2001 and are now Australian citizens. Gyzele is studying Business Administration at the Canberra Institute of Technology and takes every opportunity to tell her story of life in detention in the hope of helping other detainees, particularly children. Her story has the subject of a prize- winning essay by Melanie Poole, and an Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio Eye program, which won the 2003 Human Rights Radio Award. Published resources Article The Place Where God Died. Gyzele's story., Poole, Melanie, 2002c, http://www.refugeeaction.org/stories/gyzele.htm Resource The Place You Cannot Imagine, Redfern, Lea, 2004, http://soundprint.org/radio/display_show/ID/216/name/The+Place+You+Cannot+Imagine Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Gyzele Osmani interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording] Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 25 August 2006 Last modified 1 September 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 tape reel??Miss Thomas talks of her return to Nepabunna for a week after being taken away from them as a baby; her first impression of tribal aborigines; her experiences staying at Nepabunna mission and visiting her family’s camp; her relationship with her family; her family’s reaction to her and hers to them; the relations between the missionaries and the aborigines; her memories of camp life. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 31 December 2006 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The career of Australian tennis player Thelma Coyne Long spanned more than 20 years. The winner of the Australian Women’s Singles title in 1952 and 1954 (aged 35 years) she was also runner-up in 1951, 1955 and 1956. From 1936 until 1940, Thelma Coyne and Nancye Wynne (later Bolton) were Australian Women’s Doubles Champions. During the war years of 1941 to 1945, no competition was held for major Australian tournaments and Long enlisted in the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS). Following her discharge from the AWAS Long and Nancye Wynne Bolton continued their tennis careers. They won the Australian Doubles 1947-1949 and 1951-1952. Long then joined with Mary Hawton to win the doubles championship in 1956 and 1958 – 20 years after she won the National Junior Singles Championship aged 16. The pair were also runners-up for the Wimbledon Women’s Doubles title in 1957. Long was winner of the Australian Mixed Doubles 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955 and the French Mixed Doubles in 1956. On 30 August 2000 Long was awarded the Australian Sports Medal and inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame in 2002. A life member of the Australian Women’s Army Association (New South Wales) Long was actively involved in the archiving of the association records. In October 2002 she became a participant of the Australian Women in War Project working group. Thelma Long was inducted to the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame at Melbourne Park during the Australian Open on Australia Day 2002. Long’s tennis career was remarkable not only for the span of time it covered (1935-1958) but more so for what was accomplished due to the limited opportunities available to Australian women players at that time. The records show Long won 19 Grand Slam titles – 2 Australian Singles, 12 National Doubles, 4 National Mixed and 1 French Mixed. Long’s overseas record was just as brilliant with singles, doubles and mixed championship wins in 16 countries. This was achieved after an absence from international competition for the decade 1939-1949 due to World War II and four years in the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS). For her service during World War II Long was awarded the War Medal 1939/45 and Australian Service Medal 1939/45. On 30 January 1941 Thelma Coyne married Maurice Newton Long of Melbourne. The marriage did not continue after the war. Following her discharge from the AWAS Long resumed amateur competition tennis both in Australia and overseas – Open tennis was not established until 1968. An Australian representative over the years 1938-1958 Long became a teaching professional in 1960 and devoted years of service to coaching promising NSW juniors. In 1985 her achievements were recognized by Tennis NSW when she was awarded Life Membership of the State Association. In 1993 Thelma (Coyne) Long was inducted to the inaugural Randwick Sporting Hall of Fame and then in 1999 as an Honouree of the Hall of Champions at the State Sports Centre, Homebush Olympic area. Long also was a volunteer at the State Library of NSW and she received the Volunteer Service Award in 1999, The Year of the Volunteer. In 2000, Australia’s Olympic year, Thelma Long was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in recognition of her services to tennis. Events 2042 - 2042 Posted north as OC AWAS Advanced LHQ, Brisbane. General Sir Thomas Blamey’s HQ Commander Allied Land Forces SW Pacific Area. 2043 - 2043 Attended No. 5 Army Women’s Services Officers Training School, Melbourne 2043 - 2043 Posted as Administration Officer, 2 Australian Signals Training Battalion AWAS, Ivanhoe, Melbourne. 2043 - 2043 Adjutant to 4 Australian Training Battalion Army Womens Services, Darley, Victoria. 2044 - 2044 Promoted to Captain 2044 - 2044 Transferred to HQ Vic. L of C Area, Melbourne as Deputy to Assistant Controller, AWAS 2045 - 2045 Appointment terminated – demobilization of married personnel. 2043 - 2043 Detached as Staff Officer to Her Excellency The Lady Gowrie for a three week tour of Allied Defence Forces & Women’s Services throughout Northern NSW and Queensland. 2043 - 2043 Detachment to attend War Course VII, First Australian Army Junior Staff School, Ashgrove, Brisbane. Two female officers, one AWAS, one AAMWS included in the ten week course for the first time. 2044 - 2044 Posted as Instructor (Directing Staff) LHQ Army Women’s Services Officers School (AWSOS) Toorak, Melbourne. 2041 - 2041 Joined the Australian Red Cross, Victorian Division and became a fully trained transport driver 2042 - 2042 Enlisted Australian Women’s Army Service 2042 - 2042 Attended second AWAS Recruit Training School at “Glamorgan” Toorak, Victoria. Trade grouped and trained as transport driver at Land Headquarters (LHQ) Car Company 2042 - 2042 Promoted Corporal, then Sergeant and posted in charge of a group of AWAS & WAAAF drivers detached to USA Forces in Australia (USAFIA) – General Douglas MacArthur’s HQ, Melbourne 2042 - 2042 Attended first NCO School for AWAS in Victoria, then posted AWAS HQ at LHQ, Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, with the Controller AWAS, Lt. Col. (later Col.) Sybil Irving’s Staff HQ. 2042 - 2042 Commissioned and from this point Colonel Irving directed her varied and numerous postings. Published resources Resource Section LONG, THELMA DOROTHY, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=605431 Book Encyclopedia of Australia Sport, Shepherd, Jim, 1980 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1947, Chisholm, Alec H, 1947 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Great service - in army, tennis Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Interview with Thelma Long (When the war came to Australia) Long, Thelma D (Captain, AWAS AIF b: 1918) Long, Thelma Dorothy (Captain, AWAS AIF b: 1918) Long, Thelma (Captain, AWAS, AIF) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 January 2003 Last modified 7 August 2017 Digital resources Title: Ready for Tennis Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Servicewoman Thelma Long Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0432gc.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0432gd.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Robin Eagle has been active in the South Australian Women’s Movement since 1976 and a lesbian feminist activist in Victoria before then. Born in Hopetoun, Victoria, she joined the Women’s Liberation Movement in Victoria in 1975. A dedicated community worker, she helped establish and run many community groups. She is on the Board of Management for the Women’s Studies Resource Centre in Adelaide, South Australia 1999-2013. Robin has published a book of poetry. Robin Eagle has been a lesbian feminist activist since 1975. In Melbourne she was involved in the founding of Women’s Liberation Halfway House Collective Inc ( Women’s refuge) Then in 1975 she co-founded the Vesuvia Women’s Book and Craft Association in Collingwood. She tutored in Commerce at the University of Adelaide 1978-82. She lectured at the Light, Spencer Institutes of Technical and Further Education, South Australia, and in Alice Springs TAFE. She is a contributor to the Yulara Times when working as co-ordinator and counsellor at the Yulara Community Resource Centre in 1973-4. She was also a collective member of the Women’s Spiritual Movement, South Australia and co-founder of Plum Farm Women’s Land in 1980. Other activities she has been involved in include: co-ordinator of the Elizabeth West Community Food Co-op; co-ordinator of the Bowden-Brompton Community Centre (SA) ; board membership of the Women’s Studies Resource Centre. And member of the YWCA Bush walking group. Robin was on organizing collectives for feminist conferences including the Melbourne Women’s Liberation conference in 1976, the series of National Lesbian Feminist Conferences between1989-2000 and the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Conference 1996. Robin has published a book of poetry, Distilled Essence of Eagle (1985). She has contributed to anthologies published by SA Country and City Women Writers and taught womens assertiveness, communication, creative writing at varied community centres. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement : SUMMARY RECORD Robin Eagle: Summary Record Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "45 minutes??Kemeri Murray talks about her home life during the depression, doing law at Adelaide University, graduating in 1953 in Law and 1954 in Arts, living at Magill, studing piano under Raymond O’Connell while doing articles at Vaughan, Porter and English, trip to England, marriage to Eric Murray in 1955, admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of SA, transferred to Brian Magarey and offered a partnership, first married woman to be offered a partnership in SA, 1973 offered a position on the Bench with the District Court of SA, second woman judge in SA, son Phillip and daughter Belinda born in 1963 and 1966, support from her husband, Children’s Court and State Family Court, joining the Lyceum Club, member of the Flinders University Council, 1978 appointed to the Advisory Council for Inter-Government Relations, member of the Social Responsibilities Commission of the Anglican Church, board appointments, bettering the community, education, progress for women and the law. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Speech given by Leonie Christopherson to the Rotary Club of Box Hill Central 29 November 2006 Created 11 September 2013 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "BOX 1?Printed proclamation of His Royal Highness Alexander Tsar of Russia, the diploma of Royal Order of Saint Sava Third to Mr. Kelso King, 17 March 1921??Letters from Kelso King to his wife Alicia during his trip to Europe, 1913-1928??Papers and records including letters, news cuttings and obituaries relating to death and funeral service of Kelso King, 1943??Letters and excerpts from periodicals and newspapers relating to Kelso King’s career in insurance mainly Mercantile Mutual, 1885-1940, 1954??Photograph Kelso King including photo with Col. J. M. Maughan and Lord Baden Powell arrival in Australia and two mounted copies of portraits, ca. 1931??Passport of Lady Alicia Kelso King, 1939??Letters from Kelso King to his mother 1898 and to his family while travelling, 1922??Records and carte de visite relating to King family history and life of Walter and Eliza Hall, including family tree and draft articles for the Australian Dictionary of Biography by Hazel King, ca. 1903-1922??Letters from Kelso King to his first wife Irene Rand second wife Alice, 1878, 1907, 1922-1923??BOX 2?Letters from Irene Rand and Alicia Kirk to Kelso King, 1878-1879, 1907??Letters from Kelso King to his family, 1865-1880??Greeting cards and newspaper clippings enclosed in letters from Kelso King to Irene Rand, 1877-1879??Carte de visites, ca. 1863-1919??Two family photographs in St Petersburg and souvenir postcards from travels in Europe, ca. 1910-1913??Diary of Kelso King, 1898??Research papers and notes compiled by Georgina King, relating to early history of Western Australia, mineral wealth of New South Wales, ca. 1852, including souvenir program of 90th anniversary service of the Parish of St Thomas Enfield, 1938, and printed newsletters of University of Sydney Archives, 1982??Published version of articles by Georgina King relating Aborigines in Australia and Tasmania and the discovery of gold in Australia published in the Sunday Times 16 December 1923 and printed by William Brooks & Co. 1924??Typed transcripts of letters from Kelso King to Irene Rand, 1877??Manuscript letter book containing proofs of business letters sent by Kelso King, 1876-1882??BOX 3?Scrapbook of Olive Kelso King of news cuttings ca. 1898-1937??Papers of Rev. George King including letters to Alice and extracts of notes and diaries in connection with his work in Western Australian 1841-1849, 1899, and souvenir program of foundation stone centenary celebrations at St peter’s Church Cooks River, 1938??Letter from Professor of Department of History to Hazel King with typescript of ‘Reminiscences’ by her grandfather Reverend George King at Sydney University, 1988??Letters from Kelso King to his fiancé Irene Rand, 1879, and after they were married 1879-1882??Souvenir programs, notes from sermons and addresses, newsletters and news cuttings relating to funeral of Sir Kelso King, 1943??Receipts Walpole Bros Limited and Hotel Washington, 1913??Letter from Chief Secretary of New South Wales to Premier of NSW relating to Miss Kelso King and Miss Hey’s trip to England, 1905??Copy of family tree of John Wallace of Rovergh, no date??Ephemera mainly copies and reproduction of artworks and sites visited in Europe, no date??Badges, pendants and ribbon medals awarded to Kelso King from the Boys Scouts, gold plated and bronze, 1922-1925 including medal ribbon dates 1882??Commemorative medallion with Captain Arthur Philip for Australia’s 150th Anniversary, 1938??Silver coin medallion commemorating London International Exhibition opened 1st May 1862??Paperweight bronze, no date??Parcel 4?Certificate of offices held in order of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem to Sir Kelso King, 17 May 1929, 20 November 1936 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 sound files (approximately 5 hr. 29 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dur-e Dara was awarded the Medal of The Order of Australia (OAM) in 1997 for services to the community and promotional and fundraising activities for women’s groups. Born in Malaysia and of Indian descent, Dur-e Dara settled in Australia in 1962. She attended Presbyterian Ladies’ College before completing a Social Welfare Degree at the University of Melbourne. Dur-e Dara worked in youth welfare at Winlaton and Turana for the Youth Welfare Division of the Victorian Social Welfare Department for three years. In 1976 she joined Stephanie’s Restaurant as a casual waiter and later became manager and co-proprietor. She was to spend over 20 years at Stephanie’s, in which time she also helped to establish the Pavilion (later Donovan’s) in St Kilda and the Nudel Bar in the Melbourne business district. With Barbara Harper in 1997, she entered a partnership in the Tea Corporation, a high quality tea import, wholesale and retail business. In 2000 she established a consortium/partnership for Lip café bar as well setting up a consortium of small investors for EQ Cafebar (Southbank). Dur-e Dara is President of the Restaurant and Catering Association of Victoria; Convenor of the Victorian Women’s Trust; Vice-President of Philanthropy Australia; and board member of the Victorian Wineries Tourism Council and Business Matrix Victoria. She is Director of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and serves on the advisory boards of the Women’s Reference Group of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission; William Angliss College; RMIT School of Tourism and Hospitality; and the Swinburne School of Hospitality and Tourism. She is also Patron of the Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture; elder, Women’s Circus Victoria; and a member of the Victorian Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Coalition, the Tamil Elam Women’s Organisation, the Melbourne Chapter of the Australian Symposium of Gastronomy, Asia Link, Habitat for Humanity and Asia Society. In addition to her OAM, Dur-e Dara received The Vida Goldstein Award for excellence in her trade, and was selected as one of 150 on the Inaugural Women’s Honour Roll, a Victorian Government initiative as part of the Centenary of Federation celebrations in 2001. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2001 - 2001 Awarded the Centenary Medal ‘for service to the restaurant industry’ 1997 - 1997 Awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) ‘in recognition of service to the community and to promotional and fundraising activities for women’s groups’ Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 January 2003 Last modified 9 May 2019 Digital resources Title: Dure Dara Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ruby Hutchison was the first woman elected to the Legislative Council in Western Australia, and the first to take her place in any Australian Council. She was the only female member of the Chamber during this period. Her work enabled the introduction of the first law to enable women to serve on juries, and she founded the West Australian Epilepsy Association to fight discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities. Ruby Florence Herbert was born in Melbourne in February 1892, and came to the Murchison goldfields in Western Australia with her parents in 1896. While still in her teens she married Daniel Buckley, a miner. When the marriage later broke up, she was left to rear seven children alone, and supported her family by taking in boarders and dressmaking. She married Alex Hutchison in 1941, and attended business college and summer schools at the University of Western Australia. She contested her first election in 1950 at the age of 58, having joined the Australian Labor Party (ALP) decades earlier. In 1954 Hutchison became the first female member of Western Australia’s Legislative Council, and throughout her seventeen-year parliamentary career campaigned tirelessly for the Council to be substantially reformed, or abolished. She successfully fought for the right of women to sit on juries, and consistently attempted to secure compulsory voting and adult suffrage for Legislative Council elections. Hutchison received international recognition for her work on behalf of epilepsy sufferers, and was a founder of the West Australian Epilepsy Association. She also fought to ensure that those afflicted with intellectual disabilities did not suffer discrimination. Hutchison retired from politics in 1971 at the age of 79. She died at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in 1974, and is buried in the Karrakatta Cemetery. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Resource Section Hutchison, Ruby Florence (1892-1974), Black, David, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140600b.htm Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom comprising minutes, annual reports, subject files, financial records and correspondence. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hours 56 minutes??Barbara Hardy, nee Begg, was born at Largs Bay, Adelaide. She attended Woodlands Girls School and began a science degree at Adelaide University aged 16. She married Tom Hardy in 1948. During the 1950s and 60s family and sport were Barbara’s chief interests, however camping holidays also awakened her concern for the environment. In 1972 she began voluntary work with the Conservation Council and in 1974 started a degree in earth sciences at Flinders University. With growing expertise as a lobbyist, Barbara assisted David Wotton, Shadow and then Minister for the Environment in the late 70s and early 80s. Her husband died in 1980. Barbara resigned from the Liberal Party so that her activism could be non-party based, and since then has applied her ‘patience, persistence and perspiration’ to many organisations and issues, including the Australian Heritage Commission, Landcare, the National Parks Foundation and the Science and Technology Centre. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The records consist of papers relating to the Women’s Union Committee’s intervention in the Australian Council of Trade Union’s maternity test case and include submissions and background material relating to this issue. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nonja Peters is an historian, anthropologist, museum curator and social researcher whose expertise is transnational migration (forced and voluntary) and resettlement in Australia: ethnicity, sense of place, identity and belonging; immigrant entrepreneurship, racism and the sustainable digital preservation of immigrants’ cultural heritage. She also has a special interest in Dutch maritime, military, migration and mercantile connections with Australia and the South East Asian Region since 1606. She is currently involved in academic, community-based, visual and bilateral research, publications and events in all these areas in Australia and internationally. Nonja is initiator/innovator, researcher and curator of numerous permanent and travelling museums that have been displayed variously in Australia, South Africa, Indonesia and the Netherlands. Nonja Peters was born in the Netherlands 27 February 1944, following her parents’ frantic escape from a munitions factory in Alsace Lorraine, where they were forced to work for the Nazi war machine. Her mother was then nearly seven months pregnant of her. The months after her birth were also fraught with her mother’s fear of the Nazi VI and V2 bombs launched in the Netherlands on their way to bomb UK cities. In December 1948, her father Jan (John) set sail for Australia on the SS Volendam (Holland America Line) as part of the mass post-war migration movement out of Europe across the globe. It would take a few more years before the economy of the Netherlands picked up, which also slowed down exit to a trickle. Nonja’s mother Jo (Johanna Peters nee Verhoeven) and her children (then Nonja and Eddie) made the voyage to join Jan (John) on the Italian part freighter, part passenger ship Ugolino Vivaldi from Genoa in July 1949. Nonja was then 5 and her brother 9 months. They had travelled by train from Tilburg, a city in the Dutch province of North Brabant to Milan, accompanied by Jo’s Aunt Cor (Corinne Berens nee Hutten) and her three children, Jan (John 9), Tony (5) and Jenny (Sjannie 6). They were going to join Corinne’s husband Toon Berens who had migrated together with Jan, Nonja’s father. Mistakes made by the Dutch bank meant their ship had already left and so with the Dutch Consul’s help they travelled onto Genoa to catch the ship he had managed to organise. The Peters family settled, first in Subiaco a suburb of Perth the main, and then only, city of Western Australia, followed by Toodyay, a wheat-belt town two hours drive from Perth, where the family opened a café with another couple – she a Displaced Person (DP) from Belarus and he a Dutchman who had met in a forced labour camp in Germany. Eighteen months later the Peters family moved to Northam, another town in the rural Avon Valley, 30 kilometres from Toodyay where non-English speaking migrants were accommodated in military camps. Here Nonja befriended other migrant children. Non-English speaking migrants were then accommodated in the migrant camps in Northam until allocated employment and found alternative accommodation. This was the time when assisted passage entailed signing a two-year contract to work where it suited the government. Many DP’s were set to work on road and rail projects in these towns. Northam became a multicultural environment with shops employing German speakers to deal with the incoming migrants. It would take some years before English, as a second language, programs were the norm in schools and the workplace. At that time there was little help provided to migrants of any age to deal with settlement issues. Moreover, the government, which fostered an assimilation policy, believed the children would automatically become Australians without assistance. In 1955, Nonja’s mother gave birth to twins, Nancy and Eric. Nonja, then eleven, became the live-in baby-sitter to the twins and Eddie and often the children of her parent’s migrant friends. In this her experience replicated that of so many eldest migrant children, as few migrant families had extended kin in Australia and could not afford to pay for babysitting. Nonja’s mother liked to join her musician father, who apart from his day job in insurance, had a jazz band that played music for weddings, country dances and balls and in hotels. Apart from kindergarten, Nonja’s education has been exclusively in Western Australia. At the age of seven she spoke English well enough to staff the counter of the family’s fish and chip shop. Although she speaks and reads Dutch, she does not write or spell it very well. She is in any case also a latecomer to academia. Like so many women at that time, it was expected that she leave school at 15 to help with family finances and her brothers’ education. At thirteen she had won the school prize for public speaking and at 15 the first prize in an essay competition that afforded her a five-pound win. This she used to pay for a year of upper high school schooling. However, lack of parental enthusiasm for this choice had her give it away and look for work a few weeks later. Just before turning 17 she accompanied her maternal grandmother, who was visiting Australia back to Tilburg, her hometown in the Netherlands. She was the token person used to fulfil her grandmother’s dream to bring back the whole family. While in Tilburg she was employed in ‘Admissions’ at the St. Elisabeth teaching hospital. At the behest of her father, she also completed a diploma in chiropody. However, on her return to Australia in 1962, her chiropody diploma was rejected. Knowing this her, father had organised for her to be employed as a ledger (accounts) machinist for a private Firm in the country town of Northam, from a few days after her arrival back to Australia, to enable her to pay back the bank loan he had procured to pay her fare home. A year later she went to the city of Perth, where she was employed as Ledger Machinist by the Public Works Department, a State Government Utility and later the Main Roads Department and Crown Law Department. Having to earn her living and pay back the bank saw her in this job (which she loathed) until she married Robert Francis Peters, a migrant from Wales and the UK in January 1968. State and Federal governments did not yet employ married women. September that year she gave birth to Bradley Alexander and in October 1970, Richard Gerald John. In 1978, she entered the upper secondary education sector as a mature-age student, which gained her entry to the University of Western Australia. By then she was mother to two primary school aged children and an increasingly severely disabled husband with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). She combined education/career/carer responsibilities for the next 32 years 1977-2009. She began research first on Anorexia Nervosa for her Honour’s thesis, passed in 1987 and then into migration. In 1992, produced her first museum exhibition, on post-war migration to Western Australia (WA). It was on display for a year at the WA Maritime Museum in Finnerty Street, Fremantle and in the WA Museum Perth. Its opening attracted the largest visitation numbers the museum had ever seen to date. It was awarded a ‘special commendation by the inaugural WA Premier’s History Award committee. It had hit a ‘nerve’ as migrants wanted their experiences and contribution to Australia acknowledged. In 1994, she was invited to research and produce the exhibition: Working it Out: Cultural diversity and the WA Economy for the State Library and Office of Multicultural Interests (OMI). It was on display in the State Library for six months. In 1995, she was employed as curator by the WA Museum to produce the exhibition A New Australia: Postwar Migration to Western Australia. The success of her earlier exhibitions had enabled the WA Museum to secure $100,000 in funds for it. It was on display for 16 years. In 1997, she left the museum and returned to the University of Western Australia (UWA), to concentrate on finishing her PhD. In 1998, she produced the exhibition A Sense of Place: Postwar Migration to Northam. Based on archival material, artefacts, photographs, and over 100 oral histories, it is still on display in the Northam Visitor Centre. She enticed, Tourism WA (Northam) to work with her to hold three multicultural festivals (1999, 2000, 2006) that brought and estimated 8,000-10,000 people from Perth to Northam – for the day – each year. Nonja was a co-founding member of the Dutch Australian Community Services (DACS) WA Inc. – now Dutchcare. Vice President of the Northam Army Camp Heritage Association, and Chairperson for the Associated Netherlands Societies of WA Culture and Heritage working group. She was also a member of the Ethnic Communities Council Women’s Sub-Committee; the Golden Pipeline Interpretation Committee; the LISWA Migrant Archives Advisory Committee; and continues on the advisory committee to the National Archives of Australia (WA). In 2000, the University of Western Australia awarded her a PhD cum laude on Dutch, Greek, Italian and Vietnamese immigrant entrepreneurs. In July 2000, she entered Curtin University as a Visiting Fellow. Her first book Milk and Honey But No Gold: Postwar Migration to WA 1945-1964, based on the research that had produced the museum exhibitions, was launched in November 2001. Published by the University of Western Australia (UWA) Press, it was launched in the Passenger Terminal Fremantle by the Premier, Geoff Gallop to an audience of over 500 people. It was short-listed in 2001 for Premier’s Literary Awards in NSW, QLD and WA. The QLD awards had attracted 809 entries. She is a contributor to two other books that were shortlisted for Premier’s Literary Awards. Her book the Dutch Down Under, 1606-2006, UWA Press 2006, is lauded in The Hansard, which reports the proceedings of the Australian parliament and its committees. In 2016, the Geography Year 8 Curriculum book she contributed to won the Geography Teacher’s NSW Middle School book prize. In 2002, she was made inaugural Director of the Migration, Ethnicity, Refugees and Citizenship Research Unit. This attracted keynote and leadership speeches at conferences and in panels from other universities and women groups. She has also given numerous invited and conference addresses. The following years, 2003, she conceptualised a 2/3rd year BA course on forced and voluntary migration, and a Masters course on Refugees. The same year she was awarded a Centenary Medal, for her leadership in preserving the cultural heritage of all post-war European migrant groups. In 2011, the MERC changed its name to The History of Migration Experiences (HOME) Research Unit. In 2004, she was shortlisted as a Living National Treasure – along with famous Australians: Fiona Stanley, Harry Butler, Haydn Bunton, Fiona Wood, Tony Cooke, Graham Edwards and Raymond Omodei. December 2004, Nonja also won a five year Curtin University Research Fellowship from a highly competitive field, to research: ‘Footsteps of the Dutch in Australia: Maritime, Military, Migration and Mercantile connections with Australia 1606-2006?. A year later, 2006, she produced the book: The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006: Its first edition was published by Wolters Kluwer, its second edition by UWA Press. The same year she was awarded a knighthood (Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau by Dutch Queen Beatrix, for the preservation of Dutch Australians’ cultural heritage and for fostering bilateral relations between Australia/Netherlands. 2006 was a busy year for Nonja re events related to the 400-year celebration of mutual heritage between Australia the Netherlands via the landing of the Duyfken in 1606. She was Western Australian Chair of the prestigious Australia on the Map 1606-2006 committee made up of big business, former Premier and educationists from 2004-2007. It organised numerous educational and festive, events in Australia and the Netherlands. The same year Ambassador of Australia to the Netherlands Stephen Brady asked Nonja to mediate the panel discussion ‘Embracing Diversity’ for International Women’s Day Panel. Panellists included: Dr Fiona Wood ‘2005 Australian of the Year’, Maria van der Hoeve Dutch Minister for Education NL, Fatima Eletak, a Muslim Woman who was also Alderman of the City of Amsterdam. The event was held in the Schouwberg (Concert Hall) The Hague with invited Guests only. Hosted by the Australian Embassy. Diane Lemieux reviewer of the event for TheHagueOnLine.com noted: ‘Inspirational’ the word bounced through the crowd as we filed out of the stately Theatrezaal of the Koninklijke Schouwberg. The positive energy exuded by the panel speakers made the crowd jubilant as they lined up for the buffet lunch. Introducing the speakers and leading the discussion was Nonja Peters, Director of MERC Research Unit, Curtin University of Technology in Perth Western Australia. “Who was just right for the job.” 2006: Nonja was invited, by the Dutch Embassy Canberra, to escort the Dutch Prime Minister Professor Jan Balkenende, the Dutch Ambassador, his entourage and the Dutch press around the Melbourne Immigration Museum. 2006: Facilitator of a panel discussion of migrants relating their experiences of war, internment and the Indonesian Revolution in the Netherlands East Indies 1942-1946, and their subsequent migration to the Netherlands and then onto Australia to the Dutch Prime Minister Professor Balkenende and his entourage on 29 March 2006. She was adviser to the National Archief and States General (Dutch Staten-General), the bicameral legislature of the Netherlands consisting of the Senate (Eerste Kamer) and the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) for their Dutch migration to Australia exhibit Inpakken and Wegwezen (pack up and go), which went on display in Parliament, The Hague, March 2006. She was invited to open the exhibit with the Speaker of the House Frans Weisglas. Earlier the same day she gave a keynote address on Dutch migration to Australia in the Oude Zaal – Old Hall of Parliament, in a conference organised by the Tweede Kamer (House of representatives) in collaboration with the National Archief, The Hague on Dutch connections to Australia 1606-2006. She has also sat on many selection committees for public arts works related to migration issues. Nonja continues as advisor to the Australian Ambassador in The Hague and Dutch Ambassador in Canberra since 2004. She has organised for a number of Official visits to Curtin by Dutch Royalty, Dutch and Australian Ambassadors and Consul Generals and Consuls – to discuss ‘mutual heritage projects, student and academic exchanges, scholarships, trade and hockey exchanges. Some of her keynote speeches have initiated changes to the Dutch Australian ‘mutual heritage’ policy. Nonja’s vision is to strive to produce ‘high quality’ research, grounded in best practice theoretical and methodological perspectives, to produce outcomes that also fuel her mission: ‘To transform high quality research into ‘high impact’ publications – books, book chapters, exhibitions, documentary films, one-on-one public interviews with prominent migrants, discussion panels and festivals – that are readily accessible by the people whose lives they narrate. She works in collaboration with community groups, universities, galleries, (National and State) libraries, archives and museums in Australia, the Netherlands, around Europe, the UK and USA to achieve this aim. She has organised a number of workshops and conferences including the international conference at Curtin: ‘Mediating Human Rights and Democracy: Indonesia, Australia and the Netherlands that attracted 600 delegates. She has been a CI on two successful ARC grants. She is the recipient of many other competitive granting bodies that include: Lotterywest, Healthway, the Office of Multicultural Interests (OMI), National Trust Estate Grants, Department of Immigration and Ethic Affairs (DIMEA), Dutch Embassy Canberra, South Africa and Indonesia, Australian Embassy The Hague, Dutch Consul General’s Office Sydney; Department of the Arts, Dutch and Australian Embassies, Department Culture and the Arts, Dutch and Australian Academy of Humanities visiting academics grants, Rabo and ING Banks, Wolters Kluwer publishers, Museums in WA, The Netherlands, South Africa and Indonesia, the WA State Library, Dutch East India Company Foundation, Dutch Migration Foundation, Erasmus Foundation, WA History Foundation and the Wheatbelt Development Commission, Liveable Communities Grants, Curtin Humanities Visiting academics grants and many more small granting bodies. In 2007, she published Netherlands Youth Blooms Again at Fairbridge, 1945-1946, via the Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific, Curtin University, Perth, WA. In December, 2008, she published From Tyranny to Freedom Dutch Children from the Netherlands East Indies to Fairbridge Farm School 1945-1946, Black Swan Press, Curtin University. In 2009, after the death of her husband, she spent 5 months in the Netherlands on study leave. Two and half months at KITLV (Institute South East Asian and Caribbean Studies, researching the Indonesian revolution for Independence and Australia’s role in it. The other two and half months were spent at the University of Amsterdam, in the archival studies centre to acquire a greater understanding of digitisation as it pertains to preserving cultural heritage. She is curator of the Welcome Walls, at Maritime Museum in Fremantle that were launched in December 2010, attended by an audience of 8,000. The book We Came By Sea, WA Museum Press (2010), which she wrote to accompany the launch, sold over 7000 copies then, and continues to sell. In 2011, it won the Curtin University Humanities book of the year award. In 2016, she published A Touch of Dutch: Maritime, Military, Migration and Mercantile connections with the Western Third, 1616-2016, Carina Hoang Communications, Perth, Western Australia 2016. 2018, she will launch The Graylands Migrant Camps, Nedlands Library, Perth, Western Australia. In 2011, the Stichting International Cultureel Erfgoed (SICA now DutchCulture, Amsterdam) invited her to visit the Netherlands under their International Visiting Academics Program to meet with cultural heritage agencies and give papers on ‘Dutch Culture Days’ in The Hague, Canberra and Fremantle. Her contribution – along with others – resulted in Australia becoming a ‘priority country’ under the Dutch Department of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture, Science and the Arts ‘mutual heritage’ program. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in NL adopted her 4 M’s – maritime, military, migration and mercantile – as the themes most germane to Dutch-Australian connections since 1606. In 2012, she produced the exhibition The Bombing of Broome, one with John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library (JCPML), another with Dutch Embassy (Canberra) funds. It was on display in both embassies, an international press conference in Broome and the National Library of Australia. She is working collaboratively to conceptualise a sustainable model for the digital preservation of Dutch Australians cultural heritage with Dutch GLAMS and cultural heritage agencies; academics at the University of Amsterdam, Free University Amsterdam, Leiden, Delft, Erasmus (Rotterdam) universities, the Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES); the International Institute for Social History (IISH), the Huygens and Meertens Institutes in Amsterdam; Centre for Global Heritage and Development; and KITLV (S.E. Asian and Caribbean Studies at Leiden University. Nonja was an Adjunct attached to the Digital Humanities Group at the University of Sydney and a Visiting Fellow at the ANU Centre European Studies 2014-2017. She supervises PhD and MAs, has examined both for various universities, has completed numerous consultancies for local, state, national and international government departments; has appeared on numerous radio shows in Australia and the Netherlands, and has also launched books and exhibitions in both countries. The Governor General appointed her to sit on the National Library of Australia (NLA) Council for two terms (6 years) 2010-2016. She was a member of the Board, Royal Western Australian Historical Society (RWAHS), 2015-2017, on the Dutch Ambassador’s advisory Board for the Dirk Hartog anniversary (Canberra). She continues as Vice-Chair of both the WA Maritime Museum Advisory committee and the Associated Netherlands Societies of WA (ANSWA). Nonja’s research activities have generated over one million from ARC, Lotterywest, Healthways, Dutch Embassy, Cultural heritage funds, Estate Grants, DCA, OMI, State Library, WA Museum, overseas organisations often she was unable to bring this into Curtin as it required her to utilise not for profit organisations. Nonja works extensively on her areas of expertise outlined above forging collaborative relationships with academics in NL, UK, EU, Canada and USA. This is not only for herself but also to forge international relationships with other Curtin academics and to fund the publication of books. Currently (2017-2020) she is Visiting Professor at the Institute Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) University of Amsterdam where she will produce a book on immigrant entrepreneurs. She continues her work on digital humanities following the team’s success at obtaining a prestigious NIAS Lorenz workshop (Leiden University) on this topic in August 2016 and is working on a project on enslavement – The Dream of Cornelis Chastelein, which is funded by DutchCulture (Amsterdam) with the team that produced Verlander: Forgotten Children of the VOC 2016 (see vimeo.com/202206059), which will open at the West Frisian Museum, Hoorn the Netherlands on 9 February 2019, and Grachtenhuis Museum in 2020. Published resources Book Milk and Honey but no Gold: Postwar Migration to WA 1945-1964, Peters, Nonja, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon and Nonja Peters Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mollie Barry’s varied career as an activist, ALP member and mentor for young people exemplifies the commitment to social involvement so common among her generation. She was an ALP candidate for Coogee in 1971. Mollie Barry married Michael Oliver Barry in 1947. They had four children. She worked as a bank officer and interviewer for the Australian Bureau of Statistics Workforce Survey, Sydney, in the 1960s, after the births of her four children. She gained a real estate qualification and was the only female real estate sales representative for LJ Hooker in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, 1971-73. She enrolled in an Arts degree as a mature age student, but did not complete the course. An active member of the ALP with a lifetime interest in politics, she joined the South Pacific Toastmistress Club and became an accomplished public speaker. Mrs Barry noted that women gained confidence and a stronger sense of themselves as their ability to speak in public improved. She adjudicated youth debates and was a member of the Youth of the Year committee. On a tour of parliament she was appalled at the low level of language and debate on the floor of parliament, and decided to stand for the ALP, against the speaker Sir Kevin Ellis, when she was approached by branch members. Her preselection for Coogee was opposed by Labor’s Head Office, but she won convincingly. She was described in the Sydney Morning Herald as a “vigorous candidate”. She lost the election but received the biggest swing to Labor in the metropolitan area. Mrs Barry was a member of Christian Women Concerned, a multidenominational group of women working for social justice, and Labor Women’s Organising Committee. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 22 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "BOX 1?Personal journals, 1982-1998??Personal journal, Part 3, 2 Apr. 1982-18 Jan. 1986?Personal journal, Part 4, 19 Jan. 1982-17 Aug. 1990?Personal journal, Part 5, 20 Aug. 1990-30 Sept. 1994?Personal journal, Part 6, 4 Oct. 1994-2 May 1998??BOX 2?Correspondence, 1994-1998??Correspondence concerning copyright breach of action against Joy Thwaites for unauthorised use of biographical material on Eve Langley, 1989-1990??Correspondence and notes concerning Jill Greaves writing her thesis for James Cook University, ‘Writing to understand : a critical study of the major works of Ruth Park, 1995-1998??Correspondence with Brother Gerald P. Williams M.A concerning his thesis ‘The Harp in the South : novel and mini-series (a study in literary adaptation)’ and a typescript copy, 1988-1989??General correspondence concerning readers, publishers, book awards, judging panels, 1993-1995??General correspondence concerning readers, publishers, book awards, judging panels, 1995-1996??General correspondence concerning readers, publishers, book awards, judging panels, 1996-1997??BOX 3?Publications/Film scripts, 1982-1999??Typescript with MS. annotations and corrections of Ruth Park’s Sydney (1999); Correspondence with Micheal Duffy and Curtis Brown and research notes, 1996-1999??Correspondence between Ruth Park, Tim Curnow (Curtis Brown), Barbara Mobbs (Curtis Brown) concerning discussion of first film drafts for ‘Playing Beatie Bow’ with Jock Blair (South Australian Film Corp.), 1982-1984??Film screenplay (preliminary treatment) of Dead Men Running by Tony Morphett (Brendan Lunney Film) based on the novel by D’Arcy Niland that failed to get sufficient funding. Transcribed interview film director Anthony Buckley??BOX 4?Unfinished novel ‘Flights of Angels’, First draft, working notes, location notes, character development and storyline??Reviews, additional notes and readers/publishers letters concerning’A Fence Around the Cuckoo (1992), 1992-1993??Reviews, additonal notes and readers/publishers letters concerning ‘Fishing in the Styx (1993), 1992-1995??Story of the great Huntly Mine (New Zealand) disaster in 1890, by Joseph O’Brien recorded 1948 (cassette tape). Ruth Park’s grandfather A. J. Park was an engineer at the time of the mine collapse. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ann Dalgarno was the only female member of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Advisory Council, serving from 1959 to 1967 as a Liberal Member and from 1970 to 1974 as an Independent. She also ran the Nursing Service Agency. She was a major advocate for Canberra’s women, youth, the physically handicapped, and the disadvantaged. She was an active member or leader of around twenty-two community organisations. During her thirty-two years in Canberra Ann Dalgarno was a major advocate for women, youth, the physically handicapped, the disadvantaged and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in general. Dalgarno moved to Canberra in 1948 with her husband Kenneth. A triple-certificated nurse, from 1954 she administered the Nursing Service Agency twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week from her Red Hill home. The service placed nurses in homes of private patients. Loneliness upon moving to Canberra led her to attend a meeting of a women’s branch of the Liberal Party which launched her interest in politics. She was the successful Liberal Party candidate for the Canberra Community Hospital Board, a position she held from 1955 to 1959, and she became the only female member of the ACT Advisory Council, from 1959 to 1967 as a Liberal Member and from 1970 to 1974 as an Independent. By 1965 Dalgarno was a Justice of the Peace, president of the Red Hill-Griffith-Narrabundah-Kingston-Manuka Progress Association, president of the ACT Branch of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation, convenor of the South Canberra women’s debating team, and a member of the Australian Local Government Women’s Association. This dedication to community saw the Canberra Times describe her as ‘the most active woman in public life in Canberra’, and in 1966 Dalgarno stated ‘I’m a member of 22 different organisations in Canberra, and not just in name either; I work for all of them’. She became president of the Wives and Widows of Public Servants and Servicemen’s Association and a member of Zonta. She also became a life member of the Canberra Debating Union as well as its vice-president. In 1965 Dalgarno received a letter from Prince Philip, after she publicly responded to his description of Canberra as ‘a city without a soul’. As an Independent, Ann Dalgarno ran her 1970 political campaign on a platform of community facilities for teenagers, welfare and accommodation for the elderly, transport and a teacher training college for the ACT, and strong action against communism. Some of these included ideas she brought back from her overseas visits, such a monorail system on Northbourne Avenue. She also proposed legislation to redress exorbitant or unfair rent or service charges. Her commitment to these issues led her to become the first chairman of the Emergency Housing Committee, formed in 1973 and to convene the Foundation for Youth in the early 1970s. She lectured first-year Australian National University students on ‘Sex and responsibility’ in 1969, and in 1972 was the author of the self-published children’s book The bored duck. Nearing her retirement from ACT Advisory Council Dalgarno took a stand about the under-representation of women in politics and declared in 1972 that there were no women in the House of Representatives and that it was time this changed. She was concerned at the reluctance of women to take an active political role and advocated the establishment of a League of Women Voters in the ACT. Despite her commitment to Canberra she wrote a submission to the 1974 Inquiry into Self-Government for the ACT. stating there had been ‘NO community demand for a form of local government …’ and there was ‘NO evidence that residents … would be any better of under local government’. In 1977 she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for valuable community service, and was awarded a Silver Jubilee Medal. Dalgarno and her husband had two children. Events 1959 - 1967 Liberal member of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Advisory Council 1970 - 1974 Independent member of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Advisory Council 1955 - 1959 Liberal member of the Canberra Community Hospital Board Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ann P. Dalgarno, 1955-1980 [manuscript] Author Details Ros Russell Created 1 March 2004 Last modified 12 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mathews, Marjorie McChesney. Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors: a brief history from 1901 – 1959.?Records include: The Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors: a brief history from 1901 – 1959, compiled by Marjorie McChesney Mathews, 1959; minutes 1904-1971; correspondence 1961-1978; catalogues, press cuttings. Also manuscripts, artworks and autobiographical materials of the sculptor Ola Cohn (1892-1864). The collection also includes records of the Woomballano Art Club (1904-1926) and the Women’s Art Club (1918-1948). Also news sheets of the Art Teachers’ Association of Victoria. Also papers relating to the Williamstown Grammar School. Includes an album of press cuttings ; Ola Cohn’s family tree ; parcel of drawings, mostly portrait studies ; parcel of photos of works by Ola Cohn ; portrait photo of Ola and drawings of Ola (MC 8, DR 1) Author Details Jane Carey Created 23 June 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc09.203 comprises publicity posters for Rosalie Gascoigne’s exhibitions and posters featuring her work. Also included is a collection of local maps of the Canberra-Lake George-Goulburn area used by Gascoigne to identify material for her artwork (1 roll).??The Acc10.045 instalment comprises catalogues, correspondence and reviews of all of Gascoigne’s solo and some of her group exhibitions; correspondence between Gascoigne and dealers including Macquarie Galleries (Canberra), Gallery A (Sydney), Ray Hughes (Brisbane), Pinacotheca (Melbourne), Roslyn Oxley (Sydney) and Greenaway Gallery (Adelaide); financial diaries, engagement diaries and calendars, address book, notebook; correspondence with artists and art experts including Peter Booth, Robert Owen, John Armstrong, Robert Klippel, Vicki Varvaressos, Carl Plate, Sue Norrie, Ewan McDonald, Gay Hawkes, Ken Whisson, Lorna Chick, John Brock, Peter Fay, Tony Twigg, Ann Lewis, James Mollison, Ian North, John McPhee, Louise Pether, Ron Radford, Peter Townsend and Lucy Lippard; files of miscellaneous papers, cuttings and publications (organised chronologically); correspondence with friends, including congratulatory notes on AM award; and, collections of images of animals and art books used as sources for collage materials (24 boxes).??The Acc10.126 instalment comprises personal correspondence, writings on poetry and Gascoigne’s early creative life, publications which have used or refer to Gascoigne’s work, her Order of Australia insignia and citation and other official documents, material relating to her overseas travels and exhibitions and a list of books held in her art library. This addition also includes a small number of letters and poems sent by Rosemary Dobson to Rosalie Gascoigne (4 boxes, 1 map fol.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 19 February 2013 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Recipient(s): Balhorn, Vaino Asmas; BOCK, Walter Alfred; CORRIGAN, William Edward; HOLDEN, Edwin; MCCARTER, Francis Irvine; MCLEAN-CAMPBELL, Harold Vernon; OLIPHANT, John William; POTTER, Miss Florence May; SWINDELLS, Miss Gertrude Rosina; THOMPSON, Rowland; TURNBULL, Irving Thomas Gardner; WARREN, Robert Francis. Author Details Ailie Smith Created 21 November 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Honourable Diana Bryant is an Australian jurist. She was appointed Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia on 5 July 2004. Before this, she was the inaugural Chief Federal Magistrate of the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia (now the Federal Circuit Court of Australia) from 2000-2004. Her Honour’s appointment to the bench followed many years practising in family law in both Perth and Victoria. In Perth, she was a partner with the firm Phillips Fox; in Melbourne she was a founding member of Chancery Chambers. Known to be ‘a brilliant lawyer’, with an ‘innate sense of justice and fairness,’ her time as a barrister was marked by her preparedness to pursue both on behalf of her clients even at her own cost. Her Honour has long been committed to advocating on behalf of women in the legal profession, having been a founding member of the Women Lawyers Association of Western Australia. She is currently Patron of Australian Women Lawyers and a committee member of The Australian Association of Women Judges. Born into a family of legal professionals (her mother was a lawyer, as was her grandfather), Her Honour has witnessed considerable change across the course of her professional life, with regards to the status of women in the legal profession. In a 2016 address at the Australian Women Lawyers conference, she noted, ‘[a]although there are further mountains to climb for women lawyers, the progress is encouraging, ‘suggesting that one of the most ‘encouraging signs’ was greater acceptance of the need for ‘different work policies and practices which do not impede the path to success.’ Diana Bryant was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. A more detailed essay about Her Honour’s career is in development. Published resources Newspaper Article Cool head leaps into legal hot seat, Shiel, Fergus and Munro, Ian, 2004, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/25/1088144974550.html Conference Paper A View from the top of the hill: A retrospective by an activist woman lawyer, Bryant, Diana, 2016, http://www.australianwomenlawyers.com.au/uploads/publications/Diana_Bryant_-_AWL2016_Keynote_Speech.pdf Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Diana Bryant interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 27 January 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records of the Girls Social and Political Union, South Australia, comprising minutes, annual report and card. Author Details Jane Carey Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A once-only candidate who was an Independent candidate for Canterbury in 1988 and for the Canterbury City Council Mayoral Election in 1987. Victoria Papadakis was born and bred in the inner western suburbs of Sydney. She was educated at Fort Street Girls’ High School and the University of Sydney, from which she graduated MB, BS. She has worked in local hospitals and as a general practitioner in the electorate, but at the time of her campaign she was employed at State Rail, in charge of the health and safety of employees. In 1987, Victoria Papadakis contested the Canterbury Mayoral election and was well known as a result. In her 1988 campaign, she spoke critically of the law that allowed street prostitution in commercial areas, which had led to parts of Canterbury Road becoming areas for prostitution. Her campaign slogan was “Send for the Doctor”, and she condemned the long waiting times that casualty patients at Canterbury Hospital had to suffer. She is married to Dr Peter Papadakis, who practises in the electorate. Victoria Papadakis was supported in her campaign by Kevin Ryan, a former Labor MLA, then running as an independent in the adjoining seat of Bankstown. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 29 August 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Record Repository State Library of South Australia Reference SRG 512 Date Range 1927 - 1994 Quantity 0 0.28 m Access No restrictions on access Records of the South Australian Medical Women’s Society comprising minutes, correspondence, submissions, reports, membership lists, booklet and photographs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc07.018 comprises research material, drafts and correspondence relating to Jaivin’s writing projects, and some published editions of books (4 archive cartons, 1 small box).??The Acc12.072 instalment comprises papers relating to works including: A most immoral woman; The infernal optimist; Pan Jinian; Seeking Dijra; The empress lover; Dangerous obsession of golden lotus and the education of proofreader; shorter pieces including essays, lectures, radio talks; and professional and personal correspondence (13 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Private papers of Miss May Mills, high school teacher and President of S.A. Teachers Union, comprising papers relating to the S.A. Teachers’ Union, autobiographical notes, personal papers, printed material, photographs, teaching notes and other miscellaneous papers. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 56 minutes??Catherine Picone was born in Moree, New South Wales. Cathy was brought up as a Catholic, her Italian/Irish father’s faith, and her parents’ different religious practices were a source of tension in her youth. Cathy’s father was a successful bookmaker and Cathy did her secondary schooling at a Catholic college in Armidale. After false starts in Medicine and Science courses, she studied Arts at Sydney University and graduated with a DipEd. With her husband, Cathy moved to South Australia in 1973 and worked in suburban high schools. In the early 1980s she became determined to do community service that was ‘change-oriented’. She became involved in People for Nuclear Disarmament. Through this she was invited to join the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Cathy explains the origins of WILPF, her perceptions of the ageing local branch, and her aims and tactics ‘to bring in new populations’. Cathy also discusses her positive philosophy of life. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Register of Apprentices for Indenture, Miscellaneous Subject Files, Minute Books, Correspondence, Letter Books, Legal Opinions, Financial Statements, Examination Results, Annual Reports, Register of Apprentices, Ledger, Index to Minutes, 10/- Licence District Register (poison), Lists of Chemists in Business, Signature Book. Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Bronwen Standley-Woodroffe is an artist and co-owner of the Horizon Gallery at Silverton and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Bronwen Standley-Woodroffe was born into a farming family and raised at Cleve and Keith in South Australia. Aged 16 she left school and worked at the Cleve hospital before moving to Adelaide, where she married. With two young children, she began three years of study, starting at the O’Halloran Hill Technical College and finishing at the Stanley Street School of Art, learning drawing and design, print-making, photography, painting and fabric printing. Separated from her husband, Bronwen travelled north with her children and worked in fruit-picking at Young before going on to Alice Springs and Darwin, Clare, and finally Silverton, New South Wales. By Easter 1984, living out of her caravan, she had rented a block of land near the creek at Silverton and established an organic garden. In time she was able to buy a house and was joined by both of her children. The town was at that time home to several young families, and community events included gymkhanas and race days. The children travelled to school at Broken Hill. Bronwen became involved in community activity and lobbied against proposals by the Western Lands Commission to resume crown land around Silverton. A committed environmentalist, she stirred controversy by opposing the agistment of large numbers of cattle on the drought-affected 12,000-acre Silverton Common. She established a Landcare group at Silverton in the 1990s, and helped to plant a self-sustaining decorative native garden in the Common. Always an artist, Bronwen began painting in earnest in the 1980s. Her depictions of local flora adorned bookmarks sold by the RSPCA. Her intricately patterned and carved calabash gourds were sold through a gallery in South Australia. In the late 1980s, Bronwen met and married fellow artist Albert Woodroffe. Their business, the Horizon Gallery, was established in 1989 with outlets at Broken Hill and Silverton. Bronwen’s partnership with Albert gave her the material and moral support necessary to devote herself to her art and she began painting landscapes – first with pastels, then acrylic paints. In the 1990s, the Woodroffes held three exhibitions at a corporate gallery space in Bourke Street, Melbourne and at Darling Park in Sydney, with the support of the Flying Doctors service. The Horizon Gallery enjoyed enormous success. As well as producing original paintings, Albert and Bronwen began making prints of their work to keep up with demand. Today, Bronwen Standley-Woodroffe has two children and five grandchildren living in Broken Hill. A member of the Broken Hill Women Artists’ Group, her work has been displayed at the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery on several occasions, with a feature exhibition in September 2008. Bronwen was a finalist in the 2006 and 2008 Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting, Countryscapes. In recent years her artistic direction has shifted to focus upon her personal development and spiritual life. Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Bronwen Standley-Woodroffe Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 4887 comprises correspondence, notes, drafts and research material relating to Hardy’s published works; diaries; notebooks; press cuttings; tape recordings; photographs; cartoons and sketches by Hardy, Ambrose Dyson, Bruce Petty, Counihan and Vane; autobiographical notes; radio and television scripts; papers connected with political and literary organizations; material relating to the Power without glory trial; biographical and critical material on Henry Lawson, Russian poet Evgenii Yevtushenko, and writings by others.??There is correspondence with publishers and fellow writers in Australia and overseas, 1946-1973; and letters from Martin Boyd, Eric Lambert, the Palmers, Neville Shute, Jack Lindsay, Howard Fast, Owen Webster, family, friends and Communist Party comrades. Photographs include Hardy in Russia, Europe, the United States and Australia, historical material of revolutionary Russia and postwar Poland (242 boxes, 11 fol. Boxes, 1 elephant folio). Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Established in 1950, the Union of Australian Women is a left-wing social change organisation. Its aim is to work for the status and wellbeing of women across the world The Union of Australian Women (UAW) was established at a conference in Sydney in August 1950. The New South Wales branch was the first to be formed, with other state branches forming in quick succession. The state branches came together in 1956 to establish a national organisation. Foundation members included communists, Labor Party supporters, Christian activists, and members of the New Housewives’ Association. Early goals included improving the status of women and children, disarmament and a halt to nuclear testing and mining, equal distribution of wealth, increased welfare services, equal pay for women, equality for Indigenous Australians, abortion law reform, and opposition to the White Australia Policy. Current campaigns concern child care, woman and family friendly workplaces, health and housing, outworkers, reconciliation and Indigenous rights. Published resources Book Left-wing Ladies : The Union of Australian women in Victoria 1950-1998, Fabian, Suzane and Loh, Morag, 2000 More Than a Hat and Glove Brigade: The Story of the Union of Australian Women, Curthoys, B. (Barbara) and McDonald, Audrey, 1996 Uphill all the way: a documentary history of women in Australia, Daniels, Kay and Murnane, Mary, 1980 Women and wages in the war years 1940-1945 : Sheetmetal Workers' Union, 1982 Daring to take a stand : the story of the Union of Australian Women in Queensland, Young, Pam, 1998 Videorecording Apron strings and atom bombs, Shona Stephen and Judith Womersley, 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Worth Fighting For!, Fryer Library with research by Yorick Smaal, 2005, https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20050708180233/http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/worth_fighting/ Newsletter UAW News, 1954-1999 The Journal of the Union of Australian Women, 1949-1953 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Papers re: Panhellenic Women's Movement International Women's Day Committee Research Project : Summary Record [sound recording] Interviewers: Celia Frank and Kirstin Marks Union of Australian Women : SUMMARY RECORD Betty Fisher : SUMMARY RECORD Victoria University of Technology Archives of the Union of Australian Women Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Union of Australian Women New South Wales branch deposit 1 Tom and Mary Wright collection deposit 1 Tom and Mary Wright Collection deposit 2 Union of Australian Women Federal Office deposit Union of Australian Women New South Wales branch deposit 2 The University of Melbourne Archives Oke, Marjorie (1911-2003) The University of Newcastle Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections Unit: Communist Party of Australia Archival Material Barbara Curthoys Collection Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections Union of Australian Women Records Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Ted and Eva Bacon Papers National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Mary Wright interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project [sound recording] National Library of Australia U.A.W. news / Union of Australian Women State Library of Victoria Collection of papers relating to the employment of women in Australia, ca. 1942-1982. [manuscript]. State Library of New South Wales Barbara Curthoys - interviews with members of the Union of Australian Women, 1995 Mary Wright papers, 1937-1990 Author Details Clare Land and Nikki Henningham Created 9 August 2001 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 Notebooks listing crossings in maize, done by Margaret Blackwood and continued by Dr Olive Lawson. They are labelled: 1 Maize Field Book I 1951 to 1967 Dr M Blackwood, Botany School, University of Melbourne. Maize Crosses. Made and Ears Collected… 2 Field Book Maize II 1968 to 1974 & continued by O.B. Lawson… 3 Maize Pedigree Book. Dr Blackwood’s Maize Planting Book. 1949 [f] …”Record of Maize kernels (seeds planted each year & the parents they came from.” Pasted in 15 July 1959 memo GJCuming to MB soil samp Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 January 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personal correspondence, arranged in two series: one alphabetical within 6-month or one year periods; the other ‘master’ files with correspondence filed chronologically Letters of reference, 1989-91, A-Z (one box). Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A television series which critically examines the depiction of Australian identity in films, television drama and advertising. It includes clips from a variety of films and television programs and features interviews with academics, film producers, directors, scriptwriters, casting agents and actors as well as students from Marrickville High School.??There is documentation associated with the production of the television series held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "60 minutes (approx.)??Michelle Hill interviews Silver Moon about rural lesbian feminism on 17th November 1994 at Goodwood. Author Details Margaret Allen Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Beryl Carmichael was an elder of the Ngiyaempaa people and served on the National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council, the Western Lands Advisory Council, and the New South Wales Reconciliation Council. She lived in Menindee in far western New South Wales. Daughter of Jack Kelly and Louisa Kelly (nee Briggs), Beryl was born at the old Menindee Mission in New South Wales. She was educated with Western lesson plans at the mission school but from an early age sought an education in the traditions of her people, the Ngiyaempaa. Beryl’s father was ‘one of the main men who went through the [traditional] law in 1913 and 1914’ and there was old Ellen Burke, a singer of songs, who still had the knowledge of her people. Thirsty for knowledge, Beryl would be taken out over the desert sand dunes with the other children to hunt for goannas and echidnas, or to collect grubs from the trees to use on their fishing lines back at the river. Her mother was often called upon in the mission community as a midwife and an interpreter between mission managers and older Aboriginal folk and Beryl learnt from her the various healing ointments and songs. From her parents she also learnt tracking skills, and would habitually be sent out with her brother to fetch a rabbit for breakfast before school. When Beryl asked an uncle, a singer of songs, ‘Who are we? Where do we come from?’, he replied, ‘We come from emu country, the butt end of the emu, this is our country’. Beryl explains: ‘That stuck with me, all the time I’m growing up. [Later I was given] a map of the emu country. The butt end goes around Mungo and the backbone is along the Barrier Ranges, his rib along the border to Queensland and cross over near Brewarrina where the fish traps are. This old lady gave me this book and said “Beryl, I’d like you to have this because it’s about your people”, and I found that map. I’ve been carrying it with me ever since because it just confirmed what that old singer of songs told me’. The Menindee Mission was closed in 1949 when Beryl was about 14 years old, and she went to work on a series of properties around Menindee. She was married in 1953 and had ten children. All were born at the Broken Hill hospital, but the family continued to move from property to property in the Menindee area. Beryl was careful to pass on her knowledge of bush food and bush medicine to all of her children. She began teaching her eldest four by correspondence, but when the load became too much and drought was effecting surrounding properties, the family bought a brick house in town and the children were educated at the Menindee public school. In 1967, Beryl became involved in the public school system herself: ‘Our kids were experiencing racism in the schools, coming from the mission’, she says, ‘and they needed someone in there, a role model. So I went and asked the principal if I could go in and talk to these kids about racism and being different and all this type of thing. He said “Beryl, if you’ve got anything to pass onto the kids, you go and do it”.’ Beryl’s lessons in Aboriginal culture and respect were extremely effective and she continued her work in schools for forty years. In 1975, in the wake of increased government funding for Aboriginal committees, she travelled to Sydney with $15 in her pocket to register the Ngiyaempaa Housing Company on behalf of her community. From 1983, Beryl was running Aboriginal Culture Camps for teachers and students to continue her program of education and consciousness-raising. She remembers, ‘I was very shy in the beginning, but I knew that Dad’s spirit was behind me, and Mum’s’. Having erected a borrowed tent at the old Menindee Mission and taken donations of onions and potatoes to help feed camp attendees, Beryl was surprised to welcome 200 people from surrounding communities. Recreational games, Aboriginal dance and traditional cooking bonded the group: ‘I thought, gee this is good, they’re hungry for their culture’. The camps continue to this day with school groups, university classes and, more recently, public servants from the Department of Education and Training. Beryl’s first husband passed away in the early 1980s and she remarried in 1984. At nearly seventy years of age she was asked to join the National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council and the Western Lands Advisory Council, and she had a strong involvement with the New South Wales Reconciliation Council. For decades of service, Beryl received a swathe of awards including the New South Wales Heritage Award, a meritorious award from the Minister of Education, and a Centenary of Federation award for community service. She recited two traditional stories – about the wagtail and the echidna (Thikapilla) – for Aboriginal Nations’ animated production, The Dreaming. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Videorecording The Dreaming, Aboriginal Nations Australia, 2004 Book Bush Foods of New South Wales, Stewart, Kathy and Bob Percival, 1997, http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/education/Resources/bush_foods Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Archival resources Private Hands (these records may not be readily available) Interview with Beryl Carmichael Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 17 February 2009 Last modified 16 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Jeannette Patrick served as the member for Brighton in the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian Parliament from 1976-85. She held the position of secretary of the Parliamentary Liberal Party from 1979-82. Daughter of Robert Tweeddale Breen, solicitor and Marie Freda Chamberlin, who served as a Victorian Liberal Senator in the Australian Parliament from 1962-68, she completed her secondary education at Firbank Church of England Girls’ Grammar School, Brighton and her tertiary education at the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Laws in 1967. She worked as a solicitor in the family firm, R. T. Breen & Co. from 1967 and served as a Brighton City Councillor from 1973-76 before being elected to the Victorian Parliament in the same year. On 25 October 1949 she married Vernon Ronald Patrick, law clerk. They had a son and a daughter. Her community commitments included : member of the Consumer Affairs Council 1974-75, member of Brighton Technical School Council 1976-83, member of Firbank Council and Brighton Community Hospital committee of management 1976-80; member of the University of Melbourne Council 1979-83, Gardenvale Central School Council 1982-83; honorary solicitor to local organisations and a member of St Peter’s Anglican Church, Brighton. Published resources Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1983, Draper, W. J., 1983 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Leader in push for equal opportunity, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2011 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 3 June 2005 Last modified 28 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Constance Caskey was a pastoralist who lived with her husband and four children on a remote pastoral property near Menindee, New South Wales. The eldest child of Amelia Maria and Norman Salisbury Laffer, Constance was known to family and friends as Consie, and grew up in Adelaide with her younger sister Lorna and brother Peter. She attended St Peters’ Girls College until she gained her Leaving Certificate, when she moved to the Presbyterian Girls’ College and became one of the foundation scholars there. Consie undertook an 18-month nurse training course at the Mareeba Babies Hospital at Woodville, which she completed in October 1926. In February of the following year, she transferred to the Royal Adelaide Hospital, where she completed her General Nursing Training and became Head Nurse in 1929. She left South Australia in 1930 to do a midwifery course at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney, and from 1937 was working at the Broken Hill and District Hospital in the Isolation and Medical wards. On 7 May 1938, Consie married Ronald Leslie Caskey and moved to Byrnedale Station, near Menindee, New South Wales. The couple had four children, and in 1945 Consie began teaching them through the New South Wales Correspondence School. She became a member of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Royal Flying Doctor’s Service, and was voted Treasurer of the Menindee branch. In the early 1950s she also held the position of Treasurer of the Menindee Gun Club. After her husband’s death in 1974, Consie left Byrnedale Station and moved to Broken Hill. She became president of the Penguin club, a public speaking group, and became a member of the Broken Hill Historical Society in 1985. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Constance Caskey interviewed by Jenny Salmon for the New South Wales Western Division oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Browne speaks of her family background; her studies in medicine after World War I; her goals as a new doctor; taking up a general practice in the country and later on in the city; her keen interest in ante-natal care; her work as director of maternal and baby welfare in the Dept. of Public Health; baby health centres and their importance in the community; maternal and baby deaths in Australia over the years; she speaks about her interest in the medical women of Australia; her various activities in the community. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Women’s Equal Franchise Association (WEFA) of Queensland was formed in February 1894, marking a timely revitalisation of the woman suffrage movement in that state. Its first president was Mrs Eleanor Trundle, and it represented women who were Labor in their politics. From the outset, the association linked its struggle for votes for women with the campaign against plural voting in Queensland. Once both these aims were achieved, in January 1905, the association held a ‘celebration social’ and disbanded itself. Almost immediately upon being formed in 1894, the Queensland Women’s Equal Franchise Association splintered. The women of the Queensland Woman’s Suffrage League (WSL), headed by Leontine Cooper, were concerned that the WEFA’s links to Labor politics, and the campaign against plural voting, would hinder progress towards achieving woman suffrage in Queensland. Attempts to reconcile the two factions in the month that followed the split were unsuccessful. Therefore, less than two months after its formation, the WEFA held new elections for office bearers. On this occasion, Eleanor Trundle was defeated and Emma Miller, a remarkable Queensland Labor woman, took her place, remaining President of the association for the eleven years of the campaign. Eleanor Trundle moved her energies across to the Queensland Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Despite the political wrangling that broke out on various occasions between the WEFA and the WSL (with the WCTU remaining firmly apolitical) these three organisations enjoyed fragile moments of cooperation for most of the campaign. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Myra Roper was Principal of the University of Melbourne’s Women’s College for 14 years. She led a varied life as both an educator and public intellectual. Myra served on the ABC Advisory Committee, the Elizabethan Theatre Trust and the Melbourne State College boards. She was also President of the Committee for Australia-China Relations and in 1958 was a member of the first Australian women’s delegation to China. Myra received an AM in 1985 for her service to international relations. Myra Ellen Roper was Principal of University Women’s College for 14 years and led a varied life as an educator and public intellectual both before and afterwards. Born in Yorkshire, she took her BA from Cambridge in 1933, her DipT from the Institute of Education at London University the following year and MA from the University of Melbourne in 1949. Before coming to Australia in 1947 she taught in England and Canada and worked as Assistant Education Officer in Wiltshire and Cambridgeshire. In her time as Principal of Women’s College, she worked to increase the accommodation offered to students, especially for women from outside Melbourne. Three new wings were opened between 1953 and 1953 with the Roper Wing opened after she left. Myra Roper was a public figure from her arrival, serving on the ABC Advisory Committee, the Elizabethan Theatre Trust and the Melbourne State College boards. She was President of the Committee for Australia-China Relations and in 1958 was a member of the first Australian women’s delegation to China. In 1964, she moved to Canberra but continued a career of public speaking and broadcasting Australia-wide. Her principal fields of interest were China and the place of women in society and her speeches were widely reported. In Canberra in 1965, she addressed the local YWCA on the fact that women are ‘needed and used in many essential services, particularly in education and commerce… yet they were penalised and hampered by unequal pay and through the marriage bar’.[1] Her visits to China resulted in several books and a television documentary as well as radio broadcasts, television appearances and newspaper articles.[2] In 1980 a journalist reported: The re-education of senior Chinese war-criminals convicted after the 1949 revolution has been ‘one of the biggest and most successful experiments in practical psychology’ recently in the estimation of lecturer and author Miss Myra Roper. In Canberra at the invitation of the Australia-China Society, Miss Roper has just returned from six weeks in China interviewing these man and their families. She is the first Westerner to have been allowed to do this.[3] Myra Roper won many awards, including an AM in 1985 for service to international relations and the first annual award of the Rostrum Club of Victoria for contributions to public speaking. [1] ‘100 Volunteers to Sell Buttons’. Canberra Times. 1 April 1965: 21. [2] Myra Roper. China – the Surprising Country. London: Heinemann, 1966; China in Revolution, 1911-1949, London: Edward Arnold, 1971; Emperor’s China, People’s China. Melbourne: Heinemann Educational, 1981 and C.P. Fitzgerald and Myra Roper. China : a World So Changed. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson (Australia), 1972. [3] ‘Practical Psychology’. Canberra Times. 6 August 1980: 1. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Myra Roper, 1958-1981 [manuscript] Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 5 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "4 digital audio tapes (ca. 260 min.)??Elizabeth Durack, artist and illustrator, talks about the Durack family and their stations in the Kimberley region of Western Australia; her family background; childhood and education. She then discusses the Eddie Burrup paintings, her reasons for producing them and the central theme of this art. Durack also talks about her art and her future projects. Author Details Judith Ion Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This series consists of about 380 photographs, one 45 rpm record and six films relating to Prime Minister Harold Edward Holt and his wife, Mrs Zara Holt (later Dame Zara). The material mainly covers the period when Holt was Prime Minister (1966-1967), although many of the photographs relate to his earlier career, particularly as Minister for Immigration (1949-1956) and later, Treasurer (1958-1966).??The photographs include official portraits, family photographs, Australian News and Information Bureau and other official photographs covering a wide range of Holt’s official engagements both in Australia and overseas. A smaller number of photographs relate to Mrs Zara Holt, including her childhood, early fashion business in Melbourne, as wife of a senior political figure and after Holt’s death. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 September 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Text on front of image reads: ‘Agnes Gavin, Writer’. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A committed advocate for Aboriginal health and welfare, Naomi Ruth Mayers was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1984 in recognition of her services to the community – much of her work was centred in the Aboriginal community of Redfern, Sydney. Naomi Ruth Mayers was born in 1941. A niece of Doug Nicholls, she comes from a family with a long record of service to Aboriginal causes. Mayers was a founder of the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern in 1972. As its Administrator, Company Secretary and Chief Executive Officer over a period of more than thirty years, she has superintended its growth from a small shop-front into a nationwide network of kindred services. Mayers has been one of the principal figures behind Redfern’s community development projects, including those which established the Murawina preschool program in 1973 and the Aboriginal Housing Company in 1976. She also served as a delegate to the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. As an authority on Aboriginal health issues, she proved an influential witness during the inquiries of the 1977 House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Health. In 1981 she was appointed as consultant by the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists. She was founding president of the Federation for Aboriginal Women in 1983. Subsequently, Mayers was Chair of the National Aboriginal Health Strategy Working Party, set up in 1988 to develop a draft national Aboriginal health policy. She has served on numerous government committees, boards and international reference groups. She was a founding member and chair of the National Aboriginal and Islander Health Organisation and served as Deputy Chair of that body’s successor, the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, after its formation in 1993. Mayers’ contributions to Aboriginal welfare were officially recognised with a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1984. She holds a doctorate in Aboriginal Affairs from Tranby Aboriginal College in Sydney. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 20 May 2005 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Article on the late Rose Inagaki, wife of the late Mowsey Inagaki formerly the Instructor in Japanese, University of Melbourne. Photocopy. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 October 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "W.A. politician. She was employed by the ALP from 1952-1965 and 1967-1971, spending 1966-1967 in a secretarial position with the British Labour Party. In 1972, she became a member of the Legislative Council representing the North-East Metropolitan Province. In 1978 she was the first woman elected as chair to the W.A. Parliamentary Labor Party. In November 1985 she made her final parliamentary speech, resigning from her position in the Legislative Council. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Anne Margaret Cohen, a Liberal Party candidate, was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Minchinbury in 1988 and to the Badgerys Creek Assembly seat in 1991. She failed to gain re-election to the latter in 1995. Anne Cohen had been a teacher, public servant, editor and the owner/operator of a small business before she ran for parliament. She was first elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council for the seat of Minchinbury in March 1988 and had a remarkably swift rise to the Ministries of Nick Greiner, and later John Fahey. She was Chief Secretary, Minister for Administrative Services 1991-95, and Minister assisting the Premier on Status of Women 1992-3. When the redistribution abolished her seat, she ran for and won the seat of Badgerys Creek 1991-95. She was Chairman of the Parliamentary Road Safety Committee Staysafe in 1989. She is married to Richard and they have two children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A few letters from Sweet are held in the Georgina Sweet papers. Letters to Sweet from J. Kershaw [Letter Books R-731, U-58 and U-62]. Correspondence with C.C. Brittlebank, June – November 1897 while George Sweet was on Funafuti and information in the correspondence between George Sweet, Brittlebank and others, in the George Sweet papers. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "From the time she arrived in Canberra in 1943 as a young wife and mother, Loma Rudduck became actively involved in several community organisations particularly those supporting women and children in the young and growing city. She was one of the founders and later president of the Canberra Pre-School Society and represented it on the National Council of Women. Later she was federal executive officer of the Australian Pre-School Association. For 14 years she recorded a weekly talk on women’s issues, ‘Canberra Roundup’, broadcast on ABC National radio. After the death of her husband in 1964 she worked at information centres, established by the National Capital Development Commission (NCDC) in the new towns of Woden, Weston Creek and Belconnen, and as a liaison officer between the NCDC and the National Council of Women. She was a president of the Canberra Embroiderers’ Guild and took a prominent part in an Australia-wide project to produce an embroidery for the opening of the new Parliament House in 1988. Loma recorded the history of several organisations with which she was associated. She was a founder of the Canberra and District Historical Society and was honoured with life membership. Loma Amos was born on 8 August 1914 in Hay, New South Wales, but travelled with her mother to Fiji, where both her parents were working as missionaries, soon after her birth. She was educated by correspondence and, when it was time for her to start high school, the family left Fiji and Loma was enrolled at the Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne. Afterwards, Loma trained as a pre-school teacher. On 2 September 1939 she married architect and town planner, Grenfell Rudduck, at Queen’s College Chapel, University of Melbourne, in a ceremony conducted by her father, a Methodist minister. Moving to Canberra in 1943 with her husband and the first of her four children, Loma joined other women in forming the Canberra Nursery Kindergarten Society (later the Canberra Pre-School Society). She was on the Society’s Council from its inception and served as president in 1946-1947 and 1948-1949. She represented the Society on the National Council of Women and from 1945 to 1950 was a member of the Department of the Interior’s Pre-School Advisory Committee. In 1954 Loma was invited to contribute a weekly ‘Canberra Roundup’ to be broadcast on ABC National radio as part of the women’s session. She continued presenting this weekly segment for the next fourteen years, even while the family was living in Pakistan where her husband was a United Nations adviser. Encouraged by a Reid neighbour, Lu Rees, founder of the Children’s Book Council in the ACT, Loma Rudduck became honorary secretary of the Council and was president 1960-1961. She was a member of the Canberra Public Library Advisory Committee in 1961-1962. In 1964 after the sudden death of her husband, an Associate Commissioner of the National Capital Development Commission (NCDC), the NCDC Commissioner, (Sir) John Overall offered her the role of liaison officer between the NCDC and the National Council of Women. Employed in the NCDC’s public relations section she ran an information centre, set up in a temporary structure in the bare paddocks rapidly being transformed into the new towns of Woden, Weston Creek and Belconnen, advising and helping new residents. After five years in this position, Loma was asked to become Executive Officer of the recently formed Australian Pre-School Association. She held this position in pre-school administration, a satisfying return to her pre-school profession, from 1970 to 1975. The inaugural meeting at which the Embroiderers’ Guild of the ACT was formed was held in Loma Rudduck’s Reid home. She was the Guild’s newsletter editor in 1979-1981, president in 1982-1983 and was prominent in moves by the Guild in an Australia-wide project to make and present a major piece of embroidery to the new Parliament House in 1988. She wrote the Guild’s history in 1992. Loma was instrumental in Canberra acquiring a floral emblem. After complaining to the then Minister for the Interior, Michael Hodgman, about the Territory’s lack of a floral emblem, she was appointed to a committee to recommend one. The committee unanimously chose the Royal Bluebell (Wahlenbergia gloriosa). Loma Rudduck was also a significant historian. In 1953 she and her husband helped W.P. Bluett establish the Canberra and District Historical Society; she remained an active member of the Society and was made a life member in 1992. She campaigned to save Glebe House (demolished in 1954) and Blundell’s Cottage, which remains as a historical link with Canberra’s past. She documented the history of several projects in which she was involved. These histories included: The Mothering Years (with Helen Crisp), a history of the Canberra Mothercraft Society, the forerunner of the Canberra Pre-School Society; a history of the Embroiderers’ Guild of the ACT, And So to Sew; and a manuscript history of the Canberra Pre-School Society 1943-60, held in the ACT Heritage Library. She also completed several books of family history and books of advice for families of pre-school children. In the 1980s Loma Rudduck moved to the family’s holiday home at Long Beach on the South Coast of New South Wales. She died in Bendigo in 2005 aged 91 while visiting family. A street in the Canberra suburb of Forde is named in her honour. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book And So to Sew: A History of Embroidery in the Australian Capital Territory, Rudduck, Loma, 1992 Newsletter Canberra & District Historical Society, 2005 Federation of Australian Historical Societies Inc. Newsletter, 2006 Book Section The Society begins..., Clarke, Patricia, 2003 Resource Section Rudduck, Grenfell (1914-1964), Morison, Ian W, 2002, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rudduck-grenfell-11583/text20677 Journal Article A short story about a long time ago, Rudduck, Loma, 1989 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources ACT Heritage Library Rudduck, Loma, 'Canberra Pre-School Society; A Record - 1943-60', Canberra, 1960, 23 p. National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Loma Rudduck, 1944-1968 [manuscript] Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 21 June 2012 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Judy Hall (nee Baillie) was born into a musical family in West Gippsland in 1922. Although she did not begin formal piano training until she was twelve, she has been an inspiring and influential piano teacher for over seventy years. Her focus and expertise has been on the foundations of good technique and she has been an authoritative voice in music education across Australia. Her teaching and commitment to music education has been recognised through a number of awards and honours including an OAM in 1996. Evelyn Margaret Mary ‘Judy’ Hall (nee Baillie) was born in Trafalgar in 2 July 1922, one of four children to Irish born blacksmith Daniel Baillie and his wife Mary Larsen. Judy Hall grew up in a family where music was important and she credits her early musical influences to her father, who was a band master and played in the Melbourne Codes Brass Band and the State Theatre. Her musical education was further expanded with the family’s purchase of a radio in the 1930s, which provided entrée to broadcast concerts, affording an introduction and education in classical music. Judy Hall was educated at the Trafalgar State School and Warragul High School. As a child, Judy had access to her father’s piano, teaching herself the rudiments through playing by ear and supplemented by informal lessons provided by her father, who taught her the basics of music, although it was not until she was twelve that she started formal music lessons. At the age of fifteen, she left the Warragul High School and continued her education at St Joseph’s Convent in Trafalgar, where her studies included bookkeeping, typing and music. Whilst still in primary school her skills as a pianist were recognised, and she was awarded a scholarship by a local piano teacher, Miss Truebridge, which granted her six months tuition. Her piano lessons with several local teachers were of a variable nature, most of whom she did not consider accomplished in music or education. As a pianist, with only two years of formal tuition, she started accompanying her classmates in concerts, whilst also winning a number of local eisteddfods. At one such eisteddfod her musical mind was opened by another competitor’s renditions of Bach’s instrumental Arioso. Suddenly she comprehended that music could be interpreted, rather than just played as a series of notes. This was an insight which provided her with the awareness that her technique was lacking and required improvement. So, she set out to find a teacher who could assist her in improving this. A previous teacher Margaret Smallacombe, had been taught by Edward Goll (1884-1949) a Czech born concert pianist and music teacher who was appointed to the Albert Street Conservatorium in 1914, the following year accepting a position at the Melbourne Conservatorium as piano soloist and chief study teacher of pianoforte, shortly after being appointed as musical director at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College. So from c.1938 utilising whatever means she could to journey to Melbourne, Judy Hall began the arduous trip of travelling to weekly half day private classes with Goll. In recalling her childhood musical training prior to Edward Goll, she believes she learned how to play without any musical understanding, commenting ‘no one could have had a worse start’. As a twelve-year-old girl guide, Judy Baillie had met a ‘good looking’ boy scout, Cedric James Hall, and in 1944 after ten years of friendship, they were married. At the end of World War Two, as a young mother with a new baby, Judy Hall embarked on her career as a music teacher, eventually having another two children whilst developing a reputation for the excellence of her teaching. She has noted that without their support she would not have been able to achieve all she subsequently did. Understanding the deficiencies in her own musical education, she wanted to ensure that her pupils had a better start. Actively involved in the Victorian Music Teachers Association (VMTA), which provided both support and professional networks, she participated in many of the training sessions the Association delivered for music teachers across the state, as well as attending the Summer Schools they offered. Here she was exposed to a number of international music teaching theorists. She also undertook three overseas trips with the Association, whose itineraries included visits to music schools, universities, concerts and talks, inspiring the participants in their teaching and practice. In the late 1970s, Warren Thompson, music teacher and founder of the Federation of Australian Music Teachers’ Association, brought to Australia the Italian music educator Lidia Baldecchi-Arcui, who was to become Judy Hall’s mentor. At their first meeting in Sydney, Baldecchi-Arcui lectured for five days on the importance of the foundations of music education. This was a moment of clarity for Judy Hall, whose own introduction to piano had been so mediocre. It led to a dozen further visits to Australia by Baldecchi-Arcui and several reciprocal trips to Genova by Judy Hall, both accompanying her gifted students and independently. Baldecchi-Arcui’s influence saw Judy Hall develop her own teaching notes, stressing the importance of hand technique for beginner pianists. Entitled The First Three Years, these covered the basic techniques required-relaxation exercises, hand position, anchoring of thumbs, finger position, and the strength required in every element of fingers, wrists and hands for effortless piano playing. This became the foundation of Judy Hall’s focus on the formative development of pianists, an expertise she has shared as a guest lecturer at the Sydney, Adelaide and Perth Conservatoria, training music teachers across the nation. Within her local area of West Gippsland, Judy Hall used her networks and connections to facilitate and organise touring musicians, as well as local concerts for the Country Women’s Association, football clubs, fire brigades, and with a group called ‘Judy and Friends’ she gave concerts for community organisations including nursing homes, and for private recitals. Her students competed regularly in eisteddfods, winning seventy-six major prizes and scholarships. In expanding their musical repertoire, she championed the inclusion of the concerto in these competitions accompanying most of them herself on 2nd piano. The scores of students she has taught have included over thirty-two A.Mus.A Diplomas, and 4 Licentiate Diplomas; thirty are now music teachers scattered all over Victoria. Amongst her former students are a number who established medical and science careers, while continuing to maintain their musical practice. While her high-profile students have included Dr Pamela Burnard, Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at the University of Cambridge, the pianist Tim Young the Head of Piano and Chamber Music at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) and a founding member of chamber group Ensemble Liaison, and a pianist with leading Australian and international musicians and ensembles. Dr Paul Rickard-Ford a Senior Lecturer in Music at the Sydney Conservatorium, musician and Federal Examiner for the AMEB. The conductors Vanessa Scammell and Paul Fitzsimon, and the rising star pianist Alex Waite. At the age of sixty, Judy Hall decided to augment her musical repertoire, undertaking cello lessons in order to play in Chamber Music groups. As a cellist she has accompanied the La Trobe Valley Operatic Society, and played with local orchestras. At the same time, she also commenced painting classes, first in oils and later in watercolour. From her late seventies, Judy Hall has starred in a number of concerts. The first in 1996 was at the La Trobe Regional Gallery, where she played Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no 3 accompanied by the Latrobe Orchestra. Her ninetieth birthday was celebrated with a four-and-a-half-hour concert, with musicians including former students, friends and family. The highlights of her concert career began in 2018 at the age of ninety-six, with Judy Hall as soloist with the Gippsland Symphony Orchestra playing Chopin at a series of concerts in Warragul and Sale. Prior to the first event, Judy Hall spoke to the Secretary of the VMTA asking if the concert could be recorded. Hearing this, the ABC offered to do so, and when interviewed by the broadcaster, she mentioned that her ambition had always been to play at the Melbourne Town Hall. This was followed up by the Melbourne City Council, and later the same year with the Latrobe Orchestra she fulfilled her dream, playing in the Melbourne Town Hall, to a packed audience of former students and their families. In February 2019, for the Gala Concert to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Melbourne Recital Hall, Judy Hall, now in her ninety-seventh year was asked to play a duet with Tim Young, also accompanied by Alex Waite, playing Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody no 2 in G Minor. Judy Hall’s contribution to music education has been recognised through a number of awards and honours: An OAM received in 1996, for her contribution of fifty years to music education, the Distinguished Teachers Award from the Victorian Music Teachers Association in 2011, Life Membership of the Victorian Music Teachers Association 2019, Life Membership of the Latrobe Valley Orchestra, Life Membership of the Latrobe Valley Eisteddfod. Author Details Sue Silberberg Created 24 October 2019 Last modified 3 December 2019 Digital resources Title: Judy Hall OAM Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Red Cross Archives series reference: V92 Comprises minutes of the Red Cross Victorian Divisional Council Executive, typed loose sheets pasted into bound volumes which includes finance committee. On 8th November 1920 the Australian Red Cross Council unanimously resolved that the then current Advisory Committee cease to exist and be subsumed by the Victorian Division Executive Committee – so as to contain representatives of the various activities (See: Annual Report for 1920-21 page 5 item B. Item: 2015.0027.00002) See series 2016.0067 for VICTORIAN DIVISIONAL COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES. [Red Cross Archives series reference: V91]. Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 9 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Clarke, a scientist with the Plant Cell Biology Research Centre at the University of Melbourne from 1982, received a Personal Chair in Botany at the University of Melbourne in 1985 and became Lieutenant Governor of Victoria in 1997. Clarke was the first female Chairperson of the CSIRO, a position which she held from 1991 until 1996. Adrienne Clarke was educated at the University of Melbourne, where she completed her Bachelor of Science in 1958, and PhD in 1963. In 1991 she was awarded an AO. Clarke’s prolific career began in the 1960s when she worked as a Research Fellow with the Institute of Dental Research, United Dental Hospital of Sydney, 1964; Visiting Instructor, Department of Endocrine Physiology, Baylor University, Houston, Texas, Jan-Jun 1967; Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Michigan, July-Dec 1967; and Lecturer in Biochemistry, University of Auckland, 1968-69. The following decade and a half saw her work with the University of Melbourne as follows: Research Fellow, Asthma Foundation, Department of Medicine, 1969-73; Research Fellow, School of Botany, 1974; ARGC Research Fellow, School of Botany, 1975-77; Lecturer in Botany, 1978; Senior Lecturer in Botany, 1979; Reader in Botany, 1981; Director, Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, 1982 onward; and Professor, School of Botany, 1985 onward. She was appointed Chairman of CSIRO from 1991-96; and Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria from 1997. Adrienne Clarke is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (1988), Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1991), Mueller Medal winner (1992), and Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences (1994). Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Clarke, Adrienne Elizabeth (1938 -) National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ragbir Singh Bhathal, 1949-2006 (bulk 1996-1999) [manuscript] Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This collection documents Julia Trubridge-Freebury’s role as a prominent activist for women’s rights, particularly with regard to abortion but also other causes including her work with the Women’s Electoral Lobby and Dying with Dignity. The collection comprises printed material (newscuttings, newsletters, journal articles, leaflets and flyers) and correspondence.??BOX 1?Papers relating to debate on abortion at Sydney Town Hall featuring Germaine Greer, 2 March 1972, including transcripts of Greer’s speech, and fellow debaters Dr Clark, Mr Smith, Mr Webb, and questioners?Vol.4 No.5 Pol magazine, edited by Germain Greer?Various correspondence between Julia Freebury and American doctors Leo F Kenneally, and J F Griggs relating to methods for terminating pregnancies, and possibility of acquiring property on Oxford Street for set up of small hospital nursing home?Correspondence with the Therapeutic Goods Administration, Minister for Aged, Family and Health Services, Children by Choice Association, Rousel Uclaf, The Worcester Centre for Experimental Biology, Australian Drug Evaluation Committee, relating to the drug RU486?Invitation to Senators and MPs to a breakfast meeting with Professor Etienne-Emile Baulieu at Parliament house, 15 November 1990; invitation to lecture ‘The international politics of RU486 at Monash University, 16 November 1990?Character references from Judge Elizabeth Evatt (Chief Judge, Family Court of Australia), J F Staples (Deputy President, Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission), Paul Stein QC?Correspondence from W G Keighley?Thank you letter from Louis Wald?Letters from Trubridge-Freebury to Professor R P Ralston, T J Connolly (The Catholic Institute of Sydney); Justice H T Gibbs; Justice E A McTiernan; Justice A F Mason; Sir Garfield Barwick?Various typescript letters relating to the Abortion Law Repeal Association?Various letters to Trubridge-Freebury from people responding to her letter to the editor in The Australian, 30 March 1983, disagreeing with her views?Various newspaper cuttings relating to abortion?Copies of articles relating to abortion from POL, and Cosmopolitan magazines?Letters written by Trubridge-Freebury attempting to get in contact with Cosmopolitan magazine journalist?Correspondence between Trubridge-Freebury and Beatrice Faust (Co-founder of Women’s Electoral Lobby) relating to laws on abortion in Australia, various medical procedures for termination of pregnancies, the Women’s Abortion Action Campaign (WAAC), various private clinics and practitioners in Sydney?Notes and correspondence relating to Dr Ackerman?Registration of trademark ‘Children by Choice’?Letters to and responses from MPs, conference organisers, and public figures relating to abortion and euthanasia laws in Australia??BOX 2?Copies of article ‘The Death of Compassion’ from The VE Bulletin, July 1997?Copies of articles relating to euthanasia from The Australian 28-19 March 1997?Wel-Informed newsletter, issues 135-136, 142?The Australian Humanist No.23, Spring 1972?Various published articles and letters to the editor relating to euthanasia, suicide, and The Women’s Electoral Lobby?Various cuttings and copies of articles on suicide, and AIDS 1978-1995?Various writings on euthanasia, ca 1994?Various correspondence and papers relating to abortion, vasectomies, and contraception?Issues of Breaking chains : the newspaper of ALRA, the Abortion Law Reform Association?Lists of MPs and other people Trubridge-Freebury considered seeking to influence and lobby?Letters thanking Trubridge-Freebury for assistance?How to vote card for Julia Freebury Independent Candidate for South Coast??BOX 3?Various newspaper cuttings relating to the Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRA) and abortion laws; Opus Dei; Phyllis Schlafly?Mejane : a womens liberation newspaper, May 1971?Newsletter Jessie Street National Women’s Library Vol.15 No.2, July 2004?Various newspaper cuttings relating to euthanasia?Typescript manuscript titled ‘Reflections on the women involved in lobbying for abortion repeal’?Pamphlets and flyers relating to abortion laws in NSW?Manuscript letter to the editor of The Australian, 1979?Certificate of registration for ‘Woollahra Abortion Advice Care Centre & Referral’, 15 February 1979?Letters proposing new line of condoms ‘Children by Choice’?Exercise book containing appointments and records of meetings, 1991-1999?Cutting of newspaper article relating to Freebury’s defection from the Australian Democrats?Letters written by Trubridge-Freebury advocating change to abortion laws?Various hand written notes by Trubridge-Freebury?’I had one too: an oral history of abortion in South Australia before 1970? by Barbara Baird, 1990?Correspondence with George Petersen, former Labor MP, 1992?’The inadequacies of Australian Abortion Law’ by Natasha Cica, September 1990?Issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly, 7 May 1990, containing article concerning abortion?Correspondence and papers relating to The Preterm Foundation?Children by Choice interview sheet containing questions for clients??BOX 4?Memo book containing names and telephone numbers?Various newspaper cuttings and copies of articles related to abortion?’Right to choose womens health action magazine’?Poster and pamphlet for electoral candidate for Bligh, Bridget Gilling, 1971?Copy of leaflet ‘Hitler was anti abortion, Stalin was anti abortion’, 1969?Papers relating to Abortion Law Repeal Association, 1991?Correspondence with Australian Medical Association, Doctor’s Reform Society of NSW, Royal Commission of Human Relationships, Legislative Council NSW, Registrar’s Office District Court?Correspondence relating to RU486?Papers from Fourth International Conference on Medical Abortion, 17-18 November 1990?Copies of submission from Peter J Huntingford to the ‘Royal Commission in New Zealand on Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion’, 1976??BOX 5?Two scrapbooks titled ‘ALRA [Abortion Law Reform Association]’ containing cuttings of articles relating to abortion, 1984-1992 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "History of the Goldstein family, comprising twelve chapters: A very rising settlement; The young man goes west; The Hawkins family; J. R. Y. Goldstein; The Leongatha Labour Colony; Vida Goldstein and the women’s suffrage movement; Vida’s electoral campaigns and social work; H. H. Champion’s “unconventional autobiography”; H. H. Champion in Australia: the maritime strike; H. H. Champion: adventures in journalism; H. H. Champion and Bernard Shaw; Elsie Champion and the Book Lovers’ Library. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc10.207 comprises papers collected by Gareth Thomas relating to the Mawson family. The majority of the papers in this collection comprise personal correspondence of Paquita Mawson (ne?e Delprat), principally with her daughter Patricia, but also with her daughter Jessica, and with other members of her extended family. There is a small group of letters of Douglas Mawson to Patricia, 1925-1931. Other papers include a small number of undated black and white photographs depicting Antarctic exploration; a typescript draft of Paquita Mawson’s biography of her father, Guillaume Daniel Delprat, published in 1958; a Deed of Agreement between the Broken Hill Proprietary Company and G.D. Delprat (1898); and architectural plans of a house for G.D. Delprat at Brighton, South Australia (1909) (6 boxes, 1 map folio).??The Acc10.216 instalment comprises a telegram from Douglas Mawson to his fiancee, Paquita Delprat, advising her that he was alive after having been missing in the Antarctic for some months (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mary Rivett was trained as a psychologist and lectured briefly at the University of Sydney. With her sister Elsie she formed the free Children’s Library and Crafts Club in 1922. In 1934 they formed the Children’s Library and Crafts Movement which after their death became the Creative Leisure Movement. Educated Universities of Sydney (BA 1918) and Cambridge (first-class honours in psychology 1921). Lecturer, Bedford College, University of London ca1922, returned to Sydney 1922. University extension lecturer in psychology 1923-27, lectured at the Kindergarten Training College and edited her father’s paper the “Federal Independent”. Rivett left the university to promote faith healing and was interested in telepathy. She formed the free Children’s Library and Crafts Club 1922, and in 1934 the Children’s Library and Crafts Movement, of which she was secretary-organiser until 1961. Published resources Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Rivett, Doris Mary (1896 - 1969), Godden, J., 2006 Rivett, Elsie Grace (1887-1964), 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110711b.htm Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Elizabeth Long relating to the Rivett family, circa 1860-1960 [manuscript] Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 5 March 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Autographed manuscript poems by Louisa Lawson with carbon typescript and newspaper cutting Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 November 2017 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) was established on 13 August 1941, to release men from certain military duties for service with fighting units. The Service recruited women between the ages of 18 and 45 and they served in a variety of roles including clerks, typists, cooks and drivers. In 1945 a contingent was sent to Lae and a small group went to Holland. In June 1947, owing to the end of World War II, the AWAS was disbanded. On 13 August 1941 the War Cabinet of the Australian Government gave approval for the Formation and Control of an Australian Army Women’s Service to release men from military duties for employment with fighting units. The name was later changed to Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS). From the time of the appointment of the Controller AWAS on 29 September 1941, until cessation of hostilities in August 1945, 24,026 women enlisted as volunteers in the Service. Hitherto there had been no women accepted by the Army except those in the Medical Services and the potentialities of women in other trades and professions had not been utilised. In addition, as the Service expanded women with no particular qualifications, apart from general intelligence were used in various occupations where willingness to serve and general adaptability were the main requirements. The first 29 officers were a representative selection of Australian women appointed after many women had been interviewed in each State. It was considered essential that those selected for the first officers appointments should have proved themselves as leaders in their own trade or profession or in some form of community service. They were expected to have qualities of enthusiasm and confidence in the contribution which women could take to the Army, balance and dependability in carrying through a task, consideration for the requirements and needs of other women, and most importantly, tact and patience necessary for pioneering a new organisation. The first Officer’s Training School was held in Victoria in November-December 1941. During this time Japan entered the war and the need for womanpower in the Army was accentuated, recruiting and training commenced as soon as AWAS Officers returned to their areas. The types of recruits were quite splendid, alert, responsible and invariably inspired to volunteer by strong personal motives. Initially the Army only envisaged that women would be employed as clerks, typists, cooks and motor transport drivers, and in small numbers, however, the demand grew very quickly and by the end of 1942 12,000 recruits had been enlisted and trained. While at first AWAS were posted only to Headquarters, and Base Installations, they later took up duty, after specialist training in almost all Army Services. It is of interest to note that 3,618 served with the Royal Australian Artillery and they manned the Fixed Defences of Australia from Hobart in the South and Cairns in the North, and Perth in the West. And again 3,600 served in the Australian Corps of Signals, where they proved themselves well adapted for the type of work required of them. Officers and other ranks of the Australian Intelligence Corps were commended for highly secret work. Motor transport drivers had truly varied lives driving cars, ambulances, trucks (up to 3 tons), jeeps, floating jeeps, Bren Gun Carriers, amphibious vehicles and driving convoys in all weathers. Australian Army Ordnance Corps employed 2,600 on a variety of tasks, some requiring a high degree of skill and all a marked degree of patience and perseverance. While quite unusual and somewhat trying work was carried out at the Proof and Experimental Range. Cooks, caterers and canteen workers were just as important as skilled Cipher clerks. There were several butchers in the AWAS. In 1945 War Cabinet gave special approval for 500 AWAS to serve outside Australia. These members were posted to HQ 1st Aust. Army in New Guinea, 350 were selected and sailed on the MV Duntroon in May 1945. In 1946, 1 Officer, 3 NCO’s, and 1 Private AWAS were included in the Army quota of 160 personnel in the Victory March contingent for London June 1946. During 5 ½ years AWAS served throughout Australia from Darwin to Hobart, in populous parts and in some very lonely places. Each one according to her character and talents served Australia faithfully and well. The Service was disbanded in June 1947. Statistics October 1941 – Initial establishment for 1,600 women January 1942 – Establishment increased to 6,000 women August 1942 – Establishment increased to 20,000 (at the time strength was 9,000) Total Enlistments – 24026 Maximum Strength – 20,051 in January 1944 Officers numbered – 679 (Colonel 1, Lt Cols 4, Majors 22, Capt. 93, Lieut. 559) AWAS Units Recruiting Depots in all areas. 71 AWAS Barracks. Administrative Cadre for Welfare Officers. Training Schools – LHQ Officers Schools – 25 Courses. NCOs Schools, AWAS Recruit Training Battalions & Coys. P & RT Schools, Supervisory Personnel School. These training units later became Army Women’s Services school and trained AWAS and Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS). Recreation Centres 4 (1 Northern Territory, 3 Queensland) AWAS first served on HQs and Base Installations and in the second half of 1942, employment was extended generally and covered Units as follows:- HQ 1st & 2nd Aust. Army, HQ 2nd & 3rd Aust Corps. HQ 8th Aust. Div., HQ Lae Base Sub-Area, Camp Staffs. Artillery, Engineers, Survey, Signals, Infantry, Intelligence, Supply & Transport, Ordnance, AEME, Pay, Veterinary, Postal, Provost, Printing & Stationary, Canteens, Amenities, Education, Schools including RMC, Aust. Staff College & Training Units; Salvage. AWAS worked as Drivers in Car Coys, and regimental establishments. Drove cars, 3 ton trucks, Jeeps, Brenguin Carriers, amphibious vehicles, ambulances and attended to the maintenance of vehicles. They worked in watercraft workshops and in AEME repair shops: all duties connected with Signals, in the Broadcasting Unit, in Entertainment Unit, photographic unit, in Field Trail Coys. They manned A/A guns and Searchlights and they worked as hairdressers (women only), as mess and kitchen staff including several butchers and as interpreters. Officers were appointed to staff duties as follows: AAG (Women’s Services), Director of Military Training, Signal Officer in Chief, Chaplain’s Department, Director of Education, Director Public Relations, Director of Amenities, Director of Rehabilitation, In Quartering, Military Intelligence, Psychology and as ADC to a GOC. Special duties were performed by an Anthropologist, a linguist, a Veterinary Surgeon, a sculptress; also as guards for Italian female internees in hospital and assisted in courts and in one mental home during an emergency. Several ADCs were appointed from time to time for duty with the Colonel-in-Chief of AWAS. This office was accepted by the wife of the Governor-General and was held in turn by: Her Excellency The Lady Gowrie Her Excellency Lady Dugan Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester. AWAS in RAA numbered 3,618 in Fixed Defence AWAS in Signals numbered 3,600. Published resources Book Women in khaki, Oliff, Lorna, 1981 AWAS : women making history, 1988 Memoirs of an AWAS driver, Staube, Lorna Staub, 1989 Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 We answered the call : AWAS of Western Australia and their mates, Tucker, Eileen, 1991 History of the Women's Australian National Services, 1940-1946, 1947 2nd Australian Ambulance Car Company, 1942-1946., [198-] Khaki-clad and glad : 30 years after, A.W.A.S. Association (N.S.W.), [1971] Remember, Penrose, Patricia (Ed. and convenor), c1992 Candles in the sky, Alldritt, Nancy, [1998] You'll be sorry!, Howard, Ann, 1990 We also served, far north coast N.S.W. ex-servicewomen 1939-1945, Buckley, Martin J., c1995 Colonel Best and her soldiers: The Story of the 33 years of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps, Ollif, Lorna, 1985 Edited Book Backing up the boys : the Australian Women's Army Service and Albury army area, Martin, Desmond (Ed.), 1988 A special job : the Wheatstone girls, 1943-45, Kirby, June (compiled and edited by), 1999 Resource Section Australian Women and World War ll: Kit, http://infocus.sl.nsw.gov.au/res/resdesc.cfm?res_code=1269 The mobilisation of women into active services / the 'Yankee' invasion / How the war affected women, http://infocus.sl.nsw.gov.au/res/resdesc.cfm?res_code=1272 Australian Servicewomen's Memorial, Southwell-Keely, Michael, 1999, http://www.skp.com.au/memorials/pages/00018.htm Book Section Women in wartime - May Douglas, who played a prominent part in the Australian Women's Army Service raised in August, 1941, contributes some of her memories, Douglas, May Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, ca. 1941-1946 [manuscript]. State Library of New South Wales Australian Women's Army Service Association (N.S.W.) : pictorial material Cutler family - papers, 1909-1995 Sibyl Howy Irving scrapbooks relating to the Australian Women's Army Service, 1941-1946 Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Group of Australian Women's Army Service officers from the Victorian Land Headquarters on the steps of the Shrine of Remembrance Two senior members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) taking a wreath into the Shrine of Remembrance during the Armistice Day ceremony An informal group of members of the Australian Women's Army Services (AWAS) model their improvised costumes for a musical comedy and revue. General Sir Thomas Blamey inspects units of the Australian Women's Army Service at their headquarters Major M. K. Deasey, Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) Portrait of Major Kathleen Deasey who in November 1941 was appointed Assistant Controller in Victoria of the Australian Womens' Army Service. Some of the 900 members of the Australian Women's Army Service taking part in a march past as a farewell to Major Lorna Byrne Major Lorna Byrne, Assistant Controller, Australian Women's Army Service, Land Headquarters AWAS wants 100's of Australia's keenest women urgently… Release a man. Join the A.W.A.S. Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS, Northern Territory) Tucker, Eileen (Corporal, b.1920) Woods , Mrs H A Interview with Jean Scott (When the war came to Australia) Australian servicewomen's memorial John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 3336 Australian Women's Army Service Association Queensland Inc. Records Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 October 2002 Last modified 12 June 2009 Digital resources Title: AWAS wants 100's... Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "19 minute books (1946-2003), financial statements (1946-2003), 1 cardboard expanding file containing general information, 6 books recording matters passed at meetings, 6 attendance books. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 August 2003 Last modified 20 August 2003 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Australian Comforts Fund was established in August 1916 to co-ordinate the activities of the state based patriotic funds, which were established earlier in World War I. Mainly run by women, they provided and distributed free comforts to the Australian ‘fit’ fighting men in all the battle zones. They became divisions of the Australian Comforts Fund. The Council of the Fund comprised two delegates from New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland and one from the states of Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. The Executive headquarters was located in Sydney. It ceased operation on 10 April 1920 and was reconstituted in World War II in June 1940 and ceased operation again on 27 June 1946. The state bodies in World War I were: New South Wales: the ‘Citizens’ ‘War Chest’ Fund; Queensland Patriotic Fund; South Australia: League of Loyal Women; Tasmania: ‘On Active Service Fund’; Australian Comforts Fund, Victorian Division; Victoria League of Western Australia. During World War II the state bodies were called : The Lord Mayor’s Patriotic and War Fund of New South Wales; the Australian Comforts Fund, Victorian Division; the Australian Comforts Fund, Queensland Division; the Australian Comforts Fund, Tasmanian Division; the Fighting Forces Comforts Fund SA Inc; the Victoria League Camp Comforts Fund ( W A ) Australian Comforts Fund commissioners conducted its activities in the field, holding honorary rank as officers of the Army or Air Force. Published resources Book Proud story: the official history of the Australian Comforts Fund, Jackson, C O Badham, 1949 Edited Book The History of the Australian Comforts Fund: being the official record of a voluntary civilian organisation which during the Great War (1914-1919) and until the return of all the Australian troops (1920) provided and distributed free comforts to the Australian fit fighting men in all the battle zones and in other ways alleviated the distress inevitable in war, Bowden, Samuel H, [1922] Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Australian Comforts Fund papers, 1916-1919 Author Details Rosemary Francis and Carolyne Carter Created 1 June 2004 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hours 50 minutes??Lesley Cuthbertson, nee Cox, was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Australia Day honours list, 1998, for service to child development, in particular as the Director of the Lesley Cox School of Music, Movement and Drama, and to the community. Lesley Cuthbertson was born in Unley, South Australia. She speaks about her early education; nervous illness; introduction to Eurythmics with Heather Gell; her office work; marriage to her first cousin Roderic in 1947; adopting their 3 children; development of the Lesley Cox School of Music, Movement and Drama; charity work; working with children with disabilities; producing books; radio and television programs (Playroom); and inclusion of her methods into teacher training in 1998. She also discusses various productions that she staged including Sacred Dance in 1962 for the Festival of Arts, receiving her OAM, and the scholarship she has set up to honour her late niece, Robin Follett. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Bilney was a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby in the Australian Capital Territory during the mid-1970s and took a lead in the campaign for working mothers’ access to childcare. She made a significant contribution to the acceptance of the right of children to good care and the responsibility of government to support this in Australia. Elizabeth also edited and managed the publication of The Heritage of Australia (1981) for Macmillan of Australia in association with the Australian Heritage Commission; she established the journalHeritage Australia for the Australian Council of National Trusts, and was publishing co-ordinator for the National Gallery of Australia, and publications manager for the National Library of Australia. Elizabeth Joan Gunton was born in Yorketown, South Australia on 12 August 1943, the second of three daughters to schoolteachers James Donald Gunton and Jessie Helen McLellan. The family lived in Stansbury at the time of the birth and James Gunton’s job as a rural school inspector prompted moves to Streaky Bay in 1945, Port Lincoln in 1948, Kadina in 1951 and Adelaide in 1953. The young Elizabeth Gunton and her sisters attended local primary schools. Her younger sister, Barbara, as a toddler learning speech, metamorphosed Elizabeth’s four syllables into ‘Bibi’, a name used by some close friends and family for the rest of her life. Elizabeth was selected to attend Adelaide Girls’ High School (AGHS) and studied there from 1956-1960. Headmistress, Vera Macghey’s, commitment to equal rights for women was a formative influence. From AGHS Elizabeth won a Commonwealth Scholarship to Adelaide University where she commenced a Bachelor of Science in 1961 but left early to take up a cadetship with the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science where she discovered she was allergic to chemicals. During her time at Adelaide University Elizabeth played a significant part in university revues with her creative design and sewing skills. Gordon Bilney, whom Elizabeth met at Adelaide University and later married, writes, “In the university revues – she was a major contributor in the costume-making part of the productions, which was actually a big deal since original costumes were a big part of the shows. And very good she was too – a skill she carried on into our early marriage years.” From 1963-1965 Elizabeth worked as a reference librarian at the South Australian Public Library during which time she completed a Diploma in Librarianship. She moved to Sydney to take up a position at Sydney University’s Fisher Library in 1966 and the following year she married Gordon Bilney in Manila, where he was on a diplomatic posting with the Australian Department of External Affairs. Elizabeth and Gordon Bilney lived in Manila from 1967 to1969, during which time Elizabeth worked for the Asian Development Bank. While living back in Canberra, she gave birth to Caroline Jane Bilney in 1970 and Sarah Louise Bilney in 1971. Further diplomatic postings took Elizabeth, Gordon, Caroline and Sarah Bilney to Geneva (1971-1972), Paris (1975-1977) and Kingston, Jamaica (1980-1982). While in Canberra during the middle years of Gough Whitlam’s prime ministership (1973-1974), Elizabeth discovered the childcare difficulties she had experienced overseas were as problematic in Australia. She became a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and took a lead in the campaign for working mothers’ access to childcare. In 1973 Elizabeth and other ACT WEL activists approached Marie Coleman, Social Welfare Commission Chair, to discuss how best to pursue their ideas about expanding childcare. Later Prime Minister Gough Whitlam requested a policy report from the Social Welfare Commission and this was published in 1974 as Project Care, Parents Children Community. Susan Ryan, a senior minister in the Hawke government (1983-1991) wrote to Elizabeth shortly before she died, ” we all take satisfaction from the reforms for women and children we were able to embed in the agendas of Labor governments, so firmly that even Liberal coalition governments have never dislodged them. You were a heroine of childcare … the near universal acceptance of the right of children to good care and the responsibility of government to support this, constitutes a real revolution. Your work was crucial in bringing this revolution about.” Yet this significant work was something Elizabeth’s inherent humility prevented her from talking about so that it was only at her funeral when husband Allen Mawer mentioned these achievements in Elizabeth’s eulogy that some younger family members and friends became aware of her earlier activism and significant achievements for women and children in Australia. Back in Canberra in the late 1970s, between the Paris and Jamaica postings, Elizabeth edited and managed the publication of The Heritage of Australia (1981) for Macmillan of Australia in association with the Australian Heritage Commission. This became her magnum opus from which she moved on to establishing the journal Heritage Australia for the Australian Council of National Trusts, and later became publishing co-ordinator for the National Gallery of Australia, and publications manager for the National Library of Australia. In 1990 Elizabeth took up freelance editing and for the next fourteen years she worked as a consultant on a wide range of publications including Decorative arts and design from the Powerhouse Museum (1991) and the National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) Social Policy Committee Health Futures report. Elizabeth’s marriage to Gordon Bilney ended in 1992. Seven years later – on 31 December 1999 – she married Allen Mawer, author and former senior executive at the Department of Employment, Education and Training. Elizabeth Bilney and Allen Mawer lived at Wallaroo, New South Wales (NSW) where Elizabeth established a garden in the challenging soil of their home above the Murrumbidgee River. In retirement, from 1998, Elizabeth became involved in the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, as a member of the Friends’ Committee, newsletter editor and volunteer guide. She also engaged with the creativity that had her designing and constructing theatre costumes at Adelaide University in the 1960s and took up jewellery making. She particularly enjoyed setting sea glass from the Walter Hood wreck at Bendalong where she had been part owner with a group of friends in a holiday home since 1979. Another of Elizabeth’s significant achievement that compels acknowledgment is the parenting of her daughters, Caroline and Sarah. In his tribute to Elizabeth at her funeral in Canberra on 1 November 2010, her husband Allen Mawer said “She was immensely proud of Callie and Sarah. With careers as well as partners and children, they had grown into the kind of women she had encouraged them to be; like her, independent, resourceful and self-confident.” Published resources Elizabeth Bilney died of cancer on 26 September 2010 at Clare Holland House, Canberra’s hospice. Newspaper Article A champion of equal rights - Elizabeth 'Bibi' Bilney., 2010 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1988, Cadman, Kerith A, 1988 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Niki Francis Created 13 October 2011 Last modified 5 March 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "34 minutes??A recording of the launch of the second stage of the State Library of South Australia’s Honoured Women Oral History Project in the Lecture Theatre of the Institute Building. Bronwyn Halliday, Director of the State Library, chairs the launch and introduces the Hon. Diana Laidlaw MLC, Minister for the Status?of Women, and Beth Robertson, Manager, Audio-Visual Project Team, State Library. The Minister reflects on the project’s instigation and in particular her annual luncheon for new women recipients of Australia Day and Queen’s Birthday honours. Ms Robertson explains the focus of the project and promotes the Library’s J D Somerville Oral History Collection that now contains a substantial archive about women’s community service. She plays excerpts from Honoured Women interviews. Speeches and an interview excerpt include references to recently deceased Dame Roma Mitchell. Pianist Stella Panozzo plays before and after the speeches. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Germaine Greer Archive currently fills 487 archive boxes (occupying 82 metres of shelf space) mainly documenting the period 1959-2010. It is still in the process of being created; two deposits were received in 2016 and a third was delivered by Germaine Greer in March 2017. The University of Melbourne purchased the archive in 2013.??The archive documents Greer’s work as an academic, a film, TV and theatre performer, a writer (notably her extensive work as a journalist) and an environmentalist, as well as her personal relationships with friends, lovers, family, colleagues, students and fans.??A detailed list of the archive and access conditions is available via the link below. Created 20 July 2020 Last modified 31 August 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers include:, details of Melbourne’s first charitable institutions, Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, Melbourne Orphan Asylum, the work of Mrs James Simpson, and many other women; and, correspondence re above signed by Mrs E. J. MacMicking, dated 1912 and 1921. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Previously in the custody of the National Archives of Australia. Transferred to ACT Government custody in 1994-1995. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 August 2003 Last modified 17 October 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Diana Graham was a member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) Rape Law Reform Action Group from 1976, and co-convenor of the WEL Family Law Action Group from 1977. Di Graham was central to the debate on probate duties. Legislation around probate duties discriminated against women, she argued, as wives were obliged to wait for the probate period to expire despite their substantial direct and indirect contributions to assets which were seen as wholly belonging to their husbands or partners. Graham was convenor of the WEL probate group from c.1973. From 1977, Graham was co-convenor (with Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt) of the WEL Family Law Action Group, of which Kerry Heubel was also an active member. She wrote numerous submissions to federal members of parliament, including a submission (written with Scutt and Heubel) to the joint select parliamentary committee on the Family Law Act in 1979. In 1976, Graham had become a member of the WEL Rape Law Reform Action Group (again, convened by Scutt). The WEL draft bill on rape and other sexual offences formed the basis of rape law reform around Australia as well as substantially affecting reform and reform discussions in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Fiji, Canada and the USA. It was the basis of discussion at the first national conference on rape law reform, held in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1980 and hosted jointly by the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Tasmanian Law Reform Commission, and the University of Tasmania Law School. Published resources Edited Book Different Lives, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1987 Conference Proceedings Rape Law Reform, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1980 Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Di Graham, OAM, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1999 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Di Graham, 1975-1997 [manuscript] Author Details Elle Morrell Created 15 February 2001 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mildred Macfarlan Barnard was a statistician, mathematician and biometrician. She worked as an Assistant Biometrician in the Division of Forest Products at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) from 1936-41. Mildred lectured at the University of Melbourne and the Women’s College, and later at the University of Queensland. She was also the first woman to chair the Brisbane Branch of the International Biometrics Society, Australasian Region, in 1972. Mildred Macfarlan Barnard was the child of Richard James Allman Barnard who taught mathematics at Queen’s and Ormond College before lecturing at Duntroon Military College. From 1922 to 1933 he lectured at Melbourne University. The family had been long established in Victoria: Mildred Barnard’s grandfather owned a pharmacy where the old Kew Post office now stands. Mildred Barnard excelled in mathematics, winning the Dixson Scholarship in 1931, graduating BA and BSc. She took her MA the following year and in 1935 attended University College, London where she wrote the three papers that were accepted for her PhD from the University of London. Returning to Australia, she worked with Betty Allan (like her, an alumna of Melbourne Church of England Girls’ Grammar School) as Assistant Biometrician in the Division of Forest Products of the CSIR from 1936 to 1941.[1] Her investigations covered such aspects as the holding power of coach screws and the serviceability over time of railway sleepers and telegraph poles. It has been noted that: Barnard was quick to point out the defects in such practices as picking out average-looking trees and taking many samples from a few trees rather than the other way around, advocating that representative samples be a priority, that random samples be used wherever practicable, that stratification takes place whenever appropriate, and that samples should be reasonably large in relation to the variability of the characters of interest. She would also point out that before sampling a population or obtaining material for an experiment, it is generally wise to obtain the advice of a statistician! [2] In 1939 she married and until 1956, when the family left for Queensland, she lectured part-time at both the University and Women’s College. She lectured thereafter at the University of Queensland. Her Elementary Statistics for Timber Research Workers, twice printed for internal CSIR use, was formally published in 1956.[3] In 1972 she became the first woman to chair the Brisbane Branch of the International Biometrics Society, Australasian Region. [1] For a brief description of Allan’s life and work see Juliet Flesch and Peter McPhee. 160 Years 160 Stories. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2013. p.4. [2] J.B.F. Field, F.E. Speed, T.P. Speed & J.M. Williams. ‘Biometrics in the CSIR: 1930-1940’. Australian Journal of Statistics . v. 30(B) (1988): 54-76. [3] Mildred M. Barnard and Nell Ditchburne. Elementary Statistics for Use in Timber Research. Melbourne: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia, 1956. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Resource Section Barnard, Mildred Macfarlan (1908 - 2000), McCarthy, Gavan, 2004, http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001596b.htm Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 1 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "4 sound files (ca. 235 min,.) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 August 2003 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers of Jocelyn Newman in MS Acc04/204 comprise condolences, papers as Shadow Minister for Defence, files on overseas visits, airports, teleservices, women, the 1998 election, Grammar Board, as well as photos, speeches, newspaper cuttings, appointment diaries and press releases. The papers of Kevin Newman include photographs, papers relating to the Bass by-election in 1975, airports, retirement, overseas visits, Australian dictionary of biography article on Burford Sampson, the Stockman’s Hall of Fame, National Trust, elections in 1980 and 1983, and roads and transport (20 boxes, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 26 May 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Margaret Preston was the first woman to be commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales to produce a self-portrait. In 1996 one of her hand-coloured woodcuts of a Western Australian banksia from 1929 was commemorated on an Australia Day postage stamp. Margaret Rose Mcpherson studied in Melbourne and Adelaide before travelling overseas. In 1919 she married Bill Preston. As a successful teacher and exhibitor, she developed a reputation for her highly decorative and colourful paintings and woodcuts of Australian fauna and flora at a time when European flowers were still considered the norm for gardens and paintings. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Journal Article Margaret Preston's Banksia Woodcut Memorialised, Butler, Roger, 1996 Book 100 great Australians, Macklin, Robert, 1983 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Birth certificate and manuscript, 1875-[ca. 1924] [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2002 Last modified 14 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Karla Sperling is a committed Green activist whose academic study makes her an expert on environmental law and sustainability. She stood for the Greens in the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Kiama in 1995; Senate for NSW in 1996; House of Representatives for Throsby in 1993 and 1998. Karla Sperling tutored and lectured at the University of Wollongong. She was for some time Deputy Chairperson of the Illawarra Catchment management Committee. Karla Sperling gained the world’s first Ph.D. in Sustainable Futures when she graduated from the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney in May 2002, writing her thesis on “Overcoming legal impediments to urban planning for sustainability in the Sydney greater metropolitan region.” She was the convenor of the Friends of the Regent Theatre, Wollongong which campaigned to retain, protect and conserve the theatre and ensure its continuing public. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 2 August 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The files were maintained in alphabetical order by Dr Susan Bambrick as Master of University House. While some are subject files most are organised by the person, position or body that she corresponded with, and include original correspondence and copies of her correspondence to others. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Recorded on 13 November 1981 Author Details Helen Morgan Created 7 August 2019 Last modified 7 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Savina Patroni migrated to Australia from Italy in 1951. She lived in the Somerville garden district of Kalgoorlie and raised a family while also working on the family market garden. Savina Patroni migrated to Australia in 1951 with her husband and two children, Laura and Bert, on the Australia. Prior to her marriage, Savina had worked as a tailor in one of Milan’s top fashion houses. She moved with her husband and children into a house, which had been transported from the Gwalia mine. The corrugated iron dwelling was lined with hessian bags, and there was no electricity or running water. Savina had three more children – Nellie, Alfie and Vilma – in Australia, and cared for the family while also doing hard physical labour in the garden. She picked, packed, and loaded vegetables for sale to markets in Kalgoorlie. The family also had a cow and raised goats and pigs for milk and meat. Savina continued to work on the garden well into her 60s. She still lives in the same house – albeit with modifications and renovations. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Savina Patroni interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald [sound recording] Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 15 August 2012 Last modified 7 August 2015 Digital resources Title: Savina Patroni's vegetable garden, Sommerville Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Savina Patroni, taken on arrival in Australia Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Savina-Patroni-photograph-taken-on-arrival-in-Australia-ca-1950s.-Courtesy-Savina-Patroni.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Miscellaneous records relating to John Pollard McLarty, Ernest McLarty, Sir Ross and Lady McLarty and others, including diaries, correspondence, notebooks, invitations, cards etc. dealing with political, station, farming and local Pinjara matters, Country Women’s Association (1941-1954), Pinjara Infants Health Centre (1944-1959). Lady McLarty was an active member of the Country Women’s Association and became state president in 1953. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hr 41 min. Oral history. Audio cassette; TDK AD60; two track mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party from 1966, Caroline Hogg served as the Member for Melbourne North in the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Victoria from 1982-1999. During that period she held a range of ministerial appointments in Community Services, Education, Ethnic Affairs, Health and finally Ethnic, Municipal and Community Affairs. In Opposition after 1992 she held various Shadow Ministerial positions and was the Australian Labor Party Whip in the Legislative Council before her retirement in 1999. Daughter of A. G. F. Kluht a clerk and E. C. Kluht, Caroline Hogg moved to Australia from England with her Australian born mother in 1950. She completed her education in Adelaide at Woodville High School and at Adelaide University, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts. She moved to Melbourne and taught at Fitzroy High School for fifteen years. Her teaching career spanned the years 1963-81. She married Robert ( Bob ) Hogg in 1967 and was divorced in 1996. They had a son and a daughter. She honed her political skills as a Collingwood City Councillor from 1970-79 and as its first woman mayor in 1978. She was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council seat of Melbourne North in 1982 and remained its member for seventeen years. Her ministerial portfolios included: Minister for Community Services 1985-87; Minister for Education 1987-88; Minister for Ethnic Affairs 1988-89; Minister for Health 1989-91; Minister for Ethnic, Municipal and Community Affairs 1991-92. In addition to her ministerial duties she was Deputy Leader of the Labor Party in the Legislative Council from 1990-96. Events 2003 - 2003 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Section The Hon. Caroline Hogg, 2003, http://www.women.vic.gov.au/web12/rwpgslib.nsf/Graphic+Files/2003_Honour_Roll/$file/2003_Honour_Roll.pdf Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 June 2005 Last modified 8 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Contains the Following Items:??A short history of the Society of the Sacred Advent 1892 – 1942?The fellowship of the Sacred Advent n.d.?’When I consider’ by Sister Una Mary 1936.?Diamond Jubilee Handbook 1892 – 1952.?100 years of Ministry – A History of the Society of the Sacred Advent 1892 – 1992 (Book was from Evelyn Heath, Principal of St. Margaret’s School 1982 – 1993).??Orders of Service – Annual Schools’ Service at St. John’s Cathedral n.d.?- Service for Laying of the Foundation Stone – Society of the Sacred Advent Sisters’ House 10/06/1984.??Society of the Sacred Advent Newsletter December 1992. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 May 2009 Last modified 14 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes correspondence, minutes, annual reports, financial records, press releases and copies of the MCSMC newsletter, The Scarlet Letter; also material relating to associated bodies such as the Australian Council of Social Services and the National Women’s Advisory Council. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 27 August 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 digital audio tapes (ca. 179 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Edith Morgan, interviewed by Andrew Lindsay. Andrew Lindsay interviewed members of the Collingwood Over 60s Group and this interview forms part of his book ‘Dancing in the kitchen: portraits of Collingwood’s older women’. Exact date of interview unknown. Created 10 December 2019 Last modified 10 December 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sister Philippa, as she preferred to be known, took the religious name of Sister Mary Philippa at her Religious Profession to the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy on 10th January 1918. After graduating from the Teachers’ Training College at Ascot Vale, she became a teacher in several Victorian Schools. In 1928 she transferred from teaching to nursing, completing her training at Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane. In 1935 she became foundation matron at the Mercy Private Hospital, where she introduced general nurse training. From 1954 to 1959 she was appointed Provincial of the Sisters of Mercy in Victoria and Tasmania, after which she returned to the Mercy Private Hospital. In 1979 Sister Philippa was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for outstanding service to the people of Victoria and beyond, especially in the Health Care Field. Two years later, on the 1 August, the University of Melbourne awarded Sister the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws in recognition of her services to women and family life. She was the first nun to receive the award from the University. Born: 25 December 1896. Died: 1 January 1988. Birth name: Joanna Brazill. Religious name: Sister Mary Philipa. Preferred to be called: Sister Philippa Following her father’s reluctant approval, Brazil sailed from Ireland to Melbourne to join the Religious Sisters of Mercy (RSM). In 1912, aged fourteen and a half, she had heard a talk by Mother Genevieve Buckley appealing for missionaries on behalf of the Victorian Mercy communities. Deciding upon a religious vocation, and with her mother’s blessing, Brazil became one of the Irish girls recruited to join the Mercy Congregation in Australian. [1] Before commencing her religious training, in 1915, Brazill completed her secondary educated at Sacred Heart College, Geelong. Joanna Brazill made her first Religious Profession on 10 January 1918, taking the religious name of Sister Mary Philippa. Citation read by Professor Colin Howard, chairman of the Melbourne University’s academic board: Mr Chancellor – Sister Philippa Brazill was born in 1896 in Country Limerick, Ireland. She has given a lifetime of public service in Victoria, particularly in her long association with health care. In 1915 she entered the congregation of the Sisters of Mercy in Melbourne for teacher training at Ascot Vale, and then was a teacher in several Victorian schools. In 1928, Sister Philippa transferred from teaching to the nursing staff of St Benedict’s Hospital, Malvern, which had been acquired by the Sisters of Mercy to begin their work of caring for the sick. She did her nursing training at Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane, and then returned to St Benedict’s. She made a six months tour of American hospitals to gather ideas for incorporation into the plans of the St Benedict’s Sisters for the establishment of a Hospital for Women. When the Mercy Private Hospital was opened in 1935, Sister Philippa became the first matron and was primarily responsible for setting its high stand of patient care, and for introducing general nurse training. From 1954 to 1959, Sister Philippa’s involvement in hospital work temporarily ceased when she was appointed Provincial of the Sisters of Mercy in Victoria and Tasmania, then numbering approximately six hundred members. In this capacity, she gave strong and wise leadership within her religious Congregation in the administration of the various works associated with it, namely: primary, secondary and tertiary education, the care of orphaned and neglected children, and the care of the sick. At the conclusion of this period of office Sister Philippa returned to the Mercy Private Hospital, and again assumed the responsibilities of Superior and Matron. The establishment of the Mercy Private Hospital in 1971 saw the fulfillment of one of her life’s ambitions, as she had a particular interest in the welfare of women and family life. In June 1979, Sister Philippa was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty, the Queen, for outstanding service to the people of Victoria and beyond, especially in the health care field, over the previous 50 years. In her semi-retirement, she is still actively involved in a pastoral role with the patients at the hospital and with the many people who have learned to value her wise counsel and insight. Mr Chancellor, I present to you, Mary Philippa Brazill of the Sisters of Mercy, Dame Commander of the British Empire for admission to the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa. Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 21 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "45 minutes.??A recording of the function in the West Wing of the Art Gallery of South Australia on 29 July 1997 to farewell Fran Awcock, the Director of the State Library of South Australia, 1991-1997. Peter Wylie, Chairman of the Libraries Board of South Australia speaks on behalf of the Board; Elizabeth Ho, Associate Director, on behalf of staff; Alan Brissenden, President of the Friends of the State Library, on behalf of the Friends; and Rosemary Craddock, Mayor of Walkerville, on behalf of the Local Government Association. After Fran Awcock’s response, the Minister for the Arts, Diana Laidlaw, proposes a toast. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 122 min.)??Mabel Ryan is a property owner and sheep farmer in the Quandialla area of N.S.W. She talks about her early life; the financial depression in the 1930s; rural life, dust storms, drought, home remedies and play; running the farm on her own while raising 2 young children following the death of her husband; sheep raising; rural diversification; the success of her sheep stud run in conjunction with her son; her family. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 August 2017 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "End of War Awards – submissions by [Quartermaster-General and Director-General of Medical Services] QMG & DGMS [Brig R T A McDonald, Col N M Loutit, Col R H Norman, Lt-Col C C Easterbrook, Lt-Col H L Maude, Lt-Col P A Parsons, Lt-Col L J Fitzpatrick, Lt-Col W B Leonard, Maj J E McKimm, Lt-Col G G Hack, Lt-Col C S Johnston, Capt. J A Egan, Maj N A Dalton, Maj C S Waugh, Maj C W Gray, Sgt Vera Kiddell, Lt-Col H H Turnbull, Lt-Col E V Keogh, Lt-Col A Christie, Lt-Col C R B Blackburn, Maj K B Brown, Maj Lady Winifred I E MacKenzie, Maj M J Mackerras, Col (Matron-in-Chief) Annie M Sage, Capt. (Matron) Beatrice J Paige, Capt. Jean E Headberry, Capt. Patricia D Chomley, Lt-Col Mary S Douglas, Maj Alice R Appleford, Capt. Marjorie C Roche, Maj Joyce M Snelling] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Autograph album (1886-1963); cards; certificates; diaries (including diary of voyage from England to Australia in 1882); invitations and letters (1919-1959); programmes; scrapbook, etc. relating to her private life as well as her involvement with various organisations such as Country Women’s Association, Australian Red Cross Society, Silver Chain Nursing Association, Young Women’s Christian Association, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, National Council of Women Business and Professional Women’s Club of Perth. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Michelle Bleicher is a staunch member of the Australian Democrats and their candidate in the House of Representatives for Sydney in 2004 and in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Marrickville by-election in 2005. Michelle Bleicher has had a varied career. She managed an entertainer, producing an APRA award winning record before studying psychology and politics. Following the birth of her son, she moved into community cultural planning. She has developed educational and indigenous projects through local government and in 2002 she was the co-ordinator for the Woollahra Sculpture Prize. She4 is involved with community radio. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Recorded on 7 May 2004 at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 6 August 2019 Last modified 6 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 44 min.)??Susan Bambrick is introduced by the chairman of the luncheon Mr Harry Butler. She talks on: Australia’s resources; the energy crisis; nuclear power; she outlines various possible energy alternatives, their advantages and disadvantages. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Women’s Caucus of the then Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA) was established in 1979. It was set up to improve the standing of women in the political science profession and to promote the study of women and politics. The annual general meeting of the Women’s Caucus is held during the annual conference of APSA. A representative serves on the APSA Executive. The caucus conducts regular reviews of the status of women in the profession and of the extent of the successful implementation of APSA’s policy that the study of women should be integrated into all politics courses. The Australasian Political Studies Association’s (APSA) Women’s Caucus was established on the initiative of Marian Sawer and Carole Pateman at APSA’s 1979 conference in Hobart. Its purpose is to improve the status of women in the profession of political science and to make women visible in the political system particularly as it is studied through the discipline of Political Science. An immediate success was the inclusion of Carole Pateman on the Executive of APSA as Vice-President. Marian Sawer lists a number of activities of the Women’s Caucus including: increasing the representation of women on the APSA Executive including as President, inspiring a more gender-inclusive journal, making the Annual Conferences more woman-friendly, instigating regular audits of the status of women in the profession, monitoring the gender inclusiveness of curriculum and textbooks, recording the completion of thesis research with a gender focus. The Women’s Caucus has also initiated and sustained prizes for research and study in the field of political science. In 2018 the winner of the first Thelma Hunter PhD Prize for the best thesis on women and/or gender and politics will be announced. This will replace the Women and Politics Prize which was awarded from 1982 to 2016. The Carole Pateman Prize is given for the best book on the topic of gender and politics. The Academic Leadership in Political Science Award was established by the Executive Committee of APSA in response to recommendations made by the Women’s Advancement in Australian Political Science report (2012). It recognises inclusive and collaborative leadership, of particular importance to women and members of non-dominant groups, but also of benefit to all emerging scholars. The Women’s Caucus published an electronic newsletter WAPSA News from 1994 to 1995 and then created the moderated email discussion list Ausfem-Polnet in 1996. By 2003 this list had some 900 subscribers including many women working within government. Madeline Grey’s 2014 assessment of women’s leadership in the field of Political Science makes three points. The APSA Women’s Caucus has allowed women political scientists to work collectively to exert influence and implement initiatives, Their contributions to a feminist body of scholarship through the Australian Journal of Political Science and other national and international publications has laid the groundwork for transforming the discipline, The creation of the Women’s Caucus, a specific structure with a clear mandate to focus on gender issues, has played an important role in supporting women to challenge the status quo and promote change. In these ways, the APSA Women’s Caucus has been a significant influence on both the profession and the discipline of Political Science. This entry was sponsored by a generous donation from the late Dr Thelma Hunter. Published resources Resource Section Political Science, Grey, Madeline, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0178b.htm Journal Article The Impact of Feminist Scholarship on Australian Political Science, Sawer, Marian, 2004 Resource Australian Political Studies Association Website, Australian Political Studies Association, 2017, http://www.auspsa.org.au/about/womens-caucus Journal Politics: The Journal of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Australasian Political Studies Association, 1966-90 Australian Journal of Political Science, Australasian Political Studies Association, 1990 - Conference Proceedings Papers- Australasian Political Studies Association, Australasian Political Studies Association, 1960 c Site Exhibition Women Who Caucus: Feminist Political Scientists, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2017, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/caucus/ Book Section A History of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Jaensch, Dean, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Australasian Political Studies Association, 1956-1996 [manuscript] Author Details Jill Caldwell Created 3 May 2017 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mrs Helen Crisp, a feminist, talks about her interests after becoming a mother; women’s movement; dealing with legislation for women in the Public Service, which led to married women getting equal rights with the unmarried sisters and also with males, being President of the Women’s Union at the University of Adelaide; trying to get the marriage bar removed; sending a motion to the then Prime Minister Mr Menzies on equal pay for women but he was not interested in anything to do with working women; joining the Public Service in Public Administration; writing a letter to Billy McMahon congratulating him on all the things he was saying about working women. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 August 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Six song books published or used by the EYL, c. 1950s-1962, photocopies. Three original song books, n.d. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence with Arthur Balfour, Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Elgin while Lord Northcote was Governor-General of Australia. Subjects covered include Australian politics, defence, immigration, tariff, honours and the New Hebrides. Author Details Clare Land Created 23 September 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On June 24, 2010, Julia Gillard became the first woman Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia and retained her position after the federal election, which was held on 21 August 2010. She led a minority Labor Government, supported by a member of the Greens party and three Independents. She lost the prime ministership on 27 June 2013, when Kevin Rudd challenged her for the position and won. She retired from parliament in August 2013. Her career in parliamentary politics began when she was elected Member of the House of Representatives for Lalor (Victoria) in 1998 and re-elected in 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010. She became Deputy Leader of the Opposition (ALP) in December 2006. On the election of the Labor Government in November 2007, she assumed the position of Deputy Prime Minister and took on the portfolios of Employment and Workplace Relations, Education and Social Inclusion. In 2017, Julia Gillard was made a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia ‘for eminent service to the Parliament of Australia, particularly as Prime Minister, through seminal contributions to economic and social development, particularly policy reform in the areas of education, disability care, workplace relations, health, foreign affairs and the environment, and as a role model to women.’ Educated at Unley High School (SA) and the Universities of Adelaide and Melbourne, Julia Gillard worked as a solicitor with Slater and Gordon from 1987 to 1990, when she became a partner with the firm. In 1996, Gillard became Chief-of-Staff to John Brumby (then Leader of the Victorian Opposition) and retained her position until her election to federal parliament in 1998. Gillard has served as Shadow Minister for Population and Immigration (November 2001 to July 2003); Shadow Minister for Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs (February 2003 to July 2003); Shadow Minister for Health (July 2003 to December 2006); and Manager of Opposition Business (December 2003 to December 2006). She became Deputy Leader of the Opposition in December 2006. In 2010 she became Prime Minister of Australia. Events 1990 - 1996 Partner, Slater & Gordon Solictors 1987 - 1990 Solictor, Slater & Gordon Solictors 1993 - 1997 Member, Administrative Committee, Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party 1982 - 1983 Member, National Let’s Develop Education Committee, Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party 1983 - 1983 President, Australian Union of Students 1982 - 1982 Vice-President, National Education Australian Union of Studies 2001 - 2003 Shadow Minister for Population and Immigration 1981 - 1981 President, Adelaide University Union 1980 - 1980 Member, Adelaide University Union 2003 - 2003 Shadow Minister for Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs 2003 - 2006 Shadow Minister for Health 2006 - 2007 Deputy Leader of the Opposition 2061 - 2061 Born: daughter of John Oliver and Moira Gillard 1996 - 1998 Chief of Staff to Leader of the Opposition John Brumby 1998 - 1998 Elected Member House of Representatives (MHR) for the Australian Labor Party (ALP) for the Victorian electorate of Lalor 2010 - 2013 Prime Minister of Australia 2007 - 2010 Deputy Prime Minister 2013 - 2013 Honorary Visiting Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide 2014 - 2014 Appointed chairwoman of the Global Partnership for Education focussed on the education of children in the world’s poorest countries 2014 - 2014 Appointed to the Board of the mental health institution beyondblue 2017 - 2017 Appointed Chair of Beyond Blue 2017 - 2017 Appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Section Ms Julia Gillard MP, Parliament House, House of Representatives, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=83L Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Gillard becomes Australia's first female PM after Rudd goes down without fight, Staff reporters, 2010, http://www.theage.com.au/national/gillard-becomes-australias-first-female-pm-after-rudd-goes-down-without-fight-20100624-z02g.html Book The Making of Julia Gillard, Kent, Jacqueline, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 December 2001 Last modified 12 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Photo Montage Julia Gillard Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound file??Christine Phillips speaks about her early life and schooling; her medical studies; her experience on a African medical mission; working in Alice Springs on diabetes research; doctor-patient relationships in indigenous health; refugees in Darwin; psychiatric problems; her visit to East Timor (1990); moving to general practice in Canberra early 1990s; working at Gambia Research Institute, Sierra Leone, Uganda; moving to Companion House, Canberra 2001; funding arrangements, services provided; refugees early settlement priorities; Asylum seekers; ACT dental, mental, pharmaceutical services, health promotion; Sudanese problems; services for Bridging Visa holders and asylum seekers on Temporary Protection Visas; lack of medical information on people released from detention centres.??Phillips talks about refugees’ use of mainstream GPs; problems with emergency department of hospitals and specialists; role of GPs; aged refugees in nursing homes; pharmaceutical services for refugees; Interpreting services for GPs and hospitals; Telephone Interpreter Service (TIS); her crusade; after hours services for refugees; The Kiani case; detention centres; ethnic community based support groups; negotiations with ACT government; psychiatric and medical services in detention centres; children and adolescents in detention; the impact of detention on family relationships; Einfield Inquiry, 2006; vulnerable groups in Canberra; medical education; community attitudes. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The National Council of Women of Australia was founded in 1931, with Ivy Moss as President, to act as an umbrella organisation for the existing National Councils of Women in each state. The first of these, the National Council of Women of New South Wales, had been formed in 1896. Like all National Councils of Women, it functions as a political lobby group, attempting to influence local, state and federal governments as well as participating in international activities through its affiliation with the International Council of Women (established in 1888 at Seneca Falls in the United States of America) which has consultative status with the United Nations. The national Council grew out of the Federal Council of the National Council of Women, which had been established in 1924 ‘with the object of enhancing the power of the [state] Councils in dealing with matters of Australian concern.’ Later, Councils established in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory also affiliated with this national body. Until the 1940s at least, the Council was a major focal point for middle-class women’s activism. The current aims of NCWA are: To work for the removal of all discrimination against women and to promote the equal status of women and men in law and in fact. To act as a link for networking and a co-ordinator between State and Territory Councils of Women. To act as a voice or Agent of communication at national and international levels on issues and concerns of women. To develop national policies and responsibilities on behalf of women on an Australia wide basis. To maintain the affiliation with the International Council of Women and monitor the implementation of its plans of action and policies at national level. Each State and Territory has its own branch of the National Council of Women, and these in turn have affiliated with them a number of women’s organisations with a wide diversity of aims and goals. But the common linkage is to improve the status of and conditions for women and their families in Australia. To ensure that Australia was accorded a National presence on the International scene, the National Council of Women of Australia was established by the State and Territory Councils in 1931 to deal with issues affecting women and their families at a National and International level. This body was preceded by the Federal Council of the National Council of Women, 1924-31 – records of which are contained in MS 7583, NLA, (http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/7583.html). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Left-wing Ladies : The Union of Australian women in Victoria 1950-1998, Fabian, Suzane and Loh, Morag, 2000 Champions of the impossible: a history of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1902-1977, Norris, Ada, 1978 Australian nurses since Nightingale 1860-1990, Burchill, Elizabeth, 1992 Jessie Webb, a memoir, Ridley, Ronald T, 1994 Book Section A view of the Australian consumer movement from the middle of the Web, Brown, Robin and Panetta, Jane, 2000 Making the National Councils of Women National: The Formation of a Nation-wide Organisation in Australia 1896-1931, Smart, Judith and Quartly, Marian, 2009 Journal Article Homefires and Housewives: Women, war and the politics of consumption, Smart, Judith, 2004 Mainstream Women's Organisations in Australia: The Challenges of National and International Co-operation after the Great War, Smart, Judith and Quartly, Marian, 2012 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Joyce McConnell, 1960-1989 [manuscript] Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1936-1972 [manuscript] Papers of Herbert and Ivy Brookes, 1869-1970 [manuscript Papers of Margaret Reynolds, 1973-2005 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection State Library of New South Wales - Jean Arnot interviewed by Rosemary Block, 1994 Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 The University of Melbourne Archives Norris, Dame Ada May National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Ada Norris interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording] Jean Arnot interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording] Margaret Davey interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording] State Library of South Australia Kathleen Hilfers : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Delegates to the 1928 Annual Meeting of the NCWA Federal Council Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: NCW WA invites Tengku Ampuan of Selangor to afternoon tea, 1962 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: NCWA conference, Brisbane 1964 - delegates in hats Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: NCWA Board Tasmanian Conference 1999 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Getting to Know You! 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        "text": "COLLECTION 01?Nancy Bird Walton papers and photographs, 1933-1963?Presented by Nancy Bird Walton in 1963??COLLECTION 02?Nancy Bird Walton, aged 23, ca. 1939-1942 / Harold Cazneaux?Presented by Nancy Bird Walton in 1972??COLLECTION 03?Nancy Bird Walton interviews, mainly for radio, discussing her own life, aviation, air services and aviators, 1979-1982?Presented by Nancy Bird Walton in 1984??COLLECTION 04?Nancy Bird Walton further papers and photographs, ca. 1930-1995?Presented by Nancy Bird Walton in March 1995??COLLECTION 05?Nancy Bird Walton scrapbooks, 1938, ca. 1997-2001?Presented by Nancy Bird Walton in November 2001??COLLECTION 06?Nancy Bird Walton further papers, pictorial material and objects?Presented by Nancy Bird Walton in 1996 and 2008??COLLECTION 07?Nancy Bird Walton further papers, pictorial material and objects, ca. 1930-2009?Bequeathed by Nancy Bird Walton in 2009??COLLECTION 08?North Shore Times 50 years medal presented to Nancy Bird Walton?Presented by Christine Robertson (personal assistant to Nancy Bird-Walton), September 2011??See card catalogues for further collections presented by Nancy Bird Walton. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Red Cross Archives series reference: V09 Agendas and Minutes from the governance committee of the Victorian Red Cross Divisional Council. This series can be divided into two record sets. The first set comprises minutes for years 1914-1939 (2016.0066.00001 – 2016.0066.00006) which are numbered loose leaf sheets that include financial reports. An alphabetical index covering minutes of council, executive, general, annual meetings, as well as convalescent homes and home hospitals committees controls this set. (2016.0066.00016) The second set comprises minutes for 1938-1981 (2016.0066.00007 – 2016.0066.00012) which are numbered and pasted into volumes. Minutes for 1981-1991 (2016.0066.00013 – 2016.0066.00014) are numbered and on loose leaf sheets. Minutes for 1992-1999 (2016.0066.00015) are bound in individual year volumes. Of these items only (2016.0066.00007) has an alphabetical index, and (2016.0066.00011) has a summary index organised by date. See also EXECUTIVE OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE (2015.0026) Council Correspondence, Minutes and Reports Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 9 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pat Lahy trained in physical education and established the first formal training course in counselling for people with disabilities in Australia. She was the first woman to hold the position of Dean of Arts at the University of Sydney. Born in Cremorne, the eldest of the three children of Vincent Power Lahy and his wife Valerie Roberta Wilson, Pat Lahy was educated at North Sydney Girls’ High and after her father died in 1942 she trained as a physical education teacher at Sydney Teachers College, obtaining a diploma in 1947 and a teacher’s certificate in 1950. Her commitment to physical education underlay many things she did later – some of her publications, her role in the university women’s sports association and her interest in vocational rehabilitation for the physically disabled. Later she was appointed to Wagga Wagga Teachers’ College to lecture in Physical Education and lived in residence there. In order to undertake part time evening studies at the University of Sydney she transferred to Balmain Teachers’ College. Eventually in 1963 at thirty-five she graduated as a BA with honours in psychology. Professor William O’Neil immediately appointed her a senior tutor in the department to organise the practical and tutorial program. In 1965 she became a lecturer and from 1967 she ran the first year. She was also general secretary of the new Australian Psychological Society and a member of the Staff Club committee. In 1968 she established the first formal training course in counselling for the disabled in Australia. On sabbatical leave in 1970 she began a doctorate at Queens University Belfast which focussed on pattern recognition. This she completed in 1975. Back in Sydney she resumed her teaching and publishing, was promoted senior lecturer in 1977 and was increasingly seen as an efficient and reliable administrator and organiser who was well liked by her colleagues. In 1978 she became a sub-dean of arts and in 1979 pro-dean. Later that year the faculty of arts elected her dean – the first woman to hold the position at the University of Sydney. The University of Sydney News then put to her a question about her attitude to the women’s liberation movement, of which she was not a member, and she replied that she was all for it, having changed her mind about the outrageous things they had done because ‘they needed to shock people to make them think’. She hoped that at the end of her two years as dean she would not be seen as a token woman or a ‘woman dean’ and asserted that in the business of faculty there could be no difference of attitude between a man and a woman. She was re-elected twice before giving the position up. As the role of dean did not free the holder from teaching duties she also managed a heavy teaching load and in 1983 the running of an international conference for the Psychological Science society. In 1982 she was elected as one of the academic representatives on the university senate – and was re-elected in 1984. The vice-chancellor, John M Ward, in 1986 appointed her his Executive Assistant and in 1987 she was appointed pro-vice-chancellor with responsibility for organising Chifley college. This involved persuading all the faculty deans and other key personnel meeting with the heads of the three colleges in the West of Sydney, which were to be amalgamated into the new university. As there was virtually no financing and much disagreement about priorities and structures it required considerable patience to draw up an acceptable scheme. After several weekend conferences the state government eventually abandoned the proposal after the 1988 Dawkins white paper, leaving it to the three colleges to develop their existing courses into a university. As Pat’s good sense had been much appreciated in all three institutions she was appointed a member of the new university’s board of governors in 1989 and remained a governor, making several important contributions to the structure, until 1997. In 1991 she ceased to be pro vice-chancellor at Sydney and retired from her long-term position. Acknowledging all she had done in thirty years of employment in the following year the university made her a D Litt and the government appointed her a member of the Order of Australia. She was too useful to be allowed to retire in peace however, and in 1993 she was given the responsibility of managing the merger of the College of the Arts with Sydney University. In 1994 she returned to the university part-time to a new role – that of student ombudsman. In 1999 she finally retired – and was given another honorary D Litt by the Western Sydney University. She moved to her Blue Mountains weekender, where she lived in failing health until her sudden death in 2004. Events 1992 - 1992 Appointed Member of the Order of Australia for service to education Author Details Sybil Jack Created 15 August 2019 Last modified 16 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ethel Tory was a teacher of French and Latin and an advocate for drama and language studies, particularly French. She taught French and Latin in Western Australian schools and at the University of Western Australia before undertaking further study in French literature in Paris. She was appointed a lecturer in French at the Australian National University in 1961 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1965. In 1970, she published an edition of Giraudoux’s play Intermezzo for use in schools and universities. She retired in 1977 but continued to teach French and to support drama studies at the Australian National University through donations and a bequest on her death in 2003. Ethel Tory was born on 27 July 1912 in Subiaco, Western Australia. Her parents were Frank Bertram Tory, a legal manager and estate agent, originally from Blandford, Dorset and Ethel Marion Victoria Johnson, born in Guildford, Western Australia. The daughter Ethel was known as ‘Two-ee’ to distinguish her from her mother. Ethel attended the St Mary’s Church of England Girls’ School in West Perth and completed her Leaving Certificate in 1930. She enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts at University of Western Australia in 1933, after spending two years living with family in Dorset and in Grand Luce, Sarthe in France. She graduated with 1st class honours in French in 1936 and added Honours in Latin in 1938. She then enrolled in a Diploma of Education at the University of Western Australia which was awarded in 1940. During the war, she taught in Western Australian private schools and was also employed by the Censor’s Office in the Department of Information to scan mail written in French or Latin. In 1941 she won the Hackett Research Scholarship from the University of Western Australia which allowed her to conduct research into French literature. In 1946 she was appointed a tutor in French at the University of Western Australia and then in 1947 as a lecturer in Latin. In October 1947 she attended the University of Paris (La Sorbonne) on a French government scholarship and was awarded a Diplôme de littérature française contemporaine (mention honorable) in 1948. She remained in France teaching, translating and undertaking research which resulted in the award of Docteur de l’université (mention très honorable) in 1961 from the University of Paris. Her doctoral thesis was entitled ‘Giraudoux et l’ideal’. In 16 February 1961, Ethel took up an appointment as Lecturer in French, School of General Studies, Australian National University (ANU), joining the Department of Modern Languages under Professor Derek Scales. 1961 was the first year in which the ANU had undergraduate enrolments as undergraduate students had previously been enrolled in the Canberra University College. She was promoted in 1965 to Senior Lecturer in French and was acting head of the department in 1969 and again in 1974-1975 when it was the Department of Romance Languages. Apart from her university teaching, she was passionate about the theatre and a long-term supporter of Alliance Française in Canberra. She published an edition of Giraudoux’s play Intermezzo in 1970 for use by secondary and university students. She retired in 1977 and moved to Malua Bay on the South Coast where she continued to teach for the Eurobodalla branch of Alliance Française. Ethel Tory was appointed a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government in 1992 for services to French culture. In 1995 the Ethel Tory Drama Endowment was established by the Australian National University from donations she made. She made a large bequest to the University on her death in 2003 to support academics and students in drama and languages. The Ethel Tory Languages Scholarship assists a number of students each year to study languages overseas. In 2011, a state-of-the-art languages centre was opened in the Baldessin Building at the Australian National University and named the Ethel Tory Centre in her honour. Published resources Resource Section Ethel Tory profile, 2011, http://cass.anu.edu.au/scholarships/ethel-tory-languages-scholarship/ethel-tory Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian National University Archives Ethel Tory papers ANU calendar master set Annual Report 1977 Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 22 June 2012 Last modified 20 September 2012 Digital resources Title: Ethel Tory Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Australian Girls Choir (AGC) was established in 1984 in Melbourne by music teacher Judith Curphey. Whilst there were several boys’ choirs in Australia, there was no opportunity available for girls (outside of school choirs). The accepted convention at the time was that boys sing ‘better’ than girls (hence cathedral choirs are made up only of male voices). Judith wanted to challenge this belief and create a choir that appropriately trained and developed girls’ voices, particularly as their voices matured (as opposed to ‘breaking’ like boys voices) and conduct a choir that sang in Soprano and Alto registers only. Her goal was to create a choir with a uniquely Australian sound and high artistic standards, a group which could dance as well as sing, and was renowned for its quality of presentation. The Australian Girls Choir now has over 3,500 girls in training in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. The Australian Girls Choir celebrates 27 years of providing high quality education and wonderful performance opportunities to many thousands of girls from across the country. Girls aged five to eighteen years are trained in singing, dancing and performing on a weekly basis in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. Best recognised for its involvement in the Qantas ‘I Still Call Australia Home’ advertising campaign, the Choir has sung at almost every major concert venue in the country. The girls have performed with a long list of outstanding artists and personalities from the entertainment world, and have been acclaimed in some hundreds of performances undertaken in numerous international and national tours. Events 2010 - 2010 Chasing Rainbows CD is released; debut album under the ABC Classics label. 2011 - 2011 Choir opened in Perth, Western Australia. 1984 - 1984 150 girls attend the first rehearsal of the Australian Girls Choir at Burwood State College, Melbourne, Victoria. 1984 - 1984 Choir opened in Adelaide, South Australia. 1988 - 1988 Choir opened in Sydney, New South Wales. 1989 - 1989 Inaugural international tour to Canada. 1993 - 1993 Sydney chapter goes into recess. 1998 - 1998 AGC selected, along with National Boys Choir, to participate in landmark Qantas advertising campaign featuring I Still Call Australia Home. 1999 - 1999 Sydney chapter re-opened. 2002 - 2002 Choir opened in Brisbane, Queensland. 2004 - 2004 Founder and Artistic Director Judith Curphey awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for service to music, particularly through the Australian Girls Choir. 2008 - 2008 Parent company Australian School of Performing Arts is incorporated. AGC now sits under this umbrella brand, along with Aus Girls Dance a3 – Australian Arts Alive. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 November 2011 Last modified 18 November 2011 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Miscellaneous collection of source material compiled by Nancy Basterfield.,Includes: Macartney lineage, the Macartney, Hardman, De Burgh, McClintock and Woodville (Wydevill) families — much of the material relates to Dean Hussey Burgh Macartney, Jane Macartney and their children, John Arthur, Rev. Hussey Burgh, Flora and Edward Hardman Macartney, details of Melbourne life in the second half of the nineteenth century, especially ministerial work in Melbourne, Geelong and rural circuits, involvement in several hospitals and benevolent societies and various pastoral interests in Victoria and Queensland (details of Glenmore, Mount Battery, Wondilligong, Woodlands and Delatite homestead, and Rockhampton, Waverley and Moreton Bay in the north),material includes photocopies of letters and photographs, newspaper cuttings (especially obituaries of Dean and Jane Macartney) of family members and several poems and hymns by Lady Catherine and Dean Macartney, copies of published material includes autobiographical reminiscences of John Arthur Macartney and Rev. Hussey Burgh Macartney (Jnr.) entitled “Rockhampton fifty years ago – reminiscences of a pioneer” and “England home and beauty, sketch of Christian life and work in England” (1878 and 1893 respectively),also includes biographical material on Anne and Walter Hussey Burgh, Lady Catherine Macartney, Charles James Griffith, Charles Perry, Catherine Anna Mona Brougham (nee Macartney), James Moore, Edward Graves Mayne, the Macartney daughters, Henrietta, Anna, Jane, Caroline, Frances and Charlotte; Edward Hardman Macartney, Flora Macartney and incidental references to prominent early settlers and later Macartney descendants., Overall this material provides quite an interesting insight into the family life of the ‘upper classes’ in nineteenth century Victoria and the importance of religion and morality in everyday life and the general attitudes adopted by women and men in this privileged milieu. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 August 2017 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Govan was recognised by her peers as having ‘played a big part in the expansion of the social studies courses and social welfare work in Australia’ from her time in Australia (1939-1946) at the New South Wales Board of Social Study and Training in Sydney and later Sydney University. (Sydney Morning Herald, 15 March 1945) Some short-term women residents of Australia made a significant contribution to its history. One such was Elizabeth Steel Livingston Govan. Born in Hamilton, Scotland, to William Arthur Winsleigh Govan and Elizabeth Livingston, who were committed Scottish Presbyterians. The family soon migrated to Canada, where in 1930 Elizabeth obtained a BA from Toronto University, which was followed in 1932 with a BA from Oxford and then a Masters degree in public welfare administration and a diploma in social work from Toronto. In 1939 she came to Australia to be a tutor in Social Work for the existing independent New South Wales Board of Social Study and Training in Sydney, responsible for the problems of unmarried mothers and their children, which she did for a year. The training of social workers, however, was undergoing significant changes in that year and was being put for the first time under the control of the university. In February 1940, the Senate of Sydney University agreed that a Board of Studies in Social Work be established and Govan was appointed acting director of the newly formed department. She supervised students’ field work and taught social case work. In the next few years as a member of the Delinquency Committee of the Child Welfare Advisory Council, she and Norma Parker also played a leading role in upgrading the NSW Child Welfare Department. She became director of the university department three years later when a male economics lecturer who was the successful applicant could not leave England. By this time her unqualified capacity to manage a department and her devotion to the subject had been recognised. Her work made the subject completely accepted both academically and in the community. In 1944 she was elected to the senate of the University of Sydney and in the same year she became a member of the earliest committee of the newly formed Sydney Association of University Teachers. Nevertheless, at the end of the war she returned to Canada to take up a junior position as an assistant professor at Toronto, having obtained a letter from the president of the University of Toronto, Sydney Smith, regarding salaries of faculty members, which ensured her the same salary as a male in the position. After finishing her thesis in 1951 from Chicago (which was on an Australian topic – Public and Private Responsibility in Child Welfare in NSW 1788-1887) she left academic work for a time to work on special projects for the Canadian Welfare Council, but in 1958 she became a full professor in social work. She remained an executive director and from 1962-4 Director of the Canadian Association of social work. In Canada she was a major contributor to the development of the area of social work. Archival resources University of Toronto Archives Elisabeth Steel Livingston Govan fonds Author Details Sybil Jack Created 9 December 2019 Last modified 11 December 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lisa Roberts is an exhibiting artist, community artist and interactive publisher. She has created films and animations, produced exhibitions, and been involved in several performances over a long career beginning in the early 1970s. Lisa Roberts completed her Dip. Art, Dip. Ed, Grad. Dip. Film & TV, M.A, Animation and Interactive Media, PhD, New Media Arts. Most of her studies were undertaken in Melbourne. Over the course of her career Roberts has received several grants, prizes and scholarships, including the National Gallery Drawing Prize (1971); three Australian Film Commission grants (1981, 1991, 1994); the Melbourne Fringe Festival Special Commendation Award for New Short Works (1995); Australian Postgraduate Award (2007-2010); Climate Change Cluster Creative Fellowship (2014). Roberts has received funding from the Australia Council to produce art work for exhibition. She has also worked as a lecturer, animator, illustrator, judge in film awards, assessor, curator and artist in residence (Manangatang, 1992, Wesley College, 1994, Scotch Oakburn College, 1997, Launceston College, 1998, on the Aurora Australis, V7, to Davis and Mawson, Antarctica, 2002), at University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Science (2012-2016). As a result of her residency in Antarctica, as part of the Australian Antarctic Division Humanities Programme, she developed an interactive CDROM and other art works for exhibition at New Parliament House, Canberra (Aust.) Much of this work is held at the Australian Antarctic Division headquarters in Kingston, Tasmania, and at the Tasmanian State Library in Hobart. Her PhD thesis ‘Antarctic Animation: Expanding Perceptions with Gesture and Line’ was awarded by the University of New South Wales in April 2010. In 2011 Roberts built on this research to develop and to lead the Living Data program, which makes known interactions that happen between scientists and artists and changes in understanding that evolve through this process. The Living Data program is based in Sydney and has initiated and contributed to local, national and international conferences and festivals: Antarctica: Music, Sounds, Cultural Connections conference, Australian National University, Canberra (2011); Eora Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Abercrombie, Sydney (2012); Art & About Sydney Customs House Foyer, Circular Quay, Sydney (2012); IV Antarctica Art and Culture International Conference & Festival Oceanic Living Data installation, Universidad Nacional de Tres Febrero, Buenos Aires (2012); Animating Change exhibition and forum for the Ultimo Science Festival at The Muse, Ultimo TAFE, Sydney (2012); Wilderness alive: Reconnecting through a collaborative research practice at the University of Tasmania Imaging Nature II Conference; Oceanic Living Data installation, Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, CCAMLR, Hobart (2012); Living Data and Dance installation, Sentinel meeting, CCAMLR, Hobart (2012); Living Data and Dance performance, Rozelle School of Visual Arts (2012), Sydney; Dreams and Imagination conference presentation, Sydney (2012); Living Data: Art From Climate Science, Data for Action at the Muse gallery for the Ultimo Science Festival, Sydney (2013); Data for Action forum for the Ultimo Science Festival, Sydney (2013); AAD CCAMLR reception Hobart, Tasmania (2013); Art & Science Co-creations for the Australasian Society for Phytology and Aquatic Botany conference at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS)(2013); Presentations & Workshops for the Beijing City International School, China (2014); Evolving Conversations: Interactive Exhibition and Forum for University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and Ultimo Science Festival (2014); Living Data: Align Installation for Hothouse Waterways exhibition, Central Park, Sydney (2014); Installation for Climate: Art of the Anthropocene: Cabinet of Curiosities Australian Galleries, Melbourne (2014); Living Data: Responses of Living things (including us) to change, Final talk for TIERS (Trends In Environmental Research Series) at University of Technology Sydney (2014); Walk Through Living Data tour of UTS for the inaugural Sydney Science Festival (2015); Living Data: Cultural perspectives on Ocean systems, Talk for Saltwater Forum, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney (2015); Living Data installation for the Sydney Institute of Marine Science (2015); Oceanic Bliss installation for Sur Polar exhibition at Complutense University, Madrid (2016); Street Art & Science, Newtown, Sydney (2016); Oceanic Bliss presentations and installation for Ku-ring-gai Ph Art & Science project, Eramboo Artist Environment and Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney (2016). Roberts’ work is held in a variety of places, including the University of Melbourne, what was the State bank of Victoria, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Wesley College (Melbourne), Queensland University of Technology, the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Technology Sydney, and Launceston General Hospital, where she was a member of the Launceston General Hospital Visual Arts Committee in 2004. In 2005, Roberts worked as a full time teacher of Art and English at the Conservatorium High School, Sydney. Since then she has participated in exhibitions and conferences on Antarctic art and science, in Sydney (Aust.) 2006, Buenos Aires (BA) 2008, Christchurch (NZ) 2008, and Hobart (Aust.) 2010. Her current work is with scientists at the Australian Antarctic Division and the University of Technology Sydney, developing animations and other art works that contribute to accurate communication of our changing natural systems. Published resources Book Dance therapy redefined : a body approach to therapeutic dance, Johanna Exiner and Denis Kelynack with Naomi Aitchison and Jenny Czulak ; illustrations by Lisa Roberts, c1994 Joey's egg-shell people, Tony Scanlon ; illustrated by Lisa Roberts Drawing in Australia : contemporary images and ideas, Janet McKenzie, 1986 Australian art and artists, Julie Rollinson, Sue Melville, 1996 A dictionary of women artists of Australia, Germaine, Max, c.1991 Art Is, S. Jane and M. Darby, 1996 Journal Article 'Portrait of Carmel Bird (1990)', Lisa Roberts, 1994 Catalogue Australian Contemporary Art Fair Catalogue, Lisa Roberts, 1994 1994 Next Wave Art and Technology Catalogue, Lisa Roberts, 1994 Beware of Pedestrians, Lisa Roberts, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Antarctic Animation: Expanding perceptions with gesture and line. A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales. April 2010, Roberts, Lisa, 2010, http://antarcticanimation.com/ Author Details Lisa Roberts (with Clare Land) Created 15 December 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "June Howqua was awarded her MD in 1947 from the University of Melbourne. Her most significant appointment as a physician was as at the Queen Victoria Hospital, where she devoted three decades of her life. She took the position of the Vice-President of the Board of Management from 1979 to 1983 and membership of the Standing Committee of Ethics in Human Experimentation and IVF. She was twice President of the Honorary Medical Staff. The great-grandfather of June Louise Howqua immigrated to Australia in 1854, being appointed Government interpreter in 1855. Ah Kin How Qua was naturalised in 1861 and gave his name to the Victorian valley in which he settled.[1] The family moved to Melbourne and June Howqua took her MBBS in 1944 with Honours in all subjects. She was awarded her MD in 1947. She worked at the Royal Melbourne and the Royal Children’s Hospitals before paying her passage to England as a ship’s doctor and spending time at the Central Middlesex Hospital and the Brompton Hospital in London. Her most significant appointment as physician, however, was at the Queen Victoria Hospital to which she devoted three decades, taking the position of Vice-President of the Board of Management from 1979 to 1983 and membership of the Standing Committee of Ethics in Human Experimentation and IVF. She was twice President of the Honorary Medical Staff. June Howqua specialised in cardiology and pulmonary medicine, publishing several papers on the subject.[2] She also had a special interest assisting women doctors in resuming their careers after marriage and ran several courses for them.[3] In an interview in 2006 she recalled being refused a position at a well-known hospital because it already had one female doctor on the staff.[4] When the Queen Victoria Hospital amalgamated with Monash Medical Centre at Clayton, she became an Associate in the Monash University Faculty of Medicine and oversaw the expansion of the obstetric unit. When the Queen Victoria Hospital moved to Clayton in 1989, June Howqua, living in the East Melbourne house she had refurbished, continued in private practice until 1996 when she retired and was able to spend more time on her grazing property in Flowerdale. She also volunteered with the Brotherhood of St Laurence and studied a number of subjects in Classics at the University. She was a member of the Lyceum Club and listed her recreations as literature, theatre and gardening as well as farming and classical studies. In her will she endowed prizes at both Monash and her alma mater; both are available to a final year student. [1] National Archives of Australia, NAA: A712, 1861/U7248 Howqua, Ah Kin – Naturalisation https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=1815331 [2] John Hayward, June Howqua. ‘Pulmonary Embolism a Case Successfully Treated by Embolectomy’. Lancet. v. 284 no. 7363 (10 October 1964): 771-776; June Howqua, John Leeton. ‘A Case of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Requiring Splenectomy and Trial of Labour’. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. v. 9 no. 2 (May1969): 122-124. [3] June L. Howqua. ‘Refresher Course at Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, for Married Women Wishing to Return to Medical Practice. ‘British Medical Journal’. v. 1 no. 5542(25 March 1967): 752-753. [4] Helen Razer. ‘A Tower of Strength’. Age. 19 June 2006: Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 8 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Annual reports; minutes; newsletters; correspondence files; newspaper cuttings; newsletters from other Australian and international associations. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Item 1?Louisa Lawson – Poems, corrected typescript, mounted on paper??Item 2?Louisa Lawson – Bank book, showing state of current account with the Union Bank of Australia Limited, Sydney, 9 January 1901-2 November 1903??Item 3?Louisa Lawson – Bank book, showing state of current account with the Union Bank of Australia Limited, Sydney, 2 November 1903-20 December 1911; with loose pages for period 29 February-29 July 1912??Item 4?Letter, dated Norfolk Island, 6 July 1805, from D’Arcy Wentworth to Major Johnston, about the death of Dr. William Balmain Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 November 2017 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Accompanied by 2 boxes containing extracts from “The West Australian” dated April 2nd 1938; original field note and sketch books; 39 original drawings and 2 duplicate photocopy sets “[in lock clip file]; original working Ms. with notes” (Box 1) — Assortment of leaflets, papers, maps, Indonesian Year Books, commercial brochures…etc. (Box 2) Author Details Clare Land Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 31 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jessie Noel Shaw nee Henderson was someone who never forgot her alma mater. After taking her BA in 1937 from the University of Western Australia, she moved to Melbourne, taking her Graduate Diploma in Social Studies in 1943 and undertaking further studies in Psychology. Her sister, Margaret Henderson, began her distinguished medical career at the University of Melbourne slightly earlier. She took her MBBS in 1938, MD in 1941 and DMedSc in 2012. Noel Henderson had been an active student at UWA, twice organising the Graduation Ball and attending the 1937 Adelaide Undergraduates Conference, at which the National Union of Australian University Students was established. The Australian Women’s Weekly noted that she was the only female delegate. The Advertiser, in an article headed ‘University Men to Confer’, took a different slant, noting that as well as their President, UWA had sent ‘one other student’.[1] At UWA Noel Henderson studied modern literature and edited the University’s Guild of Undergraduates’ magazine The Black Swan. In 1941 she married a fellow UWA student, (Frederick) Stanley Shaw who became, after a distinguished career at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories, professor of Engineering at the University of New South Wales in 1960. Noel Shaw worked as a social worker assisting disadvantaged children. On her death, a local newsletter reported that: Noel was an intrepid traveller, particularly interested in remote cultures. Her last adventure was to Afghanistan where a week later her hotel was bombed. She served as secretary and president of the Artarmon Bowling Club, belonged to Probus and was interested in music, drama and literature. She was a generous and independent person and will be missed by her many friends and neighbours in Castlecrag.[2] Her generosity was certainly apparent towards the University. Following a succession of significant gifts from 2008 to 2011, in October 2012 the University of Melbourne received Noel Shaw’s bequest of $2.3 million. The Noel Shaw Gallery on the first floor of the Baillieu Library recognises this extraordinary benefaction. The first exhibition, from March to August 2014, ‘Radicals, Slayers and Villains: Prints from the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne’ travelled to the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 2014 and subsequently to the Hamilton Art Gallery and the Latrobe Regional Gallery.[3] [1] ‘Upheld Prestige of Her Sex’. Australian Women’s Weekly. 13 March 1937: 23; ‘University Men to Confer: Delegates from All States’. Advertiser. 30 January 1937: 14. [2] ‘Jessie Noel Shaw (1916-2012)’. The Crag: Newsletter of the Castlecrag Progress Association Inc. May 2012: 4. [3] Radicals Slayers and Villains: prints from the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne. Curated by Kerrianne Stone. Melbourne: University of Melbourne Library, 2014. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 8 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records of the League of Women Voters of South Australia (formerly Women’s Non-Party Political Association) comprising minutes, membership and subscription lists, correspondence, annual reports, newsletters, miscellaneous printed items. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Cherry O’Keefe was an excellent horsewoman with a leading knowledge of the Ngawun language. Cherry O’Keefe (Tjapun) was a Ngawun woman probably born on Cambridge Downs station, near Richmond in north Queensland. In her early days she was well known as a fine horsewoman, and, at one time, as ‘the Queen of the Forest’. Later she became an expert in saddlery and leatherwork. She never married. She lived a secluded and busy life on Poseidon Downs station, west of Hughenden, where she worked hard around the homestead for the privilege of living there in a galvanised iron humpy. After surviving flood, snakebite and burns (when her humpy was burnt down after a domestic accident), she died of pneumonia in Hughenden in 1977. Cherry O’Keefe’s knowledge of the Ngawun language, though limited, was much better than anyone else’s. It was owing to her that a partial grammar and vocabulary of the language was eventually produced. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 20 May 2005 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 60 min.)??Isbister speaks of her childhood environment ; the outside influences on her study path ; her medical studies ; her interest in child health ; her radio show on child health ; she speaks of her views on life generally. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 October 2002 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Polly Chan is a concerned and active citizen. She ran as an Independent in the 1999 elections to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Kogarah, then as a Unity Party candidate in the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Port Jackson. Polly Chan has worked in the fields of radio and public relations. She has been involved in fund raising for bushfires and drought victims, and has organised many cultural activities for the City of Sydney Council. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Health and Home Affairs correspondence c1900-34. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Merran Cooper is a once only candidate whose campaign stressed dialogue between electors and candidates. She ran for the Australian Democrats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Northern Tablelands in 1999. Merran Cooper joined the Australian Democrats because she believed in a system based on consensus. She believed it was important to get away from personal attacks and back to policy. She was an advocate for drug law reform, stressing the importance of keeping people out of prison. Her campaign in Northern Tablelands was marked by many occasions when she spoke to groups of electors and debated other candidates. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 videocassette (55 min.) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series contains papers associated with the opening of the Chase-N.B.A. Group office in Melbourne in August 1982. The papers include a copy of the opening speech given by Dame Margaret Guilfoyle, background information for the speech (especially regarding the history of the building – the former Goldsborough Mort Wool Store), the guest list and the letter of invitation to Dame Margaret. The series also contains papers relating to the Victorian Liberal Party and a manila folder of correspondence, agendas and reports related to the Victorian State Opera Board. All of the papers are contained in a yellow Unifile document wallet which has the misleading label “Recoupment Tax Legislation – National Speakers Notes”. The papers are dated from August to October 1982. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 5 September 2002 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ruth Fincher is a distinguished geographer who has worked in Canada, the United States of America and Australia. As a feminist, she was a member of the Committee for Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne from 1986. In 2002 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and created Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2014. Ruth Fincher was born on 27 March 1951 in Boort, Victoria, the older of two sisters. Named Beatrice Ruth she has always been known by her second name. Her parents, Beatrice Margaret and Roy Fincher, whose families were located in rural Victoria, were secondary school teachers, who held Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Melbourne. During Ruth’s childhood the family moved around Victoria as her father took up ever more senior positions in state secondary schools, while her mother found teaching positions in the same locations; her mother later became a senior lecturer in Librarianship at Melbourne State College. Ruth attended primary schools in Terang, Coleraine, Moonee Ponds and Mildura, and then the secondary schools, Mildura High School and University High School. In 1969 she started a BA degree at the University of Melbourne, majoring in Geography and History and graduating in 1972 with a BA Honours degree in Geography. During the last two of her undergraduate years at the University of Melbourne she lived at Janet Clarke Hall, then a residential college for women. In her honours year in 1972 a member of the academic staff in the Geography Department encouraged Ruth to apply to undertake postgraduate study in North America, supported as was possible by a teaching assistant to tutor while pursuing a postgraduate degree. After a year working in the Commonwealth Public Service in Canberra, for which she had been selected into the Administrative Trainee Scheme run by the Commonwealth’s Public Service Board, she moved in 1974 to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where she undertook an MA in Geography. During her Arts degree at Melbourne, much of the geography Ruth had studied was physical geography. But once in Canada, she shifted her focus within the discipline of geography to human geography, the social scientific side of this broad field that looks at relationships between people and their environments, and began her research in urban and social geography and its connections to urban planning which she has been studying ever since. In mid 1975, after completing her MA, she commenced a PhD in Geography at Boston University, Boston Massachusetts, that she completed at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her PhD dissertation examined the role of local institutions in shaping urban renewal in Boston. The network of critical geographers, especially feminist geographers, in which she was embedded in those days of PhD study at Clark University, remained with her for the rest of her career and their perspectives influenced her research and teaching practice. Her first academic job ( a tenure-track position), was in the Department of Geography at McGill University in Montreal as an Assistant Professor, where she worked for two years. This was followed by a four year period in which she worked as an Assistant Professor (tenured) in the Department of Geography at McMaster University. Ruth moved back to Melbourne in late 1985, where her husband the economic geographer Michael Webber, took up the position of Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Melbourne. Starting as a Research Fellow in Urban Planning at Melbourne in 1986, Ruth Fincher became a Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography. In the 1980s she gave birth to three children: Kate (1983, died 1984), Sophie (1985) and Tom (1988). Ruth worked at the University of Melbourne for 30 years from 1986 to 2015, apart from a brief period in the 1990s when she was seconded to the Commonwealth Government’s Bureau of Immigration Research. She took up a variety of roles that her research and teaching interests equipped her for in both the Geography Department and the Urban Planning program of the Architecture, Building and Planning Faculty. In her last 13 years at the University, she held numerous leadership roles, including Dean of the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, President of the University’s Academic Board and Pro Vice Chancellor, Chair of the Council of Janet Clarke Hall, and Head of the School of Geography. Her scholarship about the development of social difference and locational disadvantage in the city, and her explorations into the ways that urban policy might be more just, continued throughout this time. Support for the discipline of geography has been an important focus of Ruth’s career. Following early work to assist in the establishment of specialty groups on gender and geography within the Canadian Association of Geographers and the Institute of Australian Geographers, she undertook numerous leadership roles. She has served as President of the Institute of Australian Geographers; Chair of the Gender and Geography Commission of the International Geographical Union; Vice President of the International Geographical Union; and as a board member for international geography on the International Social Science Council. In 2002 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and created Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2014. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 September 2017 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 30 minutes Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nancy Cato was an acclaimed author. She published several historical novels and biographies and two volumes of poetry. Cato was also a strong campaigner for environmental conservation. Schooled at the Presbyterian Ladies College, in Adelaide, South Australia, Nancy Cato began her professional writing career as a cadet journalist on the Adelaide News at age 18. Later an art critic for the same newspaper, she also became a freelance writer. In 1950 she edited the Jindyworobak Anthology. Actively involved in the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the Australian Society of Authors during the 1950s and 1960s, Cato’s books include Green grows the vine, Brown sugar and All the rivers run, which was made into a TV mini-series. She published other prose works in addition to two volumes of poetry, and contributed to Australian literary magazines. A major work was Mister Maloga, the story of Daniel Mathews and his Maloga Mission to Aboriginal people on the Murray River in Victoria. Cato married Eldred Norman, and travelled extensively overseas with him; the pair had one daughter and two sons. Nancy Cato strove for ultimate skill as a writer, and for protection of the Australian environment, particularly in the face of developers on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. She was awarded the Alice Award by the Society of Women Writers in 1988; the Advance Australia award for environmental campaigning; an Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Queensland; and was a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). Events 1935 - 1941 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Prize-winning author dies, 2000 All the tributes flow for Noosa's literary icon, 2000 Lifelong affair with the river, 2000 Author brought authentic voice to literature, 2000 Murray novel brought fame, fortune, 2000 Author shared pioneer spirit ......, 2000 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources The University of Adelaide, Barr Smith Library Rare Books & Special Collections [Collection of unpublished letters and poems] : [also manuscript and signed] : published copy of her novel] / [Northwest by south] Mister Maloga Daniel Matthews and his mission, Murray River, 1864-1902 [1976?]. Special Collections, Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA Nancy Cato manuscript collection 1967-1992 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Nancy Cato, 1939-1995 [manuscript] Literary papers 1969-1981 [manuscript] Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Nancy Cato Papers Gwen Harwood Papers Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Florence James - papers, 1890-1993 National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Nancy Cato interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] State Library of New South Wales Dale Spender - papers, 1972-1995 Author Details Clare Land Created 22 June 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "With her husband Rod, mosaic artist Julie Horsburgh owns Jarrah Mosaics at Broken Hill, New South Wales. Julie grew up in the Frankston-Pearcedale region of Victoria, and married Rod Horsburgh at the age of sixteen. They raised two children and made a home at Creswick, where Julie worked in community care and retired to the studio after hours. In 2002, Julie and Rod undertook a ‘desert change’ and moved to Broken Hill, New South Wales. Their spectacular mosaic and sculptural works are displayed at their studio home on Chapple Street and are compiled from fragments of glass, porcelain or metal from larger pieces found on forages in the desert or in regional op shops and garage sales. Julie is a member of the Broken Hill Women Artists’ Group. Her work has been exhibited at the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery (Women’s Exhibition, 2003, 2005, 2007), Darling Park in Sydney (The Big Back Yard Fine Art Exhibition, June 2004), the Waste 2 Art Regional Exhibition (2005), and the Wentworth Memorial Rooms Gallery (Wentworth Exhibition, November 2008). Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Julie Horsburgh Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dow’s Pharmacy is preserved as it was when Hilda and Roy Dow closed its doors for the last time in 1968. The second pharmacy on the same site, the building dates from 1868, and many artefacts date back to this time. There are also letters, photographs and documents, including prescription books and reference texts, which record the Dows’ professional and personal lives, and their involvement in their local community. Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 20 January 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jane Barker established St Catherine’s Anglican boarding school for girls at Waverley, New South Wales. Jane Barker was the wife of Bishop Frederic Barker. Growing up, she was greatly influenced by her father, Irishman John Harden, her mother, and her pious aunt Agnes Ranken. Jane ran the family home after her mother’s death, and married Frederic Barker – then vicar of the Liverpool parish of Edge Hill – when she was in her mid-thirties. They arrived in Australia in 1855 following Barker’s invitation to be second bishop for the See of Sydney. Jane travelled widely with her husband and established an Anglican boarding school for girls, St Catherine’s, at Waverley. She served on various ladies’ committees and taught at the Randwick Sunday School. Published resources Edited Book Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Dickey, Brian, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 20 February 2009 Last modified 20 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hours (approx.) Author Details Margaret Allen Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Director, writer and photographer Tracey Moffatt talks about how and why she became a filmmaker and her views about the craft of directing. — General note: Kari Hanet interviews a number of film directors for the IMAGEMAKERS project, the exhibition of which is on permanent display at The Chauvel Cinema. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Victoria Inc. (WCTUV), Executive Council: minutes, 1887-1976 (16 vols). ??WCTUV: photographs of Union activities, members, office bearers, buildings, kindergarten and children’s camps, competitions and centenary celebrations, 1887-1987 (6 albums, c100 loose photographs). ??WCTUV: annual reports and conferences, 1888-1987, and minutes of annual conference, 1890-1972 (17 vols and loose issues). ??WCTUV: Local and District Union records, chiefly minute books, but also some financial records and roll books, c1892-1980s (475 vols). ??White Ribbon Signal, a bi-monthly journal of the Union, vol. 1, no. 1, 1892-1911, 1926-1988 (23 bound vols and loose issues). ??WCTUV: superintendents’ record and cradle roll, listing babies and children enrolled as Little White Ribboners, 1919-1933 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV: convention rolls, listing delegates, 1941-1978 (8 vols). ??WCTUV: ledgers, cash books, and salary and wage books, relating to Melbourne city buildings owned by the Union, 1946-1961 (8 vols). ??WCTUV: scrapbook containing Little White Ribboners’ enrolment and birthday cards and Loyal Temperance Legion enrolment cards, poems and songs, 1940s (1 vol.). ??WCTUV: reports of temperance aid to missionaries, 1945-1968 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV: minutes of Officers’ meetings, 1947-1971 (2 vols). ??WCTUV: minutes of half-yearly conferences and special meetings, 1948-1970 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV: press cuttings, 1952-1988 (5 vols and loose cuttings). ??WCTUV: budget books, showing financial allocations to Local Unions, 1952-1970 (3 vols). ??WCTUV House Committee: minutes, 1898-1907, 1911-1928 (3 vols). ??Maria Kirk Free Kindergarten Committee: minutes, 1909-1959 (8 vols), and directors’ reports, 1940-1953 (2 vols). ??WCTUV Finance Committee: minutes, 1913-1919, 1928-1975 (9 vols). WCTUV Publications Committee: minutes, 1913-1918 (1 vol.); and ledger relating to the sale of publications, 1939-1941 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV School for Mothers: minutes, 1915 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV Mothers’ Prayer Meeting: minutes, 1922-1944 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV, Camperdown Union Children’s League of Hope: minutes, 1925-1928 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV, Brighton Union Band of Hope: minutes, 1926-1933 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV, Murrumbeena Union Loyal Temperance Legion: minutes, 1927-1954 (6 vols), and scrapbooks kept by members aged ten to fifteen, containing cartoons and advertisements promoting temperance, and other ephemera, 1940s (2 vols). ??WCTUV Education Committee: minutes, 1928-1972 (7 vols). ??WCTUV Young Woman’s Group: minutes, 1932-1946 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV State Council: minutes, 1932-1946 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV Pledged Women’s Groups: roll books, 1933-1949 (19 vols). ??WCTUV Strand Cafe Finance Committee: minutes, 1943-1946 (1 vol.). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 September 2003 Last modified 19 March 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Address from the Melbourne Ladies Benevolent Society, November 1891, on the occasion of her resignation from the position of Honorary Treasurer. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 June 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Part 1 of the archives is comprised of all background material, letters to and from and about Darcy, interview transcripts and notes, correspondence, pictorial material and memorabilia.??Part 2 consists of the manuscripts of Ruth Park and Rafe Champion’s book ‘Home Before Dark / Ruth Park & Rafe Champion’ her account of D’Arcy Niland’s lifelong fascination with his namesake, his original research and interviews together with her annotations of Niland’s material and her personal thoughts on the process.??BOX 1?Fritz Hollands’ scrapbooks 1 & 2 (photographic prints and negatives), 1908-1922??Bosker Bill Squire’s scrapbook (includes photographs), 1906-1912 (note by Ruth Park indicating that this scrapbook does not relate to the Les D’Arcy story. Provenance of the scrapbook is unknown)??BOX 2?Maurice O’Sullivan’s scrapbook of American news cuttings, 1916-1917??Bill Delaney scrapbook (with note from Ruth Niland, 1995)??George Pilgrim scrapbook (lent for 2 days) – Transcript by Darcy & Ruth Niland??Australasian boxing and wrestling scrapbook (historical interest only)??BOX 3?Nat Bannister’s newcuttings (79)??Paddy Cunningham news cuttings??Angus Brammall’s news cuttings (The Priest and the boxer)??Les Darcy news cuttings (copies)??Printed publications: The Les Darcy American Venture / Bob Power; Jack Read’s Complete Australian Boxing annual, 1934-1935; Read’s Boxing Records; Life Story of Les Darcy 3rd ed. / F.J. Ferry (3 copies); Darcy Stories / F.J. Ferry (2 copies); Uppercuts / Fritz Holland; Solar Plexus??Printed publications given to Darcy Niland by ex-boxers Bob Whitelaw, Jim Sharman:?Boxing and How to Train, The Text Book of Boxing, Boxing: a Complete Record of Australasian Contests, T.S Andrews World’s Sporting Annual 1933, Everlast Boxing Record, 1928, Northern Boxing Association Tournament and Rules, Sporting Life Boxing Records, 1910??BOX 4?Boyle family memorabilia – Negatives of photographs taken from a photo album, autograph book and loose pictures (original items returned to family); Negatives of Les Darcy from an unknown photo album??Tom Moran’s account of the Life of Les Darcy (original carbon)??D’Arcy Niland original interviews (80), some with typed transcriptions in preparation for the book he proposed to write on Les Darcy. Includes phone interview with Mick Tobin and a ‘Note to Researcher ‘about the content by Ruth Niland, 1960-1962, 1997??D’Arcy Niland additional interviews. Some transcribed material extracted by Ruth Niland, 1961??BOX 5?Home Before Dark, portion of 1st Draft??Home Before Dark, Final draft and discards (typescript)??Home Before Dark, Edited manuscript??Home Before Dark, Original manuscript??Early drafts, notes??BOX 6?Les Darcy newspaper articles??Conscription and class??H. D. McIntosh, Premier Will Holman and Ada Holman??Father Joe Coady (includes 1 photograph)??Mick Hawkins??E.T (Tim) O’Sullivan??BOX 7?Notes, clippings, interview reports, photographs on important boxers and others mentioned in the Les Darcy story: Bobby Whitelaw, Griffo, Harold Hardwick, Billy Hannan, Fritz Holland (includes 2 photographs), Jack (Young) Hanley, George Balzer, Chiddy Hayes, Governor Balzer, Jimmy Sharman (includes 3 photographs), Eddie McGoorty, Robert Fitzsimmons (with film transcript)??BOX 8?Jeff Smith v Stadiums Ltd??Wonderful Pearce family??Minor characters, Lilly Molloy, Ada Holman, Dr Hollywood, Frank O’Rourke, Doc Kearns, Bat Masterson??Winnie Hannan (O’Sullivan)??Frosty (Frank) Darcy??Nat Fleischer visits Maitland??Maitland notes – Ruth and D’Arcy Niland??Dave Smith memorabilia??BOX 9??Snowy Baker (includes 6 examples of syndicated U.S sports newsletter??Universal Training (Cadets)??James Vance Marshall??Les Darcy departure from Australia??Miscellaneous file of articles, programmes, photographs (2) on boxers and boxing??Emerald Street House (includes letter re: origin of plan, original and reply from Ruth Niland)??Edgar Arentz??Jack Dunleavy??Billy McNab/Regio Delaney??BOX 10?Irreplaceable Material File, No. 6??Original Les Darcy letters, postcards, notes (some copies). Includes letters to Mick Tobin, Father J.J. Coady, 1914, 1917-1961, 1968, 1994?Cables (4) sent by Mrs Darcy to Mick Hawkins at Memphis (given to Darcy Niland by Harry Hawkins; Mick Hawkins souvenir American postcards; Original (5) postcards from Les Darcy to Mick Tobin; Postcard from Les Darcy to J O’Sullivan of the Lord Dudley; Letters (3) from Father J.J. Coady to to Mick Tobin; Letter from Tom Moran to Darcy Niland; Typed copy of a letter from Les Darcy to Father J.J. Coady from the National Archives Canberra; Copies (8) of Les Darcy letters held by the Australian Gallery of Sport, Melbourne; Letter from Les Darcy to Father J.J. Coady, 1914; Copy of letter from Father Coady to P.J. Hassell with transcript from Hassell of the last meeting; Newspaper cutting of a letter from E.T. O’Sullivan to sportswriter W. Corbett; Newspaper cutting of last letter sent by Les Darcy to Mick Stapleton; Copy of Les Darcy letter to Will Lawless (Solar Plexus)??Direct personal material of Les Darcy (interviews with Elli O’Brien, Mrs G.W. Johnson, Frank O’Rourke, Mr & Mrs Cheal, neighbours and friends of Darcy), 1961, 1994??General notes on the Les Darcy collection (methods of cataloguing, early struggles to get the collection into order) and Biography; Part catalogue; Fragments of early interviews with transcriptions from tape by Ruth Niland, 1960s, 1988-1994??Birth and marriage certificates Elwin Darcy (copy)?Death certificates, Edward and Margaret Darcy (copy)?Marriage certificate (1st) of Edward Darcy to Sarah Healey (copy)??Sydney Conspiracy with notes from Ruth Niland?Later chapters of the Biography (fragments)??Important newscuttings??Darcy family genealogy??BOX 11?The Collection, The Biography, File No. 7??Letters to D’Arcy Niland from old boxers and holders of Darcyana, together with replies, 1953-1979, 1995??Correspondence with Kay Ronai (Editor) of Penguin Books Australia, concerning ‘Home Before Dark’, 1994-1995??Correspondence mainly with Penguin Books concerning Home Before Dark, 1993-1994??Correspondence after publication of Home Before Dark, 1995??Chronologies??Collection research notes by Ruth Niland, 1994??Darcy Niland visits Maitland??Ruth Niland notes on scrapbooks (Bill Delany, Anonymous A, Puglistic celebrities, Australian Boxing and wrestling, Fritz Holland’s scrapbooks 1 & 2??Notes by D’Arcy Niland on proposed book??The Times??BOX 12?America/Research for the National Times article, File No. 8??Les Darcy in America, original typescript for two part article written for the National Times??Pamphlets about U.S towns (Memphis) visited by Les Darcy in 1917??Les Darcy in America, newscuttings, notes??Letters to Ruth Niland received after publication of Les Darcy in America??Les Darcy in America, File No. 9?American notes on Les Darcy used by Ruth Niland during the writing of Les Darcy in America, 1917-1995??Les Darcy’s illness and death, 1917-1991??BOX 13?Photographs: Approximately 200 photographs many unpublished and unknown??Les Darcy with other people (not American)??Photographs of men Les Darcy fought (some unfamiliar pictures of major apponents??Two original glass whole plate negatives (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.).?1. Note written by D’Arcy Niland ‘1st McGoorty fight 1915 (Photographic copy of plate glass negative in Harry Cameron and Pilgrim’s collections)?2. Les Darcy with family and friends at the home of J.P. Fletcher, c. 1916 (Cameron Studios). A photographic copy of this is included in the folder of photographs of boxers, referees and writers important to the Les Darcy story.?Prior to Les Darcy leaving for America, he and a group of his friends gathered at the home of JP Fletcher. This photograph was taken to commemorate the occasion. It features, in the top corner, Les Darcy’s brothers Cecil and Frank and, next to Les, Father Cody. Here are the names of the gentlemen present: Back row, C. Darcy, F. Darcy, F. O’Brien, C. Erwin, L. McGlinn, P. Mayo; 3rd row, G. Clarke, L. Drew, W. Gilligan, G. Bowcock, unknown, M. Tobin, …Donnelly, G. Fletcher, F. Mayo; 2nd row, I. McLeod, W. McLaughlin, Les Darcy, Father Coady, …Stapleton, …Stapleton; front row, G.McDonald, H. Fletcher, H. Cameron.??Photographs numbered Pic. 1-35 (includes pg. numbers) included in the book ‘Home Before Dark’??Penguin illustrations (note by Ruth Niland, These were 2nd choices, 51 sent to George Dale)??Photographs of boxers, referees and writers important to the Les Darcy story??Boxers well known before, during and after Les Darcy’s professional life??Unidentified photographs and negatives (some later identified)??BOX 14?Photographs:??Sam Langford photographs??Les Darcy in America??Original reproductions from old photographs??Les Darcy – Funeral/Memorial/Death cerifiticate??Major characters in Home Before Dark (important portraits: Fred Gilmore, Tom Andrews, Mick Hawkins, Father J.J. Coady, Dave Smith, Fritz Holland, Margaret Darcy, Lily Pearce, Hugh McIntosh, Frosty Darcy, Winnie, Harold Hardwick, Jim Sharman, Miss Scobie (early teacher)??Rushcutters Bay Stadium photographic material??Important photographs (includes inscribed photo of Jack Dempsey)??General photographs??BOX 15?Photographs:?Les Darcy photographs, mainly portraits (includes 2 photo badges)??BOX 16?File No. 10?Police Gazette (10 copies), 24 March 1917-13 April 1918?Features articles about Les Darcy, O’Sullivan, Rex Rickard and Governor Whitman and other characters in the story of Darcy’s few months in the U.S. Annotated with reference of the Les Darcy story by Ruth Niland. Includes interesting references to the U.S. view of WW1 before the nations involvement and during its brief service; References to important figures in U.S. sports and political world; to Australian boxers in the States at the time as well as other Australian athletes such as Fanny Durack the swimmer.??BOX 17?Large scrapbook about old sports figures in Australia and overseas??BOX 18?Large scrapbook about old sports figures in Australia and overseas Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A lifelong campaigner and activist, Freda Brown is a highly respected figure in the history of Australian women’s organizations. She was a Communist Party of Australia candidate for Newtown in 1947 and a Senate candidate in 1949 and 1961. Daughter of Florence Mary (Munroe) and Benjamin Lewis, Freda was educated at Newtown Public School and Sydney Girls’ High School. She joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1936, aged 17, and later worked in her father’s signwriting business. She married Wilton John Brown (later editor of The Modern Unionist ) in 1943. Their daughter (Lee Rhiannon, MLC Greens) was born in 1951. The Browns lived in Melbourne during World War Two, where Freda trained as a journalist on the Radio Times and afterwards worked on trade union papers. After the war, Freda joined the New Housewives Association, ultimately becoming president of what became the Union of Australian Women. She was instrumental in successfully proposing to the United Nations that it hold International Women’s Year in 1975 and she attended the Indian International Women’s Year Committee meeting in February 1976 at the invitation of Indira Gandhi. She worked with the Women’s International Democratic Federation, and was elected President at its Congress in Berlin in 1975, a position she held to 1989. Freda Brown was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Australia from 1968-72, after which she resigned from the party, having decided that the party was no longer advancing the interests of the working class. She has travelled widely, visiting many countries, including Vietnam, Cambodia and Algeria. Freda has continued her activism into her eighties, and was reported to be lobbying the United Nations to establish an International Day of the Elderly. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Rebel With Plenty of Causes, Stephens, Tony, 2009, http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/rebel-with-plenty-of-causes-20090526-bm0i.html Book Swimming Against the Tide: A Biography of Freda Brown, Milner, Lisa, 2017 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Janne Peterson is a dedicated Christian Democratic Party member and multiple candidate: New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Strathfield by election 1996, 1999 New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Bankstown, 2003 House of Representatives, Sydney, 1996 Senate, NSW, 1998 House of Representatives, Blaxland, 2001, House of Representatives, Banks, 2004 Canterbury Municipal Council, 1999 Janne Peterson migrated with her family from Denmark in 1969. She became a naturalised Australian in 1985. That same year she married Murray Peterson, an engineer, and also a candidate for the Christian Democratic Party in 1988 for the state seat of Lakemba and in 1998 for the Federal seat of Watson. She is the Managing Director and editor of a Good Report Pty Ltd, a Christian ethics magazine, established 1999. She is also involved with voluntary work in the media, being a weekly TV presenter on Television Gladesville, an amateur television station, and co-hosting with her husband Murray, a weekly community radio program. In 2004 she was working for the Christian Democratic Party, of which she had been a member for 20 years, as a Political Education Officer. Her duties included presenting education seminars and workshops on the electoral process. Janne and Murray Peterson are actively involved with the Wiley Park Baptist Church, where Janne is youth leader teaching Sunday school, and visiting nursing homes as part of a singing ministry. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 1 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Originating in a workshop held at Chiangrai, Thailand during International Literacy Year (1990), “International Literacy materials for women” is a kit containing reading materials and sketches for newly literate women, and is designed to raise issues about the status and position of women in various societies and cultures. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lady Street at conference, as Australia’s representative. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 50 minutes??Anne-Marie Grisogono was born in Yugoslavia and migrated to Australia with her mother, a chemical engineer who fostered her interest in science. Anne-Marie ‘discovered’ physics at Adelaide University and went on to attain a PhD in mathematical physics, as well as marrying, working part-time, and bringing up two children. Anne-Marie describes how she helped form the South Australian Branch of Scientists Against Nuclear Arms in 1984 in response to the escalation of the arms race. Within days, SANA’s first project arose; assessing scientific reports about residual plutonium contamination at Maralinga. Anne-Marie describes this intensive process, and later projects. She explains SANA’s decline in the late 1980s and its brief resurgence in 1991. She describes her growing understanding of the complexities of the arms issue but also her belief in the possibility of change. Anne-Marie also discusses sexist attitudes encountered in her academic career. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series contains records of the National Fitness Council that, strictly speaking, belong in separate series, including minutes, subject files, financial records, printers blocks, press cuttings, photographs and examples of publications.??For preliminary box listing for units 1 to 94, see the Series List for GRG95 in Research Centres. For some item descriptions for units 99 to 114 click Consignment ID in the catalogue record.??For notes by A.E. Simpson concerning the history of the National Fitness Council see Box 94 Numbers 1008-1010. Additional papers created by the Council are held within PRG 1366/38 at the State Library of South Australia. See also records of Outward Bound S.A. Inc. SRG 305 in the State Library of South Australia. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Association began in 1946 and was founded by Miss Gwen Stark (later Caldwell). The ex-WAAAF joined the RAAFA (New South Wales Division) as associate members and in 1947 were accepted with full membership. At Air Force House in Goulburn Street, Sydney, 1946, 400 ladies attended a meeting to discuss the aims of their group and make plans for its social activities. This group was named The WAAAF General Committee with Miss Gwen Stark elected as first President and Miss Jeanne Simpson as first Secretary. The Branch went through a few name changes until in 1971 it was resolved that the WAAAF Wing would become a branch of the RAAFA, to be known as the WAAAF Branch. It remains the WAAAF Branch today. The aim of the Branch when formed was to maintain friendships developed during the war years and to come together to undertake social activities as well as to raise funds for welfare activities such as equipping a creche and nursery in the city where WAAAF and airmen’s wives could leave their children for a few hours. That basic aim is still in place over 50 years later with the Branch maintaining support for its members and offering assistance where needed. A quarterly newsletter, WAAAF Chat, is produced by the Branch and provides members with news of upcoming social and official events and reunions along with general interest items. Originally, the Branch held Housie nights and donated all moneys raised to the Headquarters of the RAAFA, where some members are engaged in voluntary work. They attend memorial services, special church services, Anzac Day and Ex-Servicewomen’s marches and annual conferences. Members also visit hospitals and institutions of care, keeping in touch with each other through home visits and Department of Veterans’ Affairs meetings. During its early years, the Branch sponsored young underprivileged women to make their debuts at the RAAFA Balls by providing them with clothes and assistance. Members have participated, with other ex-servicewomen’s associations, in helping to raise money for the building of 12 self-contained units in Friendship Court at the RSL Veterans Retirement Village, Narrabeen. Also they have contributed to and attended the dedications for the memorial in the Jessie Street Gardens in Loftus Street, Sydney, and the Ex-Servicewomen’s memorial in Canberra. The Branch took part in the ‘Entombment of the Unknown Soldier’ (1993), the march and luncheon held in Canberra for ‘Australia Remembers’ in 1995 and the Federation Parade in 2001. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) RAAF Association (NSW Division) - WAAAF Branch Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: WAAAF Branch Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items for Australian performing arts organisations, Australian artists performing overseas, professional productions performed in Australia (including those featuring overseas performers) and overseas performances of Australian plays, music, etc. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 18 January 2007 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Since migrating to Australia in 1974 with her husband David and first child, Deborah has established a successful career in teaching in the New South Wales Technical and Further Education (TAFE) system and has become a powerful voice in public advocacy, especially on the behalf of Filipina women and Indigenous Australians. Born in Manila in 1949, Deborah is the middle child in a family of four daughters, one of whom died in infancy. Having graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in Journalism and Communications in 1971, Deborah quickly found a position in the Philippines Broadcasting Service, before moving to Papua New Guinea in 1973, where she was appointed to the position of Press Secretary for the Opposition Leader. In 1974, in response to an Australian Broadcasting Commission story reporting on teacher shortages in Australia, Deborah and her husband David decided to move to Australia. In April 1974 they made the long journey to Sydney on Arcadia. Once in Sydney Deborah rejected the social pressure to be a ‘stay at home’ mother and made the decision to work. Her considerable skills in the media and communications area were highly marketable in the expanding TAFE system. With a portfolio of speeches written in PNG but no formal qualifications, she managed to convince an interview panel that she was a good prospect. She started work in 1975 and established herself as an innovator in the teaching of media, communications and public relations Before long, Deborah had joined the Philippine Action Support Group, but by the late 1970s and early 1980s, her attention had turned to more local issues. She helped to establish the Filipino Women’s Working Party, which produced a training kit in 1992, Dealing with the Media, to assist community workers in dealing with journalists who seldom looked beyond ‘mail order bride’ stereotypes when representing Filipina women. Two years later, in collaboration with SBS radio, the working group developed a series of programs aimed at educating Filipino migrants about government services available to them, including information on how to deal with racism. Beyond this, Deborah works hard to promote reconciliation in this country between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. She holds the position of non-indigenous Regional Representative for Sydney, New South Wales Reconciliation Council and she is a Member of the Board. She is the convenor of the Redfern Residents for Reconciliation, contributing significantly to the establishment of the Redfern Community Centre that was opened in 2004. She is also a member of the Women’s Reconciliation Network that produced an educational video resource, Around the Kitchen Table, featuring work on reconciliation by women from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, English, Irish, Filipino, Greek, Jewish and Muslim communities. In 2004, Deborah Ruiz Wall received the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) from the Australian Commonwealth Government for service to the community in the areas of social justice, reconciliation and multiculturalism. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 15 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Typescript of Part I, Chapter 2 of, I’m dying laughing by Christina Stead ; 12 letters from Christina Stead to Rosemary Hibbert written between 7 April 1969 and 26 January 1970. Hibbert was employed to type Stead’s literary manuscripts. Though the subject matter of the correspondence is primarily business-related, it also ranges to other aspects of Stead’s work. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letters of support for Phyllis E. Duguid who formed The League for the Protection and the Advancement of Aboriginal Half-Caste Women in 1938 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Robinson was a remarkable woman and an Independent candidate for Newcastle in 1932. “That before marriage, contracting parties should obtain compulsory certificates of health, that the school age be extended to sixteen years, that sex education be taught in the schools, that maternity hospitals should be staffed with specially-trained medical men exclusively for this branch of medicine and that there be an immediate and drastic reduction of parliamentary salaries – is part of the policy of Mrs. E.E. Robinson, who is seeking parliamentary honors in the Newcastle district.” (Parliamentary scrapbook 1932) Elizabeth Robinson was the daughter of John and Harriett Quintal, her father being originally from Pitcairn Island, and she was born and raised in Tasmania. Before her marriage in 1913 to Henry Charles Robinson, she worked in the Tasmanian Post and Telegraph Department. She was a first class telegraphist at the age of 13. From her earliest years, Elizabeth Robinson was involved in temperance and humanitarian work. She began preaching at the age of 18 in the Congregational Church and before she was 22 had twice been presented with a purse of sovereigns in recognition of her work for the spiritual and social welfare of young people. She held a strong belief in the benefit of social clubs for young people. At the time of her campaign, she had been resident in Newcastle for five years, and had founded the Women’s Citizens Association to engage in the relief of distress. She was a well-known public speaker, both in Tasmania and in Newcastle. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 29 August 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Annual reports of state bodies; New South Wales, 1941-1987; Victoria, 1957-1987; Queensland, 1947-1987; South Australia, 1982-1987; Western Australia, 1967-1987; Tasmania, 1924-1987 (incomplete). ?Photographs, 1924-1987 (1 filing cabinet drawer). ?Operational records, 1924-1987. ?Publications including histories, handbooks, diaries, rules, magazines, 1924-1987. ?Awards file, 1924-1987. ?Australian appointments file, 1926-1987. ?Minutes of federal council meetings, 1926-1965. ?Profiles of persons associated with the guiding movement, c1930-1987. ?Newspaper cuttings, 1934-1987 (4 vols). ?Policy files, c1950-1987. ?Annual reports of the federal body, 1961-1987. ?Minutes of the Australian executive meetings, 1962-1987. ?Publications, circulars, 1964-1987. ?Minutes of Australian council meetings, 1966-1972. ?Minutes of the Australian training committee, 1969-1987. ?Minutes of the Australian sections committee, 1970-1987. ?Minutes of the Australian scout/guides consultative committee, 1973-1985. ?Deed of incorporation and of the constitution, 1980. ?Minutes of the annual general meetings, 1980-1987. ?Publication, Guiding in Australia, 1980-1987. ?Minutes of the Australian planning and development committee, 1981-1982. ?Minutes of the procedures committee, 1984-1987. ?Minutes of the executive of the Australian council for guiding, 1986-1987 Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 15 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interview with Maureen Giddings, OBE, Sydney, 22 February 2010, transcript in possession of Leonie Christopherson, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 11 September 2013 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement began at the University of Adelaide in 1968, inspired by the women who were active in Young Labor, and the anti-Vietnam war campaign. These women questioned their role in these organisations and vented their frustration about these male dominated groups. Anna Yeatman, Anne Summers and Julie Ellis are credited with starting the feminist newsletters Sisterhood and Body Political. By late 1969 they produced Liberation, the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Newsletter which replaced Sisterhood. Their first protest was against the Miss Fresher competition, which brought media focus to the expression of their feminist ideals for women’s liberation. Public meetings where called and the broader community involvement brought about the establishment of the Women’s Liberation Movement housed at Bloor House situated in Bloor Court off Currie Street, in Adelaide. They provided an environment where ideas for supporting women’s rights were fostered. The Group wrote a Women’s manifesto which was published in Liberation newsletter in June 1971. The Adelaide Women’s Liberation Group took part in the first Women’s Liberation Conference in Melbourne in 1970. The Women’s Liberation Movement in Adelaide was the catalyst for the establishment of the Women’s Health Centre at Hindmarsh, The Rape Crisis Centre, Women’s Studies Resource Centre, Abortion Action Campaign, St Peters Women’s Community Centre, Women’s Health Centres at Christies Beach and Elizabeth. They lobbied for Women’s Studies to be part of tertiary education, women’s representation in parliament, a Working Women’s Centre to protect women’s working rights, the Women’s Peace Movement. Bloor House provided a space for women to express their personal political ideas and to get feedback and support. The Women’s Liberation Movement moved from Bloor House to Eden St in Adelaide and then to Mary St, Hindmarsh were it was closed in 1989. The Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement began at the University of Adelaide in 1968. The early group of women’s liberationist had their roots in left politics on campus , although they later joined with socialist women to fight for women’s rights. Inspired by protests overseas against The Miss America Pagent which made the news in Australia, Adelaide feminists protested against the ‘Miss fresher’ pageant held on campus, as a way of openly questioning their roles and the treatment of women in society. They called public meetings and solicited broader community involvement and in so doing established a movement big enough to need premises. They were first housed at Bloor House in Bloor Court off Currie Street in Adelaide. A priority was to create a safe space where women could share information and create resource that would be useful to other women. Once this safe space of support and solidarity was created, the Women’s Liberation Movement in Adelaide was the catalyst for the establishment of the Women’s Health Centre at Hindmarsh, The Rape Crisis Centre, the Women’s Studies Resource Centre, Women’s Abortion Campaign, St Peters Women’s Community Centre, Women’s Health Centers at Christies Beach and Elizabeth. They lobbied for Women’s Studies to be part of tertiary education, for women’s representation in parliaments, the Women’s Peace Movement and a Working Women’s Centre to protect women’s right in the workplace. A group of Women’s Liberationist established themselves in major country towns as well in the metropolitan centres. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Women's Movement South Australia, Barber, Jenny, 1980 Herstory of Adelaide Women's Liberation 1969-1974, Kinder, Sylvia, 1980 Newsletter Liberation, 1970 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Papers of the Women Against Rape Coalition (WAR) Hindmarsh Women's Community Health Centre Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement : SUMMARY RECORD Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Karyn Paluzzano was a successful woman ALP candidate in the seat of Penrith. She was first elected to that seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 2003. She was re-elected in 2007, but resigned from the Parliament on 7 May 2010 as a result of allegations against her of falsely claiming parliamentary allowances and of giving false and misleading evidence to an anti-corruption inquiry. Prior to this she was a member of the Penrith City Council (1999-2004). Karyn Paluzzano was educated at Glenbrook Primary School, Nepean High School, and the University of Western Sydney. She has taught at local schools in Emu Plains, Mt. Druitt and Werrington, and worked as a Senior Education Officer with the Department of School Education. She has also lectured at the Australian Catholic University; the University of Western Sydney, Penrith; and the University of Technology, Sydney. Elected to the Penrith City Council in 1999, she helped establish and provide funding for the Kingswood Neighbourhood Centre, and to secure sponsorship for the Penrith Regional Gallery. She also strongly supported the Railway Street Q Theatre and the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre. Karyn has been a delegate to the Local Government Association and is a member of the ALGWA. She has been an active member of her community for many years, supporting the Kingswood Lions Club and various local sporting clubs. Karyn is married to Robert Paluzzano, and they have three children: Edward, Victoria and Elizabeth. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Phyllis Mander-Jones was Mitchell Librarian from 1947 to 1957. In 1962 she became the first Australian Joint Copying Project Officer. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1971 in recognition of her contribution to Australian history. Mander-Jones was educated at Abbotsleigh, a private girls’ school in Pymble, New South Wales. She went on to university after finishing school and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney in 1917. Mander-Jones joined the staff of the Public Library of New South Wales in 1925 and worked her way up through the ranks. She was Mitchell Librarian between 1947-1957. Based in the Australian High Commission in London, in 1962, she became the first Australian Joint Copying Project Officer. In 1964 she was appointed director of a survey of manuscripts in Britain and Ireland relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, popularly known as the ‘Mander-Jones guide’, was published by the ANU Press in 1972. After completing the survey of manuscripts in the British Isles, Mander-Jones remained in England for several years. She then returned to Australia and spent her last years in Adelaide compiling Catalogue of manuscripts in the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch) (1981). Events 1971 - 1971 Appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her service to Australian history 1976 - 1976 Appointed Honorary Member of the Australian Society of Archivists 1981 - 1981 Received the HCL Anderson Award, presented annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) for outstanding service to the library and information profession in Australia, to ALIA, or to the theory of library and information science or to the practice of library and information services 1996 - 1996 The Australian Society of Archivists introduced the Mander Jones Awards for publications in the field of recordkeeping. The award honours Mander-Jones for her contributions to the profession Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 HCL Anderson Award, Australian Library and Information Association, 2009, http://www.alia.org.au/awards/hcl.anderson/ Resource Section Jones, Phyllis Mander (1896 - 1984), Berzins, Baiba, 2006, http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170603b.htm Finding Aid Guide to the Papers of Phyllis Mander-Jones, National Library of Australia, 2002, http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms5652 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Phyllis Mander-Jones 1964-1972 [manuscript] State Library of New South Wales Baiba Berzins - abbreviated and edited transcript of interview with Phyllis Mander-Jones, 1983 Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 24 September 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 8512 comprises: 1. Personal and literary correspondence, 1973-1988. Correspondents include Richard Hopkinson, Paula Keogh, Dorothy Hewett, Pip Proud, Peter Ride and Merv Lilley. 2. Reviews and newscuttings, 1984-1988. 3. Typescripts of 13 published and unpublished poems attributed to Michael Dransfield. 4. Drafts of plays: The Magnificent Millie McGoochie, 1983, Rubina, 1983; The rule of Zip/No chance, 1984; We’re not ratbags, 1985; The wish palace, 1985; The secret room, 1988; Darkness in the dream factory, 1988; and, Year of the dog, 1989.??The Acc03/74 instalment includes diaries, letters, drafts of plays and poems, cuttings and printed ephemera.??The Acc03/79 instalment comprises 11 folders relating to Year of the dog, Aktion surreal (2 folders), Johno Johnson, The infinite gays, Chris Barnett, The wish palace, International Conference of Women Playwrights, Francis Webb, Persephone, and early poems by McNamara.??The Acc04/140 instalment consists of manuscripts and papers.??The Acc04/156 instalment comprises further manuscripts and papers. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Pan Pacific and South East Asian Women’s Association, comprising general minutes March 1952 – October 1975, executive committee minutes 1962-1966, programme study paper, annual report 1980-1981, President’s reports 1968-1979, Secretary’s annual report 1969-1970, a history of the association and other related material. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Tania Major first came to prominence in 2004 as the youngest person elected to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. In 2007 she was named Young Australian of the Year. She spoke to opinion makers, the public and government about sexual violence and rape in the Aboriginal community, asking Prime Minister John Howard to help lift the “blanket of shame” that was preventing such assaults being reported. The Cairns-based indigenous youth advocate, Tania Major, used her profile to draw attention to domestic violence in Aboriginal communities. Her forthright way of addressing the problems focused national attention on them. She broke the ice of public discussion about a number of issues concerning the welfare of young Indigenous people when she was featured on national television programs such as Four Corners and 60 Minutes. She made some people feel very uncomfortable, and was happy to do so. She spoke directly and very publicly to the prime minister and other opinion leaders about the appalling secrets of domestic violence in her community in the belief that the best way to represent her people was to tell the truth. “I’m proud to be an Aboriginal Australian and to have been recognised and acknowledged for the work I’m involved in,” Ms Major said. In 2009, Tania Major is the only person within her particular community to complete a university degree; indeed, she is the only one to have successfully completed Year 12. Tania has become a role model not only for Indigenous youth, but also for all young Australian’s. Published resources Resource Australian of the Year Awards, National Australia Day Council, 2007, http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/pages/page310.asp Interview with Tania Major, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2009, http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/20030728_positions_vacant/int_major.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Young Australian, Tania Major, Hill-Douglas, Olivia, 2007, http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/young-australian-tania-major/2007/01/25/1169594432321.html Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Memoirs detail missionary life, life as a minister’s wife, and her work with the women’s committees. The collection consists of 5 pamphlets privately printed (no publishing details). ‘Early Years’ (1980): ‘Later Years’ (1981): ‘This, That and the Other’ (1982): ‘Loose Ends and Knots’ (1983): ‘Just Memories’ (written by her husband, W.W. Fritsch, in 1984) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 3 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Major Joyce Whitworth was Assistant Commander, Eastern Command New South Wales (NSW), Australian Women’s Army Service. She was discharged from the Army Service on 27 June 1946. From 1959 until 1972 she was President of the Australian Women’s Army Service Association (NSW). On the 21st Anniversary of the Australian Women’s Army Service, Joyce Whitworth planted an Australian Gum (Lemon Eucalyptus) in Hyde Park on the western side of the War Memorial, in the presence of Lt-General Sir John Northcott. For services to the community, Joyce Whitworth was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire on 8 June 1968. In 1989 Joyce Whitworth became Patron of the Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Associations (NSW), a position she held until her death on 19 September 1998."
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Association of Civilian Widows, Blackwood Branch, consisting of minutes of meetings, 1964-1995, rules and constitution and constitution of the National Executive 1976. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 July 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Country Women’s Association of the Northern Territory is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group and service association working in the interests of women and children in rural areas. Although ostensibly non-party-political, in practice the group has tended to bolster conservative politics. The Association was officially formed in 1961, although the first branch had been formed in Alice Springs in 1933, with branches in Tennant Creek, Darwin and Katherine following soon after. The southern branches were originally affiliated with the South Australian CWA, while those in Darwin and Katherine were connected with the Queensland CWA. Archival Note: Since, prior to 1960, the Tennant Creek and Alice Springs Branches were managed by the South Australian CWA and the Darwin, and the Katherine and Darwin Branches were managed by the Queensland CWA, some records relating to these branches will be contained in the archives of those state organisations. The first branch of the CWA in the Northern Territory formed in Alice Springs in 1933. The branch was initiated by a meeting organised by Mrs J. A. Perkins, a member of the CWA of New South Wales. Mrs V. Carrington was elected as first president. Its early activities focussed on building up a library – with books and periodicals being sent out to members on distant stations. By 1936 they had also began handicraft instruction, leading to a weekly craft market by 1960. During WWII, like most other branches, energies were redirected towards supporting the war effort, through fund raising and supporting groups such as the Red Cross, the Australian Comforts Fund and Food for Britain. In 1947 they purchased a hall, which was also used for a range of community activities and briefly as a pre-school. The main early activities of the Tennant Creek branch revolved around organising social activities – Christmas parties, dances, bridge evening and the annual children’s fancy dress ball. During WWII they regularly organised entertainment and served refreshments to troops stationed in the area and raised fund to improve their accommodation. During the 1950s virtually every woman in town was a member of the group. The Darwin Branch was formed in 1937 – although various individuals had been suggesting such a move for the previous decade. Its early activities included cooking and craft classes as well as fund raising stalls and raffles. Since almost all women and children were evacuated from Darwin soon after Japan entered the war, the branch ceased operations for the duration. In the postwar years the branch concentrated on philanthropic endeavours – supporting the leprosarium, visiting patients at the hospital, providing giving gifts of Aboriginal children. They also took an interest in issues relating to the lack of facilities in Darwin, particularly in the areas of health, education, housing and food supplies, as well as the need for welfare officers. In the 1950s the group concentrated more projects for its own members – particularly the building of rest rooms and organising social events and fundraisers. They also established the Outback Mothers Hostel in 1953 – for expectant mothers from remote areas to stay in town in close proximity to the hospital and to provide accommodation for rural women and children visiting or convalescing in Darwin. The Katherine branched also formed in 1937. Despite the multiculturalism of the local popular, almost all members were white. The major early achievements of the branch were the establishment of a free lending library and the organisation of an annual Christmas tree for children. They also organised numerous social events. Women and children were also evacuated from Katherine in 1942 and the CWA did not reform until 1948. Their first efforts then were directed at fund raising to build a rest room and hostel – which was not realised until 1956. Racial issues were of acute concern to the group in the 1950s – with letters being written asking that ‘natives’ be separated from ‘whites’ on trains and in hospitals and schools. They also opposed the employment of married women in government service. The initiative to form a separate Northern Territory organisation came from the Darwin branch. This had been mooted since 1947, with periodic discussions among the existing CWA branches in the territory continuing throughout the 1950s, which were eventually successful in 1951. Territory-wide, from 1960-1990, much of the Association’s energy was taken up by property management. However, handicrafts were also promoted, and organisations concerned with children’s welfare and education were particularly assisted – including schools, pre-schools and crèches as well as clubs such as the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts. In the 1960s, considering energy was devoted towards trying to recruit Aboriginal women, or to teach them domestic skills, with little success. Aboriginal women largely resisted these attempts at assimilation. The expansion of health services was also an issue of concern. Charitable activities too increased in the1970s. Committees were also formed to investigate current issues – including child abuse, affirmative action, euthanasia, the environment and taxation. The writing of local histories has also featured prominently in the activities of members. By 1970 membership was 450 in 11 branches. This however, declined to 250 by 1980 and 120 by 1990. Published resources Book The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Getting things done : the Country Women's Association of Australia, Country Women's Association of Australia, 1986 Our First Forty Years: The South Australian Country Women's Association, Inc. Willunga Branch, 1947-1987, Young, Bertha, 1987 Country women : [history of the first seventy five years : the Queensland Country Women's Association], Pagliano, Muriel, 1998 Women in Isolation: A History of the Country Women's Association in the Northern Territory, 1933-1990, Doran, Christine, 1992 Fifty years: 1922-1972, 1972 The Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory: What it is, its purpose, membership, activities, history, Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory, [1985?] Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory: Information and history, Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory, [1994] Constitution and rules of the Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory (Incorporated), Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory, [1960?] Journal Article More than scones and tea: the CWA in the Northern Territory, Doran, Christine, 1996 The CWA -Country Women's Association- in Darwin after World War II, Doran, Christine, 1991 Report Annual Report/Country Womens' Association of the Northern Territory, Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory, 1959- Newsletter C.W.A. Calling, 1962?- Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources NULL Country Women's Association of Alice Springs Country Women's Association of South Australia The Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 3282 Queensland Country Women's Association Records 1923-2002 Northern Territory Archives Service NTRS 2323 Letter books NTRS 2321 Administration and correspondence files NTRS 2322 Building and Building Finance Committee files Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "5 sound files (approximately 371 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 sound cassettes (ca. 103 min.)??Jean Arnot, librarian and activist for equal pay for women, speaks of her family background; Fort Street School; joining Public (later State) Library of New South Wales; transfer from Bent Street building; design of present Library building; library exams; fight for equal pay; Council of Action for Equal Pay; membership of Public Service Association; family influences; looking after aged parents; Kooroora Club; Business and Professional Women’s Club; United Nations Committee; Sydney Club, Trades and Professions Committee; National Council of Women; Royal Australian Historical Society; Freedom From Hunger, New South Wales Executive; Australian Institute of Librarians; her MBE; knowledge gained through library work; Miles Franklin papers; Havelock Ellis diaries; associated institutions of the SLNSW; book theft; slashing of section on Archbishop Laud from the Dictionary of National Biography; study tours; institutional libraries; attending international cataloguing conference, Paris; library automation; Sir William Dixson coin collection; theft from H.L. White stamp collection; Berkelouw antiquarian booksellers; Riverina CAE Library; Northern Rivers CAE Library; cataloguing private collections; donations of family papers; overseas acquisition of material; Sir William Dixson; David Scott Mitchell; pirated ed. Of The Pickwick Papers; Aboriginal, PNG collecting; cataloguer training; preservation; relocation of SLNSW material during WW2; London Library bomb damage; changes in type of staff; contemporary collectors; retirement activities. Author Details Jane Carey Created 4 August 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Leaflets, newsletters, invitations, posters, reports, and event notices relating to International Women’s Day events.?International Women’s Day began as Women’s Day with the first women’s street demonstration held in New York on March 8, 1908. The first International Women’s Day was held on March 19, 1911 in Germany and other European countries, with the first IWD in Australia occurring in 1931. The aims of the march are to draw attention to women’s political and economic rights, for working towards international solidarity and peace, and as a day for celebration In 1950. The Union of Australian Women was formed and provided a new organisational focus for International Women’s Day. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "3 sound files (ca. 460 min.)??Valerie French, born in Sydney speaks about her family background; her schooling; moving to Western Australia; her father’s professional life; attending Loreto College; religious upbringing and education; moving to Princeton, U.S.A. for a year, travel from Freemantle to New York; cultural, social and intellectual life in Princeton; return to Perth and schooling; attitudes of teachers at Loreto College to women’s education and impact on personal identity; her choice of career, attending University of Western Australia, studying Law; gendered aspects of law school in 1950s and 1960s; class division at law school and anti-Catholic sentiments; initiation into law student society; change in social attitudes at law school, growth of social justice focus during 1960s-1970s; impact of gender discrimination on female law students; female teachers at law school; female lawyers in practice at the time in Australia; Labor party and socialism, her involvement with ALP at university; her decision to practice law; gendered aspects of legal practice; the transition from articled clerkship to legal practice, early career as solicitor; her decision to go to the bar; her experience as first woman at Western Australian Bar; her marriage to Robert French; the decision to leave Bar to work as a solicitor part-time; her reappointment as Legal Chairman, Social Security Appeals Tribunal; her appointment as Children’s Court Magistrate, returning to full-time work and return to the Bar.??French discusses balancing of parental responsibilities and work; acceptance of a position at Blake Dawson Waldron, the culture of national law firms; working as a stipendiary Magistrate in Magistrate’s Court in Western Australia for 3.5-4 years, the wide variety of matters that come before Magistrate’s Court; working as a Mining Warden for approx. 2 years; Robert French’s appointment to National Native Title Tribunal in 1994, decision to stop acting as a Mining Warden for conflict of interest reasons; balancing work and family during employment as Magistrate, gender balance and relations with other women lawyers while at Magistrate’s Court of Australia, women lawyers appearing before the Magistrate’s Court of Western Australia; appointment to District Court of Western Australia in November 1994, other women judges at District Court; her appointment to President of the Children’s Court in Western Australia toward the end of 1994, reforms to Children’s Court c.1990; impact of work of Children’s Court on family life; return to District Court of Western Australia, appointment as Chair of Parole Board in early 2006 (later renamed Prisoners Review Board); gender and race in imprisonment and parole; Chairman of Mentally Impaired Accused Review Board; her decision to retire: the appointment of Robert French as Chief Justice of High Court of Australia; transition to retirement; additional roles during professional life; an overview of impact of gender/femaleness on professional life or career. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 9813 mainly comprises papers that relate to the period when Franca Arena was a member of the New South Wales Parliament. The collection includes copies of correspondence, documents (including references), media releases, articles, newspaper cuttings and Hansard extracts, 1959-1997, principally relating to Arena’s political activities and the suspension motion against her in 1997. There are also copies of her Electoral reports, no. 1-34 (May 1982-December 1998) and anniversary publications of the Italian-Australian Women’s Association, Cinderellas no more (1995) and Vent’anni (2005) (6 boxes). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 September 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Carolyn Allport ran for parliament only once (Independent Candidate for Camden, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1995), but has continued in elected office in her union for more than a decade. Carolyn Allport has held an academic position in the university sector since 1974. She was elected the first President of the National Tertiary Education Union in 1994 and re-elected in 1998. She represents the Union’s 25,000 academic and general staff members in matters relating to tertiary education funding, policy and industrial relations issues. She was a member of the Higher Education Council 1995-1999 and a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Executive. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2003, De Micheli, Catherine and Herd, Margaret, 2003 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Assignments (4) on the Australian Women’s Land Army received from students in the Women, Work and Society core subject of the Certificate in Career Education at Mudgee College of T.A.F.E. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Robyn Henderson is a feminist activist, former politician and public sector manager who has devoted many years to reducing inequalities in Australian society through her work in both non-government and government agencies. She was elected to the ACT House of Assembly in 1979 as Robyn Walmsley, serving until 1985, and was very active in the development of abortion counselling, family planning and women’s refuge services in the ACT. She has worked in many areas of social policy and public administration in the NSW State and Commonwealth governments, and on aid projects in Solomon Islands and Timor Leste. Robyn Henderson was born in Bathurst, daughter of William and Laurel Henderson (née Sutton). Soon after, the family moved to Queanbeyan, near Canberra, and then to Canberra where Robyn completed her schooling at the Canberra Church of England Girls Grammar School in 1963. There were many discussions about politics and ideas over the dinner table as she grew up, helping shape her determination to work to expose and eliminate discrimination against women and other disadvantaged members of society. Robyn’s first degree was a Bachelor of Science (Australian National University 1968) and she initially worked as a biochemist in Canberra and Sydney. She subsequently studied political science, women’s studies and law, and holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours (ANU 1980), Diploma of Labour Studies (University of Adelaide 1991), Master of Letters in Cultural Studies (University of Central Queensland 1996) and a Bachelor of Laws Honours (University of London 2011). On her marriage in 1969 to barrister (later judge) Stephen Walmsley Robyn changed her surname to Walmsley. They had two children, Claudia and Joshua. Robyn resumed her family name of Henderson when her children completed primary school. In 1993 she married Geoffrey Evans, a soil scientist, farmer and political activist. Robyn’s early interest in social justice grew rapidly and purposefully as the feminist movement burgeoned in the early 1970s. She joined the just-emerging Women’s Electoral Lobby in the lead-up to the election of the Whitlam Labor Government in 1972, and remained an active long-time member. She joined the Australian Labor Party in 1985. In the early 1970s, Robyn became very active in the creation of the Abortion Counselling Service in Canberra, and was vice-president of the ACT Family Planning Association, a member of Women Against Rape, and a Board member of the East and South East Asia and Oceania Region of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. This was not without risk, as she received at least one death threat. Nevertheless, Robyn was an initiator and early supporter of Beryl, Canberra’s first women’s refuge (1975–1979) and the women seeking its help. She went on to work as the administrator of the Canberra Women’s Refuge in 1981–1982, and in 1981 was elected vice-president of the ACT Council of Social Service. Robyn (then Walmsley) won election in 1979 to the ACT House of Assembly as a Labor member for the Division of Canberra and was re-elected in 1982. She then served briefly as acting leader of the Party until Maurene Horder was elected leader. Robyn resigned from the Assembly in 1985 and was replaced by Rosemary Follett. During her tenure, Robyn chaired the Assembly’s Social Welfare Committee and was closely involved in the development of health, welfare and housing policies at both ACT and national levels. Robyn moved to Sydney in 1985, spending the next twenty years working in both non-government and State government sectors, predominantly on social policies in areas ranging from women’s development and well-being to childcare, housing, aged care, local government, mental health, and industry and labour force issues. Her roles included: NSW State Secretary for Community Aid Abroad (1985–1986) Director of the NSW Council of Social Services (1986–1989) Executive Director of the National Council and the NSW Division of the (then Royal) Institute of Public Administration (1990–1995) Chief of Staff to Faye Lo Po, NSW Minister for Women, and Fair Trading (1995–1998) Director-General of the NSW Department of Women (1998–2004). Common threads in her positions were extensive organisational change and cultural transformations as well as the development of new standards and approaches to improving social justice outcomes. Sometimes to her personal cost in highly politicised environments, Robyn consolidated a reputation for integrity and fearlessness as an adviser and advocate for policy based explicitly on progressive principles of fairness, equity, social inclusion and the democratic advancement of a civil society. Robyn left Australia to join the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) as advisor to the Solomon Islands’ Prime Minister and Head of the Cabinet Office (2004–2006). She worked with senior politicians and public sector officials to reassert basic principles of good public sector governance after a period of violent civil unrest. Robyn re-engineered the Cabinet Office and developed new processes to better coordinate policy across the Solomon Islands Government. She subsequently worked on capacity-building in the Timor-Leste Police Development Program in Dili, Timor Leste (2008). From the late 2000s Robyn has undertaken several consultancies and then senior posts in the Commonwealth Public Service responsible for strategic intelligence reports, policy papers and program evaluations in agencies including the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research and the federal departments of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, the Treasury, and Employment and Workplace Relations. Robyn was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2024 for her significant service to public administration and to social welfare. Author Details Louise Moran Created 7 July 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Forgotten Immigrants and Australians exhibition, held in the Old Parliament House, Adelaide in October 1988, showcased photographic images of immigrants from the late 1940’s. Dzidra Knoch’s, a woman of Latvian heritage, felt that it was important at this time to document the lives of immigrants who arrived in Australia directly after the end of the war. ‘My reason,’ she wrote, ‘was that Australians are paying more attention to present day immigrants and appear to have forgotten the first non English speaking migrants who arrived in the late 1940s’. Knochs’ challenge was collating the material as at that time in Australia, immigrant workers had little time or resources to record their lives. Knochs consequently sourced what she believed to be essential information from the era, in order to provide a record to second and third generation immigrant families and other Australians. The final selection of 236 photographs depicted immigrants and Australians and their way of life in the late 1940’s. Knoch’s rationale for mounting the exhibition reflects a tension between members of older immigrant groups and those who benefited from the hard leg work the early post war migrants undertook. ‘The entry into Australia was not as easy as it is now,’ she said. ‘ We were tested, double tested physically and mentally and had to speak English. Nothing was printed here in any other language that English. We did not complain.’ In a thinly veiled reference to the rights based activism that was a feature of multicultural politics, policies and services after the Galbally review of Post-arrival migrant programs and services, she noted, ‘immigrants in those days worked very hard, and often in two jobs. Numerous immigrants had university degrees which were not recognised here. In order to earn a living, doctors were employed in menial jobs such as cleaners in hospitals; artists as sugarcane cutters. We did not complain, did not start a strike and did not have equal rights discrimination and amendments etc. When we were called not so nice names we did not make a fuss about it and we did not call anyone racist. We could understand that foreigners in other countries must work hard to earn trust and admiration – not demand it. We remembered how we felt when the country in which we were born was occupied by foreigners.‘ Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Off-air recording from ABC broadcast of series In Retrospect, 29/1/77, & 5/2/77. Greenwood discusses feminism in Australia.?Sound cassette (30min) : mono in folder 25cm. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers in MS 9360 form an artificial series put together by Edna Ryan. They consist mainly of personal correspondence between Beryl Henderson and Edna Ryan over a period of thirteen years, 1977-1990. Edna Ryan had kept Henderson’s letters and also a carbon copy of her response to each letter. She had also preserved other material including correspondence with others and newscuttings relating to the translation of “Abortion: the Bobigny affair” from the French. Edna Ryan acted as agent for Beryl Henderson in negotiations with the publisher, Wild and Wooley, and also assisted in fundraising activities to enable the book to be published in Australia. The main correspondents are Beryl Henderson, Edna Ryan and Florence Robinson (4 boxes). Author Details Elle Morrell Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Printed under photograph “Miss Sheila McClemans. Mrs F. Kenworthy. Hon legal adviser W.S.G. Led the victory march London. Wrens.” Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lithuanians came in large numbers to Australia in the late 1940s and early 1950s as part of the wave of refugees from the Soviet-occupied Baltic states. The latest Census in 2001 recorded 3,710 Lithuania-born persons in Australia, a decrease of 12 per cent from the 1996 Census. The 2001 distribution by State and Territory showed Victoria had the largest number with 1,250 followed by New South Wales (1,160), South Australia (560) and Queensland (300). The median age of the Lithuania-born in 2001 was 72.3 years compared with 46.0 years for all overseas-born and 35.6 years for the total Australian population. The age distribution showed 1.1 per cent were aged 0-14 years, 2.3 per cent were 15-24 years, 5.6 per cent were 25-44 years, 24.6 per cent were 45-64 years and 66.3 per cent were 65 and over. Of the Lithuania-born in Australia, there were 1,800 males (48.6 per cent) and 1,910 females (51.4 per cent). The sex ratio was 94.4 males per 100 females. Archival resources State Library of South Australia Lithuanian Radio Programs: A Selection of 5UV and 5EBI Broadcasts, 1977-1990 : SUMMARY RECORD [sound recording] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Include correspondence; and notes, notebooks and articles on palaeontology. Author Details Jane Carey Created 27 October 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Vivienne Berzin, an Australia Party candidate, contested three elections in two years, and never ran again. She was a candidate in the 1972 House of Representatives for Mitchell then in 1973 ran in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for both Northcott and Hawkesbury (by election). Vivienne Berzin was orphaned when she was five years old and was brought up in a church home. She became a psychiatric nurse and a bookbinder. After her marriage, she returned to school and obtained her School Certificate. Vivienne Berzin was one of the pioneers of the Women against the Airport movement, and when she ran for Mitchell in 1972, opposition to an airport at Richmond was one of her main campaign points. At the time of the election, she was studying accountancy. When she ran for the Australia Party in the Hawkesbury by-election, she campaigned primarily on environmental issues, complaining that the Hawkesbury River was becoming a drain for the western suburbs of Sydney. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection consists of association rules, financial records, reports, correspondence, certificates, newspaper cuttings, a banner etc of Women’s Place. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 47 min.)??Robinson speaks of her parents and family life ; the beginnings of her writing career, using the pen name Eliza Lyon in her column ; working in the field of radio ; researching and writing her books. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nikki Henningham Created 14 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Opening of the Canterbury-Bankstown Migrant Resource Centre Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The report is that of the committee appointed by the Prime Minister on 1 September 1977, under the chairmanship of Mr F.E. Galbally, C.B.E. The other members of the Review were Ms. F Merenda M.B.E., Mr N. Polites and Mr C. Stransky. The report covers their investigations into “the effectiveness of the Commonwealth’s programs and services for those who have migrated to Australia, including programs and services provided by non-government organisations which receive Commonwealth assistance, and shall identify any areas of need or duplication …” and make recommendations with regard to funding by Government, the proper relation between Government and non-Government agencies, with a view to increasing the efficiency and spread of services in perceived areas of migrant need, especially the needs of non-English speaking migrants. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 June 2006 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO14]??Minutes, agenda and other meeting papers of the National Council of the Australian Red Cross and, from about 1940, the Executive Committee of Council. Minutes of Annual General Meetings are also included.?A digitised copy of this series for the period 1914-1943 is available to researchers on request (digitised version for the year 1943 is incomplete).??Minutes for the period 1914-1938 are bound into volumes and also include Finance Committee minutes. A topical index for this period, created by the Red Cross for its own use, has been registered as item 2015.0028.0259 and can be found in box 26 of this series. The index uses the codes ‘C’ to refer to Central Council minutes, ‘F’ for Finance Committee minutes, ‘A’ for Advisory Committee minutes and ‘E’ for Executive Finance Committee minutes. Year and page number references are also provided in the index, however in some instances the pages of the minutes themselves are not numbered.?During World War Two the Council established a number of committees to respond to aspects of the wartime emergency. Minutes of these are also included in this series. Minutes for the period 1939 onwards are not bound. Topical indexes for the period 1958-1973, created by the Red Cross for its own use, have been registered as item 2015.0028.0260 and can be found in box 26 of this series. These indexes provide references to meeting numbers, however these numbers are not always evident on the minutes themselves.?Additional Finance Committee Minutes for periods not included in this series can be found in series 2015.0030.??Some records digitised (1914-1943) and available on request??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 10 February 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nerolie Withnall is a leading company director overseeing the direction and transformation of large Australian companies and institutions. She was the former Director of ALS, Alchemia Limited, PanAust and Computershare Communication Services Limited. A former Partner at Minter Ellison she was Chairman, Board of Queensland Museum and a member of the Council of the Australian National Maritime Museum and Board of the Australian Rugby Union. Withnall was also a long-term Member of the Takeovers Panel. Withnall made legal history becoming the first woman President of a Law Society in Australia. Nerolie Withnall was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Encouraged by her father, a primary school teacher and headmaster, Nerolie Withnall studied for a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws at the University of Sydney. Soon after graduation Withnall married John Withnall and relocated to Darwin where she began working in the Crown Law Department. Withnall moved into private practice as a solicitor joining the family firm, R J Withnall and went on to have two children. She was also instrumental in establishing the Northern Territory Law Society. Working on cattle property transactions gave her the opportunity to travel to remote areas of the Northern Territory. In 1974 Withnall survived the devastation unleashed by Cyclone Tracy on the city of Darwin. Evacuated from Darwin, Withnall was undeterred and, in an indication of her future corporate persistence, she returned to her Darwin house, working amid the rubble for the next year to rebuild her legal practice [McCulloch]. Withnall made legal history in 1979 becoming the President of the Northern Territory Law Society and the first woman to become President of a Law Society in Australia [McCulloch]. In 1981 Withnall relocated to Brisbane and, with the support of colleagues Tony Atkinson and Elizabeth Nosworthy, she began working as a solicitor at the law firm Minters, also consulting for the firm’s newly opened Darwin office. [McCulloch]. Withnall’s transition from corporate lawyer to company director began in the mid 1990s when she joined the Board of Campbell Bros, which went on to transform itself into ALS, one of the world’s largest and most diversified testing services providers with sites located around the world [McCulloch]. Withnall went on to become Non-Executive Director at ALS in 1994 and Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director in 2012; serving as the only woman on the Board [ALS Global]. In 1996 Withnall was appointed Non-Executive Director at PanAust a copper and gold producer in Southeast Asia and continued in this role until 2015. In 1999 Withnall was appointed as a Board Member of the Brisbane Institute and was later appointed Chairman of QM Technologies Limited (later acquired by Computershare Communication Services Limited). At the same time as Withnall was enjoying success from her career as a company director and board member she developed a successful practice in commercial law at Minter Ellison. Withnall become a Partner specialising in corporate and commercial law, with specialist skills in the areas of corporate advice, capital raisings, securities and corporate trusts [Proctor]. Withnall retired from Minter Ellison in 2000. From 1999 until 2010, as a Member of the Takeovers Panel, Withnall’s corporate legal and company advisory experience was in demand, participating in many proceedings before the Panel. This experience was also invaluable when she was appointed in 2001 as the Convenor of the Legal Sub-Committee, Member of the Companies and Markets Advisory Committee [Ministers]. Withnall held two Board positions with significant benefit to the cultural and environmental development of her local Queensland community – Chairman, Board of Queensland Museum and a member of the Council of the Australian National Maritime Museum. Until 2013 Withnall was the Director of Alchemia Limited an Australian drug discovery and development company and from 2008 until 2015 was the Non-Executive Director of Computershare Communication Services Limited. In 2013, in recognition of her enormous contribution to corporate leadership, Withnall was awarded the Australian Institute of Company Directors Gold Medal [Courier Mail]. That same year Withnall was appointed to the Board of the Australian Rugby Union resigning in 2015. In 2015 Withnall resigned as Director at PanAust. In 2016 Withnall retired from her role as Non-Executive Chairman of ALS having overseen the company’s transformation from a predominantly domestic manufacturing operation into a globally renowned technical testing services company [ASX]. Withnall was the Director of the Brisbane Festival; Brisbane Transport and Director of the National Seniors Foundation and Redcape Property Fund Limited. She has also been a Board Member of Darling Downs Bacon Cooperative; is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Member of the Committee of Brisbane and Economic Development Committee. Withnall has occupied positions of corporate strategic leadership; with roles as Chairman and Director of many significant Australian companies and institutions during a time when female representation in such organisations has been described as “dire” [Crikey]. Withnall’s enormous contribution to and influence over the direction of many leading Australian companies and institutions is considerable. Withnall is a leading influence as a trailblazing woman in corporate Australia proving how important it is to achieve diversity on corporate boards. Withnall demonstrates that the skills of corporate law can be used to lead and transform companies and create opportunities for communities across Australia. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Nerolie Withnall interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 31 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Nerolie Withnall Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 audiocassette (approximately 25 min.)??In addition to the interview, Brian Syron reads some of Marjorie Pizer’s poetry. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The First International Women in Agriculture Conference was held from 1 to 3 July 1994, at the University of Melbourne in Victoria. It attracted over 850 participants from 33 countries, and was the largest agricultural conference held in Australia. It was a pivotal moment in the women in agriculture movement and in the process of securing a voice in decision making for rural women, nationally and internationally. The conference was organised by women who were active in the movement, from farmers to their supporters and advisors in government departments and non-government rural organisations. Its aims reflected the concerns of women in agriculture: to raise the profile of rural women, to increase awareness of the economic, social legal and cultural factors affecting their status, and to provide learning opportunities to develop new skills and access to information and networks. Its focus reflected women’s concern with the social, environmental and cultural dimensions of agriculture, as well as the economic and production aspects, and their desire to develop and capture opportunities in world markets Chronology 1980s Women in agriculture groups arose and grew through meetings, workshops, skills courses, newsletters and government support through Victorian and Federal Labor government’s affirmative action policies. 1986 As the result of activism by Victorian rural women, the Rural Women’s Network was set up under the auspices of the Office of Rural Affairs in the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. 1991 Activist Mary Salce attended the National Farm Women’s Conference in Canada, and realised that the recognition of rural women was an international issue. Fellow dairy farmer Lyn Johnson had also been exposed to the activism of American farming women. 1992 Liz Hogan, a Project Officer in the Rural Women’s Network, facilitated a state-wide meeting of a group of like minded women – activists, leaders and academics – in Ballarat. Out of this meeting came the nucleus of an initially state-wide Women in Agriculture group, which was eventually constituted as the national Australian Women in Agriculture (AWiA) in 1993. In the meantime, at the instigation of Gippsland dairy farmer Mary Salce, and with the assistance of women within the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the statewide group began planning for the conference. A steering committee of nine women was set up, and incorporated in order to seek funding for the event. They were: Mary Salce, convenor, and Anna Lottkowitz, Ruth Liepins, Anne-Marie Tenni, Maureen Walsh, Audrey Dreschler, Jennifer North, Rosemary Grant, Lyn Johnson and Dorothy Dunn. An advisory committee consisted of women in fourteen government and on-government bodies, including the Australian Wheat Board, the Rural Women’s Reference Group, the Country Women’s Association and the Sydney Myer fund. The core organisation involved forty-seven women overall. 1994 The conference took place at the University of Melbourne on 1-3 July. The sessions of the conference generated a series of recommendations and outcomes. They were tabulated in a report, which formed the basis of a presentation to the Office of the Status of Women and Australian governments, and were included in the Australian government’s own recommendations to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. The report reflected recommendations in six key areas: education, visibility and recognition, networking, environment and sustainability and social justice. The over all concern was for inclusion, recognition and equality of participation in the industry. Post conference evaluation was conducted. As a result of the conference, the Australian Law Reform Commission investigated the legal status of women on farms and a global network for women in agriculture was initiated. The recommendations of the conference were reflected in the actions taken in the following years, including the formation of the Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women (1994), to act as a funding body to increase women’s access to education and training; the establishment of Women’s Units, after the Victorian model, in some state departments of agriculture; and the holding of the Rural Women’s Forum (1995). In addition, a range of projects were undertaken to provide education in leadership, skills and management, such as (in Gippsland) the Uniting Our Rural Communities Cultural and Community Leadership Project. Subsequent Conferences First conference convenor Mary Salce was a prime mover in the organisation of the Second International Women in Agriculture Conference, in Washington, from 28 June-2 July 1998. With Valerie McDougall she organised ‘The Salute from Australia Handover Event’, which showcased Australian produce. One hundred and twenty women attended the conference from Australia. The third and fourth conferences – now World Congresses of Rural Women – took place in Madrid in 2002, and Durban in 2007. In Madrid, Mary Salce was honoured for her role in the inception of the conferences. The fifth Congress will be held in India. Published resources Booklet The Salute From Australia at the 2nd International Conference on Women in Agriculture, McDougall, Valerie (ed.), 1998 Thesis Women in Agriculture: A Geography of Australian Agricultural Activism, Liepins, Ruth, 1996, http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/1453 Report Agents For Change: Farming for our Future, Dietrich, Laurene (ed.), 1995 Project Report: International Women in Agriculture Conference, Rose, Maria, 1994 Conference Proceedings Women in Agriculture: Farming for Our Future, Women in Agriculture 1994 International Conference Committee Inc., 1995 Book Breaking Through the Grass Ceiling: Women, Power & Leadership in Rural Australia, Alston, Margaret, 2000 Resource Gippsland Women's Network: History, Gippsland Women's Network, http://www.wwmb.org.au/history.html Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Mary Salce, 1976-2007 [manuscript] Papers of Audrey Drechsler, 1979-2009 [manuscript] Melbourne Museum Catherine McLennan with Lyn Johnson (Interview) Author Details Janet Butler Created 24 August 2009 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Incomplete records, including copies of newsletters and other documents relating to the formation of the Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 June 2006 Last modified 13 June 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers include letters from Dame Mary Gilmore to Jean Stevenson discussing personal matters as well as poetry and writing. Also includes letters to Dame Mary Gilmore in the mid-1930s from aspiring poets asking for advice and criticism of their work. Also a typescript review of Dame Mary Gilmore’s “Looking backward over Australia’s history: more recollections”, and photocopies of inscriptions in books written by Mary Gilmore and owned by Jean Stevenson. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rosemary Kayess has devoted her career to the study and promotion of human rights and discrimination law in Australia and internationally. She has made a significant contribution to the disability rights movement. Currently a Visiting Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, Kayess was appointed to the Australian Government delegation responsible for drafting the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Since 2009 Kayess has been a member of the AusAID Disability Reference Group; in 2010 she was appointed Director of the Human Rights and Disability Project at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Kayess became Senior Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW in 2011. Rosemary Kayess was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Rosemary Kayess graduated from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours). She also has an Associate Diploma of Management (Community Organisations) and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from the College of Law. When she was twenty, Kayess was in a serious car accident in which she sustained a spinal injury. The event set her on the path to her subsequent career. From 1989 to 1995, Kayess was Director of Spinal Cord Injuries Australia while also serving on the Ethics Committee at the Benevolent Society of New South Wales and as Director of the Physical Disability Council of New South Wales. Since 1995, Kayess has been Chairperson of the Australian Centre for Disability Law. The Centre promotes and protects the human and legal rights of people with disabilities by providing them with access to legal advocacy. Kayess was subsequently appointed to the Disability Council of New South Wales in 1996, serving until 2000. In 1996 Kayess was honoured with a University of New South Wales Alumni Award. In 2004 – 2006, Kayess was appointed to the Australian Government delegation responsible for drafting the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the Convention) [Lannen]. After the drafting process had been completed, Kayess tirelessly promoted the Convention at workshops and human rights forums, arguing for its ratification by the Australian Government. In 2008 the Rudd Government ratified the Convention, thereby providing a basis for social inclusion of people with disability in all aspects of society. According to Kayess, the timing of her involvement with the Convention was significant in setting a new direction for her academic career: “International human rights was my area of focus and the Convention negotiations came up and it really was this one-in-a-lifetime chance and I was incredibly lucky to be involved. My academic work has sort of revolved in the past 10 years around the development of the Convention. I was appointed to the Australian Government delegation for the negotiation process and you know it’s sad to say, but it really is the peak of an international lawyer’s career to be involved in those types of negotiation processes” [Lannen]. From 2008 to 2009, Kayess was Director of the Disability Studies and Research Centre at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). In this role, Kayess was an advocate for the disability sector, often called upon for public comment and analysis on behalf of those with disabilities affected by unemployment and limited access to further education [ABC]. At UNSW’s 2009 Protecting Human Rights Conference at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, Kayess spoke about the daily human rights violations which people with disabilities encounter, such as a lack of adequate accommodation, being forced to live in institutional care, and education segregation. These matters continue to occupy Kayess’ work in a domestic and international context. Since 2009, Kayess has been a member of the Department Foreign Affairs and Trade Disability Reference Group; in 2010 she was appointed Director of the Human Rights and Disability Project of the Australian Human Rights Centre of the Faculty of Law, UNSW [Vision 2020]. From 2010 to 2014 Kayess was the Senior Visiting Research Fellow on the Disability Rights Expanding Accessible Markets (DREAM) Project. “The primary aim of the DREAM Project is to professionally develop and educate the next generation of disability policy researchers and entrepreneurs to assist the European Union and its Member States in their efforts to implement the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” [Disability Rights]. The project provided Kayess with the opportunity to continue her ground-breaking work on the Convention at an international level. In 2011 Kayess, a Visiting Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Kayess has devoted her career to disability policy and reform. She has advised on the many issues that intersect with the disability sector, including housing, education, guardianship, employment and domestic and international human rights. An expert member of the Australian Government delegation to the United Nations negotiations for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Kayess continues to be a tireless advocate for those with disabilities in Australia. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Rosemary Kayess interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Rosemary Kayess Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Kathleen Helene Hilfers, charity worker, comprising school certificates and reports, elocution competition sheets, passports, photograph, reminiscences of the National Council of Women, including Dr Marie Braun, and correspondence, including letter and article on Daisy Bates from Wendy Borcher and Kathleen Hilfers’ reminiscences of Lady Mawson. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Barbara Blackman and Judith Wright enjoyed a friendship spanning over four decades.This collection comprises their letters to each other, documenting this long friendship. Blackman’s early letters to Wright revolve around bringing up her young family and supporting Charles in his work. Her letters of later years detail her attempts to establish a career for herself and contain many of her philosophical outlooks on life. Similarly, Wright’s early letters detail her family life, but also include references to her career. Her later letters detail her growing interest and involvement with issues relating to conservation. Many of Wright’s letters contain poems she has jotted down for Blackman to read (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ann Barry has taken an intense interest in politics at all levels. She ran as an Australian Democrats member in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Gordon (1995) and in the House of Representatives for Bradfield (1996) and for Throsby (1998). She also ran as an Independent for the Ku-ring-gai Council in 1995 and 2003. Ann Barry has lived and worked in the northern suburbs of Sydney all her life. She owned and ran a Child Care centre for a number of years and owned and edited the community newspaper The Ku-ring-gai Observer from 1996 to 2001. She holds a Child Care Certificate and a Bush Care Certificate from TAFE, and is a committee member of the Ku-ring-gai Historical Society. Her campaigns have been the result of her passionate interest in political issues. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Catherine McKimm graduated from the Australian National University (ANU) College of Law in 1975; one of the 10% of her class who were women. After spending a short period of time developing her litigation skills as an insurance lawyer, she decided to strike out on her own. She moved to Northern New South Wales where she and a friend established their own legal practice. While not always lucrative, running her own practice meant she could work in areas that truly interested her and fulfil her sense of social justice through the law. Some examples of the work she did include a Land and Environmental Court action acting on behalf of a local community organisation who were endeavouring to stop the development of a hard rock quarry in a river which formed the headwaters of the local town water supply and a Federal Court action involving a single mother who sued one of the big four banks after her husband lost their life savings gambling on the foreign currency market. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Catherine McKimm for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Catherine McKimm and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. In the 1960s when I was young, women became nurses and teachers not doctors and lawyers. I had the good fortune to be brought up in a home where it was not only accepted, but expected, that I go to university, despite being female. I had the added advantage of attending a convent school where we were actively encouraged to pursue a university education. Consequently I found myself stepping into the Law Faculty at the Australian National University in March 1971. There weren’t many women among my peers. At my graduation 6 years later there were even less. I recall that, out of about 80 law graduates in the graduating class of 1975, only about 10% of us were women. After attending the ANU College of Law and an abbreviated gap year, I returned to Australia to start looking for work in the private profession. It was a demoralising time. I sent out at least 50 – 60 applications and received only limited responses and, on rare occasions, I was invited to an interview. One interview I recall well was with a Canberra firm where the two male partners adopted a particularly intimidatory approach to the interview process. Whilst one stood behind me, the other fired questions at me, many of a personal nature. My patience was exhausted when the partner standing behind me spoke for the first time: “So when is the first one due?” I stood, turned to look at him and replied, “Thank you for your time. I don’t think this firm is for me”. As I walked out of the room they both appeared shocked by my impudence, leaving me with some small satisfaction. It took about 6 months to find a job. I was lucky enough to take a position with the anachronistically named Abbott Tout Creer & Wilkinson. The Canberra firm was led by two particularly progressive partners, Robert McCourt and David Harper. I remain indebted to them for their confidence in me, their guidance in the law, their tutelage and their ethics. Over the next two years I was thrown in at the deep end, encouraged to run my own litigation, appear before various magistrates and judges – some cranky, some kindly – and to rapidly develop my skills as a litigation lawyer. Ultimately insurance law was not for me. My family had been highly politicised by the Vietnam War which embedded in me a strong commitment to social justice. I decided that the best way that I could fulfil that sense of social justice through the law was to start my own legal practice. 1979 saw myself and a close friend from A.N.U. making our way to the north coast of New South Wales to open our own legal practice. Although initially derided as the ‘hippie lawyers’ by colleagues in town and by the local business world, we gradually managed to gain sufficient respect to grow our business into a strong and healthy legal practice. Over the ensuing 32 years, the freedom of being a partner in my own firm gave me the opportunity to pursue cases that were not always financially sustainable but that were to me, more importantly, morally sustainable. Some of these cases were very time and resource consuming without being particularly monetarily rewarding. A few examples: a Land and Environmental Court action acting on behalf of a local community organisation who were endeavouring to stop the development of a hard rock quarry in a river which formed the headwaters of the local town water supply; a plethora of cases arising from a dispute between a neighbouring landowner and a recently established lesbian feminist cooperative; a Federal Court action involving a single mother who sued one of the big four banks after her husband lost their life savings gambling on the foreign currency market. As well there were the many victims’ compensation claims, in which I worked primarily for victims of child sexual assault. It was not always easy to rationalise the payment of compensation for a young life damaged and often destroyed but there was an indefinable sense of fulfilment in helping these young people to receive recognition for the crimes committed against them. I see these as my major achievements but there were numerous other cases which I was able to take on and which proved to be morally satisfying and which sustained my commitment to social justice issues. The Federal Court action also offered me the opportunity to become a published author. In the early 1990s the case attracted a significant amount of media attention, following not too long after the Amadio decision, and addressing similar issues arising from the manner in which big banks dealt with their customers. The legal arguments revolved around a bank’s obligations and responsibilities to women holding joint accounts with their husbands. The case was literally settled on the Court room steps. Later my client, who had become a close friend, encouraged me to co-author a book with her about the litigation and our mutual experiences running the case. The book was published in 2005 by Random House under the title ‘Til Debt Do Us Part’, a title used as a headline by the journalist, Anne Lampe, in her newspaper coverage. I also gained satisfaction from my involvement in voluntary community education programs, various governing boards in the fields of health, education and women’s issues. I urge all new lawyers to actively participate in their communities, not only for the work that it brings into your firm, nor only for the benefits that this work offers to the community at large, but also for the personal fulfilment that is gained through such ‘extra-curricular’ activities . As a senior counsel said to me many years ago, “It’s good for your soul.” Throughout this I managed to raise four strong and independent daughters. Like many women of my generation, I suffered the guilt of the working mother. For many years I was in the office on more weekends than I was in the home and there were many times when I questioned my choices and my commitment to my career. Now, my daughters, in their late 20s and early 30s, frequently express their gratitude for the role model that I offered them during their childhood. Their gratitude soothes my disquiet. After 34 years in private legal practice, the time came to take down my shingle and settle into a kind of retirement. My children had left home and were travelling the world. Our home seemed too quiet and empty so my partner and I decided to close my legal practice and take a belated gap year of our own. By age 58 I had graduated with a Masters degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of New England and completed a CELTA program in Berlin in Germany. For the past 4 years I have been a teacher of business English and academic English in Istanbul, Turkey, and continue to do a little legal consulting work on the side for a software development company. I have a strong sense that it has been a life well led. Perhaps one day in the future I will retire and find the time to finish that partially written crime novel that I started years ago. For newcomers to the profession, I strongly advise breaking away from the traditional mould. Such a choice can make blending parenthood (if that is one’s choice) and career less demanding but also, importantly, offers a freedom to pursue one’s own personal career interests. These days more than 50% of law graduates are women but still there are many hurdles for women to overcome within the profession. To branch out on one’s own is one way for women to avoid the strictures of the male-dominated, top-heavy large city legal practices. “Life shrinks and expands according to one’s courage.” -Anais Nin Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Catherine McKimm Created 27 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Cath McKimm Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Santospirito Collection comprises the personal papers of Mrs Lena Santospirito (1895-1983). Mrs Santospirito was a leader of the Italian-Australian community in Melbourne and is best known for her charitable work as President of the Archbishop’s Committee for Italian Relief in the early 1950s period of Italian mass immigration to Australia. The records in this Collection document her work with the Archbishop’s Committee, as well as her involvement with other institutions and her personal and family affairs. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 October 2004 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Box No. 1 – Manuscript histories of CPS, unpublished. Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 21 June 2012 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Autograph book known as Miles Franklin’s Waratah Book. The book has been used from both ends. One cover is embossed ‘Writing Album’. The other cover is inscribed ‘ The Book of the Waratah Cup”. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 September 2004 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The large collection of archives of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane includes records of numerous local Mother’s Unions. The collection is fully listed and indexed and Mother’s Union records will be found under M U Australia. The listing and index is available online at:?http://www.anglicanbrisbane.gil.com.au/thediocese/archives/HDMS-HTML/HDMS.htm Author Details jane carey Created 18 February 2004 Last modified 19 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Alice Crist was a prolific writer of verse and short fiction, who published widely in the Australian secular and religious press including the Bulletin (Sydney) Worker, Steele Rudd’s Magazine, Home Budget, Toowoomba Chronicle, Catholic Advocate and Catholic Press. Crist wrote about her rural and domestic experiences, frequently celebrating the beauty of the bush and the virtues and struggles of Irish Australian pioneers. Crist was also a long-term member and vice-president of the Toowoomba Ladies Literary Society. Her Irish heritage intermingled with a unique Australian flavour and this contributed to the uniqueness of her poetry. Alice migrated to Australia with her parents when she was just 2 years old. On 4 October 1902 at St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Toowoomba, Alice married a German immigrant farmer, Joseph Christ, who later changed his name to Crist. The couple moved to an isolated property at Rosenberg near Bundaberg in 1910 but returned to Toowoomba in 1913 when Jo began a fuel supply business there. Alice pursued an active literary life despite significant periods when she had to concentrate on farm work and the care of her five children. Her first book of poetry named When Rody Came to Ironbark was published in 1927 in Sydney Australia and the following year she published Eucharist Lilies and Other Verses in Sydney again. She became friendly with another poet and schoolteacher (Dame) Mary Gilmore, who published her work in the woman’s page of the Australian Worker. A marked Celtic influence is discernible in her poems about the homesickness of immigrants and in the sprites and fairies of her nature verse and poems for children. Her devout Irish Catholicism was at first associated with democratic politics and in 1902 she joined the Social Democratic Vanguard. In 1917 her youngest brother Felicin was killed at Passchendaele, Belgium; for many years she contributed Anzac Day poems to the Toowoomba Chronicle. From 1927 the Brisbane Catholic Advocate began to pay Crist for rural and religious poems, short stories and a serial celebrating the contribution of the Christian Brothers to Catholic education, which resulted in the novel: ‘Go it!Brothers!! (1928). In 1930 she became ‘Betty Bluegum’, editor of the children’s page, and used the versatility of this outlet to stimulate Queensland’s Catholic children. Crist’s page, like her verse, was an inventive mix of Catholic Irish-Australian nationalism, domestic virtue and appreciation of nature, and encouraged young correspondents. In September 1953 (after her death), a wing of the Holy Spirit Hospital, Brisbane, was dedicated in her name. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Section Crist, Alice Guerin (1876-1941), Lee, Christopher, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10109b.htm Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Family papers, Dornan family, Brisbane Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 22 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records of the Aborigines’ Friends’ Association, including material relating to Point McLeay Mission Station, and comprising correspondence, minutes, financial records and published material. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 5378 comprises correspondence; letters from Keesing’s children; manuscripts of poems, short stories (many unfinished) and reviews; correspondence, photocopies and drafts relating to her book Australian postwar novelists; translations of Hebrew poetry; correspondence and drafts of an article on David Martin; correspondence with Norman Lindsay; files on The Captain Cook Bicentenary Literary Competition, New South Wales Branch of the English Association, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Southerly and the University of Adelaide Department of Adult Education; and, material connected with her work for the Australian Society of Authors. There is also a card index to the correspondence with the collection. Correspondents include Rosemary Dobson, Jill Hellyer, David Martin, Ray Mathew and Stephen Murray-Smith (23 boxes, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Celia Smith was one of the unsung heroes of the early Aboriginal rights movement, helping hundreds obtain their social welfare rights, taking up their cases with politicians and bureaucrats. As an early member of the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (QCAATSI), Celia took over from poet Kath Walker as its honorary secretary. She was also a delegate to its federal counterpart, the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI). From 1970 Celia wrote a regular column in the QCAATSI monthly newsletter in which she discussed issues of land rights, conditions on reserves, wages, and housing for Aborigines. She campaigned vigorously for a ‘yes’ vote in the successful 1967 referendum to empower the commonwealth government to legislate on Aboriginal affairs. She was often ‘on duty’ at the ‘tent embassy’ set up in 1974 at King George Square, Brisbane, to publicise the need for more Aboriginal housing in the city and to protest against the State’s repressive Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander Affair Act in 1965. In the 1970s Celia belonged to the Queensland branch of the Union of Australian Women, and kept the organisation informed of matters affecting Aborigines. This entry has been made in accordance with the appropriate family protocols. Celia Hatton was one of five children of Aboriginal parents William ‘Pompey’ Hatton, an initiated man, and his wife Dorothy ‘Dolly’ Tate, one of the Stolen Generation. Dolly was taken from her family in Tambo when only five years old to be trained as a domestic in a Brisbane Catholic girls school. Celia grew up in Dalby and at 18 gave birth to Charles, the son of Charles Banks, however they never married. In 1932 she married Ernie Smith and the couple moved to Toowoomba, a town steeped in racism at that time. Celia and Ernie separated after 8 years of marriage, leaving Celia to raise four children on her own. Celia and the children moved into a house in Fortitude Valley, where Celia eked out a living on a deserted wife’s pension, supplementing her income with sewing. Well loved and widely known, ‘Aunty’ Celia helped the growing urban Aboriginal community in practical ways with fundraising, food, shelter and clothing. Celia Smith spent a lifetime giving and her home was always open to those in need. She died of renal failure in Brisbane on Christmas Eve 1980. Published resources Book Talking about Celia: community and family memories of Celia Smith, Bell, Jeanie, 1997 Book Section Celia Smith (1912 - 1980): Aboriginal rights activist, Grant, Heather, 2005 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Sunday Mail: 28 December 1980, 1980 Resource Section Smith, Cecilia (1911-1981), Best, Ysola, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160318b.htm Archival resources National Library of Australia U.A.W. news / Union of Australian Women Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1989, Catherine Pirie became the first woman of Torres Strait Islander descent to be admitted as a solicitor. She achieved another first in 2000 when she was appointed Magistrate; once again, the first Torres Strait Islander to hold the position. The oldest of six children, Catherine Pirie was born in Cairns, but the family soon moved to Garbutt in Townsville. Two of the six went on to be lawyers; Catherine and her brother, Kevin Smith. The children attended Catholic schools at both primary and secondary level; their fees paid through the assistance of their paternal grandparents, Arthur and Hannah Smith. After high school, Catherine travelled to the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane to study law, although readily admits that the only knowledge she had of the discipline was what she saw on television. Adjusting to study and life away from home was a daunting experience and by third year, she was ready to give up her studies. Fortunately, she was offered work at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service by solicitor Paul Richards, where she worked for a number of years in a variety of roles. She returned to her studies and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1988. She married David Pirie, another lawyer, in 1990. Since then, she and her husband have worked in Queensland and Western Australia in offices of the Aboriginal Legal Service in Townsville and Albany. She was appointed a magistrate, working mainly in the Cairns region, in 2000, becoming the first Torres Strait Islander to hold a judicial position. It was a special day for her in July 2011 when she presided in the Magistrates Court at Thursday Island. Published resources Book Section Catherine Pirie, Currie, Susan, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ernestine Hill travelled extensively around Australia photographing and writing about the varied landscapes and people she encountered. She is particularly well known for her photographs of Aboriginal people. Read more about Ernestine Hill in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Ernestine Hill was born in 1899 in Rockhampton, Queensland. She was the only child of Robert Hemmings, who was born in London and worked as a factory manager. He married his second wife Margaret Foster (née Lynam), who was a Queensland-born schoolteacher. Hill grew up in Brisbane. As a young student she showed sufficient academic promise to win a bursary to attend the All Hallows convent school. In 1916 her first book of poems, Peter Pan Land and Other Poems, was published by Hibernian Newspaper. The collection included a preface by Archbishop (Sir) James Duhig. In 1917 Hill won a scholarship that enabled her to study at Stott & Hoare’s Business College, Brisbane. She completed her studies with top marks and subsequently gained employment with the public service. By 1918 she was working for the Department of Justice library as a typist. In 1919 Hill left the public service and began working for Smith’s Weekly in Sydney. She worked as a secretary to the literary editor J.F. Archibald, before becoming the subeditor of the newspaper and embarking on a career as a journalist in the 1930s. Hill became the editor of the ABC Weekly‘s women’s pages from 1940-1942, and then held the position of commissioner with the ABC from 1941-1944. Hill then resigned from this role and embarked on her travels. She travelled across Australia, covering 100 thousand miles by foot, camel, train, truck, and by a pearling lugger. Hill took over three thousand photographs during these travels, documenting the landscape and encounters with Aboriginal people; some of her images include a number of male and female corroborees as the subject. Hill wrote numerous articles relating to her travels, some of which were considered controversial at the time. They were published in newspapers and periodicals such as Walkabout and the Sunday Sun. Following her travels, Hill continued to write, producing a number unpublished novels, plays, and radio and film scripts. She published three books: The Great Australian Loneliness, in 1937, and My Love Must Wait: The Story of Matthew Flinders, in 1941 and The Territory, in 1951. Hill’s photographs express the observations of an intelligent and well-travelled woman. Candice Bruce noted that Hill had ‘lamented that the “echoes of the wild sweet singing” were dying.’ Hill’s images were not ethnographic studies; rather, they revealed a deep ‘understanding of the land and its people that many writers have failed to discover’ (Bruce 147). Hill’s appreciation of Aboriginal culture was evident in her photographs and writing. In 1959 Hill was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fund fellowship and received a small pension. Unfortunately the latter part of her life was plagued by financial and health difficulties. Hill returned to Brisbane in 1970 to be cared for by her family and died in their care on 22 August 1972. Hill’s vast collection of manuscripts, letters and photographs are held by the Fryer Library, University of Queensland. Portraits of Hill are held by the Art Gallery of Queensland. Collections Fryer Library, University of Queensland Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Events 1941 - 1944 1995 - 1995 Ernestine Hill’s work featured in Twentieth Century Australian Women Artists Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Great Australian Loneliness: Ports of Sunset, Hill, Ernestine, 1940 My Love Must Wait: The Story of Matthew Flinders, Hill, Ernestine, 1941 The Territory, Hill, Ernestine, 1951 Resource Section Hill, Mary Ernestine, Bonnin, Margriet R. and Bonnin, Nancy, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hill-mary-ernestine-10503 Ernestine Hill, 1995, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ernestine-hill/ Book Section Ernestine Hill, Bruce, Candice, 1995 Newspaper Article Ernestine Hill dies, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102000577 Obituary: The writer and her country, Dunlevy, Maurice, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102000660 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of Victoria Autobiographical notes, [not after 1972]. [manuscript]. Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Ernestine Hill Papers Letters, 1971-1972: to the University of Queensland. Louise Campbell Papers National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Typescripts and photographs [ca. 1947] [manuscript] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 23 April 2014 Last modified 15 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Members of the Aroha Women’s Hockey Club. Back – Mr. Hill, McIntosh, Anne Sharp, Jean Hill, Bessie McRae, Mr. Fisher. Centre – Marj Forsaith, Elsie McCarthy, Evelyn Tazewell, Rev. R. Mitchell (President), Jess Lynne, Doll Miller, Maud Harvey. Front – Ella Laffan, Gwyn Roberts. [Names from ‘Hat Pins to Bodysuits’ by Helen Jaensch, 2003]. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 September 2006 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc03.016 comprises correspondence, reports, literary manuscripts and other papers.??The Acc05.152 instalment comprises correspondence, financial papers, manuscript submissions, contract applications, file copies of publications, orders and sales files, image archives (including discs), folios of artworks, prints, posters, transparencies and framed prints.??The Acc06.112 instalment includes papers relating to Templeman’s literary career, Molonglo Press, including a large trade show display, and Pandanus Books. In addition, eight National Library of Australia files.??The Acc13.005 instalment includes early poetry by Templeman, personal correspondence, correspondence with the University of South Pacific, various greeting cards, speeches, ephemera and newspaper cuttings on the arts. There is also a folder on Pandanus Books as well as a screenplay for White butterflies by John Macgregor and a photograph album of Templeman’s farewell function from the Freemantle Arts Centre (4 boxes, 1 small fol. Box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes literary manuscripts and proofs of novels; scripts, poetry, reviews and various papers concerning Unesco seminar, Lyre Bird Writers, ABC scripts, ABC training course. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc09.131 comprises news clippings, ephemera, letters and notes from various friends including Betty Howard, Thelma Afford, Dulcie and Andrea Stretton, Nancy Keesing and Mark Hertzberg; various books containing letters, including a history of Parramatta by Keith Macarthur Brown with a series of letters from the author; association copies of books inscribed to Maxine Poynton-Baker and Sydney Tomholt from authors such as Ray Mathew, Guy Howarth, Tom Inglis Moore, R.D. Fitzgerald, Frank Dalby Davison, Hugh McCrae, Sumner Locke Elliot and others (4 boxes, 1 small carton).??The Acc10.068 instalment comprises letters from Maxine to John and Tommy (i.e. Sydney Tomholt), February-June 1944; letters from Tommy to Maxine, 1936-1951 (some black and white photographs enclosed); correspondence with various friends including Brydie (surname unknown), Marie (surname unknown) and Miss Eve Braby, 1956-1972; and, letters to Maxine (some to Maxine and Tommy) from Betty Howard, 1970-1981.??The instalment also includes a chocolate box containing clippings, photographs, letters and telegrams to Maxine, 1932-1951, including many from Tommy; card box containing black and white photographs, many depicting Tommy and Maxine, 1936-1945, an invitation to the wedding of Nancy Keesing in 1955, and various Christmas cards; and published books, most annotated or signed by authors or holding loose news clippings or photographs (2 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A. Correspondence and minutes of meetings, 1952-2000?B. Subject files, 1952-1992?C. Newscuttings and printed material, 1952-1999 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 September 2006 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Kartomi Collection of Traditional Musical Arts was a collection in the former ARROW Research Repository. It is now part of the MAMU collection. The collection captures 150 hours of recordings and photographs by Professor Margaret Kartomi of the School of Music-Conservatorium made possible by an Australian Research Council Grant dedicated to the cataloguing and preservation of unique music collections. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dorothy Johnston is an award-winning novelist, poet, short story writer, and author of reviews and literary essays. Her crime writing portrays the darker side of Canberra. (This entry is sponsored by generous donation from Christine Foley.) Dorothy Johnston was born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1948. She trained as a teacher at the University of Melbourne, taught English, and was an education researcher. She moved to Canberra in 1979. Johnston’s books include Tunnel Vision (1984), Ruth (1986), Maralinga My Love (1988), One For The Master (1997), The Trojan Dog (2000) and The House at Number 10 (2005). Johnston’s short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Amnesty (1993), Mother Love (1996) and Below The Waterline (1999), and her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous literary journals. Johnston says ‘crime fiction is my way of writing about Canberra’. The Trojan Dog is about white collar crime in a government department, while The House at Number 10 is set in a Canberra brothel, inspired by the ACT’s decriminalisation of prostitution. Writing about Canberra is, she says, relatively scarce, and she considers herself to be partially redressing this imbalance in Australian literature. Johnston was a member of Seven Writers – a group of seven Canberra-based writers whose work vividly portrays life ‘beneath the surface of Canberra’ – and as part of this collective she contributed to Canberra Tales (1988), republished as The Division of Love in 1996, an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. The work was funded with an ACT Bicentennial grant. Her other awards include: Miles Franklin Award (shortlisted, 1986 and 1997) ABC Bicentennial Literature Award (shortlisted) ACT Book of the Year (joint winner 2001), Inaugural Davitt Award for the best crime novel published by a woman (runner up, 2000) The Age Best of 2000, crime section. Johnston has also run book groups through the Centre for Continuing Education at The Australian National University. In 2005 she took up an Australia Council residency at Ledig House International Writer’s Colony in the United States. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book The House at Number 10, Johnston, Dorothy, 2005 The Division of Love: Stories, Barbalet, Margaret et al, 1995 Maralinga, my love, Johnston, Dorothy, 1988 One for the Master, Johnston, Dorothy, 1997 Ruth, Johnston, Dorothy, 1986 The Trojan Dog, Johnston, Dorothy, 2000 Tunnel Vision, Johnston, Dorothy, 1984 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Seven Writers group, between 1986 and approximately 2000 Maralinga cycle, 1988 [manuscript] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Dorothy Johnston Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 31 minutes??Nell Allgrove, nee Hannah, came to South Australia from the West with her family when she was an infant. After secondary school Nell studied Pharmacy, as she was not considered ‘strong enough’ to nurse. However she did begin training at the Adelaide Hospital in 1936 and worked in the hospital’s Blood Transfusion Unit until she was called up to the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1940. In 1941 she joined the 2/4 Casualty Clearing Station and was sent to Malaya. She was among those who escaped from Singapore just before its capture by the Japanese in February 1942. When the ship ‘Vyner Brooke’ was sunk in Bauka Strait, Nell and fellow nurses were interned by the Japanese. She was among 24 nurses (from a total of 65) who survived until their release in September 1945. After the war Nell married a British resident in Malaya and lived there for a number of years. She later moved to England. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A Ngambri-Ngunnawal elder, Matilda House has a long-established connection to Canberra and its surrounding regions as one of the traditional custodians of the land. Born near Cowra on Erambie Aboriginal Reserve, House grew up in her grandfather’s house on Hollywood Aboriginal Reserve in Yass. She was one of ten children. The Ngambri-Ngannawal family group has been formally recognised by the ACT Government as having historical connections to the Canberra region and surrounds, particularly the region around Namadgi National Park. Black Harry Williams, also known as Ngoobra, House’s great-grandfather, and Harry Williams her grandfather, both identified as Ngambri. [1] While living with her grandfather as a child, she visited the region frequently and listened to his many stories about their ancestral history and country. Where others see Canberra as the nation’s capital, descendants such as House see Ngunnawal country, with Parliament House built in their ‘mother’s womb’. [2] House returned to her ancestral country permanently in 1963 and has been actively involved in Indigenous Affairs in the Canberra region since 1967. Matilda House is the Chair of the Ngunnawal Local Aboriginal Land Council in Queanbeyan and the Joint Chair of the Interim Namadgi National Park Committee. As chair of many other Canberra and Queanbeyan Indigenous committees and organisations, and in her role as a Ngunnawal representative performing numerous welcoming ceremonies, House is vitally active within the community. House’s long association with Aboriginal justice concerns began when she helped to establish the Aboriginal Legal Service in the 1980s, and has continued more recently through her membership of the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee. [3] Serving on the first ACT Heritage Council, delivering the welcome at 1997’s ‘Sea of Hands’, contributing to the ‘Bringing Them Home’ report into the Stolen Generations, acting as an ACT honorary ambassador or as one of the original protestors who established the Tent Embassy in 1972, Matilda House is tirelessly involved. While running for regional council in 2002, House told the Canberra Times that her main interests were Aboriginal history and traditions, and her long term goal was to improve the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the wider community: ‘I believe it is possible to work together to respect this land of ours and to achieve justice, equity and unity for all Australians, and that’s a journey I’d like to tell my great-grandchildren about in the years to come.’ [4] It seems House’s goal has proved both abundantly fruitful and successful. Commenting at a ceremony naming Matilda House the 2006 Canberra Citizen of the Year, Chief Minister Jon Stanhope noted ‘It is hard to think of any organisation involving Indigenous interests with which she has not been involved at some time’. Being awarded the highest recognition that can be bestowed by the Territory upon one of its own is an active testament to House’s tremendous impact on Canberra’s social, heritage, justice and environment landscape. After receiving a standing ovation from a 400 strong crowd, House, dressed in traditional possum skins, thanked her family, community and ancestors, adding Canberra was the best city in the world. [5] In 2008 she performed the first ‘Welcome to Country’ at the opening of the Federal Parliament in Canberra and has continued to perform this role at other official functions. In 2012 she addressed the protesters at the fortieth anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, and looked forward to the time when the embassy could perform a more educational role. Story-telling is a tradition close to House’s heart: she believes that, as an elder, she has a responsibility to tell the stories of her people and thereby pass on community identity and heritage to her descendants. Five picture books under the banner ‘Tales of Ngambri History’ address this desire. Written and illustrated by five local Indigenous families (House, her son Paul and grandchildren Leah, Ruby and Reuben included), the books were distributed throughout the ACT’s public primary schools. House firmly believes ‘you must have stories of your country. If you don’t, you don’t belong, no matter where you come from.’ [6] Matilda House has four children and many grandchildren and she enjoys telling them about their ancestors and country through such stories, and also through painting. Just another dimension of House’s passion and output, her paintings are exhibited, and one hangs in the ACT Legislative Assembly. This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Catalogue Strong Lines New Directions: an exhibition of prints by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists living and working in Canberra, House, Matilda Williams, 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 May 2006 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 56 minutes??An interview with the eminent South Australian social worker Amy Wheaton by a former student. Amy Grace Wheaton, nee Priest, was born in Gawler. The interview focusses on her education and training in Adelaide and London and her establishment of the School of Social University in 1936. Mrs Wheaton was diffident about being interviewed and chose at times during the interview to read from prepared notes. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 November 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 26 min.)??Bond, a pharmaceutical chemist, past-president of the CWA and judge of the Tasmanian ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award, speaks of her childhood, her work at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, her joining the Country Women’s Association (CWA), her family, concerns of women working now, what women in agriculture are looking for (i.e. better health services, improving safety measures on the farm), problems in farming, views of the CWA seen as a strong influence on government rural affairs policy, appointment of Ruth Paterson as a government project officer, and the ABC Rural Woman of the Year awards. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Copies of speeches given by Bethune on the Women’s Electoral Lobby and Women’s Liberation Movement. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 10 October 2000 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dominica Whelan was a Judge of the Federal Circuit Court, former Commissioner of Fair Work Australia, and former industrial officer, with lifelong commitments to feminism, labour law and equitable access to justice. Dominica Mary Whelan was born on 10 May 1954 in Leeton NSW, one of ten children. She completed her Bachelor of Arts and Law Degree at the University of New South Wales, one of only three women, together with Pat O’Shane and Sue Walpole, in her law school class. Dominica was awarded the Dean of the Law School scholarship for postgraduate studies and, in 1976-77, worked as the Associate to Justice Elizabeth Evatt, then Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia, conducting research for the Royal Commission on Human Relationships and the Family Law Council. Also in 1977, Dominica was admitted as a Barrister to the Supreme Court of NSW. In 1978, Dominica moved to Melbourne to take up a position as a tutor with the Faculty of Law at Monash University. She was also admitted that year as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. At Monash University, as well as tutoring in Family and Constitutional Law, and teaching Professional Practice, Dominica designed, taught and assessed students in a new course, Law of Employment. She would later complete a Masters of Law in labour relations law at the University of Melbourne in 2002, and contribute to the Law Institute of Victoria’s specialist accreditation program in workplace relations law. Equitable access to justice was a passionate lifelong commitment for Dominica, and concurrent with her teaching duties, she helped establish the Doveton Legal Service Cooperative. Between 1978 and 1980, she worked as a solicitor for the Fitzroy Legal Service. In 1982, Dominica worked as an industrial research officer with the Australian Public Services Association, before commencing, in 1985, a position at the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) as an affirmative action officer. With the mainstreaming of family and affirmative action policies, Dominica moved into an industrial officer role, promoting affirmative action as part of a broader industrial relations agenda. She was, together with Jan Marsh and Jenny Acton, among the first women to establish themselves and succeed as industrial advocates. Dominica made an outstanding contribution to the development of the model clause for persons with disabilities to assist them to move into open employment, and played a role in assisting in the development of new standards under the Disability Discrimination Act. Dominica described her work on the introduction of a supported wage systems for workers with disabilities, and the high level of consensus achieved between employer and employee peak councils in this process, as among the proudest achievements of her time at the ACTU. Concurrent with her work at the ACTU, Dominica held the following appointments: Commissioner of Comcare, with the Commission for the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation of Commonwealth Employees Member of Australia/China Council, 1989-94, participating in two delegations to China (one with Gough and Margaret Whitlam) Member, Social Security Advisory Council. In 1995, Dominica was appointed as a member of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) and, from 2009, a Commissioner of Fair Work Australia. As a Commissioner, Dominica earned a reputation as an effective, fair and balanced decision-maker. She was a firm believer in litigation as a last resort, and was highly effective in alternative dispute resolution. During her time with the AIRC, from 2004-2006, she also chaired the Victorian Gender Pay Equity Working Party. In 2010, Dominica accepted an invitation by the Attorney General to join the Federal Magistrates Court. When the institution was upgraded to a full Court, Dominica became a Judge of the Federal Circuit Court. She was highly respected as a Judge. With a reputation for being knowledgeable, hard-working, unfailingly polite but always in control, she inspired confidence in those who appeared before her. She served as a member of the Policy Advisory Committee, and also as a member of the Indigenous Access Committee, being a strong supporter of the Court’s Reconciliation Action Plan aimed at improving access to justice for Indigenous people. Outside of the law, Dominica was actively involved in education and in the arts. From 1989-91, she was a member of Footscray Institute of Technology Council; and between 1993 and 2003, she chaired the Workplace Studies Centre Advisory Committee at Victoria University. From 1989-1992, she was chairperson of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. From 1994-97, she was a member of the Australia Council for the Arts; and from 2005-07, a director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. She was also a member of the Collingwood Industrial Magpies, sponsors of Indigenous Australian Rules team, the Yuendumu Magpies. Her Honour Judge Whelan died of cancer on 17 February 2016. She is survived by her partner Tony Bradford and their daughter Georgia. The Dominica Whelan Endowment, administered under the auspices of Victoria University, was established in her memory to support the delivery of accessible, affordable legal services to disadvantaged women, particularly Indigenous women. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Angela Savage Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 31 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Dominica Whelan Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Folder containing newspaper clippings. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 February 2009 Last modified 13 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Virginia Milson is an environmental activist and Greens Party member who ran once for election to the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales: for the seat of Bligh in 1995. Virginia Milson is best known as one of the founders of the Boral Green Shareholders, now called Green Shareholders. In 1995, increasingly desperate about the protection of old growth forests in New South Wales, a group of shareholders gained access to the Annual General Meeting of Boral and attempted to influence the company’s policy on woodchipping. She is also active as the Convenor of Waste Crisis Network Sydney and is a member of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW and its Zero Waste Network Advisory Committee. She is an active member of her precinct within the area of the Waverley Municipal Council. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 16 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Born and educated in Athens, Helen Notaras arrived in Australia in 1927 with her maternal uncle and his family. Having worked in her uncle’s butcher’s shop in Sydney, she moved to Canberra in 1933 following her marriage to Harry Notaras. Their Highgate Café served as a focal point for the Canberra community and through the family’s property and development interests, in which she was influential, she contributed to Canberra’s growth and amenity. In 2005, the ACT Honour Walk recognised the Notaras Family for its long-term contribution to the Territory’s commercial and community life. Helen Notaras was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll as part of the Notaras family inscription on the ACT Honour Walk in 2005. “Born to Kiparissoula Vamvakaris and George Poulis, who operated a ‘fournos’ or commercial oven in Omonia, Athens, Helen Poulis was the eldest of four children. Her mother came from Kythera (she died in July 1973 aged 97), her father from Santorini (he died in July 1937 aged 52). She received a good education to secondary level in Athens and attributed her emigration to her mother’s view that she would be better off in Australia. With her maternal uncle, George Peter Vamvakaris (later anglicised to Harris), his wife, and family she arrived in Fremantle in September 1927. The extended family travelled to Sydney, where George Vamvakaris had previously, between 1911 and 1923, operated as a butcher and restaurateur. Helen Poulis and the Vamvakaris family stayed initially with Harry Samios at 472 George Street in the city and then moved to the residence above the Vamvakaris’ butcher shop, ‘The Phoenix’, in Taylor Square. Helen Poulis worked in the Taylor Square shop developing her knowledge of the retail meat industry, customer service, and business principles as well as her facility with English. Her thirst for learning and knowledge was lifelong and she was admired for her intelligence and articulacy. In Paddington, on 23 July 1933, Helen married Haralambos (Harry) Notaras (21 November 1897-29 July 1971). Their eldest son, Jim Notaras, believed that his parents met in Sydney when his father sought advice from Helen Poulis’ uncle, George Vamvakaris, a fellow Kytherian. Following their marriage, Helen Notaras arrived in Canberra where the couple lived behind the Highgate Café in Giles Street and then in Trent Street in Kingston. The family moved briefly to Queanbeyan during the Second World War as Harry Notaras feared Canberra, the national capital, might be a target for Japanese attack. By the end of the decade the family was established in Evans Crescent in the suburb of Griffith a short walk to and from the Highgate Café. Between 1934 and 1946 the couple had five children: Dimitri (Jim) in 1934, Georgios (George) in 1936, Stamatina (Nina) in 1937, John in 1939, and Emmanuel in 1946. The children testified to the importance their parents attached to education, completing their early schooling at Telopea Park, and then moving to one or other of the Canberra Grammar Schools. John Notaras recollected their mother’s interest in, and supervision of, their homework and that they were encouraged to play sport and become involved in other extra-curricular activities. Jim Notaras remembered that, as the only daughter, Nina Notaras, was ‘very, very protected’ and she remembered extra-curricular classes in deportment, elocution, ballet, piano, and music. This emphasis on education as the path to learning, to a greater choice of careers (beyond the milk bar, fish and chip or fruit shop the three standard occupations for Greek immigrants), to integration and success is a familiar motif in immigration stories and so it was in the Notaras family. The twin priorities of prospering in an adopted country while nurturing one’s inherited culture found expression in the family speaking Greek at home, enjoying Greek cuisine, celebrating Greek festivals and religious observance. Helen Notaras is remembered as a devout weekly attendee (in a pew in the first row) at the Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas, in Kingston, and as a long serving, compassionate, and active member and president of the Church’s Ladies’ Auxiliary, ‘Philoptochos’ (in English, ‘friend of the poor’), which raised money to assist those in need. Her willingness to help new arrivals settle in Canberra and to assist with translating between Greek and English, for example, for Ray Whitrod of the then Commonwealth policing service, were appreciated. The descriptors most frequently ascribed to Helen Notaras by her children and grandchildren were ‘strict’, ‘strong’, and ‘intelligent’. ‘Strict’ was often tempered by ‘fair’ and by the acknowledgement that a mother of five might have had much to arbitrate and conciliate. Her involvement and interest in family carried through to her grandchildren. They remember her as providing sound counsel and having an apposite Greek proverb for every situation. They also recollect her as always looking elegant and being an inspiration. While protective of family, she had a strong work ethic and expected it to be mirrored by her children and grandchildren who were taught that nothing is free. Her devotion to family could take the form of knowing what was best for individual members and making decisions for them (often without letting them know), and she could be unbending in her views. Helen Notaras worked with her husband in the Highgate Café. The family operated a variety of other retail businesses over the decades. On Harry Notaras’ death in 1971, the family development company was believed to be a large holder of Commonwealth leases in Canberra with real estate interests in Queanbeyan, Sydney, and Yass. Emmanuel Notaras described his father as an astute businessman who could see opportunities and capitalised on them, wanting the family to be financially secure and comfortable. Notwithstanding his father’s lack of formal education, Harry Notaras envisioned a thriving future for the fledgling national capital of seven thousand and planned to play a role in the capital’s development. It was Harry Notaras’ good fortune that his wife’s side of the family had strong mercantile instincts with Emmanuel Notaras observing ‘Mum valued the fruits of enterprise.’ Historians Tamis and Tsolakis noted that ‘The café’s success allowed him [Harry Notaras] to build a considerable retailing empire in the ACT. His wife … took a leading part in the business and much of his success should be credited to her.’ Hers was a long widowhood – thirty-six years – and although her sons, in various combinations over the years, managed the family’s interests, they noted when, in 1993, the Notaras family won the inaugural Property Industry Award presented by the Real Estate Institute of the ACT ‘it was all done “with mum’s support”.’ She was clearly involved in the business, had views about the most strategic course of action (particularly in terms of property acquisition) and was vocal in articulating her perspective. Her family, her faith, and her curiosity in the world all sustained her until the end of her long life. On Canberra Day, in March 2005, together with almost one thousand pioneering Canberra residents, Helen Notaras was recognised with a ‘Canberra Gold’ award for her commitment to the early development of Canberra. Also in 2005, the ACT Honour Walk recognised the Notaras Family for its long-term contribution to the Territory’s commercial and community life. The redoubtable and respected Helen Notaras died in Canberra on 12 November 2007 and is buried beside Harry in the Woden Cemetery. Over the course of her seventy-four years in Canberra, she made significant contributions to Canberra’s early hospitality industry, was a shrewd property investor and developer, and an admired community leader.” Published resources Anastasios M Tamis & Demetrios A Tsolakis, The History of Greeks of Canberra and Districts, 1999 The History of Greeks of Canberra and Districts, 1999 The Greek Orthodox Community and Church of Canberra and Districts, 1999 The National Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research, 1999 Archival resources Oral history recorded with Jim Notaras, 2014 Helen Notaras: A Family Celebration Author Details Anne-Marie Schwirtlich Created 12 July 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Notes for jurisprudence lectures 1972-1980; correspondence, mainly arranged by country 1970-90; book reviews, ARC assessments. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "5 MMM was a public radio broadcasting which presented a number of women’s programs like Women’s Weekly, and Sunday Monthly. The programs had female presenters at a time when commercial stations did not. The women produced, wrote, presented and were the audio engineers. A small collective organised the program’s time lines content and themes. The station became 3D radio in 1988.??(Commencement date unclear – 1993) Publications released by the Station, including a short history. Community radio station 5MMM (also referred to as Triple M) features music generally ignored by the established stations, including high quality jazz, album rock, and other contemporary progressive music styles. The station is dependant on direct community support. In 1993, Hoyts paid 5MMM for the right to use the Triple M name (for then radio station 5KKA), and 5MMM then converted to 5DDD (also referred to as Three d Radio) (Source: brochure, SLSA catalogue & Wikipedia)??Includes OutLoud a program for gay and lesbian radio which aired on a Saturday afternoon in 1992. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In 1985, Margaret Rizkalla was appointed a magistrate in the state of Victoria, the first woman to be appointed to the position. Changes to the appointment criteria, which introduced a Law Degree as a requirement for new appointments in the Victorian Magistrates Act, rather than a progression from the rank of Clerks of Courts, enabled this appointment. Rizkalla graduated with a law degree from the University of Melbourne in 1975 and completed the Leo Cussen Legal Education course as an alternative to completing articles in 1976. She was admitted to practice as a solicitor and barrister in Victoria in 1976. Rizkalla practised at the Victorian Bar until December 1984, when she was appointed a Member of the Small Claims and Residential Tenancy Tribunal of Victoria. Her appointment to the magistracy occurred in September 1985. Whilst a sitting magistrate, Rizkalla was also appointed Chair of the Police Disciplinary Board of Victoria. In June 1988, she was appointed President of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Board and Deputy President of the Victorian Administrative Appeals Tribunal. In June 1994, Rizkalla was appointed a Judge of the County Court of Victoria. She retired from this position in February 2013. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Margaret Rizkalla for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Margaret Rizkalla and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I retired from the County Court in February 2013 after spending all my adult years in the Law -28 years in all and I can truly say that despite the pressures both emotional and intellectual, that were presented over that time, there wasn’t a day that I didn’t find my work fulfilling . It is still amazing to me that a young girl from the country who hadn’t even met a lawyer prior to entering the Law Course at Melbourne University was able to have such a fulfilling successful career in the Law. Sometimes Ignorance Is Bliss! I didn’t imagine any obstacles in pursing Law, and didn’t really have any formed idea as to what I would do once I graduated -I simply trusted that life and circumstances would dictate my path. And they did! I had no intention of studying Law until a perceptive friend of my parents spoke to me the year I finished school and after much discussion announced he thought I would make a good lawyer. He then proceeded to direct me as to how to change my University preferences from Arts to Law and set me on a path that I have loved ever since. Once I finished my degree the Leo Cussen Institute in Victoria was beginning an alternative to Articles Course which suited me perfectly, as I was by then married and had a small son. Here, via the instructors from the Victorian Bar, I learnt of the life at the Bar, and was encouraged to apply to join the Bar, which I did. So at the ripe old age of 23 years I signed the Bar Roll in November 1976 and began reading with David Byrne (later Justice Byrne of the Victorian Supreme Court) , who accepted me sight unseen on the basis of a request from David Ross Q.C. then a director of Leo Cussen Institute. And so I was on the path. I loved my years at the Bar doing anything and everything my Clerk could rustle up. There were not many women practising at the Bar then (I think about 15 or so) and I guess we were regarded by the majority as a bit of an oddity. This didn’t manifest itself directly, although I know solicitors took a bit of convincing to proffer briefs until “we had proved ourselves”. Ironically, I think it was more problematic for women in the profession once they were obvious in numbers and hence seen as genuine competition by some of their male counterparts. After nine years or so I decided I would look for part time work whilst I had my second child, so applied for a position at the Small Claims and Residential Tenancy Tribunal. I was successful in obtaining a position as a Member adjudicating on all sorts of disputes; mostly where the parties represented themselves, so active participation was very necessary. Despite the fact that it wasn’t really a part time position, I realised that I thrived on deciding disputes, even more than I did arguing for one side or the other. Hence, when I received a call from the Attorney General asking if I would be interested in an appointment to the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria as one of the first Law Graduates to be appointed, and as it turned out, the first woman, I jumped at it. Thereafter I had three fantastic years in the old City Magistrates’ Court in Melbourne before I was offered the challenge of taking up the position of President of the Equal Opportunity Board for a three year contract period with my security of tenure attached to a dual position as Deputy President Administrative Appeals Tribunal of Victoria. Once again I had been handed another interesting opportunity and I grabbed it, not really knowing what was in store. It was a fascinating and challenging job, involved in determining all disputes which were brought under the Anti-Discrimination Legislation. It goes without saying that it was a controversial area and often involved Government agencies as Respondent. At that time the President sat on cases with two other members who came from legal and lay backgrounds, and this in it was a challenge which I came to love. Discussing the case with other members really did mean I had to be clear on my thinking and non-lawyers especially challenged how far a body such as this should go in determining the way members of the community treated each other, in terms of the areas covered in the Legislation. Sparks did fly a few times as discussions were argued with feeling and determination. After a second three year term I was then offered an appointment to the County Court as a Trial Judge and by this time I was ready to return to what I called the “straight law”. And so in 1994 I started on the County Court bench and remained there until retirement. I suppose when I look back on my experience I think there is a lesson for others in not being deterred from taking a course which might at first appear outside the areas you have thought would be your career. In my case if I had done that I would never have experienced a fulfilling life in the Law. When we are young, it seems to me the main thing, especially for women, is to have an open mind and be prepared to accept challenges life presents. Published resources Resource Women Barristers in Victoria: Then and Now, The Victorian Bar, 2007, https://www.vicbar.com.au/wba/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Margaret Rizkalla (with Nikki Henningham) Created 13 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Margaret Rizkalla Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sydney, NSW.(?) 20 March 1941. Assistant Section Officer Gwen Stark (centre) giving last minute instructions to Miss Clarice Taylor (left) and Miss Monica Bullen (right), both members of the Australian Women’s Flying Club, prior to leaving for Melbourne to undertake training. They were two of the first NSW women to be accepted into the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF), as wireless telegraphists. The other three women were Olive Board and Lenore White, both from the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps, and Mrs Dorothy Sanders, a cub leader. (Donor M. Bullen) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1. Iris Clayton looks through proof sheets at AIATSIS, she identifies people she know and relatives, several members of the Johnson family, she then listens to several audio recordings ; Iris Clayton interviewed by Kim McKenzie. 2. Iris Clayton looks through library collections with younger members of her family, they spend time looking at Dawn magazine. 3. Les Darcy looks through proof sheets at AIATSIS, he identifies people he know and relatives. This video also contains footage of AIATSIS staff members, Di Hosking, Alana Harris, Carol Cooper with baby and Francesca Merlan. 4. Iris Clayton looks through the AIATSIS library collection with Alana Garwood and Les Darcy. 5. Staff soft ball game then Iris Clayton looks at AIATSIS publications. 5. Speeches at Dubbo followed by a collection display by AIATSIS for the community members in the Dubbo region, later in the video Iris Clayton talks about the Institute collection, Bill Hume is also present. 6. Speeches at Dubbo for the opening of the art and community centre, the speeches are followed by traditional dancing from the Aboriginal and Islander dance group. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Kate Eastman has practised as a barrister in Sydney since 1998. She practises in the areas of human rights, discrimination, employment and public law. Previously, she worked as a solicitor at Allen Allen & Hemsley and as a senior legal officer at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. She holds a BA/LLB (UNSW), LLM (UCL London), LLM (UTS) and a Diploma of International Human Rights Law (EUI Italy). Kate Eastman has been actively involved in a number of human rights and international law organisations. She was a co-founder and president of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights. She has taught human rights/civil liberties and international law at the University of Technology (Sydney) and the University of Sydney, as well as a number of international programs. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Kate Eastman for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Kate Eastman and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I was born in Sydney but lived in London and Canberra as a child. Apart from a brief period when I wanted to be a marine biologist, I wanted to be a lawyer working in human rights law. I completed my secondary education at Loreto College Normanhurst. During my time at school I developed a passion for human rights. I was profoundly moved by The Diary of Anne Frank, To Kill a Mockingbird and biographies of human rights activists in Chile in the 1970s. I joined Amnesty International. I did my work experience with the late Paul Flannery QC, then a barrister and later a District Court judge. We had no lawyers in our family. I did not know any lawyers when I started a BA/LLB at UNSW in 1985. I loved law from the start. I still have clear memories of the lecturers and classes on torts, contracts, criminal law, admin law and the like. But when I discovered mooting in my first year at Law School, I secretly harboured a wish to become a barrister. One of my highlights at UNSW was mooting in the Jessup International Law Moot in Canberra and then representing Australia at the international competition in Washington DC. Immediately after completing the BA/LLB I went to London to study international human rights law and private international law at University College London. What a terrific year. I spent every Thursday in a human rights lecture with Dame Roslyn Higgins QC, later to become the President of the International Court of Justice. I did volunteer work with NGOs such as Article 19. I achieved a LLM with Distinction ranking in the top 1 – 2% of candidates. My academic interests continued when I returned to Sydney. I undertook another LLM at UTS. I started as a casual lecturer at UTS in 1995 teaching human rights. I have now taught LLB, LLM and JD subjects in the areas of human rights and international law continuously since 1995 at UTS, The University of Sydney and Monash. I have been a Senior Fellow at Monash for a number of years. I have also undertaken human rights teaching programs in Burma in the 1990s – early 2000s and in Afghanistan in 2003. My non-academic career has followed the traditional path – being a research assistant at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) for the then Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Dame Quentin Bryce AC and the Privacy Commissioner. I did a summer clerkship followed by a graduate position at Allen Allen & Hemsley. I worked at Allens for three years in the corporate and litigation departments. I learnt the art and craft of being a good lawyer. I also had opportunities to undertake pro bono refugee work in Port Hedland and at Kingsford Legal Centre. In 1994, I moved to my dream job (which I thought I might do for life!) as a senior legal officer at HREOC. My three years at HREOC were formative years. I worked with remote Indigenous communities, and saw first-hand the impact of discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace. One cannot underestimate the value of working with the best human rights lawyers and practitioners. We worked closely with the late Sir Ronald Wilson and hearing commissioners, many of whom went on to senior judicial positions. I did human rights advocacy. The opportunity to be counsel assisting HREOC or appear for the HREOC firmed my resolve to seek a career at the Bar. I was terrified (and sometimes remain so) with the idea of being a barrister. It is now over 17 years since I joined the NSW Bar. I was appointed Senior Counsel in 2012. I wanted to have a human rights practice at the Bar. I was told ‘there was no such thing’ or it was ‘fringe’. However, I have a practice in the area of, human rights, discrimination, employment and public law. Over the 17 years of practice I have worked with a wide range of clients in many and varied industries Human rights issues touch on both the public and private sector. Some of the cases have been high profile – The Tampa, David Hicks, transgender marriage, same sex marriage, Royal Commissions and headline grabbing workplace sexual harassment and discrimination matters. Pro bono work remains an important part of my practice. I was privileged to receive a Law Foundation Justice Award for my contribution to pro bono work. The Bar is still one of the male dominated areas of legal practice. This makes it a great challenge but also presents great opportunities for women. I have also maintained my involvement with NGO work. In 1992, I co-founded Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) with the purpose of making human rights relevant to every day legal practice. I was the only Australian NGO representative accredited to participate in the UN negotiations for the establishment of the International Criminal Court in Rome 1998. I participate in a number of law related bodies working on human rights and gender issues for lawyers. When I reflect on my 25 years in legal practice and the progress of women, I am struck by the importance of having strong, respected women role models. Trailblazers are important. Some trails are the ‘firsts’ but for many of us, trailblazing occurs in smaller ways. We ensure the trails remain open and we reinforce that all women have a place, not just those exceptional women. For the women following, having access to the trailblazers and discovering that they are human too is important. A kind word of encouragement from a trailblazer can have a profound effect in giving another woman the confidence to follow her path. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Kate Eastman Created 12 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letter written by Mrs Rosa Campbell Praed, Queensland Novelist Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Julia Featherstone is a multitalented woman, whose two election campaigns were part of a life filled with activity and creativity. She was an Australia Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Bligh in 1973 and to the House of Representatives for Wentworth in 1974. Julia Featherstone was born in Grafton and educated at Coffs Harbour High School, and at the University of Sydney (BA. Dip Ed), where she lived at the Women’s College, the University of Adelaide (M Urban and Regional Planning) and at UTS (Grad Dip Communications). Her first job was as a secondary school teacher, originally teaching Economics and Geography and later teaching TV production to talented children at Sydney Girls High School. Then, she worked as a video producer/director for the NSW Correspondence School Media Department making educational videos (1984-1991). From 1979 to 1981 she was a staff photographer at the Sydney Morning Herald, the only woman employed as a photographer at the time. She contributed all the photographs to Don Dunstan’s Australia (Rigby,1977-78), a book written by the former Premier of South Australia. Julia Featherstone has contributed to many group photographic exhibitions and had one solo exhibition. She was a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture in 2005 and 2007, and second in the University of New South Wales Film awards in 2007 for her film Fanny Burney. She was second in the first Australian Women’s Surfboard Riding title held at Bondi in 1963. She married Alasdair Macfarlane in 1987 and they have two children, a boy and a girl. Julia Featherstone returned to full time study and completed a Master of Fine Arts degree (University of New South Wales, Art & Design) in 2014. Her research topic was ‘Beneath Horizons: Australian Desert Landscape’. She has participated in many group exhibitions and two solo exhibitions. Events 2014 - 2014 Beneath Horizons: Australian Desert Landscape, MFA exam exhibition, Kudos Gallery, Paddington, Sydney 1977 - 1977 Urban Shadows, Adelaide Resource Centre, South Australia Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 16 July 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Juliette Brodsky, Marina Loane and Helen Morgan Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 14 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sydney, NSW. 13 September 1945. Four members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese, taking leave of family and friends who met them on their arrival at Mascot airport. They are carrying bouquets of flowers and standing in front of a car displaying a “Returned POW Sisters from Japan” banner. They are about to leave by bus for the 113th Australian General Hospital (113AGH) where they will be medically examined. The four were among six Australian army nurses captured at Rabaul in 1942 along with seven civilian administrative nurses, four Methodist missionary nurses, and a civilian housewife. They were all transported to Japan and interned at Yokohama. Left to right: Captain Kay Parker, Lieutenant (Lt) Lorna Whyte; Lt Daisy ‘Tootie’ Keast; Lt Mavis Cullen. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Folder containing newspaper clippings and articles. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes, papers including Right to Choose Coalition material. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection consists chiefly of the diaries and letters of John and Georgiana Molloy nee Kennedy from July 1828 to 1859 and concludes with the documentation relating to the winding up of John Molloy’s estate and the reminiscences and notes of some of their grandchildren. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 8 February 2001 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 25 November 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Mrs Florence Violet McKenzie OBE Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0386gc.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "10 sound files. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 August 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records include correspondence with members and affiliated bodies typescripts of poems; TS draft of the First Anthology (1956); 3 sets (1 complete) of Prism; ledgers, accounts and other business papers; press cuttings and photographs. Also some personal papers of Imogen Whyse concerning her work in theatre and her activities in support of International Children’s Communities in Europe. Correspondents include Dr. Felix Arnott, Peter Bladen, John Blair, D. Campbell, Betty Casey, Nancy Cato, D.M. Catts, Louis H. Clark, Stan Clarke, Patrick Coady, Brian Colebourne, Mary Coles, Commonwealth Literary Fund, Mary Cornish, Bishop Davidson, Eileen Davies, Margaret Dent, J. Devaney, Sir E. Millington-Drake (London) T. S. Eliot, Paula Fitzgerald, R.D. Fitzgerald, Vera Fitzgerald, J. Gielgud, Dame Mary Gilmore, Myrtle Glass, H.M. Green, Martin Haley, Dorothy Helmrich, A.D. Hope, P. Hopegood, R.G. Howarth, Hugh Hunt, Neil Hutchinson, Helen N. Jones, K.L. King, Ray Lawler, Norman Lindsay, A. Lloyd, James McAuley, M.B. McGrath, Prof. Milgate, Duncan Miller, Helen Reid, Dr. S. Scougall, Dame Edith Sitwell, W. Hart-Smith, D. Stewart and Judith Wright. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The ABC Radio Rural Woman of the Year Awards were established in 1994 as an initiative to recognise the achievements and valuable contribution that women make to rural communities and primary industry. Journalist Lisa Palu organised an event in Queensland that went national for four years. In 2000 the awards were relaunched with government support. The Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) supports the award. I heard for years the stories of my Italian grandmother having to cook three hot meals a day for gangs of cane cutters – maybe twenty men working on our farm at one time. Yet she never appeared on the legal paperwork, her name wasn’t on the title and her contribution was never recognised. I hope that doesn’t happen to my generation of females. – Lisa Palu, ABC Rural Reporter, 1995. The process of writing women out of Australian agricultural history is not only a case of faulty memory; it was official policy. After 1891, the Victorian census no longer registered farm wives as ‘engaged in agricultural pursuits,’ because to do so created an unwanted impression ‘that women were in the habit of working in the fields’, as they did in so-called ‘old world’, but ‘certainly not in Australia’. [1] Needless to say, the mere act of refusing to count women’s ‘agricultural pursuits’ did not stop them from following them. It just meant that official records of them doing so weren’t kept. Despite volumes of anecdotal evidence to the contrary, the official story was that Australian women did not work in agriculture. A century and two waves of feminism later, Margaret Alston found the official story to be no more revealing. In the 1991 Australian census, almost twice as many men as women were recorded as engaged in the agricultural industry, despite Alston’s extensive research in New South Wales suggesting, nay screaming, otherwise. Women’s work on farms, according to Alston, continued to be ‘discounted, devalued, and certainly not recorded’. [2] Enter ABC radio rural reporter for the Wide Bay/Burnett River region, Lisa Palu. Travelling around rural Queensland in the early 1990s chasing stories, it was impossible for her to ignore the importance of women’s contributions to agriculture in that state. It was also impossible for her to ignore the reluctance of most women, at town or industry forums, to speak up and offer an opinion. She asked one group of women why this was so; why they ‘didn’t get up and have their say’. Their responses were variations on a theme. ‘They felt that they weren’t valued,’ she said, ‘and that their opinions weren’t worthwhile, that the men would ridicule them if they stood up and gave their point of view.’ [3] As far as Lisa could see, it wasn’t their opinions that were the problem, it was the level of their self esteem. Women were important contributors in rural economies, but the value of their contributions was under appreciated and ignored. Something needed to be done to encourage them to speak up and support was required to amplify their voices. At the same time that Lisa Palu was developing an understanding of the problem in Queensland, rumblings of protest at the lack of acknowledgement accorded to rural women were being felt around the nation. A landmark conference was held in Melbourne in 1994 when the International Women in Agriculture Conference was held in Melbourne. 800 rural and regional women from around the world congregated to discuss issues of common concern in a global context. Two new national rural women’s organisations were growing in strength: Australian Women in Agriculture and the Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women. State based rural women’s networks were taking shape, with Victoria the first cab off the rank in 1987. Queensland’s Rural Women’s Network was established in 1993, around the same time that Lisa Palu began to promote the idea of an award to recognise the role and contributions of women in rural and regional communities. With the support of the Queensland network, she approached her supervisor at ABC Radio’s Country Hour in Queensland, Edwina Clowse, who offered unqualified endorsement of the idea. The ABC Rural Department, with strong support from the National Editor, Lucy Broad, expanded the state based Queensland award to a national audience. The ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award was inaugurated in 1994 with the multiple aims of: recognising the role and contribution of rural women, raising awareness of these roles and contributions in the wider community, providing opportunities to raise issues of concern to rural women, empowering women to develop the skills and confidence to further contribute to their communities and industries. A feature of the award was the ABC Radio Leadership Seminar for all regional winners. Participants came together for two and a half days to attend workshops on leadership, team work, presentation and media skills. For the women, whether they went on to be the national winner was immaterial; the value of the seminar and the opportunities for networking that it presented ensured that they all came away winners.[4] The first ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award was announced on July 1st 1994 as a highlight of the International Women in Agriculture Conference in Melbourne. South Australian cereal and sheep farmer, Deborah Theile was the inaugural winner. She was followed in 1995 by Robyn Treadwell from Birdwood Downs in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, then Barbara Scott of Coonabarabran in New South Wales in 1996 and Jane Bennett of Elizabeth Town in Tasmania in 1997. All of them, in different ways, have had their lives transformed by the award. All have felt a responsibility to ensure that they use whatever benefit they gained as winners to transform the lives of other rural women. As the inaugural winner, Deb Theile, said, ‘One can take opportunities and one can create opportunities, I believe in doing both, but I feel very strongly that the greatest part of creating opportunities is to create it for others.’[5] Jane Bennett was the last woman to receive the ‘ABC’ version of the award. ABC radio decided it needed to direct its attention towards rural youth and the Australian government decided to bring the award under its administrative arm. After a short hiatus, the Rural Woman of the Year Award returned in 2000 in a new format, funded by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, with a view to focusing on the future, while acknowledging past achievements. Nominees are now required to propose a project, for which they will receive a significant bursary. Selection is based on a strong record of achievement as well as an impressive project proposal. [6] Between 1994 and 1997, one hundred and sixty-eight women across the country were given the title ‘Rural Woman of the Year’ at a regional, state or national level. To be recognised this way was an important acknowledgement, not only for them as individuals, but for all women in rural communities. Without the commitment and initiative of women such as Lisa Palu, Edwina Clowse and Lucy Broad at the ABC, the award would never have been celebrated, and that important step of being written back into history might not have been taken. But, as always, it’s up to the actors to see what happens next. As Lynne Johnstone, the 1994 state winner from Western Australia observed when launching the 1995 award: The ABC has taken the first step in highlighting the role of women in agriculture – the next is up to us. Nothing will change unless we make it change and women will no longer accept that change will happen of its own accord. We need the three Rs of agriculture: Recognition, Representation and Resources. [7] This exhibition celebrates those women in agriculture who took the challenge of taking the next step; the ABC Radio Rural Women of the Year of 1994 – 1997. 1.Census 1891, Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1893, vol. 3, no. 9, p. 192. Return to text 2.Margaret Alston, Women on the Land: The Hidden Heart of Rural Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, 1995, pp 3-4. Return to text 3.Lisa Palu interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the Land Oral History Project, 1995, National Library of Australian Oral History and Folklore Section, http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1335934 Return to text 4.Lucy Broad, ‘The Untapped Resource’, Margaret Alston (ed.) Australian Rural Women Towards 2000, Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, 1998, pp. 61-65. Return to text 5.Webpage of the ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/default.htm, [accessed 2010-12-06] Return to text 6.Webpage of the RIRDC Rural Women’s Award, http://www.ruralwomensaward.gov.au/TheAward.htm [accessed 2010-12-06] Return to text 7.Lynne Johnstone, quoted in Ros Bowden, Women of the Land: Stories of Australia’s Rural Women as told to Ros Bowden, ABC Books, Sydney, 1995, p. 6. Return to text Published resources Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 May 2011 Last modified 12 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "26 min 6 sec. Home movie.?16mm/b&w and colour (Kodachrome)/silent??Activities of the Women’s Flying Club filmed by Miss Gwen Stark the camp commandant. Weekend camp at St Ives showground. Getting meals and doing chores. Nancy-Bird Walton arrives and inspects the girls. Squadrons marching off to different duties. Squadrons preparing for the parade. Meals prepared and cleaning up after mess. First aid training. Signallers practising Morse Code. Camp at Windsor, NSW. Girls swimming in the Hawkesbury River. March past with Air Commodore De La Pine taking the salute. Drum band. Lady Wakehurst inspects the girls. St Ives, bomb disposal and gas inspectors. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sheet of paper containing names of women attending a pre-1972 Federal election meeting of WEL members in Canberra; most names written down by Katy Richmond, others in other hands (presumably those women themselves); plus a computer-printed typed page of names & addresses at that time of ‘People attending a National WEL meeting September or October 1972’ [20 names], and half a page of Katy Richmond’s memories of the meeting, 19 January 1998 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mainly letters from Daisy Bates to Georgina King, 1910-1924, J. F. Thomas, 1924-1940, W. H. Ifould, 1930, and N. Campbell, 1942, describing her work among the aborigines of Western Australia and South Australia, the publication of her books, her difficulties and her frustrations Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) during World War II, Grace Griffith enlisted on 6 March 1945 and was discharged on 28 October 1946. Serving as a writer on HMAS Penguin, Kuttabul and Torrens, her training included activities that she may not have participated in had she remained in ‘civvy’ street. After being ‘demobbed’ some veterans were given scholarships to university and Teachers College, and Griffith was given one to the Conservatorium of Music. She achieved the position of being a Piano soloist with the Conservatorium’s orchestra. In 1950 Grace Griffith and Ernest McDonald married, they had four children including twins and now have nine grandchildren. During this time she returned to Netball as a player – a sport she had competed in while single. In 1966 McDonald was asked to be state secretary of the netball association. She held this position at a time when she was also state selector and state delegate. Later when the Randwick Netball Association was starting she was asked to be president, a position that McDonald held for 27 years before retiring in 1997. Over this period the Association had the largest contingent of Australian players from any one Association in Australia. During her time as president McDonald was given a Community Service Award in 1986 and in 1997 a Civic Reception and a Certificate of Appreciation in recognition for years of service as president of Randwick Netball Association and to sport in the City of Randwick. Grace McDonald was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) on 26 January 1996 for her services to netball. On 26 July 2000 she was awarded the Australian Sports Medal. In 2002 Grace McDonald became secretary of the Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Associations New South Wales(NSW) and she represented the Association on the working group for the “Women in War Project.” Letter submitted by Dorothy McHugh, nominating Grace McDonald for an Australian Honour. It gives me great pleasure as General Secretary of the International Federation of Netball Associations to recommend Mrs Grace Thelma McDonald for an award to honour her outstanding contribution to the sport of Netball at Club, District, State, National and International Levels. Grace was always a keen athlete – tennis, hockey, athletics and netball being her favourite sports. These were all put on hold during World War II when she became a member of the Women’s Royal Australian Navy in 1944 as a writer. I first met Grace McDonald in 1949 when we both played netball for the YWCA. In 1955 she was selected in the New South Wales (NSW) ‘Rest’ and became a State ‘B’ grade practical umpire. From 1966-70 she was not only umpiring, but held positions of State Secretary (1966-68) and Junior Vice-President (1969-70). During this period Grace McDonald served on numerous committees concurrently with the Executive roles she held. She exhibited a great deal of versatility as the portfolios were wide and varied. One of the most significant was the Building Committee which was responsible for planning, organising, and supervising the construction of the New South Wales (NSW) Netball Headquarters ‘a first for women’s sport’ now known as the Anne Clarke Centre. Grace’s meticulous attention to detail and her caring approach to people made her a much respected member of the State body. She played a vital role as a member of the committees which co-ordinated the National Tournaments hosted by NSW Netball Association in 1966, 1972 and in 1978 the Golden Jubilee Year for Netball in Australia. In 1966-67 Grace was a State Delegate to the National Council and in 1976 was appointed Manageress of the NSW Night State Team. In 1974 Grace set off to Papua New Guinea with a selected team on a touring and coaching exercise. In 1971 Grace McDonald was elected President of the Randwick Netball Association, a position she still holds. Grace works patiently with a quiet unassuming dedication and zeal to maintain the standard and ethics the Association enjoys to-day. In addition, through her role as President of Randwick Netball Association she is promoting a game which provides enjoyment for some 2500/3000 girls and women within the District. The Association serves an essential community role offering physical and mental involvement with others and the opportunity to meet people with varying interests and cultures within the District and the State. Under her leadership the Association has progressed from working out of a tent to finally achieving its own Headquarters in 1980. In 1986 disaster struck when the building was vandalised and burnt to the ground. I say disaster, because with the building the archives of the Association were also lost. Undaunted and true to her community spirit Grace McDonald surged ahead negotiating with the Randwick Municipal Council for the establishment of a new Headquarters. Mr Michael Cleary, then the NSW Minister for Sport opened the new building in 1987. In 1981 Grace was made a Life Member of the Randwick Netball Association for her contribution to Netball within the District. The Association has not only grown in size, but also in status. It caters for players from the grass roots level up to the elite. Randwick Netball Association boasts a large contingent of Australian players. Three of the most recent ones played in the Australian Team which won the 1991 World Netball Championships, which was staged in Sydney. Grace McDonald’s drive and administrative skills do not stop at administrative level. With a working party she was successful in securing a very substantial sponsorship from Sydney Electricity to support the Randwick District Team in the Australian Super League Series, which Randwick won in 1993. Since 1990 Grace McDonald has been a member of the Heffron Park Action Group striving to prevent a Golf Driving Range from being put on Crown Land. The issue has become a very contentious one as Crown Land is reserved for public recreation and not for private enterprise. The issue has been tested in court several times. However, the battle still continues. More recently Grace McDonald has been invited to take a place on the Randwick Plan of Management Group for Heffron Park. (Formation of this group yet to be confirmed by Council). In conclusion – Grace McDonald has administered Netball at all levels. She has generously shared her expertise with others and it should be noted that the many, many years she has been involved in Netball have been in a purely voluntary capacity. Anything she has ever done, not only for Netball, but within the community has reflected her high principals and integrity. I can attest to the quality of Grace’s work and the effective and efficient way she gets things done. Her dedication is reflected in the respect she commands from Netballers at large. If further information is required to supplement this outline of the invaluable contribution made to the sport of Netball by Grace McDonald I will be only too happy to oblige. Dorothy M McHugh OAM Published resources Resource Section GRIFFITH, GRACE THELMA, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=N&VeteranID=1118484 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre An informal group of members of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) on the wharf at Garden Island. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 November 2002 Last modified 7 August 2015 Digital resources Title: An informal group of members of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0392gb.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 4 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A chronological history of the formation, development and history of the Rare Books collection at the National Library of Australia. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers of Dame Nancy Buttfield, politician, comprising diaries kept by her as Nancy Holden, photographs including family photographs and photographs relating to her career and to ‘Fairfield’ youth camp, curriculum vitae, itinerary for Papua New Guinea trip and papers relating to the Dame Nancy Buttfield Embroidery Prize. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 17 March 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Minutes 1936-74; Journals 1980-; correspondence; photographs; programmes; scrap-books 1981-82. List supplied Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Council of Jewish Women was founded in Sydney in 1923, due largely to the efforts of Dr Fanny Reading. Its initial purpose was to gather Jewish women together to undertake religious and community service, in addition to educational and philanthropic work. Membership of the Council also included membership of the Australian Zionist Organisation. Its first activities revolved around community service to alleviate poverty and unemployment. By the end of its first year the Council had 377 members, and was growing steadily across the country. The first National Conference of the Council was held in Sydney in May 1929, when its present name was adopted: The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia. The Council continues today as a non-profit, voluntary organisation acting for the advancement of Jewish women, and for social justice generally. The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia affiliated with the International Council of Jewish Women in 1925, and commenced its national quarterly journal, the Council Bulletin, in 1926. Interstate Sections of the Council were formed in Brisbane and Victoria in 1927. Later that year, Council Sections formed in South Australia, Western Australia, Kalgoorlie, Newcastle, Ballarat, and Geelong. A Hobart Section was formed in 1932, but his has had a fluctuating existence. From 1929, Council Juniors and Council Younger Sets were established to encourage girls and young women to join the organisation. In its long history the organisation has been concerned with an enormous array of issues, as well as charitable, educational and social activities. It has particularly been involved in fundraising to support Jewish causes (especially Zionist organisations) and provide services to the Jewish community (and sometimes the broader community as well). Since its inception, the Council has also shown an interest in issues relating to women and children generally. From the 1930s, many sections took a particular interest in assisting new Jewish migrants, often meeting them at the ports when they arrived. The Council has also encouraged Jewish women to take up leadership roles, although largely though voluntary activities. This has become a major focus since the 1970s. In June 2005 a new affiliate was launched. The Australian Jewish Women in the Arts is a database of women with careers or serious involvement in Music, Literature, Visual or Performing Arts. Its Patron is Mrs Jeanne Pratt AC, a well known supporter of the Jewish community and of the arts in Australia. This group is established with the aims of sharing of ideas, collaborative projects and mentoring of emerging talent. As of 2005, the Council continues to function as a non-profit, voluntary organisation for Jewish women, which presents their views, needs, interests and concerns to Federal and State governments, politicians, media, other organisations and communal sectors. The Council website described its aims and activities thus: ‘The purpose of NCJW of Australia is, in the spirit of Judaism, to promote social justice, welfare and the advancement of women in Jewish and general communities locally, nationally, and internationally. These aims are implemented through social activism, education, community services, promotion of multicultural tolerance and harmony. The NCJW agenda includes areas of environment and health, the family, education and youth, the elderly and migrants. Women’s issues are prominent in NCJW’s platform: the empowerment and education of women as leaders and community members, the advancement of women as individuals and activities on behalf of disadvantaged women.’ Published resources Report Official report of the Second Jewish Women's Conference of Australasia : under the auspices of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, held at Sydney, N.S.W., March 8th to 16th, 1932., 1932 Conference Proceedings First Jewish Women's Conference, May 21st to 27th, 1929, 1929 Newsletter The Council bulletin / National Council of Jewish Women, 1926- Book Making a Difference: A History of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, Newton, Marlo Leigh, 2000 Meeting new migrants on the wharves: A significant part of National Council of Jewish Women history from the 1920s to the 1950s, 2003 Journal Article Perspectives from the Australian Jewish community, Rutland, Suzanne, 2002 From Germany and Austria to Australia: experiences of Jewish Women Refugees in the 1930s, Kirchhof, Astrid Mignon, 2000 The law of loving kindness: a tribute to Dr Fanny Reading, founder of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia in 1923, Andgel, Anne, 1998 Not merely housewives. Australian Jewish Women. Paper presented to Australian Jewish Historical Society. Meeting (1980: Sydney)-, Cohen, Lysbeth, 1981 Book Section Dr Fanny Reading, Cohen, Lysbeth, 1988 The changing role of women in Australian Jewry's communal structure, Rutland, Suzanne D., 1987 Newspaper Article Service to Women: Dr Fanny's lifestyle, Cohen, Lysbeth, 1981 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian Jewish Historical Society Archives National Council Jewish Women State Library of New South Wales Dr Fanny Reading papers, photographs and realia, ca. 1890-1974 National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Queenie Symonds interviewed by Brenda Factor in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording] Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 September 2004 Last modified 26 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rhoda Kernot opened the La Balfour hospital in Broken Hill, New South Wales, in 1924. Rhoda Kernot was the daughter of Ellis Edwin Kernot and Christina Mary Ann Mackay. Ellis Edwin was the son of Edwin Wight Kernot and Joan Matthews. Joan was the daughter of Thomas Matthews, who sailed from Pitney, Somerset Shire, on the Moffatt and arrived in South Australia in December 1839. Rhoda’s siblings were William Charles Kernot and Mary Ruby Smythe Kernot. Rhoda Kernot attended the Central Public School in Broken Hill and worked at Torpy’s Boot Emporium in Argent Street. She was a promising pianist but had to have the first finger of her right hand amputated after an accident during a fierce storm, and she began training as a nurse. She worked at the Broken Hill District Hospital between 1918 and 1921, when she moved to Adelaide, but she returned in 1924 to open her own hospital, La Balfour, on the corner of Williams and Oxide Streets. She moved the hospital to 190 Wills Street in 1926, but fell on hard times during the depression years and began working for doctors in town including Dr. William MacGillivray, Dr. Ian MacGillivray, and Dr. Franziska Schlink. Rhoda Kernot married Henry Boyd Clark, himself the son of grazier Thomas Clark and his wife Jane Elizabeth Ford. Henry and Rhoda had two children: Patricia Margaret and Edwin Wight Boyd Clark. A family tree is held at the Outback Archives, Broken Hill, and materials belonging to Rhoda including photographs and medical instruments are held by the Broken Hill Railway Museum. Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Kernot, Rhoda Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sister Mary Gertrude was one of the first six nuns to form the Sisters of Mercy at Broken Hill, New South Wales. The first six nuns to arrive in Broken Hill came from Singleton in the Diocese of Maitland, and founded the St Joseph’s Convent in February 1889. They were: Ann Agnes Callen (Sister Mary Josephine), Margaret Hennessy (Sister Mary Clement), Sarah Gallagher (Sister Mary Gertrude), Ellen Dwan (Sister Mary Patrick), Margaret Morris (Sister Mary Ita) and Mary Griffin (Sister Mary Evangelist). Sister Mary Josephine was appointed Reverend Mother of the Sisters of Mercy by Bishop Dunne. Under her leadership, they visited the sick and poor of Broken Hill, provided a home for orphans, and opened five schools in the town by 1896. Sarah Gallagher was raised in Murrurrundi and educated by the Singleton Sisters of Mercy and the Dominican Sisters at Tamworth. She entered the Singleton Convent in 1885, a year behind her own sister Margaret (Sister Mary Claude). A year after she was professed, Sister Mary Gertrude joined the Sisters of Mercy at Broken Hill. She was 21 years of age and appointed Mistress of Novices. For the next 45 years, Sister Mary Gertrude worked with the Community. She was Superior of the Broken Hill Convent from 1902 to 1907, and returned to Broken Hill from 1911 to 1917 and 1923 to 1928. She spent some years leading the Mt Barker Community in the interim, and sent a group of Sisters to found the Brighton Community in 1925. She was founding Superior of the Condobolin Community in 1929, and was appointed in 1932 as the first Mother General of the Amalgamated Sisters of mercy of Wilcannia-Forbes, which position she held until a few weeks before her death. Published resources Book A guide to the records of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia, Ryan, Mary, 1984 For Whom Alone We Go Forward or Stay Back: A History of the Sisters of Mercy, Wilcannia-Forbes Congregation, 1884-1959, Ryan, Mary, 2004 Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 16 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Business and Professional Women’s Club of Melbourne was founded in 1925 – the first such Club in Australia. Miss Nellie C Martyn, Managing Director of the Steel Company of Australia (later to become BHP Billiton) was elected Inaugural President. Membership was open to women holding a responsible position in professional, business, industrial or educational organisation, and to women giving distinguished service to the community. The initial purpose of the Club was to ‘give business and professional women the opportunity to meet in a friendly way and discuss questions of general interest to the community. Its more specific aims were soon defined as: a) to develop a wider acquaintance between members of the community and to facilitate the exchange of ideas b) to secure the recognition of the value to the community of women’s work and service c) to obtain the active interest of women in the civic, social, political and moral welfare of the community. It was explicitly founded to provide a space for (largely elite) women’s networking, and to work for their professional interests. Subsequently it devoted itself more specifically to issues relating to the status of women, particularly in employment. The Club continues to work to elevate the status of women generally, remove discrimination and to present the views of business and professional women to government. It still also operates to provide a space for women’s networking."
    },
    {
        "text": "4 hours 43 minutes. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 March 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lecture notes; examination papers; statistics relating to the teaching of Physics. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 55 min.)??Marks, farmer and grazier, speaks of her childhood, her family, her life as a farmer, breeding sheep, education of her children, shearing the sheep, death of her husband, hardship on the farm, refusal from the bank to lend money, getting rid of breeding sheep and getting involved in shearing, running the farm and attending agricultural meetings, School of Distance Education, being a mother and a teacher at the same time, winning the Queensland Rural Woman Award and the vital role of ABC television for farmers. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Betty Marginson was a pioneer in many fields as a teacher, a student and community activist, local Councillor and advocate for citizens’ and women’s rights. Her academic career spanned the World War II years as an undergraduate student to 1985 when she took her Diploma in Public Policy at the age of 62. As well as raising four children with her husband Ray Marginson, she taught at various State Schools from 1943 to 1982. She was the founding President of the Hawthorn Chapter of the University of the Third Age, becoming President of the Victorian network in 1993. The first woman appointed Mayor of the City of Hawthorn from 1976 to 1977, she was a Council Member from 1972 to 1981. In the wider world, Betty Marginson was President of University College, University of Melbourne from 1986 to 1991, and was a voluntary worker in many fields, including at Heide Park and Art Gallery. Betty May Marginson, was born on 3 February 1923 in Clifton Hill, Melbourne, the youngest of the five children of Winifred and William John Reilly and educated at Geelong Road Primary School, Footscray and Williamstown High School. The first in her family to attend a university, she enrolled at the Melbourne Teachers’ College in 1939 and in 1943 at the University of Melbourne from which she took her BA. In 1946 she was Vice-President of the Students’ Representative Council and served as Victorian Minute Secretary of the Council for Civil Liberties, working with Brian Fitzpatrick in its unsuccessful campaigns in the 1944 and 1946 referenda to persuade Victorians to vote in favour of extending Commonwealth powers. In 1947 she married Raymond David Marginson. Their first son, Simon, was born in 1951 and although she returned briefly to teaching at Eltham High School, she left in 1955 after the birth of their second son, David. A third son, Gregory followed, and it was not until 1969, when their daughter Jenny was old enough for school that she returned to teaching. At Hawthorn West Central School, she taught English to immigrant children until 1982. She joined the Victorian Teachers’ Union in 1969. She became the Treasurer of the School Council and in 1972 was elected to the Hawthorn City Council on which she served until 1981. In 1976, she was elected its first woman Mayor and in 1979, she became the first woman elected to the Municipal Association of Victoria. She was the Local Government representative on the Victorian Child Development and Family Services Council and Hawthorn City Council representative on the Family and Community Services Regional Committee. Betty Marginson’s influence through local government was extensive and long-lasting. Her time on the Council saw the establishment of a day-care hospital, the commissioning of a report on the needs of the ageing in the area and construction of the Hawthorn Aquatic and Leisure Centre. She joined the Australian Local Government Women’s in 1972. Her influence on the wider community was equally impressive. Long active in the campaign for abortion law reform, Betty Marginson chaired the Consultative Council on Senior Citizens set up by the Victorian government from 1981 till 1988, when she became Vice Chairperson of its successor, the State Government Older Persons’ Council. She was the foundation president of the Hawthorn chapter of the University of the Third Age and in 1993 was elected President of the Victoria State University of the Third Age Network. She became a Justice of the Peace in 1979 and was a member of the Council of University College, University of Melbourne from 1983 to 1993, and served as President from 1986 to 1990. She was equally active in other areas, as a member of the National Trust of Australia and National Gallery Society of Victoria from 1960, in the Lyceum Club and as a voluntary worker at the Heide Park and Art Gallery. Betty Marginson’s contribution to Australia life was recognised by the award of the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 1977, becoming a Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 and in 2001 becoming one of the two hundred women placed on the Honour Roll of ‘Women Shaping the Nation’ and receiving the Centenary of Federation Medal. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Betty Marginson interviewed by Ann Turner [sound recording] The University of Melbourne Archives Marginson, Betty Marginson, Betty Marginson, Betty Marginson, Betty Marginson, Betty Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A collection of 33 interviews with rural women for the book “Women of the land”. Interviews conducted by Ros Bowden.??Project conducted in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 February 2010 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers relating to the publication “Women of the land: stories of Australian rural women”, principally corrected galley proofs, together with an annotated draft preface Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 February 2010 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Evelyn Ruth Scott was an indigenous rights activist and social justice campaigner who played a pivotal role in the reconciliation process in Australia. She was a key figure in the ‘yes’ campaign of the 1967 referendum whereby 90 per cent of Australian voters chose ‘Yes’ to count Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the census, and give the Australian Government the power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Evelyn Scott began working in the Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advancement League in the 1960s after experiencing discrimination in employment, housing and health. In 1971, she joined the Indigenous-controlled Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) as vice-president and she became the first general-secretary in 1973. Through her role at FCAATSI and as Chair of Cairns and District Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation for Women, Evelyn was pivotal in improving access to legal, housing, employment and medical services for communities. From 1997 to 2000, she became the chair for the National Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. As a passionate campaigner for the Great Barrier Reef, Evelyn served as a Marine Park Authority board member during the 1980s. She believed in the need for stronger Indigenous voices in issues regarding the land and sea. Evelyn was awarded honorary doctorates from James Cook University (2001) and the Australian Catholic University (2000). In 1977 Evelyn received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for her contribution to the advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and in 2001 she was awarded an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia. Evelyn was also the recipient of the Queensland Greats Award for her contribution to the history and development of the state in 2003. A monument in Parkes, ACT, commemorates Dr Evelyn Scott and recognizes her contribution to reconciliation in Australia. The monument also honours the work of Dr Faith Bandler and Lady Jessie Street. Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Evelyn Scott, leader of the Aboriginal Reconciliation Council, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Portrait of Dr. Evelyn Scott at Corroboree 2000 [picture] / Loui Seselja Victor Vincent Julama, son of Vincent Lingiari, James Haire, head of the National Council of Churches and Evelyn Scott are seated among the guest speakers at the Reconciliation Place opening ceremony, Canberra, 28 May 2004 [picture] / Loui Seselja John Anderson, Bob Carr, Sir Gordon Samuels, Evelyn Scott, Sir William Deane, John Howard, Sir Gustav Nossal, Kim Beazley and Meg Lees, members of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation at Corroboree 2000 [picture] / Loui Seselja National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Evelyn Scott interviewed by Peter Read and Jackie Huggins [sound recording] John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library Hazel Hawke and Evelyn Scott. Heart on Sleeve launch, Tranby House November 1998 National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Personalities - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander - Evelyn Scott, Field Officer, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 1974 Personalities - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander - Evelyn Scott, Field Officer, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 1974 Personalities - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander - Evelyn Scott, Field Officer, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 1974 Personalities - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander - Evelyn Scott, Field Officer, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 1974 Personalities - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander - Evelyn Scott, Field Officer, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 1974 AIATSIS Pictorial Collection Photographs from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advancement League conference in Cairns, 1962 and indigent ration day 1954 Opening of a Memorial to the Stolen Generations John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Collection of posters on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Set 1. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 22 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 35 min.)??Martin speaks of her farming background, her school years in Adelaide, the changes during WWII with local concentration camps for the Germans and Italians, her acquisition of a farm in Marananga, learning her farm management skills from helping her father, her current management of a piggery, her involvement in the Australian Farm Management Society, her expansion into other farms and their own line of fine-wool sheep, her involvement in wool-classing, her concern for the land as families are bought out by big business and replaced by professional managers. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Bonita Mabo was a prominent Indigenous and South Sea Islander activist. She was the wife of land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo. Bonita Neehow married Eddie Mabo in 1959 and together they had ten children. In 1973 she set up Australia’s first Aboriginal community school in Townsville and there she worked as a teacher’s aide. In 2013 Bonita was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia ‘for distinguished service to the Indigenous community and to human rights as an advocate for the Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander peoples.’ Bonita Mabo passed away just days after she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from James Cook University for her contribution to social justice and human rights, particularly for Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Bonita Mabo interviewed by Doreen Mellor [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Bonita Mabo, wife of former Eddie Mabo, political pariah, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Business and Professional Women’s Club of Sydney (later BPW Sydney Club) was founded in 1939 with Dr Constance D’Arcy as its first president. Its general aims were to promote the interests of business and professional women; to alert them to their responsibilities in their own country and in world affairs; and to raise or maintain standards of education for women. Like other such clubs, it was explicitly founded to provide a space for (largely elite) women’s networking, and to work for their professional interests. It has also worked for equal pay and employment opportunities for women. The club continues to work to elevate the status of women generally, remove discrimination and to present the views of business and professional women to government. It still also operates to provide a space for women’s networking. At its foundation, the Club had 102 members, and, while early activities were devoted to war work, particularly fundraising, meetings were still held regularly. The issue of equal pay was a key concern in the postwar years, and the Club also made representations to government concerning sex discrimination the appointment of women to public boards and other bodies. It also formed an Advisory panel to give advice careers advice to girls and encouraged women to nominate for public office. They also established a scholarship fund for ‘Aboriginal girls’. Published resources Book The first 25 years, B.P.W. Australia: The History of the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Thoms, Patience R, comp, 1972 Edited Book A history of the clubs of the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Eagle, Vera J., 1976 Newsletter BPW NSW News, 1969- Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women Victorian Division deposit Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women deposit State Library of New South Wales Business and Professional Women's Club of Sydney records, 1939-1977 Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 September 2004 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sister Mary Patrick was one of the first six nuns to form the Sisters of Mercy at Broken Hill, New South Wales. The first six nuns to arrive in Broken Hill came from Singleton in the Diocese of Maitland, and founded the St Joseph’s Convent in February 1889. They were: Ann Agnes Callen (Sister Mary Josephine), Margaret Hennessy (Sister Mary Clement), Sarah Gallagher (Sister Mary Gertrude), Ellen Dwan (Sister Mary Patrick), Margaret Morris (Sister Mary Ita) and Mary Griffin (Sister Mary Evangelist). Sister Mary Josephine was appointed Reverend Mother of the Sisters of Mercy by Bishop Dunne. Under her leadership, they visited the sick and poor of Broken Hill, provided a home for orphans, and opened five schools in the town by 1896. Ellen Dwan was raised near Templemore in Ireland, and would have known of Sister Mary Clement’s departure for Australia in the early 1880s. Ellen herself was educated at the St Brigid’s Missionary School at the Convent of Mercy Callen in County Kilkenny with a view to joining the Australian Mission. With other Postulants – including Margaret Moris – she made the journey to enter the Singleton Novitiate in November 1885. Days after being received as Sister Mary Patrick in July 1886, she departed for Braxton and became a founding member of the Braxton Convent. She spent some time at the Scone Convent before being professed at Singleton on 24 September 1888, and volunteered to join the Broken Hill Community. Sister Mary Patrick was in Broken Hill for just two years before she died from heart disease exacerbated by influenza contracted during visits to the sick. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc02.228 comprises files of papers relating to Children’s Radio 3CR including letters, communications with the Institute of Early Childhood Development, teaching outlines and notes, dating from the 1980s (1 box).??The Acc03.214 instalment includes files containing correspondence, notes, minutes, reports, conference papers, cuttings, brochures, drafts, and course outlines and lecture notes from June Factor’s student and teaching days. Writings represented are Ladles and jellyspoons: favourite riddles and jokes of Australian children, Far out, brussel sprout!: Australian children’s chants and rhymes, and her Kidspeak dictionary (13 boxes, 1 carton).??The Acc10.135 instalment comprises papers reflecting Factor’s roles as folklorist; member and chair of the Academic Board and Research Committee of the Institute of Early Childhood Development; and active member and office-bearer of the Friends of the ABC. They comprise correspondence, minutes, newsletters, submissions and lobbying letters, working papers, research material and news cuttings. Correspondents include folklorists Iona Opie, Brian Sutton-Smith and Kel Watkins and children’s authors Leila Berg and Joyce Lankester Brisley. In addition there is one folder of papers of Wendy Lowenstein, comprising hand-written and copies of song scores and lyrics collected by Lowenstein, largely on political and anti-war themes (30 boxes).??The Acc12.056 instalment comprises personal correspondence between June Factor and Dorothy Howard, initiated by June Factor. Correspondence relates to Howard’s research in Australia and to childrens’ folkore in general. Additional correspondence about Dorothy Howard and the establishment of the Institute of Early Childhood Development Children’s Folklore Archives is included (2 folders).??The Acc16.070 instalment mainly comprises letters from children to June Factor. There is also correspondence from adults, mainly offering memoirs of childhoods from across Australia; source material, especially contributions from children to Kidspeak 1990, a dictionary of childhood slang; a file of material including letters from various correspondents including Alan Marshall; and papers relating to the scholarly study of children’s folklore (22 boxes).??The Acc17.075 instalment comprises research notes, correspondence and publications relating to June Factor’s work as an author, advocate and folklorist (44 boxes and 1 medium folio box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Books containing marks and comments: 1955; 1956; 1956-1957; 1957-1959; 1961, notes on experimental reports, techniques. Typed notes on procedures to be followed during the year and records to be kept by staff in respect of classes. “The Pattern at Teachers’ Colleges in N.S.W. – 1958”. Anon. Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Adelaide, 20-27 August 1958. Section J, Abstracts of Lectures and Papers. Ada Booth’s notes at back. Typed notes: “Secondary Schools. Immediate Policy. Long-range Socialist Aims”. Anon. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hours 28 mins??An interview with the Hon Sandra Kanck MLC, commissioned for the National Library of Australia’s Eminent Australians Interviewing Program in conjunction with the State Library of South Australia’s J. D. Somerville Oral History Collection. Sandra Kanck talks about her childhood in Broken Hill, her family life, responses to her upbringing, parental absences, family’s involvement with the Methodist church, love of singing, importance of school, being the ‘black sheep’ of the family, political awareness, Pollyanna, teacher training, marriage, Aussie Kanck, pregnancy, Sydney move, feminism, move to Adelaide, involvement with the Democrats, Meg Lees, being a politician, social justice and environment priorities, the Housing Trust, Children in State Care legislation, committees, relationships with other politicians, overseas travel, world issues, drug law reform, community groups, and the future. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Australian Women’s National League history commemorating the organisation’s fifty year anniversary; photo album containing portraits of the first members of the League, photographs taken by Sarony Studios, 114 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. NOTE: Many of the women in the photographs are unidentified. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the New South Wales Army Nursing Service Reserve (NSWANSR), Bessie Pocock served in the Boer War. She was awarded the Queen’s and the King’s South Africa medals and mentioned in despatches. Once again Pocock enlisted in the defence force at the outbreak of World War I. Serving in Cairo and Ismailia (Egypt) Pocock was later a matron on hospital ships. On 2 May 1916 Bessie Pocock was awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal (2nd class) for her service with the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). Before commencing her nursing training at Sydney Hospital in 1890, Bessie Pocock worked as a domestic. Upon completion she joined the hospital staff as a Sister. In 1899 Pocock became a member of the New South Wales Army Nursing Service Reserve (NSWANSR) and served in the Boer War being posted to hospitals in London, Johannesburg and Middleburg. She was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Queen’s and the King’s South Africa medals. After the war she returned to her position at the Sydney Hospital. From 1907 until 1911 Bessie became matron of the Newcastle Hospital and later (1911-1914) at Gladesville. During World War I Pocock served with the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in hospitals at Cairo and Ismailia (Egypt). She was then matron of the Hospital Ship Assaye before being stationed at Marseilles and Wimereux (France), followed by Trois Arbres (Belgium), and then Boulogne and England. On 2 May 1916 Sister Bessie Pocock was awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal (2nd class) and she had been twice mentioned in despatches. After the war Pocock returned to Gladesville Hospital as matron. Before retiring she set up a convalescent hospital at Chatswood called ‘Ismailia.’ She remained an active member of the Australasian Trained Nurses’ Association of which she became a life member as well as the Australian Army Nursing Service Reserve. Bessie Pocock never married and was looked after by her nieces until she died on 16 July 1946. Published resources Resource Section Pocock, Mary Anne (Bessie) (1863-1946), McCarthy, Perditta M., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110256b.htm Australian nurses in the Boer War, Chamberlain, Max, 2002, http://users.netconnect.com.au/~ianmac/readroom.htm#nursing Book The Diggers : makers of the Australian military tradition, Coulthard-Clark, Chris, 1993 Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999, Reid, Richard, 1999 Nightingales in the mud : the digger sisters of the Great War 1914 - 1918, Barker, Marianne, 1989 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Various Locations Nominal rolls and lists of medals and clasps for New South Wales Military Forces who served in Boer War NULL Nursing sisters, including Sister Mary A. (Bessie) Pocock (far left, back row), mounted on camels in front of the sphinx Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 December 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour (approx.)??Talks given by Jane Lomax-Smith on her interest in heritage buildings and John Bickle on the Gilberton Amateur Swimming Club Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 17 March 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc10.030 comprises records relating to the Liberal Party of Australia and associated organisations. The records relate to: Political Reform League: executive committee minutes, financial papers, constitution, rules, and newspaper cuttings; Political Reform League women’s section (from 1932 Women’s Branch, Young Liberal League and, at final meeting, Young Liberal Women), and minutes; Adelaide Young Liberal League: minutes, annual reports, annual returns, roll books and financial statements; Liberal Youth Centre: executive committee minutes; Liberal and Country League: executive committee minutes, South Australia Division papers, constitution principles and state platform, handbooks, list of branches and officers, historical publications, Tusmore Women’s Branch minutes, lecture notes; Liberal Party of Australia (federal), Federal Executive Committee, minutes and papers, annual meeting papers, constitution, platform, historical publications, speeches by party leaders Menzies and Holt, election campaign publications, pamphlets and weekly newsletters.??Further records comprise those relating to the Liberal Party of Australia South Australian Division: constitution, Arts Policy Group minutes; Liberal Party of Australia Federal Women’s Committee: papers and general files on women; papers on women’s organisations including State Women’s Council, Liberal and Country Party Policy for Women; Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association Australia Inc.: conference proceedings, correspondence, newsletters, reports, notices to members, history; Senate Standing orders, 1937; electoral materials including Boothby electorate polling places, 1940, scrapbook of 1946 election; political pamphlets including “The red twin: Communism, Socialism” (Federal Country Party publication), “Hard facts: inflation” (Office of Senator Amanda Vanstone); and, copies of student Liberal magazine (10 boxes).??The Acc10.209 instalment comprises printed (Hansard) speeches, typescript and manuscript speeches and talks for radio and Australia Day Council; correspondence relating to services for the disabled; biographical and historical notes on Sir Keith’s life and war service; Royal Commonwealth Society papers, including letter of welcome as President of the South Australia Branch and address to the Society by Malcolm Fraser; Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council minutes, notes and correspondence; Australian Citizenship Convention papers, information notes and bulletins; government members’ Social Security Committee minutes, reports and correspondence; United Nations 20th General Assembly papers including speeches, reports and notes; Good Neighbour Council minutes, publications and correspondence (5 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Broken Hill Women’s Memorial stands as a tribute to the solidarity of Broken Hill women who supported their menfolk during union disputes in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. On Friday 30 March 2001, the Women’s Memorial in Broken Hill was officially unveiled by Martin Ferguson, Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Transport, Infrastructure, Regional Services and Population. Standing in the town square facing Chloride Street, it was constructed by Zanon Memorials from two pieces of grey polished granite, each weighing 1.2 tonnes. The photograph of a contemporary family used in the memorial was reworked by Doug Banks. The idea for a women’s memorial was conceived in 1986, when Broken Hill women organised financial and moral support for their men during a major industrial dispute. In June that year, 400 women marched down the main street in support of the union cause, just as Broken Hill women had done in the great strikes of 1919 and 1892. Fundraising efforts in 1986 left the women with a surplus of $1,000 after the dispute had ended, and it was decided to use those funds to erect a women’s memorial. Extra funding came from the mining union. Upon the unveiling of the memorial, the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) president Eddie Butcher addressed the crowd. The monument was dedicated to the women of Broken Hill, he said, ‘who over the years have not been recognised for what they have contributed to the community. They were the unsung heroes as they stood by their men, through the toughest and darkest hours of mining history. Women are the backbone of Broken Hill’s society and they truly deserve the recognition that this monument will give them’. Published resources Thesis Rebel Women: Women and Class in Broken Hill, 1889-1917, Bloodworth, Sandra, 1996 Newspaper Article Celebration of Women: Recognition of Fight for Family and Community, 2001 Book The Richest Lode: Broken Hill 1883-1988, Solomon, R.J., 2008 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Women's Memorial, Broken Hill Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 February 2009 Last modified 13 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 sound files Author Details Helen Morgan Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "25 min?16mm/b&w and colour (Kodachrome)/silent??Camden, NSW circa late 1930s. Shows activities mainly at the Macquarie Grove Aerodrome which was established by Edward Macarthur-Onslow on his property. He started a flying and gliding school there in 1937 on the land that is now Camden Airport. In the late 1930s Miss Gwen Stark transferred her flying activities there and photographed these scenes. Scenes include: “Doc” Heydon and his Slingsby Gull sailplane in flight. Other aircraft shown are an Aviar, a DH60, a Comper Swift and a Genairco. Various members of the flying fraternity swinging propellers, refuelling aircraft. Taking off and landing. A silver RAAF Wirraway arrives at the airfield. Wirraway takes off and flies over airfield. A medium shot of 2 seater monoplane and crew – “Gordon Elliot Bowral” is stencilled below the second cockpit. Brief scene of the Minister for Aviation Mr Fairbairn speaking on a podium infront of the hangars at the airfield. A wrecked Douglas DC-2 engines and wings missing. Men working around DC-2 digging and stacking sandbags to prop up the aircraft. [Colour section] Medium shot of fuel pump and aviators. Close up of Miss Gwen Stark adjusting flying helmet. Medium shot of Miss Stark climbing into biplane. [Adapted from information supplied by Mr Gordon Lasslett to donor] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series comprises records created and maintained by Marie Coleman as Director, Office of Child Care for the period December 1976 to April 1979. Correspondence, publications and VHS video titled Woman in Question produced by ABC Television are included in the series. Author Details hmorg Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Notebooks containing some of Nydia’s speeches (delivered in her capacity as Alderman with the Broken Hill City Council), list of functions attended between 1963 and 1974, transcripts of radio broadcasts. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 4 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "During World War II June Jorgenson (née Jordan) joined the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) and was a Leading Writer in the Captain’s and Admiral’s office. She served at HMAS Penguin, HMAS Moreton, mainly at HMAS Kuttabul and HMAS Rushcutter. Following the war Jorgenson became an active member of the Australian Legion of Ex-Servicemen and Women. On 26 January 1997 Jorgenson was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to veterans through the Australian Legion of Ex-Servicemen and Women and the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service. On Anzac Day 2003, she was awarded the Commonwealth Centennial Medal. In October 2002 June Jorgenson became a member of the working group for the “Women in War Project.” June Jorgenson was the eldest of eight children and is a descendant of New South Wales pioneers. Her father was descended from Private Thomas Sharp of the 102nd British Regiment, who arrived in 1793 on the ship Sugar Cane. Some of the Regiment returned to England in 1809 after the Rum Rebellion, but Thomas Sharp transferred to 73rd Regiment and took his discharge in Australia in 1815. Jorgenson’s father was a World War I veteran, being seriously wounded by machine gun fire on the Western Front. He died a T.P.I.[1] Her mother was descended from Private William Sadleir of 57/17 British Regiment, who arrived in 1824 and took his discharge in 1833, receiving a grant of land at Bowral. After Jorgenson left school she completed a secretarial/accountancy course and worked for accountants until joining the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service as a communicator/writer in March 1945. She worked in the Captain’s office and Admiral’s office until her discharge in 1947. She married Raymond Jorgenson (deceased 1978) in 1951 and had three children. Jorgenson rejoined the workforce about 1965 working part time until 1972, then full time with the Life Offices’ Association of Australia. Twice an Alderman (1983-1987 and 1991-1995) on the Willoughby City Council, she served on 15 committees. She also became the city vice-president and member of the executive committee of the Australian Local Government Women’s Association. A member of the Returned Services League (RSL), for over 27 years Jorgenson has been the Honorary Organiser/Honorary Secretary for the Chatswood-Willoughby Anzac Dawn Service committee. Jorgenson’s involvement with the Ex-Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service began in about 1963. Since 1980 she has been a member of the executive committee five times as well as holding the position of welfare officer since 1986. June has represented the WRANS on various working committees including the School Talks Committee. A member of the Naval Association of Australia – Northern Suburbs Sub-Section, Jorgenson has been president since 1997. She also has been a delegate to the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council for over a decade and when called upon has worked on committees as well as working as a pension advocate. In 1963 Jorgenson joined the Australian Legion of Ex-Servicemen and Women. From 1964 until 1971 she was Honorary Secretary for the Willoughby Sub Branch. Jorgenson also was foundation President of the Willoughby Legion Women’s Bowling Club (1969-1973). From 1975 she has been a State Councillor at head office and from 1989 Honorary State Secretary. In 1990 she became the delegate to the National Council of Australian Legions. Jorgenson also represented the Australian Legion of Ex-Servicemen and Women on the Bicentennial Celebration (1988) and Australia Remembers Committee in 1995. June Jorgenson obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Environmental Law) from the UNSW in 1989 and in 2002 graduated from the University of Technology with a Bachelor of Law. On 26 January 1997 she was awarded the Order of Australia and the Centennial Medal on Anzac Day 2003. [1] T.P.I. an acronym for totally and permanently incapacitated, usually used in reference to returned servicemen Published resources Resource Section JORDAN, JUNE, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=N&VeteranID=1136516 Book Section Willing volunteers, resisting society, reluctant Navy: The troubled first years of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Spurling, Kathryn Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra JORDAN JUNE : Service Number - WR/2609 : Date of birth - 27 Jan 1924 : Place of birth - PENRITH NSW : Place of enlistment - SYDNEY : Next of Kin - JORDAN ETHEL Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Group photograph of personnel at HMAS Kuttabul Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 November 2002 Last modified 22 October 2020 Digital resources Title: June Jordan Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Graduation Day - Bachelor of Law Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0391gc.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Swimming champion Dawn Fraser is an iconic figure in Australian sporting history. A exceptional sportswoman with a larrikin streak, over the course of her swimming career, she won eight Olympic and eight Commonwealth medals. In October 1962 Dawn Fraser became the first woman to swim the 100 metres in less than a minute. She had to wait until after her retirement to see this record broken, and even then, it took eight years. Dawn Fraser was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) on June 8, 1988. Her citation read, “For service to the community, particularly as a sports consultant and administrator, and through organisations for people with disabilities, and to the environment.” Dawn Fraser also had a short political career. She was elected as an independent MLA for the seat of Balmain, New South Wales, in 1988. The seat was abolished in a redistribution prior to the next election. She ran, unsuccessfully, for the new seat of Port Jackson in 1991. The youngest of eight children, Dawn Fraser began swimming seriously at 16 and was coached by Harry Gallagher. Aged 19, she entered the 1956 Olympic Games held in Melbourne. She won a gold medal in the 110 yards (now 100 metres) freestyle setting a new world and Olympic Games record. Dawn Fraser won the same event at the 1960 Rome Olympics and 1964 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first swimmer to win the same event in three consecutive games. In 1965 Fraser retired from swimming, when the Australian Swimming Union placed her under a 10 year ban. She had always had a love-hate relationship with officials during her career. Things came to a head when, at the Tokyo Games, she marched in the opening ceremony against their wishes, wore an old swimsuit (which angered sponsors) because it was more comfortable, and it was alleged she climbed a flagpole in Emperor Hirohito’s palace, taking the Olympic flag (later proved false). The ban was lifted four years later. Fraser then became a publican, swimming coach and in 1988 became a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the New South Wales seat of Balmain. In 1961 Dawn Fraser received the Helms Award (later World Trophy) and was awarded the ABC Sportsman of the Year Award in 1962 and 1964. Dawn Fraser was named Australian of the Year in 1964 and voted Australia’s greatest female athlete in 1988.She was named Australian Female Athlete of the Century by the Sport Australian Hall of Fame as well as the World’s Greatest Living Female Water Sports Champion by the International Olympic Committee in 1999. Also she is the recipient of the Australian Sports Medal on 14 July 2000 and The Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) (MBE) on 1 January 1967 for services to sport. Dawn Fraser was an Olympic Torchbearer for the Opening Ceremony at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. In the same year she was the recipient of the Paul Harris Fellowship Medal from Rotary. 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games 100 metres freestyle – gold medal 400 metres freestyle – silver medal 4 x 100 metres freestyle relay – gold medal 1958 Cardiff Commonwealth Games 110 yards freestyle – gold medal 4 x 110 yards freestyle relay – gold medal 1960 Rome Olympic Game 100 metres freestyle – gold medal 1962 Perth Commonwealth Games 110 yards freestyle – gold medal 440 yards freestyle – gold medal 4 x 110 yards freestyle relay – gold medal 4 x 110 yards medley relay – gold medal 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games 100 metres freestyle – gold medal Australian Championships 110 yards freestyle: 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964 220 yards freestyle: 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964 440 yards freestyle: 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964 110 yards butterfly: 1960, 1962 220 yards medley: 1959 4 x 110 freestyle relay: 1957, 1958, 1959, 1964 4 x 110 yards medley relay: 1955, 1964 Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1958 - 1958 Swimming – 110y freestyle, 4 x 110y Freestyle Relay 1962 - 1962 Swimming – 110y freestyle, 440y freestyle, 4 x 110y Freestyle Relay, 4 x 110y Medley Relay 1956 - 1956 Swimming – 400m freestyle 1964 - 1964 Swimming – 100m Freestyle 1964 - 1964 Swimming – Member of the 4 x 100m Freestyle relay team 1960 - 1960 Swimming – 100m Freestyle 1960 - 1960 Swimming – Member of the 4 x 100m Freestyle and Medlay Relay teams 1956 - 1956 Swimming – 100m Freestyle and Member of the 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Team Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Great Australian Women in Sport, Brasch, Nicolas, 1997 Australia at the Olympics, Andrews, Malcolm, 2000 The Champions: Australia's Sporting Greats, Smith, Terry, 1990 101 Australian Sporting Heroes, Andrews, Malcolm, 1990 Outstanding Women in Australia: Women in Sport, Rolton, Gloria, 1997 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The South Australian Museum Archives contains correspondence, ethnographic and linguistic data and photographs. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Book into which have been inscribed or written the names, address signatures, comments etc. of women invited to or associated with, WEL’s 20th Anniversary of their ‘Green Guide’ to the 1972 federal election candidates (issued with The Age), held at Caulfield Park 22 November 1992; inc, TS programme, signatures of attenders, apologies, also (at rear) mailing list stickers for 20th Anniversary Committee and others contacted in 1991-2. Copy of printed invitation to WEL 25th Anniversary Dinner, 21 November 1997, with signatures of some attenders, some with comments, list of apologies, plus 4 computer-printed pages of ‘Notes by Katy Richmond, written on 25.11.97’, describing the organization of the dinner and the proceedings on the evening, followed by a digest of news of a number of early WEL members. Interleaved, a current WEL brochure. (All the above entered in an ornamented but otherwise blank book titled on the cover ‘Matisse, A Journal’.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Pearson was the first women in Britain to be decorated (received the George Cross) for saving a pilot from a burning plane. Born: 26 May 1911. Died: 25 July 2000. In 1939 Pearson joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. It was while stationed at an RAF Bomber Command at Detling Kent, in 1940 as a radio operator, that she noticed an engine on an aircraft was “coughing” as it approached the landing strip. The aircraft, which had a full bomb load, crashed and Pearson helped rescue the crew, covering the pilot with her own body, when the first of the bombs exploded. After the war she worked as a civil servant for ten years and then as an assistant with the Royal Botanic Gardens UK for three years. Pearson came to Australia, in 1959, on the inaugural flight of the Comet IV from Heathrow to Darwin. She worked as a horticulturist, first with the Department of Agriculture in Victoria and from 1968 to 1976 the Commonwealth Department of Transport. Pearson was a member of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association (London), Australian Red Cross Society (Victorian Division), Women’s Royal Air Force Officers Association (UK), she was a Life Member of the Royal Air Force Association (UK) and Honorary Life Member of the Returned Services League (RSL), Royal Air Force Club (UK) and the British Legion (UK). Her interests included: gardening, writing and reading. Published resources Newspaper Article Daphne Pearson Heroine, Telegraph, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, 1962-1970. [manuscript]. Papers, ca. 1958-1980. [manuscript]. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kate Deakin (1850-1937) was Alfred Deakin’s sister and close companion. She was tutor to his two eldest children and taught music at various times during her life. Katie Deakin was the only daughter of William (Bill) and Sarah Deakin and sister of Alfred Deakin. Alfred Deakin became the youngest ever cabinet Minister in 1883. He was Prime Minister of Australia 1903-1904, 1905-1908 and 1909-1910. Born in Adelaide Katie came to live with her parents in Melbourne in 1851. In 1856 her only brother Alfred was born at their parent’s home in George Street (Collingwood) now Fitzroy. She was educated at Miss Thomson’s School in Kyneton (1858-1862), and was then a pupil, with her brother, at Miss Thompson’s School in South Yarra from 1863 to 1865. Katie matriculated with honours from Presbyterian Ladies’ College (East Melbourne). She had attended the College since its opening day (1875) and studied under Professor Pearson. She taught there when Charles Pearson was headmaster. Katie studied music at the Melbourne School of Music under C. W. Russell, passing after three years with honours in 1882. An accomplished pianist, she taught music theory and practice privately and tutored her three nieces, Ivy, Stella and Vera Deakin. Katie never married. She lived at “The Elms” in Adams Street, South Yarra, with her parents until their death and it was here that she taught her three nieces. She had many friends in the musical and literary world of Melbourne including the Monash family, and Baron Von Mueller. A close companion and confidante of her younger brother, Katie travelled with his family to London in 1900. She accompanied Stella Deakin to Berlin (1909) where she pursued her scientific studies, and Vera Deakin in 1913 when she studied music in Berlin and Budapest. Katie Deakin died at “The Elms” in 1937 and was buried with her parents at St Kilda cemetery. This entry was researched and written by Katie Deakin’s great niece, Judith Harley. Published resources Book The mystic life of Alfred Deakin, Gabay, Al, 1992 Alfred Deakin, Murdoch, Walter, 1923 Alfred Deakin : a biography, La Nauze, J A, 1965 A Family Romance: The Deakins at Home, Rickard, John, 1996 Resource Section Alfred Deakin/Pattie Deakin, National Archives of Australia, 2002, http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/meetpm.asp?pmId=3&pageName=wife Journal Article Deakin's Confidante, Rivett, Rohan, 1978 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Catherine Deakin, 1844-1958 [manuscript] Papers of Lady Stella Rivett, 1923-1935 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 June 2002 Last modified 19 November 2015 Digital resources Title: Kate Deakin Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0385gb.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Scott Sister papers: 3 notebooks plus an extensive collection of original sketches and watercolours of Australian Lepidoptera [40 cm, Series 192]; original watercolour drawings [Series 193]. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 8 February 2001 Last modified 26 May 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Office files; day books; newspaper cuttings; publications; annual reports; subject files; press releases; correspondence. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Dombkins is a community activist and an outstanding scholar. She ran for election as a Liberal Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Kogarah in 1995 and then as an Independent in the Kogarah Municipal Council elections of 1999. Margaret Dombkins completed a B.Ed., Grad. Dip Commerce/Management and a M.A at Charles Sturt University. She started her professional life teaching primary school students in the NSW Department of Education. When her youngest child went to school, she returned to study and achieved outstanding results. She won an Australian Post Graduate Research Scholarship to complete her doctorate, for which her thesis was “The Relationship of Strategy to Newspaper Organisation Success” in the Graduate School of Journalism and Creative Writing, University of Wollongong. Margaret Dombkins was encouraged by her family to respond to the Liberal Party recruitment and training scheme in 1994 and subsequently ran a very successful campaign in 1995, taking the sitting member to preferences and achieving a 1.5% swing to the Liberals, the only positive swing in an election which saw the Liberal government defeated. Although she had run as the Liberal Party candidate for Kogarah in 1995, Margaret Dombkins was so opposed to high rise developments in the electorate, that in 1999, she issued a personal letter urging electors to vote for the ALP candidate, Cherie Burton, who was successful after the distribution of preferences. In 1999 also, she ran for election to the Kogarah Municipal Council, being narrowly defeated. Margaret Dombkins subsequently changed her political allegiance and joined the ALP. In 2005 she is the Chair of the ALP Arts, Cultural Heritage and Community Development Policy Committee. She is married to David Dombkins, the President of the Institute of Project Management in 2005, and they have three children, all completing their university studies. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "For an entire decade, Olympic swimmer Susie O’Neill won a medal at every single international swimming competition. She holds a record 35 Australian titles and eight Olympic medals. Dubbed ‘Madame Butterfly’, O’Neill achieved world number one ranking in both the 100m and 200m butterfly events. She was also ranked world number one in the 200m freestyle from 1999-2000. Susie O’Neill launched her competitive swimming career at the age of fourteen, when she narrowly missed selection for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. Two years later she won both gold and silver medals at the Commonwealth Games. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, O’Neill won gold, silver and bronze medals, making her Australia’s most outstanding Olympic performer since Shane Gould in 1972. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, O’Neill once again outperformed her peers, winning a record eight medals, including six gold. At Sydney in 2000, she swam at her last Olympic Games, winning one gold and three silver medals. With Dawn Fraser and Petria Thomas, O’Neill holds the Australian women’s record for her Olympic medal tally. Events 1992 - 1992 Swimming – 200m Butterfly 1996 - 1996 Swimming – 200m Butterfly 1996 - 1996 Swimming – 4 x 100m Medley Relay 1996 - 1996 Swimming – 4 x 200m Freestyle 2000 - 2000 Swimming – 200m Butterfly, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 100m Medley Relay 2000 - 2000 Swimming – 200m Freestyle 1994 - 1994 Swimming – 200m Freestyle, 200m Butterfly, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay 1998 - 1998 Swimming – 200m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle, 200m Butterfly, 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 100m Medley Relay 1990 - 1990 Swimming – 4 x 100m Fresstyle Relay Published resources Book Choose to win: achieving your goals, fulfilling your dreams, O'Neill, Susie, 1999 Susie O'Neill: our champion, O'Neill, Susie, 2000 Journal Article The butterfly has landed: Susie O'Neill, Collings, H., 2003 A Fairytale Career: Susie O'Neill, Halloran, J., 2000 Mind Games: Susie O'Neill, Harms, J., 2000 Susie's fairly simple path to greatness: Susie O'Neill, Smith, W., 1999 Total Immersion: Susie O'Neill, Alexander, R., 1998 Susie O'Neill: Madame Butterfly, Fittall, K., 1998 Madame butterfly mark 2: Susie O'Neill, Gray, S., 1996 Class of 94 - Susie O'Neill and Rebecca Brown, Alexander, R., 1994 Resource Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 17 January 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "5 sound files Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 August 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Two letters written by Rosa Praed to: 1)Aunt Fanny, 1 December [19–?] (4 pp.) 2) Miss Susman, 23 July 1901 (4 pp.). Subjects include reminiscences of Tasmania and a visit to America. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Katherine Sampson Created 12 October 2015 Last modified 11 December 2015 Digital resources Title: Katherine Sampson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Photographs taken of Iris Clayton and staff at the Australia National University, Canberra Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Folder containing archives and newspaper clippings. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records 1939-1985 including minutes, issues of “Calling all housewives”, accounts, records of the Geelong branch 1964-1974, and assorted records for the Castlemaine, Manifold Heights, Essendon, St. Kilda and East Melbourne branches. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 October 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Suzanne McGillivray is a once only candidate for the Australian Democrats: she ran in the 2003 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Lane Cove. Suzanne McGillivray told The Weekly Times (Ryde) that “Throughout Sydney’s northern suburbs, residents are urgently crying out for solutions to increasing population, urban sprawl, bushland loss and loss of our suburban character”. She believed the Australian Democrats could address these problems but she polled only 3.1% of the votes cast Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc07/84 comprises correspondence, an annotated manuscript and litigation papers relating to “Trade in antiquities”, lecture and teaching notes, and conference and UNESCO papers (3 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Emeritus Professor Judith Whitworth AC MB, BS, MD, PhD, DSc, FRACP, FAATSE, FAAHMS is an internationally renowned medical researcher in the fields of kidney function and blood pressure. From 1968 to 1991 she worked as physician and nephrologist in hospitals in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney and overseas in Paris and London. In 1997 she was the first woman to be appointed Chief Medical Officer of Australia, and from 1999 to 2009 she served as Director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research and Howard Florey professor of Medical Research at the Australian National University (ANU). Whitworth has had an extensive involvement in national organisations and professional bodies over many decades. In honour of her longtime support to women in science the Judith Whitworth Fellowship for Gender Equity was established in 2014, based at the ANU. She was the ACT Australian of the Year for 2004. Judith Whitworth was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2004. Judith Whitworth was born in Melbourne on 1 April 1944. Attracted to a career in medicine as a result of a long hospital stay with polio as a child, she graduated from the University of Melbourne with a bachelor’s degree in medicine in 1967, and Doctor of Medicine in 1974. Whitworth worked as a physician and nephrologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital between 1968 and 1991, interspersed with periods at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide (1972), the Tenon Hospital in Paris (1973–74), and Guy’s Hospital in London (1974–75). Her interest in medical research was ignited early, through a fellowship (1975–77) as a clinical researcher in the Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine in Melbourne, culminating in award of a PhD in 1978. From 1991 to 1997 Whitworth served as Head of the Department of Medicine at the St George Hospital in Sydney and (till 1999) as Professor of Medicine at the University of New South Wales. During this period she also chaired (1994–96) the Medical Research Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council. She was appointed the Chief Medical Officer for the Commonwealth in 1997, the first woman to be so. From 1999 to 2009 she served as Director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research and Howard Florey Professor of Medical Research at the Australian National University (ANU). Since then, as emeritus professor, she has continued her research into the mechanisms of high blood pressure, and her involvement with key professional bodies in Australia and overseas. Whitworth has made major contributions in three key areas. Her research overturned conventional understandings of how anti-inflammatory steroid hormones raise blood pressure and led to development of safer, more effective medications. In developing Australian and international clinical guidelines for dealing with hypertension, her research has aided in slowing progression of chronic kidney disease and improving management of hypertension. Her work has helped heighten awareness of the need for evidence-based research in the formulation of health policy. She has published over 500 scientific publications and held over 20 visiting professorships and lectureships throughout the world. In 2001 she was made a Companion in the Order of Australia (AC) for her ‘service to the advancement of academic medicine and as a major contributor to research policy and medical research administration in Australian and internationally’. From 2005 to 2011 she chaired the World Health Organisation Global Advisory Committee on Health Research. Throughout her career Whitworth has played very active leadership roles in a considerable number of professional organisations, including Australian Society of Medical Research, the Royal Australian College of Physicians, the International Society of Nephrology, the International Society of Hypertension, the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia, the Australia and New Zealand Society of Nephrology, and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. In addition, she served on the Board of Therapeutic Innovation Australia and chaired its Clinical Trials Infrastructure Committee. Through such bodies and in her own hospital and university positions, she became a generous and exemplary role model and mentor for young scientists and doctors, especially young women. In 2014 her support for women in science was honoured by the ACT Government which established the Judith Whitworth Fellowship for Gender Equity in Science at the ANU. Its purpose is to encourage and reward early and mid-career scientists who have taken time away from their academic career to raise children. In addition to the AC, Whitworth’s contributions to medical science and academic leadership have been recognised through awards including the Howard Florey Medal (1990), the Australian Centenary Medal (2001), and the Curtin Medal (2010); and honorary degrees from the University of Sydney (2004), University of Glasgow (2008), Charles Darwin University (2011), and the University of Melbourne (2012). She was elected Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (2015), and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (2008). Whitworth’s contributions have also been recognised outside her academic and hospital environments. In 2002 she was appointed the Telstra ACT Business Woman of the Year. In 2003 she received the Centenary Medal from the Australian Government. In 2004 she was made Australian of the Year for the ACT. At the same time she was appointed ACT Ambassador for Women, and Ambassador for Canberra. Published resources University of Melbourne: Citation for the Sir William Upjohn Medal (2020) for Professor Judith Whitworth AC, https://mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/engage/community/awards-and-honours/professor-judith-whitworth-ac; University of Sydney: Citation for the award of Doctor of Medicine Honoris Causa to Professor Judith Ann Whitworth (2004) Australian National University: Professor Judith Whitworth, winner of the 2010 Curtin Medal, https://cosdev6.anu.edu.au/about-us/awards-prizes/professor-judith-whitworth Charles Darwin University: Citation for the award of Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa (2011), https://www.cdu.edu.au/about-cdu/leadership-structure/strategic-services-governance/university-council-committees/honorary-awards Judith Whitworth Fellowship for Gender Equity in Science established at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, 2014, https://citynews.com.au/2014/judith-whitworth-fellowship-gender-equity-science-established-john-curtin-school-medical-research/ Researchers praise first fellowship for scientists raising children, Carl Smith, 2014, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-23/science-praise-fellowship-for-raising-children/5618386 Author Details Louise Moran Created 3 July 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Broken Hill social history project is a collection of 30 interviews of men and women who lived in the Broken Hill district in the early part of the 20th century. Interviewees speak of the environment, employment, lifestyle and memories of life in Broken Hill. Recordings are accompanied by photographs, summaries, biographical information and a manuscript collection produced by Stokes during the writing of the book United We Stand: impressions of Broken Hill 1908-1910. Includes interviews with Gertrude Clutterham; Violet Sheehan; Olive Anderson; Pearl Delatorre; May May; Edna McNamara; Norah Mullins; Rene Murphy; Hilda Ferguson; Marj McKenzie; Manda Ravlich; Lily Liddell; Edith Purcell; Florrie Neat; Doris Bell. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 February 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "c. 1944. A group of members of the RAAF Nursing Service model outdoors their flying uniform of khaki shirt, slacks, gaiters, blue boots and blue forage caps. Blue fur-lined jackets were also worn at high altitudes. Specially selected sisters were trained for duty with the first complete Medical Air Evacuation Transport Unit whereby a sister and a medical orderly were allotted to each aircraft used for evacuating casualties from forward areas. (This image appears on page 21 of the album presented to Dr Edith Summerskill housed in the AWM Archive Store) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 8541 comprises material accumulated by Mary Sexton relating to women’s issues and organisations including: banner inscribed “WEL National Agenda for Women”, 1986?; two badges inscribed “Women are on the move” produced by the International Year for Women Secretariat, 1975, and badge inscribed “Unions are for women too”; three T-shirts inscribed with “A woman’s place is in the Senate”, “WEL” and “Call me Ms”; handkerchiefs produced for the 1980 United Nations Mid-decade Conference for Women held in Copenhagen; Pamela Denoon memorial lectures, 1989-2005, and flyers; biographical material on Pamela Denoon, 1988-1995; and, banner containing badges (1 box, 2 fol. boxes).??The Acc08.133 instalment comprises Women’s Electoral Lobby ephemera: T-shirt; cloth bag, 1982; and, Women’s History Month cloth badge, 1985 (1 packet).??The Acc08.134 instalment comprises Women’s History Month ephemera: brochure (2003); commemorative postcards, 2005-2006; flyer (2007); and, poster (undated) (1 fol. box).??The Acc08.189 instalment comprises Women’s History Month minutes, promotional material, correspondence, submission to the Office of the Status of Women, material for website and online forum, launch of Women’s History Month in Australia (2 boxes). Author Details Elle Morrell Created 10 October 2000 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 37 min.)??Dick, a farmer, speaks of growing up, her marriage to an older man from a farming background, their move to the country, raising her two children, how she and her husband established a small dairy herd, the breadth of her farm and family chores, importance of her role as bookkeeper, learning more practical farming skills from farming courses and instruction from Dept. of Agriculture advisors, her interest in empowering other women running farms, her involvement in a program which is an extension of Women on Farms, her love of daily challenges and her philosophy of life. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Probably Brisbane, Qld. c. 1943. Formal group portrait of officers of the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) on the steps of a building, possibly while attending a training course. In the front row are Squadron Officer Gwen Stark (left) and Lady Zara Gowrie, wife of the Governor-General and Honorary Air Commandant of the WAAAF. Amongst the signatures at the bottom of the photograph are M. Keeler, M. Mackenzie, Patricia Voller, Pat Dearden, ? Butts, Caroline Francis, Mary Houston, Sara Cox, Patricia Barnes, Dorothy Smith, E. Sheen, K. Atherton, M. Yabsley, I. Hawkins, R. Sutherland, B. Hotchkin, Lilah T. Smith, B. E. Muir, J. Wallman, J. Dallace, M. Allan, E. Combe. (Donor G. Caldwell) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Catherine Ann ‘Kate’ Warner AM is an Australian lawyer, legal academic, and the current (2015) Governor of Tasmania. She was sworn in as Tasmania’s twentieth-eighth Governor at Government House on Wednesday 10 December 2014. In 2017, Kate Warner was made a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia ‘for eminent service to the people of Tasmania through leading contributions to the legal community, particularly to law reform, to higher education as an academic, researcher and publisher, and as a supporter of the arts, and environmental and social justice initiatives’. Professor Kate Warner was born in Hobart, and attended St Michael’s Collegiate School and the University of Tasmania, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours on 15 April 1970, and with a Master of Laws by research thesis on 7 December 1978. Her LLM thesis focussed on ‘Presentence Psychiatric Reports in Tasmania’. After graduation, she worked as Associate to (then) Chief Justice of Tasmania Sir Stanley Burbury at the Supreme Court of Tasmania and was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in 1971. Following completion of her LLM thesis in 1978, she commenced her lengthy career as an academic at the University of Tasmania Law School. She was promoted to Lecturer in 1981, to Senior Lecturer in 1989, Associate Professor in 1993, and Professor in 1996. In 1992, she was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law and later was appointed Head of the School of Law (the first woman to hold these positions at the University of Tasmania). She was promoted to Professor in 1996 and in 2002 was appointed as foundation Director of the Tasmania Law Reform Institute. Before her appointment as Governor for the State of Tasmania, Warner was Professor, Faculty of Law, at the University of Tasmania and Director of the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute. She had also, in her career at the University, held the positions of Dean, Faculty of Law, and Head of School. Professor Warner’s teaching interests were in Criminal Law, Evidence, Criminology and Sentencing, and her research interests included Sentencing and Criminal Justice, areas in which she has a significant publications record. Professor Warner was a Commissioner of the Tasmanian Gaming Commission, with a particular interest in regulation, gaming policy and harm minimisation. She had also been a Member of the Sentencing Advisory Council since 2010, and had assisted with the preparation of the Council’s discussion papers and reports. She was a Member of the Board of Legal Education; a Member of the Council of Law Reporting; and Director, Centre for Legal Studies. In addition to working with the Tasmania Law Reform Institute on its projects, Professor Warner had been involved in providing advice and submissions on rape law reform, drug diversion and mental health diversion programs and abortion law reform. She also assisted other law reform bodies nationally, including the New South Wales Law Reform Commission and the Australian Law Reform Commission. As President of the Alcorso Foundation, Her Excellency supports social and cultural advancement in the community through its programs in the Arts, Environment and Social Justice. Professor Warner has received a number of awards and fellowships, including Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in 2007; Visiting Fellow All Souls College Oxford in 2009; the University of Tasmania Distinguished Service Medal in 2013; and the Women Lawyers Award for Leadership in 2013. She has been nominated as a finalist in the Tasmanian Australian of the Year Awards for her contributions to the law, law reform and legal education. On 26 January 2014 Her Excellency was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for her significant service to the law, particularly in the areas of law reform and education. Her Excellency is married to Richard Warner, and has two daughters. Richard was the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship in 1999, and is actively involved in the Derwent Valley community. He is a keen horticulturalist, and interested in the re-use of redundant heritage buildings in Tasmania. She is grandmother to five grandchildren, a passionate gardener, keen bushwalker and occasional cyclist. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Curriculum Vitae of The Governor: Her Excellency Professor The Honourable Kate Warner AM, Office of the Governor, 2015, http://www.govhouse.tas.gov.au/governor/curriculum-vitae Article Kate Warner to be appointed first female Governor of Tasmania, 2014, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-10/28th-tasmanian-governor-announced-kate-warner/5878872 Book Sentencing in Tasmania, Warner, K and Davis, J., Henning, T. and Porter, D (eds.), 2002 Criminal Process and Human Rights, Gams J, Henning T, Hunter J and Warner K, 2011 Book Section Equality Before the Law and Equal Impact of Sanctions: Doing justice to difference in wealth and employment status, Warner, Kate, 2012 Journal Article Public judgement on sentencing: Final results from the Tasmanian Jury Sentencing Study, Warner K, Davis J, Walter M, Bradfield R and Vermey R, 2011 Using jurors to explore public attitudes to sentencing, Warner, Kate and Davis, J., 2012 The Role of Guideline Judgments in the Law and Order Debate, Warner, Kate, 2003 Gang Rape in Sydney: Crime, the media, politics, race and sentencing, Warner, Kate, 2004 Report Sentencing, Warner, Kate, 2008 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nikki Henningham (with Kate Warner) Created 10 November 2015 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Biography of Merle Jackomos youth at Cummeragunga Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sylvia Kinder was active in the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement. As a teacher she was active with the South Australian Institute of Teachers (SAIT) questioning the sexist teaching practices within schools. She was active in changing education standards to include girls, the use of non sexist language in school and equal opportunities for girls. Sylvia was a member of the Australian Women’s Education Coalition (SA Branch). She was involved in the establishment of the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement, Women’s Studies Resource Centre, Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement Archives and the Hindmarsh Women’s Community Health Centre. She was a member of International Women’s Year National Advisory Committee 1974-1976. The need for a women’s studies courses became apparent to Sylvia and other concerned teachers and set about setting up the a women’s library as part of the Women’s Liberation Movement. Books and papers where donated and the Women’s Studies Resource Centre was created. She taught women’s studies at the Women’s Studies Resource Centre. She was A collective member of Liberation, Adelaide Women’s Liberation Newsletter. She served on the Status of Women’s Standing Committee from 1974-1976. Sylvia addressed International Women’s Day rallies or marches. She helped organise conferences including the Young Women’s Festival and the Women in Labour Conference both held in Adelaide. She was also active in gay liberation in South Australia. Some of the other groups she was involved in are Women Behind Bars, Salisbury Women’s Group Newsletter, Salisbury Women’s Health centre, National Women’s Consultative Council, SAIT Professional Development Committee, International Women’s Day Collective. Women’s Theatre Group (South Australia). There is a collection of taped interviews with South Australian feminist including Pat Ronald, Liz Byard, Anna Yeatman, Judy Gillett, Betty Fisher, Connie Frazer, Deborah McCulloch, Jill Mathews, Sue Higgins (Sheridan) and Gail Tauscher. Sylvia Kinder wrote Herstory of the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement 1969-1974.??Papers of South Australian feminist Sylvia Kinder including: teaching notes; workshop and conference papers; promotional leaflets; newspaper cuttings and articles; sound tapes of interviews with other South Australian feminists; and T-shirts and caps. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1996, Kate Lundy became the youngest Labor representative in the Senate and the youngest woman ever elected to represent the Australian Labor Party in Federal Parliament. She was 28 years old. On 11 September 2010, Lundy was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Citizenship and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Cabinet as part of the Second Gillard Ministry. In a subsequent reshuffle in March 2012, Lundy was appointed as the Minister for Sport and she was also made Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Minister Assisting the Minister for Industry and Innovation. On 1 July 2013, as part of the Second Rudd Ministry, Lundy retained the portfolio of Multicultural Affairs and gained the portfolio of Minister Assisting for the Digital Economy. She resigned from the Senate on 24 March 2015. Kate Lundy became the youngest Labor representative in the Senate and the youngest woman ever elected to represent the ALP in Federal Parliament when, at age 28, she was elected Senator for the Australian Capital Territory in March 1996. In 1998 Kate was appointed Shadow Minister for Sport and Youth Affairs as well as Shadow Minister Assisting on Information Technology. Kate then became Shadow Minister for Information Technology and Sport after the 2001 federal election. In the reshuffle by Labor Opposition Leader Kim Beazley on 24 June 2005, Kate was given portfolio responsibility for Sport and Recreation. Kate began her working career as a labourer in the construction industry at age sixteen and became active in the Building Workers Industrial Union (now the CFMEU), later becoming a workplace delegate and a full-time union organiser. Kate was also the youngest person, and first woman, to be elected as President of the ACT Trades and Labour Council. Kate is recognised for her involvement in IT and the Internet. In 1996 she was awarded ‘Most Computer Literate Politician’ by the Australian Computer Society and in 1998, was named as one of ‘The 20 Most Powerful Internet Decision Makers’ by internet.au magazine. Kate was the first federal politician in Australia to publish a home page on the internet, which she continues to personally maintain. Kate Lundy is a passionate sportswoman, especially rowing and scuba diving. She is a member and patron of the Canberra Rowing Club, and patron of a number of other sports and charity organisations. Kate Lundy lives in North Canberra with her husband David. They have a blended family of five children. On 11 September 2010, Lundy was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Citizenship and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Cabinet as part of the Second Gillard Ministry. In a subsequent reshuffle in March 2012, Lundy was appointed as the Minister for Sport and she was also made Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Minister Assisting the Minister for Industry and Innovation. On 1 July 2013, as part of the Second Rudd Ministry, Lundy retained the portfolio of Minister Assisting for Digital Economy. Kate was a member of several Parliamentary Committees, including the Senate Legislation and References Committees on Finance and Public Administration as well as Environment, Information Technology, Communications and the Arts. She was also a member of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories and Presiding Officers’ Information Technology Advisory Committee. She resigned from the Senate on 24 March 2015. Since her retirement from Parliament, she was appointed to the boards of the National Roads and Motoring Association (NRMA), the Australian Grand Prix and the Australian Cyber Security Research Centre. This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 It's About Time for Women in Australian Sport, Lundy, Kate, 2012, http://www.katelundy.com.au/2012/11/01/about-time-for-women-in-australian-sport/ Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 May 2006 Last modified 12 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Senator Kate Lundy Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 15 minutes??Marilyn Beaumont was born in Canberra. She trained at the Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney between 1968 and 1971. After ten years of alternate nursing and non-nursing appointments she came to Adelaide in 1980 and worked in a counselling capacity with the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Board. In 1981 she became a Liaison Officer for the SA Branch of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation and in 1982 she successfully contested an election for Secretary of that association. Marilyn’s five year appointment, before taking up the Federal Secretaryship, coincided with a time when the professional and industrial roles of that association were very active. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 minutes.??A brief address about the life of Gwendoline McCarthy who was born in Norwood in 1901, educated at the MLC and studied law at Adelaide University. Gwen joined the Lyceum Club in 1923 and was president from 1967-69. She married James McCarthy and they set up a law practice in Kadina. She was involved in the Guides in Kadina. On her husband’s death she returned to Adelaide and joined the firm of Thompson, Cleland, Holland and McCarthy. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Dorothy Horsfield has worked as a journalist in Australia and overseas. Her published novels include Dream Run (1992) and Venom (2006) (This entry was sponsored by a generous donation from Christine Foley.) Dorothy Horsfield studied English and Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She worked in Papua New Guinea as an information officer and as an anthropologist’s research assistant in Zimbabwe. She also worked for the ABC in London, where she met well-known political journalist Paul Lyneham, whom she married. The couple had three children. Horsfield has worked as a journalist with ABC radio and television, Channel 7, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, the National Times and the Canberra Times, as far afield as London, Berlin and Afghanistan. She ran a media company, and has also worked as a novelist, reviewer, short story writer and poet. She has been published in newspapers and literary magazines. Horsfield’s published novels include Dream Run (1992) and Venom (2006) – a tale of politics set in Canberra and its surrounds. She also edited Paul Lyneham: A Memoir (2002). She was a member of Seven Writers – a group of seven Canberra-based writers whose work vividly portrayed life ‘beneath the surface of Canberra’ – and as part of this collective she contributed to Canberra Tales (1988), republished as The Division of Love in 1996, an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. The work received an ACT Bicentennial Award. After the death of her husband from lung cancer, Horsfield fronted a national media campaign in 2002 to raise public awareness of the need for early diagnosis of lung disease. She has published articles about her visit to Afghanistan through the Rotary Club of Canberra, and became an adviser to UNIFEM Australia (the United Nations Development Fund for Women) in 2003. Published resources Book Dream Run, Horsfield, Dorothy, 1992 Venom, Horsfield, Dorothy, 2005 The Division of Love: Stories, Barbalet, Margaret et al, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Seven Writers group, between 1986 and approximately 2000 Papers of Dorothy Horsfield, 1986-2003 [manuscript] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The letters and cards in this series are mostly of a personal nature and deal with many subjects and activities. Letters that deal entirely with a specific organisation or activity have been placed in the appropriate series. The letters in Series 1 were originally scattered through the collection, many of them being in a number of overlapping concertina files. The dated letters have been arranged by year, but have not been sorted within each year.??The principal correspondents are Nadine Amadio, Barry Brook, Frank Callaway, W.M. Colleron, Roger Covell, W.R. Cumming, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Ian Farr, Mark Furneaux, Dame Joan Hammond, Gail Holst, RamliIbraham, Margaret Kartomi, Justin MacDonnell, Prue Neidorf, Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski, Donald Peart, Curt Prerauer, Tom Shapcott, Margaret Sutherland, George Tintner, Jennifer Vogel, Donald Westlake and Roger Woodward. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "I. CAPTIVE NATIONS COUNCIL OF NEW SOUTH WALES??A. Minutes of meetings, with related records, 1966-1989?B. Correspondence, 1966-1998?C. Subject files, 1956-1998?D. Chronological files, 1956-1990 – Include records concerning activities of the Captive Nations Week Committee and the United Council of Migrants from Communist Dominated Europe in Australia.?E. Papers concerning war crimes legislation in Australia, 1985-1991?F. Financial records, 1965-1991?G. Visitors’ book, 1969-1987?H. Printed material, 1967-1971?I. Photographs,1974-1976, 1985-1996??II.UNITED COUNCIL OF MIGRANTS FROM COMMUNIST DOMINATED EUROPE IN AUSTRALIA??1954-1959; Meetings’ attendance book, with letter received from Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, Central Delegacy for Australia and New Zealand, 18 Mar. 1960 (Call No.: MLMSS 7171/24/1)?1953-1957; Correspondence [In/Out] register (Call No.: MLMSS 7171/24/2)?1953-1956; Letters received (Call No.: MLMSS 7171/24/3)?1953-1957; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 7171/24/4)?1956-1966; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 7171/24/5)?1955-1969; Memoranda and reports, including Secretary-General’s Report, 1955-1956 and President’s Report, 1955, presented to annual general meetings (Call No.: MLMSS 7171/24/6)?1954-1963; Miscellaneous records, including newscuttings and printed material (Call No.: MLMSS 7171/24/7) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 September 2006 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (1.13 hours) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes papers mainly concerning the Literature Board of the Australia Council. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "BOX 1?1950, 1962-1985, date unknown; Correspondence with, among others, Eric Aarons, Laurie Aarons, Malcolm Booker, G.H. (George Harold) Burchett, Wilfred Burchett, Walter J. Burgess, Alex Carey, Jean Chesneaux, Roger Coates, Dang Chan Lieu, Dave Davies, Ralph Gibson, Amirah Inglis, Angus McIntyre, J.A.C. Mackie, Ken Mansell, David G. Marr, David Martin, Jack Morrison, Rex Mortimer, Helen G. Palmer, John Playford, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Leonard Radic, Alec Robertson, Norman Rothfield, Ernestine Rothols, John Sendy, Carlyle A. Thayer, Gough Whitlam and Peter Young??BOX 2?1962; Letters received mainly from Lorraine Salmon, Aileen Palmer and Rex Mortimer (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/2/1)??1962-1967; Correspondence with, among others, Laurie Aarons, Phillip Bonosky, Jim Cairns, Manning Clark, Steve Cooper, Leslie Haylen, Norman Jeffery, Sir Mark Oliphant, Helen G. Palmer, Phan Hien, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Ernestine Rothols, Geoffrey Serle and Peggy Somers (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/2/2)??1966-1971; Letters received, being testimonials, mainly from Jim Cairns and J.M. (John Murray) Wheeldon (Call No.: ML MSS 6105/2/3)??1967-1968; Letters received from Lorraine Salmon, 30 Mar. 1967-30 July 1968 (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/2/4)??1967; Correspondence concerning his visit to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), May 1967 (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/2/5)??1967, 1974-1977; ‘Correspondence to and from Hanoi’, being correspondence with, among others, Eric Aarons, Laurie Aarons, Robin Blackburn, Wilfred Burchett, Rowan J. Cahill, Dang Chan Lieu, Dave Davies, Derek Davies, Far Eastern Economic Review, Mavis Robertson, Ernestine Rothols, Russell Spurr and Pete Thomas (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/2/6)??1974-1978; ‘Correspondence to and from Chiswick’, being correspondence to and from his Sydney address with, among others, Malcolm Booker, Wilfred Burchett, Dave Davies, Geoff Davis, Far Eastern Economic Review, Claude Julien (Le Monde Diplomatique, Paris), J.A.C. Mackie, Roger Milliss, John Sendy, Transnational Co-operative and Tom Uren (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/2/7)??1968-1970; Letters received from Gerald Griffin (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/2/8)??1975-1976; Correspondence concerning employment applications (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/2/9)??1983-1984; Letters received from Dave Davies and Pete Thomas concerning the Communist Party of Australia (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/2/10)??BOX 3?1943-1946, 1975-1977; Papers concerning his war service and application to the Defence Service Homes Scheme (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/3/1)??1951-1959; Papers concerning the Australian economy, and Australian politics and history. Include the comic, The Calamitous Career of Dictator Bob, ca. 1951, and issues of The Guardian, 1951 and 1959 (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/3/2)??1961-1967; Papers mainly concerning his speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand, 1967 (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/3/3)??1962-1965; Papers concerning Brian Fitzpatrick including his testimonial dinner, 19 June 1964, and issues of Brian Fitzpatrick’s Labor News Letter, with newscuttings concerning the death of journalist, Warren McIlwraith, 1965 (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/3/4)??1962-1976; Papers concerning his English translation of Jean Chesneaux’s Contribution a l’histoire de la nation vietnamienne, 1954 (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/3/5)??1968; Papers concerning the Stockholm Conference on Vietnam – International Liaison Committee (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/3/6)??1977-1985; Papers concerning his work with Pacific Islands Monthly, including drafts of articles and correspondence with, among others, James Frederick Burton, Bengst Danielsson, Margaret Jones and Daniel Tardieu (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/3/7)??1978-1979; Papers concerning his editing of the publication, The Vietnam-Kampuchea-China: Motivations, Background Significance. Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1979. Working Paper No. 1. (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/3/8)??BOX 4?1966-1971; Records of the Bondi Branch of the Communist Party of Australia with related CPA papers. Include membership lists, correspondence, CPA circulars and minutes of meetings, papers concerning the National Anti-war Conference, Sydney, 17-21 Feb. 1971; The Guardian readers’ survey, Aug.-Sep. 1966; and letters of introduction received from CPA officials for his European trip, 1968??BOX 5?1970-1971; Papers concerning the death and funeral of Lorraine Salmon, being mainly letters of condolence received??BOX 6?ca. 1957-ca. 1985; Literary manuscripts and publications mainly of his articles, translations and talks??BOX 7?ca. 1960-ca. 1979; Literary manuscripts mainly of his articles, including those written during his time in France and Czechoslovakia, 1968, with related notebooks??BOX 8?1960-ca. 1976; Notebooks, being farewell autograph book from Vietnam, 1960; six notebooks for 1967; two each for 1968 and 1974; one each for ca. 1975 and ca. 1976; and folder of undated notebooks and fragments; and address book with envelope of business cards and addresses on slips of paper, 195-?-ca. 1980??BOX 9X?1957-1963, date unknown; Scrapbook, including his interview with Anwar Kadir, Head of the Delegation of the Communist Party of Indonesia in Hanoi, Sep. 1960, and Ms. Note by, and account of Egon Erwin Kisch, by his friend Bruno Frei (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/9X/1)??1958-1964; Scrapbook, being mainly of newscuttings of his articles for The Guardian and Tribune, and reviews of his book, Focus on Indo-China, 1961, and of Pig follows Day: Two years in Viet Nam, 1960 (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/9X/2)??1959-1960, 1966; Scrapbook, including letters received; German article on Egon Erwin Kisch by Bruno Frei, Hanoi, 1959; Malcolm Salmon’s interviews with D.N. Aidit, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Indonesia, 1959; Pham Van Dong, Premier and Foreign Minister of the DRVN, 11 June 1960, and Ho Chi Minh, President of the DRVN, 11 Mar 1960; and MS. Of I Look Back by Alan Marshall for the centenary issue of The Guardian (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/9X/3)??1967-1978; Scrapbook, being mainly of newscuttings (Call No.: MLMSS 6105/9X/4)??BOX 10?1960-1961; Corrected carbon typescript versions (2) and printed copy of his book, Focus on Indo-China. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961??BOX 11?1927-1985; Miscellaneous papers, including passports, press identification cards, invitations, tribute to Fred Paterson, ca. 1977, documents concerning his marriage to Peta Hussey on 14 Dec. 1971, travel maps, receipts and Russian and Vietnamese postcards??BOX 12?1967-1980; Papers, being mainly printed material and newscuttings concerning Vietnam, including folder inscribed ‘Vietnam Materials ’74-’75’ and a copy of his pamphlet, North Vietnam: a first-hand account of the blitz. Sydney: Tribune, 1969???BOX 13?1955-1985; Papers, being mainly printed material and newscuttings concerning Vietnam, including photocopied typescript of Mona Brand’s sound-stage play, Once More Flowers Blossom, date unknown, set in the mountainous North-West of Vietnam, 1948-1954, and based on actual experiences described to the author while visiting the region in 1957??BOX 14?1967-1968; Printed material, being newspapers, magazines and newscuttings from France and Czechoslovakia??BOX 15?1953-1982; Printed material and newscuttings on Australian and International politics, including G.H. (George Harold) Burchett’s pamphlet, America and the Korea War. Rosebud West, Vic.: World Unity Publications, 1953??MLOH 197/1?Malcolm Salmon’s review of The Last Domino (Collins, 1976) by Malcolm Booker for ABC Radio; Malcolm Salmon’s review of The Boat People (Penguin, 1979) by Bruce Grant for ABC Radio; and Malcolm Salmon’s commentary for ABC Radio on the relationship of Australia and Pacific Island governments with the United States of America. Based on recent events, ca. 1981, involving Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. The former cancelled a good will tour of two US warships to Port Vila following the US Government’s refusal to acknowledge or deny whether nuclear weapons were on board the ships. Papua New Guinea seized an American fishing vessel involved in tuna fishing within PNG’s 200 mile exclusion zone. The US recognises tuna as a migratory fish and, therefore, the seizure as illegal, ca. 1976-ca.1981??MLOH 197/2?ABC Radio dramatisation of conversation between Mao Tse-Tung and President Pompidou of France during his visit to China in Sept. 1973, based on transcript published by the French weekly, Le Nouvel Observateur, shortly after Mao’s death in 1976. Translated and narrated by Malcom Salmon, with Alexander Archdale as Mao and Ron Hadrick as Pompidou, ca. 1977 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 14 September 2006 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Eucla vocabulary (Jinyila wongga) 29 p. from several informants and 13 pages of miscellaneous notes, including a Eucla pedigree, songs, names of some Eucla natives and their waters, to complete Daisy Bates’ survey of vocabulary of SW edge of the Nullarbor Plain. There are some Bibbulmun words from the west, north and north east. People from Bight Head (Ilgamba) and Eucla (Jinyila) have, since white settlement, intermarried. There are accounts of cousin marriages and some physical deformities that result. DB expresses the need for a British gentleman to be High Commissioner of Australian aborigines, free of party and political restraint. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ruth Don was the first Senior Mistress of a Queensland high school, as well as the first female Principal of the Domestic Science High School and of Brisbane’s Office Training College. She also became the Queensland Teachers Union’s first female president. Ruth was founding president of the Forum Club in Brisbane. Ruth Don was born into a family of teachers; her father Alex had served as a Queensland Teachers Union president in the 1920s. In 1925 she completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Queensland. Following a string of temporary appointments, in 1934 Ruth secured a teaching position at the State Commercial High School on George Street in Brisbane where the Queensland University of technology (QUT) now stands. She later became the first Senior Mistress of a Queensland high school in 1954. Additionally, Ruth Don, along with two other university graduates, formed the Forum Club in 1941. She took on the position of founding president of the Forum Club, which sought to encourage women to find their voice as public speakers and learn how to run meetings effectively. Participation in the Forum Club provided Ruth with valuable experience for her later role as a union representative. Throughout her 40-year teaching career, Ruth was disappointed to encounter so many inequalities penalising female teachers. Her experiences in varied locations provided her with great insights for arguing for better working conditions for women. She was an instrumental player in advocating equal pay for women in the teaching field. Ruth was actively involved in the Queensland Teachers Union (QTU) and, in 1951 she became its first female president. In 1962, Ruth represented the QTU on the Equal Pay Committee, led by the State Service Union. It was not until 1967 that the Arbitration Commission accepted evidence that female teachers should be paid the same rate as male teachers. Ruth retired in 1968 and, just one year later, equal pay for all teachers was initiated by the Queensland Education Department. Published resources Book Section Ruth Don (1902 – 2003), Grant, Heather, 2005 Resource Section Ruth Don (1902 – 2003), Grant, Heather, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1950/index.html#item-ruth-don Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Ruth Don, teacher, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Following her education in Sydney, Berlin and Paris, Ruby Board devoted her time to social welfare issues. She became a Member of the Board of the Rachael Forster Hospital and for a period was President of the National Council of Women of New South Wales. During World War II, Board was president of the Women’s Voluntary National Register, a member of the executive of the Australian Comforts Fund and Defence Director of the Women’s Auxiliary National Service. Ruby Board was the third president of the National Council of Women of Australia, assuming office in November 1942 in the depths of World War II. With her long experience in the organisation, she provided a steady hand during the two years of her NCWA leadership, focusing on issues relating particularly to treatment and pay of women in the services, postwar reconstruction (especially housing), and the perennial matters of uniform marriage and divorce laws and the nationality of married women (now made urgent by wartime marriages between Australian women and American soldiers). She had earlier led the Australian delegation to the International Council of Women in Washington in 1925 and served as treasurer of the Federal Council of the National Councils of Women of Australia and as interim treasurer of the new National Council of Women of Australia until the first board was elected in October 1931. Ruby Board also filled a number of offices in the NSW Council from before World War I, culminating in the presidency from 1938 to 1948. The daughter of the renowned progressive NSW director of education, Peter Board, Ruby was educated in Sydney, Berlin and Paris, and, with no need to work for a living, devoted her adult life to social welfare and issues relating to justice for women. In addition to her NCW work during World War II, Board played a leading in NSW war support as president of the Women’s Voluntary National Register, a member of the executive of the Australian Comforts Fund, Defence Director of the Women’s Auxiliary National Service and president of the Housekeepers’ Emergency Service. Board’s other significant organisational work included membership of the Board of the Rachel Forster Hospital, local leadership of the Country Women’s Association in the 1930s, and leading roles in the Diabetic Association of New South Wales from 1949-61. Ruby Board was born on 15 October 1880, at Gunning, New South Wales, the only child of Peter Board and his wife Jessie Allen, née Bowes. Her social conscience was moulded by childhood happiness in ‘this small and closely linked family’ and by the progressive ideals of her father, who served as the first NSW director of education from 1905-22. Reform ideals and issues concerning justice for women (including suffrage) were also instilled by her maternal grandmother, Euphemia Bowes, who was a founder and early president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in NSW. Ruby also received a broad education, owing to her father’s travels during periods of leave; she attended schools in Sydney, Berlin and Paris. Having independent means, Ruby was free to combine her aptitude for language with an interest in welfare. She published pamphlets on Australian Pronunciation: A Handbook for the Teaching of English in Australia (1927) and the Pupils’ Practice Book for Vowel Sounds (1928). In the early 1920s, Ruby Board moved with her parents to Leura, where she nursed her mother until her death in 1932. There she became a leading figure in the Country Women’s Association and was president of the Blue Mountains branch from 1930 to 1938. A member of the National Council of Women of New South Wales for 50 years, she was honorary general secretary 1914-1918, interstate secretary 1919, president 1938-1948, and state delegate to the national conferences in 1946 and 1948. She led the Australian delegates to the sixth quinquennial convention of the International Council of Women in Washington in 1925. In 1931, she was interim honorary treasurer of the National Council of Women of Australia, president from 1942 to 1944 and Australian convenor for home economics for the period from 1944 up to 1952. As national president, she focused on war work but with an emphasis on the issues of importance to women-treatment and pay of women in the services, postwar reconstruction (especially housing), and uniform marriage and divorce laws and the nationality of married women, an issue of particular moment because of wartime marriages between Australian women and American soldiers. She was particularly proud to preside over the women’s reception to Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife and emissary of the US president, in Sydney Town Hall in 1943. Board’s period in office also saw the establishment of the Australian Women’s Charter movement and conference by Jessie Street, a challenge to the claims of the NCWA to speak for Australian women. Board made it clear to the Australian government that this conference did not have the support of the Councils or speak for the majority of women’s organisations, while also encouraging state Councils to hold their own conferences to demonstrate they were not necessarily opposing the main points of the Charter. Many of the same issues were considered and approved at the 1944 national conference, which Board chaired. Though Ruby Board served as NSW president from 1938 to 1948, she refused appointment as MBE because she believed that her office, reflecting the work of the Council, deserved higher recognition. From 1939 to 1958, Ruby Board was also a vice-president of the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children. During World War II, she was a member of the NSW executive of the Australian Comforts Fund and founding president of the state Women’s Voluntary National Register in 1940, as well as defence director of the Women’s Auxiliary National Service, helping to co-ordinate the work of women’s organisations for the war effort. In 1943, she was a founder and first president of the Housekeepers’ Emergency Service of NSW. A diabetic from the 1930s, she demonstrated effectively how little this condition need interfere with a busy and productive life. She was an office-bearer of the Diabetic Association of New South Wales from 1949 and served as president from 1951 to 1960. Anxious to inform the public of the problems associated with the disease, she organised a lecture tour in 1953 by two world authorities and, in 1955 and 1958, attended congresses of the International Diabetes Federation at Cambridge, England, and Düsseldorf, Germany. In 1957, she was founding president of the Diabetic Association of Australia and chaired its first conference held in Sydney. From 1960, Ruby Board lived at the Mowll Memorial Village, Castle Hill, until she had a fall in December 1963; she died on Christmas Day in the Rachel Forster Hospital. Selfless and generous, with boundless energy, she inspired those around her to similar enthusiasm and commitment. She was not interested in power for its own sake, or in office for its prestige, and always sought to provide opportunities for individual expansion and development. Her obituarist in the NSW NCW newsletter judged her to be ‘balanced, judicious, tolerant, serene’ and to have ‘the saving grace of humour’. Her work for diabetics was commemorated by the naming of the diabetic wing of the Rachel Forster Hospital after her in 1966. Prepared by: Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Events 1940 - 1940 Women’s Voluntary National Register Published resources Resource Section Board, Ruby Willmet (1881-1963), Wright, Andrée, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070335b.htm Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1947, Chisholm, Alec H, 1947 Book Australian pronunciation : a handbook for the teaching of English in Australia, Board, Ruby W, 1927 Pupil's practice book for vowel sounds, Board, Ruby W, 1928 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Newsletter NCW News (NCW NSW), February 1964 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection National Council of Women of New South Wales records, 1895-1976 Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 National Council of Women of New South Wales further papers, 1895-1981 National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Ruby Board, public servant, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 October 2003 Last modified 19 February 2019 Digital resources Title: Ruby Board Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Her Honour Sarah Bradley was a judge of the District Court of Queensland, Australia since 25 March 1999. She was also a judge of the Children’s Court of Queensland. Described as ‘an inspiration to law students and young professionals’, she is known to be unstintingly generous with her time. Her Honour’s approach to incarceration has been publicly scrutinised and criticised as she seeks alternatives to jail terms, believing that ‘imprisonment as the ultimate deterrent is a myth’. Her Honour was the first Magistrate in Queensland to be appointed as a Judge of the District Court of Queensland. Her Honour retired from the courts on 30 June 2016. On 1 July 2016 she took up an appointment as an adjunct professor at Griffith Criminology Institute. She was honured with an Order of Australia (AO) on Australia Day in 2020 for distinguished service to the law, and to the judiciary, to women in the legal profession, and to the community. Born in England, Sarah Bradley and her family migrated to Australia in 1968. Disembarking in Sydney, the family took a train to Queensland where they settled on the Sunshine Coast. She started secondary school at Nambour High School, and by the age of fifteen had decided she wanted to be a lawyer. Her parents sent her to a boarding school (Glennie Memorial School) in Toowoomba for her senior year. She finished school and began an Arts Law degree at the University of Queensland. She graduated with a BA (1976) and an LLB (1978). She found little to be inspired by, except from teachers like Margaret White (now a judge of the Supreme Court) and Quentin Bryce, now retired as Governor General. Judicial Career Judge, District Court of Queensland (1999-) Judge, Children’s Court of Queensland (1999-) Magistrate, Magistrates Court (1993-1999) Pre-Judicial Career Mediator, Legal Aid Office, Queensland (1991-1993) Part-time Member, Misconduct Tribunals, Criminal Justice Commission of Queensland (1990-1993) Partner, O’Dwyer and Bradley Solicitors, Woodridge (1984-1990) Chairperson, Management Committee of South Brisbane Immigration and Community Legal Service, West End (1984-1988) Member, South Brisbane Immigration and Community Legal Service, West End (1982-1988) Solicitor, O’Dwyer and Murphy Solicitors, Woodridge (1982-1984) Solicitor (1979-1981) Legal Officer, Prosecution Section of Solicitor-General’s Office, Brisbane (1978-1979) Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland (1978) Extra Judicial Positions Chair, District Court Judges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee (2009-2012) Member, National Judicial College of Australia, Indigenous Justice Committee (2008-) President, Australian Association of Women Judges (2006-2014) Member, Council of James Cook University (2002-2009) Member, District Court Judges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee (2000-2009) Member International Association of Women Judges (1998-) Member Australian Association of Women Judges (1998-) Published resources Book Section Sarah Bradley, Byrne, Anna, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 May 2016 Last modified 5 March 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Five separate clippings: 1. Advertisement for the Edison Kinetoscope at the Crystal Theatre — 2. Edison Kinetoscope at the Crystal Theatre — 3. Photograph showing Senora Spencer operating the Theatrescope — 4. Photograph from an opening ceremony in Kalgoorlie, W.A 1907.01 — 5. Photograph titled ‘Polo’ by W.F Brown (Franklyn Barrett) Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes Annual Reports for the New South Wales Bush Nursing Association and performing arts related reports. (Call No.: MLMSS 7000/9) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 October 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Recordings of interview between historian Ann Mari Jordens and Beulah Rose McAppion, 20 February 2011, as part of ACT Heritage’s Canberra Tracks Heritage Trails Project. Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 22 June 2012 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound cassette (0.92 hours) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "File 295. Darwin, NT; Adelaide, SA; Daisy Bates; Captain Phillip Parker King; David Carnegie; Ernest Giles; Frank Hann. Explorer , pioneer pastoralist, mainly in WA.; Ion Idriess and Frank Clune; W. Carr-Boyd; Alfred Giles – Box 49 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mother Patrick Potter was born in Ireland and educated at Cloontagh National School and Longford Convent School. In 1866 she began her novitiate as a Sister of Mercy at Athy Convent, Kildare. Upon arrival in Australia in 1868, Mother Patrick joined the Queensland Sisters of Mercy congregation which had been established by Mother Vincent Whitty, making her profession of vows at Brisbane’s All Hallows Convent in 1869. Appointed to All Hallows’ school, Mother Patrick contributed greatly to the religious, academic and cultural development of the students. In 1879 she was elected to the administration of the Brisbane congregation of Sisters of Mercy, where she acted as Superior or assistant, for the next 48 years. After a few years’ teaching in Ipswich, Queensland, Mother Patrick was appointed to an administrative role at All Hallows School (the first secondary school for girls in Queensland). In contributing to All Hallows’ agenda, she made a particular contribution to the school’s music program. She was a friend to her students, offering advice and encouragement, promoting higher education and preparing candidates for junior examinations at the Universities of Sydney and Queensland. In 1889 she introduced Latin into a course which already included French, Italian and German. Following Mother Patrick’s election to the Brisbane Sisters of Mercy, she assisted in establishing convents and schools in areas as remote as Charleville and Goondiwindi. Mother Vincent Whitty’s idea of building a Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Brisbane was enthusiastically adopted by Mother Patrick who brought about the purchase of the South Brisbane land in 1893.She had planned for a children’s wing on the site before she died in 1927. The Mater Children’s Hospital opened in 1931 and was dedicated to her memory. Published resources Resource Section Mother Mary Patrick Potter (1849-1927), O'Brien, Katherine M, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1870/index.html#item-mary-patrick-potter Potter, Norah Mary (1849-1927), O'Brien, Katherine M, 2006, http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110272b.htm Book Expressions of Mercy: Brisbane's Mater Hospitals 1906-2006, Gregory, Helen, 2006 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Michael Potter Papers John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 7309 Photographs of the Funeral of the Rev. Mother Patrick 1927 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute book (Non-official), 14 May 1935-6 June 1950; miscellaneous papers, 1946; Ledger, 2 June 1936-June 1951. Author Details jane carey Created 18 February 2004 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Cecilia Downing was a leading figure in the Victorian women’s movement in the early twentieth century, spreading her activities and influence over an enormous range of organisations. The daughter of Isaac and Mary (née Morgan) Hopkins, Downing was born in London and came to Australia in 1858. She obtained her Teaching Certificate from the Training Institution in Carlton and taught at Portarlington before marrying John Downing in 1885. The couple returned to Melbourne in 1901. Although she had seven children, Cecilia became heavily involved in women’s groups and welfare work. She was one of Victoria’s first child probation officers (1907) and was an officer bearer with both the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Australian Women’s National League. From the 1920s, she devoted her energies to the Housewives Association (having become one of its earliest members in 1917) and served as its federal president from 1940-45 and Victorian president from 1938 until her death in 1952. On 8 June 1950 Cecilia Downing was appointed a Member of the British Empire for social welfare services in Victoria. A member of the Collins Street Baptist Church for 46 years, she helped establish their Women’s Guild in 1910 and the Victorian Baptist Women’s Association in 1926. In 1935 she was elected foundation president of the Women’s Board of the Baptist Union of Australia. She was also honorary secretary of the National Council of Women of Victoria (1928-1935) and foundation president of the National Travellers’ Aid Society (1944), having been an executive member of the Victorian Society since 1920. During WWII she was also involved with the Australian Comforts Fund, the Victorian Council of Women’s Emergency Service and the War Loan and War Savings Certificates Committee. Events 1912 - 1915 President of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 1932 - 1941 Secretary, Baptist Women’s Association, Victoria 1934 - 1943 President, Collins Street Baptist Women’s Guild 1935 - 1938 President of the Australian Baptist Women’s Board 1928 - 1928 Australian Delegate to the Baptist World Alliance Conference in Toronto 1928 - 1928 Australian Delegate to the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Lausanne 1941 - 1942 President, Travellers’ Aid Society of Victoria 1970 - 1970 Married John Downing, they had seven children 1909 - 1909 Recording secretary of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Victoria 1911 - 1911 Founding superintendent of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union’s immigration department 1907 - 1907 One of the government’s first child-probation officers 1906 - 1906 Joined the Collins Street Baptist Church 1917 - 1917 Vice-president of the Housewives’ Co-operative Association (later Housewives’ Association of Victoria) 1928 - 1936 Honorary Secretary, National Council of Women of Victoria 2040 - 1945 President, Federated Association of Australian Housewives 1920 - 1932 Executive Member, Travellers’ Aid Society of Victoria 1945 - 1945 President, Travellers’ Aid Society of Victoria 1944 - 1944 President, National Travellers’ Aid Society 1938 - 1952 President, Housewives Association of Victoria 1947 - 1947 President, National Travellers’ Aid Society 1949 - 1951 President of the Federated Association of Australian Housewives 1932 - 1940 Junior Vice President, Travellers’ Aid Society of Victoria Published resources Resource Section Founder of the Women's Board - Cecilia Downing, Baptist Union of Australia, 1987, http://www.bwa-baptist-heritage.org/bua-bio.htm#downing Downing, Cecilia (1858 - 1952), Smart, Judith, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140031b.htm Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Dickey, Brian, 1994 Journal Article A sacred trust: Cecilia Downing, Baptist faith and feminist citizenship, Smart, Judith, 1995 'For the good that we can do': Cecilia Downing and feminist Christian citizenship, Smart, Judith, 1994 A Mission to the Home: The Housewives Association, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Protestant Christianity, 1920-1940, Smart, Judith, 1998 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria National Council of Women of Victoria Minute books, 1850-1983. [manuscript] Records, 1939-1985. [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Minutes [1904-1960] [microform] The University of Melbourne Archives Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria Australian Historic Records Register Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria Inc. : community organisation records Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 6 October 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Kylie Laurence was appointed New South Wales State Coordinator for the Family First Party in 2005. Kylie Laurence was educated at Calvary Chapel Christian Community School and the Regents Park Christian Community High School in Sydney. She left school at the end of Year 10 and enrolled at the Metropolitan Business College. She completed an Advanced Certificate in Business and Secretarial Administration from the MBC, and worked for some years as a legal secretary. She holds a Certificate in Public Relations from the Sydney Institute of Technology. A committed Christian, Laurence believes strongly in the importance of the family as the basic unit of society. She was twenty years old when she first ran for election in 1998 and was soon employed by the Christian Democratic Party as Party Administrator. On its behalf she contested elections for the House of Representatives, Blaxland, 1998; the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Bankstown, 1999; and the House of Representatives, Reid, 2004. In 2005, Laurence resigned as Party Administrator for the CDP to become NSW State Coordinator for the Family First Party. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc12.154 comprises original drawings, paintings and sketches by Charles Blackman, some of which relate, in part, to the “Alice in Wonderland” series. It includes drawings on printed materials and several catalogues from Blackman exhibitions. Belonging to Barbara Blackman, the collection was held by Felicity St John Moore before being transferred to the National Library of Australia (1 folio box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letters regard recognition of work of Daisy Bates and renaming of Guildford Bridge. Includes copy of letter written by Daisy Bates to Arthur Bradfield, 1943, re plight of Aboriginal Australians and her experience at the Beagle Bay Trappist Mission station. Letter re Guildford Bridge concerns a memorial to explorer Angus Kennedy. Also includes correspondence between R.H.S.V. and David G. O’Donnell re renaming of the bridge. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc09.092 comprises original line art, colour art and hand colored illustrations (various drafts and versions) created by Judy Horacek for Where is the green sheep? Also included are illustrations, printers proofs, early draft and comments for the American and Australian editions (1 fol. box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Hon. Justice Susan Kenny was the first woman ever to be appointed to the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria. Since 1998, she has been a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. Kenny is also a Presidential Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. An outstanding student who was educated at the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford, Kenny was associate for two years to the then justice of the High Court of Australia, the Rt Hon. Ninian Stephen. Soon after returning to the Bar, she took silk. It was while serving as a part-time commissioner for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission that a judicial career beckoned. For many years, Kenny has worked with various administrative bodies which are concerned with judicial reform and education. Susan Kenny was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. The Hon. Justice Susan Kenny was born in Oxford, England in 1953. Growing up, she attended schools in the United States of America and in Australia, where she completed her secondary education at Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew, before embarking upon arts and law degrees at the University of Melbourne. A brilliant student, upon completion of her studies she was placed first in History, winning the Dwight’s Prize; she also shared first place in Law, thereby becoming a joint winner of the illustrious Supreme Court Prize. For two years from 1979, Kenny was associate to the Rt Hon. Sir Ninian Stephen, then on the High Court of Australia. Afterwards she went into practice as a barrister. Becoming expert in the areas of constitutional and public law while also working in commercial and tax law, she took silk in 1996. During this time, she appeared in a number of prominent cases before the High Court of Australia, including the Tasmanian Dam Case and the War Crimes Case, and in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, including Portugal v Australia and Nauru v Australia. Earlier, in 1985, Kenny had been awarded the Menzies Scholarship in Law, followed by a grant from the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Trust. She subsequently went to Magdalen College, Oxford, where she studied comparative constitutional law under the supervision of Professor John Finnis. Her doctoral thesis, which involved a comparison of the methodology of the Australian High Court and the United States Supreme Court, was accepted in December 1988 and she graduated D.Phil (Oxon) in 1989. In 1997, while serving as a part-time commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and member of the Victorian Bar Ethics Committee, Kenny was appointed to the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria: the first woman judge on the Court. Her credentials included having been president of the Administrative Review Council (1993 to 1996), counsel assisting the Solicitor-General (1991 to 1992), and a member of the Advisory Committee on Executive Government for the 1987 Australian Constitutional Commission. Since October 1998, Kenny has served as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. While on the bench, she has been involved in the promotion of judicial education. Kenny is also a Presidential Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and, from time to time, its Acting President under s 10(1) of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1976 (Cth). She has been a member of the Board of Governors, International Organization for Judicial Training (IOJT) (2005-2007); a member of the Executive of the IOJT (2008-2009); and regional deputy president of the IOJT (2010-2012). In Australia, she has been alternate member and member of the Council of the National Judicial College of Australia (2006-2010). Kenny has an abiding interest in law reform and legal education. She was a part-time commissioner, Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) from 2003 until July 2012, and a member of numerous ALRC Advisory Committees in that period.. In addition, she was a member of the steering committee for the Australian Secretariat for the Asia Pacific Judicial Reform Forum from 2005 until 2008. In 2009 and 2011, under the auspices of the Australian Catholic University, Kenny co-taught the subject ‘International Human Rights Law and Practice’ to Burmese refugees living in a Thai refugee camp and studying for a Diploma of Liberal Studies. Kenny is a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and serves on a number of university boards and committees. She is a Fellow of St Hilda’s College, University of Melbourne; a member of the Council of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration; a former long-term member of the Advisory Board of the Australian National University’s Centre for International and Public Law; and a member of the Executive for Future Justice. Kenny has written numerous articles, book chapters, and conference papers concerned with history and constitutional, administrative and taxation law. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Susan Kenny interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 21 September 2016 Digital resources Title: Sue Kenny Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Examples of the types of records used by the Australian Red Cross Society in connection with prisoners of war including an enquiry form, searcher report, directions for sending parcels and letters and so on, a “Consolidated Enquiry List” booklet from Wounded and Missing Bureau to 31/3/1944, and photographic copies of lettercards, the type being sent by prisoners of the Japanese in the Pacific area (list available with collection). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Taped Interview with Frederika Steen conducted with Nikki Henningham in April 2006 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 June 2006 Last modified 13 June 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Microform copies of newspaper clippings relating to the life of Caroline Archer.?1. ‘She’s first in Top Job’, Courier Mail, January 30th, 1973?2. ‘A picture of a Mum’, Courier Mail, January 31st, 1973?3. ‘Australia neglects history’, Express, February 19th, 1975 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 October 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Joan Sheedy Created 27 April 2016 Last modified 31 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Joan Sheedy Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Hoff, an art critic and historian, talks on her childhood and education; her early impressions of art; her years as a student; various jobs in Australia; wrote several books; took out a degree in Hamburg; became the Australian delegate to the Rembrandt Exhibition; buying art for the National Gallery of Victoria; gives a description of how art was influenced by the war period in Europe and how art is influenced by the artist’s country. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 13 November 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This project documents the business lives of Australian publishers. Recorded from Mar. 27, 1996 and ongoing. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 July 2018 Last modified 31 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A once-only candidate who ran as the ALP member for Tamworth in 1999. Siobhan was active in student life at the University of New England and was President of the Armidale Students’ Association. She has worked in many places, including the Deniliquin Abattoirs and as camp cook on Mount Sandford Station, Northern Territory. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers relating to the career of Leneen Forde. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sally Betts only ran for parliament once (Liberal candidate for Waverley, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1988). She later ran for the Waverley Council and was elected to office from 1995 to 2007. Sally Betts migrated from South Africa in 1976. She had worked in the tourist industry from 1969, including being with Qantas for some years. She has lived in Waverley from 1976. Sally Betts has been a prominent member of the Liberal Party in the Federal seat of Wentworth, being President of the Wentworth Federal Electorate Conference in 2005. As a councillor, Sally Betts secured funding for the Vaucluse to Bondi Cliff walk, and has been active in fostering a precinct system to improve local community participation. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "An entry for a competition conducted by the Society of Women Writers. Author Details Jane Carey Created 29 October 2004 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Joan Dwyer OAM graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1961, signed the solicitor’s roll in 1963 and came to the bar in 1978. She had a diverse and successful career that included working as a research assistant for Sir Zelman Cowen and, when in London, for solicitors to Queen Elizabeth II. She was a Senior Member of the AAT (Clth) for 21 years and Chair of the Equal Opportunity Board (Vic). Joan Dwyer passed away peacefully in September 2019 at the age of 79, after a five-year battle with cancer. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Joan Dwyer for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Joan Dwyer and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I attended PLC (the Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Melbourne) for almost all my schooling. I finished school, aged 16, at the end of 1956. PLC, which was founded in 1875, had been a pioneer in the field of educating women, but by the time I started there in 1946, it had changed somewhat. While it still believed women could and should excel academically, it seemed to me to emphasise conformity and lady-like behaviour rather more than any rebellious pioneering spirit. My parents were Jewish refugees from Hitler. My father was a businessman. He had studied a commercial course and was always interested in acquiring knowledge. Not only my mother, but also my grandmother had attended the University of Vienna. My mother had done medicine there, and my grandmother had studied mathematics and physics as one of the very early female university students. After my birth, my mother sat an exam on 6 weeks notice, the equivalent of final year medicine, to have her Viennese medical qualification recognised in Australia. She was one of the few “foreign doctors” who was successful at the first attempt. It had always been accepted, by both my parents and school, that the next stage for me after school would be University, which I must say I saw more as a continuation of school, rather than as a step towards a career. During our last year at school there was some discussion of suitable careers, by a teacher who had responsibility for giving advice as to careers, as well as her prime responsibility as Head of Geography. My impression of her advice is that we could do teaching or nursing, both suitable careers for a girl and also a form of community service. I did not really see myself as a teacher or a nurse and, although my mother was a doctor, I did not have a scientific bent, and therefore did not have the necessary prerequisites for medicine. I needed special permission to enrol at University before I turned 17, but assuming that I passed that hurdle, I thought I would simply enrol for Arts and then think further about a career when I had finished that course. When my father heard what I was planning, he said that in his opinion I was being stupid. He said that I should use my time at University to obtain a career qualification, and he suggested that I do law. My mother had a patient, Lynette Barry, who was a lawyer, as well as a wife and mother to quite a large family, and it was arranged that I meet her and talk about working as a woman lawyer. Ever the obedient daughter, I applied to do Law/Arts at University in 1957. I couldn’t have attended very well to whatever Lynette told me. After obtaining the necessary permission to start my course, I had to apply to Arthur Turner, the sub-Dean of the Law School, to actually enrol in law. I can clearly remember him asking me why I wanted to do law. I replied, “because my father told me to.” He then asked me what I thought a lawyer did, and I replied that I did not know. He asked me to think about it and I thought really hard and answered that I thought if you wanted to buy or sell a house, you would use a lawyer. He said words to the effect, “Oh well, I suppose you can drop out at the end of first year” and let me in. I am conscious that it was a very different world then. To my surprise I found I was really interested in the law subjects of my combined course, especially Introduction to Legal Method and Torts and Contracts. All went well till the end of my third year when I began to wonder what I would do when I finished the course and whether I would enjoy working in a legal office. I went to see the Dean, Professor Zelman Cowen (later The Right Honourable Sir Zelman Cowen Governor- General of Australia) and told him I was thinking of dropping out, because I did not think I would enjoy being a solicitor. He talked me into going on to complete the course and said that if I got an Honours degree I could become a tutor in the Law School. I lacked the confidence to select the Honours questions, where one had to make a selection, but did well enough for Professor Cowen to offer me a position as his research assistant with some tutoring as well. After graduation, I did my articles at Lander and Rogers, a city firm with a large insurance company client base. I worked very closely with the senior partner Hartwell George (“Chick “) Lander. He had high standards of efficiency and was a hard taskmaster, and a difficult opponent to lawyers on the other side, but appreciated a job well done. I learnt a lot from him and have always been grateful for the basic training I received. I found I really enjoyed the litigation side of the practice, and learnt how important it was to have a carefully prepared case. After completing one year of Articles I was admitted in 1962 and shortly afterwards left for a year overseas. This had been previously arranged, with the understanding that I would then return to Lander and Rogers. In England, due to a chance meeting my parents had had in Spain with a partner in the firm, I spent some time working for Farrer and Co, Solicitors. The firm acted for the Queen and other members of the Royal Family, as well as for many of the aristocracy and landed gentry of England, and also for famous people such as Ian Fleming. The contrast with practice in Australia seemed to me quite great. All was done with the appearance of a casual gentlemanly attitude towards the work. For instance when I arrived there sharp at 9am on my first morning, to show my keenness, I was told that solicitors, as distinct from staff, did not arrive until around 9.30am. Social distinctions were to be observed. One country client, to whom I had to travel by train and taxi, in order to obtain her signature on a document, was shocked when I repeated to her some comment the taxi driver had made to me. She asked in a disapproving tone, “you spoke with the taxi driver?” I spent a lot of time at Farrers poring over huge old parchment title documents the size of a desk, trying to determine what lands our clients owned and what parts of their estates were common land. I prepared a document indexing all the property owned by one family and all the members of that family in order to facilitate decisions as to estate planning and bequests to the National Trust. On my return to Melbourne, I resumed working for Lander and Rogers as a first year litigation solicitor, but after a while I decided that I should see what it was like working in a different sort of firm, mainly for private clients rather than insurers. I moved to Oakley Thompson for about a year and then decided to try crime at Galbally and O’Bryan. I found I was mainly doing divorce and personal injury work there, but, on one occasion, I appeared robed, as “Mr Frank’s” Junior, on the last day of the hearing of the case of Christine Aitkin, who was charged with harbouring the escaped prisoners Robert Ryan (sadly the last man hung in Victoria) and Peter Walker. I soon realised that, although I was glad I had had the experience, a life of crime, or even work in a mainly criminal law firm, was not for me, and so moved to a very different atmosphere at Whiting and Byrne. I enjoyed my time at Whiting and Byrne. There were about 6 partners all with different clients and specialties, and the junior solicitors could be asked by any partner to take on a particular matter or piece of research. The firm aimed to give a high standard of service and so took care not to overload new solicitors with too much work, to the extent that at first I felt quite underutilised. In some ways, especially its costing method, it was still rather old-fashioned, but the work was interesting and the partners and solicitors were helpful and approachable. I had agreed to stay two years at interview, but became pregnant and, although I stayed working part-time until 2 weeks before my daughter Bridget was born, I could not quite honour that commitment. After Bridget was born, in August 1968, I had things other than a return to work on my mind, but towards the end of that year my husband John, a barrister, saw an advertisement for tutors at Monash Law School to start in March 1969. Somewhat reluctantly I prepared an application and sent it off. I was offered part-time tutoring and by March 1969, I was glad to have the opportunity to work again. I enjoyed tutoring in Contracts and stayed at Monash until we left to go to England in mid-1970, as John had obtained a lectureship at Durham University. We loved Durham. It is a beautiful university town dominated by its Norman Cathedral and old castle. The Dean of the Law School had John lecturing in many different subjects and was also happy to provide me with some part-time lecturing in Family Law to “keep my hand in.” He did not believe in slacking. I accepted this opportunity even though our second daughter, Tessa, was born just a couple of months after our arrival in Durham. John was able to work at home to look after the girls while I was lecturing. On our return to Australia, John became a part-time lecturer at Monash, as well as continuing his practice at the Bar, and I looked for and found part-time work. This was not easy as there was, at that time, no practice of women working part-time to combine work and family responsibilities. Further, I wanted to work as a litigation solicitor and that was considered impossible because of the demands of litigation. At one stage I offered my services to a solicitor who was known to be hopelessly inefficient at managing his busy sole practice. I suggested that he needed help and I could provide it. He turned out to be too inefficient even to get back to me. Eventually I found part-time work with AW (Junior) Foster at a small suburban practice close to home. He was concerned as to how I would cope working in litigation, if cases came on for hearing or negotiations on days I was not scheduled to work. I assured him I would be flexible and there were no problems of that nature in the 5 years or so I worked at that practice. I left temporarily because John had a sabbatical coming up as a result of his Monash position, and he had arranged to spend the time at the University of Warwick working with Professor Patrick Atiyah in the field of common law. It was interesting that once other solicitors saw that my part-time work arrangement was satisfactory, they also offered me part-time work. I did not want more work myself, but did manage to place two other friends in similar work. One remained with the firm for more than 40 years until she retired from practice. On our return to Melbourne, I continued to work at AW Foster and also applied for and obtained a fractional appointment as a Senior Teaching Fellow at Melbourne Law School. But, shortly after we got back, John was invited by the University of Warwick to return and take up a 12 months appointment teaching Professor Atiyah’s classes, while he took time off to write The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract. I decided to look for part-time work as a solicitor while we were in England that time and, after writing many letters to local solicitors, found a position with NJL Brockbank, an idiosyncratic Dickensian solicitor who ran a one man practice from a 4 storey Victorian townhouse in Royal Leamington Spa. I had said, in my letter seeking work, that I was more interested in the varied experience than in the money, so he offered me work at one pound an hour and I accepted those terms. However, on the first morning, after I had completed all he had asked me to do, and had asked for more work once or twice, he came in and announced that he was doubling my remuneration. While in England that time, I also decided to sit the exams for an overseas solicitor to be admitted to practice as a solicitor of the High Court of Judicature. A law clerk at Mr Brockbank’s office said there was no way I could pass at a first attempt, which was all I would have time for in the year we were going to spend in England. He said he himself had sat 5 or 6 times and not passed yet. This both aroused my competitive spirit and warned me that I might need to put quite a bit of effort into preparation. I found an advertisement for a crammers’ course and went to London for about 3 days of intensive, first class instruction. I did pass on my first attempt, but I was very grateful to my colleague for the warning that caused me to do the London intensive course. I was pleased to see that my English admission certificate was signed by Lord Denning, the Master of the Rolls. We returned to Melbourne in late 1977 and I found part-time work at Flood and Permezel in the city. I found I lost too much time travelling into the city and back for school pick ups, and decided that local work was much more flexible for a part-time solicitor. I changed to work for our friend Pat Clancy at Patricia Clancy and Associates in Camberwell. By 1978 our daughters were almost 10 and 8 and established back at school. I thought I could take on a new challenge and try the Bar. I arranged to read with Ron Meldrum who had a very busy general common law practice. I was his first reader and he turned out to be a brilliant master. He has an excellent knowledge of the law, but his particular skill in my opinion is in understanding the psychology of the court, of his client and of any witnesses he would be examining or cross-examining. He too demonstrated the importance of careful preparation of any case. He is also very good company and we had a lot of fun, sometimes arriving at his client’s work premises for a “view” with me on the back of a motorbike, at other times being taken up in a small plane by our solicitor on a country circuit. I must say on that occasion it did not seem like fun to me until we had safely landed after our joyride. One day, shortly after joining the Bar, I saw a notice in a lift at Owen Dixon seeking applications from lawyers willing to be a Chairman of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal (“the SSAT”). I did not know much about the social security legislation, but I was interested in people and in social welfare and I decided to apply. My application was successful and I found the work very interesting. We sat as a 3 member Tribunal with a public servant, a social worker and the lawyer, as the Chairman. I sat once a fortnight on a Friday afternoon. I enjoyed the mix of disciplines and learnt a lot, especially from the very experienced social worker with whom I sat. At that time our decisions were only recommendations, but so far as I know they were accepted. Friday afternoons were often a quiet time in Court , and the SSAT did not really interfere with my practice at the Bar. I took Chambers and developed a general practice doing some Magistrates Court “crash and bash”, which was my least favourite type of work as I considered the results were often very random. I found it difficult to predict which driver the Magistrate would accept. I was surprised by some of my wins, as well as by some of my losses. After a time I seemed to develop specialties. I was often sent to the Childrens’ Court to oppose applications that children be removed from their families, and also fought some such matters on appeal in the County Court. I did a number of Practice Court applications for an extension of time, in which to commence personal injury litigation. I did some Family Court work and some building and contract cases. I was pleased that I had come to the Bar as it had always had a mystique or allure, but in some ways I missed the ongoing contact that a suburban solicitor has with clients. Also there is a great deal of tension and strain in running a hotly contested matter, which may go on for several weeks. While it was great to have such work it was also stressful for me and for John and sometimes for the girls. Then one day in late 1980, out of the blue, I received a telephone call from Yolande Klempfner, who was, at the time, the Premier’s Adviser on Womens’ Affairs. She asked whether I would be interested in applying for the position of Chairman of the Equal Opportunity Board. The Equal Opportunity Act had been passed in 1977 and the term of appointment of the first Chairman was almost up. I understood that Yola was making similar calls to a number of possible applicants. At first I was uncertain as to whether I wanted to leave the Bar so soon, but both John and my father thought I should definitely apply and so I went ahead. When I was told I had an interview, I bought a new dress for the occasion (“the interview dress”, which I still have) and rather nervously entered the Department of Premier and Cabinet for the first time. The main thing I remember being asked was whether I would feel overawed if I had QC’s appearing before me. I replied that as I lived with one and did his washing etc, (John having taken silk by that time) I was not likely to be overawed. I had the feeling that it was that answer which clinched the interview for me. I was appointed on 2 March 1981. I found my position had varied responsibilities. An important one was educating the community about the concept of equal opportunity. Rather to my surprise I found I had speaking engagements even during my first week in the job. I remember feeling it was rather like jumping into a swimming pool, to give my first lunch time talk about equal opportunity when I had had practically no time to get accustomed to the new position. But jump in I did, and I seemed to swim alright, so from that time on I enjoyed my speaking engagements. I liked meeting all the different school, country and city groups who invited me as speaker and dealing with the varied questions. I also had an office and staff to manage, which was another new experience for me, in which I was very much assisted by the Registrar, Karen Maynard. In my new role, I became exposed for the first time to the workings of government and endless meetings of highly paid public servants about compliance with United Nations Conventions. The aim seemed to be to do as little as possible, and say as little as possible about what we were actually doing, but to clothe that little in very precise language. Having some input into the drafting of new legislation, for instance amendments to the Equal Opportunity Act to make discrimination on the ground of disability unlawful, was more rewarding. I found that I very much enjoyed conducting the hearings of the Equal Opportunity Board. In some cases we had to decide whether there had been unlawful discrimination, and in others whether there was a valid reason to grant an exemption from the provisions of the Act. We always sat as a three member Board and I valued the experience my fellow members, Ian Sharp, a former Judge of the Australian and Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, and Don Ross, a former Commissioner of the State Bank and of the Housing Commission of Victoria, brought to our work. In those days there was a great deal of supportive media interest in the work of the Equal Opportunity Board, and the media was present whenever we delivered a reserved decision. Usually our decision would be reported on the news that evening. When it was coming close to the end of my three year term, there was no indication given to me as to whether or not I should expect to be reappointed. I was perhaps rather old-fashioned and felt that it was for the government to advise me of its intentions rather than for me to seek an indication. During that period I saw an advertisement for Senior Members of the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal (the “AAT”). I decided to apply. There were some delays for various reasons, but eventually I was offered and accepted a tenured appointment to age 65 as a Senior Member of the AAT. The Victorian government appeared to be surprised that I had applied for another position, and, by arrangement between the two governments, I held both positions for part of 1984, although I did not actually do any hearings for the EOB, and the Registrar and other staff ran things there and only rarely asked me for input. At the AAT I had found my perfect position and I stayed there for the full 21 years remaining till I turned 65. In 1984 it was very rewarding to be a Senior Member of the AAT. The work was exciting. The idea of having external merits review of the decisions of public servants was innovative, not only in Australia but internationally. After a period of some resistance among the higher echelons of the public service, the AAT, under its wise and learned first President, The Honourable Justice Gerard Brennan, had gained general acceptance, and recognition of the high standard of its decision-making. When I started, The Honourable Justice Daryl Davies had recently become the second President of the AAT. He was assisted by Deputy Presidents Alan Hall and Robert Todd. The Act required that reasons for decision be delivered and it was impressed upon the Senior Members that our work was to be of a very high standard. We were expected to take great care with, and pride in, our decision writing and to clearly set out the relevant legislative provisions as well as our reasoning leading to our findings of fact; and to explain how the legislative provisions applied to the facts as we had found them. Where we were setting aside the decision under review, it was important that we explain clearly to the decision-maker why the decision had not been the correct or preferable decision, but it was also always appropriate to write our decisions so that a lay party could understand and follow the reasoning. In order to assist us in producing work of a high standard, all full-time Senior members were entitled to a legally qualified Associate as well as a personal assistant. As I had done before on the SSAT and the EOB, we usually sat as a three member tribunal and there was much to be gained from the combined experience of the many part-time members with very different specialist expertise ranging from medicine, social work, business, the armed services, aviation and other qualifications. I am very much a “people sort of person” and I felt privileged to share the life stories of the many applicants who appeared before us, either in person or with legal representation. When the legislation allowed us to right what appeared to be a wrong, that was satisfying. Where it did not, it sometimes seemed to me to be worth pointing out to the legislature in the reasons for decision, that, in the particular circumstances before us, the legislation might not serve the purpose desired, or might be able to be finely tuned to provide a more just result . In the early days of my appointment, there were not very many Senior Members of the AAT, and so the Sydney and Melbourne full-time members were expected to travel quite a bit, especially to the states which had few members. It was great fun to visit and sit in Perth, Brisbane, Canberra and Adelaide, often for two weeks at a time, with a weekend free for sightseeing in the middle. Each state seemed to have slightly different customs or styles of advocacy and that added interest. Also meeting and sitting with, and sometimes visiting the homes of, the interstate members added to a friendly collegiate atmosphere. In later years there were more members in each state, and less interstate interchange, and I certainly travelled less. Another aspect of the role of the AAT which particularly suited me, was our flexibility as to the procedures we adopted. As I have explained in a number of published articles, The AAT Act 1975, in s 33(1)(b), provided that the Tribunal should conduct its proceedings with as little formality and technicality as a proper consideration of the matters before it permitted; and, in s33(1)©, that the Tribunal was not bound by the rules of evidence and may inform itself on any matter in such manner as it thinks appropriate, always of course complying with the rules of natural justice. Perhaps because of my parents’ continental background, and in particular my father’s discussion of these matters, I have never been convinced that an adversarial system of justice is clearly preferable to an inquisitorial or investigative system of justice. The AAT Act allowed me to consider the application of some flexibility in hearings. Although some learned Presidential Members had declared that the AAT was not an inquisitorial body, there were some instances where the opposite view had been expressed. I became very interested in this issue. I sometimes suggested to the parties that certain evidence be called in order to inform the Tribunal as to a certain issue. I also started to publish papers on the powers of the AAT and its use of those powers to achieve a fair result. In that connection I also wrote about the use of expert witnesses in hearings. I presented papers at a number of conferences and my interests extended to cover papers on disability issues, such as one on Access to Justice for people with Severe Communication Impairment. I enjoyed the intellectual exercise of writing and presenting papers on somewhat controversial areas. As I have already said, I remained a Senior Member of the AAT until my statutory retirement age of 65 in 2005. There were some changes over those 21 years, which to me did not seem to improve the independence or standing or high standards of the Tribunal, but I adopt the view of Justice Brennan in his opening address at the 1996 conference to mark the Twentieth Anniversary of the AAT: Having been away from the coalface of the AAT for seventeen years, I do not presume to pontificate on what, or more significantly, who the AAT should be to-day. As I came close to my statutory retirement age, I realised that although I did not mind the idea of semi-retirement, especially as John was retired by then, I did not want to give up all professional legal work. I first applied to become a member of the Aboriginal Housing Board of Victoria. It was an honorary position and after I was appointed, I learnt that I was the only applicant for the position which required legal qualifications. There were interesting aspects of the work, new people to meet and work with, and some travel to hold Board meetings in country areas and meet the local aboriginal communities. But there were also some conflicts and tensions as to management and governance issues and, after about eighteen months, I tendered my resignation. During my working career, I had realised that I was particularly interested in medico-legal issues. I had been a member of the Committee of DEAL Communication Centre (now the Ann McDonald Centre) for many years and as already mentioned had worked to have discrimination on the ground of disability made unlawful under the Equal Opportunity Act 1978 (Vic), and had written on disability issues. I decided to apply for positions on hearing panels under various health professional regulatory Acts, and to apply for appointment to the Mental Health Review Board. I was successful in being appointed to the list from which hearing panels were selected under the Medical Practice Act 1994 and under legislation for the regulation of Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Nurses. I was not appointed to sit on many hearings but, when I did sit, it was always interesting and challenging in many different respects. Although still eligible to sit, I have not been asked to do so since many of the Boards were brought together under the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (“AHPRA”) in 2009. I found that I had a philosophical difference of opinion on the issue of the current significance attached to sexual relations between health professionals and former patients, where both were adults and there was no evidence of coercion or demonstrable undue influence. As research by others has shown, the odds of removal from practice (ie suspension or cancellation) were 22 times higher [81%] in cases in which doctors were found to have had a sexual relationship with a patient compared with all other cases, such as errors in care delivery, poor clinical judgement or lack of knowledge. ( Removal of doctors from practice for professional misconduct in Australia and New Zealand Elkin, Spittal, Elkin and Studdert BMJ Qual Saf published online July 21 2012). It seemed to me that the argument that there must always be undue influence due to an imbalance of power in such relationships was more an article of faith than a matter that could be proven in each case. Eventually, I wrote and delivered a paper on the issue (Is there as much need for Protection as Health Professional Boards and Tribunals seem to believe? Delivered to the 14th Greek/Australian Legal and Medical Conference in Greece in 2013). Luckily my application to become a member of the Mental Health Review Board was successful. I have now been sitting as a part-time member of the Board and, since July 2014 of its replacement, the Mental Health Tribunal, for almost ten years. I have found the work both interesting and informative as well as very rewarding. I have learnt a lot about mental illness, its causes, its treatment and the distressing consequences for those who suffer with it. Once again, the interactions with colleagues from different backgrounds have been enjoyable and it is good to still be using my legal skills in an informal hearing situation. The law has provided me with very many challenges, many worries and sleepless nights, but continuing interest and intellectual stimulation and many rewarding friendships and other relationships. I am ever grateful to my parents for giving me the encouragement and advice to study law, and to Arthur Turner for letting me enrol in the Law School, in spite of my unimpressive performance at that first interview. I am also grateful to Professor Zelman Cowen for persuading and encouraging me to continue and complete my course and to all the employers and colleagues and staff who have helped me along the way. Published resources Resource A golden reunion, Walsh, Andy, 2015, http://law.unimelb.edu.au/news/MLS/a-golden-reunion Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Joan Dwyer Created 4 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers of Colonel Sybil Irving, M.B.E., controller and first C.O. of A.W.A.S. during World War Two. Includes files of correspondence, histories, notes and photographs, ca. 1941-1946. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 November 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Carrard was a Hungarian-born virtuoso pianist who came to Perth, Western Australia, in 1941 and remained there until her death in 2000. She had studied in Hungary with Béla Bartók, and toured extensively as a concert pianist. In Australia, she had a long involvement with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and taught a legion of pupils, most famously pianist David Helfgott. She was awarded an MBE in 1976, and lived to the age of 102. Alice Carrard was born Blau Alíz to Blau Miksa (also known as Max) and Irma, neé Wieg, in Budapest in 1897. The family Hungarianised their surname to Bálint in 1914, and at the same time Irma’s maiden name was also retroactively Hungarianised to Vig. The father, Miksa, was a ne’er-do-well leather salesman, the mother Irma was a genteel piano teacher rejected by her upper middle class family for having run off and got married to Miksa. The family was Jewish and lived in utter poverty in the tenements of Budapest, then very similar to the immigrant tenements of Manhattan. Irma helped to eke out the family finances by teaching piano, as did Alice’s older brother, Sándor, who from a very early age worked a full eight hours or more after school. Aliz began lessons with her mother at the age of six. Realising after three years that there was no more she could teach her daughter, Irma introduced Aliz, aged nine, to István Thomán, a renowned professor of piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He took Aliz under his wing and taught her for the following two years. After that she continued studying at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music until she graduated at 17 as a piano teacher and concert pianist. She then went on to intensive post-graduate work with Béla Bartók and Leo Weiner. In 1916, Aliz lost her mother, who died of cancer, at the age of 54. Studying with composer Béla Bartók for a year gave her, as she put it, ‘a great inspiration about sound and phrasing.’ She studied next with Leo Weiner, Professor of Composition and Conducting at the Academy of Music In Budapest. Weiner also taught conductor Eugene Ormandy, concert pianist Louis Kentner and conductor Sir Georg Solti. Balint began performing in 1918, at the age of 21, first in Budapest, then Vienna, eventually embarking on a career as a concert pianist that took her all over Europe. It was when Alíz started on her European concert tours, from around 1920, that she westernized her name to Alice Balint. As the effects of the Depression worsened in the early 1930s, Balint formed a small instrumental ensemble that played mainly light classical music, and began touring throughout Europe and Asia – India, Indonesia and Malaya, as it was then known. Her brother, Sándor, was absolutely devoted to his sister, and contributed significantly to funding her studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. After 1920, when he had become a successful businessman in Budapest, he financed all of Alice’s European and Asian concert tours, right until the outbreak of WW2. On a tour of Malaya in 1937, Balint met and married Louis Carrard, a French-Swiss engineer who was managing a tin mine. She became known henceforth as Mme. Alice Carrard. While living in Malaya, World War II broke out, and their son George Sandor (Sandy) was born. In the latter part of 1941, Alice and two-year-old Sandy Carrard visited Perth, Western Australia, for a holiday, intending to return to Malaya and join Louis for Christmas. They were prevented from doing this by the Japanese invasion of Malaya on December 7. While attempting to escape, Louis was captured and interned for the remainder of the war in a Japanese prison camp. Alice and Sandy settled in Perth, and Sandy began attending Christ Church school. At some point Louis had managed to send some of their belongings to Perth, including, amazingly, Alice’s Hungarian grand piano. Louis travelled to Perth after his release in 1946. Severely affected by his internment and badly malnourished, he was unable to cope in Perth and returned to Malaya. He and Alice remained good friends, and he continued to support his family and visit. Alice Carrard also supported herself and Sandy by playing recitals, many of which were for the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission). She is credited with introducing Bartok to Western Australian audiences, and was the first to play his Third Piano Concerto in Perth. By 1960 she was famous across Australia on the concert circuit and for radio broadcasts. She began teaching in 1945, and built up a formidable reputation for excellence and exacting standards. Carrard had a number of star pupils, including Japanese prodigy Yasuko Toba, who became a scholar at the Julliard School and has an international career as a concert pianist. Most famously, Carrard taught David Helfgott, who she first encountered as a teenager. Upon his return from London after a severe nervous breakdown in the early 1970s, Carrard made sure he had appropriate psychiatric care and continued to give him lessons while he was institutionalised at Graylands, a psychiatric facility in Perth. His triumphant return to performing brought Carrard immense joy, and she commented on many occasions that he was her favourite pupil. Helfgott’s story was dramatised in the Australian movie Shine (1996). Carrard was awarded an MBE in 1976 for her services to music, and gold and silver diplomas from the Franz Liszt Academy for over fifty years of teaching excellence. At a concert in 1992 to celebrate her 95th birthday, Carrard performed Beethoven’s last Piano Sonata, Opus 111 in C Minor, a deeply emotional and technically demanding work, written late in life when he was deaf and his health failing. Carrard had played it at her first performance in 1918, and received a standing ovation when she performed it at the Western Australian Conservatorium of Music in 1992. She was named a Living Treasure of the State of Western Australia in 1998, and died in March, 2000, at the age of 102. Published resources Newspaper Article Obituary: Pianist spanned century of music, Cohn, Neville, 2000 At 90, music is still her first love..., Schmitt, Hugh, 1987 Journal Article Obituary: Alice Carrard, 2000 Alice Carrard – 95 Years Young, Cohn, Neville, 1992 Australian Heritage Series: Alice Carrard, Cohn, Neville, 1995 Book Section Alice Carrard, Hoffman, Leila, 1987 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Alice Carrard papers, 1988-1999 [manuscript] [Interview with Alice Carrard, pianist] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Christina Brockman] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Her Honour Mary Ann Yeats was the first US citizen admitted to practice law in Western Australia and the second woman, after Her Honour Antoinette Kennedy AO, to become a Judge of the District Court. After studying law at the University of Western Australia, she was admitted to practice in 1982 and worked in the Crown Solicitors Office, until she was appointed a judge in 1993. In 1995 she served as President of the Children’s Court of Western Australia. She retired from the District Court Bench in August 2011. As a judicial member of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA) she spent 10 years as convener of the Indigenous Justice Committee, a group of judicial officers and Indigenous people working together to provide cultural awareness education to the judiciary throughout Australia. Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in January 2014, for her significant service to the law, particularly Indigenous justice, she was initially uncomfortable about accepting the honour, feeling that the Indigenous people who helped her were not adequately recognised. She changed her mind when she realised how acceptance would draw attention to social justice issues that have been important to her throughout her personal and professional life. Mary Ann Yeats was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1941, Mary Ann Yeats was the fourth of five children born to parents who were, in Yeats’ words, ‘committed to education’. Her three older brothers and younger sister were all ‘exceptionally talented’, having started their learning at home through their mother’s Montessori teaching methods, well before they started school. ‘I was reading from the time I was about three,’ she says, ‘and I just knew things because I was from a family that talked about things.’ Dinner table conversations covered a range of issues, including politics and economics. Along with a stable and loving home and family life, another constant in her upbringing was a strong connection to the Catholic Church. Her father was a Lutheran who converted to Catholicism in order to marry her mother. They were ‘good Catholics’, raised in 1940s and 50s America. ‘We developed a deep faith,’ says Yeats. The foundational importance of family and faith is crucial to any understanding of Yeats’ sense of self. Growing up with three brothers, she was always confident in her capacity to move in ‘a man’s world’ and her parents’ belief in education for all their children only reinforced this. A rich spiritual life enhanced her self-belief. ‘I started with my parents building my confidence,’ says Yeats, ‘and then faith gave me this idea that you can give your problems to God…that the Holy Spirit will help you through hard times.’ This is not to say that she has asked God what to do; rather, she calls upon a source of wisdom and knowledge that has given her confidence to ‘think things through and make the right decisions’. This capacity to seek guidance through prayer has played an important role as she navigated difficult situations in the course of her personal and professional lives. Her father’s work saw the family move to Chicago and then to Kansas City, where Yeats did her secondary education. She attended St Teresa’s Academy for Girls in Kansas City, Missouri, a private, Catholic girls school, where she served as President of the Student Council in her final year. She graduated in 1958, received a scholarship to attend the Catholic University of America but left after only a year, much to the disappointment of her father who thought she had dashed any hopes she might have had for a brilliant career. Instead, in 1959, she decided to do ‘the best thing she ever did in her life’ – marry her husband, Don. She was eighteen, he was twenty and their relationship has been another source of inspiration and support, for nearly sixty years. Mary and Don have two sons and a daughter and by 1964 the Yeats had three children under the age of four. Mary Ann did not go out to work while the children were little, except to do some tennis coaching (a good excuse to play the sport she loved and excelled at), preferring to enjoy the time with her children. Her strength was tested when her second son became gravely ill with a brain stem tumour when he was four years old. It was, naturally, a terribly distressing time for the family that triggered a deepening of their faith. He survived after extensive treatment and therapy and during that time Yeats ‘sort of stopped worrying about cleaning the house or doing the ironing…I sort of let it go.’ She decided to focus on having fun with her children. ‘Home-making was not my best skill,’ she says, ‘but child-raising was great fun’. Being a young mother had its benefits, she thinks, although she understands not everyone saw it that way. ‘I never thought it was going to stop me from having a career,’ she reflects, ‘but I think a lot of people thought it would.’ Yeats feels sure that coming to study later and with some accumulated wisdom, worked in her favour. When her sons started school, Yeats began to get involved in community and social activism. She joined the League of Women Voters in America and would take her daughter, by then a toddler, along to meetings. It was then that she began to sink her teeth into political issues, working with some really outstanding women at the time. This involvement developed until in 1974 she was the Missouri state chairperson for the Equal Rights Amendment – a movement to amend the US constitution to guarantee gender equality. Although the push was not successful, the process was formative for Yeats. ‘Working on the ERA’ she says, ‘attending committee meetings, making submissions; it was all this work that made me think that if I really wanted to do something, I should study law.’ The lawyers she met had ‘a way of thinking that I needed to pick up.’ 1974 was the year the Yeats family migrated to Australia so that Don could take up a position to set up the English Department at the then Western Australian Institute of Technology, which became Curtin University. ‘That was an exciting time!’ remembers Yeats; a time made even more exciting when she discovered that tertiary education in Australia in 1974 was free. She applied and began studying law at UWA in 1975. After graduating with First Class Honours, she took up a position as Research Officer to the Solicitor-General of WA, The Honourable Sir Ronald Wilson (AC KBE CMG QC) in 1977 and later to the Honourable Kevin Parker AC. She then worked in the Crown Law Department until she was admitted to practice in 1982. She became an Australian citizen in 1986, a decision not taken lightly, but one she felt was necessary if she wanted to continue doing the high level policy work she was doing. Yeats continued her career in the Crown Law Department until she was appointed to the bench in 1993. Once she was there, she realised that the bench ‘was where I’d always been headed.’ Becoming a judge was one of the most important, if not the most important, events in her life. Because she had chosen to grow a family before her career, Yeats was a relatively mature ‘trailblazer’. Having only eighteen-odd years to leave her mark at the bench – judges must retire at 70 – she had firm views on issues she wanted to address if and when she had the chance. One was the role of Justices of the Peace in the Children’s Court, who underestimated the important role they had in the administration of juvenile justice. The other was the lack of understanding amongst Aboriginal people of the justice system and their rights in law. That the misunderstanding was systemic and operated across both sides of the bench was a problem she worked to alleviate through her work as a judge and on specially established committees, such as the Cultural Awareness and Indigenous Justice Committees of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration. Judicial officers simply had to be educated to understand the culture and laws of the Indigenous people they were called upon to deal with; the risk of injustice was much too great. Needless to say, there were challenges to confront as a judge, especially decisions about sentencing or hearing testimony that documented the sad and violent lives that some people experience. Despite this, Yeats loved everything about the job, especially the places it took her and the people she met. She loved doing the circuit work out on country, meeting Indigenous people and learning their concerns and problems with the criminal justice system. She has a particular regard for Aboriginal women who are trying to fix their communities and help their young people develop self respect. She has met some extraordinary people, domestically and abroad, who have enriched her life and her understanding of the law; the Honourable Justice Mary Gaudron QC, Catherine Branson QC, the Honourable Christine Wheeler AO QC, Peggy Holroyd AM and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Claire L’Heureux-Dubé, have all had an important role to play in the person she has become. She has enjoyed the opportunity to mentor young women lawyers entering the legal profession along with Indigenous law students. When asked, she has offered experience on boards and committees beyond the legal organisations she belonged to; she served as a trustee on the Sister Kate’s Home Kids Foundation, a role she has now stepped down from. Despite having a relatively short period on the bench, Yeats was ready to retire when she did. ‘The life of a judge is full on,’ she says, ‘and the days are very long.’ Tiredness creeps up and takes over. While there was some adjustment when she retired, it didn’t take too long for her to start enjoying it. She now divides her time between Perth and the family farm near Augusta, spending time with her husband, enjoying time with their four grandchildren and, as a longtime member of the Cottesloe Tennis Club, playing as much tennis as she can. According to Her Honour, ‘Life is very good and very full and goes for a long time.’ Published resources Article Meeting the demands of justice, Reidy, Mark, 2014, http://www.therecord.com.au/news/in-depth/meeting-the-demands-of-justice/ Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Mary Ann Yeats interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 28 October 2016 Digital resources Title: The Hon Mary Ann Yeats Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Pizer speaks of her family background and childhood ; about meeting her future husband ; her work as a psychotherapist ; publishing “Thou and I”, her first book of poems, in 1967 ; she describes the individualistic nature of her poetry. She reads the poems: “Wiseman’s ferry”, “Going home”, as well as two other untitled poems. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO13]??Annual reports and financial statements published by the National Office (formerly known as ‘Headquarters’, ‘Australian Headquarters’ or ‘National Headquarters’) of the Australian Red Cross from its formation in 1914 as the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross Society.??For annual reports of the Red Cross Blood Service and annual reports published by State Divisions of the Red Cross see series 2015.0029.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 10 February 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers that relate to numerous activities, including Koutsianidis-Germanos’ involvement in the Greek Community in Sydney and the Ethnic Childcare Development Unit. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 June 2006 Last modified 16 June 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dorothy Buckland-Fuller was a sociologist and social activist of some longstanding, with a distinguished career in ethnic and multicultural politics, particularly as they impact upon women of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. She was a peace activist, an environmentalist, a feminist and committed to the cause of reconciliation with indigenous Australia. Of Greek heritage, Buckland-Fuller had a long involvement with the Greek Community of New South Wales, and her valuable contributions were acknowledged in 2001 when she was granted Life Membership to the Council of the Greek Orthodox Community of Sydney and New South Wales. In 1974, she established the Australian-Migrant Women’s Association, an organisation designed to bring together immigrant and Australian-born women. She was active in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, serving as president in 2002-4. As a sociologist, she taught and conducted action research. Her life has been a case of putting that theory to practice. In her own words, she was an ‘action oriented person’. Dorothy Buckland-Fuller passed away in Sydney on 5 July 2019. She will be remembered for her words resounding in the ears of all those who knew her over her great life: “I will continue to work for equal rights for all and the betterment of our society for as long as I live”. Dorothy Buckland-Fuller’s extensive CV, when read chronologically and with regard to her own memories, is a living history of the development of multicultural policies in Australia. She arrived in Australia in 1961, having lived in England for the previous fourteen years. (Her husband was an engineer working for the British Overseas Air Corporation [BOAC].) She became involved with the Greek Community in Sydney and worked for them in the late 1960s in a part time capacity as a secretary and Community Development Planner. While working, she studied at the University of New South Wales, completing her BA in 1969, and her MA Qual (the equivalent of Honours) in Sociology in 1972. She then commenced post graduate studies in the newly developing research area, ‘The sociology of migration’. While a postgraduate, she worked in the New South Wales Health Department, in schools and Baby Health Centres undertaking research. She also lectured and tutored in various departments at the University of New South Wales. Her research was presented as part of a report entitled Participation to the New South Wales Parliament in 1978, and was regarded as pioneering in its focus on migrant women’s issues and needs. The list of Dorothy’s paid and voluntary positions is extensive, as is the list of awards and acknowledgements for her services to the community. The list below is indicative and by no means exhaustive. Events 1982 - 1982 1988 - 1988 1994 - 1994 1974 - 1974 2002 - 2004 1976 - 1976 1979 - 1979 1989 - 1989 1977 - 1981 Appointed to the role of part-time Commissioner responsible in the Area of Women 1977 - 1978 Member 1980 - 1981 The inquiry and subsequent report resulted in radical changes benefiting immigrant women in the workplace 1977 - 1977 For services to the community 1977 - 1977 For services to the community 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2001 - 2001 Acknowledged for her valuable contribution to the Greek orthodox Community of Sydney and New South Wales 2002 - 2002 Plaque awarded on International Women’s Day for contribution to the welfare of women 2002 - 2002 2006 - 2006 Honoured for contribution to the community 2008 - 2008 Published resources Book Section Double Disadvantage: Migrant and Aboriginal Women, Sawer, Marian, 1990 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources Greek Orthodox Community of NSW Cultural Centre Papers of the Greek Orthodox Community of New South Wales Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 June 2006 Last modified 13 September 2019 Digital resources Title: Photograph of Dorothy Buckland-Fuller Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 106 min.)??This interview is an update on two previous interviews conducted by Hazel de Berg in 1977 and 1980, covering the main part of her early life and career as a writer, broadcaster and publisher. In this interview Flannery recalls apects of her life in South Australia; her stint at Oxford University studying the history of architecture; her discovery of Paquita Delprat’s letters to her future husband, Antarctic explorer & Professor of Geology at Adelaide University, Sir Douglas Mawson, gaining access to Mawson’s replies to the letters; her work in the field of folk history, radio; her work in progress on older women, as well as the role of women today from the perspective of the traditional women. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Catherine Cunningham ran for the seat of Coogee, Sydney, in 1948. Her campaign was unsuccessful, but she continued to take a strong interest in politics at local, state and federal levels. Catherine Crosby was in charge of the typing pool at the Government Printing Office before she married Lucien Cunningham in 1927 at Randwick. The pair had two sons, John and Tony. Lucien Cunningham was a member for Coogee from 1941 until his death in 1948. That same year, Catherine stood for the seat of Coogee herself, representing the ALP in the by-election. It was a bitter preselection with at least two other candidates vying for the position. Two further contenders, Harry Jensen and Lou Walsh, withdrew from the ballot, but ultimately Catherine was unsuccessful. The seat was won by Kevin Ellis (Lib). Following John’s expulsion from the Labor Party, Catherine and her son began to actively support the DLP. Eventually, John ran for the DLP at both federal and state levels. Coogee was one of the Sydney areas in which the ALP split resonated with particular strength, and the Cunningham family were prominent figures in that dispute. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 29 June 2006 Last modified 25 September 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "8 sound tape reels (ca. 97 min.)??Julia Ryan, feminist, speaks of the National Foundation for Australian Women; its history and aim to promote feminist ideas into the far future; how the composition of members has changed over the years; the changes to home-based women; the advent of “second-wave” feminism; the history of the women’s movement in Canberra starting formally in June 1978; the women’s movement in Canberra operating informally from 1969 as an off-shoot from the Sydney group lead by Lyndal Ryan; how the movement grew through networking; why their meetings were closed to men; how 1972 saw an increase in political involvement with their support of the Aboriginal Embassy tent and the establishment of the Women’s Electoral Lobby; their resistance to takeovers by both moderate and extreme political groups; the opportunity feminists had during the Whitlam years to gain influence in the bureaucracy with the appointment of Elizabeth Reid in 1973 as Whitlam’s adviser on women’s issues; how the group engaged in consciousness-raising; the emergence of femocrats like Mary Menange and Anne Somers threatened to depower women by transferring too much responsibility to government bodies.??Ryan recalls the highlights of 1975 as International Women’s Year and its contribution to the Labor Government dismissal; how feminism eventually influenced the right-wing of politics; the relationship between gender and class in social oppression; the move from Marxist politics to post-modern Foucault models for change and the emergence of women’s studies as a discipline. Author Details Patricia ni Ivor Created 3 May 2000 Last modified 9 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Handwritten on front of photograph “Isabel Johnston State President 1939-1946” Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers include correspondence, notes, typescripts, photographs, circulars, roneoed and printed material relating to Hunter’s interests in women’s issues and social policy, health politics and Indian politics. The correspondents include Ulrich Ellis, R.I. Downing, Ronald Grieve, Enid Bach (Chairman of Suffragette Fellowship, England), Eva D. Spicer (Society for the Ministry of Women in the Church,?England), Pamela Lewis (Status of Women Committee, England), I.B. West (Association of Head Mistresses, England), Doreen Powell (The National Council of Women of Great Britain) and Peter Arnold. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Irene Greenwood talks about formative years, her marriage, other aspects of her private life, social conditions in Western Australia, Katharine Susannah Prichard, her involvement with various organizations including the United Nations, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the film Woman of Peace, feminists in Western Australia and her bequest to Murdoch University.?1. Formative years to marriage?2. Involvement with U.N. and W.I.L.F.?3. Donald Stuart?4. K. S. Prichard?5. Recent deaths / family influences?6. Filming Irene Greenwood : woman of peace?7. Recent events, public-private life and summer school?8. No more closed doors…bequest to Murdoch University Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MPG / 208?(1) Lady Street performing the official opening of the United Association’s new Club rooms Shirley House, Market St., 29th May, 1936. Also in the photograph are Mrs Kenneth Street and Mrs A. W. Feighley.??P3 / 263?(2) Portrait of Jessie Street, September 1943, photograph by Margaret Michaelis.??MPG / 209?(3) Members of delegation who presented the First Australian Women’s Charter to the Federal Government, Canberra, 1944??MPG / 210?(4) Deputation to the Prime Minister at Canberra, June 6th 1949 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Pam Allan was Alderman for the Parramatta City Council (1983-1987) and a union activist, before she was elected to State Parliament as the Australian Labor Party member for Wentworthville in 1988. As a result of a redistribution in 1991 she was elected to the new seat of Blacktown. She returned to the recreated seat of Wentworthville at the 1999 election. She served as Minister for the Environment from April 1995 to April 1999. She retired from State Parliament in 2007. Pam Allan was educated at Greystanes High School and the University of Sydney, from which she graduated with a BA, Dip Ed with honours in Government. She joined the ALP in 1971 and held office at branch, and state electoral levels. She was Vice-President of the Labor Women’s Conference and has been on the State Labor Disputes Committee since 1982. She was Women’s Coordinator, NSW Teachers’ Federation 1977-1981 and taught in high schools in 1976 and 1981-1984. She was elected to the Parramatta City Council in 1983, serving a full four-year term. In 1984-88 she became a public servant, working in the Department of Youth and Community Services, and Public Service Board. In 1988 Pam was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Wentworthville and then for Blacktown in 1991 and 1995. In 1999 and 2003 she was once again elected the Assembly’s member for Wentworthville. Pam Allan became Shadow Minister Planning & Environment 1991-1995, Minister for Environment 1995-1999, Chair, Select Committee on Salinity, 2000-2002 and Chair, Standing Committee on Resource Management, from May 2003. She retired from the Parliament in 2007.. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2003, De Micheli, Catherine and Herd, Margaret, 2003 Book Section HERstory: Australian Labor Women in Federal, State and Territory Parliaments 1925-1994, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 2 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This collection further documents the Association’s activities and includes minutes of meetings, correspondence, photographs and videos of award ceremonies, book launchings and other functions, and papers concerning NIAWA-Alitalia Literary Competitions and the publishing of Growing up Italian in Australia : eleven young Australian women talk about their childhood (1993), Buon appetito : regional Italian recipes [ricette regionali italiane] (1994), and Protagoniste non spettatrice = Cinderellas no more : ten years of the National Italian-Australian Women’s Association (1995) Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 September 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 sound files (approximately 476 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The records of the Australia Group of the Liaison Committee of Women’s International Organisations include correspondence (1950-1963) with the Liaison Committee headquarters group in London, affiliated organisations, international non-government agencies, Australian government bodies and others. The minutes of the Australia Group Liaison Committee cover the period 1947 to 1960.??In addition there are roneoed copies of minutes of the Liaison Committee Headquarters group in London for the period November 1949 to February 1961, and a headquarters information sheet.??The collection also contains printed and mimeographed material, principally reports by Australian observers and United Nations reviews reprints of proceedings at various United Nations seminars and conferences held in the Pacific area, 1956 to 1959. In addition there is a miscellaneous collection of material mainly related to the affiliated organisations. Author Details Jane Carey Created 4 August 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This collection includes pictorial material at Pic.Acc.5464 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Born and educated in New Zealand, Stella Allan came to Australia in 1903 when her husband was invited to join the staff of the Melbourne Argus. An intelligent, well spoken woman with a keen interest in women’s affairs, she was a very important figure in the establishment and management of a number of women’s organisations. In 1907 the Argus commissioned her to write a series of articles on the first Australian Women’s Work Exhibition held in October. They aroused much interest and next year the Argus invited her to join its full-time staff and begin a weekly section on the particular interests of women. She adopted the nom de plume ‘Vesta’ and called the column ‘Women to Women’. Her work was unique in an Australian daily paper at that time. Her pages extended to cover every aspect of women’s affairs, children’s interests and community welfare, and ‘Vesta’ became a household word for authoritative information and advice on such matters. In 1910 she was one of three women foundation members of the Australian Journalists’ Association. After arriving In Melbourne the Allans soon joined a large group of stimulating intellectuals. Alfred Deakin and his wife Pattie were close friends and the two women had a mutual interest in social welfare and women’s affairs. Stella Allan continued writing for newspapers and joined the Women Writers’ Club, succeeding Ada Cambridge as president. In 1912 she was a foundation member and later president of the Lyceum Club. She was an original committee-member of the Victorian Association of Crèches and of the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria, and had much to do with the early days of the Victorian Bush Nursing Association, the Baby Health Centres Association and the Queen Victoria Hospital. She was a member of the National Council of Women, first in New Zealand and then in Melbourne, and of the Country Women’s Association from its inception. A meeting held in the Melbourne Town Hall in 1938 by representatives of all the main Victorian women’s organizations paid special tribute to her work and influence. Events 1970 - 1940 Published resources Resource Section Allan, Stella May (1871-1962), Keep, Patricia, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070041b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Stella May Allan, 1907 [manuscript] Author Details Barbara Lemon and Nikki Henningham Created 25 September 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On 26 January 1997, June Stone was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to veterans particularly through the Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Associations (New South Wales) and the Royal Australian Air Force Association State Council. She had previously been appointed to the Order of the British Empire (Civil) (BEM) on 12 June 1976. In October 2002 June Stone became a member of the working group for the “Australian Women in War Project.” After completion of a Commercial Course at Sydney Technical College, June Garside worked as a secretary at an assurance company. She enjoyed going to dances, hiking with a social group at the weekend and going to the movies. This was at a time when the couple would dress formally and the male always had a box of Old Gold or Winning Post chocolates and sometimes a small corsage for the female. Then war came and the girls who were just as loyal and patriotic as the boys, did what their boyfriends were doing – they joined up. On 29 September 1941 June, aged 19 years, joined the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) as a Clerk General and was posted to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Station Bankstown to join the first WAAAF Recruit Course in New South Wales. She served at RAAF Bankstown and Sydney (underground) at 1 Fighter Sector Headquarters, later known as 101 Fighter Control Unit, in Operations Room and for a short time was attached to Headquarters Southern Area, United States Air Force in Australia: was posted to 6 RAAF Postal Unit, Townsville, in October 1944 as Orderly Room Sergeant and to RAAF Canberra in April 1946 to serve as Confidential Secretary to Rear-Admiral Leighton Bracegirdle, Official Secretary to His Royal Highness the Governor-General, The Duke of Gloucester, until discharge in October 1946. June married Flight Sergeant Harold Paul Clancy, RAAF Wireless Operator Air Gunner, on 12 October 1942 and was widowed on 21 July 1943 when he was killed in an aircraft crash at Habbaniya, Iraq whilst attached to the RAF. On 21 May 1949 she married William (Bill) Stone, a World War II RAAF Radiographer and the couple had a son, Robert. In her spare time June enjoyed reading mystery stories, good music and travel. In 1946 June joined the RAAF Association, New South Wales Division, and as a member of the WAAAF Branch held the offices of President, Honorary Secretary and Committee Member from 1960-1992. She was elected to RAAFA State Council in 1960 and held the office of State Vice-President from 1971-1999, received the honour of Life Membership in 1972 and was further honoured by being appointed a Life Vice-President of the NSW Division in 1999. She was Co-ordinator of the Air Force Contingent in Sydney’s ANZAC Day March for many years. From 1973 June served as a National Councillor representing the New South Wales Division on the National Council, RAAF Association. From 1974 she was the RAAF Association’s Delegate to the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council, a crest veterans’ body with a membership of 35 national organisations. June Stone was the Foundation Chairman at the Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Associations (NSW)’s Inaugural Meeting on 20 January 1975 and continued as Chairman. The Council works promoting the interests of members of the World War II Women’s Services (WAAAF, WRANS, AWAS and AAMWS) within Australia’s Defence Forces and makes joint submissions on their behalf to Governments. Also it disseminates information to state and interstate ex-servicewomen’s organisations on matters affecting female veterans of World War II. It raised money and built 12 self-contained units at the RSL Veterans’ Retirement Villages, Narrabeen, for ageing and disadvantaged members of the WAAAF, WRANS, AWAS and AAMWS, in the absence of access to Defence Service Homes Loans and other support. Money was raised for plaques and the erection of a memorial in Jessie Street Gardens, Loftus Street, Sydney, to commemorate the service of the women of New South Wales in the World War II Defence Forces. The Chairman planted a Memorial Tree, a mint leafed peppermint, at the western side of the main building of the Australian War Memorial on 12 December 1991. Over many years, through the Council, June Stone worked to have eligibility for Defence Service Homes Benefits extended to all members of the World War II WAAAF, WRANS, AWAS and AAMWS irrespective of where they served, as did a number of ex-servicewomen’s organisations. In 1993, by lodging a representative complaint under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission as an individual woman against the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, and with the support of Mrs Val Buswell OAM, a fellow WAAAF, the matter was fully debated at a conciliation meeting on 29 June 1994. The Government announced changes to the legislation in the 1995 Budget to take effect from July 1995 extending full eligibility to all members of the four World War II Women’s Services. The complaint was settled!! In 1995 the incumbent Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, The Hon Con Sciacca MP, appointed June to the Ministerial Advisory Council on Veterans’ Issues (MACOVI) and she was invited, as the representative of Australia’s World War II Australian servicewomen, to join the Committee of the DVA Australia Remembers Task Force organising the National Day for World War II Australian female veterans held at Parliament House, Canberra, on 25 July 1995. She has been a member of a number of other Committees set up by DVA National and State Offices. June was also a member of the Advisory Group for the planning, erection and launching of the Australian Servicewomen’s Memorial in the Statuary Gardens at the Australian War Memorial on 29 March 1999. A particular honour for June was being invited by the Council of the Australian War Memorial to represent the World War II servicewomen as their Official Mourner and to take part in the Funeral Procession at the Entombment of the Unknown Australian Soldier in the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial on 11 November 1993, a never to be forgotten experience. As a RAAF Association delegate June was involved in the activities of the World Veterans Federation (WVF) from 1975. She travelled extensively throughout Europe and Asia. She attended General Assemblies every three years from 1976, and attended associated meetings of Standing Committees. She was Honorary Secretary of the WVF Australian Members Committee and from 1979 to 1997 was General Rapporteur of the Standing Committee for Asia and the Pacific. In November 1997 at Seoul, South Korea, she was elected Vice-President of the WVF and re-elected Vice-President for a further three years in Paris in December 2000. June Stone was the first female to be elected to the Executive Board of the WVF since the Federation was formed in 1950. The WVF is an international non-governmental organisation bringing together associations of those who have experienced the sufferings of war, fighting side by side or facing each other in combat and who want to contribute to the establishment of a more peaceful, just and free world. Member associations come from 84 countries and their membership covers over 30 million individuals, being war veterans, victims of war and former personnel of peacekeeping forces. In 1997 June Stone was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to veterans and in 1976 the Medal of the Order of the British Empire (BEM) for her work on behalf of ex-servicemen and women. June believed that her sustained efforts for veterans over such a long period and any results achieved would not have been possible without the support, understanding and tolerance of her dearly loved husband, Bill Stone, who died on 24 March 2002. The information for this entry was supplied by June Stone OAM, BEM Published resources Book The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, Thomson, Joyce A, 1992 Resource Section CLANCY, JUNE, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=935019 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra CLANCY JUNE : Service Number - 92478 : Date of birth - 10 Jun 1922 : Place of birth - BALMAIN NSW : Place of enlistment - SYDNEY : Next of Kin - GARSIDE EDWIN Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Interview with June Stone (When the war came to Australia) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 December 2002 Last modified 5 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Henrietta Willmore received no formal musical training, but overcame this to emerge as a proficient pianist, much in demand in musical circles. As an accompanist or soloist in numerous concerts, she introduced a widening repertoire of classical music, frequently in collaboration with her friend Richard Thomas Jefferies. Her long teaching career began in 1867 through economic necessity when her husband’s attempt to establish a printery ended in insolvency. Henrietta became music mistress at Mrs Thomas’s Academy for Young Ladies. She pioneered organ recitals and organ-based concerts in Brisbane. She toured South Africa in 1896. Her final appearances were chamber music recitals in Brisbane in 1911 with members of the Jefferies family and her protégé Percy Brier. Willmore believed in women’s political rights and responsibilities; serving on the executive of several women’s organizations. The Willmore Discussion Club was formed in 1931 in her honour. She was awarded the Medal de la Reine Elisabeth, a medal instituted on 15 September 1915 and awarded to both Belgians and non-Belgians for services to Belgium and its citizens as a consequence of the 1914-1918 war. It was awarded particularly for relief of the suffering of the civilian population and the sick and wounded. Henrietta Willmore was born on 27 March 1842 in London, daughter of a literary editor. Though she had no formal musical training, she became a proficient pianist. At Chester on 25 September 1862 she married Alfred Mallalieu, a property-owner. They arrived in Brisbane in the Prince Consort on 12 May 1864 with their infant daughter. From 1866 Brisbane audiences responded enthusiastically to Mrs Mallalieu. In 1867 she began a long teaching career when her husband’s business failed. Henrietta became music mistress at Mrs Thomas’s Academy for Young Ladies. She later taught at other schools and after her husband’s death, increased her private classes. Dedicated and determined, she often took promising pupils without charge and gave freely of her skills and organising ability to further the cause of music. Undeterred by popular prejudice, she decided to become an organist. Her teacher was Walter Graham Willmore whom she married in All Saints Church, Brisbane, on 28 December 1885: they were unhappy and eventually parted. Henrietta was organist at St John’s Pro-Cathedral from 1882 to 1885, at Wickham Terrace Presbyterian Church and at other churches, and pioneered organ recitals and organ-based concerts in Brisbane. The vogue for such entertainments did not last and her fund-raising concerts to retain the Exhibition Building’s Willis organ were considered overly classical and met with a cool reception. In contrast, her recitals in Sydney in 1890 proved successful, her pedalling being judged remarkably fine. On a visit to South Africa in 1896 she won praise for ‘preserving a calm dignity and firm seat at the instrument while attacking all difficulties’. Her final appearances were chamber music recitals in Brisbane in 1911 with members of the Jefferies family and her protégé Percy Brier. Survived by two daughters and one son of the five children of her first marriage, she died at Wynnum, Brisbane, on 22 August 1938 and was buried in Bulimba cemetery with Anglican rites. There is a Henrietta Willmore memorial chair, carved by L. J. Harvey, in Women’s College, University of Queensland; Mallalieu Home (her former house at Toowong) is a hostel for female music students. Published resources Thesis An Account of the Music of St John's Cathedral Brisbane from 1843-1887, Boughen, R. K., 1974 Life and Influence of Mr Richard Thomas Jefferies, Heben, B. J., 1980 The Bands and Orchestras of Colonial Brisbane, Ericksen, F. J., 1987 Resource Section Willmore, Henrietta (1842-1938), Crouchley, Betty, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120576b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection OM73-48 Willmore Discussion Club Records 1935-1937 OM80-54 Henrietta Willmore Biography ca. 1940 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 5000 comprises correspondence, press statements, agenda minutes, polls, subject files, press cuttings, Hansard reports and printed material (1425 boxes, 2 cartons, 16 fol. boxes, elephant folios). Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 April 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9365 relates to an oral history project on eminent Australian women scientists conducted by Dr Ragbir Bhathal for the National Library of Australia. They consist of correspondence between Bhathal and the interviewees relating to interview arrangements, a list of questions to be asked during the interview, journal articles written by the interviewees and newscuttings about them. There are transcripts of the interviews for eight of the women. There are also papers (typescripts, notes and correspondence) relating to the publication of Profiles, Australian women scientists. Published by the National Library in 1999, the book is based on the oral history interviews (6 boxes)??The Acc06.161 instalment consists of 9 colour photographs of Australian observatories, including observatories at Windsor and The Rocks, Sydney. The photographs relate to Bhathal’s book Australian backyard astronomy (with Jenny Bhathal, 2006) (1 folder)??The Acc08.072 instalment includes papers and correspondence relating to conferences that Bhathal organised or attended, correspondence and drafts for the oral history project and the book Profiles, Australian women scientists, audio recordings of interviews conducted by Bhathal for the Australian astronomers oral history project, and astronomical photographs from the Mount Palomar Southern Sky Survey, and press cuttings (2 boxes, 17 elephant folios).??The Acc08.121 instalment comprises research notes, illustrations, draft transcripts and correspondence with interviewees for the Australian Astronomers project, a paper on Campbelltown Rotary Observatory for Astronomical Society of Australia, research papers by Dr Robert Delbourgo for the Australian Physicists project, papers by Professor Cheryl E. Praegor for the Australian Women Scientists project (2 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "6 sound files (approximately 8 hr. 3 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Country Women’s Association of New South Wales, the first such group in Australia, was founded in 1922 at a Bushwomen’s Conference held in conjunction with the Royal Agricultural Show in Sydney. It is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group and service association working in the interests of women and children in rural areas. Although ostensibly non-party, in practice the group has tended to bolster conservative politics. Historically, it was, however, also a progressive force in many ways. As early as 1936, for example, the NSW branch passed a resolution in favour of equal pay for women. Although the organisation has in many ways defended traditional gender roles, it has advocated a greater public role for country women. Although its influence has declined, given its large membership and longevity, it was arguably the most influential women’s organisation in New South Wales in the twentieth century. The Country Women’s Association of New South Wales, was formed at the Bushwomen’s Conference held in conjunction with the Royal Agricultural Show in Sydney in April 1922. This conference was initiated by Dr Richard Arthur, MP for North Sydney, and Miss Florence Gordon, who ran the Home Page of the Stock and Station Journal. Arthur had been urging the need to improve conditions for rural women since 1904. Gordon had had published a plan for a ‘Country Women’s Union of Help’ in 1921 which received a flood of support from her readers. It was inspired partly by the Women’s Institutes established of Canada and Britain. An organising committee formed, including Florence Gordon and Mrs Grace Munro, wife of a wealthy landowner in Bingara, who was to become the foundation president. The Bushwomen’s Conference was highly successful and attended by hundreds. Lectures were given on infant care-an important topic for women without the medical facilities or baby health centres enjoyed by city women-and dealing with insects, while Florence Taylor, Sydney’s only woman architect, talked about practical rearrangements of the home to increase comfort, such as insect screens. On the second day, the floor was thrown open to general discussion. The women who attended were ‘ordinary’ rural women, who were in the city for the Show. The brief of the new Association formed out of the conference was simple: to improve the conditions of women on the land. They adopted the motto ‘Honour to God, Loyalty to Throne, Service to the Country, Through Country Women, For Country Women, By Country Women.’ Their immediate objectives were to secure reduced train fares to the coast in summer, to get support for a seaside home and have maternity wards in country hospitals. While initially largely ignored, as the association grew it gained considerably lobbying power with politicians. The Association expanded rapidly. By 1924 there were 120 branches with 4500 members and 21 rest rooms had been financed and fitted out. By 1927 membership had more than doubled and there were 191 branches. By 1928 it was the largest women’s organisation in the state and membership continued to grow in the 1930s. By 1937, there were more than 17,000 members, 345 branches and 133 Younger Sets. By 1953 there were 28000 members and 517 branches, 182 rest rooms, 157 baby health centres, holiday homes, rest homes, hospitals, school hostels and playgrounds. Younger Sets were introduced at the 1927. Their purpose was to ‘further the aims of the CWA in general and in particular to use every opportunity of being instructed in First Aid, Home Nursing and Mothercraft’-. They were to perform social service and arrange social functions. Girls joined at 18 and often remained until 30. Although the specific activities of individual branches varied, among other endeavours, they actively supported the Bush Nursing Association, the Far West children’s health Scheme, the Bush Book Club, Girl Guides, and Boy Scouts, Travellers Aid and the flying Doctor Service. From the 1930s handicrafts have featured prominently among the associations activities, and they have also produced numerous cookbooks. Association news was regularly reported in the Stock and Station Journal and in 1937 the CWA’s own journal was established. During WWII, most CWA efforts were redirected to supporting the war effort. They entertained and fed men in country training camps, supported the Australian Comforts Fund and knitted garments for soldiers. They particularly took on the task of making camouflage netting for the army from 1942. Over 400 camouflage netting circles were established, producing hundreds of thousands of nets by early 1944. Many members were also left to run the family farm while their husbands were away fighting. In the postwar years the CWA took an interest in welcoming new migrants – meeting at least two ships a months and providing catering for 1000-2500 migrants a time. They also helped families settle and invited women to branch meetings. Special services were set up for migrant women living in the snowy Mountains. However, like the rest of Australia, the CWA largely ignored the plight of Aboriginal people-although they were more prominent in rural areas-until the late 1950s at least when some branches began to encourage Aboriginal women to join, although prejudice among members persisted. The CWA was, and continues to be, a generally conservative organisation with an almost exclusively white membership. In the early days at least, many of the most active members were women with money, education and leisure. Historically, it was, however, also a progressive force in many ways. As early as 1936, for example, the NSW branch passed a resolution in favour of equal pay for women. Although the organisation has in many ways defended traditional gender roles, it has advocated a greater public role for country women. It has also been outspoken on environmental issues. Helen Townsend provides an excellent overview of the diverse nature and activities of the group: ‘The Australian countryside has always been seen very much as the province of the Australian male. Folklore and literature concentrate on the tradition of mateship, the struggle of man against nature … The Country Women’s Association has tended to be ridiculed, partly because it is a women’s organisation operating in a male domain, and partly because the women who belong to it are such a far cry from the stereotype of the “little woman.” The women of the CWA, while believing deeply that their role in the family is vitally important, have been initiators, fighters and lobbyists. They have made localities into communities by providing social activities and educational, recreational and medical facilities … She further notes that the group is both practical and idealistic, radical and conservative: ‘They are radicals, insisting on better community facilities, yet the conservative guardians of traditional values.’ [Serving the Country, p. vii.] From the late 1960s the numerical strength and influence of the CWA began to decline. It has since revived somewhat. In 2004 its stated aims were: (a) To bring all women and families together and form a network of support. (b) To provide a forum for the voice of all women in New South Wales. (c) To improve conditions and welfare of all women and families especially in country areas. (d) To support schemes which enhance the value of country living, especially health and educational facilities. (e) To encourage development in regional areas and to increase the viability of rural communities and the environment. (f) To provide a voice to Government at all levels. (g) To promote International goodwill friendship understanding and tolerance between all people. [http://www.cwaofnsw.org.au] In this year the Association had over 13,000 members, belonging to one of 500 local branches. Published resources Book Burthong CWA, forty years 1958-1998., Country Women's Association of New South Wales. Burthong Branch, 1998 Country Women's Association, N.S.W., Canberra Branch, 50th Anniversary, 1946-1996, 1996 The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Getting things done : the Country Women's Association of Australia, Country Women's Association of Australia, 1986 Serving the country : the history of the Country Women's Association of New South Wales, Townsend, Helen, 1988 The Golden Years: The story of the Country Women's Association of New South Wales, 1922-1972, 1972 Gateway to service : Country Women's Association, N.S.W., Nowra Branch, 1924-1984, 1984 The diamond years / Country Women's Association N.S.W., 1997 The history of the Lockhart Branch of the Country Women's Association as from 19th July, 1924 to 19th July, 1945, 1945 Pre-maternity and post-natal first aid : an outline of the preparations to be made for a confinement pending the arrival of doctor and nurse, Norrie, Harold, 1923 Progress : official record of the Country Women's Association of New South Wales, 1922-1938, 1938 Riverina Group 1927-1997, 1997 Rowena remembered : a history of the C.W.A. and district, 1994 The silver years : the story of the Country Women's Association of New South Wales, 1922-1947 Publisher: Sydney : [1947] Printer: (Sydney : Estate of Harry G. Nall) Description: 66 p. : ill., ports ; 27 cm., 1947 Journal Article Remote Rural Women's Ideologies, Spaces and Networks: Country Women's Association of New South Wales, 1922-1992, Teather, Elizabeth K, 1992 The double bind: being female and being rural: a comparative study of Australia, New Zealand and Canada. [Edited version of a public lecture presented at Lock Haven University, Pennsylvania, April 1998], Teather, Elizabeth Kenworthy, 1998 Tailoring rural women in Australia, Canada and New Zealand: the Touch of Silk [Paper first presented at the International Conference of Historical Geographers (9th: 1995: Perth, WA ).], Teather, Elizabeth Kenworthy, 1997 Gwen Green (nee Lowenthal) 1900-1988 confronting the Great Depression head-on [A pioneer Jewish woman.], Rosenberg, Louise, 2000 Mandate of the Country Women's Association of New South Wales. [Earlier version of this paper presented at the conference 'Interest Groups and Political Lobbying' (1994: University of New England)], Teather, Elizabeth Kenworthy, 1996 The Country Women's Association of New South Wales in the 1920s and 1930s as a counter revolutionary organisation, Teather, Elizabeth Kenworthy, 1994 The first rural women's network in New South Wales: seventy years of the Country Women's Association, Teather, Elizabeth Kenworthy, 1992 Newsletter Newsletter / Country Women's Association of New South Wales Canberra Branch, 1987- The Country Woman: The official organ of the Countrywomen's Association of New South Wales, 1937- Report The Official annual of Country Women's Association of New South Wales: annual report and balance sheet to be presented at the annual general conference, 1927- Conference Proceedings Programme/Agenda ... of annual meeting and general conference of the Country Women's Association of N.S.W., 1922- Pamphlet Wyong CWA golden jubilee, 1932-1982, 1982 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian Historic Records Register Country Women's Association, Candelo Kameruka Branch Country Women's Association, Cartwright's Hill Branch Country Women's Association, Henty Evening Branch Country Women's Association of Australia, Yanco Branch Country Women's Association, Yanco Branch State Library of New South Wales Clara M. Stevenson correspondence, 1916-1964 Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Clara M. Stevenson correspondence, 1916-1964 Rose family papers, 1749-1974 [Henrietta Eliza Bertha Rose] Newcastle Region Library Records of the Country Women's Association of New South Wales, Hunter River Group, [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Thelma Bate interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection History 1959 [manuscript] Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 27 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Notice and report of inaugural meeting and annual reports. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 July 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Interview with Betty Davy, Sydney, 22 February 2010, transcript in possession of Leonie Christopherson, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 11 September 2013 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sheila Lawless migrated to Australia with her husband Lawrence and first child in 1955, one family among the hundreds of thousands of “ten pound poms” who travelled to Australia after the Second World War under the government assisted passage scheme. The Lawless family arrived in Adelaide on 26 July 1955, ready to join Sheila’s parents who had already settled in Parkside. Both Sheila and Lawrence found work quickly, and before long had managed to build their own home in the new housing estate of Windsor Gardens. Still in its earliest stages of development, the suburban plot had little to offer in the way of services and entertainment. Sheila befriended Molly McGrath at the local Catholic church, and before long their morning coffees with other local women had transformed into a mother’s club. Members of the club supported each other and lobbied successfully for a local parish primary school. Sheila was to have three more children. She returned to work after seventeen years out of the paid workforce under a new government scheme in 1973, and secured an administrative position at Kildare College in Adelaide. In 1999 Sheila was diagnosed with breast cancer but was fortunate to make a full recovery. On 26 July 2005 she celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her arrival in Australia; fifty years of dedicated homemaking and community building. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 4 August 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "50 minutes??Alison Dolling was born in St Peters and grew up in Tranmere. She talks about the shopkeepers, Church of Christ school called Ellerslie, Methodist Ladies College, university education in Adelaide and Berkeley, studying and working as an au pair in London, teaching in South Australia and New South Wales, teaching ex-servicemen after World War II, the Land Army, teaching career, joined the Lyceum Club in 1965, joined the Chronicle newspaper as the editor of the Women’s Pages, unemployed after the Chronicle closed down, book ‘Chronicle cameos’, district history of Marion, research on John Harvey and the Spoehr family, visit to Germany, family history and German ancestry, and work on the book South Australian Women Artists by Shirley Cameron Wilson. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "6659 photonegatives and ca. 650 silver gelatin photoprints Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 18 January 2007 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Honor Darling was a journalist who played a significant role in the Girl Guide Movement in Australia. She held various roles, including that of local publicity officer and ultimately, Chair of the Australian Publications Committee. Whilst a member of the armed services (the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force) she edited the members’ magazine. Margaret Coleman wrote the following for the Girl Guide Movement of New South Wales following the death of Honor Darling: Vale Honor Darling Honor, whose typewriter could spell much better than mine: Honor who taught me about editing and magazines; who always knew where to put the commas, who was a wonderful help and support as well as a great personal friend through many publications: Honor you will be missed. Always with an inquiring mind, Honor needed to know how and why. Words and writing were important to her. A journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald until she joined the WAAAF in 1942 serving until wars’ end in 1945 where one of her many duties was to edit a magazine for the WAAAF girls. While her two sons and daughter Barbara progressed through Scouting and Guiding, Honor became publicity officer and then president of the Local Association in the 1960s and 1970s during a very busy time when, with the assistance of Rotary, the Epping Guide Hall was built. At the same time the New South Wales Association claimed Honor’s expertise when she was appointed chairman of the State Public Relations Committee and edited The Waratah from 1966 to 1976. During this time she attended two national editors conferences, in Hobart and Adelaide. The next five years were very busy with publications. From 1976 Honor was chairman of the Australian Publications Committee when new handbooks were introduced especially for Australian girls and leaders. Members who have been around a while, will remember how first the U.K. handbooks were adapted, one each for Brownie, Guides and Rangers and then a few years later, a complete re-write for Australia was undertaken. Honor oversaw all these publications plus the first handbook for Leaders and commissioners and another edition of PO&R as well, Gwen Swinburn’s excellent history Among The First People which required a good deal of attention. Then followed a spate of history books: Up Till Now 1980; The Glengarry Book 1983, updated 1993; Blue and Gold: The Story Told 1986; From a Flicker to a Flame 1989; The Story of RTS Tingira 1994. In each of these Honor had an editorial hand. Two non Guiding publications attributed to Honor Darling are The WAAAF Book 1984, co-edited with Clare Stevenson and This is Pymble College 1991, when again Honor greatly assisted myself. In retirement Honor became patron of the Local Association (Support Group) at Muswellbrook and secretary of the Red Cross for that region. For the last five years Honor has lived in Melbourne with her daughter Barbara who is Vicar of the Anglican Church in Sandringham. Published resources Book From a flicker to a flame : the story of the Girl Guides in Australia, Coleman, Margaret and Darling Honor, 1989 Blue and gold, the story told: A brief history of the Girl Guides Association in Australia, Coleman, Margaret and Honor Darling, 1986 Edited Book The W.A.A.A.F. book, Stevenson, Clare and Darling, Honor, c1984 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra DARLING HONOR BRINSLEY : Service Number - 351182 : Date of birth - 25 Mar 1918 : Place of birth - SYDNEY NSW : Place of enlistment - MELBOURNE : Next of Kin - DARLING J Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Informal portrait of Section Officer Honor B. Darling, WAAAF, with her brother Leading Aircraftman David Sheridan. Portrait of Section Officer Honor B. Darling, WAAAF Section Officer Evelyn Ferrier (left) and Section Officer Honor Darling participating in an aircraft recognition exercise at RAAF Station Laverton Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 12 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Section Officer Evelyn Ferrier and Section Officer Honor Darling Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Connie was born in Coventry, England in 1925 to a working class family. She migrated to Whyalla, South Australia with her husband, Bill and their son. Connie became active in the Anti-War Movement during the Vietnam War, when her son was a teenager, a newspaper announcement regarding conscription being the trigger. This involvement lead to her joining the Women’s Liberation Movement, where she was part of the core group that established the Women’s Liberation Centre at Bloor Court, Adelaide and a counselling service as part of the centre. She also helped set up the first Women’s Shelter in Adelaide and the Christies Beach Shelter, in suburban Adelaide. Connie was a member of the Tuesday Afternoon Group, a group of older women interested in women’s issues. She was a poet and writer with the Adelaide based, Friendly Street Poets from its inception and has been published in many of the Friendly Street Poet anthologies, as well as in journals, magazines, and newspapers. She also published two collections with Friendly Street Poets, Other Ways of Looking c1988) and Earthdweller. Ugly as a Boxer’s Glove was also published about Connie’s life, as a text spoken by Connie and edited by Marg McHugh. Connie was born in Coventry in England in 1925 to a working class family she and her husband Bill migrated to Whyalla in South Australia. During the Vietnam War she became active in the Anti-War Movement as she had a teenage son and was concerned about his being conscripted. This involvement lead to her joining the Women’s Liberation Movement. She was part of the core group that established the Women’s Liberation Centre at Bloor Court and a counselling services as part of the centre. She also helped set up the first Women’s Shelter in Adelaide and the Christies Beach Shelter. She was a Member of the Tuesday Afternoon Group. She was a poet and writer with the Friendly Street Poets from its inception and was published in the majority of their anthologies. the poetry books include Other Ways of Looking(c1988) and Earth Dweller and Marg McHugh Ugly as a boxer’s Glove on Constance Frazer’s life. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newsletter Liberation, 1970 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Interview with Connie Frazer [sound recording] Interviewer: Deborah Worsley-Pine Tuesday Afternoon Group Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement : SUMMARY RECORD Interview with Connie Frazer [sound recording] Interviewer: Helen Oxenham Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Vivien Payne was born and educated in London, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London in 1948. She completed her articles with her father and was admitted as a solicitor in 1951. She practised in London until 1963, when she and her husband migrated to Perth, Australia. She became one of only a handful of women practising law in Perth at the time, and only the second to enter private practice. In 1982 she became founding President of the Women Lawyers of Western Australia Inc. Perth based women barristers forging their careers in the 1970s and 80s, such as Val French and Antoinette Kennedy, have noted her support for them, especially through the provision of briefs. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written about Vivien Payne for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Vivien Payne and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Vivien Claire Payne was born in London on 13 July 1927. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London in 1948 and completed her articles over three years with her father. She was admitted as a solicitor in London in 1951 and continued to practice in London until she left for Australia. In 1963, with her husband Douglas, and their four children they moved to Perth, Western Australia, where Douglas had been invited to take up the position of visiting Professor of Law at the University of Western Australia’s Law School. Vivien spent her first two years in Australia working at a well known Perth law firm, and in 1965 she opened her own practice, Vivien C Payne, practicing mainly in family and common law. She managed to balance the busy life of a wife and mother of four, with working full time as a practicing lawyer. During these years, in Perth there were only four or five female lawyers practicing of whom Vivien was the second one in private practice. In her career, she did not experience discrimination on the basis of her sex although there were requirements, such as when appearing before the Summary Relief Court (now the Magistrates Court), to be granted a right of appearance, she was required to wear a hat, while the same was not required of male lawyers. During the late 1970’s as the number of women practicing law increased, Vivien and a number of fellow women lawyers began meeting and decided that a women lawyers association should be established, to promote the interests of women in law and women generally, as there were parallel bodies in the Eastern States. In 1982, the Women Lawyers of Western Australia Inc. was founded, and she was its first president. The State Government at once began sending bills of all kinds to the association for comment. Vivien maintained an influential position on a number of Committees and Boards during her career. In June 1980 she was the first female commissioner to join the Legal Aid Commission and was a longstanding member of the Legal Aid Review Committee. She was on the Perth Zoo Board from 1988 to 1991 and was there during the opening of several new areas. She was a member of the Dental Board of Western Australia (now the Dental Board of Australia) for a year but resigned because of pressure of work. Two of her children pursue careers in law, as do two of her grandchildren. Vivien retired from full time practice in 1989. Published resources Journal Article Why the women lawyers, Payne, Vivien, 1984 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Vivien Payne (with Nikki Henningham) Created 27 January 2016 Last modified 4 August 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "15 Aug. 1892 – Aug. 1893; Minutes of the 49th to the 70th meeting. Minutes record discussions on a range of literary and other topics including George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, socialism, and working women. Includes annual reports for 1893 and 1896. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lucia van Oostveen was part of the Natural Law Party’s attempt to bring the principles of Maharishi Vedic Science into Australian politics. She was a Natural Law Party candidate for Granville in 1995 and a candidate in the House of Representatives for Fowler in 1996. Lucia van Oostveen has been practising Maharishi Ayurveda in various Panchakarma clinics for the past 20 years. She has also studied branches of Maharishi Vedic Science in India, the United States and Sydney. She gained her nationally accredited 2-year Diploma of Health (Maharishi Ayurveda Health Education) at Maharishi Vedic College in Melbourne. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 29 August 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A family history of the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lindsay Greig of Dundee, Scotland who migrated to Australia in 1888. Jane Stocks Greig (1872-1939) studied medicine and was appointed Chief Medical Inspector of the Victorian Education Department. Janet Lindsay Greig (1874-1950) also studied medicine and was a senior staff member at the Queen Victoria Hospital. Clara Puella Greig (1877-1957) studied science and opened the first Coaching College in Australia conducted by women. In 1910 she married Mr. Clement A. Hack, a Patent Attorney of Melbourne. Grata Flos Matilda Greig (1878-1959) was the first woman to be admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Law at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1905. Stella Fida Greig (1889-1913) attended Melbourne University and graduated L.L.B. in 1911. Also includes notes on their parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Greig and a newspaper cutting about Flos Greig. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Actor and activist, Noeline Brown has been involved in social, community and political affairs all her life. She was an ALP candidate for the Southern Highlands in 1999 and 2003. Noeline Brown has been a stage and television actor for more than four decades, beginning her career in 1962. She won a Logie award in 1978 for the most popular NSW female personality and has appeared in such TV shows as The Mavis Bramston Show, My Name’s McGooley, Beauty and the Beast, Blankety Blanks and Kingswood Country. On stage she has played many roles and she made a series of records with Barry Creyton. She was married in 1976, to writer/producer Tony Sattler. She was a member of the Arts and Culture Board and Patron of the Southern Highlands Regional Gallery. She has also worked with alcoholics and drug addicts at the Langton Clinic. She and her husband run a production company, Wintergreen Productions, in Bowral and are developing a museum to celebrate the life of Slim Dusty, having completed the Mary Mackillop Museum for the Sisters of St. Joseph in North Sydney. Noeline also spent two years with the NSW Premier’s Council for Women. She has written an autobiography, which was published in 2005. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A collection of papers relating to literary, radio, televison and screen projects by Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland. Manuscripts by Ruth Park include drafts of her novel One-a-pecker, Two-a-pecker, the guide book The Sydney We Love, the children’s books The Big Brass Key and Callie’s Brother, and her autobiography Fence Around the Cuckoo. Also included are D’Arcy Niland’s journalism, radio plays and his files on the adaptation and filming of his novel The Shiralee.??SERIES 01: Ruth Park??BOX 1?Far from the Land (radio script) (typescript), 1950??Four one hour historical plays (Radio Scripts)?Early in the morning (typescript)?Stormy Was the Weather: The story of the making of James Cook (typescript)?I’ll Meet you in Botany Bay (typescript)?The Ballad of Katty McCarty: Carbon typescript, typescripts with manuscript annotations, deletions and notes with letters from the New Zealand Broadcasting Service, 1950??One-a-pecker, Two-a-pecker, ca. 1957?Manuscript and typescript working notes, research material, photographs, newscuttings, storyline, unused chapters??BOX 2?The Big Brass Key, ca. 1980?Original (typescript with manuscript annotations, notes, typescript)??Callie’s Brother, ca. 1987?Original manuscript (typescript with manuscript annotations), notes, typescript, correspondence with A&R??James, ca. 1987-1989?Original manuscript (typescript with ms annotations) revised typescript, correspondence with editor from Nelson Publishers, together with the original William, ideas and notes??BOX 3?Things in Corners, 1987-1988?’Remaining scripts, feminist hassle and some research’?Typescripts, notes and correspondence with Viking O’Neil re feminism in relation to one character, sections deleted from the first typescript, edited galley??BOX 4?The Sydney We Love, 1983?Original typescript with manuscript annotations and changes, typescript with ms annotations, correspondence with Thomas Nelson publishers and copies of letter to the artist, Cedric Emanuel, ms notes, correspondence with Curtis Brown??BOX 5?Missus, 1984?Original manuscript (typescript with ms annotations and changes), carbon typescript, false starts (typescript with manuscript annotations and changes of material unused in the publication), file of correspondence and file notes by Ruth Park Re disputed editorial changes with Thomas Nelson publishers??BOX 6?A Fence Around the Cuckoo, ca. 1991-1992?Original manuscript (typescript with manuscript annotations and changes), typescripts (2nd copy, corrected copy, duplicates)??Research material?Notes, including events not used. Reviews, articles, letters from Penguin and Clem Semmler??BOX 7?A Fence Around the Cuckoo, ca. 1990-1992?Typescript with manuscript annotations, diary notes re publishers and agent, correspondence re the book, historical research, ms notes??SERIES 02: D’Arcy Niland??BOX 8?Research material re Katherine Mansfield, including letters received by D. Niland from E.J. Brady, 21 July 1948-2 July 1949; typescript manuscript of the article on K. Mansfield, ca. 1948??Working notes, interview and original manuscript (typescript with ms annotations) of the ‘Reg Evans’ story re President Kennedy), ca. 1961??Working notes and clippings of New Zealand serialisation of articles on Griffith Taylor and the South Pole, ca. 1963??BOX 9?The Shiralee, ca. 1955-1957, 1984?Reviews, newsclippings and promotional material.?Includes film premiere at the Civic Theatre, Scone, a telegram re London opening night and music scores (The Shiralee: the song of the film; The Ballad of Starlight; Buster: the swagman’s daughter)??Photographs (75 B&W) of film version, including photographs of Peter Finch, Sid James etc., 1957??Publicity photographs (15) for Earling Film’s??Film script of Tony Morphett, 1984??BOX 10?Call Me When the Cross Turns over, 1958-1965?Film script, abstract, outline; contracts with 20th Century Fox, letters from 20th Century Fox; manuscripts notes??Files re: copyright dispute over The Cross, letters from Curtis Brown Ltd., solicitors, copies of letters from D’Arcy Niland; agreements, notes??BOX 11?Radio Scripts: typescripts together with correspondence with the ABC??When Father Bought the Penny-farthing Bicycle??Ghosts Along the Murray??A Place Where You Whisper (typescript & typescript with ms annotations)??Woolloomooloo Walkabout??The Land and its People??The Day the Miko Won the Cup??One for the Road??The Melbourne Cup Story??SERIES 03: Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland??BOX 12?The Courtship of Henry Lawson?Original manuscript (typescript with ms annotations), carbon typescript, typescript. Manuscript notes of interview with Bertha Lawson??A Little South Of Heaven?Typescripts (2) for BBC, carbon typescript, typescript with manuscript annotations, ms notes, list of queries??BOX 13?The Centaur, 1964?Typescript with heavy manuscript annotations, typescript and carbon typescript??The Young Girls?Typescript with manuscript annotations, ms notes, copies of correspondence??Let No Man Put Asunder (typescript)??The Cannibals?Storyline for TV??Film poster ‘The Shiralee, directed by Leslie Norman’. an Earling Film.?Located at NSL M POSTERS/2294 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound tape reels (ca. 120 min.)??Curtis-Otter speaks of her involvement with the Girl Guide movement in Australia and Lady Baden-Powell ; joining the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service and writing their official history ; she recalls her childhood and schooling and speaks of her career in journalism. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 November 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Men’s Advisory Board minutes 1940 – 1965; Geelong Branch minutes 1886 – 1976; Annual reports 1908 – 1986; Finance & analysis books 1886 – 1976; Personnel committee minutes 1962 – 1969; World Fellowship committee minutes 1946 – 1954; Activities Council minutes 1951 – 1977; Cutting books 1927 – 1944; Geneva House minutes 1940 – 1973; Property files 1946 – 1973; Business Girls’ Club minutes 1953 – 1968; Youth Interest committee minutes 1949 – 1969; Girls’ Work committee minutes 1944 – 1949; Good Companions minutes 1956 – 1979; Golden Circle minutes 1965 – 1970; Project files 1953 – 1976; Young Wives’ Group minutes 1978 – 1981; Norlane Group – minutes & Three Corner Women’s Club 1960 – 1962; Basket/Netball Assn records 1961 – 1981; Thursday Badminton Club records 1954 – 1983; Photos, cuttings, annual reports, memorabilia 1919 – 1985 Author Details Jane Carey Created 23 June 2004 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Comprises: Policy statement; annual reports; minutes of meetings; correspondence; membership lists; papers relating to the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award; course program and training notes for courses in Camp leadership, Recreation, Fitness, Youth Leadership, Creative Art-Craft, Tabloid Sports, Basketball/Netball, Circuit Training and Track and Field Coaching; questionnaires and evaluation report forms; Cataloguing and Indexing Procedure; film distribution list; and papers from the Youth Hostels Association of South Australia, Outward Bound South Australia, South Australian Veterans Amateur Athletic Club, Mitcham Hills Hockey Club, the South Australian Women’s Memorial Playing Fields Trust and the South Australian Women’s Keep Fit Association. See below for more details. See also PRG 1366/37 for Betty Fisher’s papers from the Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hours 27 minutes??Betty Preston was born in London, England. On leaving school she was apprenticed as a shop assistant. Betty describes how her activism was sparked by joining the protest about the slow demobilisation of Second World War soldiers, including her husband Austin. Betty became an organiser for the Conservative Party in the late 1940s. In 1952 the family migrated to South Australia and settled in Northfield. In 1955 she was the first woman elected to the Enfield Council. Betty was also an active member of the Liberal Party and unsuccessfully nominated for the Legislative Council after moving to Brighton. Disenchanted with the political alternatives, Betty campaigned as an independent and on behalf of non-party organisations during the 1970s and 80s. She became a member of Grey Power, helping to form the Brighton Branch and accepting nomination as State President in 1991. She describes its aims and the practical results of its lobbying on behalf of older people. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc09.173 comprises letters exchanged by Warren Osmond and Lyndall Ryan between 1972 and 1996. The content of the letters includes careers, Australian politics and economics, academia, writing, history, colleagues, friends, travels and personal matters (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 January 2018 Last modified 3 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1. Correspondence, media releases, meeting agenda, notes, faxes relating to the work of the Commmittee for a Just Republic (coordinator, Peter Murphy). 2. Public response to media comments during the Convention on the Committee’s quest for a democratically elected Head of State. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Rosetta Birks was a member of the South Australian Women’s Suffrage League and the Social Purity Society in Adelaide. She was president of the YWCA. Rosetta Jane was the daughter of William Kyffin Thomas, founder of Flinders Street Baptist Church in Adelaide, and his wife Mary. Rose was a dedicated member of the Flinders Church. In 1879 she married her sister’s widower, Charles Birks, and became stepmother to his children. Rose Birks was a member of the Social Purity Society Adelaide ladies’ branch committee and, from 1888, was treasurer of the South Australian Women’s Suffrage League, working with Mary Lee and Mary Colton. Following the enfranchisement of South Australian women she joined the Woman’s League committee. She was appointed to the Adelaide Hospital board in 1896, and later the Queen Victoria Maternity Home board. She was co-founder and vice-president of the National Council of Women in South Australia. In 1902, Rose Birks became president of the YWCA. She attended a meeting of the world committee in London in 1906, and attended international conferences in Paris and Berlin, establishing connections between Australian branches of the YWCA and their European and North American counterparts. In 1911 she launched the local YWCA’s Travellers’ Aid Society, offering protection to unescorted young female travellers and attempting to direct them toward Christian influences. Published resources Resource Section Birks, Rosetta Jane (1856-1911), Woods, Martin, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10040b.htm Edited Book Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Dickey, Brian, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 20 February 2009 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The issues faced by Black film makers and artists striving to present a positive image of their own cultures in a white-dominated society are discussed. Source : Sydney Film Festival forum, 1987. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers deal inter alia with the Australian Labor Party, the development of Canberra, bank nationalisation, social services, development projects in Western Australia, immigration and international affairs. There is also a biography of Tangny by Connie Hooker. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 January 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Dame Enid Lyons AD GBE was the first woman elected to the Australian federal Parliament, in 1943. She was also the first woman in federal Cabinet. She was appointed as a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 11 May 1937 for her public services to Australia and as a Dame of the Order of Australia (AD) on 26 January 1980. Originally a teacher, Enid had a long-held interest in politics. In 1915 she married Joseph Lyons, who became Prime Minister of Australia in 1931. The couple had 12 children. In 1943 Enid Lyons was elected to the House of Representatives for the seat of Darwin (in Tasmania) as a candidate for the United Australia party, where she demonstrated her concern with issues surrounding maternity care, child endowment, women’s representation in parliament and discrimination in employment. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Significant Tasmanian Women: Dame Enid Lyons AO (1897-1981), First woman to be elected to the Commonwealth Parliament, Women Tasmania, 2001, http://www.women.tas.gov.au/significantwomen/search/enidlyons.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section List of Electoral Divisions Named After Women, Australian Electoral Commission, http://www.aec.gov.au/history/women/women3.htm Dame Enid Lyons, 2002, http://www.abc.net.au/btn/australians/elyons.htm Primary description of person CP 928; Hon Dame Enid Muriel Lyons AD, DBE, National Archives of Australia, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CP+928 Dame Enid Lyons, 2003, http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/history/Transcripts/s951058.htm Book Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Uphill all the way: a documentary history of women in Australia, Daniels, Kay and Murnane, Mary, 1980 Liberal women : Federation to 1949, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2004 No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Alexander Gore Gowrie, 1835-1987 [manuscript] Papers on various Australian women [19--] [manuscript] Papers of Dame Enid Muriel Lyons, 1931-1974 [manuscript] Papers of Jack and Jean Horner, 1956-2003 [manuscript] State Library of South Australia Papers of Janine Haines AM National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dame Enid Lyons - a tribute [sound recording] / presented by the Australian Broadcasting Commission Dame Enid Lyons interviewed by Mel Pratt in the Mel Pratt collection [sound recording] National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Gorton] State Library of New South Wales Irina Dunn further papers, 1943-1994 Author Details Clare Land Created 1 August 2001 Last modified 8 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 sound files. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 May 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A series of interviews with women involved in the Australian Women’s Movement supervised by Ann Curthoys, Susan Magarey and Marilyn Lake as part of their joint Australian Research Council project ‘A History of the Australian Women’s Movement 1967-1988’. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 hours (approx.)??Sylvia Kinder speaks about feminist perspectives on pornography. The recording starts part way through her paper. Author Details Margaret Allen Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A member of the Barkandji people, Muriel Riley is an artist and resident of Broken Hill. Artist Muriel Riley is a member of the Barkandji (Paakantyi) people, and a member of the stolen generation. Her eldest brother is Badger Bates, also an accomplished artist, and formerly the Senior Archaeological Officer for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in Broken Hill. With five brothers, Muriel was raised at Wilcannia by her aunty and never knew her father. As small children, Muriel and three of her brothers were taken into state institutions. Her grandmother rescued the elder two brothers by taking them up-river toward Bourke and Brewarrina by canoe. Muriel was held at institutions in Broken Hill, Adelaide and Sydney, but broke out of each one. She kept a photograph of the old bridge at Wilcannia, and at the age of 18 she managed to return by hitch hiking from Sydney. By the time she was pregnant with her first daughter, Muriel was hitch hiking again with a friend, this time to Cairns in Queensland. The baby was born healthy but Muriel had been abandoned by her friend, and with no resources she risked being picked up for vagrancy. She gave up her baby for adoption. Back in New South Wales she had two more children, but her son subsequently died from double pneumonia. With her daughter Fiona, she lived at Wyalla, Wilcannia and Broken Hill as well as the Mutawintji National Park and the Kenchega National Park near Menindee. At Mutawintji she worked as a tour guide, explaining Aboriginal artefacts and telling the dreamtime stories. Conflict between different family groups since that time over traditional ownership has soured her connection with the park, and she no longer visits: ‘we are caretakers of the land’, she says, ‘we don’t own the land, the land owns us’. Twenty-eight years after she gave up her first-born child, despite failed attempts to reunite through Link Up, Muriel’s daughter found her by going through the phone book. Muriel was surprised to find herself with another six grandchildren in addition to Fiona’s three children. Mother and daughter are now in regular contact. In 2006, Muriel undertook a drawing course at the Broken Hill TAFE and began to focus upon her art. Her first drawing, a portrait of her grandmother, was given to her brother Badger as a gift. The Basin Haircut, depicting herself as a child in the institutions, was the first drawing she sold. In 2008, Muriel was awarded second place for both two and three-dimensional drawing in the Far Western Emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Prize. Her work has been exhibited in the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery. Muriel is a member of the Darling River Action Group. Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Muriel Riley Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sally Morgan is a renowned Aboriginal artist and author of the award-winning My Place. Sally Morgan was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Western Australia in 1974, followed by postgraduate diplomas in counselling, computing and librarianship at the Curtin Institute of Technology in Perth. Curious about her background, she began investigating her family’s history, and discovered she had relatives at the Corunna Downs station in Western Australia’s Pilbara district. In 1987 Morgan became a national celebrity with the release of her autobiography, My Place, which charts her discovery of her Aboriginality and outlines her family history. The book won the inaugural Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission humanitarian award in 1987 and the Western Australia Week literary award for non-fiction in 1988. She subsequently published several books. Sally Morgan is also a nationally recognised artist, and has held numerous exhibitions. Her paintings can be found in major collections including the Robert Holmes a Court collection, the Dobell Foundation and the Australian National Gallery. She was awarded a Medal of Australia in 1990. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Book My Place, Morgan, Sally, 1987 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive Moodeitj Yorgas Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 20 May 2005 Last modified 16 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes WAAAF history, 3v; RAAF.- Directorate of Training, v.4 WAAAF. Recruit training handbook; V.5 Professional occupations in Australia 1945; RAAF.- School of Administration v.6 Notebook;l v.7 The Training of trainee officers: final report; v.8 Lawson, J. – War diary of a WAAAF.; RAAF.- Educational Services v.9 WAAAF. Rec. Room notes 1-17; v.10 Wall sheets 1-39; v.11 Project 1: Our ally – France; Miscellaneous v.12 Hair do’s and don’ts for WAAAF.; v.13 Miscellaneous papers from staff conference 1945; v.14 RNZAF. Catering bulletins; v.15 Report to Prime Minister on Civilian morale, North Queensland Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 20 May 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "History of the Maternal and Child Welfare Service, Queensland’. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Oil on canvas.??The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Presented by the Committee of the Ada Mary a’Beckett Free Kindergarten 1948. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 6 September 2002 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Alice Sewell was the first woman to win the Wyselaskie Scholarship in classical and comparative philology and logic from the University of Melbourne. Alice was very much involved in organisations promoting the interests of women and alongside Ethel Osborne, recommended the establishment of a women’s club along the lines of London’s Lyceum Club. Alice is also remembered for her involvement in the Country Women’s Association. Alice, Lady Sewell nee Cunning appears as a ‘minor entry’ in the biography of her husband, the celebrated physician Sidney Valentine Sewell (1880-1949), in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.[1] Her career, although largely defined by her marriage, was interesting nonetheless. Alice Cunning, who took her BA in 1902 and MA in 1906 at the University of Melbourne, was the first woman to win the Wyselaskie Scholarship in classical and comparative philology and logic. The Wyselaskie scholarships, initially awarded in Mathematics, Natural Science, English Constitutional History, Political Economy, Modern Languages and Classical and Comparative Philology and Logic, are the result of a bequest by John Dickson Wyselaskie, a notable supporter of Ormond College and other Presbyterian institutions, who died in 1883.[2] Sir Sidney and Lady Sewell had seven children, two sons and five daughters, of whom one died before 1949. Both sons graduated MBBS from the University of Melbourne. Alice Sewell was very much engaged in organisations promoting the interests of women. Following a visit to England with her husband in 1910, she and Ethel Osborne, medical practitioner and wife of Professor W.A. Osborne recommended the formation of a women’s club along the lines of the Lyceum Club in London. It was established in 1912 with Alice Sewell, who was a member of the Catalysts which had preceded it in 1910, among the founding members. Her interest in medical matters led to a long involvement with the Australian Tuberculosis Association, of which, in the 1950s, she was a Victorian Vice-President. This non-profit association aimed to foster active interest in combating the disease and educational programs on what causes it. It is, however, for her activities in the Country Women’s Association that Alice Sewell is best remembered. She founded the CWA Festival and chaired the handicrafts and home industries committee from 1937 to 1940. She also edited its Country Crafts which was published by the Country Women’s Association of Victoria from 1930 to 1951. She was a member of the Victoria League and the Ormond Women’s Association and awarded one of the 6,500 Coronation Medals allotted to Australia in 1937, on the coronation of George VI. [1] John V. Hurley. ‘Sewell, Alice Maud (1881-1971)’. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988. [2] J. Ann Hone. ‘Wyselaskie, John Dickson (1818-1883)’. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers include correspondence, diaries, business records, personal papers, and photographs, as well as biographical notes, and a sketch of Bill Lavery and secretary of Karungie Station by Elizabeth Durack. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1938-1974; Shirley Emilie Shennen – Correspondence being mainly letters received. RESTRICTED (Call No.: ML MSS 6084/1-4)?1923-1950s; Shirley Emilie Shennen – Personal papers (Call No.: ML MSS 6084/5)?1930-1950s; Shirley Emilie Shennen – Newscuttings and other printed material (Call No.: ML MSS 6084/6)?1923-1991; Shirley Emilie Shennen – Photographs (Call No.: ML MSS 6084/7) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 May 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Shirley Jones was instrumental in establishing the Jessie Street Women’s Library Association, now the Jessie Street National Women’s Library, in Sydney. Shirley was born Shirley Hannah in New Zealand on 11 September 1927. The family was living in Napier when the earthquake struck in 1931, which was her earliest memory. Later they moved to Hastings where she was Dux of the High School, which at the time was co-ed. From there she went on to study Science at the University of Auckland, living at St Margaret’s College, Otago, Dunedin, until 1949. In 1950 she married Gwynne Trevallyn Jones (19 September 1925 – November 2015) in Hastings. In 1954 they went to Oxford where Gwynne was undertaking a D Phil. In 1958 with his degree completed they moved to Australia, to Armidale where he had been appointed a lecturer in the history department of the University of New England. There she had two children, Meredith and Nicholas. In 1963 they moved to Sydney, where Gwynne had been appointed to the history department of Sydney University. In 1966 they went on sabbatical and spent most of their time in Salzburg, Austria. Back in Sydney, when the children were old enough to go to school Shirley began work as an assistant editor at the department of coal research at CSIRO, but she resigned in 1973 to go on sabbatical again to Salzburg. Back in Sydney she became an editor once more in the Office of the Supervising Scientist, which was a statutory office set up by parliament to oversee the uranium mines, especially in Kakadu National Park (now inside the department recently restructured as the Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment). In the 1980s she and a number of her friends became exasperated with the difficulty of finding some published books written by women in Australia and material about women in the area generally. They determined to establish a specialist women’s library to collect such works. Together with Lenore Coltheart, an association was started and the first Annual General Meeting of the Jessie Street Women’s Library Association was held in August 1989. Sir Laurence Street, Jessie’s son, agreed to be a Library patron and was later joined by the Hon Elizabeth Evatt and poets, Judith Wright and Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker). the Library was incorporated in March 1990 and became a registered charity with tax-deductible status. Shirley worked tirelessly for the next twenty years to establish it on a firm footing, which involved finding it a suitable location and linking the association to women’s libraries around the globe. She found various locations, including the rooms in the basement of the city Town Hall, before it was finally settled in Ultimo. During this time she did a round the world trip to visit as many other women’s libraries as she could access. The Newsletter was begun to keep members in touch with developments. When she eventually retired from the board of management, the library was established on a firm footing. Author Details Sybil Jack Created 9 December 2019 Last modified 7 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records and audio tapes. Records include correspondence, files on international projects and applications for funding. Content deals exclusively with women’s projects, with the purpose of educating Australian and overseas women on women’s issues. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 September 2017 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Newsletter No.1. October 1945. 2 pp., roneoed. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jean Kerr was the first woman in Australia to graduate in accountancy and the first to hold a full-time lectureship in Accounting. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1957 and Reader in 1968. After retiring at age 60, Jean continued to publish material that achieved worldwide recognition. Jean St George Kerr was the first woman in Australia to graduate in accountancy and the first to hold a full-time lectureship in Accounting. She had been a brilliant student, entering the University of Melbourne at just fifteen and coming second in the class list in first year Accountancy. Having interrupted her studies to work as an accountant between 1942 and 1946, she graduated BCom and was immediately offered one of the temporary post-war positions created by the University to cope with the influx of returning servicemen. In 1954, having been appointed to the permanent staff of the University of Melbourne, she travelled to New York to undertake the MSc by coursework. On her return to Australia, she showed one of her papers to the editor of The Australian Accountant. Geoff Burrows tells us that: Her ‘Three concepts of business income”, published in the April 1956 Australian Accountant, provided a masterly analysis of the income-capital nexus under three different measurement systems – historical cost, current purchasing power, and current operating capacity. It would become one of the most widely cited and reproduced articles of its time, generating a major international reputation for its self-effacing author.[1] She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1957 and Reader in 1968. Jean Kerr was remarkable, however, not for ‘hitting the glass ceiling’ but in showing little interest in academic promotion. She retired at the age of 60 but continued, at the request of her former pupil, Kevin Stevenson, who was director of the Australian Accounting Research Foundation, to publish material that achieved worldwide recognition. The Definition and Recognition of Liabilities was translated into Japanese.[2] Several other monographs followed. In 1989 she co-edited a Festschrift for her former colleague and mentor, Louis Goldberg AO (1908-1997) who occupied the GL Wood Chair of Accounting from 1957 until 1973.[3] Jean Kerr’s bequest to the University of Melbourne was acknowledged in the University’s Report to Donors in 2013.[4] [1] Geoff Burrows. ‘Pioneering Female Accounting Academic.’ Age. 4 May 2013: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/obituaries/pioneering-female-accounting-academic-20130503-2iyz3.html [2] Jean St. G. Kerr. The Definition and Recognition of Liabilities. Melbourne: Australian Accounting Research Foundation, 1984. [3] Jean St. G. Kerr, R.C. Clift, eds. Essays in Honour of Louis Goldberg. Melbourne: Department of Accounting and Business Law, University of Melbourne, 1989. [4] University of Melbourne. Report to Donors 2013: the impact of giving. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joan Bielski was a long time activist for equality for women in employment, education and public life. A founding member of the Council for Civil Liberties, she was also a foundation member of Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) in 1972 and continued her active involvement throughout her life. In 1988 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her services to women and girls education. In 2004 she was awarded the Order of Australia for her services to women in politics and public life. Joan Bielski was a long time supporter of the National Foundation for Australian Women. Born in Narrabri, New South Wales (NSW), in 1923, Joan Margaret Ward was the daughter of a banker (Francis Ward) and a banker turned housewife (Doris (nee Bull)). The family later moved to Armidale and Joan attended St Patrick’s Convent Armidale, then St Mary’s Convent, Gunnedah, where she completed her intermediate certificate. After leaving school without gaining her leaving certificate, she worked in a newsprint factory and in clerical jobs until she joined the RAAF at 18, where she served as a telegraphist in communications from 1942 to 1945. Assisted by the ex-servicemen rehabilitation scheme after the war, she completed her matriculation at Sydney Technical College. She then moved on to tertiary study in 1947. She graduated BA. Dip.Ed. New England University College, University of Sydney in 1951. Joan became an advocate in migrant welfare and joined the Immigration Reform Group in the 1950s. Her voluntary work for migrants consisted of providing translation, information and support services. In 1953, she married Jerzy (George) Stefan Bielski, a socialist immigrant from Poland and survivor of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. They supported each other in all their political and social activities. Joan was a foundation member of Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 and reforms for women in relation to child care, employment, poverty, divorce law, inheritance taxes and education. She was also a founding member of Women In Education, a lobby of women educators lobbying for equal opportunity for girls and women in education in the years 1974-1990 approx. Joan was a teacher (1951-1974) and Research Officer, Royal Commission on Human Relationships (1975-76) and Officer in Charge, Social Development Unit, NSW Ministry of Education 1977-84. The latter’s role was to advise the then NSW Government, the universities, Technical and Further Education (TAFE) colleges, schools and community organisations on discrimination and sexism issues in education at all levels, multicultural education and anti-discrimination legislation as it applied to education and employment in education.. Joan worked to inform the education sector about the extant research in the social sciences that pointed to the need for reform and the means of reform in the education of girls, especially in Mathematics, Science, Home Science and Technical Education. She was instrumental in having the NSW system rethink its presentation of Maths and science to girls and to have the TAFE system restructure and broaden the scope of studies such as Secretarial Studies, apprenticeship training for girls and to have TAFE introduce re-entry education and training programs for adult women. The latter programs continue to this day. Joan was the author of numerous conference and position papers on various aspects of women and girls education, such as career education, apprenticeships, the effect of technology change, women and educational management, equality in early childhood education of boys and girls. She was instrumental in having the Government of the day schedule the NSW universities under the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act some years before the Sex Discrimination Act was passed to cover all universities. Many of her initiatives provided stimulus and/or models for national action in the area of women and girls education. Her expertise in the area of discrimination, equal opportunity and affirmative action in education was sought after by the Western Australian (WA) Government, private educational institutions in various states and by universities. She was a member of the Councils of both University of New England (UNE) and Macquarie University for many years in the 1980s and the early 1990s. Her book, Women Engineers, is an account of 20 practicing Australian women engineers’ motivation, education, training and their working experience and an analysis of the implication of these for educators and employers. After retirement from paid employment Joan devoted her energies to promoting women’s welfare and, as founding member and Honorary Secretary, of Women Into Politics. Since 1992, she has worked with women to explore the issues which limit women’s participation in politics and to increase the numbers of women in our parliaments and in Australian public life. As well as organising various conferences, seminars, consultations and fund raising Annual dinners, Joan contributed to conferences, delivering numerous papers on issues relevant to discrimination against women in politics and equal political representation. Recent speaking engagements include: The Women’s Constitutional Convention, January 1998. Topic: What women should expect from a Bill of Rights. The National Party’s Women’s Council, September 2002, on the rationale for equal representation and outlining necessary political party reforms. The Organisation of Hellenic & Hellenic-Cypriot Women of Australia, National Conference, January, 2001. Topic: Australian women’s movement as part of a world movement, its history of gaining the vote, lobbying and activism and the move to equal representation. Australian Federation of University Women Hunter Conference, 15 September 2001. Topic: The Women’s Charter for Political Reform. Australian Local Government Women’s Association Australia. National Conference, Canberra, 20th October 2001. Topic: The Women’s Charter for Political Reform Bielski had returned from a forum on women and ageing organised by the Older Women’s Network and was writing a missive on a local development when she collapsed with a massive stroke. She passed away on August 17, 2012. According to friend and fellow traveller in WEL and the NSW Women and Education Group, Jozefa Sobski, ‘Her wit and good humour, her infectious and rousing laughter, her generosity with friends, her alertness to injustice, her energetic pursuit of political indolence and indifference to inequality or unfairness, will be remembered by all who knew her.’ Published resources Resource Section Australian Women's Honour Roll B, CAPOW, http://www.capow.org.au/Honourroll/honourroll-b.htm Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Book Coming to the Party?, Bielski, Joan, 1994 Women Engineers, Bielski, Joan, 1988 A Women's Charter for Political Reform 2001. A charter for political equality for women and for good government for all Australian citizens, Bielski, Joan, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Women's advocate smashed educational barriers, Sobski, Jozefa, 2012, http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/womens-advocate-smashed-educational-barriers-20120912-25sfx.html#ixzz26IXJyVfn Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Women's Redress Press - book files, 1976-1996, including correspondence, contracts, readers' reports, reviews and photographs State Library of New South Wales Judith Steanes - interview with Joan Bielski of the Women's Electoral Lobby, 2000 Joan Bielski papers, 1968-2004 Author Details Clare Land Created 10 December 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Suzanne Cory (AC FAA FRS) is an Australian molecular biologist of international renown. She has worked on the genetics of the immune system and cancer and has lobbied her country to invest in science. She was Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research between 1996 and 2009, after spending eight years as Joint Head of the Molecular Biology Unit with her husband, Jerry Adams, before her appointment as Director. In 1998 she received the Australia Prize, in 2001 the L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, followed by the Royal medal in 2002 and the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize in 2009. She was the first elected female President of the Australian Academy of Science and took office on 7 May 2010 for a four-year term. In 2011 the Suzanne Cory High School, a public high school that caters to 800 students from years 9-12, opened in Cory’s honour in 2011. Cory completed a Bachelor of Science (1964) and Master of Science (1965) at the University of Melbourne, before being awarded her PhD by Cambridge University in 1968. Since then she has been nominated Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research 1972-74; Roche Fellow 1974-76; Research Fellow 1977; Senior Research Fellow 1978-83; Principal Research Fellow 1984-88; Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science 1986; Senior Principal Research Fellow and Joint Head, Molecular Biology Unit 1988-96; Director from 1996; International Research Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1992; Fellow of the Royal Society 1992; Research Professor of Molecular Oncology, University of Melbourne from 1993; Burnet Lecturer, Australian Academy of Science 1997; and Fellow, Royal Society of Victoria 1997. Awards include the David Syme Prize, University of Melbourne 1982; the Avon Australia “Spirit of Achievement” Award 1992; the Lemberg Medal, Australian Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 1995; and the Australia Prize 1998. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Suzanne Cory, director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Suzanne Cory interviewed by Ragbir Bhathal in the Australian women scientists oral history project [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ragbir Singh Bhathal, 1949-2006 (bulk 1996-1999) [manuscript] Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 64 min.)??Kathleen Taperell talks about the 1993 re-election of Labor, strengthened Office of the Status of Women remained in Prime Minister & Cabinet; native title, reconciliation, Aboriginal policy branch; being head of the policy branch; women’s status in public service; needing to justify function; government changes (1983) strong women’s policy; taking leave without pay; the impact of illness in the family; her retirement; missing a sense of purpose, identification with job; her community service, continuing international work; report of Australian implementation of UN convention; helping to build local heritage support; chairing publications committee; her public sector achievement; specific achievements for women; public misconceptions of public sector work; valuing the public sector; changes in gender relations; promoting social harmony; opposing negative views about state power addressed; her personal style; her gratitude for stimulating work. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "20 cassettes (ca.1200 min.)??Sir John Oscar Cramer speaks of his family background; early life; real estate business; the Depression; career in local and federal government; power supply problems in NSW 1930-1950; origins and development of Liberal Party; Robert Menzies; politicians and issues during his career; experiences as Minister for the Army; life after retirement. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 19 September 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Jenny Macklin was elected to the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament representing the electorate of Jagajaga, Victoria in 1996. She was re-elected in 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013. On 22 November 2001, Macklin was elected unopposed as Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition and retained that position until November 2006. She was Shadow Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Science. With the election of a Labor Government in 2007, she took on the ministerial portfolio of Families, Housing, Community Service and Indigenous Affairs. She continued to hold that position after the 2010 election. Her final portfolios before the defeat of the Labor government in September 2013, were Disability Reform; Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Macklin has been a member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry since 19 March 1996. She was Shadow Minister for the Aged, Family and Community Services from 20 March 1996 to 27 March 1997, when she was appointed Shadow Minister for Social Security, the Aged and Family Services. On 26 August 1997 Macklin became Shadow Minister for Social Security and the Aged as well as Assistant to the Leader of the Opposition on the Status of Women. By 20 October 1998 she was Shadow Minister for Health and was also Shadow Minister for the Status of Women until 5 September 2000. After completing a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) at Melbourne University, Macklin worked as a Researcher at the Australian National University from 1976-78 before being employed as an Economics Research Specialist, Legislative Research Service at the Parliamentary Library, Canberra 1978-81. She then worked at the Labor Resource Centre as a Research Coordinator from 1981-85 and until 1988 was Adviser to the Victorian Minister for Health, the Hon. D R White, MLC. In 1990 Macklin became Director of the National Health Strategy and in 1993 Director of the Australian Urban and Regional Development Review. Source: http://www.alp.org.au/people/people.html?seat=jagajaga accessed 21/12/2001 Published resources Resource Section Jennifer (Jenny) Macklin, Member for Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, http://www.alp.org.au/people/people.html?seat=jagajaga Ms Jenny Macklin MP, Member for Jagajaga, Australian Parliament House, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/biography.asp?id=PG6 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Papers of the Migrant and Indigenous Women Action Group Author Details Clare Land Created 21 December 2001 Last modified 12 January 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Poster featuring a black and white photograph and the inscription ‘Australian Black Panthers.’ Created 13 October 2020 Last modified 13 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Beulah McAppion is descended from several pioneer families in Canberra’s Ginninderra district, the Southwells, Gribbles and Currans. Her grandfather, Henry Curran, was the last Ginninderra blacksmith. Educated at Hall Primary School and Canberra High School, she joined the Commonwealth Department of Price Control in 1942 and following the war served as a clerk in he Commonwealth Superannuation Retirement Benefits Office until 1968. She then managed a cake shop and in the 1980s worked as a volunteer visitor in the Red Cross service for home bound people. From 2002 she was a volunteer counsellor with the Uniting Church. Beulah McAppion was born on 26 September 1927 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, one of the four children of Arthur Henry Curran and Phylis Una (neé Southwell). Her paternal grandfather, Henry Roland Joseph Curran (Harry), operated the Ginninderra blacksmith’s shop and lived in an adjacent house with his wife Agnes (neé Gribble). During her childhood, Beulah saw her grandparents almost every day and has fond and vivid memories of them, their home and her grandfather’s workshop. Educated at Hall Primary School and Canberra High School, Beulah joined the Commonwealth Department of Price Control in 1942 and following the war served as a clerk in the Commonwealth Superannuation Retirement Benefits Office until 1968. She then managed a cake shop and in the 1980s worked as a volunteer visitor in the Red Cross service for home bound people. From 2002 she was a volunteer counsellor with the Uniting Church. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0326 Beulah McAppion Oral History Recording Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 22 June 2012 Last modified 12 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Beulah McAppion Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Melbourne Jewish Women’s Guild was formed in June 1896 at a meeting held in the Melbourne Town Hall. It initial objectives were personal service amongst poor, especially hospital visits, in order to bring relief to the sick and afflicted, without any regard to creed, race or colour. The philosophy adopted was that ‘All are creatures of the same God.’ Its foundation president was Mrs N. Bennett. By 1897 the Guild had 132 financial members. They held fundraising events, and distributed goods and money among Melbourne’s poor, but they discouraged ‘pauperism and idleness’. The Guild became one of the foundation affiliates of the National Council of Women of Victoria in 1902. Dr Constance Ellis, one of Melbourne’s first women doctors, was an active member and as the Guild’s representative to the National Council of Women of Victoria from 1902. Extended notes: As of 1987, the Guild’s constitution listed the following aims: 1a. To visit the sick and poor, either in their own homes or in public institutions. 1b. To maintain among the members a sewing circle for the purpose of making garments for the poor. 1c. To grant relief to the poor, either in money or in kind, as in each case the Board of Management may decide. It retains its commitment to provide relief without any ‘distinction as to creed’. While membership is open to all faiths, only Jewish women are eligible to hold office. Activities of the Guild were report in the Jewish Herald (which later became the Australian Jewish Herald. Published resources Book From Vision to Reality: Histories of the affiliates of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1987 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 26 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret McCarthy was a music teacher and music librarian. She was the founding librarian of the Victorian String Music Library, establishing this institution as a thriving educational resource in Victoria. Margaret McCarthy (nee Vance) was born on 27 September 1928, the fifth and youngest child of Canadian parents Mary Edythe Boyd and Neil McMillan Vance, who had arrived in Australia two years previously with their elder four children. Neil Vance had been sent to Australia to assist with the merger of Massey Harris with the Australian H V McKay Sunshine Harvesters. The family settled in Sunshine, Victoria and Margaret attend Sunshine State School and Sunday School at St Marks Church of England, establishing a lifelong connection to the Anglican Church. As a primary school aged child, she began her musical education in Piano under Elsa Haas, and had passed the Grade 6 exams as set by the Melbourne University Conservatorium by the age of ten (Sunshine Advocate, 19 May 1939,1). Following her secondary schooling at Lowther Hall she enrolled in a Diploma of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium. Winning both a Thomas Dick Bursary and a Commonwealth Government Scholarship enabled her to complete a Batchelor of Music at the University of Melbourne. During her university studies she worked as a freelance piano, singing and theory teacher, advertising her services for students in the local Sunshine paper (Sunshine Advocate, 24 January 1947, 8; Sunshine Advocate, 2 February 1951, 8). Her skill was also employed by the Shire of Braybrook as a solo pianist for official council functions (Sunshine Advocate, 17 November 1950, 1). Upon graduation from the University she found employment as a music teacher at Sacre Coeur, Glen Iris, where she taught class music, theory and piano to individual students. Marrying Neville McCarthy in December 1952, she continued to teach until shortly before the birth of her first child. The family moved to Yarrawonga and as a mother of five young children, Margaret McCarthy resumed secondary school teaching, teaching in local country high schools. The family returned to Melbourne in 1968 and in 1976 she gained a Diploma in Librarianship, and a Diploma in Education in 1983 (McCarthy 2014). In 1974 she was seconded by Alexandra Cameron as the librarian for the String Music Library which had been established to provide scores for string teachers, school orchestras and students, housed initially in rooms at Camberwell High School. Under Margaret McCarthy the venture flourished, beginning with ten borrowers per week in 1975 and reaching 1600 borrowers and 6000 scores (McCarthy 2014). Margaret McCarthy expanded the library to include full orchestral scores, wind ensembles and choral works for schools. She was also required to develop the skills to negotiate copyright for the use of the music with international publishers. Margaret McCarthy continued to play music throughout her life, taking up the cello and viola, and playing in municipal orchestras. As her children also began their musical education, she became involved in the Youth Orchestra and State Music Camps her children attended. Margaret McCarthy died on 17 December 2014. Author Details Sue Silberberg Created 22 October 2019 Last modified 28 October 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Red Cross Archives series reference: V91 Minutes of the Red Cross Victorian Division Advisory Committee that have been typed onto loose sheets numbered A1-A35, and with items A1-A16 signed by the committee Chairman. On 8th November 1920 the Australian Red Cross Council unanimously resolved that the then current Advisory Committee cease to exist and be subsumed by the Victorian Division Executive Committee – so as to contain representatives of the various activities (See: Annual Report for 1920-21 page 5 item B. Item: 2015.0027.00002) See also series 2016.0068 for VICTORIAN DIVISION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES [Red Cross Archives series reference: V92]. Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 9 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Recorded on 14 January 2016 at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 6 August 2019 Last modified 6 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute books, 1937-1954 [microform]??Originals in private ownership. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 69 min.)??Folkloric recording. Rosemary Simms born 1941 at Mystic Park, Victoria, talks about her parents; the development of irrigation scheme; growing oranges and table grapes; imports ruining industry; early family memories; her strong church involvement; Christmas with English tradition; her early life on the orchard; her school days; her high school at Kerang; teacher’s college at Bendigo; teaching at Cohuna High School; marrying Stuart in 1965; leaving teaching; dairy farming at Lake Charm; changes over the last 42 years; becoming a contract harvester; drought conditions; working wives; role of women in the farming community; women’s contribution to farm economics; farming income and costs; consequences of the threat of no irrigation water; local women’s organizations; community health; local services; family life in the local area; Federal Government proposal; Murray-Darling proposal; lack of knowledge by politicians. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 August 2017 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "36 Black and White photographs of Eureka Youth League members at Camp Eureka, and unrelated May Day demonstrations. Most unidentified. Includes images of migrant workers’ banners on May Day; Waterside Workers’ Federation Dance Group; Roger Wilson talking to children on a ship; mothers with babies demonstrating for endowment and against nuclear tests; banners for full citizenship for Aborigines; Communist Party of Australia banner in demonstration; women’s float; May Day procession starting from Trades Hall, Melbourne. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers relating to various organisations with which Helen Crisp was associated, including the Child Welfare Committee, National Council of Women, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, Australian Federation of University Women, ACT Health Commission, Australian Consumers’ Association and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Other files contain material on women in the Commonwealth Public Service, child care, home economics, women’s education, technical education and health services. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 August 2003 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rosemary Roebuck was the founder and first President of the Playgroup Association of N.S.W, a significant part of the newly emerging Australian playgroup movement that is still alive and well over 45 years later. She and her colleagues, with their young children, began organising and supporting playgroups from Balmain, New South Wales, in 1970, on a voluntary basis. Rosemary had previously trained as a pre-school teacher under Joan Fry, and worked in pre-schools and childcare. She spent some time working in early childhood in London before returning to Sydney with her husband, John, and first child. When her children were older she continued her career in early childhood. The following reflective essay was written by Rosemary Roebuck. Balmain in the 1970s was an old suburb with cheap housing. Young families were moving in, as it was affordable and closer for husbands’ work in the city. I was a 29 year old mother with Duncan, two years, and Alasdair, five months. Living in Balmain with a small garden, John and I were renovating. I was lonely, needing mental stimulation after ten years of teaching in Early Childhood Education, and friends for Duncan and myself. I was introduced to Julie Campbell, a New Zealander teacher living in the area and organising a little “Playcentre” in Adolphus Street, Balmain, just around the corner. Six mothers and their children, meeting once a week, for play and chatter. “Would I like to come?” “Yes!!” It was wonderful, meeting new friends and sociable Duncan loving every moment. Julie had returned to university and quite soon invited me to organize the group. Additional mothers and children were coming and soon we were overcrowded. Wishing to continue and extend the group, we needed new premises. Reverend John Booth, of St John’s, Birchgrove, invited us to use their premises, including an open grassed outside area. Our husbands built a sandpit and made easels, and the kids had a lovely open area. We rostered the mothers to bring paint, playdough and junk, and provide activities. Stories and music were routine activities. Our local butcher gave us large sheets of “butcher’s paper” – remember those days? We shared fruit and juice and a “cuppa” and chat at morning tea time. New mothers and children were visiting and joining all the time. The grapevine was spreading far and wide! Soon two mornings a week, then adding afternoon sessions to accommodate everyone. After one year we had a membership of 45 families, with at least 20 children each session. The interest generated by these “play” sessions grew rapidly across Sydney suburbs, into the country, and even to Kalgoorlie, WA, where one visiting mother started a group of Indigenous people. The initial cost was $1 membership and 30c per family per session, covering very basic needs. As mothers played with their children, supervising and running activities, child welfare regulations of child to adult ratio did not apply as required for Pre Schools and Child Care. Again we soon outgrew our space, inundated daily with visiting mothers and children keen to learn how to develop their own groups. We would not turn anyone away. In early 1972 Reverend Andrew Soos of St Andrew’s Church, Campbell Street, Balmain, invited us to use the crypt at the back of his church, with the additional bonus of a huge outside area, accessed by a back lane, with chooks in a nearby garden. Copious storage and permission granted to add swings, a sandpit, climbing equipment and grass. An independent telephone number for the evolving group of centres was urgent. John and I had been sole contact. My amazing, patient husband helped with calls or the children, as we were now receiving calls from 7 in the morning until 10pm – FRANTIC! It became apparent that we needed a volunteer rostered office, to establish an Association with Solicitor, Insurance coverage and a Treasurer. Noel Bracks volunteered as Solicitor, Gordon Waddell and Rex Russel as Insurance brokers – husbands, of course, of involved mothers. In such a grass roots organization the multi skills of members were being put to good use. It was also becoming apparent we needed some financial backing. A New Zealander, Lex Grey, came to our attention, working at Sydney University, under the Bernard van Leer Foundation, on Aboriginal Family Education Centres (AFEC). He was working with Aboriginal country women, based on a Maori program, helping to train them to educate their own young children, using natural materials and observation of early development – thus “learn and play”. Lex had written “Look and Listen” and developed a “Parent Effective Programme”. Lex encouraged us to begin our own Association, to offer advice, and if parents were interested they could enrol in a three year course, which many did. AFEC was unable to offer financial backing to us but willing to give information to families. In April 1972 we held our inaugural meeting of the Playgroup Association of N.S.W.. Unlike New Zealand Playcentres where a supervisor organized each session, our philosophy was to have a mother/child based session with parents in charge, planning, supervising and being with their own and other families, supporting each other. I was elected first President, holding the position from 1972 to 1974. Thus began campaigns of advertising, including newspapers, radio and TV interviews, “A Current Affair” with Simon Townsend, articles in Women’s Day, notice boards in Baby Health Centres, shopping malls – everywhere, anywhere. Our very proactive Sister Johns of Balmain Baby Health Centre visited and recommended our playgroups to many mothers and those needing a social outlet and support. Our first playgroup magazine, “Totline”, was printed on 1st October 1972, with the logo designed by Anne Beverley, portraying the circle of parent and children. Incorporated within the magazine were ideas for craft, fingerplay songs and a list of 19 established playgroups and contact addresses. This led to the publication of “How to Form a Playgroup.” In 1973, with another Committee Member, we went to Canberra, applying for a grant from “The Australian Council of the Arts” – unfortunately we were not successful. With the establishment of the Association and the voluntary manned office in Campbell St., the pressure was slightly eased. Playgroup days had become so busy I had little time for my boys and they and I often arrived home frustrated and exhausted. But, it was all worthwhile. As the movement grew, so did outside and professional interest develop, including from the following: Macquarie Uni Sociology Students Western Sydney Metropolitan Community Health regarding benefits for the mental health of women Ann Gash of Mona Vale Hospital, community health worker Playgroups in hospitals Toy libraries National Youth Orchestra under Robert Millar invited playgroups to listen to the music, participate – stamping around the hall, then play and touch the instruments – magical. “Introduction to the Orchestra”. We recognized early on to set a limit of 30 children at each session, and support playgroups in their own areas. By the second birthday of the Playgroup Association of NSW we had 290 registered groups and publications available. These included: How to Start a Playgroup Kids Move Kids Make Parent Education Books Guidelines In 1974 at the Annual General Meeting Helen Bradfield was voted as next President. To Helen and all the future Presidents, Committee Members, and indeed the parents and children who have gone on to continue and develop the Association, I salute and thank them, for a dream accomplished and established for our special Australian children – then and now and the future and my grandchildren. Published resources Journal Totline : Journal of the Playgroup Association of N.S.W., Playgroup Association of N.S.W., 1972 - Book Playgroup in action, Playgroup Association of N.S.W., 1977 How to start a playgroup, Playgroup Association of N.S.W., 1976 Author Details Rosemary Roebuck Created 17 May 2017 Last modified 9 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc04/176 comprises files on the Paralympics, 1999-2000; papers relating to HMAS Launceston (launched by Newman in 1982); Press Council hearing, 1987; Constitutional Convention, 1987; the opening of new Parliament House in Canberra, 1988; and, Senate appointment congratulations, 1986. Other papers include letters, speeches, press releases, funeral services, cards, menus, and copies of cartoons and memorabilia (1 carton). Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 26 May 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc08/38 comprises papers, submissions, consultancies, briefing papers, diaries, academic notebooks, meeting notes and papers, research notes relating to books (16 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In recognition of her service to the community of Portland, Victoria, and women of Victoria in general, Mabel Hedditch was appointed OBE in 1960. Her contribution to her community included foundation membership of the Portland Branch of the Country Women’s Association of Victoria. She later served as group president, central vice-president and State president. Mabel Hedditch also served on the Portland Town Council from 1949 -64 and was its mayor from 1956-60. Daughter of Alfred and Emily Flux, Mabel Emily was born in Hambrook, Bristol, England on 11 December 1897. She was the youngest child of five children. At the time of her birth, her father was the licensee of the White Horse Inn, Whiteshill, Hambrook. However, around 1905, her father inherited Walton Farm, Hambrook, and the family left the hotel to relocate to the farm. Mabel’s early education began at Frenchay Village School, Frenchay, located near the family farm. However, her older brothers and sister attended the Whiteshill School, Hambrook. Along with her sister, her secondary education was completed Colston’s Girls School, Bristol. She was admitted on 16 September 1910 as a free place holder. However, in a registration certificate obtained in 2008, she was found to have been withdrawn from school on 21 December 1913 due “…to serious illness at home”. In 1914, Mabel completed a cheese making course at the Country Dairy School, Bristol. During the 1914-18 World War Mabel joined the “land army” and one of her duties was to deliver milk from her father’s dairy by horse and cart. At the end of the first World War, when Australian soldiers were being offered work on nearby farms whilst awaiting shipment back home, Mabel met Norman Hedditch, who had served in France with the Australian Imperial Force. During this time a friendship developed, which continued on Norman’s return home to Australia. In early 1921, Mabel immigrated to Australia, sailing on the S.S. Morea to Melbourne. On the afternoon of her arrival – 15 April 1921 – she and Norman were married at the St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Church St., Richmond, Melbourne. Mabel and Norman then settled on the Hedditch family farm, “Lal Lal”, at Lower Cape Bridgewater, near Portland. Mabel turned her hand to farming “Australian-style”. She and Norman lived there for the next 26 years. Over a 14-year period, they had seven children Thomas William (1922 – 1967), Margaret (1923 – 2002), Alfred John (1924 – ), Robert Charles (1925 – 2002), James Clifford (1926 – 1926), Katherine Mary (1930 – ) and Geoffrey Norman (1934 – ). Mabel and Norman’s farming activities included grazing, dairying and the associated roles of raising calves, pigs and poultry. During the Great Depression, from 1928 until the mid to late 1930’s, when times were difficult, Norman’s father selected other land to farm at Gorae West, which they farmed in conjunction with Lal Lal. Norman also started working as a livestock agent to supplement the limited farm income. As he became very successful at this pursuit, he established an office in Portland. Mabel continued to run the farm with assistance of the older children and outside help. However, in 1937, when the Country Women’s Association of Victoria formed a branch in Portland, Mabel entered public life. She was a founding member, but also became secretary that same year. In 1939, with the outbreak of World War 2, the Portland Branch was very busy making camouflage nets and knitted socks, in addition to assembling food parcels for the troops. In 1946, not long after the war ended, Mabel and Norman left the farm at Lal Lal and moved into the township of Portland so that Norman could pursue his business interests. Their son Robert remained on the farm until it was sold in 1948. This shift of location suited Mabel as it enabled her to actively pursue public life, in particular, her interest in the Country Women’s Association. (She had strong insights into the problems facing country women at that time.) She became Group President (1947-49), Central Vice President (1951-53) and State President (1953-55). In October 1954, during her term as State President, her husband died suddenly. However, this did not deter Mabel – she continued on with public life. In 1949, she was elected to as a Councillor to the Borough of Portland, and continued in this role for the next 15 years. On 2 December 1954, she was appointed an Honorary Justice (Justice of the Peace) for the State of Victoria. In the 1964 election, she lost her council seat in a 5 way contest, leading on primary votes but losing out on preferences. From 1956-60, Mabel served as the Mayor of Portland. She was to become only the second Lady Mayor of any municipality in the State of Victoria to serve at that time. During her first term as Councillor the municipality of Portland was upgraded to “town”- on 19 November 1949 – at a time when Portland was experiencing a period of rapid progress. In addition to her duties with the Council and the Country Women’s Association, Mabel played many other roles in the community. She served as treasurer of the town’s Infant Welfare Centre, directed the “home help” service, worked for “meals on wheels” and was president of the Old Folks’ Welfare Committee. She was also an energetic secretary for the Lewis Court Home for the Aged, Portland. Along with her O.B.E., Mabel was also awarded a Citizenship Award by the Town of Portland on 9 November 1965. Unfortunately, Mabel died shortly before the award could presented, officially, to her. As part of her Council duties, Mabel was also a delegate of the Victorian Decentralisation League achieving the status of Vice President. On 10 March 1966 she was made, posthumously, a Life Member of the League. Mabel died on 6 January 1966. She is buried at the Lower Cape Bridgewater Cemetery alongside her late husband Norman. This cemetery is located about one mile from Lal Lal, the property she and Norman farmed for 26 years. In an article in the Melbourne Herald, Mabel was described as someone “…who knows and loves the land, the people who live on it, the things that grow in it…” – for which she will always be remembered. This information was been prepared by Geoff Hedditch (January 2010) with the assistance of Judith Pike, Mabel’s Great niece in Bristol, England and from records currently held by the family. This information was edited by Tricia Ong, Geoff’s daughter. Published resources Resource Section Hedditch, Mabel Emily (1897-1966), Bennett, Gwen, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140490b.htm Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Mabel Emily Hedditch, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Geoff Hedditch and Rosemary Francis Created 25 May 2010 Last modified 21 June 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (ca. 140 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Box 1769/1 Minute Book, 13 October 1955 – September 1960. Note Membership list included. Box 1769/2 Bank deposit books 1955-1957; Receipt books 1956-1959; Membership book; Mailing list. Box 1769/3 Correspondence, 1954-1960. Box 1769/4 Printed material including copies of The journal of the Victorian Teachers Union copy of Teaching Service (Married Women) Act 1956 copies of Education gazette & teachers aid; Explanatory memorandum of the principal provisions of the Superannuation Acts Melbourne, Government Printer, 1956. Box 1769/5 Press cuttings and miscellaneous material. Note Rough notes on the history of the Club included. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 27 August 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Australasian Trained Nurses’ Association (ATNA), Australia’s first nursing association, was formed in New South Wales in 1899, with branches subsequently established in Queensland in 1904, South Australia in 1905, Western Australia in 1907 and Tasmania in 1908. It sought to improve the status of nurses through registration and to develop standards of training in hospital schools of nursing. The Association commenced publication of its journal entitled Australasian Nurses’ Journal, (ANJ) in 1904. The state branches eventually came to form branches of the Australian Nursing Federation, which was established in 1924. The specific objects of the Australasian Trained Nurses’ Association were: 1. To promote the interests of trained nurses in all matters affecting their work as a class. 2. To establish a system of registration for trained nurses. 3. To afford opportunities for discussing subjects bearing on the work of nursing. 4. To initiate and control schemes that will provide nurses with an allowance ‘during incapacity for work caused by sickness, accident, age or other necessitous circumstances’. The Association began in the larger training hospitals on the initiative of senior medical practitioners and nurses. It comprised an annually elected Council of seventeen members, including five qualified medical practitioners, five matrons or superintendents of nurses, five sisters and nurses, with two honorary members. Published resources Book In pursuit of nursing excellence: a history of the Royal College of Nursing, Australia 1949-99, Smith, Russell G, 1999 Labour of love: the history of the Nurses' Association in Queensland, 1860-1950, Strachan, Glenda, 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Australasian Trained Nurses' Association records, 1899-1976?????Title Australasian Trained Nurses' Association records, 1899-1976 The University of Adelaide Archives Royal Victorian College of Nursing Author Details Rosemary Francis and Carolyne Carter Created 27 May 2004 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "To be advised Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 May 2004 Last modified 4 May 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dame Marie Breen was a Federal Senator for Victoria for the Liberal Party from July 1962 to June 1968 (retired). Marie Chamberlin was the daughter of Frederick William and Jeanne (née Conquest) Chamberlin, and was educated at St Michael’s Church England Girls’ Grammar School (St Kilda). She married Robert Breen on 12 December 1928. They had three daughters, one of whom, Jeannette Patrick, was the Liberal Member for Brighton, 1976-1985 and Parliamentary Secretary of the Liberal Party, 1979-82. Marie Breen was a Federal Senator for Victoria for the Liberal Party from July 1962 to June 1968 (retired). Breen’s community-based work included her membership of the Victorian Family Council, 1958-78; the Victorian Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, 1970-1978; and the Marriage Guidance Council of Victoria (later Relationships Australia), 1957-1971. Breen was appointed as Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 16 June 1979 for service to the community. She had earlier been appointed an Officer of the British Empire, on 1 January 1958, for her work in the role of State President of the National Council of Women (Victoria). Events 2010 - 2010 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1955 - 1962 Victorian Liberal and Country Party 1969 - 1973 UNICEF Committee for the United Nations Association of Australia’s Victoria Committee 1970 - 1978 Victorian Association of the Citizens Advice Bureau Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Interview with Dame Marie Freda Breen, politician and Senator for Victoria in the Federal Parliament, 1962-1968 [sound recording] / interviewer, Amy McGrath Marie Breen interviewed by Bernadette Schedvin in the Parliament's Bicentenary oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Biographical and autobiographical information on members of the Australian Psychological Society gathered by Alison M Turtle in order to compile a Biographical Register of Australian Psychologists for the Society. Created 9 December 2019 Last modified 9 December 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records including the Minutes for 1944-1967, correspondence 1951-1968, cash book 1965-1966, conference proceedings, copies and drafts of the constitution, press cuttings and various publications issued by the Australian Women’s Charter. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 July 2003 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 8320 comprises correspondence, 1959-1987, including letters sent by Modjeska Drusilla’s family (parents and sisters) and friends. Major correspondents are Charles Modjeska (her former husband), Klim Gollan, Tony Moniaty, David F. Pocock, Lyndall Hannaford, Deb Jordan, Marsha Rowe and Marlous Terweil. Drusilla’s diaries and personal documents for 1948-1987 in the collection include school and marriage certificates, copies of job applications, diaries and notebooks. Also included are book reviews and talks, 1975-1991, from when Modjeska worked as a book reviewer for The Sydney morning herald, McPhee/Penguin and others, with typescripts and newspaper cuttings of some of the reviews. The series relating to her writings comprise drafts, typescripts, research notes and some correspondence relating to the following books: Women writers (1979), Exiles at home (1981), The poems of Lesbia Harford (1985), Inner cities (1989), Poppy (1990) and The orchard (1994) (23 boxes).??The Acc00.054 instalment comprises further papers, 1987-1992 (7 boxes, 1 carton).??The Acc07.045 instalment comprises diaries dating from 1992, material relating to Stravinsky’s lunch, and other material (16 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 December 2017 Last modified 8 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Established in 1896, the Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne was the first women’s hospital in Victoria, operated for women by women. Originally housed in William Street, Melbourne, new premises were purchased with money raised by Victorian women contributing to Dr Constance Stone’s ‘Shilling Fund’. The hospital moved to its Lonsdale Street site in 1946. In 1989 it was relocated to the Monash Medical Centre at Clayton. Established in 1896 as the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, as a clinic in a local church hall, The Queen Victoria Hospital was one of three hospitals in the world founded, managed and staffed by women, ‘For Women, By Women’, for the benefit of poor women uncomfortable with male doctors. There were eleven female founding doctors led by Dr Constance Stone. The hospital was funded by an appeal coinciding with Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. After three years, there were enough funds to move into separate premises, the old Governess Institute in Mint Lane. Known as the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, the name changed to the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital when the Queen died in 1901. In 1946, the hospital moved into premises vacated by the Royal Melbourne Hospital on Lonsdale Street. In 1965, it became Monash University’s teaching hospital for obstetrics, gynaecology and paediatrics, at which point it became a ‘Family Hospital’ that treated and employed males. In 1977 the hospital amalgamated with McCulloch House and was renamed the Queen Victoria Medical Centre. The years later , in 1987, it merged with Moorabbin Hospital and moved to Clayton. In 1991 it was involved with yet another merger, this time with Prince Henry’s Hospital, to form the Monash Medical Centre. From its beginnings as an out-patients’ dispensary in La Trobe Street (where the three Drs Stone – Constance, Clara and Mary – worked on Monday mornings), the Queen Victoria Hospital expanded its premises with the purchase of the Governess’ Institute at Mint Place in 1899, funded by a Jubilee Shilling Fund appeal. The National Council of Women of Victoria moved for the establishment of an operating theatre for out-patients at the hospital in memory of Mary Stone, honorary secretary of the Council from 1904 to 1910. The theatre was opened in 1912. When the hospital added a new pathology block in 1937 it was named after Dr Janet Greig. In 1946 the hospital moved to premises on Lonsdale Street. In 1977, the Queen Victoria Hospital was one of a number of institutions (including the Jessie McPherson Hospital and McCulloch House, a convalescent home) to amalgamate and form The Queen Victoria Medical Centre. It continued to operate from its Lonsdale Street site until 1989, when it was sold and relocated to the Monash Medical Centre at Clayton. Following its closure, the centre tower of the hospital was refurbished and handed over to the women of Victoria. It is now known as the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre. Published resources Book Degrees of liberation : a short history of women in the University of Melbourne, Kelly, Farley, 1985 Bricks or Spirit : the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, Russell, Emma, 1997 Bush Nursing in Victoria 1910-1985; the first seventy-five years, Priestley, Susan, 1986 Resource Section Queen Victoria Hospital (1899 - 1977), 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/asaw/biogs/A002228b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Monash Health Historical Collection Archives of the Queen Victoria Women's Hospital Author Details Anne Heywood, Ailie Smith and Nikki Henningham Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 24 August 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Merle Bush devoted over 50 years of her life to the Victoria Guide Movement. During that time she developed training programs for leaders in Victoria and interstate. In the New Year’s Honours List for 1956, Bush was appointed an Officer of the British Empire (Civil) for her services to the Girl Guide Movement. Always known as Merle E Bush, she was named on her birth certificate as Muriel Evelyn Bush. Merle grew up with very good memories of life in the early days of Victoria, as both her grandfathers had ‘Produce Stores’ which supplied vast areas in the state of Victoria. Her paternal grandfather’s store was in Bendigo and from there he supplied goods from Northern Victoria and Southern Riverina, using Paddle Steamers along the Murray from Echuca. On the other hand her maternal grandfather’s store was situated in Bairnsdale and with the aid of a steam ship, which he built himself, called the J. C. D. he traded through the Gippsland Lakes and coastal ports to Melbourne. Bush was educated at Girton, a Church of England Grammar School, where in 1915 she became the school’s Head Prefect. Her involvement with the Girl Guide movement lasted nearly 60 years. She helped establish and was the first Guide Leader of the 1st Bendigo Guide Company. Later Bush organized Guide rallies to see Lord and Lady Baden Powell during their visits to the State of Victoria, as well as developing Camping and Training programmes. Acting State Secretary for eight years, Bush was awarded the Chief Guide’s Diploma for Training (the only one to be awarded in Australia) as well as becoming a life member of the State Council of the Victorian Girl Guide Association during the 1940s. Following her death in 1981 a new Trefoil Guild was formed in Bendigo and called the Merle Bush T.G. It was registered on June 18, 1981. (Source: information supplied by Guides Victoria archives) Events 1923 - 1923 Gained the Campers Licence 1923 - 1923 Honorary Secretary for Bendigo Local Association 1925 - 1925 Attended the first All Australian Camp for Leaders 1925 - 1925 Appointed the Head of Brownies in Victoria 1926 - 1926 Appointed the first Camping Advisor for Victoria 1926 - 1926 Appointed the first Training Advisor for Victoria 1926 - 1926 Instituted training by correspondence for country Leaders 1927 - 1927 First Ranger Captain of 1st Bendigo Ranger Company 1927 - 1927 Visited Queensland as an experienced Trainer and gained further training qualification (Red Cord) for service beyond her own State 1930 - 1930 Organized a Rally for guides to get together and meet the Chief’s – Lord and Lady Baden Powell during this visit to Australia 1930 - 1930 Awarded the Medal of Merit – presented by the world Chief Guide, Lady Baden Powell 1935 - 1935 Organized a rally for the Guides of the time to see Lord and Lady Baden Powell during their visit to the State of Victoria 1939 - 1946 Accepted position of Acting State Secretary for 3 months (lasted for 8 years) 1940 - 1940 Worked with the other States particularly South Australia and Queensland to develop Camping and Training programmes 1940 - 1940 Life Member of the State Council of the Victorian Girl Guide Association 1956 - 1956 Honoured by Her Majestry the Queen with the Order of the British Empire. Presented with her award at Buckingham Palace. 1915 - 1915 Head Prefect, Church of England Grammar School, Girton 1970 - 1970 Born: daughter of Samuel Albert and Nina Marie (nee Dahlsen) Bush 1981 - 1981 Died 1945 - 1945 Visited South Australia to help reorganise that State’s Training Department 1945 - 1945 An organiser and assessor of the first Guide International Service (Australian) Test prior to the women being selected to work with the displaced people in Europe and Malaysia 1947 - 1947 Awarded Chief Guide’s Diploma for Training (the first to ever be awarded in Australia) 1948 - 1948 Honorary Secretary at the first Federal Trainers Conference 1922 - 1922 Founded Guiding in Bendigo 1922 - 1922 First Guide Leader of 1st Bendigo Guide Company 1923 - 1923 Nominated for special leadership training at the First Victorian Training Week 1924 - 1924 First Brownie Leader of 1st Bendigo Brownie Pack 1924 - 1924 Gained first Training Diploma (Blue Cord) 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1923 - 1923 District Secretary Published resources Resource Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 August 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Merle Bush Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Deleted membership cards for V.W.G.A. and Australian Federation of University Women, Victorian Branch. The cards record the degrees held, address and sometimes date of death, retirement, or simply when “removed from list”. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 digital audio tape (ca. 58 min.)??Thea Waddell, executor of Thea Proctor Estate, talks about her 2nd cousin, Thea Proctor, whom she first met in 1953. She discusses Proctor’s attitude to art, her preference for bold, bright colours and influences on her work. Waddell describes the interior design of Proctor’s flat and talks about her friendship with Amy Lambert and other members of the Lambert family. She also describes jewellery and clothing given to her by Proctor. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Marion Eddison came to Australia in 1919 with her war-veteran husband, and settled on their soldier settler leasehold, Yamba, in the Woden Valley in 1926. During the Second World War, the burden of farming fell largely on Marion and her daughters, although they found time for voluntary work. Her three sons were killed in the war. Marion Eddison’s private education in the south of England under a governess, and later in a finishing school in Antwerp, Belgium, ill equipped her for the arduous life of a Canberra farmer’s wife. Married in 1910 to English gentleman farmer and horsebreeder Walter Herbert Eddison, she and their four children emigrated with him to Australia in 1919, following his war service with the Australian Light Horse at Gallipoli and France, where he was gassed. After living first in Cooma, then at the Oaks Estate near Queanbeyan, the Eddisons moved with their now six children in 1926 to Yamba, a soldier settler leasehold in the Woden Valley, ACT. There they farmed sheep, bred thoroughbred horses and operated a small dairy. While her three sons were fighting in the Second World War, the burden of farming fell entirely on Marion and her daughters Diana, Pamela and Dorothy. They nevertheless found time to join other local women in raising money for the Red Cross, making clothes for wounded soldiers and volunteering at the Lady Gowrie Services’ Hut, opened at Manuka in 1941. War brought tragedy to Yamba. Shortly after his marriage, Tom, then in the Royal Airforce in England, was killed over Holland in 1941. Keith, who joined the Royal Australian Air Force, was killed over New Guinea in 1943, the month before his brother Jack, who joined the Australian Imperial Force and was imprisoned in Japan following the fall of Singapore. The family only learnt of Jack’s death after the war ended. After losing stock and property in a bushfire in 1952, the couple moved to suburban Deakin where Walter died in 1966. Eddison Park in Phillip, ACT, is located on what remains of their Yamba property. Published resources Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 20 December 2012 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Zara Bate was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for devotion to the public interest on 8 June 1968. Zara Bate the daughter of Sydney Herbert and Violet (née McDonald) was educated at both Ruyton and Toorak Colleges, Melbourne. In 1925, aged 16, she established her first dress shop in Little Collins Street, Melbourne. Bate with a friend, later opened a salon, called ‘Magg’, in Toorak Village, Melbourne. The business was sold in 1976. Bate won the Australian Gown of the Year award, in 1961. From her first marriage to Colonel James Fell, Bate had three sons. She married her second husband Harold Holt, who was to become the 22nd prime minister of Australia, in 1946. After his disappearance in 1967, from a Portsea surf beach in Victoria he was presumed drowned, she married H. J. P. (Jeff) Bate on 19 February 1969. Mr Bate, a former Liberal politician and farmer, died in 1984. In 1968 Dame Zara wrote a book titled My Life and Harry: An autobiography. Besides her charity work she enjoyed reading, walking, swimming and fishing. Dame Zara Bate passed away on 14 June 1989. Published resources Newspaper Article Women Federation, James, Caron, 2000 Book Prime Ministers' Wives, Langmore, Diane, 1992 My life and Harry: an autobiography Dame Zara Holt, Holt, Zara, Dame, 1968 Resource Section Primary description of person CP 717; Dame Zara Kate Holt DBE, National Archives of Australia, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CP+717 Papers of Harry Maurice Miller (1934- ), National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms7981 Zara Holt, National Archives of Australia, http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/meetpm.asp?pmId=17&pageName=wife Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Dame Zara Holt, 1934-1977 (bulk 1951-1968) [manuscript] Papers of Harry M. Miller, 1958-2003 [manuscript] National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Personal papers of Dame Zara Holt Personal papers of Dame Zara Holt Audio-visual material relating to Harold Edward Holt and Mrs Zara Holt Audio-visual material relating to Harold Edward Holt and Mrs Zara Holt National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Zara Holt, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] [Biographical cuttings on Dame Zara Bate, socialite and author, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "26 minutes??Kathleen Steele-Scott was born in London in 1910 and grew up in Yorkshire. The family moved to Birkenhead after World War I and she developed a real interest in the theatre. She went to Hamburg after school and had singing lessons there. On her return she joined the Workhamsford Operatic and Dramatic Society. She met her Australian husband at one of her aunt’s boarding houses and the family travelled to Australia for her wedding, visiting her brother in Malta on the way. She began working at the Adelaide Repertory Company in 1946 and produced Britten’s opera “Albert Herring”. She acted in the ‘Ham Funeral’ in 1961 and produced ‘The Telephone’ and ‘The Turn of the Screw’ with the Intimate Opera Company. In 1972 the company drew up a constitution and the government made a grant to pay an administrator. In 1991 ‘Through the Opera Glass’ was published. The company had grown and become the State Opera of South Australia. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A brilliant, prize-winning student in mathematics at the University of Melbourne, Betty Allan won a scholarship to carry out postgraduate studies in mathematics, applied biology, statistics and agriculture at Cambridge University where she studied at Newnham College. In Canberra in 1930 she was appointed to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s Division of Plant Industry, as its first biometrician. During the 1930s she also lectured in Statistical Theory and Pure Mathematics at Canberra University College and in Agriculture at the Australian Forestry School. In 1940 following her marriage in April to Dr Patrick Calvert, an assistant research officer at the Division of Plant Industry, she was a victim of the marriage bar in the Public Service which prevented the employment of married women but was able to gain government approval to work until the end of the year. During the war she continued to lecture part-time at the Forestry School and to do part-time work for the Bureau of Census and Statistics. Following the birth of her son, Allan, in 1941 she was active in Canberra community organisations supporting mothers and children. She was secretary of the Canberra Nursery Kindergarten Society (1943-1944) and president of the Canberra Mothercraft Society (1944-1946). She died at the age of 47. Frances Elizabeth Allan was born in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda on 11 July 1905, the third of four daughters of Edwin Frank Allan and Stella May Allan (nee Henderson). Her mother was the well-known journalist ‘Vesta’, who was editor of the Argus‘s women’s section for nearly 30 years, after beginning her career as the first female member of the press gallery in Wellington, New Zealand. Her father, a leader writer on the Argus, had previously been a prominent journalist in New Zealand after resigning from the British Foreign Service. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Allan, Frances Elizabeth (Betty) (1905-1952), McCarthy, G.J, 2007, http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001468b.htm Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 3 December 2012 Last modified 21 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes and meeting papers, reports, conference reports, records relating to the International Federation (IFBPW), correspondence, subject, project and history files, photographs and printed material. Includes records of state divisions (Tasmania, Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Western Australia) and clubs, including disbanded clubs: Nelson Bay (Charter); Sydney Northside; Fremantle; Maroochydore; Ulverstone; Wynyard; Redcliffe; Singleton; Ettalong; Cootamundra; Charleston; Campbelltown; Blue Mountains; Kiama; Mosman; Dubbo; Woollahra; Kyneton; Gosford; Burwood and District; Blue Mountains (Charter); Nelson Bay; Merridin; Broken Hill; and files on Campbelltown, Cairns, Northam, Numurkah, Queanbeyan, Renmark, Roma, Sunshine Coast, Eastern Goldfields. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 December 2017 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mavis Jackson was a microbiologist. She founded International House (University of Melbourne) and served as President of the Lyceum Club from 1973-75. Mavis Jackson was educated at the Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne and the University of Melbourne (BSc 1931-35). She was one of only two women on the University of Melbourne SRC in her final year. During World War II she worked as a volunteer microbiologist with the Australian Army Medical Corps and as a Blood Transfusion Officer at Heidelberg Military Hospital. In 1942 Mavis married Alan Vaughan Jackson and raised three children – Ian, Prue and Trevor. Though officially she left the workforce after marrying, she did return to establish the cytology unit at the Alfred Hospital in 1962, and ran it for the next fifteen years. Jackson was a foundation member of the International House Council from 1955, and Chair 1973-79. She was a member of the board of management at Yooralla Children’s Hospital School 1957-60; of the National Council of Women 1957-60; and of the executive Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria 1967-84. She served as President of the Victorian Society of Cytology in 1966. Jackson was awarded honorary life membership of the Lyceum Club (having joined in the early 1930s). She was President of the Club from 1973-75 and twice a member of the general committee. In 1999 she was honoured as a “living treasure”. In 1967 Jackson was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her community service work. Ten years later, in 1977, she was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for community service. Mavis Jackson she was grandmother many times over. Published resources Newspaper Article Obituaries - Mavis Jackson, Kilpatrick, James, 2000 Article Obituary: Mrs Mavis Jackson MBE, 1913-2000, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 21 November 2000 Last modified 15 July 2020 Digital resources Title: Mavis Jackson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1. Minutes 30 April 1980-19 Feb 1981. 2. Correspondence / Newsletters between Rouge collectives 1979-1981. 3. Correspondence including letters for the General Assembly library at Parliament House, Wellington, NZ, WEL, Office of Women’s Affairs, ACT, Alice Springs, Women’s Centre Inc. 1979-1981. 4. Financial records, general accounting papers 1981. 5. Rouge National Conference Sydney, summary of the minutes, January 1980 6. Report from a meeting between Sydney and Melbourne Collectives regarding the problems of national co-ordination of newspaper, April 1979. 7. Subscription cards and lists 1979-1981? (Restricted access) 8. Rouge contacts/distribution 1979-1981 (Restricted access) 9. Newspaper copy (unpublished) 1980-1981. Author Details Clare Land Created 4 December 2001 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Miss Robinson was the manager and proprietor of the Melbourne branch of an American photography firm which operated in the 1860s. Little is known of Miss Robinson prior to her work at the American photography firm Tuttle & Co’s Melbourne branch, where she employed 25 staff. The theatrical photograph Nellie Stewart, Ida Osborne and Little Forde in the First Australian Performance of ‘The Mikado’ is attributed to Tuttle & Co, 1886. The three actresses appear dressed in oriental dress, posing as Japanese women. The image has a strong Orientalist quality, drawing from the West’s stereotypical depictions of Asian people that were prevalent during the time. Collections Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales Events 1970 - Published resources Book Section Miss Robinson, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 29 November 2016 Last modified 29 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Our archive space holds:??- all official correspondence to and from the organisation and others e.g. from Rome, Bishops, priests and other official groups?- records of activities by the organisation, including diary records of different communities and minutes of meetings, province conferences, celebrations, community reports, material related to school and buildings?- copies of academic theses written by our sisters?- photographic records of people and events?- records of deceased members of our communities?- history of the Order including the story of the Foundation by St Angela Merici, the spread of the Ursulines in France, Germany and other European and non-European countries, the Annals of our German foremothers and the foundation in Armidale, and histories of our communities Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 June 2009 Last modified 7 August 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1973 Elizabeth Reid became the first adviser on women’s affairs to a head of state, being appointed in this capacity for Australian Labour Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Reid went on to work as an adviser, administrator, consultant, educator and researcher in an international setting on issues of women and development, health and population. She is currently based in Canberra, a Visiting Fellow, State, Society and Governance Program, College of Asia and the Pacific, at the Australian National University, and an analyst, programmer, consultant and trainer in development and humanitarian assistance. Elizabeth Reid graduated Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in Philosophy from the Australian National University, Canberra in 1965. She went on to Somerville College, Oxford University, England where she gained a Bachelor of Philosophy in 1970. She returned to the Australian National University as a Philosophy tutor and with Murray Goot published Women and Voting Studies: Mindless Matrons or Sexist Scientism? in 1975, based on a paper presented to the Australasian Political Studies Association conference in 1973. She was campaign manager for an Aboriginal woman candidate in the 1972 Federal election which installed Gough Whitlam as Prime Minister. Reid then applied and was selected as an adviser to Whitlam in the women and child welfare area. During her work with the Whitlam government, Reid oversaw the Australian Government’s arrangements for International Women’s Year 1975, convening the IWY National Advisory Committee. She also led the Australian delegation to the Mexico World International Women’s Year Conference, 1975, and was the Australian Representative to the United Nations forum on the Role of Women in Population and Development, 1974. Reid helped resource community initiatives and women’s services such as women’s refuges, rape crisis centres, women’s health centres, child care, and working women’s centres. She brought in new policies in equal opportunity, training, employment and housing. Reid emphasised the need for all Cabinet submissions to include an assessment of their impact on women. From the time of her appointment, Reid and her work came under extreme pressure, both in the way of accolades and criticism. She attracted a high profile in the media, as well as the hopes, expectations, scrutiny, gratitude and criticism of feminists and women all over Australia. Political scientist Marian Sawer suggests Reid as women’s adviser took on ‘quasi-ministerial status’, receiving more letters than anyone except the Prime Minister (Sawer, 1996). Reid resigned in October 1975, moving on to become Adviser to Princess Ashraf Pahlavi of Iran on policy formation and implementation for women (1975-76). From this time on Reid began working in development and humanitarian assistance, both for the United Nations and in other organizations. She was the founding director and project manager of the United Nations Asian and Pacific Centre for Women and Development (1977-1979). She then worked as Principal Officer in the United Nations Secretariat for the 1980 World Conference of the Decade for Women. From 1981-1984, Reid worked for USAID and for the Peace Corps, based in Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda and Thailand. From 1985-1989 she worked as a consultant largely on HIV and AIDS strategies, education and policy in Australia, Zaire and the Pacific. From 1989 to 1997 Reid worked out of New York in the United Nations Development Programme, originally as Programme Director for Women in Development, then as Policy Adviser to the Administrator on HIV/AIDS and Development, and from 1992 was Director of the HIV and Development Programme. In 1996 she was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. From 1998-2000 she was Resident Coordinator of the United Nations, and Resident Representative of the UNDP in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Reid has addressed many conferences as keynote speaker, and her speaking engagements and extensive publication record have been focussed particularly in the areas of HIV education and women in development. In 2001 Reid was made an Officer of the Order or Australia for work nationally and internationally on women and on the HIV epidemic; in the same year she was also named on the Centenary of Federation Honour Role of Women: Firsts and Founders, Victoria. Since 2002 she has worked as a Consultant to many countries, churches and other faith based organisations in the Asia Pacific region and in Africa. Her focus has been on assisting with health programs related to the treatment of HIV/AIDS. From 2002-07, she was Senior Adviser, The Collaboration for Health in PNG a Public Private Partnership for Health. From 2005 she has acted as a consultant to faith based organisations and churches in PNG and the Pacific. From 2006-10 she served as Senior Adviser, HIV and Development, the PNG Sustainable Development Program (PNGSDP). From 2009 she has worked as an Evaluation Consultant in the Review of the national Nursing Program in Timor-Leste. In 2006 the Australian National University awarded her a Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa. She is currently Executive Trustee, Serendipity Educational Endowment Fund (SEEF) for the education of children touched by the HIV epidemic in PNG and Board Member of Oxfam Australia. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Sisters in Suits: Women and Public Policy in Australia, Sawer, Marian, 1990 Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 The Feeling of Infinity: Fourth Kenneth Myer Memorial Lecture, Reid, Elizabeth, 1993 AIDS: a time to care, a time to act: a policy discussion paper, Reid, Elizabeth, 1988 AIDS and Development: Implications for Australian Non-Government Aid Agencies, Reid, Elizabeth, 1988 Women and Voting Studies: Mindless Matrons or Sexist Scientism?, Reid, Elizabeth and Goot, Murray, 1975 Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 HIV and AIDS: The Global Inter-Connection, Reid, Elizabeth (ed.), 1995 A decade of Mary Owen dinners, Waterfield, Dorothy, 1995 Conference Proceedings Proceedings of the WHO/Australian Inter-Regional Ministerial Meeting on AIDS, Reid, Elizabeth (ed.), 1987 Book Section The child of our movement: a movement of women, Reid, Elizabeth, 1987 Creating a policy for women, Reid, Elizabeth, 1986 Women and the new international economic order: a critique, Reid, Elizabeth, 1977 Re-thinking Human Rights and the HIV Epidemic: A Reflection on Power and Goodness., Reid, Elizabeth, 2010, http://epress.anu.edu.au/apps/bookworm/view/Civic+Insecurity%3A+Law%2C+Order+and+HIV+in+Papua+New+Guinea/5631/ch13.xhtml#toc-anchor Ela's Question, Reid, Elizabeth, 2010, http://epress.anu.edu.au/apps/bookworm/view/Civic+Insecurity%3A+Law%2C+Order+and+HIV+in+Papua+New+Guinea/5631/epilogue.xhtml#toc-anchor Resource Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Conference Paper Femocrats and Ecorats: Women's Policy Machinery in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, Sawer, Marian, 1996, http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/(httpPublications)/D1A254C22F3E5CC580256B67005B6B56?OpenDocument Resource Section Elizabeth Reid Women's Advisor to the Australian Government: The Life of Elizabeth, Renwick, Emma, 2017, https://womenshistorynetwork.org/elizabeth-reid-womens-advisor-to-the-australian-government/#more-7684 Reading Generalised HIV Epidemics as a woman, Reid, Elizabeth, 2011, http://ssgm.bellschool.anu.edu.au/experts-publications/publications/1420/reading-generalised-hiv-epidemics-woman Site Exhibition Women Who Caucus: Feminist Political Scientists, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2017, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/caucus/ From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Report A preliminary survey of migrant women in the clothing trade, Brown, Katrina and Storer, Des, 1974 Journal Article Reading as a Woman: Understanding generalised HIV epidemics., Reid, Elizabeth, 2010 Embracing Disruptions, Responding to Uncertainties, Valuing Agency: Situating a Feminist approach to social protection., Reid, Elizabeth, Waring Marilyn, Enriquez Corina Rodriguez and Shivdas, Meena, 2012 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Elizabeth Reid 1963-1981 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Elizabeth Reid interviewed by Sara Dowse National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra National Advisory Committee files, single number series with 'W/NAC' (Women's/National Advisory Committee) or 'NAC' prefix Author Details Clare Land, Rosemary Francis and AWAP Project Team Created 12 September 2000 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Elizabeth Reid Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "33 minutes??Helen Brookes was born in Melbourne in 1917. She talks about how her family moved several times before settling in Adelaide in 1929, her schooling, starting work at the Waite Institute with Dr Davidson, identification of insects, became a technical assistant and eventually senior lecturer status as a systematic entomologist, retirement in 1982, papers which she has written, insect collection presented to the Australian National Insect Collection in Canberra, member of the Lyceum Club for 20 years, Minerva Club, and in the 1999 Year of the Older Person being invited to a symposium in Canberra as an outstanding older woman scientist. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lemnos Island, Greece, 1915. Interior of a ward in the hospital tent of 3rd Australian General Hospital (3AGH), showing patients, orderlies and a nursing sister of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). (Donor: Colonel J. H. Dick). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A prominent councillor and environmentalist, Linda Gill has served on the Great Lakes Council since 1991. She unsuccessfully tried to entre the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Myall Lakes in 1995, 1999 and 2003 elections where she ran as an Australian Greens Party candidate. Linda Gill and her husband Greg have been resident in the Myall Lakes area for more than two decades. Linda has been active in a wide range of environmental organisations including the North Coast Environment Council, (Executive 1990-2002, Vice President 1997-2001); Lower North Coast Catchment Management Board; Karuah-Great Lakes Regional Vegetation Committee (Chairperson); Smiths Lake Estuary Management Committee (Chairperson 1995-2002); Regional Co-ordinator, North East Forest Alliance (1989-1999); Hunter District National Parks and Wildlife Services Advisory Committee (1995-2002). In 2003 she was the Local Government Association’s representative on the Biological Diversity Advisory Council, and was a Board member of the Hunter Regional Organisation of Councils (1996-2002). Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 16 May 2007 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mollie Gray only ran for election once: a Democratic Labor Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Lane Cove in 1959. Mollie Gray was office supervisor for the ALP for four years but when the split occurred, she resigned her job and joined the Democratic Labor Party. In 1959 she ran the office for the Party Secretary, J. T. Kane, who was running for the seat of Concord in the same election. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interview conducted for the Invisible Farmer Project project undertaken with the University of Melbourne, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Museum Victoria, National Foundation for Australian Women Limited, National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame, National Library of Australia and Monash University.??Recorded on 22, 23 January and 10 April 2018 in Melbourne, Victoria. Created 11 June 2019 Last modified 11 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. 1942-09-28. The leaders of the Australian Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) VF500148 Major A. R. Appleford (nee Ross-King) RRC MM; Assistant Controller Australian Army Medical Womens Service (AAMWS) and Captain D. Townsend; Lieutenant M. Williamson give “eyes right” as they pass the saluting base during the servicewomen’s march through the city streets. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mrs Stone joined the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) in September 1941 aged 19, as her contribution to the war effort. She discusses her air force training in the “Rookies” course, from which she was posted as a general clerk to the RAAF station headquarters in Bankstown, Sydney. Mrs Stone relates her duties in the Fighter Control Operations room, which was located underground in a tunnel near the Mitchell Library. The Army and Navy had groups there. The WAAAFs lived in the Metropole Hotel, which was used by the Americans, then moved into RAAF accommodation in Macquarie Street. Mrs Stone describes how Fighter control operated, and mentions the contribution of the Volunteer Air Observer Corp (VAOC). There was a lot of enemy shipping in 1942-43 who were tracked by the Operations staff. Mrs Stone recounts her engagement and marriage to her first husband, a young airman. He was killed nine months into his posting in Iraq. She describes how the women kept working but were always worried about the men overseas. She transferred to Townsville in 1944 to the 6th RAAF Base Postal Unit as the Orderly Room Sergeant. She tells of picnics to Magnetic Island and bouts of Dengy Fever. She recounts the lifestyle and entertainment- balls, dances. She met her present husband on a blind date. Mrs Stone describes the WAAAF’s uniforms- no actual uniforms were supplied. She mentions that the girls made swimming costumes from fabric available, eg tablecloths. The war gave her a different outlook on life and a greater understanding of many things. She comments that there were 28,000 women in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force(WAAAF) 30,000 in the Australian Women’s Auxiliary Service (AWAS), WAS, 2,800 Women’s Royal Australian Navy personnel and 8000 in the Australian Medical Women’s Auxiliary Service. She mentions that the women’s services were not recognised after the war, there was a lot of discrimination. Women’s services have now been absorbed into the defence forces. She concludes that none of the women had problems adjusting to civilian life after the war. The men had trouble, but they had lived a very different life overseas. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mrs William Smith was an award-winning photographer who was well known for her photograph of The Snake Charmer, 1909. A number of possible records exist that refer to Mrs William Smith. One records her as born in 1848 at Bridgman as Susan Andrews, the daughter of Mr Abraham Andrews. She married Mr Ross, with whom she had four children, and then married Mr William Smith and had a further five children. These Smiths lived in Hunter Street, Camberwell, where Smith died in 1925, aged 77 (Singleton Argus). A second record refers to an Elizabeth Teena Rawson, who married Fred William Smith in Victoria, c.1901. Records show that she died in Victoria c.1920 and was buried at the Boort cemetery. Exactly which of these is the Mrs William Smith known for her photographic work is unclear. It is also unknown when she developed an interest in photography. However, by 1907, her photographic skills were well developed and of a standard that saw her photographs exhibited in the Exhibition of Women’s Work in 1907, as well as the Victorian Photographic Affiliation Exhibition in 1909, in which she won first prize in the architectural and the genre section. Mrs Smith’s photograph, The Snake Charmer, c.1909, was reproduced in the Australasian Photo-Review and much commented on at the time. One critic commented: ‘[w]ho cannot realise the thrill of the spectators in Mrs William Smith’s picture, The Snake Charmer … It presents artistically but faithfully all the garish opulence of the glare of the midday sun. It contravenes many pet principles of photography; it shows hard lights and black shadows, but it is art all the same and there is no doubt it is true’ (APR, 1909; cited by Hall 45) Events 1907 - 1909 1907 - 1907 Mrs William Smith’s work featured in the Exhibition of Women’s Work 1909 - 1909 Mrs William Smith’s work won first prize in both the architectural and the genre section of the Victorian Photographic Affiliation Exhibition, Victorian Artists Gallery Published resources Newspaper Article Death of Mrs Wm. Smith, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article81043801 Women Photographers, Bee, Queen, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/139688515 Thesis Making Pictures: Australian Pictorial Photography as Art 1897-1957, Ebury, Francis, 2001 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Catalogue Inter-state and inter-club competition [catalogue], Victorian Photographic Affiliation and Photographic Association of Victoria, 1910 Resource Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 [database on-line]., Ancestry.com, 2010 Photograph The Snake Charmer, Smith, Mrs William, c.1909 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 30 November 2016 Last modified 30 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 4967 comprises manuscript and typescript drafts of prose; notes, background material and jottings relating to Stead’s literary output; correspondence; book reviews and other papers. The collection also includes literary drafts of other writers including Ettore Rella, Mary Sarton, George Baxt, John Bright, Oliver Stallybrass, E. Louise Mally, Jorge Ibarguengoitia, Elaine Kraf, Norman Rosten and Stanley Burnshaw, in addition to two folders of correspondence with Philip Harvey, 1961-1984 (18 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 December 2017 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Feature film about a small group of inner city people who live amidst sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. It focuses on a woman and her drug-addicted boyfriend. — General note: Based on the book of the same name, by Helen Garner (who also co-wrote the screenplay). — It uses special rock music composed by Mark McEntee and Christina Amphlett, performed by the Divinyls.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Victorian Branch) has its origins with the formation of the Sisterhood of International Peace in Melbourne in 1915. When the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) was founded in Zurich in 1919, the Sisterhood reconstituted itself as the Australian section of this new organisation. The Victorian branch formally separated from the Australian Section in 1920, although considerable overlap continued between these two bodies. Aside from campaigning for international disarmament and an end to all war, WILPF has taken action on a wide range of social justice issues. The Sisterhood of International Peace was formed in Melbourne in 1915 ‘To promote mutual knowledge of each other by the women of different nations, goodwill and friendship, to study the causes – economics and moral – of war; and by every means in their power to bring the humanising influence of women to bear on the abolition of war, and the substitution of international justice and arbitration for irrational methods of violence.’ The president was Lucy Paling, the secretary Janet Strong and corresponding secretaries Mabel Drummond and Eleanor Moore. Moore remained as secretary for many years. Aside from its central object of abolishing war, WILPF in Australia has focussed on women’s rights and Indigenous Australians’ rights as well as working with projects for refugees in Australia and overseas. Published resources Journal Peace and Freedom, 1962- Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1973. [manuscript]. Author Details Jane Carey Created 14 December 2004 Last modified 7 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Black and white photographic image of May Emma (Mary Emma) McConnel in academic gown. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Michael Potter, brother of Mother Patrick.??Correspondence: Personal, pastoral, business; financial records, sermon notes, notebooks, diaries, Christmas cards, postcards, religious cards, printed prayers,travelling desk.??This collection was separated from the Hayes collection, UQFL2. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Butterworth, Malaysia. 1968-10. Group portrait of officers of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) prior to attending a trooping of the Colour Ceremony of the 8th Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR). Left to right: unknown, unknown, unknown, F4950002 Commandant Marie C. Hunter (later Boyle), Australian Red Cross (ARC), Thora Long and Coralie Gerrard (later became a Colonel, RAANC). (Donor M. Boyle) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Johanna Kolm was born in Vienna in 1918 and studied dance under Gertrud Bodenwieser from the age of four. Continuing to dance throughout her school years, Johanna completed a four year diploma at the Wiener Akademie fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst (the Vienna State Academy for Music and Drama). At the age of 19, Johanna joined Gertrud Bodenwiser’s dance company and toured Europe, South Africa and America. After briefly living in Wellington, New Zealand, Johanna settled in Melbourne where she joined the Studio of Creative Dance (also known as the School of Viennese Creative Dance and the School of Creative Dancing) in Collins Street. In 1953 Johanna founded the Modern Ballet Group, which she co-directed with Margaret Lasica. During the 1940s Johanna’s interest in child development and education saw her teaching dance classes at the Melbourne Kindergarten Teachers College. She completed her teaching training and, after spending some time in London, returned to Melbourne, where she became a member of staff at the Kindergarten Teachers College (from 1973 the State College of Victoria – Institute of Early Childhood Development). Alongside her colleague Phyllis Lloyd, Johanna established the Graduate Diploma in Music and Dance, as well as published two books for primary school teachers – Teaching Creative Movement and Learning Is Fun When You Dance It. In 1977 Johanna co-founded the Australian Association for Dance Education (later renamed Ausdance), and was the first president of the Victorian Branch. In 1986 she was awarded Honorary Life Membership of Ausdance. Throughout her career Johanna developed a passion for dance movement therapy. She published widely in this area, as well as creative movement education more generally. After retiring from full time work in higher education in 1982, Johanna opened the George Street Studio for Dance and Well-being where she ran community classes. In 1987 she was involved in the development of a Graduate Certificate in Dance Therapy which was offered periodically by the University of Melbourne until 1999. Additionally, Johanna was a founding member of the Dance Therapy Association of Australia and a member of their committee for many years. She also served as the Association’s president from 1996 to 1997. In 2001 the Hanny Exiner Foundation (now the Hanny Exiner Memorial Foundation) was established to provide financial assistance for people undertaking research in the field of dance movement therapy. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Hanny Exiner, 1939-1995 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Hanny Exiner interviewed by Michelle Potter [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Johanna Exiner, senior lecturer at the Institute of Early Childhood Development, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Off the wall Saturday night show from the D- Generation team, Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy, Tony Martin, Mick Molloy, Rob Sitch, Jason Stephens and Judith Lucy (from 1993). The series was very loosely based on the American ‘Saturday Night Live’. 40 x 50 minutes.??There is documentation associated with the production of the show held in the NFSA collection.?Documentation associated with the program is held by the NFSA Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, diaries, speeches, notes for speeches, invitations, press statements, cuttings, itineraries, election material, photographs and other papers. Most of the papers date from 1958-1970. There are extensive papers relating to Federal elections, the Australian Country Party, the Electorate of Murray (Victoria), the Department of Trade, the Department of Trade and Industry and McEwan’s overseas trips. There are also papers relating to his activities following his retirement from politics in 1971. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 August 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Contains scripts in the following order: Ep. 01, Lost and found, by Graham Shirley Ep. 02, Shed a silent tear, by Andree Wright Ep. 03, Days when the world was wide, by Andree Wright Ep. 04, It’s on the record, by Albie Thoms Ep. 05, Hooray for radio, by Jacqueline Kent Ep. 06, Hot from the spot to the screen, by Albie Thoms Ep. 07, You gotta be kidding, by Wendy Thompson Ep. 08, Stop laughing, this is serious, by Wendy Thompson Ep. 09, The other film industry, by Robert Francis Ep. 11, Wonders of the age, by Graham Shirley Ep. 12, The one-eyed monster, by Catherine Brookman Ep. 13, A future for the past, by Graham Shirley. Note that Episode 10, on advertising, was not made, and that the order of scripts in this collection is slightly different to the order in which the productions were finally presented. Scripts were edited by Ray Edmondson and Nick Hildyard, and so additional drafts for some episodes appear in this collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 80 min.)??Side 1. Davey talks about her family background, in particular their history as pioneers of South Australian, how she first became involved with committees and community work and in particular her involvement with the YWCA, her organisation of some of the societies fund raising activities, such as the Christmas Tree Festivals, her organisation of the Nativity Festival, how these fund raising activities eventually led to her becoming president of the YWCA in Adelaide and some of the other projects that were carried out by the Association, her job as a demonstrator at Adelaide University, how she first became involved with the National Council of Women through the YWCA and their work in the establishment of the YWCA in New Guinea and her own investigations of the possibility of starting YWCA hostels in America and Canada, her opinion of the life of today as compared with when she was young. She goes on to describe some of the legislation carried out by the National Council of Women, particularly in areas concerning the family, some of the history of the National Council of Women and the distribution of its membership throughout Australia.??Side 2. Miss Davey continues to talk about the work of the International Council of Women and in particular the help that is given to the women of Iran, some of her political activities, the clubs of which she is an active member, her duties as the National Convenor of the International Relations and Peace Committee of the National Council of Women of Australia, the difficulties she had as President in finding funds for the National Council of Women of Australia, also her work in the establishment of its Headquarters in Canberra, her involvement with migrant groups through the work that she has done with the Good Neighbour Council. Author Details Judith Ion Created 12 August 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Collection includes: constitution and annual reports (1922-1938); committee minutes (1930-1940); and AGM minutes Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 7 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "One of a series of interviews used by Barbara Kearns in “Stepping out for peace”, a twenty year history of the Campaign Against Nuclear Energy and People for Nuclear Disarmament in Western Australia. Dee talks about her time as PND co-ordinator from 1988-1991 and how her involvement with the peace movement led to her becoming a Greens parliamentarian. (From the State Library of Western Australia catalogue entry, link below) Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jeanie Bell is a linguist and educator who has lived and worked in Queensland, Victoria and the Northern Territory. Over the course of her career Bell has made an extraordinary contribution to the development of Aboriginal education within the tertiary sector, and to the preservation of Aboriginal linguistic heritage. Jeanie Bell was born in 1949 and grew up in Brisbane. After leaving school she moved to Melbourne, where she worked first as a secretary and then as a nurse. Following her graduation from Monash University, Bell spent three years in Alice Springs teaching linguistics at the Yipirnya school and training Aboriginal interpreters for the Institute for Aboriginal Development, in addition to her work editing two books for the Aboriginal Languages Association. In 1984 she was appointed Lecturer in Aboriginal Studies at the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education in New South Wales. The following year she became the University of Queensland’s first coordinator of the Aboriginal and Islander Studies Unit. She subsequently returned to Alice Springs as acting assistant director of the Institute for Aboriginal Development. In 1988, Bell was a member of the National Aboriginal and Islander Education Policy Task Force, and in 1990 she undertook research for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Her research interests have included work on historical dictionaries of the Gubbi Gubbi and Badtjala languages, and biographical work. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 18 May 2005 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Victorian Ombudsman, Deborah Glass, left Monash University Law School in the early 1980s, never imagining that thirty years later she would be honoured with an OBE for her services to law and order. A law graduate who hasn’t practised since 1984, with the benefit of hindsight she nevertheless saw the legal training she received as a valuable foundation for supporting the various twists and turns her career has taken over the last thirty years. After graduating in 1982, Deborah Glass began her professional career as a lawyer based in Melbourne, but relocated to Switzerland to work for Citicorp, a US Investment Bank. She then transferred into the financial regulation sector, pursuing a career with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. Returning to Europe, she was appointed Chief Executive of the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation in 1998. Under her stewardship it was successfully subsumed into the London based Financial Services Authority. She also worked as an Independent custody visitor, someone who visits people who are detained in police stations in the United Kingdom to ensure that they are being treated properly, between 1999 and 2005. Between 2001 and 2004 she was a member of the Police Complaints Authority, and it was from here that she was appointed to the Independent Police Complaints Commission in London. At the IPCC she was responsible, among other things, for many high profile criminal and misconduct investigations and decisions involving the police. These included decisions in relation to the police response to the phone-hacking affair and the decision to launch an independent investigation into the aftermath of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster. She was awarded an OBE for services to the IPCC in 2012. She left the IPCC in March 2014, having completed a ten year term with the organization and returned to Melbourne to take up the position of Victorian Ombudsman. She is the first woman to ever hold the position Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Deborah Glass for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Deborah Glass and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. My initial response to being asked to contribute to a project on women lawyers was to say: I am not a lawyer! I may have studied law, but I haven’t practised since 1984. I would get embarrassingly lost in a law library these days. And please don’t ask me to cite any cases. But I was told no, that was the point, the project was also about where women who studied law ended up, and I had ended up as the Victorian Ombudsman, rather to my surprise a member of the ‘FW2 Club’: First Woman To be in the role. To which my reaction had been amazement that it had taken forty-one years. So let me reflect on the journey from law student, more interested in the freedom of university life than the interior of the law library, to Victorian Ombudsman. I did enjoy studying law, despite some periods of inattention, but as a young lawyer on William Street in the early 1980s it felt like you had to be better than a man to get to the same place. Which meant you had to really want to be a lawyer. I am not going to dwell on my brief experience as a practising lawyer as I decided very quickly the law was not for me. Although it proved an invaluable training ground for what I went on to do I didn’t realise it at the time, as I left Melbourne on a one-way ticket to Europe with a small pot of savings and dreams of being a great travel writer. I realised pretty swiftly that was not even going to pay for repairs to my rucksack, so when the money ran out in Switzerland I noticed an advertisement in the local paper for management trainees with an international investment bank. They were looking for graduates in finance, accounting or law. Although I have never quite understood the relevance of my Australian law degree, rather to my surprise I got the job. Sometimes you go for things because they are unknown, or because the other options, like waitressing or going back to Australia, seem so much worse. It was in fact a dynamic time working with many very clever people, and an intense training ground in both financial markets and management. But I found after several years and the same number of promotions that I did not really care enough about corporate profits to be a good banker. Thus began my long career in the public sector. First, I joined the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission at its inception. Knowing how the corporate world worked, but using that knowledge to promote the public interest within a rapidly changing marketplace, was immensely rewarding. Why Hong Kong? It was exciting – a Chinese New York – and the opportunity to join a new statutory agency at the outset and shape its policy-making was unbeatable. Sometimes you go for things because you just know they will be right for you. Financial services regulation was my life for the next dozen or so years, and an exhilarating one it was, with periodic scandals and upheavals requiring deft handling and occasionally unique policy responses. In that time I left Hong Kong for London, where I took on the role of Chief Executive of the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation as it was being merged with the new Financial Services Authority. In London after the merger came one of those mid-career points when it is a good idea to take stock. Whether I was finished with financial services or financial services was finished with me, I knew I needed to do something different. I had no fixed notions about what that might be, other than it was important it involve the public interest. So I applied for, and was appointed to the Police Complaints Authority. Three years later, I became a Commissioner with the newly established Independent Police Complaints Commission, and five years after that, its Deputy Chair with operational responsibility for Commissioners across England and Wales. Sometimes you go for things because of what they are not. Not corporate, not financial services. But I learned rapidly about the world of police complaints and investigations, allegations ranging from the most serious and substantiated misconduct, to the misplaced or downright vexatious. Dealing with grieving and often angry families bereaved following a death in police custody, which can affect whole communities. Handling hostile and occasionally unco-operative police officers. Responding to a media and political environment at times more interested in headlines than facts. And through all of it, the challenge of independent, robust and proportionate investigation, the importance of evidence-based decision-making, and the sensitive communication of difficult decisions. Decisions are often criticised by both parties to an outcome – such roles will never win a popularity contest. But it is better to be right than popular, and justice is its own reward – although sometimes, when the brickbats are flying thick and fast, you wonder if it is all worth it. But you stay with it, because it is. So I came to the end of a 10 year term at the IPCC, and as TS Eliot said: We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. And so after 29 years I am back in Melbourne, knowing the place, and myself, so much better than I did. This time, I applied for a job because I knew it was right – my ideal job, to deal with complaints about public services in Victoria, not including the police. So the journey continues – in the current role, I trust, until 2024. As I said to my staff on my first day, you do not start a 10 year term with a plan. You start with a set of values and beliefs – in integrity, fairness, social justice and human rights – and in the way you work. I believe in working with people wherever possible to achieve change – and that the most impactful powers are the ones you don’t need to use because everyone knows you have them. It is a rare and wonderful privilege to be a constitutionally independent officer of Parliament, making decisions in the interests of justice. The opportunities to make a meaningful difference are incalculable. Sometimes you go on a journey with no destination in mind, but looking back down the road it all makes sense. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Power to the people, Green, Shane, 2014, http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/power-to-the-people-20140617-3abei.html Resource Section Deborah Glass, 2013, http://monash.edu.au/alumni/find/profiles/stories/deborahglass.html Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Deborah Glass and Nikki Henningham Created 3 June 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Deborah Glass Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ivy Lavinia Weber was the first woman to be elected to the Victorian parliament in a general election in 1937. She stood as an endorsed candidate for the Women Electors’ League of Victoria for the seat of Nunawading. As an active member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, she was encouraged to stand for parliament as an independent candidate to represent women. She was re-elected on two occasions, but resigned her state seat in 1943 to contest the federal seat of Henty as part of the League of Women Voters Women for Canberra Movement. She was unsuccessful on that occasion and in 1945 when she again stood for state parliament. She retired from politics after the second defeat. Ivy Weber was born in 1892 in New South Wales, the only girl in a family of five children. She married in 1915, but was widowed in 1917, when her husband was killed in action in World War One. She was left with a small child and moved to Melbourne to join her parents. In 1919 she married Clarence Weber, a widower with seven young children. They had three more children. Clarence Weber, a physical culturist, was principal of the Weber and Rice Health and Strength College and Ivy assisted with the administration of the College. In addition she was actively involved in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the National Council of Women and the Australasian Women’s Association. Clarence Weber died in 1930 and Ivy had to earn a living to support her large family. She worked for Berlei the corset manufacturers, lecturing women on figure control through diet and exercise. In June 1937 the League of Women Electors of Victoria was formed and endorsed three candidates, including Weber to stand for the state parliament. Their manifesto was ‘Mother, Child, Family, Home and Health.’ She was elected to the Victorian parliament in 1937 and was re-elected in 1940 and again in 1943, but resigned to contest the federal seat of Henty as part of the League of Women Voters Women for Canberra Movement. Weber’s political platform was built on the premise that a true democracy should provide economic security and thus alleviate distress and unemployment. In her view the state should provide free education from kindergarten to university. She proposed a systematic national health scheme as a means of raising the national health standard, advocated the removal of slum dwellings and the erection of suitable homes for families. She also wanted to implement a comprehensive scheme of national insurance. As a member of parliament she lobbied successfully for female representation on government boards and espoused equal pay for teachers, but she only approved of married women working in desperate circumstances. She believed that women should be on local councils and juries and advocated a homemaker’s allowance for women with families. She was an advocate for the Physical Education Course at the University of Melbourne, the first of its kind in Australia, and was one of the first members of the National Co-ordinating Council for Physical Fitness, later known as the National Fitness Council. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Worth her Salt: Women at Work in Australia, Bevege, Margaret, James, Margaret and Schute, Carmel, 1982 Double Time: Women in Victoria - 150 Years, Lake, Marilyn and Kelly, Farley, 1985 Book Section Ivy Lavinia Weber MLA, Davies, Vicki and Hawker, Philippa, 1982 Eleanor Glencross and Ivy Weber: In and out of parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Resource Section Weber, Ivy Lavinia (1892-1976), Browne, Geoff, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120478b.htm Ivy Lavinia Weber, McPhee, Peter and Flesch, Juliet, 2003, http://www.unimelb.edu.au/150/150 people/weber.html Women in Parliament, 2003, http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/women.html Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Ivy Lavinia Weber, Victorian M.L.A, 1937-1943, 1979. [manuscript]. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 25 February 2005 Last modified 21 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sheila Mary McClemans pioneered entry into the legal profession for Western Australian women. Throughout her life, in addition to her legal career, Sheila held a range of high-level positions, including director of the Women’s Royal Naval Service, and became the role model for many Australian women inside and outside the armed forces. During her lifetime Sheila’s efforts never received the full recognition they deserved within the legal profession. She was denied the traditional rewards of QC, Judge or Dame. The Commonwealth, however, recognised the value of her service to the law and women’s affairs, appointing her an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1951 and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1977. She was also awarded the Silver Jubilee Medal (SJM) in 1977. I suppose that at the end of the day, it was, for lawyers, her professionalism which was her most outstanding attribute and it was that uncompromising and uncompromised professionalism which was the true source of her capacity to lead and to influence. She served the law and through the law she served ordinary men and women with an unswerving devotion … I am sure that at the end of her life she still saw herself as a debtor to her profession. And we are indebted to her.’ Sir Francis Burt, Brief, vol. 15, 5, July 1988. Sheila Mary McClemans once threw a bucket of water over a naked couple she found making out in a convertible parked outside her house. ‘That is what we do to dogs around here’ she admonished, or so the story goes. Throughout her life, Sheila Mary McClemans lived by her own set of values. She was not someone who followed the rules ascribed for women, but neither did she dedicate herself to fighting the ‘feminist’ fight. Sheila defended women’s rights if it helped her realise her own goals but she never considered herself a ‘feminist’. Even so, early on in Sheila’s career, male contemporaries who deplored her ‘unfeminine chain-smoking and feminist ways’ were quick to saddle her with the sobriquet ‘Hard-as-nails McClemans’. Sheila McClemans was the third of five daughters born to Ada Lucy Walker, the first wife of William Joseph McClemans. She was born in Claremont, Western Australia on 3 May 1909. Sheila’s childhood was not an easy one. Abandoned by their alcoholic father, Sheila and her sisters were raised by their mother who was forced to work a variety of jobs and to take in boarders to make ends meet. Sheila learnt compassion for others at an early age as well as how to rely on her own resources to achieve her goals. After a series of financial and bureaucratic struggles to gain entry and complete her studies, Sheila was one of the first graduates of the law school at the University of WA in 1930 – all four graduates of the class of 1930 were female: Margaret Battye, Mary Kathleen Hartney, Mary Connor Kingston and Sheila. In 1933 Sheila was admitted to the Bar. The following year, unable to find work in a law firm, Sheila and her friend Molly Kingston formed a partnership and set up the first all woman law firm in Western Australia. After a short period as a practising solicitor, however, Sheila decided to redirect her energies to assisting the war effort. She joined the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) where her excellent leadership and administrative skills were soon recognised and rewarded. After her time in WRANS, Sheila returned once again to the legal profession, and in the 1950s and 1960s ran a solo practice, often working for nothing to help those in need if the circumstances warranted it. Sheila pioneered entry into legal practice for Western Australian women and filled a range of high level positions, including, director of WRANS, national president of the Australian Federation of University Women, secretary of the Western Australia Law Society, foundation member of the Western Australia Legal Aid Commission; the State Parole Board, and the WA committee administering the Commonwealth Canteens Trust Fund. And yet, the legal world denied Sheila the traditional rewards of QC, Judge or Dame. As Supreme Court Judge, Antoinette Kennedy decreed, ‘It was a lifetime of commitment that went largely unrewarded’. Biographer, Lloyd Davies, similarly notes: ‘Sheila’s aberration was to be born a female at a time and in a place when that entailed many disadvantages both by convention and law – particularly within the legal profession itself’. Sheila’s tireless work was, however, eventually recognised by the Commonwealth. For her service to the law and to women’s affairs, Sheila was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1951 and a Companion of the Order of St Michael & St George (CMG) in 1977. She was also awarded the Silver Jubilee Medal (SJM) in 1977. Sheila married Frank Morrison Kenworthy (1899-1976) in 1949. She was to outlive her husband and all of her sisters. Lilly, her youngest sister, died in 1977. The following decade the remaining four McClemans sisters all died in a period spanning less than two years. Sheila died in Dalkeith, Western Australia, on 10 June 1988. Published resources Newspaper Article Case of the conservative Sheila and the Lefty, 2002 London Gazette, 1951 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, 1951 Resource Section Kenworthy, Sheila Mary (RAN/Mrs), Australian War Memorial, http://www.awm.gov.au/database/h_award.asp MCCLEMANS, SHEILA MARY, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=N&VeteranID=1193223 Book Sheila: A biography of Sheila Mary McClemans, Davies, Lloyd, 2000 Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 W.R.A.N.S. : the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Curtis-Otter, M, 1975 Ships belles : the story of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service in war and peace 1941-1985, Fenton Huie, Shirley, 2000 Women on the warpath : feminist of the first wave, Davidson, Dianne, 1997 Book Section Foreword, Rayner, Moira, 2000 Review Review of Review of Lloyd Davies, (2000) Sheila: A biography of Sheila Mary McClemans, Godfrey, Kelly, 2001 The Life of a Distaff Legal Pioneer, Dixon, Marion, 2002, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UWALawRw/2002/6.pdf Journal Article Vale - Our Wartime Chief, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Members of the first WRANS Officer Training Corps. State Library of Western Australia Miss Sheila McClemans [picture] Author Details Judith Ion Created 24 June 2002 Last modified 10 August 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Gerda Hailes is a committed Christian who ran for the Christian Democrat Party in the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Wyong. Gerda Hailes migrated to Australia from Holland with her family in 1959. She lived first in Sydney and then on the Central Coast since 1986. She has taught scripture at primary school, Sunday school and to a Ladies Bible Study class. She has also been involved in her local Community Centre, teaching handwork in an outreach program. She completed a Christian counselling course and since 2001 has been engaged in private counselling practice. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 30 January 2006 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Summary: Collection comprises letters written by Gwen Harwood to her friend Ann Jennings, over a thirty year period. Handwritten and typewritten drafts of poems, including some of the “Surburban sonnets” Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Robin Elizabeth Miller was born on 7 December 1940, to parents Dame Mary Durack and Captain Horace (Horatio) Clive Miller. After completing her education at Loreto Convent, Nedlands, Robin trained as a nurse at the Royal Perth Hospital. She graduated in 1962, winning the State nurses’ medical prize and by 1964 she was a triple-certificated nurse at St Anne’s Hospital, Mount Lawley. With encouragement from her future husband, Harold Dicks (honorary president of the Western Australia branch of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia), Robin upgraded her private pilot’s licence – which she had obtained in 1962 – to a commercial one in 1966. In 1967, after purchasing a plane and obtaining permission from the Department of Health, Robin set off to north and north-western Australia to administer the Sabin polio vaccine. The local Aboriginal children often referred to Robin as ‘the tchooger bird lady’ (‘Sugar bird lady’) because of the sugar cubes the oral vaccine was administered on. By the time she had completed the immunisation programme in October 1969, Robin had administered over 37,000 doses of vaccine and had flown 69,200 km. Robin was awarded a diploma of merit by the Associazione Nazionale Infermieri, Mantova, Italy in 1969 and received the Nancy Bird (Walton) award in 1970. Despite the initial hostility of male doctors, Robin regularly flew aircraft for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. In 1971 she produced a book about her career, titled Flying Nurse. On April 4, 1973, Robin married Harold Dicks in Canberra. In the same year she competed in the Powder Puff ‘Derby’, a trans-America race for female pilots. Sadly Robin passed away in December 1975 after being diagnosed with Cancer. She was 35 years of age. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Robin Miller Dicks, 1943-1978 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Robin Miller Dicks, nurse with the Royal Flying Doctor Service, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "200. Group photograph showing George Augustine Taylor, Vincent Patrick Taylor (Captain Penfold) & Houdini c. 1910?201. Crowd of spectators & friends attending unveiling of the memorial to Major George Augustine Taylor, Veno Park, Heathcote, 20th April 1968?202. Mrs B.M. Hodge & George Augustine Taylor at Veno Park Memorial?203. Mrs Hodge, Mr Hodge & George Augustine Taylor?204. Flag-draped memorial to Major George A. Taylor, born Sydney, 1872?205. Memorial to George A. Taylor – unveiled?206. Close-up of memorial?207. Kerwin Macgraith, artist sculptor, with military & R.A.A.F. at Veno Park?208. ‘Captain Penfold’ – V.P. Taylor, 1915?209. V.P. Taylor (at front) with second D.A.C. Australian Imperial Forces, at the Sphinx Pyramids, Egypt, Dec, 1915?210. V.P. Taylor doing a stunt at top of Samson Masts of R.M.S. Tahiti enroute to America, August, 1920?211. V.P. Taylor [in inflatable rubber suit] floating on San Francisco Bay, Sept. 29th, 1926?212. V.P. Taylor floating down the Idaho Falls Rapids, U.S.A., July 9th, 1927.?213. V.P. Taylor arriving at New Westminister, British Columbia, Canada, Sept, 3rd 1928?214. V.P. Taylor after paddling down the Sacramento River, California, Oct 6th 1928?215. Taylor, Vincent Patrick (possibly)?216-216a. V.P. Taylor business portrait calling card ; Aeronaut George Taylor business card?217. Photo of George A. Taylor, born 1902. Aged about 4, ca. 1906?218-219. George A. Taylor with John Pearce at an ‘aeronautical’ display at Grace Brothers, ca. 1971?220. Florence Taylor (wife of George Augustine Taylor)?221. Florence Butler, 1884?222-223. [unidentified woman] Author Details Anne Heywwod Created 4 July 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents include: geology/geography undergraduate notebooks (1922-1929); miscellaneous lecture notes (1929-1945); Geology I – University of Sydney textbook (1923). Other records may also be available Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 14 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The United Council for Woman Suffrage was originally formed in Melbourne in 1894 largely due to the efforts of Annette Bear Crawford who became its foundation president and secretary. Its aims were: to coordinate and amalgamate suffrage societies and to lobby members of parliament and municipal councillors about women’s suffrage; to educate the public about women’s suffrage; to educate the public about women’s suffrage; to educate the public about women’s suffrage and to train women speakers to address meetings. Those involved included representatives from suffrage societies, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the Victorian Trades Hall Council and the Vigilance Society. The Council conducted extensive lobbying during the Victorian municipal elections in 1896 and the Commonwealth Constitutional Conventional in Melbourne in 1898. The Council floundered with Bear Crawford’s illness and then death in 1898. The following year, however, Vida Goldstein became its organising secretary-which in 1900 became a full-time, paid position. Goldstein allowed a broader spectrum of organisations to affiliate with the Council, considerably expanding its support base-by 1900 it had 32 member organisations. While Goldstein resigned in 1901, the Council continued as an effective co-ordinating body for the suffrage campaign, often working with Goldstein’s new group, the Women’s Political Association, until Victorian women’s gained the vote in 1908. Archival note: As of 2003, it appears that there is no specific collection of papers relating to the Society. Its activities were, however, extensively reported in the Melbourne press and women’s journals, particularly, for the years 1900-1905, Vida Goldstein’s The Australian Woman’s Sphere. Published resources Book Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 Votes for women : the Australian story, Lees, Kirsten., 1995 The Australian Woman's Sphere, 1900-1905 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Scott Family (Rose Scott) papers, 1777-1925 [MLMSS 38/1-79] Author Details Jane Carey Created 11 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection comprises of two series of material: 1. Embroideries: includes five works by Lily Yeats and four by Ruth Lane Poole. 2. Library of Ruth Lane Poole: includes 72 volumes and other publications featuring titles by Dun Emer and Cuala press in addition to first additions by William Butler Yeats, a bible signed by William Butler Yeats, works by authors associated the Irish literary revival, a copy of Brush work (1896) by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, early and late editions of A broadside, and other publications. These series have been further sub-divided into sub-series. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 January 2013 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "When Gweneth Wisewould graduated from medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1915 she was one of four women in a class of 50. With war raging, her medical skills were in high demand on the home front. For a short time she and her female colleagues received the same wage as male graduates. As men returned from the war, the shortage of qualified medical men was no longer a problem. Women doctors’ wages quickly dropped to 75% of the male wage. In 1917, Wisewould set up private practice in St Kilda, Elsternwick and the city. She was also performing surgery at the Queen Victoria Hospital and Senior Resident at the Queen’s Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital. During 1918 – 1929 she instructed medical students at the Alfred Hospital in anaesthetics and held the position of anaesthetist there between 1920 and 1925. In 1938, Wisewould was caught up in a controversy at the Queen Victoria Hospital. The nature of the controversy is still unclear but she left Melbourne and relocated to country Victoria. At the time, Trentham was an isolated community, spread over rugged terrain. She worked as a general practitioner within that community until her death in 1972. Author Details Monica Cronin with Alannah Croom Created 3 March 2019 Last modified 7 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "With her friend Nora Weston, Eirene Mort set up a graphic design studio in Sydney in 1906 where lessons were offered in craft, drawing, design, wood carving, metalwork and book-binding. The emphasis was upon Australian subject matter in design. Mort was a founder of the Society of Arts and Crafts of New South Wales. She wrote and illustrated articles for the Sydney Mail and Art and Architecture, and illustrated several books including Florence Sulman’s A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales (1913), her own The Story of Architecture (1942), and her brother Selwyn Mort’s Coins of the Hapsburg Emperors 1619-1919. Published resources Resource Section Mort, Eirene (1879-1977), Henry, Margaret, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100581b.htm Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book Country Cousins: Presented in Picture and Rhyme, Mort, Eirene, c.1930 Eirene Mort's Australian Alphabet: From the collection of the Australian National Gallery, Mort, Eirene, 1986 Old Canberra: A Sketchbook of the 1920s, Mort, Eirene, 1987 A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales, Sulman, Florence, 1926 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Eirene Mort, 1856-1980 [manuscript] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 8 October 2008 Last modified 27 October 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Adelaide Hockey Club was formed in late 1981, after ten years of sharing of playing fields and change rooms became formalised by the amalgamation of the Sturt (men’s) Aroha (women’s) and Sturt (men’s) clubs . It is one of the largest and most successful hockey Clubs in South Australia with over 300 members playing both the Junior and Senior competition. Formed at a meeting on May 3rd 1906 , the Aroha Women’s Hockey Club was created as an offshoot of the Goodwood Baptist Church young ladies bible class, open to young women in the church over 16 years of age. The name Aroha means love and friendship in Tahitian. Aroha had not at first intended to play any matches, but as the club mastered the rudiments of the game, it was felt that the level of interest would increase if matches were played. The opening match was played against the local Methodist Club, and the first annual report of 1907 records the pleasure team members felt in inflicting a defeat of 9 goals to nil. The club joined the South Australian Women’s Hockey Association in 1909. The club had an enviable record in its 74 seasons existence, playing in 51 A grade finals between 1909 and 1980, winning 26 of these. Aroha set many precedents. It was the first club to throw away the old school tunic and play in a divided skirt. Aroha led the way in fielding junior teams. In its first season, the junior team won one game 20 goals to nil. Of the club’s many State and Australian representatives, the most honoured was Evelyn (“Taz”) Tazewell, who captained SA for 16 years from 1920 and was All-Australian 19 times. Published resources Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Adelaide Hockey Club : SUMMARY RECORD Aroha Hockey Club Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 June 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes minutes, correspondence and reports of the National Women’s Advisory Council and the Liberal Party. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Following discharge from the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) ex-members expressed a desire to keep in contact. In 1946 the WAAAF Branch of the RAAF Association (Victoria Division) was established with this purpose in mind. Their main aim was to provide a meeting place for ex WAAAF to gather and share experiences and help with the transition from service to civilian life. Over 50 years after formation the RAAF Association (Vic. Division) – WAAAF Branch still meets twice a month with a guest speaker invited to one of the meetings. There are 150 members and eight life members who attend commemoration ceremonies, State conferences, annual meetings of the RAAF Associations and re-unions as well as providing both financial and welfare assistance as the need arises. Also members receive a copy of the Contact newsletter produced monthly by the RAAF Association Vic. Div. and a quarterly newsletter produced by the WAAAF Branch. Each year members attend the Point Cook Commemoration Services and in the past they have participated in Commonwealth Thanksgiving Services and 60th Anniversary functions. In the grounds of Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance there are two commemorative trees; one in area A and the other in area E. There is a commemorative plaque at the Austin and Repatriation Hospital. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) RAAF Association (Vic. Division) - WAAAF Branch Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 August 2003 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes minutes, correspondence, circulars, leaflets, press cuttings, and printed. Also includes papers relating to International Women’s Year, 1975. 2 posters advertising rally marches (MC 4, DR 1) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Lord and Lady Casey, including itineraries, programmes, and speeches given by Lord and Lady Casey; extracts from Lord Casey’s personal diary, press cuttings including ones relating to his death, a copy of Lady Casey’s will, documents concerning valuations, includes miscellaneous material; also selection of transcripts of speeches concerning the Australian Broadcasting Commission “Guest of Honour” series; also material relating to Pat Jarrett, a journalist, and secretary to Lady Casey in the 1940s, including press cuttings. Includes photographs of Lord and Lady Casey and Pat Jarrett taken in 1941(MC 6, DR 6) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 30 June 2008 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Fran Bailey was elected to the House of Representatives for the Liberal Party of Australia in the seat of McEwan, Victoria, in March 1990. She was defeated in 1993, but re-elected in 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2007. She retired at the 2010 election. Formerly a secondary school teacher, business manager, retailer, business consultant, and cashmere goat breeder, Fran Bailey served as Secretary of the Liberal Party Yarra Glen Branch from 1984 to 1988, when she became President. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1990. Bailey has served on House of Representatives Standing Committees for Community Affairs; Legal and Constitutional Affairs; Financial Institutions and Public Administration; Industry, Science and Technology; Primary Industries, Resources and Rural and Regional Affairs. In 2004 she became Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence; Minister for Employment Services and Minister for Small Business and Tourism. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 19 July 2007 Last modified 12 January 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes certificates, correspondence, genealogical records of the Tangney and Shanahan families, newspaper cuttings, scrapbooks, and grant certificate (online resource) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection is presented largely as received from FAW ACT. It contains correspondence, financial records, reports, manuscripts, reviews of anthologies, membership details, circulars and other papers emanating from the activities of the FAW ACT and the production of the anthologies. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 18 January 2013 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Flinders University Women’s Information Centre, including: campagin papers; minutes of meetings; correspondence; petitions; essays; and tutorial day books. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personal letters by Herbert M. Barker to Neilma Gantner. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 January 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Guests seated at table. L to R: Mrs King, Ross McDonald, Mrs Elsie Curtin, Amelia MacDonald, Sir James Mitchell. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The correspondence, conference papers and reports relate to the development of the University’s Equal Employment Opportunity Program and include material from other universities. Contents date from 1974. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2013 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Cottee, Australian of the Year, spoke of her non-stop voyage around the world; preparation for the trip; experiences on the voyage; communications; equipment; the boat; life after the voyage; her sailing experiences and boats; life education centres. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 7 February 2007 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Scrap albums containing press cuttings, programmes, photographs and reviews of Ruth Pearce-Jones’ tours and recitals in Australia during 1938-1955.??Ruth Lourensz performed under the name Ruth Pearce-Jones. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This series was the main correspondence series for Army Headquarters and includes correspondence relating to matters within the jurisdiction of the Military Board of Administration. It covers areas such as administration, organisation, staffing, training, ordnance, stores and transport. Files were raised in accordance with a multiple number system by which primary and secondary numbers were allocated to primary and secondary subjects, after the primary subjects had been placed in alphabetical order. The third number was allocated consecutively within the primary/secondary numbers. Papers were attached to other related papers for action, and these attachments were recorded in the registration booklets (B1536). Sometimes these attachments were only temporary and papers were detached and placed with other papers or were used to provide the base papers of anotherfile. File covers were used infrequently, as the system of file construction made file titling impossible. Sometimes papers were placed in Department of Army covers and the broad subject area was indicated. Military Branch covers can also still be found on some files. These indicate that the papers were formally placed before the Military Board at one of its meetings. Many items have been placed in manila folders since their transfer to Archives. This series was culled during the early 1950’s by the department. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers maintained by Beckett while researching her biography Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Angus & Robertson, 1992), including correspondence, interviews, articles, press clippings, correspondence, drafts, financial records and other. There are also papers relating to a proposed documentary film on Glanville-Hicks’ life. Correspondents include Yehudi Menuhin, Gore Vidal, Leonard Bernstein, and Peter Sculthorpe. Other papers include drafts and final copies of Beckett’s works, in particular her plays, radio plays, an outline for an intended novel and a libretto for ‘Beckett’. There are also transcripts of interviews by Beckett with Lawrence Durrell and Paul Bowles, and other related papers. Publications by Beckett, received with the papers, have been incorporated into the Library’s book collection. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A tireless committee member, Marianne Saliba has made a substantial contribution to her local community. She was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Illawarra in 1999 and 2003. She was a member of multiple parliamentary, caucus and community committees and social organizations. She retired from parliament at the 2007 election, and subsequently re-entered local politics in 2011. Marianne Saliba migrated in 1964, with her parents Alex and May Hudson. She was educated at St Anne’s College, Dapto NSW and did Secretarial Studies at the Dapto TAFE. She completed her Bachelor of Education at the University of Wollongong 1999. She worked as Electoral Officer for Terry Rumble, MLA. She married Charlie Saliba in 1985, and they have four children, Matthew, Dennis, Sara and Alexandra. Marianne Saliba’s mother was an Alderman on Shellharbour Municipal Council so community service runs in the family. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 9 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1. Drafts of poems and reviews by Riddell, including “First hearing”, “Some people in summer” and those published in The Overland and The Bulletin. 2. Twelve letters and eight cards, 1984-1990, from Barrett Reid. Most were written while Reid was the editor of The Overland. 3. Cuttings and typescripts of articles and 18 poems by Barrett Reid, including an obituary of John Reid and “A landscape painter: the Sidney Nolan Retrospective Exhibition” and copies of Reid’s correspondence with Max Harris. 4. Papers relating to Patrick White’s Flaws in the Glass. 5. Letters of Stephen Murray-Smith (1982 and 1988) concerning the Dictionary of Australian Quotations. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 November 2007 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "There is a licence, a log book, a certificate from the Australian Aero Club and two letters from the Department of Defence, all dated. 1927. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Newscuttings re women’s movement, women’s affairs, mainly from Australian metropolitan dailies and weeklies, some collected by a cuttings agency, wallet envelopes for each of 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1976; 1977-87 loose. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Catholic Women’s League Tasmania was established in 1941 in Launceston to bring together Catholic women, to help them meet socially, to engage in charitable work and to assist them to play their part in public life. Gwen Mullins, the catalyst for its formation, expressed concern about the isolation of Catholics from the general community in Launceston and particularly the non participation of Catholic women in any civic sphere at all. It has been involved in a range of issues including the family, immigration, media programs and educational opportunities for girls. By the 1980s it had developed a greater international awareness with the creation of the office of International Secretary. It is affiliated with the Catholic Women’s League Australia Inc. The objects of the Catholic Women’s League Tasmania Inc. were to: Promote the spiritual, cultural, intellectual and social interests of Catholic women, To train and encourage Catholic women to play their proper part in advancing the moral and civic welfare of the community, To assert and defend Christian principles in relation to marriage, the home and education, To work for the extension of the Kingdom of Christ in union with our spiritual guides, To co-operate with other societies in an effort to obtain our objects. The CWL Tasmania is organised into three branches: the North, West/North-west and the South. It produces a monthly magazine Review. Published resources Book Women of faith and action: history of the Catholic Women's League, Tasmania 1941-1986., Nuss, Anne Rushton, 1986 Resource About us, Catholic Women's League, Tasmania Inc., 2004, http://www.tased.edu.au/tasonline/cwltas/aboutu.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Archdiocese of Hobart, Archives and Heritage Collection Catholic Women's League, Tasmania Inc. records Archives Office of Tasmania State conference notes 1971-1975 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Family files, newspaper clippings and reports, letters and telegrams, scrapbook; copy of the book Aborigines of the west : their past and their present, to which May O’Brien contributed. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "At the age of 27, Jeanne Collison was responsible for developing the first Australian heart-lung machine and leading a team of seven male doctors through the first successful open-heart surgery in the southern hemisphere. The daughter of Albert Collison, a master builder, and his wife Beatrice, Jeanne was born in Mosman and educated there at Killarney School. She later attended the Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School (SCEGGS) in Darlinghurst, where – according to Tony Stephens, who wrote Collison’s obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald – ‘the headmistress advised her not to bother with medicine because she would never make the grade’. At the age of sixteen, Collison was playing the pipe organ at North Sydney Baptist Church where she met her future husband Neville York, then a twenty-year-old World War II RAAF pilot. Collison graduated with honours from Sydney University in 1952. York, too, became a student of medicine and the two were married in 1955. According to Stephens, the death of young children from heart failure drove Collison to become a pioneer in heart bypass anaesthesia in Australia. In 1952, with Helen Windon, she became the first female trainee anaesthetist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. She joined the cardiac research team at the Baker Institute in Melbourne in 1956, and the following year, built the first heart-lung machine at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital using PVC tubing and other materials after a colleague sent from the United States a rough sketch of an American design on airmail paper. In 1957, Collison returned to Sydney where she established a cardiopulmonary bypass department at the Royal Prince Alfred. Twenty years later she established another at Westmead. In midlife she obtained her pilot’s licence, flying with her husband and her son, Simon. Stephens tells us that Collison and York’s marriage was ‘a 50-year personal and professional partnership of immense happiness, marred only by the accidental death of their only child, Simon, at 18’. Jeanne Collison passed away in 2006, just eight days after she was awarded the Order of Australia at Government House. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 7 December 2006 Last modified 25 September 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elyne Mitchell is an Australian writer who is best known for the Silver Brumby series of children’s books. Elyne Mitchell was the daughter of General Sir Harry Chauvel, who commanded the Desert Mounted Corps in World War One. She attended St Catherine’s School, Toorak, between 1924 and 1931. In 1935, at the age of 20, Elyne married Tom Mitchell, moving to his cattle station Towong Hill in the Snowy Mountains. Tom Mitchell was a lawyer, and champion skier, and Elyne won the Canadian downhill skiing championship in 1938. While her husband, who was to become State Attorney-General from 1950-52, studied at Harvard, she studied international relations at Radcliffe. During the Second World War, Elyne Mitchell was part of a group of nationalist writers, who wrote poetry and prose centred on the Australian landscape. In this period, she wrote Australia’s Alps (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1942) and Speak to the Earth (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1945). She is the author of 72 works of poetry, autobiography, and children’s and adult fiction. Elyne is best known, however, for the Silver Brumby series of children’s books. She wrote the first for her daughter Indi, out of concern about the lack of Australian content in books. Elyne Mitchell worked closely with youth organisations in the Upper Murray community. In 1990 she received the Order of Australia Medal, for services to children’s literature. In 1993, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Charles Sturt University. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 AustLit, http://www.austlit.edu.au/ Journal Article Elyne Mitchell: Matriarch of the High Country, Prentice, Jeff, 2002, http://extranet.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/LLAE/viewpoint/sp02bo.shtml Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Elyne Mitchell, circa 1928-2002 [manuscript] Wodonga Historical Society 'Women Who Have Achieved' Author Details Janet Butler Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minute books, 1931-1987 (10 vols). ?Cash books, 1945-1956, 1960-1965 (3 vols). ?Country Women’s Association: correspondence, 1956-1984 (5 bundles, 2 bags). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Tammy Williams is a trailblazing Indigenous and human rights advocate. She is a practising barrister, founding director of Indigenous Enterprise Partnerships, and a leading advisor on Indigenous issues. Admitted as a barrister in 2002, her legal career includes Commonwealth prosecutor and appointments to quasi-judicial bodies. She has been a member of the National Human Rights Consultative Committee and in 2003 was named the Queensland Women Lawyers Association Emergent Lawyer of the Year. Tammy Williams is a Murri Lawyer whose family is originally from the Cherbourg Aboriginal Community. She grew up on a farm on the outskirts of Gympie, Queensland. After her father’s tragic death by suicide when she was six years old, she moved with her family into a Queensland housing commission home. When she was seventeen, Williams wrote an award-winning essay on injustice for an international competition. The prize included travelling to the USA to meet Michael Jackson at his Neverland Ranch for a youth conference, a defining experience for her. During these years, she helped her mother, Lesley Williams, to win her stolen wages claim against the Queensland government . In 1995, Tammy was a delegate to the United Nations World Summit of Children and its Committee on the Rights of the Child. She attended the State of the World forum the following year and in 1997 was awarded the National Human Rights (Youth) Award. In 2000 Tammy received the Law Council of Australia’s Koowarta Reconciliation Scholarship, and was guest speaker at the opening ceremony of the Australian Reconciliation Convention. Tammy was awarded her law degree in 2001 from the Queensland University of Technology and was admitted to the Queensland Bar the following year. Between 2003 and 2007, Tammy was a founding member of the federal government’s National Indigenous Council which provided advice on Indigenous issues to Minister Mal Brough and the Ministerial Taskforce on Indigenous Affairs. In 2003 Tammy was awarded by the Queensland Women Law Association, the “Emergent Lawyer of the Year”. She was a member of Senator Vanstone’s Indigenous Women’s Advisory Group and the Youth Pathways Action Plan of Public Prosecutions in Queensland. In 2004, Tammy took leave from her position at the Department of Public Prosecutions to take up a scholarship at Indigenous Enterprise Partnerships, where she is director and legal and strategic manager. The following year, Tammy was part of the Australian delegation to the UN committee on the Status of Women in New York. Tammy served as a Member of the National Indigenous Council and National Human Rights Consultation Committee before moving into Tribunal work in 2008 with the Children Services Tribunal. She has been a Sessional Member of the Queensland Civil and Administration Tribunal (QCAT) since 2009. Tammy won Queensland University of Technology’s 2009 Outstanding Young Alumni Award. In 2015, Tammy co-authored ‘Not Just Black and White’ with her mother, a memoir of their fight against the injustices and discrimination faced by Indigenous Australians. Tammy is married with one child. Published resources Edited Book A Woman's Place: 100 Years of Queensland Women Lawyers, Purdon, Susan and Rahemtula, Aladin, 2005 Book Not Just Black and White: A conversation between a mother and daughter, Williams, Lesley and Tammy, 2015 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nicola Silbert Created 22 February 2016 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises papers of Amy Neville Brown and Valentine Alexa Leeper, ca. 1920-1969, relating to their activities with the Victorian Aboriginal Group, the Citizens Educational Fellowship, the Christian Co-operative Fellowship, Christian Education Fellowship and the Christian Co-operative Credit Union. The papers include minute books, general correspondence and publications produced by these groups. There are some documents relating to the National Assocation for the Advancement of the Native Race, which amalgamated with the Victorian Aboriginal Group in 1971. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "There is also an additional large format file, formerly from the Ken Scarlett sculpture archive.?Files contain material such as art exhibition catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases and/or other ephemeral items relating to Australian artists and galleries. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 6 October 2008 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Central Victorian Women in Agriculture group was formed in the aftermath of the First International Women in Agriculture Conference. Many of its original members had helped to organise the conference, and the organisation aimed to support women of Central Victoria to achieve the goals highlighted by the conference: to establish a supportive network, stimulate women to recognise and value their skills and abilities, to give women the chance to gain confidence and make a difference in their industry and community, to encourage and provide knowledge and practical skills, and to strengthen Australian agriculture through strong partnerships. The organisation was successful in its aims, its members going on to positions on industry boards, as representatives of state and national organisations, and in local government , and it was wound up in 2006. The Central Victorian Women in Agriculture Group was formed in the aftermath of the 1994 First International Women in Agriculture Conference. Women from the area, including Janet Barker, Joy Chambers, Laurene Dietrich, Audrey Drechsler and Maureen Walsh, had been closely involved with the organisation of the Conference. The aims of the group reflected the needs highlighted by the Conference, and the aims of the Women in Agriculture Movement as a whole: to establish a supportive network, stimulate women to recognise and value their skills and abilities, to give women the chance to gain confidence to ‘step out of their comfort zone’ to make a difference in their industry and community, to encourage and provide knowledge and practical skills, and to strengthen Australian agriculture through strong partnerships. The group incorporated, and produced a newsletter. It was involved in skills and leadership education and lobbied politicians, it organised a Shire rate deferral for those affected by drought, and hosted exchanges form other areas, and from overseas. The group, at the instigation of Joy Chambers, was responsible for the establishment of the Knickers Fund, set up to provide small comforts to women in areas affected by disaster. They also organised the 1997 Women on Farms Gathering in Bendigo. By 2004, with many of their members serving on Boards, as district representatives of State and National Organisations, or elected to Municipal Councils, and other wise active in their communities, the organisation had served its purpose, and in 2006 it disbanded. It’s banner is now with the Women on Farms Gathering Collection at Museum Victoria. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Audrey Drechsler, 1979-2009 [manuscript] Melbourne Museum Central Victorian Women in Agriculture Papers Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 sound tape reels (ca. 75 min.)??Clune speaks of her interest in art and of her involvement with her son Terry’s Art Gallery ; she speaks of her family history and life in Australia ; meeting her husband Frank Clune ; her friendship with William Dobell and other artists ; learning sculpture under Dadwell at Sydney’s East Sydney Technical College. Clune speaks of her travels. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 45 min.)??Paterson speaks of her childhood experiences living in Carlton, Victoria, the centre for artists at that time; her relatives and family; training at the National Gallery; the Australian art scene; galleries; attitudes of artists and society; Frederick McCubbin, Norman Lindsay, Bernard Hall, Arthur Streeton, Hugh Paterson and Prime Minister Andrew Fischer. She also speaks of her painting and portraiture including technique, subject and sales. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 27 October 2008 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence between Josephine and Charles Zammit and the Malta Emigrants’ Commission, located in Valetta, 1964-1982; files on Mrs Zammit’s original attempts in 1970 to secure a Maltese radio programme on 2CH; radio station 2EA Maltese programme formats, 1975-1985; papers relating to Maltese community life in Sydney, 1964-1968. Included in the collection are papers in English and Maltese. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "One cassette tape and interview log containing two interviews recorded in the Queen Street Mall, Brisbane, during International Women’s Day, 8 Mar 1993. Pamela Scott Holland speaks about feminism and law on Side 1. Pauleen Peel speaks about feminism in the public service on Side 2. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photographs, newspaper clippings, letters and profiles of the founders of the Country Women’s Association (CWA), 1924-1953 (4 folders). ?Minutes of current branches, groups and states committees, 1926-1985 (12 metres of shelving). ?Report books of the State Committee of the CWA, 1929-1987 (1 metre of shelving). ?Correspondence, plans, minutes of the State Property Committee and branch property officers, 1931-1988 (3 metres of shelving). ?Certificates, photographs and sketches of the founders of the CWA and its activities, 1931-1984 (30 items). ?Minutes, receipts, accounts, donor lists of the Outback Relief Scheme, 1931 (1 packet). ?Minutes, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings, maps and correspondence held by the Country Women’s Association of South Australia relating to the Association of Country Women of the World, 1933-1988 (15 metres of shelving). ?Booklets noting the changes to the CWA constitution, 1934-1987 (1 metre of shelving). ?Minutes, notes and photographs of Handicraft Committee and the Schools of Instruction conducted over the years 1936-1988 (5 metres of shelving). ?Minutes and treasurers books of defunct branches, 1936-1988 (9 metres of shelving). ?Annual reports and newspaper reports regarding the Australia wide organisation, the Country Women’s Association of Australia, 1936-1986 (1 metre of shelving). ?Minutes, directives, receipts for the making of camouflage nets, airmen’s and merchant navymen’s sheep skin vests, lifeboat slippers and mittens during the war, 1940-1945 (2 packets). ?Illuminated address books and the ‘Book of Honour’ dealing with luminaries in the CWA, 1941-1987 (3 vols). ?Details of fundraising for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, United Nations, National Trust, also includes surveys and submissions to Parliament as well as a history of the Northern Territory CWA, 1942-1988 (4 metres of shelving). Notes, minutes and correspondence regarding Housekeeping Scheme and flood relief during the 1956 flood on the River Murray, 1945-1980 (2 packets). ?Radio scripts and notes of radio broadcasts, 1949-1973 (1 folder). ?Publications relating to the history of the CWA in various country districts and on a State level, includes recipe books and home hints, 1950-1988 (2 metres of shelving). ?District and town histories prepared by branch members, 1951-1969 (8 folders). ?Photographs, press clippings, programs of Royal visits prepared by branch members, 1954-1956 (1 metre of shelving). ?Histories of branches and divisions, 1967-1987 (1 metre of shelving). ?Scrapbooks prepared by members in 1969 to mark the golden jubilee of the CWA in South Australia, material used dates from 1929 (2 metres of shelving). ?Newspaper clippings and photographs of various activities of the CWA, each volume devoted to a separate topic, 1969-1988 (22 vols). ?Correspondence and photographs relating to the preparation of branch banners, 1985 (1 metre of shelving). Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of Marjorie Waters, 1978-1987, including records of the United Nations Association of Australia (Victorian Division) Disarmament and Peace Committee, 1981-1987, comprising minutes, correspondence, annual reports, financial statements, newsletters, press cuttings and photographs; also an Arms and Disarmament File, 1978-79, including correspondence, publications and press cuttings; also papers of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1981-82, including minutes, correspondence and leaflets. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lynda Voltz was a political staffer who ran for election as an ALP candidate, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, North Shore, in 1995. In that year she was employed as an electoral officer for Senator John Faulkner, and had worked previously for Peter Baldwin M.H.R. In 2007 she was elected to the Legislative Council of the NSW Parliament. She was re-elected in 2015. Lynda Voltz was educated at Birrong Girls High School and spent six years in the Australian Regular Army. She was a Clinic Counsellor for 3 years and a keen sportsperson, who played competitive Women’s Soccer and Women’s Rugby Union. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 February 2006 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc11.024 comprises papers relating to Laurene Dietrich’s role as a member of the organising committee for the first Women in Agriculture Conference, held in Melbourne, July 1994. The collection includes correspondence, reports, list of participants, minutes of meetings, copies of some of the papers presented at the conference, photographs, a questionnaire for participants and news cuttings (2 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 December 2012 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (116 min.)??Davis speaks about being cared for by Mum Shirl on Cowra Mission, N.S.W. from a young age. At the age of 9, he was removed to Kinchela Boys’ Home. He describes the harsh living conditions at Kinchela. Davis also talks about his adult life, his Christian faith, and the long-term effects of child removal. Author Details Clare Land Created 14 October 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Gwen Woodroofe undertook research at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, working on myxomatosis and arboviruses. She also organised the sale of UNICEF Christmas cards in Canberra for many years. Gwen Woodroofe was born in Adelaide on 7 March 1918 to Florence and William Woodroofe. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Botany from the University of Adelaide in 1940. She was then awarded a Master of Science degree in Bacteriology from the University of Adelaide and joined the John Curtin School of Medical Research in 1951, working as a research assistant with Professor Frank Fenner on myxomatosis. She co-authored several articles with Fenner and was appointed a Research Fellow in December 1958. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1962 by the Australian National University. She was promoted to Fellow in 1963 and then worked with Dr Ian Marshall on arboviruses including the Ross River virus and the Murray Valley encephalitis virus. She retired as a Fellow in 1978. Following her retirement, she became involved in UNICEF and organised its sales of Christmas cards in Canberra for many years. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1997 for service to women through the ACT Association of the Australian Federation of University Women and UNICEF-ACT. Her sister Kathleen also pursued an academic career as an historian, becoming an Associate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. She was the author of From Charity to Social Work in England and the United States (1962). After Kathleen’s death, Gwen made an endowment to the University to establish a postgraduate scholarship in her sister’s memory and by the University matching her donation, two scholarships were established: the Kathleen Woodroofe Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities or Social Sciences and the Gwendolyn Woodroofe Postgraduate Scholarship in the Sciences, both first awarded in 2002. Gwen died on 11 September 2012 in Canberra. Published resources Book Annual Report, 1951-1978 Newspaper Article Death notice, 2012 Resource Section Dr Gwen Woodroofe, http://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/about-us/honour-roll/dr-gwen-woodroofe Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 5 February 2013 Last modified 20 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (ca. 115 min.)??Nora Heysen discusses her rural childhood; her artistic pre-eminence over her siblings; attending a convent school in Mt Barker, South Australia; her family’s lack of interest in organised religion; her family’s focus on art; music and dance; studying at the Adelaide School of Art; studying in London; her parents’ support of her art studies; aesthetic theory; comparisons between her and her father’s work; family dynamics; attitudes towards women painters; taking up portraiture; moving to Sydney (1938); differences between the Melbourne and Sydney art movements; the process of portraiture; winning the Archibald Prize (1938); securing portrait commissions; the advantages of commissioned work; her feelings about motherhood.??Heysen discusses being appointed as an official war artist (1943); New Guinea and her official instructions there; her working conditions; insubordination; illness and recall to Australia; official complaints about her work; love and marriage (1953); settling in Hunter’s Hill, Sydney; pets and animals; caring for her husband; women’s nurturing and domestic roles; travelling in the tropics; her artistic output during this period; her marriage’s end; the value of emotional experiences to an artist’s work; the burden of having a famous family name; her lifetime achievements and artistic reputation; her father’s death; temperamental inheritances from her parents; artistic influences; her materials and palettes; the most important elements of painting; Impressionism and Post-Impressionism; art as an escape; eyesight problems; particular aesthetic challenges; friends; old age; independence; domestic routine; the difficulties and rewards of an artist’s life; smoking; her regrets at not learning German as a child. Created 26 February 2019 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nikki Henningham Created 25 January 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: WRAAC<i>Reunited</i> Logo Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The National Council of Women of Western Australia was founded in 1911, largely due to the efforts of Lady Edeline Strickland (wife of the Governor of Western Australia) who became its first president. It is a non-party, non-sectarian, umbrella organisation for a large and diverse number of affiliated women’s groups in Western Australia. It functions as a political lobby group, attempting to influence local, state and federal government. The Council has supported a wide range of social reform activities, particularly those related to education and to women’s, children’s and family welfare. While not an overtly feminist organisation, it provided a major focus for, predominantly middle-class, women’s activism until at least the 1940s. Unlike many other states, however, the Council had strong competition from the Women’s Service(s) Guild of Western Australia for leadership of the women’s movement. Its initial aims were: 1. ‘To establish a bond of union between the various affiliated societies. 2. To advance the interests of women and children and of humanity in general. 3. To confer on questions relating to the welfare of the family, the State and the Commonwealth.’ Like all National Councils of Women, it operates though a standing committee system whereby specific issues are brought before the Council and, if there is general agreement that a question should be taken up, a subcommittee is established to investigate the matter. Among the groups affiliated with the Council in the 1910s were the: Women’s Service(s) Guild; Woman’s Christian Temperance Union; Karrakatta Club; British Immigration Association; Metropolitan Women’s Workers’ Union; Children’s Protection Society; Ministering Children’s League; Western Australian Trained Nurses Association; Girls’ Friendly Society and the Mothers’ Union. Among the earliest issues to attract the Council’s attention were: free kindergartens; women’s health; school medical services; prison reform; provision for domestic science in schools and the university; venereal diseases bill; film censorship; women jurors; women police; anti-gambling legislation. Current affiliated organisations include the : Zonta Club of South Perth; Young Women’s Christian Organisation of WA’ War Widows Guild; Nation Council of Jewish Women; Australian Federation of University Women; Catholic Women’s League; Guides WA; Home Economics Association of WA; Soroptimists International; State Women’s Council of the Liberal Party. Published resources Book The Spirit lives on, 1911-1999, Sher, Noreen, 1999 Women on the warpath : feminist of the first wave, Davidson, Dianne, 1997 Journal Article War, Sexuality and Feminism: Perth's Women's Organisations 1938-1945, Reekie, Gail, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia National Council of Women of Western Australia records, 1911-2001 Papers, 1881-1959 [manuscript] Papers, 1882-1966 [manuscript] Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia records Papers, 1877-1951 [manuscript] Report to the Child Endowment Commission, 1926 [manuscript] Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) National Council of Women of Western Australia Records Author Details Jane Carey Created 5 September 2003 Last modified 25 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letter dated 2 Jan 1903 from Anne Bon Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2005 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "45 minutes.??Ruth Langley talks about the development of the Australian Association of Lyceum Clubs. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 April 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc05.049 comprises papers relating to Pamela Denoon memorial lectures (1 carton).??The Acc08.141 instalment comprises papers relating to the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Pamela Denoon Lecture series. The speakers for this period were Prof. Hilary Charlesworth, Dr Sarah Madison, and Prof. Marian Sawer and Roslyn Dundas (a joint presentation) (1 folder).??The Acc13.105 instalment comprises papers relating to Pamela Denoon Lectures from 2009 to 2013, including fliers and lecture texts. The speakers for this period were Emily Maguire, Dr Kim Toffoletti, Dr Leslie Cannold, Dame Carol Kidu and Clementine Ford. In addition, there is a listing of the 1989-2013 lectures and a flier for the 2005 event (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sybil Irving’s friends and colleagues felt that her great contribution to the community, through her concern for the happiness and welfare of others, should not be forgotten. A National Memorial Committee was formed to appeal for subscriptions. This brought response from all states and overseas. A chain of memorials around Australia was planned – one in each capital city. The culmination was the unveiling, by Her Excellency Lady Cowen, of the memorial in Commonwealth Gardens, Canberra on 11 March 1979. The Sybil Irving Memorial Fund Committee National Chairman Miss May Douglas, OBE – Girl Guides, AWAS, AAMWS Deputy Chairman Miss Mabel Cooper, MBE – Girl Guides Honorary Secretary Miss Maureen White – Australian Red Cross Society Honorary Treasurer Miss J Strahan – Council on the Ageing Committee Miss Jean Wood, OBE – Girl Guides, AWAS Miss P Adam-Smith – AWAS Miss R M Alsop – Australian Red Cross Society Colonel K M Fowler – WRAAC Miss A McArthur Campbell – Girl Guides, Crippled Childrens’ Assn, Army Miss D Madden – AWAS Miss M S Williamson – AAMWS, WRAAC Mr A Wimpole – (Legal Advisor) Army State Representatives Queensland Miss Dorothea Skov – AWAS South Australia Miss O J Michelmore – AWAS Tasmania Mrs Sefton Taylor – Girl Guides, Red Cross Western Australia Mrs B Clinton – AWAS, Red Cross Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 September 2003 Last modified 6 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "30 minutes??Maisie Hone was born in 1897 in Mitcham. Her family moved to London when she was three so her father could study medicine. On their return he bought a motor car which was driven by a chauffeur. She went to school at Mitcham, Miss Thornber’s and MLC and studied at Adelaide University. She organised annual concerts for women only. In 1923 she married Ray Hone and they went to England on a cargo ship as Ray was the ship’s doctor. They returned in 1924 and her daughter Mary was born. Maisie joined the Lyceum Club when it was still on North Terrace and was involved in the luncheons and the circles. Ray was away for 3 1/2 years during the war. She started a looking after children on Friday mornings to help mothers on their own and continued this for 20 years. Maisie was involved in various circles in the Lyceum Club and found it a great support. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Monica Attard is one of Australia’s most respected news and current affairs journalists. She holds five Walkley Awards including a Gold Walkley for Excellence in Journalism. Attard is best remembered, according to author Denise Leith, as ‘the woman reporting astride a Russian tank in Red Square in her pyjamas as the communist regime ended’. She spent four years as Russian correspondent for the ABC, reporting on the collapse of the Soviet Union, and received the Medal of the Order of Australia for her services to Australian journalism. In 1997 she published her book, Russia: Which Way Paradise? Attard has also reported for Channel Seven News, and the ABC’s Lateline and Four Corners. She has been a long-standing host of ABC Radio’s PM and Sunday Profile, and in 2006 she presented ABC TV’s Media Watch program. Born to Maltese parents, Monica Attard was raised in Australia. Her father’s stories of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini imbued her with some understanding of the destructive power of political dictatorships. In 1983 she visited Russia for the first time, expecting to find a workers’ paradise. She was disappointed, but developed a strong attachment to the country nonetheless and resolved to spend more time there. Employed by the ABC in radio current affairs for AM, The World Today, and PM, she was finally posted to Moscow in 1990 as Russian correspondent for ABC radio. Attard witnessed Gorbachev’s final year of power, the 1991 coup and the collapse of the Communist Party which saw a ‘new’ Russia under Boris Yeltsin and capitalism. She met her Russian husband, Grigori (Grisha) Klumov, in 1992, and they married in Moscow in 1993. Interviewed later for Leith’s book on war correspondents, Bearing Witness, Attard reflected upon her time in Russia and upon lessons learned there on questions of journalistic objectivity and morality. A successful war correspondent, she said, is one who not only covers a story accurately, but brings passion and human feeling to that story. The journalist should not set out to provoke interviewees, but at times there is a moral obligation to speak out. Attard recalled the occupation of Moscow by Soviet Union soldiers in 1991, and her own impassioned reaction: I said to them, “Do you really believe in what you are doing? You are occupying your own city! Who ordered you here? Oh, the commander. And do you know who the commander answers to? Is he one of the KGB chief’s boys? You have got a mother. You have a babushka. Do you think that they are going to like seeing you on television driving through the streets of Moscow on a tank?” Attard ‘couldn’t believe that these young kids who were all the beneficiaries of perestroika and glasnost would want to do what they were doing… At the end of the day I had taken a moral stand… I think that there are some situations where it is not moral to be objective’. As a correspondent, she witnessed terrifying scenes of war including an Armenian massacre and a protest around the Lithuanian parliament, where the foyer was manned by children ‘no more than seven or eight years old’ and armed with Kalashnikov rifles. War stirs passion and overwhelming cruelty, and Attard was unable to function simply as a ‘human camera’, blindly recording in the most horrific of circumstances. Other journalists remained detached: Maybe what they are seeing is so horrendous and so morally repugnant to them that the only way they can justify it is by objectifying it. I don’t know. Maybe it is because they really believe that the role of the journalist is to sit there and be a human camera but I can’t draw that line between humanity and journalism. I don’t think journalists are gods or non-humans, or should pretend to be. You have to have some moral certitude and fortitude and stand by your beliefs. If you don’t have those beliefs, if you are so morally derelict that you don’t see the immorality in your behaviour then OK, you deserve to be haunted. On returning to Australia in 1994, Attard hosted PM for ABC radio, and in 2002 began presenting Sunday Profile, a national interview program on ABC local radio. In 2006, she took up the gruelling role of presenter on ABC TV’s Media Watch program. Attard was nervous about standing in judgement of her colleagues, but believed in the importance of a program like Media Watch to keep journalists accountable: ‘You need to have a watchdog that’s public and open and very effective’, she said, ‘I think they’re a very important part of a working democracy’. She hosted Media Watch for one year before returning to Sunday Profile in 2007. Events 2005 - 2005 Broadcast Interviewing, ‘On The Brink’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1991 - 1991 Best Coverage of a Current Story (Print), Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1991 - 1991 Best International Report, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1991 - 1991 Best Piece of Journalism Newspaper, Television or Radio, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2002 - 2002 Broadcast Interviewing, ‘Kernot, Beazley, The Bishop’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1985 - Published resources Book Russia: Which Way Paradise?, Attard, Monica, 1997 Bearing Witness: The Lives of War Correspondents and Photojournalists, Leith, Denise, 2004 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 27 September 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Aunty Agnes Shea is a highly respected elder of the Ngunnawal Aboriginal people of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). A foundation member of the United Ngunnawal Elders’ Council and a member of the ACT Heritage Council, Aunty Agnes works toward improving non-Indigenous Australians’ understanding of Aboriginal culture. She contributes significantly to progress towards reconciliation. (Reconciliation is about unity and respect between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and non-Indigenous Australians. It is about respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and valuing justice and equity for all Australians.) Her work in the area of health and social equity for Aboriginal people contributes to an increase in the quality of life for many. Aunty Agnes is one of the Ngunnawal elders who performs the traditional Ngunnawal Welcome to Country ceremony for visitors to the ACT. Aunty Agnes Shea (née Bulger) was born at Oak Hill, North Yass, New South Wales (NSW) in 1931, the fifth of eight children of Violet Josephine Bulger (née Freeman), domestic servant and Edward Walter ‘Vincent’ Bulger, railway worker. Aunty Agnes grew up at Oak Hill and the Hollywood Aboriginal Reserve, near Yass, NSW. (Hollywood Aboriginal Reserve is often referred to as the Hollywood Mission.) She portrays a strong sense of community when talking about those years: It was a different life to now, we had much more closeness and togetherness and we lived with our uncles and aunties, grandparents and friends and we cared and shared with each other. We felt protected because our Elders were there with us (AIATSIS NTRU Conference 2010). Aunty Agnes describes Oak Hill as an ‘open bit of ground on the stock route’ (Brown, 2007, p. 79) where Aboriginal people were permitted to build and live in gunjes, dwellings with dirt floors, stringy-bark walls and galvanised iron roofs. They had no electricity or running water, only an open fire for heating and cooking. For warmth, people lined the gunjes with layers of newspaper and corn bags from the nearby mill. Aunty Agnes attended school from the age of 7. This meant walking 10 kilometres each way from Oak Hill to the Hollywood Aboriginal Reserve school, until 1938 when they were all moved to the Reserve where housing was a little better with galvanised iron walls, wooden floors, separate bedrooms and cement water tanks. The Aboriginal children were permitted access to limited parts of town and only under supervision. They were forbidden to speak their own language when in town; and threatened with court and removal to a children’s home if they did. Aunty Agnes said that practices and policies changed very slowly for the Aborigines and that ‘Hollywood was a place that you survived. But we had happy times there.’ (Brown, 2007, p. 90). On Christmas Eve 1939 when Aunty Agnes was eight years old her father Vincent died suddenly, leaving his widow with eight children. Violet Bulger was given permission to do domestic work in town, but eventually the family was forced to leave the Reserve. Aunty Agnes remembers: The authorities came and told her she had to be moved off the Mission, because she was now a single mother and she was a bad influence on the rest of the community. (Brown, 2007, p. 86.) (This was clearly the family understanding. To date research has not found a record of any such official policy but unofficial local policies were not unknown on Aboriginal Reserves.) Aunty Agnes tells how they then lived at ‘a place called Morton Avenue’, about five kilometres from Yass. She and her siblings walked the five kilometres to school because Aborigines were not permitted to use the school bus service. She explained the limited schooling opportunities for Aborigines during those days: ‘you had to leave when you were fourteen … to make room for the other ones coming up behind you. I – and many others in my age group – only had education from first class to third class. … But we did have the cultural education which came from our family; our Elders and grandparents.’ (Brown, 2007, p. 83). In 1947 at Yass, Aunty Agnes married Ronald Joseph ‘Ron’ Walker, taking his surname until she married again after his death. Walker was a professional boxer who also worked on the Burrinjuck Dam. They stayed on at Morton Avenue where their children were born. When her mother, Violet Bulger, moved to Tumut, Aunty Agnes took on her domestic jobs in town. Aunty Agnes’ first baby, Mary, was born in 1949. Aunty Agnes was one of first three Aboriginal women allowed to have babies in Yass Hospital although they were confined to a back ward and could only use the rear entrance to the hospital. She tells how a yellow line painted across the corridor marked the boundary of where the Aboriginal women were permitted to walk. They could walk to the yellow line and no further; they were forbidden from associating with the non-Indigenous new mothers in the adjacent ward. In 1952 Ron Walker burnt to death working in a shearing shed on Sir Walter Berryman’s property on Dog Track Road, Yass leaving Aunty Agnes a widow with three young children. Aunty Agnes’ second husband Charles Shea was a non-Indigenous person from Yass with a contracting business. Aunty Agnes said this meant she no longer had ‘to worry about the income coming in’ although she did continue doing domestic work. She had four children with Charles Shea. Aunty Agnes is Ngunnawal although her parents were Wiradjuri. She describes how in Aboriginal culture bloodlines follow the female side of the family and that she follows her paternal grandmother, Grace Bulger (née Lewis) while her brother, Vincent Bulger OAM, follows their mother Violet Bulger (née Freeman) who was Wiradjuri. Aunty Agnes’ significant community involvement is indicative of her commitment to helping young people and fostering respect between the many cultures of people in the Canberra region. She is a member of the Advisory Board to ACT Health and a foundation member of the United Ngunnawal Elders Council (UNEC). Through her UNEC work Aunty Agnes is involved in the initiative to establish the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm (NBHF), an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol and other drug residential rehabilitation service implementing culturally appropriate prevention and education programs. She is a member of Journey of Healing ACT, an organisation that supports local Indigenous communities who live with the effects of earlier Australian policies that separated Indigenous children from their families and communities and works for healing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Further testimony to the esteem in which Aunty Agnes is held occurred in 2008; she was invited to officially greet the Olympic flame when it visited Canberra in preparation for the Beijing Olympics. Her words expressed the longevity of Aboriginal history in Australia and hope for the future: I welcome the Olympic torch to Australia in the spirit of peace on behalf of my people, whose history in this place goes back to the beginning of time. May its stay here be one that symbolises good will for all mankind (USA Today, 2008) In her role as a Ngunnawal elder, Aunty Agnes frequently represents the local indigenous people – the Ngunnawal – in Welcome to Country ceremonies at official ACT and Commonwealth government events. In accord with traditions dating back thousands of years, on behalf of her people she welcomes visitors to Ngunnawal traditional land and offers safe passage. Aunty Agnes always finishes the welcome in the language of her people with the inclusive statement, ‘Ngunna Yarabi-Yengue’ which translates as ‘you are welcome to leave your footprints on our land.’ Aunty Agnes says each of her children had a good education, which enabled them to go into good employment. She has 14 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren and lives in Canberra where she continues her extensive community work championing social equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and reconciliation between cultures. Published resources Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Section Meet Some Elders - Agnes (Bulger) Shea OAM, 2010, http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/ntru/nativetitleconference/conf2010/culturalprogram.html ACT Honour Walk plaque: Agnes Shea OAM, http://www.flickr.com/photos/archivesact/5227584146/lightbox/ Reconciliation, 2009, http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/reconciliation Newspaper Article Aussie tribeswoman greets Olympic flame, 2008, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-22-torch-australia_N.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Niki Francis Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 19 February 2019 Digital resources Title: Helen Hughes Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: COFCLaunch20130221-021-cropped.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Moira Copping was active in the Liberal Party and was their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Parramatta in 1999. Moira Copping has been a Liberal State Council delegate, a pre-selector for Senate and House of Representatives candidates, and a Convention delegate. She graduated with a Bachelor of Business (Human Resources Management) from Charles Sturt University and went on t become a Director of Human Resources. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 7 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A talented pianist, Louise Hanson-Dyer founded the music publishing company, Editions de l’Oiseau-Lyre, in Paris in 1928. With her first husband, James Dyer, she donated £10,000 to establish a permanent orchestra in Melbourne. Upon her death, she bequeathed over £200,000 to the University of Melbourne. The Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library at the University is named in her honour. Born Louise Berta Mosson Smith, Hanson-Dyer was the daughter of Louis Lawrence Smith, son of Edward Tyrrell Smith and Magdeleine Nanette Gengoult. L.L. Smith came to Australia to search for gold, but his medical studies led him instead to produce medical almanacs and a variety of less than bona fide medical products. By 1880 he was earning £10,000 per year, and the Bulletin was referring to him as £.£. Smith. He became a member of parliament, representing South Bourke. In 1883, after the death of his first wife, Sarah Ann, Smith married Marion Jane ‘Polly’ Higgins. Their first child was Louise, followed by Louis, Harold and Gladys. The family lived in Collins St, Melbourne, where they entertained lavishly and moved in fashionable circles. Louise was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College, and was later president of its Old Collegians’ Association. She attended the Alliance Française, and took private piano lessons, becoming an accomplished player. In 1905, she enrolled at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and went on to win the gold medal of the Royal College of Music, London. At home she worked with the British Music Society of Victoria to support performers and composers, encouraging the publication of musical works. In 1911, Louise Smith married 54-year-old Jimmy Dyer – the ‘linoleum king’. In 1927, before moving to Paris, the Dyers donated £10,000 to support a permanent orchestra in Melbourne. In Paris, Louise established her musical publishing company, Editions de l’Oiseau Lyre, with the intention of publishing the works of Couperin le Grand. The first twelve-volume edition was immensely popular and the company grew quickly, later expanding business to include long-play recordings. James Dyer died in 1938 and the following year Louise married 30-year-old Joseph Birch Hanson, 24 years her junior. The pair left Paris to live in Monaco, where the publishing business continued. Despite her years abroad, Louise Hanson-Dyer retained a distinct attachment to the country of her birth. When she died in 1962, she left the majority of her £241,380 estate to the University of Melbourne. University papers record a bequest of $464,430 in 1988; by 1994 the value of the bequest had risen to over $3 million. This figure comprises the original bequest of Louise Hanson-Dyer together with that of her husband Joseph Hanson on his death nine years later. The bequest was to go toward the publication of a music series. Published resources Book The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Lyrebird Rising: Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre, 1884-1962, Davidson, Jim, 1994 Catalogue Catalogue de la Collection Musicale Hanson-Dyer, Université de Melbourne, Herlin, Denis, 2006 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, 1926-1971. [manuscript] The University of Melbourne, Special Collections [Book of autographs of visitors to Louise Hanson-Dyer] [manuscript] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 20 October 2008 Last modified 19 November 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (ca. 94 min.)??Bearlin, teacher educator, feminist and social activist, speaks of her childhood preparation for feminism especially her strong sense of social justice, Christian influences, how she became involved in teacher education, the problems of science education for girls, the assault in the 1970s on the masculinist philosophy predominating in education, the influences of Jean Blackburn, WEL, Lindsay Connors and others, her development of a socially critical view of knowledge which involved a huge conceptual shift affecting both her personal and political life, the influence of Paolo Freire and Martin Buber, the 1975 Women & Politics Conference, the Commission on the Position of Women in the Church, feminist theology such as the involvement of Dorothy McMahon and others, the relationship between feminism and war, the International Year of Peace, the National Action Plan in Education for Girls, the AIDEX Arms’ Trade Fair, the Australian Centre for Christianity & Culture, the role of St. Marks, her spiritual journey from Presbyterianism to the Quakers, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation Conferences, her success story involving science education for women and girls, the Australian Science Education Research Association (ASERA). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A once-only candidate, Margaret Bradshaw ran for the Liberal Party in the Blue Mountains elections of 1984. Margaret Bradshaw joined the Liberal Party c.1974. She was reported to have conducted her 1984 campaign by telephone from the lounge room of her home. She distributed her literature through the post, saying, “In the mountains, letterboxing is strictly for mountain goats.” She campaigned for better trains and roads, an independent water supply and an immediate start on two new high schools. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 15 September 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "3 digital audio tapes (ca. 145 min.)??Chung Martin talks about her family history and childhood in Hobart, Tas. ; work as the ABC’s China correspondent in Beijing and her publication, “Shouting from China” in 1986 and the focus of her work today. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 September 2018 Last modified 4 September 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "I. MINUTE BOOKS, 1927-1994?II. FINANCIAL RECORDS, 1927-1983?III. CORRESPONDENCE, 1929-1994?IV. PAPERS, 1928-1994?V. PICTORIAL MATERIAL, Date unknown??VI. PRINTED MATERIAL, 1948-1994 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 5 November 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 folder and 1 outsize volume of textual material Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "– [Letter] 1927 February 11, Penola Home Marranboy?- News-sheet from N.S.W. Office with …?- Report on aborigines?- Aboriginal stations and reserves in New South Wales : report /by Archdeacon Stammer?- The inlander map of Australia?- [Address, Sydney? Town Hall, between 1943-1945]?- The Nigger and British Author Details Jane Carey Created 20 February 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Various artefacts including small leather-bound diary containing birthdays, significant events etc.; visitors books from Cliveden; newspaper clippings; photographs. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 November 2005 Last modified 20 January 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Scripts for radio serial entitled Six and silver and Goodluck to the rider. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Joan Kersey is a multi talented woman, passionately interested in politics and social justice. She was an Australia Party candidate in the 1973 New South Wales Legislative Assembly Armidale by-election. Then she represented the Australian Democrats in the House of Representatives elections for Wentworth in 1977, 1980 and 1981 (by-election). Joan Kersey graduated from Sydney University (B.A. Dip. Soc.Studies) and then married an officer in the Royal Navy with whom she had three children. She later completed a M.Litt. at the University of New England. She spent her early married life in Scotland, Malta and New Zealand. When her husband retired from the Navy, they settled on a grazing property near Armidale and she returned to social work. Joan was also active in community organizations such as Save the Children Fund, Family Planning and Zero Population Growth. She joined the Australia Party because its policies of social research, its willingness to accept change and evolve long term plans, and its concern for the individual appealed to her. Her campaign was strongly supported by the party’s founder, Gordon Barton and several prominent members of the party spoke on her behalf in Armidale. Joan Kersey later contested the seat of Wentworth on three occasions for the Australian Democrats. Joan Kersey is the author of High Society; the legislation of illicit drugs (1994), The New Aged; an untapped resource (1997) for which she received her Master of Letters degree, and 2050; a drug odyssey (2002). In 2005 she is writing her memoirs. She is an active member of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, convenor of its fundraising committee, and has also been a member of the Foundation for Drug Law Reform. Her interest in politics is undiminished and she is frequently present at the Sydney institution, Politics in the Pub on Friday nights. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Age no bar to activist's zest for life, Winkler, Peter Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 14 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection documents the years spent by Ann Dalgarno in public life in Canberra, 1955-1980. The largest group of papers consist of agenda, minutes, notes, reports and correspondence of the A.C.T. Advisory Council (1959-1967, 1970-1974). Smaller series relate to the Wives and Widows of Public Servants and Servicemen’s Association; the Foundation for Youth (1970-1979); the Red Hill, Griffith Narrabundah Progress Association (1961-1968); the Nursing Service Agency 91957-1979); the Canberra and District Historical Society; the Phoenix Club; Zonta; the Horticultural Society; the Canberra Geranium and Fuchsia Society; and the Italio-Australian Association. There are also subject files, correspondence, printed material and press cuttings. Author Details Ros Russell Created 1 March 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 sound discs (CD-R) (ca 126 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents include: various papers, publications and newscuttings relating to unions, workforce and wages, especially campaigns and legislation for equal pay for women, women’s issues generally and the Women’s Electoral Lobby. Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 November 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Honourable Justice Pamela Tate was appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 14 September 2010. She was appointed to the role of Solicitor-General for Victoria in 2003, the first woman to receive the appointment, and served in the role until 2010, representing the State of Victoria in constitutional challenges in the High Court of Australia. During her tenure, she was appointed Special Counsel to the Human Rights Consultation Committee that recommended the enactment in Victoria of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities. She is a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and was the Winner, Women Lawyers Achievement Awards (Victoria) in 2010. In June 2007 she was a Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Human Rights, at the London School of Economics. Pamela Tate was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, and graduated from Otago University in 1979 with first class Honours in Philosophy. She received a three-year Commonwealth scholarship from the British Council and undertook postgraduate study in Philosophy under the supervision of Professor Michael Dummett at Oxford University, United Kingdom, graduating with a B.Phil. Pamela returned to New Zealand and taught Philosophy at Otago University before moving to Australia to live. While teaching Philosophy at Monash University, she graduated with a first class Honours degree in Law from Monash University in 1988. She joined the Victorian Bar in 1991, having served as an associate to Sir Daryl Dawson of the High Court of Australia for two years. At the private Bar she specialized in Constitutional law, Administrative law, and the law of trade practices. She appeared regularly in constitutional law cases before the High Court and in constitutional and public law cases before the Supreme Court. In 1999-2000 she was Convenor of the Women Barristers’ Association. She was appointed Senior Counsel in 2002. She is a judicial representative on the External Professional Advisory Committee of the Faculty of Law of Monash University. She is a member of the Judicial Conference of Australia; the Australian Association of Constitutional Law; the Australian Institute of Administrative Law; the Australian Association of Women Judges; the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration; and the International Commission of Jurists. She is a Fellow of Monash University and the Patron of the Australasian Association of Philosophy. Published resources Resource The Honourable Justice Pamela Tate (LLB(Hons) 1988), Monash University, 2016, https://www.monash.edu/alumni/news/awards/fellows/pamela-tate.html Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Justice Tate Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 1 May 2019 Digital resources Title: Pamela Tate Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photographs of Nancy Bird Walton as Commandant, Women’s Air Training Corps, negative of drummer girls of the Aust Women’s Flying Club (later WATC), souvenirs of Red Cross Queen competition, 1941. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A once-only candidate for parliamentary election, Anna Christina Booth stood as an ALP candidate in the Ku-ring-gai 1988 elections. She went on to become a highly successful executive. Anna Booth was educated at Hornsby Girls’ High School and completed a BEc at the University of Sydney. Between 1977 and 1983 and 1984-1985 she was a Research Officer for the Clothing and Allied Trades Union, in 1986-7 she was the Senior Industrial Officer of the union and in 1987 to 1992 she became the first woman Federal Secretary. Anna was also on the Board of the Commonwealth Bank for 10 years and was a member of the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). In 1991 she was the Vice President of the ACTU. She took a leading role in the Tourism Council of Australia and the Breast Cancer Institute of Australia’s Research for Life Appeal. She is a Fellow of the Labour Management Studies Foundation of Macquarie University. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Subject files; Municipal Association of Victoria publications and journals; Australian Council for Civil Liberties material 1948-1954; Abortion Law Reform Association papers. Created 24 October 2018 Last modified 24 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour??Catherine Michelmore was born in Adelaide and was educated at Girton School. She began training at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital after the outbreak of war in 1939. On completion of training Catherine nursed at the Wakefield Street Private Hospital. In 1946 she did midwifery training in Sydney. The following year, on return to the ACH, she set up and conducted the first Preliminary Training School in South Australia. In 1950 she attended the first course for Sister Tutors at the Royal College of Nursing, Australia, in Melbourne and on her return to the ACH was appointed Senior Tutor Sister. In 1957 she went to the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne where she spent a year in the School of Nursing. In 1960 she was appointed Deputy Matron at the ACH, from which post she retired in 1970. Miss Michelmore served as a council member of the Royal College of Nursing, Australia, and in 1965 was National President of the College. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 40 minutes??Heather Schubert, nee Duffield, was born in Stirling, South Australia. She began nursing training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1961. After midwifery training Heather returned to the RAH in charge of the Recovery Ward attached to the operating theatres. This was the beginning of ‘Intensive Care’ nursing, which Heather developed over a number of years. In 1974 she became a nursing supervisor, and in 1976 she was seconded to the South Australian Health Commission to provide education in high technology nursing for staff in country hospitals. At the time of the interview Heather was a nurse educator at the RAH. She was also actively involved in the Critical Care Nurses’ Association. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes 1897-1915; reports 1895-1912; club notices 1897-1907; correspondence 1896-1915; membership lists; rules. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 March 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection comprises papers relating to Chai’s career as an author. There are edited typescripts of her four novels, research notes, correspondence with publishers and editors and folders of publicity material. Correspondents include Bryce Courtenay, Elaine Markson Literary Agency, Headline Book Publishing, John Marsden, Pan MacMillan, Random House, Simon & Schuster and Julia Stiles. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contact to Request permission (as of 2004):?Mrs Daphne Wool?PO Box 1749?Caboolture Qld 4510?Telephone: 07 5498 5737 Fax: 07 5428 7126?Email: stasky@hypermax.net.au Author Details Jane Carey Created 17 December 2004 Last modified 17 December 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Australian Nursing Federation, Victorian Branch was first constituted in 1901 as the Victorian Trained Nurses Association (VTNA). It’s role was to register nurses, introduce a uniform curriculum of training and examination and to establish a benefit scheme for nurses. In 1904 the title was prefixed with ‘Royal’. The registers provide the record of registration numbers and associated details for registered nurses. While the role of registering nurses was the responsibility of the Nurses Board (VA 3144) from 1924, entries continue to appear in these volumes, dating to 1930. It is unclear if these entries were made by the Royal Victorian Trained Nurses Association or whether the register had been transferred to the Nurses Board when it was formed. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2019 Last modified 6 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Vicki Dimond is a faithful member of the Democrats, and a committed community activist. She was the Democrats candidate in the House of Representatives elections for Mackellar in 1996, 1998 and 2001; for Pittwater in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1999 and for the New South Wales Legislative Council in 2003. Vicki was elected to the Pittwater Council from 1999 to 2004. Vicki Dimond was a tireless campaigner on community issues. She was involved in efforts to make Mona Vale Road safer, to upgrade the Warriewood Sewerage Treatment works and worked for better facilities for young people across the northern beaches area. She was committed to a safer and cleaner environment and a tolerant Australia. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour 30 minutes??The interview focusses on Miss Waterhouse’s youth in Blinman prior to her nursing career and the Reverend E. E. Baldwin of the Smith of Dunesk Mission at Beltana. A postcard written by Reverend Baldwin and depicting Miss Waterhouse and her mother is discussed. The interview is in the form of an informal conversation. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Advanced School for Girls consisting of terminal examination results, 1881-1894, and a brief history of the school, 1879-1908. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 March 2019 Last modified 21 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lesa De Leau is a prominent member of the Australian Greens who ran for the Rockdale City Council in 2002 and for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in Rockdale in 2003. Lesa De Leau is a committed member of the Greens, who believes strongly in sustainable development. Her campaign for the Council was based on the slogan Clean Air, Clean water and Clean politics. She is married and has two young children. In 2005 she was the State Convenor of her party. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of meetings, 18 March 1944-8 July 1981; annual reports, 1932-1981; scrap books, 1933-1981; miscellaneous items and News Sheet, 1975-1981. Author Details Jane Carey Created 17 December 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Currently all held privately. In early discussions with the National Library of Australia. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 11 February 2001 Last modified 12 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Julie Hammer was the first woman to command an operational unit in the RAAF, the Electronic Warfare Squadron, and was awarded a Conspicuous Service Cross for that command. She was the recipient of the 1996 Association of Old Crows (Australian Chapter) Award for Distinguished Service to Electronic Warfare. She was awarded the 2001 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Memorial Medal by the Royal Aeronautical Society to recognise her contribution to Australian aerospace and delivered the 2001 Kingsford Smith Memorial Lecture. She is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She was the first woman in the RAAF to become a member of the General List on promotion to Group Captain 1996, and the first serving woman in the history of the Australian Defence Force to be promoted to One Star level, on promotion to Air Commodore in 1999. She served for three years from 1996 to 1998 as one of the Prime Minister’s representatives on the Governor General’s Australian Bravery Awards Council. Julie Hammer completed her schooling in Brisbane and in 1971 was placed 8th in the State of Queensland in the Senior Public (Matriculation) Examination. She joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1977 after completing a B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics at the University of Queensland. Initially an Education Officer, she transferred to the Engineer Branch in 1981 shortly after that employment was opened to women. In her early career as a junior officer, she was a staff member at the Engineer Cadet Squadron, instructed in electronics at the School of Radio, managed deep level maintenance on F-111, Iroquois, Chinook and Canberra aircraft at Amberley, and worked at Headquarters Support Command in the engineering management of avionics equipment for the RAAF fleet. She was promoted to Squadron Leader in June 1985. In 1987, after 16 months study at RAF Cranwell, UK and completion of an M.Sc. in Aerosystems Engineering, Julie Hammer returned to Canberra and served as a technical intelligence analyst in the Joint Intelligence Organisation. She subsequently worked on a major Electronic Warfare project, the P-3C ESM Project, first as project engineer and then, after promotion to Wing Commander, as project manager. In 1992, she assumed command of the Electronic Warfare Squadron in Adelaide and served in that post for three years. Returning to Canberra in 1996 and completing a Graduate Diploma in Strategic Studies at the Joint Services Staff College, Julie Hammer was promoted to Group Captain and again posted into major projects, this time as the Project Director of a number of command and control projects. During this period, she was seconded for four months to serve on the Science and Technology Team of the Defence Efficiency Review. Throughout 1999, she was the sole Australian student at the prestigious Royal College of Defence Studies in London, completing that 12 month course in strategic and international studies with 83 fellow course members from 38 nations. Returning to Australia in December 1999 on promotion to Air Commodore, she assumed duties as Director General Information Services, responsible for the operations and support of Defence’s fixed communications networks and computer systems throughout Australia. In December 2001 she became the Commandant of the Australian Defence Force Academy, where midshipmen and officer cadets from all three Services are provided with a balanced and liberal university education in a military environment. Julie Hammer was the first woman to command an operational unit in the RAAF, the Electronic Warfare Squadron, and was awarded a Conspicuous Service Cross for that command. She was awarded the 2001 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Memorial Medal by the Royal Aeronautical Society to recognise her contribution to Australian aerospace and delivered the 2001 Kingsford Smith Memorial Lecture. She is the only woman in the history of the Australian Defence Force to have achieved ‘starred’ rank. In 2002, she was appointed by the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women to be one of Australia’s Honouring Women Ambassadors. She was awarded the 2003 Alumnus of the Year of the University of Queensland to recognise her contribution to her profession. On 26 January 2004 Air Vice Marshal Julie Hammer was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for exceptional service in the fields of electronics engineering in Defence, and military education as the Commandant of the Australian Defence Force Academy. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Journal Article Engineers in our Community, 2002 Newspaper Article Julie Hammer, Commandant, Wife, Daughter, Engineer, Role model, 2003 Resource Section Julie Hammer - the most senior woman in the Australian Defence Forces, Doogue, Geraldine and Pearcy, Kate [Producer and Researcher], 2002, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lm/stories/s602564.htm Air Vice-Marshal Julie Hammer is UQ's 2003 alumni ace, 2003, http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.phtml?article=4914 Julie Hammer, Air Vice-Marshal, 2002, http://www.alumni.uq.edu.au/index.html?id=11435&pid=273|| Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Julie Hammer, airforce officer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 February 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jessie Street was recognised nationally and internationally for her activism in women’s rights, social justice and peace. Street campaigned for equality of status for women, equal pay, the appointment of women to public office and the election of women to parliament. Co-founder of the New South Wales Social Hygiene Association (1916) and Co-founder (1928) and President of the United Associations of Women, she was the only woman on the Australian delegation to the founding conference of the United Nations in 1945 and established the UN Commission on the Status of Women and the Charter of Women’s Rights. Daughter of Mabel Ogilvie and Charles Lillingston, Jessie was born in India and moved with her family to Yulgilbar on the Clarence River, northern NSW, in 1896. She was schooled in England at Wycombe Abbey School, Buckinghamshire, from 1903, returning to Australia in 1906. She graduated in 1910 with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, and became a founding member of the Sydney University Women’s Sports Association that same year. From here, a long and active career began with attendance at the International Alliance of Women Conference in Rome in 1911, and Geneva in 1914. Jessie worked for the New York Protection and Probation Association in 1915. She joined the Feminist Club the following year, becoming President in 1928 and resigning in 1929. In 1916 she was Co-founder with Annie Golding of the NSW Social Hygiene Association. That same year she married Kenneth Street. The pair were to have four children: Belinda (1918), Philippa (1919), Roger (1921) and Laurence (1926). In 1920, Jessie Street became Secretary of the National Council of Women, NSW, and founding member of the Australian League of Nations Union. She was a member of the Women’s College Council from 1921-50; member of the Women’s League of NSW after its formation in 1926; Foundation Vice-President of the Racial Hygiene Association of NSW in 1926 (renamed the Family Planning Association in 1961); Co-founder of the United Association of Women (UAW) in 1929; and President of the UAW from 1931-42. In 1936, Street was the NSW Vice-President of the Australian Federation of Women Voters. She formed the Council of Action for Equal Pay in 1937, and became President of the Australian Open Door Council the same year. In 1939, Street joined the Australian Labor Party. She was also Australian president of the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR. The following year she took an equal pay case to the Commonwealth Arbitration Court with Nerida Cohen on behalf of the UAW. Jessie Street was a member of the NSW Committee of the International Peace Campaign throughout the 1930s-40s. In 1934 she was awarded the Victorian sesquicentennial prize for her song Australia Happy Isle. Street founded and launched the Australian Women’s Digest in 1941. In 1941 she was also Chair of the Russian Medical Aid Comforts Committee, and in 1942, formed the NSW branch of the Council for Women in War Work. She initiated the national conference which led to the Australian Women’s Charter in 1943. The following year, as the NSW Chair of the Australian Women’s Charter, she led a delegation of 13 women to present the Charter to Parliament. 1943 and 1946 saw two unsuccessful campaigns as Labor candidate for the seat of Wentworth in Sydney, but Street became President of the NSW Peace Council and was the sole woman in the Australian delegation to the founding Conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. She was the founder of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1945, acting as Australian representative from 1945-47, and Vice-President in 1947. Between 1957-67, she campaigned for constitutional change to grant the Aboriginal population the right to vote. Street travelled extensively between 1945-64, visiting Washington, London, Moscow (as an official guest of the Soviet Union), Paris (for the Women’s International Democratic Federation Conference), New Delhi (as guest delegate to the All India Women’s Conference, 1945), and New York (for the Status of Women Commission, January-February 1947 and January 1948). Street was invited to Britain to help organise the World Peace Conference in 1950. She travelled throughout Europe on World Peace business in 1951, attending the Women’s Congress in Copenhagen in 1953. She travelled to Geneva to observe the United Nations; to Vienna for the World Peace Council; to China on the invitation of the China Peace Committee; to Madras in 1955 for the All India Congress for Peace and Asian Solidarity; to Helsinki for the World Assembly for Peace; and to New York to attend the UN General Assembly. She chaired a seminar on the Status of Women in London in 1956. Between 1958-59, Street attended peace conferences in Stockholm and New Delhi. She was involved with the UN Status of Women Commission in New York; the International Assembly of Women in Copenhagen; and the 6th World Conference against A & H bombs in Japan, 1960-61. Jessie Street’s autobiography, Truth or Repose, was published in 1966. In 1989 the Jessie Street National Women’s Library was established in her honour in Sydney, New South Wales. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Truth or Repose, Street, Jessie M. G., 1966 Bird of Paradise, Devanny, Jean, 1945 50 years of feminist achievement : a history of the United Associations of Women, Mitchell, Winifred, 1979 Jessie Street: A Rewarding but Unrewarded Life, Sekuless, Peter, 1978 Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Uphill all the way: a documentary history of women in Australia, Daniels, Kay and Murnane, Mary, 1980 Jessie Street: A revised autobiography, Street, Jessie, 2004 Newtown Tarts: A history of the Sydney University Women's Sports Association 1910-1995, Lilienthal, Sonja, 1997 Edited Book Worth her Salt: Women at Work in Australia, Bevege, Margaret, James, Margaret and Schute, Carmel, 1982 Women at Work, Curthoys, Ann, Spearritt, Peter and Eade, Susan Margaret, 1975 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Biographical register : the Women's College within the University of Sydney, Annable, Rosemary, 1995 Book Section Feminism and Class: the United Associations of Women and the Council of Action for Equal Pay in the Depression, Ranald, Patricia, 1982 Bessie Rischbieth, Jessie Street and the End of First-Wave Feminism in Australia, White, Kate, 1982 Jessie Street, Feminist, Wright, Andree, 1975 Jessie Street: individual rights and the national interest, Gorrell, Richard, Foster, Stephen and Hurford, Emma, c1998 Review Jessie Street: A Rewarding but Unrewarded Life, Radi, Heather, 1979 Jessie Street: A Rewarding but Unrewarded Life, Ranald, Pat, 1982 Journal Article Jessie Street: feminist and socialist, an enigma for her class, Searle, Betty, 1989 2001 Eldershaw Memorial Lecture : founding fathers, dutiful wives and rebellious daughters.[Lecture presented to a Tasmanian Historical Research Association meeting on 10 Apr 2001.], Lake, Marilyn, 2001 Newspaper Article Dynamic Duo turned the tide on injustice, Tony, Stephens, 1997 Article Jessie Street Annual Lunch, Bandler, Faith Dr, 1997 Resource Who was Jessie Street?, Jessie Street National Women's Library, http://www.nationalwomenslibrary.org.au/aboutus/who-was-jessie-street/ Guide to the Papers of Jessie Street, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231546119/findingaid Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Street, Jessie Mary Grey (1889-1970), Radi, Heather, 2002, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160396b.htm Jessie Street, National Archives of Australia, 2018, http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/snapshots/uncommon-lives/jessie-street/life.aspx Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Foundation for Australian Women, 1988-2009 [manuscript] Papers and objects of Bessie Rischbieth, 1900-1967 [manuscript] Research notes: Notes for chapter on Warden of St Paul's College, 1916-44 Papers of Nancy Lutton, 1918-2007 (bulk 1960-2007) [manuscript] Papers of Alexander Gore Gowrie, 1835-1987 [manuscript] Papers of Kylie Tennant, 1891-1989 (bulk 1933-1988) [manuscript] Essays on Jessie Street 1976 [manuscript] Papers of Vivienne Newson, 1942-1971 [manuscript] Papers of Australian Peace Council, 1949-1955 [manuscript] Jessie Street Papers of Shirley Andrews, 1917-2002 [manuscript] Papers of Jessie Street, circa 1914-1968 [manuscript] State Library of South Australia Papers of Janine Haines AM National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jean Thurlow interviewed by Peter Sekuless [sound recording] Shirley Andrews interviewed by Peter Read in the Peter Read collection of interviews conducted for his book entitled, Charles Perkins : a biography [sound recording] Jack and Jean Horner interviewed by Peter Read in the Peter Read collection of interviews conducted for his book entitled, Charles Perkins : a biography [sound recording] Jessie Street interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] Mary Wright interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project [sound recording] Ruby Rich interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] State Library of New South Wales Jessie Street, ca. 1910 / photograph by L. W. Appleby Irina Dunn further papers, 1943-1994 Photographs relating to the United Associations of Women including portrait of Jessie Street, 1936-1949 National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Mrs Jessie Street at the United Women's Conference in San Francisco, 19 May 1945 [picture] / photo by Sam Rosenberg [Portrait of Jessie Street] [picture] / Falk Waverley Library Lady Jessie Street National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra General Social Insurance Scheme. \"Jessie Street\" (Mrs.) Street Jessie M G Plan for community migration Mrs Jessie Street to the Status of Women Commission, New York [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Curtin] Correspondence 'S' [Jim Spain - John Symons, includes representations from Mrs Jessie M Street and 'Thumbs up' Horse Gymkhana poster] [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Holt: Volume 3 of press cuttings as Minister of Immigration, Labour and National Service, includes articles on migrants, employment, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Mrs Jessie Street, Mrs Zara Holt] [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Curtin] Correspondence 'S' Status of women - General - Mrs Jessie Street's co-ordinating agency Status of women - General - Mrs Jessie Street's co-ordinating agency [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Lyons] Correspondence 'S' [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Chifley] Correspondence 'S', Part 4 [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Chifley] Correspondence 'S', Part 5 [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Chifley] Correspondence 'S', Part 2 [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Chifley] Correspondence 'Gr-Gz' [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Chifley] Correspondence 'Stew-Sull' [J Stewart - Mrs Vera Sullivan, includes representations relating to Alfred Stone, 430523 Flight Sgt R S Strickland, letter from Mrs Jessie Street] [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Curtin] Correspondence 'S' [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Curtin] Correspondence 'S' Co-operative immigration from Great Britain - Proposals by Mrs Jessie Street STEET Kenneth Whistler; STREET Jessie Mary Grey; LILLINGSTON Evelyn Mabel Constance versus ARMSTRONG Tancred de Carteret; BUNDOCK Charles Slade; CLARENCE Percy Charies ASIO surveillance photograph of Jessie Street [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Holt] Articles and press statements prepared by Minister prior to 1954 [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Lyons] Correspondence 'S' Mrs Jessie M G Street - Departure from Australia STREET, Jessie Mary Grey OSW - [Office of the Status of Women] - Third National Women's Consultative Concil - Jessie Street, Trust - 1989 Talking History [Episode 2] - [Part 2] Jessie Street: The Disappearing Heroine Talking History [Episode 1] - [Part 1] Jessie Street: The Disappearing Heroine Life Matters - International Year of the Family Report; Home Economics; Jessie Street; Parenting Plan Jessie Street: The Disappointment Heroine [Part 1] Jessie Street: The Disappointment Heroine [Part 1] Interview with Lady Jessie Street by Norma Ferris Street, Jessie Part 1 Street, Jessie Part 2 Street, Jessie Part 3 Street, Jessie Part 4 National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office Mrs. Jessie Street [Forum of the Air] [SZ/21/1] National Archives of Australia, Perth Office Passports of Australian Delegates returning from Warsaw [Communist backed] peace Congress John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library Records of Jessie Street. Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Bill Morrow Papers Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Australasian Book Society -- records, 1949-1975 Feminist Club of New South Wales records, 1928-1973 Series 01: Street family - papers of Sir Philip Street, 1890-1938 United Association of Women - Further Records, 1930-1978 Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 United Association of Women - Records, ca.1930-1970 Florence James - papers, 1890-1993 William Morrow - recordings of addresses given by Jessie Street, and interviews with Jessie Street, 1953-1960 Ros Bowden - interviews conducted for radio programs and documentaries, ca.1975 - 1989 State Library of Western Australia Records, 1960-1991 [manuscript] The University of Melbourne Archives Pethybridge, Eva University of Sydney, Archives Papers of the Sydney University Women's Sports Association Author Details Elle Morrell and Nikki Henningham Created 15 June 2000 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Jessie Street Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 128 min.)??This is the second interview in this series with Nicole Watson. Other interviews were recorded in 2001 and 2016 and are located in the National Library of Australia’s Oral History and Folklore collection at ORAL TRC 4792 and ORAL TRC 6803. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 August 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "45 minutes.??An edited compilation of the five recordings held at PRG 961/7 produced by Barbara Hanrahan’s partner Jo Steele. The compilation ends with a recording of Mozart’s piano concerto no. 13. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Rosetta Jane Birks (née Thomas) was born in March 1856. She joined the Ladies’ Committee of the Social Purity Society which led to her interest in women’s suffrage. She joined the South Australian Women’s Suffrage League, becoming its treasurer. After suffrage was granted she joined the short-lived Woman’s League, working with Catherine Helen Spence, Lucy Morice and others. She was appointed to the board of the Adelaide Hospital in 1896. In 1902 she helped form the National Council of Women as well as becoming president of the Young Women’s Christian Association. She died in 1911. Rosetta Jane Birks (née Thomas) was born in March 1856, one of nine children to William Kyffin and Mary Thomas. When she was twenty three she married her sister’s widower, Charles Birks, and became an affectionate step-mother to her six nieces and nephews. A devout Baptist, she was committed to social reform and joined the Ladies’ Committee of the Social Purity Society. Through her work with the Society she became committed to women’s suffrage and joined the South Australian Women’s Suffrage League, becoming a councillor at her first meeting, and treasurer at her second. When suffrage had been attained she joined the short-lived Woman’s League and worked on its committee with Catherine Helen Spence and Lucy Morice. On election day in April 1896 she woke early so that she could be the first woman in Glenelg (South Australia) to vote. She was appointed to the Board of the Adelaide Hospital in 1896 although soon resigned, along with most other members, over a matter of principle. In 1902 she helped organise the formation of the National Council of Women and became its vice-president. In the same year she became president of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) and re-formed its Traveller’s Aid Society in 1911. Rosetta Birks was president of the Flinders Street Baptist Mothers’ Union. She died in 1911 while presiding over a women’s missionary meeting at the College Park Congregational Church, Adelaide. Published resources Book In her own name : women in South Australian history, Jones, Helen, 1926-, 1986 Journal Article Rosetta Birks' Obituary Archival resources State Library of South Australia Young Women's Christian Association of Adelaide : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Robin Secomb Created 19 April 2004 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc11.135 comprises corporate documents which include correspondence, reports, submissions, grant proposals, administrative and financial records, annual reports, board papers, minutes of meetings, conference papers, newsletters, journals and related ephemera (119 boxes, 3 folio items). Author Details Helen Morgan Created 27 July 2016 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This series consists of the main administrative files concerning the running of the National Advisory Committee (NAC). The majority of the files record the meetings, the administration of the meetings and the subsequent action in respect to submissions. A number of the files serve as personnel files for members of the NAC and are given the members’ names as file titles. These files include records of appointments, correspondence on release from employers for meetings and notifications of meetings, and letters forwarding material.??The consignment list for these records shows only the ‘NAC’ (National Advisory Committee) prefix but some files have ‘W/NAC’ prefix instead. This did not affect the run of numbers. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 22 February 2001 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Irene Longman was the first woman to both stand for and be elected to the Queensland Parliament. She was a member of the Country and Progressive National Party for the electorate of Bulimba from 11 May 1929 to 11 June 1932. Longman moved Address-in-Reply to the Governor’s Opening of Parliament Speech on 21 August 1929. Irene Longman was educated at Sydney Girls’ High School and Redlands (SCEGS) North Sydney. After obtaining a Kindergarten Teaching Diploma she taught at Normanhurst, Sydney Girls’ Grammar School and Rockhampton Girls’ Grammar School. An activist in many women’s organisation Longman was President of the National Council of Women of Queensland from 1920 to 1924; Honorary President Queensland Citizenship League; Honorary President Queensland Association for the Welfare of the Mentally Deficient; Vice-President of the Queensland Branch Lyceum Club; Vice-President of the Queensland Womens’ Peace Movement and Officer of the Creche and Kindergarten Association. Also Longman is responsible for the first Queensland women police officer and for changing the meeting place of the Children’s Court from its meeting place in the precinct of the Police Court. Published resources Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Liberal women : Federation to 1949, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2004 No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 Resource Section Women Members of the Legislative Assembly from 1929, Queensland Parliamentary Library, 2001, http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Parlib/Members/women/IndexWomen.htm Longman, Irene Maud (1877-1964), O'Keeffe, Mary, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100131b.htm Conference Paper A Republic for Women?, Lake, Marilyn, 1999, http://www.wel.org/announce/denoon/99mlake.htm Article Childbearers as Rights-bearers: feminist discourse on the rights of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal mothers in Australia, 1920-50, Lake, Marilyn, 1999, http://www.triangle.co.uk/wht/08-02/ml.pdf Thesis So Hard the Conquering: A Life of Irene Longman, Fallon, Patricia, 2002 Resource Women in the Queensland Parliament 1929-1994, McCulloch, John, 1994, http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/publications/documents/research/backgroundBriefs/1994/BIB27.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Irene Longman, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection OM92-82 Country and Progressive Party Elections Clippings 1926-1935 OM83-01 Ogg, Margaret Ann Manuscript 1824-1962 M 1065 Mamie O'Keeffe Papers 1970s-1980s Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2001 Last modified 8 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers consist of correspondence with people such as Sir Keith Murdoch, Jeannie Gunn and Sir William Creswell, typed and handwritten autobiographical material, booklets on wrestling, wildlife and Rudyard Kipling, photographs, a copy of Victorian Fistiana, 1860, and newscuttings on wrestling. His articles on wildlife from 30 May 1962 to 27 December 1972 can be found in the Weekly Times. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 December 2003 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 audiocassette (approximately 50 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 February 2018 Last modified 22 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Photograph showing Gwendolen Luly in her nurse’s uniform standing with a boy on the verandah of the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, circa 1918-1919.??Gwendolen Luly trained as a nurse at the Alfred Hospital towards the end of World War I and became Theatre Sister there in the 1920’s. She later ran and owned her own Private Hospital, St Clements, on the corner of Southey and Byron Streets St Kilda South. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 27 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "History of Charles Harrod and Harrod family, 1765-1975, by Arnold Brown. Charles Harrod settled on “Warren Farm”, near Swan Hill, 1858; includes application for land in Swan Hill, 1871; survey details of “Warren Farm” by Chas. E. Albrecht, 1871; plan of “Umberumberka”, N.S.W. (west of the Darling), where Henry Raines settled in 1866; history of Clara Victoria Anderson, 1872-1975. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 February 2009 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Files on the Miners’ Federation (particularly the Wonthaggi Branch), Wonthaggi Co-operative Society, C.P.A., A.L.P., the peace movement, Wonthaggi local government; rank and file job bulletins 1933- 1935; “Union Voice”; Australian Coal and Shale Employees’ Federation bulletins/broadsheets, files, minutes, disputes; Wonthaggi Miners’ Union theatre statements and notes; conference material; Trades and Labor Council pamphlets; Wonthaggi Hospital/Pensioners constitution; annual reports and balance sheets; peace movement material; newspaper clippings. Also copies of “Common Cause”, “Midday Times”, “Wonthaggi Sentinel”. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 December 2003 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Family papers comprise correspondence of Nettie, Helen and Aileen Palmer, including letters written by Aileen Palmer during the Spanish Civil War, legal papers, passports and obituaries of Vance, Nettie and Helen Palmer. Correspondence includes letters of Katharine Susannah Prichard, Edith Young, Flora Edlershaw, Eleanor Dark, Guido Baracchi, Frank Dalby Davison, David Martin, Lesbia Harford, Stephen Murray-Smith, Lorraine Salmon, Eric Westbrook, C. Jollie-Smith and Jessie Macleod. Other papers consist of unpublished novels and poems of Aileen Palmer, diary notes, ‘Nettie Palmer’s book’ (1948), family photographs and photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Catherine Ordway is a highly respected sports lawyer, sports administrator, lecturer and consultant. In recognition of her strong reputation for regulatory review in the international sport integrity field, Catherine has recently been awarded an academic appointment at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Victoria as Professor of Practice (Sports Management). As well as her academic appointment, Catherine holds a position as Special Counsel at Snedden Hall & Gallop (SHG Sport) in Canberra. Ordway’s expertise in assisting organisations to strengthen integrity in sport programs has led to her consultancy services being highly sought after by National Anti-Doping Organisations and countries bidding to host Summer or Winter Olympic Games. She is regularly requested to present at conferences and seminars, and to comment in the media on sports law, gender equity and integrity issues. Catherine Ordway has a Bachelor of Arts (Jurisprudence) and Law from the University of Adelaide; a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from the University of South Australia; and a Graduate Diploma in Investigations Management from Charles Sturt University. She has been admitted as a solicitor in the High Court, South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales. Catherine lectures at the Masters level in sports law and sports management subjects: at La Trobe University (risk management), the University of New South Wales (anti-doping), the University of Melbourne (sports integrity and investigations) and the University of Canberra (performance integrity). She has also taught undergraduate sports management units as Senior Lecturer at the University of Canberra. Catherine Ordway is currently completing her PhD in governance, leadership and sports integrity. The Australian Sports Commission has mandated a 40% gender inclusion policy and intends that this should lead to better integrity outcomes. Her research involves gathering data and consulting stakeholders to determine whether this new regulatory initiative is likely to have the desired effect. A former national level handballer, Catherine Ordway has competed for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in rugby union, and at intervarsity level in fencing. Her professional interest in integrity in sport began when, as a solicitor working for Browne & Co from 1997, her primary client was the Australian Olympic Committee. She appeared in over thirty anti-doping hearings, before the Court of Arbitration for Sport or National Sports Dispute Centre, in the lead up to the Sydney Olympic Games. (Catherine understands that she was the first Australian female lawyer to ‘prosecute’ athletes under the relevant anti-doping policies, and remains one of the few women world-wide to do so.) At that time, Catherine had conducted one third of all international anti-doping cases. After living and working in Europe and the Middle East for five years developing national and international anti-doping programs, she returned to Canberra to work at the Senior Executive level at the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA). Ordway has represented and chaired tribunals in sports as diverse as: archery, athletics, baseball, combat sports, cricket, cycling, football, softball and swimming in a variety of selection, anti-doping and code of conduct disputes. Catherine has also served as a board member of Australian Canoeing and Capital Football. Catherine is on the International Sports Law Journal (ISLJ) Editorial and Advisory Board and is an Expert Contributor to the Australian Sports Commission Clearinghouse. Catherine is also an Ethics and Integrity Panel member for Triathlon Australia. AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS Brazilian Olympic Award, as a consultant contributing to the IOC awarding hosting rights to Rio for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), legal paper prize Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association (ANZSLA), legal paper prize Represented WADA at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games in the WADA Outreach team Represented WADA at the 2007 Rio Pan-American Games as a WADA Independent Observer CURRENT (2015) TRIBUNAL AND BOARD MEMBERSHIPS International Sports Law Journal (ISLJ) Editorial Board International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), Medical & Anti-Doping representative for Australia International Cricket Council (ICC) Anti-Doping Panel World Baseball-Softball Confederation (WBSC), Baseball Division, Medical and Anti-Doping Commission [formerly IBAF] -Expert SportAccord Members Doping Hearing Panel West Indies Cricket Board’s Independent Review Board Australian Sports Commission, Clearinghouse, Expert Contributor Triathlon Australia, Ethics and Integrity Panel member Australian & New Zealand Sports Law Association (ANZSLA) Member, 1996- The only lawyer asked by ANZSLA to present in five capital cities as part of the 2013 national roadshow on the Australian Football League and Australian Sport Anti-Doping Authority investigation into the Essendon Football Club: “Doping Issues in Sport and the ACC Report” Women on Boards (WOB) Co-Founder, 2001- The WOB network was co-founded by Ruth Medd and myself to connect interested and talented women with, initially sports, corporate and not-for-profit boards to increase the gender and skills diversity in decision-making. It now has almost 22,000 subscribers from all sectors and industries including rural, mining, and the public service. The network has many qualified, female executives from legal, financial, IT, sales and marketing, human resources, business development and project management backgrounds who Published resources are looking for a Board career. WOB has recently expanded into the UK and Hong Kong. Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Catherine Ordway (with Nikki Henningham) Created 6 October 2015 Last modified 22 May 2018 Digital resources Title: Catherine Ordway Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "I. Shipping reports, Jan. 1917 – Oct. 1918.?II. List of cases distributed to Australian units. A. United Kingdom, Jan. 1917 – Nov. 1918. B. France, Jan. 1916 -March 1917. C. Egypt, Dec. 1916 – Jan. 1919.?III. Summary statements of distributions to various Australian forces, Jan. – June 1917.?IV. Miscellaneous correspondence and reports, Dec. 1917 – Jan. 1919 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 June 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Girls’ Secondary Schools’ Club was formed in Sydney in 1927, registered under that name in 1928 and incorporated as a limited liability company. It provided a meeting place in the city for members of the ex-student unions of, initially, ten independent girls’ schools. Membership rose from 400 in 1928 to 1800 after World War II. The club rooms were initially located in Castlereagh Street until 1930, when the Club relocated to the Gowings building in Market Street, Sydney, where it remained until its closure, due to falling membership and increased costs, in 1994. The Club operated a number of circles such as the Dramatic Circle, the Art Circle, the Debating Circle, the Literary Circle, the Music Circle, and during World War II, the War Work Circle. The Social Committee arranged functions and outings for members. In 1977 the Club published Edith Gent’s history of the Club entitled ‘Fifty years in retrospect: a history of the Girls’ Secondary Schools’ Club Sydney 1927-1977?. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Girls' Secondary Schools' Club, Sydney - records, 1927-1994 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 5 November 2004 Last modified 5 November 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the Australian Army Nursing Service, Irene Drummond was killed by Japanese soldiers during the Banka Island massacre of 1942. The daughter of Cedric and Katherine Drummond, Irene worked as a nursing sister at Millswood, South Australia, before moving to Broken Hill in 1933 to work at the local hospital. She was Deputy Matron there before enlisting in the Australian Army in October 1940. Drummond was appointed to the 2/13th Australian General Hospital (AGH). In 1942, following the sinking of the SS Vyner Brooke en route from Singapore, she was gunned down by Japanese soldiers during the Banka Island massacre. The Drummond Memorial Park was opened in Broken Hill in 1949 in honour of Irene Drummond. Published resources Resource Section Drummond, Irene Melville (1915-1942), Gorrell, Julie, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140039b.htm Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 January 2009 Last modified 12 January 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute book of the Willmore discussion Club, including some descriptive notes and cuttings Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Barbara De Franceschi was awarded the OAM for services to the Broken Hill migrant community. She has two published poetry anthologies. Like both of her parents, Barbara was born in Broken Hill. Her father, Keith, was chief clerk at the Broken Hill and District Hospital. Until she was seven, Barbara and her parents lived in South Broken Hill next door to her grandparents, and Keith commuted to work by bicycle. Barbara attended the Alma School and, when the family moved north, the North Public School. With a Methodist father and a Catholic mother, there was some dispute over her secondary schooling. It was eventually agreed that she would attend St Joseph’s Convent. On leaving school, Barbara worked as a secretary for Czech medical practitioner Dr. Ronai. A kind-hearted but stern man, on his hospital rounds ‘he’d stomp down the passageways puffing his cigar’, Barbara remembers, ‘and the nurses would tremble’. By the late 1950s Barbara was a regular attendee at Broken Hill’s Italian Club dances. There she met Giacomo (Jack) De Franceschi, and she married him in February 1960. Though Broken Hill had a well-established migrant population incorporating Yugoslav, Italian, Greek and Maltese communities, Barbara’s father was somewhat wary of this ‘new Australian’, but he quickly warmed to Jack and came to see him as the ‘golden head boy’. As young men, the De Franceschi brothers – Jack, John, Cesare, and later Dino – had taken daily English lessons and established a business in Thomas Lane, Broken Hill, doing joinery, carpentry and cement work. In 1965 they were awarded the contract to build railway bridges along the Adelaide Road and Barbara accompanied her husband along with her first two children, Anthony and Liam. For eighteen months, living first in a converted bus and then in an isolated hut, Barbara managed to cook regular meals for her own family and up to seventeen men. Back in Broken Hill, she and Jack were spending weekends making bricks and building a family home. They worked on the house for seven years before finally moving into it in 1968. Jack had been one of nine children, while Barbara was an only child and was keen to have a large family of her own. They had five children in all: Anthony, Liam, Dienna, Kristen and Sheridan. In 1971 the family made the journey to Italy to revisit Jack’s family and birthplace. The De Franceschi brothers in Broken Hill remained in business together until 1987. Jack and Barbara subsequently bought an earth-moving business which they named Piave Sand and Earthmoving after the river that flowed through Jack’s home town in Italy. From the time of her marriage, Barbara was involved with the Italian Community Club (later the Italo-International Club) and surrounded by the stories of the Broken Hill migrant community: ‘it’s their history, and it’s Broken Hill’s history’, she says. In 2000, she instigated the formation of a group to help preserve these stories and the Migrant Heritage Committee was born. With the help of her committee, Barbara conducted a five year campaign for funding and found support from the Community Relations Commission, the Migrant Heritage Centre of New South Wales, and the Broken Hill City Council. Local historian Christine Adams was employed to research and produce her book, Sharing the Lode, and a migrant heritage museum was installed in Blende Street as part of the Railway Museum. In recognition of her work Barbara received an Australia Day Citizenship Award in 2001 presented by Broken Hill City Council and subsequently on the Queen’s Birthday in 2002 she was awarded an OAM for her services to the community particularly in the area of multiculturalism. From the year 2000, Barbara also began to take more seriously her lifelong love of literature and writing. A number of poems were published in a local anthology, and she received a call from Adelaide editor Geoff Sanders to join his writers’ group. With guidance from Geoff, Barbara went on to perform and publish her poetry in many different forums. Today she has two published anthologies – Lavender Blood and Strands – and her readings have been broadcast on ABC Radio National’s Poetica program. Her work has appeared in literary journals, newspapers, anthologies and e-zines in five different countries. With Geoff Sanders and Alan Duffy, Barbara belongs to the poetry performance group, the Silver-Tongued Ferals. Published resources Book Lavender Blood, De Franceschi, Barbara, 2004 Sharing the Lode: The Broken Hill Migrant Story, Adams, Christine, 2004 Strands, De Franceschi, Barbara, 2009 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (these records may not be readily available) Interview with Barbara De Franceschi Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 January 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This item is a list of names and addresses of women to whom letters were sent soliciting donations for the Margaret Ogg Memorial Fund. In the left hand margin are noted sums donated by the woman whose name appears on the right, or other notes, such as ‘deceased’, explaining a non-donation. The Fund was established at the Jubilee Celebration of the League to recognise Margaret Ogg’s outstanding service. Money raised was used to assist women seeking election at local, state or federal level, and successful candidates were to repay the donation to benefit other women. Candidates assisted by this fund included Senator Annabelle Rankin, Senator Kathy Martin, Mrs Petronel White and Mrs Warner (the latter two ladies to Council). Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Based in Canberra from 1911 to 1916 while her husband was an instructor at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, Nina Macartney was a committee member of the Federal Territory War Fund from August 1914. Born on 20 Oct 1884, Alexandrina Vans ‘Nina’ Macartney (nee Zichy-Woinarski), was the first of seven children (5 girls and 2 boys) born to Flora Dundas ‘Teeyah’ Robertson (1860-1939) and Dr Stanislaus Emill Antony Zichy-Woinarski (1857-1920), medical practitioner, of Ballarat, Victoria. She married Captain Henry Dundas Keith Macartney (1880-1932) at St Peter’s Anglican Church, Mornington, Victoria, on 18 December 1912; they had no children (‘Mainly About People’, 1912, p. 3; ‘Personal News’, 1912, p. 5; ‘Family Notices’, 1912, p. 8). Nina’s husband was attached to the instructional staff of the newly founded Royal Military College, Duntroon, from 1911 until 1916, when he embarked for overseas service, and again from 1919. There is no record of where Nina lived during her husband’s service overseas. In August 1914, soon after Britain declared war against Germany in August 1914, Nina attended a meeting of women residents of Canberra and the Federal Territory convened by the Jane Miller, wife of the Federal Territory Administrator and Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs. Jane Miller told the assembly she wished to initiate a movement ‘for the purpose of helping our soldiers and sailors who are at the present moment on active service upholding the British Empire in the great war now… and for relieving distress amongst the relations of soldiers and sailors or the poor.’ She proposed a division of districts each with a representative who would appeal for funds and distribute collecting boxes. All contributions were to be strictly voluntary. She suggested money collected be sent to swell the War Food Fund that had been established by the Sydney Chamber of Commerce. The War Food Fund served two purposes: to help soldiers, and to benefit Australian workers on the home front by purchasing Australian produced foodstuffs and products thus providing employment at a time when work might become very scarce. The Queanbeyan Age reported that the women present enthusiastically approved Jane Miller’s scheme and appointed a committee that included Nina Macartney: ‘Mesdames Miller, Broinowski, Piggin, and Brown, of Canberra; Mesdames Macartney and Barnard of the Royal Military College; Mrs. E. G. Crace, of Gininderra, and Mrs. Sheaffe, of Tharwa.’ (‘Patriotic Fund Canberra’, 1914, p. 2). Nina’s and Jessie Barnard’s work appears to have been behind the scenes. In illustration of the hierarchy of military life, it is Ida Parnell, who is mentioned at Duntroon’s fundraising social events. Nina died in Balmain, New South Wales, Australia on 27 March 1965. Published resources Book Duntroon, the Royal Military College of Australia, 1911-1986., Coulthard-Clark, C. D., 1986 The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918: Australia during the war, Scott, Ernest, 1938 Newspaper Article Patriotic Fund, 1914, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31402795 Mainly About People, 1913, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article79937923 Personal News, 1912, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53283741 Family Notices. Weddings, 1912, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146180048 Resource Section Macartney, Henry Dundas (1880-19320, Johnson, Donald H., 2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/macartney-henry-dundas-7291/text12645 Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Niki Francis Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Publication info [Canberra, A.C.T.] : Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing and Local Government Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Housewives Association of New South Wales was founded in 1918 largely due to the efforts of the artist Portia Geach. Influenced by a meeting of a housewives’ association she had attended in New York in 1917, on her return to Sydney she formed and was first president of a similar organisation in her own state. The Association initially aimed to educate women in the principles of proper nutrition and to combat profiteering and rising food prices. It soon broadened its interests, becoming a considerable lobbying force on issues affecting women and children generally. The Association had wide affiliations from its earliest years – including the Parks and Playgrounds Association, Health Week, National Trust of Australia, National Council of Women, Town Planners’ Association, United Nations Associations of Sydney and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. In 1928 Geach reorganised the association as the Housewives’ Progressive Association. In 1938 the Housewives’ Progressive Association was incorporated under the chairmanship of Eleanor Glencross with Geach a director. Their rivalry led to the expulsion in 1941 of Portia and four others, who alleged that the association had been working in cooperation with the Meadow-Lea Margarine Co. Pty Ltd. In 1947 she formed the breakaway Progressive Housewives’ Association. The original organisation continued in a somewhat reduced form. Published resources Newsletter The Housewife: the official journal of the Housewives' Association of N.S.W., Housewives Association of New South Wales, 1933-1982? Journal Article From \"Thrift\" to \"Scientific Spending\": The Sydney Housewives' Association between the Wars, Foley, Meredith, 1984 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Mary Wright interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project [sound recording] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Australian Housewives Association of NSW - further papers, 1972-1984 Australian Housewives Association of NSW records, 1964-1985 Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 December 2004 Last modified 9 December 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Catherine Martin won two Oscars for costume design and art direction (Moulin Rouge) at the 2002 Academy Awards. At the 2001 Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards she was the winner of the ‘GMD AFI Award for Best Production Design’ and joint winner of ‘The Kirketon AFI Award for Best Costume Design.’ Martin worked in costume design at the Stables Theatre in Sydney’s Kings Cross before completing her Diploma of Design at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1998. At NIDA Martin met her husband, film director Mark Anthony (Baz) Luhrmann, and the pair were married on 26 January 1997. Martin’s costume/production credits include: La Boheme, Strictly Ballroom, Romeo & Juliet (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award) and Moulin Rouge. Published resources Resource Section Catherine Martine : Biography, http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/detail/celeb/187459 Newspaper Article A Designing Woman, Romei, Stephen, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 March 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Service record book kept by Lily Waterson during her service in the Australian Women’s Land Army. It records periods of training and leave, clothing issued and work in orchard at Yarrawonga, Victoria. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers in MS 7285 document the extraordinary range of a “man of letters” who was often researching and writing three or four books simultaneously, while at the same time compiling anthologies, editing magazines and attending conferences. They include correspondence, diaries, newspaper cuttings, photographs, drafts of poems, articles and books, minutes and memorandums from various publishing houses such as Sun Books and Penguin Books, journals and monographs. The correspondents include Patrick White, Russell Drysdale, David Campbell, Alister Kershaw, George Bailey, Helen Blackburn, David Foster, Professor Norman A. Jeffares, Walter Crocker, Jeffrey Smart, Donald Kerr, Richard Aldington, Roy Campbell, Manning Clark, A.D. Hope, Barry Humphries, Bob Brissenden, Judah Waten and Hal Missingham (164 boxes, 4 security binders, 10 fol. boxes, elephant folios). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents include educational certificates/identification documents (1893-1932); letters received, including three letters from the National Council of Women of New South Wales (1923-1942); photographic prints (1870s-1900s); and miscellaneous items (1857-1950s?). Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises two scrapbooks of press clippings, an address book, five small diaries containing quotes, typed article entitled “A plan for Sir Edward Holden”, letter from Lorna Fielden to Edna Walling, and eight letters from Edna Walling to her mother. Material dates from the periods 1937-1938 and 1960-1964. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 September 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elected to the Senate for South Australia in 1984 (Liberal Party), Amanda Vanstone was appointed Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women on 30 January 2001. Amana Vanstone was honoured with an AO in the Australia Day Honours list in 2020 for distinguished service to the Parliament of Australia, to the people of South Australia, and to the community. Vanstone obtained a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Adelaide, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and a Marketing Studies Certificate form the South Australian Institute of Technology. She began her career as a retailer, and worked in wholesaling before becoming a solicitor. Since entering Federal Parliament, Vanstone has been appointed Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (11 March 1996 to 9 October 1997); Minister for Justice (9 October 1997 to 21 October 1998); and Minister for Justice and Consumer Affairs (21 October 1998 to 30 January 2001). She has been a Member of the Cabinet and the Legal Committee of the Cabinet; Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition; Shadow Special Minister of State; and spokesperson on the Status of Women. She was involved in the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse. Married to Tony, she is a supporter of the RSPCA. Published resources Resource Section The Hon. Amanda Vanstone, Senator for South Australia, Australian Parliament House, http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/senators/homepages/ Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone: Minister for Family & Community Services; Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women, Department of Family and Community Services, http://www.ofw.facsia.gov.au Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources AIATSIS Pictorial Collection Opening of a Memorial to the Stolen Generations Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 November 2001 Last modified 5 March 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1868 Bishop Sheil of Adelaide requested the assistance of the Dominican Sisters of Cabra to set up a secondary school for the daughters of the early white settlers of Adelaide, South Australia. A school, with provision for boarders, opened at Franklin Street Adelaide in 1869. The school continues to exist today at different premises and under the name of Cabra Dominican College. Financially challenged, almost from the outset, the Dominican Sisters of Cabra in South Australia experienced anxiety and upheaval, particularly at the time of Mary McKillop’s excommunication in 1871. When both Bishop Sheil and Mother Theresa Moore died in 1872, the seven sisters thought seriously about heading back to their homeland, Ireland. Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin urged the Irish Cabra Sisters to send out their best nuns to save the faltering foundation. Sisters Columba Boylan and Catherine Kavanagh arrived in Adelaide in 1875. Under their capable leadership the order was revived. Cabra College and Boarding School were opened in 1886, St. Roses, Kapunda 1892, Star of the Sea, Semaphore 1899, Holy Rosary Convent, Glenelg 1902, Mount St. Catherine Mt. Lofty 1947, St. Albert’s Loxton 1956, Holy Cross Convent Ringwood, Victoria 1960. To all of these convents, schools were attached both on the convent sites and in the adjoining parishes. Today all these convents have been closed and in some cases the schools have taken them over. Cabra has a new convent for the Sisters and other houses have been opened as new challenges and apostolates emerge. Published resources Resource Section Sophia, women's spirituality newsletter, 2006, http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=814 Book Veritas : souvenir of golden jubilee of Dominican Nuns in South Australia, 1868-1918, 1918 Living the truth : the Dominican Sisters in South Australia 1868-1958, Northey, Helen, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Dominican Sisters of Cabra Archives of the Dominican Sisters of Cabra Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 June 2009 Last modified 6 August 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "These are files collected by ASIO. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 September 2009 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection consists of newspaper clippings (1936-1954) mainly reviews of Eleanor Dark’s novels, and letters (1923-1974) from a number of the prominent Australian literary figures of the period. The correspondents include Manning Clark, Kate Baker, Jean Devaney, Flora Eldershaw, Mary Gilmore, Vance and Nettie Palmer, Miles Franklin, Eric Lowe, Marjorie Barnard, Ethel Turner, Xavier Herbert, Frank Dalby Davison, Brian Fitzpatrick, Alec Chisholm, Kylie Tennant, Meta Mackan, Ruth Park, Ethel Curlewis, C.B. Christesen. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 October 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "One manuscript and 3 typescript copies of Prof. Mann’s book: Culture, race, climate and eye?disease. Author Details Clare Land Created 13 May 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Amelia Butler lived and worked in Tenterfield, NSW during the 1890s. Although she went on to become a successful studio photographer based in Sydney, Butler is best known for the photographs she took of Tenterfield and the surrounding districts in the 1890s. There is some uncertainty around the photographer Amelia Butler’s identity after marriage. She was either Amelia Morris (née Butler, 1879-1941) or Amelia Brauer (née Butler, 1885-c.1914-1917), both of whom were born and married in Tenterfield (Design and Art Australia Online). Her father, Alfred B. Butler, was a photographer who migrated to New South Wales from England and began working for the NSW Government. In 1886 he was commissioned to travel to Tenterfield, near the border of Queensland, to document the building of the Sydney to Queensland railway line. Following this expedition he decided to move back there and establish his own photographic studio. Amelia was the only daughter in the family and was chosen by her father, ahead of her brothers, to follow in his footsteps; she began her apprenticeship with him at an early age. Her earliest work can be found in four photo albums that she and her father produced. The well-composed, ‘richly toned’ work shows her strong technical ability and creativity (Hall 27). Butler’s photography includes signed portraits, cartes-de-visite and views that document station life, Indigenous peoples and the local landscape. One of her photographs, Snowfall, 1895, captures a rare meteorological occurrence when it snowed in the town. A group of people are gathered together enjoying the occasion, with one figure holding a tripod and camera posing for Butler’s camera. When her father retired she took over his studio, even though one of her brothers had also become a photographer. Although Amelia married and had five (possibly more) children, she continued working as a photographer and running the studio. She eventually moved to Sydney and established a studio there; her brother took over the Tenterfield studio, which he renamed ‘Butler Brothers.’ Amelia is said to have returned to Tenterfield in 1934 with her camera. Amelia died in 1941, aged 62. Collections Collection of the Tenterfield and District Historical Society Museum, Tenterfield, New South Wales State Library of Victoria Events 1970 - 1940 Published resources Book The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900., Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter, 1986 Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Resource Section Amelia Butler, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/amelia-butler/ Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 10 November 2016 Last modified 13 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Irene Goonan stood as an Independent candidate in the Legislative Assembly seat of Doncaster at the Victorian state election, which was held on 25 November 2006. Irene Goonan was the first female president of the Australian Retailers’ Association and spent eight years on the State Minister for Small Business Advisory Council. She has served for fifteen years as a Councillor for the City of Manningham and has held the position of mayor on two occasions. She has also served on the Melbourne City Council. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 13 August 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interview with Lyla Elliott, conducted by Ronda Jamieson. Topics include: Elliott’s involvement with the Australian Labour Party, her role as secretary to Joe Chamberlain from 1952, and her membership of the Legislative Council in Western Australia from 1971-1986.??Added Author . Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Maureen Watson was born in Rockhampton in 1930. Of Biri descent, spent her early life in rural Queensland, moving to Brisbane with her five sons in 1970. She became heavily involved in the struggle for indigenous right and justice throughout the 1970s and 80s, as her participation in protests at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games testified to. She developed a well deserved reputation as a storyteller, her major medium for the promotion of Aboriginal culture. Maureen Watson was born in 1931 in Rockhampton, Queensland, of Biri descent. She spent her early life in rural Queensland, left school at 13, married, and had five children. She later returned to school and matriculated, and then moved to Brisbane with her five sons to begin an arts degree at the University of Queensland in 1970. She completed two years of her course before the pressures of raising a family forced her to quit. Over succeeding years, she emerged as a poet, singer, actor and political activist. Moving to Sydney, she set up the Aboriginal Peoples Gallery in Redfern in 1981. She was at the forefront of the Aboriginal protests against the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane in 1982, and was arrested three times while participating in demonstrations. Black Reflections, a collection of her stories and poems, was published in 1982, followed by Kaiyu’s Waiting, a school kit of children’s stories, in 1984. She was the narrator for Robert Bropho’s film, Mundu Nyuringu, in 1983, and she appeared in Jack Davis’ play, The Honey Spot, in its 1986 tour of Victoria and New South Wales. Storytelling remained her major medium for promoting Aboriginal culture, and she has travelled widely in Australia, New Zealand and Europe to give storytelling presentations. Her stories told about the Aboriginal experience of urban life. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Book My Mob: The Story of Aboriginal Family Life, Barlow, Alex, 2001 Honourable Grandmother, Barron, Kevin, 1999 Journal Article But Most Certainly I am Aboriginal / Maureen Watson Speaks to Bronwen Levy, Watson, Maureen and Levy, Bronwen, 1991 Black Child: I, Too, Am Human, Watson, Maureen, 1977 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Nikki Henningham Created 20 September 2004 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Joined Girl Guides in 1932, lifetime involvement, especially with guides in the Swanbourne area. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letters to the University of Queensland relating to Mary Gilmore, Ernestine Hill, and Miss Foster’s own work. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 15 November 2016 Last modified 28 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 film reel (23 min.). Sydney : Richard Mitchell Productions for the Girl Guides Association, 1975???Shows a wide range of guiding activities stressing the changed image of guiding and how it has adapted to modern ideas. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Eilean Giblin (born Burton) arrived in Australia in 1919 with a shipload of war brides following her marriage the previous year to AIF officer Major L F Giblin, DSO, MC. She came with a commitment to women’s rights and social justice developed through the suffrage movement and left-wing social and political circles in London. During the next three decades in three Australian cities she worked to advance her feminist, humanitarian and educational ideals. In Hobart in the 1920s she campaigned for ‘equal citizenship’; in Melbourne in the 1930s she led a committee that built and opened University Women’s College; in Canberra during the Second World War she was one of small minority who championed the cause of the enemy aliens deported on the Dunera, This is recorded in her wartime diary which is a unique social record and a powerful witness to the immense suffering and futility of war. She was a pioneer Canberra potter some of whose work is in the National Gallery of Australia. Eilean Mary Burton was born at East Molesey on 6 August 1884 into an affluent London family, the third of six children and the only daughter of Ada Maude (born MacRae) and Edward Pritchard Burton. Her father was joint owner with his brother of a prosperous tobacco manufacturing business, Pritchard and Burton, in the City of London. Eilean was educated at Wycombe Abbey, from 1899 to 1902, a school founded in 1895 by the famous educationist Dame Frances Dove who saw education as a preparation for a life of service and public duty. Australian feminist, Jessie Street was also educated at Wycombe Abbey. After a year in Paris studying painting Eilean Burton returned to London to train as a social worker at the United Girls’ School Settlement (later known as the Peckham Settlement) in Camberwell, one of the poorest parts of south London. At the Peckham Settlement she worked with the Apprenticeship Committee and the Children’s Care Committee. Later the Children’s Care Committee was taken over by the London County Council and Eilean worked for the Council as Assistant Organiser of Children’s Care. Already radicalised by her work with severely deprived children living in acute poverty, Eilean also came under the influence of the Pankhurst-led militant suffrage movement, the Women’s Social and Political Union, through her aunts Georgina and Helen MacRae. Both were imprisoned on separate occasions in Holloway Gaol following violent suffrage demonstrations; Helen was one of the women prisoners who was force fed. In 1913 Eilean visited Australia, a country of interest as female suffrage had been achieved so early. As she travelled around Australia she took a variety of jobs, including as shearers’ cook in outback Queensland, recording her adventures in a manuscript which she hoped would be published. In Tasmania, through mutual contacts in the Bloomsbury Group and the Fabian Society, she met Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin, an orchardist, a Labour Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, and a member of a well-known Tasmanian establishment family. By 1917 both were involved in the First World War, Giblin on the Western Front as an officer in the in the AIF’s Tasmanian 40th Battalion and Eilean in an industrial relations job with the British Ministry of Labour. Their correspondence reveals both to be out of sympathy with the Allied prosecution of the war, censorship and restrictions on free speech. They married at the Kingston-on Thames registry office on 29 July 1918 when Giblin was convalescing after he had been wounded for the second time. A few weeks later he was again seriously wounded. Eilean travelled to Australia on a war-bride ship HMAT Katoomba landing in Melbourne in 22 September 1919. In the next three decades she followed her feminist agenda in three cities as her husband moved from positions as Tasmanian Government Statistician to Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne then to Canberra to chair the Federal Government’s Financial and Economic Committee which had a major role in running the war economy. In Hobart Eilean became an office holder in the Women’s Non-Party Political League (WNPPL) whose main aim was ‘equal citizenship’ which involved changing society to recognise the right of women to economic independence through equal pay and motherhood endowment; the right of women to retain their nationality after marrying a man of a different nationality; to be appointed to public boards and as justices of the peace; the right to an equal moral standard; and encouragement to women to stand for parliament. In 1923 Eilean represented Tasmanian women at the Ninth International Woman Suffrage Congress in Rome where she worked with the committee on the Nationality of Married Women. In 1924 she was appointed to the Hobart Hospitals Board, the first appointment of a woman to a such a position in Tasmania. In 1928 she represented the WNPPL at the Federal Government’s Royal Commission on Child Endowment or Family Allowances. She put the League’s case for child endowment, financed by the Federal Government through taxation with all payments to be made to the mother. She drew particular attention to the plight of widows and deserted wives with dependent children and the high rate of maternal mortality. The Government accepted the majority report that child endowment would be too costly. It was not introduced into Australia until 1941. In the 1930s after she moved to Melbourne, Eilean chaired a committee that worked to establish an independent non-denominational women’s college at the university, a longed-for goal since the committee was first established in 1917. In a few years under her leadership a site was secured, funds raised, a college built and an interim principal found. She also negotiated affiliation with the University of Melbourne on the same terms as the existing men’s colleges. At the start of the 1937 academic year, University Women’s College (now University College) was ready to accept its first students and later in the year, as chair of the College Council, Eilean welcomed Lady Gowrie, wife of the Governor General, when she officially opened the College. Early the following year in London, she took a major role in the selection of Dr Greta Hort as the first permanent principal. In April 1938 after the College had been established as a statutory incorporated body, Eilean was formally elected as President of the College Council. She resigned from this role when she moved to Canberra in 1940 but she remained a member of Council and travelled to Melbourne to attend meetings when possible. Soon after she arrived in Canberra in 1940, Eilean became involved in supporting the internees deported from Britain to Australia on the Dunera. This was part of a move by the British Government, under threat of German invasion, to deport to Commonwealth countries those classified as enemy aliens, many of whom were Jewish refugees from Nazism. When Eilean discovered there was not a great deal of sympathy for the internees among women in Canberra, she decided to visit the Hay internment camp alone to visit some prisoners whose plight had aroused considerable support in Britain. This involved an arduous journey in her small Morris car to Junee then by two trains to Hay where eventually she was able to talk with the prisoners and record the conditions in the camp in her diary, now in the National Library. Her diary is a powerful witness to the tragedy and futility of war. It is the only record of its kind of wartime Canberra and is a rich source for the social, political and environmental history of the city. It conveys the immediacy of events, moments in time undiluted by later insight or judgment, as she records the shock of the lightning advance of the Japanese through Asia; the fear of invasion; the stratagems for coping with war regulations, restrictions and rationing; and snatches of conversation, from all levels of society and government, as the nation faced a crisis. Prime ministers, politicians, diplomats, public servants, and many Canberra residents of those years, flit through its pages, brought to life in a personal and intimate way. As the war raged, Eilean Giblin became a pioneer potter in Canberra establishing a studio pottery and training other women. She regarded pottery as therapeutic distraction from her anguish at the enormous loss of life and the destruction of war. She believed that she was creating objects of beauty and utility while the rest of the world was destroying so much, even civilisation itself. Some examples of her pottery, much of which was sold to raise funds for war-time charities, are in the National Gallery of Australia. A few years after the death of her husband in Hobart in 1951, Eilean Giblin returned to England to live with family members. She died on 4 October 1955 aged 71. Her life, while unique, was also typical of the lives of many of the largely unacknowledged feminists in the years between the headlines of the suffrage campaigns and the liberating influences of second wave feminism. Her life in Australia was directed to achieving incremental, unspectacular but important advances in changing the society in which women lived. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book The Australian Federation of Women's Societies, The Australian Federation of Women's Societies, 1924 Eilean Giblin: A feminist between the wars, Clarke, Patricia, 2013 Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 March of Australian women : a record of fifty years' struggle for equal citizenship., Rischbieth, Bessie Mabel, 1875-1967., 1964 Capital women : a history of the work of the National Council of Women (A.C.T.) in Canberra, 1939-1979, Stephenson, Freda, 1992 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin 1885-1965 [manuscript] Papers of Loma Rudduck, 1944-1968 [manuscript] Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Talk given for the Anne Mackenzie Oration Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 May 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Rose Simmonds was a Brisbane-based photographer who was the only female member of the Queensland Camera Club. She consistently won prizes in competitions run by the club and by the Australasian Photo-Review. She worked in the Pictorialist style from 1926-1932, using the bromoil process to achieve romantic effects, and in the Modernist style from 1933-1940. Rose Simmonds was a Brisbane-based photographer who was an active member of the Queensland Camera Club. From 1926-1932 she worked as a Pictorialist, and then from 1933-1940 her style was Modernist. She exhibited nationally and was made an associate member of the Royal Photographic Society of London. Rose Simmonds was born in Islington, London in 1877. She was the second daughter of Millice Culpin, a medical doctor, and her mother was Hannah Louisa Munsey, née Muncey. The family migrated to Brisbane, Australia in 1891, her father setting up a medical practice at Taringa. Rose was educated at the Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School and went on to study art at the Brisbane Technical College. She married John Howard Simmonds on 30 March 1900 and they had two sons. John Simmonds was a stonemason who made a point of photographing the tombstones he worked on. He used a large-plate camera and set up a darkroom in the family home, where he developed and printed his photographs. Rose began assisting him with the photography side of the business and it was not long before she began taking and processing photographs herself. Initially, they were just snapshot photographs of the children, but a lifelong passion had been ignited and she was soon trying her hand at other subjects. From the late 1920s she was an active member of the Queensland Camera Club, being the only woman among the 14 members. She participated in excursions and presentations organised by the Queensland Camera Club, where an exchange of ideas and creative techniques was fostered. Rose Simmonds began entering her photographs in the monthly competitions that were organised by the Queensland Camera Club and the Australasian Photo-Review (APR and consistently won prizes for her entries. By 1928 she had been elected onto the Queensland Camera Club’s committee. From 1926 to 1932 she worked in the new international style of Pictorialism, her subject matter including portraiture, still life and landscape. Like so many other Pictorialists, she experimented with soft focus and dramatic lighting, but her images were of a particularly high technical standard. She was especially fond of the bromoil process, which she used to create romantic effects. On more than one occasion her works from this period were reproduced in the APR. However, after 1933 her style changed as she came under the influence of modernist photography. Gone was the soft focus and representational approach; instead, she worked in a semi-abstract style using both man-made structures and nature to explore light and shade. Her photograph, Last Rays on the Sand Dunes 1939-1940, is representative of this style, the image capturing the soft undulating ripples of the sand dunes but removing them from any specific geographical or temporal context. As with her Pictorialist phase, she continued to be recognised for her outstanding technical ability during this time. From 1932 Simmons participated in exhibitions organised by the Photographic Society of New South Wales. She also participated in exhibitions organised by the Professional Photographers’ Association of New South Wales and the Sydney Camera Circle in 1938. Her first solo exhibition was held in Brisbane in 1941. She became an associate of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain in 1937 and her work was included in an exhibition of Pictorialist photography held in Adelaide in 1940. Rose Simmonds died on 3 July 1960 in Auchenflower, Brisbane, Queensland. Technical Rose Simmonds was noted for her technical skills including her clever use of the bromoil process. Collections John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland Queensland Art Gallery Picture Queensland, State Library of Queensland Events 1926 - 1932 1933 - 1940 1932 - 1932 Rose Simmonds’ work featured in the Photographic Society of NSW Exhibition 1938 - 1938 Rose Simmond’s work featured in the Sydney Camera Circle exhibition 1938 - 1938 Rose Simmond’s work featured in the Professional Photographers’ Association of New South Wales exhibition. 1940 - 1940 Rose Simmonds’ work featured in a Pictorial photography exhibition in Adelaide, SA. 1941 - 1941 A solo exhibition of Rose Simmonds’ work Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Simmonds, Rose (1877-1960), Bradbury, Keith, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/simmonds-rose-11691/text20893 Rose Simmonds, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rose-simmonds/ Book A Complementary Caste: A Homage to Women Artists in Queensland, Past and Present, 5 November-4 December 1988, The Centre Gallery, Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, Larner, Bronwyn, Considine, Fran and Centre Gallery, 1988 Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Photograph Rose Simmonds, Queensland Photographer, 1905?, http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/167816705 Exhibition Catalogue Queensland Pictorialist Photography 1920-1950, Exhibition Catalogue, Smith, Sue, 1984 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Rose Simmonds Papers 1902-1941 4570 Rose Simmonds Photographs; Louis Wilhelm Karl Wirth and Hubert Jarvis [Works of Art] Undated State Library of Victoria [Victorian Salon of Photography : Australian Gallery File] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 1 November 2016 Last modified 2 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "QFX22816, LIEUTENANT SYLVIA MUIR, AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE. SISTER MUIR WAS ATTACHED TO THE 2/13TH AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL IN SINGAPORE. SHE SURVIVED THE SINKING OF THE SS VYNER BROOKE AND THREE YEARS AS A POW OF THE JAPANESE. (LENT BY MRS SYLVIA MCGREGOR) Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1881 – 1940; Correspondence, including letters from : R.Wilson (1881); brother Arthur Fry (1886); Marie L.Farquharson, state secretary of the National Council of Women of NSW (1928); brother Walter Fry (1936); with letters (2) from Edith to Walter Fry (1936); copy of letter to the editor, Sydney Morning Herald, from Walter Fry with an obituary for Edith (1940). (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 9)?1912 – 1940; Miscellaneous papers, including : address from the Women’s Club (1909); newscuttings re Edith Fry and the NCW of NSW (1912-1927); ‘An Appreciation’ by Mrs Mildred Musico, published in the NCW of NSW Biennial Reports for 1938 -1940. (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 9 Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Typescript and handwritten drafts, notes and research material relating to published works and also to a wide range of literary projects mostly undertaken during the later part of Hill’s writing career, from 1945 onwards. These unpublished works cover a variety of genres: novels, plays, descriptive writing and scripts for radio, television and film. Personal correspondence and a very large collection of photographs taken by Hill during her many long tours of outback Australia. Material on the life of Daisy Bates, and plans for a film based on her life; also two complete unpublished novels. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 15 November 2016 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Exercise books with draft writings and recipes Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 December 2009 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Olive Cotton is renowned for the pioneering photographic works she executed in the modernist style. In addition to Straight style, Cotton experimented with elements of Pictorialism. From the mid-1930s Cotton worked at the Max Dupain Studio in Sydney, where she experimented with close ups and lighting effects; during WW2 she ran this studio herself. As well as advertising and fashion photography, Cotton explored still life and landscape genres. In later life, she worked as a studio photographer in regional NSW, specialising in wedding photography and studio portraiture. After initially using a Box Brownie, Cotton used a Rolleiflex camera throughout her career. Olive Cotton is renowned for the works she executed in the modernist style. The genres she explored include fashion, still life, landscape, wedding photography and portraiture, including children’s portraiture. She was born on 11 July 1911 in Hornsby, Sydney. Her parents were Leo Cotton, Professor of Geology at Sydney University, and Florence (née Channon) a painter and pianist. In 1922, aged eleven, she received her first camera – a Kodak Box Brownie. It was a gift from her father who was himself a ‘hobbyist.’ Furthermore, as a geologist, Leo Cotton had taken photographs for Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to Antarctica in 1907. In conversation with Hawley, Olive Cotton remembered being shown slides of glaciers and ships in the Antarctic (Hawley 397). Leo Cotton also helped Olive build her first darkroom in the family laundry. She used Solio daylight paper to make her contact prints and she made her first enlarger ‘from two open ended boxes [tins]: the smaller held the lens and slid up into the enlarger’ (Australian Women Photographers 13). Her early work encompassed still life, landscapes and portraits of family and friends. Cotton was educated at the Methodist Ladies College, Burwood, between 1921-1929, and it was during her last year there that she joined the Photographic Society of NSW. She went to Sydney University in 1930 and about the same time joined the Sydney Camera Club, where she benefitted from the encouragement and teaching of the well-known Pictorialist photographer Harold Cazneaux. She continued to work as an amateur photographer while completing her Bachelor of Arts, majoring in mathematics and English, graduating in 1934. By mid-1934 she had joined the photographer Max Dupain in his studio at 24 Bond St, Sydney. Officially she was his ‘assistant’ but she also pursued her own work. Cotton and Dupain had been family friends since childhood, and spent many summer holidays taking photographs at Newport Beach. Their mutual passion for photography fuelled the friendship, and they went on to marry in 1939 but separated in 1941. They eventually divorced in 1944. In 1938 Cotton joined the short-lived Contemporary Camera Group. She also experimented with fashion photography, working in the commercial section of the Commemorative Salon held by the Photographic Society as part of the Australian 150th anniversary celebrations. During this time Cotton and Dupain moved their Sydney studio to a larger one in Clarence Street. In 1941, following her divorce, Cotton worked at Frensham School (a progressive girl’s school in Mittagong, NSW) where she taught mathematics. Between 1942-1945 Dupain left Australia to carry out his military service, and Cotton returned to commercial photography and managed his studio. Throughout this period she was extremely busy, receiving many different commissions including the making of wartime propaganda photographs for AWA (a wireless manufacturer), as well as creating a mural for an ‘up-to-the-minute house designed by architect Sam Lipson’ (Hall 85) . The original mural was 182.9 x 76.2 cm, but it was unfortunately destroyed early in the 1980s. The National Gallery of Australia holds a smaller version, which is the only known print available. The brief for the mural was quite fluid, however the client had seen a mural that Max Dupain had created which incorporated dancers and ‘had expressed an interest in ballet figures’ (Ennis,Heritage132). In discussing the mural, which took her over one hundred hours to complete, Cotton noted that she was not aiming to create a Surrealist work – the emphasis being instead on using techniques that might enable her to capture the image she had in mind. Helen Ennis has provided a detailed account of the processes that Cotton employed to create this work in her entry in Heritage: The National Women’s Art Book. Olive Cotton is recognised for her hard-edged minimalist style and tight framing. She used controlled lighting and shadows to capture close up household objects such as flowers, insects, landscapes and people. Like many photographers she referred to her photographic method as ‘drawing with light’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 13). Ennis notes that she ‘was able to imagine a photograph and, in the photographing of what she “saw,” could transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. They are the kind of images that gently impose themselves on you – and that stay with you’ (Ennis 2002 PAGE) Her portraits arguably show an ability to capture something of the inner character and individuality of the sitter. The photograph of her sister Joyce Cotton (c.1938) is a perfect example, as is the photograph of Max Dupain titled Max after Surfing (c.1939). This photograph arguably captures something of the mood of intimacy that existed between the photographer and her subject at the time the photograph was taken. Geoffrey Batchen, referring to this photograph of Dupain, notes the ‘raw sensuality of the naked masculine body. His head obscured by shadows’ and he adds, ‘Dupain’s muscular upper torso is accentuated by the harsh light that falls across it and by the creased clothing in the foreground. Intimate and secretive, refusing to tell us everything, the photograph acts as a prompt for the viewer’s imagination, that most potent of sexual organs’ (Batchen 33). During her lifetime, Cotton participated in many exhibitions. These included the 1930s exhibitions organised by the Sydney Camera Club (where she met Harold Cazneaux) as well as others organised by the Photographic Society of NSW, the London Salon of Photography where she exhibited Tea Cup Ballet and the Victorian Salon of Photography (International) where she exhibited Shasta Daisies. Her photographs were published in Sturt (1946), a book based on the Sturt Craft Workshops at Frensham, as well as in the book by Helen Blaxland entitled Flower Pieces (1946), which included her photographs of flower arrangements. Her photographs also appeared in Bank Notes, a magazine produced by the Commonwealth Bank. In 1944 she married Ross McInerney and in 1946 they moved to Koorawatha, a country property near Cowra where they had two children, a daughter, Sally, born in 1946, and a son Peter, born in 1948. Cotton gave up her work as a professional photographer at this time but twenty years later in 1964 she began taking photographs again, producing hundreds of photographs of children and the surrounding landscape. During the period 1959-63 Cotton taught mathematics at Cowra High School and in 1964 she set up a small studio in the township of Cowra in 1964 where she worked professionally, focusing mainly on children’s portraits, wedding photography and landscapes using a Rolleiflex camera. It was during the 1980s that her work finally gained recognition. Gael Newton included some of Cotton’s photographs in the exhibition she curated entitled Silver and Grey (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1980). Her work also appeared in the 1981-82 traveling exhibition Australian Women Photographers 1890-1950, curated by Barbara Hall and Jenni Mather. In 1983 Cotton received a grant from the Visual Arts Board that enabled her to print the photographs that featured in her first solo exhibition Olive Cotton Photographs 1924-1984. Many of the negatives for these photographs had been stored in an old sea chest in her family home; this was to be the first time they would be professionally developed. The exhibition was held at the Australia Centre for Photography, opening in November 1985 and afterwards, touring the other Australian states. During the 1990s interest in her work culminated in a film by Kathryn Millard that documented her life and work. Entitled Light Years and released in 1991, it coincided with the appearance of her photograph Tea Cup Ballet , on the 1991 Australian postage stamp that commemorated the 150th anniversary of photography in Australia. In 1993 the Australia Council awarded her an Emeritus Fellowship for her work. In the years that followed interest in her work continued, with a wide range of her photographs – not just those from her modernist period – being included in a number of important exhibitions. Today her work is held in both public and private collections. Olive Cotton died in 2003 at the age of 92. Technical Her first camera was a Box Brownie. She later used a Rolleiflex camera. Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Victoria Josef Lebovic Gallery Collection, Sydney Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria National Gallery of Australia National Library of Australia National Gallery of Victoria Events 1922 - 1946 Active as professional photographer 1964 - 2000 Active as professional photographer 1935 - 1935 Olive Cotton’s work was included in the London Salon of Photography 1937 - 1937 Olive Cotton’s work was included in the Victorian Salon of Photography ( International) 1937 - 1937 Olive Cotton’s work was included in the London Salon of Photography 1945 - 1945 Olive Cotton’s work was included in the First International Adelaide exhibition organised by the Adelaide Camera Club 1981 - 1981 Olive Cotton’s work was included in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 1946 - 1989 Olive Cotton’s work was included in Exhibitions with Creative Vision 1984 - 1989 Olive Cotton’s work was included in exhibitions in Canberra and Sydney, and some travelling exhibitions. 1985 - 1985 Solo exhibition Olive Cotton Photographs 1924-1984 a retrospective exhibition of Olive Cotton’s photographs. 1992 - 1992 Solo exhibition Olive Cotton, Australian Girls Own Gallery, 1993 - 1993 Awarded Australia Council Visual Arts/Craft Board’s Emeritus Fellowship. 1995 - 1995 Olive Cotton’s work was included in Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women’s Art in the National Library Collections 1995 - 1995 Olive Cotton’s work was included in Women Hold Up Half the Sky 1995 - 1995 Olive Cotton’s work was included in In a Certain Light: Clarice Beckett and Olive Cotton 1995 - 1995 Olive Cotton’s work was included in Women and Art 1966 - 1999 Olive Cotton participated in eight important exhibitions in Toowoomba, Canberra, Sydney and Geelong. 2015 - 2015 Olive Cotton’s work was included in The Photograph and Australia 1996 - 1996 Olive Cotton’s work was included in The Reflecting Eye: Portraits of Australian Visual Artists. 1997 - 1997 Olive Cotton’s work was included in The Studio of Max Dupain 2000 - 2000 Solo exhibition Olive Cotton Retrospective 2002 - 2002 Solo exhibition Cotton Tales[an exhibition of studio family photographs taken in Cowra. 2007 - 2007 Olive Cotton’s work was included in What’s in a Face? Aspects of Portrait Photography 2012 - 2012 Olive Cotton’s work was included in What’s in a Face? Aspects of Portrait Photography 2013 - 2013 Olive Cotton’s work was included in Flatlands: Photography and Everyday Space Published resources Book Olive Cotton: Australian Photographer, Cotton, Olive and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2009 Olive Cotton, Cotton, Olive and Australian Girls Own Gallery, 1992 Olive Cotton: Photographer, Cotton, Olive, McInerney, Sally and National Library of Australia, 1995 Olive Cotton, Ennis, Helen and Cotton, Olive, 1998 Sturt and the Children's Library, Mittagong, NSW., McInerney, Olive, 1946 Little Book of Trees, National Library of Australia, 2010 Still Life 1650-1994: Reworking the Tradition, Queensland Art Gallery and Seear, Lynne, 1997 Society of Artists Book, 1945-46., Society of Artists (Sydney), 1945 Society of Artists Book, 1944, Society of Artists ( Sydney), 1944 Society of Artists Book, Society of Artists (Sydney), 1943 Australia's Wild Weather, Tredinnick, Mark and National Library of Australia, 2011 Wings of Tomorrow, Turnbull, Clive and Shaw, Roderick, M., 1945 Focus on Photography: An Education Kit for the Photography Collection., Art Gallery of New South Wales and Art Gallery of New South Wales , Public Programmes Department, 2004 Facing Facts: Documentary Photographs, Gallery 11, 6 August to 2 October 1988., Australian National Gallery, 1988 Olive Cotton Award 2007: For Photographic Portraiture, Beck, Anouk, 2007 Olive Cotton: 13 May-2 July 2000, Cotton, Olive and Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000 Olive Cotton: Photographs 1920s to 1990s, Cotton, Olive, 1995 Olive Cotton: Photographer, Ennis, Helen, 1995 The reflecting eye: portraits of Australian visual artists, Ennis, Helen, National Library of Australia and National Portrait Gallery (Australia), 1996, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/125722/20110309-0156/www.nla.gov.au/pub/ebooks/pdf/the+reflecting+eye.pdf Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 In a Certain Light: Clarice Beckett, Olive Cotton, Fenner, Felicity, Cotton, Olive and Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 1995 Artists in Conversation, Hawley, Janet, 2012 Back View: A Selection of 20th Century Photographs, Helen Maxwell Gallery, 2000 Perception: The Daryl Hewson Photographic Collection, Hewson, Daryl, Kirker, Anne, Drew, Marian and Queensland Centre for Photography, 2005 Family Fragments, McInerney, Sally, Cotton, Olive and Editions+ Artist Book Studio, 2004 Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, Rome, 1997, Stephenson, D., 2013 Resource Section Transcript: Tribute to Olive Cotton, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s957104.htm Olive Cotton 1911-2000, Dupain, Max and Associates, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/131851/20120124-1142/www.mdaa.com.au/People/OliveCotton/tabid/2135/Default.html Olive Cotton, http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/olive-cotton Olive Cotton, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/olive-cotton/ Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Mirror with a memory: photographic portraiture in Australia, Batchen, Geoffrey and Ennis, Helen, 2000 Newspaper Article Beautiful Photos of Long Ago, Raffaele, Garry, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122405417 In Recognition of Australian Talent, Raffaele, Gary, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122363476 The Lady Behind the Lens, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17452916 Resource Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women's Art in the National Library's Collection, Carr, Sylvia and National Library of Australia, 1995, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/36337/20030703-0000/www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fence/picket.html Book Section Blue Hydrangeas: Four Émigré Photographers, Ennis, Helen, 1997 Olive Cotton, Ennis, Helen, 1995 Australian Pictorialism, Miller, Steven, 2007 Essay Hall of Fame, Olive Cotton: An Appreciation, Ennis, Helen, 2004 Journal Article Partnerships: Helen Ennis on Olive Cotton, Ennis, Helen, 1998 Thesis A Representation of Women in the Arts: A Modern and Postmodern Portrait, Hackett, Sharon, 2004 Videorecording Light Years, Millard, Kathryn, Director, 1991 Edited Book Silver and Grey, Fifty Years of Australian Photography 1900-1950, Newton, Gael, 1980 Archival resources National Portrait Gallery Research Library Olive Cotton: artist file. / Olive Cotton National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive [Olive Cotton : Australian & New Zealand Art Files] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Olive Cotton, approximately 1907-2003 Papers of Rhyll McMaster, 1960-1987 [manuscript] Edmund and Joanna Capon Research Library and Archive, Art Gallery of New South Wales Papers of Olive Cotton [manuscript] Ivan Dougherty Gallery Ivan Dougherty Gallery: Australian Gallery File State Library of Victoria [Olive Cotton : Australian Art and Artists file] National Gallery of Victoria, Shaw Research Library Olive Cotton NULL Olive Cotton: Artist's File and Slides Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 25 October 2016 Last modified 26 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Business and financial records (1945-1958); issue of “Prompt” Vol II, no. 3 Dec. 1953; 12 issues of “Repertory Review” (1948-1949); article by Robert Warren in “Masque” (Dec. 1957); newspaper cuttings 1957; letters 1949-1958; includes a typescript by Joyce Gibson (47 p.) detailing her time spent with the Society; correspondence from Doris Fitton. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 May 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nerida Kerr was a Regional Winner (North East Victoria) of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1995. Nerida Kerr is currently employed as Rural Community Development Officer with Regional Development Victoria (RDV), where she is responsible for administering grant programs and community development work across eight local government areas in Northern and North East Victoria. She has extensive community networks and is involved in a large number of community groups, including Upper Murray AgCare, Rural Financial Counselling Service (of which she was a founding member in 1991and has chaired since 1996) and North East AgCare Inc., which she has been chair of since 2000. She is now a board member of Goulburn Murray Hume AgCare Ltd. Other committee memberships include Farm and Rural Mobile Services for Children, Indigo Shire Community Advisory Committee. Nerida has previously worked as a community services manager with two health services. She has experience in economic and community development with Towong Shire Council, Tallangatta Community Education Centre as Centre co-ordinator and she coordinated the Farm Skills for Women Program and the 1993 Women on Farms Gathering. Events 1995 - 1995 2013 - 2013 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section 1995 ABC Rural Woman of the Year Regional Winners, ABC Radio, 1995, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/previous95.htm#95reg Newspaper Article Laborers of love tend the farm, Murdoch, Anna King, 1995 Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 26 October 2010 Last modified 5 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "As well as for her photography, Amelia Bunbury was noted for her hand carved furniture and for her work as a horse breeder. Bunbury’s amateur photographs document life on a remote station in Western Australia; her photography includes images of Aboriginal people living in the area that echo the conventions of anthropological photography of the time. She exhibited her work in Melbourne and was published in a number of Western Australian newspapers. Amelia Bunbury was born Amelia Matilda Pries in 1863. Her father was a merchant and owned a store in Busselton, Western Australia; the Pries family resided at ‘Prospect Villa,’ also in Busselton. In 1897, aged 34, she married Mervyn Cory Richardson-Bunbury, who was from an equally established pioneering family at Williambury (one thousand kilometres north of Perth), where he owned a station. The couple did not have any children. During the period 1900-1909 she studied woodcarving at the Perth Technical School, Western Australia, and became noted for her hand-carved furniture. It is unclear as to how she became interested in photography or how she received training; she may have also studied photography at the Perth Technical School. She moved to Williambury station with her husband and over the years photographed the everyday life of her surrounds, including the Aboriginal people living there. One of her photographs, Station Natives in Corroboree Costume 1910, echoes the approach taken by anthropological photographers of the time by its lining up ‘natives’ in ascending order, revealing no emotion at all, presumably following the instructions of the white woman in authority (Hall 29). Bunbury was the only woman photographer from Western Australia to be included in the Exhibition of Women’s Work,, 1907, held at the Exhibition Building, Melbourne. She published her photographs in a number of Perth newspapers using the pseudonym Coyarre and won a number of competitions run by the Western Mail during 1900-1910. Some of her photographs were used in the contemporary histories The Great North West and its Resources (1904) andBusselton and District. During her lifetime Amelia Bunbury loved horses and was said to have ridden her own horse up until the age of 83. She became a well-known horse breeder, with some of her horses winning the Perth Cup, Derby and Railway Stakes. Following the death of her husband in 1910, Amelia Bunbury left Williambury and returned to live at her family home in Busselton. She died in Perth, Western Australia, 1956, at the age of 93. Collections Battye Library, State Library of Western Australia. Nelma Ley collection of photographs, State Library of Western Australia http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/pdf/pictorial/BA1902.pdf Private Collections Events 1907 - 1910 1907 - 1907 Amelia Bunbury’s work featured in the Exhibition of Women’s Work 1900 - 1910 Published resources Resource Section Amelia Bunbury, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/amelia-bunbury/ Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 The Great North-West and Its Resources: The Undeveloped Heritage of Western Australia: A Description of the Country and Settlements from Carnavon to Broome., Praagh, Lionel V and Lloyd, Reginald,, 1904 Newspaper Article \"Grandma\" of Turf Dies , 93, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71764324 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 9 November 2016 Last modified 10 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Diaries 1953-1983; Letters, manuscripts and articles about and by Ida Mann. Manuscripts?1930-; Poetry; Photographs. Author Details Clare Land Created 13 May 2002 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Her involvement with girl guides spiritual beliefs, work with John Wheeldon. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Stroma Buttrose was a pioneering figure for Australian women in architecture. She was the first female Planning Assistant in South Australia, and the first female Commissioner of the Planning Appeal Board. She was the author of numerous architectural publications, most notably City Planning in Australia in 1975. Stroma Buttrose went to school at Hopetoun and then Woodlands at Glenelg where her interest in geography and later town planning began. She completed a Diploma in Arts and Education at Adelaide University and at 21 travelled to Europe with her family. After returning to Adelaide she taught Geography while completing a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Geography. In April 1957 she was appointed temporary female draftsman’s assistant to the government town planner. She organised the Land Use Survey covering Gawler to Willunga and the Development Plan for the Metropolitan Area of Adelaide was published in the Spring of 1963. During 1962 Buttrose was one of ten students doing the Master of Town Planning degree at Adelaide University with Professor Rolf Jensen. In February 1973 she was appointed a Commissioner of the Town Planning Appeal Board/Tribunal, later to become the Environment, Resources and Development Court. She was the first woman to hold that position. Events 1957 - 1973 Planning officer with the State Planning Office, South Australia 1977 - Life Member of the Friends of the State Library of South Australia 1977 - 1979 Vice-president of the Society of Women Writers of Australia (SA) 1966 - 1972 Vice-president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (SA) 1967 - 1973 Council member of the National Trust of Australia (SA) 1960 - Life Member of the National Trust of Australia (SA) 1980 - Council member of the Workers Educational Association of SA Inc. 1977 - Council member at Woodlands CEGGS Inc. 1954 - 1956 Geography teacher at St Peter’s Collegiate School, North Adelaide 1955 - 1956 Tutor in geography at the University of Adelaide 1956 - Geography teacher at The Wilderness School, Medindie, South Australia 1966 - 1969 Tutor in town planning with the South Australian Institute of Technology (SAIT) 1941 - 1947 Attended Woodlands Church of England Girls’ Grammar School 1953 - 1953 Winner of the On Dit 21st birthday litarary competition with three poems 1960 - 1972 Member, later a Fellow, of the Fellowship of Australian Writers 1960 - 1962 Member of the Commonwealth Counciol of the Fellowship of Australian Writers 1980 - Life Member of the Royal Zoological Society of SA Inc. 1975 - Life Member of the RSPCA 1951 - Member of the Graduates Union at the University of Adelaide 1955 - Member of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (SA) 1957 - 1973 Member of the Royal Australian Planning Institute 1968 - Member of the Australian Conservation Foundation 1977 - Member of the Australian Society of Authors 1977 - Member of the Poets Union of SA 1971 - 1973 Member of the National Council of Women 1969 - Member of the Queen Adelaide Club 1969 - Member of the Zonta Club of Adelaide 1973 - 1999 Commissioner of the Planning Appeal Board, South Australia 1949 - 1949 Common law clerk with Thomson, Buttrose, Ross & Lewis, Barristers & Solicitors 1952 - 1954 Secretary with the Department of Architecture at the School of Mines, South Australia 1954 - 1956 President of the Woodlands Old Scholars Association 1975 - 1975 Publishers Rigby commissioned her to write a children’s reader, City Planning in Australia 1970 - 1970 Member of the Children’s Book Council 1948 - Life member of the Woodlands Old Scholars Association 1957 - 1958 Vice-chair of the Young Contingent with the Victoria League Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Book City planning in Australia, Buttrose, Stroma, 1975 Newspaper Article Scholar devoted to family and law, Buttrose, Stroma, 2002 Resource AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource, 2002, http://www.austlit.edu.au/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Interview with Stroma Buttrose [sound recording] Interviewer: Yvonne Abbott National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Stroma Buttrose, master town planner, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Stroma Buttrose interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] Author Details Anne Heywood and Robin Secomb Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 2 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lyla Elliott speaks on “The marriage and divorce of industrial and political labour in WA”. Introduction by John Gandini. Launch of the book Blacklegs by Bill Latter – speakers are Ian Drakeford, Manager of UWA Press, Alannah MacTiernan MLC and Bill Latter. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mavis Thorpe Clark was a prolific writer of children’s fiction who, in late life, also wrote for adults. In the process of researching her first adult book, Pastor Doug, the biography of Sir Douglas Nicholls, she created a large archive of letters and correspondence of relevance to indigenous scholarship. Mavis Thorpe Clark was born in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1909. Her writing career began at the age of 14, when the Australasian published, as a children’s serial, her work The Red School, by no means a masterpiece, but her first literary endeavour. Her first published book, written when she was 18 and sold to Whitcombe and Tombs in 1930 for the then handsome sum of £30, was Hatherley’s First Fifteen, a boy’s adventure story about Rugby football. Her first book for adults, Pastor Doug, the biography of Sir Douglas Nicholls, Aboriginal pastor later appointed Governor of South Australia, was published in 1965 and re-issued in 1973 in a revised second edition. In 1979, she published another Doug Nicholls’s biographical account under the title The Boy from Cumeroogunga. In order to complete this task, she researched Aboriginal archives and associated with Aboriginal people, and has left a large amount of personal notes, correspondence, research files, etc. of relevance to Aboriginal scholarship. Unlike most authors, Clark did not suffer rejection of any book submitted for publication. She became an extremely prolific writer and published 32 books, mostly for children, five of which were broadcast as serials by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Her book The Min Min won the 1967 Australian Children’s Book of the Year award, and film rights to The Sky Is Free were bought by the Walt Disney organisation. Clark died in Melbourne in 1999, at the age of 90. She has been honoured by having the national Fellowship of Australian Writers Mavis Thorpe Clark Award named after her. Published resources Book No mean destiny : the story of the War Widows' Guild of Australia 1945-85, Clark, Mavis Thorpe, 1986 Trust the Dream: an autobiography, Clark, Mavis Thorpe, 2004 Journal Article Aborigines in society: the man from Cummeragunja, Clark, Mavis Thorpe, 1968 Resource Guide to the Papers of Mavis Thorpe Clark, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-300407611/findingaid Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Manuscript and research files, 1894-1997 [manuscript]. Papers, 1973-1986] [manuscript]. Letters : to Grade Fives, Blackburn South Primary School 1974 Aug. 2. [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Mavis Thorpe Clark, 1920-1999 [manuscript] Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Nikki Henningham Created 7 October 2004 Last modified 11 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Photographic copies of 77 black and white photographs mainly of notable writers and literary figures including Dame Mary Gilmore, Sir Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Ethel Turner, Zora Cross, Tom Inglis Moore and Ruth Park. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 October 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "These are files collected by ASIO. A digitised version is available online. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 17 September 2009 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Alison McMaugh studied at the National Art School in Sydney. She left Australia in for London in 1957 and in 1959 she married American art student James Adley. Alison returned with her husband to Michigan where she became Professor of Art at Michigan University. Alison was a prominent member of the American feminist art movement and taught at several institutions in Australia and the USA. Although based in America, Alison kept close ties with Australia. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Alison McMaugh, 2008 [manuscript] State Library of Victoria [Alison McMaugh : Australian Art and Artists file] [Wagner Art Gallery : Australian Gallery File] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers 1900-1990. Includes correspondence and writings of Jean Galbraith such as stories, verse and magazine articles, many concerning nature and its preservation; drafts of “A gardener’s year” and miscellaneous diaries, notebooks and exercise books, some describing the plants and birds of the Tyers area. Also pressed dried local and European flowers. Also a notebook, 1906-1912, which containing lists of flowers and garden plans and which includes a handwritten transcript (by “A.R.B.”, dated 1933), of the Diary of a voyage to Australia from England by Walter Briggs, Ship Peru, September 1st 1852 – January 7th, 1853 (shelved at MS BOX 3473/1). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 September 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents include: essays in the subject of English and transcriptions from French textbooks (1905-07); letters to family during overseas trips including revealing comments on the status of women (1913-1924); letters received by Marks, including two from former Prime Minister W. M. Hughes (1927-1949); miscellaneous records including photographs of Marks and friends, a passport, visiting cards, and evidence of conferences attended (1913-1933); material relating to the assessment for the Leaving Certificate (1924-1937). Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 17 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letters including 5 from von Mueller 1895-1896 to Ellis Rowan; note by George Meudell on the watercolours by Ellis Rowan which were exhibited at Stanford University; list of medals awarded to Ellis Rowan; photograph of Ellis Rowan; menu and programme. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 March 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Exhibition held 9th October – 5 November 1989, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery; Typescript (photocopy) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Hilda McIntosh was the Canberra postmistress throughout World War I, managing the flow of mail to and from the battlefronts. Hilda Hayward Hayter was born at Yarrunga near Berrima, New South Wales of Australia, the fourth child of Australian-born parents Samuel Hayter, sawyer, and his wife Ann Matilda, née Webb. On 30 December 1912 at St John’s Anglican Church, Moss Vale, New South Wales, she married Hector Gordon McIntosh, a 23-year-old carpenter and joiner working in Canberra’s burgeoning building trade. On 15 March 1913 Hilda became Canberra postmistress, and moved into the house attached to the Canberra Post Office, on the Yass-Canberra road, in what is now the suburb of Ainslie. The post office, established in 1863, was one of the oldest in the district. On the modest income of £30 5s a year, Hilda and Hector took in a lodger to make ends meet. From 2 June 1913 after the opening of a new Canberra Post Office at Acton, Hilda renamed the post office Ainslie after the nearby hill of that name. In 1913 the postmistress and one assistant handled 33,800 letters and 297 telegrams. Hilda also relayed crucial messages about bushfires and accidents (Australian Dictionary of Biography). On 11 October 1913, Hilda gave birth to her first child James Gordon ‘Jim’ McIntosh. It is not known what help Hilda had to enable her to continue in the role of postmistress with a baby who grew to a five-year-old during the years of World War I. In addition to the usual postal services, during World War I Hilda’s job involved managing the flow of letters and telegrams to and from the battlefronts and military headquarters, including the dreaded pink telegrams that announced the death or injury or capture of a loved one. Post offices also issued Mothers and Wives badges to the relatives of those serving the country. A bar or star on the badge represented each man in a family who had enlisted. Women proudly wore the badges as a sign that their families were ‘doing their bit’ for World War I. Hector enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in August 1918 but did not serve because hostilities ended soon after. Hilda left the postal service in 1925 when she gave birth to her second child, daughter Doreen. She and Hector farmed at Symonston in the Federal Capital Territory and then Murrumbateman in New South Wales. Hilda died in the hospital at Yass, New South Wales on 8 April 1958 and was buried in Yass cemetery. Published resources Resource Section McIntosh, Hilda Hayward (1886-1958), Waterhouse, Jill, 2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcintosh-hilda-hayward-10970/text19499 Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Niki Francis Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 26 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ros Gourlay ran only once for election. That was in 1999 when she ran for the Christian Democrat Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the seat of Lake Macquarie. Ros Gourlay is married to Dr Ralph Gourlay, surgeon, and they have five children. The family are members of the Lake Macquarie City Church. Her husband ran for the Christian Democrat Party for the seat of Charlton in the 1998 Federal Election. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Margaret Ogg in later life, photographed in her garden. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Maria Petkovich arrived in Broken Hill, New South Wales, in 1961. With her husband, Petar, she owns and runs South Dry Cleaners and Wilson’s Dry Cleaners in Broken Hill, New South Wales. Maria is a volunteer with the Australian Red Cross. Maria Zaknich travelled from Croatia to Melbourne on the Orsova with her mother and sister in May 1961 to be reunited with her father, Tony, after six years apart. The family settled in Broken Hill, New South Wales, where Tony was working and living with his parents. Maria and her sister Katie were enrolled at Broken Hill’s Alma School and attended English language classes at the Napredak Club. As teenagers they helped their mother to look after her twin baby boys, and worked on the weekends to supplement the family income. Both girls left high school after two years to work full time. Maria married a fellow Croatian, Petar Petkovich, who came from the same town as the Zaknich family. They had two children, Miroslav and Inga. Petar and Maria ran the Okeh Café in Argent Street for nine years before buying two dry cleaning businesses in Broken Hill. Published resources Book Sharing the Lode: The Broken Hill Migrant Story, Adams, Christine, 2004 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 January 2009 Last modified 21 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A collection of papers relating Mrs Taylor’ service with the Australian Women’s Land Army in Queensland. The collection includes a copy of the “Land Army Gazette (Qld Division)”, a history of the Qld Division, letters regarding Land Army reunions, several Land Army songs and poems, a story “Cotton Bols to Carrots” written by Mrs Taylor, and letter regarding her attempts to get the story published. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents include correspondence 1914-1945, folders relating to her activities, letters and certificates of her husband, Dr. W. H. Read, papers relating to World War I and World War II, and miscellaneous papers relating to her father Henry Phillips, 1857-1896. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 December 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Vivienne Abraham was active in the Australian peace movement for several decades. She was Honorary Secretary of the Peace Pledge Union (1946-52), acting editor and editor of the ‘Peacemaker’ and Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (1982-89). Vivienne Abraham graduated in Law at the University of Melbourne, having studied from 1937 until 1966. With her sister Shirley, born 28 February 1922, Abraham was active in a number of peace, pacifist and conscientious objector support groups from the 1940s to 1989. She was active in the Melbourne Jewish Youth Council during World War II, and Honorary Secretary of the Australian Peace Pledge Union (in Victoria) from 1946-1952. She served as Honorary Secretary to the acting editor of the Federal Pacifist Council of Australia journal The Peacemaker from 1947-1949, before becoming editor from 1953-1955. She moved to Sydney in 1955, and lived in Israel and Lebanon in 1961-62. With friend and fellow pacifist G. A. Bishop, Abraham represented the Federal Pacifist Council of Australia at a conference in Lebanon during this time. From 1964 Abraham again edited The Peacemaker, this time jointly with her sister Shirley until 1968, and alone form 1969 until the final issue of the journal in 1971. From 1982-1989 Abraham was Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Australian Section). Author Details Clare Land Created 16 August 2024 Last modified 16 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of general, special and committee meetings of the Powlett River (Wonthaggi) Branch (1911-1954), District Committee of Management (1913-1954) and Combined Unions of Carpenters, Engineers, Engine Drivers and Miners (1917-1948), union rules, correspondence, financial records, membership records for Powlett River and Altona branches (1918-1921), arbitration material and printed material. Also includes 1812 ‘overman’s record’, records of Hawdon Pit, Percy Main Colliery, and an envelope containing samples of coal. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 December 2003 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Folder of articles and newspaper clippings. Includes material relating to Francis Egan and Mary Coutts Michie. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Handwritten note on lined paper, possibly written by Gwendolen Luly, likely around April 1942. The author refers to the magazine ‘Pix’, which on 18 April 1942 described what to do in the event of a civilian having no gas mask: mix 5 parts of soda bicarb to 1 part glycerine to 8 parts water. Apply to pad and place over nose. The recipe was to be used for all gasses except mustard gas. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 27 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection, which includes diaries, extensive correspondence, drafts of The voyage of the Pacific Peacemaker, cuttings, items relating to Vai Stanton and other papers, deals mainly with two major issues: the resistance to nuclear testing in the Pacific and the legal and social rights of Australia’s indigenous peoples. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 February 2018 Last modified 22 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marie Mathew is a long term community activist and contributor. She was a One Nation candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Clarence in 1999 and in the House of Representatives for Page in 2001. She had more luck at local council level and was an elected member of the Grafton City Council from 2000-2004. Marie Mathew is a well known figure in the Grafton area. She received the award of OAM in the Queen’s Birthday honours list in 2004, for services to local government, and women’s hockey. She was a member of the Clarence River Tourism management Association and was the first woman president of the South Grafton Business Association. She has also worked extensively for local charities. She served on term on Grafton City Council but was not elected to the new amalgamated Clarence Valley Council. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Margarethe Von Puttkamer was the first nurse at Broken Hill, New South Wales. Margarethe Von Puttkamer (or Peg, as she was known to friends) was of German descent. Her father, George Christian Hermann (Baron) Von Puttkamer, was born on the 18th December 1820 in Pomerania, Germany. He was a member of Infantry Regiment No. 9 in Stargard, Pomerania, before serving as a lieutenant in the Schleswig-Holstein Army from 1848 to 1850. Georg migrated to South Australia in 1850 and worked as a labourer and shepherd, and as a gold prospector in Victoria. On 22 July 1851 in Adelaide he married Amalie Catarine Hirdes, who hailed from Kassal, Hessen in Germany and who, like Georg, had travelled to South Australia on the barque Sophie. Margarethe trained as a nurse in Melbourne before moving to Adelaide, where she was a trainee in 1884. Around 1885, she moved to Broken Hill and became matron of the Broken Hill and District Hospital, working with Emma Burkhill. On 16 May 1889 she married John David Robertson (b.28 May 1854, d.19 April 1926), a compositor for the local paper, the Silver Age. She resigned from the Broken Hill Hospital, but opened her own private hospital in Chloride Street. John and Margarethe had two children, Amelia Hermine Ethel Robertson (born 15 January 1890) and John ‘Jock’ David Robertson Junior (born 6 August 1895). Georg Von Puttkamer had died some years earlier – 21 October 1859 – near Blanchetown, South Australia. His wife Amalie lived until 24 October 1910, when she died at Angaston, South Australia. Published resources Booklet The Silver Mirror, Wichert, E.B., 1933 Book Nursing in South Australia: First Hundred Years, 1837-1937, 1939 Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Von Puttkamer, Margarethe Hermine (Peg) Baroness Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 January 2009 Last modified 5 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Newsletters (Swelter) 1981-1986; press releases, printed material, questionnaires and submissions, 1977-1984; papers from Affirmative Action Seminar, 1984; General correspondence 1975-1983. Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 June 2004 Last modified 10 November 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "In 1987 Deborah Bennett-Borlase became the first woman appointed as a Magistrate to the Perth Courts of Petty Sessions in Western Australia Born at a private hospital in Claremont (the building later occupied by solicitors), Deborah Bennett-Borlase was raised and educated in Perth. She married a farmer in the North Eastern Wheatbelt of Western Australia and, in her words, was somewhat surprised to discover that milk did not come in bottles, nor bread (a catastrophe when made by herself) already sliced for selection. She did learn, however, how to keep the sheep up for the shearers in the sheds, to keep the fires burning on the wind rows of timber cleared by the bulldozers for new paddocks and to drive a tractor and seed crops when necessity required. Two children and then, later, education became a priority and a move to Perth occurred. With time on her hands Bennett-Borlase enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Western Australia. Study, lectures and tutorials were slotted into half the week and the balance driving 200 miles (320km) back to the farm for other duties. Bitten by the study bug after the successful completion of the BA she enrolled in the Law Faculty. On completion of this degree she undertook articles which were split between David Smith of Slee, Anderson and Pidgeon and subsequently Ian Mossenson of Mossenson, Skarlz and Corser & Corser, undertaking mainly criminal matters. In 1987 she was appointed a magistrate in the Perth Court of Petty Sessions and was welcomed with offers of assistance from generous brother magistrates. Her circuit was one week at Rockingham and one week in the North East Kimberly region. The latter entailed a lot of road and air travel to Derby, Halls Creek, Balgo Hills, Kununarra and Wyndam. At Rockingham she became the subject of interest of the local chapter of a bikie club whose members tried to follow her from court to her home in Perth several times – this attempt at intimidation failed. Consternation and amusement arose at her first sitting in Kununarra when a slightly tipsy gentleman came up from the cells and called out “Whd youse coin up there misses? You’d better get down before SM finds you”. The Prosecutor and orderlies, all spruced up for her visit went rigid with embarrassment and she struggled not to laugh. The experience in the Kimberley was one of the most enjoyable and enriching experiences in her life. The exposure to the Aboriginal people and their problems and joys, along with meeting some of the white pioneers of this area while being exposed to the rugged beauty of the Kimberley landscapes will stay with her forever. Bennett-Borlase was later posted back to the Perth Court of Petty Sessions and retired in 2002. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Michael Borlase with Deborah Bennett-Borlase Created 6 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Consists of correspondence, subject files, personal items, diaries, photographs, manuscripts of unpublished and published works and a large quantity of printed matter. There are letters from Vance, Nettie and Aileen Palmer, Jessie Macleod, Guido Baracchi, Eleanor Dark, Frank Dalby Davison and Katharine Susannah Prichard. There is a thesis by S. B. Clark entitled: Vance Palmer: A Consideration of His Career in Australian Letters. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (ca. 180 min.)??Justice Rosemary Balmford, judge of the Victorian County Court since 1993, first woman judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1996, speaks of a happy family life where lawyers were common in her family, the stimulation of Melbourne’s Girls Grammar, her enrolment in law at Melbourne University, her involvement in the Student Christian Movement and the Debating Society, articled with Whiting and Byrne, how in 1956 she went to London to work on a Master of Laws at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies but did not finish, in 1957 she worked as a solicitor and lectured part-time, took a job full-time tutor in 1962 leaving home. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 18 August 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Webb Nicholls was born in Adelaide to Mary and Samuel Bakewell in 1850. She joined the Christian Woman’s Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1886, and was elected provisional president in 1888. In 1889 she became Colonial president, a position she held until 1897. From 1894-1903 she was the Union’s Australian President, and post-Federation, she served as State President from 1906 to 1927. She joined the South Australian Women’s Suffrage League and subsequently became a League Councillor. In 1894 Elizabeth Nicholls assumed the role of Colonial Superintendent of the WCTU’s Suffrage Department. She was appointed to the Board of the Adelaide Hospital from 1895-1922 and was a justice of the peace – one of the four first women – from 1915. She died in 1943 Elizabeth Webb Nicholls was born in Adelaide to Mary and Samuel Bakewell in 1850. She married Alfred Nicholls in 1870, and had five children as well as bringing up two orphaned relatives. She joined the Christian Woman’s Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1886, and was elected provisional president in 1888. In 1889 she became Colonial president, a position she held until 1897. From 1894-1903 she was the Union’s Australian President, and post-Federation, she served as State President from 1906 to 1927. She probably joined the South Australian Women’s Suffrage League in early 1889 and later became a League Councillor. It was under her leadership that the WCTU gained 8,000 of the 11,600 signatures for the League’s 1894 petition to Parliament. Following the submission of the petition, Elizabeth Nicholls took on the role of Colonial Superintendent of the WCTU’s Suffrage Department. The legislation granting suffrage to women was passed in December 1894, and she then travelled around Adelaide and country South Australia giving talks about how to enrol and vote. Her ‘Platform and Principles’ is an example of her straightforward approach. From 1895-1922 she served on the Board of the Adelaide Hospital and was a justice of the peace – one of the four first women – from 1915. In addition she was actively involved with the Women’s Non-Party Political Association and assisted Bessie Rischbieth to form the Australian Federation of Women’s Societies (later known as the Australian Federation of Women Voters) in 1922. She died in 1943 Published resources Edited Book Torch-bearers : the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia, 1886-1948, McCorkindale, Isabel, 1949 Resource Section Nicholls, Elizabeth Webb (1851-1943), Mune, Marie, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110023b.htm Book Section Elizabeth Webb Nicholls (nee Bakewell), 2001 Bessie Rischbieth, Ogilvie, June, 1988 Book In her own name : women in South Australian history, Jones, Helen, 1926-, 1986 Fresh evidence, new witnesses : finding women's history, Allen, Margaret (Margaret Ellen), 1947- ; Hutchison, Mary and Mackinnon, Alison, 1942-, 1989 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of South Australia Young Women's Christian Association of Adelaide : SUMMARY RECORD Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Robin Secomb Created 19 April 2004 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "28 minutes. Recorded during Writers’ Week, March 1984. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1. Correspondence and papers of Rev. Peter Gunn, 1841-64.?2. Notes on Cambellfield Presbyterian Church, Melbourne, founded 1842.?3. Manuscript of Aeneas Gunn entitled ‘The ways of northern waters and many other ways’.?4. Correspondence of Robert Gunn including letters from his brother Aeneas Gunn (1902) and Jeannie Gunn (1903-1912). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 December 2003 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jean Blackburn was a feminist, socialist and staunch advocate of the critical importance of good quality teaching and resources in shaping children’s’ lives. After completing an economics major at the University of Melbourne in1940 she became a research assistant for the Department of Economics. A mother who experienced the isolation of suburban living, she worked with Winifred Mitchell in organising the New Housewives’ Association to help overcome this isolation. She later completed a Diploma in Education and began her teaching career. In 1969 she was seconded as a consultant to the Committee of Enquiry into South Australian Education issuing the Karmel Report in 1973. This was the first of several such appointments. In 1983 she conducted a public enquiry into Victorian senior secondary education, issuing the Blackburn Report in 1985. Jean Blackburn took pleasure in the fact that she was born Jean Muir on 14 July, Bastille Day. The great democratic values of freedom, equality and solidarity inspired her ideas and values, and shine through her writings. She was born in 1919 in Melbourne and was educated in the public school system. The fact that, by the age of 21, she had graduated as a BA with Honours in Economics was largely a tribute to her own determination and thirst for knowledge. At the University of Melbourne, Jean joined the Labor Club and then the Communist Party. She worked as a young woman with the War Office of Industry, before marrying Dick Blackburn and moving to Adelaide. Her work there as a secondary school teacher, while raising her family of three children, led her on to a public career in education policy. She left the Communist Party after the invasion of Hungary in 1956. After working as a consultant to a 1969-70 Committee of Enquiry into Education in South Australia headed by Prof. Peter Karmel, she was appointed Deputy Chair of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission in the early 70s, and a full-time member of the Commission for 7 years from 1974 to 1980. Her strong commitment to public values, her capacity for intellectual rigour and engagement with a range of views and her ability to express significant ideas in a lucid and inspiring way meant that she had a profound influence on Australian education. She was also one of the most profound feminist thinkers of her time. From 1983 -85 Jean Blackburn chaired the Ministerial Review of Post-compulsory Schooling in Victoria. She was the inaugural Chancellor of the University of Canberra from 1990-91, chaired the Victorian State Board of Education from 1991-92 and was founding chair of the State Suffrage Centenary Committee in South Australia from 1992-93. She was awarded honorary doctorates from three Australian Universities. She died in Adelaide in December 2001. As well as this record of distinguished service and influence, it is Jean Blackburn’s personal qualities and strength of character that explain her place as one of our most loved and revered leaders in education. Events 2002 - 2002 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2014 - 2014 Inaugural Australian College of Educators Jean Blackburn Oration given at Wilson Hall, The University of Melbourne. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Book Changing Approaches to Equality in Education, Blackburn, Jean, 1986 The Study of Work in Society : A Curriculum Proposal, Blackburn, Jean, 1987 Australian Wives Today, Blackburn, Jean, 1963 Title I and the Disadvantaged Schools Program, Blackburn, Jean, 1979 Sound recording Changing approaches to equality in education : lecture given at the Australian National University on Nov. 19, 1986, Blackburn, Jean, 1986 Report Report. Volume 1 /Ministerial Review of Postcompulsory Schooling, Blackburn, Jean, 1985 Newspaper Article Passionate for Schools Equity : Jean Blackburn, Hannan, Bill, 2001 Review Interview with Jean Blackburn Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jean Blackburn interviewed by Peter Biskup [sound recording] Interview with Jean Blackburn, economist, educationalist and Chancellor, University of Canberra [sound recording] / interviewer, Peter Read Jean Blackburn interviewed by Wendy Lowenstein in the Communists and the Left in the arts and community oral history project [sound recording] Jean Blackburn interviewed by Tony Ryan for the Conversations with Australian educators oral history project [sound recording] State Library of South Australia Interview with Jean Blackburn [sound recording] Interviewer: Allison Murchie Interview with Jean Blackburn [sound recording] Interviewer: Kirstin Marks Interview with Jean Blackburn [sound recording] Interviewer: Allison Murchie Launch of the Barbara Hanrahan Memorial Exhibition [sound recording] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 March 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Wendy Edmond was Queensland Minister for Heath and Minister Assisting the Premier on Women’s Policy. She was elected MLA (ALP) for the electorate of Mount Coot-tha on 2 December 1989. After being educated at West Bundaberg, McIlwraith, Gin Gin State Schools and Bundaberg State High School, she attended the Queensland Radium Institute and graduated in 1967 with a Diploma of Radiography. In 1971 she obtained a Diploma of Nuclear Medicine Technology in Canada. Edmond worked as a therapy radiographer in Brisbane 1964-1967, in Copenhagen 1968, and New York 1969-1970 before taking up a position as a nuclear medicine technologist in Montreal 1970-1971, Adelaide 1972, Edinburgh 1973-1974, and at the Royal Brisbane Hospital 1984-1986 and the Holy Spirit Hospital in Brisbane 1986-89. She is a former secretary of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine, a member of the Education Committee of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, a committee member of Citizens Against Route Twenty (CART), and a committee member of the Paddington Residents Group. Since entering parliament her service includes: Parliamentary Representative University of Queensland Senate 1993 – 31 December 1995; Member, Library Advisory Committee November 1992 – June 1995; Member, Parliamentary Criminal Justice Committee March 1990 – August 1992; Chairperson, Estimates Committee C 1994 and 1995; Minister for Employment and Training and Minister Assisting the Premier on Public Service Matters 31 July 1995 – 19 February 1996; Deputy Chairman Estimates Committee G 1996 and 1997; Shadow Minister for Health 27 February 1996 – 26 June 1998; Minister for Health since 29 June 1998 and Minister Assisting the Premier on Women’s Policy since 22 February 2001. Married with three children Edmond’s interest include: theatre, environment, crafts, art, reading, tennis and cooking. Sources: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Parlib/Members/women/chapters/edmond.htm> accessed 7/11/01; http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Parlib/handbook/edmond.htm accessed 7/11/01 Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Section Edmond, Hon. Wendy Marjorie, Queensland Parliamentary Library, http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Parlib/handbook/edmond.htm Women Members of the Legislative Assembly from 1929, Queensland Parliamentary Library, 2001, http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Parlib/Members/women/IndexWomen.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Wendy Edmond, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Substantial number of records are held in private hands. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 19 February 2001 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection of papers generously donated to the Lu Rees Archives in 1995 consists of a job application for a senior lectureship at South Australian College of Advanced Education (SACAE) in 1986 and supporting documentation, various drafts and rewrites of Mem?s the word, and associated correspondence with staff at Penguin. Papers cover the period 1986 – 1990. Other material held includes 4 video cassettes, 4 audio cassettes, poster and computer disc. Mem Fox kept her papers in very good order and the original order has been preserved by the archive. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Robyn Tredwell was winner of the ABC Australian Rural Women of the Year Award in 1995. Robyn Tredwell, the 1995 winner of the ABC Australian Rural Woman of the year Award, is New South Wales born, Queensland farm-raised, a trained nurse, well travelled and very, very patient. She says that the profit imperative has never driven her as a farmer, which is probably just as well given the state of the property she manages just outside Derby, Western Australia, Birdwood Downs, when she took on the job in the early 1980s. Whatever the property needed at that time, it was not someone in a hurry with an eye for a quick dollar! Born in 1950 in the northern rivers district of New South Wales, Robyn’s journey to Birdword Downs was a circuitous one that went via Brisbane, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia, Tibet and the Amazon River. A nurse who grew up around farms and farming people in south eastern Queensland, Robyn was always interested in the stories of the world beyond Nambour. She took her nursing training with her overseas and, through the course of two decades, developed an interest in population health, well before it became an academic discipline. With an interest in prevention rather than cure, she has worked to reduce the impact of cultural stress on the health of individuals and has spent a lifetime gathering knowledge about holistic healing. An interest in ethnobotany led her to the view that approaches to land care needed to be similarly holistic. By the time she got to Birdword Downs the land had been managed on environmentally sustainable principals for five years. The station was land especially excised by the Western Australian Lands department for the purposes of encouraging experimental work in pasture regenerations and land care protection in the Kimberley region. Special conditions over the lease to the property offered willing investors the opportunity of a freehold title if half the property could be planted with improved pasture grasses and legumes and boundary fenced within a certain time period. The Institute of Ecotechnics, with whom Robyn had been involved for some time, decided to invest in the project in 1978. She arrived in 1984 and has been there ever since. What she and her staff and predecessors on the property have achieved is truly remarkable. The 1900 hectare station located in the coastal ecosystem of the Kimberley region where the soils are very low in nutrients. Overgrazing with sheep and cattle and over burning made top soil vulnerable to erosion. The land was degraded to such as extent it could no longer be profitably farmed. Over the years Robyn has pioneered techniques the have seen the land successfully regenerated. Ecological methods of improving degraded lands using stock management, weed control and planting improved grasses have turned dead land into beautiful paddocks with groves of native trees, spectacular boab and eucalyptus that supports both horses and cattle. Birdwood Downs serves as a model for sustainable management of the tropical savannah. There is hard science behind the land care program that the team at Birdwood Downs have implemented, which includes a commitment to experimentation and asking ‘what if?’ Patience and persistence with intensive programs of land clearance, replanting, maintenance and the ecological management of horses and cattle have seen results that the staff now pass on as training programs for students at Derby Institute of TAFE. However, what Robyn brings to the program that sets it apart is her belief that sustainable properties can only be created in partnership with sustainable communities. On remote properties, maintaining this sense of community can be as challenging as maintaining the land. ‘On this property,’ she says, ‘we use management, science and artistic expression to create sustainability’. She has worked very hard to create a space where cultural and cross-cultural communication can take place. A shady grove of mahogany trees creates a natural outdoor meeting place while a huge purpose built shed creates theatrical opportunities. Robyn has run arts workshop programs with indigenous and overseas artists, and has hosted many conferences and land council meetings. The Crow and Cockatoo Theatre Company has been running from the property for over thirty years making it, quite possibly, the oldest theatre company in the Kimberley. Robyn was surprised to discover she had been nominated for the ABC Radio Rural Woman of the Year Award, and was even more surprised when she won the national award in 1995. She has always believed the award to be special to the region, not just to the women who lived there. ‘The early 1990s were such hard times,’ she said, ‘it was so important for the Kimberley region to get some focus.’ She was still in a frame of mind which made it difficult for her to understand ‘women’s issues’ as something separate from rural and regional issues. Nevertheless, she believed the award to be very important as a mechanism for encouraging women to step forward, thus creating better balance in decision making. It was particularly important for Aboriginal women to see their own leadership potential. Like all other award winners, Robyn enjoyed the ‘Canberra Experience’ enormously. Luxury in a five star hotel came as a pleasant change from the life she normally lived, but it was enjoying the company of other women that she appreciated the most. She came to understand that winning the award wasn’t the point of the award, admiring the achievements of all rural and regional women was. The ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the year was there to represent the diversity of Australian rural women, ‘an idea of rural womanhood.’ She was happy to be that representative. In 2011, Robyn Tredwell is Project Director of the Birdwood Downs Institute of Ecotechnics Tropical Savannah project. She is still out there, demonstrating how even the most degraded properties can be brought back to life through the investment of time and a commitment to living in balance with the environment. ‘To create successful communities’, she says, we need to care for people and the environment, and create good management structures.’ Everything else worth waiting for will follow. Robyn Tredwell passed away in September 2012 following a battle with Brain cancer. She is survived by a son and her husband. Events 1995 - 1995 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Website of the Birdwood Downs Company, 2011, http://www.birdwooddowns.com/ Article Robyn Tredwell, Hutchens, Brendan, 2004, http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/people/Transcripts/s1204476.htm Waste Not, Want Not, Franklyn, Patrick, 2006, http://www.smh.com.au/news/home-lifestyle/waste-not-want-not/2006/06/08/1149359875025.html Conference Paper International Indicators of Good Health Practice for Remote Areas, Tredwell, Robyn, 1997, http://nrha.ruralhealth.org.au/conferences/docs/PAPERS/4_ROBTRE.pdf Resource Section 1995 National Winner, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/previous95.htm Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Robyn Tredwell interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 October 2010 Last modified 24 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Melbourne Working Women’s Centre was the first trade union women’s research and advisory centre in Australia. Established in 1975, under the auspices of the white collar union peak body, the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations (ACSPA), it operated as an independent lobby and research group concentrating on women’s issues in employment. When the ACSPA amalgamated with the ACTU in 1979, so too did the Working Women’s Centre. It became defunct in 1984. The Working Women’s Centre (WWC) was established in 1975 with the assistance of an International Women’s Year seeding grant and received ongoing support from the National Women’s Advisory Council. Mary Owen and Sylvie Shaw were coordinators and the service employed two part-time migrant liaison officers. A multilingual poster was the Centre’s first publication followed by a discussion paper on the particular needs of migrant women. The centre’s periodical Women at Work saw a growth in circulation numbers from 6000 subscriptions in 1977 to 13,000 in 1982. The WWC conducted a range of activities from researching issues affecting women in the workforce to running training programs dealing with women’s work issues (occupational health, worker’s compensation, trade union training, dealing with discrimination etc). It gave expert evidence in industrial tribunals, lobbied governments and unions for changes to women’s position in the workforce, participated in government committees dealing with social security and job training etc., helped establish transition programs (at TAFE colleges) for women wishing to return to the workforce, spoke regularly at workplaces, conducted research on shift work, child care and occupational health problems including stress among ‘blue collar’ women workers, and developed a Register of Women in Non-Traditional jobs made up of women who would go to schools and community groups to talk about breaking the ‘traditional’ workforce mould. Published resources Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers of Mary Owen, 1951-2017, [manuscript]. The University of Melbourne Archives Working Women's Centre Papers Author Details Elle Morrell Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "E. Jean Curlewis was the daughter of Ethel Turner. Before passing away she wrote a number of books including The Sunshine Family: A Book of Nonsense for Girls and Boys, with her mother. Daughter of Ether Turner and Herbert Raine Curlewis. The author of mainly children’s publications, she was married to M L Charlton. Sources: http:penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/usrpages/collect/ethel.html accessed 17/10/01; http://www.pcug.org.au/~efp/megangen/ftree.htm#Philippa accessed 24/10/01 Published resources Book The Sunshine Family: A Book of Nonsense for girls and Boys, Turner, Ethel and Curlewis, Jean, 1923 Beach Beyond, Curlewis, Jean, 1923 The Dawn Man, Curlewis, Jean, 1924 Drowning Maze, Curlewis, Jean, 1922 Christmas in Australia, Curlewis, Jean. And Feint, Adrian (decorated by), 1928 Verse Writing for Beginners, Curlewis, Jean, 1925 Resource Ethel Turner, Lilian Turner and Jean Curlewis ; A Family of Australian Authors, http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/usrpages/collect/ethel.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Eleanor Dark, 1910-1974 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 October 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection of professional and personal papers. Includes mss and published copies of her work, with background research material, including maps and illustrations, and related correspondence. Professional correspondence, incoming and outgoing, 1930-. Papers and reports received as a member of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Geological Society of Australia, Great Barrier Reef Committee, Royal Society, University of Queensland (Professorial Board, and Senate). Testimonials, research reports and recommendations supplied. Public lectures, press clippings, photographs. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 folder of miscellaneous pieces.??File contains material such as accession sheets, listings of works, photocopies of images, correspondence relating to a work by May Moore and biographical information. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 27 September 2016 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1917 Ethel Macfie volunteered for overseas duty with the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War I. She nursed in British hospitals in Salonika until after the end of the war. Before enlisting she had nursed briefly at Canberra Hospital. Ethel Macfie was born in Birmingham, England and migrated to Australia with her family in 1885. Ethel Macfie was born in Birmingham, Staffordshire, England. In the 1881 English census, she is recorded as aged nine and living in London. She migrated to Australia with her family in 1885 and appears to have lived in a number of colonies including Tasmania where a younger brother was born. By the time of her enlistment her father, Matthew Macfie, whom she named as her next of kin, was living in Armadale, a suburb of Melbourne and a brother was living in Sydney. Ethel Macfie trained as a nurse at St Margaret’s Private Hospital, a maternity hospital in inner Sydney. She was employed as a nurse at Canberra Hospital then a very small hospital with only a few staff under Matron M K Charles-West. Ethel is named on a list of officers employed in the Federal Capital Territory as temporary nurse paid at the rate of three guineas a week. When she enlisted on 15 May 1917, Ethel gave her age as 40 years and 6 months but it appears she would have been 45; her religion was Church of England. Her enlistment was noted in The Newsletter: An Australian Paper for Australian People, a free trade weekly, published in Sydney by journalist and former politician, John Haynes, who had started the Bulletin with J. F. Archibald. She was described as the daughter of Matthew Macfie and sister of Hector Macfie of Sydney. Less than a month after enlisting she joined RMS Mooltan in Melbourne as a staff nurse with the Australian Army Nursing Service bound for Suez. The following month she boarded the Osmanieh at Alexandria and disembarked on 14 August 1917 in Salonika, Greece. She was recruited in response to a request from the British Government for Australian trained nurses to staff four British military hospitals in Salonika in northern Greece. Three units, each of 91 nurses, embarked from Australia in June 1917 and a fourth unit in August. The first three units began duty in Salonika in August 1917; the fourth was delayed in Egypt and reached Salonika later. Altogether 42 Australian sisters and 257 staff nurses served in Salonika. British and French forces had arrived in Greece in 1915 to fight Bulgarian forces invading Serbia, to regain control of the Balkans and to prevent enemy forces taking areas leading to the Suez Canal and the Middle East. They saw only intermittent action over the next three years. Most patients at the military hospitals were British soldiers and Bulgarian prisoners of war; many were not battle casualties but suffering from diseases including malaria, dysentery and black water fever. The Australian nurses, who had enlisted for service overseas with the expectation that they would nurse Australian soldiers, were disappointed that this was never the case in Salonika. They also felt they had been relegated to the war’s sidelines with action on the Balkan front little reported at the time. The final battle against the Bulgarians in September 1918 was not reported in the London Times in any detail until 1919. All the nurses in Salonika felt the bitter cold and snow in winter and the intense heat in summer in hospitals set up in tents or primitive huts. In winter there was not enough fuel for the braziers to heat the tents and by morning the blankets on patients were stiff with ice. Most nurses suffered from malaria which was endemic and those with recurrent malaria were repatriated to Australia. By August 1918, 46 nurses had been invalided back to Australia. Nurses wore heavy mosquito nets and clothing that covered every part of their bodies in an effort to ward off mosquitoes but they sometimes discarded extra coverings when they made nursing impossible. The sites of some of the hospitals were near swamps which became quagmires in winter and mosquito breeding grounds in summer. After she arrived in Salonika Ethel Macfie was taken on the strength of the 50th British General Hospital (BGH), a hut hospital at Kalamaria on the outskirts of Salonika, and she later nursed at 42 BGH, a tent hospital at Kalamaria and at 52 BGH, also at Kalamaria. She was in Salonika until after the war ended. In March 1919 she was given six months unpaid leave in England for family reasons presumably to visit English relatives at New Barnet but in July she was recalled to duty at 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital in Dartford preparatory to returning to Australia. She returned on the Katoomba disembarking in September and was discharged the following month. She stated she was in good health and unaffected by her service. Although she had been promoted Sister in Salonika her final rank on discharge was Staff Nurse, AANS. She was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal and is commemorated on the ACT Memorial. Ethel Macfie died on 22 July 1952 at her home at Tecoma in the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne after previously living in the suburb of Ivanhoe. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Mettle and Steel: the AANS in Salonika, Wadman, Ashleigh, 2015, https://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2015/01/13/mettle-and-steel-aans-salonika/ Resource Section MacFie, Ethel, 2013, http://nurses.ww1anzac.com/mca-mcn.html Book Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 More than Bombs and Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at work in World War I, Harris, Kirsty, 2011 Book Section Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18. Vol. III: Problems and Services, Butler, A.G., 1943 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra MacFie Ethel : SERN SISTER : POB Birmingham Staffordshire England : POE Sydney NSW : NOK F MacFie Matthew Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 31 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Edited typescripts of “Historic Brisbane – convict settlement to river city” (published in 2003) and “Heroic Australian women in war” (published in 2004), and associated correspondence. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Association records – minutes, correspondence, publications, ephemera, photographs. Author Details Jane Carey Created 17 December 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mary Day was a well known alderman (North Sydney Council, 1980-92c) but an unsuccessful candidate for parliamentary election as an Independent candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for North Shore in 1988. Mary Day was an outspoken and controversial Councillor on North Sydney Council, when she ran against the Mayor and MLA, Ted Mack in 1988. The antagonism between them was well known and had been the subject of comment for some years. Mary Day had, seven years earlier, won what the Sydney Morning Herald called “a famous victory”, when, after twelve years of court cases (including one to the High Court of Australia) she won her case against a home unit development which had adversely affected her harbour view. The developer was compelled to demolish one story of the building in order to restore the view. Not surprisingly, Mary Day’s manifesto stressed her capacity to represent the lower north shore electors and her lack of political ambition and conflict of interest. Mary Day died at Wollongong Hospital on Tuesday 16 November 2010. Her funeral service was held at Sussex Inlet Community Church on Tuesday 23 November 2010. She is survived by her husband, John Day. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 59 min.)??Summers speaks of writing her book “Damned whores and God’s police” ; her reasons for wanting to write it ; her research in women’s oppression and the broad themes used in the historical part of the book ; about how she actually wrote the book. Summers also speaks of her childhood and schooling ; starting the journal “Refractory girl” ; her views on feminism ; her plans for the future. Created 13 March 2019 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Meryl Dillon is an ALP political activist, concerned with health and environmental issues. She stood for election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Barwon in 1999 and 2003. She has been a Councillor of the Moree Plains Shire Council since 1995. Meryl worked as a Lands Officer, a legal clerk and has been a farmer for thirty years. She served on the New England Health Board, later the New England Area Health Service, the Gwydir River Management Committee, and the Moree Vegetation management Committee. She has also been active on the Drug and Alcohol Misuse Board. She served on the New England-North West Regional Development Board from 2000 to 2002. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 20 min.) 7 in.??Born Dec. 13, 1890 in Christchurch, New Zealand, Mary Elizabeth Kathleen “Dulcie” Deamer was well-known as a Sydney journalist and writer who contributed to various journals and newspapers. She published two volumes of poetry, four novels and during the 30s, numerous plays. Witchcraft and murder were her favourite themes and her colourful imagination was complemented by her bohemian lifestyle in Sydney’s Kings Cross where she became known as the Queen of Bohemia. A founder of the Fellowship of Australian Writers in 1929, she lived for many years on a Commonwealth literary pension until her death on Aug. 16, 1972. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 March 2019 Last modified 7 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes, annual reports, photos, newsletters etc. Author Details Jane Carey Created 17 December 2004 Last modified 17 December 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 sound tape reels (ca. 153 min.)??Bilson, restaurateur and chef, speaks of her childhood in Hawthorn, memories of her grandmother and her cooking, how her difficult adolescence isolated her from her family, her love of reading during her university days, how she experienced her first restaurant in 1963 while on a date, how she began reading recipe books and practising table layout in preparing dinner parties, how she eventually married an electrical engineering student and moved to the States so he could work for IBM, how she developed her cooking skills in California, how she eventually left him with their two sons and returned to their home in Carlton, how in 1972 she met up with Tony Bilson and helped him establish his Sydney restaurant Bon Gout, which became a meeting place for Labor politicians and supporters.??In 1975 they came to purchase Berowra Waters Inn and choose Glenn Murcutt as their architect, the artists that have influenced her, how she managed to maintain fresh supplies of fruits, vegetables and other perishables from Sydney, how they managed the restaurant waste products without local council assistance, how she coped as sole manager after Bilson left her in 1980, her partnership with chef Jannis Dyritsis since 1982, her role in inspiring her staff to give perfection, how she organised the staff, her use of fixed price meals to assist survive slow periods, how three course meals are becoming unfashionable, how distinctive is Australian cuisine. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 34 minutes??Kathleen Waterhouse, the daughter of a mounted policeman, was just beginning to train as a nurse at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital at the outbreak of the First World War. She enlisted as soon as she finished in 1917 and was posted to Kolaphur in India where the patients were predominantly British soldiers. Miss Waterhouse describes the voyage on the hospital ship and the unusual conditions under which the nurses worked in India. She continued to serve there after the Armistice, returning to Adelaide on New Year’s Day in 1920. She then did her midwifery training and in 1923 left Australia again to travel extensively in North America and Europe. The interview can be regarded as being in two sections, with the second exploring in further detail some of the topics introduced in the first. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 60 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minute book containing club rules and reports of meetings July 1888 – April 1894; correspondence 1914-1915. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 March 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "50 minutes??Hilary Cranswick, nee Hogarth, was born in Victoria. When her father enlisted in the war Hilary came with her mother and sister to live with relatives in Adelaide. Her father was killed during the war. After leaving school Hilary took a course in Domestic Science at the School of Mines before beginning training at the Children’s Hospital. Later she nursed in Sydney and went to England in 1939. Her wartime nursing in Britain included working as an occupational health nurse with the Bowater paper manufacturing firm. She accompanied children of the employees to Canada when the blitz necessitated their evacuation. On returning to Australia in 1942 Hilary joined the Australian Army Nursing Service and had postings in Papua New Guinea and in New South Wales. After discharge from the army Hilary went to the United States to take a course in psychiatric nursing. She retired from nursing after her marriage. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 25 minutes??Barbara Parker, nee North, was born in Adelaide. After gaining the leaving certificate at the Methodist Ladies College she worked as a laboratory technician at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science before commencing training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1953. On completion of training she married but the early death of her husband necessitated her return to work in 1965. She was a tutor (unqualified) at Ru Rua Hospital and moved from there to a part-time appointment with the Public Health Department, where her role was to assist with medical examinations for new employees. In 1970 she became a full time member of the staff of the Occupational Health Branch of the PHD, where she is still employed (in the Occupational Health Unit of the South Australian Health Commission). Barbara Parker has been actively involved in the professional affairs of nursing including the Occupational Health Nurses’ Association. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Diaries; correspondence; journals; financial papers; addresses; devotional material; papers regarding Moran and Cato; testimonials; publications; photographs; newspaper clippings; tapes. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 6 May 2005 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection was compiled by Amirah Inglis in the 1980s while researching and writing her book Australians in the Spanish Civil War. It contains research notes, newspaper cuttings, photographs and cassette tapes of interviews with Australians and Britons who served in Spain. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 27 February 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "One of the very few women ever preselected to run for the National Party. Marsha Isbester was their candidate in the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Murray-Darling. Marsha Isbester was born in the United States and came to Australia in 1992, on her marriage to George Isbester, a grazier from Nymagee, western NSW. She became an Australian citizen in 1995 and joined the National Party in 1996. She has degrees in arts and political science from the US and after graduation worked as a consultant to the lower house of the Californian State Legislature in agricultural policy. She also worked as an assistant to a U.S. Senator in the areas of energy, natural resources, environment and public works. Later, she worked as deputy secretary of Legislative Affairs and Undersecretary of the California Resources Agency. Marsha Isbester conducted a very active campaign in her 344,642 square kilometre electorate, which stretches from the Queensland to the Victorian borders. She was prompted to stand by her concern for policy on native vegetation, water allocations and threatened species. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "5 digital audio tapes (ca. 347 min.)??Betty May Marginson, secondary school special education teacher, Labor counselor on Hawthorn Local Council since mid-1970’s, speaks of her parents’ backgrounds, her childhood in Melbourne, how as the last child in the family they could afford to let her finish high school which she completed in 1939, how she attended teachers college but found her own standards compromised, how she took up an arts course at Melbourne University from 1943, her involvement in the Labor Club and the Student Representative Council, the influence of Manning Clark, how she moved into teaching at technical college, how she taught matriculating students at Taylor’s Teaching College but left because the teaching was too restrictive, her return to teaching around 1955 at Eltham High where she later taught Phillip Adams and got him his first position in an advertising agency, how she spent the next 10 years or so raising the family, her return in the mid-1960’s teaching migrant children and developed into a special needs teacher over the next 12 years, in 1972 began her involvement in local government issues when she stood as a Labour candidate for Hawthorn local council, her tactics in surviving local politics. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 October 2018 Last modified 24 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Kate Botting was a once only candidate who ran for the Australian Democrats in the seat of Bankstown at the 1999 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections. Kate Botting was born in New Zealand and came to Australia in 1983. She has spent most of her working life in Sydney as the nurse for the Water Board, based in Liverpool, and travelling all over south western Sydney with preventative health, quit smoking and rehabilitation programs. Conscious of the difficulties facing migrants and workers in the area, Kate campaigned for better transport infrastructure, more money for health and education and an anti drug strategy which included safe injecting rooms and methadone programs. She is married with a young son. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 7 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers and records documenting Blackburn’s career as a pilot and her involvement with the Australian Women Pilot’s Association and The Ninety-nines Inc. The collection contains correspondence from other women pilots including Maie Casey, Nancy Bird Walton and Christine Davey. Also held are Blackburn’s pilot licences, pilot log books (1944-1979) and descriptions of several memorable flights. These include the Newcastle Aero Club pageant (1949), the Ansett Air Race from Brisbane to Adelaide (1964) and a flight to Western Australia with her brother, Geoffrey Dutton, as part of the research for his book, The Hero as Murderer (1964). The collection includes many articles written by Blackburn. Some were published in the Australian Women Pilot’s Association newsletters, which Blackburn also edited from 1960-62. Also held is a scrapbook of newspaper clippings (1960-61) and photographs from c.1949-77. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Women’s advocate and civil libertarian Nooraini (Noor) Blumer (Dip Law (LPAB) LLM, GAICD) is a Director at Blumer’s Personal Injuries Lawyers. She has served as President of Australian Women Lawyers (2005-2006), Chair of the Equalising Opportunities in the Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia (2007-2010) and President of the Law (2011-2012. She has also served as Vice-President of Civil Liberties Australia. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Noor Blumer for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Noor Blumer and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I was born in Malacca in 1962 to a Malay father and my mother Dianne who had grown up in Perth. The law played a part on my life even then. When I was 5 months old, my mother wanted to leave Malaysia without my father’s knowledge and take me with her to Perth permanently. In those days, a child under the age of one did not need a separate passport and could travel on their mother’s passport. Thus she was able to make the escape, which in recent years we have come to understand could be called an abduction, particularly under Malay law where the children are the property of the father. I grew up happily in Perth but was usually the only Asian in my class. I used to forget I was Asian and get a shock when I saw myself in the mirror! I did well at school and my burning desire was to be a lawyer or a journalist. I finished school at 16 and when I was 17 had my first child in 1979. I had the support of the father, who is still my husband, and I went to the University of WA with a view to studying law. In those days to gain entry to Law you had to pass first year Arts with suitable marks. I did this, but that year demand was high and the entrance marks requirement, which I had easily made, was raised and I missed out. I was devastated. I then embarked on second year Arts, but lacked enthusiasm. My husband Mark came from Griffith NSW where his father was a lawyer and his father before him. Mark was not then a lawyer, but in 1982 we made the decision to go and live in Griffith, work for the family law firm as clerks and study the SAB by correspondence, now the LPAB. I had trouble filling in the application to apply to become a ‘student-at-law’ as the form assumed that applicants would be male and a lot of ‘Mr, he and his’ had to be crossed out to accommodate me. I didn’t get to work as a law clerk, but eventually managed to get a job in the public service as an employment officer, which I enjoyed. The study was very hard. In Griffith, we were 7 hours’ drive from Sydney. There was no access to a law library and there was no internet. Fortunately, in those days, most solicitors firms had their own basic libraries. To qualify to sit the exams one had to complete a series of assignments. The exams were always 3 hours and closed book. This meant learning by rote the names of the 100 -150 cases necessary for each subject, a feat in itself, without also having to remember the relevant point they turned on. The closest examination centre was about 4 hours away by car, so we often sat them in different locations. The first was in Broken Hill, a fantastic drive in 1982 just before the drought broke. Lectures were held in Sydney, twice for each subject over a weekend. The SAB was easy to get into but notoriously hard to complete. I remember that the first lecture was held in a large lecture theatre at the University of Sydney; there would have been 200 students. Towards the end of the course I attended the family law lecture and it was just me and the lecturer, so we had a nice ‘one to one’. I continued to work full time and study and we had another 3 children along the way, as one does in the country! My progress was slow and I suffered more than a few failures along the way, mainly because the time I had to study was very limited and I did not have the luxury of aiming for fancy results. We were pretty poor at the time and we both needed to work full time. Also, I had real difficulty coping with subjects such as ‘Practice and Procedure’ with no experience working in a legal environment. Another obstacle was attending the College of Law in St Leonards. I had to do it in 3 blocks of 4 and 6 weeks. This was difficult and expensive with a young family and the lecturers were notoriously un-family friendly- I could do a whole essay on that one! While the block course was supposed to be for the benefit of country students, it was really for the benefit of those working for fancy Sydney law firms who could turn up, leave at lunch time and go to work and get their billable hours. I was finally admitted in 1992, just after the birth of our fourth child and I started the practice of law at Cater & Blumer in Griffith NSW. I was so relieved to have finally finished I had not given the slightest thought as to what kind of law I wanted to practice. That decision was made for me as there was need for another litigation lawyer and that turned out well as I really loved it. At that time, I was the only female lawyer in Griffith, but the local lawyers were always supportive and helpful. I remember sitting at the bar table one day when the magistrate came on the bench and said ‘Good morning Gentlemen’ He then looked at my sheepishly and apologised. I said, with bravado, that it was OK, I did like to think I was a gentleman in some respects. In 1998 I became the first ever female partner of a law firm in the Riverina Law Society district. This was sufficiently noteworthy to warrant an article in the NSW Law Society journal, which came out, embarrassingly, just after Mark and I had decided to leave Griffith. In late 1998 we moved to Canberra and I was branch manager of a plaintiff personal injury firm which Mark and I took over in 2000 and have operated ever since, Blumers Personal Injury Lawyers. It was in Canberra that I became involved with the Women Lawyers Association of the ACT and served as President for several years. Through that, I served on the board of Australian Women Lawyers (AWL) and was President in 2004/2005. What a wonderful journey that was for me, I still have good friends throughout Australia. At that time AWL was pressing for a more formalised and transparent process for judicial appointments. Also, we were working on having a model equitable briefing policy for large firms and government. What a hoot it was to be talking to Attorneys General and Chief Justices about such matters. Also the AWL had instigated the first survey of appearances by gender in Australian courts, which was important in demonstrating that women barristers were not getting a fair share of the work in the higher courts and were mainly working in the lower courts with less lucrative work. Much time was spent with my fellow board members manually collating the thousands of check sheets that had been provided from all around Australia. After the retirement of Justice Gaudron in 2003 there were no women on the High Court until the appointment of the Hon. Susan Crennan in 2005. It was a very difficult time as there were more women than men entering the profession, but no visible signs that a woman had a decent chance of achieving such an appointment. Fortunately that position has considerably improved with the subsequent appointments of Justices Kiefer, Bell and Gordon. After my year as President of AWL, my family were concerned that with nothing to distract me I might become a nuisance to them, so at their urging I undertook a Master of Laws at ANU. It was a pleasure to finally be attending university in a normal way and to take subjects which interested me. When I first applied I was refused entry to the course because they ‘did not recognize my qualifications’. This was a bit embarrassing, and would have been more so had they actually seen my transcript, but I wrote a letter pointing out my experience and there was no problem. I finished this in about 2008. I also served for several years as Chair of the Equalising Opportunities in the Law, a standing committee of the Law Council of Australia (LCA). This involved further work in developing the Equitable Briefing Policy and conducting a professional survey of court appearances by agenda. In 2011 I was elected President of the ACT Law Society, only the 2nd woman to hold that position. I served 2 years as President as well as a Director of the LCA and loved nearly every minute of it. When I ran for President, my electioneering material had clearly stated that I was Vice-President of Civil Liberties Australia and that I was interested in human rights. What a joy it was to discover that when speaking as President of the ACT Law Society on legal issues, taking a civil liberties stance was seen as appropriate. While there may have been some murmurs, not one of our members ever took issue with that approach. I learned that lawyers mostly care deeply about such issues and appreciate it when their peak bodies are vocal in upholding and explaining the law. There were so many issues in the past in the ACT where I had thought to myself, ‘Well, no one ever asks me what I think about …….’, but having the job of President put paid to that complaint. I was asked about everything and had real input into legal issues including proposed legislation and the work of the courts. I continue to be a director of Blumers Lawyers with my husband Mark and the fun continues. As my colleague John Eades said to me in the Griffith Local Court 23 years ago, ‘Noor, litigation, it’s the only game for adults’. Working on cases continues to excite my interest and enthusiasm. I strongly believe that both the public and the profession wants to have the law explained to them by lawyers, not by journalists. It is great to see that most professional conduct rules allow such public discussions to take place. As well as personal injury litigation, I have been privileged to act for the ACT Human Rights commission from time – to – time and this has given me an insight into the application of a modern Human Rights Act. The law is not for everyone, but I continue to derive pleasure from litigation, drafting pleadings, being privy to the lives of clients, which are rarely boring or ordinary. It is also a privilege to work with some great minds, grappling with problems and finding solutions to help everyday people. There is also the joy of running a business, having a wonderful staff and being constantly impressed by the knowledge, skill and enthusiasm of younger lawyers. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Noor Blumer Created 18 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Noor Blumer Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Misc. papers mainly concerning the status of women and the campaign for equal pay, including newscuttings, correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings and conferences. Also, various invitation, programs, menus for official diners, lectures, openings etc., 1949-1976. Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 November 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 85 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1938, 1997-1999; Scrapbook of newscuttings relating to Nancy’s aviation career, the National Trust’s Living Treasures list of 1998, promotion of her book, and Nancy’s public activities. Includes article on Captain Harry Butler and Peggy Kelman (nee McKillop). 1998-2001; Scrapbook of newscuttings about Nancy’s aviation career and her public activities. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Contents include records of the numerous local Unions, mainly minutes and financial records, especially those of the Sydney Union (Minutes, 1882-1892, 1920-1932, 1944-1972; financial records, 1882-1972; membership book, 1882-1902; articles and circulars 1966-1972) and the New South Wales Executive (Minutes, 1892-1894, 1902-1977; Youth Council Minutes, 1945-1947, 1954; Correspondence, 1953-1977; financial records; misc. reports, membership lists, roll books and minutes of departments; statistical records, 1956-1973; newscuttings, 1944, 1961-1969, 1971-1974; misc. records of executive; annual conventions reports, 1890-1976; convention programs 1912, 1915, 1932, 1951, 1952-73; South Australian Annual Convention reports, 1961, 1969; Victorian Annual Convention reports, 1960-1977; Queensland Annual Convention Reports, 1953-1975; History of WCTU of Queensland, n.d.; World Convention reports, 1925, 1947-1968; printed material, 1886-1967; scrap books, 1882-1936; White Ribbon Signal, 1909, 1932, 1936-1955, 1958-1975.?Also included are the minutes of the Band of Hope Union, 1942-1946, and the Good Film and Radio Vigilance League of New South Wales, 1945-1955??This collection includes pictorial material. For location and description of this see Pic.Acc.4585 in Pic. Source File. Author Details Jane Carey Created 8 November 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Florence Johnson, a teacher and active unionist, stood as an Independent Labor candidate in the Legislative Assembly seat of St Kilda at the Victorian state election, which was held on 9 April 1927. Florence Johnson began her teaching career as a pupil teacher at the South Preston State School in 1900. An excellent teacher, she was appointed head of Arcadia South State School in 1906. An active unionist she joined the Victorian Lady Teachers’ Association in 1908, helped form the Victorian Women Teachers’ Association in 1917 and was elected president. When the Lady Teachers’ Association merged with the Women Teachers’ Association in December of that year, she was elected vice-president. Her organisational skills were acknowledged when she left her teaching position to become became secretary of the Victorian State Service Federation and campaigned for equal pay for women teachers in addition to improved conditions for members of the Mental Hospital Nurses’ Association and for female typists and clerks in the public service. In March 1921 she resigned to become Assistant secretary of the Victorian State Teachers’ Union and remained in that position until March 1924 when she became paid secretary of the reformed Women Teachers’ Association. In 1927 with a colleague she formed the Victorian Federation of Mothers’ Clubs. After her unsuccessful attempt to stand for parliament she resumed her teaching career. She died in Malvern of mitral valve disease in November 1934. Published resources Resource Section Johnson, Florence Ethel (1884-1934), 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090488b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc Florence Ethel Johnson, the Forgotten Feminist Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 28 October 2008 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (ca. 108 min.)??Hon. Helen Sham-Ho, solicitor and Member of Parliament, talks about her family background; memories of Hong Kong; coming to Australia in 1961 and attending high school at Drummoyne College, Five Dock, N.S.W. She then talks about her early experiences in Australia; interest in Social Work and and studying Arts and Social Work at University of Sydney. Sham-Ho then discusses her reasons for remaining in Australia; working at St.Vincent’s Hospital and her involvement with Lifeline. She then gives her views on Pauline Hanson and the response by the Prime Minister, John Howard; involvement with Aboriginal Reconciliation Council; views on multiculturalism and ideas for countering racism. Sham-Ho then discusses trade with China and her membership of N.S.W. Guandong Economic Committee; studying law at Macquarie University; involvement with Liberal Party; need to attract well-qualified Chinese to Parliament and the highs and lows of Parliamentary life. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 September 2018 Last modified 4 September 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A once-only candidate, Jean Pollock Braithwaite stood as an Australia Party candidate in the 1973 Fuller elections. At the time of the election (1973), Jean Braithwaite was reported as having worked in teachers’ colleges and universities for the previous eleven years. Before that she taught in schools, both in NSW and abroad, and had taught literacy skills to all age groups in evening technical colleges. Jean is known to have obtained a MA and a Dip Ed. She was married, with two daughters. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sue Walpole was appointed the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner in 1993, becoming well-known in the role. She assisted with education campaigns which were designed to make the Sex Discrimination Act more accessible and available to women. She held the position until 1997. Sue Walpole completed her tertiary education in New South Wales. She qualified in Law and Jurisprudence at the University of New South Wales in 1977 and in 1987 completed a Diploma in Media Management at Macquarie University’s Graduate School of Management. She has worked in Industrial Relations as a national industrial officer with the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association. In 1985 she was employed as a Commonwealth public servant before accepting a position with the Australian Broadcasting Commission as Federal Head of Human Resources for Television. On completion of her role as Sex Discrimination Commissioner in 1997, in 1999 she took on the position of Manager of the Industry Fund and Business Development at SuperPartners. In 2002 she held the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Legal Practice Board of Victoria and in 2006 she was appointed General Counsel and Company Secretary at UniSuper. At the same time she was a member of several boards including the Nurses Board of Victoria, Westernport Water Board, Victoria Legal Aid, Zena Women’s Services and VicForests. She is currently a Member of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Federal sex discrimination act, Walpole, Susan, 1996 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Sue Walpole, lawyer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 12 January 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 digital audio tape (ca. 55 min.)??Joan Phipson speaks about her own writings where she tried to transform the experiences she has had into something that children will enjoy; of the importance of the Australian landscape in her books and favourite books of her own; how she wrote, where her ideas came from, the purpose of her writing and the importance writing “from” rather than “for” children; of her dislike for rewriting but indicated that she generally fitted in with her editor’s advice; the value of editors and literary agents; fantasies in Australian children’s literature and the work of the illustrator; children’s authors from the 1950s onwards. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jean Downing stood as a candidate for the Australian Labor Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Doncaster at the Victorian state election, which was held on 5 May 1979. She was also a candidate in the 1977 Federal election for the seat of Diamond Valley. In 1978 she was elected as a councillor to the Eltham Shire Council and served a three year term. Downing embarked on her political career after having made a significant and enduring contribution to the discipline of Social Work at the University of Melbourne. over many decades. In 2016 she was awarded the University of Melbourne’s Hyslop Medal, an award that recognises alumni or staff whose outstanding contributions have been integral to the success of social work at the University. Jean Downing was educated at public primary schools in New South Wales and Victoria before completing her secondary education at Presbyterian Ladies’ College (PLC) in Melbourne in 1939. In 1946 she completed her tertiary education at the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Social Studies. She was the first appointee as a Social Worker to the Children’s Court Psychiatric clinic in Melbourne. In 1947 she married Arthur Howard Norman and had five sons and two daughters, including two sets of twins. After Howard Norman’s death in 1959 she assumed responsibility for managing the family firm, Norman Bros. Pty Ltd until 1978. In 1965 she married Richard Ivan Downing Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne. They had a daughter. After 1976 she returned to Social Work with appointments at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, the International Social Service, the Austin Hospital and the Department of Social Security. In 1978 she was elected to the Eltham Shire Council and served a three year term. Her voluntary appointments included serving on the Councils of the University of Melbourne, (1983-87) PLC, Coburg State College, College of the Arts, Eltham High School, Equal Opportunity Advisory (1983) and the Board of Social Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is a member of the Lyceum Club and the Catalysts. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1988, Cadman, Kerith A, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jean Downing interviewed by Susan Marsden [sound recording] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 26 August 2008 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The entire records of CB Christesen, editor, including correspondence, manuscripts, newscuttings, photographs, administration and subscription records. Also some personal material of Clem and Nina Christesen. NOTE: When requesting material, please refer to the finding aid and indicate the file that is wanted, and its unit (box). In most cases, only the file will be made available. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 November 2005 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The ephemera collection contains documents of everyday life generally covering publications of fewer than five pages. These may include: advertising material, area guides, booklets, brochures, samples of merchandise postcards, posters, programs, stickers and tickets.???Collect from: Petherick Reading Room (Ephemera Collection)?Call Number: Author Details Jane Carey Created 20 February 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "30 minutes??Dorothy West was born in 1898 in Victoria. She always wanted to be a teacher. Went to school in Horsham, moved to Adelaide with her family and did her Bachelor of Arts and teacher training in Adelaide. She taught at Adelaide High but when she married she was no longer allowed to teach. She did teach during the war. Dorothy joined the Lyceum Club after her husband’s death. Lived in her street since 1930. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mari Coppolaro was a once only candidate who stood for election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (for East Hills) as an Earthsave Australia Party member in 1999. Mari Coppolaro lived in Padstow at the time of her campaign for East Hills. She had long been interested in natural therapies and professed a firm belief in the need to eat well, live frugally, improve education and use alternative health care. She also stressed her belief in the family as the core of society. Mari worked as a Business Studies teacher. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen was born on 1 October 1928 to Charles and Elsie Gintz in Prague, Czechoslovakia and migrated with her parents to Australia in 1939. She attended MacRobertson’s Girls’ High School, Melbourne, matriculating in 1946 and studied at the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History and Economics in 1949. She completed a thesis on the history of the Australian iron and steel industry for a Master of Arts Honours degree awarded in 1951. She then studied at the London School of Economics and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of London in 1954 for her thesis on the effects of technological change on labour in the pre-war iron and steel industries of Great Britain, the United States and Germany. She became a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society for statistical work she undertook as part of her thesis. From 1959 to 1960 she was a lecturer in Economics at the University of New South Wales and then from 1961 at the University of Queensland, being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1962. She came to the Australian National University in 1963, initially as a visiting fellow in the Department of Economic History in the Research School of Social Sciences and then as a Senior Fellow in the Department of Economics in the Research School of Pacific Studies. She was appointed a Senior Economist at the World Bank in Washington, DC in 1969 while on sabbatical leave from Canberra, and was promoted to Deputy Director in 1973 and was Director of the Economic Analysis and Projections Department from 1976 to 1982. She had returned to Canberra briefly in 1976 as a visiting fellow in the Development Studies Centre in the Research School of Pacific Studies and in 1982 was appointed Professor of Economics and Director of the National Centre for Development Studies. She gave the ABC Boyer Lectures in 1985 on the topic ‘Australia in a Developing World’ and was made a member of the Order of Australia and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia the same year. She was a member of a broad range of committees including the United Nations Committee for Development Planning 1987-1993, the Advisory Council of the Asian Development Bank Institute, the Jackson Committee to review Australia’s overseas aid program 1983-88, the FitzGerald Committee to review Australia’s immigration policy 1988, the Hughes Committee to review export market development assistance 1989, the National Advisory Committee on Skills Recognition 1989-1992 and the Board of AUSSAT 1983-1992. She had two sons by her first marriage and remarried in 1975 to Graeme Dorrance, an economist at the International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC. She retired in 1994 and became an Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University where she was a visiting fellow in the Crawford School of Economics and Government. In 1994-5 she was a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University and directed a full employment project at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. She was also a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, an Australian independent public policy ‘think tank’, focusing on issues of development in the Pacific and in Australia’s remote Indigenous communities. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 The Centre for Independent Studies, http://www.cis.org.au Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Australian National University Archives Hughes, Helen Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 31 March 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 80 min.) Created 26 February 2019 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "For almost 20 years the Women’s House in O’Connor was an important feminist space providing support for community based women’s groups and organisations. Activities and events at the house reflected the changing shape of the women’s movement, both locally and nationally, as well as local women’s involvement in broader political campaigns. The House was the first centre for community based women’s services in Canberra with Canberra Women’s Liberation, Women’s Electoral Lobby, the Abortion Counselling Service and the Rape Crisis Counselling Service as the first tenants. Over the years many of the women involved formed significant groups and connections at the House, contributing to the establishment of some of the key women’s services in Canberra. Lesbian Line, a telephone support service for women, operated out of the House for a number of years in the late 1980s and early nineties. An even wider range of women’s groups used the House for meetings. By the mid 1990s there were more women-specific services established in Canberra, both government and non-government. This meant that the House was being used less often after having provided a critically significant place for a diverse range of Canberra women to meet, work, organise and party. The history of the Women’s House in O’Connor is intimately interconnected with the early years of Women’s Liberation in Canberra. When the women of Canberra Women’s Liberation secured the house in O’Connor as a rental property from the government in 1975, they had already been meeting at 12 Bremer St, Griffith for a couple of years as well as providing some ad hoc informal services for women. As Julia Ryan noted ‘the house is beaut and Ginny Ryan is living there as a caretaker cum housewarmer’. Canberra Women’s Liberation regularly met there in the early years. Women were invited to join what was to be called the Canberra Women’s Centre (for $5) and become involved in the Collective which was responsible for managing the business of the House. In 1978 the Canberra Women’s Centre Collective decided to go into print with a newsletter for Canberra women and in May 1978 the first issue of Wimminews appeared. For about 15 years Wimminews provided important information for Canberra women about upcoming events at the Women’s House and around Canberra such as meetings, discussion of feminist issues, art, film, poetry, and it also ran some classifieds for accommodation and services for women. The following groups met there on a regular basis: Rape Crisis Centre Collective, Abortion Counselling Service, Refuge Rap Group, Lesbian Group, Women’s Electoral Lobby, Rape Law Reform Group, Women on Campus Collective, and Women’s Radio Collective. A feminist bookshop was set up at the house and the Collective started a Women’s Information and Health Counselling Service funded by a grant from the ACT Health Commission. In 1978 Wimminews reported that ‘the laundry of the Women’s House has undergone a complete metamorphosis and is now the National WEL Communications Office’. There was also a complaint from a neighbour in Lobelia St about ‘that noisy mob of women and all their bloody cars’ which was resolved through neighbourly communication and compromises about car parking. From 1979 to the early 1980s the International Women’s Day Collective met at the House to organise events to celebrate International Women’s Day in Canberra and a Feminist Lawyers Group was also meeting there. Funds to keep the house financially viable were always needed and women were asked to pledge regular donations. Fundraising events were held at the house and a stall at Belconnen Trash and Treasure markets raised money so that in March 1983 the library could be refurbished. In 1983 Women’s Salon meetings were held every fortnight at the Women’s House with dinner and discussion, and in July an open event was held to raise money for Lesbian Line. In the mid 1980s the House was also being used by women involved in the actions against American bases and the anti-nuclear movement – the Cockburn Sound Women’s Action Group, Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE), Women for Survival, and the Feminist Anti Nuclear Group (FANG), as well as Women Against Rape in War. From 1983 to 1985 the committee of Women’s House, now referred to as the Women’s Centre, were urging women to donate money to the House, to be involved in work to keep the house open and to promote it to women’s organisations for meetings and events. In 1984 the House was refurbished and women continued to meet there, with new groups such as the Women and Addiction Group meeting there as well. In October 1984 a group of women (Medea) held an open meeting to discuss the need for ‘a women’s space run by women, for women to work through emotional and mental health problems’. This service would become what is now Inanna, a service for people who experience homelessness, are living with mental health issues, violence and the effects of trauma. In 1989, as well as the Abortion Counselling Service and the Women’s Electoral Lobby, the 2XX Feminist Broadcasting Collective were meeting there. In May, Chief Minister Rosemary Follett launched the Rape Crisis Centre’s 24-hour service at the Centre. In June, there were Saturday night ‘Soup Kitchens’ for women and WEL held Writing Circles in the kitchen to support women to write letters to politicians. But it was a continuing struggle to get enough women to join up and stay on the committee for the House. By January 1994, the Women’s House had been going for nearly twenty years. A meeting was called by the Canberra Women’s Centre Inc. to discuss future plans for the Centre with a plea for women to ‘come along and put forward your ideas’. As one of the women involved in the House at the time recollected, the National and ACT WEL moved out, having found premises on the edge of Civic which they liked better than the previous laundry. It had become increasingly difficult to maintain the House financially and it closed not long afterwards. Published resources Journal Wimminews, 1978 Wimminews, 1978 Wimminews, 1978 Wimminews, 1978 Wimminews, 1979 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Women's Electoral Lobby, 1952-2010 [manuscript] Author Details Sue Andrews Created 25 January 2013 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Photographs of the Gilruth family and activities carried out whilst J A Gilruth was Administrator 1912-1919. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 October 2002 Last modified 10 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers comprise correspondence, appointment diaries, photographs, newspaper cuttings, research material, and the drafts of Lake’s books, articles, lectures, reviews, conference papers and other writings. The papers relate mostly to her academic career and her work as a historian, feminist and social commentator. There are a group of papers relating to Lake’s appointment as Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, 2001-2002. Correspondents include Michael Roe, Stuart Macintyre, Joy Damousi, Kay Saunders and Graeme Davison. The papers concerning ‘Limits of hope’ include letters and photographs from a number of soldier settlers or family members recalling conditions on settlements in Victoria after World War I. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "45 minutes??Ruth Langley talks about her schooling at Poltoonga School in Harrow Road St Peters, working for WD & HO Wills, joining the SA Transport Service during World War II, voluntary work at the Cheer Up hut, marriage, joining the Lyceum Club, involvement with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, the Asthma Medical Foundation, OAM for her work with the Foundation, moving the Lyceum Club to Currie St from Gawler Place. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises an “Extract Book”, 23 November 1841 – 8 August 1853, belonging to Captain Archibald Chisholm, containing copies of documents concerning the work of his wife in improving conditions for immigrants. These include letters to and from Caroline Chisholm; articles, mainly from Sydney newspapers; extracts from Select Committee reports; Government proclamations and despatches; and, loosely inserted, an original letter to Caroline Chisholm from William Macpherson, Clerk of the Legislative Council, New South Wales, 30 August 1844. Also, a copy of a letter, 27 November 1854, from Caroline Chisholm, Elizabeth Street North, Melbourne, to the Colonial Secretary; and a copy of the Colonial Secretary’s minute sent in reply, signed W.C.H., 27 January 1855. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 March 2005 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Victorian Medical Women’s Society (VMWS), the pioneer medical women’s organisation in Australia, was founded in 1896 as the Women’s Medical Association, at the University of Melbourne Medical School. It was established to forge a closer relationship between medical women graduates and undergraduates and to promote the interests of medical women and further their professional development by education, research and improvement of professional opportunities. By 1898 it had evolved into a postgraduate society, with meetings held in the consulting rooms of members. In 1927 it formed part of the Australian Federation of Medical Women. It continues to promote the health and welfare of all Australians, in particular women and children. It promotes the health and welfare of all Australians, in particular women and children. Members of the Victorian Medical Women’s Society founded the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Babies in 1896, the first hospital in Australia to be staffed entirely by women doctors. Dr Constance Stone was elected the first president of the VMWS with Dr Lillian Alexander its first Honorary Secretary. It celebrated its twenty-five year anniversary with a congress which displayed the activities of the hospital through demonstrations and lectures, and in March 1996 it marked its centenary with a conference held at the Monash Medical Centre. Although the VMWS celebrated its centenary in 1996, it is noted that its foundation meeting was held at the East Melbourne home of Dr Constance Stone on 22 March 1895. Others present included Clara Stone, Mary Page Stone, Lillian Alexander, Elizabeth and Annie O’Hara, Helen Sexton, Grace Vale and Margaret Whyte. In addition to promoting the health and welfare of all Australians the VMWS continues to further the professional development of medical women and produces its own newsletter. As of 2004,the VWMS: Holds bi-monthly meetings, at which a guest speaker presents a topic of clinical or medico-social consequence. Hold meeting/workshops with other groups of professional women incorporating matters of mutual interest. Sends a bi-monthly newsletter to members. Provides an annual directory of members annually to encourage professional net-working. Provides mentoring opportunities. Published resources Book Victorian Medical Women's Society: Book of Memories, Victorian Medical Women's Society, 1996 Degrees of liberation : a short history of women in the University of Melbourne, Kelly, Farley, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, 1912-1980. [manuscript]. Author Details Rosemary Francis and Jane Carey Created 4 September 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises information, including about Leone Mills’ family, working life, living through the Depression years, major relationships, equal opportunity and employment at the State Library of Victoria. Also includes correspondence with Kate Darian-Smith; newspaper articles, including an article on the battle of Two Jima, Japan in February, 1945 and an article detailing Leone Mills’ experience of a wartime romance with an American soldier killed at the battle of Two Jima; a magazine article on the same theme and an essay on life during wartime. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of the Executive Committee which was originally the Provisional Organising Committee, March 1928-1987 (10 vols). ?Minutes of various committees such as finance, welfare, international, home help, 1928-1987 (29 vols). Minutes of about 80 Victorian branches, mostly defunct, 1929-1981, (c200 vols). ?Printed agendas for Annual General Meetings, 1929-1987 (59 agendas). ?Annual reports, 1929-1987 (59 printed reports). ?Country Crafts, monthly newsletter, no.1, December 1930-1987 (c600 issues). ?Minutes of Biennial meetings of the Country Women’s Association of Australia, June 1945-1960 (1 vol.). ?Minutes of Annual General Meetings, June 1960-1987 (1 vol.). ?Scrapbook of newscuttings and photographs covering the Tenth Triennial Conference of the Associated Country Women of the World, Melbourne, October 1962 (1 vol.). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Premier John Bannon sends a message of congratulations to the International Women’s Day lunch organising committee. He also mentions celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the 1894 Bill which gave women the right to vote which will focus on the rights and status of women. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection consists of typed copies of Read’s anthropology lecture notes for the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA). It also contains lecture notes of other academics for ASOPA courses including Marie Reay, Camilla Wedgwood and June Watkins. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marisa Paterson was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory in 2020, after a career as an academic researcher including as Director of the Centre for Gambling Research at the Australian National University. Marisa Paterson was born in Melbourne on 6 November 1982, one of four children. She lived in Melbourne, but also spent significant time growing up in the Victorian high country near Omeo, where her mother’s family were cattle farmers. Paterson has acknowledged her family’s influence in fostering an early commitment to social justice and community service. After completing secondary education, she travelled overseas for a year and worked with a volunteer organisation on aid projects in South-east Asia, India and Nepal. She graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Psychology in 2004. In 2005, she moved to Canberra to undertake a Masters of Anthropology and Participatory Development at the Australian National University (ANU), with a focus on mental health and addiction research. Paterson then moved to Darwin in the Northern Territory, and was awarded a PhD scholarship at Charles Darwin University, to study the impact of gambling on remote Aboriginal communities. She lived in the Arnhem Land community of Maningrida for 18 months and was there when the Howard government announced the establishment of the Northern Territory Emergency Response Act (also known as the ‘Intervention’) in August 2007. In her inaugural speech to the ACT Legislative Assembly in 2020, Paterson noted this was a pivotal period in her life. In 2008 Paterson moved back to Canberra. She completed her PhD thesis titled: ‘From card games to poker machines: Gambling in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory’ in 2014, and in that period had three children. After working in various research related roles, she became the Director of the ANU Centre for Gambling Research in 2017. In 2019 she joined the Australian Labor Party and nominated as a candidate in the electorate of Murrumbidgee in the ACT Legislative Assembly. Just prior to nominating, Paterson made a formal complaint of sexual harassment against an academic colleague from the Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Her action resulted in other complaints about AUT staff and procedures, and ultimately lead to an independent investigation. She received a formal apology from AUT in 2022. Paterson was elected as one of five members for Murrumbidgee in October 2020. Since taking her seat in the ACT Legislative Assembly she has become the Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety and the Chair of the Environment, Climate Change and Biodiversity Committee. She has been an outspoken advocate for reducing harm associated with gambling, and successfully introduced legislation which prevents the introduction of poker machines to the ACT’s Molonglo Valley district and other new development areas, as well as lobbying for other gambling reforms. She has introduced bills aimed at reshaping sexual consent laws, sentencing laws, and changing bail laws for driving offences. She has also advocated for the establishment of a specialised court to address sexual offences in the ACT. Paterson is ACT Labor’s spokesperson on justice and gaming policies. Published resources Marisa Paterson website, https://marisapaterson.com.au Paterson, Marisa: Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory website, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/tenth-assembly-members/murrumbidgee/paterson-marisa From card games to poker machines: Gambling in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, Fogarty, Marisa, 2014, https://ris.cdu.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/22703608/Thesis_CDU_40111_Fogarty_M.pdf ACT Assembly class of 2020: Labor's Marisa Paterson on standing up for herself and the Canberra community, 2 July 2021, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7107141/my-kids-would-be-proud-paterson-standing-up-for-canberra/ Marisa Paterson reaches settlement with New Zealand university, 25 August 2022, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-25/marisa-paterson-reaches-settlement-uat-over-sexual-harassment/101370040 Author Details Kylie Scroope Created 10 May 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Bev Cains was a member of the Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly representing the Family Team for the electorate of Fraser 1979–1986. After self-government, she was unsuccessful in the 1987 election for the Federal seat of Canberra. She also stood unsuccessfully for the ACT Legislative Assembly in 1989 and 1992. During her political career she was an ardent advocate and activist for conservative values. Bev Cains was elected to the ACT House of Assembly in 1979 as a member of the Family Team. She was the party’s sole representative until the 1982 election when she was joined by Betty Hocking. The House of Assembly ceased to exist in 1986, in preparation for self-government. After unsuccessfully contesting the Federal seat of Canberra in the 1987 election, Cains headed the Family Team’s ticket for the new ACT Legislative Assembly in 1989, but was defeated. Her final attempt at winning public office was at the 1992 ACT Legislative Assembly election. She was placed second on the list for the Better Management Team but only the lead member Harold Hird was elected. During her political career Bev Cains was an ardent advocate and public activist for conservative values that had been part of her childhood and upbringing in the Catholic faith. Later in life she disagreed on some issues with the more liberal views of the Catholic hierarchy. Beverley Mary Evelyn Rogers was born at Cairns on 25 February 1938 to a family with a long history in far north Queensland; her grandmother was born in Cooktown and her mother at Irvinebank near Herberton. Beverley was educated at St Joseph’s school, Cairns and Mount St Bernard College, Herberton. She trained as a primary school teacher and taught at several Catholic schools in the Cairns diocese. In 1968, at the age of 30, Beverley Rogers married Kevin Cains at St Monica’s Cathedral, Cairns and they had five children: Cathy, twin boys David and Paul, Stephen and Anne. After moving to Canberra Bev Cains became a well-known member of the ACT community, taking part in the Canberra Branch of the Society of Women Writers and the Women’s Action Alliance. She began her campaign for the House of Assembly as an independent to advocate for family values, motivated by ‘a number of people on the southside asking her to contest’. She had formed the Family Team with Stewart Homan but she was the sole candidate elected. In her first term in the House of Assembly, she advocated against rape protestors taking part in ANZAC Day ceremonies and against what she termed ‘antiChristian’ sex education in public schools. She campaigned under the Family Team again in 1982 with five other candidates, Cains being elected and joined by Betty Hocking. Throughout her next term she advocated in support of private school education, which was a consistent stance throughout her time in office, and against the presence of what she described as ‘radical feminism’ in government schools. Cains drew significant media attention in May 1984 with a political demonstration designed to expose the weakness of controls on pornography. She had her 14-year-old daughter hire X- and R-rated videos from four stores in Canberra, despite it being illegal for people under 18 to rent such videos. Over the next two years, she was involved in controversy around the AIDS crisis and attitudes to homosexuality. She called for harsher penalties for blood donors carrying AIDS and was opposed to various AIDS awareness campaigns and sex education reforms. In her unsuccessful campaign for the Federal seat of Canberra in 1987, Cains focused on providing support for the ‘functioning family’, as well as policies of ‘no casino for Canberra and for self-government in the form of a municipal council, a ban on pornography, encouraging patriotism, and more choice and higher standards in the ACT education system’. Following her political career Cains maintained a strong public profile demonstrating against abortion and the operation of clinics, including as President of the ACT Right to Life Association. She also expressed strong opposition to the Roman Catholic Church’s advocacy for a Yes vote in the Voice referendum. In a 2023 letter to the President of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference Archbishop Costelloe of Perth, Cains wrote: ‘I am a Canberra mother, grandmother and great grandmother and throughout my life have been active in Church affairs and in movements of Christian inspiration in the broader community. At present, I am the President of the ACT Right to Life Association. The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has released, two official documents bearing on the current debate over the Voice referendum. The first was a direct call for support for the Voice by the ACBC, issued on May 11. The second was this year’s Social Justice Statement, ‘Listen, Learn, Love’, released on August 27. I am afraid I must express my strong objections to both documents. I consider them to be abuses of episcopal power, and violations of the rights of ordinary Australian Catholics to have their bishops act in accordance with their proper sacred responsibilities and sacred priorities.’ Published resources Mother of five to contest Assembly seat, 30 April 1979 Letter to the Editor: The meaning of Anzac Day, 8 May 1981 Letter to the Editor: The influence of 'pagan cults' in government schools, 12 August 1981 Letter to the Editor: Funding of education, 5 March 1983 Letter to the Editor: Radical feminism in the schools, 1 June 1983 Anti-AIDS plan for Assembly: Tough penalties mooted, 18 November 1984 Sex education seen as AIDS boost, 30 July 1985 Cains criticises bus AIDS ads, 18 June 1986 Bringing the family into political focus, 24 June 1987 Praying mum from Cairns writes play for centenary of Fatima apparitions, 10 March 2020 What the votaress said to the Bishop, 11 September 2023 Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 12 July 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Hon Dr Tricia Marie Kavanagh is a trailblazing Judge, Barrister and Arbitrator, particularly in the areas of sport and industrial relations. The Hon Dr Tricia Marie Kavanagh is a trailblazing judge, barrister and arbitrator, particularly in the areas of sport and industrial relations. An Irish Australian, Kavanagh began her career as a teacher in 1962, but five years later moved to New York to work for the Australian Consulate. Following her return to Australia, Kavanagh was Industrial Officer of the Shop Assistants Union from 1971 to 1973. She served as Childcare Commissioner on the Commonwealth Children’s Commission from 1973 until 1975. In 1975, Tricia married the Hon Laurie Brereton, a Company Director and Former Cabinet Minister of Australia and New South Wales. She has two sons. Kavanagh worked as Industrial Officer of the Australian Workers Union from 1976 to 1980 whilst she studied her Bachelor of Laws at University of Technology Sydney. She graduated and was admitted to the Bar in 1981 where she worked in employment law, workers compensation law and administrative law. In 1998, Kavanagh completed her PhD thesis on legal issues relating to drugs in sport. The same year, she was appointed to a joint Commission as a Justice of the New South Wales Industrial Court and Deputy President of the New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission. During these years, she sat on the New South Wales Racing Appeals Tribunal and as Deputy Chair of the New South Wales Medical Tribunal. She retired in 2012. Since its inception in 2000, Tricia has presided as an Arbitrator on the Court of Arbitration for Sport. She was the Australian nominated Arbitrator on the Court’s Ad-hoc Division for the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Tricia is currently Governor of the University of Notre Dame, a position she has held since 2010. She has been Director of Transplant Australia since 2009. A recipient of a liver transplant, Tricia is passionate about improving the clinical system of organ and tissue donation. In 2012, Tricia also became the Director of the Kolling foundation, the fundraising foundation for the Royal North Shore and Ryde Hospitals and the Kolling Institute. Published resources Newspaper Article Justice left hanging in the breeze, Brown, A.J., 2011, http://www.smh.com.au/national/justice-left-hanging-in-the-breeze-20110401-1crbg.html Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nicola Silbert (with Tricia Kavanagh) Created 22 February 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "An autograph book belonging to artist, sculptor and collector Thelma Clune (nee Smith). Contains autographs and sketches compiled between 1916 and 1922. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 28 August 2003 Last modified 19 February 2019 Digital resources Title: A WAAAF officer trainee prepares a meal over an open fire Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Squadron Officer Doris Carter, WAAAF Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0509gb.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of the Rev. Winifred Kiek comprising sermons, articles, printed material, correspondence and photographs. To see a photograph of the Parkin Theological College at Unley, where her husband was Principal in 1919, do a NUMBER search on PRG 225/31/4 in the South Australiana Database. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 October 2008 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Knickers Fund was a philanthropic fund initiated and ultimately administered by the Central Victorian Women in Agriculture Inc. from 1998 to 2006. The fund aimed to give ‘women in tragedy a glimpse of humour and of caring’, from farm women to farm women, to enable them to buy the small, and otherwise impossible, comforts which helped them face the demands of a particularly challenging time, such as economic crisis, or the aftermath of floods after drought. The Knickers Fund was the initiative of Joy Chambers and the Central Victorian Women in Agriculture Group. It began during a trip to Melbourne in 1998, to take part in a teleconference link to the Australian delegates at the 2nd International Women in Agriculture Conference. The women were alerted to the plight of women in Gippsland, who were experiencing floods, after drought. These women put their families’ financial needs first, and were unable, in the words of one women, to even afford to request new underwear for their birthday. The women took up a collection, and went to the Victoria Market, where they purchased the new underwear, and the Knickers Fund was born. It came into formal being in August of that year, at the monthly meeting of the CVWiA. The Bendigo Bank was chosen to support and facilitate the fund. Initially it was envisaged that it would be rotated through the committees in the various regions which hosted the annual Women on Farms Gatherings, to use according to its aims, then replenish, and pass on. The fund aimed to give ‘women in tragedy a glimpse of humour and of caring’- to enable them to buy the small comforts – a dressing gown, a haircut – which helped them face the challenge. A second possibility was that it would be passed to women in an area experiencing disaster. The community in need would be the Fund Controlling Group, and would replenish the fund when they were back on their feet, passing it along to the next group in need, ‘from women to women’. A logo was designed, featuring lace. In the event, the fund stayed with the Central Victorian women, and it was distributed to women on farms experiencing financial difficulty, with a personal note, and a flyer detailing the history of the fund, as they were brought to their attention through a travelling farm consultant. When the Central Victorian Women in Agriculture Group was wound up in 2006, it was decided after a number of meetings to transfer the funds to the Loddon-Murray Community Leadership Program, which had helped members achieve some of their key aims. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Audrey Drechsler, 1979-2009 [manuscript] Melbourne Museum Central Victorian Women in Agriculture Papers Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lorna Stone is successful Liberal Party candidate with a long history of community activity. In 1991 she was elected to the Sutherland Shire Council, remaining there until 1995 and then in 1997 she was elected to the seat of Sutherland in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly by-election. In 1999 Lorna successfully ran for the Assembly seat of Heathcote, but did not contest the 2003 election. She joined the Liberal Party in 1974 and has held many offices at every level of the Party. Lorna Stone has a Teachers Certificate from Sydney Teachers College and a Diploma Training of Deaf from Sydney CAE. She has worked as a teacher in the NSW Department of Education and has also been a Director of family companies and the HCF. She is the Patron of various local community groups and was President of the Sutherland Family Network 1996-98. She was President/Secretary of the Highfield Committee of Sutherland Hospital 1984-98 and has been Chairperson of the Southern Sydney Health Service. She is married to Keith Stone and they have a daughter and three sons. She has lived in the Sutherland Shire for over 30 years. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 9 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Mabs Taylor. Includes travel diaries and personal diaries 1948-1995; correspondence, particularly letters and aerogrammes 1957 and 1982 (when Mabel lived in Kensington, UK); photographs (most identified on reverse) of friends and family 1940’s-1990’s, and trips to Dubbo 1981, Los Angeles 1982, China and Hong Kong 1984, Aireys Inlet 1990, and the Mattahorn 1990. Also includes postcards, clippings, brochures, maps, dockets, tickets, receipts, driving licenses, menus, souvenirs, certificates and papers relating to both personal and travel matters. Also, short autobiography and papers relating to her involvement with the Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship, the Ballarat Gold Museum and Sovereign Hill, and her interest in the history of Ballarat generally. Additionally, album of photographs of Canberra, 1926. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Articles; Women and Labour Conference minutes, papers, programs, newsletter, leaflets, monograph; cassette tape; National Health Promotion Conference papers; Older Women’s Network Annual Conference papers; This collection is No.87 of the Victorian Women’s Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archive (VWLLFA)??Women’s Suffrage Centenary papers; International Conference of Women from Industrialised Nations on Women and Work program; Women and Housing Workshop conference papers; Women and Technological Change leaflet; newspaper clippings; correspondence; newspaper clippings; diaries; personal papers; monographs; periodicals including ‘Alive and WEL’, ‘Freedom to Choose’; ‘Consultative Committee of Women on Leisure and Recreation Newsletter’; ‘Health Sharing Women Newsletter of the Victorian Women’s Health Information Service’; ‘Star Victorian Action on Intellectual Disability ‘; National Council of Women of Victoria Newsletter and Quarterly Bulletin; ‘Manipulation’; ‘Unity’; ‘Northcote Community Health Centre Newsletter’; ‘Northcote Hydro Therapy Massage, Self Help Ladies Group’; ‘WAC Women’s Newsletter’; Women in Focus WAC’; ‘Women’s Liberation Newsletter’; subject files regarding abortion, arts, health; Australian Council of Women papers; CAPOW papers; Consultative Committee of Women on Leisure and Recreation papers; other major women’s organisations. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 March 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Series 01: Private correspondence, 1916-1964.?A. Correspondence with overseas students, 1961-1964.?B. Unidentified correspondence, 1916-1964.?C. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1944-1964.??Series 02: Correspondence with various charities and institutions, 1940-1964.?A. Associated Country Women of the World, 1938-1964.?B. Country Women’s Association of N.S.W., 1930-1964.?C. Other miscellaneous bodies, including Far West Children’s Health Scheme, 1940-1964. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 March 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Items 1 – 31: Research papers and research data on transport systems in Papua New Guinea, includes sea, air and road transport systems. While conducting this research Marion Ward was the Field Director of the New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Her research assistant was Barbara Mainsbridge.?Items 32 – 35: Field data from East Sepik District Field Trip, Mar 1969. The field trip was to collect data on transport in the East Sepik District. Accompanied on field trip by Amirah Inglis. Other data collected and field data processed by Barbara Mainsbridge, Research Assistant to Marion Ward at the New Guinea Resarch Unit (NGRU).?Items 36 – 45: Field Data from visit to Milne Bay District. The visit was to collect data on transport in the Milne Bay District. Accompanied by Barbara Mainsbridge, Research Assistant, who collected and processed other data and processed the field data.?Items 46 – 52: Transport information bulletins.?Items 53 -58: Reports on fresh food production and transport in the Port Moresby Hinterland. While conducting this research Marion Ward was the Field Director of the New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.?Items 59 – 65: Economic papers, maps and data relating to Ward’s study. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Women’s Electoral Lobby (Victoria) related material, including its constitution, proposed Charter, submissions, draft policies, articles on women’s issues, child care, women in the workforce, press cuttings, newsletters and other printed matter. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection comprises typescripts with annotations, revised manuscripts, corrected proofs, final proofs, and blueprints of four of Diane Fahey’s published collections. They are “Voices from the honeycomb” (1986), “Metamorphoses” (1988), “Turning the hourglass” (1990) and “Mayflies in amber” (1993). The manuscripts are all in typescript form and there is often little variation from the published text. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 6268 comprises handwritten drafts, typescripts and cuttings of Grover’s memoirs (Hold page one), short stories and articles, as well as miscellaneous cuttings, cutting books and photographs. It also includes the papers of his parents, Jessie and Harry Ehret Grover (9 boxes).??The Acc11.133 instalment represents some of the research files Michael Cannon compiled while producing the volume Hold page one. Memoirs of Monty Grover editor. Includes correspondence, newspaper extracts and other papers dealing with genealogical aspects of the Grover family and articles about, or by, Montague Grover. Amongst other material, one file contains Montague Grover’s will and certain papers related to Harry Grover, Montague’s son (2 boxes). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 December 2007 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection comprises papers pertaining to Rowley’s biography of Christina Stead. They include correspondence, research files, transcripts and notes of interviews, manuscripts and other papers. The major correspondents are Edith Anderson, Leda & Stanley Burnshaw, Gwen Walker-Smith, Florence James, Jessie & Ettore Rella, Ruth Hall, David Stead, Ron Geering, Clifton Fadiman, Kate Llwellyn, Mary Bransten, Nadine Mendelson, Elizabeth Harrower, Gai Steel, Michael Bott, Margaret Harris, Michael Gold, Edith Anderson, Anne & Harry Bloom, Gilbert Stead, Fred Warburg, Oliver Stallybrass, Leah & Philip Harvey, & Aida Kotlarsky. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A student activist and ALP member, Alice Salomon’s first time as a candidate was in the unwinnable seat of Vaucluse in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 2003. Alice Salomon came to Australia from Belgium as a baby. She grew up in the eastern suburbs of Sydney and was educated at Bellevue Hill and Woollahra Public Schools, and Sydney Girls’ High School. She gained an Arts degree from the University of New South Wales, and did a six month exchange to the University of Glasgow in 2002. Alice Salomon was active in student affairs, being elected Co-Women’s Officer in 2001 for the UNSW Student Representative Council. She was also Co-Women’s Officer and Co-Trade Union and Community Liaison Officer for the National Organisation of Labor Students. She helped in the organization of the 2001 Network of Women Students Australia Conference. In 2003, she was an Organiser with the CEPU. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 2 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jane Foss Barff was a leading advocate for women’s education at the University of Sydney. She was also active in charitable and church activities. Education Barff was among the second group of women to enrol at the University of Sydney (in 1883), where she studied classics, chemistry, physics and mathematics. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1886, with first class honours in classics. In 1889 she became the second woman to receive a Masters in Arts from the University of Sydney. Career Barff undertook a study tour of England in 1886-67, including visits to Girton and Newnham women’s colleges; on her return to Australia she taught at Ascham, and later at Kambala, both schools in Sydney, New South Wales. She left school teaching in 1892 to succeed Helen Phillips as the tutor to women students at the University of Sydney, the only female post on the teaching staff. She resigned from the position in 1899 to marry Henry Ebenezer Barff, the university registrar and librarian. Activism/Community work Barff’s involvement with Sydney University women’s organisations was extensive. Between 1891-96 she supervised classes at Harrington Street night school for girls, which was established by the Sydney University Women’s Society. During this period she joined forces with Louisa McDonald in 1892 to form the Sydney University Women’s Association. She had a long involvement with the Council of the Women’s College, University of Sydney, between 1891-1937. She also served as President of the University Women’s Settlement between 1914-15, 1919-24. In honour of her contribution, The Sydney Central student services building at the University of Sydney was named after her. Barff was also a member of the National Council of Women; the Mothers’ Union; and the St Catherine’s Church of England School for Girls. Published resources Resource Section Barff, Jane Foss (1863-1937), Bygott, Ursula, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10024b.htm Book The History of the Women's College within the University of Sydney, Hole, W. Vere and Anne H. Treweeke, 1953 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 10 September 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The first meeting of the Girl Guides Association of Australia Incorporated was held in Melbourne in 1926. The formation of this national body came over a decade after the first guides group was formed in Tasmania, the Girl Peace Scouts. Other states quickly followed and by the time a national body was established, all states in Australia had guides groups. The Association celebrated their seventy-fifth birthday in 1985 and at that time had approximately 100,000 members."
    },
    {
        "text": "Material documenting research into the removal of the Commonwealth Marriage Bar. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2013 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Women’s Art Movement comprising constitution; minutes of meetings; correspondence; papers and photographs relating to exhibitions; art unions; and other art and feminist groups; posters; cassettes; videotapes; flyers; catalogues; newsletters and notebooks. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 audiocassette (approximately 41 min. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records of Austral Salon 1890-1982, includes annual reports 1914-1984; minutes 1902-1982; financial records 1906-1974, membership lists 1890-1925, scrapbooks, ca. 1931-1980; autograph books, 1891-1983; membership applications and nomination papers 1920s-1970s; visitors’ books 1929-1975; attendance registers 1966-1975; ephemera 1921-ca. 1982; activity books 1929-1974 and correspondence 1916-1979. (F BOX 2822 is a scrapbook ca. 1969-1980 containing press cuttings, photographs, invitations and letters) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection comprises field notes made by Ryan in Papua New Guinea, drafts of manuscripts and articles, correspondence, research data, diaries, photographs, publications, maps and reel-to-reel tapes. In addition, there is a tape recorder and a typewriter. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anna Burke, a member of the Australian Labor Party, was elected to the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Australia representing Chisholm, Victoria,between 1998 and 2016. After the 2007 election, she was elected as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and in 2012 assumed the Speaker’s role until August 2013. On 16 January 2017, Burke was appointed as a full-time Member of the General, Freedom of Information, and Veterans’ Appeals Divisions of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, with her term to end on 15 January 2024. In the 2019 Australia Day Honours Burke was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for “distinguished service to the Parliament of Australia, particularly as Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to the community”. Anna Burke completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from Monash University and a Masters in Communication (Hons) from the University of Melbourne. She was an Industrial Officer with Victorian Roads, the Victorian Institute of Technology, and the Finance Sector Union before being elected to the House of Representatives in 1998. She has served on the House of Representatives Standing Committee for Economics, Finance and Public Administration; and its Joint Statutory Committee for Corporations and Financial Services, and Public Accounts and Audit. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 19 July 2007 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Collection includes interviews with: Maya Cifali, Director of Institute for Aboriginal Development; Freda Glynn, former Director of Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association; Wenten Rabuntja, ex-chair of Central Land Council; Alec Kruger regarding old Bungalow; Gary Cartwright, Daguragu Council; Erica Hampton, school teacher at Kalkaringi School; Wattie Creek tribal elders; Jack Gibbs and Nancy Croft regarding Kahlin Compound, Darwin; Lindsay Croft interviewing Joe Croft Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 July 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nora Fisher represents the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) Association of New South Wales on the Australian Women in War Project working group. Fisher has been active in both the state and national WRAAC Associations since joining in 1977. She has been the New South Wales secretary and editor of the newsletter Best Times. Fisher is the current secretary of the WRAAC Association Australia. The daughter of Leslie Gladstone and Norah Cecilia (née Keane) Fisher, Nora Fisher attended St Aidens Parish School Maroubra, with the Brigidine Nuns. After qualifying for the Intermediate Certificate Fisher joined the New South Wales Public Service (1944) and worked as an office assistant with the Department of Education. In 1954 she transferred to the New South Wales Public Works Department, where she passed specific Public Service Examinations which entitled her to be designated a ‘Clerk’. This was somewhat unusual at the time and presented a problem for the Department. Eventually she was granted a Male Grade 1 clerical position and then preceded through the Graded positions to Grade 8 – again, not usually an opportunity for females. Fisher retired in 1985 and was awarded the New South Wales Government Medal for Meritorious Service. On 10 June 1953 Nora Fisher enlisted in the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps Civilian Military Force (WRAAC CMF), Regimental Number F2/1523. She was one of the first 100 to enlist in the newly formed 4 WRAAC Company in ‘P’ Block, Victoria Barracks. Her commitment was one night per week, some weekends and a 14 day camp. After a year of recruit training Fisher was detached to training Corps. She was sent to Corps Signals where she and a group of WRAAC trained with National Servicemen and volunteers in the use of the signalling equipment of the time, i.e. wireless, teleprinter, and torn tape (punched tape). Although detached to the Signals Corps, Fisher was required to attend Parades at the WRAAC Company, assist with training and at recruit camps. She paraded at Georges Heights, Lidcombe, Dundas, and Victoria Barracks. Camps were conducted in Gan Gan Military Camp (near Nelsons Bay) and sometimes at the Sigs Units at Lidcombe, Dundas, and Georges Heights when she was ‘rationed and quartered’ (WRAAC School). During her service with the WRAAC, Fisher was promoted from Corporal to Sergeant, Lieutenant and Captain. She transferred to the Reserve of Officers on 13 August 1964 – serving 11 years and 2 months. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2003 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Leaflets, newsletters, invitations, posters, reports, and event notices relating to International Women’s Day events. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "After completing her formal schooling Mary Taylor Burnell (Angel) enrolled in a Bachelor of Science degree at Adelaide University. Two years later she transferred to medicine, graduating MB BS in 1931. Burnell began her career as Resident Medical Officer at Adelaide Children’s Hospital, becoming Honorary Anaesthetist in 1934. During this period, she became the first woman member of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) and secretary for the South Australian section. She resigned from the Children’s Hospital in 1937 but maintained private practice with her surgeon husband. During WWII she returned to public work as her anaesthetic expertise was required at both the Children’s Hospital and Royal Adelaide Hospital. She continued working at both hospitals after the war. Burnell was the first woman elected as ASA President in 1935. She was a Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1952 and in 1955 was elected to the Board of the Faculty of Anaesthetists. In 1966 she was elected Dean of the Faculty of Anaesthetists. She was the first woman to hold this position, and possibly the first woman in the world to be elected Dean of a specialty medical college’s faculty. Mary Burnell resigned from public work in 1968, and from private practice in 1969. Author Details Monica Cronin with Alannah Croom Created 3 March 2019 Last modified 7 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Australian Women’s Suffrage Society was founded in 1888 by Brettena Smyth. Smyth had previously been a member of the Victorian Women’s Suffrage Society but some members apparently objected to her outspoken opinions on birth control precipitating her decision to form a breakaway suffrage group. The new Society was very much linked with Smyth’s advocacy of every woman’s right to information about and access to contraceptives and she distributed advertisements for contraceptives, which she sold from her drapery and druggist shop in North Melbourne, at the Society’s meetings. Smyth had become convinced that the major problem facing most women was not the lack of political rights so much as frequent and involuntary childbearing. The Society had both male and female members. Particularly, Dr William Maloney, a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly who introduced several (unsuccessful) women’s suffrage bills into parliament between 1889 and 1894. The Society apparently disbanded with Brettena Smyth’s death in 1898. Archival note: As of 2003, it appears that there is no specific collection of papers relating to the Society or any of its principal members. Its activities were, however, extensively reported in the Melbourne press and women’s journals. Published resources Book Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 Votes for women : the Australian story, Lees, Kirsten., 1995 The Australian Woman's Sphere, 1900-1905 Thesis The 'Woman Question' in Melbourne, 1880-1914, Kelly, Farley, 1983 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection [Pamphlets relating to Australian women's suffrage] Author Details Jane Carey Created 11 February 2004 Last modified 16 March 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 19 August 2003 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Wing Officer (Wing Off) Audrey Herring WAAAF Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This collection is No.7 of the Victorian Women’s Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archive (VWLLFA)??National Women’s Advisory Council Equal Opportunity newspaper clippings, how-to-vote handouts, news releases; miscellanous newspaper clippings; periodicals; leaflets.??This material was inherited by the VWLLFA without any details of who compiled it or why. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joanne Brooker is an internationally successful caricaturist who worked on the Brisbane Courier Mail for ten years. She has won several media awards, while employed by News Limited, but also subsequently as a freelance artist. Thanks to the internet, Joanne Brooker’s art is known all over the world. It’s quite possible that she is better known abroad than at home! She has been asked to exhibit in Barcelona, Scotland, France, China, Bolivia and Columbia, and has left her mark throughout southeast Asia, India, Turkey and Iran, traveling solo to that country during the Danish cartoon protests in order to explore the power of the political cartoon in contemporary cultural contexts. She currently (2008) lives in Dubai and runs classes for aspiring cartoonists and caricaturists. Prior to enjoying this international reputation, she established one in Australia for her editorial artwork. Under the name, Applegate, Joanne created editorial illustration for News Ltd newspapers for ten years. During this time, she won several awards, including Best Artist at the Queensland Media Awards and Best Artist, Best Caricaturist and Best Realistic Illustration at the Stanley awards for Media. She continued to win media awards after she went freelance in 2001. Not bad for a mother of two who came late to the art game! Brooker started traveling at a young age. Born in Toronto, Canada, to an accountant mother and a father who was an industrial scientist ( ‘not creative types at all’) she was raised in Auckland, New Zealand, but established her professional reputation in Australia. She came to newspapers via a strange pathway, although perhaps the general contours of it were not that unfamiliar to editorial artists. Living in Brisbane and after raising her two daughters ‘long enough that they could get their own lunches and get themselves to school,’ she decided to try to make a living, not pin money, out of art. She worked in advertising and discovered how much she hated it. She then moved on to designing T-Shirts for Expo 88 in Brisbane, and later specialized in Croc and Dingo T- Shirts, which were very big sellers in the 1980s. From crocs and dingoes she then went to the print media. She wangled her way into the Brisbane Courier-Mail by presenting them with a series of naked footballer caricatures, all tactfully covered with large footballs. “Balls got me in,’ she says, ‘balls kept me there.’ She worked at the Courier Mail for ten years, with her work syndicated throughout the News Ltd network. Newspaper work was fun for most of the time – the challenge and drama associated with daily deadlines established a creative environment that was exhilarating and stressful. ‘On any day I might jump from a full page colour spread to a series of gags. I never knew what might be happening next,’ she said. ‘I especially liked doing court drawings. I loved seeing my work in print and knowing that hundreds of people were enjoying it over coffee. The fact that it ended up under puppies or in parrot cages was the sobering part, however. Tomorrow was always another day!’ The work was particular satisfying when working with a journalist or editor who ‘appreciates what I can do for them.’ Fortunately, she did have a number of colleagues at the time who did, and a fellow artist, Tony Champ, to inspire her. After ten years, however, she felt the need to get away from the ‘fluoro lights and computer screens’ and extend herself beyond the boundaries that irreverent editorial illustrators such as herself found themselves increasingly knocking up against in the Australian mainstream media. Newspaper work had been rewarding and her contributions received a good degree of public recognition. She made a deliberate push to win awards when she was working for News Ltd because she was told by someone whose opinion she respected that she would not be taken as seriously as the male artists until she won the same awards that the men won. However, the awards that she is most proud of are the ones she won AFTER leaving the newspaper in 2001, because she felt that these were won solely on her own merits. As an editorial illustrator, Brooker was required to be a Cartoonist, Illustrator, Artist, Caricaturist. Her favourite style, and the one she has focused on since going freelance, is caricature. In China, for instance, she worked as a Caricature Entertainer, someone who draws fast on the spot caricatures of people. In China she was required to create one caricature per four minutes, six hours a day, six days a week. ‘This trained me well to continue this work as part of my business,” she says. “Luckily I really enjoy it.’ She also enjoys drawing celebrities but she says that ‘for real power I love to draw politicians, because it gives me the opportunity to put forward my opinions. This is why so many countries are afraid of the caricaturist in print, we can say far more with a pen than they can with words. The power of the illustrator’s pen was laid bare for her in the wake of the Danish Cartoon Controversy of 20005, when a furore was created after a Danish cartoonist depicted the prophet Mohammed in a way that caused concern amongst the international Muslim community. Brooker had been invited to Iran to exhibit her artwork and the controversy arose coincidentally. ‘I decided that I wasn’t happy with the bias reporting within Australia of the situation,’ she said, ‘and decided to find out for myself. If a cartoon can represent the imbalance of understanding between cultures and religions then cartooning must have a greater power than it is credited with.’ Events 1990 - Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 November 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sesca Zelling was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1960 in recognition of her service to women and the community of South Australia. Daughter of: Donald Robert Ross and Sesca Lewin (née Somerville) Anderson. The eldest of six children, Sesca Zelling attended Methodist Ladies College (now Annesley College) for six years. During her time at the college she was awarded the Old Scholars’ Prize for qualities of leadership and contribution to the life of the school; topped the State in Leaving Botany 1934; appointed Prefect 1935; captain of B tennis team 1935; Co-dux 1935; Head Prefect 1936; captain of A netball team 1936 and member of A tennis team in 1936. In 1941 she obtained her LLB from University of Adelaide and Trevor Griffin MLC in his obituary (Adelaide Advertiser 29 Dec. 2001) writes “After her admission to legal practice in 1941, she retained her interest in university affairs, particularly those that related to young women – she was president of the Australian Federation of University Women, a member of the Council of St Ann’s College and was the third woman to be appointed to the Council of the University of Adelaide. She was also involved in an official capacity with the Marriage Guidance Council and the YWCA.” From 1942 until 1947 she was a prosecuting officer for the Deputy Commonwealth Crown Solicitor and was appointed a justice of the peace in 1945. At the time of her death she was the longest-serving woman member of the Royal Association of Justices. In 1950 she married fellow lawyer Howard Edgar Zelling and they shared the same offices until 1969 when her husband became a judge of the SA Supreme Court. A member of the National Council of Women of SA (NCW), Sesca Zelling was president from 1957 until 1960. She had previously (1954-1957) been vice-president of the NCW of Australia and was a trustee of the NCW War Memorial Fund 1954-1976. In 1970 she was appointed honorary life president of the SA division in recognition for her work with the National Council of Women. At the time of her death she was Chair (1995-2001) of The Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden, having been a trustee since 1962. (Source: National Council of Women SA) Events 1942 - 1947 Prosecuting officer, Deputy Commonwealth Crown Solicitor 1942 - 2001 Member Lyceum Club 1971 - 2001 Member Queen Adelaide Club 1953 - 1956 Council member Law Society of SA 1949 - 1951 President, Women Graduates Association, University of Adelaide 1957 - 1960 Vice-president Marriage Guidance Council (SA) 1960 - 1963 Board member YWCA 1961 - 1962 President Liberal Women’s Educational Association 1945 - 1949 President MLC Old Scholars’ Association 1962 - 2001 Trustee The Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden 1995 - 2001 Chair The Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden 1947 - 1950 Secretary Law Society of SA 1957 - 1960 President, National Council of Women (SA) 1946 - 1957 Convener of National Council of Women Standing committee for laws and suffrage 1954 - 1957 Australian vice-president National Council of Women 1954 - 1976 Trustee National Council of Women War Memorial Fund 1970 - 2001 Life vice-president of National Council of Women SA 1957 - 1957 Government appointee Women’s Reception during visit to South Australia by Queen Mother Published resources Book Greater than their knowing: a glimpse of South Australian women 1836-1986, National Council of Women of South Australia, 1986 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Australia 1962, Alexander, Joseph A, 1962 Newspaper Article Law and society before self, Griffin, Trevor, 2001 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 June 2002 Last modified 10 August 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Anne Fraser Bon had just turned twenty and was newly married when she arrived in Victoria, from Scotland, in 1858. Her husband, John, who was twenty-eight years her senior, was already well-established in pastoralism at Wappan Station in the Bonnie Doon area of south-eastern Victoria. Anne accompanied him to what was then a remote area and bore five children in quick succession. She was widowed at the age of thirty, in 1868, when John Bon died of a heart attack. Unusually for a women, after her husband’s death, Anne Bon assumed management of the station. She was also unusual amongst her peers for her attempts to act on the behalf of the indigenous people of the region. A devout Presbyterian and humanitarian, Anne Bon supported Aborigines’ resistance to increasing state regimes of control and surveillance. While some of her ideas and goals for the ‘improvement’ of Aboriginal people now seem paternalistic and outdated, many members of indigenous communities nevertheless expressed gratitude for her assistance in thwarting if not defeating the diminution of Aboriginal entitlements and civil rights. It was a cause she remained actively committed to until her death in 1936. Known locally as ‘The Widow of Wappan’, after the death of her husband, Anne Bon was a formidable woman who fought strenuously to protect the limited rights of Aboriginal people, a cause her husband had also supported while he was alive. Wappan offered sanctuary to indigenous people, and was a port of call for elders in their travels. It was while he was travelling that William Barak, an important indigenous leader of the nineteenth century, met Anne Bon. They formed a special relationship born from a sense of shared loss – both had experienced the death of a child. Anne Bon kept in contact with William Barak when he settled in Coranderrk, Healesville. When her husband John died in 1868, she was determined to raise her four children and continue to run Wappan Station. She also bought a house in Kew, Melbourne and would regularly catch the train from Bonnie Doon Station to Melbourne to attend to business matters. It was to her Kew residence that William Barak brought his dying son in 1881. Anne helped William take his son to the Melbourne Hospital but he died soon afterwards. This tragedy spurred Anne on to pressure the Victorian government into conducting an inquiry into the management of Coranderrk Mission. She was a copious letter writer and became a thorn in the side of the Board for the Protection of Aborigines (BPA). When her efforts at changing conditions for Aborigines proved fruitless, she then tried to influence government policy from within. She became the first woman appointed to the Board for the Protection of Aborigines (BPA) in 1904, holding this position until her death in 1936. A measure of the extent to which Anne Bon valued her relationship with indigenous people in general and respected William Barak in particular can be seen in the way she commemorated Barak after his death. When her husband died, Bon had a monument constructed in his honour, upon which she mounted his name and that of the child who passed away. When Wappan was compulsorily acquired by the State Rivers and Water Commission to be flooded and make way for the Eildon Weir, Anne Bon decided that she should move this monument. At the same time, William Barak passed away. Anne engaged some tradespeople to scratch from this monument her husband’s name and her child’s name, and re-inscribe it in memory of William Barak. That monument is now located in the Coranderrk Aboriginal cemetery. Anne Bon’s philanthropic activity was wide in scope. In addition to her work for the local Indigenous population, she used her money to convert her Kew home into a refuge for the sick and needy. She gave generously to the Austin Hospital and served on its ladies’ committee. She was also a member of the first committee of the Charity Organisation Society, and a supporter of the Salvation Army throughout her life. She set up a school in Melbourne for Chinese children. She gave substantial donations to Presbyterian churches in Mansfield and Bonnie Doon. She brought patients from state mental institutions to stay at Wappan where they could enjoy the comforts of her home life. During WWI she donated an ambulance to the Belgian Army – for which she was decorated by King Leopold in 1921 – and gave £20 to every blinded soldier in Victoria at Christmas time each year. Anne Bon retired to the Windsor Hotel, Melbourne, where she lived the last years of her long life. Published resources Resource Section Ten Victorian Women, Public Record Office Victoria, 2005, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/fl/flten06.htm Anne Bon - Project Wappan, Matthew, Heather, 2003, http://www.mansfield.vic.gov.au/projectwappan/index.html A Great Form of Love: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Lemon, Barbara, 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/ Bon, Ann Fraser (1838 - 1936), Gillison, Joan, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070343b.htm Book Rebellion at Coranderrk, Barwick, Diane, 1998 Letters from Aboriginal Women in Victoria, 1867-1926, Nelson, Elizabeth, Smith, Sandra and Grimshaw, Patricia, 2002, http://hdl.handle.net/11343/42073 The Widow of Wappan: The Story of Ann Fraser Bon and the Wappan Project., Matthew, Heather, 2003 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre Supplementary Inward Registered Correspondence Correspondence Files State Library of Victoria Devil's river country : selections from the history of the Mansfield district, [no later than 1979]. [manuscript]. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Anne Bon Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elected a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, Audette Exel is a founder of the Adara Group, established in 1998, and Chief Executive Officer of its Australian private placement and corporate advisory business, Adara Advisors. A qualified lawyer, she has used her knowledge of corporate law to establish not for profit businesses that help to generate wealth for women and children in developing nations. Her business success has seen her recognised with multiple awards over the years. She was the recipient of the Economic Justice and Community Impact Award from the Young Presidents Organisation Social Enterprise Networks in 2010. In 2012, Exel won the Telstra 2012 NSW Commonwealth Bank Business Owner Award, and she was the winner of the 2012 NSW Telstra Business Woman of the Year Award. She was also one of The Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence in Australia in 2012. In 2013, Exel was awarded an honorary Order of Australia for ‘service to humanity through the establishment of the Adara Group to provide specialist care to women and children in Uganda and Nepal’ and was recognised by Forbes as a ‘Hero of Philanthropy’ in 2014. Audette Exel was born in New Zealand in 1963, the second child of Mary and David Exel. Her father, journalist David Exel, covered the Vietnam War for the New Zealand Press Association in the 1960s and early 1970s, during which time his family was based in Singapore. This gave Exel the opportunity to experience multiculturalism first hand. It had a great impact on her. Following her schooling, Exel, undertook a law degree in Australia at the University of Melbourne. Already a passionate advocate for a variety of social justice issues (she was particularly active in the anti-apartheid rallies that coincided with the 1981 Springbok World tour), Exel realised during her time at university that if she was going to create significant change for people in need, she needed to understand the worlds of business, money and power. To the shock of many of her friends, who assumed Exel would use her Arts/Law degree to work in the field of Human Rights, she instead began a career in corporate law at Allen, Allen and Hemsley in Sydney. This was followed by a stint in Hong Kong with UK law firm Linklaters & Paines. She quickly developed a reputation as a specialist in international finance, an interest that would see her move to Bermuda in 1992. Exel began her time in Bermuda working with a small law firm, but at age 30, she became one of the youngest women ever to run a publicly traded bank when she became Managing Director of Bermuda Commercial Bank (BCB), one of Bermuda’s three banks. During her tenure, she managed to bring the then failing bank to profitability, returning an average increase in profits of over 75% p.a., increasing assets by US$280 million, and increasing the assets under administration, custody and trust by over US$2 billion to US$4.5 billion. With Exel at the helm, the BCB became the best performing bank on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX). During 1995 and 1996, Exel was also Chairman of the BSX, and from 1999 to 2005, she was on the Board of the Bermuda Monetary Authority, Bermuda’s central financial services regulator, and was Chair of its Investment Committee. Despite her great success at BCB, by 1997 Exel was yearning to return to her social justice roots. She began to think of ways she could use the skills she had developed over her career to help people in need. She spent the next year travelling and learning about development work before beginning the Adara Group (formerly the ISIS Group). The Adara Group was born from Exel trying to reimagine ways of achieving equality, wealth, security and hope in the world, and was driven by two underlying philosophies. The first was the belief that all people deserve good quality health and education services, no matter where they live. The second is that the halls of business and power have incredible potential for creating change for communities in need. Given these guiding principles, Adara Development implements international development work, undertaking projects in three main areas of expertise: maternal infant child health, remote and rural community development, and care, support, and reintegration of children at risk. Adara also conducts detailed research to ensure projects are always evidence-based, and shares the knowledge it has gained locally, nationally and globally in the hope of making a greater impact. It is estimated that since the group began in 1998 the organisation has reached hundreds of thousands of people. The principles also inform the operations of Adara Advisors which Exel describes as ‘a business for purpose rather than profit’. It exists solely to fund Adara Development’s administration costs and emergency project costs. At the end of 2014, Adara Advisors had donated more than US$6.89 million (AU$8.3 million) to Adara Development. This innovative partnership model allows 100% of all other donations received by Adara Development to go directly to improving health and education for women, children and communities living in poverty. Alongside her work with Adara, Exel is also the Vice Chairman of the Board of Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association Trustee (Bermuda) Limited. Steamship Mutual is one of the world’s largest Protection and Indemnity clubs for the shipping industry. She is also a Non-Executive Director of Suncorp Group Limited, an ASX 20 company. Exel’s achievements through the Adara Group have seen her recognised with multiple awards over the years. She was the recipient of the Economic Justice and Community Impact Award from the Young Presidents Organisation Social Enterprise Networks in 2010. In 2012, Exel won the Telstra 2012 NSW Commonwealth Bank Business Owner Award, and she was the winner of the 2012 NSW Telstra Business Woman of the Year Award. She was also one of The Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence in Australia in 2012. In 2013, Exel was awarded an honorary Order of Australia for ‘service to humanity through the establishment of the Adara Group to provide specialist care to women and children in Uganda and Nepal’ and was recognised by Forbes as a “Hero of Philanthropy” in 2014. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Rebel With a Cause: How Audette Exel is bridging worlds, Richards, Nicole, 2014, http://www.generositymag.com.au/rebel-with-a-cause-how-audette-exel-is-bridging-worlds/ Banker Saves 20,000 From Nepal to Uganda With Her Profits, McDonald, Sarah and Mellor, William, 2013, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-30/banker-saves-20-000-from-nepal-to-uganda-with-her-profits Resource Section Audette Exel: High Flyer, Leser, David, 2012, https://davidleser.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/audette-exel-high-flyer/ Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nikki Henningham and Audette Exel Created 1 June 2015 Last modified 12 February 2019 Digital resources Title: Audette Exel Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Illuminated Address presented to Lady MacCallum on the occasion of the unveiling of her portrait, 27 November 1933, at University Settlement House. Includes signatures of the Women’s Union, Council of the Church of England Grammar School and the Settlement Mothers’ Club, and 172 other University women. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 14 September 2009 Last modified 14 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jean Primrose Whyte was born in 1923 to parents Ernest Primrose (Prim) Whyte and Kitty Macully. She spent the first ten years of her life at Yadlamalka, a sheep station north of Port Augusta, before attending St Peter’s Collegiate Girls’ School. Jean was employed at the Public Library of South Australia whilst she undertook studies at the University of Adelaide, from which she graduated in 1946. Jean became a professional librarian after taking the examinations of the Australian Institute of Librarians and in 1959 she joined the Fisher Library at the University of Sydney. Jean graduated with a Master of Arts in librarianship from the University of Chicago in 1965. Followed by a moved to Canberra in 1972, she took up the position of Director of Information, Reference and Research at the National Library of Australia. In 1975 Jean became the foundation professor in the Graduate School of Librarianship at Monash University. She retired as an emeritus professor in 1988 and in this same year Jean was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia ‘for service to education particularly in the field of librarianship’. From 1959 to 1971 Jean edited the Australian library journal. Monash University awarded Jean an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1996. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Jean Whyte, 1881-2009 (bulk 1951-1995) [manuscript] Education for librarianship in the United States and in Australia [manuscript] : a comparison / by Jean P. Whyte National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Jean Primrose Whyte, Professor Librarianship, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of South Australia Jean P. Whyte : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The correspondence consists of postcards from Vivian Smith and letters from various friends including Frank Kellaway and Thomas Riddell. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jean Melzer served as an Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria in the Federal Parliament from 18 May 1974 until 30 June 1981. She was defeated at the 1980 election. In 1984 she stood unsuccessfully for the Senate as a representative of the Nuclear Disarmament Party. Jean Melzer continued to serve the community after she left the Federal Parliament. She participated actively in the University of the Third Age (U3A) in Victoria becoming president of the U3A Network in 2004. She is currently serving on the Committee. In 2004 in recognition of her work, she was awarded both the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) and the Victorian Premier’s Senior Achiever Award. In 2006 her name was added to the Victorian Woman’s Honour Roll for her contribution to Community Services, Government Local State and Federal. Events 2006 - 2006 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section Farewell to a great Australian anti nuclear Senator, Wauchope, Noel, 2013, https://nuclearnewsaustralia.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/farewell-to-a-great-australian-anti-nuclear-senator/ Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 17 April 2008 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A pioneer for women doctors and a tireless committee-woman, Lucy Gullett was inspired by the success of the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital in Melbourne to found a hospital run by women for women. The Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children, as it became, opened in 1922. Gullett was also a one-time candidate (Independent) for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of North Sydney in 1932. Lucy Edith Gullett was born in Melbourne, daughter of journalist Henry Gullett and his wife Lucy (née Willie). The family later moved to Sydney, where Lucy Gullett was educated at Sydney Girls’ High School and the University of Sydney. She completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 1901 and became first resident medical officer at the Crown Street Women’s Hospital. From 1902 she was resident surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children in Brisbane. In 1906, Gullett’s father bought her a general practice in Bathurst, NSW, but five years later she returned home to live with her unmarried sister, Minnie. Lucy Gullett seemed to collect eccentric characters. Her sister was ‘a Shakespeare ‘buff’, an enthusiastic member of the Lunacy Reform League of Australia, and a generous supporter of stray animals, drunks and ex-patients from lunatic asylums to whom she devoted most of her inheritance’, according to Ann Mitchell of the ADB. In 1922, Gullett set up the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children (Sydney) with Dr Harriet Biffin, who was known for visiting her patients in a dog-cart and had a ‘flair’ for Greek. Her mother, Mrs Henry Gullett, wrote the ‘fashionable intelligence’ of the Ladies’ Column in the Australasian under the pseudonym Humming Bee. The Gullett family were comfortably off, and Lucy and Minnie were able to persuade their sisters to contribute to a commission from Bertram Mackennal costing £10,000, installed in 1926. The six-figure group was a Shakespeare memorial proposed by Henry Gullett before his death in 1914. Lucy Gullett was a member of Queen’s Club. She travelled to Europe during the first World War to serve in a French Red Cross military hospital in Lyons. She was honorary physician to the Renwick Hospital for Infants (1918-32). Later, from 1934-49, she was on the council of the Sydney District Nursing Association. In 1932 she stood unsuccessfully as women’s candidate for the Legislative Assembly seat of North Sydney, but was elected to the executive committee of the United Associations of Women in 1935, serving as vice-president in 1936-38 and 1943. Gullett’s plans for what became the Rachel Forster were inspired by the success of Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, and she founded the New South Wales Association of Registered Medical Women in 1921 to get things started. Like so many hospitals, the Rachel Forster began as an outpatient dispensary. Gullett and Biffin ‘shouldered most of the early financial responsibility’, according to the hospital history. In 1941 Gullett announced her next project, and the Lucy Gullett Convalescent Home was opened in Bexley in November 1946. Described as ‘short and thickset like her father’, Lucy Gullet was ‘unfailingly kind-hearted’ and had ‘instant rapport with the working-class women who were her patients’. On her death in 1949, the majority of her £15,918 estate was left to her family. Published resources Resource Section Gullett, Lucy Edith (1876-1949), Mitchell, Ann M., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090133b.htm Book Rachel Forster Hospital: the first fifty years, Cohen, Lysbeth, 1972 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia Dr. Lucy Edith Gullett Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 30 January 2006 Last modified 21 January 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers relating to the business management of the club. Records relating to fund raising and club activities. Minutes of meetings, reports and correspondence of the Coordinating Committee of Soroptimist Clubs of Australia and New Zealand and for the conferences of the Soroptimist Clubs of Australia and New Zealand. Reports and circulars of Soroptimist International Association. Federation of Soroptimist Clubs of Great Britain and Ireland. Correspondence and minutes of meetings of the Divisional Union of Soroptimist Clubs of A.C.T. and the Southern Highlands of N.S.W. Correspondence with specific overseas clubs. Also newsletters from other clubs. Records of communication with the various community organisations assisted by the Club. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection consists of the secretary’s register and includes minutes of meetings and general meetings, debates and list of executive officers.??Guide available at the repository Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 7 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "NOTE: DATE RANGE SHOWN IS NOTIONAL ONLY. PLEASE CHECK AND AMEND AT ACCESS EXAMINATION (AND DELETE THIS MESSAGE) Author Details Judith Ion Created 12 August 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A young man who is coming to terms with his homosexuality meets an air steward acquaintance as he waits for a bus. His feelings about the meeting are juxtaposed with his impressions of a city life.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary Ann Bin-Sallik has played a monumental role in the advancement of Aboriginal studies with a proliferation of posts in the tertiary sector. She has been part of government committees of inquiry into Aboriginal employment; discrimination in employment; and the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. In 2017, Mary Ann Bin-Sallik was made an Officer in the General division of the Order of Australia ‘for distinguished service to tertiary education as an academic, author and administrator, particularly in the area of Indigenous studies and culture, and as a role model and mentor. Mary Ann Bin-Sallik, descendant of the Kija people of the Turkey Creek area, was born in Broome, Western Australia. She trained as a nurse in the Northern Territory. After graduation from the Darwin Hospital, she worked in various settlements in the Northern Territory for 17 years. In 1975 she moved to South Australia where she completed an Associate Diploma in Social Work in 1979. In 1980-85 she was coordinator of the Aboriginal Taskforce at the South Australian Institute of Technology. 1985 saw her commence a Masters in Education at Harvard University in Boston, and in 1989 she completed her doctorate in education, also at Harvard. On her return to Australia, Bin-Sallik was appointed Senior Lecturer in Aboriginal Studies at the South Australian College of Advanced Education. She became Head of the School of Aboriginal Studies and Teacher Education at the University of South Australia in 1990. Since then she has held a number of positions in education, including the Ranger Chair in Aboriginal Studies, Director of CINCRM and Dean of the Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies at Northern Territory University. She was also Dean of the College of Indigenous Education and Research at the University of South Australia, and a Justice of the Peace. Bin-Sallik has served on numerous national and state committees, including the Commonwealth Government’s Committee of Review of Aboriginal Employment and Training, the National Aboriginal Employment Development Committee and the National Committee Against Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. She has been a member of the National Population Council, and the Council of the Institute of Aboriginal Studies (now AIATSIS). She was a Co-Commissioner for the Human Rights Commissions’ Enquiry into the Forced Removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children. In 2000 Bin-Sallik edited and published her book, Aboriginal Women by Degree, recording the lives and achievements of 13 Indigenous women. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Conference Proceedings Aboriginal women by degrees: their stories of the journey towards academic achievement, Bin-Sallik, Mary Ann, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 18 May 2005 Last modified 11 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence (from Geneva, 1930; letters of condolence; miscellaneous family letters); newspaper cuttings relating to Holman family, John Barkell Holman (May’s father), May Holman; profiles; invitations, programmes, and souvenirs; items of her father; speeches (of J.B. Holman on Industrial Arbitration Act 1924, of May Holman on Timber Industry Regulation 1926, of Ted Holman on requirements of Forrest electorate 1939); certificate presented to mark her service in the office of Assistant General Secretary of the Australian Timber Workers’ Union, 1918-1925; photographs. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Portrait of Sister Betty Crocker, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), modelling the a new RAANC uniform, worn with black stockings, black lace up shoes, black leather gloves and a black shoulder strap handbag. Tailored in Adelaide, this particular uniform was the very first one made to the new pattern and issued for the new RAANC (as distinct from its predecessor the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service). It was issued to Sister Crocker, the first Sister to enlist for Korea in South Australia.?Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, St Kilda Road, Victoria Barracks Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series consists of registers kept by the Home Secretary’s Office for registration of inwards correspondence. From about 1904, registers for each year are subject arranged into general, charitable relief, benevolent asylums, and institutional etc. (various institutions such as Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institute, Diamantina Hospital, Dunwich and Charters Towers Benevolent Asylums as well as broader headings such as prisoners, relief and indigents etc.).??Within each register there is an alphabetical arrangement by function or agencies (for example, benches A-Z), for which the Home Secretary was responsible, and an alphabetical listing, A-Z, of letters from various individuals and organisations.??Each entry within a register provides the number of the letter, the numbers of any previous or subsequent correspondence, the date of the letter and of its registration, the author and subject of the letter and the action taken.?These registers also contain entries for the correspondence of the Chief Secretary for 1897 to 1898 when the Office of the Chief Secretary was established as a separate entity. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9265 comprises correspondence, research files, drafts, cuttings, articles and other papers relating to books published by Helen Garner between 1992-2004. Series 1. Cosmo Cosmolino (1992): drafts, typescripts and galley proofs. Series 2-6. The first stone (1995): research material, drafts, public reaction, correspondence and later galley proofs. Series 7-9. Joe Cinque’s consolation (2004): research material, drafts and public reaction to the book (13 boxes, 3 cartons, 10 fol. Boxes).??The Acc10.181 instalment comprises annotated typescript drafts of Joe Cinque’s consolation. Includes notes from Garner to her agent (1 packet). Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Brenda Niall is a distinguished academic and biographer who has won many literary awards. In 2001 Brenda was awarded the Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of Australian literature, and in 2004 she was named an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for service to Australian literature as an academic, biographer and literary critic. Brenda Niall was born in Melbourne in 1930 and was educated at Genezzano College, Kew. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne, followed by a Masters degree at the Australian National University (ANU). In 1964 she became a teaching fellow in the English Department at Monash University, and it was here she also gained her PhD. She became a Senior Lecturer in 1975 and a Reader in 1994. Brenda undertook visiting fellowships to both Michigan and Yale Universities. She was a visiting Research Fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies in 1975 and Visiting Scholar, Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, in 1983 and 1987. In 1995 Brenda retired from her position as Reader in English Literature at Monash University and began writing full time. Brenda has won numerous literary awards, including the Nettie Palmer Award for non-fiction in the Victorian Premier’s awards as well as the National Book Council (Banjo) Award in 1989. In 2016 her biography Mannix received the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal and the National Biography Prize. Brenda has also received a Centenary Medal (2001) and in 2004 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) In addition to her own writing, Brenda also frequently writes reviews for the Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Book Review. She is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Brenda Niall, 1911-1991 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Brenda Niall, author, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] [Biographical cuttings on Brenda Niall, writer and editor, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of Victoria Papers, ca.1980-1996 [manuscript]. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 9 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A comedy/drama set in a house shared by a family and some friends and centering on the relationship between two adult sisters and their father.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Newspaper clippings, notes, speeches and concert programs. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Australian Local Government Women’s Association (ALGWA) was formed in Canberra in 1951. A non-party, not for profit organisation, the formation of the Association was inspired by the belief that more women should be involved in local government both as elected members and senior managers. As of 2008, its aims were: To assist in furthering knowledge and understanding of the function of local government To encourage women to participate in local government To encourage women to make a career in local government To watch over and protect the interests and rights of women in local government To take action in relation to any subject or activity affecting local government and local government legislation To act in an advisory capacity to intending women candidates for local government election. The Association has branches in all Australian states and the Northern Territory and membership is open to all interested in encouraging and supporting women’s participation in the Local Government sector. 1951 was the jubilee year of the Commonwealth of Australia, a Jubilee Women’s Convention was held in Canberra as part of the celebrations. It was at this event that the ALGWA was formed. Ellen Weeks of Alexandra Shire, Victoria, was elected foundation president. The national body lapsed for some years, but was revived in 1966 with the development of strong branches of the movement in each State. Biennial national conventions were held from this time. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Australian Local Government Women's Association Australian Local Government Women's Association Baker, Jean Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Pat Richardson scrapbooks relating to the Women's Electoral Lobby and women's events, 1977-2002 Lorelei Booker - papers, ca. 1890-1991 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records, 1951-1966 [manuscript] Records, 1951-1967 [manuscript] Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 December 2004 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. 1944-10-06. VF500148 Major A.R. Appleford, RRC, MM, with Captain P. Williamson, Australian Army Medical Women’s Service, after inspecting personnel participating in the second victory loan march through the city. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Colleen Green is a long-term local government councillor, having served on the Quirindi Municipal Council (1970-79) and Quirindi Shire Council (1979-91) where she was also Deputy Shire President from 1983 to 1991. Colleen failed to enter State politics where she stood as an ALP candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Upper Hunter in 1984 and 1988. Colleen Green was educated at St. Mary’s College, Gunnedah, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney and the University of New England (BA). She then worked for many years at the Murrurundi and Quirindi Hospitals. She was a member of the New England Industry Development Board 1987-88. Colleen was Chairperson of the Quirindi College of TAFE, Quirindi Child Care Centre, Quirindi C.Y.S.S. and a Director of the Quirindi District Hospital and the R.S.L. Sub Branch. She joined ALP 1982 and has held office at local and electorate level. She is married, with three children. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 28 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 10041 comprises papers that relate to the life and work of Australian artist Nora Heysen. The papers include letters, photographs, catalogues, newspaper clippings, personal papers (including an extract of her birth certificate), art publications, and sound and video material. The bulk of the collection is a large series of personal correspondence retained by Nora (32 boxes, 3 fol. Boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 9581 comprises correspondence between Christina Stead and her brother David Darwin Stead, during the period 1929-1983, with the majority dating from 1970s. Included are brief notes Stead wrote to her cousin Gwen Walker-Smith on the source for characters in her books The Salzburg tales and Seven poor men of Sydney. There is also the typescript of a poem written by Stead in 1916 titled “On a Belgian battlefield”, photographs, the Premier’s Literary Award Medal awarded in 1982 for her distinguished contribution to Australian literature, the Certificate of Honorary Membership presented by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1982, a school report for 1916, photocopy of Stead’s death certificate, and journals and newspaper cuttings relating to Stead’s career and death (1 box, 1 folio). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 December 2017 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This series consists of a collection of speeches delivered by Quentin Bryce, Justice Marcus Einfeld and other staff. The records are kept in manila folders and lever-arch folders. The speeches provide an insight into the Commission’s functions. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 August 2009 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Australia. 1955-09-01. Six Sisters of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) wave farewell from the gangplank of MV New Australia on embarkation for service in Malaya. The team, which was later increased to eight, served in British hospitals at Kamunting, Kuala Lumpur and in the Cameron Highlands, nursing not only Australians, but New Zealanders, British, Gurkhas and members of their families. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Molly Bamberger is known for her Pictorialist photography and her leathercraft work. Molly Bamberger was born in 1878 and died on 11 September 1962. Not a great deal is known of her life apart from her photographic practice and her leathercraft. Bamberger was considered a talented photographer and enjoyed a strong reputation during the time she was active (Hall 93). She was active in the Photographic Association of NSW from 1940-1944, and a member of the Society of Arts and Crafts NSW, c.1920s. Bamberger’s photographs embody the Pictorialist style – she utilised soft lighting and blurred edges in capturing the subjects of her photographs. When shades of evening fall, c.1930, captures a rural setting according to the conventions of Pictorialism. In the foreground, an old fence and a number of trees frame the background, composed of a clearing and the bushland in the distance. The photograph is softly lit with delicate rays of light drawing the viewer into the work, towards its framed sky. The image evokes the ambience of a charcoal drawing. Bamberger was also known for her leathercraft. Three of her works were acquired by the Art Gallery of NSW, and subsequently exhibited through NSW. Collections Art Gallery of NSW National Library of Australia Events 1910 - 1943 1913 - 1943 Molly Bamburger regularly exhibited her work with the Society of Art and CraftNSW. 1978 - 1978 Molly Bamburger’s work featured in Project 24-Cicadas and Gumnuts: The Society of Arts and Crafts 1906-1935 1995 - 1995 Molly Bamburger’s work featured in Beyond the Picket Fence 1998 - 1998 Molly Bamburger’s work featured in Flora and Fauna – Australian Decorative Art from the Gallery’s Collection 2006 - 2006 Molly Bamburger’s work featured in Social riches: The Society of Arts & Crafts of New South Wales 1942 - 1942 Molly Bamburger was awarded a major prize from the Photographic Society of New South Wales. Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Resource Section Molly Bamberger, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/molly-bamberger/ Resource Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women's Art in the National Library's Collection, Carr, Sylvia and National Library of Australia, 1995, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/36337/20030703-0000/www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fence/picket.html Edited Book A History of the Society of Arts &Crafts of new South Wales 1906-1991, McFarlane, Nonie and Mackinolty, Judy, 1991 Newspaper Article Company News, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16613052 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 29 November 2016 Last modified 29 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "– Papers: Material relating to the Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (1961-1981) including scrapbook, minutes, correspondence, annual reports and newsclippings.?- Papers on the International Bible Contest (1964-5; 1969); Australia/Israel Society for Cultural Exchange (1973, 1982).?- Typescripts and articles by Ruby Rich, and A Part of Tomorrow (play).?- Personal correspondence with Jewish musicians (including Hephzibah and Yehudi Menuhin).?- Photos: family, from about 1879 – 1984, Torch of Learning Award, United Nations Peace Prize, 1976. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 5 June 2003 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc08/163 comprises papers relating to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in June 1992, which Kelly attended in her portfolio as Minister for Arts, Sport, Environment, Tourism and Territories. The papers include travel itinerary, texts of statements made on behalf of Australia, report to the Prime Minister, briefing for press conference, address to the National Press Club on UNCED, and Australian delegation membership list (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Handwritten notes, press clippings, small local histories, reports and copies of journals (e.g. RAHS Journal) re Nepean area, Picton, Kangaroo Valley, Moss Vale, Goulburn, Illawarra and Liverpool. Folder regarding Janet Cosh and her family, including family photographs and copies of her obituary (boxes 145-148); Janet Cosh research material including: 15 issues and 1 folder of issues of the ‘Canberra Historical Journal’, 1960s-1970s. Handwritten diary, 28 May-20 September 1841, written by a clergyman called Furse who was a relation of Cosh’s step-grandfather’s mother. Given to Cosh who passed it on to Caroline Simpson because of interesting information it contains about Parramatta. Folder of typescript carbons, possibly chapters from a book, all relating to early European settlement in the Monaro, Illawara and the South Coast, Bowral-Canberra area. Exercise book containing copies Cosh made of Cosh family letters (boxes 149-151). Author Details Helen Morgan Created 6 August 2019 Last modified 6 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Bridget Gilling was a lifelong activist and fighter for social justice. She ran as an Independent in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bligh in 1971, but the following year she joined the Australia Party. She then stood as their candidate for election into the House of Representatives for Warringah (1972) and for the New South Wales Senate in 1974. Born in London, Bridget Gilling grew up in a family which was vitally interested in politics. During World War II she served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and met and married an Australian serviceman, Douglas Gilling, later a prominent architect. They returned to Australia after the war, and their four children were born in Sydney. As they grew up, Bridget Gilling completed an Arts/Social Work degree at the University of Sydney. At the time of her campaign in Bligh, Bridget Gilling was working for a community agency and was very concerned with birth control and the campaign for abortion law reform. Her campaign literature was critical of all major parties and their failure to present policies on these subjects, whereas her beliefs and promises on them were spelled out in detail. She joined the Australia Party and ran under that banner in 1972 and 1974, unsuccessfully. In 1987, Bridget Gilling was approached as a prominent women’s movement activist, to lend her weight to the campaign against the Australia Card proposal, and she agreed to become a trustee of the Australian Privacy Foundation. In 2004, Bridget Gilling wrote one of the most telling and pithiest letters to the Sydney Morning Herald on the subject of abortion, which remained one of her chosen causes. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Newspaper Article Campaigner for all things liberal, Stephens, Tony, 2009, http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/campaigner-for-all-things-liberal-20090701-d54h.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Brown diamond shaped colour patch for Australian Army Nursing Service, AIF, with an orange circle superimposed on the centre.?Worn as a distinguishing unit indication at the head of each sleeve from 1918 by all Australian Army Nursing Service personnel, except those allotted to other units with an authorised colour patch.?Wool flannel Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "31 minutes??Jean Rooney was born in 1911 in Mt Gambier. Her father was a teacher and they lived in Mt Gambier, Adelaide and Port Lincoln during her school life. Jean attended Adelaide teachers’ Training College and worked in Unley and Nailsworth for four years. She married Cliff Rooney in 1935 and had two daughters. Her husband was a high school teacher. Her daughters married Englishmen and live in England. She and her husband visited England in 1966. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Guilia Jones was elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly representing the Canberra Liberals in the electorate of Molonglo at the election which was held in October 2012. She was subsequently elected in the electorate of Murrumbidgee and served in the Assembly until June 2022. Jones was the deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the ACT from October 2020 to January 2022. Giulia Jones was born in Hobart and educated at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Tasmania. She moved to Canberra in 2005 after spending a year in Darwin. In Canberra she ran a small business, worked in the public service and was on the staff of Tony Abbott, Leader of the Opposition in the federal Parliament. Jones was elected to the ACT Assembly on her fourth attempt to enter parliament at the federal or territory level. She was a Senate Liberal candidate for Tasmania at the 2007 federal election. She stood as a Liberal candidate for Molonglo at the ACT Assembly election in 2008 and was a candidate for the House of Representatives seat of Canberra in the federal Parliament at the 2010 election. Published resources Resource Section Giulia Jones, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulia_Jones Newspaper Article Giulia with a G rejects 'nagging' feminism, Towell, Noel, 2012 Day in the life: Liberal candidate shops around for votes, Rudra, Natasha Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 30 November 2012 Last modified 12 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Files contain material such as art exhibition catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases and/?or other ephemeral items relating to Australian artists and galleries. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 14 December 2016 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lady Latham was president of the Royal Children’s Hospital management committee from 1933 until 1954, and founding president of the Victorian Society for Crippled Children in 1936. On 1 January 1954, Lady Latham was appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Commander (Civil) for services to children. Named Eleanor Mary but always called Ella was the only child of teachers (Richard and Fanny (née Matthews) Tobin who taught at Northcote State School, in Victoria as well as being involved in Northcote community affairs. She was educated at University High and the University of Melbourne, from which she graduated in 1902 with an Arts degree. Latham worked as a teacher and in 1905 co-authored with Jessie Webb a poetry text Phases of Literature from Pope to Browning: prose and verse selections. On 19 December 1907 she married John Greig Latham (later Rt. Hon. Sir) and they had three children. Their eldest son died during the World War II and their daughter Freda died from complications of diabetes. In 1912 Latham was a foundation member of the Lyceum club, a new club for women graduates and other women who had distinguished themselves in art, music, literature, philanthropy or public service. She became it’s tenth president in 1925. She was also foundation president of the Hawthorn branch of the Children’s Hospital auxiliary, in 1923, and was invited to join the committee of management, a position she resigned from in 1926. Latham rejoined the committee in 1932 and became president in 1933 (retiring 1954). During her term as president she guided the Children’s Hospital through the transmission from a charity hospital to a teaching hospital. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Australia 1962, Alexander, Joseph A, 1962 Book The Royal Children's Hospital: A History of Faith, Science and Love, Yule, Peter From charity to teaching hospital : Ella Latham's presidency 1933-1954, the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Williams, Howard E, 1989 Phases of literature from Pope to Browning: prose and verse selections, Webb, Jessie S and Latham, Ella M Jessie Webb, a memoir, Ridley, Ronald T, 1994 Resource Guide to the Papers of Howard E. Williams, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-291931366/findingaid Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Latham, Eleanor Mary (1878-1964), Williams, Howard, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150076b.htm Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Howard E. Williams, 1878-1969, (bulk 1907-1969) [manuscript] Papers of Sir John Latham, 1856-1964 (bulk 1890-1964) [manuscript] Family papers, 1879-[1971?] [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 8 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Family papers and photographs; correspondence; pamphlets and papers relating to the women’s movement, peace movement and trade unions; records relating to Tom Wright including reports, printed material, diaries, personal files and obituaries; subject files; cartoons, posters, films and memorabilia; books of the anthropologist, Olive Pink; minute book of the Board of Delegates on the St Mary’s (building) Project, 1956. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 December 2017 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 252 comprises letters and cards sent by Michael Shannon to Thea Waddell (some were addressed to both Mr and Mrs Justice Waddell), catalogues of Shannon’s exhibitions and newspaper cuttings of Shannon’s obituaries. In the letters Shannon discussed his works, social life and people he met, including James McCulloch, Kym Bonython, Diana Field and Peter Sculthorpe. Also included are letters and papers by Jeffrey Smart, Justin O’Brien, Humphrey McQueen and Andrew Motion, plus art exhibition cards (4 folders).??The Acc06.122 instalment includes one letter from Jeffrey Smart to Waddell, October 1971 (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Files relating to winners of scholarships offered by the AFUW, 1949-1989, and list of winners back to 1930. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A Pitjantjatjara woman, Lowitja O’Donoghue worked for Aboriginal organisations or in Indigenous affairs for over 30 years. She was the Founding Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, 1990-1996. O’Donoghue was one of the most prominent members of the stolen generation. In 2010 Australia’s national institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research, The Lowitja Institute, was named in O’Donoghue’s honour. Born in 1932, in Indulkana, South Australia, Pitjantjatjara woman Lowita O’Donoghue was separated from her family at the age of two. She was taken by missionaries to the Colebrook Children’s home and brought up, with the name of Lois, under the white education system. O’Donoghue attended Unley General Technical High School, then trained as a nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. She worked as a nurse from 1961 to 1972, partly among Aboriginal communities in northern South Australia. She was a member of the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (1970-1972), and later regional director of the Adelaide Department of Aboriginal Affairs (1975-1976). O’Donoghue then worked in various capacities in the areas of health, housing, community development, Aboriginal and Islander studies, Native Title and the Sydney Olympics. O’Donoghue has received many awards and accolades for her work, including being named Australian of the Year (1984), a National Living Treasure (1998), wining the Advance Australia award in 1982 and being appointed a member of the Order of Australia in 1977, a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1983, and a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 1999. O’Donoghue was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians (1998) and the Royal College of Nursing. She was also awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Australian National University, Murdoch University, Notre Dame University, Flinders University, the University of South Australia, Queensland University of Technology, the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide. She was appointed a Professorial Fellow at Flinders University in 2000. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Book Living in South Australia : a social history, Elizabeth Kwan, 1987 Notable lives : profiles of 21 South Australians, Cockburn, Stewart, 1997 Women in politics: voices from the Commonwealth, 1999 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 13 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In February 1890, Dr Constance Stone became the first woman to be registered with the Medical Board of Victoria, paving the way for medical women in Melbourne, Australia, Working mainly with women and children in free clinics, she gave low-income women the opportunity to be treated in private, free from the embarrassment of examination in front of male medical students. She founded the Victorian Medical Women’s Society and was a member of a number of women’s organisations, including the Victorian Women’s Franchise League. Her major achievement was the foundation of the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital. Constance Stone was not permitted to enrol in the Melbourne Medical School because in the early 1880s, women were excluded from medical studies because the subject matter was deemed inappropriate for co-ed classes. Consequently, in 1884 she travelled to North America , where she was educated at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, USA and the University of Trinity College, Toronto, Canada (MD, ChM 1888) thus ensuring that she could be registered in Australia. She also studied at the New Hospital for Women, London, qualifying as a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1889. The first woman to register with the Medical Board of Victoria 1890, she practised one day a week at the free dispensary attached to Dr Singleton’s mission in Collingwood. She founded the Queen Victoria Hospital, where she was assisted by her sister Dr Clara Stone (one of the first women to enter the Melbourne Medical School) and her cousin, Dr Emily Mary Page Stone. She was Foundation member (1895) of the Victorian Medical Women’s Society. Stone was one of the few early female medical practitioners to marry and have children. Her daughter, Bronwen, also became a doctor. Published resources Resource Section Stone, Emma Constance (1856-1912), Russell, Penny, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120115b.htm Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Nation builders : great lives and stories from St Kilda General Cemetery, Eidelson, Meyer, 2001 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Letter : to Miss Evans, 1926 Sep. 16. [manuscript]. National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Constance Stone, first woman physician in Australia, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection [Collection of pamphlets containing souvenir concert programmes and Australian biographies.] Author Details Elle Morrell and Nikki Henningham Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence of the Brisbane Writers Centre to members and participants in relation to the Brisbane Writers’ Festivals between 1995 and 2000, and other general correspondence, as well as Brisbane Writers Festival Management Committee meeting minutes and Treasurers’ Reports covering the same period. Photographs of festivals, and participant authors, programs, production details, and ephemera associated with the Festivals. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 December 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "La Trobe University, Melbourne established the Pauline Toner Award to honour the late Pauline Toner MP, a former student and notable citizen. The Award, in the form of a cash prize is awarded annually to a student who has made a significant contribution to the University and/or the wider community in the fields related to Pauline Toner’s work and service. The award also serves to remind us of the spirit in which Pauline Toner served her community and Victoria. Toner is best remembered for her remarkable achievements and contributions to community: her concern in areas such as social issues, education and environmental conservation, her dedication to the task at hand and her sense of fairness. Her achievements included breaking new ground for women in becoming the first female councillor and Shire president in Diamond Valley. She became the first woman to hold the Community Services portfolio; she was involved in reforming the prison system, initiated the first review of Children’s Welfare legislation, backed women’s neighbourhood houses and put Victoria in the forefront of adoption reform with the 1984 Adoption Act. The Adoption Network named their building in her honour. Details for submitting applications are available from the website. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Series 1: Minute book, c.1983 – 1985. This series is comprised of a journal containing a diversity of material, both handwritten and typewritten, including meeting minutes [4/5/1983 to 8/11/1983] which are mostly typed on foolscap pages and pasted into the book. Documentation of many other activities, including accounts, budgeting, press releases, workshop summaries, correspondence and contact details are contained within the journal. Series 2: Correspondence, June to August 1986. This series comprises of three handwritten letters from various women for survival collectives in relation to the organisation of protest rallies and meetings, including the Pine Gap Camp. Series 3: Circulars, c. 1983. Various circulars comprise this series which have been produced for the purpose of organising and obtaining support for proposed protest meetings, rallies and camps of the feminist peace movement. The material has generally been created on foolscap loose leafed sheets contained in a manila folder. Series 4: Newspaper clippings, November 1983. This series comprises of a newspaper clipping, plus copy, of a ‘Canberra Times’ article dated 15/11/1983 detailing the Alice Springs court hearing into the Pine Gap peace demonstration. Unfortunately, the article is not complete, being torn out of the newspaper with the right hand margin not in tact. Series 5: Publications, 1977 – 1987. A number of newsletters published by the Women for Survival and Women’s Action Against Global Violence [WAAGV] from 1983 to 1987 comprise this series. The combination of handwritten and typewritten text, plus illustrations have generally been produced on A3 sheets, stapled together in book form and copied by gestetner machine for circulation. . Author Details Helen Morgan Created 27 June 2003 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "51 minutes??Tommy was born in 1914 in Geraldton, WA. She talks about her family, schools at Canarvon and Perth, nurse training in Perth and Broome, doing midwifery, nursing at Norseman, illnesses of fiancé, moving to Adelaide, stories about life on the property with her parents, left Adelaide Hospital in 1944 to get married, she returned in 1964 to St Andrew’s hospital and Wakefield St Hospital. She retired in 1981 when she was 67. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Files contain material such as art exhibition catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases and/or other ephemeral items relating to Australian artists and galleries. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 23 November 2016 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Leonie Kramer was notable as an academic and public figure, particularly as Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1982-1983 and professor of Australian literature at Sydney University from 1968, and later chancellor from 1991-2001. She supported conservative educational values in the face of progressive approaches and campaigned against the adoption of a republican form of government in Australia. She was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 31 December 1982 for services to literature and the public. Daughter of Alfred and Gertrude Gibson. Leonie Kamer was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Melbourne, the University of Melbourne, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts in 1945, and Oxford University, where she gained a Doctor of Philosophy in 1953. During her postgraduate years at Oxford she tutored at St Hughes College. She married Harold Kramer in 1952, and produced two daughters. Her academic career blossomed with her appointment as lecturer in English in 1958, then later senior lecturer and associate professor in English at the University of New South Wales. She remained there until 1968 when she was appointed professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. She was visiting professor at Harvard University’s Chair of Australian Literature Studies from 1981-82. The work of Henry Handel Richardson has been the major focus of her critical writing and she edited the Oxford History of Australian Literature1981, which argues the case for Australian literature as a branch of European literature. She also edited a number of publications on Australian Literature. Her list of publications is included in the Published Resources section. She enhanced her public profile when she accepted the position of Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1982-83, having served as a member of the ABC board from 1977.She served on a number of other boards and committees which included the Secondary Schools Board from 1976-82, the Council of the National Library from 1975-81, the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters from 1977-81, fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney from 1969-74 and member of the Universities Council from 1977-86. Other appointments include serving on the boards of the ANZ bank and Western Mining Corporation, senior fellow of the Institute of Public Affairs and commissioner of the NSW Electricity Commission. In 1986 she received the inaugural Britannica Award for the ‘dissemination of learning for the benefit of mankind’. Other awards include an honorary DLitt from the University of Tasmania, an honorary LLD from both the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University. She was appointed OBE in 1976 and DBE in 1983. Her association with the University of Sydney continued with her appointment in 1989 as Deputy Chancellor and then in 1991 Chancellor, a position she held until 2001, when she resigned in controversial circumstances. She upheld traditional educational values, and was a prominent member of the organisation called ‘Australians for a constitutional monarchy’ which was established in 1992 in response to growing republican sentiment and actively campaigned against a republican system of government for Australia when a referendum was held on the question in 1999. She died at Elizabeth Bay on 20 April 2106. Sources: ‘Kramer, Leonie Judith’, The Oxford Companion to Australian History, OUP, Melbourne, 2000; ‘Kramer, Dame Leonie Judith (1924-‘; The Australian Encyclopaedia, vol. 5, 6th ed., 1996; ‘Kramer, Dame Leonie Judith’, Who’s who in Australia 2002. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 The Oxford anthology of Australian literature, Kramer, Leonie and Mitchell, Adrian, 1985 The Oxford history of Australian literature, Kramer, Leonie, 1981 James McAuley: poetry, essays and personal commentary, Kramer, Leonie, 1988 Book Section Kramer, Dame Leonie Judith (1924-), 1996 Kramer, Leonie Judith, (1924- ), 2000 Book A. D. Hope, Kramer, Leonie, 1979 A companion to Australia Felix, Kramer, Leonie, 1962 Henry Handel Richardson, Kramer, Leonie, 1967 Myself when Laura; Fact and fiction in Henry Handel Richardson's school career, Kramer, Leonie, 1966 Henry Kendall, Kramer, Leonie, 1973 Language and literature: a synthesis, Kramer, Leonie, 1976 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Newspaper Article Obituary: Dame Leonie Kramer a celebrated academic and a potent conservative voice, Cunningham, James and Murphy, Damien, 2016, http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/obituary-dame-leonie-kramer-a-celebrated-academic-and-a-potent-conservative-voice-20160421-gobsv8.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Craig McGregor, 1961-2005 [manuscript] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 28 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dragons Abreast Canberra started in 1999, one year after Dragons Abreast Australia, the umbrella organisation was founded. Members, both breast cancer survivors and supporters, race dragon boats on Lake Burley Griffin in an annual Breast Cancer Challenge Regatta, to raise awareness of breast cancer and funds for cancer services and research. Dragons Abreast Canberra started in 1999, one year after the founding of Dragons Abreast Australia, the national umbrella organisation for dragon boat clubs for breast cancer survivors. The group was formed under the leadership of Anna Wellings Booth who was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia for her service to women’s health through a range of breast cancer organisations in 2012. Dragon boat racing began over 2000 years ago in China, where races were held as part of the agricultural cycle to avert misfortune and to encourage the rains needed for prosperity. Paddling dragon boats as a sport took hold in 1976 when the Hong Kong Tourist Association launched this traditional festival as a modern competitive sports event. Dragon boats are usually 12 metres long, with the head and tail of a dragon, and wide enough to sit 20 people (two abreast), along with a sweep to steer the boat and a drummer. The races are usually paddled over a course of 500 metres. Dragons Abreast Australia was founded on principles of participation and inclusiveness. Participants consider themselves to be winners by simply being in the group and being able to paddle. Competitiveness is a secondary outcome. Research by Professor Don McKenzie, a Canadian exercise physiologist, has shown that dragon boating has positive benefits, both physical and psychological, for women recovering from breast cancer. When it began, Dragons Abreast Canberra had the generous support of the Canberra Dragon Boat Association, which provided coaching and sweeping in the early days while encouraging the club towards independence. Several sweeps were trained, enabling the group to operate independently while maintaining its links with Canberra Dragon Boat Association. When Dragons Abreast Canberra began, there was only one other Dragons Abreast team in Australia, and now there are 45. The first interstate foray was in 2000 to the Australian National Dragon Boat Championships held at Penrith, and individual members of Dragons Abreast Canberra have participated at every Australian National Championship since that time. The Dragons Abreast regatta for Chinese New Year at Darling Harbour in Sydney is an annual event for club members. International success came with a fifth place in an international breast cancer survivors’ regatta held in Peterborough, Canada, in 2010. Like all Dragons Abreast groups, the Canberra club has a mixture of breast cancer survivors and very active and valuable supporters. There are currently about 60 members. The club’s most visible event is the annual Breast Cancer Challenge Regatta, an awareness-raising exercise on Lake Burley Griffin. Most of the money raised from registration fees is donated to cancer-related organisations, both locally and nationally, and some of it is retained to partly cover the club’s ongoing expenses. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Dragons Abreast Australia, http://www.dragonsabreast.com.au Book A Dragon's Tale, Hanton, M. and Wellings-Booth, A, 2007 Resource Section Parliamentary Debates, 2008, http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;db=CHAMBER;id=chamber%2Fhansards%2F2008-11-10%2F0214;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansards%2F2008-11-10%2F0000%22 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Carol Summerhayes Created 20 December 2012 Last modified 12 February 2019 Digital resources Title: Dragons Abreast Canberra, Mother's Day Classic autumn event Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Professor and Head of the School of Botany at the University of Melbourne. Pauline Ladiges is a member of the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) Advisory Committee which advises the Minister for the Environment on the award of grants and scholarships and on priorities for ABRS. She is also Deputy Chair of the Board of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Published resources Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 25 January 2001 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This deposit includes subject classified office files (1965 – 1991), annual general meeting minutes and reports (1965 – 1982), branch correspondence (1971 – 1988) and printed material. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 December 2017 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Microfilm copies of personal and subject files (CRS A6119 and CRS A6122) – ASIO Files Author Details Clare Land Created 26 November 2001 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dr Helen Mayo was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 3 June 1935 for her maternal and child welfare activities. She worked well past retirement age and established several children’s health facilities. Helen Mayo was educated privately and at the Advanced School for Girls; she matriculated in 1895. Mayo began a medical degree at the University of Adelaide in 1898, and became the university’s second woman medical graduate. She gained her doctorate in medicine (MD) in 1926. She opened a private practice in Adelaide in 1906 specialising in midwifery and the health of women and children. She lectured at the University of Adelaide 1926-1934. Mayo also founded the Mothers and Babies’ Health Association (1927) which grew out of the School for Mothers she established with social worker Harriet Stirling in 1909. The organisation still exists today, as Child and Youth Health. Stirling and Mayo also set up an independent hospital in 1913 to address the special needs of infant patients. In 1917 it was taken over by the Government and became the Mareeba Babies’ Hospital, with Mayo as honorary responsible medical officer. Mayo also worked for the Adelaide Children’s Hospital, lectured at the University of Adelaide, established a donor service for the Red Cross Transfusion Service and chaired a committee which aimed to establish a women’s university college. In 1935 Dr Helen Mayo was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for her maternal and child welfare activities. She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and President of the Australian Federation of University Women. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Living in South Australia : a social history, Elizabeth Kwan, 1987 A goodly heritage: an appreciation of the life and work of the late Dr Helen Mayo, Horan, Margaret Burton, 1971 The hands of a woman: South Australian Medical Women's Society, 1994 The new women : Adelaide's early women graduates, Mackinnon, Alison, 1942-, 1986 Newspaper Article Obituary: Helen Mayo, MacKay, D. G., 1968 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 S.A.'s greats: the men and women of the North Terrace plaques, Healey, John, 2001 Book Section The Medicals: Laura Hope, Helen Mayo, Rosamund Benham [and] Phyllis Cliento, Mackinnon, Alison, 1986 Helen Mayo, MacKinnon, Alison, [1988] Resource Section Mayo, Helen Mary (1878-1967), Hicks, Neville and Leopold, Elisabeth, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100455b.htm Journal Article A very remarkable woman: Dr Helen Mary Mayo, 1978-1967, Denham, D., 1991 Some aspects of the history of infant welfare in South Australia, Mayo, Helen Mary, 1960 Report Private medicine and public health, Hicks, Neville, 1986 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources State Library of South Australia Mayo family : SUMMARY RECORD The University of Adelaide, Barr Smith Library Rare Books & Special Collections [Address delivered at the opening of the Dr. Helen Mayo Wing, St. Ann's College, 29th June 1961] Some observations on biological therapy / Helen Mary Mayo Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Joan Roberts was appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander on 31 December 1977 for services to the handicapped. She had previously been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1973. Joan Roberts joined the Yooralla Hospital School for Crippled Children committee of management in 1948 and became president in 1968. In 1977 the Yooralla Hospital School for Crippled Children and of the Victorian Society for Crippled Children and Adults amalgamated, to establish the Yooralla Society of Victoria. Roberts was president of the Society until 1978. From 1979 to 1987 she was a member of the executive committee of the Arthritis Foundation of Victoria. Prior to marrying Allen Roberts on 1 November 1937 and having three children, she was a biochemist from 1934 to 1937 at Prince Henry’s Hospital, and a research biochemist at the University of Melbourne from 1931 to 1934. Roberts completed her secondary education at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College, before obtaining a Master of Science from the University of Melbourne. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Australia 1991, Howie, Ann, 1990 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Edith Beryl Watkins (now Hughes) talks about her long career as a portrait photographer. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 6 December 2016 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Margaret Court, tennis player from 1950-1976, lay preacher and Christian healer with the Rhema Family Church from 1982-1994 and Senior Minister, Margaret Court Ministries from 1990, speaks of her childhood as a tomboy in the country town of Albury; her family background; how her two older brothers excelled in cycling and Vince encouraged her sporting life; her dislike of school and love of the outdoors; how as a Catholic she attended church with some of the family and the Catholic schools she was educated in; her involvement in tennis from around age 8 and took tennis lessons with the local tennis coach for free, Albury as a very strong tennis centre; the Australian system of developing talented young players; her choice at 15 whether to take up track or continue with tennis; her early ambition to win Wimbledon; how she pioneered weight training for women; winning the Australian Open in 1960; travelling internationally from 1961; the internal problems touring with the Australian tennis team; her bout of glandular fever; the furore when she refused to tour with the Australian team the following year and the bad press she received in Britain; how she won Wimbledon in 1963 and by 1965 won all major tournaments at least twice; retiring in 1965 to settle down in Perth where she married Barry; returning to tennis in 1967, touring overseas with Barry becoming number two in the world.??Court discusses her problems winning at Wimbledon and the bad press she received in England; her long-standing aim to be a role model to the young; how she reached her fitness peak in the early 1970s; how in 1970 she became the second woman to have won the Grand Slam; her involvement in establishing a professional women’s tennis circuit, the Virginia Slims circuit to get equal prize money for women; her personal reluctance in splitting from the men with whom she enjoyed practising, her reluctance to be identified with the militant faction of women tennis, how she coped with her tennis while having her children from 1972. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ruth Arndt was a qualified social worker who, while unable to practise her profession because her British qualifications were not recognised in Australia, was a tireless advocate and community worker in Canberra, particularly for migrants and foreign students. She taught English to many new arrivals, taught German and Economics at both Canberra Boys’ and Girls’ Grammar Schools and worked as a research officer in the Department of External Affairs. She also served on the Australian National University Council, the Governing Body of Bruce Hall and was president of the Ladies Drawing Room at University House. Ruth Emma Auguste Strohsahl was born in Cuxhaven in northwest Germany on 20 March 1915. Her parents were both involved in politics – her mother was leader of the Social Democratic faction in the city council and her father was editor of the Social Democratic newspaper. As a teenager in Nazi Germany she demonstrated the courage and independence she displayed in later life: she refused to give the Nazi salute at school and failed her final examination after writing an essay criticising Nazi economic policy. In 1935 she went to live in England and worked as an au pair then obtained a bursary to enter Edinburgh University. With the assistance of the Warden of Masson Hall, Marjory Rackstraw, she was awarded a scholarship to London University’s School of Economics where she studied sociology and obtained an Honours degree. She also met Heinz Arndt (later Professor) and they were married on 12 July 1941. The Arndts came to Australia in 1947 when Heinz accepted a position as a senior lecturer in Sydney University’s Economics Department. Demonstrating her adventurous and independent attitude, when Heinz was unable to get leave from his position in 1949, Ruth returned to Germany to see her parents, whom she had not seen since 1939, travelling by ship with her two young sons, Chris and Nick. She stayed on in England to give birth to her daughter Bettina. She then returned by ship with the three children arriving in Sydney nine months after she had set out. In 1951, the family moved to Canberra when Professor ‘Joe’ Burton, Principal of the Canberra University College, offered Heinz the Chair in Economics. Heinz’s position transferred to the Australian National University in 1960 and in 1963 he was appointed Head of the Department of Economics in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. Ruth used her skills and experience as a social worker to good effect in Canberra, teaching English to European migrants in evening and afternoon classes in her own home and assisting many in their dealings with government bureaucracy and the health system. She was invited to become a member of the Good Neighbour Council which assisted migrants’ assimilation into the Australian way of life. However she was never able to practise her profession as a social worker as her British qualifications were not recognised in Australia. When her children were young, Ruth took an active interest in fundraising for the North Ainslie pre-school, chairing the parents and citizen’s committee. She worked as a research assistant at the Australian National University interviewing parents of pre-school children for the psychologist Pat Petony and reading and summarising articles in German-language newspapers published in Australia for the Department of Demography. She taught German and Economics at the Canberra Boys’ and Girls’ Grammar Schools and was for fifteen years a research officer in the Department of External Affairs, briefing Australian diplomats on the preparation of economic reports. Invariably, Ruth’s and Heinz’s work spilled over into their home life, with foreign students and foreign affairs cadets joining the many migrants and refugees whom they assisted. From 1969 to 1975 she was a member, elected by Convocation, of the ANU Council, one of only three women. She was on the Governing Board of the University’s residential college, Bruce Hall, from 1970 to 1975 and was also a Tutor (Fellow) there. She was president of the Ladies Drawing Room at University House from 1980 to 1982, following her friend, Molly Huxley. Ruth died on 20 March 2001, her 86th birthday, from medical complications after a fall. She was survived by Heinz (her husband of 60 years who died the following year), her three children and nine grandchildren. Published resources Book Arndt's story: The life of an Australian economist, Coleman, Peter; Cornish, Selwyn; Drake, Peter and Arndt, Bettina, 2007 Newspaper Article Obituary. Profound Contributor to ANU Community, Faunce, Marcus, 2001, http://oa.anu.edu.au/uploads/obituaries/35/arndt_ruth_obit_2001.pdf Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian National University Archives Arndt, H W Governing Body of Bruce Hall National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Heinz Wolfgang Arndt, 1933-2002 [manuscript] Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 3 December 2012 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Ruth Arndt Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Newsletters of the Embroiderers’ Guild of Victoria, Pen and Needle Group; April-Dec. 1973; March-Dec. 1974; March-December 1975 and the Embroiderers’ Guild of Victoria annual report 1973. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 May 2019 Last modified 2 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Thea Exley was the first woman to head a regional office of the Commonwealth Archives Office (now the National Archives of Australia), its first national Senior Archivist Reference and Access and the first Director Preservation at the Australian Archives (another predecessor of the National Archives). She was an inaugural member of the Australian Society of Archivists and served as a Councillor from 1977 to 1979. After her retirement she completed a PhD in art history. Thea was born in Melbourne on 2 September 1923 the only child of Adelaide (nee Walker) and Harold James Exley who became Deputy Commonwealth Statistician, Tasmania. She briefly attended Canberra Girls’ Grammar School (then St Gabriel’s School) before moving with her family to Hobart in 1933. She attended The Friends’ School and subsequently graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Arts degree. During the Second World War she undertook library training at the Commonwealth National Library and on returning to Hobart worked at the Public Library there. After the war she travelled overseas and worked for a time at the library of Australia House, London. On her return she was invited by the Commonwealth National Librarian Harold White to join the staff of the Archives Division of the National Library. This led to her joining the Archives Division’s Melbourne office as an Archives Officer Grade I on 26 February 1953. In 1961 she became the first woman to head a state office of the Commonwealth Archives Office (the successor to the Archives Division). At a time when there were very few women in senior positions in the Commonwealth public service this was a significant achievement. During her time in Melbourne she was involved in an unsuccessful attempt to form a professional association for archivists. She was subsequently on the committee of the Archives Section of the Library Association of Australia (LAA), at that time the only Australian association which brought archivists together. She was interested in establishing proper training for archivists and served as an examiner for the LAA’s paper in records management from 1963 to 1966. In 1970 she moved to Canberra as the first Senior Archivist, Reference and Access. Cabinet decisions under the Gorton government (1970) and the McMahon government (1972) created a new, exciting and quite complex access regime for Commonwealth records. Proactive examination of material created before 1945 was commenced at this time. Twenty access examiners were employed and Thea was responsible for guiding their very lively discussions and for ensuring that the resulting decisions were collected into a substantial body of policy, precedent and procedure which became the foundation of the later Australian Archives Access Services Manual. Thea regarded her work striving for an accountable and fair access regime as her most important professional contribution. Thea participated in the development of the Australian Society of Archivists and became an inaugural member in 1975. From 1977to 1979 she was a Council Member and chaired the Society’s first Public Issues Committee which made submissions to a number of Commonwealth and State enquiries on copyright, privacy and freedom of information. From 1977 to 1981 Thea was Chief Archivist with considerable responsibility for the operational work of the office while other senior staff members were taken up with the development of the Archives Act. In 1982 and 1983 she was Regional Director, ACT when the first purpose built repository in the Canberra suburb of Mitchell became operational. In 1984 Thea became the Australian Archives’ first Director Conservation. Her leadership in commissioning the first survey of the condition of the whole collection and the subsequent development of a policy and procedural framework to manage the physical state of the records was significant in providing a management focus on this important area of archives work. Thea retired on 1 September 1988 after a 35 year career which made a substantial contribution to the National Archives. She received an Australia Day award for her work in 1989. A meeting room at the National Archives was named in her honour in 2003. After her retirement Thea studied Art History and in 2000 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by the Australian National University for her thesis titled ‘Patronage by proxy: art competitions in Australia during the twentieth century’. She was interested in the influence of art competitions within the community. Thea died on 29 January 2007 after nearly two years of illness. The attendance of three former heads of National Archives and the widow of a fourth at her funeral demonstrated the respect for her professional achievements. Family, friends and former work colleagues reminisced about her cross country skiing, her bushwalking, her hospitality and her love of cats. Professional colleagues particularly remembered her warm welcome to new entrants and her passion for the challenge of archives work. She left a bequest to the National Gallery of Australia which funded an archivist’s position and another to Bush Heritage Australia. Published resources Newsletter Obituary: Dr Thea Melvie Exley, Caldwell, Jill, 2007, http://www.archivists.org.au/icms_docs/111012_Issue_19_April_2007.pdf Magazine article Dr Thea Melvie Exley (1923-2007), National Archives of Australia, 2007 Report National Gallery of Australia. Annual Report 2008-09, 2009, http://nga.gov.au/AboutUs/Reports/NGA_AR_08-09.pdf Annual conservation Report 2008-09, 2009, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/46845/20110518-0000/www.bushheritage.org.au/downloads/about_us/annual_conservation_report_2007_2008.pdf Journal Article Obituary Dr Thea Melvie Exley 1923-2007, Caldwell, Jill, 2007 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Australian Society of Archivists deposit 1 Canberra Girls Grammar School Archives Diary entry 3 National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive Papers of Thea Exley / Thea Exley Author Details Jill Caldwell Created 20 December 2012 Last modified 20 February 2013 Digital resources Title: Photographing the Queen Victoria Proclamation Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Thea Exley on the far left Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A passionate activist for women, Elizabeth (Bessie) Frewin was one of the earliest women candidates for all levels of government. She was an ALP candidate in the House of Representatives for Warringah in 1934 and 1940 and for the North Sydney Council in 1938, 1941 and 1948. Bessie was also a Lang Labor candidate in the 1947 elections to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bondi. Bessie Frewin was born in Newcastle in 1892, the sixth child in a family of nine. She left school at 13 and went into domestic service. Her interest in politics and social justice began then and continued throughout her life. She married George Henry Gibbons Frewin on 17 December 1919, in St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney, and they had two daughters and two sons. They owned and ran a Ham and Beef shop in Lavender Bay until the land was resumed for the building of the Harbour Bridge. Later, they lived at Cammeray. In her election pamphlet for the Council Election of 1948, Bessie Frewin stressed her long held beliefs in education, the abolition of slums, the provision of more parks and playgrounds and the preservation of the harbour waterfront for public use. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 14 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In her biography on Dame Mary Herring, Della Hilton lists Dame Mary as being Patroness of the following organisations: • Aftercare Hospital • Victorian Women’s Hockey • Australian Association O Group • Ministering Children’s League • Spastic Children’s Society • Victorian Association of Day Nurseries • Victorian Family Council • Save the Children Fund • Travellers Aid Society • Bush Nursing Association (Life Governor) • Royal Eye & Ear Hospital Auxiliaries • Royal Melbourne Hospital Auxiliaries • Tweddle Baby Hospital • Gentlewomen’s Aid Society • Victorian Amateur Sports Council • RSL Women’s Association Veterans Care Homes. Mary Herring was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 11 June 1960 for service to nursing in Victoria. Dame Mary Herring, the daughter of Sir Thomas Ranken and Frances Clare (née Millear) Lyle, attended Toorak College between 1906 and 1912. Here she excelled both scholastically and at sport. In 1913 she entered Melbourne University as a medical student and continued to participate in sports obtaining Hockey and Tennis Blue. Graduating in 1921, she achieved first-class honours in all subjects, with a first in medicine and fourth in surgery. She won the Keith Levi Memorial Scholarship in medicine and the Sameson prize in clinical medicine (Hilton). On 6 April 1922, she married Edmund Herring (later Lieutenant General, Honorary Sir and future Lieutenant Governor of Victoria) at Toorak Presbyterian Church. They had three daughters. From 1926 until 1945 Herring was medical officer for the Pre-Natal Clinic at the Prahran Health Centre. She also was chairman of Toorak College Council (1947-1971), as well as helping in coaching the college tennis teams. In 1943 (until 1953) Herring was vice-president of the Melbourne District Nursing and After Care Hospital, a society she joined in 1931. Herring became chairman of the Welfare Branch of the AIF Women’s Association in 1940 and president from 1943 till 1946. Between 1946 and 1950 she was a foundation member and president of the Victorian Council Social Service. For 23 years (1946-1979) Herring was chairman of the Vera Scantlebury Brown Trust. Herring and Scantlebury Brown had attended Toorak College and were medical students at Melbourne University together. Herring also was an honorary member of the Soroptimist Club of Victoria, president (1962-1967) of the Australia Council of the Save the Children Fund, deputy president of the Victoria League 1945-1972, as well as vice-chairman of the British Commonwealth Youth Sunday Council. She was a member of both the Alexandra and Lyceum clubs as well as the Royal Melbourne Golf, Barwon Heads Golf and the Lawn Tennis Association of Victoria. Before passing away Dame Mary Herring planned her funeral service requesting that no announcements be made until after she was buried. A small private service was held on 28 October 1981. The Mary Herring Hall at Toorak College is named in her honour. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1980, Draper, W. J., 1980 Book Dr Mary: the story of Dame Mary Herring, DBE, CBE, Hilton, Della, 1989 The Ties that Bind: A History of Sport at the University of Melbourne, Senyard, June, 2004 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 13 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Database with images Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 November 2016 Last modified 22 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lucy Craigie was an amateur travel photographer who was active throughout Australia during the 1930s. Lucy Craigie grew up on her parents’ property near Armidale, NSW. Her father was Robert Craigie and her mother Mary A. Frances Craigie. After completing her education, Lucy won a scholarship to train as a teacher at the University of Sydney’s Teachers’ College. She eventually became the principal of Smith’s Hill Domestic Science School in Wollongong, New South Wales. During the 1930s Craigie travelled across Australia with her companion Lilian Layh, who was the headmistress of the Dubbo Girls School. Each woman was in their late fifties at the time. The pair’s first trip was in 1936, which saw them travelling from Wollongong to Kalgoorlie (Western Australia) in a Chevrolet. In 1939 they embarked on a longer trip which took them around Australia driving a Studebaker. Their travels received the attention of the press: The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate reported that in addition to touring the country the women were also collecting ‘geological natural history and other specimens for the Sydney Museum and the New South Wales Teachers’ Training College’ (1939). Craigie and Layh kept journals and took photographs of their travels, which captured the natural beauty of the country. Approximately two thousand black and white, silver gelatin prints, and negatives documenting their travels have survived. Both women also employed the more expensive Dufaycolour colour photographic process at a later date. This collection was donated to the Macleay Museum’s Historic Photograph Collection in 1992. Craigie and Layh’s work was considered to be very good technically and of ‘unique documentary value’ (Kerr 154). The women were also known for their quirky shots; Hell (1939), for instance, captures a woman known as Miss Wallace standing on the left hand side a pole with the word ‘Hell’ nailed onto its sign. She wears a hat and behind her the branches of tree extend out, appearing as if they are horns. In 1993 the Macleay Museum presented an exhibition entitled No Roads, No Fences – Motor Caravan Journeys across Australia in 1936 and 1939, which featured 50 reproductions of Craigie’s photographs. Lucy Craigie died in 1972 in Macksville, NSW, aged 90. Collections Historical Photographic Collection, University of Sydney Events 1930 - 1993 - 1993 Lucy Craigie’s work was featured in No Roads, No Fences -Motor Caravan Journeys across Australia in 1936 and 1939. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Lucy Craigie, 1995, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lucy-craigie/biography/ Book Section Lucy Craigie, McCawley, Leigh, 1995 Newspaper Article By Motor Caravan to Darwin, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article135930929 Journal Article New Exhibition - No Roads, No Fences, http://sydney.edu.au/museums/publications/muse/past-issues/1993_march_macleay_news.pdf Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 23 November 2016 Last modified 23 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A self-taught anthropologist, Daisy Bates conducted fieldwork amongst several Indigenous nations in western and southern Australia. She supported herself largely by writing articles for urban newspapers on such topics as ‘native cannibalism’ and the ‘doomed’ fate of Indigenous peoples. Bates also published her work on Indigenous kinship systems, marriage laws, language and religion in books and articles. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for Aboriginal welfare work in 1934. Bates’ birth year was changed from 1863 to 1859 on 16 January 2018 after consulting the references in Bob Reece’s work Daisy Bates: Grand dame of the desert and Susanna De Vries’ book Desert Queen: The many lives and loves of Daisy Bates. Daisy May Bates first arrived in Australia in 1884 and worked as a governess in Berry, New South Wales from 1884-1885. She worked on the Review of Reviews in London, 1894-1899, gaining expertise in journalism. From 1899-1900 she was at the Trappist mission, Beagle Bay, north of Broome and in 1904 was appointed by the Western Australian government to research the tribes of the State. Bates was a member of an expedition led by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown to study the social anthropology of Aboriginal people of north-west Australia in 1910. Over more than twenty years Bates camped at several locations in South Australia and Western Australia; Eucla, 1912-1914; near Yalata, 1915-1918; and near Ooldea, 1918-1934; She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for Aboriginal welfare work on January 1, 1934. She was a member of the British Royal Anthropological Institute and the Australasian Anthropological Institute. Bates wrote her autobiography ‘My natives and I’ in a tent at Pyap, South Australia, 1935-1940. This was serialised in The Adelaide Advertiser and later edited and published as The Passing of the Aborigines in 1938. Her articles appeared in several newspapers, including The Catholic Record, The Western Mail, The Adelaide Advertiser, and The Children’s Newspaper. She lived in Wynbring, east of Ooldea, South Australia from 1941 until old age and failing health led her to return to Adelaide in 1945, where she remained until her death in 1951. Bates is remembered in an ambivalent light by Indigenous and non-Indigenous folk-lore, and has been represented in children’s literature, theatre, film and opera. According to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bates was given the affectionate name ‘Kabbarli’, meaning ‘grandmotherly person’; the Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia records that Anangu people living at Yalata have referred to Bates as ‘Daiji Bate mamu’ (‘mamu’ meaning ghost or devil) and as ‘that poor old lady at Ooldea.’ Published resources Book Daisy Bates, Elizabeth Salter, 1971 First in Their Field: Women and Australian Anthropology, Marcus, Julie; Lepervanche, Marie de; McBryde, Isabel; Prior, Mary Ellen Murray; White, Isobel; Morris, Miranda; O'Gorman, Anne; Marcus, Julie and Cheater, Christine, 1993 100 great Australians, Macklin, Robert, 1983 Kabbarli, Curtis, Allan, 1985 Down the hole, up the tree, across the sandhills : running from the State and Daisy Bates, Edna Tantjingu Williams and Eileen Wani Wingfield ; illustrated by Kunyi June-Anne McInerney, 2000 Daisy Bates: keeper of totems, Anne Bartlett, 1997 Daisy Bates in the desert, Julia Blackburn, 1994 Aboriginal Perth and Bibbulmun biographies and legends, Daisy Bates; edited by P.J. Bridge ; with an introduction by Peter Bindon, 1992 The native tribes of Western Australia, Daisy Bates; edited by Isobel White, 1985 Portraits of Australian women [sound recording], Cobbers, 1981 Kabbarli: a personal memoir of Daisy Bates, Hill, Ernestine, 1973 Tales told to Kabbarli: Aboriginal legends collected by Daisy Bates, Barbara Ker Wilson. Illustrated by Harold Thomas., 1972 Daisy Bates: \"the great white queen of the never never\", Elizabeth Salter, 1971 The passing of the Aborigines : a lifetime spent among the natives of Australia, Bates, Daisy, 1966 Imagined destinies : Aboriginal Australians and the doomed race theory, 1880-1939, Russell McGregor, 1997 Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Uphill all the way: a documentary history of women in Australia, Daniels, Kay and Murnane, Mary, 1980 Efforts made by Western Australia towards the betterment of her Aborigines, Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951. (compiled from statistics, records, etc., under the direction of the Registrar General), 1907 Resource Section Bates, Daisy May (1863-1951), Wright, R. V. S., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070209b.htm Guide to the Papers of Daisy Bates, National Library of Australia, 2002, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-229618391/findingaid Daisy May Bates, Bois, Danuta, 1998, http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/biographies/bates-dm.html Journal Article Social organization of some Western Australian tribes, Daisy Bates, 1913 Aborigines of the west coast of South Australia: vocabularies and ethnographical notes, Daisy Bates, 1918 The marriage laws and some customs of the Western Australian Aborigines, Daisy Bates, 1905 An evaluation of Daisy Bate's Passing of the Aborigines, London, John Murray Ltd., 1972, Stewart, Michael, 1978 Film Kabbarli: a film about Daisy Bates, Andrew G. Taylor, 2002 Journal The Sphere: The Empire's Illustrated Weekly [London], 1934 Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Alexander Gore Gowrie, 1835-1987 [manuscript] Papers of Daisy Bates, 1833-1990 [manuscript] Papers of Daisy Bates, 1905-1921 [manuscript] Correspondence of Daisy Bates 1941, 1943 [manuscript] Letters, 1901-1951 [manuscript] Letters and diary, 1911-1931 [manuscript] Papers of Daisy Bates, 1905-1913 [manuscript] Papers of Eleanor Witcombe, 1941-1987 [manuscript] Papers of Elizabeth Salter, 1922-1980 [manuscript] Typescripts and photographs [ca. 1947] [manuscript] Correspondence from Daisy Bates on the treatment of Aborigines Letters from Daisy Bates, 1905-11 Correspondence with the National Library and photocopies of photographs relating to the funeral of Daisy Bates Papers of Nancy Lutton, 1918-2007 (bulk 1960-2007) [manuscript] Papers of Ernest William Pearson Chinnery, 1897-1971 [manuscript] Darwin, NT; Adelaide, SA; Daisy Bates... Papers of William Hurst, 1918-1956 [manuscript] State Library of Victoria Letters, 1918-1946. [manuscript]. Letters to John Mathew, ca. 1905-1913. [manuscript]. Draft letter and 'queries and remarks' A. W. Hewitt to Daisy Bates 10 September 1905 and 6 November 1905 The University of Adelaide, Barr Smith Library Rare Books & Special Collections Sir John Burton Cleland (1878-1971) - Papers, principally relating to anthropology and medicine Daisy May Bates - Records Letter to Fitzherbert , 21/8/31 and vocabularies. Letter to Fitzherbert, 12/8/31 (incl. Ibari's information) Letter to Fitzherbert 5/4/32 and vocabularies Letter to Fitzherbert 9/11/31 and vocabularies State Library of Western Australia Papers, 1907-1940 [manuscript] Papers, 1907 [manuscript] Papers, 1907-1940 [manuscript]. Papers, 1920-1956 [manuscript] Collection of papers on Western Australian history, 1829-1966 [manuscript] South Australian Museum Archives Bates, Daisy May (AA 23) Field diaries, notebooks and other data relating to fieldwork Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Daisy Mary Bates correspondence, 1910-1942 State Library of South Australia Daisy Bates : SUMMARY RECORD Kathleen Hilfers : SUMMARY RECORD Aborigines' Friends' Association : SUMMARY RECORD Nancy Robinson : SUMMARY RECORD Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Letter to A.J. Vogan relating to Mrs. Bates Letter, 1928 Nov. 10 Ooldea, to Phoebe Kirwan Susanna De Vries Papers Ernestine Hill Papers National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Alvis Brooks interviewed by Marian Hinchcliffe [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Daisy Bates, ethnologist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] AIATSIS Manuscript and Rare Books Collection Daisy Bates [Papers relating to Daisy Bates - comments on her manuscript of \"The native tribes of Western Australia\"] White mother to a black race by Mrs Daisy Bates 'You would have loved her for her lore' : the letters of Daisy Bates Series of ceremonies : Eucla district natives / [Daisy Bates] Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc Correspondence Letters, 1943-44 The National Archives of Ireland Request that publicity in Ireland be given to work done by Mrs Daisy Bates in Australia Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc. BATES, Mrs Daisy May State Library of New South Wales Georgina King papers, 1889-1930 Georgina King Papers, 1888 - 1921 Academy Library, UNSW Canberra Dorothy Green manuscript collection 1918-1990 Rory Barnes manuscript collection Author Details Clare Land Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Rules for Teachers 1879 (2pp); Notice to Epicene Women 1893 (1pp) [Reproductions] Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Faith Bandler has campaigned for Aboriginal and Islander rights throughout her life, firstly through the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship and later through the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI). She has written novels and children’s literature as well as many non-fiction works relating to Aboriginal rights. Her biography, Faith: Faith Bandler, gentle activist, written by Marilyn Lake, was published in 2002. Faith Bandler and her sister enlisted in the Australian Women’s Land Army during World War II. She was employed at Young, picking cherries and also the farming districts of Bathurst and Griffith. She was discharged on the 11 October 1945. Bandler was offered an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to the community in 1976, but declined it in protest against the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. She later accepted a nomination as Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and received the honour on 11 June 1984. This was for service to Aboriginal welfare. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 As a woman: writing women's lives, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1992 Resource Section FAITH BANDLER, 2002, http://www.abc.net.au/btn/australians/f.bandler.htm Great moments in Indigenous history: Have Faith in Nelson!, Foley, Gary, 2002, http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/great/grt11.html Guide to the Papers of Faith Bandler, Hirst, Warwick, 2000, http://findaid.library.uwa.edu.au/cgi-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb/findaid/bandler/@Generic__BookView;cs=default;ts=default Book Faith : Faith Bandler, gentle activist, Lake, Marilyn, 2002 The black Diggers : Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War, Hall, Robert A., 1997 Turning the tide : a personal history of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Bandler, Faith, 1989 Faith Bandler [videorecording] : born 1920 : civil rights activist, Heimans, Frank, 1993c Marani in Australia, Bandler, Faith; Fox, Len, 1980 The Time was ripe : a history of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship (1956-69), Bandler, Faith; Fox, Len, 1983 Wacvie, Bandler, Faith, 1977 Welou, my brother, Bandler, Faith, 1984c Australian literature : an historical introduction, McLaren, John, 1989 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Talkin' up to the white woman : Aboriginal women and feminism, Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, 2000 Newspaper Article Betrayal [White attitudes to Indigenous people], Marr, David, 2000 Keeping the faith [Although she has faith in youth and the future, Faith Bandler grieves for the life she has lost in the battle for rights], Hope, Deborah, 1998 Faith -Bandler-, a vision splendid, Stephens, Tony, 1991 A lifetimes accomplishment [Faith Bandler], Secord, Walt, 1989 Details of pioneers in Aboriginal movement., Horner, Jack, 1972 Faith lives in world Bandler touched, Robinson, Natasha, 2015 Journal Article Paving the way : a tribute to black Australian writers. [Keynote speech given at the presentation of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards (1993)], Bandler, Faith, 1999 They spoke out pretty good: the leadership of women in the Brisbane Aboriginal rights movement, 1958/ 1962, Darling, Elaine, 1996 2001 Eldershaw Memorial Lecture : founding fathers, dutiful wives and rebellious daughters.[Lecture presented to a Tasmanian Historical Research Association meeting on 10 Apr 2001.], Lake, Marilyn, 2001 Citizenship as Non-discrimination: Acceptance or Assimilation? Political Logic and Emotional Investment in Campaigns for Indigenous Rights in Australia, 1940 TO 1970, Lake, Marilyn, 2001 Book Section Aboriginal women, Richards, Michaela, 1988 Australian land rights policy, Bandler, Faith, 1987 Conference Proceedings Reports and resolutions, Conference on Aboriginal Affairs (8th : 1965 : Canberra, A.C.T.), 1965 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Jack and Jean Horner, 1956-2003 [manuscript] AIATSIS Film Collection Aboriginal women farm workers during World War II - three archival film interviews AIATSIS Manuscript and Rare Books Collection Annual report by N.S.W. State Secretary Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Aboriginal National Theatre Trust Limited - files, 1902-1991 Women's Redress Press - book files, 1976-1996, including correspondence, contracts, readers' reports, reviews and photographs Collection 01: Faith Bandler papers, 1968-1992 Series 04: Faith Bandler interviewed by Carolyn Craig, 1997 Collection 02: Faith Bandler further papers, 1875, 1945-1997 Ros Bowden - interviews conducted for radio programs and documentaries, ca.1975 - 1989 Author Details Clare Land Created 26 August 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mona McLeod was a professional photographer working in Bairnsdale, Victoria, where she ran her own studio. Many of her photographs of local events, including the Black Friday bushfire (1939) were published in local newspapers. Mona McLeod was born in Gippsland near Bemm River, Victoria in 1897 and lived there for most of her life. Her parents had emigrated from Scotland and she was the fifth of seven children. The family lived on a farm in an isolated and mountainous part of the country. The farm was largely run by her mother and the children, as her father was away fossicking for gold in South America, California, as well as East Gippsland for much of the time. McLeod received her first camera at the age of 11 and soon after decided on a career as a photographer. Her determination saw her setting up a fruit and vegetable stall so that she could make enough money to leave Bemm River. McLeod managed to move to Bairnsdale when she turned 14, working at the Royle’s Coffee Palace as a waitress in return for being able to lodge there ‘under the protection of the owner’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 20) . She eventually found work as a studio apprentice with the only photographer in the area, Howard Bumer, and by her twenties was able to set up her own studio at the back of a toy shop. By 1927 McLeod had rented a shop which she converted into a ‘shopfront studio.’ McLeod was able to support her family through her hard work, purchasing a house for them in Marlow, close to Bemm River. Although McLeod had set up a darkroom at home, she mainly worked from her Main Street studio until her semi-retirement in 1959. She was the only photographer in the district, known to have ‘seldom refused a job and would go almost anywhere, loading her old fashioned plate camera into the back of her big, vintage Dodge convertible’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 20). McLeod’s photography captured all manner of social and community events. She was known to be able to relax her sitters with her warmth and ‘vivacious humour.’ Her studio work, in contrast, was considered stiff and lacking in imagination – the same three backcloths were used throughout her career. McLeod was more creative and adventurous with her outdoor photography, to the extent that ‘she didn’t mind climbing a lamppost’ with little concern about revealing her ‘large, modest bloomers’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 20). McLeod’s news photography, depicting events including floods, car accidents and the Black Friday bushfire (1939) was published in The Weekly Times, The Herald and possibly The Argus. She was also commissioned by The Australian to photograph oilfields. McLeod took on three female assistants during the war years to support her with an ever-increasing work load. Increased demand for photography materialised because the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) had a large air base close to Bairnsdale. McLeod photographed many social events of the time and also produced some propaganda photography. One of her assistants, Elsie Sievwright, pursued a career in photography, setting up her own studio after Mona died. Although McLeod had a close relationship with Clarrie Royle, the son of Mrs Royle, the owner of the Royle’s Coffee Palace, the couple never married. After McLeod died as a result of high blood pressure in 1964, she was cremated. Her ashes were taken to Lakes Entrance by her close friends, who scattered them near a bush bungalow where this group of female friends had regularly holidayed. Technical McLeod owned a Bellows plate camera. Collections Bairnsdale Museum (collection includes McLeod’s large Bellows plate camera) East Gippsland Historical Society George Paton Gallery Archive, University of Melbourne Archives State Library of Victoria Events 1912 - 1959 1981 - 1981 Mona Mcleod’s work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 2010 - 2010 Mona Mcleod’s work featured in Bairnsdale Historical Museum exhibition. Published resources Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Newspaper Article Homage to Local Hero, O'Sullivan, Kerrin, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/travel-old/homage-to-a-local-hero/story-fn3025t0-1225910234401 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 30 November 2016 Last modified 30 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Examines the letters and diaries of 16 Australian nurses taken from the Private Records collection of the Australian War Memorial. Discusses the role of women in the war as they saw it, what the war meant to these women, the way they saw their role and the way they coped. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 9948 comprises letters and cards from Judith Wright to Nonie Sharp, 1982-1999, newspaper cuttings, and a draft of “Remembering Judith Wright”, 19 July 2000 (1 box).??The Acc06.051 instalment comprises papers relating to the Mabo case and Sharp’s research on the case. It includes court transcripts, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, research materials and oral history recordings (15 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jane Gray only ran for election once, spurred by her belief in free, secular, state education. She ran as a candidate for the Council for the Defence of Government Schools in the New South Wales (State) Legislative Assembly for Northcott. Jane Gray is a great grand-daughter of Sir Henry Parkes and passionate about free state education. She was educated at the University of Sydney, graduating in science (BSc). At the time of her campaign, her three children were high school pupils, and she was active in their Parents and Citizens Associations. Her election leaflets were fiercely opposed to the extension of state aid to private schools and in favour of a first-rate State system of free education as the key to the quality of Australia’s future. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Photocopies of a series of letters received by Mrs Harriet Brims between 1907 and 1909. Included are 1907 letters sent to her and her husband at Watsonville and Irvinebank by their adult children in Mareeba. Harriet Brims was working as a professional photographer at these locations. The letters discuss the photography business, the Brims’ building business and general news. There are also letters and notes sent to Harriet Brims by clients of her photography business. Included is a copy of a prize certificate for Harriet Brims’ photography issued by the Mareeba District Mining, Pastoral, Agricultural and Industrial Association. There are also copies of Harriet and Donald Brims’ death certificates, and biographical information. Created 9 May 2019 Last modified 9 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "56 hours (approx.)??Interviewers: Margaret Allen, Dana Kautsky, Karobi Mukherjee, Effie Sierros and Raffaela Del Vecchio.??A pilot project in which 20 women of non-English speaking backgrounds who migrated to South Australia after 1945 were interviewed at length about their lives and experiences and the impact of their new home on their social and cultural lives. A small proportion of the interviews were conducted in the original language of the interviewee involved. The majority are conducted in English. A book for use in secondary and tertiary education was intended to be developed from the interviews. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. 1944-09-30 – 1944-10-04. Officers at the conference of Assistant and Deputy Assistant Controllers, Australian Army Medical Women’s Service. Identified personnel are:- NFX76442 Captain L.W. Yates; VFX138505 Major R M. Davidson; NFX138446 Major J.M. Snelling; SFX30364 Lieutenant-Colonel M.S. Douglas; VF500148 Major A. Appleford, RRC, MM; QF119238 Major M.C. Roche; SFX27688 Captain M.M. Langsford; VFX117124 Major H.F. Meyer; TFX6117 Captain I.D. Cox; WFX38344 Captain S.C. Perry. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "16 type 1 boxes, 1 type 2 and 26 oversize items.?Further 18 boxes unprocessed.?The records include teaching and course material from history and women’s studies courses at ANU and other universities; correspondence; conference material; publications on feminism and sexuality; recorded lectures on audio cassettes and posters. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 25 July 2017 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour 2 minutes??The Port History Project, funded by the Community Youth Support Scheme for 18 months during 1977 and 1978, involved about 40 young unemployed people researching and presenting aspects of the history of the Port Adelaide region. The aim of the project was to help them gain job skills and self-confidence. Activities included the preparation of exhibitions, articles and booklets as well as the interviews contained in this collection. The project was based at the Port Adelaide Central Mission and the Project Officer was Susan Marsden who usually acted as the primary interviewer. Several other historians were also associated with the project as interviewers. Where interviewees were recorded on different occasions by different interviewees the recordings have been described separately.?Others interviewed include many long time and more recent residents of the Port Adelaide Region and those associated the Mission. For a list of those interviewed do a number search of the Mortlock Library of South Australiana catalogue for OH 24.???Sister Beatrice (‘Betty’) Harvey grew up in Broken Hill and came to work with the Port Adelaide Central Methodist Mission in 1938 when she herself was in her thirties. She describes the church buildings associated with the Mission and speaks of the Mission’s assistance to the unemployed during the Depression. She describes her own hard work as a home and school visitor in that era and some of the sad cases she encountered. She recalls Reverend and Mrs McCutcheon who were in charge of the Mission and recounts how the Reverend founded the Wesley House Homes for the Aged. The interview concludes with Sister Betty describing the series of jobs she took interstate during the late 1920s which led her to her life as a missionary. She finishes by outlining a typical week’s work at the Mission in years past. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Melbourne, Aus. 1943-11-24. Group of Australian Women’s Army Service officers from the Victorian Land Headquarters on the steps of the Shrine of Remembrance. They are, left to right: front row: VF346533 Lieutenant N. M. Callinan; VF388389 Lieutenant M. J. Watts; VF143893 Colonel S. H. Irving, MBE; VF388264 Lieutenant E. M. Vince; VF346838 Lieutenant B. A. Deering; VF346737 Lieutenant I. L. Johannesen. Centre row: VF346921 Lieutenant R. C. Rainford; VF346530 Lieutenant E. I. Pascoe; Lieutenant D. E. Dodd; VF346720 Lieutenant L. E. Coghland; VF387942 Lieutenant F. M. Creeley; VF388758 Lieutenant V. L. Earle. Back row: VF388283 Captain L. D. Crane; VF345014 Lieutenant D. L. Madden; VF396342 Lieutenant G. J. E. H. Davis; NF435329 Major J. Wood. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A belief that education can transform lives is central to Sanaa Ghabbar’s philosophy. She ran as an Australian Greens Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bankstown in 2003. Sanaa originally trained to teach English, but then did a degree in Mathematics and English as a second language (BA, B Teach). She has lived in the electorate for 11 years at the time of her campaign. She has been active in the area of human rights and freedom from discrimination and she spoke against the war in Iraq. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 6 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Textual material (correspondence) relating to the family of James Cosh, 1838-1900. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 5 August 2019 Last modified 5 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "17 sound tape reels (782 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mattie Hodgson worked as a retoucher, colourist, and camera operator from the mid-1920s. She worked in Western Australia and London. Mattie Hodgson was born in 1909. Her family encouraged her to pursue her creative endeavours in the arts. Her aunt, Edith Ward, was an amateur photographer working in Bendigo. It was she who opened up the world of photography to Hodgson. In 1924, at the age of 15, Hodgson acquired her first camera. In the following year she began working as a receptionist and retoucher at the Ruskin Studios in Perth. When Ruskin decided to retire seven years later, he offered to pass on the business to Hodgson. She declined the offer, as her main interest was in drawing and painting. Hodgson attended night classes at the Perth Technical School; by 1934 she was studying full time. Hodgson won the Arts & Crafts prize at the West Australian Society of Arts annual exhibition in 1935, but with limited opportunities to become a successful artist her creative energies shifted to photography. Hodgson took lessons in retouching from Mrs Lethbridge, and Mrs Wilmot taught her colouring. There were no photography schools at the time in Perth. Hodgson went onto work for many of Perth’s large photography studios; in addition to the Ruskin Studios she worked at Webb and Webb, Langham, and John Hallam. In 1936 Hodgson travelled to London and gained employment as a colourist with the Lenare Studios, famous at the time for their ‘top society photographs.’ Hodgson later recalled Lenare’s distinctive style: ‘[t]heir trademark was all-white studio walls, never painted backgrounds, and they relied on lighting for effect. We made up our own highly secret colouring medium formulas, which were guarded very jealously from other studios, using Winsor and Newton oils, not the inferior Kodak ones’ (Hall 70). Lenare’s Kathleen Pilkington taught Hodgson the art of being a colourist. Hodgson returned to Perth in 1938 and worked as a freelance photographer, sharing a studio with the sculptor Karen Tulloch. In the following year, 1939, she ran Susan Watkin’s studio for six months, while Watkins recovered from exhaustion due work pressure. During this time Hodgson developed her own freelance work. Hodgson taught Hilda Wright photography and instructed Jill Crossley in negative retouching. During WW2 Hodgson was in high demand as a retoucher, colourist, camera operator and negative developer. Over the years her photographs were published in The Daily News and The West Australian newspapers. In 1937 she became engaged to John Frederic Corhe, of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. The event was announced in The Daily News on 19 August 1937. Evidence showing that Hodgson continued to work as a photographer after her marriage is currently unavailable. Events 1925 - 1935 - 1935 The West Australian Society of Arts. Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Newspaper Article Awards by Art Society, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83657805 Novel Beauty Parade, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83582819 Photograph [No Title], 1950, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47828598 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 29 November 2016 Last modified 4 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "It is possible to get further information about individual members of the order via the archivist.??The following advice is given to those who are interested:??In writing to the Archivist, it would be appropriate that a financial contribution be made for the Archivist’s time and expertise.??Religious Orders or Congregations have released the details on their members. It is understood that the copyright of any material (including the listing of the names of the Sisters) relevant to a particular Order or Congregation in this publication remains with the relevant Order or Congregation.??The contact details are as follows:??The Archivist?Dominican Sisters?Cabra?225 Cross Road?Cumberland Park S.A. 5041 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 5 June 2009 Last modified 11 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "An eco comedy-thriller based on Ben Elton’s novel ‘Stark’. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Printed material primarily related to Aboriginal affairs, 1947-1966. Includes copy of ‘Constitution of Aborigines Advancement League (Victoria)’, 23 August 1965; typescript copy of ‘Their music has roots’; proceedings from a conference on N.S.W. Aborigines held in Armadale, May 1959; Council for Aboriginal Rights report, April, 1957; various Government publications on the treatment of Aboriginals; pamphlets, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and lecture notes protesting a proposed rocket testing range 200 miles wide by 3,000 miles long in Central Australia; personal accounts of Aboriginal people (restricted); newspaper clippings and articles relating to the treatment of occupants of the Lake Tyers station; papers relating to the activities of UNESCO, in particular its educational activities; clippings and pamphlets on the subject of Aboriginal rights. Also list of members and non-members of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1963, and other printed material related to the activities of that organisation. Author Details Clare Land Created 23 November 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "In 1931, aviatrix Maude ‘Lores’ Bonney broke the Australian record for the longest one-day flight by a woman and the following year she became the first woman to circumnavigate Australia by air. She was also the first person to fly from Australia to England and the first person to undertake a solo flight from Australia to South Africa. Maude Rose ‘Lores’ Rubens was born on November 20, 1897, in Pretoria, South Africa and later settled in Melbourne with her parents. Whilst helping the war effort through the Red Cross during World War I, Lores met Harry Bonney. The pair fell in love, married, and decided to settle in Queensland. It was Harry’s first cousin, airman Bert Hinkler, who sparked Lores’s interest in flying. She began taking lessons and soon after Harry bought her a Gipsy Moth biplane, which she named My Little Ship. Lores began breaking aviation records in 1931. Setting off on Christmas Day, Lores flew from Brisbane to Wangaratta, completing the longest one-day solo flight by an Australian female pilot. Next, Lores’s sights were set on becoming the first female pilot to circumnavigate Australia. Despite a failed first attempt, Lores successfully flew from Perth to Brisbane in August-September 1932, flying a totally of 13,000km and being airborne for 95 hours and 27 minutes. Two records was not enough for Lores and soon she was determined to become the first female to fly solo from Australia to England. Setting off from Archerfield aerodrome on April 10, 1933, Lores’s journey was fraught with danger and along the way she crashed her beloved My Little Ship twice. Despite many setbacks, Lores landed in Croydon, England, on June 21 1933 after spending 157 hours and 15 minutes airborne. Despite having crashed her aircraft, the Australian press described Lores as the first female to fly solo from Australia to England. In 1934 she was appointed a Member (MBE) of the Order of the British Empire for her feat. Today, however, Jean Batten is regarded as the first woman to have completed this journey. Lores broke another record in 1937, by becoming the first person to fly solo from Australia to South Africa. In January 1991 Lores was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) ‘in recognition of service to aviation’. Despite her achievements, however, Lores’s story sadly remains largely forgotten. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Maude Bonney, circa 1920-circa 1990 [manuscript] Notebook of Maude Bonney, approximately 1933 Diary of Maude Bonney, 1933 Diary of Maude Bonney, 1937 National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Lores Bonney, former aviator, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences Lores Bonney aviation archive Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "From the conception and writing of a script, through its many evolutions in discussion, rehearsals, shooting and editing, ‘Behind the Frontline’ offers an insight into the unique collaboration of Rob Sitch, Jane Kennedy, Tom Gleisner and Santo Cilauro. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This is an interview with Winifred Piesse for the Battye Library Oral History Unit and the Western Australian Parliamentary Oral History Project. Winifred Aumann was born in Victoria in 1923 and grew up in Narre Warren, Victoria. After leaving school she completed a Nursing General Certificate Midwifery and Child Health Certificate. In 1947 she moved to Western Australia she moved to Western Australia where she met Mervyn Piesse, a Wagin farmer, who she married in 1947, they had three children. Following the death of her husband in 1966 Mrs Piesse took over the responsibility of the farming properties at Wagin. Though a member of the Country Party since 1948 it was only after the death of her husband that she became an active member at branch and divisional level. From 1971 to 1977 she was a member of Wagin Shire Council and in 1977 contested the Legislative Council seat of the Lower Central Province. She held the seat until she was defeated in the 1983 election and was the first woman elected to State Parliament to represent the Country Party. During the interview Mrs Piesse talked of her life and her involvement in State politics. She also commented on the role of women in politics at local and state level. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc10.145 comprises papers relating to Mary Salce’s early activism, formation of the Women in Agriculture organisation, the first International Women in Agriculture Conference, and subsequent international conferences and the establishment of the Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women. Included are minutes, press releases, media clippings, reports, proposals, funding applications, conference papers, newsletters, brochures, photographs, programs and articles written by Salce (6 boxes, 1 fol. Packet).??The Acc11.123 instalment comprises a small group of papers and electronic media relating to the first International Women in Agriculture Conference, held in Melbourne in 1994. They comprise audio cassette tapes of conference proceedings, and some of the papers presented and electronic records relating to the organisation of the conference, together with printouts of some of the records including program reports, speaker details, participant lists, and information about display holders. There are also six audio cassette tapes relating to the second International Women in Agriculture Conference, held in Washington, D.C. in 1998 (1 box, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Janet Butler Created 24 August 2009 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Feature film about adolescent friendship, the sort of passionate friendship of teenage girls that seems so strong, yet often disintegrates as lives take different courses.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Olive Zakharov was elected to the Senate of the Parliament of Australia in 1983 as a representative for Victoria. A member of the Australian Labor Party, she served until her death in 1995. The Hansard record of the proceedings in the Australian Senate on the afternoon after the death of Alice Olive Zakharov nee Hay consists entirely of the condolences, delivered over more than two hours. The tributes delivered in the House of Representatives also filled an entire sitting.[1] A graduate in Arts (1971) from the University, qualified teacher and member of the Australian Psychological Society, Olive Zakharov had, during her early years worked as a pathology assistant, mail officer, shop assistant, waitress and fruit-picker. She brought up three children as a single mother from the time her youngest child began school, becoming the Student Welfare Co-ordinator at Montmorency Secondary College in 1969. Olive Zakharov had been active in the Australian Labor Party for many years before standing for the Senate in 1983, when she was elected, despite being placed fifth on the Party ticket. She was, until 1993, one of only two Victorian women in the Senate. The tributes paid on her death refer to her dedication not only to causes but to the individuals they affect: the Commonwealth car drivers and the staff of Members and Senators reflect this. They specifically asked for their condolences to be registered in the parliamentary record. Senator Zakharov’s concerns were wide-ranging and consistent: they were issues concerned with social equality. She was active in initiatives on sexual discrimination, sexual harassment, domestic violence and HIV/AIDS. She was a member of the Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament and of World Women Parliamentarians for Peace. Her longstanding commitment to peace led to her being appointed to represent Australia as a delegate to the 1987 Vienna Peace Conference. The following year in the USSR she witnessed the first destruction of a nuclear missile as the representative of Australian pacifists. She chaired a number of committees, most notably the Senate Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training, and served on many others, including the Committees on Community Affairs, Environment, Recreation and the Arts. Perhaps most ironically, in view of that organisation’s interest in her own and her husband’s political activities at the University, she was a member of the Joint Committee on ASIO. A memorial at the corner of Liardet and Lalor Streets, Port Melbourne celebrates her life.[2] [1] Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. ‘Condolences: Zakharov, Senator Alice Olive’. Hansard. 7 March 1995: 1657-1678; Australian. Parliament. Senate. ‘Condolences: Senator Alice Olive Zakharov’. Hansard. 7 March 1995: 1443-1468. [2] http://monumentaustralia.org.au/search/display/93967-olive-zakharov Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Olive Zakharov Senator for Victoria ALP, 1983-1995, http://wifp.senate.gov.au/milestones/25/ Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 17 April 2008 Last modified 29 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Studio portrait of bride Dr Isabel Ormiston on her marriage to Major (Maj) Chudleigh Garvice DSO, Commandant of the Alexandria Police. Maj Garvice received his DSO while serving with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers during the Boer War. In 1920 he married Dr Martha Isabel Ormiston, a Tasmanian born doctor who graduated from the University of Sydney. Maj Chudleigh died within a year of their marriage. Dr Ormiston had been working with the Red Cross in London before enlisting and was attached to the Queen of the Belgians’ Hospital at Ostend and La Panne (1914-1915), Wounded Allies’ Relief (W.A.R.) Hospital Montenegro (1916-1917), British Red Cross Depot Egypt (1916) and W.A.R. Hospital, Limoges. She was awarded the Montenegrin Red Cross and Orders of Danilo and the Nile. She later took up the position of Senior Lady Medical Officer, Egyptian Ministry of Education and in 1928 was awarded an MBE. She died in July 1958 in Australia. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 December 2017 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissions is an independent statutory authority, accountable to the Victorian Parliament, that promotes equal opportunity and works to eliminate unlawful discrimination in Victoria. It helps people to resolve complaints of discrimination, sexual harassment and racial and religious vilification through a process of conciliation. In addition to its complaint resolution service, the Commission offers information, education and consultancy services, conducts research and provides legal and policy advice. The Commission has the power to refer unresolved complaints to the Anti-Discrimination List, which is in the Civil Division of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)."
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        "text": "Teresa Wardell was a foundation social worker at the Melbourne Catholic Family Welfare Bureau. Teresa Wardell was dedicated to the professionalisation of Australian Catholic welfare. She spent time in America working in diocesan bureaux and was later employed with the UNRRA in China, as well as the Catholic Social Service Bureau, the Catholic Welfare Bureau and the Victorian Child Welfare Department back home in Australia. Published resources Resource Section Teresa Wardell: Gender, Catholicism and Social Welfare in Melbourne, Musgrove, Nell, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/fff/pdfs/wardell.pdf Thesis The Professionalisation of Australian Catholic Social Welfare, 1920-1985, Gleeson, Damian John, 2006, http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:1178/SOURCE1?view=true Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 December 2008 Last modified 3 December 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Adele (Jill) Mildenhall arrived in Canberra during the settlement’s infancy. She quickly became involved in several charitable and religious organisations including St John the Baptist Church, the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) and the Mothercraft Society. She was also a valued member of Canberra’s social scene as a tennis player and an entertainer."
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    {
        "text": "Patti Chong is a Perth based legal practitioner with thirty-five years experience in both private and public practice. Born and educated in Batu Pahat, in the state of Johore, Malaysia, she came to Perth in 1973, studied law at the University of Western Australia and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and a Bachelor of Laws in 1980. She was the only Chinese woman in her class, one of only four women in total. In 2006 she established her own practice, working in a wide variety of areas. She has a commitment to mentoring young lawyers and legal students. Patti Chong was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Patti Chong is a Perth based legal practitioner with thirty-five years experience in both private and public practice. Born and educated in Batu Pahat, in the state of Johore, Malaysia, she came to Perth in 1973, studied law at the University of Western Australia and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and a Bachelor of Laws in 1980. She was the only Chinese woman in her class, one of only four women in total. The tenth of eleven children brought up in a traditional Chinese family, Patti was lucky enough to have a mother who encouraged her to get an education; which would be her ‘ticket to freedom’. She suspects that her mother, who was married at fourteen, ‘would have been a force to be reckoned with if she had received an education’. Patti did not initially migrate to Australia as a student but once she arrived, she took full advantage of the opportunities offered by the free tertiary education system introduced by the Australian Government in the 1970s. Proving herself a capable student by studying the pre-law in BA in the first instance, she was accepted into the Faculty of Law in 1977 and completed her degree in 1980. Her ethnicity and gender combined to create a sense of isolation through her undergraduate years. The various support systems available for international students that exist now were non-existent in the 1970s, including services that helped students to develop English language skills. Difficulty in comprehending Australian accented English was hard enough, but time helped to improve her ability in this area. Lack of competence in spoken English was not as easily fixed, and held her back. Early in her career, Patti undertook speech therapy to improve her English annunciation, doing what she could to remove that impediment to her career progression. Despite having no access to the legal networks available to many of her classmates, Patti found an interesting training environment to complete her articles with the Director of Legal Aid. She was admitted to practice in 1981, and left Legal Aid soon afterwards in 1982, joining the Australian Government Solicitor’s (AGS) Office in 1983. Regarded at the time by many corporate lawyers as ‘the poor cousin’ to the big, commercial firms in Perth the AGS offered Patti a wide range of legal experience and, as it turned out, the opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the big names in Perth legal and business circles. A particular highlight in 1984 was briefing the Honourable Robert French, then a senior barrister, as part of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal Inquiry into the granting of a third TV licence for Perth. What was supposed to be six weeks worth of hearings ended up being closer to eighteen months work, bringing her into contact with notable Perth identities such as Alan Bond, Robert Holmes a Court, Martin Bennett and Carmel McLure. ‘It was a highlight of my life,’ says Patti. ‘The big guns were out and here was little Patti Chong’. Working in that environment gave Patti a sense of her own strengths as a lawyer. Never a ‘black letter lawyer’, she was a good, ‘practical, effects person’, a lawyer who established great rapport with juries, using the evidence to create a narrative to present to the court. Furthermore, despite Patti’s early problems with English expression, she now regards her capacity for communication to be one of her strengths. Her experience with the AGS and then, in 1992, the newly established Western Australian Office of the State Director of Public Prosecutions gave her the ability to work with people across all social contexts. ‘I pride myself,’ she says, ‘that I can speak to a billionaire like Kerry Stokes, to an intellectual giant like Robert French, to the criminals I see in prison…and the refugees and non-English-speaking migrants. Not everyone has that ability.’ While working in the AGS, Patti met her second husband, Ken Bates, with whom she had three children, but not before she had adopted her brother’s three children, in accordance with her sister-in-law’s dying wish, after a long, protracted legal battle that saw her appearing in the Malaysian High Court while she took on Australian Immigration authorities. In 1992, she joined the newly established office of the WA Director of Public Prosecutions as a Crown Prosecutor, where she gained broad experience across a whole range of criminal offences in the Supreme, District and Children’s courts. Whilst working for the AGS, she was also involved in some important non-criminal matters, including handling asbestosis claims against the government, and handling claims for Australian Government statutory authorities, such as Australia Post. In November 2004, Patti was appointed the inaugural General Counsel to the Corruption and Crime Commission. She held this appointment until December 2005 when she returned to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. In 2006 she decided to set up her own private practice, where she continues to work. A significant feature of her practice is to offer mentoring and internship opportunities to young lawyers and undergraduate students in their penultimate and final years, hoping that the experience will help them build the networks and opportunities that she missed out on as a young lawyer. In addition to her professional practice and family responsibilities, Patti has been active in a large number of community causes and organisations. She sat on a number of Law Society committees and was, for a number of years, on the Committee of Women Lawyers Western Australia. On their behalf, she organised the collection of pre-loved clothes from women lawyers and staff for donation to the Banksia Pre-release Centre to assist women prisoners prepare themselves for job interviews, attendance in court and release from prison, by having appropriate clothes for such occasions. She has served as a Vice-President of the W.A. Chinese Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Chung Wah Association, a board member of Constable Care, a board member of Celebrate W.A., a board member of W.A. Ballet, and a trustee of the Simon Lee Foundation. In March 2006 Patti became Patron of the Dyslexia-Speld Foundation and in September 2006 a fund-raising Ambassador for the Leukaemia Foundation. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Australasian Legal Information Institute, http://www.austlii.edu.au/ Article Newsmaker: Patti Chong, 2005, http://msc.uwa.edu.au/?f=82744 Resource Section About Patti Chong, http://www.pattichonglawyer.com/who-is/ Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Patti Chong interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 July 2014 Last modified 21 September 2016 Digital resources Title: Patti Chong Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Stefania Siedlecky was one of the first two women medical officers to work at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW). A general practitioner with a particular interest in women’s health, she was influential in the development of the family planning movement in NSW, joining Family Planning NSW in 1971. In 1974 she helped set up the Leichhardt (NSW) Women’s Health Centre and the Preterm Foundation, two initiatives which brought safe legal abortion to NSW. From these beginnings, she developed a national, then international, reputation. In 1986 she joined the United Nations Family Planning Association (UNFPA) Special Advisory Committee on Women, Population and Development and in 1988 conducted a review of the UNFPA program in Zambia. Stefania Siedlecky was born in Blackheath 1921, daughter of a Polish migrant. She graduated in Medicine during the war years at the beginning of the era of antibiotics and blood transfusions and was one of the first two women RMOs at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. She spent nearly 30 years in general practice and was on the gynaecology staff at Rachel Forster Hospital in Sydney 1960-1974. She joined Family Planning NSW in 1971 and in 1974 helped set up the Leichhardt Women’s Health Centre and the Preterm Foundation, two initiatives which brought safe legal abortion to NSW. In 1974 she became the Consultant in Family Planning in the Commonwealth Department of Health, initially for six months, but stayed on as Senior Adviser in Family Planning and Women’s Health for 12 years. She was responsible for the establishment of the Action Centre for Adolescents in Melbourne, the Warehouse and the Fairfield Multicultural Centre in Sydney, an education program in family planning, and the first National Women’s Health Conference in 1975. In 1978 she took the MSc in Medical Demography at London University, and in 1979 was seconded to the organising committee for the UN Mid-Decade Conference for Women. She was a member of the Australian delegation to the UN Mid-Decade Conference (Copenhagen 1980), the International Conference on Population (Mexico 1984) and the UN End of the Decade for Women Conference (Nairobi 1985). On retirement in 1986, she joined the UNFPA Special Advisory Committee on Women, Population and Development and in 1988 did a review of the UNFPA program in Zambia. She joined the board of the Family Planning Association in ACT and later in NSW (1987-2000) where she was President for 2 years. She set up the FP NSW Ethics Committee which she chaired from 1987 to 2000. She represented Australia on the ESEAOR Council from 1989-95 and helped to establish its women’s sub- committee. In 1990, with co-author Diana Wyndham, she published, ‘Populate and Perish-Australian Women’s Fight for Birth Control.’ She is on the Board of the Preterm Foundation and a member of several women’s organisations. In 1989 she joined Macquarie University as an Honorary Associate in Demography where she participates in epidemiological research and teaching. She has written papers on teenage pregnancy, contraceptive use and abortion and contributed to international publications. With Professor Farhat Yusuf she has published a number of papers on aspects of women’s health and contraceptive use, most recently a review of 30 years of abortion in South Australia (in press). In 1987 she was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to Women’s Health. Described as ‘a true legend in women’s health and in our community’, Dr Siedlecky was a founder of Australia’s women’s health movement and trailblazer. Over fifty years, through her intelligence, passion and commitment to medicine and women’s health, she had a significant and lasting impact on thousands of women’s lives and Australia’s health system and academia. [NB: the above biography was researched and written by Philida Sturgiss-Hoy] Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 12 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Michelle Grattan was the first woman to become editor of an Australian metropolitan daily newspaper. Specialising in political journalism, she has written and edited for many significant Australian newspapers. Her long and distinguished career in journalism began in 1970 at the Melbourne Age, where she enjoyed a stellar career as their political editor. She left that paper (for good!) in 2013. . Michelle Grattan studied politics at the University of Melbourne, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours). She worked as a tutor in politics at Monash University before joining The Age in 1970. From 1971, Grattan was working in the Canberra press gallery for The Age, and became the newspaper’s chief political correspondent in 1976. She received the Graham Perkin Award as Australian Journalist of the Year in 1988. That same year, she delivered the Arthur Norman Smith Memorial Lecture in Journalism. The lecture, ‘Reporting Federal Politics’, examined the difficulties of being a senior political journalist. Political journalism, said Grattan, was deadline-driven. It meant ‘dealing with instant history: catching the moment, making quick judgements’. The political journalist had to learn to work in the small, insular world of the press gallery; to penetrate bureaucracy; to avoid the tactics of propagandists, including press secretaries and ministerial staff; and to maintain the delicate relationships between themselves and the politicians who could make or break their stories. Above all, they had to avoid being pulled into the fray, being coerced, or taking sides: ‘objectivity is an impossible dream’, Grattan admitted, but at the very least ‘we should think in terms of “fairness”… presenting the debate in a balanced way’. In 1993, Michelle Grattan left her post at The Age to take up an appointment as editor of The Canberra Times, making her the first female editor of a metropolitan daily newspaper in Australia. She remained at The Canberra Times for two years before returning to The Age as political editor in 1995. With twenty-five years of experience then behind her, Grattan had much to say in debates around the perceived impending doom of the Australian newspaper. In September 1995, she delivered the Walter Murdoch Memorial Lecture – ‘Headline, Deadline, Bottom Line: The Case for Good Journalism’ – in which she acknowledged that newspaper circulation rates were dropping; papers were under threat from more technologically sophisticated forms of media; the roles of editor and marketer were increasingly blurred; newspaper companies were transforming from family-owned operations to major conglomerates; and, perhaps most critically, newspapers were not necessarily producing ‘first-rate’ journalism, ‘the kind that tells people what they would not otherwise know, tweaks the tails of the power wielders, turns over rocks to stir the dark life beneath’. Though newspaper staffs had broadened, including more women, for example, they had also become more homogeneous. Newsrooms were inclined to be ‘politically and journalistically correct’, said Grattan, but too much ‘sameness’ was a danger. Three years later Grattan was delivering another paper, this time to an audience at the University of Queensland’s Department of Journalism, where she had accepted an honorary appointment as Adjunct Professor. Here Grattan openly criticised what she termed the ‘ascendancy of commercialisation in Australian newspapers’. In contrast to the late 80s when editorial independence was ‘the hot talk of Australian journalism’, the late 90s were witness to a worrying degree of censorship and collusion. The country’s newspapers were under the control of a small number of dominant men – most notably the Murdoch and Fairfax operations – and media companies were hand-in-hand with government and business. Of Murdoch’s company, News Corp, Grattan observed: its ‘national and international interests are so vast that no day can pass when one bit of the empire is not faced with the task of reporting on another section of the empire’. Large media companies had taken to employing ‘high level political operatives’ who held sway with the government. Meanwhile, some journalists were compromising themselves by accepting formal stakeholder status in the media companies employing them. Editors were being re-branded as publishers, responsible for appeasing advertisers, employers, and the readership: ‘The modern editor thinks of his paper as a supermarket for readers, selling a guide to modern living, as much as a conveyor of news and views’. The ‘journalistically brave’ editor who offended a political power centre had far less protection than he once had: he could be (and frequently was) easily replaced. As a respected journalist and household name, Grattan has played a significant role in influencing public opinion. She has published material on the Australian Labor Party specifically (Managing Government: Labor’s Achievements and Failures, 1993), but critiques both major parties based upon policy and personal conduct (see ‘Selfish cry from a man who no longer gives a damn’ following Mark Latham’s attack on the Labor Party, The Age, 19 June 2005), and she wrote the biographical chapter on former Prime Minister John Howard in her edited collection, Australian Prime Ministers (2000). Grattan approves of those who stand up for a worthy cause, and have the political gumption to bring it to fruition. In 1989 she co-published (with Margaret Bowman) Reformers: Shaping Australian Society from the 60s to the 80s, profiling fourteen Australian reformers from Gough Whitlam to Katharine West. The profiles, the authors hoped, would ‘add a human dimension to abstractions like “social change” and “reform”‘. In 2000, Grattan edited Reconciliation: Essays in Australian Reconciliation. Grattan joined The Australian Financial Review as a columnist and senior writer in 1996. In 1999, she was appointed chief political correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald, but returned to The Age once again as a political columnist in 2002. In January 2004, she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her long and distinguished service to Australian journalism, and in March of that year became political editor and bureau chief for The Age. In 2006, Michelle Grattan received the Walkley Award for Journalism Leadership. In 2013 Grattan announced her resignation from The Ageto take up a position as professorial fellow at the University of Canberra. She will also be the Associate Editor (Politics) and Chief Political Correspondent of The Conversation. Events 2006 - 2006 Journalistic Leadership, The Age, ABC Radio National 1970 - 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Australian Prime Ministers, Grattan, Michelle, 2000 Reconciliation : Essays on Australian Reconciliation, Grattan, Michelle, 2000 Lecture Reporting Federal Politics, Grattan, Michelle, 1988 Headline, Deadline, Bottom Line : The case for good journalism, Grattan, Michelle, 1995 Editorial Independence: An outdated concept?, Grattan, Michelle, 1998 Book Back on the Wool Track, Grattan, Michelle, 2004 Reformers : Shaping Australian Society from the 60s to the 80s, Grattan, Michelle and Bowman, Margaret, 1989 Managing Government: Labor's Achievements and Failures, Grattan, Michelle, 1993 Can Ministers Cope?: Australian Federal Ministers at Work, Grattan, Michelle, 1981 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources AIATSIS Manuscript and Rare Books Collection Papers of Michelle Grattan on Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders Author Details Barbara Lemon and Nikki Henningham Created 8 April 2008 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 sound files (ca. 260 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Folders of miscellaneous pieces Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Nicola Roxon was elected to the House of Representatives for Gellibrand, Victoria, in 1998, and was re-elected in 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010. She became Shadow Minister for Health in 2006 and on the election of the Labor Government in November 2007, she became the Minister for Health and Ageing. She continued to hold that portfolio in the Gillard Labor Government until she was appointed Attorney-General on December 14, 2011; the first woman to hold the position in the Australian parliament. She resigned from the portfolio in February 2013 and retired from parliament on 5 August 2013. Roxon was born in Sydney, New South Wales. She is the second of three daughters and the niece of the late Australian journalist and Sydney Push member Lillian Roxon. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish and migrated from Poland to Australia in 1937. Anglicising the family name from Ropschitz to Roxon, her grandfather worked as a GP in Gympie and Brisbane, Queensland. Her mother Lesley trained as a pharmacist, while her father Jack was a microbiologist. He was a strong influence in her life and she was devastated by his death from cancer when she was 10 years old. Roxon was educated at the Methodist Ladies’ College in the suburb of Kew in Melbourne, Victoria. She completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Melbourne before working as Judge’s Associate for the Hon. Justice Mary Gaudron in the High Court of Australia. She was a Union organiser for the National Union of Workers, and an Industrial Lawyer with Maurice Blackburn and Co. until 1998, when she was elected to the House of Representatives. A member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry from 2001, Roxon has served as Shadow Minister for Children and Youth; Shadow Minister for Population and Immigration; Shadow Attorney-General, and Assisting the Leader on the Status of Women; and Shadow Minister for Health. She has been a member of House of Representatives Standing Committees on Industry, Science and Resources; and Legal and Constitutional Affairs; and served on the Joint Select Committee on the Republic Referendum in 1999. In 2003, Roxon was a member of the Parliamentary Delegation to Syria, Lebanon and Israel. She was Minister for Health and Ageing in the Rudd Government (2007-2011) and was appointed Attorney General in the Gillard Government of 2011-2013. Events 2014 - 2014 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Videorecording Nicola Roxon's Valedictory Speech in Full, Roxon, Nicola, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/jun/18/nicola-roxon-valedictory-speech-video Newspaper Article At home with Nicola Roxon, Peatling, Stephanie, 2012, http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/at-home-with-nicola-roxon-20120915-25z2i.html Magazine article Goodbye to all that: why I resigned, Roxon, Nicola, 2013, https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2013/march/1366758466/nicola-roxon/goodbye-all Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 19 July 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Nicola Roxon Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Abbotsleigh was founded by an English woman, Marian Clarke, in 1885. An Anglican school for girls, it was first located in a terrace in North Sydney. The school then moved to Parramatta in 1888, and finally to its current premises in Wahroonga. Abbotsleigh was one of the first girls’ school to have a sports field, which was opened in October 1901. The following women have been associated with Abbotsleigh School. Headmistresses have included: 1885-1913: Marian Clarke 1913-1924: Margaret Murray 1924-1930: Dorothea Poole 1931-1954: Gladys Gordon Everett 1954-1957: Ruth Hirst 1958-1970: H .E. (Betty) Archdale 1970-1987: Kathleen McCredie 1988-1995: Diane Nicholls 1996-2004: Judith Wheeldon 2006-current: Judith Poole Past students have included: Una Parry Boyce AM, OBE Margaret Enid (Peg) Christian, OAM. Published resources Resource Section Clarke, Marian (1853-1933), Claydon, Robyn, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080016b.htm Book Abbotsleigh, a walk through time, Claydon, Robin, 1984 The lily and the lion: a history of Abbotsleigh, Emilsen, Susan, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales [Collection of pamphlets on education and schools] Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 2 September 2009 Last modified 2 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Folders of miscellaneous pieces. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Millie Best was one of the first two women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly. Throughout her life she was a dedicated community and voluntary worker including being a commandant in the Voluntary Aid Detachment Canteen Services during World War II. On 2 January 1956 Amelia Best was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to social welfare. Besides being the Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Wilmont from 1955-1956 and 1958-1959, Best was active within the Liberal party as well as being a community worker. She was a foundation member of the Women Show Judges Association and foundation president of the Business and Professional Women’s Club. A member of the Board of Governors for the Launceston Girl’s Home, Best also was treasurer to the Auxiliary Cosgrove Park Home and an executive member of the United Nations Association. Other memberships included the Red Cross Meals on Wheels, the Good Neighbour Council and the National Council of Women. Amelia Best died in Launceston in November 1979. Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1971, Legge, J S, 1971 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 August 2003 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Victorian Woman’s Suffrage League was founded in 1894 at a meeting organised by Annette Bear Crawford in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union headquarters in Melbourne. Its platform was votes for women on the same terms as men. Its formation was prompted by the belief that the three existing groups working for women’s suffrage in Victoria (the Australian Women’s Suffrage Society, the Victorian Women’s Suffrage Society and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union) were all associated with extremist views. Although initiated by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the League had an entirely separate existence, supposedly not linked to the prohibitionist agenda of the Union. The new League was formulated on a Christian, non-party basis. As such, it was an organisation that moderate women could comfortably join and was immediately popular. It ceased in 1908 with the granting of the vote to women in Victoria. Archival note: As of 2003, it appears that there is no specific collection of papers relating to the League. However, its activities are documented in the annual reports of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Victoria and other Union records, Its activities were also extensively reported in the Melbourne press and women’s journals, particularly, for the years 1900-1905, Vida Goldstein’s The Australian Woman’s Sphere. Published resources Book Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 Votes for women : the Australian story, Lees, Kirsten., 1995 The Australian Woman's Sphere, 1900-1905 Thesis The 'Woman Question' in Melbourne, 1880-1914, Kelly, Farley, 1983 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection [Papers on women's suffrage / compiled by Rose Scott.]????????[Papers on women's suffrage / compiled by Rose Scott.] Author Details Jane Carey Created 11 February 2004 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Kate Leslie was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. On completion of her schooling, she studied medicine at the University of Melbourne. In 1993 she achieved Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) and has pursued a career in both clinical anaesthesia and research. Kate is currently Head of Research in the Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Kate was elected ANZCA President in 2010 and has received many awards and accolades for her work. Author Details Monica Cronin with Alannah Croom Created 3 March 2019 Last modified 7 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Periodical Awards to Maj-Gen S R Burston and Others – April 1942 [Lt E C V Adams; Maj H T Allan; Sgt R W Anderson; Brig L E Beavis; Lt H R Beer; Lt-Col L G Binns; Capt. T R Blamey; Brig A J Boase; Lt-Col A Brown; Lt E R Bucknell; Lt J R Burrell; Maj-Gen S R Burston; Sgt J W Christsen; Cpl C R Dodd; Matron Constance A Fall; Capt. M Feitel; Lst-Col M A Fergusson; Cpl D L Fraser; Capt. S J M Goulston; Capt. A Fryberg; Maj J F Herbertson; S/Sgt J T A Hollands; L/Sgt J G Hunt; Col R G H Irving; Sgt G H Jones; Sgt E J Kerr; Lt-Col W Kirkhope; WOI R A Lawson; Lt-Col C W B Littlejohn; T/Capt. L C MacLarn; L/Cpl R Muirhead; Capt. D O Muller; Sgt E J Richards; Chaplain C L Riley; A/Sgt L Rodda; Matron Annie M Sage; Maj J O Smith; Lt-Col K W Starr; Col J Steigrad; Capt. A L F Taylor; Lt-Col T V Taylor; Lt-Col D N Veron; Lt-Col J A Watson; Maj W W Wearne; Lt-Col A S Wilson; Lt J H Wilton; Lt-Col W J V Windeyer; Maj I J Wood; Lt R A Yates; Sgt K W Young] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 December 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 7981 comprises correspondence, press clippings, programmes, photographs, posters, financial records, contracts, music scores, scripts, administrative files, stage management reports and other papers dealing with the numerous concert tours, stage musicals and theatrical productions promoted by Miller from the late 1950s to the late 1970s. These include such artists as Louis Armstrong, Arthur Rubinstein, Roy Orbison and the Rolling Stones; such musicals as Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar; and, theatrical productions including The boys in the band and The secretary bird. The collection also includes material on individuals managed by Miller including Graham Kennedy, Barry Humphries, Dame Zara Bate and Sir John Kerr. Also present are papers of an autobiographical nature such as those relating to Miller’s trials and imprisonment on fraud charges in the early 1980s (85 boxes, 26 large cartons, 5 fol. Boxes, 1 fol. Packet, 2 elephant folios).??The Acc04.271 instalment comprises material relating to the production of Jesus Christ Superstar (majority of files), The real estate show, and to Graham Kennedy, Deborah Hutton and Lindy Chamberlain (26 boxes, 3 fol. Boxes).??The Acc09.069 instalment comprises papers relating to Miller’s involvement in an unrealised project to make a film version of Patrick White’s novel, Voss. The papers comprise correspondence, telexes, production files, cast lists and location information. There are also various drafts of the screenplay including one by John McGrath, 1970, one by David Mercer, one adapted by Mercer for Joseph Losey and one adapted by Mercer for Stuart Cooper, 1982 (2 large cartons). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 June 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Dorothy Gordon Jenner was an Australian actress, scriptwriter, newspaper columnist and controversial radio personality. Biographical accounts of the early acting career of Dorothy Gordon are laden with contradictions. Due to a lack surviving archival material, what we do know about Gordon comes from her own memoirs which are criticised for being inconsistent and exaggerated. It does appear, however, that she did have a career in film, in Australia and abroad, which finished sometime in 1927. She then turned her hand to journalism. After two unsuccessful marriages, Dorothy Jenner travelled to London in 1927, where she began a column for the Sydney Sun under the name of ‘Andrea’. Hers was a gossip column, keeping Australian audiences updated on celebrity comings and goings in London and New York. After 1940, she toured south-east Asia as a war correspondent. She was captured by the Japanese in Hong Kong and spent nearly four years in Stanley prisoner of war camp. From 1951, Jenner was writing for the Mirror. She later switched to broadcasting, working for 2UE, and pioneering talk-back radio on 2GB. Gordon’s acting career began in 1912 as a chorus girl in the Melbourne stage production of Girl in a Train. In 1915 Gordon moved to America. In Hollywood she began work as a dressmaker in a costume department. In 1916, she began to appear as an extra in Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (later Paramount). In her memoir Darlings I’ve had a Ball! (1975), Gordon claims to have appeared in at least two Valentino films: The Sheik (Melford, 1921) and Blood and Sand (Niblo 1922). Gordon recalled a close relationship with Valentino. Gordon’s memoir also claimed she worked regularly with Houdini and W.C. Fields. Gordon made uncredited appearances in Unseen Forces (Franklin, 1920) and Wise Fool (Melford, 1921). In 1925, Gordon returned to Australia and was immediately cast as the lead in Raymond Longford’s Hills of Hate (1926). There are no known surviving copies of this film. Upon completion of Hills of Hate , Australasian Films approached Gordon and asked her to collaborate with Raymond Longford’s son, Victor, on the script for the film For the Term of His Natural Life (Dawn, 1927). After the director dismantled their script their names were removed from the credits. Gordon did however continue to work on the film as an art director through prop and location research. For the Term of His Natural Life was Gordon’s last film. Events 1920 - 1970 Published resources Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book Darlings, I've Had a Ball, Jenner, Dorothy Gordon (Andrea), 1975 Australian Film 1900-1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Pike, Andrew and Cooper, Ross, 1980 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Jenner, Dorothy Hetty Fosbury (Andrea) (1891 - 1985), Griffen-Foley, Bridget, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170594b.htm Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive [Gordon, Dorothy : Interviewed by Graham Shirley] [Wilfrid Thomas Interviews : Russell Braddon ; Dorothy Gordon] [Hills of Hate : Documentation] Author Details Barbara Lemon and Hollie Aerts Created 3 October 2008 Last modified 16 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes correspondence, artworks, certificates, education records, election material, newspaper cuttings, invitations and scrapbooks. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Instigated by Adelaide-based composer, Becky Llewellyn, the inaugural Composing Women’s Festival was held in September 1991 in Adelaide. The Festival brought Australian women composers together for the first time and attracted significant media attention that focused on topical questions about composition and gender. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence and letters of appreciation re John Bannon’s retirement as Minister for the Arts in 1989; Appointment of Anne Levy as successor. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1866; ‘The noblest aim’, being ms. poem by E. Kidgell. [Ebenezer Kidgell, journalist, was the father of Ada A. Holman]?Date unknown; ‘Abolish servants’, being ms. typescript by Icona Klasta [a pseudonym of Ada A. Holman]?Date unknown; ‘Australia sighs my heart’, song lyrics by Ada A. Holman?1901-1936; Letters received by Ada A. Holman. Correspondents include Bertram Stevens, G.A. Wood, Norman Lindsay, Nellie Melba, Ethel Turner, Henry Lawson and Dorothea Mackellar?1905-1934; Letters received by Ada and Portia Holman from William Arthur Holman [Portia Holman (1903- ) daughter of Ada A. and William Arthur Holman]?1912-1926; Letters received by William Arthur Holman. Correspondents include Edmund Barton and H.G. Wells?1901-1925; Certificates issued to W.A. Holman?1910; Commissions issued to W.A. Holman?1901-1932; Miscellaneous printed items including invitations and menus Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 December 2007 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc02.255 comprises binders of press releases, 1987-1990 (1 box, 1 carton).??The Acc09.198 instalment comprises documents relating to Janet Powell’s activities as senator; documents on issues during her leadership, including the Gulf War, recall of Parliament, immigration and population policy, negotiations with the Greens and leadership challenge; correspondence on Gulf War position; documents on her career after loss of leadership, period as independent, and 1993 election campaign; speeches; articles prepared for publications; press clippings covering Murray branch, elections, first years in the Senate, leadership, resignation from the Democrats, period as independent; Australian Democrats publications including original constitution and policy papers, national journals, national conference papers, Victorian Division newsletters (13 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marina Loane Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 31 August 2016 Digital resources Title: Kate Jenkins Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Adelaide Rape Crisis Centre was formed as an outgrowth of the Hindmarsh Women’s Community Centre, a free medical service for women. It became obvious after a short time that a separate service was needed, given the number of women reporting past rapes and the lack of available services. The founders of the Rape Crisis Centre had three main purposes: 1) to support women after the rape, 2) to change attitudes to rape and 3) to teach self defence. They organised the first ‘Reclaim the Night March’ in Adelaide. The group made a submission to the Mitchell Report on Rape and Other Sexual Offences. The Centre was opened on 6 September 1976 with 28 trained women on roster for limited phone counselling. By 1980 they had 40 volunteers and 2 part time coordinators. These workers and volunteers took on roles in counselling services, community education, administration, the Management Committee, Liaison Committee and the sexual assault clinic. They trained other services who helped women and girls who had been raped or sexually assaulted. Initially the Rape Crisis Centre operated at Mary St, Hindmarsh. The service then moved to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and on to North Adelaide where it became Yarrow Place. The centre has produced a newsletter since 1977 which is now online. Some of the women involved include Heather Crosby, Myra Williams (Betschild), Silver Moon, Helen Oxenham, Jenny Cooke, Chris Beasley, Stephanie Key, Jill Miller, Jillian and Val Tidswell and Diana Kemp. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Hindmarsh Women's Community Health Centre Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement : SUMMARY RECORD Adelaide Rape Crisis Centre : SUMMARY RECORD Sylvia Kinder : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1941 Marion Stevens was one of the first 14 women to join the Royal Australian Navy. After two years at Harman she was transferred to Molongo and later to Cerberus for the Officer Training Course and then returned to Harman. After the war, with her beautiful singing voice, she joined the Gilbert and Sullivan Company and toured with them for two years. When the WRANS were reformed she was recalled and transferred back to HMAS Harman as Second Officer. Stevens stayed until 1956. On retirement she joined Paton and Baldwins. At HMAS Harman a street called ‘Marion Stevens’ honours the work she did there during the war. [1] Steven’s achievements were acknowledged with the renaming of the HMAS Harman Wardroom Dining Room in her honour. Marion Stevens WR5 – Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service, writes: In 1939 I joined the W.E.S.C. (Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps) run by Mrs F V McKenzie, and learned Morse Code and signalling (Semaphore) etc. In 1941 I joined the Australian Navy as one of the first 14 women in the Service. I was No. WR 5, and went to H.M.A Naval Wireless Station Harman (later HMAS Harman) near Canberra. Our first problem was that all the men saluted us. We asked the Commanding Officer (C.O.) to get the men to regard us as ratings not women. This was the beginning of the WRANS Rules and Regulations. Our uniforms did not arrive for months so we had to continue to wear our green WESC’s uniforms. We were all under the Crimes Act so could only freely discuss our work in the W/T Office. I did a Stat. Dec. covering the period around the sinking of the HMAS Sydney and sent a copy to the Defence Department in Canberra and also to the Archives in Canberra. I was made the first Chief Petty Officer in 1943 and was put in charge of H.M.A. Naval W/T Station Molonglo, a few miles across country from HMAS Harman. Molonglo did all the high-speed operating with England – Whitehall GYCm, Canada Esquimalt CKL, Colombo Fort GZH and New Zealand – Waiouru ZLO. We handled all the traffic for the British Fleet when it came out to Australia at the end of the war in Europe and we got a signal complimenting us on our work by Admiral Bruce Frazer RN. It (Molonglo) was the only W/T station run completely by WRANS with an Army Guard. In 1944 the C.O. and I went to Mt. Stromlo Observatory to see the Director, Dr. Wooley. He needed some details from overseas circuits to help with Ionospheric Predictions. At the end of the war in Europe I was the Instructor for the RN Tel. Ratings sent out from England when the war was over in Europe. When I left the Navy I studied singing at the Sydney Conservatorium and then joined J C Williamsons Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company and toured Australia and New Zealand for a couple of years. I then rejoined the Australian Navy as a Second Officer, did a further commission and was in charge of a Signit ‘Y’ Station. I was the WRAN Officer sent to England, with two ratings for the Coronation of our present Queen. While in England I visited Whitehall W/T a few times and met a P.O.Tel who said he worked Radio Belconnen during the war and they were the best station they worked and never let Whitehall down. I was asked to transfer from Communications to Administration and remain in the Navy, but I declined the offer and left the Navy at the end of my four year commission. I worked at Patons and Baldwins in charge of their Demonstration Department. I did a little designing. We had eight Demonstrators and organized Parades and Displays throughout New South Wales and Queensland. At night I studied Gemmology and got my FGAA. I taught at Gemmology House for a few years. I toured Diamond Mines in South Africa and an alluvial Diamond Mine in South West Africa, and then did an Animal Safari through Kenya and Tanzania staying at Treetops. The next year I visited gem areas of Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Burma and Thailand. I remained at Patons for 25 years and then went to a city jeweller to make use of my Gemmological knowledge. I now live in a Retirement Village and have done oil paintings and 65 tapestry chairs and pictures etc. and helped the Parliamentary Committee who were investigating the sinking of the HMAS Sydney on the 19 November 1941 by the German Raider Kormoran which also sank. I have done a lot of travel both in Australia and worldwide. [1] Ships Belles p. 67-69 Published resources Resource Section STEVENS, MARION, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=N&VeteranID=1170934 STEVENS, MARION, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=N&VeteranID=1196416 Book Ships belles : the story of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service in war and peace 1941-1985, Fenton Huie, Shirley, 2000 W.R.A.N.S. : the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Curtis-Otter, M, 1975 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra STEVENS MARION : Service Number - WR/5 : Date of birth - 04 May 1920 : Place of birth - TAMWORTH NSW : Place of enlistment - SYDNEY : Next of Kin - STEVENS EUGENE STEVENS MARION : Service Number - WR5 : Date of birth - 04 May 1920 : Place of birth - Unknown : Place of enlistment - Unknown : Next of Kin - STEVENS E Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: WRANS at HMAS Harman Naval Wireless Station Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "24 hours 8 minutes??A series of 17 interviews with women associated with the South Australian International Women’s Day Committee, founded in 1938. The interviews are biographical in structure and also include information about a range of other organisations, including the Union of Australian Women, Communist Party of Australia, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Women’s Liberation Movement and Women’s Electoral Lobby. The interviews were conducted in conjunction with a project to organise the Committee’s archives and prepare a new history for publication. The two research officers, who were also the interviewers, were employed initially with funding from the Commonwealth Jobskills program and then with support from the Women’s Suffrage Centenary Committee and the Department of the Arts.?Individual details are as follows:?OH 210/1 Hutchin, Linda, (1913- ).?OH 210/2 Howe, Valerie, (1923- ).?OH 210/3 Poulton, Mavis, (1933- ).?OH 210/4 Forte, Margaret, (1917-2001),?OH 210/5 Hall, Bev, (1943-).?OH 210/6 Fisher, E. M. (Elizabeth M.), (1925-).?OH 210/7 Edmonds, Flo, (1919-).?OH 210/8 Miller, Beryl, (1926-).?OH 210/9 Robertson, Mavis, (1932-).?OH 210/10 Bell, Irene, (1906-1995).?OH 210/11 Cook, Maureen, (1920-).?OH 210/12 Brannigan, Molly, (1924-).?OH 210/13 Tapp, Eulalie, (1917- ).?OH 210/14 Lean, Marie, (1931-)?OH 210/15 Picone, Cathy, (1949-).?OH 210/16 Blackburn, Jean, (1919-2001).?OH 210/17 Alexiou, Kay, (1922-). Author Details Robin Secomb Created 27 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc03.199 comprises albums and scrapbooks: Convicts, ACT people, Interesting bits and pieces, Forster [family], G.B. Forster, Foster/Forster family connections.??The Acc03.225 instalment includes further papers and publications relating to the Forster family. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 2733 comprises the diary, inscribed “Clotilda Bayne, The Rectory, Orlestone”, covering the period 29 December, 1889 to 31 December, 1890. Entries describe Miss Bayne’s journey from England to Australia via Italy, and the first few months of her life in Adelaide, where she arrived on 3 June. On 5 June she married an Anglican minister. The diary includes details of daily life in Adelaide, many references to local church affairs and several references to Cecil Sharp, the expert on English folk songs and dancing who then held a legal post in Adelaide. There are several words and quotations in Greek recorded on the opening pages (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of South Australian feminist Robin Eagle including personal correspondence; and information gathered over the years in the form of flyers; conference and University papers; and interviews with women managers. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A successful Aboriginal bureaucrat and activist, Linda Burney became the first Aboriginal person elected to the New South Wales (NSW) Parliament in 2003, and only the fourth Aboriginal woman elected anywhere in Australia. She was re-elected in 2007, 2011 and 2015. She held a range of Ministerial portfolios from 2007-2011. In 2016 she was serving as Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Parliamentary and Local Government career Elected, Canterbury, 2003, Party: ALP Linda Jean Burney, of Wiradjuri descent, grew up in Whitton, a small farming community near Leeton. One of the ‘Stolen Generation’ of Aboriginal children, she first met her father when she was 28 years old. Burney obtained her Diploma of Teaching from the then Mitchell College of Advanced Education. In 1979 she began teaching at Lethbridge Park public school in western Sydney. In the mid-1980s she became involved in the New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) and helped set up the national body, the Australian federation of AECGs, in 1990-91. She was also instrumental in the development and implementation of the first Aboriginal education policy in Australia for the state’s education department. In the early 1990s Burney was, concurrently, president of the national body of AECGs, and chair of the New South Wales National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy Coordinating Committee. Her priorities have been early childhood education, mandatory Aboriginal studies in all schools, and the eradication of racism in education. She has been a Member of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission National Social Justice Taskforce and an Executive Member of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. Since her election for Canterbury 2003 she has been a member of the Parliamentary Committee for Children and Young People 2003-04 and the Legislation Review Committee 2004. She has two children, son Binni and daughter Willuri. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Journal Article Linda Burney: an interview, D'Souza, Carl, 2003 Book Section Not just a challenge, an opportunity, Burney, Linda, 2000 Conference Paper Keynote address: Finding the Ground Rules, Burney, Linda, 1999 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 27 July 2005 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection comprises: Newscuttings, Photographs and Realia.?This collection comprises 3 record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2003 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sir Frank Gibson, Mayor of Fremantle, and Lady Gibson greeting guests and entering Fremantle Town Hall; John Curtin in Fremantle; ARP officers and volunteers filling sandbags; Fremantle ARP First Aid Party No. 4 performing training drills; Lady Mitchell performs opening ceremony for Red Cross kiosk; US servicemen’s band; General Gordon Bennett; Home guard training drills; Soldiers marching in Fremantle streets. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letter regarding proceeds of sale of “She’s no milkmaid”; corrected typescript of “She’s no milkmaid”. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Annual reports, minutes, newsletters, research reports, issues papers, conference programs and proceedings, guides, essays, reviews, books, evaluations, policy analysis, articles, resource manuals and documents, grants registers, lists Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 March 2004 Last modified 23 March 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Woman’s suffrage in Australia, a typescript written in 1924, and including a letter to J. A. Ferguson. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 October 2008 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Diary World War I, c. 1915 April-1916 Feb. 22. Decribes voyage to Europe on the R.M.S. “Orontes” and experiences as an army nurse in France, also contains an account of a shipwreck on Dec. 1 1915. Other items include a letter from her mother Belle Wardle, 3 May 1916; certificate of efficiency issued by the Australian Army Nursing Service, 1909 July 15; contract of service with the Royal Army Medical Corps, 30 March 1915; birth certificate, Dec. 1884; marriage certificate, Nov. 1919; service record, June 1920; Photographs; printed ephemera; an essay describing a holiday at a French seaside resort in 1918; press cuttings; and a poem. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers, c. 1912-1967, comprising a diary, 20 March, 1937-10 January, 1939; letters to Norma Bull, 14 March, 1939-9 January, 1967; draft letters from Norma Bull, November 1937-1953; photographs, c. 1912-1960s; notes, including autobiographical fragments, exhibition catalogue for the 1948 Australian tour of the “TwoHemispheres” exhibition of paintings and drawings executed during her years as a war artist in Britain; press cuttings and miscellaneous items. Also, the draft of an unpublished book, “The etchings of Norma Catherine Bull”, by Robert C. Littlewood. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Isabel Strutt is a local community activist whose campaign for election to parliament probably assisted her election as a local councillor. As a Christian Democrat Party candidate she was unsuccessful in obtaining the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of the Northern Tablelands in 2003, but the following year was elected to the Uralla Shire Council. Isabel Strutt was educated in Queensland and has lived in both Queensland and NSW. She has worked in a variety of jobs, including bank and office work, retail business, small business owner, and as a private secretary to the Deputy Premier of Queensland. She has also served as a Salvation Army Officer, with her husband, for a number of years. From her retirement in June 2000, she has been involved in community volunteer work. In 2005, the Hope for the Children Foundation, Inc. Armidale Family Network, of which she was President, received a Commonwealth government grant of $120,000 under the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 6 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 6608 comprises: 1. A file of about 95 articles and stories by Mary E. Fullerton clipped directly from periodicals in which they first appeared. 2. A small file of documents and clippings. 3. File containing literary manuscripts including works by Fullerton and C.J. Dennis. There is also a small group of letters, including several to Fullerton from Stella Miles Franklin, ca. 1924-1946, and one from George Mack, 1941. 4. A long sequence of family letters written to Fullerton’s relatives in Australia, covering the period from 1920s to her death in 1946. 5. Photograph album. 6. 17 monographs including The legacy of Bunyon by Rev. W.Y. Fullerton (London, 1928), inscribed by Mary Fullerton and three books by Mary Fullerton, The Australian bush (1928), The breaking furrow (1921), and Moods and melodies (1908) (2 boxes). Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 October 2008 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 audiocassette (approximately 92 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Helen Symon QC is a leading advocate with wide experience in taxation law as well as commercial and administrative law. She appears regularly in the High Court of Australia, the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Victoria. One of the most experienced taxation silks in Australia, Symon has been, professionally, ‘outstandingly successful – for a woman. That,’ she says, ‘sums up both my professional achievements and my professional frustrations.’ Helen Symon graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) at the University of Melbourne. She was admitted to practice in April 1984 and has progressed since to become one of Australia’s leading advocates in taxation, commercial and administrative law. She was appointed silk on 28 November 2000 and appears regularly in the High Court of Australia, the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Victoria. Despite this, or perhaps, because of this, she has encountered the frustrations of gender discrimination along the way. In an interview in 2007 she said, ‘Women know that they are seen in a different light, or their skills are seen in a different light, or they’re not recognised to the same degree that some of the men are and it is a real frustration because you’ve got this little voice in your head saying, ‘Well I’m okay, I’m doing a good job.” Symon has been active in professional associations. In 1996, she was the third convenor of the Women Barristers’ Association and has campaigned on such matters as rental subsidies on chambers for women with young children. She was an advocate member of the Legal Profession Tribunal from 1997 to 1999 and a member of the Victorian Bar’s Readers’ Course Committee from 1988 to 1999. She was involved in teaching advocacy from as early as 1987, first in the Victorian Bar Readers’ Course and, from its inception, at the Australian Advocacy Institute. She was Chair of the Leo Cussen Institute (now Leo Cussen Centre for Law) from 2009 to 2013, during which time the Institute’s government funding was withdrawn and it was re-invented as a business. Symon was a member of the Victorian Bar Pro Bono Committee from 2006 to 2008. In 2016 she is Chair of the Victorian Bar Ethics Committee and a member of the Federal Court Users’ Committee. From 1999 to 2002, she was President of the Buoyancy Foundation of Victoria which provides drug and alcohol counselling services. She has also served as Chair of the Hunger Project Australia. From 2008 to 2014, Helen served on the board of the Australian Art Orchestra. During the 1998 Constitutional Convention, Symon was a Candidate on the Women’s Ticket – An Equal Say. She was an elected Board member of the Victorian Women’s Trust from 1999 to 2002. Published resources Resource Section Even it Up: A Conversation with past and present WBA convenors, Brodsky, Juliette and the Women Barristers Association, 2007, http://oralhistory.vicbar.com.au/WBA_film_home.asp Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nicola Silbert (with Helen Symon) Created 24 February 2016 Last modified 8 August 2016 Digital resources Title: Helen Symon QC Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "New Zealand-born Australian artist Rosalie Gascoigne, is acclaimed as one of Australasia’s most significant artists. She moved to the Australian Capital Territory in 1943 and remained there for the rest of her life. With no formal art training apart from studying sogetsu ikebana, Gascoigne held her first solo exhibition in Canberra in 1974 aged 57 and four years later was the first Australian woman to be invited to the Venice Biennale. By the time of her death in 1999 she boasted work in the collections of all Australian and New Zealand major galleries, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; she has been shown in public exhibitions in Europe and Asia. Gascoigne’s work, made with found objects, was inspired by her feelings for the Monaro region in which she lived. Rosalie Norah King Walker was born on 25 January 1917 in her parents’ home in Remuera, an affluent suburb in Auckland, New Zealand She was the second of three children. Gascoigne’s mother, Australian-born Marion Hamilton (Sarah) Walker (born Metcalfe) (1882-1969), was a university graduate and high school teacher from a well-to-do professional family which had emigrated to New Zealand from England via Australia. Her New Zealand-born father, Stanley King Walker (1883-1960), was an automotive engineer who spent time in San Francisco learning his trade and experienced the 1906 earthquake. When Gascoigne was 5 her parents separated and Marion Walker took her children to live with her mother, Jessie Metcalfe in the same suburb. During Gascoigne’s childhood Marion Walker taught at Epsom Girls’ Grammar, a local public school. Gascoigne often referred to her feeling that the adults in her childhood had little time for her: “you were seen and not heard a lot, because people didn’t have time for you.”(Australian Biography, 1999, tape 1) There is a strong outsider narrative in the stories Gascoigne later told of her life. As a child she felt different from the others in her family because she was outgoing, enjoyed the outdoors and liked making things whereas the others tended to be more solitary and enjoy reading. Her later self and public identification as an artist apparently eased the sense of being out-of-step or different and she often quoted Picasso who said an artist is born, not made. During summer holidays on Waiheke Island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf, the young Rosalie collected seashells – the beginning of her lifelong habit of collecting multiples of things she found in nature. At Remuera Primary School she won a flower arranging competition with buttercups in a brass vase – a harbinger of her later love for flowers and composition that led to her art making. At Epsom Girls’ Grammar School she made friends who remained with her throughout her life through regular letters and trans Tasman visits. Gascoigne majored in English literature at Auckland University, graduating with a BA in 1939 and after a further year at Auckland Teachers’ College she taught at Auckland Girls’ Grammar School. Her love of English literature, in particular poetry, influenced her later art which she frequently referred to as ‘stammering concrete poetry.’ It was at Auckland University that she met Sydney Charles Bartholomew ‘Ben’ Gascoigne (1915-2010) whom she later married. Ben Gascoigne had moved to Australia in 1942 where he was engaged in wartime optics work at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Mt Stromlo on the Monaro plain near Canberra. Rosalie proposed to him by letter and on 9 January 1943 they married at St John’s Church, Reid, on 9 January 1943. Accustomed to Auckland’s cityscape, its lush green volcanic hills, blue harbours and sober coloured, melodious birds, the Monaro’s crisp dry landscape, intense summer heat, great blonde paddocks, and bright screeching birds stunned Gascoigne. For some years she felt dislocated and isolated in this radically different environment and she felt an outsider in the small Stromlo community: I think being a New Zealander made me an outsider. … We’re different people you know. We were, especially in those times, and you wanted your own people around you. (Australian Biography, 1999, tape 2 ) I was fairly desperate for something that I could associate with. And … nature was my friend. (Australian Biography, 1999, tape 1) … I looked long and hard at a very ordinary piece of Australian countryside, and tried to wring visual interest and variety out of what I saw there. It was mostly grass, weeds, dead wood, rocks and pine trees … It was a good apprenticeship (Wesley, 1972, p. 39). Gascoigne eventually came to love the freedom of the Monaro landscape – “the width and the rock under your feet and the high sky” (Ibid, tape 3) and it was the inspiration for her art. She described nature as her friend. The Gascoigne children – Martin, Thomas (‘Toss’) and Hester were all born at the Canberra Hospital during Gascoigne’s first 6 years in Australia. Gascoigne grew flowers on Stromlo to meet her need for colour and beauty. She collected stones and grass and old pieces of iron and displayed them on her mantelpiece because she “needed things to look at”. Her flower-arranging skills became known in Canberra and she was sought after to make civic arrangements, lecture and teach flower arranging; Dame Patty Menzies was once one of her pupils in Canberra. From 1962 to 1969 Gascoigne studied the formal Japanese art of sogetsu ikebana with Japanese-trained Australian master Norman Sparnon. She found that ikebana “gave form. From practising ikebana”, she said, “I got the vision of how to use the things I liked.” (Eagle, p. 132 in Rosalie Gascoigne: plain air, 2004, p. 38). But ikebana’s limitations eventually impelled Gascoigne to experiment with sculpture and installations. Her friendship with nature, growing love of the Monaro and passion for collecting led her to work with any discarded materials that she found and liked – materials such as old bits of iron, animal bones, sticks, dollies found in local dumps, formboard plywood from building sites, discarded reflective road signs and the signature theme parrots cut from Arnott’s biscuit packets. The materials were all scavenged, as was Gascoigne’s preference, – she said “I like getting things in from the paddock. They’ve had the sun, they’ve had the rain, it’s real stuff” (Fenneley, 1998). To find this ‘real stuff’, Gascoigne roamed the Monaro paddocks, rubbish tips and roadsides in her hunt for materials. Accompanying friends included poet Rosemary Dobson, artist Ingo Kleinert, writer Mildred Kirk. During the 1960s her elder son, Martin Gascoigne, who had begun collecting art, introduced his mother to James Mollison who was to become the first director of the National Gallery of Australia. Mollison became an important mentor and guide for Gascoigne in her art making. In 1969 the Gascoignes moved to a house in Pearce designed for them by leading Canberra architect, Theo Bischof. The new house, with its freedom of space and light, freed her art making and Gascoigne’s art took off in a new way. During 1970-1971 she made large installations from animal bones, one of which was exhibited at the Academy of Science, Canberra in 1972; in the early 1970s, after discovering a treasure trove of “30 beautiful old weathered bee boxes” (Gellatly, 2008, p.14) she found at an abandoned apiary, Gascoigne adopted box constructions as practical means of anchoring the objects in her assemblages. After her first solo exhibition – at Macquarie Galleries, Canberra in 1974 – James Mollison requested four pieces for the Philip Morris Arts Grant touring collection and in 1975 painter Michael Taylor who had been teaching at the Canberra School of Art (now the ANU School of Art) nominated her for the ‘Artists’ Choice’, a group show in Sydney. Critics praised her work and over the following years there were further solo exhibitions around Australia including a survey of her work at the National Gallery of Victoria. By the 1980s Gascoigne made fewer three dimensional objects. Moving into 2-dimensions, she pared her work right back, stripping away anything extraneous. Her art moved towards abstraction (O’Brien in Rosalie Gascoigne: plain air, 2004, p. 11) and grid patterns likened by Mildred Kirk to Agnes Martin’s grids of colour, texture and shape (Ibid, p. 11). Awarded an Order of Australia in 1994 for services to art, Gascoigne was an integral part of the Canberra art community. Painter Marie Hagerty and sculptor Jan Brown numbered among close friends. Artist Peter Vandermark was her studio assistant and friend. She was invited to speak to students at the ANU School of Art on numerous occasions and entertained the art community at her home prior to exhibitions of her work. Feeling was a central part of Gascoigne’s work. She often referred to Wordsworth’s notion ” ‘about emotion remembered in tranquillity.’ … it’s not a question of just making pictures … it’s expressing something.” (Gascoigne pp. 35-44, in Rosalie Gascoigne, 2008, p. 47). Gascoigne’s art expressed her feelings about the Monaro and sometimes echoed her feelings about the Auckland volcanic hills, harbours and beaches of her childhood and early adulthood. As art historian Deborah Clark writes, “Literally drawn from the landscape Gascoigne observed and travelled, her materials gave shape to her art which in turn gave shape to her experience, remade as landscape. … over time she realised a way of seeing and the vivid means to express it.” (Clark in Rosalie Gascoigne , 2008, p. 33). With her fresh eyes Gascoigne presented Australians with a new way of experiencing the Monaro landscape. Rosalie Gascoigne died on 25 October 1999 at the John James Hospital in Canberra. She was diagnosed with cancer shortly after a visit to Auckland where she was a guest of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T?maki as speaker at the “Home and Away – Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection” exhibition in which her work “Big Yellow” (1988) featured; she died just three months later. Gascoigne brought a seasoned savoir-faire to her art. Light and shadow coloured her Auckland childhood. The shock of migration and the years of isolation on Stromlo, marriage and motherhood, her friendship with nature and love of found objects, and the rigour of sogetsu ikebana are all pieces of who Gascoigne became. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Discovery - Rosalie Gascoigne, Fenneley, Stephen, 1998 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Magazine article Obituaries - Rosalie Gascoigne, 2000 Market profile - Rosalie Gascoigne, Dedman, Roger, 2004 Landscape of Shards, Fenner, Felicity, 1999 That Sidling Sight: Wondering About the Art of Rosalie Gascoigne, Fink, Hannah, 1997 Colin McCahon: Victory over death, Gascoigne, Rosalie, 1984 Rosalie Gascoigne, Jacobs, Genevieve, 2006 Different means to similar ends: Rosalie Gascoigne and Agnes Martin, Kirk, Mildred, 1986 Two Artists: Rosalie Gascoigne II Memphis Wood, Levertov, Denise, 1981 Roadrunner - Rosalie Gascoigne, City Gallery, Wellington (to May 16), McAloon, William, 2004 Of Magpie Song, Faded Things and the Desert Music: The concrete poetry/ assemblage art of Rosalie Gascoigne, O'Brien, Gregory, 2004 Rosalie Gascoigne: Great blond paddocks, Oliver, Bronwyn, 2000 Artist's choice: Rosalie Gascoigne, Earth 9, Sages, Jenny, 1996 Gascoigne's collected works, Sands, Kate, 2001 Catalogue Rosalie Gascoigne, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2001 What is Contemporary Art?, Cameron, Dan; Palmquist, Anna; Edstrom, Peter; Mohlin, Helene and Rooseum Book Toi Toi Toi: Three Generations of Artists from New Zealand, Block, René; Burke, Gregory; Museum Fridericianum and Auckland Art Gallery, 1999 From the studio of Rosalie Gascoigne, The Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Eagle, Mary, 2000 Rosalie Gascoigne: Material as landscape, Edwards, Deborah; Mollison, James; Heath, Steven and Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997 New Zealand lives: the New Zealand families of Rosalie Gascoigne and of Ben Gascoigne, Gascoigne, Martin, 2005 Rosalie Gascoigne - Her New Zealand Origins, Gascoigne, Martin, 2012 Rosalie Gascoigne, Gellatly, Kelly; Gascoigne, Martin; Clark, Deborah and National Gallery of Victoria, 2008 Diverse visions: twelve Australian mid to late career artists: Charles Blackman, Mike Brown, Ray Cooke, Rosalie Gascoigne, Inge King, Robert Klippel, Les Kossatz, Alun Leach-Jones, John Perceval, Gareth Sansom, Gordon Shepherdson, John Wolseley, Hogan, Janet, and Queensland Art Gallery, 1991 Perceived differently: Rosalie Gascoigne, David Jensz, Mark Grey-Smith, Wendy Teakel, Jensz, David; Teakel, Wendy; Gascoigne, Rosalie; Grey-Smith, Mark and Drill Hall Gallery, 1995 Rosalie Gascoigne - Colin McCahon: Sense of Place, Kirker, Anne; Wedde, Ian and McDonald, Ewen, 1990 Rosalie Gascoigne, Colin McCahon, Sense of Place: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney ... the Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne, McCahon, Colin; Gascoigne, Rosalie; University of New South Wales; Ian Potter Gallery and Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 1990 Rosalie Gascoigne, MacDonald, Vici and Gascoigne, Rosalie, 1997 Survey 2, Rosalie Gascoigne, Survey 2, Rosalie Gascoigne; National Gallery of Victoria, 1978 Expanse: aboriginalities, spatialities and the politics of ecstasy: an exhibition, North, Ian; Cattapan, Jon and University of South Australia, 1998 Rosalie Gascoigne: Plain Air, O'Brien, Gregory; Savage, Paula and City Gallery Wellington, 2004 Book Section Rosalie Gascoigne, Bottrell, Fay and Stacey, Wes, 1977 Rosalie Gascoigne, Burke, Janine, 1990 Where Science Meets Art: Bischoff and the Gascoigne House, Cameron, Milton, 2012 The Life of Things: Rosalie Gascoigne at Gallery A Sydney, Fink, Hannah, 2009 Rosalie Gascoigne, Harding, Lesley and Cramer, Sue, 2009 Rosalie Gascoigne, Lindsay, Robert; Teale, Penny; Leslie, Donna, and McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2010 Rosalie Gascoigne, McAloon, William, 1999 Essay by Mary Eagle, 1985 Journal Article Rosalie Gascoigne 1917-1999, Clark, Deborah, 1999 Rosalie Gascoigne, 1917-1999, Fink, Hannah, 2000 Songs of the Australian Landscape: The Art and Spirituality of Rosalie Gascoigne, Keller, Judith, 2007 Edited Book A Return to Poetry 1999: poems chosen by Ruth Cracknell [et al.], McCallum, Gail, 1999 Resource Section Rosalie Gascoigne - Metropolis, http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/galleries/australian/featured-works/gascoigne/ James Gleeson interviews Rosalie Gascoigne, Gleeson, James and Gascoigne, Rosalie, 1980, http://nga.gov.au/Research/Gleeson/pdf/Gascoigne.pdf Rosalie Gascoigne, http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/gascoigne/ Rosalie Gascoigne, http://www.mca.com.au/collection/artist/gascoigne-rosalie/ Rosalie Gascoigne, http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/the-collection/browse-artists/1272/rosalie-gascoigne Rosalie Gascoigne Collection, http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Search.cfm?CREIRN=23052&ORDER_SELECT=1&VIEW_SELECT=4 Rosalie Gascoigne: Landscape - place, memory, experience, http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/13509/ngv_edu_edres_gascoigne_landscape.pdf Rosalie Gascoigne artist profile, http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/15/Rosalie_Gascoigne/profile/ Lecture Home and Away, Gascoigne, Rosalie, 1999 Videorecording Rosalie Gascoigne artist, Hughes, Robin; Gascoigne, Rosalie and Film Australia, 1999 The Arts show - Gascoigne country, Moore, Richard; Murphy, Justin; Balendra, Jaya and Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2001 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Rosalie Gascoigne interviewed by Helen Topliss [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Rosalie Gascoigne, 1930-2011 [manuscript] Papers of Ben Gascoigne, 1938-2007 [manuscript] Author Details Niki Francis Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 25 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel??Dobson read the following poems: “The country press” and “Cock crow”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 December 2012 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 7755 comprises correspondence, circular letters, International Executive minutes and reports, Australian Section minutes and reports, various submissions and annual reports, copies of constitutions of the International and Australian Sections, and press releases and printed material. There is material relating to the history and aims of WILPF and files documenting correspondence between international sections and with head office in Geneva. Some of the correspondents are Margaret Holmes, Gertrude Baer, Anna Vroland, Bronwen Meredith and Sir Garfield Barwick (10 boxes).??MS Acc06.149 instalment includes annual files of correspondence with politicians, public figures, other branches of WILPF and with WILPF international (2 boxes).??MS Acc08.153 instalment comprises correspondence, minutes and reports for the period 1980 to 1989. There is also a copy of a United Nations report entitled ‘Report of the Secretary-General on chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons and the effects of their possible use’, dated 1969, together with related files (1964-1969) containing correspondence, cuttings and copies from Hansard (3 boxes).??MS Acc11.160 instalment comprises annual, financial and other reports, 1994-1998; Section Executive Committee meeting minutes and agendas, 1993-1998 (1 folder).??MS Acc14.114 instalment comprises reports, correspondence, education material, Government submissions, Annual reports, newsletters, copies of WILPF Publication “Peace and Freedom” and the international Journal, and other papers produced by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Australia (10 boxes).??MS Acc15.059 instalment comprises annual reports, board meeting minutes, correspondence, journals, research projects (3 boxes).??MS Acc16.063 instalment comprises records including minutes, reports, correspondence and submissions from 1998-2005; annual reports from 2006-2009 (3 boxes). Author Details Jane Carey Created 14 December 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Coolamon Mothers’ Union – minute books, publications, correspondence and reports, 1949-85, RW1535 boxes 3-4 part; confirmation lists, 1967-1970, RW2497 item 7; 5 boxes part, 1 bundle (1.116m). Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 February 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The collection consists of minutes and other administrative documents, funding applications and acquittals, correspondence, publicity material, project management and examples of output, and photographs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "25 minutes??Dame Roma Mitchell was born at Quambi Hospital in Adelaide. Her father was a solicitor and was killed in World War I when Dame Roma was 4 years old. She was brought up in an all female household. She attended St Aloysius College in Angas Street and then did law at university receiving her degree in 1934. Appointed a QC in 1962 and went on the bench between 1965 and 1983. Became Chairman of the Commonwealth Human Rights Commission in 1981, was on the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Social Security stopping of payments to the Greeks, National Chairman of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, National President of the Ryder-Cheshire Foundation Association and Chancellor of the University of Adelaide. She was the first woman judge in Australia, Mary Kitson was the first woman admitted to practice in 1918 and Dorothy Somerville was admitted in 1922. Women in professions. Joining the Lyceum Club. Dame Roma was the first woman Chancellor of a university in Australia. Future of the Lyceum Club Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Emily Bulcock was a poet and freelance journalist. She produced several volumes of verse and contributed regularly to major metropolitan newspapers in Australia. Emily Bulcock grew up in rural Queensland and was educated by her father, Henry Burnett Palmer. Her brother was writer Vance Palmer. She worked as a teacher until 1903 when she married orchardist Robert Bulcock. In 1914 the pair moved to Caloundra, where Emily Bulcock began writing regular newspaper pieces. In 1917 they moved again, to Brisbane. Bulcock wrote several volumes of poetry including Jacaranda Blooms (1923), From Quenchless Springs (1945), and From Australia to Britain (1961). Her verse was published in major newspapers in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. In the 1920s, Bulcock worked as a freelance journalist for the Graziers’ Journal and Farmers’ Gazette. She was a foundation member and vice-president of the Queensland Authors’ and Artists’ Association, later the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Queensland), and became a life member in 1965. She was appointed O.B.E. in 1964 for services to literature. Events 1914 - 1930 Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Section Emily Bulcock, http://www.oldqldpoetry.com/index.php/emily-bulcock Bulcock, Emily Hemans (1877 - 1969), Puregger, Marjorie, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070481b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 October 2007 Last modified 13 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence, minute books, papers on the mission at Bathurst Island and on National Council of Women, reports, newsletters, secretary’s papers, copies of lectures and addresses, papers on Good Neighbour Council and on Canberra Day. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Glenda Adams was a Sydney-born and educated novelist and short-story writer. She studied journalism at Columbia University in New York, where she subsequently taught creative writing. During the 1980s she was writer-in-residence at a number of Australian universities before returning to Australia in 1990 to teach creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her MA writing program there became the model for successful postgraduate writing programs across Australia. Her novels Dancing on Coral (1987) and Longleg (1990) won a number of major Australian literary prizes. She died in Sydney in 2007. Glenda Emilie Adams was born at Ryde, NSW, daughter of Elvie and Leonard Felton. Educated at Fort Street Primary School and Sydney Girl’s High, she became the first B.A. Honours graduate from the University of Sydney’s newly-established Department of Indonesian and Malayan Studies in 1962. After two years travelling in Indonesia as a graduate student on a small scholarship, she returned to the University of Sydney to teach Indonesian. In 1964 she studied journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, New York, graduating with a Masters degree in 1965. She subsequently worked as an Associate Director of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative, New York, a non profit organization that sent writers into New York City public schools to work with teachers to help improve children’s writing skills through creative work. She also became a news writer on the radio desk at Associated Press, New York, Press Officer at the United Nations, a freelance writer and editor in Brussels and New York, and from 1976 taught part-time fiction writing workshops at Columbia University, New York City, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY and at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Glenda married Californian political scientist, Gordon Adams, in 1967. They subsequently divorced. Her first short story collection, Lies and Stories, was published in 1976 and her first novel, Games of the Strong, in 1982. In the 1980s she made periodic visits to Australia during which she was writer-in-residence at the University of Adelaide (1980), the University of Western Australia (1980), Macquarie University, Sydney, (1981 and 1988) and the University of Western Sydney (1988). She returned to live in Sydney in 1990 to teach fiction writing full time at the University of Technology, Sydney, where her MA writing program became the model for successful postgraduate writing programs across Australia. She established the first Australian Association of Writing Programs conference in 1996 and was a member of the Australian Society of Authors and the Australian Writers Guild. Her publications include short stories, novels and plays, and she has also written for television. Glenda Adams received a number of Australia Council Grants and a Literature Board Fellowship in 1994. She won the Miles Franklin Award and a NSW State Premier’s Award in 1987 for her novel Dancing on Coral, and the Age Book of the Year Award and the National Book Council Award for fiction for her 1990 novel Longleg. In 1998 her first play, The Monkey Trap, was commissioned and performed in Sydney at the Griffin Theatre. Adams retired as Associate Professor at the UTS in 2003 to devote herself to writing. She died in Sydney on 11 July 2007 and is survived by her daughter Caitlin. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Academy Library, UNSW Canberra Glenda Adams manuscript collection 1965-1998 Carmel Bird manuscript collection 1983-1997. National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Portraits of Glenda Adams, 1990 [picture] / Alec Bolton Australian National University Archives Glenda Adams, author of 'Dancing on Coral ', guest speaker at literary luncheon National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Glenda Adams, 1982-1999 Papers of Drusilla Modjeska, 1959-2006 [manuscript] Papers of Rosemary Dobson, 1923-2004 [manuscript] Papers of Peter Porter, circa 1947-2010 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Glenda Adams, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 5775 Brisbane Writers Centre Records 1995-2000 ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0131 Word Festival Canberra Records Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 11 October 2007 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc09.064 comprises meeting notes, general correspondence, finance and related papers, and records relating to grants to the National Women’s Justice Coalition and others (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 hours 58 minutes??Interviews with three founders of the Family Planning Association. The project is intended to be a pilot for a further series of interviews with other people of significance in the Association’s development. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Minutes of inaugural and annual general meetings, files of council and executive members, branches and committees records, editors’ and managing editors’ records, special interest groups records, records relating to the Lindeberg Grievance (Heiner Affair), conference papers, posters, banners, badge and publications. Includes records of predecessor the Archives Section of the Library Association of Australia.??Items 8 – 13 – Records relating to the establishment of an archival association in Australia – Thea Exley’s papers relating to the formation of the Australian Society of Archivists Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 December 2012 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Emerita Professor Rosemary Owens AO was formerly Dame Roma Mitchell Chair of Law (2008-2015) and served as Dean of Law (2007 – 2011) at the University of Adelaide. She was appointed as an Officer in the Order of Australia in January 2014 for her distinguished service to the law, as an academic and administrator, to international and national labour organizations, and to women. Professor Owens is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Acknowledged internationally as a leader in her field, Professor Owens has held many significant appointments during her academic career. In 2010 she was appointed to the International Labour Organisation’s Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR), which comprises 20 leading experts from around the world appointed on the basis of their independence and integrity as well as knowledge of their discipline. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Rosemary Owens for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Rosemary Owens and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. From an early age I knew I would go to university. Looking back now I realize how remarkable that was, as none of my forebears had ever had that privilege. However, my parents, Peter Edward Landers and Patricia Marjorie Irwin believed in the value of a good education and encouraged me from the outset to follow my dreams. After I completed my secondary schooling at Marymount College, SA, I enrolled at the University of Adelaide in a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in English and History, and later taking Honours in the latter, and then a Diploma of Education. At that point in time I was destined to become a secondary school teacher. However, after the birth of my three children, and a stint working in a voluntary capacity for Amnesty International, I felt at a crossroads in terms of a return to paid work. With the strong encouragement of my husband, Lewis William Owens, I returned to University to study law. So in conventional terms, I came to law somewhat ‘late’ in life. To paraphrase the Beatles’ song – ‘a career is what happens when you’re busy making other plans’. During my student days at Law School I harboured thoughts of going to the bar. With the Angas Parsons Prize for the most meritorious Honours student and a cluster of other academic awards, I thought with hard work I might make a success of it. But the nearer I came to the completion of my LLB studies the more I also realised what a tough choice it would be with three still young children. As luck would have it, a tutorship in law was advertised at The University of Adelaide just after I had completed my LLB. Knowing it offered more flexibility for managing work and family responsibilities, I was overjoyed to be the successful applicant. When I took up the position I thought it might be a short term option before I embarked on my real passion to go to the bar when the children were a little older. Nearly three decades later I retired from my academic position at Adelaide Law School – with the enormous satisfaction of having a career which has been more fulfilling than anything I could ever have planned or even imagined. A career as a legal academic provided me with a wide array of opportunities. First, amongst them were the teaching and research which are the mainstay of an academic’s working life. I always loved teaching – and the chance to engage with some of the brightest young minds has been a great privilege. I taught a wide variety of subjects during my career, but two of the constants were those in the public law area, especially constitutional law, and those dealing with the law regulating work. It was in the latter area that I came to focus my research. One of the greatest privileges of the academic life is the capacity to determine your own research agenda. I was especially interested in law’s impact on the working lives of women – the way in which it constructed and structured those lives, and the things that were both visible and invisible to it. Most particularly I was interested in the potential of law to deliver decent work and the impact that has on whole communities. The effects of globalisation, which has wrought enormous transformations in the world, not least the world of work, during the three decades I spent as an academic, meant my research inevitably became also focused on the role and potential of international labour law. Because I never thought of law as something that existed simply in books, in the judgments of courts or on the statute books, but as something that was integral to the lives of people in a community, I also benefitted enormously from the opportunity being an academic gave me to engage with organisations, such as the Working Women’s Centre, which exposed me to the operation of the law which often does not make it into the books. While I never had any particular ambition to take on a senior administrative role at the University, I was deeply honoured to be appointed to the role of Dean of Law at Adelaide Law School at the beginning of 2007. In that role I came to appreciate to a much greater depth the colleagues with whom I worked both in the Law School and also the wider university. The Deanship also provided the opportunity to think more strategically about the role of legal education and the place of the Law School in the University and the wider community. As Dean I served on a number of committees that were comprised predominantly of members of the legal profession – judges, barristers and solicitors – giving me the opportunity to work with new and different groups and to witness first-hand their professionalism and generosity to the Law School and to legal education. During the period as Dean I also travelled widely, not only throughout Australia, but also internationally to other countries, such as Malaysia from where many of our international students came, and to Shanghai, China, as part of the Australian legal delegation to the 2010 Expo. However, administration had never been my passion in life, and the job of Dean is certainly the most difficult one I have ever undertaken. So at the end of my term as Dean in 2011, I was relieved to be able to step down and back into the role of an ordinary law academic. I continued in that role with the further honour of appointment to a named chair in law, the inaugural Dame Roma Mitchell Chair in Law which I held from 2008 until my retirement in 2015. This award was particularly cherished by me because, of all Australian women in the law, Dame Roma is surely the ‘first among equals’. I did not know her personally, but I heard her speak on many occasions. She was always wise. I remember her once saying something to the following effect: ‘don’t assume there were no disappointments in my career. Everyone has disappointments. The important thing is what you do in overcoming them.’ Little wonder that Dame Roma has provided inspiration not only to me, but also to many generations of women in law at The University of Adelaide and beyond. In 2015 the University of Adelaide bestowed on me the title of Emerita Professor, with attendant benefits such as an office and access to the library and technology services of the University, meaning that the decision to retire from my full-time academic position would not be a leaving of the law and so tinged with no sadness. I continue to conduct research – working with a range of wonderful colleagues both in Australia and around the world. Furthermore, I continue my work as a member of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) of the International Labour Organization (ILO), a position to which I was first appointed in 2010 by the ILO’s Governing Body. The CEACR is part of the ILO’s regular supervisory system, and comprises 20 eminent jurists, judges and academics, from around the world – an extraordinary group of people and I am most humbled by the great honour that has been bestowed upon me in being appointed to work with them. The values and ideals that are at the heart of the ILO continue to be as relevant now as they were when the ILO was first established nearly 100 years ago. Looking back over my life in the law, I am reminded that (as in the rest of life) there is much that is determined by luck and timing. In my career in the law, I was very lucky and my timing was fortuitous. When I returned to University to study law in 1981 there were no fees and tertiary education was ‘free’. Given my family’s financial circumstances at the time, I am not sure I would have ever gone back to study if there had been an additional cost burden in the form of fees to do so. When I began my academic career my main interest was constitutional law, but early on a colleague who taught labour law took leave from the University and the responsibility for the subject was transferred to me. It wouldn’t then have been my first choice, but it was not long before the place of work in people’s lives made me realise its importance and interest – and the move into this area of the law was also the happiest and most rewarding developments in my career. My life in the law has only been possible because of the encouragement and support of others. First amongst these are my family. As well as support for my education, my parents also instilled in me the importance of hard work (‘if a thing’s worth doing’, my mother would say, ‘it’s worth doing well’) and, more importantly, a passion for social justice and a sense of responsibility to do all in one’s power to achieve it. My husband and all my children have encouraged and supported me throughout my career – all of them pulled their weight in the family showing an understanding that all of us, regardless of gender, have a right to have a fulfilling and rewarding career and a responsibility to do work in the home. In the workplace I have had the support of many – both men and women in my own university and beyond. However, it is true to say that the friendship and support from other women who were themselves also forging impressive careers in the law made things much easier for me. At Adelaide Law School I was fortunate to be in the company of many other strong feminists. Of those who preceded me, the hardships and setbacks they endured made life easier for me and my contemporaries. During my years at Adelaide Law School, extraordinary women, such as Marcia Neave and Hilary Charlesworth, held professorial and leadership positions providing both example and leadership. In the early 1990s a large group of us at Adelaide Law School formed a feminist legal theory reading group. All of us were passionate about achieving equality for women, and the support the members of the group provided in both intellectual and other ways was a significant factor in enabling me to flourish as an academic. Links with other women academics with whom I collaborated, both in Australia and internationally, further encouraged and supported my career. The impressive work of women practitioners in the legal profession, such Justice Robyn Layton and Justice Margaret Nyland, provided further inspiration. Without them all I could never have lived such a wonderful career in the law. For this reason I see my appointment an Officer in the Order of Australia in January 2014 for ‘distinguished service to the law, particularly to legal education as an academic and administrator, to national and international employment and labour organisations, and to women’ as a tribute to my family and to all those with whom I have worked and whose support has enriched my life in the law. I am deeply grateful to them all. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Rosemary Owens Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Rosemary Owens Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ethel Trounson was a granddaughter of William Ginn, one of Canberra’s well-known pioneers, who lived in what is now known as Blundell’s Cottage. She grew up at the Canberra Park homestead and worked as a children’s nurse to the Crace family in the early 1920s. Ethel Alice Ginn was born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales on 28 March 1900. She was the eldest of four children to Henry Thomas Ginn (1856-1939) and Elizabeth (Betsy) Winter (1876-1960). Henry and Elizabeth came from two well-known pioneering families from Canberra’s Gungahlin region. Henry’s father, William Ginn, emigrated to Australia in 1857 and settled in Canberra at Woolshed Creek, Duntroon, where he worked for Sydney merchant Robert Campbell. In about 1860 Campbell built a stone cottage for William which later became known as Blundell’s Cottage. William with his wife Mary and their four children remained there until 1874 when they moved to their newly acquired property Canberra Park. In 1899, William’s two sons, Walter and Henry (Harry), built a new homestead at Canberra Park. In that same year Henry married Elizabeth Winter, daughter of John and Jemima Winter who were prominent early settlers in the region who are associated with Gungaderra Station, formerly known as Red Hill Station. Together Henry and Elizabeth settled at the new Canberra Park homestead, where Henry engaged in farming and agricultural pursuits. They had four children Ethel Alice, Elizabeth Lillian, James Henry and William John. In 1917 and 1918 Ethel attended St Benedict’s Convent in Queanbeyan where she successfully passed her elementary book-keeping and ‘grammar of music’ exams. When she was about nineteen, she became a children’s nurse to the Crace family, another pioneer family whose associations with the Gungahlin Ginninderra district date back to the late 1800s. By 1924 she had moved to Melbourne where she was governess to the son of Dr Valentine McDonald and his wife Everil in Toorak, Melbourne. It was here in Victoria that she met her husband Adrian Alick Trounson (1901-1981), a jockey. They married in 1931 and lived in Dandenong. Ethel and Adrian had three children, Colleen, Mary and Alick. Towards the end of 1937 they relocated to Ainslie in Canberra and continued to live there until the 1970s when they moved to Malua Bay, NSW. Ethel’s remaining years were spent in Queensland with her daughter Mary. Ethel Trounson died on 1 April in 1993 at Boonah, Queensland. Published resources Journal Article A house in history, heritage and tourism: Shifting times at Blundell's Cottage, Canberra, Young, Linda, 2006 Resource Section Campbell, Robert (1804 - 1859), Newman, C.E.T, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/campbell-robert-1877/text2199 Heritage (Decision about Provisional Registration of Canberra Park, Gungahlin) Notice 2011 Notifiable Instrument NI2011?632, 2011, http://www.environment.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/235540/1140.pdf Newspaper Article Elementary Book-keeping, 1917, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31675405 Royal Academy of Music, 1918, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31644918 Pioneers' Reunion at Canberra Park, 1946, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2682645 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Archives & Records NSW Thomas Henry Ginn - Date of Death 23/04/1950, Granted on 22/06/1950 Author Details Cath Akeroyd Created 23 January 2013 Last modified 22 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Contents include: Scrapbooks and newscuttings on women’s issues, 1972-1986; Women’s Electoral Lobby: submissions, 1974-1983, Bulletin, 1982-1985, electors files, conferences and other publications; script and material re film ‘For Love of Money’, 1979-1983; source material for ‘Gentle Invaders’; maternity leave submission; Women and Politics conference, Canberra, 1975; Sisters Publishing Correspondence File; children’s services file, 1984; misc. papers relating to wages and working conditions; papers relating to the 1984 Anti-Discrimination Act; papers re Mary Owen; newscuttings on women, 1978, 1985-1986, papers relating to various women’s groups and unions including the New South Wales Women’s Advisory Council, League of Women Voters, Women’s Trade Union Commission Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 November 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Chiefly comprises photographs and memorabilia relating to Walton’s aviation career. The collection includes a photograph and ticket of the First ladies flying tour in Australia (1934?). A manuscript of an unpublished book (1958) on the World Tour and Air Race, a photocopy of a detailed letter about Richard Allen and 4 aviation photos. Also included are reprints of portrait photographs of Nancy Bird Walton (originals taken 1935-1990), two commemorative stamp sets entitled ‘Centenary of Wright Brothers…1903-2003’, letter from Australian-born astronaut Andrew Thomas, portrait photograph of NBW specially printed for her 90th birthday, together with short typed speech by NBW (December 2005). Also includes an autographed copy (by NBW and Andy Thomas) of Bird’s autobiography My God! It’s a woman (Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins, 2002), together with a framed NASA certificate authenticating its spaceflight aboard the shuttle Discovery (26 July – 8 August 2005). Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Rashda Rana SC is a Barrister, Arbitrator and Mediator. She has worked at the Bar in London, in various states in Australia and in the Asia Pacific region, notably Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and China, for the past 20 years. Most recently, she was the General Counsel for Lend Lease Project Management & Construction. Rashda is also an Adjunct Professor at The Sydney University Law School. She was appointed Senior Counsel in 2014. Rana is the President of ArbitralWomen, the Immediate Past President of the Australian branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), the Founding Member and former Vice Chair of the Society of Construction Law Australia, a Fellow and former Director of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), Fellow of Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia (IAMA), Fellow of Commercial Law Association of Australia (CLAA) and the Australian representative to the ICC Taskforce on Subcontracting and the ICC Taskforce on Public Procurement. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Rashda Rana for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Rashda, Rana and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Events in life, some brought about deliberately, others by happenstance, often give rise to circumstances that lead to the generation of new and sometimes surprising passions or the development of a passion that otherwise lies latent. My passion turned out to be initially international arbitration and then as a necessary off-shoot which emerged through experience, the need for diversity and equality in the legal profession, more specifically, gender diversity and equality in the worldwide dispute resolution industry. Most astounding for me has been the slow realisation that in the first quarter of the 21st Century we are still talking about gender equality and trying to find ways to achieve it at all levels of society. After decades of supposed equality, however, a recurring and disturbing issue in the workplace remains the differential and unequal treatment of and responses to women in the workplace. How does a woman deal with that if, like me, your job depends on being heard? Everything I do professionally depends entirely on my voice being heard. I have three main professional roles: as advocate, as arbitrator and as teacher. The most critical demand made by each role is clear, effective and persuasive oral communication. As an advocate, I am the mouthpiece of my client. I might be appearing before 1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 judges or 1 or 3 arbitrators. They are usually of the pale, male and stale variety. Usually, I am the only woman in the room or the court. In this role, the most significant rule that applies to the proceedings is that parties are afforded natural justice. This is usually understood to mean that the parties are entitled to have their dispute determined by an impartial and independent decision maker and that they have the right to be heard. In order to fulfil this role properly and effectively not only do I, on behalf of my client, need to ensure that I am heard but that I am actively heard such that I can persuade the listener of my point of view, my submission, my case theory. Next, as an arbitrator either with 2 other co-arbitrators and a number of advocates appearing before me (all usually male), my voice also needs to be heard. In this role, I am required to control the proceedings and make decisions which the parties are required to follow or comply with. Unlike the position of a judge, who has coercive powers to ensure compliance the role of arbitrator does not have coercive powers and does not necessarily bring with it authority. The authority has to be imposed by deed or demand. Thirdly, I am also a teacher, a role that relies heavily on the teacher being heard. In the 21st century, the real test of a good teacher, whether make or female, is to get across the message without the use of visual aids! I have seen panic on the faces of students when I say we are going to listen, think and discuss as opposed to type like automata everything the teacher is saying without switching on the brain cells! The legal profession is not the only profession in which women experience unequal treatment. Discrimination or gender bias, whether deliberate or unconscious, is everywhere. For a long time now, I have been the only Australian female barrister actively involved in international arbitration outside Australia. I am, for instance, the only Australian female barrister listed on the arbitration panels of a number of significant regional arbitral institutions. In 2013, I was the first female President of the Australian branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. It is not a new organisation. The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators is celebrating its centenary this year (2015). It is an elite, international dispute resolution body with members from all over the world. I don’t know why I should have been the first female President as late as 2013 when there are so many highly competent women in the field of dispute resolution. I don’t know why I am the only female barrister listed on arbitration panels around the world. It seems that women are still required to be better than their male counterparts in order to be heard, seen or accepted. I have never doubted my ability to perform as well as my male colleagues. Likewise, I never doubted the capabilities of my female peers in the law. I have tried to accept people on merit alone no matter what their background, race or gender. It was not until the last few years of the 20th Century, that the true plight of female lawyers dawned on me. Women lawyers were experiencing hurdles and problems in their careers as a result of gender bias. I had not myself been consciously aware that I had ever been discriminated against because of my gender. What was more apparent to me (especially when I arrived in Australia) was the constant references to racial differences as if that attribute might affect one’s ability to perform. Of course, I possess many attributes which can readily be the subject of discrimination. The most obvious is that I am a woman. But my Indian heritage makes me a target too. When I first arrived in Australia many people, especially taxi drivers (those great arbiters of social commentary) would ask, ‘where are you from?’ I’d say that I was from London (because I learnt very quickly that the way I pronounced ‘England’ sounded very much like India to them or perhaps that’s what they wanted to hear). Anyway, to this response I’d often get (and still do) ‘But, where are you really from?’ Thus, the conversation would continue along those lines for a few more minutes, with some even braving the absurd line, ‘but you don’t look like you’re English’. Of course, what they were referring to was my ethnic background, which, of course is an entirely different matter. If I had been aware of gender bias then I had dismissed it as being an ‘excuse’. After all, we lived in an enlightened world. The first meeting I attended of the Equal Opportunities Committee of the NSW Bar Association, chaired by Michael Slattery QC (as then was, now Justice Slattery of the NSW Supreme Court), however, opened my eyes to the true depth of a problem I had not even conceived existed. I resolved there and then to do what I could to bring the problem to light and to deal with it as best I could. The first project I got involved in was the emergency child care scheme for barristers. There was no one better suited to delving into this problem since my husband & I both worked and we had no family to support us in Australia (my family were all in London and my husband’s in Ireland) and any friends who would otherwise be willing to help also worked. How did I get to where I am? My focus has always been to do things about which I am passionate. For that I must thank my family, particularly my father. I was lucky to have been brought up in a family environment in which everyone was encouraged to be themselves and to do what they enjoyed. After all, success follows those who follow their passions. With 2 older rough-and-tumble, rugger-bugger brothers and a father who treated each of us in the same way, I never noticed that my life had to be different from my brothers or male friends just because I was a girl. I remember my mother’s horror at my father’s suggestion that I should read for a conceptually based degree such as philosophy rather than mathematics which was my initial choice since that’s where my interests seemed to lie. He was absolutely right. He never dictated to us. He guided us. It was always a discussion of the pros and cons of our proposed actions or decisions that he investigated with us. He taught us analysis and introspection. Philosophy also helped me to think with clarity and reason persuasively – skills which have proved very useful in my career as a barrister. Loss of an academic grant made me switch from a life in academia to a vocational course in law that culminated in qualification as a barrister at the Bar of England & Wales. I was persuaded by a highly regarded silk at the English Bar that being an advocate was not dissimilar to being an academic and so my life would not necessarily be that different in substance: barristers receive issues in a brief; academics think of them in the course of their work; barristers research the point in issue, as do academics; barristers prepare submissions as academics prepare papers or articles; barristers present the issue as set out in their submissions to a court of 1 or 3 or more judges who have some interest in what you are saying, academics present to 200 snotty nosed students who do not generally care what you are saying; barristers get an answer by way of a judgment; academics get 200 essays, none of which may have anything useful to say. I switched fairly readily. The love of teaching, however, has never left me and so I have continued to teach at various levels from undergraduates to apex court judges. Then came marriage to an Irishman who did not then want to live in London so we traversed the seas to Sydney where he had been living and where I knew there was an independent private Bar and so I could continue doing what I had been trained to do. It was not at all common in Sydney then (nor is it now) for people to go straight to the Bar. In England, after a straight law degree and Bar School, one could be a fully qualified barrister at about 23. In England it was also the practice to choose either the path of a solicitor or a barrister and to stick to that choice for life. There was very little movement between the professions. There is much more now. In Sydney, there has always been movement between the professions. The admissions board did not make it easy for me, requiring me to sit 11 exams which I sat over 2 semesters. Apparently, the Admissions Board simply could not understand how I could possibly have got any kind of practising certificate with a Diploma Course in Law. The lady I spoke to at the Board was incredulous and actually said to me over and over again, ‘But I don’t understand how you could’ve got the practising certificates. You don’t have a law degree!’. The Diploma Course in question is one designed for graduates who wish to convert to law. Successful completion of the Diploma course then puts candidates on par with law graduates. It’s a one year intensive course in the 6 core subjects. In order to become a barrister, one is required to undertake the Bar Practice Training Course as well which is also over a year and includes a number of substantive legal subjects. If I recall correctly, out of the 100 students in my conversion course over 80% went on to become barristers. The figures for barristers in London with that background is also approximately 80%. So, it was a very common path to becoming a barrister in London. But not so in Sydney. Indeed, I think I was the first barrister from England who wanted to go to the NSW Bar. When Stuart Littlemore modelled his female protagonist in the Curry Murder Books on me, I pointed out to him that, unlike his fictional character, Arabella Engineer, I did not come to Sydney because I had “failed as a barrister in London”! I passed the tests. During that time, my husband and I decided that it would probably be better to have our first child before I got going afresh, as it were, at the Bar in NSW. So our daughter arrived on 2 February 1994. 2nd February happens to be the date by which the beginning of the Bar Term is set. A few years later, my son would be born on the last day of the Bar Term that year. So, my children are truly Bar children. Things progressed well and my international arbitration career continued to grow steadily. On one occasion, some 15 years ago, I was chastised by a senior member of the Bar for appearing in international arbitrations, that is to say, appearing before arbitrators (1 or 3) when I should be appearing before ‘real’ judges. Having been weaned on the dual tracks of the court system and arbitration, I could not quite understand his objection. Arbitrators before whom I was appearing in international arbitrations were eminent jurists in their own right. The same people might switch from being arbitrators to taking an appointment as a judge. I did not and do not think that judges are clothed with any magical powers (or divine inspiration) that makes them better decision makers than arbitrators. I sit as an arbitrator and I know my Awards are every bit as good as the judgments of my judge peers. Suffice it so say that this same senior practitioner has in the past few years been haranguing me to get him into international arbitrations! In this time, the urge to do something about gender bias started to grow. As well as continuing my work at the NSW Bar Association and participating in mentoring schemes at the Bar, the Universities, and industry organisations, I joined ArbitralWomen. ArbitralWomen is an international networking organisation committed to promoting women in dispute resolution around the world. It was beginning to take a foothold then. Last year, in 2014, we celebrated 20 years and I became the President of ArbitralWomen. My column in the ArbitralWomen Newsletter regularly points to achievements in this field as well to failures which need rectification in the name of equality. I know that, for me, the single most important factor in any success I may have achieved has been the support I have received from my male colleagues and most importantly my husband. It is because of the fact that my support came from male not female mentors that I have been actively promoting the importance of mentoring for women by women in dispute resolution. The mentoring program at ArbitralWomen is a very successful one. There are more and more women at higher echelons of the dispute resolution ladder who are prepared to give up their time freely to help others. There are, unfortunately, also plenty at the higher reaches who do not want to help, their mantra being, ‘I did it myself so let them learn how to do it by themselves’. What these women forget is that men help each other all the time and in helping others promote themselves. What they also forget is what Madeleine Albright once said, ‘There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women!’ The last thing on one’s mind when one makes the choice of a life partner is whether you will enjoy the same support from that person as you might be prepared to give back. The support can oftentimes be one way – support by the wife for the husband’s needs, desires and goals. None of what I’ve done would have been possible without my husband’s support and willingness to take over things, to pick up the running of the house, the care of the children every time I had to leave the country for work and his generally positive attitude to my goals. He also shares with me the drive to eradicate gender bias in all its forms. It is not just my interest in gender diversity and equality that has been growing. The problem of gender bias and the need for diversity and equality has mushroomed in the past few years in many parts of the world. For instance, my old college (Pembroke) at Cambridge University has been celebrating 30 years of women at the College. The celebrations are timely and significant. This is a great achievement in itself, but to put it in context, this is 30 years in the life of a college that has existed as male only domain for over 800 years. I was invited back to talk about women in the workplace to current and former students of the college as well as others from the University. In addition, as part of my work with ArbitralWomen, we prepared a Special Issue on ‘Dealing with Diversity in International Arbitration’ jointly with Transnational Dispute Management. It is well acknowledged that the high demand for arbitration services has driven many governments to cultivate a pro-arbitration environment through new arbitration legislation and other mechanisms, and has led to the proliferation of international arbitral centres throughout the world. Likewise, many global law firms have also responded to this increased demand by aggressively entering new markets and deploying significant resources to those emerging regions. The expansion of international arbitration into new regions as well as steady growth in more established markets has not, however, been reflected in the greater participation of more women. Women are not getting the same opportunities as men, regardless of background. Statistics published by arbitral institutions indicate quite strongly that, more generally, there is a severe imbalance in the vast number of appointments whether by the parties or by the institution concerned–for instance, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) annual report for 2013 shows that in 2013, 9.8% of the 162 appointees selected by the LCIA and 6.9% of the 160 appointees selected by the parties were female. The LCIA is the only institution which actively pushes for the appointment of female chairs of tribunals. The appointment of European and American arbitrators usually account for a large chunk of the pie, within that the thinnest, barely visible slivers represent female arbitrators. Further analysis of the numbers indicates that things are not really improving. There are many studies which indicate there is a huge gender gap–for instance, the Institute for Continuing Legal Education in California has carried out studies which show that 85% of the women lawyers surveyed perceived a subtle, but pervasive, gender bias within the legal profession. Almost two-thirds agreed women lawyers are not accepted as equals by their male peers (see also ‘Implicit Gender Bias in the Legal Profession: An Empirical Study’ by Justin D Levinson & Danielle Young, Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy Volume 18:1 2010). Despite the fact that approximately 60% of all law graduates are women, this figure steadily decreases over time and rank, such that, by the time we get to the managing partner level, only 4% are women. The gender gap is to some extent perpetuated by deep-rooted cultural perceptions and misperceptions. In every field unconscious bias is evident and perpetuated. Many studies (for example ‘Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favour male students’–Moss-Racusina, PNAS, 2012) show categorically that unconsciously, we tend to like people who look like us, think like us and come from backgrounds similar to ours. This means that white men choose white men for board rooms, as counsel, as arbitrators, as judges. The bias clearly is not always unconscious–sometimes it is deliberate negative bias. In the same report by the Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the findings were that 76% of those surveyed reported feelings of negative bias were from opposing counsel, 64% from clients, 48% from superiors, and 43% from peers. It is interesting to note that most feelings of negative bias were from opposing counsel, and the least was from peers. While 65% did not make any career changes due to these perceptions of negative bias, it is statistically significant that 35% did, and that 37% made no career changes because they believed it would not be any better elsewhere. Affirmative action has and can effect change. It has been pioneered in many different sectors including; the political arena for numbers of MPs in any one party, the commercial arena, with demands on boards of organisations to have a certain percentage of female directors, in model briefing policies for female counsel to be briefed on cases and in the judiciary for numbers of female judges. For instance, women now account for 20.7% of board members in FTSE 100 companies. In Australia, the latest percentage of women on ASX 200 boards is 19.8%. In the US, the percentage of S&P 500 companies with at least one female director is just over 90%, yet 10% of these companies still do not have women directors and 28% have just one. The European Commission aims to attain a 40% ‘objective’ of women in non-executive board member positions in large publicly listed companies by 2020 (see further EU Directive on Women on Boards in 2012). Even that is not enough. There are ways of introducing affirmative action in law and in particular arbitration, but it has to be accepted and taken up by lawyers (young and old) advising their clients, the clients themselves and other counsel and arbitrators. A cultural shift is needed, not just time, to get there. To women ‘coming through the ranks’ in arbitration, I would say – persevere! Surround yourself with supportive people: family, friends, colleagues, bosses, mentors. Find support for your ideas, yourself, your career path. Men overestimate their abilities and capabilities which, in itself, leads to greater confidence, confidence building in others, promotion, pay rises and so on, with their prospects shooting upwards. Women, on the other hand, routinely underestimate themselves leading to a lack of confidence and consequently others doubting their ability, slower promotion, less pay and so on, with their prospects spiralling downwards. Women need to reverse that trend by helping themselves and helping others. They should be assertive without being aggressive, promote their skills and expertise. They should remember they don’t need to mimic male behaviour, and, more importantly, they should be themselves. Published resources Article Prominent barrister to lead arbitration body, O'Gorman, Brigid, 2013, http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/wig-chamber/news/14317-prominent-barrister-to-lead-arbitration-body Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Rashda Rana Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Rashda Rana Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The City of Canberra is home to elite sportswomen, such as champion basketballer, Lauren Jackson and influential administrators like Heather Reid, CEO of Capital Football. It is represented at a national level by teams like the Canberra Capitals in the Women’s National Basketball League and the Canberra Darters in the Australian Netball League. But perhaps, more importantly, Canberra is home to the largest number of ordinary weekend warriors in all Australia. According to an Australian Bureau of Statistics report, published in 2012, 78.8 % of Canberra women regularly participate in Sport and Recreation, 9.7% more than the nearest ‘rival’ Tasmania at 69.1%. If we combine this record with the important role that Canberra has played as a developer of elite talent, through the Australian Institute of Sport, and the development of policy to promote and encourage women in sport through the Australian Sports Commission’s Women’s Sports Unit, then it most certainly is not overstating it to say that women have been very important in putting Canberra on the map of the sporting world. Canberra may have been officially named in 1913, but it wasn’t until well into the 1920s that community services, like sporting clubs and facilities, were developed and made available for public use. The arrival of public servants and their families from Melbourne to accompany the Federal Legislature in 1927 put pressure on the Federal Capital Commission (FCC) to develop amenities that would turn the settlement into a community. The Social Services Association was established in 1926 to help the city planners gain feedback on what needs were most pressing for the small but growing community. Sports grounds and facilities were at the top of the list of needs and wants. Women, through a special Social Services Officer made sure their voices were heard on this matter. In a town were men outnumbered women by 3 to 1 in the early days, it is not surprising that sports such as rugby, cricket and Australian Rules Football were organised quickly and enthusiastically. But even though they were small in number, the women of Canberra were determined to claim their right to play sport as well. On 15 November 1927, sixty women representing a wide variety of sports attended a meeting called by Miss D.M Hawkins, the Women’s Social Service Officer, to discuss the formation of a Women’s Sports Association. Areas of specific concern were raised, like access to the existing tennis courts, the progress of girls’ hockey teams that were already competing, and the formation of cricket teams and basketball (what we would call netball) teams. But the primary purpose of the meeting was to gauge the interest in sport amongst Canberra women and then feed it back to the Federal Capital Commission. Given that Lady Butters, wife of the Chief Commissioner, was in the chair, there was no danger that the feedback wouldn’t be heard. Between them, Miss Hawkins and Lady Butters were quick and formidable workers. A series of further public meetings and consultations with the FCC ensued. By 5 March 1928, newspapers were reporting that a ground and many other facilities would be provided for women’s sport: The fair sex feel that they have been neglected in the development of sport in the capital, but the Federal Commission has expressed sympathy with their representations, and it is likely that a women’s sports ground will be provided at Acton. The ground will be on the Acton flats, and it is proposed that facilities be provided for hockey, cricket, baseball, and swimming, and other sports. A ladies’ swimming club, composed of residents o£ Beauchamp House and Gorman House, has been formed, and will take possession of the Acton swimming pool, which hitherto has been used for mixed bathing. A dressing shed will be built. It is the intention of the Commission to reserve this pool for the ladies’ club. At present the Westlake Cricket Club is using a cricket pitch on Acton flats, but negotiations are in progress for the vacation of the pitch in order that it maybe used next season by ladies. A Croquet Club is to be formed, but play will be on a green at the Hotel Canberra. Over the next two years, regular meetings were held by the Women’s Sports Association to call for the formation of basketball, cricket and hockey clubs, for access to tennis courts and bathing facilities. The establishment of a branch of the Y.W.C.A in Canberra in 1929 created more options and opportunities for the women of Canberra. So it was with a good deal of confidence that Miss D.M Hawkins, on the occasion of her migration to New Zealand to live, urged those in attendance to ‘stick together’ so that they can ‘put Canberra on the map of the women’s sporting world.’ Over eighty years later, Miss Hawkins would proud of the legacy she created. The City of Canberra is home to elite sportswomen, such as champion basketballer, Lauren Jackson and influential administrators like Heather Reid, CEO of Capital Football. It is represented at a national level by teams like the Canberra Capitals in the Women’s National Basketball League and the Canberra Darters in the Australian Netball League. But perhaps, more importantly, Canberra is home to the largest number of ordinary weekend warriors in all Australia. According to an Australian Bureau of Statistics report, published in 2012, 78.8 % of Canberra women regularly participate in Sport and Recreation, 9.7% more than the nearest ‘rival’ Tasmania at 69.1%. If we combine this record with the important role that Canberra has played as a developer of elite talent, through the Australian Institute of Sport, and the development of policy to promote and encourage women in sport through the Australian Sports Commission’s Women’s Sports Unit, then it most certainly is not overstating it to say that women have been very important in putting Canberra on the map of the sporting world, full stop! The following paragraphs provide a quick sketch of the development of some women’s sporting organisations in Canberra. They are not comprehensive histories: there are many of them to be found and where possible, details have been provided. Rather, the following is designed to highlight some of the issues as they rose and fell in the history of women’s sport in Canberra. Croquet Women played croquet informally on the lawns of the Hotel Canberra from the time it opened in 1925. But when the Canberra Croquet club was established on March 1928, the hotel handed over the lawn to the club. The bulk of the members were wives of parliamentarians and high-ranking public servants. Lady Groom, wife of the Speaker of the House of Representatives was the first president. Although the competition was important it’s arguable that, especially in the early days, the social contact that came with membership was more important. Isolated in the home while their husbands were at work, the women saw the club as a social gathering as much as a sports club, with members being entertained at the home of the president on occasions, and bridge afternoons being a regular feature of the social calendar. Indeed, in the first club annual report, the secretary noted that ‘if we can help towards making new arrivals feel that someone is willing to help them settle, then our club will have achieved something more valuable than training the finest croquet player who was ever born.’ This is not to say that the competition on the lawn wasn’t fierce: there were some very handy players who achieved excellent results in the NSW Croquet Association pennant competition. But there can be no doubt that the competition was social as well, and the season opener was also highly anticipated, with special guests asked to take part. In 1973, for instance, Margaret Whitlam was invited and tried her hand at several games. The organising committee was delighted because there was more press coverage of the season than there had been for some time! Importantly, the Canberra Croquet Club started as an all women affair and remained thus until 1974, when it was moved that men be allowed to play as invited guests. This was a pilot project, to some extent, to see how things might work if men were included. Like many amateur sporting associations in the 1970s, the club was looking to find new ways to increase membership and, therefore, funding. Permitting entry to men was one way of achieving this. In 1975, at an extraordinary meeting of the Canberra Croquet Club it was moved that the meeting vote consider accepting men as full time members. By 1977, the Canberra Croquet Club had male members. It 2013 it remains a vibrant, active club with a healthy membership. In one form or another, the Canberra Croquet Club has been there to support the people of Canberra, almost from the start, and certainly from the moment when the public servants started moving in. Bowling Women have organised to play lawn bowls in Canberra for almost as long as their sisters at the Croquet Club, but unfortunately, they were not able to organise themselves on their own terms. The situation at the Canberra City Bowls Club was pretty much standard across any sporting organisation where women needed to participate as associates of a male club. At Canberra City, between 1930 and 1937 women had the status of a social group without office bearers. What this meant in real terms was limited times on the greens, combined with the expectation that they would raise funds and organise catering for the men during their competitions! In 1937, under the guidance of Mrs Olive Toy, the women decided to form a club with elected officials. The City Ladies Associates Bowling Club entered competition with a strict membership cap imposed on them by their male counterparts, along with mandatory inclusion on the roster to provide afternoon tea for the men, to be paid for with funds from their on membership dues. Judging by comments in the club annual reports, in the early days, the attitude amongst the women should be one of grateful tugging at the forelock, for whatever crumbs might be thrown their way. ‘We wish to express our appreciation to the menfolk for the use of the green and other privileges, and assure then that the ladies are ready to assist them in any way.’ Some women recall, however, how lacking in substance the crumbs were. ‘Mothers’ Day seemed to be the only bowls day when mixed bowls was played without undue complaint from the men’. As time went by, however, buried resentment came to the surface. At the AGM in 1950, a motion that a donation be made to men’s club, which was generally less efficient at raising funds than the women’s, failed to find a seconder. There were constant rumblings amongst the women about the requirement to provide catering for the men, to the point where some women decided they could no longer be a member of the club. In 1968 they were relieved of some of their duties when the men resolved ‘that we should discontinue the requirement of provision of afternoon teas except on special occasions’, but as late as 1988, there was still a distinct lack of goodwill from many male members who complained that access to the bar by women members should be restricted because ‘women were taking over the club’. The official history comments upon the way that these disputes were always resolved in an amicable fashion, but the reminiscences of women published in that same history indicate the extent to which the issue of women’s subservient status in the club irritated the ‘associates’. The work women did for the club was constantly undervalued and under-rewarded. It wasn’t until 1974 that women members were awarded with medals, despite their forty years of financial and in-kind service. Moving into the 1980s things changed, as equal opportunity legislation was enacted and women and women both needed to pull together to find resources and innovative ways to fund their operations. Tennis Many women associates of tennis clubs had similar problems as the bowlers did, in terms of access to courts. But the Ainslie Tennis Club, established in 1928, was a little different from some. Needless to say, providing refreshments for those working on the construction of the courts was left to the ladies, but is an unusual twist, it was agreed that there should be no refreshment without representation. In March 1928, a woman, Mrs Agnes Gillard, was elected to the committee of management. The courts were officially opened on Sunday April 21st 1928, with an initial membership of 32 men, 24 women and 23 juniors. Court maintenance was the responsibility of the male members, although official correspondence gave women nagging rights: ‘it was the role of the ladies to remind their menfolk of the importance of the task’. The first team to enter competition was a mixed B grade team, in May 1928. Male membership suffered during the years of the Second World War, a feature of amateur sport across the whole city. Competition tennis ceased and social tennis was restricted. In 1943 women members took over the running of the club and an all female executive and committee was elected with Agnes Gillard becoming the club’s only female president. As was the case across the land, women enjoyed the management and leadership opportunities afforded to them as they picked up the duties of women in the armed forces. The club won its first junior pennant in 1972 with a B1 girls team, who were the beneficiaries of the coaching of some excellent volunteers. The Women’s Sports Promotion Unit The Women and Sports Promotion Unit was established as a function of the Australian Sports Commission in 1987 in recognition of the need to provide fairer sporting opportunities for women and girls. It was created in response to concerns raised by the Federal Government’s Working Group on Women and Sport about the lack of women’s participation in sport and recreation, and discrimination against those who did. The lack of women’s opportunities for leadership within sporting organisations was also highlighted, along with the lack of media coverage of women’s significant sporting achievements. Its role was to provide policy advice and guidance to the Federal Government and to the Australian Sports Commission. It was also created to publicise achievements. As the Minister for Sport at the time indicated, it was a policy unit that was long overdue. “Women are often the last to give themselves praise and put themselves first. Yet their sporting performances deserve recognition and accolades from the whole community.’ The first Chairperson of the unit was Margaret Pewtress, a sports woman and administrator of international repute. It benefited from the service of skilled public servants like Libby Darlison and Sue Baker-Finch, and from the consultancy services of women such as Heather Reid. Many of the programs and reports that still guide policy making in the area of women’s sport had their gestation in the early days of the Woman Sports Promotion Unit. A key plank in its communication strategy was the publication of its newsletter Active. Quarterly edition were released between 1988 and 1995 and they record the significant but under-reported achievements of Australia’s elite sportswomen thoughout that period. But just as importantly, it alerted people to the opportunities for participation available to everyday sportswomen, as well as advice on where to get funding support, and how to go about getting it. The unit still exists in a different form and with changed priorities, although some of the issues remain the same; such as problems with media coverage of women’s sports and leadership opportunities within mixed organisations. But it is hard to dispute the impact it has had on increasing women’s participation. A survey conducted in the late 1980s reported that only 23% of Australian women regularly participated in some form of sporting activity. In 2012, that number has grown to 63.8% From little things, big things grow. Published resources Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Report Sports and Physical Recreation: A Statistical Overview, Australia, 2012, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2012, http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Products/037188C614B3F3E4CA257AD9000E2627?opendocument Newspaper Article Sport for Women, 1927 Sports for Women, 1928 Bon Voyage, 1928 Canberra is a Sport-Loving Community, 1950 The Year in Sport, 1929 Book Recollections of Women's Golf: GCGC 1926 to 1993, Royal Canberra Golf Club, 1996 Growing with the capital : a history of the Canberra City Bowling Club 1928-2005, Foskett, Alan, 2005 Fifty years at Souths : a short history of Canberra South Bowling Clubs., Rooney, John; Emerton, Don and Wight, Jack., 1998 The Federal Golf Club story, 1933-1983, Clues, D. S., 1983 Catalogue Good sports : a history of recreation in the Canberra region., Canberra Museum and Gallery, 2000? Newsletter Active: Women in Sport Newsletter, Women's Sport Promotion Unit Resource It's About Time for Women in Australian Sport, Lundy, Kate, 2012, http://www.katelundy.com.au/2012/11/01/about-time-for-women-in-australian-sport/ Archival resources ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0084 Canberra Croquet Club Records HMSS 0473 Ainslie Tennis Club Records Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 18 June 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Olive Boundy is an activist in local government and politics. She is a member of the ALP and was a candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (Clarence seat) in 1991. She later was elected to the Ulmarra Shire Council from 1987 and later served on the Pristine Waters Council until 2004. Olive Boundy trained as a nurse and later lectured at TAFE on women’s issues and local government. She has been active in community organisations, including the Surf Life Saving movement and remedial reading programs. She has also taken on the roll of an arbitrator in the Local Environmental Court. She has one son. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Community loses one of its champions, Bancroft, David, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 28 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Files relating to adult education, the aged, the History of Hawthorn, conservation; and personal memorabilia including notes and essays for the Diploma in Public Policy and election material. Four scrap books providing a thorough coverage of her involvement with the Hawthorn Council. Created 24 October 2018 Last modified 24 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 8414 comprises correspondence, 1987-1989, relating to the naming of geographic features after Michael Terry and the depiction of Terry on the $10 commemorative note; typescript notes on an interview about Ben Nicker, an Aborigine who accompanied Terry on expeditions through Western Australia in 1931-1932; and, the article “When the sun was young” by Lennard Bickel, referring to Michael Terry, that appeared in Qantas airways inflight magazine (Jan.-Feb. 1982) (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Judy Irvine is a local leader, prepared to stand up and be counted. She was a Liberal Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Auburn by-election of 2001 and in the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Granville. Judy Irvine was raised in Granville and attended Blaxcell Street Primary and Parramatta High School. She trained as an optometrist at the University of NSW, and runs practices in Granville and Guildford and Lidcombe. In 2003, Judy was the President of the Guildford Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Holroyd Safety Committee. She is married to Neil Hannan, a veterinary surgeon, and they have three children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 31 January 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Material relating to St Mary’s Hostel, the League and the Child Care Centre Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 26 February 2004 Last modified 26 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Catalysts’ Society developed out of the meetings of nineteen women with intellectual interests who planned to establish a Lyceum Club in Melbourne in 1910. The meetings proved so enjoyable that the women decided to meet on a regular basis while waiting for the Lyceum Club to be established. The nineteen original Catalysts held their first dinner meeting on 24 September 1910 at Sargent’s Café. At that meeting they elected Ethel Osborne as president and Alice Michaelis and Jessie Webb as joint secretaries. They adopted the name of ‘The Catalysts’. At their second meeting they chose their motto ‘Changing but Unchanged’. Enid Derham presented the first paper on ‘The works of Thomas Hardy’, which was followed by discussion. This format for the monthly meetings continues today. The original Catalysts were: Dr Ethel Osborne, Dr Janet Lindsay Greig, Miss Jessie Webb, Miss Enid Derham, Dr Constance Ellis, Dr Georgina Sweet, Dr Jane Greig, Flos Greig, Mrs Ray Phillips, Miss Alice Michaelis, Mrs Mary Barden, Miss Dora de Beer, Miss Stella Deakin, Miss Elizabeth Lothian, Mrs Ida Latham, Mrs Eleanor Latham, Miss Mona McBurney, Miss Mary Baldwin and Mrs Jessie Nott. The meetings of the Catalysts are held on the second Monday of the month at the Lyceum Club. Published resources Book A History of the Lyceum Club Melbourne, Gillison, Joan M, 1975 Jessie Webb, a memoir, Ridley, Ronald T, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records, 1910-2013. [manuscript]. Records, 1912-ca. 1970. [manuscript]. Author Details Rosemary Francis and Jane Carey Created 17 September 2003 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Joesphine Conway’s papers are unsorted but will be made available to the public shortly. Author Details NIkki Henningham Created 26 May 2005 Last modified 26 May 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "NS397/1/1 Includes printed material 1940-41, miscellaneous correspondence 1937-1941, List of addresses of members, photographs of mission in Pacific area, Dorothea Henslowe, Hon. Diocesan Secretary of Women’s Auxiliary of Australian Board of Missions. Author Details Jane Carey Created 20 February 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Vision Australia’s heritage collection consists of more than 10,000 objects, photographs, film, sound recordings, and documents recording the remarkable history of the organisation. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 February 2006 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Phipson, Australian children’s author, describes her early life; mother’s ambivalence to Australia; joining Uncle’s family in India during WW1; reactions to signing of armistice; return to England at end of war; return to Australia on troopship; schooling at Frensham; trips back to England; beginning writing; purchasing a Hogarth press in London for the school, on advice of Leonard Woolf; return to Frensham as a teacher; printing of Rosemary Dobson’s first book of poems; copywriting in Sydney, WW2; joining WAAAF; marriage, family property at Mandurama, NSW; publication of first stories Christmas in the Sun, It Happened One Summer; Good Luck to the Rider; Six and Silver; writing for children; ideas for her books.??Philson discusses her Australian settings; writing about the sea; historical writings; characterisation; Peter and Butch; themes; The Way Home; interest in conservation; fantasy themes; plot development; story planning; endings; her favourite book; vividness of her characters; altering fact for fiction purposes; reaction to her writing from children; criticism; editing; rejection from publisher; various publishers of her work; differences in writing for British and American markets; methodology; Patrica Wrightson; The Magic Pudding; writing for different age groups; her childhood reading; contact with other writers; illustrator Margaret Horder; awards; writing for contemporary children; work in progress. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Liz Kernohan represented the people of Camden on Camden council and in the New South Wales Parliament for more than 30 years. She was first elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Camden in 1991 when she stood as a Liberal Party candidate. Elizabeth gained re-election in 1995 and 1999. She was first appointed a Councillor of the Camden Municipal Council in March 1973 and was re-elected from 1974 -1991 and again in 2004. Liz Kernohan was also Deputy Mayor in 1974-1977 and 1981-1984, and Mayor in 1980 and 1985-1991. She died in October 2004. Educated SCEGGS Darlinghurst, Leaving Certificate 1955 1960 Bachelor of Science (BSc), agriculture, University of Sydney 1960 – 1962 Research Assistant, then Demonstrator in the Dairy Research Unit, University of Sydney Farms, Camden 1963 Qualified as a technical teacher, New South Wales Department of Technical Education 1963 – 1964 Full-time teacher of Agriculture, School of Rural Studies, New South Wales Department of Teaching and Education 1965 – 1966 Professional Officer, University of Sydney Farms, Camden 1966 Senior Tutor of Dairying, University of Sydney Farms, Camden 1968 – 1969 Acting Officer in Charge of the Dairy Research Unit, University of Sydney Farms, Camden 1970 Master of Science (MSc), Agriculture, University of Sydney 1975 – 1978 Lecturer in Animal Husbandry, University of Sydney Farms, Camden 1975 – 1982 Warden of Nepean Hall, University of Sydney Farms, Camden 1978 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Sydney 1978 – 1982 Assistant Director, University of Sydney Farms, Camden 1982 – 1991 Director, University of Sydney Farms, Camden 1991 – 2003 Member of the Legislative Assembly for Camden, New South Wales Published resources Book Contemporary Australian Women 1996/97, 1996 Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jan Brennan is a successful local councillor, having been elected to the Rockdale City Council for the period of 1999 to 2007 and was also appointed Mayor in 2000. She was less successful in her parliamentary career where she stood for the Liberal Party in Barton for the House of Representatives in 2001 and in the 2003 Rockdale elections. Jan Brennan worked for the Law Reform Commission for 10 years. While on Rockdale City Council she has been involved with measures to help disadvantaged youth. She served on the City Development Committee. At the time of her campaign she was a member of the Athelstane Public School Council and the St George Migrant Resource Centre. She has three children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Black and white photograph of two women, Muriel Matter on the left and Edith Craig on the right, walking together in Whitehall with arms linked. Craig is wearing a dark coat and wide hat, with an ermine style fur muffler and scarf. Matters is wearing a short fur jacket and a sprig of snowdrops. The photograph is pasted onto a torn piece of cream paper, and on the reverse are pasted press cuttings on suffrage activities in Glasgow.???The manuscript note on the front is presumably written by Muriel Matters.???Note: the press cuttings from the ‘Glasgow Times’ 1909, cover women’s suffrage protests and meetings in Glasgow, and mention: Countess Russell, Mrs Pankhurst, Muriel Matters, Miss Gill, National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, Women’s Freedom League, Women’s Social & Political Union Miss Bennett, Anne Munro. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 September 2018 Last modified 26 September 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Includes minutes of the Centre for Soldiers’ Wives and Mothers, 1916-1919 (Box 2, Item 7) and newscuttings regarding soldiers and World War I (Box 4, Item 6) Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 November 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Collection comprises – 6 cassettes, 1 reel – 7hrs Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "45 minutes??Pat Gerrard, nee Klingberg, was born at Cowell, on Eyre Peninsula, and grew up at Riverton. She began nursing training at Orroroo in 1941 and completed her training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1945. In 1950 Pat worked at the Repatriation General Hospital at Daw Park and in 1951 she joined the Australian Army Nursing Service. Between 1952 and 1954 she was posted to Japan. The interview focuses on her experience during this period. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 28 minutes??Doreen Nellie Sturm, commonly known as Anne, was born in Adelaide. She attended primary school at Campbelltown and Norwood and subsequently took a course in dressmaking at the School of Mines. She decided on a nursing career and began training at the Loxton Hospital in 1932. She completed training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1937. She did midwifery at the Queens Home and then infant welfare training in Melbourne. Anne then spent the early years of the war in private nursing in Melbourne. Returning to Adelaide in 1943 she worked at the Truby King Clinic for two years, then at the Memorial Hospital and its extension at Hindmarsh. In 1950 she was appointed Matron of the newly opened Glenelg Community Hospital, where she remained until her retirement in 1974. During this time she gained the Diploma in Nursing Administration at the College of Nursing, Australia. She was also an active member of various nursing organizations. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Margaret Lasica Collection is a collection of books, journals and ephemera relating to the pioneering Melbourne dance choreographer and teacher, Margaret Lasica (1926-1993). The collection was donated to the Lenton Parr Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library (Southbank campus) by Shelley and Wendy Lasica in 2008. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 March 2019 Last modified 8 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Angela D’Amore was a Union official and a dedicated party worker before her election to Parliament as the ALP candidate for Drummoyne in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (2003). She served in the Parliament from 2003-2011. Angela D’Amore is the daughter of Salvatore and Pina D’Amore who migrated from Graniti in Sicily, Italy in 1964. Her father worked as a subcontractor in the building industry, and her mother became an outworker in the clothing industry. Angela was educated at Bethlehem College, Ashfield and the University of Sydney and went on to become a Union officer for the Municipal Employees Union and the NSW Nurses’ Association. She joined the ALP at the age of 21 and is a committed trade unionist. Angela D’Amore is married to Richard Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minute books (1966-1983); minutes of the Executive (1983-1988); general meeting minutes (1983- 1987). Author Details Jane Carey Created 17 December 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc08.202 comprises the autobiography by Alison McMaugh titled “A fool for art”, including her original unedited text, typescript of annotated copy showing editing changes by editor Kathleen James, and a final printout of the edited text. Also included is the electronic version of the edited files on CD-ROM (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gay Clarke (then Walker) was crowned Miss Queensland then Miss Australia in 1972. She went on to study law and was admitted as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1982. She specialised in the area of Alternative Dispute Resolution and was a legal academic at the Queensland University of Technology for 20 years. The following additional information was provided by Gay Clarke and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I was born in Brisbane in 1951, the youngest of four children and the only daughter. Fortunately for me my parents wanted all four of us to be well educated as they had both grown up in the country and had been denied that opportunity. My parents were insistent that I should be given the same educational advantages as my brothers which was quite unusual in those days. A lot of girls finished school in grade 10 and trained in secretarial work. I went to St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School for 5 years of high school and was fortunate to win a full fees scholarship after the end of grade 8 based on my grades for that year. My father was delighted as it eased the financial burden on the family. I was made a Prefect and House Captain in my final year and won a Commonwealth Scholarship to go to University. It was not the norm for girls to go to University in the 1960s. My plan at that stage of my life was to be a school teacher and at no time did I consider law as a possibility for study. it was never even suggested as an option by school counsellors, teachers or family. I enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Queensland in 1969 – the first person in my family to ever go to University. I studied English literature, History, French and Economics. The campus was much smaller in those days and I was delighted to have such luminaries as Geoffrey Rush and the late Bille Brown in some of my English classes. I graduated with my Arts degree in 1972, but in that same year I became Miss Queensland and then Miss Australia. To put this into context this was the ‘old’ Miss Australia Quest which ran from 1954 to 2000 and was the chief fundraising activity for the Australian Cerebral Palsy Association. Over that period the Quest raised over $90 million dollars for children with cerebral palsy. There were no swimsuits at any stage, and when I look back on past winners we were all the girl next door – not models. However, as women’s rights and roles in society changed the Quest was rightly terminated in the year 2000. It was however a year when my shyness evaporated and I became an expert public speaker. In retrospect it was good training for my future career path. After that frenetic year my life changed direction when I married a Brisbane lawyer and my daughter Samantha was born. Sadly the marriage ended in divorce, but I had enrolled in the Bachelor of Laws Degree at what was then the Queensland Institute of Technology (QIT), now the Queensland University of Technology ( QUT) in 1977 which was its inaugural year. My main role model at the time was Quentin Bryce (now Dame Quentin Bryce) who was then a tutor in law at the University of Queensland. She was often featured in newspaper articles and she made a career in law, particularly academia, seem a possibility. After a divorce, suddenly I was a single parent and had to become independent both financially and emotionally. With my parents support I chose to continue my law studies, so I moved back home with my baby daughter for the four years that it took to complete my degree. In 1982 I graduated with 1st Class Honours and the Law Medal. After graduation I was offered a job at QIT as a law tutor and I was admitted as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland at the end of 1982. My career developed as I taught in the areas of Contract Law, Company Law and Succession Law. In 1988 I was appointed a member of the Queensland State Government Domestic Violence Taskforce which resulted in a report ‘Beyond These Walls’ being published. This was a confronting experience, as domestic violence, although acknowledged was swept under the carpet in those days. Sadly this is an ongoing area where community and legal support is continuously needed. My career developed as I was promoted to Lecturer in Law and then to Senior Lecturer. I also had part time appointments to the Austudy Review Tribunal and the Social Security Review Tribunal during these years. After studying at night I obtained a Master of Laws Degree from the University of Queensland in 1990. The most satisfying phase of my career began when I became interested in the area of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in the early 1990s. This was quite revolutionary at the time, the idea of resolving disputes through Mediation rather than going to Court. The best courses available in this area at that period were at Bond University and I was fortunate, along with a colleague, Lyla Davies, to get support from the Dean for a years study leave to complete both practical and theoretical instruction at Bond University. We followed up this training with a course in Negotiation at Harvard University in the USA under the instruction of Professor Roger Fisher in 1993 and I completed a second Masters Degree in Law from Bond University in 1996 specialising in Alternative Dispute Resolution. This training gave my colleague and I the ability to set up a new Masters subject at QUT teaching ADR Mediation and we also developed and established a 3 day Mediation Skills Training course which was accredited by the Queensland Law Society. We offered this training to practicing Solicitors and Barristers under the Law Faculty Professional Legal Training program. We could not have foreseen it at the time but these courses ran for another 20 years until my retirement, and in that time we trained practising lawyers, engineers, doctors, Principals and Deputy Principals of the Catholic Education system, members of the Family Court in Sydney, Sugar Millers from North Queensland, staff from the State Ombudsman’s Office, and people working in the Building and Construction Industry amongst others. This work got us out of the law school and into the broader community and was totally rewarding. Eventually Mediation was integrated into the Court processes resulting in a change in legal culture and approaches to resolving disputes. As a result of my involvement in the area of ADR I was appointed as a member of the then ADR Council of the Queensland Department of Justice and to the ADR Committee of the Queensland Law Society. In 1992 I was awarded a QUT Distinguished Academic Service Award for ‘outstanding teaching performance and leadership in the Faculty of Law’ and in 1994 was promoted to Associate Professor and Director of Teaching and Learning in the Law Faculty. I was one of the first women to be promoted into the Professorial levels in Law and I am delighted now in my retirement to see so many women Professors of Law in Faculties throughout Australia. In 1995 I was appointed by the Commonwealth Attorney General for a three year term as a member of the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council (NADRAC). This was an independent non-statutory body that provided expert policy advice to the Commonwealth Attorney-General on the development of ADR and the promotion of the use of alternative dispute resolution. Another Queensland appointee to NADRAC was Quentin Bryce, so I finally got to meet my role model. I continued my full time career at QUT for a total of 20 years. However, after having to care for elderly parents for a number of years and marrying my husband Barry Page in 2002 I decided to ease into part time work. I continued with part time lecturing as well as running the Mediation Skills Training courses for a further decade. This was a very satisfying way to end my legal career as well as giving me some valued family time. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Gay Clarke Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 11 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Gay Clarke Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jennifer McMillan was a nominee for the ABC Rural Woman of the year Award in 1997. She and her husband ran a dairy farm near Rosedale in Gippsland, Victoria. Jennifer McMillan was born in Maffra, Victoria, in the heart of the Macalister irrigation district. Her father was granted a soldier settlement block at Denison in 1951, and her parents dairy farmed there. When she finished school she worked as a herd tester (testing milk volume composition for fat and protein) in the dairy industry until she married. Herd testing was a job that a lot of young women did at the time. She worked in the Bunyip district, visiting a round of twenty farms per month. Most testers stayed on the farms, coming home only on the weekends. The job has changed sign. They can collect samples and then bring them to the lab. Jennifer’s husband was also a herd tester; that is how they – moved into a variety of share farming positions before buying their own farm at Rosedale in 1980. They bought and adjoining block of land in 1986. Jennifer and her husband split the work between them. She is the herd manager and her husband in the farm manager. She also manages the financial records. She is extremely knowledgeable in the science of artificial insemination of breeding stock. She never had formal education in the process, she just picked up knowledge as she went along. Jennifer has taken an interest in farming organisations beyond her own front gate. She has served as president of the Victorian branch of United Dairy Farmers and secretary of the district council of that same organisation. She has been vice-chair of the East Gippsland Rural Financial Counselling Committee; a board member of the School of Primary Industries at the local college of Technical and Further Education (TAFE); a board member of the Macalister Research Farm and has serves on the course advisory committee of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA). Events 1997 - 1997 Published resources Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jennifer McMillan interviewed by Ros Bowden Women of the land oral history project [sound recording] Women of the land oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 March 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc08.050 comprises material relating to stage and television performances from the 1960s to 2000s, such as scripts, correspondence, ephemera, photographs and press cuttings; general correspondence with a wide range of individuals including actors, writers and other artists; family papers; diaries; notebooks; research files; photographs and other pictorial material; scrapbooks; papers relating to cricket; drafts of Fitzpatrick’s autobiography Name dropping; and, speech notes (12 cartons, 12 flat packs, 1 cylinder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Community services were recognised in the first national Constitution of the Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society. Initially, the Constitution of Community Services, Australian Red cross, focused on supplies and aid for the sick and wounded in war, supplementing medical services, providing first aid and home nursing for home service and assistance in great public disasters, calamity or need. Much home activity occurred at a State level in the early stages, and across States between World War I and World War II, as the Australian Red Cross responded to health crises such as influenza and polio using auxiliaries, welfare committees and Voluntary Aid Detachments. By the 1940s the national Welfare Service catered for sick and disabled ex-service personnel. In 1944, this service inaugurated an Australian Red Cross scholarship scheme for training in social work, while ladies committees became active in home hospitals after World War II – an area in which Lady Vera White became particularly innovative. In the 1960s, the Welfare Service sent top-level representatives to the Australian Council of Social Services, and included the social work service as part of its community services. By the late 1970s, Health and Hospital Services included rest homes and programs in emergency care, beauty therapy, music therapy, library services, a talking book library, and medical equipment loans. At this time the service reported that they were involved in community development, volunteer training, settlement of refugees and migrants, disaster care and work for special needs groups. In the 1990s, the area was known as Community Services. In 2003, Health and Care Services provided 66 local programs including Telecross, meals on wheels, transport, Assistance and Care in Emergency Department in Victoria, Community Jobs and New Friends. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian Red Cross Research and Information Service Records relating to community services, social work and welfare, and disaster relief provided by the Australian Red Cross The University of Melbourne Archives Annual Reports of the Australian Red Cross Minutes and Meeting Papers, National Council Author Details Penny Robinson Created 10 February 2004 Last modified 15 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Royal Victorian College of Nursing (previously Victorian Trained Nurses Association 1901-1923; Royal Victorian Trained Nurses Association 1923-1934): Minutes 1957-1970; general correspondence 1909-1969; industrial correspondence 1911-1964; subject files 1923-1970; accounts 1947-1970; reports 1938-1968; examinations 1910-1949; benevolent fund book 1903-1935. Royal Australian Nursing Federation (established in 1928 by members of the RVTNA and the Australasian Trained Nurses Association, granted Royal Charter in 1955): Minutes 1956-1970; correspondence 1934-1969; circulars 1954-1967. Australian Nurses’ Federation – Employees Section (previously the Trained Nurses Guild 1922-1946, Australian United Nurses Association 1946-1953): Minutes 1947-1956; correspondence, including logs of claims 1923-1971. Student Nurses Association: Correspondence 1954-1971. International Council of Nursing: Conference papers 1933-1973. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2019 Last modified 6 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Delves was a candidate for election only once, but had a long association with politics. She was an ALP candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Murrumbidgee in 1984. Peggy Delves was born and bred in the Griffith area. She was electorate secretary for A. R. L. Gordon, MLA for Murrumbidgee 1976-84. Upon his retirement, she was preselected by the ALP to contest the seat. Peggy is married, and she and her husband run a farm growing wheat, rice, citrus and grapes. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, minutes, typescript articles, reports, circular letters, photographs and subject files on issues of interest to the Bacons’ including the Communist Party of Australia, International Women’s Day, Aboriginal Australians, the peace movement and women’s rights. Bulk of collection from 1970s and 1980s. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 15 February 2001 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Laura Praeger was one of only two professional women photographers working in Sydney in the 1890s. Praeger opened four studios between 1890 and 1895. Praeger was known for her portraits of Sydney’s wealthy elite, as well as for her landscape and architectural photography. Praeger’s portraits were known for their striking side lighting and the characteristic ease of their subjects. She produced Bromide prints and worked on large-scale photographs at every processing stage. Laura Praeger was the only professional woman photographer working in Sydney during the 1890s apart from Mrs Nixon, who had a studio at Balmain. Praeger opened four different studios between 1890 and 1895, and was known for her portraits of Sydney’s wealthiest people. She was born Laura Blundell in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England in 1859. Her parents were Eliza and John Wilton Frankland Blundell. In 1870 the family migrated to Queensland, Australia, where her father set up a medical practice. She married Francis Pasqual Praeger in Brisbane, August 1880, but the marriage was not a happy one and they divorced in 1894. By 1890 she had moved to 187 Macquarie Street in Sydney, NSW. Little is known about how she came to be practising photography, or where and with whom she trained, but she and Mrs Nixon at Balmain were the only professional women photographers operating in Sydney in the early 1890s. Between 1890 and 1895, she opened several photographic studios in Sydney. In 1890-1891 she went into partnership with a photographer called Chubb, setting up the Chubb and Praeger studio in George Street. Then, in 1892 she opened another studio, which she called Madame Praeger at Beale’s Chambers at 480 George Street. She went on to open a studio at 506-508 George Street in 1893, and then in 1893-1894 another one at 76 William Street, Sydney. In October 1894 she married the solicitor and notary, George B. Harland at which point she closed her studio and returned to England. Her husband died soon after in 1900. Laura Harland died in Somerset, England, on 2 May 1950, aged 90. Her death notice indicates she had a son, Peter, and a daughter, Ruth. (Only Ruth, aged 3, was noted on the 1901 UK census). Praeger was known for her portraiture, photographing Sydney’s elite, as well as landscape and architectural photographs. A series comprising eight interior and external photographs of Clarens, Potts Point are among her earliest works. She used natural light to capture interiors and worked with unusual compositions to frame the views of the harbour. Her most important assignment came when she was approached to photograph the 55 delegates at the First National Australasian Convention, which met in March 1891 to draft the Bill to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia. The large portrait she produced of the delegates testifies to her high degree of technical proficiency. An enlarged copy was selected for display at the World’s Columbian Exposition held at Chicago in 1893, along with her ‘life-sized’ portrait of the Hon. Stafford Bird; the Women’s Work Committee noted with satisfaction that she had ‘performed all stages in the work.’ Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1892, ‘Faustine’ commented that Praeger’s photographs have ‘a pleasantly artistic sentiment about them that a mere mechanician cannot give us’ (Design and Art Australia Online). It was arguably in the realm of individual portraiture, however, that she demonstrated most skill. The Mitchell Library holds seven of her portraits, each showing her sensitivity to character. Whether of three quarters body length or head-and-shoulders format, the sitters appear at ease with both camera and photographer. Among these is the side-lit photograph of Sir Alfred Stephen working at his writing desk, which was frequently reproduced as an engraving in the newspapers. The photograph itself was described by the Illustrated Sydney News on 16 June 1983 as ‘decidedly the best that the aged statesman has yet had taken.’ In 1895, she exhibited a ‘painting’ of Sir Alfred Stephen under the name of Mrs Harland, at the Women’s College Exhibition (SU). The Herald described it as ‘excellent both as to likeness and manner.’ This was most likely a painted enlargement of her 1893 photograph although it may have been an original portrait since she was also an accomplished painter; indeed, as Madame Praeger, she often described herself as ‘artist [i.e. painter] and photographer.’ Her portraits of Lady Windeyer (see Ethel Stephens) and Louisa Macdonald, Principal of Women’s College, are particularly striking. Both women look directly into the camera with a confidence, alertness and humour seldom seen in the portraits of women of the time. What seems like an understanding between photographer and subject probably resulted from Praeger’s constant mixing with and her subsequent familiarity with Sydney’s elite classes. In March 1893, for example, she held an afternoon tea for selected ladies and gentlemen to show portraits at her new William Street studio. This subtle combination of fraternising and advertising enabled Madame Praeger to ‘strike a fine balance between business and art, professionalism and feminine accomplishment’ (Design and Art Australia Online) Technical Produced Bromide prints and was able to work on large-scale photographs. Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales holds a copy of the Catalogue to the Committee XII Chicago Exposition Committee 1892, which includes a listing of Australian women’s work exhibited at this Exposition Mitchell Library, Sydney State Library of New South Wales Events 1970 - 1970 1970 - 1970 Laura Praeger’s work featured in the Exhibition of Women’s Work 1970 - 1970 Laura Praeger’s work featured in the World’s Columbian Exposition 1970 - 1970 Laura Praeger’s work featured in the Women’s College Exhibition. 1981 - 1981 Laura Praeger’s work featured in the Australian Women Photographers exhibition. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article In Divorce, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114080395 A Lady's Letter from Sydney, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138102590 Scrap Notes and Comments, Bohemian, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62723099 The Sydney Morning Herald, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13882792 Advertising: The Praeger Studio, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13872533 Events of the Week, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162193889 Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900., Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter, 1986 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Resource Section Laura Praeger, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/laura-praeger/ Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 12 October 2016 Last modified 7 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound files (approximately 127 min.)??Bernadine Mulholland talks about her early life, study and marriage following graduation. Mulholland practised physiotherapy in Canberra and worked at the Royal Canberra Hospital from 1969. In the 1970s, she worked at the Hartley St Centre for Physically Handicapped Children and ran the centre 1975-1978. Mulholland talks of a range of treatments which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, and awards that she’s received for her work. Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 7 July 2016 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Barbara Collie established the Collie Print Trust in 1967. Barbara and her sister Catherine were daughters of Robert Collie, founder of the Collie printing ink company (later Collie Australia Ltd). Robert was of Scottish descent but born in Ireland. In 1857, at the age of four, he travelled with his family to Melbourne where his father took work as a farmer. Robert married Catherine Mary Atkins in 1881 and the pair had five children – three boys and two girls. Catherine Mary died in 1909 at the age of 47 when Barbara was just 13 years old and Catherine was 22. The sisters put aside opportunities for marriage in order to carry out family duties, and they cared for their father until his death in 1934 at the age of 82. Philanthropic in her lifetime, Barbara donated the sculpture outside the Royal Women’s Hospital in Carlton, Melbourne, to honour the work of the women’s auxiliaries there. In 1967, seeking to perpetuate the memory of her father and brothers, she established the Collie Trust as part of the Barbara Collie Settlement with 100,000 ordinary 50 cent shares in the Collie printing business. Control of the trust was handed to the Trustees and Executors Agency Company, but Barbara’s preference was for the money to be invested in the industry that had created the family wealth. The bequest deed was to fund technical education in graphic design equal to that available for printing students at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Funds were distributed to the Melbourne School of Printing and Graphic Arts there, later the International Centre of Graphic Technology. Barbara left a second portion of her estate as a general charitable fund, with money to be donated to charitable organisations at the discretion of the trustees. By 1980, the Collie Trust was disbursing $20,000 per annum, while a further $26,000 went to charitable organisations as per Barbara’s directions. Catherine Collie also left her estate to charity, with $14,000 disbursed annually by 1980. In its current form, the Collie Trust offers a number of fellowships and scholarships and supports AGIdeas, an annual conference for graphic design students. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Monograph The Collie Print Trust: Concept to Excellence, Sandilands, Jane, 2005 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 December 2008 Last modified 11 December 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4 digital audio tapes (ca. 260 min.)??Pincus speaks of her interest in the law, legal and social justice aspect of policy. Pincus recalls commencing her full time law course in 1976 at the Australian National University (ANU); returning to the Federal Public Service in the Office of Women’s Affairs for a short stint in 1980; working as an Associate for High Court Justice Lionel Murphy in 1982; returning to the Public Service in 1983 to work in a legislative capacity dealing with law reform within various government departments; her work on the establishment and chairmanship of the National Food Authority; her return to Sydney in 1995 and her work as a consultant on various projects; her field work for the international body Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 August 2016 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A collection of correspondence, press cuttings, case histories, appointment books, sketches, articles, etc. relating to the life and career of Dr Jean Macnamara. There is a large amount of published material much of which consists of Dr Macnamara’s own writings. There is also a considerable volume of material relating to her interest in the eradication of rabbits by the introduction into Australia of the virus disease, myxomatosis. She was largely responsible for persuading the Australian Government to hold field trials using myxomatosis. Other fields of interest represented in the collection include orthopaedics, research into polio, and animal diseases which have some relationship to human beings and to domestic animals. Also included are several folders of letters written by Dr Macnamara to her family while she was overseas on a Rockefeller Foundation travelling scholarship from 1931-1933. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sybil Irving was the founder and Controller of the Australian Women’s Army Service. On 2 January 1939 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for social welfare services in Victoria. Throughout her life Irving was a faithful member of the Church. Her Funeral Service on 30 March 1973, and a Memorial Service on 23 February 1975 were held in Christ Church, South Yarra, Victoria. The eldest child of army officer Major General Godfrey George Howy and Ada Minni Margueritha (née Derham) Irving, Sybil Irving’s education was conducted at the various postings her father obtained. This included attending Lauriston Girls’ High School, which had been founded by her aunts Margaret and Lillian Irving. During World War I Irving was a Voluntary Aid Detachment member with the Australian Red Cross. From 1924 until 1940 she was secretary of the Girl Guides’ Association, Victoria. In 1940 she was appointed assistant-secretary of the Australian Red Cross Victorian Division. Invited in 1941 to establish and head the Australian Women’s Army Service, Sybil Irving held this position until 1946. She later became Honorary Colonel of the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps. After the war Sybil Irving became general secretary of the Victorian Division of the Red Cross. Upon her retirement in 1959 she was made an honorary life member of the society. Sybil Irving died on 28 March 1973 and was buried at Fawkner cemetery with full military honours. Events 2039 - 2039 Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) 1935 - 1973 Foundation member of the Victorian Society for Crippled Children (and Adults). Sybil Irving’s was one of the two original signatures on the Articles of Association, and she continued to work for VSCCA all her life. 2042 - 2042 Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 2043 - 2043 Promoted to Colonel 1947 - 1959 General Secretary of the Australian Red Cross, Victorian Division. Awarded Honorary Life Membership and the Medal for Meritorious Service. 1951 - 1961 Honorary Colonel of the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) 2041 - 2046 Controller of the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS). Appointed to establish and administer the Service which subsequently numbered 26,000. 1924 - 1940 Secretary of the Girl Guides’ Association, Victoria. Tragic results of Poliomyolitis led Miss Irving to use her talent for needlework to teach the physically handicapped through the Girl Guide Extension Branch. 1940 - 1941 Assistant Secretary of the Australian Red Cross, Victorian Division 1961 - 1971 Consultant to Elderly Citizens Clubs, with the Old Peoples Welfare Council, Victoria (later Victorian Council on the Ageing). Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1962, Alexander, Joseph A, 1962 Book Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Sybil Howy Irving, M.B.E. : 1897-1973, Irving, Sybil Howy, [1979] Soldiers of the Queen : women in the Australian Army, Bomford, Janette, 2001 Colonel Best and her soldiers: The Story of the 33 years of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps, Ollif, Lorna, 1985 A Stroll down memory lane, WRAAC Association, 2001 You'll be sorry!, Howard, Ann, 1990 Resource Section Irving, Sybil Howy (1897-1973), Bassett, Jan, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140610b.htm IRVING, SYBIL HOWY, Department of Veterans' Affairs, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=584987 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, ca. 1941-1946 [manuscript]. Papers, ca. 1932-1984. [manuscript]. National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra IRVING FREDA MARY HOWY : Service Number - VF398095 : Date of birth - 16 Sep 1903 : Place of birth - MELBOURNE VIC : Place of enlistment - MELBOURNE VIC : Next of Kin - IRVING SYBIL IRVING SYBIL HOWY : Service Number - V143893 : Date of birth - 25 Feb 1897 : Place of birth - MELBOURNE VIC : Place of enlistment - MELBOURNE VIC : Next of Kin - IRVING F Australian War Memorial, Research Centre [Papers of Lieut Gen Sir Iven G Mackay:] [Inspections - General - Report on Australian Women's Army Service visit by Colonel Sybil H Irving - Letter to Major-General E C P Plant] Group of Australian Women's Army Service officers from the Victorian Land Headquarters on the steps of the Shrine of Remembrance Two senior members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) taking a wreath into the Shrine of Remembrance during the Armistice Day ceremony National Archives of Australia, Various Locations Christmas message from Colonel Sybil H IRVING (honorary Colonel of the Corps HONCOL) and Colonel Kathleen BEST (Director, Women's Royal Australian Army Corps DWRAAC) Speech by Colonel Sybil H Irving (honorary Colonel of the Corps) made at the opening of the Kathleen Best Memorial Gates, Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) School, Mosman, NSW, 6 November 1959 National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office [Letters to Miss Sybil Irving congratulating her upon her appointment as Controller of the AWASS] State Library of New South Wales Sibyl Howy Irving scrapbooks relating to the Australian Women's Army Service, 1941-1946 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 November 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Sybil Howy Irving MBE Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: IMP0248gb.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Carol Anne Martin was the first Indigenous women to be elected to an Australian Parliament. In 2001, she was elected MLA (ALP) for the Western Australian seat of Kimberley. At the age of twelve, Martin was made a ward of the state. After her parents divorced she followed her mother, Rose Pilkington, to Broome. Here she worked as a social worker, after completing a business management course, although she had not completed her schooling. Martin moved north to Derby, where she met and married Brian Martin. In 1992 she won a scholarship to study social work at Curtin University. Her husband and two children moved to Perth to be with her. Before entering parliament Martin worked as a consultant providing support and counselling services for a number of community and interest groups. Her interests include: fishing, camping, reading and spending time with her large extended family. Sources: www.wa.alp.org.au/people/kimberley.html accessed 31/10/01; www.federation.vic.gov.au/honour.html p. 134 accessed 31/10/01 Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 October 2001 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mainly letters from Dame Nellie Melba to her cousin Jeannie Armstrong, 1901-1903, but also including two letters from Haddon Chambers to Jeannie Armstrong, c.1901-c.1902, one letter to Haddon Chambers, c.1901-c.1902, and pictorial material. Author Details Clare Land Created 17 June 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "17 archive boxes, 28 pamphlet boxes, 2 folders : photographs?? 1. UAW Committees (National & State) — 2. Correspondence — 3. Conferences — 4. UAW publications — 5. UAW campaigns, activities, areas of interest — 6. History of UAW — 7. Biography of members — 8. Research information??The Union of Australian Women was established in 1950 with its stated aims being to advance the status of women as citizens, workers and mothers, to improve the life of women and their families and the well-being of children in a world free from war. The UAW is a non-party political organisation open to all women who agree with its aims and program and takes up issues of concern to women in an active military way ranging from discussions, letter writing through to demonstrations. The UAW has worked closely with the trade union movement and has been involved in many campaigns around issues including peace, price control, women’s health and equal pay?Note For access to this collection please contact the Service Desk, Footscray Park Campus Library Author Details Clare Land Created 9 August 2001 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "(Fragile material not available for public use. A microform copy is available at mc N 2225 JAFp HIST 446) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 9 December 2008 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Service Record Book recording the service of Lisbeth Ann Montgomerie in the Australian Women’s Land Army, March 1944 to October 1945. Ministry of Food Ration Book issued to L A Montgomerie and partially used. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette with transcript (13 p.) and one sheet of information.??Helen Blackburn tells of learning to fly in the US in 1944 and her experiences with the Aero Club of Adelaide from 1946 on. She gained both her private and commercial licences and won many competitions. She obtained her own plane in 1962 (a Cessna 172) and flew mercy missions from Darwin and also shell collecting forays. She describes the early AWPA. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Marija migrated to Broken Hill, New South Wales, from Croatia in 1961. Marija Zaknich was the daughter of Franko Kolinac and Kata Tabajin, and sister to Petar and Jakica. Marija’s father left Blato in 1928 to find work in Western Australia, and to send money home. For twenty years he worked at Brunswick Junction living in a tent before returning to Croatia in 1948. His son Petar was killed during World War Two. On 22 May 1961, Marija bid farewell to her parents and sailed for Australia on the Orsova with her two daughters, Katica (Katie) and Merica (Maria). Marija would be reunited with her husband, Tony Zaknich, after six years apart. The family settled in Broken Hill, New South Wales, where Tony was working and living with his parents. Within two years, Marija had given birth to twin boys, Anthony and Frankie. Published resources Book Sharing the Lode: The Broken Hill Migrant Story, Adams, Christine, 2004 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 January 2009 Last modified 4 August 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This collection consists of a bound photocopy of “Memories of Early Brisbane” by Margaret Ann Ogg as sketched and told to Ernest Briggs. There is an introduction written by Irene Longman, the first woman to be elected to Queensland Parliament.?The reminiscences cover many aspects of life in Brisbane, including descriptions of Newstead House and other old homes, lolly-shops and toyshops of the seventies, women of early Brisbane, music in the streets and in the homes, the aborigines, the convicts, personalities of Brisbane, the wedding of Dame Nellie Melba, and folk songs of Queensland.?Of note are the melodies of two aboriginal songs taken down by Miss Ogg’s sister from Tom Petrie’s singing of them, pp 58-62, and the derivation of the tune of ‘Waltzing Matilda’ from the Scottish song ‘Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielea’, pp 308-311. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ida Parnell lived in the Canberra region during 1914-1920 while her husband (then Colonel) John William Parnell was Commandant of the Royal Military College (RMC), Duntroon. She was present at the founding meeting of the Federal Territory War Food Fund in Canberra and was a regular presence at Red Cross fundraising events at Duntroon. Ida Mary Grover was born in Oxley, Victoria on 18 November 1871, the fourth of six children and only daughter of Charles Chaplyn Grover, gentleman and Anna Frances Kent. Her brothers attended Melbourne Grammar School but there is no record of where or how Ida received her education. On 10 August 1892, Ida married John William Parnell, a career soldier who was then Captain in the Victorian Engineers, at St John’s Anglican Church, Melbourne. The detailed report of her wedding, in the Queenscliff Sentinel, Drysdale, Portarlington and Sorrento Advertiser on Saturday 13 August 1892, indicates her family enjoyed some social status. As with many of her appearances in the news media during her life, excerpts from the news report describe her in relationship to the men in her life, and portray the clothing she was wearing at the time. Sources for Ida are typical of those available for women of her time who feature in the historical record. She appears in social pages from 1893 to 1947 with descriptions of her outfits at numerous social occasions including a reception for actor Ellen Terry in 1914, weddings, ‘at homes’, balls, engagement parties, government house functions, the Lord Mayor’s ball, vice-regal occasions and Duntroon events, including fundraisers, during World War I. An advertisement in the Queenscliff Sentinel, Drysdale, Portarlington and Sorrento Advertiser, on Saturday 16 December 1893 notes that Ida was to play a banjo solo for the Victorian Engineers Dramatic Club performance (‘Wednesday. Victorian Engineers Dramatic Club’, 1893, p. 4). Over the thirteen years following her marriage, Ida gave birth to four children in Melbourne, three of whom died tragically young: Dorothy May, born in 1893 died in 1896; Charles Edwin Gerard, born in 1897 died on 10 July 1904, and Catherine Doreen, born in 1901 died in 1908. Mary Eleanor ‘Molly’, born 1908, was the only surviving child. In August 1904 John Parnell attended training courses in England but newspaper reports make no mention of Ida, suggesting she remained in Melbourne (‘Australians in England’, 1905, p. 5). From 1905 when he returned to Australia, his career moves suggest the family may have moved several times as he was appointed commandant of Tasmania in 1909, and transferred to Queensland in 1911 before his appointment as commandant of Victoria in May 1912. In June 1914 his appointment as commandant of the RMC, Duntroon in the Federal Territory necessitated the family’s move to Canberra where Ida lived during World War I. On 21 August 1914, soon after World War I erupted, Ida Parnell attended the inaugural meeting of the Federal Territory War Food Fund convened by the Territory Administrator’s wife, Jane Miller, at the Residency in Acton. According to a report in the Queanbeyan Age on 25 August 1914, a representative group of women residents of Canberra and surrounding districts attended the meeting and supported the establishment of a local branch of the War Food Fund. One of the many wartime patriotic funds, the Sydney Chamber of Commerce established the War Food Fund to ‘assist in relieving the great amount of distress which is inseparable from war.’ The Queanbeyan Age reported that ‘Mrs. Parnell, wife of the Commandant of the Royal Military College, promised to do all in her power to make the movement a success so far as the college was concerned’ (‘Patriotic Fund’, 1914, p. 2). Ida, however, does not appear on the committee list while ‘Mesdames Macartney and Barnard’, the wives of less senior RMC staff, do. Alexandrina Vans ‘Nina’ Macartney (1884-1965) lived in Canberra after her marriage in December 1912 until 1916 when her husband Henry Dundas Keith Macartney, was on the instructional staff of the RMC. Jessie Barnard was married to Professor Robert James Allman Barnard, RMC foundation professor of mathematics. For the duration of World War I, however, Ida appears in a number of news reports, usually accompanying her husband at Duntroon events rather than in her own right. Apart from the original news report of the Territory’s War Food Fund establishment, it has not been possible to find activities outside of her husband’s role, let alone her inner life, despite her social status and frequent appearance in newspaper reports. On 20 October 1914 the Queanbeyan Age reported her presence with Colonel Parnell at a ‘patriotic concert’ in aid of the War Food fund (‘Canberra Patriotic Sports’, 1914, p. 2). Just over a week later Table Talk in Melbourne reported Ida and her husband were among 500 people present at a patriotic sports meeting held in Canberra on 17 October in aid of the Federal Territory War Food Fund (‘Patriotic Sports Meeting’, Canberra, 1914, p. 31). The following year, on 23 November 1915, the Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer reported that ‘Colonel and Mrs Parnell and other prominent residents’ [including Colonel and Mrs Miller] lent their patronage’ to the third Carnival in aid of the Allies’ Day fund, established to help alleviate distress in occupied allied nations like Belgium and France (‘Canberra Sports Carnival’, 1915, p. 2). Ida features in a report of the Duntroon Red Cross Fund Grand Ball in May 1916 that was held under the patronage of her husband Brigadier-General J.W. Parnell CMG in the Duntroon gymnasium. A ‘magnificent success’ from both a social and financial point of view, it is likely Ida played a significant part in organising the ball (‘Duntroon Red Cross Fund’, 1916, p. 2). At the RMC fifth annual sports day on 21 October 1916 the winning competitors had donated their prize money to the Duntroon Red Cross fund. The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer reported that Mrs. Parnell, on behalf of the Duntroon Red Cross Society, sincerely thanked the cadets for their generosity, and said that the money thus received would allow, amongst other things, the sending of 200 shirts to the soldiers at the front. She congratulated the cadets on the success of the sports, and handed the certificates to the successful competitors (‘Military. “At Home”‘, 1916, p. 2). The following year, on 27 October 1917, the RMC annual sports day drew a large crowd and again the cadets had acted generously, giving the money that would have been spent on prizes to the Red Cross Society. Again Ida presented the winners with their certificates and thanked them, on behalf of the Red Cross, for their noble action in giving the value of the prizes to the Society (‘Royal Military College’, 1917, p. 2). Ida was again present when the RMC hosted a fundraiser in aid of the Red Cross on 27 April 1918 in the form of a gymkhana and sports day that raised about £100. The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer reported that ‘there were numerous attractions… aimed at augmenting the funds of the Red Cross by extracting cash from the patrons’ and that ‘throwing balls at a Kaiser’s head, with a chance of winning a cigar, drew a large number of triers’ (‘Gymkana and Sports’, 1918, p. 2). On 4 August 1918 Ida attended a ‘Cinderella dance’ in aid of the Red Cross at Duntroon’s new recreation hall which was officially opened that night by the Minister for Defence, George Foster Pearce (‘Duntroon’, 1918, p. 2). For the seventh annual RMC sports, on 18 October 1918 shortly before the end of hostilities, Ida, described as ‘Mrs Parnell, wife of the Commandant’, again presented the winners with certificates in lieu of the prize money which they had donated to the Red Cross as in previous years (‘Royal Military Sports’,1918, p. 2). The Parnells left Duntroon in May 1920 when Ida’s husband was appointed Administrator of Norfolk Island and they remained there until his retirement in 1924. He died in 1931. Even less is known about Ida Parnell’s life from that time, than is known of her war years. She died in Camberwell, Victoria on 15 March 1950 and was buried at the Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, Victoria. Published resources Book The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918: Australia during the war, Scott, Ernest, 1938 Duntroon, the Royal Military College of Australia, 1911-1986., Coulthard-Clark, C. D., 1986 Newspaper Article Patriotic Fund, 1914, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31402795 Australians in England, 1905, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14711551 Canberra Patriotic Sports, 1914, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31403423 Canberra Sports Carnival, 1915, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31668244 Duntroon, 1918, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31644513 Duntroon Red Cross Fund. Grand Ball, 1916, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31670537 Federal Territory War Food Fund, 1915, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31667055 Gymkana and Sports, 1918, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31643269 Military \"At Home.\", 1916, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31672656 Royal Military College, 1917, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31678196 Royal Military Sports, 1918, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31645297 Family Notices: 'PARNELL. On the 10th July, at 26 High Street, Windsor, Charles Edwin Gerard, the only son of Major J. W. and Ida Mary Parnell, aged 7 years', 1904, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10328927 Family Notices 'Parnell', 1950, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22816578 Lieut.-General Parnell Dead, 1931, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4380562 Marriage of Captain Parnell, V.E., 1892, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73593139 Resource Section Pearce, Sir George Foster (1870 - 1952), Peddie, B., 2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pearce-sir-george-foster-7996/text13931 Parnell, John William (1860-1931), Clark, Chris, 2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/parnell-john-william-7962/text13863 Macartney, Henry Dundas (1880-19320, Johnson, Donald H., 2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/macartney-henry-dundas-7291/text12645 Magazine article Patriotic Sports Meeting, Canberra, 1914, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146329297 Site Exhibition Author Details Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, hNtitkpi :F//wrawnwci.swomenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 RCeresaotuerdce 26 August 2015 TLraosvte m, Noadtiifoiendal L2ib1r Naroyv oefm Abuesrt r2a0li1a8, 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "7 sound files Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 June 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Travellers Aid Australia (previously the Travellers’ Aid Society of Victoria) is a non-profit, independent organisation, providing a range of services and assistance for travellers, including those with special requirements or in emergency situation. Founded in 1916, it initially offered support and protection for women and girls arriving in Melbourne from overseas, interstate and country Victoria. It was not until the late 1960s that they expanded their work to include men. The Society now assists travellers of either sex."
    },
    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Bolton Created 6 October 2015 Last modified 28 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Elizabeth Bolton Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "General records, including:?Contents include:?Constitutions; minutes, 1964-1984; Executive minute book, 1972-1989; correspondence, 1964-1983; Triennial meetings and executive meetings reports, 1964-1985; financial reports, 1965-1987; membership lists; annual reports, 1967, 1969-1974, 1977-1985, 1988-1990; Awards and appointments; NCWA Quarterly Bulletin; 1971-1990[incomp.]; ICW Newsletter, 1970-1988 [incomp.]; NCW of the NT Newsletter, 1972-1989 [incomp.]; subject files; national conferences; government policy papers; various papers from other women’s organisations. Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 June 2004 Last modified 4 December 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Agnes Rasp was the wife of Charles Rasp, founder of the global mineral resources company, BHP. Agnes Klaversahl migrated to South Australia with her parents in 1882. In 1883, while working at Kindermann’s coffee shop in Rundle Street, Adelaide, she met and became engaged to Charles Rasp. Born at Stuttgart, Rasp had migrated to Melbourne in 1869 and found employment on a series of agricultural properties. Later, as a boundary rider on the Mount Gipps station (New South Wales), he became convinced that deposits from the shallow mines at Silverton contained tin oxide. He formed a syndicate of seven station workers who pegged out the area and financed exploratory shafts. By 1884, rich silver chlorides were found by the syndicate at Rasp’s Hill and wealthy local pastoralists began buying into the enterprise. The Broken Hill Mining Company, as it was then known, became the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) in 1885. On 22 July 1886, Charles and Agnes were married by the Reverend J.C. Woods at the home of Mrs Hogan, West Terrace. They travelled to Silverton and Broken Hill, where Agnes became in all likelihood the first woman to go underground, and they completed a tour of Europe, returning to Australia in 1887. Charles purchased a large home, ‘Willyama’, at 12 The Avenue, Medindie, Adelaide. In that year, BHP’s dividends exceeded the incredible sum of ?200,000 – the company was mining into the world’s largest-known silver-lead-zinc orebody. Charles Rasp died in 1907 at the age of 61. His widow departed for another tour of Europe the following year. Agnes Rasp was, allegedly, armed with a substantial sum of money which gained her entry to the Hapsburg Court. She was linked with the Baron von Eisenstein and, in exchange for the title of Baroness, is said to have agreed to rescue him from financial ruin. In one version of the story, the Baron suffered a heart attack the day before the wedding. A more sinister version suggests that the Baron shot himself before fulfilling his side of the bargain. In 1914, Agnes married Count von Zedtwitz in London. During the First World War, the pair lived in Carlsbad, then Leipzig, and finally Berlin, where the Countess was informed that her assets had been frozen. Count von Zedtwitz died in Graz at the end of the war, and his wife returned home to ‘Willyama’. She was able to reclaim her assets in 1920. A recluse at the end of her life, the former Agnes Rasp died in May 1936 at the age of 79, and is buried with Charles Rasp in the North Road Cemetery, Adelaide. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 United We Stand: Impressions of Broken Hill 1908-1910, Stokes, Edward, 1983 Anya: Countess of Adelaide, Armstrong, Judith, 1998 Broken Hill, Kearns, Richard Hugh Bell, 1974 Resource Section Rasp, Charles (1846 - 1907), Coulls, A., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060011b.htm Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 9 January 2009 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection of records, including minute books, visitors’ books, syllabuses, correspondence and membership lists from the Brisbane Women’s Club. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Miners’ Federation, Victorian District minutes 1921-1960 (incomplete), accounts 1934, 1937. Miners’ Federation, Wonthaggi Vigilance Committee correspondence 1969-1970. Australian Coal and Shale Employees’ Federation, Powlett River Branch accounts; receipt books; wage books; contracts; financial committee minutes; household coal development fund 1948-1965; correspondence; awards 1920-1958 (incomplete); copies of “Common Cause” 1968-1972 (incomplete). Union Theatre, Wonthaggi contracts with distributing studios i.e. MGM Fox, Columbia, United Artists, Warner Bros., Paramount; financial receipts; correspondence. Miscellaneous publications and pamphlets. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 December 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photocopies of correspondence between Ada Cambridge (nee Cross) and Angus & Robertson, Bertram Stevens, A.G. Stephens, and Mrs Curlewis (Ethel Turner), between 1897-1908.??Originals held in the Mitchell Library. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 October 2001 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Chris McDiven is a former teacher, now a business woman and State President, New South Wales Division, of the Liberal Party. Chris McDiven was schooled at Penrhos College in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, U.K., then Methodist Ladies College in Claremont, Western Australia. She gained a Primary Teaching Certificate at Claremont Teacher’s College, Western Australia (1968) and worked as a primary school teacher and volunteer ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher before returning to study at the Churchlands College of Advanced Education (Diploma of Teaching) in 1978. McDiven moved into small business in 1982, and became a member of the Liberal Party (Paddington Branch) in 1984. She has held many party positions, including President of the Federal Women’s Committee (Aug 1994 – Feb 1997) and was awarded a Distinguished Service Award in 1998. McDiven initiated and coordinated the NSW Liberal Women’s Forum (1993 – 1997), a political network for more women in parliament and has organized related training seminars, functions, networking opportunities and a mentoring program. She has also coordinated the information centre at campaign headquarters for all State and Federal election campaigns since 1991. McDiven is currently the State president of the NSW division (since December 2000) and a member of Federal Executive. She is also Director of Leon Holdings Pty Ltd Family property trust (1995 -) and Gister Pty Ltd (1999 -). Her many community activities include involvement in the Australian Sports Foundation Ltd (Director 1998 -), the National Foundation of Australian Women, Kambala Church of England Girl’s School, Rose Bay, the Keep Australia Beautiful Council ( NSW), Rotary Club of Sydney, Toastmasters International, the Powerhouse Museum (Awarded Distinguished Service Award 1995), the Harbourside Swimming Club now known as Uniswim Swimming Club, Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra Medici Ball Committee. She is married with two teenage daughters. Published resources Book Take your seats: guide for women seeking selection in the NSW Liberal Party, Liberal Party of Australia. New South Wales Division. Women's Council, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Papers of Chris McDiven Author Details Clare Land Created 7 December 2001 Last modified 1 June 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Known as the Josephites or the ‘Brown Joeys’ (on account of the brown habits they wore), the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart were founded in Penola, South Australia in 1866 by a teacher, Mary MacKillop, and an English priest, Reverend Julian E Tenison Woods. Both were concerned about the needs of children in remote areas growing up without Catholic education or religious training. Unique to their ministry was their view that, to do their best work, members of their flock needed to move out of the convents and into the community. This belief, in effect, saw the Sisters adopt an administrative structure which eventually saw Mary McKillop excommunicated in 1871. The order was removed in February of 1872, and a full Episcopal investigation of the order cleared her of any wrong-doing. It did, however, impress upon her the need to obtain higher authority to conduct her ministry in the way she saw fit. In 1873-74, Mary MacKillop went to Rome to seek approval for what was, essentially, a cloisterless organisation of women religious. She returned victorious, with Constitutions for this new and different kind of religious institute in hand, a document that defined an administrative structure specifically suited to Australian conditions. It allowed for the sisters to leave their convent and serve the poor in the districts where they lived. Even today, Josephites live among ordinary people in houses of two or three providing education and support for the children and families living in rural areas as well as the cities. The Josephite’s administrative structure was/is very different from what preceded it. The Constitutions provided for groups of convents and schools arranged in provinces administered by a Superior General with a Council. Each of the provinces was then administered by a provincial, delegate of the Superior General. This form of administration, known as central government, was distinct from other institutes under diocesan control, with the bishop as ecclesiastical superior. This difference created problems for their sustained existence in some locations. The sisters were obliged to leave Bathurst, New South Wales in 1876 and the entire state of Queensland by 1980, due to the respective Bishop’s refusal to accept central government of the Institute. In 1888, a decree from Rome constituted the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart as an approved Regular Congregation with a Mother House in Sydney, New South Wales. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Catholic Female Refuge, 2006, http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=1554 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection St. Margaret's Hospital (Darlinghurst, N.S.W.) records, 1894-1998 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 5 June 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Marise Payne was appointed to the Senate of the Parliament of Australia, representing the state of New South Wales, in 1997. She was elected in 2001 and re-elected in 2007. She held various Shadow portfolios from December 2007 until September 2013, was Minister for Human Services (2013-15) and appointed Minister for Defence in September 2015. “After growing up in Sydney and the NSW Southern Highlands, Marise Payne went on to complete her education at MLC School, Burwood and her Bachelor of Arts and Laws at the University of NSW. A member of the Liberal Party since 1982, Marise was the National Young Liberal Movement’s first female President. She also served on the NSW Liberal State Executive for 10 years and at branch and electorate levels. Having served as a political adviser to some of the most significant figures in Liberal politics of their time, Marise went on to a career as a public affairs adviser in the finance industry. In 1997 Marise filled a casual vacancy to represent the people of New South Wales in the Australian Senate, making her inaugural speech on 2 September 1997. She was then elected in 2001, 2007 and 2013.” Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Marise Payne, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 June 2009 Last modified 2 August 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers of MS 5781 comprise literary manuscripts, correspondence, research material, newspaper cuttings, subject files, financial records and other papers. A significant proportion of the collection relates to conservation and Aboriginal concerns, with extensive files on the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, the Australian Conservation Foundation and other organisations. Literary material includes requests for use of Wright’s poems and drafts of her books Because I was invited, The coral battleground, The generations of men, Charles Harpur, The cry for the dead and We call for a treaty and of her autobiography, Half a lifetime.??Correspondents include A.W. Sheppard, Rosemary Dobson, Barbara Blackman, Dorothy Green, Kevin Gilbert, Roberta Sykes, David Brooks, Ian Hudson, Thistle Stead, Stefanie Bennett, Julian Croft, John Reed, Roger McDonald, Henry Reynolds, Kathleen McArthur and Len Webb. Wright’s close family relationships are represented by a substantial correspondence between Wright and her husband, J.P. (Jack) McKinney, and with her daughter, Meredith McKinney (105 boxes, 1 fol. Box, 1 elephant folio, 1 oversize box).??The Acc08.078 instalment comprises six folders and packets of correspondence, including Wright’s letters to her cousin Tina Lister (ne?e Wright), ca. 1969-ca. 1996; cuttings and other papers relating to Wright collected by Tina Lister, ca. 1952-1995; letters from Wright to Paul Sherman, 1958-1999; and, three folders of letters from Wright to her father, P.A. Wright, 1948-1959, 1960-1966 and 1966-1970 (1 box).??The Acc09.129 instalment is an exercise book containing poems (juvenilia) by Judith Wright written for her cousin Tina (Margaret) Wright (1 folder).??The Acc09.130 instalment comprises a manuscript book of poems titled “Habitat” by Judith Wright, dedicated to her daughter Meredith, written between January 1971 and February 1972 (1 folder). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 September 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Chris Gallus was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs on 26 November 2001. She was elected to the House of Representatives (Liberal Party) in 1990 for the seat of Hawker, which was later abolished, and for the seat of Hindmarsh in 1993 and subsequent elections. Chris Gallus completed a Bachelor of Arts (Australian National University), a Graduate Diploma in Applied Psychology (Flinders University), and a Graduate Diploma in Health Education (Sturt College Advanced Education). Prior to entering Federal Parliament she worked as a Researcher for the South Australian Health Commission. She has also worked as an advertising executive, a journalist and the director of a small business. Gallus served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs until 26 November 2001. She was a Member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee for Community Affairs from 16 May 1990 to 8 February 1993; for Environment, Recreation and the Arts from 16 May 1990 to 8 February 1993; and for Financial Institutions and Public Administration from 29 May 1996. She was a member of the Joint Statutory Committee for Native Title from 29 June 1994 to 29 May 1995; and for Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund from 29 March 1995 to 29 January 1996. She was also a member of Joint Standing Committees for Migration (Chair) from 13 June 1996, and Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 18 June 1996. While in opposition, she was Shadow Minister for Environment from 7 April to 26 May 1994 and Shadow Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs from 25 May 1994 to 11 March 1996. Chris Gallus is married with three children. She is a self-described movie fanatic and enjoys reading bad novels. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Section Federal Team, Liberal Party South Australia, http://www.saliberals.org.au/ Chris Gallus leaves marginal seat of Hindmarsh, Eastley, Tony, 2004, http://www.abc.net.au/am/ Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 November 2001 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Kate Fitzpatrick graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1967 and has since performed in a variety of theatre, film and television roles. In the 1980s, Kate wrote a column in the Sydney Morning Herald. She has also published three books. In 1983 Kate became the first female cricket commentator when she covered the 1983-1984 Test series for the Nine Network. Kate spent four years working as a speech writer for the NSW Arts Minister and served two terms on the NIDA board. She was awarded the Queens Jubilee Medal for services to the theatre. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Kate Fitzpatrick, 1947-2007 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Kate Fitzpatrick interviewed by James Waites [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Kate Fitzpatrick, actress, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Unbound original typescript made by Dame Mary Gilmore from her manuscript diary. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 May 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ruth Hollick was a well-connected and award-winning society photographer based in Melbourne, whose work was exhibited throughout Australia and internationally. Hollick’s career spanned 70 years, and she is recognised as one of Australia’s most successful professional photographers. Hollick’s clientele included the Baillieus, the McCaugheys and the Hams. Hollick was also renowned for her portraits of children and fashion photography. Ruth Hollick was an award-winning society photographer who exhibited in Australia and internationally. She was one of Australia’s most successful professional photographers, her career lasting approximately 70 years. She is best known today for her portraits of children. Ruth Hollick was born on 17 March 1883 in Williamstown, Victoria. She was the youngest of 13 children. Her parents were originally from England and her father worked as a senior customs official in Australia. The year she was born the family moved to Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, where she lived and worked for most of her career. Her parents encouraged artistic expression and from an early age she expressed the desire to study drawing at the National Gallery School of Design, which she eventually did from 1902 to 1906. At this school the painter Frederick McCubbin taught her and became a lifelong friend. In McCubbin’s classes she met Dorothy Izard, who was to become her long-time companion and professional partner. She also met the painter Dora L. Wilson and the photographer Pegg Clarke (Dora and Pegg eventually went on to share a studio). These four women forged a strong personal friendship. Hollick’s interest in photography dates back to 1907, when she first started producing portraits in a small darkroom that she set up in the family home. In 1908 she began taking on freelance portrait work and then, along with Izard, she travelled about in a small French car visiting the prosperous towns of Victoria’s Western District and the Riverina, photographing the wealthy families of the district. Their method was to place advertisements in local newspapers prior to their visits, thus generating interest among the locals. Most of their photographs were created outdoors using a field camera. They included ‘casually stage-managed studies of children playing under trees’ and family scenes. One, for example, showed a family ‘lounging around their splendid car’ (Australian Gallery Directors’ Council 16). Upon their return to Melbourne, Hollick continued to work from her parents’ home in Moonee Ponds. This was to serve as her base during WW1, the very period when her photographic career first took shape. Working from there she was said to ‘eclipse both Mina Moore and Alice Mills with her dramatic composition and free use of light in pictorial portraiture’ (Hall 64). When Mina Moore retired in 1918, and her studio at 167 Collins Street, Melbourne (situated in the Auditorium Building) became available, Hollick and Izard purchased it. They were to remain there until 1929. It was from this studio that Hollick was able to fully establish herself as a professional photographer. By the end of WW1 Hollick, along with her friend Pegg Clarke, were considered the leading photographers in Melbourne. Both were known for their fashion photography, their high society portraits, especially of debutantes and brides, and their portraits of visiting celebrities. In 1930 Hollick was appointed the official photographer of the British aviatrix Amy Johnson who made a solo flight from the UK to Darwin in the record time of 16 days. The photographing of children was one of her specialties. She was known to create a relaxed atmosphere, quietly talking with them as they played and photographing them when they were unaware. Hollick kept up with the latest developments in photography, but she also relied on her inherent artistic sense, adapting the various techniques to her individual style. This was arguably characterised by the use of natural light, the creation of a mood and a strong symmetrical composition (Australian Gallery Directors’ Council 16). Her award-winning photograph, Thought (1920), was one of 483 photographs selected from several thousand submitted to the London Salon of Photography Exhibition in 1930. Executed in a Pictorialist style, it was of the character Portia from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice . Her niece, Lucy Crosbie Morrison (née Washington) was the model for this work. Portia was known to be one of the playwright’s strongest female characters and Hollick placed her in a seated position against a dark background. She was wearing a white period costume adorned with Australian flowers, gum leaves and gumnuts, and her hands were held in a prayer-like gesture that drew the onlooker’s gaze towards her face. During the 1920s and ’30s Hollick worked for a variety of magazines, including The Lone Hand, an offshoot of the Bulletin. Her photographic work was regularly published in Art in Australia, Ure Smith’s Home magazine and Harrington’s Photographic Journal. It was said that, ‘[t]he role of Cazneaux covering home and social photographs for The Home magazine in Sydney was shared by Hollick and Clarke in Melbourne’ (Australian Gallery Directors’ Council 16). She also placed advertisements for her studio in the magazines Art in Australia, Home and Table Talk. As her reputation grew, so did her business. This saw her expanding the Collins Street studio to an adjoining building in which she took up a whole floor. She was known for working long hours, dressing well and enjoying herself with the artistic crowd in Melbourne. She was also reputed to be without a strong business sense, but if true this did not compromise the longevity of her studio, nor her reputation for artistic excellence. Hollick exhibited widely, both internationally and within Australia, winning medals and plaques. In 1920 she participated in the London Salon of Photography. She also received a Bronze Medal in the 1921 Colonial Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society in London for her photograph Thought. Soon after, in 1927 she participated in the Chicago Photographic Exhibition, and then in the same year she won a silver medal at the Colonial Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society in London. In 1928 Hollick held a solo exhibition in her Collins Street studio. In 1929 she was the only woman to participate in the Melbourne Exhibition of Pictorial Photography. Nevertheless, she struggled to have her photographs ‘recognised as a creative art form’ by the art world of the day (Hall). As the impact of the Depression hit, she was fortunate enough to maintain some of her wealthy clients, such as the Baillieus, the McCaugheys and the Hams. However, she was not able to maintain her city studio and along with Izard she moved the studio back to their Moonee Ponds home, where she worked until 1950. Around this time she also went back to touring the countryside, using a Kodak Grafflex camera. Hollick was aged 67 when she and Izard travelled overseas for the first time – it was 1950 and they visited England. On their return they moved to Heidelberg. Hollick eventually retired from photography when she was 75 years of age. She died in 1977 aged 94. Collections National Gallery of Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales National Gallery of Victoria State Library of Victoria Events 1927 - 1927 Ruth Hollick’s work featured in the Chicago Photographic Exhibition 1927 - 1927 Ruth Hollick’s work featured in the Colonial Exhibition, Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, at which she received a Silver Medallion 1928 - 1928 Solo exhibition at her Collins Street, Melbourne, studio. 1929 - 1929 Ruth Hollick’s work featured in the Photographic Society of New South Wales 1929 - 1929 Ruth Hollick was the only female exhibitor in the Melbourne Exhibition of Pictorial Photography and one of ten medallists’ winners 1981 - 1981 Ruth Hollick’s work featured in Australian Women Photographers at the George Paton Gallery 1918 - 1950 Ruth Hollick specialised in fashion, society and celebrity portraiture, weddings and especially in child portraits 1920 - 1920 Ruth Hollick’s work featured in the London International Exhibition in the Salon of Photography 1921 - 1921 Ruth Hollick’s work featured in the Colonial Exhibition, Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, at which she received a Bronze Medallion for her photograph Thought 1925 - 1925 Ruth Hollick’s work featured in the Colonial Exhibition, Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book The Ladies' picture show: sources on a century of Australian women artists, Ambrus, Caroline, c1984 Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Mirror with a memory: photographic portraiture in Australia, Batchen, Geoffrey and Ennis, Helen, 2000 In a New Light: Aspects of Australian Pictorialist Photography, Crombie, Isobel, 1993 Ruth Hollick, Maddigan, Judy, 1993 Thesis Making Pictures: Australian Pictorial Photography as Art 1897-1957, Ebury, Francis, 2001 Journal Article London Salon of Photography Resource Section Ruth Hollick, http://www.daao.org.au/bio/ruth-hollick/ Book Section Ruth Hollick, Wyk, Susan van, 1995 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Ephemera Collection [Hollick, Ruth: Photography Related Ephemera Material Collected by the National Library of Australia]. Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 2 November 2016 Last modified 2 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hours 49 minutes.??Recordings of three ‘Authors on Display’ talks given each by Barbara Hanrahan and Max Fatchen to school students in the Somerville Room, Mortlock Library of South Australiana, as part of ‘Allwrite!’ literary component of ‘Come Out 87. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Doris Jobling was a radical union organiser, who spent many decades on the front line of political campaigns, particularly in the area of education. She was a Communist Party of Australia candidate in the 1971 King elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Doris Jobling joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1968, galvanised by the inequality suffered particularly by migrant children. She was active in the campaign to prevent the eviction of old men from the Rosebank Old Men’s Home in Glebe and stressed the disadvantages of the old schools in the electorate. Although she only ran for election once, Doris Jobling continued to be involved in campaigns in support of public education. When she retired from the position of organiser for the Teachers’ Federation, she returned to teaching. She married Joe Owens, one time official of the Builders’ Labourers’ Federation, and they had two sons. Doris was killed by her son Adam in September 2006. Published resources Television Program In Cold Blood, Australian Story, 2009, http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2007/s2605656.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 31 March 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Departmental Numbers AF7186 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Malacca, Malaya. 1941-12. Group portrait in the hospital grounds of original Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) Staff and three physiotherapists who sailed from Sydney 1941-01 to Staff 2/10th Australian General Hospital (AGH)?This photograph may have been taken to include with the hospital’s Christmas card.? Back Row: Left To Right: Staff Nurse Ksth MCMILLAN, Marjorie SCHUMAN, Sister MORIARTY, Staff Nurse DROVER, Veronica DWYER, Carol DENNIS, Irene SINGLETON, Mary MARDEN, Sister MCMAHON, Miss ZOUCH (Physiotherapist), Staff Nurses Betty PUMP, SCHEITZ, Sisters DAVIS, P. MITTELHEUSER, Staff Nurses Katherine BLAKE, Florence TROTTER, Sister Jessie DOYLE, Staff Nurses C. OXLEY, Cecilia DELFORCE, Joyce TWEDDELL.?Third Row: Left to Right: Staff Nurses Thelma BELL, Veronica TAYLOR, Sisters Veronica TAPPRELL, Nesta JAMES, Colonel J. GLYN WHITE, Matron Olive PASCHKE, Staff Nurses CRICK, COSGROVE, LITTLE, Robinea FREEMAN.?Second Row: Left to Right: Staff Nurses CLOUGH, Vi HAIG, Sister Dorothy ELMES, Lorna OLIFF, NOYES, Sisters Janet GUNTHER, Aileen IRVING, Staff Nurse Ellenor (Nell) CALNAN, Lorna DUTHIE, Sisters Iva GRIGG, Dorothy RALSTON, Jessie BLANCH, Staff Nurse Monica ADAMS.?Front Row: Left to Right: Physiotherapists Miss GIBSON, HOWGATE (HOWGARTH?), Staff Nurse JACOBS. (Donor T. MCEACHERN) Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Val Bryant was the first Aboriginal person to work in the Department of the Prime Minister. She is an Aboriginal health worker with both practical and academic understandings of the health issues confronting indigenous communities. She has published extensively on the problems of substance abuse in Aboriginal communities and has established and run rehabilitation centres in Sydney and Western Australia. Val Bryant became the first Aboriginal person to work in the Prime Minister’s Department in Canberra, as a receptionist-typist. She also trained as a teleprinter operator and worked for the Overseas Telecommunications Corporation, before studying at Sydney Technical College for her School Certificate examination. She started working with Aboriginal Alcoholics as a field officer with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs before establishing Benelong’s Haven, the first Aboriginal alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre/hostel, in the inner Sydney suburb of Marrickville in 1974. She ran the hostel virtually single-handedly for six months before the Government gave her a grant. She has run six such centres in New South Wales and Western Australia. In recognition of her services to the Aboriginal community, Val was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1978 and the World Healing Our Spirit Medal in 1994. She was presented with the award of the degree of Doctor of Education by the University of Newcastle. Published resources Book Some Aboriginal women pathfinders : their difficulties and their achievements, Beeson, Margaret J (compiled by), [1980] Journal Article Female Alcoholism, Bryant, Val, 1987 Aboriginal Alcoholism - Where Are We Going White Man's Way or Black Man's Way, Bryant, Val and Carroll, James Cornelius, 1978 A Quiet Revolution, Commonwealth Office of Aboriginal Affairs Newspaper Article Interview with Val Bryant, Founder of Benelongs Haven, a half-way house for Aboriginal alcoholics in Sydney, 1977 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Nikki Henningham Created 21 September 2004 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Cooper joined the South Fremantle girl guides 1931, worked with Brownie as adviser through the school of the air system and lone Brownie system. Synopsis (typescript, 2 p.) Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letter from Dame Mary Hughes to Mrs Read dated 27th November 1952. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 May 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Firmstone was an early ethnographic photographer whose work documents life on a Melanesian mission on Norfolk Island during the 1890s. An amateur photographer, Firmstone’s photographs record the impact that the arrival of missionaries had on the lives of Indigenous people on the island. She also photographed the native flora of the island. Born in England around 1870, Anne Firmstone travelled to Norfolk Island in 1894, where she stayed with her sister Mrs Browning. In 1896 she officially joined the staff of the Melanesian mission there. During the 1890s Firmstone photographed life on the mission, with a focus on the native islanders as well as the local flora. She set up a darkroom built in the outbuildings near the Barnabas Chapel, which was also the carpentry workshop and printery. Firmstone’s photographs are significant as a record of the changes taking place in the lives of the native peoples with the arrival of the missionaries and the impact colonisation had on traditional lives. In 1899 she married Rev. William Chamberlin O’Ferrall. The couple moved to Vanuatu (Vanua Lava) in the New Hebrides, where they managed the mission school there. It is unclear whether she pursued her photographic interests in Vanuatu. After working and living there for some time they went back to England on furlough in 1902. William returned to Vanua Lava in 1903 and Alice in 1904, but illness forced their return to England. They returned to Melanesia in 1920 but Alice’s ill health again led to their return to England in 1922. William died in 1935 and Alice in 1947. Collections Anne Firmstone’s and Kate Iven’s work can be found in albums of the Collenzo Collection (the Collenzo’s were a family of missionaries who lived on Norfolk Island) Events 1970 - 1899 1981 - 1981 Anne Firmstone’s work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 Published resources Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Conference Paper \"Unpretending Labours\": Julia Farr and the Melanesian Mission, Crawford, Janet, 2004, http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/crawford_farr2004.pdf Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 10 November 2016 Last modified 7 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Discusses her lifelong involvement with Girl Guides; Paxwold, Rangers, overseas conferences, Outreach etc. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Patricia O’Shane was born in Northern Queensland in 1941. A noted activist for Indigenous rights, her achievements in the public sphere have been remarkable. She was the first Aboriginal Australian barrister (1976) and the first woman to be appointed to the New South Wales Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board (1979). When she was appointed permanent head of the New South Wales Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs in 1981, she became not only the first Aboriginal person but also the first woman to become a permanent head of ministry in Australia. Patricia O’Shane was born in 1941 in the small township of Mossman, North Queensland. She attended State primary and high schools in Cairns, and was awarded a Teacher’s Scholarship, which enabled her to study full-time at the Queensland Teachers’ Training College, and part-time at the University of Queensland. After graduating from Teachers’ College, she taught at primary and high schools respectively before and after her marriage. In 1973, having received an Aboriginal study grant from the Federal Government, she undertook a Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of New South Wales, and completed the course at the end of 1975. In March 1976 she became Australia’s first Aboriginal Barrister at a ceremony in the New South Wales Supreme Court. In 1979 she was appointed a Member of the New South Wales Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board – the first female member in the Board’s 91-year history. She has worked with the New South Wales Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly on Aborigines, as Coordinator of the Aboriginal Task Force. In November 1981 Pat O’Shane was appointed permanent head of the New South Wales Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, becoming not only the first Aboriginal person but also the first woman to become permanent head of a ministry in Australia. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Some Aboriginal women pathfinders : their difficulties and their achievements, Beeson, Margaret J (compiled by), [1980] Indigenous Heroes and Leaders, Barlow, Alex and Hill, Marji, 2003 Tall Poppies: Nine Successful Australian Women Talk to Susan Mitchell, Mitchell, Susan, 1984 Splitting the World Open: Taller Poppies and Me, Mitchell, Susan, 2001 The wailing : a national Black oral history, Rintoul, Stuart., 1993 Murawina : Australian women of high achievement, Roberta Sykes ; photography by Sandy Edwards, 1993 The matriarchs: twelve Australian women talk about their lives to Susan Mitchell., Mitchell, Susan, 1987 Book Section A Healthy Sense of Identity, O'Shane, Pat, 1984 Aboriginal women, Richards, Michaela, 1988 Aborigines and the criminal justice system, O'Shane, Patricia, 1992 Edited Book Dhirrabuu Mari = Outstanding Indigenous Australians, Brown, Di, 2000 Magazine article Rebel Magistrate with a passion for justice, Lawson, Kirsten, 2001 Journal Article Australia's First Aboriginal Lawyer, 1976 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Patricia O'Shane, 1998 [manuscript] Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Nikki Henningham Created 21 September 2004 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "There are six boxes in the collection. Five boxes contain scores (many of which are handwritten originals) of Overman’s compositions. These are marked as follows: CHORAL VOCAL, CHAMBER WORKS, EARLY WORKS ORCHESTRAL, BALLET, and OPERA. The final box is marked LISTS, SCRAPBOOKS, PIANO, PIANOS (2). It contains scores for piano works for one and two pianos, as well as two substantial scrapbooks covering the years 1945-1968. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings from both Australian and international newspapers, correspondence, photos, receipts for recording sessions and other ephemera. Another folder marked ‘Catalogue’ contains photocopies of letters that appear to be personal correspondence, and some published material. This box also contains a copy of an Honours thesis devoted to Overman: Patricia Thorpe, The Life and Music of Meta Overman, unpublished Honours thesis (Music), Perth: University of Western Australia, 1988. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Born into a wealthy, artistically inclined Western Australian family, Constance Birmingham studied painting before training as a photographer In London, with some of the leading photographers there at the time. Birmingham became a respected professional photographer specialising in portraiture, specialising in the photography of mothers and children. She died at the age of 80 in Perth. Constance Birmingham was born into a wealthy family in Perth, Western Australia. Her mother had an interest in painting, which influenced Constance’s pursuit of painting at school. Constance received her first camera, a Box Brownie, before she started school and set up an improvised darkroom. Photography became a hobby for her, one which she shared with other girls at her school. In 1936 Birmingham travelled to London and worked as a nurse for six months. She also journeyed throughout England and Scotland. Birmingham eventually enrolled in London’s Regent Street Polytechnic, where she studied photography for a period of 12 months; she also attended seminars run by Kodak. Birmingham gained an apprenticeship with one of London’s leading photographers, Katherine Iddon, and worked at her Baker Street studio. She said of her time with Iddon: ‘I was in the top batch from the Polytechnic and the only apprentice she had at the time. It was a great honour and a tremendous experience’ (Hall 71). During her time at the studio she gained experience in theatre work and the photography of mothers and children: ‘We let the children play quietly, with music in the background, or would maybe tell them stories, then we would photograph them more or less unawares. I learnt it never paid to give orders to children – or anyone else for that matter’ (Hall 71). In 1936 Birmingham returned to Perth, bringing back with her the latest in photographic trends from her three years abroad. She established her own studio at St Georges Terrace in the Colonial Mutual Building, and prior to its opening organised a solo exhibition of her portraiture to showcase her work. In an interview reported by theTownsville Daily Bulletin in 1937 she noted that, ‘London photographers were going in extensively for character work … and were trying to get away from the old-fashioned idea of retouching character from the face… Many women still prefer to look like smooth faced strangers in their photographs instead of letting the picture show their character.’ Birmingham’s studio was very successful and her portraits, largely of women and children, were described as possessing ‘Rembrandt tones’ (West Australian 1937). Much of her work was published in the ‘prestigious Turners magazine’ (Hall 71), The Sunday Times, and the Daily Mail, as well asThe West Australian newspaper, for which she also wrote a number of social interest articles. While in London she took part in a photographic exhibition and received an honourable mention for one of her photographs of a yawning lion cub. She also participated in the Exhibition of Modern Photography, which was organised by the Professional Photographers Association, Perth in 1937, and held a solo exhibition within her studio. Birmingham retired in 1940 and sold her camera to Mattie Hodgson. Barbara Hall suggests that Constance was greatly affected by ‘the suicide of an acquaintance, who had jumped from the building her studio was in.’ Birmingham began working as a nurse to support the war effort in 1940. She continued her photography as a leisure activity and began making home movies in the 1950s, a practice she continued through to her late sixties. Birmingham did not marry but continued her work as a nurse, specialising in the care of children until her retirement in 1971, at the age of 62. Technical Birmingham began using a Box Brownie camera and then moved on to a folding Kodak camera in 1926. Events 1935 - 1940 1937 - 1937 Solo exhibition of her portraiture 1937 - 1937 Constance Birmingham’s work featured in the Exhibition of Modern Photography orgnaised by the Professional Photographers Association of Western Australia 1937 - 1938 Constance Birmingham exhibited her work at a London photographic exhibition, gaining an honourable mention for a Study of a Yawning Lion Cub. Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Photograph Mrs A. J. Baird, Birmingham, Constance, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83197165 Newspaper Article Exhibition of Portraiture, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41280870 Hepzibah's Gossip, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/85595195 Nurse becomes photographer: Miss Birmingham, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41264231 Social Sphere: Gossip, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62791366 The Camera's Art: Exhibition of Modern Photography, 1937, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41432102 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 10 November 2016 Last modified 11 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers of Durack family members, including Reg Durack, diaries (1930-1972) and letter books of Auvergne station (1938-1990); diaries of John Durack (1887-1930) and Michael Durack (1886-1950); Jewish settlement scheme papers; papers of Dame Mary Durack-Miller (ACC 7273A); papers of Elizabeth Durack Clancy, including ms. of “Seeing through Indonesia”; other miscellaneous files, documents, photographs and maps, Durack family papers. Poem “Sacrilege” for Tom Ronan by Mary Durack (ACC 9133A).??Accession 7273A contains the Mary Durack Miller collection purchased by the State Library in 2008-9 with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 May 2002 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sarah Chinnery was an amateur photographer known for her unique ethnographic photography of the Indigenous peoples of New Guinea, where she lived between 1921-1937. Despite the challenges she faced developing film in the tropics, Chinnery had many of her photographs published in the press, including the New York Times. Later in Australia the focus of Chinnery’s photography shifted to portraits of artists and floral studies. Sarah Chinnery was known for her ethnographic photographs of the Indigenous peoples of New Guinea as well as portraits of artists, flower studies and people living in Melbourne. She was born in 1887 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. One of a large family of ten children, her mother died when she was around six years old and her father remarried. At the age of thirteen, she went to live in Aylesbury, England, where she kept house for her three brothers, all of whom were dentists. One of her brothers gave her a ‘Little Nipper’ camera as a gift when she was fourteen years old and so began her interest in photography. She owned a motorbike – the ‘second woman in England to have one’ (Australian Gallery Directors’ Council 11) – which she rode in the search of subjects to photograph. These encompassed landscapes, architecture, character portraits and photographs of working people. Chinnery joined three postal camera clubs (members mailed their photographs to each other as well as entered competitions) and won a number of prizes. When she was in her twenties she considered becoming a professional photographer but instead chose to study dentistry, following in her brothers’ footsteps. She took over the management of one of her brothers’ dental surgeries after he enlisted to fight in WW1. In April 1919 Sarah married E. W. Pearson Chinnery (nickname ‘Chin’), an Australian anthropology student. They lived in England while he completed his dissertation under the eminent anthropologist A.C. Haddon at Cambridge University. During the period 1919-1920, she studied town planning at Cambridge, where she also joined the Cambridge Camera Club and attended lectures on anthropology. The couple moved to Australia in 1921, and Sarah took lessons in watercolour tinting from Mrs Barlow as well as instruction in oil painting from Bernaldo. Later in the same year they moved to New Guinea, remaining there until 1937. Her husband had been hoping to secure the position of Government Anthropologist, having previously served there in 1909 as a clerk and then a patrol officer. He was eventually appointed to a government anthropological position after initially serving with a mining company. During the 16 years spent in New Guinea, Sarah gave birth to four daughters. She also did much travelling locally, unaccompanied by her husband, including voyages to Port Moresby, Salamaua, Madang, the Wau goldfields, and the Ramu and Sepik Rivers, where she would photograph the landscape and the Indigenous people within their own environment. Unlike many ethnographic photographs of the period, her photographs were not staged; rather, they ‘displayed respect, sympathy and excitement for her subjects’ (Hall 138). They were ‘strong and clearly made photographs, full of atmosphere, taken to her own standards and liking. They were also photographs of “natives,” more than individual people going about their day’s work’ (Australian Gallery Directors’ Council 12). It was while the family was living in Port Moresby in 1921 that Sarah began keeping a diary, and she continued the practice intermittently until the family left Rabaul at the end of 1937. Chinnery never exhibited her work but many of her photographs were published in numerous newspapers, some accompanying articles that she had written describing her life in New Guinea. These included The New York Times weekend supplement in 1935; in Melbourne The Herald and The Star; in Sydney,The Sun; in Brisbane The Courier-Mail and The Sunday Mail. Weather conditions in New Guinea made it difficult for Chinnery to develop her negatives and print her photographs. ‘At ten in the morning, it was too hot and the film melted in places; at night, the water is so warm you could take a bath in it’ (Australian Gallery Directors’ Council 12). In 1939, her husband was seconded from New Guinea to head up a new department of native affairs in the Northern Territory, so the family moved back to Australia. He retired from this position in 1946 and took up the role of Australian adviser at the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations. In 1947, he retired from this role and he and Sarah moved to Melbourne. Once settled in Melbourne, Sarah Chinnery’s work shifted to photographing artists, flower studies and people she saw in the street. She was friendly with many artists and craftspeople: Ellis Rowan (watercolour painter), Hans Heyson, Justus Jorgenson, Matcham Skipper, Esther Patterson, Violet McInnes, Mirka Mora, David Boyd, Gertrude Johnstone (founder of the National Theatre) and the photographer Julian Smith. Sarah Chinnery died in 1970. Her husband’s photographs related to his work as an anthropologist and government official and were made in the Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown tradition, but Sarah Chinnery’s photographs are far more diverse in subject matter and style, with some even being fine examples of Pictorialism. The National Gallery of Australia holds 329 photographs and 1489 negatives by her. The photographs that date from before WW1 record English scenes and country people. The Papua New Guinea photographs feature airfields, villages, houses, house posts, canoes, outriggers, markets, dances, trees, flowers, Rabaul Harbour, visits to Wau (1933), Salamaua (1933) and the Sepik (1935), the volcanic eruption at Rabaul (1937) and many villagers, servants and other Indigenous peoples. The collection includes portraits of notable anthropologists, such as Gregory Bateson, Raymond Firth, A.C. Haddon, A.R. Radcliffe Brown, W.H.R. Rivers, Margaret Mead, G. Elliott Smith and F.E. Williams. There are also portraits of the Chinnery children, and artists and writers who lived at Montsalvat, Melbourne streetscapes, landscapes, and flowers and other still life photographs. Technical In New Guinea she used an early roll-camera, a Rolleicord, in the mid-thirties, and a Sinclair Una plate camera (3 and a quarter x 4 and a quarter), which she used to photograph the first session of the New Guinea Legislative Council. Collections Sarah Chinnery Photographic Collection of New Guinea, England and Australia, 1900, National Library of Australia Events 1981 - 1981 Sarah Chinnery’s work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 1901 - 1950 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Sarah Chinnery Photographic Collection of New Guinea, England and Australia, Chinnery, Sarah Johnston, 1900, http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3802543 Manuscript Diaries of Sarah Chinnery, 1920-1937, Chinnery, Sarah Johnston and Waters, Sheila, 1920 Book Malaguna Road: the Papua and New Guinea Diaries of Sarah Chinnery, Chinnery, Sarah, 1998 Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Magazine article A First For Women Photographers in Australia: Quick Thinking and Ladders Got the Top Shots, Bowen, Jill, 1981, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55457051 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to New Guinea and the Chinnery family [picture] / Sarah Chinnery Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 2 November 2016 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1. Appointment diaries, 1957 and 1962.?2. Correspondence, 1956-1968.?3. Harold Holt’s diary, 1957-1962 (photocopy of typescript).?4. Zara Holt’s diary of a trip to Cambodia and Laos and of trips to Australia by Marshall Ky and President Lyndon Johnson (photocopy of typescript)?5. Itineraries of official visits, 1966-1967.?6. Two photographs of Harold Holt taken at the time he stood unsuccessfully for the federal seat of Yarra in 1934.?7. Miscellaneous photographs, 1951-1967.?8. Printed material, 1937, 1950-1968.?9. Christmas card lists, 1967.?10. Miscellaneous papers, 1957-1977.?11. 35 mm reel of film “Holt Memorial Broadcast”, 1967 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 May 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mobilization Attestation Form Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records comprising the original typescript for ‘The Scent of Eucalyptus’ and handwritten drafts, notes, letters and a proof copy of the book, as well as published copies of her other works, lithographs and posters, sound recordings and videos, certificates and diplomas, school reports, contract agreements, invitations and letters, references, papers relating to lecturing appointments, exhibition catalogues, essay and note book used by her mother, Iris Goodridge, with one of her sketches, mementos of W.M. (‘Bob’) Hanrahan, photograph albums, childhood reading books, manuscripts relating to her work and beliefs, newspaper cuttings, artist profiles, transcripts of other sound recordings by Glen Ralph, index to ‘The Scent of Eucalyptus’ and transparencies of artworks. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Margaret Kartomi graduated from the University of Adelaide before undertaking a doctorate of musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1969 Margaret took up a research fellowship at Monash University, followed by a lectureship in 1979, a promotion to reader in 1976 and finally, a professorship in 1989. Margaret is currently the Professor of Music at Monash University. From the early 1970s Margaret pioneered the teaching and research of Asian music in Australia and established Monash University’s Sumatra Music Archive, Asian Music Archive, and the Australian Archive of Jewish Music. Margaret has published extensively on aspects of the musical cultures of Asia, Australia and Europe. She is currently on the editorial boards of the Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology monograph series and the Music, Dance and Theatre Iconography series of the Hollizer Wissenschaftsverlag, in addition to those many journals. Margaret has been the recipient of a number of honours and awards. For example, Margaret was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1991 and was also awarded a Centenary Medal in 2003 and the Koizumi Fumio Prize in 2016. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Margaret Kartomi, 1961-2015 [manuscript] Monash University (Margaret Kartomi) National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Professor Margaret Kartomi, head of Music Department, Monash University, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Series 1. General correspondence, 1960-90 Music Archive of Monash University (MAMU) The Kartomi Collection of Traditional Musical Arts Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 15 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Helen Coonan is a former Australian politician, who was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing New South Wales from July 1996 to August 2011. On 26 November 2001, she was appointed Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer in the Howard Government. She was re-elected in 2001 and 2007. From 2004-07, she served as Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Since leaving politics in 2011, Coonan has transitioned into the corporate world, and vouches for the seminal importance of the law, including legal training, legal practise and legal experience as a common thread underpinning her capacity to perform across a diverse professional and public landscape for a very long time. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Helen Coonan for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Helen Coonan and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I first thought about doing a law degree when I received a telephone call from a reporter on the Wagga Daily Advertiser on an afternoon late December in 1964. He broke the news of my success in the HSC (then the Leaving Certificate). During the course of an ensuing interview for the paper the next day, he asked what I wanted to do with such a splendid result. I said that I wanted to go to University and would probably study Arts. But it was then that I started to think about a combined Arts/Law degree, the only combined law degree then available. I didn’t know much about law. I had read “To Kill a Mockingbird” like just about everyone else had, but no one in my family, friends or acquaintances were lawyers. In fact I had never met one! There were no mentors or role models nor supporters or boosters to turn to for guidance. And yet almost instinctively I knew that this was what I wanted to do. Even as a young country girl growing up on a property as part of a small rural community, I was intrigued by the notion that people could right wrongs and help those in need. I thought I could recognise injustice where I saw it, especially in point, that of domestic violence and powerlessness and the dreadful consequences for families utterly without redress. A friend of my mothers who suffered horrific domestic violence was eventually forced to leave her home, a family property that had been in the husband’s family for generations and flee with her children to live in poverty and dependence on her relatives. I recall thinking “how can that be fair and why couldn’t more be done to help her?” I graduated in 1970 and was admitted to practice in March 1971 at a time when practicing women lawyers were thin on the ground. Challenges came thick and fast and I quickly learnt to find pathways through the thickets with my Plan B strategy that I have honed throughout my career and that has always served me well. I can truly say never be afraid of Plan B if Plan A does not work! I became an active member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby and began to get many women referred as clients, in various levels of distress and need. I was working in a commercial law firm doing general commercial work including, corporate structures, insurance and tax advice with a “big end of town” type of clientele. Soon the waiting room became populated by women in kaftans, children in strollers, sticky lollies and sticky hands next to suited and serious businessmen, with things corporate on their minds! I was frenetically busy. I represented these women in Court during the day and worked into the small hours to represent the corporate clients at night. Eventually after several months of this, the senior partner came to my office. He closed the door and we had a pleasant conversation about my prospects until it became clear that the women who did not exactly fit the firm’s clientele would need to go elsewhere. I said: “But they have nowhere else to go”. That evening my husband (an early feminist if ever there was one) said to me: “Why don’t you just start your own firm and continue what you are doing”? This was a huge risk. Here I was on track for a partnership and wanting to start a family. Diverting course to start my own firm then was not on the agenda. But faced with an unpalatable choice, I embarked on Plan B. At the age of 25, full of bravado and self-belief, I set up Coonan & Associates in 1975. I believe it was the first women orientated legal firm of its kind. The lesson learnt is that Plan B can be the best choice if you have the insight to see the possibilities and confidence to take a few risks. As it happened, that decision set me on a course that led to personal and professional success and public recognition. It freed me up to pursue my passion for advocacy on issues I cared about. With some other like-minded women, I lobbied government, raised funds and set up the corporate model for the first women’s refuge in Sydney – The Elsie Women’s Refuge in Glebe – followed by another half dozen dotted around the metropolitan area. I then turned attention to a Women’s Health Centre at Leichhardt and Liverpool and a Women’s Legal Centre. I embarked on an awareness campaign against what was then blatant discrimination against women in the workplace, in employment and in their relationships. I discovered the power of television and media to help the cause, and even agreed to be a regular panellist on Beauty and the Beast, provided the genuine letters I got could be treated seriously and information provided on air! I fought for changes through political advocacy and legal representation on issues as diverse as tax deductibility for child care to recognition of property and inheritance rights for de facto and same sex relationships. I was appointed Chair of the Law Foundation and in that role embarked on a strategy to save the Public Interest Advocacy Centre that was facing an uncertain future. I worked with others on the NSW anti-discrimination legislation and advocated for reform of the divorce law. After the passage of the Family Law Act it needed to be monitored for unintended consequences. One issue that concerned me was the inability of the Court to deal appropriately with superannuation assets. It was a source of great satisfaction to me that years later as the Assistant Treasurer, I was able to get this reformed so that now superannuation assets belonging to one spouse can be treated as matrimonial property subject to the courts powers to divide these assets on divorce. It was an area where I had developed expertise. I was recently interviewed for the ABC Four Corners 50th anniversary program and was shown old footage of me talking about the need for women to look beyond marriage for their economic security. I realised just how long I have been banging on about the feminization of poverty and it is still relevant today. Even though it would take another 15 or so years to get there, I knew that my heart was in politics and my destiny would be in Parliament. I also knew that my legal training and knowledge was a key plank in my toolkit to get there. But I had a young son and so much still to achieve in the law. In 1983 my firm which had morphed into Coonan & Hughes, with the addition of a partner John Hughes and several employed solicitors merged with a larger commercial firm, Gadens. I became a partner there and it was an opportunity to hone my commercial skills with different legal work and a different client base. During this partnership I accepted a secondment to work in a large business law firm in New York and was admitted to the New York Bar. In legal practice, advocacy is my passion and on returning to Australia I resigned my partnership and was admitted to the Bar in July 1986. I was fortunate to be invited to join the Eleventh Floor Wentworth Chambers in Phillip Street and to enjoy the professional guidance and friendship of legendary clerk Paul Daley. I also enjoyed the collegiality and friendships (which last to this day) of male colleagues who were the members of these chambers. For most of my time on the Eleventh Floor I was the only women in a Chamber set of 20 or so men. It was probably the best chambers in Sydney with able and capable barristers who were generous with their time and advice. Getting a room in these Chambers was a critical component of my success at the Bar. I do recognise, however that many if not most women at the Bar do it tough. It can be difficult to get suitable chambers and to get work that demonstrates what you are capable of. As a minister tasking work for the Commonwealth, as a rule I would look out for women juniors to make sure they would get exposure and experience with important briefs. I hope getting good women advocates is now a matter of course. I spent 10 rewarding years as a barrister handling complex commercial cases, corporate collapses and building construction cases. Included in my case list was acting as counsel for the liquidator of Spedley Securities. Getting to grips with the anatomy of a deposit taking bank that had been artificially propped up by shareholders for years together with the investigation, litigation and recovery of creditors money was a rewarding and informative experience. I have always liked David and Goliath type contests and another memorable win was acting for around 800 Tooheys hoteliers whose “goodwill’ in their hotels had been cancelled by the acquisition of the Tooheys business by Austotel, an entity associated with Mr Alan Bond. It was this background in these types of commercial disputes that prepared me to later have the experience and capacity as a Minister to work on solutions to major and complex national problems such as the government’s response to the insurance crisis following the collapse of HIH. My next strategic career decision cropped up rather suddenly with an opportunity to put myself forward as a candidate for preselection for the Liberal Party. At the time I had just concluded a long construction case involving contract overruns for security installations in six power stations in NSW. It was financially rewarding but a rather formulaic dispute that had lasted almost for one year. It also coincided with my son completing his HSC. Psychologically I was probably ready for the next stage of my evolving career. I had a week to decide whether to nominate or whether to continue my career at the Bar, and work towards being appointed silk and eventually the possibility of judicial appointment. That was the conventional career path and I was well along that track. If I won the preselection, it would mean largely abandoning the momentum I had worked so hard to build as a barrister; it would mean an atmospheric drop in income and it would mean huge disruption and loss of privacy for my family. On the other hand was the lure of a new direction at the highest level of politics – the chance to leverage my skills and experience and make a real difference to the lives of Australians. It was the itch I had to scratch and I was determined not to die wondering! Once again, I chose Plan B but this was an enormous risk. I transitioned from being a barrister to full time politics on election to the Senate in 1996. It was a huge adjustment. Politics is not for the faint hearted or the thin skinned! Early on, I was often asked if I missed the law. My answer was: “At times yes I do, compared to politics; the law is such a gentle profession”! However, fortune favoured me as I made my way in the Senate and I have my fair share of firsts as a woman in politics. The then Prime Minister, John Howard, gave me a great vote of confidence when he promoted me straight from the back bench to the key portfolio of Assistant Treasurer in 2002. I was at the time the only woman in the history of Federation to hold a Treasury portfolio. It was the gateway to handling major economic reforms in tax, superannuation, insurance and financial literacy. I had responsibility for the Australian Tax Office and for the prudential regulator of financial institutions, APRA. It enabled me to sit on the Expenditure Review Committee with the Treasurer and Finance Minister and to play a key part in formulating the Federal Budget. For all of these tasks a good working knowledge of legal principle and practical experience proved invaluable. An example is the role I was to play in delivering the Government’s response to the major national insurance crisis in 2003 that gripped the nation after the collapse of HIH. My portfolio responsibilities included oversight of the Australia Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) and much work was required to reform regulation of financial institutions to ensure capital adequacy and valuation of assets to prevent similar collapses in the future. It was this work that set up Australian financial institutions to be better able to deal with the head winds from the Global Financial Crisis. But prudential reforms were only one side of the aftermath of the HIH collapse which saw liability classes of insurance become either unavailable or unaffordable whether you were running a pony club, an architect’s office or delivering a baby! It was a national problem and together with the co-operation of the State Treasurers I was able to convene a Ministerial meeting that comprehensively reviewed and reformed tort law in each State, set up professional standards schemes in return for capped liability for professionals and embarked on a major rescue of medical indemnity that has lasted to this day. I don’t believe I could have delivered and implemented a comprehensive solution to this crisis without having a sound practical grasp of the legal framework that would underpin national reform of insurance. Fortune smiled on me again in 2004 when I was promoted to Cabinet as the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts which remain a major passion to this day. It was a large and complex portfolio that required handling telecommunications, the privatization of Telstra and media reform. I became the shareholder Minister for both Telstra and for Australia Post. My career was further boosted by promotion to Deputy Leader of the Senate with the immense privilege of participating in the daily leadership meeting with the PM, Treasurer and Senate Leader to discuss the political landscape and tactics of the day. And of course sitting at the Cabinet table was much like having a seat on the top Board in the country. During my time in politics, I was able to see first-hand the real and positive difference women in politics can and do make – it is a different and essential voice to the proper representation of all Australians. I am proud to have been the most senior woman Minister in that Government, to have been given responsibility for large economic portfolios and to learn the inner workings of Government. I believed that I had been an effective leader and made the most of this opportunity. I have now transitioned into challenging new roles in the corporate world, and I can vouch for the seminal importance of the law, including legal training, legal practise and legal experience as a common thread underpinning my capacity to perform across a diverse professional and public landscape for a very long time. Having spent 15 years as a solicitor, 10 years at the Bar and 15 years in Parliament including many years where I had the Ministerial carriage of major reforms for the benefit of all Australians, I am grateful that I took that leap of faith as a 17 year old to grasp the opportunities that the law can deliver! The general information (below) has been sourced from publicly available resources. Country born and bred, Coonan moved to Sydney to complete a combined Arts/Law degree at Sydney University. After graduating she started the first women-orientated legal firm in 1975. The firm later merged with a business law firm of which she became a partner. During a secondment to the United States in 1985, Coonan was admitted to practice as an Attorney in the Supreme Court of New York. The following year she returned to Sydney and specialised as a commercial barrister at the Sydney Bar. The Chief Justice appointed her as a Supreme Court Mediator in 1992. Before entering Federal Parliament Coonan was a Member of the Convocation of the Senate, University of Sydney from 1983 to 1984; a part-time Member of the Social Secretary Appeals Tribunal in 1987; Trustee of the Historic Houses Trust of NSW from 1988 to 1992 and Chair from 1992 to 1995; Chair of the Board of Governors of the Law Foundation of NSW from 1991 to 1992; and Director and Fellow of the Royal Hospital for Women Foundation from 1995 to 1996. In parliament, Coonan was a member of several Senate Standing Committees; Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees; Senate Select Committees; Joint Statutory Committees; Joint Standing Committees and Joint Select Committees; as well as Deputy Government Whip in the Senate from 10 November 1998. Published resources Resource Section The Hon. Helen Coonan, Senator for New South Wales, Australian Parliament House, http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/senators/homepages/senators.asp?id=2M6 Senator Helen Coonan, Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division, http://www.nsw.liberal.org.au/parliament/senate/coonan.cfm Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Helen Coonan (with Nikki Henningham) Created 28 November 2001 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Senator the Honourable Helen Coonan Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: HelenCoonan.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The albums document trips to Perth for the Science conference in 1926 and to Tasmania in 1928. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 24 September 2009 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1. Ink and wash sketch by Edna Walling of Plan for the Garden of Mrs. M.A. Cuming, Kooyong Rd. Toorak n.d. [1938] 39×76.5 cm., mount 61×81 cm.?2. Sketches and final tracings of alterations and additions to residence, 29 Stonnington Place Toorak for Mr. and Mrs. M.A. Cuming 1960; design by John Cuming, drawings prepared by Mackay & Potter, Hawthorn. 10 large, tracings, 6 smaller sketches.?3. M.A. Cuming: Cash box without key from office 65 William Street. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 September 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ann Symonds was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1982-1998. Ann Symonds trained as a teacher at Armidale and taught at Casino before being transferred to Sydney in 1960. She studied Drama (1972-74) and later Law (1984-1985 – deferred), both at the University of New South Wales. Between 1974-1977 Symonds was the Alderman at Waverley Municipal Council, and in 1977 became Waverley’s first woman Deputy Mayor. She was appointed to the NSW Legislative Council in 1982, and worked in this role until her resignation in 1998. Elected for the Australian Labor Party, she has been a member since 1967 and has held numerous party positions including Branch President, State Electorate Council President and Federal Electorate Council executive member. Throughout her public and parliamentary career Symonds has worked on women’s policy, with particular reports on prisons, housing and sexual violence, as well as on children’s policy, peace and disarmament, inquiries into Drug Law and Policy in NSW, and preparation of the Labor Party’s Social Justice Policy at the NSW and National level. She is currently Patron, Mothers’ and Children’s Program, Corrective Services; the Chair, Board of Family Drug Support; and Chair, Board of Guthrie House (residential program for women and children in the Justice system). Ann Symonds is married with five children. Published resources Resource Biographies: Ann Symonds, Women's History Month, 2000, http://www.nwmc.org.au/history2/biogs/symons.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Report Sexual violence : addressing the crime : Inquiry into the Incidence of Sexual Offences in New South Wales, Part 2, Standing Committee on Social Issues, Legislative Council, Parliament of New South Wales, 1996 Book Women and prisons, an agenda for change: 10 March 1993, Augles, Ann, Children of Prisoners Support Group, Symonds, Ann, 1993 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Clare Land Created 7 December 2001 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This is an item within the series containing the Commonwealth Literary Fund Fellowship Manuscripts Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 17 September 2009 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence, 1939-1954, between Mary Grant Bruce and Ward Lock and Co. (MS BOX 3719/2); also, correspondence, 1928-1954, between Ethel Turner and Ward Lock and Co. (MS BOX 3719/3). Correspondence contains details of royalties and sales for some years, problems associated with printing during World War II, and personal insights; also, some miscellaneous correspondence; also press clippings. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 October 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This collection consists of records of the Queensland Women’s Electoral League including correspondence, minutes, photographs, accounts. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 December 2003 Last modified 25 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sister Janet is a Roman Catholic nun who is best known for recording a rock version of The Lord’s Prayer. Made in 1973, the recording became the first single to achieve gold record status in both Australia and the United States at the same time. It earned her a Grammy Award nomination in 1974. Today Sister Janet continues to sing regularly at the Adelaide Rock Mass services. She is a part of the Romero Community in Adelaide, working for the relief of the poor and disadvantaged of that city. In 2004 she received the Yamaha Golden Gospel Award in recognition of her services to Australian Christian music at the Australian Gospel Music Awards in Canberra. In 2005 she was named South Australian of the year in recognition of her deep commitment to social justice. Interested in musical performance from a young age, and with a strong Christian faith, Janet Mead combined the two interests with she formed a group when she was just 17. “The Rock Band” provided music for the weekly mass at her local church. A musical child prodigy, she studied piano at the Adelaide Conservatorium and had a three octave vocal range with perfect pitch, she no doubt could have had commercial success as a musician, but never sought it f=or herself. Sensing a higher calling, she joined the Sisters of Mercy and became a music teacher at two local Catholic schools. She began to explore the “rock mass” concept in the early 70’s, wishing to make the Catholic church services more accessible to a younger audience. There was a broader context for this, given the success of rock operas based on Christian stories, such as Jesus Christ, Superstar and Godspell. Events 1973 - 1973 The Lord’s Prayer is recorded by Sister Janet Mead 1974 - 1974 The Lord’s Prayer peaks at No. 4 on the American Billboard Singles’ Charts 2004 - 2004 Sister Janet Mead receives the Yamaha Golden Gospel Award in recognition of her services to Australian Christian music 2005 - 2005 Sister Janet Mead is named South Australian of the Year Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Sister Janet Mead, 2006, http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=824 Book 30 years of the Rock Mass, 1972-2002., 2002 Newspaper Article Whatever happened to Sister Janet?: community life goes on for ex-hit maker, Phyland, Joan, 1982 Magazine article Sister Janet sings to a new beat, Hayward, Rose, 1982 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 5 June 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Emma Burkhill was the first Matron at Broken Hill, New South Wales. Emma Burkhill trained as a nurse in England before marrying Joseph Orman and migrating to Australia in 1866. The pair had two sons, only one of whom – Alfred Orman – survived infancy. After Joseph’s death, around 1870, Emma married John Burkhill, a pharmacist at Mount Gambier, South Australia. In 1871, Emma Burkhill became Matron at the Mount Gambier Hospital. She later moved to Menindee, New South Wales, where her daughter Emma Ethel was born in 1878. She had a second daughter, Alice. Following the establishment of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company in the 1880s, Emma Burkhill moved to Broken Hill to offer medical assistance to the growing population of miners and their families. The hospital at Broken Hill consisted of a wood and iron room alongside a large tent that was built to house the many patients suffering from typhoid. When a new hospital was built in 1889, Emma Burkhill was appointed as its first Matron. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Broken Hill, Kearns, Richard Hugh Bell, 1974 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 January 2009 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Anita Walters (née Osmond) compiled the first Australian nutritional content of foods table. Called Tables of composition of Australian foods, Special Report Series 2, the report was published by the National Health and Medical Research Council in 1946. After working in nutrition, Anita became Australia’s first female supervising examiner of patents in the early 1970s. Anita Walters (née Osmond) was born in Rose Bay, Sydney in 1923. She attended primary school in Adelaide, high school in Canberra and the University of Sydney, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in 1942. In her senior year, she was school captain and received awards in academic scholarship, community service, sportsmanship and a Public Service Board scholarship that enabled her to study at the University of Sydney. Anita’s summer job before starting university in 1940 was as a laboratory assistant with the CSIRO researching Lucilia cuprina, an introduced green blowfly that lays eggs on sheep, resulting in ‘flyblow’ or ‘fly strike’, a significant health risk to sheep. After achieving her Bachelor of Science, Anita started work researching human nutrition at the Australian Institute of Anatomy (1931 – 1984), part of the Department of Health in Canberra, and located in the renowned art deco building now home to the National Film and Sound Archive. In 1945, Anita compiled a monograph called Tables of composition of Australian foods, Special report series 2, published by the National Health and Medical Research Council in 1946. The publication, widely consulted by dieticians throughout Australian and New Zealand hospitals, is regarded as the first Australian source that identified the nutritional content of foods – protein, carbohydrate, calcium, iron, carotene, vitamin A, thiamin (B1) and vitamin C. It also included a ready-reckoner for the rapid calculation of recommended dietary allowances. Anita updated the booklet in 1948, and again in 1954, 1961, 1966 and 1968 with colleague, Winifred Ellen Wilson. The National Library of Australia holds copies of the books. Anita’s well-loved copy has brown-edged pages, a faded blue cover and is practically falling apart. During her time with the institute, Anita visited Northern Territory missions and primary schools from Darwin to Alice Springs including the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission (125 kilometres west of Alice Springs) investigating blood vitamin C levels in boys. She then became chief nutrition officer with the Public Health Department of Tasmania for four years in the early 1950s. She visited Flinders, King and Cape Barren Islands and the West Coast including the abandoned mining town of Gormanston as part of Tasmania’s goitre prevention scheme. She also travelled through North-West Tasmania presenting demonstrations on preparing wild rosehip syrup as a source of vitamin C for babies and children because orange juice was considered expensive. Anita eventually left the Public Health Department: ‘I was paid women’s wages, which were less than men’s wages, but I did the same work!’, she said. She went into patent law where, said Anita, ‘there was equal pay for men and women!’ She qualified as a patent attorney but did not practise. Later, she was appointed to the Attorney-General’s Department after achieving Office of Examiner of Patent, Grade 2. After Anita married, she moved with her husband to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Her husband, who worked in the statistician’s branch, Bureau of Statistics and Economics and was ‘on loan’ from the Australian government to the New Guinea government, assisted in setting up the first census program. Anita was one of the few Australian women in Port Moresby who did not work or have children to care for, so she joined the Port Moresby CWA and was president for two years. The CWA supplied lunches for the local primary schools and provided four rooms in the guest house for women going into hospital to have their babies in Port Moresby or Australia. The couple moved back to Canberra and Anita resumed working at the Patent Office and became the first female supervising examiner in the early 1970s. She worked as a patent examiner until she retired in the mid-1970s. The Walters had a holiday home on the Gold Coast, Queensland, which eventually became their permanent address. ‘I feel very blessed to have done the things in my life that I have,’ said Anita. Author Details Avril Priem Created 3 April 2019 Last modified 4 August 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute books of defunct Branches, including some Aboriginal branches, 1930s-1980s (20 items) ?Visitors books, 1950s-1980s (5 vols). ?Correspondence relating to the early years of most Northern Territory branches, 1950s-1980s (15 folders). ?Newspaper cuttings, programs, photographs, histories and advertisements, dealing with branch members and events, 1950s-1980s (6 scrapbooks). ?Photographs of Northern Territory branch members and events, including a record of the establishment of the Outback Mothers Memorial Hostel in Darwin, 1953-1980s (6 albums). ?Minutes, 1960-1988 (28 vols). ?Annual general reports, 1960-1987 (27 reports). ?Financial records, 1960-1980s (1 filing cabinet drawer). Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 June 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Unsorted collection of letters, literary manuscripts and newspaper clippings.??Daughters of Vance and Nettie Palmer. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Debra Mullins is a Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, a Trustee of the Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation and the Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane. She is the patron of Justice and the Law Society based at the University of Queensland and a member of the Visiting Committee of the Griffith Law School. She is also extensively involved in judicial education through her work with the National Judicial College of Australia. Debra Mullins was born in 1957 in Sydney, to Ken Curtis, bookmaker, and Laurina Curtis (née Holz). She has two sisters, Karen Curtis and Roslyn Curtis. She attended Coorparoo State High School from 1969 until 1973, where she was dux of her year. Debra was interested in a career in the law and enrolled in a dual degree of Commerce and Law at the University of Queensland in 1974. Throughout this period and into her professional life, Debra was strongly supported and encouraged by her family. Debra completed her undergraduate degrees at the University of Queensland in Commerce in 1977 and in Law with Honours in 1980. During her university years, she taught speech and drama. Debra was admitted as a solicitor in 1980. She had completed her articles of clerkship at Kinsey Bennett and Gill, where she then worked as a solicitor until 1984. During this period, she worked closely with her master, Graham Macdonald, who greatly influenced the development of her areas of expertise in the law, particularly in property law and landlord/tenant law. Debra married Patrick Mullins in 1981. They have three children. Debra describes her husband Pat, who is also a lawyer, as her greatest supporter. Debra went on to complete a Master of Laws in 1987, again at the University of Queensland, which was upgraded to a Master of Laws (Advanced) in 1999. In 1984, Debra was admitted to the Bar, where she worked predominantly in commercial, property and estate matters. She did experience occasional reluctance of clients and solicitors to brief female barristers, but considered they were the losers by depriving themselves of complete choice from the available pool of talent at the Bar. There was an underrepresentation of women at the Bar, and Debra sought to remedy this through involvement with the Law Council of Australia’s Equalising Opportunities in the Law Committee, as well as chairing a similar committee for the Bar Association of Queensland, and through her mentoring of junior women barristers. Debra became a member of the Women Lawyers Association of Queensland in 1980 and has continued to be a loyal supporter of its activities. In 1998, Debra was appointed Senior Counsel. She performed duties as a part time member of the Queensland Building Tribunal and as a part time member of the Queensland Law Reform Commission. Debra was appointed to the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Queensland on 16 March 2000. During her career on the bench, Debra has continued to be involved in the legal community through a variety of organisations. As well as involvement with her judicial peers through the National Judicial College of Australia, Debra regularly assists with the Bar Practice Course, assessing and encouraging trainee barristers. She also regularly volunteers her time to assist lawyers in furthering their professional development, presenting on a wide range of topics. Mentoring has also been a part of Debra’s activities. Through mentoring the young law students from Justice and the Law Society, acting as a judge in moots, to staying in touch with her long list of former associates, Debra is much involved with assisting subsequent generations of legal professionals. Debra was the inaugural Judge in Residence at the Griffith Law School for a week in September 2014. Debra’s life is also marked by her Christian faith and her involvement in the Anglican Church. In 2004, Debra was appointed Deputy Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane, a position which she held until appointed Chancellor in July 2014. Debra has been a member of the Chapter of St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane, since 2002. In 2009 the Queensland Law Society awarded Debra the Agnes McWhinney Award in recognition of outstanding achievement by a female practitioner. In 2010 Debra was admitted by Griffith University to the honorary degree of Doctor of the University for her contribution through her membership of the Griffith Law School Visiting Committee to the development and maintenance of close relations between the Griffith Law School and the legal profession. Events 2019 - 2019 Officer of the Order of Australia (AO): For distinguished service to the law, and to the judiciary, to professional development and legal education, and to women. Published resources Book Section Debra Mullins, Gregory, Helen, 2005 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Debra Mullins Created 6 October 2015 Last modified 12 June 2019 Digital resources Title: Debra Mullins Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photographs, mainly of Powlett River coalfields, miners, building s, processes etc., including State Coal Mine; 36 black-and-white prints, either captioned on print from original or bearing MS label on the back, only a few are dated, all at 1910; each print 18 x 24 cm. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 December 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 51 min.)????Cato speaks of her debut as a poet; of her family history; about her studies; working as a journalist from 1935 to 1941; she tells of the story line in her latest novel “Brown sugar” and describes her methodology for writing a novel. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 22 January 2009 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Aileen Yvonne Palmer was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College and the University of Melbourne, where she graduated in 1935 with first class honours in French and literature. She had also studied German, Spanish and Russian. Aileen was involved with the Melbourne University Labor Club and the Victorian Writers’ League and she joined the Communist Party of Australia in April 1934. Whilst in Spain with her family in 1936, Aileen was caught up in the July uprising in Barcelona which marked the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. After briefly returning to London, she joined the first British medical unit to travel to Spain and worked with the International Brigades until 1938. During World War II Yvonne drove ambulances for the Auxiliary Ambulance Service at Stepney, before leaving to work at Australia House in 1943. Despite much ambivalence to return to Australia, Aileen did so in 1945, after receiving a cable from her sister which informed her that their mother had suffered a stroke. Despite finding it difficult to settle in Melbourne, she continued to remain politically active and to write and publish articles. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Aileen Palmer, 1935-1979 [manuscript] Papers of Aileen and Helen Palmer [19--] [manuscript] Papers of Aileen Palmer, 1937-1966 [manuscript] National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Aileen Yvonne PALMER Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers in MS 4921 consist of letters from Cynthia and Sidney Nolan, Will Ashton, Henry Bell, William Rose, Rex Rienits, Sir Russell Drysdale, Ian Fairweather and Daryl Lindsay and others, as well as cuttings, photographs and printed material. They cover most periods of Laurie Thomas’ career, including his work in Cambridge following his award of a Gowrie Travelling Scholarship, his work as a student and then lecturer at Melbourne University, and the University of Western Australia, his periods as director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and of the Queensland Art Gallery, his journalism for the Australian, and his notes for various publications. The collection also contains several files of correspondence, cuttings and other papers, 1965-1969, on the selection of the director of the National Gallery in Canberra (9 boxes).??The Acc01.244 instalment comprises papers, files, cuttings and posters concerning Bronwyn and Laurie Thomas’ involvement in the art industry (66 boxes, 4 cartons, 1 wooden box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Transcript of talks to AWM Voluntary Guides titled “The Australian Women’s Land Army (Victoria)”. Discusses formation of AWLA and author’s own experiences between 1942-1945. Also discusses author’s subsequent association with AWLA. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Newscuttings etc. mainly re the activities of M. H. Swanton, 1850-1942, who was involved in the labour movement and in campaigning for women’s rights in Western Australia. She was especially active in the tailoring unions Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 8 December 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This deposit includes minutes of the State Executive and the Management Committees (1969 – 1974), office, subject and working files (1968 – 1987), correspondence arranged alphabetically (1968 – 1975) and printed material. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 9 August 2001 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc12.015 comprises miscellaneous correspondence and a small number of black and white photographs (some autographed by Stone), copies of Stone’s articles, including an article on the trial of Adolf Eichman, and other reviews and articles. The collection also comprises material relating to the Julius Stone Centenary Conference in 2007. Other material relates to the death of Stone in 1985 and the later death of Zena Sachs in 2011 (3 folders). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 31 May 2016 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Part of the series – ‘Talking About Aboriginal Art’. Bunduk Marika, Bronwyn Bancroft, Euphemia Bostock and Fiona Foley talk about their life experiences and their art. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jane Miller lived in Canberra from 1913 after her husband Colonel David Miller was appointed the first administrator of the Federal Capital Territory (as the ACT was called until 1938) in 1912. Early in World War I, she founded and became President of the Federal Territory War Food Fund. She also organised collections of clothes for Belgian babies and oversaw the organisation of many fundraising concerts. Her son, Selwyn Miller, served with the British Army in Palestine from 1917, returning to Australia in 1919. Jane Mary Elizabeth Thompson was born in Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia to Margaret Catherine Carroll and James Burford Thompson, civil servant, who served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Queanbeyan during the 1880s. On 23 April 1890 Jane married widower, Major David Miller, a citizen soldier, at Harris Park, Sydney. In August 1912 Jane’s husband, then Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs, was appointed as Administrator of the new Federal Capital Territory. On 20 February 1913 when King O’Malley, the Minister for Home Affairs, ceremoniously drove the first peg to mark the axis between the Capitol and Mount Ainslie and define the central feature of Parliament House, he invited Jane Miller to name the site. She christened it ‘Canberra Hill’. (‘The Federal Capital’, 1913, p. 15). The Millers initially lived under canvas before moving in 1913 into Canberra’s first permanent building – The Residency (now Old Canberra House on the Australian National University grounds) in Acton. Soon after the outbreak of war on August 1914, Jane convened a meeting of women residents of Canberra and the Federal Capital Territory to initiate a movement ‘for the purpose of helping our soldiers and sailors who are at the present moment on active service upholding the British Empire in the great war now… and for relieving distress amongst the relations of soldiers and sailors or the poor’ (‘Patriotic Fund’, 1914, p. 2). She proposed a division of districts each with a representative who would appeal for funds and distribute collecting boxes, and suggested that money collected be donated to the War Food Fund established by the Sydney Chamber of Commerce. The War Food Fund had two purposes: to help soldiers, and to benefit Australian workers on the home front by purchasing foodstuffs and articles that were produced in Australia by Australian workers, thus providing employment opportunities at a difficult time. The Queanbeyan Age reported that the women present enthusiastically approved Jane Miller’s scheme and appointed a committee comprising ‘Mesdames Miller, Broinowski, Piggin, and Brown, of Canberra; Mesdames Macartney and Barnard of the Royal Military College; Mrs. E. G. Crace, of Gininderra, and Mrs. Sheaffe, of Tharwa.’ (‘Patriotic Fund’, 1914, p. 2). In addition to the proposed collecting boxes, Jane and her committee members arranged fundraising events, including a concert reported in the Queanbeyan Age on 29 October 1914, at which the Canberra Amusement Hall was ‘packed to the doors’ and the audience ‘lustily’ joined in patriotic airs from the National Anthem… the Marseillaise; and… “It’s a long, long way to Tipperary,” The Canberra Orchestral Society supplied music and actors presented the final scene of “The Merchant of Venice” and comedy. During the interval Jane, as president of the Territory War Food Fund, presented prizes to winners of the fundraising sports meeting held at the Canberra sports ground on 17 October. (‘Patriotic Sports Meeting Canberra’, 1914, p. 31). The War Food Fund distributed money donated from its branches, including the Federal Capital Territory fund, to a number of organisations: Committees for Relief of the Distressed Poor, hospitals receiving wounded soldiers, Belgian Relief Fund, Homes for Belgian Refugees, Belgian Soldiers’ Fund, Belgian Relief Commission for Belgian Refugees in Holland, Distressed Belgians in Belgium, Serbian Relief Fund, and the Committee for assistance to families of French soldiers. By August 1915 the Sydney Chamber of Commerce noted that the Federal Capital Territory fund had contributed £1531/17/5 (around $150,000 in 2014) from which no expenses had been taken, and expressed their heartiest thanks (‘Federal Territory War Food Fund’, 1915, p. 2). (2014 equivalent based on the Reserve Bank of Australia Pre-Decimal Inflation Calculator.) On 11 May 1915 the Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer reported on Jane’s project collecting clothes for Belgian babies and appealed for warm clothes for ‘the poor destitute Belgian mothers caring for their little ones in many of the towns of Belgium, France, England and Holland’. She told the reporter who called on her at the Residency: ‘This is what we women are doing… And not one has been asked for, all have been brought or sent here by the donors without being approached’. The report described a room ‘filled with hundreds of little garments of all descriptions, flannel and flannelette night dresses, pilchers, flannels, petticoats, dresses of various materials, hoods, bonnets, lovely bootees, boots, even to a fur boa,… the useful and practical work of patriotic women’. The article lauded the efforts of ‘the patriotic women in all parts of the Federal territory making up useful little garments during their spare hours’; and reported that ‘the school girls are now interesting themselves in the praiseworthy object’. (‘Clothes for the Belgian Babies’, 1915, p. 2). In late October 1915 the Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer reported that the Federal Territory War Relief Fund committee, “under the able presidency of Mrs. Miller, wife of the Administrator, continue to do good work on behalf of the excellent cause they have so enthusiastically taken up.” (‘Federal Territory War Relief Fund’, 1915, p. 2). The following month the newspaper reported that at the third Canberra Sports Carnival held at the Canberra Recreation ground in aid of Allies’ Day, Jane ‘very thoughtfully arranged a marquee in which to receive clothes for the Belgian children, and a liberal response was made by the ladies of the district, especially those residing in the vicinity of Canberra’. It noted that in addition to Colonel and Mrs Miller, ‘Colonel and Mrs Parnell and other prominent residents lent their patronage to the Carnival’ (‘Canberra Sports Carnival’, 1915, p. 2). And so it continued, on Friday 21 January 1916 the Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer included an advertisement for ‘A popular open-air entertainment’ in aid of the Federal Territory War Relief Fund, naming Mrs Miller as president. During the latter two years of the war, Jane’s own son, Selwyn Miller (born 1892) served as a Second Lieutenant with the Army Service Corps in Palestine, arriving back in Australia in September 1919. Her stepson – Captain David Frederick Miller (b.1879) – had died in 1902 in the Boer War where he had commanded a troop of Imperial Bushmen from New South Wales. After clashes with King O’Malley, and with his credibility damaged in a seven-month commission of inquiry into the administration of the territory, David Miller took early retirement in 1917. The Millers left Canberra for a grazing property near Glen Innes, New South Wales where they remained until David Miller’s death in 1920. Jane Miller died in Sydney in February 1932. Published resources Resource Section Miller, David (1857-1934), Harrison, Peter, 2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/miller-david-7580/text13233 Book The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918: Australia during the war, Scott, Ernest, 1938 Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Newspaper Article Canberra Sports Carnival, 1915, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31668244 Federal Territory War Food Fund, 1915, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31667055 Patriotic Fund, 1914, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31402795 Clothes for the Belgian Babies, 1915, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31665755 Advertising, 2015, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31668994 Obituary. Mrs David Miller, 1932, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2266406 The Federal Capital, 1913, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5374752 Magazine article Patriotic Sports Meeting, Canberra, 1914, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146329297 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Author Details Niki Francis Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret on the left and Williamina on the right. The women are daughters of Rev. Charles Ogg, the founder of the Presbyterian Church in Brisbane. (Information taken from M. A. Ogg, Memories of Early Brisbane, as Sketched and Told to Ernest Briggs [typescript, no date, State Library of Queensland]) Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Katie Maxwell arrived in Broken Hill, New South Wales, in 1961. She is the owner of a small business, Irene’s South Drapery, and was named Broken Hill Businesswoman of the Year in 2003. Katie is an active member of the Australian Red Cross and the Broken Hill Migrant Heritage Committee."
    },
    {
        "text": "3 digital audio tapes (ca. 360 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 18 August 2016 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Yvonne Fahl was nominated for the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1995, for the North West district of Western Australia. Yvonne Fahl has had a long association with horticulture in Carnarvon, W.A, although her contributions to the community extend well beyond her professional expertise as a horticulturalist. From 1965 until 2001 she owned a banana plantation, and through that she became involved in the Gascoyne Produce Marketing Association, the Carnarvon Mango Exporters Group, the Carnarvon Fly Baiting Scheme, and the Carnarvon Horticultural Development Council. She was made a life member of the Carnarvon Growers Association Inc. in 2002. Her contributions to the community through other organisations are extensive. She was active at the St Mary’s School, the Junior Football Association, the Junior Soccer Association, the Junior Cricket Association, and the Carnarvon High School P & C and canteen. She held positions in St George’s Church, St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s bazaar, the Red Cross, Soroptimist International, Australia Week Committee, the Cancer Foundation, and the Heart-Cancer- Arthritis Foundation. Yvonne is a Life Member of the Junior Cricket Council. She was the W.A. representative to the International Women in Agriculture Conference in 1994. In her spare time, she has taught English to migrant workers on plantations. Events 1995 - 1995 1983 - 1983 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section 1995 ABC Rural Woman of the Year Regional Winners, ABC Radio, 1995, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/previous95.htm#95reg Article Yvonne Fahl Finalist for the AUSVEG Chairman's Award, 2008, http://www.vegetableswa.com.au/documents/magazine/00193_WA_Grower_June08.pdf Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 26 October 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers were assembled by Williams while researching for his book entitled: “From charity to teaching hospital: Ella Latham’s presidency 1933-1954, the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.” The collection includes: 1. Correspondence, 1929-1955. Letters of Sir John and Lady Latham to Sir Thomas and Lady White. They contain family news and some comments on the social life in Melbourne and London. Also included is a letter by Douglas Galbraith to Lady White relating to his involvement in Rehabilitation Centres in Australia. 2. Cuttings relating to Sir John Latham’s Career, 1934, 1940, 1969. 3. 11 black and white and sepia photographs of the Latham family. 4. Copies of marriage and birth certificates of Latham and Tobin (Lady Latham’s parents), 1878,1907-1923. 5. A copy of a broadcast address by Sir John Latham 29 June 1933. 6. Miscellaneous printed items containing Latham’s addresses, speeches, reports and publication “Education and war.”. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 June 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Maude O’Connell worked as a teacher and completed nursing training before becoming involved in social work. She was elected a Governor of the Carlton Refuge in 1909, and was an active member of the Tobacco Workers’ Union before founding “The Company of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament” (more commonly known as ‘The Grey Sisters’). The daughter of Patrick Martin and Rosina (née Hosking) O’Connell, Maude O’Connell worked as a teacher and completed her nursing training before becoming an active member of the Labor Party. She was the Catholic Church’s delegate on many committees and councils dealing with industrial and social matters. O’Connell worked with the Charity Sisters working in the slums, and the Good Shepherd Sisters assisting girls who came before the courts. Also she tried to improve the conditions of women factory workers by working alongside them and becoming a union official. In 1930 O’Connell, now in her late forties, established a rest home at Daylesford, where she took mothers and children, especially from the slum areas of inner Melbourne for respite care. Later she set up schools for Mother Craft Training, Rest Homes for Mothers, and provided Home Help for needy families, and Parent Education classes. Published resources Resource Section Company of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament: Family Care Sisters, Catholic Vocations: Archdiocese of Melbourne, http://www.catholicvocation.org.au/FamilyCareSisters.html Book Horizon in retrospect, 1916-1986, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 February 2002 Last modified 5 March 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Originally named the Nursing Mothers’ Association the extra A for Australia was added in 1969 to reflect the national nature as the Association grew. Established at a time when formula feeding was seen as modern and fashionable and viewed as being as good as, if not better than breastfeeding. Established in 1964 by Mary Paton and five of her friends – Jan Barry, Glenise Francis, Pat Paterson, Pauline Pick and Sue Woods, with the idea of breast feeding mothers supporting each other. The association commenced at a time when censorship restrictions would not allow words such as ‘breast’, ‘pregnant’ or ‘nipple’ in public print or on the airwaves. The Postmaster General’s Department (part of which is now known as Telstra) would not allow the word ‘breastfeeding’ to be printed in the telephone directory. The name Nursing Mothers’ Association was decided upon as it combined the ideas of breastfeeding and nurturing. By 1965, the Constitution and the NMA Code of Ethics were adopted, as well as a counsellor training system being introduced. And publications Increasing Your Supply, Survival Plan and Toddlers’ Activities being produced in 1968. The Increasing Your Supply booklet was later translated into Greek – reflecting the changing makeup of the Australian society. In 1976 the first breastfeeding Helpline was established in Melbourne, with trained volunteer Breastfeeding counsellors, taking calls day and night. Members of the Association voted in May 2001 for a change of name to the Australian Breastfeeding Association. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records, 1964-1997 [manuscript]. State Library of Western Australia Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia records, 1969-2004 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 October 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: The leaders of the Australian Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: IMP0247gb.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Galley proofs from the Griffen Press of her book “The Geology of Queensland” with manuscript corrections and printer’s remarks; note: the book was published in 1962 by Melbourne University Press [2 boxes, OM72-19]. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joyce Waterhouse was an amateur Pictorialist landscape photographer. She travelled widely, taking photographs in India, Indonesia, New Zealand and North Africa, as well as of locations throughout Australia. She enlarged and printed her own photographs and was able to support herself financially with the sale of her travel photography. She exhibited her work in South Australia and Victoria. Joyce Waterhouse is known for her Pictorialist landscape photography. She exhibited her works mainly in South Australia and Victoria. She was born on 27 April 1887 into a very affluent North Adelaide family. Her parents were Arthur and Laura Waterhouse (née Morgan) and her grandfather on her mother’s side was Sir William Morgan, Premier of South Australia. Her father was a prosperous banker who had made his money from the gold rush. Arthur and Laura had three daughters of whom Joyce was the youngest, and a son. Every summer the children were cared for by governesses at their Mount Lofty House in the Adelaide Hills. The remainder of the year was spent at their North Adelaide home where servants saw to their needs. Waterhouse showed an early interest in photography and by the age of thirteen she was taking snapshots of animals. This interest was encouraged by her father, who gave her a gold- embossed suede photo album. Unlike Most Australians, her family was not greatly affected by the Depression of the 1890s and around this time they travelled to England regularly in order that her father could pursue his interest in hunting. In 1897 Joyce and her sisters spent two years in England attending a girls’ school and on their return were said to have introduced women’s hockey to Adelaide. They also attended a finishing school in Dresden in 1903. In 1910 the family travelled to England for another hunting trip. On this occasion they took their own horses and a groom. In 1915, Joyce was once again on her way to England when she was exposed to the plight of wounded soldiers who had fought at Gallipoli. It was an event that caused her to delay her trip for some weeks and assist in the hospitals. Once in England, she completed an intensive course in physiotherapy and worked at the Irish Army hospital during 1916-1917, eventually making her way to Egypt in the final year of the war, before returning to Australia in 1919 on a troop ship. During the 1920s Waterhouse wore her hair in a bob and smoked cigarettes. Her adventurous spirit is clear from the fact that she also travelled widely in the twenty years that followed. She owned her own car, which she drove throughout Australia, from Central Australia to the Flinders Ranges and onto Mt Kosciusko, where she became a capable skier. She also travelled to India, Indonesia, New Zealand and North Africa, all the time collecting ‘fine examples of weaving’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 27). Waterhouse took many photographs of the foreign places to which she travelled. Some were snap shots and others more composed landscape studies. She enlarged and printed her own photographs and was able to support herself with the photographs she took on these travels. In 1930 she exhibited some of her works at the South Australian Photographic Society, with her photograph, Winter, being purchased by the Art Gallery of South Australia at the time. In 1930 she travelled to the Scottish Hebrides and began living a simpler life, staying in a crofter’s cottage and learning how to spin, dye yarn and weave. On her return to Australia she built a cottage for herself at Mt. Lofty and was said to live a very spartan life, focussing on her textile work. She utilised natural black fleece (a rarity at the time) and experimented with vegetable dyes, and she also wove tapestries. Many of her weavings were passed on to her nieces and nephews. Photographs taken towards the end of her life focussed on her great nephews and nieces as subjects, and documented her trips to Scotland and London during her final trip there in 1953. Joyce Waterhouse died on 13 December 1966 in South Australia (just four months prior to her eightieth birthday). Up until the end she was driving her car, spinning, and dying, weaving, and taking photographs of the family. Collections Art Gallery of South Australia Waterhouse (Family), Waterhouse, Joyce, 1887-1966 and Waterhouse, Laura Emily Waterhouse family, 1859. State Library of South Australia archival collection Events 1921 - 1961 1907 - 1907 Joyce Waterhouse’s work featured in Women’s Work Exhibition 1930 - 1930 Joyce Waterhouse’s work featured in The Second Exhibition of Pictorial Photography 1981 - 1981 Joyce Waterhouse’s work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 2007 - 2008 Joyce Waterhouse’s work featured in A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography: 1840s-1940s Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Australia, Birth Index Ancestry.com, http://www.ancestry.com.au/ Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 A century in focus: South Australian photography, 1840s-1940s, Robinson, Julie, 2007 CD Rom Dictionary of South Australian Photography, 1845-1915 [electronic resource], Noye, Robert J., 2007 Resource Section Joyce Waterhouse, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joyce-waterhouse/ Newspaper Article Photographic Exhibition Opened by Lady Mayoress, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30497835 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 12 October 2016 Last modified 12 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kelly Hoare was elected MHR (ALP) for Charlton, New South Wales in 1998. Kelly Hoare obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Canberra. From 1985 to 1995 she worked in the public service for the Departments of Defence and Employment, following which she became assistant and adviser to the Federal Member and former Minister for Transport, Bob Brown. Since entering parliament, Hoare has been a member of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs and the Parliamentary Committee on the Library. She is married with two children and when able enjoys netball and swimming. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Section Kelly Hoare: Candidate for Charlton, Emily's List, 1998, http://www.emilyslist.org.au/candidates/candidate.asp?id=127 Kelly Hoare, Member and Candidate for Charlton, Australian Labor Party, 2001, http://www.alp.org.au/people/nsw/hoare_kelly.php Ms Kelly Hoare MP, Member for Charlton (NSW), Australian Parliament House, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=83Y Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Kelly Hoare, federal politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 November 2001 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The records include correspondence with the Newcastle, South Australian, Western Australian, Wollongong, NSW. Country, Melbourne and Brisbane branches of Save Our Sons; general correspondence; correspondence with members of parliament, women’s organisations, and trade unions; minutes of meetings of Sydney and Newcastle S.O.S.; processed leaflets and newsletters, pamphlets, cuttings from newspapers and periodicals, annual reports, and S.O.S. Legal Aid Appeal cheque books, bank statements, cash receipt books, petty cash book, receipts, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, circulars and correspondence of the South Australian Branch. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 15 February 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Irene Read was active in many women’s associations and charities in the first half of the twentieth century. During World War 2 she was very active in the Women’s Australian National Services, an organisation she helped to found of which she was Executive Chairwoman from 1942 until the demise of the organization in 1948. Irene Read began her career as a volunteer welfare worker at the age of twenty, with the Sydney Medical Mission. Belonging to an influential Sydney network of prominent professional and philanthropic women engaged in community work, she was a member of the Women’s Club by 1908 and while president (1925-29) was its delegate on the National Council of Women of New South Wales (executive-member, 1928). She chaired the ladies’ committee of the Havilah Church of England Children’s Home and was a council-member (1931-54) of the women’s central auxiliary of the New South Wales Society for Crippled Children. In 1936 she joined the Women’s Executive Committee and the Women’s Advisory Council for Australia’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations and in 1938 was appointed O.B.E. Published resources Resource Section Read, Irene Victoria (1881-1972), Weatherburn, Hilary, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110354b.htm Edited Book Women in Australia : an annotated guide to records, Daniels, Kay, Murnane, Mary, Picot, Anne and National Research Program (Australia), 1977 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Irene Victoria Read papers, pictorial material and relics, 1839-1951 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 December 2008 Last modified 16 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mary Colton, née Cutting, arrived in South Australia from London in 1839. She was closely associated with the South Australian Boarding out Society and the Adelaide Children’s Hospital. In 1879 she formed a city club for young women which became the Young Women’s Christian Association in 1884. She served as president until her death in 1898. She also worked with Mary Lee and others to form the South Australian Women’s Suffrage League and became its president in 1892. Mary Colton, née Cutting, was born in London, December 1822 to Hannah and Samuel Cutting. In 1839 she emigrated to South Australia with her newly widowed father and in 1844 she married John Blackler Colton. Between 1848 and 1865 she bore nine children, several of whom died in infancy. Her husband became Mayor of Adelaide (1874-75, a Member of Parliament (1862-1887) and twice Premier of South Australia. Both of them shared a keen interest in the well-being of society. They worked together in the Benevolent and Strangers’ Friend Society and in organisations for the blind, deaf and dumb. Understanding the situation for poor people in the city, Mary Colton worked to house elderly women by joining a cottage homes committee in 1871 and later, the Lady Kintore Cottage Homes Trust. She was one of the principal founders of the Adelaide Children’s Hospital in 1876, an organisation she served for the rest of her life. In 1879, concerned at the problems faced by young women, she began a city club and in 1880 they were housed in the Pirie Street Wesleyan Methodist Church in Adelaide. In 1884 it expanded to become the Young Women’s Christian Association affiliated with its international counterparts. She remained its president until her death. An indefatigable worker she also worked on the Boarding-Out Society with Catherine Helen Spence and others concerned with the plight of orphaned and neglected children. It was through membership with the Ladies’ Committee of the Social Purity Society that Mary Colton became involved in the campaign for women’s suffrage. Recognising the urgent need for suffrage after being involved in the campaign to raise the age of consent to sixteen in 1885, Mary Colton joined with Mary Lee to organise the South Australian Women’s Suffrage League in July 1888. Other members included Rosetta Birks, Elizabeth Nicholls, Serena Thorne Lake, Augusta Zadow and the League was later supported by Catherine Helen Spence. In 1892, Lady Mary Colton became president of the League. As a member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union she was able to forge links with between it and the League which greatly assisted the suffrage campaign. During this incredibly busy period, she also found time for other duties, becoming foundation president of the Women’s Auxiliary of Foreign Missions in 1893. Mary Colton continued her rigorous schedule of work until her illness and subsequent death on 28 July 1898. Published resources Book Section Mary Colton (nee Cutting), 2001 Mary Colton, Jones, Helen, [1988] Two Englishwomen, Miss Emma Robarts and Lady Kinnaird, laid the foundations of the world's largest international women's movement in 1855. In 1877 they named it the Young Women's Christian Association. The South Australian story of the YWCA is told by Lola Bray., Bray, Lola, 1986 Book In her own name : women in South Australian history, Jones, Helen, 1926-, 1986 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Colton, Mary (1822 - 1898), Jones, Helen, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10093b.htm Archival resources State Library of South Australia Young Women's Christian Association of Adelaide : SUMMARY RECORD Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Robin Secomb Created 16 April 2004 Last modified 24 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Christine Kearney was a Regional winner (Gippsland, Victoria) of the Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1994. She and her husband were dairy farmers in Dollar, Victoria. Christine was important to the establishment of rural counselling networks in her area. Christine Kearney did not come from a farming family; she was a city girl brought up about six miles out of Adelaide. She only came to a farm after marrying in 1980. Michael, her husband, bought it from his mother and then added to it. Upon leaving school in 1961, seventeen-year-old Christine joined a religious order. She left when she was about thirty-five and returned to Adelaide where she met Michael who had also been in a religious order. After a relatively quick courtship, she and were married. Michael had taken over a small part of the family property – a small venture but big debt. It was not an ideal time to be borrowing for farming land (1982). They survived day by day through a period of drought and rising interest rates. As Christine reflects, ‘We didn’t have any comforts here; we didn’t have any money to spend on entertainment, but, because we hadn’t ever had that in our lives, we didn’t look for it’ Christine was one of the first farming women in Victoria to get unemployment benefits. A social worker suggested she should apply. Her husband couldn’t because he was a self employed person. But wives, given that their status on farms at the time was that of ‘a silent sleeping partner’ and that they weren’t recognised as wage earners, satisfied the criteria, although most didn’t know it. Christine managed to successfully apply for the dole, after proving that the farm would run without her. After about two months on unemployment benefits she got a job off farm on a research program designed to investigate the possibilities for tourism in the local shire. She began work in May 1985. As well as bringing in a salary that helped to save the farm, Christine going off the farm created possibilities for her to meet new people. It meant that she had new things to bring back to the farm and talk about. It brought life back to their farm. Christine was very interested in establishing a Women on Farms group in her region. She also tried to get the rural counsellor program up and running in her district. Federal funding was available, matching funds raised locally were also required, and they proved to be difficult to raise. It was very difficult to convince the conservative rural sector that a counsellor was needed; as Christine later observed, ‘It was unheard of that rural people had welfare problems’. In 1987 they employed their first rural counsellor. Events 1994 - 1994 Regional Winner for Gippsland Published resources Resource Section 1994 ABC Rural Woman of the Year Regional Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/previous94.htm#reg Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Christine Kearney interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording] Women of the land oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 March 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Recorded interviews prepared by Gillian Hoysted during August and September, 1979, for a third-year history project at the University of Melbourne.The interviews are with nine women radio personalities: Norma Ferris, Judy Willing, Binny Lum, Stephani Bini, Louise Homfrey, Elizabeth Burbery, Martha Gardener, Mary Maxwell, and Mr. and Mrs. Hector Harris. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 March 2019 Last modified 5 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 sound tape reels (ca. 95 min.)??Rich speaks of the International Women’s Year (1975); her work for and the significant features of Women’s Year; Jessie Street. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 December 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Committee meeting minutes (1946-1955, 1965-1966); general meeting minutes (1946-1965) Author Details Jane Carey Created 17 December 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Christine Dawson was a once only candidate for parliamentary election. That was in the 1999 New South Wales Legislative Assembly election, as a One Nation Party candidate for Campbelltown. Christine Dawson lived at Bradbury, a suburb of Campbelltown when she stood for election. She stressed that she had a keen interest in local affairs as well as supporting One Nation’s principles and objectives. She had two children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 5 September 2007 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 9892 comprises professional and personal papers documenting Lasica’s involvement with a variety of Australian dance companies, her professional reading, and the Modern Dance History Project and Archive. The most extensive components of the collection are those relating to the Modern Dance Ensemble, and the Modern Dance History Project and Archive initiated by Lasica. The collection includes photographs, programs, newspaper clippings, administrative records, photocopied articles and transcripts of oral history recordings (12 boxes, 6 fol. boxes, 1 elephant fol. item).??The Acc08.138 instalment includes video tape reels (20 x 5 in., 4 x 7 in.) and audio tape reels (148 x 7 in., 6 x 10 in.). Most tapes are labelled either on their container or on the reel itself. Audio tapes appear mostly to contain music recordings (15 boxes).??The Acc10.092 instalment comprises three mini VHS tapes. Two tapes are labelled as “Margaret Walker Celebration, 18 January, 1997”; one tape unlabelled (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 March 2019 Last modified 8 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "93 hours 25 minutes??As a significant aspect of her research for the book They Became Nurses, retired nurse and nurse educator, Joan Durdin, interviewed many South Australian nurses. Their experiences range from training prior to the First World War and overseas service to work in country hospitals and involvement in nursing administration and education. A single recording by Barbara Parker and another by an unidentified interviewer are included in the collection. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour??Helen Galanopoulos, nee Kondyli, was born in Greece and trained as a nurse at the Evangelismos Hospital in Athens 1951-1954. In 1958 Helen migrated to Australia and worked as an assistant nurse at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. Later that year she came to join other members of her family in South Australia. After several months of non-nursing work, she was accepted as a student nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital to do one year’s training and take examinations for registration. As a registered nurse Helen has worked at the Repatriation Hospital and at Flinders Medical Centre, where at the time of the interview, she was employed in a part-time capacity in the Consulting Clinics. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Active in student, religious and union affairs since 1990, Kristina Keneally was the first American born member of the N.S.W. Parliament. In 2003 she was an ALP candidate elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Heffron. After being re-elected in 2007, she became the Minister for Ageing and Disability Services and was subsequently appointed Minister for Planning by incoming Premier Nathan Rees in September 2008. She held the position of the NSW Government’s Spokesperson for World Youth Day 2008. On 3 December 2009 the Australian Labor Party caucus elected Keneally to replace Nathan Rees as leader of the parliamentary party. She was sworn in as Premier on 4 December, 2010. She led the Labor Government to defeat at the 2011 election and was replaced as Leader of the ALP by John Robertson in March 2011. She resigned from the Parliament on 29 June 2012. Kristina Keneally was born and educated in USA, at Notre Dame Academy, Toledo, Ohio, the University of Dayton, Ohio (B.A.(Hons) 1991; M.A. (Hons) 1995), and Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She also studied at Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, N.S.W. Kristina Keneally emigrated to Australia 1994, and became a naturalised Australian in 2000, when she also joined the ALP. She was a member of the Teamsters Union, and the Australian Services Union and was President of National Association of Students at Catholic Colleges and Universities 1990-91. She married Ben Keneally in 1996, and they have two sons, and a daughter (deceased). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Article Brawler who never played like a girl, Snow, Deborah and Davies, Anne, 2009, http://www.smh.com.au/national/brawler-who-never-played-like-a-girl-20091203-k8uo.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 44 min.)??Phipson speaks of her stay in India as a child ; her school days in Australia ; married life in a country area ; how she began writing children’s stories ; her method of writing ; background to her stories. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "4 sound files (ca. 234 min.)??Elba Cruz-Zavalla, born in 1945 in Chepika, Chile, talks about her early life and her family background; her father’s strong sense of social justice, socialist and communist values; her dyslexia; leaving school early to help her mother in the home; at 18 going to Santiago where she worked in a men’s clothing factory; participating in union activities; in 1969 marrying Valenzuela Ramirez, a carpenter; how she and her husband worked to promote community development centres in suburbs and country towns under the Allende government; her two brothers who became Allende’s unofficial bodyguards; the assassination of Allende at the Presidential Palace in November 1973; one brother being executed after the coup; her other brother being imprisoned and released after four months; her husband being granted refuge in Argentina; following him with her three small children in November 1974.?Cruz-Zavalla speaks about living in Argentina for three years under UN protection; having another child ; the family being accepted as refugees by Australia in 1977; settling initially in Adelaide, then coming to Canberra; her husband working as a carpenter; studying English; working as cook, a cleaner in a hotel and hospital and as a casual worker at the Health Services Supply Services laundry at Mitchell; initiating a successful three -week strike over employment conditions at the laundry in 1987, and subsequently became the union representative there; after six years developing RSI and being forced to seek less demanding work; in 1991 joining the staff of the Beryl Women’s Refuge; assisting Chilean refugees settle in Canberra; her involvement in a number of community organizations such as the Chilean Solidarity Committee, a support organization for Argentinean refugees; the Chilean broadcasting program on 2XX and Association of Non-English-Speaking Background Women of Australia (ANESBWA). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 24 January 2006 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "At the third annual Jean Arnot Luncheon in April 1996 a Book of Honour was introduced to acknowledge and record the contribution of each 90-year-old member of the organising bodies, the National Council of Women (NSW) Inc. and the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Associations Inc. Biographical entries of women honoured at the luncheons are followed by their authors in brackets. Photographs of most of the entrants are included. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute book of Executive Committee meetings, 1939-1940, with constitution and newspaper cuttings inserted. Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 November 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Jessie Traill, including correspondence, articles, water-colours, etchings, sketches, photographs etc. Includes 2 mounted pen and ink sketches. One labelled ‘Jessie’s mother’ and a pen and ink illustration (MC 7, DR 3) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 September 2018 Last modified 26 September 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Virginia Haussegger is an award-winning television journalist, writer and commentator, whose extensive media career spans more than 25 years. She began work as a cadet journalist with the ABC in 1986 andbegan presenting ABC Canberra News in 2001. She won the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Prize for her coverage of Indigenous Affairs in 1996. In late 2016 Virginia was appointed to head a new gender equality initiative, the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, at the University of Canberra’s Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis (IGPA), where she is an Adjunct Professor. With a singular focus on improving the representation of women in leadership and key decision making roles across all levels of government and public administration, the Foundation is the first of its kind in Australia. In 2014 Virginia was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to the community, as an advocate for women’s rights and gender equity, and to the media. Virginia Haussegger is the daughter of Kálmàn Haussegger, an engineer whose own father migrated to Australia from Germany in 1901. Her parents met and married in Melbourne. Virginia was educated in Burwood, then Bulleen, and finally Eltham, at the Catholic Ladies’ College. She spent a year on exchange in Mexico in 1981, where she developed a fascination with Pre-Columbian art. She undertook tertiary studies at the University of Melbourne, majoring in English and Fine Arts. In 1986, Haussegger successfully applied for a cadetship with the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), and began in television news. At that time, she remembers, there were no more than five senior women in senior reporting or presenting positions on television. After a term in the Victorian Press Gallery as a political reporter for ABC News, Haussegger joined the 7.30 Report in Melbourne. By 1987 she was presenting the program’s Darwin edition, but returned to Melbourne two years later to be with her husband. A brief stint on Channel 7 with Steve Vizard ended in conflict and a legal battle, and she returned to the ABC. In 1992, Haussegger joined Channel 9 as a reporter on A Current Affair, working with Mike Willesee, Jana Wendt and Ray Martin. In this role, she broke a story on The Children of God, a sect now referred to as The Family. The story resulted in a raid on sect houses by Victoria Police, after which 60 children were taken into protective custody. Haussegger left Channel 9 in 1994 and moved to Adelaide the following year, where she presented the South Australian edition of the 7.30 Report. When the program was centralised, Haussegger joined the new team in Sydney as national ‘social affairs’ reporter. In 1996, one of her stories – documenting the work of Magistrate Stephen Scarlett at the Bidura Children’s Court in Glebe, as he attempted to curb high rates of incarceration of Indigenous juvenile offenders – won the United Nations Association’s Media Peace Prize. In 1996, Haussegger was poached by Channel 7’s Witness program. She travelled widely, reporting from Iraq in the lead-up to war, and from Washington during the Clinton/Lewinsky sex scandal. As a reporter for Witness, Haussegger spent just four months per year at home in Sydney. The relentless pace continued until the show was axed in 1998. For a time, Haussegger worked as a freelance print journalist, and later, a consultant in financial communications. By 2001, she was ready for a return to the news world, and joined the ABC once again, this time as presenter of ABC TV News in Canberra. In 2002, Haussegger learned that she had problems with age-related infertility, and would be unable to have children. Her opinion piece in the Age, expressing her disappointment with the feminist claim that women could ‘have it all’, sparked enormous controversy. The result was the publication of Haussegger’s book, Wonder Woman: The Myth of ‘Having It All’ in 2005. It was launched by Julia Gillard at the National Press Club. Virginia Haussegger married Mark Kenny, political editor for the Adelaide Advertiser, in October 2005. Since 2006, she has been writing a weekly column for the Canberra Times. She is an active member of the journalists’ union, the MEAA (Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance) and the National Press Club, and has been a judge for the Walkley Awards several times. Interviewed in 2008, Haussegger remarked that ‘I am fearful for the future of TV reporting in Australia. Quality television journalism takes time and time is money. It seems Australia just doesn’t have a big enough audience market to justify big expenditures. I am very worried that we are taking an increasing amount of international news and current affairs product’. Speaking to 200 members of the Golden Key International Society at the Australian National University, though, Haussegger ‘came away feeling tremendously uplifted and energized about this young generation of Australians’: ‘One of the themes in my speech to them’, she said, ‘was about confronting failure. I wanted to impress upon them an understanding that all successful careers must – and will – involve moments or periods of what feels like failure. I wanted them to know that what matters most is how they handle it. And I wanted them to know that no matter how hard they work, they will occasionally stumble and maybe even fall over. But it’s all about the getting up.’ Events 1986 - Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Wonder Woman: The Myth of 'Having It All', Haussegger, Virginia, 2005 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 October 2008 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers relating to the Adult Community and Further Education Board, 1993-1994; Third Age Learning (Hawthorn), March-December 1993; Commonwewalth of Australia Budget Fact sheets on Aged and Community Care Component, 1993; Senior Citizens Week 1993; Council of Adult Education 1993-1994; Commonwealth Forum for the Aged. Created 24 October 2018 Last modified 24 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Kayleen Bounds was an active supporter of the One nation Party founded by Pauline Hanson. She ran for them in the 1999 New South Wales Legislative Assembly for East Hills and in the House of Representatives for the New England seat in 2001. Kay Bounds was a resident of East Hills when she ran for the State seat in 1999. She had worked with St John’s Ambulance for the previous 11 years and was on the committee and the Board of directors of the Revesby Blue Light Disco. She opposed the upgrading of the Bankstown airport and promised to fight for more police in the area. She had moved to the New England district when she ran in 2001, and expressed confidence in how well the One Nation party would poll. This confidence was misplaced. She polled only 2% of the vote, dropping more than 11% from the previous election. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The history of golf in Canberra is as old as the history of the city itself and women’s involvement features almost from the outset. When the Royal Canberra, Federal and Queanbeyan Golf Clubs were established in the 1920s, Canberra was a small country town with a population between five and six thousand. There was only one picture theatre in town, restaurants and café’s were virtually non-existent and social and ethnic clubs a generation away. Much of the pleasure of playing golf, then and now, came from the social interaction of playing a round and then talking about it afterwards, in the club house. In a town like Canberra, women were as much attracted to golf as were men. Little wonder that they were very keen to form associate relationships with the clubs as early as possible. In 1926, the Federal Capital Commission constructed a new golf course on a site at Acton and this is where the Canberra Golf Club had its first real home. (The focus of this entry on women’s golf in Canberra will be on their association with this club.) Built on the banks of the Molonglo River and with the river as a constant threat to wayward shots, the course soon earned a reputation as a superb and challenging test of golf. With minor changes only to the layout, but major changes to the clubhouse, it remained the home of Royal Canberra Golf Club (RCGC) until 1962, the “Royal” status having been granted by King George V in 1933. The Walter Burley Griffin plan for Canberra called for the damming of the Molonglo River to form a lake and so it was that, in 1962, with its Acton site due to be submerged in that plan, the Club moved to its present site at Westbourne Woods. Women have been associates of the RCGC since 1927. Until a new constitution was adopted in 1993, they have been almost entirely self-supporting within the club structure. They had control over their own finances; provided trophies for events and ensured supplies were available for their use in the clubhouse. Very importantly, they were responsible for the club house flower arrangements that were admired by all who visited. The RCGC associates were trailblazers who provided advice and guidance to their sister associates at the Federal Gold Club. Three months after that club formed in May 1933, the Captain and Secretary of the RCGC Miss Eila Fisher and Mrs O’Loughlin, attended a meeting to help women at the Federal Golf Club form their own association. Miss Fisher, who was associate champion for four years running (1929-1933) was dynamic, enthusiastic and fully appraised of all the administrative concerns that needed to be considered. Women golfers in Canberra were excellent fund raisers and administrators. They were also quick to join. In 1927 the total membership of the RCGC was 95, forty of which were associates. In 1930 the number had grown to 322 of whom 117 were associates. In 1962, when the course moved to Westbourne Woods, there were 367 playing associates. Of course, equal enthusiasm for the game did not equate to equal access to facilities at any of Canberra’s courses until very recently. In 1936 at RCGC associate members had full playing rights and priority over men only on Thursdays. On Saturday mornings they could not play competition and they had to give way to members. Similar rules applied on Saturday afternoons. Attempts to further restrict access were madea at Westbourne Woods in 1970 when the ordinary members passed a motion that on days other than official competition days associates would not be permitted to hit off after 11 am unless accompanied by a member. The associates had been accused of ‘hacking up’ the green and this was their punishment. The women protested strenuously, especially since their subscriptions, at nearly two thirds the cost of the men’s would give them little value if the motion was passed. A compromise was reached but the attitudes reflected the subservient position of the associates, a feature of most, if not all golf clubs at the time. In July 1986 associate members at the RCGC were able to join as ordinary members and permitted to play a women’s competition on Saturdays, which represented a dramatic shift in attitudes. How much of that attitudinal change was enforced as a result of changes in equal opportunity legislation is difficult to gauge. But the fact remained that in 1986, women were no longer ‘associates’ but ‘lady members’. After 1993 all categories of membership were open to both men and women, and all categories of membership have voting rights. Women who played the course when it was in Acton remembered it fondly. Former champion Fay Gray, loved the sight of the eighteenth hole: As you came up the rise there was the Albert Hall and the little weatherboard clubhouse waiting to welcome you, The green was almost surrounded by bunkers but there was one clear spot in front. One day I found it with two woods and played a full 7 iron which bounced in front and rolled across the green for me only ever eagle. That is the kind of memory one treasures. It was clearly a vision of Canberra that the early founders were keen to broadcast. In 1932, the first talking films to promote Canberra were made. The Minister for the Interior of the day recommended a good place to start creating a visual record of Canberra was on women’s day at the Canberra links. The course’s location on a flood plane did create problems. Flooding would sometimes make the suspension walking bridge across the river unusable, and so players would have to jump in a car a drive around the other side to finish the course. And the fact that the river has beaches that attracted local sunbathing youths was a problem at times. In the 1940s, a request was made for a plain clothes policeman to be stationed nearby ‘to deal with the obscene language of the youths swimming below the 15th tee’. Outside interference from rowdy youths wasn’t the only source of controversy to the RCGC in the early days. An incident that took place in 1932 received national press coverage and was still remembered four years later. The story of a player who appeared on course wearing shorts was read in newspapers as far away as Kalgoorlie and created much local furore. One report stated that after the woman involved vowed never to be so indiscrete again, ‘the associates regarded the matter as closed, although the controversy on the subject of women’s golfing attire is still raging in Canberra.’ When writing about Lady Gowrie’s admiration for the uniforms of the Women’s League of Health and Beauty in the Australian Women’s Weekly some four years later, a journalist observed: Her Excellency will doubtless encourage and inculcate the principles of the league in Canberra. Any similar exhibitions on the banks of the Molonglo, however, should be beyond sight of the committee of the Royal Canberra Golf Club. A distinguished lady resident of the capital once wore shorts on the links and thereafter sackcloth and ashes. The move from the Acton site in 1962 was enforced but the links to the history after the move were preserved in the names of the various trophies. The Lady Isaacs Cup donated on 1932 was played for at club championships, as was the Mary Horan Cup, in honour of Mary Horan a long time member of the club who served as honorary secretary for ten years. The Glory Lightly Trophy was named in honour of a member warded life membership herself in 1986. Numerous other trophies have been played for and named in honour of women who have played a significant role in the creation of community in Canberra. Many past players and champions have had careers that indicate their diverse range of skills beyond playing golf. Fay Gray, for instance, was an Oxford graduate who worked with British intelligence during the war. Dr Charlotte Allen, who was club champion in 1993, was a research fellow in Geology at the Australian National University. As well as serving its members, the RCGC has served elite international competition and is a regular on the ladies circuit. Most recently, it hosted the 2013 Australian Women’s Open, and the beauty of the Westbourne Woods site was appreciated by anyone who caught the coverage. And how times have changed; shorts were to be seen in abundance, with no sackcloth or ashes in sight! Published resources Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Book Recollections of Women's Golf: GCGC 1926 to 1993, Royal Canberra Golf Club, 1996 The Federal Golf Club story, 1933-1983, Clues, D. S., 1983 Newspaper Article Talkie Films to Boost Canberra, 1932 Shorts For Women Golfers, 1932 Points of View, 1936 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 20 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "After working at ANU law school, as an associate to a High Court judge and a brief stint with Michael Kirby at the Australian Law Reform Commission, Rebecca Davies joined Freehills as an articled clerk, with Kim Santow as her master solicitor. Just under three years after her admission she became the third female partner at a major Australian law firm. Davies practised as a litigator and a commercial lawyer working in both the Sydney and Melbourne offices of the firm, managing a range of high profile cases and projects. She was a member of the firm’s board and chair of the Women at Freehills steering committee. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Rebecca Davies for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Rebecca Davies and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Becoming a lawyer was not something I positively set out to do. There were no lawyers in my family. My mother had been a nurse prior to having four children, of whom I was the first. My dad had been in the merchant navy and then went into business. I went to an all girls’ government high school, and although we higher achieving girls were encouraged to succeed, there was still an expectation in those days (late 60’s) that girls would either leave in Year 10, and maybe become hairdressers, or if they stayed to year 12, the vast majority would become teachers and then marry. I had become involved in various political activities during school (Women’s Lib, anti Vietnam activities, 18 year old voting etc.) and so my ambitions were more in the political arena. I thought studying politics and economics would be the way into that field, and ANU in Canberra made sense, not only because Canberra was the centre of federal politics, but also it was a way to leave home and spread my fledging wings. And somewhere in the background, were the stories my mother told about some of the women in her own family, who had been real pioneers in the early 20th century; the first policewoman in South Australia, the first female professor of psychology at Adelaide University, the political activist wife of the editor of the Adelaide Advertiser and others. Real role models of women who made a positive contribution to their communities. Just before doing the HSC in 1971, I went to the Vocational Guidance Centre in the city with three friends to do the IQ and physiological tests then on offer. It was suggested for me that law was a possible career and that made me consider this option for the first time. It was attractive as I could do both an economics and law degree together at ANU, and was a reasonable stepping stone into politics. Of course, on discussing our experiences, it seemed the Vocational Guidance people may have been pushing students into law at that time, maybe particularly women, as that advice was given to three of the four of us! I was the only one who did take that path in the end. So in early 1972 I left home in Sydney and moved into Bruce Hall, one of the residential colleges at ANU. During my University life, I enjoyed my law studies, but there were frankly more exciting things going on around me with the election of the Whitlam government and the tumultuous events of the following few years. I became involved with environmental issues and other campus activities, and also enjoyed the freedom of being away from home and in a mixed sex environment. They were heady days! I was probably not totally engaged in my legal studies until the final year where I really enjoyed Constitutional Law under Professor Leslie Zines, who was super tough but intellectually challenging. And of course we had witnessed at close hand the constitution under challenge with the dramatic dismissal of the Whitlam government. After finishing my law and economics degrees in 1976, I then needed a job. Being in Canberra, the public sector was an obvious choice and for a short while I worked in defence superannuation, but soon realised that this was not a realistic long term option for me. Luckily a position back at the Law School came up and I spent the next year or two working as a research assistant back in the Faculty of Law. One of the fun things from that time was working on the Legal Services Bulletin, the ‘alternative’ law journal, which meant working with some great people, who I later saw move into very important positions. People like Peter Hanks, Gareth Evans, Mark Richardson, John Basten and Jack Goldring were particularly impressive. But it’s also interesting to note, that here I was a young woman among lots of men, so very much in a minority- a feature common to much of the next 20 years of my career. Then a faculty colleague suggested I become Associate to Sir Kenneth Jacobs at the High Court; a job he had had himself, and without a formal application, I took up that role and worked for Sir Kenneth until his retirement due to illness. It was a great experience, working at the very top of the legal system, and many of the lessons I learned then have stood me in great stead over the years. I then decided it was time, maybe, to try practicing law rather than thinking and writing about it. A totally unscientific process, as being in Canberra I didn’t really have much idea about private law firms. So I went through the phone book and wrote to firms who had bold entries in the listing- figuring that this might mean they were larger ones! This was 1979. And the interview process was pretty ghastly. I was asked when I was going to get married, if I was engaged, told I should be happy with small salary – ‘you just need pin money’ – and ignored by many firms, despite having a pretty good degree and having been a High Court Associate. Feeling that I might need to look further afield or go back to academia, I then got lucky and was interviewed by Kim Santow, the great late Court of Appeal judge, then a senior partner at Freehill, Hollingdale and Page (FHP) in Sydney. We had a most engaging and entertaining interview and I was hired as an articled clerk at the salary of $9000 pa, about half what I had earned at the High Court. FHP was a leader in many ways. There was a woman partner, Helen Brown and other senior women, people from varying backgrounds – not just the traditional Catholics – and David Gonski had just been promoted to partner as the youngest in a major law firm. The firm was also expanding beyond the boundaries of one city; again in the forefront of that national, and then international expansion. As for me, although I was initially apprehensive about moving to the dark side – working at the big end of town – I discovered pretty quickly that I actually really enjoyed the work, the people, the clients, the issues. And, to my surprise, I discovered that I was also ambitious. It’s funny to reflect on the things that can motivate you. One thing that really spurred me on was working with another lawyer, around my age but an admitted solicitor, on a piece of research. He told me my work was ‘quite good really.’ Given I had spent the previous few years writing and assisting senior academics and a High Court judge with research, this was a bit rich! I remember deciding then and there that I was going to get to be a partner in the firm, and I was going to get there at least as fast as any of the men, particularly this one! So I set my mind to that goal and achieved it, just under 3 years after being admitted in 1980. I think I achieved that by working hard and smart and being up front about what I was looking to achieve, although I was still surprised when it happened as quickly as it did. I then continued to build my practice, being the third woman partner in a major law firm in Australia, and I think the first who was a commercial litigator. Made a partner before I was 30 and looking much younger than that, a major challenge was getting people to take me seriously. I became quite adept at reading the signs from the senior business people I was dealing with that they were thinking ‘what is this girl doing running this major piece of litigation for my company’, and knowing how to quickly win their confidence. Again, because I had to overcome the assumptions people made based on my age and gender, I worked out that I needed to be better prepared and find the best way to connect with the clients. And that turned out not to be so hard as I found I was really interested in what clients were doing, the challenges they faced and them as people. That I think was key to success in being a business acquirer, so after a few years I had one of the most successful practices in the firm. Mostly I found, after the initial shock on meeting me, that clients trusted me and enjoyed working with me. I do, though, recall one setback in particular. We had a US based client, and I was running the case with a smart male lawyer assisting me. One day my assistant confessed to me that the client had said he really didn’t want to work with a woman leading the team. That was a real blow to my confidence. And I felt let down by some of my male colleagues who took over the case rather than standing up for me. The client, though, was a complete pain, and not too long after the partner who had taken over from me actually sacked the client! Small comfort, but I remember being quite depressed as I thought that my youth was a disadvantage that time would deal with, but being female wasn’t going to change. Then in 1987 I was asked to move to our Melbourne office, the firm having recently linked up with a Melbourne firm. The Sydney office thought the Melbourne litigation team needed to become more commercial and that was the task I was given. I was very apprehensive about that step, and was concerned that the main reason I was asked was because I was single, so relatively easily moved. When I arrived in Melbourne, there was some resentment of the Sydney ‘spy’, and at that time I was also the only female partner in the Melbourne office. There was a bit of a ‘freeze’ applied, and it was quite lonely to start with. Anyway, I used the skills I had learned in winning people over, and again developed one of the highest billing practices in the firm and was able to sponsor a number of young lawyers, including young women, into the Melbourne firm. I moved back to Sydney in 1989, and not long after getting back home I met the man who a year later became my husband. I think by this stage there may have been other women partners who were married; certainly over the 80’s there was a big increase in the % of women In the partnership. I continued to have a very significant commercial litigation practice, and given my seniority was able to maintain that practice during two periods of maternity leave and some part time work when I had my two children in 1991 and 1993. Although partner maternity leave was included in the partnership agreement, part time work wasn’t and I think I was the first partner to ask to do part time work. This was quite controversial as some felt that as a partner you needed to demonstrate 100% commitment and the only way you could do that was being present and billing at a minimum of 5 days a week. There was certainly a strong macho culture of working long hours and spending little time at home, so giving priority to family wasn’t playing the game by the accepted rules. I guess being relatively senior and having a very successful practice gave me the influence to ensure this worked for me, and hopefully that helped pave the way for others who followed after. The cases I worked on were some of the most interesting around at the time and I had the opportunity to work with amazing people; clients, barristers, opponents and most importantly, the members of my own teams. Major cases included Estate Mortgage, Burns Philp Trustees, Christopher Scase and Qintex, Linter, Alan Bond and Bell Resources. On my return to full time practice, there was a period of increasing management responsibility within the firm. I was elected as the first female member of the firm’s board. I had wider responsibilities for the litigation group as a whole and for risk management and professional indemnity insurance for the firm. It was a time when law firms, ours included, were subject to a number of very large claims resulting from corporate collapses in the late 80’s early 90’s, and I had the job of successfully managing the firm’s defence of those claims. I then decided to move out of litigation and became a corporate lawyer for several years, focussing on IT issues in particular. I led the Freehills team running the successful demutualisation of the NRMA, acting for the insurance arm of the operation. But my real love was litigation, so I moved back into that field in the early 2000’s and stayed in that area until I retired as a partner in 2009. Highlights were acting for Kerry Stokes on a range of major cases, some successful, and some less so, but all amazing challenges from which I learned a great deal. Although I have really enjoyed all the things I’ve done since I left full time legal practice, I look back on my legal career with great satisfaction. I acted on some of the Australia’s biggest and most complex cases, worked with wonderful people all around the world and was able to make an impact on a range of business and policy issues. I mentored many young lawyers, and brought many into the partnership. As a working mother, I was able to provide one model to young women of how a successful legal career might be achieved. As a champion for women inside law firms, ours in particular, I saw an increasing percentage of women partners in the firm, and talented women taking other senior roles in the firm. I was proud to talk about those successes both locally and internationally, showing what was possible and hopefully encouraging others. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Rebecca Davies Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Rebecca Davies Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Photocopy of brief history of the WATC and photographs and some correspondence relating to the WATC. Copy of news article of Nancy Bird Walton. 1938-1981. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Include minute books, 1974-1978; scrapbook, 1980-1983; and material concerning the Society’s Diamond Jubilee Competition, 1985; and printed material Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 November 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "June van de Klashorst was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Thirty-fourth Parliament of Western Australia as the member for Swan Hills on 6 February 1993 in succession to Gavan John Troy (retired). She was re-elected 1996 and defeated 10 February 2001. June Dorothy Wellstead was born in England in 1938 to Cecil Wellstead, a bus driver, and his wife Ada. The family arrived in Western Australia in 1951, where June attended Princess May High School and Fremantle Technical School. She married Franciscus van de Klashorst in 1959, and they had two sons. June van de Klashorst worked in various secretarial and management capacities before training as a teacher. In 1985 she joined the Australian Liberal Party and was a founding member of the Gidgegannup branch. van de Klashorst was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the Western Australian Parliament for Swan Hills in 1993. She was re-elected in 1996, and defeated in 2001. Published resources Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This film was sponsored by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs for International Women’s Year, exploring the lives of four women living in Adelaide, the pressures on them, their past experiences and their family lives; and shows the part they play in South Australian efforts towards equal opportunities for urban Aborigines before the law, in housing and in employment. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 25 May 2005 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Western Australia was founded in 1892, inspired by the visit of Jessie Ackerman, the second world missionary of the American Union. The group is primarily dedicated to promoting total abstinence from alcohol and other harmful drugs and all members sign a pledge to this effect. Under its broader agenda of ‘home protection’ and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, however, it has been involved in wide range of social and political reform activities mostly relating to the welfare of women and children. Importantly, influenced by its sister organisation in the United States, the WCTU became a major supporter of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Australia as it was believed that power at the ballot box was the only way to achieve their goals. While at its most influential in the years up to WWI, the movement still continues today. The first local Union In Western Australia was formed in York, with another five soon following, and by August 1891 a Colonial Union with 155 members had been established. As well as campaigning for restrictions on the sale of alcohol, early activities of the groups revolved around prison work, establishing a sailor’s rest as well as children’s and youth groups. By at least 1893 the Union also adopted the cause of women’s suffrage. The Union continued to expand its activities – creating refuge homes, campaigning against gambling, smoking and other drugs, and producing education literature. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section White women, Aboriginal women and the vote in Western Australia, Grimshaw, Patricia and Ellinghaus, Katherine, 1999 Book Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 The strength of white ribbon : a year-by-year record of the centennial history of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Western Australia (Inc.) : ten decades of service for \"God, home and humanity\" 1892-1992, Henderson, Joyce R., c1992 A Feminine Temperance: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Western Australia, 1892-1900, Stewart, Michelle, 194? Journal Article War, Sexuality and Feminism: Perth's Women's Organisations 1938-1945, Reekie, Gail, 1985 Newsletter W.C.T.U. newsletter, 1960- Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Minute books, 1935-1937 [manuscript] [Interview with Nola Adams] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Laura Bryant] Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia records Author Details Jane Carey Created 18 September 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Honourable Margaret J. White was, in 1992, the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Queensland. Prior to coming to the Queensland bench, she enjoyed a distinguished academic career, first in South Australia and then in Queensland after she moved there in 1970. She retired from the bench in 2013. In between her South Australian and Queensland ‘phases’, White instructed senior naval officers of the Royal Australian Navy in international law and the law of the sea. She was commissioned as Second Officer, thus becoming the first Women’s Royal Australian Navy Reserve officer to be commissioned since the end of World War Two. Margaret White was educated at the Cabra Dominican Convent, Adelaide and graduated Bachelor of Laws at the University of Adelaide in 1966. Her early career in Adelaide was an academic one; she worked as a research assistant to Professor D.P. O’Connell several times during the 1960s, as a research assistant to the state succession committee of the International Law Association, Geneva (1965-66), and as a consultant to the governments of Guyana, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago in relation to their pre-independence treaties (1966-67). She met Michael William Duckett White while working for the Royal Australian Navy; they married in September 1970. The couple had three sons and one daughter. From 1970 to 1982, White was a senior tutor and lecturer in the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, the first of a distinguished groups of women, that included Quentin Bryce and Patsy Wolfe, to teach there in the 1970s. On 18 July 1978, White was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland. In 1983, she commenced full time practice at the bar in Brisbane. On 5 March 1990, White was appointed a master of the Supreme Court of Queensland. On 2 April 1992, White was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, the first woman to achieve the honour. She served as the chair of the Supreme Court library committee (1999 – 2003), a member of the advisory committee to the Australian Law Reform Commission on the Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth) (1999 – 2002), a foundation fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (2006) and a member of the visiting committee for the Bond University Law School (1993 – 2003). She was also a member of the University of Queensland senate (1993 – 2009) and deputy chancellor of the University of Queensland (2006 – 09) receiving an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Queensland in 2005. White was appointed to the Queensland Court of Appeal on 15 April 2010. She was the first member of the revived WRANSR in 1968 and served as a commander in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve (2002 – 10) and deputy president of the Defence Force Discipline Appeal Tribunal (Cth) (from 2008). She was on the Board of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, Chair of the Queensland Selection Committee from 2006 and National Chairman from 2011. She was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003. In 2013 White was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia ‘for distinguished service to the judiciary and to the law particularly in Queensland, as a leading contributor to legal education and reform, and to professional development and training’. She retired on 3 June 2013. Published resources Book Section Margaret White, Gregory, Helen, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 June 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc13.108 comprises a sugar bowl and gold pendant which belonged to Henry Handel Richardson, framed photo of John George Richardson, autographed letter from Henry Handel Richardson to John George Richardson, letters from Margaret Capon (Henry Handel Richardson’s literary executor) to Bruce Steele, and ephemera items (2 packets). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "40 minutes??Stella Sobels lived at Largs Bay and Semaphore as a child and attended the Lothian House school, then moved to North Adelaide and attended St Peter’s Girls School. She went to the Conservatorium and had singing lessons from Winslow Hall and Clive Carey. She was involved in local theatre and radio. Joined the Red Cross during World War I. Her father became ill so she looked after him and he died in 1940. She returned to the Red Cross and stayed until 1957. Musical Societies in Adelaide. Joined the Lyceum Club in 1947. Went with the Australian choir to England in 1933. Music programmes in the Lyceum Club. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 2003, Nonee Walsh was a passenger on a train that derailed at Waterfall near Sydney, New South Wales. Suffering personal injuries she was trapped in the train. After her rescue, guided by her colleague Michelle Brown, she still managed to report on the news that was unfolding around her. That lead to them jointly winning a Walkley Award (Radio) for news reporting in 2003. Her colleague wrote about the events when they were featured in a play produced for the tenth anniversary of the crash in 2013. Walsh is currently (2017) the website reporter and editor for the International Association of Women in Radio and Television, a NGO supporting women in media on gender issues and women’s rights. Nonee Walsh was a journalist with ABC radio for 29 years, working in radio news, current affairs rural, and Radio National. She began her radio career in university public radio 5UV, by turning her Anthropology study into a radio series; ‘Prostitution in Adelaide’. From the 1980’s she was based in the ABC’s Sydney Newsroom, and covered the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and Chamberlain Royal Commissions and the NSW ‘Independent Commission Against Corruption’ before turning towards science and environment journalism. She has conducted journalist training and coordinated the ABC’s Science media fellows programme. From 2001 onward, she reported for ABC radio and online on two prominent business corruption inquiries, the James Hardie asbestos compensation funding issue, and the 2006 Inquiry into AWB and the UN Oil for Programme. In 2015 she was awarded a Master of Arts (Research) from the University of Sydney for a thesis on that inquiry, ‘Mediating justice: investigating the media framing of the 2006 Cole inquiry.’ She ceased broadcasting on the ABC in 2014, and began working for IAWRT in 2015. Events 2003 - 2003 Radio News Reporting – Waterfall Train Crash – Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1980 - Published resources Article Shock and grief: Reporter reflects on the Waterfall train derailment, Brown, Michelle, 2013, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-27/reporter-reflects-on-the-waterfall-train-derailment/4915550 Thesis Mediating justice: investigating the framing of the 2006 Cole inquiry, Walsh, Nonee, 2015, http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13566 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 October 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "As a young migrant who arrived in Australia from the Netherlands in 1953, Petronella Wensing became concerned about the welfare of other migrants, particularly women, and how they could be successfully integrated into the community. As a consequence of her growing awareness of the problems that existed for them, she became a delegate of the St. Patrick’s branch of the Catholic Women’s League and on 22 June 1961, a member of the Good Neighbour Council of the ACT. Her work with migrants was recognised in the ACT International Women’s Day Awards 2011. As a skilled artisan her specialities were lace making and embroidery. She was foundation President and a Life Member of the Canberra Lace Makers Association, a past President of the Embroiders’ Guild of the A.C.T. and as well, a member of the Australian Lace Makers Guild. She continued to volunteer and consult with the National Gallery of Australia and the Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra on lace and textiles for many years. Petronella Wensing was born 22 January 1924 in Teteringen, the Netherlands, the fourteenth child of seventeen, born to Johannes Goderie and Cornelia De Weert. As a young child, Petronella suffered from rickets, although this condition did not hinder her education as she was a bright little girl who learnt quickly at school. When she started school at the age of five, she could already knit and crochet. Growing up in the Netherlands during the depression was difficult for the family and even though her father was employed by the Netherlands railway, four of Petronella’s five brothers suffered from long term unemployment. In 1943, her mother passed away and her father remarried in 1944. Petronella Goderie and Michael Wensing (1912-1988) were married at Ryen on the outskirts of Breda on 19 August 1948. Even though Michael was a skilled sign writer, painter and paper hanger he found there was little work for him in the Netherlands devastated by the Second World War. Consequently, as many other people from the Netherlands were, they were also encouraged by their government with the assistance of the Catholic Migration Association in Breda to immigrate. Initially the family wanted to go to New Zealand but due to restrictions on the immigration to that country of married couples with children, they decided on Australia. Petronella and Michael travelled with their two small sons, on the Sibajak to Sydney, arriving 11 June 1953. The family then spent four months at Scheyville Migrant Camp near Windsor in New South Wales. Their third son was born at Windsor Hospital, the first night they were at Scheyville. Around October 1953, Michael found that he could obtain work in Canberra, so the family moved there. They lived on Russell Hill for a time before moving to Braddon. Petronella quickly realised the difficulties faced by women when they first arrived in a new country. She believed that without being able to speak English many migrant women suffered from a lack of confidence restricting their daily lives and integration into the community. Because of the influx of new immigrants into the A.C.T after the war, the Good Neighbour Council had been established in Canberra on 22 March 1950. In these early years, new settlers were welcomed on their arrival at the Canberra Railway Station and at social gatherings held every Sunday afternoon. Petronella joined the St. Patrick’s branch of the Catholic Women’s League and the Good Neighbour Council with the primary aim of assisting new women settlers. She organised functions for women and children from many countries, working with them in a friendly and unbiased manner regardless of nationality. She advocated strongly the need for consultation between migrant groups and government bodies, so that migrants were made aware of issues surrounding family and criminal law and human rights. In the late 1960s, she taught part-time at St. Patrick’s Primary School and at Aranda Primary. She loved teaching children particularly. During 1970, still with a young family herself, she successfully completed a Certificate in Fashion at the College of Technical and Further Education in Canberra. This was essentially the beginning of a long career as a specialist artisan, as she has gone on to inspire generations with her dedication as a teacher and skill as an embroiderer and lace-maker. Between the years 1970 and 1986 she taught Embroidery, Needlework and Fashion at St. Clare’s Catholic College in Canberra. In the year 2000, for three months, she undertook a teaching and lecturing tour of New Zealand. In 1982, during a journey she and Michael took to the Netherlands to meet family, she studied lace-making at Brugge, Belgium. Up until 2003, she continued to give workshops on lace-making and embroidery transferring her knowledge and crafts generously to many students. Her work has been exhibited across Australia and in many parts of the world notably: • 1980 – her work was exhibited at the 1st Australian Fibre Conference, Melbourne. • 1997 and 2002 – her lace adaptation of the Bok Tower Carillon was exhibited at the Bok Tower Gardens, Florida, U.S.A . • 2000 – at the Canberra Museum & Gallery. She was invited by the Belgian Embassy to select and curate their lace exhibition – From Belgium with Lace. For several years she has played a prominent part in bringing to Australia international lace makers and textile designers such as Victoria van Strik. In 2006 she received a grant from the government of the Netherlands to assist with the celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the Dutch in Australia. She spoke four languages, English, Dutch, French and German. She was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2013. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Conference Paper State Conference, 1964 Book A History of the Good Neighbour Council of the Australian Capital Territory Inc., Fleming, C.I., 1975 Journal Article Southern Stitches, Wensing, Petronella, 1989 Resource Section ACT Women's Honour Roll: Celebrating local women on the 100th Anniversary of International Womens' Day, http://www.dhcs.act.gov.au/women Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Petronella Wensing, 1946-1987 [manuscript] Author Details Selena Williams Created 25 January 2013 Last modified 8 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Petronella Wensing Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Honourable Sally Thomas was the first woman to serve as a judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, serving from 1992 – 2009. After retiring from the bench, she was appointed Chief Administrator of the Northern Territory, being sworn in on 31 October 2011 at Parliament House, Darwin, by the then Governor-General of Australia, Ms Quentin Bryce AC. As well as having a distinguished career in the judicial system, Her Honour was Chair of the Legal Aid Commission from 1990 to 1996, Chair of the Northern Territory Winston Churchill Fellowship Committee from 1992 to 2004 and in 2004 she was appointed Deputy National Chair Fellowship, of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. Commenting on her appointment as Chancellor of Charles Darwin University (CDU) on 1 January 2010, Vice Chancellor Barney Glover noted that ‘[h]er strong leadership, coupled with her extensive experience as a committed reformer and contributor to social justice within Australia and beyond will bring a new perspective to CDU.’ Sally Thomas was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. A longer essay detailing The Honourable Sally Thomas’s career is in development. Published resources Resource Section The Honourable Sally Thomas AC, 2014, https://www.cdu.edu.au/25th-anniversary/sally-thomas Resource Farewell Ceremonial Sitting for the Honourable Justice Sally Thomas - transcript of proceedings, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, 2009, http://www.supremecourt.nt.gov.au/media/documents/Thomas_J_Retirement_30072009.pdf Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Sally Thomas interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personal correspondence, including letters from brother Gilbert a’Beckett, Sir Thomas a’Beckett and her husband, 1902-1960; Companies’ and Societies’ material (circulars, advertisements, information notes, minutes, reports) 1917-1951; Newspaper cuttings, invitations etc., 1929- 1954; accounts, tax assessment; Diaries, 1901-1958; engagement books, 1938-1961; papers given by Lady Moore to various societies; pattern books, architect’s drawing, etc. Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 December 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 sound discs (CD-R) and 4 digital audio tapes (ca. 350 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 December 2012 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ngingali Cullen, who was formerly known as Audrey Kinnear, was a co-chair of the National Sorry Day Committee that worked to achieve wide recognition of the wrongs suffered by Aboriginal people across Australia. Although scarred by the policies of forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families, it was healing those wounds that was her constant preoccupation. A proposal initiated by her led to the Journey of Healing campaign launched by the National Sorry Day Committee in 1999. Born at Ooldea Soak in Maralinga lands, in the south-east corner of the Nullabor Plain, Ngingali Cullen (formerly Audrey Kinnear) was the youngest of four children born to May Cobby, a Yankunjatjara woman. ‘Born into the oldest culture in the world,’ she explains, ‘I had the honour of a traditional Aboriginal birth; no doctor, no birth certificate.’ (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud) When she was four years old, she was wrenched from her family and placed in the Koonibba Lutheran Mission Home near Ceduna on the coast, over 300 km from the lands. Her brother was one of fifty other children in that home, her sister Mabel was in a different home in Ooldea. Loran, her older sister, escaped the attention of the police and native welfare officers by hiding under rugs or hollow trees whenever they came calling. She grew up with her mother on her lands and became a woman of status, who eventually helped Ngingali back to contact with her family in her lands. Life at Koonibba, a so-called ‘half-castes’ home, was dormitory based, disciplined, institutionalised but, on a daily basis, ‘reasonably happy’. (Interview), Religion provided the platform for their education, but Ngingali bears the Lutheran missionaries no ill will. ‘They were simply carrying out the wishes of the Government,’ she says, claiming that the Lutherans were amongst her strongest supporters and best friends as her career developed and her quest for identity progressed. (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud) The Lutheran church did provide her with things that she still appreciates – a love of music, education, social skills and friendship. ‘But the loneliness and knowing your were different was inescapable.’ (Interview), Ngingali shone at school and after completing primary school went to boarding school in Adelaide. She was the first Aboriginal girl to attend Concordia, a Lutheran boarding college. She then went on to train as a nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital where Lowitja O’Donoghue was a charge nurse, moving on to work in South Australian Hospitals, the Trans-Australian Rail Health Clinic and the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS). She enjoyed her training, liked living in Adelaide and navigated her way through the world of white people, accepting that to be like them would be ‘the way to happiness’. (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud) When she graduated in 1964, she felt drawn to work in the hospital at Port Augusta, one of only two Aboriginal people on staff. It was here that the reality of race relations in Australia hit her. The discrimination against aboriginal people who lived on the mission five miles out of town, the unnecessary deaths of Aboriginal babies who were denied basic health services; the attitudes towards Aboriginal people on Port Augusta were markedly different from what she has experienced in Adelaide. She was married, rearing a family of her own, working in a job she loved but a crisis of identity that she had managed to keep repressed for several years came to the surface. ‘I was working in a doctor’s surgery at the time, accepted by the white community, a success. But inside I was so fragile. There was a big part of me missing,’ she recalled some years later. ((Standing Tall and Feeling Proud) Ngingali was already suffering when she learned that her mother was alive and living on the reserve outside Port Augusta. ‘After all those years without seeing her I was a nervous wreck, I couldn’t go to her. It was my [first] husband, Laurie who made the firsy contact.’ (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud) Slowly and emotionally, Ngingali reconnected with her mother, extended family and her lands. But a year later, tragedy struck and the outcome proved to be the catalyst for Ngingali’s turn to activism on behalf of her people. Her mother disappeared in unexplained circumstances from outside a road house near Port Pirie and Ngingali used her knowledge of the system to force a coronial inquest to highlight the lack of police action in the search for an elderly Aboriginal woman. ‘It nearly sent me over the edge to lose Mum so soon after finding her again,’ she says. ‘This is when I got off the fence and started speaking out for my people.’ (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud) This decision has lead to a long list of achievements. Ngingali Cullen brought RFDS to remote communities, managed welfare train cars, and Aboriginal alcohol rehabilitation units. She worked for the Drug and Alcohol Services Council of South Australia and for crisis-counselling services in the Port August jail and as a part-time commissioner in the South Australian Health Commission. She was instrumental in setting up a centre for Aboriginal women in Port Augusta and established regional health programs in northern South Australia. She was the linchpin for the Aboriginal community in Port Augusta. When she was elected a member of the Nulla Wanga Tjuta Regional Council (a part of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC)) in 1990, her focus began to shift to the national scene. When she was offered a job in Canberra in 1992 as a health policy officer for ATSIC she was ready for the challenge and took the offer, despite the difficulties associated with leaving Port Augusta. She was important to the community, as it was to her. But her children were grown and she felt is was time to do something new, for her sake and for the Aboriginal community at large. Her work with ATSIC now took her all over Australia, evaluating the national Aboriginal health strategy. When Sir Ron Wilson and Mick Dodson inquired into the separation policies that affected the lives people like Cullen and published the Bringing Them Home report, the media sought stories from the stolen generations, Ngingali was one of those they turned to. She was seconded to the Office of Indigenous affairs, to the National Sorry Day Committee and was at the forefront of Canberra’s preparations for the first ‘sorry day’, on May 26, 1998. The campaign caught national attention, and nearly a million people signed ‘sorry books’. After the first sorry day, many of the stolen generations met in Sydney, and Cullen urged that they seize the moment to heal the wounds caused by the separation policies. She found a warm response, and the Journey of Healing was launched across Australia on May 26, 1999. When the Sorry Day Committee’s co-chair, Carol Kendall, became too ill to continue, Cullen was elected to take her place. This campaign brought thousands of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians together in initiatives for healing and provided a mechanism by which the stolen generations’ voice was heard throughout the next decade. After 250,000 people walked for reconciliation across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the government agreed to remember the stolen generations at Reconciliation Place, Canberra. Cullen was vital to the process of helping indigenous groups and government reaching consensus over the design of the memorial and the text to accompany it. ‘This memorial could be healing if it is created properly,’ she told the then Minister, Philip Ruddock. (Champion of Healing) She proposed that teams travel the country, seeking the views of the stolen generations on the text of the memorial, and also seeking the views of the non-indigenous people who had staffed the institutions to which Aboriginal children were removed, and those who had fostered the children. The process resulted in text that the government did not prefer but, confronted with consensus, had no option but to accept it. Kevin Rudd’s apology offered in 2008, and the generally positive response of the Australia community owes much to her inclusive approach and commitment to healing. Although she spent most of her life in South Australia, she came to love the city of Canberra and the opportunities it created. She loved coming to work and seeing Parliament House outside her window a building that gave her ‘a magical feeling, like Uluru.’ (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud). She died in a Canberra nursing home in 2012 survived by her second husband, Derick, her three children, and a legacy of healing. As she said quietly, of herself, in 1996, Ngingali Cullen ‘came a long way for a kid who was born in the desert.’ (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud) Published resources Article Champion of healing and Sorry Day, Bond, John, 2012, http://www.theage.com.au/national/obituaries/champion-of-healing-and-sorry-day-20120525-1zajh.html#ixzz2Kv1rGWl0 Newspaper Article Standing Tall and Feeling Proud, Levy, Wendy, 1996 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Audrey Ngingali Kinnear interviewed by Francine George in the Bringing them home oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 8370 comprises financial records, correspondence, minute books, newsletters, newspaper cuttings and other papers regarding the club’s activities.??The final instalment, Acc02/35, includes minutes, account books, membership lists, newsletters, Friendship Grants, correspondence and photographs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Freelance journalist Ros Bower wrote for the Sun, the Argus, and Woman’s Day. She worked in television production and was employed as a consultant by the Australian Council for the Arts. Ros Bower worked as a cadet reporter for the Sun newspaper before moving to Melbourne to take up a position as journalist for the Australian Red Cross Society, and from 1948, the Argus. She worked as a freelance journalist in London in 1955 before returning to Melbourne, where she wrote for Woman’s Day. She produced HSV-7’s television panel show, Tell the Truth, in the decade from 1957. From 1969, Bower was employed by the Australian Council for the Arts, where she drafted papers on education and the arts. In 1970 she published a paper in her own right, entitled Women in Australian Society, which contributed to debates around equal pay and equal opportunity for women. In the early 1970s, Bower assisted with the establishment of the community arts and regional development committee of the Australia Council. The committee became the community arts board in 1978, with Bower as its first director. Events 1945 - 1970 Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Section Bower, Helen Rosalie (Ros) (1923 - 1980), Hull, Andrea, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130263b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 October 2007 Last modified 8 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Dr Elizabeth Constable was an independent candidate elected to the Thirty-Third Parliament of Western Australia for the Legislative Assembly seat of Floreat at a by-election on 20 July 1991 held to fill the vacancy consequent upon the resignation of Hon Andrew Mensaros. The electorate was abolished in the redistribution of 1994. She was then elected to the Thirty-Fifth Parliament for Churchlands (new seat) on 14 December 1996. She was re-elected in 2001, 2005 and 2008. Elizabeth Blanton was born in Sydney in 1943 to Phyllis and Leonard Blanton. She attended Presbyterian Ladies’ College in Pymble, and then the University of Sydney, where she studied history and psychology. In 1964 she married Ian Constable, and while living in Boston in the early seventies with Ian and their two sons, completed a Masters in Education at the Harvard Graduate School. The Constable family arrived in Perth, Western Australia, in 1975, where Elizabeth held a tenured lectureship in education for eight years at the University of Western Australia. In 1985 she completed a doctorate in educational psychology. Constable entered the Parliament of Western Australia in 1991, the first woman ever to elected as an Independent, and is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly for Churchlands. Published resources Resource Constable, Hon. Dr Elizabeth - Parliament of Western Australia Website, http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament/Memblist.nsf/WAllMembersFlat/Constable||+Elizabeth Constable, Hon. Dr Elizabeth - Department of Premier and Cabinet of Western Australia, http://www.premier.wa.gov.au/MINISTERS/ELIZABETH-CONSTABLE/Pages/Default.aspx Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 12 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "50 minutes??Lorna Hosking married Hubbard Champion Hosking in Adelaide in 1927 and moved to Kokope near Rabaul as Dr Hosking was the Government medial officer. After two years they moved to Rabaul. In May 1937 there was a temporary evacuation of the town because the volcano erupted and sent steam, pumice and debris 25,000 feet into the air. Women and children were sent home when Japanese were about to invade, Dr Hosking was put on board the ‘Montevideo Maru’ by the Japanese and it was bombed by the allies off Lugan as it had no Red Cross marks. There were no survivors. Mrs Hosking remained in Adelaide with her two daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth. She worked with the War Widows Guild which had been set up by General George Vasey and his wife. Shops were set up in each state and the Guild worked to improve pensions for the widows. Dr Hosking graduated from Adelaide University School of Medicine and worked in New Guinea for 16 years. They both enjoyed the life and liked the New Guinea people. She and her daughter returned to Rabaul in 1986 to see the town and place where they used to holiday on the coast. The journey was worthwhile. Talks about the New Guinea people, the Leahy brothers who set up an airstrip at Lae, New Guinea independence in 1972 and the effect of the earthquake on Rabaul. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 8861 comprises correspondence with Lloyd Ross, 1977-1982, about research into trade union history, including William Paisley Earsman, Robert Samuel Ross, the Victorian Socialist Party and the Victorian Labor College. There is a copy of a letter from Lloyd Ross to Harry Pollitt about Tom Mann and the Victorian Socialist Party, 19 March 1936 (1 folder).??The Acc10.138 instalment comprises draft manuscripts, correspondence, family papers, photographs, notes and personal papers. The drafts principally relate to two publications: Ann Turner’s Historical dictionary of Papua New Guinea (1994, 2nd ed. 2001); and A short history of Papua New Guinea, by John Dademo Waiko (1993, 2nd ed. 2007). Much of the correspondence in the collection is between Turner and Waiko discussing amendments to Waiko’s books. The photographs include images used in Turner’s Historical dictionary of Papua New Guinea, as well as some of Turner’s uncle, explorer Michael Terry. The latter include photographs of Terry on expedition in outback Australia in the 1930s, a signed portrait and Terry in court dress at Buckingham Palace in 1939. There are also letters from Terry addressed to Turner’s mother, Charlotte Barnard, most written in the 1970s. The personal papers include Turner’s work and study records and a short history of the Barnard family. In addition there is a book, Let’s get cracking by Athole Stewart, in which there is reference to Turner’s grandfather, Lieutenant-Commander Anthony Hunter Terry; and, a war diary from World War I kept by Terry (5 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes, including of annual meetings, 1882-1890, 1929-1981 (8 vols). ?Branch statistics, including lists of branch officials, number of members, candidates and associates, 1935-1981 (3 vols). ?Ledgers, 1935-1952, 1966-1976 (2 vols). ?Correspondence, 1950s-1960s, and newsclippings, 1960s-1970s (8 files). ?The Lodge Committee: minutes, 1916-1932; ledger, 1934-1938; and list of hostel boarders, 1955-1957 (3 vols). ?Entertainment Committee: minutes, 1933-1937 (1 vol.). ?Activities Committee: minutes and correspondence, 1948-1953 (1 vol., 1 file). ?Holy Trinity Church Branch, Kingston: membership roll, 1911-1913 (1 vol.). ?St John’s Branch, Ballarat: minutes, 1955-1974 including the Townsend Club, and members rolls, 1926-1972 (6 vols). ?Girls’ Friendly Society, Commonwealth Council: minutes, 1947-1956, and correspondence, 1962-1965 (2 files). Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 February 2004 Last modified 19 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Vivienne Abraham graduated in Law at the University of Melbourne, having studied from 1937 until 1966. With her sister Shirley, born 28 February 1922, Abraham was active in a number of peace, pacifist and conscientious objector support groups from the 1940s to 1989. She was active in the Melbourne Jewish Youth Council during World War II, and Honorary Secretary of the Australian Peace Pledge Union (in Victoria) from 1946-1952. She served as Honorary Secretary to the acting editor of the Federal Pacifist Council of Australia journal The Peacemaker from 1947-1949, before becoming editor from 1953-1955. She moved to Sydney in 1955, and lived in Israel and Lebanon in 1961-62. With friend and fellow pacifist G. A. Bishop, Abraham represented the Federal Pacifist Council of Australia at a conference in Lebanon during this time. From 1964 Abraham again edited The Peacemaker, this time jointly with her sister Shirley until 1968, and alone form 1969 until the final issue of the journal in 1971. From 1982-1989 Abraham was Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Australian Section). Published resources Conference Paper Exploring the Vivienne Abraham Collection: Resources, Issues, Responsibilities, Bobbie Oliver, 2000 Journal The peacemaker, Federal Pacifist Council of Australia, 1939-1971 Resource Guide to the Papers of Vivienne Abraham, National Library of Australia, 1998, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-343781956/findingaid Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Abraham, Vivienne Archive of Australian Judaica Vivienne Abraham Collection National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Vivienne Abraham 1938-1989 [manuscript] Created 23 November 2001 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "After an early career in teaching, Laurene Dietrich moved into the area of community development, working on a number of projects which reflected her commitment to social justice and equity, particularly in regard to rural women. She was the first equal opportunity officer at the Bendigo campus of La Trobe University, and was employed to work on the organisation of the First International Women in Agriculture Conference"
    },
    {
        "text": "Scripts and reviews. For a full guide to this collection, see Elizabeth Egan’s Guide to the papers of Mary Eliza Fullerton in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, 1989, held at the National Library of Australia. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 October 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Caelli family papers document their involvement with gymnastics and their community activities particularly in Northcote and with the Preston and Northcote Community Hospital. They travelled within Australia and overseas extensively. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers chiefly related to Leone Mills’ employment by the State Library of Victoria in 1945 and her career as the Library photographer. Includes letters of appreciation from clients and news articles about her position. Also a copy of the Quarterly report of the Ombudsman, 1st January, 1977 to 31st March, 1977, Melbourne, Government Printer. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers include handwritten notes for poetry and annotated typed and photocopied drafts. Some photographs including celebrations for the 3rd anniversary of Poetry Australia. Transcripts of talks, conference papers, reprots etc. Scrapbook mostly contaiins reviews of her poetry in the form of cuttings, photocopies, personal letters etc. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Accounts (1947-1957) relating to exhibitions held at the Claude Hotchin Galleries; biographical data with notes on his life and work by Stanley W. Thompson; catalogues and invitations for exhibitions held at his own and other galleries (1947-1982); correspondence (1934-1975), both business and personal, including correspondence concerning the W.A. Art Gallery and its Board (1957-1964); diaries (1938-1977), including travel diaries written in part by Stanley Thompson; material relating to exhibitions connected to the Claude Hotchin Art Prize; files (1949-1977); gift record book (1962), detailing various gifts of art to various organisations, listing titles of paintings, names of artists and including a variety of correspondence; greeting cards (1939-1970); invitations (1937-1965); memorabilia (1963-1977); newspaper cuttings (1938-1966), including article on Kathleen O’Connor; notes (1937-1951); photographs; plan (1960) relating to reconstruction of Old Women’s Home in Fremantle (Fremantle Arts Centre); poems (1962-1968); miscellaneous collection of short stories by Claude Hotchin and Stanley Thompson (under his pseudonym Shane O’Connell); press releases (1953-1958); sketches; speeches (1947-1969), including speeches made at the opening of various exhibitions. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "AUTHOR Helen Gwynneth Palmer and Ronald James Grant Taylor : ADDRESS Kirribilli and Melbourne : TITLE OF WORK Prisoners’ Country : TYPE OF WORK Dramatic : APPLICANT Helen Gwynneth Palmer and Ronald James Grant Taylor : DATE OF APPLICATION 8 Jan 1960 : DATE COPYRIGHT REGISTERED 10 Feb 1960 : WORK ENCLOSED? Yes Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2003 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Formerly PR3596.?Papers mostly concerned with the history of Albany and its surrounds, and ships and shipwrecks along the WA coast. Includes letters re old farm at Strawberry Hill; histories of islands of Amsterdam and St Paul, Pyrmont House (headquarters of the Albany CWA), and fortifications of Albany; notes on the coastline of WA, including charts of coast and index to ships and shipwrecks, with photographs of ships; scrapbooks re Albany and Strawberry Hill; shipping papers of Bethell Gwyn & Co., Hungry Goose Line, Trinder, Anderson & Co. with photographs of ships and emigrants arriving in Fremantle and Albany. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 9635 comprises papers relating to Chipman’s career with the Australian Antarctic Division and the research for her books Australians in the frozen south, and Women on the ice. They include photographs, transparencies, diaries, edited typescripts of her two novels, correspondence, reviews, questionnaires, newspaper cuttings and card index (16 boxes, 2 fol. Boxes).??The Acc11.071 instalment comprises research notes pertaining to the life of Sir George Hubert Wilkins compiled by Chipman for a biography that was not completed. It includes photocopies and notes of press items, journal articles, diary entries and letters covering Wilkins’ life and career; timelines, indices of people and places related to Wilkins and chapter drafts by Chipman; Chipman’s correspondence with institutions and individuals regarding her research. There is a signed copy of Under the North Pole by Hubert Wilkins, and original materials including a poster advertising a Wilkins lecture (6 boxes, 14 cartons, 1 map folio). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 hours 30 minutes??Beryl Miller was born in Geelong, Victoria, the daughter of British migrants and came to Adelaide after her marriage in 1945. She speaks about her education; joining the Eureka Youth League at fifteen; joining the Communist Party of Australia in 1952; her involvement with the Union of Australian Women, the Women’s International Democratic Federation and the Australian Peace Committee; atomic testing; leaving the Communist Party; becoming a foundation member of the Socialist Party of Australia; and representing South Australia in 1964 when the Communist Party of Australia organised the first women’s delegation to Russia. Author Details Robin Secomb Created 27 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marjorie Elsie Taylor was a foundation member of the Ex-WRANS Association. She served as a telegraphist with the Naval Control Office in Melbourne during the Second World War. After qualifying at Stotts Business College, Marjorie Taylor (née Greer) worked as a legal stenographer until 1942, when she joined the civilian staff of the United States Army Headquarters, South West Pacific Area, Sydney, as Secretary in the Medical Section. After hours she attended Morse classes at Mrs F V McKenzie’s organization, the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and obtained sufficient speed to be admitted to the WRANS on 25 May 1943 as a telegraphist (WR1257). She served in HMAS Harman, Flinders Naval Depot, HMAS Lonsdale and the Naval Control Office, Melbourne, as a Telegraphist, Leading Telegraphist (1 June 1944), and Third Officer (21 March 1945). She was discharged on 4 February 1946. After the war Taylor taught for thirty-one years (1951-1981 inclusive) at the Metropolitan Business College; and became a Fellow of the Commercial Education Society of Australia. A foundation member of the Ex-WRANS Association (formed in 1963) Taylor served as Secretary from 1973-1976, and has printed the Association’s magazine Ditty Box since 1970. She edited the magazine between 1970 and 1973. Since 1974 Taylor has represented the Ex-WRANS Association at meetings of the Federation of Naval Ship Associations and since 1980 has served the Federation as minute secretary. On the death of Jess Doyle (née Prain) in 1988, Marjorie Taylor was asked to lead the ex-WRANS in the ANZAC March of Remembrance in Sydney, and continued this honour until 2003. Published resources Resource Section GREER, MARJORIE ELSIE, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=N&VeteranID=1190757 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra GREER MARJORIE ELSIE : Service Number - WR/1257 : Date of birth - 03 May 1920 : Place of birth - AUBURN NSW : Place of enlistment - SYDNEY : Next of Kin - GREER CHARLES Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Adelaide Women’s Prison Support Group was formed in 1996. A Meeting was called for 14 October 1996, initiated through the Adelaide Women’s Prison Project (AWPP). The Adelaide Women’s Prison Support Group was formed in 1996. A meeting was called for 14 October 1996 on the initiative of the Adelaide Women’s Prison Project (AWPP). The AWPP was a strategic alliance of a number of South Australian women’s services including the Women’s Information Service, Women’s Health State Wide, Northern Women’s Community Health Service, Dale Street Women’s Health, Department of Correctional Services, Greek Women’s Society of South Australia, National Council of Women, Western Area Women’s Shelter, United Nations Status on Women, Women’s Electoral Lobby, Aboriginal Prison Education, Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council and the insideout program attached to the women’s prisons. The AWPP recognised the lack of information for women in prison and on release, the lack of half way housing support, and the lack of education programs for women in prison. The meeting was held in the Pilgrim Church Hall were a draft of a constitution was discussed. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "[Personal Papers of Prime Minister Gorton] Correspondence with the Hon L H E Bury (Treasurer) [re overseas investment, Commonwealth-State financial relations, pensions payable to former Prime Ministers wives (Dame Enid Lyons, Mrs Elsie Curtin), nuclear development, Commonwealth expenditure etc.] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 June 2004 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A contents list compiled by Mrs Thelma Long is kept at PXE 718 in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room?1-177. Copy photographic prints taken from originals owned by members of Australian Women’s Army Service Association (New South Wales) of activities undertaken by Service members during World War II?178-189. 2nd Australian Ambulance Car Company (2AACC) N.S.W.?190. Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS)?191-198. Women’s Australian National Services (WANS) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2003 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc09.114 comprises photographs and copies of writings and correspondence with Alec and Penelope Hope, and family; copies of correspondence with Manning Clark, 1970-1973; and a typescript titled “The sexual revolution as big flop” (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personal papers; photographs of Henry Diggins Holmes, his wife Marion Louise Holmes and other family members (with references to banking career of H.D. Holmes and specifications for a cottage at Cottesloe (1898-1915), later Le Fanu House); papers dealing with charitable organisations in which the family were involved, including Children’s Hospital (1908), Boy Scouts (1929), Weld Club (1920), Education Department (1925-1930), Toc H (1929), Victoria Institute and Industrial School for the Blind (1930), Y.M.C.A. (1908-1930), Anglican Church (1895-1931), Ministering Children’s League (c. 1899-1920), Y.W.C.A., National Council of Women (c. 1918-1935), League of Nations. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 7711 comprises: 1. Typescripts and photocopies of Myra Roper’s travel diaries to China and Russia, 1958-1977, and an article by Roper titled “The re-education of Pu Jie”. 2. Typescripts, photocopies, notes, photographs and clippings relating to Roper’s travels to China, 1965-1981. 3. Photocopies and typescripts of articles on China and North Korea written by Roper and newspaper clippings (2 boxes).??The Acc01.246 instalment comprises diaries, drafts, notes, cuttings, photographs, slides, subject files, printed matter and audio cassettes. China is the predominant theme (16 boxes, 2 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Newspaper cuttings, typescript and manuscript articles, some letters, scrapbooks. Most of the material is concerned with women and trade unions and women’s suffrage. The material divides roughly into two sections: 1. Biographical articles on people connected with trade unions and the labour movement and people in the literary and theatrical worlds. 2. Articles relating to Alice Henry or written by her, which appeared in newspapers and magazines. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 December 2007 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Notes to assist Anne Levy, President of the Legislative Council, in opening the Mitcham Scented Garden, 19/10/1986. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letters, diaries, certificates, publications, photographs, family papers, papers relating to Australian Association of Occupational Therapists and the Margaret Reid Orthopaedic Hospital. There are letters from missionaries in China, whom Charis visited in 1929. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On 15 March 1941 Peg Cockburn (later Utting) was one of ‘The Original Mob’ who enrolled in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) at the No 1 RAAF Recruit Centre. After completing a ‘rookie training’ course she was employed as a teleprinter operator and trainer during World War II. Peg Utting was one of the servicewomen that the WAAAF used for recruiting photographs. Following the war Peg Utting settled with her husband, Mac, in Black Rock, Victoria, and there they raised their two sons. She became involved in the local community becoming treasurer of the kindergarten and helped at the state school. Besides working clerical positions on either a casual or part-time basis, Utting joined the Southern Golf Club and was president of the Lady Associates. After being contacted by a previously unknown relative she became involved in recording her family history. A member of the Genealogical Society of Victoria she also joined the Sandringham & District Historical Society of which she was secretary for six years. On 7 March 2002 Utting was awarded an Honorary Life Membership for her contribution to the Historical Society. She self-published Their Life Their Legacy, a family history of her paternal side, in 2002. Peg Utting, who joined the Women’s Air Training Corps when she was 18, states that patriotism and a desire to do what all other young people were doing led her to enrolling in the WAAAF. Through the Service, Utting met a range of people and has maintained lifelong friendships with many especially those from ‘The Original Mob’. Published resources Journal Article Introducing the W.A.A.A.F. : An account of Australia's first Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Johnston, Esme, 1941 Newspaper Article WAAAF 'Mob' well met again, Gillies, Fiona, 1991 007 notches up a golden, Filmer, Natalie, 1991 War veterans honoured, 2001 The Way We Were, 1991 Resource Section UTTING, MARGARET VIVIAN MOILE, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=929172 Book The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, Thomson, Joyce A, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Interview with Margaret Utting, http://australiansatwarfilmarchive.unsw.edu.au Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 August 2003 Last modified 5 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles, reports, minutes, speeches, travel documents and papers related to the work and personal lives of Della Elliott and Eliot Valens Elliott, particularly Eliot’s work as Federal Secretary of the Seamen’s Union of Australia between 1941-1978. Also includes a significant collection of material related to the Seamen’s Union of Australia including correspondence, reports, photographs and newspaper articles in addition to material related to the Trade Union Equal Pay Committee, Australian Women’s Charter, Federated Clerks’ Union of Australia New South Wales Branch, Communist Party of Australia, Socialist Party of Australia and communist and socialist movements in Europe and Asia. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers, relating to Sybil Craig and her forebears. Includes correspondence, 1920s-1980s; diaries, 1880s-1961; diary of a voyage on the Ophir, 1907; scrapbooks and press clippings, 1930s-1940s; invitations, 1930s-1960s; exhibition programmes; photographs, 1910s-1930s and undated; photographic negatives, including glass negatives; account books and receipts, 1878-1969; drawings; designs for the Historical Society of Victoria emblem; pamphlets and magazines, 1880s-1950s; tax and business documents, 1920s-1960s; a doctor’s visiting book, 1863-1864; a visitors’ book, 1939-1944; an autograph book containing sketches, 1912-1917; petrol logbooks, 1950s-1960s; Christmas cards, 1960s; albums of bookplates; a miniature almanac, 1853; a postcard album; items relating to artist H.E. Davies, to Winnie Major and to James Craig; and miscellaneous. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Marian Clarke was the founding headmistress of Abbotsleigh, an Anglican girls’ school in Sydney, New South Wales. Marian Clarke was educated in Germany before attending University College in Bristol. She passed the Cambridge local examination in 1880 and began her career in girls’ education the same year. Between 1880-1884 she taught at the High School for Girls, Manchester. She migrated to Australia in December 1884, arriving in Sydney to work at her sister’s school at Normanhurst. In 1885 Marian opened her own school, Abbotsleigh, in North Sydney, moving the school to Parramatta in 1888. Ten years later in 1898 she moved the school to its current premises at Wahroonga. In December 1913 she sold the school to Margaret Murray and went to Paris to study painting. In Europe during the first world war, she worked for the British Red Cross Society between 1916-19, and was placed in charge of a hostel in Somerset for nurses recovering from fatigue. After the war Clarke travelled extensively in Europe and Africa and studied painting. Aged 71, her first painting was accepted by the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français in Paris. She returned to Australia in 1928 and died in 1933. Published resources Resource Section Clarke, Marian (1853-1933), Claydon, Robyn, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080016b.htm Resource Miss Marian Clarke (1885 - 1913), Abbotsleigh School, 2009, https://www.abbotsleigh.nsw.edu.au/history-and-archives/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 2 September 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Penelope Anne Briscoe was born in Queensland in 1952. Following her father’s death in 1958, her mother relocated to Adelaide to be closer to family. Penny completed her secondary schooling in Adelaide, at Woodlands Church of England Grammar School and attended the University of Adelaide, graduating MBBS in 1976. In 1982 she achieved Fellowship of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FFARACS). Her career in pain medicine began in 1984 and she was a Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine (FPM) of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FFPMANZCA). In 2008 she became the first woman elected Dean of FPM. Author Details Monica Cronin with Alannah Croom Created 3 March 2019 Last modified 7 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "M U Australia (known for most of its history as the Mothers’ Union) is part of the worldwide Mothers’ Union which is an organisation within the Anglican Church. First established in England in 1876, its early objectives were: 1. To awaken in all mothers a sense of their great responsibility in the training of their boys and girls-the fathers and mothers of the future. 2. To organise in every place a band of mothers who will unite and prayer and seek by their example to lead their families in purity and holiness in life. The first Australian Mothers’ Union was formed in Cullenswood, Tasmania, in 1892. The movement spread quickly across the country, becoming a major organisation both for Anglican women and within the broader women’s movement in the years up to 1960. Apart from Christian outreach, the Union has been involved in wide range of social and political reform activities, mostly relating to the welfare of women and children, as well as charitable work. The first Mothers’ Union was formed in 1876 by Mary Sumner in Old Aylesford, in the south England. By 1885 it was a diocesan organisation in Winchester and quickly spread across England and then internationally as women migrated. In 1896 a Central Council was formed and in 1925 central headquarters were established in London. The Union received a Royal Charter in 1926 – the first granted to a religious and a women’s organisation. Until the 1970s, divorced women were excluded from membership. The first Australian Mothers’ Union was formed in Cullenswood, Tasmania, in 1892, closely followed in South Australian 1895 when introduced by Lady Victoria Buxton and Dorothy Harmer – the wives of the Governor and the Anglican Bishop. Within five years there were 49 branches with 1,350 members across the state. By 1904, Unions had been established in all Australian states. In the early 1900s, the Union frequently co-operated with other Christian women’s organisations, and sometimes the National Councils of Women, in campaigns for political and social reforms. Early activities included, for example, campaigns for the provision of sex education for children, censorship of films and the Bush Nursing Service. Its national journal, Mothers in Australia (from 1945 Mianza and from 1960 Mia, Mia) was established in 1917. The Union’s literature includes reams of advice about child rearing. While promoting Christian women’s influence in the wider society, the Union did not support the idea of working women. In 1974 Australia became the first overseas province to be granted autonomy. The Union changed its name to MU Australia in ?? In 2004, its objective were: 1. To uphold Christ’s teaching on the nature of marriage and to promote its understanding 2. To encourage parents to bring up their children in the faith and life of the Church; 3. To maintain a world wide fellowship of Christians united in prayer, worship, and service; 4. To promote conditions in society favourable to stable family life and the protection of children; 5. To help those whose family life has met with adversity. In 2004 it claimed some 10,000 members and maintained 7 Departments: Education; Overseas and Northern Outreach; Promotion and Development; Prayer and Spirituality; Publication; Social Responsibility; Mia Mia (the newsletter of MU Australia). It also continues to work with Caritas groups (a previously semi-autonomous organisation within the church, organised at a parish level, and not to be confused with the Catholic aid organisation of the same name) to provide support for ‘lonely people.’ In 2004 the Worldwide Union had more than three million members in 71 countries-making it the largest voluntary worldwide women’s organisation. Archival note: While several archival collections relating to Mothers’ Union groups in Australia have been identified, many more undoubtedly exist in various local parish and Diocesan records which are currently unlisted. For a list of Anglican archives (incomplete) see: http://www.anglican.org.au/community.cfm?SID=16&SSID=96&PID=154 Published resources Journal Article Sex education debates and the modest mother in Australia, 1890s to the 1930s, Warne, Ellen, 1999 Prowlers in the darkened cinema: Australian church women's associations and the arrival of the motion picture in Australia., Warne, Ellen, 2000 Militant Mothers: Faith, Power and Identity: The Mother's Union in Sydney, 1896-1950, O'Brien, Anne, 2000 Woman, save the world: an Anglican response to late nineteenth century domestic violence, Gray, John, 1994 In Pursuit of True Anglican Womanhood in Victoria, 1880-1914, Grimshaw, Patricia, 1993 Book Section Homes are divine workshops, Willis, Sabine, 1980 Anglicanism and Gender Issues, O'Brien, Anne, 2002 Book Education for life : the 2nd Mary Sumner lecture / [Helen Granowski], Granowski, Helen Barbara, 1985 The on-going story of the Mothers' Union in the Diocese of Sydney since 1896, Oates, Lorna and Jackson, Sally, 1996 A history of the Mothers' Union in Australia, Matheson, Avis, 1992 The history of the Mothers' Union in the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, 1895-1995, Taber, Stella, 1995 Mary Sumner and the Mothers' Union: A brief account of the story, Lee, Erna, 1995 Yesterday's tomorrow: where goes the family, Murray, Kemeri, 1979 Helpmeets and heroines : women and the history of Australian evangelicalism, Piggin, Stuart, 1988 Hearts, hands and voices: Celebrating the Mothers' Union, Diocese of Perth, Western Australia centenary, 1898-1998: The history, Howard-Wright, Miriam, 1999 The inaugural meeting of the Australian Central Council of the Mothers' Union, Mothers' Union, Australian Central Council, 1926 The Mothers' Union in Australia [a brief record, 1892-1964., Powell, Gladys Muriel, 1964 The Mothers' Union jubilee book, 1898-1948, 1948 The Mothers' Union jubilee book : Diocese of Adelaide, South Australia, 1895-1945, 1945 The Mothers' Union jubilee book: Diocese of Melbourne, Victoria, 1896-1946, 1946 Report Annual report / The Mothers' Union, Diocese of Sydney, The Mothers' Union, Diocese of Sydney, 1895 [Conference report] / Australian Commonwealth Council, Mothers' Union, Mothers' Union. Australian Commonwealth Council., 1940 Newsletter Mia-mia, 1960- Resource Section Members of the Robe Mothers' Union, 2006, http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=465 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Archives Office of Tasmania St Peters Anglican Church Geeveston minutes of meetings of Mothers Union St. Paul's Mothers' Union, Dover minutes. May 1926-May 1943 Administrative Records and Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers Baptism, Marriage, Burial and Administrative Records Church Registers and Minutes of Meetings Church Records of the Anglican Parish of Cooee Records of the Anglican Parish of Scottsdale St Pauls Anglican Church Dover minutes of meeting of Mothers Union Records of the Mothers Union, Geeveston and Dover Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Mothers' Union [Saint Augustine's Church (Stanmore, N.S.W)] Anglican Records and Archives Centre Mothers' Union, Diocese of Brisbane Anglican Diocese of Melbourne Mothers' Union, Anglican Diocese of Melbourne Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library Mothers' Union, Raymond Terrace Parish Mothers' Union, St James' Parish Wickham Anglican Church Diocese of Grafton Mothers' Union, Parish of Casino, Anglican Church of Australia Cathedral Mothers Union, Grafton Cathedral Parish, Anglican Church of Australia South Lismore Mothers Union, Parish of Lismore, Anglican Church of Australia Charles Sturt University Regional Archives Coolamon (St. Andrew's) Parish - Coolamon Mothers' Union Author Details Jane Carey Created 11 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ann Corcoran was elected to the House of Representatives for Isaacs, Victoria, representing the Australian Labor Party, at a by-election in August 2000. She was re-elected in 2001 and 2004. She retired before the 2007 election. Before entering the Federal Parliament she stood for the Legislative Assembly seat of Sandringham at the Victorian state election, which was held on 2 March 1985. Ann Corcoran was ALP Branch Secretary from 1980-1990. She completed a Diploma of Business Studies (Swinburne), and Graduate Diploma in Business (Monash) before working as a Certified Practising Accountant. Between 1988 and 1999, she held management positions in finance at the University of Melbourne, Frankston Hospital, the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Kilvington Baptist Girls’ Grammar School and Woodleigh School. A member of the Speaker’s Panel from 2002, Corcoran has served on House of Representatives Standing Committees on Environment and Heritage; Science and Innovation; Education and Vocational Training; and Publications. From 2004-06 she was Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 19 July 2007 Last modified 12 January 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Folders of miscellaneous pieces. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Isabel Masters was born in Western Australia in 1912. She graduated from university in 1934 with Honours in English and taught at Kobeelya Girls’ Grammar School in Katanning, Western Australia, Ascham Girls’ School in Sydney, New South Wales and Merton Hall (now Melbourne Girls’ Grammar School) in Melbourne, Victoria before becoming principal of Canberra Girls’ Grammar School in 1947. She retired in 1962, having overseen the doubling in size of what was described as a ‘happy’ school. Isobel Masters was educated at Perth College, where she was a member of the Girl Guides. She was thirty-five when she became headmistress of Canberra Girls’ Grammar. She was an experienced English teacher, had been a member of the Shakespeare Club in Western Australia and a boarding house mistress at Merton Hall in Melbourne. Like her predecessor, Una Mitchell, she could turn her hand to other subjects when required. In addition to English, she also taught German and Religious Instruction, among other subjects. Enrolments at the school nearly doubled during the fifteen years Masters spent at Canberra Girls’ Grammar. This required the physical expansion of the school and Masters oversaw the conversion of ex-Army huts into classrooms and a library as well as encouraging parents, teachers and students to assist in painting classrooms, covering Chapel kneelers and sewing curtains. She was also a keen gardener and probably found relaxation in tending the school roses, which blossomed under her care. During her time at Canberra Girls’ Grammar, a wider range of courses, particularly vocational ones including Domestic Science and Dressmaking and in the 1950s some senior classes were combined with the Boys’ Grammar School. Her staff were dedicated, although not particularly well-paid, according to one staff member, who recalled that when the basic wage was introduced for women, their pay had to be increased to be level with those of the domestics. Nevertheless neither did she know how she got the job teaching geography, with no teacher training and no geography beyond Junior level. Perhaps it was because she too was a Perth College old girl. Masters was poised and well-groomed, as was expected of a woman in her position in that era, but she also seemed to understand the importance of having fun, or perhaps of publicity. She made the most of the celebrations for the school’s twenty-first anniversary in May 1948 and subsequently introduced other celebratory days, Founders’ Day, Shakespeare Day and the Combined Grammar Christmas Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. All of these not only provided enjoyment for students but were also an ideal opportunity to promote the school within the wider community, no doubt contributing to the expansion of the student population. Upon her retirement in 1961 she was praised not only for the expansion of the school but also in creating its ‘happy atmosphere’, in which ‘no appeal for assistance has gone unanswered’. Masters died in July 2000, according to records in the Canberra Girls’ Grammar School Archives. Published resources Book A Light in the Bush: The Canberra Church of England Girls' Grammar School and the capital city of Australia, 1926-1977, Waterhouse, Jill, 1978 Magazine Burrawi, 1961 Thesis The Shakespeare Club of Western Australia 1930-2000: an example of adult education, Hewson, A., 2002 Newspaper Article Girl Guides, 1928, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article79490760 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Canberra Girls Grammar School Archives Maxine Pickering on teaching at Canberra Girls Grammar School Author Details Catherine Bishop Created 9 January 2013 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Six letters by Christina Stead to her niece Margaret Hanks with newspaper and periodical clippings about Christina Stead. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "full file; scheduled to appear in ADB Vol. 17. Author Details Judith Ion Created 5 August 2002 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Medical practitioner on APM -782-966. (Description supplied with photograph.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 December 2017 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Access open for research; written permission required for both reproduction and public use from the literary executor.??Prepared as applications to the Australia Council for literary grants, this is a collection of self-interviews with Australian poets introducing themselves and reading selections from their own poetry. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Marlene Kairouz, a member of the Australian Labor Party, was elected as the Member for Kororoit in the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Victoria at the by-election, which was held in June 2008. She was re-elected in November 2010 and again in 2014. She currently holds the position of Cabinet secretary in the Labor government. Before her election to the Victorian Parliament she served as a Councillor in the City of Darebin from September 1998 until June 2008 and as Mayor from 2001-02 and 2006-07. Marlene Kairouz was educated at St Mary’s Primary School in Thornbury from 1980-86 and Santa Maria Girls College, North cote from 1987-1992. She holds a Diploma of Health, Medical Laboratory Science( RMIT). Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 November 2008 Last modified 8 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ariel Couchman is a lawyer and women’s rights activist who works in the not for profit sector. She is (2015) the director of the Young People’s Legal Rights Centre (Youthlaw). Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Ariel Couchman for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Ariel Couchman and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Ariel Couchman was inspired to study law at Monash University as part of her journey as a women’s rights activist. On campus in student politics, as a young lawyer being admitted and in the legal and non-legal positions she used the law to highlight and challenge inequality and discrimination and bring about social justice. In 1987, on admission as a lawyer, she and her feminist friend, Meredith Carter, challenged the discrimination experienced at the time by women lawyers by wearing pants and requesting the title of Ms. There was much media coverage at the time and women barristers would stop them both many years later to thank them. Couchman and Carter both also campaigned with well known feminist lawyer, Jocelynne Scutt, to have rape in marriage criminalised and for broader rape law reform. Both had previously joined Women Against Rape in the early 80’s. This collective of women supported rape victims and campaigned about the treatment of rape victims by police and the courts. Women Against Rape was represented on the Premier’s Rape study advisory group. Much to the chagrin of government bureaucrats different members of the collective would appear at each meeting. In the 1990s Ariel was the first legal officer at the Domestic Violence and Incest Resource Centre. She initiated a broad campaign supported by lawyers, barristers and members of the judiciary to have two young women (the Collis sisters) exonerated and pardoned. The young women were convicted of perjury for withdrawing their complaints of incest against their father after being pressured to do so by their father and by his solicitor. They were finally pardoned and a solicitor involved disciplined. The case brought public attention to the experience of incest victims in the legal system. In the years that followed, Couchman and others formed the Coalition Against Family Violence and campaigned to bring to public attention the number of domestic violence homicides. They wrote a book – Blood on Whose Hands? documenting the experience of domestic homicide victims from the perspective of their family members. One of these family members, Phil Cleary, has been an outspoken advocate for women rights and domestic violence law reform since the death of his sister Vicki. Couchman was a lawyer for over ten years and then took up various policy and management positions with a focus on social justice and human rights. She is a registered Family law mediator and is a strong advocate for mediation options in the legal system. In 2014 Couchman was invited to the Monash University Student Association Alumni Awards Night and was awarded the inaugural Tony Lang Award for Excellence in Advocacy. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Lawyer scared the pants of the establishment, Berkovic, Nicola, 2014 Book Blood on Whose Hands? The killing of women and children in domestic homicides., Women's Coalition Against Family Violence, 1994 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nikki Henningham and Ariel Couchman Created 1 June 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Alice Carrard was born Alice Balint in Budapest, Hungary in 1897 where she showed great talent as a child pianist. Her debuts in Budapest and Vienna were followed by a major concert career which included many appearances, especially with the leading Hungarian conductor Ferencsik, sonata recitals with Teri Gosztonyi and chamber music with the Lenin Quartet, one of the first Hungarian quartets to achieve world renown. She also played sonatas with Eugene Ormandy, then a young violinist who later became the famed conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1941 she brought her son to Western Australia on holiday but remained due to the war. Carrard established a career as a pianist and teacher in W.A. Among her performances in Perth were the first performance of the Third Bartok Concerto and the triple Concerto by Mozart, playing with Andre Tchaikowsky and David Bollard. Among her outstanding pupils were David Helfgott, Yasko Toba and Katie Zukof. (From library catalogue entry) Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Bottom Row from left : Kathy Mueller, Hannie Rayson, Hilary Glow, Barbara Creed — Top row from left: Alison Tilson, Deborah Cox, Carole Sklan, Helen Garner, Annette Blonski. — Photographer: Jo Bell Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "About the role of Aboriginal women in today’s society. Social and moral questions raised.??There is documentation associated with the making of the documentary in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Waldsax was born in 1915 in Kadina, South Australia, to judge Sir Herbert Kingsley Paine and his wife Amy. Helen completed tertiary studies at the University of Adelaide, graduating with a history degree in 1938, followed by a Diploma of Social Science in 1939. She went on to receive training as an almoner at the Victorian Institute of Hospital Almoners in 1940, and was appointed as a social worker for the Family Welfare Bureau in Adelaide, where she worked for two years. Helen later joined the Red Cross and in 1944 she was sent to the United Kingdom as a social health worker. Helen married her husband Reinhard Waldsax in 1945 and the pair settled in Watford. She became a British citizen in August 1945. As an advocate for women and women’s issues, Helen Waldsax was president of the National Council of Women of Great Britain for two years, from 1976. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers relating to Sir Herbert Kingsley Paine and Helen Waldsax, 1895-2002 [manuscript] The National Archives, Kew Naturalisation Certificate: Helen Waldsax Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Margaret McAleer was born in Perth in 1930 and grew up in Geraldton. She was educated at Stella Maris in Geraldton and Loreto Convent in Claremont, and completed a BA (Hons) at the University of Melbourne. While in Melbourne she joined the Liberal Party. In 1961 she returned to the family farm at Arrino near Three Springs and was active in the CWA, Red Cross and local government. She also became involved with the local branch of the Liberal Party. Her interest in the party increased and from 1968-1974 she was a member of the Rural Committee; 1970-1974 was President of the Kalgoorlie Central Division and Chairperson of the Women’s Divisional Committee; and from 1973-1974 was State Vice President. In 1970 she campaigned, unsuccessfully, for a seat in the Senate and in 1974 was elected Member of the Legislative Council for the Upper West Province. Ms McAleer was the first non-Labor woman member of the Legislative Council. From 1980-1983 she held the position of Government Whip and from 1983-1993 was Opposition Whip. In 1990 she served as Assistant Shadow Minister for Women’s Interests and in 1993 she retired from politics. She married Angus Cameron in 1985. No children yet. During the interview Ms McAleer talked of her early life and influences. She also discussed in detail her political career, including campaigning; her work in Parliament and on parliamentary committees; the role of Whip ; political issues and politicians; and the role of women in Parliament. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Textual records, graphic materials, clippings and photographs relating to the family of James Cosh, 1838-1900. Includes papers of Janet Louise Cosh, including correspondence with family members and authors Patricia Clarke and Elizabeth Lawson regarding Louisa Atkinson, newscuttings and family photographs (MLMSS 3840, ADD-ON 2206/1). Created 5 August 2019 Last modified 5 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Suzie Gemmell is a social and environmental activist who stood for the Australian Greens Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Ku-ring-gai in 2003. Susie Gemmell has worked in the IT industry for fifteen years, as a software designer, trainer, documentation writer and project manager. She teaches web design at a local community college and develops environmental education programs for children. She joined the Greens on the day of the Tampa incident in 2001, believing that the Howard government’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers was disgraceful and fair minded people had to voice their opposition to such policies. She is a long term member of the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Wilderness Society. She is an avid letter writer in favour of preservation of native wildlife. Susie Gemmel has young children and is an active member of her children’s school communities. She completed a B. Communications at the University of Technology in Sydney. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. 1942-11-11. Two senior members of the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) taking a wreath into the Shrine of Remembrance during the Armistice Day ceremony. VF143893 Lieutenant Colonel S. H. Irving MBE, Commandant, AWAS. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "25 minutes??Margaret Hodge was born in Adelaide in 1918, subsequently moving to a Western Australian jarrah timber camp where her father was a teacher in a two roomed school. After his death when she was nine, Margaret and her mother returned to Adelaide to live with relatives. She attended Presbyterian Girls’ School (now Seymour College) on scholarship, being particularly influenced by two of her teachers – in English and current affairs. On leaving school she taught at Wilderness School. She married Scott Hodge in 1940, and had four children with him, including one who was born with spina bifida. She speaks about the problems of coping with a handicapped child, and her involvement in raising public awareness of people with disabilities. Margaret joined the Lyceum Club in 1971 and has served in a number of official capacities over the years. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence, essays, lecture notes, research papers, press cuttings, reports, ethnic community publications and a multicultural data bank. Records of research projects, files and working papers on displaced persons and the education of migrants arranged by project: Goulburn re displaced persons, 1950-1953; Adelaide re displaced persons, 1964-1970, Melbourne and Sydney re education of young women and migrants, 1971-1975, Melbourne re child migrant education in schools of high migrant density, 1972-1973; Sydney secondary student survey, 1974-1979. Includes material re publication of Refugee Settlers. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 25 July 2017 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records, 1915-1973, include correspondence, minutes, annual reports, newsletters, photographs and printed items related to Australian and international peace movements. Also includes papers of Anna Vroland and Eleanor Moore and documents concerning WILPF International, Australian Aborigines, conscription and women’s rights. Also, correspondence between the New Zealand section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Australian section of the same League, 1 July 1958-8 January 1967. Author Details Clare Land Created 23 November 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "18th June 1987. Script titled Rikky and Pete. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Marie Anne Tuck is mainly known for her paintings. Tuck was the first Australian woman to win honours at the Paris Salon. She worked as an artist, teacher and at a photography studio, in Western Australia. She exhibited in Paris, Western Australia, Adelaide, South Australia and New South Wales. Marie Anne Tuck was born on 5 September 1866, at Mount Torrens, Adelaide. She was one of seven children. Her parents were Edward Starkey Tuck, who was a teacher, and Amy Harriet (née Taylor), both of whom were born in England. The children were educated at their father’s school and received what was considered at the time to be a liberal education. After completing secondary school Tuck studied art at James Ashton’s Norwood Art School, commencing in 1886. She worked at a florist shop during the day and attending classes at night. Tuck became an exhibiting member of the Adelaide Easel Club and began teaching painting classes during the evenings, as she wanted to further her studies in Paris. Moving to Perth in 1896 she taught day and evening classes in painting and drawing at the Perth Art School, which was situated in the Nicholls’ Buildings, Wellington Street. These classes were advertised in The West Australian newspaper. At the same time she continued working as a florist and was known to have worked in a photography studio at 345 St. George’s Terrace, Perth in 1899. Tuck eventually saved enough money to realise her dream and travelled to Paris in 1906. Her mentor was the artist Rupert Bunny, for whom she worked in exchange for painting sessions. While living in France she spent summers in Brittany, where she painted village life. Tuck exhibited some of these paintings in exhibitions at the 11th Federal Exhibition of the (Royal) South Australian Society of Arts in 1908, as well as the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, Paris from 1908-1912. She received an honourable mention for one of her paintings, Toilette de la Mariée, in 1900, at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français. Tuck returned to Australia after the outbreak of WW1 and settled in South Australia, where she taught art at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts. She also continued her own painting practice. In 1909 she was elected as a member of the Art Society of New South Wales, and exhibited in the 1909 Salons. Tuck also exhibited in Adelaide, and the Broken Hill Art Gallery. Tuck’s themes encompass French village and rural scenes, cityscapes of old Perth and old Fremantle, views of Margaret River and the Swan River, as well as studies of native flora, in particular wildflowers and fruit. In 1915, she gifted one of her paintings to the Broken Hill Branch of the Red Cross Society. Tuck never married. She suffered a stroke in 1940, but continued to paint until her death on 3 September 1947 at Glen Osmond. Tuck’s paintings are in the collections of the Art Galleries of South Australia, New South Wales and the Northern Territory, and a retrospective exhibition was held of her work in 1971. Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of the Australian Northern Territory Art Gallery of South Australia Events 1970 - 1899 1900 - 1900 1909 - 1909 Marie Tuck’s work featured in the Art Society of New South Wales Salon 1924 - 1924 Marie Tuck’s work featured in the Society of Arts Rooms 2004 - 2004 Marie Tuck’s work featured in The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Out of the Sitting-room: Western Australian Women's Art, 1829 to 1914, Altmann, Janice M. and Prott, Julie, 1999 The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900., Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter, 1986 Resource Section Marie Tuck, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/marie-tuck/biography/ Newspaper Article Classified Advertising: Perth Art School, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3107085 Classified Advertising: Perth Art School, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3107792 Miss Marie Tuck's Pictures, 1906, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article82404688 Colonial Art,. Miss Tuck's Floral Paintings, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3101938 Miss Marie Tuck, 1909, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45078735 Miss Marie Tuck's Gift Picture, 1915, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/45325905 Miss Marie Tuck's Pictures, 1919, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63128480 Miss Marie Tuck's Paintings, 1924, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/64217732 Painting: Miss Marie Tuck's Exhibition, 1901, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24733101 Painting: Miss Marie Tuck's Exhibition, 1901, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33215927 Exhibition Catalogue The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires, 2004, http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/Edwardians/Detail.cfm?MnuID=6/&SubMnuI*D=1&BioArtistIRN=20236&IRN=127657 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 23 November 2016 Last modified 23 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Series 8 – Land claim, 1981-1992 – File 11 – Miscellaneous papers, 1987-1988 – Includes correspondence with Murray Island Council; transcripts of court proceedings, February 1987; newspaper cuttings; applications for financial assistance with legal costs; copy of Nonie Sharp’s ‘Faces of Power in the Torres Strait Islands, the 1980s and the 1930s’, a 30-page Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) Congress paper; and rough working notes.??Series 14 – Magani Malu Kes/Torres Straight Independence Movement, 1980, 1986-1989, 1991 – File 1 – Photocopy of letter from Mabo to George Mye of Darnley Island (1 February 1980) proposing the formation of a Torres Strait Independence movement headed by a ‘Torres United Party’ and a ‘Magani Institute’. Correspondence with Senator Jim Keeffe and two roneoed papers by Nonie Sharp on the case for Torres Strait independence, 1980. Newspaper cuttings relating to Torres Strait independence, 1986. Draft petition to Gerry Hand regarding the manner in which the Aboriginal Arts Board and the Australia Council neglected the interests of Torres Strait Islanders, n.d. Proposals for establishment of Mer Health Service, a Torres Strait Travel Agency and a Torres Strait Islanders’ Credit Union, 1986. Miscellaneous Magani Malu Kes papers, 1987-1988??Series 16 – Other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander related activities, 1981-1991 – File 2 – Letter from Nonie Sharp (4 January 1985) accompanying a copy of her ‘Book of Islanders’, a 167-page compilation of oral traditions from the Torres Strait, which formed Appendix B of her ‘Springs of Originality Among the Torres Strait Islanders’, later published as Stars of Tagai (1993)??Series 16 – Other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander related activities, 1981-1991 – File 3 – Miscellaneous papers, 1981-1991, including correspondence regarding Mabo’s participation in the 1987 ANZAAS Congress session, ‘Conservation in Aboriginal and Islander Environments’; objectives of the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Action Group, 1987; papers relating to the Kubin Branch of the Torres Strait Women’s Council, 1987; photocopy of ‘Autobiography of Mr Wees Nawia’ by Nonie Sharp, typescript, 1985; meeting notices for the Aboriginal and Islander Tenants’ Association, 1989; papers relating to the Yalga-binbi Institute for Community Development, 1989; and the manuscript of a speech given by Mabo to the 1st National Torres Strait Islander Seminar ‘Heritage and Culture: The Road to Recovery’, Brisbane, 1991??Loose publications – Publications include M.J. Unwin, Booran; a tale of early Australia (1960), Nonie Sharp, Torres Strait Islands 1879-1979; Theme for an overview (1980), Barbara Miller, The aspirations of Aborigines living at Yarrabah in relation to local management and human rights (1986), Paul Black, Aboriginal languages of the Northern Territory(1980) issues of The Aboriginal Child at School (1983-1989), Mili Mili (1972-1975), Yeperenye Yeye (1982-1985), Mikurrunya (1982-1983), Torres News (1988), and Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on the Torres Strait Islands (1988). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Caroline Andrews came to public notice in 1900, when she took her husband to court in Albany, Western Australia, and won a judicial separation with maintenance for their children. The case was heard under an 1896 act which provided that judicial separation was summarily available to a woman whose husband had been convicted of assault against her. A close reading of the court records suggests that she provoked her husband’s assault in order to win the judicial separation. Her aim was to prevent him from returning to England with the profits of their joint business ventures, without making provision for his children. Recent biographical projects have tended to focus on leading women whose activities had some impact on politics or society. Caroline Edwards’ work was always within the frame of family, whether in family businesses or in care for her 13 children. The wealth of online resources now available for family history research makes it possible to tell the stories of women like Caroline Edwards whose victories and defeats were mostly private. Caroline Andrews was born in Frimsley, a small town in Hampshire on the coach-road between London and Southampton, where her father, John Thick, owned a hotel. He was born near Frimsley to a farming family, but somehow acquired enough capital to be living in London and styling himself a ‘gentleman’ when he married Caroline’s mother, Caroline Lucas, in 1845. Caroline Lucas described herself as a servant, and her father as a post-chaise driver. John Thick was a widower, 16 years her senior. She bore John Thick 11 children, of whom Caroline was the eldest. Caroline Andrews was to repeat some of the patterns of her mother’s life. When Caroline Thick married Edward Andrews in March 1865 she was 17 years old and he was 29. They married in haste, by licence in London; Edward was contracted to sail to Perth as warder on a convict ship. Caroline’s father John was present and signed as a witness. Edward Andrew’s mother’s family were chapel people from in and around Godshill on the Isle of Wight. His father Joel Andrews worked as a post office messenger; in 1848 he was appointed ‘messenger from Romsey to Sherfield Hatchett on the recommendation of Viscountess Palmerston’. Edward was the youngest of his parents’ children. After his father’s death in 1858 he continued to live with his widowed mother Thirza; the 1861 census shows them in Eling, Hampshire, just outside Southampton. His mother died in 1864. A son remembered that Edward Andrews trained in the Royal Navy as carpenter and shipwright, and these were skills that he practiced in later life. In the 1861 census he is listed as a police constable, and on his marriage licence in 1865 as a ‘Warder in the civil service’. In May 1865 he set sail from Portland as warder on the convict ship Racehorse. The appointment put the 29-year old Edward in charge of 278 convicts and 50 pensioner guards, retired military men who were mostly a good ten years older than he was. The ship’s manifest also lists 31 pensioners’ wives, 78 children, and the seventeen year-old Caroline Edwards. After the Racehorse docked in Fremantle in August 1865, Edward Andrews was sent with a contingent of convicts to upgrade the track that ran from Perth to Albany. Caroline and the families of some of the pensioner guards were shipped to Albany on a small coastal vessel which in family folklore took six weeks to arrive, having been blown about 60 kilometers past their destination. Caroline travelled by bullock cart to join her husband at his work-camp about 40 miles along the Perth Road. When work was completed on the track Andrews took up a farm outside Albany, working it with convict labour, and Caroline’s first child was born here in 1868. In the next 10 years she gave birth to 5 more children. Farming did not suit Edward Andrews. In the early years he did various building jobs, including reroofing the Anglican church, before settling in to a position as overseer at the P.& O. coaling station. When that operation closed in 1877, P. & O. paid for the family’s relocation to Adelaide, where Andrews went into business as a green-grocer and fruiterer. Caroline gave birth to 4 more children in Adelaide, but lost her 2 eldest sons. In February 1879 Albert Andrews aged 11 and Arthur Andrews aged 9 drowned in the River Torrens in Adelaide while wagging it from school. Edward Andrews told the inquest that only the day before the accident his wife had forbidden the boys to bathe in the river, knowing they could not swim. By 1886 the family was back in Perth, having prospered sufficiently to establish ‘a superior boarding house’. Caroline ran this business, often in her husband’s absence, and bore 3 more children, 13 in all. Andrews tried a range of other ventures including a butcher’s shop, a bakery, and a general store and a newsagency, together with trading in local goods such as kangaroo skins. He was a constant applicant for council and government tenders, from small construction jobs to supplying bread for the military. He invested the profits in the purchase of small lots of land and cottages to rent. In 1889 he took 2 of his sons, 14 year-old Frederick and 13 year-old Thomas, to collect salt on Middle Island, an uninhabited island off the South coast. Thomas’ reminiscences, held in the Battye Library in Perth, tell how his father returned to Albany with a sample of salt ‘to test the market’, leaving the boys to keep working on their own. It was 5 months before he came back. In his absence the well they dug for drinking water was slowly contaminated by salt, so slowly that the boys did not realise why they were falling sick. If Caroline had not asked a party of sealers to visit the boys and check on their welfare they well may have died. In 1897 Caroline Edwards inherited £470, a substantial legacy. She told the court that the money came from her father’s estate. It probably came via her mother. After John Thick’s death in 1877, Caroline Thick took possession of a group of cottages and apparently lived on the rents until her death in 1897. Caroline Edwards used the legacy to buy property in Albany in her own name, a house and 2 cottages. In 1897 her husband ‘turned out’ his three eldest sons and forbade his wife and daughters to see them. Caroline continued to support her sons. Edward Andrews was infuriated because, in his words, ‘his wife persisted in succouring the elder boys who were able to keep themselves, at [his] expense’. Late in 1899 one of the older boys was lying ill with influenza in a boarding house. Andrews told his wife that ‘if she went to see the boy or gave him anything she would have to leave home’. Influenza was ‘an infectious disease, it might do his business harm’. Fear of an influenza pandemic was rife in Australia at this time. Caroline defied him, going to care for her son and leaving home and husband the same evening, taking with her the 3 youngest children. Caroline Edwards put up the cottages for rent, and opened a boarding house in competition with her husband. She told the magistrate’s court in November 1900 that ‘Her husband had told her during the 12 months that he did not want her back. He only wanted to visit her occasionally, and that she would not allow.’ For his part, Edward Andrews claimed that at first he tried to ‘heal the breach between them’, but when he realized ‘they could not make it up, he decided to sell his business and get out of her way. He wanted to go away because he felt he could not trust himself in her presence’. In mid 1900 Edward Andrews put up his properties and businesses for sale, and announced his intention to return to England. Caroline asked him for £300 to raise the youngest children. He refused. On Monday 26 November 1900 Edward Andrews was charged at the Albany Police Court with aggravated assault on his wife. Caroline Edwards told the court that on the evening of previous Wednesday she visited her husband, accompanied by her daughter Adelaide. She said in evidence that ‘her husband would not speak until the girls had left the room. She and the girls were afraid, but the defendant said he would not hurt her. They had been talking a few minutes with the door shut when her husband rose from the chair and struck her in the face while she was sitting down knocking her head against the wall. He struck her repeatedly and she fell to the ground where he kicked her. Her daughter came to her assistance and helped her out’. Edward Andrews did not deny the assault. On Wednesday 28 November Caroline Andrews again brought her husband before the Police Court, seeking an order for judicial separation, and maintenance and custody of her children. She made the application under the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act of 1896, which provided that any woman whose husband was convicted of assault against her could summarily be awarded such an order. Edward Andrews did not contest the application, and his wife was awarded a judicial separation with 10s. a week maintenance. The award was a triumph for Caroline Edwards and her family. They celebrated with a group portrait: Caroline with her eleven living children, plus several grandchildren. Edward Andrews died in England in 1907. He must have come to a legal and financial agreement with his wife before leaving Western Australia. Caroline continued for some years as a boarding house keeper, interspersed with periods of living with children and grandchildren. The last years of her life were spent at Mornington Mills in the south-west of the state, with the family of her eldest daughter, another Caroline who went by the name of Nell. She died at Mornington in 1925. Published resources Article Marital Separation and Family Heroines, Quartly, Marian, 2016, http://www.auswhn.org.au/blog/marital-separation-family-heroines/ Report Legislation: 60 Vic., No.10 Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) 1896, 1896, https://www.slp.wa.gov.au/legislation/statutes.nsf/main_mrtitle_9909_homepage.html Newspaper Article Local News: Aggravated Assault, 1900, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/69919307 A Heartless Father and Husband: Andrews V. Andrews, 1900, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/69919331 Inquest at the Destitute Asylum, 1879, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42973269 Author Details Marian Quartly Created 30 November 2016 Last modified 30 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. 1944-10-05. VF500148 Major A.R. Appleford, RRC, MM, Assistant Controller, Australian Army Medical Women’s Service, Victorian Lines of Communication Area. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hours 10 minutes??’Feliska’ was born in about 1925 of Polish descent in the Russian city of Yvanpole. She was sixteen when the Germans invaded and describes the horror of witnessing the execution of local Jewish people and then her terror at being transported to a German work camp where she was put to work in an Actil factory for three years. Feliska describes digging her way out of the rubble when the factory was bombed. Feliska’s life was in confusion at the end of the war. After becoming pregnant she reluctantly married. A few years later the family, including two children, emigrated to Australia and Feliska describes the voyage and their arrival in January 1950. The family first lived in a tent and in later years Feliska and her husband were often at odds about their marriage, finances and accommodation. Feliska had three more children and did factory work to contribute to the household income. She returned to Russia on a visit in 1975. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Couchman, widowed after ten years of marriage, and without children, devoted her life to working in the public sphere. She was president of the Australian Women’s National League from 1927 until 1945, when it merged to form the Liberal Party of Australia. She made three unsuccessful attempts to be pre-selected for the Senate. She eventually gained Liberal Party pre-selection for the safe Labor seat of Melbourne in the 1943 election, but was unsuccessful. She worked in the Liberal Party organisation as a member of the state executive and state council and served as Victorian vice-president of the party from 1949-1955. Her major contribution lay in providing a political base for women and increasing their role and effectiveness in political life. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 31 December 1960 for public and patriotic services. Elizabeth Couchman was the daughter of Elizabeth Mary (née Ramsay), and Archibald Tannock, Confectioner. She grew up in Geelong, and was educated to matriculation level at the Girls’ High School. She matriculated in 1895. After a period of teaching at the Methodist Ladies’ College and Tintern, another independent girls’ school, she moved to Perth in 1916 to complete a BA at the University of Western Australia, which offered free education. Her major interests were political science, constitutional law and economics. In 1917, at the age of forty-one, she married businessman Claude Couchman, but had no children. He died ten years later. On his death she decided to devote the rest of her life to the pursuit of public interests, which included voluntary work and the duties of a Justice of the Peace. Her major focus however, was the Australian Women’s National League (AWNL), a conservative women’s organisation established in 1904 to support the monarchy and empire, to combat socialism, educate women in politics and safeguard the interests of the home, women and children. During the inter-war years it claimed 40,000 members and was the largest continuing non-labour organisation, but those numbers dwindled to approximately 12,000 by 1944. Couchman was elected president in 1927 as an acknowledgement of her political astuteness, knowledge and administrative skills. She was the first female to be appointed to the Australian Broadcasting Commission from 1932-1940, and was a member of the Australian delegation to the League of Nations in 1934. Couchman was influential in the formation of the Liberal Party of Australia in 1944, as the AWNL merged with the old United Australia Party to form the new organisation. She insisted on structural equality for women in the Liberal Party; in particular equal representation of women and men at all levels of the Victorian division, and was involved in establishing the branch structure of the party. She was a member of the state executive and state council and Victorian vice-president from 1949-1955. Like many politically active women of her generation, she was denied the opportunity to gain a safe seat in the national parliament. She sought pre-selection for the Senate on three occasions, but was unsuccessful. She eventually gained pre-selection to stand in the safe Labor seat of Melbourne in the 1943 election, but lost. Nonetheless, she mentored others such as Margaret Guilfoyle, who came after her and who was elected to the Senate in 1970. Couchman wanted women to be able to participate fully in the political process; to run for office and to do much more than the ‘political housework’. She was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 31 December 1960 for public and patriotic services. Dame Elizabeth Couchman died in Melbourne on 18 November 1982 at the age of 106. Published resources Book Section Couchman, Dame Elizabeth May Ramsay, DBE, 1974 Elizabeth Couchman, Sawer, Marian, 1988 Australian Women's National League, Smart, Judith, 1998 Book A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia, Sawer, Marian and Simms, Marian, 1993 Out of the doll's house; women in the public sphere, Encel, Sol and Campbell, Dorothy, 1991 Women of influence: the first fifty years of women in the Liberal Party, Sydenham, Diane, 1996 Liberal women : Federation to 1949, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2004 So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Couchman, Dame Elizabeth May Ramsay (1876 - 1982), Smart, Judith, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170252b.htm Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Dame Elizabeth May Ramsay Couchman, 1913-1970 [manuscript] Papers on various Australian women [19--] [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dame Elizabeth Couchman, former first vice-president of the Libertal Party, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of Victoria Papers and history, 1920-1969 [manuscript]. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Originally a member of the Nuclear Disarmament Party, and later as an Independent, Irina Dunn was elected to the Senate of the Parliament of Australia as a representative for New South Wales in 1988. She served for a short period only, as she was defeated at the general election, which was held in 1990. The circumstances of Irina Dunn’s election to the Senate were unusual. Robert Wood was initially elected to the Senate, but was disqualified under section 44 of the Constitution. The High Court of Australia, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, determined that a recount of the New South Wales Senate ballots could occur. Dunn, who had been the second person on the Nuclear Disarmament Party’s Senate ticket, was elected. Once Wood gained Australian citizenship, thereby becoming eligible to sit in the national Parliament, the Party requested that Dunn resign in favour of Wood, but she refused to comply with the request and was subsequently expelled from the Nuclear Disarmament Party. She continued to sit in the Senate as an Independent. Published resources Journal Irina Dunn's newsletter, Dunn, Irina, 1989-1990 Book The case of Paul Alister, Ross Dunn and Tim Anderson, Dunn, Irina and Dimelow, Mark, 1980 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Irina Dunn, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of New South Wales Irina Dunn further papers, 1980-1990 Irina Dunn further papers, 197- -1990 Irina Dunn papers, ca. 1980-1984, with papers collected relating to early feminists, 1873-1983 Irina Dunn further papers, 1943-1994 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 26 May 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lee Grant ran for election once only, but was active in her community. She stood for the Australian Greens in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Cabramatta in 2003. When Lee Grant ran for election, she was a working mother of four, travelling daily from Bonnyrigg, a far western suburb of Sydney, to Alexandria in the inner west. Although she had lived most of her life in the western suburbs of Sydney, she had travelled widely and understood the difficulties of moving to a new country. She had been active in residents groups opposed to over development. She was a committed supporter of public education and public health Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gia to some and Ginny to others, Virginia Leigh served in the Australian Red Cross Field Force from World War II to 1974. She was awarded the Australian Red Cross Society Distinguished Service Medal in 1968. For many years Leigh was honorary secretary with the Victorian Council of Social Service. She was awarded an honorary life membership in 1969. Leigh joined the Hanover Centre committee of management, and became one of the first directors of Hanover welfare services company from 1972-73. The daughter of Daniel and Maie Hoban, Virginia Leigh was educated at Loreto Abbey, Marys Mount, Ballarat before attending Melbourne University. She switched from a law degree to teaching before being accepted into the school of social work. Leigh was the first social worker employed by the Australian Red Cross Society. Appointed to the Victorian division in 1939, she was responsible for veterans of World War 1. In 1942 Leigh was seconded to the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) Women’s Association to establish a department. In 1943 she joined the Australian Red Cross field force. Leigh served for a year with 2/9th Australian General Hospital, in New Guinea, before being sent to the United Kingdom with a Prisoner of War (PoW) reception unit. While there she was also in charge of the club for Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) ex-PoWs. After a year in the United Kingdom, and promotion to senior superintendent, Leigh joined a PoW reception unit in Singapore in 1945. In 1946, Leigh resumed work as assistant director with Victorian Division, Social Service Australian Red Cross Society. Early in 1948, she was seconded by the government to establish a social work service in the Commonwealth Department of Labour and National Service, leaving to marry in 1949. Following the birth of two children and the collapse of her marriage, Leigh returned to work in 1957. She resumed a full-time position in 1961. Leigh became assistant director and, at times, acting director – a position she declined – of social work service, Victorian division Australian Red Cross. Her worked included the development of public policy in the areas of homelessness, alcoholism and drug dependence, families of veterans and immigrant veterans and aged services. Leigh was also involved in disaster relief projects, Cyclone Tracey in Darwin, the Tasmanian bushfires, and the refugee reception at Melbourne Airport. She was awarded the Australian Red Cross Society Distinguished Service Medal in 1968. During this time Leigh was, for many years, honorary secretary of the Victorian Council of Social Service. She was awarded an honorary life membership in 1969. She was also a committee member of the Alcoholism Foundation of Victoria. In 1964, Leigh joined the Hanover Centre committee of management, and became one of the first directors of the Hanover welfare services company from 1972 to 1973. Following her retirement, in 1974, Leigh focused on her love for history. Her main interests included genealogy, local historical societies and being a member of the Genealogical Society of Victoria, 1850s Group. Published resources Newspaper Article Pioneer social worker had passion for writing history, 2004 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 April 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Files may contain material such as originals or photocopies of exhibition and auction catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases, correspondence, photographs and other items of ephemera relating to Australian and New Zealand artists and galleries. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 November 2016 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Joan Hammond was appointed DBE 1974, CMG 1972, CBE 1963, OBE 1953. She received the Sir Charles Santley award from the Worshipful Company of Musicians, London 1970, ‘Musician of the Year’. In 1988 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Recording for the Australasian Sound Recording Association, in 1994. The daughter of Samuel and Hilda (née Blandford) Hammond, Joan Hammond who was educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Pymble New South Wales, established an early interest in sports. An expert swimmer during her teens Hammond, transferred to the sport of golf. She won the women’s state golf championship for New South Wales in 1932, 1934, 1935 and the junior championship in 1929. Hammond also played violin for three years with the Sydney Philharmonic Orchestra before studying singing in Vienna in 1936. She returned to Australia for concert tours in 1946, 1949 and 1953, and completed world concert tours between 1946 and 1961. After retiring in 1965, Hammond became artistic director of the Victoria Opera Company (1971-1976) and was then head of vocal studies and vocal consultant at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1975 to 1992. Her autobiography A voice, a life was published in 1970. Published resources Book 1000 Famous Australians, 1978 A voice, a life : autobiography, Hammond, Joan, Dame, 1970 100 great Australians, Macklin, Robert, 1983 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1996, Sharpe, Neill (Researcher), 1995 Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Resource Section Papers of Dame Joan Hammond, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms8648 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Alexander Gore Gowrie, 1835-1987 [manuscript] Papers of Dame Joan Hammond, 1928-1994 (bulk 1983-1993) [manuscript] Papers of Kenneth Russell Henderson, 1976-1978 [manuscript] Letters of Dame Joan Hammond [manuscript] Geelong, to H. S. Young, Sydney, 1967, Nov 18, 27, and Dec 11 National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Interview with Joan Hammond, Australian opera singer [sound recording] : historical recordings of important happenings recorded by 2GB News National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Joan Hammond, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 15 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Kathy Freihaut was a once only candidate but a committed environmentalist. A member of the Australian Greens, she stood for election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bega in 1999."
    },
    {
        "text": "Dr Joyce Fildes worked at the Australian National University for over thirty years, establishing the Microanalytical Service for all medical researchers in the John Curtin School of Medical Research. Joyce Fildes was educated at St George’s Girls High School in Kogarah and graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney in 1942. She worked as a Research Assistant in the University’s Organic Chemistry Department from 1942 to 1944, then as a microanalyst in the School of Chemistry till 1950. She joined the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University in September 1950, initially in London, where the head of the department Professor Adrien Albert continued to work in laboratories at the Welcome Research Institution. She undertook research at the University of Birmingham, gaining a Master of Science degree in 1953 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1956. She came to Canberra and was promoted to a Research Fellow position in late 1956 when the new laboratories in the John Curtin School were completed. She established the Microanalytical Service, servicing all medical researchers in the School. She became a Fellow in July 1961. Her work involved research into the chemical action of drugs, such as anti-malaria drugs and anti-bacterial immunosuppressant drugs to help in surgical grafting. In 1973, although the Microanalytical Service was transferred to the Research School of Chemistry, Joyce continued to work in the John Curtin School until her retirement in 1982. She provided an endowment to the Australian National University for the Joyce Fildes Honours Scholarship in Medical Science. She was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2000 for services to the community, particularly through the Zonta Club of Canberra and the ACT Chapter of the Australian Federation of University Women. Joyce Fildes passed away on 15 November 2013 Published resources Book The John Curtin School of Medical Research: The First Fifty Years, 1948-1998, Fenner, Frank and Curtis, David, 2001 Resource Section Honours program, 2012, http://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/study/prospective-students/honours-program Magazine article Retiring after 32 years work in medical chemistry, 1982 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Australian National University Archives Joyce Fildes papers Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 3 January 2013 Last modified 22 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Biographical notes on Gaye Tennent 1907-1980 by her friend and mentor, Vera Jennings. Also, letter from Dinny O’Hearn to Miss Jennings, 26 March 1982, concerning her part in having Gaye Tennent mentioned in Faculty. Photocopies. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers document Bird’s writings from 1983, and include notebooks, notes, research material, manuscript and typescript drafts, page and galley proofs, reviews and one computer disc. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 December 2017 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lily Kingsborough was an amateur photographer who is best known for her studies of flowers. Lily Kingsborough was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 3 November 1870. Her father was John Kingsborough and her mother was Sarah Jeffrey. Kingsborough’s original inspiration to become a photographer is not currently known. She was to become an award winning amateur photographer, who was especially well known for her studies of flowers. Kingsborough participated in exhibitions held in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales, and received many prizes for her work. Her photograph Almond Blossom was described by the press as ‘nicely lighted, delightful in its simplicity and altogether charmingly rendered’ (The Advertiser, 1902); it also received a medal at the Annual Exhibition of the South Australian Photographic Society in 1902. Kingsborough was award first prize for her photograph Marguerites at the Photographic Society of New South Wales exhibition in 1903. Kingsborough died on 21 March 1958. Events 1970 - 1970 Lily Kingsborough’s work featured in the Public Schools Floral and Industrial Society Exhibition 1970 - 1970 Lily Kingsborough’s work featured in the Public Schools Floral and Industrial Society Exhibition 1902 - 1902 Lily Kingsborough’s work featured in the Photographic Society. 1903 - 1903 Lily Kingsborough’s work featured in the Photographic Society of New South Wales. 1905 - 1905 Lily Kingsborough’s work featured in the Photographic Association of Victoria Exhibition. Published resources Thesis Making Pictures: Australian Pictorial Photography as Art 1897-1957, Ebury, Francis, 2001 Newspaper Article Photographic Society: The Annual Exhibition, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4881308 Photographic Association of Victoria, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9885278 The Awards, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article192242701 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 22 November 2016 Last modified 4 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This deposit contains papers of inaugural meeting, national conferences (1951 – 1985), New South Wales Branch annual general meetings (1950 – 1964), national minutes (1968-1993), office files (1955 – 1989), records of state branches, correspondence (1973 – 1989), printed material (1975 – 1983), newsletters, photographs, posters, banners, and film about Vietnamese women. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 December 2017 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Vicki Sara researches in the area of growth hormones and foetal brain development. She became the Dean of Science at Queensland University in 1996. Vicki was the Chancellor of the University of Technology, Sydney, for three terms: 15 December 2004-14 December 2008; 15 December 2008-14 December 2012 and; 15 December 2012 until 17 February 2016. Having completed a Bachelor of Arts and PhD at the University of Sydney, Sara worked at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, between 1976-92. She was subsequently appointed Head, Queensland University of Technology School of Life Science from 1993; Director, Cooperative Research Centre for Diagnostic Technologies 1995-96; and Dean of Science, Queensland University of Technology from 1996. Sara was awarded the Rolf Luft Medal, Karolinska Institute, in 1993 and the Eccles award, National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia, in 1994. Published resources Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Vicki Sara, academic, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Elle Morrell Created 1 February 2001 Last modified 5 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sally Mitchell was the Victorian state winner of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1994. Sally Mitchell was the inaugural winner of the Victorian ABC radio Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1994. From a dairy farm at Torrumbarry, on the Murray River near Echuca, she said, ‘I accept this award on behalf of all the women in Victoria who get up at 5.30 every morning and milk the cows, sow the fields and do whatever they do, and do it well. Then they … get the breakfast, do the washing, get the kids to school … and it just goes on.’ The routine of Sally’s life is typical of that of many women on the land, except that at the time she won the award, Sally was unexpectedly managing the routine on her own. In August 1989, Sally and her husband invested all they had in a dairy farm, deciding for various reasons that they wanted to establish their own farming business, rather than work on her husband’s family farm. Two years later, around Christmas, he slipped into a coma, the result of brain injury caused by a congenital cyst. He died in June 1992 and three weeks later, their daughter was born. What happened next it testimony to Sally’s remarkable courage and the strength of the support she got from her family and the community. Life immediately after the tragedy was stressful and emotionally charged, and Sally knew that in that state of mind, she should make no big decisions about what to do next. She stayed, and with the help of a life insurance policy payout, purchased more land, so she could run more cows, which meant she could afford to employ someone to help. She worked incredibly hard herself, noting the importance of the physical work to her own survival and capacity to cope. Being busy was great therapy, not only because it took her mind off things but because it enabled her to sleep. Sally knew it would have been important to her husband that his child be brought up on the farm. With the passage of time and the support of family and friends, Sally came to the conclusion that staying wouldn’t only be the right sentimental decision, it would be a good business decision. Supported by most of the local community in her quest to manage the farm, Ms Mitchell said the occasional traditionalist forecast doom: ‘Never to my face; nobody would be game enough to say that to my face.’ In any case, they would have had to eat their words. In the two-and-a-half years after the death of her husband, Sally expanded her property, doubled her dairy stock and adopted innovative farm practices. It was her mother and sister who nominated Sally for the award, and she suspects that it was the novelty of her story as a single woman running and growing the business which tipped her over the line, because it really wasn’t common at the time. If she thought she was busy before winning, it was taken to a whole new level afterwards! She was invited to join several boards and advisory councils, and discovered she had real skills in public speaking, thus making herself a much wanted commodity at public events. She also began to establish a career in agri-politics, serving as a central councillor for United Dairy Farmers and on the board of Goulburn Murray Water. Not that she resented most of the activity, because it opened her up to a world of opportunities and experiences she would not otherwise have had. The schedule of public speaking engagements that came with the award opened her eyes to the extent of rural women’s marginalisation. Because she was a confident woman capable of speaking out, she simply wasn’t aware of the number of women who did not share that confidence. She was invited to join the Victorian Government’s newly established Women’s Advisory Council and was amazed by the extent to which women were marginalised from decision making in most organisations, not just rural organisations. She was confronted by the constraints placed upon women from other cultural contexts. She learned how lacking in financial nous many ordinary women were and realised how crucial this knowledge was in establishing gender equity. Most importantly, she was distressed to learn through her travels how many women were insecure about their own abilities. ‘The greatest obstacle to rural women is themselves,’ she said, adding that ‘poor self-confidence’ is what holds back most country women. It’s a mindset she recognises herself, because she admitted to feeling uncomfortable seeking recognition for her work. ‘It’s about overcoming a mental barrier more than anything,’ she believes. ‘You think you’re not special or different, but when you step forward you realise you actually are. That being the case, she believed that the ABC rural radio awards were a vital to encourage rural achievers. ‘Women don’t realise their own potential or the extent of what they have achieved, and that’s not just rural women.’ While Sally herself didn’t get much enjoyment from her involvement on industry boards, she hopes that other women will get involved and believed that the ABC award played an important role in getting women to step up to that responsibility, ‘because it helped women to become more accepted both on farm and in farming-related managerial positions.’ In her opinion, industry organisations would work better with more women involved because women, by virtue of the frequent need for them to work off farm, have a bigger picture view of what works. This often means that they are the more ‘strategic’ thinkers in farming partnerships while men are focussed on the operational matters. There is an important place, therefore, for women at the board table, not just the kitchen table. The ABC award taught her that if you ‘believe in yourself,’ you can sit there if you want to Events 1994 - 1994 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section 1994 ABC Rural Woman of the Year State Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/previous94.htm#sta Newspaper Article Sally Sets Fine Example, Borrell, J., 1995 Lack of esteem hinders women, 1995 Vision that survived a personal tragedy, Brady, Nicole, 1994 Laborers of love tend the farm, Murdoch, Anna King, 1995 Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Sally Mitchell interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 25 March 2010 Last modified 24 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The records, belonging to various bodies associated with the Federation, as well as to various committees and conferences, etc., include correspondence, minutes, files, reports, financial records, records relating to industrial matters, membership lists, newspapers cuttings, and other miscellaneous records. Created 2 May 2019 Last modified 2 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Yseult Bailey became active in the kindergarten movement from her arrival in Canberra during World War II and she continued to take a leading role in organisations to further the interests of women and children, including the National Council of Women and the Young Women’s Christian Association, for the next twenty years. She was founding president of the Canberra Nursery Kindergarten Society, representing the Society on the National Council of Women (ACT) of which she became president. After the formation of the national Australian Pre-School Association she became president and in the early 1960s she was president of the YWCA (Canberra). She brought to these roles a rigorous mind, communication skills and great organising ability. Simultaneously she studied pottery becoming an accomplished potter. Editha Olga Yseult Donnison was born on 3 July 1903 in London into a musical family. She was educated at the renowned independent school for girls, Wycombe Abbey, and studied sculpture at the Slade, a school of art attached to University College, London. Through her brother Vernon Donnison who was at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, she met his fellow student Kenneth Bailey, a Rhodes Scholar from Melbourne. On 12 August 1925 at Queen’s College Chapel at the University of Melbourne, despite opposition from her mother, she married Kenneth Bailey, who had been appointed the College’s Vice-Master and was later Dean of the University’s Law School. In Melbourne in the 1930s and early 1940s, as a young mother of three sons, Yseult Bailey was active in the Kindergarten Union of Victoria, the establishment of the Lady Gowrie Centre for pre-school education and the University Women’s Wartime Nursery. When the family moved to Canberra late in 1942, where Professor Bailey was Consultant to the Commonwealth Government and later head of the Attorney-General’s Department, Yseult was welcomed by Canberra women anxious to establish a kindergarten in the city. Within a few months of her arrival she was a member of a delegation to the Minister for Health and Social Services, E J Holloway, seeking the establishment of a nursery school in Canberra to free mothers for war work. Although she had been involved with a similar school in Melbourne, the deputation gained no support from the Minister. Subsequently, the emphasis changed to seeking provision of a nursery kindergarten and Yseult Bailey and two other members of the deputation were invited to Government House to advise Lady Gowrie on progress. As a result, a provisional pre-school committee was formed on 7 July 1943 with Yseult Bailey as president. She continued in this role when the Canberra Nursery Kindergarten Society (later the Canberra Pre-School Society) was formally constituted in November 1943. From the outset she was remarkably active. On one occasion when she needed to discuss the provision of pre-schools with the NSW Director-General of Education and discovered that he was leaving by train, she went to the railway station, bought a ticket to Queanbeyan and engaged the captive official in ten minutes’ conversation. She was prominent in the formation of the Australian Pre-School Association, served as president, was made a life member and remained an honorary life vice-president until her death. She was appointed OBE in the New Year Honours in 1961, for her work for pre-school education. From its inauguration, Yseult represented the Canberra Nursery Kindergarten Society on the National Council of Women (ACT) becoming vice-president in 1944 and serving as president from 1947 to 1950. Her term was marked by her great ability to create an environment in which other women were activated and grew in confidence and ability to achieve and take charge. One of her most satisfying achievements was the establishment of an Emergency Housekeeper Service, which she regarded as a vital need to assist families in emergencies. In a move typical of her approach to government, she collected information on similar schemes in the states before presenting a case for government support. One of her first roles as president was to accept responsibility for the administration of the Emergency Housekeeper Scheme following the approval of a government grant-in-aid. During her presidency the Council also lobbied for the establishment of a District Nursing Service, the first nursing sister being appointed in 1950. In all her approaches to government she was an advocate for the preparation of positive, incisive, and specific suggestions towards the solution of problems. In the absence of this type of submission, she believed, there was no point in protesting to government. Yseult Bailey was president of the Canberra YWCA from 1961 to 1964, a period of rapid growth in Canberra, during which the executive decided to redevelop the YWCA site, an ambitious project which presented many financial challenges. Detailed planning, which began during Yseult’s presidency, eventually resulted in a six-storey centre built through an arrangement with a commercial developer. During her presidential term Yseult Bailey also worked towards reorganising the Association and securing new leadership. Within weeks of arriving in Canberra, Yseult Bailey began taking pottery lessons from Eilean Giblin, a neighbour, who had established a studio pottery in 1940. Like Yseult she had been educated at Wycombe Abbey and her husband, Professor L F Giblin, had been a fellow professor with Kenneth Bailey at the University of Melbourne. When funds were needed to establish the Canberra Nursery Kindergarten, Yseult Bailey’s nursery school project, both women donated ‘Giblin Pots’ for sale and when the Kindergarten opened in 1944 it was stocked with handmade earthenware pipkins for the children’s orange juice. The pipkins were made from local clay thrown on the Giblin wheel, fired in the Giblin kiln and marked by potters ‘Giblin and Bailey’. After Eilean Giblin left Canberra, Yseult Bailey continued potting at her home. A piece of pottery she made especially for the occasion from clay excavated from the building site was presented to Princess Anne on 24 April 1970 as a souvenir of her visit to the site of the new YWCA building in Canberra and other pieces were sold to raise funds for the YWCA. From 1963 to 1969 Lady Bailey lived in Ottawa where her husband was High Commissioner to Canada. She died on 1 August 1980 at Chawton, Hampshire while visiting England. A service of memory and thanksgiving was held on 7 August 1980 at St Paul’s Church of England, Manuka, where she had been an active parishioner. Following a funeral service at the parish church in Chawton on 8 August 1980, her ashes were placed with her husband’s in St Paul’s churchyard, Manuka. Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Newspaper Article Obituary, 1980 Book A Work in Progress: A History of the YWCA of Canberra 1929-2009, Hutchison, Mary and Andrew, Merrindahl, 2009 Capital women : a history of the work of the National Council of Women (A.C.T.) in Canberra, 1939-1979, Stephenson, Freda, 1992 Journal Article A short story about a long time 1943-1988, Rudduck, Loma, 1989 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin 1885-1965 [manuscript] Papers of Loma Rudduck, 1944-1968 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Lady Yseult Bailey interviewed by Mel Pratt for the Mel Pratt collection [sound recording] Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 4 December 2012 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ms Connors speaks of her employment background; the difference between the Schools Council and the Schools Commission; the responsibility of a Chair; the demise of Schools Commission; commonwealth/state relationships; Schools Council’s relationship with the states; the usefulness of separating policy and funding; the relationship between the Schools Council and DEET; consensus on the Council; accommodation of the Board; pecking order within the Board; Councils’ control over the Board; strong personalities within the Board; the problem of dominating Chairs and part-time members; presentation of papers to the Board; misunderstandings between Councils; DEET’s attitude to the Board as the Minister’s advisory body; DEET’s attitude toward the Women’s Employment Education Training Advisory Group; government references to advisory bodies. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Helen Ferber, born in Adelaide speaks about her family background; her father’s career at BHP; life in Whyalla, Newcastle and Melbourne; her education; father’s views on career options for girls; family’s educational background; recollections of her uncle, Sir Richard Butler; her university education, travels to Italy and Germany, language studies; WWII preparations; her impressions of pre-war Italy and Germany; her studies in Munich; Germany under Hitler; Nazi propaganda; summer schools, anti-Nazi friends, anti-Jewish action; the war build-up; studying in Perugia, Italy; being caught up in war preparations for the invasion of Czechoslovakia; her return to Australia; completion of her university education; interpreting work for the Army, monitoring foreign broadcasts; her employment as monitor at Listening post, responding to crucial world news; censorship; writing wartime reports; her work for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Mission in Yugoslavia: the growth of Communism; her letters, excerpts, uses and responses.?Ferber discusses American security; the American threat to the Mission in Yugoslavia and later impact on staff; the build-up of the Cold War; her sisters’ lives and careers; her work with UNRRA’s Public Information office in Paris; Arthur Calwell; working with postwar migrants, her involvement in Jewish migration and refugees; her return to Australia; her marriage to David Ferber and his career; Foreign Service life in USA and Philippines; returning to employment in Melbourne; working on the Henderson Report, a study on poverty, research team members; Ronald Henderson; her contribution as Australian Economic Review’s business manager; David Ferber’s later work, their children and their daughters’ careers; her publications; her role in the Federation of University Women; return visits to Europe, compares visits to Germany in 1938, 1947 and 1968 and Yugoslavia in 1945 and 1968; influences of her work on social policy in Australia; perspective on her own history and family history. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 November 2016 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jan Green is a committed environmentalist who was an Australian Greens candidate in the House of Representatives elections for Hume in 1998 and in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in Burrinjuck in 1999. Jan Green studied art at the East Sydney Technical College and then worked in the animated film industry. She later ran her own pottery business in Dee Why and was a co-founder of ‘Clay Things’, a successful retail pottery co-operative. She also taught at TAFE. As an active environmentalist she was a member of ‘paddlers for peace’, a group which tried to stop visits to Sydney Harbour by nuclear powered and capable ships and opposed the importation of rainforest timber. She and her husband moved to Taralga in 1994 and she is an active member of local organizations, including the Taralga Garden Club, Landcare and she is the Southern Tablelands co-ordinator of WIRES. She is a member of the Australian Plant Society and is active in organising the annual Taralga Art Society Show. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 8 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound file (51 min.)??Marjorie Bond talks about her childhood; her parents; planting apples and raspberries with irrigation from the creek; picking and selling raspberries; growing a variety of apples; not having irrigation for the apples; spraying for pests using horse drawn pump; apple wrapping; managing the packing shed; the numbers of apples grown on the properties; packing apples; labelling of cases; exporting to England, Germany and Switzerland; popularity of different varieties; making apple pies and apple jelly; spraying for pests, cultivation and mowing; hand hoeing of weeds; meeting her husband and how he learned the trade; what makes a good orchardist; her marriage in (1941); her husband’s military service in Darwin; buying the orchard from her father; growing cherries; the labour during war years; the relationship between father and son; running the grader; working at night and the impact of electricity; tourists coming from Hobart for apple blossom season; the good years on the property with her son; running cattle on the land; Apple festival at Franklin; the apple growing community; involvement in the Progress Association; Tidy Town competition; making a living from the land; her concern for the future; working in the packing shed until the age of 80; her retirement; enjoying meeting tourists and working during the cherry season; transporting cherries to Hobart; her happy memories of working in the apple industry. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 May 2017 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. 1944-05-24. Her excellency, Lady Zara Gowrie, wife of the Governor General of Australia inspecting members of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service at the 115th Heidelberg Military Hospital, prior to her return to England. Identified personnel are, left to right:- VFX64621 Captain M.S. Williamson; VF500148 Major A.R. Appleford, RRC., MM.; VFX65349 Lieutenant D.M. Mackrell; Lady Gowrie; Private L.I. Trewin; Private M.C. Carroll; Private L. Wakefield; Private V. Boocock, back row; Private McNuff; Private Brain, Private R.M. Spencer; Private B.M. Baker, Private V.M. Phillips, Private H. Lindsay. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hours 10 minutes??Gertrud Wilkins was born in Brne in 1910, which after the First World War became part of Czechoslovakia. Her mother had a millinery business and her father was a chartered accountant. The family was Jewish. Gertrud describes her schooling and teacher training. She had a short-lived marriage and at the outbreak of was in 1939 was living and working in Prague. Gertrud decided to flee her country and describes the journey across country to Poland and on to London. Gertrud’s situation came to the attention of the South Australian branches of the Women Graduates Club and the League of Women Voters who sponsored her immigration. She sailed to Australia via New Zealand in 1940. Gertrud tried to get work with the Education Department but was ‘knocked back time and time again’. Her sponsors found her a job in a private kindergarten for a year, after which time she remarried and ‘suddenly overnight became…worthy to teach Australian children’. She taught for two years at Adelaide High School before moving to the country. Mrs Wilkins concludes by describing her marriage, which ended amicably; the raising of her son; and the relatively little contact she has maintained with the local Czech community. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Roslin Brennan Kemmis’s working life was committed to education in schools, TAFE/VET and universities, especially for disadvantaged people: Indigenous, prisoners, people with low levels of literacy. A Riverina resident for 40 years, she taught in secondary schools (full-time, 1972-1977), and kindergarten and primary schools (part-time, 1985-1988), and adult literacy (1989-1992). She also worked as a teacher in the Education Centre, Bendigo Prison (1983-1984). From 1978, she worked part time for Charles Sturt University (and its predecessor institutions), and full time as a Lecturer in Vocational Education and Training from 1997, then Senior Lecturer (2004). She was a member of the University Council 2000-2004, and Head of the School of Education (and Associate Professor) from 2008 until her retirement from full time work in 2012. In 1987, with her then husband, the late Mark Brennan, she explored linguistic inequalities in the criminal justice system. Published as ‘Strange language: child victim witnesses under cross-examination’, this work had significant impact internationally and nationally on the language and treatment in courts of child victims. As President of the NSW Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations, 1992-1997, she was a fearless warrior, advocate and activist. She successfully advocated for the 40kpm school zones and the establishment of the Office of the Commission for Children and Young People. In 1999, she was appointed Member of the Order of Australia, for service to children and school education. Between 1999 and 2006, she contributed significantly to research in vocational education and training (VET) including work on online pedagogies in VET, and apprenticeships and traineeships. In 2007, she was awarded the Carrick Medal for pioneering work embedding pathways from the VET to the university sector. From 2013-2015, with Wiradjuri elders, Ros led the development and delivery of the ground-breaking CSU Graduate Certificate course in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage. Ros Brennan Kemmis was compassionate, warm, generous, strong, kind, and fun- loving. As President of the NSW Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations, 1992-1997, she was a fearless warrior, advocate and activist. She elevated the Federation’s profile, routinely stepping on the toes of vested interests. She refused to be silenced or moderated. She asked difficult questions and demanded answers for those less able to ask. She successfully advocated for the 40kpm school zones and the establishment of the Office of the Commission for Children and Young People. As President, Ros was highly visible and audible in the media, giving more than 20 interviews most days. In 1999 she was appointed Member of the Order of Australia, for services to children and school education. Ros was born in Mortdale, Sydney to Winifred Ruth and Norman Montague Leeder, and grew up in a home with strong links to the Baptist church. Her father taught mathematics in state secondary schools, and the family placed a premium on education. Although her mother suffered frequently with mental illness, there was much warmth and support in the Leeder home. A strong commitment to social concerns and social justice informed Ros’s activism, which echoed that of her grandmother, Retta Dixon Long, who, in 1905, in her late teens, founded the Aborigines Inland Mission. Ros’s family moved to Epping in 1953. There she attended primary school and later Cheltenham Girls High School, then Macquarie University. At school, Ros was progressively recognized for her energy, wide-ranging interests, rebelliousness, good cheer and commitment to social justice Ros was a committed educator who lived in the Riverina for 40 years, where she taught in secondary schools (full-time, 1972-1977), kindergarten and primary schools (part-time, 1985-1988) and adult literacy (1989-1992). She also worked as a teacher in the Education Centre in Bendigo Prison (1983-1984). From 1978, she worked part time for Charles Sturt University (and its predecessor institutions), joining the School of Education full time as a Lecturer in Vocational Education and Training in 1997, then Senior Lecturer (2004). At CSU she was a member of the University Council 2000-2004, and Head of the School of Education (and Associate Professor) from 2008 until her retirement from full time work in 2012. As Head, she led a vibrant academic community committed to excellence in teaching, research, engagement with the education profession, and public service. In 2007 she received a Carrick Award; a national award for outstanding contributions to student learning, ‘pioneering work at a national and institutional level in the embedding of a VET sector qualification into university awards, supported by robust credit transfer pathways.’ Ros was involved in many fine pieces of research. In 1987, with her then husband, the late Mark Brennan, she explored linguistic inequalities in the criminal justice system, published as ‘Strange language: child victim witnesses under cross examination’. The former head of the NSW Witness Assistance Program in the Dept. Public Prosecution explained: ‘Since then there have been significant legal and systematic reforms to change the way children give evidence in court.’ From 1996-2015, she made many outstanding contributions to research on vocational education and training, including work on online pedagogies in VET, and on apprenticeships and traineeships. She mentored many emerging VET teachers and researchers. From 2013-2015, with Wiradjuri elders and her husband Stephen Kemmis, Ros led the development and delivery of the ground-breaking CSU Graduate Certificate course in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage. Ros juggled academic work and activism and took joy in her family, music, Guinness and a wardrobe of lurid virtuosity. She was a gracious and extraordinarily generous host to many friends and international visitors. She was immensely good hearted, kind, thoughtful, supportive, and generous with time and energy. She made time to listen. She knew who to talk to or to lean on to make things happen. She had an infectious sense of joy. She is survived by Stephen Kemmis, her brothers Stephen and Greg Leeder, her former husband Graham Allport, and is remembered as a generous, warm, loving and involved mother to Julian Allport, Tom, Alice and Eliot Brennan; and her stepchildren Standish, Jessica and Tracey, and families. She was much loved by her grandchildren. Ros died in Wagga Wagga, of complications following treatment for cervical cancer. Published resources Book Strange Language - Child victims under cross-examination: A report to the Criminology Research Council of the Australian Institute of Criminology on child victim witnesses under cross examination in cases of child sexual assault, Brennan, M and Brennan, R.E, 1987 Edited Book Teaching in the VET Sector in Australia, Brennan Kemmis, R. and Atkins, L., 2014 Author Details M. Bannister, S. Kemmis, S. Leeder and family Created 5 December 2016 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Recruiting poster; recruiting poster for AAMWS (AAMWS were not trained nurses, but worked as nurses’ aides, or in clerical and technical positions, such as blood bank, physiotherapy etc.)?49.4 x 62,9 cm?Photolithograph Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Based on Marcus Clarke’s epic novel, film follows the fate of an English aristocrat, Rufus Dawes, transported for life to the convict settlement of Van Dieman’s Land for a crime he did not commit, and his enduring love for Sylvia, the daughter of a prison governor. — General notes: Four of the principals in the cast, Eva Novak, George Fisher, Steve Murphy and Katherine Dawn were Americans, as was the director, Norman Dawn and the principle cameraman, Len Roos. Shot on location in New South Wales at Berrima, Wombeyan Caves and Sydney Harbour, as well as in Tasmania at the ruins of the convict settlement at Port Arthur, the film portrays some fine scenes of the convicts in the penal colony and also puts on screen some special effects such as ‘glass shots’ which enabled Dawn to ‘restore’ roofs to the derelict buildings at Port Arthur. Hundreds of extras were employed on the film. The use of Americans in the production was hoped to ensure American release. — There was public opposition to the film at the time it was made concerning its portrayal of this less favourable aspect of Australia’s white history. — Originally 10 000 feet of 35mm, surviving substantially complete at 2448 feet of 16mm. The film has been restored as a tinted 35mm print with music. — Access copies: 35mm (restored, tinted, music), 16mm, video.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc10.140 comprises photocopies, compiled ca. 2006, of correspondence, newspaper cuttings, photographs and other documents relating to Ruth Galene’s career, including her development of the Australian contemporary dance training system “Dance dynamics”, and her work as director of Red Opal Dance Theatre (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Alexina Wildman spent all of her short but successful career in journalism working as a columnist on the Bulletin. Her weekly column, written under the pseudonym of ‘Sappho Smith’ and headed by a Phil May cartoon, appeared from 28 April 1888 to 22 August 1896. It was Sydney’s first gossip column: an acerbic, heavily satirical and bitingly funny account of society’s comings and goings in the form of a letter from the fictitious Sappho to her ‘dear Moorabinda’. The segment became one of the most popular in the Bulletin and appeared without interruption for over eight years, ending only with the premature death of its author. Wildman died of nephritis in November 1896, aged 29. Often referred to as ‘the incomparable Ina Wildman’, she was celebrated by her colleagues as a brilliant writer and a good comrade. Her brief, bright career was an encouragement to many women journalists. Alexina Wildman was the eleventh child of English parents Edwin Wildman, clerk, and Elizabeth (nee Stevens). She began writing as a schoolgirl, and regularly contributed poetry and prose to the Bulletin. In April 1888, at the age of 19, the precocious Wildman began to write her weekly column for the journal. Sappho’s first letter, published 28 April 1888, ranged in subject matter from Lord and Lady Carington’s Norfolk Island visit, to the very wealthy Sydney family who had appropriated an ancient coat of arms, the rightful owner of which was ‘considerably astonished and highly exasperated in a well-bred way at what he considered a piece of consummate impertinence’. As part of her commentary on the latest in women’s fashion, she noted that ‘the regime terrible of the décolleté toilette is likely to continue, the next fashion for full evening dress being the old-fashioned Bertha, and that reveals more bony back – scraggy ‘salt-cellars’ – and pipe-stem arms than the present style. A woman in a Bertha looks like cold fowl – it gives quite a ‘garnished’ effect to feminine loveliness’. She ended the letter with ‘a medley made up of all sorts of things that are running through my head’: the marriage of a Sydney literary man ‘of faintly poetic and dramatic tendencies’ to the daughter of a newspaper proprietor; the preference of ‘all the Melbourne girls who have hair’ to wear it loose, copying Lady Loch’s daughters; the popularity of opaline as a tint; the opening of a butter shop in London by the Duchess of Hamilton, and the frightening possibility of the ladies of Potts Point following suit by running colonial wine stores (‘if so, some of the leaders of fashion will be by no means maladroit at bottle-opening’); and the new fad for taking tea, not from a teapot but from perforated silver balls filled with tea leaves and ‘attached to a chain like an infinitesimal dog-fastener’. The following month, Sappho was offering fresh gossip (‘I hear that a resplendent youth with much money and possessed of an ancestral hall on the confines of Woolloomooloo, has gone and married a nymph of the pavement’), and commentary on social events, past and future. She noted that the annual St. Vincent’s Hospital ball would be held on June 13th: ‘To dance anyhow is to do well, but to dance in aid of human suffering is to do better, therefore I always go’. She recounted a visit to the theatre: If the theory that whenever one gets into a ‘wax’ an unseen influence snips ten years off one’s life is true, your own Sappho hasn’t much longer to meander across this paper, for the other night I got into quite a rage at the theatre (I won’t use a more distinguishing adjective!) and over what do you think? Why our national nuisance, the tyro in music of the sex that does its hair up. I was unfortunate enough to be placed immediately behind one of these. In her bony, ungloved left hand she carried the vocal score – with her bony right forefinger she one, two there’d, one, two there’d in time to the orchestra till I thought I’d either go mad or stab her with a hairpin… I’m perfectly positive that that woman (she’s by no means singular, though!) has no more real harmony in her soul than has a tram-motor! Sappho’s most vicious remarks were often directed toward women, and those involved in the suffrage movement bore the brunt of her jokes more than once. She aimed fire at those ‘lady writers’ in the newspapers who sent word to England that the colony required more governesses (‘we are squeaking out for feminine manual labour if we are squeaking at all, but we don’t want any more semi-educated beings called “nursery governesses”‘); also, those women who followed the trend to have risqué posture-photographs taken (the images, she said, adorned the walls of galleries where ‘strangers steal in and ogle the revealed charms or scrag of Adeline de Toorak or Maude de Potts Point’); and she particularly disdained women who refused to eat for the sake of appearances: And now that balls are to be once more set a-rolling, I would warn those girls who think to captivate men by the display of an appetite the size of a sickly butterfly’s, that the average man doesn’t approve of a girl who takes a spoonful of jelly and a sip of liquid and is ready to be taken back to the ball-room again. No, they don’t. The men want time to refresh themselves, too. They like a girl who negotiates something tangible with a knife and fork, and gives them time to surround a due and proper amount of cold fowl and champagne. Speaking of ball suppers: At a Wagga hop the other week one of the M.C.’s attacked a calves foot jelly with a knife and fork, after he had copiously peppered and salted it! What do you think of that, now? That Wagga man almost outdoes the Frenchman whom I once saw mix rhubarb with mashed potatoes. Suffragists and so-called ‘new women’ were frequently in her sights. She warned them, for instance, against the dangers of bike riding, because it advertised how women were configured below the waste: Even if it doesn’t hurt the woman herself it checks the possible innocence of hobbledehoys here and there who might think that women tapered off into mermaid’s tails if they did not seek to violently prove the contrary. If the New Woman could only be got to see it, one of the Old Woman’s very strongest points was that she (in the Queen of Sheba sense) had no legs! The New Woman should think hard ere she finally decides to let the world know that she is supported on forks. Sappho was, of course, equally capable of satirizing men. A letter on May 19, 1888, read: The hunting season was opened last Saturday by the members of the Sydney Hunt Club, the run commencing at Ermington and finishing at Ryde. One equestrienne and nine equestrians showed up, and only one accident occurred, and it didn’t happen to the lady (Miss Smith) but to Mr Simpson, a visitor, who was in such a hurry to negotiate a rather stiff fence that he went over ahead of his horse and left that animal with a pained expression on its face on the wrong side. The Club intend proceeding to Bathurst at an early date to hunt a real live stag which they are carefully tending up there to allow of its being chased as soon as possible. The Sydney H. Club want to give the Western sportsmen the joy of a day with the hounds as a slight return for the quarry. Bathurst ‘sports’ ought to be good riders, for it has just struck me that if they are genuine Bathurst burrs they should be able to stick to anything. She followed this in June, with: Everybody is asking why men don’t marry. Not being a man, I can’t answer this knotty question, but I think the reason why the girls who went to a certain suburban Amateur Athletic Club’s sports on the 19th isn’t don’t marry is because they aren’t brave enough to link themselves to so invalid and declining a generation. When these noble athletics stripped for the fray, a sorry scene of pipe-stem legs, ‘champagne’ shoulders, faces pale as pie-crust, and hollow coughs, prefaced most of the events. A man requires muscle to be married. If you don’t think so, ask a certain newspaper-man who took his wife to a recent ball. At this whirl of gladness a total stranger of the sex that shaves behaved to Mrs. Newspaper Man in a manner which failed to meet the approbation of her hubby, who, having inveigled the clownish one by soft words and gentle wiles into a private room, then and there administered what has been described to me as ‘a grandfather of a licking’. The Sappho Smith column often ran to a full page of the Bulletin, and kept its sassy style right through to the end. A letter on 8 August 1896 recounted a display of diamonds at the Masonic ball that was ‘simply paralysing. One lady in ruby plush must have been worth half Coolgardie, if all her stones were genuine; and a prominent bookie’s wife, in pink silk, sported a really glorious diamond necklace – every stone in it an eloquent sermon to punters’. The final letter was published on 22 August that year. There was no mention of it being Sappho’s last gasp, and there was no note to readers the following week. Wildman and her Sappho Smith simply disappeared. Events 1970 - 1970 Published resources Resource Section Wildman, Alexina Maude (1867-1896), Roe, J. I., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120545b.htm Book Pen portraits : women writers and journalists in nineteenth century Australia, Clarke, Patricia, 1988 The Journalistic Javelin: An Illustrated History of the <i>Bulletin</i>, Rolfe, Patricia, 1979 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Dowell O'Reilly - Papers, 1884-1923, with additional family papers, 1877-1944 Author Details Barbara Lemon and Nikki Henningham Created 19 December 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Email correspondence concerning Bruce Parr’s research on Fifi Banvard. He asks Maureen Brooks, Editor, National Library of Australia, about possible references to Fifi Banvard and Gwen Friend in forthcoming Vol. 3 of ‘Diaries of Donald Friend’. Also, correspondence between Bruce Parr and Gwen Friend (May 2005, 2 leaves, photocopies) and 2 photocopied photographs (Gordon Chater, Sumner Locke – Elliott, and Fifi Banvard; Gwen Friend and June Salter.)?Includes brief bibliographical information about Yvonne (Fifi) Banvard. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mabel Arblaster was a professional portrait photographer who worked in Eaglehawk, where she opened a studio. Mabel Arblaster was born in 1882, in the small gold mining town of Eaglehawk, Victoria, into an upper middle class family. She was the second youngest child of the family and left school when she was fourteen years of age. The Arblaster family owned a gunpowder factory but suffered financially during the Depression, especially after the catastrophic event of the factory blowing up. Nonetheless, when Mabel declared her intention to become a photographer at the age of 18, her father supported her in her quest. Arblaster entered an apprenticeship with a local chemist, who taught her how to prepare photographic plates as well as darkroom processes. The apprenticeship entailed her working for six months without pay, then a further six months for five shillings per week. She was eventually paid seven and sixpence for the remainder of her time with him. Arblaster’s father set up a studio for her in one of the shops he owned in High St, Eaglehawk, c.1901, which she named The Federal Photographic Studio. Advertisements in the Bendigo Advertiser observed that the studio was ‘specially designed and built for the production of the highest class of work, such as family groups, wedding groups, groups of football and athletic clubs’ (Bendigo Advertiser 1901). Even though Eaglehawk was badly affected by the Depression, Arbalester’s studio stayed busy. She worked every day of the week and had to employ a messenger to assist her. Arblaster’s work shows she was highly competent in lighting, composition and printing techniques. Unfortunately only a few portraits have survived. Arblaster married John Bell, a school teacher, on 18 April 1906 and then closed her studio. She had a number of children and for a considerable amount of time the Bell family moved from one town to another, before eventually settling in Melbourne. The family came to be quite impoverished, so Mabel was unable to take up photography again. However, Arblaster did keep her camera with her always, and had it set up on a tripod everywhere she lived. She died in 1943. Collections Museum Victoria Private collections Published resources Newspaper Article Eaglehawk, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89447956 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Resource Section 191 Private Henry Bell, http://www.fromellesdiscussiongroup.com/abt.pdf Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 23 November 2016 Last modified 2 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "For her services to literature, Mary Gilmore was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 1 February 1937. The major themes of her work covered nationalism, the spirit of pioneering, motherhood, women’s rights, history, Aboriginal welfare, treatment of prisoners, health and pensions. Dame Mary Gilmore is the female face of the Australian $10 note. When she died, aged 97, Dame Mary was given a State funeral by both the Federal and New South Wales state governments. Her funeral was attended by all members of the New South Wales Cabinet. Dame Mary donated the Archibald winning portrait painted by William Dobell in 1957 to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Due to the itinerant lifestyle of her parents, Donald and Mary Ann Cameron, Mary was educated at a number of country state schools. Aged 16 she became a pupil-teacher at the Superior Public School for Girls in Wagga Wagga, and was transferred to the Infants’ Department in 1884. She taught at Beaconsfield Provisional School in 1886, followed by Illabo Public School, and in October 1887 was appointed temporary assistant at Silverton Public School near Broken Hill, New South Wales. In May 1889, Mary wrote to the Chief Inspector at the Department of Public Instruction requesting a move from Silverton back to Sydney on the grounds that her home was in Sydney and that the climate of the Barrier District was too severe for her constitution. She returned to Sydney in 1890 and taught at Neutral Bay, though her name and the dates of her residency are still proudly displayed on the Silverton Public School sign. During the 1890s Mary became interested in social reform and supported the maritime and shearers’ strikes. So as not to break the rules of the Department of Public Instruction, through which she was employed as a teacher, Mary wrote under the pen names Em Jaycey, Sister Jaycey and Rudione Calvert. At about this time she met and became a life-long friend of Henry Lawson. Mary became the first woman member of the Australian Workers Union, which she claimed she joined under her brother’s name. She later became a member of the executive. By 1895 Mary had given up teaching to join William Lane’s New Australia Movement. She sailed to his Cosme settlement in Paraguay, arriving January 1896 and there married shearer William Gilmore (1866-1945). A year after their only son William (1898-1945) was born, the family left the settlement and returned to Australia after visiting Henry Lawson and family in London. From 1902-1912 the Gilmores lived at William’s parents’ farm in Casterton in Western Victoria. Here Mary was able to re-establish her writing and political links. In 1903 she was featured on the Bulletin’s ‘Red Page’ and she helped with campaigning for the Labor Party in the 1906 and 1910 federal elections for the seat of Wannon. In 1908 Mary commenced editing the woman’s page of the Australian Worker, a position she held until 1931. In 1910 her first collections of poems Marri’d, and other verses was published. In 1912 Mary and her son Billy went to live in Sydney while William joined his brother at Cloncurry in North Queensland. By 1918 her second book of poetry, The Passionate Heart was published, followed by books of prose: Hound of the Road (1922) and The Tilted Cart (1925). Mary’s writing was regularly in print, with her last collection of poetry, Fourteen Men, published in 1954 when she was 89 years old. Besides being a prolific writer, Mary was also a founder-member of the Lyceum Club (Sydney), founder and vice-president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, member of the New South Wales Institute of Journalists and life member of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Dame Mary Gilmore’s ashes were buried in her husband’s grave at Cloncurry cemetery. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet.pdf Resource Section Gilmore, Mary Jean (1865-1962), Wilde, W. H., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090015b.htm List of Electoral Divisions Named After Women, Australian Electoral Commission, http://www.aec.gov.au/history/women/women3.htm Gilmore, Mary (1865 - 1962), Elford, Ross G, 2002, http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE1201b.htm Edited Book Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Book The Changemakers : Ten Significant Australian Women, Suzane Fabian and Morag Loh, 1983 1000 Famous Australians, 1978 100 great Australians, Macklin, Robert, 1983 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Journal Article Mary Gilmore - A Memoir, Foster, I. M, 1972 Magazine article Great poet was once a £13 a week teacher, 1973 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Archival resources Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Letters, 1971-1972: to the University of Queensland. Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection National Council of Women of NSW - program for the launch of the Centenary Stamp Issue and a complete set of the issue, 1996 National Council of Women of New South Wales further papers, 1895-1981 National Council of Women of NSW Inc. - further records, 1926-1927, 1937-1990 Papers relating to National Council of Women of New South Wales, 1895-1897 National Council of Women of New South Wales further records, 1895-1997 William Morrow - recordings of addresses given by Jessie Street, and interviews with Jessie Street, 1953-1960 Dame Mary Gilmore papers, 1911-1954 National Council of Women of New South Wales records, 1895-1976 Miles Franklin - Papers, 1841-1954 Dowell O'Reilly - Papers, 1884-1923, with additional family papers, 1877-1944 Sub-series 7.1: Papers relating to Louisa Lawson and Henry Lawson, 1859-1934 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Diaries of Dame Mary Gilmore, 1940-1949 [manuscript] Papers of Dame Mary Gilmore, 1923-1962 [manuscript] Papers of Mary Gilmore, 1865-1962 [manuscript] Papers of Mary Gilmore, 1883-1962 [manuscript] Papers of Dame Mary Gilmore, 1902-1962 [manuscript] Papers of Dame Mary Gilmore 1948 [manuscript] Records, 1895-1962 [manuscript] Papers of Kate Baker, 1893-1946 [manuscript] Correspondence and diaries, 1910-1962 [manuscript] Photographs, 19-- [manuscript] Papers of Eleanor Dark, 1910-1974 [manuscript] Papers of Dame Mary Gilmore, 1837-1962 [manuscript] Papers of Myrtle Rose White, 1940-1961 [manuscript] Papers of Jean L. Stevenson, 1932-1959 [manuscript] Records, 1928-1994 [manuscript] State Library of Victoria Papers, [manuscript]. National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Curtin] Correspondence 'G' [Mrs F R Gale - Gordon Branch Australian Labor Party, includes poem sent to Mrs Elsie Curtin by Dame Mary Gilmore] Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Gilmore, Dame Mary National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Talking history program on the National Library's Oral History section and the Hazel de Berg Collection compiled by Tim Bowden [sound recording] State Library of New South Wales Windeyer family papers, 1829-1943 Ruth Park letters received from Dame Mary Gilmore, 15 January 1946-28 April 1953, including two letters to D'Arcy Niland, 11 September and 28 September 19 National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Mary Gilmore, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood and Barbara Lemon Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Salonica, Greece. c. 1918. A group of Australian Army Nursing Service nurses at the 52nd British General Hospital at Kalamaria ready for night duty wearing headdress provided for protection against mosquitoes. (Donor Mrs McHardie White) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 hours (approx.)??Irina Ozolins was born in Russia in 1920 where her parents lived as refugees. Her father was killed there and her mother returned to Viesite, Latvia when Irina was still an infant. Irina’s mother worked as an accountant and they lived with her parents. Irene describes her childhood and her decision to study mathematics at university. She speaks of how family members perished under the Russian invasion of Latvia and how she decided to travel to Germany in 1944 where she continued her studies at Dresden University. Irene survived the bombing of Dresden in 1945, although she was buried alive. In the aftermath she met her husband, a lawyer who was retraining as an electrician, and they married in a Latvian displaced persons camp. After three years living in camps the family, now including two sons, travelled to Australia. The family went straight to Port Pirie in South Australia to stay with another Latvian family and then built their own home at Marino Rocks. In 1953, after the births of two more children, Mrs Ozolins sought work with the Education Department and began teaching high school mathematics. She recalls her astonishment at the unequal conditions of women. Mrs Ozolins concludes with discussing how she has emphasised culture in the manner in which she has raised her children; her work as an artist; and her continued involvement with the local Latvian community. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "An ALP candidate, Tanya Rachelle Gadiel was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Parramatta in 2003. She was re-elected in 2007, but retired before the 2011 election. She served as Deputy Speaker in the Christina Keneally Labor Government. Tanya Gadiel was educated at public schools including Cessnock High School, and was the first person in her family to travel overseas or go to university (BA, LLB). She was a Rotary exchange student to South Africa. “Her career history includes: Industrial Officer Australian Workers’ Union NSW branch Organiser Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union (Postal and Telecommunications), Policy advisor and chief of staff to Michael Costa Minister for Police, Elected member for Parramatta 2003, Member Committee on Health Care Complaints Commission. Tanya married Michael Gadiel and had one daughter. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 31 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection includes photographs of horses waiting outside stables, bullock dray, early in on the Great Southern Road (now Hume Highway) water tank hewn out of solid stone, a bridge in New South Wales. Two of the photographs are portraits of the Cosh family done professionally. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 6 August 2019 Last modified 6 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 folder of miscellaneous pieces. File contains material such as book extracts, a minute to file and a photocopied image with accession details. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 14 December 2016 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On 11 June 1960, Margery Merlyn Baillieu Myer was awarded the Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander in recognition of her charitable and social welfare work. The daughter of George Francis and Agnes (née Sheehan) Baillieu Margery Myer was born into one of Melbourne’s leading stockbroker and real estate families. She attended Cromarty Girls’ School, and the University of Melbourne. On 8 January 1920, aged 20, Merlyn became the second wife of Melbourne retail businessman Sidney Myer (later Sir Sidney). Originally named Simcha Baevski, Sidney Myer arrived in Australia as a penniless Russian immigrant. Myer was an entrepreneur, who founded a retail company that was listed on the Melbourne Stock Exchange during the 1920s. Michael Myer, in his address to the Annual General Meeting of Philanthropy Australia, on 13 April 1999, states that ‘the most significant influence on his [Sidney’s] life from the time they met was my grandmother, Merlyn, and their love for one another.’ Merlyn divided her time between business and pastoral interests. She was a member of the Board of Management for the Royal Melbourne Hospital and a member of the National Council of the Australian Red Cross Society. Along with her husband, Merlyn became a generous benefactor and she continued her involvement after Sidney’s death in 1934. She was the motivation for the establishment of the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, in 1959, as a gift to the people of Victoria. The Bowl became the home for the Sidney Myer free concert series, which commenced in 1929 as free open-air concerts by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The Orchestra had been founded with a grant given by the Myers to the University of Melbourne. Individually Merlyn and Sidney Myer are credited with making significant contributions to the development of The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Dame Merlyn Myer’s years of service to the hospital is acknowledged in the new education centre. The Merlyn Theatre at the Malthouse theatre complex in Melbourne has been named in her honour to mark the generosity of the Sidney Myer Fund, The Myer Foundation and the individual members of the Myer family who supported The Malthouse conversion. The couple’s four children, Neilma (later Neilma Gantner), Sidney Baillieu (Bails) Marigold (later Lady Southey) and Kenneth (Ken) and their off-spring have continued with the family philanthropic tradition. Published resources Book The Ever open door : a history of the Royal Melbourne Hospital 1848-1998, Gregory, Alan, 1998 Book Section The Patriarch's Will: The Myers, Browning, Julie, 2002 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 17 December 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Commission for Australian Catholic Women (CACW) was established on the recommendation of the Report on the Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia, which was presented to the Australia Catholic Bishops Conference on 12 April 1999. Its aim is to promote the participation of women in the Catholic Church of Australia. Its commissioners include representatives from Adelaide, Sydney, Ballarat, Melbourne, Whyalla, Perth and Mt Isa. The Commission meets four times annually and works to facilitate the decisions and proposals of the Bishops to build a more inclusive church. The inaugural Chair of the Commission was Geraldine Hawkes. The purpose of the Commission is to act as a focal point for ongoing dialogue and integration of ideas relating to women and their participation in the Catholic Church in Australia, and assist in the implementation of the decisions and recommendations concerning the participation of women in the Catholic Church in Australia. It has responsibility also for assisting in the implementation of the recommendations arising in response to the publication Woman and Man: One in Christ Jesus, a report on the participation of women in the Catholic Church in Australia by the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Published resources Book Woman and man: one in Christ Jesus: Report on the participation of women in the Catholic Church in Australia, Research Management Group, 1999 Resource Section History of the Commission for Australian Catholic Women, http://www.cacw.catholic.org.au/about/history.asp Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Commission for Australian Catholic Women Commission for Australian Catholic Women records Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 April 2004 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kate Ferguson is an active opponent of economic rationalism. She stood as a Progressive Labour Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Charlestown in 2003 and in the NSW Senate in 2004. Kate Ferguson has a strong affinity with the Newcastle region, her family having lived there for three generations. Kate studied sociology at Newcastle University and then worked as a researcher there. She also worked in Canberra for the Commonwealth Government in the areas of health education, employment and legal aid. She has also studied naturopathy. Kate Ferguson joined the Progressive Labour Party in 2000, because she shared its opposition to economic rationalist policy, and the privatisation of public services. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 14 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joan Corbett began her career in Canberra as a mathematics teacher then worked as a union official with the ACT Teachers Federation. She was appointed the first Women’s Officer of the Australian Teachers’ Federation in 1986, then joined the Commonwealth Public Service specialising in policy development initially in the Department of Employment, Education and Training on youth support and women’s employment including child care issues. Moving to the Department of Health and Ageing in 2003 she worked in the areas of Indigenous health and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. She left the Australian Public Service in 2011 and is currently an Associate Professor in Public Health at the University of Canberra. Joan Corbett was born in Montreal, Canada in 1952 and was educated at Turner Primary School and Canberra High School in the Australian Capital Territory and Marion High School in South Australia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from the Australian National University in 1974 and was awarded a Graduate Diploma in Education from the Canberra College of Advanced Education (now the University of Canberra) in 1975. From 1976 to 1981 Corbett worked as a mathematics teacher at Woden Valley High School and then Hawker College where she was also the teachers’ representative on the College Board 1977-79 and coordinated a Women’s Studies course. She was employed as the Schools Liaison Officer for the ACT Teachers Federation (1981-83) and then elected as General Secretary, ACT Teachers Federation (1983-86). In this position she advocated for better wages and working conditions for teachers and chaired the Sexism Committee which, among other things, sought to remove gender-specific references from the union rules. She was also involved in the ACT Trades and Labour Council campaign for recognition as a ‘State’ body and representation on the Australian Council of Trade Unions Executive. Corbett was appointed the first Women’s Officer to the Australian Teachers Federation in 1986 when 65% of the union’s members were women. She worked on equal opportunity, campaigns for maternity and parental leave, provision of child care and protection from sexual harassment, and developed training for teachers to improve their awareness of gender issues in girls’ education. She joined the Commonwealth Public Service in 1989 initially in the Department of Employment, Education and Training in the Youth Bureau. In 1990 she returned to part-time study at the Australian National University and completed a Master of Public Policy in 1993. Her study was greatly assisted by a postgraduate scholarship offered by the Department for the year 1992. Her research project related to child care provision and participation by women in the labour market. It was published in the Public Policy series in 1994. She was a representative on the Board of Studies for the Graduate Program in Public Policy while undertaking her postgraduate degree. Her only child, a son Will Stomps, was born in 1990. From 1992 she was a member of the Management Committee of the Black Mountain Community Pre School and Child Care Centre, holding the position of President in 1993-94. In 1993 she was employed as an adviser to the Minister for Employment, Education and Training, the Hon. Kim Beazley, and then in September 1993 returned to the Department as Director of the Women’s Policy section of the Economic Policy Analysis Division. This section was within the branch known as The Women’s Bureau and along with other policy work it contributed to the analysis of women’s employment in the Working Nation policy statement by the Labour government. In 1994 she moved to the then Department of Social Security, which became Family and Community Services, focusing on sole parent pension, family assistance measures, child care services, and disability employment services. She moved to the Department of Health and Ageing in 2003 where she led the branch with responsibility for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme until 2007. From 2008 she worked in the area of aged care briefly and then in the area of Indigenous health with responsibilities for planning of new services and capital works, child and maternal health programs, sexual health, and drug and alcohol programs. This included leading the roll out of Opal fuel to combat petrol sniffing. She is currently an Associate Professor and Course Convenor in Public Health at the University of Canberra. She is also a Board Member of the Canberra-based Post and Ante Natal Depression Support and Information Inc. (PANDSI). Published resources Resource Section Joan Corbett, http://theconversation.edu.au/profiles/joan-corbett-8519 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Joan Corbett papers Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 25 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Merilyn Plant was a nominee for the ABC Rural Woman of the year Award in 1994. She and her husband run a Poll Hereford Stud Farm near Toowoomba, in Queensland. A self-described ‘city slicker’ from Towoomba, Merilyn Plant only came to agriculture when she married a farmer. She admits to being quite lonely for the first few years as she made the adjustment to life on the land. Loneliness is what prompted her to establish in 1971 the ‘Poll-Hers’, a social support group for women like herself, living on Poll Hereford farms. She felt that women needed to have some means of contacting people beyond the farm gate. When her husband became state president of the Poll Hereford Society , she convinced him to allow her to invite the wives to their annual meeting, so that they could have a separate gathering. Not all women were allowed to come when the invitations were first issued. It seems that there was quite a bit of opposition to the ladies meeting together in some quarters. ‘I think they thought we were going to run up the national debt’ says Merilyn. Only women with what she referred to as ‘enlightened husbands’ were allowed to come. It started as a social thing – going to galleries and having lunches and teas etc. in Toowoomba – but grew into something more. The women began to think about how they could promote poll Herefords and beef in general. Still a social organisation the Poll -Hers nevertheless decided that they wanted to do something to support farming activities. They decided upon publishing a recipe book containing nothing but their favourite beef recipes. This good idea proved difficult to implement – no-one was prepared to lend the women the money to cover the printing costs. They eventually had to rely on the aid of three men who put the money up front. Their faith in the venture was rewarded. The book sold 25,000 copies. They had an easy distribution point through which to sell – hundreds of local butcher’s shops around the nation. After the book, they moved into other forms of merchandise marketing – t-shirts, caps, teaspoons. When it came to advertising their product – the Poll-Hers were leaders in the field for their industry. Published resources Edited Book The Poll-Hers pantry presents basic beef, Plant, Merilyn and the Poll-Hers, 1971? Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Merilyn Plant interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording] Women of the land oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 March 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Mackay worked at a photography studio in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, where she specialised in portraiture. Helen Mackay (known as Ella) was born in 1903. Her father was T.F. Mackay, a professional photographer who had trained in Glasgow at the Studios of T. & R. Annan. The family left Scotland and arrived in Perth, Western Australia in 1916. The following year T.F. Mackay took over J.J. Dwyer’s photography studio in Kalgoorlie, c.1917, and operated a very successful studio of his own. Ella had shown an interest in drawing from an early age. Clearly talented in this area, she was awarded three certificates by the Royal Drawing Society in June 1924. Mackay was also fascinated by photography. From the age of 12 she began visiting her father when he was at work at his studio. Mackay began working at this studio after she left school at the age of 15. Her father trained her in all aspects of photography, from retouching and mounting techniques to film processing. Her father put Mackay in charge of the amateur film processing section of the studio and eventually made her an assistant studio operator. Her work was studio based and encompassed the photography of babies and weddings, as well as portraiture. The compositions possessed a formal quality and used ‘subtle lighting and dramatic tinting’ (Hall 31). Mackay chose not to marry, focusing on photography instead. She once remarked that ‘[a]lthough many women were entering professions, if I had married I would probably have retired, not because of conventions, but because I don’t think one can succeed in two jobs. One has to choose and concentrate on the most important work: photography was my main love’ (Hall 31). Mackay died in 1999, at the age of 96. Collections Burtenshaw Collection of Photography, State Library of Western Australia Mackay, T.F. (Thomas Faulkner) & Dwyer, J.J. (John Joseph), 1869-1928 (1920). T.F. Mackay collection of photographs of Kalgoorlie Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Papers, [manuscript] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 16 November 2016 Last modified 16 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Material collected at the Convention includes: contents of delegate’s kit and media kit, brochures, handouts, lists of delegates, programs, speeches, media policy, position statement, history, name tags and rosettes worn by delegates, posters, t-shirt, signed banner and photographs. Organisations represented include: Amnesty International, Australian Women’s Party, Women’s Studies Resource Centre, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation, National Women’s Justice Coalition, Constitutional Centenary Foundation, Department of Women, Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women, Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia, Women into Politics. Author Details Clare Land Created 4 December 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Olive Pink was a botanical artist and anthropologist who campaigned for the rights of Aboriginal people. She was one of few women anthropologists working in a male dominated field in the 1930s and 1940s. Pink positioned herself as an expert on Aboriginal people and campaigned from this basis in her criticism of government officials, missionaries and pastoralists. Educated in art at Hobart Technical College. Pink worked at the Public Works Department and later the Railways Commission of New South Wales. She studied anthropology at Sydney University with the Workers’ Educational Association and became secretary to the Anthropological Society of NSW. In 1926 & 1927 she travelled to Ooldea on the Transcontinental Line, SA. There she created many of her early drawings of desert flora. Pink spent much time in the Northern Territory, living first with Arrernte and Warlpiri people and settling eventually in Alice Springs. She was a prolific correspondent, writing many letters to government departments and the press, particularly to represent her beliefs about Aboriginal people and her views on their better treatment by the government. Historian Julie Marcus suggests that Pink eventually lost faith in the potential of Anthropology to assist Aboriginal people, and abandoned the discipline later in life. In 1955 she applied for the reservation of an area of land on the eastern bank of the Todd River as a flora reserve. In 1956 the Australian Arid Regions Flora Reserve of 20 hectares was gazetted. Pink and her gardener Johnny Jambijimba Yannarilyi developed the garden, where Pink lived until her death. The garden was then renamed the Olive Pink Flora Reserve, and now contains over 300 of Central Australia’s plant species. Published resources Resource Section Guide to the Norman B. Tindale Archives:, South Australian Museum, 2000, http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindale/HDMS/338-4.htm Pink, Olive Muriel (1884-1975), Marcus, Julie, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160004b.htm Resource Papers of E.W.P. (Ernest William Pearson) Chinnery (1887-1972), National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/0766.html Significant Tasmanian Women: Olive Pink (1884-1975), Early Anthropologist, Aboriginal Rights Activist and Botanical Artist, Women Tasmania, 2001, http://www.women.tas.gov.au/significantwomen/search/olivepink.html Papers of Sir Paul Hasluck (1905- ), National Library of Australia, 2001, http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/5274.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Book Section The Beauty, Simplicity and Honour of Truth: Olive Pink in the 1940s, Marcus, Julie, 1993 Journal Article The Landowners in the Northern Division of the Aranda Tribe, Olive Pink, 1936 Spirit Ancestors in a Northern Aranda Horde Country, Olive Pink, 1933 Book Imagined destinies : Aboriginal Australians and the doomed race theory, 1880-1939, Russell McGregor, 1997 Yours truly, Olive M. Pink, Marcus, Julie, 1991c The Indomitable Miss Pink: A Life in Anthropology, Marcus, Julie, 2001 Talkin' up to the white woman : Aboriginal women and feminism, Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, 2000 First in Their Field: Women and Australian Anthropology, Marcus, Julie; Lepervanche, Marie de; McBryde, Isabel; Prior, Mary Ellen Murray; White, Isobel; Morris, Miranda; O'Gorman, Anne; Marcus, Julie and Cheater, Christine, 1993 Journal Bulletin of the Olive Pink Society, Olive Pink Society and Research Centre for Women's Studies, University of Adelaide, 1989-1999 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources Northern Territory Archives Service Olive Pink Papers National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ernest William Pearson Chinnery, 1897-1971 [manuscript] Papers of Sir Paul Hasluck, 1925-1989 [manuscript] Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Tom and Mary Wright collection deposit 1 Tom and Mary Wright Collection deposit 2 National Archives of Australia, Northern Territory Office Flora and fauna reserve Alice Springs - Miss Olive PINK - General correspondence Alice Springs Native Flora Reserve Olive Pink Miss Olive Pink /secular Sanctuary Granites Tanami District Flora and Fauna Reserve. Alice Springs (Miss Olive Pink - General correspondence) Native Flora Reserve Olive Pink Miss Olive Pink. Application for permit to enter Aboriginal Reserves General Correspondence National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra PINK, Olive South Australian Museum Archives Field diaries, notebooks and other data relating to fieldwork University of Tasmania Library, Special/Rare Collection Olive Pink Collection National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Olive Pink, anthropologist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] AIATSIS Manuscript and Rare Books Collection A patron and a friend : Olive Pink and J.B. Cleland Warlpiri vocabulary slips / by Olive Pink, c1934 Letter, Miss Olive Pink to T.G.H. Strehlow, 8th September, 1946 Papers of Olive Muriel Pink On policies for the Northern Territory Aborigines : an open letter, no.4 Collection of letters, documents, interview transcripts from [depositor's] collection on Ooldea closure and the Maralinga tests ACT Heritage Library RW Boden Work Files and Reports [relating to Olive Pink and the Olive Pink Society] Author Details Clare Land Created 1 February 2001 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Pauline Toner stood as a candidate for the Australian Labor Party in the Legislative Council Province of Templestowe at the Victorian state election, which was held on 20 March 1976, but was unsuccessful. She was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly at a by-election for Greensborough in 1977 and served until 1989. While in Parliament she was Minister for Community and Welfare Services (1982-1985) and a former Shadow Minister for Community and Welfare Services and Women’s Affairs. Following her education at the Brigidine Convent Horsham, Toner obtained the subsequent qualifications TPTC, BA (Melb) and BEd (La Trobe). She held positions at the State College of Victoria (1974-1975), and SCV Hawthorn (1975-1977). Toner began the first woman Shire President of the Diamond Valley Council (1977-1978), where she was a Councillor from 1973 to 1979. Married to Brian Toner on 2 January 1962 and the mother of five children (1s 4d) her recreations included: canoeing, bushwalking and chess. Also she was a director of the Victorian State Opera and a member of Amnesty International and the National Trust Born: 16 March 1935 Horsham Vic. (daughter: W Hoare). Died: 3 March 1989. Born in 1935, Pauline Toner was a lecturer in Education before entering the Victorian Parliament in 1977. After being Shadow Minister for Community Welfare Services and Women’s Affairs, she was Minister for Community Welfare Services between 1982 and 1985. Her Ministry was characterised by a shift in emphasis from institutionalisation to community programs in the provision of welfare services and an increased focus on the rights of children. Among her achievements were the groundbreaking Adoption Act of 1984 which allowed all adult adoptees to receive information about their origins, the establishment of Statewide Community Corrections and foster care programs and funding for Neighbourhood houses. Pauline resigned due to ill health in 1989, only a few days before her untimely death on 3 March. (Source: HERstory: Australian Labor Women in Federal, State and Territory Parliaments 1925-1994, Margaret Reynolds) (Information available: http://www.nwmc.org.au/history2/biogs/toner.htm accessed 12/02/02) Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Journal Article Centenary of the Tailoresses' Association of Melbourne, Anon, 1983 Book No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1988, Cadman, Kerith A, 1988 Author Details Land, C. A. Created 13 February 2002 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Caroline Atkinson was home-educated in New South Wales, a keen student of natural history and an accomplished botanical illustrator. She was also a populariser of science and published in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Horticultural Magazine . Taught by her mother, Atkinson developed a keen interest in botany and zoology. She wrote popular articles on botany, made drawings and sent numerous specimens to eminent botanists including William Woolls and Ferdinand von Mueller (q.v.). She was also an able taxidermist. Atkinson was commemorated in the naming of the Loranthaceous genus Atkinsonia, also Erechtites atkinsoniae and Epacris calvertiana. A horticulturally distinct fern, ranking as a form of Doodia caudata, was named Doodia atkinsonii in her honour. Atkinson married James Snowdon Calvert. Published resources Book Pioneer Women, Pioneer Land: Yesterday's Tall Poppies Angus & Robertson, Vries-Evans, Susanna De, 1987 Resource Section Atkinson, Caroline Louisa Waring (1834-1872), naturalist and writer, Chisholm, A.H., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030060b.htm Journal Article Mrs. Meredith and Miss Atkinson, Writers and Naturalists, Margaret, Swann, 1929 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Natural history illustrations, correspondence, and newscuttings, 1859-1961, mainly relating to Australian fauna and botany / Caroline Louisa Calvert (nee Atkinson) Macleay Museum Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson - Records National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Caroline Louisa Waring Calvert, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Journal kept on board the \"Cumberland\" bound from England to New South Wales [manuscript] State Library of New South Wales Atkinson and Cosh family pictorial material, ca. 1842-1973 Royal Australian Historical Society Four photographs including list of names of the sitters and a letter from Janet Cosh (1.11.1980) National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Patricia Clarke, 1887-2010 [manuscript] Papers of Janet L. Cosh, 1826-1983 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 22 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Born in Germany in 1947 to Polish parents who had been forced by the Nazis into farm labour in Germany during World War 2, Maria Doogan came to Australia with her parents in 1950 under the International Refugee Organisation’s Displaced Persons scheme. In 1998 she became the first person to be appointed to the ACT Magistracy from a non-English speaking background. Maria Doogan is best known by Canberrans for her role as Coroner in the controversial Coronial Inquiry into the catastrophic 2003 Canberra bushfires. Maria Doogan was born Miroslawa Krystyna Kowal on 27 October 1947 in a Displaced Persons Camp in Frille, near Minden, Germany. Her parents, Stefan Kowal (1923-1997) and Wiktoria Kucharska (1915-1973), had been forcibly removed from Poland to Germany during World War 2 to work as farm labourers. They met and married in Germany and at the end of the war, they became part of the Displaced Persons scheme established by the International Refugee Organisation (IRO) for people who were unable or unwilling to return to home countries occupied by the USSR army. In 1947 the Australian Commonwealth entered into an agreement with the IRO for the resettlement of European Displaced Persons in Australia. Maria Doogan and her parents were three of the 182,000 people who came to Australia under the scheme that was later known as the DP Group Resettlement (or ‘Mass Resettlement’). (60,000 Poles migrated to Australia; 320,000 European migrants moved through Bonegilla, the largest of the camps; 2 million migrants arrived in Australia between 1945 and 1965, 182,000 of these were sponsored by the IRO.) Doogan and her parents travelled to Australia with “a big metal chest with all their possessions” on ‘Flying Tiger’ Aus/169 Syd 9, a former American warplane (Sydney Morning Herald, 30 March 2012). They departed from Bremen, Germany on 1 November 1950 and flew via Cairo, Ceylon, Darwin and Sydney, arriving in Melbourne on 6 November 1950. Along with many other European migrants of the time, Doogan’s first place of residence in Australia was the largest of the migrant camps – Bonegilla Migrant Hostel in Victoria. Doogan and her mother were later moved to Cowra NSW, to a migrant camp that had been a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War 2. Her father was sent to Sydney to work for the then NSW Water Board (now Sydney Water) as a plumber and drainlayer doing hard physical work digging ditches for sewerage pipes. Her mother picked vegetables for Edgell on Cowra farms. Doogan’s first brother, Edward, died in Germany. Her younger brother, George, was born in Cowra. When Doogan and her mother and brother George were eventually reunited with her father in Sydney, they settled in Sydney’s western suburbs where Doogan was educated by the Sisters of Charity at Sacred Heart, Cabramatta and then Saint Mary’s, Liverpool before completing her Leaving Certificate at Bethlehem College, Ashfield. While Doogan’s father continued his work as a plumber, her mother sewed paper cement sacks in a Sydenham factory. Doogan vividly recalls her mother leaving home on freezing cold early mornings to walk to the station and catch a train to work. A champion athlete at school, there was talk of Doogan as an Olympic sprint hopeful but she pursued a career instead, winning a Commonwealth Scholarship to Sydney University where she studied arts for one year before taking a job with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). In 1970 Doogan moved to Canberra where she worked for the ATO (1970-1971), the then Department of Trade (1971-1977) and the then Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce (1977-1988). On 22 May 1974 in Canberra, Maria Kowal married Christopher Doogan, a lawyer who rose to become the High Court of Australia’s first Chief Executive and Principal Registrar. They have three children and three grandchildren. Encouraged by her husband, in 1985 Doogan fulfilled a long-held desire and began studying for a law degree. She did this externally through Macquarie University, while continuing to work with the Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce, graduating with a Bachelor of Legal Studies in 1988. Doogan later reflected on this time, “Now that I look back, it was incredibly tough juggling work, children and a big study load and sometimes I felt like quitting.” (Sirius, 2003) She often found herself working on assignments after midnight when her children were asleep (Sirius, 2003). After graduation, in 1989 Doogan joined the then Commonwealth Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. She rose to become a senior prosecutor and chose to transfer to the ACT Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions when it was created a few years after self-government was introduced into the Territory. She worked on high-profile cases including the initial investigation and trial of ANU law student Anu Singh for the alleged murder of her boyfriend, 26-year-old engineer Joe Cinque, and the trial of Frank Del Castillo for the 1991 alleged murder of his former wife’s lover, Christopher Wilder. Doogan is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Australia, a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the ACT, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and a Member of the Bar Association of the ACT. She completed the Legal Workshop at the Australian National University (ANU) and the Mediation Workshop at Harvard University, Boston, USA. In 1998 Doogan was appointed Magistrate and Coroner to the Australian Capital Territory Magistrates Court. As Magistrate she handled general criminal cases, civil cases, workers’ compensation, children’s cases, mental health, guardianship, domestic violence protection orders and restraining orders. In addition to being Magistrate and Coroner, Doogan held judicial positions on several tribunals including the Mental Health Tribunal, Guardianship Tribunal, Discrimination Tribunal and the Health Professionals Tribunal. By dint of being on duty when the disastrous Canberra bushfires of 8-18 January 2003 erupted, Doogan was the Coroner presiding over the inquest into the resulting loss of life and property. As Coroner, her job was to find out and report on what had happened and make recommendations (Sirius, 2003). Doogan’s role was particularly significant because of the scale of the loss and destruction. Four people died – Dorothy McGrath, Alison Mary Tener, Douglas John Fraser and Peter Brabazon Brooke. 435 people were injured, 487 homes destroyed, 23 commercial and government premises destroyed, 215 homes, commercial premises, government buildings and outbuildings damaged, the Australian National University’s Mt Stromlo observatory – an internationally renowned institution – was destroyed, an inestimable number of animals were killed or injured; almost 70% of the ACT (157,170 hectares) was burnt. Resulting financial losses were estimated to be close to $1 billion (Doogan, The Canberra Firestorm, 2006). The inquest was dogged by controversy and delayed for almost a year when the ACT Government tried to force Doogan’s removal on the grounds of apprehended bias, alleging, among other things, that she favoured certain expert witnesses who were critical of the government. The Canberra public mobilised in support of Doogan, organising a “Save Maria Doogan” rally on the steps of the ACT Supreme Court in February 2005 where placards such as “let Maria fan the flames of honesty” were displayed. The full Supreme Court bench backed Doogan and she remained as Coroner on the inquiry (Rudra, Canberra Times, 30 March 2012). After 103 days of evidence had been heard involving 95 witnesses, 28 legal counsel, 40,762 documents totalling 88,470 pages, 20,000 audio files, 1,081 maps and over 10,000 pages of real-time transcripts, the inquiry ended on 26 July 2006 and Doogan delivered her findings on 19 December 2006. The report – The Canberra Firestorm: inquests and inquiry into four deaths and four fires between 8 and 18 January 2003 – was publicised internationally, as far away as Russia and on the Al Jazeera network. On the first pages of the two-volume document, Doogan’s letter to the ACT Attorney General sets the scene for the damning report: it is a miracle that no more than four people died …On the evidence before the inquiry, I conclude that the failure to warn the community – despite senior personnel of the Emergency Services Bureau having knowledge that the fires would burn into the suburbs – was a factor that exacerbated the property losses and resulted in panic and confusion throughout the affected suburbs on the day of the firestorm (Doogan, The Canberra Firestorm, 2006, Vol. 1, covering letter to ACT Attorney General). Further into the document she reports that while it was perhaps impossible to say whether the catastrophe could have been prevented, it could “be said that the firestorm’s severity and impact could have been mitigated”. (Doogan, The Canberra Firestorm, 2006, Vol. 1, Ch 1, p. 3) Doogan rejected inquiry submissions that the fires could not have been foreseen, citing Australia’s recorded history of fire events dating back to at least 1851 and CSIRO fire expert Mr Phil Cheney’s prediction, based on seven inquiries since 1986 into aspects of the ACT emergency services, of a conflagration of the type experienced in January 2003. (Doogan, The Canberra Firestorm, Vol. 1, Ch 1, p. 3) She emphasised the importance of learning from the catastrophe and expressed the hope that her findings and recommendations would be acted on and “not relegated to the archives to gather dust – as has occurred with the reports of several of the previous inquiries.” (Doogan, The Canberra Firestorm, Vol. 1, Ch 1, p. 4) While damning the inaction of some, Doogan praised the efforts and bravery of many, commenting that evidence: revealed that those in authority could, and should, have done many things to reduce the extent of disaster and loss. The evidence revealed highly commendable efforts – and, indeed, bravery – on the part of volunteer, rural and urban firefighters, parks and forestry staff, the rural landholders, the police, ambulance personnel, the many people who came from interstate to help and, not least, the large number of people in the ACT community who came together to help one another in the face of a terrible event. (Doogan, The Canberra Firestorm, Vol. 1, Ch 1, p. 4) In a Canberra Times article published on the announcement of her retirement in March 2012, Doogan provides insight into her perception of the significance of the coroner’s role for the community and demonstrates the compassion and clarity she brought to the Coronial Inquiry: Investigations into coronial matters are very important – it’s the last act that the community can do for somebody, to determine how they died. It’s an overused word, closure, but the families really look for closure from coronials (Rudra, Canberra Times, 30 March 2012) Maria Doogan resigned from the magistracy in March 2012. She lives in Canberra. Published resources Newspaper Article Hard won rise from humble start, Doherty, Megan, 2007 Down time for straight-talking magistrate, Rudra, Natasha, 2012, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/toughtalking-magistrate-retires-20120330-1w364.html Report The Canberra firestorm: inquests and inquiry into four deaths and four fires between 8 and 18 January 2006, Doogan, Maria, 2006, http://www.courts.act.gov.au/resources/attachments/The_Canberra_Firestorm_%28VOL_II%29.pdf Book Section Doogan, Maria Krystyna, 2012 Resource Section Defence lawyer concedes Coroner used 'emotive' language, 2007, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-12-05/defence-lawyer-concedes-coroner-used-emotive/978542 God Bless Coroner Maria Doogan, http://www.sosnews.org/newsfront/?p=130 Magazine article Maria Doogan, 2003, http://www.mq.edu.au/pubstatic/public/download.jsp?id=52693 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra KOWAL Stefan born 2 March 1923; Wiktoria born 11 November 1915; Miroslawa born 27 October 1947 Author Details Niki Francis Created 14 December 2012 Last modified 11 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 sound cassettes (4.5 hours.)??Born Melbourne; daughter of Walter and Violet Murdoch; family background; father’s occupations; his establishment of school in Camberwell, then Warrnambool; his lectureship; move to Perth; family home; social gatherings; literary groups; childhood activities; relationship with father; staff at university; buildings; bequest of Sir Winthrop Hackett which provided funds to the new university in Crawley; home in Cottesloe; move to South Perth; school life, at Miss Nesbit’s and Perth College; return to Melbourne; social activities; her university life; outstanding students; family’s return to England; teaching in England; return to Perth; marriage to Alexander King; early married life; effect of Depression; living conditions; cost of living; involvement with Kindergarten Union; Meerilinga; Adult Education; working with ABC radio; development of Kindergarten of the Air; formation of Lady Gowrie Child Centres; effect of War; closure of kindergartens; kindergarten training; commencement of Women’s Session of ABC; experiences with interviewees; religious broadcasts; involvement with Save the Children Fund, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Middle East; Amnesty International; MBE. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2019 Last modified 5 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers relating to Charles Bateson, Ronald Campbell, Catherine Bateson (previously known as Helen Campbell), Ernestine Hill, Sam Fullbrook, Lloyds Bookshop (Brisbane), Paul Knobel, Billy Jones, and Hollie Charlton. Includes correspondence between Charles Bateson, Sir Robert Helpmann, and Ernestine Hill, about a proposed film based on Ernestine Hill’s book, ‘Kabbarli : a personal memoir of Daisy Bates’. Also includes 3 boxes of material by Charles Bateson on the history of crime. Correspondence, photographs, newspaper cuttings, photocopied articles, audiotapes, films, slides, invitations, art exhibition catalogues.??Collection includes explanatory notes by Louise Campbell. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 15 November 2016 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ruby Litchfield was appointed as a Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 13 June 1981 for service to the performing arts and the community. She had earlier been appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil), on 1 January 1959, for social welfare. Ruby Beatrice Litchfield (née Skinner) was born in Subiaco, Western Australia on 5 September 1912. She died on 14 August 2001. She grew up in Adelaide, attended North Adelaide Primary School and Presbyterian Girls’ College. Litchfield’s work and interests spanned theatre, tennis, and service to many community and charity organisations. She directed 35 plays for the Adelaide Repertory Theatre up until 1983, and acted in several plays. She was South Australian hard-court tennis champion three years in a row (1932-1935), and President of the Sportswomen’s Association from 1969-1974. Litchfield was the first woman appointed to the Board of the Adelaide Festival Trust (1971). She was also a board member of the Adelaide Festival of Arts and chair of the Youth Performing Arts Council. Her involvement in the community and charity sectors included services for the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital, the Kidney Foundation, the Red Cross Society (South Australia), the Crippled Children’s Association, the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Research Foundation and the Regency Park Centre for Young Disabled. For her community work, Litchfield was appointed OBE (1959). She was later awarded the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal (1977). Litchfield was further honoured in 1981, being appointed DBE, this time for service to the performing arts and the community. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 S.A.'s greats: the men and women of the North Terrace plaques, Healey, John, 2001 Book The World Who's Who of Women, 1973-1997 Newspaper Article A champion of the arts, Archdall, Susan, 2001 Dame Ruby : a person for the people, Lloyd, Tim, 2001 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Clare Land Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dame Marie Breen speaks about her family background and experiences; her interest in politics; the councils and committees she worked on; her entry into politics; her Senate experience; recollections of colleagues in the Senate; her activities since leaving the Senate: UNICEF, Victorian Family Council and Citizens’ Advice Bureau; the prospects ahead. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Carol Mills was appointed librarian at the newly-formed Canberra College of Advanced Education in 1969. Her publications include a bibliography of Northern Territory literature and numerous articles on early Australian writers, book illustrators and book history. She worked subsequently as librarian of the Charles Sturt University at Wagga, and the University of the South Pacific in Suva, where she published articles on library management and literacy in the South Pacific. Born Penshurst, New South Wales on 15 September 1942 to Bob and Jean Mills (Nee Bennett). Moved to Cronulla in 1947 where she attended the local State primary school. Completed her secondary education at Kogarah Girls High and studied for two years at Sydney University. Worked at the Fisher Library, University of Sydney from 1963-65. Travelled and worked for three years as a librarian in Europe and England. Returning to Australia in 1969 she became second librarian appointed to the newly-formed Canberra College of Advanced Education until 1984. From 1975-83 she completed a four-volume bibliography of literature emanating from the Northern Territory. Gained a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Australian National University in 1977 and a Masters Degree in Librarianship from the University of London. Throughout the 1980s she published a series of articles in the Lu Rees Archives on early Australian writers and book illustrators. As Librarian at the William Merrylees Library, Charles Sturt University at Wagga, from 1984-2000 she published a number of articles on Australian book history. From 1993-95 she was seconded to the library of the University of the South Pacific in Suva, publishing a number of articles on library management and literacy in the South Pacific region. She retired to Canberra in 2000 and deposited her papers in the National Library. She has made provision for a generous bequest to that library on her death. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Interview with Carol Mills, retired librarian [sound recording] / interviewer, Ann-Mari Jordens National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Carol M. Mills, 1951-2013 [manuscript] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 March 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Soroptimist International is a worldwide organisation for women in management and the professions working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women. Soroptimists work at all levels of civil society, local, national and international, and are involved with a wide spectrum of women’s concerns. The Soroptimist Club of Canberra was chartered on 1 April 1955 and has met continuously since then. Soroptimists are committed to a world where women and girls together achieve their individual and collective potential, realise aspirations and have an equal voice in creating strong, peaceful communities worldwide. The inaugural meeting of the Soroptimist Club of Canberra was convened at the Hotel Civic on 6 September 1954. The club was chartered on 1 April 1955 with a dinner at the Hotel Canberra. The Charter President was Mary Stevenson. In 1978 the Club became part of the new Federation, Soroptimist International of the South West Pacific (SISWP). Maris King of the Canberra Club was the second President of SISWP. The Canberra Club was incorporated in 1982. Much of the effort of members has been devoted to service, an important objective of Soroptimism. The Canberra Club’s first project was ‘Buy a Brick’ to assist in the provision of a unit for the proposed Goodwin Homes for the aged in Ainslie. Subsequently further funding was provided to Goodwin Homes and members took an interest in the occupants of Soroptimist Cottage until its demolition in the early 1990s. The Canberra Club has helped, financially or in other ways, a wide variety of organisations in Canberra such as Sir Leslie Morshead War Veteran’s Home, Koomarri, Guide Dogs for the Blind, Morling Lodge, Marymead Children’s Home, the Girl Guides Association, Dr Barnardo’s Children’s Home, the Women’s Shelter in Belconnen, Life Line, the Meals-on-Wheels Service, the Noah’s Ark Toy Library, Multiple Sclerosis, ACT Blind Society, Motor Neurone Care and Support Group and the National Brain Injury Foundation. Assistance has also been provided in many other ways such as support for women’s refuges, children with disabilities and needy women students in ACT tertiary institutions. More recently the Club has provided scholarships through the Canberra Refugee Support Programme and microcredit loans to enable women to start their own small business. The Club has also supported Soroptimist projects in other parts of Australia and overseas e.g. Fiji, Solomon Islands and East Timor as well as providing support for victims of natural disasters both in Australia and overseas. In recent years, the most successful international projects have been in Northern Thailand where young women were trained and given employment opportunities which meant that they didn’t go to Bangkok to work in the sex industry (SIAM – Soroptimist International AIDS Mediation), and in Cambodia where schools and hospital facilities were provided for villagers on the Thai/Cambodian border (Hands across Borders). The Club’s current project is training PNG women as midwives to work in their villages to improve the conditions for mothers and babies at the time of birth (Birthing in the Pacific). Contributing to good will and understanding is an important part of Soroptimism. Members of the Canberra Club have taken the opportunity to develop a spirit of friendship among Soroptimists of all countries by extending hospitality to the many Soroptimists visiting Canberra and by attending meetings and conferences at the local, regional, national and international level. Many members plan business and holiday trips round international gatherings. Over the years, the Club has taken an active interest in the Canberra community and has interacted with government, community and national organisations to promote public policy issues and projects of concern to its members. As part of the centenary of Canberra celebrations, the Canberra Club has assisted the Canberra Museum and Gallery in an exhibition entitled The Women who Made Canberra to be held at the Gallery from 24 November 2012 to 17 March 2013. Additionally, in February 2013 Soroptimist Point at Yerrabi Pond in Gungahlin will be officially named in a ceremony recognising the contributions made by Soroptimist International. The Canberra Club has taken the responsibility for organising this event. Published resources Book One Very Big Year: Canberra 100, 2012 Fifty Years On: The History of SI Canberra Inc. for the Club's Golden Jubilee, Passmore, Virginia, 2005 Resource Soroptimist International, http://www.soroptimistinternational.org/ Soroptimist International of the South West Pacific, http://www.siswp.org Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Soroptimist Club of Canberra, 1955-1973 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Buttsworth Created 21 January 2013 Last modified 20 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letters, cards and postcards, handwritten and typed, including Gwen Harwood’s last letter to Tony Riddell (29 November 1995). Includes 4 letters from other correspondents to Gwen Harwood. Also accompanied by a handwritten libretto by Harwood, entitled “Lenz: opera in one act, after Buchner” and an audiotape recording of its performance by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Contents include: manuscripts written as a student at the Sydney Teachers’ College (1938-1940); recollections – script/related records (1936-1993); laboratory notebooks compiled as a science student (1936-1939); letters (1946-1968); photographs from undergraduate days (1936-1939); undergraduate prize book (1943). Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 14 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The collection has been separated into three parts, based on format:??P1 – framed photographs??This consignment consists of photographs that were displayed as part of the Jubilee Conference on Maternal and Child Health in 1976 and then selected to be framed and displayed for the 75th Jubilee, held in 2001. Photographs not considered suitable for framing at the time can be found in the P2 consignment. The photographs date from 1927 to the mid 1940s, and document various aspects of the Infant Welfare Service. Subject matter includes the rural Infant Welfare Circuit, the Better Farming Train in rural Victoria and mothers with their children in front of the Infant Welfare van.??P2 – Large unframed mounted photographs??This consignment consists of 30 mounted unframed photographs that depict aspects of the service and departmental responsibilities dating from the 1940s to the 1980s. These include photographs of the department office and officers (1946), the infant welfare vans (internal and external), babies’ homes (including mothercraft nurses), a dental and pre-natal clinic, a series of family shots taken in the 1950s and service activities taken in 1987. Along with the contents of the P1 consignment, these photographs would have been displayed at the Jubilee Conference on Maternal and Child Health in 1976.???P3 – Individual Prints and Slides??This consignment consists of individual photographs of various sizes, including 106 slides and the contents of 269 individual envelopes. Subject matter includes maternal and child health centres (infant welfare), centre-based services including families and nurses, rural outreach services, official opening of centres with various officers of the Department and mothers group activities. The dates range from 1938 to 1995.??Notes on the back of some prints indicate that they may have been published in annual reports. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 25 December 2017 Last modified 25 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 1541 comprises correspondence, 1959-1999, nine diaries, newspaper cuttings and 24 scrapbooks and photograph albums. The correspondence series includes letters from her husband, readers of her Diaries, publishers, art galleries, portrait sitters and owners of her artworks. There is a series of diaries documenting Judy Cassab’s personal and family life and details of her professional career spanning the years 1944-1997. There are copies of newspaper cuttings, and albums containing photographs and articles that describe her artistist achievements and exhibitions held between 1951 and 1997. The collection provides a comprehensive record of Cassab’s artistic activities, her contacts with the Australian art world and her personal life (8 boxes, 12 fol. Boxes).??The Acc01.017 instalment comprises volume 10 of Cassab’s diary, December 1997-April 2000 (1 box).??The Acc02.072 instalment comprises correspondence, some dating from 2002 (1 box).??The Acc04.055 instalment comprises correspondence, cards, postcards, emails and enclosures (1 box).??The Acc06.020 instalment comprises seven volumes of cutting books, 1955-1957, 1961, 1968-1976, 1982-1988, 1994-1995; four albums of original photographs, cuttings and documents, 1994-1995 and 1997-2001; an album of photographs of portraits; and, letters, 2004-2006. The cutting books are copies (1 box, 3 fol. Boxes) Author Details Judith Ion Created 12 August 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Collection of correspondence from friends and fellow writers, mostly poets, editors and critics, discussing poetry, literary journals in Australia, personal news. Also copies of poems enclosed with letters or included in them. The earliest letter is dated 31 Nov. 1933. The great bulk of letters was written in the 1960s and 1970s. In all there are over 900 letters and a large number of unsorted postcard communications. The collection also includes some of Gwen Harwood’s outgoing correspondence, and mss of her poems, with some biographical material and photographs. Correspondents include: Bruce Beaver; Peter Bennie; John Beston; Kevin Bowden; Vincent Buckley; Nancy Cato; Alexander Craig; Margaret Diesendorf; R.D. Fitzgerald; Frank Green; Rodney Hall; Rex Hobcroft; A.D. Hope; Evan Jones; Frank Kellaway; James McAuley; Roger McDonald; James Penberthy; Craig Powell; Thomas Riddell; Keith Russell; Thomas Shapcott; Larry Sitsky; Vivian Smith; Norman Talbot. Includes folder of letters, with some poems, to Ann Jennings, 1959-1988. There are also some photographs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Tracey Moffatt is an internationally renowned Aboriginal photographer, documentary maker and director. Moffatt’s photography is reflected in her films and documentaries, which explore Aboriginal culture by confronting commonly held stereotypes. Tracey Moffatt was born in 1960 in Brisbane, where she graduated from the Queensland College of Arts. Her debut film, Nice Coloured Girls, won the Most Innovative Film award at the 1988 Festival of Australian Film and Video. At the same festival, she won the Best New Australian Video award for her 5-minute Aboriginal and Islander dance video, Watch Out. Moffatt also produced Moodeitj Yorgas, which includes interviews, dances, and storytelling by Western Australian Aboriginal women. Her film Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1990) draws from the 1955 Chauvel film Jedda. Moffatt’s photographic exhibitions include “Some Lads” and “Something More”. Moffatt released her first documentary in 1988. A Change of Face critically examined the popular understanding and construction of Australian identity in films, television drama and advertisements. Moffatt’s first documentary focused solely on Aboriginal culture is Moodeitj Yorgas (Solid Women). Released in 1989, the film focused on strong and successful Aboriginal women. The film is constructed through the use of interviews, photographs of Aboriginal people and their land, stories about how the arrival of white man changed Aboriginal life (told in two Aboriginal languages), and Aboriginal music and dance. The interviews with Sally Morgan, Lois Olney, Helen Corbett and Helen Dorondorf are symbolic of the collective voice of Aboriginal women. Her next documentary was Nice Coloured Girls (1989). Moffatt again juxtaposed photography with voiceovers to examine the historical relationship between Aboriginal women and white men. The documentary questioned the validity of conventional white history that depicts Aborigines as passive and powerless. Also in 1989, she wrote and directed Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy. Night Cries was inspired by Charles Chauvel’s Jedda (1955), and continued the story of the two main characters, thirty years after Jedda. In the film, the relationship has changed from mother and child to carer and invalid. Moffatt’s first feature film Bedevil was a set of three individual ghost stories that interlock to form one cohesive movie. The film was released in 1993 and is the second feature film to be directed by an indigenous Australian. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 The Oxford Companion to Australian Film, McFarlane, Brian, Mayer Geoff and Bertrand, Ina, 1999 Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia, French, Lisa, 2003 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Murawina : Australian women of high achievement, Roberta Sykes ; photography by Sandy Edwards, 1993 The moving images of Tracey Moffatt, Summerhayes, Catherine, 2007 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive Women 88 Boomalli: Five Koori Artists Moodeitj Yorgas Nice Coloured Girls Night Cries : A Rural Tragedy Bedevil : Original Release A Change of Face [A Positive Identity for Black Film Makers : Sydney Film Festival : Film Forum] [Moffatt, Tracey : Interviewed by Kari Hanet : Oral History] [Moffatt, Tracey : upper body shot, head turned to right, corrugated iron roof in background] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Tracey Moffatt, film-maker, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Hollie Aerts, Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 18 May 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Constructed in Astor Terrace, Spring Hill in 1891/2 and officially opened by Sir Henry Norman on 2 February 1892. It was planned as a residence for newly-immigrated young women. Architects: Nicholson and Wright. Demolished in 1975. (Description supplied with photograph). Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Interview with writer Helen Garner who has been appointed writer-in-residence at Griffith University. She discusses the writing and later filming of her novel ‘Monkey Grip’ and talks about heroin addiction (and other forms of addiction) as it relates to the characters and communities represented in her novel. Garner mentions her novellas ‘Other Peoples Children’ and ‘Honour’ and talks about the process of writing. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Composer and pianist Dulcie Holland trained at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music and graduated in 1933 with her teacher’s diploma. In addition to teaching, Dulcie completed further study at the Royal College of Music, London. On her return to Sydney she became a freelance composer, successfully writing various styles of music for many mediums. From 1967 to 1984 Dulcie was an examiner for the Australian Music Education Board and in 1977 she was appointed a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to music. Dulcie also received an honorary doctorate in music from Macquarie University and published extensively on the topic of music theory. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Dulcie Holland, 1931-2000 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dulcie Holland interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc11.174 comprises press clippings from Australia and overseas, personal correspondence, a copy of Skuse’s memoir, report relating to the International Consultation on Racism, Anne Conlon Memorial Lecture “Feminism and religion”, various writings, congratuatory letters on major career highlights and photographs, including photograph with Desmond Tutu and at an audience with Pope John Paul II (2 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Getting the Bird seventh Annual Revue Presented by The Students of the University of Melbourne. Programme. Foreword by J.D.G. Medley, 8 May 1939, Musical Director Ian Braid, producer Terence Crisp, ballets and ensembles by Terry Hughes. Members of the caste include Niall Brennan, Frank Hirst, Joy Youlden, David Cohen, Wilbur Curtis, Keith Dowding, Peggy Tellick, Ruth Wettenhall, Dorothea Dixon, Joyce Thorpe.. Photographs of Braid, Hughes, Sam Cohen and Dorothea Dixon; cartoon of Crisp. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc09.196 comprises the typescript of an English version of Juliet Schlunke’s autobiographical work “Rosenthal, the gathering storm”. Quoted in the text are two poems of Ray Mathew, poems of Schlunke’s mother, Olga Schlunke, and short stories of her father, Eric Schlunke. Originally written in French (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On 6 November 1959 a memorial gateway to the first director of the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) was erected at the entrance to WRAAC School, Georges Heights, Sydney and was opened by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales, Lieutenant General Sir Eric Woodward KCMG, CB, CBE, DSO. The design chosen for the gates was submitted by an Australian Regular Army (ARA) Sergeant, Juanita Feltham BEM. The design was symbolic of the life and work of Colonel Kathleen Best. The gates were relocated to the Royal Military College, Duntroon and rededicated on 6 November 1994. Description of gates The overall background is composed of a pattern of the Red Cross, which is symbolic of the life and work of Colonel Best’s early associations with the medical professions. The main gates bear the lozenge, which is the heraldic women’s emblem. The left hand gate symbolises her associations with the medical service during World War II and the right hand gate is symbolic of her service with the WRAAC. The centre of the main gates form a cruciform synonymous with the Red Cross which symbolised her Christianity and humanity. The spikes above the gates are in the form of gum leaves and represent the 47 years of her life. The gates were wrought at the Army Apprentices School, Balcombe, Victoria and hung from piers made of natural sandstone. A commemorative panel bearing ceramic tile Command Formation signs is on the right of the gates while to the left of the main gates is a foot gate bearing the Corps badge in bronze. Moneys raised for the gates were donated from serving and ex-service women. The last parade of the WRAAC was held on 5 December 1984. The following day the WRAAC flag was lowered and handed to the WRAAC School’s last Commanding Officer, Lt-Col Robert Hennessy, following which Colonel Best’s sister, Gwen Ellis, and Major Dianne McVicker ceremonially closed the Best memorial gates for the last time. Later the gates were dismantled and lay neglected until the WRAAC Association succeeded in having them relocated in the grounds of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, where they were rededicated on 6 November 1994, exactly 35 years after their official opening. [1] [1] Soldiers of the Queen by Janette Bomford p. 120. Published resources Book Soldiers of the Queen : women in the Australian Army, Bomford, Janette, 2001 Colonel Best and her soldiers: The Story of the 33 years of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps, Ollif, Lorna, 1985 A Stroll down memory lane, WRAAC Association, 2001 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Various Locations Speech by Colonel Sybil H Irving (honorary Colonel of the Corps) made at the opening of the Kathleen Best Memorial Gates, Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) School, Mosman, NSW, 6 November 1959 National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra [Seven slides from the opening of the Kathleen Best Memorial Gates, Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) School, Mosman, NSW, 6 November 1959] Kathleen Best Memorial (Gates) and portrait National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office Kathleen Best Memorial Gates Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 30 min.)??Riddell speaks of the beginnings of her career as a journalist; her poetry writing; her interviewing technique. She also tells of her family history and background. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 November 2007 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Addresses; article on “Movement”; biographical articles; certificates; letters; newspaper cuttings; pamphlets; poem by Sir Paul Hasluck; references; report of visit to Raleigh, North Carolina; roll of archives seminar at American University. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sibyl Enid Vera Munro Morrison became the first female barrister in New South Wales in June 1924. She was often briefed by fellow pioneering female lawyers, Christian Jollie Smith and Marie Byles, to whom she referred as her ‘sisters-in-law’. Sibyl Morrison (nee Gibbs) was born on 18 August 1895 at Petersham, Sydney. She had an uncle and half-brother who were lawyers, and graduated from law at the University of Sydney in 1924. She interrupted her legal studies to visit Britain in 1923 where she married a ranch owner, Charles Carlisle Morrison. Known for her fashionable dresses, Morrison asserted that ‘the law is one of the best professions you can take up and one for which women are particularly suited’. She was a member of the National Council of Women of New South Wales and convener of their laws committee. In 1926, when the National Council of Women was advocating uniform Federal marriage and divorce laws, she presented a paper on divorce in Australia. Sibyl divorced Charles Morrison in 1928 and travelled to London where she was called to the Bar in 1930. She returned to Sydney and married architect Carlyle Greenwell in 1937. After her marriage she ceased to practice as a barrister. In 1940 she was first president of the Law School Comforts Fund, becoming a life vice-president in 1942. She was also involved with the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Sydney. Sibyl Morrison died at Collaroy on 29 December 1961. Published resources Resource Section Sybil Morrison Biography, Brodsky, Juliette, 2011, http://www.nswbar.asn.au/the-bar-association/pioneering-women/#/2_sybil_morrison Morrison, Sibyl Enid Vera Munro (1895-1961), O'Brien, Joan M., 2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/morrison-sibyl-enid-7664/text13407 Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nicola Silbert Created 2 February 2016 Last modified 15 May 2018 Digital resources Title: Diana Bryant Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Notmerelyinname.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records comprising minutes and related records (e.g. financial statements, agendas and reports).?Collected by Dr Heide Taylor, a Charter Member and Past President of the Club. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Separated from her family at birth, Heather Shearer was adopted into a non-Aboriginal family. She grew up in Adelaide, completely cut off from her culture and from Aboriginal people. Since 1978, Shearer has been actively involved with Aboriginal child welfare groups and family link-up services. Shearer became Secretary of the South Australian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (ACCA) in 1978, and was active in the establishment of Aboriginal foster care in that state. She was a Coordinator of the Alice Springs Aboriginal Child Care Agency, and Secretary of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC). She attended indigenous peoples’ conferences in Geneva and Norway. In her role as the Aboriginal link-up worker for the South Australian Department for Human Services, Shearer met her family after many years. An accomplished artist, Heather Shearer designed posters for National Aboriginal and Islander Children’s Day and the release of the Bringing Them Home report. She is currently the Manager of the Central Australian Stolen Generations and Families Aboriginal Corporation in Alice Springs. Published resources Book The Black Grapevine: Aboriginal Activism and the Stolen Generations, Briskman, Linda, 2003 Catalogue Four Circles/Soaring Visions, Shearer, Heather Kemarre et al, 1998 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 27 July 2005 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "PHOTOCOPY OF DIARY/APPOINTMENT BOOK FOR OCTOBER 1943 DETAILING WORK AS A STAFF OFFICER FOR THE VISIT OF LADY GOWRIE TO QUEENSLAND. PRECIS OF AWAS CAREER AND COPIES OF ENLISTMENT AND DISCHARGE PAPERS Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Four letters issued by the Australian Women’s Charter relating to the second Australian Women’s Charter Conference held in 1946 and a draft constitution issued in 1943. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of Ellinor Gertrude Walker comprising juvenile writings, poetry, playscripts, papers relating to pageants, typescript articles and short story, copyright certificates, musical scores, autobiographical notes, citation, obituaries, photographs, letters. Also includes the Tennyson Medal for English 1908, two ambrotype photographs, details of the Silver Lily Book Club, booklet of sketches and poems, art prints, wooden box, small booklet and metal sleeve protector. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Copies of and notes about archival material on Fiji. Date(s) given are from research notes. Dispatches from the Colonial Office to the Governor; Secretariat correspondence; Royal Gazettes; Admiral’s in-letters; Minute papers; Dispatches between the Secretary of State and the Governor. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 sound files (ca. 129 min.)??Betty Wilson was considered to be Australia’s greatest women’s player of cricket. She was a household name in post war Australia and dubbed “the female Bradman”. Wilson became the first Test cricketer (male or female) to make a century and claim 10 wickets against England. She was inducted into Australia’s Sports Hall of Fame (1985) After her retirement she maintained a strong interest in women’s cricket becoming a much-loved and respected figure. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 March 2007 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers comprise the following items: 1. Letters of Christina Stead to Oliver and Gunnvor Stallybrass. 2. Typescript of Cotter’s England and four untitled short stories. 3. Material relating to Mary Kathleen (Markie) Benet (Stead’s putative biographer). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gwen Stark gained her pilot’s licence shortly before the outbreak of World War II and was one of the first women appointed to a position in the Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force. She served in the first instance as assistant section officer and later as recruiting officer for New South Wales. Before the war, she was active in the Australian Women’s Flying Club, which became the New South Wales branch of the Women’s Air Training Corps, and was its commandant in 1940. After World War II she went to Europe and worked with the Berlin Air Lift at a Royal Air Force station in Germany for several months. In 1964 she became the federal president of the Australian Women’s Pilots’ Association and was appointed to the Order of the British Empire on 8 June 1968 for her services to aviation. Gwen Stark, a kindergarten teacher who played ‘A’ grade hockey and basketball as well as being a member of the Girl Guide movement, obtained her pilots ‘A’ licence (No. 3132) on 10 July 1939 from the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales. A member of the Australian Women’s Flying Club, Gwen was a commander of one of the squadrons and president from 1940 until 1941. She volunteered to enlist in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) and was appointed as assistant section officer on probation from 10 March 1941. Joyce Thomson writes in her book The WAAAF in Wartime Australia that after supervising the recruiting of the first airwomen enrolled in Sydney, Gwen was posted to WAAAF Training Depot to join the short administrative course given to the initial group of officers. She returned to Sydney as WAAAF staff officer, RAAF Headquarters, Central Area, Point Piper. Gwen was posted to various senior appointments, including staff officer, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Headquarters, North-Eastern Area, during Japanese air raids on Townsville. Gwen Stark was discharged from the WAAAF on 8 August 1946 having obtained the rank of Wing Officer. In that year she helped establish the WAAAF branch of the RAAFA (NSW Division). She was the first president and from 1961 until her death in 1994 was patron of the branch. On 8 June 1968, under the name Amy Gwendoline Caldwell, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for her services to aviation. Published resources Book The girls were up there too; Australian women in aviation, Mann, Sheila, 1986 The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, Thomson, Joyce A, 1992 Resource Section STARK, AMY GWENDOLINE, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=1070254 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Amy Starkie Caldwell, Pioneer in WAAAF, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra STARK AMY GWENDOLINE : Service Number - 351010 : Date of birth - 03 Apr 1910 : Place of birth - Unknown : Place of enlistment - Unknown : Next of Kin - STARK WILLIAM Australian War Memorial, Research Centre [Miss Gwen Stark's flying days Camden Aerodrome 1937-1938] The Women's [Australian] Flying Club Miss Nancy Bird, Aviatrix with Flight Lieutenant McKillop and Gwen Stark Mrs Nancy Bird-Walton with Lady Wakehurst, wife of the Governor of NSW, in front of Squadron Leader F.C. Mackillop and Gwen Stark Lady Wakehurst, wife of the Governor of NSW, Squadron Leader F.C. Mackillop and Gwen Stark Miss Nancy Bird Walton, wearing the uniform of the Australian Women's Flying Club, with Squadron Leader F.C. Mackillop, Gwen Stark and Lake Wakehurst, wife of the Governor of NSW Director of WAAAF, Clare Stevenson (middle), and Warrant Officer Gwen \"Starkie\" Stark (obscured) on inspection of No. 5 Operational Training Unit, RAAF. Portrait of Wing Officer Gwen Stark, Staff Officer WAAAF at RAAF HQ Group portrait of four \"original\" WAAAF officers with the Director WAAAF Group Officer Clare Stevenson after a WAAAF Staff Officers conference at Air Force Headquarters, Victoria Barracks. Group portrait of a number of WAAAF officers who attended the first annual conference of WAAAF staff officers. Her Excellency Lady Gowrie, Honorary Air Commodore, WAAAF, inspects photographs on the wall at St Anne's Barracks Portrait of Squadron Officer Gwen Stark, WAAAF, Staff Officer, North-Eastern Area Headquarters RAAF Probably Brisbane, Qld. c. 1943. Formal group portrait of officers of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) on the steps of a building, possibly while attending a training course. Probably Sydney, NSW. 20 March 1941. Assistant Section Officer Gwen Stark (centre) giving last minute instructions to Miss Clarice Taylor (left) and Miss Monica Bullen (right), both members of the … Author Details Rosemary Francis and Anne Heywood Created 20 November 2002 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Wing Officer Gwen Stark, Staff Officer WAAAF Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Australian Women's Flying Club Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: IMP0289gc.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 20 minutes??Ellinor Walker was twenty one years old at the outbreak of the First World War and living in Adelaide’s eastern suburbs. In 1916 she entered the Kindergarten Training College to begin her professional training. Miss Walker eloquently describes her feelings and attitudes towards the war – from outbreak to armistice – and how her involvement in the Women’s Non-Party Political Association influenced and crystallized her opinions. She describes some of the Association’s activities both during and after the war when, in conjunction with her Association membership, she became a passionate supporter of the League of Nations and the movement to maintain world peace. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sergeant Joy Linnane served with the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) during World War II. She enlisted on 11 April 1942 and was discharged on 7 December 1945. After the war Linnane joined the Sydney WAAAF Branch and has been a member since 1956. During that time she has held the positions of vice-president, treasurer, state councillor and delegate to country branches. The daughter of Thomas and Emily Linnane, Joy Linnane was educated at William Street High School where she obtained her Intermediate Certificate. Due to the Depression Linnane was unable to continue her education and she took a position as a shop assistant at Anthony Hordern’s emporium. Later she worked in the office of Elliott’s and the Australian Drug Company, while voluntarily studying international Morse code in her spare time. Joy Linnane enlisted in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) at Tempe on 11 April 1942. At the time the Central Bureau (in Melbourne) decided to form a series of wireless units in the South-West Pacific Area for the purpose of intercepting Japanese Morse code messages. Volunteers for ‘special work’ unspecified, were called for from both Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and WAAAF wireless operators. Linnane was selected, sworn in and then discovered she belonged to the Central Bureau of Intelligence for the duration of the war. Linnane trained at the Melbourne Showgrounds with 12 others as a KANA (Japanese Morse code equivalent) intercept operator. Her first posting was to Point Cook where she was employed in the ‘hush hush’ hut. In the hut the staff intercepted naval traffic from Japanese submarines, working a rotation of four hours on and four hours off. In a taped interview on 17 August 1984, Linnane states: It was not an easy course, but we all passed and were posted to Pt Cook. Our first assignment was to intercept all messages within range from the Japanese Navy. With a RAAF sergeant in charge we set up operations in a hut near the Sigs School, which became known as the ‘hush hush’ hut. This was because of the high level of security necessary and if there was a disadvantage in working for Intelligence, it was in being an isolated group, avoiding contact with ‘straight’ operators, as we wore the same Sparks on our sleeves, but were certainly on different wave lengths. However, this was minor and we were all dedicated and work-involved, even though with our small numbers we had to keep a 24 hour watch, working 4 hours on and 4 hours off, with no standdown for many months. Linnane’s next posting was to No. 1 Wireless Unit Townsville in February 1943 intercepting air/ground traffic. Personnel were barracked at Roseneath. The surrounding bush was infested with cane toads and mosquitoes, the latter causing malaria fever. Due to their isolation there was no medical attention, but they helped each other. The intercept and intelligence operations rooms were situated at Stuart in a top-secret bush location. The concrete bomb-proof building was camouflaged as a farm house. Joy Linnane is quoted in The WAAAF in Wartime Australia (p. 230): Here [at Stuart] we concentrated on air-ground activity. Each operator was given a frequency to monitor and as Jap planes took off from their bases [in and around New Guinea] and sent messages from the air back to them, we intercepted the messages, the D/F located their positions, the interpreters and code people extracted the information and in a matter of minutes, the nearest Squadrons were alerted and flew out to defend and attack. Quite often an operator could follow right through to the Kana ‘I am being attacked’ signal and perhaps silence thereafter. In October 1944 General MacArthur requested for one of the Kana Intercept Wireless Units to form part of the Philippines invasion force. The War Cabinet refused permission for the WAAAF operators to join their RAAF counterparts at Leyte. Instead they were posted to Central Bureau Allied signals intelligence centre under General MacArthur’s command. After the war Linnane became a member of the Sydney WAAAF Branch and has held many positions within the Association since joining in 1956. A State councillor for 18 years, Linnane has also been vice-president, treasurer and delegate to country branches. Before retiring to the Central Coast of New South Wales, she travelled extensively in Australia, the Pacific, Europe and the East. She was a voluntary teacher of public speaking for the Methodist Mission for eight years, and in this capacity entered the City of Sydney Eisteddfod successfully on four occasions. Later Linnane trained students, some of whom also competed at the Eisteddfod. Linnane was awarded life membership in the Air Force Association and has been presented with the Certificate of Merit plus the WAAAF Sportsmanship Certificate. She also received a Certificate for Outstanding Achievement and a letter from The Honourable Paul Lucas MP in which he comments ‘Our society owes a great debt of gratitude, not only for the lives of allied personnel, that were saved by the shortening of the war, but also for the freedom that people like me and my family can enjoy as a result of the work and sacrifice of your generation.’ Published resources Book The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, Thomson, Joyce A, 1992 Resource Section NO. 1 WIRELESS UNIT RAAF IN AUSTRALIA DURING WW2, Dunn, Peter, http://home.st.net.au/~pdunn/raaf/no1wu.htm LINNANE, JOYCE ENID, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=936131 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra LINNANE JOYCE ENID : Service Number - 93672 : Date of birth - 26 Aug 1919 : Place of birth - MARRICKVILLE NSW : Place of enlistment - SYDNEY : Next of Kin - LINNANE THOMAS Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 April 2003 Last modified 4 August 2021 Digital resources Title: Joyce Enid Linnane, 1942 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lyn Allison was elected to the Senate for Victoria in 1996 and 2001, becoming Leader of the Australian Democrats in 2004. She was an outspoken campaigner on health, education, environment, nuclear and women’s issues. She was defeated at the November 2007 election and left the Senate on 30 June 2008. Before entering politics, Allison completed a Bachelor of Education (Melb.) and worked as an administrator (1964-86) and a secondary school teacher (1987-91). She became a Councillor for the City of Port Melbourne in 1992, before being elected to the Victorian Senate in 1996. Between 1998 and 2006, Lyn Allison served on the Legislation and References Committees for Environment, Recreation (later Information Technology), Communications and the Arts; and for Community Affairs. She served as Senate Select for Superannuation (1996-98); the Victorian Casino Inquiry (1996); the Lucas Heights Reactor (2000); Medicare (2003-04); and Mental Health (2005). In 2002 she was a member of the Parliamentary Delegation to New Zealand. From 2002 to 2004, Allison was Australian Democrats Whip and Deputy Leader. She became Leader of the party in December 2004. Events 2012 - 2012 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2008 - 2008 Australian Humanist of the Year 2006 - 2006 Senate Select Committee on Mental Health Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 19 July 2007 Last modified 5 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes minutes, annual reports and correspondence. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 June 2004 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The series includes cassette tapes of seminars and lectures, reel-to-reel tapes, reels of film, slides and photographs of staff, students and events. The photographs and slides have been placed in an archival album. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 February 2013 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In May 1940, when Veronica Pike was admitted as a solicitor, there were very few woman solicitors in New South Wales. A pioneering woman lawyer, Pike was active in the International Federation of Women Lawyers and the Women Lawyers’ Association of New South Wales, of which she was a founding member. Veronica Pike was born on 8 December 1900 in Sydney. Pike’s sister discouraged her from going to university because she would ‘only be a schoolteacher’, so she joined the New South Wales public service as a shorthand writer and typist. In 1927 she resigned and enrolled in the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music. After her brother, Vincent, was admitted as a solicitor in 1929, Pike became his articled clerk. She interrupted her Solicitors’ Admission Board studies in 1935 to travel. Upon her return, Vincent was obliged to leave his practice for medical reasons. Although still unqualified, Veronica conducted the practice under the supervision of the prothonotary. She was admitted as a solicitor on 24 May 1940 and entered into a partnership with her brother. Unusually for a female solicitor, she undertook conveyancing, building and tenancy cases. Pike helped found the Women Lawyers’ Association of New South Wales. She was president in 1960 and became an honorary life member in 1986. In 1952 she attended the convention of the International Federation of Women Lawyers in Istanbul, Turkey, and was elected vice-president. She attended another convention in New Mexico, USA in 1979. Pike was also a delegate to a women’s law conference in Iran in 1974. Pike enjoyed gardening and playing golf, as a member of the Australian Golf Club. A Catholic, she served on the council of the St Thomas More Society in the early 1970s. She died on 2 October 1986 at Gosford. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Pike, Veronica (1900-1986), Flynn, Rosslyn, 2012, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pike-veronica-15462/text26678 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nicola Silbert Created 22 February 2016 Last modified 11 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence files arranged in subject group areas. There are separate files for each year within each subject group. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 January 2013 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Dybka was an internationally renowned glass engraver. A fellow of London’s Guild of Glass Engravers, she engraved crystal for Orrefors, Baccaret and Lalique. The daughter of a submariner and Royal Navy commander, Anne Dybka studied painting and drawing with Martin Bloch in London and graphic arts at the London Polytechnic. She was married at the age of 19 to Peter Thompson and had four children. The family moved to Australia in 1956, where Dybka took up studies at the National Gallery Art School and with George Bell in Melbourne. She worked for Guy Boyd, Old Chelsea Glassware, and later Crown Crystal Glass in Sydney. Her second marriage was to Rudolf Dybka, an Austrian ceramic artist with whom she ran a studio in Parramatta in the 1970s. In Sydney she worked on large mosaic murals. Her life-size sculpture of a miniature schnauzer sits in Atherden Street, The Rocks. Dybka was awarded an Australia Council Emeritus Fellowship Award in 1995. Over the course of her career she held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Adelaide. Her work is held by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria; Parliament House, Canberra; Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW; and the Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark. A nature lover and advocate for environmental groups, Dybka spent the last 25 years of her life with her partner Eddy Mills, a London engraver. She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in 2003. Dybka is survived by her four children, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 28 June 2007 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The bulk of the papers document Reid’s period as Special Advisor on Women’s Affairs and activities associated with International Women’s Year (1975). They include correspondence, diaries, notebooks, office files, academic and conference papers, articles, press releases, press cuttings and publications. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Voluntary Aid Detachments were established during World War I by members of the Australian Red Cross and the Order of St John. Members received instruction in first aid and home nursing from the St John Ambulance Association. Initially they worked without pay in hospitals and convalescent homes alongside doctors and nurses. After the war the voluntary service continued. Recruits were drawn from the local area by invitation from a serving member. During the World War II Voluntary Aid Detachment members were given more medical training, but they were not fully qualified nurses. Voluntary Aides worked in convalescent hospitals, on hospital ships and in the blood bank, as well as on the home front. In New South Wales Voluntary Aid Detachments are now part of the Voluntary Aid Service Corps (VASC). To become a member of the Corps, volunteers must hold a current Senior First Aid Certificate. Members provide free first aid at major sporting and cultural events as well as assistance in times of disaster. The Australian Red Cross began organising Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) nation-wide as part of Lady Helen Munro Ferguson’s appeal “to the women of Australia” at the onset of World War I. They soon came to be largely comprised of women. Their scheme followed the policy of the British War Office, and the British Red Cross Society, of which Australia was developing a branch. A number of women had also enrolled in a Voluntary Aid Detachment in 1914 as part of the formation of the New South Wales branch of the British Red Cross Society. By August 1915, the Australian branch of the British Red Cross reported that Victoria and Tasmania also had Voluntary Aid Detachments. In addition Special Voluntary Aid Detachment Committees had been formed in each State Division, and a Committee of the Central Council had been formed. Recognised by the Military, the Voluntary Aid Detachments were at their peak in World War I and World War II, providing first aid, nursing assistance, comforts, domestic assistance and other supports for returned and wounded soldiers. In between the two World Wars, they continued their care for ex-soldiers and their families, raised funds, and moved into civil hospitals, homes and health associations. In 1928, they became a technical reserve of the Army Medical Corps, administered under the Minister of Defence through a Joint Central Council. After World War II, they extended their civilian service, which included the assistance of new immigrants. In January 1948, direct control of the Voluntary Aid Detachments was returned to the Australian Red Cross and St John Ambulance Society. Yet many Voluntary Aid Detachments folded as time went on, States withdrew from this area, and staff worked in a range of other Australian Red Cross services. In New South Wales, however, the Voluntary Aid Detachments were renamed and revamped as the Voluntary Aid Service Corps in 1967, where they still remain active. Events 1967 - 1967 Voluntary Aid Detachments were renamed and revamped as the Voluntary Aid Service Corps 1928 - 1948 Voluntary Aid Detachments became a technical reserve of the Army Medical Corps, administered under the Minister of Defence through a Joint Central Council 1948 - 1948 Direct control of the Voluntary Aid Detchments was returned to the Australian Red Cross and St John Ambulance Society 1918 - 1939 After the war the voluntary service continued in hospitals throughout Australia, drawing recruits from local areas by invitation from a serving member 1939 - 1940 Due to labour shortages Voluntary Aids once again began working in the military hospital system 1940 - 1940 Voluntary Aids began receiving payment for their duties 1941 - 1941 Approval granted for Voluntary Aids to serve overseas 1941 - 1941 200 Voluntary Aids embark for the Middle East. 1941 - 1941 During World War II Voluntary Aid Detachment members serve in Cairo, Gaza and Ceylon as well as on hospital ships 1941 - 1941 The role of Voluntary Aid Detachments expanded and they are now employed in a wide range of positions, including as clerks, ambulance drivers, seamstresses, storekeepers, radiographers, dental orderlies and laundry staff 1942 - 1942 The Military Board approved the call-up of Voluntary Aids, and the Voluntary Aid Detachment began to be administered as a service within the Army Medical Service 1942 - 1942 The Australian Army Medical Women’s Service established to distinguish between full-time military Voluntary Aids and those attached on a voluntary basis to the aid organisations 1916 - 1918 Australian Government recognised the Voluntary Aid Detachments as auxiliaries to the Medical Service, and Voluntary Aids began working in military hospitals in Australia Published resources Book VAD's in peace and war : the history of Voluntary Aid Detachments in Australia during the 20th century, Goodman, R D, 1991 Nightingales in the mud : the digger sisters of the Great War 1914 - 1918, Barker, Marianne, 1989 50 years service to humanity, Australian Red Cross Society, [1964] The Red Cross, 1914-1975 : years of change, Minogue, Noreen, 1976 Red Cross VAs: A history of the VAD movement in New South Wales, Oppenheimer, Melanie, 1999 From blue to khaki: The enlisted voluntary aids and others who became members of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service and served from 19421-1951, Mount-Batten, Betty J, 1995 Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999, Reid, Richard, 1999 Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Look what you started Henry! A history of the Australian Red Cross 1914-1991., Stubbings, Leon, 1992 Journal Article The Best P.M. for the Empire'? Lady Helen Munro Ferguson and the Australian Red Cross Society, 1914-1920, Oppenheimer, Melanie, 2002 Resource Section Voluntary Aid Detachments, Australian War Memorial, http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/vad.htm Unsung heroes : Australia's military medical personnel, Australian War Memorial, http://www.awm.gov.au/1918/medical/ Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office Correspondence files, multiple number series Change of title from VAD [Voluntary Aid Detachment] to AAMWS [Australian Army Medical Women's Service] [Box 69] Joint State Council VAD [Voluntary Aid Detachments] Services Personnel - Basis of issues (Including Australian Women's Land Army, Red Cross, VAD'S [Voluntary Aid Detachments], and St John's Ambulance Brigade) Army Medical & Dental Corps. Nurses and Specialists [Applications for a Commission in the A.A.M.C. Voluntary Aid Detachments (V.A.D.)] - J M Snelling [Box 69] Army Medical & Dental Corps. Nurses and Specialists [Applications for a Commission in the A.A.M.C. Voluntary Aid Detachments (V.A.D.)] - J L Christie [Box 69] Voluntary Aid Detachments - Registration Organisation of VAD [Voluntary Aid Detachment] Voluntary Aid Detachments [Grants] [Uniforms for VAD [Voluntary Aid Detachment] and AWLA [Australian Women's Land Army] Army Medical & Dental Corps. Nurses and Specialists [Applications for a Commission in the A.A.M.C. Voluntary Aid Detachments (V.A.D.)] - A R Appleford [Box 69] National Archives of Australia, Sydney Office Registration of Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachments [VADs] Change of name of voluntary aid detachment [feminist club Wakehurst VAD] National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Scheme for the Organisation of Voluntary Aid in Australia; Also Handbook for Voluntary Aid Detachments in Australia Subsidies - Australian Red Cross Society. Voluntary aid detachments. Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Lila Stocks (née McKenzie), Voluntary Aid Detachment and Private Australian Army Medical Women's Service, interviewed by Angie Michaelis for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45 Jill Edith Linton (née Oliver), as a Private, Australian Army Medical Women's Service, interviewed by Angie Michaelis for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45 Medical kit : Voluntary Aid Detachment The services on parade in Melbourne and Sydney (News From Home. No. 65) Interview with Patsy Adam-Smith (When the war came to Australia) The leaders of the Australian Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) Group portrait of members of the first VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) contingent to travel overseas. [Voluntary Organizations and Women's Services:] Correspondence concerning design of Voluntary Aid Detachment certificates and use of the Red Cross symbol [Voluntary Organizations and Women's Services:] Voluntary Aid Detachments [Voluntary Organizations - Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD):] Memoranda, Summaries and handbooks concerning the enrolment and training of women for national emergency Ladies of Voluntary Aid Detachments marching past Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, wife of the Governor General, in front of Government House. John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection TR 1772 Women in War - Personal Reminiscences 1995 Author Details Anne Heywood and Penny Robinson Created 22 July 2003 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Cuttings and correspondence relating to his research into the life of Margaret Catchpole. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Scroll of nearly 30,000 signatures of Victorian women in favour of female suffrage, gathered in 1891. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 22 October 2008 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Consists of three separate acquisitions that the author donated to the library after 1982. The first collection (PA 710) consists of papers and collected materials dating from 1963 to 1981. Includes working drafts and research notes for several books including “The Anzacs”, “Hear the Train Blow”, “The Barcoo Salute”, “There Was a Ship”, “Moonbird People” and “The Shearers”. Also contains personal correspondence and letters from Adam-Smith’s publishers and fans.The second collection (PA 89/64) contains a final draft of “The Anzacs”, drafts of “The Barcoo Salute”, “When We Rode the Rails”, “Railways of Australia” and “Australian Women at War”. Also contains personal correspondence to Patsy Adam-Smith, including several letters from Australian writer, poet and social commentator, Bill Scott and letters from Adam-Smith’s children, Cate and Michael. PA 89/64 also includes research materials collected by Adam-Smith for various works, as well as her work on Australian railways, the William Adams firm and oral history research. The final collection (PA 00/22) includes personal correspondence between Patsy Adam-Smith and the young Cate and Michael Adam-Smith and with close personal friend Gerry Ash as well as letters from Adam-Smith’s ex-husband Bill Beckett. Drafts of several major works, and research notes and materials used in their compilation. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Margaret Van de Weg is an active local and political figure in the north west district of Sydney. She has been a member of the Baulkham Hills Shire Council from 1999-2004 and contested the New South Wales Legislative Assembly election for Baulkham Hills in 2003 and the House of Representatives election for Berowra in 2004 on behalf of the Australian Democrats. She has been an adviser to an independent State Member of Parliament. Margaret Van de Weg has practised as a veterinary surgeon in the Baulkham Hills area and, after completing her Ph.D. worked as the Chief Investigator for a medical research program into inherited diseases in children. She was, for 9 years, a member of the Western Sydney Area Health Service Animal Ethics Committee. As a Councillor on the Baulkham Hills Shire Council she represented it on the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils and was elected to its executive. Her attachment to civil liberties was shown by the fact that she was one of only two councillors who voted in favour of allowing a Muslim prayer centre in Annangrove. In 2001 she gained a Certificate of Advanced Mediation. Margaret Van de Weg is married and has adult children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 February 2006 Last modified 6 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers, mostly comprising typescripts of published articles. Also includes newspaper and magazine clippings, photocopies of articles and reviews and photographs; correspondence 1940-1973; diagrams and garden design sketches. Garden plan for Arnold Roberts and blueprint of proposed cottage to be erected on Woodland Park Estate, Croydon, Victoria (both shelved at MC 7, DR 4). Also a transcript of a radio talk by Sol Ensel ” Inequality of women” broadcast by the ABC, 7 July 1971. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1. Copy of her birth certificate dated 29 April 1875. 2. Manuscript “The gentle art of flower arranging”, undated, written ca. 1924 for Ure Smith’s “Home magazine” v. 5, no. 2, June 1924. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letters of Henry Handel Richardson written in London to Jacob Schwartz, 1931-1937; letters and other papers relating to her father, Dr. Walter Richardson and his grave, 1949-1955; articles, newspaper cuttings and family photographs. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 9 October 2008 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dilys Budd, the daughter of Mary Winter and an unnamed father, was placed in foster care in infancy and at the age of five was sent to the Catholic orphanage, Nazareth House, Cardiff. In 1947 she volunteered to migrate to Australia, arriving in Fremantle with a group of other child migrants on the ship Asturias in September 1947. She was placed in St Joseph’s Girls Orphanage, Subiaco, run by the Sisters of Mercy, where she remained until she was 16 and sent out to work. She remained under the supervision of the Catholic Welfare authorities in Perth until she was 21. Dilys Budd was born in St David’s Hospital, Cardiff, Wales, on 23 February 1936 the daughter of Mary Winter and an unnamed father. She was placed in foster care in infancy, and at the age of five was sent to the Catholic orphanage, Nazareth House, Cardiff. There she discovered her older twin sisters, Monica and Sheila and met her mother, who visited weekly until she died of tuberculosis when Dilys was about six. In 1947 Dilys volunteered to migrate to Australia, not realising that this would mean permanent separation from her sisters. She arrived in Fremantle with a group of other child migrants on the ship Asturias in September 1947, and was placed in St Joseph’s Girls Orphanage, Subiaco, run by the Sisters of Mercy. At 16 she was placed in employment with the State Department of Health, and required by Catholic Welfare to live with approved Catholic families. At 18 she joined the Army Nursing Corps and at 21, when she was free of supervision, she moved to Melbourne where she worked at Kew Mental Asylum and then with the Victorian Taxation Department. She married Bob Budd in December 1959 and came they to Canberra in 1965, where she worked from 1970 with the Commonwealth Department of Trade (later the Department of Foreign Affairs). In 1976 she and her family travelled to Wales where she was reunited with her sisters. She revisited the United Kingdom again in 1997 with a group of former child migrants to commemorate the 50 anniversary of their emigration. In 1988 she was awarded the Australia Day Achievement Medal by the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, where she is still currently employed. She and Bob have five children and eleven grandchildren. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dilys Budd interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens in the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 11 August 2010 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Receipt book, 1936. ?Minutes, including those of the inaugural meeting, and also including list of members and subscriptions, 1936-1938 (1 vol.). ?Roll book, 1936-1948. ?Handbooks containing regulations, 1936-1944 (2 vols). ?Correspondence, 1946. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Manuscript of J.F. Young’s biography of Catherine Helen Spence ‘The Grand Old Woman of Australia’. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 January 2003 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute books (1958-1973); correspondence files (1958-1973); financial records (1958-1975); reports and statements from politicians, Arbitration-Industrial Commission, ACTU, State Public Service, etc.; 1960 deputation to the Premier of Western Australia; rallies, 1960-1961. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4 digital audio tapes (ca. 192 min.)??Jill Hellyer, writer and founding member of the Australian Society of Authors, speaks about her experiences as an author; her role in the foundation of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) (1963); the role of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) in Sydney, N.S.W., which she joined in 1944; ASA developing an interest in the Public Lending Right Scheme (PLR) (1967); her role in the administration of the PLR; prominent personalities involved in the campaign for the PLR; her role as secretary, ASA (ca.1967-1971); the interest of politicans in the PLR scheme. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "16 sound files (ca. 943 min.)??Disks 1-4: Marion Le, born in New Zealand (NZ) on 29 January 1947 discusses her childhood and her early life; her family; her education in NZ; attending teachers’ college and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch; emigrating to Australia in 1971; teaching in Sydney and Brisbane; travelling around Australia until 1974; her beginning a Bachelor of Theology at the Alliance College and a Bachelor of Arts at the Australian National University, completing both in 1998; in 1979 marrying Tong Le, a chef and former Vietnamese soldier who arrived on the Song Be in 1977; their three children, caring for four stepchildren, a foster son and several other children from camps and detention centres; in 1980 opening the Vung Tau Vietnamese restaurant in O’Connor, Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and another in Belconnen ten years later; working in both of these, as well as teaching in Canberra for 19 years.??Le talks about the reasons behind her becoming active in 1977 in the Indo-China Refugee Association (ICRA) of the ACT, which was later used by the government as a model for its Community Refugee Settlement Service (CRSS); her time speaking on the radio and to church groups about the needs of refugees; about the 30 community groups in the ACT which were later transformed into CRSS groups by the Department of Immigration; her views on the impact of government funding on CRSS groups; ICRA being groups funded by churches; the bridging visas for people from detention centres; the burden placed on sponsor families; her husband becoming a citizen in 1980; explains how the ICRA organizations worked; the division among Canberra Catholics about the allocation of public housing to refugees; ICRA including people who had supported the Vietnam war; the current detention centre regime; the Comprehensive Plan of Action in 1989; the end of Australia’s commitment to Vietnamese refugees. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 June 2005 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes Minute books of Central / Archdiocesan Council meetings 1953-1995; Archdiocesan Newsletters, 1959-1995 incomplete; Annual reports and correspondence; Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 February 2004 Last modified 24 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Honourable Justice Shan Tennent was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 2005, making her the first woman to be appointed in the state’s (then) 180 year history. She is (in 2016) the second longest serving judge on the jurisdiction after the current Chief Justice The Hon Justice Alan Michael Blow, OAM. Shan Tennent was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. Born in Brisbane in 1952, Justice Tennent was brought up in St Lucia, near the University of Queensland, in Brisbane. The first in her family to attend university, she attended the local state primary school before starting her secondary education at St Aidan’s Church of England Girls’ School and finishing it at St Peter’s Lutheran School, matriculating at the young age of 16 in 1968. Her choice to study law was somewhat accidental; as a student with a preference for humanities, she did not relish the idea of becoming a school teacher, so chose law instead. Enrolling in law in 1969 without the benefit of a scholarship (so fully funded by her parents), as a very young woman in a masculine environment, Tennent admits to being ‘overwhelmed’ at first. Fortunately, her response to this was to work very hard. She passed first year, while others of her school year didn’t. She was rewarded for her tenacity with a Commonwealth Scholarship at the end of her first year. Almost from the outset of her legal career, Justice Tennent was balancing the demands of work and home life. In second year (1970), she married and in third year, she had a child. She was permitted to complete that year over two years and a supportive family network helped her to manage, so she was able to graduate in 1973. The end of her formal study, however, marked the beginning of her gender trouble, as she applied for articles. One interview experience was particularly deflating. The man across the desk interviewing her waited ten minutes before saying to her ‘Look, I’m sorry, there’s no point in continuing with this. You’ll never remain in the law. It’s a waste of my time and effort to train you.’ Her self-esteem took a huge battering as she received rejection after rejection, based on the fact that she was a married woman with a child. She eventually did her two year articles with Alex Freeleagus at Henderson and Lahey, a large Brisbane firm with which she worked for another year after completing articles and being admitted. She started working in matrimonial law, an interesting area at the time, given the introduction of the Family Law Act in 1975. In 1977, Justice Tennent’s husband was offered a job in Hobart and so the family moved to Tasmania. Arriving with winter just around the corner was a shock to the system for a woman from Brisbane and without a job, who admits she would have ‘quite happily turned around and gone back to Brisbane.’ She found work, during school hours initially, doing primarily conveyancing and commercial work. In 1978 she went back to working full time, primarily in the area of family law. She built her practice over the years, working at Hobart firm Page Seagar where she was a partner for 15 years. She was twice president of the Tasmanian Family Law Practitioners Association. After twenty years in private practice, Justice Tennent became a magistrate and coroner in 1998. She oversaw the high-profile 2001 inquest into prisoner deaths in custody at Risdon Prison, the state’s largest prison. The subsequent report resulted in a number of sackings, and ultimately led to the decision to completely rebuild the prison. As a magistrate, she served as vice-president of the State branch of the Association of Australian Magistrates and secretary and treasurer of the Tasmanian Magistrates Association. In 2005, Justice Tennent was named Tasmania’s first female Supreme Court Judge. Said Attorney General Judy Jackson at the time of Justice Tennent’s appointment ‘Shan Tennent has a striking intellect and an excellent grounding in Tasmanian Law. She will be a justice of the highest order…the first of many women appointed to the bench.’ Said Justice Tennent, when asked what sort of judge she thought she might be, ‘A fair one. It’s a progression in my career and … I’m sure I will enjoy it.’ It’s not a bad outcome for someone who was told she wasn’t worth training because she would never stay in the law. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Newspaper Article State's first female judge, Spurgeon, Lucy, 2005, http://www.examiner.com.au/story/623137/states-first-female-judge/ Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Shan Tennent interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham with Shan Tennent Created 1 June 2016 Last modified 31 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Justice Shan Tennent Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Draft of published version, q.v. for annotation Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Marlene Hall rose to become a highly regarded specialist in the field of aged care law, and the first person to be appointed as Special Counsel Aged Care Law in the Commonwealth Department of Health. Hall came to the law after a career as an English teacher; studying for a Bachelor of Laws degree at night school in order to graduate, she attributes her background in English language and literature, and her work at weekends in nursing homes over the years, to the later success she experienced in her dealings in complex aged care law matters. She made a significant contribution to public sector law, including through the national ‘Living Longer Living Better’ aged care policy reforms. Marlene Hall was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Marlene Hall received her primary education at St Felix School in the southwestern Sydney suburb of Bankstown, before attending (with the assistance of a state bursary) Our Lady of Mercy College, Parramatta, in central western Sydney, for two years. She later graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours in English. After marrying a fellow student, she worked as a tutor in the English Department at the University of Sydney before travelling to Europe, she and her husband intending to complete postgraduate degrees in English in the United Kingdom. Shortly before leaving Australia, however, Hall impulsively applied for scholarships for the couple to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Upon arriving in London, Hall and her husband received correspondence from the Hebrew University informing them of their success and so, in 1968, they went to Israel to begin further studies. The year which she spent in Israel gave Hall a chance to reflect on her career and she decided she would study medicine when she came home. In March 1969 she gave birth to a son. Following her return to Australia, Hall’s marriage ended. As a single parent, the option to study medicine was not possible and she returned to tutoring, this time in the English Department at the University of New South Wales. She completed a Diploma in Education by correspondence from the University of New England; she also obtained a Master of Arts degree with first class honours in English from the University of Sydney. Over the next 16 years Hall enjoyed a rewarding career as a high school English teacher at Kincoppal Rose Bay Convent of the Sacred Heart, Newington College and Queenwood School. However, she perceived drawbacks to remaining a teacher, including the need to rely on the aged pension in retirement because of the lack of superannuation in the private school system, and she enrolled at the University of Technology Sydney in a Bachelor of Laws degree which could be undertaken part-time in the evenings. After graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree, Hall joined the Commonwealth Department of Health as a Graduate Administrative Assistant in 1995. A secondment to Parliament House as Departmental Liaison Officer in the Parliamentary Secretary’s Office provided Hall with critical insight into how laws are made and how the Senate operates. In the Department of Health, Hall worked in Aboriginal health and the hearing services program before obtaining a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and moving to the Department’s Legal Services Branch. Shortly afterwards she embarked upon a Master of Laws degree in public and commercial law at the Australian National University. Hall was soon invited to join the Complaints and Compliance Taskforce Legal Unit, a new taskforce which would deal with aged care compliance matters. In the ensuing 14 years before she retired, Hall applied her expertise in aged care law, the position of Special Counsel Aged Care Law being specially created to allow her to concentrate on the more complex aged care law matters in the Department of Health. Hall’s legal training enabled her to have an immediate and practical impact on the quality of life of extremely vulnerable older people, including advising on compliance action against nursing home operators who were providing poor quality care. Together with Departmental officers, members of the aged care law team and the Office of Parliamentary Counsel, Hall went on to deliver the ‘Living Longer Living Better’ aged care policy reforms for the nation. The following additional information was provided by Marlene Hall and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. If I were asked to name a book that has had the most influence on my life, it would be a brochure published in the 1950s called Careers for Graduates of the Faculty of Arts. Along with my classmates in third year (year 9) at St Felix School, Bankstown, I had undertaken a vocational guidance test conducted by the Vocational Guidance Service and I had nominated nursing as my chosen career. Nursing was an attainable career for working class girls from Bankstown with the Intermediate Certificate awarded at the end of third year. We knew (or thought we knew) what nurses did and nurses were trained on the job and were paid while they trained. When we received the results of our vocational guidance tests, other girls who had nominated nursing received packages of information about how to apply for training positions. I received a letter stating: “While your own choice of nursing is well within your capabilities, we suggest that you consider careers available to graduates of the Faculty of Arts”. Enclosed was a brochure setting out information about careers such as teaching and journalism and, crucially for me, matriculation requirements for entry to Sydney University. I had only ever met one person who had been to university – Sister Justinian, who taught our class in first year (year 7). Sister Justinian had taken me aside one day and suggested that I should consider going to university. She explained that I would need to study Latin, as it was an entry requirement, and offered to teach me Latin at lunch time while she supervised the tuckshop queue. I had turned up hopefully a few times for the promised Latin lessons, but it appeared that she had forgotten our conversation. (It became increasingly evident, as the year wore on and the first year classroom became more and more chaotic, that Sister Justinian was suffering from early stage dementia.) I had kept alive for a few months the hope of attending university by borrowing a book called Teach Yourself Latin from Bankstown Municipal Library and working my way through the exercises, but eventually I had to face the fact that I would not be able to reach matriculation standard by my own unaided efforts. Now, two years later, reading Careers for Graduates of the Faculty of Arts, I found to my surprise that Latin was no longer a matriculation requirement. (It had ceased to be a requirement in 1945.) A new potential stumbling block presented itself. At least one science subject was required for matriculation and St Felix School, along with many other parish schools for Catholic girls in the 1950s, lacked the resources to teach any science subjects. There was a window of opportunity, however, in that geography would be taken to meet this requirement for a few more years – just long enough, as it happened, for me to meet the matriculation requirements if I sat for the Leaving Certificate in 1961. Our third year teacher, Sister Bonaventure, was willing to teach geography after school to any girl who chose to sit for the externally examined Intermediate Certificate with the aim of winning a state bursary. I studied geography after school with the wonderful, irascible, Sister Bonaventure, sat for the external Intermediate Certificate and was awarded a state bursary to pay for two more years of schooling. The bursary paid my school fees at Our Lady of Mercy College, Parramatta. I sat for the Leaving Certificate in 1961 and obtained what used to be called a ‘maximum pass’. With financial support from a Commonwealth scholarship and a state bursary awarded on the basis of my Leaving Certificate results, I enrolled in the Faculty of Arts at Sydney University to study English, modern history and philosophy. On the eve of my enrolment my father, who was a factory worker, suggested that I study medicine. I didn’t think this would be possible given that (geography notwithstanding) I had not studied any science subjects. The thought of studying law never crossed my mind. I don’t think anyone I knew had ever met a lawyer. Although there must have been lawyers practising in Bankstown, I don’t recollect ever walking past a lawyer’s office. In the years I spent at Sydney University, law students were not part of the campus milieu because the Sydney University law school was located down town, in Phillip Street. This meant that informal opportunities to get to know what was involved in the study of law, such as discussions with law students over coffee in the Union, did not exist. I graduated with first class honours in English, married a fellow student and we both worked as tutors (ie associate lecturers) in English at Sydney University before setting off for Europe with the idea of completing postgraduate degrees in English in the UK. Shortly before embarking on the Galileo Galilei, however, I saw a notice in the Sydney Morning Herald about scholarships to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. On a whim, I submitted applications for both of us. After back-packing from Genoa to London we found, waiting at Poste Restante in Trafalgar Square, letters from the Hebrew University offering us scholarships. The lure of adventure was too great and, abandoning plans to study in England, we consulted an atlas in a public library to ascertain where Israel was and set off on our pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The scholarships were designed to give recipients the opportunity to experience life in Israel rather than to obtain a formal postgraduate qualification. We were encouraged to take an intensive course in Hebrew and to enrol in any other subject that appealed to us. I chose to take a course in American social history taught by a visiting professor from Columbia University. This course has influenced my thinking ever since. The year in Israel gave us an opportunity to take stock and we decided not to pursue academic careers in English but to change direction and study medicine when we returned to Australia. We also decided that the time was right to have a child and our son was born in Jerusalem in March 1969. On our return to Australia, I became a high school English teacher to support my husband while he studied medicine. The plan was that, when he graduated, he would support me while I studied medicine. Our marriage broke up, however, and as a single parent who needed to work full time I had no real prospect of being able to study medicine, although I did commence studying science by correspondence in the hope that I might be able to work out a way to do so. I became a tutor in the English department at the University of New South Wales, completed a Diploma in Education by correspondence from the University of New England, Armidale, and commenced work towards a Master of Arts in English at Sydney University. I was awarded a Master of Arts degree with first class honours. One of my colleagues in the English department at UNSW was Michael Crennan. His wife, Susan, had been an English teacher and was completing a law degree at Sydney University. It was through Sue Crennan that I became interested in studying law. She invited me to accompany her to a Women in the Law lunch and I realised that a career in law might be possible. I made enquiries about enrolling in the Solicitors Admissions Board course by correspondence, but I was told that the correspondence option was only available to students who did not live in the Sydney metropolitan area. I would have had to attend evening lectures, but as my son was too young to be left alone at night this was not an option. For the next twelve years I had an interesting and rewarding career as a high school English teacher, becoming head of English at Newington College and at Queenwood School. I realised, however, that there were virtually no opportunities for progression beyond head of department level in the private school system for a teacher without a religious affiliation. In addition, with no access to a superannuation scheme in the private school system, I would need to rely on the aged pension in retirement if I continued in my teaching career. I again explored the possibility of studying law while continuing in my very demanding full time job. I found that the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) offered a law degree that could be studied part time in the evenings. The information booklet stipulated, however, that students must be able to attend classes on at least one afternoon each week in addition to evening lectures. This would not have been possible for me because the school at which I taught had a rotating timetable. Even if I had been able to negotiate a free afternoon it would have been on a different day each week. It occurred to me that the requirement to attend on one afternoon each week might not be quite as rigid as the information booklet suggested. I rang the UTS switchboard and asked to be put through to any lecturer in the law faculty who was available. I asked the lecturer whether it would be possible to complete a law degree at UTS without attending any afternoon classes. He said that he thought that it would be possible, but it might restrict my choice of units. On that basis I enrolled in the LLB course at UTS. I spent the next four years working full time each day teaching English and attending evening classes at law school from 5pm to 9pm on three or four nights each week. On arriving home, I would mark English essays and prepare lessons until midnight, then take my law books to bed and read, often until 2 or 3am. Weekends were spent marking English essays and completing law assignments. Despite the rigours of this regime, I loved what I was doing. I loved the way the common law worked by analogy, from precedent to precedent. It was like poetry. I loved the logic and precision of legislative drafting and the dry wit of judicial judgments. My fellow students were a bunch of desperadoes with whom I could empathise – ABC presenters preparing for the day when their contracts would not be renewed, politicians whose careers could end at the next election and legal secretaries who had come to realise that they were more intelligent than the men from whom they took dictation. I graduated from UTS and joined the Commonwealth Department of Health in 1995 as a Graduate Administrative Assistant (GAA). This gave me the opportunity to learn the ropes by moving around the department and learning how things are done in the public service. When there was a change of government in 1996, I was sent across to Parliament House as Departmental Liaison Officer in the Parliamentary Secretary’s office. This was an immensely valuable experience as it gave me an insider’s perspective on how the Senate works – how political deals are done and laws are made. On returning to the department I worked in Aboriginal health, as a member of the project team setting up the Office of Hearing Services and as the legislation project officer for the introduction of Lifetime Health Cover. While working on these projects I completed a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice at the Australian National University. On completion of the Lifetime Health Cover project, which involved working closely with legislative drafters, I was offered a position as a legal officer in the Department’s Legal Services Branch. I realised that, because I had got off to a late start in my legal career, I needed to fast track my acquisition of knowledge of public and commercial law. Therefore I enrolled in a Master of Laws degree at the Australian National University soon after joining Legal Services Branch. I found this course gave me valuable insights that I was able to draw upon on a daily basis. Shortly after I joined Legal Services Branch, a taskforce was being formed within the department to deal with aged care compliance issues. I was asked to join the Complaints and Compliance Taskforce Legal Unit, which would be co-located with the taskforce, participate in aged care policy development and provide immediate and practical legal advice, day or night, when compliance issues arose. I jumped at the chance. As an undergraduate at Sydney University, I had worked over the Christmas breaks in various nursing homes as an assistant in nursing. Since then, whenever I needed to earn extra money to keep on top of my mortgage, I had worked on weekends in nursing homes. I felt that the invitation to join the taskforce was an opportunity to work in an area of the law where my work could have an immediate practical impact on the quality of life of extremely vulnerable older people. For the next fourteen years, until my retirement, I specialised in aged care law. I became the section head responsible for the work of the aged care law team until the position of Special Counsel Aged Care Law was created to enable me to concentrate on the more complex aged care law matters in my final years with the Department. The eyes of young law graduates assigned to Legal Services Branch would generally glaze over when they were offered the opportunity to join the aged care law team for a rotation. They imagined that aged care law was a sleepy backwater. This was far from being the case. Taking compliance action against a nursing home operator who was providing poor quality care often led to hard-fought challenges in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal or the Federal Court. The day to day work of an aged care lawyer included advising on multi-million dollar contracts, sorting out complex administrative law matters, drafting legislative instruments and working with the Office of Parliamentary Counsel on the reform of primary legislation. I particularly enjoyed providing legal awareness training to line officers, the department’s executive and the Minister’s advisers as this often helped to nip problems in the bud. Looking back on my career as an aged care lawyer, I gain most satisfaction from the knowledge that, by working with counsel to defend the Department’s compliance action in courts and tribunals, I have assisted in removing some of the worst operators from the aged care industry. Providing advice on complaints about aged care providers was also particularly rewarding. It often required lateral thinking to resolve seemingly intractable disputes and I was able to draw on my first-hand experience of working in aged care to come up with practical solutions. Legislative reform was the focus of my work in the final years before my retirement. Legislative drafting requires a feel for the English language, for such things as the weight of a word and the effect of a parenthesis, which I had developed through my study of English literature. Drawing on these English language skills together with my knowledge of the existing aged care legislative scheme, how the legislation had been interpreted over the years by courts and tribunals and the practical realities of how aged care is delivered drew together the various strands of my academic studies and working life. Working with Departmental officers, members of the aged care law team and the Office of Parliamentary Counsel on delivering the Living Longer Living Better aged care reforms was a satisfying way to end my legal career. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Marlene Hall interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin and Marlene Hall Created 18 April 2016 Last modified 7 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Marlene Hall Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Diaries, 1940-1949; letters received, including correspondence with Henry Lawson; papers re misc. literary societies and women’s organisations; poems and articles; biographical material; writings by other authors; misc. postcards, photographs, invitations, programmes, newscuttings etc. Author Details Jane Carey Created 29 October 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Glenda Blanch has been an active member of the Australian Democrats in western Sydney. She stood as their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Campbelltown by election in 1999 and for the Werriwa seat in the House of Representatives in 2001. She also ran for a position in the Campbelltown Council in 2003. Glenda Blanch has been a small businesswoman for most of her working life, starting with a cleaning contract in the 1970s and currently being the owner and operator of an embroidery shop. She is a widow, and the mother of two adult daughters. Glenda was disappointed in the failure of the two major parties to offer a clear political choice so joined and ran for the Democrats, in two parliamentary elections and then the local council election. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 7 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 165 min.)??Bonita Mabo, political activist, speaks about her early life and family background; her culture and her life with her husband, Eddie Mabo. Created 28 November 2018 Last modified 28 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1999 Cherie Burton was a successful ALP candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Kogarah. This was the start of her solid parliamentary career, culminating in her appointment as Parliamentary Secretary in 2003 and Minister for Housing and Minister assisting the Minister for Health in 2005, positions she held until 2007. She retired from the State Parliament before the 2015 election. Cherie Burton grew up in the outer western Sydney suburb of Minto on a public housing estate. She finished her education at Narrabeen High School in 1986 and went on to work as a clerk, union official for the National Union of Workers, and senior advisor to Premier Bob Carr. She was a delegate to the annual conference of the ALP from 1990. Cherie is the patron of various local organizations, including the St George Sutherland Women’s Cricket Club and the Waratah Soccer Club. She is a member of the World Society for the Protection of Animals and the Institute of Public Administration. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "James Tierney Created 26 June 2013 Last modified 26 June 2013 Digital resources Title: Barbara Carson c.1985 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 digital audio tape (ca. 90 min.)??Ms Giese gives a summary of Ms Shun Wah’s background. Ms Shun Wah, a television presenter and producer, speaks of her childhood and family background; multicultural aspects of the community in Cooktown; helping on the farm; Chinese herbs; working in radio; her move to Sydney; her radio career; working as a publicist; working as a presenter on JJJ; travelling in China; her friends’ interest in Chinese culture; her father’s stories; experiences of racism; Asians on television; SBS; her women’s network dream (Perspectives of Women). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 September 2018 Last modified 4 September 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Photographs – 51 silver gelatin photoprints, 5 colour photoprints, 1 35 mm. colour slide, 1 photomechanical print – 24 x 40 cm. or smaller. Photographs chiefly of Nancy Bird Walton, alone or in groups. Also?includes views of aeroplanes. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In June 1976, Josephine Maxwell was one of four women appointed to the Bench of the then brand new Family Court of Australia, which was headed by its first Chief Judge Justice Elizabeth Evatt. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Josephine Maxwell for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Hon. Josephine Maxwell and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. In June 1976, I was one of four women appointed to the Bench of the then brand new Family Court of Australia, which was headed by its first Chief Judge Justice Elizabeth Evatt. I came from the Solicitors’ branch of the Profession and my appointment and that of Bryce Ross-Jones made at the same time, was the first time that a Solicitor had been appointed to the Bench in New South Wales. At the time of my appointment, I was thirty-eight, and a sole practitioner practising under the name of T.J. McFadden, Maxwell & Co, in the Trust Building on the corner of King and Castlereagh Streets, Sydney. Teague Joseph McFadden had been my ‘Master Solicitor’ when I commenced five-year articles in April 1955. When he died on 18 July 1970 he bequeathed me his legal practice, which I then amalgamated with my own practice. At the time of my appointment in 1976 I was conducting this practice with the assistance of an employed solicitor and clerical staff, and undertaking work in conveyancing, probate, divorce (as Family Law was then classified) and other litigation as it arose. Many of my clients had been clients of the firm since my articled clerk days. As well as running a busy and varied practice I was mother of three children, who were 16, 15 and 12 at the time of my appointment. My husband Frederic, whom I had married in 1959, was at that time a property lawyer with the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor’s office in Sydney. Upon my swearing-in on 21 June 1976 I sat at the Sydney Registry of the Court, then operating at 220 George Street Sydney. There was no time for preliminaries such as judicial education – one was sworn in at 4 pm one afternoon and had a substantial list the next day, as the volume of work coming into the Court was enormous. A few months later I went to sit at the brand new Parramatta registry of the Court. This building had been erected as commercial premises and was at the end of Charles Street adjacent to the Parramatta River, close to where the ferry wharf now stands. The Parramatta River was a very different sight then from today. It was dirty, muddy rocky and decorated with abandoned car bodies. The Senior Judge was Raymond Sanders Watson, one of the architects of the controversial Family Law Act of 1975. The extraordinary difficulties and history of the development of this brand new and innovative Court, conceived in the era before 11 November 1975 and painfully born in quite a different era on 5 January 1976, have been discussed at some length in ‘Born in Hope-The Early Years of the Family Court of Australia’ by Shurlee Swain and need not be further explored here. Suffice it to say that it was a most interesting time. It was exciting and a privilege to be part of this large and disparate group of people, judges and other personnel from various disciplines, brought together in a Court setting for the first time. Most were enthusiastic and focussed on making this brand new Court work under difficult circumstances, including antagonism from sections of the legal profession, the media and others. On the other hand, with few exceptions, the legal practitioners in this new and controversial setting rallied around to make it work. Rules, procedures and precedents had to be developed ‘from scratch’, and the Court was absolutely deluged with clients from its opening day. Many of these people had been waiting for years for this new ‘no fault’ divorce court and hundreds had their cases transferred to the new Court from the Supreme Courts, which had previously had jurisdiction over matrimonial matters. I was particularly attracted to the ‘no fault’ ground because as a solicitor I had seen at first hand the distress of parties in failed, sometimes violent and destructive, marriages who had to fit the details of their unhappy situations into one of the bases of fault such as cruelty, desertion or adultery. However I do think there may have been some basis for making the required period of separation two years instead of one year. Perhaps the ardent critics might have found that more acceptable. While the public may have been focussed on the changed ground for divorce, there were many other changes introduced by the Family Law Act. It put beyond question that the welfare of the child was paramount in relation to all matters involving children. Most significantly, and certainly for the first time in this country, there were appropriately qualified counsellors, either psychologists or social workers, working within the Court framework. Their work involved not only counselling parties about custody and access (as the issues were then called) but also preparing reports for the Court where appropriate in contested cases. These reports, and those prepared by experts on the instructions of children’s representatives, looked at the family structure as a whole, rather than each party producing competing reports by experts who had seen only one side, as had occurred under the old system. This produced a much better outcome from the children’s perspective. Disputes about property were also dealt with in a more equitable fashion, as the Court could consider contributions other than directly financial and could consider a broad range of factors to produce a fairer result. In July 1978 I returned to the Sydney Registry then at Temple Court, 99 Elizabeth Street, Sydney and later the Registry moved to purpose built premises in Goulburn Street. Although appointed for life (life appointments ceased after the amendments to the Constitution in 1977), I retired from the Bench in July 1999 after 23 years on the Family Court Bench. By this time the vast majority of cases settled either before Court and with or without the assistance of their legal practitioners, or within the Court’s mediation and conciliation services. The five or six per cent of cases that remained in dispute were mostly bitterly fought and full of conflict and contention. Sadly this was proof that human nature cannot be changed by an Act of Parliament, however well intentioned. For several years after my retirement I sat on the Guardianship Tribunal. Since then I have continued a busy life with a variety of activities, not least of which include my three grandsons. Published resources Book Born in hope : the early years of the Family Court of Australia, Swain, Shurlee, 2012 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Josephine Maxwell Created 21 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: The Hon. J M H Maxwell Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Adams speaks of her life; Woman’s Christian Temperance Union – role and history. Author Details Jane Carey Created 8 November 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Interviews with Bill Cox, Laurel Yarron, Vic Hughes, students at Carnarvon Teachers course, Bernie & Linda Ryder, Joan Darby, Sid Smith, Julie Tommy, Gallopin George, Djampu, Wobby Parker, Alan Jacob, John & Gwen Bucknall, Lennis Brown, Margaret Taylor, Fr. Bernard Rooney & class of primary students Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 27 July 2005 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lynn MacLaren was elected to the Legislative Council of the Thirty-sixth Parliament for South Metropolitan Region as the member for the Greens on 15 February 2005 to fill casual vacancy to 22 May 2005 upon resignation of Hon James (Jim) Alan Scott. She was defeated 26 February 2005 (term concluded 21 May 2005). Lynn arrived in Western Australia in 1982 from California, after being a Rotary Youth Exchange student in 1979 in Albany. From 2005 to 2008 Lynn worked as a Senior Policy Officer with the Western Australian Council of Social Service where she specialised in policy areas of poverty, housing and sector viability. She also worked as a consultant in strategic planning and capacity building for community organisations. Lynn MacLaren MLC joined the Western Australia Parliament on 22 May 2009. As a Greens WA elected Member of the Legislative Council she represents people in the South Metropolitan Region which stretches south of the Swan River from Victoria Park to Singleton. Published resources Resource Lynn MacLaren: Website, http://lynnmaclaren.wordpress.com/about/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Following a visit to a farm in Gippsland during a period of rehabilitation, Audrey Drechsler developed a lifetime love of farming. Audrey was heavily involved in the CWA as a regional president, but was also a leader in the movement for recognition and support for women’s hands-on involvement in farming, through farmers’ organisations, and the women in agriculture movement. She was a member of the steering committee which organised the 1994 First International Women in Agriculture Conference, and an organiser of the 1997 and 2010 Women on Farms Gatherings. Sharing the movements’ commitment to sustainable agriculture, Audrey has been active in land conservation, occupying, amongst other positions, that of first woman president of the Grassland Society of Victoria. She still farms at Sedgwick, south of Bendigo. As Audrey Walsh, she stood as a candidate for the Democratic Labor Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Evelyn at the Victorian state election, which was held in 1967. Audrey Drechsler was born Audrey Walsh, the daughter of James Walsh, who in 1928 took over the Warrandyte bakery, which she still owns. She won a scholarship to University High which she took up in 1949. Whilst recuperating from an operation in 1953, she attended the former West Melbourne Technical School for rehabilitation training in secretarial studies. It was through a friendship formed there that she was introduced to farming. She commenced secretarial work at RMIT in 1956, studying various subjects at night, including book keeping. In 1963, she went overseas, and worked briefly on farms in a number of countries, including Ireland, Denmark and the USA. In 1967 she stood for the DLP in the seat of Evelyn, and while campaigning, met Bendigo candidate Bill Drechsler, whom she subsequently married. Bill Drechsler was a sheep farmer from Sedgwick in Central Victoria, and Audrey invested money in improvements in the farm, and time and energy into learning practical farming skills, and in keeping the books. Audrey became involved in many community and farming organisations. She was the secretary of the Strathfieldsaye and Sutton Grange branches of the Victorian Farmers’ Federation; the public relations officer, political action convenor, president, treasurer and secretary of the Bendigo Pastoral District Council, and Bendigo branch president and inaugural convenor of the Australian Farm Management Society. Along with other involvement in her community’s schools, church and CFA, Audrey was involved in the Country Women’s Association, as secretary and president of the Sedgwick branch, and as president of the Bendigo Northern Group in 1981-3 and 2001-2003. Audrey was active in the movement to achieve recognition, a voice and education for women as farmers in their own right. She was a member of the steering committee for the 1994 First International Women in Agriculture Conference, and a constant support for the Women on Farms Gatherings, attending 17 out of the 20 held, and helping to organise the 1997 Bendigo and 2010 Inglewood gatherings. A person of forthright character, who holds the attention of those around her, Audrey is also a woman of great courage and integrity, sharing at the Bendigo gathering her story of being pack-raped at the age of 18, in Queensland, in 1951, and her steadfast appearance at five criminal trials to secure convictions, and gaol terms, for those involved. After the 1994 conference, she was a co-founder of the Central Victorian Women in Agriculture Group, and is now a member of the Victorian Branch of Australian Women in Agriculture, as well as of the national body. Reflecting the Women in Agriculture movement’s commitment to sustainable agriculture, Audrey has been involved as a leader in a number of organisations. She was the first women president of the Grassland Society of Victoria (1985), the Victorian State President and Federal Vice- President of the Soil & Water Conservation Association of Australia (1990), and a member of the Shire of Strathfieldsaye Environment Planning Advisory Committee. Later she became Chairman of the Land and Water Working Group, Bendigo Region Conservation Strategy, as well as a member of the Bendigo Region Land Protection Advisory Committee of the Department of Conservation, Forests and Land. Audrey was the convenor and inaugural president of the North Harcourt-Sedgwick Landcare Group, the 14th such group set up in Victoria, the Convenor of the Axe Creek Catchment Landcare Group, and a Victorian Committee member of the Australian Landcare Foundation. For thirty years she has been involved with departmental trials, experiments and field days. When Audrey was widowed in 1989, and the farm passed to her son, she secured 125 acres of it, did a six months farm mechanics course, borrowed on her bakery to build a mud-brick house, and still farms there today, producing prime vealers. She is concerned about the drift to the city, with encouraging young women to stay on the land, and about water policy. Events 2019 - 2019 Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM): For service to agriculture, and to the community. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Mary Salce, 1976-2007 [manuscript] Papers of Laurene Dietrich, 1990-1994 [manuscript] Records of the Gippsland Women's Network, 1994-2006 [manuscript] Papers of Audrey Drechsler, 1979-2009 [manuscript] Australian Historic Records Register Country Women's Association of Victoria Inc. Private Hands (these records may not be readily available) Grasslands Society of Southern Australia Inc. Records Author Details Rosemary Francis and Janet Butler Created 26 August 2008 Last modified 12 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Virginia Judge was a successful local and state ALP politician and was the first woman to be elected for the seat of Strathfield in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 2003. She was re-elected in 2007, but was defeated at the 2011 election. She was a Councillor with the Strathfield Municipal Council from 1995-2004 and Mayor from 2001-03. Virginia Judge was born in Cooma, where her father worked as a surveyor on the Snowy Mountain Scheme. She was educated in Canberra, graduating with a B.Ed. With a double music major from the Canberra School of Music. After graduation Virginia worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools in Sydney and Canberra, and taught at the Evondale Special School in Croydon for students with intellectual disabilities. She also worked as an Australian volunteer abroad for the Overseas Service Bureau in Tonga and later in the Solomon Islands and Fiji. Back in Sydney, Virginia worked in real estate, qualifying for her real estate licence. She was also studying Law part-time at Macquarie University prior to her election to the Legislative Assembly. She is married and has three daughters. Virginia Judge is the first woman to be elected for Strathfield. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Diana Warnock was elected as an Australian Labor Party member for Perth to Legislative Assembly of the 34th Parliament of Western Australia, Australian Labor Party on 6 February 1993, in succession to Ian Christopher Alexander (retired). She was re-elected 1996 but did not contest general election 10 February 2001. Diana Muriel Robinson was born in 1940 to Duncan Robinson, a farmer at Kookynie, Western Australia, and his wife Muriel. Diana was educated at Helena School, Darlington, St. Hilda’s Anglican School, and the University of Western Australia, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960. After graduation, she worked as a journalist for the West Australian newspaper, a research assistant for Professor Gordon Reid, a tutor in Women’s Studies at Murdoch University, and a radio presenter on ABC 720WF, Radio 6PR and 6NR. Always interested in politics, before entering State Parliament, she was an activist on behalf of women and minority groups. In 1999, she was awarded the Australian Humanist of the Year for her work in society, particularly on behalf of women. In 1993, she was elected Australian Labor Party Member of the Legislative Assembly for Perth. She held several shadow portfolios, was Opposition Whip from May 1996 to January 1997, and President of the Parliamentary Labor Party from 15 January 1997. She retired from Parliament at the 2001 election. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Diana Muriel Warnock, politician] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald] [Interview with Diana Warnock] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Laura Bryant] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 7 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "4 sound files (ca. 394 min.)??Dilys Budd talks about her early life in Wales; being in a foster home followed by the Nazareth House orphanage; her mother’s visits and death; the orphanage routine, their basic education; orphanage funding; after school activities; the selection of children for Australia; the nuns and benefactors; effects of WWII; leaving for Australia (1947), the voyage and arrival in Western Australia; St Joseph’s Girls Orphanage, Sisters of Mercy, child-staff ratio; institutionalization; relations between migrant and non-migrant children; the daily routine; welfare inspections; the smells and sounds of the orphanage; the maternity wing and unmarried mothers; medical and dental care; deaths in the orphanage; schooling at St Mary’s School, classrooms; the special classes for brighter girls leading to office work; no preparation for post-institution life; childhood and adult perceptions of religion; orphanage discipline; sexual abuse; bullying; celebrations eg. Christmas; play areas, organized sport, play equipment; films and concerts; working in the foundling home; on leaving the orphanage being allocated employment with the Health Department, learning typing, working on switchboard; placement in accommodation after leaving the orphanage.??Budd talks about escaping the control of Catholic Child Welfare; joining the Army Nursing Corps; attending night school; her reasons for leaving Perth; the lack of public awareness of institutionalized children; the closure of institutions; the funding of her return to the UK (1997); family reunions and publicity; arriving in Melbourne, working in Kew Mental Asylum; later work in the Taxation Department; meeting her future husband and their successful marriage; motherhood and learning parenting; telling her children about her childhood; returning to Nazareth House, UK; her identity documents and Australian citizenship; the move to Canberra (1965); joining the Department of Trade (1970), her retirement and return to work in Department of Foreign Affairs; her husband’s work; contact with former child migrants; the compensation by Western Australian Government to institutionalized children; her reaction to British Government’s apology; her views on removal and the Catholic Church’s apology; the Senate inquiry; advocacy groups; attending the Australian Government’s apology to the Forgotten Australians; reunion with friends from Perth; rejecting the term ‘Forgotten Australians’; the similarities and differences between the child migrants’ experiences and those of the Stolen Generation. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hours??Marjorie Caw was the fourth child of Edith Agnes Hubbe, nee Cook, 1859-1942, South Australian educator. In the first interview Mrs Caw speaks of the Hubbe household during her childhood, including her father’s death in 1910. In the second interview Mrs Caw talks of her mother’s career and interests. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Associate Professor Wendy Bacon is a widely-acclaimed investigative journalist. Her articles in the National Times on the attempted bribe and murder of Detective Michael Drury in the 1980s formed the basis of the ABC television series, Blue Murder. Bacon received a Walkley Award in 1984 for her exposure of official corruption in New South Wales. She has worked for Channel 9 (Sunday Program and Sixty Minutes), John Fairfax and Sons (National Times and Sun Herald), and SBS (Dateline). From 1991 to August 2012 Bacon was an academic at the University of Technology, Sydney, where she taught journalism at the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ). She continues to write as a freelance investigative journalist. Wendy Bacon grew up in Reservoir, Victoria, where her father set up a medical practice. Hers was, she says, a very suburban upbringing. The Bacon family had no television, but the children were given many books. Wendy was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College. Though her grandmother was a Presbyterian, her parents were agnostics, and even while she worked as a Sunday School teacher she was taught to question the existence of God and was not religious herself. Wendy’s political education began early. Her grandmother was one of the founders of the League of Nations in Australia and believed, somewhat controversially at the time, that China should be included in the United Nations. Wendy’s school speech to this effect created an uproar among parents and teachers. In the mid-1960s, Wendy Bacon enrolled at the University of Melbourne and lived at St Hilda’s College. Here she was part of the anti-Vietnam War campaign – her mother also campaigned, as part of Save Our Sons – and became strongly aligned with progressive, anti-authoritarian (including anti-Communist government) movements. By the late 1960s, Bacon had moved to the University of Sydney, where she joined the Sydney ‘Push’. She was still drawn to radical social movements, and enjoyed the open enquiry and discussion in the group. At Sydney, Bacon edited the student newspaper, Tharunka. With fellow students, she was involved in distributing the Little Red Schoolbook to teenagers, offering advice on all number of matters including how to deal with teachers and how to find out about sex. The Little Red Schoolbook generated enormous controversy, and Bacon was interviewed by Mike Willessee on A Current Affair. The whole episode was marked on her record. On the grounds that she had created a furore in Australia, Bacon was not permitted to enter the United States until the mid-1980s when she was working as a journalist for Fairfax. Over the course of her student and professional career, Bacon has been arrested approximately eighteen times. Her willingness to critique oppression and expose corruption, and her preference for investigative journalism, has come at a price. At just 23 years old, during an anti-censorship protest, Bacon was found guilty of exhibiting an obscene publication and jailed at Mullawah Women’s Prison for eight days. She was later imprisoned at Darlinghurst for a similar amount of time. Following her release, Bacon wrote an article for George Munster at Nation, based upon her experiences. She co-founded the support group, Women Behind Bars, in Sydney. In prison Bacon encountered police corruption first-hand, from bribery to the raping of women prisoners. She encountered it again, specifically the link between organised crime and corrupt police, during protests against developments in Victoria Street, Sydney. One of the protest leaders simply disappeared, while Bacon herself was sent a bullet in an orchid on Valentine’s Day. In later years, police corruption became the core focus of her investigative journalism. In the mid-1980s, Bacon wrote a series of articles for the National Times, bringing to light allegations that Detective Sergeant Roger Rogerson had attempted to bribe Detective Michael Drury, following an attempt on Drury’s life. Her stories were used in the ABC television series, Blue Murder. Bacon was also involved in publicity around the case of Lionel Murphy, the former Labor Attorney-General who was appointed to the High Court and brought to trial for perverting the cause of justice. Murphy had connections to organised crime. It was Bacon who obtained information from Murphy’s friend, Jim McClelland, but her policies on confidentiality meant suppressing the information, and McClelland perjured himself. Bacon broke the story with David Marr. She also investigated the case of New South Wales Premier, Neville Wran, who faced the Street Royal Commission in 1983 over claims by the ABC’s Four Corners that he tried to influence the magistracy over the 1977 committal of Kevin Humphries, charged with misappropriation of funds. Bacon received a Walkley award in 1984 for her exposure of official corruption in New South Wales. As well as investigative journalism, Bacon maintained her interest in politics and activism, and produced a number of feature articles for the Australian Society journal. In March 1988, she published ‘Voices of Dissent Around Sydney Harbour’, expressing frustration at the lack of criticism around Australia’s bicentennial celebrations and reacting with distaste to the kitsch of it all – the dressing up, the re-enactments, the plethora of Australian flags: ‘When on the 27 January’, wrote Bacon, ‘I suggested to the editor of one newspaper that something more critical of the official line as well as a more qualitative account of the Aboriginal protests might be written, she dismissed the notion as raking over what was already history’. Later that year, Bacon wrote on private hospitals, asking ‘where does the buck stop?’, and discussing the corruption and tax evasion behind ownership of private hospitals. Today, Wendy Bacon teaches investigative journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has a special interest in the reporting of humanitarian and environmental issues. Bacon teaches freedom of information law for John Fairfax and Sons. She is a board member of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, and a contributing editor with the Pacific Journalism Review. Events 1984 - 1984 Best Feature (newspaper or magazine): ‘ The Briese Affair: Neville Wran’s Crisis Deepens’, Published in the National Times 1980 - Published resources Journal Article Journalism as Research, Bacon, Wendy, 2006 A Case in Ethical Failure: Twenty Years of Media Coverage of Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Bacon, Wendy, 2005 Private Hospitals: Where Does the Buck Stop?, Bacon, Wendy, 1988 Voices of Dissent Around Sydney Harbour, Bacon, Wendy, 1988 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of New South Wales Archives Bacon, Wendy Author Details Barbara Lemon and Nikki Henningham Created 10 October 2007 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Keri Huxley’s involvement in the formal political process spans several years and has included taking on the challenge of winning the unwinnable (for the Liberal Party) seat of Port Jackson in the state election of 1999. She was a Woollahra Councillor for nine year, serving as Mayor in 2006-2009. Keri was also a founding member of the Yes! Republican movement in New South Wales, a cause to which she is still committed. She has delivered papers at the Australian Women’s Round Table and has worked for electoral reform on behalf of Women into Politics. She still maintains an active interest in politics at a local and community level. Keri Huxley has been an advocate for women’s issues over many years and is interested in constitutional reform. She joined the Liberal Party in 1972 and has been a delegate to State Council. In her 1999 campaign for Port Jackson, she stressed her interest in the environment, opposing a new marina at Balmain Shores and stressing her membership of the Iron Cove Preservation Committee. She has two sons and a daughter and completed a BA at Macquarie University. Published resources Article Huxley joins council exodus, Rogers, Michael, 2008, http://wentworth-courier.whereilive.com.au/news/story/huxley-joins-council-exodus/ Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sue Salthouse has worked in the area of social justice since 1996, playing an active role in the systemic advocacy for women with disabilities. She lives in Canberra where she runs her own consultancy company that specialises in work in the disability sector and conducts social research, policy analysis and advice in a number of areas beyond disability advocacy, including project development and management, conference facilitation and TAFE teaching. She has worked extensively with Women in Adult and Vocational Education (WAVE) to develop leadership training projects for women, including women in Aboriginal communities. In 2013 she works hard in a voluntary capacity for Women with Disabilities ACT and Rights International (Australia). In 2015, Sue was Canberra Citizen of the Year, in recognition of her outstanding commitment and contribution as a disability advocate. In late 2019, Sue was further acknowledged for her enormous contribution to the public good when she was awarded the honour of 2020 ACT Senior Australian of the Year. Sue Salthouse died in a motor vehicle accident in Canberra on 20 July 2020. Read an interview with Sue Salthouse in the online exhibition Redefining Leadership. Sue Salthouse describes her introduction to the disability sector as ‘arrival by surprise’. She was forty-five when she fell off a horse in the Snowy Mountains, and embarked on her life of ‘new opportunity’ in a wheelchair. The learning curve was steep and physically challenging, but the recently retired ex-president of Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) is adamant when she claims that ‘psychologically I have had more difficult things to deal with in my life, despite the challenges my accident presented’. (Interview) Born in 1949 in McKinnon, Melbourne, Salthouse had a happy childhood, sharing the love of her parents with one older sister, whom she adored. She attended Kilvington Baptist Girls Grammar, a small private school with a community spirit that she credits with setting her on a humanitarian path. A small school offered her any number of opportunities to take on leadership roles, which she adopted with great relish, although she did experience a crisis of conscience when offered the role of head prefect. Conditional upon the offer was the requirement for her to be confirmed. She agreed to the condition, but not without some reflection on the nature of hypocrisy. Why did the school think she had to be confirmed to perform a leadership role? How much was she prepared to compromise in order to take on a leadership role? Salthouse says it was a pivotal moment in her life and a difficult decision for a teenager to make. To this day, she is not sure that she made the right decision, but she did compromise and became head prefect in 1966. After completing secondary school, Salthouse enrolled in Agricultural Science at the University of Melbourne in 1967. Inspired by the ‘green revolution’ of the 1960s, she wanted to further her understanding of the environment and at the time, agriculture seemed like the best way of combining her love for science with a passion for environmental issues. After graduating, she worked as a field officer for the (then) Victorian State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, where she mainly did scientific writing. Although she enjoyed this work, what she really wanted was a job that enabled her to travel. So in 1972 she completed a Diploma of Education at La Trobe University. Here, she engaged in political ideas and innovative teaching methods that focused on flexible learning environments and a view of education as an instrument of change. After a placement at Lorne Higher Elementary School in Victoria, Salthouse moved to Alice Springs High School where, amongst Aboriginal communities she learnt profound lessons about the power of education as an instrument against discrimination and a path towards self determination. Working with women in these communities, she gained an appreciation of their openness, their wisdom, their respectfulness and their capacity for listening and understanding. She credits this experience with her own emerging conceptualisation of leadership as facilitation. For Salthouse, the hallmark of a good leader is someone who is able to consult and connect in order to solve a problem. It might be a more complex way of achieving outcomes than traditional, authoritative models, but she believes it to be the most effective way of proceeding in the sector she knows best, non-government organisations. No one person can possess all the skills required to lead in this area, especially in advocacy organisations. So a good leader recognises the skills in the collective, nurtures them and calls upon them when required. This non-hierarchical ‘hub and spoke’ model associated with early feminist organisations was something she first gained an appreciation of when working in Alice Springs. As well as learning from Aboriginal communities, she was an early member of the Alice Springs chapter of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL). After the Alice Springs experience, Salthouse travelled overseas to Kathmandu to trek in the Himalayas. There she met the man she would marry (a widower with children). The family spent another 3 years in Nepal (1978-81) and 3 years in Italy (1985-88), before returning to live in Canberra in Australia. She was not on any confirmed career path and was relatively happy taking the time to look after the family, while her husband pursued his career in aid organisations. When their marriage broke down, she returned to teaching. Despite the barriers to advancement that existed for women teachers in the A.C.T, in the early 1990s she felt she had a good career ahead of her as a teacher. In April 1995, Salthouse had her accident. After a lengthy period of rehabilitation, she returned to teaching but found that she had lost confidence in her ability to do the job and felt isolated from other staff members in ways she had not expected. The principal helped her to move towards what she calls ‘a graceful retirement’. Around this time she met Carolyn Frohmader from Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) through her wish to become involved in sport for people with disabilities. Frohmader asked if she would like to work for them and the rest, as they say, is history. For most of her life in a wheelchair, Sue Salthouse has been involved with WWDA. She was president for a term in 2009 -2012. Salthouse has always had a commitment to social justice issues and her immersion in the world of disability advocacy provided her with new perspectives on how best to work for, and on behalf of, people who feel powerless and discriminated against. Disability is not a medical problem, it is a human rights issue and ‘the work of WWDA is grounded in a rights based framework that links gender and disability issues to the full range of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights’. (WWDA Annual report 2009-2010). Salthouse is proud of the leading role WWDA has taken in creating this framework at an international level, a prime example being its work to ensure that a specific article on Women (Article 6) was included in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a Treaty ratified by Australia in 2008. As far as Salthouse is concerned the strength and efficacy of WWDA has always been its people and their commitment to the issues, rather than their egos. This is not to say that individuals are not forthright in stating a case they strongly believe in. ‘Leaders must have presence,’ she says. ‘They can’t be too self-effacing’ (Interview). But they must speak from the group and towards the outcome. Creating a structure where all members of an organisation feel they can contribute to a discussion, where the issue is what is important, not the person who promotes it in public, is the type of leadership Salthouse aims to provide. Leadership training for women with disabilities is also important, according to Salthouse. ‘It’s crucial that WWDA empowers and endorses women with disabilities in leadership roles.’ (WWDA Annual report 2009-2010) They must ‘have a seat at the table’, not only because the voices of women with disabilities must be heard but because there is enormous symbolic importance attached to women with disabilities being seen to be leaders. They need to be able to demonstrate to themselves and the able-bodied people around them ‘I look like you, only sitting down’. (Interview). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Report Annual Report 2009-2010, Women With Disabilities Australia, 2010, http://www.wwda.org.au/wwdarepts.htm Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Sue Salthouse interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Women and leadership in a century of Australian democracy oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 February 2013 Last modified 21 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Raelene Webb QC holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physics from the University of Adelaide and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland. She was admitted to the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory and the High Court of Australia in 1992. In 2004, she was appointed Queen’s Counsel. Prior to her five year appointment on 1 April 2013 by the Attorney General, as President of the National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT), Raelene was named as one of the leading native title silks in Australia. She has appeared as lead counsel in many native title and Aboriginal land matters and has advised upon and appeared in the High Court in most land-mark cases on the judicial interpretation and development of native title/Aboriginal land law since the decision of Mabo V Queensland (No 2). Raelene became a fellow of the Australia Academy of Law in August 2013 and delivered the Annual Richard Cooper Memorial Lecture at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, at the end of September 2013. She was a recipient of the 2014 Law Council of Australia President’s Medal, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the legal profession in Australia. On receipt of the award, Raelene encouraged other women thinking of taking risks with their careers to be brave. ‘I marvel how it is that a shy country girl coming to the law in mid-life, finds herself here receiving this prestigious award and in the company of so many distinguished lawyers who have themselves contributed so much to the legal profession, both personally and through their work with the Law Council of Australia. My advice to all who are contemplating scaling the walls of the legal profession, and particularly to women: be courageous, be bold, and above all, be passionate about the law.’ Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Raelene Webb for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Raelene Webb and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Ms Raelene Webb QC holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physics from the University of Adelaide and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland. She was admitted to the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory and the High Court of Australia in 1992. In 2004, she was appointed Queens Counsel. Raelene was born at Gawler, South Australia in 1951, the elder of two children of Ray and Joyce Webb. At that time her father was teaching at nearby Reeves Plains. Shortly thereafter Raelene’s family moved to Batchelor in the Northern Territory where Ray had been appointed the first headmaster of the Batchelor Area School. Her family returned to South Australia in 1955 where Raelene commenced her education, graduating from Adelaide University in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science (Honours), majoring in physics. Raelene then returned to the Northern Territory and taught at Alice Springs High School, transferring to Casuarina High School around 1972. Both of her sons were born in Darwin (in 1974 and 1977) but the advent of Cyclone Tracy led to a temporary relocation back to Adelaide in 1975. After returning to Darwin in 1976, in addition to managing several small businesses, Raelene also lectured part-time at the Darwin Community College in mathematics. She was then appointed Acting Head of Commercial Studies on a full-time basis, establishing an Education Program for Unemployed Youth at the College during that period. After completing half of the Bachelor of Accounting Course at Darwin Institute of Technology, Raelene commenced law studies in 1986 externally with Queensland University. She continued to lecture part-time at the Darwin Institute of Technology in building science and mathematics, and then worked for 18 months as a management trainer/consultant with the Northern Territory Centre for Management Training. In August 1989 Raelene commenced her legal career as an associate to his Honour Sir William Kearney, then Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, before moving to the Department of Law (now the Department of Justice) where she commenced articles in 1991; also completed her Bachelor of Laws in that year. During 1990-1991 Raelene lectured for several semesters in Taxation Law for the Bachelor of Business course at the Northern Territory University, calling in aid her previous business/management and accounting experience as well as legal training. Raelene was admitted to legal practice in the Northern Territory in 1992. From that time and until joining William Forster Chambers in March 1999, Raelene practiced, in effect, as a member of Counsel in Chambers with Mr Tom Pauling QC, the Solicitor General for the Northern Territory and Mr Graham Nicholson, previously Senior Crown Counsel and Constitutional Advisor to the Northern Territory Government. Her position as Crown Counsel was formalized in 1994 although she had been acting in that capacity since 1992. As Crown Counsel Raelene gave legal advice to the Northern Territory Government on a wide range of complex legal matters, including administrative law, constitutional law, government contracts, torts generally and particularly liability of public authorities, medical negligence, mining law, native title and Aboriginal land matters. The particular demands of Crown Counsel required that Raelene rapidly develop the advocacy skills necessary to research, prepare and present complex cases, many of which were destined to be finally determined by the High Court where Raelene made numerous appearances as junior counsel with the Solicitor General for the Northern Territory, and with other leading senior counsel, particularly in constitutional matters and later in native title/Aboriginal land matters. During her period as Crown Counsel, Raelene also deputised for the Solicitor General on a number of occasions at meetings of Solicitors General. Raelene’s move to the private bar in Darwin in 1999 allowed her to expand her practice, and she rapidly developed a national practice, appearing for and advising clients in most States and Territories. Between 1999 and 2011 Raelene practiced from William Forster Chambers. From 2009 she was Head of William Forster Chambers, before she left to establish Magayamirr Chambers in July 2011. From 2010 to 2012, Raelene was President of the Northern Territory Bar Association, and a Director of the Law Council of Australia. She held the position of Honorary Treasurer of the Australian Bar Association in 2012 and was Vice President of that association in the following year, prior to her appointment. In 2011 Raelene was awarded a Board Diversity Scholarship and undertook governance training with the Australian Institute of Company Directors to assist her in these roles. A significant part of Raelene’s practice at the private bar was in the Federal Court and the High Court, first addressing a Full Bench of the High Court in 2001. In August 2001 the Honourable Justice Michael Kirby, in a speech to the Victorian Women Lawyers’ Association, lamented the few speaking parts of women before the High Court in Australia, naming Raelene as one of only 6 women who had addressed the High Court from the central rostrum during his term of office. Over the next two decades, Raelene continued to argue matters in the High Court, advising upon and appearing in most land-mark cases on the judicial interpretation and development of native title/Aboriginal land law since the decision of Mabo v Queensland (No 2) in 1992. Just prior to her appointment Raelene was named as one of the leading native title silks in Australia. Raelene became a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in August 2013 and delivered the Annual Richard Cooper Memorial Lecture at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, at the end of September 2013. She was a recipient of the 2014 Law Council of Australia President’s Medal, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the legal profession in Australia. Raelene is in great demand as a public speaker on a range of topics, native title matters especially, and has presented or chaired sessions at various conferences throughout Australia and internationally, including at the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty held in Washington DC in March 2015. In April 2015 Raelene gave a number of public lectures at Canadian universities and was a guest speaker at the University of Northern British Columbia’s Global Fridays Speakers Series. Published resources Resource Congratulations to President Raelene Webb QC, National Native Title Tribunal, 2014, http://www.nntt.gov.au/News-and-Publications/latest-news/Pages/award.aspx Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Raelene Webb (with Nikki Henningham) Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Raelene Webb Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 2649 comprises correspondence, minutes of the general meetings, minutes of the committee, a register of members, reports, conference proceedings, International Federation of University Women records and reports and other records (7 boxes). Created 7 January 2013 Last modified 27 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Include minutes of Executive and General meetings, and tape recordings, 1976 Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 December 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The YWCA was invited to Canberra by the Federal government in the mid 1920s and established itself there in 1929. While a separate organisation, from its establishment the YWCA of Canberra received significant support from the national and global Young Women’s Christian Association movement. The organisation has grown with the local community, providing at first services focused on meeting the physical and spiritual needs of young women coming to work in the new city through the provision of hostel accommodation and recreational activities, such as singing, physical activities, skills development and leadership work. From these early activities, it developed into a community service for women and their families, responding to local and changing needs. The present organisation aims to contribute ‘practical feminism’, serving local communities, advocating for social change and assisting women to achieve their potential. The first General Secretary, Ms Hilda Tapley Short (‘Tapley’) arrived in Canberra in March 1929 and took on the task of establishing the YWCA of Canberra. She was faced with significant challenges at this time, including lack of funds, the beginning of the Great Depression and a new capital with a population of less than 4000. Tapley’s early work focused on providing hostel accommodation, social activities for the local community, recreation and social support networks and skills development. There was also significant focus on establishing the structure and governance of the organisation to ensure that the YWCA would be here to stay. During World War II, the YWCA provided support to soldiers, public servants and their families. The YWCA building became an important focus for wartime activities and aimed to provide servicemen with entertainment and companionship in a family style setting. Leave House was opened in a temporary weatherboard hostel in Mort Street and began the organisation’s long involvement in providing accommodation to women and girls. After the war, Leave House became a much needed hostel for young women who were not entitled to government accommodation. The 1960s saw significant programs built around young women. Services were provided for women under 18 years old through Girl Citizens and Reserve Girl Citizens and to married women new to Canberra with few supports and networks. The YWCA became a vital way for women to become involved in their local community and build friendships. Plans were also in place to rebuild the hostel, and in April 1970 the Una Porter Centre was opened by HRH Princess Anne. This building provided a 61-bed hostel, a gymnasium, and art and craft, conference and meeting rooms. The 1970s saw the second wave of feminism, and the YWCA continued to contribute in both practical and broader ways, and to advocate on issues of importance to women such as child care. The YWCA also provided some of these childcare services. The Spence Neighbourhood Centre, ‘The Lady Heydon Centre’, was opened and became one way to connect with the suburbs and provide services for women and their young families. New program areas continued to develop through the 1970s and 1980s as additional needs emerged. The last few decades have seen further evolution of the organisation as both a significant community service provider and a strong women’s advocacy organisation. Today the organisation employs 300 staff, operates throughout Canberra in 20 different locations, and provides services across the areas of children’s services, youth services, homelessness and accommodation, community development, training and women’s leadership. The organisation is committed to changing the community through the leadership of women and to nurture the leadership of young women through its governance, membership and program work. Published resources Newsletter YWCA Canberra newsletter, 1967 Resource YWCA Canberra, http://www.ywca-canberra.org.au Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Rebecca Vassarotti Created 6 February 2013 Last modified 6 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In the 1950s Dorothy Green wrote to a friend, ‘I am now rising forty two and looking back on my life, I find have spent the greater proportion of it doing things I didn’t want to do at all.’ Nearly thirty years later she felt ‘nothing has changed’. Yet during the course of her long life, Dorothy Green produced poetry, literary criticism and journalism and taught and shaped the lives of many students. With a Bachelor of Arts in English, French and Philosophy and an Master of Arts with Honours in English, she worked as a journalist in New South Wales and Queensland, was the principal of a girls’ private school, before moving in to tertiary education, holding positions at Monash University in Melbourne and the Australian National University and Australian Defence Forces Academy in Canberra. Married to Henry Green, journalist, librarian and literary historian, with whom she had two children, she was also politically active, especially later in her life, when she was a founding member of Writers Against Nuclear Arms and an ardent environmentalist. She wrote a study of the work of Henry Handel Richardson as well as updating her husband’s History of Australian Literature and publishing several books of poetry and numerous works of literary criticism. Literature is ‘the great conversation of mankind’, said Dorothy Green in an interview towards the end of her life. A small woman, immaculately dressed, Green presented an indomitable face to the world. Terminally ill with cancer, she began the interview with a quiet but forceful remark suggesting that the Australia Council should have commissioned the interview earlier, when she had been well. It is a stilted interview and Green comes across as serious and contemplative, happy to allow silences to extend rather than filling them up with chatter. She does not make jokes; instead the occasional acerbic remark pointing to what she perceives as one of life’s idiocies. Dorothy Auchterlonie was born and spent the early years of her life in Sunderland, to which place she ascribed ‘the origins of British culture’. Her mother was born in Rockhampton in Queensland but had migrated back to family in the north of England after the early death of her own mother. Dorothy enjoyed what she called an ‘uninhibited’ childhood, with the freedom to explore her environment while her mother was ‘careful to provide books’ and sent her to a good school. Her father died of Spanish flu when she was five and after her mother’s remarriage they emigrated to Australia in 1928. ‘I thought we had come to hell’, she said of Far North Queensland , which was at the end of a three-year drought, and as always with an ear for the literary turn of phrase, she explained that it was ‘so different from the green and pleasant land’ she had left. The family quickly moved south to Sydney, where Dorothy attended North Sydney Girls School and had ‘a splendid time’ with ‘highly dedicated staff’, who issued ‘ a silent appeal to girls to achieve excellence in as many fields as possible’. With the encouragement and assistance of the principal of the small girls’ private school at which she was teaching, she managed to get an assisted place at Sydney University, where she studied English, French and Philosophy during the evenings. Decades later she remembered it as an exhilarating experience, which ‘set [her] mind free’, lecturers such as John Anderson encouraging her to consider ideas ‘she had never considered before’. She said that she never departed from his rule of ‘free, open, disinterested discussion’. Dorothy published poetry in the Sydney Morning Herald and was co-editor of the journal Hermes with R W Rutledge in 1938. She told the interviewer in 1990 that she suspected that she had been appointed to rein in Robert Rutledge and encourage a more literary bent to the journal, but instead she revelled in the ‘revolutionary discussion of issues’ that they published. In 1940 she was one of the first four authors published by Bessie Mitchell with her fledgling Viking Press. Kaleidoscope was a poem about Sydney, in which she described the Sydney Harbour Bridge as a ‘steel excrescence’ and used a children’s nursery rhyme to make her point: Twinkle, twinkle little stars On a million motor-cars, Along the Harbour bridge so high, Like a coat-hanger in the sky. Nevertheless she told the interviewer that she was ‘a very invisible poet’, and was ‘not very fond’ of talking about her writing process, save that it ‘comes out of my fingers’. Working for the Daily Telegraph newspaper during the early years of World War Two, she appreciated the fact that while the men were fighting women were ‘thrown into the water’ – there was ‘no graduating through the social columns’. Nevertheless she did not enjoy having to cold-call the families of war casualties and resigned from the paper in 1941. ‘I’m a great resigner’, she said. She worked for the ABC, proud to have been the first woman journalist appointed to handle the news, sent to Brisbane in 1942 to start the first independent news service there, ‘much earlier than the history books tell it’. She married Henry M Green, thirty-five years her senior, in 1944. Henry Green was librarian at the Fisher Library at the University of Sydney and controversially divorced his wife to marry her. She described him as a ‘remarkable man, very handsome, [with] a sharp and lively mind’. Her friends were concerned about the marriage but they were ‘intellectually extremely compatible’, she remembered. They had two children, seven years apart, and she went to work for the ABC when they were old enough to leave in her husband’s care. Henry Green worked from home, in a freezing little shed, his feet in a sleeping bag and wearing mittens while he typed to keep warm. His wife commented drily in 1990 that ‘all this feather bedding of modern academics amuses me’. When she was unable to leave home to work, Dorothy Green was a freelance journalist, writing for the Australian Women’s Weekly. The family lived for ten years in the Blue Mountains before Dorothy Green took a job teaching at Presbyterian Girls’ College in Warwick, Queensland in 1955. It was a ‘dull area’ but the school was not dull. Green and fellow teacher Betty Crombie became co-principals until 1960, when the ‘great resigner’ resigned yet again, finding the job exhausting. Dorothy Green finally broke into academia, moving to Melbourne to take up a position lecturing English at the new Monash University. She also found herself a widow with a seventeen-year-old daughter and ten-year-old son to support. In 1964 she moved to the Australian National University in Canberra as a lecturer in her friend A D Hope’s English Department. During her years there she championed Australian literature becoming increasingly disillusioned with what she saw as the disregard with which it was viewed amongst her colleagues. Resigning in 1972 she received a Literary Board Grant to write her book about Henry Handel Richardson. Green confided that had ‘never felt really at home in Australian society’, something she felt she shared with Henry Handel Richardson and Patrick White. She felt an affinity with Richardson in particular, noting that Richardson’s work had been underrated by male critics because she wrote in domestic terms. Green’s contribution was to ‘see the great things she says through the veil of the domestic environment’. According to Green, White and Richardson articulated a universal problem: the contradiction between the ‘nostalgia of permanence’ and the desire for change. She commented in 1990 that ‘we seem to worship novelty for novelty’s sake’. This was ‘not a healthy sign’. In 1976 Green joined the staff at the Royal Military College at Duntroon (now the Australian Defence Forces Academy, University of New South Wales). She thoroughly enjoyed her time here, particularly as she found herself among colleagues who were also interested in Australian literature and ‘very enjoyable’ students. In her later years Green was known for her political activism, particularly in the anti-nuclear movement. By 1990 she was also highlighting environmental causes, bemoaning the fact that people appeared to be ‘deaf to the sounds of the natural world’, preferring rock music to ‘ the songs of the bird, the sigh of the wind, the lap of the water’. She exhorted people to widen their horizons to encompass an awareness of the world around them. She was a founding member of Writers for an Ecologically Sustainable Population in 1989 and cofounded Writers Against Nuclear Arms with David Headon in 1986. She was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1984 and was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1998 for her services to literature, teaching and writing. She lived in Canberra from 1964 until her death in 1991. Not yet the subject of a major biography, her political activism has been discussed by Willa Macdonald in Warrior for Peace and, more recently, Susan Sheridan has included her in her study of postwar women writers, Nine Lives. Events 1938 - 1938 Swimming – 440y Freestyle Published resources Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book The Dolphin, Auchterlonie, Dorothy, 1967 Australian Poetry 1968: Selected by Dorothy Auchterlonie, Auchterlonie, Dorothy, 1968 Something to Someone: Poems, Auchterlonie, Dorothy, 1983 Kaleidoscope, Auchterlonie, Dorothy, 1940 Literary Sydney: A Walking Guide, Dimond, Jill and Kirkpatrick, Peter, 2000 The Music of Love: Critical Essays on Literature and Life, Green, Dorothy and Hooton, Joy W., 1984 Ulysses Bound: A Study of Henry Handel Richardson and her Fiction, Green, Dorothy, 1986 Writer, Reader, Critic, Green, Dorothy, 1991 Fourteen Minutes: Short Sketches of Australian Poets and their Works from Harpur to the Present Day, Green, H. M., 1950 A History of Australian Literature Pure and Applied: A Critical Review of All Forms of Literature Produced in Australia from the First Fleet until 1950, Green, H. M., 1984 Warrior for Peace: Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, McDonald, Willa, 2009 Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers Making their Mark, Sheridan, Susan, 2011 Thesis The Poetry of Dorothy (Auchterlonie) Green, Fisher, Thea, 1992 Book Section Introduction, Green, Dorothy, 1984 Edited Book Imagining the Real: Australian Writing in the Nuclear Age, Green, Dorothy and Headon, David, 1987 Descent of Spirit: Writings of E L Grant Watson, Green, Dorothy, 1990 Resource Section Green, Henry Mackenzie (1881-1962), Hooton, Joy W., http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/green-henry-mackenzie-10353/text18333 Videorecording The Writers 2: Dorothy Green, c. 1990 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Judith Wright, 1944-2000 [manuscript] Literary papers 1969-1981 [manuscript] Academy Library, UNSW Canberra Dorothy Green manuscript collection 1918-1990 Author Details Nikki Henningham and Catherine Bishop Created 11 March 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Dorothy Green Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 6244 comprises corrected manuscript and typescript drafts and galley proofs of Joan Phipson’s literary output, together with associated research material, correspondence, photographs, illustrations and designs. The papers also include a typescript copy of her autobiographical work “Just a silkworm” (10 boxes).??The Acc04.039 instalment comprises correspondence, diaries, financial records, books, photographs, certificates and press cuttings dating from the 1930s to the late 1990s. The major strength of the instalment is the large and well-ordered professional correspondence maintained between Phipson and her publishers in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The financial records are chiefly Phipson’s royalty statements for her writings over a long period of time. The personal travel diaries, written in hand, document Phipson’s interest in travel (1 box, 9 cartons, 1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "NS354/1/12-19 – All Saints Parish – Minute Book of Women’s Auxiliary: Australian Board of Missions??NS354/1/24-26 – All Saints Parish – Women’s Auxiliary: Australian Board of Missions, lists of members, missionary box returns, statements of receipt and expenditure Author Details Jane Carey Created 20 February 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Alannah MacTiernan was elected to the Thirty-Fourth Parliament of Western Australia as the Australian Labor Party member for the East Metropolitan Region (Legislative Council) on 6 February 1993 for a term commencing on 22 May 1993. She resigned on 21 November 1996. She was then elected to the Thirty-Fifth Parliament for Armadale on 14 December 1996 in succession to Hon Elsie Kay Hallahan (retired). MacTiernana was re-elected 2001, 2005, and 2008. She served as the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure from 16 February 2001 – 6 September 2008. Alannah Joan Geraldine MacTiernan was born in Melbourne in 1953, and attended St. Bernadettes Primary School in East Ivanhoe and Our Lady of Mercy College in Heidelberg. She moved to Western Australia at the age of eighteen, and worked various jobs before completing a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Western Australia. She then worked in Aboriginal Employment and Training, and established and ran a suburban newspaper, before completing a law degree in 1986. MacTiernan practised with the Dwyer Durack law firm from 1987 to 1993, and became a partner of the firm in 1992. MacTiernan had joined the Australian Labor Party in 1976, and established the Highgate branch in 1981. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia for the East Metropolitan Region (Legislative Council) on 6 February 1993 for term commencing 22 May 1993. She resigned on 21 November 1996 and was elected as member for Armadale on 14 December 1996 in succession to Hon Elsie Kay Hallahan (retired). MacTiernan was re-elected in 2001, 2005 and 2008, and was Minister for Planning and Infrastructure from 16 February 2001 – 6 September 2008. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Alannah MacTiernan: Media Statements 2006-2008 (online), MacTiernan, Alannah, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/88569/20080905-1741/www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/CurrentMinistersSearchb6f0.html?minister=MacTiernan&admin=Carpenter Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 8 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hours 30 minutes??Dora Woods’ father was nephew and partner of Charles Birks; family moved to communal settlement Murtho on the River Murray 1893-99; educated at Adelaide High School and Advanced School for Girls; trained at Children’s Hospital 1909-1912; left Adelaide in 1912 to do private nursing and maternity training at Faraday Maternity Hospital Edinburgh for 6 months; 1914 to Broken Hill Hospital in surgical wards and theatre; working with her brother who was a doctor; joined the AANS and spent 5 months at Keswick; left for overseas on 26 December 1916; went to an English hospital in France; worked at a casualty clearing station; Rouen and Boulogne; war experience; stayed in France 5 months after the war ended looking after the sick and was in the last group to leave Boulogne; in London for 4 months and then back to Australia; shipboard romance; private nursing in Adelaide; age 31 met and married Bob Woods a returned English soldier and stove maker; nursing after her marriage; 6 pounds a week for private nursing. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (ca. 132 min.)??Summers speaks about her life since 1975. She comments on the release of the 3rd edition of her book Damned whores and God’s police; journalism, feminism and her Walkley Award wining article on Grafton; her trips to the USA in 1976 & mid 1978 on a journalism scholarship; her return to Australia in 1979 to work for the Financial Review in Canberra, first as a political correspondent and being elected President of the Press Gallery. Summers recalls being appointed to the position of Director of the Office of the Status of Women (1983-1986) in the Hawke Government.??Summers recalls leaving Australia in early 1986 for New York to head the Fairfax’s North American office; writing a weekly column for Financial Review, then Editor weekly North American office; 1992 freelancing in US.; being invited to join Prime Minister Keating’s staff , then moving onto to the position of Good Weekend Editorship. Summers speaks about her work from 1997 onwards when she started working again as a freelance journalist & writer. She recalls publishing 2 books; writing a monthly opinion column for the Sydney Morning Herald and Courier Mail; her position as co-editor of Australian Author; her corporate speaking engagements. Created 13 March 2019 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Beverley Crane was a once only candidate for Parliament who ran for the ALP in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Vaucluse in 1988. Beverley was educated at Sydney Girls’ High School and the University of New South Wales. She completed a BA and Dip.Lib. and has worked in libraries in both the public and private sectors. She is married and has one daughter. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contains correspondence chiefly with Alderman Marjory Propsting, President of the Association, circular letters, conference programs, leaflets and newspaper cuttings mainly concerning women in local government. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 December 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers mainly relating to the building industry and unions in Canberra, 1985-1992 and papers relating to White Industries Pty Ltd Canberra National Convention Centre site. Includes subject files, minutes, diary and note book, printed material, posters, cartoons, stickers and a flag. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 January 2013 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Series 1-7. Letters received by Edith Hübbe?Series 8-11. Letters sent by Edith Hübbe?Series 12-19. Other papers of Edith Hübbe?Series 20-48. Papers of Marjorie Caw (Hübbe)?Series 50-53. Papers of Dr. Ulrica Hübbe?Series 55-57. Cook family papers?Series 58-60. Bathurst family papers?Series 61. Papers relating to Catherine Helen Spence?Series 62. Miscellaneous?Series 63. Photographs Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 March 2019 Last modified 1 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Claire Douglas was a well known local candidate who nearly won the safe Liberal seat of Albury. She ran as an Independent candidate there for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1999 and 2003. Claire was successfully elected to the Albury City Council from 1999-2004. Claire Douglas is a long time resident of Albury. She was educated at the universities of Monash, Sydney and Melbourne and has tertiary qualifications in Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Dietetics, Sports Nutrition and Education. She has been continually active in local affairs. She has chaired, convened or been an active member many organizations, including Save our City, Wonga Wetlands, Mirambeena Community Centre Management Committee, Albury Regional Arts Board and Regional Art Gallery, West Albury Community Garden and East Albury landcare Group. She was active on the school committees of the schools her children attended. She was elected to the Albury City Council in 1999 and was Deputy Mayor in 2003. She narrowly lost the 1999 election, only 621 votes behind the Liberal who was elected. She ran a strong campaign against the plan for a freeway through Albury but in 2003, with more candidates running, and a campaign against her suggesting that she was a one issue candidate, she was beaten more easily. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "4 digital audio tapes (ca. 202 min.)??Amirah Inglis a writer, speaks of her current project of editing her Polish-born father’s memoirs, her family and her own own childhood in Melbourne, her political activism as a member of the Communist Party of Australia, her marriage to Ian Turner and events surrounding their move to Canberra in the 1960s, her involvement with the Australian National University and her teaching position at Lyneham High School, her second marriage to Ken Inglis, how their move to New Guinea in the 1970s was the inspiration for her first book which launched her writing career. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour??Margaret Trudinger was born in Adelaide, South Australia. She left school during the Depression in 1931, and helped her family on a small property at Athelstone until she began training at the Adelaide Hospital at the end of 1934. On completion of training ‘Trudie’ nursed at Millicent and Mount Gambier. She was on the staff of the Wallaroo Hospital when called up, in June 1940, to the Australian Army Nursing Service. Her nursing experiences in the army included postings to Woodside, Daws Road, Palestine, Egypt, Port Moresby and Lae. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 37 minutes??Jenny Leak was born in Adelaide, South Australia. She began her career as an assistant nurse at the Wakefield Street Private Hospital and in 1954 began training at that hospital. Following paediatric nursing and midwifery training Jenny worked at the Streaky Bay Hospital for two years, and at the Point McLeay Aboriginal Reserve for six months. After infant welfare training in 1963 she was appointed Night Sister and later Deputy Matron at the Wakefield Street Hospital. In 1966 Jenny was a member of a surgical team working in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, for six months. Subsequently she remained in Vietnam where she administered a community aid program for children. Since her return to Adelaide in 1976 Jenny has undertaken a series of post-basic courses in nursing. After an appointment with the Child Adolescent and Family Health Service she joined the staff of the South Australian College of Advanced Education (Sturt Campus) in 1987. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contains the papers of various members of the Griffith Family and those families associated with the Griffith family through marriage Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Refchange won the Cover Girl competition for Pix magazine in 1945. Elizabeth Refchange was the only daughter of John and Ruby Refchange (nee Smith). Her father was employed in the North Mine at Broken Hill, New South Wales. Of her two brothers, Francis and John Sydney Refchange, only Francis survived infancy. Elizabeth was educated at the North School, then Broken Hill High School, before finding employment as a hairdresser in Argent Street. In 1937, Elizabeth entered and won the local Movie Ball look-alike competition. On the basis of this, she was chosen to enter the Pix Beauty contest, and travelled to Sydney for the semi-finals in November 1944. After parading in swimwear for representatives of the Columbia Movie Company, she was selected for the next round of competition and was filmed by Iva Ive on behalf of the Movie Company. By December 1944 she was one of the final two in the competition, alongside Joy Evans of Manly, and in January 1945 was announced as the winner. 20,000 photographs had been submitted for the competition. Elizabeth won a screen test for Hollywood, a ?100 war bond from Columbia Pictures and a Pix model contract. She was filmed at Cinesound Studios in Sydney. Elizabeth Refchange married John Bennett at Elizabeth Bay in June 1947. She later moved to Coffs Harbour, New South Wales. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 15 January 2009 Last modified 4 August 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Catherine ‘Katie’ Sheaffe represented the Tharwa community on the Federal Capital Territory War Food Fund committee during World War I. Catherine Erskine McKellar was born in 1886 at Lake Cargellico, New South Wales, Australia to Jane and Duncan McKellar, graziers of Wooyeo Station. She was educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Croydon in the inner west of Sydney, New South Wales. On 23 March 1913 Katie married Percy Lemprier Sheaffe at Rushcutters Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She moved to the Canberra region where Percy had been appointed to the Commonwealth Public Service as a Senior Surveyor in 1910. He led one of three teams of surveyors who surveyed the then Federal Capital Territory (the Australian Capital Territory from 1938) border with New South Wales. Katie accompanied her husband on much of the survey defining the boundary of the new Territory, covering the part of the boundary from Coree through Bungendore and Queanbeyan to Mt Clear near Naas. This involved treacherous terrain and unpredictable weather as well as disgruntled land holders and government pressure. The surveys took five years to complete. The couple had four children; Isabel Gordon born 25 July 1917, Jean Lempriere Gordon born 17 May 1919, Robertson Gordon born 13 December 1920 and Percy Hale ‘Gordon’ born 24 November 1921. On 21 August 1914, soon after World War I erupted, Katie attended the inaugural meeting of the Federal Territory War Food Fund convened by the Territory Administrator’s wife Jane Miller at the Residency in Acton. The meeting initiated a movement ‘for the purpose of helping our soldiers and sailors who are at the present moment on active service upholding the British Empire in the great war now… and for relieving distress amongst the relations of soldiers and sailors or the poor’ (‘Patriotic Fund’, 1914, p. 2). According to the same report, a representative group of women residents of Canberra and surrounding districts attended the meeting and supported the establishment of a local branch of the War Food Fund which had been established by the Sydney Chamber of Commerce to ‘assist in relieving the great amount of distress which is inseparable from war’. The War Food Fund aimed to help soldiers, and benefit Australian workers on the home front by purchasing food and products made in Australia by Australian workers, thus providing employment opportunities at a difficult time. The Queanbeyan Age reported that the women present enthusiastically approved Jane Miller’s scheme and appointed a committee comprising ‘Mesdames Miller, Broinowski, Piggin, and Brown, of Canberra; Mesdames Macartney and Barnard of the Royal Military College; Mrs. E. G. Crace, of Gininderra, and Mrs. Sheaffe, of Tharwa’ (‘Patriotic Fund’, 1914, p. 2). The detail of Katie’s involvement was not recorded, but it is possible she handed over the reins for Tharwa once she moved to a more central part of the Territory in 1915 and began having children. In 1915 Percy left the border work when he replaced Charles Scrivener as Chief Surveyor and the family moved to the historic Acton house, a former pastoral homestead built in late 1823 and acquired by the Commonwealth on 25 February 1911 for the home of the Chief Surveyor. Later it was used as a police station and court house. It was demolished in 1940 to make way for the new Canberra Community Hospital. Katie was an active member of St John’s Anglican Church, Reid and the Women’s Guild. She played an active part in the Prince of Wales’ visit to the Territory in 1921. In 1927 the Sheaffes built a house at Forrest where they lived until they moved to Stonehaven Street, Deakin in 1961. The Canberra Times reported in Katie’s obituary on 26 June 1962, that she had played an active part in various kinds of auxiliary work during World War II (‘Pioneer Woman’s Death Severs Historic Link’, 1962, p. 7). Katie died in Canberra on 21 June 1962 aged 75 years. Her husband died the following year and both are buried in the cemetery at St John the Baptist Anglican Church, Reid, Australian Capital Territory. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Newspaper Article Patriotic Fund, 1914, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31402795 Pioneer Woman's Death Severs Historic Link, 1962, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130579423 Book Sheaffe family history, Sheaffe, Stephen W., 2008 Resource Section Eulogy - Percy Hale Gordon Sheaffe, 2008, http://dayborograpevine.com.au/?s=sheaffe Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Mrs P. L. Sheaffe, wife of Percy Lempriere Sheaffe, surveyor, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Niki Francis Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Eleanor Cullis-Hill was a pioneer Australian female architect who worked in Sydney after the Second World War. She received her initial architecture training at the University of Sydney during the 1930s. Eleanor Cullis-Hill undertook an architecture course at the University of Sydney during the 1930s, followed by work experience at two Sydney firms. After her children were born and the Second World War was over, Eleanor worked professionally, undertaking some contract work for the New South Wales Housing Commission, before working freelance. Eleanor had full-time work from 1946 until her retirement in 1981. Eleanor designed at least 30 houses and 50 sets of domestic alterations and additions, mostly in her local area of Warrawee. In addition, she designed several kindergartens, various rooms at her church, and a number of buildings at the Gib Gate school in Mittagong, New South Wales. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Eleanor Cullis-Hill, 1938-1980 [manuscript] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Field Officer memoir of service with the Australian Women’s Land Army from its inception. Miss White worked in Victoria largely as a supervisor. She describes the daily routine and the work Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A large collection of political pamphlets, serials and some books; press cuttings and printed material re the Communist Party of Australia, the peace movement, international communist movements; press cuttings on the Australian labour movement in the 1890s and on political and industrial matters, 1946-1956; notes on his interviews with Katharine Susannah Prichard and Senator Don Cameron, 1960; minute book of the North Melbourne Branch of the Political Labor Council, 1913; rough minute book of the Tanners & Curriers Union of Victoria, 1884-1995; file on Coal and Bunkering Pty Ltd; photographs, prints and maps. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 December 2008 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, newscuttings, printed material, passports, lectures, invitations, photographs, and other papers. Also includes papers collected by Lady Helen Blackburn including letters of condolence (1987-1988), memorial service for Richard Casey, 1976, and Sir Richard Blackburn lectures. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc10.023 comprises two display folders containing letters and news clippings (mix of originals and photocopies) relating to Ruth Bergner’s dance career including dance involvement in the Jewish community, dance photographs of Bergner (mostly copy prints rather than originals), and dance recital programs (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letters, 1962-1970, to Mervyn T. Davis and Daphne Pearson; press cuttings concerning landscape designer Edna Walling; and photographs and slides of Edna Walling and garden designs, 1966. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 September 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mrs Batt was a ballet mistress who enlisted as an Army Amenities officer in 1943 in the Northern Territory. She discusses the entertainment provided by the army for the troops: revues, dances. She mentions conditions in Darwin during the war, including the general feeling of the population: tedium, neglect by the rest of the country. The civilian population in Perth felt isolated and had a harder time as regards rationing than did the service personnel. Mrs Batt comments that entertainers were very important to keep up the morale of the troops. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1. Personal papers, 1880-1954. Includes diaries and notebooks, 1909-1954; correspondence, 1887-1954; miscellaneous personal papers, 1887-1954, including Reichs 1000 bank note and stamps removed from scrapbook at MLMSS 364/51A and transferred to SAFE/MLMSS 364/51A/p. 41??2. Literary papers, 1887-1954. Includes manuscripts of novels, short stories, essays, articles, plays, verse, literary criticism, biography and talks, 1887-1954; publishing papers, 1899-1954; correspondence concerning talks, 1935-1953; also includes literary papers of Mary Fullerton, 1930-1950??3. Papers concerning her service with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service, 1917-1919, 1941??4. Financial and legal papers, 1909-1954??5. Family papers, 1841-1950. Includes papers of various members of the Franklin and Lampe families??6. Incidental papers, 1903-1954. Includes papers received from the estates of Alice Henry, 1903-1946, and Mary Fullerton, 1923-1946??7. Papers collected, literary and miscellaneous, 1898-1953??8. Miscellanea, 1886-1950??9. Map filed at M Ser 4000/1??10. Pictorial material; description filed at Pic.Acc.1132 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 December 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Box 9031: The material comprises of lists of the names and addresses of the members who held official positions in the organisation in 1977. Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 June 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "4 sound files (approximately 4 hr. 30 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 1 February 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Tess Alfonsi was the first woman miner in Broken Hill, New South Wales. Teresa Bazzica was born in the small village of Oneta, Italy, and migrated to Australia in 1915 at the age of 8. Her father had migrated three years earlier and worked as a fitter and turner in Western Australia. From 1921 Tess was living in South Australia, using her knowledge of 23 Italian dialects to work as an interpreter, but she subsequently moved to Broken Hill. There she found work at a bar and met German mine-worker Louis Kumm. The pair were married in 1927. With Lou, Tess camped out beyond Broken Hill and began mining for mica using a hammer-tap drill. Living off rabbits and kangaroo-tail soup, they slept in a humpy made from potato sacks sewn together. After weeks of toil they had packed five tons of mica into bags ready to sell, but the entire haul was stolen as it awaited collection in a mule cart by the road. Almost defeated, the Kumms began mining again – this time for feldspar and, once they realised its value, for beryl. They founded the Triple Chance Mine and were rewarded with success. A stone cottage replaced the humpy. Often left to guard the mine alone, Tess used her .303 rifle to fend off snakes and claim-jumpers alike, and she survived several explosions and mine accidents. Lou Kumm was a hard worker but a heavy drinker and in 1954, he and Tess were divorced. Ten years later Tess married her foreman, Dominic Alfonsi (also spelt Alfonzi or Alfonso in contemporary reports). She continued her work, opening a total of 23 mines in New South Wales with several more in South Australia and, at one time, supplying 90% of the nation’s feldspar requirements. In 1975, N. Saddington of the Australian Lapidary Magazine profiled Tess Alfonsi and ‘couldn’t resist asking her what she thought of women’s liberation. The answer was a gentle snort. She has done a so-called man’s job for nearly 50 years and her reply was, “Anyone can do anything they want to; there is no such word as can’t. A woman may not be able to do some things as well as some men, but she should still go ahead and do it”.’ The following year, a correspondent for Woman’s Day was reporting with disbelief that ‘she’s only 1.5 metres tall and weighs little more than 59 kilos. Yet Tess Alfonzi is tougher than a buffalo and hardier than the salt bush that grows by her home’. By then nearly 70 years old, Tess was still wielding ‘a hefty pick and a geologist’s hammer’ to crush and sort various grades of ore, and driving a front-end loader. She was, wrote Woman’s Day, the only woman in Australia to operate her own mine. Tess and Dominic Alfonsi retired to White Cliffs, New South Wales. Catholic by faith, Tess was community-minded and did a great deal of work for the New South Wales Spastic Council. In 1980 she was awarded the Order of Australia. From 1987, she was honoured by the presentation of an award in her name to an outstanding female student undertaking mine-related studies at the Broken Hill TAFE College. Published resources Magazine article Tess of Broken Hill: Lady with a Pickaxe, Allison, Col, 1976 Profile on Mrs Tessie Alfranso [sic], Saddington, N., 1975 At 66, she's still a hard, rock miner, Perry, John, 1973 Newspaper Article Don't Tangle with Tess, 1981 Alfonsi collection on display soon at Sulphide Street Station Rail Museum, 1977 Alfonso-Kumm [sic] - Quiet Wedding, 1964 The Hill's 'Annie' gets her gun, Lapsley, John, 1977 Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Theresa Alfonzi interviewed by Murray Walker [sound recording] Broken Hill Social History Project [sound recording] Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Alfonsi/Alfonzi, Tess Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 January 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "These cards were created to record the reimbursement of employment benefits paid to members of the Australian Women’s Land Army. Payments listed include good conduct, sick leave, annual leave, sustenance keep and medical expenses. Other details given are, names of claimant, card number, date of card entry, voucher number, date of supply from and to and the nature of the service and amount received. Records from this series created within the alphabetical range of ‘A’ up to ‘Drysdale’ are not in the custody of the Australian Archives. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 February 2003 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "3 sound files Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 June 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Miles Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, including financial and membership records, hymn and constitution/law booklets. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Maura Fay’s name is associated with a variety of film, television and theatre projects including: Brides of Christ, The Paper Man, The Thorn Birds, Cold Feet, The Last Bullett, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Farscape and On the Beach. Born: 12 March 1958 Died: 29 October 2001 Raised in Wynyard, Tasmania, she achieved a number of scholastic distinctions at Wynyard High School and was head prefect. Returning to Australia, after travelling with her mother in Ireland where she managed a pub in County Cork, she commenced working on the television production Prisoner for Grundy Organisation. Seven years later she joined PBL Productions as head of production, and worked at different times for both Seven and Nine networks. Fay founded Maura Fay Casting in 1987, and at the time of her death had offices in Sydney, Melbourne, the Gold Coast, Auckland, Singapore and Los Angeles. She served on the boards of the Australian Theatre for Young People and the Sydney Film Festival and often attended amateur, student and community theatre productions. Edited from an Obituary by Michael Idato Published resources Journal Article Maura Fay, Idato, Michael, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2001 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "With 1 programme and 1 poster by Paradise Productions and 2 reviews of the play. On t.p.: “A play for one actor in three movements set in Melbourne and Darwin in the late 1980s.” Author Details Elle Morrell Created 15 February 2001 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection spans 1920-1989 and includes more than 3000 items, most in print format, including nearly 1000 letters, 900 newspaper clippings and 27 scrapbooks that were collated by Joyce herself between 1936 and 1952.??In addition, there are 13 diaries (from 1947-1960), more than 700 concert programs, five autobiographical essays, almost 100 photographs, her own sets of recordings – all 78s (100 records) – and her private collection of published music (more than 750 pieces) including some of the works that contributed to her global reputation.??In total, the boxed collection occupies 10 metres of shelf space and also includes some personal objects that once belonged to Joyce. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 June 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Workers Educational Association of Queensland, comprising: minutes of the Central Council Executive 1917-32; minutes of the Ipswich Branch 1913-18; correspondence and notes relating to the University of Queensland tutorial classes for workers and minutes of the Committee of management for tutorial classes. Also includes some records of annual conferences, educational conferences and the Workers’ Educational Association Club. Marion Piddington’s lectures on sex education are included. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 December 2008 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Karin MacDonald was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory, representing the electorate of Brindabella, in 2001 and was re-elected in 2004, retiring in 2008. After studying to become a primary school teacher and working with handicapped children for six years, MacDonald worked in a variety of clerical positions. She worked with the NSW Professional Officers’ Association as a recruitment organiser before joining the Australian Services Union as the Canberra organiser for the Clerical and Administrative Branch. Before entering parliament she was executive director of the Business Training Advisory Board. Published resources Resource Section Karin MacDonald, http://www.act.alp.org.au/people/brindabellad.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2001 Last modified 12 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "University memorabilia- photographs of university grounds; Engineering School; cloisters; students; University reception; commencement; war memorial service negatives 3 1/4 x 5 1/2? monochrome. 1915-1919, 1934-1954.??Please note that nitrate negatives from this collection have been digitised and frozen only the digital copy is accessible. To see the images, please search for McKellar in the digitised items catalogue here: http://archives.unimelb.edu.au/ Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 October 2016 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 minute??A tribute to Barbara Hanrahan by Susan Mitchell broadcast on Radio 5AN on the day of her funeral. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection consists of records of the Queensland Women’s Electoral League including correspondence, minutes, photographs, accounts.??Arranged into 18 series Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Emily O’Shannessy was a professional portrait photographer during the mid to late nineteenth century in Melbourne. In 1864 she went into partnership with Henry Johnstone, regarded as Melbourne’s best photographer of the time. The Johnstone and O’Shannessy Studio emphasised realism rather than artistic manipulation. Their commissions ranged from inexpensive ‘cartes-de-visite’ portraits to large-scale photographs, including one of Australia’s first Prime Minister, Edmund Barton. The studio specialised in coloured, plain, and mezzotint portraits. O’Shannessey’s ‘Cartes-de-visite’ photographs took the form of albumen prints mounted on cards. Miss Emily O’Shannessy worked as a professional portrait photographer in the mid to late nineteenth century. She initially operated her own studio, but then went into partnership with the photographer Henry Johnstone and together they established the very successful Johnstone and O’Shannessy Studio, which photographed prominent figures of Melbourne. Little is known about O’Shannessey’s life prior to her involvement in photography, other than the fact that she was born in Ballinasloe, Ireland in the late 1840s. In 1862 she opened a studio at 18-20 Madeleine Street Carlton, Melbourne, then in 1864 went into partnership with Johnstone, whom Jack Cato refers to as ‘Melbourne’s best photographer’ (Cato 105). They took over the Duryea and Macdonald Studio, which was situated next to the post office. With Johnstone being an Anglican and O’Shannessy a Catholic, together they were able to attract clientele from both denominations. The Johnstone and O’Shannessy Studio was known for its high standard of portraiture, with its emphasis on realism rather than artistic effects. Their commissions ranged from inexpensive ‘cartes-de-visite’ portraits, which were pasted onto small cards, to large-scale photographs – the photograph of Australia’s first Prime Minister Edmund Barton being one such example. The studio specialised in coloured, plain and ‘mezzotint’ photographic portraits, some of which were displayed at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, their excellence winning the studio a medal. In 1869 they exhibited a large photograph of the Duke of Edinburgh, which was coloured with watercolours, at the 1869 Melbourne Public Library Exhibition. It was enlarged, printed and hand-coloured by O’Shannessy. In the period 1870-1880 the Johnstone and O’Shannessy Studio was considered the best in Australia (Cato), as indicated by the fact that it was selected to participate in the London International Exhibition 1872-73 at the Exhibition Building in Melbourne. O’Shannessy and Johnstone established themselves as the prominent society photographers of their time, becoming the official photographers to H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, K.C. and to His Excellency the Governor. Despite the firm’s new name and O’Shannessy’s equal partnership in the business, she was almost always listed as working for Johnstone. Moreover, her surname was consistently misspelt in exhibition catalogues, reviews and other contemporary records. Only in 1868-69 was the Johnstone-O’Shannessy partnership listed as ‘Mrs E.F.K. O’Shannessy,’ of Fitzroy. This downplaying of her role continued into the twentieth century; even the historians gave her little mention. Cato, for example, writes about the work of Henry Johnstone, but he makes little mention of Miss O’Shannessy in The Story of the Camera in Australia. Emily O’Shannessy married the photographer George Henry Massey Hasler in 1871 and soon after left the studio. The couple had two daughters: Ethel Maud and Muriel. Her husband George took over the studio operations so Emily could look after the children. In 1885 the studio, which she had started moved to larger, architecturally designed studios in Collins Street, was considered the most luxuriously appointed studio in Melbourne (Lewis). Technical O’Shannessey’s ‘Cartes-de-visite’ photographs took the form of albumen prints mounted on cards. Collections Johnstone, O’Shannessy and Co. – Carte de visite photographs. Royal Society of Tasmania, University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection National Library of Australia State Library of Victoria University of Melbourne Archives Events 1970 - 1970 1970 - 1970 Emily O’Shannessy’s work featured in The London International Exhibition 1872-73 1995 - 1995 Emily O’Shannessy’s work featured in Beyond the Picket Fence Published resources Resource Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women's Art in the National Library's Collection, Carr, Sylvia and National Library of Australia, 1995, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/36337/20030703-0000/www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fence/picket.html Book The Story of the Camera in Australia, Cato, Jack, 1979 The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900., Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter, 1986 Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Journal Article 'The Most Luxuriously Furnished Salon in Melbourne': Johnstone O'Shannessy's 1885 Studio, Lewis, Mary Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 25 October 2016 Last modified 2 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Manuscripts and typescripts of poems; sheet music; scrapbook; correspondence; miscellaneous printed items received by Mary Gilmore; photographs; press cuttings; diaries. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 May 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1880; Certificate of Marriage, 8 June 1880, between Bowyer E. Shaw and Mary Anne Scott?1889; ‘The Heroine of the Hurricane’, being Ms. poem with corrections, signed S.A. Scott (Sarah Anne known as Saranna), and dated June 1889?1893; Letter received by Mary Anne Shaw (nee Scott) from J. Shaw mainly concerning family matters?Date unknown; ‘The Laughing Jackass’, being Ms. notes on the Kookaburra, possibly written by Helena or Harriet Scott, cousins of Mary Anne Shaw??Papers were accompanied by pictorial material now located at PXA 543. The papers and pictorial material were originally included in a folio of drawings by Harriet and Helena Scott, which had been in the possession of their cousin Mary Anne Shaw, nee Scott. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 March 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Norma Parker taught social work at both Sydney University and the University of New South Wales. She was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from Sydney University, and was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 3 June 1972, for education and child welfare. The Norma Parker Correctional Centre for Women at Paramatta, New South Wales, is named after her. Norma Brown (née Parker) was born in Perth to Ernest Parker, an accountant, and his wife, Annie. She attended the Sacred Heart High School and in 1927 completed a BA at the University of Western Australia. She became interested in social work training through Dr Ethel Stoneman, head of the university’s course in psychology, who wanted social workers for her child guidance clinic, so she went, on a scholarship, to the Catholic University of America in Washington, where she specialised in psychiatric social work for her MA and Diploma of Social Service. She returned to Australia in 1931 when her father died, after working briefly as a social worker in Cleveland and Los Angeles. In 1932, after three months of supervised practical work at the Melbourne Hospital, she became an almoner (a hospital worker who looks after the social and material needs of the patient). She was immediately appointed by St Vincent’s Hospital at Fitzroy to establish an almoner department, only the third in Melbourne and in Australia. For the next four years she developed her new department, helping to extend medical social work through a professional association, serving on the executive of the Victorian Council for Social Training, and inducing Archbishop Daniel Mannix to establish the Catholic Social Service Bureau. In 1936 she moved to Sydney, again to found an almoner department at St Vincent’s Hospital in Darlinghurst. Sydney was to be her home until she returned to Melbourne to be closer to her family towards the end of her life. In Sydney in the late 1930s, she was involved in the nascent almoners’ and social workers’ associations, becoming president of the latter from 1940-43. Representing the association on the NSW Council of Social Service, she initiated its publication Social Service. In the early 1940s she again worked to set up a Catholic Welfare Bureau. Sydney University took on the responsibility for general training of social workers in 1940. Until 1945 it was under the direction of Canadian-born , Elizabeth Govan. Brown was her assistant from 1941 to 1943, supervising students’ field work and teaching social case work. Together, as members of the Delinquency Committee of the Child Welfare Advisory Council, they played a leading part in achieving a new minister, new departmental head and strong reform agenda for the NSW Child Welfare Department. (She lived in the Girls’ Industrial School at Parramatta in January 1943, collecting evidence.) In May 1943 she opened the first social work department in an Australian mental hospital at Callan Park, while continuing as a part-time lecturer at Sydney University. From mid-1944, a Commonwealth Fund of New York fellowship enabled her to study psychiatric social work for six months at the University of Chicago. She spent a further six months visiting other centres. From 1945 to 1946 she was acting director of Sydney University’s department of social studies, taking part in national discussions with the Department of Post-War Reconstruction. From 1946 to 1954 she was senior lecturer in social case work. In 1946, partly to encourage the Australian Government to consult professional social workers about a projected international social welfare body to assist the United Nations, Brown argued for a national association of social workers and chaired the three interstate discussions which preceded its formation in 1946. She served, until 1954, as the first president of the Australian Association of Social Workers and continued as vice-president for another four years. From 1949 to the end of 1954, she was again acting director of the Sydney University social work course. In 1955, the department of social studies became the department of social work, with social scientist Morven Brown as the new director and Norma Parker as the department’s supervisor of professional training. When, in 1958, Morven Brown moved to the University of NSW as Australia’s first professor of sociology, Brown again served as acting director until the appointment of Tom Brennan, another social scientist. Despite the obvious difficulties of having a professional school headed by someone not professionally qualified, Brown made the arrangement work and established excellent personal and professional relationships with both Morven Brown and Brennan. In 1956 she convened and chaired a committee to establish the NSW Association for Mental Health and, during the 1950s and early 1960s, her initiatives and support contributed greatly to the founding and early development of the peak welfare body, the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS). In 1966, at the invitation of the UNSW, Brown took up a three-year appointment as associate professor and head of the department of social work in the school of sociology. On her retirement, this department became an independent school, headed by Australia’s first professor of social work, John Lawrence. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by Sydney University in 1986. In 1957, she had married “‘Mont” Brown, an 8th Division former serviceman who had been a prisoner of war on the notorious Burma Railway. He died in 1964. Published resources Edited Book Focus on migrants : a social work perspective, Parker, Norma, 1973 Journal Article Professor Norma Parker CBE, Mills, Millie, 1986 Early Social Work in Retrospect, Parker, N., 1979 Book Norma Parker's Record of Service, Lawrence, R.J., 1969 Newspaper Article Norma Alice Brown, CBE, Social worker, 1906-2004, Lawrence, John and Baldwin, Gay Resource Section Social Worker Profiles, 2004, http://www.aasw.asn.au/profile.htm Norma Parker Brown 1907–2004, Gleeson, D J, 2004, http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/04/may/23/25.html Thesis The Professionalisation of Australian Catholic Social Welfare, 1920-1985, Gleeson, Damian John, 2006, http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:1178/SOURCE1?view=true Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Norma Parker, social worker, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Clare Land and Nikki Henningham Created 18 November 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Vannessa Hearman stood as a candidate for the Brunswick Socialist Alliance in the Legislative Assembly seat of Brunswick at the Victorian state election, which was held on 25 November 2006. Vannessa Hearman migrated to Australia from Indonesia in the 1980s and has lived in Coburg since the 1990s. She has been politically active since that time. She spent two years in East Timor as an Aid worker from 2000-02 and is a spokesperson for the Timor Sea Justice Campaign in Melbourne. She is a candidate for the Socialist Alliance in the South Ward at the Moreland City Council elections in 2008. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 13 August 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Irregular prior to Dec. 1972; from 1973 ten issues per year.??Items/Issues Held:?(Aug. 1971-Nov. 1977; Feb. 1978-Sept. 1986) Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Fanny Reading, medical practitioner and activist for Zionist and Jewish women’s causes, was born near Minsk in Russia in 1884. After her family migrated to Australia, Reading taught Hebrew to private students before entering the University of Melbourne to study music and later medicine. Graduating in 1922, she moved to Sydney to join her brother’s medical practice. In 1923, inspired by the visit of Zionist emissary Bella Pevsner, she founded the Council of Jewish Women – a Zionist organisation which was also active on a range of women’s issues, both Jewish and non-Jewish. In 1925 she travelled to the United States, Europe and Palestine, and helped organise a conference for the International Council of Jewish Women. In 1929 she organised a conference in Sydney at which the National Council of Jewish Women was formed. Reading’s father fled Russia for Ballarat soon after her birth. Fanny and her mother spent some time in London before they were able to join him, and the family relocated to Melbourne in the early 1900s. During WWI, due to hostility towards the Germans, they changed their name from Rubinovich to Reading. Reading was active in many other organisations, including the National Council of Women and the Socialist Club, of which she was vice president in 1929. She was also vice president of the Youth Aliyah (which assisted Jewish orphans in Israel) and in 1948 she (unsuccessfully) represented this group in a libel suit against Smith’s Weekly which had alleged that they raised money to buy weapons to fight the British in Palestine. Through both the National Council of Jewish Women and the Australian Jewish Welfare Society she was also active in immigration reception work in the 1930s, particularly assisting Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Events 2010 - 2010 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1911 - 1911 Jewish Young People’s Association 1923 - 1923 National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (NCJWA) Published resources Newspaper Article Service to Women: Dr Fanny's lifestyle, Cohen, Lysbeth, 1981 Journal Article Not merely housewives. Australian Jewish Women. Paper presented to Australian Jewish Historical Society. Meeting (1980: Sydney)-, Cohen, Lysbeth, 1981 The law of loving kindness: a tribute to Dr Fanny Reading, founder of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia in 1923, Andgel, Anne, 1998 Perspectives from the Australian Jewish community, Rutland, Suzanne, 2002 Dr Fanny Reading v Smith's Weekly, Ochert, Morris S., 1996 Book Section The changing role of women in Australian Jewry's communal structure, Rutland, Suzanne D., 1987 Dr Fanny Reading, Cohen, Lysbeth, 1988 Beginning with Esther: Some distinguished Jewish women of New South Wales, Cohen, Lysbeth, 1980 Book Making a Difference: A History of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, Newton, Marlo Leigh, 2000 Meeting new migrants on the wharves: A significant part of National Council of Jewish Women history from the 1920s to the 1950s, 2003 Report Official report of the Second Jewish Women's Conference of Australasia : under the auspices of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, held at Sydney, N.S.W., March 8th to 16th, 1932., 1932 Conference Proceedings First Jewish Women's Conference, May 21st to 27th, 1929, 1929 Resource Section Reading, Fanny (1884-1974), Rubinstein, Hilary, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110357b.htm Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Queenie Symonds interviewed by Brenda Factor in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording] State Library of New South Wales Dr Fanny Reading papers, photographs and realia, ca. 1890-1974 Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 September 2004 Last modified 15 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Born at Bonnie Vale via Coolgardie. Her guiding experiences, marriage and later life. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "In 1946 Jessie Hope Black became the first woman to be appointed a curator at the National Museum of Victoria. Hope’s career began in 1937 when she was appointed a museum assistant at the National Museum of Victoria. In 1946 she was promoted to Curator of Mulloscs after completing a science degree part-time at the University of Melbourne. Hope was the first woman to be appointed a curatorial position at the Museum. During her curatorship, Hope was part of the Museum’s team which surveyed the Snowy River Gorge in 1947 and Port Phillip Bay from 1957-1963. She was also a member of the first group of women to travel to Antarctica as part of an Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) to Macquarie Island in 1959, and again in 1960. In 1965 Hope was forced to resign from her position as curator as a result of the prohibition on employment of married women in the Victorian public service. Hope trained as a science teacher and spent thirteen years teaching in Victorian high schools. Hope co-authored the text Marine Mulloscs of Victoria with C. J. Gabriel in 1962 and was also a consulting malacologist to the National Science Foundation of the Philadelphia academy of Natural Sciences. She was also a distinguished member of the Malacological Society of Australasia. In addition to her paid employment, Hope is also renowned for her involvement with the blind and disabled. Hope planned and supervised a biology course for blind children at the Museum and was subsequently made a Life Governor of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind. She also established a volunteer program at the museum, a program which is still utilised extensively at the museum today. Hope was also an active advocate for services for the disabled, particularly in terms of independent housing. Hope passed away in January 2018 at the age of 98. Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 28581 Typed Reference Letters for Donald Vernon 1945; 1987 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A collection of 25 scrapbooks containing letters, invitations, photographs, newspaper cuttings and other papers documenting Lady Braddon’s social activities, public campaigns, political interests and?travels. There are also loose letters, travel diaries, publications and cuttings. The correspondence is?mostly with public figures including Sir Robert Menzies, Malcolm Fraser, Sir James Killen, John Carrick, Andrew Peacock, Ian Sinclair, Tony Eggleton, Eric Willis, James McClelland, Lord Mountbatten, Edward Heath and Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. One scrapbook contains a letter and manuscript of Ethel Turner. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 October 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "These are files collected by ASIO. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 17 September 2009 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Susanna Mary de Vries was born in England and studied visual arts and history at the Sorbonne in Paris and Madrid. She was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study Renaissance art in Florence and worked as an art historian and arts journalist in London and Spain. Susanna emigrated to Australia in 1975. Here she developed a keen interest in Australian art and history and worked as a consultant editor for Australian collector’s quarterly and as a freelance journalist. Susanna was also head of Rare Books and Antiquarian Prints, James R. Lawson Fine Art Auctioneers, from 1979 to 1982. Susanna has contributed to many publications, including The Journal of Art (USA) and The Antique Collector (UK), and has published fifteen books. In 1996 Susanna was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to art as an author and lecturer in Australian and European art history and history. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Susanna de Vries, 1997-2000 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on de Vries-Evans, Susanna, art historian, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] [Biographical cuttings on Susanna De Vries-Evans, writer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 5557 Susanna De Vries Typescripts 1998-2004 Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Susanna De Vries Papers Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Three single page letters from Judith Wright. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 September 2001 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This mask was presented in celebration of the 21st year of the Women’s College. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 24 September 2009 Last modified 24 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents of the collection include: correspondence and memorabilia (1909-1932); papers relating to the family of Kathleen Windeyer Gale (1831-1934); student notes from the University of Sydney and Cambridge (1910-1926); printed material (1882-1966); and Audley School papers and related printed material (1929 to 1946). Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 24 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contains biographies of 500 Australian women; an historical timeline covering 120 years; curriculum worksheets for teachers. Author Details Clare Land Created 20 September 2001 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "These are files collected by ASIO. A digitised version is available online. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 17 September 2009 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence from Thomas Edison, Nellie Melba, Ethel Turner, Edgeworth David, the actor Henry Brodribb Irving and other outstanding personalities to Sir William and Lady (Lily) Cullen. Writings and drafts of speeches on political and social issues by William Cullen including notes on “Kiama Jamberoo Valley 1890” which give a detailed description of the Illawarra and surrounding region. One cutting book of letters and obituaries concerning the deaths of Lady Cullen (1931) and Sir William (1935); order of service for funeral of Dean William Macquarie Cowper 1902, and William Cullen 1935; Correspondence from Sir Edmund Barton, Sir George Reid, Sir Samuel Griffith, Sir Philip Game, Sir Mungo McCallum, Lord and Lady Baden Powell. Many of these are congratulatory letters on Sir William’s judicial appointment in 1910. A hand written essay by Sir William entitled “Walks in Wales”. Other correspondence relates to the Boy Scouts Association (Sir William was President) and Sir William’s appointment to the post of lecturer in law, University of Adelaide 1887. All names in description. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 October 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Nancy Burbidge worked at the CSIRO between 1946-1973, rising from systematic botanist to Curator of the Herbarium. From 1973 to 1977 she was scientific leader of the Flora of Australia project. Burbidge published several books on Australian plants. Nancy Burbidge emigrated to Australia with her parents in 1913, and was educated at Katanning (Kobeelya) Church of England Girls’ School (founded by her mother Nancy Eleanor in 1922), Bunbury High School and the University of Western Australia. She obtained her Bachelor of Science (BSc) in 1937, Master of Science (MSc) in 1975, and Doctor of Science (DSc) in 1961. Upon graduating in 1937, Burbidge was awarded the prize of a free passage to England by a group of shipping companies. She spent eighteen months there at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. In 1943 Burbidge was appointed assistant agronomist at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute in Adelaide, where she started working on the regeneration of native pastures in the arid and semi-arid regions of South Australia. Burbidge was appointed to the new position of systematic botanist in the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, in 1946. Before taking a year’s secondment in 1953 to be Australian botanical liaison officer back at the Kew herbarium, London, Burbidge was editing the Australasian Herbarium News and was secretary of the systematic botany committee of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (1948-1952). Burbidge published several books on Australian plants and illustrated many with her own drawings. In 1960 she was a founding member of the National Parks Association of the ACT (going on to be twice president, secretary, and a committee member for eleven years), and was prominent in lobbying for the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and Namadgi National Park. She was also a member of the Australian Federation of University Women (president of the Canberra association 1959-1961), and the Pan-Pacific and South East Asia Women’s Association (president 1957-1958 and international secretary 1961-1968). Burbidge was awarded the 1971 Clarke medal for her achievements in taxonomic botany and ecology by the Royal Society of New South Wales. She is commemorated by an altar-frontal showing banksias and honey-eaters in St Michael’s Anglican Church, Mount Pleasant, Perth, and by the Nancy T. Burbidge Memorial, an amphitheatre in the National Botanic Gardens, Canberra. Published resources Resource Section Burbidge, Nancy Tyson (1912 - 1977), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P002283b.htm Nancy Tyson Burbidge, Australian National Botanic Gardens, http://www.anbg.gov.au/people/burbidge.nancy.html Burbidge, Nancy Tyson (1912-1977), Chippendale, George M., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130336b.htm Journal Article The phytogeography of Australia, Burbidge, N., 1960 Book Section Nancy Burbidge - biographical details, Stewart, Noel, 1987 Book Australian Grasses, Burbidge, Nancy T., 1966-1970 Dictionary of Australian Plant Genera: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, Burbidge, Nancy T., [1963] Flora of the Australian Capital Territory, Burbidge, Nancy T. and Gray, Max, 1970 The Wattles of the Australian Capital Territory, Burbidge, Nancy T., [1961] History of systematic botany in Australasia, Short, P. S. (ed.) Report Select list of publications in systematic botany available in Australia, Burbidge, Nancy T (comp.), 1951 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 December 2001 Last modified 18 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes, 1908-1912; minute books, 1912-1947; Finance Committee minute book; Education Committee minute book, 1937-1946; newspaper cuttings book 1912-1940; annual reports; Carlton Free Kindergarten reports, minutes; Collingwood Mission Free Kindergarten material; Collingwood Crèche Free Kindergarten minutes; Directors Association books; Kindergarten Training College House Committee minute books. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 March 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Dorothy Davidson is known for modernist style photographs which captured life on board cruising ships. There is not a great deal of biographical information about Dorothy Davidson, nor is there information currently available of when she developed an interest in photography. She may have been the daughter of Mr and Mrs W.S. Davidson of Wallsend, NSW. She may also have married Frank Farrow, a Corporal with the AIF in 1943. Neither of these possibilities has been confirmed. What is known, however, is that she produced two albums of photographs depicting life on board cruising ships in the interwar period. It has been suggested that she was friendly with the captains of some of the cruise ships travelling around the Australian coast during the period 1930-1940s (Hall 79). Such connections enabled Davidson’s travel on these ships, and her photographs record life on board, depicting the crew and passengers in their day to day activities as well as the ships’ architecture, and the surrounding ocean. Davidson’s photographs are modernist in style and have a contemporary quality to them (Hall 79). She experimented with different angles to frame her work – see, for instance, the images taken from a diagonal angle. In other photographs a vantage point from above was taken. Davidson also used the shadows against waves to define the presence of the ship against the sea. Collections Dorothy Davidson Collection, Museum of Victoria Events 1981 - 1981 Dorothy Davidson’s work featured in the Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950exhibition 1930 - 1940 Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Newspaper Article The Area Officer of the Women's Australian National Service( WANS) in Wagga Wagga was Miss Dorothy Davidson of the Gurwood Street School, Tributes, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/153319/20150827-0959/tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/services/rssdb76.ashx Weddings, 1943, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article167620245 Resource Section Women's Australian National Service (WANS) in Wagga Wagga, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/144069/20140128-0847/archivesoutside.records.nsw.gov.au/womens-australian-national-service-wans-in-wagga-wagga/index.html Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 10 November 2016 Last modified 10 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "About the first Kendenup Guides and first Kendenup Brownie pack. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Society of Women Writers (Australia), was formed in 1980 with the five existing state Societies (in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania) becoming branches of this new national organisation. The Society’s main aim was to draw together women writers (including poets, journalists, playwrights, fiction and non-fiction writers) to support each other in their writing endeavours. It is also aimed to maintain the status of the writing profession, promote a knowledge of literature, and strengthen ties between Australian and visiting writers. Australia’s first Society of Women Writers had been founded in New South Wales in 1925. During the 1960’s and 1970’s branches were established in all Australian states. The new national body was intended to coordinate activities across the country. It organised numerous seminars, conferences and writing competitions. In 2000 the Society was disbanded, and its branches reformed as independent, incorporated societies (the New South Wales branch having already done this in 1987). During its existence, each state for two years in turn had the responsibility of managing federal business. By 1999, it became clear that volunteers were no longer available to carry out this considerable task. It was agreed that the federal body be wound up, and that each branch would become an independent incorporated association, with similar aims and rules. An enormous number of books have been published under the auspices of the Society and its state bodies. Only a few of these have been listed in this database. Published resources Newsletter Woman Writer/Society of Women Writers (Aust.), 1975-200 Report Annual report / the Society of Women Writers (Australia), 1925- Federal president's report / Society of Women Writers, 1974- Conference Proceedings Minutes of the ... biennial conference of the Society of Women Writers (Australia), 1978-1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Society of Women Writers (Australia), 1925-1998, (bulk 1970-1998) [manuscript] Papers of Joy Lindum Gillan, 1977-1990 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Joy Lindrum Gillan - papers, 1976-1992 Joy Lindrum Gillan - sound recordings, 1984 Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 September 2004 Last modified 16 November 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Scribblers, a writing group for women, was formed in Brisbane in 1911. The papers comprise magazines, minutes, syllabi, members and office bearers lists, correspondence, and papers delivered by members from pre 1920 to 2013.??Arranged into 7 series. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "An active member of the Australian Democrats, Rachael Jacobs was a candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Epping in 1999 and for the Australian Capital Territory Senate in 2004. Rachael Jacobs was born and bred in the Eastwood area and was educated at local public schools. She was trained as a teacher and taught at many schools in the area, including Cheltenham Girls’ High School and James Ruse Agricultural High School. She described herself as a passionate environmentalist. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "30 minutes??Barbara Hanrahan speaks about formative experiences as an artist and writer; living in London; the process of writing; her attitude to death; identification with the Victorian era; research; her work-in-progress on The peach groves; and future plans. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection of papers has been arranged into the following series: I. Correspondence, 1905-1961, business and personal. Major correspondents include Larry Chaplin, Joan Hendry, Enid Morton (Acting Secretary Mary Gilmore Awards), Hilda Brotherton (President Brisbane Writers Guild), Marjorie Hancock (Deputy Librarian Mitchell Library, Sydney), Dame Sybil Thorndike and Walter J. Hucker (Director Air Programs Australia). II. Dame Mary Gilmore’s writings. This includes manuscripts and draft typescript of addresses, articles, letters to editors, poetry and other writings. III. Newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, printed material, publications and miscellaneous papers, 1902-1962. Included is a copy of a guide to the Mitchell Library’s holding of Gilmore papers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 May 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mavis Walley was a Ballardong Noongar Indigenous woman who lived in the southern parts of Western Australia. An amateur photographer, Walley documented the lives of the Aboriginal people with whom she lived on a reserve in Goomalling, taking thousands of photographs between the 1950s to 1970s. These images offer a significant and rare perspective within the historical archive – a view of Aboriginal life from an Aboriginal person that is neither anthropological nor ethnographic in style. Walley used a Box Brownie camera. Mavis Walley was a Ballardong Noongar Indigenous woman who lived in the southern parts of Western Australia. She photographed the lives of the Aboriginal people who lived with her on the reserve in Goomalling. She was born on 26 May 1921. Her father was Martin Walley, a labourer, and her mother was Julia Reece. Mavis’ grandfather on her mother’s side was a white American named Edward Reece. He married an Aboriginal woman named Nancy Bangalan, who was from Esperance. Mavis’s grandfather on her father’s side was John Walley, who married an Aboriginal woman named Tundap, and both of them came from Bunbury. .However, Martin’s mother’s father was the son of a European man and an Aboriginal woman named Watbanga who had been living with her family at the Benedictine Mission in New Norcia (Biographical Dictionary, Carnamah Historical Society and Museum). In 1945, Mavis married Hubert Earnest Phillips, and the couple went on to have 11 children. They lived and worked on the Smith family farm, where her husband worked as a slaughterman and Mavis helped out and raised their children until, like the rest of their community, they were moved to the Aboriginal reserve in Goomalling. It is unclear as to when or how Mavis received a Box Brownie camera, and it is speculated that she may have been taking photographs as early as the 1930s. What is definitely known, however, is that despite not being able to read or write, she became an enthusiastic amateur photographer who took thousands of photographs of the people of the Goomalling community, where she lived in the 1950s to the 1970s. At that time it was practically unheard of for an Aboriginal person to own a camera. Her daughter, Dallas Phillips, said that Mavis took more than one thousand photographs during this period, of which 325 negatives have survived. These are now part of the Mavis Walley Collection, held at the State Library of Western Australia. All 325 images have been digitised. Her daughter has described her mother as ‘walk[ing] around with her old camera and tak[ing] pictures. She didn’t look through the eye piece, she just clicked away’ (Laurie). Mavis Walley’s photographs are documentary in style. They are carefully and deliberately posed but they do not appear ‘staged’ or in any sense idealised. Rather, they capture her people as they really were in their daily lives. Subjects include ‘women on wildflower-picking outings, beaming children in their Sunday best after their first Holy Communion, men chopping wood, a girl dreamily leaning on a car bonnet and healthy toddlers sitting in the scrub’ (Laurie). Mavis may not have received any instruction in the use of the camera, nor the dark room, but she appears to have had a natural flair for composition, and her images tell stories of immense human interest, with many bespeaking a wicked sense of humour. This is in contrast to those taken by the European photographers of the time, many of whom were missionaries or teachers. Damien Webb, the Indigenous liaison officer with the State Library of Western Australia, has noted that their photographs were ethnographic and anthropological in style and were ‘agenda-laden,’ depicting Aboriginal people in one of two ways: ‘as traditional spirits or savages, or as people in missions, dressed to the nines and doing writing exercises’ (Laurie). For the curators of the museum the most remarkable thing about the collection of Walley’s photographs is that ‘it offers a perspective rare in our historical archives: a view of Aboriginal life through the eyes of indigenous people’ (The Australian). For the CAN community, the prime significance of the collection is that it has enabled many to ‘reconnect with relatives’ and to affirm the strength and resilience of their people. The photographs show precisely how much joy and fun existed in the community even when they were living at the reserve (The Australian). For Mavis, life did not end on the reserve. In the mid-1970s it was closed and the Aboriginal community was moved on, this time to state houses with running water. And some were even able to claim pensions. Mavis Walley died in 1982, aged sixty-one. Collections Mavis Walley (Phillips) Collection, State Library of Western Australia Events 1940 - 1970 Published resources Resource Section Mavis Walley/Philips, Carnamah Historical Society and Museum and North Midlands Project, http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/mavis-walley Goomalling Yarns: Rare Photographs Capture Life on an Aboriginal Reserve, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/goomalling-yarns/6640758 Mavis Walley Collection: Glimpse of Indigenous Life as it Really was Lived, Laurie, Victoria, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/indigenous/mavis-walley-collection-glimpse-of-indigenous-life-as-it-really-was-lived/news-story/de65e6f308c8818056fcd3cf5c76667f Newspaper Article Mavis Walley Collection: Indigenous Life before Ravages of Welfare, Rothwell, Nicholas Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 20 October 2016 Last modified 20 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personal and scientific correspondence with papers relating to scientific organisations, associations and publishers including the Australian Mathematical Society and its Journal, the Australian National University Science Society and the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers 1964-72 [90 cm, MS 88]. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 14 February 2001 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Margaret Reid is the first woman to have been elected President of the Senate. She held this position for six years, from 20 August 1996 to 18 August 2002. In 2004 she was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia for her service to the Australian Parliament and the community. Margaret Reid obtained her Bachelor of Laws from Adelaide University and worked as a barrister and solicitor before entering Federal Parliament. She was Deputy Government Whip in the Senate from 18 November 1982 to 4 February 1983, Deputy Opposition Whip from 21 April 1983 to 14 September 1987 and Opposition Whip from 14 September 1987 to 9 May 1995. On 9 May 1995, Reid became Deputy President of the Senate and Chair of Committees and President of the Senate in August 1996. Reid was awarded the Queen Elizabeth 11 Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 and the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1987. She is married with two sons and two daughters. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section The Hon. Margaret Reid, Senator for the Australian Capital Territory, Australian Parliament House, 2001, https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=VI4 Canberra Liberal Women's Forum - Canberra Liberal Women, http://www.canberraliberals.org.au/default.cfm?action=content&ID=21 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Margaret Reid relating to Andrew Fisher, 2001 [manuscript] Papers of Margaret Reid, 1969-2003 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Margaret Reid interviewed by Barry York in the Old Parliament House political and parliamentary oral history project [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Margaret Reid, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] ACT Heritage Library Liberal Party Policy on ACT Self-Government Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2001 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Margaret Reid Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "File contains:-?Florado outdoor art exhibition – Shell Florado Art Award – best Australian landscape or seascape, 8th, 9th, 10th March, 1963. [catalogue list]. (one folded sheet, 4 p.). Artists were Margaret Thwaites, John McLean, W.P. Rodgers, John Irvine, Betty L. Barberis, Gladys Bailey, Lewis Luxford, W. Stewart, Vicki Horne, Patricia Robertson, Esther Baylis, D.C. MacDonald, A.E. Worley, D. Singletop, Irene Bartlett, L. Etherton, Ann MacKenzie, Helen Isles, W.R. Angus, Mr. Hinsley, J. Colin Angus, Malcolm Hooper, Andrew McD. Taylor, Marguerite Banks, Janet Ivers, Mrs. J. McD. Taylor, Jean Margaret Esam, Mrs. M. Carlson, Tom Kepler, Sheila Marshall, Valerie Urquhart, Verna Stamp, Dorothy Burnett, Adolis Shaw, Lesley Rees, Colin Suggett, Mrs. V. Turner .?Florado Art exhibition – Shell Florado Art Award depicting Australiana, March 2-8, 1965. [catalogue list]. (one folded sheet, 4 p.). Artists were Patricia Benson, Patricia M. Greenwood, Robert T. Miller, Barbara Peake, Ena Wilson, Verna Stamp, Alice Granter Irving, C.D. Smith, Lewis Luxford, Jean M. Casson, Leslie Rees, Norma R. Sparks, Irene Bartlett, Winifred A. Simmonds, Margaret J. Cole, J. Colin Angus, Betty L. Barberis, William P. Rodgers, Catherine Walls, M.S. Howard, Barry R. Singleton, Keith W. Ross, M. Carlson, Adela Shaw, John Sebastian, Hilda Nixon, B. Kirby, Joy Peck, John Wilkins, Lynette Milward, Don Taylor, D.M. Gallagher, Carol Anderson, Lauris Wooster, Janis Johnson, Marjorie Simpson, Loralie Banes, Fay Swinton, Ingrid Blake.?Files contain material such as art exhibition catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases and/or other ephemeral items relating to Australian artists and galleries, where there are more than three artists exhibiting at the one exhibition. Other material may be collected under individual artists in the Australian Art and Artists file. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 5 October 2016 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1996 to 1999 audited financial statements and 2002 audited financial statement from the Darra Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound files Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 June 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Serena Thorne was born in Devon in October 1842, daughter of Samuel and Mary Thorne. In 1865 the church sent her to Queensland to help establish Bible Christianity and she arrived in South Australia in 1870, preaching throughout the colony from church halls to street corners. In March 1871 she married Octavius Lake whom she had known in Devon and they worked together to further Bible Christianity in South Australia. Serena Lake attended the foundation meeting of the South Australian Women’s Suffrage League in 1888 and was appointed to the Council. In 1889 the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) appointed her to the dual positions of Colonial organizer and Suffrage superintendent. In 1891 she was made a life vice-president of the WCTU. She died in 1902 aged 60. Serena Thorne was born in Devon in October 1842, daughter of Samuel and Mary Thorne. Her grandfather, William O’Bryan was founder and co-organizer of the Bible Christian Church which welcomed women preachers. By the age of twenty one Serena Thorne had already become well known throughout Devon, Cornwall and South Wales as a preacher. In 1865 the church sent her to Queensland to help establish Bible Christianity and in 1870 she moved first to Victoria and South Australia soon after. She received a warm welcome in South Australia and preached at churches in Adelaide and country areas. In March 1871 she married Octavius Lake whom she had known in Devon and they worked together to further Bible Christianity in South Australia. They had seven children of whom only one survived. Serena Lake attended the foundation meeting of the South Australian Women’s Suffrage League and was appointed to the Council. She was almost certainly a member of the Social Purity Society as she was familiar with the background of the League’s foundation. In 1889 the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) appointed her to the dual positions of Colonial organizer and Suffrage superintendent. In 1891 she was made a life vice-president of the WCTU. At the 1892 annual South Australian Women’s Suffrage League meeting she spoke eloquently in support of Mary Lee’s report, seconded by Catherine Helen Spence. After this, however, she did not appear again in either the League or WCTU records and when suffrage was won the Lakes were at Moonta in country South Australia carrying on their missionary and pastoral work. She died in 1902 aged 60. Published resources Book In her own name : women in South Australian history, Jones, Helen, 1926-, 1986 Book Section Serena Thorne Lake (1842-1902), 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Robin Secomb Created 19 April 2004 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 7996 comprises minutes, agendas, reports, correspondence, administrative files, photographs, music scores, programmes, newscuttings and other material relating to the activities of the Australian Musical Association, especially concerts organised by the Association in London. Original scores in this collection include manuscripts by Margaret Sutherland, Don Banks, Miriam Hyde, Larry Sitsky, Linda Phillips, Colin Brumby and Arthur Benjamin (13 boxes, 1 carton).??The Acc11.093 instalment comprises the correspondence and official records of Morris and Shirley Barr relating to the Australian Musical Association, during their involvement with the organisation in London. Official correspondence describes a number of professional collaborations between the Association, The Australian High Commission, London, and the Royal Overseas League during this time. Also included in the collection are Association agendas and meeting minutes, concert programs, music scores (Harold Allen), newspaper cuttings and newsletters (1 box) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 June 2002 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 1071 comprises memoirs of Jennie Scott Griffiths’ childhood and early married life in the United States and Fiji, and two books of newspaper cuttings relating to her involvement in feminist and socialist causes (2 folders).??The Acc02.050 instalment comprises correspondence, drafts of articles, short stories, plays and other writings, scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings and other papers (4 boxes).??The Acc08.058 instalment includes two scrapbooks, the first containing writings of Griffiths (indexed), which contain, One Out of Ten, Ciwa Griffiths, and the second (indexed) marked “literary cuttings” containing cuttings from newspapers (many concerning the Red Flag prisoners) with handwritten notes (1 box).??The Acc10.211 instalment comprises photographs, poems, correspondence and realia relating to the life of Jennie Scott Griffiths. Of particular interest are membership cards of various leftist organisations in the USA and Australia. Also includes references and material relating to the last years of the Fiji Times and small items of realia (1 box).??The Acc11.064 instalment comprises poems, manuscripts, transcripts and memoirs by Jennie Scott Griffiths (original and copied material), correspondence, newcuttings and articles. Also included is a typescript of Arthur Brown’s ‘Recollections of Fiji’, and photocopies of Military Intelligence Reports (1917-1919) issued by the National Archives to Gerry Whitmont, Jennie Scott Griffiths’ great-granddaughter, in 1983 (1 box).??The Acc14.033 instalment comprises a handbag with a dedication plaque presented to Jennie Scott Griffiths by the Red Flag Prisoners in 1919 with a letter and photograph which were kept in the handbag. Included is a dedicated book of the “Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick, San Antonio’s First American Woman” (1 small folio box) Author Details Elle Morrell Created 15 February 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the ACT Greens, Kerrie Tucker was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory representing the electorate of Molonglo in 1995. She served in the Parliament until 2004. Prior to being elected to the Assembly, Tucker was an editor and librarian at the Canberra Environment Centre. In the Legislative Assembly she served on a number of Select Committees including budget estimates and inquiries into gambling and superannuation funding and was Chair of the Standing Committee on Social Policy 1995-1998. In 1998 she became Chair of the Assembly Standing Committee on Education, Community Services and Recreation. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Kerrie Tucker, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] ACT Heritage Library Newspaper Clippings - Clippings mention Kerrie TUCKER and other ACT Greens MLA's????? Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2001 Last modified 12 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Both sides of correspondence with Jean Devanney between August 1939 and May 1954 are recorded in this series Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 December 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Recruiting leaflet for the Australian Women’s Land Army which was created in 1942. It was only after the Fall of Singapore in 1942, when the threat of invasion became a possibility, that the Manpower authority was established to direct and co-ordinate all labour resources. The Australian Women’s Land Army was established to help provide food, as Australia was viewed as a supply depot for troops stationed in Queensland.?27 x 19 cm?Leaflet Collection 7/2/12 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Exchange of correspondence and accounts between Edna Walling, William Waters, William Train and Co. Pty. Ltd. and Theodore Beggs, 5 February – 14 August 1937, relating to a garden designed by Edna Walling and built by William Waters for the Beggs’ property “Eurambeen” at Beaufort. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 September 2001 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Phyllis Gibb was the first teacher at the School of the Air in Broken Hill, New South Wales. The daughter of Charles W.J. Scurr and Ann Graham, Phyllis was educated at the Fort Street Girls’ High School in Sydney and graduated from Teachers’ College. She taught at the Child Welfare Department Homes in Glebe, Sydney, before marrying Malcolm Gibb, a Presbyterian minister, in 1935. The Gibbs lived at Moree and Cessnock before moving to Broken Hill. After some time conducting a popular Radio Sunday School on 2BH, Phyllis was appointed first principal of the Broken Hill School of the Air when it opened on 23 February 1956. Using transceiver sets, over 80 students tuned in from remote areas covering 700 square miles. On-air classes took place twice a day, three days a week and lessons in music, drama and speech were offered in addition to the regular school subjects. Phyllis Gibb continued her work until 1964, when she retired to Melbourne after forty years of teaching. Phyllis Gibb was awarded the MBE in 1963 for services to education. She was survived by her daughter Jeanie. Published resources Newspaper Article School of the Air Initiated, 1956 Educational Air Waves, 1999 School of the Air, 1956 Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Broken Hill, Kearns, Richard Hugh Bell, 1974 Classrooms a World Apart: The Story of the Founding of the Broken Hill School of the Air, Gibb, Phyllis, 1986 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Gibb, Phyllis Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 January 2009 Last modified 21 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letterbook (21/6/1859-16/2/1860), Admission Registers – State School (1/4/1860-6/12/1869), Daily Report (Attendances) (2/4/1860-17/8/1863).??In early 1860, the National Board of Education established the National School (Number 1) in Brisbane . The first Headmaster was John Rendall and on the opening day the attendance was 50 boys and 8 girls. The school was located in Adelaide Street and was conducted as a mixed school until 14 August 1860.??In 1862, the National School became officially known as the Normal School when it was re-organised to include a training school for teachers. In December 1862, the boys’ school, and the Board of Education, moved to the new building next door at the corner of Adelaide and Edward Streets; the girls remained in the old building.??The name of the school varied, originally being the Brisbane National School, afterwards called the Brisbane Central School and then the Brisbane Normal School. After the girls and boys separated, the separate schools were referred to respectively as Brisbane Central Girls’ School, (number 233), Brisbane Central Infants’ School (number 234) and Brisbane Central Boys’ School, the latter school retaining the number 1. In 1920, a re-organised mixed primary school called the Central State School opened. In 1922, this was superseded by the Central Practising School; again the school remained number 1.??In September 1927, the Head Master, staff and pupils of the ” Central Practising School” (i.e., the National or Normal School) were transferred from the old Normal buildings to the combined Boys’, Girls’ and Infants’ Schools in Leichhardt Street. The Normal School Building erected in 1862 was demolished at the end of 1927.??N.B The closing date for the school has been given as 1 September 1927, because this is when the National/Normal School buildings were demolished. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 sound files Author Details Helen Morgan Created 1 February 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Sydney Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded in 1882, at a meeting hosted by Mr Eli Johnson, a visiting American temperance lecturer. From 1884, other local Unions were started in suburbs of Sydney as well as in country areas of New South Wales. In 1890, a Colonial Union, to be known as the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of New South Wales, was formed to embrace the whole colony. The local Union, however, was to remain as the important unit of power. The Union is primarily dedicated to promoting total abstinence from alcohol and other harmful drugs and all members sign a pledge to this effect. However, under its broader agenda of ‘home protection’ and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, and in its belief that the dangers of alcohol could not be tackled in isolation, the group has pursued a very wide-ranging reform agenda mostly relating to the welfare of women and children. Importantly, influenced by its sister organisation in the United States, the Union became a major supporter of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Australia as it was believed that power at the ballot box was the only way to achieve their goals. While at its most influential in the years up to WWI, the movement continues today. Among the first activities of the Sydney Union was to organise petitions against the new Licensing Bill then before the Colonial Parliament. They also protested against the employment of women as barmaids in hotels. From its inception, in addition to prohibition, the Union advocated ‘an equal moral standard for men and women’, and soon other women’s issues were included in its agenda, and it advocated women’s suffrage from at least 1890. In 1965 the WCTU of the Australian Capital Territory was incorporated into the New South Wales Union. Published resources Pamphlet Alcohol and Efficiency, Campbell, T. G. (Thomas Graham), 1917 Flower Missions, Pemell, Amelia J., 1898 Book The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of New South Wales, 1882-1976, Taylor, Lennie T., 1977 Golden Records: Pathfinders of Woman's Christian Temperance Union of N.S.W., 1926 Report Report book : annual general meeting ... State Convention / Woman's Christian Temperance Union of NSW Inc. Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Woman's Christian Temperance Union of New South Wales - records, 1882-1978 Author Details Jane Carey Created 8 November 2004 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Nikki Henningham Created 5 October 2015 Last modified 5 March 2020 Digital resources Title: Honourable Justice C E Holmes Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Wendy McCarthy is an experienced businesswoman who has assumed many major leadership roles in both the public and private sectors for nearly forty years. Her first experience as a political lobbyist came about when, newly pregnant, she and her husband joined the Childbirth Education Association (CEA) in Sydney, campaigning for (amongst other things) the rights of fathers to be present at the births of their babies. Since then, she has had three children, and been an active change agent in women’s health, education, broadcasting, conservation and heritage and Australian business. Her senior executive and non-executive positions have included: CEO – Family Planning Association of Australia (1979-84); Member – National Women’s Advisory Council (1978-81); Member – Sydney Symphony Orchestra Council; Director – Australian Multicultural Foundation. She has held executive and non-executive director roles in many of Australia’s leading private and public institutions including Executive Director, Australian Federation of Family Planning Associations; Deputy Chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for eight years; General Manager of Marketing and Communications, the Australian Bicentennial Authority; Chair of the National Better Health Program; Executive Director of the National Trust; Director Star City; Chair of the Australian Heritage Commission; and Chair of Symphony Australia. In 2005 she compiled ten years as Chancellor of the University of Canberra. In 2013 she is Chair of Circus Oz, McGrath National Youth Mental Health Foundation and Pacific Friends of the Global Foundation. In 2010 Wendy became a Non-Executive Director to GoodStart Childcare Limited. In 2009 after 13 years of service to Plan International, she retired from her most recent role as Global Vice Chair. She is Patron of the Australian Reproductive Health Alliance. Wendy’s contribution to Australian life has been recognised in various ways. In 1989 she became an Officer of the Order of Australia for her contribution to community affairs, women’s affairs and the Bicentennial celebrations and in 1996 she received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Australia. In April 2003 she was awarded a Centenary of Federation Medal. Career Highlights Chancellor – University of Canberra (1996-) Chair – Plan International Australia (Director since 1996) Chair – Symphony Australia (2000-) Chair – McGrath Estate Agents (2000-) CEO – Family Planning Association of Australia (1979-84) Member – National Women’s Advisory Council (1978-81) Commissioner – NSW Education Commission (1981-83) Member – NSW Higher Education Board (1980-83) General Manager – Australian Bicentennial Authority (1985-89) Deputy Chair – Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1983-91) Chair – National Better Health Program (1989-92) CEO – National Trust of Australia, NSW (1990-93) CEO – Price Brent (commercial legal firm) (1994) President – Chief Executive Women (1995) Chair – Royal Hospital for Women Foundation (1995-1997) Chair – Australian Heritage Commission (1995-98) Chair – Clean-Up Australia Environment Foundation (1996-98) Director – Star City Pty Ltd (1994-99) Trustee – Adelaide Festival Centre Trust 1996 -2000 Member – Olympic Urban Design Review Panel and Olympic Public Art Committee Member – North Limited, Environment, Health and Safety Advisory Committee Chair – The Look of the City Committee, Sydney City Council Member – EPAC Task Force report to Prime Minister on Australia’s child care needs to the years 2010 Member – Independent Panel on Intractable Waste 1991-92 Chair – Advisory Committee WHO Kobe Centre 1999-2002 Member – Australian Advertising Standards Board Member – Sydney Symphony Orchestra Council Member – Australian State of the Environment Advisory Committee Director – Australian Multicultural Foundation Executive Director – Corporate Good Works Executive Director – McCarthy Management Pty Ltd Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Don't Fence Me In, McCarthy, Wendy, 2000 Article Profile: Wendy McCarthy, 2011 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Wendy McCarthy interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Women and leadership in a century of Australian democracy oral history project [sound recording] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Pat Richardson scrapbooks relating to the Women's Electoral Lobby and women's events, 1977-2002 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 November 2004 Last modified 3 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Louisa Southwell was the founding president of the Hall branch of the Red Cross Society, which was founded in May 1916. She became vice-president in 1917 when Blanche Crace took over the presidency. Born on 13 October 1844 in Ramsay, Huntingdonshire, England, the daughter of Edward Smith and Mary Kilby, Louisa married into the well-established Southwell family of Parkwood near Hall when she wed John Southwell on 4 June 1867 at Parkwood Church, Gininderra. She gave birth to seven children – Albert 1868, Eva Annie 1869, Amelia Alma ‘Milly’ 1871, William Shelton 1873, Raymond 1875, Sydney Roland, 1879 and Edward John Thomas, 1881. Her husband erected the first building in Hall and opened a post office and store in 1888, farmed several properties in the Hall and Queanbeyan areas, served as a Justice of the Peace and sat as a magistrate on the Queanbeyan Bench. Louisa and John were both active in the community; Louisa taught Sunday School after it was established in association with the local Methodist Church at Bedellick in 1882. John Southwell died on 21 October 1912, leaving Louisa a widow. On 16 July 1915 Louisa’s son Raymond enlisted with the Australian Expeditionary Force (AIF) and served in France with the 3rd Reinforcements to the 8th Field Ambulance, the 5th Division Sanitary Section and the 5th Artillery Group. Despite being court martialled for possessing a camera with films which were confiscated by military authorities in France (and returned to him in 1926), he was promoted to Sergeant. Mentioned in Despatches for conspicuous service by Sir Douglas Haig on 16 March 1919, Raymond was discharged 5 September 1919. He was the only one of Louisa’s five sons to enlist in the AIF. On the 24 May 1916 the women of Hall founded a Red Cross Society branch under Louisa’s presidency, with Mrs E. Brown as treasurer and Mrs George Southwell, secretary. The new branch organised a patriotic picnic and sale of gifts in November 1916. They raised £86/6/3 in their first year, made 67 articles of clothing and assembled 25 Christmas parcels for soldiers. By November 1917 Blanche Crace had taken over the presidency, perhaps because by then Louisa was 73 years old and the demands of the work may have taken its toll on her health. She did, however, remain as vice-president. The group continued to be busy fundraising, knitting and sewing. In 1917, the 75 members raised £214/14/4 and contributed 188 items of clothing to soldiers at the battlefront or in hospital. During 1918-1919 the Hall membership had dropped to 69 but the branch raised £177/5/3 and made 296 articles of clothing, including shirts, pyjamas, socks, mufflers, mittens, gloves, balaclavas, hospital and kit bags, dusters, washers, pillow slips, handkerchiefs and bandages. They distributed funds to the New South Wales Red Cross parent branch in Sydney, the French Red Cross, the War Chest, to prisoners of war in Germany and Turkey, and to various special celebrations such as France Day. The group displayed creativity and a sense of fun in some of their fundraising ventures; in May 1918 the Goulburn Evening Penny Post reported that the Hall Red Cross had held a fundraising cricket match between the ladies and the gentlemen, with the men handicapped by wearing hobbles and batting with pick handles (‘Gininderra’, 1918, p. 2). The branch gave up active work in October 1919 – war had ended so there was no longer the need of the previous years. The Hall schoolteacher Charles Thompson penned a tribute to the women that was published in the Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer on 28 October 1919 acknowledging the challenges of such a group in a rural area. He wrote that many of the Red Cross members had been compelled to travel eight miles to attend meetings and had to convey provisions in all weathers. ‘Nevertheless’, he wrote ‘this noble band of lady workers were fully determined that the brave lads who have dared their all for the sake of King and country, should not be wanting in comforts and necessaries if their exertions and nimble fingers could supply the want’. When the Hall branch closed it donated the remaining balance of £50 to provide a four-bed ward in a soldiers’ convalescent home (‘Gininderra’, 1919). Louisa moved to Junee, New South Wales to be near her children William, Edward and her daughter Milly. She died at Junee on 1 December 1926 and was buried with her husband John at Hall cemetery in the Australian Capital Territory. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book The Southwell Family: pioneers of the Canberra District 1838-1938, Gillespie, Lyall, 1988 Ginninderra, forerunner to Canberra: a history of the Ginninderra district, Gillespie, Lyall L., 1992 Resource Section Raymond Southwell, https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1542137/ Southwell, Raymond, Gillespie, Lyall L., 2013 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra SOUTHWELL Raymond : Service Number - 9082 : Place of Birth - Ginninderra N/A : Place of Enlistment - Liverpool NSW : Next of Kin - (Uncle) SOUTHWELL Mark Author Details Niki Francis Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Canberra : AIDS Education, Commonwealth Dept. of Health, Housing and Community Services Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "As a small child, Kitty Lund entertained the Broken Hill community with her acting and dancing performances on the local stage. In later life, as Kit Harris, she published two popular books on handcrafts. Kitty Lund was the only child of Clara Ellen and George Lund. Her father was a mine worker and Kit was born and raised in Broken Hill, New South Wales. At the age of seven she began dancing lessons with Lena Atkinson, and before long was gracing the stage of the Crystal Theatre in minor roles such as Tootles in Peter Pan. She went on to star in Alice in Fashion Land (1935), Let’s Pretend (1936), Motley (1937), Brown Boy (1938), and The Sparklers (1939). She attended the first Juvenile Ball and the Golden Jubilee of the Sisters of Mercy, and hosted the Shirley Temple Look-Alike Competition in 1936. At the regular mining company picnics in Silverton, Kit would dance to the bagpipes in the Irish dancing championships. She was friendly with Dorothy Dickson, who went on to work as an actress in London. Kit finished her studies at St Joseph’s Convent before attending the Convent Business College to learn shorthand, typing and bookkeeping. She found employment with Mr E.R. Hudson, solicitor, and later at the Grand Hotel in Broken Hill. In 1946 she married Fred Harris, a foreman for the Zinc Corporation. Fred and Kit Harris had three sons, though just one – David – survived infancy. Their twin boys are commemorated with a plaque in the Broken Hill Children’s Cemetery. Kit Harris went on to teach handcraft at the Broken Hill High School and the Adult Education Programme. She published her first book, Handcrafts, in 1972. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Handcrafts, Harris, Kit, 1972 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 15 January 2009 Last modified 25 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A short sketch of the life of Henrietta Willmore, one of the early pioneers of music in Brisbane. She travelled to Brisbane on the Prince Consort, arriving in April 1865. The description is written by E. Mallalieu, Mrs. Willmore’s daughter. Two pages written by Mrs. Willmore herself are included. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photographs of scenery in Northern Territory, England, Europe, Africa, Canada and United States. Some of the material is of commercial origin, but many of the photographs were taken by Miriam Chisholm during trips abroad. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Contains the following sections: Why did the Hunters come?; The Hunter days; The stations take shape; Birth of a township; The first gold years; Township in the 70’s; The model shire council of the colony; Agriculture in the 70’s; The widow of Wappan; The unsung hero; The wild colonial boys; The uncertain eighties; The land boom; The story of the water supply; The railway problem; The dismal nineties; The schools; The quiet years- from Federation to the end of the Great War. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 15 December 2008 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letters written to Miss Henry regarding her joining the Land Army. The letters instruct Miss Henry to attend a short camp, then to proceed to Batlow for apple and pear picking. The collection also contains W.A.N.S kit lists. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Heather Wilton was a once only candidate for Parliament (Independent candidate, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Albury, 2003) but a very successful local councillor. She was a member of the Berrigan Shire Council for ten years (1987-1997), President from 1991-2, Mayor in 1993 and Deputy Mayor from 1995-6. Heather Wilton then joined the Holbrook Council as Mayor from 1999-2004. Heather Wilton who ran as an Independent in 2003, was described in the Sydney Morning Herald as a “former National”, but she gave no recommendation about preferences. She was among those Nationals who believed the party should have been allowed to contest Albury in 2003, but were overruled by the State executive. She had been a member of the National Party’s Albury electorate council, as well as a councillor on the Berrigan Shire Council for ten years and later the Holbrook Council, which was amalgamated into the Greater Hume Shire Council in 2004. Heather Wilton lives with her family on a farm near Holbrook. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 February 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 25 minutes??Betty Lockwood was born in Britain and came to South Australia with her family in 1951. She attended school in Mannum and then nursed for two years at the Mannum Hospital. She completed her training in 1963 at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Subsequent nursing experience included midwifery training and operating room nursing. In 1968 she was appointed matron of the Gumeracha Hospital and within her term of service there she spent six months in Vietnam with a surgical team. After four years as Director of Nursing at the Backwood Community Hospital and one year as a charge nurse of the Flinders Medical Centre Betty took an appointment as Director of Nursing and later Chief Executive Officer of the Ashford Community Hospital. While at Ashford Betty studied for the Graduate Diploma in Health Administration. She was also a part-time Commissioner in the SA Health Commission. Betty retired from Ashford in 1988. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour??Jean Ashton was born at Woodside, South Australia. Later her family lived at Booborowie in the mid-north where she attended primary school. After a ten year career in dressmaking, she began training at the Adelaide Hospital in 1929. This was followed by a course in Infectious Diseases nursing at Northfield, and midwifery at the McBride Hospital. After appointments at Lameroo and Jamestown Jean did infant welfare training in Hobart while awaiting call-up for the Australian Army Nursing Service. In 1941 she went with the 13th Australian General Hospital to Malaya and was among those who escaped from Singapore just before its capture by the Japanese in February 1942. When the ship ‘Vyner Brooke’ was sunk in Bauka Strait, Jean and fellow nurses were interned by the Japanese. She was among 24 nurses (from a total of 65) who survived until their release in September 1945. After recovery from her wartime experiences Jean resumed infant welfare work. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Imogen Waring is a highly successful management consultant with a continuing interest in politics. In 2003 she ran for election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Willoughby. Imogen Wareing was born and educated in England, where she completed a degree in sociology (B.Sc. (London)) and her teaching qualifications. She later completed her training in psychology in Sydney. She has worked as a high school teacher, a human resources manager, and a management consultant. She runs her own business, The Growth Connection, consulting and providing training services to private and public organizations in strategic planning, mentoring, leadership, career management and interpersonal communication. Imogen Wareing is a past Executive Manager of Women & Management Inc. a voluntary organization which aims to assist the personal and professional development of women. She is a founder of “Making Mentoring Connections”, a mentoring network and wrote “Guidelines on Mentoring for Women” (published 1994) for the NSW government. She has written extensively on development and career management and taken part in numerous conferences, both in Australia and overseas. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 February 2006 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Marilyn Dodkin is an ALP activist and historian who contested the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Middle Harbour in 1988. Marilyn Dodkin joined the ALP in 1976, and has held office at local and electorate level. She was a delegate to Annual Conference many times and in 1986 was a proxy delegate to the National Conference. Marilyn completed a BA at the University of New England, a MA at the University of Sydney and a PhD at Macquarie University. She worked as Research officer for Gary Punch MP 1983, and in 1984 became the Administration Officer of the AWU. She served on the North Sydney TAFE Committee and was a founding member of the Status of Women Committee which encouraged women to participate in politics. Marilyn married in 1961 and has two daughters. She is the author of Brothers: eight leaders of the Labor Council of NSW (UNSW Press, 2001) and Bob Carr, the reluctant leader(UNSW Press, 2003) and in 2005 was working on another, expected to be published in 2006. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Contains correspondence from Australians for Constitutional Monarchy to Nancye Perry, as well as newspaper cuttings, newsletters, leaflets, stickers, and ephemera relating to the 1999 referendum for an Australian Republic. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 December 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound tape reels (ca. 102 min.)??Amirah Inglis, author, school teacher and former member of the Communist Party, speaks of her family background of Polish Jews; visiting Poland in 1970s; her father’s communist beliefs; her Jewish identity; her autobiography; her early interest in Communism; her relationship with the Communist Party; her husband’s expulsion from the Communist Party; leaving the Communist Party; living in Papua New Guinea; ASIO; reflects on her years in the Communist Party; and talks about her writing. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc97/62 comprises drafts, proofs, research material and some correspondence relating to several of de Vries’ published and unpublished works (6 boxes, 3 cartons, 4 A3 cartons).??The Acc98/156 instalment consists of the manuscript of Strength of purpose: Australian women of achievement from Federation to the mid-20th century (1 box).??The Acc01/84 instalment principally comprises material relating to de Vries’ publication Great Australian women. Also included are correspondence, corrected proofs, research notes, some letters and cuttings (1 carton, 1 A3 carton). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9034 comprises personal papers of Margaret Holmes, some relating to her involvement with the Australian Student Christian Movement and the World Council of Churches. The collection includes diaries, financial papers, conference and travel notes, a notebook containing some handwritten ASCM minutes, travel brochures, correspondence and photographs.??The Acc07.010 instalment includes photographs, correspondence and material relating to refugees and immigration. Author Details Jane Carey Created 14 December 2004 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dorothy Costa stood for Parliament only once: the 1988 Canterbury elections as a Socialist Party of Australia candidate. One of the problems of the electorate, stressed by Dorothy Costa in her 1988 campaign, was the use of sections of Canterbury Road by prostitutes. She also was concerned about the deterioration in the hospitals and public schools in the area. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "4 sound files (194 min.)??Professor Curthoys recalls her youth, including her parents’ Communist Party membership; her education at Broken Hill; Newcastle and Sydney; her and her mother’s involvement in the Union of Australian Women which gave them both a background in feminism and Aboriginal issues; Eureka Youth League; Labor Club; International Students Association; her career as an academic and historian. She talks about her position as Foundational Lecturer in Women’s Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. (1976-77), her position as lecturer at the New South Wales Institute of Technology (1978-1986), and her appointment as Professor in 1986. In 1988 when the Institute became the University of Technology, Sydney, she was reappointed as Professor of Social History; her return to the Australian National University in 1995 as Manning Clark Professor of History and Head of the History Department.??Professor Curthoys recalls her student days at the University of Sydney,where she took part in anti-war demonstrations and the 1965 Freedom Ride in NSW that raised awareness of Aboriginal issues and racism in Australia; in 1970 she joined Glebe Women’s Liberation Group; 1971 helped establish Women’s Liberation newspaper Mejane and the journal, Refractory Girl. She speaks about being closely involved with teaching and developing public history (applied history); the bicentennial work, Australians: a historical library (one of the first great collaborative projects amongst historians throughout Australia; National Museum of Australia; Australian Research Council. Professor Curthoys also discusses her own views on postwar Australian history and historiography. Created 13 March 2019 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Carol Woodrow has pursued a wide-ranging career in theatre in Canberra for many years. In the 1970s through her work with Canberra Youth Theatre, she provided opportunities for young people to learn about drama through improvisation. At the Jigsaw Theatre Company, she worked with professional actors to develop and present work for schools. In the 1980s and 1990s she worked as a freelance director of avant-garde and community theatre with several ensemble companies, developing new scripts and nurturing new playwrights, and also directed plays for professional theatre companies. Born on 20 August 1943, Carol grew up in Melbourne in a family with great enthusiasm for the theatre. Her parents, Bill and Sarah Armstrong, founded the Children’s Theatre Guild of Victoria (which became the Youth and Children’s branch of the Melbourne Theatre Company). While still at school, Woodrow started acting professionally at age 13 on stage, radio and television, performing with, among others, Barry Humphries. She studied acting with Irene Mitchell at St Martin’s Theatre for five years. After moving to Canberra with her young family in 1962, she acted in plays with the Canberra Repertory Society and later, ran drama workshops for young people. Then in 1972, influenced by the ideas of British educator Dorothy Heathcote, she established the Canberra Youth Theatre to provide opportunities for young people to learn about drama through improvisation. She was also the founding director of the Jigsaw Company Theatre-in-Education in 1974 where she worked with professional actors to develop and present work for schools. She was artistic co-ordinator of the Youth Program for the National Festival Australia ’75 . She founded the Fool’s Gallery Theatre in 1979 to explore ensemble devised theatre with strong visual imagery, heightened theatrical poetic and ritual qualities, and challenging content. The company staged and toured some powerful feminist theatre such as It Bleeds, It Sleeps and Standard Operating Procedure, and ran for five years. In 1984 Woodrow returned to text-based works as artistic director of Interact Theatre. The company staged some memorable productions in the ANU Arts Centre, including Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair. She also worked as director and dramaturg with Playworks (1986-88) and the Playwrights Conference (1985, 1993-96), developing new scripts and nurturing new playwrights. She ran courses in the ACT for the Australian National Playwrights’ Centre, and was on the Board of the Centre for several years. In 1989, Interact Theatre combined forces with Eureka! Theatre to form the Canberra Theatre Company, with Woodrow as director. This attempt to establish a mainstream, full-time professional theatre company in Canberra was assisted by funding from the ACT Arts Development Board, and a number of productions were staged including Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but following the withdrawal of corporate sponsorship, it wound up in 1991. Woodrow was also a freelance director for many other companies. John Bell, who had admired her work for many years, invited her to direct The Merchant of Venice, the inaugural production by Bell Shakespeare, which was staged in a circus tent near the Canberra Aquarium in 1991. She also directed for the Nimrod Theatre, the Sydney Theatre Company, the Belvoir Street Theatre, the Griffin Theatre, and the Troupe Theatre. In Canberra in the 1990s she directed a series of classics for Canberra Repertory, including Ibsen’s The Doll’s House and Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy, as well as staging new Australian works, with her company Wildwood, at the Street Theatre. She continues to direct, as part of the ‘Season at the Street’, developing new repertoire in a similar way to her earlier work with playwrights. On Australia Day 2012 Carol Woodrow was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to the performing arts, to youth theatre as an artistic director, and to the development of women playwrights in Australia. At the time, she said that working with an ensemble of actors is ‘the most creative way to achieve the best work because the team members become so nuanced with each other’ and that ‘experiential drama, through play for children, is the best tool to teach anything by getting them involved imaginatively’. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia, http://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/ad/ad2012/Media%20Notes%20AM%20(M-Z)%20(final).pdf Newspaper Article A lifetime career in theatre, O'Brien, Philip, 2012, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/entertainment/a-lifetime-in-theatre-20120303-1u932.html Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Carol Woodrow, theatre producer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Sue Andrews Created 5 February 2013 Last modified 20 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Greetings cards (1933-1938); letter book belonging to the Superintending Engineer in Geraldton dealing with the construction of the Geraldton-Northampton Railway (1876); letters (1923-1985); newspaper cuttings dealing with the Sugar Inquiry (1931-1932); newspaper cuttings on miscellaneous subjects including Women’s Service Guild and the Food Control Board (1930-1938); reports connected with the Sugar Inquiry (1931); scrapbook covering the months she spent in the Eastern States on the Sugar Inquiry Committee, consisting of newspaper cuttings, telegrams, postcards, photographs and letters to her family. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 December 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 20 minutes??Dora Woods, nee Birks, was born in Adelaide and began training at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital in 1909. On completion of training she went to Europe and then to New Zealand, before returning to Australia, to nurse at the Broken Hill Hospital. In 1916 she was called up for nursing duties with the Australian Army Nursing Service. This interview deals with her army nursing experience, mostly in France, and with the period following the end of the war, in London. Dora returned to Australia in 1919. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The recordings are of undergraduate lectures, public lectures and debates on current issues, addresses delivered at seminars and conferences, readings of literary works including plays and poetry, interviews, and radio programs produced for 2XX. Among the presenters are the 14th Dalai Lama, academics Professor R Johnson, Dr B Rawson, Dr H Kinloch, Professor R Elliot (reading Chaucer), Professor G Sawer, Professor Manning Clark, Professor Ted Ringwood, Professor G Zubrzycki, Professor Robin Gollan and Professor Derek Freeman, Vice-Chancellors Dr HC Coombs and Professor DA Low, politicians Gough Whitlam and Senator Susan Ryan, writers Patrick White and Xavier Herbert, and poets AD Hope, Bob Brissenden, and Rosemary Dobson. Most are on reel-to-reel tapes but some audio cassettes were produced in the period 1984-1986. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Robyn McSweeney was elected to the Legislative Council of the Thirty-sixth Parliament of Western Australia for as the Liberal member for the South West Region on 10 February 2001. She was re-elected in 2005 (for term commencing 22 May 2005) and again on 6 September 2008 for term commencing 22 May 2009. She has held the following portfolios: Minister for Child Protection; Community Services; Seniors and Volunteering: 23 September 2008 – present (November 2009) and the Minister for Women’s Interests: 9 February 2009 – present (November 2009). Robyn Mary McSweeney was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia on 9 October 1957, and educated at Bridgetown and Manjimup High Schools. She has four children with husband Michael, and divides her time between living in Bridgetown and in Perth. McSweeney holds a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Sociology and her main interests and passions lie in issues relating to social and family policy. She was elected as a Member of the Legislative Council for the South West Region in 2001. Robyn also chaired the Legislative Committee on the Adequacy of Foster Care Assessment Procedures in 2005 and served two terms on the Environment and Public Affairs Committee. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Robyn McSweeney: Webpage, http://www.premier.wa.gov.au/Ministers/Robyn-McSweeney/Pages/Biography.aspx Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "NS1241/1/107 “St Michael and all Angels” Minutes of meetings of Girls Friendly Society??NS1241/1/119 “St Michael and all Angels” Cash book of receipts and expenditure Girls Friendly Society Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 February 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The first Rural Women’s Network was established in Victoria in 1986, under the auspices of the Office of Rural Affairs in the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in response to activism by Victorian rural women, including Mary Salce. The aim was to link rural women’s groups and individuals into a loose network supported by government infrastructure, to enable the sharing of ideas, issues, information and support, and to encourage women to develop a more active voice in government decision-making."
    },
    {
        "text": "Typescript manuscript of the novel “The Little Hotel” which was published in 1973. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Iris Hyde was a prominent Liberal Party figure, and a once only candidate for parliament. She was a candidate in the 1956 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Newcastle. Iris Hyde was elected to the Executive of the Liberal party in 1948. Later that year she was present at the inaugural meeting of the Women’s Group of the Liberal Party. In 1950 she was re-elected as a country representative on the Liberal Party State Council. She spoke often at Liberal State Conventions, and was particularly concerned with questions of particular relevance to women. She was also a regular writer of letters to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, on subjects ranging from defence to beached whales. She was awarded an MBE 1968 for services to the community and raised to CBE 1969 for services to the community and politics. Iris Hyde was President of the Liberal Party’s Federal Women’s Committee in 1963-4. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 20 minutes??Marjorie Caw was born in 1893 into a Unitarian household. Her father was killed in the Boer War and her mother opened a school at Knightsbridge. Marjorie trained as a kindergarten teacher and taught at Halifax Street and Bowden. She travelled to Europe with her mother and Miss George of the Advanced School for Girls. They returned home when World War I broke out. Marjory started a Montessori School at Knightsbridge and studied economics at the University of Adelaide under Professor Heaton. She married Alfred Caw and they moved to Western Australia to farm at Kojonup. Her son William was born one year later and then her daughter Virginia. They returned to Adelaide by ship each year to visit her family. On one of these visits in 1929 she joined the Lyceum Club. During the depression she formed a branch of the CWA in Kojonup and over the years the branch helped many country people. She taught her children via correspondence school and sent her son to St Peter’s in Adelaide to board. She and her daughter went to Denmark for a world conference of the CWA. In 1922 they sold the property to her brother and returned to Adelaide where she became involved in the Lyceum Club. The Club helped her celebrate her 90th birthday in 1983. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "7 sound tape reels (ca. 410 min.)??Susan Ryan, politician, talks about her involvement with WEL (Women’s Electoral Lobby) in Canberra during 1970s and describes the 1st national WEL conference. She then discusses her membership of Labor Party; schooling at Brigidine School at Maroubra; family background; great love of reading and experiences at Sydney University doing Arts, including her memories of Germaine Greer. Ryan then describes the impact of marriage on her career and teaching in a Catholic school, St Patrick’s at Church Hill; coming to Canberra; husband’s posting to Vienna; memories of New York posting and return to Australia in 1971. She then talks about re-enrolling for Master’s Degree; working with Australian Council fo State School Organisations; election to Senate in 1975; WEL agenda; parliamentary experiences; views on Whitlam and her experience as Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs.??Ryan then discusses her relationship with other women in Parliament; Sex Discrimination Bill; education funding and the reasons behind her resignation from both Cabinet and Government. She then talks about her work since then and her current involvement in running an industry association and working on environmental issues. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Tammy Young Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 28 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Tammy Young Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 185 min.)??Betty Churcher, born in Brisbane (1931), discusses her childhood and early memories; her parents and grandmother; gender inequalities within her family; the lack of professional female role models which existed in Australia at that time; the Australian art world in the 1950s; moving to London on a travelling art scholarship (1953-6); raising money to support her studies; being determined not to return to Australia; marriage; return to Australia (ca. 1956); motherhood; the relationship between motherhood, her art and her career; the London art world in the 1960s; completing her post graduate education at the Courtauld Institute of Art (London, 1976).??Churcher discusses her work in education in Brisbane and Melbourne; visual art and academia; the importance of art history; art students today; intellectualisation of the creative process; the Melbourne academic world in 1978; the women’s movement and support for professional women; the bureaucratisation of the arts industry in the 1980s; working as Deputy Chair of the Australia Council; working as Chair of the Visual Arts Board; working as the Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia (1987-90); working as the Director of the National Gallery of Australia (1990-7); reshaping the National Gallery of Australia; the ‘efficiency dividend’ and staff cutbacks; the introduction of blockbuster exhibitions; the rising powers of curators; Australia’s cultural image at that time; her work in television; her memory as an archive; her failing sight; her drawing skill; her desire and ability to normalise art; various artists, art administrators and critics; various colleagues, political and cultural figures; various arts institutions and organisations within Australia and globally Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Godfrey-Smith was a poet, theatre director and producer, broadcaster, political activist, and scientist. After studying biochemistry at university, she moved into a career in the theatre starting at the Launceston Players in Tasmania. In 1954 she moved to Canberra and became the manager-producer of the Canberra Repertory Society. It was in Canberra that she made her name as a poet (under the nom de plume Anne Edgeworth), publishing the popular collections, Poems for Off-Duty Hours (2007), Turtles All the Way Down (2000), and Poems of Canberra (1997), among others. She was passionate about community work and was active in the environmental conservation movement, the women’s movement, anti-war campaigns and Indigenous rights’ advocacy. Later in life, she devoted a lot of time to community radio. Anne Godfrey-Smith was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1921. Her father was Bill McIntyre, a respected obstetrician, and her mother was Margaret Edgeworth McIntyre, the first woman Member of Parliament in Tasmania, a founding member of the Launceston Players and a committed community worker. Anne was the granddaughter of Sir Tannatt Edgeworth David, an eminent geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic, and Caroline David who dedicated long service to her local community and was committed to the advancement of women. Her aunt was conservationist and writer Mary Edgeworth David, who wrote about the David family in Passages of time: An Australian woman, 1890-1974, published in 1975. Godfrey-Smith was educated in Launceston as a child and went on to finish her secondary studies at the Frensham School in Mittagong (1935-38). In 1939 she began studying biochemistry at the University of Sydney. She graduated in 1941 and took a job as a pathologist at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. While in Sydney she met and married Tony Godfrey-Smith. In 1950 they decided to travel to Britain so that her husband could complete postgraduate medical training. Before leaving Australia, the celebrated theatre director Tyrone Guthrie saw one of Godfrey-Smith’s productions with the Launceston Players-where she directed and produced the occasional play-and proposed that she too seek further training in England. Guthrie then arranged for her to attend the Stratford-on-Avon Memorial Theatre for five months. She returned to Launceston later that year to take up formal positions with both the Launceston Players and the Opera Company. She stayed with these companies until 1953 when she accepted a position with the Canberra Repertory Society as the full-time manager-producer. From 1959 until 1965 she worked as an experimental officer in the CSIRO’s biochemistry department. During this time, she also directed many theatre productions for the Australian National University (ANU), including revues that would give her a reputation for being a canny humorist. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at the ANU in 1966, during which time she began writing poetry under the guidance of distinguished poet, Professor A D Hope. She then worked as a tutor in English literature at the University of New South Wales from 1968 until 1974. In 1973 she obtained her Master of Arts in English literature through Flinders University, Adelaide. In 1975 she was engaged by the Australian Youth Performing Arts Association to undertake a national survey on youth participation in theatre. After the publication of her report she was asked to serve on the Theatre Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. From 1980 to 1988 she held the position of coordinator of community education at the Reid Technical and Further Education College. During this time she also recorded oral histories of people involved with the Canberra Repertory, eventually compiling them into the book The Cost of Jazz Garters: A History of the Canberra Repertory Society (1992). From 1988 until her death she devoted many hours to community radio, presenting programs on ArtSound FM 92.7. She was an active member of environmental groups such as the Australian Conservation Foundation, Friends of the Mongarlowe River, the Wilderness Society and Bush Heritage Australia. She was also a member of a number of social justice organisations including Women in Black, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation, Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform, and Amnesty International. In 1979 she received a British Empire Medal (Civil) for her service to the theatre. In 1994 she was ACT Citizen of the Year and, in 2005, she received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), both recognising her service to the arts. In 1998 she was awarded the Sydney University Alumni Award for community service over many years. She died at Jindalee Nursing Home in Narrabundah at the age of 89. She had two sons: Tony Godfrey-Smith and William Godfrey-Smith, now known as William Grey. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book A View from Two Cities: Selected Poems, Edgeworth, Anne, 1982 The Road to Leongatha, Edgeworth, Anne, 1996 Poems for Off-duty Hours, Edgeworth, Anne, 2007 Purdie's Meditation and other poems, Edgeworth, Anne, 2007 The Cost of Jazz Garters: A History of the Canberra Repertory Society, Edgeworth, Anne, 1992 Youth Performing Arts in Australia, 1975 - 1977, Edgeworth, Anne, 1977 Looking Out, Looking In: Canberra Poets, Cook, Merril; Nugent, Ann and Challis, Pamela, 1994 Looking Still: Canberra Poets, Cook, Merril et al., 1998 Edited Book The Australian reference dictionary, Edgeworth, Anne, 1991 Resource Section Godfrey-Smith, Anne, http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/godfrey-smith-anne-14017 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Portrait of David Branagan and Anne Edgeworth in the bookshop at the National Library of Australia, 29 October 2004 [picture] / Loui Seselja Portrait of Anne Edgeworth [picture] / [Terry Milligan] ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0063 Anne Edgeworth Collection National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Anne Edgeworth, 1927-1990 [manuscript] Records of the Canberra Repertory Society, 1936-1971 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Anne Godfrey-Smith, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Anne Edgeworth interviewed by Mark O'Connor [sound recording] Interviews with members of the Canberra Repertory Society [sound recording] / interviewer, Anne Godfrey-Smith Academia.edu Memoir for Anne Edgeworth (1921-2011) Author Details Annalise Pippard Created 12 February 2013 Last modified 18 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The signatures were collected by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and The Women’s Suffrage League in support of the women’s suffrage campaign ; presented by the Hon. G.C. Hawker, House of Assembly, laid on the table 30 August 1894.?Publication Details [Adelaide] : House of Assembly, [1894?]?Reproduction Note Microfilm. North Adelaide, S. Aust. : State Records, [198-], “GRG 92/5”. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 November 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of the Sydney printing and publishing firm of Edwards & Shaw. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 sound files (approximately 4 hr. 48 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 August 2018 Last modified 21 August 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "James Tierney Created 26 June 2013 Last modified 26 June 2013 Digital resources Title: Lisa Fitzpatrick at final meeting of Respect our Work Campaign, 2012 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence to Joan Margaret Phipson (Mrs. Colin Fitzhardinge) from Margaret Horder (Mrs. Arthur Freeman), illustrator of many of Miss Phipson’s books. The period is when the Freeman decided to retire to Majorca. Also includes scripts for the radio serial Doctor Mac (3.5 cm.) and something about the autobiography series, “Just a Silkworm” by Joan Phipson. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sheila McHale was a Western Australian parliamentarian (Australian Labor Party) and member of Legislative Assembly from December 1996 – September 2008. Sheila McHale was born in Yorkshire in 1953, and first came to Australia in 1978, eventually settling in Western Australia. McHale has a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Sociology, and a Graduate Diploma in Social Science. She held research posts in the United Kingdom with Nottinghamshire Social Services and the Equal Opportunity Commission, and in Australia for the State School Teacher’s Union. McHale joined the Labor Party in 1984, and served as Vice President and Treasurer for the Labor Women. She was elected to the Thirty–fifth Parliament of Western Australia for Thornlie on 14 December 1996 in succession to Hon. Yvonne Daphne Henderson (retired). McHale was re-elected 2001, and after the electorate was abolished in a redistribution in 2003, was elected to the Thirty-seventh Parliament for Kenwick (new seat) on 26 February 2005. Again the electorate was abolished in a redistribution in 2007, and McHale did not contest the general election of 6 September 2008. Published resources Resource Sheila M McHale: Media Statements 2005-2008, McHale, Sheila M, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/88569/20080905-1741/www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/CurrentMinistersSearch494d.html?minister=McHale&admin=Carpenter&page=5 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Report Sheila McHale's Annual Report, McHale, Sheila M, 1997 Sheila McHale's Community Report, McHale, Sheila M Book Section Sheila McHale, Black, David, 2000 Newsletter Newsletter of Sheila McHale MLA, Member for Kenwick, McHale, Sheila M, 2007 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Sheila McHale] [sound recording] / [interviewed by John Robinson] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 30 November 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection comprises mainly minutes of meetings, correspondence and subject files arranged in the following series:?1887-1993; Staff correspondence files including some personnel information: information forms, movements of missionaries forms?1920-1976; Board and council meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, expenditure reports, budgets?1852-1988; State ABM correspondence; committee meeting minutes, annual and progress reports; financial papers including accounts, tax, salary and superannuation documentation, purchase orders and invoices; missionary, staff, member, donor and student lists?1919-1982; Correspondence, finance and budget reports, council and committee meeting minutes, reports and working papers, concerned with the running of ABM and missions including property management; may include health inspection reports, leases, electricity accounts, work quotes, papers concerning the training of missionaries?1893-1996; 20 volumes of minutes Author Details Jane Carey Created 20 February 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Selection of comments by Radcliffe-Brown on the manuscript of Bates’ “The native tribes of Western Australia”; original material held in the WA Museum and copied for the National Library; see Isobel White’s introduction to volume for background. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc02/15 comprises papers, files, cuttings and records relating to Marion Le’s work as an advocate for Chinese, Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants. The collection includes case files on individual refugees, records of the IndoChinese Refugee Association, legal papers concerning the Mekong Club and the Newman and Phuong murder trials (14 boxes, 43 cartons, 4 small boxes). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 June 2005 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sheryl Jarecki is a committed environmentalist and social activist. She stood for the Australian Greens in the following two elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Riverstone, 2003 House of Representatives, Mitchell, 2004 Sheryl Jarecki is a long term resident of the Hills District of Sydney and has been actively involved in environmental and social justice issues in the community. She was employed as a Regional Project Officer with the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Trust, with responsibility for environmental issues in the north west sector of Sydney. At the time of her 2003 campaign, she was involved in studying the pesticide use and pest management strategies of non English speaking Sydney farmers. In 2004 she was a strong proponent of the Greens stand on the war in Iraq and believed all Australian troops should be brought home. She was also campaigning for the release of all children from detention centres and for the humane treatment of refugees. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jill Hellyer, poet and writer, talks about her early childhood; relationship with her father; experiences with school and life with her maiden aunts; work after leaving school; marriage to Conrad Stephan; the beginnings of her interest in poetry; Fellowship of Australian Writers; reaction to her published poems and rekindling her interest in writing poetry; bringing up her deaf child; the influences on her poetry; her work with, and difficulties faced by, the Fellowship of Australian Authors; barriers placed in the way of her writing; her novels; using poetry to illustrate her emotions; the inspiration behind her writing; her form of writing; letter writing; relations with her children; her views on suicide. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection consists of a large number of items, including stickers, badges, posters and t-shirts, collected during the early 1970s relating to International Women’s Year and Women’s Electoral Lobby activities. The collection covers a fairly wide spectrum of organisations and activities associated with the women’s movement in the early 1970s and shows links with other countries which had similar movements, including Canada and New Zealand. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 27 November 2018 Last modified 27 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Patricia Boland was a highly qualified woman, though an unsuccessful candidate. She ran as a member of the Natural Law Party in the House of Representatives for Wentworth in 1993 and New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Vaucluse seat in 1995. Patricia Boland, after graduating with a B Bus, qualified as a chartered public accountant and worked in merchant banking, becoming a manager of national money market operations for a major international bank. After marriage and while at home with children, she completed her BA majoring in sociology, literature/drama and religion. She also completed training as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation. When she ran her campaign for election in 1993 she was conducting a transcendental meditation centre in Bondi and working as a consultant for chartered accountants. She is married with two sons. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Women’s Electoral Lobby records, ca. 1970-1995. The collection comprises subject files, correspondence, minutes, financial records, membership records, newscuttings, Julia Freebury’s papers, audio and video cassettes, and Juliet Richter’s papers relating to the Women’s Action Network. Author Details Jane Carey Created 29 October 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Noela L’Estrange was awarded a Bachelor of Arts with a major in English Literature from Monash University, and continued her studies at The University of Queensland obtaining her LLB. She then studied for a Masters of Business Administration focusing on Professional Services and Quality Assurance. Professionally, L’Estrange decided to take an alternative approach within the legal services industry. Instead of joining a firm and taking the mainstream route, Noela decided to use her Law Degree within the Corporate and Governance sector specializing in managerial roles and dealing with strategic planning, marketing, client development and human resources. L’Estrange is a highly experienced Director in both public and private sectors, specializing in governance and leadership, corporate, learning and development. She is a member of the AuSAE, ALPMA, ACC, AIM, AICD, ACLA, FCAQ, Queensland Law Society, and was a founding member of the Women’s Lawyers Association of Queensland (WLAQ). She was a foundation Chair of the Women in Management group at the Australian Institute of Management in Brisbane, and one of the first women to be made a Fellow of the AIM. In 2009, she was appointed as CEO of the Queensland Law Society, the first female to hold the position. She retired from that position in June 2015, but remains an active member of the Society. She also remains active in WLAQ, which honoured her with an Honorary Membership in early 2015. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Noela L’Estrange for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Noela L’Estrange and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I grew up in the burgeoning eastern suburbs of Melbourne in the late fifties and early sixties, after we moved there from Brisbane at the start of 1956. I did well at school, which I enjoyed, though the classes were very full. My grade 2 photo has 92 children in it. I’m sure that some would have been absent on the photo day. There was no assistance (or time to assess) anyone who might have had learning difficulties, and I always felt sorry for those who were at the bottom of the class, when, as a general exercise at the start of each term, everyone in the class was called out in order of academic merit to stand on the platform at the front of the class. It seemed to me, even as a child, that it was unfair to single out people who did not achieve well academically. Together with my parents’ continual encouragement to gain a good education, my love of learning for a purpose in life remains a constant. When I was in secondary school, I rather liked the idea of becoming a micro-biologist. But as biology was the only science subject offered, entering the general sciences was a dim prospect. I was always involved in debating, which people thought was an indication of a legal bent. In my final year of school, my parents asked the parish priest if there was someone we could talk to about law as a profession, as we had no connection with the profession. We duly attended at the home of the recommended worthy parishioner, who harrumphed gently and said dismissively “Girls ought not do law – they are not suited to it”. There was probably no greater spur for a young woman who had been taught by nuns – and informed by family – that it was an obligation to make the most of one’s talents! Then I had to win a place in university, which I did for Arts at the very new Monash University in 1968. My scholarship was for Arts, but after submission, they agreed that if I did well in first year, then they would support me changing to a combined Arts/Law degree. I loved university, and had a Soldiers’ Children Education Scholarship which paid my fees, purchased all compulsory textbooks and paid a very small allowance fortnightly. This was luxury in comparison to many of my fellow students who had to work part-time to support themselves. The down-side was that the scholarship was only available because my father was a Totally and Permanently Invalid pensioner, arising from war injuries. My mother and my 3 siblings and I were well used to spending weekends visiting my father when he was regularly hospitalised at the (then) Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital. Dad unfortunately died a fortnight after my 18th birthday, and just before my first year results came out, leaving Mum widowed at 44 with 4 children. But Dad would have been very pleased, as I did do well – sufficiently to be invited to do English Honours, which I accepted, and the combined Arts/Law degree. I was active in the Monash Association of Debaters (MAD), regularly participating in lunchtime debates and becoming President in third year. Starting the combined degree, I loved the very new law School. Wonderful surroundings, state of the art (then) facilities and great, young, enthusiastic teachers – as well as some notable “elders” like Professor Enid Campbell. I completed a BA with Honours in English. Mum had decided to move back to Queensland, where all our extended family lived. So I reluctantly left Monash and came to complete my law degree at University of Queensland. What a cultural shock that was for me. It had little of the multi-cultural life of Monash, it was housed in a noble but internally unattractive building, and the staff-student ratio was much larger than what I was used to. I joined the Law Students Association, and began to talk about what other law schools were doing, and how courses were structured – with more tutorials, and less emphasis on lectures as the sole method of teaching. This did not make me the most popular student with the staff. But gradually things did change. Males dominated in the law school, both as students and on the staff. In most classes there were 2 or 3 females. This male attitude applied to the social scene, where, once on the committee of the UQLS, I strenuously objected to the funding of the annual Beer and Prawn (and strippers) event. This was a shock as it was a standard event, and no one had ever before objected. There were no strippers that year – or I think again. I later became the first female president of the UQLS. There were also no female toilets anywhere near the Law School. The closest ones were in the French Department, at the other end of the building. Petitions and requests were made, and eventually, it was agreed that the male toilets on the ground level could become female toilets. There was much ceremony with the changing of the gold-lettered, silky oak panel on the door from “Men” to “Ladies”. Once we were granted entry, nothing inside had been altered, with a long row of urinals remaining along one wall. However, above them, there was a neat sign: “Ladies, please do not use”. That was regarded as a challenge by some. One small step… At the end of my third year, I suddenly realised that I was supposed to be applying for articles of clerkship so that I could be admitted. I knew no one in the profession. Most students had some connections. I got the student advice about which firms simply did not interview females at all; and which were the firms which asked about your school; and which did not employ Catholics (or Protestants). One of my friends had been offered a place in a very good firm, but had decided to take a tutorship, as he was married with a young family, and couldn’t survive on clerk’s salary. He suggested that I should contact them, as they would now have a vacancy. This I did, and was interviewed by a delightful commercial partner. I received an offer, which I accepted. There is a lot about my career which is serendipitous – and this was certainly one of those moments. The firm was Cannan & Peterson, and long-standing and highly successful firm, and one of the large firms in Brisbane at the time. I undertook 2 years of articles with them, and learned an enormous amount. I made friends – clerks, partners and support staff – who remain so today. I started work the week after the 1974 Brisbane floods. The office was on the 17th and 18th floors. The lifts weren’t working, as the basement had flooded. Nor was there any air conditioning – in January in Brisbane. I took my lunch to work, and whenever you had to go to court or to the registries, you made very sure you had everything you needed. No mobile phones for the call back to the office. The clerks were very fit by the end of the three or four weeks it took to get the lifts working. When I finished articles, I took a position with the then Public Curator (now Public Trustee) in the will-making section. I had one subject to complete my degree – Conveyancing and Drafting. I enjoyed the work, which involved taking instructions from the public for their wills and drafting the wills for execution. There were no other women in the legal area. I learned a lot from the very experienced lawyers, and I gradually convinced most of them that I could be trusted with drafting work. I could draft all sort of clauses automatically – which was very useful when I sat the drafting exam at the end of the year. I finished way ahead of time, and got a distinction. I was expecting our first child, which was of some consternation to the front office staff, who would insist on bringing the clients into the office, rather than me escorting them from the waiting lounge. Some of the clients were similarly concerned, including one who asked, as I stood to welcome him – “Are you all right to do this?” There were so many possible responses – but I simply assured him that I was. In 1976, there was no maternity leave. In Queensland, there was not even any discrimination legislation, so I had to resign my position. There was no such thing as part-time practice, except if you were in your own firm, and I was in no financial position – or experienced enough – to do that. So I was left with a new baby and no job. Then I heard that the new Law School at the (then) Queensland Institute of Technology was seeking part-time tutors. I applied, and the week prior to the interview, I had 4 wisdom teeth removed. I thought that I scrubbed up fairly well, though my face was still a little swollen. It was only afterwards that one of the interviewers said “You looked so awful. We felt sorry for you”. He hastened to add that I had got the job on merit. It was in that initial interview that some of the attitudes of the profession came to bear. The interview panel was two of the foundation staff members, and a very senior solicitor. All proceeded well, until the solicitor asked “I see you have a child. Do you really need to work? Have you made appropriate arrangements?” All sorts of responses shot through my head, but I really needed a job. Resisting the temptation to say that I had organised fresh water and a running leash, I stated that I able to do the work, and had relevant qualifications. The two academics had looked appalled when the question was posed, so I realised that my response wouldn’t have a major influence in the assessment. But the fact that it was asked – and was clearly something that that practitioner would normally ask at an interview – was a sign that the profession had a way to go in dealing with women and family responsibilities. So I began my legal teaching career with part-time tutoring in the evenings, when my teacher husband could look after our daughter. I enjoyed the work – and the interaction. The evening classes were part-time students, as QIT (now QUT) offered the first part-time law degree in Queensland. So my students were public servants, police, teachers, and five year articled clerks all of whom worked full-time. They were interested, challenging and wanting to work in the law. Many of them, certainly from the first few years, when the intakes were smaller, became – and remain – friends. There was quite a close relationship between the staff and students which diminished over time as intakes and staff numbers grew. There were sessions at the pub, and cricket matches on back lawns. Over the years, my teaching loads increased, and I began to take on lecturing as well as tutoring. I had two more daughters – one timed for the mid-semester break, and the other not quite so, resulting in a semester off. It was only many years afterwards that one of my students said “We saw you teaching and working when you were pregnant, and thought yes, see – it can be done”. Over the 11 years I was in the law school, I lectured and tutored in Introduction to Law, Land Law, Torts, and Succession. I wrote articles for the Law Society Journal and for the ALJR. During this time, I was also highly involved in the establishment of the Women Lawyers Association of Queensland, and was a foundation member in 1978, later becoming Social Secretary, Vice-President and President. There was a lot to do to address some of the attitudinal issues in the profession. Much of it related to the fact that women in the profession were still regarded as something of an exception. When the Queensland Law Society negotiated a disability insurance cover for practitioners, we took a close look at it, and discovered that there was a penalty premium for women. We approached the Society to explain the basis, having done some research ourselves on the actuarial information. The Society’s initial response was that they hadn’t “noticed” the penalty. When pressed for action, they did take it up with the insurers, who had to admit that there was no actuarial basis for the penalty, and revised the policy to remove it. If WLAQ hadn’t read the policy and taken action, women practitioners would have paid more for no reason other than they were women. There was also a notable brouhaha when the Society one year published its Symposium program, which included a sponge making session for the “accompanying persons”. It was time to accept that women were an increasing part of the profession, and ought not be treated as oddities. In 1988, I wrote the cover story for Proctor, the Law Society journal, analysing the numbers of practitioners and asking why so few women were making it to partner level in firms. I received a furious phone call from the then President of the Society, demanding to know where I had got the figures from. I assured him that the Society had provided me with the data, and that I had simply done the calculations which were not undertaken or published then by the Society. Whilst he was still unhappy, he couldn’t dispute the numbers. I also worked as an honorary solicitor, and board member for an increasing number of voluntary and community organisations, putting my legal knowledge to work where it helped. At one stage, I could put together a constitution for a kindergarten in my sleep. I worked for a number of years on the board of the Foster Parents Association as they dealt with difficulties in child protection and the police. In 1998, my old firm advertised for someone to design and conduct their internal professional development and recruitment. I successfully applied, and was appointed the first Human Resources Lawyer in Queensland, and I think at that time, in Australasia. I was responsible for designing and implementing the recruitment and in-house professional development for clerks, lawyers and partners, including designing and facilitating national strategy meetings and retreats – or as I preferred to call them, “advances”. Whilst with the firm, I became increasingly involved and interested in law firm management, particularly in managing legal services and risk. The Managing Partner asked if I would look at how the firm could gain Quality Assurance certification, which was then a requirement for appointment to Queensland Government legal panels. And so I learned everything I could about QA, and worked with the CFO to design and implement QA in a law firm. In 1993, the firm (now Norton Rose Fulbright) became the first law firm to achieve external QA certification. During this time, I also undertook part-time, a Master of Administration, as I was managing more than practising, and my thesis was on measuring service quality in a professional firm. At that time, there were very few legal practice managers, there were no law firm marketers, and few HR managers – and none of them were qualified lawyers. I was able to bring to those diverse disciplines my knowledge and understanding of the law, how lawyers were trained and thought, how the legal system worked, and how the disciplines of management and legal practice – in particular client relationship management and practice risk management were at the heart of what was needed for the challenges of the new century ahead. I had a level of acceptance at partner level in firms as a lawyer speaking about management issues. I could provide support with personal professional experience about the issues of law firm management “from the inside”. I was a foundation member of Australian Law Practice Managers Association in Queensland and of the Queensland Association of Law Firm Marketers. I was an active participant in Continuing Legal Education Association of Australasia. I led writing about legal practice management and seminars for the QLS. But my professional training was always the touchstone for what would be practical. I saw a market opportunity, and started my own consultancy firm, and spent the next 6 years working with professional service firms all over Australia and New Zealand to implement QA, develop and deliver professional development, undertake strategic planning, and implement practice risk management. I became involved in the AIM, as my work was increasingly law firm management rather than legal practice. I also became involved in the National Council of Women of Australia in Queensland, when the then President invited me to assist in the policy submissions for the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act in 1991-2. I then became a member of Queensland Committee, and then National Vice-President. In 1994, I was invited to become a member of the Australian Council for Women, a consultative body established by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet as part of the preparations for the UN Conference on Women to be held in Beijing in September 1995. Not only did I assist with conducting consultation sessions for women all over Australia – from Burnie to Darwin – but I was also fortunate to then be nominated as the NCWA delegate to the not-for-profit section of conference in Beijing, as well as attending some of the Conference Plenary sessions – an experience I will always treasure. In 2009, I was recruited to a Senior Executive national business development role at the Australian Government Solicitor (AGS) in Canberra, as part of moving the organisation from the public service into a fully competitive national law firm. At the time AGS was one of the largest law firms in Australia, with an office in every capital city and more than 700 lawyers. All work (apart from a limited area of cabinet and security work) became fully competitive through tender. I was responsible for developing and implementing innovative approaches to client service management, including a national client service management model that was so successful that it became part of the requirements in many Departments’ legal panel tender processes. I applied my marketing and knowledge management skills to support AGS in being a highly successful participant of the national legal market. I designed, developed and implemented a national practice standard for applied practice risk management. Whilst in Canberra, I was one of the initiators in establishing the ACT chapter of Australian Corporate Lawyers Association (ACLA). I served as vice-president of ACLA for 5 years, during which time the chapter grew from an initial membership of 25 to over 450, becoming the third largest chapter in Australia. I was also a National Director for ACLA. ACLA in the ACT was dominated, unsurprisingly, by public sector lawyers, and it was at my instigation that ACLA (now ACC) extended their awards to include one for public sector lawyers. That continues to this day. I also became a Director of the AICD, the first woman to be appointed in the ACT. I was already a Fellow of the AICD, which I had achieved in 1993, when I was a Director of Powerlink Queensland. I was initially appointed because AICD wanted a lawyer – but they also got someone who was keenly interested in the (then) emerging area of corporate governance and director training. I remained on that Council until 2009. My legal training and experience was recognised as important in ensuring the development of appropriate Director training on the legal aspects of directorship; in ensuring that the challenges of being a director of a government owned corporation or business enterprise were included in the curriculum. My understanding of practical ethics contributed to the development of the conflicts area of director training. I was a foundation Chair of the Women in Management group at the Australian Institute of Management in Brisbane, and I was one of the first women to be made a Fellow of the AIM – though at the time, I did joke that perhaps they should instigate “Sheilas of the Institute” as becoming a fellow had never been a high priority for me as a female. My major achievement for AIM was to instigate the Women in Management Great Debates, the first of which was held in Brisbane in 1997. This event is now the largest AIM event, attracting annual attendances of over 2000 in the Brisbane Convention Centre in the week of International Women’s Day. When I moved to Canberra, I took the Debate idea south, with similarly spectacular success – it became the largest event in the ACT, with more than 1200 attendees. In 2015, the event was also held in Melbourne and Sydney. In Canberra, I was also responsible for establishing the first AIM mentoring program for women in management. Throughout my work with other professional organisations, I became well known as a lawyer who was vitally interested in management, in progressing women through corporate ranks and in tackling the challenges of managing professionals and professional cultures. I was regularly called on for comment or to write about successful approaches to managing professional staff and firms. In 2009, I was appointed as CEO of the Queensland Law Society, the first female to hold that position. As the peak professional body for solicitors, it was warming to return to where I really started my professional career. I was constantly impressed by the amount of pro bono work that lawyers undertook. Not just the high profile and important representation in court, but the daily contributions made to help individuals and communities across the state. One of my major achievements was to implement a measure for the hours of pro bono which practitioners undertook annually. The number was enormous, and represented millions of dollars of value. We used that information with Government and with the press to push for recognition of the extent and financial value of that contribution by lawyers across the State. Over the six years I was CEO, we worked closely with the WLAQ to ensure that the Society was offering services to women in the profession. We established the Flexibility Working Group, which regularly publishes personal stories of how flexible approaches can work in the profession. Increasingly, the importance of wellbeing in the profession was raised as a critical issue, and I was pleased to be able to instigate the Society’s support mechanisms to assist practitioners, with free sessions, the extension of the LawCare program and the establishment of the Resilience Working Group as well as being the first Law Society to become a signatory to the Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation Guidelines for wellbeing. Through just over 40 years in my professional career, I have seen enormous changes. Most are for the better. The growth of women in the legal profession to almost 50% (from 15.5% in 1988) poses current and future challenges to ensure that this significant feminisation brings positive and creative results for clients, firms and for the individual members of the profession. I retired as CEO in June 2015, but I remain an active member of the Society, and of WLAQ, which honoured me with an Honorary Membership in early 2015. I have had a most enjoyable and very rewarding professional life, though one at a slight tangent from the usual profession life in practice. The chief lessons I have learned are that no learning is ever lost; to take up opportunities, even if they are not necessarily mainstream; to maintain a strong sense of humour and to practice the key touchstones of professional courtesy and strong ethics in everything you do. As a personal benefit, I treasure my many valuable, lifelong friendships, and have always been proud to be a lawyer. I hope to keep contributing whilst I have something useful to offer. Published resources Edited Book A Woman's Place: 100 Years of Queensland Women Lawyers, Purdon, Susan and Rahemtula, Aladin, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Noela L'Estrange Created 18 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Noela L'Estrange Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Manuscript, 4 cm. Battye library, records of the Edith Cowan memorial committee, which was set up to memorialise Edith Cowan, Australia’s first woman parliamentarian. The question of a memorial to Edith Cowan was first raised at the monthly meeting of the Western Australian National Council of Women in August 1932, where it was decided to call a public meeting. The public meeting held on 23 September 1932 moved for the formation of a committee to decide on the form of a memorial. After much controversy, the clock tower at the entrance to Kings Park was unveiled in 1934. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 25 September 2002 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes ‘Orana’ building correspondence; annual report 1975; a copy of Orana Methodist Peace Memorial Homes for Children: a primer of residential child care; various publications on child care and on ‘Orana’; Government Acts. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 March 2004 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Minute books, 1961-1987 (6 vols). ?Cash books recording income and expenditure, 1961-1987 (4 vols). ?Correspondence books recording outward correspondence, 1961-1987 (13 vols). ?Miscellaneous drama and concert records, c1970 (1 file). ?Annual reports from Western Australian state conferences, 1970-1986 (1 file). ?Albums containing photographs of members and functions, 1976 and 1985 (2 albums). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Born in 1886 in Marrickville, Sydney, Annette Kellerman was a New South Wales swimming champion who left for England aged 18 to help her cash-strapped family. In Europe, she built a name for herself in long distance swimming and exotic swimming and diving demonstrations. By 1906 she had moved to vaudeville theatre in America as ‘Australia’s Mermaid’ and quickly progressed to the big screen. Kellerman enjoyed tremendous success as a silent movie star in mythological underwater films, including Neptune’s Daughter. The daughter of musical parents, Frederick William Kellermann and Alice Ellen (née Charbonnet), Annette’s swimming career began at the age of six. Compelled to wear steel braces due to a weakness in the legs, she learned to swim as a way of gaining strength. By her early teens her legs were functioning normally, and she began to swim competitively. She won the 100 yards and mile championships of New South Wales in 1902 with record times of 1 minute, 22 seconds and 33 minutes, 49 seconds respectively. When the family moved to Melbourne, Kellermann combined her passion for swimming with her theatrical ability, performing a mermaid act at Princes Court entertainment centre and appearing twice a day with fish in a glass tank at the Exhibition Aquarium. She completed a long-distance swim in the Yarra and several exhibitions throughout Australia, acclaimed as the holder of all world records for ladies’ swimming. In 1905 she visited England with her father, swimming the Thames from Putney bridge to Blackwall pier in 3 hours, 54 minutes. Sponsored by the Daily Mirror she attempted to swim the English Channel but was unsuccessful. In France, she was placed third in a seven-mile race down the Seine. The following year she completed a twenty-two mile race down the Danube, and made a second unsuccessful attempt to swim the Channel. According to G.P. Walsh (Australian Dictionary of Biography), Kellerman’s one-piece swimsuit made by stitching black stockings into a boy’s costume caused somewhat of a sensation in her early career. She was arrested on a Boston beach for wearing a brief one-piece swimsuit in 1907. Ironically, the publicity ‘helped to relax laws relating to women’s swimwear’ and Kellermann ‘regarded her part in emancipating women from the neck-to-knee costume as her greatest achievement’. Kellermann gave up her swimming career to take up acting in earnest. She performed at leading theatres in Europe, the U.S.A., the U.K. and Australia. Many of her performances incorporated diving stunts which she did herself. In 1912 she married her manager, American-born James Raymond Louis Sullivan. During World War II she lived in Queensland, working for the Red Cross and entertaining troops. She and her husband came to live in Australia permanently in 1970. Kellermann had no children of her own, but produced a book of children’s stories, Fairy Tales of the South Seas, in 1926. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Fairy Tales of the South Seas and other stories, Kellermann, Annette, 1926 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Section Kellermann, Annette Marie Sarah (1886 - 1975), Walsh, G.P., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090547b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 December 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "From the ‘Papers of W.H. Ifould’ (ML MSS 1878 Mitchell Library)?Dated from: A source of inspiration & delight : The buildings of the State Library of New South Wales since 1826 / David J. Jones. Sydney : Library Council of New South Wales, 1988 (p.88) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 6 October 2008 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Marie Wood graduated in Arts from the University of Melbourne in 1967, taught at McKinnon High School, Melbourne, and trained briefly as a graduate nurse at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. In late 1969 she joined the New South Wales Department of Child and Welfare Services as a teacher at Bidura, Glebe, a temporary receiving home for children removed from their families before allocation to foster homes or other institutions. From February to July 1970, she taught girls convicted of ‘exposure to moral danger’ and similar offences at the Department’s Ormond Training School for Girls, Thornleigh, Sydney. Marie Wood was born at Elwood, Melbourne, in 1946, one of the six children of Gordon Stanway, a paper merchant, and Mary neé Reid. She was educated at the Star of the Sea Convent, Garden Vale, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne in 1967. She taught at Mckinnon High School, Melbourne, before enrolling as a graduate student in nursing at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, in February 1969. On abandoning her nursing studies she joined the New South Wales Department of Child and Welfare Services as a teacher at Bidura, Glebe, a receiving home where children were temporarily accommodated awaiting placement in foster homes or transfer to other establishments. From February to July 1970 she was transferred to teach at the Department’s Ormond Training School for Girls at Thornleigh, where she taught a class of younger girls who had been convicted of ‘exposure to moral danger’ and similar offences. In 1971 she completed her teacher training with the New South Wales Department of Education and taught at Bass Hill High, before traveling to London where she taught in the East End for the Inner London Education Authority. While in London she married an Australian diplomat, Gregory Wood, they have three sons. She is currently Manager, Strategic Development, in the National Office of Museums Australia. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Marie Wood interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens in the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 11 August 2010 Last modified 21 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes broadsheet, 24 May 1797 describing horse stolen, copy of Margaret Catchpole’s confession, 27 May 1797, brief for the prosecution 1797, and 5 letters by Margaret Catchpole from Sydney, 1803-1811. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Kathleen Taperell ran only once for parliament (ALP candidate, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Nepean, 1973) and went on to become a leading feminist and a senior public servant. From 1990, she has been Senior Adviser to the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs and Assistant Secretary in the Department. Her papers are deposited in the National Library of Australia. Kathleen Taperell was born in Sydney and educated at Eastwood Public School, and Our Lady of Mercy College Parramatta. She completed a BA at the University of Sydney (1959), and a Dip Ed at the University of New England (1969). She married John Tucker, with whom she had two sons. She was known as Kathleen Tucker when she ran for the NSW seat of Nepean in 1973. She later returned to using her own name of Taperell. She taught in NSW secondary schools 1967-72 and then became electorate Secretary to MHR John Kerin in 1973. From 1974 she was a public servant, on the staff of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration, the Public Service Board (Equal Opportunity Section) and from 1977 she was senior adviser at the Office of Women’s Affairs, Canberra. From 1978 to 1983 She was Director of the Office of Women’s Affairs (later Office of the Status of Women). She published Sexism in Public Service: the employment of women in Australian government administration with C. Fox and M. Roberts, in 1975. She has been Convenor of the Women’s Film Fund Advisory Panel, 1978-83. She represented Australia on the Preparatory Committee for the World Conference of the UN Decade for Women 1978-1980 and was a member of the Australian delegation to it in 1980. She was a member of the Australian delegation to the OECD High Level Conference on Women’s employment in 1980. In 1984 she moved to the Department of Foreign Affairs where she worked on human rights questions, and in 1986 she joined the Department of the Special Minister of State. She was Assistant Secretary, Prime Minister’s Department 1986-90. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Finding Aid Guide to the Papers of Kathleen Taperell, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-294488569/findingaid Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Australian National University Archives Women's Studies - Tenth Anniversary at ANU - Dr. Dorothy Broom, Dr. Jill Matthews, Dr. Susan Magarey, Ms. Wang Ying, Ms. Wu Lintao, Ms. Xu Xuehai, Ms. Liu Maoshu, Ms. Lian Lijuan, Kathleen Taperell & others National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Kathleen Taperell interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Kathleen Taperell, 1973-1992 [manuscript] Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Includes personal letters, business correspondence and other papers. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A collection of material relating to two very large choral/orchestral performances held at the Exhibition Buildings as part of the bicentennial celebrations in 1988 and Victoria’s 150th: Australia-Australia, and Victoria-Victoria. Faye Dumont was one of the principal organisers of both performances and her collection includes minutes of organising committees, correspondence, press-cuttings, performer contracts, music-scores, programs and photographs. Both performances involved massed choirs from across Victoria, the Melbourne Symphony, various soloists, Richard Divall, and a cast of thousands, and they were two of the largest staged events undertaken as part of these celebrations. The collection also contains similar material relating the first National Choral Festiva which Faye was also heavily involved with. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records include: Correspondence 1938-1971. Printed material, photographs. The bulk of the correspondence is with her friends Sibyl Hewett, secretary of the Victorian branch of the British Music Society. There is also a collection of biographical material on Louise Hanson Dyer compiled by Sibyl Hewett. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 20 October 2008 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Poems; original notes of “Arrows”; correspondence, including letters from John Hargrave, Mrs. Kathleen Murchie, Clem Christeson, Karol Boyar, and Helen Cameron Roberts; two postcards; several periodicals; corrected proofs of the Tilted Cart; and miscellaneous press clippings on a wide variety of subjects of interest to Mary Gilmore. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The flag has a white or bone background, green border, emblematic tree, and motto: mihi cura futuri, and the fabric shows signs of wear and tear. The flag was designed and made by Ruth Lane Poole. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 January 2013 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Marylyn Mayo was an inspirational teacher to many female law students, and encouraged them in their legal careers. She established a full law degree at James Cook University and was influential on many of the University’s boards and committees. Marylyn graduated with Bachelor degrees in Law and Arts as one of a small group of female law graduates at the University of Auckland in the 1960. After being admitted as a barrister and solicitor by the Supreme Court of New Zealand, she worked in private practice before joining the Ministry of Works as Auckland District Solicitor. Marylyn Mayo graduated with Bachelor degrees in Law and Arts as one of a small group of female law graduates at the University of Auckland in New Zealand in the 1960s. After being admitted as a barrister and solicitor by the Supreme Court of New Zealand, she worked in private practice before joining the Ministry of Works as Auckland District Solicitor. Mayo began lecturing in law in 1969 at Queensland’s Townsville University College, which later became James Cook University of North Queensland. As a woman in a predominately male academic field, she was an inspirational mentor for many women in North Queensland. She realised her dream of establishing a full law degree at James Cook University in 1989 and was the Foundation Head of the School of Law and acting Dean until 1990, after which she continued lecturing. Marylyn was deputy Dean until 1993. In addition to lecturing, she published articles and presented at conferences. She retired from academic life in 1996. Marylyn served on several boards and committees, including the Chair of the Townsville Hospital Ethics Committee, and membership of the University and National Health and Medical Research Council Ethics Committee. She also served on various university committees, including the University Council, Academic Board and Promotions Committee. She was president of James Cook University Staff Association and an active member of the James Cook University Branch of the National Tertiary Education Union. Marylyn died in 2002 and has several lectures and scholarships named in her honour. Published resources Edited Book A Woman's Place: 100 Years of Queensland Women Lawyers, Purdon, Susan and Rahemtula, Aladin, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nicola Silbert Created 22 February 2016 Last modified 19 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1. Lena Gustin papers:? A. Personal papers, 1922-1991? B. Journalism, 1957-1969? C. Broadcasting, 1972-1981? D. ANFE (NSW) (Associazione Nazionale Famiglie Emigranti/National Association of Emigrant Families), 1959-1972? E. Sorella Radio Welfare Fund, 1972-1985? F. National Women’s Advisory Council, 1978-1982?? 2. Dino Gustin papers:? A. Personal and business papers, 1937-1989? B. Papers relating to “70 anni di ricordi in due mondi/70 years of life in two countries: Italy and Australia” (1987)?? 3. Lena and Dino Gustin papers:? A. Papers relating to radio broadcasting on stations 2SM, 2CH, 2KY and 2SER-FM B. Press cuttings, 1958-1992? C. Printed material, 1909, 1925, 1952-1988? D. Audio tapes, 1967-1988 at MLOH 133/1-5? E. Photographs, ca.1915-1992 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Author, poet and editor Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader (http://www.compulsivereader.com/html). Her short stories, editorials, poetry, reviews and articles have appeared in a wide number of printed anthologies and journals, and have won local and international awards for poetry and fiction. Magdalena Ball grew up in New York City where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from CCNY. After completing her BA, she moved to Oxford England to do an M.Litt on “The Articulation of Silence: Joyce, Yeats, and Woolf,” which ultimately ended in absolute silence and wasn’t completed, although she did pass her qualifying exam, including a lively and enjoyable VIVA on the thesis with author John Bailey. After that Magdalena migrated, with her husband Martin, to Australia, where she set down permanent roots, completed an MBA from Charles Sturt University, and took on a satisfyingly left brain job as an information manager with Orica. She also works as a manuscript assessor for Manuscripts Online, is a member of the BookConnector Advisory Board, an Evaluative Reader for Catchfire Press, and mother to three gorgeous children (not always in that order). She is the author of a non-fiction book The Art of Assessment (Mountain Mist Productions 2003), an award winning poetry chapbook Quark Soup (Picaro Press, 2006), and Sleep Before Evening, her debut novel which was released by BeWrite books in July 2007. Magdalena’s publications include: Repulsion Thrust, BeWrite Books, 2009 (poetry) Sleep Before Evening, BeWrite Books, 2007 (novel) Quark Soup, Picaro Press, 2006 (poetry chapbook) The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything, Mountain Mist Productions, 2003. Cherished Pulse, Compulsive Reader Publications, 2006 (poetry chapbook – collaboration with Carolyn Howard-Johnson) “Loosen Your Belt”: Global Delights: A feast of stories and poetry and recipes, 2003, Ethnic Communities Council and The Hunter Writer’s Centre “The Last Bet” Commendation Prize, Roland Robinson 2005 Short Story Award. Published in Fifth Branch Down (print anthology, 2005, ed. Jean Kent) “The Fall” Skive Magazine: ‘Next Stop: the best of Skive Magazine, 2004-2003’ (print publication), and online at http://www.skivemagazine.mockfrog.com.au/stories0204/thefall.html, the story shortlisted in the Glen Eira “My Brother Jack” short story awards 2002 “Whiz Kid” Skive Magazine: http://www.skivemagazine.mockfrog.com.au/stories0704/whizkid.html “The Clarity Centre” Skive Magazine: http://www.skivemagazine.mockfrog.com.au/stories1204/theclarity.html “The Haunting” Mocha Memoirs, http://www.mochamemoirs.com/archives/issue14c.shtml 2004 Newcastle Poetry Prize, shortlisted, “Betelgeuse” (multimedia section), published in ‘The Cool Breath Burn’: Anthology Roland Robinson Literary Award, 2006 Commendation Award (“Oceanic”), 2005 Commendation Award (“The Last Bet”), 2004 Commendation Prize (“Exile”); 2000 Commendation Certificate (“Whorl”) Binnacle Ultra Short Competition, shortlist, “In the aftermath” Poetry has been published in A Painted Summer (print anthology, 2004, ed. Jean Kent), Beneath the Valley (print anthology June 2005, reprinted 2006, Catchfire Press), The Uncontained Sea (Print Anthology, 2000, ed Jean Kent), Bird Before Landing (print anthology 2002), The Harpweaver (print anthology Volume 9, Autumn 2001), In Our Own Words Volume 4 and Volume 5 (Print anthology, MW Enterprises), The Pedestal Magazine, Thylazine (Ten Australian Poets, Series 9), Long Story Short, Artemis, The Golden Thread, The Green Tricycle, Niederngasse, Mocha Memoirs, OzPoet, Perigree (one year anniversary issue), The Flying Corn Press (Aug 2004, Poet of the Month), Poetically Speaking (2005), Void Magazine (June & September 2005), The Australian Reader (2005), Gunch Press: Poultry Broadside (print publication, November 2005), Mothering Magazine (print publication, Jan 2006), Haiku for Writers, Poetry Canada Magazine (print publication, June-Sept 2006), Totem Triptychs collaborative art project with Don Swartzentruber, Granola Mama, Blue Pepper, Escape Velocity magazine, Goodwill to All Men (print anthology, Anchor Books, 2006), The Westerly (Roland Robinson Literary Awards 2006, edited by Jean Kent and Judy Johnson), Stories for A Long Summer (Print Anthology, Catchfire Press, 2006), Cezanne’s Carrot, Australian Poetic Society, PeachPublishing, Cerebral Catalyst, Arabesques, Astropoetica. Reviews/Interviews have been published in Cordite, Imago, Coppertales, Drexel Online Journal, Midwest Book Reviews (regular reviewer), MC Reviews, Relix Magazine, AussieReviews, Mommylinks, Shorncliss, Phillymama, RealLifeSolutions, Local LIT, E2K (staff writer), Thylazine, NewPages, and Media-Culture Reviews. Essays/articles have been published in Aribella, Parenting Magazine, Kidz on the Coast magazine, Net author (staff writer), Inscriptions, Scriptorium, Absolute Write, Sell Writing Online, The e-Writer’s Place, Write to inspire, The Writer Gazette, Performance Poetry, Beyond Fertility, RaisingOurKids, Ripe Lifestyle Magazine, T-Zero: The Writer’s Ezine, The Writer magazine, and the 2005 edition of The Writer’s Handbook (69th Edition) (The Writer Books), Long Story Short, Thylazine, Writing Now, Writer’s Best Friend, The Verb, The Complete Writer’s Journal (Red Engine Press, 2006), and Poetry Canada (print magazine, Oct 2006) Published resources Magdalena Ball is listed in the Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers. Book The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything, Ball, Magdalena, 2003 Quark Soup, Ball, Magdalena, 2006 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 5 July 2007 Last modified 16 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "List of members, 1937-1938, and as of June 30th, 1948. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jacinta Collins was chosen to represent Victoria for the Australian Labor Party in the Senate in 1995. She was elected to the same position in 1998, but defeated at the general elections in 2004. She was re-appointed in May 2008 on the resignation of Senator Robert Ray, but she had been re-elected at the 2007 general election and took her seat in the Senate for a term of six years on 1 July 2008. She held the portfolio of Health and Ageing for a short period before the 2013 election, when she was re-elected and the Labor Government was defeated. Jacinta Collins has been a member of the Australian Labor Party since 1987. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Monash) and Bachelor of Social Work (La Trobe), before working as a Social Welfare Officer and Research Officer for the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association. In 1989, Collins joined the ALP’s Administrative Committee; Status of Women Committee; and Social Justice Policy Committee. She was appointed to the Senate in 1995 following the death of Senator Olive Zakharov. In the ten years from 1995 to 2005, Collins served on Senate Legislative and References Committees on Community Affairs; Economics; and Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education. She was a participating member on the References Committee for Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. Collins was a member of the Parliamentary Delegation to the 101st IPU Conference in Brussels, Belgium, April 1999; and of the Parliamentary Delegation to the Russian Federation in mid-2005. From 1998 to 2001, she was Parliamentary Secretary representing the Shadow Ministers for Industrial Relations and Employment, Training and Population in the Senate. From mid-2003 to 2004, Collins was a member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry, serving as Shadow Minister for Children and Youth. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 19 July 2007 Last modified 12 January 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 29 April 2003 Last modified 12 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Servicewoman Betty Newlyn (later Ball) Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Betty Ball at the 60th National Renunion of the WAAAF Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0484gc.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0484gd.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour??Ellinor Walker joined the Women’s Non-Party Political Association in 1914 at the age of 21. She speaks of her understanding of the Association’s formation in 1909, her reasons for joining, the Association’s objectives and rationale, and the special strengths and interests of ‘the mother half of the race’. (Although Miss Walker does not speak of Edith Hubbe, the WN-PPA was one of Mrs Hubbe’s interests during the 1920s.) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This folder includes publicity material, program and annotated attendance list for the 25th anniversary celebrations of Women’s Studies at the University held on 3 May 2001. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 February 2013 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection consists of minutes of meetings, correspondence, information regarding volunteers, names of the women’s organizations associated with the register, names and addresses of the various enterprises and industries that might require assistance, a short history, annual reports work classifications, rules and guidelines.??The John Oxley Library is in temporary accommodation until 2006. Most material is kept off-site. Researchers wishing to use the manuscript collection should contact the research librarian prior to visiting the library to confirm the availability of the material. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 June 2004 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mrs Thelma Long visited Germany in 1938 as a team member of the Australian Women’s Tennis Team and describes her experiences. As part of the war effort, she joined the Red Cross as a transport driver and worked in Melbourne. She then joined the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS). She gives a history of women’s participation in the armed forces: navy, airforce and army; also the medical services. She details many statistics, eg. 70,000 women served in the combined services in the 1939-1945 war. She describes women’s participation in the field, in Australia and New Guinea. She discusses women’s conditions in the context of the period: pay rates, duties, value, etc. Mrs Long was on the staff of Colonel S.H. Irving MBE, Controller AWAS for a time and describes people, places and events in Melbourne from 1942. She mentions differences between the American troops and the Australians. In Mrs Long’s opinion, women working in the forces pioneered their working in careers. The role of women in the war is discussed: women in the armed forces released some 55,000 men to go to forward positions. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Consists of personal and business correspondence, circulars, journal articles, brochures, leaflets, newscuttings, newsletters, notes, pamphlets, sermons and service sheets. They record Harrison’s long and distinguished career as a minister of the Presbyterian church. Correspondents include Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Viscount and Viscountess Slim, Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies and Elsie Curtin, wife of John Curtin. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 June 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Daughter of the Swiss born Elise Lehmann, Louise Lovely began her stage career at the age of eight, playing Eva in Uncle Tom’s Cabin at the Lyceum in Sydney. She subsequently appeared in many stage and screen productions. In 1912, Louise moved to Hollywood with her husband Wilton Welch and became a star, cast in at least 24 films for Universal Studios and nearly a dozen western films for Fox Studios. She returned to Australia in 1924. Louise Lovely was an Australian actress and film maker with a career in both Australia and the United States. Sadly, few of Lovely’s films have survived. Lovely’s career began as an actress in stage melodramas and vaudeville in Australia and America. In 1915, she was signed to Universal Studios. In 1917, Universal established Louise Lovely Productions, however Lovely herself had no control over the productions. In March 1918, she left Universal over contract disputes and shortly after began work with Fox Studios. Lovely starred in her final US film in 1921. She then returned to Australia. Upon her return to Australia, Lovely began production on her final film Jewelled Nights (Lovely and Welch, 1925). While the extent of her contribution to this production is not certain, sources indicate she not only acted, but co-wrote the script, directed scenes, edited the film, and assisted in the design and publicity of the film. The film was produced by her company Louise Lovely Productions. The film was financially unsuccessful and Lovely subsequently retired from the film industry. Published resources Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Louise Lovely, actress, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Film and Sound Archive [Lovely, Louise : Documentation] [Lovely, Louise : Interviewed By Ross Cooper : Oral History] [Axford, Maisie : Interviewed by David Atfield : Oral History] [Lovely, Louise : Interviewed by Ina Bertrand, 1978 : Oral History] Author Details Barbara Lemon and Hollie Aerts Created 3 October 2008 Last modified 5 January 2011 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of the Wilson, Major, Strawbridge, Giles and Tyrrell families, and related UK families, collected by Shirley Cameron Wilson. The earliest donations relate to Charles Algernon Wilson and his daughter Emily A.L. Wilson, comprising a small collection of invitations, menus, toast lists, dance programmes and 2 volumes of autograph signatures of nineteenth century South Australians. Between 2003 and 2006 a very large collection of family papers was donated by Shirley Cameron Wilson’s executors after her death. The papers cover nearly 200 different archival series in a variety of subjects in many different formats including correspondence, original artworks, published material, photographs, militaria, realia and interviews on audio-cassettes, reflecting in particular her great interest in her family history and women artists, which resulted in her two publications: “The Bridge Over The Ocean” in 1973, a history of her ancestor Thomas Wilson, his art collection and the establishment of a SA family dynasty, written in association with Mr. K.T. Borrow, and “From Shadow Into Light: South Australian Women Artists Since Colonisation”, in 1988. Other papers donated at the same time will be incorporated into PRG 627 for the King family. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contains mainly unpublished typescripts of works by members of the Gepp family including autobiographical notes on the career of Herbert Gepp; copies of a narrative entitled “Youth as it flies” by Gepp’s daughter Mardi Gething detailing her experience during World War 1939-1945 as a pilot in the air transport auxiliary; and a draft by Kathleen Gepp entitled “First the desert”. Also includes newspaper cuttings, 1933-1954, relating to the knighthood and death of Herbert Gepp; letters to Kathleen Gepp from Henry Miller, 1960, regarding the possible publication of her work, and a letterbook kept by Lady Jessie Gepp during a trip to Great Britain, 1911-1912. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Newspaper cuttings, photographs, programmes, correspondence, and badges relating to Kathleen Le Messurier’s tennis career. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 June 2007 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc99/125 comprises research notes, notebooks, data, and graphs pertaining to wool research, and drafts and correspondence relating to Makinson’s book, Shrinkproofing of wool, published in 1979 (5 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A look at the lives of 3 successful Australian women who are in their forties. Joyce Nicholson is a writer and business woman, Helen Laycock is a potter, and Rosie Smith runs a craft business. Each describes her work and her experiences as a wife and mother.?Melbourne : Monique Schwarz [producer] : International Women’s Year Committee [sponsor] : Melbourne State College [sponsor], [1975?].?Producer, director, editor, Monique Schwarz; photographer, Peter Tammer; sound, Russell Hurley?Note: Censorship rating: General. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 January 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records including the Minutes for 1944-1967, correspondence 1951-1968, cash book 1965-1966, conference proceedings, copies and drafts of the constitution, press cuttings and various publications issued by the Australian Women’s Charter. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Annotated typescript drafts of four poems, c.1960 -“Mr and Mrs Beam”, “The Doom Caller”, “The Optimist” (all signed) and “Mr Dove” (unsigned) – together with an article about Riddell, written by Janet Hawley and published in the “Good Weekend”, 20 August 1994, pp. 16-17. All items are bound in one volume, and formerly formed part of the library of collector Geoffrey Cains. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 November 2007 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, minutes of directors’ meetings, manuscripts, invoices, orders, subscriber lists, newsletters (“Sisters News”). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Silver Moon has been a political activist since 1968, and was active during the Anti Viet man War Moratoriums and anti apartheid demonstrations in the 1970s. She became active in the women’s movement while still at high school. She has spent her life as a peace and environmental activist and as an anarchist-feminist activist. Silver Moon has been a political activist since 1968, when she first became active, as a high school student, in the women’s movement. Her political interests extended beyond women’s liberation; she participated in the Anti Viet man War Moratoriums and anti apartheid demonstrations of the 1970s. Since those early years, she has maintained a long and active involvement in political matters at a community and organisational level. Between 1980-83 she was a member of the Hindmarsh Women’s Community Centre, in Adelaide, South Australia. While there she helped establish the Unemployed Women’s Union. She taught women’s studies at Department of Education, Technical and Further Education Colleges (DETAFE) in South Australia. Silver has also been a public servant. She was at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp (UK) from 1983-1988, and travelled on the peace bus to the Soviet Union. She was arrested many times and imprisoned three times during her time at Greenham Common. She was a member of the International Women’s Day Collective and the Women’s Studies Resource Centre Collective. She is currently a member of the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Newsletter Collective (Liberation). She helped establish the Women’s Environmental Action Group 1988-1991c and is the public officer for the Women’s Support Fund. As a musician she has performed with the Women’s Drumming Group and the Bangshees, and she writes and performs her own music. She was an active member of Lesbian over forty (Lofty), Lesbian Line (counselling phone service for lesbians) and the Rural Lesbian Separatist Group. She worked in Women’s Radio at Radio 5UV the Adelaide University Radio Station, mainly on the women’s magazine program “No Frills”. Her environmentalist activism is now focused on the Native Grasses Group and the Finnis Catchment Group to environmentally protect the Finnis River (SA) and its catchments and wet lands. She is a board member for the Goolwa to Wellington Local Action Planning Association, lobbying for the Murray River lower lakes environs and Trees for Life. With her audio engineering work she has recorded many women poets and musical performers including Standard Deviations. Silver worked at the Elder Conservatorium of Music as a sound technician and recordist doing CD production for students and staff. She works for the State Library of South Australia as a audio engineer in audio preservation. She is a member of the Audio Engineers Society. The State Library of South Australia has recorded 20 hours of her oral history. She lives on a farm at Finniss. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newsletter Liberation, 1970 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women's Environmental Action Group (WENG) Sylvia Kinder : SUMMARY RECORD Unemployed Women's Union : SUMMARY RECORD International Women's Day Collective Hindmarsh Women's Community Health Centre Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement : SUMMARY RECORD Interview with Silver Moon [sound recording] Interviewer: Michelle Holden Interview with Silver Moon [sound recording] Interviewer: Allison Murchie Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc99/98 comprises letters of Henrietta Drake-Brockman, correspondence, postcards, Christmas cards, invitations, newspaper cuttings and photographs (3 boxes).??The Acc99/143 instalment includes letters written by various members of the family, together with references, writings on diplomatic life, cuttings and photographs (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Katharine McGregor ‘looked a picturesque figure in the traditional wig and gown’, when she became the first woman in Queensland to be admitted as a barrister, although she never actually practiced as one. She was admitted as a solicitor and a barrister by the Supreme Court of Queensland in October 1926. Born on 16 May 1903 in South Brisbane, Katharine McGregor received a strict upbringing from her lawyer father. Upon completing her schooling at Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School, Katharine won an open scholarship to the University of Queensland where she studied classics. She graduated with first-class honours in 1923, completed a thesis on ‘The Island of Samos’ for her masterate, and served as honorary secretary of the short-lived Queensland Classical Society. Persuaded by her father to carry on the family’s legal tradition, Katharine sat the sat the Barristers’ Board examinations. As a barrister, she became friends with trailblazing lawyer Agnes McWhinney. Katharine joined her father’s law firm where she practised as a solicitor and became a partner in the firm. Katharine set up her own firm in September 1935. From 1939, Katharine worked as a private tutor in Greek and Latin, and as an examiner in classics at secondary and tertiary levels. Softly spoken and nervous, Katharine McGregor was an avid reader. She died on 25 June 1979 in Kangaroo Point. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section McGregor, Katharine Elizabeth (1913-1979), Kenny, Catherine, 2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcgregor-katharine-elizabeth-10962/text19483 Edited Book A Woman's Place: 100 Years of Queensland Women Lawyers, Purdon, Susan and Rahemtula, Aladin, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nicola Silbert Created 2 February 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "TYPE OF WORK Literary Work : APPLICANT Mabel B Brookes : DATE OF APPLICATION 5 Oct 1922 : DATE COPYRIGHT REGISTERED 30 Oct 1922 : WORK ENCLOSED? Order as sub item Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 December 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ruth Vergner was born in Vienna, however she lived in Poland from the age of six. In 1933 Ruth was awarded a scholarship to dance with Tacjanna Wysocka’s Dance Company and she was selected to go on tour with them to Italy. Ruth migrated to Melbourne in 1936 and three years later she joined the Elizabeth Wiener Modern Dance Studio. After taking a Kthakali dance class with Indian dancer Shivaram, Ruth joined him on a world tour. Ruth returned to Melbourne in 1951 and began teaching and performing at the Ballet Guild. During the 1960s she travelled and performed again with Shivaram before returning to Sydney to once again teach and perform. In 1974 Ruth performed with Shivaram at Monash University and later she opened her own dance studio at the Savoy Theatre in Melbourne. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ruth Bergner, 1933-2005 [manuscript] National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive [Ruth Bergner : Australian and New Zealand Art Files]. / Ruth. Bergner Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 7 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Documentation associated with the making of the feature film, Hills of Hate. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Black and white photographic image of May Emma (Mary Emma) McConnel. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Police women – Historical (Miss Ellen O’Donnell) Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Documentary about women’s health and medicine, with particular emphasis on community health in Adelaide. Analyses some of the misconceptions about women’s health in the medical community, and shows the work being done to give women more control over their bodies and health. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Postcard from Gwen Harwood to Rev. A. P. B. Bennie thanking him for his gift. Accompanied by two letters to Laurie McNeice, Fryer Library, (15 and 16 Nov 2006) from Jan Bennie with background information on her husband’s friendship with Gwen Harwood. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A collection of the minutes of the Women’s Group. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 9 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "P1 – Printed Parent Information??This consignment consists of leaflets, pamphlets and booklets on a range of subjects related to health and development, nutrition, parenting education and pregnancy. The dates of publication range from 1936 to 2001. The ‘Jubilee Conference on Maternal and Child Health’ paper located in the P2 consignment of this series refers to leaflets on ‘general management’ being sent out monthly as part of the Infant Welfare section’s Correspondence Service. Content from this consignment could be copies of some of this material.??Some of the leaflets contain a Government printer’s number such as 4907/49. The second number refers to the year of printing – some leaflets were revised and printed at later dates.???P2 – Various Publications??This consignment includes a range of publications and resource material such as a text book/guide, a copy of a 50th Jubilee conference paper, Maternal and Child Health program standards, standards of professional practice and examples of ‘Your Child’s Personal Health Record’ dating from 1979 to the late 1990s. The Personal Health Records were distributed to parents on enrolment in the Maternal and Child Health (Infant Welfare) Service. From the late 1990’s a new comprehensive Child Health Record was introduced with more information, particularly about child development. They were distributed on discharge from hospital and there are samples from 2001-2008. The 2008 edition was published by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development as part of a machinery of Government Change.???P3 – Framed Posters??This consignment consists of four large framed posters designed for display in infant welfare centres. The posters provided advice for parents on subjects such as vision and care of the eyes, sleeping and the benefits of night air, and preparing for school. It’s possible that they were developed in the 1940s for the newly created school nursing service, when vision and hearing screening of children was introduced (school nurses worked in schools from 1913 to the 1940s as part of the school medical service). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 25 December 2017 Last modified 25 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lucy Beeton spent most of her life on Badger Island, though she was sent to Launceston as a young girl to receive a Christian education. In adult life, the well-loved Beeton provided an education for the children of sealers on Badger Island and entertained visitors there. Lucy Beeton, of Pyemmairrener descent, was born on Badger Island, Bass Strait. Her mother was taken from her when Lucy was two, to be returned on petition from her father. While still young, Lucy was sent to Launceston where she stayed with a doctor’s family and was given a Christian education. F. R. Nixon, Anglican Bishop of Tasmania, wrote in 1854 that Beeton was the greatest lady it had even been his good fortune to encounter, that she was everyone’s friend, and that she ‘daily gathers together the children of the sealers, and does her best to impart to them the rudiments both of secular and religious knowledge’. In recognition of her work, she was given a life lease of approximately 40 ha on Badger Island. There in her cottage she entertained all visitors to the island. In 1872 she told Canon Marcus Brownrigg that she longed to give Truganini a home where she might spend her remaining days among the descendants of her own race. Published resources Resource Section Beeton, Lucy (1829-1886), Breen, Shayne, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10031b.htm Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 18 May 2005 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) is a feminist political organisation founded in 1972. It is a non-party-political and non-sectarian women’s lobby. Members of Canberra Women’s Liberation organised the first meeting of WEL-ACT in May 1972. WEL, which began in Melbourne, was to interview candidates for the Federal elections to be held later that year and publish the results. WEL-ACT was particularly active running public education campaigns on what mattered to women in the ACT and interviewing local candidates and sitting Members. Women had flocked to join WEL around Australia and 400 women attended the first National Conference held in Canberra in January 1973. Over the years WEL-ACT played a major role in supporting the WEL National Office in Canberra and lobbying for national campaigns such as access to affordable childcare; the introduction of sex discrimination, equal employment opportunity and affirmative action legislation; and changes to industrial relations, taxation and economic policies. Locally members entered parliament and the public service. WEL-ACT provided support for those working for women in the bureaucracy, continued to lobby for local issues, such as the repeal of abortion laws, and continued to question candidates standing for election. WEL-ACT’s first year The first meeting of WEL-ACT was held on 3 May 1972 in the Women’s House, 12 Bremer Street, Griffith, the meeting place of Canberra Women’s Liberation. Bea Faust had written to Canberra Women’s Liberation and her contacts in the Abortion Law Reform Association explaining that she and a group of women in Melbourne had formed WEL with the intention of surveying candidates for the forthcoming Federal elections on issues of concern to women and publishing the results. The Women’s Liberation Action Workshop replied to Bea that they were ‘very interested in taking part in WEL’ and ‘would establish a sub-committee for WEL in Canberra’. The newly formed WEL-ACT embarked on a program to educate the candidates and the public in general about what mattered to women in the ACT. It organised public education campaigns or ‘blitzes’ on family planning and contraception; the employment problems of women in the ACT; lack of childcare; retraining opportunities for women; and discrimination and equal opportunity. They handed out well-researched information sheets on these topics, organised demonstrations and prepared press releases. The screen-printing workshop at the Women’s House was busy producing WEL T-shirts, bumper stickers and posters. For its campaign on family planning and contraception, WEL-ACT wrote a submission to the Tariff Board asking that the tariff on contraceptives be reduced. This received good coverage in the media, which was used to publicise WEL’s demands to remove the ‘luxury tax’ on all forms of contraceptives, place The Pill on the ‘free list’, remove restrictions on advertising contraceptives and family planning clinics and provide funding for family planning clinics. While WEL-ACT had been busy with education programs, WEL-Victoria had finalised the questionnaire for the candidates. WEL-ACT not only interviewed candidates for the ACT and surrounding electorates but also many sitting Members for other WEL groups. WEL groups were also holding public meetings with candidates, asking them, ‘why women should vote for you?’ In September the Convenor of WEL-ACT, Gail Wilenski (Radford), chaired a meeting in Wagga Wagga and invited an ABC television team to attend. The result was a very informative Four Corners program, ‘The Hand that Rocks the Ballot Box’, on WEL that went to air on 7 October 1972. WEL-ACT held its public meeting on 3 November in the Griffin Centre in Civic. All the candidates for the ACT were invited to speak and answer questions. The results of the WEL survey were analysed by WEL Victoria and released in late November. Each WEL group released its own results. They were very newsworthy and received excellent publicity around Australia. In the ACT Pat Eatock, a Black Liberation candidate was given full marks and Kep Enderby, the sitting Member and Labor candidate, was a second with 91%. On Election Day, 2 December 1972, WEL-ACT handed out information sheets at the polling booths with summaries of the results of the WEL questionnaire for all ACT candidates. WEL was delighted when Gough Whitlam, the new elected Prime Minister, announced that he would meet numbers of WEL’s demands. WEL’s agenda on contraception and family planning was to be implemented and the equal pay case before the Arbitration Commission was to be re-opened to support equal pay for work of equal value. Also, the Prime Minister was to appoint an adviser on women’s affairs to his personal staff, an idea originating with the Convenor of WEL-ACT. There was no summer holiday for WEL-ACT in January 1973, as it organised WEL’s first national conference in the middle of a heat wave. 400 or so women attended the conference; surprised by the numbers of women who were coming from all parts of Australia, WEL-ACT hired a tent to accommodate the extra numbers. Women stayed up all night talking, excited by WEL’s successful first year, little realising that there would be years and years of hard work to follow. 1973-Reform or revolution? Canberra Women’s Liberation questioned WEL’s success and the relationship between the two was discussed in early 1973. While agreeing that Women’s Liberation was very important as it provided a theoretical basis for WEL, WEL-ACT members said that they could not wait for ‘the revolution’ but wanted reforms to urgent problems now. However, there was none of the animosity between WEL and Women’s Liberation members in the ACT that was seen in some States and the two groups continued side by side in the Women’s House. WEL-ACT and National WEL There had been suspicion at the first national conference about the prominence that WEL-ACT had on the national scene. Rules were laid down about who could speak or lobby for WEL, locally and nationally. If the majority of groups approved, WEL-ACT could lobby on an issue and contact the national media. However, it was inevitable that, given its location close to the federal government and parliament, WEL-ACT would continue to play a significant role nationally in the following years. With finely honed media skills and many contacts in the national media it continued to have a high profile. It was not until 1978 that a national office was set up in Canberra. Initially it was housed in the new Women’s House in O’Connor, where WEL-ACT had moved in 1975. The offices of both groups were co-located until the 2000s when the national WEL office moved to Sydney and WEL-ACT started to work from members’ homes and offices. Compared to other WEL groups, WEL-ACT always played a disproportionate role in supporting the national office and national campaigns. As the group with the troops on the ground, WEL-ACT could be relied upon to provide members to lobby politicians, organise demonstrations and conferences, contact the media and help members visiting from other WEL groups. WEL-ACT, therefore, over the years continued to play a major role in the national campaigns for affordable childcare, the introduction of sex discrimination legislation, EEO and affirmative action legislation and changes to industrial relations, taxation and economic policies. WEL-ACT Submissions WEL groups were great submission writers and WEL-ACT was no exception, preparing 77 submissions to inquiries, the ACT government and ACT departments in the years 1972-2003. However, two submissions to the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration (RCAGA) were particularly important as they addressed the question of how to make government policy women-friendly. A 1974 submission recommended taskforces in the central areas of departments to monitor policy development and program administration for women, initiate research, maintain liaison with target groups of women and brief inter-departmental committees and advisory councils. In a further submission in 1975, WEL-ACT stressed the need for departmental units and for reporting mechanisms to ensure that women’s needs were integrated into programs and policies at an early stage of development. In 1976 RCAGA recommended the trial of women’s policy units in departments to reinforce the work of the Women’s Affairs Branch in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. This model, which became known as the ‘hub and wheel model’, was not only implemented in the federal public service but, thanks to the energetic work of WEL members, was adopted in State and Territory public services. 1975-Working from the inside 1975 was International Women’s Year and the year that WEL decided to question its effectiveness. Fed up with the slow pace of change, particularly within the bureaucracy and parliament in Canberra, members decided that they must work from within as well as lobbying from outside. Susan Ryan, who had been a Deputy Convenor of WEL-ACT in 1972, stood for the Senate in 1975 with strong support from WEL-ACT using the slogan ‘A Woman’s Place is in the Senate’. She went on to become the Minister Assisting the Prime Minster for the Status of Women in the Hawke government and was responsible for the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act in 1984, an event celebrated by WEL with a party in front of Parliament House. Legislation to support affirmative action programs in the private sector followed in 1986. WEL-ACT member Chris Ronald assisted her with the drafting of both of these pieces of legislation. In October 1975 Gail Wilenski, the first Convenor of WEL-ACT, was appointed to head the newly created EEO unit in the Public Service Board in Canberra. Known by her professional name, Gail Radford, she pioneered EEO programs in the Australian Public Service; these were to spread to all State public services and were to serve as a basis for the affirmative action programs in the private sector. WEL-ACT member, Ann Wentworth, was the first Women’s Adviser in the ACT. Appointed in 1985, she played a key role in the development of women’s services such as the 24-hour domestic violence intervention service and the women’s health service. Many other WEL members moved into women’s units or EEO units in the public service in Canberra. WEL-ACT kept a watching brief on their activities, lobbying strongly at election times and provided support for their work between elections. For example, at the end of the 1980s WEL-ACT and the Institute of Public Administration organised a large workshop that focused on strategies to support women trying to preserve feminist values in government. 1980s-Taxation and the Economy WEL-ACT members played a major role in the development and promulgation of National WEL’s policies on taxation and the economy in the 1980s. Following the re-election of the Fraser government in 1980, conservative politicians pushed for income-splitting or family-unit taxation. It was the economist Meredith Edwards who managed, via the media, to explain to the public the impact such a move would have on women who were secondary income earners. In the Hawke/Keating years the economic agenda was very much to the fore. Campaigns and conferences organised by National WEL tried to focus attention on the gender dimension of economic issues. In June 1985 a National Women’s Tax Summit was held in Canberra. Marian Sawer from WEL-ACT chaired the Steering Group for this Summit, which was originally the idea of WEL but later other organisations joined them. It was very influential in warding off Paul Keating’s preferred option of a broad-based consumption tax. WEL-ACT members also formed a working group on the economy and prepared submissions for National WEL to the Economic Planning Advisory Council and worked with others on a submission to The National Tax Summit: New Directions held in July 1985. WEL-ACT member Frances Davies spoke on behalf of National WEL at the Summit. 1990s and beyond The Howard years were difficult years for WEL nationally as government funding for WEL ceased. Changes that had been made, or were being made, to EEO programs and women’s programs reduced their effectiveness. The ACT was not immune from such changes as seen by WEL-ACT submissions to the Chief Minister on ‘Curtailment of Staffing Resources for ACT EEO Unit’ in 1995 and another on ‘The Need for Women’s Policy Structures’ that included WEL’s questionnaire that was sent to all candidates for the 1998 elections for the ACT Legislative Assembly. WEL-ACT was undaunted by the difficult times and a pamphlet published in 1999 stated that there had been a 50% growth in membership since the cessation of federal government funding. Much of this increase was due to the emergence of Young WEL-ACT, an active and energetic group. Many of its members were university students attracted by the moves to decriminalise abortion in the ACT. They joined with older Canberra women who had been doggedly working for change to laws relating to abortion since the defeat of the McKenzie-Lamb Bill in 1973. WEL founded a coalition of pro-choice groups, Options for Women, which successfully lobbied for the passage of two Territory Bills in 2002. One Bill made the ACT the first jurisdiction in Australia to remove all references to abortion from its criminal code and the other repealed offensive legislation that had tried to force women considering an abortion to view photographs of foetuses. Young women worked in executive positions in WEL-ACT. One of their concerns was the paucity of women in the Legislative Assembly. Roslyn Dundas, who had been the ACT Co-ordinator of Young WEL and was later Convenor of WEL-ACT, was elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly in 2001. She was an Australian Democrat and, at the time of her election, was the youngest member ever elected to an Australian parliament. The arrival of the Internet, particularly email, was a boon to women’s organisations. WEL Australia set up its first website in August 1995, the first women’s organisation to do so. It was created and maintained by WEL-ACT member Val Thomson and became a valuable resource, particularly after the defunding of WEL. In 1998 WEL-ACT established a general email list called ACTWomen for sharing information about issues and events of particular interest to women in the ACT. This proved to be a very useful initiative and is still in operation in 2012. In a spirit of fun but with serious intent, WEL-ACT launched The Gregs in 1999. Named after Legislative Assembly Speaker Greg Cornwell, they exposed sexist statements made by public figures. Who was to receive the Greg trophy for the year was decided in a boo-off as entries were read out, often at Tilley Devine’s Cafe at Lyneham, and the winner’s name was added to a Wall of Shame on the WEL-ACT website. Candidates for election Over the years WEL-ACT has continued to question local candidates standing for election to Federal parliament and, after self-government for the ACT, candidates for the ACT Legislative Assembly. Sometimes they organised meetings with the candidates, with or without other women’s organisations participating. For the Federal elections in 2010 WEL-ACT also published the results of a postal survey of candidates in the ACT and Eden-Monaro. In preparation for the Legislative Assembly elections in 2012, WEL-ACT examined progress made by the ACT in implementing the government’s gender equality commitments. Sarah Spiller researched and wrote a very detailed report, The Full Picture: An Audit of the ACT’s Gender Assessment Processes, which listed 12 recommendations for improving performance. Published resources Book WEL Women: Recollections of the some of the first WEL-ACT women, Benson, Julie McCarron, 1990 Making women count : a history of the Women's Electoral Lobby in Australia, Sawer, Marian, 2008 Resource History of WEL, 2010, http://wel.anu.edu.au/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Women's Electoral Lobby, 1952-2010 [manuscript] Papers of Shirley Kral, 1953-2015 [manuscript] Created 23 January 2013 Last modified 1 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jean Daley was the first woman in Victoria to stand for Federal parliament as an endorsed Labor candidate when she stood for the seat of Kooyong in 1922. As woman organiser for the Australian Labor Party, she established the Labor Women’s Interstate Executive in 1929. The daughter of Robert Dennis Daley, an early member of the Amalgamated Shearers’ Union, and Julia Ann (née Scott), Jean Daley was raised as a Catholic and educated at Mount Gambier, Adelaide and Portland. From 1909, she was living in Melbourne, where she became actively involved in Labor politics. A member of the Women’s Organizing Committee of the Political Labor Council of Victoria until it was disbanded in 1914, Daley became first president of the group when it re-formed in 1918. She held the position for two years, during which time she wrote ‘We Women’ in the publication Labor Call. Daley was also a delegate to the Trades Hall Council for the Hotel and Caterers’ Union, an early member of the Militant Propaganda League, and an executive member of the Victorian Socialist Party and the Women’s Socialist League. In 1917 Daley was vice-president of the Labor Women’s Campaign Committee which opposed Vida Goldstein as the candidate for the Federal seat of Kooyong. In her political campaigns, Daley was concerned principally with the cost of living, conscription, and the consumption of alcohol. In 1921, the Union Record published a series of articles by her on the fight against conscription. That same year, Daley was elected Victorian delegate to the federal conference of the Australian Labor Party, and, with Mary Rogers and Muriel Heagney, she called a conference of female delegates from all unions with women members. She was subsequently elected to the central executive of the ALP. In 1922, Daley became the first woman in Victoria to stand for Federal parliament as an endorsed Labor candidate when she stood for the seat of Kooyong, though she was defeated. As woman organiser for the ALP in Victoria, Daley established the Labor Women’s Interstate Executive in 1929 and served as secretary until 1947. Ill-health forced her retirement and she died of liver disease at the Alfred Hospital. Published resources Resource Section Daley, Jane (Jean) (1881-1948), Smart, Judith, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080214b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 November 2008 Last modified 24 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Matilda Thompson was an active member of the Ballarat community. She raised a substantial sum of money for Ballarat’s Avenue of Honour during the First World War and opened her home, Sunways, as a refuge for ex-servicemen. Born 1871 and raised in Ballarat, Matilda was the fifth child of John Clennell (an English-born engine driver) and Matilda McIntosh (Scottish-born). Though she left school aged 13, her work with E. Lucas & Co. (a women’s clothing company) from 1905 reportedly led her to become Australia’s first female commercial traveller, and after a trip abroad as a buyer for the company, she returned to take charge of its 500 female staff. In 1914 she married William Daniel Thompson, a wealthy mining speculator and widower with six children. Matilda was known for her patriotism. Between 1917 and 1919, she and the “Lucas Girls” raised money for Ballarat’s Avenue of Honour (3912 trees along a 14 mile avenue) and subsequently for its Arch of Victory, reputedly costing £10,600 in total. Later Matilda taught women’s health and exercise classes, travelling throughout Victoria to speak to women’s groups, and used profits from her classes to erect a roll of honour at Ballarat, recording the names of those servicemen honoured in the Avenue. Both during and after the war she arranged welcome home ceremonies for returned soldiers and eventually opened her home “Sunways”, on the shores of Lake Wendouree, as a refuge house for struggling ex-servicemen. Matilda’s patriotic efforts were recognised in 1939 when she received the gold medal of the Returned Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Imperial League of Australia; and again in 1941 when she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.). Widowed in 1927, Matilda died in 1959 and was buried at Ballarat. The Ballarat Courier lamented, “it will be a long time before another personality of her ability and generosity appears on the Ballarat scene, and the special place which she made for herself in the community is unlikely again to be filled.” “Sunways” now operates as an aged care facility under the patronage of UnitingCare (The Uniting Church of Australia). Published resources Resource Section Thompson, Matilda Louise (1871-1959), Mansfield, Peter, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120232b.htm Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 14 April 2005 Last modified 1 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "n.d.; ‘Little moments with big people’, being a recording of Kerwin Magraith reading from his autobiography. He recalls meetings with many well known people, in Australia and overseas. (Call No.: MLOH 37/1-8)?ca.1969; ‘The Taylors of Loftus Street’, being a recording of Kerwin Maegraith reading from his biography of Florence Mary Taylor. (Call No.: MLOH 37/9-21) Author Details Anne Heywwod Created 4 July 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Collection includes letters regarding Dr Annie Praed. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 14 September 2009 Last modified 14 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mainly cards and letters from Gwen Harwood to Father Alan Farrell. Includes some letters from Father Farrell to Gwen Harwood, and some cards from Gwen Harwood to other correspondents. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Varvara Ioannou arrived in Melbourne in 1972 and has been instrumental in the evolution of multicultural policy in Victoria. Committed to social justice and human rights for migrant women refugees and other disadvantage groups, Varvara has worked hard towards changing the policy of assimilation (which governed relationships with and between culturally and linguistically diverse groups until the 1970s) to one of inclusiveness. Her work in industry and the community is based upon encouraging and celebrating diversity. Most recently, she has worked as the ‘Get a Balanced Life’ Program Manager at Australia Post in Victoria. In terms of her community work, her most recent achievement is the establishment of a Greek women’s network called ‘Food for Thought’. Varvara Ioannou arrived in Australia from Greece at the age of nineteen. After completing a teaching diploma, she then went on to undertake a Bachelor of Education at Latrobe University in Melbourne, Victoria, followed by a masters degree. Varvara also developed skills in the Human resources area. Varvara has worked extensively as an educational and human resources consultant. She wrote, initiated and implemented policy for the Victorian Department of Education that dealt with managing cultural change in schools that were introducing languages other than English frameworks. She worked with the Ethnic Education Services of the Victorian Department of Education and wrote national curriculum on teaching Greek from prep to year 8; a model that was then adopted for use in sixteen other languages. She has taught in schools with culturally and linguistically diverse populations, helping them to implement new, inclusive curriculum. In 1996 the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria nominated Varvara to represent women of Greek background from Oceania at the International Conference held in Greece by the world Council of Hellenes Abroad. In 1999 she was elected to the eleven-member board of the World Committee for Hellenic Women Abroad. Through the Cultural Association of Hellenic Women of Victoria, Varvara has been the founder of a unique initiative called ‘Food for Thought Network’, a women’s network with a developmental focus in the areas of work, family, language, culture, health and wellbeing. Events 2003 - 2003 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 24 January 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Judy Cassab is one of Australia’s best known portrait painters and the winner of many prestigious art awards including the coveted Archibald Prize. Austrian-born and of Hungarian parents, Judy Cassab emigrated to Australia in 1951 with her husband and two children. In Australia, she quickly gained a reputation for her distinctive expressionist technique and portrait abilities. In 1969 Judy was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her service to the visual arts. In 1988 she was also appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). Following the publication of her diaries in 1995, Sydney University conferred upon her the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (Hon. PhD). In 1996 she also won the Nita B. Kibble Award for women writers. When she was 12, Judy Cassab began two practices that would become lifelong rituals; she started painting and began to keep a diary. Later in life, in a retrospective moment, the internationally renowned portrait painter and published diarist explained how painting and writing came to feature so prominently in her life: ‘I had always thought that I expressed my thoughts with a brush. I never knew that I could write. Writing, I thought, is just a habit like washing my teeth; I could not go to bed without doing it. I do not feel anxious about my paintings. I can always paint others. It is different with the diaries. I lost the first 11 years of my diaries when they were left in my childhood home in Beregszász and perished during the war. I lost everything else I had there. But objects, even beautiful objects are replaceable. One can never recapture a 12-year-old self.’ Judy Cassab was born Judy Kaszab in Vienna, Austria, in 1920, to Hungarian parents. In 1929 the Kaszab family returned to Hungary where her parents separated and Judy spent the rest of her childhood years living in her grandmother’s house. In 1939, only after making him promise that their marriage would not stand in the way of her being a painter, Judy married Jancsi Kampfner. Jancsi not only kept the promise throughout their long marriage but was sometimes the one who had to creatively enforce it when Judy herself was willing to put her travelling aspirations aside if it meant being able to stay with her husband and young children. Judy recalls that during one of her crying fits about a proposed overseas trip, Jancsi who was staying behind with the children, finally exclaimed ‘we are only half of your life. Stop being such a coward.’ The first years of their marriage were plagued with the horrors of World War II. Jancsi was sent to a forced slave labour camp and was one of the few to survive. It was Jancsi who, nonetheless, encouraged Judy, if the opportunity were to arise, to flee to Budapest to study painting. She did. Between 1939 and 1949 she studied art in Prague and the Budapest Academy and although her studies were interrupted by Nazi occupation, she managed to survive by going underground and hiding her Jewish identity. It was the first time in my life,’ she says, ‘that I was not a girl, not a woman, not a human being, but a Jew’. After many years of hardship and loss, in 1951, already an accomplished painter, Judy, Jancsi and their two Budapest-born sons, were able to emigrate to Australia. Since her first solo exhibition at the Macquarie Galleries in Sydney in 1953, Judy Cassab has held well over fifty solo exhibitions throughout Australia as well as in Paris and London. In 1969, as the only woman to have won the Archibald Prize twice and having collected another 10 major art prizes, Judy Cassab was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her service to the visual arts. In 1988 she also appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). Published resources Electronic Journal Portrait of a Life: JUDY CASSAB (1920), Baer, Daniel, 1999, http://www.theharvardadvocate.com/winter99/cassab.html Resource Section Diaries, Cassab, Judy, 1996, http://www.nla.gov.au/events/doclife/cassab.html Judy Cassab: selected solo shows, The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, http://www.moranhealthcare.com.au/art/1996/cassab.html Resource Judy Cassab, Eva Breuer Art Dealer, http://www.evabreuerartdealer.com.au/cassab.html Judy Cassab, BMGART, http://users.senet.com.au/~bmgart/cassab.html Artists Represented [Judy Cassab], Wagner Art Gallery, http://wagnerartgallery.com.au/artists3.html Judy Cassab, Art Galleries Schubert, http://www.art-galleries-schubert.com.au/www/Judy_Cassab/Judy_Cassab.htm Judy Cassab: a selection from the gallery, Greythorn Galleries Fine Art, http://www.greythorngalleries.com.au/judy_cassab.htm Guide to the Records of the Rudy Komon Art Gallery, 1959-1984, National Library of Australia, 2001, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-411282865/findingaid Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Australian Portraits: ten original lithographs, Cassab, Judy, 1984 Judy Cassab: diaries, Cassab, Judy, 1995 Contemporary Australians 1995/96, 1995 A dictionary of women artists of Australia, Germaine, Max, c.1991 Judy Cassab, artists and friends, Klepac, Lou, 1988 Judy Cassab, places, faces and fantasies, Lynn, Elwyn, 1984 The encyclopaedia of Australian art, McCulloch, Alan, 1994 Notable Australians: the Pictorial Who's Who, Hamlyn, Paul, 1978 The International Who's Who of Women: A biographical reference guide to the most eminent and distinguished women in the world today, 1992 Edited Book Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources Australian Dictionary of Biography Judy Cassab National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Judy Cassab interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] Judy Cassab interviewed by Barbara Blackman [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Judy Cassab, 1944-2006 [manuscript] Records of the Rudy Komon Art Gallery, 1959-1984 [manuscript] Australian Jewish Historical Society Archives Cassab, Judy, artist State Library of New South Wales Cutler family - papers, 1909-1995 Author Details Judith Ion Created 12 August 2002 Last modified 15 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9579 comprises correspondence, newspaper cuttings, press releases, photocopies, ephemera and printed material. The subjects include indigenous and race relations issues (the largest series), reproductive rights, women and the Order of Australia, immigration, uranium mining, defence, drug law reform, peace movement and the Gulf War. The correspondents include fellow ministers, various organisations including Amnesty International, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and the Women’s Electoral Lobby, and Lois O’Donoghue, Father Frank Brennan, Noel Pearson, Pat Dodson and Kennedy Graham (62 boxes, 12 cartons).??The Acc09.190 instalment comprises documents from Reynolds’ period as Minister for the Status of Women, including material relating to the Sex Discrimination Bill, National Foundation for Women, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 6th National Labor Women’s Conference, Australian Honours Secretariat, domestic violence, international women’s issues, abortion and women’s health issues, encouragement of women to enter politics; documentation of Reynolds’ activities in women’s rights before, during, and after her period as Minister for the Status of Women, including documents from the National Council of Women in Australia, International Women’s Year 1975, publications, conference programs and reports on women’s issues, agendas and minutes from the Caucus Status of Women Committee, reports and resolutions of the International Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, women’s issues under the Howard government, reports on domestic violence; documentation relating to the experiences of Australian indigenous people in prison, including letters to Reynolds from indigenous prisoners relating to riots at the Townsville Correctional Centre, 1991.??The instalment also includes material on indigenous land and other rights including work undertaken while Reynolds was Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland, United Nations publications, agendas and minutes from the Caucus Aboriginal Affairs Committee, 1986-1988; research materials, photographs, lists of women, questionnaires and speeches relating to Reynolds’ book The last bastion and a later, unfinished book “First speeches”; publications collected by Reynolds, principally concerning the rights and political participation of women in Australia and the Pacific, including a copy of Reynold’s book “Her story: Australian Labor women in federal, state and territory parliaments 1925-1994” published by the Senate Printing Unit; archival video recordings including interviews with Reynolds; copies of photographs held by the State Library of Queensland and in private hands depicting north Queensland women at work during World War II; and, a photograph album of Reynolds at official functions relating to the Office for the Status of Women (23 boxes, 2 box files, 1 elephant folio). Author Details Clare Land Created 4 December 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Ravenswood Archives was established in 1989. Paper records, photos and many items of interest, including past uniforms, badges, trophies and programs, dating back to the early 1900s are included in the collection.?The original handwritten registers of student enrolments, prior to digital records, have been preserved and there is also a complete set of the Ravenswood School Magazine from 1925-1965, Nuntius from 1966/7 and Semper from 1990, all of which have been digitized along with the school’s history, Ravenswood – Educating Girls 1901-2001, by Marjorie Binns.??Among the most significant items in the collection is the original Pulpit Bible used by Mabel Fidler and the earliest School Prospectus from 1913. The Archives holds Prize Certificates issued in 1916-1918 during WWI, when rather than receive books as prizes, the girls donated the money to the War Effort. All donations received by the Archives are highly valued and have contributed to preserving the 115 year history of the school.??In addition to the preservation of the collection, the Archives provides research opportunities and enquiries from current students, staff, Old Girls and the wider community are welcomed. Over many years, Ravenswood students have enjoyed looking at the Archives and past school uniforms. Author Details isobelle Barrett Meyering and Kathy Switzer Created 3 September 2009 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Director-General of the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Community Services (appointed by Faye Lo Po’ (qv) in 1998). Niland is the former President of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board, and founding co-ordinator of the NSW Women’s Co-ordination Unit. (Source: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lm/stories/s104362.htm accessed 01/02/02) Born: 23 March 1944, Sydney, NSW (daughter of Kevin Francis and Margaret Elizabeth (née Lawless) Hume. Following her secondary education at the Brigidine Convent Randwick, Niland completed a BA (UNSW) and DipEd (Syd.). Commencing her career as a teacher with the NSW dept Education, she became a graduate assistant at the Secondary Education Materials Centre, University of Illinois USA, also obtaining her MA from the University. After teaching at De Witt Junior High School New York for six years (1968-1973), she returned to Australia taking up positions with the ACT Education dept (1973-1974) and Department of Technical and Further Education (1974-1976), before becoming co-ordinator Women’s Co-ordinator Unit, NSW Premier’s department (1976-1979). In 1979, Niland became Counsellor for Equal Opportunity NSW and in 1982 President of the Anti-Discrimination Board NSW. Since 1989, she has been a Consultant and Mediator with Carmel Niland and Associates and in 1994 was appointed Commissioner to inquire into matters surrounding the resignation of the former Minister for Police, Mr Terry Griffiths by Premier John Fahey. Contemporary Australian Women 1996/97 lists her major achievements as: 1970s: created first women’s register in Australia for appointment to boards and authorities; developed funding model for first Women’s Refuge Network in NSW. 1980s: first woman councillor for Equal Opportunity; first woman president, NSW Anti-Discrimination Board and administrated the board for five years, managing an extensive research and community consultative program, with 30 full-time staff; advocated gay law reform and established first AIDS liaison team in 1983; drafted and advocated Australia’s first racial vilification bill, which became law in 1989. 1990s: Deputy Chancellor, UNSW 1989-1992 and led move of UNSW to be Australia’s first green university; mediated over one hundred complex community, educational, environmental and employment disputes. (Source: http://acwa.asn.au/ACWA/publications/newsletter/1998/may/may2.html and Contemporary Australian Women 1996/97. Published resources Book Contemporary Australian Women 1996/97, 1996 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "El Alamein, SA, 1971-04. At the annual Citizen Military Forces (CMF) camp, 4’9? cook, Private Pam Armstrong of the Women’s Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) 12 Company, works over a large oven by using a butterbox. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Patricia Mackinnon joined the Royal Children’s Hospital Committee of Management in 1948, serving it in several offices before being elected to the presidency in 1965. She was appointed a Commander to the Order of the British Empire in 1972 and a Dame of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1977 in recognition of distinguished service to the community in hospital administration. The daughter of Ernest Thomas and Pauline Eva (née Taylor) Bell Patricia Mackinnon was born in Brisbane and educated at St Margaret’s Church of England School (Brisbane). She married Alistair Mackinnon on 17 December 1936 and they were to have two children. In 1948 Patricia became a member of the committee of management for the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne. She served in several offices before being elected vice-president from 1957-1965 and president 1965-1979, succeeding Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. In 1968 she began chairman of the RCH Research Foundation a position she held until 1986, and from 1951-1965, served as president of the Auxiliaries. She was also a federal and state councillor of the Australian Hospitals Association for many years. A member of the Alexandra Club, Melbourne, Dame Patricia Mackinnon enjoys gardening and reading. Dame Patricia’s links with the RCH go back to her grandmother-in-law, Lady Emily Mackinnon, who served on the committee of management (1888-1922). Her mother-in-law, Mrs Hilda Mackinnon, was elected president of the committee of management from 1923-1933. The MacKinnon School of Nursing is named in their honour. Published resources Newspaper Article Hospital chief is a Dame, Sanders, Roger, 1977 'Living Treasure' in child health a gentle and generous person, Persse, Michael Collins Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 14 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 10 min.)??George speaks about her art studies ; her work in photography ; her painting method and mediums used. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 16 November 2016 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 64 min.)??Jane Lock, born 1954, in Sydney, speaks about her family and childhood moves; her father’s occupation and his interest in golf; her education; her sporting interests; attending junior golf camps; joining Huntingdale Golf Club; golf tuition; early occupations; her Australian amateur representative career; turning professional; Australian Ladies’ Golf Union; her professional golf career; her late playing career; honours and awards; course design and consultancy; the needs of women and average golfers; course architecture, remedial design, equity and hazards; teaching golf; instructional materials; her current career, hobbies and interests. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2019 Last modified 5 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Pamela Burton, lawyer and author, was born and brought up in Canberra. Apart from working holidays in London in 1964 and 1970, Pamela has lived her life in the Canberra and the Bungendore district. After studying law at the Australian National University she worked on a range of cases involving environmental and social justice issues and has been involved in various government tribunals and committees. She was one of the first women to establish a legal firm in Canberra, following Mrs Bruna Romano and Margaret Elizabeth Reid. In 2010 Burton’s biography of the first woman high court justice, Mary Gaudron, was published. Pamela Burton was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia catalogue record. Pamela Melrose Burton was born in Canberra on 30 June 1946, the third and youngest daughter of Cecily Margaret Wear (born Nixon, later Parker) (1916-2007), psychologist and John Wear Burton (1915-2010), Head of the Department of External Affairs (1947-1950). Along with her older sisters Meredith (1941-) and Clare (1942-1998), Pamela grew up on farms at Tuggeranong and in the old Weetangera district. She attended Telopea Park Primary and High School, initially travelling there and back on dirt roads in old Commer van buses run by the federal government. The Burton family lived a strong Methodist ethic extending back to the days of John Wesley himself through Pamela’s paternal grandfather, Methodist Minister and President of the Methodist Conference (from 1931), Rev. John Wear Burton (1875-1970). Pamela and her sisters were involved in National Methodist Church (now Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest) through their teens, for the ethos and community rather than dogma or religiosity. Family life was imbued with a strong sense of social justice and respect for all people regardless of social status. The farm often buzzed with guests from Canberra’s political and academic community with lively political conversation and enjoyment of John Burton’s home-brewed beer. As an Australian National University (ANU) student, Pamela worked summers in Papua New Guinea. As a law student, she assisted on the magistrates’ training course. One the course’s first students later became prime minister of Papua New Guinea, Sir Michael Somare. While working in Papua New Guinea Pamela fell in love with geographer Dan Coward (now Huon). They married in Canberra in 1968 and Pamela used the name Coward for the next decade. Pamela Coward graduated BA (1968), Bachelor of Laws (Hons.) (1970) and Master of Laws (1976) from the Australian National University and commenced practice as an employed solicitor in 1971. In 1973-74 Pamela acted for the group that, on ecological and aesthetic grounds, challenged the Federal Government’s right to construct a telecommunications tower on Black Mountain near central Canberra. The High Court found in favour of the government and construction went ahead however the case made legal history as the first environmental law case of its kind to be launched on a ‘class-actions’ basis on behalf of the local community. She played a major role in implementing the Cooperative Housing Initiative for quality affordable community housing in Canberra out of which ‘Urambi’ the first cooperative housing development was born. Faced with barriers to women becoming partners in legal firms, in 1976 Pamela founded her own firm, Pamela Coward & Associates. She was keen to provide more accessible legal advice for the vulnerable and financially challenged members of the Canberra community. As a woman, she was unable to borrow money so Pamela and her then husband, Dan Coward, mortgaged their family home to establish the firm. Encouraged and assisted by Dan, she aimed to create a legal practice that was people-focussed. She established a warm, welcoming atmosphere aided by Dan’s bright paintings and a policy that there would be no desks or barriers during interviews between client and lawyer. It was important to her that the practice was egalitarian; she shared the care for the joeys she brought into work from her farm with the young woman who was the office ‘gopher’. Two men and a woman joined Pamela in partnership; solicitor Adrienne O’Connor becoming the first female partner engaged as a principal of a Canberra law firm. Word rapidly spread around Canberra that Pamela Coward & Associates was willing to act for people on legal aid, social security recipients, injured workers, the disadvantaged, victims of discrimination and environmental groups; the firm grew rapidly and taking on a ‘no-win no-fee approach, forced test cases in matters such as passive smoking and repetitive strain injuries. The firm developed a large practice in workers’ compensation and family law. In order to be in a position to offer affordable services Pamela computerised her firm to provide the necessary efficiencies; Pamela Coward and Associates became one of Australia’s first fully computerised law firms. Her commitment to low-cost conveyancing led to public clashes with other firms before the Canberra legal profession abandoned its minimum fee scales and moved ACT legal firms into a competitive era which benefited clients. Years later, Pamela met a business studies lecturer from the University of Canberra who told her that they used Pamela Coward & Associates as a case study for a successful alternative business model. Pamela said she was dumbfounded: “I didn’t think in business models – I just wanted to bring law to the people, make it more accessible and affordable.” In the late 1970s Pamela Burton and Dan Coward adopted sisters Amanda and Cassandra Rowland, aged 6 and 7, whose parents had died. Pamela and Dan now enjoy three grandchildren. Pamela’s marriage to Dan Coward ended in the early 1980s and she lived with Canberra journalist Alan Ramsey for close to a decade. In 1986 Pamela was diagnosed with advanced secondary breast cancer. Wishing to see Pamela Coward & Associates continue to thrive she worked right through 18 months of radiation and chemotherapy treatment, celebrating the end of treatment with 10 days on a Greek Island with her sister Meredith and niece. Pamela sold Pamela Coward & Associates in 1990 to practise as a barrister of the ACT Supreme Court. Two significant accidents had followed her cancer treatment which saw her going to the Bar on crutches. As a barrister she specialised in litigation, acting for both plaintiffs and defendants, and some large medical negligence cases on behalf of the ACT Government and its medical professionals. Pamela’s concern for achieving better and fairer outcomes in citizen-government disputes led her to accept part-time appointments to a range of government tribunals and committees. Appointments included the role of Chair of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal in its first ten years of existence from 1976, Senior Member of the Federal Administrative Appeals Tribunal from 1995 and member of the ACT Parole Board from 1991-2001. Since 2006 Pamela has been an ACT Mental Health Official Visitor. From 2000, Pamela spent five years as legal counsel for the national Australian Medical Association assisting in the resolution of the medical indemnity crisis and rolling out an education program on the new privacy laws for medical practitioners. From Moree to Mabo: the Mary Gaudron story, Pamela’s biography of Australia’s first woman High Court Justice Mary Gaudron, was published in 2010 by UWA Publishing. In November 2012 The Waterlow Killings: A Portrait of a Family Tragedy, was published. It is the true story of the tragic death of art curator, Nick Waterlow and his daughter Chloe Waterlow. In April 2016 Pamela’s novel A Foreign Affair was published by Ginninderra Press. Published resources Book The Waterlow Killings: A Portrait of a Family Tragedy, Burton, Pamela, 2012 From Moree to Mabo: the Mary Gaudron Story, Burton, Pamela, 2010 Deviant, Dale, Georgia (pen name), 2000 Environmental law in Sydney: the law relating to pollution control and waste management in the Sydney metropolitan region, 1970-1975, Coward, Pamela, and Botany Bay Project, 1976 The battle of Black Mountain: an episode of Canberra's environmental history, Hancock, W. K., 1974 Book Section The Law and the Citizen, Coward, P., 1976 Resource Section Pamela Burton, https://naher.com.au/pamela-burton/ Pamela Burton, http://uwap.uwa.edu.au/books-and-authors/author/pamela-burton/ Newspaper Article Burton was a patriotic public servant, not a traitor, Burton, Pamela, 2011 Rev. J.W. Burton. New Methodist President, 1931, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16757568 Blog Pamela Burton's defence of her father, Barratt, Paul, 2011, http://aussieobserver.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/pamela-burtons-defence-of-her-father.html Newsletter The Power of Sisterhood, Cadzow, Jane, 1989 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Pamela Burton interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Pam Burton, lawyer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Niki Francis Created 13 December 2012 Last modified 9 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Pamela Burton Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: pamburtonpreferred.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Born to Belgian and Scandinavian parents, Hilma Dymphna Lodewyckx grew up surrounded by languages which, combined with a natural talent, saw her master over eight languages and become a successful linguist. Her most ambitious and important work was a translation from German to English of Baron Carl von Hügel’s New Holland Journal. After meeting her future husband Manning Clark at Melbourne University, the couple journeyed to Germany and England, respectively, to continue their studies. They married at Oxford in 1939. Returning to Australia to escape the war in Europe, the couple and their growing family eventually settled in Canberra where Manning took up a position at what would become the Australian National University. Dymphna worked to raise her young family and establish their home as a warm welcoming space for friends and colleagues, as well as assisting Manning with translations and editing for his historical works. By 1959 Dymphna returned to teaching, eventually taking up a position at the ANU German Department. She was also an activist for Aboriginal rights and the environment. After Manning’s death in 1991 Dymphna worked tirelessly to turn the home they shared into Manning Clark House – a cultural hub for scholars, artists and writers. Today, Manning Clark House still plays a vital role in the Canberra community. Anna and Augustin Lodewyckx welcomed their daughter Hilma Dymphna into their family on 18 December 1916. Their daughter inherited her first name from her mother’s Scandinavian side of the family, while Dymphna, the name by which she would be known, came from her father’s Belgian heritage. Her mother, Anna Sophia, and her father Augustin between them spoke many languages, but the working language of their home was Dutch except at dinner time when it was French or German if there were no guests. With such cultural backgrounds the couple educated and raised their daughter, and her older brother, Axel, in something akin to a ‘little Europe’ in suburban Melbourne. Here, Dymphna developed her considerable linguistic talents. She learnt perfect German from her father during formal lessons and picked up Swedish from listening to the exchanges between her mother and grandmother. All told Dymphna learned 12 languages, though she claimed to be fluent in eight and only ‘getting by’ in the other four. Anna ran the family home alongside teaching duties at Melbourne University where she taught Swedish, and played a key role in the promotion of the language and culture throughout the state, while Augustin worked first at Melbourne Grammar School and then later in 1916 took an appointment at the University of Melbourne as lecturer in German. Before settling in Melbourne at the outbreak of the Great War the couple had lived in Europe, South Africa and the Belgian colony, the Congo, before finally settling in the Antipodes in 1914. This melting pot of culture and experience no doubt nurtured Dymphna’s talent for language, but it also coloured her childhood in a distinctly European way. Her brother Axel recalled life at ‘Huize Eikenbosch’ (the name Augustin gave the family home due to the plethora of European oak trees he planted in the gardens) in the 1920s as a place where you would hear students learning German, and as a place to watch his parents and their friends waltz around the living room practising the latest European dances. Dymphna’s father would spend many hours in the garden cultivating and tending it in Flemish ways, possibly sparking Dymphna’s later love for plants and gardening. Her mixed cultural heritage at times made her feel as if she had split identities, and she often had trouble with her name at school as there were not many other migrants around. Still, she recalled her childhood as enriching and making her feel as though she could do anything. By 15 she had matriculated from Presbyterian Ladies’ College and from there went to Munich in 1933 with her mother to study for a year at the Mädchenreformrealgymnasium an der Lusienstrasse. She returned to Melbourne in 1934 to study German at Melbourne University. Here her ‘Europeanness’ was once again made apparent to her, as she was often being called the ‘mad girl without a hat or without stockings’ due to her casual European style of dress which stood out compared to the formal styles of her Australian peers. It was at Melbourne University in her last year of studies that she met her future husband, and future eminent and controversial historian, Charles Manning Hope Clark. Dymphna left behind no autobiographical writings and remained steadfastly silent on her courtship and marriage to Manning, though her husband describes a passionate and warm courtship in his memoirs and letters. After graduating from Melbourne University, Dymphna won the Mollison travelling scholarship which saw her go to Germany again. This time she studied Greek and Latin at Bonn University. For her it was as much a chance to indulge her passion for travel as to further her education. Although she would later recall that she ‘never really found her feet’ at Bonn, Nazi Germany still proved to be an awakening of sorts. She recalled learning in this period that politics was real and remembered sneaking off once a week to read British newspapers to find out what was going on in Germany. Yet she still felt herself succumbing to the all-pervasive Nazi propaganda, and understood how so many people became so mesmerised by the regime. As threats of war grew, Manning called for Dymphna to come to England where he was studying for his doctorate at Balliol College, Oxford. She joined him and they married in Oxford on 31 January 1939. During this period she worked as a teacher at Blundell’s School in Devon, but found her surrounds depressing. She and Manning welcomed their first child, Sebastian, in December 1939. He would be the first of six children. In 1940 the family decided to return to Australia where Manning took up a teaching position at Geelong Grammar School. In 1949 the Clark family moved to Canberra so that Manning could become the first Professor of History at the Canberra University College, later incorporated into the Australian National University. Over the next 16 years Dymphna’s time was primarily taken up with the business of mothering children, running a household and supporting her husband and his academic research. She also found time to indulge in her passion for gardening and plants. She provided most of the produce to feed her family from her vegetable gardens and chicken sheds. Her friends recall the Clark house as being a site for scholarship and learning, but also an extraordinarily warm and friendly place where many delicious meals and good conversations amongst friends could be had. In 1959, Dymphna returned to her teaching at the Soviet Embassy where she taught English to diplomats. She followed this appointment with one at the German Department of the Australian National University. Here, her talents as a formidable scholar in her own right were able to shine. She worked with Peter Sack from the German Department on a nine-year project translating from German to English the reports of the Governor of German New Guinea from 1886 to 1914. However, her most ambitious and important work was the translation of Baron Carl von Hügel’s New Holland Journal. Published in 1994, it provided for the first time in English the Austrian botanist’s daily diaries of his expeditions in Australia and New Zealand in the 1830s. Alongside her own work Dymphna did many translations of documents and material for Manning’s historical works, as well as proofreading, editing and assisting him in his research for some of his major works including A History of Australia. Dymphna also became an activist for Aboriginal rights, becoming a member of the Aboriginal Treaty Committee in 1980 which aimed to educate and promote the need for a formal treaty between Indigenous people and the Federal Government. She also wrote the Committee’s preamble that was to be reviewed by Parliament. Dymphna continued her lifelong passion for the environment and gardening by working with Greening Australia Volunteers to plant over a thousand trees on the Clark’s property ‘Ness’ in Wapengo on the New South Wales south coast. In 1991 Dymphna’s long marriage to Manning ended with his death on 23 May. She continued to work at her own projects, as well as being an avid defender of her late husband and his work. In 1993 Manning’s most famous work, A History of Australia, was attacked by his own publisher, Peter Ryan, while in 1996 the Brisbane Courier Mail alleged Manning had been a Soviet spy – an allegation Dymphna’s work at the Soviet Embassy helped to fuel. These allegations were all later resoundingly discredited. Dymphna also compiled and donated her own and Manning’s papers to the National Library of Australia, and with the assistance of her son Sebastian edited and published Manning’s final works, An Historian’s Apprenticeship (1992) and Speaking out of Turn (1997), a volume of his speeches and lectures between 1940 and 1991. Dymphna also established Manning Clark House (the family’s home in Forrest, Canberra) as a cultural hub for scholars, writers and artists. The house has grown to be a vital and vibrant part of the Canberra arts and academic communities. Having kept her diagnosis of cancer private, telling only a few close people, Hilma Dymphna Clark passed away on 12 May 2000. Published resources Book The Quest for Grace, Clark, Manning, 1990 An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark, McKenna, Mark, 2011 Edited Book Ever, Manning: Selected Letters of Manning Clark, 1938-1991, Russell, Roslyn, 2008 Newspaper Article Dymphna Clark: A Portrait, Russell, Roslyn, 2005 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dymphna Clark, widow of historian Manning Clark, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Dawn Richardson, 1970-2010 [manuscript] Papers of Dymphna Clark, circa 1930-2000 [manuscript] Papers of Lyndall Ryan, 1968-1992 [manuscript] Papers of Ninette Dutton, 1890-2007 [manuscript] Papers of Roslyn Russell, 1955-2008 (bulk 1982-2001) [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dymphna Clark interviewed by Heather Rusden and Elizabeth Cham [sound recording] Dymphna Clark interviewed by Heather Rusden [sound recording] Manning Clark and Dymphna Clark speak for the Aboriginal Treaty Committee on mining in Noonkanbah, W.A. in the 2XX collection [sound recording] / interviewer, Stuart Reid Andrew Clark interviewed by Susan Marsden [sound recording] Interview with Prof. Katerina Clark, academic & Dr. Axel Clark, academic [sound recording] / interviewer, Susan Marsden Sebastian Clark interviewed by Susan Marsden [sound recording] Rowland Clark interviewed by Susan Marsden [sound recording] Author Details Kim Doyle Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 19 November 2015 Digital resources Title: Dymphna Clark Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Margaret Ferrara is a high achieving scientist who ran for election only once. She was an Australian Democrats candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Baulkham Hills in 1999. Margaret Ferrara was born in Sydney and educated at Hornsby Girls’ High School and St George Girls’ High School. She graduated B.V.Sc. From Sydney University in 1975 and set up in private practice at Campsie. After 10 years she sold her practice in order to spend time with her two daughters and pursue her Ph.D. study. In 1990, she left veterinary science for medical research, specifically a collaborative project between Westmead Hospital and Adelaide Women’s and Children’s Hospital. When the research grant ended, she went to work for a large multinational veterinary vaccine company. Margaret has many interests outside politics. She has successfully bred and showed dogs, writes poetry and paints. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 8 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Victorian Section of the St Joan’s International Alliance, was established on the initiative of Margaret Flynn an Australian member of the English section of the St Joan’s International Alliance. An avowedly feminist organisation, it was open to all Catholics who agreed with the stated object of action ‘to secure the political, social and economic equality between men and women and to further the work and usefulness of Catholic women as citizens’. A New South Wales sector was established in 1946, with South Australia and Western Australia following suit in 1950. The first national conference was held in Sydney in 1951. The English section of the St Joan’s International Alliance was established in 1911 as the Catholic Women’s Suffrage Society, but once the suffrage was gained in 1918, the Society gradually broadened its role to consider social issues affecting women and changed its name to reflect that change of emphasis. In 1923 it became the St Joan’s Social and Political Alliance. From 1954 the United Kingdom group was known as the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Section of the St Joan’s International Alliance. The inaugural executive of the Victorian Sector of the St Joan’s Social and Political Alliance included Enid Lyons, wife of the Australian prime minister Joseph Lyons and member of the English section, as president, Kathleen Walsh as vice-president and Margaret Flynn as secretary/treasurer. Other foundation members included Anna Brennan, also a member of the English section, Julia Flynn, Teresa Wardell and Dr Inez Parer. Foundation members of the New South Wales section included Norma Parker, Mary Tenison Wood and Phyllis Burke. Published resources Book Faith and feminism: Catholic women's struggles for self-expression, Kennedy, Sally, 1985 Resource Section Brennan, Anna Teresa (1879-1962), Campbell, Ruth and Morgan, Margaret, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070404b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources NULL Records of the St Joan's International Alliance Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ada May Norris, née Bickford was educated at Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne, where she graduated BA Dip. Ed. In 1924. In 1929 she married John Norris. From 1951, Ada Norris was involved in numerous committees and organisations promoting women, multiculturalism, children and immigration. Ada Norris was appointed Officer of the British Empire (10 June 1954) and Dame Commander of the of the British Empire on 12 June 1976 for distinguished community service. On 14 June 1969 Norris was awarded the Order of St Michael and St George – Commanders while President of the National Council of Women. Ada Norris was president of the National Council of Women of Australia 1967-1970 and was responsible for the reversion to its original name in 1970, but, for decades before and after her presidency, she was a force for change in the National Councils and the wider Australian community. She served as honorary secretary in Ivy Brookes’ innovative Board of Directors 1948-1952, following her president’s lead in becoming involved at a national level with status of women issues and migration reform. Positions as convenor of migration for NCW Victoria and then for ANCW led to her appointment as vice-convenor of migration with the International Council of Women. She was a leading member of the Good Neighbour Council of Victoria, and in 1950 of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council, serving on this for more than 20 years, always as an advocate of humane and measured reform. Within the NCW, she took a leading role in national campaigns on a wide range of matters concerning the status of women, including in particular equal pay and equality within marriage. This experience led to her appointment as Australia’s official delegate to the United Nations Status of Women Commission (CSW) over an unprecedented 3 sessions, from 1961 to 1963. She was president of the United Nations Association of Australia’s Victorian division 1961-1971, and chaired the national committee for International Women’s Year and the Committee for the Decade of Women. In 1969, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, the first Australian woman so appointed, and in 1976 Dame Commander of the British Empire. Ada May Norris was born on 28 July 1901 at Greenbushes, WA, daughter of H.A. Bickford, and grand-daughter of the Reverend E.S. Bickford, a leader in the Methodist church. The family moved to her father’s home state of Victoria while Ada was a child. Ada Norris was educated at Birchip State School, Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne, where she graduated with a BA and Dip. Ed. in 1924 and MA in 1926. She taught at Leongatha and Melbourne High Schools, but resigned in 1929 to marry lawyer John Gerald Norris, later a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. The couple had two daughters, Rosemary and Jane. Ada Norris took up voluntary work while her children were still in primary school – an unusual step for women of her class and generation. In his eulogy on her death, her son-in-law noted that ‘a trained and restless mind, and a degree of ambition, was not to be satisfied by the cares of managing a house, children and a husband – she wanted to play a part in the wider community also’. He might have added that her role there would always be shaped by a pragmatic idealism committed to justice and equality. Ada Norris’s first concern was for children in need. She joined the Children’s Hospital Auxiliary, then became secretary to the newly established Victorian Society for Crippled Children. In 1941, she became the VSCC’s delegate to the National Council of Women of Victoria, and almost immediately took on the job of secretary for that organisation. In 1944, she became a vice-president of NCW Victoria, and, in the same year, foundation secretary of the Advisory Council for the Physically Handicapped, the forerunner of the Australian Council for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled. She later served as president(1955-1957) and vice-president (1957-1962) of this organisation. She continued to work for the Victorian Society for Crippled Children and Adults until the 1970s, becoming its patron and historian. Her concern for children’s growth and development also led to the foundation in 1954 of the Victorian Children’s Book Council, where she served as president and then national president in 1960. From the 1950s, Ada Norris developed expertise and leadership in three other key areas of Australian public life – ageing, immigration, and status of women’s issues – the last two at national and international levels. Her major platform for these activities was the National Council of Women; she was president of NCW Victoria 1951-1954, honorary secretary of the national body 1948-1952, and national president 1967-1970. In 1951, she proposed and helped initiate the establishment of an ‘Old People’s Welfare Council’, later renamed the Victorian Council for the Ageing, which worked to set up government-funded support for home help for the elderly, hot meals and recreation centres. She continued to work as a vice-president of this council until 1980, her own 80th year. In 1950, Norris was appointed convenor of NCW Victoria’s Migration Standing Committee, and, late in the same year, she took on the same role at national level. In 1952, she accepted the position of vice-convenor of migration with the International Council of Women, and held all three positions until 1966 when she relinquished her national responsibilities to become the ICW convenor of migration. Through these roles, she became a leading member of the Good Neighbour Council of Victoria, and later of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council. She served on the Commonwealth council for more that 20 years, at a time of great change in Australia’s immigration policies, and was always a force for humane and inclusive policy and practice. She worked on its subcommittees like the Committee on Migrant Women and the Committee on Migrant Centres and Hostels, and acted as its deputy chair from 1968 to 1971. She had perhaps more expertise on local, national and international migration issues than any Australian of her generation. Ada Norris was similarly committed to and expert on issues relating to the inequality of men and women. Within the NCW, she took a leading role in national campaigns on a wide range of matters to do with the status of women, including equal pay, rights before the law, representation on public bodies, both national and international, laws with regard to marriage and divorce, and access to all forms of education and work for all women, married or not. In the case of equal pay, for example, Norris led the NCW to a policy of intervening in Arbitration Court decisions in the interests of women workers – a practice that finally achieved limited success in 1974. Her knowledge and determination on these matters was nurtured by her appointment as Australia’s official delegate to the United Nations Status of Women Commission (CSW) over an unprecedented 3 sessions, from 1961 to 1963. Her international experience strengthened her concern for Australia’s role in the Pacific, and, as president of NCW Australia, she established an appeals committee to raise funds for a women’s hall of residence at the University of Papua New Guinea. Engagement with CSW also led Ada Norris to wider United Nations activism in Australia; she was president of the United Nations Association of Australia’s Victorian division 1961-1971, and, with her CSW, ICW and NCWA experience, she was an obvious choice to chair the UNAA national committee for International Women’s Year 1974-1976, and the Committee for the Decade of Women until 1980. Ada Norris was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in June 1954 and Dame Commander of the British Empire in June 1976 for distinguished community service. In June 1969, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, the first Australian woman so appointed. She was also awarded the UN Peace Medal in 1975 and, in 1980, Melbourne University honoured her with a Doctorate of Laws. Dame Ada was also a historian. She published a history of the Victorian Society for Crippled Children and Adults, The Society, in 1974 and in 1978 a history of the National Council of Women of Victoria, Champions of the Impossible. ‘It is from the champions of the impossible rather than the slaves of the possible that creative evolution draws its force’. Prepared by: Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Events 1961 - 1963 United Nations Status of Women Commission (Official Australian Delegate) 1961 - 1971 United Nations Association of Australia (Victoria) 1974 - 1976 UNAA National Committee for Internationa Women’s Year 1976 - 1980 UNAA Committee for the Decade for Women 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 The society : being some account of the Victorian Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Norris, Ada, 1974 Resource Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Champions of the impossible: a history of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1902-1977, Norris, Ada, 1978 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Newsletter UNNA Victoria Newsletter, UNNA, 2001 Journal Article Vale Dame Ada Norris, Scotford, Jessie. M., 1989 Resource Section Ada Norris (1901 - 1989): Champion of the Impossible, Smart, Judith, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/fff Norris, Dame Ada May (1901-1989), Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2012, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/norris-dame-ada-may-14997/text26186 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Norris, Dame Ada May Norris, Dame Ada May National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Ada Norris interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] State Library of Victoria National Council of Women of Victoria Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 13 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Ada Norris Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1. Letters from ‘persons of note’ and ‘prominent persons’. 1905-44. 3 cm.?2. Correspondence (mainly letters received by Cleland). 1912-59. 8 cm.?3. Letters from Olive Pink. May 1930 – December 1934. 2 cm.?4. Note books of observations and experiments on expeditions to Macdonald Downs 1930, Cockatoo Creek 1931, Mt?5. Reports by Cleland on anthropological expeditions 1933-39. 1 cm.?6. Reports on visits to and inspections of missions and ‘native institutions’ by Cleland (most on behalf of the Aborigines Protection Board) and on matters of Board policy and the welfare of Aboriginal Australians. 1938-48 and undated. 2 cm.?7. Reports on visits to missions and locations by others, and copies of correspondence memoranda etc. received by the Aborigines Protection Board. 1929, 1937-60. 4 cm?8. Papers and addresses by Cleland on Aboriginal Australians (reprints, ms and typescripts, some with notes). 1934-57 (most undated). 5 cm.?9. Daisy Bates Memorial Committee. Correspondence and newspaper cuttings re the Fund, use and publication of the papers, and the award of Memorial Prizes for projects by schoolchildren on aboriginal life. 1951-53, 1960-61. 1 cm.?10. Newspaper and magazine cuttings, principally general articles re Aboriginal Australians. 1934, 1947-48, 1951 (re Flinders Chase), 1953, 1955, 1959 (Stuart Royal Commission), 1960 (proposed memorial to Ernest Kramer). 2 cm.?11. Contributions by Cleland on medical, botanic and ornithological subjects (reprints, photocopies and journal issues). 1906-70. 4 cm.?12. Obituaries 1971 and draft entry in 1966 Who’s Who. 1 cm.?13. ‘Medical pictures and notes’. Collection of popular articles, illustrations, photographs, cartoons etc. relating to the history of medicine. 3 cm.?14. Reprints of papers by A.A. Abbie, Joseph Birdsell, J.R. Casley-Smith, H.M. Cooper, H.H. Finlayson, Edmund Gill, C.J. Hackett, F.R. Irvine, Ursula McConnel, R.T. Simmons and T.G.H. Strehlow on the physical anthropology and material culture of Aboriginal Australians. 1947-59. 16 items.?15. Publications on Aboriginal culture and social issues. 1932-59. 10 items.??Note: the 6 items listed below have now been catalogued separately:?F.W. Albrecht, The natural food supply of the Australian Aborigines?Ronald M. Berndt, Social anthropological survey of the Warburton, Blackstone and Rawlinson ranges [report] March 1959?The National Aborigines Day Observance Committee in association with The National Missionary Council of Australia, Call to national observance Ministers’ Bulletin 43, May 1960?H.K. Fry, Dieri legends (1-2) Folk-Lore xlviii, June and September 1937?Nganyintjanya Ernabella News Letter August 1943 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 15 December 2016 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records of the Workwatch Occupational Health and Safety Training Centre including minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records, training course material and printed material. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 December 2017 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MumShirl was an Aboriginal woman who dedicated her life to welfare services. She visited countless Aboriginal prisoners in jail and raised 60 foster children. She was nominated a Member of the British Empire and Member of the Order of Australia for her work. A Wiradjuri woman, MumShirl was born Colleen Shirley Perry on Erambie Mission, West Cowra, New South Wales, around 1924. Her married name was Shirley Smith. MumShirl wrote about her life and work with Aboriginal people in her book MumShirl: an autobiography. Her welfare work began with visits to Aboriginal people in jail, a commitment that was eventually recognised and facilitated by the provision of a pass by the Department of Corrective Services (New South Wales). Her support for prisoners earned her the nickname ‘MumShirl’. During her life she also raised over 60 children in need of a parent. MumShirl was involved in supporting the Gurindji land rights claim and in establishing the Aboriginal Legal Service (1971), the Aboriginal Medical Service (1972), the Aboriginal Black Theatre, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, the Aboriginal Children’s service, the Aboriginal Housing Company and the Detoxification Centre. She worked with the Aboriginal Medical Service for many years. In her autobiography, MumShirl recalls the day she attended the ceremony to collect her MBE medal, 11 June 1977 (her citation name was Mrs Shirley Colleen Smith). She had been nominated to become a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) (and in 1985 a Member of the Order of Australia) for services to Aboriginal people. In her words: ‘I never did find out who nominated me, and I didn’t really know whether I ought to take it, or really what it would mean to me, but I asked around and the people I spoke to all urged me to take it… I received my citation and I felt very strange. As it was getting close to my turn, it was flashing into my mind the numbers of places where I couldn’t get served; how I had had to sit on the ground at the front of the picture theatre as a child in the roped off section that Blacks had to sit in, white kids in Cowra running after us yelling, ‘Nigger, nigger pull the trigger’, the camps and shacks that Blacks were having to live in all over this country that was, after all, ours – and here I was, standing up here with all these well-dressed and fashionable people, waiting in turn to collect this medal which would make me a Member of the British Empire.’ The ironies of the prestigious accolade were clear to MumShirl as she resumed her day to day struggle after the ceremony. Later the Department of Corrective Services revoked her pass, making her prisoner support work near impossible. She wrote, ‘the many honours that I had received over the years, and even the MBE which I had worked for and earned, none of these things could help me now. I could hardly go about my work, but I drove myself on.’ Of the many ‘medals and pieces of paper’ that have been awarded to MumShirl she asks in the final sentence of her book, ‘They must be worth something in the end, mustn’t they?’ Published resources Book Section Aboriginal women, Richards, Michaela, 1988 Book MumShirl : an autobiography - with the assistance of Bobbi Sykes, MumShirl, 1981 Livewire Real Lives: Mum Shirl, Gordon, Janet, 1999 Stories of herself when young : autobiographies of childhood by Australian women, Hooton, Joy W. (Joy Wendy), 1935-, 1990 Resource Section Mum Shirl, ATSIC News, 1998, http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/heroes5.html Tribute to Mum Shirl, Deane, Sir William; Kennedy, Fr Ted, 2000, http://members.ozemail.com.au/~wfnev/mar01deanekennedy.htm MumShirl, 1999, http://www.ozco.gov.au/atsia/yarnup/pdfs/win99/mum.pdf Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Journal Article The History of the Aboriginal Medical Service, Foley, Gary, 1975 Newspaper Article Smoke Signals (Stories from Shirley Smith), 1972 From the inside. Aboriginal prisoners need cultural, general education., Clevans, Michael; Lithgow Correctional Centre, 1992 20th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, 1992 Mourners bid a fond farewell to Mum Shirl. NSW, 1998 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection On their own terms : profiles of five very individual Australians / prepared by Tim Bowden and Ros Bowden Colin Davis interviewed by Rob Willis in the Bringing them home oral history project [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Edna Ryan, 1948-1993 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Ros Bowden - interviews conducted for radio programs and documentaries, ca.1975 - 1989 Author Details Clare Land Created 3 September 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1. Minutes 1993-1995. 2. Executive Meetings 1994. 3. ACW office bearers. 4. Correspondence including letters from Cathy Cole, Ros Kelly, Lorraine Bell. Office of the Status of Women, Kaye Loder and Jenny George 1994-1995. 5. Financial statements including budget reports. 6. Reports from the ACW to Federal Government 1994-1995.. 7. ACW Questionnaire “Women in Decision-making, Women in the Economy, Women and Families” 1994 8. “Beijing in your own backyard” campaign 1994 9. Purple postcards campaign/survey results related papers and final report, 1994. 10. Reports and agendas of meetings1994.. 11. Critical areas of concern from purple postcards consultations held throughout Australia. 12. Teacher’s Kit Project “Women 2000” information about the Conference for schools. 13. Media reports and proposals. 14. Video “Voices” featuring prominent Australian women talking about their aims and achievements in different fields and information about the conference and Forum ’95 includes Jane Kennedy, Sharon Firebrace, Rosie Smith, “Tiddas” 1994.. 15. Newspaper clippings about the Conference 1994, 1995. 16. Speeches given by Sandra Yates. Beijing speech “Woman & the Economy Conference National Council for Women. 17. Summary of Speeches and outcomes “After Beijing” report based on notes from Mischa Schubert & Susie Brennan 1995-1996. 18 Farewell from the ACW disbanded on 31/12/1995 19. Papers and publications, including women’s health 1991-4, trade unions 1994-5, industrial relations 1992-5, Office for the Status of Women newsletters, drafts, bulletins. Author Details Clare Land Created 4 December 2001 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Helena Warren was known for her press photography and trompe l’oeil postcard images. She worked in the goldfields district, supplementing the family income with the income of her commercial work. Entirely self-taught, her first camera was an Austral Box quarter-plate camera. Helena Warren was born in Bulumwaal, close to Bairnsdale, Victoria, c.1871. She was one of six children (the second of four daughters and twin brothers) born to her parents, Edward McKeown and Mary Damson. Her parents were gold miners and moved from town to town in their quest for gold. Warren was only three months old during one of these moves; her mother carried her in her arms sitting side-saddle on a horse. Eventually the family gave up gold mining, as it did not bring the rewards they anticipated, and bought a farm in Mossiface, near Bruthen, and settled there. When Warren turned 29, she married one of her neighbours and the couple established a farm in Newmerella, near Orbost. In 1904, at the age of 33, Warren acquired her first camera by postal order: an Austral Box quarter-plate camera, which she used throughout her life. Warren taught herself all there was to know about photography through trial and error. She was said to have loaded her first roll of film in daylight, completely ruining it. As the only photographer in the district she gained a lot of work, and used her living room as a darkroom at night. Her semi-commercial photographic work supplemented the family income and enabled them to purchase luxuries such as a piano. Her photographs documented all aspects of life in the district, portraiture, sporting events, flower and animal studies, Snowy River scenes, soldiers and families. She shot her portraits out of doors using a sheet as a backdrop to simulate a studio setting and also experimented with collage, incorporating leaves into her photographs to create postcards. Some of her photographs were published in newspapers such as The Weekly Times and one photograph was published in The London Strand magazine. She was one of the founding members of the Country Women’s Association and was renowned for her abundant energy and her prize-winning handiwork (sewing, soft toys, woodwork). Helena Warren died aged 91 in Orbost, Victoria, c.1962. Collections Mrs. Ivy E.E. Rodwell, Cooma, New South Wales (Private Collection) Events 1900 - 1953 1981 - 1981 Helena Warren’s work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Resource Section Helena Warren, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/helena-warren/ Helena Frances Warren, Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985, http://www.ancestry.com.au/ Magazine article A First For Women Photographers in Australia: Quick Thinking and Ladders Got the Top Shots, Bowen, Jill, 1981, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55457051 Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 16 November 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dorothy Male was a nominee for the ABC Rural Woman of the year Award in 1994. She and her husband run Newdale Farm at Redmond near Albany, Western Australia. Dorothy Male is one of nine children . Five girls all left school and worked at home on the dairy farm before they got married, while the four boys worked on the farm. The family moved from Serpentine near Perth, Western Australia to the south west in 1978. She was always interested in fairwork and learned what she knows informally through her father who encouraged her interest. She learns until she gets the practice and then fills in the practice with theory she picks up through reading. In the 1980s and 90s they tried to make the farm sustainable by getting away from chemicals . Locals were somewhat suspicious – as Dorothy note, ‘ if you say the word ‘organic’ people think you’ve, you know, gone a bit funny’ But they decided it was something they needed to do and so persisted with trying to apply the principles to a large farm and make it pay. Dorothy’s family developed the only computerised dairy system of its kind in Australia. When they are outside feeding stalls, the cows wear a transponder collar around their neck that communicates with a computer. When they walk through the gates they get scanned and their output is matched against their number. They get fed according to what their account says they should be fed in the computerised stalls. When they eat the amount gets recorded when they come back to the shed or feed stall for some reason. The data is then analysed and a printout on milk production and results can be obtained. Events 1994 - 1994 Published resources Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dorothy Male interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording] Women of the land oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 March 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "UNPUBLISHED TYPESCRIPT ENTITLED “HISTORY OF THE WRANS”, AN UNOFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE ESTABLISHMENT, GROWTH AND ROLE OF THE WOMEN’S ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL SERVICE, 1941-1945. INCLUDES DETAILS OF THE LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS AT SIGNAL STATIONS INCLUDING HMAS HARMAN AND HMAS MELVILLE Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mabel Hookey was the first woman journalist in Tasmania. She was also a poet, a painter and an amateur photographer. Mabel Hookey was born on 29 January 1871 at Clarence, in Tasmania. She was the eldest daughter of Vernon William Bligh Hookey, a barrister and solicitor, and Dorothy (née Stokell). She had a sister, Dora, and a brother, Vernon. The three children grew up with their maternal grandfather, George Stokell, at the Rokeby estate, which Mabel later inherited. Hookey attended the Ladies Grammar School in Hobart. Her mother’s paintings of bush flowers and her sketches of the landscape were an inspiration to Hookey, and ignited her love for art. Hookey studied painting with Edward Officer as well as A.H. Fullwood when he visited Tasmania in 1897 and 1899. In 1902 she attended the Hobart Technical College and was taught by Benjamin Sheppard. She also took part in sketching camps run by Lucien Dechaineux. Hookey studied woodcarving at the Hobart Technical College from 1913-1916. She was also already showing an interest in photography. Hookey joined the Art Society of Tasmania in 1893, where she eventually held the position vice president. Hookey was also a member of the Royal Society of Tasmania. She was commended for her oil and watercolour paintings, as well as for her drawings, which she exhibited across Tasmania, in Sydney (at the Society of Women Painters), as well as in Europe, participating in the Old Salon in Paris, 1928, and the British Empire exhibition in Wembley, 1924. Hookey also wrote poetry, with published collections including The Rubaiyat of Solomon and The Romance of Tasmania. Hookey was the first woman journalist in Tasmania, writing for The Post, The Tasmanian Mail, and The Mercury. She became a subeditor of the Daily Telegraph. Hookey had an adventurous spirit. She enjoyed bushwalking, and travelled around Tasmania, Maria Island, Sydney, Queensland, and the Pacific Islands. At around the turn of the century she travelled further afield, visiting North Africa and Palestine, England, France, China and Japan. Her photographs include shots of her family and friends, but also document her travels. The photographs depict people set within a landscape, framed in order to draw the viewer into the scene. The compositions are formal in nature; however, her photograph of two women swimming naked in Tasmania broke with the conventions of the time. Hookey did not exhibit any of her photographs. Mabel Hookey died on 13 June 1953, aged 82, at St John’s Park, in Hobart. Collections State Library of Tasmania Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Events 1983 - 1983 Mabel Hookey’s work featured in The Launceston Art Society in Retrospect 1891-1983 1990 - 1990 Mabel Hookey’s work featured in The Misses Hookey, Murphey. Oldham and Swanexhibition 1995 - 1995 Mabel hookey’s work featured in Colonial Pastime to Contemporary Profession: 150 years of Australian Women’s Art Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 The Song: The Song of Songs Which is Solomon's, Done Into Verse., Hookey, M. ( Mabel), 1917 The Chaplain: Being Some Further Account of the Days of Bobby Knopwood, Hookey, M. (Mabel), 1943 The Romance of Old St David's, Hookey, M.( Mabel), 1920 The Rubaiyat of Solomon: Being the First and Second Chapters of the Book Called Ecclesiastes Done into Quatrains, Hookey, M. (Mabel), 1912 The Edge of the Field, Hookey, M. (Mabel) and Dechaineux, L., 1913 The Romance of Tasmania, Hookey, M. (Mabel), Murphy, B., Connor, J., and Dechaineux, L., 1921 Bobby Knopwood and His Times: From the Diaries of 1804-8, 1814-17, Knopwood, Robert and Hookey, M. (Mabel), 1929 Exhibition Catalogue The Misses Hookey, Murphy, Oldham and Swan, Johannes, Christa E. and Backhouse, Sue, 1990 Resource Section Mabel Hookey, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mabel-madeleine-hookey/ Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Mabel M. Hookey, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of Victoria [Mabel Hookey: Australian Art and Artists file] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 23 November 2016 Last modified 4 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "I. St. MARGARET’S HOSPITAL ARCHIVES, ca.1970-1998 Guides and detailed lists of records of St. Margaret’s Hospital, ca.1970-1998: Series Registration Forms, being printed forms with ms. entries in large ring binder including series number, box number, creator, series title, date range, description and accession number; ‘Procedures for Record Storage at St. Margaret’s Hospital December 1990’, being typescript procedures manual for control of records created by St. Margaret’s Hospital; ‘Register of Record Series and Current Series Registration’, being loose sheets in ring binder with ms. entries, including series number, series title and date range; ‘Filing Index, 1970s and 1980s’, being index of files of St. Margaret’s Hospital created between ca. 1970 and ca.1990; ‘Box List and Accession Register 1992-1998’, being loose leaf pages in ring binder with ms. entries including temporary box list and accession register 1992-1998; Guides and related papers, being ‘Guide to the Records of St. Margaret’s Hospital Archives’, compiled by Megan Birch, Mary Duggan and Margaret Murphy, 1987, along with working papers from which the guide was compiled; and ‘A Guide to the Records of the School of Midwifery, St. Margaret’s Hospital, Darlinghurst’, compiled by Margaret Helen Woods, 1987, along with working papers from which the guide was compiled (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/1). II. St. MARGARET’S HOSPITAL, 1910-1967 A. Baby Books, 1954-1966: Baby Book, 1/5/1954-31/3/1955, may include: surname of mother, date of birth and sex of child, identity disc number of child, weight and length of child, head circumference of child and name of doctor. They do not include time of birth; Baby Book, 1/4/1955-31/3/1957; Baby Book, 1/4/1957-1/11/1959; Baby book, 1/6/1964-31/10/1966 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/2) B. Baptismal Registers: ‘Baptism book, General Labour Ward’, 29/12/1959-11/11/1967 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/2) C. Patient Financial Records, 1957-1964: including accounts rendered, invoices, receipts and some correspondence concerning overdue accounts (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/3) D. Patient Admission Books, 1910-1950: Patients Admission Book, 1/10/1910-19/8/1916, being the Register of admissions to St. Margaret’s Hospital, may include patient’s name, age, occupation, place of birth, religion and address, date of admission, treatment details, date of birth and sex of child (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/10X); Patients Admission Book, 21/7/1916-17/1/1928 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/11X); Patient Admission Book, 8/2/1921-25/9/1934 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/12X); Patient Admission Book, 30/6/1934-1/7/1940 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/13X); Patient Admission Book, 1/7/1938-24/2/1941 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/14X); Patient Admission Book, 1/7/1940-30/11/1944 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/15X); Patient Admission Book, 1/12/1944-31/3/1950 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/16X) III. St. MARGARET’S CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, 1975-1978: Register of Intensive Care Unit, including name of patient, register number, age and diagnosis (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/2) IV. ALAN GRANT FERTILITY CLINIC, 1977-1985: Scrap book, being an exercise book with photocopies of photographs of babies whose parents attended the Clinic along with correspondence from mothers (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/3) V. St. MARGARET’S HOSPITAL DIVISION OF NURSING, 1958-1991 A. Nursing Ward Report Books, 1958-1969: Nursing Ward Report Book, Fourth Floor Postnatal Ward, 5/3/1958-4/5/1959, generally contain daily nursing report of each patient on the ward and are signed by the sister in charge (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/3); Nursing Ward Report Book, Fourth Floor Postnatal Ward, 7/7/1958-5/9/1958 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/3); Nursing Ward Report Book, Third Floor Antenatal Ward, 26/6/1958-13/8/1958 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/3); Nursing Ward Report Book, Second Floor Postnatal Ward, 20/7/1961-4/9/1961 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/3); Nursing Ward Report Book, Second Floor Postnatal Ward, 5/9/1961-24/10/1961 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/3); Nursing Ward Report Books, First Floor Postnatal Ward, 25/7/1961-11/9/1961 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/4); Nursing Ward Report Book, First Floor Postnatal Ward, 20/7/1966-29/8/1966 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/4); Nursing Ward Report Book, Labour Ward (7th floor), 18/7/1969-30/8/1969 B. Special Care Nursery Admission Registers, 1980-1991: Special Care Nursery Admission Register, 1985-1986, along with Special Care Nursery Weight Statistics, 1980-1982, generally record, date of birth, sex of child, classification, name and address, name of paediatrician, gestation period, type of delivery, diagnosis, whether under observation or intensive care, type of ventilation and date of discharge (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/4); Special Care Nursery Admission Register, 7/7/1986-30/6/1987 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/4); Special Care Nursery Admission Register, 1/7/1987-8/11/1988 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/4); Special Care Nursery Admission Register, 9/11/1988-9/5/1990 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/4); Special Care Nursery Admission Register, 10/5/1990-7/1/1991 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/5); Special Care Nursery Admission Register, 1/1/1991-31/12/1991 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/5) VI. St. MARGARET’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL AND NURSING STAFF, 1944-1986 A. Medical Records, 1944-1962: Medical Records, being a small sample of miscellaneous medical records of obstetric and paediatric cases including some records of infants with haemolytic disease (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/5) B. Unofficial Baptismal Registers, 1981-1996: Unofficial baptismal register, 5/1/1986-31/8/1996; along with Register of Baptismal Certificates posted to Sacred Heart Church, Darlinghurst, 2/3/1981-27/12/1984; 5/1/1986 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/5) VII. St. MARGARET’S HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF MIDWIFERY, 1936-1945 Midwifery Nurse Obstetric Case Books, 1936-1945: Abdominal Examinations, recording student’s name and date training commenced, patient’s name, department, date of examination, remarks, 1936-1945 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/6X); Obstetric Casebook, recording patient and case details, may including name, age and religion of patient, gestation period, details of labour, sex weight and length of child, 1937-1941 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/7X); Obstetric Casebook Midwives, 1941-1943 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/8X); Midwifery Nurse Obstetric Record, recording student’s name, age, address, date of entrance, date of certification, number of cases attended, remarks and signature of student, may also include patient’s name, date of confinement and sex of child, 1939-1944 (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/9X) VIII. SCRAPBOOKS, ca.1897-ca.1902: Scrapbook of cuttings and photographs of actors, singers and entertainers appearing on Sydney and Melbourne stages (Call No.: MLMSS 6711/17X) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lorraine Thomson is a health worker who believes in sustainable cities. She ran as a Save Our Suburbs candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Marrickville in 2003 and in the 2005 Marrickville by-election. Lorraine Thomson trained as a nurse and midwife and in 2005 she was working for the Red Cross Blood Bank. She was concerned not just for the suburban environment but also for native animals and is the organiser of an inner city branch of the NSW Wildlife Information and Rescue Service (WIRES) Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 16 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc04.182 comprises correspondence, publications, audiovisual material, a notebook, radio scripts and associated papers, typescripts and photographs, reflecting Gwen Friend’s roles as radio script adaptor and biographer. There is material relating to White coolies by Betty Jeffrey (1969), including: a published copy inscribed by nine of the surviving nurses who attended a reunion in 1977; photographs of the reunion, which was organised by June Salter, who had played the role of one of the nurses in a radio adaptation; sound recordings of a cast party with the nurses; correspondence with Australasian Radio Productions Pty Ltd, Betty Jeffrey and June Salter; an article about the radio production in Equity news; papers relating to the funeral of Betty Jeffrey; and, a program and sound recordings of a performance by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus of “Music in a prison camp”.??In addition, there are papers compiled during the writing of Friend’s biography of artist Donald Friend, titled My brother Donald: a memoir of Australian artist Donald Friend (1994), including photographs of Gwen Friend, a typescript manuscript and galley proofs, reviews, publicity material, letters of congratulation and tapes of Donald Friend’s funeral service (3 boxes, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Named in the phortograph are all Atkinsons: Lucy (Louise), Emma (Emily), Julius (James), Mama (Mrs Barton) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 6 August 2019 Last modified 6 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Roberta Galagher was a stalwart Liberal Party member from its formation and ran as their candidate in the 1947, 1950, 1953 and 1956 elections to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for King. Prior to this she was an Independent candidate in the House of Representatives for Robertson in 1943. Roberta Galagher was Chair of the NSW Division of the Liberal Party at the time of her death. She had been a member of its State Council from 1945, and had been a member of its Federal Executive and Council and a former Chair of its Federal Women’s Committee. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "16 minutes??Gwenyth Hannon was born in Medindie in 1909 and attended St Peter’s Girls’ School. She won an Education Department scholarship to do dentistry at University. She graduated in 1932 and became an Education Department dentist. She travelled around the state doing dental work at schools. She earned 240 pounds per year. Men were paid 480. She married a fellow dental student who had a practice on North Terrace. She worked in the dental practice from the war years. Her husband was killed in 1945 and Gwenyth was one of the initial members and one of the first vice presidents of the War Widows’ Guild. Her daughter Pauline became a dentist and married a dentist. They moved to Canada and worked at the University of British Columbia. She has two grandsons. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Framed: 41.3 x 54.5 cm; unframed: 32 x 45.6 cm?Oil and pencil on wood panel??An unidentified Light Horse trooper is featured in a balcony ward of 14 Australian General Hospital. There is a bed by the window screened with portable screens and a nurse is standing at the foot of the bed (the way her veil is tied suggests that she is a volunteer nurse rather that a fully qualified nursing sister). The nurse is Mrs G. A. Aumuller. The Light Horse trooper is dressed in the standard royal-blue dress with a white shirt and a red neck tie issued to convalescents. He is standing coyly, holding his hat in his hand. This work was painted between mid-April and 25 May 1919 at Abbassia in Egypt, during the six weeks that Lambert was in hospital suffering from dysentery. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 11 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Dame Margaret Scott Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Gertrud Wilkins comprising typescripts of her accounts of service as Australian Volunteer Abroad teacher in Papua New Guinea 1971 and Thailand 1980. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Camp Pell, Vic. 1944-09-06. VF500148 Major A.R. Appleford, RRC, MM, Assistant Controller, Australian Army Medical Women’s Service inspecting the kits of members who are on draft to northern areas. Assisting Major Appleford is VF65581 Lieutenant S.F. Dammon officer in charge of the draft for the 2/9th Australian General Hospital. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 142 min.)??Nathalie Norris speaks about her family and background in Franklin; her father’s apple orchard at Franklin; her grandmother’s property at Shipwright Point; benefits of smaller orchards; her mother’s work in the post office and involvement with music; her father’s work at Port Huon Cold Store; her schooling at Port Huon; her aunt and uncle’s apple orchard; picking and packing apples; going to boarding school; the death of her uncle and her decision to maintain the orchard with her aunt; assistance given by the Agricultural Department; Agricultural Bureau Field Days; her aunt’s death (1959); female labourers; pruning, spraying and soil improvement; her experience of country life; marketing apples and dealing with export agents; Apple and Pear Growers’ Association; orchardist Winder Smith; problems of increased competition; exporting apples overseas; travelling overseas; popularity of Red Delicious apples (1960s); different apple varieties for different markets; German love of Democrat apples; popularity of Granny Smiths overseas. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 May 2017 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes minutes of St. Catherine’s School Council meetings held 26 Sept. 1963, 24 Oct. 1963, 11 Feb. 1964, and 27 Feb. 1964; agenda for meeting held 27 May 1965; and financial statements of St. Catherine’s School dated Oct. 1963, Jan./Feb. 1964, and 27 May 1965. Created 7 May 2019 Last modified 7 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Gabrielle Harris was a successful politician whose career was surprisingly short. An ALP candidate, she was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Parramatta in the 1994 bi-election. She was re-elected in 1995 and 1999 and served as the Minister for Sport and Recreation during this time. She retired from all political work in 2003. Gabrielle Harrison was born in Darlinghurst and grew up in Pennant Hills. She is a graduate from Macquarie University (BA) and was Chairperson of the Macquarie University Students Council. Harrison joined the ALP in 1983 and was active at a local level as an executive member of the Young Labor Organisation. In 1985 she married Andrew Ziolkowski (deceased 12 April 1994) and the pair had one son, Tristan. Harrison replaced her husband as the Member for Parramatta following his early death, and served in this post until 2003. She is now married to Ron Bonham. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 2 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This is a Charles Chauvel production from 1937 about how screen tests are conducted. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1941-45; recruitment; soldier with kit bag and rifle taking papers from AWAS servicewoman sitting behind desk (women joining the Services released men from clerical and administrative positions to join fighting units?61 x 48.3 cm?offset lithograph on paper Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Olga Dougall is known for her portraiture, commercial and magazine work. Olga Dougall was born in Brunswick, Victoria, c.1896. She was one of four daughters. Her father was Alan Dougall, a professional photographer who owned the Sarong Studios in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. Of the four daughters, Olga was the only one to show an interest in photography and took to helping her father at his studio. She was trained in processing and developing film as well as printing. Dougall became very skilled working as a colourist, utilising watercolour and oil paint, a popular practice in the 1920s. Dougall had been engaged to be married, but tragically her fiancé died during WW1. Following this loss she devoted herself to creating a career for herself as a photographer and also to caring for her elderly parents. She never married. After her father died in 1943 she moved the studio to Sydney Road, Brunswick, changing its name to Home Studios. Dougall specialised in wedding photography, photographing children, and portraiture. By 1946 her health was deteriorating and she employed a Mr Brook to work as her assistant. In 1952 she moved to Malvern and lived with her widowed sister. Dougall died in 1963. Technical During the 1920s she used a Grafflex quarter plate. Collections George Paton Gallery Collection, University of Melbourne Archives Private collections Events 1920 - 1950 1981 - 1981 Olga Dougall’s work featured in Early Women Photographers 1840-1950 Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 6 December 2016 Last modified 6 December 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Granite mosaic 40.3 x 540 x 720 cm??Whereas more conventional war memorials may incorporate a cenotaph or a representative figure, Anne Ferguson has created a bare platform of coloured stones, divided in two by a curved trench that resembles an aerial view of a river, carving its way through a sparse, flat landscape. While most memorials encourage audiences to keep a reverential distance, to stand outside the experience of war and reflect upon it, Ferguson wants the viewer to walk right into the middle of the work, to experience a sense of empathy with the women it celebrates. The insignia of the women’s services are displayed discreetly around the mosaic, because for Ferguson, ceremony is far less important than the human dimension. For many women, the work they undertook during the Second World War provided a first taste of freedom and responsibility. When the war ended and those jobs were given back to the men, it must have come as a bitter blow, because their lives and way of thinking had already been changed. It is this sense of metamorphosis that Ferguson has tried to capture in her stone mosaic, in which the variegated colours represent the different lives, the different backgrounds and experiences of servicewomen. Set in a peaceful grove between the deciduous trees, the sculpture changes the appearance in relation to the changes in daylight, the play of shadows, and the sprinkling of leaves that fall haphazardly onto the stone. Ferguson draws a parallel between the gradual process of awakening to the environment in which we live, and a growing recognition of the debt we owe to those men and women who gave their time, and their lives, in defence of this land. Her stone platform may be undemonstrative, but it has a feeling of underlying strength. It is a foundation upon which new recognitions can be built. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Carol Gaul has been a Councillor in the Blue Mountains City Council since 1991 and was appointed Deputy Mayor from 1991 to 1992. In 1995 she ran as an Independent candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Blue Mountains and was an Australian Greens candidate in the House of Representatives for Macquarie at 1996. Carol Gaul was well known as a councillor on Blue Mountains City Council, and was Deputy mayor 1991-92. She consistently espoused environmental issues, while on Council, and joined the Greens to run for Macquarie in 1996. She was an active member of the Mid Mountains Historical Society and by 2002 was Convenor of the Blue Mountains Greens. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Recorded on February, 2005 and 7 March, 2005 at Canberra, A.C.T. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 6 August 2019 Last modified 6 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "PXE 1260?Collection of photographs of actors and productions, with program for “Bye Bye Birdie”.??PXA 1545/Box 1?Collection of photographs of actors, productions and programs titled “Variety”.?Family photographs.??PXA 1545/Box 2?Collection of photographs of actors and productions titled “Singer-Dancers Men”.??PXA 1545/Box 3?Collection of photographs of actors and productions titled “Children Boys”.??Actors include Yvonne Banvard (known as Fifi), Gwen Plumb, Ruth Cracknell, Gordon Chater, Mo (Roy Rene), Grant Taylor, David Nettheim, Trader Faulkner, William Rees, June Clyde. Also includes photographs of Gwen Friend and Sir William McKell.?Shows include Dream girls (Minerva Theatre), Bye Bye Birdie, Streets of London (Hobart), Good luck (Hobart), Nude with violin (New Zealand), Eureka Stockade, Ah, Wilderness (Hobart), Monday Next (Hobart), Bye Bye Birdie (Her Majesty’s Theatre.??Forms part of Gwen Friend papers, 1903-1965 re the theatre and Fifi Banvard Productions at MLMSS 3403. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hr 55 min. Oral history.??Discussing pre-war employment as journalist; going to Hong Kong to join husband at outbreak of war; working as part-time cypher assistant with the British Navy and as public relations assistant with the British Far Eastern Ministry of Information; security provisions of cypher’s job; move to England to join husband; resuming work with Ministry of Information as lecturer and as news writer for Far Eastern Ministry of Information; returning to Australia in 1941 and job with Office of Theatre Censorship; USAFIA; decision to join WRANS and selection interview; training at Flinders Naval Depot; attitude of RANS to women joining Naval Service; accommodation during training; appointment to Office of The Naval Control Service, Brisbane; appointment to Naval Information Service, Melbourne in 1943 and description of job; promotion; leisure; rate of marriage and motherhood of ex-WRANS in post-war period; pride in service with WRANS. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margot Donald worked as a commercial photographer in Sydney and London. Donald was known at the time as one of the best colourists working in Sydney. Margot Donald was born in Roseville, New South Wales in 1923; she was one of eight children, with two brothers (one of whom became a commercial artist) and five sisters. Her father was William John Donald, a cartoonist and illustrator who worked in Sydney on the Sunday newspapers. Donald received her first camera, a Box Brownie, from her father when she was 13 years old. She completed a short course in tinting with Jean Cazneaux, the daughter of Harold Cazneaux, in 1939. Donald left school at 15, and was offered ‘a position as a junior colourist at the “American-influenced” Russell Roberts Advertising Studios, Sydney who were known for “chic” and smart advertising’ and remained there until 1942 (Hall 106). She subsequently found work at the Faulk Studios (founded by Walter Barnett) in Pitt Street, Sydney. At the time these studios were considered ‘more conservative’ (Kerr 343). As well as a talented photographer, Donald was also a designer. She worked in various commercial studios in Sydney, and later worked in London from 1949-1952. In addition to portraits and other general photographs, she produced sets, backgrounds and photo-murals for the studios. Donald’s photographs revealed the influence of Modernism, with ‘sharp focused subjects, soft modelled and highlighted with grand architectural geometrics in background’ (Hall 106) With many men away during WW2, Donald was able to gain considerable experience in photographic processes, camera operating and studio work (often using people she met on the street as models). She regularly sought feedback from the other photographers at the studio: Initially Donald retained her position behind the camera back with Russell Roberts, where a young David Moore, working as her assistant in 1947, observed her ‘very special creative talent’ for setting up studio shots. This period seems to have marked Donald’s greatest visibility as a commercial photographer in Australia: publications carrying her work included Australian Photography (1947), Photograms of the Year (1947) and Contemporary Photography (1949). (Design and Art Australia Online) After the end of WW2, Donald and other women working in the studio had to give up their work for the returning soldiers. In 1949 Donald travelled to London, where she worked at the British branch of the American Lintas Advertising Studios. Here, she impressed with her photographic skills and colouring techniques. The quality of her work was such that the studios wanted to incorporate her style ‘into British advertising’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 14). On her return to Australia in 1952 Donald worked as a colour retoucher for some of the large laboratories in East Sydney and was considered one of the best colourists in Sydney (Design and Art Australia Online). Around this time she was also introduced to colour photography. Donald continued working as a commercial photographer after her marriage in 1952. Collections National Gallery of Australia Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales Events 1939 - 1952 Active as a commercial photographer. 1981 - 1981 Margot Donald’s work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 Published resources Edited Book Australian Photography, Ziegler, Oswald, 1947 Contemporary Photography, Le Guay, Lawrence, 1949 Silver and Grey, Fifty Years of Australian Photography 1900-1950, Newton, Gael, 1980 Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Book Photograms of the Year, 1947 Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Mirror with a memory: photographic portraiture in Australia, Batchen, Geoffrey and Ennis, Helen, 2000 Book Section Margot Donald, Malor, Deborah, 1995 Resource Section Margot Donald, 1995, http://www.daao.org.au/bio/margot-donald/biography/ Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Margot Donald, photographer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 23 November 2016 Last modified 4 August 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Susan Jennifer Watkins was a prominent Western Australian photographer. Watkins is said to be the first Western Australian woman to work on photography autonomously. She was highly regarded for her stylish portraiture. Susan Jennifer Watkins was born in Perth, 1912, and attended the St. Mary’s Church of England Girl’s School. During 1930, at the age of 18, she travelled to England to join her family, who had moved there following her father’s retirement after working at the Royal Perth Mint. Whilst in England she had aspirations of becoming a doctor but was unable to follow this career path due to financial constraints. Instead, Watkins studied journalism and secretarial studies at the Constance Hoster Secretarial College. Watkins’s exposure to photography initially came from her brother, who was a keen amateur photographer, and later during her time working as a secretary for two directors of an American photographic company. Watkins was inspired by the work of the famous photographer Dorothy Wildings, who was known for her photographs of the Royal family. Watkins managed to secure a placement at the Dorothy Wilding studio, one of only four other students. During her time at the studio she was taught mounting, finishing, retouching, darkroom techniques and operating work. Watkins was given the use of one of the studios for two hours each day to practice her skills; this work would then be critiqued by Wilding. Following her five years of training at the studio, Watkins stayed on for a further year, working both as an operator and an assistant. During this time she assisted Wilding in her portrait of Bernard Shaw. In 1934 Watkins returned to Perth and set up her own a studio in St. George’s Terrace with the financial support of her family and a friend. She painted her studio white and had a standardised fee schedule for each sitting. This was very unusual for the times. On average, Watkins would complete three sittings per day, and aimed to capture a ‘true likeness’ of her sitters. She stated that ‘[o]ne must feel instinctively what is vital and significant, and, by judicious selection of viewpoint, deliberate placing, [and] skilful manipulation of light, make the eye of the camera one’s submissive agent and interpreter’ (Hall 112). Watkins artistic principles are evidenced in her photographs Mr E.W. Grigg, 1935, and Man in profile, which are marked by the strong contrasts she created with the use of deep shadows, dark backgrounds, and a spotlight effect on key features of the face. On the other hand, her portrait of Miss Patricia Bird, 1949, used an overall softness and lightness that brought out her character. Bird was positioned sitting with her hands cupping her face, drawing the viewer in. Watkins initially operated her studio on her own, but as she became more successful was able to employ and train other women to work with her. Included among those she trained include the professional photographers Jill Crossley and Mattie Hodgson. Hodgson stepped in to run Watkins’s studio in 1939 for six months due to Watkins’s exhaustion, which had been caused by the high volume of studio work. Watkins’s clientele was largely made up of well-known Western Australians, as well as some international celebrities. As she gained recognition for her high standards, she was invited to join the Professional Photographers Association in 1937, and became a member of the Royal Photographic Society of London. This membership lasted until 1981, although she did not participate in any of their exhibitions. Instead, Watkins periodically organised her own exhibitions, which she mounted within her studio. These received coverage in the local press. Her photographs were published in The West Australian, The Daily News and The Sunday Times. In 1946 Watkins married Gerald Hughes and by 1949 the couple decided to run the photographic studio together. This enabled Watkins to spend more time with their children. By 1958 the couple were able to move the studio to their house, at which point Watkins took over the business again until her retirement in 1978. Susan Watkins died in 2006. Technical Susan Watkins worked with orthochromatic (hypochromatic) film. Collections John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, Curtin University State Library of Western Australia Events 1935 - 1978 Susan Watkins held a number of solo exhibitions in her studio. 1937 - 1937 Susan Watkins’ work featured in the Exhibition of Modern Photography, organised by the Professional Photographers Association of Western Australia Published resources Newspaper Article Art of the Camera Seen in Fine Studio Exhibition, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article85174590 Personalities Among Women, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article85730204 No Photographs When Susan Watkins Weds, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article78822561 Book The Story of the Camera in Australia, Cato, Jack, 1979 Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Susan Watkins, photographer] [sound recording] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 6 December 2016 Last modified 4 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9864 documents some of Fanning’s activities during her long career at the National Library of Australia and her association and friendship with a number of politicians, writers, collectors, librarians and academics. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, research notes, talks, book reviews and newspaper cuttings. There are files on the Ferguson, Nan Kivell, Palmer and Petherick collections. Among the correspondents are Lord and Lady Casey, Russell Cope, Gerald Fischer, Adelaide Lubbock, Marcie Muir and Aileen Palmer (9 boxes).??The Acc11.069 instalment comprises correspondence, notes and miscellaneous papers pertaining to Fanning’s career at the National Library and her related interactions with Russell Cope, Kathleen McArthur, W.S. and Joan Ramson and Marcie Muir (1 box).??The Acc13.010 instalment comprises correspondence, research notes and miscellaneous papers pertaining to Fanning’s career with the National Library. It includes research notes and transcripts of Lady Franklin’s diary; correspondence and papers pertaining to the acquisition of the Kivell, Cope, Muir and Ramson collections; notes on the history of the National Library and significant staff members including Harold White, Arthur Wadsworth and Allan Fleming; and a substantial collection of small press publications including “The Pump Press” (7 boxes, 1 fol. box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A community activist with a strong belief in a multicultural society, Ariel Marguin stood for the Unity Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bligh in 1999. Ariel Marguin had been a resident in the Bligh electorate for more than 25 years when she ran as a candidate for the Unity party. She had previously worked in the Department of Immigration, and held a strong belief that prejudice and discrimination should be eradicated. Ariel was active in local organizations, being on the committee of the Holdsworth Street Community Centre, the Immigration Advice and Rights Centre and the Refugee Resettlement Working Group. She was also a member of Greenpeace, The Wilderness Society and the Friends of the ABC. After her one campaign she continued to be active in Justice Action, the Inner Eastern Sydney Migrant Interagency Action Group, and in the Unity Party. She was thanked for her work for Unity by Dr. Peter Wong, MLC, in his maiden speech in the parliament. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 8 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes airline tickets, vaccination certificate, bank statements, invoices, etc.?”Miss A.P. Booth”–Cover. Created 8 May 2019 Last modified 8 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Camp Pell, Vic. 1944-09-06. VF500148 Major A.R. Appleford, RRC, MM, Assistant Controller conducting a kit inspection of members of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service on draft for northern areas, assisted by Captain H.B. McKenzie, Staff Captain “Q” Victorian Lines of Communications area. Identified personnel are:- Corporal L. Lawson; Private N. Schreiber. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 35 minutes??’Sonia’ was born in Rzew in Russia and spent the first nine years of her life on the family farm. After her father’s death her mother moved the family to a city where she and her daughters worked in a factory. In 1941 Sonia was forced to go to Germany to work in a labour camp. At the end of the war she was alone, with a new name, and searching for a way out of Germany when she met her future husband, a Ukrainian, and they married and decided to emigrate together with their young son. Sonia describes the voyage in the ‘Jenny Rose Stewart’ and their stay at the Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre in Victoria. The family was shifted to Mildura in South Australia, where Sonia worked as a farm labourer, and then to Woodside for one an a half years where Sonia’s daughter was born. The family then bought a block of land and built their own home. Sonia describes getting herself a job at the Royal Adelaide Hospital as a domestic, which she remained in for 30 years. Sonia made no contact with local ethnic clubs and concludes by describing her family’s development. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Honours and awards 1987 Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in recognition of service to literature, particularly in the field of poetry 1996 HonDLitt, University of Sydney 2006 New South Wales Premier’s Special Award 2006 New South Wales Alice award 2001 The Age Book of the Year Book of the Year and Poetry Awards for Untold Lives & Later Poems 1996 Australia Council Writer’s Emeritus Award 1996 Emeritus Fellowship, Literature Board of the Australia Council 1985 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, 1985 for “The Three Fates” 1985 honorary life member of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 1984 Patrick White Award 1984 Grace Leven Poetry Prize for “The Three Fates” 1980 Senior Fellowship, Literature Board of the Australia Council 1979 Robert Frost Prize 1978 Fellowship of Australian Writers Christopher Brennan Award 1977 Australian National University Honorary Convocation Member 1966 Myer Award II for Australian Poetry for Cock Crow 1948 The Sydney Morning Herald Award for poetry, for “The Ship of Ice” Poet Rosemary Dobson’s significant contribution to Australian literature is evident in the long list of literary awards she received. She began writing at the age of 7, typeset and printed her first book aged 17 and published over twenty poetry collections and other books during her life. The most recent poetry book, Collected, was published just three months before her death in 2012. Recognised early in her career as a significant poet, Dobson was acclaimed as representing “a coming of age for Australian poetry” along with Gwen Harwood, Judith Wright and David Campbell. Contemplative and meditative, Dobson’s poetry is rich with references to art, history, relationship and the Australian landscape. Her move to Canberra in 1971 brought her into a rich literary and artistic community and she was freed to write again after five years in England when her pen remained still. Dobson became a vital member of Canberra’s literary community contributing generously of her time as mentor to younger poets, providing readings for poetry lovers and continuing to publish her own work until she died in 2012. Rosemary de Brissac Dobson was born into a literary family. Her parents Austin ‘Arthur’ Greaves Dobson (1870-1926) and Marjorie Caldwell (-1979) met at the Dickens Society in Sydney and married in 1917. Her English-born father was the son of Austin Dobson – poet, essayist and authority on eighteenth-century literature. The second of Arthur and Marjorie Dobson’s two children, Rosemary Dobson was born in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW) on 18 June 1920. Her sister Ruth Lissant Dobson (1918-1989) became Australia’s first woman career diplomat to be appointed an Australian ambassador. Arthur Dobson died when Rosemary Dobson was five years old, leaving his wife and two young daughters in straitened financial circumstances. Through a family connection Winifred West (1881-1971), headmistress and founder of the prestigious Frensham School in Mittagong NSW, offered Marjorie Dobson a housemistress position at the school and scholarships for her daughters. The Dobson girls thrived at Frensham where Rosemary showed early literary talent. Under the tutelage of the school librarian – Australian children’s author and printer Joan Phipson – Dobson produced her first collection of poems. She typeset them on the school’s small Adana Press and hand-bound the 200 copies, illustrating the cover with her own linocut illustration. Dobson frequently acknowledged her debt to West for the opportunity to attend Frensham and remained in contact with her until West’s death in 1971. After completing school, Dobson remained at Frensham as a teacher of art, literature and printing before using a small inheritance to study non-degree English literature at Sydney University and art with artist Althea Mary ‘Thea’ Proctor. Influenced by the combination of elegance, strength, discrimination and balance in Proctor’s art and recognising the influence of the different arts on one another, Dobson kept up her visual arts skills throughout her life, painting on holidays and taking life drawing classes. During the early years of World War 2 Dobson worked as a cipher clerk for the Royal Australian Navy. From the age of 21 she submitted poetry to newspapers and literary journals, including the Bulletin and Meanjin. In 1944 Dymocks published her collection “In a Convex Mirror” and in 1947 she won the Sydney Morning Herald poetry prize for “The Ship of Ice”. Working as a proof-reader then editor at Angus & Robertson publishers in Sydney, Dobson met fellow editor, Alec Bolton. They married in North Sydney in 1951 and set up home at Neutral Bay on Sydney Harbour. Tragedy struck in 1953 when Dobson and Bolton’s first child, Alexandra, lived only a few hours after birth. Dobson expressed some of her grief in her poem The Birth (ii) published in “Child with a Cockatoo and other poems” (1955) beginning: “Unknown, never to be known, lost Beyond darkness, beyond the reach of time …” In the following years their second daughter, Lissant and two sons, Robert and Ian were born in Sydney where Dobson and Bolton found friendship with a number of literary people including Douglas Stewart and his artist wife, Margaret Coen, writer and artist Norman Lindsay, Kenneth Slessor, and James McAuley. In 1966 Angus & Robertson appointed Alec Bolton as their London editor and the family moved to England, where they lived in Richmond near London. Although this was a stimulating time for Dobson, with European travel and London’s feast of concerts, theatre and art galleries, separated from her Australian roots she found herself unable to write poetry. In 1971 the family returned to Australia to live in Canberra when Alec Bolton was appointed founding Director of Publications at the National Library of Australia. With a population of around 200,000 Canberra was small compared to London, but despite its compact size the national capital nurtured a thriving literary and artistic community and Dobson flourished in the stimulating circle of creative new friends. She and Bolton made friends with the likes of poet, essayist and ANU’s foundation professor of English – Alec Hope, ANU academic and literary critic – Dorothy Green, visual artist – Rosalie Gascoigne, ANU academic and poet – David Campbell and writer Robert Dessaix. Dobson delighted in attending lectures by John Mulvaney, foundation professor in pre-history at the ANU and she took classes in Modern Greek. Her poetry found voice again and she flourished, publishing around fifteen collections of poetry in the following four decades. While continuing to write poetry, Dobson also edited anthologies and gave interviews and public readings of her work. She represented Australian literature in overseas visits where she valued meetings with poets like Denise Levertov who later visited her in Canberra, Michael Ondaatje and Eastern European poet Zbigniew Herbert. In 1972 Alec Bolton established the Brindabella Press which published four of Dobson’s books – Three poems on water-springs, Greek Coins, Untold Lives: a sequence of poems and The Continuance of Poetry, two of which Dobson illustrated herself. Dobson maintained that poetry is ‘a vocation’. Her poetry is widely acknowledged for the way she simply and clearly expresses life’s complexities. She expressed the importance of this in her own words, “I really feel the necessity of the poetry being clear, so I can communicate something to people. Clarity is very important.” Certain themes, such as water, light and time run through her poetry, with water usually a metaphor for renewal, consolation, friendship or inspiration. Joy Hooton writes that Dobson’s passionate engagement with life emerges throughout her poetry as “enjoyment of friendships, family relationships, intense appreciation of landscapes, art, literature and music and a relish for the sheer diversity of human personality.” (Hooton, 21) In the 1990s Dobson’s sight began failing – “one day the dark fell over my eye”. Her progressive sight loss stimulated some moving poetry totally lacking in any self-pity, including Poems a Long Way After Basho: I breathe the leaves of the basil It has news for me- For all my senses Old, I strive for wisdom As the sage bush speaks, clearly, Many-leaved, grey and silver Solace for my eyesight The green leaves of borage And its gentle blue flowers. When Alec Bolton died suddenly and unexpectedly in 1996, Rosemary Dobson expressed her grief through “simultaneous celebrations and laments” for him (Canberra Times, 12 July 2012). Ever grounded in life, she wrote elegantly and sparely of her grief and of Bolton’s wisdom in her poem ”Reading Aloud”, dedicated to Bolton and also read at her own funeral at St Paul’s Anglican Church, Manuka ACT on 4 July 2012: “We must press on.” From books to life, your thought: “Forgive, learn from the past. Press on.” And I press on. Dobson wrote in one of her collections that the poems “are part of a search for something only fugitively glimpsed; a state of grace which one once knew, or imagined, or from which one was turned away . . . A doomed but urgent wish to express the inexpressible”. Rosemary Dobson died in Canberra 27 June 2012. Days before she died, fellow poet Geoff Page paid tribute to Dobson and the generosity with which she contributed to Canberra’s literary life: “Rosemary Dobson has been a vital member of Canberra’s literary community. She has done this both by reading her own work whenever asked – and through acting, over several decades, as an informal mentor to many younger poets. Her consistent support for readings, such as the long-running series Poetry at The Gods (and its predecessor, Poetry at the Goethe), has been a great encouragement to poets from this city (and all over Australia) who were invariably gratified to have a poet of Dobson’s stature and experience in the audience” (Canberra Times, 16 June 2012). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Rosemary Dobson, Hanley, Penelope, 2009 Rosemary Dobson (1920- ), Ayers, Marie-Louise, 2002 Over the Frontier: The Poetry of Rosemary Dobson, Brady, Veronica, 1994 A Celebration of the Art of Rosemary Dobson, Hooton, Joy, 2000 Rosemary Dobson, Williams, Barbara, 1998 Reclusive Grace: The Poetry of Rosemary Dobson, Zwicky, Fay, 1986 Newspaper Article Well-versed prizewinner, Ayres, Marie-Louise, 2012, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/obituaries/wellversed-prizewinner-20120711-21w24.html Poet espoused tradition, yet remained distinct, McCooey, David, 2012, http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/poet-espoused-tradition-yet-remained-distinct-20120702-21d1a.html Poet's Final Journey to the Western Star, Metherell, Gia, 2012, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/poets-final-journey-to-western-star-20120704-21htt.html Poets Who Drew From World Well, Savige, Jaya, 2012, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/poets-who-drew-from-world-well/story-e6frg8n6-1226414945447 Rosemary Dobson, enduring voice of Australia, dies, Steger, Jason, 2012, http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/rosemary-dobson-enduring-voice-of-australia-dies-20120628-214ho.html Rosemary Dobson's poetic life in pursuit of the intervening angel, Lehmann, Geoffrey, 2012, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/rosemary-dobsons-poetic-life-in-pursuit-of-the-intervening-angel/story-fn9n8gph-1226411160780 The last of her line, Page, Geoff, 2012, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/entertainment/the-last-of-her-line-20120615-20dn3.html Magazine article Last of an \"illustrious generation\" of poets, 2012 The Figure in the Doorway: On the Poetry of Rosemary Dobson, Catalano, Gary, 1994 A World of Difference: Australian Poetry and Painting in the 1940s, Dobson, Rosemary, 1973 Over My Shoulder, Dobson, Rosemary, 1989 Poetry and Painting: A Personal View, Dobson, Rosemary, 1977 The Intricate, Devised Hearing of Sight: A Profile of Rosemary Dobson, Smith, Graeme Kinross, 1974, http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/westerly/pdfs/33803 \"Looking into the Landscape\": The Elegiac Art of Rosemary Dobson, McCooey, David, 1995, http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/westerly/pdfs/253530 Edited Book Rosemary Dobson. A Celebration, Hooton, Joy, 2000 Resource Section Rosemary Dobson in conversation with John Tranter, 2004, http://johntranter.com/interviewer/20041208-dobson-iv.shtml Rosemary Dobson, http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/dobson-rosemary Journal Article Rosemary Dobson - the Text and the Textile, Ayers, Marie-Louise, 1995 A Conversation with Rosemary Dobson, McCooey, David, 1996 A Frame of Reference: Rosemary Dobson's Grace Notes for Humanity, Mitchell, Adrian, 1981 Vision Poetry and the Land in Rosemary Dobson's Poetry, Senn, Werner, 1996 Book Rosemary Dobson: A Celebration, Hooton, Joy, 2000, http://books.google.com.au/books?printsec=frontcover&vid=ISBN0642107289&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Focus on Ray Crook, Dobson, Rosemary, 1971 Poems, Dobson, Rosemary, 1937 In a Convex Mirror: poems, Dobson, Rosemary, 1944 Child with a Cockatoo and other poems, Dobson, Rosemary, 1955 Rosemary Dobson. Australian Poets, Dobson, Rosemary, 1963 Poems. Australian Poets and Artists [Adelaide]: Australian Letters, Dobson, Rosemary, 1964 Cock Crow: poems, Dobson, Rosemary, 1965 Knossos, Dobson, Rosemary, 1971 Selected Poems, Dobson, Rosemary, 1973 Three poems on water-springs, Dobson, Rosemary, 1973 Moscow Trefoil: poems from the Russian of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam, Campbell, David and Dobson, Rosemary. Translator: Staples, Natalie, 1975 Greek coins: a sequence of poems, Dobson, Rosemary, 1977 Over the Frontier: poems, Dobson, Rosemary, 1978 Seven Russian Poets: Imitations, Dobson, Rosemary, 1979 Selected poems, Dobson, Rosemary, 1980 The continuance of poetry: twelve poems for David Campbell, Dobson, Rosemary, 1981 The Three Fates and other poems, Dobson, Rosemary, 1984 Summer press, Dobson, Rosemary, 1987 Seeing and Believing, Dobson, Rosemary, 1990 Collected Poems, Dobson, Rosemary, 1991 Untold Lives: a sequence of poems, Dobson, Rosemary, 1992 Untold Lives and later poems, Dobson, Rosemary, 2000 Folding the Sheets and other poems, Dobson, Rosemary, 2004 Poems to Hold or Let Go, Dobson, Rosemary, 2008 Collected, Dobson, Rosemary, 2012 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Rosemary Dobson, poet, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Interview with Rosemary Dobson, poet [sound recording] / interviewer, Heather Rusden [Poetry reading by Rosemary Dobson] [sound recording] / [recorded by : Hazel de Berg] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Rosemary Dobson, 1923-2004 [manuscript] Correspondence, 1952-1968 [manuscript] Papers of Dawn Richardson, 1970-2010 [manuscript] Papers of Judith Wright, 1944-2000 [manuscript] Literary papers 1969-1981 [manuscript] Australian National University Archives Sound recordings Author Details Niki Francis Created 10 December 2012 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The collection consists of diaries, notes and letters from voyages from Britain to Australia via Italy and the Suez Canal in 1927 (SS Otranto) and from Fremantle to Britain in 1938 via the Pacific Islands, USA, and Canada (ships Strathmore, Awatea, Monterey and Georgic). There are letters written in September 1938 following Neville Chamberlain’s meetings with European leaders and Adolph Hitler. There are three Royal Drawing Society certificates issued to Ella Mackay (aged 15) in 1924 and postcards of the “Monterey” and “Georgic”. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 16 November 2016 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dame Ida Mann was a distinguished English ophthalmologist whose long-term association with Australia began when she moved to Perth, Western Australia, after World War II. She diagnosed a trachoma epidemic amongst Indigenous people in the Kimberleys and travelled extensively in Western Australia in order to examine and treat Indigenous people with trachoma. Mann became convinced that better housing and sanitation, rather than administration of antibiotics, would improve this health crisis. She was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 14 June 1980 for services to the welfare of Aboriginal people. Ida Mann was educated at the London School of Medicine for Women and St Mary’s Hospital. She qualified Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS), Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (LRCP) and Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB BS) in 1920 and Doctor of Science (DSc) in 1924. She was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1927. In London Mann worked at the Elizabeth Garrett-Anderson Hospital for Women, the Central London Eye Hospital, and the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. She flew to Melbourne in 1939 to present a paper to the Ophthalmological Society of Australia. Mann became Reader in Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford in 1941. She was Titular Professor there from January 1945 until 30 September 1947. Mann was also a Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford. Mann resigned from Oxford and emigrated to Australia in 1949 with her husband, Professor William Gye (whom she married in December 1944). Prof Gye died in 1952. Mann then began a four year investigation into the nature and extent of trachoma amongst Indigenous people in the Kimberleys. These studies also took her to Papua New Guinea and the Pacific islands. Mann published extensively in the area of eye anatomy and eye disease, publishing many scientific articles and several books. She also wrote on her travels and findings relating to trachoma, published under her married name or pseudonym, Caroline Gye. These were China 13 and The cockney and the crocodile. Mann received an honorary Doctor of Science from Murdoch University (Perth, Western Australia) in 1983. She died later the same year at the age of ninety. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Culture, race, climate, and eye disease; an introduction to the study of geographical ophthalmology., Mann, Ida, 1961 The Chase : an autobiography, Mann, Ida, 1986 The development of the human eye, Mann, Ida, 1964 Developmental abnormalities of the eye, Mann, Ida, 1957 The science of seeing, Mann, Ida and Pirie, Antoinette, 1946 China 13, Gye, Caroline (pseudonym for Ida Mann), 1964 The cockney and the crocodile (large print edition), Gye, Caroline (pseudonym for Ida Mann), 1992 Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Thesis DISEASE, HEALTH AND HEALING: aspects of indigenous health in Western Australia and Queensland, 1900-1940, Briscoe, Gordon, 1996, http://histrsss.anu.edu.au/briscoe/ Report Ophthalmic survey of the South-West portion of Western Australia: final report of the surveys undertaken for the Public Heath Department of Western Australia., Mann, Ida, 1956 Ophthalmic survey of the Territories of Papua and New Guinea, 1955, Mann, Ida and Loschdorfer, J., 1956 Journal Article Memorial to Ida Mann: obituary, Bron, A. J., 1984 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Newspaper Article Ida Mann - tribute to the late Professor, obituary of famed opthalmologist, 1984 Informative Article from Cosmo Newberry (Visit by Dr Ida Mann; case of trachoma found.), Lupton, H., 1955 Resource List of 'Firsts and Founders' on the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2001, Centenary of Federation Victoria, 2001, http://www.women.vic.gov.au/CA256EAE0012F311/Womens%20Policy/Women+as+leadersVictorian+Honour+Roll Women at Oxford, University of Oxford, 2002, http://www.ox.ac.uk/aboutoxford/women.shtml Embryologie de l'oeil et de ses annexes, National trade union of the Ophthalmologists of France, 2002, http://www.snof.org/maladies/embryohist.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Conference Paper Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future - health for all by 2000, Kamien, Max, 1997, http://www.ruralhealth.org.au/pdf/declare1.pdf Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Drafts of book on ophthalmology [manuscript] State Library of Western Australia Papers, 1893-1983 [manuscript] Author Details Clare Land Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Elected in 2001, Margetts is a member for the Agricultural Region, in the Legislative Council of Western Australia(WA), representing the Australian Greens Western Australia Party. From 1993-1999 she was a Senator (The Australian Greens) for WA in Federal Parliament. Prior to commencing her parliamentary career Margetts was a lobbyist and state co-ordinator for the People for Nuclear Disarmament (1988-1991). After completing her secondary education in Western Australia, Dee Margetts moved to the United Kingdom in 1979 where she completed an Honours degree in Development Studies. She became a high school teacher/librarian following the completion of a diploma of Education at the University of Western Australia. It was while teaching that she became involved with the peace and environment movement, which lead her to joining the political arena. After leaving the Senate in July 1999, Margetts undertook research for a Master of Philosophy Degree at Murdoch University in the area of Political Economy. Margetts was awarded an MPhl for her thesis: “Competition Policy, State Agreement Acts and the Public Interest”. In February 2001, Margetts was elected, along with Robin Chapple, to join their Greens (WA) colleagues, Giz Watson, Chrissy Sharp and Jim Scott in the WA State Legislative Council where Dee represents the Agricultural Region. Published resources Resource Section Dee Margetts MLC, Member for Agriculture, Parliament of Australia, 2001, http://wa.greens.org.au/parliament/dmargetts/ Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Correspondence, 1996-1999 [manuscript] [Interview with Dee Margetts] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald] [Interview with Dee Margetts] [sound recording] / [interviewed by David Worth] Author Details Anne Heywood and Clare Land Created 13 February 2002 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Margaret Lurline Davey’s long standing service and commitment to community work and especially to women’s organisations, was first recognised in 1963 when she was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). Almost twenty years later in 1981 her efforts were again recognised when she was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Margaret Davey was born not long after the outbreak of World War I, a fourth generation South Australian with ancestral and cultural links to England and Ireland. She was educated at Girton School, the University of Adelaide and the Adelaide Conservatorium of Music. Margaret always immersed herself in community work and in particular became very involved with the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). Her fund-raising activities eventually led to her becoming president of the YWCA in Adelaide. Margaret was involved in the establishment of the YWCA in New Guinea and also investigated the possibility of setting up YWCA hostels in America and Canada. It was through her work with the YWCA that Margaret first became involved with the National Council of Women of Australia (NCWA). In the early 1990s Margaret worked to establish a fund that would assist women to participate in the activities of the NCWA, and the International Council of Women (ICW), which operates in ninety-five countries around the world. ‘The Margaret Davey Fund’ was set up with an original donation of $5000 from Margaret and continues to be augmented by the donations of others. It assists members in attending major conferences, seminars and international symposiums thus lifting the profile of NCWA as an organisation representative of mainstream Australian women. Margaret was President of NCWA from 1976-1979 and was involved in setting up its headquarters in Canberra. During her life Margaret has given generously of her time to women’s organisations like YWCA and NCWA, as well as the Methodist Church, the Good Neighbour Council and the Julia Farr Centre. Her service to women’s organisations and community work was recognised in 1963 when she was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), awarded the Queens Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977, and appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1981. Events 1960 - Women’s United Churches Association 1961 - 1966 Methodist Women of South Australia Published resources Book Greater than their knowing: a glimpse of South Australian women 1836-1986, National Council of Women of South Australia, 1986 Notable Australians: the Pictorial Who's Who, Hamlyn, Paul, 1978 Catalogue Public Moments, Private Lives: Costume from the Davey Family, 1991 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian Dictionary of Biography Margaret Davey National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Margaret Davey interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording] National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Miss Margaret Davey - Honour National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] NCWA Papers 1984 - 2006 Author Details Judith Ion Created 12 August 2002 Last modified 13 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Margaret Davey Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letters of appreciation to Senator Margaret Reynolds by her colleagues, on the occasion of her retirement, compiled by Janet Irwin Author Details Clare Land Created 4 December 2001 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Copies of Patsy Adam-Smith’s annual Christmas circular letter to friends. The letters contain family details, along with information about her various books and her travels in The United Kingdom. Copy of a photograph showing Patsy Adam-Smith with Rita Williams and another with Eric Williams at Tower Hill, Warrnambool. 1 photocopy of a photograph of the Centenary Committee from a book printed for the centenary of Ulverston in Tasmania, showing Patsy Adam-Smith in the front row. Photocopies of press cuttings relating to Patsy Adam-Smith’s book The ANZACS and various newspaper articles written by her between 1977-1989. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 December 2017 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "6 tape reels (ca. 3 hrs)??Tasmanian writer Gwen Harwood speaks with a friend about her childhood in Brisbane; her family background; her schooldays; houses she has lived in and their relationship to her writing; early married life in Tasmania; her father’s service at Gallipoli; women in her family; interest in music; the recent presentation of her Doctorate of Letters; her children; friends; contact with Rodney Hall; starting to write when her children were young; the relationship of science and art; her philosophy of poetry; relationship of music & poetry; her friendship with Elizabeth Jolley; other writers she enjoys; recites her poem about Schroedinger’s cat; animals she has lived with; poems to friends and occasional poems; Tomor Tony Riddell to whom her poetry books are dedicated; music exams and teaching music; life in Brisbane during World War II; impact of the War on women’s experience as housewives; her use of pseudonyms; her friendship with Hal Porter; the problem of using friends and family as “material”; recites an excerpt from “A Public Place”; her poetic technique; going to writers’ festivals; poetry and truth. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A Memorial to past committee members of Women on Farms Gatherings was initiated by the Ouyen Gathering in 1998, and since then has been displayed in a prominent place at each Gathering. The women acknowledged on the plaque include: Eileen Patricia (Pat) Hall, Sea Lake 1991; Kathleen (Kath) Paynter, Swan Hill 1995; Rhonda Weatherhead, Warragul 1990; Muriel Dick, Warragul 1990 & 1999. Polished cross section of Mallee stump with small carved single furrow plough at the top. Brass plates have been secured to the surface. Centre top plaque reads: ‘Women on farms Gatherings/ In memory of/ Past committee members’. Separate plaques reads: ‘Eileen Patricia (Pat) Hall/ Sea Lake 1991’; ‘Kathleen (Kath) Paynter/ Swan Hill 1995’; ‘Rhonda Weatherhead/ WARRAGUL 1990’; ‘Muriel Dick/ Warragul 1990 & 1999’. Lower plaque reads: ‘Memory board initiated by/ Ouyen W.O.F.G. 1998’. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 March 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hr 36 min. Oral history. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This series created by the Office of Women’s Affairs contains files which include information regarding the following matters:??. review of Commonwealth functions in relation to women’s issues;?. family planning;?. the Galbally Report;?. migrant programs and services;?. health programs;?. pension income test – increase in the free area;?. homeless persons assistance program;?. benefit income test;?. wider opportunities for youth education;?. National Women’s Advisory Council;?. uniform sole parent’s pension;?. briefing re trade training programs;?. options for directing assistance for families with children through? the personal income tax system;?. global allocation for employment and training programs; and?. guidelines for the community support scheme. Author Details Clare Land Created 4 December 2001 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In 1976 Joan Freeman became the first woman to be awarded the British Institute of Physics’ Rutherford Medal. She began her career at CSIR Radiophysics Laboratory during World War II, working on the production of a 10cm microwave radar set, and spent most of her working life at the British Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell. Freeman was educated at the University of Sydney, where she completed a Bachelor of Science in 1939 and Master of Science in 1943. She worked with the CSIR Radiophysics Laboratory 1941-46; the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge 1946-51; and the Van de Graaff Accelerator Group, Harwell Nuclear Physics Division 1951-78. Freeman was awarded the Rutherford Medal, British Institute of Physics, in 1976. SCEGGS Darlinghurst has a science, art and technology centre named in her honour. Published resources Resource Section A Passion for Physics; Joan Freeman, Sherratt, Tim, 1993, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_freeman.htm Journal Article A Passion for Physics; Joan Freeman, Sherratt, Tim, 1993 Article Dr. Joan Freeman (Address for the Gordon Godfrey Inaugural Lecture - May 1993), 1993, http://www.wisenet-australia.org/profiles/jfreeman.htm Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book A Passion for Physics: The Story of a Woman Physicist, Freeman, Joan, 1991 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Dr Joan M Freeman Dr Joan M Freeman National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Joan Freeman, physicist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Elle Morrell Created 1 February 2001 Last modified 5 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Files contain material such as art exhibition catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases and/or other ephemeral items relating to Australian artists and galleries. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 7 February 2017 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Annabelle Rankin was appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander on 13 June 1957 for political and public services. Rankin was the first Queensland woman to be elected a member of Federal Parliament when she became a Queensland Liberal Party Senator in July 1947. She held office for thirty-four years, during which time she served as Minister for Housing from January 1966 to March 1971. The Federal electoral division of Rankin (created 1984), was named after the first Queensland woman elected to the Senate. Annabelle Rankin was one of three Queensland Liberal-Country Party candidates, elected to the Senate in 1946. Rankin, who grew up in a political household (her father Colin Dunlop Wilson was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly), became known throughout Queensland from her association with church activities, girl guides, the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) and the Red Cross. She was also a member of the Country Women’s Association, the Victoria League and the Royal Empire Society. Rankin became the first woman party whip (opposition), when she took up her seat in the Senate in July 1947, a position she held until the next election. Then in 1952 (until 1966), she became Government whip. On Australia Day 1966, the then prime minister, Harold Holt, appointed Rankin Minister for Housing, making her the first woman to be appointed to federal ministerial position involving administration of a department. After leaving politics Rankin became High Commissioner to New Zealand in 1971. She was the first woman to be appointed Head of Mission, and remained in this diplomatic post until 1974. Having never married Dame Rankin retired to Queensland, where she passed away on 30 August 1986. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Resource Section List of Electoral Divisions Named After Women, Australian Electoral Commission, http://www.aec.gov.au/history/women/women3.htm Rankin, Dame Annabelle (Jane Mary) 1908 -- 1986, Biography.com, http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=10560 Rankin, Dame, Annabelle (1908 - 1986), http://w1.xrefer.com/entry/360559 Primary description of person CP 137; The Hon Dame Annabelle Jane Mary Rankin DBE, National Archives of Australia, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CP+137 Book A woman of distinction : the honourable Dame Annabelle Rankin D.B.E., Browne, Waveney, 1981 Liberal women : Federation to 1949, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2004 So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Scrapbooks, envelopes and folders of newspaper clippings maintained by Dame Annabelle Rankin Folders of speeches, press releases and articles about, or delivered by, Dame Annabelle Rankin The Hon Dame Annabelle Jane Mary RANKIN DBE Memorabilia collected by Dame Annabelle Rankin National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Annabelle Rankin interviewed by Pat Shaw in the Parliament's Bicentenary oral history project [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Annabelle Rankin, first woman in Australia to hold a Federal Ministry, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "15 minutes??Madge Parker was born on the Yorke Peninsula and lived near Ardrossan. Her father grew wheat, barley and oats. They moved to Adelaide when her father retired and Madge was 16. She went to London in 1939 to do a course in cosmetics and came home via America. She worked in cosmetics in Sydney and then joined the WAAFS where she completed an officers course. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jan Brown was a distinguished Canberra artist whose work has been exhibited in Canberra since the 1960s and whose public art installations include Kangaroos in Commonwealth Park and the Icarus group of sculptures in Petrie Plaza in Canberra. She taught sculpture and drawing for over forty years at the Canberra Technical College and the Canberra School of Art. Jan Brown was born in Sydney in 1922. She initially studied art at the East Sydney Technical College as an evening student then moved to London in 1947 and was awarded a National Diploma in Design (Sculpture) in 1949 from the Chelsea Polytechnic School of Art in London, where she studied under Henry Moore. From 1957, she taught at the Canberra Technical College, and then the Canberra School of Art which is now part of the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University, until 2001. In this role she was an inspirational teacher and mentor to many young artists, particularly in drawing and sculpture. Jan’s work is inspired by nature and by local Canberra birdlife in particular. Her work has been exhibited in Canberra since the 1960s including at the Macquarie Galleries, the Drill Hall Gallery and Beaver Galleries, and is included in important national collections such as the National Gallery of Australia, Artbank, the National Library of Australia, the Australian National University Art Collection, the Canberra Museum and Gallery and at Parliament House in Canberra. Two major ‘public art’ installations are in Canberra: the life-size bronze Kangaroos near Nerang Pool in Commonwealth Park (1980) and the Icarus group of sculptures in Petrie Plaza, Civic (2009). A retrospective exhibition of her work, Jan Brown: Sculptures, prints and drawings, 1948-2007, was held at the Canberra Museum and Gallery in 2008. She has also served on arts advisory boards such as the ACT Arts Development Board (1986-1991), and was Deputy Chair of the Australian National Capital Artists (ANCA) Steering Committee (1989-1993) and Chair of the Visual Arts subcommittee of the ACT Cultural Council (1992-1994). She received the Visual Arts Emeritus Award from the Australian Council and was made a member of the Order of Australia in 1992. The Jan Brown Drawing Prize offered by the ANU School of Art is awarded annually to celebrate her role as a teacher at the School. Published resources Resource Section Jan Brown, http://www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au/cmag/JanBrown.html Jan Brown AM, http://www.beavergalleries.com.au/ Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Art Gallery of New South Wales, Edmund and Joanna Capon Research Library [Jan Brown: Australian Art and Artists file] Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 6 December 2012 Last modified 2 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lisa Curry Kenny, the winner of 15 gold, 7 silver and 8 bronze International medals, is the only Australian swimmer to have held Commonwealth and Australian records in every stroke except backstroke. She competed in three Olympics; Moscow in 1980, Los Angeles in 1984 and Barcelona in 1992. She is now one of Australia’s successful keynote motivational speakers and is a Director of Curry Kenny Group Pty Ltd. Lisa Curry, the daughter of Roy and Pat Curry, grew up in Brisbane, and by the age of twelve was one of the fastest swimmers of her age in the world. Harry Gallagher coached her. Although she did not excel at school and claims that she was not a natural athlete, she succeeded through a combination of commitment and good organisation. At the age of fifteen she was ranked number five in the world for the 100 metre breaststroke. From 1977 to 1992 she won 15 National Long Course Open Titles and competed in two world championships; in Berlin in 1978 and Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1982. She competed in three Commonwealth Games; in Edmonton in 1978, when she won a silver medal; in Brisbane in 1982 when she won three gold and a bronze and in Auckland in 1990, when she won four gold and one silver. She competed in the Moscow (1980), Los Angeles (1984), and the Barcelona (1992) Olympics. Her awards included the Confederation of Australian Sport gold trophy for female athlete of the year 1982 and Queensland sportswoman of the year 1983-1984. She married Grant Kenny, ironman and Olympian, in 1986 and had three children, Jaimi, Morgan and Jett. On retirement from swimming after the Barcelona Olympics, Curry Kenny took up other sporting pursuits and has competed in surf boat rowing competitions and in championship outrigger canoe events. Her team won the Queensland Surf Life Saving Championship in 1996 and the World Championship Outrigger Canoe event in 1997. She has been a member of the Panamuna Outrigger Canoe Club for more than ten years. Her successful swimming career and outgoing personality equipped her to work as a presenter for the Channel Nine Wide World of Sport program and to promote Queensland as a tourist destination for the Queensland Tourist and Travel Corporation. She has been associated with Uncle Tobys products since 1983 and has appeared in television commercials promoting their muesli bars. She is spokesperson for Fernwood Fitness Centre, a large chain of Australian fitness and health clubs catering for women. She also supports World Vision and assists orphaned children in Romania. Curry Kenny is the author of a series of fitness books which include Lisa Curry’s Total Health and Fitness, Lisa Curry’s Pregnancy and Fitness, Lisa Curry’s Health and Fitness, Get Up and Go, Fit Kids, and Mini Get Up and Go. She is a director of the Curry Kenny Group Pty Ltd with her husband, and travels around Australia giving motivational talks at national and international company conferences. In addition, she is chairman of the National Australia Day Council, Ambassador to the Office of the Status of Women – Honouring Women program and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Encouragement of Philanthropy in Australia. Events 1990 - 1990 Swimming – 50m Freestyle, 100m Butterfly, 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 100m Medley Relay 1982 - 1982 Swimming – 100m Butterfly, 200m and 400m Individual Medley Published resources Book Section Curry Kenny Lisa; OAM, MBE; Managing Director, Curry Kenny Pty Limited; Motivational Speaker, 2002 Book Lisa Curry's health and fitness, Curry, Lisa, 1992 Lisa Curry's pregnancy and fitness: healthy exercise, diet and nutrition, relaxation., Curry, Lisa, 1992 Get up and go!, Curry, Lisa, 1998 Fit kids: keeping our kids healthy, fit and motivated, Curry, Lisa, 2000 Mini get up and go!, Curry, Lisa, 2000 Lisa Curry's total health and fitness, Curry, Lisa, 1990 Contemporary Australians 1995/96, 1995 Debrett's handbook of Australia, 1989 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 6 August 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "10 sound cassettes (ca. 750 min.)??Cassab talks about her life, her sketching, childhood in Hungary, the devastation of her country and family in World War II, her enduring marriage to Yanchi, living as an artist in post-war Hungary, their emigration to Australia in 1951, expanding from portrait painting to abstracts in 1960’s, the Sydney artistic scene, her first Australian exhibition in 1953, the difficulties in adjusting to Australian life and learning English and Australian humour, impressions of those she has painted, the change in the Sydney art scene at the end of the 1950’s, her impressions of Hungary since the 1960’s, her trip to Japour, her trip to Alice Springs in May 1959, the impact of the Outback on her paintings, her sittings with royalty, her use of daily meditation, her trip to the Thai court.??Cassab discusses her belief that self-exploration develops artistic talent, Australian art boom from 1959 to 1974, her views on artistic style, the rise in popularity of Sydney art galleries in the mid-1960’s, which galleries hold her paintings, what constitutes art and imitation of art -our loss of reverence for life in glorifying technology, how art technique is rarely discussed among artists, her impressions of celebrity sitters, her appointment as member of the Council of the Order of Australia in 1975, her love of Rainbow Valley near Alice Springs, appointed as trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW in 1981, how ageing is affecting her painting, and her book launch in 1984. Author Details Judith Ion Created 12 August 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Typescript listing of Mrs Day’s awards and commendations, and the index to her stories and poems. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elba was born into a strongly socialist working-class family in Chile, which became closely associated with the government of Savador Allende and was forced to flee Chile following his assassination. On settling in Canberra she instigated a strike of workers at the at the Health Services Supply Services laundry at Mitchell in 1987. In 1991 she joined the staff of the Beryl Women’s Refuge, where she is still employed. She has assisted many Chilean refugees settle in Canberra and has been involved in a number of community organizations. Elba Cruz was born in 1945 in Chepica, Chile, daughter of Leopoldo Cruz-Soto and Maria Magdalina Zavalla-Jimenes. Her father, a self-employed sharecropper and community leader, imbued her and her six siblings with strong sense of social justice and socialist and communist values. Dyslexia impeded Elba’s education and she left school at about 14 to help her mother in the home. At 18 she went to Santiago where she worked in a men’s clothing factory, participated in union activities, and in 1969 married Leonardo Valenzuela Ramirez, a carpenter. Elba and her husband worked to promote community development centres in suburbs and country towns under the Allende government, and two of her brothers became Allende’s unofficial bodyguards. One of her brothers was at the Presidential Palace (Moneda) in November 1973 when Allende was assassinated. The other brother was at the Intedensia (the Santiago administration office). This brother was arrested and executed three days after the coup. The other brother who was at the Moneda in the morning of the coup was imprisoned, tortured, and released after four months. Her husband was granted refuge in Argentina and Elba followed him with her three small children in November 1974. They lived there for three years under UN protection and another child was born, before the family was accepted as refugees by Australia in 1977. They settled initially in Adelaide, then came to Canberra, where her husband worked as a carpenter and she studied English. In the early 1980s Elba worked as cook, a cleaner in a hotel and hospital, and as a casual worker at the Health Services Supply Services laundry at Mitchell. In 1987 she initiated a successful three week strike over employment conditions at the laundry, and subsequently became the union representative there. After six years she developed RSI and was forced to seek less physically demanding work. In 1991 she joined the staff of the Beryl Women’s Refuge, where she is still employed. She has assisted many Chilean refugees settle in Canberra and has been involved in a number of community organizations such as the Chilean Solidarity Committee, a support organization for Argentinean refugees, the Chilean broadcasting program on 2XX and ANESBWA (Association of Non-English-Speaking Background Women of Australia). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Sound recording Migrant women in the workforce [sound recording] : an oral history series documenting the working lives of migrant women in Australia, National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcaster's Council, 2001 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Elba Cruz-Zavalla interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording] Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 24 January 2006 Last modified 18 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letters from Gwen Harwood and her husband, F.W. Harwood, to Alison Hoddinott and her husband W.G. Hoddinott. Includes “Sappho cards”, parodies of other Australian poets, accounts of Gwen Harwood’s first meetings with James McAuley and A.D. Hope, a full account of the Walter Lehmann “Bulletin” hoax, and manuscript poems. Also typescript for “The lion’s bride”, dream book, and Sappho cards to Thea Goodwin. Alison Hoddinott’s book, “Blessed city : the letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell January to September 1943” was awarded the “Age” Book of the Year in 1990. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lili (Judy Davis), a back-up singer for an Elvis Presley imitator and living on the edge of show business, gets stranded in a small, coastal town. She befriends a teenage girl without knowing she is the daughter she left as an infant. — General notes: AFI Award: Best actress 1987.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A large collection of correspondence, especially between Sir John and Lady Latham and childhood correspondence of Sir John Latham; also correspondence of Richard, Freda and Peter Latham. There are family documents, certificates of honours and awards, invitations, photographs and newsclippings. A folio contains 4 photo albums including one recording Sir John’s term in Japan. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 June 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents include: letters from Walker to Professor John Anderson (1936-1961); letters and miscellanea received by Walker from Anderson and others (1936-1980); lecture notes (1934-1938); essays in philosophy by Walker (1934-1937); notes taken by Walker at Karl Popper’s seminars, University of London (1952); notes taken by Walker at seminars and congresses relating to talks given by Anderson (1936-1958); notes relating to lectures and tutorials given by Walker (1951-1963); miscellaneous notes (1938-1955); financial records (1972-1986); miscellaneous type-script notes (1948-1964); miscellaneous political records (1928-1949); printed political publications and pamphlets (1933-1958); photographic prints (no date). Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 14 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Hart was the second woman to be admitted a solicitor in Queensland and went on to enjoy a career that spanned five decades. She was a partner for thirty-four years and then a senior partner for twenty-one at the major Brisbane firm, Flower and Hart. Elizabeth Hamilton Hart was born into the law. There have been six generations of the Hart family working as lawyers in Queensland since 1863, when Elizabeth’s grandfather, Graham Lloyd Hart was admitted. The firm she worked for, for her entire life, Flower and Hart, was established in 1876 by her grandfather and his partner John Henry Flower. The firm remains one of Brisbane’s leading commercial law firms. Other family members, including her father, William Hamilton Hart, had careers in the law, including her uncle, Percy Lloyd Hart, who served as an acting judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Born in Indooroopilly, Brisbane in 1904, Hart attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School where she excelled academically. She was a good sportswoman, and particularly enjoyed basketball (now netball) where she enjoyed a significant height advantage. She went on to complete a BA at the University of Queensland, graduating in 1924 with Honours in Modern Language and Literature. Straight out of university, in 1925, she entered into Articles of Clerkship with her father at Flower and Hart. On 1 October 1929, she became only the second woman admitted as a solicitor in Queensland. She was a hard worker, a straight talker, reliable, well-spoken and was rewarded with a partnership in the firm in November 1938. When her father passed away in 1951 she became senior partner. It is said that Hart would ask colleagues and partners to view her just as ‘a fellow practitioner’ and ‘not to think of her as a woman’. Nevertheless, there can be no doubt that gender had an impact on her reception by the business community at large. Her brother Bill, younger than her by eight years and a partner in the firm while she was a senior partner, was invited to sit on the boards of a variety of Queensland companies, including the Queensland Board of the National Bank, when she was not. A pioneering woman in the Queensland legal world, Elizabeth Hart provided jobs to several women who went on to have prominent careers. She gave Naida Haxton, Queensland’s first practising female barrister, her start in 1963, although Haxton’s decision after three years to pursue a career at the Bar after three years saw her dismissed for breach of contract, which required three years’ service with the firm post-Articles. Haxton recalls Hart as being a somewhat ‘daunting and engaging’ woman who trained her young lawyers to ‘be careful to the point of pedantry’. Hart maintained a busy commercial practice and did the odd bit of pro bono work if the cause suited her. She was respected and liked by her colleagues and her retirement came about largely through bad health; she had a fall at work in 1971 and broke her hip. She retired on December 31, 1971, continuing to work as a consultant for two more years before retiring completely. Hart never married and lived with her elder sister, Eleanor, who also never married. She was not particularly interested in professional social events, preferring to mix with members of the Moreton Club, a women’s club established in 1924, of which she became a member in 1929. She was a devoted aunt to her six nieces and nephews and is remembered fondly by them for her generosity. She died on Christmas Day in 1925. Never an active feminist or political activist on behalf of women, her legacy to women lawyers who came after her is the longevity of her career. Certainly, the advantages of her family position in Brisbane legal circles made a legal career accessible. But a fifty-five year career, regardless of her gender, is worthy of celebration. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Elizabeth Hamilton Hart, Doherty, Siobhan and Whitton, Laura, 2005 Article A Woman Lawyer, 1929, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22919436 Called to the bar, 1929 Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 29 May 2015 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A devout Catholic, Annie Golding was president of the Women’s Progressive Association in Sydney from 1904. She lobbied for equal pay for women, and equal opportunity in the work force. Annie Golding was the eldest daughter of Joseph Golding, a gold-miner from Galway, Ireland, and his wife Ann (nee Fraser). She began teaching near Bathurst, New South Wales, and gained further experience at a number of Catholic schools in Newtown and Sydney, as well as at the Asylum for Destitute Children in Randwick. Golding was mistress in charge at West Leichhardt (Orange Grove) Public School from 1900, retiring in 1915. Throughout her teaching career, she was active in the Teachers’ Association of New South Wales, the Public School Teachers’ Institute and the New South Wales Public School Teachers’ Association. With her sisters, Belle Golding and Kate Dwyer, Annie was a member of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales before her Newtown branch was expelled for defiance of the central council in Woollahra. With friends and fellow Labor supporters, Annie and her sisters formed the Women’s Progressive Association with Annie as president from 1904. The Association lobbied for equal pay and the equality of women before the law, with a particular focus on education and employment conditions for women. Annie Golding became a member of the State Children Relief Board in 1911. Golding was a powerful orator. Speaking to the Australasian Catholic Congress in 1909, she announced that ‘the industrial, social, and moral development of a nation may be judged by the position of its women. In all decadent nations women are in a state of bondage or intellectual atrophy; regarded as slave or puppet.’ She strongly endorsed the philosophy of equal pay for equal work. Published resources Conference Proceedings Proceedings of the third Australasian Catholic Congress, held at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, 26th September 1909, Australasian Catholic Congress, 1909 Proceedings of the second Australasian Catholic Congress, held in the Cathedral Hall, Melbourne, October 24th to 31st, 1904, Australasian Catholic Congress, 1904 Book Uphill all the way: a documentary history of women in Australia, Daniels, Kay and Murnane, Mary, 1980 Resource Section Golding, Annie Mackenzie (1855 - 1934), Kingston, Beverley, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090040b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Aspinall Family - papers, 1903-1908 SUFFRAGE Group, 1902. National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection From Annie Golding Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 November 2008 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Copy of a diary which begins 19 April 1840 at Capecure, France and ends 12 July 1841. The diary includes a description of the journey from London to Western Australia on board the “Parkfield” and settlement in Western Australia. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The original photograph is captioned ‘Last WRANS at Rushcutter’. Left to right, standing: Gloria Wren; Dot Brien; Diana Dixon; Bobbye Wing; Helen Dring; Wilma Moore; Joan Mould; Norma Pearson; Vera Martin; Kath Cragg; Jean McMillan; Beryl Skewes; Olive Pringle; Elaine Albury; Jean Hebron; Joan Krempin; Joan Draper; Joan Mason; May Moon. Seated: Dorothy Nesbitt; Ruth Witheriff; Mary Goldie; Betty Lander; Joan Butler; Joan Morris; Timothy Percival; Jess Prain; Harvey Newcombe; Joan Streeter; Joy Stevenson; Margaret Bruce; Miriam Michael; Grace Rohead; Lola Coyle; Hazel Rawlins. Sitting on grass: Marie Trebilco; Shirley Streeton; Margaret Cox; Bobbie Poole. (Donor D. Doyle)?Australia: New South Wales, Sydney Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A copy of 1950, Oceania, vol. xxl, no. 2; sent to Fry and Tindale (see aa 338) from Ursula McConnel (see AA 191). This book contains several loose, hand written copies of McConnel’s Diagrams of Marriage, and Marriage and Kinship Systems; plus notes and annotations written within the book itself. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Dorothy Gordon, actress and director talks about her time in Hollywood (early 1920s), appearing in Raymond Longford’s “The Hills of Hate”, co-writing (with Victor Longford) script for “For the Term of His Natural Life” (1927) when it was to be directed by Raymond Longford. Gives opinion of Norman Dawn. c.[00:30:00] Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Holmes was born on 8 March 1886 in Prahran, Victoria, to parents Charles Morell Holmes and his wife Margaret. After attending Tintern Ladies’ College, Margaret enrolled in studies at the University of Melbourne, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts (1909), a Masters (1911) and a Diploma of Education (1911). During her time at university, Margaret was an active member of the Australasian Student Christian Union (ASCU), becoming president of the women’s branch in 1907. Margaret became the part-time general secretary of the ASCU (later the Australian Student Christian Movement) during World War I. From 1922 she was briefly a staff member of the Associated Teachers’ Training Institute (later Mercer Hall) before returning once again to the ASCU. From 1924 until 1945 Margaret served as the ASCU’s head-quarters secretary. During the 1930s Margaret was involved with the League of Nations in Melbourne, assisting with the organisation of the 1937 Australian Peace Conference. She was also on the executive committee of the World Student Christian Federation from 1928, and the organisations vice-chairman from 1933 to 1941. Margaret began a new career in refugee work during the Second World War. In 1938-39 she helped Ada Constance Duncan establish the Victorian International Refugee Emergency Committee and in 1940 she began to look after the interests of some of the refugees. From 1945 to 1949 Margaret was also secretary for World Student Relief. After retiring from the Australian Student Christian Movement, Margaret was appointed executive officer of a new resettlement department (later the Ecumenical Refugee Agency) of the Australian Council of Churches. She worked closely with immigration ministers, including Arthur Calwell, in pioneering Australia’s postwar migration. For her work with refugees and post war migrants, Margaret was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in January 1958. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Margaret Holmes, circa 1920-circa 1989 [manuscript] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letters, photographs, press cuttings 1887-1889 programmes, printed material, and other papers of Mathilde, Blanche and Salvatore Marchesi and Leopold Podhragy. Most of the material dates from the period of the family’s association with Dame Nellie Melba and contains 54 letters to family members by Melba, as well as a printed text of an address given by Melba in 1911, photographs, and the original programme of Melba’s farewell performance, 1926 June 8. Also includes a typescript entitled “Melba Garcia and the Marchesis: a souvenir of by-gone times” by Leopold Podhragy, and a scrapbook of Mathilde Marchesi, 1887-1889 about her school and pupils. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A young mother is lonely, cannot cope with her domestic responsibilities, and does not want her third baby. She desperately needs help but no-one will listen to her until the baby goes to hospital with a fractured skull.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Journalist, foreign correspondent and rock music expert Lillian Roxon enjoyed a long and varied career before her untimely death in New York at the age of 41. She was the first full-time female employee at the Sydney Morning Herald‘s New York office, and her Rock Encyclopedia was published in 1969. Lillian Roxon was born Liliana Ropschitz in 1932, the daughter of Polish Jewish parents Izydor and Rosa (nee Breitman). She spent her early childhood in Alassio on the Italian Riviera before emigrating with her parents and her brothers, Emanuele and Jacob, in 1940. The family fled first to Britain, following the pact between Hitler and Mussolini, before settling in Brisbane, Australia, where Izydor began work as a doctor. In November 1940, the Ropschitz family changed their name by deed poll to Roxon (though Izydor later changed again to Roxon-Ropschitz). They became known as Isadore, Rose, Milo, Lillian and Jack. Lillian was strongly influenced by the influx of American popular culture in wartime Brisbane, particularly after troops arrived with General MacArthur in 1942. At school she demonstrated obvious intelligence and was a great story-teller, but she was rebellious and she aimed to shock. In 1944, aged twelve, she was sent to St Hilda’s School at Southport, an Anglican boarding school for girls. The discipline did not find its mark with Lillian, and she completed her secondary schooling at Brisbane State High School. As a teenager, she socialized with members of the Miya Studio and the Barjai group in Brisbane, and kept up a friendship with Barbara Blackman. Roxon matriculated in 1948, and the following year she enrolled for a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney. Almost inevitably, she became involved with the Sydney ‘Push’, a socially, intellectually and sexually adventurous group which followed the philosophies of John Anderson, and of the Freethought Society co-founded by him. Essentially this meant questioning authority, particularly the authority of church and state. Lillian spent many formative hours with artists, actors, journalists, students, musicians, poets and fellow Push members at the Push hang-out, the Lincoln Inn Coffee Lounge. As an undergraduate, she contributed to the University’s student newspaper, Honi Soit, including a regular gossip column called ‘Postman’s Knock’. She took five years to complete her degree, graduating in 1955 with majors in English and Philosophy. In 1956, Roxon’s father passed away, and she spent eight months in New York. From January 1957, to the chagrin of her mother, she was writing for Weekend, Frank Packer’s weekly tabloid magazine in Sydney. Roxon became chief reporter and section editor under Donald Horne. Soon afterward she returned to the United States, where she was employed at the New York bureau of the Sydney Daily Mirror. A short stint in London saw her writing for the Sydney Morning Herald‘s Fleet Street bureau, but Roxon returned once again to New York as a freelance journalist. Her weekly column appeared in the women’s pages of the Sydney Sun from 1962. She also wrote for the Sun-Herald and the TV Times, and became the first female full-time employee at the New York office of the Sydney Morning Herald. Roxon wrote for the Herald until the end of her life. On occasion, feature articles for Woman’s Day brought her into contact with the big names of the era. One assignment saw her on the set of Night of the Iguana in Mexico with director John Huston and actors Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr. Elizabeth Taylor was also on set, and Roxon mixed with them all. Evidently, Lillian Roxon was not phased by big names. By the 1960s, she was indulging a deep fascination with the new, fast and loud world of rock music and becoming well acquainted with the major rock musicians of the period. She became a central figure at the infamous New York nightclub, Max’s Kansas City. Her strong friendship with rock photographer Linda Eastman ended only with Linda’s marriage to Paul McCartney. Roxon was renowned for her journalism, but perhaps found greater fame with her commentary on rock music, though the two often combined. In 1969 she published her now famous Rock Encyclopedia. It was, boasted its cover, ‘the most ambitious book ever written on rock and its roots, an innovative treatment of the generation’s heroes – the poets and minstrels of our time’. The encyclopedia listed rock groups, their members and their instruments, and contained biographical information, discographies and statistical analysis. It covered everyone from Chuck Berry to James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Bo Diddley and the Beatles, and was written in Roxon’s trademark style of prose – quick witted and full of irony. The book was republished in 1971, and again by Eddie Naha in 1980. In her author’s note, Roxon explained that ‘trying to get the rock world to keep still long enough for me to take its picture was one of the most difficult tasks in putting this book together. Groups split even as I wrote of their inner harmony, and got themselves together just as I had acknowledged their tragic demise. Baritones turned sopranos overnight; bands expanded and contracted their personnel like concertinas… but then, isn’t this restlessness exactly what rock is all about?’ In the end, said Roxon, ‘the music itself has to tell the story. This book is the companion to that story’. By the early 1970s Roxon had a regular column, ‘The Top of Pop’, with New York’s Sunday News, and another, ‘The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Sex’ in Mademoiselle magazine. She had well and truly carved her own niche. Toward the end of her life, says biographer Robert Milliken, she ‘had an influential platform in New York as a popular feminist as well as a rock expert’. Roxon never married. Troubled by asthma throughout her life, she was finally overcome by the illness and died in her New York apartment on 10 August 1973, aged 41. Events 1957 - 1973 Published resources Resource Section Roxon, Lillian (1932-1973), Milliken, Robert, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160169b.htm Book Rock Encyclopedia, Roxon, Lillian, 1969 Lillian Roxon: Mother of Rock, Milliken, Robert, 2002 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 18 June 2008 Last modified 15 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Meredith Hunter was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory representing the electorate of Ginninderra for the ACT Greens from 2008 to 2012. She was also Leader of the Greens for this period. Meredith Hunter was born in Canberra in 1962; her grandmother Mary Stevenson was the first woman to serve on the ACT Advisory Council from 1951 to 1959. Hunter was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory representing the electorate of Ginninderra for the ACT Greens from 2008 to 2012. She was also Leader of the Greens for this period and negotiated the agreement with Labor to support their minority government. Hunter was the Chair of the Climate Change, Water and Environment Committee and a member of the Justice and Community Safety Committee. At the 2012 elections, Hunter narrowly lost the fifth seat in Ginninderra to Yvette Berry of the Labor Party. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Life after politics: Hunter starts new career but puzzles over loss, Cox, Lisa, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/hunter-starts-new-career-but-puzzles-over-loss-20130203-2dss9.html Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 12 August 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "City views behind the Female Refuge and Infants’ Home on Turbot Street, looking towards St John’s Anglican Cathedral. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records of Dr K R Makinson relating to the activities of the Australian Association of Scientific Workers’ Sub-Committee on the Status of Women Employed in Science and related equal pay matters. Includes correspondence and reports. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of Octavia Wilson, missionary wife of Reverend William Wilson, a founder of Point Pearce Mission, comprising shipboard diary, notes on life of Reverend William Wilson and his Congregational ministry and photographic carte-de visites. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 82 min.) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2007 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ilse Robey was a widely travelled, well educated candidate for the Australian Democrats who contested the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Gordon, 1978, 1981 House of Representatives, Bradfield, 1980. Ilse Robey came to Australia before World War II, after being educated at Vienna University and gaining a doctorate and an interpreter’s diploma. She held a variety of jobs in Australia, including work for an American film distribution agency and an organisation which dealt with social services, immigrant education and public relations. She returned to Europe in the trade commissioners office of an Australian embassy, and while there became foreign editor of a leading central European daily newspaper. On her return to Sydney she worked for an accountant, before becoming a medical secretary. She became a foundation member of the Bradfield branch of the Australian Democrats in 1977. At the time of her first campaign she was a widow and had three adult children. She stressed reform of the State’s education and transport systems. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc09.155 comprises a copy of The professional life of George Tallis, 1886-1948: articles taken from Australian and international newspapers and periodicals, compiled by Joan and Michael Tallis and published in 2007. This publication of 261 p. contains transcribed newspaper and magazine articles in chronological order, that document Tallis’ influence on Australian theatre, film and radio (1 v.).??The Acc11.038 instalment comprises the book Amelia Tallis: a remarkable life, written and published by Joan and Michael Tallis (2010) (1 v.). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A typed letter signed in indelible pencil by Helen Keller to the Australian Federation of University Women, care of Mrs H.M. Lewis, Adelaide, South Australia (apparently Chair of the Committee on International Relations of AFUW). Two pages, quarto, on South Australian Hotel, Adelaide letterhead (5 July 1948). Keller visited South Australia with her travelling companion Polly Thompson from 23 June to 11 July 1948; a surprise party was held for her 68th birthday on 27 June. The letter would appear to be partly in response to that event: ‘What delight your exquisite floral gift brought me! How did you know that I especially love violets combined with daphne? People often express surprise that I can enjoy flowers when I cannot see their colours, but they forget that I derive pleasure from the delicate texture of the blossoms and their varied fragrances’. The rest of the letter refers at length to the power of the AFUW and the international body to which it is affiliated. ‘You realise your oneness with all women as the creators and preservers of the human race. You are not divided by politics as men are, and you feel the preciousness of all resources of life to mankind, among them atomic energy and the slowly growing friendship and cooperation between the peoples’. The letter had been inserted inside the book which was coincidently awarded as a primary school prize in 1965 to the young daughter of the recipient of the 1948 letter from Helen Keller. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hr 5 min 35 sec Oral history. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Motivated by a burning sense of injustice, Elizabeth Eggleston was a trailblazer in advocating justice for Aboriginal people. An academic lawyer and activist – she was the first doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Law at Monash University – Eggleston’s research revealed systematic discrimination of Indigenous peoples in the administration of justice. She was a founder of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service in 1972. Elizabeth Moulton Eggleston was born on 6 November 1934 at Armadale, Melbourne. Her father, Sir Richard Moulton Eggleston, was a barrister who became a judge and chancellor of Monash University. Elizabeth graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (second-class honours) from the University of Melbourne in 1956. At university Elizabeth was active in the Australian /Student Christian Movement, the Students’ Representative Council, a voluntary legal-aid service and the editorial board of the legal journal, Res Judicatae. After briefly practising law in Melbourne, Eggleston studied her Master of Laws at the University of California at Berkeley, graduating in 1958. She returned to Melbourne in 1961 and practised as a solicitor. Elizabeth completed an arts degree at the University of Melbourne in 1964. In 1965, Eggleston became the first doctoral candidate in the faculty of law at Monash University. Her PhD focussed on Aboriginal people and the administration of justice. In 1969 Eggleston began lecturing at Monash University, where she established new courses. In 1971 she became part time director of the University’s Centre for Research into Aboriginal Affairs. The Centre generated research, organized conferences, established a course in Black Australian Studies, provided resources for Aboriginal groups and individuals, and liaised with government and overseas bodies. Eggleston was a founder of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service in 1972. She conducted a discussion group with Aboriginal people in Pentridge gaol and advised Aboriginal communities. In addition to publishing articles, Elizabeth made submissions to government inquiries and parliamentary committees. Eggleston returned to North America in 1972 and undertook research in Native American communities. Her major publication, Fear, Favour or Affection (Canberra, 1976), was acclaimed for revealing systemic discrimination against Aboriginal people in the administration of criminal justice. She died on 24 March 1976 in East Melbourne and Aboriginal friends sang at her memorial service. Published resources Resource Section Eggleston, Elizabeth Moulton (1934-1976), Weeks, Phillipa, 2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/eggleston-elizabeth-moulton-10105/text17837 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources Monash University Archives Personal Archives: Eggleston, Elizabeth Moulton (1934-1976) Author Details Nicola Silbert Created 2 February 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes exhibition book, files, photographs, financial records, membership lists, minute books, newsletters and scrapbooks. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 26 min.)??Skuse, General Secretary of the Australian Council of Churches and Vice-Moderator of the Central Committee on the World Council of Churches speaks of her work ; of the role of the Church today ; the twin objects of mission and evangelism. She also speaks of her family background and studies. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence; subject files; accounts; subscriptions; advertising material; publications including: “Ideas About Books and Bookselling”. Association of Wholesale Paper Merchants: Minutes 1919-1957; correspondence 1940s. Association of Manufacturers of Waxed Papers: Minutes 1936-1956. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A collection of the papers of W.P. Hurst, which include the correspondence of Henry Gullett, a former editor of The Australasian (1872-1885). The papers consist mainly of correspondence with Australian authors, the two largest groups of which are the papers of Zora Cross (1921-1936) and 73 letters of Roy Bridges (1927-19##). Smaller sections include articles by Rolf Boldrewood. Also a volume containing early 19th century autograph letters and envelopes (shelved at MS FB 6 (EX BOX 169A)). Also a press cuttings volume containing articles written by W.P. Hurst, January – May 1913 (shelved at MS FB 11 (EX BOX 486/2)). Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 25 October 2007 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Catholic social worker Eileen Davidson worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration’s child search operation, and for the International Refugee Organisation, after the Second World War. She raised ?70,000 for the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. Born in Perth to Robert Alexander and Mary Ellen (née McBreen) Davidson, Mary Eileen Davidson was the eldest of six children. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Western Australia in 1931, before winning a scholarship to study Social Work at the Catholic University of American in Washington. She graduated in 1935 with a Master of Arts and Diploma in Social Services, and took on work at a children’s aid society in Baltimore and at the New York Foundling Hospital. In 1936 she travelled to England, where she completed an almoner’s certificate and worked at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. Back home in 1937, Davidson set up a Department of Social Work at Lewisham Hospital. One of Australia’s first qualified social workers, she guided the development of the profession in this country and helped to establish the Catholic Trained Social Workers Association in Sydney in 1940. She later taught at St Vincent’s and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals in Sydney, and was the inaugural secretary of the NSW Association for Mental Health. In 1945 Davidson was recruited to join the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration’s child search operation, helping children of Eastern occupied territories who were displaced, orphaned or had survived concentration camps, to find their families. On her return to Australia she raised ?70,000 for the United Nations International Children’s Fund with public speeches about postwar European children. She later worked for the World Health Organisation in Germany and Thailand. Davidson was awarded a Papal Cross in 1992, and became a Member in the Order of Australia (AM) in 2001. Never married, she outlived her five siblings and died at the age of 97 in Perth. Published resources Article Chronological History of the Medical Benevolent Association of N.S.W., Pope, D., and M. Doughty, 2005, http://www.mbansw.org.au/mba/history.htm A voice for lost children of war: Eileen Davidson, 1909-2007, Sankey, Mary, 2007, http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/a-voice-for-lost-children-of-war/2007/06/25/1182623818041.html Thesis The Professionalisation of Australian Catholic Social Welfare, 1920-1985, Gleeson, Damian John, 2006, http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:1178/SOURCE1?view=true Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Seven social workers from Asia Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 28 June 2007 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Over the course of her life Alice Moss worked with a number of women’s organisations, as well as various education, child welfare and Red Cross societies. Educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Melbourne, she married I H Moss in 1887 (deceased 1938) and they had two daughters. In 1914 she relinquished her position as vice-president of the Australian Women’s National League to become the only female member of the Victorian recruiting committee for the Armed Services. Later she became the only woman member of the Victorian Centenary Celebrations executive committee (1933-1934). At the same time she was president of the Women’s Centenary Council of Victoria as well as being the first president of the National Council of Women (1931-1936). On 4 June 1934 she was appointed Commander of the British Empire. Alice Frances Mabel (May) Moss was the first elected president of the National Council of Women of Australia from 1931-36, her leadership qualities serving to establish the new organisation on firm foundations during a time of political and economic crisis. She was a member of the National Council of Women of Victoria from 1904. Though associated with the politically conservative Australian Women’s National League, she was a committed campaigner for the rights of women. During much of her life, May worked with various local education, child welfare and women’s organisations but also played a leading part in the international outreach of Australian women as a government-appointed alternate delegate to the League of Nations in 1927, where she was the first woman to sit on a finance committee, and as the Federal Council of the NCWs of Australia representative to the International Council of Women executive meeting in the same year. In 1934, she chaired Victoria’s Women’s Centenary Council and in the same year was appointed CBE as well as being awarded the NCWV gold badge for distinguished service. May Moss played a significant role in the women’s movement in Australia between the First and Second World Wars. She was born on 27 April 1869 at Ballarat, Victoria, the daughter of English-born John Alfred Wilson, a sharebroker and later a licensed victualler, and his Scottish wife Martha Brown, née Lamb. She was educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, East Melbourne, and at the Sorbonne in Paris. Aged just 18, she married Isidore Henry Moss, a grazier (d. 1938) in a civil ceremony in Melbourne on 10 March 1887. They lived on a sheep station, Dandeloo, in New South Wales for thirteen years until a very bad drought caused them to leave their property and return to the home they had retained in East Melbourne where Isidore Moss became a wool classer. While her two daughters were young, May began work promoting the rights of women. While vice-president of the conservative Australian Women’s National League from 1906, she campaigned for female suffrage in Victoria, a cause the League as a whole did not enthusiastically embrace. In 1914, on the outbreak of the Great War, she relinquished office in the AWNL in order to become the (then) only female member of the Victorian recruiting committee for the armed services. As a member of the National Council of Women of Victoria from 1904, May Moss took a special interest in the plight of small children and the education of girls. In 1923, she prepared a report for NCW (Victoria) ‘on the need for stricter control of street trading by juveniles’, and she urged the government to raise the school leaving age to 15 and to make more opportunities available for girls in technical education. Other issues she took up were equal pay for female teachers, the evil of white slave trafficking, and opportunities for girls to work on the railway stations, trams, cabs and other vehicles. In 1927, Moss was appointed by the Australian government as the alternate delegate to the Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva where she was the first female member of the finance committee and also served on other committees. Her fluency in French and German no doubt facilitated her League work, as well as her participation in the International Council of Women. She was also Australian delegate to the first World Population Conference at Geneva and the first Women’s Peace Study Conference at Amsterdam, Holland. After attending an executive meeting in Paris of the League of Nations Union, she returned to become vice-president of its Victorian branch in 1928. While in Europe in 1927, Moss represented the Australian National Councils of Women at the International Council of Women executive meeting at Geneva. The following year, she was elected a vice-president of ICW, a position she held until her death. In 1930, as an Australian delegate, she attended the ICW congress in Vienna and the Codification of International Law Conference in The Hague. Among other things, this conference considered the problem of the nationality of married women, a matter of justice that was of particular concern to women’s organisations around the world. After many years of service on the NCWV executive, Moss was elected state president from 1928 to 1938. She also served as the first elected president of the National Council of Women of Australia from 1931 to 1936. Her period of office was one of consolidation for the new body, including the admission of the WA Council in mid-1932 and NCWA’s decision in 1934 to become a full member of both the Australian Women’s Co-operating Committee of women’s national organisations with international affiliation and the Pan-Pacific Women’s Committee. She also actively canvassed the Australian government on behalf of the NCWA on the issues of a uniform federal marriage law, full nationality rights for married women and the right of married women to work. In 1934, May Moss became the only female member of the Victorian Centenary Celebrations executive committee. On her appointment, she called a meeting of presidents of all women’s organisations. These women formed the Women’s Centenary Council and Moss was elected president. After broad consultation among the constituent organisations, the women’s committee decided to mark the state’s centenary by holding an international conference of women (Citizenship: Its Opportunities and Responsibilities), and establishing the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden in Melbourne’s Domain Gardens. Opened in 1935, the garden remains a site for acknowledging the significance of women in Victoria’s history. Under the sundial were placed hundreds of sheets of remembrance signed by thousands of women, men and children. Under Moss’s leadership, the Women’s Centenary Council also produced a Book of Remembrance containing records of around 1200 early women settlers and a Centenary Gift Book (edited by Frances Fraser and Nettie Palmer and featuring articles on the part played by women in public life). In recognition of her community contribution, Moss was appointed Commander of the British Empire on 4 June 1934 and, in the same year, was awarded the gold badge of the Victorian NCW for distinguished service. As war loomed in 1939, Mrs Moss approached the state government to discover how women could best be organised to assist but was rebuffed. Refusing to be discouraged, NCWV took the initiative to set up a register for women who agreed to be available for wartime emergency services. They formed a Comforts Fund and a Red Cross Society branch, of which Mrs Moss was elected president. Actively interested in other community organisations such as the (Royal) Women’s Hospital, the Collingwood Crèche and the Free Kindergarten movement, Mrs Moss also served on the board of management of the City Newsboys’ Society from 1906 to 1948 and was the first woman lay-member of the National Health and Medical Research Council from 1936 to 1945. May Moss was widely recognised for her distinguished contribution to the community, as well as for her dignity, charm and grace. As her biographer, Ada Norris, noted, she was always quick to praise the work of other people: ‘I like to give a rose to someone who can smell it’. Like many women of her class, she enjoyed playing bridge and her bridge parties became a significant source of income for the NCWV in the late 1930s and war years. A member of the International and Lyceum clubs, she was also interested in the theatre, painting and woodcarving. She died in East Melbourne on 18 July 1948, aged 79. Prepared by: Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Events 1928 - 1948 International Council of Women 1970 - 1970 Married I H Moss 2008 - 2008 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1936 - 1945 Appointed by the Commonwealth Government as a Lay Member to the National Health and Medical Research Council 1927 - 1927 Accredited delegate to the Conference of International Council of Women in Geneva 1927 - 1927 Australian delegate to the first World Population Conference in Geneva 1927 - 1927 Australian delegate to the first Women’s Peace Study Conference in Amsterdam 1927 - 1927 Member of the Executive for the League of Nations Union in Paris 1930 - 1930 Accredited delegate for the Conference on Nationality of Married Women at The Hague 1930 - 1930 Victorian delegate to the Congress of the International Council of Women in Vienna 1906 - 1906 Member of the Board of Management City Newsboys’ Society 1927 - 1927 Alternate Delegate to the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva 1928 - 1938 President of the National Council of Woman of Victoria 1931 - 1936 1st President of the National Council of Women of Australia 1933 - 1934 President of the Women’s Centenary Council of Victoria 1933 - 1934 Member of the Victorian Centenary Celebrations Council and Executive Committee 1928 - 1928 Vice-President of the League of Nations Union of Victoria Published resources Resource Section Moss, Alice Frances Mabel (1869-1948), Norris, Ada M., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100584b.htm Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1944, Alexander, Joseph A, 1944 Book Section Moss, Alice Frances Mabel (1868-1948), 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2008: Inspirational Women from all Walks of Life, Department of Human Services, Victorian Government, 2008, http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/about-the-department/documents-and-resources/reports-publications/victorian-honour-roll-of-women-commemorative-booklet Book Champions of the impossible: a history of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1902-1977, Norris, Ada, 1978 Journal Article Extraordinary Women: Mrs I. H. Moss CBE Inaugural President NCWA, Penrose, Patricia, 2002 Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Archival resources State Library of Victoria National Council of Women of Victoria National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Minutes [1904-1960] [microform] Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 August 2003 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: May Moss Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes The eagle chief: An Australian Melody, poetry by Mrs E.H. Dunlop (1842);. Sydney: Ada Cottage, Prince Street. 1 vocal score (8 p.). For solo voice, vocal quartet (SSTB) & piano. Respectfully inscribed to Lady O’Connell. The music composed expressly for the Cecilian Society. [B16] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 29 September 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Endeavour Forum was established in Melbourne in 1979 as Women Who Want to Be Women, largely through the efforts of Babette Francis. It is a Christian, pro-life, pro-family lobby group with members in all Australian states. According to its website, the group was set up to ‘counter feminism, defend the unborn and the traditional family.’ Although outlawing abortion is high on their agenda, the group’s broader aim is to prevent economic forces such as high taxation ‘destroying families’. In particular it lobbies for the right of women to choose to be full time homemakers without suffering what they see as economic discrimination. While. it supports equality of opportunity for men and women in employment and education, it opposes affirmative action or positive discrimination. Endeavour Forum was set up to ‘counter feminism, defend the unborn and the traditional family’, its members believing that ‘men and women are equal but different not equal and the same.’ The first action of the group was the presentation of a petition to Federal Parliament calling for the abolition of the National Women’s Advisory Council on the grounds that it did not represent the views of all Australian women. It lobbies to promote and defend public policies and legislation which uphold the what they define as the ‘values of marriage and family life’. In particular it lobbies for the right of women to choose to be full time homemakers without suffering what they see as economic discrimination. While, it supports equality of opportunity for men and women in employment and education it opposes affirmative action or positive discrimination. In 1987 the group adopted the name Endeavour Forum. Apart from Babette Francis, key figures in the group include Jackie Butler, Jan McLean and Valerie Renkema. As of 2004, its ‘Principles and Aims’ were: 1. ENDEAVOUR FORUM aims to enhance the status of uniquely female roles – we affirm that men and women are equal but different, not equal and the same. 2.ENDEAVOUR FORUM recognises the contribution made by the Christian ethic in raising the status of women. 3. ENDEAVOUR FORUM supports the concept of equality of opportunity in education and employment for males and females but does not support the ‘elimination of sexism’, a concept which involves denial of the differences between the sexes: sex differences are significant, the sexes being different and complementary. 4. ENDEAVOUR FORUM aims to achieve status and economic justice for the traditional female roles of child rearing and homemaking, and for the ‘caring for persons’ vocations: caring for elderly, the sick and the handicapped. 5. ENDEAVOUR FORUM respects the marriage relationship and seeks cooperation, not confrontation, between the sexes. 6. ENDEAVOUR FORUM affirms that the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and State: a ‘family’ is a kinship group of people linked by ties of blood, marriage or adoption who live together for the purpose of child-rearing and the satisfaction of other human needs. 7. ENDEAVOUR FORUM supports the right to life of all human beings from conception to natural death; men and women not only have rights, they also have responsibilities, in particular to their children who need parental protection and support both before and after birth. 8. ENDEAVOUR FORUM supports the right of a woman to be a full-time mother and homemaker and to have this right recognised by laws that obligate her husband to provide the primary financial support for her and their children. 9. ENDEAVOUR FORUM supports fiscal policies that recognise the major contribution made by women in their child-rearing and homemaking roles to the well-being of the nation, and in particular those policies which assist in establishing the status of a wife as an equal partner in the marriage. 10. ENDEAVOUR FORUM affirms the right of women employed in physical labour to be protected by laws and regulations that respect the physical differences and family obligations of men and women. Published resources Book Equal opportunity: The anti-sexist mythology, Francis, Babette, 1978[?] South Africa, Namibia and sanctions: Diary of a visit, Francis, Babette, 1988 Breast cancer: Risks and prevention, Lanfranchi, Angela, 2002 Newsletter Endeavour forum : newsletter, 1986- Newsletter (Women Who Want to be Women), 1979-1985 Edited Book Peace defending down under : alternative reading material to schools' peace studies programme, Endeavour forum, incorporating Women Who Want to be Women, 1987 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Endeavour Forum Inc. Endeavour Forum: community organisation records Endeavour Forum: community organisation records Author Details Jane Carey Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "[War Crimes and Trials – Affidavits and Sworn Statements:] Statements by QX20748 Cpl S Bryant-Smith; VX39327 Pte G Bryceland; QX17889 WO1 RG Bryden; QX14893 Dvr HG E Buchanan; Pte WR Buchanan; 420132 F/L DWJ Buchanan; NX2588 Pte AJ Buck; NX26109 Pte RJ Buckland; VX55003 Pte PJ Buckland; NX31853 Pte WW Bucknell; 109313 F/O RP Bulock; NX58482 Lt JD Bull; VFX61330 Lt Sister V Bullwinkel Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 December 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Genevieve Anne Goulding completed her medical studies at the University of New South Wales in 1979. She gained Fellowship of the Faculty of Anaesthetists at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1986, which made her a Foundation Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) in 1992. Genevieve has taken a leading role in the formation and continuation of the Welfare of Anaesthetists Special Interest Group which began in 1997. Elected as ANZCA President in 2014, she was the fourth successive woman President. Her presidency centred on professionalism, workforce, advocacy, and strengthening ANZCA and FPM services. Author Details Monica Cronin with Alannah Croom Created 3 March 2019 Last modified 7 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers have been arranged into the following series: 1. Correspondence, 1940-1988, relating to staffing, publicity, playground materials, research, planning and programs. 2. Minutes and annual reports, 1952-1970. 3. Publications [n.d.]. 4. Financial records [n.d.]. 5. Subject files, 1965-1971, which include speech training, language development, autism, playgrounds for crippled children, prototype day nursery plan and workshop on Aboriginal education. 6. Lady Gowrie childcare centres: Papers such as correspondence, financial papers, reports and records. 7. Staff applications and resignations. 8. Children’s files (Sydney and Hobart). 9. Unnumbered children’s files. 10. Medical reports, 1960-1972. 10. Miscellaneous files, 1965-1985.??The Acc07/67 instalment comprises two files on Organisation Mondiale pour l’Education Prescolaire (OMEP) projects and OMEP history, and one envelope of correspondence. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 January 2013 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Publications from Kiddle’s library. These publications came from the History Department. The books were originally donated to the Jessie Webb Memorial Library by Margaret Kiddle in 1959.??These three titles are available in Special Collections, Baillieu Library:?Benson, Rev. C. Irving, ed “A Century of Victorian Methodism”, 1935;?Blamire, Rev. W.L. and Smith, Rev. John, “The Early Story of Wesleyan Methodist Church in Victoria”, 1886;?Boldrewood, Rolf, “A Colonial Reformer”, 1890??These titles are available in UniM Archives Library:?Brown, P.L., ed. “The Narrative of George Russell of Golf Hill”, 1935; (994.02 RUSS)?Jenks, Edward, “The Government of Victoria”, 1891; (342.945 JENK)?Kiddle, Margaret, Caroline Chisholm”, 1950; (994.02092 CHIS/KIDD)?Learmonth, Noel, “The Portland Bay Settlement”, 1934; (994.57 LEAR)?Roberts, Stephen, “The Squatting Age in Australia 1835-1847”, 1935; (994.02 ROBE)?Serle, Percival, “Dictionary of Australian Biography”, Vol. 1 and 2; (920.094 SERL)?Stewart, D. Macrae, “The Presbyterian Church of Victoria Growth”; (285.294 STEW)?Westgarth, William, “Victorian and the Australian Gold Mines”, 1857; (994.503 WEST) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Licia Kokocinski served as the member for Melbourne West Province in the Legislative Council of the Victorian Parliament from 1988-96. She was the first woman from a non-English speaking background to be elected to the Victorian parliament. Daughter of Enzo Snidero and Liliana Maiarli, Licia moved to Australia with her family in 1954. She completed her secondary education at Hadfield High School, the Council of Adult Education and University High School and her tertiary education at the University of Melbourne, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in 1984. She married Leszek Kokocinski on 23 May 1970 and had three children, two sons and one daughter. Before her entry into the Victorian Parliament she worked as an Equal Opportunity Project Officer. After leaving politics, Kokocinski served as the national policy director for the ARPA Over 50s Association.[9] Most recently, she has served as the Executive Director of disability rights organisation Action on Disabilities within Ethnic Communities. She was added to the Victorian Woman’s Honour Roll in 2007.[10] On 8 April 2019, Kokocinski was elected as a Councillor of the Shire of Hepburn in a by-election representing the Coliban Ward. After serving in the role for a few months, she was subsequently elected as Mayor for the 2019-2020 year. Events 2007 - 2007 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Victorian Parliamentary Handbook / prepared by direction of the President of the Legislative Council and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, 1989 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1998, Neto, Maryanne (researcher), 1997 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 15 July 2005 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Victorian Division of the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross Society was formed on August 21, 1914. Lady Margaret Stanley, the wife of the Governor of Victoria, was the first president. The wife of the Governor has continued to preside and women have maintained an active role in all aspects of the Australian Red Cross. They have continuously taken leadership roles in branches, units and regional committees, as well as in council and senior management. From its formation in 1914, women have played an important role in the operation of the Victorian Division of the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross Society. Initially, the Australian Branch operated as an administrative body, while the Victorian Division guided fundraising operations. In the first instance, the bulk of the effort was focused upon helping to establish local Red Cross societies and branches. These societies would then focus on raising subscriptions and making goods for hospitals that were caring for soldiers. They also helped to find houses that were then used as convalescent homes. Without the effort of women volunteers, these activities would not have achieved the success that they did. The breadth of activities undertaken by volunteers became more extensive as the Society grew. Peacetime required a different focus and women’s branches and divisions provided the lifeblood for the society in the early twentieth century. Committees were formed to manage or oversee major projects. These committees (some later became auxiliaries) concerned themselves, among other things) with the medical or physical welfare of returned service men, the establishment of rest homes, and the problem of rehabilitation. They have continued to take an interest in matters relating to social welfare and public affairs in general. Liaison with other organizations has been a feature in recent years – in particular with the Australian Defence Department regarding Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) and the St John Ambulance Association for training and education in first aid and related areas. As ever, the society, also responds to global humanitarian concerns. Currently the Victorian Division is administered by a Divisional Council through the Executive Council. Advisory Committees, representative Committees, and activities continue in line with the Australian Red Cross Mission and the seven Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Mission: – to be a leading humanitarian organization in Australia, improving the lives of vulnerable people through services delivered and promotion of humanitarian laws and values; and Fundamental Principles: – Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntary Service, Unity, Universality Services provided by the Australian Red Cross, Victoria in 2003-2004 include: the Asylum Seeker Assistance Scheme, Community Programs, Emergency Services, First Aid, Fundraising, International Humanitarian Law, Retail (Been Around Before Shops), Tracing and Refugee Services, Youth and Multicultural Affairs. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Executive Office Correspondence Press Clippings Publications Rockingham Echo Newsletters Minutes: Divisional Councils Minutes: Divisional Council Advisory Committee Minutes: Divisional Council Executive Committee Minutes: Divisional Council Finance Committee / Audit & Risk Committee Minutes: Divisional Council Annual General Meetings Minutes of Various Victorian Division Committees Junior Red Cross (Vic) Index Cards Member's Service Awards Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) Personnel Registers Victorian Division Regional Directory Australian Red Cross Victoria Archives The Archive & Heritage Collection of the Australian Red Cross Author Details Moira Drew and Penny Robinson Created 10 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The original signed minutes of both the Interim Council (1946-1951) and the Council (from 1951) are bound in dark blue hardback volumes. For the period 1946 to 1962 there are both originals (Box 1) and an unsigned duplicate set (Boxes 2 and 3). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 February 2013 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Hotel Victoria, Darwin was built by Ellen Ryan, one the Territory’s wealthiest women who owned land and several mining leases. The prestigious hotel stands on Smith Street and is a two storey stone building with a parapetted gable and verandahs. The hotel opened in 1890 as the Royal Hotel, then the North Australian Hotel until it became the Victoria Hotel in 1896. It withstood being seriously damaged during the 1897 cyclone with only part of it’s roof lost. A note on the back of the photograph states “The hotel where only boarders are served”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Betty Twynam-Perkins and Leith Cameron married in July 1940. They both joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in April 1941. After the war Betty Cameron joined the WAAAF Branch of the RAAF Association. She held various positions including president, secretary and treasurer. She also has been the convenor of two national reunions for the WAAAF, as well as a committee member. Her other community work included being a member of MU (Mothers’ Union) Australia and a voluntary driver at Concord Hospital. Betty Cameron’s father, who was English, was a doctor in the Indian Army. Both his parents were with the British Government in India. Her mother, also English, trained at Trinity College in Dublin because at the time it was the only University to take women. Capable of speaking seven languages she travelled to America and was a matron in Philadelphia and later in Argentina. She came to Australia in 1907, married in 1908 and they had five children. Her husband served in World War I in France in the Australian Army Medical Corps. He was gassed in a Field Hospital in Ypes and became a TPI (totally and permanently incapacitated). Betty Cameron was educated at Fort Street Girls’ High School and obtained her Leaving Certificate. From 1938 to 1940 she was a lady cubmaster. In July 1940 she married scoutmaster Leith McLaurin Cameron. He enlisted in the RAAF in 1940 and his wife joined the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) in April 1941. In the WAAAF, Mrs Florence McKenzie trained Cameron as a wireless telegraphist operator. She then served in the Shipping Movement Branch of the RAAF before being transferred to Melbourne. Early in 1942 she was stationed at Parkes to complete a navigation course (theory only) and was then posted to Fighter Section in Sydney. Here she worked underground in the tunnels made for the Eastern Suburbs Railway. Promoted to corporal in May 1942, Cameron went to Melbourne on an officers course and then on the operations course. After completion she was posted to Eastern Area, Point Piper in the Operations Room and Intelligence. In July 1944 Leith Cameron returned to Australia. He was in Sydney for a brief period before being posted to Darwin and the South East Asia area. That same year Betty became pregnant with her first child and was discharged from the WAAAF on 20 November 1944. She and her husband were to have three children. After the war Cameron joined the WAAAF Wing which later became the WAAAF Branch of the RAAF Association. She has held various positions with the Branch including president, secretary and treasurer, and was the convenor of two national WAAAF reunions. For several years Cameron served on the RAAF Association State Committee and was Matron of Honour four times to the debutantes at the annual RAAF Ball as well as helping to train the debutantes and their partners. In 1978 she was made a life member of the RAAF Association. Cameron was a volunteer typist at the three schools her children attended as well as being in the P&C (Parents’ and Citizens’) and Mothers’ Clubs. She also is a member of MU in the Anglican Church being a Diocesan president. At various times she has been president, secretary and treasurer for the MU at the local church as well as a voluntary worker visiting the local hospitals. For a number of years Cameron has been a driver for church members who have been unable to attend the Carers Club, meetings or complete their shopping etc. For many years she was one of the voluntary drivers at Concord Hospital where in 1953 she was introduced to Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Windsor. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 April 2003 Last modified 30 January 2013 Digital resources Title: Servicewoman Betty Twynam-Perkins (later Cameron) Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0486gb.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Annastacia Palaszczuk was elected to the Parliament of Queensland as Member for Inala in 2006. She was re-elected in 2009, 2012 and 2015. She was a minister in the Bligh government, but was elected Leader of the Opposition in March 2012 after the landslide defeat of the Labor Government. In January 2015 Annastacia Palaszczuk led the Labor Party to an unexpected victory and became the first woman to take a party from opposition into government when she became Premier on 14 February 2015. Annastacia Palaszczuk was born on 25 July 1969, in Brisbane, Queensland. She grew up in the Brisbane suburb of Durack and attended Jaboree Heights State School and St Mary’s Catholic College, Ipswich. She graduated from the University of Queensland with degrees in Arts and Law and completed a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice at the Australian National University. She followed that up with a British Council Chevening academic scholarship at London University in 1996. In 2006 she was admitted to practise as a lawyer two weeks after she was elected to the Queensland Parliament, having made the decision to embark on a parliamentary career to make the laws rather than interpret them. She followed her father, Henry Palaszczuk, into politics as she stood for the seat of Inala, on his retirement. Before entering politics, Palaszczuk worked as a part-time sales assistant, a tutor with the Aboriginal and Island Students Service at the University of Queensland, a tutor at the Australian National University, and as an advisor to federal and state members of parliament and ministers. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Annastacia Palaszczuk: Queensland's accidental premier, King, Madonna, 2015 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 25 August 2009 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1911, 32 women came together to form a Literary Society. They were intelligent, creative and active women who contributed significantly to the social and cultural life of Brisbane at the time. These women were not only writers but worked in many charitable, feminist and cultural spheres. They were travellers and observers. They contributed to the Comforts Fund in World War I and were active in women’s suffrage movements. Some held a prominent social status by virtue of their husbands’ occupations in academia, medicine, law, civil service and the professions, but – until recently – little was known of the contribution of the women themselves. Jean Stewart’s Scribblers: A Ladies Literary Society in Brisbane, 1911 was published in 2007 by Kingswood Press. Members of Scribblers, 1911-1912 Mary Elkington Christina Corrie/Thynne Caroline, Lady Macartney Hermiene Ulrich/Parnell Mary Cullen Evelyn Drury Lucy Wilton Love Christina Sandford Jackson Mary Gibson Trucaninni Corrie Annie Turner Zina Cumbrae-Stewart Katherine Needham Selina Rivers Kate Lilley Lilian Cholmeley Jane Bourne Dr Eleanor Bourne Jessie Murphy Naomi Waugh Edith Dickson Kate Gall Getrude Pattinson Amy Steele Lillian Bernays Elizabeth Baker Grace Bond Maria Lightoller Amy Norton Eva Hockings/McLay Edith Wassell Mary, Lady MacGregor Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 19 July 2007 Last modified 6 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes minutes, correspondence, membership lists, attendance records, photographs, and miscellaneous papers related to Melbourne region and other clubs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Julie Sutton is a dedicated teacher of modern languages, whose service to local government and the ALP has spanned several decades. She was first elected to the Warringah Council in 1980 and was re-elected several times until 2003. Julie became the first woman Mayor of Warringah in 1995 and has since served as Deputy Mayor for five terms. Unfortunately she could not match this success at the state level and failed to gain election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Davidson in 1981, 1984 and 1988. Julie Sutton joined ALP in 1969, and has held various offices at both branch and electorate council levels. Her career in local government as a Councillor of Warringah Council was distinguished, and she was an energetic member of many Council committees. Julie was educated at Newcastle Girls High School and the Universities of Newcastle, New England and Macquarie completing a M.A. (Hons.) and Dip.Ed… She taught French, German and English at Raymond Terrace, Newcastle Girls’ and the Forrest High Schools. She was highly respected at Forrest High School where she taught for more than 15 years. She married, (marriage dissolved) and had 3 sons. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Bound volume containing minutes, reports, correspondence, publications, photographs and other related papers from the Australian Federation of Women Voters.??Original held at National Library of Australia, MS 2818 (Box 3, Item 24). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Alice Rosman was an editor, journalist, novelist and writer. She is best known for her work as a novelist, under the pseudonym Alice Grant Rosman. She achieved success particularly in the United States of America and Canada during the 1920s and 1930s, where she was a best-seller for four consecutive years. Alice Trevenen Rosman was born in Kapunda, South Australia on the 18 of July 1882, to parents Trevenen Rosman and Alice Mary Bowyer (née Varley). As a child, Alice showed early signs of creativity and a talent for story-telling, which she used to entertain her younger sister Mary. She and her sister attended Catholic primary and secondary schools, though they were not Catholic themselves. During her schooling years Alice wrote numerous short stories and poems, some of which were published in newspapers. She finished school in 1899. By 1901, she was editing the magazine The Young Queen, published by the Adelaide branch of the Girls’ Realm Guild, which she had established. Between 1906 and 1911, Alice worked as a journalist for various publications, including the Gadyfly, the Bulletin (for which she used the pseudonym ‘Rosna’), the Daily Herald, Lone Hand, the Australasian, Sydney Mail and Steele Rudd’s Magazine . In 1911 Alice and her sister Mary moved to England. While Mary taught piano at a girl’s school, Alice continued her work writing for publications. Between 1915 and 1920 she wrote for the British Australasian, and between 1920 and 1927 was the assistant editor of Grand Magazine. During these years, Alice also published her first novels, using the pseudonym Alice Grant Rosman. The novels were Miss Bryde of England (1915) and The Tower Wall (1916), and they went largely unnoticed. Her first successful novel was The Window, published in 1926; twelve editions were printed in five months, and it was translated into several languages. In 1927, Alice retired to focus on her novels, and published seventeen stories between then and 1939. Many of these sold near 100, 000 copies, even during the Depression. Her birthplace Australia featured in The Back Seat Driver (1928) and The Sixth Journey (1931), as well as her first two novels. Her most successful markets – particularly for her romance fiction – were those outside of Britain: Canada and the United States of America. Alice Rosman’s work was known for its easy style and humour, and was often called by reviewers as ‘light fiction’. Alice Rosman died in Highgate, England, on 20 August, 1961. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book A Book of South Australia : women in the first hundred years, Brown, Louise [et al.], 1936, http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=b2287661~S1# Newspaper Article The Argus, 1919, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1460093 Resource Section Rosman, Alice Trevenen (1882-1961), Edgar, Suzanne, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110460b.htm Archival resources State Library of South Australia Correspondence of Alice Grant Rosman The young queen Author Details Christine Donald Created 10 June 2010 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection includes the following series: 1. Walter and Mary Richardson papers; correspondence; articles; notes; account books and family tree. 2. General correspondence including letters to Oliver Stonor, 1926-1946; Jacob Schwartz, 1931-1953; Olga Roncoroni; St John Ervine, 1947-1949; and T.E. Lawrence about Richardson’s works. 3. Letters to Mary Kernot, 1911-1946. 4. Drafts of novels. 5. Drafts of short stories. 6. Articles by and about Richardson. 7. Songs by Richardson from works by English and German poets. 8. Personal documents and papers, 1885-1944. 9. Biographical material. 10. Professor J.G. Robertson papers. 11. Photographs. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 9 October 2008 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers relating to Jessie Stobo Watson Webb, chiefly genealogical, compiled by Barbara Williams. 16 pp. ts. Letters from Registrar to Mrs. Webster concerning her student record etc. 1961. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Proust is one of Melbourne, Victoria’s leading business figures, having held leadership roles in the private and public sectors in Australia for over 30 years. She is Chairman of Nestle Australia Ltd, Chairman of Bank of Melbourne, a director of Perpetual Ltd, Spotless Ltd, Insurance Manufacturers Australia Pty Ltd, Sinclair Knight Merz Holdings Pty Ltd, and of Sports Australia Hall of Fame. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of JP Morgan, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Prior to taking on roles as a non-executive director, Elizabeth spent eight years with the ANZ Group, including four years as Managing Director of Esanda. At ANZ itself, she held the positions of Managing Director, Metrobanking and Group General Manager, Human Resources, Corporate Affairs and Management Services. She was global head of HR at ANZ at a time when the bank was represented in some 43 countries. Before joining ANZ, Proust was Secretary of the Victorian Department of the Premier and Cabinet and Chief Executive of the City of Melbourne. She had previously been appointed Secretary of the Victorian Attorney General’s Department. Proust’s first role after graduation was in public affairs at BP Australia. Educated by the Good Samaritan sisters in Balmain and Wollongong, Proust worked for the Young Catholic Students’ movement after leaving school. She has a BA (Hons) from La Trobe University and a Law degree from the University of Melbourne. Proust was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2010 for distinguished service to public administration and to business, through leadership roles in government and private enterprise, as a mentor to women, and to the community through contributions to arts, charitable and educational bodies. Previous board roles include Chairman of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Chairman of the Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University and a director of Nonprofit Australia. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Elizabeth Proust for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Elizabeth Proust and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I had a very traditional Catholic upbringing and education at primary and secondary schools (primary schools were in Orange, Wagga Wagga and Balmain) and I completed my secondary education in 1968 at St Mary’s Wollongong. My parents expected that all 9 of us would go to university and the nuns who taught me and my sisters reinforced this. In 1969, I did what would now be called a “gap year” and worked for the Young Catholic Students movement in Melbourne. My future husband, Brian Lawrence, was working there, taking 2 years off between finishing his law degree at Melbourne University and starting articles. I then spent 2 years at Sydney University starting an Arts degree (Government, Psychology, Anthropology and English). Most of my class mates from Wollongong did teaching or nursing and I started Arts without a clear idea of where this might lead. To my parents’ horror I married at 21 and moved back to Melbourne. I completed a B.A (Hons) at La Trobe University, the only university in Melbourne to recognise some of my second year subjects. I had a daughter and started post graduate studies. These have never been completed because I started a law degree at Melbourne University in 1979 and never went back to my post graduate work. I should explain that my Honours thesis was on the (then) Workers’ Compensation Board and the relationship between barristers and their clients in that jurisdiction (my husband by this time was a barrister, but not in this jurisdiction). My post graduate studies were intended to expand on this work but I became more interested in the law, and far less interested in either sociology or an academic career. My Law degree was all undertaken part time as finances dictated that I needed to work. Generous employers (BP Australia, BP International and the Victorian Government) allowed me time off work and covered tuition costs but getting to lectures (held then only between 9 and 4) was always a struggle and I owe a debt of gratitude to the many people who took notes for me and assisted in many other ways. I sat my final exams on London, overseen by Sam Ricketson who was on sabbatical at the time. So, it was an unusual way to complete a Law degree and I sometimes think that the part time nature of my degree, and my disconnect from much of campus life probably led me away from a life in the law. I never undertook summer school subjects nor sought articles, as, somewhere in the 8 years it took me to graduate, I realised that there were other interesting career options. When I graduated in 1986 I was 36 and becoming senior in the Victorian public service. Articles seemed a big backward step, both in career terms and financially. However, the degree has never felt anything but integral to what I have done. As a company director today, a working knowledge of many aspects of the law (corporations law, work health and safety, employment law, etc) is vital to much of what I do. But it has always been relevant. I was Secretary of the (then) Attorney-General’s Department in the late 1980’s and being accepted as a lawyer (even if it was only as a very junior one) was important. This was especially so as the then Attorney-General, Andrew McCutcheon, was an architect by training, the State of Victoria’s first, and I think, only, non “legal” Attorney-General. Then as Secretary to the Department of Premier and Cabinet, a working knowledge of the law was an advantage. The Cabinet Office was, and is, in this department so that much of the business of the Department is the production of legislation for Parliament. Published resources Newspaper Article Lunch with Elizabeth Proust, Szego, Julie, 2012, http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/lunch-with-elizabeth-proust-20120920-267kg.html Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Elizabeth Proust (with Nikki Henningham) Created 9 March 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Elizabeth Proust Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Emma Davidson was first elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory as a Member for Murrumbidgee in 2020, after a career in software development, social research and advocacy in the community sector. She was appointed a Minister in the Labor-Greens Government, holding portfolios in Mental Health, Population Health, Corrections and Justice Health, and Community Services. Emma-Jane Davidson was born in the Southern Riverina Murray region of country New South Wales in 1974. She grew up on a farm near a small town west of Wagga and moved to Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory after graduating from secondary school. She completed a Bachelor of General Studies at Griffith University in 2005. Davidson was employed as a public servant at Centrelink (1993–2000) and has worked in private software development as a Project Manager for Wizard Computer Training (2000–2001) and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (2002–2003). She was Director of Information Management at Navy Systems Command (2003–2008) and has owned and managed a small retail business (2006–2012). She has been employed in various project management, social research, and advocacy roles, including her work as Project Coordinator for the Equality Rights Alliance (2010–2012), Website Editor for the Australian Medical Association (2012-2014), Project Manager at Agileware Pty Ltd (2014–2016), and Deputy CEO of Women’s Centre for Health Matters (2017–2020). Davidson is a Founding Member of the Friends of the Birth Centre Canberra (2007–2009) where she was convenor in 2009 and was President, Maternity Coalition ACT Branch (2008–2010). She is a former Pearce Community Centre Committee Member (2017–2020) and was Secretary (2013–2019), then Convenor (2019–2020), of the Women’s Electoral Lobby Australia. She has spoken at TEDxCanberra (2011) and TEDxAdelaide (2011) about the importance of listening to marginalised women and was Executive Producer of TEDxCanberra Women (2013–2015). Davidson was elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly as a Member for Murrumbidgee in 2020, holding one of six Green party seats in the 10th Legislative Assembly. Her inaugural speech acknowledged her daughter Sofia, who inspired her to join the ACT Greens when she herself joined. Following her election, she was appointed a Minister in the Labor-Greens Government, holding the portfolios of Mental Health, Population Health, Corrections and Justice Health, and Community Services. An active member of Canberra’s roller derby community before her involvement in politics, Davidson sometimes commutes to work by skateboard. Published resources Davidson, Emma: Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory website, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/tenth-assembly-members/murrumbidgee/davidson-emma About Emma Davidson, https://the-riotact.com/author/emma-davidson Why this skateboarding MLA can thank her daughter for landing her a new job, White, D, 2 July 2021, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7120900/why-this-skateboarding-mla-can-thank-her-daughter-for-landing-her-a-new-job Author Details Clare McLellan Created 5 July 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc12.102 comprises correspondence, including from children, publishers; lecture notes; draft manuscripts and unpublished poetry; and film scripts and manuscripts for I own the racecourse. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Barbara James (nee Johnson) was born in Nebraska, USA, in 1943, and came to Australia in 1966. She lived and worked in Canberra until July 1967, when she drove to Darwin for a two week holiday. When her car broke down on the return trip she came back to Darwin, found a job as a journalist with the Northern Territory News, and eventually married a Darwin lawyer, Geoff James, whom she had met while living in Canberra, and has lived in Darwin ever since.???This interview is mainly about her experience of Cyclone Tracy and its aftermath. She describes her work before the cyclone, with the NT News, ABC radio and the Environment Centre, and describes the lifestyle of those days.???The James’ house in Manton Street in the city was virtually destroyed during the cyclone, and she, her husband and his mother had to cross open ground at the height of the storm, looking for shelter. At one point she was entangled in fallen power lines, not realising that the current had been cut off. They eventually found refuge in the old Darwin primary school, which survived undamaged. Most of their belongings were lost.???She recalls events at the ABC radio studios before and after the storm, and describes experiences of her husband’s relatives during it. She gives her assessment of General Stretton, and describes the situation in Darwin as she saw it during the first week after the cyclone.???She was eventually evacuated, and while away became involved in citizen’s groups, taking part in many meetings of evacuees very concerned at media reports about events back home, and at the extreme nature of new town plan provisions. She actively liaised with Darwinians, the then Department of Urban and Regional Development, ACOSS and the Cities Commission, and with the Environment Centre in Darwin.???She describes the shock of seeing Darwin from the air when she returned after about a month, the permit system, disorientation and the prolonged discomfort of difficult living conditions. She was working for the Environment Centre, and describes a key national conference on Kakadu National Park and uranium mining at Ranger, which was held in Darwin, and various other citizens’ meetings which helped seal the fate of the unpopular town plans.???Finally, she describes reactions to subsequent storms, the changes to Darwin since, and assesses Tracy’s longterm impact on her life.???The interview was recorded in September & October 1989 in Darwin by Francis Good. Barbara has also donated copies of a number of letters, documents and photographs. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 October 2008 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Annemarie Mutton, formerly Annemarie Bowen, comprising: (i) autobiography describing her childhood and adolescence in Austria and Germany in the 1930s, emigration with her husband to England and then Australia as Jewish refugees, and life in Melbourne before, during and immediately after World War II; (ii) Correspondence with various government agencies and individuals, 1986-1987, relating to Annemarie Mutton’s application for citizenship and an Australian passport, with two related press cuttings; (iii) Speech by Annemarie Mutton presented at the Women 2000 conference in Hobart on 18 & 19 July, 1987, and personal account by Annemarie Mutton of her experiences at the conference, with a related press cutting; and (iv) Two brief letters of greeting to Annemarie Mutton from Nettie Palmer, June 1958 and 20 July, 1958 and a brief note of acknowledgement from Sir John Barry, 30 August, 1962. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lyn Johnson, in partnership with her husband Rob, was a dairy farmer in Gippsland in Victoria. Together they planned and led study tours for dairy farmers to the USA, Canada, the UK and Europe, starting the Tarago River Cheese Company on their return. The successful organisation and activism of American rural women inspired Lyn’s own active commitment to the movement, and to women at the grass roots level in particular. Her work to have women’s role in agriculture acknowledged, and their voice heard, has included involvement in the organisation of the First International Women in Agriculture Conference, and the Women on Farms Gatherings. As a city girl who married into a dairy farming family, Lyn Johnson was active from the beginning in the industry itself. In the late 70s and early 80s she helped organise, and attended, industry discussion groups, led study tours, and in 1983 became a director in their family’s expansion into cheese-making: the Tarago River Cheese Company. Her trips to America had opened her eyes to the activism of American women, who had their own organisations, knew their industries intimately, and were involved in successful and ongoing lobbying in Washington. Her activism also had its roots in the 1979 conference ‘The Woman in Country Australia Looks Ahead’, convened by Brian Clarke of McMillan Rural Studies Centre in Warragul, and held at La Trobe University. Lyn attended the 1980 American Agri-Women’s Convention in Pennsylvania. On her return, she was a primary organiser of the Women On Farms: Expanding Their Sphere of Influence Conference at Melbourne University (1980), which had the aim of recognising the skills, influence and involvement that farming women already had. Lyn was a founding committee member of the Australian Women in Agriculture peak body, and an organiser of the ground breaking First International Women in Agriculture Conference, playing a key role in greeting the women coming from overseas. She has been involved with the Women on Farms Gatherings from the beginning, is one of three women who have attended every Gathering since their inception, and was a committee member of the 1999 and 2009 Gatherings at Warragul. She is a member of Museum Victoria’s Women on Farms Gatherings Heritage Group, representing the Warragul Gatherings. Lyn is motivated by her belief in women ‘doing it for themselves’, in ‘flat’ rather than hierarchical organisations – a shared value of the Women in Agriculture organisations – and in the grass-roots abilities that women already have. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 'Australian Women in Agriculture Speaker Profiles: Lyn Johnson', The Regional Institute, http://www.regional.org.au/au/awia/speakers/p-16.htm Conference Paper Partners in a Value Added Product, Cheese to Infinity…', Johnson, Lyn, 2001, http://www.regional.org.au/au/awia/papers/johnson.htm Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Archival resources Melbourne Museum Catherine McLennan with Lyn Johnson (Interview) Women on Farms Gathering Heritage Collection Private Hands (these records may not be readily available) Making Rural Women Visible: A \"Living\" History of the Victorian Women on Farms Gathering (WOFG) Community National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Mary Salce, 1976-2007 [manuscript] Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minute books, membership lists, newsletters, financial statements and the constitution; includes, also, ‘ANU Club for Women: A History 1961-2005’. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minute books since its inception in April 1945 as the North East Mallee group until 30 June 1977, and as the Mildura-Millewa group from 1 July 1977. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 19 March 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interviews with Albert Mullett, Mrs Gerry Briggs, Molly Dyer, Walda Blow, Sharon Firebrace, Margaret Hood, Joy Smith Val Mitchell and others Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 27 July 2005 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of meetings which include the annual general meetings and financial statements Author Details Jane Carey Created 20 February 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers document Cynthia Nolan’s life and career. They include a substantial collection of drafts, notes, research material, correspondence and reviews relating to several of her published works; a large group of diaries and notebooks kept on her travels; correspondence with family and friends; and photographs. There is also a considerable quantity of papers relating to Sidney Nolan’s career. Included is correspondence, including personal and business correspondence, diaries, photographs, drawings, typescripts of his writings. There is also a small group of papers of Jinx Nolan which includes letters of Cynthia and Sidney Nolan (95 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Nita Keig is a long time socialist and activist. As a member of the Socialist Workers Party she contested the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Balmain 1976 She also contested in the following federal seats: House of Representatives, Grayndler, 1979, by election House of Representatives, Sydney, 1980 House of Representatives, Oxley, Queensland, 1983. Nita Keig was editor of Young Socialist, the Socialist Youth Alliance newspaper, at the time of her first candidacy. She had previously been a journalist, and was later editor of Direct Action. She was active in the anti-Vietnam war movement as a school student, and for three years was a nurse at Callan Park Hospital, Rozelle. In 1979 she worked at the Fourth International Centre in Paris. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 19 January 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A once-only candidate, Jill Brown stood for the One Nation Party in the 1999 Marrickville elections. Jill Brown said she believed in Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party because her father was a returned soldier from World War II. She also believed in the abolition of discriminatory policies relating to Aboriginal and multicultural affairs. She won 4% of the vote. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This project consists of 6 interviews documenting the life experiences of Khmer people who have come to Australia as refugees, orphans and widows and have built successful lives for themselves and their families here. It looks at their arrival and resettlement, cultural traditions and ties, social problems encountered and their achievement of succes in their working and family lives. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 August 2018 Last modified 7 August 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers in MS 9873 include correspondence and newspaper cuttings, reviews, manuscripts and typescripts of Dymphna Clark’s translations and other publications including Charles von Hu?gel’s New Holland journals, and Speaking out of turn: lectures and speeches, 1940-1991; articles, lectures and talks, research material, cards, conference papers, university transcripts, oral history transcriptions, posters, printed ephemera and papers relating to Dymphna’s work on the Aboriginal Treaty Committee. There are also extensive papers dealing with Manning Clark: his death and funeral, the Manning Clark controversies of the 1990s, and articles and reviews written by or about Manning (40 boxes, 1 map folio).??The Acc08.045 instalment comprises two letters written by Dymphna Clark, 1989 and 1996 (1 packet).??The Acc08.051 instalment comprises a letter written by Dymphna Clark to her daughter Katerina dated 13 April, 1989 (1 packet).??The Acc11.009 instalment comprises a letter from Dymphna Clark to Katerina Clark, 18 April, 2000, together with a program for the “Australia and Timor” symposium, presented by Manning Clark House in association with the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies (Canberra), and held at Parliament House on 5 May, 2000 (1 folder).??The Acc11.088 instalment comprises correspondence of Manning and Dymphna Clark. Included are their letters to each other over a number of years, 1937-1989, several letters to them from their children, a number of letters between Dymphna and her mother (mostly in Dutch), and several letters from friends (some in German). There is also an album of early black and white photographs of scenes of Melbourne and Tasmania, together with several unidentified family photographs and a small group of papers relating to Manning Clark, including contracts pertaining to the History of Australia (3 boxes).??The Acc11.097 instalment comprises photographs of family and friends of Dymphna and Manning Clark. These early black and white photographs include images of Manning Clark in sporting teams while a university student, together with a large group of colour photographs dating from the 1970s-1990s (1 box).??The Acc13.182 instalment comprises 1 letter written by Dymphna Clark to Joan & Alan Jones dated 20 July 1970, writing about the Clark’s holiday house ‘Ness’ on the south coast of New South Wales & doing research work for her husband at the National Library of Australia (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1917-1997; Anderson family papers?1939-1944; Autograph book?1944-1989; References and certificates?1958-1991; Educational file?1928-1997; Genealogy file?1928-1997; Adoption file?1959-1996; Employment file?1950-1993; Poetry and short stories?1964-1994; Correspondence with Russell Braddon (Call No.: MLMSS 6910/1)??199-; Completed writing assignments?1995-1997; Personal travel file?199-; Papers relating to travel writing?c.1990; Papers relating to travel?date unknown; Travel writing?ca.1996; Unfinished notes for autobiography?10 March 1997; A service of thanksgiving for her life?1997; Correspondence with her executor, Anson Austin (Call No.: MLMSS 6910/2)??ca.1940-ca.1990; Miscellaneous printed and manuscript material relating to aviation and Shirley’s flying career. It includes printed books, her Pilot’s Log Book, Air Traffic controller’s licence, Flight crew licences, training notes, Australian Women Pilots’ Association periodicals and materials, printed booklets of the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales, and some correspondence?1955-1985; Press newscuttings and photographs (Call No.: MLMSS 6910/3)??1953-1994; Travel diaries (Call No.: MLMSS 6910/4 RESTRICTED)??Date unknown; Photographs. Includes family, houses and air traffic controllers (Call No.: MLMSS 6910/5)??1928-ca.1980; Photograph album, mainly of family (Call No.: MLMSS 6910/6X) Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes diary letter-book, 6 December 1916-18 November 1918 (570 p.); three papers read to the Lyceum Club, 1956, 1969, 1972 (80 p.); paper read to the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 1968 (25 p.); and paper read at a graduation ceremony, University of Melbourne, 1974 (11 p.). Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 November 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Reports, 15 December 1891-3 February 1893 Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 November 2004 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Veronica Black is a student activist who stood as an ALP candidate in the unwinnable seat of Ballina in 1995. At the time of her candidature, Veronica Black was studying for a Bachelor of Business (Tourism) at Southern Cross University. She was extensively involved in various community organizations including Community Aid Abroad and the Australian Republican Movement. In 1995 she was the National Union of Students Liaison Officer at Southern Cross University and the immediate past President of the SRC. Veronica Black was also very involved in the ALP, being President of the University Labor Club and Senior Vice President of the Northern Rivers Young Labor Organisation. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers relating to work for the University of the Third Age: Steering Committee leading to research report “Living Longer Learning Later”, September 1995; Reports and some membership matters during the period of Adult Community and Further Education Board (ACFE). 1994-1997. Created 24 October 2018 Last modified 24 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Rosemary Francis Created 22 December 2009 Last modified 15 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Eve Mahlab Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "6 sound tapes.??His is Your Changing Life” is a program played on Interchange, 2XX every second Wednesday at 11.30 am. How feminism has changed an individual woman’s life, being affected in the Womans’ Movement Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 June 2005 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Magistrate Tamara Jago (appointed to the bench in 2016) holds the distinction of being the first woman in Tasmania to be made Senior Counsel. Honoured by the 2010 achievement, she understood her promotion to be an important one for Tasmanian women, but also believed it went a long way to dispelling the myth that Legal Aid lawyers are ‘second rate options’. Furthermore, having spent the bulk of her career working as a Legal Aid lawyer in north-western Tasmania, she believed her appointment proved there was talent in regional centres, and that moving to big cities in order to ‘make it’ wasn’t always necessary. Taking silk while working as a Legal Aid Lawyer in regional Tasmania, was ‘something special,’ said Jago, the mother of three young children. ‘At Legal Aid there are criminal lawyers that are just as good as anyone else or better.’ Tamara Jago was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Born, raised and educated in Tasmania, Tamara Jago graduated BA/LLB in 1993 from the University of Tasmania, having imagined herself as a criminal lawyer from a very young age. ‘I don’t know what I would have done if I wasn’t accepted into law school,’ she says, ‘because I never had a Plan B.’ Unable to explain exactly why she was always driven towards a career in the law – ‘I don’t recall a light bulb moment’, she says – she does remember growing up with a strong sense of what was and was not fair. Issues relating to social justice and basic human rights have always concerned her, which goes some way to explaining why working with Legal Aid for the sixteen years prior to her elevation to the bench ‘was her dream job’. The importance of providing justice is a central truth that all lawyers, no matter who they are defending, must remember. ‘In terms of contributing to society’, says Jago, Legal Aid lawyers are ‘speaking up for people who, by virtue of circumstances that are sometimes so outside of their control… can’t speak for themselves.’ They are ‘communicating the relevant information to the relevant person so the right decisions can be made,’ a vital role indeed because ‘the only judgment that’s worth thinking about is an informed judgment’. Jago specialised in criminal law in a private practice in Burnie before taking a position at the Legal Aid Commission in 2000, a move that many in the profession advised her was a form of ‘career suicide’. Instead, she discovered that the breadth of experience and range of defence work opportunities she received has served her well, particularly the many the opportunities to lead counsel in a lot of significant trial and appeal work. Jago hopes that the experience of understanding the many struggles and challenges that defendants grapple with will help her in her own decision-making. As a senior Legal Aid lawyer, Jago valued her opportunities to mentor young advocates and she hopes she will be able to continue this role from her position on the bench. In regional Tasmania, young practitioners are in danger of falling into ‘bad habits’ by virtue of the fact that they appear in front of the same one or two magistrates all the time. Furthermore, due to the absence of a middle court (there are only the Magistrates Court and the Supreme Court), young lawyers are unlikely to appear in front of a jury regularly. “When they make the transition into a more significant area of work, such as in front of a jury or doing trials, they struggle,’ says Jago. She hopes she will be able to assist professional development for young practitioners as a magistrate. Like all working mothers, Jago confronts work-life balance challenges but acknowledges that for a variety of reasons, including working for most of her career for government employers and having supportive male colleagues when she was starting out, she has found it easier than others. Timing was crucial as well. ‘I’ve been blessed in my career by two things,’ she says. ‘One is that by the time I started doing law it was accepted that females in law were okay. So much of the hard work had already happened.’ Specializing in criminal law in a government organisation made things more manageable too, she suspects. ‘I’d be really interested to see what a female doing criminal law but not having come within a government organisation during my era has experienced,’ she says. Working in an organisation like Legal Aid, ‘where there were standards and expectations and parameters already set… I suspect I was able to transition into specialty criminal law without perhaps hitting some of the hiccups that other people in the private profession may have experienced.’ Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Newspaper Article Legal Aid lawyer Tamara Jago awarded Senior Counsel for outstanding work, Pippos, Chris, 2010, http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/684806/legal-aid-lawyer-tamara-jago-awarded-senior-counsel-for-outstanding-work/ Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Tamara Jago interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 June 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Magistrate Tamara Jago Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contains letters from India and photographs; the suitcase she took to India. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 25 February 2004 Last modified 25 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Winner in 2001 of the Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism, Estelle Blackburn spent six years researching and investigating the cases of two men convicted of killing women in Perth in the 1960s. As a result of the fresh evidence she gained and her book on the case Broken Lives the State Attorney-General agreed to reopen the two separate cases of the convicted killers. Estelle Blackburn spent six years (and the proceeds of the sale of her house) researching and investigating the cases of Darryl Beamish and John Button, convicted killers who always maintained their innocence, and who exhausted every avenue available to them in their quest to prove it. A chance meeting with John Button’s brother in 1992 determined Blackburn’s course for the next ten years. Her research and investigation uncovered serious police blunders which led to the reopening of their cases and, eventually, in 2005, the quashing of their convictions. Initially an unsuccessful applicant for a cadetship with West Australian Newspapers Blackburn was offered a position with the company as a clerk in the newspaper library . She worked there for three months in 1968 before enrolling at the University of Western Australia as a full-time student with the help of a scholarship. She succeeded in entering the journalism cadetship program in 1969 and, while working for the paper, completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree part time, with a double major in Psychology and Anthropology. She continued working with West Australian Newspapers, progressing from general news and minor features to coverage of the proceedings of the Western Australian State Parliament. In 1974 she travelled to Europe and did a little freelance work although she mainly supported herself by teaching English and secretarial work. In 1980 she returned to Perth and joined the ABC as a radio and television reporter. In 1985 she was invited to apply for a position in the Media Office of the Western Australian Government. She began work as the media advisor to the Minister for Police and Local Government, and worked for other ministries along the way. In 1990 she became Junior Media Advisor in the office of the Premier of Western Australia, Carmen Lawrence. After the defeat of the Lawrence government in 1993, Blackburn received continuing casual employment in government media relations, but at this point, her mind was focused on the case that would eventually become her book Broken Lives. Events 2002 - 2002 For service to the community through investigative journalism in Western Australia 1999 - 1999 Sustained excellence in journalism 1999 - 1999 Greatest contribution to journalism 1999 - 1999 Winner of the Historical & Critical Studies for Broken Lives 2001 - 2001 Wiiner for Broken Lives 2007 - 2007 Researching research Innocence Projects and other organisations helping the wrongfully convicted in USA/Canada and the UK. 2001 - 2001 Most outstanding contribution 1970 - Published resources Book Broken Lives, Blackburn, Estelle, 2001 The End of Innocence, Blackburn, Estelle, 2007 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 October 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jamie Tarabay is an Australian born journalist who has spent most of her professional life reporting on matters in the middle east. Since September 2000 she has worked as a foreign correspondent for Associated Press (AP) and American National Public Radio (NPR), covering wars in Palestine and Iraq. She is one of very few western women who have made a career as a war reporter. In January 2007, Tarabay was part of the NPR News team that won the prestigious Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of Iraq. Lebanese by heritage, Tarabay grew up in Sydney, Berlin and Beirut. She has a BA in Government and French from the University of Sydney and can speak Arabic and French. Tarabay developed her love and talent for writing as a small girl living in Lebanon. She would write stories and read one chapter a night to my sisters to keep them entertained. ‘It helped,’ she says, ‘that they were a captive audience: we were living in Lebanon at the time, and spent most nights during a 10 month spell in a bomb shelter as war broke out around us.’ After returning to Australia Tarabay finished school and went to university. After graduating with a BA she found a corporate job that paid well but numbed her brain. She quit to take up a position as editorial assistant for MIS Magazine, an IT trade magazine. In 1997 she began work as an editorial assistant at Australian Associated Press (AAP) eventually getting a cadetship with that organisation. In June 1999 she AAP and travelled to Singapore where she joined The Associated Press (AP) in their bureau. After that, she was transferred in 2000 to the Jerusalem bureau, where she covered the Palestinian intifada for three years. She returned to Sydney and worked at AP’s bureau there for two years. During that time she travelled to Baghdad where she reported for three months after the United States invasion. Tarabay is the only reporter to have ever interviewed a woman who was married to Saddam Hussein for ten years. Her reporting also covered the deaths of Saddam’s two sons, and the US military’s ongoing efforts to fight both Shiite and Sunni insurgencies. She returned to Baghdad in 2004, and followed that with a stint in Jerusalem to report on the death of Yasser Arafat. In 2005 She took up a reporting position for the AP in Cairo, Egypt. Her book, A Crazy Occupation, Eyewitness to the Intifada, was published in September 2005 by Allen and Unwin. She became National Public Radio’s Bureau Chief in Baghdad in October 2005, and headed coverage there until 2008. We were awarded the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award, the only news organization so recognized for its work on Iraq. Her essay on Iraq was featured in the quarterly journal “Dispatches” which was published in 2008. In February 2008 Tarabay moved to the US and she is now in the middle of a project reporting on Islam and America. Her reports can be heard on NPR’s news programs ‘Morning Edition’ and ‘All Things Considered’. Events 1997 - 2010 2007 - 2007 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book A Crazy Occupation: Eyewitness to the Intifada, Tarabay, Jamie, 2005 Journal Article Up Close, It's a Different Story, Tarabay, Jamie, 2008 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 January 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Picture of Jamie Tarabay Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "24 minutes??A program in the Radio National ‘Verbatim’ series focussing on Australian nurses who served in France during the First World War. The program feature the experiences of Medina Douglas from New South Wales (in an interview by Ros Bowden) and Dora Woods from South Australia. The latter interview is from the State Library of South Australia’s J. D. Somerville Oral History Collection at OH 17/30, but the original recording was not suitable for broadcast. Instead, Dora Wood’s words were read by actress Betty Lucas. Topics range from conditions in casualty clearance stations, the wounds and illnesses of soldiers, medical treatments available at the time, bombardment, social activities and the experience of living under canvas during winter. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 7949 comprises manuscripts of books, short stories and articles; correspondence; notebooks; research material; tapes and transcripts of interviews with notable Australians; newspaper cuttings; film scripts; publications; cartoons; and photographs. The collection relates to most of Craig McGregor’s publications, his journalism for The national times, The sun-herald, The New York times and other newspapers, and such organisations as the Sydney College of the Arts and the Australia Council. Correspondents include Geoffrey Blainey, A.D. Hope, Hal Porter, Bruce Dawe and Richard Walsh (56 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc05.164 instalment comprises material relating to McGregor’s book Australian son: inside Mark Latham (2004), including research files, correspondence, drafts on computer disks, notes, clippings and articles (1 box, 2 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers cover many aspects of Ms Griffin’s career as a social worker and personnel manager, and later as an industrial relations commissioner and ANU Pro-Chancellor and member of the ANU Council. They include correspondence, speeches, reports, photographs and two audiotapes of presentations. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2013 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Karen Cheung was once only candidate for Parliament who stood as a member of the Voice of the People Party in 1999 for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Strathfield. Karen Cheung came to Australia in 1991 from Hong Kong and became a naturalised Australian. She attended university in Australia, and became involved with the scouting movement. She was concerned about many social issues. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jean Mulvaney was an active and committed community worker in Canberra from the mid-1960s until her death in 2004. She was a founding member of Canberra Lifeline, the ACT Girl Guides Commissioner, and president of the Canberra Mothercraft Society, the Queen Elizabeth II Family Centre Committee, and the University House Ladies Drawing Room. She was also an active member of the Civil Rehabilitation Committee (Prisoners’ Aid) and served on the National Council of Women. Jean Campbell grew up at beachside Black Rock in Melbourne and was active in the Girl Guides and in a number of sports: swimming, yachting, tennis and horseriding. She attended the Presbyterian Ladies’ College and then trained as an infants teacher, teaching at Travancore Experimental School for disadvantaged children. From 1948 to 1951 she cycled around Australia on a working holiday, starting from Melbourne accompanied by three friends, two of whom returned from Perth and the third staying in the Northern Territory, so that she completed the trip by herself. On the way she had a variety of jobs including fruit and vegetable picking, waitressing, nursing and work on a pearl lugger in Broome, and crocodile shooting in the Northern Territory. Jean met her future husband, the prehistorian John Mulvaney, when visiting England to represent Victorian Girl Guides at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953. They were married in Melbourne on 6 February 1954 and had six children, the first born in 1955 and the last in 1965. They moved from Melbourne to the suburb of Yarralumla in Canberra in 1965 when John took up his appointment as Senior Fellow in Prehistory in the Anthropology and Sociology Department in the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. He was appointed Professor of Prehistory in 1971 and held that position until his retirement in 1985. Jean called herself ‘a prehistorian by marriage’ and shared many work-related trips with John. Her community work in Canberra began shortly after her arrival: in 1966 she was a foundation member of Canberra Lifeline and Canberra Toastmistress, and started as Guiding representative on the Civil Rehabilitation Committee (now known as Prisoners Aid) and continued this work which included visiting prison inmates until her death. From 1969 to the 1970s she was founding secretary of the Canberra Children’s Theatre (later the Canberra Youth Theatre) and in the 1970s was Girl Guides Commissioner in the Australian Capital Territory. From 1984 to 1985 Jean was a volunteer at Massachusetts General Hospital when John was Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard. She was presented the ‘Volunteer of 1985 Award’; the citation read: ‘Jean Mulvaney – wise, caring, intuitive, responsible and a wonderful sense of humour…’ From 1985 Jean was president of the Canberra Mothercraft Society and the Queen Elizabeth II Family Centre Committee but left disillusioned in 1995 when the institution was renamed and moved from Civic. Jean served on the National Council of Women (ACT) from the 1990s until her death, and was Convener of the Ladies Drawing Room at University House with Lena Karmel 1993-1997. Jean was always a very active person – John reports that she enjoyed canoeing in Canada in 1997 when she was in her mid-70s – but in their last years together her health deteriorated. She died on 13 November 2012 in Canberra at the age of 81 after heart surgery. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Digging Up a Past, Mulvaney, John, 2011 University House as They Experienced It: A History 1954-2004, Waterhouse, Jill, 2004 Magazine article Jean Mulvaney 1923-2004, Mulvaney, John, 2005 National Museum of Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, 2004 Resource Section Remember to breathe, 2004, http://ampersandduck.blogspot.com.au/2004/11/remember-to-breathe_16.html Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 6 February 2013 Last modified 25 November 2013 Digital resources Title: Jean Mulvaney Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Nikki Henningham Created 27 October 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Digital resources Title: Betty Paterson: Self Portrait Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Wendy Craik has been described as ‘a woman of many firsts’ (Wisdom Interviews). In 1992, she became head of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) a position she relinquished in 1995 when she created another precedent by becoming the first woman to lead the National Farmers Federation. She was the first female Chief Executive of the Murray Darling Basin Commission (2004 -2008) and has held numerous positions on boards and advisory councils, including President of the National Competition Council (2002), Chair of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (2000) , Chair of the National Rural Advisory Council, member of the Productivity Commission (2009 -) and chair of the Board of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation (2010 – ). In 2000 she worked in private industry as Chief Executive of Earth Sanctuaries Limited – a listed company pioneering a private approach to wildlife conservation. Currently (2013) she is also on the boards of the WorldFish Center and Dairy Australia and is on the Council of the University of South Australia. Wendy Craik was born in Canberra in 1949 and her early childhood paralleled the post-war development of Canberra. Her memories of a happy childhood in a small town include watching Lake Burley Griffith filling up, and visiting a market garden called Leo’s every week to get the family vegetables, on the south side of what is now King’s Avenue Bridge. She attended Griffith Primary School, and Telopea Park High School and had what she described as ‘a childhood like any other 1950s childhood’, growing up with her three sisters in Griffith. (Interview) The house was imbued with public service culture, where a focus on education was important. Her father was a federal public servant promoted to the position of Auditor-General, her friends were generally the children of public servants, and her mother worked at the Australian National University as a research assistant once Wendy and her sisters were all in school. Wendy was the only one of them to pursue a long term career in the public service. After completing school, Craik began a B.A at the Australian National University (ANU) but discovered that tertiary History and English were not as interesting and challenging as she had found them to be at high school, so she switched to studying science. She particularly liked Psychology and Zoology and settled on Zoology because the study of ecological systems – how change in one part of a system can impact upon the whole system – appealed to her. She completed an honours thesis in 1972, a study of a freshwater ecology in a stream running through a Canberra suburb, which set her on a course for postgraduate study. Discovering that she was interested in working in water, and preferring marine environments for their variety, she went to where the expertise existed, in Vancouver, Canada. The Canadian experience was rewarding, but after a while the rainy and grey climate of the Pacific Coast got to her; she knew she needed to live in a place where there was more sun. She completed her PhD and returned to Canberra, where she had a job in the Department of the Environment waiting for her. What started as a three month rotation in the GBRMPA as part of basic training for a Graduate APS trainee became a seventeen year appointment. Craik began working for the GBRMPA in Townsville in May 1978 and loved the work surveying recreational and commercial fishermen about fish movements on the reef. It was important work designed to establish a baseline of data relating to the reef ecology and to develop maritime charts that had not been updated since Captain Cook had sailed the coastline in the eighteenth century. To be successful, she learned very early of the importance of developing good relationships with stakeholders, so that decisions made to save the environment could be regarded as negotiated, rather than imposed. After a long stint of doing fieldwork, Craik stayed on dry land, working as a research manager who commissioned the field work tasks. Looking to challenge herself, she undertook the Australian Public Service Executive Development Scheme which she describes as a ‘fabulous year of professional development.’ (Interview) In 1992, Craik was appointed head of the GBRMPA, at a time when the work was at its most rewarding and most challenging. Chief amongst the challenges was the need to balance protection of the reef against reasonable development, especially by tourism operators. And because there was a lot of job diversity within the authority, she was exposed to many opportunities that developed her leadership skills. But in 1995, after seventeen years in Townsville, she and her husband decided that they needed a change of environment, professionally and environmentally. The position of Executive Director of the National Farmers Federation (NFF) was available and Craik was the successful applicant. Needless to say, taking on the task of managing the member organisations of such a diverse lobby group as the NFF presented a whole raft of new challenges. There were some important issues to resolve during her tenure, including managing the different philosophical and political attitudes of the members to free trade and native title, and working through the impact of the Melbourne Waterfront Dispute in 1998. Moving to a GST created issues for her members, as did the impact of new technological platforms. Craik freely admits that she did not realise what she was getting into when she took the job on. But there was some important lessons to be learned about the skills required to lead an industry advocacy organisation; first and foremost, the job of an Executive Director is to represent the members, not get ahead of them. By definition, this makes implementing organisational change difficult. ‘You can’t make it if the members don’t want it.’ (Interview) After five years at the NFF, Craik was interested in rising to new challenges. In 2000 She moved to Adelaide to take up the position of CEO at Earth Sanctuaries, a publicly listed company that tried to bring together private funding and eco tourism as a way of building flora and fauna conservation projects. The concept was forward thinking in a scientific sense, but difficult to achieve in a commercial sense. She moved on from Earth Sanctuaries after a couple of years, fully supportive of the concept, particular the intention to involve the private sector in the business of conservation. ‘I think a lot of people won’t take conservation really seriously unless there is some kind of dollar value attached to it,’ says Craik. (Wisdom Interviews) Roles Wendy has taken on since leaving Earth Sanctuaries include: Chief Executive of the Murray Darling Basin Commission ; President of the National Competition Council; Chair of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority; Chair of the National Rural Advisory Council and consultancy for AcilTasman. She is currently (2013) a member of the Productivity Commission and chair of the Board of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation. Craik has never felt that being a woman has held her back in her career, but acknowledges that this is not the case for all women. She has always felt in control of her own destiny and believes that a career characterised by movement has not only been good for her, but for the organisations she has worked for. ‘People and organisations need to move on every six to eight years, she thinks. ‘Organisations can benefit from new-blood semi-regularly.’ She’s been fortunate that family circumstances have enabled this sort of portability. (Interview) Diversity of experience has helped develop her as a leader. So has good training, which is why she supports the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation. The APS Executive Development Program helped her to understand that an important key to good leadership is ‘recognising who you are, what your values are, how you react in situations and seeing yourself as other do.’ Good training programs give individuals the opportunity to reflect on these keys. Another important key is being prepared to take risks. ‘Life is a bit boring if you don’t take risks,’ says Craik and advises women on the leadership track to, ‘Beg for forgiveness, don’t ask for permission!’ ( (Interview) Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 'The Wisdom Interviews: Wendy Craik, Peter Thompson and Wendy Craik, 2002, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/the-wisdom-interviews-wendy-craik/3519326 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Wendy Craik interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Women and leadership in a century of Australian democracy oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 February 2013 Last modified 12 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers relating to the life and work of Betty Churcher. Scripts of several ABC television programs such as Take 5, Eye to Eye, Proud Possessors and the Art of War (the latter for SBS) are included in the archive, along with research notes. The archive documents the years 1989 to 2008, and includes television scripts and correspondence with various Australian artists such as William Robinson and Davida Allen. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 1 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Scrapbook of Melba’s career, compiled by Beryl Fanning. Includes correspondence 1909-1919 from Melba to Beryl Fanning, and programmes.??Beryl Fanning was a student of Dame Nellie Melba at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium. Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Folder 1?Letters to Louisa Lawson, with clippings and documents, regarding women’s suffrage, her periodical ‘The dawn’ and legal proceedings over her patent on a mailbag fastener, 1891-1917. Includes a letter to and reference for her daughter Gertrude. Correspondents include Henry Lawson, Sir William Windeyer and his family, Lady Lily Carrington, Bruce Smith and Rose Scott.??Folder 2?Letters to and from Louisa Lawson and one letter to Gertrude, 1896-1912. Correspondents include Alfred Stephens, Lady Rachel Dudley and Charles Lawson??Folder 3?Letter from the Medical Superintendent, Mental Hospital, Gladesville, regarding Louisa Lawson’s condition, 1920; letters from Louisa Lawson to Gertie and Charlie, written from the Mental Hospital, 1920; clippings of Louisa Lawson’s poem ‘My Nettie’, 1878, and Gertrude Lawson’s story ‘A tale of the Queensland bush’, 1909??Folder 4?Envelope labelled ‘Gilmore re Lawson’, containing manuscript and two typescript copies of ‘Personal history: Henry Lawson and I’ by Mary Gilmore, and related correspondence between Mary Gilmore and George Robertson, 1923??Folder 5?Copy of NSW Act of Parliament No. 45, 1898, an Act to consolidate the Law respecting the Insane??Folder 6?Henry Lawson’s cottage, Abbotsford / J. Barclay Godson. 1 print : etching ; plate mark 13.1 x 20 cm. Inscription lower left ‘No.7/50’, [193-?]??Folder 7?Original and copy of Certificate of Marriage of Peter Larsen and Louisa Albury, 7 July 1866; Birth Certificate of Henry Lawson, 17 June 1867; Law Report, Action for alleged negligence, [Louisa] Lawson v. Railway Commissioners, 28 June 1900; letters from Louisa Lawson to George Robertson, 1902-1914??Folder 8?Recollections by Charlie Lawson and Gertrude O’Connor of Henry Lawson’s early poems; typescript copies of poetry and prose by ‘Skid’; opening lines of Louisa Lawson’s poem ‘The lonely crossing’; copy of biographical notes on Henry Lawson by Rev. David Allan; correspondence between Louisa Lawson and George Robertson, 1914??Folder 9?Papers relating to Henry Kendall and the campaign to erect a memorial over his grave, including copies of letters from Henry Parkes to Louisa Lawson, clippings, 1859-1919??Folder 10?Two letters from Henry Lawson to his mother, one possibly written from Newcastle, [ca. 1883], and the other from the office of the Brisbane ‘Boomerang’, [ca. 1891]; reference for Henry Lawson from William Kerridge, carriage and buggy manufacturer, 1887; ‘The little bark hut on the hill’ pencil sketch and poem; notes on history of the Albury family written by Louisa Lawson??Folder 11?Papers relating to the history of Hartley, including letters to W. D. O’Sullivan, a copy of ‘Early history of Hartley’ by W. D. O’Sullivan and a clipping of an article by Frank Walker, 1909-1913??Folder 12?Henry Lawson at about 21 / Channon & Co. Cabinet card photograph inscribed on reverse ‘As Henry had this taken for me, and as it is the earliest photograph of him ever taken – or so he said – he was probably younger than 21. This was taken specially to give me; only half a dozen were ordered. Taken just after he had written . . . “Faces in the Street”, 28.4.1933. With my good wish to Mr Cousins, M. Gilmore, 7.3.34’??Folder 13?File copy of ‘The auld shop & the new’. Printed on title page: ‘Written specially for ‘The Chief’, George Robertson of Angus & Robertson, as some slight acknowledgment of and small return for his splendid generosity during years of trouble and addressed to Donald Angus by Henry Lawson, printed for private circulation, 1923’??Folder 14?1. Henry [Lawson] in 1902. Black & white photograph?2-5. Henry Lawson funeral / Broughton & Ward. 4 black & white photographs, 1922?6-12. Henry Lawson funeral / Hall & Co. 7 black & white photographs, 1922??Folder 15?Papers relating to a Henry Lawson essay competition held at Eurunderee Public School, including typescript copies of three essays, a letter from Gertrude O’Connor and a letter from the school to Gertrude O’Connor quoting Henry Lawson’s comments during his 1914 visit, 1920???R 2188??Item 1?Pencil contained in envelope labelled ‘This pencil was the last one used by Henry Lawson – 1/9/22. [Signed] Gertrude O’Connor’. A further envelope is inscribed ‘To Mr Cousins – Gertrude O’Connor (Henry’s sister) gave Mr Shenstone Henry’s pen, GR this pencil, R. Wiley a matchbox, which GR swapped with me. I think the box is in the Lawson drawer in safe. It’s not much use to me keeping it, so I’ll give it to put with rest of stuff, unless you would like to have it. R. Wiley’??Item 2?Metal ring contained in envelope labelled ‘Mrs Louisa Lawson’s wedding ring. Mother of Henry Lawson the poet. [Signed] Gertrude O’Connor??Item 3?Bronze medal and certificate presented to Mrs Louisa Lawson for printing, by the Woman’s Work Exhibition, Sydney, 1892??Item 4?Printing block depicting Louisa Lawson, inscribed on reverse ‘Mrs Lawson’??Item 5?Printing block depicting woman and baby, inscribed on reverse ‘Photograph etched, bevelled mounted by Gertrude Lawson’ Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 April 2005 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 15 minutes??Marjorie Caw, nee Hubbe, was 21 years old at the outbreak of the First World War and living in Knightsbridge with her mother, the eminent educationalist Edith Hubbe. Her father had been killed in the Boer War and Marjorie recalls his leaving and the letters he sent home. She also recounts in some detail how, after completing her kindergarten teaching training in Adelaide, she travelled extensively in Europe with her mother in the months before the war. On their return Marjorie set up a kindergarten in their drawing room following the Montessori methods she had observed on her travels. Mrs Caw reminisces at some length about her reactions to the First World War, including those brought on by her brothers’ participation and some people’s reaction to her family’s German name. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9897 comprise correspondence during Ryan’s time as Director of Melbourne University Press (1962-1988), newspaper cuttings, talks, photographs, articles, research notes, reviews, handwritten notes, legal documentation, patrol reports and conference papers. There are papers on Alfred Conlon, head of the Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs during World War II, and Ryan’s article on Conlon for the Australian Dictionary of Biography, as well as copies of early Papua New Guinea patrol reports. The largest series relates to Manning Clark and consists of extensive newspaper cuttings, correspondence, drafts of articles and notes covering the controversy generated by Ryan’s criticisms of Clark and his History in 1993; and claims by the Brisbane Courier Mail in 1996 that Clark received an Order of Lenin medal during the Cold War.??Correspondents include Manning Clark, Sir Zelman Cowen, Geoffrey Blainey, L. F. (Fin) Crisp, Beatrice Davis, Geoffrey Dutton, Tom Fitzgerald, Bill Gammage, Alec Hope, Sir Paul Hasluck, Ken Inglis, John La Nauze, Alan Marshall, Susan Ryan, Blanche D’Alpuget, B. A. Santamaria, Kenneth Slessor, Gavin Souter, Patrick White, William Macmahon Ball, Hilary McPhee, Stuart Macintyre, Hugh Stretton and Maslyn Williams (13 boxes).??The MS Acc12.099 instalment comprises personal and official correspondence relating to Ryan’s published works (books, essays, articles) and official correspondence associated with Melbourne University Press. Also included are a small number of articles relating Ryan’s criticisms of Manning Clark, print media relating to World War 1 and to Diggers in New Guinea during World War 2. Other papers include academic papers, copies of draft manuscripts and a full print run of “Tomorrow” magazine, Vol 1., 1946, Edited by Jack Bellow (1 box, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Journalist Charmian Clift wrote a popular weekly column for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Herald from 1964 to 1969. She is the author of several novels including Mermaid Singing (1956), Peel me a Lotus (1959), Walk to the Paradise Gardens (1960), and Honour’s Mimic (1964). Raised in regional New South Wales, Charmian Clift moved to Sydney in 1941 after winning the New South Wales title in Pix magazine’s Beach Girl Quest. In 1943 she enlisted in the Australian Women’s Army Service, and served with the 15th Australian Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, before moving to Melbourne to take up the position of orderly officer at Land Headquarters. There she edited an army magazine and published a number of short stories. Clift joined the Argus in 1946, where she met war correspondent George Henry Johnston. Johnston was a married man, but the pair moved to Sydney and were married in 1947, following his divorce. They had a son and a daughter. The family moved to London in 1951 and later, in 1954, to the Greek island of Kalimnos. Between 1956 and 1964, Clift wrote several novels to great acclaim in Britain and the United States of America. In 1964, Clift returned to Sydney with her family and began a weekly column for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Herald. The topical column became immensely popular, and she continued to meet her weekly deadline until her untimely death in July 1969. Depressed and under enormous strain, Clift took an overdose of sleeping tablets. A collection of Clift’s essays, The World of Charmian Clift, was published posthumously by her husband and illustrated by her son. Trouble in Lotus Land (1990) and Being Alone with Oneself (1991) were also published posthumously. Events 1940 - 1969 Published resources Book Shameless Scribblers: Australian Women's Journalism 1880-1995, Pearce, Sharyn, 1998 Mermaid Singing, Clift, Charmian, 1992 Honour's Mimic, Clift, Charmian, 1964 Being Alone with Oneself, Clift, Charmian, 1991 Peel Me a Lotus, Clift, Charmian, 1989 Walk to the Paradise Gardens, Clift, Charmian, 1960 The World of Charmian Clift, Clift, Charmian, 1970 The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift, Wheatley, Nadia, 2001 The Sponge Divers, Clift, Charmian and George Johnston, 1992 High Valley, Clift, Charmian and George Johnston, 1950 The Big Chariot, Clift, Charmian and George Johnston, 1953 Images in Aspic, Clift, Charmian, 1992 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Section Clift, Charmian (1923 - 1969), Wheatley, Nadia, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130488b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 October 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kay Hallahan was the first woman to sit in both houses of Western Australian Parliament. An Australian Labor Party member she was elected to the Legislative Council of Western Australia on 19 February 1983. She served until 13 January 1993. She switched to the Legislative Assembly when she was elected 6 February 1993, serving until 14 December 1996. Elsie Kay Downing (Kay) was born in Perth in 1941 to Eric Stanley Downing, a timber worker, and his wife Elsie. She attended Perth Girls High School, then worked as a calculator operator and office worker, and also undertook various forms of community work. She joined the police force in 1969, and was forced to stand down three years later when she married Pat Hallahan in May, 1972. Hallahan then studied social work and graduated with a degree in 1981, after which she worked at various community health care and rehabilitation facilities, including the Alcohol and Drug Authority. She joined the Australian Labor Party in 1976, and was elected to Legislative Council of the Western Australian Parliament in 1983. She served until 1993, and was then elected to the Legislative Assembly where she remained until 1996. Kay Hallahan was the first woman to sit in both houses of Western Australian Parliament. In 2002 Hallahan received an Order of Australia for her contribution to the State Parliament and a wide range of community organisations. Published resources Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records including correspondence, reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings and copies of the Federation’s official journals The Dawn and Equality. Main correspondents included in the collection are first Federation president, Bessie Rischbieth, early president and overseas representative Ruby Rich, and other presidents Irene Greenwood, Estelle Collmann, Dorothy Adams and Lorelei Booker. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 December 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Women’s and Children’s Health Network (WCHN) has a collection of historical artefacts which is managed by the WCHN History and Heritage Group.??The WCHN History and Heritage Group aims to preserve, collect, collate, catalogue, store, display and interpret items of historical significance to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital and its predecessors the Adelaide Children’s Hospital, the Queen Victoria Hospital and associated institutions (eg. Estcourt House and the former Child and Youth Health Services) in order to preserve, value and make accessible to the wider community their history and the significance of their work with regard to advances in child, youth and women’s health care in South Australia and nationally.??The WCHN History and Heritage Collection itself is mainly comprised of photographs of buildings, benefactors and staff, newsletters, nursing memorabilia, medical and surgical instruments (including an extensive range of obstetrical and gynaecological instruments), infant feeders, laboratory and X-ray equipment, toys and fundraising memorabilia. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 March 2019 Last modified 3 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Adele Doust is a committed environmentalist, whose career has continued to centre on environmental management. She was an Australian Greens candidate in the House of Representatives for Macquarie (1998), in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Blue Mountains (1999) and for the Blue Mountains City Council in 1999. Adele Doust was born and went to school in the western suburbs of Sydney. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Sociology at the University of New England and a Grad.Cert. Environment Management from the University of NSW. From 1999 to 2001 she worked on the staff of Ian Cohen, MLC and as a as a Human Resources Co-ordinator. By 2005 she was the Executive Officer of the Resource Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University. At the same time she was completing a Masters degree in Management at the Australian National University. In her 1999 campaign, Adele Doust deplored the race between the major parties to espouse the harshest penalties for crime, and stressed the Greens policy of early intervention programs as a more effective way of dealing with the problem. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Queen Adelaide Club comprising minutes, register of members, financial records, architectural drawings and a scrapbook of old letters and scraps of letters with autographs of early colonists. Created 13 March 2019 Last modified 21 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lenore Craven was a once only candidate for Parliament: the ALP representative for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Hawkesbury in 1988. Educated at Richmond High School, she then studied at the Independent Theatre School, graduating in 1976. She acted professionally for three years, then travelled in Europe for two years. She speaks fluent French. On returning to Australia she worked as a pre school teacher, and later married. She has one son and three step daughters. Lenore was on the executive of the NSW Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations, and active on the P. & C. Associations of her children’s schools. She joined the ALP in 1986 and has held office at local and electorate level. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, reports, newspaper cuttings, press releases, financial records, publications, articles, notes, ephemera. Author Details Jane Carey Created 14 December 2004 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour??Enid Cherry trained at the Adelaide Hospital from 1913 to 1916 and a year later enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service to answer a call for Australian nurses to serve in under-staffed British hospitals. She served for 15 months in the 60th General Hospital at Salonika before contracting dysentery and being invalided home. During the 1920s Miss Cherry worked at the Wakefield Street Private Hospital before taking up the position of nursing sister at the Myer department store for 23 years until her retirement in 1952. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 001824.08 14/04/1965 1 p. Typed minutes of the Balcombe Ladies’ Auxiliary. Handwritten note at the bottom of the page (formerly 032317)??MS 001824.09 12/05/1965 1 p. Handwritten minutes of the Balcombe Ladies’ Auxiliary (formerly 032318; EPH 409)??MS 001824.10 09/06/1965 1 p. Handwritten minutes of the Balcombe Ladies’ Auxiliary (formerly 032319; EPH 410)??MS 001824.11 11/08/1965 1 p. Handwritten minutes of the Balcombe Ladies’ Auxiliary (formerly 032320; EPH 411) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour??Ruth Harrington, nee Meredith, was born in England and came to South Australia in infancy with her parents. She grew up at Barmera and Cobdobla on the River Murray and completed schooling at Woodlands. Ruth commenced nursing training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1942 and completed the course in 1945. After three months experience at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital she was called up for duty in the Australian Army Nursing Service and served for two years until her marriage. Ruth maintained her registration and worked in several country hospitals. In 1968 she did a refresher course at the RAH and subsequently co-ordinated other refresher courses for nurses re-entering the workforce. In 1975 she joined the staff of Sturt College, where the first tertiary nursing course began in that year. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "ARU minutes; correspondence; report on social insurance 1935; report on unemployment 1937; Combined Union Shop Committee minutes and circulars; correspondence regarding awards and working conditions 1942- 1955; political pamphlets; leaflets; newspaper clippings i.e. “Argus” 1930-1970; arbitration material including court determinations; ARU Queensland Branch council material; Victorian Railways Government reports; ACTU reports, automation seminar, bulletins, information sheets; AMSWU Journals 1972; Whitlam address, 1972. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
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        "text": "The papers in this collection document much of the life and career of June Epstein. A large proportion of the material comprises papers relating to Epstein’s career as an author and includes research material, drafts and reviews for a number of both published and unpublished works. There are also papers relating to Epstein’s work with the Australian Broadcasting Commission and her musical accomplishments, as well as newspaper cuttings, a small collection of personal papers and appointment diaries spanning several decades. There is very little in the collection relating to Epstein’s work as a teacher and academic. Includes research material, photographs and memorabilia of the life of teacher and student counselor, Rosalie McCutcheon, collected by Epstein for her book ‘Rosalie McCutcheon, a memoir’ (1933).??There is a small amount of general correspondence which relates to publication of Epstein’s books, letters of appreciation from readers, employment, and congratulatory letters received on being awarded an Order of Australia Medal. Major correspondents include the Australian Broadcasting Commission, York Bowen, Benjamin Britten, A.E. [Alfred Ernest] Floyd, Henry Geehl (Professor of Music, Trinity College, London), Margaret Holmes, Hephzibah Menuhin, Dorothy Ross (Headmistress, Melbourne Church of England Girls Grammar School) and Camilla Wedgwood. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 February 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 40 minutes??Judith Porter was born at Port Augusta, South Australia and began training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1954. She subsequently gained certificates in midwifery and infant welfare, and then nursed at the Bordertown Hospital. In 1958 she applied to the Department of External Affairs for a posting in Papua New Guinea and after her appointment in 1959 spent fifteen years in that country, in hospitals, schools of nursing, and finally as Superintendent of Nursing Education. On returning to South Australia in 1975, Judith was appointed by the Hospitals Department to set up and conduct the first post-registration course in community health nursing. At the end of 1975, she became Principal Nursing Officer in the Hospital Department which in 1977 became the South Australian Health Commission. She was the first nurse to be Chairman of the Nurses Board of South Australia. Judith resigned her post with the Health Commission in 1987 and left South Australia to live in Queensland. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Five Rosewood CWA meeting minute books. Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 June 2004 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Beth Wilson AM is a former senior public servant who retired in December 2012 after serving as Victoria’s Health Services Commissioner for 15 years (1997-2012). In this role, Dr Wilson managed complaints made against health service providers. After graduating from Monash University (BA 1975, LLB 1977), Dr Wilson worked in administrative law with a particular interest in medico-legal and ethical issues. Prior to her role as Health Services Commissioner Dr Wilson was president of the Mental Health Review Board, a senior legal member of the Social Security Appeals Board and legal member of the WorkCare Appeals Board. She has also held various positions with the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, the Law Reform Commission, the Victoria Law Foundation and Telecom (now Telstra). In 2001 Monash University acknowledged Dr Wilson by presenting her with a Distinguished Alumni Award. The award celebrated her contribution to research, public administration and ethical practice in the areas of law and health. In 2003 Dr Wilson was recognised for her services to health with a Centenary Medal. She received an Honorary Doctorate in 2004 from RMIT for her contributions to health education. In 2008 Dr Wilson was named on the 2008 Victorian Women’s Honour Roll. On Australia Day 2013 she received a Member of the Order of Australia ‘for significant service to the community of Victoria through the provision of dispute resolution in the area of health services’. The fourth of five children of Isa May Wilson ‘deserted wife’, Beth Wilson grew up in Hastings, Victoria. She left school at age 15 because she had holes in her school shoes and no money to pay for new ones. Beth worked in shops, factories, fruit picking and fishing until she returned to night school at Prahran High School in 1970. Beth worked at Pict Frozen Pea factory in Notting Hill during the day. She was assisted by a Commonwealth Scholarship to Monash University and later, Gough Whitlam’s abolition of university fees. At night school Beth met the feminist activist Mary Owen who became a dear friend and influence on her strong sense of social justice and women’s rights. At Monash Beth studied Arts and Law and later Librarianship at RMIT. She worked in the Library at Telecom and then as librarian/researcher to the Victoria Law Foundation and the Law reform Commission of Victoria. She is currently a mentor for Monash University students. In the mid 1980s Feminist Lawyers was re-formed and Beth and her colleagues assisted two young women, Sandra and Tracey Collis who had been charged with perjury and jailed for withdrawing their claims of incest by their father. Convinced that these two young women were victims not offenders Feminist Lawyers worked with the Domestic Violence and Incest Resources Centre to launch a successful appeal to have the Collis sisters released from prison and later to have their convictions erased through a Pardon. Feminist Lawyers sought the assistance of Barrister John Dixon (pro bono) and Fitzroy Legal Centre (Angela Palombo) to lodge a complaint to the then Solicitor’s Disciplinary Board against the lawyer who represented the Collis sisters and their father. Not surprisingly the Board found there was a conflict of interest and upheld the complaint against Robert John Gallbally. John Dixon later assisted the Collis sisters in a civil suit against Robert Gallbally. Beth worked in the legal and policy section of the Department of Health with Feminist Lawyers founder, Bebe Loff. It was an exciting time for policy as recent major reforms had been made with the establishment of the Heath Services Commissioner, the Guardianship and Administration Board and the Mental Health Review Board. She also joined the editorial collective of the Legal Services Bulletin that later became the Alternative Law Journal and she established its long running column ‘Sit Down Girlie’. Beth was appointed to the Social Security Appeals Board in 1985, the WorkCare Appeals Board in 1990 and became President of the Mental Health Review Board in 1992. She is a past President of the Victorian Branch of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. In 1997 she became Victoria’s Health Services Commissioner, a position she held until 2012. Highlights included an Inquiry into The Royal Melbourne Hospital, an investigation into the activities of a disgraced dentist turned cancer quack Noel Campbell and an Investigation into Peter DeAngelis aka Thunder Eagle a sham ‘shaman’. Beth also assisted the very brave Ercan Tekin, a man with cerebral palsy who had been ‘ripped off’ by a chiropractor who claimed to be able to ‘cure’ cerebral palsy with hyperbaric treatment. Ercan’s story was featured on The Law Report ABC Radio National, 16 June 2009 and in Beth’s exit interview on The Law Report on 11 December 2012). In 2006 Beth led an Australian Delegation for HREOC assessing the progress of China’s human rights obligations in family planning held in Urumqui, Xiang Jing Autonomous Region, North West China. Beth travelled twice to Sri Lanka with AusMat to assist victims of the 2004 Tsunami and in 2014 she travelled to Canada to speak at an international conference on health complaints. Beth was a member of the Disability Services Board from 2007 to 2012 and she is a respected person of the Tarwirri Indigenous Law Students and Lawyers Association of Victoria. Following her retirement from the HSC in 2012 Beth became Patron of the Continence Foundation of Australia, Patron of The Satellite Foundation, Member of the Board of Directors of Women and Mentoring, Independent Chair of the Royal Children’s Hospital Travancore Child and Adolescent Health Service’s Community Reference Group, Victorian AIDS Council (VAC) volunteer and Independent Chair of the VAC, Cabrini Hospital’s Patient and Resident Advisory Council, Victoria Legal Aid Community Consultative Committee and is a member of Breacan’s Community Advisory Group. Australia has committed to the United Nations Declaration commitment to the Greater Involvement of People Living With HIV/AIDS (GIPA) and Beth is the Independent Chair of the VAC committee which is implementing GIPA. Beth is also a part time Legal Member of the Mental Health Tribunal. Beth has her own business Lawfully Funny and is a popular public speaker and part time member of the Mental Health tribunal. She is also a member of Wild at Heart which brings the creative arts to the mental health community and performed in their play The Mental Health Act. In 2013 and 2014 she appeared in The Vagina Monologues. Beth was a member of Joan Kirner’s Women’s Advisory Group in the 1980s and has continued to campaign for women’s health reproductive rights. She also advocates on a range of social justice issues including euthanasia, women’s rights, mental health, inequality and disability. Events 2008 - 2008 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1997 - 2012 Health Services Commissioner (Victoria) Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Beth Wilson with Nikki Henningham Created 5 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Beth Wilson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "May include Annual General Meeting agenda; Financial statements. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The 1956 Australian Netball was the first team to ever beat England on home soil. The team revolutionised the way the sport was played and the tour was important to the establishment of an internationally consistent set of rules. Never has such publicity been given to the game,’ declared the coach of the Australian netball team. ‘We are shadowed by press and photographers.’ She went on to advise management that the women had received generous amounts of space in the press, there were several radio interviews scheduled and ‘arrangements were afoot for another television program about the team.’ Not that she was complaining, mind you. If anything, she was excited by what her team had done for the development of the game. In her view, the netball world was witnessing a real ‘turning point’ and she was delighted that her team was responsible. One might be excused for thinking that it was Joyce Brown, coach of Australia’s 1991 world champion netball team, who was speaking. After all, rumour has it that there are even some men who, if pushed, will say that the 1991 netball world championship final between Australia and New Zealand was one of the most exciting games of sport they have watched. They will admit to being glued to the set as the skills, courage, persistence and determination of the athletes on court combined to produce one of the most thrilling, down to the wire, finishes to a game that an Australian international sporting team had ever been involved in. When Australia scored in the dying seconds of the match to gain the lead by the narrowest of margins, netball became an Australian sport, not just a women’s sport relegated to the media backblocks. Press coverage increased, and so did the number of offers to sponsor the team and individual players. People in the general community saw what netballers already knew; that this was an exciting game, played by skilful, tough, graceful athletes. Evoking a similar turn of phrase to the aforementioned coach, former player Keeley Devery remarked, ‘After the World Championships it really turned around. I mean certainly we are not getting the coverage that we think we should be getting, but as far as women’s sport goes in Australia we’re looking pretty good.’ Keeley Devery is right. Relative to the attention that other women’s sporting teams receive, public awareness of the achievements of Australian netballers in recent years has been relatively high thanks to increased media coverage. Having said that, the focus, inevitably, has been on the modern game and contemporary netballers. So-called ‘pioneers’ of the game have been overlooked in celebrations of these more recent achievements, which could not, however, have been attained without the efforts of those who paved the way. How do we measure, for instance, the importance to the successful 1991 campaign of coach Joyce Brown’s experience in 1963 as captain of the first ever world champion team? Contemporary success did not emerge from a vacuum and it is important to have a sense of history, if for no other reason than to recognise that Australian women were doing exciting things in the international sporting scene at a time when conventional wisdom would have us believe that a ‘woman’s place was in the home’. One woman who firmly believed that a woman’s place could be on a court was Lorna McConchie, the coach of the Australian team to tour England in 1956; the coach who is quoted above. The team was away from home for six months (including travel time) and played sixty- seven matches, losing only three. Along the way, ‘the Tourists …raised the standards of nearly every team they…played, and … inspired players at all levels’. They inflicted the first defeat ever upon an English team, beating them, quite literally, at their own game, because the Australians at home played by a very different set of rules to that of their hosts. They left with a firm commitment to develop a consistent code of rules for international play so that the framework for international competition could be further developed. Put simply, the 1956 team that toured England provided the catalyst for action that supported the development of netball as an international sport, one that has the capacity to produce good ‘copy’ if media operators give it half a chance. As McConchie herself said in her final report, ‘Our visit has given a tremendous boost to the game of Netball. It has shown that international level contests do a great deal towards bringing the game to the notice of the public.’ When the All England Netball Association (AENA) issued an invitation to the All Australian Women’s Basketball Association (AAWBA) in 1955 to send a team to tour England the following year, the association leapt at the chance to be the first international team to play England on their home turf. Needless to say, and extraordinary amount of preparation was required for such an enterprise. Funds needed to be raised (each player needed to contribute £350 towards their expenses), potential sponsors contacted (the Holeproof company were able to provide sports socks and hosiery but not briefs) and, most importantly, the team needed to learn a whole new set of rules. As the game of netball had been transplanted across the globe, different sets of rules evolved in each netball playing country. For instance in some countries, teams played with nine players on the court while others used only seven. Given that there was no agreed international code, and that England was the host, the onus was upon the Australians to adapt their game. If the ultimate win-loss ratio of 64-3 is any indication, they adapted remarkably well! The three and a half week voyage gave the team, recruited from across the country, the opportunity to get to know each other and to practice the unfamiliar rule interpretations. Fortunately, a sympathetic staff commander helped to create a training venue for them. He erected a goal ring on the first class sports deck and allowed the women to use the deck between 8 am and 9 am. Coach McConchie was very pleased with the form they showed and delighted when they had an opportunity to practice on terra firma, at a stopover in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). They were surprised to find a crowd of 1200 spectators waiting when they arrived to play, along with a phalanx of representatives of the press. It gave them a hint of what they would encounter when they reached Britain. Put simply, when they arrived in Britain, according to McConchie they were ‘wanted everywhere by everyone’. Reception after reception, banquet after banquet, cream cake after cream cake; the team members began to discover that being wanted so much had an impact on their waistlines, with many players putting on up to half a stone in weight in the first few weeks of the tour. One player, Betty Greaves, became ill with the flu and put on a stone throughout the course of her convalescences. The situation was regarded as dire enough for the whole team to go on a slimming retreat halfway through the tour. They generated interest and excitement wherever they went, not to mention healthy attendances at games. The test match played at Wembley stadium attracted a crowd of 7,000 excited fans, who saw Australia defeat England in an exciting game, 14 goals to 11. Despite having the upper hand with regard to familiarity with the rules, the English really could not match the Australian style of play. According to McConchie the English played a ‘slow-paced, graceful style of game’, but after this tour she expected that to change. The Australian’s ‘fast, strong style…made every county sit up and take notice and each has made us certain that their game will develop along our lines as rapidly as they can aspire to’. Or, as the President of the AENA put it in a farewell ode to the Australians: For out best teams you’re fairly a match There is nothing you cannot catch, And when our girls meet you In order to beat you All kinds of new schemes they must hatch! You have shown us that we are too slow, That a pass should be hard as a blow Or a shot from a gun To catch such is fun, Whether sent by a friend or a foe. The 1956 Australian touring team revolutionised the way netball was played when it beat the English, at their own game! They also proved that elite women’s sport was of public interest, although it is fair to say that a lot of the press interest reflected contemporary concerns over the relationship between athleticism and femininity. Certainly, radio and television coverage highlighted the way the Australians played the game, and there was, said McConchie ‘a great deal of comment on this because of the fast movement and strong throw they use’. A full three minutes of BBC television coverage was given over to McConchie’s explanation of the different rules and contrasting styles, thus creating an opportunity ‘to make a few million people clearer on this point’. Much of the press coverage, however, indicated a fascination with their form and provides ample evidence that the public admired women athletes, as long as they didn’t look like them! The following extract from the Daily Herald was typical of some of the reporting a good month into the tour: ‘”They’re Up On Their Toes, These Girls from Down Under: But They’ve All Got Boys Back Home.” Mayors have admitted it. So have town clerks. Wherever 10 Australian basketball players are given civic receptions, the men confess: ‘To be honest, we expected to find you were all 6 ft, mannish, Amazon types!’ What are the girls really like? Not one is more than 5ft 8in tall, and they are all pretty – and very feminine. They’re all girls a young man would be proud to take home. But don’t rush chaps – they’re all engaged or courting – except 26 years old Betty Greaves. She’s married.’ It was fine for women to play competitive sport, as long as long as their bodies gave no outward indication that they did so. (As a netballer once remarked, the baggy tunics they wore for years served this purpose. If anyone cared to look underneath them, they would have been amazed at the muscles they saw!) Nevertheless, the experience did show that top level sportswomen could also be ‘celebrities’. There was value to the media in covering their achievements. Arguably, however, the most important outcome of the tour to England was that, in McConchie’s words, ‘it stimulated thought towards the formation of an International Rules Board with the aim towards finding an International Game acceptable to all. In 1957, a conference was held in London, which was followed three years later by a conference of six nations in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) to formulate a code of rules for international play. The following year, in 1961, the International Federation of Women’s Basketball and Netball Associations was formed and one of their first actions was to adopt these rules. This paved the way for the first World Championships to be held in 1963. Which brings us to Joyce Brown who captained the team which went through the tournament undefeated. And who went on to coach the 1991 world champions, who became ‘celebrities’ in their own right. But isn’t their story is much more interesting when we know what happened leading up to it? Published resources Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Netball Australia - Papers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pat Reville was Electorate Secretary in Broken Hill for the former New South Wales State Member of Parliament, Bill Beckrodge, and later served as secretary for the Mayor of Broken Hill. Pat Reville was born and bred in Broken Hill, New South Wales. Her great-grandfather had worked on the mines there until his death in 1898. Her father was part of the Big Strike of 1918-1920 and was black-balled from the Line of Lode. Pat was educated by the Sisters of Mercy at St Peter and Paul Primary School, St John’s, and finally St Joseph’s for secondary school. Never academically inclined, she left after third form and attended technical college for two years. She married Graham Reville. For twenty years, Pat worked at Broken Hill’s local cinemas: the Century, the Metropole and the Silver City Theatre. In the 1980s, she was offered the position of Electorate Secretary for the then New South Wales State Member of Parliament, Bill Beckrodge. Learning computer skills from scratch, she retained her position with Beckrodge for two and a half years before he retired from office. In April 2001, Pat took up the position of secretary for the Mayor of Broken Hill. She has also served as treasurer of the local branch of the Australian Labor Party. Pat has been a union member throughout her life, from the Shop Assistants Union to the Theatrical Union, the Public Servants’ Association (Sydney), and the Town Employees Union of Broken Hill. Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Patricia Reville, Broken Hill Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 14 January 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Deirdre Grusovin was a member of the New South Wales parliament for twenty five years. Initially she was elected to the NSW Legislative Council (1978) and remained in office until 1990. During this time Deirdre was appointed Minister for Consumer Affairs and Assistant Minister for Health 1986-88 and Minister for Small Business 1987-88. In 1990 she ran in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Heffron by election and was again successful. She was re-elected in 1991, 1995 and 1999, retiring in 2003. Deirdre Grusovin was born in Sydney in 1938 and educated at the lady of the Sacred Heart College, Kensington. She worked as a Librarian for the Randwick Municipal Council from 1957 to 1962. She married Walter Grusovin in 1962, (he died September 2004) and they have seven children, three daughters and four sons. From 1962 until her election to the Legislative Council of New South Wales, in 1978, she managed the family pharmacy business. Deirdre Grusovin served twelve years in the Legislative council, holding the positions of Minister for Consumer Affairs and Assistant Minister for Health, and Minister for Small Business in the Unsworth Ministry. She became Deputy Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council in July 1986 and then Deputy Leader of the Opposition from March 1988 to 1990 when she resigned from the Legislative Council to contest the seat of Heffron. Deirdre Grusovin is the sister of Laurence Brereton, her predecessor in the seat of Heffron and later M.H.R. for Kingsford-Smith. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly in June 1990 and held the seat until her retirement in March 2003. She joined the ALP 1957 and was assistant secretary of NSW Youth Council of the party from 1959 to 1961. She was a member of the Administrative Committee of the ALP in 1985 and was a delegate from New South Wales to the Australian Labor party national Conference in 1986. She was the first woman Chairman of St Margaret’s Hospital Advisory Board. Events 2016 - 2016 For significant service to the Parliament and the community of New South Wales, to education administration, and to social welfare. Published resources Book Section HERstory: Australian Labor Women in Federal, State and Territory Parliaments 1925-1994, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 30 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 4 min)??Yeates speaks of her informal art studies; teaching art; her concern with colour; non-objective painting; what concerns her when painting. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1977-1997, Date unknown; Folder of letters received, with photocopies of letters and printed material. Correspondents include Mark Latham, League of Women Voters of New South Wales and Rosemary Webb?1949-1966; Australian passports (2)?1928-1948; Scrapbook, mainly of newscuttings?1932-1987; Scrapbook folder mainly of personal mentions in newscuttings concerning, among other things, her campaign as Australian Labor Party candidate for North Sydney in the 1951 Federal election, and newscuttings concerning her husband, Fred Coleman-Browne?1945-1965; Notes mainly for Radio 2KY broadcasts on various topics including the ALP, women and work, women in parliament, community centres, cost/standard of living and the United Nations?1964, 1971-1972; Newscuttings of Eileen Powell’s columns, ‘Labor Women’ in A.L.P. News, 1964, and ‘Women at Work’ in E.T.U. News, 1971-1972?195-, Date unknown; Folder comprising address to Senate Pre-Selection Committee, 195-; Biographical Details, Date unknown; ‘Economic Equality – Goal of the Second Half Century’, being an address to Australian Federation of Women Voters Conference, Adelaide, Aug. 1954; photocopied typed transcript of interview with Eileen Powell, with MS. corrections by her, Date unknown?ca. 1977; ‘”Jack Lang” – Some Comments’, being a critique by Eileen Powell of Jack Lang (1977), edited by Heather Radi and Peter Spearritt?1927, 194-, 1948; Printed material and book comprising Memorandum and Articles of Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children N.S.W. (1927); Life and Work in the R.R.R. by the R.R.R. Girls (194-?), edited by Lloyd Ross; and Lebanon : Land of Friendliness (1948), being an association copy with signatures of participants at United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, Mar. 1949?1977; Silver Jubilee Medal?1912-1984; Photoprints mainly of Powell family, including Eileen Powell, her father Albert James Powell, her sister Sheila, and of Eileen Powell with colleagues, Win McConnell, Marie Graves and Eileen Shearer at Trades Hall, Sydney, 193-, in Radio 2KY studio, 1949, and electioneering in 1951, including opening of ALP Federal election campaign by J. B. Chifley, Sydney, 28 Mar. 1951 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Recorded interview with transcript Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 14 January 2009 Last modified 14 January 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection assembled by Christine Fernon relating to women’s liberation movement. Comprising of the minutes from the Canberra Women’s Liberation Group, notes, typescripts, photocopies, cutting books and newspaper clippings. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 28 December 2017 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "24 min 27 sec??Interview with Peggy Williams. Discusses her role during the war, her joining the Australian Women’s Land Army, her duties and experiences as a Land Army girl. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Colleen Logan only ran once for election to parliament. That was as an ALP candidate in the 1988 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Eastwood. Educated at Fort Street Girls’ High School, she obtained her teaching certificate at Sydney Teachers’ College in 1962 and taught infants for 18 months. She then joined the Commonwealth Public Service. She gained her BA in 1973 (Macquarie University), and MA in 1987 (Australian National University). She has 3 children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 60 min.)??Holland speaks of her musical studies at the Sydney Conservatorium and at the Royal College in London ; her composing career and method of work ; the importance of melody ; writing music for children ; writing music for films ; writing a history of music with her husband Alan Bellhouse. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Internationally acclaimed soprano opera singer June Bronhill chose her stage name in recognition of her birthplace, Broken Hill. June Bronhill was the daughter of George Francis Gough and Maria Isobel Daisy Hall. George was born in Essex, England, in 1892 and spent five years at sea before settling in the Australian outback. By 1912 he was living in Broken Hill, where he met local-born Daisy. The pair were married in 1915. George worked as an engine driver on the Line of Lode and became a staunch unionist. From 1932 he was secretary of the Broken Hill and District Hospital. When June was fifteen years old, George and Daisy retired to Robe in South Australia. June’s brother, John, stayed on in Broken Hill and became the librarian of the Charles Rasp Library. June began singing at the age of four. In 1950 she won the Sun Aria Vocal competition. Local residents of Broken Hill raised money to help her further her career as a soprano, sufficient to send her to England to study, and she changed her name to June Bronhill in recognition of her birthplace. In 1951 June married Brian Martin in Sydney. Brian had one daughter from his first marriage, Faith Josephine Margaret, who was just nine years younger than June. With Brian, June sailed for England and became the leading soloist with the Sadlers Wells Company. She performed in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and played the roles of Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld and Gabrielle in La Vie Parisienne. She was well known for her performance in the title role of Hanna Glawari in Lehar’s The Merry Widow. June remained overseas for eight years, during which time she and Brian filed for divorce, but June retained a strong friendship with his daughter Faith and the two women lived together in London. In July 1960, she made her first homecoming visit and was greeted at the Broken Hill airport by the biggest crowd since the visit of Queen Elizabeth in 1954. In January 1963 she married Richard Milburne Champion de Crespigny Finny in Sydney, but this marriage too ended after a few years. June gave birth to her daughter Carolyn Jane (Biddy) Finny in May 1963. June Bronhill performed not only with the Sadlers Wells Opera, but with the London West End theatres. She played Elizabeth in the musical ‘Robert and Elizabeth’ in 1964; she was Mother Abbess in ‘The Sound of Music’ in London, and Maria von Trapp in the Australian production. She appeared in dozens of Australian operatic productions, and played the role of Mrs. Crawford in the Australian version of the television comedy series, ‘Are You Being Served?’ In April 1977, June Bronhill was awarded the OBE at Government House for services to the performing arts. In 1994, the Broken Hill Entertainment Centre was named in her honour. Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Book The Merry Bronhill, Bronhill, June, 1987 Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Bronhill, June Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 15 January 2009 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Four black and white photographs taken over the Melbourne Teachers’ College (1988 Building), showing adjacent building works. May 1972; two looking towards the Education Resource Centre and Science Education Building, and one looking along the concourse in front of the E.R.C. and Science Education Building to the old Teachers’ College building, May 1972. Twelve colour photographs of various parts of the University grounds. Black and white photograph of Ormond College (Visual Aids), n.d. Copy of photograph of two men walking in a garden, labelled on back: “Notes on Reerse of original.?1. The old Garden before re-designing by Edna Walling in 1948;?2. Photo taken by Dr. Euan Littlejohn in 1939. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Australian-born Daisy Schoeffel, with her German-born but naturalised British husband and their two British born children, were deported from Fiji to Australia in November 1917 and interned in harsh conditions as enemy aliens first in the Bourke Concentration Camp, New South Wales and then moved to the Molonglo Concentration Camp at Fyshwick in the then Federal Capital Territory (now the Australian Capital Territory). Finally released in May 1919, Daisy wrote to a Western Australian Member of Parliament – Hon. Henry Gregory – expressing her anger and humiliation at the injustice of their treatment, the shame of their status and the depth and breadth of the suffering they experienced in the camps and pleaded against the forced deportation to Germany of her family. This letter provides the basis of this entry with relation to her imprisonment during World War One. Fourth generation Australian, Daisy Mildred Pearse was the fifth of ten children born to Jessie Alice (nee Armstrong) and James Pearse in North Fremantle, Western Australia on 22 September 1885. James Pearse was a tanner whose shoe manufacturing business, later known as Pearse and Swan, evolved to be a major company in Western Australia. He served as a councillor for Fremantle 1883-1895, for North Fremantle 1895-1917 and as Mayor of North Fremantle from 1898-1901. None of this, however, protected his daughters Daisy and Hally, married to German cousins, from what lay ahead after the outbreak of World War One. On a visit to New Zealand, Daisy met German-born businessman Alfred Emil Schoeffel who had worked for a German company in Fiji since 1908. They married at Johnston Memorial Congregational Church, Fremantle, on 19 November 1913. According to Robyn Kienzle in her book about Daisy’s nephew Bert, ‘The Architect of Kokoda’, Daisy and Alfred married ‘against furious opposition from her family’ (p. 12), however the report of the large society wedding in the West Australian in November 1913, suggests the family may have come around to the marriage (‘Social Notes’, 1913, p. 10). The couple initially lived in Levuka, Fiji where Daisy gave birth to three children – Kenton in 1914, Max in 1916. She later gave birth to Rex in Australia in 1924. Alfred Schoeffel was naturalised a British subject in May 1914 and nothing immediately changed for the family after the outbreak of war in August the same year. The Schoeffels continued to live their lives as before. Back in Australia, Daisy’s brother Kenton Pearse enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) and saw action in France. Several of her cousins also served with the AIF. Daisy’s father, James Pearse had a significant contract producing leather boots for the Australian forces, and her brother Alfred George Pearse (b. 1881) represented the Master Tanners’ Association on the Western Australian advisory committee appointed by Prime Minister Billy Hughes under the war precautions leather industries regulations that ensured Commonwealth control over the manufacture of leather goods including boots. Daisy’s family was thoroughly Australian but this made no difference when in 1917 the notorious German naval commander and sea raider Count Felix von Luckner evaded the British Royal Navy and ended up in Fiji, where the local community responded with xenophobic hysteria. Von Luckner and his small crew surrendered to British authorities and were shipped to New Zealand where they were interned for the duration of the war, but in the meantime the politics of fear had taken hold in Fiji and all German nationals in Fiji were deported, whether naturalised British or not. Recovering at home from surgery to remove gallstones and her appendix, Daisy was rounded up by Fijian authorities with her family and her sister Hally and her stepchildren. All their property was seized, including their homes, and the two families forced onto the SS Atua, sailing from Suva on 1 November 1917. After travelling in abominable conditions under armed guard with little food and no washing facilities for the eight-day voyage, they were put on a train for Bourke, New South Wales from Sydney and not permitted to make contact with their family in Western Australia. In a letter Daisy wrote to Western Australian Member of Parliament Henry Gregory in 1919, and endorsed by her sister Hally, she described their arrival at Bourke where they were paraded to the empty former Empire Hotel: Once I was able to get some candles from a store nearby and we were able to see the state of the rooms we had to live in, we women just broke down – I wished to God I could die and my babies with me! (NAA: CRS 457, Item 406/1; Fischer 1989). The Schoeffels and Kienzles were given straw sacks to sleep on and ‘filthy dirty rusty tin plates’ and mugs and a tin bucket to cook in. The authorities gave them no respite and neither did the weather. Having arrived in November, daytime temperatures were 40 degrees in shade and just as it began to cool down at 7 p.m. the prisoners were forced inside where the heat had built up during the day. Conditions were filthy; the women had to wash their children under a tap in the backyard and cook on a stove made from four bricks and an iron bar. Rations of bread and meat were often flyblown so they had to buy fresh food from local stores but as they had not been permitted to bring money from Fiji, they relied on the generosity of the other German prisoners. Many of the prisoners contracted dysentery, including Daisy and her baby son Max; they received little medical attention and Max was eventually admitted to Bourke hospital when his condition worsened. Daisy wrote of this time: ‘Those next 3 weeks I can’t write about. I went through hell and only thank God that I kept my reason.’ The prisoners were only permitted to write two letters a week of 150 words each and these were censored so she was unable to appeal to her family in Western Australia for help. When the German consul in Fiji, George Krafft died of heatstroke at Bourke in February 1918 and shortly afterwards an interned family’s cottage burnt down in the heat, families at Bourke were shipped to the then Federal Capital Territory. After a long train journey they found themselves at the Molonglo Concentration Camp, Fyshwick where Daisy wrote ‘Oh, the difference in the treatment here was very marked indeed and we all said if only we had been sent here in the first place! The officers and men were all very kind… and were most sympathetic to my sister and I and could never understand how we could be there.’ Under the leadership of the respected former journalist Brigadier-General Reginald Spencer Browne the regime was more gentle. Daisy described that ‘everything here was made as easy for us as discipline allowed and compared to Bourke our rations were good and plentiful.’ There was, however, one drawback with Molonglo – they were in a camp on a dusty open plain, in poorly built wooden barracks that let in the rain, wind and noise from the other internees. Daisy wrote that there was constant noise all around: ‘at my hut I could hear French, German, Chinese and English all day and half the night.’ Her husband became seriously ill and was bed-bound for four months while Daisy became so rundown she had three and more fainting fits per day. Her physical and mental health suffered for the rest of her life. After their release on 22 May 1919, Daisy and her sister Hally were both concerned that they would be deported to Germany as enemy aliens with their families. The British and Fijian governments supported the deportation of enemy aliens and from August 1919 the Fiji Legislative Council prohibited former enemy aliens from landing on the island. The Australian government deported 6,150 people who were deemed enemy aliens. Of these, 5,414 people had been interned, the rest were family members or those ordered by the Defence Department to leave the country. Of the more than one thousand people who appealed to the Commonwealth Alien Board against deportation, only 306 were successful including 179 naturalised or native born Australians. Daisy and her sister and their husbands were relieved when Gregory’s intervention on their behalf to the Prime Minister and the Governor General apparently contributed to their deportation orders being rescinded. Daisy and her family initially lived in Sydney. They were eventually permitted to return to Fiji in 1920 but spent only a brief time there before returning to Sydney where Alfred was again naturalised in May 1926. They lived in Turramurra, Sydney before taking up farming at Horningsea Park, near Liverpool, New South Wales sometime before 1933. Daisy and Alfred were living in Mathoura, in the New South Wales Riverina until she died at her son Max’s home Chelsworth Park in nearby Echuca, Victoria on 14 January 1969. She was buried at Mathoura Cemetery on 17 January 1969. Daisy had written to Gregory in 1919: ‘what hurt us more than all the insults and hardships we were forced to endure during our 2 years internment, was the fact that we should have to suffer all this at the hands of our own men and in our country!’ She said they were made to feel like criminals and brought shame on their family. Daisy blamed Australia, writing that had Australia refused Fiji’s request to intern them, no other country would have done so. ‘Fiji approached New Zealand first of all and they refused to intern naturalized men let alone British women!’ (NAA: CRS 457, Item 406/1; Fischer 1989). According to later Schoeffel family stories, Daisy did not talk about the experience. As was so often the case, shame inhibited people from telling stories of their internment. Her letter to Gregory, published as Appendix 1 in Gerhard Fischer’s Enemy aliens: internment and the home front experience in Australia, 1914-1920 (1989), powerfully relates her experience in her own words. It proved an eye-opener to her grandchildren and other relatives and is a tragic illustration of a lesser known suffering caused by war. Published resources Book The enemy at home: German internees in World War I Australia, Helmi, Nadine and Fischer, Gerard, 2011 Enemy aliens: internment and the homefront experience in Australia, 1914-1920, Fischer, Gerhard, 1989 The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918: Australia during the war, Scott, Ernest, 1938 The Molonglo mystery: a unique part of Canberra's history, Foskett, Alan, 2006 More about Molonglo: the mystery deepens, Foskett, Alan, 2008 Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918, Proctor, Tammy M., 2010 Book Section A modern-day concentration camp: using history to make sense of Australian immigration detention centres, Nethery, Amy, 2009 Newspaper Article Social Notes, 1913, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26891285 Leather Industries Committee, 1917, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26891285 Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Niki Francis Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "SDN Children’s Services Inc. was the first organisation in Australia to provide all day care for children. The Sydney Day Nursery was established in 1905 in Woolloomooloo on the initiative of a group of young women with an interest in young children’s care and education as a result of their involvement in the Sydney Kindergarten Union. The organization aimed to ‘preserve family life, to educate mothers in child health and to save babies from death and from becoming State wards’. The Day Nursery catered for infants and toddlers ranging in age from a few weeks to three years. By 1927 the Association had established five centres. It changed its name in 1931 to become the Sydney Day Nursery and Nursery Schools Association Inc. and in 1934 it established the Nursery School Teachers Training College. It changed its name again in 1999 to become SDN Children’s Services Inc. This new name reflected an expansion of services for children other than centre based long day care. The women who established the Sydney Day Nursery Association did not want their new organisation to be a ‘cold, remote charity, but an institution started by fellow women, who fully realise the difficulties that beset the paths of working mothers’. Women supported the Nursery financially through the formation of Circles, each of which was required to raise ten pounds a year to maintain a cot in the House. In addition to increasing the number of centres, the Association established the Nursery School Teachers Training College in 1934 to train teachers to work with children from birth to eight years of age. It ultimately merged with the Sydney Kindergarten Teachers College to become a faculty within the Sydney College of Advanced Education. In 1994 the Institute of Early Childhood Studies became the Institute of Early Childhood located at the Macquarie University Campus. Sydney women have continued to work in an honorary capacity as Executive and Board members to maintain and extend the services available to pre-school children with twenty-two centres currently operating. Published resources Book Do and learn, Cuthbertson, Michelle, 1997 Early childhood play activities / compiled by Christine Richardson in conjunction with staff of Sydney Day Nursery & Nursery Schools Association ( Inc.) : cover illustration, Robyn Hutchison, 1979 Report Annual report / The Sydney Day Nursery and Nursery Schools Association, Sydney Day Nursery and Nursery Schools Association, 1936/37-1998 Annual report / Sydney Day Nursery Association, Sydney Day Nursery Association, 1905-1936 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection SDN (Sydney Day Nurseries) Children's Services Inc. - Records, 1905-2006 SDN Archive SDN Archive Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 3 December 2004 Last modified 11 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers have been arranged into the following series: 1. Correspondence, 1972-1991: correspondents include her publisher (Chatto & Windus), Murray Pollinger, Craig Munro, Tim Cunow, Geoffrey Dutton, Merril Yule, Leslie Anderson, Verity Laughton and Dale Spencer. 2. Writings, 1974-1992: includes notes, drafts and proofs for her books “Sea green”, “The albatross muff”, “Where the queens strayed”, “The peach groves, “The frangipani gardens”, “Dove”, “Kewpie doll”, “Annie Magda”, “Dream people”, “A Chelsea girl”, “Flawless jade”, “Iris in her garden”, “Good night Mr Moon” and “Micheal and me and the sun”. 3. Unpublished writings: miscellaneous drafts and notes. 4. Book reviews, 1973-1992: newspaper cutting of reviews of Hanrahan’s writing and those of other writers. 5. Diaries and notebooks, 1958-1991: diaries, poetry book, book of dreams and book of quotations. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Archive, photographic, Hedda Morrison, Germany/China/Sarawak, 1928-1968??Gift of Mr Alastair Morrison, 1993 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 October 2016 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In recognition for her work as a coastwatcher during World War II Ruby Boye was appointed to the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 25 July 1944. She also received the 1939-1945 Pacific Star and War Medal and was made a Life Member of the WRANS Association. In 1985 the Navy named Boye House, one of the accommodation blocks in the Joint Defence Force Academy at Duntroon, in her honour. Olive and her husband Skov Boye were living on Vanikoro, an island in the Santa Cruz group about 500 miles east of Guadalcanal, when Japan commenced the war in the Pacific. Unlike other white settlers the Boyes decided to stay on the island instead of evacuating to Australia. Olive Boye decided to ‘do her bit’ and worked in the highly classified area of coastwatching. Coastwatchers were equipped with short-wave radios through which they maintained contact with headquarters. They reported either by voice or Morse code, all enemy troop and/or ship movements as well as organising native inhabitants to pass information to headquarters. Under constant threat of capture, Olive Boye received an honorary commission in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) which gave her enlisted status and protected her from the danger of being treated as a spy (if captured). The Hon 3rd Officer Ruby Olive Boye was appointed to the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 25 July 1944 for coastwatching in the islands during the war. Published resources Book Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Ships belles : the story of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service in war and peace 1941-1985, Fenton Huie, Shirley, 2000 Resource Section BOYE, RUBY OLIVE, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=N&VeteranID=1187893 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra BOYE RUBY OLIVE : Date of birth - 01 Jul 1891 : Place of birth - Unknown : Place of enlistment - Unknown : Next of Kin - Unknown National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office Boye OR (Mrs) Boye, Mrs RO (includes NID file 646/43/2) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 November 2002 Last modified 24 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Contents include material relating to trades unions, Australian Labor Party, Australian Communist Party and material relating to women in the feminist movement including papers relating to Alice Henry.??This collection includes pictorial material. For location and description of this see Pic.Acc.4590 in Pic. Source File. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 14 February 2001 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 digital audio tape (ca. 65 min.)??Hansen speaks of her early years in Scotland as part of a large close family with 2 brothers and 4 sisters in the early 1900s; first job in Glasgow, Scotland as a machinist (dressmaker); arriving in Australia in 1926 with her sister and brother-in-law on the TSS Bendigo; her first impressions of Wonthaggi where she worked for the first 12 months at the Mine’s General Manager’s home on a wage of 2 pound per week; no secondary industries in Wonthaggi in the 1920s ; having started her own business as a dressmaker; being married in 1928 to a New Zealand miner who was a strong unionist; becoming a member of the Women’s Auxiliary, who supported the miners and the community- women were more militant than some of the men.??Hansen speaks of her work as the Secretary of the Women’s Auxiliary and the Pensioner’s Committee; the town being a “good labour town” even though it was felt that the Labour government was against the miners; travelling in Victoria to speak about the strikes and the conditions that the miners had to endure; a strong Women’s Auxiliary in Wonthaggi which had been formed in 1934 by Mrs Agnes Chambers- people wanted to hear the women not men talk about conditions; boycotting the shops in 1928 and the reasons for doing this; work done by the Auxiliary, making food and clothing parcels for the needy, methods of raising money; recreational activities included dances, picture theatre, community singing and being in the Minstrel Singers; distinction between the Workers and the Gentlemen’s Clubs. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 December 2003 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Invergowrie Foundation is a public charitable trust. The primary focus of the Foundation is to promote and advance the education of girls and women within Victoria. The Foundation is administered by twelve Trustees. They are responsible for maintaining the assets and distributing annually the surplus funds to promote and advance education in Victoria. The history of The Invergowrie Foundation began in the post-war years of the 1920’s with considerable interest among educationalists in raising the status of domestic work. In 1925, the Head Mistresses’ Association established a committee, chaired by Miss Hilda Daniell, Principal of Ruyton, and including the principals of five other leading independent girls’ schools – Lauriston, Rosbercon, Clyde, Stratherene and Queen’s – to consider the feasibility of setting up a homecraft (or ‘housecraft’) hostel. Four years later, Lady Somers opened the Hostel, in Malvern Road Toorak, for students to be instructed in the art of Cookery, Household Management, Home Hygiene, Child Welfare, Laundry and Needlework. Money, or the lack of it, was a major concern for the Hostel in those early days, as the first principal of the Hostel, Mrs May Weatherly, admitted with engaging frankness in 1933. Assistance was given, she recalled in her speech day report, by the “lovely generosity” of an anonymous donor. Some months later the same benefactor, Mr William E. McPherson and his sisters, presented their magnificent family home, ‘Invergowrie,’ to the Head Mistresses’ Association for the use of the Hostel. Thus it was in 1934 that the Hostel was relocated to ‘Invergowrie’ in Coppin Grove, Hawthorn. The new and larger premises enabled the education of full-time students, some of whom were in residence, as well as a number of part-time students. The first of its kind, the Hostel provided a course of domestic training for girls under conditions similar to those ‘in the natural setting of the home.’ Over 2000 students graduated from Invergowrie before the Governors decided to close the Hostel in 1973, due to the emergence of new educational pathways for young women and their impact on enrolments and the financial viability of the Hostel. In 1992, the Association of Heads of Independent Girls’ Schools of Victoria (formerly the Head Mistresses’ Association) sold the ‘Invergowrie’ property and The Invergowrie Foundation was established. The proceeds of that sale were invested through a Trust and each year monies are made available for educational purposes, the primary focus of the Foundation being to promote and advance the education of girls and women within the State of Victoria. In 2006, the Foundation had approximately 90 members. Published resources Book A Woman's Place: A History of the Homecraft Hostel 'Invergowrie', Gardiner, Lyndsay, 1993 Feminine Singular: a history of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools of Australia, Hansen, D E and I V, 1989 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools of Victoria - Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools of Victoria Invergowrie Past Students Association - Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 March 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Katy Gallagher was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Parliament of the Australian Capital Territory, representing the electorate of Molonglo, in October 2001. She was re-elected in 2004, 2008 and 2012 and served as Chief Minister from 16 May 2011 to 2014. In 2014 Gallagher resigned from the ACT government to seek preselection to the Australian Senate. She was appointed to fill the casual vacancy caused by the retirement of Senator Kate Lundy in 2015, and elected in her own right a year later, in 2016. After a brief interruption during the parliamentary eligibility crisis of 2018, when she was forced to stand down because she had not renounced her British citizenship prior to her nomination in 2016, she was re-elected as Senator for Canberra in 2019. In 2022, she was appointed Minister for Finance, Minister for Women, Vice-President of the Executive Council, and Minister for the Public Service in the Labor Government. After receiving her secondary education in Canberra, Gallagher obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Australian National University, graduating in 1990. She was a project worker for the Woden Community Service and from 1994 to 1997 worked for People First ACT, an organisation providing advocacy and support to individuals with an intellectual disability. She has been active in the community and union sectors for over ten years. She has advocated for both adults and children with intellectual disabilities and for the industrial interests of workers as a Community and Public Sector Union national organiser. Whilst an MLA for the ACT, Gallagher held a variety of portfolios, including Regional Development, Health and Higher Education, Community Services and the Office for Women. She held the positions of Deputy Chief Minister and Treasurer before she became Chief Minister in 2011. As a senator in opposition, Gallagher served as Shadow Minister for Mental Health, Shadow Minister for Housing and Homelessness, and Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader on State and Territory Relations. She was promoted to Shadow Minister for Small Business and Financial Services in 2016, the year she was also appointed as Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate. In 2020 she served as Chair of the Senate Select Committee on COVID-19. In 2022, she was appointed Minister for Finance, Minister for Women, Vice-President of the Executive Council, and Minister for the Public Service in the Labor Government. Published resources Resource Section Katy Gallagher, MLA, http://www.actlabor.com.au/people/KatyGallagher.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0375 Canberra Centenary Time Capsule HMSS 0154 Majura Women's Group Records Author Details Anne Heywood (with Nikki Henningham) Created 7 November 2001 Last modified 12 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Australian Servicewomen's Memorial, Canberra Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Katy Gallagher at the exhibition launch of <i>From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher</i> Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: COFCLaunch20130221-029-cropped.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Contains typescript articles, addresses and broadcasts by both Walshes on political and social issues significant in Australia’s inter-war years such as strike, arbitration, Russia and communism, friendship with Japan and women’s rights; papers on the Federated Seamen’s Union of Australasia which include Accounts of the N.S.W. Branch, 1912, the General President’s Weekly Expenditure Books for 1925 and 1926, a Register of Members for 1929, articles on court cases, minutes of meetings in 1925 and 1929, and papers on the industrial dispute at Innisfail in 1922; a few papers on the Australian Seamen’s Union, including a draft constitution and rules; correspondence dating from 1906 containing union and personal letters; roneoed and printed items such as The Voice of the People and The People Guild bulletins and International Anti-Communist Entente literature; and photographs relating to the feminist movement in Great Britain. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 15 February 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ryan was a member of the first Canberra Women’s Liberation Group in the 1970s and remained in the movement from that time. She was Honorary Secretary of the National Foundation for Australian Women 1991-1996. Member of first Canberra Women’s Liberation Group 1970s; Public Officer, Canberra Women’s Refuge 1975 – 1977; Women’s Studies, Australian National University, 1981-1982; Governor General’s nominee, Australian National University Council (including appointee to Equal Employment Opportunity Committee) 1984-1991; ACT Women’s Consultative Council Convenor 1992-1993, Member 1989-1993; Honorary Secretary, National Foundation for Australian Women 1991-1996; Trustee and Assessor, Beryl Henderson Foundation 1988 – 2000; Trustee, Pamela Denoon Trust 1990 – 2000. Published resources Book Gender Equity at Canberra High, Ryan, Julia and Curtain, Anne, 1986 Journal Article Capitalism and the Family, Ryan, Julia, 1975 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Julia Ryan interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Julia Ryan, 1947-1982 [manuscript] Papers of Edna Ryan, 1948-1993 [manuscript] Records of the National Foundation for Australian Women, 1988-2009 [manuscript] Papers of Meredith Stokes, circa 1970-1997 [manuscript] Private Hands (These records may not be readily available) Papers of Julia Ryan Author Details Elle Morrell Created 3 May 2000 Last modified 27 June 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "During World War One the Australian government interned Frau Luise Hurtzig as an enemy alien together with her husband Captain August Hurtzig, an officer with the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, and their two younger daughters Hanna and Lore. Initially the Hurtzigs were interned in Brisbane and then Enoggera before being moved to the Berrima Concentration Camp, New South Wales in 1915, and then to the Molonglo Concentration Camp, Fyshwick, Canberra in May 1918. They were finally released on 22 May 1919, and repatriated to Germany on the SS Kursk, sailing on 29 May 1919. Klara Luise Von Hanffstengel was born to Margarethe Bredenkamp and Cornelius Gustav von Hanffstengel in Dorum, Niedersachsen, Germany on 13 October 1878. She married August Wilhelm Herman Martin Hurtzig (1870-1938) on 11 Jul 1902 in Wulsdorf, Bremerhaven, Germany and gave birth to three daughters in Wulsdorf – Eva Margarethe Anna Klara Hurtzig on 20 August 1904, Hanna Meta Cornelia Hurtzig on 17 December 1908 and Lore Agnes Luise Hurtzig on 12 January 1912. In 1914 Luise Hurtzig, with Hanna and Lore, accompanied Captain Hurtzig on a voyage from Bremen in northern Germany to Australia via Singapore. The eldest daughter, Eva remained at home with her grandparents so she could attend school. The family intended to be back in Germany in time for Christmas but when Britain declared itself at war with Germany in August 1914, soldiers boarded German ships in Australian harbours, seized them as prizes of war and detained German nationals on board. Among the ships seized was the Prinz Sigismund, a Norddeutscher Lloyd vessel captained by August Hurtzig who was detained along with his wife Luise and daughters, five-year-old Hanna and two-year-old Lore, who had sailed with him for a family holiday. Initially the Hurtzigs and other German nationals were detained on board the Prinz Sigismund, a comfortable ship originally built as the Kaiser’s private yacht, moored in the Brisbane River off the Botanic Gardens. (Simons, 25-27). During this time Frau Hurtzig began a diary which she continued during the long years of the family’s detention – on board the ship (1914), at Enoggera Concentration Camp, Queensland (1914-1915), Berrima Concentration Camp, New South Wales (1915-1918) and then the Molonglo Concentration Camp, near the new federal capital at Canberra (1917-1919). She recorded day to day life, delight when receiving news of Eva and anguish at being parted from her, grief when her brother Otto was killed in action on the Western Front near Reims, details of their moves from one camp to another, and life as an internee. In October 1914 the family were moved from Brisbane to Enoggera Concentration Camp, west of Brisbane. Here those senior merchant marine officers with families were permitted to live outside the camp with their families as long as they reported to the camp once a week. Luise recorded that her family was able to share a house with two other couples and three older men and that the military paid them each one shilling a day in living expenses which she noted they were able ‘to manage quite well on’ (Simons, 56). Authorities permitted internees to return to their ships to collect clothing, bedding, furniture and other personal possessions and Brisbane’s Lutheran community helped with outstanding needs. Around August 1915 the Hurtzigs were moved to Berrima, New South Wales along with other interned members of the German mercantile marine, mainly officers from German merchant vessels caught in Australian ports at the outbreak of war and officers from the SMS Emden, a light cruiser sunk by the HMAS Sydney off Cocos Island in 1914. The men were required to live in the Berrima gaol, which they named Ahnenschloss (Castle Foreboding) in light of the basic facilities. They could visit their wives and children and were free to move within a two mile radius of gaol area during the day as long as they returned in time to be locked up at 5.30 pm. Women had to find rental accommodation, which was scarce, for themselves and their children. Frau Hurtzig was dismayed to have to share a house with the store manager’s wife, the quarrelsome and moody Frau Glinz. Having not been permitted to take their furniture with them from Enoggera, the internees pooled resources and talents and made it themselves. Creative in their approach to the difficult circumstances, they established a canteen from which they raised funds to rent ground and buy seeds so they could grow their own food. They established art and music classes, theatre groups, an orchestra, built recreational huts on the river banks, organised festivals and sporting events on the nearby river and established a school for the girl internees, including Hanna and Lore Hurtzig. Soon after their arrival in Berrima, local police required three of the other German women to leave while Frau Hurtzig and other internee wives were permitted to stay on condition they swore on the bible that they ‘would not raise arms against England’. Her children played with local children although the local schoolteacher had forbade it. By Spring 1915 word of the bridge the Germans had built over the river, their huts and general activities was drawing large crowds of visitors. Frau Hurtzig wrote: ‘They come by horse, motor bike, car, dray and omnibus. They are all anxious to see the Germans, the “Huns”. They admire the cabins and the picnic places which they then use, leaving behind heaps of paper and rubbish’ (Simons, 83). The Hurtzigs were delighted to be told in late 1916 that they would soon be repatriated to Germany, but having packed their belongings and seen them taken away in the expectation and promise they would be leaving on 7 February, the family’s hopes were dashed. Luise’s spirits slumped and as a result she seldom wrote in her diary which she had previously written each Sunday evening. Her occasional entries expressed sadness at deaths of family and friends on the battlefronts, concerns about her husband’s health and his bouts of depression and that of his colleagues, and the resumption of Frau Glinz’s abusive and neurotic behaviour. Although they had some freedom, they remained prisoners in a foreign country. In August 1918, authorities relocated married men and their families, including the Hurtzigs, to Molonglo Concentration Camp near Canberra that had originally been constructed to hold German and Austrian nationals from China and East Africa, however overtures by the German government and threats of reprisals on British internees in Germany meant the plan did not go ahead. Poor conditions in the Bourke Concentration Camp in western New South Wales, and the death of an internee from sunstroke, led to the removal of families from that camp to Molonglo. At the same time, authorities relocated most of the families from Berrima. There is a gap of more than a year between Luise’s diary entries from August 1917 to October 1918. Her first entry from Molonglo 14 October 1918 records excitement at news that hostilities had ceased. The following day Luise’s hope were again dashed – she wrote of her disillusionment and despair that fighting had resumed. After that she recorded only happy times and these were few, however in her final entry on 9 March 1919 Luise expressed apprehension about the future for her family and her country. On 29 May 1919 the family sailed on the Russian ship, SS Kursk, described eighty years later by Lore, then an 87-year-old Second World War widow, as ‘a slow, filthy, chartered Russian tub’ (Simons, 205). Eighteen passengers died after contracting Spanish influenza on board and Captain Hurtzig became ill with encephalitis which later paralysed him, rendering him a helpless invalid. He died in 1938. Of the rest of the family, Eva Hurtzig, separated from her family for five years by war and internment, married Wilhelm Dieckmann in Wulsdorf, Germany in 1925; Hanna married Martin Witte in Madras, India in 1935; and the same year Lore married Ernst Junghans who died in 1942 fighting for Germany. Lore died in 2013 in Hildesheim, Germany. Frau Luise Hurtzig died in Hildesheim, Germany on 16 May 1978 and was buried in Wulsdorf. Published resources Book The enemy at home: German internees in World War I Australia, Helmi, Nadine and Fischer, Gerard, 2011 'Prisoners in Arcady': German mariners at Berrima 1915-1919, Simons, John R., 1999 Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Niki Francis Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 24 March 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "3 sound files (approximately 3 hr. 15 min.) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 June 2016 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Series description – Submissions, transcripts and other documents relating to evidence given to the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Caroline Archer was born in 1922 and is best known for her leadership in the 1970s of the One People of Australian League (OPAL), an organisation that sought to promote the interests of Aboriginal people. She was appointed executive officer of OPAL in 1972, becoming the first Aboriginal person to hold the position. Caroline Archer was born at Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve, where she received poor education and suffered from malnutrition. After working as a domestic servant at ‘Whetstone’ station near Inglewood, she moved to Brisbane, working first in a private home and then at the Canberra Hotel (1935-49), where she learnt to operate the switchboard. In 1950 she was employed as a PMG switchboard operator. On 29 December 1951 she married Fredrick Archer, a photographer; they had two daughters and a son. She opened an Aboriginal art shop, where she gave training to Aboriginal women. In 1972 she was asked to run the Miss OPAL quest and was subsequently appointed the first Aboriginal executive officer of OPAL (the One People of Australia League). As State president of OPAL she travelled interstate to federal conferences and to lobby politicians. She was also nominated for election to the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee but failed to win election. Caroline spent much of her time teaching Aboriginal culture to children all over Queensland and in Canberra. She died at Narrabri on her way back to Brisbane on 8 September 1978. Published resources Resource Section Archer, Caroline Lillian (1922-1978), Ballard,B. A., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130077b.htm Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Newsletter Death of two OPAL workers [Joyce Wilding and Caroline Archer of One People of Australia League], 1979 Newspaper Article My people - my life's work, Archer, Caroline, 1978 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources AIATSIS Books and Printed Material Collection AIAS newspaper clippings Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Nikki Henningham Created 21 September 2004 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mellowship discusses her life long involvement in the Girl Guide Movement. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Doris Barnes was an award winning amateur photographer who practised photography throughout her life, active from the 1910s to the 1990s. Her photographs were predominantly created in the Pictorialist style. She was a life member of the Adelaide Camera Club, exhibited in Adelaide and interstate, as well as in London. The Art Gallery of South Australia acquired some of her portraits as early as 1940. Doris Barnes was born on 18 January 1894 at Kent Town, Adelaide, South Australia. Her father was John William Barnes and her mother was Annie Eliza May. Doris had two brothers and seven sisters. In 1897 her parents built a house in St. Peters, where she lived for 63 years. It was in this house that she eventually cared for her elderly mother up until her death. Barnes came from a creative family, with her brother Gustave Barnes studying art and music in England. Gustave did ‘fine oil paintings, watercolours and etchings’ (Hall 10-11), eventually becoming Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Another brother, Lawrence Barnes, was also a painter. Her father, John William Barnes had been a designer and ‘modeller in plaster and cement’ (Hall 11). John passed away when Doris was only 13. Doris Barnes left school at the age of 15 and began working for the Stump and Co. Photographic Studios. She worked as a receptionist for a couple of years, while at the same time picking up photographic skills by observing the photographer and retoucher as they worked. Her brother Gus gave Barnes her first camera in 1910 when she was 16 years old. This was when her lifelong interest in photography began. She went on to work for the Commonwealth Public Service and remained in this employment until her retirement. However, she was to be a keen amateur photographer throughout her life. Barnes became a life member of the Adelaide Camera Club and took part in many of their exhibitions, winning a bronze medal for her work in 1940, as well as many others over the years, and was mentioned in their catalogues. During the 1920s-1930s she participated in interstate exhibitions and won various medals and certificates. In 1937 she was awarded a bronze plaque for Amateur Photography at The Intercolonial Exhibition of Overseas Photographers, London. Her photographs captured the romanticism of the Australian bush, the sea, and rural life; her photographs also included some portrait and landscape work. As early as 1940 the Art Gallery of South Australia had purchased three of her portrait studies for inclusion in their photography collection. In 1960 Barnes, along with her surviving siblings, offered their house to the Resthaven Home for the Aged, and ended up moving to the ‘Resthaven’ village, situated in outer Adelaide. Doris Constance Barnes died on the 18 November 1994, aged 100. Collections Art Gallery of South Australia photographic collection State Library of South Australia Events 1915 - 1990 1920 - 1930 Doris Barnes’ work featured in interstate exhibitions. 1935 - 1935 Doris Barnes’ work featured in the Adelaide Camera Club exhibition 1937 - 1937 Doris Barnes’ work featured in the Intercolonial Exhibition of Overseas Photographers 1940 - 1940 Doris Barnes’ work featured in the Adelaide Camera Club exhibition. 1981 - 1981 Doris Barnes’ work featured in the Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950exhibition Published resources Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Resource Section Inscription for Doris Constance Barnes, http://www.austcemindex.com/inscription?id=4453414 Newspaper Article Women's Work with the Camera, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55722548 Woman's Award for Photography, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131418970 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 10 November 2016 Last modified 15 December 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letters, 1892-1896 to Mrs. Ellis Rowan and Mr. Charles Ryan, Ellis Rowan’s father. The letters discuss the identification of plants in Rowan’s art work by Baron von Mueller, as well as an appeal to Rowan to support endeavours to mobilise an Admiralty expedition to the Antarctic. It also includes a draft preface to a proposed publication of Ellis Rowan’s work, presumably written by the publishers, and biographical notes on Ellis Rowan, prepared in 1956. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 March 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Louisa How is the earliest known Australian female amateur photographer. The subjects of How’s portrait photography include members of her merchant family, friends, staff, and visitors to the How’s family residence at ‘Woodlands,’ North Sydney. How’s landscape photography recorded views of Sydney Cove, Government House, Campbell’s Wharf, and views around her house and garden. How’s salted paper prints were developed using half-plate glass negatives. Elizabeth Louisa How is the earliest known Australian female amateur photographer. Elizabeth Louisa How was born 1821 in England, and she married James How, a labourer from Melvern, Cambridgeshire. They had two sons, William, born in 1844 and Edward, born in 1848. The family migrated to Australia under the assisted passage scheme arriving in Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, aboard the ‘Royal George,’ on 28 November 1849. On arriving in Melbourne, James How gained employment with the merchant and wharf owner Joseph Raleigh. Records show that by 1857 he was listed as one of the principal directors of a merchant and shipping business How, Walker & Co., which had originally been started by a relative, Robert How. During this period the family moved to a property called ‘Woodlands,’ where they resided until 1866. It was next door to the present-day Admiralty House at Kirribilli Point, North Sydney, NSW. The records do not show what or who inspired Elizabeth Louisa How’s interest in photography. It has been established that she acquired a copy of the English publication Art Journal for 1850. The particular issue she obtained included a number of articles dealing with the development of photography; one of her early photographs was based on an engraving of a portrait which she saw in this volume, that of the Dowager Countess of Darnley after the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Some scholars have suggested that she may also have gained some training from professional studios in England as well as obtaining her photographic materials from the same source. However, others consider it more likely that obtained her photographic supplies in Sydney from the dealer William Hetzer, who was known for his salted paper prints using half-plate glass negatives, since this was the same process that How worked with. The Australian National Gallery in Canberra holds an album of 48 salted paper prints attributed to How. The album includes photographs dating from October 1858 to January 1859. The subjects are largely portraits of How’s family, friends, staff and visitors to their house in Woodlands. The friends who appear in these photographs are the merchants George S. Caird, Robert P. Paterson and Hendricks Anderson, the explorer William Landsborough with his Aboriginal companion, ‘Tiger,’ and the settler Charles Morison from Glenmorison, New England. She also photographed Sydney Cove, Government House, Campbell’s Wharf, and views around her house and garden. Her photograph of John Croker, taken in Sydney on the 25 December 1859, was shot on the veranda of her house, a position that provided her with adequate lighting. She set up the photograph to appear as if it was taken indoors by moving a side table and armchair outside and by draping a piece of fabric in the background to appear as if it were a curtain (Davies 31). The fortunes of the How Merchant Company declined in the 1860s, and in 1866 How shifted from Woodlands to Calingra at Woollahra, Sydney. Her husband James died in about 1869 and a year later Louise moved to Heaton, also in Woollahra. Little is known of her and her children’s movements after this date, other than they relocated several more times. It is also unclear how long she continued to pursue her interest in photography. She died aged seventy-two, in 1893. Technical How produced salted paper prints using half-plate glass negatives. Collections: Art Gallery of New South Wales National Gallery of Australia National Museum, Canberra Events 1995 - 1995 Louisa How’s work featured in Women Hold Up Half the Sky 1970 - 1970 2000 - 2000 Louisa How’s work featured in Mirror with a Memory: Photographic Portraiture in Australia exhibition 1995 - 1995 Louisa How’s work featured in Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibition Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Exhibition Catalogue Mirror with a memory: photographic portraiture in Australia, Batchen, Geoffrey and Ennis, Helen, 2000 Masterpieces of Australian Photography, Lebovic, Josef and Cooke, Susette, 1989 Book Section Louisa Elizabeth How, Crombie, Isobel, 1992 Louisa How, Crombie, Isobel, 1995 Book The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900., Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter, 1986 Shades of Light: Photography and Australia 1839-1988, Newton, Gael, 1988 Journal Article Louisa Elizabeth How, Crombie, Isobel, 1984 Resource Section Louisa Elizabeth How, Crombie, Isobel, http://www.daao.org.au/bio/louisa-elizabeth-how/biography Archival resources State Archives & Records NSW Persons on Bounty Ships Arriving at Port Phillip: Assisted Passage 1849-51. Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 19 October 2016 Last modified 4 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection comprises: drafts of poetry; letters to W.A. Woods, Mrs Gollan Lewis, Mrs W.A. Woods; correspondence received by W.A. Woods from A.G. Stephens and Rose Webster concerning Mary Gilmore; press cuttings concerning Mary Gilmore. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 May 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Erin Phillips was awarded the Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) Best and Fairest medal at the W Awards in both 2017 and 2019. At the conclusion of the 2017 debut AFLW season Erin Phillips was awarded the AFL Women’s Best & Fairest award, the AFL Players’ Association Most Valuable Player (MVP) award and the Adelaide Crows Women’s Club Champion Award, as well as an All-Australian selection. She was the co-captain of the premiership AFL women’s team, the Adelaide Crows, in 2017 and received the awards for Best Player in the Grand Final and Goal of the Year. In 2019, Erin again won the AFLW Best & Fairest award and the Grand Final Best on Ground award. She was also named the All-Australian captain for the first time. In addition to her football achievements, Erin is also a two-time WNBA champion and Olympic basketballer. Erin announced her retirement from professional a basketball in January 2018, after a 16-year career. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 February 2018 Last modified 7 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "4 minutes??A tribute to Barbara Hanrahan by Tony Baker broadcast during his breakfast program on Radio 5AA upon the announcement of her death. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elizabeth White was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Melbourne, before working as a school teacher. On 18 October 1930 she married Harold Leslie White, deputy-librarian of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (later to become head of it and of the National Library of Australia). In Canberra, in addition to close association with the National Library, Elizabeth pursued her interest in volunteering and being involved in many aspects of the local community. Of particular interest to her were remedial teaching and the introduction of creative day-carer programs. In her later years, her attention turned towards enhancing the quality of life of the elderly. Elizabeth was a member of the National Council of Women (NCW) and a foundation member of the Goodwin Centre Development Association, which was established in July 1954. She was also a foundation member of the Australian Association of Gerontology and president (1964-65) of a sub-committee for a proposed new building for the NCW’s Thursday Club (renamed in 1965 the Canberra Senior Citizens Club). For the next twenty years she undertook voluntary work with the elderly, at their homes and in hospitals. In 1983 the Canberra Senior Citizens Club awarded her life membership. In 1982 the Penguin Club of Australia recognised her with life membership for her exceptional talent as an impromptu public speaker. In 1962 Lady Elizabeth White was appointed an MBE for her service to elderly people. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Sir Harold White and Lady Elizabeth White, 1911-1992 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Memorial service of June 25, 1988 for Lady Elizabeth White...[sound recording] / recorded by Kevin Bradley Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Sharman Stone was elected to the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament representing the electorate of Murray, Victoria in 1996. She was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage on 21 October 1998 and served in that capacity until October 2004, when she became Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance and Administration. She also served as Vice-President of the Executive Council. She was Minister for Workforce Participation from January 2006 until December 2007. She was re-elected in 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013. Sharman Stone completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from Monash University; a Master of Arts from La Trobe University; a Graduate Diploma of Education from Hawthorn CAE; and a PhD from Monash. Before her election to Federal Parliament, she worked as a Doctoral Research Fellow at Monash University’s Department of Economics and Business. She has been a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committees on Primary Industries, Resources and Rural and Regional Affairs (from 25 May 1996); and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (from 4 June 1997). Stone was a member of the Public Accounts Joint Statutory Committee from 29 May 1996 to 1 January 1998 and the Public Accounts and Audit from 1 January 1998. Published resources Resource Section The Hon Dr Sharman Stone MP, Member for Murray (Vic), Australian Parliament House, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/ Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 December 2001 Last modified 19 January 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents include: correspondence; publications authored by Brewer; teaching materials including study guides, audio-tape scripts, press reports, working papers, and printed records of proceedings; autobiographical script; CV; photographs; and notebooks compiled by Brewer as an undergraduate in Botany. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 24 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Original signed typescripts of three poems: The Ancestors, Eden and Fire at murdering hut, each with manuscript editor’s and printer’s marks. The typescripts have been pasted (by Harry Chaplin) into a copy of the first edition of Judith Wright’s second book, Woman to man (1949). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 September 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Drawings – 94 watercolors – 17.5 x 15.5 cm.-30.5 x 23 cm.?See PXn 853 for a contents list of the scientific names of the family proteaceae of the Sydney region?Original drawings reproduced in: The Proteaceae of the Sydney region / Alex M. Blombery & Betty Maloney. Kenthurst, NSW : Kangaroo Press, 1992. Location number: 583.932/4 Mitchell Library Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 February 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 7408 comprises the following papers. Box 1: A typescript of Bikini girl, first draft manuscript of Martin Place, and a typescript of Martin Place. Box 2: The first draft manuscript of Period of adjustment, typescript of Period of adjustment, first draft manuscript of A different drummer, and a typescript of A different drummer. Box 3: The first draft manuscript of The moon to play with, typescript of The moon to play with, roneoed copy of the screenplay of The Veronica, roneoed copy of screenplay of A different drummer, and a photocopy of the typescript of screenplay of The moon to play with. Box 4: Correspondence with R.M. Williams (27 letters), Dymphna Cusack and Norman Freehill (7 letters), USSR correspondence and miscellaneous correspondence, cuttings of reviews by Donald Crick, papers relating to the Darwin Aboriginal Writers Workshop and New Zealand material (4 boxes).??The Acc06.023 instalment comprises published novels, press clippings of reviews and articles, and drafts and manuscripts of Crick’s plays, screenplays and novels. Also included are two copies of Martin Place translated into Russian (6 boxes, 1 framed poster). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 September 2009 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personal papers, photographs, newscuttings typescript and drafts, correspondence. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 October 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1. Drafts of novels, short stories, etc. 1918-1936. 2. Speeches, c.1926- 3 – 10. Letter books, 1909-1912, 1935-1940; copies of correspondence to publishers; letters 1913-1947, mainly to publishers and correspondence 1893-1948 with Ward Lock & Co. Ltd. and other publishers. 11 and 12. Letters from theatre companies 1900-1921 concerning production of Ethel Turner’s plays; letters from various people, 1888-1941. 13 and 14. Miscellaneous papers, including an album, one suede folder with initials EC, various certificates, autographed menus, etc. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2001 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 1843 comprises a typescript copy of Cusack’s anti-bomb drama, Pacific paradise (37 leaves). The collection also includes a 9-page typescript on the writing and life of Dymphna Cusack (author not named) (1 folder). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 September 2009 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "An amphitheatre located in the eucalypt lawn was erected as a memorial to Dr Burbidge’s contribution to Australian botany. The Nancy T Burbidge Memorial Amphitheatre was opened in the presence of Her Excellency, Lady Cowen, CStJ on 14 September 1980. The Amphitheatre is used as an open-air classroom and meeting place for students and other groups and was designed to assist in the education, conservation and scientific functions of the Gardens. The lectern is made from jarrah timber and was donated by Mr and Mrs D Cullity, of Perth, in recognition of Dr Burbidge’s Western Australian background. Published resources Resource Nancy T. Burbidge Memorial Amphitheatre, Australian National Botanic Gardens, http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/memorials/burbidge-amphitheatre.html Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 December 2001 Last modified 7 November 2003 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records in the collection document the long career of artist and art educator Frances Derham. Professional papers document her career as a teacher at the following institutions: Swinburne Girls Junior Technical School, Kindergarten Training College, Mercer House, Preshil Kindergarten, and Columbia University Teachers College. Professional papers in the collection also include those relating to her involvement in societies for art educators, including: International Society for Education through Art, Australian Society for Education through Art conferences, Art Teachers Association of Victoria.?Professional records in the collection include: correspondence, student assignments and exams, syllabi, teaching notes, conference papers, articles on art education, typescripts of ‘Art for the Child under Seven’, and published journals. Personal papers in the collection document her childhood, artistic process, and extensive communications with immediate and extended family members. Personal records in the collection include: art sketchbooks and designs, correspondence with family and friends, Christmas cards, postcards, notebooks, appointment diaries, address books, personal financial accounts and tax returns and family photographs.??Collection also documents the personal and professional life of Frances husband, Dr A.P. Derham, and those of other members of the Anderson family, including: Alice Anderson, Joshua Thomas (J.T.) Noble Anderson and Ellen Mary Anderson.??The collection does not contain any obvious, consistent and overarching system of arrangement. There is some evidence that Frances Derham may have tried to put her papers in order, but this arrangement was only applied to a small number of files. The order in which the collection was received has largely been maintained, as listed by Barbara Piscitelli in 1994. When present, original files have been retained. However, a large amount of material in the collection was not in files. In such cases, obvious divisions such as bundles or those indicated by dividers were respected, and in general minimal rearrangement was carried out. In cases where the records were loose in the box with no obvious arrangement, file groupings were created and titles assigned based on the content of the records, with the aim of creating coherent groupings. Original titles were used when present, and were elaborated if necessary to reflect the content of the file. Annotations on original folders were photocopied onto archival quality paper and placed in the file. In cases where the annotations on folders were too extensive or drawings were present, the original folder has been retained. Original files without titles were assigned titles based on the content of the records. Abbreviations and acronyms, especially of associations and institutions, were written out in full for the sake of consistency and to avoid confusion. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kathleen Margaret Maria Sherrard, MSc, was a demonstrator and lecturer in geology at the University of Melbourne for over a decade in the years after World War I. She also published articles on palaeontology. After her marriage and relocation to Sydney she served on a Commonwealth Committee on Nutrition, 1944-1945, and took an active role in many women’s organisations, particularly the Australian Federation of University Women and United Associations of Women, as well as scientific workers organisations. Kathleen Margaret Maria Sherrard nee McInerny [1] made her mark in Australian geological studies before her marriage, becoming the first woman graduate in geology from the University of Melbourne. She took her BSc in 1918 and was appointed as an assistant lecturer in 1920, taking her MSc the following year. She spent part of 1927 in England working on crystallography at the mineralogical laboratory at Cambridge University under Arthur Hutchinson (1866-1937). Like many in this book she was a member of the Lyceum Club. In 1928 Kathleen McInerny married Howard Macoun Sherrard (1897-1984) and moved to Sydney. Having been Honorary Secretary of the Victorian Women Graduates’ Association from 1920 to 1928 she occupied the same position in the Australian Federation of University Women from 1928 to 1938.[2] Turner notes that she had been granted leave in 1929 to undertake doctoral research in Cambridge, but instead ‘had involved herself in social causes, education and motherhood’.[3] She continued her scholarly investigations, changing direction to studying graptolites which are a group of extinct marine colonial animals common in the Palaeozoic era. From the early 1950s she was considered as a member of the Sydney University Geology Department staff. Howard Sherrard rose to become Chief Engineer of the Department of Main Roads of New South Wales and Turner notes that this helped his wife to get permission and special signs for geology excursion buses to stop on busy roads. Her papers included many published in the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales as well as one in those of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales.[4] In 1950 she worked in the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences with Dr Gertrude Elles (1872-1960) the first woman to be appointed as a Reader in the University of Cambridge. In 1967 she studied fossil collections in Beijing. Kathleen Sherrard also supported the Australian Women’s Digest which was published from 1944 to 1948 and to which she contributed. In 1970 she wrote an unpublished memoir entitled A Doctor’s Daughter Remembers Her Childhood: life in Melbourne in the early nineteen hundreds of which copies are held in the State libraries of New South Wales and Victoria. A monograptus from the Forbes district of New South Wales was named Sherrardae sp. nov. in her honour.[5] [1] Kathleen Sherrard was born Kathleen McInerny, but her Victorian birth registration notes the spelling of her surname as McInerney. Her marriage registration notes the spelling as McInerny, and Trove newspaper references indicate that McInerny is the correct spelling. [2] Rachel Grahame. ‘Sherrard, Kathleen Margaret Maria (1898-1975)’. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002; ‘As Women To Women: impressive gathering to meet in Adelaide: distinguished delegates from all states’. Recorder. 3 January 1934: 1. [3] S. Turner. ‘Invincible but mostly Invisible: Australian Women’s Contribution to Geology and Palaeontology’. Geological Society Special Publication. v. 281(2007): 165-202. [4] Ida A. Brown and Kathleen M. Sherrard. ‘Graptolite Zones in the Silurian of the Yass-Bowning District of New South Wales’. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. v. 85 (1952): 127-134; Kathleen M. Sherrard. ‘The Assemblages of Graptolites in New South Wales’. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. v. 87 no. 3(1954): 73-101; K.M. Sherrard. ‘Some Dendroid Graptolites from New South Wales’. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales. v. 81 (1956): 82-90. [5] F. M. Quodling . ‘Kathleen Sherrard’. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. v. 109 (1976): 168. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Journal Article The political history of women in Australia, Sherrard, Kathleen, 1943 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Kathleen M. M. Sherrard papers, ca. 1918-1975 Kathleen M. M. Sherrard further papers, 1909-1975, together with papers of the McInerney and Sherrard families, ca. 1888, 1916-1976 Author Details Jane Carey and Juliet Flesch Created 27 October 2004 Last modified 29 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents include: personal diary (first entry 23 Jan 1854, last entry 29 Jan 1855); and photographs (no dates). Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 24 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Bec Goddard was the coach of the 2017 Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) premiership team, the Adelaide Crows. She was also the recipient of the 2017 Football Woman of the Year Award. At the conclusion of the inaugural AFLW season and as coach of the premiership team, the Adelaide Crows, Bec Goddard was awarded the 2017 all-Australian Coach award. In 2015, she was also named AFL Football Woman of the Year (honorary). Prior to being appointed the Adelaide Crows coach, Bec spent many years coaching, umpiring and playing AFL in both the ACT and South Australia. She has also been employed by the Australian Federal Police since 2001. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 February 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letters, dated 1923-1962, most of which are from Mary Gilmore to Alec Chisholm. Also contains a few carbon copies of Alec Chisholm’s letters to Mary Gilmore. Manuscript copies of 7 poems printed in various newspapers & journals. Newspapers cuttings concerning Mary Gilmore including letters written by her to newspapers, obituaries reviews of her work. Pamphlets, notes, photograph of most of Mary Gilmore by Raynor Holl. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 May 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Michaelis was a professional photographer who specialised in documentary photography, portraiture and dance photography. She trained in Vienna before living in Prague, Berlin and then Spain, associating with anarchic and other left-wing groups. Many of Michaelis’ European photographs documented everyday life in order to encourage progressive social critique. Michaelis fled Europe on the cusp of WW2 and eventually made her home in Sydney, Australia. Her photography in Australia was mainly studio portraiture, with a clientele of Jewish émigrés and members of the art community. Michaelis made use of natural light and natural poses in order to explore the psychological states of her subjects. Margaret Michaelis was a professional photographer who specialised in documentary photography, portraiture and dance photography. Margaret Gross was born on 6 April 1902 in Dzieditz, Poland, of Jewish parents Heinrich Gross, a doctor, and his wife Fanni, née Robinsohn. She trained at Graphische Lehr und Versuchsanstalt, Vienna, Austria (Institute of Graphic Arts and Research) from 1917-1921. She began her career in photography working in a number of Viennese studios, including Studio d’Ora of Madame D’Ora, initially as a retoucher before working as a fully-fledged photographer. 1928 saw her living in Prague, before moving to Berlin the following year along with Rudolph Michaelis, an archaeological restorer and an anarchist, whom she eventually married in 1933. With Hitler’s rise to power, the couple spent several short spells in jail and upon being finally released they left Berlin and headed to Barcelona. She opened up a photography studio there, which she called ‘foto-elis.’ It was situated on the Avenue Republica Argentina. Her Spanish photographs are marked by her predilection for depicting people who were socially engaged and in outdoor settings. They were also made using natural light. During this period she also documented a proposed redevelopment of a slum area in Barcelona for a group of progressive architects, the GATCPAC (Grupo de Artistas y Técnicos Españoles Para la Arquitectura Contemporánea), which had associations with Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. When the couple divorced in November 1937, Margaret Michaelis left Barcelona, heading firstly to France and then Bielsko, Poland, to visit her parents. In Poland she went to Cracow and photographed the Jewish ghetto. From there in December 1938, she managed to get a visa enabling her to travel and work in the UK where she worked as a domestic servant until she was granted a visa to migrate to Australia. Michaelis arrived in Sydney on 2 September 1939 and the following year opened her own ‘Photo-studio’ on the seventh floor of the building at 11 Castlereagh Street. She promoted herself as a photographer of ‘Home’ portraits, gardens and interiors. However, she was largely known for her portraiture and dance photography working mainly with the Bodenwieser Company. Many of her clients were of European and Jewish background, as well as those connected with the arts. Her photographs were noted for her ability to capture the inner character and uniqueness of her sitters. ‘She believed that a portrait should reflect the soul of the sitter and wanted to capture the essence of her subject’s personality rather than a superficial likeness’ (Ennis, Heritage 59). Her portrait of Cynthia Nolan (née Reed), c. 1948, is a perfect example of her style. Nolan’s face is centrally positioned in the composition, her eyes stare directly at the camera, as she sits leaning back against a chair, one arm diagonally raised over her head. The effect is such that the onlooker is drawn towards the face and eyes. In 1941 she became a member of the Professional Photographers Associations of New South Wales and Australia. She was also a member of the Institute of Photographic Illustrators – the only female member. During the war years she was placed under surveillance by the Australian government during WW2, but she continued to work and was naturalised in 1945. By 1952 her eyesight was failing and she had to close her studio. She began working instead as a typist for the social workers Richard Hauser and Hephzibah Menuhin. She married Albert George Sachs in 1960 and the couple moved to Melbourne, where they operated a framing business. Her husband died in 1965, at which point she closed the business. Margaret Michaelis-Sachs travelled extensively in Europe and Asia during the late 1960s and ’70s. Her focus shifted to drawing and painting and in 1978 while she was studying painting with Erica McGilchrist, she contributed one of her drawings to the Women’s Art Forum Annual.. Margaret Michaelis-Sachs died in 1985. Collections Art Gallery of South Australia Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia State Library of Victoria Events 1920 - 1952 1978 - 1978 Margaret Michaelis’s work appeared in the Women’s Art Forum Annual 1981 - 1981 Margaret Michaelis’s work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1850-1954, 1987 - 1987 Solo exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Australia 1996 - 1996 Margaret Michaelis’s work featured in The Reflecting Eye: Portraits of Australian Visual Artists. 1998 - 1998 Margaret Michaelis, Fotografia, Vanguardia y Politica en la Barcelona de la Republica exhibition 2000 - 2000 Margaret Michaelis’s work featured in Mirror with a Memory: Photographic Portraiture in Australia exhibition. Published resources Exhibition Catalogue Mirror with a memory: photographic portraiture in Australia, Batchen, Geoffrey and Ennis, Helen, 2000 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 The reflecting eye: portraits of Australian visual artists, Ennis, Helen, National Library of Australia and National Portrait Gallery (Australia), 1996, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/125722/20110309-0156/www.nla.gov.au/pub/ebooks/pdf/the+reflecting+eye.pdf Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography, Ennis, Helen, 2005 Architecture, Photography and (Gendered) Modernities in 1930s Barcelona, Mendelson, Jordana, 2003 Book Section Blue Hydrangeas: Four Émigré Photographers, Ennis, Helen, 1997 Margaret Michaelis-Sachs, Ennis, Helen, 1995 Pamphlet Margaret Michaelis, exhibition room brochure, Ennis, Helen, 1987 Resource Section Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography [Exhibition 7 May-14 August 2005, National Gallery of Australia], Ennis, Helen, http://www.nga.gov.au/Michaelis/index.cfm Margaret Michaelis, Ennis, Helen, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/margaret-michaelis-sachs/ Journal Article Kissing Mrs Sachs [Review essay: Examination of the European émigré photographer's experience with cultural translation in adapting subject matter to an Australian setting]., Thompson, John, 2005 Archival resources National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive Margaret Michaelis-Sachs archive State Library of Victoria [Margaret Michaelis: Australian Art and Artists File] National Gallery of Victoria, Shaw Research Library Michaelis, Margaret Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 20 October 2016 Last modified 15 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Police Staff File: DARE Zara??Departmental Numbers AF4533 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 4 minutes??A recording of a forum held as part of the Women Writers’ Workshops organised by the Darwin Institute of Technology, and funded by the Office of the Status of Women, during September 1986. The forum is conducted by Connie Gregory and speakers include Barbara Hanrahan, Nancy Keesing and Susan Hampton. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "McLean discusses her involvement in the Girl Guide Movement. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Collection includes a photograph of Rose Simmonds in 1902, by the Crown Studios, Sydney, a certificate by the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain 1937 and a collection of catalogues for exhibitions held by the Queensland Camera Club. Three issues of the Australasian Photo-Review (1930, 1937) reproducing photographs by Rose Simmonds, or recording prizes she won in competitions. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 November 2016 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Scrapbook containing cuttings relating to Ellis Rowan’s paintings of Australian wildflowers and some correspondence concerning the purchase of her collection by the Australian Commonwealth government. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 March 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Known as D.C., Dorothy Coleman was a successful commercial photographer known for her photographs of society people in Brisbane. An innovative photographer, D.C. was highly sought after for the effects she could achieve in portraiture and dance photography. D.C.’s photography was published widely in newspapers and magazines of the time. She employed and trained a number of women photographers and colourists in her photographic studio. Dorothy Coleman (or D.C., as she was also known) was born on 9 January 1899 in Croydon, North Queensland. She was the eldest child of Owen Duffy, an American gold miner, and Henrietta, who had previously managed a hotel in Croydon. The family lived in Croydon where her father owned a crushing mill, but moved following the separation of her parents in 1908. Her mother went on to manage a number of hotels in Queensland and was able to purchase a guest house in South Brisbane in 1912. Coleman was educated in Brisbane. She received tuition in painting by Mrs Muntz Adams and Oscar Fristrom. In 1915, at the age of 15, she began working as a retoucher at the Thomas Mathewson & Sons photographic studio at North Quay, Brisbane, where she became an ‘expert retoucher’ (Kerr 332). She married John Coleman in 1920 and continued to work as a retoucher and colourist, working part-time from home until 1927, when her daughter went to boarding school. She lived in Ipswich for a period but moved back to Brisbane in 1926 and began working at the Regent Studios and then for Noel Maitland. During the period 1935-1938 she was able to purchase the Murray Goldwin Studio at Ascot Chambers, corner of Queen and Edward Streets. For over 20 years D.C. was an eminently successful photographer of society people and society weddings, often travelling further afield for these events. She also photographed the annual debutantes and ballroom dances at the Blue Moon. Her clients were ‘charmed when they visited the studio, which was always filled with bowls of roses’ (Design and Art Australian Online). As the demand for her work increased D.C. was able to employ about ten assistants (most of whom were women). These included the photographers Shirley Eutrope and Faye Turner, as well the colourists Flora Hosking, Hazel Yule and Yvonne Hoffman. D.C. developed her own techniques to enhance photographs, such as using mirrors and silhouettes to more effective capture the dances of the ballet students of Patricia Macdonald, Gwen Ricketts and the Milligan sisters. She used a Speed Grafelex camera to capture couples dancing ‘at full spin,’ which was unusual for the times. D.C. was also known for her child portraiture, which was very popular during the war years when such photographs were sent to fathers serving in the armed forces abroad. At the same time, the demand for armed service men to have their photographs taken was great. US soldiers and sailors were said to have queued for portraits to be taken to send home. D.C. was so innovative that ‘[s]he could remove a moustache from a soldier’s portrait intended for his mother, or enhance an image from a war widow’s faded snapshot’ (Design and Art Australian Online). Her photographs were published in many magazines and newspapers at the time, including The Truth, The Courier-Mail, The Telegraph, The Australian Women’s Weekly and Queensland Country Life, among others. D.C. participated in a number of exhibitions, submitting black and white photographs of the unemployed at the St. Vincent de Paul hostel in Margaret Street. She was also involved in the Twelfth Night Theatre Company, which she documented through her photographs. In 1960, after the death of her husband, she sold her studio and moved to Everton Park, aged 61; here she pursued her love of painting. D.C. became a member of the Royal Queensland Art Society and in 1978 (aged 79) had her first solo exhibition at the Galloway Galleries, Bowen Hills, with another to follow in 1979. The subjects of her paintings were mainly landscapes and flower studies. D.C. died on 1 January 1984. Technical Dorothy Coleman used a Speed Grafelex camera to capture couples dancing ‘at full spin’ which was unusual for the times. Collections National Library of Australia Manuscript collection: G.M. Mathews Collection of Portraits of Ornithologists State Library of Queensland University of Queensland Library Events 1978 - 1978 Solo exhibition at the Galloway Galleries 1979 - 1979 Solo exhibition at the Galloway Galleries 1995 - 1995 Dorothy Coleman’s work featured in Queensland Image:Women’s Visual Art of Yesterday and Today (1887-1995) 1935 - 1960 1951 - 1951 Dorothy Coleman’s work featured in the 4th Annual Exhibition of the Brisbane Art Group Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Australasian Dancing Championship Comment by Fudge, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article184352195 Barrister At Law, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article184374622 Charming Bridal Study, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40880508 Dance News and Gossip, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197272265 Miniature Painting is Hobby of Dorothy Coleman, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article186609539 Sensible, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97056613 To Honeymoon in June, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52254263 To Marry in Townsville, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172597485 Two Art Shows, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50088272 Book The Story of the Camera in Australia, Cato, Jack, 1979 A Complementary Caste: A Homage to Women Artists in Queensland, Past and Present, 5 November-4 December 1988, Larner, Bronwyn, Considine, Fran and Centre Gallery, 1988 Resource Section Dorothy Coleman, 1995, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dorothy-coleman/ Journal Article We Remember Dorothy Coleman, McGonagle, Dorothy A. Book Section Dorothy Coleman, Robins, Deborah, 1995 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dorothy Coleman, artist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive [Dorothy Coleman : Australian and New Zealand Art Files]. John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Dorothy Coleman / Deborah Macfarlane Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 10 November 2016 Last modified 10 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Canberra Women’s Liberation Group was formed in June 1970 after two women from Sydney Women’s Liberation spoke to eight female anti-Vietnam War activists, who decided to meet on a weekly basis on Wednesday evenings, to discuss their own form of oppression. The weekly meetings continued until 1976. One of its founding members was Julia Ryan. Their meetings were held in different houses in Canberra suburbs until 1975, when they shared Canberra Women’s House with the Women’s Electoral Lobby and the Abortion Counselling Service. Meeting venues were initially at Canning Street, Ainslie, then in the living rooms of various women’s homes. The group grew quickly to more than twenty, with recruits mainly being students, junior academics, or teachers in their twenties and thirties. They rented a house in Bremer Street from 1972 to 1974. In 1975 it moved to Lobelia Street, O’Connor to Canberra Women’s House and shared that house with the Women’s Electoral Lobby, (WEL) which was formed in 1972 and the Abortion Counselling Service There was no formal membership, hierarchy or structure, although minutes of meetings were kept. Women enrolled on a mailing list and volunteered for jobs. They had a monthly newsletter, which ceased in 1976 as original members moved on to other activities. Members undertook research into topics such as education, psychology, the nuclear family, and femininity and led the weekly meetings. The group was invited to address organizations such as the Humanists, Rotary, schools and women’s service clubs. Other activities included running information stalls, celebrating International Women’s Day, consciousness raising and organizing conferences. Julia Ryan has argued that ‘Canberra WL did not die. It changed our lives, and the ideology spread so wide that those of us who had known every feminist in Canberra now did not know every feminist in our suburb. The movement had grown, not in the way we imagined, but beyond our dreams.’ Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Canberra Women's Liberation, Wollstonecraft, Shulasmith, 1998 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Julia Ryan interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Elizabeth Ward interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Women's Electoral Lobby, 1952-2010 [manuscript] Papers of Christine Fernon 1970-1985 [manuscript] Private Hands (These records may not be readily available) Papers of Julia Ryan Author Details Patricia ni Ivor and Rosemary Francis Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 1 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers pertain equally to Tom and Adela’s activities. There is a large volume of papers on the Seamen’s Union. The papers include newspaper cuttings for the years 1924-1941; typescripts of articles, speeches and radio broadcasts by both Tom and Adela covering topics such as women’s rights, communism, politics, labour disputes, and the war; copies of articles and addresses by other people on the same topics; photographs; copies of journals such as The voice of the people, and The people’s guild; cash receipt books for the Seamen’s Union; court writs, judgements and transcripts of proceedings; cables and correspondence including that with P. Spender, W. M. Hughes, R. Menzies and J. Curtin. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 15 February 2001 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party, Helen Cross was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory representing the electorate of Molonglo, in 2001. She served as an Independent from 2002 and lost her seat at the 2004 election. Cross ran her own marketing and events business and was a past President of the Phillip Traders’ Association and Vice-President of Women in Information and Communications. She also worked for the Local Chamber of Commerce, the Canberra Festival and the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and was involved in community work for various organisations including the Smith Family and Clean-up Australia. Cross ran unsuccessfully for the Legislative Assembly again in 2020 as an independent in the seat of Yerrabi. She died in July 2022. Published resources Resource Helen Cross, Canberra Liberals, http://www.canberraliberals.org.au/people/hcross.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2001 Last modified 11 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4 sound files Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 June 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Susan Hollingsworth was a widow with three of her eleven children and six grandchildren living at home in Hall, a small village in the north of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT – now the ACT) when World War One broke out. When two of her sons-in-law enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) she offered safe haven to her daughters and their children who moved back to Hall. Her son Clyde died in France in 1917 aged 23 years. Susan was well-known as a supporter of the Red Cross in their fundraising ventures. Susan Curran was born in Yass, New South Wales, Australia on 7 August 1851 to Anne (nee Griffiths) and Patrick, a plasterer. She married Malachi Hollingsworth at Yass in 1873 and they had eleven children: Dorothy ‘Dolly’ 1874, Josephine Ellen ‘Queenie’ 1881, John Edward 1876, Patrick ‘Paddy’ Curran 1879, Rose 1884, Eva ‘Florence’ 1886, Ada ‘Myra’ 1889, Leila 1891, Clyde 1893, Dora 1896 and Malachi Joseph ‘Billy’ 1897. In 1896 the family moved from Murrumbateman to Hall where Malachi ran the Cricketers’ Arms Hotel. When he died aged 54 on 9 July 1898, Susan took over the hotel licence and ran it with the help of her older daughters until 1905 when they were evicted at short notice after a gentleman and his illicit lady love were discovered to be guests at the Cricketers’ Arms and Susan was suspected of running a house of ill repute. The villagers considered it a trumped up charge. Such was Susan’s popularity in the district and the esteem in which she was held – she was affectionately known to all in the village as ‘Granny Hollingsworth’ – that Hall people rallied together under the leadership of George Kendall Kinlyside (who later married her daughter Ada Myra) and built her family a house on the corner of Victoria and Gladstone Streets, part of a block owned by her son Paddy. She later ran a boarding house from there. At the outbreak of World War One Susan had three of her children living with her at home and six grandchildren – the children of her daughter Dolly who had died in 1909. Susan’s son Clyde, a blacksmith, was the man of the house in that he provided the main financial support to the family. In August 1915 Florence’s husband Jack Kevans enlisted. Although families were supported with a generous portion of a serving soldier’s pay, they were vulnerable without a man and often sought safe haven with extended family. Florence and her two children moved back to Hall to be close to Susan when Jack enlisted, and leased the old Catholic church at Gininderra (as it was then spelt) where she and her two sons lived. Another of Susan’s daughters, Leila, returned to Hall with her two children when her husband Fred Bradley enlisted in February 1916. Despite the demands of her life with a large family living in her small house, and others nearby, Susan found time to support the Red Cross. The minutes of the Yass branch of the Red Cross record that she was a familiar figure at Red Cross events in the district and beyond. Clyde enlisted in the AIF in February 1916; the following year Susan received the tragic news that he had been killed by a piece of shell near Bullecourt on the Western Front in France on 11 May 1917. Around the same time Florence would have heard that her husband Jack Kevans was reported missing on 11 April 1917. It was not until 13 January 1918 that the AIF wrote to Florence to advise that Jack had been captured by the Germans during an attack on the Hindenburg Line at Bullecourt that day and was officially a prisoner of war. He spent 21 months imprisoned in Germany before being repatriated to England in January 1919 and to Australia in May that year. A letter he wrote from the prisoner of war camp to Florence provides a glimpse of how important the work of the Red Cross was to soldiers overseas and particularly to prisoners of war when he stresses how he looks forward to a Red Cross parcel. The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer published the letter on 19 October 1917: Some of the boys here have been captured as long as nine months and received their first instalment of parcels from the Red Cross the other day. Underclothes are scarce. I understand the Red Cross send them and we are all anxiously looking forward to some coming to hand at no distant date. With our scanty wardrobe renewals are absolutely necessary, socks and shirts in particular. (‘Our Boys in Khaki’, 1917, p. 2) In late July 1919 the Hall Public School principal, Charles Thompson, arranged for thirty pine trees to be planted around the school boundary, each representing a Hall district Red Cross member. He invited Susan, as one of Hall’s oldest and most highly respected residents, to plant a Juniper Pine named the ‘tree of peace’. She had, he said, ‘made a greater sacrifice than anyone present to gain the desired peace.’ The Peace Tree still stands in the Hall school grounds. In October 1919 the Hall branch of the Red Cross Society agreed to cease active work when the need diminished after hostilities ended. Susan continued to be busy with the care of her children and grandchildren, and growing flowers which she loved even when her advancing years made gardening painful. Susan died at Hall on 4 March 1936 aged 84 years and was buried at Yass Cemetery with her husband. In a fine tribute to her in the Queanbeyan Age shortly after her death, the writer commented: ‘Old and young, rich and poor, will all feel that they are the poorer by the passing of this grand old lady to her eternal reward’ (‘An Appreciation’, 1926). Hollingsworth street in Gungahlin, a north Canberra suburb, was named after Susan in 2001. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Section Clyde Hollingsworth, https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1632129 Hollingsworth, Clyde, 2013, http://www.memorial.act.gov.au/person.php?id=161 Book Ginninderra, forerunner to Canberra: a history of the Ginninderra district, Gillespie, Lyall L., 1992 The Southwell Family: pioneers of the Canberra District 1838-1938, Gillespie, Lyall, 1988 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra KEVANS John Edward : Service Number - 2694 : Place of Birth - Geelong VIC : Place of Enlistment - Liverpool NSW : Next of Kin - (Wife) KEVANS Eva Florence Author Details Niki Francis Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 20 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Select file content list :-?”Our nation’s first capital – federation and the City of Melbourne, 1901-1927? (exhibition held February 1-28, 2001). [invitation]?Sixth Portland Arts Festival – art competition – March 12-April 3, [1966?]. [catalogue price list]. (one folded sheet, [4] p.). (2 copies). Artists represented were :- Gladys Harris, Lesbia Thorpe, Jean Sewell, Margaret Benwell, Isabel Huntington, Esther Baylis, Reta McLean, Rose Bald, Audrey Cohn, Keith Sanders, G.W. McGuffin, Neil Caffin, Freda Bearup, Yvonne Cohen, Valerie Albiston, Jack Montgomery, Howard Birnstihl, Malcolm Peel, Ray Woods, Lola Duffell, Neville Touzean, Joan Lasich, James McTeigue, Robert Miller, Beverly ashton, Phyl Barnard, Robert Zass, Gwen black, Betty Vivian, Florence Mellblom, Bruce Tolley, Audrey Ferrier, Dick Ovenden, Jean Hill, Ramon Horsfield, Constance Coleman, Brian Calcutt, Sheila Marshall, George Libardi, Nancy Malseed, Moyne Bourke, John Lyon, Diana Sylvester Henty, George Walker, Bruce Cavalier, Norma Bull, Jack Courier, Lynette Milward.?Files contain material such as art exhibition catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases and/or other ephemeral items relating to Australian artists and galleries, where there are more than three artists exhibiting at the one exhibition. Other material may be collected under individual artists in the Australian Art and Artists file. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 5 October 2016 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "30 minutes??A recording of the launch of the State Library of South Australia’s Barbara Hanrahan Memorial Exhibition by the Governor, Dame Roma Mitchell, in the Function Room of the Institute Building. Fran Awcock, the Director of the State Library, chairs the launch, and introduces in turn Des Ross, Chair, Libraries Board of South Australia; Dr Jean Blackburn, Founding Chair, Women’s Suffrage Centenary Committee; Mary Wilson, Chair, Friends of State Library Exhibitions Committee; Dame Roma Mitchell; and Sydney Buttrose, President, Friends of State Library. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ola Cohn was the first Australian sculptor to carve large commissions free-hand in stone. She created the statue for the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden in Adelaide, South Australia, and carved the famous Fairies’ Tree in Melbourne’s Fitzroy Gardens. Examples of Ola Cohn’s work in bronze, stone and wood are in state and provincial galleries nationwide. On 1 January 1965, Cohn was appointed a Member of the British Empire for her work in the service of art, especially sculpture. Her studio home in Gipps St, East Melbourne, is now known as the Ola Cohn Memorial Centre. One of six siblings, Carola (Ola) Cohn was born to Julius Cohn and Sarah Helen Snowball in Bendigo. Both parents were born in Australia: Ola’s maternal grandparents arrived from England in 1850, and her paternal grandparents from Denmark in 1852. Ola was educated at Girton College, Bendigo, but studied drawing and sculpture at the Bendigo School of Mines. She went on to study at Swinburne Technical College in Melbourne, and finally, at the Royal College of Art in London. Exhibitions of her work were held all over Australia as well as in London, Paris and Glasgow. In 1930 she received a request from the office of H.R.H The Prince of Wales for a piece of her work to be part of an exhibition given in aid of the British Legion. Years later a faded newspaper clipping reads: ‘When still a child she saw that most people were content to live, die and be forgotten. Her determination to become a sculptor, and that in this profession her work and memory would endure, commenced at the age of seven when she first modelled figures in wet sand’. Ola Cohn was the first Australian sculptor to carve large commissions free-hand in stone. A pioneer of modernist sculpture in this country, her early work generated terrific controversy when it was exhibited in Melbourne in 1931. Over the course of her career, however, Cohn completed numerous commissions in Australia including two sandstone figures for the Royal Hobart Hospital, a six foot lime-stone Pioneer Women’s Memorial for Adelaide’s Garden of Remembrance and the bronze entitled ‘Comedy’. In 1952 she received the Crouch Prize in Ballarat – the first and only sculptor to receive the honour – for her wood carving, Abraham. Cohn was perhaps most famous for carving The Fairies’ Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens between 1931-34. This was a gift to the children of Melbourne, and she received no payment for the work. Ola Cohn was a central figure in the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, hosting life drawing classes every Friday night at her studio and serving as president of the Society for many years. She joined the Lyceum Club, and the Arts, Press and Letters Committee for the National Council of Women. The extent of Cohn’s philanthropic activity is difficult to assess. One newspaper described her as a ‘charity worker’, but she is unlikely to have been given honorary life membership of the Royal Children’s Hospital simply because she was weaving scarves for charity – which she was indeed doing. Her extensive archives give little clue as to what kind of financial assistance she was able to provide, but certainly she opened her famous studio from time to time to raise money for a particular cause. In this way she raised £400 in aid of the Red Cross, the Comforts Fund and Food for Britain during WWII. She also held art classes for soldiers recovering from injury. Cohn assisted appeals for the Children’s Hospital, Save the Children’s Fund, Brotherhood of St. Laurence, Heart Foundation, The Cultural Centre Melbourne, and Animal Relief. Cohn’s greatest philanthropic gesture was her bequest to the Council of Adult Education. To this body she left her home and studio at 41 Gipps Street, East Melbourne and a collection of her works, with the idea that it would become a sculpture school. The bequest was valued at just under £1 million. Poor financial management on the part of the CAE led to an attempt to sell the property, but this was thwarted by a legal battle headed by Cohn’s niece Helen Bruinier. It is now known as the Ola Cohn Memorial Centre. Ola Cohn was married at the age of 61 to her friend Herbert John Green, a retired Victorian Government Printer. She was appointed a Member of the British Empire for her work in the service of art, especially sculpture, on 1 January 1965. Events 1910 - 1919 Attended art classes at the Bendigo School of Mines 1920 - 1925 Studied at Swinburne Technical College, Melbourne 1926 - 1926 Attended the Royal College of Art, London where her lecturers included Henry Moore for sculpture 1928 - 1928 Awarded a Royal College of Art, London free studentship 1929 - 1929 Became an associate of the Royal College of Art, London 1930 - 1930 Established a studio at 9 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria 1926 - 1926 Carved Head of a Virgin, now in the National Gallery of Victoria, which was considered very modern in Australia at the time 1940 - 1941 Carved the limestone Pioneer Woman memorial statue, Adelaide 1933 - 1933 Taught art at Geelong Church of England Grammar School 1940 - 1954 Part-time lecturer in art at the Melbourne Kindergarten Teacher’s College 1948 - 1948 Won the Roman Catholic Diocesan Centenary Prize in Melbourne 1952 - 1952 Won the Crouch Prize – the first time it had been won by a sculptor – for a wood carving 1938 - 1938 Produced two seven-foot (2.1m) sandstone figures, representing Science and Humanity, for the Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania 1939 - 1939 Executed 19 panels for the Mutual Life and Citizens Building, Sydney New South Wales – 14 were designed by Murray Griffen 2007 - 2007 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2064 - 2064 Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services rendered in the service of art, especially sculpture 1948 - 1964 President of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors 2053 - 2053 Married Herbert John Green, retired government printer 1921 - 1921 Member of the Victorian Art Society 1922 - 1964 Member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors 2031 - 2031 Held an exhibition of her overseas work 1937 - 1937 Moved to 41 Gipps Street, East Melbourne where she made her studio a centre for artists 1949 - 1951 Travelled to Europe and Iceland 1931 - 1934 Carved The Fairies’ Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne Published resources Journal Article Carved magic at the bottom of the gardens, McManus, Bridget, 2003 Book Castles in the Air, Cohn, Ola, 1936 The Fairies' Tree, Cohn, Ola; Davies, Norman (collaboration with); Wood, Marjorie (illustrations and decorations by) and King, Tom (music by), 1932 More about the Fairies' Tree, Cohn, Ola, 1933 Mostly Cats, Cohn, Ola, 1964 Ola Cohn's Fairies Tree, Delander, Sonja and Buckingham, Rick (photography by), 1972 More Than Just Gumtrees: A Personal, Social and Artistic History of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, Peers, Juliet, 1993 Glass After Glass: Autobiographical Reflections, Blackman, Barbara, 1997 Catalogue Ola Cohn 1982-1964: Sculpture, Cohn, Ola Book Section Brushing the dust off, Welch, Maureen and Kruger, Lois; Kearney, Verna (graphics and editing); Errington, Helen (poster artwork and production), [1990] Resource Section Ola Cohn, http://yarranet.net.au/womar/stat2.htm Notable Forebears and Relatives, Cohn, Ian and Sue, 1998, http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scsiac/ Cohn, Carola (1892 - 1964), Scarlett, Ken, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080064b.htm The Word in the Stone: Sculptor Ola Cohn, Lemon, Barbara, 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/ Resource The Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mswps/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1962, Alexander, Joseph A, 1962 Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Newspaper Article Melbourne painters prepare to fight, Ketchell, Misha Artists allowed to stay in sculptor's house Ola Cohn's house and studio still in question, Backhouse, Megan $100,000 gift to help restore artists' centre Women artists still call Ola Cohn Centre home Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Archival resources State Library of Victoria Album, [ca. 1904-1950] [manuscript]. Papers of Ola Cohn, 1912-1964. [manuscript]. Photograph album, ca. 1920. [manuscript]. Records, 1904-1995. [manuscript]. Records, 1912-ca. 1970. [manuscript]. National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Ola Cohn, sculptor, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Bust of Fritz Hart [realia] / Ola Cohn Author Details Anne Heywood and Barbara Lemon Created 6 March 2002 Last modified 5 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Ola Cohn with Cat Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Ola Cohn with Magpie Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0323gc.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0323gd.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Tapes 1,2,3 – Group interview l. -7 Aug 1978 with Meg Foster, Elsie Hamilton, Meg Currie, Nancy & Bill Stirton, Mavis McLeod (interv. Sue Noy);?Tapes 4,5 – Group Interview 2. – 16 Aug 1978 with Foster, Hamilton, Currie, Nancy Stirton & Jessie Hanson (interv. Sue Noy);?Tape 6 – individual interviews – 26 Oct 1978 with Elsie Hamilton , 27 Oct 1978 with Agnes Doig (+ comments Wattie Doig) (interv. Sue Noy, with Andrew Reeves also present at Doig intervew). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 December 2003 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Manuscripts of published and unpublished works. Archival material of the Women’s Theatre Group and Lip magazine. Includes theatre programs, reviews, correspondence, notebooks, research material, photographs, artworks, and sound cassettes. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 14 February 2001 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jessie Vasey founded and became President of the War Widows’ Guild of Australia. For her work in the field of social welfare she was the recipient of both the CBE (8 June 1963) and OBE (8 June 1950). Jessie Vasey, the eldest of three daughters of Joseph and Jessie Halbert, attended Moreton Bay Girls’ High School as a boarder, before the family moved to Victoria in 1911. She then attended Lauriston Girls’ School before moving to Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew. In May 1921 Jessie Halbert married George Alan Vasey. In the same year she graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1928-1930 and 1934-1936 Jessie Vasey and her two children accompanied George Vasey when he was posted to India. The family returned to Australia in 1937 and settled at Wantirna at the foot of the Dandenongs. During World War II, while her husband was posted in Europe, Jessie Vasey worked with the Australian Comforts Funds. In 1940 Jessie Vasey was a foundation member and secretary of the Australian Imperial Forces Women’s Association. George Vasey drew the attention of his wife to the plight of war widows after visiting the widow of one of his men and was appalled at her living conditions. It was Major-General Vasey’s wish that after he returned from the battlefields he, with the help of his wife, would look after the families of the men who were killed while serving with him. On 5 March 1945, aged 49 years, Major-General Vasey was himself killed in an aircraft accident. In 1945 Jessie Vasey established the War Widows’ Guild in Victoria, the following year in New South Wales and thereafter in every Australian State and the Australian Capital Territory. By the time of her death in 1966 the Guild had grown into an influential national lobby group. Events 2008 - 2008 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource A Tour of the Lilydale Cemetery 1861-1994, Lilydale and District Historical Society, http://www.art-technology.com.au/lilyhist/l4/cemtrya5.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1962, Alexander, Joseph A, 1962 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 No mean destiny : the story of the War Widows' Guild of Australia 1945-85, Clark, Mavis Thorpe, 1986 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 2003 Book Section Jessie Mary Vasey (1897-1966), Smith, Mary, 1989 Resource Section Vasey, Jessie Mary (1897-1966), Damousi, Joy, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160533b.htm Newspaper Article Jessie Mary Vasey, Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 2003 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 November 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Jessie Vasey headstone at Lilydale cemetery Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Edith Onians was a full-time volunteer (organiser and honorary secretary) from 1897 until her death in 1955 of the Melbourne Newsboys Society. She was the first woman Special Magistrate appointed to Children’s Court Melbourne in 1927, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 2 January 1933 for services to child welfare in Victoria. The daughter of Richard and Charlotte (née Smith) Onians, Edith Onians attended Fontainebleau Ladies College, St Kilda, as a boarder, and then taught Sunday school. In 1897, Onians became interested in the work of the Newsboys Try Society – an organisation devoted to the wellbeing of homeless children. The name came from the founder, Mark Forster’s, belief that “if a boy continued to try, he could succeed in whatever he attempted.” Many of the boys became newspaper sellers. Onians offered her services in an honorary capacity, and before going on a trip to England in 1900, she took over the teaching and generally helped with the work amongst the boys. By 1903 Onians was Honorary Secretary of the new organisation the City Newsboys’ Society. The Melbourne Newsboys Club Foundation history states that: It was also in 1923 that a young man named Norman Craig joined Miss Onians in her work. Between them they built up an extensive network of welfare services, including family counselling, extension of education, instruction in technical skills – then not available elsewhere – free medical and dental services, camping at their property at Millgrove, advice on dealing with newsagents, their legal rights and requirements, free meals and clothing, extra food for needy brothers and sisters. Both Miss Onians and Mr. Craig were very active in pushing through legislation aimed at the care and protection of working children in Victoria and were members of the Street Traders Board, which met at the Club headquarters. The Street Trading Act was passed in 1926, and in 1927 Onians was appointed justice of the peace. She was also vice-president of the Victorian Council for Mental Hygiene and of the Vocational Guidance Centre. Events 1970 - 1970 Honourary Organiser and Honourary Secretary Melbourne Newsboys’ Society 1927 - 1927 First woman Special Magistrate appointed to Children’s Court Melbourne 1926 - 1926 First woman member of Street Trading Board Published resources Book The Men of To-morrow, Onians, Edith C., [1914] Thesis Keeping them off the streets - youth organisations as instruments of hegemony in Victoria 1850-1950, Maunders, David, 1987 Resource Section The Herald Cry, http://www.kitezh.com/gkw/whistle/herald.htm Onians, Edith Charlotte (1866-1955), Ramsland, John, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110097b.htm Resource History of Melbourne Newsboys Club Foundation, Melbourne Newsboys Club Foundation, http://www.tryyouth.org.au/newsboys/aboutus.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records, 1897-1976. [manuscript]. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 October 2001 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 digital audio tapes (ca. 195 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 December 2017 Last modified 26 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 6207 comprises correspondence, financial papers, business documents, deeds, wills, diaries, notebooks, photographs, glass slides, press cuttings and notes relating to Miriam Chisholm and properties such as “Kippilaw”, Goulburn and “Calder House,” Sydney. There are also notes and pictorial records of Chisholm’s travel experiences, and a large quantity of notes, articles, family trees, and obituaries relating to the history of Goulburn, Sydney, Canberra, Berrima and nearby areas, as well as the genealogy of the Chisholm family, including the first settler, James Chisholm, and related families such as Kinghorne, Strickland, Mason, Brown and Sandiland (19 boxes, 3 fol. Boxes, 4 map folios).??The Acc98.083 instalment comprises records of the Clan Chisholm Society including correspondence, membership applications and indexes, photographs, papers relating to Caroline Chisholm, publications, souvenirs, genealogies and family trees, press clippings, a film and records of branches in Victoria, North America and Scotland (5 cartons).??The Acc00.065 instalment includes copies of the documentation prepared for Miriam Chisholm’s Clan Chisholm Society records (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dame Elisabeth speaks of her early life in Toorak; her debut; meeting Keith Murdoch; the impact of the Depression; building the stables and dairy; her voluntary work; the Children’s Hospital; Murdoch Institute of Research into Birth Defects; working women; the National Gallery volunteers; her appointment as trustee of the Gallery; Friends of the Gallery; the tapestry workshop; McClelland Art Gallery; Elisabeth Murdoch Sculpture Foundation; Lenton Parr; Daryl and Joan Lindsay; George Lambert; Nellie Melba; Keith and Gallipoli; Keith’s acquaintances; her inclusion in Keith’s professional life; their children’s upbringing; Keith’s death; her garden; Cruden Farm; Keith and the Argus and Courier Mail; Rupert and the Herald; Jack Williams; Keith McPherson; Keith’s funeral; Rupert’s taking charge of the Adelaide News; Rohan Rivett; Rupert as a business man; modern literature and language; the Herald; Rupert as an Australian; Keith’s war efforts; Australian-American Association; Keith’s stammer; Booroomba; Cavan; her present activities; future of Cruden Farm; visitors to Cruden; Clyde School; Braemar College; Geelong Grammar; honours awarded to her; her disappointments. Dame Elisabeth discusses Keith’s foresight; producing Australia’s own newsprint; horse-riding; Hitler diaries; Shawcross’ biography of Rupert; Newscorp; Lachlan; her greatest pleasure; staff; her typical day; her Clubs; her honary degree; her family; the future of the farm; Animal Ethics committee of the Howard Florey Institute; sale of the family’s art; Keith’ s background. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 December 2008 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mrs Jean Scott was a member of the Australian Women’s Land Army, (AWLA) which was formed to do the manual labour on farms, in place of the men who had gone to war. There were 6000 AWLA girls in the Commonwealth; 3,500 permanent and the rest seasonal workers. She enlisted at the age of nineteen and left the city to take up various postings including Griffith and Ballarat. She mostly worked on fruit and vegetables and handled horses. Eight five per cent of the girls in the AWLA were city girls, who adapted well to work in the country. The country girls avoided the AWLA and preferred the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS). There were no perks or rehabilitation offered to the girls of the AWLA. The girls had limited contact with American soldiers; Mrs Scott wrote to three for sometime. They were lonely young men, she thinks. The experience broadened her outlook on life, and she has only happy memories of the time. She has published a book on the Land Army; released in 1986. A poem: “Land Girl’s Lament” is included in her interview. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ellen Rohrmann was living with family in Singapore when World War I broke out. Declared an enemy alien by the ruling British, she and other relatives were transported to Australia and initially interned at Bourke, New South Wales before being moved to the Molonglo Concentration Camp in the Federal Capital Territory where Ellen died in 1918. Emma Maria Laura Paula Mueller was born circa 1888 in Munich, Germany to Luisa Herbold and Emil Mueller, merchant. ‘Ellen’ became the name people knew her by. She married Johann Rohrmann in Munich in 1913 and shortly afterwards her husband left to establish a business in Sarawak; Ellen was to join him there three months later. Tragically, Johann died of bacillic dysentery just days before Ellen arrived in Singapore. It seems she remained in Singapore with her husband’s step-brother – merchant August R.A.K. Rohrmann and his family. On the outbreak of war, the British authorities in Singapore interned nationals of enemy countries, even if they had been naturalised as British. A later agreement between Britain and Australia saw those internees sent to Australian camps in three groups – in April and May 1915, and early in 1916. The Rohrmanns were initially sent to the camp in Bourke, New South Wales. Ellen was allocated the number W49; her brother-in-law was allocated number 38. Two other women prisoners with the name Rohrmann were interned with them – W48 M. Rohrmann and W140 R. H. Rohrmann – possibly August’s wife and daughter, or wife and mother. Because most records of internees were destroyed after World War I, there is currently no way of obtaining further detail about these people. The Bourke camp closed in 1918 because poor conditions and intense heat created health problems. The death from heatstroke and apoplexy of one internee – 57-year-old Karl George Krafft, a timber merchant and former German Consul in Fiji – prompted the German government to demand, via the Swiss Consul in Sydney, better conditions for German nationals interned in Australia. The Australian government responded in May 1918 by moving family groups of internees to the newly built Molonglo Concentration Camp in the nation’s recently established capital at Canberra. The Molonglo camp been built for 5,000 Austrian and German nationals from China and German East Africa, but under international pressure Britain abandoned transporting them to Australia and took advantage of the empty camp to accede to the German government’s and Swiss consul’s requests. The families travelled the 1000 kilometres by steam train from Bourke to Molonglo. While conditions at the Molonglo Camp were reportedly better than in Bourke, they were not ideal and certainly not comfortable. Sunstroke struck Ellen, followed by the related complication of pneumonia which caused the lining of her lungs to suppurate. Ellen’s heart failed and she died in Canberra Hospital, Acton on 30 November 1918, aged 30, three weeks after hostilities ended in Europe. She was buried at Queanbeyan Cemetery in nearby New South Wales (Section 1, Row O, Grave 5.) A photograph in the Australian War Memorial collection shows a line of grim-faced people, including a clergyman, at her funeral on 5 December 1918 beside the simple grave marker – a concrete cross inset with a small brass plaque inscribed ‘E.L.P. ROHRMANN / 30/11/18’. At the end of the war 6150 of the nearly 7000 people interned as enemy aliens by the Australian government were deported to Germany. Of these, 5414 were internees and the rest were family members. August Rohrmann, and the other two female internees M. Rohrmann and R. H. Rohrmann were among those forcibly repatriated to Germany, leaving on 29 May 1919 on board the SS Kursk. During the voyage crowded conditions on board contributed to an influenza outbreak affecting 535 of the internees of whom 16 died as a result (‘Cases on the Kursk’, 1919, p. 17). In April 1961 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission removed Ellen Rohrmann’s remains and reinterred them in the German War Cemetery, Tatura, Victoria where a total of 250 Germans who died in Australia during the two World Wars are buried: 239 civilian internees and 11 Prisoners of War. The rectangular bronze plaque from Ellen’s original grave in Queanbeyan, with its simple inscription in raised script, is now in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Published resources Book Enemy aliens: internment and the homefront experience in Australia, 1914-1920, Fischer, Gerhard, 1989 The Molonglo mystery: a unique part of Canberra's history, Foskett, Alan, 2006 More about Molonglo: the mystery deepens, Foskett, Alan, 2008 Newspaper Article Cases on the Kursk, 1919, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15848908 Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Niki Francis Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 26 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Maria Braithwaite was an advocate and member of the Broken Hill Temperance Movement, and a writer whose short stories were published in Australian weekly newspapers. Maria Black migrated from Scotland to Australia with her family in 1865, and grew up on cattle farms in Finnis in South Australia and Kaniva in Victoria. In 1890, Maria married Edward James Braithwaite, a blacksmith, with whom she moved to Broken Hill after the birth of their third child. Writing under the pseudonym Jack Rugby, Maria had many short stories and serials published in weekly newspapers. Two of her short stories were chosen for an anthology published by the Sydney Mail in 1907 entitled The Red Kangaroo. Maria became active in the Broken Hill Temperance Movement, and much of her writing was dedicated to this cause. She was also involved with the Barrier Boys’ Brigade, an organisation established in 1898 devoted to the “Spiritual, Moral, Social, Physical and Intellectual Improvement” of the young men of Broken Hill, and wrote for their magazine, the Barrier Boys’ Budget. A horse lover and champion show jumper from the age of sixteen, Maria continued to ride in Broken Hill, successfully competing at horse riding events at the Silver City Show. At the end of her life, illness forced Maria to give up her advocacy and writing, and she died at the age of 66 in February 1927. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 The History of Broken Hill: Its Rise and Progress, Curtis, Leonard Samuel, 1908 Edited Book The Red kangaroo and other Australian short stories, Charleton, W. R., 1907, http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/charedk Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Georgia Moodie Created 16 January 2009 Last modified 20 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Merrilyn Pedergnana received a Citizenship Award on Australia Day in 1998 in recognition of countless hours of voluntary work for various non-profit organisations in Broken Hill, New South Wales, and beyond. She is a first aid trainer for St John Ambulance Australia. Merrilyn Pedergnana was the third child of returned serviceman Lloyd McFeeters and his wife, Vera. Lloyd had served with the AIF during World War Two. On his death in 1956, Merrilyn and her siblings – Wendy, John and Peter – became Legacy Wards. Merrilyn was educated at Burke Ward school, and later at Broken Hill High School. In 1964, Merrilyn began work at the Barrier Miner newspaper, and later at the Zinc Mine as a print machine operator. She met her husband, Reg, in her first year of work and the pair were married when Reg returned home from National Service in 1970. Faced with the mine’s policy of no employment for married women, Merrilyn took a position with Thorp Motors in Broken Hill. In 1973 she gave birth to her daughter, Angela, followed in 1974 by her son, Carl. In 1980 Merrilyn began a career in child care, looking after the children of working parents, which she maintained for eighteen years. During this time she undertook voluntary work for various groups including the Scouts, netball, the National Servicemen’s Association, the Navalmen’s Association, St John Ambulance Australia, the Broken Hill Rifle Club, the No. 9 Rifle Association, the Italo International Club, the Broken Hill City Council, the Broken Hill Gallipoli Memorial Foundation, and the Town Employees Union. Merrilyn Pedergnana is the only woman to hold life membership of the National Servicemen’s Association of Australia. In 1998 she was honoured with a Citizenship Award on Australia Day. Merrilyn is an active trainer and examiner of first aid for St John Ambulance Australia, responsible for all first aid training in western New South Wales. In 2008 she was awarded the St John Ambulance Australia Long Service Medal. Published resources Book Sharing the Lode: The Broken Hill Migrant Story, Adams, Christine, 2004 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 14 January 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The McLeod Country Golf Club as founded in 1968 with the establishment of the first 9 holes. The 18 hole course was completed by 1972. Located in the western suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, it is the only golf club in the southern hemisphere managed by female members. The club welcomes both females (Members) and males (Fellows) and has recently commenced a proactive program to encourage juniors. When organised women’s golfing competition was in its infancy in Australia, even some well informed men championed the benefits of the sport for women. Renowned golfer D. G. Soutar, the 1903 Amateur Champion of Australasia, who went on to publish The Australian Golfer and then design Melbourne, Victoria’s famous Kingston Heath course, commented in 1903 that, ‘I am pretty well convinced that the majority of women who follow the game…like it, first and foremost, for the healthy open-air exercise it affords.’ According to Soutar improved physical well-being wasn’t the only benefit to be enjoyed by women from a round of golf. ‘It promotes a habit of self control,’ he noted, ‘which is not often consciously developed by women, and it steadies the nerves. It takes women out of themselves,’ he continued, ‘and acts as a gentle counter-poise to tea and gossip.’ Sixty years later, it wasn’t tea that a handful of Queensland women golfers were imbibing as they ‘gossiped’, but Christmas drinks. Associates of the Ashgrove and Keparra clubs were in animated discussion about the prospect of establishing a golf club open to all, but controlled by women. They were tired of the access restrictions placed on women, who could never be more than associate members of gold clubs. Given that many of them were professionals and members of the paid workforce, the restrictions rankled even more; women were rarely, if ever, given weekend access. The redoubtable Kathleen Atherton who, a couple of years earlier, had raised the idea at a meeting of the Queensland Ladies’ Golf Union (QLGU) to a lukewarm response, was probably amongst their number. In the intervening years, she had found a willing ally in Hilda Reid, secretary to the Chairman of the Southern Electricity Authority of Queensland. The two of them formed the nucleus of a hard-working group of women who lobbied for support, looked for land and raised public awareness. At the same time the largest private real estate development in Australia was transforming land with Brisbane River frontage near Mt Ommaney, eight kilometers southwest of Brisbane. The Centenary Estates residential housing development had endured a slump in the early 1960s but had recovered momentum by 1965. An ambitious project, it was given Brisbane City Council approval on the proviso that the developers, among other things, financed a new bridge across the Brisbane River, a freeway that connected the bridge to the main road system and the development of an 18 hole golf course. Sixty hectares of flood prone, riverfront land was earmarked for the purpose. The developers were keen to see the course built; they knew it would add to the attractiveness of the surrounding residential blocks that they were trying to sell. They just didn’t want to take on the expense of doing so. Therefore, in 1966 they advertised that they would sell the land for $1 in exchange for the purchaser’s undertaking to build the course. These two seemingly unrelated courses of events became connected when, in November 1966, a former President of the Ashgrove Golf Club, Jim Newborough, drew Kathleen and Hilda’s attention to the advertisement. They quickly arranged an inspection (Kathleen was a geographer and capable of making a well informed assessment) and were pleased by what they saw. Encouraged to do so by Peter Lightfoot, a senior executive of the property development company, they convened a public meeting at the Ashgrove Golf Club on January 16, 1967 to gauge the level of support that a women’s golf club might receive. The novelty of the event attracted a high level of media attention, and Hilda took full advantage of the opportunity that the occasion presented. She explained the idea to reporters from the Brisbane Telegraph. ‘Our idea is a golf club run in reverse to the present general set up, where women players are restricted to cut playing times. We don’t want our venture to be a Women’s Only club, and will welcome men players. But we do want it to be a club where women golfers can play as often as they like, and not cut to restricted, blocked times, especially at the weekends as they are now at most crowded metropolitan clubs…We have found there is a growing band of women golfers, business and professional women, who can’t play on the mid-week days set aside as most clubs for associate competition.’ Hilda even encouraged detractors and critics to attend. ‘We want as many as we can get to this meeting, knockers as well as supporters…so that a clearer picture may be drawn of the possibilities of launching the venture.’ Needless to say, despite the presence of critics, the meeting only served to convince Kathleen and Hilda that they were on the right track and that if they built the club it would succeed. The road from this meeting to eventual land acquisition was by no means a smooth one. Despite eventually receiving support from state and national golfing organizations to pursue the idea, and despite working hard to gather community support from all around the state for the concept of a club for and controlled by women, there were many influential people, who could not see how it would work and therefore did not want to invest in the idea. Amongst them was Sir Arthur Fadden, former Prime Minister and Treasurer, and the presiding Chairman of the Centenary Estates Board of Directors. He and other board members had not approved of the publicity that the public meeting had generated and feared that women did not have the requisite business skills required to see the venture succeed. They were concerned that enabling the idea would see the company become a laughing stock and that this would have a detrimental effect on land sale targets. Peter Lightfoot was clearly more of a visionary than the members of the board he reported to. He finally convinced them to allow the women a six month option on the land, expiring in January 1968. Acceding to this request, the board imposed one important condition. The word ‘women’s’ could not appear in the name of the club. Scrapping the proposed name of the Mt Ommaney Women’s Golf Club was a small price for the steering committee to pay – but what to use in its place? The committee, comprising of Hilda Reid, Kathleen Atherton, Gwen Osterlund, Marge Irvine, Muriel Pottage and Pat Herd, still wanted a name that promoted the course as a place for women’s golf. They decided upon naming the club in honour of a woman who was never an elite golfer but who had, nevertheless, dedicated most of her adult life to golf administration. Gertrude McLeod was an Associate member of the Royal Queensland Golf Club and President of the Indooroopilly Golf Club Associates. She was President of the Queensland Ladies’ Golf Union for thirty years, its first life member and the first Queenslander to be President of the Australian Ladies’ Golf Union. She served as Vice-President of the English Ladies’ Golf Union. She was a firm and forthright supporter of the project and willingly gave her name to the new venture. The first year of ‘operation’ was challenging, particularly the six months leading up to the expiration of the option in January 1968. At its best, public reaction to the project was patronizing, at worst it was derisory and reflected the common view that even during the weekend, a woman’s place was in the home. A journalist from the Melbourne Age, hinting at the real gender politics that shaped the issue of women’s access to weekend golf, shared his thoughts: ‘For many years one of the simplest ways for Dad to escape from Mum and the kids at weekends has been for him to announce that he has lined up a game of golf with his friends. Male friends, of course. Women couldn’t do the same. Most clubs don’t want women to play on weekends. Most men don’t want to babysit on their days off.’ Allowing women access to sport on the weekends meant that men would have to take on domestic responsibilities that they had hitherto been able to avoid; the Age journalist clearly saw the Brisbane ladies’ proposal to be the thin end of the wedge. Apart from the problems with public perception there were pressing practical concerns, chiefly the need to raise a loan to proceed with the development of the land before their option ran out. The steering committee, despite its comprising of several women with well established professional and business credentials, encountered a lot of closed doors as they approached financial institutions for a loan. In this era, women trying to raise funds for home mortgages and businesses found things difficult at the best of times; raising money to build a golf course when all you had as collateral was 60 acres of flood prone land was nigh on impossible. Eventually, the State Government Insurance Office (SGIO) came to the party, approving a loan for $40,000 over fifteen years at 7% interest. Significant conditions were imposed; five committee members were required to take out life insurance policies with SGIO to cover the amount of the loan. And the loan could only be drawn upon after the committee had spent $8,000 of its own funds. But at least they had the commitment before option expiry date, which meant that it was time to hold a general meeting to officially form the club and have the Memorandum and Articles of Association approved. On February 28, 1968, this meeting was held and the McLeod Country Golf Club, the purpose of which was ‘…to establish, maintain and carry on a golf club for both men and women players and their families…’, was formed. Membership clauses that stipulated that the number of Fellows could never exceed 45% of the full membership protected women’s interests, ensuring that the club, although open to all, would always be controlled by women. The course would be challenging only, in an Australian first, it would be designed with the needs of women golfers in mind. ‘Our aim is to make McLeod a Championship course for women but not at the expense of the average golfer and always keeping in mind the length of the course.’ All the committee needed to do now was raise their own funds and start spending them. Signing up members was an obvious revenue source, but this needed to be handled carefully; members would allow some period of grace but they would want some part of the course to be playable before the year was out. The committee had to manage the inflow and outflow of funds on a weekly basis to ensure the development tasks, such as building a dam, could proceed apace. Members and potential members needed to see that they weren’t signing up to a white elephant. Fundraising efforts were many and varied; the committee held Walk-a-Thons, fundraising parties, talent shows and German beer nights. They even entered television quiz shows that offered contestants cash prizes. In September 1968, Hilda Reid, Rae McKenzie and Stella McMinn entered Play Your Hunch, a show that required contestants to tell the story of an unlikely event that had actually happened to them, with a panel having to guess who it happened to. The McLeod team decided to choose a story from Rae McKenzie’s catalogue of Northern Australian stories. Originally from Mt Isa in northern Queensland, Rae had numerous crocodile hunting experiences and the team settled on one of these. The panel failed to guess the origin of the story correctly, so the McLeod team came away $40 richer and with three tea sets that were used by the club for many, many years. The women of the McLeod Country Club committee were a remarkably resourceful bunch! Eventually, after a number of legal hitches and frustrating hold ups, the club, Brisbane City Council, SGIO and Centenary Estates Co. came to terms and agreed that the women should take control of the land. A memorable ceremony took place on September 21, 1968, under trees near the site of the ninth green. Peter Lightfoot presented the signed agreement to Kath Atherton, Sir Arthur Fadden, who once opposed the idea wholeheartedly, applauded enthusiastically. And Kath Atherton, floated the idea five years earlier, reflected on the meaning of the occasion. ‘What do you see? You see first a dam, admittedly not much water in it yet; a diversion channel with scarcely any grass on it; greens and tees in embryo stage. But we see a vision, a dream about to be realized…’ The Mcleod Country Club still thrives and remains the only female run golf club in the southern hemisphere. It’s amazing what a group of ‘gossipy’ women, ‘taken out of themselves’ and with ‘habits of self control’ can do. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Women on Course: The McLeod Country Golf Club, 1968-1993, Gregory, Helen and Kowald, Margaret, 1993 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Section McLeod, Gertrude Evelyn (1891 - 1971), Kowald, Margaret, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160604b.htm Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The library only holds an irregular number of issues.??Title varies: ‘Club chatter’; Club news’; ‘Newsletter’ Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Barbara Hocking graduated in Arts/Law at Melbourne University in 1962 and quickly demonstrated her life-long commitment to social justice issues, particularly Indigenous land rights. She completed her LL M degree at Monash University in 1970 focusing on this topic. Barbara was admitted to practice in Victoria in November 1975 and in the ACT in December 1975. She signed the Victorian Bar Roll in March 1976 and read with Leonard Ostrowski, later QC and a Judge of the County Court. In 1982 Barbara Hocking became the first barrister briefed in the Mabo case which would finally right the legal fiction of ‘terra nullius’ and recognise native title in common law. She was a long-standing and active member of the Australian Labor Party and maintained her political commitments until her death. In 1986 Barbara became a Senior Member of the Commonwealth Veterans Review Tribunal and Chairperson of the Medicare Participation Review Committee, and in 2004 she was appointed to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Barbara Ann Hocking and Jenny Hocking about their mother for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Barbara Ann Hocking and Jenny Hocking and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. PREFACE ‘If ever I need a good lawyer I’ll get you, you’re terrific!’ These were the words of a kindly social worker to our mother, Barbara Hocking, following a harrowing ‘discharge meeting’ at a Melbourne hospital, to determine the residential fate of our aged father. Our distressed 85 year old mother had argued powerfully and passionately before a barrage of decision-making hospital staff, and rogue family members jostling for power, as her husband of over 60 years was taken from the family home against her wishes and placed in managed care. Within a week of this unforgivable final injustice our mother suffered a fatal stroke, dying just 3 weeks later, on 6 December 2013. Barbara Hocking graduated in Arts/Law at Melbourne University in 1962 and quickly demonstrated her life-long commitment to social justice issues, particularly Indigenous land rights. She completed her LL M degree at Monash University in 1970 focusing on this topic. Barbara was admitted to practice in Victoria in November 1975 and in the ACT in December 1975. She signed the Victorian Bar Roll in March 1976 and read with Leonard Ostrowski, later QC and a Judge of the County Court. In 1982 Barbara Hocking became the first barrister briefed in the Mabo case which would finally right the legal fiction of ‘terra nullius’ and recognise native title in common law. She was a long-standing and active member of the Australian Labor Party and maintained her political commitments until her death. In 1986 Barbara became a Senior Member of the Commonwealth Veterans Review Tribunal and Chairperson of the Medicare Participation Review Committee, and in 2004 she was appointed to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women. Our mother’s life’s work had been spent in the pursuit of justice, rights and equality before the law, specifically for indigenous land rights through the recognition of native title in common law. In this singular goal Barbara Hocking’s body of legal reasoning, her writings and her work with the plaintiffs in the Mabo case, was profoundly significant and highly original. It was also, with the High Court’s historic Mabo decision in 1992, ultimately successful. CHILDHOOD Our mother was born Barbara Joyce Browning, on 28 June 1928, into a family marked by her parents’ acrimonious divorce which scarred her childhood and of which she rarely spoke. She drew upon her close relationship with her brother Billo, together with her love of books, study and dogs, to provide her with great comfort in often difficult times. In one of the many incongruities of her long life, some of Barbara’s happiest childhood memories were experienced during the Second World War when, with the contingencies of war, the family shared a house with several aunts and numerous cousins. Barbara revelled in this extended family life with noisy children, dogs and loving aunts, even as they were all too aware of and concerned by the absence of men in their day-to-day lives away at the war. STUDYING LAW In 1947 Barbara Hocking began an Arts/Law course at Melbourne University and moved into University Women’s College, thriving in the close almost family environment and making life-long friends. These women, whom Barbara first met during her university days, remained an important part of her life and they continued to meet over lunch for decades to come, still calling themselves ‘the University Women’s College girls’ even into their 80s. It was also at University that Barbara met the man who would become her life partner, Frederick Hocking, who was then studying medicine. Fred’s war-time experience had contrasted markedly with her own. He had enlisted with the RAAF at the age of 18 having already lost his best mate who had enlisted as an under-age recruit. Fred had left school at the age of 14 and had been a grateful beneficiary of Labor Prime Minister John Curtin’s post-war Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme which enabled him to return to school after the war and to begin a medical degree at the University of Melbourne. Fred and Barbara Hocking were married on 18 May 1951. With an impressive undergraduate program of 4 years of her law studies completed, Barbara’s studies were interrupted by the arrival of four children within ten years, before she was even thirty years old. She did not forget her love of study and of the law and, with 4 children under the age of 10, showed her trademark determination and returned to university to finish her law degree. If it was unusual for a woman to be studying law in the 1940s, it was even more unusual for a woman with four young children to be finishing her law degree more than 10 years later. But this she did, and in 1962 Barbara Hocking graduated with Arts and Law from the University of Melbourne. For decades, Barbara put her husband’s career first, supporting him through a year’s sabbatical working on a Doctorate in Medicine in 1964, which year was spent, with the four children in tow, in the quintessentially quaint village of Woodstock, living in a large old English stone house opposite Blenheim palace and its wonderful gardens designed by Capability Brown which, as a keen gardener herself, Barbara loved. Both Barbara and Fred embraced the English pub tradition, becoming regulars at the famous Bear Inn in Woodstock with local friends. It was a time of challenge for both of them and Barbara, incongruously enough again, taught mathematics (of which she admitted to knowing little) at the local secondary school and began a brief career as a lollypop lady, showing children safely across the road to and from the village primary school! THE GENESIS AND AFTERMATH OF MABO On her return to Melbourne, Barbara resumed her law studies and began a Master of Law at Monash University. Fuelled by what she perceived to be a neglect of Indigenous property rights in the law curriculum, coupled with a neglect of colonial legal history that would explain the incorrect application of the doctrine of ‘terra nullius’ to Australia, she completed a preliminary MA thesis at Monash University on ‘Aboriginal Land Rights: An Australian Injustice’. In 1971 Barbara Hocking was awarded an LLM, also at Monash University, for her ground-breaking thesis Native Land Rights. With the academic legal groundwork done, she commenced work on what was to be the most rewarding part of her career in the law and began what has since been recognised as a body of work of the greatest legal and political significance. In those theses, and in her books, articles, reports and conference papers over many years, Barbara presented what was then an unprecedented argument, later vindicated by the High Court in its historic Mabo decisions, concerning the recognition at common law of a form of native title ownership in Australia. In September 1981, Barbara Hocking presented a paper at a Land Rights conference at James Cook University, Townsville. The conference, Land Rights and Future Australian Race Relations, was organised by the Townsville chapter of the Aboriginal Treaty Committee and co-chaired by Eddie Mabo and Professor Noel Loos of James Cook University. Barbara Hocking’s paper, subsequently published in Olbrei, (ed) Black Australians, was entitled ‘Is Might Right? An Argument for the Recognition of Traditional Aboriginal Title to Land in the Australian Courts’ and argued that a case should be taken to the High Court of Australian in pursuit of the recognition of native title in Australian common law. In this powerful and prescient piece Barbara propounded that the High Court be asked to determine whether indigenous Australians had a ‘just and legal’ claim to their lands, to overturn the specious notion of ‘terra nullius’ (embedded in Australian law since the Privy Council decision in Cooper v Stuart in 1889) and that it was time for the common law to be ‘put to rights’. Even if such a case were not to succeed, Barbara argued, it would surely serve as a catalyst for political action: ‘A test case brought by a group of Queensland Aboriginals who still live on their tribal lands, could influence the attitudes of white Australians …. It might for example lead to the establishment of a Court of Claims and an Aboriginal Claims Commission.’ At the conference Eddie Mabo and Father Dave Passi – the two lead plaintiffs in what became known as the Mabo case – then gave instructions to Barbara Hocking as barrister and solicitor Greg McIntyre to pursue precisely such a case in the High Court, to establish recognition of traditional rights to land in Australian common law. Barbara well understood the potential significance of this case and for the next ten years it would be the central goal of her legal work as she made the Mabo case the highest priority in her practice at the bar. The writ and the statement of claim initiating the case were issued in the Brisbane Registry of the High Court in May 1982 on behalf of the plaintiffs Eddie Mabo, Dave Passi, Sam Passi, James Rice and Celuia Mapo Salee. Barbara prepared the first draft of this historic statement of claim which drew heavily on her expertise in indigenous land rights, law and tenure, especially in the framing of the legal issues, all guided by her deep academic knowledge of this area of law. Barbara Hocking appeared in the High Court as a member of the plaintiffs’ legal team to argue what became Mabo (No 1). The High Court’s Final Judgment, in Mabo (No 2), was handed down on 3rd June 1992, finally recognizing a new property right, ‘native title’ in common law. The High Court judgments essentially accepted the arguments put forward in her work including her 1988 book International Law and Aboriginal Human Rights. She had begun this work at a time when such an analysis was politically and academically new and challenging and she was to see her interpretation of the law in this area achieve mainstream acceptance. What drove her was a concern for justice and human rights and a fundamental belief in the law – specifically that the previous application of the law was simply wrong and that it should be, in her words, ‘put right’. She was overjoyed when then Prime Minister Paul Keating took carriage of the implications of the historic Mabo decision and risked his political career to bring about the Native Title Act 1993. As Barbara’s Canadian colleagues, Professor Peter Russell and Professor Wes Pue remarked: her intellectual input was indeed ‘terrific’. Regretfully, the ‘principle hero’ of the Mabo case, Eddie Mabo, died before the High Court handed down its decision. In 1992 Barbara Hocking, along with the five plaintiff’s in the Mabo Case, was awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission paying tribute to her foundational role in the recognition of native title and for ‘her contribution to the Mabo case and…work over many years to gain legal recognition for indigenous people’s rights.’ She later described this as her ‘professional life’s work.’ Barbara was honoured again the following year when she was awarded the inaugural Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award for her ‘visionary groundbreaking work on aboriginal land rights [which] was, through the High Court of Australia’s Mabo decisions, recognised as a body of work of immense legal and political significance and an important milestone in Australian history’. Among the highlights of her role on the Mabo case, she later told ABC Radio, was a visit to the Torres Strait Islands, meeting the Torres Strait Islander plaintiffs, their community and their families. Barbara was to look back on those halcyon days with great pride and fondness, retaining a life-long interest in the role of law in pursuit of justice, never losing faith in law’s transformative role, and retaining the faith and spirit to argue the case for justice even up to the month before her sudden death. Terrific indeed! Events 2006 - 2006 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Review Review of Peter H. Russell, Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism, Pue, Dr W. Wesley, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Barbara Ann Hocking and Jenny Hocking Created 5 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers, 1947-62; comprise cuttings, leaflets, notes and miscellaneous letters to C E W and Effie Bean from correspondents such as the Society of Old Brentwoods, Sir Edmund Herring, A W Bazley, Helen G Palmer, Jill C Bean, Edith Hough, W Dalton, Dr John Bean, the Old Cliftonian Society, James and Stewart Jamieson Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The majority of this collection consists of minute books, along with some reports, newspaper clippings and a branch history.??Arranged into 4 series. Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 June 2004 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Theresa Alfonzi, is the former owner/miner of the Triple Chance Mine in Broken Hill. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 January 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "78 reels and 90 cassettes – 100hrs Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "50 minutes??Elsie Hughes was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and spent her youth in Murray Bridge. At the age of 19 she began nursing training at the Adelaide Hospital. On completion of training she remained on staff of the hospital, working as a Theatre Sister. In 1936 Elsie and a friend left on an overseas visit, and after a holiday in Britain, worked at a Sanatorium in Switzerland. When war broke out in 1939 Elsie returned to Britain where she joined the Reserve Queen Alexandria Imperial Military Nursing Service. She served during the war in military hospitals in Palestine and Egypt, and in Britain. On return to Adelaide in 1946 Elsie Hughes became Sister in Charge of the McEwin Theatre suite at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, an appointment which she held until retirement in 1966. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jane Ward is a well known local and conservationist activist with a passion for social justice and community action. As an Independent candidate she contested the following elections: Leichhardt Municipal Council, 1987 New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Balmain, 1988 House of Representatives, Sydney, 2004 City of Sydney council elections, 2004 Jane Ward was born in Unley, South Australia and grew up in Port Lincoln. She was educated at Adelaide University (BA) and the Adelaide Teachers College (Dip. Teach.) and taught briefly before moving to New Zealand. She later married and moved to the United States for 4 years. The marriage was dissolved and she returned to Australia. At the time of the 1988 election campaign, Jane Ward had lived in the Balmain area for 15 years, with her Australian husband and three children. She was also a teacher in the Corrective Services Department and had a long association with the peace and environment movement. She was also President of the Balmain Association and a member of Networking for Women. Jane Ward was a founding member of Punch Park People, a local environmental group. She has been a Director on the Board of the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales since 1986. She was President of the Kindergarten Union 1988-89 and is a member of its Finance, Audit and Marketing committees (2005). In 1988 she was on the steering Committee of the Conservation Foundation’s Urban Planning and Environment Coalition. In 2005 Jane Ward was Coordinator/Counsellor of the Lone Parent Family Support Services. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 February 2006 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "8 ledgers: Records of wage adjustments for railway workers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 5 minutes??Barbara Good was born in Adelaide, South Australia. After completion of schooling at The Wilderness School, she spent a short time at Clare with her family and then began training at Mareeba. Five months later she began again at the Memorial Hospital, completing the course in 1945. After midwifery training in Sydney Barbara was a staff member at the Repatriation General Hospital at Daw Park. She gained a Diploma in Nursing Administration in 1965 and became Acting Matron in 1972. In 1975 she moved to Tasmania and was Director of Nursing at the Repatriation Hospital in Hobart until her retirement from nursing in 1982. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Minutes of executive and monthly meetings 1960-1978; annual reports 1960-1982; correspondence 1961-1989; history of WILPF (NSW) 1990; subject files on campaigns, 1961-1989, including foreign bases on Australian soil, French atomic tests, chemical and biological warfare, disarmament, justice for Aborigines, opposition to uranium mining and the Vietnam War. Author Details Jane Carey Created 14 December 2004 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sue Dakin is a social and political activist, and successful local government councillor. Sue completed a BBM at UTS and worked as a TAFE teacher and in the hospitality industry before setting up her own business as a business consultant. By 2003 she was the business manager of a local legal practice and was actively involved as a volunteer court support worker for domestic violence victims. Sue is the chairperson of several Council Committees and is married with two sons. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records including Minutes of Annual General Meetings, Directors Minutes, Debentures and Memorandum book. Created 13 March 2019 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 7692 comprises draft scripts, notes, business and personal correspondence, fan mail, photographs, theatre programs, posters, music scores and clippings documenting Archer’s musical shows, plays, songs and publications. Also included are the papers of Diana Manson, former partner and personal manager of Archer. These papers mostly relate to Archer’s career, but also document the activities of Manson’s management companies Black and Blue Inc. and Diehard Productions, including contract negotiation and publicity. Papers relating to Manson’s professional association with performers Meryl Tankard, Jeannie Lewis, Jane Clifton and Noni Hazelhurst and with Hessian Records, are in this part of the collection. There is also correspondence, subject files, drafts and files relating to the National Festival of Australian Theatre (79 boxes, 3 fol. Boxes).??The Acc00.249 instalment comprises correspondence, notes, faxes, flyers, programs, cuttings, whole newspapers and scripts. Subjects include the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Festival of Perth, 1996, Sydney Mardi Gras, Sydney Gay Games, 2002, the Centenary of Federation Advisory Committee, and seminars and launches (16 cartons).??The Acc05.010 instalment comprises papers, brochures, posters, publications, videos, spool tapes and cassettes (67 cartons).??The Acc06.203 instalment comprises papers accrued during Robyn Archer’s role as director of the Liverpool European Capital of Culture festival in 2008, and other festivals in Australia. The papers include notebooks, journals and diaries (circa 2000-2005), correspondence, newspaper cuttings and ephemera (17 boxes, 1 carton, 4 fol. Boxes).??The Acc10.175 instalment comprises audiovisual material relating to a number of artistic projects with which Archer has been involved. Includes audio cassettes, video cassettes, and sound and film recordings on tape reels (4 cartons, 4 folio boxes).??The Acc13.127 instalment comprises papers relating to the career of Robyn Archer between 1990 and 2002 and to her role as Creative Director, Centenary of Canberra, 2013 (59 boxes, 5 fol. Boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "30 minutes??Kathleen Turner, nee Conway, and Enid Cherry were both Adelaide-born nurses who served overseas during the First World War. The brief interview about their experiences was recorded on Anzac Day at the nursing home in which Mrs Turner lived. She had travelled to England in 1915 to join the British Army Nursing Service, served in the Middle East, and married an English airman. Miss Cherry received her call to the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1917, served in the Middle East and in Albany, Western Australia during the influenza epidemic. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc07/55 comprises professional and personal correspondence and research files.??The Acc07/157 instalment includes drafts, correspondence, press cuttings, photographs and negatives, mostly relating to Inglis’ publications, Amirah, an un-Australian childhood (1983), and, Karo: the life and fate of a Papuan (1982).??The Acc08/56 comprises the program for conferral of degree for Master of Arts from the Australian National University, 1973, with card and telegrams of congratulations, including from Manning Clark on back of photograph of Joseph Furphy, and, an examination report for 7th grade pianoforte.??The Acc08/111 instalment consists of letters to Inglis from her father, Itzhak Gust and her mother, arranged by year. Gust (1898-1990) was a Polish Jewish immigrant who arrived in Melbourne in 1928.??The Acc08/183 instalment comprises certificates awarded to Itzhak Gust at various philatelic exhibitions. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Judyth Watson was an Australian Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. Elected on 8 February 1986, she served as member for Canning until 4 February 1989, when she was elected member for Kenwick. Watson held this seat until 14 December 1996. Judyth Watson was born in 1940 at Burton-on-Trent in England to Cecil Watson, a railway worker, and his wife Hylda. The family moved to Western Australia 1949, and Judyth attended Perth Modern School on a scholarship, trained as a nurse, then completed a Bachelor of Science with first class Honours in 1977. She won the faculty prize and a Commonwealth postgraduate award, and completed a doctoral thesis on worker’s compensation in 1982. Watson joined the Australian Labor Party in 1976, and her experience and research expertise ensured that she could make a valuable contribution to national occupational health and safety policy. Watson was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia in 1986, and served as member for Canning until 1989. She was then elected member for Kenwick, which she held until December 1996. Published resources Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Judyth Watson papers, 1980-1996 [manuscript] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 9 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sally Dover is a practised campaigner who has run campaigns for three parties in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Port Stephens: Call to Australia candidate in 1995, Christian Democrat Party candidate in 1999 and a Liberal Party candidate in 2003. Sally also ran for the Port Stephens Council, she missed out in 1995, but was elected in 2004. Sally Dover grew up in Coogee, the third of five daughters. She attended Coogee Public School and Dover Heights Home Science High School where she did the Leaving Certificate in 1956. She married in 1960, and has four children. She and her husband moved to the Sutherland Shire in 1966 where they ran a number of businesses over the succeeding 30 years. They moved to Port Stephens in 1990 and ran a charter yacht business until 1997. Sally was elected to the Port Stephens Council in 2004 and is now a member of many committees including Mambo Wetlands, Hunter and New England Health, Parks and Halls Committees. Sally is a committed Christian and is involved in the women’s ministry of her church. For many years, she was the co-ordinator for How to Drug Proof Your Kids and the Women’s Information and Counselling Service in Nelson Bay. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers, mainly correspondence, relating to Mrs Garwin’s career as Head Mistress of Sydney Girl’s High School. An album of photographs and signatures presented to Mrs Garvin on the occasion of her Silver Jubilee as Head Mistress in 1910. Two Officier d’Academie medals. Correspondence, testimonials, certificates, menus, notes andspeeches. Also includes 2 photographs of Mrs Garvin; a volume of signatures of Old Girls bound in snade leather with her initials on the front, presented in 1919; a manuscript account book of fees paid at the Sydney Girls High School 1883-1917; three newspaper clippings and a photograph. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 March 2019 Last modified 3 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 sound tape reels (ca. 156 min.)??Rich speaks of the beginnings of the Racial Hygiene Association (1926); she explains the objectives of the organisation; the attitude of Government and society towards birth control; she speaks of Viola Smith and her accomplishments as a lawyer; her background and work at the United Nations. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 December 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers relate to the period Harris spent in England. They include correspondence between P. Harris and Hugh Dash, Press Secretary to Prime Minister Menzies, 1954-1960. Letters discuss the Prime Minister, Dame Pattie Menzies, Lady MacMillan, and the political situation in Australia. Also included are correspondence with lawyers, abstracts of letters and notes all relating to Harris’s struggle to bring his son back from Belgium, where his mother had fled with him. Papers also include newspaper clippings relating to the World War I trench paper “Aussie” of which P. Harris was editor. Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Diaries, ACT Teachers Federation materials (minutes and notes of Sexism Committee, election campaign material, publications), papers about the ACT Trades and Labour Council (including notes on campaign for recognition as equivalent of a state labor council), personal conference papers, annotated training material, and subject files on general left campaigns. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Air Vice-Marshal Margaret Staib was the Australian Defence Forces’ (ADF) most senior female officer when she took over as Airservices Australia CEO on October 15, 2012. As the ADF’s senior logistician, AVM Staib served as Commander Joint Logistics and played a key role in implementing a $2.4 billion logistics reform program under the 2009 Australian Defence White Paper. Margaret Staib spent thirty-one years with the Australian Defence Force before joining Air Services Australia as CEO in October 2012. In 2009, she was appointed a joint logistics commander and air vice-marshal before making the move, which made her the highest ranking woman in the Australian military. Born into an air force family in Canberra in1962, the family moved around a fair bit when Staib was young. Obviously, she was no stranger to military life, but is wasn’t until she attended a jobs fair in her last year at high school (at Merici School) that she decided to follow that path herself. She joined the RAAF in 1981, completed her Bachelor of Business at the University of Southern Queensland in 1983 and graduated as a supply officer. Her first posting was to Darwin as the Assistant Facilities Officer. Most of her early career was spent learning basic level logistics and stock control. Throughout the 1990s her career in logistics developed and she served as the Personal Staff Officer to the Air Officer Commanding Logistics Command and then the newly formed joint service Commander Support Command. This career progression helped her to understand the ways in which teamwork lay at the heart of a smooth functioning military. ‘In the air force, we operate very much as a team,’ she says. ‘A lot of things come together to fly a plane.’ (Where my ideas come from) While working to gain this experience, she studied a Masters of Business Logistics through Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology to gain the theoretical perspective. In 2000 Staib’s contribution and leadership in the field of ADF Aviation Inventory Management was recognised when she was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross. Staib travelled to the Pentagon for a two year exchange in 2000, gaining experience in working with other military and commercial groups. She was there to work on electronic supply chain models and after her day 3 at her posting was quite overwhelmed by the scale of the operation and it had an impact on her ability to do her job properly. ‘I found out there were 13,500 people in one building; that’s the size of my air force,’ she observed. Every time she got overwhelmed, she’d try to get herself back on track by focusing on the mantra ‘Margaret, that’s not what you are here to do.’ (Where my ideas come from) It must have been effective, because her service with the US Air Force was recognised with the United States Meritorious Service medal after her posting. Further study – a Masters of Arts in Strategic Studies, completed in 2005 at the Australian Defence Force Academy – accompanied her appointment to the position of Director of Planning and Logistics – Airforce in 2002 on her return from the U.S. A string of other logistics posts, including Director Logistics Support Agency- Airforce (2006-7) and then Director-General Strategic Logistics (2007-9) followed. In 2009 she spent a year as the Commandant of the Australian Defence Force Academy and was appointed as a member in the Military Division of the Order of Australia. In that same year she was promoted to air vice marshal. Air Vice-Marshal Margaret Staib was appointed Commander Joint Logistics in January 2010 a position, as described by ex – Transport Minister, Anthony Albanese as one in which Air Vice-Marshal Staib ‘planned, coordinated and delivered logistics support for Australian Defence Force operations and exercises overseas and in our own backyard.’ (Logistics Gun Shoots to Airservices Australia’s Top Rank) She played a key role in developing and implementing the $2.4 billion logistics reform program – a major initiative of the 2009 Australian Defence White Paper. Staib has managed to progress her career despite being a widowed mother of twins. She was seven weeks pregnant when her husband was killed in an aircraft accident. It wasn’t until she was about twenty weeks pregnant that she discovered she was having twins. ‘That was a bit of a struggle but the air force was so supportive,’ she says. ‘People ask me how I coped. It was almost binary: you choose to cope or not and once you’ve made the decision the rest falls into place.’ (Where my ideas come from) A hallmark of her success as a leader is her ability to recognise the areas she can influence and her regular conduct of ‘organisational health checks’, by getting out and talking to people. ‘I’m very conscious of structures that can mask what people are feeling. So it is very much about getting out and talking to people and having an honest conversation.’ (Where my ideas come from) Another is recognising that pace of change, when a leader has a mandate to make change, must be managed very carefully. ‘There’s always a danger with the new-broom approach, you don’t want to break a system with unintended consequences,’ she said. ‘I like to put my feet under the table and get to know the organisation from the inside.’ (New Chief of the air) Published resources Newspaper Article Where my ideas come from, Hoper, Narelle, 2012 Article New Chief of the air to unite factions, Creedy, Steve, 2012, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aviation/new-chief-of-the-air-to-unite-factions/story-e6frg95x-1226473714785 Logistics gun shoots to Airservices Australia's top rank, 2012, http://www.supplychainreview.com.au/news.aspx?mid=548&dnnprintmode=true&ArticleID=81020&SkinSrc=[G]Skins%2FSupplyChain%20Review%2FPrinterFrendlySkin&ContainerSrc=[G]Containers%2F_default%2FNo+Container Resource Website of the Royal Australian Air Force Air Power Development Centre, 'Air Vice Marshals (L-Z)', 2012, http://airpower.airforce.gov.au/Contents/About-APDC/About-APDC/Office-of-Air-Force-History/Air-Marshals-of-the-RAAF/137/Air-Vice-Marshals-L-Z.aspx Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 February 2013 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Muriel Chase ( nee Cooper) was well known for her community work, philanthropy, journalism and photography. A foundation member of the Karrakatta Club and the Women Writer’s Club, she was social editress of the West Australian from 1903. Muriel Jean Eliot Cooper, later Chase, was born on 2 July 1880 in Geraldton, Western Australia. She was the eldest of four children born to John Henry Cooper and Priscilla Richenda (née Eliot). Cooper was educated at Amy Best’s school. On 5 July 1900, at the age of 20, she married Ernest Edward Chase, who was 15 years her senior. The couple moved to England where Ernest was to work as secretary to Sir Charles Rose, a conservative Member of Parliament. The couple did not stay long, returning to Australia only a year later due to Ernest’s ill health. They had two daughters. It is unclear when Cooper developed an interest in photography, or where she trained, but she is known to have worked at a photography studio called the Hay Street Studio in Perth during 1900s. She photographed notable community leaders, and some of these photographs were published in newspapers. Western Mail published six of her photographs of West Australian Members of the Federal Senate. Cooper was a foundation member of Karrakatta Club and the Women Writers Club, and through her work at the Western Mail newspaper Cooper helped raise funds to establish the Silver Chain District Nursing Association in 1904. Cooper was the social editor of The West Australian newspaper from 1903, and also wrote for the Western Mail using the pseudonym Adrienne. She also wrote a column entitled Children’s Corner under the name of ‘Aunt Mary’. Muriel Jean Cooper died of heart failure on 13 February in 1936, aged 56. Collections State Library of Western Australia Content added for the In Her Gift and The Women’s Pages research projects, last modified 5 September 2012 In addition to writing for the West Australian, Chase wrote for the Western Mail under the pseudonym of Adrienne, and campaigned for more social welfare services throughout the Western Australian community. She wrote for the paper’s Children’s Corner as ‘Aunt Mary’, and recruited her younger readers as ‘silver links in a chain of service’. In this way she helped to establish the Silver Chain District Nursing Association, raising enough money by 1904 to fund a district nurse who visited her patients by bicycle. The work of the district nurse raised awareness in the community of the need for hospitals and homes, both for infants and the elderly. Occasionally, Chase herself would relieve the district nurse on night duty. Events 1900 - 1910 1900 - Published resources Book The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900., Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter, 1986 Newspaper Article The Six West Australian Members of the Federal Senate, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33202719 Weddings, 1901, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33206871 Miss Cooper's Studio, Egeria, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/67065944 Photograph Elinor Elizabeth Clifton, Cooper, Muriel, 1901 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Resource Section Chase, Muriel Jean Eliot (1880 - 1936), Stewart, Noel, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070630b.htm Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 October 2007 Last modified 15 December 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "35 minutes??Doris Chambers talks about her parents. Her mother Myrtle was born in 1888 in a tent on Acacia station. She went to school at Gawler. She married Con White who was the overseer on Wilcannia station. The lived at Noonameera which was an isolated cattle station and stores arrived via camel teams every six months. Doris grew up on the station and became a good horse rider and had many pets. The moved to Winnaminta which was owned by the Morden Pastoral Company and covered a million and a quarter acres. Doris boarded at Woodlands school for three years from 1927. She married Jim Chambers in 1943 whose family dated back to 1836 when James Chambers jumped ship from the Coromandel. Her mother Myrtle wrote several books about the outback and her friends included Dame Mary Gilmore and Miles Franklin. Doris and Jim stayed on at Wannaminta for 25 years, Jim having won the property in a ballot of land leases. Doris was responsible for publishing and sorting all the unpublished writings of her mother. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9761 comprises correspondence, cards, family papers, diaries, notebooks, personal documents and mementos, papers on Mills’ terms as librarian at Charles Sturt University and the University of the South Pacific (USP), papers on conferences and libraries, papers on bibliographic activities, scrap albums, printed material and two videos (17 boxes, 1 fol. Item).??The Acc04.236 instalment comprises papers documenting Mills’ career and relating to Australian librarianship (1 box).??The Acc05.067 instalment includes personal correspondence (letters received), 2002-2005, papers relating to the death of Mills’ father, R.M. Mills, in 2004 and tape of Mills’ mother regarding the family, 1982; review articles by Mills, 1982-1983; brochures, catalogues, articles, cuttings and some email correspondence relating to Australian book publishing and publishers, colonial authors, librarians and Pacific libraries and archives; USP oral history project “Conversations under a mango tree”, four tapes and summary content notes (1 box).??The Acc05.071 instalment consists of three photograph albums of Fiji, USP and the Pacific; “Friends and work”; travels from 1997; and autobiographical notes and documents relating to Cyril Bennetts and the Bennetts family (2 boxes).??The Acc05.140 instalment comprises seven photograph albums (2 boxes).??The Acc05.159 instalment consists of correspondence A, B, M, S (2 boxes).??The Acc07.065 instalment includes miscellaneous correspondence (mostly personal), greeting cards and news clippings; card index relating to “DB entry” [i.e. database entry?]; photographic negatives, prints, slides; bound volumes of Cartoons magazine (1915-1917); and, copies of publications relevant to Mills’ activities as a bibliographer (2 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc09.169 instalment comprises correspondence, texts of speeches and papers given at professional conferences, reports, news clippings, script of a radio play by Mills “Two men and a goat” (broadcast around 1954) (1 packet).??The Acc12.094 instalment comprises posters and historical rubbings, correspondence, research notes and papers, photography and bound journals (23 boxes, 2 elephant fol., 3 small fol. Boxes).??The Acc12.149 instalment comprises correspondence and photocopies of research material and newspaper clippings relating to various research projects (3 boxes, 1 fol. Item).??The Acc13.082 instalment comprises Christmas cards sent to Carol Mills in 2012, correspondence and research notes (1 packet).??The Acc14.097 instalment comprises Christmas cards received by Carol Mills in 2013 (1 folder). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 March 2005 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection includes: awards, certificates, files, correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports, membership lists, records of the PEN International 62nd International Congress, which was held in Fremantle, W.A. in 1995, and other miscellaneous records. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records of the Young Women’s Christian Association of Adelaide Inc., comprising property files, minutes of various committees, admission registers, financial records, histories of YWCA, general subject files, minutes of Board of Directors. Also includes minutes and correspondence of the Four Corners Club, 1963-1976 and the Committee for the Welfare of Overseas Students. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sue Doobov moved to Canberra in 1965 from Brisbane. She was a leader of the Jewish community in Canberra, as well as the Executive Officer of the Council on the Ageing ACT at a time when it assisted in the establishment of many service organisations. Sue is recognised as the instigator of the University of the Third Age (U3A) in Canberra. She retired to Israel in 1998. Sue Doobov was the daughter of Siegfried (Fred) and Leoni (Lee) Gans, who had escaped Nazi Germany in 1937. She had an older brother, Alfred, who survived her. She grew up in Brisbane and was initially educated for office work. She led the Betar Zionist youth movement in Brisbane and studied in Israel at the Machon leMadrichai Chutz l’Aretz (the Institute for Youth Leaders from Abroad). In Betar she met Mervyn Doobov, whom she subsequently married, in 1964, and with whom she moved to Canberra. Her two children, Ilana and Arieh, were born there, in 1967 and 1969. She and Mervyn became very involved with the small Jewish community in Canberra and served in many roles within it, including president. Sue was mainly active in the women’s side of the community and in educational activities. For many years she prepared girls for bat mitzvah and led the women’s volunteer Chevra Kadisha. She was known for her interest in helping elderly members of the community as well as being a by-word in hospitality. For her contributions to the Jewish community, she was awarded a medal in the Order of Australia, in 1998, a distinction she shared with her husband. After a period at home caring for two young children, Sue decided that it was time to continue her formal education. She had not completed secondary education in Queensland, but decided to try for a university degree. Without matriculation, the Canberra College of Advanced Education (now the University of Canberra) required her to pass a minimum of four subjects in her first year. She succeeded and completed a degree in Sociology and Economics in five years. She then became the Executive Director of the Council on the Ageing ACT, from 1982 to 1994. Under her leadership, the Council was active in establishing other organisations to provide services for older people. Some of these organisations were the Abbeyfield Society (a not-for-profit community housing provider), Community Options (a not-for-profit, community-based organisation providing care and support to older people, people with disabilities, their families and friends), Handy Help, Home Help and Respite Care. The University of the Third Age (U3A) has recognised a public meeting called by Sue as the starting point for its activities in Canberra. In September 2011, she was guest of honour at the 25th Anniversary Celebrations for U3A. The family moved to Israel in 1998. She was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2000 and subsequently underwent a number of operations and extensive treatment, all without complaint and with fortitude. She managed to visit Australia for the U3A celebrations less than one year before her death in August 2012. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Sue Doobov, http://www.162smilingfaces.com/Obituaries.htm Newsletter U3A ACT - 25th Anniversary, 2011, http://www.u3acanberra.org.au/newsletters/25th-anniversary-supplement.pdf U3A ACT News, 2011, http://www.u3acanberra.org.au/newsletters/2011/Newsletter1111.pdf Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Ann Tündern-Smith Created 6 February 2013 Last modified 15 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Sue Doobov Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A political activist, Anita Ceravolo ran as an Australian Greens candidate in the 2003 Bligh elections. After attending the University of Sydney, Anita worked in the union movement for the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union. She is active in challenging the attacks on the union movement and workers’ compensation. She made a submission to the Senate Enquiry on Employment, Workplace Relations and Education References Committee for its report on higher education funding and regulatory procedures published in 2004. She is also involved in the organisation of the International Women’s Day March. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "City of Hawthorn Council correspondence; agendas; minutes; circulars; reports; publications; subject files 1972-1975. Created 24 October 2018 Last modified 24 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A once-only candidate, Elizabeth Anne R. Bishop stood as an ALP candidate in the 1978 Lane Cove elections. Elizabeth Bishop trained as a teacher, and later became an industrial advocate and research officer. She stressed her interest in the environment in her campaign leaflet. She has one son. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 7 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Albums – 29.5 x 25 cm-38 x 28 cm – 19 scrapbooks (ca. 1630 photoprints, col. – newscuttings, invitations, programmes and printed items)??VOLUME 1?A.L.G.W.A. Local Government, 1977-1980. Local Government Womens’ Association, 1984??VOLUME 2?Women’s Electoral Lobby N.S.W. & A.C.T. 1982 – Sydney 10th Birthday Party 12/5/82, British Ex-Services Club – International Alliance of Women XXVI Triennial Congress, Helsinki, Finland??VOLUME 3?Women’s Electoral Lobby 1983-1984??VOLUME 4?Women’s Electoral Lobby & International Association for Women photographs, Xmas cards 1983-1984??VOLUME 5?Women’s Electoral Lobby photographs, Oct 1985-1986??VOLUME 6?Australian Local Government Women’s Association, 1985??VOLUME 7?Australian Local Government Women’s Association, 1986??VOLUME 8?Women’s Electoral Lobby, Aug 1986-1987??VOLUME 9?Women’s Electoral Lobby, Sept 1987-December 1987??VOLUME 10?International Alliance of Women (I.A.W.), Strassburg 21-24 Aug 1988 [seminar]??VOLUME 11?Women’s Electoral Lobby and Women’s Groups begins Jan 1989 + I.A.W. Congress, Melbourne, 22 Sept 1989-1 Oct 1989??VOLUME 12?Women’s Electoral Lobby, Nov 1989-Mar1991??VOLUME 13?Pat Richardson personal album, 1989??VOLUME 14?Additional printed items: Business Paper for the meeting of the Community Service Committee … Local Government Association of N.S.W. Shires Association of N.S.W. – Australian Local Government Women’s Association, Report of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference held at Bega April 27th, 28th and 29th, 1979 – The Australian Local Government Women’s Association, New South Wales Branch, constitutions, by-laws and standing orders, 1983, Pamphlet entitled ‘Women in Local Government’ – Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Australian Local Government Women’s Association funded at Canberra, 1951, N.S.W. Branch, Theme ‘Water – its uses and abuses’ hosted by … Kiama Municipal Council Kiama, N.S.W., Date … 26 to 28 April, 1985 – I.A.W. Conference, trip to France/Germany, 16 Aug-26 Sept, 1988 – International Alliance of Women, a report by Pat Richardson, Board Member, published in WEL National Bulletin, Sept/Oct, 1988??VOLUME 15?Women’s Electoral Lobby & women’s events, April 1991 – March 1992??VOLUME 16?Paris-France International Alliance of Women – board meeting 24-27th October 1997. Prior to board meeting seminar on racism in Ireland, 18.10.97??VOLUME 17?IAW seminar Copenhagen and IAW board meeting and international meeting Malmo Sweden 20-26th August 1998??VOLUME 18?Pat Richardson representing the WEL at the IAW Triennial Congress, New York, August-September 1999??VOLUME 19?Pat Richardson, IAW membership sect., & WEL member at the CEDAW-Convention, Odense, 31 Oct-5 Nov 2001 ; and at IAW 32nd Triennial Conference hosted by the Sri Lankan Women’s Conference, Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 14-21 Sept 2002. Incl. IAW Action Programmes, 1999-2002, 2002-2004 Author Details Jane Carey Created 29 October 2004 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letter written to Miss Holland thanking her for her letter of sympathy. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 25 September 2002 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kim Rooney is an Australian barrister and international arbitrator who has been practicing in Asia, based in Hong Kong, since 1990. She is regularly appointed as an arbitrator in international arbitrations involving banking and finance, commercial, corporate, construction and infrastructure, energy, power and resources, infrastructure, investment, IT and technology licensing and trade disputes, and is on the panel of various arbitral institutions. Since the 1990s, as counsel, Kim has represented clients in a wide range of international banking and finance, commercial, corporate, construction, energy, infrastructure and investment disputes in Asia, Europe and Latin America under the laws of civil and common law jurisdictions and investment treaties. Kim is the Chair of the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission’s Sub-Committee on Third Party Funding for Arbitration, a member of the Hong Kong Government’s Committee on Provision of Space in the Legal Hub and of its Advisory Committee on Promotion of Arbitration. She is also a member of the Hong Kong Bar Association’s Council and Chair of its Special Committee on International Practice. She writes and speaks regularly about international dispute resolution. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Kim Rooney for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Kim Rooney and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. In 1976 women students constituted a significant number of the entry class at the Law School of the University of Western Australia (UWA) for the first time, albeit a minority at around 30%. When leaving school in 1974 I had wanted to be an archaeologist, inspired by my mother’s study of anthropology as a mature age student at UWA. However my experience during an internship at the WA Museum in 1974/75 of participating in one dig at Devils Lair in the heat of a Western Australian summer, while filling me with admiration for the dedicated archaeologists whom I had accompanied, made me realize that I should reconsider my career. I decided to enroll in law, motivated by a desire to be an advocate and a general desire to “make a difference” (a desire I still hear expressed by many law students and young lawyers). I had had the good fortune to been born to parents who valued education. We moved from Sydney when I was 3 months old to live in England for 5 years while my father studied for a higher degree in medicine. (My mother had previously lived in England in the 1950s while a nurse and then a BOAC airhostess). After returning to Sydney in 1963 we moved with my younger brother Mark and sister Rosie to Perth in 1968. Having attended 7 primary schools in NSW and WA (3 in grade l), I attended Loreto Claremont for high-school where I received an excellent high school education from teachers who encouraged us to believe we could undertake any career we wished. I topped the state in English in my final exams (with a Loreto friend) and was also awarded a special exhibition. The 1970s were an exciting time to be studying law; law reforms were being implemented at a federal level in a diverse range of areas, important constitutional cases were being heard, and the student body was composed of a diverse group of students of widely diverging political and social views. There was far less pressure on law students than today . Our university education was free, the cost of living was low and we all thought we would be able to practice as lawyers if we wanted to; every one of my graduating class of 1979 who applied for articles eventually obtained them. Less pressure allowed time for extra-curricular activities. The 47 Fairway Legal Counselling and Advisory Service was set up by a group of academics, students and lawyers in the late 1970’s and I served as its convenor for a year. While at law school I mooted -Peter Van Hattem and I were grand finalists in the 1977 National Mooting competition conducted by the Australian and New Zealand Law Students Association. I was also the representative of the Law Student’s Blackstone Society on the Faculty of Law in 1979. From 1980-1981 I served my articles and restricted practice year at Lavan & Walsh (later Philips Fox) where I had the good fortune to be trained by some very able lawyers in civil, commercial and family law litigation including by Kevin Hammond and by Diana Bryant SC (now Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia). Western Australia is a fused profession and there were many opportunities as a young advocate to appear in chambers and in court, as well as in pretrial conference in various courts and tribunal. As part of the Firm’s pro bono services I also did work for a women’s refuge. In January 1982 I moved to the Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) where about 90% of my practice was as a criminal advocate for adults and children working with many talented and committed advocates and field officers in cases involving clients from around Western Australia. These ranged from wilful murder charges (junioring Lloyd Davies QC) to children’s court charges and involved appearing in multiple courts often on the same day. While I was at the ALS David K Malcolm QC (who later became the Chief Justice of Western Australia) offered me an opportunity to be his pupil. I served my pupillage with him in the second half of 1983. In my early years at the Bar I worked part time as a university tutor, as duty counsel and as the “Moot Master” at the UWA Law School. While at the Bar I met Valerie French who had been the first woman in WA to practice exclusively as a barrister; she generously gave me excellent advice. I admired her professionally and her ability to juggle her practice with family commitments. A number of other colleagues also gave encouragement I had the opportunity to work with various more senior barristers including Eric Heenan QC and Geoffrey Miller QC, as well as with David Malcolm. The focus of my practice shifted from criminal to commercial, administrative and media law. In 1980 I had been elected as the articled clerk representative on the Council of the Law Society of Western Australia. I served as an elected member of its council for many years during the 1980’s. Among other roles, I was chair of the Law Society’s Equal Opportunity Committee and moved the motion passed by the Law Society Council that made it unprofessional conduct to discriminate on the basis of gender or race. I also served for some time on the Council of the Western Australian Bar Association. Both Associations regarded law as a profession. Moira Rayner was among the women who were active in the Law Society and generally in pro bono and public service in Perth in the 1980’s -she rejoined the Bar during that time. In 1982, Vivien Payne, Antoinette (Toni) Kennedy, Diana Bryant, Anne Payne, Christine Wheeler, Rhonda Griffiths, Becky Vidler and I established the Women Lawyers’ Association of Western Australia. Vivian Payne was its first president. I later served as its Vice President. In the 1980’s my appointments included serving on the Social Securities Appeal Tribunal (as a part time legal member), as a visitor to Heathcote Psychiatric Hospital, and as a member of the WA Standing Committee for Publications (the WA Censorship Board). In the mid 1980’s I was among a small group of young lawyers and social workers who wrote and published a guide for victims of domestic violence which we arranged to publish, translate into 10 or so languages and distribute. In 1987 I married my husband David Parker who had one daughter Kate; our daughter Madeleine was born in 1989. By 1990 David and I had decided to move to Hong Kong. We have lived and worked in Hong Kong since July 1990. My husband has been very supportive of my work as a lawyer, and we shared parenting, with the invaluable assistance of child carers. Hong Kong is a divided legal profession. In 1990, as I was not permitted to practice as a barrister in Hong Kong until I had lived in Hong Kong for 7 years I decided to qualify and work as a Hong Kong solicitor. From 1990-1992 I worked at Baker & McKenzie in insolvency litigation on the Carrian cases. Whilst at Baker & McKenzie I qualified as an English solicitor in late 1991 and as a Hong Kong solicitor in 1992. In 1993 I joined the newly established Hong Kong office of White & Case LLP an international law firm headquartered in New York. George Crozer was the head of the Hong Kong White & Case office. Originally from the US he is a project finance lawyer with a profound knowledge of Asian legal practice. I became a partner of White & Case LLP and head of its Asian dispute resolution practice. It was during the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 that I started working in international arbitration; many of the arbitrations involved disputes arising from infrastructure projects around Asia. In the late 1990’s I undertook a law reform project funded by the World Bank on the Lao international arbitration law. My other extracurricular activities were focused on arbitration related areas including the ICC Arbitration Commission and the ICC Hong Kong Arbitration Committee and judging mooting. In 2006 I received my first appointment as an arbitrator. In late 2009 I left White & Case LLP to qualify as a Hong Kong barrister. I now primarily work as an international arbitration with some work as arbitration counsel in international arbitration of disputes involving parties and law from Asia, Europe and the Americas. I am also engaged in law reform in Hong Kong and Indonesia, in Hong Kong chairing the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission’s sub-committee on Third Party Funding for Arbitration and in Indonesia working in an EU-funded Alternative Dispute Resolution Project in the public sector. Among other extracurricular activities, I am a member of the Council of the Hong Kong Bar Association and Chair of the Hong Kong Bar Association’s Special Committee on International Practice, as well as a member of the Hong Kong Government’s Advisory Committee on Promotion of Arbitration in Hong Kong and of its Committee on the Provision of Space in the Legal Hub. I continue to participate in the work of the ICC Arbitration Commission, and am on the editorial committee of the International Bar Associates “International Dispute Resolution” journal among others. I still regularly judge mooting competitions around Asia, and speak and write about international dispute resolution. My generation of law students were fortunate to study law at a time when the practice of law seemed exciting, fresh and relevant, and to commence practice at a time of great opportunity. Most of us thought we would spend our professional lives working in Perth. In fact a number of us moved to study and work interstate and overseas. We had the chance to practice in different areas of the law before we specialized and to move between different branches of the law. For those of us who wished to be advocates we had the chance to be continually on our feet in various courts and tribunals. Legal practice has become more specialized in the past few decades. The internet has emerged as a major factor in efficient and effective practice while adding time pressure. The ways that law can be practiced have increased exponentially and international work has greatly expanded. Yet many of the present generation of law students are anxious about whether they will have an opportunity to practice, even if they have the academic credentials and the personal qualities needed, having found the financial resources to complete a law degree. There are many more law graduates, less funding of the non-profit sectors and bottle-necks to access to opportunities to gain the experience needed to practice. There is also pressure to specialize much earlier. While it is easy to romantize the past, my impression is that those of us who starting to practice in the early 1980’s generally had much easier access to practicing law, more time and opportunity to find a fulfilling area of practice and to juggle work and extra curricular activities as young lawyers. Mentoring was important for my career development and for that of a number of my friends. My peers and myself now have the chance to act as mentors. It is important that we do so, whether directly as mentors, including by providing internships, or by participating in legal education, mooting and other student related activities, to ensure that society continues to be served by dedicated, accomplished and principled lawyers. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Kim M. Rooney (with Nikki Henningham) Created 21 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Kim Rooney Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes correspondence, attendance information, administrative records, photos, annual reports and Board minutes of the Catholic Women’s League Child Care Centre. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 26 February 2004 Last modified 26 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Robin Banks is the (2016) Tasmanian Equal Opportunity Commissioner, a position she has occupied since 2010. Robin Banks was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. A longer essay detailing Robin Bank’s career is in development. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Robin Banks interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details TBWL project team Created 1 June 2016 Last modified 28 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "8 sound files (476 min)??Pat Eatock born at Redcliffe, Queensland in 1937 talks about her family history and early life; leaving school at 14 to work in various factories; at 18 moving to Sydney and marrying, Ron Eatock; how by the time she was 26 she had five children; beginning to publicly identify as an Aboriginal in 1957; attending a meeting of the Union of Australian Women at which Faith Bandler spoke; her political activities being limited by her family commitments until 1972; attending a Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) land rights conference in Alice Springs with her sixth child; the break-up of her marriage; joining the Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra and participating in the protests against its removal; living initially in the Canberra headquarters of the Women’s Liberation movement.??Eatock speaks about becoming the first Aboriginal candidate to stand for Federal parliament in the ACT, being endorsed by the newly-formed Women’s Electoral Lobby; in 1973 enrolling in a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Australian National University, graduating in 1977; conferences she has attended; her public service career; lecturing in community development at Curtin University, Western Australia; in December 1992, establishing and managing Perleeka Aboriginal Television, until its demise in 1996; teaching Aboriginal Studies at James Cook University in 1997; in 1999 undertaking a one-year preliminary course with the intention of beginning a Masters degree in history at the University of Queensland; her views on her life now, what she has achieved, and the inequality of women in contemporary society. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 June 2005 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers of the Australian Society of Authors, a craft guild and not a union, active in three main fields: the author and the distribution or publication of his work when it is written; the author in his relations with the law of obscenity, copyright, etc.; and, the status of the writer within the community. Consist of quarterly and annual reports; statements of receipts and payments; circular letters; notices regarding seminars; correspondence; copyright discussions; and, biographies of members. Also includes a copy of the Society’s Constitution and Notes on the Society by Jill Hellyer?Includes copy of the Society’s Constitution Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 online resource (3 photographs) – Studio portraits of Molly Burns with her son John (D00001638); Harry Burns (D00001639) and a group photo of Bill, Molly and Margaret Burns in a car on a mail run to Goodooga (D00001637) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 27 July 2005 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records, 1912-1970. Includes correspondence, minute books, membership and financial records, miscellaneous papers and photographs. Some post 1970 papers included. Includes 3 architectural plans, 1954 (MC 6, DR 6) Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 November 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "ca. 1991; Typescript of Nancy Bird Walton’s autobiography “My God! it’s a woman”, with editorial corrections. (Locn No.: MLMSS 6490/1) 1944-1994; Correspondence (photocopies) (Locn No.: MLMSS 6490/1). 1933-1993; Newscuttings and other printed material. Include articles about Nancy Bird Walton, Amy Johnson and Jean Batten, and a booklet “Fifty Years of Australian Air Mails” by H.N. Eustis (1964). (Locn No.: MLMSS 6490/1). 1958-1995; Certificates and awards. Include Honorary Degree of Master of Engineering awarded by the University of Sydney. (Locn No.: MLMSS 6490/1 & MLMSS 6490/2X) Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 8993 comprises training manuals used for professional and para-professional staff development in the National Library of Australia in the 1970s, and correspondence. The manuals include: System Development Appreciation Course (undated); A Report on [a] Course in Catalogue Searching [for] Clerical Assistants 4 (Feb. ’71); and, Continuing Education Programme, [National Library of Australia], series 1, sessions 1-40 [1972-75?]. Correspondence in the collection includes letters from Dymphna Clark, Honor Thwaites, Ruth Niland (Park), Rosemary Dobson, Barrett Reid, Stephen Murray-Smith, Joan Phipson and others. There are also invitations, press cuttings and memorabilia, mainly of Dymphna or Manning Clark, including two photographs, one showing Dymphna and Manning Clark, the other showing Dymphna (3 boxes).??The Acc13.017 instalment comprises correspondence, cuttings and typed notes pertaining to Lister George Hopkins and his wife Edna Hopkins, assembled by Richardson whilst writing a tribute to Lister Hopkins at the time of his death in 2008 (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence, newspaper clippings, art exhibition catalogues, tools, art works, photographs, notebooks, diaries. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 8 August 2018 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Vicki Brooke is a businesswoman with a long term interest in community and the environment. She ran as an Australian Greens candidate in the 2003 Peats elections. Vicki Brooke has worked in small business and the arts. She has managed a variety of enterprises, including a company servicing public arts and tourism clients. At the time of her candidature, Vicki was a voluntary business mentor for the Central Coast Mentor Service and conducted training workshops for the Hunter Business Chamber. Vicki has been involved in community affairs for over thirty years, and has recently taken a particular interest in genetically engineered food and globalisation. She is a founding member of the GeneEthics Network, and has lobbied Federal politicians on the subject of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Vicki campaigned on a platform of protection of forests and waterways, opposition to overdevelopment and encroachment of public land by private interests. She has children and grandchildren. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Miscellaneous records relating to correspondence and general information from the headquarters of the Country Women’s Association, Qld, 1927-1987 (2 drawers in filing cabinet). ?Minute books for 1944-1988, (1927-1943 missing). ?Annual reports and financial statements, 1948-1979 (1 box). ?Financial records, including dockets and cash receipts for subscriptions, donations, and fund-raising; also accounts payable and receipts, banking, and journal accounts, 1948-1987 (4 vols, 3 folders). ?Attendance Book; 1971-1981, 1981-1989, (2 vols). ?Financial records relating to the rental of the hall, cleaning, expenditure and maintenance, 1972-1976 (4 vols). ?Letter books, 1981-1987 (3 vols). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This series has not yet been processed as of 23.01.2018. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nikki Henningham Created 2 December 2006 Last modified 5 September 2012 Digital resources Title: Adair Ferguson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Pseudonym of WA author Joan Williams. The papers include her autobiography, correspondence, diaries, files, mss, notes, photographs, plays and poems. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dorothy Dunn lost her husband in the 1979 Streatham, Victoria bushfires. She decided to continue to run their farm on her own, and quickly realised that farming in Australia was seen as a male profession. The contribution of women was invisible, and they had little influence in decision making at any level. In 1992 she attended a meeting of similar minded women in Ballarat, Victoria, convened by Liz Hogan, a Project Officer with the Rural Women’s Network. Out of the meeting, the peak body Australian Women in Agriculture was formed, with Dorothy as inaugural president. Her presidency and long history of work as an advocate for the role of women in agricultural policy making was recognised with an AO in 1999. 1988-94: Councillor, Shire of Ararat. Dorothy Dunn has also been involved in her local community as Secretary of the development committee, and as a member of the Central Highlands Rural Finance Counselling Service. Her service to the development of her rural community was acknowledged with the award of a Centenary Medal in 2001. 1992 – February 1993: Member of committee to set up Australian Women in Agriculture organisation. 1993-1997: Founding member, and inaugural President, Australian Women in Agriculture, one of three national bodies representing rural women at state and federal level, to recognise, support and raise the profile of rural women’s contribution to agriculture and natural resource management, to unite such women and to facilitate their participation in decision making. Upon retirement from the Presidency, Dorothy remained as a Board Member for the following year, and was at the same time (1997-99) a member of the Victorian Rural Women’s Reference Group for the Office of Rural Affairs, Department of National Resources and Environment. 1993: Participant, Women’s Stories, 4th Annual Women on Farms Gathering, Tallangatta. 1994: Committee Member, Treasurer, First International Women in Agriculture Conference. 1995: Member of the Steering Committee, National Rural Women’s Forum, Canberra, as President of AWiA. Out of this Forum came the National Rural Women’s Agenda, for the guidance of the Women’s Policy Unit within the Department of Primary Industries and Energy. 1996: Steering Committee member, Ararat Women on Farms Gathering. 1997: Opened Bendigo Women on Farms Gathering, with Pat McNamara, Minister for Agriculture and Resources. 1998: National sponsorship co-ordinator and delegate, 2nd International Women in Agriculture Conference, Washington. 1999: Submission, ‘Australian Women in Agriculture’, to The Standing Committee on Primary Industries and Regional Services, Inquiry into Infrastructure and the Development of Australia’s Regional Areas, as Policy Convenor, AWiA. Admitted as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) 2001: Facilitator, Social Issues Group, Australian Women in Agriculture Conference. Recipient, Centenary Medal. Dorothy Dunn is still actively involved in her local community. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Report Australian Women in Agriculture Submission to the Standing Committee on Primary Industries and Regional Services, Dunn, Dorothy, 1999, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/primind/rdinq/sub205-e.pdf Electronic Journal Australian Women in Agriculture': Interview, Dorothy Dunn with Shane Mahony, Shane Mahony, 1999, http://arts.abc.net.au/headspace/rn/cbfast/women/default.htm Sound Recording Marius Cuming interview with Dorothy Dunn, 2002, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/legends/stories/4_2.htm Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Rose Andrew was elected an independent member of the sixteenth ACT Advisory Council in September 1961. She served one three-year term during which she supported community development such as proposing a heated swimming pool be built in Canberra. One of two female members of the Council, she did not seek re-election in 1964. Prior to being elected to the ACT Advisory Council she was President of the Canberra branch of the Country Women’s Association of Australia (CWA) in 1959. Rose Andrew was born in Blackpool, England, the daughter of Harvey Ashworth, a farmer, and Alice Hughes. Rose was living at 207 George Street East Melbourne within walking distance of the city of Melbourne and employed as a clerk when she married Walter Dudley Andrew, public servant, at St Peter’s Church of England, East Melbourne on 1 July 1937. At this time, her parents were separated; her father lived in London and her mother was living in Cranbourne, south of Melbourne, then a small farming community. By the 1950s, the Andrew family was living at 5 Dampier Crescent in the inner south Canberra suburb of Forrest, and Walter was working for the CSIRO. Walter and Rose, known in the family as Posey, had three children John, Robert and Helen. They remained in Canberra apart from a period in 1955, when they were living at Deniliquin, a grazing district in south-west New South Wales, apparently in connection with Walter’s work with the CSIRO. Back in Canberra, Rose was involved in several community organisations and clubs in the later 1950s including Legacy, the Business and Professional Women’s Association, the Canberra Penguin Club a public speaking club, and the National Council of Women. In 1959, she was president of the local Country Women’s Association. Her concern for community and domestic issues was demonstrated during this period, when she wrote a Letter to the Editor of The Canberra Times concerned about hygiene standards for bread deliveries, and the inconvenience of butchers’ opening hours for households. Rose Andrew was elected an independent Member of the sixteenth ACT Advisory Council in September 1961. She was one of only two female members in the eight-member Council, joining long-serving Ann Dalgarno, who had been the sole female member in the previous Council. During her time on the Council, Rose Andrew’s most successful motion was for the construction of a heated swimming pool and ice rink. She argued that Canberra’s climate called for a heated swimming pool so that local swimmers weren’t at a disadvantage to those in warmer parts of Australia. The plan included an ice rink so that residual heat from the rink could be used to heat the pool. This proposal may have paved the way for the pool and ice rink eventually built in Phillip and opened in 1971. Another significant motion she led was for the establishment of a Milk Authority for the ACT. This came from rises in milk prices which she considered to be exploitative of Canberra buyers, emphasising its effect on housewives. The motion was rejected by the council in June 1962, but she continued to advocate for the change, proposing it again in April 1963. She finally dropped the plan in 1964, after accepting the reasons given by the Minister for the Interior against its implementation. Her other actions on the Council included leading a motion to ban boxing in the ACT, which was defeated with the Council instead proposing a Boxing Commission to enforce new regulations, and a proposal for a Voluntary Ambulance Contribution Fund, also defeated. She supported the establishment of a local government for the ACT, a motion to end the death penalty in the ACT, and a motion to improve apprentices’ wages and working conditions. Related to her time on the CWA, she often contributed opinions in support of her female constituents to discussions with the Council. This was evident in her advocacy for the Milk Authority, as well as arguing against increases in bread prices and telephone charges concerned with their effect on Canberra’s housewives. Rose Andrew did not contest the 1964 election and as far as is known did not take any further part in public life. By the mid-1960s the family had moved to Kandy, Ceylon, and later lived in Argentina, apparently because of Walter’s work. Rose died at Batemans Bay NSW on 7 October 1998, age 87 years. She was buried in the Anglican Lawn section of Woden Cemetery where her mother had been buried in the next grave nearly 50 years before. Her gravestone gives details of Rose’s rich family life but does not mention her public life. Published resources Letters to the Editor: Canberra bread and meat deliveries, 19 February 1955, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/91193455?searchTerm=Rose%20Andrew Back in Office, 10 October 1961, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105896167?searchTerm=Rose%20Andrew Council calls for warm swimming pool, 6 November 1962, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104299775?searchTerm=Rose%20Andrew Better pay, conditions sought for apprentices, 22 May 1962, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130575575?searchTerm=Rose%20Andrew Women criticise bread increase, 11 October 1963, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104270946?searchTerm=Rose%20Andrew Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 4 July 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Christine Townend is a passionate woman whose life and talents have been devoted to the cause of animal care and liberation. As an Australian Democrats member she contested the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Willoughby 1978, 1984; House of Representatives, Grayndler, 1977; Senate, NSW, 1983. In 1988 Christine stood on behalf of the Environment Group in the New South Wales Legislative Council elections. Christine Townend grew up in the lower North Shore area of Sydney and became a writer early in her life. She had poetry, short stories and four novels published by the time of her first campaign. From early in her career she was concerned to protect the environment and stop cruelty to animals, and was a prolific writer of letters to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald on these subjects. She founded Animal Liberation in 1976, after being strongly influenced by Peter Singer’s book of the same name. She and Singer together founded Animals Australia (then ANZFAS) in l980. She joined the Australian Democrats and ran for election on their ticket four times, always emphasising care for the environment and animals. In time she became discouraged by the lack of results of her campaigns in Australia. When she joined Milo Dunphy and Alice Oppen to run for the Legislative Council in 1988, under the banner of the Environment Group, she was Secretary of the Australian and New Zealand Federation of Animal Societies, a member of the NSW Animal Welfare Advisory Council and the CSIRO Advisory Committee on the Ethics of Animals in Research. In 1990 she became managing trustee of ‘Help in Suffering’, an animal shelter and registered Indian charitable trust, based in Jaipur. In 1992 she and her husband went to live permanently in India, working as volunteers until 2007 at the animal shelter and conducting a program to control the spread of rabies in Jaipur. During this time she also founded two new animal shelters in Darjeeling and Kalimpong. A biography of her life, Christine’s Ark, by journalist John Little, was published by Macmillan in 2007. Christine is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her first book The Beginning of Everything and the End of Everything Else, published in 1974, has been described as being ahead of its time in ‘challenging literary and social conventions’ its themes of feminism and ‘sexuality, race class and religion’ After her first two novels, Christine wrote a series of non-fiction books about animal welfare, of which Pulling the Wool, A New Look at the Australian Wool Industry ( Hale & Iremonger, l986) was the most influential. Two of her books, The Hidden Master (2002), and The Teaching of Vimala Thakar (2010), (Motilal Banarsidass) examine the Indian spiritual tradition. Christine is also an artist, having held solo exhibitions and illustrated book covers. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 February 2006 Last modified 17 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In June 1988, Kay Cottee became the first woman to sail solo, unassisted and nonstop around the world. In the course of her voyage she set seven world records. Cottee was named the 1988 Australian of the Year and was awarded the Order of Australia. The daughter of Jim and Joy McLaren, Kay Cottee was born into a yachting family and was taken sailing for the first time when just a few weeks old. With her parents and three sisters Linda, Elaine and Jan, Kay would race in Sydney Harbour on board her father’s self-built yacht, the Joy Too. It was here, on the water, that she felt most at peace. Kay disliked school and remembers, ‘I spent a lot of time gazing out to sea from my classroom window, or sitting on the Heads at Botany Bay, dreaming I was setting off across the ocean’. She left school half way through fifth form and, like her three sisters, went to secretarial college. At seventeen she was engaged to her father’s best friend’s son, Neville, who was nine years her senior. They married after her eighteenth birthday. Kay lived with Neville in Bondi next door to his parents’ home where they both worked for his father’s plumbing business in the backyard. Finding the job lonely, she relished the opportunity to talk to the plumbers at morning tea and lunch, but was soon told that this was not proper behaviour. The couple did share a love of sailing, and after their second wedding anniversary bought an old gaff rigger and spent a year fitting up the interior. They sold it to buy a ’22-footer’ and set off on a cruise. The joy was short-lived as Kay suffered from appendicitis 24 hours into the trip and had to return to land. Back at sea, the voyage had not long recommenced before the pair hit bad weather. The rudder snapped and they were ‘blown helplessly before the storm’ for three days, attracting a great deal of media attention in their plight. With sailing plans temporarily on hold, Kay worked for her sister’s ferry business before she and Neville bought the mould of a ‘Roberts 35’ – a 10.6m yacht – and named it Whimaway. This time Kay worked solely on the boat for 13 months. She writes, ‘I guess not many females were boat builders then, but the publicity was good and got our bareboat charter business going’. The business was based in Pittwater and Kay was happy there, but having ‘realized there was a whole new world out there beyond listening to plumbing complaints and co-existing with the in-laws’, she moved aboard Whimaway, living in her car or at her sister’s house when the boat was on charter. Neville moved in with his parents and returned to plumbing. At 27 years of age, Kay took on the charter business at Pittwater assisted first by Jeanine Thompson and then by Shirley King, who became her close friend. She was forced to sell her beloved Whimaway to settle debts, but was able to manage it for the new owner as part of her business, which she ran for six years. All the while Kay was burning to build and own a yacht, one that she could keep, and ‘my eyes were set on what seemed an impossible goal – to be the first woman to sail around the world, single handed and non-stop’. So it was that she set about building the 11.2m Cavalier 37 Sloop originally christened the Jimmy Mac in honour of her father. She obtained sponsorship from Blackmores Laboratories Ltd to compete in the Two-Handed Trans-Tasman race to New Zealand and the Solo Trans-Tasman race back to Australia in 1986, sailing the first race with her friend Linda Wayman. Product sponsorship for the race meant that the yacht had to be re-named Cinnamon Scrub. The Two-Handed race began on 8 March 1986, and Kay and Linda won their division. Kay made her return to Mooloolaba, Queensland, in 10 days and 17 hours, arriving on 5 April. By now, Kay’s taste for solo sailing was highly developed, and she set about finding sponsors for her round-the-world trip. After several disastrous attempts to impress corporate executives, she found sponsorship with Blackmores again on the understanding that the trip would be used as a fundraising event. Kay’s chosen charity was the late Reverend Ted Noff’s Life Education Program – a drug education program for young people. For this monumental voyage, her yacht was re-named again as Blackmores First Lady. After enormous preparation and great cooperation from family and friends, Kay Cottee set off on her voyage on 29 November 1987. The Guinness Book of Records for 1989 notes that she completed: A singlehand nonstop circumnavigation eastabout from/to Sydney, Australia, via St Paul’s Rocks in the North Atlantic and south of the five southernmost capes, west to east, commencing November 29, 1987, and finishing June 5, 1988. Total sailing time 189 days 0 hours 32 minutes, logging 22,100 miles at an average speed of 116.93 miles per day. The voyage was completed without touching land, and without any form of outside aid apart from radio contact. The five southernmost capes referred to are Good Hope, Leeuwin, South-East Cape (Tasmania), South-West Cape (Stewart Island, NZ), and the Horn. During the voyage, Kay’s yacht overturned off the coast of southern Africa in 100-knot winds and 70-foot seas. She was washed overboard and saved only by the two safety lines that harnessed her to the boat. Having just missed collision with a tanker, she recalls in her book First Lady: My life flashed before my eyes for the second time in an hour as I was washed just over the top of the leeward safety railing before my harness lines pulled me up short. I held my breath under the water until my lungs felt they would burst, willing my lovely Lady to right herself and praying that the two harness lines did not give way. She took her time, but true to form gracefully rose once again, this time with me dangling over the side. Kay returned to Sydney Harbour to great fanfare on the morning of June 5, 1988. Cheered by 100,000 people at Darling Harbour, Rear-Admiral Tony Horton took her hand as she made her first step ashore and she was officially welcomed by Hazel Hawke (Prime Minister’s wife), Nick Greiner (NSW Premier) and Sir Eric Neil (Commissioner to the City of Sydney). She was given the Key to the City of Sydney. Asked by a female journalist, ‘How does it feel to have conquered a man’s world?’, she answered, ‘I was brought up believing there is no such thing as a man’s world or a woman’s world. It’s everyone’s world!’ Kay was bombarded with ‘civic receptions, balls, more press conferences and interviews that one could count, dinners, lunches, seminars and parties. We met visiting heads of state, government ministers, senators, admirals, royalty and thousands and thousands of lovely people’. A ‘Welcome Home to Pittwater’ day organized by the committee of the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club attracted over 500 boats. 2000 guests attended the auction and party held at the clubhouse and raised over $35,000 for the Life Education Program. In subsequent years, Kay was able to raise over $1 million for the program. Kay Cottee’s numerous records include: the first woman to complete a singlehanded nonstop circumnavigation; the first woman to circumnavigate nonstop west to east, south of the five southernmost capes; the fastest time for a solo circumnavigation by a woman; the fastest speed (average speed 4.87 miles per hour during her round-the-world voyage) for a solo circumnavigation by a woman; the longest period alone at sea by a woman; and the greatest nonstop distance covered by a solo woman. Among her many accolades are the 1988 Australian of the Year; the Order of Australia; the Advance Australia Award; indictment into the Hall of Champions by the NSW Government; the Bicentennial Award for Excellence in Women’s Sport; New South Wales Sportswoman of the Year; and the Confederation of Australian Sport Special Award for Outstanding Personal Achievement in 1988. Today Kay Cottee is married to television producer Peter Sutton and has a son, Lee. She has launched a business building luxury yachts. Kay is chairman of the National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour where First Lady is now housed. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book First lady: a history-making solo voyage around the world, Cottee, Kay, 1989 All at sea on land: and first lady ten years on, Cottee, Kay, 1998 Videorecording Kay Cottee: first lady, Cottee, Kay, 1989 Sound recording Museum gives Cottee pride of place over American Cup winner, O'Brien, Kerry, 2000, http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/ Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Kay Cottee address at the National Press Club on 20 June 1989 [sound recording] Interview with Kay Cottee, adventurer and author [sound recording] / interviewer: Diana Giese National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Kay Cottee, yachtswoman, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Kay Cottee, 1965-2009 [manuscript] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 November 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Australian Women’s Army Service Association (WA) Inc. was formed in Perth, Western Australia 1947. It was originally established to extend welfare assistance, promote social gatherings and foster goodwill to former members of the Australian Women’s Army Service, especially by way of annual reunions. As the need arose the Association become involved with pension and aged care assistance."
    },
    {
        "text": "Drafts of three plays and notes and correspondence connected with them, together with three notebooks. The plays are Gunjies (1990-91, produced 1993); Lotus War (1993-95, produced 1995) and Black Mary (1992-96, produced 1997). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Material collected in the course of writing a biographical memoir on Jessie Webb: T.A. Pyman’s notes of her lectures in Ancient History, 1935; photocopied items, letters; print of photograph of the members of the Princess Ida Club grouped outside the Club Rooms. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Corporate records of a literary agency. The bulk of the collection comprises agency files for authors represented by Curtis Brown Australia, and by Hickson Associates prior to acquisition by Curtis Brown in 1999. Includes correspondence, typescript drafts, press cuttings, financial records, contract registers, memoranda and articles of association. Represented authors include Thea Astley, Bryce Courtenay, Luke Davies, Robert Drewe, Geoffrey Dutton, Ninette Dutton, Nick Earls, David Foster, Janet Frame, Peter Goldsworthy, Marion Halligan, AD Hope, Janette Turner Hospital, Thomas Keneally, Robin Klein, Christopher Koch, David Malouf, Andrew McGahan, Mandy Sayer, Dale Spender, Nicolette Stasko, Kylie Tennant, Ric Throssell, Brenda Walker, Maslyn Williams, David Williamson and Sue Woolfe. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Grace Carmichael worked as a nurse and poet, and during her lifetime contributed many poems to newspapers and published her own book of verse in 1895. Grace is best known by her pen name Jennings Carmichael. The Australian poets Henry Lawson and Henry Tate have both written poems about her. Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael was born in Ballarat to parents Margaret Jennings (née Clark) and Archibald Carmichael, a pioneer miner. Margaret and Archibald were originally from England and Scotland, respectively. In the 1860s two of Grace Carmichael’s siblings died in infancy, and in 1870, Archibald Carmichael died aged 51. His widow remarried in 1975 to Charles Naylor Henderson. The family moved from Ballarat to Gippsland, where Charles Henderson worked near Orbost. It was here that Grace Carmichael most likely began writing her poetry, inspired by the surrounding Gippsland bush. Her early works were published by the Bairnsdale Advertiser and the Weekly Times, and it was in Australasian that she first used her penname Jennings Carmichael. In 1888, at the age of 21, she began training as a nurse at the Melbourne Hospital for Sick Children. Her experiences at this hospital would be told in her 1891 novel, Hospital Children. She became a qualified nurse in 1890 and worked in Geelong. A book of verse entitled Poems was published in Australia and England in 1895. That same year, she married Francis Mullis, an English architect. They lived in South Australia for some time before moving to England. In England, the couple and their six children lived in poverty. Three of these children predeceased Jennings Carmichael, and she herself died in 1904 of pneumonia. Her three remaining children were left impoverished in a workhouse. In 1910, a group of Carmichael’s admirers brought these children to Victoria, whereupon they took their mother’s maiden name. In the late 1930s, plaques were unveiled in Orbost and Ballarat in honour of Jennings Carmichael. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Photograph Australian poetess Grace Jennings Carmichael, http://enc.slq.qld.gov.au/slq/neg/research/193000/193264r.jpg Jennings Carmichael - 'Poetess' [picture] / Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn and Co., photographers, 1890, http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ncentury/gid/slv-pic-aaa07737 Book Grace Jennings Carmichael, from Croajingolong to London: with an annotated bibliography, McLaren, Ian F, 1986 Resource Section Carmichael, Grace Elizabeth Jennings (1867-1914), Gardiner, Lyndsay, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070571b.htm Author Details Christine Donald Created 10 June 2010 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 8645 comprises correspondence, 1946-1982, including letters from various writers, and copies of Christina Stead’s letters and business correspondence. The main correspondents are Elizabeth Harrower, Cyrilly Abels, David Stead, Nancy Keesing, Dal Stiven, Ron Geering and Dorothy Green, Nancy and Stephen Murray-Smith, Laurence Pollinger, Tim Curnow, W.G. Hoddinott, M.H. Austin and Joan Daves. The collection also includes papers of Gilbert Stead, brother of Christina Stead, 1977-1983, comprising correspondence, cuttings and photocopies. The correspondents are Christina Stead, John Beston and Stanley Burnshaw. There are appointment diaries, 1962-1977, and other Christina Stead material such as photocopies and cuttings relating to For love alone, cuttings and an article relating to Stead’s 80th birthday and printed material (4 boxes).??The Acc08.157 instalment comprises papers of Gilbert Stead including 19 personal letters written to him by Christina Stead (1 folder).??The Acc09.151 instalment comprises 17 letters from Christina Stead (C.E. Blake) to Betty and Gilbert Stead (1 packet). Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 October 2008 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Diaries (1956-1957) kept by Mrs Weidenhofer (whose professional name was Joan Stevens) while she was the presenter for the Women’s Session. The collection also includes photographs, correspondence and typescripts. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Kerry Suwald was influenced to stand for parliament by her concern for the environment. She represented the Australian Greens in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly election for Cessnock in 2003 and House of Representatives election for Hunter in 2004. Kerry Suwald grew up in Western Sydney and has travelled widely overseas. She and her architect husband and daughter moved to the Hunter Valley in 1993, and live near Kurri Kurri on a bush property. She has worked as a natural therapist, and has been involved for nearly 20 years with an internationally franchised quit-smoking program. In 2003 Kerry Suwald was secretary of the Mulbring Landcare group. Her concern about inappropriate developments in the Hunter Region led to her membership of the Greens and her candidature for the Legislative Assembly. In 2004, Kerry was also campaigning for funds for TAFE, apprentice and training schemes, and better access to education for all Australians. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 25 September 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records, c. 1949-1982, comprising: correspondence; minutes of meetings; conference papers and reports; membership lists; newsletters, journals, press cuttings and other miscellaneous printed material; including material concerning other related societies in Australia and overseas. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes: I. Typescript autobiography (1924-1987) and photographs relating to Mrs Wensing’s early life in the Netherlands, her migration to Australia in 1953, and her experiences settling in Canberra. II. Reports on social and ethnic isolation, and multicultural education in the A.C.T. III. Correspondence relating to the Good Neighbour Council of the A.C.T. (1966-1967). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 25 January 2013 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal party of Australia, Marie Tehan served in both Houses of the Victorian Parliament. She was the Member for Central Highlands in the Legislative Council from 1987-92 and for Seymour in the Legislative Assembly from 1992 until 1999, when she retired. As a minister in the Kennett Liberal Government she held the portfolios of Minister for Health from 1992-96 and Minister for Conservation and Land Management from 1996-99. Educated at Sacre Coeur, Glen Iris, Melbourne and the University of Melbourne, Marie Tehan qualified as a lawyer. She married Jim Tehan in 1963 and settled in regional Victoria. After producing six children she established her own legal practice in Mansfield, Victoria in 1970. She was elected to the Victorian Parliament in 1987 at a by-election and retired from Parliament in 1999. She died at Nagambie after a short illness on 31 October 2004. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1998, Neto, Maryanne (researcher), 1997 Book Victorian Parliamentary Handbook / prepared by direction of the President of the Legislative Council and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, 1989 Booklet A profile of reform in Victoria's public health system : an address to the Hong Kong Hospital Authority Plenary session, Tehan, Marie, 1994 Small rural hospitals task force report : ministerial responses, Tehan, Marie, 1995 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 8 July 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Van Huynh was born and began school in Binh Duong, near Saigon, Vietnam. At seven she moved with her family to Saigon where she completed her education despite her family’s financial and housing difficulties. She and her husband Thiet worked in the Electricity Authority until April 1979 when they fled Vietnam by boat with their two small sons Thach and Kim. After almost five months in the United Nations-run refugee camp in Pulau Bidong, Malaysia, she and her family were accepted as refugees by Australia and were helped to settle successfully in Canberra by the Ainslie Church of Christ. Van Huynh (neé Tran Thi The Van) was the daughter of Tran Quoc Thai and Huynh Thi Sat. She had four sisters and one brother. Before the 1939-45 War her father had worked as an overseer on a French-owned rubber plantation and subsequently operated a small cab service between Binh Duong and Saigon until the Viet Minh attacked one of his cabs and forced him to abandon the business. Years before, he had briefly fought with the Viet Minh. Two of his brothers were killed and one wounded fighting in their army. Van’s family moved to Saigon in 1954 where she completed her year 12 certificate, despite their housing and financial difficulties. She enrolled in law but pressures of work and the need to commute daily to Binh Duong, where her family had returned in 1966, caused her to abandon her tertiary studies. Her father died of wounds suffered during the Tet Offensive in 1968. She worked for a year in a small Saigon hardware firm before finding employment in the Electricity Authority where she met her husband Thiet Huynh. They married in 1971 and their sons Thach and Kim were born in 1975 and 1977. The social and economic changes following the fall of Saigon in 1975, and the restrictions placed on public servants employed during the previous regime, caused Van and her family to flee Vietnam on an overcrowded boat in April 1979. After a journey five days without food or water during which they were attacked by several groups of pirates, they landed on a small Malaysian island with their two desperately ill little boys. After three days there they were transferred to the United Nations- run camp at Pulau Bidong in Malaysia where they lived in crowded and harsh conditions from 1 May to mid-October 1979, before being accepted as refugees by Australia. They arrived in Canberra on 21 December 1979 under the sponsorship of the Ainslie Church of Christ which welcomed them, arranged their accommodation, and helped them settle into the community. Thiet eventually found work with the ACT Electricity Authority and Van at the Royal Australian Mint. Their sons were educated in Canberra. Thach is now an actuarial consultant, and Kim, a lecturer at the Australian National University in Politics and International Relations, has written a Ph.D. and a book based on Van’s experiences . Published resources Book Where the sea takes us: a true story of family, fate and Vietnam, Huynh, Kim, 2007 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Van Thi-The Huynh interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 19 July 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Victor Voules Brown and his mother in law Mrs Eliza Tuckwell. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes notes, correspondence, scripts of 2 plays – The land and its people. James Milson by John Ford and The cousins of Aledo by E.H. Dunlop; University prize poem and other verses by Rev. W.H.H. Yarrington (1880); Christ Church Lavender Bay Parish paper (3 editions 1928-30). The newscuttings mainly relate to the Milson family and the Warspite. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 29 September 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "After her husband’s death in 1896 Jessie White commenced general nursing training at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria. She completed her midwifery training at the Women’s Hospital (later Royal) in 1901. Five years later she was in charge and running her own private hospital as well as serving as a reservist in the Australian Army Nursing Service. When war broke out in 1914, she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service, rising through the ranks to be appointed Principal Matron of the Australian Army Nursing Service in December 1915. After her husband’s death in 1896 Jessie White commenced her four year general training at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. She completed her midwifery training at the Women’s Hospital (later Royal) in 1901. Five years later she was in charge and running her own private hospital as well as serving as a reservist in the Australian Army Nursing Service. At the outbreak of World War I White enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service. In October 1914 she travelled with the first convoy to Egypt where she was attached to a British Hospital. During the Dardanelles campaign she worked on a hospital ship which carried patients from Gallipoli to the hospitals on Lemnos Island. In December 1915 White was transferred to England where under the re-organization of the Australian Army Medical Corps she was appointed Principal Matron of the Australian Army Nursing Service. On 3 June 1916 White was awarded the Royal Red Cross (1st class) for her services. Due to personal reasons she resigned from the Service and returned to Australia. On 5 June 1917 White rejoined the Service and departed for Salonika where she was given the task of staffing four British general hospitals. While ministering to the sick and wounded soldiers the nurses had to contend with terrible living conditions, the extremities in temperatures, fire, snow, mud, malaria, dysentery, typhus, flies, lice, lack of food supplies, marauders and friction from the British medicos. In recognition of her service White was mentioned in despatches, awarded the Greek Medal for Military Merit, the Serbian Order of the St Sava and on 7 June 1918 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire. She returned to nursing in civilian life in August 1919 and continued working until she was in her 70s. White was active in the Returned Nurses Association especially the Salonika Sister’s Group of which she was President for 25 years. Published resources Book The Shire of Lilydale and its military heritage : the First World War and its effect on the community, McAleer, A J, c1995 Nightingales in the mud : the digger sisters of the Great War 1914 - 1918, Barker, Marianne, 1989 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 August 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Laurel K. McIntyre O.A.M. relating to her involvement with the Australian Local Government Women’s Association and the Adelaide – Mt. Gambier Club and additional records relating to women and local government. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Formerly an elite rower who represented Australia in 1983 and 1984, Ellen Randell has been coaching women’s rowing since 1986. Ellen Randell first represented her country as a rowing coach in 1987, and continued to coach national crews almost every year until 2000. In 1989, after years of domination by the Eastern Block Nations, she coached the first women’s four crew from the West to win a World Championship. Her performance won her the ACC’s Young Coach of the Year (Female) award. In 1991 she began coaching at the UTS Rowing Club in Haberfield. From 1993 she coached in the Australian women’s sculling program and achieved podium results at multiple international regattas. She coached Rebecca Joyce to win a World Championship title in the Lightweight Women’s Single Scull in 1995, and became the first female rowing coach selected for the Australian Olympic Team, coaching crews for Atlanta (1996) and Sydney (2000). Randell’s crews finished fourth in the Double Scull and eighth in the Quad Scull events in Atlanta; in Sydney, her Women’s Double Scull placed sixth in the final. Ellen had her first daughter in 2000; a second was born in 2002. Coaching locally at a girls’ school, Ellen continued to coach elite rowers voluntarily when she could find time outside of family and school commitments. She returned to full-time elite coaching in 2005. In 2006 Ellen was nominated for the Women in Sport Award by one of her athletes, Georgia Koutts. Describing her coach as ‘always encouraging and positive’, Koutts wrote that she and others ‘think of Ellen not just as a coach, but as a friend’. She noted: The rowing ‘fraternity’ has never really considered the difficulties facing women in trying to return to elite rowing coaching after having children, or ways in which it could be done. Ellen’s ability as a coach provided an incentive for the governing body to encourage her return. Despite this, many members of the elite rowing community believed Ellen, and in fact women in general, could not possibly combine the commitment of elite rowing coaching with motherhood. By returning to elite coaching as successfully as she has, Ellen has not only proved many people wrong but has hopefully opened the minds up of others to see that it is possible. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 28 June 2007 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Margaret Ann Montgomery Bailey was the longest serving headmistress of Ascham School. She experimented with new learning methods, introducing the ‘Dalton plan’, a philosophy of learning which emphasises self-responsibility and independence, into the senior school in 1922. She was educated at the Newnham School for Girls, Toowoomba, and attended the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1900. After graduating from University of Sydney, Margaret Bailey returned to Queensland to teach. She had two stints at Rockhampton Girls’ Grammar (1900-03, 1908-11) with a stint at Girton College, Toowoomba (1903-1907) in between. For two years between 1912-14 she studied abroad. Upon returning she joined the staff at Ascham School in Darling Point, Sydney, which she purchased with another staff Her most adventurous move as principal was the 1922 introduction into the senior school of a modified version of the ‘Dalton plan’, a philosophy of learning which emphasises self-responsibility and independence. She resigned as principal of Ascham in 1946. As the principal of Ascham School from 1916 to 1946, Bailey was active in the Headmistresses’ Association of Australia and the New Education Fellowship. She also served as vice-president and president of the Sydney University Women Graduates’ Association, and was an executive member of the Australian Federation of University Women. Published resources Resource Section Bailey, Margaret Ann Montgomery (1879-1955), Lundie, Margaret, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070144b.htm Resource Ascham School Website, Ascham School, 2009, http://www.ascham.nsw.edu.au/index.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 2 September 2009 Last modified 2 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Passport, with photograph, 1952; Orient Line Fares, 1949; “The Little Witch, 1942” (children’s story); “Grenfell Gold – Notes 1949-51” (for story) and “Grenfell Gold” (rough MS.); “Notes for West of Sunset 1946”; unlabelled folder of MSS. of “The Land West of Sunset”, “Crown of Wisdom” and “The Escalator Beam”, etc.; Letters from the Rev. G. O’Neill, S.J. 1941-1947, with two letters from Kiddle 1941, notes on Caroline Chisholm and letter from Eris O’Brien to O’Neill 1946, letter from the Rev. J.P. Smith and from T.F. Ryan 1947. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lindy Roberts is a dual qualified specialist anaesthetist and specialist pain medicine physician. Lindy was elected president in 2012. During her term as president she encouraged the understanding of concerns voiced by both Fellows and trainees, and attempted to provide answers to their questions. This quality saw her strengthen and clarify the relationship between ANZCA and the Board of the Faculty of Pain Medicine. Lindy was also involved with curriculum and policy development as an ANZCA assessor and as chair of the ANZCA Education and Training Committee. Outside of her medical practice, Lindy has a particular interest in classic Hollywood and film noir. She also plays the clarinet for a number of concert bands and orchestras. Events 2019 - 2019 Member of the Order of Australia (AM): For significant service to medicine, and to professional organisations. Author Details Monica Cronin with Alannah Croom Created 3 March 2019 Last modified 12 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "[Campaign in Malaya and Singapore – Escape before and after capitulation and evacuation of civilians:] File dealing with escapees, evacuees, and alleged deserters from Malaya and Singapore. Statements by VX61330 Sister Vivian Bullwinkel and VX39347 Sister N. James. Affidavit by Sister James at International Military Tribunal for Far East. Report on tour of Duty to Sumatra by Col Ann N Sage Matron-in-Chief, AANS [Australian Army Nursing Service] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 December 2002 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes correspondence, files relating to her working life, handwritten notes. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Index cards of subscribers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The records comprise account books, 1965-1993, minute books, 1965-1990, and a number of badges. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc11.018 comprises a transcript of the diary of Clotilda Bayne, covering the period 29 December 1889 to 31 December 1890. Clotilda Bayne was the daughter of Peter Bayne (1830-1896), English author and journalist who produced many publications, including a biography of Martin Luther, and who was a regular leader writer for Christian World for over twenty years. The diary describes Miss Bayne’s journey from England to Australia via Italy, and the first few months of her life in Adelaide, where she arrived on 3 June. On 5 June, she married an Anglican minister, Reverend Charles L. Marson (1858-1914). The diary includes details of daily life in Adelaide, many references to local church affairs, and several references to Cecil Sharp, the expert on English folk songs and dancing who then held a legal post in Adelaide (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A distinguished public health worker and country Labor activist, Christine Robertson maintained her interest in social justice and health care in the NSW Legislative Council. As an ALP candidate she contested the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Tamworth, 1988, 1991, 1995 NSW Legislative Council, 1999 NSW Legislative Council 2003 – elected. Christine’s political appointments included: Temporary Chairman of Committees; Chairman, Standing Committee on Law and Justice; Member, Standing Committee on State Development; and Member, Committee on the Health Care Complaints Commission. She retired in 2011. Christine Robertson was born in Wollongong and educated in country schools. She trained at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 1966-69 and has worked as nurse at Royal Prince Alfred, Royal North Shore, South Sydney, St Vincent’s and Tamworth Base hospitals 1969-1986. She was Health Education Officer, New England Area Health Service, 1986-97; Manager Population Health, New England Health Service, 1997-98; Director, Population Health & Planning, and Research Institute, New England Area Health Service, 1998-2003. In 1990 she completed a B.Health Science. Christine Robertson has been active in ALP from 1980, and has been a delegate to State and National Conferences. After her election to the Legislative Council of New South Wales, she was appointed its representative on the Council of the University of New England. She married Richard Robertson in 1968 and they have two sons, Abe and James. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 19 April 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection of Newspaper Cuttings tracing the career of Nova Peris Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2007 Last modified 9 March 2007 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour??Marlienne Thomson was born at Ceduna, South Australia. After two years as a dental nurse she began training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1951. When training was completed she had appointments as staff nurse and charge nurse at the RAH. Marlienne attended the College of Nursing, Australia in 1958 and gained a diploma in ward management and teaching. On her return to Adelaide she was active in introducing new procedures at the RAH. She resigned in 1961 to attend the Adelaide Bible Institute and in 1964 went to South India to serve as a missionary at the Christian Medical College and Hospital at Vellore. Author Details Robin Secomb Created 27 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kathleen Rachel Makinson, wool researcher and Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Textile Physics, speaks of her childhood in London and her inclinations towards science at school, winning a scholarship to Newnham College at University of Cambridge, her preference for physics, her interest in crystallography, how she might have continued at Cambridge in nuclear physics, partcipating in student politics in both communism and the Peace Movement, demonstrating in London against the invasion of Austria, becoming engaged to an Australian doing his doctorate at Cambridge; emigrating to Australia in 1939; work as a research assistant at the University of Sydney and her involvement in radar research during WWII; the difficulties for women applying for research positions during the War, how she ended up in wool research in CSIRO; how it was not possible to undertake doctorates in Australia during that period; returning to Cambridge in 1970; why CSIRO set up a Wool Physics Division; how her work contributed to efficiencies in wool shrinkage. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hr 26 min. Oral history. Audio cassette; TDK AD60; two track mono Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers relating to Inbarendi Club’s affiliated organisation association with National Council of Women of South Australia. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "An accomplished journalist and local historian, Betty Osborn (then Betty Roberts) was known as the ‘girl reporter’ of the Argus newspaper in the 1950s."
    },
    {
        "text": "An unusual view of the human life span from babes to geria- trics. Treated through observation and function of feet in varying circumstances and conditions, strong stuff. Source: Sydney Filmmakers co-op catalogue 1975/76 Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Caroline Chisholm was famous for her work with new immigrants to New South Wales during the 1840s and 1850s, and later in the goldfields region of Victoria. She lobbied to ensure these people were provided with adequate accommodation and personally organised the often destitute young women to journey to rural areas in order to secure employment. Her benevolent crusade to better the lives of immigrants earned her the title ‘The Immigrants’ Friend’. Caroline Chisholm arrived in Sydney, Australia from India with her husband Archibald in 1838. Reared in a tradition of evangelical philanthropy, Caroline was deeply moved when she observed single girls being dumped on the wharves in Sydney with nowhere to go. On one occasion, she found a group of 64 girls sheltering in the Rocks area with only 14s 3d amongst them. Caroline set up the Female Immigrants Home with the support of the clergy, the Governor’s wife and finally the Governor himself. Through her work at the Female Immigrant Home, Caroline gave protection and shelter to hundreds of young women, some of whom she accompanied into country areas where she found employment for them. Caroline was also concerned for families who, having migrated in the hope of better things, found themselves destitute. In 1846, Caroline returned to England and became the publicist for Australia. She formed a society to send out groups of families to Australia and succeeded in despatching some 3,000 persons in five years. Caroline agitated for and achieved better conditions on the vessels carrying the immigrants. As well as free passages for emigrant’s wives and children, she established the Family Colonisation Loan Society. When she first chartered a ship, Slains Castle, which sailed in 1850 from England to Australia, she personally supervised the embarkation and appointed a reliable surgeon to control rations. In six years Caroline assisted 11,000 people to settle in Australia. Her activism, energy and experience contributed to changes in the migrant selection process, the treatment of migrants on the voyage out and their reception in the colony. She was worried by the news of the discovery of gold in Australia, fearing that the great influx of migrants such rushes resulted in would cause instability in such a fragile society. In 1851 Caroline’s husband, Archibald, went to Australia to work as her colonial agent while she continued to send out families and girls from Britain. In England, Caroline continued to agitate for lower colonial postal rates, for the introduction of colonial money orders and for better shipboard conditions. To this end, she ensured the passage of the Passenger Act (1852). Now famous and supported by many powerful figures, including the writer Charles Dickins, Caroline returned to Australia in 1854. She was imbued with the optimistic idea that the wealth of a society lay in the settling of many small farmers and she worked for the unlocking of the lands. Caroline continued to work despite illness and needy circumstances. She and her husband lived on a pension in Liverpool and then in Highgate, London. Caroline died in poverty and obscurity in England in 1877 – the inscription on her grave at Northampton reads “The emigrant’s friend”. According to her biographer, Caroline Chisholm ‘began her work accepting established conventions, but when she encountered the obstruction and indifference of officialdom, her attitude began to harden and she became an uncompromising radical’. She was a devoted wife and mother, who helped to give dignity to women and families in a harsh environment. She was able, idealistic, charming and supported unwaveringly in her work and achievements by her husband. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section Chisholm, Caroline (1818-1877), Iltis, Judith, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010208b.htm Ten Victorian Women: Caroline Chisholm, Public Record Office Victoria, 2005, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/fl/flten01.htm Ten Victorian Women, Public Record Office Victoria, 2005, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/fl/flten06.htm Book Caroline Chisholm, Kiddle, Margaret, 1957 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, 1841-1855 [manuscript]. Papers, [not after 1969] [manuscript]. Collections held by London University Library relating to Australia and New Zealand [M2289], [19--] [microform] Scrapbook relating to Caroline Chisholm, [18--]-[19--]. [microform]. Papers, [not after 1958]. [manuscript]. Papers [M976], [19--] [microform] Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre Inward Registered Correspondence Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc Caroline Chisholm (1808-1877) - friend of destitute immigrant girls National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Miscellaneous papers re Caroline Chisholm and Dame Nellie Melba, c1833-c1953 [microform] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection [Collection of pamphlets containing souvenir concert programmes and Australian biographies.] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 February 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Digital format: image/jpeg ; Original format: copy print : b&w Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Julie Bishop was elected to the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Australia as the Member for Curtin, Western Australia in 1998. She was re-elected in 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013. During the period of the Howard Government her ministerial appointments included Ageing, Education, Science and Training, and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women’s Issues. After the defeat of the Howard Government in November 2007, she was elected Deputy Leader of the Opposition and was a member of the Shadow Ministry. After the 2010 election, she retained the Deputy Leadership of the Opposition and was Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. On the election of the Coalition Government in September 2013, Bishop remained Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and became Minister for Foreign Affairs. Julie Bishop was educated at St Peter’s Collegiate Girls School in Adelaide, South Australia and at the University of Adelaide where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1978. Bishop practised as a barrister and solicitor from 1979-1998, initially with the Adelaide firm, Mangan, Ey and Bishop in which she was a Partner. In 1983 she moved to Perth, Western Australia and practised as a commercial litigation solicitor at Robinson Cox, later to become Clayton Utz and became a Partner in 1985. By 1994 she was Managing Partner of the Perth office. During that time she was a member of the legal team which defended the claims against CSR by asbestos mining workers who had contracted mesothelioma as a result of their work for the company. In 1996 she spent eight weeks at the Harvard Business School completing an Advanced Management Program ( Senior Managers). In 1998 she was appointed delegate to the Constitutional Convention which was convened in Canberra to discuss the idea of Australia becoming a republic. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Journal Article Bishops' Gambit: What's next for the perpetual deputy?, Wallace, Chris Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Julie Bishop, lawyer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 29 April 2009 Last modified 2 August 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Seven letters containing an exchange of information regarding social organisation of Australian Aboriginal people mainly focusing on the concepts of matrilineal and patrilineal kinships. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "CANBERRA, ACT. C. 1945-04. SENIOR WRANS FROM HMAS HARMAN NAVAL WIRELESS STATION AT THE FOURTH BIRTHDAY OF THE SERVICE. LEFT TO RIGHT: BACK ROW: DAPHNE WRIGHT, FRANCES PROVAN (WRAN NO. 1), SHIRLEY DREW, JOAN CADE; FRONT ROW: THIRD OFFICERS JOAN HODGES, BILLEE THOMPSON, JESS PRAIN. (DONOR: S. GRYLLS) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letters from Melba to Lemmone, Mabel Batchelor, a former pupil, and Sam Batchelor; program (1909), cards and photographs, including Melba and violinist Jan Kubelik; typed speech by Dr John Robertson, President of the Red Cross Society of Canada, in praise of Melba; notice of Melba’s?farewell, 1927; financial statements and news cuttings. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Bronwyn Thomas was an artist, art teacher and gallery director who had a particular interest in Chinese culture. Bronwyn initially undertook studies in architecture at Melbourne Technical College, however they were cut short due to the outbreak of World War II. Despite this setback, Bronwyn continued pursuing her love and talent for art by drawing part-time at the National Gallery Art School. Eventually Bronwyn decided to focus on painting and after moving to Brisbane with her first husband Fergus Yeates, she began exhibiting her work. Bronwyn also worked as an art teacher at Queensland University and the teachers’ training college, and she played a key role in establishing Queensland’s Contemporary Art Society. In 1966 Bronwyn married Laurie Thomas and together they moved to Sydney. From 1971 Bronwyn was director of the Bonython Gallery in Paddington, followed by director of the Australian Centre for photography from 1974 to 1977. Bronwyn was also appointed executive director of the Australian Art Exhibitions Corporation when it toured the exhibition of Colombian gold objects in 1978. Bronwyn developed a special interest in Chinese culture, people and language. She first visited China in 1980 and upon her return to Australia she enrolled in a Chinese language course at the University of Sydney. Returning to Beijing in 1983, with a group from the Canberra College of Advanced Education, Bronwyn completed an intensive course in Chinese. Back in Beijing in 1989, she taught English and also helped with displays and the translation of exhibit labels at the Chinese Museum of History. Later Bronwyn helped many Chinese artists settle with their families in Australia. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Laurie and Bronwyn Thomas, 1937-1995 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Bronwyn Yeates interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Bronwyn Thomas, artist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of Victoria [Bronwyn Yeates : Australian Art and Artists file] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Wilfrid Thomas Interviews: 00:00 – Australian expatriate author and playwright, Russell Braddon. — 13:36 – Radio personality and reporter, Dorothy Gordon (a.k.a. Andrea), visiting London, collecting material for her radio programme in Australia, July, 1968. — 19:11 – End. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Contents include: slides; photographs; notebooks; manuscripts; correspondence; field notes; published material; maps; language notes; personal diaries from Malaya, Papua New Guinea and Arnhem Land. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 14 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 1009 comprises correspondence, notes, speeches, diaries, minute books, account books, cuttings, photographs, pamphlets, official publications, invitations, menus, programs, receipts, bills, tourist publications and other material relating to Sir John Latham’s career, family, early life and numerous non-vocational activities (117 boxes, 3 fol. boxes, 2 elephant folios). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 June 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Television mini-series-turned-serial based on the lives of six women in the Stone family in Sydney during the 1970’s. — General note: Produced by ABC from 1973-77 on videotape in black and white (series one and episodes 1-59 of series two), and in colour (episodes 60-160). Broadcast from 14 February 1973 for Series one, and from 10 October 1973 for Series two. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letters, postcards and photographs sent by Gwen Harwood to her friend Helen Mills. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lily Ah Toy was well known and respected across the Northern Territory; so well respected that, as part of the bicentennial events in 1988, she was one of only eight Territory women to be recognised for their contributions and achievements. Her family were key figures in the Pine Creek and Darwin (Northern Territory) Chinese communities, although, they came to be well regarded across ethnic boundaries, for the extent of their generosity and involvement in the community, her efforts in 1974 to assist people made homeless and hungry by Cyclone Tracy being a case in point. At various times in her life, Lily was involved in school mother’s clubs, church councils, the Red Cross and various Chinese organisations. In 1982, Lily graduated from the Northern Territory University with a diploma in ceramics. At 65 years of age she was the oldest graduate. Lily’s family was very poor but, through hard work and commitment, they made their place in the Territory. It is important that Lily and other Chinese Australians are now recognised as an important part of our Northern Territory history. When Lily Ah Toy (born Wong Wu Len) came into the world in Darwin in October 1917, her father didn’t even register her birth. ‘Well the war’s on, and another girl’, he said. The prospect that she might be adopted out to a woman in Darwin desperate for a daughter, an idea momentarily entertained by her Chinese born father, received short shrift, however, from Lily’s Australian born (of Chinese descent) mother. As Lily says, she was lucky. And even though he was initially disappointed that Lily wasn’t a boy, her father was very good to her, as he was to all his children. Sadly, he died when she was nine. At age fourteen she left school to become a housemaid for a European family. She worked there for three years, leaving when she married. Lily became engaged at eighteen and married Jimmy Ah Toy, a hawker with his own market garden, in 1936 at the age of nineteen. After marrying, the couple moved to Pine Creek to work in the store owned by Jimmy’s parents. They were to have five children, Edward, Laurence, Joyce, Grace and Elaine. At various times, they took on the responsibility of looking after Jimmy’s younger brothers and sisters. After the bombing of Darwin in 1942 Lily was evacuated to Adelaide, where she cared for a large extended family. She returned to Pine Creek in 1945 to re-open the general store, with her husband. It was the first civilian store to open in the Top End after the war, providing vital services to prospectors, pastoralists, buffalo and crocodile hunters, and the local community. Lily managed this business by herself for four years while Jimmy helped to establish a general store in Darwin, before returning to Pine Creek. Lily eventually moved to Darwin permanently when her eldest son Edward took over the management of the Pine Creek business. Lily was involved with many different organisations and assisted with the establishment of the Crafts Council NT (now Territory Craft). In 1982, at the age of 65, Lily graduated from the Darwin Community College (now Charles Darwin University) with an Associate Diploma of Arts (Ceramics); at the time she was their oldest graduate. In 1988, as part of the Bicentennial Celebrations, Lily was one of eight Territorians honoured for their contribution to the Territory and in 1995, Film Australia produced her biography. 2001 saw Lily nominated to the Centenary of Federation Peoplescape project. She died in 2001. Her philosophy in life was ‘work hard, always be honest and give a helping hand’. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 24 January 2006 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Annual General Meeting Minutes, Annual Reports, Constitution & Correspondence, Minutes, Sister’s Report Book Author Details Janet Butler Created 24 August 2009 Last modified 24 August 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Honourable Justice Annabelle Bennett AO was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia in 2003. She is also an additional judge of the Supreme Court of the ACT. Prior to joining the bench of the Federal Court, she was a barrister and then Senior Counsel specialising in intellectual property law. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2005. In July 2011 her Honour was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of the University by the ANU. Justice Bennett completed her BSc (Hons) and PhD in Biochemistry (the latter in the Faculty of Vet Science) at Sydney University and later obtained her law degree at the University of New South Wales. Her interest in biological sciences has led to membership of the Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee, the Biotechnology Task Force, the Pharmacy Board of New South Wales and the Eastern Sydney Area Health Service. She is a member of several other boards and tribunals. Justice Bennett is President of the Copyright Tribunal of Australia; Chair of the National Health and Medical Research Council; a Presidential Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport; member of Chief Executive Women; member of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences; and member of the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her Honour has also served as Pro-Chancellor of the Australian National University for 13 years. In addition she has been a member of the Gene Patenting Advisory Committee of the Australian Law Reform Commission; member of the Advisory Group for the Dean of Medicine at The University of Sydney; Trustee of the Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust; Director of the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation; President of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences; President of Chief Executive Women; as well as a member of the Reference Group for the APEC Women Leaders’ Network Meeting 2007 and the Head of Delegation to the APEC Women Leaders’ Network Meeting 2008 in Peru. Events 2019 - 2019 Companion (AC) in the General Division, Order of Australia: For eminent service to the law, and to the judiciary, particularly in the field of intellectual property, to higher education, and to sports arbitration. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 The Hon Annabelle Claire Bennett AO, Federal Court of Australia, 2003, http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/about/judges/current-judges-appointment/current-judges/bennett-j Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources Australian National University Archives ANU Pro-Chancellor Annabelle Bennett's correspondence Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 June 2015 Last modified 12 June 2019 Digital resources Title: Annabelle Bennett Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Diane Alley has worked in a range of organisations to ensure that women gained equal opportunity in society and for the achievement of social justice for all members of the community, both in Australia and internationally. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1981 for her community 1923-24 work. Daughter of (Dr) Frederick Reginald Edward Duke and Eva Reeves, née Collins. Diane Alley was educated at Clarendon Presbyterian Ladies’ College Ballarat, Victoria, Methodist Ladies’ College Melbourne and Girton Church of England Girls’ Grammar School Bendigo. She completed her tertiary education at the University of Melbourne where she gained a BA Honours in 1948. She later completed a Diploma of Criminology in 1976. She married (Mr Justice) Stephen George Alley in 1949 and had four children; two sons and two daughters. Apart from rearing her children, she has devoted her life to working for equality for women and social justice for all. She held the position of president of the National Council of Women of Victoria from 1977-1980. She was convenor of Family Policy Sub-committee Victorian Consultative Council of Social Development from 1979 and member of the Fairlea Women’s Prison Council. She was a member of the Victorian Premier’s Equal Opportunity Advisory Council in 1978 and chair, National Status of Women Committee, United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) from 1980. She has been an honorary magistrate of the Children’s Court from 1972. She has travelled overseas to represent the National Council of Women (NCW) at conferences of the International Council of Women. From 1986-1994, she held the position of international convenor of the Child and Family Standing Committee of the International Council of Women. In 1993 Diane Alley received a testimonial from the United Nations Co-ordinator for the International Year the Family (IYF), designating her an IYF patron for exemplary support to the UN program on IYF. On her retirement from the Board of the Children’s Protection Society in 1999, she was made a life vice-president, only the second since its formation in 1896. Events 1970 - Lady Gowrie Child Centre 1999 - 2000 Women’s Rights Action Network of Australia 1980 - National Status of Women Committee, United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Section Alley, Diane Berenice, OBE, Community Worker, 1982 Edited Book A decade of Mary Owen dinners, Waterfield, Dorothy, 1995 Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet.pdf Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, 1939-1974. [manuscript]. Records, 1896-1985, [manuscript] National Council of Women of Victoria National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] NCWA Board Minute Books and NCWA Papers Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 7 August 2002 Last modified 5 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Diane Alley Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Fanny Brownbill was the first woman Labor Member of Parliament in Victoria. She held the Legislative Assembly seat of Geelong for ten years from 1938 until her death in 1948. In Parliament she focused on issues relating to women, children and the family. Fanny Brownbill, nee Alford was born on 28 April 1890 at Modewarre, near Geelong, daughter of James Alford, labourer and Ann Abbott, who was born in England. She was educated at local state schools and grew up in impoverished circumstances. After working as his Housekeeper for seven years, she married James Brownbill a widower with four children on 24 January 1920. He was elected to the Victorian Parliament as member for Geelong in the same year. He represented the residents of Geelong for fifteen years from 1920 until 1932 and then from 1935 until his death in 1938. Fanny Brownbill presented herself as a candidate in the ensuing by-election for the seat of Geelong and was elected. She promoted the cause of women, children and the family during her time in parliament. Her community activities included serving as president of the Matthew Flinders Girls’ School Council, the Geelong and Western District Orphanage Ladies’ Auxiliary and as a member of the Geelong Young Women’s Christian Association and the Ladies’ Benevolent Society. She was also a committee member of the Old Folks Home, a Justice of the Peace, a worker for the Red Cross , the Australian Comforts Fund during World War Two and other charities. She was an active member of the Latrobe Terrace Church of Christ. She died in office in 1948 and at that time was the only female member in the Victorian parliament. Events 2003 - 2003 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section Brownbill, Fanny Eileen (1890-1948), Thomas, Joanne W., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130313b.htm Fanny Brownbill: Victoria's first woman Labor MP, 2003, http://www.women.vic.gov.au/web12/rwpgslib.nsf/Graphic+Files/2003_Honour_Roll/$file/2003_Honour_Roll.pdf Journal Parliamentary Debates, Session 1947-48. Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly, 1949 Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 6 May 2005 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letters and postcards written to Sleinis from Gwen Harwood; three draft poems by Sleinis with letter containing critical notes by Harwood; 28 photographs mostly depicting Harwood and her husband Bill. There are also photographs, a cutting and a menu. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection includes: Sydney University Women’s Society – annual general meetings (1906-1912); Sydney University Women’s Social Service Society – minutes (1922 -1931), committee minutes (1921-1926), committee and general meetings (1926-1931); Sydney University Women’s Settlement – annual general meetings (1912-1921), committee (1915-1920). Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 9 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 10 min.)??Cassab speaks of the styles of painting she experimented with; portrait painting. Author Details Judith Ion Created 12 August 2002 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mavis Freeman worked with Macfarlane Burnet during the 1930s and, with Burnet, succeeded in identifying the microbe responsible for Q fever. She became only the second female scientist to join the AIF and served in the Australian Army Medical Corps during World War II, undertaking research into safe methods for blood transfusion in malarial regions. Mavis Louisa Freeman went from Firbank Grammar School to the University of Melbourne, where she took her BSc in 1928 and MSc on denaturation of proteins in 1950. Between the two she had led an exciting life. From 1928 until July 1940, she undertook protein research with Macfarlane Burnet at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. In 1934 she won the travelling fellowship made available by the Victorian Women Graduates’ Association, which allowed her to study at the Lister Institute. In 1937, the first time the cause of a human disease had been identified and isolated in Australia, she and Burnet succeeded in identifying the bacterium, Coxiella burnetii, responsible for Q fever which is carried by cattle, sheep, goats, rodents, cats, dogs, birds, and marsupials. It can survive harsh conditions and remain in the environment for long periods of time. People may become infected through breathing in small particles with bacteria from animal fluids. Handling birthing products and slaughtering animals pose an especially high risk. In 1940 Mavis Freeman was the lead author of a paper on testing of sera for agglutination with au emulsion of Rickettsia burneti.[1] In 1940, Mavis Freeman became only the second female scientist to join the AIF, serving in the Australian Army Medical Corps and undertaking research into safe methods for blood transfusion in malarial regions. The Australian Women’s Weekly noted that ‘as there is no special uniform for women doing her work, she will wear the trim navy-blue outdoor uniform and the saxe-blue working dress of the VAD’.[2] On duty in the Middle East, she disproved the common assumption that ‘desert sores’ were caused by bacterial infection, showing that they could be prevented by improvements in hygiene. The official history tells us: She was commissioned as a lieutenant in the A.A.M.W.S. on 20th May 1942 and appointed an assistant pathologist. Promotion among assistant pathologists, male and female, was governed by the ratio of one captain to four lieutenants.[3] After the war, she returned to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute until 1948 when she took a position in the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Research in Adelaide. [1] M. Freeman, E.H. Derrick, H.E. Brown, D.J.W. Smith & D.W. Johnson. ‘Studies in the Epidemiology of Q Fever. 5. Surveys of Human and Animal Sera for Rìckettsia burneti Agglutinins’. Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science. v. 18 no. 3(1940): 193-200. [2] ‘Women also Serve’. Australian Women’s Weekly. 30 March 1940: 39. See also ‘Let’s Talk of Interesting People’. Australian Women’s Weekly. 21 September 1940: 2. [3] Allan S. Walker. Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Series 5 – Medical. Volume IV – Medical Services of the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force with a section on women in the Army Medical Services. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1961. p 419. Published resources Article A War Against Disease, Sherratt, Tim, 1994, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_keogh.htm Resource Section FREEMAN, MAVIS LOUISA, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=416835&c=WW2 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Rosanne Walker Created 1 February 2001 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Vera Adderley talks about her early nursing career; her organising ability; the changes in hospital administration; nurse training; nursing in New Guinea; midwifery; nursing care today; hospitals today; doctors and medical students; method of selection; her childhood; male nurses; professional life and social life; her marriage; restrictions on nurses; qualities for a director of nursing and the introduction of state care health. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 December 2017 Last modified 8 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This series consists of subject index cards created by the Office of the Status of Women (OSW) for reference purposes.??This series controls files belonging to CRS A463, Correspondence files, annual single number series – portion relating to the Office of the Status of Women. CRS A463 is one of the main correspondence file series for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (CA 1401). The files controlled by this series deal with all types of women’s issues and include ministerial. Author Details Clare Land Created 4 December 2001 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hr 57 min?Oral history Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Audrey Cahn was the first woman to complete the newly established agriculture degree at the University of Melbourne in 1928. Born to parents who were influential scientists themselves, she developed a life long interest in the field of nutritional science and went on to pioneer the academic field of dietetics. Regarded in the 1950s and 60s as a ‘soft science’ by the then university’s head of biochemistry, Victor Trikojus, Cahn fought a long battle for respect, one in which she was eventually supported by major funding bodies such as Nicholas Pty Ltd (Aspro). Her research output in the field of nutritional biochemistry is well respected. Some of her studies undertaken during her time at the University of Melbourne (1947-68) included examining the physical properties and energy value of common dietary foods, so that she could compile calorie tables. She was an early proponent of the need to reduce fat intake and to substitute polyunsaturated fatty acids for saturated fats. With colleagues in the anatomy department, she participated in a 17-year longitudinal study of “Child Growth in Melbourne (1954-71)”. The study was compared with similar studies in the United States and Britain and found that Australian children were overweight and inactive compared with their peers elsewhere. Cahn enjoyed a very long life, thanks, she said, to a combination of good luck and good genes. The daughter of Professor W A and Ethel Osborne (nee Goodson) Audrey Cahn was born in 1905. Her father came to Melbourne University in 1903 to take up the Chair of Physiology, Biochemistry and Histology. Her mother, who received a BSc and MSc from Leeds University, worked for the Victorian State Government examining the conditions of women in various trades. Her work led her to develop an interest in the sociological aspects of medicine and she undertook further study towards a medical degree at the University of Melbourne. She was instrumental in setting up the first Dietetics School in Victoria, at St Vincent’s Hospital. Audrey completed her secondary education at Merton Hall Grammar School for Girls (now know as the Church of England Girls’ Grammar School) and matriculated in 1922. She then enrolled in an Agriculture Degree at Melbourne University from which she graduated in 1928. The next year she took a position as a Microbiologist and Food Analyst with Kraft. In 1930 Audrey married Leslie Cahn, an architect, and they bore twin daughters. The marriage did not survive. Audrey completed a Hospital Certificate of Dietetics at the newly opened Dietetics Unit at St. Vincent’s Hospital. Before leaving she rose to the post of Chief Dietician at the hospital. She then took a position at Kraft/Walker and Cheese Factory in Drouin as a microbiologist. Employment as the first Chief Dietician for the Victorian Mental Hygiene Department followed, before spending a year at the Royal Perth Hospital. During World War II, Audrey Cahn enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service on 11 February 1943. As part of the Australian Army Medical Corps she became Chief Dietician at the Heidelberg Military Hospital. Before her discharge on 13 September 1946 Audrey had obtained the rank of Major. After the war, Audrey obtained a position as Lecturer (1947) and then Senior Lecturer (1959) in Nutrition and Applied Dietetics. Audrey Cahn retired in 1968 after spending 21 years at the university. Published resources Resource Section CAHN, AUDREY JOSEPHINE, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=516023 Article Starched white dress and the hissing of gaslights: early cloisters life, Tester, Julie, 1998, http://www.unimelb.edu.au/ExtRels/Media/UN/archive/1998/331/starchedwhitedress.html Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article A scientist ahead of her times, Tilley, Leann and Bruce Stone, 2008, http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/a-scientist-ahead-of-her-times/2008/05/11/1210444243844.html Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Cahn, Audrey Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 1 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dorothy Buckmaster was a member of the Canberra branch of the Country Women’s Association (New South Wales). She held various positions including President and Secretary between 1961 and 1980. Dorothy Ethel Cook was born in Yass, New South Wales on 26 September 1907, to Albert Edward (b.1880) and Eleanor Cook (nee Wilson) (b.1878). Albert and Eleanor were married on 17 September 1902 and had three children. Dorothy was the middle child, with an elder brother Henry (b.1905) and younger sister Vera Marjorie (b.1909). Their father was a school teacher in Bredbo in 1898 and the family travelled throughout New South Wales. In 1932 she married Vernon (Vernie) Buckmaster (1901-1976) and moved to the homestead ‘The Rivers’ at Uriarra in Canberra. They had two sons Peter (1936-2007) and Jeff (1933-). On 2 February 1956 Dorothy joined the Canberra branch of the Country Women’s Association (NSW) and very quickly became an active member. She held various positions between 1961 and 1975 including President (1961-1963, 1970-1972, 1978-1980), and Secretary (1973-75). She was awarded a Life Membership by the Monaro Group in 1986 and was patron from 1986 to 1988. Dorothy was a leader and dedicated member and provided substantial support to special appeals such as the Children’s Medical Research Foundation, the Tennant Creek Re-construction and to the World Wide Refugees organisation. She was a kind and understanding women who shared her life with others. She played the organ at St Luke’s in Deakin and regularly performed with the CWA choir for nursing homes and hospitals in Canberra. In 1977 Vernon and Dorothy moved to Deakin in Canberra, where she died on 4 May 1999. Published resources Resource Section Buckmaster, Dorothy Ethel, 2002, http://www.canberracemeteries.com.au/cem_process_graveresult.asp Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources New South Wales State Records Teachers' rolls Author Details Cath Akeroyd Created 6 December 2012 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "23 minutes??Honor Cameron Wilson studied physiotherapy in the 1930s, went to the Middle East during World War II, worked in Perth and with a plastic surgeon in Heidelberg, returned to the Physiotherapy department at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, post graduate work in London, lecturer, interested in art, and her involvement with the Lyceum Club art circle. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dame Marjorie Parker was appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander on 31 December 1976 for distinguished community service. She was first honoured for her charitable work in Launceston (Tasmania) with an MBE on 2 January 1950 and later an OBE on 16 June 1970. The City of Launceston granted her the ‘Freedom of the City’ in 1984. Born in Ballarat (Victoria), the daughter of W Shoppee, Marjorie attended Ballarat State School. She married Max Parker on 12 June 1926. They were to have one son. A keen gardener, Parker was deeply involved with community services. She was president and founder of a Launceston Creche, which was later named in her honour (The Dame Marjorie Parker Creche). From 1941 to 1969 she was an announcer and director of women’s interests with 7EX Radio in Launceston. In 1954 Parker became the Public Relations Adviser for the Girl Guides Association, a position she held until 1968.Commencing in 1961, Parker was president and organiser of the Launceston Red Cross Meals on Wheels for ten years. During this time, she was also Northern Regional President of the Australian Red Cross Society of Tasmania Division (1965-1968). In 1964 (until 1971) Parker joined the State Executive of the Tasmanian Division of the Miss Australia Quest. In 1964 she became State Executive and Public Relations Officer of the Tasmanian Good Neighbour Council, a post she held until 1970. From 1964 until 1968 Parker was also the vice-president of the United Nations Association in Launceston. The Society for the Care of Crippled Children made Parker a life member, in 1973. She had been an executive member of the Society for many years. In 1974, Parker was made a life member of the National Council of Australian Women of which she was deputy chairman from 1960 to 1964. Marjorie Parker was a member of the Royal Commonwealth Society, Victoria League (Launceston) of which she was President from 1966 to 1969 and the Soroptimist Club of Launceston. President of the Soroptimist Club in 1951, the Club awards the Dame Marjorie Parker Memorial Award each year. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1991, Howie, Ann, 1990 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 23 October 2015 Digital resources Title: Dame Margot Parker Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A collection of photographs, comprising 207 international works and 109 Australian works, and 858 assorted items of archival material. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 7 February 2017 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ella Macknight was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who worked at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. She was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1969 for services to medicine. She was also a talented hockey player, winning University Blues and playing in the Victorian team when she was at the University of Melbourne. Ella Macknight, daughter of Conway Montgomery Macknight and Eliza Jane Simpson, was educated at home by governesses and later attended Toorak College. She gained her MB BS in 1928 from the University of Melbourne. After qualifying as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, (MD, Melb.1931, DGO Melb 1936), she was associated with the Queen Victoria Hospital from 1935-1977. Her appointments included honorary obstetrician and gynaecologist from 1935-1964; vice-president of the Committee of Management for 1963-1971 and president from 1971-1977. She was president of the Council of the Royal College of Gynaecologists from 1970-1972 and served as chairmen of the Blood Transfusion Committee, Victorian Division of the Red Cross Society from 1964-1970 and a member of the Executive of the Victorian Division during the same period. Ella Macknight had a well developed adventurous streak. In 1929, she was persuaded by her cousin to learn how to fly. She got her pilot’s ticket and, in 1930, was one of six women pilots in Victoria who provided an escort for Amy Johnson from Laverton to Moonee Valley, where they landed on the race track. Ella Macknight was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to medicine on 1 January 1969. She died on 1 April 1997 in Malvern at the age of 92. Events 1978 - 1978 Fellow of the Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1972 - 1972 Honorary Doctor of Medicine, Monash University, Victoria 1951 - 1951 Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) 1958 - 1958 Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG) 1973 - 1973 Fellowship in Australia in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (FAGO) 1976 - 1976 Fellow of the Australian Medical Association (FAMA) Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Book Section Macknight, Dame Ella Annie Noble, DBE, 1996 Book 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 2003 The Ties that Bind: A History of Sport at the University of Melbourne, Senyard, June, 2004 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dame Ella Macknight, former gynaecologist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Files may contain material such as originals or photocopies of exhibition and auction catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases, correspondence, photographs and other items of ephemera relating to Australian and New Zealand artists and galleries. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 16 November 2016 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 6640 comprises correspondence, notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, proofs and an interview transcript (5 boxes, 1 fol. item).??The Acc10.123 instalment comprises original documents, comprising letters addressed to Peter Porter and a listing of items from his archive. The correspondence relates to the disposal of Porter’s personal archive and to a conference, Manuscripts matter: collecting modern literary archives, which was held at the British Library in 2006 and at which Porter was a member of an Authors’ Panel (1 packet).??The Acc13.092 instalment includes diaries, notebooks and other manuscripts, reviews by Porter and of his work, publications by others, photographs and royalty statements. Correspondence circa 1947-2010 comprises the largest portion of the papers (58 boxes). The numerous correspondents include Don Banks, Julian Barnes, Bruce Beaver, Bruce Bennett, Roger and Trish Covell, Peter Craven, Luke Davies, Morag Fraser, Dennis Haskell, Shirley Hazzard, Jack Hibberd, Liu Hongbin, Barry Humphries, Clive James, John Kinsella, David Malouf, Les Murray, Jill Neville, Ros Pesman, Barrett Reid, Peter Rose, Gig Ryan, Jacky Simms, Tom Shapcott, Anthony Thwaite, John Tranter, Chris Wallace-Crabbe and Elizabeth Webby (111 large archives boxes + 3 archives boxes + 3 boxes) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 December 2017 Last modified 8 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Folder and scrapbook relating to women’s liberation especially D’Aprano’s involvement, issues including equal pay and opportunity, child care, welfare provision and working conditions; Women’s Action committee annual report 1971; papers and addresses by Zelda D’Aprano. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mabel Miller, who served in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) during World War II, was an active public figure in Hobart for twenty years. She was the first woman to be elected to the Hobart City Council in 1952 and later, in 1955, one of the first two women to be elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the Liberal member for Franklin. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for distinguished public service on January 1st, 1967. Daughter of Joseph Christian Goodhart, draper, and Alice Mary, née Humphries. Mabel Miller, although born in Broken Hill, came to Adelaide as a child, and was educated at Girton House Girls’ Grammar School. She later attended a finishing school in Paris, then proceeded to the University of Adelaide where she gained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 1927 and was admitted to the bar on 17 December 1927. She practised in Sydney and London before marrying Alan John Richmond Miller, a chemist, in Hobart on 24 July 1930. She had a daughter. During World War II, from 1941, she served in the WAAAF as acting section officer and reached the rank of temporary squadron officer while serving in Melbourne from 1942-1943 as deputy director of the WAAAF. She was later posted to Townsville, Queensland as staff officer, north eastern area. She completed her war service on 3 October 1944. After World War II, Miller was active in the Red Cross Society, the Queen Alexandra Hospital and the Mary Ogilvy Homes Society. Her decision to stand for election to the Hobart City Council was prompted by complaints she heard about municipal mismanagement when she was president of the National Council of Women of Tasmania from 1952-1954. Miller served on the Council from 1952, chaired the finance, health, building and town planning committees, and became deputy lord mayor in 1954-1956 and 1964-1970. She stood for election as mayor in 1970, but was unsuccessful and retired from the council in 1972. Miller was also a member of the Tasmanian State Parliament in the House of Assembly as member for Franklin from 1955 until 1964. She strongly supported proper planning measures for public housing estates, law, education, health and welfare reforms, particularly to ensure the care and protection of children. She was elected vice president of the Liberal Party in 1961, but her state political career ceased on her defeat in 1964. Miller was known for her stylish clothes and charming personality, and continued to be involved with the United Ex-Service Women’s Homes Association and the Tasmanian Right to Life Association. She assisted in the establishment of the Women’s and Children’s Memorial Rest Centre, Hobart and sat on the interim council of the Australian National Gallery and the Metric Conversion Board. In 1967, in addition to being appointed DBE, she was the Australian representative on the United Nations’ Status of Women Commission, and an Australian delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations. She died on 30 December 1978 in Newtown, Tasmania. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1968, Legge, J S, 1968 Resource Section Miller, Dame Mabel Flora (1906-1978), Petrow, Stefan, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150430b.htm MILLER, MABEL FLORA, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=1070028 Book Section Miller, Dame Mabel Flora, DBE, 1968 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources Archives Office of Tasmania Dame Mabel Miller Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 8 August 2002 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The current Head, Tropical Plant Sciences and Deputy Head, School of Tropical Biology at the James Cook University, Jackes also has been a member of the Academic teaching staff of the University of New England and the University of Queensland. She is the author or co-author of refereed journal papers, refereed conference papers, miscellaneous papers, articles, posters etc and environmental consultancy reports. Her books include: Poisonous Plants in Northern Australian Gardens, Plants of Magnetic Island, A Guide to the Plants of the Burra Range and Plants of the Tropical Rainforest. Born: 19 March 1935 Bingara NSW (daughter: Allan and Bessie (née Curtis) Paterson. Following the completion her BSc (1957) and MSc (1959) at the University of New England, Jackes became a Research Scholar at the University of Chicago where she obtained her PhD in 1961. Married to E Machael Jackes (1962) they have 2 children. (Source: http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/tbiol/Botany/staff/brj.htm accessed 01/02/02 and Who’s Who of Australian Women) Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Book Plants of the Tropical Rainforest. Mt Spec Area, North Queensland, Jackes, Betsy R, 1991 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "7 sound tape reels (ca. 417 min.)??Pauline Fanning, former Director of Australian National Humanities Library, talks about her family background; childhood in Tasmania; education at Collegiate School from 1923-31 and the impact of the Depression on the family; her part-time University studies; leaving Hobart in 1936 and coming to the Parliamentary Library on a cadetship; her memories of working at Parliament House; coming to the Commonwealth National Library in 1937 and working at Kings Ave and the state of the Australian collections in 1936-37; the hostel and social life in Canberra during 1930s; marriage in 1941 and retirement from Library; her views on Kenneth Binns; Nan Kivell Collection and the administration of Harold White; returning to full-time work in 1950; her involvement with 1958 ed. Of “Australian Encyclopedia”; working at the Parkes Annexe; collection building and cooperation with other states and the origins of AACOBS.??Fanning then shares her memories of Canberra life in 1950s; Keyes Metcalf’s visit and report on the Library; Maurice Tauber’s survey in 1961 of Australian library resources; involvement with acquisition of Palmer and Higgins collections and Hazel de Berg material; the impact of moving to the new building; her views on Harold White and C. A. Burmester; the role of Grenfell Price as 1st chairman of National Library Council; appointment of Allan Fleming as succesor to Sir Harold White; Library’s collecting of music and sound recordings; the administration of Dr Chandler from 1974 and the situation of the Film Collection; her 1978 visit to Teheran on an UNESCO sponsored meeting; her views on staff development and training; highlights of her career; the system established for aquiring personal papers for the Library and people who have made outstanding contributions to the development of the National Library. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pegg Clarke was a Pictorialist photographer who ran her own successful photography business until the 1950s. Clarke is known for being the only woman to be included in the First Exhibition of the Australian Salon of Photography in 1924. Little is known of Pegg Clarke’s early years and what drew her to photography. What is evident, however, is that she worked as a professional photographer of considerable repute. Jack Cato referred to her work as being of ‘the highest standard’ (Cato 136). During the interwar period, Clarke’s clientele included rich and prominent Melbourne society figures. Clarke was known for her studio, portrait and function photography, as well as for her urban and rural photographs, which were created in the Pictorialist style. Clarke was well-regarded for her softly focussed impressionistic style, and her photograph Mist in the Mountains was reproduced in Cameragraphs, and included in the First Exhibition of the Australian Salon of Photography in 1924. She was the only Australian woman to be included in this exhibition. Another of her photographs, Winnie, created controversy due to its ‘fuzzy’ image but ended up winning equal first prize at The Home Portraiture Competition in 1915. Clarke lived with the artist Dora Wilson at ‘Rosebank,’ Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, opposite Scotch College, from 1927. The two women shared a studio, and also travelled around Australia, and then London and Europe from 1926-1927. During this period they produced a series of photographs and paintings that were later featured in an exhibition entitled Together Again: Celebrating the work of Pegg Clark and Dora Wilson, in 2009. Pegg Clarke died at the age of 66 in 1956. Her photographs continue to generate interest regularly sell at Australian auctions. Collections Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum Private Collections State Library of Victoria. Events 1931 - 1931 Pegg Clarke’s work featured in Impressions of Melbourne Exhibition 1981 - 1981 Pegg Clarke’s work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 2009 - 2009 Pegge Clarke’s work featured in Together Again: Celebrating the Work of Pegg Clarke and Dora Wilson 1921 - 1921 Pegg Clarke’s work featured in the London Salon held by the Royal Photographic Society. 1923 - 1923 Pegg Clarke’s work featured in the Colonial Prints Exhibition,organised by the English magazine Amateur Photographer 1919 - 1950 1915 - 1915 Pegg Clarke was awarded a prize at the Australian Photo-Review competitiion for her child portrait Winnie. Published resources Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Catalogue of Camera Pictures by Pegg Clarke: at Athenaeum Gallery, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne from Monday, 5th December to Saturday, 17th December, [1932]., Clarke, Pegg, 1932, http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/107495 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 The Story of the Camera in Australia, Cato, Jack, 1979 Thesis Making Pictures: Australian Pictorial Photography as Art 1897-1957, Ebury, Francis, 2001 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Newspaper Article Miss Rhoda Law-Smith, whose engagement is announced., Clarke, Pegg, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12096059 Resource Section Pegg Clarke (c1890-c1956) Australia, http://www.artrecord.com/index.cfm/artist/9700-clarke-pegg/ Together Again: Celebrating the Work of Dora Wilson and Pegg Clarke, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/15121/20090720-0935/www.boroondara.vic.gov.au/council/media_rel/2009/july/together-again.html Who was Pegg Clarke?, https://www.scotch.vic.edu.au/greatscot/2005sepgs/49pegg.htm Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 6 December 2016 Last modified 4 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Australian Women’s Army Service Second World War Anti-Aircraft Defence recruitment poster featuring a photograph of an AWAS woman (Doris Shilcock) in uniform, including hard hat, holding binoculars and looking up to the sky as if searching for enemy aircraft. Actually she is looking up at the poster title text including a large orange 3D graphic of the word AWAS. Behind her is the graphic depiction of searchlights further emphasising that the AWAS are seeking recruits. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hours (approx.)??Catherina van der Linden was born in 1912 and grew up in Nigmegen, Holland where her father was a tailor. She describes her schooling and then her long courtship and marriage in 1940 soon after the outbreak of war. Their first child was born in 1943. Mrs van der Linden briefly describes the stressful experiences of the war years and its aftermath during which her husband, who had been a Company Secretary, was unemployed and their other three children were born. She then explains how she reluctantly agreed to emigrate in 1955 after her father’s death. They travelled in the luxurious ‘Johan Van Oltenbernavalt’ and were shocked by the accommodation at both Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre in Victoria and Woodside in the Adelaide Hills. Their longest stay was at the Glenelg hostel from whence Mrs van der Linden returned to Holland in 1958 with the children, vowing never to return. However she decided to reunite the family 18 months later and describes the children’s education and her determination to work outside the home in clerical and nurses’ aide positions. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. 1944-09-30 – 1944-10-04. Officers at the conference of Assistant and Deputy Assistant Controllers, Australian Army Medical Women’s Service. Identified personnel are:- SFX27688 Captain M.M. Langsford; VF500148 Major A.R. Appleford, RRC, MM, SFX30364 Lieutenant-Colonel M.S. Douglas; NFX138446 Major J.M. Snelling; QF119238 Major M.C. Roche; VFX138505 Major R.M. Davidson; NFX76442 Captain L.W. Yates; WFX38344 Captain S.C. Perry; VFX117124 Major H.F. Meyer; TFX6117 Captain I.D. Cox. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection contains over 600 glass plate negatives as well as original camera equipment belonging to Harriet Brims, much of it made by her husband Donald Brims. Created 9 May 2019 Last modified 9 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Vicki Kearney was a frequent Australian Greens candidate: New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Camden 1995. House of Representatives, Macarthur, 1996. House of Representatives, Blaxland, By election, 1996. House of Representatives, Werriwa, 1998. New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Campbelltown, 1999. Vicki Kearney was a lecturer in Public Health at the Macarthur campus of the University of Western Sydney when she ran for Campbelltown in 1999. She was a strong advocate for organisational change within the health industry. She has two sons. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Recorded on 21 September 2012 at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, A.C.T. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 6 August 2019 Last modified 6 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anna Garrett is a teacher, passionate about the importance of education. An Australian Democrats candidate she stood for election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Strathfield in 1999 and 2003, and to the House of Representatives for Lowe in 2001. Anna Garrett joined the Australian Democrats in 1998, motivated by her strong feelings for the education system and her commitment to .social justice. She became the state secretary of the Young Democrats and adviser on youth policy. In 2003 Anna Garret was teaching history at an Inner West High School. All her campaigns stressed the importance of education. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "43 minutes??Irina Ozolins was born in Latvia and had a happy childhood. She lived with her aunt in Riga to go to a private college and then to University where she studied mathematics. The Russians came to the Baltic states and took 2,000,000 people to Siberia including her mother and six relations. Many died including all her male relatives. The Germans came in 1941. She completed her master of science. The Russians returned and she and her friends left by ship for Germany. They were sent to various workplaces. She went to Dresden to work as a scientist in the university. Dresden was bombed and the city was flattened. She and her friend Emily made their way to Emily’s aunt in Austria, travelling by train and escaping to the fields when bombers came. A month later all foreigners were ordered out of Austria so she was sent to a Latvian couple. There she met her husband. They went to the Latvian displaced persons camp and because of her languages she was employed as an interpreter for UNRRA. Her husband’s landlady had a son in Port Pirie and he organised a landing permit for them to come to South Australia. They moved to Adelaide and she taught mathematics at Norwood and Unley High Schools. She also enjoyed painting and joined the Royal Society of Arts, was made a fellow and had seven solo exhibitions. She was invited to give a talk at the Lyceum Club and then joined the Art Appreciation and Literature Circles. She also joined the German Circle. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lieutenant (Lt) Elva Baikie, Amenities Officer for the Army women’s services (including the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS), Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) and Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS)). Lt Baikie encouraged the women to brighten up their barracks by supplying material for bedspreads, floor stain, rugs and paint, along with the motto ‘Make your barracks spell HOME’. Lt Baikie also organised a musical comedy and a revue in the Darwin area, with the girls who took part improvising their costumes. Lt Baikie also organised sporting matches and a Combined Services Swimming Carnival held in the Darwin Baths. (Donor E. Batt) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Collection relating to Glenda Adams, including filmscripts and playscripts, and notes, drafts and plans for novels and short stories. Also includes correspondence between Glenda Adams and publishers and agents, as well as promotional material and interviews with Glenda Adams (5 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 December 2017 Last modified 8 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Madge Massingham was a professional photographer who operated her own studio. During WW2 Massingham became involved in the Women’s Air Training Corps’ photographic section. Madge Massingham was born c.1895 in Geelong, Victoria. Her father was George Leake Massingham, a professional photographer, and her mother was Mary Ellen McWilliams. The couple had seven children, one of whom died at birth. After arriving in Australia from England, her father established himself as a travelling photographer, an occupation he continued after his marriage. He travelled throughout country Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales, setting up studios along the way. The family ended up moving with him, travelling to Sydney, Narrandera, Bendigo, Newtown, Geelong and Deniliquin. From an early age Madge began assisting her father in the darkroom, developing prints of landscapes and portraits. Her first camera was a Box Brownie; as she became more experienced began using her father’s camera. During the early 1930s she began working as a printer for Kodak in Victoria. She then established a studio and darkroom of her own at the family home in Preston. Around 1938 Massingham travelled to Tasmania. Initially the purpose of the trip was a short holiday, but she stayed there for seven years following the outbreak of WW2. She enlisted in the Women’s Air Training Corps (WATC) in 1941 and became the first section leader in Australia to set up a WATC photography section, where she trained women photographers for the Department of Air during the war years. Massingham enjoyed travelling and photographed what she encountered on her trips. She documented the weir at Yarrawonga (1936) as well as the mining town of Queenstown, Tasmania (1938). In 1945 she returned to Melbourne and continued her work with the Department of Air, as well as pursuing her own photographic work. After she retired, Massingham devoted her time to craftwork and gardening. She died in Caulfield, Victoria, c.1978. Technical Massingham’s first camera was a Box Brownie. Collections National Gallery of Australia Events 1920 - 1981 - 1981 Madge Massingham’s work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Newspaper Article Camera Conscious, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25884204 Kangaroo Flat State School, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89437416 Resource Family Group Record for George Leake Massingham, Bellarine Historical Society, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/20541/20050614-0000/www.zades.com.au/geelong/gdphotmg.pdf Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 23 November 2016 Last modified 23 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "PAGE PROOFS FROM DONOR’S CHAPTER IN THE BOOK, “DOUBLE TIME”, DETAILING THE WORK OF SQN OFFICER STEVENSON FROM HER APPOINTMENT AS DIRECTOR OF THE WAAAF IN JUNE 1941 UNTIL HER RETIREMENT IN MARCH 1946. PHOTOCOPY Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Conway is a lawyer with over 30 years’ experience in business and, more recently, in the public sector. She spent ten years in private legal practice, including seven years as a partner in a major law firm in Sydney, and then moved into the corporate sector where she worked as a lawyer, company secretary and senior executive in the insurance, transport, energy, retail and construction industries for eighteen years. At the same time, she undertook various directorships in the health, transport and superannuation sectors."
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    {
        "text": "BOX 1?Correspondence, mainly letters received relating to plays staged at the Theatre Royal, Hobart, 1950-1951, including a telegram from Laurence Olivier, 1950-1958, undated??Prompt copies of Arsenic and Old Lace; Susan and God; Night Must Fall, 1950-1951??3 x scrapbooks of cuttings relating to Fifi Banvard Productions in Tasmania, reviews and articles, 1950-1951??Scrapbook of cuttings relating to Fifi Banvard’s career, particularly while she performed on Bob Dyer’s radio show, 1923-1926, 1945??BOX 2?Theatre Programmes for Australian and international productions, 1922-1965, undated??The Theatre: an illustrated magazine of theatrical and musical life, New York – various issues, 1903-1910??The Theatre Royal, Hobart 1837-1948, Mercury Press – a history, ca 1949??Pictorial material related to this collection is at PXE 1260 and PXA 1545. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (ca. 92 min.)??Galene, choreographer, talks about her family background, experiences as a child in Berlin, coming to Australia, beginnings of her dance training in Sydney, nature of the Bodenwieser method of training, differences between classical and modern dance, her teachers, joining a professional company, life in the Borovansky company, working with Ballet Rambert in Australia, travelling to England to pursue her career, her teachers in Europe and England including Vera Volkova, working with Roland Petit, studying in Paris, working with the Marquis de Cuevas company, impetus to move back to Australia, joining the National Theatre Ballet Company in Melbourne, her qualities as a dancer, choreography and her work as a teacher. She then talks about the formulation of her training system, the development of her company, working with Beth Dean on Corroboree, problems of dance monopolies, Ballet Australia and her works for it, her sources of inspiration, Red Opal Dance Theatre, the development of dance in Australia especially restrictions on its development and her mentors. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Australian Second World War recruitment poster by James Northfield. The poster depicts an attractive young Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force recruit. in the background to the right of the main figure is a montage of the various duties undertaken by the WAAAF. The WAAAF was formed in March 1941and disbanded in 1947. It was set up to release male personnel serving in Australia to serve overseas.?Offset lithograph on paper. 100 x 63.5 cm Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The essay describes her work for women teachers and their associations and trade unions, 1915-1934, and also her attempt to enter Parliament in 1927.,Winning essay for the RHSV 70th Anniversary competition. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary Booth graduated in Arts from the University of Sydney before studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh (graduating in 1899). On her return to Australia she lectured in hygiene at girls secondary schools in Sydney, and for the Department of Public Instruction and the Sydney Teachers College 1904-1909. In 1910-1912 she helped establish the first school medical service in Victoria and was later involved in household health and welfare. She was the founder and office bearer of many patriotic associations, such as the Anzac Fellowship of Women (president 1921-1956). She was appointed OBE – Officer of The Order of the British Empire (Civil) – 4 October 1918, for her work with the Friendly Union of Soldier’s Wives. Booth also founded the Women’s Club in Sydney in 1901, the Centre for Soldiers Wives and Mothers in 1915 and the Memorial College of Household Arts and Science in 1936, and was involved with the University of Sydney Society for Combating Venereal Disease, the League of Nations Union, the New Settlers’ League and the Australian Institute of International Affairs. She had a keen interest in eugenics and was a member of the Anthropometric Committee of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science from 1908. Independent candidate for North Shore in 1920. Mary Booth was born in Sydney and educated privately, at Airlie School and then University of Sydney. From 1891-1893 she was governess to the children of the Earl of Jersey, then governor of NSW. In 1894 she began studying medicine at the University of Melbourne, but transferred to Edinburgh, from which she graduated in 1899. She returned to Sydney in 1900 but did not practise medicine for long. She taught hygiene at girls’ secondary schools, and was lecturer in hygiene for the NSW Department of Public Instruction 1904-09. In 1910-12 she helped establish the Victorian school medical service. She was very active during World War I, founding the Babies’ Kit Society and the Soldiers Club. She was on the executive committee of the Universal Service League and campaigned in favour of conscription. Running as an independent feminist, she stood in the first election for which women were entitled to be candidates. Two years later, in 1922, she failed to gain nomination for the Senate election though she was supported by the Women’s Reform League. In 1921 she founded the Anzac Fellowship of Women, and remained its president until 1956. From 1921, she was involved in the Dreadnought Scheme which brought out boy immigrants, and from 1925 to 1944 published a monthly magazine, Boy Settler. She was an inveterate joiner and activist and belonged to numerous organizations including the League of Nations Union, the Town Planning Association, and the English Speaking Union. Her last major initiative was to found the Memorial College of Household Arts and Sciences in 1936, to which young women went to learn the domestic arts, as Dr Booth believed :”good wives made good husbands”. After her death and the sale of the property, the funds were used to found the Dr Mary Booth scholarship for women economics students at the University of Sydney. Published resources Resource Section Booth, Mary (1869-1956), Roe, J.I., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070350b.htm Booth, Mary (1869 - 1956), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000963b.htm Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Thesis The 'Woman Question' in Melbourne, 1880-1914, Kelly, Farley, 1983 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1947, Chisholm, Alec H, 1947 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Journal Article The soldiers' club, 1915-1923, Brooklyn, Bridget, 2000 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Mary Booth papers, 1899-1957 Mary Booth: a biography by Ruth Mackinnon, 1969 Rose family papers, 1749-1974 [Henrietta Eliza Bertha Rose] Series 01: Mary Booth papers, 1905-1957 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Mary Booth, [ca. 1918]-1979 [manuscript] Papers of H.P. Philpot and G.W. Philpot, 1912-1985 [manuscript] Author Details Helen Morgan and Jane Carey Created 20 October 1993 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Feature film (silent) edited by Mona Donaldson. A Pacific Island romance about a young adventurer, Stephen Conn, and his love for Luya. — General notes: Several scenes survive, although heavy nitrate damage is visible — Shot on location in the Fiji Islands with interiors at Australasian’s Bondi studios in Sydney, the film had many native extras and three American players (Burns, Roberts and Long) — Locations show authentic native villages, sailing craft, and a spectacular longhouse built on an atoll — An incomplete print of the American release title, ‘Black Cargo of the South Seas’, has survived with substantially more scenes (see related title). — The script for the film was written by Norman Dawn from the novel, “Conn of the Coral Seas”, by Beatrice Grimshaw.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Union files of the Sheet Metal Workers Union including arbitration material, correspondence; wage campaign materials, reports and Vietnam war documents. Tom Wright’s personal papers and notes, including some correspondence; his large collection of political pamphlets, leaflets, serials, press cuttings, cartoons and photographs, books, notably material on Aboriginal and women’s rights. Mary Wrights’ pamphlets and memorabilia relating to the Union of Australian Women, photographs and a poster. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 26 November 2001 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Dame Rita Buxton Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This oral history project provides interviews with orchardists who speak about their childhood; family life; education; life in rural communities; agricultural shows; clearing land; the shift from larger trees to dwarf plantings; irrigation; the impact of drought and storm damage; climate change; use of fertilisers; pests, diseases and their control; weed control; pruning; varieties of fruit; breeding new varieties; picking, grading and packing fruit; packing cases; cold storage and transportation. Growers speak about the early days of farming, including the use of horses, through to recent technological innovations and experimentation with new varieties; labour and the use of labour during WWII.??Also discussed are cooperatives, marketing and export; lower prices and increased competition; the departure of small growers; diversification into other fruits such as cherries, raspberries, plums, grapes and kiwifruit; cider making; the expansion into tourism and direct sales to the public; the roles and assistance provided by the Apple and Pear Growers Association; state and federal apple and pear boards; the Dept. of Agriculture and regulations for growing fruit; industry conferences. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 May 2017 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hours 45 minutes??Serafima Vidau was of Swedish descent but grew up with a foster family in Estonia. After finishing secondary school Serafima joined a step-sister in Finland and began training as a nurse. She returned to Estonia and married in 1931. Her first two sons were born before the war. In 1942 the family travelled to Germany with the intention of migrating overseas. Instead she spent several years in displaced persons camps, with her husband often absent due to ill-health and work. Two more sons were born in 1943 and 1945 – the latter the night before the war ended. During the four years before they were able to migrate she returned to nursing. The family arrived in Melbourne in December 1949 and spent some months in Victorian migrant camps before reuniting in Adelaide. Both Serafima and her husband got factory jobs and with the help of their eldest son’s pay were able to buy their own home in Woodville in 1952 – the same year that Serafima gave birth to her fifth son. Her husband died three years later and she returned to nursing to support her younger sons. She speaks about the positive aspects of her migration experiences and of visits to Estonia and Sweden. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Zelda Hinemoa Patricia was born to Lily Louise Higham and Jasper Kent Finlay in Auckland, New Zealand in 1922. Jasper was a remittance man who had been sent to New Zealand from the United Kingdom by his father, Sir Jasper Kent-Finlay. He worked as a barber and died when Zelda was four years old. Zelda and her mother travelled to Australia. Prior to leaving New Zealand, Lily had her body tattooed from her neck to her toes, depicting scenes from many countries. She even had her will tattooed on her back. Zelda was trained as a contortionist and she and her mother travelled Australia and the world performing ‘tasteful and entertaining’ exhibitions. Lily married again to Harry Seabrook, whose act in the show was riding a motorbike and performing the ‘Wheel of death’. The family moved to Western Australia in the early 1930s where Zelda attended the Boulder School. Leaving school at fourteen, Zelda’s first job was in a lolly shop in Burt Street, Boulder and then she went on to work as a hairdresser in an establishment called ‘Louise hairdresser & beautician’. She travelled to Kalgoorlie daily on the tram, costing 6 pence, taking her crib (lunch) with her. However, travel became too expensive for a Boulder girl, so she went to work for Boulder hairdresser, Joy Harper in Lane Street, Boulder. During World War Two, she became a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD ) worker, doing 1000 hours of voluntary service at St John of Gods hospital in Kalgoorlie. She also helped in the digging of trenches in Burt Street. Zelda married Matt Radisich in 1944 in the Kalgoorlie Registry Office, and the couple lived in a house built by Matt in 1950 in Dwyer Street, Boulder. They had one son and a daughter. Zelda died in March 2009 in Boulder. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 15 August 2012 Last modified 9 November 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Although their story is old as the Christian Church and as varied as the denominations of that church, deaconesses have always been associated with outreach work aimed at offering spiritual an pastoral guidance. Protestant equivalents of the Catholic sisterhood, deaconesses in the modern era are trained and paid Christian workers who assist in the ministry of the church. Although duties and training have varied across denominations and historical and cultural settings, there has been one constant theme. Historically, deaconesses in Australia have brought the gospel of Jesus Christ and provided Christian care to disadvantaged people. The nineteenth century deaconess movement grew from a recognised need to formally develop and promote the ministry of women, particularly in caring for the sick, the poor and needy. Pastor Theodore Fliedner, who in 1836 revived the diaconate of women in Kaiserwerth, Germany, is generally regarded as the person responsible for reviving the tole and establishing the first, formal training institute By 1892, the evangelical churches of England, Scotland, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden and Norway had institutions which equipped women for Christian ministry through the lay order of deaconesses. Florence Nightingale was particularly influential in bringing the deaconess movement from Germany to England. Churchwomen and men familiar with the development of the European movement migrated to Australia in the 1880s and 1890s and helped to fuel interest in establishing deaconess orders in the south-eastern corner. Published resources Booklet A History of the Methodist Deaconess Order in South Australia, Hancock, Bethany, 1995 Book Not to be ministered unto: The story of Presbyterian deaconesses trained in Melbourne, Ritchie, Catherine I., 1998 God's Willing Workers: Women and Religion in Australia, O'Brien Anne, 2005 Caught for Life: The Story of the Anglican Deaconess Order in Australia, Tress, Nora, 1993 The Presbyterians in Australia., Burke, David and Hughes, Philip, 1996 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 May 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Florence Cardell-Oliver became the first woman in Australia to be appointed to a cabinet or ministry when made Western Australian Minister for Health, Supply and Shipping in 1949. Born Annie Florence Wilson on 11 May 1876 at Stawell Victoria, to Johnston and Annie (née Thompson) Wilson, Florence (as she preferred to be known) married David Sykes Boydan and they travelled to England. Her husband died on 5 September 1902. Later she married Arthur Cardell-Oliver (15 December 1902), and they had two sons. The family migrated to Western Australia and Arthur Cardell-Oliver registered as a doctor in 1912. During the First World War Florence Cardell-Oliver spoke at recruitment meetings for the armed services. Her husband, an honorary captain in the Army Medical Corps Reserve, joined the Australian Imperial Force, and served in England before requesting his appointment be terminated. He then set up a medical practice in South Melbourne and retired in 1924 due to ill health. The family travelled to England where he died on 15 September 1929. Florence Cardell-Oliver returned to Western Australia and became vice-president of the State Branch of the Nationalist Party. Defeated in 1934 for the House of Representative seat of Fremantle she was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly as the member for Subiaco. On 1 April 1947 she was appointed honorary minister without portfolio and on 5 January 1948 honorary minister for supply and shipping. Florence Cardell-Oliver became the first woman in Australia to attain full cabinet rank when she was appointed minister for health on 7 October 1949. She remained in these positions until the defeat of government in 1953 and retired in 1956. Florence Cardell-Oliver died on 12 January 1965 in Perth and she is buried beside her husband (Arthur) in St Columb Minor churchyard, Newquay, England. She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire (Dames Commander) on 3 June 1951 for service to the state of Western Australia as Minister of Health. Events 2051 - 2051 Created Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) 1936 - 1956 Member of the Legislative Assembly for Subiaco, Western Australia 1947 - 1953 Honourary Minister for Supply and Shipping, Western Australia 1949 - 1953 Honourary Minister of Health, Supply and Shipping, Western Australia Published resources Book Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Dame Florence Cardell-Oliver : a study of a parliamentarian, Brown, R K, 1984 No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Book Section Cardell-Oliver : biography of a politician., Black, David, 1990 Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Resource Section Cardell-Oliver, Dame Annie Florence Gillies (1876-1965), Black, David, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130406b.htm Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Papers, 1936-1956 [manuscript] Dame Florence Cardell-Oliver [picture] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Pro-Chancellor’s correspondence covers educational issues, administrative arrangements and invitations and dates from November 1998 to September 1999. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 25 July 2017 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers of Glenda Adams include correspondence, drafts of novels, short stories, dramas, articles, essays and posters. Adams is a teacher and writer and has written novels, short stories, articles, essays and dramas for film, radio, television and theatre. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 December 2017 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lyndall Ryan was a member of the first Sydney Women’s Liberation Group in 1970. In 1974 she joined the Commonwealth Public Service as a policy analyst on women’s health and child care. She became an academic in 1977 and has held positions in Australian Studies and Women’s Studies at Griffith and Flinders Universities. She was appointed to the position of Foundation Professor of Australian Studies and Head of School of Humanities at the University of Newcastle in 1998. The daughter of Edna Ryan and a committed feminist, Lyndall Ryan was one of the early wave of scholars who examined the extent of violence perpetrated against Aboriginal people by white colonisers. Her book The Aboriginal Tasmanians, first published in 1981 and based on her 1975 PhD thesis, presented a critical interpretation of the early history of relations between Tasmanian Aborigines and white settlers in Tasmania. A second edition was published by Allen & Unwin in 1996, in which she brought the story of the Tasmanian Aborigines in the 20th century up to date. Her scholarship since then continued to confront this violent past. In 2013, she led a team of scholars in a four year project to map the frontier massacres in Eastern Australia, a project funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant investigating Violence on the Australian Colonial Frontier, 1788-1960. Ryan was elected as a Labor member of the ACT Advisory Council in September 1967 and resigned in December 1968. Events 1977 - 1986 Comparative Social History and Australian Studies, Griffith University. 1986 - 1998 Women’s Studies, Flinders University. 1998 - 2005 Australian Studies, University of Newcastle. 1984 - 1986 Queensland Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. 1996 - 1998 South Australian Committee, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. 1999 - 2003 School of Humanities, University of Newcastle 2004 - 2005 School of Humanities, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah Campus. 1973 - 1974 Leichardt Women’s Community Health Centre. 1974 - 1976 Policy Analysist, Priorities Review Staff and Women’s Affairs Branch, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra. 1977 - 1977 Australian History, Australian National University, Canberra. 1970 - 1970 First Sydney Women’s Liberation Group. 1971 - 1971 Mejane 1972 - 1972 Refractory Girl 2018 - 2018 Australian Academy of the Humanities 2019 - 2019 Order of Australia – Member – AM Published resources Book The Aboriginal Tasmanians, Ryan, Lyndall, 1996 We Women Decide: Women's Experience of Seeking Abortion in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania, 1985-1992, Ryan, Lyndall, Ripper, Margie and Buttfield, Barbara, 1994 Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Journal Origins of a Royal Commission, Ryan, Lyndall, 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Correspondence of Warren Osmond and Lyndall Ryan, 1972-1996 (bulk 1974-1982) [manuscript] Papers of Julia Ryan, 1947-1982 [manuscript] Waterloo creek: the Australia Day massacre of 1838, George Gipps and the British conquest of New South Wales (Melbourne: Penguin, 1992) Papers of Manning Clark, 1907-1992 [manuscript] Papers of Dymphna Clark, circa 1930-2000 [manuscript] Papers of Lyndall Ryan, 1968-1992 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Lyndall Ryan, Dr., author, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Julia Ryan interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Interview with Lyndall Ryan, Professor of Australian Studies, University of Newcastle [sound recording] / interviewer, Sara Dowse Author Details Elle Morrell Created 28 July 2000 Last modified 11 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A radio documentary by BBC’s Radio 3, with commentary from leading Australian filmmakers, about the history and current state of filmmaking in Australia. Producer: Philip French 7084 B H. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of Daphne Pearson relating to the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association. Includes letters from V.C. and G.C. winners and other notable persons; copies of minutes of meetings; re-unions; photographs and disc. (Envelope 1 in MSF SEQ). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 November 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Rebecca Tiffen is a once only candidate who ran as an Independent in the 1999 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Clarence."
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hr 47 min 37 sec. Oral history. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Heather George was a commercial photographer who began her career in Sydney, and also worked in Melbourne and regional Victoria. George was known for her industrial, fashion and outback photography. Heather George was born in 1907 in Gordon, NSW. Her father was Wesley T. George and her mother was Helen M. George. Heather studied painting at the East Sydney Art School, as well as with the artist Justus Jorgenson (the founder of Montsalvat). It is unclear what inspired her to forge a career as a photojournalist but records show that by 1938, at the age of 31, she had commenced work at the Noel Rubie photography studio in Sydney. The studio was well regarded for its portrait and industrial photography. She also went on to work at a variety of Melbourne and Victorian country photography studios, eventually becoming a freelance photographer. By the late 1950s George had developed a reputation as both a highly competent and daring photojournalist, documenting the building of the King Street Bridge in Melbourne, and travelling to the Australian outback, where she recorded the life of Aboriginal people on Aboriginal reserves and cattle stations. George’s photographs appeared in numerous magazines, including Walkabout, Australian Scene, Hoofs and Horns, Pix, Women’s Day, as well as the National Trust magazine. George appears to have ceased her work as a photojournalist in the 1960s. She died in 1983. Collections National Gallery of Victoria Events 1938 - 1950 Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Justus Jorgensen: Conversations and a Memoir, Teichman, Jenny, 2005 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Heather George interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive [Heather George : Art & Artist Files (Australia and New Zealand)] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 16 November 2016 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "4 sound files (ca. 345 min.)??Clare Bishop talks about her early life; her education; work experience in U.S.A. and France; her university and hotel and catering management studies; joining the Department of Immigration, Professional Migration Section; posting to London; pre-departure training; promoting migration in Britain; selecting British migrants; youth migration; training male interviewing officers; migrants’ knowledge of Australia and their expectations; Canberra, Recruitment Officer (1974); appointment to Edinburgh, Belfast (1975); family sponsorship; living in Edinburgh, travelling in Scotland; posting to New York with responsibility for eastern Canada (1977); types of applicants, character checking; interviewing Canadian applicants for migration; Canberra, Legal and Parliamentary Branch as Ministerial Correspondence Officer; organising Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Melbourne (1981); Canberra, Vietnamese unaccompanied refugee minors.??Bishop discusses her posting to Cologne, Germany, to process Polish refugees; processing chefs in Berne, Switzerland; brides in the Philippines; return to Canberra, to Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs Secretariat, evaluation of the implementation of the Galbally report; Vietnam posting (1984-86), training for staff, accommodation, processing, travel, communications, interviewing, documentation; migrant sponsorship; American and Canadian migration processing arrangements in Vietnam; health and character checking; official visitors; air services; posting to New York (1986-90); staff, tourism, migration, temporary residents, student exchange, Chicago and Toronto posts; promoting business migration; Olympic Games bid; working in Washington Embassy compared with Vietnam; Canberra, Executive Branch (1990-2000), National Population Council; Departmental Liaison in the office of Minister Jerry Hand; her retirement (2000); Canberra School of Music. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 August 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marie Coleman was the first woman to head a Commonwealth Government statutory agency, and the first woman to hold the powers of Permanent Head under the Public Service Act. She was founding Secretary of the National Foundation for Australian Women, one of the NFAW Board of Directors who worked to establish the Australian Women’s Archives Project (AWAP), and remains active in community organisations and public life in her retirement. She was awarded the Public Service Medal in 1989 for contributions to public administration. In 2001 she was awarded the Centenary Medal. In 2011 she was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia. Marie Burns was an only child, born in Dubbo, New South Wales (NSW) in March 1933. Her father John Alexander Burns (Alex) was at that time a porter with the Railways Commission of NSW, and the family lived at Nevertire, a small railhead west of Dubbo. Her mother, Kathleen (Nunan) Burns was a former shop assistant with Western Stores, Dubbo ( where she had been apprenticed), and her maternal grandmother, Annie Klintworth (formerly Nunan, nee Manners) lived in Dubbo with her second husband Samuel Klintworth. The small family moved around remote and rural NSW as Alex pursued promotion. Marie’s initial experience with education came through boarding at the small Hunter Valley town of Singleton for six months, to attend pre-primary school; thereafter until a move to Nimmitabel on the Monaro of Southern NSW in 1940 she was educated by correspondence through the NSW Government Education Department’s Blackfriars Correspondence School. She was subsequently educated at Dubbo Primary School, Orange Primary School, Orange High School, and Lithgow High School. She entered the University of Sydney in 1950. She studied Economics and Philosophy for an Arts degree, followed by a Diploma in Social Studies. From 1950-1952 she was a resident of the Women’s College, University of Sydney. During her University career she was a member of the Student Representative Council, the Board of Manning Clark House, and editor of the student newspaper Honi Soit– at that time only the second woman to hold that position. She represented the University in district women’s cricket and Inter-Varsity women’s cricket; she represented the University in Inter-Varsity and international debating. After leaving University she worked briefly as a society page reporter for the Sydney Daily Telegraph and for the Royal Empire Society as publicist. In January 1954 she travelled to the USA and then the United Kingdom where, after a period teaching for the London County Council, she married James Harry Coleman, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1956. The couple returned to live in Melbourne. She became a scriptwriter for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, in both radio and early television, and then established her own public relations business. Three daughters were born, Carolyn Margaret Coleman, Susan Dinah Coleman, and Elizabeth Burns Coleman. In 1964 Coleman became medical social worker at the Preston and Northcote Community Hospital and subsequently Social worker for the Asthma Foundation of Victoria, before joining the Victorian Council of Social Service as Director. Following the (Federal) election in 1972 of the Whitlam Labor Government she was invited to head the newly created Social Welfare Commission. In 1976, following the election of the Fraser Liberal-National Coalition Government, she was appointed Director of the Office of Child Care. During this period the Commonwealth commenced support for Aboriginal Child agencies, expanded provision of full day care services, before and after school care and school holidays programs, and created a system of child care in women’s refuges, and of youth refuges. In 1982 she became Special Adviser in the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat. This entity was subsequently re-formulated and renamed several times. In 1983, at the invitation of the Government of South Australia, she carried out a review of Early Childhood Services in that state, which was followed by the re-structure of public administrative arrangements in that field. In 1989 she became a foundation member of the National Foundation for Australian Women. In 1990 she accepted a posting as Senior Visiting Fellow at the Australia New Zealand Studies Centre at Pennsylvania State University in the United States of America. During this period she represented the Australian Government at the meeting of the United Nations final Preparatory Committee for the 1993 Rio “Earth Conference”. In 1994 she returned to Australia as Acting Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1994-5 she returned as First Assistant Secretary to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Community Services to review funding for family planning services. She retired from the Australian Public Service in 1995, recommencing journalism as a regular columnist with the Canberra Times. This continued through to 2003. She was a consultant and subsequently Director of the Indigenous Social Development Institute, working in Cape York communities in Far North Queensland on adolescent indigenous family development. This continued until 2003. She was appointed as first Chair of the Management Assessment Panel for the Australian Capital Territory, and subsequently in addition as the Alternate Chair of the Care Coordination Panel. During the celebrations marking the Centenary of Federation of the Commonwealth of Australia, she was awarded the Commonwealth Honours System’s Centenary Medal for services to public administration, the Centenary Medal of the Australian Institute of Public Administration for services to public administration, and placed on the Victorian Parliament’s Honour Roll of Women, in recognition of services to Victoria and the Nation. In 2006 she was placed on the ACT Honour Roll of Women and awarded an EDNA. This award was created in 1998 to honour the life and work of Edna Ryan and is awarded to feminists whose activity has advanced the cause of women. In 2003 she became Chair of the Advisory Board to the Hindmarsh Education Centre, at the Quamby Youth Detention Centre, Australian Capital Territory. She retired in 2007. In 2011 she was appointed ACT Senior Australian of the year and appointed Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia ‘for distinguished service to the advancement of women, particularly through the National Foundation for Women and the Australian Women’s Archives Project’. In 2012 she continues to work for the Australian Women’s Archives Project and for the Social Policy Committee of the National Council for Australian Women. She is also Chair of the Management Assessment Panel and the Care Coordination Panel of the ACT. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book The Black Grapevine: Aboriginal Activism and the Stolen Generations, Briskman, Linda, 2003 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1999, 1998 Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Primary description of person CP 968 - Marie Yvonne Coleman, National Archives of Australia, 2007, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CP+968 Newspaper Article Tireless activist for women's movement, Coleman, Marie, 2001 Web-Savvy and wired into the women's movement, Coleman, Marie, 2001 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Papers of Marie Coleman AIATSIS Pictorial Collection Burns Family Portraits Early scenes from Roseby Park and Brewarrina National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Records created and maintained by Marie Coleman as Director, Office of Child Care National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Marie Coleman, former head of the Federal Office of Child Care, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Elle Morrell, Nikki Henningham and Marie Coleman Created 2 February 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Celebrating Marie Coleman's paternal aunt's 100th birthday. Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "There are typescripts and magazine cuttings of many of her stories and articles published in the Saturday Evening Post, Argosy, Nash’s Magazine, Pearson’s Magazine, Liberty Ladies Home Journal, Women’s Weekly (Australian) and Hearst’s International-Cosmopolitan. Also included are her drafts and unpublished articles, together with typescripts and magazine cuttings of stories by her husband Walter MacKenzie Cottrell. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Titles/ Honours • 2012 ACT Senior Australian of the Year • 2009 Australia Council’s $10,000 Visual Arts Emeritus Medal • 2005 New South Wales Premier’s Award for Script Writing for the documentary series, The Art of War 2004-2005 • 2004 HonDUniv (Queensland University) 2004 • 2003 Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities • 2001 – Centenary Medal • HonDLit (Curtin University) • 1996: AO – Officer of the Order of Australia, in recognition of service to art and to the community as Director of the Australian National Gallery • 1996 The Australian newspaper’s Australian of the Year • 1996 HonLLD (ANU) • 1995 HonDA (RMIT) • 1990 AM – Member of the Order of Australia, in recognition of service to the arts, particularly in the field of arts administration and education • 1988 Fulbright Scholar Betty Churcher AO AM FAHA was director of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra from 1990-1997 where she was nicknamed “Blockbuster Betty” because of the large-scale exhibitions of famous artworks she organised to make art relevant and accessible to the community. Betty Churcher has been a pioneer and role model for women in the art world: she was the first woman to head a tertiary institution when she was Dean of the Art and Design School, Phillip Institute of Technology (now RMIT University), the first female director of a state art gallery when appointed to the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the first female director of the National Gallery of Australia. Betty Churcher was born Elizabeth Ann Dewar Cameron, the second child and only daughter of Scottish-born William Dewar Cameron, and Queenslander Vida Margaret née Hutton. Churcher felt her mother and grandmother focused their attention on her older brother, making her acutely aware of the unfairness of gender differentials in her family during childhood. She cites this awareness as formative, saying that as a child she felt that ‘just about everything I wanted to do, I couldn’t because I was a girl’. Feeling an outsider at her first school but born with the ability to draw, Churcher said of her time at Buranda State School “my friends – could outrun, out-jump and out-spell me but they couldn’t out-draw me. Drawing was my way of creating order in a confusing world.” (Notebooks, p. 2) She describes how she first had her eyes opened to art in 1939 when she was seven and her parents took her to the Queensland Art Gallery where she saw ‘Evicted’, an 1887 painting by Blandford Fletcher (http://qagoma.qld.gov.au/collection/international_art/blandford_fletcher): “I really wanted to be able to do it. It was the magic of being able to evoke an image with such precision and full of … Emotion …It was as though the artist had opened up a glimpse of the past … as if time had parted …I marvelled that an artist had that power.” (Canberra Times, 1993) The young Betty Cameron’s artistic talent was evident in her early years. She won The Sunday Mail Child Art Contest in 1944 and 3rd prize the following year. She initially studied art with Patricia Prentice at Somerville House School and later studied art privately with Caroline Barker and Richard Rodier Rivron. A bequest from her maternal great-grandmother enabled Churcher to attend Somerville House, a private girls’ school in Brisbane from 1938-1946. Here she met Patricia Prentice, art teacher and watercolourist who introduced Churcher to art history, ballet and music and encouraged her to travel to broaden her horizons. Churcher’s father had other plans; he decided there would be no more schooling for his daughter once she reached the age of fifteen, believing education ‘spoiled a girl’. Fortunately for Churcher, headmistress Frances Craig intervened. She encouraged William Cameron to allow his daughter to stay at school by offering to waive the fees if Churcher taught art in the junior school art. Cameron agreed and Churcher progressed to her senior year. After finishing school, Churcher returned to Somerville House as a teacher of art and art history and also taught at two other private girls’ schools in Brisbane – Clayfield College and Moreton Bay College. She loved conveying her enthusiasm and passion. “That’s when I first felt the joy of being able to share an enthusiasm”. She joined the Younger Artists Group of the Royal Queensland Art Society, along with future significant artists like Margaret Olley, Margaret Cilento, Peter Abraham, Harold Lane and Joy Roggenkamp. Churcher first exhibited with them in 1948 and was considered one of the most promising members. Her work was included in Queensland Art Gallery’s 1951 ‘Exhibition of Queensland Art’, and ‘Queensland Artists of Fame and Promise’. As Chair of the Younger Artists Group, Churcher led the charge to establish a travelling art scholarship which she won, setting off for London in early 1952 where she initially studied with Stuart Ray at The South West Essex Technical College before gaining a place at the Royal College of Art. She won the Princess of Wales Scholarship for the best female student’s entrant portfolio and had three happy years at the Royal College from 1953-1956. In London Churcher met and married Roy Churcher who was studying painting at the Slade School of Fine Art. Betty Churcher won the Royal College composition prize, graduated ARCA with a First Class pass, won the RCA Drawing Prize and the much coveted Travelling Scholarship which took her and Roy to Europe for three months. In 1957 Betty and Roy Churcher returned to Brisbane for what was to be a brief visit to her parents but Roy fell in love with the place and they stayed, setting up a studio and giving classes. Although she painted and exhibited during that time, by the end of 1959 Churcher said the fire went out of her belly about painting and she gave it up. Unsure of her ability to be both a good mother and a good painter she said motherhood, which she loved, gave her ‘an out’. When her youngest son started school in 1971 Churcher took a full-time lecturing job at Kelvin Grove Teachers’ Training College, where she wrote her first book – “Understanding Art” – for which she won a Times Literary Award. She remained at Kelvin Grove for seven years, taking her husband and four sons to London for a one-year sabbatical during which she completed an MA at London University’s prestigious Courtauld Institute. Her thesis topic, that Alfred Barr’s exhibition policy at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s and 1940s influenced the emerging school of Abstract Expressionist painters in New York, shaped her future career and gave her time at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and contact with the likes of Jackson Pollock’s widow – painter Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell and Philip Gunson. The Courtauld MA made her ‘hot property’ back in Australia and from 1979-1987 she taught at the School of Art and Design at Phillip Institute of Technology (now RMIT University, Melbourne) rising to become Dean in 1982. In 1987 Churcher was headhunted by Robert Holmes à Court as Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia. She had doubled attendance figures by late 1980 when she was invited to apply for the position of Director of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra after founding director James Mollison’s resignation. She was appointed by a selection panel headed by former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. Churcher’s appointment was controversial and her first years at the National Gallery were made difficult by serious management and building maintenance problems and resistance from existing staff members to her directorship. Her arrival in February 1990 coincided with public service cuts and Churcher faced a budget slide into the red. Her program of cuts through voluntary redundancies was unwelcome and her decision to change the name from the Australian National Gallery to the National Gallery of Australia aroused more controversy. But in the face of all this, Churcher directed a number of highly successful major exhibitions that made significant profits for the Gallery and introduced the Australian public to works that had not previously been shown in Australia. Previously the National Gallery had accepted exhibitions from other institutions. Churcher set in motion the pattern of the Gallery compiling its own exhibitions, using their own curatorial skills and insights. The exhibitions included curator David Jaffé’s Rubens and The Italian Renaissance (1992) which made a profit of around $1 million, and Michael Lloyd’s Surrealism: Revolution by Night (1993), the first major surrealist exhibition to include Australian works. After eight years, in July 1997, Churcher retired from the NGA and moved into another phase of professional life as presenter of television series on art including the ABC’s Take Five, Proud Possessors, The Art of War, Focus on John Olsen, The Hidden Treasures of the National Library and The Hidden Treasures of the National Library plus the SBS series, The Art of War. In 1998 the Australian National University appointed her an adjunct professor at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research. Churcher lost the sight in her right eye to melanoma in 2003 and has lost some sight in her left eye as a result of macular degeneration. In 2006 she travelled to London and Madrid to commit to memory those pictures that she most wanted to hold in her mind’s eye before her sight further deteriorated. Out of this she produced her latest book “Notebooks”, featuring drawings and commentary on some of her favourite paintings. “Notebooks” was shortlisted for the 2012 Indie Awards for a non-fiction book. Betty Churcher lived with her husband Roy in the NSW countryside near Canberra where their second son maintains the hobby vineyard on the banks of the Yass River. They had four children and seven grandchildren. She died on March 30, 2015. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Notebooks, Churcher, Betty, 2011 The art of war, Churcher, Betty, 2004 Molvig: the lost Antipodean, Churcher, Betty, 1984 Understanding art: the use of space, form and structure, Churcher, Betty, 1973 Resource Section Betty Churcher, 2011, http://www.daao.org.au/bio/betty-churcher/#artist_biography|| Betty Churcher, 2005, http://www.abc.net.au/talkingheads/txt/s1450638.htm Giulia Jones, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulia_Jones Betty Churcher, 2002, http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/churcher/bio.html Newspaper Article Losing her sight but not passion, Schwartzkoff, Louise, 2009, http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/losing-her-sight-but-not-passion/2009/05/05/1241289168726.html Sunny surrealism, Usher, Robin, 2003, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/15/1071336870848.html?from=storyrhs Double Take, 2008, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/double-take/story-e6frg8h6-1111116820437 Painting Evicted, Fletcher, Blandford, 1887, http://qagoma.qld.gov.au/collection/international_art/blandford_fletcher Article Former director of National Gallery of Australia Betty Churcher dies aged 84, Prior, Sally, 2015, http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/former-director-of-national-gallery-of-australia-betty-churcher-dies-aged-84-20150331-1mbppj.html Betty Churcher, cultural giant, loses battle with cancer, 2015, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/betty-churcher-cultural-giant-loses-battle-with-cancer/story-e6frg8n6-1227285925257 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive Papers of Betty Churcher, 1989-2008. / Betty, Churcher National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Betty Churcher, director of the National Gallery of Australia, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Betty Churcher interviewed by Sheridan Palmer in the Australian art from 1950 to the present oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Niki Francis Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Betty Churcher at the National Gallery of Australia Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jean Eykamp is an enthusiastic candidate who has tried several parties. Her Parliamentary and Local Government career was as follows: One Nation Party candidate: New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Penrith, 1999 Christian Democrat Party candidate: House of Representatives, Lindsay, 1998 No GST Party candidate: House of Representatives, Lindsay, 2001 Jean Eykamp’s family migrated from the United States of America in the early 1960s, and she grew up in country NSW, where her father was an innovative farmer. After leaving school, Jean studies Dress Designing and Graphics and then went to Art School in Adelaide, learning photography and drawing. While in Adelaide, Jean became a Christian and trained as a Missionary at Bible College, Since then, Jean has travelled to various countries for short term missionary work and early in 1998 she was in Brazil investigating the plight of street children. She has worked as a Boarding school mistress, a youth worker, a dress maker, clerical assistant in the Department of Immigration and Art Gallery director. Jean became an Australian in 1994 and completed her training as an Art Therapist in 1996. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Archive contains:??A complete set of Annual Reports from 1905?Extensive minutes of executive meetings and nursery school branch meetings?Log books and teachers’ programming books?Oral histories from staff and committee members, with transcripts?Art works by student teachers from the Nursery School Teachers College in the 1950s, and young children in the 1960s?Newspaper articles, photographs, and original deeds to properties?Children’s toys and books?Informative reports, photographs and curriculum materials relating to the specialised teacher training provided by the Nursery School Teachers’ College between 1930s and 1970s. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 April 2019 Last modified 11 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "21 minutes??Dr Frances Mocatta was born in 1921. She talks about her family, growing up in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, studying medicine at the University of Sydney, working in hospitals, becoming a GP in Adelaide, marriage in 1947 to William Deane, moving to Victoria, return to Adelaide in 1956, working as a physician in allergic diseases, 1963 became a MO to the allergy clinic at the Repatriation Hospital, conferences, allergens, care of bee-venom sensitive people, work written up in the International Archives of Allergy and Applied Immunology in 1986, and retirement in 1991. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dame Mary talks about her childhood and upbringing as well as life in Perth at the time. She described her rapport with Aboriginal people and her continuing affection for her Aboriginal ‘sisters’. Various aspects of her literary career are covered including her work for radio, newspapers and magazines as well as the writing of the musical “Ship of Dreams” and the “Swan River Saga”. Dame Mary discussed her writing during the time she was bringing up her six children, referring to time split between houses in Perth and Broome as well as school holidays spent writing at the coastal house of her friend Professor Ida Mann. This interview also includes one hour in which Dame Mary is joined by fellow author Nancy Keesing and this provides some reflections on Australian literary life, especially in regard to the Fellowship of Australian Writers and a workshop for Aboriginal writers which was held in Darwin in 1974. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "12 minutes??Myra Jarrett lived in Adelaide all her life. Her two sons both have Chairs at Adelaide University. Myra joined the Lyceum club in 1966, had two terms as leader of the Travel Circle and was Convenor of Circles for 3 years. In 1977 the Australian Association of Lyceum clubs moved to Adelaide and Myra became Secretary. In 1979 the tri-ennial conference was held in Adelaide. Myra was on the executive from 1989 to 1994 during which time the Club moved from the IOOF building to 54 Currie St. In 1990 the Australian Association of Lyceum Clubs secretariat returned to Adelaide and a Congress was held at Annesley College in 1991. In 1992 the 25th International Congress took place in Melbourne and Adelaide acted as a pre-Congress host to 50 overseas members. The Club’s 50th birthday was celebrated in 1992. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. c. 1945. Archbishop Daniel Mannix, Catholic Chaplain General of the Australian Army with three unidentified representatives from the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps and the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service in the garden at the Archbishop’s residence Raheen. The visitors were completing activities of a character formation (moral leadership course) for Catholic personnel during a special visit to Raheen. (Donor J. Morgan) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Annie Florence is a health professional whose concern with the environment led to her candidature. She ran as an Australian Greens candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bega in 2003. Annie Florence is a registered nurse with experience in community health, aged care and nursing education. At the time of her campaign she was working as a mental health practitioner with the Southern Area Health Service based in Moruya. She moved to the South Coast of NSW permanently in 2000, but she knew the area well from holidays there over twenty years. In 2003, Annie was Secretary of the Eurobodalla Greens, and a member of the Greens Committee of Management and State Election Campaign Committee. She was involved in the campaign against the Mogo Charcoal Plant and subsequently helped establish the Non-violence Action Training Program which grew out of the Mogo experience. She also was actively involved in trying to stop the development of a huge Shooters Complex near Tilba. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 8 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Collection of letters received by Spencer (approximately 100) written by Bennett between 1954 and 1999. The letters describe her teaching life at the University of Sydney, her writing and publishing undertakings, and trips to various coastal and island locations to conduct field work. The collection also includes some newspaper cuttings (1946-99), photographs and articles on Bennett. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Research material used by Mrs Herring in writing “They Wanted to be Nightingales” a history of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service during the 1939-1945 war (including BCOF). Includes letters from former members of voluntary aid detachments and Australian Army Medical Women’s Service, photocopies from journals including “The Women’s Weekly”, notes, articles, draft chapters (items 2-8). Also draft and typed version of the manuscript (items 1A and 1B). The manuscript was commenced in W2 with additions in 1970’s. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 June 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Joy Falls was a commercial photographer whose professional work was primarily based in Sydney. Falls was the earliest woman photographer to have worked with colour processing in Australia. Joy Falls was born in Perth in 1913 to parents who were ‘teacher[s] and educationalist[s]’ (Hall 116). She attended the Claremont Teachers’ College and went onto study at the University of Western Australia. In 1937 she married Geoffrey Paton Falls, a scientist. Initially the couple lived in Canberra, where Joy worked for an accountant. Three years later they moved to Sydney. Here Joy began working as a professional photographer; she was 27 years old at the time. It is not known where Falls was trained or what experience she had when she commenced work in this profession. However, by 1940 she had opened a photography studio with Louise St Evans Krips (who was married to Henri Krips the conductor), at Spit Road in Mosman. The studio operated until 1942. Falls then purchased another studio in King Street in Newtown, and the pair moved their business there. During this period she also started working from her home in Darling Road, Balmain, operating under the name Paton Dace Photography. It was at this time (1944) that Falls began experimenting with colour. In effect, she was the earliest woman to work with colour processing in Australia, only two years after it had been introduced in England. In 1951 Falls travelled to Spain for a year. Following this she went to London, where she worked for the picture press agency Photo-Union. Falls managed its colour film processing laboratory for six months. Accompanied by her husband, she returned to Australia in 1953 and continued her photography work in Sydney. Falls opened her own colour processing laboratory in 1956. Falls specialised in using an Italian product called Ferrania, and established a successful business called Colourlab, in Darlinghurst. She went to Milan in 1957 on the invitation of Ferrania to attend a three month course there. The following year she went to Germany to the Wiesbaden colour film plant. Falls closed her business in 1962 and moved back to Western Australia, where she devoted herself to the conservation movement. She continued to take photographs; these consisted largely of portraits, and nature studies in black and white. Events 1940 - 1980 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 22 November 2016 Last modified 22 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers include study, teaching and research notes as well as personal papers including photographs relating to private and family matters, mainly in English and French. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 3 September 2009 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "I. Material relating to North Shore Electoral Redistribution?BOX 1?Speech re Freedom of Information Bill, 1 Dec. 1988.?North Sydney Public Meeting, 1990-91. Includes press release; petition & correspondence.?’Miscellaneous’, 1990-91. Includes correspondence; submissions; press releases; proposals; newscuttings; Notice of Objections & Submissions, (3 folders).?’Electoral Redistribution, 1991?. General and Historical Information.?’1986 Electoral Redistribution’, 1986-90. Includes Transcript of Public Hearing; correspondence; Results of Electoral Roll Reviews, Cremorne Shopping Centre Study, 1974.??BOX 2?’Correspondence/Submissions’, 1990-91.?Transcripts of Proceedings, Electoral Districts Commissioners for NSW, 1991.??II. Material relating to Luna Park?BOX 3?’Luna Park Trust Meetings’ – Agendas, Minutes & Attachments, 1990-91.?’Luna Park Trust’, 1989 -91. Includes Control Plan; Draft Plan of Management and correspondence,?’Friends of Luna Park’, 1986-1991. Includes ‘Save Luna Park ‘brochure; correspondence; press release; ‘The Luna Park Ghost Train Fire and The Luna Park Lease – Chronology of Events 1935-1989’; ‘Luna Park – A family Amusement Park for the 1990s’; ‘Early Morning Protest above Freeway’; Events & Propaganda Committee meeting.?’Council & Planning’, 1988-1990. Includes correspondence; ‘Diagrammatic Section through Proposed Hotel; photographs; plan of Promenade Park; Control Plan; Preliminary Draft Local Environmental Plan.?’Press Clippings & Statements’, 1980-90.?’Luna Park Fire’, 1979-89.?’Luna Park Ghost Train Fire’, 1979. Includes witness statements.?’Correspondence’, 1984-91 (2 folders).?’Submissions’, 1990.?’Report on Luna Park Sydney 1980 by the Friends of Luna Park’.?’Luna Park: A History’ by Sam Marshall, 1982.??BOX 4?’Luna Park Investigation’, 1986. Interim Report of Investigation into Harbourside Amusement Park Pty Ltd.?’General’, 1979-1990. Includes press clippings; Luna Park Site Bill; extracts from Hansard,?’Luna Park Leases’, 1981-89.?’Conservation Order’, 1988-89.?’Company ownership’, 1980-87.?’Legislation. General Information’, 1989-91.?’Freedom of Information’. Applications, 1989-90.?’Luna Park/Lavender Bay Heritage Study’ prepared by Godden Mackay Ltd, 1991.?’Transportation Study of State Government Land in Lavender Bay, Final Report’ by Stapleton & Hallam, 1991. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 December 2017 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Frances Djulibing is a 42 year old mother of three who comes from the remote community of Ramingining in North East Arnhem land. Like many young girls, Frances always dreamed of being a movie star. Her journey from traditional tribal life to red carpets and awards ceremonies is unlike any other. It’s a fascinating and unique story as Frances fights to overcome huge personal and cultural challenges. Yappa’s Story is a story of change and transformation as Frances learns to move between the ancient life of the Yolgnu and modern world of the balanda.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "With her friend and colleague Norma Parker, Constance Moffit was largely responsible for convincing the Catholic Church in Australia to establish the Catholic Social Service Bureau. The Melbourne branch of the CSSB opened in 1936, Sydney in 1941, and Adelaide in 1942. Constance (or Connie) Moffit was the eldest of five children. Her grandparents, William and Margaret Moffit, migrated from Liverpool to Victoria, Australia, in 1867. William, or Brother Moffit, a blacksmith by trade, was a devout member of the Church of Christ and spent much of his time evangelising. His youngest child – Gilbert Tickle Moffit, born at Mt Gambier in 1875 – was Connie Moffit’s father. Her mother, Sarah Emmeline Connolly, was Catholic and hailed from Tasmania. Gilbert and Sarah were married in 1905 and moved to Western Australia where Gilbert found work as an accountant and where Connie was born at the Oroya Brownhill Mine, Boulder. Connie Moffit was educated at the Loreto Convent, Osborne. She was the only student from the school to sit for the University Public Examinations in 1923, and went on to study at the University of Western Australia, graduating in the late 1920s. With Norma Parker, she received a scholarship to study social work at the National Catholic School of Social Service (NCSSS) in Washington, and went on to complete work placements at the Humane Society in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Los Angeles Catholic Welfare Bureau. Parker and Moffit returned to Western Australia in 1931 to fairly bleak employment prospects. These were the depression years. Both women moved to Victoria, where Parker began work at St Vincent’s Hospital as an almoner, and Moffit was appointed social worker with the Victorian Vocational and Child Guidance Centre. The centre closed two years later, but Moffit was elected to the board of the Victorian Institute of Hospital Almoners in 1934. Both she and Parker were members of the Catholic Women’s Social Guild. In August 1935, finding that too many welfare groups were working in isolation, they called a meeting of nearly 150 charity and ancillary workers in an attempt to encourage collaboration. Moffit’s greatest legacy – with Parker – was the formation of the Catholic Social Service Bureau (CSSB) in Melbourne in 1936, and the implementation of changes to Victorian Catholic children’s institutions over subsequent decades. Both women fought staunch resistance from existing Catholic welfare providers, including the Sisters of Charity in Melbourne, who felt threatened by the notion of professional (lay) social workers. Published resources Thesis The Professionalisation of Australian Catholic Social Welfare, 1920-1985, Gleeson, Damian John, 2006, http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:1178/SOURCE1?view=true Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 26 November 2008 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Part of Musician’s Union oral history project. McHale discusses musical education in England and her experiences working as a musician and square dance caller in Australia. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Business and Professional Women’s Club of Canberra formed in 1954, affiliated to the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women (now BPW Australia) which had formed in 1947, which was in turn part of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women which had formed in Geneva in 1930. The Club remained active until the 1990s, with separate clubs for Woden and Belconnen meeting in the 1980s. The inaugural meeting of the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Canberra was held at the Hotel Civic on 9 April 1954 – the office bearers were elected at the Annual General Meeting on 12 July – President Betty Jackson, Vice-Presidents Mrs Chandler and Kitty Peisley, Secretary Dr M Granger. Other women prominent in the early years were Jean and Isabel Sheaffe, Sister Sylvia Curley, Joan Binns, Heather Shakespeare, and Margaret Timpson (President 1970-1971, 1985). The objects of the Club were to promote the interests of business and professional women, to awaken and encourage in them a realisation of responsibilities in their own country and consequently world affairs, to raise and maintain standards of education and training of women, and to work for the removal of sex discrimination in remuneration, opportunities for women in employment and selection for office and promotion in all positions for which women are qualified by their skill and training. Representations were made to the government regarding equal pay, equal employment and training opportunities, superannuation, and family law reform, and the 1985 National Women’s Tax Summit was jointly sponsored with the Women’s Electoral Lobby and other women’s organisations. Among speakers to monthly meetings were politicians, diplomats, and academics on current political and international affairs. Meetings also provided opportunities for networking and social activities. The Canberra club also sponsored prizes for nurses, stenographers and book-keepers, and scholarships for young women completing year 10 in secondary school. The Canberra club was initially under the NSW Division, and a separate ACT Division was formed in 1987 with the original Canberra club and two new clubs in Woden and Belconnen which had first met in 1985. Published resources Book The Business and Professional Women's Club of Canberra, 1954-1985, Clark, Coralie, 1991 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Business and Professional Women's Club of Canberra Records deposit Author Details Alannah Croom Created 18 January 2013 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "At age 19 in 1882 Pattie Browne married Alfred Deakin who became the youngest ever cabinet minister in Australia, in 1883. He was Prime Minister of Australia in 1903-1904, 1905-1908, and 1909-1910. Throughout her married life, Pattie devoted herself to her family and charity work, especially in the area of child welfare. After World War I, Pattie refused to accept an honour for her philanthropic work. Her husband Alfred Deakin also declined all honours and honorary degrees during his political life. But just prior to her death on 30 December 1934 Pattie accepted the award of the order of Commander of the British Empire (civil), which was awarded to her posthumously in January 1935. Pattie Browne was born at Camp Hill, Tullamarine Victoria on 1st January 1863. She was the eldest daughter and third child of the eleven children of Hugh Junor Browne and his wife Elizabeth Browne (née Turner). Born Elizabeth Martha Anne, she was always known as Pattie. Until the age of 12, Pattie was educated by a governess and then when the family moved to East Melbourne she attended Mrs Philippa James Grantown House. Although Pattie studied for her matriculation she did not sit the exam, and continued to learn music, singing and drawing after finishing school. Pattie met Alfred Deakin in 1877 at the Victorian Association of Progressive Spiritualists Sunday School where he was a teacher. On 3 April 1882, at the age of 19, Pattie married barrister Alfred Deakin, son of William and Sarah Deakin (née Bill) who was a member of the Legislative Assembly for Victoria. There were three children of the marriage – Ivy (1883-1970) who married Herbert Brookes in 1905; Stella (1886-1976) who married (Sir) A. C. David Rivett in 1911; and, Vera (1891-1978) who married (Sir) Thomas W. White in 1920. Initially in her marriage, Pattie developed a close relationship with Alfred’s only sister and confidante Catherine (Katie), but the relationship deteriorated. Pattie was often ill and a poor traveller, even so she accompanied her eminent husband whenever possible and cared for him during his long illness. As her daughters established lives of their own, Pattie was able to devote more of her energy to public life, but always kept her family as the centre of her life. In 1907 in London, Pattie gave her first public speech after Lady Jersey, wife of a former governor of New South Wales asked her to address a gathering of a hundred women. Prior to this time in Melbourne Pattie was president and a most generous and active supporter, of the Victorian Neglected Children’s Aid Society. She was a member of the very active committee of the Queen’s Fund formed in 1887 (still operating in 2003, its purpose “limited solely for the relief of women in distress”). In 1907 Pattie chaired the nursery and kindergarten committee for the Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, held at the Exhibition Building. The exhibition was based on the cooperation of community workers and women writers, musicians and artists. The popularity of the model creche, which Pattie herself ran, helped afterwards in the establishment of the Association of Creches, and she became its first president. The Free Kindergarten Union was formed too in this way, Pattie becoming the first president. Proceeds from the Exhibition helped establish the Bush Nursing Association and Pattie became a member of the Committee. For 20 years Pattie worked actively in the Melbourne District Nursing Society as president and then was made a life vice-president. With her husband she helped establish the Guild of Play for Children’s playgrounds, helping to provide play areas for children in the inner city suburbs. In 1909 she had gained her St Johns Ambulance certificate with honours and was presented with the insignia of an associate of St John of Jerusalem. In 1912 Pattie was invited to be president of the Lyceum Club, a new club for women graduates and other women who had distinguished themselves in art, music, literature, philanthropy or public service. From 1915 until 1919 Pattie helped set up and run the Soldiers’ Refreshment Stall or Anzac Buffet, at first in a bell tent outside the No 5 General Hospital in St Kilda Road Melbourne. It was staffed by volunteers for men leaving for, or returning from, the war. The depot ‘in the first year provided comforts for 4000 soldiers a week in the matter of meals, clothing, motor trips, and monetary loans and gifts’. After World War I Pattie continued her philanthropic work; she was invited to be the first president of the Girl Guides and she became the only female member of the Australian Imperial Forces Canteens Fund Trust and trustee of the Sir Samuel McCaughey bequest for the education of the children of decreased or disabled soldiers. She held her position until her death in 1934, when her daughter Vera Deakin White took her place on these two Committees. Alfred Deakin retired from Parliament in 1913 due to ill health. Pattie cared for him during his long illness and he died in 1919. Pattie died at her much loved house ‘Bellara’ Point Lonsdale just before her 71st birthday and was buried beside her husband at the St Kilda cemetery. Published resources Book Alfred Deakin : a biography, La Nauze, J A, 1965 Prime Ministers' Wives, Langmore, Diane, 1992 Alfred Deakin, Murdoch, Walter, 1923 The mystic life of Alfred Deakin, Gabay, Al, 1992 Jessie Webb, a memoir, Ridley, Ronald T, 1994 A History of the Lyceum Club Melbourne, Gillison, Joan M, 1975 Resource 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition, Parliament of Victoria Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Letters from Stella, Catherine and Pattie Deakin, 1909-1914 [manuscript] Papers of Alfred Deakin, 1804-1973 (bulk 1880-1919) [manuscript] Papers of Catherine Deakin, 1844-1958 [manuscript] Papers of Herbert and Ivy Brookes, 1869-1970 [manuscript Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre Women's Suffrage Petition 1891 National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Martha Elizabeth Deakin, wife of Alfred Deakin, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Pattie Deakin Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Una B. Porter (née Cato) was a renowned psychiatrist, philanthropist and devotee of the Methodist Church in Melbourne, Victoria. She was the first female member of staff at Ballarat Mental Hospital in 1946. In 1963 she was elected World President of the YWCA and travelled extensively. In recognition of her services to the community she was appointed Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in 1961, and Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1968. Una B. Porter was the youngest daughter of Fanny (née Bethune) and Frederick John Cato, prominent businessman and co-founder of the Moran & Cato grocery company, known for his generosity and commitment to the Methodist Church. From her parents Una inherited a deep and lasting Christian faith that would become the driving force behind her own career and philanthropic activities. Though Una was forced to cease her formal education at the age of 14 owing to ill health, she returned to study at the age of 30, matriculating before gaining entry to the University of Melbourne as a medical student. There she specialised in psychiatry and trained at Prince Henry’s Hospital, the Royal Park Mental Hospital and the Children’s Hospital, before taking a post in 1946 at the Ballarat Mental Hospital where she was the first female member of staff, overseeing 512 female patients. She later worked in private practice and was instrumental in the establishment of a psychiatric clinic at the Queen Victoria Hospital, where she continued work in her retirement as Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and counsellor for nurses. In 1946 Una married James Roland Porter, an ex-RAAF squadron leader and lifelong friend. Throughout her life, Una maintained a strong link with the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) and in 1963 was elected World President of this organisation. Her post, which she retained for four years, involved frequent overseas travel (including India, the Philippines, Europe, North and South America, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Greece, Africa and Israel), advising and encouraging local YWCA groups. In 1964 she was elected Woman of the Year. Una’s philanthropic work was extensive. In addition to administering the F.J. Cato Charitable and Benevolent Fund together with the Cato Lectureship, and later the James and Una Porter Trust Fund, she made substantial personal donations to hospitals, universities and community organisations, notably the University of Melbourne, Monash University, Epworth Hospital, Methodist Ladies College, Cato College, Queen Victoria Hospital and of course the YWCA. Una B. Porter was appointed O.B.E. (1961) and C.B.E. (1968) in recognition of her services to the community. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book If God Prospers Me: A Portrait of Frederick John Cato, Blainey, Ann, 1990 Resource Section Cato, Frederick John (1858-1935), East, Ronald, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070598b.htm A Great Form of Love: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Lemon, Barbara, 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/ Edited Book Growing Together: Letters between Frederick John Cato and Frances Bethune, 1881 to 1884, Porter, Una B., 1981 Newspaper Article Una Porter, CBE, OBE 1900-1996, 1996 The YWCA and the Subject of Great Concern to Women: The Boss Speaks Up for Her Girls, Hamilton, John, 1972 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Porter, Una Beatrice (1900-1996) State Library of Victoria Records, 1912-ca. 1970. [manuscript]. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 6 May 2005 Last modified 12 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Una Porter Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kathleen Best, as nurse and army officer, was an inspiring leader in both a war and peace time environment. As an army officer in the Middle East, she distinguished herself through her courage and efficiency in her treatment and care of the wounded. After her wartime service, she assumed a number of peacetime appointments, which included becoming the founding director, Australian Women’s Army Corps (Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC)) in 1951. Kathleen Best’s war effort was acknowledged by the award of the Royal Red Cross medal ‘for gallantry, conduct and devotion in Greece 14/27 April 1941’ and her subsequent role as Director of the WRAAC was honoured with her appointment as Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1956. Kathleen Best was the second child of Rupert Dudley Best, commission agent, and Emily Edith, née Stevenson. She was educated at Bondi Public and Cleveland Street Intermediate High School. She embarked on her nursing career at Western Suburbs Hospital and completed her midwifery at the Crown Street Women’s Hospital, Sydney. On 30 May 1940, Best enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service, Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) (service number NX12617), and was posted as matron of the 2nd/5th Australian General Hospital, which opened in December at Rehovot, Palestine. It moved to Greece on 10 April 1941 to assist the Anzac Corps in its battle against the Germans. Medical and nursing personnel worked under constant air raids, and by 25 April, most medical staff were evacuated to Crete. Best and 39 nurses volunteered to remain to care for the wounded, but later that day they were ordered to leave and survived a dangerous journey to Greece. She was awarded the RRC for her gallant conduct under difficult circumstances. She returned to Palestine to reorganise the hospital, then in August 1941, she went with the 2nd/5th AGH to Eritrea, Ethiopia. Best returned to Australia in March 1942 and her AIF appointment was terminated on 13 June. She then took on the position of controller of full-time voluntary aid detachments for the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service. She relinquished this post in February 1943 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel to become assistant adjutant general (women’s services). In September 1944 she transferred to the Reserve Officers and became the assistant director of women’s re-establishment and training in the Department of Postwar Reconstruction. This position involved helping servicewomen and female war workers adapt to the changed postwar conditions. The culmination of her career came with her appointment as the founding director of the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps in February 1951. She was promoted to the rank of honorary colonel in 1952 and was appointed to the OBE in 1956. She was a member of the Melbourne Lyceum Club. Two portraits of her, painted by Nora Heysen and Geoffrey Mainwaring, hang in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Kathleen Best died in the Epworth Hospital, Richmond, Victoria, from melanonomatosis on 15 November 1957. Events 1942 - 1943 Controller for the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS) 1943 - 1944 Assistant Adjutant-General Women’s Services 1942 - 1942 Awarded Royal Red Cross Medal (RRC) 1944 - 1949 Assistant Director, Re-establishment Division, Department of Post-War Reconstruction 1940 - 1942 Served in the Middle East Published resources Book Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 Soldiers of the Queen : women in the Australian Army, Bomford, Janette, 2001 Colonel Best and her soldiers: The Story of the 33 years of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps, Ollif, Lorna, 1985 From blue to khaki: The enlisted voluntary aids and others who became members of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service and served from 19421-1951, Mount-Batten, Betty J, 1995 A Stroll down memory lane, WRAAC Association, 2001 Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999, Reid, Richard, 1999 A History of the Lyceum Club Melbourne, Gillison, Joan M, 1975 Edited Book Proudly We Served: stories of 2/5th Australian general hospital at war with Germany, behind German lines and at war with Japan in the Pacific, Brodziak, Innes, 1988 Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 Resource Section Best, Kathleen Annie Louise (1910-1957), Lincoln, Merrilyn, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130206b.htm Resource RSL Returned Sisters' Sub-branch Thanksgiving Service, 100 Years of Australian Army Nursing, 2002, http://www.perthcathedral.org/ Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre [Hospitals, General and Special - Work of:] 5th Australian General Hospital. Report of events in Greece - 1. Report by Lieutenant-Colonel A W Morrow 2. Report by Matron Kathleen Best National Archives of Australia, Various Locations Christmas message from Colonel Sybil H IRVING (honorary Colonel of the Corps HONCOL) and Colonel Kathleen BEST (Director, Women's Royal Australian Army Corps DWRAAC) Speech by Colonel Sybil H Irving (honorary Colonel of the Corps) made at the opening of the Kathleen Best Memorial Gates, Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) School, Mosman, NSW, 6 November 1959 National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Kathleen Best Memorial (Gates) and portrait Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 18 July 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Yetty Landau was an actor and comedian who worked in Melbourne and with travelling companies. She was a popular broadcaster in Melbourne and Canberra and with her actor husband set up schools which taught drama, elocution and public speaking. After her husband’s death Yetty continued teaching verse speaking, training choirs and successfully preparing students for the examinations of Trinity College, London. Yetty Landau was born on 6 June 1895 in Bendigo, Victoria to Samuel, (also known as Simon or Yeshiyahu) Landau a 60-year-old hawker and his wife 34-year-old Dora, the daughter of Zebulun Miller and Sophia Muskovitz. From childhood Yetty showed talent as a performer. Competing against adults from all over Australia, she won the Grand Championship for Elocution at the South Street Eisteddfod, Ballarat, Victoria. She began acting professionally under the direction of Gregan McMahon and then joined the Ian McLaren Shakespeare Company. By 1915 she was working with Harry Craig’s Australian Players on their three-month Tasmanian tour. When she married the actor and sometime lion tamer Frank James Pearson (born Francis Bernard Vaughan) in Melbourne on 24 January 1916, they both gave their usual addresses as ‘constantly travelling’. Yetty played comedy with Bert Bailey’s Australian Company for five years creating the role of Amelia Banks in Grand-dad Rudd and Sara in On Our Selection. She went on to contracts with the Fuller Management and Rickards Tivoli Theatre Circuit. In her last Melbourne performances in 1926 she shared the stage with the famous theatre entrepreneur J.C. Williamson himself, in a play called The Farmers Wife. Yetty taught drama and elocution and her pupils won prizes at the eisteddfods in Victoria. By 1926 Yetty and her students were involved in radio broadcasts. Although apparently popular with listeners, such a public career was not entirely welcomed by her family. Yetty and Frank ran the Landau-Pearson Academy of Combined Arts from the home they named Franyette in Preston. They taught elocution, dramatic art, public speaking and musical monologues. Yetty’s niece tutored piano. Yetty and Frank visited Canberra for 6 weeks in 1934, but stayed and continued their acting and teaching careers. Yetty appeared with Canberra Repertory and in 1935 briefly presented a children’s programme on local radio. By 1936 the Landau-Pearson Modern School of Voice Culture taught speech-craft, drama, broadcasting and talking picture technique to pupils in Canberra’s Civic Centre in suburban Manuka and in nearby Queanbeyan, New South Wales. As in Melbourne, pupils were successfully prepared for examinations set from London. Yetty continued to teach after Frank’s death in 1944. She taught verse speaking as well as choirs at St Benedict’s Convent in Queanbeyan, St Christopher’s and St Peter Chanel’s in Canberra. Her pupils were very successful in the Trinity College, London examinations with Robert Crew being the first Canberra student to win the NSW State medal for speech in the Advanced Preparatory Division in 1960 and Merrilyn Jones passing the Intermediate Speech exam in 1964. One of her past pupils, Rosemary Heming, was admitted to Trinity College to train as a teacher of speech. She continued as a radio presenter and her midday programme on 2CA Woman about the Shops ran for twelve years. She also created the Women’s Session on the National Station and broadcast it for eight years. Yetty died from stomach cancer on 7 September 1971. Her ashes were spread at Norwood crematorium. She had no children. Published resources Resource Section Yetty Landau: A Woman of Canberra Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Jill Caldwell Created 8 January 2013 Last modified 19 February 2019 Digital resources Title: Yetty Landau Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Includes correspondence, newsletters, minutes, surveys, promotional material.??See also records of Campaign Against Nuclear Energy (ACC 8120A); Ruth Coleman papers (ACC 8119A); Jo Vallentine papers (ACC 6142A, ACC 8416A) Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Mary Crawford was elected to the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament as the Member for Forde, Queensland, at the 1987 federal election. In 1994 she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Housing and Regional Development in the Keating Government and held that position until her defeat at the 1996 election. Mary Crawford completed her tertiary education at the University of Queensland and worked as a teacher before entering parliament. Events 2020 - 2020 For significant service to women, and to the people and Parliament of Australia. Published resources Book Sticks and stones: report on violence in Australian schools, Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Mary Catherine Crawford, noted in House Magazine, Sept. 1989, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 April 2009 Last modified 5 March 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "P1- This consignment consists of annual reports of the Director of the Infant Welfare Branch and data reports of the Maternal and Child Health Service (Infant Welfare). The reports provide an official record of the service and its operation between 1927 and 1948. They appear to be mostly working drafts of the Director of Infant Welfare and are typed and printed copies with handwritten comments and amendments. There are also speech notes and handwritten data reports. There are multiple copies of some reports (possibly from various stages of drafting).??The data reports provide information about birth notifications, numbers of children enrolled in the Service, numbers of children requiring medical attention, breast feeding and numbers of pregnant women attending the centres. The annual reports provided some analysis of the data and reports on the status of the service in Victoria. Some of the earlier reports were included in the Commission of Public Health Report (to Government). The data and analysis would also have been used to provide advice to Government Ministers and to inform policy directions and service quality improvement. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 25 December 2017 Last modified 25 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "There is additional documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The College Archives are located in the Vere Hole Resource Centre. They cover the full range of the College’s history, from its establishment in 1892 up to the present day. They also hold the personal papers of several of the College’s principals, including Louisa MacDonald (founding Principal) and Doreen Langley (Principal 1957-1974). The Archives reflect the life and work of the College, its residents, and its staff.??Major Holdings•?•Women’s College Council and sub-committees: Minutes 1891- (2m); finance records (2m); architectural plans & specifications for College buildings 1892- (10m).?•Women’s College: Calendar 1893-1989 & Journal 1992- (annual report) (1m); Administration records 1892- (25m); Student record cards & Roll books 1892-1939 (8m).?•Students’ Club & sub-committees: Magazine 1914- (1m); Minutes 1917- (5m).?•College and Students: photographic collection 1892- (8m).?•The Ladies’ Committee of the Women’s College Fund: Minutes, correspondence & miscellaneous printed material 1887-1895 (1m).?•Individuals: personal correspondence of Louisa Macdonald to Eleanor Grove 1892-1898; manuscript and correspondence of Christopher Brennan and John Le Gay Brereton concerning A Mask (1913). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 September 2009 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 17 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Marjorie Tipping Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Helen Vatsikopoulos is an Australian journalist and news presenter for the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Vatsikopoulos hosted the Dateline current affairs program on SBS and is currently hosting the Asia Pacific Focus program which screens on the ABC and the Australia Network. She has a B.A from Adelaide University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism for the then Adelaide College of Arts and Education. Helen Vatsikopoulos describes a career highlight as deciding to drive across the northern Indian state of Punjab instead of catching the train. The train she intended to catch later made international headlines after it was ambushed by Sikh militants who boarded it and shot several passengers. Events 1985 - Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (Australia) - records of the W.G. Walkley Awards, 1956 - 1999 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 20 May 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Psychological drama about a blind-from-birth photographer who believes his photos capture the world as it really is but who needs someone he can trust to describe the photos to him.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Three signed, undated letters to Jascha Heifetz and a photograph of a facsimile message from Jules Massenet. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-27. SOME OF THE 900 MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S ARMY SERVICE TAKING PART IN A MARCH PAST AS A FAREWELL TO MAJOR LORNA BYRNE, ASSISTANT CONTROLLER AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S ARMY SERVICE, LAND HEADQUARTERS, WHO IS LEAVING TO TAKE UP A SIMILAR POSITION AT WESTERN AUSTRALIA L. OF C. AREA. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The South Australian Museum Archives contains material collected in the field by McConnel, including negatives, lantern slides, a photographic album, photographic prints, field notes, paintings and audio capture in various formats. The collection was augmented with the chance discovery of McConnel’s tin trunk in a shed, scheduled for demolition on a property at North Brighton, in South Australia. Over 800 photographs and 3000 loose pages were contained in the trunk, which was donated to the South Australian Museum in July 2006. The combined material provides great insight into the personal and professional life of McConnel. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nola Marino was a regional winner of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1996, for the South West district in Western Australia. A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Nola was elected to the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament as the Member for Forrest, Western Australia in 2007. She was re-elected in 2010. Nola was born and brought up in Brunswick Junction, a small country town in the south west of Western Australia, the youngest in a family of three sisters and one brother. She was educated in Brunswick, Harvey and Bunbury. After leaving school she worked in a public accountancy firm. On the day she was married, she and her new husband, Charlie, bought their first dairy and beef property in Harvey. Nola has taken an active, physical role in developing and growing their family business. Her son Kim and daughter-in-law Deanna work in the business while her. Daughter, Kylie, lives and works in the region. Nola has been actively involve in her community for most of her life. She was President of the local football club for ten years. She was awarded Life Memberships to the Peel Football League and the Harvey Football Club – the first woman to be so honoured – and is the Secretary of the Harvey Town Hall Preservation Committee. Nola has worked on numerous agricultural and regional bodies and groups, was an inaugural member of the Murdoch University Veterinary Trust Board and a Director and Vice-Chair of Dairy Western Australia. Nola received a Certificate for Outstanding Service to the Community in 1997 from the Harvey Shire Council and a Premier’s Australia Day Active Citizenship Award (WA) in 2004. Events 1996 - 1996 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Nola Marino: Website, http://www.nolamarino.com.au/ Resource Section 1996 ABC Rural Women of the Year Regional Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/pastwin.htm#96reg Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 12 May 2009 Last modified 24 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "76.4 x 56.6 cm?Oil on canvas?Australia: Victoria, Melbourne Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "In 1958, Pat Jarrett celebrated 25 years of continuous service with the Herald and Weekly Times. She was the only woman alongside seventeen men on the staff to have served so long. As a child, Pat Jarrett had a love for sport and a love for country life. She left school at 16 and worked at her uncle’s film laboratory, but an interest in writing about championship swimming led to a job on the Herald as a sports journalist. Jarrett took on a cadetship under Keith Murdoch and Sidney Deemer. In 1940, she took something of a sabbatical from journalism and took up a position as press agent for Australian ambassador Richard Casey in Washington. Casey’s post there came to an end with the entry of the United States into the Second World War. Jarrett returned to Australia to work as a war correspondent for the Herald and covered, among other things, the activities of the WAAF. In December 1942, she recounted the activities of 35 women – from Russia, England, Scotland, Ireland, India, South Africa and New Zealand – who spent four days bivouacking in the mountains, learning how to make an ‘Aussie Bunk’ out of saplings and chaff bags, and training to deal with the possible evacuation of civilians. ‘In civilian life’, Jarrett noted, ‘the occupations of these trainees ranged from architects to botanists, so that when the daily manoeuvres included the building of a model camp site to accommodate 100 people, with children, in summer, some varying and interesting ideas resulted’. Jarrett was well connected, both in Australia and abroad. According to her biographer, Audrey Tate, ‘she particularly enjoyed having the opportunity to meet the famous, though she always remained a trifle in awe of them’. She was friendly with Sir Hubert and Lady Opperman, and she corresponded regularly with Katharine Hepburn. In 1944 she again joined the Casey family, this time in Calcutta as secretary to Lady Maie Casey following Sir Richard’s appointment as Governor of Bengal. Her duties included arranging a meeting between Ghandi and Casey, and travelling to the Front to interview Generals Slim and Merserbe on the recapture of Mandalay. Casey was decommissioned at the end of the War, and Jarrett spent the three years from 1945 working as a journalist in New York. In 1948, Jarrett was employed to edit the women’s pages at the Sun News-Pictorial. She retained her post until December 1973. Rejecting the title of ‘Social Editoress’, she called herself instead the Leader of the Women’s Staff, and refused to be pushed into frivolous writing on fashion and social events. With the aim of informing and entertaining her women readers, she added commentary on broader social issues to the regular pieces on clothing, cooking and sewing. Though she did not call herself a feminist, Jarrett published stories on equal pay for women, higher education for girls, and the possibility of seeking a fulfilling career in addition to marriage. Jarrett became famous for her lively and provocative ‘Fair Comment’ column, in which she tackled all manner of questions. On 5 June 1965 she was discussing the need for spontaneous affection between husband and wife to avoid divorce, citing marriage guidance expert Dr Dick Glover. Three weeks later she was giving a voice to underpaid Victorian teachers. They, not their pupils, ‘appear to be the ones who got the cane this week – and women teachers in particular’. The recent pay rise offered by the Teachers’ Tribunal was minimal, said Jarrett: ‘I reckon that while Australia’s economic wizards keep telling us that ours is now such an affluent society, teachers (and any other group of salaried workers for that matter) can’t be blamed for expecting a bit of it to rub off onto them, and for feeling let down when it doesn’t’. In 1967, Jarrett was able to air her thoughts and opinions on talkback radio as co-host of 3DB’s ‘Talk It Over’. In the early 1970s, Pat elected to retire but was persuaded to stay on part-time as editorial adviser on women’s affairs to the Herald and the Sun. She continued to act as a loyal friend and helper to the Caseys, right through to the death of Maie Casey in 1983. By 1985 she was exhausted, suffering from a long bout of influenza as well as osteoporosis, diverticulitis and psoriasis. She retired permanently in December that year, after fifty-two years with the Herald and Weekly Times. Pat Jarrett died in 1990, aged 79. Events 1972 - 1972 1930 - 1985 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Fair Comment: The Life of Pat Jarrett, 1911-1990, Tate, Audrey, 1996 Newspaper Article On Convoy with the AWAS, Jarrett, Pat, 1942 WAAF Officers Gain Bushlore, Jarrett, Pat, 1942 WAAFs Learn to Use Tablet Food, Jarrett, Pat, 1942 Tough Training at RAAF Commando School, Jarrett, Pat, 1943 White Woman in Burma, Jarrett, Pat, 1945 The Queen's Smile was Loveliest Yet, Jarrett, Pat, 1954 Supremo on Asian Front, Jarrett, Pat, 1979 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Interview with Pat Jarrett, journalist [sound recording] / interviewer: Mark Cranfield National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Correspondence of Pat Jarrett, 1955-1991 [manuscript] State Library of Victoria Papers of Lord and Lady Casey, n.d. [manuscript]. The Sun newspaper, 1954 Feb. 1-Mar. 10. [manuscript]. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 30 June 2008 Last modified 16 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Moving around parts of the Northern Territory while her husband worked in the diamond mines, Jessie Litchfield raised her family and worked as a journalist. She published Far North Memories in 1930. After the death of her husband, she worked as editor of the Northern Territory Times and Government Gazette. In 1955 she became the first woman in the Territory to be appointed a justice of the peace. It is said that a letter Jessie Litchfield wrote in 1909, which somehow ended up in John Flynn’s hands, was instrumental to his involvement in the Australian Inland Mission. Had he not seen it, might well have become ‘Flynn of Korea’ rather than ‘Flynn of the Inland’ once he had completed his training to become a Presbyterian minister. Litchfield’s letter pleaded for the Presbyterian Church to send a married, male Presbyterian missionary to the Northern Territory, so that he and his wife might start to ‘civilise’ it. Her greatest concern was the extent of informal and abusive interracial relationships that had been established between indigenous women and non-indigenous men, but she was also concerned about the impact of drink and drugs on public health. The place needed a missionary ‘to teach the people right from wrong’. Flynn used the letter to encourage women he knew in Melbourne to support initiatives to help women in remote, inland regions. The initiatives were, of course, highly racialised. Published resources Resource Section Litchfield, Jessie Sinclair (1883-1956), James, Barbara, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100107b.htm Book Flynn's Outback Angels: Casting the Mantle - 1901 to World War II, Rudolph, Ivan, 2001 Jessie Litchfield: Grand Old Lady of the Territory, Dickinson, Janet, 1982 Far-North Memories: Being the account of ten years spent on the diamond-drills, and of things that happened in those days, Litchfield, Jessie, 1930 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Northern Territory Archives Service NTRS 3169 Copies of historical notes relating to the Northern Territory Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 October 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) is the peak body for women with all types of disabilities in Australia. It is the only organisation of its kind in Australia and one of only a very small number internationally. WWDA represents more than 2 million disabled women and girls in Australia. The organisation is run by women with disabilities, for women with disabilities, and it operates as a transnational human rights and systemic advocacy organisation. Previously the ‘National Women’s Network’ associated with Disabled People’s International Australia (DPIA), Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) was established in 1994 after receiving a small seeding grant from the Australian Government. On March 3, 1995, WWDA was incorporated as an independent organisation. Today, the aim of Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) is to be a national voice for the needs and rights of women with disabilities and a national force to improve the lives and life chances of women with disabilities. The objectives of Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) are: (a) to actively promote the participation of women with disabilities in all aspects of social, economic, political and cultural life; (b) to advocate on issues of concern to women with disabilities in Australia; and (c) to seek to be the national representative organisation for women with disabilities in Australia by: (i) undertaking systemic advocacy; (ii) providing policy advice; (iii) undertaking research; and (iv) providing information and education. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 February 2019 Last modified 1 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Women Against Rape (WAR) was formed after the 1981 ANZAC Day March in Canberra where three hundred women demonstrated about and for women raped in war. The Adelaide women organised a rally in support of the women who had been arrested in Canberra. Women Against Rape (WAR) was formed after the 1981 ANZAC Day March in Canberra where three hundred women demonstrated about and for the women raped in war. The Canberra group had been protesting at ANZAC Day Marches since 1979. The Adelaide women organised a rally in support of the women who had been arrested. With the aid of the International Women’s Day Collective, WAR undertook a campaign to raise awareness of this issue in Adelaide. The women wanted to march at the end of the ANZAC Day march but permission was not granted. They were advised they could march only after 12 pm. WAR met in Victoria Square and they laid wreaths at the War Memorial, which where then removed by police and bystanders. WAR’s campaign highlighted the fact that when they handed out a newssheet of their actions they were prevented due to the by-law preventing women from selling or distributing news. Women Against Rape was part of a International movement of women, protesting rape in war. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement : SUMMARY RECORD Papers of the Women Against Rape Coalition (WAR) Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 August 2021 Digital resources Title: Corporal Alice Penman with Private H. E. (Emily) Lewis Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0529ga.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Marjorie Smith is an icon of the swimming world and greatly admired for her dedication to the community and particularly children and young people. She was the first woman to surf at Dee Why beach, Australia, and was the heart and soul of the Dee Why Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Club for many years. Over a 70 year period she taught hundreds of thousands of children how to swim on a voluntary basis across New South Wales. In honour of her many years devoted service to the community she was awarded the Order of Australia (OAM) in 1991. She was awarded Life Membership of the Dee Why Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Club (the oldest ladies swimming club in Australia) in 1961, Warringah Amateur Swimming Association in 1980, the New South Wales Swimming Association’s Merit Service Award in 1985, the Australian Union of Old Swimmers Life Membership in 1976 and Dee Why Beach Netball Club in 1980. Marjorie Smith OAM (née Shade) was a much loved figure in the Manly Warringah area on Sydney’s northern beaches after devoting all her life to others, particularly children. An icon of the swimming world, Marj was born in Drummoyne in 1911. She soon developed a love of swimming and surfing that dominated her life until her passing in 1996. Marjorie’s family had a weekender at Dee Why on the northern beaches. She was the first woman to surf on Dee Why beach and was also a great body surfer. The 80 Years On: Dee Why Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Club history book states that ‘even though young ladies were not permitted to join the Surf Club her ability in the surf was the envy of many of the local lads’. In 1922 she swam in one of the first ever invitational races of the Dee Why Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Club, which is the oldest ladies swimming club in Australia. She would later become the heart and soul of the club, serving on its Management Committee from 1950 to 1996 and 18 years as the Club’s Honorary Secretary. She was awarded Life Membership of the Dee Why Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Club in 1961. For over 70 years Marj taught hundreds of thousands of children on a voluntary basis how to swim. Marj taught kids at Dee Why rock pool and also went into schools across New South Wales and to remote country areas teaching swimming for free. As a qualified swimming referee, Marj officiated at the National Championships, State Championships and various other championship events and school carnivals. She had a particular love of children and also assisted with the Disabled Games. Marj was a driving force behind the administration of swimming in New South Wales. She helped bring together the New South Wales Men’s’ Amateur Swimming Association with the New South Wales Women’s’ Amateur Swimming Association in 1964, worked in the Association’s Office and served as an official for many years. In 1985 she was awarded the New South Wales Swimming Association’s Service Merit Award in recognition of her outstanding service. In 1965, she was a foundation member of the Warringah Amateur Swimming Association and served on its Executive Committee for many years including as Honorary Secretary, Vice President and as a member of its Technical Committee. For many years she campaigned for an Olympic indoor pool to be built on the northern beaches. In 1979 the Warringah Aquatic Centre was finally opened while Marj was the association’s Honorary Secretary. She was awarded Life Membership of the Warringah Amateur Swimming Association in 1980. In 1985 she was awarded the Warringah Shire Council Outstanding Community Service Award. She was awarded Life Membership of the Australian Union of Old Swimmers in 1976 and awarded the Natatorial Award in 1991. Also in 1991, she was awarded the Order of Australia (OAM) for her outstanding service to swimming. Her generosity of spirit is greatly remembered, she would always provide a helping hand to anyone. During World War II, she was an integral part of the community, supporting local families whose loved ones were at war. This was no mean feat as her own husband was at war and she was raising three young daughters. Marj was the foundation President of the Dee Why Beach Netball Club in 1975, serving for over 20 years on its Executive Committee. In 1980 she was awarded Life Membership. Testimonials From letters supporting Marjorie Smith’s nomination for an Award in the Order of Australia: Senator the Honourable Kerry Sibraa, President of the Australian Senate, 7 May 1990 ‘Mrs Smith is a wonderful woman. Mrs Smith always gave her time freely and willingly and has been outstanding in her dedication to the betterment of swimming.’ JJ Seddon, Executive Director, New South Wales Swimming Association, 23 August 1989 ‘She is a highly regarded member of this Association with years of active and arduous service to the community in Learn to Swim Free and in supporting the youth of the community.’ Mrs Joan Somerville, Past President Warringah Amateur Swimming Association, 1989 ‘Many have benefited by her years of service and the hours so willingly given could never be evaluated.’ Mrs Sunny Bidner, Life Member, Warringah Amateur Swimming Association, 1989 ‘Marj’s attitude & wonderful sense of humour plus her dedication & commitment to swimming endear her to all who know her & her cheery presence has enlivened many a carnival. She has given unselfishly of her time & expertise for many, many years & this honour would be a fitting gesture to wonderful lady.’ For the 80th Anniversary of Dee Why Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Club, past members and present were asked to write about their most precious recollections: Myee Foster (nee Steele), Australian representative to the British Empire Games and Australian Champion ‘I used to watch a lady swimming, and tried to cop how she breathed at the side! The lady turned out to be champion swimmer, Marjorie Smith (née Shade) who later became a stalwart of the Dee Why Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Club for many years.’ Lisa Forrest, Australian representative to the Olympics, World Championships and Australian Champion ‘But it’s people that make any organization – and we had some of the greatest. Of course it was led by our indomitable Mrs Smith’ This entry was provided by Vincent De Luca OAM. Published resources Book \"80 years on\" : Dee Why Ladies' Amateur Swimming Club, 1922-2002, Wye, Isa, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 May 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Women’s Information Centre at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, was established to assist female students with their studies and to act as a free library. The Centre was the focus of a campaign to save Women’s Studies at Flinders University when it was proposed that the course be withdrawn. This campaign was international with support from other women’s studies courses and lecturers. The Centre’s Name was changed to the Southern Women’s Recourse Centre and they published a newsletter Connections. The Women’s Information Centre was part of the Flinders University Students Union student services. It was part of the Union building on campus and housed not only a library of feminist books by women but also a collection of articles and students’ work. The Information Centre was open not only to students at the University but also the public and students from other educational institutions. Flinders University Women’s Studies Course was part of the Philosophy Department from 1973 and available to both enrolled students and women in the community. It had a progressive approach to teaching. The students’ work was assessed by fellow students and topics for essay or discussion were student driven. A daybook was kept to record tutorials and could be used for essay topics or further discussions. In 1981 the Women’s Studies course was threatened with closure. The students, staff and Union of Students mobilized a campaign to maintain the course. Through this campaign there were petitions and letters in support of the course, from both Australia and overseas. The outcome was that the course was retained and given a higher profile. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book The Politics of Women's Studies, Helling, Rita, 1981 Twenty Years: Women's Studies At Flinders 1986-2006, Sheridan, Susan and Dally, Shirley, 2006 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women's Information Service Flinders University Tuesday Afternoon Group Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection Flinders University Women's Information Centre: Summary Record Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Seven social workers from Asia who have completed a special one year course in Australia under the Colombo Plan, were recently presented with certificates by the Vice-Chancellor of Sydney University, Professor S H Roberts, in a ceremony in the Senate Room of the University. Three of the students are from Indonesia, two from Burma and one each from Thailand and the Philippines – Maung Sann (left) and Maung Hla Aung, both from Burma with the guest speaker at the presentation ceremony, Miss Eileen Davidson, who until recently was the Social Welfare Officer with the United Nations Technical Assistance Administration in Bangkok. 1 photographic negative: b&w, acetate Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 28 June 2007 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Commission, paybooks, driver’s licence, special pass and demobilization papers associated with service at Headquarters Victoria Lines of Communication Area. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 7582 comprises council minute books, minutes of annual general meetings, annual reports of council and press cutting books (7 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2013 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, diaries and tapes relating to Julie Marcus, her life and research in Turkey for her book, A world of Difference: Women and religion in a Turkish City. Her diaries and taped interviews provide the context of her life in relation to this correspondence between Julie Marcus, her mother, her ex-husband and E. Jane Prosser. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Stimulus material for lower secondary classes; includes chapter The Aboriginal tradition; European contact; mission life; land rights; prejudice; culture; activities for extracts of works by Margaret Tucker, Ella Simon, Robert Merritt, Frank Hardy, Kevin Gilbert, Kath Walker??Produced by New South Wales. Dept. of Education, includes 1 booklet (teachers notes), 178 printed masters, 168 col. Slides, 1 audio cassette; in folder; ill. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 June 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This collection of fabric samples, stranded wools and cottons, samplers, seams, design cartoons and transfer material, mounts, needlework equipment, notes and photographs details the process of the making of the Parliament House Embroidery by members of the embroiderers’ guilds of all eight States and Territories.??The Parliament House Embroidery was created in a community gesture as a gift to the nation, one of many such initiatives around the time of the Bicentenary of European settlement in Australia. However, the scale of the embroidery was without precedent in Australia and the process of its making could be considered a historic event. The collection documents the extent of research, practice, experimentation and discussion undertaken by the highly skilled and imaginative needlewomen – all of whom were volunteers – as they evaluated materials and explored techniques to best interpret designer Kay Lawrence’s painted cartoon. In charting the realisation of the Parliament House Embroidery, and its own concepts of national identity and relationships to land, the collection also provides opportunities for discussions of the art/craft debate, women’s creative expression, collaborative and community art, and the nature of volunteering in Australia. The collection is additionally invaluable in documenting the evolution of a traditional craft practice into an art form in twentieth-century Australia. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 February 2013 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, notes and text for a lecture on the “History of Nursing in Australia (with special reference to Victoria)” given to the nurses at the College of Nursing, July 1951. Notes for a seminar held in the Western District, 21 September 1949: “Reasons for choice of subject.” These are handwritten on the back of typed pages of a children’s story. Letters to “Geoff”, [A.G. Serle?] 1954. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection of printed material, chiefly programmes and press cuttings relating to Australia Day celebrations c.1937-1964; also including constitution and rules of the Australasian Women’s Association, and notice of its dissolution in 1964. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The scrapbook contains newspaper cuttings from Marjorie McDonald’s career for the period 1943-1949. The articles cover political comment, war rationing, food shortages, women’s issues both during and after the war, the WAAAF, fashion and social articles. There is a collection of photographs. Includes a certificate stating that Lt. Cmdr. I. H. McDonald of HMAS Napier participated in the initial entry of units of the US and British Pacific Fleets into Tokyo Bay leading to the surrender of the Japanese Navy on 30 August 1945. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 February 2008 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Written by Elizabeth Guy, President of The Society of Women Writers (Australia), South Australian branch, for the occasion of the conferring of Life Membership on Ellinor Walker, 17 May 1985. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Copy of the preface and introduction of a booklet “Vietnam Thailand Kampuchea : a first hand account”, published as a result of the tour, and commissioned by the Australian Council for Overseas Aid. Copies of articles written about the tour. French and English transcripts of the “People’s Revolutionary Tribunal held in Phnom Penh for the trial of the genocide crime of the Pol Pot – Ieng Sary clique”. The transcripts deal with the evidence of witnesses, some of whom were present during the various atrocities committed by the Ieng Sary. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 21 August 2008 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Helen McCue is best known as a co-founder of Rural Australians for Refugees (2001). A trained nurse educator she worked with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the Middle East in 1981, was then seconded to the United Nations Relief and Works Organisation (UNRWA) in Lebanon, and subsequently worked as a volunteer in refugee camps in Beirut 1982-83. In 1984 she co-founded the trade union aid body Australian People for Health Education and Development Abroad (APHEDA), and was its first Executive Director and regional adviser in South Africa and the Middle East until early 1994. She founded the Women Refugee Education Network (1996) and the Wingecarribee Community Foundation (2001), and was involved in the establishment of Wingecarribee Reconciliation Group (1997). The daughter of Phyllis neé O’Connor, a typist in the public service, and John Burns, a hairdresser, Helen’s family had strong links with the Canberra community. Her maternal grandfather was a bricklayer on old Parliament House, and her paternal grandfather, a linotype operator for the Canberra Times, established the printers’ union in Canberra. She has two siblings. Educated at local Catholic schools she became a nurse and trade union representative at Canberra Hospital. She married Kevin McCue in 1970 (dec.1979) and travelled with him to London where she obtained further qualifications in nursing. On her return to Australia she completed a diploma in teaching and a degree in nursing education in Adelaide in 1979. She visited China in 1977 and 1978. After completing a Masters in Health Personnel Education at the University of NSW in 1981, McCue worked with the World Health Organisation in the Middle East in 1981-82, evaluating nursing services for the United Nations. She was then seconded to the United Nations Relief and Works Organisation (UNWRA) in the Bekaar Valley in Lebanon. Following the Sabra-Shatila massacre she left the UN and worked as a volunteer in refugee and other camps in 1982-83. In 1984 she initiated and co-founded with Cliff Dolan the trade union aid body, Australian People for Health Education and Development Abroad (APHEDA), to provide training for workers in refugee camps. Initially its Executive Director, she later worked for two years as its regional adviser in South Africa and the Middle East until early 1994, when she returned to work as a volunteer in refugee camps in Lebanon. McCue moved to the Southern Highlands in late 1994 and in 1996 she founded the Women Refugee Education Network (WREN), an education advocacy group to bring women to Australia to talk about their work in refugee camps. In 1997 she, with others, started the ‘Sorry Books’ in response to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) report on the Stolen Generations and was involved in the establishment of the Wingcarribee Reconciliation Group. In 2001 she founded and was the inaugural chairperson of the Wingcarribee Community Foundation, which provides support to local youth, aged, palliative and respite care, Indigenous and environmental concerns in the Southern Highlands. In 2001 she, Susan Varga and Anne Coombs established a network of refugee support groups, Rural Australians for Refugees, which quickly spread to other rural towns across Australia. Since completing a PhD in political science on women in Islam at the University of New South Wales in 1999, McCue has held various academic positions including that of Visiting Honorary Associate at the University of New South Wales School of Politics and International Relations 2001-04, Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong 2002-03, and in 2005 she taught a course on Women in Islamic Civilisation at the ANU Centre for Continuing Education. Since August 2005 she has been a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam at Melbourne University, researching Muslim women in Australia, and has completed a book on Palestinian refugee Olfat Mahmood, Return to Tarshir, which she hopes to publish. She has received a number of awards in recognition of her work with refugees, international development and reconciliation, and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2003. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Helen McCue interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording] Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 19 July 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises manuscript papers and related material produced or accumulated by Vicki Viidikas Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Two scrapbooks containing handwritten poetry and illustrations by numerous contributors including Jessie Webb (c.1881-1921). Two photographic albums from her visit to archaeological sites in Greece and Turkey (1922-1923); loose stock photographs of Egyptian scenes, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Max Crawford and other historians. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1913-1937; Correspondence between Dick and Elsie Morris (Call No.: MLMSS 7151/32/11)?1919-1963; Papers, including correspondence of Dick and Elsie Veronica Morris, 1919-1963; newscuttings concerning Helen and Roden Cutler during his posting as Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand; and photographs, 1920-195- (Call No.: MLMSS 7151/32/12) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 December 2002 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Proposals made for the establishment of a Women’s Resource and Education Centre in Brisbane. The proposals include the aims of the centre; eg. educational programs, legal, health, information and counselling services, estimates of expenditure, library stocks and necessary equipment. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 June 2004 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises poems, short stories (including drafts) and an autobiography. Also, correspondence – some personal and some relating to Kyne’s teaching and community interests. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Colleen Hartland was elected Member for the Legislative Council for the Western Metropolitan Region in November 2006, representing the Australian Greens. She was re-elected in 2010 and again in 2014. Before her election to the state parliament, she stood as an Independent candidate in the Legislative Assembly seat of Footscray at the Victorian state election, which was held on 3 October 1992. Colleen Hartland completed a Diploma of Community Development (Victoria University of Technology TAFE) before working in community development with the Western Region Health Centre. For two years during the term of the Cain/Kirner governments, Hartland was a cook at Parliament House. She became a Councillor for Sheoak Ward with the Maribyrnong City Council in 2003, and was elected MLC for Western Metropolitan in 2006. Hartland was an activist and leader of a campaign against the storage of toxic chemicals at Coode Island in the 1990s. She was a foundation member of the Hazardous Materials Action Group (HAZMAG). Hartland was featured on ABC Radio National’s Life Matters on 22 August 2002. Published resources Newspaper Article Former Parliament cook to make a meal out of Spring Street, Murphy, Mathew, 2006 Book Local Heroes: Australian Crusades from the Environmental Frontline, McPhillips, Kathleen, 2002 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 26 July 2007 Last modified 3 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Evatt was the first Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia and the first woman to preside in an Australian Federal Court. In August 2020, a specialist domestic violence resource was established and named in her honour. The Evatt List, operating in the Federal Circuit Court of Australia across selected registries, will identify high-risk cases, enabling them to be fast-tracked with appropriate security arrangements in place. Elizabeth Evatt studied Law at the University of Sydney and at Harvard Law School. A Barrister-at-law at Inner Temple and the New South Wales Bar, her legal career began in England where she was a barrister and editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly. In 1968 she was invited to join Lord Scarman at the English Law Commission where she worked for five years. Evatt was Deputy President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission from 1973-76, before becoming the first Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia (1976-1988). From 1988-1993 she was president of the Australian Law Reform Commission, and Chancellor of the University of Newcastle from 1988-1994. Between 1984-1992, Evatt was a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, serving as Chair of the Committee from 1989-1991. She was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee from 1993-2000, and was a part time Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission from 1995-1998. Evatt is currently a judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal; a Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales; and Chair of the Board of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre in Sydney. She has for many years been a member of the Australian section of the International Commission of Jurists, and was elected as a Commissioner in April 2003. A niece of former Labor leader Dr H. V. Evatt, Elizabeth Evatt is a Life Member of the Evatt Foundation, and served as Vice-President from 1982-1987. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1995 - 1995 Awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal 2020 - 2020 The Evatt List named in her honour, as a means of identifying and prioritising cases in Family Circuit Court Registries where family violence is a risk factor. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Pioneering Women at the NSW Bar: 1921-1975, New South Wales Bar Association, 2011, http://www.nswbar.asn.au/the-bar-association/pioneering-women/ Resource Section Elizabeth Evatt, Brodsky, Juliette, 2011, http://www.nswbar.asn.au/the-bar-association/pioneering-women/ Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Book Section Recollections, Evatt, Elizabeth, 1987 Edited Book A Guide to family law : questions and answers to help you make the right decisions, Evatt, Elizabeth, 1991 Report Final report. Royal Commission on Human Relationships., Royal Commission on Human Relationships (Australia), 1977 National implementation : the cutting edge of international human rights law, Evatt, Elizabeth, 1999 Review of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984, Evatt, Elizabeth, 1996 Genital mutilation : a health and human rights issue, Magarey, Kirsty, 1990 Conference Proceedings Royal Commission on Human Relationships: official transcript of proceedings, Royal Commission on Human Relationships (Australia), 1976 Conference Paper The status of women in Asia, Evatt, Elizabeth, 1991 Lecture Valuing women's work : women, equality and family law reform, Evatt, Elizabeth, 1991 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Book Born in hope : the early years of the Family Court of Australia, Swain, Shurlee, 2012 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Elizabeth Evatt interviewed by Daniel Connell in the Law in Australian society oral history project [sound recording] Elizabeth Evatt address at the National Press Club on 24 September 1980 [sound recording] National Archives of Australia, Sydney Office Working papers of Justice Elizabeth Evatt, chronological series Personal papers relating to family law matters, single number series Records created by Justice Elizabeth Evatt as Chairman of the Royal Commission into Human Relationships, single number series Files created by Justice Elizabeth Evatt as Chancellor of Newcastle University, single number series Files created by Justice Elizabeth Evatt as President of the Australian Law Reform Commission, single number series Personal correspondence files, single number series Addresses given by Justice Elizabeth Evatt, single number series National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office Files created by Justice Alastair Bothwick Nicholson as Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, single number series National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Craig McGregor, 1961-2005 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Pat Richardson scrapbooks relating to the Women's Electoral Lobby and women's events, 1977-2002 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 28 August 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Major Jessie Perkins MBE, RFD, ED (Retd) was the first Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) Citizen Military Forces (CMF) member to be awarded an MBE. She was appointed a Member (Military) to the Order of the British Empire on 13 June 1970, for her services to the WRAAC. Before joining the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) on 10 December 1943, Jessie Perkins worked with the Public Service. In the Army she mainly served with the Land Headquarters (LHQ) Australian Army Service Corps School (AASC) until December 1945, she then transferred to the Master General of the Ordnance Branch, Design Division – which was responsible for the experimentation and testing of all army equipment – until her discharge on January 1947 with the rank of Sergeant. Following her discharge Perkins worked for the Department of Labour and National Service. She then worked as a secretary to a building and plumbing supplies firm, before working part-time with a secretarial agency while she cared for her mother. During the mid-1960s Perkins commenced a secretarial/bookkeeping position with the St Kilda Football Club. She retired after 16 years with the Club and was appointed an Honorary Life Member. Perkins then established a bookkeeping service and worked for a series of small firms. On the raising of the WRAAC CMF – later A Reserve, Jessie Perkins enlisted with the first intake on 21 July 1953 as a Private. In February 1955 she was one of the first CMF officers who were appointed from the ranks and she was attached to a CMF signals unit. Following the transfer of Captain Margaret Phillips, the first Officer-in-Charge (OC), and eight other ranks to the Regular Army, Captain Jessie Perkins became OC on 24 October 1957, the first reserve officer to hold the position. She was OC WRAAC Coy for 12 years before serving at Headquarters 3 Division. Perkins served for 25 years rising to the rank of Major (1961) before being discharged on 21 September 1978. On 13 June 1970 Perkins was appointed MBE (MIL) and later awarded the Reserve Forces Decoration (RFD) and Efficiency Decoration (ED) with 1st Clasp. Jessie Perkins was the Patron of the WRAAC Reserve Association (Vic.) until her death in 2010. She was president of the Association for 17 years. She was also treasurer and public officer of the Council of Ex-Servicewomens’ Associations (Vic.) Inc., treasurer and public officer of the Royal Australian Signals Association and volunteer, with her sister, of Meals on Wheels for MECWA Community Care (retired after 15 years with the Opportunity Shop, where she was also treasurer). Perkins’ involvement with the church included being Vicar’s Warden – Parish Council, server, sidesperson, reader and a member of the Sanctuary Guild. Since 2001 Perkins was president and treasurer of the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) Association (Victoria) Inc. Published resources Book Soldiers of the Queen : women in the Australian Army, Bomford, Janette, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 September 2003 Last modified 30 July 2018 Digital resources Title: F31703 Major Jessie M. Perkins MBE RFD ED (Ret'd) Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records of Rodriguez’s editorship of the Penguin Poetry Series, 1989-1997. The correspondence is with contributors to the Series and potential contributors, and with editorial staff. Also included are rejection letters with reports, prose manuscripts, reviews, and working files on the Series, which include progress lists and publishers’ lists, sales figures and invoices. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes, including inaugural meeting, list of members and correspondence, 1951-1988 (6 vols).?Treasurer’s books and balance sheets, 1951-1986 (2 vols).?Scrapbooks reflecting Country Women’s Association social events through letters, cards, cuttings and photographs, 1970-1976 (2 vols). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection consists of the following items: a T-shirt with “International Women’s Day 1979” and an image printed on it; five badges with activist slogans; a poster advertising a rally and march on the 10th of March 1979 at King George Square to mark the International Women’s Day 1979; photographs of the rally and the march; a Christmas card featuring a caricature of the Queensland Police Force at the time of the Bjelke-Petersen Government; a pamphlet published by Working Women’s Charter Campaign (the publication discusses issues such as trade unions, child care, abortion, and rape and sexuality); a typed letter from Fiona Gaske for I.W.D. Organising Committee. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Officially founded in 1902, with Janet Lady Clarke as president, and continuing today, the National Council of Women of Victoria is an umbrella organisation for a large and diverse number of affiliated Victorian women’s groups. It functions as a political lobby group, attempting to influence local, state and federal government. Like all National Councils of Women, it operates though a standing committee system whereby specific issues are brought before the Council and, if there is general agreement that a question should be taken up, a subcommittee is established to investigate the matter. Until the 1940s at least, the Council was a major focal point for women’s activism. Its initial aims were: 1. To establish a bond of union between the various affiliated societies. 2. To advance the interests of women and children and of humanity in general. 3. To confer on questions relating to the welfare of the family, the State and the Commonwealth.’ While encompassing a diverse range of organisations, the Council emerged as a largely middle-class women’s organisation especially in terms of its office bearers. Although not always an overtly feminist organisation, the NCWV drew on the conviction that women had a special contribution to make to public life and the formulation of social policy. They were thus concerned with a wide array of social reform issues** as well as those more directly related to the legal and social status of women. It also drew on notions of gender unity and international sisterhood. [Kate Gray, ‘The Acceptable Face of Feminism: the National Council of Women, 1902-1918’, MA thesis, University of Melbourne, 1988.] Women’s organisations affiliated with the National Council of Women of Victoria have a wide range of goals and aims. Thirty five organisations were affiliated in 1902, and 139 by 1977 [Norris, p. 10-11]. These organisations include groups dedicated to philanthropic and reform causes, social and cultural societies as well as professional organisations. These included the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the Australian Women’s National League, the League of Women voters of Victoria, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Melbourne, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Union of Australian Women, the Royal Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch), the Right to Choose Coalition, the Victorian Association of Benevolent Societies, the Women’s Electoral Lobby, the Family Planning Association and the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria. All National Councils of Women, and the International Council of Women, operate though a standing committee system. The process was for specific issues to be brought before the Council by individual delegates. Often the issues were of special interest to one or more affiliated organisations, who may have been working unsuccessfully on them for some time. Once it appeared from preliminary discussions that there was general agreement that a question should be taken up, a subcommittee was established to investigate the matter and draw up recommendations on which the Council could act. The first subcommittee formed in 1902 on the introduction of Police matrons in city and suburban lockups. Other early committees concerned themselves with the establishment of a colony for epileptics, with children playgrounds and with street lighting. Latter standing committees included: Arts and Letters; Child and Family; Education; Health; Home Economics; Internal Relations and Peace; Laws; Mass Media; Social Welfare; Women and Employment; Migration. From at least 1919, they advocated equal pay for equal work – [Norris, p. 41] but it was not until 1954 that active steps were taken by the Council to promote wage equality for women [Norris, p. 46] Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Thesis The Acceptable face of feminism : National Council of Women, 1902-1918, Gray, Kate, 1988 The Women's Movement in the New South Wales and Victoria, 1918-1938, Foley, Meredith, 1986 The 'Woman Question' in Melbourne, 1880-1914, Kelly, Farley, 1983 Book Champions of the impossible: a history of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1902-1977, Norris, Ada, 1978 From Vision to Reality: Histories of the affiliates of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1987 A Brief history of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1902-1945, Gillan, Helen E (comp.), 1945 Nine decades, Penrose, Patricia, 1997 Regional branches, 1927-2002, National Council of Women of Victoria Inc., 2002 Forty years on : women still pioneering : a collection of speeches from the Australia Day Women's Ceremony, Pioneer Women's Garden, King's Domain, Melbourne, 2002 50 years 1944-1994, National Council of Women of Victoria, Geelong Branch, 1994 Hints for the busy housewife, The Health Association of Australasia in conjunction with the National Council of Women of Victoria, [1938?] Edited Book Valuing the Volunteers : An Anthology for the International Year of Volunteers 2001, National Council of Women of Victoria Inc., 2001 Report Annual report, National Council of Women of Victoria Conference Proceedings Women at work conference, National Council of Women of Victoria, 1969 Journal Article The National Council of Women of Victoria, Suffrage and Political Citizenship 1904-14, Smart, Judith and Quartly, Marian Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Oke, Marjorie (1911-2003) Norris, Dame Ada May Moore, Edith Eliza Harrison State Library of Victoria National Council of Women of Victoria Papers, 1939-1974. [manuscript]. Papers, 1978-1987. [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Minutes [1904-1960] [microform] Author Details Jane Carey Created 25 August 2003 Last modified 25 July 2018 Digital resources Title: NCW Victoria presents a mobile unit to the Australian Comforts Fund, 1943 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Born in India to an Irish soldier, Eliza Tracey immigrated to Western Australia in 1859, where she was known to the citizens of Perth as a soap box orator. She spoke out against the legal profession, and her life was marked by constant dealings with the law. Eliza Tracey was born in India to Irish soldier Kearns, and an unknown mother. She lived in Ireland for a while before migrating to Western Australia in 1859. There she married John Tracey, an illiterate labourer and ex-convict on 12 January 1860. Together they ran an inn, but found trouble when they did not pay their debts. Further trouble occurred in the 1870s when they were charged with stealing sheep. For this, John Tracey was sent to prison, and after this seems to have played no further role in his wife’s life. After her husband’s imprisonment, Eliza Tracey worked as a housekeeper for blacksmith Richard Edmunds. Assisted by lawyer John Horgan, she pursued Edmunds to giver her a life interest in his property (consisting of a farm and two cottages). When Edmunds died in 1886, his grandsons and not Tracey claimed the farm rents, as the property was not under Edmunds’ name, but his mother’s. Although Tracey was still receiving the rent from the two cottages, John Hogan advised her to challenge the grandsons’ claim on the farm in three separate lawsuits. She lost all three challenges. The legal troubles continued for Tracey, when she was forced to pay £30 in damages to a tenant with whom she had argued. She refused to pay (as advised by John Horgan), and was jailed. John Horgan requested £250 in legal fees, so she gave him the title to her cottages as collateral. To raise the £30 in damages to pay her tenant, a sheriff put her cottage up for sale. It was bought by R. S. Haynes, her new lawyer for £17, significantly less than the £600 the property was actually worth. Haynes also paid Horgan £250 for the titles to the cottages. Finding that she was now homeless, Tracey demanded compensation from the government. Several years worth of petitioning, raising money for court cases and even speaking to the Governer-General proved fruitless and by 1907, the courts concluded that Tracey had no case. She was, however, awarded a compassionate allowance in 1904. Tracey waged war against the legal profession and published a pamphlet entitled Robbed by Malice and Corruption by our Judges and Lawyers. She was also well known in Perth for her soapbox oratory on the Esplanade, where she criticized lawyers as thieves. Tracey died in Victoria Park on 24 February 1917, and was buried in Karrakatta cemetery, Perth. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Tracey, Eliza (1842-1917), Erickson, Rica, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120279b.htm Author Details Christine Donald Created 11 August 2010 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Diary, 4 October 1922 (with reference back to 25 September) – 13 November (with an additional note of 11 December) 1922, of journey thro- ugh Uganda and the Sudan with Dr Georgina Sweet (part of a trip the full length of Africa from south to north). Carbon copy book containing the original sheets in pencil and ink; 62 numbered pages completed, plus front index pages and endnotes; board covers and cloth spine, 28 x 22 cm Received some time ago as ‘Journal by a Person Unknown’, catalogued as ‘S/Autograph File’. Webb and Sweet identified by inference. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Marie Byles was the first woman to qualify to practise law in New South Wales. As Honorary Solicitor, she worked with Jessie Street to change the law regarding women’s guardianship of their children. Establishing her own legal practice allowed her to devote herself to bushwalking, mountaineering and conservation of the environment. She was responsible for reserving Bouddi Natural Park north of the Hawkesbury River. A Pacifist, Byles was a devotee of Gandhi and developed an interest in Buddhism. A founding member of the Buddhist Society of New South Wales, she became an international authority on Buddhism and wrote several books on the subject. Marie Byles was born in 1900, the year of Queen Victoria’s death, to Ida Unwin Byles (a cousin of publisher Sir Stanley Unwin) and Cyril Beuzeville Byles, an expert in railway signalling. Cyril was offered a position with New South Wales Railways and the family moved to Sydney in 1911. Marie was educated at Presbyterian Ladies College (PLC) Croydon, then Pymble. She was Head Prefect and Dux. Byles studied Arts, then Law, at the University of Sydney. In 1918 an Enabling Act was passed in NSW, allowing women to practise law. Marie won the Rose Scott Prize for International Law and attracted media attention on her graduation. She worked with many women’s organizations including Jessie Street’s United Association of Women to help change the laws regarding women’s rights in marriage and divorce, and, in particular, the guardianship of their own children. A bushwalker, Byles was drawn to mountaineering and travelled the world by cargo boat in 1929 to gain experience in high altitude climbing in Scotland, Norway and Canada. She climbed Mt Cook in New Zealand and returned to that country twice more to climb virgin peaks and map unexplored areas, before leading an international expedition to south China in 1938. On returning to Sydney from her round-the-world voyage, Byles established her own legal practice, knowing that she would struggle to be given the respect she deserved by a patriarchal legal profession that saw women as secretaries and clerks. She employed an all-female staff, training them as highly skilled paralegals, and was committed to profit-sharing. The proficiency and loyalty of her staff allowed Byles to spend extended periods of time on overseas expeditions. An early member of the Sydney Bushwalkers Club, Byles joined with others who were committed to conserving the natural environment and saving it from development. As Honorary Solicitor for the Federation of Bushwalking Clubs, she helped to get large amounts of land reserved in State Parks. In particular she wanted to reserve a stretch of coastline north of the Hawkesbury River that she had explored as a young woman. She achieved this in 1935 and became a Trustee of Bouddi Natural Park. She was notorious for organising regular working bees that saw up to a hundred people making tracks and installing water tanks etc. Byles served as President of the Federation of Bushwalking Clubs for some years as well as editing its journal. With Paddy Pallin, the camping equipment provider, she founded The Bush Club, a specialised bushwalking club for people not interested in doing exhausting overnight bushwalks. The club attracted many European refugees who were glad for the opportunity to become acquainted with their new country but needed to report to the police every night. On a bushwalking expedition to Bouddi in 1941, Byles suffered a collapsed arch and this restricted her bushwalking involvement. The failure of her attempt to reach the summit of a virgin peak in south China in 1938 shattered her and eventually inspired her interest in philosophy and Eastern spirituality. She travelled to India in 1953 and wrote about the life of the Buddha in Footsteps of Gautama Buddha. A devotee of Gandhi, she named the cottage that she had built next to Pennant Hills Reserve ‘Ahimsa’ after Gandhi’s principle of non-violence. She wrote a book, The Lotus and the Spinning Wheel, on the comparisons between Buddha and Gandhi. Byles learned of a form of meditation taught by Buddha, ‘Vipassana’, and travelled to Burma to do an intensive retreat at the Maha Bodhi centre in Mandalay. She wrote a book about her experiences, Journey Into Burmese Silence, that helped guide a new generation towards the spirituality of the East. Byles was a founding member of the Buddhist Society of NSW, the first society of Western Buddhists in Australia. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she opened her home to Quakers and Buddhists for silent meditation and discussion groups. Byles travelled to Japan to investigate Zen meditation and discovered the Ittoen spiritual community. She published a book on their teacher’s philosophy, and wrote her own book, Paths to Inner Calm. In 1966 she was attacked while sleeping on the verandah of her home in Cheltenham. She was hospitalised and convalesced at the home of her friend, the writer Florence James, in the Blue Mountains. Suffering constant headaches, she learnt about the Alexander Technique and studied under the only teacher in Sydney. When he died Byles wrote a book on the exercises called Stand Straight Without Strain. In 1974 Byles was honoured by the Women Lawyers Association for 50 years in the practice of law. Mary Gaudron and Elizabeth Evatt (recently Justices of the High Court) attended. Suffering from cancer, and refusing hospitalisation or painkillers, Marie Byles died at home on 21 November 1979. She bequeathed her home and the nature reserve on which it stands to the National Trust of NSW. This entry was researched and written by Anne McLeod. Excerpted from the Dictionary of Sydney, relating to Byles’ pioneering role in the law: In her efforts to become an articled clerk (part of requirements for legal qualification at the time), she had some discouraging encounters with law firms – one male solicitor viewed Marie’s potential as a mere typist. Eventually she was articled to Stuart Thom & Co on 6 June 1924. To obtain the requisite training with the master solicitor, her father had to pay £200 for her articles. The usual cost for male graduates was, in contrast, £100. Marie’s father also had to provide her with suitable clothing for work. Unfortunately, the articles proved to be a soul – destroying experience. A change of workplace was made possible with the intervention of Sir John Peden, the Law Dean of Sydney University. Henry Davis & Co agreed to employ Marie in a role as managing clerk. She was also active in the United Associations of Women and the National Council of Women of New South Wales. By the 1930s, the practice employed five other women and sought to obtain the services of female barristers when they were available, including Sibyl Morrison. The legal practice dealt with matters of probate, conveyancing and debt recovery. In 1952 Marie became the first female master solicitor when articled clerk Margaret Crawley joined her practice. By this time, the work premises were inappropriate and Marie created a private company to purchase land at 2A Hillview Avenue, Eastwood. Here she built the Berangie Chambers, an Aboriginal word meaning ‘friend’. Marie designed the building to ensure the space was airy and filled with light. The practice moved here in 1953. In the late 1950s, she continued to consciously employ married women and promoted their professional development. Marie even offered to sponsor her law clerks to study for the Solicitors’ Admission Board exams. In 1970, she sold her business to Helen Larcombe, who had been the first female solicitor to practise in Newcastle in 1957. In 1974, Marie celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of becoming a solicitor, and shared the occasion with two eminent judges, Judge Elizabeth Evatt and Judge Mary Gaudron. Events 1920 - 1960 Published resources Resource Section Byles, Marie Beuzeville (1910-1979), Radi, Heather, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130368b.htm Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Thesis A History of Women in the Legal Profession in New South Wales, O'Brien, Joan M., 1986, https://womenlawyersnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/History-of-Women-in-Legal-Profession.pdf Author Details Barbara Lemon and Larissa Halonkin Created 13 September 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "George Medal (Staff Nurse M. Anderson, Staff Nurse V. Torney). Award to Torney changed to MBE. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2003 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Clare Bishop graduated in catering and hotel management before joining the Department of Immigration in Canberra in 1970, serving in London 1971-74, Edinburgh in 1975-77 and New York 1977-80. After helping organize the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Melbourne in 1981, she was sent to Cologne to process refugees from Poland, and to the Philippines to process spouse applications. From 1984-86 she was First Secretary in the Australian Embassy in Vietnam, then Consul in New York to 1990. From 1993 until her retirement in 2000, she was responsible for overhauling all the Department’s forms. Clare Bishop was born in Sydney on 26 June 1945, daughter of neurophysiologist Sir Peter Orlebar Bishop and Hilary Louise neé Holmes, a former nurse. Educated in Sydney at Chatswood Primary School, Roseville College and Abbotsford Anglican School for Girls, she travelled in 1963 with her parents to Massachusetts. After briefly attending a secretarial school she worked first as a volunteer at the Harvard International Students Club, and then as a governess in Paris. On her return to Sydney in 1964 she completed two years of an Arts degree at Sydney University before studying catering and hotel management at East Sydney Technical School. On graduating, she moved to Canberra and worked briefly in a hotel and an employment agency before joining the Professional Migration Section of the Department of Immigration in 1970. She was posted to London from 1971-74, then trained new staff in the Recruitment Section in Canberra, before being posted to Edinburgh in October 1975. In 1977 she was cross-posted to New York, returning to Canberra in 1980 where she worked as Ministerial Correspondence Liaison Officer in the Legal and Parliamentary Branch. In 1981 she was seconded to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to help organise the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Melbourne. She was then sent to Cologne to process Special Humanitarian Entrants from Poland, to Berne, Switzerland, to process applications from chefs, and then to the Philippines to process women entering Australia on spouse visas. On returning to Canberra she worked as executive to the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs on its evaluation of the implementation of the Galbally Report. From 1984 -86 she served as First Secretary in the Australian Embassy in Vietnam, then as Consul/ Principal Migration Officer in New York and Area Director in Chicago and Toronto to 1990. Following her return to Canberra she was Executive officer to the National Population Council and to the Conference of Commonwealth/State/Territory Ministers for Immigration, before becoming Departmental Liaison Officer in the office of the Minister for Immigration, Gerry Hand. From 1993 until her retirement in 2000, she was in charge of overhauling all the Department’s forms. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Clare Bishop interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens in the Chief Migration Officers' oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 22 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Printed form completed in ink giving the details of Mary Williams. Williams was transported to Van Diemen’s Land in August 1848 on the ship Tory for seven years, for the first offence of stealing money. Mention is made of other misdemeanors on the form. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc13.126 comprises bound typed transcripts of Patrick McMahon Glynn’s diaries (1881-1918); bound photocopies of letters to family (1874-1927); original photographs including a panorama photograph of Canberra and portraits of Patrick McMahon Glynn and family photos; original postcards; loose photocopied letters; typed transcripts of diary entries and newspaper articles; photocopies of press cuttings; box of pamphlets of lectures and addresses by Patrick McMahon Glynn (1891-1922); bound copy of Federation pamphlets; bound minutes and proceedings of a NSW conference on water conservation and irrigation held on16th January 1905; bound photocopies of Patrick McMahon Glynn correspondence (1901-1921); original report for year 1917-18 River Murray Commission; copy of the Water Conservation Act 1886; House of Representatives River Murray Bill 1915 with handwritten notes; research notes and photocopies of articles used by Maeve O’Collins for her articles on Sir Henry Parkes, Papua New Guinea, Northern Territory and Australian Education; newspaper clippings relating to recent articles and reports on the Murray River; bound typed transcripts of speeches by Patrick McMahon Glynn in the House of Representatives; two original diaries handwritten written by Patrick McMahon Glynn in 1869 and 1870 (7 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records include proceedings, minutes, reports, correspondence, files and financial documents; mainly of the Western Australia affiliate, but with some federal records; poster. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Manuscript of a novel written in the 1920s under the nom-de-plume Goodman Forster.??Published in 1994 as part of the Women’s Suffrage Centenary Celebrations. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 January 2003 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A student of Newnham College, Cambridge, and a suffragist, Pattie Craske completed a natural sciences degree in botany with second-class honours at a time when the university did not grant degrees to women. After teaching in England, she married Australian entomologist, Robin Tillyard, in Sydney. In 1928, by then the mother of four daughters, she moved to the small, isolated community of Canberra where she became a leader in community, sporting and university organisations and was elected to the Canberra Community Hospital Board in 1935. She was the social face of the growing city, renowned for her welcome to newcomers, in later years being regarded as the ‘grande dame’ of Canberra. A student of Newnham College, Cambridge, and a suffragist, Pattie Craske completed a natural sciences degree in botany with second-class honours at a time when the university did not grant degrees to women. After teaching in England, she married Australian entomologist, Robin Tillyard, in Sydney. In 1928, by then the mother of four daughters, she moved to the small, isolated community of Canberra where she became a leader in community, sporting and university organisations and was elected to the Canberra Community Hospital Board in 1935. She was the social face of the growing city, renowned for her welcome to newcomers, in later years being regarded as the ‘grande dame’ of Canberra. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Tillyard, Pattie, Clarke, Patricia, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/tillyard-pattie-8816/text15463 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 26 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A large component of MS 10111 comprises correspondence. There are letters from many well known people in the literary and arts world, some spanning a number years, and family letters which document many stages of Ninette Dutton’s life. Principal correspondents include Richard Adlington, Sir Walter Campbell, Bruce Chatwin, Dymphna and Manning Clark, Walter Crocker, Denison Deasey, Russell Drysdale, Sumner Locke-Elliott, Shirley Hazzard, Max Harris, Peg Hesse (Princess Margaret of Hesse), Barry Humphries, Alister Kershaw, David Marr, Mirka Mora, Les Murray, Gino Nibbi, Elizabeth Riddell, Nicholas Shakespeare, Jeffrey Smart, Tom Shapcott, Randolph Stow and Patrick White. Also included in the collection are drafts and original illustrations for Dutton’s published works, photographs, newspaper cuttings, travel journals and early family papers (50 boxes, 4 fol. boxes, 1 elephant folio). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "(I) Papers concerning Mary Gilmore comprising photocopies of letters from A. G. Stephens to Mr. Woods re the publication of her poetry, and some original MSS, and photocopies of poems. (II) letter by A. G. Stephens to George Black at Parliament House, referring to the printing of an article by Stephens. (III) Memorial volume; minute book and letter relating to its publication. (IV) Correspondence between Shaw Neilson and A. G. Stephens, and two letters from Hilda Malmgren and a publishing agreement. Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Emily Dobson was a tour de force in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Tasmanian society. As the wife of the State Premier, Henry Dobson, she played a central role in multiple political and charitable organisations. She was vice-president of the Tasmanian section of the National Council of Women in 1899, and attended the first meeting of the International Council of Women in London that year. Dobson became president of the National Council of Women Tasmania in 1904 and held that position until her death. She was the first Australian to be elected vice- president of the International Council of Women at the Rome quinquennial in 1914. Emily Dobson was Tasmania’s bespectacled and formidable grand old lady by the time she died in 1934 in her early nineties. Born in Port Arthur in 1842 in what was then Van Diemen’s Land, she was influenced by the social conscience of her father, artist and public servant Thomas Lempriere, who died when she was nine years old. In 1868 she married Tasmania’s future Premier, Henry Dobson, who shared her ideas on philanthropy and temperance, linked though they were to the cause of women. Emily Dobson became involved in just about every charitable organisation in the State of Tasmania. She was founding president of the ladies’ committee of the Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution; founding president of the Ministering Children’s League; and president of the committee of management of the Victoria Convalescent Home at Lindisfarne. She co-established the New Town Consumptives’ Sanatorium in 1905, and in 1918 became first vice-president of the Child Welfare Association. She was vice-president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Tasmania and life patroness of the Tasmanian Bush Nursing Association. With her husband, she established the Free Kindergarten Association in Tasmania in 1911. That same year she established the Girl Guides’ Association of Tasmania, appointing herself State Commissioner. She founded the Tasmanian branch of the Alliance Française, and the Tasmanian Lyceum Club. As a middle-aged woman, Dobson became secretary of the Women’s Sanitary Association, which formed in 1891 specifically to counter an outbreak of typhoid and ran candidates in the municipal election of 1892. In Hobart, her Relief Restaurant Committee operated a soup kitchen and set up the Association for Improvement of Dwellings of the Working Classes. Dobson was widely praised among her peers, but more often than not, the efforts of the Sanitary Association were belittled by local newspapers. According to historian Ruth Barton, it was ‘the anomaly of charitable women undertaking work which at home they paid sevants to do’ which attracted unfavourable press attention, and certainly the Dobson family wealth meant that Emily had no need to carry out domestic chores in her own home. Like so many other charitably-inclined women of her time, Dobson had a particular concern for child welfare. With the Society for the Protection of Children, she secured the passage of an Infant Life Protection Act in 1907. The Act authorised members of the Society to enter homes where infants were being minded for payment, without notice. Taken at face value, the Act was a noble attempt to put an end to the practice of baby farming, but research by Caroline Evans and Naomi Parry suggests that it was an attempt to control the poorer sections of society. Dobson was as dominant in politics as she was in health and welfare. She was a member of the Women’s Non-Party League of Hobart. She held office in the Tasmanian branch of the League of Nations Union and the Victoria League of Tasmania; the National Council of Women (State and Federal bodies); and the International Council of Women. In 1907 she represented the Tasmanian government at the Women’s Work Exhibition in Melbourne. She was honoured by the National Council of Women (Tasmania) in 1919, with the establishment of the Emily Dobson Philanthropic Prize Competition for welfare organisations. Events 1970 - 1924 International Council of Women 1914 - 1924 International Council of Women 1906 - 1924 Australian Delegation to International Council of Women 1970 - Ministering Children’s League 1970 - Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution Ladies’ Committee Published resources Resource Section Dobson, Emily (1842-1934), Reynolds, I. A., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080333b.htm Emily Dobson (1842-1934), Rimon, Wendy, http://www.women.tas.gov.au/significantwomen/search/emily_dobson.html National Council of Women, Rimon, Wendy, http://www.women.tas.gov.au/significantwomen/search/ncw.htm Emily Dobson, Tasmanian Government, c.2005, http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/cdd/programs_and_services/tasmanian_honour_roll_of_women/inductees/2005/emily_dobson Emily Dobson, Jordan, Renee, 2006, http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Emily%20Dobson.htm Conference Paper A few viragos on a stump : the womanhood suffrage campaign in Tasmania 1880-1920, Pearce, Vicki, 1985 Thesis Mrs Henry Dobson : Victorian 'do - gooder' or sincere social reformer : an analysis of her charitable and public welfare work in the 1890's, Taylor, Annette Rosalie, 1972 In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Emily's Empire: Emily Dobson and the National Council of Women of Tasmania, Jordan, Renee, 2004 Book Section Emily Dobson, Barton, Ruth, 1988 Book The history of the National Council of Women in [sic] South Australia, 1902-1980, Pitt, Barbara J, 1986 Lithgow, 1942: a survey of the life of the town, Dobson, Hazel and Howes, H.E., 1943 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Journal Article Vessels of Progressivism? Tasmanian State Girls and Eugenics, 1900-1940, Evans, Caroline and Naomi Parry, 2001 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Archives Office of Tasmania Correspondence, minutes and associated papers of the National Council of Women of Tasmania John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 7266 National Council of Women of Queensland Minute Books 1905-2004 Author Details Jane Carey and Barbara Lemon Created 11 September 2003 Last modified 22 October 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Photographs, minute books, membership lists, framed items and scrapbooks. Badges, an embroidered tablecloth, salary books, journals relating to 2WG radio station. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 22 July 2005 Last modified 22 July 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Part of a collection of 248 pamphlet boxes of miscellaneous material arranged in Dewey order.??A collection of pamphlets containing souvenir concert programmes and Australian biographies. Includes 2BL radio broadcast transcripts on famous women in Australian history and a transcript of a broadcast on ‘What is civilisation’ featuring speakers John Metcalfe and George Caiger. Also includes a series of reprints from the Medical Journal of Australia on Australian doctors, and newsclippings relating to the ‘Case of Councillor Berghofer’ (John William Berghofer); an electorate address for the Tweed electorate by David Jarman; newscuttings, photograph and celebration card relating to 100th birthday anniversary of Jane Mary Nunn; retirement speech of John Thompson of the Surveyor General’s Department and list of members of the department; notes on Leichardt’s Expedition from the Darling Downs to Port Essington 1844-5; notes on Major Ronald Smith of Tasmania; Diplomas (colourful posters) given to A.C. Orr on crossing the equator in H.M.S. Striker; a 1952 issue of ‘France Illustration’ featuring Indochina; articles in French on the Kerguelen Islands; article in French on historic statue of Francois Pe?ron; and an article on Pedro Sarmiento of Gamboa. Other inclusions are souvenir programmes, eg. Sydney Symphony Orchestra with Eugene Goossens (1947) and newsclippings relating to George Coppin. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Esmé Fenston served for 22 years as editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly. She was appointed O.B.E. for services to journalism in 1967. Esmé Fenston was educated at Sydney Girls’ High School before taking a job as a reporter for Triad magazine at the age of 17. From there she began work on the women’s pages of the Daily Guardian and Daily Telegraph Pictorial. In 1930, she was married to Jack Fenston, who became circulation manager of the Land newspaper. She was soon editing the women’s pages of the Land, and in 1933 joined the staff of the Sydney Mail, becoming social editor. In 1938, Fenston was seduced by a lucrative offer from the Australian Women’s Weekly, switching from the Fairfax to the Packer media empire. She became sub-editor of the magazine, and in 1950, succeeded Alice Jackson as editor. The magazine was already enjoying a circulation of 750,000. Fenston had an excellent feel for its readership, and aimed to reflect public taste rather than lead it. In the 1960s, issues on controversial subjects such as the contraceptive pill and women’s knowledge of sex attracted 800,000 readers. Fenston worked very closely with Frank Packer, who admired her judgement. In later years he bought a car and a large home for the Fenston’s near the Lane Cove River, closer to the Weekly office, and funded a trip to England. Esmé Fenston was appointed O.B.E. for services to journalism in 1967. She died in 1972 after 22 successful years as editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly. Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Section Fenston, Esmé (Ezzie) (1908 - 1972), Lawson, Valerie, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140159b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 25 October 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Wendy Whiteley OAM was best known as a model, muse and advisor to her husband and renowned artist Brett Whiteley. After the death of Brett Whiteley she has stayed in the public eye with ongoing support of the visual arts and her work in establishing a public garden of significance. Early Life Wendy Susan Julius was the first daughter of George ‘Gentleman George’. Yelverton Julius and Daphne May Mackenzie and older sister to Aileen. Her grandfather was Sir George Julius, the inventor of the totalisator and co-founder of the CSIRO. Her great grandfather was Charles Yelverton O’Connor who was the engineer for Fremantle Harbour and the Kalgoorlie Pipeline. Wendy’s parents had a troubled relationship and Wendy’s life changed significantly aged 6 when her parents separated. She saw her father only once more before his death. Her mother remarried Albert McKenzie and the family moved to Lindfield on the Sydney north shore in the early 1950’s. Two more children were born. Ian who died tragically from cancer in his 20s and Caroline (Caro) a successful film producer and assistant director to successful director Peter Jackson. As a child Wendy identified strongly with her great aunt Kathleen O’Conner (1876-1968). Kathleen travelled to Paris to study art and live a bohemian life style. She exhibited her art on Paris and London and it is displayed in the National Library of Australia. Wendy was educated at Lindfield Public School, Hornsby Girls High School and East Sydney Technical College where she studied art. She won art awards and a David Jones Drawing Prize. Art & Family In 1957 Wendy met her future husband Brett Whiteley who was to become the forefront of Australia’s avant-garde art movement. From the start their lives were wrapped in the art world. Their first date was to a sketch club at Northwood on the Sydney lower North Shore where they sketched an artist’s model. There was an instant strong attraction and after several months Wendy moved into the Longueville home of Brett and his father Clem. In late 1959 Brett won an Art Travelling Scholarship which was judged by Sir Russel Drysdale. This was another turning point in Wendy’s life. Brett left for Italy and Wendy worked two jobs to make enough money to join him. They were eventually reunited in Paris. She was 19 and he was 21. In Paris the Louvre provided a lasting impact on Wendy. She was moved by the masterpieces and started a lifetime of refining her visual intelligence. Wendy and Brett settled in London and married at the Chelsea Registry Office in 1962. Wendy herself had given up painting. She had shown talent and promise at art school but didn’t have the drive or ambition she felt necessary. She dedicated herself to working with Brett, modelling, working in the studio and becoming his critic and counsel. Their daughter Arkie Deya Whiteley was born on November 6th 1964 at the St George’s Hospital in London. Wendy, Brett and Arkie moved to New York in 1967 and lived in at the Chelsea Hotel. After two years In New York they went to Fiji and had intended to return after a show in Sydney. However Brett was banned from re-entry over an incident with opium. On returning to Sydney they fell in love with the Lavender Bay area which Brett called optical ecstasy. Both Wendy and Brett developed heroin additions in the mid-seventies. In 1987 Wendy finally conquered her addiction but Brett did not and this eventually ended their marriage. Brett moved from the family home in 1988 to his Surry Hills studio and they divorced in 1989. Wendy stayed in the Lavender Bay property. Tragedy and Healing – Wendy’s Secret Garden Brett Whiteley (OA) died of an overdose on June 15th 1992. The grief of that lose found a physical outlet when Wendy began clearing and planting the vacant land between her home and the disused railway track. It was a mammoth task to clear lantana, blackberry, privet and large quantities of dumped rubbish. Wendy later commented that she just started clearing the land and just kept going. She funded the garden from the beginning. It’s not know how much money has been spent but over the years but, in addition to plantings and landscaping, she has employed for two gardeners from around 1996. No local government or state government approvals were sought for the works however no legal or civil challenges against the work were issued. On September 12th 2001 Arkie told her mother she had been diagnosed with adrenal gland cancer. Tragically only 3 months later, on December 19th 2001, Arkie died. She had been an accomplished film and television actress and had recently remarried for a second time. She had also worked on the garden with her mother. The entrance to the garden is through the council recreation area called Clark Park. Wendy’s Secret Garden is now the backdrop for many happy moments. Every weekend couples are married or pose for their wedding photos with the garden and Sydney harbour as the magnificent backdrop. The park is popular with tourist and families and referenced frequently in travel guides. Wendy was awarded an O.A.M. (Order of Australia Medal) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List on January 26th 2009 for her services to the community through the establishment and maintenance of a public garden at Lavender Bay, and as a supporter of the visual arts. As at 2016 Wendy Whiteley still lives in the house at Lavender Bay that she shared with Brett Whiteley and her daughter Arkie. Both Brett and Arkie’s ashes are buried in an undisclosed location in Wendy’s Secret Garden. “I’ve loved making this garden. It’s been a great gift to my life. It let me find myself again, and it’s my gift to share with the public”. Published resources Book Wendy Whiteley And The Secret Garden, Hawley, Janet, 2015 Whiteley: an unauthorised life, Hilton, Margaret and Blundell, Graeme, 1996 Author Details Kay Hastings Created 11 July 2016 Last modified 11 July 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Warlpiri vocabulary with some Aranda correspondences, typed with codes for standard and variant spellings Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "An idealist, Peggy May Cable ran for election twice. She was Australian Democrats candidate in the 1978 Wentworthville and 1981 Seven Hills elections. Peggy Cable joined the Australian Democrats in 1977, attracted by their philosophy of honesty, tolerance and compassion. She had not had an easy life. When her first marriage ended in divorce, leaving her with a son to bring up, Peggy set up Cable’s Calculating and Secretarial Service and worked in a hotel at night to meet her expenses. The business was providing employment for up to 70 staff by 1981. Peggy was remarried by the time of her 1981 campaign. She was predeceased by her son, Dale. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence from Emily and Christabel Pankhurst, E. Pethick Lawrence and Dora Marsden. Includes news releases and folded newspaper cuttings from “The Suffragette” June 13, 1913.??Letters mostly written on The National Women’s Social and Political Union letterhead.?All photocopies.?Most letters typescript, some handwritten.?Letters to Sarah Jane (Jennie) Baines. Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 December 2004 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sandra Bailey Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 9 August 2016 Digital resources Title: Sandra Bailey Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 volumes of newspapers cuttings dealing with Sir Norman’s tennis career, 1900-1914. 3 illuminated invitations to Dame Mabel’s parents, and a photograph (probably her father). Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Millicent Christian was a once-only candidate who was a lifetime activist for equality, peace and freedom. She ran for the Raleigh seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1947 as an Independent Labor candidate. Millicent Christian was the daughter of Charles and Letty Luckett. Her family moved from South Africa to England and then to New South Wales. She was educated at St Michael’s Sisterhood, Bloemfontein, South Africa, Warral Provisional School and Tamworth High School, New South Wales, Australia. She won a University Scholarship to enable her to study medicine at Sydney University in 1922, but the scholarship required her father’s permission and he refused it. Millicent left home, and attended Sydney University, living at Women’s College on the Ann Hargrave Scholarship 1923-25. She graduated BA 1926, Dip Ed 1927. She taught at Burwood Boys’ School, and West Kempsey and Young High Schools 1927-28. In 1929 she married a farmer, Cecil Aubrey Christian, and they had three daughters. After he died she brought up her daughters alone. She taught at Wenona School, North Sydney, and Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Pymble. She joined the United Associations of Women in 1945 and later became Vice President of the United Association of Women and the Honorary Secretary to the Conference of the Australian Women’s Charter. She was instrumental in establishing the United Associations of Women Award for a female undergraduate in the school of history at the University of New South Wales in 1982, and in 1983 the UAW Prize for a female engineering student at the University of Technology, Sydney. She was an active member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom from 1964. Millicent was also a member of the ALP for over 40 years, a delegate to many State conferences and held branch and electorate council office. She was a member of the North Sydney Business and Professional Women’s Club. In 1978 the Ku-Ring-Gai Council awarded her a Distinguished Citizen Award in recognition of her work in the local area, where she was president of the Ku-Ring-Gai Historical Society from 1976-79. She was an inveterate writer of letters to the Editor, and a passionate bridge player, playing on the day before her death despite her serious illness. When asked who influenced her to become a feminist, Millicent Christian replied “A domineering, male chauvinist father”. Published resources Edited Book Biographical register : the Women's College within the University of Sydney, Annable, Rosemary, 1995 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 19 November 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "41 audio cassettes; various lengths.??Interviews conducted with Australian women for her books Matriarchs, Tall Poppies and Winning Women. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Honourable Justice Virginia Bell AC is the fourth woman since 1901 to have been appointed to the High Court of Australia. The daughter of a naval officer, John, and his wife, Mary, Virginia Bell was educated at Sydney Church of England Girls’ Grammar School in Darlinghurst where she showed the makings of having a career in acting. She chose instead to pursue law at the University of Sydney; after graduating in 1976, she was admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales on 21 December 1977. A volunteer who became a paid employee of the newly established Redfern Legal Service, it was here that Bell cut her teeth as a community lawyer on tenancy, criminal law and credit law, among other areas, and also earned a name for herself as a champion of the disadvantaged (her reputation was immortalised in the song ‘Police Verbals’ by Sydney punk band, Mutant Death). In 1978 she participated in the first Sydney Mardi Gras. Years later when she was a judge she would rule that to describe someone as gay was not defamatory. During this period she was involved with Women behind Bars and the establishment of the Prisoners’ Legal Service. Admitted to the New South Wales Bar on 20 December 1984, Bell read with Dean Letcher (later QC). Between 1986 and 1989 she practised as a public defender. She returned to the private Bar and on 6 November 1997 she was appointed as senior counsel. She later became counsel assisting the Wood Royal Commission into the NSW Police Force. On 25 March 1999, Bell was appointed to the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Between 2006 and 2008 she was president of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration. In 2008, she was elevated to the Court of Appeal where she served until her appointment to the High Court of Australia, replacing the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG on 3 February 2009. In 2012 Bell was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia ‘(f)or eminent service to the judiciary and to the law through leadership in criminal law reform and public policy development, to judicial administration, and as an advocate for the economically and socially disadvantaged.’ She has been awarded honorary degrees from the University of Wollongong and the University of Sydney. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Section Speech at special sitting of the High Court of Australia to welcome the Hon Justice Virginia Bell, Canberra, Mcclelland, Robert and Australian Labor Party, 2009, http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22media%2Fpressrel%2FWATS6%22 The Honourable Justice Virginia Bell AC, 2013, http://www.uow.edu.au/alumni/awards/honorary/doctorate/UOW174447.html A Reflection on Justice Virginia Bell, Rice, Simon, 2009, http://lawstudents.society.anu.edu.au/documents/peppercorn_2009_1.pdf Address on The Retirement of the Honourable Justice Virginia Bell, Spigelman, The Hon. J J, 2008, http://www.supremecourt.justice.nsw.gov.au/Documents/spigelman_speeches_2008.pdf Index to compilation of speeches delivered by The Hon. Justice V. Bell, Bell, The Hon. Justice V, 2008, http://www.supremecourt.justice.nsw.gov.au/Documents/Speeches/Pre-2015%20Speeches/Assorted%20-%20A%20to%20K/bell_speeches.pdf Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Author Details Marina Loane Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 28 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence; papers; diary notes; field notebooks; song texts and translations; musical transcriptions and analyses; maps; newspaper clippings and reference material – relating to Alice Marshall Moyle’s life and work as an ethnomusicologist Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 March 2005 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of meetings – Girls Friendly Society, Latrobe Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 February 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9274 comprises correspondence, drafts, photographs, proofs, scripts and illustrations. Most of the collection relates to Giese’s books Astronauts, lost souls & dragons, Beyond Chinatown and to others on which she has collaborated with writers such as Stanley Hunt, on the first full-scale Chinese-Australian autobiography. There is also material relating to the National Library of Australia’s Post-war Chinese Australians oral history project, notably on the Kwong Sue Duk family history video produced by members of the family as well as material on the Fong On family, the Hou Wang Temple at Atherton, Queensland, and four certificates issued by the Chinese Nationalist Party (the Kuomintang) relating to Liu Lung (9 boxes, 1 fol. item).??The Acc10.132 instalment comprises correspondence and edited typescript drafts relating to Giese’s collaboration with a member of the Chinese community, Stanley Hunt, on his autobiography titled From Shekki to Sydney, and with a member of the Polish Jewish community, George Sternfeld, on his autobiography titled Chocolate to Anzac biscuits. Also included is the cover of Giese’s 1997 book, Astronauts, lost souls & dragons (2 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Marina Carman is the senior project officer (international and policy) at the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine. ASHM provides training and technical advice to support healthcare workers implementing HIV treatment and care in the Asia Pacific region. Marina has a background in student activism, having organised the 1998 schools’ walkout against racism, and serving as Vice President of the University of Sydney Student Representative Council in 1998. She ran as a Democratic Socialist candidate in the New South Wales Senate in 1998, for Port Jackson in 1999 and in the House of Representatives for Kingsford Smith in 2001. She has studied and taught international relations and political economy, and been involved in community education programs in South Africa, Indonesia and Mauritius. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "60 mins??Interview with twelve Aboriginal women: Doris Graham, Hilda Wilson, May Turner, Tanga Graham, Josie Agius, Raylene Smith, Polly, Raylene, Eva Wanganeen, Lola, Amanda, Pearl Nam. Created 18 February 2019 Last modified 18 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The collection consists of six embroidery panels worked in stem stich on Glenshee linen using Appleton’s wool. The embroidery was designed by embroidery designer Sharon Peoples and is entitled The Crimson Thread of Kinship. Eighty five members of the guild were involved in stitching the embroidery and it is estimated that it took 6000 hours of work to complete. The work was inspired by Sir Henry Parkes quote ‘the crimson thread of kinship’ used by in a speech in 1890. Although Parkes originally used the phrase to symbolise Australia’s British heritage, Sharon has reinterpreted the phrase to provide a different view of Australian history. The embroidery depicts a crimson thread floating across the landscape, carrying with it the unfolding story of Australia. The thread is carried by an embroidery needle, symbolising the act of creating and embellishing history. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 January 2013 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "8 tape reels??Mrs Wright speaks of her family background and her early life in SydHouney; her first marriage; living conditions during the 1920s; the Militant Women’s Group; scabs and the timberworkers’ lockout, Glebe; evictions from houses; rations; demonstrations; International Women’s Day; Civil War in Spain; Jessie Street; Selina Maloney; meeting Tom Wright; Communist Party social activities; Paddy Drew; Tom’s involvement in the union; his work at Wonderlex; New Guard; Workers’ Defence Corps; welfare inspections; Woman Today; Spanish Relief Committee; Tom’s work on the Labor Council; Idris Williams; Bill Orr; fights in the Labor Council; caucusing; Jim Healey; Ernie Thornton; book raids; women’s wages; Jessie Street’s involvement in the labour movement; Della Elliot ; Tom’s involvement in the ACTU; Tom’s overseas trips; his work with aborigines; Housewives Association; Union of Australian Women; International Women’s Day committee; miners’ strike; book raids; Vietnam demonstrations; her work in the Bankstown area; changes to the women’s movement; communism; the ALP. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 December 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sally Brown was at the forefront of women advancing in the Victorian judiciary, as one of the first female magistrates appointed in Victoria in 1985. She was appointed Chief Magistrate in 1990, and then a Judge of the Family Court of Australia in 1993. She has served on a number of boards, including as Chair of the Australian Institute of Criminology. After time as a solicitor, tertiary lecturer and barrister, Sally Brown was appointed a magistrate in Victoria in 1985; in 1990 she was appointed Chief Magistrate, the first woman to head a Victorian Court. Between November 1993 and June 2010 she was a judge of the Family Court of Australia and for much of that time was the Judge Administrator for the Southern Region, which included Tasmania and South Australia. Brown was instrumental in the development and delivery of judicial education in Australia, particularly education relating to gender and culture, and the incidence and impact of family violence. She has maintained a long-standing interest in juvenile justice, child protection and children’s rights. Other interests, pursued through a range of organizations, relate to support of the marginalised and disenfranchised, including the homeless and prisoners after release, and maintenance of the rule of law. In 2003 she was appointed to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women and in 2006 was made a member of the Order of Australia. She has been a member or chair of the board of numerous organizations including the Alfred Hospital, the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration, the Australian Drug and Alcohol Foundation, the International Commission of Jurists (Victorian Chapter), the National Judicial College and the Australian Community Support Organisation. Events 2003 - 2003 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Women Barristers in Victoria: Then and Now, The Victorian Bar, 2007, https://www.vicbar.com.au/wba/ Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Sally Brown interviewed by Ruth Campbell in the Law in Australian society oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Sally Brown (with Nikki Henningham) Created 6 April 2016 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Sally Brown Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, typescript of articles, press cutting, photographs relating to attempts to set up a music scholarship fund in honour of Winifred Burston. The initiators of the fund were Canberra musicians Larry Sitsky, Alan Jenkins and Ken Henderson. Correspondents include Marjorie Hesse and Dame Joan Hammond (photocopy only). Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 30 minutes??Elizabeth (Bette) Uren was born at Maylands, South Australia. After gaining her Leaving Certificate she did secretarial work in her father’s hardware business. From 1934 to 1937 Bette trained at Royal Adelaide Hospital, and then worked in the Out Patients Department, and later at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science. She was called up to the Australian Army Nursing Service and embarked for overseas in May 1940. After ten months at the 2/3 Australian General Hospital in Surrey the nurses transferred to the Middle East and staffed the 2/11 AGH in Alexandria. On return to Australia Bette Uren served in Toowoomba and Warwick. In 1943 she was appointed Sister-in-Charge of a Casualty Clearing Station which in January 1945 was posted to the Solomon Islands. Bette’s final experience in the AANS was at the military hospital at Daws Road. She was discharged in 1947 and returned to the staff of IMVS where she remained until her retirement in 1969. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Beryl Jones was an Australian Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia. She was the member for South West Province 8 February 1986 – 4 February 1989. She was elected member for South West Region 4 February 1989 and served until 6 February 1993. Beryl Jones was born in England in 1932. She worked as a nurse before migrating to Western Australia in 1955 with her husband and two children. Jones then gained a Diploma of Teaching, and taught in high schools until elected to the Armadale Town Council in 1981. A member of the Australian Labor Party, Jones was elected to the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia as Member for South West Province in 1986. She was then elected member for South West Region in 1989, a post she held until February 1993. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hours 45 minutes??Nora Jacob worked as a district nurse for the Royal District Nursing Society from 1934 until 1953. She trained at Mareeba Babies’ Hospital and the Adelaide Hospital in the 1920s, and then did private nursing through the Adelaide Nurses’ Call Depot before enquiring about district nursing. Over the next ten years Miss Jacob worked quite frequently as a relieving sister for the Society and describes her time at remote Farina in some detail. In 1945 she was appointed full-time to the Milang Branch and she describes the working conditions. The interview then returns to a discussion of Miss Jacob’s earlier relief appointments at Yankalilla, Poochera and Iron Knob. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Legislative Assembly, Independent. Janet Woollard was elected to the Thirty-Sixth Parliament of Western Australia as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly in the seat of Alfred Cove on 10 February 2001 in succession to Hon Douglas James Shave who she defeated. She was re-elected in 2005 and 2008. Dr Janet Woollard has lived in the Alfred Cove Electorate for 28 years. She is a registered nurse, a Justice of the Peace, Patron of Parkinson’s WA, and Vice Patron of the South of Perth Yacht Club. Janet has degrees in Nursing, Education, Medicine and Law. Janet is married to Keith Woollard and they have six children and two grandsons. Janet has always been active in nursing politics and in her past was a shop steward for the Royal College of Nursing UK and President of the WA Branch of the Australian Nursing Federation. Janet was also the President of the Education Union at UWA. Janet was elected as the Independent Liberal Member for Alfred Cove in 2001. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Janet Woollard Website, http://www.janetwoollard.com.au/ Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc10.212 comprises unpublished research material of Enid Campbell, including a doctoral thesis from Duke University, North Carolina, handwritten notes to colleagues, correspondence, papers relating to the law reformer John Austin (subject of thesis), as well as photographs and obituaries of Professor Campbell (3 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Betty Wilson was the first test cricketer, male or female, to complete the match double of 100 runs and ten wickets in a test match. The daughter of a Hoddle Street, Collingwood, bootmaker, Betty Wilson was a talented, natural athlete who could ‘run like a hare’. She began playing club cricket at the age of ten when, after impressing with her ability to return the ball from the boundary, she was recruited from the crowd to play for the Collingwood Women’s Cricket Club. In her first season, she was voted the club’s ‘most improved player’. Some members of the local community were concerned about her safety, as a child playing amongst adults, especially after she was hit by a ball while batting. Her parents, however, continued to support her involvement, confident that a player with her natural ability would learn from the experience. ‘She has been hit once….she won’t be hit again’, they said. Timing mitigated against Wilson enjoying an extensive international career. She only played eleven tests because the Second World War prevented her from playing internationally before 1948. She made the most of her opportunities in those eleven tests, however, amassing 862 runs at an average of 57.47, putting her on a par with the current Australian Captain, Ricky Ponting (as of August 2006 it was 58.86 ) and ahead of a previous Australian test captain Greg Chappell (53.86). Her bowling figures were equally, if not more impressive; in that period she took 68 wickets for an average of 11.81 (in August 2006, Australian champion bowler, Shane Warne, had an average of 25.25). In one match against England, in 1958, she created a record for the number of wickets in an innings (she took 7 for 7 runs). In this match, she was the first test cricketer, male or female, to complete the match double of 100 runs and ten wickets in a test match. Betty Wilson was successful because she had natural talent and worked hard to exploit it. She trained everyday, unlike most of her team mates, who trained once a week. She left nothing to chance; she even starched her hat so it wouldn’t flop around while she batted. In an age of amateurs, she was ahead of her time in terms of the professional approach she took to her preparation. In honour of her significant achievements and contributions to women’s cricket, Betty Wilson was admitted to the Australian Sporting Hall of Fame in 1985, the first women’s cricketer to be so honoured. In 2006, she was the first Australian women to be awarded Honorary Membership of the Melbourne Cricket Club. Her name is memorialized in the trophy that Australian Under 21 women cricketers compete for, the Betty Wilson Shield. Published resources Book Wicket Women: Cricket and Women in Australia, Cashman, Richard and Weaver, Amanda, 1991 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Women's cricketing great dead at 88, Cooper, Adam, 2010, http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport/womens-cricketing-great-dead-at-88-20100123-mrf0.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Betty Wilson interviewed by Nicola Henningham [sound recording] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 March 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Australian Junior Red Cross was founded in New South Wales in August 1918 by Mrs Eleanor MacKinnon, initially with the aim of involving children in the support of recuperating soldiers who were using existing Red Cross facilities, and then extending to concern about the needs of the children of soldiers. Over the years, the Junior Movement’s aims have evolved to focus on the development of an humanitarian ethos amongst young people, through education programs, and activities that encourage active citizenship and community participation. The Australian Junior Red Cross shares the honour, with Canada, of being the first of their kind. Established in August 1914, the Australian Junior Red Cross was founded by Mrs Eleanor MacKinnon in New South Wales. Initially Juniors supported soldiers using existing Red Cross facilities. Gradually the movement supported children of soldiers, children who were sick, and children in need in their own right. The first movements were formed with the aims of improving health, preventing disease and mitigating suffering. This increasingly extended to personal health, an ethos of citizenship and service, and international friendship, over the years. The School Circles of the Junior Red Cross, run by their own office-bearers and led by a patron, were affiliated to their nearest branch of the British Red Cross Society. In 1919, the Junior Red Cross received a national mention through the annual report of the New South Wales Division. In the 1930s, all States became involved and membership expanded. With more than 120,000 members in 1936, a national publication was planned, a “Younger Set” ran recreational clubs, and the Junior Red Cross was providing children’s homes and an almoner for patient after-care, depending on the State. The Junior Red Cross expanded in World War II, again contributing to soldiers’ comfort. By 1946, plans were underway for a national secretary of the Junior Red Cross and a Links of Service to retain school graduates. By 1964, the Junior Red Cross was thriving in Papua New Guinea, then an Australian territory, and had a branch of the air in Western Australia. In the 1970s, it changed its name to Red Cross Youth and sought to make young people more central to the organisation as a whole, leading to greater Asian-Pacific and international initiatives. In 1995, Junior Red Cross and the Student Community Initiative Project became part of the new Youth and Education Service (YES) Department. Focusing on people under 30 years of age, the Department currently encompasses Red Cross Community Action, the Red Cross Community Challenge, the Red Cross Community Leaders Program and the Youth Connect Unit. Youth is a focus of Strategy 2005. Published resources Book Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 50 years service to humanity, Australian Red Cross Society, [1964] The More things change…The Australian Red Cross 1914-1989, Minogue, Noreen, 1989 Look what you started Henry! A history of the Australian Red Cross 1914-1991., Stubbings, Leon, 1992 Report Australian Red Cross Society Reports, Australian Red Cross Society, c. 1973 Report to the 21st International Conference Istanbul, Australian Red Cross Society, 1969 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Publications - Junior Red Cross and Australian Red Cross Youth Annual Reports of the Australian Red Cross Minutes and Meeting Papers, National Council Annual Reports of Red Cross Divisions and Blood Service Junior Red Cross and Australian Red Cross Youth Records Author Details Penny Robinson Created 9 February 2004 Last modified 15 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers, including correspondence, circulars, minutes, proceedings of conferences, cuttings relating to the association and to women’s organizations and rights. Also a tape recording of the Proceedings of the First Federal Convention of the A.L.G.W.A., Hotel Canberra, A.C.T. 7-9 October 1966. (Tape No. 8 in tape recording register). Minute-book, 1951-1967 (Photocopy). Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 December 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Side 1: Aliens registration number, photograph of migrant, name, nationality, date of arrival, ex ship, date of departure, destination, trade, standard of education, address of next of kin, physical description, history of migrant during stay at centre.?Side 2: Name, Christian name, date of issue, article issued, signature. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 January 2013 Last modified 1 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes of various committees; business papers and agenda books; record of centenary celebration; acts, by-laws, rules and regulations; registers; financial records; newscuttings; inmates and patient records; records of the Royal Hospital for Women; records of the Renwick Hospital for Infants; records of Scarba House; records of community and welfare services; secretary’s correspondence and subject files; Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 14 April 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc06/132 comprises diaries, 1948-2003, creative writing works, including a draft for an unpublished autobiography (in box 5), photographs, correspondence, video tapes, programmes, sketchbooks and other personal documents (8 boxes, 1 fol. box).??The Acc08/49 instalment includes official personal documents such as ration books and identity and health care cards, a small amount of correspondence and greeting telegrams, typescript diary notes, notes on painting composition, and obituaries of Gadsdon (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 February 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "I. Manuscripts, 1863-1868 consisting of a prose story and two poems by D. S. Mitchell, also a poem by Rose Scott. II. Letters received, 1865-1923 A. David Scott Mitchell, 1865-1876, with some undated letters They refer mainly to social events and literature and contain mention of his book collection. B. H. C. L. Anderson, 1915, concerning the writing of his reminiscences of D. S. Mitchell. C. George Robertson, 1923, and C. H. Lloyd, 1923, concerning D. S. Mitchell, with draft letter from Rose Scott to the Principal Librarian, Public Library of New South Wales, November 1923. III. Papers, 1862 consisting of confirmation certificates of Rose Scott, 1862, and visiting card of H. H. Wallace Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 March 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photographs and negatives of ARU members, railway sites, events, meetings, protests; sketch of Unity Hall; badges. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Catherine Martin was a journalist for the West Australian newspaper from 1957, specialising in medical reporting. She was born in the United Kingdom but emigrated to Western Australia and lived there for most of her life. Catherine Ellen Martin was born in London and migrated, with her husband, a Czech war and Holocaust survivor, to Perth, Australia soon after they were married in 1948. Widowed in 1957, she needed to find work to supporter her three daughters, She embellished her C.V., applied for a job at the West Australian and worked there for the next thirty-odd years. She was responsible for producing one of the most important medical stories in modern Australian history. In 1978, Martin began investigating the high incidence of death and disease among workers at the Australian Blue Asbestos mine at Wittenoom Gorge. She was able to access a study of the mine workers and their families by Professor Michael Hobbs, a University of Western Australia epidemiologist. This study found a high incidence of illness and death from asbestos-related diseases among the small number of workers in the sample. By 1978, the effects of mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases were beginning to show up in the former mine workers. Martin’s front page story for the West Australian won a Walkley award and she produced a series of nine articles highlighting the impact on workers and their families. On 20 February 1978, the West Australian published Martin’s first article in the series, ‘Blue Asbestos: The Latent Killer’, in which she explained that gas masks manufactured during World War Two were fitted with filters made from merino wool and blue asbestos. British and Canadian authorities had chosen to use the blue asbestos mined at Wittenoom. It was not known at that time that the inhalation of crocidolite – or blue asbestos fibres – could lead to mesothelioma, a cancer that can lie dormant for up to forty years. Since the mine was closed in 1966, Martin found, 28 residents of Wittenoom had already developed the disease. Of former employees of the mine, 82 men had developed the more common form of lung cancer; 17 had silicosis; 59 asbestosis; and 122 silico-asbestosis. On 24 February 1978, Martin published a second article, ‘Sisters await family scourge’, profiling sisters and Wittenoom residents Mrs Shirley Eacott and Mrs Valerie Jones. Their father, Philip McKenna, who worked at the Australian Blue Asbestos mill from the early 1950s, died of asbestosis and silicosis; their mother died of mesothelioma; and Valerie’s husband died of lung disease at the age of 51. Martin profiled a number of other Wittenoom residents and former miners affected by the disease. On 1 March 1978, Martin published again, noting that the State Government Insurance Office was receiving ten new applications per month for workers’ compensation for disease or death due to having worked in the mining of asbestos, or the production of goods made from it. This was up from ten claims per year, the general rate up until 1977. According to Martin, a man totally incapacitated by asbestos-related disease could claim a maximum of $41,000 – or four years’ wages. By 13 June 1978, Martin was able to report – on the front page of the West Australian – the establishment of a $2 million foundation for asbestos mine cases. CSR Ltd, which operated the mine between 1943 and 1966, set up the foundation to help people affected by asbestos from the Australian Blue Asbestos mine at Wittenoom. Though Martin was noting dissatisfaction with the foundation – ‘Wittenoom fund fails to please all’ – by August, its establishment was something of a breakthrough, and the publicity she gave to the plight of Wittenoom residents can only have hurried the outcome. The Ex-Wittenoom Residents Association was formed to support those seeking assistance. Catherine Martin was made a Member of the Order of Australia on 12 June 1982 for services to journalism. She had by then won numerous awards for journalism including four Walkley awards, five Arthur Lovekin awards and a number of Australian Medical Association awards. Martin also received the inaugural Gold Walkley. She died in 2009, in the week that Justice Ian Gzell, in the NSW Supreme Court, found the company James Hardie guilty of misleading conduct and failing to meet its obligations over its handling of asbestos compensation. Events 1975 - 1975 Best Piece of Reporting for the Year – The West Australian WA 1978 - 1978 Best Piece of Reporting for the Year – The West Ausralian WA 1978 - 1978 Gold Award – Best Piece of Journalism, Newspaper, TV or Radio – The West Australian, WA 1981 - 1981 Best Feature – Either in a Newspaper or Magazine (Highly Commended) – The West Australian, WA Published resources Newspaper Article Blue Asbestos: The Latent Killer, Martin, Catherine, 1978 Sisters Await Family Scourge, Martin, Catherine, 1978 Asbestos Claims at 10 a Month, Martin, Catherine, 1978 $2 Million Trust for Asbestos Mine Cases, Martin, Catherine, 1978 Wittenoom Fund Fails to Please All, Martin, Catherine, 1978 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis, Nikki Henningham, Barbara Lemon Created 30 October 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Picture of Catherine Martin Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers of Nancy Cato include correspondence, typescript drafts, research material, and photographs. The collection provides a record of Cato’s writings from 1976 to 1992. There are drafts for five of Cato’s major works, including Forefathers, The lady lost in time, A distant island, The heart of the continent, and Marigold. There is research material only for Mr Maloga : Daniel Matthews and his mission, Murray River, 1864-1902, and Queen Trucanini, by Nancy Cato and Vivienne Rae-Ellis. Correspondents include Diane Barwick, Peter Bladen, John Jefferson Bray, Collins, Vivienne Rae Ellis, Hodder & Stoughton, Harold White of the National Library, New English Library, St. Martin’s Press, Roland Robinson, Laurie Muller of the University of Queensland Press, Stephen Murray-Smith and Judith Wright. Author Details Clare Land Created 2 July 2001 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Joanna Gash was elected to the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Australia as the Member for Gilmore, New South Wales, in 1996. She was re-elected in 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010. Joanna Gash obtained a Diploma of Tourism and Hospitality from the Institute of Administration (Sydney), and has held positions including Regional Manager, Tourism Commission of NSW (Outer Sydney Region); Director, Southern Highlands Tourism Agency; Consultant, Macarthur Country Tourist Association and Guest house co-proprietor. She is a former Councillor with the Wingecarribee Shire Council where she chaired the Works and Town Planning Committee from 1991 to 1995. She has been Mayor of the City of Shoalhaven since 2012. Gash has also served as president of the NSW Council of Tourist Associations; director of the Restaurant and Caterer’s Association of NSW; delegate to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Board; delegate to the Women’s Consultative Committee; delegate to the Domestic Violence Council, NSW; and Chairman of the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal. During her parliamentary service she was Government Whip from 2001 to 2008; a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training (from 30 May 1996); Chair of the Coalition Defence and Veterans’ Affairs Committee; Chair of the Australian Egypt Parliamentary Group and Deputy Chair of the Australian Parliamentary Christian Fellowship. Gash has two daughters and enjoys reading, theatre and golf. Events 2017 - 2017 Received for significant service to the Parliament of Australia, to local government, and to the community of Shoalhaven. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Section Mrs Joanna Gash MP, Member for Gilmore (NSW), Australian Parliament House, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/biography.asp?id=AK6 Women in the Party, Liberal Party of Australia NSW Division, http://www.nsw.liberal.org.au/women_in_politics/women_in_politics/women_in_the_party.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 November 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Iola Mathews was one of the ten women who founded the Women’s Electoral Lobby in February 1972. She was a journalist at The Age for many years, writing mainly on Education and Women’s Issues. In 1983-4 she helped establish the Action Plan for Women in the Victorian Public Service, and in 1984 was appointed Coordinator of the Action Program for Women Workers at the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). In 1988 Mathews became an ACTU Industrial Officer and Advocate in national test cases to improve wages and conditions for women workers, including the Parental Leave test case. In 1996 she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to women’s employment. She has published numerous books and articles and in 2006 established Glenfern writers’ studios in Melbourne. Iola Mathews has published numerous books, pamphlets and newsletters as a journalist. The following (short) list indicates the range of her experience in the industrial relations field. 1.Work and Family Issues: Guidelines for Negotiations (ACTU 1992) 2.Parental Leave: the Award Provision Explained (ACTU 1991) 3.Women in the Australian Workforce, Past, Present and Future (ACTU 1990) 4.Guidelines for Part-Time, Casual Work and Job Sharing (ACTU 1990) 5.Removing Discriminatory Clauses in Awards (ACTU, 1987) 6.Affirmative Action: Negotiating Document (ACTU 1986) 7.Non-Sexist Language (ACTU 1986) 8.Superannuation and Women (ACTU 1986) 9.Legislative and Award Restrictions on Women’s Employment (ACTU 1986) 10.Editor: Women at Work, ACTU Newsletter (1984-92) 11.Discrimination in Sporting Clubs, (Victorian Equal Opportunity Board, 1983) Events 1970 - 1980 1972 - 1972 Founding member of Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) and member of first coordinating committee, public relations committee and publications committee 1982 - 1983 Task Force to establish a Women’s Centre for Victoria’s 150th anniversary 1982 - 1983 Working party to establish the Victorian Women’s Information and Referral Exchange (WIRE) 1978 - 1980 Freelance section, Australian Journalists’ Association 1983 - 1984 ALP Vic, Status of Women Committee 1983 - 1984 Victorian Women’s Advisory Council to the Premier 1984 - 1988 ACTU Women’s Committee 1984 - 1990 National Labor Consultative Council – Committee on Women’s Employment 1987 - 1989 Expert Group on the Impact of Structural Adjustment on Women in Commonwealth Countries (CHOGM, London) Published resources Book Making women count : a history of the Women's Electoral Lobby in Australia, Sawer, Marian, 2008 How to use the media in Australia, Mathews, Iola, 1981 Chequered Lives: John Barton Hack and Stephen Hack and the early days of South Australia, Mathews, Iola, 2013 My Mother, My Writing and Me: a Memoir, Mathews, Iola, 2009 Media Handbook, Mathews, Iola, 1978 Going Back to Work, Mathews, Iola, 1977 Book Section Regions, Capital and Job Creation, Mathews, Iola, 1998 Videorecording Not a Bedroom War, c1993 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 September 2015 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (ca. 163 min.)??Hon Justice Sally Brown, Justice of the Family Court of Australia speaks of her family background and childhood, her interest in reading and music, church involvement, choice of career and time at University, part-time jobs, Rob Hamilton, her marriage, early career, Pat Kennedy, the value of knowing the system in which you work, lecturing in law at Footscray Institute of Technology and RMIT, period as a barrister, support (or lack of it) given to women lawyers, Tramways Board, being a criminal lawyer, Magistrates Court 1978-85, appointed as the first female judge at the Victorian Magistrates Court (along with Margaret Rizkalla), the value of women in the magistracy, ethics of maintaining your distance, Chief Magistracy of Victoria, computerisation of the Courts, experiment of the Night Court, important qualities for a magistrate and Chief Magistrate, Chair of the Institute of Criminology, Family Court, issue of gender bias, continuing education of judges (esp. in social issues) workings of the court, areas of relaxation (travel, spending time with her parents, cooking, music, reading). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 April 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sarah (Fanny) Durack battled local swimming authorities to become the first Australian woman to compete at the Olympic Games. In 1912, at Stockholm, she won the gold medal in the 100 meters freestyle event, beating her compatriot and training partner, Wilhelmina (Mina) Wylie. She went on to break numerous world records until she retired from competitive swimming in 1921. From the moment she decided she wanted to be an Olympian, Sarah (Fanny) Durack, set herself on a collision course with sporting authorities and prominent Australian feminists. Born in October 1889 to working class parents in Sydney, New South Wales, Fanny learned to swim at the Coogee Baths and became very good, very quickly in the only stroke for which there was women’s competition, the breast stroke. In 1902, at the age of 11, she swam in the 100 yard event at the New South Wales Ladies Championships, a race that was won by another early icon of Australian women’s swimming, Annette Kellerman. Fanny finished last, but that would not be a position she held for very long. Over the next few years she became the best swimmer in the country. Eventually, at the 1912 Olympic Games, she proved she was the best swimmer in the world. Given that women could not swim in mixed company in Australia, let alone compete at the Olympic Games when she determined that she was going to be an Olympic Gold Medalist, her achievement was trailblazing by any definition of the term. What is, perhaps, most interesting about the story of Fanny’s struggle, is that in Australia it was chiefly women who opposed her along the way. There are three key themes in the story of Fanny Durack’s success, and they all converge in a general discussion of changing public attitudes to women athletes performing in the public arena. The first and most simple theme relates to Fanny’s personal drive to be the best swimmer she could be. She loved to swim, she was strong and she excelled at it. She had a good friend, Wilhelmina (Mina) Wylie, whose father owned the Coogee baths, as a training partner, and he encouraged them to be innovators in their swimming. They perfected the stroke that would become known as the ‘Australian Crawl’ (now commonly known as freestyle). Furthermore, after the restrictions on mixed public bathing were relaxed a little, she and Mina challenged themselves by training with the top men of the day. Fanny and Mina were young women who, by the time they were twenty, had begun to feel that they had done all they could do at home in their sport. They were ready for the next challenge to compete overseas. Fanny was setting unofficial world records in any number of events at home; she wanted them to be officially recognised in an international arena. The fact that she was encouraged along this path by some important men in the swimming world, as well as members of the general public, suggests that, accompanying the success of women’s struggle for the right to vote, there had been some baby steps along the road to public acceptance of a woman’s right to pursue her private dreams (albeit in social contexts that were severely circumscribed by men), particularly if the attainment of those dreams reflected well in the eyes of the world upon the image of an emerging nation. The second theme that connects with Fanny’s story is that which describes the forces in Australia that were emphatically opposed to her pursuing her Olympic Dream. Mixed bathing was a controversial subject in Australia in the early twentieth century. There is no doubt that by this time, the health and fitness benefits of bathing to men and women were recognised by the majority of Australians. In a nation surrounded by water, it made good sense for people to be confident in it, even women. Indeed, ladies’ swimming associations were established to permit women to compete against each other. Leading feminists of the time encouraged women to keep fit and healthy by establishing club swimming meets and learn to swim sessions. Rose Scott, for instance, one of the most important feminist leaders in Australia at the turn of the century, was president of the New South Wales Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Association (NSWLASA), an organization that promoted women’s involvement in club swimming. Scott and many of her contemporaries, however, were firmly opposed to mixed bathing. Not only did she disapprove of men and women in the same pool at the same time, she disapproved of men watching women while they competed, even if they were fathers and brothers of the competitors. Scott’s opposition stemmed from her total lack of faith in the ability of men to control their sexual urges, a lack of faith built on a career in feminist activities that had seen the damage done to women by sexual predators. She had absolutely no doubt that men bathing with women and watching them in their costumes would put women in the community at large in grave sexual danger. Her opposition to mixed bathing was motivated by an immediate concern for the modesty of the swimmers. ‘A girl who is in the habit of exposing herself at public swimming carnivals is likely to have her modesty hopelessly blighted,’ she told members of her association. It was also motivated by a concern for all the women who didn’t swim, but who could become the innocent victims of the unrestrained sexual impulses stirred up in the men who watched female swimmers. ‘I am afraid that the rescission of the rule [preventing mixed audiences] will lead to a loss of respect for the girls and the increasing boldness of the men’, she told newspaper reporters in 1912. Not all women’s groups endorsed this view; nor did the Mayor of Randwick, the municipality where Wylie’s baths were located and therefore, the Mayor who permitted mixed bathing there so that Fanny and Mina could train with the men. In his view ‘swimming was the sport of the future’ and on that all should enjoy. Furthermore, he noted that the female body had ‘inspired great painters and sculptors and was not a matter for shame or seclusion’. To a large extent, Fanny had grassroots community support. Nevertheless, if one is fighting a powerful international sporting organisation for the right to compete under their jurisdiction, it helps to have the support of your representative organisation at home. The NSWLASA were totally unsupportive of Fanny’s campaign to compete at the Olympic Games. In the view of some, it was right and proper that they should remain so ‘the fabric of society’ was at stake here, according to the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, all because a couple of girls wanted to prove they were the best swimmers in the world. The third important thread in the story relates to the international context; that of the Olympic movement itself. By definition, competing at the Olympics would mean competing in a sporting activity at a mixed event. At the turn of the century, there was still firm opposition to this happening. This was partially because Baron Pierre de Courbertin’s vision of the modern Olympics, which he revived in 1896, was a white, masculine one. It was shaped by his interest in the Ancient Greeks and their admiration for white, masculine, athletic bodies. Brought up in France, where women’s sport was virtually non-existent, he saw no place for women at the Olympics except as spectators. The Olympics, in his words should be ‘the solemn and periodic exaltation of male athleticism with internationalism as a base, loyalty as a means, art for its setting, and female applause as its reward’. Furthermore, in accordance with contemporary understandings of femininity, ‘real’ women were not ‘Amazons’ and athletic exertion would only harm them and impact upon their ability to be wives and mothers, a view that medical science and many men and women of the time endorsed. Matters of the impropriety of mixed activity didn’t even enter into the equation in the early days of the Olympics. Even if it could be arrange that events were segregated, women shouldn’t be there, for the sake of their own health. Over time women athletes chipped away at the rationale that justified their exclusion. In 1904, at St Louis in the United States, female archers wearing long skirts and blouses were allowed to compete; in London in 1908 women who participated in seemingly demure sports, such as gymnasts, figure skaters and tennis players were permitted to compete, providing they were well chaperoned. Durack herself would have been ready to compete in 1908, but there was still enormous opposition to the prospect of women swimmers competing. What they wore was too revealing; what they did was too ‘un-feminine’. However, just as public opinion in Australia was coming around to support the right of women swimmers at all levels to appear in public in mixed settings, so too was the international sporting community divided over the issue of allowing women to compete at the Olympics. The International Olympic Committee itself was divided over the matter, and in the lead up to the 1912 games in Stockholm, de Courbertin lost his fight to keep women swimmers excluded. In an historic decision, the committee voted in favour of staging two women’s races and a diving event, thus opening the way for Australian, American and European women to compete against each other. The stage was set for Durack to realise her dream. Based on her recent performances, she would have, arguably, been one of the first people to be selected for the team, let alone the first women. Unfortunately, this was not to be the case. When the team was announced, Fanny Durack was not amongst the names read out; apparently the selection committee could not afford to send female competitors. They also fell back on the arguments pushed by Rose Scott and the NSWLASA to explain her omission; that in Australia, the public believed that competitive swimming for women should remain a segregated affair. Durack, Wylie and their supporters, of course, disputed this point of view strenuously, but not a single men’s organisation took up their course. Even though the international structures were in place to allow women swimmers to compete, key Australian organizations stood in the way of the world’s best female swimmer doing so. The Australian Olympic Committee and the NSWLASA badly misread public opinion; Durack’s exclusion was seen as a national scandal. Women’s clubs organised rallies, petitions and funds, while the press gave the affair plenty of prominence in the editorial and commentary pages. Unsolicited donations poured in from the public, determined to see that a lack of funding could not be used as an excuse. The sporting and theatre entrepreneur, Hugh McIntosh was encouraged by his wife to co-ordinate the fundraising effort. The NSWLASA and Rose Scott, in particular, became targets of ridicule, until the association relented and endorsed their champion swimmer, making it possible for her to go. Scott did not agree with the decision and immediately resigned her post as President, maintaining to the end that she thought it was ‘disgusting that men should be allowed to attend. We cannot have too much modesty, refinement or delicacy in the relations between men and women…this new decision will have a very vulgar effect on the girls, and the community generally.’ Given that the money was there, the NSWLASA decision removed the final obstacle to Fanny’s participation. She sailed for London and then onto Stockholm where Fanny Durack went on to become one of two Australian gold medalists by winning the 100 meters freestyle. She swam in an unmarked pool, with no lane ropes and water so murky that the bottom of the pool was not visible. She also swam in the company of Mina Wylie, who won the silver medal. The Australian Olympic Committee made a last minute decision to send both her and her father to be official coach. Along with Fanny’s sister, who went along as chaperone, they comprised the first ever Australian Olympic Ladies Swimming team. Fanny and Mina arrived back to great fanfare and celebration – Fanny was a national heroine, who had achieved her personal goals while paving the way for the host of champion Australian women swimmers to follow. Following her Olympic success, she toured the United States and did more to promote swimming than any woman with the possible exception of her Australian countryman Annette Kellerman. On a U.S. tour in 1912, Miss Durack got newspaper billing as “holding all championships for deep diving and for staying under water continuously.” Between 1912 and 1918 she broke 12 world records. By the time she stopped touring, the controversies surrounding her entry into the pool seemed old-fashioned. The fabric of society hadn’t frayed too badly and women athletes went on to be wives and mothers. There were still fights to be fought, however. Just as she was leaving, the problems of defining who was an amateur and what constituted professionalism in sport were creating divisions in the swimming world, and Fanny herself was at the sharp end of some of the arguments. Durack retired from swimming in 1921 when she married Bernard Gately at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney. She went on to coach juniors, and she became an executive member of the organisation that once made life so difficult for her, the New South Wales Women’s (no longer Ladies’!) Amateur Swimming Association. She died in 1956. Fanny was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1967. According to her citation, she ‘not only took on all comers the world over, but beat all comers the world over for 8 years in the formative years of women’s swimming. She did more than any other swimmer to make the term “Australian Crawl” a definition which survives until this day’. Sarah ‘Fanny’ Durack is an Australian sporting legend and an icon of Australian swimming. She is also an extraordinary role model for anyone with a dream. Events 1912 - 1912 Swimming – 100m Freestyle 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section Durack, Sarah (Fanny) (1889-1956), King, Helen, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080411b.htm Article 'Two Much Boldness and Rudeness': Australia's First 'Olympic Ladies Swimming Team', Cochrane, Peter, http://www.hyperhistory.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=710&op=page Resource Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Portrait of Fanny Durack Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Minute books detailing business covered at meetings, such as women police, social service, homes for evacuated children, women’s prisons and rehabilitation versus punishment, and unfair working hours for women. Includes some correspondence, financial statements/reports, and interstate and international reports. Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 June 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 sound files Author Details Helen Morgan Created 1 February 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Includes minute books of the Victorian Women Citizens’ Movement 4 June 1940 – 19 July 1945; minute books of the League of Women Voters 8 August 1945 – 4 October 1971; minute book and proceedings of the Women’s Model Parliament 9 April 1946 – 21 September 1950; correspondence and newspaper clippings 1927 -1940 relating to divorce laws, the Sugar Embargo and the Slum Abolition Movement; and miscellaneous reports and legislation. Author Details Clare Land Created 13 September 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Photographs taken at Reconciliation Place, Canberra to commemorate the unveiling of a memorial to the stolen generations. Subjects include: speeches by politicians and Indigenous representatives; individual and group portraits Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 27 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 min 45 sec?35mm – safety/b&w/sound??1. (2 min 24 sec) Griffith, NSW. Land Army girls at work on farms in the district 2. (1 min 31 sec) Cassino Monastery, the far famed museum of art, used by the Germans as a fortress in the Italian campaign, is bombed to clear the way for the Allied advance. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers in MS 7223 provide a record of Peggy van Praagh’s long and distinguished career as a dancer, teacher, producer and director of ballet. They include personal and business correspondence, diaries, newscuttings, photographs, first night messages, theatre programs, greeting cards, postcards, journal articles, reports and other memorabilia. Personal correspondents include friends such as John (Jay) Sweet and there are also many messages of congratulations from admirers and fans. Business correspondents include J.C. Williamson and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. The collection includes a copy of Gala performance, edited by Arnold Haskell, Mark Bonham Carter and Michael Wood, with a foreword by H.R.H. The Princess Margaret (London: Collins, 1955). This 248 page “Record of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet over twenty-five years” (cover title) is signed by Princess Margaret, and by members of the Ballet (22 boxes, 9 fol. Boxes).??The Acc06.092 instalment comprises letters from C.W. Beaumont and Marie Rambert, and programs and press clippings relating to van Praagh’s career and various ballet companies (1 binder). Author Details Clare Land Created 3 June 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Newspaper article ‘Charity Organisation Society” documenting case referrals and the quarterly meeting of the Council. The Age, May 1890. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 19 November 2003 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Alice Mills was a top-ranking commercial photographer working in Melbourne at the turn of the twentieth century. Her studio was considered one of the best in Australia for portraiture, which took an unusual and painterly approach to tinting, capturing the sitter’s colour scheme in watercolour before applying it as a tint. Her photographs were mainly gelatin silver prints. Alice Mills (also known as Alice Humphrey) was a highly successful professional photographer whose work was frequently published in magazines. She also took hundreds of portraits of young WW1 soldiers. She was born in 1870 in Ballarat, Victoria, and was one of four daughters in a lower middle class family. While she was still a child, the family moved to Wellington, New Zealand and then back to Victoria, moving firstly to Geelong and then on to Armadale in Melbourne. Mills was trained at Emily Florence Kate O’Shanessy’s photographic studio in Melbourne. She next moved to Henry Johnstone’s photographic studio, also in Melbourne, where she was employed as a colourist. In 1899 she married one of her colleagues, Tom Humphrey, who was a well-known painter. He had studied at the National Gallery Art School with Arthur Streeton and Fred McCubbin and his paintings can be found in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection. The couple had no children. In 1900 Mills and Humphreys established their own photographic studio, which they called Tom Humphrey and Co., in the Centreway Arcade in Collins Street, Melbourne. Mills took over the studio from 1907 after her husband decided to concentrate on painting. She renamed it the Alice Mills Studio. It remained operative until 1927. She was considered to be one of the top-ranking commercial photographers of the time, and was recognised as a leader in her profession. Her studio was considered one of the best studios in Australia for portraiture. The portraits she created were ‘particularly notable for their unusual and painterly approach to tinting’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 21). Her portraits ranged in size from miniature to life-size, and were largely symmetrical in composition and evenly lit. The process she employed involved taking each photograph and then capturing the sitter’s exact colour scheme in watercolour before applying it as a tint to the photograph Table Talk 8 Mills’ photographs were published in quality magazines such as Table Talk, Punch and in The Weekly Times. One of her photographs, Mrs Robert Brough, was reproduced in Camera House Beacon in 1907, facing the title page. This is significant, since the journal included very few photographs. Mills photographs were exhibited as part of the 1907 First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work. She was associated with many artists, intellectuals and musicians of the early 1900s, these included the Tom Humphreys Studio, photographers Annie May and Mina Moore, photographer and painter Henry James Johnstone, graphic designer, printmaker and painter Muriel Mary Sutherland Binney, painter May Vale, photographer, printmaker, sculptor, cartoonist/illustrator, draughtsman and painter Tom Roberts, photographer Elizabeth Nash Boothby, photographer Ruth Hollick, draughtsman, printmaker and painter Arthur Streeton, designer/curator Emily Florence Kate O’Shanessy, designer/curator Pegg Clarke, designer/curator Mary Grant Bruce, and designer/curator Una Bourne. Alice Mills retired aged fifty-two and died seven years later in 1929, having sold her studio to the female photographer Franie Young. Technical Her works were mainly gelatin silver prints. She may also have worked with the platinum printing method judging by the soft grey appearance of many of her photographs. Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales Museum Victoria National Gallery of Australia National Library of Australia National Portrait Gallery State Library of Victoria University of Melbourne Library Events 1900 - 1927 Alice Mills worked professionally 1995 - 1995 Alice Mills featured in the National Women’s Art Exhibition Gallery of New South Wales 1995 - 1995 Alice Mills featured in the exhibition Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women’s Art in the National Library Collections. 1981 - 1981 Alice Mills featured in the exhibition Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 at the George Paton Gallery 1907 - 1907 Alice Mills featured in First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, 1907 Published resources Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Resource Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women's Art in the National Library's Collection, Carr, Sylvia and National Library of Australia, 1995, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/36337/20030703-0000/www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fence/picket.html Thesis Making Pictures: Australian Pictorial Photography as Art 1897-1957, Ebury, Francis, 2001 Book Section Alice Mills, Hall, Barbara, 1995 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Shades of Light: Photography and Australia 1839-1988, Newton, Gael, 1988 Newspaper Article Miss Alice Mills' Exhibition, 1906, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146637511 Painting Half Moon Bay, Humphrey, Tom, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/15138/20010830-0000/www.bayside.vic.gov.au/artstrail/artstrail-2.htm Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 4 October 2016 Last modified 4 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Margaret Lee was a once only candidate (Independent) who ran for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Manly in 1984. At the time of her campaign Margaret Lee’s four children were grown up, but she had begun her community activity in connection with children, initiating the establishment of two kindergartens and a community centre in the Balgowlah area to which she moved in 1968. She promised to support whichever party was elected and to encourage thoughtful discussion of and public involvement in politics. She intended to resume her maiden name following the election. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "(1) Photocopies of letters, newspapers cuttings, biographical material on Geoffrey Syme – originals held at La Trobe Library. (2) Garnett-Syme family history, including photographs, photocopies of page from Geoffrey Syme’s notebook, house plans, menus (in folio run). (3) T/S of articles by Veronica Condon. A) an Egyptian temple in the Kew cemetery: the tomb of David Syme; b) another look at David Syme of The Age; c) a schoolboy of the 1880’s: Geoffrey Syme at Kew High School; d) In Memoriam: Geoffrey Syme 1873-1942; e) Geoffrey Syme and the weekly paper Every Saturday. (4) Published articles by Veronica Condon: ‘The mystery of the provenance of a 14th century missal’ (Oxford Bod. Libr. Douce 313) in Scriptorium: International review of manuscript studies, Vol. 35 (1981). (5) Garnett Syme family history which includes material on Geoffrey Syme’s participation at the 4th Imperial Press Conference 1930 and a letter from Keith Dixon, archivist of The Age dated 1983. (6) “Blythswood, Kew: the story of a garden, 1882-1952” by Mrs Veronica Condon. (7) Typescript documenting life and work of Sir Geoffrey Syme. (8) Typescript and photographs of David Syme’s monument in the Boroondara Cemetery, Kew and genealogical notes on Sir Geoffrey Syme. (9) Clippings and correspondence regarding Syme and Geoffrey Serle’s Australian dictionary of biography entry for Syme.??The Acc06/29 instalment comprises an article by Veronica Condon, “Comments on an article on Internet, ‘Half a century of obscurity: The Age 1908-1964’, written by Sybil Nolan.” Also, printouts from the Sir Geoffrey Syme website.??The Acc06/162 instalment comprises a copy of “Blythswood, Kew”, written by Veronica Condon. “Blythswood” was Syme’s home for most of his life.??The Acc08/188 instalment comprises an article by Elizabeth Morrison, “David Syme’s Age business”, published in The Age on 9 February 2008. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Michele Harvie stood as a candidate for the Australian Greens Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Ballarat East at the Victorian state election, which was held on 25 November 2006. Michele Harvie is secretary of the Ballarat Renewable Energy and Zero Emissions Committee (BREZE) and operates a niche business selling Fair Trade coffee. She is married with two children and is a local Girl Guide Leader. She lives on a ten acre property which is run on permaculture principles. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 12 August 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A collection of papers, charters, diplomas, and publications relating to the activities and business of various Chapters belonging to the Order of the Eastern Star in Queensland: Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Pip Hinman is a political activist who represented the Socialist Alliance in the following elections: New South Wales Senate in 2001 and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Marrickville by-election in 2005. Pip Hinman is an anti-war activist and has worked as a journalist on the Green Left Weekly. Her campaign stressed opposition to industrial coercion and the diminution of civil liberties and was in favour of better public transport, education and health provision. Her preferences were directed to the Greens. Pip Hinman is a member of the Political Committee of the Democratic Socialist Party and national co-ordinator of Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific. She has been very involved in the Free the Refugees Campaign. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In November 1915 Tommy Cunningham sailed with her mother to Cairo to be near her fiancé, Major Charles ‘Stewart’ Davies (1880-1946), who sailed for Cairo on 10 November 1915 on the HMAT Ascanius with the 8th Infantry Brigade. After her marriage in Cairo and her husband’s deployment to the Western Front in France Tommy visited wounded soldiers in military hospitals and learned to drive an ambulance. Griselda Dorothea ‘Tommy’ Cunningham was born on 24 June 1894 to Mary Emily Cunningham (née Twynam) and James Cunningham, pastoralist, at the family homestead Tuggeranong near Queanbeyan, New South Wales. She attended Ascham School, a progressive independent girls’ school in Sydney where she and her sister Mary Paule were keen cricketers, played polo, acted in dramatic productions and were prefects. In April 1912 she made her debut at the Government House Ball, chaperoned by her maternal aunt Phoebe Wesche (nee Twynam) because her mother was grieving her elder daughter Jane’s death from appendicitis. By 1914 Tommy had left school and was enjoying the society of the district, including polo, tennis, horse riding and the young cadets from the recently opened Royal Military College (RMC) at Duntroon to whom her mother regularly extended warm and welcome hospitality. Once war broke out, Tommy and her sister Mary Paule were inspired by male friends who joined the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), and female friends and family who served overseas as nurses or joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, in which women with no nursing experience provided assistance in military hospitals. Tommy left home to train as a nurse at Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, and quickly fell in love with a young New Zealand-born British army officer, Captain Charles ‘Stewart’ Davies who had been seconded from the British Army to teach at the RMC, Duntroon. ‘In a state of mind… thinking she might never see her fiancé again’ her parents decided Tommy should travel to Egypt (Twynam family papers cited in Horsfield, 106). In November 1915 Tommy sailed to Cairo, accompanied by her mother, on the Mongolia, a ship transporting troop reinforcements to the battle front, to be nearer to Stewart. She married him in Cairo in April 1916 at the Chapel of No. 3 General Hospital, Abbassia. (Horsfield 107-109). By July 1916 Tommy was in London where she visited wounded soldiers in hospital and wrote letters for those who could not hold a pen. She had hoped to join the British Women’s’ Land Army which had been formed by the Board of Agriculture to ensure food production continued in the absence of three million men who were away fighting, but her maternal grandfather, Edward Twynam, had strictly forbidden it as unsuitable work for young ladies (Twynam family papers cited in Horsfield, p. 197). Instead, Tommy learned motor management so she could be an ambulance driver (Twynam papers cited in Horsfield, p. 114), however this was curtailed by her first pregnancy around April 1917. In early December Tommy gave birth to her first baby, James Stewart Davies, two months prematurely while she suffered from influenza and the baby died 24 hours later. Her husband was able to get one week’s special leave from the front line in France to visit his wife. Fortunately her maternal aunt Phoebe Wesche was on hand in London the rest of the time and able to care for her niece (NLA MS 6749, Folder 13). She returned home to Lanyon in 1919 and shortly after gave birth to her daughter Sheila. Stewart joined them at Lanyon for Christmas 1919. In 1920 the British army posted Stewart to Khartoum, Sudan and he apparently never returned to his family. Tommy, who was by then using her middle name Dorothea, did not see Stewart again – he abandoned his wife and daughter for life in the regular army. She took up flying and in 1921 bought a property – Fairvale – on the Cotter Road in the new Federal Capital Territory, employing a manager to run it. The property went broke in 1931, forcing Dorothea to sell. Plagued by financial problems, serious injuries after a bad plane crash, and the demons of her war years, she took her own life on 17 August 1931 when convalescing at her younger brother Pax’s place in Scone, New South Wales, Australia. Published resources Book Mary Cunningham: An Australian Life, Horsfield, Jennifer, 2004 Australian doctors on the western front: France and Belgium 1916-1918, Likeman, Colonel Robert, 2014 Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Cunningham family, 1834-1902 [manuscript] Letters, 1910-1960 [manuscript] Author Details Niki Francis Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 19 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The collection includes the Order of the British Empire and medallion; testimonials, awards, photographs, papers on nursing, an oration, and information about the International Conference on Cancer Nursing, Melbourne, 1984. There is a photo album and videocassette of the Middlesex Hospital Nurses League Australian reunion in Canberra in 1990 with a list of attendees; Fawke’s ‘Report of post graduate study at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, New York’ (1954); correspondence, and a scrapbook of her Australian tour. Also includes a diary by Mrs L. W. Marr, formerly Flying Officer Lou Godson, entitled ‘Reminiscences of World War II Nursing Service’ (1998); and obituarium of Olive Anstey who was Director of Nursing of the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth and President of the International of Nurses. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jean Devanny was a novelist and prominent member of the Communist Party of Australia with a particular interest in the position of women in Australian culture and society. A staunch labour activist, she was also an admirer of the work of birth control activist, Marion Piddington. Initially living in Sydney, she eventually moved to Queensland, where she was caught up in the 1935 canecutter’s strike. Her best known novel Sugar Heaven was based on these events. Her energy was much admired by many of her contemporaries. Katherine Susannah Prichard, for instance, wrote that ‘Jean Devanny is wonderful. No one I know is so vital, magnetic, absolutely devoted and disinterested. She is a great woman…I wish I could give all my time to Party work as she does.’ Born in New Zealand, Jean Devanny arrived in Australia with her husband and two teenage children in 1929. Almost immediately, she became active in political and feminist circles; as a New Zealander, she was surprised by the relative absence of women from these circles in Australia. She spoke publicly to encourage women to participate in the political process and she was unimpressed by the masculinism of Australian social and cultural life. She described mateship as ‘as enthusiasm which, since it was camaraderie not extended to include women I was sceptically unresponsive.’ A member of the Communist Party of Australia throughout the 1930s, she had several run-ins with the executive until she was eventually expelled for alleged ‘political degeneracy’. Her commitment to literary form as well as sound ideological content saw her repeatedly clash with the Central Committee, but it was a campaign of sexual slander while she was on a speaking tour of the Atherton Tablelands and Far North Queensland that led to her expulsion. Although distressed by the way she was treated, Devanny did not repudiate Marxism-Leninism, only the style of the Communist Party of Australia. Published resources Edited Book Women in Australia : an annotated guide to records, Daniels, Kay, Murnane, Mary, Picot, Anne and National Research Program (Australia), 1977 Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Book Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary, Ferrier, Carole, 1999 Sugar Heaven, Devanny, Jean, 1936 Laughter, not for a cage : notes on Australian writing, with biographical emphasis on the struggles, function, and achievements of the novel in three half-centuries, Franklin, Miles, 1956 Paradise Flow, Devanny, Jean, 1938 Bird of Paradise, Devanny, Jean, 1945 Journal Article Eugenic Reform and the Unfit, Devanney, Jean Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Devanny, Jane (Jean) (1894-1962), Store, Ron, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080316b.htm Archival resources James Cook University of North Queensland, Library Archives Jean Devanny Archive Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Miles Franklin Papers - Correspondence with Jean Devanny National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Eleanor Dark, 1910-1974 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Jean Devanny, writer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 December 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 28 min.)??Salce speaks of her family background, working on her parent’s dairy farm, her marriage to a dairy farmer and their move to Sale, Vic., her move into an accountancy career, the central importance of farmers’ wives in successful farm management, involvement in farming organisations, helping to establish the Rural Women’s Network (Vic.), its importance, lobbying for and convening the first International Women in Agriculture Conference in Melbourne in 1994, her perceptions of the role of women in agriculture, men’s attitudes towards farming women, her own public image, and the role of the ABC in publicising women in agriculture. Author Details Janet Butler Created 24 August 2009 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 57 min.)??Abbott speaks of her childhood, living in different homesteads; learning secretarial skills; working in Cairo during World War I; suffering from tenosynovitis; her return to Australia; settling in the Northern Territory; her husband’s work as the Administrator of the Northern Territory; writing about the Australian Aborigines and about her experiences. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "During World War II Dorothy Marshall was appointed by the Commonwealth government as South Australian superintendent of the Australian Women’s Land Army. Previously a schoolteacher she assisted with the School Patriotic Fund of South Australia and was foundation secretary of the Women’s War Service. Following the war Marshall became a camp welfare officer with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Following the dissolution of the UNRRA she joined the International Refugee Organisation (IRO) as a welfare officer in the British zone of Germany. For her services to child welfare, Marshall was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire on 5 June 1952. Following her return to Adelaide she was appointed to the Department of Agriculture and initiated a bi-monthly bulletin WAB News. Dorothy May Marshall, the daughter of Charles Henry and Helen Cameron (née Grant) Marshall, attended Adelaide High School and then Adelaide University. She joined the South Australian Education Department and taught at Gawler (1923-1924) and Woodville (1924-1934) primary schools. In 1935 she participated in an exchange position program and taught at Bishop Goodwin Girls’ and Margaret Sewell Central schools Carlisle, England. Upon her return to Adelaide she taught at Croydon Central School (girls’ department). In 1940 Dorothy Marshall was elected to the advisory council of the South Australian Women Teachers’ Guild and the next year she was appointed adviser for vocational training to the Education Department. Later she assisted Adelaide Miethke with the Schools Patriotic Fund of South Australia and then joined the Department of Labour and National Service (on loan) where she became foundation secretary of the Women’s War Service Council. In July 1942 the Commonwealth government appointed her state superintendent of the Australian Women’s Land Army. In this position she controlled major policy implementation, selected and managed headquarters staff, appointed field staff and supervised women volunteers on the land. Dorothy Marshall joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) as a camp welfare officer helping displaced persons in the British zone in Germany in 1945. By June 1946 she was director-general and took charge of every camp in the zone. After the UNRRA was dissolved in 1947, she joined the International Refugee Organisation (IRO) becoming child welfare officer and later chief of the child welfare division. On 5 June 1952 Dorothy Marshall was appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) for her services to child welfare. Upon completion of the IRO operations in the British zone she returned to Adelaide and was appointed to the Department of Agriculture as an organiser of the Women’s Agricultural Bureau by the South Australia government. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 Resource Section Marshall, Dorothy May (1902-1961), Jones, Helen, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150366b.htm Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 November 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the Australian Democrats, Roslyn Dundas was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) representing the electorate of Ginninderra, in 2001. She was the youngest woman ever to be elected to an Australian Parliament, but was unfortunately defeated at the 2004 election. After being educated via the public school system Dundas commenced her Bachelor of Arts degreee at the Australian National University. In 2000 she was General Secretary of the ANU student body as well as a member of the National Union of Students’ National Women’s Committee. Dundas has worked as a trade union organiser and as a young women’s development co-ordinator at the YWCA. She was a participant in the National Youth Constitutional Forum in 2000 and was selected as a reserve for the National Youth Roundtable 2001. In 2008 she was appointed Director of the ACT Council of Social Service. Dundas became the CEO of Ausdance in January 2013. Published resources Resource Section Vote 1 Roslyn Dundas, ACT Democrats, http://act.democrats.org.au/roslyn_main.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records relating to the Pamela Denoon Lecture series, 1989-2013 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2001 Last modified 12 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "After leaving school Dorothea Henslowe worked as a teacher and governess. During World War I she was a Voluntary Aid at Hornsey Hospital at Evandale after which she returned to teaching. After both her parents died in 1935, Henslowe travelled to Canada and then settled in Battery Point, Hobart. She worked in an honorary capacity for the Australian Board of Mission, a missionary organisation of the Anglican Church that works largely in Asia, the Pacific and with Aboriginal communities, for over 30 years. “Dorothea Isabel Henslowe lived in the Scottsdale area, Tasmania until she was three, when her family moved to a farm at Ulverstone. She was educated by a governess until leaving home to complete her schooling at the Church of England Girls’ Grammar School in Launceston. After leaving school she worked as a teacher and governess, including at Launceston’s Frederick Street School. “From 1919 to 1920 she was a Voluntary Aid at Hornsey Hospital at Evandale, but subsequently returned to teaching. In 1925 she went to live with her family in Hamilton, where her father had been appointed Anglican rector, and she spent the next ten years there helping in the parish and giving aid to the needy. “After both her parents died in 1935, Dorothea travelled to Canada and then settled in Battery Point, Hobart. She worked for the Australian Board of Mission, a missionary organisation of the Anglican Church that works largely in Asia, the Pacific and with Aboriginal communities. She worked in an honorary capacity for this organisation for more than 30 years. She was first appointed secretary to the Women’s Auxiliary of the Board in 1937, serving in the position until 1943. She was then appointed as the honorary state secretary for Tasmania and established the organisation’s state office. In this role she became the first woman to address the Synod of the Anglican Church in Tasmania. She retired as honorary state secretary in 1954, but continued to serve on the organisation’s board and as its representative to the Anglican Synod. She was federal president of the organisations for six years, and federal president of the Women’s Auxiliary from 1964 to 1967. She also served as a voluntary worker on the Diocesan Children’s Homes Committee, which oversaw the management of Children’s Homes operated by the Tasmanian Diocese of the Anglican Church, including five years as its honorary secretary and later three as its president. She was an initiator of the Canterbury Tea Rooms, which raised funds for both the Australian Board of Mission and the Diocesan Children’s Homes between 1949 and 1959. “Dorothea Henslowe was active in the Battery Point community. She was vice-president of the Battery Point Progress Association, and was president for 11 years of a committee which purchased a former Methodist Church in the 1960’s to prevent its demolition and replacement by a service station. The Church became the Battery Point Community Centre. She ran a playgroup for underprivileged children and a boys club and suggested the establishment of a Senior Citizen’s Club there. In 1987 the Community Centre was renamed Henslowe Park in recognition of her role in its establishment. “She had a wide interest in the history of Tasmania, particularly its buildings. In 1971, Dorothea and a friend had the idea of taking tourists for guided tours of Battery Point. These were established the same year. She took many of the walks herself and also trained other guides to lead them. The walks raised funds for the restoration of St George’s Anglican Church at Battery Point and for the National Trust. In 1978 she published a book, Our Heritage of Anglican Churches in Tasmania, a history of Anglican church buildings in the state. “Dorothea Henslowe received a number of awards in recognition for her community and tourism work, including a British Empire Medal in 1979. She became a life member of the National Trust in 1986, and was Hobart City Council’s Citizen of the Year in 1992. The same year she won the Tasmanian Visitor Corporation Award, an award created especially for her. She also travelled extensively within Australia and overseas, including a trip to Central Australia to observe the work of the Australian Board of Mission. She published two books as a result of trips to Papua New Guinea, Papuan Post in 1947 and Papua Calls in 1954. During several trips to the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States she visited family members. In 1966 her sister Muriel Cranswick travelled with her to the Holy Lands, and together again in 1972, when Dorothea made a return visit to Papua New Guinea. Dorothea Henslowe died in 1994. Her ashes are at St Peter’s Anglican Church at Hamilton, Tasmania. Published resources Book St George's Church: A Guide to the Church together with a Short History compiled from Church Records 1824 to 1972, Henslowe, Dorothea L, [s.n.|| 1972] Papuan Post: Being Letters from New Guinea, Henslowe, Dorothea I, [s.n. 1949] Papua Calls, Henslowe, Dorothea I Our heritage of Anglican churches in Tasmania, Henslowe, Dorothea I. and Hurburgh, Isa, 1978 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Yarn spinners [sound recording] Archives Office of Tasmania Records of Australian Board of Missions - Tasmanian Branch Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 March 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 4913 includes ten diaries kept by Catherine Deakin between 1866 and 1920, a copy of the Deakin family tree, press cuttings about Alfred Deakin, books which were presented to him as school prizes and others that have a connection with him. The collection also comprises correspondence of Catherine, Alfred, Pattie, Stella and William Deakin, photographs, newspaper cuttings, postcards and correspondence of David Rivett and Walter Murdoch. Also included is a notebook containing an inventory of furnishings, etc. in Catherine Deakin’s home at South Yarra, 1909 (7 boxes). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 June 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Drawings – 75 x 38 cm. and smaller – cartoons, caricatures, posters, chiefly black & white Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 November 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Edna Ryan was a leading figure in three eras of feminism in the 20th century. As a feminist and labour activist she is credited with achieving equal pay for women, maternity leave and work based child care. Ryan wrote numerous articles, conference papers, submissions to government and two books, Gentle invaders (1975) and Two thirds of a man (1984). Parliamentary and Local Government Career Local Alderman, Fairfield Municipal Council, 1956-65 Deputy Mayor 1958 Member, Prospect County Council retired 1972 State Candidate, Mosman, 1953 Other Highlights Participated in the first International Women’s Day 1928; Organised the wives of the timber workers strike 1929; Member of Communist Party and International Workers of the World 1920-35c; Joined Australian Labor Party 1935; Organised first residential Summer School for women for the Workers Educational Association; First female Deputy Mayor in NSW 1958; Alderman Fairfield Council 1959-65; First woman president of the largest branch of the Municipal Employees’ Union 1960s; Campaign manager for future Prime Minister Gough Whitlam; Founding member of Women’s Electoral Lobby 1972; Presented breakthrough submission to the Arbitration Commission to award low paid women workers the same minimum wage as men 1974; Published Gentle Invaders, Australian Women and the Workforce 1788-1974 with Anne Conlon 1975. Ryan campaigned for maternity leave and work-based child care for women workers, was an advocate of women’s reproductive rights, and campaigned on the negative impacts of enterprise bargaining and compulsory superannuation on low paid women workers. In 1984 she published Two-thirds of a Man: Women and Arbitration in New South Wales 1902-08. The following year she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Sydney, and in 1995 was again awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters, this time by Macquarie University. Edna Ryan had three children – Julia, Lyndall and Patrick – whom she raised alone after the early death of her husband, Jack Ryan. Published resources Book Gentle Invaders : Australian Women at Work, Ryan, Edna and Conlon, Anne, 1989 Two-thirds of a Man : Women and Arbitration in New South Wales, 1902-08, Ryan, Edna, 1984 Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 The matriarchs: twelve Australian women talk about their lives to Susan Mitchell., Mitchell, Susan, 1987 Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Edited Book Edna Ryan Remembered : Tributes from the Australian Feminist Policy Network and Union Women, Hutton, Marg, 1997 A decade of Mary Owen dinners, Waterfield, Dorothy, 1995 Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Journal Article Proving a dispute: Laundry Workers in Sydney in 1906, Ryan, Edna, 1981 Equal Pay, Comparable Worth and the Central Wage Fixing System, Ryan, Edna, 1988 Edna Minna Ryan, Owen, Mary, 1997 Book Section Women and Production in Australia, Ryan, Edna, 1986 Talking Back, Ryan, Edna, 1987 Finding Aid Guide to the Papers of Beryl Henderson - MS 9360, National Library of Australia, 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-299073938/findingaid Guide to the Papers of Edna Ryan - MS 9140, MS Acc09.172, National Library of Australia, 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-300771402/findingaid Resource Section Edna Ryan 1904 - 1997, 1997, https://web.archive.org/web/20001023143531/http://list.waikato.ac.nz:80/archives/prir-l/1997/02/msg00020.html Death of Ms Edna Ryan, Whitecross, Carnell, Tucker, Reilly, 1997, http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/Hansard/1997/week01/79.htm Article WEL NSW 1972-1997., Bielski, Joan, 1997 Commemorating Our Dear Departed Equal Pay Activists, Webb, Rosemary, 1999, http://workers.labor.net.au/3/c_historicalfeature_edna.html Back to the Future: Urgent Issues for Men and Women of Australia, Summers, Anne, 1997, http://www.actu.org.au/actu-media/archives/1997/back-to-the-future-urgent-issues-for-the-men-and-women-of-australia Comments for Edna Ryan's Funeral, Ryan, Susan, 1997, https://web.archive.org/web/20060821151110/http://wel.org.au/announce/edna/ednasury.htm Videorecording Edna Ryan: a political life, Oliver, Margot, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection On their own terms : profiles of five very individual Australians / prepared by Tim Bowden and Ros Bowden Edna Ryan interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Edna Ryan interviewed by Lucy Taksa in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording] Interview with Lyndall Ryan, Professor of Australian Studies, University of Newcastle [sound recording] / interviewer, Sara Dowse State Library of South Australia Yarn spinners [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Edna Ryan, 1948-1993 [manuscript] Papers of Beryl Henderson, 1973-1992 [manuscript] Papers of Julia Ryan, 1947-1982 [manuscript] Papers of Meredith Stokes, circa 1970-1997 [manuscript] Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Edna Ryan and Sylvia Winters papers Jack Kavanagh collection deposit 1 Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio Archives Interviews with Edna Ryan Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Edna Ryan papers, 1965-1986 Edna Ryan further papers, 1961-1989 Pat Richardson scrapbooks relating to the Women's Electoral Lobby and women's events, 1977-2002 Ros Bowden - interviews conducted for radio programs and documentaries, ca.1975 - 1989 National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Edna Ryan, unionist and author, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of New South Wales Audrey Blake - further papers, 1915-1998 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 1 March 2013 Digital resources Title: Edna Ryan Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers of Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell AC, DBE, CVO, former Governor of South Australia, Chairman of the Human Rights Commission, Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, Judge of the SA Supreme Court and Queen’s Counsel, comprising letters of congratulation, subject files, correspondence, papers relating to C.B.E., letters patent for judicial positions, notebooks, articles of agreement, programmes, certificates, printed material, passports, newspaper cuttings, papers relating to her father H.F. Mitchell, with his two war medals and identity disc, & grandfather Judge S.J. Mitchell, family biographical notes, assorted photographs, 1994 Women’s Suffrage Centenary diary, transcripts of speeches, transcripts of proceedings at farewells of Justice Mitchell, Chief Justice King and Judge Villeneuve-Smith, funeral orations for Dr J.J.Bray and discussion papers from the Human Rights Commission. Also included is material from later donations comprising Governor Dame Roma Mitchell’s appointment diary 1992-1996, 2 volumes of retirement congratulations messages 1996, honorary degrees and awards, Millencourt Cemetery (France) papers, diary of South Africa safari (1999), Christmas, birthday and retirement cards, letters to friend Noni Farwell, photographs, photograph album, bound volumes of speeches 1991-1996, scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings, orders of service, French official visit program, transcript of proceedings, papers relating to Roma Mitchell statue, articles, family papers, condolence books (2000), valuation list for household furniture, papers relating to her aunt Jean Mitchell (Mrs. R. A. Priaulx), 28 videotapes and 2 sound recordings of radio interviews (described in full online), and presentation book on her admission to the Bar in 1934. Also includes minutes of the Criminal Law and Penal Methods Reform Committee SA, of which Dame Roma was the chairperson, an interview on videotape conducted by Joan Innes, and five videotapes of ‘Millennium Dilemma: Constitutional Change in Australia’. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 May 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Diane Fahey has published twelve collections of poetry, in addition to numerous anthologies published in both Australian and international publications. Diane holds Bachelor of Arts, a Diploma of Education (1972) and a Master’s degree in English Literature (1975) from the University of Melbourne. After teaching at colleges in Melbourne in the late 1970s, Diane moved to England, where she lived and studied for several years in the early 1980s. From 1986 she lectured in literature at the University of South Australia, before returning to Victoria in the 1990s. In 2001 Diane completed a PhD in creative writing at the University of Western Sydney. Diane has received a number of literary grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. She has also undertaken writing residencies in Venice, New South Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and been the writer in residence at Ormond College, Melbourne, and the University of Adelaide. With her poetry, Diane has won the ACT Government’s Judith Write Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Wesley Michel Wright Award. Her work has also been shortlisted for many other awards. Diane was the poetry of the journal Voices in 1997 and in 2007 published a historical crime novella, The Mystery of Rosa Mortland. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers, 1986-1993 [manuscript] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Patricia Blundell served in in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in World War I at Lemnos (Gallipoli), in Egypt, on hospital transports, in military hospitals at Wimereux near Boulogne in France and at military hospitals in England. In 1918 the ship on which she was travelling back to Australia was torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay. After being rescued by the British Navy she reached Melbourne safely on another ship. Before enlisting in 1915, she had gained military nursing experience as matron of Royal Military Hospital, Duntroon. Patricia Blundell enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) following about six months at Duntroon Military Hospital in Canberra. She and her brother, Martin Petrie Blundell, are a rare case of an Australian sister and brother serving at Gallipoli at the same time. While she tended the wounded and sick on Lemnos Island, Martin fought with the 4th Light Horse AIF on the Peninsula. Madeline Patricia Petrie Blundell was born in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra on 17 March 1880, a daughter of Martin Petrie Blundell, a senior banker with the Bank of Australasia, and Emily Jane (born) Lineker. She was known by her second name, Patricia, and to her family she was Pattie. She came from an affluent family that mixed in the higher levels of Melbourne society and had a holiday home at Mt Macedon. In 1911, at the age of 31, Patricia abandoned society life to enrol as a trainee nurse at Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and after completing her training she continued to nurse at the hospital. In October 1914 she was appointed senior nursing sister (usually termed Matron) at Duntroon under the medical officer, Captain Peter Lalor, a grandson of Peter Lalor of Eureka fame. Her arrival coincided with the completion of the hospital which, for the first few years after Duntroon opened, had operated in tents and temporary accommodation and had relied on male medical orderlies. Like some other nurses who followed she was probably attracted to nursing at Duntroon to gain army experience before enlisting. She resigned from Duntroon at the end of April 1915 to volunteer for the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). Two weeks after completing her enlistment on 5 May 1915, Patricia Blundell was on board RMS Mooltan ready to depart with the complement of nursing and medical personnel to staff 3rd Australian General Hospital (AGH). She was aged 35, her religion was Church of England and she named her mother, Mrs E. Blundell, ‘Noel’, Upper Macedon, as her next of kin. The 3rd AGH was originally destined to be stationed in England but the huge number of casualties on Gallipoli from 25 April 1915 caused a change of plans. About a month after their arrival in London the nurses and medical staff were sent to Lemnos, a Greek Island off the coast of Gallipoli, to nurse AIF casualties from Anzac Cove. The Australian nurses arrived early in August to find their tent hospital only partly constructed, wounded patients lying in the mud and grave shortages of medical supplies, food and even water. The nurses were housed in tents but had no beds or mattresses and they gave their eating and drinking utensils to their patients. When a further convoy of wounded arrived the nurses used their own soap and tore up items of their clothing to bandage their patients. The conditions for the wounded were so bad, one nurse wrote that her wish was that any soldier casualty she knew would be killed outright in the fighting. Through August huge numbers of casualties arrived from the offensive early in that month but from September most of the one thousand patients treated at any one time were suffering from disease which spread rapidly as the health of the troops in the trenches collapsed. Many were severe dysentery and enteric (typhoid fever) cases. After three weeks’ treatment on Lemnos those who were not declared fit to return to battle were sent on to army hospitals in Egypt or England for further treatment. On 11 December 1915, Patricia’s brother, 24-year-old Martin Petrie Blundell, 7th Reinforcements, 4th Light Horse Regiment, was evacuated to Lemnos as part of the general evacuation from Gallipoli. While on Lemnos waiting for transport to Egypt, he recorded in his diary and in letters to his mother his visits to the hospital to have tea with his sister Pattie. Eleven years younger than Patricia, Martin was born at Toorak in 1891. He was working as s a station overseer when he enlisted in Rockhampton early in 1915, a few months before his sister. After the Gallipoli evacuation he was on Lemnos until towards the end of December 1915 when he left for Alexandria. In March 1916 he sailed to Marseilles where he was initially posted to II Anzac Mounted Regiment. In January 1916 Patricia left Lemnos with the 3rd AGH to move to Abbassia on the outskirts of Cairo where the hospital was set up in a huge building that had been the Egyptian Army Barracks. Regarded as one of the best Australian general hospitals organised during the war, it had been fitted out with the help of the Australian Red Cross. Nurses appreciated the better conditions after the bitter winter weather and disease that had undermined their health on Lemnos. After seven months at Abbassia, Patricia left for Malta to serve on the British hospital ship Guilford Castle which carried patients from Egypt to Mediterranean ports. In October 1916 she was posted to the 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (AAH) at Dartford, Kent, a clearing station for patients from the Western Front and a specialised hospital for shell shock casualties. In January 1917 Sister Blundell was posted to the 2nd Australian General Hospital in France, a tent hospital on desolate and windswept sea cliffs at Wimereux near Boulogne, to nurse battle casualties. After more than a year nursing at Wimereux she was sent to hospital in England suffering from bronchitis and she remained in hospital for six weeks. Her health had been undermined by her long service, often in appalling conditions at hospitals at Lemnos, Egypt, England, on hospital transport duties and particularly by two winters in freezing conditions in tents at Wimereux. In April 1918 she returned to nursing and was posted to the 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield where many Australian casualties received medical and surgical treatment before being repatriated. On 15 April, Patricia heard the devastating news that her brother Martin, a Lance Corporal with I Anzac Corps Mounted Regiment, had been killed in action at the battle of Kemmel during the German spring offensive in Flanders. His body was never recovered. He was killed near the summit of Mont Kemmel while acting as liaison with French forces during an intense bombardment. He was among 5000 casualties of the battle. On 10 July 1918 Patricia Blundell boarded HMAT Barunga on what she and the 800 returning AIF soldiers and nurses on board hoped would be an uneventful journey back to Australia. Although suffering from debility she was on nursing duty on board the ship. Less than 24 hours after the journey began, Barunga was holed by a German torpedo from a U boat in the Bay of Biscay and began to sink. All on board had to abandon ship, some in lifeboats, others on rafts and some swimming. All were rescued by British destroyers. Later that month Patricia Blundell left England again on HMAT Boonah and arrived safely in Melbourne. She spent some months recuperating at Osborne House, a military convalescent hospital for nurses in Geelong. When she applied to the Army Medical Board for discharge stating she was ‘very tired out’, the Board ruled that she had no permanent disability but discharged her as permanently unfit for further service. Patricia Blundell did not work again as a nurse and she did not marry. Her mother who died in the 1920s left her a substantial legacy which enabled her to live comfortably and make several trips to England before and after the Second World War. She is recorded living at Melbourne suburbs of East Melbourne and Toorak and sometimes at Mt Macedon with her sister Mrs Beatrice Stoving at ‘Noel’, a French chalet-type house which was destroyed many years later in the 1983 bushfires. ‘Noel’ was built on land originally part of the estate of early Victorian colonist, Charles Ryan, a grazier and stock and station agent, whose granddaughter, Lady (Maie) Casey wrote of visiting her widowed grandmother and aunts at Mt Macedon in An Australian Story. Madeline Patricia Petrie Blundell died at 255 Domain Road, South Yarra in 1968, aged 88. She was awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal and is listed on the ACT Memorial. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 A Brother and Sister at Arms at Gallipoli, Fielding, Peter, 2012, http://www.mhhv.org.au/?p=3628 Book Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 More than Bombs and Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at work in World War I, Harris, Kirsty, 2011 History of the RMC Hospital, 5 Camp Hospital and 21 Dental Unit, Howarth, Ross, 2007 An Australian Story 1837 - 1907, Casey, Lady Maie, 1962 Mount Macedon. Its History and its Grandeur 1836-1978, Milbourne, Jean, 1978 Book Section Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18. Vol. III: Problems and Services, Butler, A.G., 1943 The Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918, Vol. I, Gallipoli, Palestine and New Guinea, Butler, A.G., 1930 The Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918, Vol. II, The Western Front, Butler, A.G., 1940 Newspaper Article Nurses who have recently left for the war, 1915 Resource Section Blundell, Madeline Patricia Petrie, Fielding, Peter and Scarfe, Janet, 2013, http://emhs.org.au/person/blundell/madeline_patricia_petrie Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Blundell M Patricia: SERN SISTER : POB Melbourne VIC : POE Melbourne VIC : NOK Blundell P Blundell Martin Petrie : SERN 1080 : POB Melbourne VIC : POE Rockhampton QLD : NOK M Blundell M P State Library of Victoria Papers, 1915-1916. [manuscript] Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Sister P. Blundell Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "8 photographs mounted on board Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection comprises two paintings, one by L W K Wirth and one by Hubert Jarvis, and 15 original photographs by Rose Simmonds. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 November 2016 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This group of correspondence has been photocopied from the originals in the possession of the artist’s family. They are primarily letters from Olive Cotton to her husband Ross McInerney from 1945, when Cotton moved from Max Dupain’s studio and was teaching at Frensham school for girls in Mittagong, N.S.W. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 November 2016 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents include: photographs of the O’Reilly family, in particular Susie O’Reilly; draft copies of notes on the life of Susie O’Reilly and her family. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 30 September 2009 Last modified 30 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Norma McArthur studied mathematics at the University of Melbourne and graduated in 1941. She undertook statistical work in wartime administration and industry and then entered the Department of Experimental Medicine at Melbourne in 1945. Norma was a graduate student in 1947 of the Department of Eugenics, Biometry and Genetics at University College, London and then in 1949 she took up a position as Assistant Lecturer in demography. McArthur came to the Australian National University in 1952 as a member of the Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences, and she remained in the department until 1970. During her time at ANU, Norma was responsible for the round of censuses taken simultaneously and more or less uniformly in 1956 in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands and later became consultant to other island territories following this lead: the Solomons in 1959, the Gilbert and Ellice in 1963 and the New Hebrides in 1967. Her book Introducing Population Statistics (1961) was at the same time the fruit of such work and a practical contribution to it. Her major work, Island Populations of the Pacific (1967), was a landmark in Pacific historical studies. Just prior to turning 50, Norma enrolled as a doctoral student in the Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, and prepared herself for archaeological fieldwork on the island of Aneityum in southern Vanuatu (then the New Hebrides). During her academic life, Norma was Research Fellow, Fellow, Senior Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies (RSPacS) 1970-1974; PhD Student in Pacific and Southeast Asian History, RSPacS 1975-1980; and appointed Senior Research Fellow. At the time of her death she was Visiting Fellow in the Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History. Archival resources Australian National University Archives Papers relating to population in the Pacific Islands Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Poems that were unpublished in an envelope labelled “Discarded poems, Enid Derham”. Other unpublished poems; printed contents page ‘The Mountain Road; additional poems 1901-1929; printed pages of poems pasted on to sheets. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ainsley Gotto completed a stenography course at Canberra Technical College in 1961. In 1968 she as appointed principal private secretary to then Prime Minister John Gorton. She remained working for Gorton until 1972, when she took up a position at Drake International. She remained with the company until 1978. After this time Gotto worked in television in addition to various other business ventures, including an interior design consultancy and her own company, Ainsley Gotto International. For a time, Ainsley was the national president of the Australian chapter of Women Chiefs of Enterprises International. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ainsley Gotto, circa 1940-2013 [manuscript] Papers of Cyril and Paddy Pearl, 1853-2009 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Ainsley Gotto interviewed by Jenny Clameister, Peter Barlow and Bob Cribb in the John Gorton collection National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Ainsley Gotto, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Monica Clare was the daughter of an Aboriginal shearer and an English women who died in childbirth when Monica was two years old. Taken into care at the age of seven, she and her brother grew up in a variety of foster homes in Sydney. After learning the finer arts of domestic service, Monica went out to work as a waitress and a factory hand. In the 1950s, Monica became interested in Labor Politics. Her second husband, the trade unionist Leslie Clare, encouraged this interest and also encouraged her to be active in Aboriginal politics. She became the Secretary of the Aborigines Committee of the South Coast at Wollongong during the 1960s and, subsequently, of an Aboriginal committee called the South Coast Illawarra Tribe, from 1968 to 1973. Monica Clare worked tirelessly for the political and social equality of Aboriginal people, and their independence. She died suddenly on National Aborigines Day, 13 July 1973. Monica Clare was born in 1924, at Dareel on the Mooni River, ten miles from Mungindi, on the Queensland side of the border. Her father was an Aboriginal shearer, and her mother, surnamed Scott, was English. The family roamed the upper Darling until Monica’s mother died in childbirth in c.1926. In 1931 Monica and her younger brother were taken by Child Welfare. They were first taken to ‘Yasmar’ Home, Haberfield, in Sydney, and then to Redmyre Road, Strathfield, where Monica learned domestic service. By 1932 the two children were fostered to Bill and Stella Woodbury who owned a farm near Spencer on the lower Hawkesbury River. During World War Two, Monica worked as a servant, in the W.D.&H.O. Wills cigarette factory, as a waitress at a Greek café, and in Peggy Page, a well-known Sydney dress factory. Her first marriage ending in divorce, Monica became interested in Labor politics. In 1956 she met Leslie Clare, a well-known secretary of several trade unions, and decided to move to Wollongong. Leslie was sympathetic to Aboriginal people and took her to various Aboriginal missions along the New South Wales coast. They married in 1960. Monica was the Secretary of the Aborigines Committee of the South Coast at Wollongong during the 1960s and subsequently of an Aboriginal committee called the South Coast Illawarra Tribe, from 1968 to 1973. She worked tirelessly for the political and social equality of Aboriginal people, and their independence. She died suddenly on National Aborigines Day, 13 July 1973, before she could revise and rewrite the manuscript for her autobiographical book Karobran: The Story of an Aboriginal Girl which was published in 1978. Published resources Book Karobran: The Story of an Aboriginal Girl, Clare, Monica, 1978 Stories of herself when young : autobiographies of childhood by Australian women, Hooton, Joy W. (Joy Wendy), 1935-, 1990 Book Section Who's been writing Blak?, Heiss, Anita, 2001 Journal Article Yesterday's words : the editing of Monica Clare's Karobran, Jones, Jennifer, 2000 Review Review of Review of Karoban, Jefferis, Barbara, 1980 Newspaper Article Mrs Monica Clare, 1973 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Monica Clare, 1978 [manuscript] Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Nikki Henningham Created 24 September 2004 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Drawings – 88 pencil drawings – 36.5 x 31 cm.-42 x 32 cm. + working notes?These sketches are the preliminary drawings for the watercolours reproduced in: Proteaceae of the Sydney region / Alec Blombery & Betty Maloney. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1981. Limited edition. Location number: X583.9320994/1 Mitchell Library?For the original watercolour drawings of the above, see: The Esso proteaceae collection, Location number: Pic. Acc. 6584 Mitchell Library Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 February 2002 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Certificate of Registration as a teacher: Mrs. Bella Lavender, Reg. No. 2869 of 22 Barkly Street, St Kilda, M.A., Registered 30 June 1906 by virtue of employment before the passing of the Act. In 1909 the address above was crossed through with the substitution: “Girls’ High School, Sydney Rd. Brunswick. Her status there was “Principal”. Photocopy. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Adam-Smith speaks about her childhood in a fettler’s camp; her schooling in very small classes; leaving her home; writing in her teens; writing children’s serials for the ABC; writing for the magazine “A.M”; she speaks of her sea-going life; the various books she wrote; readjusting to life on shore; realising her responsibilities towards her children; working as a manuscript field officer; her method of work when writing. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 September 2001 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Copies of photographs of the family of Dr Marie Bentivoglio Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 24 September 2009 Last modified 24 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents include biographical notes; photograph; six lecture notebooks compiled as a student in Radio Engineering at Sydney Technical College; copies of Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation (CSIRO) records relating to Clark’s appointments; words and music for mask 1928 ‘Temple on the Hill’. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 24 September 2009 Last modified 24 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Plays, poetry, prose. Manuscripts and Typescripts. Many items incomplete. Correspondence with editors, handwritten and typed drafts of poems, plays, short stories and novels, including Seven Little Australians. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 September 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Drawings – 92 pencil drawings on 6 sheets – folded to 30 x 42 cm.?These sketches are the preliminary drawings for the watercolours reproduced in: The Proteaceae of the Sydney region / Alec M. Blombery & Betty Maloney. Kenthurst, N.S.W. : Kangaroo Press, 1992. Location number: 583.932/4 Mitchell Library Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 February 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Patricia (Paddy) Pearl completed her Leaving Certificate at Stella Maris College in Manly. She then studied physiotherapy and became a medical receptionist. Paddy had a short, unhappy first marriage, before marrying author, historian and journalist Cyril Alston Pearl in 1965. Together the pair researched, wrote and worked together on Cyril’s books, travelling all over the world. Back in Australia, Paddy and Cyril lived in Paddington and joined the Paddington Society. After Cyril’s death in 1987, Paddy continued to lead a varied and active life. She moved to Tasmania in 1994 after purchasing the heritage-listed Campania House in the Coal River Valley, and there she learnt about cattle and fences on the 22 hectare property. In 2009 Paddy sold her restored c.1813 home. The property was sold for $1.54 million and a substantial portion of the money was donated to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, where it was used to establish a three-year PhD scholarship to support research into children’s diseases. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Cyril and Paddy Pearl, 1853-2009 [manuscript] Papers of Sir Harold White and Lady Elizabeth White, 1911-1992 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Paddy Pearl interviewed by Diana Ritch [sound recording] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 7 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Poetry, prose, essays and talks on literature delivered to literary societies. Correspondence and family papers, especially with Mr Richard Hodgson, Miss Derham’s uncle in Boston. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Society of Women Writers New South Wales Inc., established in 1925 and incorporated in 1987, is the longest-standing literary society in Australia. Dame Mary Jean Gilmore, writer, teacher and pioneer of many causes, is credited with initiating the Society (she was a member of its first executive committee). The Society’s main aim was to draw together women writers (including poets, journalists, playwrights, fiction and non-fiction writers) to support each other in their writing endeavours. It is also aimed to maintain the status of the writing profession, promote a knowledge of literature, and strengthen ties between Australian and visiting writers."
    },
    {
        "text": "Professor Heather Booth is the country’s first female professor of demography. Her research specialties include human mortality modelling and forecasting how long people will live, as well as population ageing, and the socio-demography of longevity. Heather Booth studied demography and social statistics at the London School of Economics, before pursuing a Masters at Southampton. She then spent three years working at the University of North Carolina. Heather received her doctorate from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and in the 1980s moved to the South Pacific to analyse Vanuatu’s Census. This led to a position with the South Pacific Commission (now known as the Pacific Community), in New Caledonia, where she stayed for five years, later becoming a consultant with the UN and other agencies. Heather came to Australia in the 1990s and was offered a casual position with the Australian National University. This quickly led to a permanent position. Professor Booth is currently the Director of Research in the School of Demography at the Australian National University College of Arts and Social Sciences, as well as the leader of the Group on Longevity, Ageing and Mortality (GLAM). Heather is also an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research and an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford. She was also the Founding Editor of the Journal of Population Research (JPR) from 2000 to 2006. Archival resources Australian National University Archives Papers and publications relating to population studies in the Pacific Islands Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "3 digital audio tapes (ca. 195 min.)??Helen Caldicott speaks briefly about her south coast beach retreat; her thoughts on both Australia and the world; the dangers of uranium mining; nuclear energy; global warming; Rupert Murdoch; the ACTU’s five-year ban on uranium mining; Hawke government (1983); her work in the US from 1978-87 leading to the nuclear weapons freeze; Pat Kingsley; her high profile in America but not in Australia; the media (1990); hostility she has felt; her book entitled ‘Why Men Kill’; her perception of herself; her passion for medicine; the anti-nuclear movement; being 25 years since she last practised; missing the intellectual challenges of medicine, lecturing; the lost opportunity to get rid of nuclear weapons at the end of the Cold War; the current Bush administration’s production of 500 new bombs each year; the Nuclear Policy Research Institute which she has set up; the book tours planned for it here and overseas; her personal life and determination in her anti-nuclear work. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 December 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Typescripts (corrected and later version) of The First (Phantom) Coat of Arms. The Coat-of-Arms was thought out by Mary Gilmore’s father, and his kinsman Mr Ogilvie of Yugilbar in about the year 1870-71. It was made as the breast-plate of “Bobby, Chief of the Yugilbar Tribe”. Breastplates were given as protection by squatters to the Aboriginal people working for them. Her father cut the model from which the copper breast plate was to be copied. Dame Mary Gilmore presented the breast plate to the National Library. Also includes a letter by Mary Gilmore to William Farmer Whyte regarding the breastplate. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 May 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Files contain material such as art exhibition catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases and/or other ephemeral items relating to Australian artists and galleries, where there are more than three artists exhibiting at the one exhibition. Other material may be collected under individual artists in the Australian Art and Artists file. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 November 2016 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sotiria Liangis is the developer behind a number of commercial properties in Canberra. She was the first Telstra ACT Business Woman of the Year in 1995. In 1996 she was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for ‘for service to the Greek community, particularly the aged and through St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Canberra’. She received the Centenary Medal in 2001, also for service to the Greek community. With her husband and son, Sotiria Liangis had received a Real Estate Institute of the ACT award in 1994. Sotiria Liangis arrived in Canberra from Greece with her new husband Angelo (previously Evangelos) in 1961. They could not speak English and said that they had no money. Angelo had first migrated to Australia and Canberra in 1954. He returned to his hometown, Keratea, in 1960 to marry Sotiria. Sotiria worked as a sales assistant in a fruit shop for £8 per week. Her husband, a trained and experienced shoemaker, worked in his trade for £18 per week. They spend £2 or £3 each week on their needs and saved the rest. After 18 months, they opened their first business, Angelo’s Shoe Repairs in Narrabundah. Their son was born on the same day. A second shoe store was opened in 1965. While her husband operated the shoe stores, Sotiria started Liangis Investments in 1967. The first project for the company was a warehouse, completed on time, within budget and tenanted immediately. This gave Sotiria satisfaction and the confidence to continue in construction and finance. She has been quoted as saying, ‘It was harder back then, because at first there were people around who were against a woman “on site” or who thought I should be at home with my son, but I just ignored them.’ One builder with whom she worked recalls the way she was always picking up the tools on site. She would make the workers straighten three-inch nails to use again. Projects which Sotiria and her company developed include an indoor recreation facility in the Kippax Centre, Woden Churches Centre, the Capitol Theatre in Manuka and Kingston Plaza. Despite the ‘shepherd’s daughter’ description headlining one 2014 Canberra Times article about her, she grew up in a wealthy family in Greece. None of the family’s money came to Australia with her when she married her shoemaker. Her mother had said to her: ‘You marry, I am your neighbour. And don’t ever come back here to complain about what kind of life you have, that you don’t have money or you are working hard.’ Organisations supported financially by the Liangis family include Hartley Lifecare, the Open Family Foundation and the construction of Canberra’s St Nicholas Home for the Aged. The family also built and donated the St John the Baptist Church for the Greek Orthodox community of Batemans Bay, New South Wales. She and her son John became Founding Benefactors of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia prior to its relocation to its current dedicated building on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin. In recognition of their generous gift, two Gallery spaces were named: the Liangis Theatre and the A & S Liangis Gallery. The Gallery name also commemorates Angelo Liangis. In 2013, Sotiria and John Liangis committed to support The Canberra Hospital and its Centenary Hospital for Women and Children to the level of $1 million over five years through the Canberra Hospital Foundation. In 2015, their generosity enabled the National Portrait Gallery to buy the Portrait of William Bligh, in Master’s Uniform, painted by John Webber around 1776. This portrait of the younger Governor Bligh will hang besides another Webber Portrait of Captain James Cook RN in the Gallery’s Canberra building. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article REI honours Liangis as successful investors, Clack, Peter, 1994, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118139832 Canberra Hospital artworks have feel-good factor, Cousins, Kerry-Anne, 2014, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/canberra-hospital-artworks-have-feelgood-factor-20140528-zrmlg.html The Liangis build a family tradition, Gaind, Rama, 1994, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118265858 Recreation site for $26,000, 1977, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page12376170 From shepherd's daughter to queen of her castle, Thistleton, John, 2014, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/sotiria-liangis-from-shepherds-daughter-to-queen-of-her-castle-20140110-30mxu.html#ixzz3BGhpRaIC Gang-gang: Portrait Gallery's Perfect Purchase, Warden, Ian, 2015, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/ganggang-portrait-gallerys-perfect-purchase-20150331-1mblrx.html Capital developer a woman of substance, 1995, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128287873 Resource Section Local philanthropist gives $1 million to Canberra Hospital, Maher, Louise, http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/11/18/3893310.htm Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra LIANGIS Evangios born 28 February 1929 - Greek - travelled per KLM flight departing in 1954 National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Sotiria Liangis interviewed by Marg Carroll in the Centenary of Canberra oral history project Author Details Ann Tündern-Smith Created 8 July 2015 Last modified 17 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Sotiria Liangis Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers on the history of dental education in Queensland, dental health and fluoridation of public water supplies. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 hours??’Ben Nevis’ trained as a doctor at the University of Adelaide during the 1940s. As an intern at the Royal Adelaide Hospital he treated women who were suffering after having had illegal abortions. He practised in Adelaide in the 1950s and 1960s as an obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was sympathetic to women’s needs for birth control, performed abortions for women where he felt they met the legal criteria, and passed on information about doctors in Melbourne to as many of his women patients as he could who requested abortions. ‘Dr Nevis’ was a foundation member of the Family Planning Association. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Beryl Henderson set up the Abortion Law Reform Association in Canberra. She was an active member of Canberra Women’s Liberation, and translated the French book Abortion: the Bobigny affair: law on trial. The first women’s refuge in Canberra was named after her and in 1987 the Beryl Henderson foundation was established. Born in England, she arrived in Australia via Israel, to settle in Victoria in 1965. She eventually made Canberra her home until the end of the 1970s when she returned to Israel. Beryl Henderson was born in Lincoln, England, in January 1897 and died in Jerusalem, Israel in December 1990, a month before her 94th birthday. Although she gained entry to university, the economic circumstances in her family prevented her from taking up her place. She won a scholarship to the Diocesan Training College, Lincoln, and became a primary school teacher. Early in life, Henderson became interested in political and social issues, associating with Fabian Society members and the Pankhurst family. She attended suffragette meetings with her mother and at the age of 16 was a founding member of the British Abortion Law Reform Association, along with Dora Russell and other prominent women. Henderson belonged to that generation of British women whose fiancés were killed in World War I and who never married. A feminist activist, Beryl became a councillor on the Extra Metropolitan London Borough Council, 1929-32, a member of the first Committee of the Abortion Law Reform Association in England in 1936 and a member of the Progressive League. Henderson left England to teach languages in an Israeli Kibbutz in 1960-64. Answering an advertisement in an English newspaper, she then came to Victoria as a housekeeper in 1965. She visited Canberra on holiday and decided to make it her home. Renting a room in Ainslie she started her first job in Canberra, undertaking housecleaning and general domestic work. Beryl Henderson found employment in Canberra Hospital in 1969, teaching English to migrants. She taught classes in 1969-73, forming many friendships in the migrant community. Volunteers from Women’s Liberation helped by minding the children to enable migrant mothers to attend classes. Henderson was responsible for setting up the Abortion Law Reform Association in Canberra. She also became active in the Family Planning Association (Life Membership in 1979) and the Humanist Society. As an active member of Canberra Women’s Liberation, Henderson performed the official opening of the first Women’s Refuge in Canberra (1975), now named after her. In 1974 Henderson translated from the French the book on the Bobigny Trial in France, Abortion: the Bobigny affair: law on trial, which was published by Wild and Woolley, Sydney 1975. Gisele Halimi, the French Arab lawyer who conducted the defence in the famous trial and wrote the book, expressed her great satisfaction with the standard of Henderson’s translation when she launched it in Sydney during International Women’s Year, 1975. The Women’s Movement in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra contributed to the cost of the publication. At the end of the 1970s Henderson returned to Israel. Soon after her ninetieth birthday, at the suggestion of her friends in Australia, she agreed to set up the Foundation in her name. The Beryl Henderson Foundation was established in May 1987 by eight of her friends. It offers an annual prize for an essay of no more than 5000 words on a topic relevant to women’s studies or to the status of women. Eligible entrants must be enrolled in an undergraduate course in a post-secondary public education institution in Australia in the year preceding submission. The inaugural prize was presented in 1998. Events 1936 - 1936 Member of first Committee of the Abortion Law Reform Association, England 1960 - 1964 Taught languages in an Israeli Kibbutz 1965 - 1968 Housekeeper, Victoria and then Canberra, Australia 1969 - 1969 Taught English to migrants, Canberra Hospital 1969 - 1973 Taught English classes to migrant community 1979 - 1979 Family Planning Association Life Membership 1974 - 1974 English translation of Abortion: the Bobigny affair: law on trial, (Wild and Wolley 1975) 1975 - 1975 Officially opened the first women’s refuge in Canberra, named after her 1979 - 1979 Returned to Israel 1929 - 1932 Councillor, Extra Metropolitan London Borough Council 1987 - 1987 Establishment of the Beryl Henderson Foundation, it offers an annual prize for an essay on a topic relevant to women’s studies or to the status of women Published resources Finding Aid Guide to the Papers of Beryl Henderson - MS 9360, National Library of Australia, 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-299073938/findingaid Journal Article Testimonial: Beryl Henderson's Legacy, Oswald, Jenny, 1998 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Book Abortion: the Bobigny affair: a law on trial: a complete record of the pleadings at the Court of Bobigny, 8 November 1972, Chevalier, Michele, 1975 Archival resources ACT Heritage Library Beryl Henderson at the women's 'tent embassy' today Beryl Henderson, Maureen Worsley and Liz Goldring at the Women's Embassy at Parliament House protesting against abortion laws National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Beryl Henderson, 1973-1992 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Beryl Henderson, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Elle Morrell Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 29 September 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Notes of interviews conducted with people who knew Essington Lewis. Dr Johnson was employed as a research assistant for BHP. Author Details Clare Land Created 17 June 2002 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A member of the Canberra Liberals, Vicki Dunne was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory representing the electorate of Ginninderra from 2001 to 2020. She held the position of Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 2012 to 2016. Dunne was a member of many other community groups including Karinya House, the Cystic Fibrosis Association, ArtSound FM and the North Belconnen Landcare Group and Radio 1RPH (Print Handicapped Radio). She is married with five children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Flinders University Library, Special Collections Trafficking Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2001 Last modified 12 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Janice Knight ran for election only once. That was in 1991 as an ALP candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Northern Tablelands. Raised in Coonamble district of NSW, Janice Knight undertook a BA at the University of New England and started teaching at Wiley Park Girls’ High School. Active in her community, she was elected secretary of New England Rugby Union in 1973. She joined the ALP in 1989 and was a delegate to the Country Conference. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Belinda Coates stood as a candidate for the Australian Greens Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Ballarat West at the Victorian state election, which was held on 25 November 2006. A resident of Ballarat Belinda Coates has been a Social Worker for fifteen years. She is standing for election in the Central Ward at the Ballarat City Council election of 2008. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 12 August 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9212 comprises correspondence and reports produced when Segal worked for Harper & Row, 1985-1987, and when she worked as a freelance editor, 1992-1995. A report on an early manuscript of Helen Demidenko’s The hand that signed the paper, expressing serious objections to it, is included, as is some correspondence with Allen & Unwin regarding this publication. There is also correspondence (two letters) between Segal and Patrick Gallagher of Allen & Unwin, relating to the Demidenko/Darville saga, 2000, and a letter from Patrick Gallagher regarding the donation of his previous letter by Segal to the National Library of Australia (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Bernice Agar was a highly successful portrait photographer based in Sydney, whose work featured prominent Australian society figures. Agar was also an early fashion photographer. Widely published, her glamourous works were characterised by a strong preference for artificial light and crisp outlines. Her technique favoured strong frontal lighting. Few of her society portraits survive today. Bernice Agar was a highly successful portrait photographer of Australia’s society figures and an early fashion photographer. Agar was born in Bowen, Queensland, in 1885, to William and Isobel Agar. She was the youngest daughter of the family. She trained at the Bain Photographic Studios in Toowoomba Queensland where she worked until 1918 as chief photographer. By 1917 she had made a name for herself, with people reportedly coming ‘from all over Australia to be photographed by her.’ TheDarling Downs Gazette described her as being ‘just a slip of a girl. She is a born artist, [whose work is] fascinating, not only is it artistic but she gets an absolute photograph. Her posing is uncommon and original’ (1917). In 1918, Agar moved to Sydney where she opened her own studio, the Bernice Agar Studio, situated in Denison House, George Street. She specialized in stylish portraits of leading artists and society women, such as Thea Proctor, and the opera singer Clara Butt. In line with methods adopted by women photographers in the UK she would invite society figures to pose for her, providing them with free prints and selling the images to magazines, a practice also adopted by the Australian portrait photographers May and Mina Moore. Agar’s work was very popular during the 1920s and the success she enjoyed enabled her to employ a number of assistants including her sister Alice, who worked as a retoucher. Much of her work was published in the magazine Society, as well as Sydney Ure Smith’s The Home magazine (1914-1926), and it was ‘characterized by a strong preference for artificial light and crisp, clear outlines’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 10). The 1920s in Australia was a time when magazines such as The Home started to publish the names of its fashion photographers, a new development that undoubtedly contributed to Agar’s success (Maynard 96-97). Agar’s technique involved the use of strong frontal lighting and compositions where the face, and the shapes and lines of the accessories and clothing, were highlighted, resulting in photographs which Barbara Hall describes as being ‘softly etched with shadows.’ For Hall, ‘the result was often a portrait that showed women as arrogant, smouldering, penetrating, cool, sylph-like, formidable or discerning’ (Hall 62), while other commentators have said they ‘exude glamour and style'(National Library of Australia, Beyond the Picket Fence). Agar herself was known to be a very private, fashion conscious woman who dressed beautifully. Her niece recalls that Agar herself was as glamorous as any of her photographs – an observation that is confirmed by her self-portrait. In 1933 Agar, in a quiet ceremony, married James W. Hardie, a Sydney accountant. The society papers reported that she wore ‘a frock of parchment satin covered with a velvet coat of the same shade with a lovely collar of sable, into which she had tucked a spray of orchids. Her small brown velvet hat matched her furs, and the “tout ensemble” was very charming indeed.’ It was at this point in her life that she gave up her studio and work. The couple did not have any children. Only 16 tinted head studies of her family prior to her magazine work exist today. In addition to these, there are a small number of surviving photoprints of the society women and fashion photographs that were reproduced in magazines. Jack Cato, in The Story of the Camera in Australia, wrote that Bernice Agar ‘for over a decade held first place for her beautiful portraits of society women. When she married and retired, the leading camera men of this country breathed a sigh of relief’ (Cato 136). Bernice Agar died in Edgecliff, Sydney in 1976. Collections Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Historic Houses Trust Ferguson Collection, National Library of Australia National Gallery Australia – holds the Portrait of Bernice Agar National Library of Australia holds the only known surviving ‘society portrait’ taken by Agar; it is the photograph of the opera singer Clara Butt Events 1981 - 1981 Bernice Agar featured in the exhibition Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 1917 - 1917 Bernice Agar exhibited her work at the Bain Photographic Studio 1918 - 1929 Active as a professional studio photographer 1996 - 1996 Bernice Agar featured in the exhibition The Reflecting Eye: Portraits of Australian Visual Artists 1995 - 1995 Bernice Agar featured in the exhibition Beyond the Picket Fence Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women's Art in the National Library's Collection, Carr, Sylvia and National Library of Australia, 1995, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/36337/20030703-0000/www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fence/picket.html Magazine article A First For Women Photographers in Australia: Quick Thinking and Ladders Got the Top Shots, Bowen, Jill, 1981, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55457051 Newspaper Article Bernice Agar is Responsible for These Charming Studies of Children, 1926, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/128126615 Bain Studio Exhibit, 1917, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/187520524 November Brides, 1923, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/120547235 Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 The Story of the Camera in Australia, Cato, Jack, 1979 The reflecting eye: portraits of Australian visual artists, Ennis, Helen, National Library of Australia and National Portrait Gallery (Australia), 1996, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/125722/20110309-0156/www.nla.gov.au/pub/ebooks/pdf/the+reflecting+eye.pdf Book Section Bernice Agar, 1995 Resource Section Bernice Agar, 1995, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bernice-agar/ Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 28 September 2016 Last modified 24 January 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute books of executive committee minutes 1887-1968; child protection committee minute book 1903-1923; minute book of Victorian Provident Aid Society 1906-1961; minute book of the Victorian Institute of Hospital Almoners 1937-1943; case records 1903-1966; index names and statistical particulars of clients 1948-1960. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 19 November 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The records, which date cover the entire period of the club’s history, range from minutes; reports, financial records and business files to photographs and objects (including honour boards). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 27 November 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Address by Dame Ada Norris’s speech on the occasion of her being awarded the degree of LL.D., honoris causa, 13 December 1980, by the University of Melbourne. 5 pp. A4 ts. Photocopy. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers in MS 958 comprise letters and cards of Barbara Hanrahan, a typescript titled “The world you are walking upon: a tribute to Barbara Hanrahan” and photocopies of articles on Hanrahan, including her obituary. In her letters, Hanrahan discusses her writings, including Flawless Jade, her art, people they know and Carmel Bird’s writings. Also included are papers relating to The Penguin century of Australian stories, which was edited by Bird and published by Penguin in 2000. They mostly comprise correspondence, biographical notes and permission to publish forms received from authors approached about contributions to the anthology (15 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc06.204 instalment comprises further papers relating to the editing of The stolen children: their stories: including extracts from the Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, which was published in 1998 (1 box).??The Acc15.118 instalment comprises correspondence received by Carmel Bird 1980-1999. Correspondents include Bruce Pascoe, Frank Morehouse, Gerald Murnane and Bird’s students (2 boxes). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Austrian Girls were three young women who were imprisoned as enemy aliens in Australia during World War I. They were held at the Molonglo Concentration Camp, Canberra, in the then new Federal Capital Territory from August 1918 to May 1919. Within a week of Australia’s entry into World War I in August 1914 the Government declared all German subjects resident in Australia enemy aliens and required them to report to the police and register their addresses. Some enemy aliens were interned under the War Precautions Act 1914 which enabled government to hold internees without trial. In February 1915 the Government broadened the definition of an enemy alien to include migrants who had been naturalised as British subjects (Australian citizenship did not yet exist at this time – Australian-born people were British subjects and foreign-born people could apply for naturalisation as British subjects). At this point Australian-born people with German-born fathers or grandfathers were also declared enemy aliens. The Government targeted leading members of the German community in Australia, including Lutheran Church pastors, honorary consuls and business men, but also the destitute and people accused of disloyalty by their neighbours. Internment camps were established in Rottnest Island in Western Australia, Torrens Island in South Australia, Enoggera in Queensland, Langwarrin in Victoria, Bruny Island in Tasmania, and Trial Bay in New South Wales. Around 5000 to 6000 men were detained at Holsworthy Military Camp near Sydney, while German and Austrian women and children were deported from Asia and the Pacific and interned at Bourke, New South Wales. German mariners and their families captured in Australian ports were detained at Berrima, New South Wales. Families from both the latter camps, including two Australian-born women married to Germans and living in Fiji, were transferred to the Molonglo Concentration Camp near Canberra in May 1918. There appears to be no information about the three Austrian women pictured waiting to collect their rations at the Molonglo Concentration Camp. Their names and family connections were not recorded. It is likely they were described as Austrian because of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Whether they were German or from Austria-Hungary, whether they were on their own or with families, and even why the photographer captured them this particular day with their cart, remain mysteries. In the background the wooden barracks in which the prisoners lived can be seen on the treeless plain. Daisy Schoeffel, an Australian-born woman detained with her husband and two small children, recorded that while rations were good and plentiful and they were treated better than they had been at the Bourke Camp, life was unpleasant on the open plain in poorly built wooden barracks that let in the rain, wind and noise from the other internees (NAA: CRS 457, Item 406/1 cited in Fischer, 1989). Internees were not released from the Molonglo Camp until May 1919 when most were deported to Germany, regardless of where they had originally been detained. Of around 7000 people interned in Australia, 5414 were deported from 1919, along with a further 736 family members. Of more than 1000 people who appealed to the Commonwealth Alien Board against deportation only 306 were successful, including 179 naturalised or native-born Australians. From those interned at Molonglo, Daisy Schoeffel and her sister Hally Kienzle, their German-born but British naturalised husbands and their children, all of whom were British subjects were among those who successfully appealed deportation. The three young Austrian women are likely to have been among the Molonglo internees deported to Germany on the Kursk which sailed on 29 May 1919. Molonglo camp internee Lore Hurtzig, two-years-old when she was captured and interned with her mother, sister and sea captain father in Brisbane harbour in 1914, and nine-years-old when she was released in May 1919, was deported on the Kursk with her family. Eighty years later and an 87-year-old Second World War widow, Lore described the ship as ‘a slow, filthy, chartered Russian tub’ (Simons, 205). Crowded conditions on board the ship contributed to an influenza outbreak affecting 535 of the internees, of whom 16 died as a result (‘Cases on the Kursk’, 1919, p. 17). If they survived the voyage home, the three young women would have returned to a defeated, humiliated, economically devastated Austria or Germany. Within twenty years their country was again at war; they may have had to watch husbands and sons go off to war and their country being again devastated. Again, we know nothing of these women’s later lives but we do know that for nine months from August 1918 to May 1919, they lived in Australia’s Capital Territory, so they are part of Canberra’s story. Published resources Book The enemy at home: German internees in World War I Australia, Helmi, Nadine and Fischer, Gerard, 2011 'Prisoners in Arcady': German mariners at Berrima 1915-1919, Simons, John R., 1999 Enemy aliens: internment and the homefront experience in Australia, 1914-1920, Fischer, Gerhard, 1989 Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Cases on the Kursk, 1919, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15848908 Author Details Niki Francis Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 22 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "One group photograph possibly of a Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, a Masonic Order for Women. The other is a tribute to Alice Mary Baker comprising three images, text and watercolours. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Austin was the benefactor of Melbourne’s Austin Hospital, and ‘a pioneer of female benefaction in Victoria’. Elizabeth was the fourth daughter of Robert Harding, a yeoman farmer, and his wife Mary (née Phillips). She sailed for Australia in 1841 with her brother William, who settled in Winchelsea. In 1945 Elizabeth married her neighbour, Thomas Austin, in Melbourne. She had eleven children, three of whom died in infancy. The Austin’s lived at Barwon Park, where they entertained the Duke of Edinburgh in 1867. Embarrassed by their ‘undistinguished homestead’, Elizabeth persuaded her husband to build a new home, and a bluestone mansion was completed by 1871. Thomas Austin passed away shortly afterwards. According to historian Paul de Serville, Elizabeth Austin – described by grandchildren as a ‘shrewd, determined woman’ – had ‘quietly begun a second career, as a philanthropist’ by 1880. She responded to an appeal to found a hospital for incurables in Melbourne, offering £6,000 (via an intermediary) to launch it. Reputedly, her interest in incurable disease ‘derived from a case among her staff’. On her birthday in 1882, the Austin Hospital for Incurables was opened. She continued to give money for maintenance, and paid for the establishment of a children’s ward in 1898. Austin visited the hospital once a month, and three of her granddaughters served on its committee until the 1960s. Another major philanthropic gift went to the Austin Homes for Women at South Geelong, built as part of the Jubilee celebrations for Queen Victoria in 1887. Austin also gave to the Servants’ Training Institute, St Thomas’s Church (Winchelsea), the Ladies’ Benevolent Society and local charities. She was buried in the Geelong cemetery with Anglican rites. Events 2012 - 2012 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section Austin, Elizabeth Phillips (1821-1911), Serville, Paul de, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10016b.htm Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Journal Article Perhaps to Spite her Children: The Philanthropy of Elizabeth Austin, Swain, Shurlee, 1996 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 8 December 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 sound files (approximately 187 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 1 February 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "QCWA Minute Books – Closed Branches / Younger Sets:?Jimbour Branch (12)?Kogan Branch (1)?Jandowae & District (Younger set) (1)?Oak Park Branch (3)?Wandoan (Younger set) (1)?Taroom (Younger set) (1)?Bell (Younger set) (1)?Cooranga North (Younger set) (1)?Tara (Younger set) (1)?Jackson (Younger set) (1)?Langlands Branch (5)?Rosevale Branch (1)?Meandarra (2)?Canaga Branch (6)?Baking board – Rywung (3)?Rywung (2)?Agnes Waters/1770 Branch (1)?Point Lookout (1)?Mt Nebo (2)?Brandon (Younger set)?West Toowoomba (1)?Mt Martin/McGregor Creek (1)?Blackall (Younger set) (1)?Texas (Younger set) (1 book 1 folder)?Silsoe (2)?Sun Valley (4)?Brandon Branch (6)?Brandon (Younger set) (2)?Pamona (1)?Cannonvale Airlie Beach (1) Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 June 2004 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Louise Sauvage is a professional athlete and Paralympian who dominated the world of wheelchair track and road racing for well over a decade. Over the course of her career, Sauvage won nine Paralympic gold medals, four Boston Marathons, and was four times the winner of the 800m Wheelchair Exhibition Race at the IAAF World Athletic Championships. She holds world records in the 1500m, 5000m and 4x100m and 4x400m relays. Louise Sauvage was Australian Female Athlete of the Year in 1999, and International Female Wheelchair Athlete of the Year in 1999 and 2000. The daughter of Maurice Sauvage and Rita (née Rigden), Louise Sauvage was christened Alix after her paternal grandmother, but by family tradition has always been known as Louise. Her father, who came from the French- and Creole-speaking island of the Seychelles off the north-east coast of Africa, met her mother, a ‘£10 pom’ who emigrated from Leicestershire, at a dinner dance in Perth, Western Australia. In 1969 they had a daughter, Ann, and four years later, Louise. The two girls were raised in Joondanna, Perth, where Louise attended Tuart Hill Primary School and later, Hollywood Senior High. She left High School after year ten, completing a TAFE course in office and secretarial studies. Louise Sauvage was born with the congenital spinal condition myelodysplasia. Her condition necessitated no less than 21 operations before she was ten years old. From the age of three she was swimming to strengthen her upper body and attempting to walk with the aid of splints and callipers. In 1976 she was Perth’s ‘Telethon Child’ as part of a Channel 7 fundraiser for children with disabilities. At the age of eight she began to use a wheelchair, greatly increasing her mobility. She took up wheelchair sports and demonstrated natural ability. As a child, Sauvage later recalled, she had ‘raced, swum, thrown discuses, shot puts and javelins and played basketball in sport for athletes with a disability’. By 1983 Sauvage, labelled ‘The Joondanna Flash’ by the local paper, had been selected to compete in the Second National Junior Games for the Disabled. The following year, aged ten, she became the youngest ever athlete to compete in the National Senior Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Games in Sydney. She came home with two silver and three bronze medals. In 1985 she returned from the National Junior Games in Perth with a haul of fifteen medals, including seven gold. In her early teens Sauvage underwent a number of operations to correct curvature of the spine, virtually living at Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth. Two steel rods placed in her spine spelt the end of a swimming career, leaving Sauvage – though she continued to play basketball – to focus on track racing. It was a fateful move. Not yet seventeen years old, Sauvage was selected to represent Australia at the 1990 IPC World Championships in Athletics in Holland. There she won gold in the 100m, creating a new world record. She also won the 200m race but was disqualified for moving out of her lane. At the Stoke Mandeville Games in England the same year, Sauvage took gold in the 100m, 200m, 400m, and two relays. Inspired by the then World No. 1 track racer, the Danish Connie Hansen, Sauvage returned from Holland fuelled by a desire to be the best in the world in her chosen sport. Defying those who said a career as a professional athlete was a mistake for a girl with a disability, she trained hard. The lack of elite competition in Australia in her sport meant that she travelled for four to six months of each year in order to put herself up against the best, but the ordeal of flying was not diminished by its frequency. First on the plane and last off, seated up the back with her chairs and luggage, Sauvage was forced to dehydrate her body before each flight to avoid the difficulty of using aeroplane toilets. Like other athletes, she was living out of hotel rooms away from family and friends, training hard and missing out on a normal social life. Hitherto funded by her family, Sauvage was awarded a Scholarship from the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 1990. She began training six days a week with the AIS and the New South Wales Institute/Sydney Academy of Sport. Her training program included at least twelve sessions a week and a 25km-35km push each morning. At the age of eighteen, Sauvage competed at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympic Games where she won three gold medals and one silver (100m, 200m, 400m, 800m). In 1993 Sauvage was awarded the ABC’s Junior Female Athlete of the Year Award. That same year she competed for the first time in the Boston Marathon, ‘the world’s greatest road race’ for both able-bodied and wheelchair athletes, attracting 100 wheelchair competitors and 40,000 runners each year. Here Sauvage established a strong and lasting rivalry with the American Jean Driscoll, who won eight of the eleven Marathons in which she competed. Not until 1997 did Sauvage out-do her opponent, beating her again in a spectacular photo finish in 1998 and by a chair’s length in 1999. Sauvage won the Marathon for the fourth time in 2001, after Driscoll’s retirement. After a slightly more relaxed year in Melbourne – where she appeared as herself in an episode of the famous Australian television series, Neighbours – Sauvage began training in earnest for the 1996 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Atlanta. She won gold in her only track race at the Olympic Games, beating rivals Driscoll and Cheri Becerra, and went on to win four more gold medals at the Paralympic Games. Having won the 5000m in world record time, Sauvage was competing in the 400m just one hour later, winning gold again with a Paralympic record of 54.96 seconds. She went on to win gold in the 800m and 1500m. After her success in Atlanta, Sauvage employed a manager, Karen McBrien, and moved to Sydney where she was coached by Andrew Dawes. In late 1998, with the three other members of the Australian Wheelchair Women’s Relay Team, Sauvage took part in the Byron Bay to Bondi fund-raising event for the NSW Wheelchair Sports Association. Together, over 13 days, the girls pushed over 800km. In between her 20-30km stints, Louise had to make a quick visit to Sydney to attend an awards presentation and attend community civic functions and personal sponsor appearances. The 2000 Sydney Olympic Games were a career highlight. Sauvage carried the Olympic Torch across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and lit the Cauldron to mark the commencement of the 2000 Paralympic Games. In the 800m demonstration race at the Olympics, Sauvage won gold before a home crowd of 110,000 people. She went on to win two gold medals (1500m and 5000m) and one silver medal (800m) at the Paralympics. Louise Sauvage was voted Australian Paralympian of the Year in 1994, 1996, 1997 and 1998. She was the Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year in 1997, and in 1998 won the ABIGROUP National Sports Award as part of the Young Australian of the Year Awards. In 1997 the Australian Olympic Committee presented her with the International Olympic Committee Trophy ‘Sport For All’ within Australia, and the following year she was featured in an episode of Australian television’s ‘This is Your Life’. In 2000 she was awarded the trophy for World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability at the inaugural Laureus Awards hosted by the World Sports Academy. Louise Sauvage published her autobiography, Louise Sauvage: My Story, in 2002. The book charts the development of a professional athlete whose phenomenal sporting results were once recorded in the ‘human interest’ rather than sport sections of the media. Sauvage hoped (and still hopes) through her wins to raise the profile of disability sports and to raise awareness about athletes – and indeed all members of society – with a disability. She speaks to schools, community groups, and corporations. Sauvage was selected by the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee as a Media Ambassador to promote the Games throughout Australia, and in 2000 she established the Louise Sauvage ‘Aspire to be a Champion Foundation’, administered by the NSW Wheelchair Sports Association. As part of its Sporting Grants program, the Foundation recently awarded a grant to Brett Ogden, a quadriplegic wheelchair track and road racer. In 2005 Louise Sauvage was inducted into the NSW Sports Hall of Champions. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Louise Sauvage: My Story, Sauvage, Louise, 2002 Article Out there with Madonna, Verghis, Sharon, 2002, http://www.smh.com.au/articles Journal Article From athletes to their mentors - Louise Sauvage thanking Andrew Dawes, Sauvage, Louise, 2001 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 8 March 2007 Last modified 14 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Portrait of Louise Sauvage Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The MS 6853 collection is arranged into four series. The first series, of personal documents, includes a diary and associated papers covering the period when Dulcie Holland left Australia to study music in London. Holland’s original scores date from the 1930s to the 1990s and comprise the second series. They include chamber music, orchestral music, early compositions, piano music, solo works and songs. This series includes 146 titles. The scores are signed, or initialled, and dated by Holland. She also annotated many of the scores with the name of the lyricist for whose works she wrote the melodies, the name of the choir or occasion that a composition was arranged for, or the name of the person who first performed the piece (1 box, 7 fol. Boxes).??The Acc03.113 instalment comprises black and white photographs of Holland, music by Holland including scores edited by Becky Llewellyn, articles, issue of Scala news (March/April 1990), and a “Songlines” leaflet (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "5 min. 35mm – safety/b&w/sound??1. (3 min 49 sec) After attending a camp of disciplinary training, Land Army girls are sent to assist in vegetable growing, fruit picking and other aspects of farm work 2. (1 min 17 sec) Melbourne crowds standing amidst the trees and gardens of St. Kilda Road cheer men of the Home Defence Corps who march with modern equipment. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Women &? Reconciliation. artwork by Jabal Jarr 1990??The First Australians, whose lands, winds and waters we all now share…?get to know our mob! We are proud of our identity. Karulbo All Together?Blink, Black Ink, Stories through Indigenous eyes. Jul-Dec 2012. State Library of Queensland?Australian Declaration Towards Reconciliation. Presented at Corroboree 2000. Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation?No matter, she yelling and screaming, Be Strong! Walk away! Cool down, Don’t hit your missus. Rob ’97?AFL Kick Start, Alive &? Kicking, Michael Long. AFL Indigenous Foundation?AFL Kick Start, Alive &? Kicking, Darryl White, Say no to sniffing, Get high on life instead?AFL Kick Start – Alive &? Kicking, Peter Burgoyne, Buckle up Kick a goal for road safety?AFL Kick Start, Alive &? Kicking, Andrew McLeod, Go to school, Be what you want to be.?Don’t dream it DO IT! – Cathy Freeman – Indigenous Sport Program. Australian Sports Commission?The mapoon people demand their land back! 1975?Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Regional Council Elections. 1993?If police think you broke the law and want to talk to you REMEMBER you don’t have to talk unless you want to. Tharpuntoo Legal Service?Torres Strait Islander Advisory Board?Wu Chopperen Medical Service. Artwork by ??Indigenous Women’s Unit – North Queensland Women’s Legal Service Inc. Artwork by Girrinjyee ’98?Family keeps culture alive. Department of Families, Queensland Government?TSRA Elections, 22 March 1997, Have your say in the TSRA – make your vote count?Write your future, make school count, National Indigenous English Literacy and Numeracy Strategy, Students parents Schools Communities. Evelyn Scott.?IBIS, Islanders Board of Industry and service?This could be you, Enrol now at the Johnstone College of TAFE, Innisfail?Candidates Poster, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Regional Council Election, Cairns?Office of Torres Strait Islander Affairs, ATSIC?Vision for Cape York by the People of Cape York, photography supplied by Kerry Trapnell?International Year of Older Persons 1999, Old Peoples Action Program. Mura Kosker Sorority Inc. Torres Strait?Ending Family Violence Program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Offenders. Artwork by Henderson 2002?Picture yourself in Corrections, Recruitment and Retention Strategy 2000-2005?Working together for empowerment by the year 2000, Torres Strait Regional Authority?Language… a key to understanding. Graphics- S. Furlong, Photography- R. Cooper. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Miriam Hyde was one of the Australia’s leading pianists and composers of the twentieth century. Miriam Beatrice Hyde undertook initial studies with her mother before winning a scholarship to the Elder Conservatorium at the age of twelve, where she studied under William Silver. She gradated with a Mus. Bac. In 1931 and won the Elder Scholarship to the Royal College of Music., London. During her three years at the College, Miriam won three composition prizes and was soloist in two piano concerti with major London orchestras, including the BBC. Miriam returned to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1931 and here she wrote orchestral music for South Australia’s Centenary pageant, Heritage, produced in the Tivoli Theatre. In order to seek greater opportunities, Miriam moved to Sydney and taught for several years at Kambala School. During this time, she remained active as a composer, recitalist, teacher, examiner, lecturer and writer. For a period during the Second World War, whilst her husband was a prisoner of war (POW), she returned to Adelaide and taught piano and musical perception and the Elder Conservatorium. Miriam was Patron of the Music Teachers’ Associations of New South Wales and South Australia, in addition to the Blue Mountains Eisteddfod and the Australian Musicians Academy. She was also Honorary Life Member of the Fellowship of Australian Composers, the Victorian Music Teachers’ Association, and the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra. In 1981 Miriam was awarded an OBE and in 1991 an AO. She also received the International Woman of the Year Award (1991-92) and an Honorary Doctorate by Macquarie University. In 2002 Miriam accepted the Award for Long-Term Contribution to the Advancement of Australian Music at the APRA/Australian Music Centre Classical Awards and in 2004 she received a further APRA/Australian Music Centre Award. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Miriam Hyde, 1927-1996 [manuscript] Letter of Miriam Hyde 1966 Letters of Miriam Hyde, 1997-1999 Correspondence of Miriam Hyde, 1997-2004 [manuscript] Works by Miriam Hyde : from the Australian Music Centre archive Poem by Miriam Hyde, 1980 [Manuscript music of Miriam Hyde] [music] Manuscript book of songs [music] / by Miriam Hyde Papers of Malcolm Southwell, 1981-1982 [manuscript] [Six letters from Miriam Hyde to Carmichael, 1997-2001] Notes, 1970 [manuscript] Music scores 1950-1973 [manuscript] Papers of Beatrice Tange, 1921-1970 [manuscript] Records of the Australian Musical Association, 1952-1995 [manuscript] [Photocopies of letters to Wilcher from Miriam Hyde, 1972-2004] Letters from composers/performers of importance to Fred Blanks (also some political leaders) National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Miriam Hyde interviewed by Larry Sitsky [sound recording] Miriam Hyde interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Miriam Hyde, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of Western Australia Records, 1910-1988 [manuscript]. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Annual reports, 1978-1979. Author Details Clare Land Created 13 September 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "On 10 June 2019, Ita Buttrose was appointed Companion (AC) in the General Division, Order of Australia for eminent service to the community through leadership in the media, the arts, and the health sector, and as a role model. On 13 June 1988, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to the community, particularly in the fields of medical education and health care. In the Queen’s Birthday list 1979 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for service to journalism. She became the first woman to be awarded the Harnett Medal for community service and achievements in publishing, journalism, radio and television. Daughter of: Charles Oswald and Mary Clare (née Rodgers) Buttrose. Ita Buttrose was the founding editor of Cleo magazine in 1972. She then became editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly and later publisher of Australian Consolidated Press Women’s Division. A journalist by trade, Ida Buttrose has worked in all forms of media (print, radio and television) during her career. Before starting her own company Capricorn Publishing, Ita Buttrose was a director of News Ltd, editor-in-chief of the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs, columnist and editorial consultant for the Fairfax magazine group and then editor-in-chief of the Sun Herald newspaper. From 1984-1988, Ita Buttrose chaired the National Advisory Committee on AIDS. She is patron of Women of Vision, World Vision Australia, The University of Third Age, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation of Australia, Amarant, the National Menopause Foundation, the Sydney Women’s Festival, Safety House and National Institute of Secretaries and Administrators. In 1984 she was named Variety Club’s Personality of the Year as well as Australasian Academy of Broadcast, Arts and Sciences for the most promising Newcomer to Radio. In 1993 Ita Buttrose was named Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Australian of the Year. [1] http://www.cew.org.au/view_profile.cfm?member=Ita%20Buttrose accessed 28/10/2002. [2] ibid Events 1979 - 1979 Appointed the Order of the British Empire – Officer (Civil) 1975 - 1976 Editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly 1972 - 1975 Founding editor of Cleo 1990 - 1996 Director of the Prudential Corporation Trust Australia 1990 - 1994 Director of the Australia Advisory Board 1998 - 1998 Director of The Smith Family, Australia 1997 - 1999 Chairman of the Australian Services Nurses’ National Memorial Fund 1997 - 1998 Member of the Federal Government Conference for Older Australians 1995 - 1997 President of the National Opera Festival 1992 - 1993 President of Chief Executive Women 1988 - 1988 Appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) 2042 - 2042 Born daughter of Charles Oswald and Mary Clare (née Rodgers) Buttrose 2001 - 2001 Chairman of Terraplanet Ltd 2000 - 2000 Director of Terraplanet Ltd 2000 - 2000 GST Customer Advocate for Woolworths Supermarket chain 1999 - 1999 Columnist for The Australian Women’s Weekly 1998 - 1998 Columnist for Courier Newspaper Group (Sydney) 1998 - 1998 Member of the Alcohol Beverages Advertising Code Complaints Adjudication Panel 1997 - 1997 TV Panelist for Beauty and the Beast on Foxtel and the Ten Network, Australia 1995 - 1998 Director of Buttrose and Dominguez Design 1995 - 1996 Broadcaster for Radio 2GB, Sydney 1984 - 1987 Broadcaster for Radio 2KY and 2UE, Sydney 1988 - 1994 Chief Executive Officer of Capricorn Publishing Pty Ltd 1989 - 1994 Editor of ITA Magazine 1988 - 1988 Editor-in-chief of The Sun-Herald 1981 - 1984 Editor-in-chief of the The Daily Telegraph and of the The Sunday Telegraph 1976 - 1981 Editor-in-chief of the Australian Women’s Weekly and of Cleo 1984 - 1988 Publishing consultant to Women’s Day and Portfolio magazines 1981 - 1981 Appointed Board member of News Ltd, Australia 1978 - 1981 Director of the K G Murray Leisure Group 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1991 - 1994 Chairman of AIDS Trust Australia 1984 - 1988 Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on AIDS (NACAIDS) 1991 - 1992 Director of Television & Telecasters Pty Ltd 1992 - 1992 Awarded Hartnett Medal 1970 - 2000 2019 - 2019 Companion (AC) in the General Division, Order of Australia: For eminent service to the community through leadership in the media, the arts, and the health sector, and as a role model. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Article Service nurses honoured with long awaited memorial, 1999 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Meredith Hinchliffe, 1957-1981 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 October 2002 Last modified 12 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A former principal of Strathcona Baptist Girls’ Grammar School (1990-2001), Ruth Bunyan became a member (and then a director) of the Invergowrie Foundation Council, a philanthropic organisation that issues grants to community groups to advance girls’ education in Victoria. The daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth Barkley, Ruth was educated at Morongo Girls College and Geelong High School. She completed her tertiary education at the University of Melbourne and the University Women’s College, graduating with a Bachelor of Science and a Diploma of Education. In 1963, Ruth Barkley married Peter James Bunyan (deceased 1996). The pair had three children. Bunyan worked as a haematologist at Mater Hospital in Newcastle before becoming a Lecturer in mathematics at the Victoria College of Pharmacy. Later she taught maths at Mitcham High School and Geelong High School, before becoming Chief of Staff at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Melbourne. Bunyan was appointed to the position of Deputy Principal at St Margaret’s Girls School, Berwick, and from 1990 until her retirement in 2001, was Principal of Strathcona Baptist Girls’ Grammar School, Melbourne. Ruth Bunyan enjoys travel, reading, music, theatre, bushwalking and tennis. She is a member of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and the Lyceum Club (Melbourne). Source used to compile this entry: Who’s Who in Australia, 2002 p. 332 and information supplied by The Invergowrie Foundation. Events 1990 - 2001 Member of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools Australia 1993 - 1993 Member, Invergowrie Foundation Council 2001 - 2001 Director, Mentone Girls’ Grammar School 2001 - 2001 Member, Acton Early Childhood Centre 1990 - 2001 Principal, Strathcona Baptist Girls’ Grammar School (Melbourne) Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 March 2002 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letters, novel “Towards the source”, “Green grows the vine”, miscellaneous verse, photographs, editor’s “mock up” of the Jindyworobak Anthology, 1950. Also includes letters, mainly personal, from other writers commenting on her work, (1946-1976). Correspondents include Ian Mudie, Mary Durack, John Bray, Gwen Harwood, R.H. Morrison, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Douglas Stewart, Dorothy Green, C. B. Christesen, Kylie Tennant, Dymphna Cusack, Nancy Keesing (added 9.12.76). Other letters added to the collection include those of: Florence James, Nancy Keesing, Judith Wright, Dorothy Green, Gwen Harwood and Flexmore Hudson (added 30.5.96) and Andrew Hay, son of William Gosse Hay (added 16.6.96). A number of letters refer to the formation of Lyrebird Writers, of which Cato and Roland Robinson were founding members. The collection also contains a transcript of dictated excerpts from the diary of Daniel Matthews, 1889, together with photocopies of his diaries, 1899-90, used in research for Mr Maloga (added 30.5.96). Author Details Clare Land Created 2 July 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jane Bennett was winner of the Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1997. Jane Bennett wishes that she had taken the possibility she might win the ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award more seriously when she was nominated in 1997. The quality of the field was so impressive she didn’t think she had a hope, so she didn’t bother inviting her parents or partner to the award dinner. When her name was announced, it came as a genuine shock to her, but not to others who knew her. As the ABC’s National Editor – Rural, Lucy Broad, said, ‘Jane’s achievements in all aspects of her industry, her commitment to developing business opportunities within her community, and her vision for promoting primary industry at a wider level, impressed the judges greatly.’ At the age of twenty-eight, Jane Bennett had already developed a reputation as a woman with brilliant ideas and huge vision. More than a decade on she is still being described as ‘an outstanding role model for rural women in Australia’. Jane’s achievement was to turn the family’s century old dairy-farming operation into one of Australia’s most internationally recognised, premier cheese brands, all the while using her own business as a tool for promoting Tasmanian rural industries and communities. Ashgrove Cheese is a highly recognisable outlet in the ‘Foodies trail’ that attracts tourists to Northern Tasmania. In the three years to 2010, when Bennett won the Tasmanian Business Woman of the Year Award, cheese sales had doubled and turnover had increased by 220 %. As Bennett insists, the success comes on the back of a lot of hard work and a bit of risk-taking. But for this highly driven woman with a talent for innovation, running with opportunities rather than being scared of them is what makes her tick, even if stepping out of her comfort zone means stepping up to more responsibility. Jane grew up on the family dairy farm at Elizabeth Town, near Deloraine, in northern Tasmania. Her childhood was a busy one. If she wasn’t attending school, playing sport or acting in local theatre productions, she was working on her own farm, or that of her uncles in the district. She suspects that her desire to stay working in the agriculture industry stems from her ‘guilt’ at not being a boy who could help her father out. As a child, she wanted to do the work that boys might do. She learned how to shear sheep, drive tractors, handle stock and so forth. The notion that a farm career might be possible continued to gain momentum when a visiting Englishwoman came to work on their farm, providing a model of women working on farms that was not visible in her own community. The final push came when, at the end of school, Jane decided that she really didn’t want to continue with study. Her father, who had a life long interest in food and food cultures suggested that she go overseas, learn how to make European style cheeses, bring those skills home and use them to add value to the milk they produced on the farm. It took him six months to convince her that she was the woman for the job, but once down that road, she has never looked back. Jane studied Diary Technology at the Gilbert Chandler Campus of the Victorian Colleges of Agriculture and Horticulture in Werribee. On completion of her studies Jane moved to the UK to work with leading farmhouse cheese makers in Britain for two years to hone her skills in the art of small scale cheese making. She returned to Tasmania in late 1992 and began production of Ashgrove Cheese in 1993. In the early days of Ashgrove Cheese, Jane made the cheese, packed the cheese, developed the quality assurance and human resources systems and served in the family shop. Today she manages the financials, sales and marketing and 60 employees of the business that has become one of Australia’s premier cheddar cheese brands. She sells product to a range of retailers; cheddar cheese to Aldi supermarkets and wasabi flavours to Japanese imports. Her passion and enthusiasm for her industry and her region has seen her win other awards, including the Tasmanian Young Achiever Award in 1995, the Regional Development Award of the Young Australian of the Year in 1998 and the 2010 Tasmanian Telstra Business Woman of the Year. She was inducted into the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 2008. Jane has always been a staunch promoter of her own state, talking up the resourcefulness that being part of an ‘island culture’ creates in its population. And like Robyn Tredwell, she recognises the importance of a thriving arts culture to the health of regional communities. ‘An arts culture encourages change and brings tourists,’ she says, ‘as do good food and good coffee!’ This, she believes, is part of the reason why her own region, around Deloraine, has been able to ride out the peaks and troughs of the economic cycles that have so badly impacted upon the lives of people on the land. As a member of numerous boards and committees Jane has played a leading role in shaping agribusiness and regional community development. Some of the roles Jane has been involved in include: The first female president of the Tasmanian Rural Industry Training Board Member of the National Telecommunications Inquiry into Rural Services Chairman of Tasmanian Food Industry Council from 2002-2007 Member of Brand Tasmania Board 2004- Current Attendee at the Australia 2020 Summit. Jane may have been somewhat casual in her approach to the ABC award in 1997 but she was nothing but positive and proactive about it after being announced the winner. ‘The ABC Award was one of the most significant events in my life, ‘she says. ‘It gave me new skills, opened doors to rural leaders and organisations and exposed my business to new and overseas clients. The credibility and recognition the Award gave me I couldn’t have bought’. The general message it sent to other women about the importance of backing themselves to develop their ideas, and the confidence to express them, was a crucial one. She believes that women can be real agents of change in rural communities, but not if their talents and leadership potential are underutilised and unrecognised. The award, in her view, was extremely important in encouraging recognition of them in the community at large. ‘There are so many rural women out there at the coalface with brilliant ideas and huge visions without the resources to realise them,’ she said in a speech to promote the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) Rural Women’s Award in 2000. With the help of the ABC Radio Rural Woman of the Year Award, the achievements of some of them, like Jane Bennett, were brought to our attention. We are all the better for it. Events 1997 - 1997 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Ashgrove Cheese Website, Ashgrove Farm Fresh, 2011, http://www.ashgrovecheese.com.au/ Rural women urged to give it a go, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, 1999, http://www.rirdc.gov.au/news-&-events/news-display.cfm?article=7A40C7D1-F1FE-4F78-ABF7-A079F63B9FE4 Resource Section 1997 ABC Tasmanian Rural Woman of the Year Award Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/tas.htm#reg Article Bennett is 2010's top businesswoman, 2010 Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jane Bennett interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 October 2010 Last modified 24 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Interviews conducted by Kim Rubenstein and Nikki Henningham.??The Trailblazing women and the law project is an ARC (Australian Research Council) linkage partnership undertaken by the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne in collaboration with the National Library of Australia, National Foundation for Australian Women, Federal Court of Australia, Family Court of Australia and the Australian Women Lawyer’s Association. Interviews conducted by Kim Rubenstein and Nikki Henningham. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 February 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ina Higgins was amongst the first wave of feminists and one of the first professional landscape gardeners in Australia. It is due to her lobbying that women were admitted to the Burnley School of Horticulture in 1899. Later graduates such as Olive Mellor, Edna Walling and Emily Gibson were able to follow her footsteps because she paved the way. Higgins became involved in the garden at the Royal Talbot Epileptic Colony, Clayton (now Monash University), Heronswood at Dromana and she was invited by the New South Wales Murrumbidgee Irrigation Trust to assist on the planting plans of the New South Wales towns Leeton and Griffin, designed by Walter Burley Griffin. One of her most ambitious projects was with her friends Vida Goldstein and Cecilia Anne John in establishing the Rural Women’s Industries Co-operative women’s farm in Mordialloc. In 1891 she signed the Women’s Suffrage Petition and in 1894 became honorary secretary of the United Council for Woman Suffrage. She was a member of the Women’s Political Association and when World War One broke out she became a member of the Women’s Peace Army. In 1934 The Centenary Gift Book celebrated the contribution that pioneer women made to settling Victoria; Higgins contributed an article promoting horticulture as a career for women. Always known as Ina, Frances Georgina Watts Higgins was born in Fermoy, County Cork in Ireland and of all her brothers and sister, she was the one who retained her Gaelic accent. Her family were Irish Protestant and immigrated to Australia in 1870 on the cargo ship Eurynome with her mother Anne, who was the decision maker of the family, her four brothers Henry Bourne (politician, judge), George (Civil engineer), Samuel Ormsby (Doctor) plus her younger sister Anna Maria. Anne decided to leave Ireland because her oldest son James Henry died of consumption and Henry’s health was fragile. Just before they arrived in Melbourne Charlie, aged 6, died and was buried at sea. Her father Reverend John Higgins, a Wesleyan Preacher and her other brother John came out later that year. Reverend Higgins found it difficult at first to find work as a minister but eventually became a home missionary in Australia. Higgins’ mother Anne was determined her family would succeed and saw education as a way forward for the boys as well as the girls. Higgins and her sister Anna were foundation students at Presbyterian Ladies’ College (PLC) in Albert Street, East Melbourne enrolling in 1875, along with Vida Goldstein, the future suffragist leader. She sat her matriculation exam in 1878 at Melbourne University and received as satisfactory Pass. Except for herself and her brother John (an accountant), all Higgins’ siblings went on to further studies at Melbourne University. Higgins had an interest in art, especially in colour and design, and was thinking about being an artist once she left school. Art – painting and drawing – had always been valued as a part of education at PLC. But it seems that wasn’t meant to be because for a while she worked as a governess in New South Wales. The 1890s were a very pro-active time for Higgins as by 1891 she had returned to Melbourne and signed the Women’s Suffragist Petition, listing her address as Killenna, Malvern. In 1894 she became the founding honorary secretary of United Council of Woman Suffrage (Melbourne) and by 1900 was sitting on the executive committee. Around the same time, 1896, she became involved in the Richmond Club for Working Girls as the honorary secretary. Its aim was to provide somewhere safe at lunchtime where the factory girls could go to eat their lunch and learn new skills such as sewing, cooking or more about personal hygiene. In the evenings they could attend lectures or play games, dance or sing together. But by 1899 she decided to study horticulture. Burnley was established in 1891 and was the first horticultural school in Australia. With the help of Mrs. Laura Luffman (a suffragist and wife of the first principal Charles Bogue Luffman (1897-1908)) Higgins convinced him to allow women students. But the Board of Horticulture were horrified and all through Luffman’s tenure there was tension regarding the issue of women students. It was such an amazing phenomenon educating women that newspapers such as the Australasian published an extensive article on the women at Burnley on the 18 February 1899, including pictures. On 20 December 1900 the women’s gossip magazine Table Talk (page 5) wrote a piece outlining that Higgins from Malvern received highest marks, therefore first place in the school. It then goes on to point out that the Burnley Director (Mr Luffman) was dealing with ‘an incompetent board who oppose all new ideas of progress’ and as Luffman reported later that year, September 1900, to the Royal Commission on Technical Education, ‘I do not think horticulture is an affair of sex.’ The philosophy of Luffman was to teach the women the basics of horticulture and use this knowledge to establish their own small business/farms. They learnt garden making and management, bush-fruit, lemon, table grape and vegetable culture, plus poultry and bee management. This is very similar to the curriculum of the Studley Horticultural and Agricultural College, established in 1903 in Studley Castle, Warwickshire, England, by Lady Daisy Warwick (who had become interested in socialism) to educate middle class ladies in horticulture and agriculture. Higgins’ list of known designs is impressive. In 1903 her brother Henry Bourne Higgins purchased the Goth-revival designed house Heronswood by Edward La Trobe Bateman in Dromana. In the papers of Nettie Palmer (nee Higgins, Ina’s niece) Palmer mentions that Higgins renovated the garden ‘designing a garden that wound off into the bush’ and that Higgins sent Henry a package of native plants for his birthday. Around 1906-1907 she had meet Lady Margaret Talbot, the wife of Victoria’s Governor, Sir Reginald Talbot and Higgins became involved in the design of the gardens, drives, paths and naming of the various trees and shrubs at the Royal Talbot Epileptic Colony, Clayton. At the same time she became the secretary to the extraordinary Women’s Work Exhibition held at the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings in 1907. There were over 16,000 exhibits and attracted over 250,000 people. Exhibitors came from all corners of the Empire as well as Mexico, Japan and Russia. It showcased the type of work women could do as well as new avenues of employment for women such as nursing. It even contained a horticultural section. After the exhibition was over Higgins returned to England for a well earned rest with the Talbots. Higgins designed gardens for her family and friends. Around 1911 Higgins was employed to re-design the garden of the property Hethersett, Burwood, which was being renovated and was purchased in 1938 by PLC, as they had outgrown their East Melbourne site. From the photos it can be seen that it is a typical Federation garden. With a central driveway, aligned with strips of lawn following the garden beds the length of the driveway it ended with a circular bed of lawn at the front door. How Higgins meet Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin isn’t known, but Professor James Weirick of the University of New South Wales, believes it could have been through Hyde Champion, Vida Goldstein’s brother-in-law. Champion had been introduced to Griffin via a letter from Miles Franklin who socialised with the Griffins in Chicago. Griffin first came out to Australia in September 1913 and met Mr Leslie Wade, Executive Officer of the NSW Murrumbidgee Irrigation Trust. Soon after, Griffin began working on the towns Leeton and Griffith and it is possible that he recommend Higgins to Mr Wade. As this was such an unusual event to appoint a woman, it was reported as far away as Perth in the paper The West Australian. Over time, Higgins became good friends with Marion and eventually part of her inner circle of close friends. In 1918, Marion was invited by the Women’s Horticultural Association of Victoria to give a lecture of which Lady Stanley, Mrs Arthur Tuckett and Higgins were the patronesses. Her biggest project and the one closest to the principles she learnt at Burnley regarding learning how to grow fruit and vegetables, inspired by Warwick Farm, was the establishment of the Women’s Rural Industries Co-operative farm in Mordialloc. It was part of the Closer Settlement Scheme, a Victorian Government incentive that arose after the 1890s depression had begun to ease and the demand for agricultural land increased. Unfortunately, most of the good farming land had been acquired by squatters or free selectors. So in 1904, the State government decided in to buy back land from the large estates and break it up into smaller lots, offering to other people. The farm was 14 acres (5.5 hectares) and was between Lower Dandenong Road (North), Governor Road (South) and Boundary Road (West); there was no east boundary. The site was west of Woodlands Golf Course in White Street. Today this area is light industry. There was great fan-fare in the newsprint media of the time with articles in the metropolitan and local papers such as Western Mail (Perth), The Sydney Morning Herald and The Preston Leader (Melbourne) reporting her involvement. Several meetings were held in February and March 1915 in the meeting rooms of the Melbourne Town Hall, where women such as the Lady Mayoress (Chair), Vida Goldstein, Adela Pankhurst, Cecilia Ann John, Bertha Merfield, and Mary Eliza Fullarton met to formulate their ideas. They decided to start a co-operative where women and girls who weren’t interested in being maids or working in factories and wanted to work in the rural industries could learn skills that would help them get a job. According to the gossip journal Table Talk (8 April 1915) the co-op required £300 to begin with and then needed to raise between £700 and £1000 for the first years’ upkeep. To raise this cash it was set up as a Co-operative where people could buy shares at a £1.00 each. Some notable purchasers of shares were Lady Allen, Lady Creswell and Dr Lilian Alexander. The scheme had the support of Mr Pescott the Principal of the Burnley School of Horticulture. He felt they could start by growing flowers for decoration, seedlings and bulbs, as well as small fruit plants like strawberries, cape gooseberries and raspberries to make jam, which they then could sell. As they become more experienced they could go out and earn money by giving garden advice. Only women would be allowed to work on the farm and the idea was to start with six women. Cecilia John taught the women about poultry and Higgins instructed them on horticultural issues. There were no fees to pay and the trainees received a home and some pocket money. There was a strong belief that the farm couldn’t fail as they were close to the markets of Melbourne making it easy to sell their produce. However it did fail and the reasons could have been many. The First World War had started, the state government reneged on the promise of some of the infrastructure, such as sealed roads, or providing enough equipment. Also, as the unmarried sister, it was Higgins’ job to nurse her ailing mother Anne, who died in 1917 and she therefore wasn’t able to spend as much time at the farm as she would have liked. Higgins last project was writing an article entitled Women and Horticulture for The Centenary Gift Book (1934), which celebrated the first one hundred years of settlement in Victoria. It was a celebration of women’s pioneering spirit and contribution. The idea for a book was Frances Fraser’s, who was also a PLC student and later returned there as a teacher. The editors were Frances and Nettie Palmer, Ina Higgins’ niece. Many well known women of the time contributed: Mary Grant Bruce, Anna T. Brennan, Henrietta C. Walker, Jeanie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn), Henry Handel Richardson, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Mary E. Fullerton and Edna Walling. Higgins mixed, met and worked with some amazingly talented people many with forward ideas, who were feminists and had socialist leanings such as Vida Goldstein, Hyde Champion, Alice Henry, Adela Pankhurst, Cecilia Anne John, Walter and Marion Griffin, Henry George (friend of Henry Higgins) Mary Eliza Fullerton, Miles Franklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard and Charles Bogue Luffman. Other well known people were Lady Talbot, Lady Stanley, Dr Springthorpe, Nettie Palmer, Frances Fraser, William Guilfoyle and Dame Nellie Melba a former PLC student. What is amazing about Higgins is that she had the courage to stand up against the pressure to conform to the social norm of women not being able to vote, not having their own financial independence and having to stay home to look after the family. Her stance against this social oppression was at a time when women were not encouraged much passed sixth grade at school, let alone to go onto university or out to work with strangers and earn their own money. She never married, living in the family home Killenna in Malvern until she died in 1948 and is buried in the St Kilda cemetery. Sometime after her friend Vida Goldstein became a Christian Scientist (1903-04), Higgins converted too. She was a quiet achiever, the person who worked behind the scenes, carrying out the secretarial duties and not attracting attention to herself. She strongly believed that the only way to end oppression of women was to end the economic and cultural sources of women being dependent on men. Her horticultural career allowed her to follow her interests as well as other women to follow in her footsteps. It is a great pity there are only fragments of the gardens she designed left. Arguably, if Higgins had been a man her legacy would be better known. Published resources Book That dangerous and persuasive woman: Vida Goldstein, Bomford, Janette M., 1993 The Goldstein Story, Henderson, Leslie M. (Leslie Moira), 1973 PLC Melbourne: the first century, 1875-1975, Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1905-1990., 1975 The ladies came to stay: a study of the education of girls at the Presbyterian Ladies' College Melbourne 1875-1960, Reid, M. Olive, 1960 H.B. Higgins, the rebel as judge, Rickard, John, 1984 Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, McGregor, Alasdair, 2009 Green grows our garden: A centenary history of horticultural education at Burnley, Winzenried, Arthur, 1991 Making landscape architecture in Australia, Saniga, Andrew, 2012 Official souvenir catalogue, Australian Exhibition of Women's Work, 1907 Edited Book Centenary gift book, Fraser, Frances and Palmer, Nettie, 1934 Newspaper Article Women Horticulturalists' Association of Victoria, 1918, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140203496 Victorian women's rural industries, 1915, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28112342 A woman's farm, 1915, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92075122 [No title], 1914, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28567035 Women's Rural Industries Co., 1915, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article171812827 Horticulture for ladies, 1899, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page11316127 Various Views, 1900, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page17393504 Journal Article Women's time': Ina Higgins, Nettie Palmer and Aileen Palmer, Jordan, Deborah, 2008 Charles Bogue Luffman: Part two: The Burnley years 1897-1908, Pullman, Sandra, 2003 Resource Higgins, Frances Georgina (Ina) (1860-1948), Choat, Colin, http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/higgins-frances-georgina-ina-14248 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition, Parliament of Victoria Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Thesis An uneasy profession: defining the landscape architect in Australia 1912-1972, Saniga, Andrew, 2004 The invisible Pankhurst: a study of the life of Adela Pankhurst, Cannon, Mary, 2002 Nettie Palmer: Australian women and writing, 1885-1925, Jordan, Deborah, 1982 Magazine Patchwork [new series], Presbyterian Ladies' College, 1938 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Alice Henry, 1873-1943 Papers of Henry Higgins, 1840-1976, bulk 1841-1929 [manuscript] The University of Melbourne Archives Student Record, Higgins, Frances Georgina Watts Author Details Sandra Pullman Created 4 September 2015 Last modified 5 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "VRU Mutual Service Assn Minutes 1887-8; ARU State Exec Minutes 1918-69; ARU State Council Minutes 1918-69; Finance C’ttee Minutes 1920- 1955; conference reports 1912-69; corresp. – sub-branch & individuals & State Sec’s, & alphabetical series; subject files; branch circulars; branch elections inc. corresp.; financial inc. journals, cash books, ledgers, credit books, debit books; membership; Aust Council & Executive corresp., reports; Arbitration awards & conditions; publications; photographs.??Quantity: 257 archives boxes + 360 cm. oversize bound volumes Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 9147 comprises: 1. Cuttings files, 1970-1975, relating to the education of women and other women’s issues. 2. Files relating to the Enquiry into social change and the education of women containing cuttings, correspondence, interviews, drafts, reports, speeches, minutes, notes, legislation and other papers, 1974-1975. 3. Other files, 1970-1982, on women and film and other topics. 4. Various journals, reports and publications such as Scarlet woman, Womanspeak, Sydney Women’s Liberation newsletter, Women in the ABC: report of Task force on equal opportunity for women, July 1977, Sexism in education, and, the Women and Labor Conference newsletter (8 boxes, 1 carton, 2 fol. Boxes).??The MS Acc11.141 instalment comprises conference papers, newspaper cuttings, realia, sound tapes, correspondence, journals and newsletters (including Refractory Girl) and documentary treatments amongst other material. Papers deal with the political and social activities and profile of Daniela Torsh (3 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The MS Acc13.011 instalment comprises papers covering a wide range of Torsh’s research and career, including PhD research material; notes and articles relating to Hungarian film director Istvan Szabo; correspondence; copies of various published articles and journals, by Torsh and others; research notes for articles;notes and drafts relating to the publication Refractory girl; notes and reports relating to various Australian film organisations and events; ephemeral relating to women’s rights (3 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 February 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The main body of the Scott family papers were received by the Mitchell Library in 1925 from the estate of Rose Scott, through her nephew Helenus Hope Scott Wallace. Part of this collection was arranged and bound, with the rest remaining unbound.? In 1950 Helenus Hope Scott Wallace presented further Scott family papers to the Library. These papers were added to the unbound papers, with the exception of a volume labelled ‘Autographs’.? The unbound papers from the 1925 and 1950 donations were allocated the manuscript number MLMSS 38 and were arranged and described in the “Guide to the Papers of the Scott Family in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. Part 1” Library Council of New South Wales, 1979. The Guide includes an index to correspondence in MLMSS 38, a list of pictorial material that was removed from the collection and located at Pic.Acc.4495, and genealogical tables of the Scott and Rusden families.? The bound volumes were given the manuscript call numbers A 2260 – A 2269 (bound in 1943), and A 2271 – A 2284 (bound in 1931). The volume labelled ‘Autographs’ was given the call number A 2270. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 March 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Typed reference written by George Mack for Donald Vernon, with typed signature, dated 5 November 1945, in response to Vernon’s request for letters of recommendation to assist him in obtaining a position in the Queensland Museum. Mack at the time was Senior Scientific Assistant at the Queensland Museum and had previously worked with Vernon in Melbourne. The collection also includes typed letters of recommendation for a Pursuit of Excellence Award for Vernon by J. Hope Black (nee Macpherson) undated, and from Alan Bartholomai, Director of the Queensland Museum, dated 22 September 1987, during Vernon’s employment with the Queensland Museum. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "55 minutes??Eve Bidstrup, nee Blacker, grew up at Willunga, South Australia and trained at the Memorial Hospital, North Adelaide, between 1932 and 1936. Subsequently she worked as a theatre sister at the Memorial Hospital, and as an X-ray technician in Dr Vercoe’s rooms. In 1940 Eve was called up to the Australian Army Nursing Service. She was attached to the 2/4 Australian General Hospital and went with the unit to the Middle East early in 1941. The nurses in the unit were evacuated from Tobruk just before the siege of that garrison. In March 1942 the unit returned to Australia. Eve’s later army nursing experience included six weeks with a team of military personnel promoting the sale of war bonds. She also nursed in Queensland and was discharged from the AANS in 1944. Eve later spent fifteen years on the staff of the Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 9921 largely comprises correspondence, research and publications dating from the 1960s to 2002. There are also musical compositions written in the 1960s (10 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc07.134 instalment includes correspondence, concert programmes, conference programmes and related ephemera, 1982-2007 (2 boxes).??The Acc09.206 instalment comprises a selection of hardcopy emails to and from Kartomi, 2002-2009, miscellaneous papers including greeting cards, invitations, letters of reference, Monash University School of Music documents, publicity about Kartomi and non-email correspondence (2 boxes).??The Acc13.083 instalment comprises correspondence, primarily printed emails; biographical information on Margaret Kartomi’s career; articles and speeches; 1 audio tape (1 box).??The Acc15.010 instalment comprises email correspondence, mostly professional; conference materials; greeting cards and personal calendars (1 box).??The Acc15.107 instalment comprises comprises email correspondence (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour??Nora Jacob was born in Adelaide, South Australia and grew up in Medindie. In 1917 the family moved to Geranium where her father managed the family farming property while his brother was in the army. After six years on the farm Nora came to Adelaide to begin training at Mareeba Babies Hospital. She continued her training at the Adelaide Hospital, completing the course in 1927. Nora’s subsequent work was in private nursing and district nursing. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This series consists of Migrant Selection Documents for Displaced Persons who travelled to Australia on the ship ‘General Stuart Heintzelman’ departing Bremerhaven on 30 October 1947 and arriving in Fremantle on the morning of 28 November 1947. After a stay of a few days at the Graylands and Swanbourne camps in Perth, the DPs were embarked on the ‘Kanimbla’ on 2 December 1947 for the final leg of their journey. The ‘Kanimbla’ arrived in Melbourne on 5 December 1947. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 January 2013 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A. Correspondence, 192–1991?B. Miscellaneous papers, 1920-1990?C. Photographs of the Booker and Innes families, ca. 1890-1989?D. Independent Theatre Company (Sydney, N.S.W.), 1956-1973?E. Australian Federation of Women Voters, 1945-1983?F. League of Women Voters of New South Wales, 1947-1989?G. International Alliance of Women, 1961-1979?H. Papers received from Addie Viola Smith, 1958-1975?I. Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association. N.S.W. Group, 1950-1989?J. New South Wales Women’s Advisory Board, 1974-1976?K. Scrapbooks (14) on the status of women, 1964-1975 Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 December 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The International Tracing and Refugee Services department of the Australian Red Cross endeavours to locate, reunite and support families separated by war, conflict and disaster. As such, the department services one of the most longstanding activities of the International Red Cross Movement, that of restoring family links between victims of armed conflict. In Australia, an important predecessor of the department, The Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau, was founded at the beginning of World War 1 by Australian Red Cross Commissioners Vera Deakin and Winifred Johnstone. The Bureau was established in 1915 to help trace wounded and missing men and provide information about them to their families."
    },
    {
        "text": "Nikki Henningham and Barbara Lemon Created 14 March 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Digital resources Title: Bev Francis Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of general meetings (1931-1993), Executive Committee (1973-1988) and committees, reports, correspondence with registers, financial records, subject files, records of Charles McDonald relating to his role as Secretary and also to the Australian Labor Party (ACT Branch), the Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia (ACT Division) and the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ and Shipwrights’ Union (ACT), posters, newspaper cuttings and printed material. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 January 2013 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour??Jean Gibson, nee Irvine, was born at Kent Town, South Australia, attended St Joseph’s convent, and did clerical work before commencing nursing training at Calvary Hospital in 1932. She later did midwifery at Port Augusta and was then a member of the nursing staff at Burra. She was called up to the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1941. Her first posting was to Darwin where she experienced the Japanese air-raids in February 1942. She next spent a year at Port Moresby and then went with the 2/5 Australian General Hospital to Borneo (Balik Papan) where she remained until peace was declared in 1945. Jean remained with the AANS and in 1946 went to Japan. She returned to Australia in 1952, shortly before her discharge from the army. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Conny Harris was a once-only candidate, whose bid for election was based on her interest in the protection of the environment. She stood for the Australian Greens in the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Davidson. Conny Harris was born and educated in Germany, receiving medical degrees from the Universities of Freiberg and Hamburg. She has worked as a doctor in Germany, England, and Australia, and passed her Australian Medical Council Examination in 1994. She is a long-term activist in local community issues concerning bushland and wildlife, urban and non-urban development, improvement of health and waste reduction. She has a wide knowledge of local flora and fauna, especially eucalypts, and lectures on this to the Australian Plant Society. She is also a member of the National Parks Threatened Species Committee. In 1999 she received a grant for educating local schoolchildren in native plant identification and bush regeneration. She was director of the Manly Food Cooperative, from 1998-2002, and was appointed community representative on the Northern Region Waste Management Board in 2000. She founded the Farigal Landcare Group in 2001. Her ongoing interests in organic food, bush regeneration and environmental health continue to spark new projects. She and her partner have three children, and Conny works at Mona Vale Hospital, in northern Sydney. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 30 January 2006 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1964-1973; Papers concerning the International Alliance of Women’s ‘Study on Women’s Use of the Vote’?1967-1973; ‘Women’s Use of the Vote…Reply to International Alliance Women Questionnaire …Work Copy’?1964-1975; ‘Voting Methods’, including circulars from Alderman Marjorie Propsting (Lane Cove), President of the Australian Local Government Women’s Association?1968-1975; Papers concerning activities as Liaison Representative for the International Federation of Women Lawyers to the United Nations?1957-1973; ‘Australian Federation of Women Voters Constitution; Correspondence; Board Meeting Minutes’?1960-1973; ‘Dawn [:] Journal of AFWVoters’, being mainly notes for correspondence concerning The Dawn newsletter?1960-1975; ‘League of Women Voters New South Wales’ Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 December 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection consists of 2 diaries, 1801 and 1856, (folder 1), correspondence, photographs (folder 3), legal documents, photocopies, publications and press clippings; a copy of the paperback “So great a change: the story of the Holden family in Australia” by Nancy Buttfield (Sydney, Une Smith, 1979); 1 folio containing photographs, legal documents, genealogical table of the Holden family, photocopies of lectures of W.E. Holden, illuminated testimonials. Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes, notices, newsletters etc. from the various committees and organizations to which she belonged; her correspondence, speech notes, etc. Organizations include U.N. Association of Australia; U.N. Commission on the status of Women; Australian National Council of Women; International Council of Women; Victorian Council on the Ageing; Also Australian Ethnic Affairs Council agenda and minutes; Drafting Committee on Multiculturalism agenda and minutes; Committee on Multicultural Education reports; miscellaneous ethnic affairs and multicultural material. Author Details Jane Carey Created 8 December 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection comprises correspondence, financial records, minutes, diaries and notebooks, newspaper cuttings, mounting notes, fabric samples, printed materials, computer disks, photographs, slides and audio and video tapes. The records relate to liaison between the Committee and the state guilds and guild supervisor; fundraising projects and grant applications; public relations; selection and execution of the winning design; conservation of the embroidery; the production of the publication “The Parliament House embroidery: a work of many hands” (1988) and relations between the Committee and other organisations and individuals including the architects of the new Parliament House, the Australian Bicentennial Authority, the Parliament House Construction Authority and the patron, Lady Stephens. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 January 2013 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Denise Hassett stood as a candidate for the Australian Labor Party in the Legislative Council Province of South Eastern at the Victorian state election, which was held in 1988. She stood as the ALP candidate for Flinders in the federal election of 1987. Denise Hassett and her family migrated to Australia from England in 1951. They settled in Mornington and Denise has spent her life in the region. She was educated at Mornington Primary and Mornington High School. Her first employment was with the Commonwealth Bank where she remained until her marriage in 1969 to David Hassett. They had two children. She joined the Australian Labor Party in 1975 after the dismissal of the Prime Minister at the time, Gough Whitlam. Her community involvement has included assisting in the establishment of the Community Health Centre in Mornington in 1985, serving on the Frankston Hospital Board from 1982-88 and the Frankston Drug and Alcohol Committee. She was a member of the Mount Eliza Association for Environmental Care and is currently a member of the Mornington Peninsula Foreshore Committee. She has been a Justice of the Peace since 1990. She is the proprietor of a bed and breakfast establishment in Mornington. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 23 October 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 sound cassettes (150 min.)??Born in Subiaco; family background; father, Norman William Grant, mother Annie Lawrie, and their marriage in Melbourne; move to Western Australia in 1915; father’sfu work as chief engineer for the electrical division of the Post Master General’s Department; school life at Thomas Street; school friends; father’s death; mother’s millinery business; the Depression; her mother’s death; of schooldays at Perth Girls’ School; transport; teachers; church involvement; work in the Public Service; nursing training at Perth Hospital; examination procedures; Nurses Registration Board; and living conditions; overseas experience in Britain; private nursing; midwifery training at King Edward Hospital; infant welfare training in Melbourne; the Florence Nightingale scholarship in administration; first matron of N’Gala Mothercraft Home in 1959; child health education in Western Australia; nursing education with W.A.I.T.; involvement with the Royal Australian Nursing Federation and other nursing bodies; the Australian Inland Mission; the Flying Doctor Service; Churchill Fellowship; and the development of N’Gala Mothercraft Home. Created 18 February 2019 Last modified 18 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A strong advocate for the legalisation of marijuana, Judy Canales ran in several elections. In 1999 she stood and Independent for the Lismore elections, then she joined the Hemp Party (Help End Marijuana Prohibition Party) and ran in the House of Representatives for the seats of Page (2001) and Capricornia (2004)."
    },
    {
        "text": "Wilma Chinnock is a well known local activist who represented the ALP in the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bega. Wilma Chinnock graduated from the University of New South Wales, winning prizes in Pure and Applied Mathematics. She taught at Bega High School for 11 years and at the time of her campaign, she was Head of Mathematics at the Bega Valley Christian College. Wilma has been actively involved with local issues, such as the Pambula Bridge, the redevelopment of Bega High School, a permanent site for the Runnyford Bush Fire Brigade and the establishment of nursing courses at the Bega Access Centre. Wilma and her husband Greg have four adult children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes circulars, chiefly from the Pre-School Education Board (1974-1979); letters from Ministers for Education and Dame Rachel Cleland, as well as sample letter sent to the Premier and Minister for Education (1981-1985); minutes, including council minutes of Pre-School Education Board (1973-1976) and AGM minutes of Kindergarten Association (1973); reports (1980-1981); notices; article entitled “The advantages of remaining a community based kindergarten or a pre-school”; correspondence; financial records; guidelines; newsletters. Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sandy Mak is currently (2016) a corporate partner at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, specialising in mergers & acquisitions. In 2013 she won Female Partner Award at the Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards. At the awards, she was described as ‘a leading light, ‘a dynamo’ and ‘a champion of women lawyers inside and outside Corrs, a driver of change in gender diversity, a role model and mentor to young lawyers, a critical member of our leadership team and a formidable corporate M&A lawyer’. Sandy Mak was born in Malaysia in 1973 to Chinese Malaysian parents. Formally known as Hueih-Hsien Mak, she completed her primary and secondary school education at SMK Convent Klang. Sandy arrived in Australia in 1994 to undertake a Bachelor of Laws/Commerce (Accounting) at the University of New South Wales. Upon finishing her degree, she commenced her legal career at what was then Freehill Hollingdale & Page in Sydney. At Freehills, she worked with renowned mergers and acquisitions partner, Braddon Jolley, who became her mentor and who set her on the path to becoming a mergers and acquisitions practitioner. After some time at Freehills, Sandy left for London to work in the corporate team at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where she met her husband. She was then seconded to Freshfields’ Hong Kong offices for a short period before returning to Freehills in Sydney in 2006. Sandy left Freehills in 2008 to join Corrs Chambers Westgarth as a corporate partner. She has since been involved in some of the largest and most high profile transactions in regulated and unregulated mergers & acquisitions. In 2013 Sandy was awarded “Female Partner of the Year” by Lawyers Weekly and was profiled in 2014 by Australasian Lawyer Magazine as a “Hot 40 Lawyer” for her contribution to the legal community. In addition to her practice as a corporate lawyer, Sandy is currently the co-chair of the Diversity Council and a member of the executive leadership team at Corrs. As an Asian female in a highly male dominated field, diversity within the legal workforce is a key focus for Sandy. She has developed the firm’s diversity strategy to retain and expand its pool of female talent and to remove barriers to women’s progression to senior positions, including partnership. Under Sandy’s leadership, the diversity programmes at Corrs are aimed at providing staff with flexibility in their working arrangements and creating a more inclusive working environment. Sandy spends a significant amount of her time on the education and mentoring of junior lawyers both within the firm and without. She is actively involved in the recruitment programme for lawyers at the firm and passionate about nurturing young legal talent. At the time of writing (2015), Sandy was a lecturer at Sydney University’s Law School in the area of Corporate and Securities Regulation and a guest lecturer at the University of New South Wales on schemes of arrangement, as well as the editor of the chapters in Halsbury’s Laws of Australia in Takeovers, Acquisitions and Fundraising. Sandy lives in Sydney and is married with three children. Published resources Resource Corrs Leading Light Sandy Mak is Australia's Finest Female Partner, 2013, http://www.corrs.com.au/news/corrs-leading-light-sandy-mak-is-australias-finest-female-partner/ Article Partner Profile: Sandy Mak, 2012, http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/careers/11048-partner-profile-sandy-mak Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Sandy Mak (with Nikki Henningham) Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Sandy Mak Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Female Middle Class Emigration Society, founded by Maria Rye and Jane Lewin in 1862, was one of a number of organisations that emerged in the late nineteenth century and sought to tackle the perceived ‘surplus women’ problem in the United Kingdom. Like the Colonial Intelligence League, and the South African Colonisation Society, its aim was to assist unemployed, educated British women with emigration by finding them employment, usually as governesses or clerks, in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada. These three organisations amalgamated in 1919 to form the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women. The effort to encourage educated middle class women to emigrate in an effort to relieve the pressures of population growth and the perceived problem of the number of ‘superfluous’ unmarried women, led to the foundation of several organisations to assist the latter group. In 1884, several former members of the Women’s Emigration Society came together to form the United Englishwoman’s Emigration Register, which would go on to become the United Englishwoman’s Emigration Association (UEEA) in February of that year. Its aims were to emigrate women of good character, to ensure their safety during and after their travel and to keep in touch with them for some time after their arrival. In November 1885, Ellen Joyce and Mrs Adelaide Ross replaced Miss Louisa Hubbard at the head of the organisation. By 1888, the group began to work in co-operation with the Scotch Girl’s Friendly Association and the Scottish YWCA, prompting a change of name. The following year the new United British Women’s Emigration Association changed the original constitution, centralising what had been a loose grouping of independent workers and outlining their responsibilities, roles and relationships. Their expansion continued, from the establishment of Irish and Scottish branches in 1889 to one in Staffordshire and one for Wiltshire and Somerset that same year, while another was established in Bath in 1891. Homes for emigrants waiting to depart were created in Liverpool in 1887 and in London in 1893. The majority of emigrants which passed through them in the 1890s were destined for Canada, New Zealand or Australia, but towards the end of the century, the flow of emigrants to South Africa increased to such a degree that it became necessary to set up a South African Expansion Scheme Committee. This would go on to become the independent South African Colonisation Society. In 1901, the parent organisation dropped the ‘united’ element of its name and continued to expand in their own fields, opening a hostel at Kelowna in British Colombia in 1913. After the outbreak of the First World War the number of emigrants declined. In 1917, a Joint Council of Women’s Emigration Societies was established to deal with the situation after the war and liaise with central government. This co-operation between the British Women’s Emigration Association, the Colonial Intelligence League and the South African Colonisation Society finally resulted in their amalgamation into the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women in December 1919. Published resources Book Section [Letters from emigrants.], 1894 Journal Article A chance to bloom : Female migration and salvationists in Australia and Canada, 1890s to 1939, Langfield, Mechele, 2002 Conference Paper British Women's Emigration at the Turn of the Last Century - An alternative \"citizenship\"?, Spensky, Martine, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales British Women's Emigration Association - Records, 1862-1949 [M 468] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Collections held by the Fawcett Library relating to Australia and New Zealand [microform] : [M2291-2314], 1858-1967 John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection R 381 Lady Musgrave Lodge Committee Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection British Women's Emigration Association - Records, 1862-1949 [M 468] Fawcett Library - collections held by the Fawcett Library relating to Australia and New Zealand [M2291-2314], 1858-1967 Author Details Carolyne Carter Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes; correspondence; reports; financial records; membership records; newspaper cuttings; information re Federated Association of Australian Housewives and other organisations; copies of Housewife, Home and Family, 1960-1967; notes re Portia Geach; copy of ‘Portia geach – Champion of the Housewife’; Federated Association of Australian Housewives minutes and resolutions, 1951-1969. Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 December 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letter from Caroline Chisholm, dated 15 November 1854, proposing that shelter sheds be built on the road from Melbourne to Castlemaine for the shelter and protection of immigrants Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 March 2005 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes financial records, 1978-1998; minutes and attendance books, 1958-1998; history of the organisation; Annual reports 1958-1998; delegates conferences 1960s-1970s; publications, functions, media, 1965 onwards; memorabilia, badges, stamp, small banner, 40th International Eucharistic Congress, 1973, Melbourne; correspondence 1968-1998; submissions, issues 1960s-1990s. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 18 February 2004 Last modified 18 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Rosemary Balmford was the first woman judge appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria. The Hon. Rosemary Balmford AM, daughter of judge Sir John Norris and Dame Ada Norris (nee Bickford), has been a trailblazer for women in the legal profession. Notably, she was the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria and the first to run a murder trial in the state. At the University of Melbourne she also made history by becoming the first woman to be appointed to a permanent academic position in the Faculty of Law. Taught by her mother to read when she was three, Rosemary Norris (as she was then) was educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Melbourne Church of England Girls’ Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, where she won the Supreme Court Prize (at that time awarded to the LLB student placed first in the final examinations) for 1954. She undertook articles of clerkship with Saf (Lt-Col Samuel Austin Frank) Pond OBE of Whiting & Byrne in 1955 and was admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 1 March 1956. Between 1957 and 1961 she resided at Janet Clarke Hall where she was tutor-in-law. During this period she was also employed as independent lecturer in conveyancing at the University of Melbourne (1957-62), and at Whiting & Byrne, where she was the first woman on staff to hold legal qualifications; she practised mainly in conveyancing but also liquor licensing. She became partner and later consultant before finally leaving the firm for good in 1969. By this time she had been married to fellow solicitor Peter Balmford (d. 2005) for six years and they had a young son, Christopher. She embarked on an MBA at the University of Melbourne. In 1971, Rosemary Balmford became inaugural executive director of the Leo Cussen Institute for Continuing Legal Education. She spent five-and-a-half years with the Institute, before leaving to take up a role of assistant solicitor (special projects) at the University of Melbourne. In 1979, she served on the Victorian Equal Opportunity Board which heard the case of Deborah Wardley v Ansett Airlines. From 1983 to 1993, she served on the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal. In July 1993 Balmford became the second woman after Lynette Schiftan (nee Opas) to be appointed a judge of the County Court of Victoria. In March 1996 she was appointed the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. She retired from the bench in 2003 and became a reserve judge. Between 1995 and 2003 she was a member of the Governing Council of the Judicial Conference of Australia. Outside the law, Balmford has had an enduring interest in ornithology. She has been a member of various bird organisations, including the Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union of which she was secretary between 1969 and 1972, and she has written a number of books, articles and reviews in the field. She has also been heavily involved with grassroots community organisations; in particular, those that have encouraged better parenting and breastfeeding. In 1998, Monash University, Clayton, awarded Balmford an honorary Doctor of Laws. In 2012, Balmford was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia ‘[f]or service to the judiciary, the practice of law in Victoria, and to the study of ornithology.’ Balmford’s autobiography, A Funny Course for a Woman, was published in 2013. Published resources Resource Section Podcast No.10: Interview with Rosemary Balmford, Robertson, Craig, 2008, http://www.thestudy.net.au/people/RosemaryBalmford.html Norris, Dame Ada May (1901-1989), Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2012, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/norris-dame-ada-may-14997/text26186 Balmford, Rosemary Anne (1933 - ), Alafaci, Annette, 2006, http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004718b.htm Women Barristers Association Anniversary Dinner, https://www.vicbar.com.au/GetFile.ashx?file=VicBarNewsFiles/WBA%20Anniversary%20Dinner.pdf Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Book First Principles. The Melbourne Law School 1857 - 2007, Waugh, John, 2007 A Funny Course for a Woman, Balmford, Rosemary, 2013 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Rosemary Balmford interviewed by Ruth Campbell in the Law in Australian society oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Marina Loane Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 14 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A trade union and ALP stalwart, Veronica Husted contested the following elections: House of Representatives, Dundas, 1987 New South Wales Legislative Assembly, South Coast 1991 New South Wales Legislative Assembly, South Coast 1995 Veronica Husted was born and grew up in the southern Riverina area of NSW and was educated at Finley High School, Veronica worked in clerical positions. She was an organiser with the Federated Clerks Union NSW from 1981-85, and trained in labour law. She joined the Department of Industrial Relations and Employment, and worked as a Women’s Employment officer (1987). In 1991 she was a school assistant in the Vincentia High School Library. In 1995, she was President of the Bay Basin Community Resources, Chairperson of Illawarra Skills Development, member of the Shoalhaven OLMA Committee, Shoalhaven Transport Action Group, Women on the Frontline and the Jervis Bay Protection Committee. Veronica was Vice President of the Shoalhaven Group of Unions and Chairperson of her union workplace group. Veronica joined the Auburn branch of the ALP in 1982 and she has held a variety of positions, including branch secretary, FEC and SEC delegate. Veronica and her husband Erhard have five grown up children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Monica Holmes was elected to the Thirty-fifth Parliament of Western Australia as the Liberal Party member for the new Legislative Assembly seat of Southern River on 14 December 1996. She was defeated 10 February 2001. Monica Blagrove was born in England in 1944. She married James Holmes in 1975, and migrated to Western Australia with her husband and daughter in 1983. Monica Holmes joined the Liberal Party of Australia soon after her arrival, and became active in a wide range of community organizations, in addition to becoming a Justice of the Peace. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia for Southern River (new seat) on 14 December 1996, and defeated on 10 February 2001. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Typescript manuscript of chapter 4 of the tentatively titled book Olive Pink, an intelllectual portrait.??Difficulties of Olive Pink in field research near Alice Springs; correspondence with J.B. Cleland; embroilment in academic politics; research method and priorities Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Bernadine Mulholland graduated in physiotherapy from the University of Queensland in 1955. In 1964 she established the a branch of the Childbirth Education Association in Canberra, joining the Australian Physiotherapy Association in 1967. In 1968 she began Canberra’s first childbirth classes. From 1969-83 she worked with physically handicapped children at the Royal Canberra Hospital (RCH) and helped establish the Hartley Centre, O’Connor, for children with cerebral palsy in 1973 working there as a physiotherapist and as its administrator (1975-78) . During the 1980s she worked at the RCH in orthopaedic and post-operative rehabilitation and from 1990-2007 in its Aged Care Unit. Since 2009 she has worked in the orthopaedics ward of the Calvary John James Hospital. Bernadine Mulholland was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 19 July 1932, the daughter of Bernard James O’Brien, Director of Post and Telegraphs, Queensland, and Kathleen Ann Walsh. She was educated at St Finbar’s Primary School, Ashgrove, and All Hallows Secondary School, Brisbane. In 1951 she began her physiotherapy studies at the University of Queensland and Brisbane General Hospital, graduating in 1955. That year she worked at Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital before marrying William Mulholland, an Observer in the Royal Australian Naval Fleet Air Arm, and moving to England. In 1956 she returned to Australia, living at the HMAS Albatross Naval Base, Nowra. She moved to Canberra in 1964 where the last of her five children was born. In 1965 she formed part of a that established a Canberra branch of the Childbirth Education Association and became a member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association in 1967. In 1968 she became the first physiotherapist to conduct childbirth education classes in the ACT in the Lamaze method of natural childbirth. From 1969-83 she worked at the Royal Canberra Hospital with physically handicapped children and privately as a childbirth educator. In 1972 she became part of a team working to establish the Hartley Centre, O’Connor, a day-care centre for the treatment and education of children with cerebral palsy and other physical handicaps. She subsequently worked there both as a physiotherapist and as its administrator from 1975-78. She facilitated the integration of handicapped children into mainstream schooling in Canberra, delivering a paper on the subject at the Australasian Physiotherapy Conference in Singapore in 1981. During the 1980s she worked largely in orthopaedics and post-operative rehabilitation at the Royal Canberra Hospital, and from 1990-2007 in its Aged Care Unit, the first in Australia. In 2001 she was awarded the ACT Public Service Centenary Award for her work with older people. She retired in 2006, returning to work in 2008, first at the Canberra Hospital and since 2009 in the orthopaedics ward of the Calvary John James Hospital. In 2014 she was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in and was a finalist in the ACT Senior Australian. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Bernadine Mulholland interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 7 July 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Valerie Bush has been a long term environmental campaigner who stood as an Australian Democrats candidate in the 1995 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Cronulla. Valerie Bush was born and educated in Tasmania and moved to Sydney as a young adult. She was one of four women who initiated a campaign to prevent the establishment of a toxic waste disposal incinerator being sited on the Cronulla peninsula. She also campaigned against the establishment of petrochemical plants in the area. In her campaign in 1995, she strongly opposed the 3rd runway being planned for the Kingsford Smith Airport. She is a Client Service Manager in the Financial Planning Industry and is married with three children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "James Tierney Created 26 June 2013 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Reuniting nurses. Morieson's campaign poster c.1989 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: 2001_Belinda_Morieson.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lady Yseult Bailey, wife of Professor Kenneth Bailey, recalls meeting Sir Kenneth when he was at college; his Vice Mastership of Queen’s College; Chair of law at Melbourne University; move to Canberra; domestic help; Sir Kenneth’s travelling; United Nations Charter; San Francisco Conference; Dr Evatt; John Burton; appeal cases in London; list of landmarks in Sir Kenneth’s career; Aliens Tribunal; Sir Kenneth’s personal interests and activities; posting to Canada; Sir Kenneth’s final illness; Ruth Barber; Sir Kenneth as consultant to the government. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 December 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Meredith Hinchliffe has been involved with the arts in Canberra since 1977 when she joined the Crafts Council of the ACT as its Executive Secretary and then Director. She went on to work in organisations such as the National Campaign for the Arts, Museums Australia, ArtsACT, and the Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage at UC, and has also worked as a freelance arts consultant and exhibitions curator since 1997. Meredith is a specialist on crafts including ceramics, textiles and furniture, and is an approved valuer under the Commonwealth Government’s Cultural Gifts Program. She has written about the arts for numerous arts journals and regularly contributed reviews of crafts and visual arts exhibitions and books to The Canberra Times from 1978 to 2009. Meredith has been a long-time advocate and lobbyist for the arts, and is a significant patron of and donor to arts organisations, especially the Canberra Museum and Gallery. In 2022 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of her significant service to the arts. Meredith Hinchliffe was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2000. Meredith Hinchliffe was born in Warwick, Queensland to Captain Leslie Maxwell (Max) Hinchliffe (1916–2003) and Marjorie Moffat Hinchliffe (1920–1998) née Smyth. She was educated in Australia and America, finally at Canberra Church of England Girls’ Grammar School, and the University of Canberra (then CAE, 1977). Meredith joined the Crafts Council of the ACT in 1977, and worked as its Executive Secretary and Director till 1986. In that time she curated many exhibitions of individual artists and groups across the media of ceramics, wood, textiles, leather, metalwork and, to a lesser extent, glass. She also showed at Craft ACT a number of touring exhibitions – e.g. an exhibition of Molas from the San Blas Islands of Panama. She went on to work at the Australian Bicentennial Authority (ACT and Island Territories), ArtsACT and Business Development in the ACT Government, managing grant programs. She served as the full-time Executive Director of the National Campaign for the Arts Australia Ltd in July 1996, and assisted with the successful campaign for ArtBank to be retained as a government entity. She built up a strong network of media contacts during this time, but lack of funding led to the Campaign being wound up in August 1977. In 2000 Meredith took on a project management position at the Australian Science Teachers Association and was then appointed Executive Officer of Museums Australia, the national professional association for museum workers and museums, in July 2002. She worked as Public Arts Project Officer for ArtsACT and has managed several public art installation projects. From July 2008 to April 2009 she was the inaugural Executive Officer of the Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage at the University of Canberra. From 1997 to 1999 Meredith worked as a freelance arts consultant, a role she has renewed at various times in the years since. Notable examples include curating the Survey exhibition of the Tamworth Fibre Textile Collection in 2010. In 2013, having catalogued the extensive holdings of furniture designed by Frederick Ward for University House at the Australian National University, she curated an exhibition of his exceptional mid-century pieces at the Gallery of Australian Design (Canberra). Most recently, as a Research Associate at the National Museum of Australia Meredith has been involved in working on the Trevor Kennedy Collection recently acquired by the Museum. Meredith is approved to value Australian ceramics, glass, textiles, jewellery, leatherwork, wooden objects and furniture from 1950 for the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program. She has written prolifically about the decorative arts since the late 1970s, including as a regular contributor to The Canberra Times from 1978 to 2009, writing review articles of crafts and visual arts exhibitions and books, and continues to contribute reviews to the Canberra City News. She has written many articles about issues of importance to the arts for a number of journals, including the National Library News, Smarts, Pottery in Australia (now the Journal of Australian Ceramics), Ceramic Art and Perception, Craft Arts International, Textile Fibre Forum, Object, Craft Australia, and the Italian magazine Studio Vetro. Meredith has long lobbied for, and donated to enterprises across the arts spectrum. She was a leading advocate in the movement to establish the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) as an independent, not-for-profit, artist-run initiative. It was created in 1989 as a collaboration between the ACT Government and representatives of Canberra’s visual arts community, leasing 35 affordable and professional studio and exhibition spaces to artists. With support from ArtsACT, the ANCA Gallery opened in 1992, presenting a program of art exhibitions and events and supporting critical approaches to contemporary arts practice. Meredith was a founding board member of ANCA in 1992 and a guest curator in 2013. She is a board member of The Childers Group, which was created in 2011 as an independent arts forum in the Canberra region, advocating support for the arts to governments at all levels, and engaging with the private sector, educators, the media and the broader community about the value of the arts. After inheriting a substantial legacy from her father, Meredith decided to make good use of it by donating to the decorative arts collections of public galleries. In addition to regular donations to the National Gallery of Australia and the National Museum of Australia, in 2004 she started giving a significant sum annually to the Canberra Museum and Gallery for purchase of artworks by Canberra region artists, with a focus mostly on decorative arts. In 2019 the Gallery reciprocated by presenting an exhibition of pieces from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund. She says: ‘Although I’m not wealthy, people like me can still make a difference…. I just believe in giving money to things that are really important, to support artists; I know how tough it is for them.’ Meredith Hinchliffe has also been a long-time volunteer and board member in a number of national and ACT arts bodies since the 1980s, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Friends of the National Museum of Australia, the Friends of the National Library of Australia, and the ACT branch of the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society. She was a board member of Ausdance ACT and chaired its board from 2009–12. In the ACT, Meredith’s contributions to the arts were recognised in 2000 with an ACT Women’s Award. In 2011 she received an Australia Day Medal from National Gallery of Australia and in 2022 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for ‘significant service to the arts through a range of roles and organisations’. Published resources Fred Ward, Pioneer Australian Designer: His Life and Work in Furniture Design, Amy Jarvis and Meredith Hinchliffe, https://www.theaustralianafund.org.au/events/online-lecture-2-fred-ward-pioneer-australian-designer-his-life-and-work-in-furniture-design- Canberra Museum and Gallery, http://www.cmag.com.au/collection-search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=meredith+hinchliffe+collection Archival resources National Museum Australia Meredith Hinchliffe collection no. 1 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Meredith Hinchliffe, 1957-1981 [manuscript] Author Details Louise Moran Created 25 April 2023 Last modified 25 April 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A collection of papers consisting of letters from the following (number of letters indicated): Baker, Eric (1); Baker, Kate (25); Croll, R.H. (1); Cronin, Bernard (1); Gilmore, Dame Mary (1); Mattingley, A.H.E. (5); Kennedy, Victor (13); Murdoch, Sir Keith (1); minutes of meetings, 1946-1947; Articles of Association. Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc09.174 comprises letters, postcards and greeting cards to Lyndall Ryan from Manning Clark and Dymphna Clark. Included are typescripts of a 1974 Oscar Mendelsohn Lecture delivered by Clark at Monash University and of speeches delivered by Clark and Don W.A. Baker at book launch events for volume 5 of Clark’s A history of Australia, 1981 (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Tonga-born Sioana Faupala graduated from Sydney Teacher’s College in 1959. She taught at the Queen Salote College before marrying Halote Faupula in 1966. From 1972-82 she and their three children lived on the Yirrkala Mission in Arnhem Land following her husband’s appointment as its Methodist minister. There she taught in the Yirrkala Primary School. After subsequent appointments to Uniting Church parishes in Dee Why and Kurri Kurri in NSW, Halote retired to Canberra where he died in 2000. Sioana now works in the Pacific Manuscript Bureau at the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific, participates in Tongan language broadcasts and is an active member of the Multicultural Women’s Advocacy and the City Uniting Church’s social welfare programs. She is a Uniting Church Elder, assistant Chair of its Tongan congregation and President of both the Canberra Tongan and Pacific Islands United Associations. Sioana Faupola was born in Kolomotua Tonga on 23 February 1938, the first of the seven children of Ana Palu and Salesi Manoa Havea, a magistrate, Member of Parliament and later Minister for Police in the government of Tonga. Following her graduation from the Queen Salote College, from 1957-59 she undertook teacher training at Sydney Teacher’s College. On her return to Tonga in 1960 she taught at the Queen Salote College before her marriage in 1966 to Halote Faupula, then a teacher of agriculture. Following her husband’s ordination as a Methodist Minister in 1972, Sioana and her three young children accompanied him to the Methodist mission at Yirrkala on the Gove Peninsular, Arnhem Land, where she lived from 1972-82. She taught for three years at the Yirrkala Primary School then worked as an assistant to its Principal. In 1982 she moved with her husband to Dee Why, where he was appointed Minster in the Uniting Church, and to Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley in 1993 when he transferred to that parish. On his retirement in 1997 she moved to Canberra where her husband became an associate Minister in the City Uniting Church where he died in 2000. Sioana now works in the Pacific Manuscript Bureau of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, translating and collating documents of the nineteenth century Wesleyan missionary to Tonga, Shirley Wildemar Baker. She participates in Canberra Multicultural Radio and SBS Tongan broadcasts, is an active member of the Multicultural Women’s Advocacy and is President of the Queen Salote College Ex-students’ Association. She is an Elder in the City Uniting Church where she teaches Sunday school, participates in its support services for women and the homeless, and is Assistant Chair of its Tongan congregation, Toe Talatalanoa. Since 2010 Sioana has been President of the Tongan Association of Canberra and President of the Pacific Islands United Association. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Sioana Faupula interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording] Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 20 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of New South Wales Governor, Lachlan Macquarie, was an active supporter of her husband’s plan to transform the penal settlement at Sydney into a thriving settler colony. She is said to have taken a an interest in the welfare of women convicts and the local Aboriginal people. Her significant role in the establishment of the colony is memorialised in many landmarks in and around Sydney, New South Wales, including Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, Campbelltown and the various Elizabeth Streets that pepper the map of Sydney. She and another prominent Elizabeth (Macarthur) the wife of prominent colonial pastoralist John Macarthur, helped to introduce haymaking to New South Wales. Elizabeth Macquarie was a ‘gently born’ Scots woman, without fortune, who grew up on her brother’s estate at Appin, Scotland. She me Colonel Lachlan Macquarie, a widower and a distant cousin, in 1804 at the age of 26. They became engaged in 1805. They married in Devon on 3 November 1807. The bride was 29, the groom 46. In September 1808 their first child, a daughter named Jane Jarvis after the first Mrs Macquarie, was born, but she died in December. In 1809 Macquarie was appointed governor of New South Wales. His wife accompanied him to the colony, where they landed, in Sydney, on December 31, 1809. Their second child, a boy named Lachlan, was born on 28 March 1814. Elizabeth was a strong willed and determined woman and a devoted wife. She was an intrepid traveller, and her surviving 1809 journal of the voyage to Australia reveals a lively and inquisitive mind. Though dogged by ill health for much of her later life, she accompanied Lachlan on all of his major journeys throughout New South Wales and Tasmania. Recent histories have also indicated that she took an active role in instigating, designing and supervising many of the public works programs that her husband implemented during his time as Governor. She fully supported his efforts to transform a penal settlement into a thriving settler colony. After her husband resigned as Governor, amidst criticism and controversy over the administration of the colony under his leadership, the couple returned to Britain, to live at Macquarie’s estate, Jarvisfield on Mull, Scotland. Lachlan died in 1824. After his death, she continued to work tirelessly to promote the memory of his achievement, most graphically by making the claim on Macquarie’s tombstone inscription that his character and services to society ‘rendered him truly deserving the appellation by which he has been distinguished: THE FATHER OF AUSTRALIA.’ Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Lachlan & Elizabeth Macquarie Archive, Macquarie University, State Library of New South Wales, National Library of Scotland, Historic Houses Trust, National Library of Australia, National Museum of Australia, New South Wales State Records, 2009, http://www.library.mq.edu.au/digital/lema Governor Macquarie: 1810-2010, New South Wales Government, 2010, http://www.macquarie2010.nsw.gov.au/ Journeys in time: the journals of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie, Macquarie University and State Library of New South Wales, 2010, http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/all/journeys/menu.html Resource Section Macquarie, Elizabeth Henrietta (1778-1835), Barnard, Marjorie, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020161b.htm Elizabeth Henrietta Macquarie of Airds (1778-1835), 2010, http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/lema/biographies/embiog.html Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie: Journals and Memoranda, 2010, http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/lema/1809/ Book Elizabeth Macquarie: Her Life and Times, Cohen, Lysbeth, 1979 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Elizabeth Macquarie journal of a voyage from England to Sydney in the ship 'Dromedary', 15 May 1809 - 25 December 1809 National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Elizabeth Macquarie, wife of the late Governor Macquarie, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marien Dreyer wrote numerous scripts for the Australian Broadcasting Commission from the 1940s to the 1960s, and was author of the popular New Idea column ‘This Week with Marien Dreyer’ from 1955 to 1962. Daughter of a New Zealand-born journalist, Joseph Dreyer, and his Australian wife Mary Oulton (née Rosson), Marien was educated at a convent school until the age of 14. She worked as a stenographer and took on a number of jobs in Sydney before returning to Melbourne in 1940, where she worked as telephonist for the Australian Imperial Force. Marien married Rodney Beaumont Lovell Cooper, and the pair settled in Sydney in the 1940s. They were to have two sons. In Sydney, Dreyer produced a large number of stories and plays for magazines and radio broadcasts with scripts including ‘The Windows of Heaven’, ‘The Big Wind’, and the autobiographical ‘Story of a Lame Duck’ (Dreyer lost a leg while still a child). From 1955 to 1962, she wrote the popular New Idea column, ‘This Week with Marien Dreyer’. She won the Walkley Award in 1959 as co-writer of a non-fiction magazine article for New Idea entitled ‘The Day I Wiggled My Big Toe’. Dreyer’s satirical play, Bandicoot on a Burnt Ridge, won her the Journalists’ Club £1,000 award for 1962-63. In 1966, she assisted stipendiary magistrate Arthur Debenham with the authorship of his memoirs, Without Fear or Favour. She was a prolific writer of letters to the editor, many of which were published in the Sydney Morning Herald. Events 1940 - 1962 1959 - 1959 Best Magazine Feature Story (Non-Fiction), ‘The Day I Wiggled My Big Toe’ (with Harry Cox), New Idea and People Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Section Dreyer, Marien Oulton (1911 - 1980), Tate, Audrey, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140038b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 25 October 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Muriel Patterson was elected to the Thirty-third Parliament of Western Australia as the Liberal party member of the Legislative Council for South West Region on 4 February 1989 for term commencing 22 May 1989. She was re-elected 1993, and 1996 (for term commencing 22 May 1997). She retired 21 May 2001. Muriel Quartermaine was born in Katanning in 1931, to farmer Charles Quartermaine and his wife Grace. She studied at Perth Technical College and Albany Technical College, and married Rolstun Patterson in 1951. From 1964 she farmed with her husband at Tambellup, than taught dressmaking until 1977. She joined the Albany Chamber of Commerce in 1976, and was President from 1984-1986. A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Patterson was elected to the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia for the South West Region in 1989. She was re-elected in 1993 and 1996, and retired on 21 May 2001. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 30 November 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The National Council of Women of South Australia is a non-party, non-sectarian, umbrella organisation for a large and diverse number of affiliated women’s groups. Founded in 1902, with Lady Way (the Governor’s wife) as president, Its inaugural meeting was addressed by Catherine Helen Spence, who also became its vice-president. The initial group, however, foundered and became inactive around 1909. The Council was revived in 1920 with Lady Hackett as president. The Council functions as a political lobby group, attempting to influence local, state and federal government. Like all National Councils of Women, it operates though a standing committee system whereby specific issues are brought before the Council and, if there is general agreement that a question should be taken up, a subcommittee is established to investigate the matter. It provided a major focus for predominantly, middle-class, women’s activism until at least the 1940s. Although not an overtly feminist organisation, the Council has supported a wide range of social reform activities, particularly those related to education and to women’s, children’s and family welfare. Its aims are: 1. To promote the interest of women and to secure their proper recognition in the community. 2. To educate and uplift the outlook of the community on the status of women, the importance of the family, and the nurture and upbringing of children. 3. To provide a bond of union between women’s organisations, and a means of co-ordinated expressions for the societies affiliated with the Council. 4. To represent the interests of women in general before Parliament, local governing bodies and the Courts. 5. To promote the moral and social welfare of the community. At least 10 organisations joined the first National Council of Women of South Australia in 1902, including the: Young Women’s Christian Association; Mother’s Union; Woman’s Christian Temperance Union; Effective Voting League; Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union; Methodist Ladies Foreign Missions Auxiliary; Working Women’s Trade Union; Women’s Branch of the Single Tax League and the Girl’s Literary Society. 21 groups affiliated to the new Council in 1920, including the: Adelaide Rescue Committee; Adelaide Theosophical Society; Army Nurses Fund; Australian Board of Missions; Australian Trained Nurses Association; Catholic Women’s League; Congregational Church Women’s Society; Girls’ Friendly Society; Free Kindergarten Union; Women Teachers’ Progressive League; School for Mothers; Young Women’s Christian Association; Women’s Branch National Party; Liberal Women’s Educational Association; Traveller’s aid Society; Women’s Teachers’ Association. Later, groups such as the Jewish Women’s Guild, the Housewives Association and the Country Women’s Association also joined the Council. Eight Standing Committees were also formed: Press, Peace and Arbitration, Social, Legislation and Economics, Education, Public Health, Housewives and Immigration. Among the first subject discussed at Council meetings were: registration of nurses and midwives; hours of work for probationary nurse, government reserves for Aborigines; women on hospital boards; the need for a children’s court; the cost of living; divorce laws; the nationality of married women; penal reform; the care of migrant women; widows pensions; maternity bonuses; infant and maternal mortality and the detection and training of ‘mental defectives’. Published resources Book The history of the National Council of Women in [sic] South Australia, 1902-1980, Pitt, Barbara J, 1986 What's next? : the continuing history of the National Council of Women of South Australia 1980-2000, Hartley, Shirley, 2000 National Council of Women of South Australia, National Council of Women of South Australia, 1927 Greater than their knowing: a glimpse of South Australian women 1836-1986, National Council of Women of South Australia, 1986 Thesis A history of the National Council of Women of South Australia, 1920-1950, Mitta, Jane, 1989 Report Women and planning : key issues, National Council of Women of South Australia, 1978 Planning now & for the future : with special emphasis on the southern Adelaide region, Reeves, A. E. (Anne E.) ed., 1978 Book Section Barbara J Pitt writes 'At all times in every community, there are women who are concerned with maintaining and improving the quality of life.' In this article, she describes their work in the National Council of Women, Pitt, Barbara J, 1986 Journal Article The City as a Site of Women Teacher's Post-suffrage Activism: Adelaide, South Australia, Trethewey, Lynne and Whitehead, Kay, 2003 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Radio interview with May Mills [sound recording] Interviewer: Lynne Arnold National Council of Women of S.A. : SUMMARY RECORD List of names of South Australian women who served in World War II (research paper) Kathleen Hilfers : SUMMARY RECORD Papers relating to National Council of Women of South Australia Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) National Council of Women of South Australia - Records National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Margaret Davey interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording] Author Details Jane Carey Created 11 September 2003 Last modified 25 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Files, including correspondence, press clippings, CV’s of Artemis members; minutes. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers relate to McArthur’s work on population in the Pacific Islands, includes research notes and census data. Also includes copies of McArthur’s work ‘Population of Pacific Islands’ parts 1, 3, 6-9.??Note – Parts II, IV, V were not found when collection was transferred to the Pacific Research Archives in 2008. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Both personal papers and files connected with her work as Minister, mainly files on shipping, mental health, hospitals, and one file on Subiaco. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 February 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series has not been processed as of 23.01.2018. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records of the Seven Writers group, including correspondence, records of discussions at monthly meetings, photographs and news clippings, written and collected by Suzanne Edgar (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Membership cards: sub-branches, specific areas and workshops, c1950s to 1970s; Workers’ Compensation files, 1929, 1935-59, 1961, 1964- 1965; Annual Reports of Victorian Railways, 1912-29, 1933-38, 1942-59, 1961-73, 1976.??Quantity: 70 Archive boxes plus c15 boxes of membership cards Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A collection of posters, news liftouts, conference papers, newsletters, flyers, programs, etc. particularly relating to issues of women’s health, rights, sports, conferences, birth control, politics, protests, and International Women’s Day and Year. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes of meetings, 1956-1986.?Newsletters, 1956-1986. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jan Kronberg was elected MLC for the Eastern Metropolitan Region in November 2006, representing the Liberal Party in the Victorian parliament. She was re-elected in 2010 as a member of the Liberal Government, but retired at the November 2014 election. Jan Kronberg was a marketing lecturer at Box Hill Institute before embarking upon a political career. She has worked as an advisor for various industry groups and government organisations. Jan is a member of the Lions Club, Parliament of Victoria; the National Council of Women, Victoria; Manningham Interfaith Network; and the Liberal Women’s Council of Victoria. She has served in a number of party positions including Vice Chairman of the Menzies Federal Electorate Council and Convenor of the Policy Committee for Community Services and Housing. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 26 July 2007 Last modified 3 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Literary papers of Michelle De Kretser comprising drafts and proofs of her novels “The Hamilton Case”, and “The Lost Dog”. Also includes the author’s research papers, some general correspondence with publishers and editors, together with their editorial reports, and a poster “Have you seen The Lost Dog”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Bruna Romano migrated to Australia from Italy with her family in 1956. In 1967 she was awarded a Council of Legal Education Certificate from the Legal Education Committee of Victoria and was admitted as a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court of Victoria in May 1968. In mid-1968 she became the first woman to establish a law practice in the ACT, and remained head of the firm Romano & Co. until 2003. She was active in a number of community organisations in Canberra until the 1990s and continued to practise as a family law consultant. The fifth of nine children of Giuseppina Raco and Bartolo Verduci, Bruna Romano migrated with her family to Melbourne at the age of 13 and completed the Higher School Certificate at McRobertson Girls High, Melbourne, in 1961. In 1967 she was awarded a Council of Legal Education Certificate from the Legal Education Committee of Victoria, and became a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court of Victoria in May 1968. She married a Public Servant, Domenico Romano in December 1967 and became the first woman to establish a legal firm in the ACT in mid-1968 when she established the firm of Romano-Verduci, the ACT’s first non Anglo-Celtic law firm in the Canberra region. Her husband completed a law degree at the Australian National University and joined the firm in the mid-1970s. Bruna remained head of the firm Romano and Co. until 2003. In 1986 she was appointed Honorary lawyer for the Embassy of Italy, and in 1999 graduated from the University of Adelaide and the Australian National University with an Advanced Certificate of Arbitration and Mediation. From 1968 until the 1990s she was an active member of a number of community organisations such as the Good Neighbour Council (1968-80), the Council of Social Security, the Italo-Australian Women’s Committee, the Business and Professional Women’s Club, the Law Society’s Free Legal Service, the Women’s Legal Service and she was a founding member of the organising committee of Villaggio Italiano (San Antonio Retirement Village), Page, ACT. She and Domenico have two children, one of whom is now a partner in the firm. Bruna Romano died in December 2009, after being diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour about 14 months earlier. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Domenico Romano interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording] Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 19 July 2007 Last modified 16 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mersina Soulos, an expert in multicultural affairs, is a community activist who represented the Australian Greens party in the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Strathfield, 1999 House of Representatives, Lowe, 2001 New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Drummoyne, 2003."
    },
    {
        "text": "In 1926, Lord and Lady Somers sailed to Australia following Lord Somers’ appointment as Governor of Victoria. The couple disembarked the R.M.S. Cathay at Port Melbourne, where they were escorted by launch to an official landing amid much celebration at St Kilda Pier. At “Stonnington”, the Vice-Regal residence in Glenferrie Road, Malvern, 220 scouts formed a guard of honour lining the driveway and school children gathered to welcome the new Governor and his wife. Daughter of Captain Bertram Meeking of the 10th Hussars, Finola Meeking married Lord Arthur Somers in 1921. She was nine years his junior. Finola and her sister Viola had been frequent visitors to the Royal Family’s Scottish residence at Balmoral. Viola went on to marry Lord Apsley, heir to the Earl of Bathurst. In the short period she lived in Melbourne, between 1926 and 1931, Lady Finola Somers used her position to assist the development of women’s organisations in Victoria. She made a significant contribution to the Australian Red Cross; was president of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society and of the Three Counties Agricultural Society; a member of the YWCA, the National Trust, the Conservative party, the Soldiers’ Club and the Three Choirs Festival; a founding member of the Victorian Branch of the Country Women’s Association; and a State Commissioner in the Victorian Girl Guides Organisation. In 1931, she was presented with the Silver Fish – the highest guiding award – by Lady Baden-Powell. Whilst in Australia, Lady Somers also assisted in the development of the Lord Somers Camp and Powell House. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) for services to Girl Guides. Lady Finola Somers was presented with her aviator’s certificate by the Royal Aero Club on 17 July 1929, and on 12 December that year she made her first flight in her moth at Essendon. She has been described as “a great lover of the country and an accomplished horsewoman”. The Lady Somers Camp for girls is held annually as a tribute to her memory. Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers [microform] : [M2504-2511], 1886-1937 Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 16 February 2004 Last modified 14 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Notes, architectural plans and display sketches for a building “Women’s Place” 147 Charlotte St Brisbane. Plans prepared by A. Ian Ferrier, Baudet & Associates Pty Ltd. Architects and Planners.??The John Oxley Library is in temporary accommodation until 2006. Most material is kept off-site. Researchers wishing to use the manuscript collection should contact the research librarian prior to visiting the library to confirm the availability of the material. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 June 2004 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Lorraine Elliott served as the member for Mooroolbark in the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian Parliament from 1992-2002. She held the position of Victorian Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier for the Arts from 1996-99. She stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Australia in the seat of Kilsyth at the 2002 state election, which was held on 30 November 2002.The seat of Mooroolbark was abolished in an electoral redistribution in 2001. Daughter of Harry James Golder and Ailsa Lorraine Trengrove, Lorraine Elliott was educated at Camberwell Church of England Girls Grammar School and the Universities of Melbourne and Monash. She completed a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education at the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Education at Monash University. Before entering parliament she worked as a teacher from 1965-67 at Blackburn High School and at the Donvale Living and Learning Centre from 1984-87. Events 2015 - 2015 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Victorian Parliamentary handbook: the 53rd Parliament, no 6, 1996 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1998, Neto, Maryanne (researcher), 1997 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 15 July 2005 Last modified 5 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Transcription of Jessie Webb’s diary of her Nile journey in 1922. Accession 97/37 holds the original manuscript diary. The transcript was made by Margaret O’Callaghan in February, 2009. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Diary letters relating to Margaret Kiddle’s trip to the UK and Europe in 1952 (copy and also part of the original); a “Progress Book” documenting Margaret’s infancy and childhood; Elizabeth Bush’s manuscript memoir of her sister, Margaret Kiddle; file of correspondence sent and received by Elizabeth Bush relating to MK; copy of talk given by MK to Victorian Society of Genealogists in 1953; publications by MK: The Candle, Moonbeam Stairs, West of Sunset, Caroline Chisholm; cassette tape of talk by Weston Bate on MK’s work and life (2 copies). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photographs taken for publication in various issues of Dawn and New Dawn magazines 1970-1974. Subjects include: employment; housing; education; health; art; performing arts; politics Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 June 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Certificates registering E.G. Walker as the owner of copyright in ‘The Springs of Power’ (1933), ‘The White Ribbon Pageant’ (1935), ‘The Silver Wings and other poems” (1939) and ‘The Middle Way’ (1947). Includes receipt relating to each application. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Collection from Russian Literary Archives consisting mainly of letters to Russian writers, as well as some articles and speeches (1935-1969); in addition, various letters and some accounts, mainly relating to royalties (1952-1965). Detailed listing available (MN 1465) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 February 2008 Last modified 31 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records comprise correspondence, minutes, financial statements, lists of members and details of tours, photographs of 1952 tour, information on committee dispute 1971-72, Bulletins, articles about China and some National Council records. Also, papers of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1970s, comprising correspondence, press cuttings, newsletters; also papers of the United Nations Association of Australia Disarmament Sub-committee consisting of reports, proceedings and information on disarmament. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 26 March 2003 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Identity card : Sister J K Greer, 2/10 Australian General Hospital Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0463gb.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Proof for her book ‘The more things change’ published by Random House in 1995. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Office of the Women’s Adviser to the Premier was created in South Australia in 1976. The first Women’s Advisor was Deborah McCulloch. The Office had a broad ambit and was able to provide women’s services and to liaise with other government department on issues that affected women. The Office could comment upon ways to improve legislation and also undertake its own projects. The Women’s Advisory Unit was established by Deborah McCulloch in 1976 as a result of a comprehensive report on the Public Service in South Australia. Deborah was appointed on a three year contract and during this time she established the Women’s Information Switchboard. They undertook research on women’s issues and provided information to the Premier. The office was to co-ordinate activities relating to women in the state for the betterment of women’s status and well-being in South Australia. Some of the other women involved include Rosemary Wighton and Mary McLeod. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Women's Movement South Australia, Barber, Jenny, 1980 Fresh evidence, new witnesses : finding women's history, Allen, Margaret (Margaret Ellen), 1947- ; Hutchison, Mary and Mackinnon, Alison, 1942-, 1989 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Hindmarsh Women's Community Health Centre Union of Australian Women : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 2005, Audrey Fagan was Canberra’s chief police officer, an assistant commissioner of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australia’s second-highest ranking policewoman. She took her own life in 2007. Audrey Fagan was nine when she emigrated to South Australia with her parents, Arthur and Jenny, in 1971. Aged 18 she travelled to Canberra to try out as a police recruit. She spent five years there on the beat, including stints in the areas of juvenile crime and fraud, before working on Christmas Island for a further two. Fagan was highly accomplished, and began training detectives and investigating internal corruption. She served as a liaison officer to government. In 2004, she was awarded the Australian Police Medal for her work helping to coordinate counter-terrorism capabilities and for enhancing and promoting the role of women in law enforcement. Fagan became chief of staff to Australian Federal Police chief, Mick Keelty. When John Davies resigned as Canberra police chief, Fagan stepped into the role, bringing ‘vigour to the challenges of organisational rust’ in a force that had lost many of its better officers to international postings. Soon, though, she became the subject of sustained attacks by journalists at The Canberra Times, who felt that there were serious flaws in the AFP’s media management, and that Canberra police kept Canberrans in the dark on matters of public safety. No journalist predicted the disastrous effect of such constant criticism. Fagan turned to professional support to relieve job stress, and took a holiday to Hayman Island where her husband, Chris Rowell, was attending a conference. There, Fagan hanged herself in her hotel room, leaving two suicide notes for her family. Fagan was 44 years old. She is survived by her husband, her daughter Clair, and two stepchildren. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 May 2007 Last modified 16 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Gertrude Amy Roseby was headmistress of Redlands (Sydney Church of England Girls’ Grammar School), Neutral Bay from 1911 to 1945. She was also a strong supporter of the peace movement. In 1958 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Education Gertrude Amy Roseby was privately tutored before entering the University of Sydney. She graduated in 1895 with a Bachelor of Arts and second-class honours in logic and mental philosophy. Career Late 1890s: Following her graduation she joined the staff at Rockhampton Girls’ Grammar School, Queensland, where she taught for eight years. 1905: Travelled to Britain, where she completed a diploma of pedagogy at the University of London and taught briefly at Wyggeston School for girls, Leicester. 1908: Returned to Australia, taking up the position of resident headmistress at Ascham, Darling Point. 1911: Bought Redlands, Neutral Bay, a school with 35 day-girls and 8 boarders, with her sister Mabel. 1945: Retired and sold Redlands to the Church of England. Community work 1946-1950: Chairman, Sydney Kindergarten Training College council. 1951-1963: Treasurer, Wybalena Hostel for Girls in Burwood. In addition to her progressive views on education, Roseby was a committed pacifist. During the 1930s she belonged to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and the Congregational (Women’s) Peace Fellowship (Congregational Women’s Fellowship for the Study of World Affairs). Roseby was also an active member of the National Council of Women of New South Wales. In 1958 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Published resources Resource Section Roseby, Gertrude Amy (1872-1971), Teale, Ruth, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160153b.htm Book Pioneer Women Graduates of the University of Sydney 1881-1921, Bygott, Ursula and Cable, Kenneth John, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 7 September 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Comprises: correspondence, agendas and minutes of meetings for the Women’s Information Switchboard Support Group; reports of the State Working Party on Information Services and Women’s Services; and invitations to events. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Edgeworth, an author, environmentalist and producer, talks about the history of the McIntyre and Edgeworth David families in Launceston and Sydney; her own poetry; feminism and Women’s Electoral Lobby; Canberra and Launceston theatre history especially Canberra Repertory; Canberra personalities; Australian National University in the 1960s; A. D. Hope; women and science; population control; environmental movements; Lt. Shirase’s Japanese expedition to the Antarctic; Writers against Nuclear Arms (WANA) and Writers for an Ecologically Sustainable Population (WESP). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2013 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Victorian Federation of Catholic Parents’ Clubs, originally named the Victorian Federation of Catholic Mothers’ Clubs, was established in August 1958. The decision to form the federation was made at a meeting held in the Carmelite Hall in the Melbourne suburb of Middle Park. Five hundred women delegates from one hundred and six organisations associated with schools in suburban and country parishes attended. Its aims were to support and publicise the work, achievements and needs of Catholic schools in Victoria and to seek free education for all children in the schools of their parents’ choice. Its motto was ‘Love Conquers All’. It worked for forty years to achieve its aims and ceased functioning in 1998. Mr J Carr, impressed by the success of the mothers’ clubs in state schools, suggested that the Federation be formed. The inaugural office bearers were: president, Mrs Cullen, vice presidents Mrs Dynon and Mrs Crough, secretary Mrs Cuffley, Treasurer Mrs Phelan. Mrs Marie Kohn, president in 1969 was a tireless worker and held positions of president, secretary, assistant secretary and regional organiser throughout the federation’s existence. She was made a Life Member. The aims of the federation were: *To promote the educational welfare of children in the community. * Publicise the work, achievements and needs of Catholic schools. * Foster a desire for better educational facilities and opportunities. * Provide schools with modern improvements and teaching aids. * Seek free education for all children from kindergarten to matriculation in the schools of their parents’ choices. * To promote co-operation between parents and teachers and to assist parents to better fulfil their role in the education and training of their children. * To encourage proper co-operation between Mothers’ Clubs in different districts. * To express the views of Catholic mothers on matters affecting the education and welfare of their children. The Federation could claim some success when the federal Government introduced a per capita grant of $35.00 per primary child and $50.00 per secondary student in 1969. The final address of the Victorian Federation of Catholic Parents’ Clubs was 22 Brunswick St, Fitzroy Vic. 3065 Published resources Newspaper Article 500 representatives of Catholic Mothers' Clubs met to form a Federation, 1958 Report Annual report, Victorian Federation of Catholic Mothers' Clubs and Parents' Associations, 1959 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission Victorian Federation of Catholic Parents' Clubs records Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 18 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "PHOTOCOPY OF TYPESCRIPT DRAFT TITLED “MY FIRST SIX MONTHS IN THE AWAS” DESCRIBING RECRUITMENT AND INITIAL TRAINING AND DUTIES IN MELBOURNE, 1941-1942 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 172 min.)??Rosemary Follett speaks about leading a government with a slim majority; Julia Gillard; her family’s history; her parent’s backgrounds; sectarianism in Australia in the middle of the twentieth century; her family’s move to Canberra; her siblings; her mother’s university education; the importance of faith and organised religion to her; her Catholic schooling; female role models; family discussions about politics; her secretarial studies at TAFE; living and working in Darwin; meeting her husband; secretarial work; her university education; joining the Australian Labor Party (ALP); working for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PMC) in the Office of Women’s Affairs; establishing the National Women’s Advisory Council; feminism; Gough Whitlam’s sacking; working at the Department of Home Affairs; her career motivations; the Public Service Executive Leadership Program; mentors; Moveable Cultural Heritage; what drove her eventually towards formal politics; her role as the Member for Fraser; working towards self government for the A.C.T.; her role as President of the A.C.T. branch of the ALP; her consultative approach to leadership; her election as first Chief Minister of the A.C.T. in 1989; the opposition to A.C.T. self government; her attempts to introduce feminist policies; experiencing consistent commentary about what she was wearing; establishing the machinery of government; working with an inexperienced public service and huge minister portfolios; media scrutiny; her goals of legislation for occupational health and safety and consumer protection laws; losing the leadership through a vote of no confidence; the growth of ALP women at state and territory leader meetings; gender and leadership styles; dealing with criticism and judgement; losing the 1995 election; working as Discrimination Minister for the A.C.T. Human Rights Office; being Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Canberra; chairing the Vocational Education and Training Authority (VETA); taking on board member roles after politics; mentoring; public speaking; critical incidents in her leadership; what leadership entails; character traits and behaviour she admires in leaders; the support of family and friends; her love of Canberra. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 February 2013 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lillias Skene was a prominent member of numerous women’s groups and social welfare organisations in Melbourne from the early 1900s into the 1940s. She initially focussed on philanthropic work, but from the 1920s she devoted most of her energies to the Red Cross and the National Council of Women of Victoria. She was present at the inaugural meeting of the British (Australian) Red Cross on 25 August 1914 and was a member of the Victorian council from about 1920 until 1941. She became assistant-secretary of the National Council of Women in 1914, honorary secretary in 1916, vice-president in 1921 and president in 1924. In this year she also became foundation president of the federal council of the various State-based National Councils of Women. Lilias Skene was born in 1867 at Smythesdale, Victoria. She married David Skene, a sheepmaster, in 1888 and they had 4 children. The family moved several times, at one time running a dairy in Manly, before moving to Melbourne in 1906. Soon after this she joined several philanthropic and reform organisations included the Charity Organisation Society, the Lady Talbot Milk Institute and represented the Guild of Play on the National Council of Women of Victoria until the 1920s. For thirty years, from 1919, she was honorary secretary of the Women’s Hospital Committee’s board of management. In 1927 she became one of the first seven women Justices of the Peace in Victoria and played an active role in the Women Justices Association. Events 1927 - Victorian Nursing Board 1929 - State Relief Committee Published resources Resource Section Skene, Lillias Margaret (1867 - 1957), Smart, Judith, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160304b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Book Champions of the impossible: a history of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1902-1977, Norris, Ada, 1978 A Brief history of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1902-1945, Gillan, Helen E (comp.), 1945 A Sense of Purpose: Great Australian Women of the 20th Century, 1996 Thesis The Acceptable face of feminism : National Council of Women, 1902-1918, Gray, Kate, 1988 Archival resources State Library of Victoria National Council of Women of Victoria National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Minutes [1904-1960] [microform] Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Lillias Skene Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Louise Asher held the Ministerial portfolios of Tourism and Small Business from 1996-99 in the Kennett Government, which was in power in Victoria from 1992-99. She served as the Member for Monash Province in the Legislative Council of the Victorian Parliament from 1992-99 and moved to the Legislative Assembly as the Member for Brighton in 1999 and was re-elected in 2002 and 2006. She held the positions of Shadow Minister for Industry and Employment and Major Projects from January 2004 to December 2006 and was Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Minister for Urban Water, Shadow Minister for Small Business, Shadow Minister for Tourism and Major Events from 2006-10. She was re-elected in 2010 and was appointed the Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business as well as Minister for Tourism and Major Events in the new Liberal Government. In addition she retained the position of Deputy leader of the Liberal Party. On the defeat of the Liberal Government in November 2014, and Asher’s re-election, she resigned as deputy leader of the Liberal Party. 1999-2002 Deputy Leader of the Opposition 1999-2001 Shadow Treasurer 2000-01 Shadow Minister for Finance 2001-02 Shadow Minister for Industry and Employment, Major Projects and Tourism Dec 2002-Jan 2004 Shadow Minister for Manufacturing and Exports Published resources Thesis The Women's Electoral Lobby: An Historical Inquiry, Asher, Louise, 1980 Book Section The Liberal Party and Women, Asher, Louise, 1984 Martha Glendinning: A Woman's Life on the Goldfields, Asher, Louise, 1985 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 19 August 2005 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 6 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Betty Mountbatten Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0477gb.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 7550 comprises correspondence, diaries, notebooks, personal documents, newspaper cuttings, photographs, printed ephemera, research materials and manuscripts and typescripts of Clark’s books, articles, reviews, lectures, addresses and speeches. There are some papers relating to Clark’s teachings at the Australian National University, but the bulk of the collection comprises private papers, providing a detailed record of his ideas and thoughts, his friendships, his travels, his participation in public debates and discussions and the whole range of his writings.??Series 16-18, occupying 102 boxes, relate to A history of Australia, including the original manuscripts and typescripts, research materials, reviews and correspondence with publishers, friends and readers. The correspondence mostly dates from 1950 to 1991 and is very extensive. The correspondents include Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Geoffrey Fairbairn, James McAuley, R.M. Crawford, John La Nauze, Sir Keith Hancock, Geoffrey Dutton, Russel Ward, John Ritchie, Don Baker, G.P. Shaw, Bruce Grant, Judah Waten, Patrick White, Ken Inglis, John Ritchie, Lyndall Ryan, Suzanne Welborn, Humphrey McQueen, Pat Dobrez and Helen Garner (196 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc03.178 instalment comprises further papers of Manning Clark (2 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 January 2018 Last modified 3 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Australia: Victoria, Melbourne Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pat Holmes is widely recognised as the first woman to have worked as a full-time photojournalist on an Australian newspaper. Initially working as a studio portrait photographer in Sydney, Holmes took a position as press photographer for The Sun during WW2. In 1946, Holmes produced the iconic photograph New Year’s Eve, Kings Cross. Pat Holmes is widely recognised as the first woman to have worked as a full-time photojournalist on an Australian newspaper. She was born on 17 March 1915, in Sydney, NSW. She received her first Box Brownie camera at the age of ten and developed an interest in photography while attending Frensham School in Mittagong (Wilfred West School), where the headmistress encouraged the girls to pursue careers rather than viewing marriage as their only option. Holmes taught herself darkroom skills by following the instructions given on the packets of darkroom developer chemicals and using the school’s darkroom. She was still at school when she first met the photographer Harold Cazneaux, who had been employed by the school’s board to prepare a book entitled The Frensham Book, a pictorial record of the school’s environment. She helped him carry his equipment during his stay in Mittagong and was greatly influenced by him to become a photographer. In 1931 she left school and began an apprenticeship with Cazneaux at his studio in Roseville, even though her parents wanted her to become a kindergarten teacher. Apparently she approached Cazneaux and asked him to ‘rescue her’ by taking her on (Hall 101). She worked in his studio for two years. Holmes travelled to England in 1937 as a member of the first Australian Women’s Cricket team, where she played three test matches. The team returned to Australia soon after, but she elected to stay on in England, working at a variety of photography studios. She was mainly doing retouching but she was more interested in darkroom work. She eventually found a darkroom position in a London studio and remained there for eighteen months before returning to Australia. Work was difficult to come by in Sydney but she eventually secured a position, working for Monte Luke at his Castlereagh Street Studio in 1940. One year later she established her own portrait business, working from a darkroom she had established at home, becoming quite skilled at photographing children. In 1943 Holmes took a job as a press photographer for The Sun. It was a position that offered her a variety of work and she continued to work there until 1948. One of her iconic photographs was taken at this time: New Year’s Eve, Kings Cross, 1946. The image captured the exuberance and excitement of a group of young women gathering to celebrate New Year’s Eve. She left The Sun, in 1948, just before her marriage to a Mr Stuart. She went onto have three children and six grandchildren. Interviewed many years later Holmes recalled her time as a female press photographer: ‘I was a little hesitant at first when I went out on jobs, but I soon realised that I had to take the initiative. It was mainly the very young and older men that I worked with during the war years. Half the staff was in uniform. It was strange with all the young men away. Then the men came back and life settled down. I missed newspaper work at first when I left in 1948. It had been exciting. Life was flat without the variety. But then I became involved with my family when I married soon after leaving The Sun. That has been a wonderful time too’ (Christine Gillespie, Interview; cited in Hall 269). Pat Holmes died on 25 October 1992. Collections National Gallery of Australia Content added for The Women’s Pages research project, last modified 16 September 2013 Holmes was educated at Frensham, later the Winifred West School, where she was encouraged by West to pursue a career in photography. There, in the late 1920s, she met photographer Harold Cazneaux, who was compiling a pictorial record of the school environment (The Frensham Book). When Holmes left school in 1931, she approached Cazneaux to teach her photography, and she worked in his Roseville studio for two years. In 1937, Holmes became a member of the first Australian Women’s Cricket team to tour England. A keen sportswoman, she scored 176 runs in the three tests played. She remained in England until 1939, working in a London printing studio. On her return to Australia, Holmes continued working on her own commissions at home. She searched for employment in Sydney photographic studios for a year before finding work with Monte Luke in Castlereagh Street. In 1943 she was offered a job by Associated Press, and joined the staff of The Sun as a press photographer. She left the paper in 1948, shortly before she married. Holmes died in Sydney in 1992, survived by three children and six grandchildren. Events 1940 - 1948 1937 - 1939 1943 - 1948 1981 - 1981 Pat Holmes’ work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 1988 - 1988 Pat Holmes’ work featured in Shades of Light Published resources Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Newspaper Article Crowded Days Ahead, Jarrett, Pat, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37045153 Lessons of Tour Will Benefit S.A., http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55072981 Photographs show how image of Australian woman has changed in 150 years, Geissler, Marie, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102076743 Book Section Pat Holmes, Hall, Barbara, 1995 Resource Section Pat Holmes, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/pat-holmes/ Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 July 2008 Last modified 14 December 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Descriptive list available.?1. Letters, including letters from Nellie Melba to Cochran, 1916-1926. 2. Autograph book, 1888-1905. 3. Manuscript of “Round the world in Eighty Years” by Tommy Cochran. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Helen Blackburn developed a passion for aviation whilst living in America during the early 1940s. She gained her commercial licence in 1945 and later became the federal secretary of the Australian Women Pilots’ Association. Helen’s other passion was shell collecting, which she undertook for a number of institutions. In 1984 she donated her extensive collection to the National Museum of Australia. Bryony Helen Dutton was born in 1918 and grew up on Anlaby Station, the oldest stud sheep station in South Australia, with her three siblings. Due to ongoing teasing by other children about her first name, Bryony, she decided to go by her middle name, Helen. Helen married U.S. serviceman Captain William Curkeet in 1942 and the pair moved to America. Although their marriage was short-lived, it was her time in America that sparked her passion for aviation. She learned to fly when the United States Government sponsored the Civil Pilot Training Scheme. At the age of 26, she was trained in US Air Force single-primary trainers and gained her commercial license in c.1945. For a time, Helen served as federal secretary of the Australian Women Pilots’ Association, as well as president of the Australian section of the Ninety-Nines Inc. In addition to being an ongoing member of both of these organisations, Helen was also a member of the British Women Pilots’ Association. Helen married Richard Blackburn in 1951 and together they moved to Adelaide and started a family. Here she joined the Royal Aero Cub of South Australia where she flew Tiger Moths. Both Helen and her husband were keen flyers and they spent numerous hours roaming Australia by air. For seventeen years they owned a Cessna 172, which they eventually sold in 1979. Richard was appointed resident judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in 1966. With her family relocated to the Northern Territory, Helen pursued her passion for collecting shells; a passion which had developed during family holidays at Rocky Point when she was young. Helen often combined her love of aviation and shell collecting, flying to remote areas in her plane in search for shells. She regularly visited Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef, and the Kimberley in northwest Australia during the late 1960s. Due to her skills and reputation for shell collecting, Helen collected for several major institutions, including the Australian, Darwin, Tasmanian and Western Australian Museums, the CSIRO and the University of New South Wales. In fact, one of the shells she presented to the Australian Museum had never before been described, so it was named in her honour: Cryptomya blackburnae. In 1971, the Blackburn’s moved to Canberra, where Richard took up a position with the ACT Supreme Court. This allowed Helen to broaden her collection to include shells from the New South Wales south coast. In 1980 Helen published a book on shells, which was entitled Marine shells of the Darwin area and in 1984, Helen offered her seashell collection to the National Museum of Australia, which was gratefully accepted. In addition to aviation and shell collecting, Helen Blackburn was passionate about pollution and enjoyed writing. Prior to having a family, she had worked as both a free-lance journalist and short story writer. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Richard Arthur Blackburn, 1922-1995 [manuscript] Papers of Geoffrey Dutton, 1898-1998 (bulk 1961-1998) [manuscript] Papers of Lady Helen Blackburn, 1944-1990 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Helen Blackburn, pilot, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] NULL Helen Blackburn talking to Margaret Travers in Orange, NSW on 30 December 1995. sound recording National Museum Australia Lady Helen Blackburn collection Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 9 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Casey, Maie. Melba re-visited 1861-1931.?Comprises records of performances at Melbourne theatres ; also chronology of Dame Nellie Melba, other performers, 1845-1970 ; also letters from Nellie Mitchell to her singing teacher, Signor Cecchi ; also a manuscript copy of Melba re-visited, by Maie Casey. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A real estate agent finds a group of squatters in a derelict house. They play a dangerous trick on him that eventually leads to his death.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Copied and digitised from an image appearing in Biographical Record of Queensland Women 1939 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Informal portrait of three nurses who accompanied the Second Contingent to the Boer War as members of the NSW Army Medical Corps. Matron E J (Nellie) Gould, Lady Superintendent of the first contingent of Australian military nurses to serve overseas, holds a nurse’s chatelaine containing essential tools of the trade (left). Miss Penelope Frater (Sister), holding her Queen Victoria chocolate box, one of those issued to troops and nurses to celebrate the New Year of 1900 (centre). Miss Julia Bligh Johnston (Superintendent) (right), stands with a Rhodesian ridgeback dog named Buller, brought back from South Africa in 1902 and holds a sjambok. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Salme Koobakene was born in rural Estonia and undertook tertiary studies at the University of Tartu. It is likely that the second Soviet invasion of her homeland ended the possibility of her graduating, when she joined tens of thousands fleeing. She reached what became the American zone of Germany and was selected by the Australia Government to be in the first party of refugees to be resettled from Germany. The bulk of her working life was spent at the Menzies Library of the Australian National University. In her estate, she left an endowment to the National Gallery of Australia and another to the Country Women’s Association for annual grants to high school students and young carers in the Canberra-Monaro region. Salme Koobakene was born Salme Kärema in Valga, a county on Estonia’s southern border with Latvia. Her mother was a midwife and her father, Ado, a farmer. She was born into the newly independent nation of Estonia, at a time when the Estonian people realised the value of education for their girls as well as boys. She completed her secondary education at the Valga Russian Co-educational High School and began to study for an Arts degree at the University of Tartu. The Soviet Union invaded the Republic of Estonia in June 1940 and a year later, around 10,000 Estonians identified as ‘anti-Soviet elements’ were deported to Siberia. These people included politicians, as well as those involved in maintaining the state’s legal apparatus. Salme Koobakene’s husband seems to have fitted into the last category as it is understood that he was a senior prison official. The German Army arrived in Estonia only one week after the deportations, heralding a period of comparative peace. It was during this period that Salme resumed her studies at the University of Tartu, in the late summer of 1943. By September 1944, the German front reached the Estonian capital of Tallinn and at this time an estimated 70,000 to 80,000 Estonians fled by whatever means were available. At the end of the war, Salme found herself in a camp for displaced persons which had been set up in Hanau in the United States zone of Germany. There she would have heard a call on behalf of a visiting Australian selection team by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration which operated the camps. Her widowed status, age, education and other skills led to Salme being accepted by the selection team. She travelled to the Diepholz Camp in the British zone near Bremerhaven to join others before for their ship journey to Australia. This shipload of refugees was the first group of migrants of non-British origin to be selected by the Australian Government. Their ship was the USAT General Stuart Heintzelman, built as a troop transport for the US Army, so it was operated by the Army while crewed by the US Navy. Even though the four-week voyage was more like a holiday after more than seven years of war, there was military discipline on board. All of the passengers were expected to undertake some work like translating the daily newsletter into their mother tongues and staffing the ship’s library. In addition to reading, recreation focussed on music making, chess and nightly films and dances. The voyage ended with the disembarkation of the Heintzelman‘s passengers at Fremantle on 28 November 1947. After four nights in Army camps in Perth, they boarded the Kanimbla, still under the control of the Australian Navy. They arrived at Port Melbourne on 7 December 1947 and disembarked the next day. By 9 December they were settling into another camp routine, this time at the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre, near Wodonga on the Murray River. The Bonegilla records show that Salme worked as a waitress in the camp from 15 December until 21 January the next year. However, the record of her receipt of an Aliens Registration Certificate on 13 January 1948 shows her as located at Gorman House, a government hostel for public servants, in Canberra. By mid-1950 she was enrolled to study the Russian language at the Canberra University College. In 1954, she passed both Russian II and Russian III with honours, as well as German I. Her proven skills in the Russian language led to her appointment to the Australian National University as a Library Assistant in 1961. She continued to work at the Menzies Library, which held materials used by the Research Schools of the University, until her retirement, using her Russian language skills to translate material for the Library. Salme died on 4 October 1998. She had been a good saver, and had been able to live well in retirement. There was enough money in her estate to benefit the National Gallery of Australia to the amount of at least $10,000 per year between 2001-02 and 2007-08. In addition, she willed funds to the Country Women’s Association to provide scholarships for secondary students in the Canberra and Monaro regions. At some stage early on in her Canberra life, she found that the Country Women’s Association enabled her to meet Australians of a similar age with similar interests. The Canberra Branch of the CWA uses its half of the income from the bequest to award grants to Year 12 students and young carers in Canberra, and the Monaro Group uses its half to provide scholarships along similar lines. The high regard in which Estonians held education lives on in the legacy of Salme Koobakene. Published resources Resource Section The Red Army invasion of Estonia in 1944, http://www.estonica.org/en/History/1939-1945_Estonia_and_World_War_II/The_Red_Army_invasion_of_Estonia_in_1944/ Estonia in World War II, 2012, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia_in_World_War_II Soviet deportations from Estonia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Estonia United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 2012, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Relief_and_Rehabilitation_Administration Edited Book Album Academicum Universitatis Tartuensis 1918-1944, Lindström, L. et al., 1994 Newspaper Article Eestlasi v??rsil, 1950, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page7746633 University College Examinations, 1954, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2904936 Jindabyne, 2011 Book Estonia's Way, Laar, Mart, 2006 Estonia and the Estonians, Hoover Institution Press, Raun, Toivo U., 2001 Bonegilla's Beginnings, Tündern-Smith, Ann, 2007 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian National University Archives Canberra University College Student Record cards: E-K Kilby - Ladel National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Correspondence files, class 6 (aliens registration) Aliens registration certificates - Displaced persons located in Canberra - ex GENERAL HEINTZELMAN Personal Statement and Declaration by alien passengers entering Australia (Forms A42) Migrant Selection Documents for Displaced Persons who travelled to Australia per General Stuart Heintzelman departing Bremerhaven 30 October 1947 Estonian Archives in Australia (EAA) The Estonians in Canberra; 1948 - 1998 National Archives of Australia, Various Locations Name Index Cards, Migrants Registration [Bonegilla] Author Details Ann Tündern-Smith Created 7 January 2013 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Salme Koobakene Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Outside-old-CWA-rooms.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Diaries, Photograph Album, Lecture Notes, Cuttings Book Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 20 January 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Martha Sarah Bidmead was the first South Australian and one of three Australian nurses who were awarded the Royal Red Cross (RRC) medal for service during the Boer War. After her war service she continued her nursing career in South Australia and assumed the position of superintendent of the District Trained Nursing Society of South Australia from 1912 until her retirement in 1926. Martha Bidmead was the daughter of Thomas Benjamin Bidmead, tobacconist, and Anne, née Mason. She lived in the Channel Islands, until the age of 22, when she and her four sisters migrated to South Australia after the death of both parents. They arrived on 30 April 1885 on the ship the John Elder. She embarked upon her nursing career at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital in July 1886 and became a charge nurse there from 1887-1889. After nursing privately for eight years, she took up the position of staff nurse at the Burra Burra District Hospital. Martha Bidmead volunteered for war service when the South Australian Government decided to send a detachment of nurses to the Boer War in 1899. She was in charge of six nurses who sailed from Melbourne on the Australasian on 21 February 1900. They worked under the authority of the British Army while in South Africa, but had to report regularly to the South Australian Chief Secretary. The South Australian Government paid their fares and a salary of fifteen shillings a week. Their first attachment was to the Second General Hospital at Winburg, near Cape Town, until June, and then they transferred to the Tenth General Hospital at Bloemfontein, the base of the New South Wales Ambulance Corps. In addition to treating the wounded, they nursed cases of enteric fever and dysentery. Martha Bidmead related her war experiences through a series of letters she wrote to members of the Nurses’ Fund Committee, which were published in the Adelaide Observer. She succumbed to illness in March 1901 and after her recovery she worked on light duties at Fifth Stationary Hospital, Bloemfontein, then later took charge of Tenth General Hospital. She was Mentioned in Dispatches twice and awarded the Royal Red Cross medal on 10 December 1901. At the end of 1901 she accompanied wounded servicemen on the hospital ship back to London. She received her medal, with her colleague, Elizabeth Nixon, at St James’ Palace, London, 12 March 1902. After her war service, she resumed her private nursing career in South Australia until she was appointed superintendent of the District Trained Nursing Society of South Australia, which provided home nursing care for the poor. She retired in 1926. Her retirement interests included playing bridge and gardening. Martha Bidmead died at her home, Guernsey Cottage, which she shared with her sisters, of a neurological disorder on 23 July 1940. Published resources Book Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 The Diggers : makers of the Australian military tradition, Coulthard-Clark, Chris, 1993 Resource Section Bidmead, Martha Sarah (1862-1940), Clark, Rex, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070291b.htm Martha Sarah Bidmead, http://www.awm.gov.au/database/honours.asp Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 31 July 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The records have been retained in their original order in the following series: 1. Correspondence arranged by artists, 1961-84: the series contains letters from artists whose works were exhibited in the Rudy Komon Art Gallery, as well as young artists trying to publicise their works and letters from directors of various galleries. Correspondents include George Baldessin, Sir William Dargie, Tom Silver, David Thomas, Roy Dalgarno, Jack Lynn and John Siddeley. 2. Correspondence arranged by artists, galleries and companies, 1963-84: the series comprises correspondence with artists, commercial and public galleries, and business firms, mainly concerning the sale of art works or exhibitions. The correspondents include Tate Adams, Bruce Arthur, Jim Ede, Tony Underhill, Leonard French, Arthur Boyd, Judy Cassab, Kym Bonython, Sidney Nolan, Fred Williams, John Olsen, Peter Powditch, Ewa Pachuka, Alan McCulloch, Norma Redpath and Jon Molvig.??Series continued: 3. Photographs (General): photographs and negatives of art works and artists. 4. Photographs (Personal): photographs of Rudy Komon’s interests in wine tasting. 5. Exhibition catalogues, c. 1965-83. 6. Scrapbooks, 1959-84: containing reviews and catalogues. 7. Index cards: index to paintings and other art works. 8. Miscellaneous papers. 9. Addition, 7 June, 2001: Miscellaneous papers bequeathed by Ruth Komon. Author Details Clare Land Created 12 August 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Includes minutes, financial records, annual reports, files on assorted administrative subjects, promotional material, published articles and books on breast feeding and breast care, membership information and artefacts. The records mainly relate to Victoria, including various metropolitan and country branches. A complete set of each type of record is not held for the date range. There is a small quantity of material on NSW. Includes a large amount of variant posters (MC 9, DR 9) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 September 2009 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Popi Sidiropoulos gained the distinction of becoming the first Greek speaking hairdresser in Melbourne in 1957. She migrated to Australia from Greece in 1957 and on gaining her Hairdressing diploma in Melbourne in the same year, she established her business at home, ‘just below Collingwood railway station’ and worked there for ten years. Popi Sidiropoulos worked as a hairdressing apprentice in Greece from the age of thirteen. On arrival in Australia in 1957 with husband Theo, she sat for a Hairdressing examination at the L’Oréal School of Hairdressing in Collins Street, Melbourne. She was awarded the Diploma of Hairdressing with Honours after fifteen minutes of examination in recognition of the high standard of her work. As the only Greek speaking hairdresser at the time, all the young brides travelled long distances to Collingwood to have their hair done at Popi’s Hairdressing. Her husband Theo was elected Mayor of Collingwood on 1 September 1977. According to his daughter, Anthea, he was the first migrant to be elected to that position who spoke English as a second language. Popi became the first non-English speaking Lady Mayoress and carried out her duties with humour and courage, never losing her faith in humanity. She single-handedly catered for all the mayoral meetings, without understanding the concept of ‘catering’. A member of the Australian Labor Party, Theo was elected to the Victorian parliament in the Legislative Assembly seat of Richmond in 1977 and retired in 1988. He was the first non-English speaking citizen to be elected to the state parliament. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 May 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "David Gulpilil is one of the most highly respected Aboriginal actors of his generation. At the same time he is an elder of the Yolngu clan in Arnhem Land in Northern Australia. This documentary looks at Gulpilil’s continuing struggle to regain control over his life. (00:55:00). — General note: summary from FFC production notes. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1985; Task Force Final Report (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/1)?1985; Regionalisation of the Water Resources Commission – Committee Report to the Minister (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/1)?1985; Correspondence – Janice Crosio (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/1)?1985; Background Paper for Policies and Priorities Committee (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/1)?1985-1986; Miscellaneous correspondence, memoranda (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/1)?1985-1986; Correspondence and other papers concerning Water Audit Cabinet Minute (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/1)?1985; Commissioner Read – Miscellaneous Matters (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/1)?1986; Commissioner Read – Miscellaneous Matters (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/1)?1983-1984; Annotated Annual Reports (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/1)?1985; List of Discussion papers and reports produced by WRC and list of Management Consultancies (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/2)?1985; Minutes – Water Utilisation Council Meeting, 23/5/85 (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/2)?1985; Discussion paper – Land Tenure and Transferability of Water Entitlements in Irrigation Areas and Districts (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/2)?1985; Various reports and papers including: Jane Hill Case, Crawford Paper, Land Tenure Policy, Report on Budgets, Staff Establishment, Water Management Audit, Field Work, Staff Associations, Irrigator Groups, Marginal Electorates (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/2)?1985; Draft Workforce Planning Committee Report (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/2)?1985; Material relating to Barwon Cotton Limited and Pafco Ltd marked ‘confidential’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/2)?1985-1986; Miscellaneous memoranda, correspondence, reports, background papers and minutes of meetings (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/2)?1983-1987; Miscellaneous memoranda, briefing notes, correspondence, reports, background papers and minutes of meetings (Call No.: MLMSS 7338/3) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 December 2017 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Louisa Lawson was an independent and resourceful woman who fought for women’s rights during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Australia. Married at eighteen years of age to Niels (Peter) Larsen, later Lawson, she produced five children, one of whom died in infancy. Another child, Henry became one of Australia’s most famous writers. On her move to Sydney from country New South Wales in 1883 she supported her family by doing washing, sewing and taking in boarders. In 1887 she bought the Republican and with her son Henry edited and wrote most of the newspaper’s copy. In 1888 she established the Dawn, a journal devoted to women’s concerns and continued publication until 1905. In May 1889 Louisa launched the campaign for female suffrage and announced the formation of the Dawn Club where women met to discuss ‘every question of life, work and reform’ and to gain experience in public speaking. Louisa Lawson could claim success when women in New South Wales gained the suffrage in 1902. Louisa Lawson was the second of twelve children of Henry Albury and his wife Harriet, nee Winn. She attended Mudgee National School and was asked to work as a pupil teacher but her parents required her to remain at home to assist with the care of her younger brothers and sisters. After her marriage to Norwegian born Niels Hertzberg Larsen ( Peter), she had five children between 1867 and 1877. Left alone to rear her children when her husband was away working, she earned a living in a variety of ways, such as sewing, selling dairy produce and fattening cattle. Her move to Sydney in 1883 signalled the end of her marriage and her launch into new ventures. She and her son Henry worked together on the Republican, which she bought in 1887. Through the pages of the Dawn she took up women’s causes in particular the fight for female suffrage in New South Wales. She encountered problems with the Typographical Union as she had employed female printers, but the union refused membership to females. It attempted to force her to dismiss her printers, which she refused to do. She advocated the enfranchisement of women believing that they would change evil laws and protect women and their children. On the formation of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales in 1891, Louisa Lawson was elected to its Council. Its meetings were held at the Dawn office. She was also a member of the Women’s Progressive Association and campaigned for women to be appointed to public office. Louisa Lawson died at the Hospital for the Insane, Gladesville, on 12 August 1920. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section Lawson, Louisa (1848-1921), Radi, Heather, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110019b.htm Journal The Dawn : a journal for Australian women, Lawson, Louisa, 1888-1905 Book Louisa, Matthews, Brian ( Brian Ernest), 1988 'Dert' and 'Do', Lawson, Louisa, 189- The lonely crossing and other poems, Lawson, Louisa, 1905 Louisa Lawson: collected poems with selected critical commentaries, Lawson, Louisa, 1996 Louisa Lawson, Henry Lawson's crusading mother, Ollif, Lorna, 1978 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Sub-series 7.1: Papers relating to Louisa Lawson and Henry Lawson, 1859-1934 Louisa Lawson poems 189- -1916 Poems (4), ca. 1916 by Louisa Lawson with newspaper cutting Louisa Lawson, poems, articles, biographical notes, criticism, 1896-1927, with autograph letter signed, 1901 Papers of Louisa Lawson and D'Arcy Wentworth collected by Sir William Dixson, 6 July 1805-29 July 1912 Lawson family papers, 18-- - 1926 National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Louisa Lawson, writer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 April 2005 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Born in London, Dame Peggy van Praagh had a long and distinguished career in ballet as a dancer, teacher, producer, advocate and director. She came to Australia in 1959 to direct the Borovansky Ballet, and was instrumental in establishing the Australian Ballet in 1962. She was artistic director of the Australian Ballet from 1962-1974 and again in 1978. Dame Peggy received much recognition for her services to ballet, including her appointment to the Order of the British Empire (OBE, 1966) and as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE, 14 June 1970). Peggy van Praagh was educated at King Alfred School, London. She studied dance in London, and danced with Ballet Rambert and Sadler’s Wells from 1933-1945 before moving into teaching at Sadler’s Wells Dance Theatre, 1945-1956. She then undertook freelance teaching and producing in Germany, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Holland and USA 1956-1960. Van Praagh became artistic director of the Borovansky Ballet in Australia in 1960. She became a Fellow of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (London), 1933, and a member of the Royal Academy of Dancing, 1969; received an Hon D Litt (University of New England), 1974; DBE 1970; OBE 1965; Queen Elizabeth Coronation Prize; Special Artist’s Award, Australia Council, 1975; Britannica Australia Award for Arts 1970; and was made an honorary life member of the Australian Ballet Foundation, 1979. Events 2012 - 2012 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Guide to the Papers of Peggy van Praagh, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-223908896/findingaid Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Book Peggy van Praagh - a life of dance, Sexton, Christopher, 1985 How I became a ballet dancer, Van Praagh, Margaret, 1954 The choreographic art; an outline of its principles and craft, Van Praagh, Margaret and Brinson, Peter, 1963 The arts in Australia - ballet, Van Praagh, Margaret, 1966 Ballet in Australia, Van Praagh, Margaret, 1965 Resource Section Van Praagh, Peggy (1910-1990), National Library of Australia, 2002, http://www.nla.gov.au/ausdance/praaghPeg.html Book Section Fourth Ausdance Dame Peggy van Praagh Memorial Address, Tankard, Meryl, 1997 Journal Article Documenting Australian Dance: The Peggy van Praagh Collection, Potter, M., 2000 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Dame Peggy van Praagh, 1912-1986 [manuscript] Author Details Clare Land Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 17 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Memories of Northbridge 1950s on. Current issues facing Northbridge – the tunnel, policing, identity. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Professor Sue Serjeantson had a distinguished career as a geneticist in the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University. Her research concerned the inherited susceptibility to disease and the human immune response to organ transplantation. She was the first woman to hold the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University. Sue Wyber was born in the Sydney suburb of Riverstone in 1946 to Nancye and Robert Wyber. Her father was an engineer and Director of the Royal Australian Navy Research Laboratory in Edgecliff, Sydney. She matriculated from Caringbah High School in 1963 and was both Dux and School Captain. In 1967, she completed a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours from the University of New South Wales on an Australian Wool Board scholarship. In 1968 she took up a Postgraduate Research Scholarship, undertaking research in the School of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, then transferring to the Department of Genetics, University of Hawaii on an East-West Center Scholarship. Her research involved data collection in Papua New Guinea for her thesis on the population genetic structure of the Kiunga sub-district of Papua New Guinea. She was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and married John Charles Serjeantson in 1970. She held positions of Lecturer in Science at the Madang Teachers’ College in 1971 and Lecturer at the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research from 1972. In 1976 she was appointed a Research Fellow in the Department of Human Biology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, continuing her research in Papua New Guinea which concerned inherited susceptibility to disease, and managing a tissue-typing laboratory. A contract position as Fellow awarded in September 1980 was converted to a permanent appointment in 1984. Her son was born in 1985. She was promoted to Senior Fellow in July 1986 in what was then called the Department of Human Genetics. She was appointed head of the department in 1987, then ‘Group leader’ of Human Genetics after a restructuring of the School. On 14 October 1988 she was formally appointed Professor of Human Genetics. Her research concerned the genetic basis of diseases such as juvenile and mature-onset diabetes, systemic lupus erythematosus and leprosy. Her work on human leucocyte antigens advanced understanding of the human immune response to organ transplants and improved the matching of bone marrow donors and recipients. She published prolifically in international journals and regularly attended overseas conferences, as an invited speaker, in Europe, Japan and the United States. She was successful in securing grant funding for her research from the US National Institutes of Health, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Anti-cancer Council of Victoria, the National MS Society of Australia and Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. She served on a number of University committees including the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies from 1987 to 1989, the John Curtin School of Medical Research Faculty Board as an elected representative 1988-1990 and 1992-1994, and the ANU Re-entry Fellowships for Women Committee in 1988. She was awarded a Clunies-Ross National Science and Technology Award in 1992 and the Ruth Sanger Medal by the Australasian Society of Blood Transfusion also in 1992. She was appointed Regional Coordinator for South-East Asia and Oceania for the Stanford University’s Human Genome Diversity Project in 1993. She was acting Director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research from April till September 1993, then in January 1994 was appointed Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, and was an ex-officio member of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies and the Board of the Faculties. She retained her academic standing as a Visiting Fellow at the John Curtin School of Medical Research. She was a Director of ANUTECH Pty Ltd from 1994 till 1997 and a member of the Commonwealth government’s Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee from 1994 to 1996. As Deputy Vice-Chancellor she was responsible for research at the University: the heads of the Research Schools and Centres reported to her as well as the Director of Computing Services and other areas. She resigned from her position in 1997 but continued as a Visiting Fellow at the John Curtin School of Medical Research until the end of 2001 and was from 1999 to 2001 the President of the Federation of Australian Science and Technological Societies. In this role she spoke at the Women Achieving in Science Conference which was held at RMIT University in November 1999 on ‘Why are there so few women in science?’. She was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2000, and from 2001 to 2008 was Executive Secretary of the Australian Academy of Science. She was made ‘Officer dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques’ by the French government in 2009. Published resources Resource Section Biographical entry Serjeantson, Susan Wyber (1946 - ), Walker, Rosanne, 2004, http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002744b.htm Journal Article Why are there so few women in science?, Serjeantson, S, 2000, http://www.wisenet-australia.org/issue54/sergeant.htm Report Annual Report 2008 - 09, 1 April 2008 - 31 March 2009, 2009, http://science.org.au/reports/annual-report-08-09/AnnualReport2008-09.pdf Book Section International Activities, 2010, http://www.science.org.au/reports/annual-report-09-10/2010anrep-9.pdf Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian National University Archives Serjeantson, Susan Wyber Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 18 January 2013 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Susan Serjeantson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary Rogers became the first woman councillor in Victoria when she was elected to the Richmond City Council in 1920. She was appointed as organiser for the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party. Mary Rogers was raised in East Melbourne, where she attended a local Catholic school. In 1900 she married Patrick Denis Rogers and the pair had five children, though one died in infancy. Patrick, an upholsterer, had been president of the Furniture Trades Union. Mary, employed as a cleaner after the death of her husband in 1910, became president of the Women Office Cleaners’ Union, and later vice-president of the Miscellaneous Workers’ Union. Rogers maintained a long-term involvement with the Australian Labor Party, becoming organiser for its Victorian Branch in 1918, and president of its Women’s Organizing Committee. In 1920 she was elected to the Richmond City Council at a by-election, making her Victoria’s first woman councillor, and worked to improve the living conditions of Richmond’s poor. Rogers was also one of the first women appointed as a justice of the peace in Victoria and became a special magistrate at the Children’s Court in Richmond. She served for some time as secretary of the welfare committee of the Catholic Women’s Social Guild. Mary Rogers died of cancer in 1932, and was buried at Boroondara cemetery, Kew. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section Rogers, Mary Catherine (1872-1932), Cunneen, Chris and Torney, Kim, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10415b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Newspaper Article Woman to light up pedestrian lights for the first time, Worrall, Allison, 2016, http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/woman-to-light-up-pedestrian-lights-for-the-first-time-20160307-gnctll.html Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 25 November 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Karen Fletcher is a political activist with a passionate interest in justice. She is a long-term member of the Democratic Socialist Party and stood in elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Marrickville (1995); the House of Representatives for Sydney (1996); and the Queensland Senate (in both 1990 and 2001). Karen Fletcher was a student when she ran for Marrickville. She wrote regularly for Refractory Girl and Green Left Weekly on women’s issues. In 2000, she was co-ordinator of the Prisoners Legal Service in Brisbane, and was a speaker at the Annual Conference of Community Legal Centres in Alice Springs in August of that year. In 2004, she joined the intern program of the Centre for Public Health Law and spent her second placement with the National AIDS Council of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 11 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dame Marie Breen speaks about her family origins; her school days; her political career; National Council for Women; the Citizens’ Advice Bureau; Marriage Guidance Council; her pre-selection for the Senate; the Committees she served on; impressions of other Women Senators; the Victorian Liberal Party; the Australian Asian Association; women today. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "15 minutes??Dorothy Hughes was born in Western Australia and came to Adelaide and worked as an accountant from 1934. She became the organising secretary for the Kindergarten Union in the late 1940s. The first kindergarten was opened in 1906 in Franklin Street with Miss de Lissa in charge. Several kindergartens opened in the following years and training courses began. In 1939-40 the Lady Gowrie Child Centres were introduced in each capital city financed by the Commonwealth Government. In 1951 the Education committee was replaced by the Pre-School Council and the College Council. In the early 1980s the Children’s Services Office of the Education Department took over responsibility for pre-school education. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Manuscripts for Adam-Smith’s autobiography “Goodbye girlie” – 1. miscellaneous, 2. a rough ms. in preliminary order, 3. a close to final draft ms. on disk. Also, a few manuscript pages of the book “Heart of exile.”??This is an interim record. This collection has not been fully sorted or listed. Please consult Manuscripts Collection staff before placing an order. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 December 2017 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Oral history interview with political scientist, Associate Professor Ruth Atkins. Photographs of Ruth Atkins are also available. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 3 September 2009 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joan Barbara Isaacson is a professional photographer who worked with the Army Public Relations section of Australian Women’s Army Service, and was later known for her portraiture of children. Joan Barbara Isaacson was born into a dynamic and family. Her mother, Lynka Isaacson (also known as Caroline Isaacson), was the first female journalist to be employed by a metropolitan newspaper in Australia, and was a strong role model for her daughter. After the war Isaacson’s mother and brother set up the Southern Cross publishing business. Isaacson attended the Melbourne Technical College, where she studied photography. When she was 18 years old she joined the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS). Working in the Army Public Relations section, she travelled the east coast taking documentary and recruitment propaganda photographs and meeting press journalists and photographers. In 1943 Isaacson married Richard L. Beck, a graphic designer and photographer. During the period from 1946-1948 they set up their own photographic business in Melbourne, specialising in child portraiture. Isaacson took over the business c.1950 when her husband went back to working as a graphic designer, and continued to manage the studio until the birth of her third baby. After her departure from the photography business Isaacson was involved in a variety of other ventures and gave up her photography. Collections Australian War Memorial Research Centre Events 1940 - 1950 Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Newspaper Article Army and Air Force Bridegrooms, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142148012 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 22 November 2016 Last modified 22 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Allied Medical Missions in Serbia during the First World War : Australian Women at the Front of Salonica in 1916. In part examines the role of Australian women doctors (Agnes Bennett and Lilian Cooper and Mary Garis) and nurses in the Scottish Medical Missions (Scottish Women’s Hospitals) in Serbia during the 1914-1918 war. This was a short paper delivered to the Serbian Academy of Science (Historical Section) c. 1987. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 June 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mrs Mary Jamieson Williams was a pioneer of the women’s movement and a staunch temperance worker. She ran for election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of North Shore in 1925 as an Independent. Mrs Mary Jamieson Williams had been engaged in temperance work in Scotland and South Wales before she arrived in Australia with her husband, the Reverend T. Jamieson Williams, a Presbyterian minister. On arrival in Australia, she first joined the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in Tamworth in 1913 and was President 1913-1916. The Williams moved to Nowra where she became President of the Nowra Temperance Union 1917-1921. She was elected the Recording secretary for Australasia at the Triennial Convention of the WCTU in Perth in 1918 and held the office until at least 1926. In 1923 she attended two European conferences, representing the WCTU and the Council of Women’s Union of Service at the International Women’s Suffrage Congress in Rome and, at the invitation of the Danish Government, the International Anti-Alcohol Congress in Copenhagen. She also took part in the Scottish No-License Campaign while she was abroad. Mrs Jamieson Williams formed the Manly branch of the WCTU in 1921, and became State Treasurer 1925-26, and President 1926-1929. She was active in many areas of interest to women, presenting petitions to Members of Parliament on the status of women, speaking in favour of amendments to the Liquor Bill in 1929, writing letters to the paper on women police, child endowment and the Vagrancy Bill. When she ran for election as an independent candidate for North Shore in 1925, The Sydney Morning Herald described her as particularly strong on international affairs and kee4nly interested in problems affecting her sex. In 1930 she attended the Pan Pacific Conference in Honolulu which led to the formation of the Pan Pacific Women’s Association. She was also a delegate to the NSW National Council of Women. Mrs Jamieson Williams was one of the few women who had conducted church services. In 1933 she was appointed an Australian delegate to the League Of Nations. Published resources Book Golden Records: Pathfinders of Woman's Christian Temperance Union of N.S.W., 1926 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of New South Wales, 1882-1976, Taylor, Lennie T., 1977 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Mary Jamieson Williams 1933-1935 [manuscript] Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 16 December 2005 Last modified 17 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound cassettes (ca.124 min.)??Mrs Spencer talks about her studies at the University of Sydney, in particular Entomology, early schooling; outbreak of WWII; first job at New England University College, Armidale; work at University of Sydney; move to Thursday Is. With husband; move to PNG and work done with husband on malaria in particular a research program carried out in the Madang area of New Guinea. She also talks about her impressions of New Guinea’s Independence Day. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1. Newspaper cuttings about Gwen Harwood. Typescript of the film made by the A.B.C.: “Meet the Writer – Gwen Harwood”. Her parents’ marriage certificate. Her father’s birth certificate and a booklet written by him: Foster, J.R. Sergeant: “Two-and-a-half years a prisoner of war in Turkey” 2. Coming and goings, poems / Louis Johnson (Wellington 1982) inscribed to Harwood 3. Letter from Johnson to Harwood, 11 October 1982. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Margaret Tucker was co-founder of the Australian Aborigines League and was the first Aboriginal woman appointed to the Aborigines Welfare Board. Margaret (Lilardia) Elizabeth Tucker was born on Warrangesda Mission and spent her early childhood on the Cummeragunja and Moonaculla Missions in New South Wales. Her father, William Clements, was Wiradjuri and her mother Teresa (Yarmuk) Clements, née Middleton, was Yulupna. At the age of thirteen, Tucker and her sister May were separated from their mother against her wishes and taken to the Cootamundra Girls’ Home. Tucker has written of her harrowing experiences under the care and training of the Aborigines Protection Board and in domestic service for white families in Sydney in her 1977 autobiography, If everyone cared. By the 1930s, Tucker had begun to campaign for Aboriginal rights alongside other legendary Koori campaigners including William Cooper, Bill and Eric Onus, and Doug Nicholls. In 1932, she was co-founder of the Australian Aborigines League and on 26 January 1938 was one of the Victorian representatives observing the first national Day of Mourning. She was also instrumental in founding the United Council of Aboriginal and Islander Women in the 1960s. Tucker was the first Aboriginal woman appointed to the Aborigines Welfare Board (Victoria), 1964, and the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, 1968. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 1 January 1968 for services to the Aboriginal community. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book If everyone cared : autobiography of Margaret Tucker., Margaret Tucker, 1977 If everyone cared : autobiography of Margaret Tucker M.B.E., Margaret Tucker, 1983 Another time/place [sound recording], Public Broadcasting Association of Australia Talkin' up to the white woman : Aboriginal women and feminism, Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, 2000 Lousy little sixpence [videorecording], Alec Morgan, Gerald Bostock, c1984 Some Aboriginal women pathfinders : their difficulties and their achievements, Beeson, Margaret J (compiled by), [1980] Stories of herself when young : autobiographies of childhood by Australian women, Hooton, Joy W. (Joy Wendy), 1935-, 1990 Videorecording Sister, if you only knew, Isaac, Janet (Director) and Baker, Suzanne (Producer), 1975, https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19007567 Resource Section Aunty Marge Tucker, http://www.kooriweb.org/bbm/aal/p10.html Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Newspaper Article Honours for Aborigines, 1972 Details of pioneers in Aboriginal movement., Horner, Jack, 1972 Aboriginal Writers in Australia, Beston, John B., 1976 National Aborigines Day, 1981 Aborigines Advancement League, Jackomos, Alick, 1978 Princess Lilardia as Guest of Queen Salote of Tonga., Cust, Sylvia, 1963 As I Saw the World Abroad, Tucker, Margaret, 1958 Historic meeting of two great peoples : Aboriginal King honours Canadian Indian Party, 1960 Original protester had a role in many groups, 1996 Journal Article Marge Tucker, MBE, Jackomos, Alick, 1979 Character Above Colour: Fast Track to Assimilation? Margaret Tucker M.B.E. and the Politics of Assimilation, Hennessy, Gail Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection If everyone cared [197-] [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Margaret Tucker, awarded M.B.E. for services to Aboriginal welfare in 1968, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] AIATSIS Books and Printed Material Collection The Aussie image : the language of the image makers Author Details Clare Land Created 3 September 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ruth Medd has served on the Board of Directors for the National Foundation for Australian Women since 1997. Her ongoing interest in the advancement of women is focused on increasing women’s representation on Boards of Management and educating women about investment. She has been a senior manager in the telecommunications field. Ruth completed a Bachelor of Science and Diploma in Computing Science from Adelaide University. She has also studied Accounting at the Australian National University. Ruth was appointed Executive Director of the Australian Association of National Advertisers (1997-98); Senior Executive, Telstra (1991-96); and General Manager, Australian Broadcasting Tribunal (1988-91). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 8 February 2001 Last modified 6 December 2005 Digital resources Title: Ruth Medd Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "21 hours 22 mins Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 5 August 2009 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Harriett Brims operated a number of successful photography studios in Queensland: the Britannia Studios in Ingham, c.1902-1903; as well as studios in Mareeba, Queensland, c.1903-1914. Harriett Brims was born Harriet Elliot in 1864, at either Yandilla or Toowoomba, Queensland. Her parents were Walter Elliott, and her mother was Ann Jane Elliot (née Faulks). They were early pioneers of the district and owned a station in the Barcoo district. Harriet attended the Blackall School. In November 1881 Harriet married Donald Gray Brims in Blackall, Queensland. Brims was an engineer from Caithness, Scotland, who worked as a contractor and coach builder. They had five children over a period of eight years (1882-1890). Initially the couple moved to Townsville and then travelled north to Cardwell, where they were said to be ‘the first white settlers in the Herbert River district’ (The Telegraph 1939). By 1894 they moved to Ingham and it is there that Harriett Brims began her photographic career. It is unclear what inspired her to take up photography, nor is it known where she trained. Harriett Brims set up her own photographic studio, the Britannia Studio, which operated for six years and appeared in the listings of the Pugh’s Trade Directory in 1902. By c.1903 she had moved her business to Mareeba, where she operated a studio for ten years. She also worked at ‘visiting studios’ in other Queensland towns, including Chillagoe during 1904-1905, Irvinebank as well as Watsonville, both located near Herberton in 1907. She worked as a professional photographer for 16 years, becoming quite skilled and well known for her work. Brims was highly regarded for the time and care she put into producing her photographs: ‘many interesting accounts of the labour involved [in] producing photographic plates, [and] devising schemes of processing, etc [sic] give ample evidence of her skill’ (The Telegraph 1938). Her husband, who was also a keen operator, made the dry-plate cameras she used out of maple wood, the carrying cases out of cow hide and the camera shutters out of sheet brass that he salvaged from discarded opium tins. Brims documented the reality of everyday life in these Queensland towns, capturing early forms of transportation (airplanes and bullock teams), the copper smelters of Chillagoe, local events such as the aftermath of a cyclone, the activities of Melanesian labourers (who both worked and lived in the North Queensland cane fields), social gatherings, local landmarks, as well as some portraiture. While in Mareeba she was a judge at the Mareeba District Mining, Pastoral, Agricultural and Industrial Association exhibitions, judging the photographic entries. Her photographs were featured in the North Queensland Herald (1907) and the Australasian Photographic Review (1902), the latter in which she was described as ‘the first lady photographer who ever dared, single handed, to face the “stronger sex” in fair and open competition.’ By 1914 the family moved to Brisbane, at which stage she gave up her work as a professional photographer, instead focussing her time on photographing her family, friends and her local neighbourhood. Harriett Brims died in Brisbane on 25 October 1939, aged 75. Technical Her husband, who was also a keen operator, made the dry-plate cameras that she used out of maple wood, the carrying cases out of cow hide and the camera shutters out of sheet brass that he salvaged from discarded opium tins. Collections John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland Events 1902 - 1914 1995 - 1995 Harriett Brims’ work featured in Queensland Women Artists pre-1950s Published resources Book A Complementary Caste: A Homage to Women Artists in Queensland, Past and Present, 5 November-4 December 1988, The Centre Gallery, Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, Larner, Bronwyn, Considine, Fran and Centre Gallery, 1988 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Resource Section Harriett Pettifore Brims, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/harriett-pettifore-brims/ Archived Feature Collection - Harriett Brims, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/35517/20040316-0000/www.pictureqld.slq.qld.gov.au/news_arch4.html Newspaper Article Late Mrs Harriett Brims, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article188025739 Obituary: Mrs Harriett Brims, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42210696 Archival resources State Library of Queensland, John Oxley Library 31054 Harriett Brims collection 1890-1930 M 1038 Brims Family correspondence 1907-1909 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 16 November 2016 Last modified 16 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hr 3 min. Oral History. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Speaks of family background, childhood, early jobs, marriage during WWII, brother Alwyn, moving to the farm at Piawaning, primitive conditions she lived & raised her family in, becoming involved in the local CWA, importance of farming diversification, help from Italian POWs and local aboriginals, importance of radio, role of the CWA in the country, her increasing involvement in the CWA, CWA’s concern with education, catering & crafts, Frances Craig, Lilian Higgins, Ida Spencer, the “heartbeat of the CWA”, involvement in administration (incl. State International Officer, State and National President), the structure of the WA CWA.?Being a Justice of the Peace and sitting in the Summary Relief Court, public speaking, achievements during State Presidency (incl. financial and voting reform, raising the CWA profile, fighting anti-women advertising, residential schools for Aboriginal girls, migrant aid), help provided during WWII, relationship with media, nature of volunteer work, health problems, leaving farm and moving to city, 1974 WA CWA Golden Jubilee and hosting ACWW Conference, assistance given after Cyclone Tracy, awards, period as World President of ACWW, Social Issues Finding Team and research into in vitro fertilisation, prostitution, Bill of Rights and CWA’s own membership and preoccupations, recent work with CWA archives, revision of constitution, and membership of various Boards. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "43 minutes??Lois Mander-Jones grew up in Victoria and went to the Presbyterian Girls College in Geelong. In 1940 she joined the Union Bank in Melbourne and then joined the Army. She was on General Blamey’s staff in Queensland. She became the personal assistant to the Director of Intelligence Brigadier John Rogers and also worked for Brigadier Kenneth Wills. In 1943 she married Evan Mander-Jones. Her husband went to New Guinea and returned to be the head of the Intelligence School. As couples could not work in the same unit she was transferred to Army Education. She became pregnant and was discharged from the army. She lost this baby and another child. Her husband was appointed Director of Education in South Australia. She had three sons and continued to work for the University. They spent a year overseas in 1959. She did a marriage guidance course and counselled for five years. Family commitments were dominant in the 1950s and 60s. In 1965 she enrolled in a Diploma of Social Work and in 1968 she took a part time job as a research worker with the Institute of Technology. From 1970 to 1978 she worked as a part time supervisor and trainer of counsellors. Her husband died in 1975. In 1978 she started working at Flinders University as a part time social work demonstrator and she retired in 1982. She became involved with the Lyceum Club being Vice President and President and in 1993 Australian President of the Association of Lyceum Clubs. Lois was awarded honorary life membership in 1993. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "4 sound files (approximately 215 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 April 2019 Last modified 11 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Florence Ewers was a party stalwart and committed feminist who was an ALP candidate for the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Cumberland in 1925; New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Hawkesbury in 1927; Sutherland Shire Council in 1928 and 1929. Florence Ewers moved to live in the Sutherland Shire c. 1909, and was active in the local Labor Party branch and a member of the Labor Women’s Central Organising Committee. She was not easily intimidated, and proceeded in the Kogarah Police Court, against Hannah Brady for using insulting words to her, outside a Labor League meeting. The action was dismissed and Mrs Ewers had to pay the court costs. In her campaign for Sutherland Shire Council in 1928, Florence Ewers made no secret of her feminism, stating she believed in feminine representation on any public body, especially in councils and in Parliament. She advocated the expediting of Woronora Dam and the electrification of the railway to Cronulla. She was a member of a deputation to the Railway Commissioner in 1930 on the subject of the extension of the railway line to Cronulla. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Yvette Berry was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory representing the seat of Ginninderra for the Australian Labor Party at the 2012 election. Yvette Berry has followed in her father’s footsteps to enter the ACT Legislative Assembly. She has lived in the electorate all her life. Before her election to parliament she was a community organiser for United Voice, a union which represents workers in the caring industries. Since her election in 2012, Berry has been appointed Minister for the following portfolios from 2015: Women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Housing, Community Services and Social Inclusion, Multicultural and Youth Affairs and Minister assisting the Chief Minister on Social Inclusion and Equality. Following the 2016 ACT election, Berry was appointed Deputy Chief Minister in the Labor Government. She also assumed portfolio responsibilities for Education and Early Childhood Development, Housing and Suburban Development, Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence, Sport and Recreation, and retained portfolio responsibility for Women. Published resources Article If it was good enough for Dad, Thomson, Philip, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/if-it-was-good-enough-for-dad-20121027-28d2o.html Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 12 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "13603/1933 – REES, JOHN H; RYE, MOLLY A W; SYDNEY Author Details Helen Morgan Created 6 July 2017 Last modified 6 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Carmel Galvin was born in 1937, the only daughter of Jessica Dodd and Ted Mabbut, a New South Wales detective. Her mother refused his offer of marriage and courageously decided to raise her daughter herself. Her family disowned her – this was normal for the time. She was not abandoned by Mabbut, who remained a friend and confidant until his death. She was brought up by her mother and attended St Josephs School in Sydney. Her mother supported them both, at a time when there was no Centrelink. Although trained as a concert pianist, there was little work of this type available here in Australia, and she did orchestrations for other musicians, some work as a pianist with the A.B.C. and between times washed dishes in a cafe. In those days, everyone at the ABC dressed formally, and even though she was unseen, she still had to dress grandly as she performed – sometimes the cheque was less than the cost of the dress. Carmel started at Dyecraft at the age of sixteen, this was a section of Prestege, the stocking people and was in the laboratory where they tested colours and selected the ones that would be popular for that season. She married Frederick Galvin three years later, and they had one daughter. Frederick died suddenly of a heart attack ten years later. Six years further on, Carmel met Walter, and it was as if they had known each other forever. They dabbled in real estate, and at one time bought a boat hire business in North Queensland. Having sold that, they retired to the Gold Coast. Walter died in 1991, and after his death, Carmel, who was feeling very depressed, went to her doctor, and said “I think my hormones need adjusting”. Her doctor told her, ‘There’s nothing the matter with your hormones, get out and DO something with your life’. So, Carmel got all the newspapers with the businesses for sale, but found the only ones that looked interesting had the words, ‘has potential,’ which means they are not making any money. A few weeks later, she got an anonymous letter with a cutting from the Australasian Post, that said that Marlene, one of the Madams in Kalgoorlie, wanted to sell her galvanised iron brothel. And the rest is history. She began her career during the containment policy for brothels in Western Australia and has seen many changes in the sex industry. The brothel building remains true to its original design, as Carmel has a commitment to the history of the institution and its function in Kalgoorlie society. Carmel continues to work as the brothel madam of the Questa Casa while also conducting tours of the premises for visitors to Kalgoorlie. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Carmel Galvin, interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald [sound recording] Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 15 August 2012 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Brothel Madam Carmel Galvin outside Questa Casa, Hay Street, Kalgoorlie Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Material on several Jewish youth activities, including a complete set of the Melbourne Jewish Youth Council Bulletin. Author Details Clare Land Created 23 November 2001 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Paul Harris and John Flaus interview Nadia Tass and David Parker about their film ‘Malcolm’. Tass and Parker also talk about their personal careers and future projects. (00:32:15 Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Levy was the first woman to preside in any house of any Parliament in Australia. She was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council in 1975 where she remained until 1997. In 1986 she became the President of the Legislative Council – the first woman to be a Presiding Officer of a House of Parliament in Australia. She held various Ministerial positions between 1989-1993, including first ever Minister for the Status of Women in Australia. Born in Perth, Anne Levy moved to Adelaide at the age of six and has since resided there. She was awarded her Bachelor of Science with Honours in 1957 and her Master of Science in 1963, both from the University of Adelaide. There she worked as a Tutor and Senior Tutor in Genetics from 1960-1975. Levy was elected Member of the Legislative Council of the Parliament of South Australia in 1975. She was re-elected in 1982 and 1989. She served on many Parliamentary Committees, including the Industries Development Committee (of which she was Chair) 1983-85, and the Statutory Authorities Committee, 1994-97. She was elected President of the Legislative Council, 1986-88. From 1989-1993 she served with the Bannon and later Arnold Governments as Minister for the Arts, Minister of Local Government, Minister of State Supply, Minister of Consumer Affairs, and Minister for the Status of Women. She retired in 1997. Levy was also a Member of the Council of the University of Adelaide, 1975-96; Patron of the Humanist Society, and 1986 Australian Humanist of the Year; Member of the Abortion Law Repeal Association, 1969 onwards; Founding member of the Family Planning Association, 1972-84; Patron of Supporting Mothers Association (SA); Founding and life member of the National Foundation for Australian Women (Board member 1993-95 and President 1996-99); Honorary Life Member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby; Elected member of the Management Committee of the Women’s Legal Service (SA); and Founding member of Emily’s List (Australia). Levy worked primarily in areas of homosexual law reform, abortion law reform, euthanasia, rape law reform, childcare, maternity leave, equality in education for girls, equal pay and affirmative action. She married Keith Barley in 1956 and the pair had two children, Mathew (born 1959) and Rachel (born 1962). Events 1965 - 1975 Adelaide University 1975 - 1997 Legislative Council, Australian Labor Party 1986 - 1989 Legislative Council 1979 - 1979 Joint Committee on Subordinate Legislation 1994 - 1997 Statutory Authorities Review Committee Published resources Resource Section Some significant dates in the history of women in South Australia, 2015, http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/women_and_politics/sa1.htm Who are my representatives? Government in South Australia, 1997 Resource Excerpts from Maiden Speech, Carolyn Pickles, 1986 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women in Politics: A Forum in the Centenary Year of Women's Suffrage [sound recording] Mayor, R.A. Allen and Minister, Anne Levy MLC Anne Levy and Frances Bedford at the International Women's Day lunch National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Anne Levy interviewed by Peter Donovan in the Don Dunstan Foundation oral history project [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Anne Levy, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Flinders University Library, Special Collections Anne Levy elected to State Ministry Anne Levy's Bill Hungarian Uprising 30th Anniversary Mitcham Scented Garden Arts 1989 Correspondence - Resignation 1992 - 1993 L Anne Levy celebration introducing Dr. Anne Summers Electorate Office - Miscellaneous Correspondence October 1992 to June 1993 National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Portrait of Hon. Anne Levy, former member of the South Australian Legislative Council, first woman Presiding Officer of an Australian parliament and first Minister for the Status of Women in Australia, 6th August 2005 / Bob Givens State Records of South Australia GA1109 Hon. Anne Levy, Member of Parliament Author Details Elle Morrell Created 22 August 2000 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Name: Abbott, Joan Stevenson?Rank: Matron?Service No: QX6397?Regiment: Army Auxiliary Nursing Service 6 Australian General Hospital?Theatre of Combat or Operation: Middle East (Egypt and Libya)?Award: Royal Red Cross?Date of announcement in London Gazette: 18 February 1943 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 December 2017 Last modified 8 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Bev Buckingham settled in Australia in 1967. She became the first female jockey in the southern hemisphere to win 1000 races. After a fall at the Elwick Racecourse (Hobart) in May 1998 she was wheelchair-bound, but regained her strength and mobility until she was able to walk again unaided. Born in Norfolk, England, Bev Buckingham migrated to Australia with her parents when she was two years old. Living in Tasmania she was soon helping her father, a racehorse trainer, in his stables while taking riding lessons and competing through pony clubs. Aged fourteen she became an apprentice jockey for her father. Women were not allowed to compete against male jockeys until the 1970s when the Lady Jockey’s Association lobbied for fifteen races per year on country Victorian racetracks. By 1979 women were permitted to race as regular jockeys. Buckingham and her friend Kim Dixon were among the first women to race professionally against men in the 1980s. A win on her fourth ride at Elwick in 1980, on Limit Man, launched Buckingham’s career. By the end of her first season’s racing she had ridden 22 winners and was ranked ninth overall on the jockeys’ table. With a total of 63 winners in her second season, at the age of seventeen, Buckingham became the first woman in the world to win a State Jockey’s Premiership. Over her eighteen year career she brought home trophies for the Devonport Cup, the Launceston Cup, the Queen’s Cup and the Hobart Cup (three times – 1986, 1996, 1998). In 1984 she became the first woman to ride in the Caulfield Cup. On winning the Queen’s Cup she received a personal letter from Queen Elizabeth II expressing her pleasure in being able to congratulate a woman jockey on winning her race. After a horrific accident in May 1998 in which Buckingham fractured two vertebrae in her neck, she spent many months in rehabilitation on her family’s Tasmanian property. She defied predictions that she would never walk again, and gave birth to a daughter, Tara, in 2000. Today she works with her father as a racehorse trainer at Sienna Lodge in Victoria. She was inducted into the inaugural Tasmanian Racing Hall of Fame in 2005. Events 1996 - 1997 Wins her third Tasmanian Premiership (64 winners) 1996 - 1996 Wins the Hobart Cup on Jam City 1987 - 1987 Wins the Launceston Cup on Brave Trespasser 1995 - 1996 Rides 109 winners for the season, setting a State record 1983 - 1983 Wins apprentice’s title and ranked fourth overall on the jockeys’ table 1984 - 1984 First woman to ride in the Caulfield Cup 1985 - 1985 Wins the Devonport Cup on Exdirectory 1986 - 1986 Wins the Hobart Cup on Dark Intruder 1986 - 1986 Wins the Queen’s Cup on Exdirectory 1998 - 1998 Wins the Hobart Cup on L’Espoin Published resources Book Beating the Odds : The Fall and Rise of Bev Buckingham, Buckingham, Bev and Mottram, Murray, 2003 Newspaper Article Against all odds, Bev's back on her feet, Wood, Danielle, 2003 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood and Barbara Lemon Created 30 January 2002 Last modified 16 April 2019 Digital resources Title: Beverley Buckingham Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Agnes Bennett practised in Wellington, New Zealand from 1905 and was Chief Medical Officer at St Helens Maternity Hospital 1908-36. Born Sydney, 24 June 1872. Died Wellington, New Zealand, 27 November 1960. OBE 1948. Educated University of Sydney (BSc 1894) and College of Medicine for Women, University of Edinburgh (MB, ChM 1899, MD 1911). Teacher and governess; private practice, Sydney 1901-04; junior medical officer, Hospital for the Insane, Callan Park 1904-05; private practice, Wellington, New Zealand from 1905; chief medical officer, St Helen’s maternity hospital 1908-36; honorary physician, children’s ward, Wellington Hospital from 1910; first female commissioned officer, British Army 1915; in charge of a unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals on the Serbian front 1916-17; medical officer, Burketown, North Queensland 1938-39; English hospitals 1940-42; lectured to the women’s services in New Zealand on venereal disease and birth control from 1942. First president, Wellington branch, International Federation of University Women 1923. Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Book Doctor Agnes Bennett, Manson, Cecil and Manson, Celia, 1960 Christison of Lammermoor, Bennett, M. M. (Mary Montgomerie), 1927 Women on the warpath : feminist of the first wave, Davidson, Dianne, 1997 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Resource Section Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd (1872-1960), Curthoys, Ann, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130193b.htm Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd (1872 - 1960), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000969b.htm Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Vukovic, Zarko (Dr) National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Dr Agnes Bennett, New South Wales, ca.1929 [picture] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dr Agnes Bennett, one of the first woman to win a science degree, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Austehc Created 20 October 1993 Last modified 7 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mona Donaldson, feature film editor, discusses her career. Source material for ‘Don’t Call Me Girlie’. Mona discusses her experience of working with several film companies including : Australasian [examination and film repair], Paramount [1917-1921], the difficulties of working as an editor in the film industry and her experience of working with Raymond Longford, editing such works as ‘Pioneers’. [01:36:05] Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Detailed account of the life and work of Caroline Chisholm., Particular reference to Female Immigrants Home, Family Colonization Loan Society, cult of Caroline Chisholm in art and literature, Charles Dickens acknowledgement of her work, attack on the squatters and biographical sketch of Archibald Chisholm. Also includes a letter re the Chisholm emigration scheme in 1852 and correspondence and notes from R.H.S.V.,A very interesting paper. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This is a recruiting poster for the WAAAF, with an image of a uniformed WAAAF in the centre. The poster has the slogan ‘Keep them flying! There’s a job for you in the WAAAF’ printed in red. In a grey box on the lower left, ‘Apply at RAAF Recruiting Centre or Committee in Your District’, is printed in black ink. There are four Spitfires in the sky upper left, and one Hudson aircraft on the airstrip lower right. The Australian flag partly fills the background. For information about the model, Elvia Mulhare, see file number 03/0493.?Born in Sydney in 1884, Jardine joined the Australian Star as an illustrator aged 26, in 1910 where he worked for the next 20 years. While working at the Sun, he achieved widespread recognition for his full page black and white illustrations. During the Second World War he was commissioned to produce posters for the Department of Defence.?24.8 cm x 31.3 cm?Offset lithograph on paper Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the National Party, Flo Bjelke-Petersen was elected Senator for Queensland in the Senate of the Australian Parliament in 1980. She held the position of Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 1985 until 1990 and retired from parliament in 1993. She was married to Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who served as Premier of Queensland from 1968-87. Flo Bjelke-Petersen was educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar School and on leaving school worked in the Queensland Main Roads Department, and eventually became secretary to the Commissioner. She held that position from 1949-52. She married Joh Bjelke-Petersen in 1957. He received a knighthood in 1984, which meant a change of title for Flo. Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen died in 2005. As wife of the Premier of Queensland and later as a Senator, Flo Bjelke-Petersen became famous for her pumpkin scones. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Classic country baking, Bjelke-Petersen, Flo, Lady, 1993 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Class MS Acc13.034. Consignment Received 2013 John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Joh and Flo Bjelke-Petersen on their wedding day, 1952 Senator Lady Florence Bjelke-Petersen, April 1987 National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Florence Bjelke-Petersen, wife of Sir Joh, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 19 May 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Housewives Association (Australia) South Australian Division was formed in 1926 Its foundation president was Agnes Goode. The Association’s aims were to ‘support, protect and raise the status and interests of the home, women and children; to promote and establish co-operation among housewives; to oppose profiteering in every practical manner; to encourage the greater use of Australian-made goods’. (Housewife, April 1929) The nature of their aims meant that they were politically active. For instance in 1929 then President, Leonora Polkinghorne, protested against increases to the price of gas by warning them that members would vote against them in the next election. She also stood as an Independent for Sturt in the 1930 election backed by the Women’s Non-Party Political Association but was unsuccessful. The Association also had a monthly publication called the Housewife, and spoke regularly on the ABC radio station"
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    {
        "text": "Accounts of Mrs Wilkins’ service as an Australian Volunteer Abroad teacher in Papua New Guinea and Thailand. Typescript in the form of 1. letters to her son, of her A.V.A. service at Marianville College, Boroka, Papua New Guinea, 1971; and 2. account of her AVA services in Ban Vinai refugee camp, Thailand, 1980-1981. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1955, Nancy Buttfield became the first South Australian woman member of an Australian Parliament. She was appointed the Order of the British Empire (Dames Commander) on 1 January 1972 for political and public services. Born into one of South Australia’s leading families, Nancy was the second daughter of Edward (later Sir) and Hilda May Holden. Her father is recognised as the primary founder of the Australian car industry. Nancy Holden was educated at Woodlands Church of England Girls’ Grammar School, Adelaide, and Camposenea in Paris. She later studied part-time at Adelaide University, as well as working with many charities. On 19th February 1936, Holden married businessman and company director Frank Charles Buttfield and they had two sons. Her interest in politics was aroused when she joined a Model Parliament that met in the Christadelphian Hall near Holden’s city factory. Robert Menzies (later prime minister of Australia) gave her advice about a possible parliamentary career. In 1954 Nancy stood for and won Liberal Party endorsement to challenge for the safe Labor federal seat of Adelaide. Although defeated, she did achieve a 3% swing against Labor. In 1955 a senate vacancy was created when South Australian Senator George McLeay died suddenly. Buttfield was nominated by State Parliament and became South Australia’s first female Member of Parliament, serving as a Senator for 16½ years. As well as serving as a director for the Co-operative Building Society for 30 years, Nancy Buttfield was a Member of the Commonwealth Advisory Council for the Handicapped. She also was vice-president of the Good Neighbour Council, on the Women’s Committee of the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital and co-manager of the Mile End Maternity Hospital. In their retirement, the Buttfield’s set-up a Youth Venture Club, established at their property ‘Fairfield’ at Chain of Ponds in South Australia, where leadership skills are developed through outdoor activities such as bush walking, horse riding, archery and canoeing. Together they established the Dame Nancy Buttfield biennial prize for decorative arts. The $5000 prize and several scholarships are open to all Australians and all age groups. Dame Nancy Buttfield died on 4 September 2005. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Book Dame Nancy : the autobiography of Dame Nancy Buttfield / assisted by June Donovan, Buttfield, Nancy, Dame, 1912-2005, 1992 So great a change : the story of the Holden family, Buttfield, Nancy, 1979 Liberal women : Federation to 1949, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2004 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women in Politics: A Forum in the Centenary Year of Women's Suffrage [sound recording] Liberal Party, S.A. Division : SUMMARY RECORD Dame Nancy Buttfield: SUMMARY RECORD National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Holden family, 1852-1979 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 27 May 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elle Morrell and Nikki Henningham Created 4 September 2000 Last modified 1 May 2009 Digital resources Title: Australian Woman's Charter 1943 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A Pacific Island romance about a young adventurer, Stephen Conn, and his love for Luya. — General notes: This is the US release title of the Australian film, ‘The Adorable Outcast’ (see related title), which has survived with substantially more scenes — Shot on location in the Fiji Islands with interiors at Australasian’s Bondi studios in Sydney, the film had many native extras and three American players (Burns, Roberts and Long) — Locations show authentic native villages, sailing craft, and a spectacular longhouse built on an atoll — Originally 7300 feet, surviving 6300 feet (35mm, 93 mins @ 18fps). Access copies: 35mm, 16mm Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Born in New Zealand in 1981, to Diane Noonan a teacher, and Bernie Noonan a Program Manager for Mental Health. Nicole attended school in Tasmania at Lindisfarne and St Cuthbert’s Primary Schools, completing her education at Mount Carmel and Guildford Young Colleges. She studied Pharmacy and Information Systems at the University of Tasmania. Completing a degree in Information Systems; Majors in Management of Information Systems and Systems Development. She married Shannon Pike, a Pastry Chef and Baker in 2007 and they moved to Kalgoorlie in 2008. Shannon obtained work as a Geo-Technician and Nicole began working for Atlas Copco as a Spare Parts Coordinator in the Mining Industry. She later worked for Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines Pty Ltd. (KCGM) in their warehouse as a Supply Officer. In 2010 she was successful in obtaining a position in the KCGM Mining Department; Survey/Voids Section, as a Voids Officer and continues to work in this position in 2012. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Nicole Pike interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald [sound recording] Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 15 August 2012 Last modified 19 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Doris Fitton was an actor who, with a number of others, established the Independent Theatre in Sydney in 1930 and kept it going until its closure in 1977. The theatre provided a training ground for young Australian actors and playwrights. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 31 December 1981 for Services to the theatre (as Mrs Mason). Doris Fitton was the daughter of Walter Fitton, an English accountant, broker and cigar manufacturer, and his wife, Janet Cameron, an Australian. She came to Australia in 1902 with her mother and older sister, Janet. She was educated at Loreto Convent, Ballarat and took acting classes with Gregan McMahon. Fitton had her first acting role in Melbourne with J C Williamson in 1915. Doris Fitton married solicitor Norbert Mason in Sydney in 1922 and had two sons. Frustrated at the lack of opportunity for acting, she and nineteen other actors established the Independent Theatre in Sydney 1930. It remained in existence for forty-seven years, closing in May 1977. The theatre provided young Australian actors and playwrights with opportunities to develop and display their talents. They staged more than four hundred productions, the most controversial being Sumner Locke Elliott’s Rusty Bugles. Although her students and peers loved and respected her, she was known for her dictatorial personality. Her autobiography entitled Not without heat and dust, was published in 1981. Shee gained public recognition for her commitment to theatre in Australia with her appointment to the OBE in 1955, the CBE in 1975 and the DBE in 1982. Doris Fitton died in Sydney on 2 April 1985. Published resources Book My brief strut upon the stage, Kingsmill, John, 2001 Not without dust and heat : my life in theatre, Fitton, Doris, c1981 The golden age of Australian radio drama 1923-1960 : a history through biography, Lane, Richard, 1994 Sound recording [Conversation with Doris Fitton], Fitton, Doris, 1960 Book Section Doris Fitton, Oppenheimer, Melanie, 1988 Fitton, Dame Doris Alice, 1996 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Fitton, Dame Doris Alice Lucy Walkden (1897 - 1985), McPherson, Ailsa, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170390b.htm Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers relating to the Canberra Repertory Society 1945-1975 [manuscript] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "5 sound files.??Marisa O’Halloran talks about her family background; her father being a post-war refugee from Fiume, Italy; Bonegilla migrant camp; her parents marriage; her father’s WWII experiences and stories, ethnic cleansing; family relationships; Italian customs during childhood, grappa making, roasting chestnuts; her mother’s rural life and country upbringing in Mansfield, Vic.; her grandparent’s farm in Mansfield; her earliest memories of living in Altona, Vic.; childhood activities; father’s small business; parenthood; Italian food, family meals together; her education; home activities; growing up in the 1980s; gender roles; farming, work; intergenerational relationships; sport; multiculturalism; adolescence; recreation; her ambition to study environmental science at university; the transition from high school to university; alcohol, pub culture; HECS scheme; part-time work; meeting future husband and marriage; agricultural science; global markets; the decline of family farming; relationships; travel; skiing in Mansfield; the European and Italian presence on the Victorian ski fields; city/country divide; sustainability; wild dog trapping; compares Italian and Australian culture; how both she and her husband got a job in the Mallee region working on research projects for the Dept. of Primary Industries.?O’Halloran discusses the challenges of being female, in a male-dominated farming industry; moving for work to Shepparton, Vic.; pregnancy and parenting; the purchase of a property near Tatura, home ownership; establishment of the farm; her different mode of parenting; motherhood; husband’s work as a full-time as a soil scientist and farming; food production; the challenges of farming; rural communities; Murray Darling Basin Report; Australian politics; solar panels; identity; sexism; the changing roles for women over time; balancing work and motherhood, return to work plans; key events in her lifetime; September 11, terrorism; Generation Y; the tough times her parents endured, drought, war. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 May 2017 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Donor – M. Curtis-Otter Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mabel Balcombe Brookes, who worked for many charitable organisations, was acknowledged as a talented organiser and effective committee member. Her greatest contribution was as president of the Queen Victoria Hospital from 1923-1970. She was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1933 and as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 9 June 1955 for charitable and social welfare services. Daughter of Harry Emmerton, a solicitor who emigrated from England, and Alice Mabel Maude (née Balcombe), Mabel Balcombe Brookes was born in Victoria. She was educated mainly at home by her father and a series of governesses, after her mother withdrew her from kindergarten, worried that she was developing a bad accent. She spent a year at the family property, The Briars at Mt Martha, recovering from ill-health and while there developed an interest in Australian history and in Napoleon when he was exiled on St Helena. It was Mabel’s maternal great-grandfather, William Balcombe, who had worked for the East India Company on the island of St. Helena and hosted Napoleon in his guest pavilion for two and a half months in 1815. In the later years of her life, Mabel would build on the family collection of Napoleonic memorabilia, eventually bequeathing the collection – comprising over 380 items – to the National Gallery of Victoria. Mabel became engaged to Norman Brookes, a tennis player, who was the first Australian to win Wimbledon, at the age of eighteen, and married him in St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, Melbourne, on 19 April 1911. In 1914, with a baby daughter, she accompanied Brookes on his tennis trips to Europe and the United States of America. During World War I, in 1915, she joined her husband in Cairo where he was working as commissioner for the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross. She assisted in the establishment of a rest home for nurses. On her husband’s posting to Mesopotamia, she returned to Melbourne in 1917. At this point she wrote three novels and continued to write on a variety of topics during her life. In 1918 she served on the committee of the Royal Children’s Hospital, then became president of the Children’s Frankston Orthopaedic Hospital, the Anglican Babies’ Home and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. She was also an original member and a divisional officer of the Girl Guides’ Association executive committee, foundation president of the Institute of Almoners and of the Animal Welfare League. She was a member of the Australian Red Cross Society’s federal executive and president of the Ladies’ Swimming Association. Mabel Brookes’s major contribution was as president of the Queen Victoria Hospital from 1923-1970, where she presided over the addition of three new wings within ten years. During World War II the Brookes’s home became a Red Cross convalescent home. The Brookes family lived in Elm Tree House and entertained Australian and American officers, including Lyndon Baines Johnson, later to become president of the USA. In a more practical contribution to the war effort, Mabel Brookes was commandant of the Australian Women’s Air Training Corps and worked at the Maribyrnong munitions factory. She also attempted a political career by standing twice for parliament but was unsuccessful. She stood for the federal seat of Flinders in 1943 as a Woman for Canberra candidate and in 1952 for the state seat of Toorak for the Electoral Reform League. She was appointed CBE in 1933 and DBE in 1955 for services to hospitals and charity. The French Government appointed her as Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in 1960 in acknowledgement of her gift to the French nation of the pavilion which Napoleon had occupied on her great-grandfather’s estate on St Helena. Monash University conferred on her an honorary LLD in 1967. A travelling scholarship for opera singers was established in her name. Both Sir William Dargie and Clifton Pugh painted her portrait. Mabel Brookes published her Memoirs in 1974. She died at South Yarra on 30 April 1975, survived by her two daughters. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Memoirs, Brookes, Mabel Balcombe (1890-1975), 1974 Crowded galleries; with chapters on tennis by Sir Norman Brookes, Brookes, Mabel Balcombe (1890-1975), 1956 Sale catalogue of Australiana from the library of Dame Mabel Brookes., Hince, Kenneth, 1968 St Helena story, Brookes, Mabel Balcombe, 1960 Riders of time, Brookes, Mabel Balcombe, 1967 On the knees of the gods, Brookes, Mabel Balcombe, 1918 Old Desires, Brookes, Mabel Balcombe, 1922 Broken Idols, Brookes, Mabel Balcombe, 1917 Resource Section Brookes, Dame Mabel Balcombe (1890-1975), Poynter, J R, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130301b.htm Dame Mabel Brookes Napoleonic collection, The Briars Historic Park, 2002, http://www.nepeanet.org.au/briars/mabel~1.html Lady Mabel Balcombe Brookes, Commonwealth of Australia, department of Prime Minister, 2002, http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours_list/resultDetail.cfm?awardsID=872706 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 Thesis An Examination and Assessment of the Dame Mabel Brookes Family Records of Napoleon, Krautschneider, Astrid Britt, 2004 In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Sir Norman Brookes, 1900-1914 [manuscript] State Library of Victoria Letter, 1924 May 31. [manuscript]. National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Brookes, Dame Mabel AUTHOR Mabel B Brookes : ADDRESS Melbourne : TITLE OF WORK Old Desires : TYPE OF WORK Literary Work : APPLICANT Mabel B Brookes : DATE OF APPLICATION 5 Oct 1922 : DATE COPYRIGHT REGISTERED 30 Oct 1922 : WORK ENCLOSED? Yes [ exhibit only ] Decorations & Awards - Dame Mabel Balcombe Brookes Functions and Visits - Their Excellencies Sir Paul and Lady Hasluck in Victoria - Dinner in honour of Dame Mabel Brookes AUTHOR Mabel B Brookes : ADDRESS Melbourne : TITLE OF WORK Old Desires Official Residences - House Guests - Dame Mabel BROOKES, July 1971 National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office Brookes, Mabel (Mrs) - correspondence regarding service with Red Cross Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Ferber’s lifelong engagement with public affairs and social welfare, both in Australia and Europe, reflected her commitment to the common good. She began her working life in World War II, monitoring and translating enemy radio broadcasts for the Australian Short Wave Listening Post. After the war, her language skills, love of other cultures and strong sense of social justice led her to work with United Nations refugee agencies in Europe. In 1948, Helen married David Ferber, US Vice Consul in Melbourne, and took up the work of a ‘diplomatic wife’. In the mid 1950s the family returned to Australia and Helen spent much of her time caring for their disabled son. During this period she undertook volunteer work with women’s organisations in Melbourne, and rose rapidly to positions of authority. In 1965 she took a part-time position with the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. Initially employed to interview non-English-speaking households, she soon progressed to writing and editing reports, becoming the editor of the institute’s publications and a respected writer on social policy. Throughout her life she developed and cherished many deep friendships and was both an inspiration and support to other women as they developed their skills and careers. Helen Ferber was born in Adelaide on 15th February 1919, the eldest daughter of Richard Francis Hockey and Kathleen Isabel Hockey (née Butler). Her grandfather, Sir Richard Butler, was a premier of South Australia, as was her uncle of the same name. Ferber completed a BA at Melbourne University in 1939, majoring in French and German. During a gap year in 1938, she completed a teaching diploma at Munich University and a course in Italian at Perugia University. She described her time in the tense atmosphere of pre-war Munich in a memoir published in Meanjin in 2006. During World War II she worked as an interpreter for the Department of the Army, censoring foreign language mail, and later for the Australian Department of Information Shortwave Listening Post, monitoring enemy broadcasts in German, French and Italian. After the war she worked with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, firstly in the UNRRA Yugoslav Mission, later with refugees in the UNRRA Displaced Persons Headquarters in Paris and Berlin. She wrote the official history of the Yugoslav Mission. She also worked with the Preparatory Commission of the International Refugee Organization in Geneva. In 1945 she investigated and reported to the International Federation of University Women on the postwar situation of the Yugoslav and Czechoslovak federations. In 1948, Ferber married an American diplomat, David Ferber. Travelling with David, she undertook a series of lectures across Victoria, seeking support for a United Nations appeal to help displaced children in Europe. Further diplomatic postings took the Ferber family to America and the Philippines. They returned to Melbourne in 1953, and Helen spent the next decade raising two daughters, Jenny and Sarah, and a son, Michael. Michael suffered from severe disabilities and died in 1970, aged 19. Helen Ferber became actively involved with a number of women’s organisations in Melbourne. She joined the Australian Federation of University Women-Victoria, becoming national Convenor of International Relations for AFUW in the late 1950s, and President of AFUW-Vic. in 1962. She was also an active member of the Melbourne Catalysts group and the Lyceum Club, becoming vice-president of the latter organisation. She also served on the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s Victorian Talks Committee, and later its State Advisory Committee. In 1965 Ferber took up a part-time position with the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. She worked there until 1981, variously filling the positions of research fellow, business manager and editor of the institute’s publications, including its journal, the Australian Economic Review. She contributed to ground-breaking study of Australian poverty, the 1975 Henderson Report, and authored a seminal engagement with public policy, Citizens’ Advice and Aid Bureaux in Victoria. Helen Ferber also undertook autobiography and family history, writing a record of her experiences in America and Europe from letters she had written to family and friends, and publishing Stagecoach to Birdsville, an account of her grandparents’ ill-fated 1894 journey to Birdsville. The breadth of her engagement with public life can probably be best gauged from the lengthy biographical interview recorded with her by the National Library in 2006. In 2010 Helen Ferber was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). The award was ‘for service to the community, particularly as a social policy researcher and historian, and through contributions to the advancement of women’. She died in 2013. She was remembered in her obituary as ‘a woman of action who was ‘clear-eyed’ but with a commitment to social justice’. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Citizens' advice and aid bureaux in Victoria, Ferber, Helen, 1975 Stagecoach to Birdsville, Ferber, Helen, 1995 Newspaper Article Helen Ferber: Writer, historian, volunteer: Woman of action who inspired others, McClelland, Alison and Romanes, Glenys, 2014 Book Section Citizens' Advice Bureau, Ferber, Helen, 1977 Foreign Correspondence, Ferber, Helen, 2016 Journal Article Missives from Munich, Ferber, Helen, 2006 Resource 'Czechoslovak Women's Organizations at the end of World War II' and 'Yugoslav Federation of University Women December 1945', Ferber, Helen, http://gradwomenvic.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Helen-Ferber-1945.pdf Edited Book Public expenditures and social policy in Australia: The Whitlam years, 1972-75, Ferber, Helen and Scotton, R.B., 1978 Public expenditures and social policy in Australia: The first Fraser years, 1976-78, Ferber, Helen and Scotton, R.B., 1980 Diary of social legislation and policy 1982, Ferber, Helen, 1983 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Helen Ferber interviewed by Susan Marsden [sound recording] Author Details Marian Quartly and Sarah Ferber Created 13 January 2017 Last modified 13 January 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A collection of pamphlets on education and schools. Includes some syllabus and exercises handbooks. eg. algebra, geometry, teaching of sex, social studies, and weaving, and histories of Riwaka School and Tua Marina School in New Zealand. Also included are pamphlets discussing nursery schools, and conduct of meetings. Other inclusions are documents relating to Hayfield School, Parramatta; Telopea Park, Canberra; Central School, Nimbin; Armidale School; Cranbrook School; Sand Toft, Woollahra; St. Clare’s Convent, Waverley; Abbotsleigh; Hopewood House, Darling Point; Dilbhur Hall, Woollahra; Waverley Christian Community Centre; Sydney School of Arts; Darling Point Home Reading Club and Sydney University Union programme of debates between Oxford University and Sydney University (1925) as well as some Victorian schools and colleges. Other inclusions are ‘A village school handbook’ for teaching in Papua and New Guinea. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 5274 comprises: 1. Curtin constituency correspondence files, 1950-1969. 2. Pamphlets, reports, speeches, leaflets, statements and printed ephemera relating to Australian politics, economics, post-war planning and reconstruction, religion, defence and regional security, foreign relations and international affairs, immigration, education, law, the media, public health, geography, aviation and history. 3. Collection of historical source documents on Australian Aboriginal welfare and the Northern Territory, 1945-1963. These include reports, conference papers, press statements, development plans, ministerial notes, correspondence with Charles Duguid, Olive Pink and Lionel Rose, and publications on agriculture, animal industries, mining and other subjects. 4. Ten bound volumes of articles, speeches and broadcasts by Hasluck on foreign affairs, the United Nations, politics and government, Northern Territory, Aboriginal welfare and other subjects, 1925-1989. Speeches including diplomatic, political, ministerial and vice-regal orations and addresses, 1969-1974 (40 boxes). Author Details Clare Land Created 26 November 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Louise Lovely, actor, talks about her career in silent films such as ‘Jewelled Nights’ and ‘Painted Daughters.’ (03:00:00) — General notes: Title derived from tape box, listings on file and in consultation with cataloguers — The interview was conducted at Lovely’s home which is on a busy highway, Tasmania on 23rd & 24th November 1978. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Grace Browne was Director of the New South Wales Division of Maternal and Baby Welfare 1937-1964 and was a part-time lecturer in Maternal and Child Health at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney 1946-1964. She was president of the Australian Federation of Medical Women, and also president of the Australian Federation of University Women. Grace Browne was appointed MBE – Member of The Order of the British Empire (Civil) – 13 June 1959, for her work as director of Baby Welfare in the New South Wales Health Department. Grace Cuthbert Browne was the youngest of a family of five. The family came to Australia when her father was appointed to insurance company, Sydney Marine Underwriters. The family lived in Lindfield, NSW and Grace attended Ravenswood School at Gordon from 1913 – 1917. In her own words (De Berg Tapes: National Library Tape 619) Grace described Ravenswood as “a very interesting school, the academic training was regarded as important and in those days this was exceptional.” Grace completed her Leaving Certificate in 1917 and won an exhibition to Sydney University to study medicine. She married Professor F J Browne D.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.S.Ed, F.R.C.O.G University College Hospital, University of London MEDICAL MB, Ch M University of Sydney First Resident Medical Officer at RNSH GP in country and city for 12 years Honorary Medical Officer before 1937 Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children Tresillian Mothercraft Home – Royal Society for Welfare of Mothers and Babies Lane Cove Baby Health Centre – Dept. Public Health Director Maternal & Baby Welfare Dept. Public Health in NSW from 1937 until retirement Member Maternal Mortality & Perinatal Committee, Dept. Public Health (formerly secretary 1939-1965) Member Committee on Maternal & Child Health, National Health and Medical Research Council for over 20 years Member Child Welfare Advisory Council NSW – advisor to Minister of Health Member Board of Social Studies until transfer to University Member National Fitness Council NSW Member Council Bush Nursing Association for 25 Years Lecturer in Maternal & Child Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine University Sydney to 1965 Medical Officer, Grosvenor Hospital, Dept Health 1965-1970 Honorary Organiser Medical Group on Health Education with Headmistress Association Independent Girls Schools NSW World Health Organisation travelling scholarship 1950-1951 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & ROYAL COLLEGES Member Australian Medical Association (AMA) – Fellow 1972 Rep. Women Medical Practitioners on Council of Australian Medical Association NSW Branch 1966-1969 Member Australian Paediatric Association Fellow Royal College Obstetrics & Gynaecology Member Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Member Convocation: Macquarie University from 1965 Member Convocation: ANU 1975 Member Council Ravenswood School for Girls 1961- 1975 Member Aust & NZ Association for Medical Education Member Aust Obstetrics & Gynaecological Research Society Member Aust Council Scientific Study of Mental Retardation COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS & SOCIETIES International Vice-President Medical Women’s International Association National President Australian Federation of University Women President Australian Federation of Medical Women Australian Convenor Standing Committee for Health for Aust National Council of Women State – NSW President Public Medical Officers’ Association President Medical Women’s Society NSW President Sydney University Women Graduates Association Vice-President Australian Physiotherapy Association (NSW) Membership of Community Organisations Institute of International Affairs, Arts Association Sydney University, The English Speaking Union, The Victoria League, The National Trust of Australia, The Art Gallery Society NSW, The Elizabethan Theatre Trust, The Friends of the Opera, Public Health Association, Council of Social Services, Fellow of Royal Institute of Public Administration. CLUBS The Queens Club, Avondale Golf Club, The Soroptimist Club of North Sydney Published resources Resource Section Browne, Grace Cuthbert (1900 - 1988), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P002000b.htm Cuthbert Browne, Grace Johnston (1900 - 1988), Browne, Elspeth, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170282b.htm Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1980, Draper, W. J., 1980 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Grace Cuthbert Browne interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Grace Cuthbert Browne papers, 1908-1989, collected by Kathleen Commins Ravenswood School for Girls Archives of Ravenswood School for Girls Author Details Helen Morgan and Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 20 October 1993 Last modified 3 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Irene Brown was a self-taught, prize-winning amateur photographer from Hay, NSW. Her subjects included children at play, and everyday life in regional Australia. Irene Brown was born in 1898, in the wheat growing area of Hay, NSW. In 1910, aged 12, she received her first camera as a gift from her father, and started teaching herself photography. Brown once said of photography that ‘[a]nyone can click a camera, that’s how I started, without any training I just picked up a camera and looked it over to see what was going on and then started. It’s really in the developing that the skill lies. I had to be very satisfied with the print I made into a postcard or exhibited because I did all my own printing’ (Hall 25). Brown received some commissions but was not interested in pursuing a career as a commercial photographer. She enjoyed photographing children, and would take care to ensure they felt at ease as she took their photographs. Most of her work relates to everyday life around Hay and major events that occurred such as the flood. She recalled putting on her gumboots and going out in a boat on her own, tucking her skirt into her bloomers and setting up her camera to capture what she saw. Some of these photographs were published by the local newspaper, but she also used them to produce some postcards which she sold to the locals. Brown participated in the local Hay Show photography show ten times, and received first prize on nine occasions. She recalled that she was eventually told that ‘… if I won that much I must be a professional’ (Hall 25). Information regarding her life and technical aspects of her photography is limited. Collections Dease Studios Collection of Photographs. State Library of Western Australia Events 1910 - 1970 Irene Brown participated in the Hay Show ten times and received first prize on nine occasions. Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 16 November 2016 Last modified 16 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nominal roll of AWAS personnel serving in the Northern Territory from 1942 to 1946. Ranks and numbers given. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 June 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The material concerning the U Committee comes from the Committee’s own records as well as other accessions. It includes minutes, correspondence, reports, sound recordings, memorabilia, and press cuttings. The Archives holds related material in its oral history, photograph and publications collections. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 3 September 2009 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Annie McEwen, a country woman and wife of the deputy prime minister, John McEwen, was active in the Country Party and devoted her life to working for the public good. She was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1966 for public services. Annie McEwen grew up in country Victoria, the daughter of John McLeod, a farmer in Tongala, Victoria. She was educated at Girton Church of England Girls’ Grammar School in Bendigo, Victoria. She married John McEwen on 21 September 1921 at Ballavoca, Tongala. They had no children. McEwen was an experienced farmer and with her husband, developed the soldier settler property. They sold it and bought others to eventually hold 3000 acres (1200 ha), in the Stanhope region. They succeeded in circumstances where others had walked off their blocks. Annie McEwen was active in her local community and particularly in women’s organisations such as the Country Women’s Association and in the Country Party. She spoke at women’s meetings and was a key organiser in the Country Party during the early stages of her husband’s political career. She drove thousands of miles through Victoria to political meetings while her husband worked on his speeches in the back seat of his car. He was elected to the Federal Parliament in 1934 as member for Echuca. He later held the seats of Indi from 1937-1949 and Murray from 1949-1971, when he retired from politics. He became leader of the Country Party in 1958. When her husband, as Minister for Air from 1940, established the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Airforce, Annie McEwen was one of the women who gained the use of a large Toorak home and named it WAAAF House. She was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1966, ‘in recognition of many years of distinguished devotion to the public interest especially in country areas’. She died on 10 February 1967, so was not alive to see her husband assume the prime ministership of Australia for three weeks after the disappearance of Harold Holt in December 1967. Published resources Newspaper Article Wife of Deputy PM dies: life of service, 1967 Resource Section McEwen, Sir John (1900-1980), Lloyd, C. J., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150245b.htm John McEwen/Anne McEwen, National Archives of Australia, 2002, http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/meetpm.asp?pmId=18&pageName=wife Book McEwen's way, Mc Ewen, John, Veitch, Don and Seale, John, 1996 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Sir John McEwen, 1943-1980 [manuscript] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 24 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "26 minutes??Elizabeth Richards was born and lived in Highgate. She attended Greenways and MLC schools and became a pre-school teacher. Taught at Tiverton School at Unley Park and Gosse home on Greenhill Road. Then moved to Lockleys kindergarten, Stephney and was the director of Netherby kindergarten in the 1970s. Interested in pottery and she and a friend set up a studio in Lockleys. Elizabeth became secretary of the Peace Pledge Union and she attended a Peace Conference in India in 1961 and one in Sheffield in 1972. She was president of the pre-school teachers’ association for six years and was involved in a pay case which increased salaries. In 1975 she mounted a display of resources for 0-8 year olds which was held at the Institute of Teachers in May 1976. It was repeated in 1977. Elizabeth worked with children for forty years and retired in 1979. In retirement she worked for UNICEF, became a member of the Lyceum Club in 1982, was the patron of Children’s Week, did broadcasting for 5UV, and did a TAFE course which enabled her to teach English to an Iranian migrant. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dame Pattie talks about her family background; meeting Sir Robert Menzies and her views on her role as wife to the Prime Minister. She then talks about her wartime involvement with the Women’s Hospital in Melbourne and as President of the Auxiliaries and President of the Welfare Unit. Dame Pattie then discusses entertaining at the Lodge and difficulties in its running as well as security problems and their effect on the family. She then talks about travelling overseas; friendship with Sir Winston Churchill and his family and her memories of early Canberra. Dame Pattie then discusses her public speaking as well as that of her husband and crowd reactions. She then describes Walmer Castle near Dover where she and Sir Robert lived for a few months each year while Sir Robert was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Marie Ficarra has had extensive and successful careers in business and politics. She was a member of the Hurstville City Council from 1980-1995, which included stints as Deputy Mayor (1983-84) and Mayor (1990-1991). As a Liberal Party candidate, Marie was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for George’s River in 1995, but failed to gain re-election in 1999. In March 2007, she was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council. She became Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Citizenship and was appointed to the Social Issues Standing Committee and General Purpose Committee Number 2. She left Parliament in 2015, after serving as Parliamentary secretary from 2011-2014. In April 2014 she stood down from parliament as she was accused of soliciting donations for the Liberal Party in contravention of NSW election campaign funding laws. She denied the claims. Marie was the first female member of the Liberal Party to serve in both Houses of the New South Wales Parliament. Educated at Beverly Hills Girls High School, Marie was awarded her Bachelor of Science (Honours) by the University of Sydney in 1976. She tutored in Histology and Physiology at the University from 1976-1984, before working as the NSW Sales Manager of Hoechst Australia (pharmaceuticals) from 1984-1995. In December 2004 she was General Manager of Cytyc Australia Pty Ltd. Marie is a Patron of many local community organizations and a former President of the Mortdale District Progress Committee (1980-1992). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The CGGS Archives were established in 1987 to serve the needs of Canberra’s oldest independent school.??The Archives collects and preserves records relating to the School and its associated bodies. The collection consists of the School’s official records from 1926, photographic and uniform collections and school memorabilia. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 March 2019 Last modified 22 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lesley Edwards is a seasoned campaigner and committed environmentalist. She was an Australian Greens Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Penrith in 1999 and 2003; in the House of Representatives for Lindsay in 1996 (and subsequent by election 1996), 1998 and 2001; and for the Blue Mountains City Council. Lesley Edwards has lived all her life in the Penrith electorate. She has worked as a horticulturist in various businesses, small and large. She is a leading local campaigner for the environment, and is a member of the Penrith Bushcare Network Transport, health, employment and the development of the ADI site were the main topics in her 1999 state campaign. Lesley lives in Glenbrook with her partner Ray, and son Angus. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes minute book, 30 April 1926 – 12 August 1929; correspondence and drafts of letters, of Ethel Godfrey (Sec. Victorian Committee), Sarah Hynes (Organising Sec. for Australia), Dr Alexander and Mrs Leeper, Sir John Longstaff and others; financial items and press cuttings, telegrams. Also one letter, 7 August 1934, from J. A. Lyons, Prime Minister, to Ethel Godfrey. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2019 Last modified 5 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This folder may include clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations and other ephemeral material. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 7 February 2017 Last modified 1 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "10 minutes??Lady Elizabeth Bright was born in Melbourne and graduated from Melbourne University in medicine in 1937. She became a resident at the Queen Victoria Hospital for women and children. She moved to the Adelaide Children’s Hospital in 1939, met Charles Bright and was married in 1940. During the War Elizabeth worked as a locum and did the medical examinations for the WANS recruits. She wrote “The Diary of a woman Doctor” for the Advertiser. She became the honorary medical officer for the Kindergarten Union of SA and was on the Social Welfare Committee of the Red Cross. Elizabeth travelled extensively with her husband who was a lawyer. She became patron of the SA branch of the Women Writer’s Association from 1982 to 1991 and in 1983 published a book written by her late husband called ‘The confidential clerk’ about Charles Flaxman and George Fife Angas. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Oval shaped brass badge with a wreath around a diamond shaped silver shield, emblazoned with the southern cross. St Edward’s crown surmounts the badge. Simple scroll on the bottom is embossed ‘WRAAC’?Brass; Silver. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Elsie Edna Tudor worked as a professional photographer at a variety of photography studios in Melbourne during the 1920s. Tudor used a Folding Pocket Kodak Camera. Elsie Edna Tudor was born in South Melbourne, Victoria in 1905. She was the only child of Richard Tudor and Martha Jane McArthur Tudor. Her father was an amateur photographer and an inspiration to her. Together they would travel to the bush at dawn, photographing the animals and landscape around them. During the 1920s, at the age of 16, Tudor began working at the Burlington Studios, Melbourne, as a photographer’s retoucher, and went onto work as a colourist at a studio in Prahran. Landscape photography was her main interest. Tudor captured bush, rural and coastal scenes which stylistically bordered on Pictorialism, with evocations of romance and atmosphere. She entered her photographs into the exhibitions at the Royal Melbourne Show between 1927 and 1935 and won six first and six second prizes. Elsie Edna Tudor married Raymond Stewart Carter in 1933, and ended her professional photographic career shortly afterwards. But she continued taking photographs as a keen amateur. She died in 1975, at Ashburton, Victoria, aged 69. Technical Elsie Edna Tudor used a Folding Pocket Kodak Camera. Collections National Library of Australia Events 1920 - 1933 1995 - 1995 Elsie Tudor’s work featured in Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women’s Art in the National Library Collections 1927 - 1935 Elsie Tudor won six first and six second place awards for her landscape photographs at the Royal Melbourne Show. Published resources Resource Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women's Art in the National Library's Collection, Carr, Sylvia and National Library of Australia, 1995, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/36337/20030703-0000/www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fence/picket.html Resource Section Elsie Edna Tudor, http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/elsie-edna-tudor/138657464 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 15 November 2016 Last modified 15 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hr 11 min?Oral history Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (ca. 105 min.) Author Details Clare Land Created 4 December 2001 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Diary letters 1917-1932; Victorian Baby Health Centre Association Book including appointments, balance sheets, notes 1917-1925; Victorian Baby Health Centre Association Report Book of Medical Officer 1920-1925 including letters 1939; photocopied material on Dr Scantlebury Brown and the Baby health Centre Association; biographical notes on Dr Scantlebury Brown prepared by Wendy Kappel 1977; index cards; interview records; “A Guide to the Care of the Young Child” – For students of infant welfare by Dr Scantlebury Brown and Kate Campbell. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 25 December 2017 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Olive Eva Anstey was born in Perth in 1920. Against her mother’s judgment, Olive pursued her desire to become a nurse, completing her general training at Royal Perth Hospital. Olive eventually became a top nursing administrator who was well respected and admired for the compassion and leadership qualities she brought to her chosen profession. Throughout her career Olive was a staunch advocate for better working conditions and pay for nurses, working on various committees with the goal of obtaining recognition of nursing as a profession. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1969 and in 1982 was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her service to nursing. Olive Eva Anstey’s mother couldn’t understand why her daughter wanted to abandon her relatively well-paid career as a bookkeeper for Betts and Betts, to become a nurse. ‘When my mother heard she thought I was nuts,’ Olive said. But the desire to be a nurse would not be quashed and Olive quit her pen-pushing job and a dramatic cut in salary to become a student nurse. She recalls that the conditions and facilities for nurses and patients alike were not very good. And neither was she good at obeying rules that she thought were senseless: ‘I must admit I didn’t take too kindly to the discipline. We had to stand up straight with our hands behind our backs when we spoke to a nurse the station above us on the hierarchic ladder… I was a bit of a rebel and used to spend a fair bit of time on the assistant matron’s doorstep.’ When Olive eventually became a top nursing administrator she was one of the first to relax the regimentation but not the standards of nursing. She quickly earned the respect and admiration of nurses, although throughout her life remained surprised that she rose to the top, where she had a reputation for being a compassionate leader. Born in Perth, Western Australia on 9 August 1920, Olive was educated at St Patricks College and Perth Technical College. She later completed her general nursing training at Royal Perth Hospital and then undertook a midwifery course at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney. She worked at Riverton Hospital, the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Public Health Hospital in South Australia before being appointed first matron of the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (then Perth Chest Hospital) in July 1958 – it was a position she would hold until her retirement in December 1981. Throughout her nursing career Olive was a staunch advocate for better working conditions and pay for nurses. She worked tirelessly on various committees with the goal of obtaining recognition of nursing as a profession to be valued. These include the Council of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation (Western Australia) where she served variously as a council member; as vice-president; as president; and as senior vice-president. She also served as senior vice-president and then president of the Federal Committee of RANF and as a member of the Florence Nightingale Committee (Western Australia). She also represented Australia at some of the council meetings of International Council of Nurses in Frankfurt-am-Main. In 1969 Olive was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and in 1982 was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 1974, as a tribute to her lifelong contribution to nursing, a multi-storey building, Anstey House, was named after her. Several months after her death almost in 1983, a $250,000 national appeal was launched as a memorial to commemorate Olive’s significant contribution to national and international nursing. Established in April 1984, the fund was designed to provide scholarships for nurses wishing to further their studies. Published resources Resource Section Anstey, Olive Eva (1920 - 1983), Biographical Entry, 2003, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004455b.htm Newspaper Article A Name Used in Tribute [Olive Anstey], 1974 A quiet revolution [Olive Anstey], 1973 Appeal for $250, 000 [Olive Anstey], 1984 Matron Appointed [Olive Anstey], 1958 Nurse dies after a life of caring [Olive Anstey], 1983 Nurse retires... as the star [Olive Anstey], 1981 Obituary... The Late Olive Anstey, 1983 The Top Nurse Looks Back [Olive Anstey], 1981 Top WA nurse to retire [Olive Anstey], 1981 WA Matrons Look at Nursing Overseas, 1965 Journal Queen's Birthday Honour for a West Australian Nurse [Olive Anstey], 1969 Journal Article Tribute to Olive Anstey: A history-maker's retirement, 1982 Untitled [Olive Anstey], 1983 Book The concept of a community centred teaching hospital: the impact on nursing, Anstey, Olive E., 1972 The watchword \"accountability\": international and national implications for nursing, Anstey, Olive E., 1978 Eye to Eye: Forty Famous West Australians, Donovan-Urquhart, Mary L., 1984 Notable Australians: the Pictorial Who's Who, Hamlyn, Paul, 1978 The WAY 79 WHO is WHO: Synoptic Biographies of Western Australians, Sacks, Margaret A. (ed.), 1980 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources Australian Dictionary of Biography Olive Anstey National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Miss Olive Anstey, nurse, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Florence Nightingale Committee (Australia), 1946-1993 [manuscript] Papers of Barbara Fawkes 1954-1984 [manuscript] Author Details Judith Ion Created 5 August 2002 Last modified 4 September 2008 Digital resources Title: Olive Anstey Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Collection of printed ephemera information relating to the Office of Jo Vallentine, the Western Australian Senator for Nuclear Disarmament, 1984 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Since Australia’s ‘new’ Parliament House opened in 1988, millions of visitors have admired one of the key artworks in the Great Hall, the 16 metre long embroidery which celebrates the story of settlement in Australia. A gift from the eight Australian Embroiderers’ Guilds to the nation, the embroidery was conceived, initiated and managed by Dorothy Hyslop, herself an experienced embroiderer and member of the ACT Embroiderers’ Guild. For her vision and achievement of a huge project posing enormous challenges of design and coordination, she was chosen Canberra Citizen of the Year for 1988, made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1989, and appointed a Life Member of the ACT Embroiderers’ Guild in 1992. Dorothy Margaret Hyslop was born in Melbourne in 1916, the second of three daughters of Frances (née Stabb) and James Fleming, a guard with the Victorian Railways. She initially trained in millinery and design at Swinburne Technical College, but then undertook secretarial studies as hats were not in demand during the depression. This led her to work for Legacy for 10 years, a rewarding position that fulfilled her belief in social justice. Dorothy married Robert Hyslop (1918-2007) in Melbourne in September 1946. Robert had joined the Commonwealth Public Service in 1936 and remained in the service throughout his career which took the family to the UK in 1958 and then to Canberra when the defence departments moved to the capital in 1959. Their two daughters, Gabrielle and Deirdre, were born in Melbourne. Once settled herself in Canberra, Hyslop assisted other newly arrived women to settle into their new homes, away from families and communities. From 1970-1974 she and Robert lived in Bangkok where he was Deputy Secretary-General of the South East Asia Treaty Organisation. On her return to Canberra she became an active member of the ACT Embroiderers’ Guild, contributing to their exhibitions and serving as Secretary. Her life was largely that of a supportive wife and mother. This changed dramatically from 1980 when, aged 64, Dorothy Hyslop proposed to the ACT Embroiderers’ Guild the idea of a major embroidery, to be made by embroiderers around the country and given to the nation to hang in the new Parliament House. She later said the suggestion was greeted with ‘stunned silence’. Few cared for the idea of such a large, collaborative project with all the difficulties that would entail, and the Guild membership was small. At the time, there was little regular communication between the eight State and Territory Guilds and only lukewarm interest in any formal connections. With fellow Canberra embroiderer Loma Ruddock, Hyslop first obtained the support of the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the idea of such a gift. The Art Advisory Committee of the Parliament House Construction Authority funded a design competition and the fees of the designer and embroidery coordinator. The ACT Guild set up a Parliament House Embroidery Committee to oversee the work, which Hyslop convened throughout the eight-year project. In the process, she became a master project manager. The Parliament House Embroidery was conceived as one of the two major art works for the Great Hall – a frieze in the tradition of the Bayeaux Tapestry, 16 metres long and 65 centimetres deep. Its theme is ‘the settlement of Australia’, in tune with the theme of ‘the land’ for all the public areas of the House. The design competition was won by South Australian artist, Kay Lawrence. The design is unconventional, comprising 24 different images in eight panels, to be read as such rather than as one overall design. It refers to each State and Territory in particular images but emphasises common elements in the experience of settlement rather than distinct, State-based differences. It moves from Aboriginal people’s harmonious relationships with the land to the changes wrought by European settlers through the 19th Century. It conveys beauty and ugliness, joy and loss. Over a thousand women around Australia were involved in the work – some in making the hundreds of samplers from which stitches and colours were selected, others in preparing the linen and stretching it onto frames before work began, others in preparing the pieces for transport to Canberra, or in joining the sections and mounting the completed work in its case. Twelve thousand unpaid hours of embroidered stitching were put into the eight panels by 504 women, 150 of them in Canberra. Their work was coordinated by master embroiderer Anne Richards and a supervisor in each State and Territory. The Guilds donated not only their labour but also all the funds needed for the materials. The linen and threads were intensively researched and of the highest quality. Along with her national project management role, Hyslop and the ACT Guild held fundraising exhibitions and raffles to help pay for their contribution. It was a bold project, full of challenges in design, coordination and quality control, and with the potential for nightmare. Two States withdrew from the project but later re-joined. Hyslop understood the importance of good communication to overcome doubts and misunderstandings. She and her team kept up a copious correspondence with letters, tape recordings and newsletters and, occasionally, face to face meetings to share ideas and strengthen the trust that gradually developed among the participants. Kay Lawrence later attributed Hyslop’s success to ‘vision, unwavering faith in the expressive potential of embroidery, a belief in teamwork, the capacity to identify and recruit key people, exceptional project management skills, and tenacity; all of this in a tiny woman… with a kind and mild demeanour… and no ego’ (Lawrence 2011, p.4). The embroidery was presented to the Presiding Officers of the Parliament on 25 May 1988. Within a decade it had been seen by some 14 million visitors to Parliament House. It is universally acknowledged as a nationally significant artwork and has given prominence to a long undervalued medium. In recognition of her vision and achievement, Dorothy Hyslop was chosen Canberra Citizen of the Year for 1988, made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1989, and appointed a Life Member of the ACT Embroiderers’ Guild in 1992. She died in Canberra in 2011. Published resources Newspaper Article Bureaucrat had theatrical flair, Stephens, Tony, 2007, http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/bureaucrat-had-theatrical-flair/2007/10/02/1191091110011.html Journal Article The Parliament House Embroidery: A Study in Project Management, Hyslop, Dorothy, 1992 Embroidering the nation, Jones, Dorothy L., 2003 Speech The making of the Parliament House Embroidery, Hyslop, Dorothy, 1999 Lecture The making of the Parliament House Embroidery 1980-1988, Lawrence, Kay, 2011 Book The Parliament House Embroidery: A Work of Many Hands, The Parliament House Embroidery Committee, 1988 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records, 1984-1988 [manuscript] National Museum Australia Embroiderers' Guilds of Australia collection Author Details Louise Moran Created 4 January 2013 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Dorothy Hyslop Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "From her arrival in Canberra in 1947 till close to her death in 1999 Lady Nora Randall was an indefatigable worker for services and organisations which sought to make life easier for people, with a special focus on women, young families, and newcomers to Canberra. She was awarded an MBE in 1982 in recognition of her many and remarkably varied contributions to the development of the Canberra community. Lady Nora Randall (née Clyne) was born in Goulburn in 1916 into a family steeped in community involvement. Both her parents received awards for their work – her father an MBE for education, her mother a St George medal for her work in the CWA and Red Cross – and Randall maintained that tradition throughout her own life. Following schooling in several NSW cities, she moved to Sydney where she held several jobs including as a photographer at Taronga Park Zoo. In 1945 Nora married Richard (later Sir Richard) Randall (1902-1982). He had joined the Commonwealth Treasury before the war but the lack of housing in Canberra meant that they could not move to the city till 1947 when a house became available. He went on to become Deputy Secretary of Treasury (1957-1966) and Secretary of Treasury (1966-1971). When Nora Randall arrived in Canberra in 1947 it was a city-in-the-making, lacking many basic services. She threw herself into volunteer work and over the next five decades worked tirelessly to help develop the burgeoning community across an enormous range of issues. Steeped in a family background of community involvement, Randall helped start one of the Territory’s first pre-schools even before having any children of her own, saying ‘I was looking ahead’ (Stephenson, 1985, p.43). This led to her representing the school at the Nursery Kindergarten Society and she became the latter’s delegate to the National Council of Women (ACT) in 1951. Later on she became the founding general administrator for a new Catholic high school, St Clare’s College. Thus began Randall’s long involvement in the NCW (ACT), culminating in terms as Vice President (1955-1957) and President (1957-1960). Through those decades she led and was involved in a remarkable range of NCW projects and advocacy for services. For example, she worked on efforts to develop long term housing for the aged; creation of child guidance clinics; improvements in shopping hours; advocacy for social welfare including the establishment of the ACT Council of Social Services; and a survey of flat dwellers’ views about design, noise and amenities which led to the Council being recognised in the ACT as an advisory body for housing. She viewed the Council’s pioneering work on providing Canberra women with information on pap smears and early detection of cancer as a highlight of her presidency. In the 1950s Nora Randall was also an active contributor to the Mothercraft Society of the ACT and the Emergency Housekeeper Service. She led the early National Heart Campaign and in doing so, launched a distinctive Canberra fundraising event – the Embassy Open Day – which not only raised funds but also firmed linkages between the embassy community and the capital. She was a foundation member and president of the Lantern Club which raised funds for blind people and, through the Red Cross, was active in their blood banks and Meals on Wheels programs. In 1969 Randall was one of eight Australian women community leaders selected to make a fact-finding tour of community services in Germany. One organisation particularly close to Randall’s heart was Marymead Children’s Home (now Marymead Child and Family Centre), originally founded to provide residential accommodation for children and families in crisis. From organising an initial working bee in the kitchen to prepare meals for the children she moved swiftly to create a fundraising Marymead Auxiliary in 1965. After six very active years as its President she was appointed Patron for life. Under her leadership the Auxiliary introduced the first walkathon to Canberra; it became a major fundraising tool and has become part of the folklore of several generations of Canberrans. For many years Randall was also a committed member of the Women’s International Club (a social organisation for embassy wives and local women) and served as its president in the early 1970s. At the same time she was actively involved in the Pan Pacific and Southeast Asian Women’s Association, serving on its executive in the 1970s including three years as president; and was later awarded life membership in recognition of her work. Nora Randall was awarded an MBE in 1982 in recognition of her many and varied contributions to the community. She died in 1999. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Lady Randall to be made a Lantern Club Life Member, 1969 Lady Randall: special focus on people, 1999 Wool trade led to the Treasury, 1982 Book Capital Women: a History of the Work of the National Council of Women (ACT) in Canberra 1939-1979, Stephenson, Freda, 1985 Capital women : a history of the work of the National Council of Women (A.C.T.) in Canberra, 1939-1979, Stephenson, Freda, 1992 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Louise Moran Created 14 January 2013 Last modified 16 April 2013 Digital resources Title: Lady Nora Randall Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Accounts, Annual Reports, Correspondence & Registers & Valuations, Minutes Author Details Janet Butler Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 24 August 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ivy Wedgwood was the first Victorian woman to be elected to the Senate. She served as Liberal Senator for Victoria from 1950 to 1971, when she retired. Ivy Wedgwood was appointed to The Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander on 10 June 1967 for services to Parliament. Wedgwood was the first woman to chair a Senate Committee in 1968. From 1962 to 1971 Wedgwood was Temporary Chairman of Committees. The National Library of Australia manuscript biography advises: “She was a campaigner for improved facilities for handicapped people … and a was a member of the group that met in 1944 to found the Liberal Party.” Dame Wedgwood passed away in 1975. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1971, Legge, J S, 1971 Resource Section Wedgwood, Dame Ivy Evelyn Annie (1896-1975), Scobie, Doug, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160614b.htm Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Dame Ivy Wedgwood, 1928-1972 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 17 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Tailors’ Protection Society minutes 1866-1889; Pressers’ Union of Victoria minutes 1884-1888; Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia federal conference and council papers 1960-1992, federal executive papers 1988-1992, subject files 1907-1992, copies of minutes of meetings of the New South Wales Branch. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 December 2017 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "British drama. A young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneem, arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Enid Derham was a poet and an academic who photographed her travels to Egypt, the Mediterranean, Europe, and England during 1927. Enid Derham was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne, on 24 March 1882. Her father, Thomas Plumley Derham, was a Bristol-born solicitor, and her mother was Ellen Hyde née Hodgson. She attended Hessle College, Camberwell, before moving on to Presbyterian Ladies’ College. She commenced studies at the University of Melbourne in 1900, where she read Classical Philology. Whilst studying at the University, she became involved in the Princess Ida Club, of which she became a committee member. The club aimed to ‘promote the common interests of, and to form a bond of union between the present and past women students.’ Derham graduated from the University of Melbourne with a B.A. (First Class Honours) in 1903. Following this she was awarded a scholarship to complete a M.A. and majored in English and modern languages; she completed this degree in 1905. She began to write her own poetry during this time. Her association with the University of Melbourne continued after her graduation when she became a tutor of English at Trinity and Ormond Colleges, and lectured for the University Extension Board, and the Workers’ Educational Association. Derham, along with 18 other women, was a founding member of the Catalysts’ Society, which was based on the Lyceum Clubs in England, as well as The Lyceum Club, Melbourne and the Classical Association of Victoria, all of which fostered intellectual discourse. Before the commencement of WW1, Derham travelled to Oxford and studied Anglo-Saxon and Old English for six months before returning to Melbourne. Derham published ‘The Mountain Road and Other Verses’, along with a short play entitled ‘Empire: A Morality Play for Children’ in 1912. She moved to Western Australia where she took up a temporary lecturing position at the University of Western Australia in 1921, returning to the University of Melbourne in 1922, where she became the first woman to hold a lectureship position in the English department. She remained in this position for the rest of her life. Derham passed away on 13 November 1941, at her home in Kew. In 1958, Melbourne University Press published a posthumous collection of her poetry entitled ‘Poems’. During 1927 she travelled to Egypt, the Mediterranean, Europe, and England; she documented her travels with photographic studies. These photographs are held by the University of Melbourne Archives. Collections University of Melbourne Archives (accession no. 1984.0030) Content added for initial entry in the Australian Women’s Register, last modified 19 November 2015. Educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College and the University of Melbourne, Enid Derham graduated (BA) in classical philology in 1903 and her MA (Hons) in 1905. After tutoring in English at Trinity and Ormond colleges she spent six months at Oxford studying Anglo-Saxon and Old English. A member of ‘The Catalysts’ in 1912 she was a foundation member of both the Lyceum Club and the Classical Association of Victoria. Also her publications The Mountain Road and Other Verses and Empire. a Morality Play for Children were released in 1912. From 1922 until her death Derham was a lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne. In 1958 her second volume of poetry was published posthumously. Events 1927 - 1927 Published resources Book Dictionary of Australian biography, Serle, Percival, 1949 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Degrees of liberation : a short history of women in the University of Melbourne, Kelly, Farley, 1985 Two centuries : selections from English prose and poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries, Ellis, Adele and Derham, Enid, 1904 Notes on the school treasury of English literature. Section 1, Derham, Enid, 1911 Empire : a morality play for children, Derham, Enid, 1912 How the animals came to Australia : an uncensored account, Derham, Enid, 1930 Poems, Derham, Enid, 1958 The mountain road and other verses, Derham, Enid, 1912 Jessie Webb, a memoir, Ridley, Ronald T, 1994 Melbourne University portraits : they called it \"The Shop\", Paper-Clip Collective., 1996 Resource Section Derham, Enid (1882-1941), Palmer, Imelda, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080308b.htm Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1941, Alexander, Joseph A Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Derham, Enid Derham, Enid Derham, Enid Derham, Enid Derham, Enid Derham, Dorothy Lush Ridley, Ronald Thomas Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 4 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Box 1: Folder 1 : Postcards and greeting cards. Folders 2-5 : Letters. Box 2: Manuscript of “A Steady Storm of Correspondence”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Folder contains chronologically arranged group of outgoing letters and drafts from Percy Grainger to many people, including Nellie Melba. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Angela Booth served in local government while she attempted to gain a seat in the Victorian state parliament. She served as councillor for the Warrandyte Riding of the Doncaster and Templestowe shire from 1926-33. In 1927 she unsuccessfully sought Nationalist endorsement for state parliament before standing in 1929 as an Independent Nationalist candidate for the Legislative Assembly seat of Brighton in the Victorian state election. In 1936 she and her husband James, were founding members of the Eugenics Society of Victoria. She served as its vice president. Angela Booth was born in Liverpool, England and migrated to Australia in 1896. In 1897 she married James Booth, a medical practitioner and divorcee, at St Andrew’s Anglican Cathedral, Sydney. In 1901 they moved to Broken Hill. While she was there she joined the Women’s Political Association, emphasising the need for women to participate in political life. She remained a member until 1915, when she resigned over its pacifist stance in World War 1. She was also a member of the Liberal Education Society. Before the outbreak of World War 1, the Booths settled in Melbourne where Angela became active in conservative politics, She was president of the National Federation and a prominent member of the Australian Women’s National League. Published resources Book Section Angela Booth: The Importance of Being Well Bred, McBurnie, Grant, 1985 Resource Section Booth, Angela Elizabeth Josephine (1869-1954), McBurnie, Grant, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130249b.htm Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Liberal women : Federation to 1949, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2004 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 15 July 2008 Last modified 25 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Adelaide, SA. Members of the Girl Guides Association (South Australia) working in the depot during their thrift campaign to raise funds for organisations such as the Red Cross. Left to right: back row: Lady Muriel Barclay Harvey (wife of the Governor of South Australia), Mrs Herbert Rymill (State Chief Commissioner), Rita Webb, Rosemary Liddell-Grainger (daughter of the Governor’s wife ), Barbara Godson; front row: Fairley Grove, May Douglas, Mrs Sydney Ayres, Mrs Julian Ayres, Miss Elkin, Miss A. Morphett (secretary of the thrift drive), Mrs Lance Lewis (originator of the thrift drive), Mrs Hugh Davidson (in charge of the thrift depot and sales). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-27. MAJOR LORNA BYRNE, ASSISTANT CONTROLLER, AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S ARMY SERVICE, LAND HEADQUARTERS, TAKING THE SALUTE AT A MARCH PAST HELD AS A FAREWELL TO HER ON LEAVING TO TAKE UP A SIMILAR POSITION AT WESTERN AUSTRALIA L. OF C. AREA. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lorelei Emmeline Booker (1906-1994) was born in Brisbane, daughter of Sidney North Innes and Caroline Matilda Noble. She was President of the League of Women Voters of New South Wales, 1964-1976, and founder and honorary editor of the League’s newsletter, Equality. The League was a state affiliate of the Australian Federation of Women Voters, formed in 1922 and dissolved in 1983. She was N.S.W. Board member of the A.F.W.V., 1945-1983, and both Honorary Secretary, 1963-1966, and President, 1976-1983, of the A.F.W.V. She was also honorary editor of the Federation’s journal, The Dawn. As well as her work in the area of women’s rights, Booker was actively involved in community activities through various bodies, including the Castle Cove Progress Association and the Association of Self-Help Organisations and Groups. She was a Board member of Sydney’s Independent Theatre, 1957-1967, and a member of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. Lorelei Booker was appointed M.B.E. in 1973 for her services to the community. Her husband Frederick William Booker, whom she married in 1929, predeceased her in 1961. They had two sons, Malcolm and Douglas, and a daughter, Carolyn. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Lorelei Booker - papers, ca. 1890-1991 Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 December 2004 Last modified 30 January 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Freda Glynn is co-founder of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association Group of Companies (CAAMA). Freda Glynn spent her early childhood in and around Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. She was one of forty children to be evacuated from Alice Springs during World War Two following Japanese advances into the Pacific, particularly the bombing of Darwin and Katharine. With her mother and sister, she travelled via Melbourne to a Church Missionary Society evacuee camp in the Blue Mountains. In 1980, with John Macumba and Philip Batty, Freda Glynn co-founded the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association Group of Companies (CAAMA). CAAMA incorporates Imparja, the first Aboriginal commercial television station, which commenced broadcasting in 1988 in Alice Springs and was chaired by Glynn for a time. Imparja was responsible for broadcasting Urrpeye, an Aboriginal current affairs program. Freda Glynn also established the first licensed Aboriginal radio station, Radio 8KIN FM, broadcasting in regional languages. In 2002, she played Grandma Nina in the short film Shit Skin, a drama about a young man who takes his grandmother back to the place of her childhood so that she can reconnect with her surviving family. In May of that year, Glynn received the Award for Contribution to Indigenous Media at the Third Tudawali Indigenous Film and Video Awards held at the Sydney Opera House. Events 1980 - 2000 2002 - 2002 Award for Contribution to Indigenous Media Published resources Documentary Film Six Australians, McGowan, John, 1984 Satellite Dreaming, Burum, Ivo, 1991, http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/satellite-dreaming/clip2/ Videorecording Shit Skin, Boseley, Nicholas, 2002 Journal Article The development of Aboriginal radio and television in Central Australia (paper presented at the Twelfth General Conference of the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils in Beijing, 1997), Glynn, Freda and Philip Batty, 1998 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources AIATSIS Sound Collection Oral history interviews in Alice Springs, Wattie Creek and Darwin, NT Recordings from the 'NT History', 'Radio History', 'Ayeye Ingkerreke', 'Arrernte Language Reels', and 'Traditional Stories' CAAMA series AIATSIS Manuscript and Rare Books Collection Training agreement with CAAMA/Imparja Pitjantjatjara hits the airwaves Edited transcripts of proceedings of the Media and Indigenous Australians Conference: Parkroyal Hotel, Brisbane, 16 and 17 February 1993 AIATSIS Pictorial Collection School girls from St Mary's home in Alice Springs Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 18 June 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1894-[ongoing]?Documents, programs, diaries, music scores, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia. The collection includes: roll books (1894-1924); the Marshall Hall diaries (1901-51); original scores of Fritz Hart; 17 copies of the Melba Magazine (1934-50); extensive artistic programs and details of famous students such as Florence Austral and Gertrude Johnson. Material relating to Dame Nellie Melba includes Melba’s personal collection of sheet music, a folder of programmes and Melba’s personal library of bound copies of scores and other books. There are also 21 framed photographs, mostly of Melba, but also Marshall Hall and other historical personalities. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interviews with people involved in the Canberra Repertory Society since it began in the 1920’s for its history being written by Anne Godfrey-Smith. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2013 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "In 1988 a small group of Adelaide women formed the Women’s Environmental Action Group, to educate people on environmental issues effecting their lives and how they could help change things The Women’s Environmental Action Group members undertook a schools program in their area teaching children about recycling and paper making. They made a submission on waste management in Australia. They staged protest actions at supermarkets against excessive packaging, and in shopping centres placing stickers on toy guns as a protest against war and the first Gulf War. They protested the Roxby Downs uranium shipments, noting down container numbers to send to protesters in other countries. The undertook Nurrunga and yellow cake actions to increase awareness about uranium. The Port Adelaide local government area became a nuclear free zone and the women put up signs to celebrate this. The banner in the photographs at the International Women’s Day was confiscated by the police and longer exists. They wrote articles for ‘Liberation’, the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Newsletter. Members included Silver Moon, Doris Horvath, Kate Lawrence, Seja Sims, and Sally Sims. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women's Environmental Action Group (WENG) Feminist Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG) records Women Against Nuclear Energy Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Levy and Frances Bedford at the International Women’s Day lunch at the Adelaide Convention Centre in March 2006. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 15 January 2019 Digital resources Title: Mrs Ethel Lane AM MBE Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence reg. the manufacture, importation and sales of commercial paper materials; order books; cash books; trade circulars and tariff files; price lists and press cutting books reg. paper manuf. and book publishing. Wholesale Paper Merchants of Vic. minutes, correspondence, accounts 1919-1957; Federation of Wholesale Paper Merchants of Aust. minutes 1935; Toilet Tissue Converters Assoc. minutes, correspondence, accounts 1950-1960; Assoc. of Manufacturers of Waxed Papers minutes, correspondence, accounts 1936-1956. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc10.109 comprises recordings by Pam Lazenby of discussions with Wilhelmina Evangeline Volk, made while Lazenby and Volk were travelling by train between Alice Springs and Sydney in 1985. The recordings occupy two sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) numbered volumes 1 and 2 (©2010) (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Australian Board of Missions formed in 1850 with the aim of converting the indigenous peoples of the islands around Australia to the Anglican faith. In 1910 it was decided to employ women in a fund-raising capacity by forming the Women’s Auxiliary to the Australian Board of Missions. Beginning in New South Wales, Auxiliaries were attached to a particular diocese and by the 1980s were established in nineteen of the twenty four Australian dioceses. Initially, the funds raised went toward missionary training. More recently, they have been dedicated to specific projects such as the establishment of a training centre for lay, Indigenous evangelists Women involved in this group often saw their role as far more than simple fund-raising including also education and prayer. Archival note: Since, from its inception, women were elected from the Auxiliary to the Board, information about the groups activities may be found in the general records of the Australia Board of Missions from 1910. Published resources Book Workers Together - The Story of the Women's Auxiliary to the Australian Board of Missions 1910 - 1985, Mitchell, Doris,, 1985 Report A.B.M. review / Australian Board of Missions, 1910-1974 Annual Report, Australian Board of Missions, 1881 Newsletter The herald, Australian Board of Missions, 1910[?]-1968 The Australasian missionary news, 1880-1890 Leaflet W. A. leaflet Australian Board of Missions. Women's Auxiliary Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Archives Office of Tasmania All Saints Parish - Church of England Records Records of Australian Board of Missions - Tasmanian Branch St Marys Church of England-Moonah minutes of meetings of Australian Board of Missions Womens Auxiliary 1964-1986 National Library of Australia, Ephemera Collection [Australian Board of Missions: Ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia] National Library of Australia Parish letters, newssheets and articles relating to the activities of the Australian Board of Missions in Australia and Papua New Guinea Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Anglican Board of Mission (Australia) - further records, 1887-1996 W. A. leaflet Australian Board of Missions. Women's Auxiliary Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 February 2004 Last modified 19 January 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, research notes, seminar papers, interview notes, drafts, compiled in the course of writing Men of Yesterday. The papers include notes and correspondence from her trip to England in 1952 to seek out relevant papers. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "List of Awards for Services rendered whilst Prisoners-of-War [Lt A S Blackburn; Col J H Thyer; Lt-Col W S Kent-Hughes; Brig F G Galleghan; Lt-Col C H Kappe; Lt-Col W A Bye; Lt-Col A E Coates; Lt-Col A W Walsh; Maj I F MacRae; Lt-Col G P Hunt; Maj W A Bosley; Maj R J Bridgland; Maj C E Green; Maj P L Head; Maj B A Hunt; Maj B W Nairn; Maj A N Thompson; Maj F A Woods; Capt. E L Corlette; Cap A A Moon; Capt. J F Akeroyd; Capt. G J Boreham; Capt. D J Brennan; Capt. R L Cahill; Capt. J W W Elliott; Capt. T Godlee; Capt. A W Hence; Capt. H Kemp; Capt. N G MacAuley; Capt. N P Maddern; Capt. J F Martin; Chap J L May; Capt. R W J Newton; Capt. F E Stahl; Capt. R W Colin; Lt R W Eaton; Lt A K Marshall; Lt R F Wright; WOI A A Crawford; WOI J J Douglas; WOI W H Sticpewich; WOI J Walker; WOII V C Middleton; WOII R A Sherriff; Lt J J Blanch; Lt V Bullwinkel; Lt W J Chaplin; S/Sgt H J Beith; S/Sgt S A Gibson; S/Sgt F S Whelan; Sgt C W G Alldis; Sgt J A Armstrong; Sgt F H Atherton; Sgt C H Boan] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 December 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Australian Women’s Land Army papers deal almost entirely with the Queensland Land Army. The papers consist of histories of the Queensland Women’s Land Army, service record books belonging to Land Army girls, Land Army gazettes, bulletins and broadcasts, lists of members and their addresses and an MA Thesis by Pamela Carlton on the QWLA. The AWLA papers also include a collection of photographs that show the Land Army girls at work and with their superiors and miscellaneous material about AWLA reunions.??Arranged into 17 series. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 June 2004 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers relating to Adele Shelton-Smith’s long career as journalist and editor at the Australian Women’s Weekly.??This is an interim record. This collection has not been fully sorted or listed. Please consult Manuscripts Collection staff before placing an order. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 8 September 2008 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Viidikas speaks of her origins ; of her childhood activities ; the beginnings of her writing career ; publishing her first poem ; she speaks of her method of writing. Viidikas reads the poems: “Knives”, “From the image”, “Absences”, and “Rehabilitation”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers and correspondence of Joan Curlewis relating to the publication, “Women and wages in the war year, 1940-1945: Sheetmetal Workers Union” (Union of Australian Women); proofs and typescript drafts of an article on Vida Goldstein as well as miscellaneous items on women’s wages and suffrage; roughs and typescript drafts of “Bozo”, a story for children; essays, all undated but about 1970s and no later than 1982 (Don’t know when or if they were published); extracts from publications and correspondence used as research material, rough notes, letters and transcripts of interviews with women who worked during World War Two. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Includes correspondence, research, press cuttings, press releases?Files on various topics relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and issues; Aboriginal health; race relations; mining rights; housing; politics; Black Power; National Aboriginal Consultative Committee; employment; alcohol abuse; education; employment; land rights; sacred sites; turtles, wildlife enterprises; copies of various submissions to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment; Gordon Bryant. See electronic finding aid for details Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 8 April 2008 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "PRG 1019/8/1 Account of her life.?PRG 1019/8/2 List of her chief writings, under topic headings: Articles and Editing; Short Stories; Verses; Pageants; Drama. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Guide log book. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 9 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lecture notes taken as a student, and two essays General History I and II, Political Philosophy, 1940; British History C n.d.; Special Study – Colonial Reformers, 1941. Notes of lectures given, chiefly in Modern European History, 1950- 1986; papers relating to various conferences. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Rosemary Varty served as the member for Nunawading Province in the Legislative Council of the Victorian Parliament from 1985 to 1992 and for Silvan from 1992 to 1999. She held the position of Parliamentary Secretary to Cabinet from 1992 to 1999. Before entering state parliament, Rosemary Varty was a councillor for the City of Box Hill from 1981 to 1984. Her former occupations included those of financial controller and administration manager from 1962 to 1984. Within the Liberal Party she was active on the Central Women’s Committee from 1979. Published resources Book Victorian Parliamentary Handbook / prepared by direction of the President of the Legislative Council and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, 1989 Resource Section The Liberal Party of Australia Federal Women's Committee: History and Achievements 1945-2003, 2003, http://www.liberal.org.au/documents/fwc_history.pdf Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1998, Neto, Maryanne (researcher), 1997 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 8 July 2005 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elaborately bound album containing paintings, poems, individual and group signatures, musical autographs, and a complete musical sketch for trio, autograph by Gustav Holst. Includes paintings by H.S. Power, Will Ashton, W. McInnes, John Shirlow, Arthur Hinton, Dora Meeson, Thea Proctor, John D. Moore, James R. Jackson and Arthur Streeton. Poems are by Helen E. Wallace and James Joyce. Signatures include those of Max Ernst, O. Zadkine, Valentine Prax and Sam Atyeo; and there are musical autographs by Wilhelm Backhaus, Roland-Manuel, Jean Françaix, Albert Roussel, Gustav Holst, Arthur Hoérée, Arnold Bax, Ernst Krenek, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Alfred Deller, Florent Schmitt, Joseph Szigeti and Thurston Dart. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 20 October 2008 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The National Council of Women of Queensland is an umbrella organisation for a large and diverse number of affiliated Queensland women’s groups. It functions as a political lobby group, attempting to influence local, state and federal government. Its aims are: • ‘To unite associations and societies of women, or of men and women, into an organisation for mutual counsel and co-operation. • To advance the interests of humanity, and to confer in questions relating to the welfare of the family, State and Commonwealth. • To join with the National Councils of Women of other Australian States and Territories to form the National Council of Women of Australia which, in turn, is a member of the International Council of Women. (ICW)’ The Council was founded in 1905 at a public meeting addressed by Mrs Henry Dobson of Tasmania. Twenty-one societies joined; two of which are still active members. Mrs J.T. Bell was the inaugural President. Very clearly from its inception the Council “was a Council, not an organisation, to provide a common platform for work which is of interest to all, but may be beyond the scope and powers of any one organisation.” Like all National Councils of Women, it operates though a standing committee system whereby specific issues are brought before the Council and, if there is general agreement that a question should be taken up, a subcommittee is established to investigate the matter. Some issues remained on the agenda for many years – peace and improved lifestyles for women and families, employment equality for women and particularly married women, women on juries, shopping hours, women police officers and so on. Other concerns disappeared as satisfactory outcomes resulted. Organisations whose foundation owed much to the National Council of Women of Queensland include the Bush Nursing Association, the Family Planning Association, the Children’s Film and Television Council, the first Women’s College at the University of Queensland and Meals on Wheels. Published resources Book The first fifty years in the history of the National Council of Women of Queensland, National Council of Women of Queensland, 1959 The National Council of Women of Queensland, National Council of Women of Queensland, [1948?] Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Address of welcome - Queensland Country Women's Association and National Council of Women in Queensland Address of welcome - National Council of Women in Queensland National Council of Women of Queensland to entertain Her Royal Highness National Council of Women in - Queensland Resolutions - National Council of Women of Queensland National Archives of Australia, Various Locations National Council of Women of Australia [Queensland Branch], Mrs G.L. Blyth. Brisbane. John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection TR 2108 Bardon Women's Club OM72-57 Women's Voluntary National Register, Queensland State Council Records 1939-1945 OM68-19 Association of Queensland Women's Forum Clubs Records 1943-1968 7266 National Council of Women of Queensland Minute Books 1905-2004 30523 National Council of Women, Queensland Branch Records 1924-2000 27604 Baird Collection 1927, 1948 Author Details Jane Carey Created 25 August 2003 Last modified 9 June 2011 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The major series include: I. Correspondence (1943-1990): the series comprises personal and business letters. The correspondents include Martin Boyd, Janet Carden, Clem and Nina Christesen, Betty Crombie, Margaret G. Lewis, Elizabeth Perkins, Gwen Harwood and Elizabeth Webby. II. Literary works: papers relating to Ulysses bound (1960), Martin Boyd (not published), The music of love (1984), A history of Australian literature (revised ed. published in 1984-1985) and other miscellaneous writings. III. Papers relating to Green’s career as a journalist (1943-1952) and teacher (Presbyterian Girls’ College in Warwick, Queensland, 1957-1960). IV. Papers relating to Green’s academic career: Monash University (1961-1963), Australian National University (1965-1979) and Australian Defence Force Academy (1983-1989); and papers relating to Green’s varied interests including the peace movement and nuclear disarmament, philosophy and religion, Aborigines and education. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Notes taken by Churchward of lectures given by Jessie Webb in three exercise-books: Ancient History Pass, Vol.1 and 2. Ancient History Honours. 1937. Honours note-book bears the University device and “No.1” on cover. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Professor Christine Phillips is a general practitioner and health services researcher with interest and expertise in the health and health care of marginalised persons and populations, quality in health care and refugee and migrant health. She leads the Social Foundations of Medicine group at the ANU Medical School, where she instituted a curriculum integrating the social sciences across all four years and of medical education. Phillips is Medical Director of Companion House Medical Service, the ACT’s refugee health care service, and has over twenty-five years of clinical experience working in primary care in the context of deep urban poverty, working in settings including drug and alcohol medicine, elder care, and prison health. Christine Phillips was born in London to Australian surgeon Peter Phillips and his wife Beatrice (née Benson). The eldest of nine children, she attended St Joseph’s College, Echuca. She interrupted her medical studies at the University of Melbourne first to work in a medical mission in Zambia, and later to undertake research in indigenous health in Alice Springs. On graduating in 1988 she completed her internship and residency at the Royal Darwin Hospital. While living in Darwin she travelled to East Timor shortly after the border was opened, and later spent a sabbatical at a Research Institute in Gambia. Christine has worked as General Practitioner in Canberra since 1995. Since 2001, she has worked at the medical service associated with Companion House, Canberra’s torture and trauma counselling and support service for refugees. She has had a long and ongoing attachment to the at Australian National University’s Academic Unit of General Practice and Community Health. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Christine Phillips interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording] Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 13 September 2007 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nikki Henningham Created 21 November 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Women's class at the Bjelke-Petersen School of Physical Culture Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary Wooldridge was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly for Doncaster in November 2006, representing the Liberal Party. She was Shadow Minister for Mental Health, Drug Abuse and Aged Care. She was re- elected in November 2010 and was a Minister in the Liberal Government, holding the portfolios of Mental Health, Women’s Affairs and Community Service. Her seat was abolished in a redistribution for the 2014 election, and she was subsequently elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Eastern Metropolitan Region in November’s state election. She held the Shadow portfolio of Health and was Leader of the Opposition and of the Liberal Party in the Legislative Council. Wooldridge announced her intention to retire from state politics on 8 December 2019, using the moment to call on the Liberal Party to consider gender quotas as a way of increasing female representation in the Victorian Parliament. Mary Wooldridge completed a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree at the University of Melbourne and a Master of Business Administration at Harvard University. She took on employment with consultants McKinsey & Co., and became an Executive Director with media organisation Publishing & Broadcasting Limited (PBL). She was also a Senior Advisor to the Hon. Nick Minchin, Minister for Industry, Science and Resources, and was elected MLA for Doncaster in 2006. Wooldridge has served as Chief Executive Officer of The Foundation for Young Australians, and retains a strong interest in community participation and volunteering as well as women’s health. She has been a Director of the Breast Cancer Network Australia, Foundation Boroondara, Trinity College at Melbourne University and the Otis Foundation, a network of rural retreats for women with breast cancer. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 26 July 2007 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Stella Swinney completed her Bachelor of Arts at Sydney University and then worked at Farmer & Coy Ltd, Sydney, before joining the Women’s Australian National Services and the Australian Women’s Army Service. After completing a course at the Officers’ Training School she was posted to New South Wales Line of Command Area. Swinney was responsible for training and administration of the Australian Women’s Army Service in New South Wales. She took over from Major Eleanor Manning as Assistant Controller of New South Wales in May 1943. Stella Swinney graduated from Sydney University in 1933 with honours in Psychology. She was on a Teaching scholarship, but was unable to get a teaching position, as the Government was not employing teachers in that period of the Great Depression. She joined the retail firm and eventually became staff training officer. After working in that capacity for eight years, she joined the Australian Women’s Army Service and reached the rank of Major. In 1944 she was invited to join the Department of Post-War Reconstruction to assist with the re-establishment of ex-servicewomen. In 1948 she travelled to Britain as interviewing and selection officer and travelled all over the country interviewing people as prospective migrants for Australia. In 1951 she returned to Australia and worked for two years as secretary of Sydney University Women’s Union, then took a position as Training Officer with Bonds Industries. Her next appointment was as Personnel Officer for Grace Bros. In 1962 she was appointed Principal of Duval College, at the University of New England, Armidale, a position she held for ten years, until 1972. In June 1973, she accepted a position as Woman’s advisor to Mr J. Douglas Anthony leader of the Country Party in Australia to complete a report on the involvement of women in that party, with suggestions for greater participation for women at all levels, including policy-making. In her retirement in Canberra she was involved with the Returned Services League and the Penguin Club. Events 1937 - 1941 Staff Training Officer at Farmer & Coy Ltd, Sydney 2041 - 2044 Member of the Australian Women’s Army Service 2043 - 2044 Assistant Controller of the Australian Women’s Army Service New South Wales Line of Command, she held the rank of Major. 1933 - 1937 Assistant to the Staff Training Officer at Farmer & Coy Ltd, Sydney Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1944, Alexander, Joseph A, 1944 Resource Section SWINNEY, STELLA EDITH, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=350697 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 September 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute books, 13 March 1974-1988. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 19 March 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Hecate Press records includes correspondence, submissions for publication, press releases, newspaper cuttings, subscription files, photographs, paste ups, proofs, and advertising, mostly, for the journal ‘Hecate : an interdisciplinary journal of women’s liberation’ Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elise Blumann was an important figure in the Perth, Western Australian, art world. Elise Schlie was born on 16 January 1897 at Parchim, Germany, to Paul Schlie, cavalry officer and civil servant, and his wife Elfrida. Elise was the youngest of their three children, and, after attending school in Hamburg, was taught painting by Baron Leo Lütgendorff-Leinburg at Lübeck. She then studied in Berlin from 1917-20 under impressionists Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth, worked teaching art, and exhibited for the first time in Hamburg in 1921. Elise married Dr Arnold Blumann, a wealthy industrial chemist, in 1923. After spending brief periods in the Netherlands and England, the couple migrated to Australia, arriving in Fremantle, Western Australia, on 4 January, 1938. The Blumanns built a modernist house (since demolished) at Nedlands, and Elise Blumann’s first paintings completed in Perth were a series of views of the Swan River. These were exhibited, along with a selection of nudes which caused a scandal, at her first Australian exhibition at Newspaper House, Perth, in August, 1944. Blumann’s outback travels also found expression in her painting, and reflected her interest the quality of nature and the individual’s relationship to it. She was a member of the Perth Society of Artists, lecturing and holding art classes for adults and children, and staged an exhibition of her work in Paris in 1950. After the death of her husband in 1970, Blumann returned to Germany for five years, and upon returning to Perth, held exhibitions in local galleries, and then at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1984. Elise Blumann died at Nedlands on 29 January, 1990. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Blumann, Elise Margot Paula Rudolphina Hulda (1897 - 1990), Bromfield, David, 2006, http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170112b.htm Book Approaching Elise (contains interview and diary excerpts), Polizzotto, Carolyn, 1988 Western Australian Art and Artists 1900-1950, Gooding, Janda, 1987 Catalogue Approaches To Modernism: The Art Of Portia Bennett, Elise Blumann And Iris Francis 1930s To 1950s, Quin, Sally, 2004 Elise Blumann: Paintings & Drawings 1918-1984, Bromfield, David; Adams, Bruce; Goddard, Julian, 1984 Western Australian Artists 1920-1950, Gray, Anne, 1980 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Elise Blumann interviewed by Barbara Blackman [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Elise Blumann, artist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Diaries, research notes and audio and cassette tapes relating to research on Korean vocal music and ninth century Chinese music including teaching material from the Canberra School of Music. This series is not processed. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers in MS 8890 relate to members of Anne Edgeworth’s family, chiefly her grandfather Sir Tannatt Edgeworth David, her grandmother Caroline David, her mother Margaret Edgeworth McIntyre, and her aunt Mary Edgeworth David. All the series contain family correspondence. Correspondents include Mary David, the Edgeworth Davids, the McIntyres, Anne Edgeworth, and all family members. The Edgeworth David component includes honours, letters of sympathy and tributes after his death, photographs, articles by and about him, and reprints of some of his papers. The Funafuti diary, “The unscientific account of a scientific expedition”, and material on the Samurai sword are an important part of Caroline David’s papers. Margaret McIntyre’s papers include her writings and papers on community schools and centres. Mary David’s papers have a large component of letters to her niece Anna Edgeworth. Handwritten drafts and illustrated typescripts of the unpublished “Letters to Meg” are an interesting part of the collection.??The collection also consists of correspondence between John Edward (Ned) Touche (formerly Touch) and the David family during the years 1889-1943. There are also newspaper clippings about David, a reprint of one of his papers, handwritten copies of a Sydney morning herald article, “Formation of coral reefs” and of a poem, and three sketches of coral reefs by David (12 boxes, 1 carton, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc02.056 instalment comprises photographs and other papers of the David family (3 boxes).??The Acc06.099 instalment comprises copies of three letters, 1898 and 1900, from T.W.E. David to A.E. Finckh. There is also an unpublished biography of Edgeworth David by L.A. Cotton, ca. 1950, donated by David Branagan who received it from Les Cotton (L.A. Cotton’s son), deceased (1 box).??The Acc14.099 instalment includes five letters and one card from David to John Edward Touche (1916-1934); a photograph of David in military uniform dated Feb 1916; cuttings about David’s career and death; a published version of David’s application for the Chair of Geology and Physical Geography, University of Sydney, 1891; and tributes to David by the Rev A.P. Campbell (1934) and R.E Priestley (1938) (1 folder) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 January 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Entries by name of teachers employed. Information contained in the rolls includes age at commencement of employment, dates and names of schools taught at, teaching classification held and religious affiliation. Some records additionally contain marriage details, exam results, inspection comments, salary paid and disciplinary action. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 December 2012 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Morgan Created 20 June 2013 Last modified 28 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Speech by Irene Bolger, 1988. Professionalism and unionism: Contradictions and tensions Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: ANF008_001.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: 1986_Western_Walkout_Irene_Bolger.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 5 min.)??Hellyer reads three poems: “Relativity”, “Song for Christmas eve” and “The Suicide”, giving a brief account of her beginnings as a writer. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Hodgson was a Democrat Candidate elected to the Legislative Council of the Thirty-fifth Parliament of Western Australia for North Metropolitan Region on 14 December 1996 for term commencing 22 May 1997. She was defeated 10 February 2001 and her term concluded 21 May 2001. Helen Margaret Applin was born in Bristol in 1961, and came to Western Australia in 1963 with her parents, who were both teachers. She attended Perth Modern School, then completed a Bachelor of Business at the Western Australian Institute of Technology in 1986. From 1980 to 1988 she worked at the Australian Tax Office, and married Allan Hodgson in 1984. Helen Hodgson then lectured in taxation law at Curtin University, until her election to the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia in 1997. A member of the Australian Democrats, she represented the North Metropolitan Region from May 1997 until defeated in 2001. Published resources Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 25 November 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The National Council of Women of Tasmania was founded in 1899, in response to an invitation from the Countess of Aberdeen (then president of the International Council of Women) for Tasmania to be represented at the International Council of Women Congress in London that year. Its inaugural meeting, on the 20 May 1899 was organised by Mrs J. S. Dodds, wife of the Tasmanian Administrator. The initial committee also included Emily Dobson(wife of former Premier Henry Dobson), who was active in a large number of women’s groups, and who was later vice-president (1900-1903) and then president (1904-1934) of the Council. It is a non-party, non-sectarian, umbrella organisation for a large and diverse number of affiliated Tasmanian women’s groups. It functions as a political lobby group, attempting to influence local, state and federal government. It provided a major focus for, predominantly middle-class, women’s activism until at least the 1940s. The Council has supported a wide range of social reform activities, particularly those related to education and to women’s, children’s and family welfare. Its aims are: • ‘To provide a strong network and a means for affiliated groups to support each other, and • To work together on matters of mutual interest or concern, as well as links with the wider community; • To promote the best interests of women and their families and people in general; • To confer and provide a two-way flow of information on issues related to the welfare of the family, the state and the Commonwealth; • To work in every way for the application of equity, social justice (the Golden Rule) and improvements in quality of life in a sustainable environment, for everyone.’ 33 women’s groups were present at the first meeting of the council, including the Queen’s Fund, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Dorcas Society, Girls’ Industrial School, Magdalen Home, Ladies’ Christian Association, Ragged Schools, Southern Tasmanian Ministering Children’s League, Women’s Sanitary Association, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Young Women’s Institute, Young Women’s Christian Association, anchorage Refuge Home, Nursing Association, Night School, anchor club, Convalescent Home, Blind Society (Women’s Committee), Art society, Hamilton Literary Association and the Chalmers Literary Association. 25 groups initially affiliated. [Source: Gladys S Dodson (ed.), History of the National Council of Women of Tasmania Inc, National Council of Women of Tasmania, Hobart, 1999] Groups affiliated with the National Council of Women of Tasmania currently include: Professional Groups: • Australian Federation of University Women, Inc., Tasmania – Sth. Branch • Australian Nursing Federation. Inc. Tasmania • Business & Professional Women’s Club of Hobart • Dietitians Association of Australia-Tasmanian Branch • Home Economics Institute of Australia, Tasmania • Soroptimist International of Hobart • Working Womens’ Centre, Tasmania • Zonta International – Glenorchy and Upper Derwent Religious groups: • Baha’i Council for Advancement of Women – Tasmania; • Catholic Women’s League, Tasmania and most of its branches ; • Churches of Christ Christian Women’s Fellowship • Salvation Army • Seventh Day Adventist Church • Uniting Church Fellowship – Tasmania Derwent Presbytery • Women’s International Zionist Organisation -Tasmania Welfare and Service Groups: • Caroline House, Inc. • Child Health Association, Inc. – Sth. Tasmania • Council of Auxiliaries of Royal Hobart Hospital • Council on the Ageing, Tasmania Inc (Reciprocal) • Ethnic Communities Council, Inc. Tasmania, (Reciprocal) • Hobart District Nursing Service • Hobart Women’s Health Centre • Holyoake, Inc. • National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect – Tas. Inc. • Nursing Mother’s Association • Pregnancy Support Service • TasCOSS (Reciprocal) • Tasdec Centre for Global Learning • Task Force Action for Migrant Women • Tasmanian Council of the Ageing – reciprocal affiliation) • Women’s Christian Temperance Union[ a founding organisation, affiliated continuously since 1899 ] • Women’s Action Alliance – Tasmania • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom-Tasmania The National Council of Women of Tasmania has 20 standing committees flowing from the International Council of Women Standing committees, dealing with sub-categories of these issues, for example, Ageing, Agriculture, Arts Letters and Music, Child and Family, Economics, Environment and Habitat, Laws and Status of Women, International Relations and Peace. Social Welfare, Women and Employment. The delegates from the affiliated organisations work at state, national and international levels with the conveners of the standing committees. Published resources Book History of the National Council of Women of Tasmania Inc., Dobson, Gladys S (ed.), 1999 Conference Paper Leading ladies : women and film censorship in early twentieth century Tasmania, Petrow, Stefan, 1993 A few viragos on a stump : the womanhood suffrage campaign in Tasmania 1880-1920, Pearce, Vicki, 1985 Thesis The public role of women in Tasmania, 1803-1914, Alexander, Alison, 1989 Mrs Henry Dobson : Victorian 'do - gooder' or sincere social reformer : an analysis of her charitable and public welfare work in the 1890's, Taylor, Annette Rosalie, 1972 Resource Section Emily Dobson (1842-1934), Rimon, Wendy, http://www.women.tas.gov.au/significantwomen/search/emily_dobson.html National Council of Women, Rimon, Wendy, http://www.women.tas.gov.au/significantwomen/search/ncw.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Archives Office of Tasmania Correspondence, minutes and associated papers of the National Council of Women of Tasmania Correspondence and associated papers of the National Council of Women of Tasmania Minutes, Correspondence and associated papers of the National Council of Women of Tasmania Administrative folders Minutes, correspondence, subject files and associated papers Mollie Campbell-Smith Mollie Campbell-Smith Collection National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Jocelynne Scutt, 1982-2010 [manuscript] Author Details Jane Carey Created 11 September 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rhonda Parker was elected to the Thirty-fourth Parliament of Western Australia as the Liberal Party member for the Legislative Assembly seat of Helena at a by-election held on 26 September 1994 consequent upon the resignation of Gordon Leslie Hill. The electorate was abolished in a redistribution 1994. She was then elected to the Thirty-Fifth Parliament for Ballajura (new seat) on 14 December 1996. She was defeated at the elections held on 10 February 2001. Rhonda Kathleen Davey was born in Warrigal, Victoria, in 1954. Her father, Reg Davey, was a farmer; his wife Mavis a nurse. Rhonda attended Swan Hill Senior High School, and arrived in Western Australia in 1967, where she attended John Curtin Senior High School. She graduated from Edith Cowan University with a Diploma of Teaching, and married Neville Parker in 1973. Parker (Liberal Party of Australia) was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia for Helena at a by-election held on 26 September 1994. This electorate was abolished in a redistribution 1994, and Parker was then elected for Ballajura (new seat) on 14 December 1996. She was defeated on 10 February 2001. The page for Rhonda Kathleen Parker on the website for the Parliament of Western Australia is at http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament%5CMemblist.nsf/WAllMembersFlat/Parker,+Rhonda+Kathleen?opendocument Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sue Johnson is an active member of the Socialist Alliance. She was their candidate in the 2001 House of Representatives elections for Grayndler and in the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Marrickville. Sue Johnson grew up in the Hunter Valley and came to Sydney to complete university studies (B.Ec.(NSW), M.Planning. (UTS)). She has worked for the NSW TAFE Commission and the Sydney Institute of TAFE, where she was centrally involved in the successful campaign to save the on-site childcare centre. In 2003 she was working as a planner with the Department of Public Works and Services. She is an active member of the Public Service Association and a member of the Marrickville branch of the Socialist Alliance. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary Stevenson was the first woman elected to the ACT Advisory Council and the President and founding member of the ACT Liberal Party Women’s Branch. She was a lifelong advocate for women’s involvement in politics and community affairs. As well as having a full and impressive political career, she devoted a great deal of time to community organisations such as the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), the National Council of Women, the Business and Professional Women’s Association and the United Nations’ Association. She was awarded an MBE in 1954. Mary Stevenson was born in Maybole, Scotland in 1896. She attended the North Kelvinside School in Glasgow and after receiving her leaving certificate managed a successful local business. She married Robert Stevenson in January 1925 and in March of the same year emigrated to Australia. They initially lived in Queanbeyan and in 1926 settled in the suburb now known as Griffith. They lived the rest of their lives in their home called “Braeside”. Soon after moving to Braeside, their only son John Stevenson was born. Stevenson’s first venture into political life in Australia was as a member of the Citizens’ Rights League, which was established in 1927 to secure Federal parliamentary representation for the ACT. As a member of the CRL, she took part in a delegation to Prime Minister John Curtin to advocate for an ACT seat in Federal Parliament. She was a strong supporter of full federal voting power for the ACT, as well as for democratic local government. On this point she was quoted as saying, “we cannot develop good citizenship or proper pride if we do not have some measure of responsibility.” During the Second World War she served as Commandant of No 750 Voluntary Aid Detachment. In recognition of her work for the VDA she received a citation from Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, the wife of the wartime Governor General, Prince Henry. At the same time, she was an Executive Member of the ACT Division of the Red Cross Society and received a Red Cross Medal. She also served as a Board Member of the YWCA of Canberra during the war, and as President from 1940 to 1942. The 80th Anniversary Apron for the YWCA of Canberra features a quote from Mary: “…we strive to give women a design for living, a design that will show them how to live fearlessly…”. In 1947 she became the first woman elected to the board of the Canberra Community Hospital, where she served for several terms. At this time she also served on the ACT Tourist Bureau Advisory Board and became the first Girl Guides Divisional Commissioner for the ACT and surrounding districts. She was a founding member of the Canberra Brach of the Liberal Party, established 27 January 1949. On 24 June 1949, at the Gloucester Hotel in Civic, she convened the inaugural meeting of the ACT Liberal Party Women’s Branch, which was attended by 24 women. She later became the President of the Women’s Branch and an executive member of the New South Wales branch of the Liberal Party. In 1951 she became the first woman elected to the ACT Advisory Council, a forerunner of the ACT Legislative Assembly, representing the Liberal Party. She served on the council until 1959. She also served as President of the ACT Liberal Party Electorate Conference. In 1953 she received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal for her ongoing contributions to Canberra’s community. In 1954 she stood as the Liberal Party candidate for the federal seat of the ACT. She campaigned for the need for more public halls, community centres, theatres and art gallery’s in Canberra; the involvement of women in the design of Canberra houses; an expanded local bus service; and a highway to the coast. She also believed in worldwide membership to the United Nations and fair, uniform divorce laws. That same year she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), in recognition of her outstanding public work for Canberra’s community. On top of those already mentioned, she was committed to a range of community organisations, including the National Council of Women, the Business and Professional Women’s Association, the United Nations’ Association, the Soroptimists, the Victoria League, the Sub-Normal and Incapacitated Children’s Association, the Order of the Eastern Star and the Pan-Pacific’s Women’s Association. She died in Canberra on 3 July 1985. Her granddaughter is Meredith Hunter, politician and previous member of the ACT Legislative Assembly representing the Greens. Published resources Journal Article Mary Stevenson: Canberra's Pioneer Liberal Woman, Kent, Gary, 2006 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Mary Steel Stevenson, community worker and politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Annalise Pippard Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 1 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9855 comprises papers concerning Dymphna and Manning Clark. They include postcards, photographs, newspaper cuttings, Hansard for Tuesday, 28 May 1991 for both the Senate (p. 3652) and the House of Representatives (p. 4029) reporting the death of Manning Clark and other papers relating to the family and Manning Clark House (5 folders).??MS Acc09.001 comprises papers relating to Russell’s compilation Ever, Manning: selected correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991 (2008), a volume of letters from Clark to a wide range of correspondents over a period of half a century, offering “…an unparalleled view of his complex intellectual and emotional life”. The collection includes correspondence between Russell and the various contributors, research material, copies of letters used in the volume, some photographs and other papers (2 boxes).??The Acc13.151 instalment comprises material relating to the compilation, publication, launch and reception of Ever, Manning: selected letters of Manning Clark 1938-1991 (2008); and Manning Clark House: Reflections (2003); with additional material relating to Dymphna Clark and to Manning Clark House (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "When Karen Fryar was appointed as a magistrate of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Magistrates Court on 6 September 1993, she became the first woman to be appointed to the judiciary in the ACT. In 2008 she was awarded the ACT International Women’s Day Women’s Award. On 26 January 2010 she was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia ‘for service to the community of the ACT as a magistrate and through contributions to the prevention of family violence’. Please click ‘Details” below to read an essay written by Karen Fryar for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Karen Fryar and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Karen Fryar was born in Sydney in 1956, the eldest child, her father a fireman and her mother on home duties. She attended Albury High School (of which she was later School Captain) after her father was transferred to the NSW border town, and in 1972 spent a year as a Rotary Exchange Student in Japan, an experience that she describes as significantly influential for her future. Upon her return home she continued to study Japanese by correspondence for her HSC and had set her heart on studying the language at university. In 1975 she enrolled in a combined Arts (Asian Studies) / Law course at the Australian National University and in 1979 completed her Honours year in Japanese. In 1981 Karen graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (some years later she also achieved a Graduate Diploma in Public Law with Merit) and was admitted to practice in 1982. Although she had previously assumed she would pursue a career involving Japanese, Karen took a position as an articled clerk and then as a solicitor with a large Canberra firm of solicitors and fell in love with litigation. A few years in private practice (married a semi-local in the meantime), a short stint at the then Deputy Crown Solicitor’s Office and she then moved to the Litigation Division in the Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department, the area that would subsequently become the Australian Government Solicitor. During the 6 years she was engaged there, Karen worked on significant Commonwealth litigation including the last attempted appeal to the Privy Council (Commonwealth v Finch (1984)155 CLR 107) and the attempt by Queensland to have the proclamation under the World Heritage Properties Conservation Act 1983 concerning the Daintree Rainforest declared as invalid (Queensland v Commonwealth (1989)167 CLR 232) and with such eminent lawyers as (the former Solicitor General) Gavin Griffith QC, (the former Chief Justice of the Federal Court) Michael Black QC and Justice Stephen Gageler (of the High Court)). From 1989 to 1993 Karen was the Assistant Executive Officer of the Legal Aid Commission (ACT) and during her employment there she also held an appointment as a Deputy President of the Guardianship and Management of Property Tribunal. Karen was appointed as a magistrate (and coroner) of the ACT Magistrates Court in 1993, being the first woman appointed to the judiciary in the ACT. At this time her youngest (of three) daughter was only 4 months old. In 1994 she was also appointed as Deputy President of the Mental Health Tribunal. As a magistrate she has regularly presided over matters in each of the court’s civil and criminal jurisdictions, including matters that in other jurisdictions would normally be heard in District or County Courts. From 2000 to 2010 (and subsequently since 2014) Karen presided over the dedicated Family Violence list of the court and played a supervisory role in the ACT’s award winning Family Violence Intervention Programme, which had been independently evaluated as “world’s best practice” for its co-operative criminal justice inter-agency approach to the ongoing issue of family violence. Pursuing her interest and leadership in this area, from 2005 Karen was also an active member of the National Leadership Group for White Ribbon Day in Australia. Karen has also regularly lectured at the College of Law at the Australian University and the University of Canberra on such subjects as Advocacy, Sentencing, Court Practice and Procedure, Criminal Law, Court Etiquette, Family Violence and Therapeutic Jurisprudence. She continues to be sought after as a speaker on such issues as gender balance and family violence. Karen has been the Children’s Court Magistrate in the ACT since 1 March 2010, work that she finds challenging but extremely awarding. In this role she deals with young people charged with all manner of criminal offences, and also applications in the care and protection jurisdiction. She has been responsible for a number of initiatives in this area, including a Youth Drug and Alcohol Court to assist with young offenders and their substance abuse problems in the Children’s Court. During this period Karen has been a member of the South Pacific Council of Youth and Children’s Courts. Published resources Report Honour for ACT magistrate, Pohl, Katherine, 2010, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-01-26/honour-for-act-magistrate/308842 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Karen Fryar Created 21 April 2016 Last modified 5 September 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The ACT Women’s Basketball Association was formed in the early 1940s, with junior and senior teams from both the ACT and neighbouring New South Wales. In 1975, Netball ACT was admitted as a member of the All Australia Netball Association Limited (now Netball Australia). Netball ACT has several District Associations which are autonomous organisations with their own headquarters and netball courts, and is represented in the Australian Netball League by the Canberra Darters. Until 1970 in Australia, netball was known as women’s basketball, and the ACT Women’s Basketball Association was formed in the early 1940s. While netball was played earlier than this in the ACT, mainly between school teams, this was the first formal association. The Association was affiliated with the New South Wales Women’s Basketball Association (now Netball NSW). Early venues included Telopea Park High School, Acton Flats and grounds in Turner, with Southwell Park in Lyneham becoming the eventual home of the ACT Netball Centre. By the 1950s many senior and primary school teams, including some from Queanbeyan in neighbouring NSW had joined the Association. Teams also travelled interstate to compete in inter-district competitions and carnivals. Up to and during the 1970s, representative teams played against sides from England, Singapore, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and South Africa. With the approval of Netball NSW, the ACT Association was divided into the Canberra Netball Association and the South Canberra Netball Association in 1970, to cater to the growing number of players. In 1975, Netball ACT was admitted as a member of the All Australia Netball Association Limited (now Netball Australia). This move was supported by Netball NSW, and required a change to Netball Australia’s constitution, allowing Territories to be admitted. Mrs Marj McMahon was the first President of Netball ACT, and Jo Grimsley its first Patroness. The first Netball ACT coach was Adele Pight. Netball ACT has several District Associations which are autonomous organisations with their own headquarters and netball courts. These include: the Arawang, Belconnen, Canberra, South Canberra and Tuggeranong Netball Associations. In 2008, Netball ACT entered its first National team, the Canberra Darters in the inaugural year of the Australian Netball League (ANL). This was the first year that Netball ACT had competed independently from Australian Institute of Sport teams, and the team continues to improve their results with each season. From its humble beginning as an affiliate of the larger New South Wales Women’s Basketball Association, Netball ACT has grown into a large parent body with its own sub-associations and national representative teams. Published resources Book Netball ACT: The History 1975 to 2000, Nette, M, Dart, P, Evens, D, Wilkinson, B and Malone, J, 2000 Resource Section History of Netball ACT, http://act.netball.asn.au/extra.asp?id=133&OrgID=4&menu=258 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Greg Bell Created 11 February 2013 Last modified 20 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A once-only candidate, Ida Johanna Carter ran for the Willoughby elections in 1971 as an Independent. At the time of her campaign, Ida Carter was the Matron of the Trentham Nursing Home, and had been a resident of Willoughby for 16 years. She was the President of the Willoughby Ratepayers & Property Owners’ Association and the Vice President of the Nursing Homes Association of NSW. She was married and the mother of two children. She professed a lifelong interest in government and was concerned about the high cost of land and rates, the quagmire of town planning, excessive road toll, pollution, education and crime. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 sound cassettes (3 hrs.)??Miss Beryl Grant was born on 11 September 1921 in Subiaco and was educated at the Thomas Street school in West Perth and Perth Girl’s School in James Street, Perth. Both her parents died when she was young leaving behind herself, an older sister and a younger brother. At age 14 she left school and entered the workforce with the Public Works Department. Seven years later Miss Grant was accepted, to do general nursing training at the Children’s Hospital. Mid-wifery training followed at King Edward Memorial Hospital and in 1957 she was chosen as the Florence Nightingale Scholar for WA to study Administration, and attended the College of Nursing in Melbourne. In 1959 Miss Grant was appointed matron of Ngala in South Perth and retired from there in 1980. Whilst at Ngala she was awarded, in 1968, a Winston Churchill Fellowship to travel overseas to study in particular cross-cultural adoptions, fostering and single mothers. In 1976 she was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services in this area. The interview briefly records Miss Grant’s biographical details but primarily details the beginnings of Ngala, her appointment, the development of facilities, the roles of staff and the committees. The role of Ngala as a mothercraft training centre, a Day Care Centre and a place of young unmarried pregnant girls to live whilst awaiting the birth of their child is discussed in a society where few options or community sympathy existed. Created 18 February 2019 Last modified 18 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jean Cullen was an illustrator and humorous artist who worked for Smith’s Weekly in the period 1941-1950. She also created the teenage cartoon character ‘Pam’ for the Brisbane Courier Mail , a character that Marie Horseman continued to develop after Cullen took her own life in 1950. In 1945, Cullen published an adult illustrated book that was quickly banned called Hold that Halo, or, How to lose it in ten easy lessons. The comic narrated the trials and tribulations of a young woman during the second word war and was a stark commentary on the sexual double-standard as it applied to women. Hold that Halo, or, How to lose it in ten easy lessons (On the frontispiece) “Breathes there a girl with soul so dead, Who never to herself hath said: This is my halo, all my own, But how I wish the thing were flown.” (with apologies to Sir Walter Scott) Adam and Eve have caused these rhymes Two souls in Heav’n, with what good times! They frolicked round thru’ every hour. Eve’s halo drop’t, with apples sour. Then Cleo, Egypt’s pride of all Too saw her halo take its fall. This Nile-ish gal with men galore Loved many, yet she wanted more. An’ this is how it all began As old-time girls from halos ran. Perchance ’tis said the story’s old That halos drop if girls be bold. But let’s tell on ‘ere you condemn What halos mean to modern femme. This halo’s lass took Ma’s advice “Beware of men with tinge of vice!” This lovely girl was a halo’s sort And “Nay’d” men’s curious thoughts of sport. She stayed home nights all full of wonder Why saucyer girls oft stole her thunder. This halo’d charmente oh! was poor Till a gay bold wolf knocked at her door. She yielded, made the bad wolf pay Her halo’s gone: she’s rich that way. This halo’d heiress found wealth a bore Men liked her cash: that made her sore They passed her halo ashine without sin They used her coupons to drink her gin. Another with halo, alas! without vim, (A picture of a school marm reading books called ‘Say yes and like it’ and ‘How to have it’ accompanies this verse) With past all dopey – her future looks dim. She’s booked to be spinster’s of virtuous bed, With halo intacta, the burglar’s worst dread. This girl had a halo but not for long, She lost it a’wrestling, the guy was strong. She’ wasn’t upset when it went off fast, Her moto: “Why worry? They’re not meant to last.’ I’ve told you solme secrets of gals good and bad, Of rich girls and poor gals, of gay femmes and sad. And last but not least of the girl who will bawl: But whay all this fuss about halos and all? So the moral is written for all girls to see: “Ah, don’t trust your halo where it oughtn’t to be.” Events 1940 - 1950 Published resources Book Artists and Cartoonists in black and white: the most public art, Kerr, Joan, 1999 Catalogue Black and White Exhibition: Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning, Australian Journalists' Club, 1964 Booklet Hold that Halo or how to lose it in ten easy lessons, Cullen, Jean, 1945 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Section Horseman, Marie Compston (Mollie) (1911-1974), Kerr, Joan, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10232b.htm Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Selection of cartoon drawings from Smith's Weekly, ca. 1930-1950 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 27 October 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1963-1995; Minute books (11) of the Queen Victoria Club including the General Committee and the Programme Committee. (Locn No.: MLMSS 6211/1/1-11)?1974-1990; Register of Members and Subscription Register. (Locn No.: MLMSS 6211/1/12)?1949-1995; Visitors’ book. (Locn No.: MLMSS 6211/1/13)?1962-1977; 1974-1985; 1986-1995; Cashbooks (3). (Locn No.: MLMSS 6211/2/1-3)?1937-1938; Programmes. (Locn No.: MLMSS 6211/2/4)?ca.1940-1993; Invitations. (Locn No.: MLMSS 6211/2/5)?1958-1979; Notebook of Sybil King, mainly recording guests of honour and guest speakers. (Locn No.: MLMSS 6211/2/6)?1966-1995; Miscellaneous papers, including brief outlines of the history of the Club, correspondence, 2 photographs, newscuttings and rules. (Locn No.: MLMSS 6211/2/7) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 26 November 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Address on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Royal Children’s Hospital Auxiliary, 17 August 1972; also a letter to Joan 27 August (1972) re address. Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "NS604 Minutes, cash books and associated records of the Girls Friendly Society??NS698 Minute books and associated papers of the Girls Friendly Society Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 February 2004 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Quirk was elected to the Thirty-Sixth Parliament of Western Australia as the Australian Labor Party member for Girrawheen on 10 February 2001 in succession to Edward Joseph Cunningham (retired). She was re-elected in 2005 and 2008. She has been Shadow Minister for Police; Emergency Services; Road Safety from 26 September 2008. Margaret Mary Quirk was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1957, and arrived in Western Australia in 1961. Quirk is a member of the Australian Labor Party, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia for the electorate of Girrawheen on 10 February 2001. She was re-elected in 2005 and 2008. Margaret Quirk’s page on the Parliament of Western Australia website is at: http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament%5CMemblist.nsf/WAllMembersFlat/Quirk,+Margaret+Mary?opendocument Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Margaret Quirk: Media Statements 2005-2008, Quirk, Margaret Mary, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/88569/20080905-1741/www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/CurrentMinistersSearch6674.html?minister=Quirk&admin=Carpenter Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 3077 comprises personal correspondence, including letters from Ethel Curlewis and the infant “Jo” Gullett, 1907, 1914 and 1925; legal and financial papers, 1918-1938; and miscellaneous papers, 1913 and 1929. The collection also includes items on the judicial separation from Lord Headley, 1924; Lady Headley’s will, 1928; selected pages from the published works written under the name Barbara Baynton; and newspaper cuttings (2 folders).??The Acc12.114 instalment comprises the annual returns on estate funds, correspondence between trustees (business and personal) and beneficiaries of the estate of Lady Headley, and most particularly the documentation describing the ongoing involvement of chartered accountants Young and Outhwaite of Melbourne. The instalment includes a limited amount of realia (wallet), cheque book stubs, prospecti, auction catalogues and valuations of properties and assets (7 boxes, 1 fol. box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Susan Harben was a prominent figure in the Gay and Lesbian community. She ran for election as an ALP candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Bligh in 1995. Susan Harben was born in Balranald in country NSW and educated in Wagga at the Riverina CAE (Dip.Tchg.), now Charles Sturt University, and the University of NSW (BA). She was the Equal Opportunity Co-ordinator for the NSW Department of Education from 1983 to 1987. From 1987 to 1993 she was the Co-ordinator, Policy and Research and later Manager, Corporate Services at the Legal Aid Commission of NSW. Susan was involved in the Parents and Citizens Association at her son’s school and was President of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras for two years. She has also worked for AIDS and other charity organisations. The ALP hoped that her high profile with the Gay and Lesbian community would unseat Clover Moore, the independent sitting member. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 30 January 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc05/14 comprises correspondence, drafts, articles, press cuttings, reviews, interviews with Mitchell, publicity arrangements, reactions from readers and viewers, and several audio cassettes (2 boxes, 2 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Judy Hopwood was successful at her first campaign where she was a Liberal Party candidate in the 2002 New South Wales Legislative Assembly Hornsby by-election. She was re-elected to the seat the following year during the full elections. She was re-elected again in 2007. She retired from Parliament at the 2011 election. Judy Hopwood is the daughter of William and Ruth Rasmussen. She was educated in Melbourne and trained in nursing Royal North Shore Hospital. Later she did postgraduate studies at the University of Technology Sydney. She held nursing positions in many areas, surgical, intensive care, medical etc) 1976-88, and was a Community nurse 1988-96. She was Office manager/media advisor, to Federal Minister Philip Ruddock 1996-98 and became Executive Director of the Australian Podiatry Association 1998-2002. Judy Hopwood joined the Liberal Party in 1981 and has held many offices within the party, including branch and electorate conference president. She was President of the NSW Liberal Women’s Forum from 1996 to 2000. She was elected at a by-election in 2002, the first woman to win the seat of Hornsby. It was her first campaign as a candidate, though she had assisted with many others. Since her election she served on a number of committees. She married Stephen Philip Hopwood in 1979, and they have two daughters, Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2003, De Micheli, Catherine and Herd, Margaret, 2003 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute book, 1939 – 1952. Author Details jane carey Created 18 February 2004 Last modified 18 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Field diaries, research notes, interview notes, patrol officer reports, population statistics, draft manuscript and reference material See Finding aid for details Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 March 2005 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Includes submissions by ACT Council of Parents’ and Citizens’ Association, correspondence and press releases associated with the Australian Council of State School Organisations, submissions to the Minister of Education concerning the schools’ commission report, and various addresses, speeches, newspaper clippings. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1972-1983; Correspondence : mainly copies of letters sent by the president, Mrs E. Porter?1973-1984; Meetings : agendas, minutes, and related papers?1974-1981; President’s reports and messages?1972-1984; Miscellaneous papers including Festival of Light material Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 December 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letter from Sir Arthur Crosfield to Mrs Norman Brookes, 31 May 1924. Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rosemary Hunter is a feminist legal academic who, through her research, writing, leadership and activism has worked to support women in legal and academic careers, as well as to promote more generally women’s equality, women’s access to justice, and justice for women. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Rosemary Hunter for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Rosemary Hunter and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Rosemary Hunter was born in Sydney but moved to Melbourne with her parents as a child. She attended Montmorency Primary School (1967-73) and Presbyterian Ladies’ College (1974-79). During 1980 she took a gap year and travelled around the UK, before returning to study Arts part-time at Melbourne University, while working to support herself as a Junior Typist in the University’s English Department. In 1982 she switched to Arts-Law at Melbourne, and in 1983 moved to full-time study, with the benefit of free higher education and a student living allowance on which it was almost possible to live. She supplemented her income with freelance typing work and also volunteered on the literary magazine Scripsi, through which she met the poet Laurie Duggan, whom she married in 1987. She completed University in 1988 with first class honours in Arts (History with English) and 2A honours in Law. During her final years at Law School she finally developed an interest in the study of Law, helped by inspirational teachers such as Hilary Charlesworth, with whom she studied international human rights law and for whom she worked as a research assistant, and Jenny Morgan, who had just introduced a course in feminist legal theory to Melbourne Law School. With no interest in practising law but an aptitude for research, Hunter was offered a post as a Research Fellow in the Melbourne Law School, and the following year was appointed to a Lectureship in Law. She lectured at Melbourne from 1990-1997, but during that time took a year’s leave to undertake a Master’s degree and enrol in a doctorate at Stanford University in the USA. Stanford had been one of the centres of the Critical Legal Studies movement, and her supervisor was the well-known feminist legal scholar Deborah Rhode. After the year away Hunter returned to Melbourne to undertake fieldwork for her doctorate, spending many hours sitting at the back of Magistrates Courts and the Family Court observing domestic violence cases. Subsequent moves interrupted work on her thesis, and she did not finally complete the doctorate until 2006. In 1997-98 Hunter took a further two years’ leave of absence to take up the post of Principal Researcher at the Justice Research Centre (JRC) in Sydney. The JRC was an independent, interdisciplinary, public-interest research organisation and she relished the opportunity to devise and conduct large empirical research projects, learn new research skills, and work with a team from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds. At the conclusion of that period, rather than returning to Melbourne, she moved to Griffith University in Brisbane, where she became the Director of the Law Faculty’s Socio-Legal Research Centre (2000-2002) and subsequently Dean of Law (2003-2004). Looking for a new challenge, she decided to move to the UK in 2006, working first at the University of Kent (2006-2014) as a member of the AHRC Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, and afterwards at Queen Mary University of London (2014-present). Throughout her academic career Hunter has actively engaged in university equality and diversity activities. At Melbourne she founded the position of Koori student liaison officer and was a member and sometime Chair of the Law Faculty’s Equal Opportunity Committee, as well as being a member of the University’s Union Affirmative Action Consultative Group, Equal Opportunity Standing Committee, Aboriginal Education Committee and Students with Disabilities Advisory Working Group. At Griffith she chaired the Law Faculty’s Equity Committee and was a member of the University’s Equity Committee and the Task Group on Women in Senior Academic Positions which succeeded in almost doubling the number of women professors employed by the University over a two year period. In recognition of her expertise in this area she was appointed Acting Pro-Vice Chancellor (Equity) for a short period. At both universities she and colleagues undertook significant research projects concerned to identify and address the needs of a diverse student body. In Australia Hunter was also actively involved in women lawyer organisations – Feminist Lawyers in Melbourne and Women Lawyers in Queensland. In 2002 she was named Queensland Woman Lawyer of the Year. She played a significant role in supporting the former Chief Magistrate of Queensland, Diane Fingleton, who was wrongly convicted and imprisoned for alleged misfeasance in her handling of personnel matters within the Queensland magistracy. Hunter wrote articles and gave media interviews expressing the view that Fingleton was a victim of gendered injustice and would not have been treated the same way if she had been a man. Hunter’s early teaching and research focused on anti-discrimination law, particularly sex discrimination and pay equity. Her first book, Indirect Discrimination in the Workplace (Federation Press, 1992) remains the only book-length treatment of indirect discrimination internationally, and she was also the first to investigate the process and outcomes of conciliation in sex discrimination cases. She made numerous law reform submissions on equal opportunity and anti-discrimination law, including a successful argument for the redrafting of the definition of indirect discrimination in the federal Sex Discrimination Act 1984. Her work on pay equity included membership of the National Pay Equity Coalition, contributions to the NSW and Queensland Pay Equity Inquiries, and collaborative research on the reproduction of pay inequity in emerging occupations. In 1999 she was invited to give the inaugural Clare Burton memorial lecture series, with her lecture addressing historical attempts to achieve pay equity for Australian women and the promising new approach to the undervaluation of women’s work adopted by the recent state pay equity inquiries. A second strand of Hunter’s research has been on access to justice, beginning with studies on legal aid and litigants in person in family law cases, and access to justice for discrimination complainants commenced while working at the Justice Research Centre. At Griffith she continued to work on legal aid, including an ARC-funded project on service innovations in legal aid provision, consultancies for National Legal Aid and the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, and a study in collaboration with Legal Aid Queensland which sought to identify why some of the most disadvantaged women were denied legal aid for family law, domestic violence and discrimination matters, which resulted in changes to policy and practice. Work on this theme has continued in the UK with a team project on litigants in person in private family law proceedings for the Ministry of Justice, training for family judges on litigants in person, and research and submissions related to major legal aid cuts in 2013. In 2012 she was invited to become a Council member of JUSTICE, a prominent law reform and human rights organisation working to strengthen the justice system in the UK. A third, overlapping strand of research has been on family law, family justice processes and domestic violence. Her doctoral thesis investigated the implementation of feminist law reforms around domestic violence and the experiences of women seeking to invoke these laws in State Magistrates Courts and the Family Court of Australia. The thesis was subsequently published as Domestic Violence Law Reform and Women’s Experience in Court: The Implementation of Feminist Reforms in Civil Proceedings (Cambria Press, 2008). At Griffith she undertook evaluations of Legal Aid Commissions’ primary dispute resolution programs in family law and of the Family Court of Australia’s Children’s Cases Pilot Program. In the UK she was invited to join the Kent Family Justice Council (subsequently Family Justice Board), as well as the national Family Justice Council’s Domestic Abuse Committee. For the latter she undertook research with Adrienne Barnett on the courts’ approach to allegations of domestic violence in residence and contact cases. Among other things, this research contributed to revisions to the Domestic Violence Practice Direction which specifies the procedures to be followed in cases raising allegations of violence. With colleagues at the University of Exeter, she also undertook a three-year study of out-of-court dispute resolution processes in family cases, ‘Mapping Paths to Family Justice’, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which has influenced policy and practice on family dispute resolution. A fourth strand of research has been on women in the legal profession and the judiciary. In 1997-98, Hunter and Helen McKelvie undertook research for the Victorian Bar Council on barriers to the advancement of women at the Victorian Bar. Their report, Equality of Opportunity for Women at the Victorian Bar (1998) has had an ongoing impact in terms of its recommendations on briefing practices, the culture of the Bar and attrition rates. Hunter’s support for Diane Fingleton sparked an interest in women judges and judicial appointments. In the UK she was one of the organisers of the pioneering Feminist Judgments Project, a project which took its cue from the Women’s Court of Canada in rewriting judgments from a feminist perspective, and which has in turn been emulated in other parts of the world including Australia, Ireland, the USA and New Zealand, and in international law. Hunter has co-edited two of the books arising from these projects: Feminist Judgments: From Theory to Practice (with Clare McGlynn and Erika Rackley, Hart Publishing, 2010) and Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law (with Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett and Trish Luker, Hart Publishing, 2014). She has published further theoretical and empirical work on feminist judging, and is also a member of the Equal Justices Initiative, a lobby group whose aim is to promote the equal participation of men and women in the judiciary in England and Wales. Published resources Resource Equality of opportunity for women at the Victorian Bar: A report to the Victorian Bar Council, Hunter, Rosemary and McKelvie, Helen, 1998, https://www.vicbar.com.au/wba/Hunter_McKelvie_Report.pdf Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Rosemary Hunter Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Rosemary Hunter Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lisa Clancy has been a long time active member of her community. She was an ALP candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Myall Lakes in 2003. Lisa Clancy has worked in the Department of Education at Taree Public School since 1989. At the time of her campaign she was completing an Arts degree from the University of New England, majoring in political science. Lisa has been active in her community over many years. She has served with the State Emergency Service, the Tourist Association and the Bushfire Brigade, as well as being active with the Parents and Citizens Associations of her children’s schools. She has helped to establish playgroups and runs a Work for the Dole scheme. Lisa is married to Bryan Clancy and they have three children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A brief record of the career of Gwendolen Helen McCarthy, nee Ure; by her sister Constance Douglas McCarthy and life-long friend Aileen Constance Bond. These statements were prepared for the Women Graduates’ Association and the Lyceum Club. Created 5 February 2019 Last modified 18 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Robyn Drysdale was an active social and political campaigner who stood as an ALP Candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for South Coast in 1984 and 1988. Educated at Milperra Public School and East Hills Girls’ High School, Robyn Drysdale gained her Welfare Work Certificate at Sydney TAFE in 1977 and later her BA (Macquarie University) and Dip Ed (Wollongong University). She started work in the welfare field in 1977, and has worked with aged people and children, as well as prisoners. In 1984 she was Youth and Children’s Resource Person at the Shoalhaven City Council. She joined the ALP in 1979 and has held branch and electorate level offices. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This series consists of Personal statement by alien passenger forms, which were filled out by every alien passenger who arrived in Australia from overseas. These forms have instructions on one side explaining how the form was to be filled out. The passenger personal details were filled out on the reverse side of the form. The information collected includes the passengers names, date and place of birth, personal description, nationality, their place of resident in country of origin and intended place of residence whilst in Australia and the intended duration of their stay. The application also records details of any family that was accompanying the applicant. The means of travel is listed on the application stating the name of the ship or flight number and the date of arrival in Australia and where they disembarked or landed. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 January 2013 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "50 minutes??Valda Millard, nee Salmon, was born in Adelaide, and spent her childhood at Quorn. She attended secondary school in Adelaide before beginning training at Calvary Hospital, North Adelaide. She then went to Melbourne to do midwifery at St Vincents’ Hospital. Subsequently she nursed at Auburn and in New Zealand, before taking infant welfare training at Torrens House. After further nursing in New South Wales and Queensland Val returned to South Australia and in 1951 was Clinic Sister for the Mothers and Babies Health Association in Port Lincoln and at Port Adelaide. This was followed by further appointments in Victoria and on a mission station on the Solomon Islands. Her nursing career resumed in Port Lincoln in the 1960s and she remained in the service of the MBHA until her retirement in 1983. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jacqueline Watkins was an Australian Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. She was elected to parliament on 19 February, 1983 and served until 6 February 1993. Jacqueline Fletcher was born in London in 1949 to Charles Fletcher, a waterside worker, and his wife Lillian. She left school early to do secretarial work before emigrating to Australia with husband Ross Watkins. They arrived in February 1971, and would eventually have four children. Jacqueline Watkins joined the Labor Party in 1975, holding various posts at the Wanneroo branch, as well as being involved in numerous educational and community groups. Watkins entered Parliament in 1983 as the member for Joondalup, which she held until 1989, after which she was member for Wanneroo until 1993, when the Labor Government was defeated. In 1984 Watkins married again, to Senator Jim McKiernan. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "30 minutes??Kathleen Avery, nee Bryant, was born at Port Augusta, grew up in Broken Hill, and attended Tormore House School in Adelaide. In 1914 she began training at Broken Hill Hospital. In 1917 she joined the Australian Army Nursing Service, and was posted mainly in Salonika. On return to Australia Kathleen continued as a member of the Army Nursing Reserve, but resumed civilian nursing. During the Second World War she helped establish the Woodside Camp hospital. Throughout her career Kathleen was an active member of the Returned Sisters Sub-branch of the Returned Services League. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Minutes, subject and correspondence files, membership records and industrial material, press cuttings, leaflets, posters, photographs and other publications. Includes records of predecessors the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia and the Health and Research Employees Association of Australia. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 January 2013 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records of the Mothers and Babies Health Association Inc comprising minute books, annual reports, visitors’ book, donation register and newspaper cuttings. Included are records of Torrens House and the Babies’ Aid Society. Created 13 March 2019 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "T.U.T.A. files including correspondence and subject files. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers in MS 9380 comprise letters and correspondence written to family and friends, family papers relating to her son Kim and husband Oliver (who died while working as a missionary in India), diaries and notebooks, speeches, scripts for ABC radio morning devotional broadcasts, autobiographical writings, financial papers, photographs, slides and cassette tapes. The papers relate to McCutcheon’s work with the Australian Student Christian Movement, Frensham School at Mittagong, N.S.W., and International House at the University of Sydney. The collection includes a substantial sequence of letters written to her family while accompanying her husband in India in 1934-1936.??The Acc09/126 instalment includes correspondence, family photographs, family and personal papers, a Joyce family tree, legal and other papers relating to Rosalie McCutcheon’s death and funeral, and a copy of McCutcheon’s 1967 publication, Like a tree planted. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 February 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 audiotape reel (approximately 29 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The 12 photographs show a rally outside Fairlea Women’s Prison, Fairfield, Vic., in support of 5 women who had been imprisoned for handing-out anti-conscription leaflets whilst on government property. The women belonged to S.O.S. (Save Our Sons) who objected in particular to the conscription of 18 year old boys who at that time were not eligible to vote. Speakers at the rally include Dr Jim Cairns MP Bill Hartley, Ian Cathy MP, Ted Bull (Sect. Waterside Workers Federation), George Crawford (Sect. Plumbers Union). The women’s children, and families are also shown, and their placards. Author Details Clare Land Created 13 September 2001 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Penelope Mary Thwaites was born in the United Kingdom, but grew up in Australia. After attending Tintern Girls Grammar School, she completed a Bachelor of Music (Honours) in performance and teaching at the University of Melbourne, where she won the Ormond exhibition and was placed first in the final examinations. In 1974 Penelope had her debut in London at the Wigmore Hall, launching her international career. She has played soloist with such orchestras as the London Philharmonic, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, City of London Sinfonia, Albany Symphony, and most of the leading Australian orchestras. Penelope was awarded the International Percy Grainger Society Medallion in 1991 and was artistic director of the 1998 London Grainger Event at St John’s, Smith Square. She founded the Performing Australian Music Competition, and also directed the Music Oz concert series at St John’s in 2003. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Penelope Thwaites, 1970-1990 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Ephemera Collection [Thwaites, Penelope (pianist) : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Penelope Thwaites, musician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "W.A.A.A.F. at war, written from memory, 1966. The author describes this work as a chronicle of life and work in the W.A.A.A.F. ‘. . . With some of its ups and downs, the comradeship and cheerful spirit of service and the recreational highlights . . . ‘. Reminiscences, 1940-1946, with particular reference to radar stations, Lytton Pooh Bah, training of recruits and officer cadets, transport drivers, movement orders, and miscellaneous description of servicemen and women in World War II.??NOTE: The manuscript was published by Mullaya publications, 1974. Keywords: Air Force, Radar stations, Robertson, Elizabeth Marion, W.A.A.A.F, Women, war service, Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force, World War II Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 27 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary Renowden was the first government official in Broken Hill, New South Wales, serving as postmistress from 1 January 1886. The daughter of Samuel Eades and Ellen Eades (nee Kerwan), Mary came from a family of six children. In 1866, in Geelong, she married Zechariah (Zachariah) Dawson Wilson and had six children. A Lieutenant with the Victorian Company Department, Wilson died at Warrnambool, Victoria, in 1881 at the age of 46 years. Mary moved with her family to Silverton, near Broken Hill in New South Wales. In 1886 she married John Oliver Renowden, and had two more children – Mary Kate, born October 1888, and John R. Oliver, born January 1891. One son from her first marriage, Robert Wilson, died in Broken Hill in April 1893. John Oliver Renowden was a member of Broken Hill’s first Progress Committee. His sketch of the town pre-settlement is now held at the Broken Hill Railway Museum. When the Committee elected to appoint a postmistress and run a mail coach between Silverton and Mount Gipps, Mary was appointed postmistress. She began work on the first day of January, 1886, with a salary of ten pounds per annum. Mary left Broken Hill with her family in 1893 to live in Parkerville, Western Australia. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 15 January 2009 Last modified 7 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nova Peris was the first Aboriginal Australian to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. She is also one of a very few athletes who have represented their country in two different sports at separate Olympic Games. In 1996 in Atlanta she was a member of the gold medal winning Hockeyroos team. In 2000 at Sydney she made it to the semi finals of the 400 meters track and field event. She is a staunch campaigner for Indigenous rights and reconciliation in Australia. Nova served in the Australian Senate from November 2013 until May 2016. She was the first Indigenous Australian to serve in Federal Parliament. Nova Peris was born in Darwin in 1971 to parents Joan Peris and John Christopherson. From a young age Nova demonstrated great athletic ability, excelling at sports such as basketball, touch football, swimming, hockey, cricket, athletics and Australian Rules. Nova was the first Indigenous Australian to win an Olympic gold medal, as a member of the Hockeyroos at the Atlanta Olympics (1996). However, from 1997 to 2001, Nova turned her attention to athletics. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games she won two gold medals; one for the 200m and another for the 4x100m relay. On 8 June 2000 Nova was the first Australian to run with the Sydney Olympic torch on Australian soil. Passed on to her by Indigenous elders, she carried the torch around Uluru with her daughter, Jessica, alongside her. Nova also competed at the Sydney Olympics; she reached the semi-finals of the 400m and was also a member of the 4x400m relay team. In 2005, Nova sold her Olympic Memorabilia to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra Throughout her career, Nova was the recipient of a number of awards and honours. In 1997 she was awarded both the Young Australian of the Year award and the Medal of the Order of Australia ‘for service to sport as a gold medallist in the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996?. She also received the Australian Sports Medal in June 2000. In 2012 Nova established the Nova Peris Girls’ Academy (NPGA) at St John’s College, Darwin, where the primary focus was to keep Indigenous girls in education. The following year she became the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to the Federal Parliament. Nova announced her retirement from federal politics in 2016. Events 1996 - 1996 Member of the Hockeyroos 2000 - 2000 Competed at the Sydney Olympic Games in Athletics 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1998 - 1998 Athletics – 200m Event; 4 x 100m Relay Published resources Book Nova, My Story: The Autobiography of Nova Peris, Nova Peris, 2003 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Sport Information Centre Nova Peris File National Museum Australia Nova Peris Collection Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2007 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Five letters; Mary E. Cunningham to her son Andrew ca. 1910; Peggy Cunningham (later Nimmo) to her brother-in-law William Dunlop, 1917; Edward Twynam to his daughter, Mary Cunningham, 1919; Peggy Nimmo to her aunt Joan Twynam, 1932 and Mary Dunlop (nee Cunningham to her niece Anne Nimmo (later Truman) ca. 1960. Author Details Niki Francis Created 22 October 2015 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Queen Victoria Club was established in 1901 as the Women’s Liberal League of New South Wales. In 1907 it changed its name to the Queen Victoria Club. It aimed to foster friendship between women, assist musical artists and promote the love of good music. As a way of achieving its aims, the Club held monthly ‘musicales’ under the patronage of the Governor’s wife and established two scholarships at the Sydney Eisteddfod, one for piano and the other for violin. It sponsored also, scholarships for violin and cello at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. From 1970 until 1994 the Club met in the rooms of the Girls Secondary Schools’ Club in the Gowings Building, Market Street, Sydney. The Club was dissolved in 1995, with the remaining funds used for the establishment of a piano scholarship at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Members included Sybil King, president 1958-1979, Edna Gibbins, president 1980-1955 and Beryl Green, secretary 1966-1995. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Queen Victoria Club - records, 1937-1995 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 26 November 2004 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personal papers 1942-1976 1.80m?The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence and diaries (1948-1976). Also included are notebooks from her years at Tintern Grammar and Melbourne University, photographs and audio tapes. Several items from a small postcard collection date back to the 1920s.??Research files 1945-1977 6.12m? Files related to PhD research and to Dr Eggleston’s work within both the faculty of Law, and the Centre. Correspondence files, reports, seminar papers and tutorial notes are included along with files related to a period of study leave in Canada and the United States. This collection also includes correspondence, reports and seminar papers accumulated at the Centre prior to the appointment of Dr Eggleston Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 February 2016 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Hand painted lantern slides of Queensland flora.??Digital copies available for selected items. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This is the original manuscript copy of the novel and includes a facsimile of the Maloga Mission report and a holograph letter of Daniel Matthews. Author Details Clare Land Created 2 July 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Bronwyn Bishop, Minister for Aged Care (1998-2001), was elected MHR (Lib) for Mackellar, New South Wales on 26 March 1994. Before entering Federal Parliament Bronwyn Bishop was a Solicitor and Company Director. She was elected to the Senate for NSW in 1987 and resigned on 24 February 1994. In March 1994, Bishop contested the seat of Mackellar at a by-election called upon the resignation of the Hon. J.J. Carlton, and was elected to the House of Representatives. She was re-elected in 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010. Bishop was Minister for Defence Industry, Science and Personnel from 11 March 1996 to 21 October 1998, and Minister for Aged Care from October 1998 to October 2001. She was Shadow Minister for Public Administration, Federal Affairs and Local Government from 12 May 1989 to 11 April 1990; Urban and Regional Strategy from 17 January 1994 to 26 May 1994; Health from 26 May 1994 to 31 May 1995; and Privatisation and Commonwealth/State Relations from 31 January 1995 to 11 March 1996. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Section Women in the Party, Liberal Party of Australia NSW Division, http://www.nsw.liberal.org.au/women_in_politics/women_in_politics/women_in_the_party.html The Hon Bronwyn Bishop MP, Member for Mackellar (NSW), Australian Parliament House, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/biography.asp?id=SE4 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Bronwyn Bishop, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0375 Canberra Centenary Time Capsule Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 November 2001 Last modified 2 August 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Series 4; File 10; Box 3?’Excellent connections’ by Susan Geason (not published)??Series 5; File 6; Box 4?’An old husband’s tale’ by Susan Geason Author Details Alannah Croom Created 28 December 2017 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Eileen Watt received a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Diploma of Education from the University of Sydney. She taught in Katoomba, however was made redundant during the Great Depression. Eileen then went on to teach the psychology of selling, interviewed women personalities for the ABC, and worked for the Adult Education Department of the University of Sydney. After the Second World War, Eileen taught in high schools in Sydney, before retiring in 1960. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Eileen Watt, 1927-1983, 2009 (bulk 1975-1981) [manuscript] 22 files annotated in alphabetical order by country or region C-J - Box 16 (MS 1923) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Stegley Foundation archive primarily consisting of files relating to the organisations which received funding from the Foundation. (These files include proposals, receipts, agreements, reports, correspondence, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters and annual reports). Also, minutes of Trustees’ and Directors’ meetings, office files relating to administration, finances, special projects, the Foundation’s involvement with Women in Philanthropy and the Australian Association of Philanthropy, the Foundation’s purchase of the G.A. Robinson letters (subsequently handed over to the Museum of Victoria), and other activities. Also includes copies of Stegley Foundation publications, and the Stegley Foundation annual report, 1984/1985-2000/2001. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 17 December 2008 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection comprises personal and business papers relating to Virginia Spate’s career as art historian, academic, author and curator and includes correspondence, research files, family papers and juvenilia, book drafts, slides and posters covering the period 1840 – 2013]?5.31 m. (25 boxes) + 1 archives box + 1 large folio box + 1 map folio + 1 folder. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 8 September 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence (including correspondence with MPs), circulars, publicity, submissions, cuttings and reference material relating to the WEL. Probate Group, WEL Family Law Action Group, WEL Sexual Offences Law Reform Group, and the Feminist Legal Action Group. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 15 February 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This series consists of continuity scripts of the ABC’s Women’s Broadcasts, from December 1945 to December 1952. The scripts outline and introduce items in each day’s program, detailing guest speakers and their topics, and giving the titles of music to be played. The ‘National Women’s Session’, ‘Women’s Magazine’ and ‘Morning Magazine’ were the shows run specifically to cater for the female component of the ABC’s audience. The standard introduction/conclusion for the ‘Women’s Session’ stated that it was ‘designed particularly for the service of the housewife’. The show ran from 10.30amvirtually every weekday, first on radio station 2BL and later, approximately from 1946, on station 2FC. The Talks Department, which was responsible for the ‘women’s broadcasts’ was the first Federal Department in the Australian Broadcasting Commission and was established in 1936. The functions of the Talks Department were to arrange and be responsible for all talks on the National Programme and to be responsible for the general supervision of talks on all State Programmes. In 1939 a Talks Assistant was appointed to specifically organise ‘women’s talks’. By1935, however, Gladys Moore had joined the ABC staff and was broadcasting on this theme. By 27 June 1969 the abolition of the Talks Department had been effected, and the new Spoken Word Department came into operation. The Women’s Session broadcasts themselves were abolished in 1971. The records in this series contain the scripts and continuities from many of the broadcasts, as well as associated inter-office memoranda and letters (including letters from listeners). The scripts are mainly typed and usually stapled or clipped together. The scripts record what was scheduled to be said during the program, but they do not always exactly record the material that went to air. None of the programs could be taped and they were not transcribed, and therefore if a speaker ad lobbed, there is no record of what was said. Some of the scripts are stamped ‘Speaker’s Copy’ and some are stamped ‘Announcer’s Copy’ and many contain handwritten amendments. All scripts, however, have ‘Approved’ written across their top left hand corner. The earliest scripts do not have a ‘Unit Presentation Sheet’ attached to them, but all scripts list the title and date of the broadcast, the station it was broadcast from and the name of the compere. Book reviews formed the core of many broadcasts, as did matters such as food shortages, food production, the Red Cross, discharged servicewomen, fashion, cooking and childcare. Sessions on travel were also a staple throughout the years. The women’s broadcasts had a variety of comperes including Gladys Moore, Jill Meillon, Betty Higgins and Clare Mitchell. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 October 2008 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 1540 comprises correspondence, diaries, notebooks, legal briefs, press cuttings, pamphlets, books, official documents and publications, menus, programmes, literary manuscripts, bills, receipts, photographs and tourist publications. Alfred Deakin corresponded with international, national, state and local politicians, Sir Edmund Barton among them. The collection documents the moves towards Federation and the early Commonwealth ministries. Correspondents also include Lord Tennyson, Lord Northcote, R.E. O’Connor, Richard Jebb, L.S. Amery, R.M. Collins, Sir Walter James, Sir William Lyne, Arthur Jose, David Syme, B.R. Wise, Sir Samuel Griffith, Sir Josiah Symon, Sir John Quick and Hubert Murray. Family papers include letters from Deakin’s parents, sister (Catherine), wife, daughters and son-in-law Herbert Brookes (85 boxes, 33 security binders, 9 fol. Boxes, 7 fol. Packets). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 June 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Women’s Studies Program was established at the Australian National University in 1976 as the result of activism and political pressure applied by students who were connected to the Women’s Liberation movement. In the first instance, the program’s key aims were to explore the position and representation of women in Australian and other societies, the forces producing female subjectivity and women’s experiences of femininity. Moving the examination of these questions into the academy was an important step in the development of a feminist critique of existing disciplines and institutional structures and the development of feminist scholarship in general. The introduction of the Women’s Studies Program was approved by the Faculty of Arts and the Board of the School of General Studies at the Australian National University in 1974 as an interdisciplinary course for advanced-year students. In January 1976, Dr Ann Curthoys was appointed as a Lecturing Fellow to develop and teach the course as a full-year single unit. It was described at the time as ‘concerned with the study of women in society, and the biological, psychological, social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of gender differentiation’ (ANU Calendar, 1977). The Program was administratively attached to the History Department. After two years of teaching the course, Curthoys transferred to the University of Technology Sydney in February 1978 (she returned to ANU as Professor of History in 1994) and Dr Susan Magarey succeeded her as lecturer. The early years of the program featured a number of lecturers from a range of departments such as History, English, Psychology, Philosophy, Demography, Sociology and Anthropology, as well as guest lecturers Senator Susan Ryan, Sara Dowse (who had been head of the Women Affairs Unit in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet 1974-77) and Jenny Macklin (later a Labor minister). Magarey was later joined by Julia Ryan as a temporary lecturer (1981-82). In 1983, Magarey went to the University of Adelaide as the founding Director of the Research Centre for Women’s Studies. In 1984, Dr Dorothy Broom (Department of Sociology) was appointed lecturer and convenor of the program. Dr Jill Julius Matthews (Department of History) was also appointed lecturer in 1984, becoming convenor in 1987, a role which alternated between them. By the late 1980s, the program offered four annual and two semester units, a 4th year honours program, a Graduate Diploma, a Master of Letters and higher degrees by research. It also supported a Resource Unit on Women and Gender which developed teaching bibliographies to inject gender issues into other Faculty of Arts courses. After a period of financial cutbacks and uncertainty about the Program’s longevity, a review of the Program resulted in the ANU Council resolving in September 1995 that the Program be designated the Centre for Women’s Studies, with Matthews as Director (she had been promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1991 and Reader in 1994). Dr Jan Jindy Pettman (Department of Political Science) was appointed Director and Reader from the beginning of 1997. At that time, there were four lecturers: Dr Jill Matthews, Dr Rosanne Kennedy, Dr Fiona Paisley and Dr E Wilson. On 7 April 2000, the ANU Council approved a general restructure of the Faculty of Arts which abolished the Centre for Women’s Studies as an administrative unit with effect from 1 July 2000. In 2001, the 25th anniversary of the Women’s Studies Program was celebrated with a seminar featuring current and former staff including Ann Curthoys, Susan Magarey and Liz O’Brien. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Journal Article Women's Studies at the Australian National University: The early years, Curthoys, Ann, 1998 Orphans of the storm: The attrition of the ANU women's studies program, Matthews, Jill Julius and Broom, Dorothy, 1991 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Australian National University Archives Women's Studies - Tenth Anniversary at ANU - Dr. Dorothy Broom, Dr. Jill Matthews, Dr. Susan Magarey, Ms. Wang Ying, Ms. Wu Lintao, Ms. Xu Xuehai, Ms. Liu Maoshu, Ms. Lian Lijuan, Kathleen Taperell & others Women's Studies Australian National University Council minutes ANU Women's Studies Program audiovisual material and photographs Material relating to 25th anniversary celebrations of ANU Women's Studies Department Jill Matthews papers Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 24 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (120 min.)??Folkloric recording. Joe & Lyn Chambers are retired teachers and Fred Brown a retired miner. 1. Joe discusses his early life in Scotland where his father was a shale miner, emigrated to Australia in 1925, his schooling in Wonthaggi & father went mining, discusses the influence of Sunday school & the close relationship between Presbyterian beliefs & socialism, discusses Red Flag song. 2. Song: Red Flag. 3. Recalls his schooling at Wonthaggi, how his father was an active socialist & a member of union movement, discusses the Communist Party & Idris Williams, the 1934 Strike & its impact in Wonthaggi where a militant branch of the committee was organised, how women became involved, how he became a teacher & his studying in Melbourne in 1940. 4. Fred discusses being raised in Wonthaggi, how his father & grandfather were both miners. 5. Song: Wild Colonial boy. 6. Discusses how boys got into mining at Wonthaggi which closed in 1955, 1934-35 Mining Strike, how Wonthaggi miners raised funds in Melbourne.??Tape continued: 7. Song: Wonthaggi song(explains song & sings a parody).8. Song: Show me the way to dig coal (sung in English & Italian).9. Recitation: Whistle restored (poem read by Lyn).10. Recitation: Characters (poem read by Lyn). 11. Fred discusses his interest in community singing, Joe recalls Idriss Williams & his influence on the union movement, how different Wonthaggi is today from the comradeship of yesteryear which Fred confirms, his interest in history & writing books, how the theatre which started in 1925 was the centre of Wonthaggi & the love of music. 12. Lyn describes her teaching career. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 December 2003 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Miscellaneous items including cards – enrolment form for the Australian Women’s Land Army – newspaper clippings – letters – a menu from Australian Women’s Land Army Year of Remembrance Reunion of Anzac Day 1995 – an invitation to the premier and letters relating to the film Thanks Girls and Goodbye the Australian Women’s Land Army 1942 – 1945 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 February 2003 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Deborah Halpern is one of Australia’s most celebrated sculptors, known for her wildly colourful mosaic work. One of Halpern’s biggest sculptures, Angel, stood in the moat of the National Gallery of Victoria for many years before it was moved to its current location on the bank of the Yarra River at Birrarung Marr."
    },
    {
        "text": "Carolyn Hastie is a prominent midwife who stood for several elections and represented two political parties. Firstly she was an Australian Democrats candidate in the elections to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Wyong in 1999 and to the House of Representatives for Dobell in 2001. Carolyn then ran for the Earthsave Australia party in the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for The Entrance. Carolyn Hastie is a midwife, educator, mother and grandmother. She is passionate about making the childbearing experience as fulfilling as possible. She established the Belmont Birthing Service, a stand alone midwifery practice. She has written widely on the subject, particularly for the publication Birth Issues. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Annual Reports; Treasurer’s Report; Newsletters; Syllabus; Constitution Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "In 1915 Mary Paule Cunningham travelled to England where she trained with the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) and thereafter worked in military hospitals in southern England. Mary Paule Cunningham was born on 8 April 1893 to Mary Emily Cunningham (née Twynam) and James Cunningham, pastoralist, at the family homestead ‘Tuggeranong’ near Queanbeyan, New South Wales. She shared a tutor with Kate Campbell of the Yarralumla homestead before attending Ascham School, a progressive independent girls’ school then at Darling Point, Sydney . At Ascham Mary Paule and her sister were keen cricketers, played polo, acted in dramatic productions and were prefects. Family photographs show that at home Mary Paule enjoyed fancy dress parties, family picnics beside the Murrumbidgee River where it ran through their property, and riding with Kate Campbell. A Twynam cousin remembered Mary Paule and her sisters Tommy and Peggy as the ‘golden girls’, blessed with money, good looks and confidence (Horsfield, p. 103). But life was not always easy. In December 1910 their eldest sister, Jane Cynthia, died of appendicitis, casting a pall of grief over the family for some time. By 1914 Mary Paule had left school and was enjoying the society of the district, including polo, tennis, horse riding and the young cadets from the recently opened Royal Military College (RMC) at Duntroon to whom her mother regularly extended hospitality. Once war broke out, Mary Paule and her sister Tommy were inspired by male friends who joined the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), and by female friends and family who served overseas as nurses or joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, in which women with no nursing experience provided assistance in military hospitals. In 1915 Mary Paule left home to travel to Britain to train for the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD). She worked in hospitals in Colchester. On 23 December 1916 in London Mary Paule married William Archibald Shuldham ‘Billy’ Dunlop (1892-1966) who she had met when he was among the first intake in mid-1911 at the newly opened Royal Military College, Duntroon near the future site of Canberra. Billy Dunlop got a brief leave from the battlefront in order to marry. Mary Paule’s maternal aunt, Phoebe Wesche, who was in London helping in the Soldiers Club for Australian troops in London wrote of the wedding to her sister Mary at Lanyon: ‘Our dear little Mary Paule was married to William Archibald Dunlop at St Margaret’s Westminster. Dear Ned [Mary Paule’s maternal uncle who was serving with the Australian Light Horse] had special leave to attend, and helped make the wedding party a success. A wedding is the only festivity that takes place in London now’ (Twynam papers cited in Horsfield, p. 116). With her sister Tommy, Mary Paule had hoped to join the British Women’s’ Land Army which had been formed by the Board of Agriculture to ensure food production continued in the absence of three million men who were away fighting, but her maternal grandfather, Edward Twynam, had strictly forbidden it as unsuitable work for young ladies (Twynam family papers cited in Horsfield, p. 197) so she continued her VAD work in military hospitals. Mary Paule and her husband returned to Australia in 1919 and in 1921 moved to Melbourne with their two children. Their marriage later ended. The Australian electoral rolls show Mary Paule living in Wentworth NSW from 1934 to 1936, and then from 1937 to 1954 she was back in the Eden Monaro area. From the late 1950s, apart from a brief time in the early 1960s in the New England area, she lived in Sydney where she died on 6 May 1978. Published resources Book Mary Cunningham: An Australian Life, Horsfield, Jennifer, 2004 Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Cunningham family, 1834-1902 [manuscript] Letters, 1910-1960 [manuscript] Author Details Niki Francis Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 22 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Womanhood Suffrage League of NSW was formed in 1891. Back row, standing (L to R) Mrs Jackson (President of the Redfern Branch), Mrs Wynn (President of the Annandale Branch), Miss Caldwell (Camperdown), Mrs T. Parkes (President of the Toxteth League), Mrs Hansen (President of the Newtown Branch). Middle row, seated, Mrs McDonald (President of the Glebe Branch), Miss Annie Golding (Organising Secretary of the United Branches), Mrs Chapman (Secretary of the Redfern Branch). Front row, seated, Mrs C. Martel (Recording Secretary of the Central League), Miss Belle Golding (Secretary of the Newtown Branch), Mrs Dickie (ex-President of the Newtown League), Mrs Dwyer (Secretary of the Camperdown Branch). (Call No.: ON 219/96) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 20 November 2008 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, diaries, subject files, speeches, minutes, reports, photographs and publications relating to her political career. There is also correspondence and printed material relating to Lady Knox and her participation in the Australian Women’s National League. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 May 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mina Moore was a successful photographer who worked initially in New Zealand and then in Sydney and Melbourne. Together with her sister the she specialised in portraits of prominent people and artists, including society/celebrity portraits, with some wedding and children’s portraits. Mina Moore later set up her own studio in Melbourne and utilised unconventional backdrops, such as untreated hessian. Mina Moore was a highly successful photographer working in Melbourne, and like her sister, May Moore, she specialised in portraits of prominent people including those from the art world. She was born on 6 October 1882 in Wainui, New Zealand, one of seven children (May being the eldest and Mina the second eldest daughter). Their father, Robert Walter Moore, was an English immigrant who was a timber cutter and farmer, and their mother was Sarah Jane, née Hellyer. The couple were not wealthy but were able to save enough money to purchase a small property in Wainui, a small farming settlement just north of Auckland, in which to settle and raise a family. Prior to this they had lived in various forestry camps. Mina had no art school training but worked as a teacher in a country school, which was situated near their home. In 1907 she travelled to Australia, visiting Sydney and Melbourne, taking with her the Box Brownie camera that she had borrowed from a relative. During this trip her interest in photography was ignited. She later recalled her wonderment at being in a friend’s darkroom in Footscray and seeing film being processed: ‘I was tremendously interested. Five years later I returned to Melbourne and opened a photographic studio in the newly built J. & N. Tait Auditorium Buildings in Collins Street’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 23). When Mina returned to New Zealand she did not return to her work as a teacher. Instead, she decided to pursue her interest in photography. At this time the Alexander Orr studio in Wellington was being sold and the two sisters bought it from him for £170, quite a large amount of money at the time. Prior to the Alexander Orr studio’s departure, May was able to learn camera-handling skills from the staff and Mina learned the printing process, all in a space of six weeks. Both sisters were deeply interested in theatre, and some of their early work was of ‘costume studies’ for theatre companies. Their first major assignment was photographing the entire cast of an American theatre company that was visiting New Zealand at the time. In 1911 Mina joined May in Sydney. Much of the work they did here was co-signed ‘May and Mina Moore,’ and it has been suggested that the sisters may have had an agreement to share their success together. They went on to develop a distinctive style and a reputation for producing high quality portraiture. Initially, they could not afford to rent large, light-filled studio spaces with glass walls and roofs (as was the practice of at the time) and had to make do with the limited light available to them from windows. As Jack Cato explains, this resulted in photographs that ‘were in low key, with a strong light on one side of the face and strong shadow on the other. It was the light Rembrandt used for his paintings and was particularly suitable for men’ (Cato 130). Mina moved to Melbourne in April 1913 and set up a studio of her own. It has been suggested that there may have been some conflict between the sisters, although May assisted Mina make the move (Australian Gallery Directors Council 23). She quickly established herself in Melbourne, initially knowing only the musician Fritz Hart and Mrs Hart. One of her early commissions was to photograph the members of the Quinlan Grand Opera Company. The studio she established did not utilise any props and her backdrops were made of untreated hessian, unlike the conventional painted backdrops that were popular at the time. Mina worked with a freelance female journalist in 1913, and utilised the relaxing environment of her studio to conduct interviews and photo sessions. In 1914, with the outbreak of the War, both May and Mina produced hundreds of portraits of young soldiers before they set off for the battlefields in North Africa and Europe. Like her sister May, Mina would take the time to familiarise herself with her sitters, trying to put them at ease, a personal quality that helps account for the appeal of their photographs. All of Mina’s professional work was completed in studio settings and she was not known to photograph outdoors. Her last major commission involved the photographing of the Shell Oil Company’s employees. She printed the photographs taken by interstate photographers of employees from their states, and compiled a single volume which was finally completed in 1927. On 20 December 1916 she married William Tainsh, a poet and executive of an oil company. In 1918 she gave birth to her first child (she had three children in total). Although her interest in photography had not abated, her family’s needs took precedence and she decided to devote herself to bringing up her children. She later said of her decision: ‘I had to choose between caring for a baby daughter and paying someone else to do so while I went to business ….’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 24), and so it was that in she sold her Melbourne studio to the Melbourne photographer Ruth Hollick. Mina and her family moved to Warrandyte later that year and she established friendships with the artists Clara Southern, Jo Sweatman, Penleigh Boyd and Jessie Traill. They moved again in 1922 to Croydon and it was here on 30 January 1957 that Mina eventually died aged 75. Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of South Australia Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria Macleay Photograph Collection, Macleay Museum Collection, NSW The Shaw Research Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria National Gallery of Australia Events 1996 - 1996 Mina Moore was featured in The Reflecting Eye: Portraits of Australian Visual Artists 1981 - 1981 Mina Moore featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 1907 - 1907 Mina Moore featured in New Zealand International Exhibition Mina Moore exhibited her painted miniatures at the NSW Society of Women Painters 1911 - 1927 Was active as a professional photographer Published resources Photograph Portrait, c.1916?, Moore, May and Moore, Mina, 1995 Portrait of an Actress, Moore, May and Moore, Mina, 2000 Resource Section Annie May and Mina Moore, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/group/references/annie-may-and-mina-moore-1/ Moore, Annie May (1881-1931), Hall, Barbara, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100546b.htm Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Australians Behind the Camera: Directory of Early Australian Photographers 1841 to 1945, Barrie, Sandy, c1992 'I was only a maid': The life of a remarkable woman: May Moore: Reminiscences of May Moore as related to members of her family and to her friends., Burkett, M. E., 2003? The Story of the Camera in Australia, Cato, Jack, 1979 The reflecting eye: portraits of Australian visual artists, Ennis, Helen, National Library of Australia and National Portrait Gallery (Australia), 1996, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/125722/20110309-0156/www.nla.gov.au/pub/ebooks/pdf/the+reflecting+eye.pdf Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Mirror with a memory: photographic portraiture in Australia, Batchen, Geoffrey and Ennis, Helen, 2000 Resource Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women's Art in the National Library's Collection, Carr, Sylvia and National Library of Australia, 1995, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/36337/20030703-0000/www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fence/picket.html Thesis Making Pictures: Australian Pictorial Photography as Art 1897-1957, Ebury, Francis, 2001 Magazine article Versatile May Moore- Photographs, Miniatures, and Domesticity, Hutton, Bruce R., 1925 A First For Women Photographers in Australia: Quick Thinking and Ladders Got the Top Shots, Bowen, Jill, 1981, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55457051 Book Section May Moore and Mina Moore, Newton, Gael,, 1995 Newspaper Article May Moore, 1921, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125391061 Archival resources National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive [May Moore : Australian and New Zealand Art Files]. National Library of Australia, Ephemera Collection [Moore, May : photography related ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 27 September 2016 Last modified 28 September 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Charity Review”, journal of the Charity Organisation Society, vol 1 no 1 March 1900-vol xvi, no 1 March 1916 (incomplete series); ‘The Other Half”, journal of the Charity organisation Society, no 1 June 1926-vol 4 no 2, April 1937 (incomplete series) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 19 November 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Most of Geason’s professional life centred on politics and writing, often a combination of both, including positions as a researcher in Parliament House, Canberra; Cabinet Adviser in the New South Wales Premier’s Department; and head of information in what is now the Environment Protection Authority. Since 1988 she has worked as a freelance writer and editor, and from 1992 till 1997, was literary editor of the Sydney weekly newspaper, the Sun-Herald. Geason was born in 1946, New Norfolk, Tasmania, grew up in Queensland, and now lives in Sydney. She has a Bachelor of Arts in History and Politics from the University of Queensland and a Masters Degree in political theory from the University of Toronto, Canada. Most of Geason’s professional life has centred on politics and writing, often a combination of both, including positions as a researcher in Parliament House, Canberra; Cabinet Adviser in the New South Wales Premier’s Department; and head of information in what is now the Environment Protection Authority. From 1988 she worked as a freelance writer and editor, and from 1992 till 1997, was literary editor of the Sydney weekly newspaper, the Sun-Herald . In the late 1980s Geason wrote a series of crime prevention manuals for the Australian Institute of Criminology and spent two years on the Premier’s Advisory Council on Crime Prevention. Geason was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing by the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland in 2005 for her thesis, “Under the Canopy of Heaven : Charlotte Brontë and Mary Taylor; What Mary Knew : The Relationship Between Mary Taylor and Charlotte Brontë”. It was published as What Mary Knew : Mary Taylor and Charlotte Brontë in 2011. Her published works include: Shaved Fish, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1990 Dogfish, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1991 Shark Bait, Allen & & Unwin, Sydney 1993 Wildfire, Random House Australia, Sydney 1995 Readers Digest Select Editions, Australasia, Sydney 1997 Stories in Anthologies: ‘An Old Husbands’ Tale’ in More Crimes for a Summer Christmas , ed. Stephen Knight, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1991 ‘Aint Misbehavin’ in Killing Women: Rewriting Detective Fiction (essays on feminism and the PI genre), ed. Delys Bird, Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1993 ‘Conflict of Interest’ in Moonlight Becomes You: Crimes for Summer 6, ed. Jean Bedford, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1995. ‘Totally Devoted’ in Shadow Alley (crime for teenagers), compiled by Lucy Sussex, Omnibus Books, Sydney 1995 ‘Green Murder’ in Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte, NY 1996 Virago, London 1997 ‘Sybilla of the Fires’ in Overland Vol. 138, Autumn 1995. Short Stories in Australian Penthouse; Billy Blue Magazine; Sun-Herald Newspaper; Tages Anzeiger, Zurich; Australasian Post Magazine Non-Fiction: Crime Prevention: Theory & Practice; Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design; Preventing Car Theft; Preventing Graffiti & Vandalism; and Preventing Retail Crime, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra 1988-1991 Regarding Jane Eyre, ed. Susan Geason, Vintage/Random House, Sydney 1997 Great Australian Girls, ABC Books, North Sydney 1999 Audiotapes: Fish Tales, based on Shaved Fish, ABC Audio Crime Fiction Series, 1993 Events 1979 - 1980 Legislative Researcher, Parliamentary Library, Canberra 1980 - 1981 Education Editor, The National Times 1982 - 1985 Policy Officer, Cabinet Office, NSW Premier’s Department 1985 - 1987 Head of Information and Publications with the NSW State Pollution Control Commission 1991 - 1997 Literary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald Published resources Resource Susan Geason - writer, Geason, Susan, http://www.susangeason.com/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Papers of Susan Geason National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Susan Geason, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Stephen Knight, 1977-1991 [manuscript] Papers of Rhyll McMaster, 1960-1987 [manuscript] Special Collections, Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA Typewritten script 'Two Dog Night', (Episode 5 of 'Shaved Fish') by Susan Geason Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2000 Last modified 6 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Susan Geason Portrait Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc09.171 comprises diary logs from Kay Cottee’s 1988 circumnavigation of the world; drafts, research materials and correspondence relating to her books First Lady (including an annotated copy) and All at sea on land; bookings files and correspondence for speaking tours; texts of speeches; technical and insurance files for First Lady and other yachts; personal and subject files including Olympic sculpture, Encouragement Award scheme, Australian National Maritime Museum, diary, biographies, women’s sports, nautical and motivational topics; anniversary files; Showboat Productions office files; newscuttings; audio-visual material; and, photographs (24 boxes, 1 fol. Box, 1 oversize item). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sue Holzknecht studied anthropology and sociology at the University of Queensland, as well as linguistics and teaching english as a second language at the University of Papua New Guinea. She completed her PhD thesis into the Markham languages of Papua New Guinea at the Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. For 12 years Sue lectured at the PNG University of Technology, in Language and Communication Studies. From 1993 to 1998, she worded at ANU, as lecturer in Academic and Research Skills, then 3 years in the Academic Skills and Learning Centre. In 2001, she was Academic Skills Advisor to graduate students in the School of Resources, Environment and Society (now Fenner School of Environment and Society). Archival resources Australian National University Archives Field notes and tapes on the Markham language group, Papua New Guinea Author Details ANU Archives (Alannah Croom) Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This folder may include clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations and other ephemeral material. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 November 2016 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Became Guides Western Australia in 1996.??Various items.??Some items within this collection indexed separately. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A New Zealander by birth, Alma De Groen has distinguished herself as a feminist playwright whilst living in Australia and Canada. On moving to Australia in 1964, she wrote her first play, The Sweatproof boy in 1968. She has written for live theatre, film, radio and television in Canada and Australia. In 1998 she was the first playwright to win the Patrick White Award for her contribution to Australian theatre. In 2003 she returned to live and work in New Zealand. Alma De Groen’s plays include: The Joss Adams Show, The after-life of Arthur Cravan, Going home, Chidley, Vocations, The Rivers of China, The girl who saw everything, The woman in the window, Wicked sisters. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Archival resources Special Collections, Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA Alma de Groen manuscript collection Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 12 January 2009 Last modified 12 January 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Gladys Elizabeth Clare Boon served in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) at Salonika, Greece from 1917 to 1919 and then briefly in England before returning to Australia. Trained at Orange Hospital, she nursed at Bathurst District Hospital and Wallsend Hospital before her marriage to Arthur Firkin in 1925. Gladys Elizabeth Clare Boon was born at Queanbeyan, NSW on 19 February 1891 to David Boon, a policeman, and his wife Elizabeth (born Southwell). Gladys’s mother Elizabeth was a daughter of Thomas Southwell, a pioneer settler at Parkwood, a property on Ginninderra Creek, then in New South Wales: the land now straddles the north-west border of the ACT. After Elizabeth Southwell married David William Boon at Parkwood Methodist Church they lived near Parkwood until David Boon joined the mounted police and was posted to a succession of New South Wales country towns. Gladys’s connection to Canberra is through her descent from the pioneer Southwell family. Gladys Boon trained as a nurse at Orange Hospital graduating with a four-year nursing certificate in February 1915. She continued nursing at Orange Hospital until December 1916 when she resigned as head nurse to nurse at a military hospital, 4th Australian General Hospital (AGH) at Randwick in Sydney. On 3 April 1917 Gladys enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in Sydney. Her enlistment papers describe her as aged 26, her religion as Methodist and her next of kin as her father David Boon of Orange. She gave her birthplace as Goulburn but NSW birth records state she was born at Queanbeyan. She was recruited following a request from the British Government for Australian trained nurses to staff four British military hospitals in Salonika in northern Greece. In response to the request three units, each of 91 nurses, embarked from Australia in June 1917 and a fourth unit in August. The first three units began duty in Salonika in August 1917. The fourth was delayed in Egypt and reached Salonika later. Altogether 42 Australian sisters and 257 staff nurses served in Salonika. British and French forces had arrived in Greece in 1915 to fight Bulgarian forces invading Serbia, to regain control of the Balkans and prevent enemy forces taking areas leading to the Suez Canal and the Middle East but they saw only intermittent action over the next three years. Most patients at the military hospitals were British soldiers and Bulgarian prisoners of war. Many were not battle casualties but suffering from diseases including malaria, dysentery and black water fever. Australian nurses preferred to serve in Australian-run hospitals and to nurse Australian soldiers. This was never the case in Salonika. In addition they felt they had been relegated to the war’s sidelines. Any action in Greece was little reported at the time. The final battle against the Bulgarians in September 1918 was not reported in the London Times in any detail until 1919. All the nurses in Salonika felt the bitter cold and snow in winter and the intense heat in summer in hospitals that were accommodated in tents or primitive huts often in swampy areas which became quagmires after rain. In winter there was not enough fuel for braziers to heat the tents and by morning the blankets on patients were stiff with ice. In summer mosquitoes were a serious problem. Most nurses had bouts of malaria which was endemic and those who suffered recurrent malaria had to repatriated to Australia. Two nurses died in Salonika and, by August 1918, 46 nurses had been invalided back to Australia. Nurses wore heavy mosquito nets and clothing covering every part of their bodies in an effort to ward off mosquitoes but they sometimes discarded extra coverings that made nursing impossible. Three months after enlisting Gladys Boon travelled with one of the first groups on RMS Mooltan to Suez and then on to Salonika arriving on 25 July 1917. After short postings to the 60th British General Hospital (BGH) at Hortiach and 52 BGH, she was assigned to 50 BGH, a hut hospital at Kalamaria on the outskirts of Salonika. She remained there for most of her service in Salonika apart from being hospitalised in August 1918 with debility and again the following month with influenza. She was still nursing in Salonika in January 1919 when she was sent to England to nurse at the 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Dartford where war nerves and neurosis cases were treated. This was her first experience nursing Australian soldiers. At the end of April 1919 Gladys was given three months’ leave with pay to attend a course in Domestic Economy at the Battersea Polytechnic, London. This scheme was available to members of the AIF and the AANS to enable them to undertake suitable courses in England to assist them to return to civilian life. Gladys’s course was cut short when her leave was cancelled preparatory to returning to Australia. She received a certificate in domestic economy which included cookery, laundry and domestic work, her record stating that she had shown ‘great interest in all subjects’ and the ‘standard of her work had been very good’. She embarked for Australia on SS Zealandia on 3 July 1919 and was discharged in Sydney. When Gladys Boon returned to Orange late in August 1919 the Orange Leader reported that she looked ‘remarkably well’. The Model Band played as the train pulled into the station and the Mayor and a representative of returned soldiers welcomed her home, as well as a crowd of relatives and friends. During 1920 Gladys Boon nursed at Bathurst District Hospital but resigned early in January 1921. She later nursed at Wallsend Hospital and on 29 July 1925 married Arthur Lawry Firkin of Wallsend at the Methodist Church, Orange. A resident of Wallsend, Gladys Firkin died suddenly at Manly, New South Wales on 25 November 1948. She was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal and is listed on the ACT Memorial and on the Orange Methodist Church Honour Roll. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Book Section Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18. Vol. III: Problems and Services, Butler, A.G., 1943 Book Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 More than Bombs and Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at work in World War I, Harris, Kirsty, 2011 The Southwell Family: pioneers of the Canberra District 1838-1938, Gillespie, Lyall, 1988 Newspaper Article Seeking a Cause: Resignations at Bathurst Hospital, 1921, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158667133 Nurse Boon, 1919, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117864648 Resource Section Boon, Gladys Elizabeth Clare, 2013, http://nurses.ww1anzac.com/bo.html Resource Mettle and Steel: the AANS in Salonika, Wadman, Ashleigh, 2015, https://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2015/01/13/mettle-and-steel-aans-salonika/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Boon Gladys Elizabeth Clare : SERN S/NURSE : POB Goulburn NSW : POE N/A : NOK F Boon David William Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Sister Gladys Boon, Australian Army Nursing Service Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Title: Gladys-Boon-2.jpg Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Part of the collection: Sarah Chinnery photographic collection of New Guinea, England and Australia.??Many of the newspaper articles included in the scrapbook were written by Sarah Chinnery. Sarah’s pen names included Blanche Bay, Barringtonia, Sara Chinnery, Sonia Chinnery and “Progress”. Many of the articles are illustrated by Sarah’s photographs.??Thirty six articles. — Accompanying notes from family. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 November 2016 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Drafts of scripts, notes, notebooks, correspondence, reviews, photographs, audio and video cassette tapes concerning De Groen’s plays “The after-life of Arthur Craven”, 1973, “The Joss Adams Show”, 1977, “Going home”, 1977, “The rivers of China”, 1988, “Vocations”, 1983, “Chidley”, 1977 and “Man of letters”, 1984 made for TV. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 December 2009 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Peta Searle was the first female Australian Football League (AFL) coach, appointed development coach for the St Kilda Football Club in 2004. She was also the first Victorian Women’s Football League (VWFL) coach to lead a team to five consecutive premiership wins. Over twenty years Peta Searle has made a remarkable contribution to the male-dominated Australian Football League (AFL). Peta herself had a very successful 10-year playing career, winning five premierships and being awarded three All Australian guernseys. In 1996 Peta began teaching physical education at Brighton Secondary College, first at the junior campus, followed by the senior campus ten years later. She remained at Brighton until 2014. Peta became the head coach of the Victorian Women’s Football League club, the Darebin Falcons, in 2006 and led them to five consecutive premierships. In addition, Peta was the first head coach of the AFL Victoria Academy and the first female to coach in the Victorian Football League (VFL). In 2011, she was named Gary Ayres’ senior assistant coach for the VFL’s Port Melbourne Football Club. She was appointed head coach of the Western Bulldogs women’s team for the AFL’s first exhibition match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), in July 2013. In 2014 Peta made history by becoming the first female coach of an AFL team, appointed to the position of development coach for the St Kilda Football Club. Peta launched the Peta Searle Academy in 2016; a football program aimed at women and girls to develop their craft. Events 2017 - 2017 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 February 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Posters – 16 posters, col.?1988; Open day [shows the State Library symbol on the Macquarie Wing facade] (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/1)?[1988]; This Saturday the State Library will be mind boggling. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/2)?1988; Banksia Grevillea and their family : proteaceae of the Sydney region, ESSO Australia’s bicentennial gift to the State Library, the complete collection of 86 watercolour paintings by Betty Maloney. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/3)?1988; The coming of the Strangers : the first 30 years 1788 – 1822. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/4)?[1989]; The Tahitians thought Captain Bligh was a god. (He did perform a miracle, sailing 18 starving men 3618 miles in a 23 foot boat.) (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/5)?1989; People print & paper : National Library of Australia travelling exhibition / Lionel Lindsay. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/6)?1990; Kids’ stuff : favourite Australian children’s books from the last 100 years. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/7)?1990; Our painted past : paintings from the Dixson Galleries collection, March – July 1990. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/8)?1990; Expand your mind : the State Library of New South Wales Open Day Macquarie St Sydney, 20th October, 11 am – 5 pm, free. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/9)?1990; Woven History : story carpets from middle east. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/10)?1990; Open Day, State Library of New South Wales : Your Window of Opportunity. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/11)?1990; Young Japan exhibition : John Reddie Black’s Young Japan as portraited in wood block prints. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/12)?1991; Hand On : a major exhibition of contemporary Australian masterpieces in wood / design and artwork: Michael Gill. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/13)?1991; The James Hardie wildlife art prize / Clifton Pugh. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/14)?1991; Face to face with Switzerland : two exhibitions celebrating Switzerland’s 700th birthday, State Library of New South Wales, 12 September – 8 December 1991. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/15)?1991; Sydney exposures : the photographic studio of Sam Hood 1925 – 1950, exhibition of State Library of NSW, 27 December 1991 – 26 April 1992. (Locn No.: POSTERS 867/16) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 February 2002 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Melbourne University Portraits. They Called It ‘The Shop’. The Paper Clip Collective. Published by the History Department, The University of Melbourne, with the assistance of the History of the University Unit. 122 pp. This publication is the product of a course taken by Associate Professor Don Garden, Writing History for Publication, in which each student chose an individual associated with the University on whom to write a research essay, and took part in the publishing process. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Judith Troeth was elected as a Senator for Victoria in the Parliament of Australia in 1993. She was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy from October 1997 until October 1998, when she moved to become Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. She held that position until October 2004. She retired at the 2010 federal election, but remained in the Senate until her term expired on 30 June 2011. The daughter of Keith Malcolm and Eileen Mary Ralston, Judith Troeth was educated at Methodist Ladies College, Kew. She completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education at Melbourne University. Before entering Parliament she worked as a teacher as well as being an active partner in the family farm. She was Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Minister for Employment, Training and Family Services from 26 May 1994 to 11 March 1996; Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy from 9 October 1997 to 21 October 1998 as well as being a member of various parliamentary committees. Senator Judith Troeth has five children and enjoys films, theatre, reading and bushwalking. Events 1994 - 1997 Member of the Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee for Employment, Education and Training: Legislation Committee 1994 - 1997 Member of the Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee for Employment, Education and Training: References Committee 1994 - 1996 Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport: References Committee 1996 - 1997 Member of the Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: References Committee 1994 - 1995 Member of the Senate Select: Land Fund Bill Committee 1995 - 1995 Member of the Senate Select:Certain Land Fund Matters 1996 - 1997 Member of the Senate Select: Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Electronic Technologies 1996 - 1996 Member of the Senate Select: Victorian Casino Inquiry 1993 - 1994 Member of the Senate Estimates: A Committee 1994 - 1994 Member of the Senate Estimates: E Committee 2012 - 2012 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1997 - 1997 Member of the Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade 1995 - 1995 Member of the Parliamentary Delegation to the United States of America and Canada 1999 - 1999 Official visit to Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and Korea 1982 - 1991 Liberal Party Branch President 1985 - 1992 Member of the Liberal Party Policy Assembly and State Rural Committees 1988 - 1992 Member of the Liberal Party Administrative Committee (Vic.) 1989 - 1992 Country Vice-President of the Liberal Pary (Vic.) 1991 - 1992 Chair of the State Strategy Committee (Vic) 1996 - 2002 Chair of the Federal Liberal Regional and Rural Committee 1993 - 1996 Member of the Joint Statutory: National Crime Authority 1996 - 1997 Member of the Joint Standing: Migration Committee 1994 - 1996 Participating member, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: Legislation Committee 1996 - 1996 Participating member, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: References Committee 1996 - 1996 Participating member, Economics: References Committee 1997 - 1998 Federal Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy 1994 - 1996 Federal Parltiamentary Secretary to Shadow Minister for Employment, Training and Family Services 1996 - 1997 Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation committee 1998 - 1998 Federal Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 1993 - 1996 Member of the Senate Standing Committee for Scrutiny of Bills 1994 - 1996 Chair of the Senate Standing Committee for Scrutiny of Bills 1993 - 1994 Member of the Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee for Community Affairs 1994 - 1996 Participating member, Community Affairs: Legislation Committee 1994 - 1994 Member of the Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee for Community Affairs: References Committee 1993 - 1993 Member of the Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee for Rural and Regional Affairs Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Section The Hon. Judith Troeth, Senator for Victoria, Australian Parliament House, http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/senators/homepages Senator Hon Judith Troeth: Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Victorian Liberal Party, http://www.vic.liberal.org.au/ Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 December 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Senator the Honourable Judith Troeth Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Leonarda Kovacic Created 24 September 2004 Last modified 6 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Mrs Sarah Powell Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Representatives from the Fathers and Mothers' Sailors' Soldiers and Airmen's Associations Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Acknowledgement of support Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0989gd.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0989ge.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE1088a.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Note books for verse 1894, 1897, 1898; Poems 1902-1904, 1907- 1913; “Silhouettes and other Sketches” n.d.; photographs; publications including “The Mountain Road” and “Empire”. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "General Committee minutes 1887-1964 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 18 December 2003 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence; plans; subject files; publications; child art sketches; ASEA bulletins and conference papers; IACD lectures; CAT education; household accounts 1945-1975; Derham family material. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Trish Worth was elected to the House of Representative of the Australian Parliament as the Member for Adelaide, South Australia in 1993. She was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing on 26 November 2001 in the Howard Government. She was defeated at the 2004 election. A registered nurse and midwife, Worth was a senior manager at a private pathology company before entering Federal Parliament. From 11 July 1997 to 21 October 1998, Worth was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Family Services. From 21 October 1998 until 2001, she was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Section The Hon Trish Worth MP, Member for Adelaide (SA), Australian Parliament House Trish Worth, 2004, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/Trish+Worth-2004 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 December 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence and related papers of Professor R.M. Crawford regarding staff appointments, administration and developments in teaching 1937-1969; scripts of school broadcasts 1939-1955; correspondence of Professor J.A. La Nauze 1956-1965; departmental correspondence 1944-1970; tutorial and essay guides 1940-1970; summaries of departmental seminars 1946-1951; student record sheets 1950-1955, results 1938-1955; summaries of departmental seminars 1946- 1951; student record sheets 1950-1955, results 1938-1955; survey of honours graduates conducted by Dr. A.G. Serle. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mr and Mrs Selwyn Brown and their two daughters and Mrs Selwyn’s mother after an aeroplane joy flight. Betty and Jean (later Maloney & Walker) co-authors of “Designing Australian Bush Gardens” – Colac, VIC?Betty Brown, Florence Brown, Jean Brown, Edith McKean, Selwyn Brown. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 February 2002 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 folder of miscellaneous pieces. File contains material such as library records, photocopied work, biographical and bibliographic information Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 November 2016 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Flora Gallagher served from 1915 to 1918 as a nurse in World War I in Egypt, England and France. She was one of three female Gallagher family members from Browns Flat, a farming settlement between Queanbeyan and Bungendore in New South Wales, which later became part of the ACT, who served overseas as nurses in World War I. Flora Gallagher was the first to enlist of the three female members of the Gallagher family of Browns Flat near Burbong, now part of Kowen Forest within the eastern border of the ACT. Flora was born on 18 December 1874, the second youngest daughter of John Gallagher, farmer, and Mary Ann Gallagher (born Craig). Flora trained at St Joseph’s Hospital in the Sydney suburb of Auburn and was registered as a trained nurse in March 1909. She enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in Sydney in October 1915 giving her age as 33 but it appears she would have 40 years of age; her religion was Catholic and she named her mother as her next of kin. Less than a month after enlisting Flora Gallagher was travelling to Egypt on HMAT Orsova, as a reinforcement for 2nd Australian General Hospital (AGH) at Ghezireh Palace Hotel which had been taken over to accommodate overwhelming numbers of wounded and sick patients from Gallipoli. Apart from two weeks in hospital with mumps soon after she arrived, Flora spent all of 1916 nursing in Egypt, including at the 14th AGH, stationed in Abbassia after it arrived from Australia, and at British Choubra infectious diseases military hospital in Cairo. In January 1917 Flora was sent to England where she was attached very briefly to the 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (AAH) at Southall and the 3rd AAH at Dartford before being sent to France in February to nurse Western Front casualties. She was attached to the 14th British General Hospital (BGH) at Wimereux, near Boulogne, to nurse Western Front casualties. In the middle of the year she spent three weeks in hospital in England suffering from debility and when she returned she nursed at 25th BGH at Boulogne. For the next year she alternated between nursing at the two hospitals but became increasing unwell. Late in August 1918, after more than eighteen months nursing in France, she was sent to England and invalided to Australia. She left almost immediately on the City of Karachi. Back in Australia in October she was operated on for appendicitis at the 4th AGH in Randwick and early in 1919 her army appointment was terminated due to medical unfitness. Early in November 1918, while she was recovering from her appendix operation, Queanbeyan held a public welcome home for Flora Gallagher. The town band marched through the streets to the hall where Mrs Forster Rutledge of Gidleigh, one of whose sons Harry had been killed at Passchendaele and another Tom commanded the 4th Pioneer Battalion on the Western Front, presented Flora with a gold medal and other leading citizens welcomed her. The large gathering danced until midnight. In January 1920, Flora Gallagher, 46, married Lieutenant Frederick Cavin Young, 32, an engineer who had served during the war with the Naval and Military Force at Rabaul. He had suffered numerous attacks of malaria including three severe attacks in 1919. Flora, who lived at Penshurst, died in hospital at Hurstville, Sydney on 20 January 1938, survived by her husband, three brothers at Bungendore, her sister Evelyn and niece Janet, both of whom had served overseas in World War I. She was awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal and is commemorated on the ACT Memorial and the City of Queanbeyan Roll of Remembrance. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Gallagher, Flora, 2013, http://nurses.ww1anzac.com/ga.html Book Section The Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918, Vol. I, Gallipoli, Palestine and New Guinea, Butler, A.G., 1930 The Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918, Vol. II, The Western Front, Butler, A.G., 1940 Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18. Vol. III: Problems and Services, Butler, A.G., 1943 Book The Long Travail, Gallagher, N. J., 1987 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Gallagher Flora : SERN Staff Nurse : POB Queanbeyan NSW : POE N/A : NOK M Gallagher Mary Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Flora (Florence) Gallagher Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Title: flora-gallagher2004.jpg Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4 digital audio tapes (228 min.)??Cox speaks of her comfortable middle-class Jewish family in Vienna, Austria; her mother Ruth nee Kantor, a final year medical student, and of her father, Richard Jakob Hauser, a business man; in March 1939 her mother fled with her to England as a refugee, and her father joined the British Army in Palestine; other relatives took refuge in Australia; after a difficult life as refugees in England, she and her mother reunited with her father in Rome in 1945 where he worked with the United Nations Refugee Association (UNRA); and Eva continued her schooling; in 1948 her parents joined her mother’s extended family in Sydney; Eva first lived and attended school at Bondi; her parents separated about two years later; after initially failing the Leaving Certificate at Sydney Girls High in 1954 she eventually qualified and attended Sydney University from 1956-57; lived in England and Italy from 1958-1961; when she returned to Australia, she married John Cox in 1962 and had a daughter, Rebecca, in 1964.??Cox speaks of working in market research following her divorce in 1968; then studied sociology at the University of NSW, graduating with honours in 1974; in the early 1970s she joined the Labor Party and became involved in the formation of the Women’s Electoral Lobby; after tutoring at the UNSW she became Director of the NSW Council for Social Service from 1977-81; then advisor to Don Grimes, the Shadow Spokesperson on Social Security from 1981-82; between 1989 and 1994 she ran Distaff Associates in association with Helen Leonard; since 1994 she has lectured at the University of Technology, Sydney; in 1995 she was awarded the Order of Australia and delivered the ABC’s annual Boyer lectures entitled ‘A Truly Civil Society’; her book, Leading Women, was published in 1996. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 December 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Amy Grace Wheaton was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 8 June 1939 for her work as Director of the South Australian Board of Social Studies. Amy Grace Wheaton (born in Gawler, South Australia in 1898 as Amy Grace Priest) originally trained as a teacher, and completed BA and MA degrees while teaching in various high schools in South Australia. She married Ralph Wheaton in 1925, and spent the next 10 years in Europe, undertaking post-graduate studies in social sciences at the London School of Economics, as well as travelling extensively. Wheaton became the first Director of the South Australian Board of Social Studies (established in 1935 as the Board of Social Service Study and Training). She held this role, which entailed directing the professional education for social workers in Adelaide, for 23 years. Wheaton was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 8 June 1939 for this work. She was instrumental in the acceptance, in 1942, and the ongoing development, of the Diploma of Social Science at the University of Adelaide. Wheaton was President of the Social Worker’s Association of South Australia, and from 1946 vice-president of the Australian Association of Social Workers. In the same year she was co-founder and vice-president of the South Australian Council of Social Service. Wheaton also taught and worked overseas, including in America and Pakistan, in the late 1950s. She died on 12 February 1988, in her ninetieth year. Published resources Journal Article Amy Grace Wheaton MBE, MA, BSc (Econ) 1898-1988, Bates, Nancy, 1988 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Adelaide, Barr Smith Library Rare Books & Special Collections Education for social work State Library of South Australia Amy Wheaton : SUMMARY RECORD Interview with Amy Wheaton [sound recording] Interviewer: Jean Teasdale Author Details Clare Land Created 18 November 2002 Last modified 17 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dorothy Felice Crozier studied history at the University of Melbourne from 1936 to 1940 before working as a cataloguer and bibliographer, and teaching history at the university. She was awarded an ANU scholarship in 1948 to study colonial administration in the London School of Economics. Dorothy also attended a course by Raymond Firth and Ian Hogbin on Anthropology in the Pacific. Dorothy undertook fieldwork in Tonga form May 1950 to July 1951. She then joined the Department of Pacific History in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the ANU as a Research Assistant surveying and listing Western Pacific High Commission (WPHC) records left behind in Suva following the WPHC’s move to Honiara. She then worked as an Archivist with the WPHC until October 1958. In 1961 Dorothy returned to London to attend the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. She lectured in History at Victoria University, Wellington in the mid-1960s, and took up a Visiting Fellowship in the Department of Pacific History at the ANU from September 1971 to September 1973 to complete her work on Mariner’s Tonga. Dorothy lectured on European History at the University of Melbourne from 1976 to 1977 before retiring. Archival resources Australian National University Archives Dorothy Crozier papers National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Research papers on the Western Pacific, particularly Tonga and Fiji 1936-1977 [microform] Author Details ANU Archives (Alannah Croom) Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Rosemary Francis Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 9 December 2017 Digital resources Title: Robyn Archer Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "McGregor discusses her lifelong involvement in the Girl Guide Movement. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Files contain material such as art exhibition catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases and/or other ephemeral items relating to Australian artists and galleries. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 November 2016 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "19 minutes.??Video footage of interviews with Elizabeth Mansutti and Craig Munro at Writers’ Week, 1992 Adelaide Festival; and discussion about Barbara Hanrahan’s work at an American institution (Rawlins College?) after her death in 1991. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Hally Kienzle was living in Fiji with her German-born husband when war broke out in 1914. Although her husband was a naturalised British subject, he and his family were deported to Australia for internment as enemy aliens. From October 1917 they were interned in the Bourke Concentration Camp before they were transferred to the Molonglo Concentration Camp in May 1918. Hally was released on parole on 29 May 1919 while her husband was imprisoned in Holsworthy Camp until 22 October 1919. Fourth generation Australian, Mena Hallett ‘Hally’ Pearse was the second of ten children, born to Jessie Alice (nee Armstrong) and James Pearse in Fremantle, Western Australia on 3 April 1879. James Pearse was a prominent businessman whose shoe manufacturing business, later known as Pearse and Swan, became a major company in Western Australia. He served as a councillor for Fremantle 1883-1895, for North Fremantle 1895-1917 and as Mayor of North Fremantle from 1898-1901. On 11 September 1915, Hally married German-born Alfred Thomas Karl Kienzle at the Anglican Church, Levuka, Fiji. Alfred’s first wife had died soon after childbirth in 1914 leaving him with four young children – baby Wallace born in 1914, Elsa born in 1910, Laura born in 1907 and Herbert ‘Bert’ Thomson Kienzle born in 1905. During World War Two Bert became known as the ‘architect of Kokoda’ after establishing the legendary Kokoda Trail, a crucial transport route in Papua New Guinea, enabling the transport of food, munitions and medical supplies to Australian troops. Alfred, from Stuttgart, managed German-owned Hedeman & Evers, exporters of copra and sugar, in Levuka. He had been a naturalised British subject since 7 June 1902, but in the growing anti-German sentiment in British colonies, naturalisation neither provided protection nor was considered to guarantee loyalty to Britain. Australia willingly imprisoned people from the Pacific, Asia and Africa considered enemy aliens because of their places of birth, possibly because of concerns about German expansion in the Pacific as much as concerns about loyalty. Suspected of having pronounced German sympathies because of an incident in which he knocked a picture of King George off the wall, by his account accidentally, Alfred was arrested and deported to Australia in May 1916 with the first shipment of enemy aliens, and interned at Trial Bay, New South Wales, the camp for the elite – merchants, naval officers, physicians, priests, university lecturers and German consuls. From 20 November 1916, Alfred appealed on several grounds to the Governor of Fiji, the Governor-General of Australia, the Minister for Defence, the British Secretary of State for the Colonies in London, and Justice John Musgrave Harvey who was the Official Visitor to Prisoner of War Internment Camps. The appeals included one on the ground of ill health which he attributed to his treatment when initially interned and for which he required surgery. After a Court of Inquiry did not uphold his complaint he requested to be sent to England as a British subject to appeal his case before the Privy Council. Another appeal concerned his deportation from Fiji and the liquidation of his business and sale of his assets, including the family home, in Fiji. None were successful and in October 1917 Hally and the four Kienzle children were also deported from Fiji to Australia, despite the fact that they were all natural-born British subjects. Hally’s sister, Daisy Schoeffel who was married to Kienzle’s cousin, was deported at the same time with her two children. Both Hally and Daisy believed they were being removed from Fiji for their own protection because of the increasing anti-German sentiment among the European population in Fiji, however on arrival in Sydney they were heavily guarded and were not permitted communication with Australian relatives or friends. They were transported to Bourke Concentration Camp, New South Wales, a camp which included many families. There Hally requested to be interned with her husband, as did Daisy Schoeffel. Alfred Kienzle was transferred to Bourke. The official paperwork for Hally’s internment states clearly that she was born in Australia, and that her parents were both British subjects in those days before Australian citizenship existed. The handwritten official internment documents for Hally and the four children record a special observation that ‘As a natural born British subject will hold the government of the Commonwealth of Australia responsible and claim full damages for wrongful and illegal detention.’ However neither family was ever compensated. Conditions at Bourke were poor. Hally’s sister Daisy recorded in her diary on arrival at Bourke ‘once I was able to get some candles from a store nearby and we were able to see the state of the rooms we had to live in, we women just broke down… Filthy conditions.’ They were given sacks of straw for bedding, rusty tin plates and mugs for eating and an old tin wash bucket for cooking. They had to wash their children under a tap in the backyard and cook on a stove made from four bricks and an iron bar. They had not been permitted to take any money with them from Fiji and Bourke meat and bread rations were often fly blown so they relied on fellow prisoners for food. Dysentery was rife and medical care scant. After a German national, Georg Krafft, formerly German consul in Fiji, died of heatstroke in February 1918 the Swiss Consul, on behalf of Germany, objected to the Australian government about conditions at Bourke. As a result, in May 1918, families imprisoned at Bourke were moved to the Molonglo Concentration Camp at Fyshwick in the Federal Capital Territory (now the Australian Capital Territory). The camp comprised a series of wooden huts radiating out from an administrative centre, on a flat treeless plain. Built for around 3000 enemy aliens Britain planned to deport to Australia from China, the plan was dropped after German objections and threats of repercussions on British internees in Germany. Conditions were generally better at Molonglo that at Bourke, as was their treatment under the camp leadership of former journalist Brigadier General Spencer Browne. Rations were fresher and more plentiful, but they suffered from the cold Canberra winter in poorly built wooden huts that kept out neither rain nor wind. They also suffered from the noise involved in living in wooden huts at close quarters with one another. The prisoners created gardens, started a drama group and converted one of the huts to a theatre, developed an orchestra, established a school for the children and generally tried to make life as liveable as possible. Brigadier General Spencer Browne permitted occasional shopping trips to Queanbeyan for the prisoners and picnics by the Molonglo River. But still, they were prisoners and looked forward to freedom. Although the war ended on 11 November 1918 the prisoners were not freed until 22 May 1919 when Hally was released on parole. At this point, Daisy Schoeffel wrote to Western Australian Member of Parliament the Hon. Henry Gregory appealing for his help to her family and her sister Hally’s family avoiding deportation to Germany along with other ‘enemy aliens’. In the letter to Gregory, Daisy told him: ‘what hurt us more than all the insults and hardships we were forced to endure during our 2 years internment, was the fact that we should have to suffer all this at the hands of our own men and in our country!’ She said they were made to feel like criminals and brought shame on their family. Hally was ill at the time but she endorsed the letter, saying that her sister had only mentioned a few of their sufferings: ‘to describe them all she would have to write a book.’ (NAA: CRS 457, Item 406/1; Fischer 1989). In the letter Daisy also appealed to Gregory for Alfred Kienzle’s release. He had been transferred to Holsworthy Concentration Camp, near Liverpool south-west of Sydney, where he was held until October. Most enemy aliens were either forcibly or voluntarily deported to Germany. The Kienzle and Schoeffel families avoided deportation through appeals to the authorities by them and their influential family in Western Australia. The Fiji Legislative Council had passed an ordinance in August 1919 prohibiting former enemy aliens from returning to the island. By October 1919 when Alfred was released, the family was destitute with nowhere to go. They spent time in a Salvation Army facility in central Sydney while Alfred sought work, a challenge because returned soldiers were favoured over enemy aliens, however he was eventually successful. Both during and after interment, Hally suffered from the nervous disorders developed by many internees. On top of the trauma of imprisonment in her own country, she struggled with the four children of her husband’s previous marriage, three of whom did not accept her. After release, the three elder children were sent to Germany to complete their education, easing the situation for her, and by the time they returned in 1925 they had matured and her health had improved a little, but she had been affected both mentally and physically by imprisonment. It did not end there. In 1926 when Hally wished to buy a house for the family in Sydney, Military Intelligence forced her to withdraw from the sale contract. She was refused permission to purchase under the War Precautions (Land Transfer) Regulations because of her husband’s German origin and the property’s proximity to Botany Bay 2 miles away. In 1933, with the rise of National Socialism in Germany and scarred by their experiences during World War One, Alfred and Hally changed their name by deed poll to Kingsley. They eventually moved to Papua where Bert and Wallace had established a business. She died there on 11 April 1956. Published resources Book The architect of Kokoda: Bert Kienzle, the man who made the Kokoda trail., Kienzle, Robyn, 2011 The Molonglo mystery: a unique part of Canberra's history, Foskett, Alan, 2006 More about Molonglo: the mystery deepens, Foskett, Alan, 2008 Enemy aliens: internment and the homefront experience in Australia, 1914-1920, Fischer, Gerhard, 1989 The enemy at home: German internees in World War I Australia, Helmi, Nadine and Fischer, Gerard, 2011 The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918: Australia during the war, Scott, Ernest, 1938 Resource Section Harvey, Sir John Musgrave (1865 - 1940), Hutley, F.C., 1983, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/harvey-sir-john-musgrave-6594/text11351 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Author Details Niki Francis Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 15 December 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Annual Reports 1945-1990, Minutes 1948-1990, Newsletters 1989-1995, Balance Sheets 1946-1987, Attendance Book 1984-1991, Visitors Book 1931-1963, Syllabus 1967-1994, Membership 1988, Video 1994, Miscellaneous reports, Constitution, History. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Barbara Blackman is an author, music-lover, essayist, librettist, letter writer and patron of the Arts. Former wife of Charles Blackman, she worked for many years as an artist’s model. She has conducted countless interviews for the National Library of Australia’s oral history program. In 2006, Blackman was presented with the Australian Contemporary Music 2006 Award for Patronage. Barbara Blackman was born one of twin girls on 22 December 1928 – her sister, Coralie Hilda, lived just 16 days. Barbara’s father, W.H. (Harry) Patterson, died when she was three years old, leaving her mother, Gertrude Olson Patterson, as sole parent. Mother and daughter lived together in a series of homes and boarding houses in Brisbane while Gertrude worked as an accountant. Barbara attended Brisbane State High School. She was introduced to the music of Shostakovich by fellow students Donald Munro, Roger Covell and Charles Osborne, and began a love affair with contemporary music that continues today. She frequently attended concerts with her mother and her friends. As a teenager, Barbara was the youngest member of the Barjai group of writers in Brisbane. Suffering from poor eyesight throughout her youth, she was diagnosed in 1950 with optic atrophy. Her vision declined rapidly until she became completely blind. By 1952 Barbara was married to Charles Blackman, then an aspiring artist. The marriage was to last nearly thirty years. The two lived a meagre but happy existence in Melbourne, their income derived from Barbara’s work as an artist’s model and her blind pension, and Charles’ work as a kitchen hand in the evenings. Much of this income went toward feeding ‘the monster who lived with us’ – Charles’ studio. Charles and Barbara were to have three children: Auguste, Christabel and Barnaby. In 1960 Charles was awarded the prestigious Helen Rubinstein Travelling Scholarship and the family moved to London. The Blackmans lived in ten different homes over the course of their marriage. In later life, Barbara married Frenchman Marcel Veldhoven. The pair spent twelve years together, living in Indooroopilly, before Veldhoven travelled to India to live and study Tibetan Buddhism. Though Barbara was raised in the Christian tradition, she broke away from the Church in her early twenties and today follows the teachings of Sufism. Barbara Blackman lives in Canberra. In 2004, she pledged $1 million to music in Australia: funds have since been distributed to Pro Musica, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian National University’s School of Music and the Stopera Chamber Opera Company among other groups. Barbara has a long-held tradition of anonymous philanthropy supplementing her more public donations. She was the winner of the Australian Contemporary Music 2006 Award for Patronage, and Lead Donor in the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Capital Challenge. Barbara published an autobiographical work, Glass After Glass, in 1997. In 2007, the Miegunyah Press published over fifty years of letters between herself and Judith Wright in Portrait of a Friendship. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Portrait of a Friendship: The Letters of Barbara Blackman and Judith Wright, Cosgrove, Bryony, 2007 Barbara and Charles Blackman Talk About Food, Taylor, John, 1979 Book Glass After Glass: Autobiographical Reflections, Blackman, Barbara, 1997 Certain Chairs, Blackman, Barbara, 1968 Newspaper Article Portraits of a Lady, Harari, Fiona, 1997 Nigel Thomson Wins 1997 Archibald Prize, 1997 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Resource Section A Great Form of Love: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Lemon, Barbara, 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/ Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Pixie O'Harris papers, 1913-1987 National Film and Sound Archive The Good Looker : [Barbara Blackman Interview : Source Material] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Judith Wright, 1944-2000 [manuscript] Papers of Barbara Blackman, approximately 1950-1970 Correspondence of Barbara Blackman with Judith Wright, 1950-1998 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Barbara Blackman interviewed by Ros Bandt [sound recording] Barbara Blackman interviewed by Ann Harrison [sound recording] Barbara Blackman interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection (1974) [sound recording] Barbara Blackman interviewed by Suzanne Lunney about the National Library of Australia exhibition \"Celebration of Writing\" [sound recording] Sybil Craig interviewed by Barbara Blackman [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Barbara Blackman, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 8 December 2008 Last modified 18 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A selection of architectural drawings (77) and related photographs and papers of the Sydney architect, Eleanor Cullis-Hill, detailing 19 of her projects. The domestic architecture (including original designs and alterations) primarily relates to the Sydney suburbs of Warrawee and Wahroonga, but also includes examples from Hunters Hill, East Killara, Turramurra, Pymble and Kenthurst. The infrastructure projects include additions to Gib Gate School, Mittagong (1954-1973); additions to St. James’ Church, Turramurra (1957-1975); and the original design of the Wahroonga Nursery School (1954-1955) and the Turramurra Nursery School (1961). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Enquiries register, Citizens Advice Bureau, January 1952 to August 1955. Earlier pages relate to repatriation monies received and expended 1943, 1 vol. Also several interboard letters 1951 to 1954 now separately sleeved. The 1951 letter is addressed to the Citizens Welfare Service. Victorian Institute of Almoners, outwards correspondence 18 June 1929 to 15 November 1933, 1 vol. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 19 November 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ada Driver was one of the most successful woman photographers working in Brisbane in the early twentieth century. She owned her own studio, producing high-class portraiture and illustrative work. Driver used the latest processes, adding artistic colouring to produce soft-toned photographs, as well as producing images for magic lantern slides and stereoscopic photographs. Ada Driver was considered one of the most successful woman photographers working in Brisbane in the early twentieth century. She owned her own studio and was known for her high-class portraiture and illustrative work. Driver was born into a large family of eight children on 12 November 1868 in Queensland. Her father was Charles Driver, who had worked as a cane cutter but then opened a shop, and her mother was Harriett Howe. Driver was trained by Poul C. Poulson, a Danish-born photographer who was the most prominent photographer in Queensland at the turn of the century. He had arrived in Sydney in 1876 and moved to Queensland in 1882, setting up a studio in Brisbane at 7 Queen Street in 1885. Although known today for his scenes of Queensland’s early development, his studio also produced many portraits and it was in this photographic genre that Driver was trained. In 1906 when Driver was in her late thirties, she established her own studio at 51 Queen Street, which she called Miss Driver’s Studio. She placed advertisements in The Brisbane Courier highlighting her studio’s use of ‘the latest processes.’ She added that ‘artistic colouring to life and other special features are obtained. A speciality is made of postcards and children’s portraits. A special department for the sale of artistic postcards has also been opened’ (The Brisbane Courier 12 Aug 1907). Her work was soon in high demand as a result of the praise she received from the press. For example, The Brisbane Courier wrote that her photographs are ‘noted for a softness of tone, a fine finish, and delicate shading’ (Dec 1907). As a result of her success she was able to employ studio assistants, most of whom were women. She was known for ‘playing the violin [in the studio with these women] during the lunch breaks’ (Kerr 396). Among her staff were her sister Lucy (who took over the Ada Driver Studios in Fortitude Valley) and the photographer Elsie Lambton, whom she trained. Driver’s work was published in a number of Queensland newspapers including The Brisbane Courier, The Week, The Queenslander and The Telegraph, all of which featured her portrait shots as well as some of her illustrative pieces. In addition to portrait work Driver was attributed with producing a number of magic lantern slides and stereoscopic photographs that were bequeathed to the State Library of Queensland. On the 31 December 1913, Driver, who was aged 45, married William Ellis Evans, the Queensland manager of Kodak; they did not have any children. The fact that there are no known works by her after this date suggests that she may have retired at this point in her career, although her studio as such continued to operate until 1919. Collections Coffs Harbour Regional Museum John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland Collection of family photographs, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland Powerhouse Museum Events 1906 - 1913 Active as a professional photographer Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Newspaper Article Ada Driver, 1911, http://nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/176685486 The Ada Driver Studio, 1907, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19396492 Miss Ada Driver's Studio, 1907, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19386920 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 28 September 2016 Last modified 2 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series consists of miscellaneous items collected by Dame Annabelle Rankin throughout her career. It includes letters, programmes, cards, extracts from hansard, booklets, journals, certificates, menus, publications, a passport, prayerbook, recipe, two nameplates from her time as Minister for Housing, and the documentation relating to her appointment as High Commissioner in New Zealand. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 May 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Conveners: Lily E. Dickens, Vida Goldstein, Ina Higgins, Cecilia John, Bertha Merfield Mabel Singleton Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 December 2003 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Thelma Hunter was a feminist political scientist, whose academic career was mostly spent at the Australian National University (ANU). She described herself as a teacher, scholar and writer. As well as teaching university students, she worked in schools, in adult education and in preparatory courses for mature age non-matriculants seeking university entry. Before establishing her academic career, she contributed occasional articles to UK newspapers, and was later a regular contributor to the Canberra Times. A hobby artist, she offered drawing workshops to staff and students at ANU, having earlier studied art in evening classes in Sydney and at Dartington College, Devon. For Thelma Hunter the personal was political; her academic interests in women’s employment, the status of women and the obstacles arising from combining work with marriage and family reflected her own experience. Growing up in an Italian family in Scotland, and later migrating with her family to Australia, Thelma Hunter also identified as a migrant. Thelma Cibelli was born at home in Glasgow, the fourth child of Italian migrants; her father Gaetano was the owner of a hairdressing shop. The only child not given an Italian first name, she was called after the actress Thelma Ritter, reflecting her mother Assunta’s enjoyment of popular films. In her autobiography she wrote candidly of an unhappy childhood, growing up fearful of an authoritarian, unpredictable, violent father. She took refuge in ‘bookish achievements’. Educated at the Convent of Mercy, she loved languages, finding French and Latin easy. In 1940 she began an Arts degree at Glasgow University, interrupting her studies when she ran away from home as a rebellious teenager. She lived with her hairdresser sister Lyda, initially working at the Coates thread factory as a stock clerk, and later undertaking secretarial studies. At this time she began keeping diaries (some still in the possession of her family). She joined the wartime Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1940 working as a driver, including driving large trucks despite being small statured (155 cm). During this time she wrote that she ‘joyfully’ discovered her sexuality. On demobilisation her service record was described as exemplary, despite an incident of being absent without leave when she stowed away to France to win a bet. She met her Scottish husband Alex Hunter at a dance following their demobilisation. Resuming studies at Glasgow University, Thelma switched to political economy, a decision she attributed to her growing sense of social justice. Encouraged by Thelma, Alex followed her to university, studying economics. After living together for a period, during which time Thelma had a backyard abortion, they married at a Registry Office in 1947. Thelma gained a Master of Arts with First Class Honours in 1950 and in 1952 a Diploma in Secondary Education from Jordanhill College, Glasgow. In this time, she worked as a research assistant and began submitting articles published in the Glasgow Herald. During five years living in Keele, following her husband’s appointment to the University of Keele in 1953, Thelma had three children, Stephen, Assunta (known during her school days as Susan) and Maxwell. Thelma taught adult education classes and worked as a relief school teacher, while continuing freelance journalism for the Manchester Guardian. The family migrated to Australia in 1958 when Alex was appointed to the University of Melbourne, where Thelma later tutored in Economics. Thelma began research on women and employment, including interviewing the, by then old and frail, feminist labour activist Muriel Heagney. They moved to Sydney in 1961 when Alex took up a chair at the University of NSW and Thelma began tutoring in the Department of Government at the University of Sydney. During this time she participated with Madge Dawson in a series of television programs Doorway to Knowledge. Alex Hunter had a major heart attack shortly after their arrival in Australia and, after other cardiac episodes, Thelma decided to seek fulltime work, facing the very real prospect that she would be supporting the family. Her 1963 application for a fulltime lectureship was unsuccessful – unlike Thelma, the successful male applicant not having a First Class Honours degree nor being a PhD candidate. Thelma was appointed to a lectureship in Political Science at the Australian National University (ANU) in 1965; Alex arriving two months later to take a Senior Research Fellowship in the Research School of Pacific Studies. Thelma’s PhD on the politics of national health was conferred in 1969. Known for activities to make new staff and students feel welcome in the ANU community, Thelma was at various times tutor and member of the governing body of Garran Hall, a resident Fellow in Bruce Hall, a board member and the acting Steward of University House. While she was not against having a high table, she usually sat with students at dinners. In 1971 Alex Hunter died suddenly while working in Papua New Guinea. Widowed at 47, Thelma experienced profound depression, a condition which had afflicted her since youth. In her autobiography she courageously examined her experiences of depressive illness, which she attributed to stress, exhaustion and the social isolation arising from employment with no family support. She was also acutely aware of the impacts of a childhood with a violent father; her sense of rootlessness living between worlds of Scottish and Italian identity, and frustration about the constraints imposed on her as a woman. After her husband’s death, Thelma Hunter described her illness as profound. She retired from her Senior Lectureship in 1979 at the age of 56, after six months sick leave from the university; feeling her career potential was still unrealised. She continued her association with ANU as a Visiting Fellow. In 1981 she began a long period of periodic lecturing in Politics at the ANU Centre for Continuing Education. In 1990 Thelma returned to ANU to write her autobiography, which is deeply candid – in contrast to her personal papers in the National Library of Australia, which reflect her academic interests in women’s issues, feminism, health policy and Indian politics. In retirement Thelma enjoyed long country walks, which included traversing the high alpine Copland Pass in New Zealand and up and down the south rim of the Grand Canyon in the USA. She resumed art, which she had first studied in evening classes in Sydney; in 1978 gaining a Certificate of Special Studies in Art and Design from Dartington College, Devon, undertaken during long service leave from ANU. Thelma Hunter was a regular book reviewer for the Canberra Times and taught in a university bridging course for mature age entry students and occasional French lessons at Hawker Primary School in Canberra, where the students included two of her six grandchildren. Thelma Hunter characterised herself as a reforming rather than radical feminist. She contributed to the Association for the Study of Women and Society submission on married women’s employment, made to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory 1971 enquiry into employment opportunities, and gave evidence to that enquiry. She instigated a pioneering course on the political sociology of feminism at ANU and chaired the ANU Women’s Studies Committee. Thelma Hunter was the only woman on the selection panel which appointed Elizabeth Reid as the first Prime Minister’s Women’s Adviser in 1973. Her curriculum vitae records her participation in the Australian Association of Adult Education, Women’s Electoral Lobby, National Foundation for Australian Women, Federation of University Women, Health Consumers’ Association and Voluntary Euthanasia Society, as well as the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA). In a Canberra Times article on 23 September 1981 ‘Academic feminism gathers strength’, Thelma reported on the APSA annual meeting, and the contribution by members of the Women’s Caucus, including the Presidential address, carriage of a resolution about inclusion of content about women in new and existing courses and strengthening informal social networks for women inside and outside academia. The APSA Women’s Caucus awards the biennial Thelma Hunter Prize for the best PhD thesis on women or gender in politics. Thelma Hunter’s bequest to the National Foundation for Australian Women has supported the development of the online exhibition Women Who Caucus – Feminist Political Scientists. Published resources Finding Aid Guide to the Papers of Thelma Hunter - MS 9353, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-337252684/findingaid Book Not a dutiful daughter: the personal story of a migrant academic, Hunter, Thelma, 1999 Article Academic's informative and moving life story. Not a dutiful daughter: the personal story of a migrant academic, Broom, Dorothy, 1999 Book Section With and without a partner, Hunter, Thelma, 1993 Site Exhibition Women Who Caucus: Feminist Political Scientists, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2017, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/caucus/ From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Journal Article The Employment of Women in Australia, Hunter, Thelma, 1961 Industrial Court and Women's Wages, Hunter, Thelma, 1962 The Status of Women in Australia, Hunter, Thelma, 1967 Reform and Revolution in Contemporary Feminism, Hunter, Thelma, 1973 The Womanities: Towards Integration or Segregation, Hunter, Thelma, 1974 Some Factors Affecting the Employment of Women, Hunter, Thelma, 1962 Married Women in Academia: A Personal View, Hunter, Thelma, 1975 Women and Social Policy in Australia, Hunter, Thelma, 1977 The travails of a Liberal Feminist, Hunter, Thelma, 1994 Review Review of Women in Australia, Hunter, Thelma, 1962 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Thelma Hunter, 1950-1984 [manuscript] Papers of Jocelynne Scutt, 1982-2010 [manuscript] Australian National University Archives Hunter, T A C Sociology Conference, 1980: Women in the Workforce, Dr Thelma Hunter National Archives of Australia, Sydney Office [Personal papers of Prime Minister E G Whitlam] Correspondence between E G Whitlam and Dr Thelma Hunter ( Senior Lecturer in Political Science, School of General Studies) [box 10] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Thelma Hunter, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Margy Burn Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Thelma Hunter - portrait photo Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Thelma Hunter with microphone Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Thelma Hunter Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Thelma-Hunter-circa-1990.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Thelma-Hunter-circa-1995.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Thelma-Hunter-around-2004.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Folder 1: Letters to Vera Deakin from Stella, written whilst Stella was overseas in 1909-1910. Folder 2: Stella’s “diary” (written in semi-letter form), 1909-1910; letters to Vera Deakin from Stella, Pattie and Catherine, 1913. Folder 3: Letters to Vera Deakin from Catherine and Stella, 1909-1914, including a letter from Catherine discussing the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 (incomplete). Folder 4: Two tape reels containing recording of a talk about the Deakin Family made on 28 November 196?. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 June 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This record links to one part of a four part series. The reference numbers for the other parts are 131/1/3 PART 2; 131/1/3 PART 3; 131/1/3 PART 4. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 October 2008 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records, comprising financial records such as wage books and tax documents; job sheets, log books, an accident book, stock takes, minutes, correspondence, funding submissions, ephemera and manuscripts of some Sybylla publications; also material concerning the ASIO surveillance of David Morris, ca. 1930-ca. 1950. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 14 February 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc03.223 comprises correspondence, notes, cuttings and photographs; drafts of The real Matilda and The imaginary Australian and associated correspondence, publicity material and reviews; drafts of chapters, articles, seminar papers and lectures, with occasional correspondence, miscellaneous cuttings, conference proceedings, and academic documents. Correspondents include Margaret Mead, Manning Clark, Barry Jones and Peter Carey (1 box, 2 cartons).??The Acc04.024 instalment includes manuscripts and correspondence files (5 boxes, 1 carton, 1 oversize item).??The Acc10.048 instalment comprises news clippings relating to publications on Australian women, including International Women’s Year publications, handwritten notes on John Hooker, Anne Summers interviews with Dixson, correspondence, including letters from various United States feminist scholars on The real Matilda such as Joan Jacobs Brumberg and Joyce Berkman, letters from publishers and agents on publishing The real Matilda in the United States, letters to and from various academics including Stuart McIntyre and Jim Walter, conference and seminar papers, typescripts and drafts of book reviews and journal articles on feminist topics (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Bronia Hatfield is a highly qualified medical practitioner. She first stood as a Natural Law Party candidate in the House of Representatives elections for Sydney in 1993 and then again as a Natural Law Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Bligh in 1999. Both times she was not elected. When she ran for election, Bronia Hatfield was a well known psychiatrist and an outstanding linguist. She has lived, studied, worked and taught on five continents in eleven languages. Bronia Hatfield became a registered medical practitioner in NSW in 1954, before working as a resident medical officer at Griffith Base Hospital. In 1954-55 she worked at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Camperdown, and from 1958 she was a member of the School Medical Service. Apart from her medical degrees from both Vienna (MD 1949) and Sydney (MB, BS, 1954), she has a Diploma in Psychological Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians, England (1969), and the Royal College of Surgeons, England. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (1971), and a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London (1972). She is a life member of the Institute of Community Psychiatry and Mental Health, Bombay (1985). She is a member of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine (1985) and a member of the International Society for Neuroimmunomodulation (ISNIM) (1989). From 1983, Hatfield was a visiting professor to M.I. University, USA. She has been President of the Centre for Research into Spiritual Development Inc in Sydney. For many years she attended and spoke at international conferences and world congresses on Psychiatry, Meditation and World Peace, including the State of the World Forum in San Francisco. Hatfield has been passionate about world peace from childhood and, being a Holocaust Survivor, the only one from her immediate and vast extended family, she experienced the injustice people can inflict upon others early in life. Her life experience prompted her to become a committed peace activist. She has held international conferences in Yalta, Tel Aviv, the USA, London and Paris. She attended as an active participant a score of other international peace events. Hatfield founded a Drop in Centre for Holocaust Survivors in Sydney. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "District Grand Reports No. 102 (26 Jun 1997) – No. 130 (23 Jun 2004). Mounted b/w photograph of the OES Coorparoo Chapter 272 – Office Bearers, 1929-1930. Dalby Chapter Minute book, Jan 2002 – 5 Mar 2005. Dalby Chapter Roll book, 30 Mar 1957 – 15 Jul 1994. Dalby Chapter Minute book, 30 Mar 1957 – 11 Jun 1964. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Incomplete contents: Files contain material such as art exhibition catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases and/or other ephemeral items relating to Australian artists and galleries. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 12 October 2016 Last modified 11 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "7 items. Interviews conducted by Kim Rubenstein. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 February 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This collections includes personal letters, Karl Shapiro poems, manuscripts, business correspondence, personal papers, Communist material and additional material Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 December 2008 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Drafts and revisions of poetry written by Rhyll McMaster since 1960; letters received from a former English teacher, Jill Bridgwood, poets and publishers; reviews and correspondence relating to “Washing the money”, 1984-87; general correspondence with editors, 1980-87; personal letters, 1976-87 and script assessments for the Australian Film Commission, 1984-85. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 28 December 2017 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Poet and publisher Marjorie Pizer founded the Pinchgut Press with her husband in 1947. Marjorie was also a psychotherapist for more than 50 years. Marjorie Pizer attended Merton Hall, a Church of England girls’ grammar school in South Yarra, Victoria. She began writing poetry as a teenager, following her father’s death. Despite her mother’s protests, Marjorie attended Melbourne University and there she worked on the student newspaper Farrago and was appointed co-editor to work on MUM, the literary annual. Marjorie also became an activist, joining the Labor Club and the Communist Party. After leaving university, she joined the Department of War Organisation (where she met her husband Muir Holburn) for a time, before moving on to practice psychology. In 1945 Marjorie and her husband moved to Sydney to work on their books and together they joined the Fellowship of Australian Writers. Sadly, Muir passed away at the age of 40, leaving Marjorie to care for two young children. Marjorie was prompted to once again write poetry after the death of her husband. Throughout her life, she edited, published and wrote 20 books of and about poetry and writing. In addition, Marjorie volunteered for many years at Tranby College, Glebe, and the Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre as a psychotherapist. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Marjorie Pizer, [ca. 1940]-1989 [manuscript] Poems [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Marjorie Pizer interviewed by Claire Dunne for Why poetry? in the A. D. Hope MS 5836 collection Marjorie Pizer interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jackie Kelly was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister in the third Howard Ministry on 26 November 2001. She was elected MHR (Lib) for Lindsay, New South Wales on 19 October 1998. Jackie Kelly graduated with a law degree from the University of Queensland, where she was awarded a University Blue for her sporting achievements and contribution to University life. In 1987 she commenced work with the Corrective Services Department of Queensland and worked as a Probation and Parole Officer. In May 1989 Kelly was admitted to practice as a barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland. From 1989-1996 she was a Legal Officer with the Royal Australian Air Force and in June 1995 she was awarded the Helsham prize for her services to the RAAF Legal Category. In 1986, Kelly represented Australia in the under 23s rowing and she has completed in the 1994 World Masters rowing in Brisbane (2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze), the 1997 Australian Masters Rowing Championships in Canberra (1 gold, 1 bronze) and the 1997 World Masters Rowing Championships in Adelaide (2 gold). Kelly was the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Sydney 2000 Games and her committee service includes: Member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment, Recreation and the Arts 30 May 1996 – 11 September 1996 and the Industry, Science and Technology Committee from 24 September 1997. Appointed Federal Minister for Sport and Tourism on 21 October 1998 until 26 November 2001 when she was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister. Married with one child, Kelly enjoys participating in team sports such as hockey and netball. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Competitive Australia: Jackie Kelly's Biography, Federal Department of Industry, Science and Technology, http://www.minister.industry.gov.au/kelly/body_index.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section The Hon Jackie Kelly MP, Member for Lindsay (NSW), Australian Parliament House, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/biography.asp?id=GK6 Women in the Party, Liberal Party of Australia NSW Division, http://www.nsw.liberal.org.au/women_in_politics/women_in_politics/women_in_the_party.html Book So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Jackie Kelly, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 November 2001 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 envelopes (containing letters and poems) book and typescript, all in box. Author Details Clare Land Created 2 July 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The biography of Gwendolen Luly, beautifully presented in manuscript format and containing a wealth of documents and photographs of the period from 1898-1927. Gwen attended the University Practising School, 1911-1913. (This later became University High School). Reports, certificates and photographs of classmates, as well as a Physics exercise book, 1912, are included. In 1919 Gwen started her nursing career at the Alfred Hospital, graduating in 1922, when she undertook postgraduate studies, and became the Senior Sister of Operating Systems. There are letters and references from senior members of the medical staff: Mr. R. Brown, Mr Balcombe Quick, and Mr James S. Buchannan. There is also a letter from the State Library of Victoria thanking Gwen for a donation of photographs of the Alfred Hospital. This volume ends in 1927 with the death of Gwen’s grandmother Anna Bartlett (nee Dare) on 8.05.1927. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 27 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "With her husband, Thomas Baker, and her sister, Eleanor Shaw, Alice Baker co-financed a major biochemistry laboratory at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, now known as the Baker Institute. Alice Baker was the daughter of Emma (née Combe) and William Edward Shaw, Postmaster at Raymond Terrace, New South Wales. In 1877 she married Thomas Baker at St Paul’s Church of England, Maryborough, Queensland. By 1881, the couple had moved to Melbourne. Thomas Baker was born in 1854 in Somerset, England, the son of Ann (née Beaton) and Charles Baker. Charles, a blacksmith, migrated to Adelaide with his family in 1865. Thomas worked with his father for a time before becoming a pharmaceutical chemist in Maryborough. He later went into business importing and producing photographic materials with J.J. Rouse, assisted by Alice, who developed photographs and took customer orders. Baker’s firm eventually amalgamated with the London Kodak company to form Kodak (Australasia). During WWI, he was associated with munitions production and reputedly spent a large amount of money searching for oil in Australia and New Zealand. The Bakers had no children. They were known for their philanthropic activity, though they often made donations anonymously. They supported the Red Cross, the Big Brotherhood, Toc H and the Limbless Soldiers, but their greatest benefaction was to the Alfred Hospital. An initial donation in 1913 went toward cancer research. In 1922, Thomas Baker financed a biochemistry department at the hospital. Following the opening of the new building in 1926, the Bakers pledged ongoing support for the laboratory for five years and provided their first grant, a lump sum of £20,500 (perhaps $1 million today). The laboratory was named ‘The Thomas Baker, Alice Baker and Eleanor Shaw Medical Research Institute’ after the Bakers and Alice’s sister. Following Thomas Baker’s death in 1928, Alice and Eleanor, along with J.J. Rouse and family, continued to support the Baker Institute. The wills of Thomas, Alice and Eleanor included provision to set up a trust that would support research at the Institute as well as providing aid to other charities. By 1974 the Baker Institute had received nearly $4 million from the trust. Alice Baker supported her husband’s philanthropy and was also an active supporter of the Women’s Hospital and the Talbot Colony. She was prominent in the National Council of Women and represented Australia at the Toronto meeting of the International Council of Women. While Thomas Baker received no public honours, Alice was appointed C.B.E. in 1933, two years before her death at South Yarra. Published resources Book The Thomas Baker, Alice Baker and Eleanor Shaw Medical Research Institute, Lowe, Thomas E, 1974 Resource Section Baker, Thomas (1854-1928), de Serville, P. H., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070156b.htm Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 30 October 2002 Last modified 9 December 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Personal and professional papers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 August 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gay Davidson was the first female political correspondent for a major newspaper in Australia, the first woman President of the Australian Commonwealth Parliamentary Press Gallery, and a great mentor and friend to a vast array of journalists, not least women taking advantage of the openings to them in that profession during the 1970s and 80s. Miringa Gay Davidson was one of two children of Geoff Yandle and his wife, migrants to New Zealand respectively from England and Ireland, born when the family had a small dairy farm on the outskirts of Christchurch. She was educated at the (Anglican) Convent of the Sacred Name School, Christchurch Girls High School (1951-56) and at Canterbury University 1957-58 (degree not completed). She completed a journalism cadetship at The Christchurch Press. Following a career in print, radio and television journalism in New Zealand she and her first husband, journalist Naylor Hillary, moved to Australia in 1967 when he was offered a PhD scholarship to study political science at the Australian National University in Canberra. Gay obtained work with the Canberra Times through her contacts with former New Zealand journalism colleague Bob Ferris (then Chief Sub Editor of the Canberra Times). Initially Gay and Hillary lived with Bob and his (then) journalist wife Jeannie Ferris. Gay pioneered the “Gang Gang” page 3 column in the Canberra Times, did civic rounds, covered education and health, was public administration writer, then political correspondent, ending as leader writer and senior columnist, before leaving the paper and working for public relations firm Hill and Knowlton. As Canberra Times political correspondent and head of bureau in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, she became both the first woman in such a role with a major Australian newspaper, and was elected President of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, again the first woman in such a position. Along the way, she liberated the lavatories in the Parliament. One objection raised to her being appointed political correspondent had been the absence of a ladies’ lavatory within easy distance of the Canberra Times office in the Gallery. (At this time there were no ladies’ lavatories in the Senate for female Senators either and precious few for women Members of the House of Representatives). Gay assisted a woman teleprinter operator in the nearby offices of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (who had broken her leg) to use the men’s lavatory near by, standing guard. In due course the Parliament’s Sergeant-at-arms was informed, and the lavatory was re-designated and appointed as a uni-sex facility-designated ‘toilet’. She was a strong proponent of the establishment of a premise for the National Press Club. When the new building’s finances began to founder, she took over as President of the Club and, working closely with a new manager, Mrs. Marjorie Turbayne, she helped to put the Club on a firmer financial footing. She remained a member of the Board in various positions for many years. As political correspondent she covered the 1974 Federal Election, and the dismissal of the Labor Government by the Governor-general in 1975. One enduring photo-image exists of her in the press on the steps of Parliament House as David Smith, then Secretary to the Governor General read out the Proclamation. Subsequently, she made her name writing about entrepreneurial corporate raiders in the business world from 1985. In the community she sat on numerous Boards, including the (former) Canberra Hospital Board, the ACT Land and Planning Appeals Board, the Bruce Stadium Trust, and the Australian Institute of Health (now Health and Welfare). She held various offices with the (former) Australian Journalists Association. She was Deputy Chair of the Australian Institute of Political Science for some years, before being awarded Honorary Life Membership in 1999. During all this time she and second husband Ken Davidson (economics writer for The Melbourne Age) ran a virtual salon at their family home for journalists, politicians, their advisers, and senior public servants willing to risk dining in the presence of such company. She resigned (for the third and final time) from the Canberra Times in 1987. After the tragic death in 1984 of her second daughter, Kiri Davidson, at the age of 13 of sub-acute sclerosing panencephalitis she became a prominent public campaigner for immunization against measles, working with successive Commonwealth Health Ministers in promoting what became the national Bicentennial Measles Campaign. After Gay resigned from Hill and Knowlton in 1991, with a contract from the Commonwealth Department of Health to write and edit major papers, give political advice and run staff seminars on writing plain English, she worked free-lance and joined Alan Thornhill in their private company By-Line Products, again in the Gallery. She continued with some consultancy work, including speech writing, for Commonwealth Health Ministers until her deteriorating health precluded this. Events 1967 - 1987 Published resources Book Breaking Through: Women, Work and Careers, Scutt, Jocelyne, 1992 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Marie Coleman and Nikki Henningham Created 23 November 2004 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Gay Davidson at Old Parliament House Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "10 sound files (approximately 408 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 1 February 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ronda Kimble was a netball player who advanced through the ranks to become an All Australian netball umpire. She has been involved in the game of netball for nearly forty years, as a player, coach, umpire, administrator and archivist. One Saturday morning in 1996, Ronda Kimble woke up and said to her husband, ‘I think I am cured’. Twelve months earlier, she had retired from netball umpiring in an official capacity, an act that literally involved changing the habits of a life time. For close to forty years, Ronda’s Saturdays had been given over to the game she had played, coached and umpired (often all on the same day) from the time she was twelve years old. Netball fixtures even determined when she got married; he wedding day was the first free Saturday after the 1967 season had finished. It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that her ‘convalescence’ after retirement was lengthy and sometimes painful. Ronda had dedicated much of her life to netball, although she would argue that what she gave was nothing compared to what she had received. Apart from the sheer enjoyment of running around on a court, either wearing a bib or with a whistle in her mouth, Ronda loved Netball because, through it, she established friendships, networks and skills that have given her a lifetime of fulfillment. Her story reminds us of the important role that women played in the development of communities through sport, as well as the development of community sport. It is also a story of the important role that community sport can play in the development of women as individuals and leaders. Ronda Sewell was born in Randwick in 1946 to working class parents, neither of whom was particularly interested in sport. She had one younger brother who was similarly disinterested. She was, however, part of the ‘Olympic’ generation of children who grew up with female athletes as role models. Always an active child who loved running around in the street and the playground, the 1956 Olympic Games captured her imagination. She loved listening to the radio broadcasts and kept a scrapbook to record the events. She ran her own ‘School Olympics’, organising her classmates into running races in the playground at lunchtime. When house sports were held, Ronda, a house captain, issued all the members of her house with coloured streamers to wave as they cheered their teammates on. Ronda started her voluntary career in sports administration at an early age! By the time she started high school, Ronda was living in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire in a suburb called Miranda. As a first year student at Port Hacking High School, she had to pick a sport that she would play for her house. A friend told her to pick netball (then called basketball) because not many people played it. The benefit of this was that, even though she was new to the school, she would probably get a better chance of playing regularly than if she put down one of the more popular sports as her first choice. She had never played it before, had no idea what the rules were, but it didn’t matter. The game agreed with her and she was hooked. Unfortunately, she didn’t get a chance to play interschool netball until her last year at high school, not because she wasn’t good enough, but because the administrative structures were not in place to support schoolgirl netball until then. This was a common problem for girls growing up in developing suburbs in the 1950s and 60s, and who attended state high schools in these areas. She was, however, able to play competitive netball outside school and this she did for nearly ten years with her local club, the Miranda Magpies. The Magpies were a large sporting club with a focus on men’s soccer, but at roughly the same time that Ronda was becoming interested in the game, they established a netball club. Ronda signed up as soon as she had the chance; it was close to home so she didn’t need to rely on her parents for transport and it was cheap (important, because the cost of membership came out of her pocket money.) Furthermore, her involvement in Saturday sport meant that she no longer had to help with the weekly shopping, a much loathed chore indeed! For the next decade, Ronda played, coached (she started this when she was fourteen) and umpired (at around thirteen) for the Miranda Magpies Basketball Club. She served on the executive of the Sutherland Shire Netball Association, to which the Magpies belonged, and became umpires convener. All the while, she developed her coaching skills to the point where she was successfully coaching a representative team for Sutherland. Despite the fact that she had never been coached herself and that there were no official coaching manuals for her to refer to, Ronda was a very successful in the job. On reflection, she thinks this may be because she always had the skills to be a very good teacher; she just never had access to the tertiary education that would have made her qualified to be one in the classroom. Coaching was teaching and for her to be successful she needed to apply the same skills – knowledge of and enthusiasm for the ‘subject’, good planning, excellent communication and, very importantly, a sense of fun. Perhaps these same qualities also combined to make Ronda a good umpire. Very early in her career, after spending the whole day on the same court, umpiring at a carnival in which a young team she coached was participating, another umpire asked her what grade ‘badge’ she had, meaning, what level of qualification. That day marked the beginning of her quest for an All Australian Umpiring Badge, an honour she eventually received in 1991. Ronda also became a highly competent administrator, establishing relationships and networks with people who mentored her, teaching her, essentially how to run a sporting club. Fixturing, enlisting volunteers, fund-raising, communication with members, these were all very time consuming tasks in the era before the internet, email and mobile phones. While serving on the executive of the Sutherland Shire Association, she watched and observed how the senior operators did things. She was invited to represent the association at state seminars and meetings – these occasions also gave her more opportunity to listen, learn and develop administrative skills. When she got married in 1967, people thought she would pull back on her involvement in the sport; this was not the case. If anything, Ronda’s career as a netball all-rounder was just starting to take off. Her husband recognised how important netball was to Ronda (he would have had to be blind not to!) and was not the type to suggest she should cut back. Besides, he had sporting interests of his own. On Saturdays, the Kimbles went their separate ways, meeting up for dinner in the evening. Ronda endured (very unhappily) an enforced six month break from netball in 1969 when she and he husband moved to Greystanes, a new housing development in Sydney’s western suburbs. There was no established netball competition there, so she and the other new families had to make their own. Responding to an advertisement from the local school she found in her letterbox, she and three other people met to form a committee with the aim of establishing a team. Within six months, they fielded a senior team. As the area developed and more families moved in, the number of teams for juniors and seniors grew accordingly. Once again, Ronda was involved in a club and representative association (Parramatta/Auburn) at all levels, one with which she remained involved until her retirement in 1995. From the roneoed newsletters produced on the ‘gestetener’ at home every week, to the chook raffles on training nights, the fundraising progressive dinners (pity the soul who volunteered to do dessert because they were always the last to get to sleep), the reams of paper used to complete the fixtures, the phone calls to team managers…Ronda was everywhere in that club, enjoying every minute of it (well maybe almost every minute) and making sure that the netballers of the Greystanes area never had to endure the agony of a six month lay off, like she did. Little surprise she was made a life member of the club (as she was of her first club, the Miranda Magpies). Little surprise, as well, that the administrative skills she developed as a volunteer eventually qualified her for paid employment in sports administration. In 1981, Ronda saw an advertisement in the newspaper for a position as an administrator at the New South Wales Gymnastics Association. The position called for someone who could organise competitions, teams, newsletters; in short, someone who could do all the things she had been doing in a voluntary capacity for years. Her application was successful, and she remained in the position for six years. From there she moved to a position as executive officer for the New South Wales Netball Association and then, finally to her current (2007) position at Netball Australia. She has enjoyed many different office management positions within the organisation, including membership of the finance committee during the 1991 world championship series in Sydney. She is now the official archivist and has developed a record-keeping system that should be the envy of any sporting organisation comparable in size and complexity to that of Netball Australia. In fifty years of involvement with the sport in some capacity, Ronda has seen continuity alongside significant change. At a personal level, the fact that netball was ‘always there’ was a reassurance to her, as it was to other women, when everything else seemed to be changing. When she was feeling isolated and all at sea after having a baby, morning netball competitions provided her with a welcome respite. Ronda says the courts in the 1960s and 70s were surrounded by babies in bassinets as women in the suburbs used community sport to connect and keep themselves sane. When her mother died, Ronda found the regular connection with friends through netball an enormous comfort. If she felt stressed or angry, netball was always good therapy; an hour on the court ‘ran it out’ of her. The constancy of the netball season provided stability when other things seemed out of control. There were personal changes, too. Netball provided an important outlet for self expression and growth, in an era when sexual politics at the domestic level were being redefined to acknowledge that women had rights as individuals, not only as wives and mothers. As Ronda put it, quite simply, ‘playing netball, well it was something you could do for yourself.’ She was always meeting new people and learning new skills through her involvement in the sport and, as mentioned, she used these opportunities to develop her own professional skills at the same time as she worked hard to provide a service to the local community. Netball gave her the opportunity for personal growth. Some women, however, had to fight tooth and nail for this opportunity. Their husbands resented the time they took away from home ‘to do something for themselves.’ According to Ronda, there was one woman who always turned up late to evening games because her husband would insist upon the house being spotless before she left it. Each week, just when she thought she had everything covered, he would invent some new task that needed to be completed before she could leave the house. The simple of act of playing a weekly game of netball represented a challenge to his domestic authority. Perhaps the sexual politics associated with playing sport explain why some other organisational changes have been difficult. Ronda sat through many an executive and general meeting at a local and state level in the 1980s and 90s where arguments about the involvement of men in the administration of netball were heated and divisive. In an era where access to skills, funds and volunteers were scarce but crucial to the survival of clubs at a local level, there were many women, Ronda included, who believed that if men of goodwill wanted to be involved, as players, coaches, umpires and administrators, then the structures should be put in place to permit this. As she put it bluntly, ‘We needed men because we started having trouble getting volunteers’. As more and more women worked full time, and with the advent of Saturday trading plus the fact that more people were playing the sport, the pool of volunteers, the people who made the competitions function, was becoming shallower. Furthermore, as Ronda pointed out, men participated in business networks that women still didn’t move in. ‘We could get the bread and sauce for the sausage sizzle, they could get the building supplies and electrical contractors to install the court lights’. Many women whose experience was, quite reasonably, coloured by old struggles with men over the resourcing of women’s sport, were defensive and suspicious about the motives of men who wanted to be involved. Would they try to ‘take over’? Do they believe we are so incompetent that we can’t do it on our own? Ronda’s view was that, at a community level, cooperation between men and women was necessary to see the sport develop and grow. Recently, this cooperation at a grassroots level has been formalised at a corporate level, with Netball Australia and the Australian Football League in 2006 agreeing that by strengthening the links between the two organisations, the two organisations will be strengthened. It is a sign of the times that in 2006 the leadership of Netball Australia, rather than feel threatened by linkages with men’s sporting organizations, entered into partnership with them, so that both sports can benefit. In a bittersweet twist, though, this new, mature, partnership will spell the end of Ronda’s formal relationship with Netball Australia. The office will be moving to Melbourne, meaning that the Sydneysider will give over to someone else the task of organising the archives. She will maintain an interest in the sport, no matter what. Ronda Kimble had her moments in sport at an elite level (as an All Australian netball umpire) but her most remarkable achievements have been at the community level, as her life membership at two local clubs attests to. Who knows what would have happened if, all those years ago, Ronda had chosen to play hockey rather than netball? One thing is for sure; hockey was the loser in the deal! Published resources Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ida Lucy Croft was the first woman pharmacist in Broken Hill, New South Wales. Ida Lucy Croft was the second daughter of John Thomas Davey Croft, pharmacist, and his wife Lucy Nixon Wardle of Terowie, South Australia. Born in London, John Thomas was the son of James Croft, a medical practitioner, and the Hon. Catherine Herrich Wicks Croft (nee Siberry). He migrated to South Australia with his parents in 1857. Ida had five siblings, two of whom died in infancy: Catherine Emily, born 1877, died at seven weeks, while Edith, born 1866, lived for just 22 hours. Her surviving siblings were John Thomas Davey, born in 1844, Ellen Cordella, born 1881, and Lily, born 1882. In 1891, when Ida was 15 years old, the family moved to Broken Hill where John Croft established a pharmaceutical business. Ida was one of a group of women, all daughters of pharmacists, who were able to gain registration as pharmacists without a university examination under the terms of an Act of Parliament in 1897. She gained her certificate on 12 July 1900 at the age of 24, having worked for her father as an apprentice. In 1911, Ida’s father died from injuries after an accident in South Australia. Within just three months her mother and brother had also died, leaving Ida with her two sisters. She remained in Broken Hill working in the family chemist shop until 1915, and later became manager of the Broken Hill United Friendly Society Dispensary Ltd. Ida Croft left Broken Hill in 1937 and worked at Martindale’s Pharmacy in Balaklava. She was re-registered in South Australia in July 1942 and lived at Semaphore. In 1943 she worked for Mr Goldsack at Victor Harbour. By 1946 she had purchased her own pharmacy in Semaphore but was forced to retire from ill health in 1955. She briefly joined the South Australian Women Pharmacists’ Association. Ida Croft was buried at St Jude’s Church of England Cemetery in Glenelg, South Australia. Published resources Resource Section Croft, Ida Lucy (1878-1957), Weatherburn, Hilary, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130595b.htm Journal Article Early Women Pharmacists of N.S.W., Wunsch, Elizabeth, 1963 Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 15 January 2009 Last modified 21 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9895 (19 boxes, 5 fol. boxes), MS Acc07.127 (22 boxes, 3 fol. packets), MS Acc10.050 (3 boxes), MS Acc13.206 (1 box, 5 archives boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes correspondence, material on state conferences. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 March 2004 Last modified 10 March 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Canvas banner painted about 1911 by John Hennessey of Carlton, Victoria. It was commissioned by the Victorian branch of the Australian Railways Union, and cost £100.??This trade union banner was carried in Eight Hour Day processions in Melbourne for many decades. Each year, thousands of unionists marched to celebrate the achievements of the union movement and express their pride in their work. In 1911 there were over 7000 members of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Railways Union. The banner shows vignettes of some of the work done by union members: signalling, shunting, plate laying, carriage building. The reverse side depicts the strength of united labour; each individual length of wood can be easily broken, but combined they are impossible to break.??The banner was restored within the Conservation Department at Museum Victoria in 2003, with financial assistance from the Rail, Tram and Bus Union. It was included on the Victorian Heritage Register on 8 December 2005. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "40 minutes??Enid Cherry was born in Adelaide in 1891. At the age of 22 she began training at the Adelaide Hospital and completed the course in 1916. She served in the Australian Army Nursing Service between 1917 and 1919. Later she worked at the Wakefield Street Private Hospital and did midwifery training at the Queen’s Home. In the 1920s she was appointed as an industrial nurse at Myers in Rundle Street. Here she remained for 23 years, as the nurse to provide care for staff and customers. At the time of the interview, Barbara Parker was senior nurse in the Occupational Health Branch of the South Australian Health Commission. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ruth Paterson was Tasmania’s Rural Woman of the Year in 1994. She was the first Australian woman to chair an agricultural field day committee, which she did to extraordinary effect when she organised the Tasmanian AGFEST in the early 1990s. Eleven percent of Tasmania’s total population attended in 1994; no other field day in no other state could boast such a massive turn out. After winning the award, Ruth took up a job with the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, with the aim of encouraging a rural woman’s network and advising the government on issues that effect rural women. A fifth generation farmer, Ruth Paterson was born and bred on a dairy farm at Hagley, in the Tasmanian northern midlands. The youngest of three girls, she was desperate to take on agriculture as a career when she left school, but tradition did not see an ‘official’ place for women as famers in that era, so she went to Launceston and worked in the insurance industry, until she married a farmer and returned to the land. She became involved in the Tasmanian Rural Youth Organisation, the members of which take a major roll in the organisation of AGFEST, Tasmania’s major agricultural festival. It was then that she realised she had unmet ambition as a spokesperson for agricultural interests in Tasmania. As well as gaining professional satisfaction from working in agriculture, she was passionate about publicly raising issues of importance to farmers. At the time of her award, she was concerned about the perceived divide between country and city dwellers. ‘I think city people still see us as a bunch of whingers who drive their Mercs to town in their tweed suits and their Stetsons,’ she said. ‘Well, we’re a long way off that.’ She thought that people of the city needed to understand better the realities of farming that confront most Australians involved in agriculture. At the same time, she believed that farmers need to change their attitude to the land. ‘Ten years ago Landcare was the greenie, radical hobby farmer,’ she observed. ‘Now, if farmers and mainstream community groups aren’t into some form of Landcare, they’re not in the race.’ Through her involvement in organisations like the Tasmanian branch of Women in Agriculture, Paterson has seen a gradual shift in attitudes with regard to the involvement of women in the decision making process, not only on farms but at an organisational level. Awards such as the Rural Woman of the Year Award contributed to that change, by helping women to network and to feel confident in their opinions and abilities. ‘That’s what the Rural Women’s movement is about,’ she says. ‘Just teaching that extra bit of confidence.’ Events 1994 - 1994 Published resources Book Section Ruth Paterson, Bowden, Ros, 1995 Resource Section 1994 ABC Rural Woman of the Year State Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/previous94.htm#sta Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Ruth Paterson interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording] Women of the land oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 March 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers of Frances Margaret McGuire, author and garden designer, comprising student exercises, autograph books, diaries, literary manuscripts, correspondence, including Cheadle family correspondence and notebooks, papers relating to war service of Private Julian McGuire and Commander J.M. Walker, family photographs, photographs relating to the naval and diplomatic career of Dominic Paul McGuire, and works by F.M. McGuire, Paul McGuire and Betty Arnott, certificates, legal documents and tape recordings.?Frances Margaret Cheadle was born at Glenelg in 1900. Educated at Girton House Girls’ Grammar School. Studied biological science at University of Adelaide and worked as biochemist under Professor Brailsford Robertson (1884-1930). Married diplomat Dominic Paul McGuire (1903-1978) in 1927. Chairman of South Australian Pioneer Women’s Memorial Trust, member of Australian delegation to League of Nations (1939), Federal Executive of National Council of Women of Australia, and Naval Historical Society of South Australia, and co-founder of Dante Alighieri Society of South Australia. Lived and travelled extensively overseas, and was well known as a journalist and writer. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2019 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence and subject files including asbestos files, industrial files, membership records (1970s-1987), financial records, printed material, posters, photographs and Eureka Flag banner. Includes records of the Women’s Committee and the ACT Branch of the Federated Furnishing Trade Society. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 January 2013 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Kristof Kaldma was a prominent member of the Estonian community in Canberra. The collection comprises four volumes of “The Estonians in Canberra; 1948 – 1998”, correspondence between K. Kaldma and his war time colleagues, correspondence between K Kaldma and his family, photographs, artefacts and ephemera. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 January 2013 Last modified 11 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Australian Red Cross Society (ARCS) was formed just after the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, initially as a branch of the British Red Cross Society. Its first president was Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, wife of the then governor-general. Via a network of state branches and division, also presided over by women, the organisation extended its influence throughout the community of Australian women, urban and rural, to the point where women constituted the vast majority of its membership, as well as featuring prominently in its leadership. Although the organisation was involved in a range of activities, including the establishment of agencies overseas dedicated to supplying families in Australia with information about wounded and missing soldiers, it is probably best known for its success in mobilising volunteers to create the much appreciated and eagerly anticipated ‘comfort’ parcels that were sent to servicemen overseas. From the date of its inception until the armistice the ARCS dispatched 395,695 food parcels and 36,339 clothing parcels. Thousands of women contributed their time and money to make this possible The Australian Red Cross was founded on 13 August 1914 in response to the start of World War I, and was originally known as the Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society. Before the end of World War I it was being called the Australian Red Cross Society, although it was still considered to be a branch of the British Red Cross Society. In 1927, the Australian Red Cross Society gained recognition as an independent National Red Cross Society and ceased being a branch of the British Red Cross Society. In 1941 the Australian Red Cross Society was incorporated by Royal Charter, and in 1992 the Australian Red Cross Society decided to shorten its name for external audiences to Australian Red Cross, by which name it is known today (however, its legal name remains Australian Red Cross Society). The Australian Red Cross was founded by Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, the wife of Australia’s Governor-General, and she became the first President of the Australian Red Cross. In 1914, the Australian Red Cross immediately formed Divisions in each of the six States. The Divisional Presidents, who were the wives of the State Governors, were instrumental in the creation of the Australian Red Cross State Divisions. As these Presidents traversed the country, and launched appeals through local organisations and the press, the Divisions soon had a vast number of rural and metropolitan branches. Directly appealed to, women became the great majority of members, several high-ranking women were appointed to governing committees, and Australian women took leading positions throughout the organisation. In 1914, the Australian Red Cross was largely involved with providing relief services to the Australian Defence Force, with Headquarters located in Melbourne which coordinated the international relief services. In later years, Australian Red Cross Divisions opened in the Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory, as well as other Australian territories such as Norfolk Island and Papua New Guinea. As at 2004, the Australian Red Cross has a national office based in Melbourne and has offices in each of the six states and two territories. The Australian Red Cross State and Territory Offices manage all activities run within their own state or territory. The national office coordinates international activities with which the Australian Red Cross is involved, as well as coordinating Australian Red Cross activities that are managed on a national basis. Today, the many and varied activities of the Australian Red Cross include International Tracing and Refugee Services, Youth and Education Services, First Aid, Health and Safety Services, Disaster and Emergency Services, the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Community Care Programs, Aged and Home Care Services, International Humanitarian Law, and international development programs and aid. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Journal Article The Best P.M. for the Empire'? Lady Helen Munro Ferguson and the Australian Red Cross Society, 1914-1920, Oppenheimer, Melanie, 2002 Resource Section MacKinnon, Eleanor Vokes Irby (1871 - 1836), Abbott, Jacqueline Abbott, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100306b.htm A Humane and Intimate Administration': The Red Cross' World War Two Wounded, Missing and Prisoner of War Cards, Ross, Fiona, 2017, http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/archives/a-humane-and-intimate-administration-the-red-cross-world-war-two-wounded-missing-and-prisoner-of-war-cards/ Humane and intimate, how the Red Cross helped families trace the fates of WW2 soldiers, Ross, Fiona, 2017, https://theconversation.com/humane-and-intimate-how-the-red-cross-helped-families-trace-the-fates-of-ww2-soldiers-77395 The AIF Malayan Nursing Scholarship, Twomey, Christina, http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/archives/the-aif-malayan-nursing-scholarship/ Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Minutes of the Finance Committee Control records for correspondence files, National Headquarters Correspondence files, National Headquarters Australian Red Cross Royal Charter, Rules of the Society History, Role and Structure Annual Reports of the Australian Red Cross Minutes and Meeting Papers, National Council Annual Reports of Red Cross Divisions and Blood Service Records of Awards, Honours, Medals, Citations Publications Media Releases Minutes and Meeting Papers from National Committees Papua New Guinea - Division Records AIF Malayan Memorial Nursing Scholarship Posters Audio Photographs Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Red Cross House Badge Australian Red Cross Research and Information Service Records relating to community services, social work and welfare, and disaster relief provided by the Australian Red Cross Publications - First aid, health and safety Records of the Central Bureau for Wounded, Missing and Prisoners of War, and of the National Tracing Bureau Author Details Noel Barrow and Penny Robinson Created 9 February 2004 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Estelle Drinkwater was a foundation member of the Democratic Labor Party and a once only candidate who stood for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Wyong in 1971. Estelle Drinkwater, at the time of her campaign, was a triple certificated nurse, married and with a large family. She had travelled extensively and had nursed in almost every Australian state. She was a member of the Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies, in whom she took a particular interest. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 7 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In 1938 Jess Sams won a nationwide fishing contest for heaviest catch with a 330lb striped marlin. Daughter of Dan and Mary Ann Millard, pioneers of the Ulladulla region, Jess Sams moved to Sydney as a young woman to work as a seamstress and milliner. She married Captain Archie Sams in 1926, and was an active member of the Ulladulla Ambulance Service, the Country Women’s Association and the Hospital ladies’ ancillary. In 1938 she took part in a nationwide fishing contest as part of Australia’s 150th celebrations, sailing in a 30 foot double-ended carvel fishing launch with two brothers, Michael and Salvatore Puglisi. Over 580 anglers entered the competition to win a series of valuable trophies. Sams and the Puglisi brothers were aiming for the £500 trophy for the heaviest catch. On 27 February 1938 found herself hanging on with all of her might to a stout split cane rod, eventually pulling in an enormous striped marlin. Back at the Ulladulla wharf consternation ensued as it was discovered that there was no provision in the rules for women anglers to win the competition’s major trophy. Officials in Sydney soon backed down after angry phone calls from the townspeople. Working on the telephone exchange, Sams’ niece overheard discussions implying that the fish would be disqualified as it had not been weighed on the official scales. Sams and her husband responded by driving straight to Jervis Bay, arriving at 4am for a weigh-in. The fish turned the scales at 330 lbs – standing today as the Australian 130lb line class women’s record for a striped marlin. A supporter of Game Fishing, Sams’ donated her trophy to the Australian Fishing Museum. Today the annual Game Fishing Tournament is held at Ulladulla and named in Sams’ honour. Published resources Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham and Barbara Lemon Created 14 March 2007 Last modified 21 November 2017 Digital resources Title: Jess Sams with her prize catch Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Matilda Ann Aston (December 11, 1873 – November, 1947), better known as Tilly Aston, was a blind Australian writer and teacher. She founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers (which became the Victorian Braille Library) and then went on to establish the Association for the Advancement of the Blind, assuming the post of secretary. Tilly’s energy was unbounded and her achievements (along with those of her co-workers) to promote the human rights of vision impaired people were plentiful. They include: Successfully lobbying for the world’s first free post system for braille (and later talking) books. Gaining free public transport for blind people. Achieving the right to vote for blind people. Lobbying for the repeal of the bounty system which meant blind people had to pay hefty levies before they could travel interstate Gaining Government approval for a pension for all legally blind people. Matilda (Tilly) Ann Aston was a blind Australian writer and teacher who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers, and later went on to establish the Association for the Advancement of the Blind. Born in the town of Carisbrook, Victoria in 1873, Tilly was one of eight children. Vision impaired from birth, she had lost most of her sight by the age of seven. A chance meeting with Thomas James, an itinerant blind missionary changed her life; he introduced her to the Braille method of reading. She was then persuaded to travel to Melbourne to further her education. After successfully matriculating in 1988, Tilly became the first blind Australian to go to a university. Sadly, she was unable to complete her Arts Degree at the University of Melbourne due to the lack of braille text books. She was forced to discontinue her studies in the middle of her second year. In 1894, with the assistance of the Australian Natives Association, Tilly established the Victorian Association of Braille Writers. This organisation would eventually become the Victorian Braille Library. In 1895, she established the Association for the Advancement of the Blind to fight for greater independence, social change and new laws for blind people. They quickly won voting rights for blind people; free postage for Braille material (in 1899 – a world first); and transport concessions for the blind. In 1913, aged forty, Tilly undertook a course of teacher training to become head of the Victorian Education Department’s School for the Blind. The Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind had some misgivings about the appointment, given her disability, but she proved to be a competent educator and administrator, working for the department until ill-health forced her to retire in 1925 As well as being an energetic activist and inspirational teacher, Tilly Aston was a prolific writer. Between 1901 and 1940 she published eight volumes of verse. Her self-penned memoirs The Memoirs of Tilly Aston : Australia’s blind poet, author and philanthropist were published in 1946. She corresponded with people around the world in Esperanto, and was editor and chief contributor to A Book of Opals, a Braille magazine for Chinese mission schools, for many years. Tilly’s lifetime of achievements has been recognised in a number of ways. She twice received the King’s Medal for distinguished citizens service. A cairn in her honour was erected by the school children of Carisbrook and the Midlands Historical Society. The Federal electorate Division of Aston in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs is named after her, as is a species of rose. There is also a sculpture in her honour in King’s Domain, in Melbourne, Victoria. The Tilly Aston Bell rings, but only after one runs one’s hands all the way round the Braille inscription that the sculpture carries. Tilly Aston died from cancer on November 1 1947. Her ability to live a useful, independent life despite her disability was inspirational. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book No Sight -Great Vision: A Centenary History of the Association for the Blind, Wilson, J.W., 1996 Lighthouse on the Boulevard: A History of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind (RVIB) 1866-2004, Buckrich, Judith R., 2004 Memoirs of Tilly Aston : Australia's blind poet author and philanthropist., Aston, Tilly, 1946 The inner garden, Aston, Tilly, 1940 Maiden verses, Aston, Tilly, 1901 Old timers : sketches and word pictures of the old pioneers, Aston, Tilly, 1938 Singable Songs, Aston, Tilly, 1924 Songs of Light, Aston, Tilly, 1935 The woolinappers : or, some tales from the by-ways of Methodism, Aston, Tilly, 1905 Resource Section Aston, Matilda Ann (1873-1947), Green, O. S., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070123b.htm With Love to My Niece, Aston, Tilly, 2005, http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/%5Cinfo.aspx?page=647 Resource Our History, Vision Australia, 2005, http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=645 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources Vision Australia Vision Australia's Heritage Collection National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Portrait of Tilly Aston [picture] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Matilda Ann Aston, \"Australia's blind poet, author and philanthropist\", containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 February 2006 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Yvonne Henderson was an Australian Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. She was elected on 19 February 1983 and served until 14 December, 1996. Yvonne Henderson was born in Yorkshire in 1948 to Patrick Finn, a bookseller, and Daphne Wood. The family emigrated to Western Australia in 1949. Yvonne attended John Curtin Senior High School and then the University of Western Australia, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education. She married Jeremy Henderson in 1971, embarked on a teaching career, and became an increasingly active member of the State School Teachers’ Union, as well as other community groups. Henderson was elected to the Legislative Assembly as the member for Gosnells in 1983, which she held until elected for Thornlie in 1989. Henderson held the seat of Thornlie until 1996, spending a total fourteen years in Parliament. During this time, Henderson was a vigorous campaigner for the rights of minorities, and was instrumental in getting the Equal Opportunity Bill through the Legislative Assembly. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Yvonne Henderson papers, 1983-1996 [manuscript] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "50 minutes??Lynley Dohnt was born at Gumeracha, South Australia. She began training at the Adelaide Hospital in 1922, and did midwifery training at the Balaklava Hospital. Later she worked in Tasmania, Melbourne and Ballarat. She returned to South Australia in 1934 as Matron of Gumeracha Hospital where she remained for four years. Then she became Deputy Matron at Ru Rua Private Hospital, from which appointment she was called up for service with the Air Force in January 1941. With the rank of matron, Miss Dohnt served in Australia and overseas, and was discharged from the Air Force Nursing Service in 1946. After a short time as assistant to the almoner at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, she became the House Sister, an appointment which she retained until her retirement in 1958. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 page typed parliamentary statement by Bob Hawke reporting on ministerial arrangements following the resignation of Senator Susan Ryan, John Brown and Mick Young. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "50 minutes??Shirley Cameron Wilson was born in 1918, the youngest child of Dr Charles Ernest Wilson who was a GP in Kadina and Nellie who was the daughter of William Strawbridge, the Surveyor General of South Australia after Goyder. They lived in Kadina for 9 years and enjoyed the country life. Nellie and her sister Ethelwyn were both artistic. Shirley attended Walford House School when the family returned to Adelaide. They moved to “Woodfield” in Fisher St Fullarton. Shirley trained as a nurse at Royal Adelaide Hospital, one the Gold Medal, and then did a year of midwifery training in Melbourne. During World War II she enlisted as an army nurse and before she was called up worked in the Women’s Land Army. She went to New Guinea with the 2nd 8th General Hospital and stayed 13 months. After the war she studied at Melbourne University. She came back to nurse her mother, father and aunt until they died. During this time she developed an interest in art and completed her research for the book “The Bridge over the Ocean” which she wrote with Keith Borrow. She and her sister Honor moved to adjoining units in Hazelwood Park in 1973 and Shirley worked on her book about South Australian Women artists. She was the leader of the Antiques and Collecting Circle at the Lyceum Club for nine years. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 digital audio tapes (ca. 152 min.)??Carol Mills recalls her initial Library studies whilst being employed at the Fisher Library, Sydney University (1963-1966); her years of experience as Senior Librarian managing a number of University Libraries in Australia; her return to London to study for a Masters of Arts in Librarianship (ca 1977); managing the Library of the University of Darwin for 3 months after Cyclone Tracy hit in 1975; her 4 volume bibliography of literature emanating from the Northern Territory (1975-1983). She speaks about her historical writings & articles on Australian book history; her secondment to the Library of the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji (1993-1995), publishing a number of articles on library management & literacy in the South Pacific region; her return to managing the Charles Sturt University Library until her retirement in 2000. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 March 2005 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Hodings include: annual reports, including branch reports, 1896-1975; The Leaflet (the magazine of the Mothers’ Union) 1924-1934; published histories. Author Details jane carey Created 18 February 2004 Last modified 19 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jocelyn Howden is a dedicated Greens party member who stood for them in the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Hawkesbury, 1999 New South Wales Legislative Assembly, The Hills 2003 House of Representatives, Greenway, 1998 Jocelyn Howden has lived in the Hills District for 25 years. She is an active campaigner, seeking to protect bushland and to minimise development in north-western Sydney. She is a member of the Wilderness Society and was active in the Jabiluka campaign. In 2005 she was working in the office of Ian Cohen, MLC, in research and administration. She and her husband have six children and she is a long-standing foster carer. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A genealogy of the Cowley and Simpkins families and associated branches, chiefly concentrating on activities since their arrival in Australia in the 1850s and 1860s. The history includes references to early family pastoral holdings in the Riverina district, and efforts to eradicate cattle tick in northern New South Wales. The manuscript also documents items of local Queanbeyan and Canberra interest, including a short biography of Margaret Agnes Anne Francis (nee Green), the first public school teacher in Queanbeyan, and family connections with Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, founder of the Royal Military College, Duntroon. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 16 January 2019 Last modified 16 January 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Collings was an active member of the Australian Democrats who ran for the Wentworth seat in the House of Representatives (1998 and 2001) and for Vaucluse in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1999). Margaret Collings was very active in the growth of the Australian Democrats in the Eastern suburbs in the 1990s. In her 1998 campaign she was listed as a student. She was a long time resident of the Eastern Suburbs and the mother of two children. She supported the Democrats as an environmental party which recognised the obligations Australia had to other national as part of a global community. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Diane Fingleton is a retired Queensland Magistrates Court judge. Appointed a magistrate in 1995, she became a senior magistrate three years later. In 1999 she was appointed to the position of Chief Magistrate, the first woman to ever hold the position. Fingleton approached the appointment with a reformist agenda, introducing important initiatives such as specialist courts for Queensland Aboriginal people (Murri Courts) and programs to assist victims of domestic violence to stay in their homes. Response from her colleagues to initiatives to encourage inclusiveness, such as issuing a formal apology to Indigenous people and performing reconciliation ceremonies, varied from enthusiastic approval to vicious criticism. The views of Indigenous people mattered most to her; a spokesperson from the Aboriginal Legal Service telling her: ‘You can have no idea what a difference this made.’ Her reformist agenda as Chief Magistrate brought challenges with it, none greater than one which began as a magistrate’s transfer dispute, leading to her trial and imprisonment on a charge of retaliating against a witness. In 2005, following a failed appeal to the Queensland Supreme Court, the High Court of Australia quashed her conviction, with Justice McHugh arguing ‘it would be hard to imagine a stronger case of a miscarriage of justice in the particular circumstances of the case’. Later that year, she was again appointed and sworn in as a magistrate of the Caloundra Magistrates Court. Fingleton retired in May 2010, with hopes that the positive measures she undertook to deliver justice to Queenslanders ‘before she was interrupted’, would be acknowledged. While it is important to note the impact of the miscarriage of justice upon Diane Fingleton, it is more important to ensure that her legacy is not defined by it. Diane Fingleton was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. A longer essay detailing Di Fingleton’s career is in development. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Diane Fingleton, Byrne, Anna, 2005 Book Nothing to do with justice: The Di Fingleton story, Fingelton, Diane, 2010 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Diane Fingleton interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 31 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Comprises papers of the Australian Women’s National League, 1920-1945, collected by Dame Elizabeth Couchman, and history entitled “The Australian Women’s National League, 1904-1945” by Elizabeth Couchman, 14 February 1969. Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence; minutes of meetings; pamphlets re religious organisations (Primarily Festival of Light); Presidents’ addresses and editorials; newsletters from other organisations; information re conferences, seminars and meetings of other organisations; financial records; membership records; reports, media releases and circulars (most from government); newspaper clippings; advertising materials. Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 December 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MLMSS 7242??BOX 1?Executive Committee minutes: 3 August 1905-6 January 1908; 1 November 1917-13 September 1920; 11 October 1920-9 June 1924; 14 July 1924-11 June 1928; 9 July 1928-9 May 1932; 13 June 1932-10 July 1933?(Request Microfilm: CY 4410)?Special & General Meetings: 14 July 1924-10 July 1933?(Request Microfilm: CY 4452)?List of subscriptions and donations: 1936-1942; 1943-1946; 1946-1962; Register of Subscribers: No date.?(Request Microfilm: CY 5014)?Redfern Day Nursery Committee minutes 5 August 1947-6 April 1955.??BOX 2?Executive Committee minutes: August 1933-December 1937; 11 June 1945-13 May 1946 (also includes Finance Committee, Principal’s report, and Nursery School minutes); February 1938-May 1945?(Request Microfilm: CY 4452)?Minutes of Finance, Executive, and Nursery Schools Committees, 11 June 1946-10 May 1948 (Request Microfilm: CY 4455)?15 June 1948-31 May 1950 minutes of Nursery School Committee, Training College Advisory Committee, and Principal’s report, June 1948-1949); June 1949-May 1950 (includes Finance Committee meetings, Training College Advisory meeting minutes, House Committee report, and Principal’s report, June 1949-May 1950)?(Request Microfilm: CY 4485)?Nursery School Subcommittee Meeting Minutes, 1933-1945?(Request Microfilm: CY 4454)??BOX 3?Finance and Executive Committee meeting minutes, June 1950-May 1952?(Request Microfilm: CY 4524)?Finance and Executive Committee meeting minutes, June 1952-May 1955?(Request Microfilm: CY 4543)?Finance and Executive Committee meeting minutes, June 1955-May 1958?(Request Microfilm: CY 4599)?Finance and Executive Committee meeting minutes, June 1958-May 1961?(Request Microfilm: CY 4600)??BOX 4?Executive Committee Minutes, June 1961-May 1965?(Request Microfilm: CY 4632)?Executive Committee minutes, June 1965-December 1968?(Request Microfilm: CY 4633)?Executive Committee minutes, January 1969-December 1972?(Request Microfilm: CY 4634)??BOX 5?Executive Committee Minutes, January 1973-December 1973?(Request Microfilm: CY 4690, frames 1-127)?Executive Committee Minutes, January 1974-December 1974?(Request Microfilm: CY 4690, frames 128-237)?Executive Committee Minutes, January 1975-December 1975?(Request Microfilm: CY 4690, frames 238-357)?Executive Committee Minutes, January 1976-December 1976?(Request Microfilm: CY 4691, frames 1-130)?Executive Committee Minutes, January 1977-December 1977?(Request Microfilm: CY 4691, frames 131-256)?Executive Committee Minutes, January 1978-December 1978?(Request Microfilm: CY 4691, frames 257-386)?Executive Committee Minutes, January 1979-June 1980?(Request Microfilm: CY 4692, frames 1-190)?Executive Committee Minutes, July 1980-June 1981?(Request Microfilm: CY 4692, frames 191-323)?Executive Committee Minutes, July 1981-June 1982?(Request Microfilm: CY 4692, frames 324-489)?Executive Committee Minutes, July 1982-June 1983?(Request Microfilm: CY 4698, frames 1-151)?Executive Committee Minutes, July 1983-December 1984?(Request Microfilm: CY 4698, frames 152-393)??BOX 6?Executive Committee Minutes, October 1987-October 1989?(Request Microfilm: CY 4730)?Executive Committee Minutes, November 1989-October 1991?(Request Microfilm: CY 4733)?Executive Committee Minutes, February 1987-September 1987?(Request Microfilm: CY 4868, frames 1-140)?Executive Committee Minutes, October 1984-December 1986?(Request Microfilm: CY 4725)?Minutes of Committee Meetings, and executive papers, April 1990-June 1993?(Request Microfilm: CY 4870, frames 1-1579)??MAV/FM4/10974 (RESTRICTED)?Annual meetings, 30 October 1987-26 October 2005??MAV/FM4/10975 (RESTRICTED)?Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, 23 November 1992-16 December 1996??MAV/FM4/10976 (RESTRICTED)?Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, 17 February 1997-6 November 2006??See also published Annual Reports (nos. 1-90), 1905-1995, on microfilm reels MAV/FM4/10928 (2 reels). There are also newscuttings and photographs, 1905-1984, on MAV/FM4/10929 (1 reel) and scrapbooks, 1937-1973, on MAV/FM4/10930 (1 reel). Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 3 December 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Barbara James was born in Nebraska, USA, in 1943, and came to Australia in 1966. She began her working life in the Northern Territory in 1967 as a journalist, an occupation which later led to her work as an author, historian and research consultant. Her particular interests and areas of research were women and history/heritage issues."
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    {
        "text": "Her background and her nursing career, Ngala, the status of nursing, Olive Anstey etc. Created 18 February 2019 Last modified 18 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1988 the Embroiderers’ Guilds of Australia presented a commemorative embroidery to the Commonwealth Parliament as a gift to celebrate Australia’s bicentenary. This presentation was the culmination of eight years of unprecedented collaboration among the eight State and Territory Guilds, overseen by a standing committee of the ACT Guild – the Parliament House Embroidery Committee – convened by Dorothy Hyslop. Over 1000 women from all over Australia were involved in the work and the Guilds donated not only their embroidery skills but also the fabric and thread and the administration of the project. The embroidery is one of the two major artworks hanging in the Great Hall of Parliament House. Designed as an eight-panel frieze in the tradition of the Bayeux Tapestry, 16 metres long and 65 centimetres deep, the embroidery’s theme is ‘the settlement of Australia’, in tune with the theme of ‘the land’ for all the public areas of the House. The exquisite embroidery is universally acknowledged as a nationally significant artwork and has given prominence to a long undervalued medium. An international architectural competition was initiated by the Australian Parliament in 1979 to design a new Parliament House, to be completed in time for the bicentenary in 1988 of European settlement in Australia. Canberrans naturally took a strong interest in the winning design by architects Mitchell, Giurgola and Thorp which was announced in June 1980. However, when Dorothy Hyslop proposed to her fellow members in the ACT Embroiderers’ Guild that an embroidery be created by all the eight embroiderers’ guilds and presented to the new Parliament House as a gift to the nation, the initial reaction was ‘stunned silence’. The ACT Guild was small; few members thought the idea worthwhile and the eight State and Territory Guilds did not then enjoy regular communication and had only lukewarm interest in formal connections. Nevertheless, the ACT Guild authorised Hyslop and fellow Canberra embroiderer Loma Ruddock to approach the chairs of the Joint House Standing Committee on the new Parliament House. The latter called the idea a ‘breath of fresh air’ and responded enthusiastically. The Guild then sought and obtained the agreement of all the other State and Territory Embroiderers’ Guilds to participate in the project despite some members’ trepidation that, as ‘amateurs’, their work might not be considered good enough. In October 1980 the ACT Guild set up a Parliament House Embroidery (PHE) Committee, convened by Hyslop, to manage the project. It proved to be a huge, complex and lengthy project during which two states withdrew but later re-joined. Its ultimate success owed much to Hyslop’s exceptional project management and communications skills. The PHE Committee worked very closely with the Parliament House Construction Authority and, in particular, the Art Advisory Committee for the House, and Pamille Berg, the architects’ Art and Craft Coordinator, to make the embroidery an intrinsic part of the House’s artworks and the architectural context of the building. The first steps were to develop a design brief and invite six designers to submit designs for consideration. The Committee decided that the embroidery design should be as significant in quality as the craft skills devoted to the fabrication of the work. The theme would be ‘the settlement of Australia’, stemming from the overall theme of works for the new Parliament House focussing on the interactions of peoples with Australia’s vast landscapes from early Aboriginal occupation to modern times. The work had to be long and narrow as it was to hang in the gallery of the Great Hall, and each Guild would work on a section of the embroidery which would later be joined to form a single piece. The competition was won by Kay Lawrence, a South Australian textile designer and tapestry weaver. Her design was decidedly unconventional, comprising 31 different images, intended as such rather than as one overall design. It refers to each State and Territory in particular images but emphasises common elements in the experience of settlement rather than distinct, State-based differences. It moves from Aboriginal people’s harmonious relationships with the land to the changes wrought by European settlers as they sought to develop and control their surroundings. It conveys beauty and ugliness, joy and loss. The PHE Committee appointed Anne Richards, a highly skilled Melbourne embroiderer, as the national embroidery coordinator and each State and Territory appointed a supervisor to oversee the work in her state and liaise with the Committee, Lawrence and Richards. Over a thousand women around Australia were involved in the work – some in making the hundreds of samplers from which stitches and colours were selected, others in preparing the linen and stretching it onto frames before work began, others in preparing the pieces for transport to Canberra, or in joining the sections and mounting the completed work in its case. The Guilds donated not only their labour but also all the funds needed for the materials. The linen and threads were intensively researched and of the highest quality. Twelve thousand unpaid hours of embroidered stitching were put into the eight panels by 504 women. Many viewed the work as an important historical, as well as artistic, project. In a number of cases several generations of one family worked on the embroidery. Embroiderers enjoyed the teamwork required not only in the embroidery itself but also in the complex tasks of conservation, joining the sections, and mounting the completed work in its case. The embroidery was presented to the Presiding Officers of the Parliament on 25 May 1988 in front of more than 600 people. Within a decade it had been seen by over 14 million people. Visitors marvel at the exquisite stitching and the dedication and craftsmanship of so many embroiderers working creatively and cooperatively together. Published resources Newspaper Article An embroidery to remember, Hinchliffe, Meredith, 1986, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130626574 Journal Article Declaring independence: The enduring impact of Judy Chicago's installation artwork \"The Dinner Party\" and Kay Lawrence's \"Parliament House Embroidery'', Baguley, Margaret and Kerby, Martin, 2010 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Museum Australia ACT Embroiderer's Guild collection Embroiderers' Guilds of Australia collection National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records, 1984-1988 [manuscript] Author Details Louise Moran Created 8 February 2013 Last modified 20 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Rube Hargrave was an unsuccessful candidate for Parliament but a long term local government identity. She was Alderman for the Greater Wollongong City Council from 1959-71, Deputy Mayor from 1969-70 and Deputy Lord Mayor in 1970-71. In 1965 Rube stood as an Independent in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Bulli and then in 1968 she stood for the seat of Corrimal. Rube Hargrave lived all her life in the Bulli area. After successfully being elected as an independent to the Wollongong City Council, she stood for the Legislative Assembly. Her election material stressed her concern for women and girls, the extension of sewerage and the electrification of the railway. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 30 January 2006 Last modified 11 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Professor Cassandra Jane Pybus is an academic, historian and writer. She has published extensively on Australian, American and Transatlantic history. As researcher and writer, Pybus has ammassed extensive research material that is not created by her but nevertheless collected and attributed to her as the collector.??NS3126 Research material relating to the American political prisoners exiled in canada??NS3127 Copy of diary and letters of Elijah C. Woodman, 1839-1848, and accompanying material??NS3128 Photographs, negatives and notes about images used in publication: American citizens, British slaves??NS3129 Microfilm from library and archives Canada relating to the Canadian political prisoners??NS3130 Records relating to the publication: American citizens, British slaves??NS3133 Microfilm control list??NS3311 Miscellaneous material from first green election campaign, 1 Jan. 1989 – 31 Dec. 1990 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ljiljanna Ravlich was elected to the Legislative Council of the Thirty-fifth Parliament of Western Australia as the Australian Labor Party member for East Metropolitan Region on 14 December 1996 for term commencing 22 May 1997. She was re-elected in 2001, 2005, 2009 (for terms commencing 22 May). Ljiljanna Ravlich was born in Croatia in 1958, daughter of Ivisa Ravlich and his wife Ljubica. She migrated with her family to Western Australia in 1963, and attended Governer Stirling Senior High School. Ravlich then completed a Bachelor of Arts, and graduate diplomas in Education and Education administration at Curtin University in Perth. She taught in secondary schools from 1980-1988, and joined the Australian Labor Party in the mid-1980s. Ravlich was elected to the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia for the East Metropolitan Region for the term commencing 22 May 1997. She was re-elected in 2001, 2005, and 2009. Published resources Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 30 November 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letter to Miss Evans from Dr. Egryn Jones discussing the role of his wife, Dr. Constance Stone, as one of the founders of the Queen Victoria Hospital. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 March 2005 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 8 September 2003 Last modified 31 March 2017 Digital resources Title: Members of the Women's Auxiliary National Service (WANS) Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Cadet G. E. Alexander, Australian Women's Army Service Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0530gb.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Judith Peirce has been an important figure in community legal centres and law reform in Victoria for over forty years. With Lynne Opas she lobbied government in the 1970s to adopt the proposed new Family Law Act; once enacted, she was active on the Family Law Committee of the Law Institute. Peirce also served as the Community Legal Services representative on the Law Institute Council, eventually becoming an Executive Member as Treasurer and then Vice – President of the Law Institute (1999- 2003.) Just as she was about to take on the presidency of the Law Institute her career took another path. Her work in family violence, experience with the Courts in seeking protection for women, and the inadequate nature of a response to violence against women by police, courts and our community led to her appointment as a Commissioner of the Victorian Law Reform Commission to conduct the review into family violence law and systems. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Judith Peirce for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Judith Peirce and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Recognition of the impacts of class and gender on law students and practising lawyers was largely absent from any consideration in the world of the Melbourne University Faculty of Law in 1964. I entered into this world as a young, migrant, working class, financially very poor woman. At first naiveté was my savior as I started my studies. However, it soon became apparent that I could no longer deny the significance of these disadvantages. There were obvious discrepancies between myself and the majority of students – money and contacts being the two most important. I had left home with my sister before I finished school, moving to North Melbourne in order to qualify for a place at University High School, a selective state high school. We looked after ourselves, worked during University holidays and rented a flat. If I wanted a day off I wrote the note to the school myself. Studying, assignments and exams took second place to cooking, washing, cleaning and working, activities which many students share today but that were unusual then. I became a “crammer”. I knew nothing of good studying habits. My goal was to pass matriculation and get a place in the law faculty. I achieved those aims together with the all- important Commonwealth Scholarship, which provided a living allowance and paid fees. It was a night to remember when I received the news as I clocked off work as a waitress and housemaid at the Koonya Hotel in Sorrento, Victoria. The attainment of this ambition was almost solely due to my English teacher at Preston Girls High School. An elegant and reserved woman, she completely surprised me when she suggested that I should go to the careers night at Melbourne University. She even arranged to take me there. Unheard of intervention! Although I remember almost nothing of what I learnt that evening I decided that I would become lawyer. I actually had little idea of what a lawyer did but I knew I did not want to be a teacher or a nurse the most obvious prospects then open to educated young women. I had a lonely and unhappy time at University. I didn’t make many friends and I took a break after a few years to become a full time secondary teacher of English and history. I received no training at all. Two years of teaching confirmed to me that my original decision not to teach was the correct one. I returned to the Law School to complete my degree. The next challenge was to get articles in order to qualify to practise. This was the point at which the twin disadvantages of gender and class really came into play. I did not know anyone who was a lawyer and had no contacts or any one who could advise. I made many applications to no avail. Then I remembered that my sister had once had a boyfriend whose father was a solicitor. I went to see him and he took me on. He was a fascinating character, an active member of the Communist Party who assured that my articles were interesting, different and unusual as he had a wide practice with many colourful clients. Wharfies and women came by for their divorces, doctors and nurses in abortion practices were defended, workers were ably assisted in their compo claims, some well- known criminal “personalities” hung around the waiting room. I interviewed one client who had been convicted of armed robbery and prepared a statement for him along the lines of “if you are reading this I will be dead… .” He subsequently disappeared and although his body has never been found he is presumed dead. However we also did bread and butter work – conveyancing, wills, probate, company incorporations. There were skilled typists and secretaries who could cut a perfect stencil for the Gestetener machine. I was already a member of the fledging Fitzroy Legal Service and went on the roster of providing legal advice and assistance. Many now well- known and established lawyers worked there and it prospers to this day. Another ambition took over and I decided to become a barrister. I did the rounds of the Barrister’s Clerks to obtain a position but only one Clerk, Dave Calnin, was prepared to take me on. David Willshire, a barrister with a diverse practice, accepted me as his reader. So it was that in 1973 I signed the Bar Roll, the 21st woman to do so. There were then about 8-9 women in active practice. Naturally I was mainly briefed in “matrimonial” work, although there was other “crash and bash” work, driving offences and the like. I had been active in divorce law reform before this and I continued to seek and support reform in this area. Injustices to women were rife, particularly those of violence and lack of financial support for themselves and their children. I had steady work which produced interesting and challenging times in the Magistrates Courts and the Supreme Court, then the jurisdiction for matrimonial work. I was a close friend of Lillian Lieder (later QC), who became a formidable criminal law barrister. We shared a set of robes and a wig as we didn’t have enough resources to buy a set each. One incident in the Supreme Court startled me. While I was addressing the Court, the Judge’s Associate handed a note to me. Thinking I was doing something terribly wrong I became alarmed. However the note read, “Madam you are undressed.” Even more alarmed I hastily checked my robes. Apparently some of my long hair had escaped from under my wig! I was married and pregnant at this stage which led to some confusion in the Magistrates Court as many times I was mistaken for the Applicant. During this time my interest in law reform led me to travel to Canberra with Lynne Opas (later QC), a high profile matrimonial lawyer, to lobby politicians to support the proposed new and radical Family Law Act. Again a pregnant woman doing this work was an object of curiosity. The barrister’s life was never very well suited to raising a baby without significant day-to-day assistance. Briefs come in late in the day, babies wake frequently and courts don’t wait for a child to be ready or a babysitter to turn up. When I was expecting my second child I knew it was time for a change so I decided that a solicitor’s practice would be more suitable, subsequently joining my previous employer, Cedric Ralph, in his practice when he wanted to start winding down his work hours. I was later invited to join a medium sized firm as a partner, to support their family law practice, working with Patricia Clancy AM. The practice was split into commercial law and litigation and family law and was one of the first to introduce computerized systems for tracking and costing. During these years I was also active on the Family Law Committee of the Law Institute, and with a few other family lawyers started a movement to introduce and develop children’s contact centres. These programs are designed to protect children and women at the point of changeover of children who are required to spend time with another parent in accordance with Family Court Orders. We formed a national association, conducted conferences, wrote standards, lobbied the Federal Government for funds. I received a travelling fellowship with the Australian and New Zealand Trust to examine these centres in New Zealand. I spoke at large international conferences in Paris and San Francisco about these issues. Eventually our group was successful in obtaining funding. My early experience in Family Law Reform was instrumental in understanding the process of getting government to listen. These centres continue to operate across Australia providing protection for women and children subjected to violence and abuse. Throughout this time I gave sessional lectures to law students at Leo Cussen Institute (an alternative way to do articles) and wrote materials for them in family law. I also lectured in family law for private legal education companies. I had remarried by this time and my husband was a barrister. I often briefed him in difficult family law cases. We worked well together and had some significant results. We had one case which went to the High Court and forever defined the law in that area, although we lost the case! In 1990 he was appointed as a Justice of the Family Court, retiring 21 years later. My interests in the area of violence against women and in community legal centres led me to leave the more lucrative area of private practice and to join a western suburbs community centre (Brimbank Community Centre, later Community West,) to manage the legal service. Before undertaking this position I studied for a Graduate Diploma in Equal Opportunity Administration. As part of these studies I undertook a comparison of promotion to partnership between male and female lawyers in medium sized legal firms in the CBD. No surprises that opportunities for promotion for women were few and far between and that there has been only modest improvement since then. I undertook interviews with the senior partners of these legal practices and was dismayed but not surprised at the discriminatory comments which were made with impunity. I eventually took on the management of the community centre, which provided nine government funded programs to the seriously disadvantaged residents in the west. This was a very challenging position, working in poor and cramped conditions. I was responsible for project management, program development and accountability, financial management, human resources and networking. I became the Community Legal Services representative on the Law Institute Council, eventually becoming an Executive Member as Treasurer and then Vice – President of the Law Institute (1999- 2003.) I joined PILCH (The Public Interest Law Clearing House) as a Board member – this organization matches people without funds with law firms and barristers who would undertake the work without payment. Just as I was due to become a full time President of the Law Institute I took a different direction. My work in family violence, experience with the Courts in seeking protection for women, and the inadequate nature of a response to violence against women by police, courts and our community led to my appointment as a Commissioner of the Victorian Law Reform Commission to conduct the review into family violence law and systems. In a few years we produced a large body of work, conducted hundreds of consultations, released a number of publications and the final Report. Most of our recommendations were implemented in legislation by the government. Our extensive definition of family violence was enacted and subsequently adopted by the Family Court of Australia. At the conclusion of my appointment I had serious injury and for the first time in years had a break of sorts before taking on a role as a part time in-house counsel for a family law firm which did mainly legal aid work. It was full circle, legal aid and court appearance work. These days, although I no longer practice law, it has become second nature to me, analyzing arguments about current policy issues and providing support to community organisations, friends and acquaintances. A strong sense of justice and fairness remains with me. One of the most important things that I have learnt is that the rule of law is fundamental to the proper functioning of an enlightened, morally aware democratic society. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Judith Peirce (with Nikki Henningham) Created 21 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Judith Peirce Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 digital audio tape and 5 sound tape reels (ca. 300 min.)??Clark talks about her early family life; early memories of Durban, South Africa and influence of her Swedish grandmother. In 1933 she spent a year of study in Germany attending Madchenreformreal gymnasium an der Luisenstrasse in Munich and she gives her impressions of Germany at the time. This was followed by studying German at Melbourne University and then in 1938 Clark returned to Germany to study at Bonn University and she describes the changes seen at the time. Clark then talks about her schooling at Mont Albert Central School and Presbyterian Ladies College; meeting Manning Clark in 1936 and marriage in 1939; helping him with his work and her own work of translating. Clark then gives her impressions of Melbourne University and its teachers and early memories of Canberra.??She then talks about living in Canberra from 1950; Canberra Repertory; teaching experiences and Manning’s work as well as difficulties involved in caring for the children without a social or family network. Clark discusses the standard of education in Canberra at the time; working at ANU from 1960s and the criticism of Manning Clark’s work and its effects. She then considers her values in life; reading tastes; nationalism in Australia; membership of Aborigines Treaty Committee in 1980 at invitation of Judith Wright and her plans for the future. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Heide Smith was born in 1937 and trained, then worked, as a photographer in Germany. In the 1960s she married Brian Smith and immigrated initially to Britain and then to Australia, where they settled in 1971. Heide worked as a photographer in Canberra from 1978 to 1998 operating her own studio in Fyshwick from 1981 to 1997. Her photographs include a number of Canberra and Canberrans, as well as collections of photographs of Cambodia and the Tiwi people of Northern Australia. She has been honoured by the Australian Institute of Professional Photographers, has run workshops throughout Australia and overseas and is one of Australia’s most prolific and well-respected photographers. Heide and Brian now live in Narooma and continue to work in photography, with their most recent book of photographs of Canberra published in 2012. Heide Smith (née Solstein) was born in Hannover, Germany on Christmas Day 1937 and was raised in Hamelin. Her father was a graphic artist and painter so Heide was exposed to art from an early age at a time when photography and photojournalism were increasingly popular career paths. With the intention of becoming a war photographer she completed an apprenticeship and diploma in photography working as an industrial photographer, also completing a diploma in advertising. Later, she worked as a photojournalist for a daily newspaper, shooting in a range of settings and developing her own photographs by night, working in a career which, at the time, remained male-dominated. While working as a photographer in Germany in the early 1960s she met her husband Brian Smith, a British Army officer who was, at the time, dating one of the models at the photography studio. They were married in 1963 and moved to England where Heide continued to work as a photographer throughout Europe. In 1971, having ‘outgrown’ Europe and Britain, the couple and their two daughters immigrated to Australia and Brian transferred into the Australian military. Heide first worked for The Entertainer magazine in Sydney, later photographing weddings and other events for a studio in Liverpool. In 1975, Brian was posted to Melbourne and Heide worked at a professional photo laboratory. After Brian was posted to Canberra in 1978, the family decided to settle permanently; Heide opened her own general photography studio in Fyshwick in 1981 and, after leaving the army, Brian took over the management of the studio. Heide and Brian operated the Fyshwick studio until 1997, during which time Heide also pursued a number of other projects both within Canberra and further afield. These included an exhibition of the Churches and Churchmen of Canberra in 1983, which was commissioned by the National Library and which led to Heide receiving the Australian Institute of Professional Photographers Portrait Photographer of the Year Award. Other major projects included a series of photos of the tradesmen of Fyshwick, and an ongoing series of portraits of leading Australian professional photographers, commissioned by British photographic materials manufacturer, Ilford. As an immigrant, Heide was interested in the original inhabitants of Australia and their culture, as a means to understanding where Australia itself had come from. In 1987, she made her first trip to photograph the people and landscapes of the Tiwi islands north of Darwin. These photographs formed the first exhibition at New Parliament House in 1990 and were subsequently exhibited in Sydney and Darwin, as well as being published in a book in 1990. In 2009 a second, more comprehensive book was published which documented 20 years of Tiwi life. During these trips Heide formed lasting friendships with many of the people she met and recalls this as the most rewarding project of her career. Perhaps the most well-publicised of Heide Smith’s exhibitions was the Because beauty is timeless exhibition, exhibited initially at the National Press Club in 1990. For this project, Heide photographed a number of prominent women covered in drapes, motivated by a desire to challenge the perception that women could be either intellectual or good-looking but not both. Rather, Heide wanted these photographs to ‘show that intellect and beauty could go together. One should not exclude the other, rather enhancing it.’ A number of the photographs and interviews with the subjects were included in Portfolio magazine and subsequently taken up by the mainstream media and dubbed the ‘women in sheets exhibition’. The exhibition attracted particular attention when a photograph of Ros Kelly, a Federal government minister, was withdrawn and later cropped and used alongside ‘semi-nude minister’ headlines. Media attention for this exhibition was as widespread as tabloids in London and Hong Kong. In the early 1990s Heide twice accompanied Marje Prior to post-conflict Cambodia, in order to provide the photographs for Marje’s book, Shooting at the Moon, which focussed on the role of the United Nations Taskforce – headed by Australian Lt General John Sanderson – and the Australians who were facilitating Cambodia’s first free elections. The book, and Heide’s photographs, document life in Cambodia at a time when the Khmer Rouge violently sought to prevent free elections and many civilians remained exposed to landmines and the remnants of Pol Pot’s regime. As well as being published in Shooting at the Moon, these photographs were exhibited at Sydney Town Hall and later donated to the Australian War Memorial. Throughout her time in Canberra Heide photographed a number of Canberra icons and institutions, as diverse as the Canberra Raiders and Pegasus Riding School, as well as portraits of a number of Canberrans. These include Chief Minister Katy Gallagher, Questacon founder Mike Gore, historian Manning Clark and his wife Dymphna Clark (also an accomplished academic and a friend of Heide’s). Her extensive photography of Canberra has been published in five books, the first of which, I Love Canberra was published in 1983. Her most recent book, A Portrait of Canberra and of Canberrans 1979-2012, was released in September 2012 prompting a journalist from Sydney to ask ‘what’s so bloody special about Canberra?’ When asked what motivated her extensive photography of Canberra and Canberrans over three and a half decades, Heide refers to the desire to capture her family’s new home, in particular the appeal of Canberra for a photographer: a liveable city designed with nature – whether lakes or bushland – so convenient to the city, without the pollution of larger cities, but also to the variety of people who have made Canberra their home. In 1998, Jane Dargaville of the Canberra Times referred to Heide as ‘a national treasure and her work is acclaimed around the world, but … holds a special place in the hearts – and homes – of Canberrans’. Throughout her career it has often been Heide’s portrait photographs which attracted the most attention, with Mike Seccombe of the Sydney Morning Herald remarking that ‘among photographers she has a reputation as probably Australia’s best portrait photographer’. However, Heide’s work also features extensive landscape photography. While portraits provide an opportunity to meet and photograph a variety of people, reflected in the anecdotes that Brian prepared for the Canberra Times to accompany a number of Heide’s portraits, landscapes provide, she says ‘an escape from people’. Since moving to Narooma in 1996, Heide has photographed both beach and bush landscapes of the south coast. In particular, she is interested in photographing more extensively the forests of the south coast in order to highlight the value of forests and the importance of preserving forests, and the environment more generally, in the face of climate change. The variety of Heide’s work has prevented her from falling into a trap of formulaic or cliché images and has led to extensive recognition both in Australia and overseas. Heide has been invited to present workshops and seminars to professional photographers both in Australia and overseas giving presentations at an Australian Photographic Society convention, a Caxton Awards presentation to the Australian advertising industry in Cairns, and workshops at the Light of Australia convention in Sydney. In the light of her extensive recognition and the variety of her work, it is unsurprising that Paul Burrows in Profoto Magazine in 2009 remarked that ‘she has become Australia’s most important female photographer of recent times. Of course, this also makes her one of Australia’s most important contemporary photographers, but women have particularly struggled to be seen in this country, and history will, one day, record the true value of Heide’s contribution to our visual history.’ Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Heide Smith's Canberra Blog, 2012, http://canberraphotographs.com/blog/ Resource Section Heide Smith, Portrait of a Photographer, http://www.hotd.aippblog.com/index.php/speakers/heide-smith/ Heide Smith (1937-), http://www.awm.gov.au/publications/contact/heide-smith.asp About Heide, http://www.heidesmith.com/about_heide.html Heide Smith's photostream, http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoheide/ Newspaper Article In portrait: Three decades of Canberra, 2012, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/in-portrait-three-decades-of-canberra-20120920-267ws.html Between the sheets, but no smut, Seccombe, Mike, 1990 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Catriona McKay Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ethel Scott was the first female police officer in Australia to attain the rank of Inspector. A prominent figure in policing in Western Australia, she was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for distinguished service in 1970. Ethel Violet Scott was born at Collie, Western Australia, 15 August 1911. She was a Registered Nurse at the time of appointment as a Constable in the WA Police in 1939. In 1947 as the number of women police in WA increased it was deemed that they become a separate section and a Sergeant was required to be in charge. Ethel Scott was promoted to Sergeant 3rd Class and in 1967 as that Section expanded she attained the rank of Inspector 3rd Class, the first such Commission for any female officer in Australia, and in 1971 was promoted to Superintendent. Again this was an Australian first for any female officer. That same year Ethel Scott was awarded the Queens Police Medal, before retirement on August 15, having served her entire career in the Perth Metropolitan area. During this time she was a prominent figure in policing in Western Australia; one of her duties prior to promotion to Sergeant was teaching first aid to recruits at the Police School, now known as the Police Academy. On 14 January 1983, Ethel Scott died while residing in Augusta in the south west of Western Australia. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Graeme Sisson, WA Police Historical Society Created 16 May 2013 Last modified 26 June 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Katie Hodson-Thomas was elected to the 35th Parliament of Western Australia as the Liberal Party member for the new Legislative Assembly seat of Carine. She was re-elected in 2001, 2005, but did not contest the general election of 6 September 2008. Katina Broemer was born in Adelaide in 1957 to European immigrants Karl and Elfie Broemer. She attended primary and secondary schools in Adelaide, then Hales Secretarial School and Deakin University, after which she travelled extensively through Europe. She married Kerry Hodson-Thomas, spent seven years in Sydney, then moved to Western Australia in 1987. A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Hodson-Thomas was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia for Carine (new seat) on 14 December 1996. She was re-elected in 2001 and 2005, and did not contest the general election of 6 September 2008. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 30 November 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Austral Salon of Music, Literature and the Arts was founded by a small group of women journalists in Melbourne as a club for women writers. It developed into a club for artistic and intellectual women interested in any of the fine arts and provided an important entre for many aspiring women musicians. The Salon continues it main aim of encouraging young artists by awarding scholarships and hosting student performances. The Salon was one of the first four groups to affiliate with the National Council of Women of Victoria in 1902. Such artists as Ada Crossley, Amy Castles, Nellie Melba, Florence Autral, Marjorie Lawrence, Denise Dowling and Tilly Ashton were first heard at the Austral Salon. Published resources Thesis The 'Woman Question' in Melbourne, 1880-1914, Kelly, Farley, 1983 Book Some memories of the Austral Salon, Davies, Ivor T., Mrs., [1980] From Vision to Reality: Histories of the affiliates of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1987 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records of Austral Salon, 1890-1984. [manuscript] Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 September 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers presented, 1957-1999; correspondence, 1952-1992; minutes, 1935-1988; attendance lists, 1974-1991; copes of play and papers prepared for the Society’s centenary, 1989; copies of TS ‘On the Air’ and ‘Vineyard’ by A. M. Morris; illustrations for Dr Gwen Harwood’s papers ‘Shakespearean Music’ and ‘Faithful Fido’, 1989; misc. papers presented by unknown members; misc. papers related to the Society and associated matters; scrapbook of newspapers cutting, photographs and similar articles, 1963-1988; constitution, 1977; Mavis Fagan and Irene Isles (eds), The Hamilton Literary Society: 1889-1989. Author Details Jane Carey Created 20 February 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 6814 comprises the following papers: Letters of A.D. Hope, 1983-1992; letters of Nancy Keesing, 1988-1992; and other correspondence, 1972-1982, including letters of Patrick White, Xavier Herbert, David Campbell, Lloyd Davies and Afferbeck Lauder; reports, minutes, circulars and newsletters relating to the Australian Society of Authors, 1963-1970; manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles, book reviews, stories, a radio play and writings for children, including radio broadcasts, television and film scripts; and family papers, including photographs. Other papers include correspondence and papers concerning a publication compiled by Hellyer, Tomb it may concern (1993); photographs; newspaper cuttings; circulars, brochures and printed material (7 boxes, 1 fol. Item).??The Acc04.200 instalment comprises letters from Phillip Adams to Jill Hellyer, 1980-2004, and a file relating to the book, Tomb it may concern, added on 6 September, 2004 (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Alicia Payne grew up in Canberra, encouraged by her family to develop a strong sense of community service, and began volunteering from an early age. She trained as an economist at the University of Sydney, and worked on economic and social policy, focusing on poverty and inequality, beginning her career at the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling. She joined the Australian Labor Party in 2006 and worked as a political staffer to a senior federal ALP minister, shadow minister and opposition leader before entering politics herself at the 2019 election when she was elected to the seat of Canberra. She was re-elected in 2022. Payne was born and brought up in Canberra, the daughter of Stephen (journalist and public servant) and Patricia (née Handsaker, teacher and political scientist). She completed her schooling at Lake Tuggeranong College. Her parents and grandparents were all involved in community service, encouraging her from childhood to develop a strong sense of the importance of contributing to one’s community and valuing the right to vote. She went on to a Bachelor of Economics (Social Science) degree with Honours in Political Economy at the University of Sydney where she first became politically active in the Refugee Action Collective protesting Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers. While in Sydney, Payne also became very involved as a volunteer in the drop-in centre at the Newtown Mission. Her experiences there cemented her determination to take up the fight against poverty and inequality, especially through achievement of fair wages and an effective social security system. On returning to Canberra, Payne joined the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling at the University of Canberra as a Research Fellow (2005-2009). She worked on projects including costs of tertiary education, expenditure of low income households, sustainable urban development, and labour market reform. Payne met and married Ben Phillips (economist and social researcher at the ANU) while both worked at NATSEM. They have two children, Paul (2018) and Elena (2020). Payne worked as a policy analyst at the Commonwealth Treasury from 2010 to 2015. She also continued her community work and activism through this period, including as President of the Belconnen Community Service and as a volunteer serving breakfasts at the Early Morning Centre in the city. Payne joined the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in 2006 and before and after her time at Treasury worked as a political staffer to senior ALP ministers: as research adviser to Lindsay Tanner, Minister of Finance (2009-2010); senior adviser on social policy to Bill Shorten, then Leader of the Opposition (2015-2016); and chief of staff to Jenny Macklin, Shadow Minister of Social Services (2016-2018). In the same period she served as a member of the ALP’s Administrative Committee (ACT) from 2010 to 2019, was a delegate to the ALP National Conference in 2011, and was Junior Vice-President of the ALP (ACT) from 2016 to 2018. Alicia Payne was elected to the seat of Canberra in the House of Representatives in 2019. During her first term, when Labor was in opposition, she served on committees dealing with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), and Public Accounts and Audit, and as secretary of the Parliamentary Labor Party First Nations Caucus Committee. She was re-elected at the election of 2022, when Labor became the government, assuming roles including Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories, member of the Joint Standing Committee on the NDIS, member of the House Economics Committee and Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Labor Party Social Policy Caucus Committee. In 2022, with Labor colleague Luke Gosling, Member for Solomon, she moved a private member’s bill which successfully overturned the ‘Andrews legislation’ which had removed the rights of the ACT and the Northern Territory to determine their own legislation, specifically in relation to euthanasia. In 2023 she initiated the Canberra Forum, an innovative approach to deliberative democracy to broaden the range of advice available to her from the broader Canberra community. Published resources Ms Alicia Payne MP, Australian Parliament House website, https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=144732 Alicia Payne website, http://www.aliciapayne.com.au Author Details Louise Moran Created 14 April 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Inscriptions: signed “Margaret Scott, Very sincerely” in lower left. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 January 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Contains research papers, census and statistical reports, correspondence, published and unpublished reports relating to population studies in the Pacific Islands. Includes material on American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Tokelau, Palau, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Samoa. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence relative to the formation of a health Centre in Merbein, Vic., 1925-1930 (1 file).?Minutes, general meetings, including annual general meetings, 1938-1988 (6 vols).?Correspondence, 1939-1988 (2 cases). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 1 September 2003 Last modified 4 August 2021 Digital resources Title: Members of the Women's Auxiliary National Service (WANS) Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Cadet G. E. Alexander, Australian Women's Army Service Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Heidi Victoria was elected Member for Bayswater, in the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Victoria in November 2006, representing the Liberal Party. She was re-elected at the election which was held on 27 November 2010 and again in November 2014, when the Labor Party returned to power. In March 2013, after serving as Parliamentary Secretary for the Arts and Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier of Victoria she was appointed Minister for the Arts, Consumer Affairs and Women’s Affairs. On the defeat of the Liberal Government in November 2014, she currently holds the Shadow Portfolios of Major Events; Arts and Culture and Aboriginal Affairs. Ms Victoria was born in Melbourne, Victoria. She has been involved in community work for over 30 years with not-for profit organisations including SCOPE and the Make-A-Wish Foundation . She also served on the Australian board of the National Council of Women as company secretary. Passionate about fighting injustice Minister Victoria’s move into politics in 2006 was a logical one. As the mother of a young daughter, she became involved in a community lobbying campaign to save her local primary school’s English/German language immersion program- which had been recognised as one the State’s leading bilingual education success stories for nearly three decades — from closure. Ms Victoria has a BA in Fine Arts (Photography) and spent several years running her own photographic business, specialising in portrait and event photography. Heidi Victoria completed a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art Photography) in 1988, and became the owner and National Sales Manager of a photography business. Within the Liberal Party, she has served as Branch President, Vice-President and Secretary; State and Federal electorate council delegate; fundraiser; branch development officer; and State council and Federal conference delegate. She was elected MLA for Bayswater in 2006. With interests in the arts, local sport and charity, Victoria has served as President and Director of the Make-a-Wish Foundation and Director of the National Council of Women of Australia (2003-2006). She is Patron of the Knox Raiders basketball team; Ambassador for the Victorian State Women’s Basketball Team; and member of the Wantirna South Junior Football Club. She has been Secretary of the Victorian Parliament/People’s Republic of China Friendship Group and Executive Member of the First Friends of Dandenong Creek. Events 2006 - 2006 2013 - 2013 Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 26 July 2007 Last modified 10 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Read more about Frederica (Rica) Erickson in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Rica (Frederica) Erickson was born in Boulder in 1908 to Phoebe Cooke and Chris Sandilands, filter press operator. She was the eldest of eight children. She stated in conversation, ‘I could run as fast as any boy, I could jump further than most…I never ever thought there was any difference to start with, and the men respected me for what I was able to do’. Rica attended Boulder State School. She won a scholarship to the Eastern Goldfields High School and then studied teaching, at Claremont Teachers College, working in various one-teacher schools in the South West where she painted local flora. She married Sydney Erickson in 1936 and had four children Dorothy, John, Bethel and Robin and worked raising a family, returning later to botanical studies in 1946 and writing history. She is the author of some twenty books on history and botany. In 2006 she was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in Western Australia’s history and in 2007 won a State Heritage Award. She was publishing into her 99th year. Her paintings hang in Pittsburgh, London and Australia. Throughout her life and career her work was strongly linked to the development of the collections at the J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History. Rica died in Perth on 8 September 2009. Published resources Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Rica Erickson] [sound recording] Rica Erickson papers Author Details Dorothy Erickson (Helen Morgan) Created 23 April 2014 Last modified 27 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nancy Reardon was a gifted Tasmanian athlete who excelled in rowing and netball. Appointed Head Sports Mistress at Friends School in Hobart, Tasmania, in the mid-1930s, Nancy was credited with raising the standard of netball (then known as basketball) in that state to a very high level in the period before the war. She was the first Tasmanian ever to be appointed to the All-Australian Representative netball team chosen in 1939 to tour New Zealand in 1940. Unfortunately, she never had the opportunity to represent her country overseas. The 1940 tour to New Zealand was cancelled due to the outbreak of World War Two. That same year, Nancy moved to Western Australia where, sadly, she died in childbirth a year later in 1941. Her daughter, Diana Nancy Marsh, was raised in Western Australia. Events 1939 - 1939 Nancy Reardon was selected in the 1939 All Australian Representative Netball (Basketball) team to tour New Zealand in 1940. Published resources Book A Netball History in Tasmania: 'The First Bounce' - An Account of the History of the Sport in Tasmania, Barker, Pauline, 2005 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 21 November 2006 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Michelle Ronksley-Pavia is one of Australia’s emerging scientific artists. Born in England, she has lived in various parts of the United Kingdom and Europe. She studied for eight years in Belgium, where she attended the State-operated Ecole des Beaux Arts in Brussels. Whilst in Europe she was greatly influenced by the works of the Impressionists and the Belgian Surrealist painter, Rene Magritte. Ronksley-Pavia emigrated and took up Australian Citizenship in 1992. She attended the University of Western Sydney and continued with postgraduate study in Visual Arts. Here she was drawn to the work of artists like James Gleeson and Brett Whiteley. Ronksley-Pavia exhibited widely and joined the National Association for the Visual Arts. The influence of the Association saw her career begin to flourish. Initially, Ronksley-Pavia’s artwork delved into the human unconscious using scientific subject matter with overtones of religious and particularly ethical questions in connection with DNA cloning, inequalities and racial issues. She became increasingly interested in the mixing of science and art; in Karl Jung’s archetypes of the collective unconscious; and in symbolism. During the early 21st Century she has moved to a more symbolic perspective, exploring inequalities in the new century. Her work centres on the use of bottle tops on which she paints intricate miniatures: often elements of the human body, blood cells, nerve cells and DNA structures. The human condition both internal and external feeds her paintings to produce art work which explores what makes us human. Like the viscera of painting, human bodies involve complexities of thoughts, actions and emotions mixed with chemical make-up of cells. These cells are incorporated into the bottle top images and attached using wire onto a painted canvas background. The painted bottle tops symbolise the microcosms of life within life; cells, growing and changing. The wire represents connections both internal and external, within human psyche and physical beings. Her recent works comment on the simplicity and complexity of the human internal form: the origin of all humans, no matter their culture, religion, skin colour or politics. Ronksley-Pavia’s work is firmly entrenched in her belief that all life begins the same way; that the beginning of human life contains all of the genetic information (DNA) necessary to become a human; that genetic material may vary but the formation of cells occurs in the same way worldwide. She believes that any differentiation after birth is made by society. Ronksley-Pavia ran into controversy in 2000 when she submitted her entry for the Archibald Prize – a portrait of NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan – to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The controversy centred on the amount of time the Police Commissioner was giving to having his portrait painted as opposed to solving crime problems in the notorious troubled ethnic areas of Sydney. Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph published an article questioning the Commissioner’s commitment. Published resources Newspaper Article No title, 2004 No title, 2004 No title, 2000 No Title, 2000 No Title, 2000 Edited Book The Who's Who of Australian Visual Artists, Thorpe, D.W., 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Records of Michelle Ronksley-Pavia Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 September 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "History notebooks 1925-1927, 1930, for lectures and tutorials; teachers included Jessie Webb, Orwell de Foenander and Miss Lenington(?) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence, 1989-1993; drafts, typescripts, draft filmscripts and reviews for ‘Crush’ (1991) and ‘One More River’ (1993); a typescript of an ABC radio play based on Crush; manuscripts and related papers, including two disks for Risks (1997), edited by Walker, the first proof of Walker’s contribution to Daughters & Fathers (1996) edited by Carmel Bird, and reviews of her works. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letters, correspondence, notebooks, personal documents, invitations, photographs, newspaper cuttings, publications and drafts of short stories and novels including The fringe dwellers, Green gold, A house with verandahs, An island away, Bend to the wind and The Kent Town stories. Correspondents include Frank Gare, Manuela Cannatelli, Denise Guteres, Joan Long, Derek Van Abbe, Sue Haynes, Tim Curnow, Geoffrey Dutton, Suzanne Falkiner, Florence James, Ursula Winant, Dale Spender, Macmillan, Bruce Beresford and Sue Milliken.??Correspondents include Frank Gare, Manuela Cannatelli, Denise Gutteres, Joan Long, Derek Van Abbé, Sue Haynes, Tim Curnow, Geoffrey Dutton, Suzanne Falkiner, Florence James, Ursula Winant, Dale Spender, Bruce Beresford, Sue Milliken and Macmillan publishers.?The collection has been largely arranged into the present series structure by Library staff. The papers were received in disordered state with the exception of the series of carbon copies of letters by Gare (series 1) and parts of series 2. The contents of files maintained by Gare have been retained in original order.??The collection includes correspondence with her children, including Shelley Gare. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 October 2008 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "I. FINALIST AND WINNING ENTRIES, 1982-1998?II. SCRAP BOOKS, 1956-1979?III. PRINTED MATERIAL, 1992-1994?IV. PUBLISHED MATERIAL, 1997-1999?V. PAPERS OF SIR WILLIAM AND LADY WALKLEY, 1975-1980 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 May 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "For lifesaving after the ship Centaur was attacked by a Japanese submarine, Lieutenant Ellen Savage was awarded the George Medal on 22 August 1944. Ellen Savage joined the Australian Army on 18 November 1941. She was one of 12 nurses posted to the hospital ship Centaur. At dawn on 14 May 1943, while sailing between Sydney and Port Moresby, the ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine off the Queensland coast. Only having time to grab a lifejacket, Lieutenant (Lt) Savage jumped into the sea before the ship went down. Managing not to be sucked into the whirlpool, she found a piece of debris to help her stay afloat. She and other survivors drifted until they were able to tie-up with other rafts. During the thirty-four hours that they floated, before being picked up by the US destroyer Mugford, Lt Savage attended to the wounded without disclosing the extent of her own injuries. For her courage Lt Ellen Savage became the second Australian woman to be awarded the George Medal. Published resources Resource Section Sister Ellen Savage GM AANS, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2003, http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat/2003/centaur/ellen.htm SAVAGE, ELLEN, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=186373 Book Twentieth-Century Women of Courage, Escott, Beryl E, 1999 Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999, Reid, Richard, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 May 2003 Last modified 1 August 2018 Digital resources Title: Sister Ellen Savage Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0488gb.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Hazel Claire Weekes (Claire), zoologist and physician, was born on 11 April 1903 at Paddington, Sydney, eldest of four children of Sydney-born parents Ralph Weekes, musician, and his wife Fanny Florence, née Newland. A brilliant student, she was the first woman to receive a doctorate of science from the University of Sydney. She was a Macleay fellow of the Linnean Society of New South Wales in 1927-29 and 1932-34. Weekes was well known abroad, particularly for her major contributions in the field of psychiatry. Applying kindness, understanding and common sense to the treatment of neuroses, she was always available to her patients. In demand as a public speaker on anxiety, she broadcast on radio and appeared on television while in England. Her methods, which involved accepting symptoms and ‘floating’, were more highly regarded by her patients than by her colleagues, but many of them are now incorporated into the management of anxiety. Claire Weekes was educated at Sydney Girls High School; and in 1926 graduated from the University of Sydney, receiving the University Medal in Zoology. She became a demonstrator in zoology and began doctoral research on reptile placentation, her study supported by a Macleay Fellowship from the Linnean Society of NSW and later a Rockefeller Fellowship which enabled her to study at University College London in 1929. Weekes was an exceptional young scientist in the field of evolutionary biology, as indicated by the naming of a species of lizard after her, Lygosoma weekesae, in 1929. Before gaining her D. Sc, Weekes had been misdiagnosed with TB and confined to a sanatorium. On discharge, she suffered from panic attacks. During her time in Europe she overcame her panic, assisted by suggestions from her fiancé, Marcel Aurousseau, who had observed the experience of shell-shocked soldiers in World War I. In London Weekes’ research focus changed and she worked on comparative neurology with another Australian, Sir Grafton Elliot Smith. On her return to Sydney Weekes resumed her work in zoology while hoping to move into medicine. Passionate about music since childhood, Weekes studied singing part-time at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music where she met the piano teacher and gifted accompanist Elizabeth Coleman, who was to become her lifelong partner. They travelled to Europe in 1935 where Weekes said she intended to study the physiology of voice production. She hoped to become a singer but her dreams of a shared musical career with Coleman did not eventuate. Not wishing to return to the laboratory, on their return to Sydney in 1937, Weekes opened a travel agency and contributed a weekly travel column to The Sunday Sun and Guardian newspaper. The outbreak of war doomed this enterprise and in 1941 Weekes enrolled as a mature age medical student at Sydney University, graduating MB with honours in 1945. Weekes went into general practice at Bondi and began to specialize in anxiety and nervous illness, becoming noted for the effectiveness of her treatment. She also consulted at the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children in Sydney. In 1955 Weekes passed the examination for membership of the Royal Australian College of Physicians and opened rooms in Macquarie Street, Sydney. She was appointed a Fellow of the College in 1973. In 1962 she published the first of her five books, Self Help for your Nerves, which became an international bestseller and remained in print for many years. Weekes travelled extensively in the UK and USA, becoming famous for her methods of treatment of anxiety neuroses, publicising her work in the mass media and selling audio and video recordings outlining her approach. She was appointed MBE – Member of The Order of the British Empire (Civil) – 30 December 1978 for medicine and in 1989 was nominated for a Nobel Prize. Weekes died on 2 June 1990, just one week after moving into a retirement village in Warriewood, NSW. Published resources Resource Section The Women's College - History: Famous Past Students: Hazel Weekes, http://www.thewomenscollege.com.au/history/hazel_weekes.htm Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Margy Burn and Anne Heywood Created 22 November 2002 Last modified 9 March 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers, 1972-1998, consisting of published magazine and newspaper articles. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Jan Wade served as the member for Kew in the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of the State of Victoria from 1988-99. As a Minister in the Liberal Government from 1992-99, she held the portfolios of Attorney General, Fair Trading and Women’s Affairs. Educated at Sydney Girls’ High School, Firbank Church of England Girls’ Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, Jan Wade worked as a solicitor in private practice (1964-67), in the Parliamentary Counsel’s office from 1970-79 and as president of the Equal Opportunity Board (1985-88) before entering parliament in 1988. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Jan Wade for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Jan Wade and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Looking back on my life I cannot imagine a more interesting and satisfactory career. However in many ways it also illustrates some of the problems encountered by women lawyers in the period 1960 to 2000. While they are minor compared to those encountered by the pioneering women lawyers of the earlier 20th century, I have included some of my experiences in this regard for the record. My own attitudes to a legal career contributed to my slow start in the profession. Although I enjoyed the challenges of legal education, I tended to perceive my future as being a wife and mother. Fate intervened at various times to tempt me forward in my career. I was born in 1937 in Sydney. I attended Rose Bay Public School where I was Dux of the school in 1949 and moved on to Sydney Girls’ High School. My father died in 1952 and our mother decided to return to her family in Melbourne resulting in new schools for my brother Michael and me. It also meant a significant down grading in accommodation and comfort as we moved into a very small flat where I shared a bedroom with my mother until I left home after I finished my articles in 1959. Looking back I believe my mother had many more grounds for complaint than I did. My new school was Firbank and I was there for two years. I was lucky enough to get a Commonwealth Scholarship that not only paid my University fees but also paid a small living allowance. University had not seemed to be an option so I had no plans but I recalled my father saying that I should consider law. I enjoyed the Law School at Melbourne University and found subjects for both my law and arts degrees interesting and not particularly difficult. However, I did not see myself as a solicitor and did no more work than was necessary. I completed my legal studies in 1958 with a fairly average degree. I then did my articles with Weigall & Crowther. In early 1960, like many of my contemporaries, I left for a couple of years in London. With nothing but a return ticket in my pocket, as required by my mother, I embarked on the ss. Orcades. Once there I found that female lawyers were not in demand but unqualified schoolteachers were paid quite well and not required to pay tax. I taught in a series of schools in North East London for two years. My first school in Islington (pre gentrification) was a Secondary School described as a “sink school” – a school that took pupils rejected by all other schools in the district. It was a girls’ school but no safer for that. The girls wore extremely short navy skirts and beehive hair. I was told that the previous teacher of my class had been carried out on a stretcher. The last game of netball I ever played was a staff versus student match of extreme ferocity. In co-educational schools removal of knives and other weapons was an everyday occurrence and teachers were advised never to stay on the school premises after hours and never to walk to the train station alone. On entering Parliament in 1988 I realized that my teaching career had taught me quite a lot about the behaviour I was to encounter there, such as speaking notwithstanding a barrage of rude and defamatory comment and continuing to work in a threatening atmosphere. Forgetting my return fare was already paid, I travelled home overland to South India in a Land Rover encountering a number of character building experiences such as an attack by youths when camping on the outskirts of Teheran and being saved by the Pakistani Army from possibly having my throat cut by Pathans. On my return in 1963 I endeavoured to commence my legal career only to be advised by many solicitors’ firms that, as I was married and could be having children, I was not a suitable employee. I regret to say, at that time, I thought their attitude was quite understandable. After short periods in the toy department at Myers and at a Secondary School in Preston, Zelman Cowan was kind enough to give me a job as a tutor in the Melbourne Law School. He was also very supportive when I had to confess after a few months that I was pregnant and agreed that I could continue until the baby was born in November and correct exam papers in hospital. While this is not unusual now, it seemed no one had previously seen an obviously pregnant woman teaching then. I continued to tutor on a part time basis the following year. I then had another two children and opened a solicitor’s practice at home. In 1967 I decided that academia was the way forward with working hours possibly compatible with family responsibilities. I applied successfully to be a tutor at Monash University but this did not start until February 1968 so I had a few months to wait. A friend said that the Victorian Crown Law Department was short of legal staff and may be prepared to employ a married woman on a temporary basis. I applied in order to test my capacity to work full time and to test my then part time babysitter’s capacity to also work full time. My application, which was still on the departmental file when I became Attorney General, states that I knew that, as a married woman, I could only be employed on a temporary basis and that, as a woman, I would be paid less than a man doing the same job. I said that this was acceptable to me. It was not enough however to persuade the Crown Solicitor who responded by saying he would not employ women lawyers. I was told that the Chief Parliamentary Counsel took a different view. I re-applied and succeeded. John Finemore, the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, was one of the most brilliant lawyers I have met. It was at this point my life as a lawyer changed. I was good at drafting legislation and I loved it. For the first year I kept my options open and also tutored at Monash part time. This was the end of my half-hearted approach to the law. I stayed in the Parliamentary Counsels’ Office for 12 years having one more child in 1970. My pregnancy caused some consternation. As I was still employed on a temporary basis I would normally have been asked to leave but the office was short staffed and I was permitted to stay but told that I should not attend Parliament, once it was obvious I was pregnant, as it might disturb the members. I took no notice and nobody complained. Parliamentary Counsel are traditionally members of the Bar in England and that tradition continued here. I signed the Bar Roll in 1971 and was the 13th woman to do so. As John Finemore wanted us to get the best possible understanding of the way the legal system worked he encouraged us to read at the Bar. The Justice Department gave us paid leave to do so. I read with John D. Phillips. At that time you were allowed to take briefs straight away. I got briefs to write opinions from people who knew me and briefs in the Magistrates’ Court and for fairly basic applications, such as adjournments, in the other Courts. Members of the Bar were very helpful in many ways. I did not have a wig or gown and had no trouble borrowing them from smaller members such as Gordon Spence. Ken Hayne who was in Chambers nearby gave me a word for word briefing on what to say in the first of a number of appearances for women seeking maintenance from their husbands. The only women I saw at the Bar at that time were Joan Rosanove and Molly Kingston. I don’t think they noticed me. The then Chairman of the Bar Council did notice me the first time I was at the Bar dining room for lunch and sent someone to check whether someone had smuggled in his wife. While I enjoyed being at the Bar I don’t think I did as well as I could have because I had a number of things in my life like four children, some moonlighting for the Parliamentary Counsel and eventually pneumonia. Also I found that I missed the problem solving and creative law opportunities of the Parliamentary Counsels’ Chambers so I returned to drafting. I left the Parliamentary Counsels’ Office when I was appointed Commissioner for Corporate Affairs in 1979. Initially this new appointment to head an office with a few hundred staff proved to be a greater challenge than anyone anticipated. “Woman appointed to head Corporate Affairs” was the headline on the front page of the Age. The business community was surprised, the accountants were astonished and the stock exchange was wary but supportive. More than half my professional staff refused to work for a woman. My deputies had applied for the position. One of them locked the door between his office and mine and the other returned any request for assistance annotated “if you’re so clever do it yourself”. However, after a stand off period, we found we could work together. We brought some very successful cases in the Supreme Court. I began to enjoy every minute of running a very efficient office and contributing to the National Companies and Securities Legislation. In 1984 I gave advice to the Cain government about problems with the regulation of financial institutions and the investigation of failed companies. This was not appreciated and I was removed from office. The then Attorney General Jim Kennan issued a press release stating “the moves were part of the Government’s plans to bring the Corporate Affairs Commission closer to the private sector”. It took a few years for the impact of these moves to be seen with several spectacular collapses, including the State Bank. I was transferred to become President of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. While this was a demotion in public service terms, it proved to be very educational for me in areas involving discrimination on the grounds of gender, race and disability. In 1987 I was approached by members of the Liberal Party to stand for pre-selection. Although I was not a member of the Party, they thought my experience would be useful after the 1988 election that they expected to win. I had not had any experience in a political party and, having been persuaded to stand, I was surprised to find that 26 people were standing for pre-selection for the seat of Kew. However within 3 months of joining the party I was sitting in Parliament, as the member for Kew, after a close win in a by-election. We did not win the 1988 election so I was introduced to life as a frontbencher in Opposition where I had various shadow portfolios. In 1992 we won Government and I became the first woman to be appointed Attorney General in Australia. I was also Minister for Women and Minister for Fair Trading. I held all these portfolios until I retired at the end of 1999. As Attorney General I gave the highest priority to creating a criminal justice system that would have the confidence of the public. In Opposition I had attended many public meetings where it was clear that people were disillusioned by the system and particularly by sentences for serious crime. This was not about revenge but was because they felt the impact of crime on the community was not appreciated. Victims of violent crime, especially women, considered sentences were so low that they indicated the terrible ordeals they had been through were of no concern to the justice system and that they themselves were not valued. Legislation I introduced with a view to restoring the confidence of the public in the justice system included: The introduction of victim impact statements; The abolition of unsworn evidence; The creation of a new offence of intentionally infecting someone with the HIV virus; Increasing sentences for serious sexual and violent offenders and for sexual offences involving children; Introducing indefinite sentences for offenders who are a danger to the community; Introducing majority verdicts in criminal cases with a view to avoiding traumatic repetition of trials for victims of sexual assault; Changes to the Crimes and Evidence Acts to give victims of sexual assault alternative ways of giving evidence and the installation of video and other changes in courtrooms; The creation of a DNA database of offenders convicted of sexual offences; The creation of a new offence of stalking; The introduction of indefinite intervention orders against violent spouses; Reform of the law relating to female genital mutilation; Reform of the Governor’s Pleasure system to impose safeguards on the release of detainees who have been found not guilty on the ground of mental illness. I was criticized by the opposition in Parliament and by the media for almost all of these changes but to the best of my knowledge they are all still in force, although not always being interpreted as intended. I started out with high hopes but I did not succeed in restoring public confidence in the criminal justice system. This will require a major change of approach, whether voluntary or imposed, by a profession that to date does not seem to understand that there is a problem. As the ability to see what legislation was required was my area of expertise and, as I had responsibility for Women and Fair Trading as well as being Attorney General, I probably hold the record for the most legislation ever introduced by one member of Parliament. This is not to say that I believe in an ever expanding Statute Book. I do not. However, I do believe that our Acts of Parliament and our Courts and tribunals should be of the highest quality and should meet the needs of all members of the community. I formed the view that the needs of some members of the community, including women, had been overlooked. I will not try the patience of readers by listing all of the changes I introduced however I will mention some, unrelated to crime, that I think illustrate this: The appointment of a number of women to the Supreme and County Courts. There were no women judges in Victoria when I became Attorney General; The creation of the Victorian Court of Appeal to provide a first class appellate system; A new Equal Opportunity Act extending protection to people discriminated against on the grounds of age, lawful sexual activity, personal appearance, industrial activity, personal association, pregnancy and status as a carer; The amalgamation of a number of existing tribunals to create the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal which also had an overlapping jurisdiction with some aspects of the court system giving an option on forum and type of hearing for parties to a dispute; A new Building Act revising laws and procedures regarding building requirements with disputes being heard by the Tribunal; A new Estate Agents Act separating policy and administrative and judicial functions; A new Residential Tenancies Act covering residential property, caravan parks and rooming houses and establishing a Bond Authority to overcome problems and disputes between landlords and tenants; A new Fund Raising Appeals Act requiring charities, for the first time, to maintain appropriate records and to provide information to the public about expenditure. In addition I was responsible for several pieces of legislation drafted in Victoria and to be adopted in all States such as the Consumer Credit Code, a new Co-operatives Act and a new Friendly Societies Act. In the Women’s portfolio the Office of Women’s Affairs participated in reforms throughout government and in particular in education and health. There was a lot of work done recognizing the social and economic costs for women carers and the value of their work to the community. Strategies were established to assist Koori women, rural women and older women and funding was provided for a number of initiatives. The remaining tower of the Queen Victoria Hospital was refurbished and became the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre I am not sure how many of these changes are still in place or whether they have been altered in any significant ways. It may be that there have been further improvements. I am satisfied that I did my best at the time. However, the community is always changing and things do not always work as one expects. For example, I thought the publicly available information available under the Fund Raising Act would allow the media to expose charities whose funds were being spent other than on their stated purpose. This has not happened. I retired from Parliament at the end of 1999 after 5 years in Opposition and 7 years in Government and then spent 3 years as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Victoria University. To assist me in writing this outline of my career I obtained some press clippings of a biographical nature from the Library of the Victorian Parliament. Links are provided to some of them and to an interview with Juliette Brodsky in 2009 for the Women Barristers’ Association. Reading the press clippings after so long was disturbing. I was reminded of how often I was described as shy, diffident, cautious, hesitant, nervous and with the ‘softest of voices”. While I do not have a loud voice and I sometimes have a hesitant manner because I am careful in what I say, these comments seemed exaggerated and overly repetitive. I wondered if my portrayal in the media could be due to inadequacy on my part or an attack on a woman in a position previously always held by a man. After some thought, I now see it as a sign of success. Policy is important, getting the support of your Party and the Parliament for policies is important and implementing your legislation is important. In three challenging portfolios I succeeded in these aims. In seven years I gave hundreds of speeches and attended conferences and meetings, including large public meetings, where I was questioned at length. A newspaper clipping records that, in government, only two other Cabinet Ministers and the Premier spoke more often in Parliament than I did. My performance is for others to assess but, on reflection, I do not consider I was attacked because of my gender or my personality. I think the problem was my success in putting forward and implementing policies that some in the media and elsewhere did not support. The criticism I received does not indicate that women should aim to be more like men, rather the reverse. It says success comes in many forms. Recently I was thanked by a Shadow Minister who said advice, I had given her at a training session for potential M.P.s, had proved to be very valuable. The advice was not to raise her voice when being shouted at in Parliament but to continue to speak at the same level and she would find the shouting would stop so the shouters could hear what was being said. Things have improved in ways unimaginable since my early days in the law but they have not changed enough. Women will succeed more frequently. But why is “merit” still raised so often in relation to women entering Parliament or obtaining senior positions? How do some not particularly outstanding men find their way into so many of these positions without “merit” being mentioned? Writing this has reminded me of many great times and many challenges. It has also reminded me of how much of my career has been assisted or informed by many lawyers, public servants and people whose careers or interests overlapped mine. Always more important to me than my career are my children and my stepdaughter and now their families. My husband who shares many of my interests has been my greatest supporter both at work and at home. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1998, Neto, Maryanne (researcher), 1997 Book Victorian Parliamentary Handbook / prepared by direction of the President of the Legislative Council and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, 1989 Pamphlet Tribunals in the Department of Justice : a principled approach : discussion paper, Wade, Jan, 1996 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Jan Wade (with Rosemary Francis) Created 8 July 2005 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Jan Wade Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Comprises notes and files on the French National Constituent Assembly (1789-1791); papers and files related to the doctoral thesis (later expanded to ‘The Men of the First French Republic: Political Alignments in the National Convention of 1792’); Index cards; Correspondence; Drafts; Annotated maps; Biographical files; Bibliographies. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Scrapbooks of newsclippings relating to Guide activities, including an account of the public meeting to form the Association, 1915-1980s (1 box).?Letter signed by Robert Baden-Powell, referring to approval of the constitution for the Western Australian Association, 1919 (1 item). ?Miscellaneous photograph albums relating to Guide activities, camps, buildings, people, 1920s-1980s (1 box). ?Panoramic photograph of Guide and Scout rally at Brennan Park, Perth, for the visit of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, 1931 (1 large framed photograph). ?Visitors’ book for the Association’s headquarters, 1936-1970s (3 bks). ?Register of personnel in Western Australia, 1930s (1 bk). ?Miscellaneous publications relating to Guiding, including teaching materials, training and development handbooks, test requirements, 1930s-1970s (1 box). ?Miscellaneous log books from various Guide units, including articles, reports and newsclippings, relating to their activities, 1930s-1960s (4 bks). ?Minutes of State Executive meetings, 1954-1959 (1 vol.). ?Miscellaneous records relating to the building of the Paxwold Training Centre and Camp Site, including photographs, plans, minutes of the Building Committee meetings, newsclippings, 1950s-1980s (1 box). Miscellaneous records relating to the activities of the Air Ranger Guides, 1965 (1 file). ?Newsletters, Commissioner’s News, 1969-1971 (1 file). ?Miscellaneous programs, brochures, souvenir programs of special events, handbills, 1960s-1980s (1 small box). ?Scrapbook compiled for the State Commissioner’s Challenge, on the subject of the history of the Girl Guide Movement in Western Australia, 1979 (1 large album). Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 15 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Official Historian 1939-1945 War, biographical files – Buderus L E G, Budge W F R, Buenos Ayres Campaign 1807, Bulcock R P, Bull H J, Bull M A, Bullen A B, Bullmore H J, Bullock A E, Bullock H W, Bullwinkel V Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 December 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A complete list of contents is available via the repositories online catalogue. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 June 2004 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nerida Josephine Cohen (later Goodman) was the second woman (and first Jewish woman) to practise at the New South Wales (NSW) Bar. Amongst her early mentors were Professor Gladys Marks and feminist leaders Jessie Street and Ruby Rich. She was admitted to the NSW bar in 1935. She built her business steadily throughout the 1930s and 40s, particularly in the area of divorce and industrial law, because she had an abiding interest in advancing the rights of women in the domestic and industrial spheres. During WWII, Nerida left the Bar to play a part in the war effort by working firstly with the Women’s Employment Board and then with the NSW Department of Labour and Industry as a legal officer. She was chairman of the Council for Women in War Work, which collected records of the achievements of women during the war. In 1952, she was invited to be the inaugural president of the Women Lawyers Association of New South Wales. Nerida Goodman (nee Cohen) entered the University of Sydney at the age of 15, an outstanding scholar and violinist; she resided at the Women’s College while studying Arts and Law. In the final years of her degree she was articled to Pigott Stinson Macgregor & Palmer. Following her admission on 26 July 1935, she became the second woman, and first Jewish woman, to practise at the New South Wales Bar. Her practice reflected her dedication to advancing women’s rights in the domestic and industrial settings. With mentor Jessie Street, she campaigned for equal pay for women; another preoccupation was divorce law reform. During the Second World War, she left the Bar to work with the Women’s Employment Board and later with the New South Wales Department of Labour and Industry. In 1943 she chaired the newly-established Council for Women in War Network. Marrying Bernard Goodman in 1946, she shortly afterwards ceased to practise at the Bar. Goodman was the inaugural president of the Women Lawyers’ Association of New South Wales in 1952 and the first woman to serve on the NSW Board of Jewish Education. She also served on the provisional executive of the Liberal Party when it was formed and in 1948 became vice-president of the Party’s Darlinghurst branch. An MBE granted in 1980 recognised her service to women’s affairs and the Jewish community. Published resources Resource Section Jonathan Goodman Interview: Jonathan Goodman interviewed by Juliette Brodsky 28 June 2010, Brodsky, Juliette, 2011, http://www.nswbar.asn.au/the-bar-association/pioneering-women/#/3_nerida_cohen Street, Jessie Mary Grey (1889-1970), Radi, Heather, 2002, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160396b.htm Nerida Cohen Biography, Brodsky, Juliette, 2011, http://www.nswbar.asn.au/the-bar-association/pioneering-women/#/3_nerida_cohen Thesis A History of Women in the Legal Profession in New South Wales, O'Brien, Joan M., 1986, https://womenlawyersnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/History-of-Women-in-Legal-Profession.pdf Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Nerida Goodman interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] Author Details Marina Loane and Nikki Henningham Created 8 February 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Nerida Cohen Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "[War Crimes and Trials – Affidavits and Sworn Statements:] Statements by QX20748 Cpl S Bryant-Smith; VX39327 Pte G Bryceland; QX17889 WO1 RG Bryden; QX14893 Dvr HG E Buchanan; Pte WR Buchanan; 420132 F/L DWJ Buchanan; NX2588 Pte AJ Buck; NX26109 Pte RJ Buckland; VX55003 Pte PJ Buckland; NX31853 Pte WW Bucknell; 109313 F/O RP Bulock; NX58482 Lt JD Bull; VFX61330 Lt Sister V Bullwinkel Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 December 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Material relating to “Men of Yesterday” including correspondence 1953-1958; material relating to Kiddle’s children’s novel “Moonbeam Stars”, 1945 including 13 black and white illustrations; material relating to Kiddle’s historical novel “West of Sunset”, 1949 including 4 black and white illustrations; material relating to “Caroline Chisholm”; material relating to “The Skylark”, manuscript and tape, notes; photographs; “The Progess Book” 1914-1925; diary letters written whilst in England searching for material for “Men of Yesterday”; obituary published in M.C.E.G.G.S., No. 141, December 1958. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "May Maxwell began her professional life as an actor but switched to journalism in 1907 when she discovered that it was a more stable career option than the theatre. Starting her career at Table Talk where she earned ten shillings a week, in 1910 Maxwell moved to edit the Melbourne Herald’s weekly page for women. At the end of 1921 (Sir) Keith Murdoch asked her to make the page a daily feature. Maxwell was an advocate for women’s issues and her journalism was characterized by initiative, plain talking and impatience with silly social niceties. Although she covered the high-society round of balls, parties and royal tours, she insisted on writing her notes openly, and on being allowed to wear evening dress and to mingle with guests at Government House. She interviewed female prisoners, campaigned to have nurses’ training cut by one year, and championed those women in public life who did more than go to parties. Throughout her twenty-four years with the Herald, she was closely associated with the National Council of Women. In 1911, within four months of its foundation, Maxwell joined the Australian Journalists’ Association as its second female member. She served (1925-27) on the A.J.A.’s Victorian committee and became an honorary life member (1960). In 1969 she was awarded the British Empire medal for her services to journalism. She retired from the Herald in May 1934, but continued to freelance for print and radio outlets until the day before she died in 1977. Events 1907 - 1934 1969 - 1969 1911 - 1911 1960 - 1960 1925 - 1927 Published resources Resource Section Maxwell, May (Maisie) (1876-1977), White, Sally A., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150397b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 October 2008 Last modified 1 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence between Viidikas and her agent and friend, Eve Abbey of R. F. Abbey Pty Ltd, Sydney. Viidikas writes to Abbey from England, India, Sydney, describing her journeys and writings, and discussing her financial situation. Includes cards, postcards and photographs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers of Freda Irving, c. 1932-1984, including correspondence, draft articles for Women’s Day and Australian Women’s Weekly of which Freda Irving was Editor, photographs, souvenirs and published items. Also includes further papers of Sybil Irving, Freda’s sister and first Colonel in Chief of the Australian Women’s Army Service. These papers include correspondence, photographs, memorabilia of army service days, records of service and salary, as well as published material relating to military life. Includes 4 coloured botanical illustrations (MC 6, DR 5) ; An ink sketch ; An advertisement poster for Worchestershire sauce ; WWII propaganda posters ; 3 pencil sketches by Bruce Xaire Batflour (MC 6, DR 6) ; 2 portrait lithographs, both inscribed to Freda Irving by J.S. MacDonald, 1928 (MC 7, DR 4) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 8 September 2008 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Acc13.034 instalment comprises papers documenting Hamilton’s career as a journalist, including professional correspondence, book launch and award presentation speeches, news cuttings, photographs and ephemera. Correspondents include media colleagues such as Herald sun editor Peter Blanden, politicians including John Howard and Florence Bjelke-Petersen, and readers. A portion of the papers focus on Hamilton’s retirement from the Herald sun in 2011 and include a farewell card featuring a portrait of Hamilton by cartoonist Simon Schneider (1 box).??The Acc11.181 instalment comprises a collection of folders of newspaper articles written by Hamilton, some interleaved with related ephemera. Folders are arranged chronologically by year. There are several folders entitled ‘General News’ and others relating to specific subjects including: Martin Bryant – Port Arthur massacre, 1996; Princess Diana, 1997, includes Order of Service for her funeral and A4 colour photographs of the cortege and the public in mourning; Indonesia in crisis, 1998; Jaidyn Leskie murder trial, 1998; Timor crisis, 1999; Sydney Olympics, 2000; ANZACS, 2002; Bali bombings, 2002; and Galipolli, 2005. There is also a photo album of a visit to Galipolli [2005], a collection of Hamilton’s Media Passes and cassette tapes of interviews he conducted (1 box, 8 fol. Boxes).??The Acc13.034 instalment comprises papers documenting Hamilton’s career as a journalist, including professional correspondence, book launch and award presentation speeches, news cuttings, photographs and ephemera. Correspondents include media colleagues such as Herald sun editor Peter Blanden, politicians including John Howard and Florence Bjelke-Petersen, and readers. A portion of the papers focus on Hamilton’s retirement from the Herald sun in 2011 and include a farewell card featuring a portrait of Hamilton by cartoonist Simon Schneider (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The City Girls’ Amateur Sports Association (CGASA) was established in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1918 to provide a mechanism by which the young working women of Sydney could participate in organised sport. Founding members, Eleanor Hinder and Margaret Thorp, used the experience and networks they developed while working as welfare officers at large department stores (Farmers and Anthony Hordens) to establish the association, which thrived throughout the 1920s. Membership suffered as the depression hit in the 1930s and the CGASA accumulated debts, but in its heyday, over fifty clubs were affiliated with the organisation, representing a cross section of ‘city girls’ from small and large businesses in the service and manufacturing industries. One of the most interesting experiments in Australia of recent years, in meeting the wide need for organized recreation of the younger girls in Industry, has been the overwhelming response to the City Girls’ Amateur Sports Association in Sydney,’ wrote Margaret Thorp, co-founder and president of the association. A self governing body of working young women, the idea of the CGASA was conceived of in 1918, when the female employees of six city businesses attempted to hold an Inter Firm Sports Meeting. A short time later, several of the local physical culture clubs joined to entertain a visiting American Physical Culturalist. ‘From these enthusiastic gatherings, representing so many groups of city girls,’ continued Margaret Thorp, ‘ it was borne in upon the committee, that the girls of Sydney were only waiting for a Sports Association to be formed.’ So Margaret Thorp and Eleanor Hinder drew upon their experience and resources as welfare officers employed by Anthony Horden and Farmer’s department stores (respectively) to establish the CGASA. ‘Through the formation of an independent organization for girls working in any factory, store, office or in domestic employment,’ wrote Thorp, ‘all could participate in team games and competition matches, and a community code of health and comradeship be realized, with a high standard of sport and service, enriching and re-creating the life of the City girl.’ The CGASA began with twelve affiliated business house clubs. Year by year it doubled its affiliations. In 1923 there were fifty-three affiliated clubs, touching large and small business and manufacturing houses where hundreds of girls were employed. Each affiliated club paid an annual affiliation fee of 10/-, each member paid 2/- for her yearly membership badge. The cost of running the competitions was kept to a minimum as dances and fetes were organised throughout the year to raise funds. Published resources Book 1929-1989: 60 Years of Netball in New South Wales, Dunbar, Judy, 1989 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Section Hinder, Eleanor Mary (1893 - 1963), Foley, Meredith and Radi, Heather, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090310b.htm Watts, Margaret Sturge (1892 - 1978), Rutledge, Martha, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160604b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia - papers concerning Margaret Watts, 1914-1982 Eleanor M. Hinder - papers, 1837-1963, together with the papers of A. Viola Smith, ca. 1850-1975 University of Sydney, Archives Papers of the Sydney University Women's Sports Association Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 December 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc04.058 comprises personal and business correspondence, 20 volumes of diaries and notebooks, 1961-1998, scripts of stage plays that have been performed and other stage scripts, radio plays that have been performed and other radio plays, television scripts, manuscript drafts of poems and other writings. Correspondents include Compton’s husband, Matthew O’Sullivan, her mother and sister and other family in New Zealand. The business correspondence includes letters from Compton’s agent Howard Nicholson, editors Rodney Hall and Les Murray and publishers including the ABC, Radio New Zealand and Caxton Press (8 boxes, 5 cartons, 1 oversize box).??The Acc10.076 instalment comprises typescripts of poems, short stories and articles by Compton, some annotated with criticism by Les Murray. There are notebooks containing handwritten drafts, and personal and business correspondence including letters from family, publishers and others including Les Murray and Anna Volska. The instalment also includes pocket diaries (3 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Memorandum and Articles of Association [photocopy] 1948, balance sheets, 1972-1976; share transfers and sales, 1948-1981; advertising rates, production schedules, 1960-1971; manuscript by D.D. Thorpe, “Looking back over 70 years” (misc. pages only) and biographical notes on D.W. Thorpe; Rules and Constitutions and conference programmes and reports of the Australian Booksellers Association, and other associated professional bodies; photographs of delegates at ABA conferences, all 1920s; ‘Fellowship of Australian Booksellers’ (photographic prints of biographies of early Australian booksellers, location of original unknown, 31p). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mrs Joyce Snelling, who enlisted in the Australian Army in 1942, had previously been the Voluntary Aid Commandant of the Scottish Detachment No. 9218 (which was affiliated with the New South Wales Scottish Regiment), was commissioned as a Lieutenant and organised the first Voluntary Aid training school at Ingleburn. In April 1942 Mrs Snelling was appointed Assistant Controller and Honorary Secretary of the Joint State Council whose membership included the Order of St John and the Australian Red Cross Society and held this post until her enlistment in the Army. Lt Joyce Snelling served at Victoria Barracks where she attained the rank of Major on 28 February 1943 when she became Assistant Controller Australian Army Medical Women’s Service NSW Lines of Communication Area. In 1950 Major Snelling was elected President of the Ex-AAMWS Association and held this position for 25 years. She was a Vice-Patron of the Association and a life member. From 1966 until 1973 she was President of the Ex-AAMWS Association of NSW. On 1 January 1972 Joyce Snelling was appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) for her service to ex-servicewomen. Originally from the suburb of Mosman, Joyce Snelling was known as Joyce Mary Holden. She was preparing for her career in the Army when she was just 18 as she gathered together a group of young Voluntary Aids to practice marching in the Rocks area in Sydney – to the tune of a hand-cranked gramophone set up in a wheelbarrow, pushed along as they marched. In 1939 Joyce Snelling was the founder and Commandant of the Scottish Detachment No. 9218 which was affiliated with the New South Wales Scottish Regiment with whom her husband was an officer. Later in April 1942, Mrs Snelling was appointed the Assistant Controller and Honorary Secretary of the Joint State Council of NSW and held this post until she enlisted in the Army in September 1942. She was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and organised the first Army Voluntary Aid (VA) training school at Ingleburn. After enlisting in the Army Joyce Snelling served at Victoria Barracks where she attained the rank of Major on 28 February 1943, when she became Assistant Controller AAMWS NSW Lines of Communication Area. Major Snelling coordinated the departure of the 2/12th Australian General Hospital Vas for Colombo in 1941; the large draft which left for New Guinea in 1943 to join the 2/1st, 2/5th and 2/9th AGHs; the draft of 2/8th AAMWS bound for Jacquinot Bay, New Britain; the 2/1st AAMWS who went to Torokina on Bougainville and the 118th AAMWS who were sent to Rabaul. Finally after the cessation of hostilities Major Snelling was involved with the departure of another group of AAMWS who were sent to Japan to care for soldiers serving with the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces in 1946. Sadly Major Snelling’s husband was one of the casualties of the Malayan campaign who did not return to Australia. When she was interviewed by the Melbourne Argus in October 1944 she told the reporter that she had not heard from him since the fall of Singapore. She said her husband always commended her for being a good homemaker and hostess but he was reluctant to see her as a working wife. She added that she didn’t know what he would think if he knew she was in the AAMWS! In 1944 Major Snelling’s two daughters, aged 11 and 13 years respectively, who were boarders at a girls’ school in NSW, were able to see their mother at the small flat she had near their school at weekends. So that she could spend time with them on their holidays she saved her leave whenever she could. Major Snelling’s command included some AAMWS in her area and she thought they were a fine group of women. It didn’t matter what background they had come from, they all worked together and she felt that they were all going to be better women because of the levelling influence of Army life. Military life taught them about tolerance and community spirit. Major Snelling was demobilised on the 10 January 1947 but continued to serve as a part-time officer until 1950. She was farewelled by many of her serving and ex-officers at the Wentworth Hotel on 9 January 1947. In 1950 Major Snelling was elected President of the Ex-AAMWS Association and she held this position for 25 years. She was a Vice-Patron of the Association and a life member. In recognition of her association with the Red Cross and the Voluntary Aid movement Joyce Snelling received the Queen’s Bar Brooch. She served as Honorary Secretary to the Joint State Council of the Red Cross and St John Ambulance. Briefly she was President of the War Widow’s Guild of Australia – NSW and Korean War Auxiliary. For her service to ex-servicewomen Joyce Snelling was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1972. Joyce Snelling died suddenly at her home at Mona Vale on 13 November 1988 and a memorial plaque was unveiled in her memory at the Garrison Church on Sunday 25 February 1990. Published resources Book From blue to khaki: The enlisted voluntary aids and others who became members of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service and served from 19421-1951, Mount-Batten, Betty J, 1995 Resource Section SNELLING, JOYCE MARY, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=245279 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Honours and Awards - Recommendations for New Year Honours List 1946 End of War Awards - submissions by [Quartermaster-General and Director-General of Medical Services] Officers at the Conference of Assistant and Deputy Assistant Controllers, Australian Army Medical Women's Service. Officers at the conference of Assistant and Deputy Assistant Controllers, Australian Army Medical Women's Service National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra SNELLING JOYCE MARY : Service Number - NX138446 : Date of birth - 15 Dec 1904 : Place of birth - SYDNEY NSW : Place of enlistment - NSW L OF C NSW : Next of Kin - SNELLING R National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Joyce Snelling, Major, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office Army Medical & Dental Corps. Nurses and Specialists [Applications for a Commission in the A.A.M.C. Voluntary Aid Detachments (V.A.D.)] - J M Snelling [Box 69] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The series includes correspondence, drafts, cuttings, typescripts, photocopies and research material. The correspondents include R. Buchhorn, Len Payne, Lyndall Ryan and Humphrey McQueen. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This collection consists of theatrical programs for performances in and around Canberra from the 1970s to the 1990s and of draft entries researched and written by Anne Edgeworth for submission to the Companion to Theatre in Australia, published by Currency Press in 1995. Her entries are about the performing arts in Canberra and include entries on the groups and individuals involved. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2013 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Newsletters No – (1965-1968); Forum No 2 Wednesday Luncheon Club Minute Book May 1947 – Nov 1950, Jan 1951 – May 1953, June 1954 – Dec 1954, Nov 1954 – July 1956, Feb 1955 – July 1963; Forum No 2 Thursday Luncheon Club Register and Roll book Jan 1948 – Oct 1948, Minute Book June 1948 – June 1953, Register and Roll Book Feb 1949 – June 1949, Minute Book July 1949 – June 1950; Collection of invitations and programmes for various special functions; Collection of yearly programmes 1943-1968; Collection of Constitution and Rules books.?Minute books also in Box 5074.?The John Oxley Library is in temporary accommodation until 2006. Most material is kept off-site. Researchers wishing to use the manuscript collection should contact the research librarian prior to visiting the library to confirm the availability of the material. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 112 min.)??Wendy McCarthy speaks about women and leadership; how Australian women define themselves regarding leadership; her family background; growing up in rural NSW; her schooling and education; role models and influences; the importance of enabling to good governance; the people and factors that shaped her life and her values; the difference between women and men in their approach of taking risks; feminism; her career as an executive at various organisations; her marriage; the impact of living and working as a teacher overseas; being identified as a change agent; her regard for mentors and the importance of mentoring; Dame Beryl Beaurepaire; her view on gender neutral leadership training; Plan International; her success at combining a career with family. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ada Emily Evans began her professional life as a teacher, but later blazed a trail for women in the legal profession. In 1902, at the University of Sydney, she was the first woman in Australia to earn a Bachelor of Laws, graduating at a time when New South Wales law did not allow her to practise. She was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1921 after changes to the legislation, thus becoming the first woman to be admitted to the bar in New South Wales. Ada Emily Evans was born on 17 May 1872 in Essex, England. Ada and her family immigrated to Sydney in 1883. Her mother came from a legal family and Ada was convinced of the necessity for women lawyers to remedy the prejudices of the entirely male legal system. When Ada enrolled in the Sydney University Faculty of Law, the Dean, Professor Pitt Cobbett, would not accept women law students. Ada enrolled when he was absent on leave and could not prevent her entry. Upon his return, Professor Cobbett told Ada that ‘her frame was so light that she should become a doctor’. Nevertheless, Ada continued her studies and in 1902 became the first Australian woman to complete her law degree. Ada Evans applied to be registered at the Supreme Court as a student-at-law. She was rejected on the basis that a legal practitioner had to be a “person of good fame and repute” and the legal definition of “person” did not include being a woman. From 1902 until 1918, Ada campaigned for her admission. During those years, she wrote articles on women’s issues for the Australian Star newspaper under the pen-name “A.L.B”, postulated to be an acronym for “a lady barrister”. In 1918, legislation was passed to allow women to enter the legal profession in New South Wales. In 1921, Ada Evans became the first woman to be admitted to the New South Wales Bar. Ada never practised due to the lapse of time since her graduation, poor health and family commitments. Confident and intelligent, Ada Evans was also an expert pistol shot and golf player. She died at Kurkulla on 27 December 1947. Published resources Resource Section Evans, Ada Emily (1872-1947), O'Brien, Joan M., 2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/evans-ada-emily-6118/text10491 Ada Evans Biography, Brodsky, Juliette, 2011, http://www.nswbar.asn.au/the-bar-association/pioneering-women/#/1_ada_evans Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Thesis A History of Women in the Legal Profession in New South Wales, O'Brien, Joan M., 1986, https://womenlawyersnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/History-of-Women-in-Legal-Profession.pdf Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nicola Silbert Created 1 February 2016 Last modified 31 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 25 March 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Group portrait of Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) nurses, who were former prisoners of war (POWs Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Deborah McCulloch was an English teacher and later a lecturer at Salisbury CAE. She had became involved in the women’s movement in 1971. She was a member of Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) when it started in South Australia. She was appointed as the first Women’s Adviser to the Premier of South Australia in 1976 by Don Dunstan. Deborah Mcculloch trained as a teacher and worked in South Australia as an English teacher and lecturer. She was active in the Women’s Liberation Movement. She was a member of Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL). She was appointed as the first Women’s Adviser to the Premier of South Australia in 1976 by Don Dunstan. With Yve Repin she formed FEM Enterprises. She has published poetry including Waltzing with Alice (1983), Three’s Company(1992) with Elizabeth Biff Ward and Donna McKimming. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Women's Movement South Australia, Barber, Jenny, 1980 Fresh evidence, new witnesses : finding women's history, Allen, Margaret (Margaret Ellen), 1947- ; Hutchison, Mary and Mackinnon, Alison, 1942-, 1989 Report Report on Women's non-government organizations conference, Beijing, China, August 31 - September 8, 1995 / Deborah McCulloch, Women's Electoral Lobby, McCulloch, Deborah, 1995 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Sylvia Kinder : SUMMARY RECORD Interview with Deborah McCulloch [sound recording] Interviewer: Deborah Worsley-Pine Interview with Deborah McCulloch [sound recording] Interviewer: Catherine Murphy Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 15 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Isabel Letham is renowned throughout the surfing world as ‘the first Australian to ride a surfboard’, although she disputed this, preferring to describe herself as an early Australian female surfer who experimented with riding a board in the Hawaiian tradition. She did this in 1915 at the age of fifteen when the visiting Hawaiian surfer, Duke Kahanamoku, who was giving a surfboard riding exhibition at Sydney’s Freshwater Beach, invited her to ride tandem with him. Since then, her name has become legendary within the surfing world. She has been a source of inspiration for subsequent women surfers; Australian world champion, Pam Burridge, even named her first daughter Isabel in her honour. Letham is less well known for the important role she played in teaching swimming to hundreds of young people in Australia and in the United States. In the 1920s she lived in San Francisco where she first taught swimming at the University of California and was eventually appointed to the position of Director of Swimming to the City of San Francisco in 1924. She returned to Australia to live in 1929, where she continued to teach swimming at Freshwater and Manly for many years. Letham was also important for introducing water ballet to Australia. He paddled on to this green wave and, when I looked down it, I was scared out of my wits. It was like looking over a cliff. After I’d screamed “oh no, no!” a couple of times, he said: “Oh, Yes, yes!” He took me by the scruff of the neck and yanked me on to my feet. Off we went, down the wave.’ This is how Isabel Letham remembered the moment that would ultimately make her an icon of Australian women’s surfing history. In January 1915, Duke Kahanamoku – ‘The Big Kahuna’ – the man generally regarded as the inventor of modern surfing, visited Sydney’s Freshwater Beach to conduct an exhibition of the new sport. The event attracted an enormous crowd, with fifteen year old schoolgirl Isabel Letham amongst their number. After three hours of entertaining the audience on his own, the Duke called for a volunteer to help him demonstrate tandem surfing. Isabel was chosen and, as a result, she goes down in history, not as the first Australian surfer to ride Hawaiian style – a common misconception that she never promulgated herself – but as an early Australian female surfer who experimented with riding a surfboard in the Hawaiian style. Whether or not she was the first, or one of the first, it is indisputable that Isabel Letham had a long term impact on the surfing world. She was an inspiration to young Australian women, like Pam Burridge, who dared to break into to the masculine world of professional surfing in the 1970s and 80s. When Burridge won the inaugural women’s surfing championship in May 1980, Isabel, at age 80, was present to see her claim victory. ‘I should be home with my knitting,’ she said, ‘but I’ve waited 65 years for this.’ Burridge honoured Letham by naming her first daughter Isabel; the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame honoured her with induction in 1993. If you surf in Australia, then you should know something about Isabel Letham. But who could have guessed what the immediate impact of catching those waves would be on Isabel’s life? Isabel was already known locally as a sports mad tomboy and a bit of a dare devil, particularly in the water. She loved aquaplaning, body surfing, stunt swimming and diving, and, after the Duke’s visit, Hawaiian surfing. She had a feisty, forthright personality that had been influenced by the feminist thinking of her mother and the various like-minded women who came regularly to meet at their house. And to top it all off, she was gorgeous. So when someone suggested to Isabel that she might be able to make it in the movies, she decided to take the chance. After all, the afternoon surfing with the Duke had given her an international profile. The Los Angeles Record, for instance, described her as ‘A Sydney Sea Gull’ and ‘Diana of the Waves’; she was the world’s greatest stunt swimmer who ‘became proficient at aqua-planning while dodging sharks in Sydney harbor’. The Hawaiian Star Bulletin claimed that ‘As far as features go, Miss Lethem is the prettiest swimmer to come out of Australia. As for diving, she is another Annette Kellerman.’ In a world where the popular press and movie houses were constantly on the look out for the next celebrity, Isabel had as much chance as the next lively young thing. The choice between taking on a year as a sport instructor in a Sydney girls’ school or trying her luck in Hollywood, especially when her father was bankrolling the second option, was an easy one for Isabel to make. She left for the United States in 1918. By all accounts, the journey across the Pacific and through the United States was marvellous fun. Isabel hobnobbed it with movie stars and directors and met members of the Russian aristocracy who were down to their last fur coat after fleeing the revolution. She travelled into Native American Territory and flirted with journalists and soldiers returning from the war in Europe. She didn’t skimp on anything; she enjoyed being a young, modern woman, on her own, away from Australia. So certain was she that she would stay in America, she took our United States citizenship. She loved her life and loved where she was living. Unfortunately, none of this ‘networking’ translated into serious work and her father, becoming impatient with her living it up without any return on his investment, decided he would no longer finance her trip. To make matters worse, she began to find life in Los Angeles less than perfect. As one report would have it, ‘She found that distance had lent enchantment to many aspects of Hollywood.’ So Isabel travelled north to San Francisco, which she liked better and where she had friends, and did what she had done as a young girl growing up in Sydney. She took to the water. Reflecting on her life when she was in her eighties, Isabel observed that a key difference between the United States and Australia in the period between the wars was that ‘the opportunities in the United States were high for women’. Given the way Letham’s career developed in San Francisco during the 1920s, it is hardly surprising she came to that view. After first resorting to hairdressing to pay the rent, which she hated, she convinced the staff at the University of California at Berkeley to appoint her as an assistant teacher of swimming in 1923. She also taught swimming for the San Francisco playground commission during the summer of 1924. When the position of Director of Swimming for the City of San Francisco came up, she was immediately appointed to it. The results she was getting with her innovative, ‘scientific’ teaching methods had become common knowledge at Berkeley and amongst the parents of children who learned from her during the summer. One of her first initiatives as director of swimming was to establish a club system, like that which existed in Australia, and a regular season of competition. Once this was up and running, she organized, in 1926, San Francisco’s first women’s competition; an invitational that involved local and national champions. The press were amazed by the speed with which she had improved the swimming of ordinary folk and elite sportspeople alike, and were certain that she had been ‘instrumental in starting several of the present day champs on their careers’. Arguably, an Australian woman can claim some responsibility for the system that produces the champion swimmers of the United States today! She tried to teach them a thing or two about surf life-saving. In the 1920s, swimmers were so ill equipped to handle the California surf, and the surf life saving methods so inefficient, police actively discouraged people from swimming on the beaches because they could not guarantee their safety. Letham wanted to introduce Australian methods to the beaches of San Francisco and, in preparation for the task, applied for membership of her ‘local’ club, the Manly Surf Club, believing that she would carry more authority with the people of San Francisco, especially the police, if she could claim that qualification. Her application was knocked back because she was a woman which meant, according to the president of the club, whose reasoning was a reflection of the prevailing views of women in surf-lifesaving up until the 1980s, ‘she would not be able to handle the conditions in rough seas’. He argued this, despite the fact that Isabel had helped struggling swimmers in pools and in the surf for many years. Under the headline ‘SEX BAN ON GIRL LIFE-SAVER, SO AUSTRALIA LOSES ADVERTISEMENT’, the journalist for the San Francisco Daily News registered his disappointment. ‘Although she has saved many lives she is not eligible for membership in a surf live-saving club on account of her sex,’ he complained. ‘In refusing Miss Letham the privileges of membership of the Manly Surf Club, the association, it is felt by beach-men generally, is losing an excellent opportunity of broadcasting Australian life-saving methods,’ the report continued. No doubt this was one occasion where Isabel believed that relative to Australia, the United States was a land of opportunity for women! Letham returned to Australia for a short visit in 1926 to a fair degree of press interest and a wealth of experience in sports administration she had gained whilst overseas. What she saw did not impress her much, and her public criticism may not have gone down particularly well with city developers here. She had a lot to say about the state of Melbourne’s playgrounds and beaches, with which she was very disappointed. After swimming at St Kilda Beach she observed that ‘There isn’t a beach in California to equal those of Melbourne but civic enterprise has given California some of the finest bathing pools in the world.’ Joking, she told observers that she would ‘like to take St Kilda beach back to America with her when she returns. They would make SOME pool out of it,’ she declared. She was similarly unimpressed by the lack of foreshore development around Brighton Beach. In 1929, Isabel Letham returned to Sydney permanently. After hurting her back (she fell down an open manhole in the middle of a street), she was fearful of how an injured woman who relied on being physical for employment might survive without family, as the effects of the stock market crash began to be felt in the United States. She taught swimming at the Manly pool and wrote articles about swimming for the Manly Daily News. Years of getting into the pool with her students, rather than bellowing instructions from the edge, began to take their toll on her health. She suffered terrible rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic fever. Between bouts of illness, however, she continued to teach. She was especially busy during World War 2, claiming that parents wanted their children to know how to swim ‘in case the Japanese came’. She also found a ready market for students to learn water ballet, which she had first seen performed the way she taught it in the United States. She opened the Freshwater Water Ballet school in the late 1940s. It could therefore be said that Isabel Letham was responsible for bringing synchronized swimming to Australia. She is definitely responsible for safety and security in the water of hundreds of people who grew up around Freshwater and the Manly and Curl Curl Swimming Pools. Throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s, there would be few people learning to swim in those areas that didn’t come in contact with her. As she herself said, ‘Swimming instruction gave me the opportunity to meet all sorts of people in all sorts of places.’ She never had the opportunity to meet a husband, although, she hastened to add, that was not through want of suitors. The practicalities of wanting a career between the wars, and being an only child, intervened. She was too busy when she was young and then, when she was less busy her mother got ill and she needed to care for her. Before she know it, ‘The time just went by’. She added, however, that, it wasn’t only practical considerations that kept her single. ‘I was always looking for something I never found,’ she said in her eighties, ‘although I had some very interesting friendships’. Many of these friends remained close as she lived out her later years. Surfing made Isabel Letham famous, and the ceremony she requested on the beach at Freshwater after she died in 1995 shows how important the surf was to her own sense of identity. Those ‘interesting friends’ who could, joined members of the local Freshwater community as they gathered for a ceremony at the beach, and her ashes were scattered in the midst of a circle of board-riders formed out the back of the surf-break. Those who attended claimed that at that time, the memories of the past and of the surfing history of Australia were rekindled. But focusing on those four waves surfed with a man, even if it was someone as charming, skilled and intelligent as ‘The Duke’, has meant we have forgotten the extraordinary things that Isabel did as a single woman across two continents. Teaching the people of the city of San Francisco and the northern beaches of Sydney how to swim are no mean feats at all! Establishing a program to encourage the young women of California to swim competitively was a complex administrative task that continued to bear fruit well after she left the United States. It’s sad to think, especially in the Year of the Surf Lifesaver, that the Manly Surf Club frustrated her efforts to make the beaches safe for the swimmers of San Francisco by not allowing her to officially import proven ideas and techniques from Australia. No doubt, were she alive today, Letham would be delighted with the international success of women like Carla Gilbert and Emma Snowsill, women for whom active and official participation in the surf lifesaving movement is central to the development of their sporting careers. Watching Snowsill’s victory in the Commonwealth Games Triathlon in Melbourne last year; now that would have been something worth leaving the knitting for! Events 1993 - 1993 1915 - 1915 Isabel Letham tandem surfs with Duke Kahanamoku at Freshwater Beach 1923 - 1923 Appointed as assistant coach at the University of California at Berkeley 1924 - 1924 Appointed the Director of Swimming for the City of San Francisco 1926 - 1926 Organises the first Women’s Swimming Competition to be held in San Francisco Published resources Book Pam Burridge, Stell, Marion, 1992 Article Net surfing gets one for the girls, Webb, Carolyn, 2007, https://www.theage.com.au/technology/net-surfing-gets-one-for-the-girls-20070117-ge404y.html Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Northern Beaches Council Library Isabel Letham Collection Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 27 December 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Surfboard riding, weight of board 56lbs. 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        "text": "Goldie Alexander is an author of books, short stories and articles for adults and children of all ages. Her book Mavis Road Medley (1991) was chosen by the State Library of Victoria and the Australian Centre for Youth Literature as one of their 150 ‘treasures’ to celebrate 150 years of their library. Goldie was born in Melbourne just before the 2nd World War. Her parents had migrated from Poland in the late 1920’s, and when she was small, she hardly spoke any English. Her earliest memories are of a time when young children were allowed to wander the streets without anyone worrying too much about them getting into trouble. Her first four Young Adult books were ‘Dolly Fiction’ novels published under the pseudonym of Gerri Lapin. Her first book under her own name, Mavis Road Medley, is a time travel fiction exploring the world of Princes Hill and her parents’ struggles to survive the Depression. Since then Goldie has written more than 35 books, and many short stories and articles. These days Goldie works full time as a writer, teaches creative writing and lectures and takes workshops in Universities, TAFE colleges, clubs and schools. She has been a co-winner in the 2000 and 2001 Mary Grant Bruce Award for two long short stories, and is known for her historical, science fiction and mystery novels, plus her short stories and non fiction work. When Goldie isn’t writing and revising, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, reading, watching DVD’s, walking – both in the city and the country – cooking and knitting. She says knitting is a great way to meditate and come up with new ideas. Publications not listed below include Unkind Cut, Transported, Killer Virus (2002), Easternport Bay, Cowpat$, Starship Q, Trapeze, The Little Big School, 6788, Seawall, Astronet (1996), Shape-Shifters, Captain Gallant, A Hairy Story, An Interview with Cindy Centipede, Children’s Rights, Australia’s National Identity, The Importance of Technology in People’s Lives, The History of Bread. Slim Pickings, Understanding Jack, Everything Changes, and Working It Out were written under the pseudonym of Gerri Lapin. With Hazel Edwards, Alexander co-wrote Excuse Me! Outrageous Plays, Right and Wrong (5 plays), Email Murder Mystery and The Primary Drama Resource Book. She also co-wrote Thrills and Spills with Allan Baillie and Michael Hyde. Published resources Book Body and Soul, Alexander, Goldie, 2003 The Business of Writing for Young People, Edwards, Hazel and Goldie Alexander, 1998 Mavis Road Medley, Alexander, Goldie, 1991 Unjust Desserts, Alexander, Goldie, 2003 Surviving Sydney Cove: the diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Alexander, Goldie, 2006 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 May 2007 Last modified 2 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Addie Viola Smith, lawyer and feminist, held various offices with the Australian Federation of Women Voters and the League of Women Voters (New South Wales) from the late 1950s until her death in 1975. She was Liaison Representative for the International Federation of Women Lawyers to the United Nations, 1952-1966. She was a member of the Australian delegation that attended the International Alliance of Women Congresses in Dublin, 1961, and Trieste, 1964. She served as Vice-President, 1968-1970, and was made an honorary life member in 1972, of the Australian Local Government Women’s Association. Addie Viola Smith (1893-1975) was born in Stockton, California, U.S.A.. After graduating from the Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., in 1920, she embarked on a career in the U.S. Civil and Foreign Service. From 1920 to 1948 she held postings in economic and trade promotion in China, and from 1949 to 1951 she served with E.C.A.F.E.. From 1952 to 1966 she was representative to the U.N. for the International Federation of Women Lawyers and a member of its Executive Committee. A Vice-President of the Australian Local Government Women’s Association from 1968 to 1970, she published, in 1975, Women in Australian Parliaments, Past and Present : A Survey. In 1957 she had made her retirement home with Eleanor Hinder at Neutral Bay in Sydney. She assisted and significantly augmented Eleanor’s genealogical researches. Among Smith’s duties as executrix of Eleanor Hinder’s estate, were the arranging and annotating of her friend’s papers for deposit in the Mitchell Library, tasks that she faithfully and diligently executed over the rest of her life. Published resources Resource Section Smith, Addie Viola (1893-1975), Barker, Heather, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160316b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection A. Viola Smith - further papers, 1957-1975 Eleanor M. Hinder - papers, 1837-1963, together with the papers of A. Viola Smith, ca. 1850-1975 Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 December 2004 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Probably at Atsugi airfield, Japan, probably on 1 September 1945. A group of Australian nurses rescued after being three years and nine months as prisoners of war (POW) of the Japanese. Seventeen were captured at Rabaul and one, Dorothy May (or Maye), at Kavieng early in 1942. They were then taken to Yokohama and kept there until 1943 when they were transferred to a camp at Totsuka about twelve miles away. The group included: Mavis Green of Raymond Terrace, NSW; Dorothy May (or Maye) of Sydney, NSW; Lorna Whyte of Hay, NSW; Jean Christopher of Kadina, SA; Jean McLellan of Weranga, Qld; Grace Kreuger (or Kruger) of Townsville, Qld; Kathleen D Bignell civilian plantation owner of Rabaul; Eileen Callaghan of Woodville North, SA; Alice Bowman of Lawrence, NSW; Joyce Oldroyd-Harris of Bowenfels, NSW; Jean Anderson of Grafton, NSW; Mavis Cullen of Yass, NSW; Kay Parker of Croydon; Dorothy Beal of Gladstone, Qld; Mary Goss of Binalong, NSW; Dora Wilson of Newcastle, NSW; Daisy Keast of Junee, NSW; Joyce McGahan of Warwick, Qld. The women travelled by bus from the camp to Atsugi airfield. From Atsugi they flew to Okinawa, then the Philippines, before returning to Australia. One of the women is wearing a checked cloth suit. The nurses were taken from the tropics of Rabaul to the cold winter of Japan and had no winter clothing. The Japanese gave them a roll material and Dora Wilson made suits for each of them. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "I. Correspondence. (a) Letters from Frederick McCubbin to his wife, 1907. (b) Letters to Frederick McCubbin and his wife. Correspondents include Dame Nellie Melba, Edward Officer, Dame Ellen Terry and J. C. Williamson. © Letters to Frederick McCubbin from Arthur Streeton, 1900-1915. II. Photographs, catalogues and other papers. Includes photographs of paintings by Frederick McCubbin, legal and official documents, notes and lectures. III. Correspondence of Louis McCubbin. Mainly concerning exhibitions of Frederick McCubbin’s work. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Geraldine Doogue, one of Australia’s most respected journalists, has been a reporter for the West Australian, the Australian, 2UE, Channel 10 and the ABC; presenter of ABC Radio National’s Life Matters, Sunday Profile and Saturday Extra; and host of ABC TV’s Nationwide and Compass. She played a major role in ABC TV’s coverage of the Gulf War, receiving a United Nations Media Peace Prize and two Penguin Awards. Geraldine Doogue completed a Bachelor of Arts and planned to train as a schoolteacher in Perth, but in 1972 applied on impulse for a cadetship in journalism with the West Australian instead. She went on to write for the Australian, and spent two years at the London bureau for the Murdoch group’s Australian papers. While being interviewed for ABC TV’s Four Corners about the boom in diamond mining in Australia in 1978, Doogue impressed executives with her on-camera presence and was offered the position of compere for ABC TV’s Nationwide program in Perth. She later hosted the NSW edition of the program in Sydney, before working on commercial radio at 2UE, and commercial television as co-presenter of Channel 10’s Eyewitness News with Steve Liebmann. She returned to the ABC in 1990. Doogue played a central role in ABC TV’s coverage of the first Gulf War in 1991, and received two Penguin Awards and a United Nations Media Peace Prize for her efforts. In 1992, she began presenting Life Matters for ABC Radio National and retained the post for eleven years. Since 1998, she has been host of ABC TV’s Compass program, investigating spirituality, philosophy and belief. She also hosts ABC Radio National’s Saturday Extra, discussing international politics and Australia’s role on the world stage. In 2000, Doogue was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for social and cultural reporting. In 2003, she was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the community and to the media on issues involving ethics, values, religion and social change. In recent years, Doogue has taken a particular interest in the relationship between Islam and the Western world. In 2003 she co-produced the Compass program ‘Tomorrow’s Islam’ with Peter Kirkwood, examining the ways in which Western Muslims have been seeking solutions for some of the most pressing issues in 21st century Islam. Doogue and Kirkwood published their book, Tomorrow’s Islam: Uniting Age-Old Beliefs and a Modern World (Sydney, ABC Books) in 2005. On 3 November 2005, Doogue gave a presentation at the University of Wollongong on the role of the media as peacemakers. Earlier that same day, Prime Minister John Howard had announced amendments to the Government’s anti-terrorist legislation in response to a specific terrorist threat. This raised the question, said Doogue, of whether freedom of speech should be sacrificed for national security. Any law that limited the capacity for good journalism was cause for concern, and the role of good journalism was to draw people into the community around them: ‘Respectful public debate is the life blood of democracy’, she told her audience, ‘encouraging accountability and decent behaviour. Good quality journalism that doesn’t dodge difficult areas, but is careful when it goes into them, encourages problem-solving’. Events 1972 - Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 17 June 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Alicia Katz was the first female candidate to stand for the Parliament of Victoria. She stood for Barwon as a Labor candidate at the Legislative Assembly election of 26 June 1924, and gained 3,046 votes. She was defeated by the Liberal party candidate, E. Morley, on 6,954 votes. Alicia Katz was born Elisia Johannah Watkins in Canning Street, North Carlton. Her father, James Watkins, was an engineer from Montmouthshire in Wales, who had arrived in Melbourne with his parents in 1867. Her mother, Annie Farley, hailed from County Meath, Ireland. The two were married in St. James’ Church, William Street, Melbourne, in 1872. As a young woman, Alicia developed a passionate belief in the Socialist cause. In 1900 she married Frederick Katz, son of a German migrant, and together they spoke at Socialist gatherings at the Bijou Theatre or in Richmond, at the corner of Swan and Docker Streets. In 1901 Alicia gave birth to their only child, Olive. The Katz family moved to Tasmania in 1911, but returned to Melbourne in 1914 due to Olive’s ongoing health problems. Alicia Katz joined the Women’s Peace Army. At its September 1915 meeting, she moved a resolution that (among other things) governments of the world put an end to bloodshed; women be granted equal political rights with men; and Australian women be given direct representation in the council appointed to consider the terms of peace. Her resolution was seconded by Amelia Pankhurst. Frederick Katz was a loyal member of the Federated Clerks’ Union, and went on to stand for parliament several times, with limited success. He and his wife became heavily involved with the Labor Party. By 1921, Alicia was president of the party’s Women’s Organising Committee, working alongside Muriel Heagney and Jean Daley. On 12 May 1924, the Act allowing women to stand for Victorian parliament was passed. Somewhat unfairly, an election was called for June 26, leaving potential women candidates precious little time to prepare their campaigns. By 10 June 1924, the Herald was publishing an article headed ‘On Her Own: The Woman Candidate’. Alicia Katz was the only woman to stand. In those few short weeks before the June election, Katz did the rounds of the local town halls, addressing audiences on questions around free education, the welfare of women and children, and the need for women to enter politics. Her speech for the Women Citizens’ Movement on ‘The Status of Women in the 20th Century’ was reported in the Argus on 28 May 1924. Women had bettered their position, Katz explained, by entering the labour market, and there was great scope for women’s work. Katz felt that marriage laws needed reforming – when a woman is forced to adopt the nationality of her husband, ‘she loses her individuality as a citizen’ – and she was frustrated by the constraints placed upon women when confined to household duties. She did not shy from telling her audience that ‘she would like to do something besides playing her part as a wife and mother’: ‘Undesirous as a man-made world had become, she did not desire a woman-made world, but wanted a world based on the attributes of both’. In the final event, Katz was defeated by the Liberal candidate for Barwon, E. Morley. She and Frederick continued their involvement in politics, sometimes controversially. Frederick’s anti-conscription stance led to a vicious bodily attack by a group of soldiers who tarred and feathered him, while Alicia’s anti-prohibition stance, and advocacy on behalf of the Liquor Trades, saw her reprimanded by the Victorian Central Executive. Many years later, in 1947, Frederick did become a member of the Senate. Frederick Katz died at home in Albert Park in 1961. Alicia Katz followed three years later, in October 1964, aged 88. At the time of her death, there were no women in the Victorian parliament. Dorothy Goble was the first woman elected in twenty years when she won the seat for Mitcham in 1967. Published resources Pamphlet Alicia Katz: The First Attempt, Rivis, Joan, 1988 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis and Barbara Lemon Created 10 July 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence, telegrams, programmes, newspaper cuttings, music (mainly solo songs), photographs, articles by and about Hart, unpublished novels and other papers of Fritz Hart. Parry, David Bispham, George Russell (“A. E.”), Nellie Melba, B. J. Dale, Philip Heseltine (“Peter Warlock”), W. K. Magee, Percy Grainger, Angela Thirkell and Granville Bantock. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Australian Women’s Guild of Empire was founded in 1928 by Adela Pankhurst Walsh. It was modelled on and affiliated with the London based Women’s Guild of Empire. The Guild initially raised money for working class women and children hit by the Depression. It also advocated the need for industrial cooperation, and Pankhurst frequently spoke out against strikes. It was a conservative, patriotic organisation which developed strong anti-communist sentiments. Throughout its existence, the Guild adopted the following objectives: 1. To combat Communism and all forms of class government. 2. To establish industrial co-operation and peace. 3. to uphold the Christian ideals of life and safeguard the family. 4. To awaken the peoples to a sense of responsibility for the well-being of the community. 5. To deepen the realization of the value of British citizenship. 6. To assist in the development of Australia as a part of the British Empire. Published resources Newspaper The Empire Gazette, 1929-1940 Book Australia and the Empire, Walsh, Adela Pankhurst Pamphlet Industrial co-operation: Policy speech of the Australian Women's Guild of Empire, Walsh, Adela Pankhurst, 1931 Book Section Brazen hussies and God's police fighting back in the depression years. [Revised version of article published in Hecate, v.8, no.1, 1982], Stone, Janey, 1998 Anti-political political thought. -Non/ Labor reactions against party politics during the Great Depression in New South Wales, Loveday, Peter, 1981 The Australian Women's Guild of Empire, Castle, Josie, 1980 Journal Article The Enthusiasms of Adela Pankhurst Walsh, Damousi, Joy, 1993 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 December 2004 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "SYDNEY, 1945-12-06. MISS JOAN BUCKNELL AND MISS JOAN RICHARDSON, TWO AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES, RETURNING HOME AFTER BEING ATTACHED TO HMS FORMIDABLE. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dame Eadith Walker was the sole heir of merchant and pastoralist Thomas Walker. Over the course of her life she gave very generously of her time and money to a wide range of charitable causes, including substantial sums to the women’s college at the University of Sydney, and to the Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital. Born in Sydney in 1861, Eadith was the only child of merchant Thomas Walker. Her mother died when Eadith was not yet ten years old, and she was raised by her aunt Joanna at the Walker property, Yaralla at Concord. Eadith was taught to take her wealth seriously from an early age, and this lesson came to the fore when she inherited her father’s fortune of just under £1 million in 1886 at the age of 25, though her cousin, James Thomas Walker, was appointed executor of the will. Thomas Walker’s wealth had come from his interests as a merchant, pastoralist and shipowner. He was born at Leith, Scotland, in 1804 and emigrated to Australia in 1822 to work with his uncle, later taking charge of the business. Eadith Walker had a wide range of interests and a sincere love of sport and animals. She was an executive member of what is now the RSPCA, vice-president of the Sydney Rowing Club and patron of the Yaralla cricket club. She was involved with the Queen’s Jubilee Fund, the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children and the Royal Hospital for Women, where she served as vice-president of the auxiliary in 1922. Dame Eadith was a member of the council of the new Women’s College at the University of Sydney for two years from 1893. Between 1895 and 1930, she offered an annual scholarship of £50 – known as the Yaralla Scholarship – to go to a high achieving student wishing to reside at the College, but requiring financial assistance to do so. To the original building fund she subscribed £1,000, to be paid over only when the fund had reached £4,000 by public subscription. During wartime, through to 1920, Eadith set up a camp at Yaralla where she accommodated and cared for soldiers suffering from tuberculosis, 32 at a time. She donated a second home, ‘Leura’, for use by consumptive soldiers, and established a library at the Prince of Wales Hospital. Eadith was heavily involved with the Australian Red Cross Society, as a member of its executive committee, and the Returned Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Imperial League of Australia. She continued to support the Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital, founded with a £100,000 gift from her father, as well as various religious and educational institutions including her local church. Eadith Walker was awarded the C.B.E. in 1918 and the D.B.E. in 1928. She died at Yaralla in 1937, leaving her £265,345 estate to the Walker Trusts. Published resources Resource Yaralla and the Thomas Walker and Concord General Hospitals, Olympic Co-ordination Authority, 2000, http://www.oca.nsw.gov.au/ecology/ferry-concord-yaralla.cfm Concord Heritage Society, Concord Heritage Society, 2000-2002, http://www.concordheritage.asn.au/index.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book The Walkers of Yaralla: The History of Thomas Walker and Dame Eadith Walker, Skehan, Patricia, 2000 Yaralla and the Walker Family: a brief history of Thomas and Eadith Walker and the Yaralla Estate, Concord Heritage Society Some Houses and People of New South Wales, Griffiths, Glynde Nesta, 1949 Letters from Louisa: A Woman's View of the 1890s, Based on the Letters of Louisa Macdonald, First Principal of the Women's College, University of Sydney, Beaumont, Jeanette and W. Vere Hole, 1996 My Grandfather's House, Rutledge, Helen, 1986 Resource Section Eadith Walker, Lobb, Robyn, 2002, http://www.users.bigpond.com/roblobb/html/rivendell_page_3.html Walker, Dame Eadith Campbell (1861 - 1937), MacCulloch, J., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120398b.htm Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia Order of service for the dedication of the Dame Eadith Walker, D.B.E., memorial fence, gates and flood lights by the Most Reverend Howard West Kilvinton Mowll, D.D., Archbishop of Sydney on Saturday, 20th September, 1941 Author Details Clare Land and Barbara Lemon Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 17 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "After an upbringing in the bush Lucy Frances Harvey (Lu) Rees worked as a shearers’ cook on a family property during the Depression; she moved to Canberra with her three sons in the late 1930s. In 1950 she became inaugural secretary of the Canberra Branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers remaining a central figure in the organisation for many years. In 1955 she opened Cheshire’s Canberra bookshop which she managed for ten years. Always passionate about children’s literature she amassed a personal collection that became the nucleus of the ACT Children’s Book Council collection. It was donated to the University of Canberra where it is named the Lu Rees Archives of Australian Children’s Literature in her honour. She was created a Member of the Order of Australia and awarded the inaugural Dromkeen Medal for services to Australian children’s literature, both awards being announced posthumously. Lucy Frances Harvey (Lu) Rees was born on 19 August 1901, the eldest child of James Harvey Waugh and Jeanette Isabel Waugh, nee Johnston, at Guy Fawkes Station, a Waugh family property, near Ebor, on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. Her schooling was limited to a short period following a horse-riding accident that made attendance difficult. Drawing on her father’s collection of poetry and the classics, she was largely self-taught, a child with a highly retentive memory, who claimed always to have a book in her saddle bag. After the family moved to Sydney she worked at several Red Cross convalescent homes caring for World War I veterans. In 1925 she married Wilfred Benjamin Rees, a former member of the First AIF; they had three sons, John, Paul and Lauron. During the Depression the family moved to a Waugh family property at Bogan Gate where Lu cooked for station hands and shearers until the early 1930s when Wilfred Rees was appointed by the Director of the Australian War Memorial, Colonel J. L. Treloar, to market war histories and other Memorial publications in Queensland. Sometime later Lu was also employed by Colonel Treloar in the War Memorial’s Brisbane office. At the beginning of 1938, after the Australian War Memorial Brisbane’s office closed, Lu Rees and her three sons moved to Canberra. Lu was employed at the Australian War Memorial at first in a clerical position and later as assistant to Dr Graham Butler in researching the medical volumes for the History of World War I. Wilfred Rees after putting his age back ten years, enlisted at Townsville in the Second AIF as a sapper on 18 September 1941. The family effectively separated as after his discharge in June 1945 he farmed a soldier settlement block in Queensland. In 1950 Lu became inaugural secretary of the newly formed Canberra Branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers. For the next 25 years she was a familiar figure at monthly meetings that featured prominent local and international writers. Much of the planning for the Fellowship’s landmark anthologies, published in the 1950s, took place at meetings of the Editorial Committee at her home in Reid. It was largely through her initial approach to publisher, Dr Andrew Fabinyi, that F.W. Cheshire published Australia Writes, edited by T. Inglis Moore, in 1953; Australian Signpost, edited by T.A.G. Hungerford, 1956, and Span, edited by Lionel Wigmore in 1958. In 1955 she accepted a new challenge to open and manage a bookshop for Cheshire’s in Canberra. It was an unfamiliar field for which she was given a few weeks training at Cheshire’s headquarters in Melbourne. Under her management, Cheshire’s bookshop in Garema Place, Civic, became a friendly meeting place and a venue for book launches until she retired in 1968. On behalf of the Commonwealth Government, she was responsible for selecting and dispatching representative collections of Australian books as gifts to emerging nations. Always interested in children’s literature, in 1957 Lu Rees was instrumental in establishing the Children’s Book Council in the ACT becoming first president. She remained an office bearer or committee member until her death and published a history of the Council. When the Children’s Book Council became a national body, she was successful in gaining support from the Literature Board and Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for Children’s Book Awards. She assembled exhibitions for the international children’s book fairs and in Canberra inaugurated Christmas gifts of books for needy children. As evidence of her passionate devotion to children’s literature, she amassed a personal collection of children’s books and compiled archival files on Australian children’s authors and illustrators. She was indefatigable in writing to authors, editors and publishers seeking copies of children’s books, particularly international and translated editions, and her generosity in sharing her resources became legendary. Her books and files became the nucleus of the Children’s Book Council’s ACT Branch’s collection which in 1980 was donated to the Canberra College of Advanced Education (now University of Canberra) for study and research purposes. It was named the Lu Rees Archives of Australian Children’s Literature in her honour. Lu Rees was a tall woman, rangy in build, described in an obituary as having ‘immense vitality, generosity and warmth’. Beneath a gentle manner she had a consummate ability to get things done. Those who knew her could never say ‘no’ to the many inspired projects she instigated. Over many decades, innumerable meetings of the organisations she cherished were held in her lounge room, collections of children’s books lined her walls and her garage developed into an office annexe. In 1964 she was awarded Member of the British Empire Medal for services to literature. In 1983 she was created a Member of the Order of Australia for services to Australian children’s literature and was awarded the inaugural Dromkeen Medal, both these awards being announced posthumously. The Dromkeen Medal was awarded for her significant contribution to the appreciation and development of children’s literature in Australia. Lu Rees died in Canberra on 23 January 1983. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book The Children's Book Council of Canberra, 1957 to 1972: a brief account of the formation and activities of one of the six Councils which now form the Children's Book Council of Australia, Rees, L. F. H., 1972 Lu Rees - An Appreciation and a Tribute, McDonald, Kath, 1982 Journal Article The Children's Book Council Collection of Children's Books by Australian Authors, 1980 The Dromkeen Collection of Australian Children's Literature, 1983 A Gift to Japan, 1978 Book Section The Lu Rees Archives of Australian Children's Literature, Alderman, Belle, 2003 Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18. Vol. III: Problems and Services, Butler, A.G., 1943 Resource Section Rees, Lucy Frances Harvey, Clarke, Patricia, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rees-lucy-frances-harvey-14414/text25493 Lu Rees Archives of Australian Children's Literature, http://www.canberra.edu.au/lurees/about/bibliography Newspaper Article Finis to a Bookshop Chapter: History of Dalton's Bookshop, Canberra, Dalton, Teki, 1987, http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/39151220 Obituary, 1983 Journal Lu Rees Archives: Notes, Books and Authors, Mills, Carol and Harman, Lauren, 1983 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0048 Fellowship of Australian Writers, ACT Branch Records National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Lucy F. H. Rees, 'A note for Alec Bolton, NLA, on handing over the early records of the Fellowship of Australian Writers in Canberra', Reid ACT Papers of Patricia Clarke, 1887-2010 [manuscript] Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 15 January 2013 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Diary of Anne Drysdale, September 1839 to May 1854. Includes regular references to weather conditions.??Diaries individually catalogued and digitised; use digital copies. Author Details Janet Butler Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Holograph letter to Gwen Harwood, in answer to letter of appreciation, collection of poetry to be published by Edwards & Shaw. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Crocodile Dreaming is the story of two estranged half-brothers, Burrimmila and Charlie, who must struggle against their own jealousy and distrust for each other. When there is a violent death in the community upsetting the spiritual world, Burrimmilla is unexpectedly called upon to fulfil an ancient tribal obligation. As a result he embarks on a journey to find the sacred stone which holds the power of his mother’s dreaming. If he finds the stone, he must return it to its secret belonging place. When the brothers finally come together, they are confronted by the spirit of their mother, who leads them to the special creation place, and the possibility of restoring peace and harmony in the natural world.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Tailoresses’ Union minutes (1897-1906), letterbook (1885-1886), correspondence (1873-1883), membership register (1882-1883); Tailors’ Trade Protection Society/Federated Clothing Trades Union office files (1871-1922), savings banks passbooks (1888-1916); Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia Federal Council minutes, papers and balance sheets. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 December 2017 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "After working as a governess in England, Felicia emigrated to Queensland in c.1862 with her four siblings. In 1865 she married school teacher Francis Hopkins. Felicia taught singing and needlework to the girls at Francis’ school, and from 1913 – after the death of her husband – to 1924 she ran their bookselling and stationary business in Rockhampton. During the late 1860s, Felicia and her husband founded their own children’s home for orphans at Athelstane Range. Felicia was also one of the first members of the Crusaders’ Temperance and Home Mission Society in the area, which Francis and his brother had founded. In addition, she assisted with the foundation of the Band of Hope movement and held a class on her front verandah for more than 45 years. In 1888 Felicia had become involved in the Young Women’s Christian Association’s (YWCA) Rockhampton Branch. She later became honorary secretary of this branch, a position she held for 24 years. In 1899 Felicia undertook a tour of Queensland, setting up new branches of the YWCA along the way. Felicia was also a member of the Society of Friends and the Benevolent Society. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Felicia Hopkins, 1841-1986 [manuscript] Central Queensland University [Marriage certificate of Francis Hopkins and Felicia Smith, from the Society of Friends] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 7 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Well is an unusual psychological thriller about two very different women, both with emotionally impoverished past lives who form a tender, manipulative relationship. The world they have created is threatened when one of them runs over a stranger on the road near their isolated house. The accident triggers a battle of wills between them. (01:30:00) Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dora Margaret Cumpston was born in Armadale, Victoria, in 1916 to parents John Howard Lidgett Cumpston and Gladys Maeva (Walpole). Margaret’s family moved to Canberra when she was 12 years old and she was educated St Gabriel’s and later Telopea Park Intermediate School. Margaret attended the Women’s College at the University of Sydney and in 1939 she graduated with a Master of Science (MSc.) degree. Margaret was awarded a Linnean Macleay Fellowship in zoology for her MSc. She went on to lecture in zoology at New England University College from 1940 to 1945, followed by an appointment as a zoology tutor at the University of Sydney, while her husband completed his medicine degree. (Margaret had married Terence Edward Spencer in 1941). Margaret was appointed as entomologist instructor at the Malaria Control School at Minj, in the Western Highlands of New Guinea, in 1954. Together Margaret and her husband undertook an investigation of malaria in the highlands, followed by various other studies in surrounding areas over the following years. Margaret was also awarded a World Health Organisation research grant to study anopheline; a type of mosquito that carry malaria. Margaret had numerous articles published in a wide variety of journals including, The Journal of Medical Entomology, The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, The Australian Journal of Entomology, and The Papua New Guinea Medical Journal and The Australian Journal of Science. Margaret was also the author of a number of books. On Australia Day 1997, Margaret was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) ‘for service to community health through research in the area of malaria entomology and mosquito-borne diseases’. The following year she graduated with a PhD from the Tropical Health Program of the University of Queensland. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Dora Margaret Spencer, 1924-2003 [manuscript] Papua New Guinea papers, 1951-1998 [microform] Papers of Isobel Bennett, 1946-1999 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Margaret Spencer interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letter from Dr Flora Murray inviting Dr Vera Scantlebury to take an appointment of Assistant Surgeon to the Endell Street Military Hospital in London, 24 Oct. 1916; Cablegram from Dr Flora Murray regarding appointment of Dr Vera Scantlebury to Endell Street Military Hospital in London. World War I military uniform buttons and insignia worn by Dr Vera Scantlebury at Endell Street Military Hospital. Photograph of Dr Vera Scantlebury and her brother Dr George Clifford Scantlebury, c.July 1918; Certificate that accompanied OBE medal, 1935. Autograph book of Vera Scantlebury (c.1906-1907) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 25 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Files relating to peace activities during Jo Vallentine’s time as a parliamentarian. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Beatrice Holt was a leading figure in the development of mothercraft and child welfare services in Canberra, and was active in community organisations in Canberra from the 1920s. Bea studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1923. She then worked with Dr Vera Scantlebury (Brown) who piqued her interest in infant welfare. In mid-1927 her father, W.H. Sharwood, was appointed Commonwealth Crown Solicitor. Bea moved with her parents to Canberra in October. She quickly opened her own practice, becoming one of the Territory’s first female doctors. In December 1931 she married Dr John Holt, whom she had met when she was hospitalised with a serious infection. With the exception of service during World War Two, Bea did not practise medicine after her marriage. From an early stage Bea was involved in community affairs. She was appointed to the Provisional Committee to establish a Canberra branch of the Young Women’s Christian Association and, from 1929 to 1931, served on its Board of Directors. As her children moved through school, Bea served as President of the Telopea Park Infants School Mothers’ Club and later, as President of the Canberra High School Parents and Citizens’ Association. She was elected President of the ACT branch of the Australian Federation of University Women in 1962 and 1963, and was acting head of the national body for most of 1964. In 1971 she was made a life member. Bea’s most significant contribution, however, was made through the Canberra Mothercraft Society. In February 1935 she was proposed as a council member of the society. Her membership co-incided with one of the most turbulent periods in the society’s history, which saw the resignation of all its officers and councillors. At the subsequent Annual General Meeting in May, Bea was elected President. She was to serve a total of nine and a half years in the office (1935-36, 1940-43, and 1948-50) and was made a life member in 1937. In that time she oversaw: an increase in the number of mothercraft sisters; the purchase of a car (sisters had relied on volunteers and buses); the opening of the first permanent Baby Health Centre at Manuka; the introduction for the ‘Help for Mothers’ scheme (nucleus of the Emergency Housekeeper Service); the formation of the Canberra Kindergarten Society; and the establishment of an Occasional Care Centre. Bea, who had suffered the loss of two of her own children, noted that her work with the Mothercraft Society was motivated by her ‘absolute conviction that the giving of health services & assistance to mothers & babies is of primary importance’. Published resources Book Royal Canberra Hospital: An anecdotal history of nursing 1914 to 199, Newman, Janet and Warren, Jennie, 1993 Journal Article Obituary: Beatrice Holt, Donovan, Ella, 1988 A short story about a long time, 1943-1988, Rudduck, Loma, 1989 Obituaries: Holt, Dr. Beatrice, Wardle, Pat, 1988 Magazine Yarralumlan: Magazine of the Canberra High School, 1949 Yarralumlan: Magazine of the Canberra High School, 1950 Newspaper Article Personal, 1927 Professional, 1927 Resource Section Holt, Beatrice (Bea) (1900 - 1988), Waterhouse, Jill, 2007 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Australian Federation of University Women- ACT, 1944-1985 [manuscript] ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0043 Canberra Mothercraft Society Records Author Details Nicole McLennan Created 4 January 2013 Last modified 20 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Evonne Cawley, a member of the Wiradjuri people, was the first indigenous Australian to win a Wimbledon Tennis Championship in 1971. She left her hometown in Barellan, New South Wales, to live in Sydney to concentrate on her tennis, under the management of Mr Vic Edwards, a well known Sydney tennis coach. She had a successful professional tennis career, lived in the United States of America for a period, then returned to live in Queensland after the death of her mother in 1991. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1972 for services to tennis and Officer of the Order of Australia in 1982. Evonne Cawley was the daughter of Kenny Goolagong, a shearer, and his wife Linda, née Hamilton. She grew up in Barellan, country New South Wales, one of a family of eight children, and was educated at Barellan primary and central schools. She was a good athlete and showed an early aptitude for tennis, which members of her family and friends encouraged. She was given special dispensation because of her age to join the local tennis club at the age of seven. She attracted the interest of Mr Vic Edwards, the owner of the Victor A Edwards Tennis School (VAETS) at the age of eleven, when a tennis clinic was held in Barellan in 1961. On the suggestion of Edwards, she moved to Sydney permanently in 1965, at the age of fourteen, to concentrate on her tennis career and lived with the Edwards family. Edwards coached her and later became her personal manager. She attended Willoughby Girls High School and completed her School Certificate in 1968, then undertook secretarial studies at the Metropolitan Business College. She entered the New South Wales Championship at the age of fifteen and in January 1968 played in the Australian women’s singles championship. At this point she was ranked as the top junior in New South Wales. In 1970 she travelled to London to compete at Wimbledon for the first time and was a member of the Australian Federation Cup team in the same year. The year 1971 was a highlight of her career, as she won the French Open, the British Hard Court Championships and Wimbledon. In 1972 she was appointed Member of the British Empire (MBE) for services to tennis, and received her award at Buckingham Palace. She married Roger Cawley on 19 June 1975, in London, and followed it up with a blessing at St Clements Anglican Church and open-house party in her home town of Barellan later in the year. On her marriage, she severed her business relationship with Vic Edwards and settled in the United States of America. Her first child, Kelly, was born on 12 May 1977 at Beaufort, USA and her second, Morgan, on 28 May 1981 in the same hospital. She won her second Wimbledon title in 1980. She also played with the Pittsburgh Triangles until 1976. She received her second honour, the Order of Australia, in 1982. After nursing injuries for a period, she retired from competition in 1983. In 1988 she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at Newport, Rhode Island, USA. She returned to Australia to live in 1991 at Noosa Heads on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and has travelled around Australia, coming to understand the importance of her Aboriginal heritage and introducing her American born children to their indigenous culture. She was a member of the Board of the Australian Sports Commission from 1995-1997. Since 1997, she has held the position of Sports Ambassador to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Communities. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book 100 great Australians, Macklin, Robert, 1983 Home! The Evonne Goolagong Story, Cawley, Evonne Goolagong and Jarrett, Phil, 1993 Evonne, Cawley, Evonne and Collins, Bud, with Edwards, Victor, 1975 Great Australian Women in Sport, Brasch, Nicolas, 1997 Book Section Cawley, Evonne Fay; AO 1982, MBE 1972; Sports Ambassador to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Communities., 2002 Goolagong Cawley, Evonne (1951- ), 2000 Aboriginal women, Richards, Michaela, 1988 Resource Section EVONNE GOOLAGONG CAWLEY, 2002 Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Journal Article Evonne and her family, 1977 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 31 July 2002 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Canberra, ACT. 1955-11-23. Three members of the Womens Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) are at the counter. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "29 minutes??Francie Kay was born at Millicent and her father was a forester at Mt Burr. She did nursing at Balaklava, ran a private hospital, and then went into social work. Francie studied in Melbourne and returned to work in the TB Service where she travelled around SA visiting sanataria. She worked in the service for 25 years and helped to rehabilitate many patients. She attended various conferences worldwide. She then moved to the Walkerville Nursing home and helped develop an assessment system and a day and craft centre. She then had an overseas holiday and returned to work for Burnside to look at their community services. It was discovered there were many problems with elderly people and Pine View was established and community activities were organised to provide companionship. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Series 1: Correspondence?Series 2: Newspaper articles?Series 3: University correspondence?Series 4: Application for the Chair of Microbiology at the University of Adelaide?Series 5: Papers on the History of Microbiology at the University of Adelaide?Series 6: Talks, addresses, interviews, newspaper articles on Microbiology?Series 7: Lecture notes and practicals?Series 8: Industrial and Applied Microbiology (Food Technology)?Series 9: Australian Society for Microbiology?Series 10: Medical Sciences Club of South Australia?Series 11: Penicillium, penicidin, streptomycin and other ‘new drugs’?Series 12: Antibiotics in fungi/plants?Series 13: Salmonellas?Series 14: Essential oils?Series 15: Phytochemical survey?Series 16: Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine?Series 17: ANZAAS meetings?Series 18: Roseworthy Agricultural College – Wine (Marketing) course?Series 19: Studies in bacteriology and immunology Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 March 2017 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Royalene Edwards is a committed Christian campaigner who represented the Call to Australia Party in the 1991 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Riverstone. Royalene Edwards graduated in Architecture from the University of Sydney in 1960. She married Graham Edwards soon after graduation. She has worked as architect, and as a church activist for church organisations in Australia, Papua New Guinea and South Africa. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 5 April 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gwen Harwood speaks of her life and experiences in regard to the writing of her poetry. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series consists of file registration and movement cards created by the Office of the Status of Women (OSW) controlling CRS A463, Correspondence files, annual single number series – portion relating to the Office of the Status of Women. CRS A463 is one of the main correspondence file series for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (CA 1401).?The files controlled by this series deal with all types of women’s issues and include ministerials. Author Details Clare Land Created 4 December 2001 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 HR 2 MIN?Oral history?Australia: New South Wales, Woy Woy Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gwendolyn Morris was known for the photographs she created in the Pictorialist style, as well as for her architectural photographs. Gwendolyn Morris was born on 17 January 1904, in South Australia, into a wealthy family. Her father was Hugh Allan Morris and her mother May Gwendolyn Russell. The family travelled to England in 1923 where they stayed for six to seven months, travelling and sightseeing, and then returned to Australia. As a young adult Morris would travel to England again, this time staying for a year, attending the London Polytechnic, where she studied photography. She was offered a job with the BBC at the Savoy Hill studios, where her work entailed photographing presenters, printing and enlarging prints for the Radio Times and The Listener. During her spare time she wandered through London, taking her own photographs of the architecture, Covent Garden, The Strand and Trafalgar Square. Two of her well-known photographs – Cleopatra’s Needle and Adelphi Arches – were photographed at night. The architectural forms are engulfed by darkness and are only lit in small places by the dim street lighting, creating a mysterious ambience. Her photographs were included in the catalogues of the Adelaide Camera Club. The Art Gallery of South Australia purchased some of her photographs in 1926 (this was the first State Gallery to add photography to its collection). She married James Wilmot Griffiths and moved to Berkshire, where she had three children. They moved back to Adelaide for a number of years after the war, but returned to England until her husband retired in 1966. Morris was also a keen flower arranger and studied under Constance Spry in England. She went on to become a leader of the ‘Flower Ladies’ at the Lyceum Club in Adelaide. Collections Art Gallery of South Australia Events 1920 - 1930 2007 - 2008 Gwendolyn Morris’s work featured in A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography, 1840s-1940s 1981 - 1981 Gwendolyn Morris’s work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 Published resources Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 A century in focus: South Australian photography, 1840s-1940s, Robinson, Julie, 2007 CD Rom Dictionary of South Australian Photography, 1845-1915 [electronic resource], Noye, Robert J., 2007 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 16 November 2016 Last modified 15 December 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Oral history interview with Wendy Bacon. The interview covers topics such as Professor Bacon’s family background, her student days, her term as co-editor of the student paper at the University of New South Wales, Tharunka, that paper’s anti-censorship campaign and resultant court cases, and her career in journalism.??The Archives also holds press cuttings on Wendy Bacon. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 3 September 2009 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Shirley Fenton Huie associated with the writing of two published histories: ‘Ships Belles – the story of the WRANS’ and ‘The Forgotten Ones – women and children under Nippon’. Other items in the collection include a souvenir book of photos relating to Crete campaign in the Second World War, press cuttings, memoirs of prisoners of war and correspondence with Angus and Robertson and Harper Collins. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 June 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jan Kennedy was best known for her photography of children, as well as for photographing society people, and for her cinematic work with Stuart Gore. Jan Kennedy was born Grace Webb in 1906. The Webb family lived in Pingelly, Western Australia, and the children were educated there. Both father and mother were originally from Sydney, where her father had been a chartered accountant and her mother a milliner. Kennedy had a romantic nature and loved poetry, ballet and photography. In particular, she was fond of using oil paints to tint her photographs. When she turned 18 she moved to Perth and worked with the photographer Axel Poignant at his Hay Street studio (which subsequently moved to London Court, off the Hay Street Mall). The studio specialised in child photography and photography of women. Working at the studio she became proficient in all aspects of photography, including camera use, tinting, and darkroom work. During the war years she took over the Axel Poignant Studio and changed her name from Grace Webb to Jan Kennedy. The press admired Kennedy’s photographs for their human element, ‘in which character and expression are important pictorial features … Many of her subjects possess the power of suggesting emotion by facial expression’ (The West Australian). She became well known for her photographs of children and society people, and exhibited her work in international photography salons held in Germany, South Africa, Britain, India and Belgium. Kennedy married the photographer Stuart Gore, who was known for his aerial photographs and pictorial landscapes. The couple collaborated on projects and made a number of documentary films. These documentaries were the first sound and colour films to be made in Western Australia. Gore and Kennedy travelled across Australia for eight months and produced the See Australia First film series, which depicted the Great Barrier Reef, the pearling industry, life on cattle stations, and aspects of Aboriginal tribal life. These films were independently funded and produced, and subsequently screened in many locations around Australia, including at the Derby Leprosarium. The couple received a great deal of press coverage for their work at the time. Gore and Kennedy also toured the films across America, England and South Africa. In 1950 the couple successfully sold them to the London County Council Film Education Board and Green Lanes Film Productions in the UK. During their time in London, Kennedy worked at studios in the West End where she tinted photographs and painted miniatures. In 1968 the couple returned to Australia. In 1981 she died of leukaemia at the age of 75. Technical Jan Kennedy used a Leica camera for her ‘at home’ pictures of children, and used an Aldis lens on a quarter plate reflex camera with which she produced her best work. She was interested in cinema and experimented with colour, including Finlay colour, Dufay colour, as well as a Kodachrome movie camera. Collections Stuart Gore Collection, State Library of Western Australia State Records Office, Battye Library, State Library of Western Australia Events 1930 - Jan Kennedy exhibited her work in international photography salons held in Germany, South Africa, Britain, India and Belgium. Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Newspaper Article Filming West Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148655294 Filming Way Round Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96216179 See Australia First, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75553731 Skill with Camera, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47823918 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 16 November 2016 Last modified 6 December 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sabine Hedwig Willis is a well known feminist and historian who ran for election once only. She was the ALP’s candidate in the 1976 New South Wales Legislative Assembly election for Northcott. Sabine Willis was born in Frankfurt Main, West Germany, on 24 February 1938. She was educated at Beecroft Public School and Hornsby Girls High School and completed her tertiary education at Macquarie University (BA Hons, 1971) and at the University of New South Wales (PhD, 1974). She became Lecturer in politics, School of History, Philosophy and Politics, Macquarie University in 1980, having been Senior Tutor from1974 to 80. Her publications include Enquiry into the Status of Women in the Church (editor); Women, Faith and Fetes, Essays in the History of Women and the Church in Australia (editor), and the 1983 Backhouse Lecture, An Adventure into Feminism with Friends. She was a member of the Commission on the Status of Women (NSW) from 1973 and an executive member of the Australian Council of Churches from 1976-1978. She is presently a member of the Society of Friends. Sabine was married in 1959, (dissolved 1975) and has two sons. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 16 December 2005 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "6 digital audio tapes (ca. 540 min.)??Scheinberg speaks of her early life and education in Hungary, how she emigrated to Australia following World War II, her second marriage to Albert Scheinberg, how she started Holdsworth Gallery in 1969 leading to its first exhibition, the Australian art scene in 1969, the early problems she had to overcome, the work of Arthur Boyd as the theme of her 2nd exhibition, recalls the top Australian artists at that time such as Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, John Perceval, charles Blackman, Fred Williams, the closing of the Bonython Galleries, Australian art in the 1970s, her views of various artists such as Donald Friend, Sali Herman, Desiderius Orban, Charles Blackman, her use of mixed exhibitions, the types of people who would buy art, her view of art critics, how the Holdsworth Gallery gradually expanded, more artists, how artists are chosen with the aim of creating a comfortable relaxed atmosphere, erotica exhibitions, Christmas sales, sculptures, grants from the Arts Board, differences in the art market between Sydney and Melbourne, recalls some smaller unrecognised artists, more art critics, why she decided to close the Holdsworth Gallery. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Archives collection includes both paper documents and objects that relate to the history of MLC/Oakburn College, Scotch College and Scotch Oakburn College. These include uniforms, school magazines, a large photographic collection, trophies, books, badges and other memorabilia. The paper collection includes press clippings, speeches, reports, letters, committee minutes to name just a few. Created 21 March 2019 Last modified 21 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Field was a once only candidate for Parliament (Independent candidate, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Kogarah, 1988) and a successful local government councillor. She was elected to the Kogarah Municipal Council in 1999 and 2004. Anne Field has been a State high school teacher of Economics and Geography since 1975 and has continued to study herself. In 1988 she was studied accounting at the St George College of TAFE and later went on to complete a BA, Dip Ed and Dip Urban Studies. She was Treasurer of St George Hospital and Deputy Principal of the Saturday School of Community Languages at St George Girls’ High, a member of the Kogarah Historical Society, and a member of the Kogarah Bicentennial Committee and the International Youth Year committee. She was elected to Kogarah Council in 1999 and re-elected in 2004. As a councillor she has been committed to the maintenance of the Council’s Heritage List and has been a delegate to the Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils Heritage Forum since its inception in 1997. She is an active member of the Councils Estuary Floodplain Management working party, Access working party, Community Safety Working party and the Urban Planning working party. She has been President of the Management Committee of Kogarah Community Services since 2000. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 6 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Oval shaped brass badge with a wreath around a diamond shaped silver shield, emblazoned with the southern cross. St Edward’s crown surmounts the badge. A simple scroll on the bottom is embossed ‘WRAAC’. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 9 minutes??Stroma Buttrose was born at North Adelaide in 1929 and was brought up in a house on two acres on the Esplanade at Brighton. Stroma’s parents were both born in Adelaide. Sir Douglas and Lady Mawson lived next door to their Brighton home and Stroma talks about other neighbours. She went to school at Hopetoun and then Woodlands at Glenelg where her interest in geography and later town planning began. She completed a Diploma in Arts and Education at Adelaide University and at 21 travelled to Europe with her family. After returning to Adelaide she taught Geography while completing a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Geography. In April 1957 she was appointed temporary female draftsman’s assistant to the government town planner. She organised the Land Use Survey covering Gawler to Willunga and the Development Plan for the Metropolitan Area of Adelaide was published in the Spring of 1963. During 1962 Stroma was one of ten students doing the Master of Town Planning degree at Adelaide University with Professor Rolf Jensen. In February 1973 she was appointed a Commissioner of the Town Planning Appeal Board. She found the Lyceum Club a haven during her busy life. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elsie Curtin maintained an interest in social issues and politics throughout her entire life. Her work in these areas continued even after the death of her husband, Prime Minister John Curtain. For her service to the community, Elsie Curtin was appointed Commander to the Order of the British Empire (CBE) on 1 January 1970. The youngest daughter of Abraham and Annie Needham, Elsie was born in Ballarat on 4 October 1890. The family migrated to South Africa in 1898 and it was here Elsie received her education. At the age of 17, she joined the Social Democratic Federation in Cape Town, however in those early years, she maintained a strong commitment to the Methodist Church. The family returned to Australia in 1908, settling in Hobart. She met John Curtin (Prime Minister of Australia, 1941-1945), the newly-appointed Secretary of the Victorian Timber Workers’ Union, whilst he was in Hobart working on Labor’s State Election campaign. The pair were married in Perth on 21 April 1917 and later had two children; Elsie Milda in 1917 and John Francis in 1921. Elsie maintained an active membership in the Perth branch of the Labor Women’s Organisation (LWO), which she had joined in 1917. In 1924, she became the founding Treasurer of the Fremantle branch and also served on the committee responsible for building the Cottesloe Infant Health Clinic and the Subiaco Choral Society, where she sang contralto. During John Curtin’s prime ministership, Elsie spent time at The Lodge in Canberra, as well as maintaining the family home in Cottesloe and assisting with the electorate work in her husband’s absence. She supported her husband in all aspects of his prime ministership and undertook many public engagements as his wife including launching ships, entertaining official visitors, attending diverse functions, and promoting the austerity campaigns and war loans. For almost four years, Elsie managed her duties in Canberra, electorate work in Fremantle, and two households on opposite sides of the continent, with the capable assistance of her daughter in Perth and Lodge housekeeper Mrs Pincombe in Canberra. Each year she lived for several months at The Lodge, scheduling as many official events as possible into these months. After her husband died in office on 5 July 1945, Elsie took part in public funeral services in both Canberra and Perth, aware of the widespread national mourning of the wartime leader. Elsie was elected as the Western Australian President of the LWO in 1944; a position which she held until September 1946. She continued to maintain an active association in the proceeding years. During the war, Elsie had also been patron of the Cottesloe Surf Life-Saving Club and served on the Central Council of the Red Cross Society. In October 1949, she was a guest of the Chifleys at The Lodge while she was in Canberra for the ceremonial founding of the John Curtin School of Medical Research. Elsie was also a guest at The Lodge during Prime Minister Menzies administration, after a visit to New Zealand. In 1955, Elsie became a Justice of the Peace and served on the Married Women’s Court and as a visitor to Fremantle Gaol. She was also awarded life memberships of a number of organisations, including the Perth branch of the Association of Civilian Widows, the Royal Association of Justices, the Women’s Justice Association and the Fremantle LWO. She was also a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Cottesloe Women’s Service Guild and was president of the Ship Lovers Society. In 1970, Elsie was appointed Commander to the Order of the British Empire for ‘services to the community’. Elsie Curtin passed away at Cottesloe on 24 June 1975. Events 1970 - 1970 For ‘services to the community’ 1917 - Labor Women’s Organisation (Perth Branch) 1924 - 1924 Labor Women’s Organisation (Fremantle Branch) 1944 - 1946 Labor Women’s Organisation (Western Australian) Published resources Book Prime Ministers' Wives, Langmore, Diane, 1992 Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 The matriarchs: twelve Australian women talk about their lives to Susan Mitchell., Mitchell, Susan, 1987 Edited Book Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Who's Who in Australia, 1971, Legge, J S, 1971 Resource Section John Curtin/Elsie Curtin, National Archives of Australia, 2002, http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/meetpm.asp?pmId=14&pageName=wife Journal Article Civil Engineering Branch. Miss E. Curtin farewelled. Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Elsie Curtin, wife of the former Prime Minister, Mr John Curtin, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Hector Harrison, 1915-1978 [manuscript] National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Curtin] Correspondence 'G' [Mrs F R Gale - Gordon Branch Australian Labor Party, includes poem sent to Mrs Elsie Curtin by Dame Mary Gilmore] [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Curtin] Mrs Elsie Curtin's Personal File [includes letters sent and received, drafts of telegrams, list of callers at The Lodge, Dec 1941] [Personal Papers of Prime Minister Gorton] State Library of Western Australia Sir Frederick Samson personal film [videorecording]. Reel 6 Women's Service Guild Silver Jubilee dinner [picture] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 26 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Adelaide] : The Union, 1936. Physical Description 31 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm., 1936 The Old Order Changeth, 1938 New Lives for Old: The story of the prison work of Mrs. E.B. Turner as state superintendent of prison work in South Australia for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1909-1939, Abbott, Edith S., ca1940 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia : SUMMARY RECORD Northern Territory Library, Northern Territory Collection Petition no. 38 of 1894 : signed by 11,600 persons in favour of the Women's Suffrage (Constitution) Bill Author Details Robin Secomb and Jane Carey Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Summary of contents: The principal question raised for debate by Sociology B3 students is whether women can only achieve equal opportunity in the workforce through radical restructuring of society, and the implications of technological change.?52 minutes Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 May 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Maisie Axford, who lived with Louise Lovely (Louise Carbasse) and Louise’s second husband, Bert Cowen, from 1928 to 1938, as an “adopted” daughter, talks about Louise Lovely. Ms Axford remained in contact with Louise Lovely throughout her life. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers comprise official, personal & academic correspondence, diaries, photos, patrol reports, field notebooks, conference papers, lectures, broadcasts, articles, anthropological writings & research material, administration handbooks & ordinances, publications on anthropology, language, education & United Nations. Papers relate to Chinnery’s career in Papua & New Guinea as Patrol Officer, Government Anthropologist, Director Dept. of District Services & Native Affairs, Director Native Affairs & Commonwealth Adviser on Native Affairs in Aust. Papers relating to Chinnery’s association with Far Eastern Liaison Office during World War II, South Seas Commission Conference 1947, United Nations missions to Africa & aspects of PNG including history, exploration, anthropology, genealogy, language, education, health, missions, crimes & discipline, native rights, mining, trade & pre-war wartime & post-war administration. Correspondents include: Staniforth Smith, John Taylor, C.L.A. Abbott, Bill Harney, A.P. Elkin, Theodor Strehlow, Camilla Wedgwood, Olive Pink, Baldwin Spencer, A.C. Haddon, Margaret Mead. Author Details Clare Land Created 26 November 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Includes correspondence, minute books, and financial records.??The Alexandra Club Company Limited was formed by the Alexandra Club, whose records are accessioned at MS 11672. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Maryann Salvetti was state winner for Queensland of the ABC Rural Woman of the year award in 1997, representing the far northern region. She has roughly thirty years as a primary producer in the region; she and her family have produced maize, peanuts, potatoes, navy beans, mangoes, and over 10 different grasses (including sugar cane) and legume crops on their mixed farming properties near Tolga on the Atherton Tablelands. She is co-managing director and marketing manager for North Queensland Tropical Seeds, a wholesale, processing and exporting company supplying seed to both the domestic and international markets. A sugar grower for twenty years, Maryann has expanded her interest and commitment to the industry beyond the farm gate. She has serves as the chairperson of Tableland Sugar Services, a director of Tableland Canegrowers Limited, Queensland Sugar Limited, a board member of the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations (BSES) and Tableland Contracting Services Pty Ltd, Tanita Pty Ltd and secretary/public officer of Tableland Sugar Pty Ltd. She played a crucial role in the construction of a sugar mill on the Atherton Tablelands which opened in 1998. Maryann’s commitment to industry and community has been recognised in a variety of forums besides in the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award. She has been an Atherton Shire Australia Citizen of the Year and was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001. She won a bursary that enabled her to attend the Second International Women in 1998. When Maryann Salvetti, from Tolga in the Atherton Tablelands, was announced Queensland Rural Woman of the Year in 1997, she was in the thick of overseeing the establishment of the first new sugar mill to be opened in Queensland in over seventy years. Administering Tablelands Canegrowers from a home office, while juggling family business interests and the raising of three children, she was co-ordinating the set-up of more than 50 new cane farms which were to supply the new Bundaberg Sugar Company mill at Mareeba, due to open next June. ‘Because we are a completely new industry, we’ve been able to plug into all the most modern technology. I can’t wait for the opening. There’s going to be a big party,’ she said. Fast forward fourteen years and Maryann is still a spokeswoman for North Queensland cane producers. Angry at the overseas owners of the mill she helped to establish, over extraordinary marketing charges they have passed on to local growers, Maryann is front and centre in the group of growers disputing the charges and standing up for their rights. The Deputy Chair of the industry group, Canegrowers, is one of a number of canegrowers calling upon the mill owners to ‘do the right thing and play fair’ for the sake of canegrowers, families and local communities who, in the last six months have endured a category five cyclone and the worst harvest on record. Maryann has high praise for the ABC Radio Awards as a mechanism for encouraging women to ‘get involved in their industries’. A farmer for over thirty years, Maryann Salvetti and her family have long been innovators and experimenters to get a competitive edge. They have produced maize, peanuts, potatoes, navy beans, mangoes, and over 10 different grasses and legume crops on their three mixed farming properties near Tolga on the Atherton Tablelands, more recently branching out into sugar and seeds. North Queensland Tropical Seeds supplies seeds to both domestic and export markets, specialising in legume seeds for the northern New South Wales and Queensland Sugar Industries. Diversity appears to have been the source of their long term success. ‘Farming is not about lifestyle anymore,’ Salvetti said in 1997. ‘It’s a business where you have got to be innovative and stay one step ahead of the competition.’ She has always been an active partner and manager in her own business and an active participant in the community it supports, as this ABC award, and others, acknowledge. Maryann is currently (2011) chairperson of Tableland Sugar Services, a director and deputy chair of Tableland Canegrowers Limited, Tableland Contracting Services Pty Ltd, Tanita Pty Ltd and secretary/public officer of Tableland Sugar Pty Ltd. Maryann was a director of BSES Ltd (formerly the Bureau if Sugar Experiment Stations. She is a past, Atherton Shire Australia Citizen of the Year and was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001 for services to the Rural Community. In 1998 she was one of three Queensland women to win bursaries funding them to attend the Second Women in Agriculture conference held in Washington D.C. The conference was an important opportunity to raise the profile of women in Australian agriculture on an international level, as well as creating networks and contacts and gathering knowledge to share with interested women back home. Maryann did precisely that when she got home. She helped establish the Tablelands Agribusiness Women’s Group. From speaking with women in her own network, Maryann observed that: Lots of women want to be involved in the executive of their organisations but they lack the skills and confidence. The Tablelands Agribusiness Women’s Group is about building that confidence and accessing skills that will qualify them for those roles… This group is about training women, and giving them the confidence and skills to attend local community and industry meetings, get known, have their say and get elected. Maryann was also involved in organising the 1999 World Rural Women’s Day celebrations at Mareeba. On hearing her speak at that occasion, another ten women approached her about joining the rapidly growing group. She was delighted by the response and noted that ‘the women’s commitment to their industries, and the understanding they have of each other’s needs and level of confidence, is a valuable resource for industry, community and government alike’. Described as ‘an outstanding ambassador for her state’, Maryann Salvetti was the final Queensland winner of the ABC version of the award that established roots in her state. Fitting, given that it was the brainchild of the grand-daughter of a cane-farmer, that it should go to someone who is still representing that industry’s interests. Events 1997 - 1997 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 North Queensland Tropical Seeds Website, North Queensland Tropical Seeds, 2011, http://www.nqtropicalseeds.com.au/HOME.9.0.html Resource Section 1997 ABC Queensland Rural Woman of the Year Award Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/qld.htm Media Release: Formal dispute lodged on recalcitrant mill by far northern cane growers, 2011 Newspaper Article Tableland farmer claims rural woman award, 1997 What's On, 1997 Rural women break new ground, Monk, S, 1998 Report Vision for Change: National Plan for Women in Agriculture and Resource Management, Standing Committee on Agriculture and Resource Management, 2000, http://www.mincos.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/316072/vision_for_change1.pdf Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Maryann Salvetti, farmer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 22 April 2010 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "An amateur detective, John Courtney, tries to catch a mysterious criminal who always leaves a grey glove behind. Together with his fiancée Margaret he uncovers the work of a foreign spy.??There is additional documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc01/42 comprises lectures, addresses, conference papers, correspondence, research material, reports and printed ephemera relating to job evaluation, competency and public sector reform (17 cartons).??The Acc03/27 instalment comprises conference and seminar papers, reports, submissions, book reviews, grant applications and handwritten notes of readings. The papers relate in particular to employment of women in the private and public sectors, including in the Defence Force (2 cartons). Author Details Clare Land Created 21 November 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Robyn Read was an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in the seat of North Shore from 1988 until 1991. She failed to gain re-election in the 1991 by-election. Prior to her parliamentary career, Robyn was a successful local councillor and was Alderman for the North Sydney Municipal Council from 1970-77 and 1987-91 and was also Deputy Mayor from 1974-75. Parliamentary and Local Government Career Local Government Alderman, North Sydney Municipal Council, 1970-77, 1987-91 Deputy Mayor 1974-75 State Government Independent Member, North Shore, 1988-1991 Party: Independent A lifelong resident of Sydney’s lower north shore, Read completed her BA and MA in Town and Country Planning at the University of Sydney. From 1971 to 1977 and 1987 to 1991 she was Alderman of North Sydney Council, including periods as Deputy Mayor and Acting Mayor. During this time the Council introduced innovative programs such as public participation in precincts and the first New South Wales neighbourhood centre at Kirribilli. North Sydney became an acknowledged leader in the local government industry because of programs such as these. The mother of three children – James Hamilton, Sophie Read-Hamilton and Cassandra Read-Hamilton – Read has also held positions with the Byron Shire Council, the New South Wales Water Resources Commission, the New South Wales Department of Environment and Planning and the Universities of Sydney and Macquarie. Events 1988 - 1991 NSW Legislative Assembly 1988 - 1991 North Shore Published resources Book The more things change, Read, Robyn, 1995 Report Report on prisons following visits to Bathurst, Goulburn and Parklea gaols, Read, Robyn... [et al.], 1990 Burnside : Just twenty six suburbs, Read, Robyn, 1977 Burnside needs study, research & data document : Part 2., Read, Robyn, 1977? Newspaper Article Writer Read Takes a Leaf Out of Her Own Book, McNicoll, D D, 1995 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0039 Robyn Read Papers National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Robyn Read, author, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of New South Wales Robyn Read further papers, 1972-1998 Robyn Read - further papers, 1974-1991 Robyn Read - papers concerning the Water Resources Commission of NSW, 1983-87 Stanton Library Oral history interview with Robyn Read [sound recording] / by Margaret Park Author Details Elle Morrell Created 23 August 2000 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Darwin, NT. 1945. An informal group of members of the Australian Women’s Army Services (AWAS) model their improvised costumes for a musical comedy and revue. The revue “Blue Horizon” was organised by the Australian Army Amenities Service and produced by Alan Cairnes and Dudley Simpson. NF482322 Lieutenant (Lt) Elva Baikie, as Amenities Officer for the Australian Women’s Service was involved with organising the dancers. Left to right: Joy Graham; Barbara Hutchison, Marjorie Graham; Anne Steeles; Peggy Pentland; Jean Outteridge and Trixie Mayall. Anne Steeles was the singer and the remaining girls were the “ladies of the ballet”. Note the barely disguised army shoes that the dancers had to wear. (Donor E. Batt) dancers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "9 sound tape reels (ca. 280 min.)??Ryrie, the owner Micalago Homestead, talks about her early memories of Bellevue Hill and Palm Beach; family background; brother’s flying exploits and her trip to New Guinea and America; the social mores of the 20s and 30s; schooling at Frensham; meeting and marrying James Ryrie in 1940; the impact of WWII; going to Micalago in 1945 and the difficulties in settling in and improvements made to the property; background information on individual parts of the house; certain pieces of furniture; the garden and the difficulties in establishing it; their busy social life during the 50s and 60s with the hosting of parties at Micalago; the reasons behind the spelling of Micalago; the experience of having Micalago featured in the film, “My brilliant career”; the Ryrie family, in particular, Stewart Ryrie, who was the first member of the family to come to Australia and the role of the family in the region and the role of women generally in country life. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 May 2017 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mostly papers relating to the Atkinson, Calvert and Cosh families including both original family documents and research notes and articles gathered by Janet Cosh in her lifetime. The original documents include wills, newscuttings, pamphlets, sketches, photographs and letters; while the research material includes correspondence, transcripts, drafts of articles, family trees and publications. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 6 August 2019 Last modified 6 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Michelle Anne Berryman (nee Birch) was born in Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital, the second child of Frederick George (Rick) Birch and Betty Anne Birch. Her mother, a paraplegic as a result of a car accident in 1966 near Southern Cross, died in 1975. Michelle’s father worked as a remnant miner in Kambalda and was killed in a rock fall in the Otter Juan underground nickel mine in 1996. Michelle attended primary and high school in Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Her further education commenced in 1990 at Kalgoorlie College, where she began her environment study, gaining an Associate Diploma in Applied Science (Environmental Technology). In 1993 she started work at Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines Pty Ltd. (KCGM) as the Environment Technician responsible for monitoring sulphur dioxide, noise and dust. Michelle undertook further study by correspondence in 1999 and received a Bachelor of Science (Environmental Science) from Murdoch University in 2004. During this time she continued to work for KCGM in a number of roles from Environment Officer to Senior Environment Coordinator. Work focussed on environment monitoring, reporting, project approvals and working with the community as part of KCGM’s commitment to social responsibility. In 2001 Michelle was seconded to the Ovacik Gold Mine in Turkey for 4 months to assist with the establishment of environmental management programmes. Michelle married Tim Berryman in 2006 and they have two children, Samara and Zane. During and following maternity leave from 2008 to 2010, she was able to work from home part time for KCGM. In 2011 she was enticed back to full time work at KCGM as the Manager Environment and Social Responsibility focussing on environmental management, community engagement and planning for the eventual closure of the mine. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 15 August 2012 Last modified 19 September 2012 Digital resources Title: Michelle Berryman Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "26214/1944 – LYONS, LEO ALLAN; REES, MOLLY AUGUSTA WINIFRED; WOLLONGONG Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 30 November 2016 Last modified 6 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Blackburn speaks of the division between the Adelaide Aborigines who followed Dr Duguid and those wanting to manage their own affairs; help given to the Progressive Association; the hostility of the Aborigine Advancement League; Dr Duguid’s attitude to Aborigines; the Advancement League’s attitude of assimilation; demands made on leading Aborigines; Perkins’ role as intermediary; Aboriginal boys and girls from government-run Homes being bound for trades and domestic service; the need for a hostel; the welfare work of the Advancement League; protectionist attitude of the Advancement League; difficulties for white people in allowing Aborigines to manage their own affairs; the lack of black people on the executive of the Advancement League; Laurie Bryan’s role in the Advancement League; difficulties faced by organisations; Aborigines’ political drive; Perkins as leader.??Peter Read collection of interviews conducted for his book entitled, Charles Perkins : a biography Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rosemary Foot is an outstanding woman, who became the first woman to hold a leadership position in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales: she was elected to the seat of Vaucluse in 1978 and re-elected in 1981 and 1984. She was appointed an AO in 1999 for her services to the community. Rosemary Foot was born in Sydney and grew up in the country. She was educated at Frensham School, Mittagong and the University of Sydney (BA), where she lived at Women’s College. She graduated in 1959, having been a director of the Women’s Union 1954-55. From 1972 she has been a company director and investor. She entered Parliament in 1978 and was in the Shadow Ministry two years later. Between 1980 and her retirement in 1986 she held shadow portfolios in Employment, Consumer Affairs, Women’s Affairs, Youth and Community Services. She became Deputy Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal party in 1983, then the most senior position ever held by a woman in the Legislative Assembly of NSW. After her retirement from politics she worked in England as a management consultant 1986-88. She has held executive positions on numerous organizations including NSW Association for Mental Health, Sydney Home Nursing Service, Australia Council, Law Foundation, Australian Institute of Political Science, NSW Tourism Commission, National Trust Conservation Fund Advisory Board, Eastern Sydney Area Health Service, Royal Hospital for Women Foundation, Library Council of NSW, CARE Australia and the Australian Heritage Commission. She has been a director of Art/Omni (New York) since 1992. Rosemary Foot married R. P. Foot in 1960, (diss. 1972) and Bernard A. J. Arens (dec.2000). She has two daughters. Her grandfather was a Minister in the Carruthers and Wade governments. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Biographical register : the Women's College within the University of Sydney, Annable, Rosemary, 1995 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Pat Richardson scrapbooks relating to the Women's Electoral Lobby and women's events, 1977-2002 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Box 1 – Minute books (1937-1941, 1959)??Box 2 – Minute books (1946-1950, 1949-1952, 1957)??Complete guide available??Box 3 – Minute books (1963-1965, 1965-1967)??Box 4 – Financial ledgers (1892-1911); scholarships; annual reports (1951-1960, some gaps); correspondence and other records??Box 5 – Press cuttings (1960); Australian Federation of University Women conferences??Box 6 – Minute books (1965-1969, 1968-1970)??Box 7 – Symposium; correspondence and other records??Box 8 – Correspondence and other records??Box 9 – Book appeal for serviceman balance sheets and cash receipt books (1942-1945); Australian Federation of University Women conferences; NSW Association of University Women Graduates records??Box 10 – Manuscript of Amy McGrath’s A Short History of NSW Association of University Women (1882-1920); newsletters; Australian Federation of University Women conferences??Box 11 – Correspondence and other records??Box 12 – NSW Association of University Women Graduates records??Box 13 – Affiliated societies??Box 14 – NSW Association of University Women Graduates??Box 15 – Correspondence??Box 16 – Miscellaneous records??Box 17 – Early correspondence??Box 18 – Minute books (1892-1899, 1908, 1918)??Box 19 – Conferences; Margery Murray; photos Created 2 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Kate Ivens was an early, amateur ethnographic photographer of Indigenous people. She also photographed flora and fauna. Kate Ivens was born in England in 1871. She was a deaconess as well as a trained nurse. In 1896 she travelled to Norfolk Island along with other female missionaries to join the Melanesian Mission there. Whilst on the island, she set up and managed the mission hospital. Ivens took many photographs on the island, documenting everyday life there. Ivens’s images document women doing the laundry and sewing, children playing, the surrounds of the mission settlement, the native islanders, as well as the local flora and fauna. The original motivation for Ivens to take these photographs is still uncertain. Richard Wesley suggests that ‘[i]f it was to demonstrate that the charges of the Melanesian Mission embraced their life on Norfolk with joy, she was singularly unsuccessful’; the life depicted in her photographs is far from joyous. Ivens created ‘makeshift studio backgrounds with sheets to emphasize and stylise her subjects’ (Hall 133) and set up a darkroom in the outbuildings near the Barnabas Chapel, which was also used as the carpentry workshop and printery. In 1908 she left the island to care for her sick father in Adelaide. A retrospective exhibition of her work was organised by the Norfolk Island Museum in 1995, entitled ‘In Gods Image’: Miss Ivens and the Melanesian Mission, which featured 28 of her photographs. Collections Anne Firmstone and Kate Ivens’s work can be found in albums of the Collenso Collection, Norfolk Island Museum. Events 1970 - 1900 1995 - 1995 Kate Ivens’ work featured in ‘In God’s Image’: Miss Ivens and the Melanesian Mission 1981 - 1981 Kate Ivens’ work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 Published resources Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Conference Paper \"Unpretending Labours\": Julia Farr and the Melanesian Mission, Crawford, Janet, 2004, http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/crawford_farr2004.pdf Thesis Consuming Illusions: The Magic Lantern in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand 1850-1910, Hartrick, Elizabeth, 2003 Women Album Makers from the Canterbury region of New Zealand 1890-1910 and their Photographic Practices, Hearnshaw, Victoria Annabel, 2017, http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6124 Resource Section Kate Ivens, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-ivens/ Edited Book Past Present: The National Women's Art Anthology, Kerr, Joan and Holder, Jo, 1999 Newspaper Article Personal Items, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19080804.2.26 Journal Article Exploring a Region's Social History, Wesley, Richard Magazine article A First For Women Photographers in Australia: Quick Thinking and Ladders Got the Top Shots, Bowen, Jill, 1981, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55457051 Archival resources Archives New Zealand New Zealand, Archives of New Zealand, Passenger Lists, 1839-1973 Kate S Ivens, 1908 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 22 November 2016 Last modified 7 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Which way would the wind blow ?. Mrs Wood was a member of the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) during the 1939-1945 war and then accompanied her husband, who was a member of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF), to Japan in 1945. This very descriptive memoir deals with the period in BCOF and gives insights into a woman’s life in post war Japan, much is written from the domestic point of view. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 June 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Honorary Treasurer’s Records: 1. Cash book 26 September 1947 – 21 August 198o. 2. Annual financial statements September 1963 – September 1981 3. Membership list 1976. 4. Letters regarding subscriptions October and December 1980. 5. Bank statement August 1977 – September 1981. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Dorothy St John was an amateur photographer who was trained by her father, a street photographer. Her photographs record the everyday life in rural Western Australia. Dorothy St John was born in 1907 to William St John and Catherine St John. She developed an interest in photography at an early age and was taught by her father who, on his return from the Boer War, worked as a street photographer in Perth. Her mother was skilled in needlework and this may well have influenced Dorothy in her own work. Dorothy brought her own camera, a Kodak Brownie Junior 6-20 and a developing/printing kit out of her own savings when she was fifteen years old. In 1911 the family moved to Ongerup, near Albany, WA, where under the Closer Settlement Scheme they were able to buy land. The whole family worked hard to build up a farm that they named ‘Hazelwood.’ St. John recalled that ‘[t]here were so few interests in Ongerup. Perhaps the best memories …were all the annual picnics at Easter and Christmas when all the settlers in the area would gather’ (Hall 33). Photography was an expressive outlet for St John; using her camera, Dorothy recorded the world around her, the land, life on the farm, and social events such as the Christmas and Easter annual picnics. In 1926, Dorothy St John left Hazelwood at the age of 19, hoping to head to New Zealand. However, with the onset of the Depression the family lost the farm, so St John stayed in Australia (remaining in Melbourne) and gave up photography. Technical Dorothy St John used a Kodak Brownie Junior 6-20 and a developing/printing kit. Collections Private Collections Toowoomba Camera Club collection, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland Events 1922 - 1926 Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 15 November 2016 Last modified 4 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes photograph of part of the Karrakatta Club. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 July 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Biographical notes by Vera Dwyer and copy of letter to editor of Biographical Encyclopedia of the world. Accompanied by letters to Vera Dwyer from editors of Biographical Encyclopedia of the World, Who’s Important in Literature, Principal Women of the Empire and Who’s Who in Australia, re inclusion of biography in their publications. Letters found in Vera Dwyer’s Australian Literature Album which is catalogued separately. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Amanda Duncan-Strelec is a well known identity in Albury, and a very long term local councillor. She was an Independent candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Albury in1995 and in the House of Representatives for Farrer in 1998. Amanda was elected to the Albury City Council from 1991-2007 and its Mayor in 1995. Amanda Duncan-Strelec (previously Amanda Strelec) was the second woman to nominate for the seat of Albury in 1995. She ran, in the expectation that independents were likely to retain the balance of power in the New South Wales Parliament, and so an independent from Albury would be effective in promoting Albury’s interests. She was described by The Border Mail as having the highest profile of any of the city’s councillors, earned by her vocal opposition to the Murrawatta housing estate and her constant vigilance on council waste. Amanda Duncan-Strelec is married to David and has three children. children Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Four sketches of skiers, three of whom are women. On the reverse are sketches of the film actress Pola Negri, as well as other unidentified female head and figure studies. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 April 2019 Last modified 30 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Men from Australia’s rural districts have “joined up for the duration” in such large numbers that the production of the pastoral and farming industries was seriously threatened. Country and city girls have helped to solve the labour problem. This series of photos shows three Melbourne society girls at work on a 2000 acre farm near Stawell, Victoria. They are members of the Land Girls’ Army, and they also are serving “for the duration”. So adept have they become that their employer wishes it were for longer. Australian Womens Land Army. Helen McGregor about to feed a horse in its stable. One of a series of photographs taken on 17 and 18 September 1941 at “Killara”, near Stawell, Victoria, by the Department of Information which were later used to promote and recruit for the Australian Women’s Land Army (AWLA). Three members of the Country Women’s Association Land Army (CWALA), Helen McGregor, Carmen Virgoe and Flora Hendy, were working on the property and were depicted undertaking a variety of manual tasks. The CWALA was formed in June 1940. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "35 minutes??Sheila Martin was born in Western Australia and the family moved to Belair when she was five. She enjoyed riding and music. Sheila went to the Kindergarten Training College in Palmer Place North Adelaide and opened a kindergarten at Blackwood. Sheila and her students were involved in the pageant for the South Australian centenary in 1936 and Sheila was the Spirit of SA. She became the Director of the Franklin Street free kindergarten and then taught at the PGC in the junior school. She married Harry Wesley Smith and in 1939 left for England. World War II broke out so they returned to Australia in 1942. Harry joined the AIF and Sheila raised four sons. Music was important to the family. Sheila joined the Kindergarten of the Air and worked on programs for five years in the 1960s. She was involved with community work with handicapped children and people in nursing homes. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes theses, published articles, research notes and references, photographs, correspondence, and materials relating to her involvement with the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Australian Federation of Graduate Women, the establishment of the Joyce Fildes scholarship, and her investiture with a Medal of the Order of Australia. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 25 July 2017 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Peg Christian was the first veterinarian to establish a private small animal practice in the Northern Territory; she practiced part-time in Alice Springs from 1948-1951. Later she helped pioneer the development of Wombaroo, a replacement milk formula for orphaned marsupials. Peg Christian grew up on a sheep property near Yass. For her, an only child, the animals, especially horses, were her friends. She became a boarder, first at Frensham and then at Abbotsleigh independent girls schools. She was nineteen and studying Veterinary Science at Sydney University when her father died and the property was sold. Although her mother strongly believed in the education of girls, she did not consider that her nineteen year old daughter could run a sheep property. She was the twelfth woman in Australia to graduate in veterinary science. After graduation and before her marriage, she worked in a small animal practice on the North Shore. When her husband took up an appointment as a government laboratory veterinarian in Alice Springs, Christian opened her own private practice in the family home. In 1952, the family moved to Adelaide and again she started her private practice in the family home. Christian is best known for her work with native animals, especially joeys, wombats and kangaroos. She learnt by trial and error because care of native animals was not included in her studies at Sydney University. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 1984. Voluntary work has always been important to Christian, from being a an air raid warden at Sydney University (during World War II), through the Country Women’s Association (CWA) in Alice Springs, to the Girl Guides, the RSPCA, and Cleland Reserve in Adelaide. She retired from private practice when arthritis caused her to lose the feeling in her fingers. Peg Christian’s philosophy is that humans are responsible for animals. They do not have dominion over them. She also believes strongly that if you want to change something you must become involved with it, without being too aggressive. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Interview with Peg Christian [sound recording] Interviewer: Karen George Author Details Anne Heywood and Robin Secomb Created 4 May 2004 Last modified 14 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel was established as the Homecraft Hostel in 1929 by the Association of Headmistresses of Independent Schools of Victoria (now the Association of Independent Girls Schools of Victoria). Their aims were two-fold: to provide girls on leaving school with a practical home-training; and to establish home and institutional management as a recognised profession for women. Mrs May Isabel Weatherly was the first Principal 1929-38, followed by Margaret Ellen Kirkhope 1938-1967 and Judith Secombe 1968-73. Administration of the school passed to the Invergowrie Council, formed from the Invergowrie Past Students Association, in 1967, when the Headmistresses Association no longer wished to run the Hostel. Dwindling enrolments and financial difficulties forced the Hostel’s closure in 1973 (Source: Historical Note University of Melbourne Archives) formerly Association of Headmistresses of Independent Schools of Victoria Published resources Book Feminine Singular: a history of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools of Australia, Hansen, D E and I V, 1989 A Woman's Place: A History of the Homecraft Hostel 'Invergowrie', Gardiner, Lyndsay, 1993 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools of Victoria - Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel Invergowrie Past Students Association - Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools of Victoria Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Molly Lyons was an amateur photographer. Working in the Pictorialist style, she is best known for her travel photography. Molly Lyons was born Molly Augusta Winifred Rye in New Zealand. She married John Hanssen Rees in Pitt Street Congregational Church in October 1933. John Rees was accidentally electrocuted in April 1942. They had two children. She married the photographer Leo Allan Lyons in Wollongong, New South Wales, 1944. The couple lived in Port Kembla, near Wollongong, NSW. Lyons took up photography following her marriage and the couple travelled extensively throughout the world with their children. Her husband’s interest in chemistry, metallurgy and vulcanology took them to Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. They photographed their travels and sold their work to a variety of publications such as Walkabout, Australian Women’s Weekly and also to photographic journals. In 1949, one of Molly Lyons’ photographs of Port Arthur, Tasmania, was featured on the front cover of Australasian Photo-Review. They also collaborated in writing articles such as Molly’s photograph Smokes of Industry, c.1947, which accompanied an article written by her husband, entitled ‘Industrial Pictorialism.’ The photograph depicts a train travelling on a curved railway track through an industrial locality. The track divides the photograph into two: on the right side is the dark factory and on the left, rock formations. The photograph constructs an ambient scene. Softly focussed, the smoke bellowing out of the chimneys replaces the mist usually found in Pictorialist work. Some of her other works were influenced by urban life and contemporary artistic trends. Metropolis, a shot of Liverpool Street, Sydney, was photographed from above and may have been influenced by Fritz Lang’s 1926 film, Metropolis. Lyons’ photograph Cubist Monster is a close up architectural shot taken upside down, so that it appears as an ‘image of random angular shapes’ (Kerr 210). Lyons observed that she ‘always approached photography for the fun I got out of it. My work was aimed at the beauty of pictures. I loved Pictorialism and worked very hard to do something different from Leo – he was a lot more interested in technical, architectural kinds of work’ (Design and Art Australia Online). The Lyons participated in many exhibitions, exhibiting in and judging amateur photography competitions. They also taught photography, but were not members of any photographic society. After the death of her husband, Molly Lyons continued her travels and photographic practice. Lyons received a certificate of merit at the Adelaide International Salon in 1947. Collections National Library of Australia Events 1947 - 1947 Molly Lyons’ work featured in the Adelaide International Salon. 1947 - 1947 Molly Lyons was awarded the Certificate of Merit at the Adelaide International Salon. 1940 - 1980 Active as amateur photographer Published resources Journal Article Tasmanian Travelogue, Lyons, Leo A. and Lyons, Molly, 1948 Magazine article Net fishing from an ocean beach, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44553937 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Resource Section Alison McMaugh b. 1928, Mendelssohn, Joanna, 2012, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alison-mcmaugh/biography/ Book Section Molly Lyons, Riddler, Eric, 1995 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Archival resources New South Wales State Records NSW Marriage Records NSW Marriage Records Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 30 November 2016 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, ephemera, minutes, accounts from Australian Peace Pledge Union, Victorian Branch 1942-44; Conscientious Objectors Central Committee 1942-44, [Melbourne] minute book 1940-41, Mutual Subsidy Fund membership 1942-44, and Service Group 1941-42; Federal Pacifist Council Australia 1958-66 (Shirley A); Goodwill Service Community House correspondence 1940-41; Miscellaneous newscuttings on Peace 1930s to 1940s; Pacifist Movement of Victoria 1956-65 (Shirley); Victorian State Pacifist Council Minutes 1942-1970s; War Resisters’ International 1963-4 Minutes, Correspondence and Newscuttings from Peace Studies Working Group, c 1982; Women Against Violence, 1976; Contracts re Building Bridges and two copies of same. Author Details Clare Land Created 23 November 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Taped interviews for broadcast on 3RRR program, Film Buffs’ Forecast. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Nancy Millis was Professor of Microbiology at the University of Melbourne 1982-1991. She received a Bachelor of Agricultural Science in 1945, a Master of Agricultural Science in 1948 and a Doctorate in Science (Hon) in 1993, all from the University of Melbourne. She was awarded a Boots Research Scholarship in the UK and used it to study at the University of Bristol where she received a PhD in 1952. She returned to work as a demonstrator in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Melbourne in 1952 and was originally appointed as a lecturer in that department in 1956 following the award of a Fulbright travel grant in 1954. Nancy Millis was one of the pioneers of the study of fermentation technology in Australia. When she returned from Bristol in 1951 she had hoped to put her expertise to good effect; she had hoped to work for Carlton United Brewery, but at that time they did not employ women in their laboratories. Millis was appointed MBE – Member of The Order of the British Empire (Civil) – 31 December 1976 for her work in biological sciences and education. She was also appointed AC – Companion of the Order of Australia – 11 June 1990. Professor Millis was a microbiologist of international repute who made enormous contributions in agriculture, environmental protection, medicine and engineering. Nancy Millis she was also a leader in environmental management. As a researcher she was aware early of the importance of clean water and developed techniques to treat industrial wastewater. Millis was Chair of the Victorian Government’s Water Strategy Committee advising on the supply and use of water for the Melbourne area. She was the Chairman of the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment from 1995 until it ended in 2008. In 1977, she became a Member of the British Empire (MBE) and in 1990 was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC). Events 2003 - 2003 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section Nancy Millis - pioneer of fermentation technology, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/other/asf_scientists.htm#nancy Interview with Professor Nancy Millis [conducted by Ms Sally Morrison on 21 February 2001], http://www.science.org.au/scientists/nm.htm Millis, Nancy Fannie (1922 - ), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P001521b.htm Book Section Nancy Millis: Microbiology 'Boots and All', Morrison, Sally, 1993 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1988, Cadman, Kerith A, 1988 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ragbir Singh Bhathal, 1949-2006 (bulk 1996-1999) [manuscript] Author Details Austehc Created 20 October 1993 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Vivienne Nicholson stood as an Independent candidate in the Legislative Assembly seat of Mornington at the Victorian state election, which was held on 18 September 1999. Vivienne Nicholson moved with her family from Windsor, New South Wales to Melbourne in 1948. She was educated at Burwood State School and Canterbury Girls’ High School. She was employed as a secretary before and for a period after her marriage to John Nicholson in 1973. They had two children. She lived in the Frankston- Mornington region from 1973 until her move in 2003 to Toora North in South Gippsland. As a mature aged student she completed her tertiary education at Monash University with a Bachelor of Economics, and Masters Degree in Australian Studies. In the 1990s she became involved in an unsuccessful community campaign to prevent a shopping centre development in Mornington. She was a member of the Save Mornington Alliance (SMA). This activism lead her to stand for the Victorian Parliament at the 1999 election. In 2009 she completed a Ph D at the University of Melbourne on the role of the SMA in the attempt to prevent the building of the shopping centre. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Thesis Grassroots activism : cost or benefit?, Nicholson, Vivienne Estelle, 2009 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 18 July 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "As well as a large number of letters, the papers include conference papers, histories, minutes, newspaper cuttings, petitions, press releases, reports and submissions. The papers are concerned with Amnesty International, the Peace Institute of Australia, the United Nations and other bodies concerned with peace, as well as WILPF itself and its projects, such as nuclear disarmament. Author Details Clare Land Created 23 November 2001 Last modified 27 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Pamela Denoon was National Coordinator of the Women’s Electoral Lobby from 1982-84. She actively lobbied for women’s rights in Canberra during the 1980s, and established by bequest the National Foundation for Australian Women and the Pamela Denoon Trust. Pamela completed a Bachelor of Science at Queensland University; a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at the University of Papua New Guinea (1977); and was awarded her Master of Arts in Sociology by the London School of Economics. She worked as a Biochemist in Cambridge, UK, and between 1966-72 was employed by Makarere University, Uganda. In 1981 she took up employment with the Abortion Counselling Service in Canberra, following which (from 1982-84) she was National Coordinator of the Women’s Electoral Lobby. She worked for the Australian National University’s Urban Research Unit in 1984, and was employed by the Office of Local Government. Pamela played a major role in various women’s campaigns and conferences including: the UN Women’s Convention (CEDAW); the Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act; the Economic Summit 1983; the Affirmative Action Act; National Women’s Tax Summit 1985 and National Agenda for Women Conference 1986. Pamela, who married Donald Denoon and was the mother of three children born between 1966-72, died at the age of 46 after battling leukaemia. She established two feminist organisations by bequest: the National Foundation for Australian Women and the Pamela Denoon Trust. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Women's Electoral Lobby, 1952-2010 [manuscript] Collection of realia and papers relating to women's issues and organisations, 1975-2008 [manuscript] Records of the Pamela Denoon Trust, 1989-2005 [manuscript] Records relating to the Pamela Denoon Lecture series, 1989-2013 Records of the National Foundation for Australian Women, 1988-2009 [manuscript] Papers of Marilyn Lake, 1964-1999 [manuscript] Papers of Edna Ryan, 1948-1993 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Pamela Denoon, public servant, feminist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Elle Morrell Created 25 September 2000 Last modified 1 March 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc11.022 comprises papers relating to the activities of the Gippsland Women’s Network (GWN), including the Women who Mean Business (WwMB) initiative and other projects aimed at fostering community development, particularly focussing on the role of women in rural communities. The material includes documents relating to formation of the Network, committee papers, papers relating to various seminars and events, submissions and reports, newsletters, publicity material, financial papers and photographs (8 boxes). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 26 April 2017 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. 1943-03-22. V81999 Captain W. J. J. McGee, assisted by VF500148 Major A. R. Appleford, member of the Red Cross, MM, Assistant Controller of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS), Victorian Lines of Communication Area, examining kit and records of members of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS) posted to operational areas. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Katie Langloh Parker grew up on her father’s property, Marra Station, northern New South Wales. Married at the age of 18, she led an exciting social life in Australian colonial capitals until 1875, when she moved to her husband’s property, Bangate Station, near Angledool, New South Wales. There, she started collecting stories and vocabularies from the local branch of Yularoi people, which she subsequently published in several collections between 1896 and 1930. In 1905, she published her only purely ethnographic work The Euahlayi Tribe, an account of her life at Bangate. Her second marriage to Percy Randolph Stow marked the end of her outback life. It is believed that Parker’s appreciation of Aboriginal culture partly had its roots in an event of her childhood, when she was saved from drowning in a river by an Aboriginal girl at the age of six. Parker’s collections of Yularoi stories, Australian Legendary Tales (1896) and More Australian Legendary Tales (1898), were re-published in 1897, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1967 and 1978, respectively. The collections were illustrated by Elizabeth Durack, Nora Heysen and Marion Hart. Parker herself made sketches of Aboriginal children, which were published in 1901. She also wrote Walkabouts of Wur-run-nah (1918) and Woggheeguy: Australian Aboriginal Legends (1930). Although Parker’s work remains problematic in terms of Aboriginal research ethics (old Yularoi people did not welcome her making public the information that was to remain confidential), her collections are an invaluable source of information on Yularoi culture. Published resources Thesis Cataloguing culture : in search of the origins of written records, material culture and oral histories of the Gamaroi, northern New South Wales, Kovacic, Leonarda, 2001 Journal Article Representative Women, Cornstalk, Ann, 1912 Caring for Country: Yuwalaraay Women and Attachments to Land on an Australian Colonial Frontier, Evans, J., Grimshaw, P. and Standish, A., 2003 Book My bush book : K. Langloh Parker's 1890s story of outback station life / with background and biography by Marcie Muir, Parker, K. Langloh (Katie Langloh), 1856-1940., 1982 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Leonarda Kovacic Created 18 May 2004 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. 1943-12-20. VF345001 Major M. K. Deasey, Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS), the new liaison officer between the chaplain general’s department and the women’s services chatting with other servicewomen at headquarters. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Janet Clarke (née Snodgrass) was a society hostess and leading patron of good causes in Melbourne from the 1880s until her death. She was a member of the Charity Organisation Society, the Austral Salon, the Melbourne District Nursing Society, the Talbot Epileptic Colony committee, the Alliance Française, the Dante Society, the Women’s Hospital Committee, the Hospital for Sick Children and the City Newsboys’ Society. She helped to organise the Women’s Work Exhibition in 1907. Clarke’s influence was such that she became the first president of the National Council of Women of Victoria in 1902, and of the Australian Women’s National League in 1904. Born at Doogallook station on the Goulburn River, Janet was the daughter of Peter Snodgrass, described by Michael Clarke as ‘a fearless horseman’ but also as ‘a neglectful manager and an unfortunate politician [who] left his widow and nine children destitute’. Following her father’s death, Janet was given tutelage by Arbella Winter-Cooke at ‘Murndal’, near Hamilton, before taking up a post as a companion for Mary Clarke and her children in Sunbury in 1869. On 12 April 1871, however, the pregnant Mary Clarke fell from a pair-horse buggy. She suffered a miscarriage and died the same day. Janet remained at the property to care for the Clarke children. In 1872, at twenty-one years of age, she became engaged to William. The pair were married on 21 January 1873. The following year, William inherited the vast fortune of his father, pastoralist W.J.T. ‘Big’ Clarke. Janet Clarke, a novice to the combined role of wife and society hostess, was thrown into Melbourne’s elite social circle. Years later, Michael Clarke would note that his grandmother was ‘conscious of her deficiencies. She covered her ignorance by being a good listener. She concealed her lack of social know-how by being a thoughtful hostess and a cautious guest. She was deferential to her elders and betters, kind to nervous young ladies and considerate to servants’. Sir William and Lady Janet Clarke, as they became, had eight children: Clive Snodgrass (1873), Mary Janet (1874), William Lionel Russell (1876), Agnes Petrea Josephine (1877), Francis Grenville (1879), Reginald Hastings (1880), Lily Vera Montagu Douglas (1883), and Ivy Victoria (1887). Though Petrea (or ‘Josie’ as Janet referred to her) died in infancy, William had four children from his first marriage and theirs was a full house. As early as August 1874 the foundation stone was laid for the building of Rupertswood, the family home in Sunbury, with initial costs estimated at £20,000. Cliveden, their East Melbourne mansion, was commissioned in 1886 and became a hub of social and charitable activity. Though the story is contested by some, legend has it that Janet Clarke holds a special place in the history of the Ashes Test series. In 1882 Ivo Bligh led a team from England to play three cricket test matches in Australia. The team spent Christmas at the Clarke property, Rupertswood, in Sunbury. After Rupertswood staff and Sunbury locals lost a social game to the English team, Lady Clarke apparently presented Bligh with a small urn containing the burnt ashes of the stumps and announced that she would like it to be a perpetual trophy between the two teams. The urn was donated to the MCC in 1927. Janet Clarke was a giant in nineteenth-century charitable circles. An article entitled ‘Australian Lady Bountiful’ in Table Talk (1885) acknowledged her practical charitable work for the Melbourne District Nursing Society, and recounted the presentation of an address and bible together with a petition to Lady Clarke containing 400 signatures from ‘grateful working people’ expressing ‘our sincere thanks to you for your kindness and benevolence shown towards our sick and poor’. Punch magazine suggested that ‘most of the big charitable works which had been carried through to a successful issue in Melbourne… had their origins in Janet Lady Clarke’s ballroom’. On her death in 1909, the Leader pronounced that she ‘stood at the head and front of almost every philanthropic movement’. A century later, her philanthropic legacy remains among the most enduring in Victoria in the areas of education, the arts and social welfare. Janet Clarke was particularly supportive of educational causes. She helped to establish the College of Domestic Economy (later the Emily McPherson College) and the Melbourne Church of England Girls Grammar School. She donated £6,000 toward the building of a hostel for women university students at Trinity College (University of Melbourne). The hostel provided the first separate residential accommodation for women students and was later expanded and renamed Janet Clarke Hall. Despite her public activities, Janet Clarke did not support women’s suffrage and promoted domesticity as the ordinary woman’s natural duty. She did believe, however, that women’s maternal and domestic influence was needed outside the home. Once women had obtained the vote, she encouraged political awareness among her own acquaintances, and was instrumental in the establishment of the Australian Women’s National League. Upon the death of her husband in 1897, Lady Clarke became known as Janet, Lady Clarke. Sir William’s baronetcy was inherited by his first son, Rupert, whose own wife took the title of Lady Clarke. Published resources Book Section 'Most eminent woman' : Lady Janet Clarke, Bartle, Claire, 1998 Australian Women's National League, Smart, Judith, 1998 Book Janet Clarke Hall, 1886-1986, Gardiner, Lyndsay, 1986 Women of influence: the first fifty years of women in the Liberal Party, Sydenham, Diane, 1996 Clarke of Rupertswood: The Life and Times of William John Clarke, First Baronet of Rupertswood, 1831-1897, Clarke, Michael, 1995 Liberal women : Federation to 1949, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2004 Thesis The 'Woman Question' in Melbourne, 1880-1914, Kelly, Farley, 1983 In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Journal The Woman, The Australian Women's National League, 1907-1934 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Section Clarke, Janet Marion (1851 - 1909), Morrissey, Sylvia, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030391b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Papers of Janet Clarke Author Details Jane Carey and Barbara Lemon Created 14 December 2004 Last modified 31 July 2018 Digital resources Title: Wendy McCarthy Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Janet Lady Clarke (seated) Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE1134gb.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Descriptive list available.?1. Newspaper clippings relating to Nellie Melba, 1907-1946. 2. Sheet music, including pieces for flute and piano, flute and orchestra, pianos and song albums. 3. Music manuscripts, comprising: ten working papers for composition and partly completed works; ten compositions for flute and piano; and eleven song compositions. 4. Photographs. 5. Miscellaneous tickets, cards and publicity handouts. 6. Correspondence. 7. Papers relating to tours managed by John Lemmone: Paderewski Recitals (1904); John Lemmone Concert Tour (1908?); and five Melba tours (1907-1908; 1909; 1911; 1918-1919; 1923-1924). 8. Concert programs. 9. Four original recordings by Lemmore: “Valse Bluette”/”Reverie”; “Fantasy”/”Danse Romantique”; “Bolero”/”Mozart Harp and Flute Concerto”; and “Nightingale”/”By the Brook”. 10. Flute belonging to John Lemmone. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Bertha Laidler stood as a candidate for the Communist Party of Australia in the seat of Richmond in the Legislative Assembly at the Victorian state election, which was held in June 1943. Bertha Laidler, daughter of Thomas Percival (Percy) Laidler and Christiane Alicia nee Goss was born into a socialist family. They lived above Will Andrade’s bookshop in Bourke Street, Melbourne. She attended the Queensberry Street State school, Carlton. Educated in Communism and Socialism from an early age, Laidler attended Stotts Business College and later worked for the Victorian Public Service in the Motor Registration Branch. She travelled to London in 1931 where she joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. On her return to Australia in 1933 she was active in the Communist Party of Australia, and the Shop Assistants’ Union of Victoria. She later worked for the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia in Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle before travelling to New Zealand with fellow communists Judah Waten and Noel Counihan. She served with the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force form May 1945 until May 1946. She moved to Darwin in October 1946 and met her future husband, Joseph Walker. She curtailed her involvement with the CPA after having children. She was a founding member of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. Her publications include: How to defeat conscription and Solidarity forever. Published resources Resource Section Walker, Bertha May (1912 - 1975), Hudson, David, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160556b.htm Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Book Solidarity forever: a part story of the life and times of Percy Laidler - the first quarter of a century, Walker, Bertha, 1972 Booklet How to defeat conscription: a story of the 1916 and 1917 campaigns, Walker, Bertha, 1968 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, [manuscript]. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 18 July 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Established in 1956, the annual Walkley Awards recognize excellence in Australian journalism across all mediums including print, television, radio, photographic and online media. The prestigious Gold Walkley is considered the pinnacle of journalistic achievement. The Walkleys were established in 1956, with five categories, by Ampol Petroleum founder Sir William Gaston Walkley. William Walkley appreciated the media’s support for his oil exploration efforts. He envisaged awards that recognised emerging talent in the Australian media. Since then, winning stories have chronicled Australia’s history, people and events. Upon his death, the awards were bequeathed to the-then Australian Journalists’ Association (now the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance). The Association and, from 1990, the Alliance remained proud custodian of the awards for many years. In 2000, the Alliance voted to formally establish the awards as the Walkley Foundation for Journalism. The Walkley Foundation’s aims and objectives are to organise, administer and promote the Walkley Awards as well as continuing to advance the interests of professional and ethical journalism in Australia. Today, the Walkleys has grown to more than 30 award categories with an estimated 1000 entries pouring in each year as journalists around the country aspire for the pinnacle of Australian journalistic achievement. Jan Mayman, Janey Hawley, Monica Attard, Mary Delahunty, Jill Singer, Jennie Brockie, Sue Spencer, Catherine Martin, Mary-Louise O’Callaghan, Pamela Williams, Deborah Richards, Anne Connolly, Anne Davie and Kate McClymont have all won Gold Awards. Events 1956 - Published resources Book Profession - journalist: a history of the Australian Journalists' Association, Lloyd, Clement John, 1985 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (Australia) - records of the W.G. Walkley Awards, 1956 - 1999 National Film and Sound Archive [ABC Radio News. 2001 : Woomera Detention Centre Riots] [ABC Radio. 2001 : Woomera Detention Centre] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 20 May 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Press cuttings covering the Sydney and Melbourne opera seasons, 1924. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Vung Tau, South Vietnam. 1968. Margaret Young, Australian Red Cross Field Force Officer (in bikini swimsuit at left), and Jan MacArthur, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), nursing sister (right), hanging out the washing outside “Fort Petticoat”, the accommodation block for nurses and Red Cross women at 8 Field Ambulance. (Donor M. Boyle) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Kathy Martin was elected to the Australian Senate as a Representative for Queensland at the 1974 federal election. She remained in the Senate until 1984, when she resigned to contest a seat in the House of Representatives under her married name, Kathy Sullivan. She served as the Member for Moncrieff, Queensland, from December 1984, until her retirement in 2001. She held the position of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1997-2000. She was the first woman to serve in both Houses of the Federal Parliament and holds the distinction of being the longest serving woman in that institution. Kathy Sullivan was educated at the University of Queensland, where she graduated in arts. She was a teacher, administrative officer and part-time lecturer before entering politics. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Kathy Martin, former senator, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] [Biographical cuttings on Kathy Sullivan, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 7 April 2009 Last modified 23 March 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Marj MacGregor was a union official with the ACT Branch of the Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders Labourers Federation in the 1980s. She wrote the report, Trades for Women: Women and Apprenticeship in the ACT, published in April 1989 by the ACT Trades and Labour Council and worked for the ACT Branch of the Health and Research Employees Association of Australia from 1989 till 1991, and then the Health Services’ Union till 1994. She was a delegate to the ACT Trades and Labour Council from 1984 till 1994. Marj MacGregor was an Industrial Officer with the ACT Branch of the Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders Labourers Federation (ABCE&BLF) from March 1984 and during the period of the union’s deregistration in 1986. She was a member of the Women’s BLF Defence Committee which formed in early 1986 in support of unemployed BLF members and their families and organised a food co-operative, support with unemployment benefit claims and social activities. From March 1987 to May 1989, Marj was employed as a welfare worker at a Canberra women’s refuge and during this period was a member of the Disputes Committee of the Australian Social Welfare Union. She was a delegate to the ACT Trades and Labour Council from May 1984 to December 1988, and during this time was a member of the Council’s Women’s Committee. In 1988, she undertook a project for the Council on women’s participation in apprenticeships, organising public forums and surveys of former and current apprentices, tradeswomen, unions and employers. She wrote the report, Trades for Women: Women and Apprenticeship in the ACT, published in April 1989 by the ACT Trades and Labour Council, recommending that women be encouraged to take up apprenticeships in non-traditional trades. She was appointed the Industrial Officer for the ACT Branch of the Health and Research Employees Association of Australia in May 1989 and was in this position till November 1990, when she was elected Secretary of the Branch. The branch became the ACT Higher Education branch of the Health Services’ Union on the amalgamation of the Health and Research Employees Association of Australia with the Hospital Employees Federation in January 1991, representing members at the Australian National University and the University of Canberra. She was a delegate to the ACT Trades and Labour Council for the union from June 1989 till 1994. She resigned in August 1994 prior to the branch’s incorporation into the National Tertiary Education Union to return to Adelaide. Her husband, Les Bowling, was a union delegate and an activist in the Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders Labourers Federation. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Marj MacGregor and Les Bowling papers Builders' Labourers' Federation ACT Branch deposit Health Services Union of Australia, ACT No. 2 Higher Education Branch and ANU Sub-Branch deposit HAREA News (then University Unionist) Trades and Labour Council of the Australian Capital Territory deposit 1 Trades and Labour Council of the Australian Capital Territory deposit 2 Created 8 January 2013 Last modified 19 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dee Margetts discusses her background and education, she being particularly interested in the sociology of industrial development, economics and social policy. She was involved with the Peace movement in W.A. before entering politics and then being elected to the Senate for W.A. in 1993. She gives her views on the federal political scene and some of the problems faced in maintaining an ideological stance against the pressures of political compromise. She points out that there were disadvantages in being a W.A. Senator due to the distances needing to be travelled. Dee relates how she came in contact with many business and community groups that had problems for which other political parties didn’t seem to have the right answers. She gives examples of some of the economic problems that she had to speak out on and try to find creative solutions for, as a Greens Senator. She felt that some of the more important issues that were raised in the Committee stages of Senate debates were not reported effectively by the Press Gallery – some questioned said the topics were too complex for them – and that the influence of spin doctors was not good. The Greens pushed the line and spoke out on many issues that made them unpopular. She puts forward her views on constitutional change and the relationships between local, state and federal government. What communities want and how citizens can play a meaningful role in decision making are important parts of Constitutional change, the nature of Federation and the separation of powers. She concludes with anecdotes about her experiences in the Senate, fellow politicians and issues that she was involved with as a Greens Senator from Western Australia, particularly logging, Manjimup protests and the Regional Forests Agreement. (From State Library of Western Australia catalogue entry, link below) Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 digital audio tape (ca. 27 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "One of a series of interviews, commissioned by the Australian Film Commission, of women who have made or are making a significant contribution to the television industry in Australia. Sandra Levy talks about her career at the ABC as a script editor, director, producer, Head of Drama, and Director of Television, and as an independent producer. — General notes: the interviews were later used as source material for Christine Hogan’s book ‘Look at Me! : Behind the Scenes of Australian TV with the Women Who Made It’. — The interview transcript is held in Item 2. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Medal card of Benham, Alice M Author Details Alannah Croom Created 25 December 2017 Last modified 25 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Set in the summer of 1957, ‘Two Bob Mermaid’ is about a young Koori girl who ‘passes for white’ at the local swimming pool. It is a story about Aboriginal identity, transformation and change, set in a period of cultural conflict and racial tension. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "I. PAPERS OF CHARLES WINDEYER, 1829-1844?1829-1844; Papers include permit to select land and copies of documents concerning his work as a police magistrate [original documents transferred to the Archives Office of NSW] (Call No.: MLMSS 186/1) (Request Microfilm: CY 2425)??II. PAPERS OF RICHARD WINDEYER, 1829-1849?A. Correspondence, 1834-1848. Correspondence concerning family, legal and business matters, including a letter to Mary Puddefoot from A.M. Thompson, 30 April 1830. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/1) (Request Microfilm: CY 2425)??B. Legal and business papers, 1836-1848, including agreements and licences, 1836-1848 and a brief concerning Bank of Australasia v. Bank of Australia, 1843-1844 (Call No.: MLMSS 186/2) (Request Microfilm: CY 2425)??C. Miscellaneous financial records, 1829-1849?Ledger, 1829, concerning work as a journalist in England, also reused 1834-1842 as an account book of personal expenses; Farm memorandum book, possibly kept at Tomago, 1834-1840. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/2) (Request Microfilm: CY 2425)??Receipts and vouchers, 1836-1849, mainly concerning Tomago. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/3-6) (Request Microfilm: CY 2425)??III. PAPERS OF MARIA WINDEYER, 1843-1876?1843-1876; Mainly correspondence, including a letter from H. Camfield to the Rev. J.J. Lamb, 6 Feb. 1847, and receipts (3) for Elizabeth Camfield, 1852-1866. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/7) (Request Microfilm: CY 2653)??IV. PAPERS OF SIR WILLIAM CHARLES WINDEYER, 1848-1910?A. Correspondence, 1848-1897. Correspondents include family, members of Parliament, legal and judicial colleagues, staff of Sydney University and Sydney Grammar School, Governors of New South Wales, Florence Nightingale, 1873, Lucy Osburn, 1884, D.S. Mitchell, 10 Oct. 1857 and Henry Parkes, 1866-1893. A list of correspondence with Sir Henry Parkes, compiled by A.W. Martin, is located in Box 21. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/8 (Request Microfilm: CY CY 2466); MLMSS 186/9 (Request Microfilm: CY 2489); [MLMSS 186/10 (Request Microfilm: CY 2473; MLMSS 186/11 (Request Microfilm: CY 2476))??B. Miscellaneous papers, 1846-1910, including school exercise books, 1851, share certificates, 1872-1893, legal judgements, an account of the shipwreck of the ‘City of Sydney’, 6 Nov. 1862, in which he was involved, herd book, 1884-1910 and other papers concerning Tomago Estate. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/12)??V. PAPERS OF LADY WINDEYER, 1854-1911?A. Correspondence, 1854-1911, including a letter to her sister, Anne Jane Bolton, 19 Nov. 1875. Correspondents include Mrs John Dunmore Lang, 1891, Lucy Osburn, 1884-1893, Rose Scott, 1891-1911, Henry Parkes, 1887, Annie Besant, 1894, and deal with women’s suffrage, 1891, the Exhibition of Women’s Industries and Centenary Fair, 1888, with letters written by competitors in French and Italian and the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/13 (Request Microfilm: CY 2643); MLMSS 186/14 (Request Microfilm: CY 2644); MLMSS 186/15 (Request Microfilm: CY 2645))??B. Miscellaneous papers, 1888-1918, including poems by Lady Windeyer, biographical notes by Margaret Windeyer, certificates (4) concerning the Exhibition of Women’s Industries, 1888, and certificates (3) won at agricultural shows, 1907-1909. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/16)??VI. PAPERS OF MARGARET WINDEYER, 1885-1939?A. Correspondence, 1885-1939, and miscellaneous papers, 1892-1903, including records of the Womanhood Suffrage League and an essay entitled ‘Librarianship as a profession for women’. Correspondents include Lucy Osburn, 1886, A. Dewey, 1894-1913, Rose Scott, 1894-1897, B. Grimshaw, 1907-1911, Mary Gilmore, 1914, and Georgina King, 1914-1922. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/17 (Request Microfilm: CY 2646); MLMSS 186/18 (Request Microfilm: CY 2647))??B. Certificates, 1893-1938, including one from New York State Library School signed by Melvil Dewey, 1900. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/19X)??VII. PAPERS OF JANE WINDEYER, 1872-1946?A. Letters received, 1872-1946, ‘An Old House’ written by Jane Windeyer, 1943, with a bookplate showing the interior of Tomago House and loose items from the scrapbook. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/20)??B. ‘Scrap book of Newspaper Notices, compiled by Jane Windeyer’, using an account book kept by a great-uncle at Groombridge Place, Kent, England, 1857-1937, including family letters, 1897-1912. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/20)??VIII. PAPERS OF RICHARD WINDEYER, 1899-1921?Includes a letter from his son, Richard Michael Windeyer, and receipts concerning Tomago Estate, 1899-1900. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/20)??IX. PAPERS OF ANNE JANE BOLTON, 1872-1901?Includes verses, letters received, 1872-1901, and biographical notes by Jane Windeyer with related letter, 28 Dec. 1922. (Call No.: MLMSS 186/20)??X. INCIDENTAL PAPERS, 1838-1943 (Call No.: MLMSS 186/21)?Box 21 includes a contents list for incidental papers in Box 21, and a list, compiled by A.W. Martin, of correspondence between Sir Henry Parkes and Sir William Charles Windeyer in MLMSS 186/8-11. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 December 2017 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the National Party, De-Anne Kelly was elected to the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament as the Member for Dawson, Queensland in 1996. She has the distinction of being the first Nationals woman to be elected to the House of Representatives. She was re-elected in 1998, 2001 and 2004, but was defeated at the 2007 election. During her period in Parliament she served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services and to the Minister for Trade. She held the portfolio of Veterans Affairs from 2003 until 2006. De-Anne Kelly grew up on the family’s cattle property in Queensland and completed her primary education by correspondence. She attended secondary school in Rockhampton and won a scholarship to Queensland University, where she gained a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering. Before entering Parliament she ran her own business and also managed their cattle property with her husband, Roger. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on De-Anne Kelly, federal politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 April 2009 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gladys Pendred was considered in the mid-twentieth century ‘the main Australian authority in the field of early childhood education’. In 1944, after lobbying by Canberra kindergarten and mothercraft groups, Gladys was asked by the Minister of the Interior to draw up a plan for the extension of pre-school care in the Australian Capital Territory, known as the ‘Pendred Plan’. Pendred Street in the Canberra suburb of Pearce recognises her contribution to the Canberra community. Gladys Pendred trained at the Melbourne Kindergarten Training College and was a director of the Lillian Cannam Free Kindergarten in South Melbourne. In 1928 Gladys was appointed Principal of the Kindergarten Training College and Supervisor of Free Kindergartens in Perth. Taking two years’ leave in late 1937, she was awarded a Carnegie Corporation grant to further her studies in the United States (BSc, Columbia) and Britain. On her return, Gladys endeavoured to bring the college into line with the ‘modern developments’ that she had observed overseas. In 1941 Gladys resigned to take up the post of Field Officer for the Nursery Kindergarten Extension Board in Melbourne. She provided advice on planning playgrounds and equipment and served on an advisory committee of the Australian Broadcasting Commission for children’s programmes. In 1944, after lobbying by Canberra kindergarten and mothercraft groups, Gladys was asked by the Minister of the Interior to draw up a plan for the extension of pre-school care in the Australian Capital Territory, known as the ‘Pendred Plan’. In November that year, she was appointed Federal Pre-School Officer of the Australian Association for Pre-School Child Development (later Australian Pre-School Association). The job entailed an itinerant lifestyle and was described by Lady Bailey, President of the Association, as a ‘flying Federal Officer Service’. Through her extensive travel and publicity schedule, Gladys was well-known in early childhood centres throughout Australia. Each year she presented numerous lectures, newspaper interviews and radio broadcasts. She edited the Association’s Parents News Sheets and wrote many herself. She also edited the successful book Play Materials for Young Children (1952). Gladys worked hard to improve the standard of pre-school education and effect its extension to all children. She supervised the Lady Gowrie Child Centres, made recommendations for the development of pre-school services in the Northern Territory (1948), assisted the Philippines in the establishment of pre-school training (1948), and conducted a survey of child-minding centres in migrant hostels (1952). Gladys also kept up-to-date with advances in early childhood education research and practice, undertaking a British Council-funded study tour in 1949. She was a member of the ACT branch of the Australian Federation of University Women, the New Education Fellowship and the Australian College of Education (Fellow, 1964). In 1963 Gladys was appointed an Officer of the British Empire (OBE). Following her death in 1964, the Australian Pre-School Association established the Gladys Pendred Memorial Trust that funded a library of educational books in each branch. In 1966 Pendred Street in the Canberra suburb of Pearce was gazetted. Appropriately, it was the address of a new pre-school. More details of Pendred’s life can be found in: Mellor, Elizabeth J, ‘Pendred, Edith Gladys (1897-1964)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pendred-edith-gladys-11361/text20295. Published resources Book The Community Plans for its Children, Eighth Conference University of Sydney, 30 August - 5 September 1958, Australian Pre-School Association, 1958 Before School: The story of the Canberra pre-school centres, Combes, R C, Canberra Nursery School, Pre-School Advisory Committee, and Australian News and Information Bureau, 1952 A History of the Kindergarten Union of Western Australia, 1911-1973, Kerr, Rosemary, 1994 Some Aspects of Child Care & Education in Great Britain: A report to the Australian Association for Pre-School Child Development from the Federal Officer: January 9th-April 13th 1950, Pendred, Gladys Edith, and Australian Association for Pre-School Child Development, 1950 Edited Book Play Materials for Young Children: A guide to parents and pre-school centre committees in selecting play materials, Pendred, Gladys E., 1964 Journal Article Gladys Pendred - An Appreciation, 1965 Naughty Children, Pendred, G, 1947 Pre-School Centres in Australia, Pendred, G, 1964 The Late Gladys Pendred, OBE, BSc (Colom.) [Program], 1967 Gladys Pendred, 1897-1964 , 1841-2001, Waters, Joan, 2002 Newsletter Obituary: Miss Gladys Edith Pendred, 1965 Newspaper Article Infant Education: Importance of Health - An Expert's Opinion, 1928 Kindergarten Ideals: Miss Pendred Interviewed, 1928 To Study Child Development, 1937 A Carnegie Grant, 1938 Miss Pendred Resigns, 1941 Pre-school help for Philippines, 1957 Resource Section Pendred, Edith Gladys (1897 - 1964), Mellor, Elizabeth J, 2012, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pendred-edith-gladys-11361/text20295 Pendred Street, http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/tools_resources/maps_land_survey/place_names/place_search Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0141 Canberra Preschool Society Incorporated Records HMSS 0043 Canberra Mothercraft Society Records National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Miss Gladys Pendred - Honour National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Australian Early Childhood Association, 1928-2005 [manuscript] Records of the Australian Federation of University Women- ACT, 1944-1985 [manuscript] Author Details Nicole McLennan Created 11 January 2013 Last modified 23 October 2015 Digital resources Title: Visit Ended Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: 005203d.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Eileen Joyce was taught the piano at St Joseph’s Convent at Boulder where her prodigious talent was first recognised. She went on to establish a career in England where her concert performances in glamorous gowns, and studio recordings, would make her one of the most popular pianists of her time. The Joyce family moved to Western Australia and settled in Boulder where Eileen had her first music lessons at St Joseph’s Convent. Because of her prodigious talent, a fund-raising committee in Kalgoorlie-Boulder assisted her to take up a scholarship at the Loreto Convent in Perth. Hearing her play the renowned musicians Percy Grainger and Wilhelm Backhaus recommended she should study abroad. In 1926, after a tour of country towns and a farewell concert at His Majesty’s Theatre in Perth, Eileen went to Leipzig in Germany, then London to study and where her stellar career was launched. In 1933 she made the first of many studio recordings in London. She was so successful her record sales during the 1940s are reputed to have rivalled those of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, amongst others. She returned to Australia in April 1936 for a national tour and a series of concerts for the ABC. On the Easter Saturday she gave a recital at the Kalgoorlie Town Hall, and the following day played for the nuns at St Joseph’s. During the war Eileen played for the troops, and in the bombed out cities of England with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, all helping to endear her to the people. Eileen always dressed the part of the glamorous concert pianist. She commissioned her gowns from leading fashion designers, the most famous being Norman Hartnell who designed the coronation gown for Queen Elizabeth II. In later life Eileen was awarded many honours for her contribution to music, receiving an Honorary Doctor of Music from the Universities of Cambridge (1971), University of Western Australia (1979), and the University of Melbourne (1982). In 1981 she was made a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and Saint George at Buckingham Palace. Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Eileen Alannah Joyce was awarded an honorary doctorate of Music from Cambridge University in 1971. Her talent, commitment and service to music was further recognised in 1981 when she was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG). Born in Tasmania and educated in Perth, Eileen Joyce lived most of her life in England. But she never forgot her roots, and throughout her life remained a strong and active supporter of young musicians in Western Australia. An internationally renowned concert pianist, Eileen Joyce’s life started a long way away from the world stage. Eileen’s rags-to-riches life story, which saw her become Britain’s wartime sweetheart, has since been novelised and captured on film. Daughter of Irish/Spanish parents, Eileen Alannah Joyce was born in a tent in the mining town of Zeehan, Tasmania in 1912. Her father, an itinerant labourer, relocated his family to Kununoppin in Western Australia when Eileen was only two years old. Although they could barely afford it, Eileen began piano lessons when she was about nine and later studied piano at the Loretto Convent in Perth. Percy Grainger and Wilhelm Backhaus, hearing the young Eileen play, were so impressed by her talent that they encouraged her to further her studies in Europe. In 1927 Eileen left Australia to study at the Leipzig Conservatorium in Germany under Schnabel and Teichmüller, and at the Royal College of Music in London under Tobias Matthay. In 1930 Eileen made her debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at one of Sir Henry Wood’s BBC promenade concerts. Throughout her career Eileen performed with orchestras in Berlin, France, Italy, New York as well as all of the principle orchestras in the UK. Between 1936 and 1962 she made tours to Australia, South Africa, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Finland, South America, New Zealand, Soviet Russia, Yugoslavia and India. Eileen appeared in a number of films including Battle for Music, Girl in a Million and the autobiographical, Wherever She Goes (1951). She also contributed to the soundtracks of many films, and is probably most notably remembered for her C minor Rachmaninov performance in David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945). Eileen married in London in 1937 and had a son. In 1942 her husband died on active service in North Africa. Although she lived most of her life, and died, in England, Eileen maintained a strong interest in young musicians from Western Australia. In the late 1970s Eileen donated $37,000 to the University of Western Australia as a fund to assist in the development of music in Western Australia and especially to assist students, as Eileen Joyce Music Scholars, to obtain keyboard experience outside Western Australia. Eileen also gave her personal records to the Callaway Centre, University of Western Australia in 1990. This substantial archive, spanning 1926 to 1989, consists of personal and career related correspondence, concert diaries, programs and newspaper clippings. The Eileen Joyce Archive also contains recordings never before released. In 1971 Eileen was awarded an honorary doctorate of Music from Cambridge University. Ten years later, in 1981, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for her service to music. Events 1971 - 1971 Awarded honorary doctorate of Music, Cambridge University 1981 - 1981 Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) 1927 - 1927 Studied at Leipzig Conservatorium (Germany) under Schnabel and Teichmüller and Royal College for Music (London) under Tobias Matthay 1930 - 1930 Debuted with London Philharmonic Orchestra 1936 - 1962 Toured Australia, South Africa, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Finland, South America, New Zealand, Soviet Russia, Yugoslavia and India Published resources Resource Section Eileen Joyce (1912-1991), Wood, I W (Bill), http://www.women.tas.gov.au/significantwomen/search/eileen_joyce.html Once you stop playing, you're forgotten, Orga, Ates, http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/1999/12/ppjoyce.htm Eileen Joyce Music Fund, http://www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/spe/2000/scholarships/postgraduate/3.html Records of the Australian Musical Association, http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/7996.html Book The new Penguin dictionary of music, Jacobs, Arthur, 1982 The Oxford dictionary of music, Kennedy, Michael, 1994 The Macmillan dictionary of women's biography, Uglow, Jennifer (compiler and editor), 1998 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Eileen Joyce: A Portrait, Davis, Richard, 2001 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Australian Musical Association, 1952-1995 [manuscript] The University of Western Australia, The Callaway Centre Archive Eileen Joyce Collection National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Eileen Joyce interviewed by James Murdoch in the Esso Performing Arts collection [sound recording] State Library of Western Australia Shirley Daffen papers. Author Details Judith Ion and Dr Robyn Taylor Created 7 June 2002 Last modified 16 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Sue Gordon AM has achieved many ‘firsts’ during her career. In 1986, she was the first Aboriginal person to head a government department in Western Australia, as Commissioner for Aboriginal Planning; in 1988 she was WA’s first Aboriginal magistrate and first full-time children’s court magistrate; and in 1990 she was one of five commissioners appointed by federal Labor minister Gerry Hand to the first board of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). Gordon has been appointed by state and federal governments, on both sides of politics, to various positions. In 2002 she was appointed by the Premier of Western Australia, Geoff Gallop, to head an inquiry into family violence and child abuse in Western Australian Aboriginal communities. One outcome of the Gordon Inquiry was closure of the controversial Swan Valley Noongar Camp. In 2004, she was appointed Chair of the new National Indigenous Council, an advisory body to the Federal Government, following the winding down of ATSIC. She chaired the Northern Territory Emergency Response Taskforce from June 2007 to June 2008 before retiring from the bench in September 2008. In retirement, Gordon has remained very active in a variety of organisations. Currently (2016) president of the Graham (Polly) Farmer Foundation and the Police and Community Youth Centres Federation of WA (PCYC) Board, to name only a couple of her appointments, her special long term project is Sister Kate’s Aged Persons Project, supported by the Indigenous Land Corporation and Aboriginal Hostels Limited. Gordon received the Order of Australia award in 1993 as acknowledgement of her work with Aboriginal people and community affairs. In 2003 she received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (Hon. DLitt) from the University of Western Australia, the same year she was awarded the ‘Centenary Medal’ for service to the community, particularly the Aboriginal community. Sue Gordon was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. Born at Belele Station, near Meekatharra, Western Australia in 1943, Sue Gordon was separated from her mother and family at the age of four and raised at Sister Kate’s home in Queens Park, Western Australia. After leaving school, she joined the army as a full-time soldier. Between 1961 and 1964 she was a full-time member of the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) based mostly in the eastern states, where she worked as a cipher operator. After leaving the army she worked in various administrative positions around Australia, including as Teltype operator at Carnarvon Tracking Station. This led to more administrative work in the Pilbara region, where she worked mostly in Aboriginal Affairs with both urban and traditional people. In 1977 she was awarded a National Aboriginal Overseas Study Award to survey employment programs with a number of Native American communities in the United States. Gordon moved back to Perth when her eldest son was about to start university and her second one was in year 12, taking on the role of Commissioner for Aboriginal Planning in 1986, and in so doing, becoming the first Aboriginal person to head a government department in Western Australia. In 1988, despite her lack of formal legal training, she was appointed the first full-time and first Aboriginal magistrate in the state’s history. Appointed to the Perth Children’s Court, a court of limited jurisdiction served by lay, as well a legally trained, magistrates, Gordon served for twenty years before mandatory retirement in 2008 at the age of 65. While working full time at the court, Gordon completed a law degree part-time. She started it when she was 50, it took eight years, and there were times when she wondered what she had let herself in for. Fortunately, her two sons did not allow her to give up, reminding her that there was ‘a rule at our house since we were kids, ‘If you started, you have to finish it.” Completing the degree gave her ‘the polish that she needed’. Besides, the discipline of the law reinforced a way of life for her that she had always valued. ‘I had discipline in my early life…I had discipline in the army and discipline in Aboriginal Affairs …I’d come from a disciplined background. I think that’s what I really appreciated at the court,’ she says. What’s more, it’s a place where ‘every decision is going to impact on somebody.’ Published resources Newspaper Article A force for her people, Shaw, Meaghan, 2004, http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/A-force-for-her-people/2004/12/03/1101923331526.html Resource Section My Three Families, Russell, Todd (Director), 2013, http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/253256771612/from-the-western-frontier-my-three-families Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Sue Gordon interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 31 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Sue Gordon AM Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Oral history interview with Uncle Herbie.??For reference to Freda Glynn/the history of CAAMA see Field tape nos. 500372 and 500511. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 July 2008 Last modified 31 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records relating to the 1984 National Labor Women’s Conference, including reports and other briefing papers, conference papers, correspondence, ephemera and other material. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Subject/correspondence files including papers of Leo Fink, sometime President Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society; Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society minutes, consitution, green report 1947-1979; annual reports; history of AJWRS; memorandum and articles of association; executive council of Australian Jewry minutes; conference material regarding Australian Jewish Welfare Societies; international conference of Jewish Communal Service materail; immigration sub-committe minutes; social welfare and reference papers; publications. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Diaries 1892-1902; 1903-1909; 1911-1912; 1913-1921; 1923-1924; 1926-1929; 1931-1934; 1935-1937.?Admittance books 1888-1890?Address Book 1903-1908?Income and Expenditure 1928-1933?Postcards Lady Musgrave Lodge?Correspondence circa 1890-circa 1948?Newspaper clippings Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 June 2004 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "NS4599 Memorabilia??NS4601 Photographs, albums and scrapbooks??NS4600 Publications??NS4598 Minutes of meetings??NS4602 Videorecordings and audio tapes Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers include various drafts and mss of, as well as material collected for, her books and articles on Western Australian history (including ms of “Bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians”), together with papers relating to her botanical publications, which include greeting cards using her drawings, diaries containing botanical illustrations and drawings, notebooks containing botanical notes and drawings, photographic proofs and original watercolours for “Triggerplants”, draft, sketches, drawings and watercolours for “Plants of prey in Australia” and sketches and illustrations for “Orchids of the west”. The collection includes 503 original artworks. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mildred Muscio’s association with the New South Wales National Council of Women began in 1922. She became press secretary of the Council before serving as president from 1927-38, including a term as federal president. Mildred Muscio was the second president of the Federal Council of the National Councils of Women of Australia. Her leadership was the crucial factor in the creation of the National Council of Women of Australia, which in 1931 succeeded FCNCWA and became the single channel for Australian representation at the International Council of Women. Possessed of a fine intellect and more progressive than her predecessors and many of her successors, Muscio also had gifts of persuasion, which she used to overcome fears of change and loss of autonomy among delegates to the Federal Council conference of 1929. She then acted as caretaker president after the NCWA formally came into being about July 1931 until elections could be held in October. Muscio’s association with the New South Wales National Council of Women began in 1922. She became press secretary of the Council before her election as president of both state and Federal Councils in 1927. She remained president of NCWNSW until 1938. She was a member of many other political and welfare organisations, including the Lyceum Club and the Australian Red Cross Society. She served on the Bruce-Page government’s national royal commission on child endowment in 1928, was an alternate Australian delegate to the League of Nations in 1937, and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1938. Florence Mildred Muscio was born on 28 April 1882 at Copeland, New South Wales, eldest daughter of English-born Charles Fry, telegraph master, and his native-born wife Jane, née McLennan. Known as Mildred, she was educated at the Sydney Girls’ High School and the University of Sydney, graduating BA in 1901 with first-class honours in logic and mental philosophy and MA in 1905. The following year, with her sister, Edith, she published Poems. Edith subsequently earned renown as an artist in Britain. Mildred worked as a teacher while completing her studies, and was principal of the Brighton College for Girls, Manly, from 1906 to 1912. Prior to the outbreak of war, Mildred travelled to England, where she taught at Crosby, Lancashire, and at Windsor, before marrying Bernard Muscio, demonstrator in experimental psychology at Caius College, Cambridge University, on 31 March 1915. She shared her husband’s interests, and his university posts allowed her to continue studying and to enjoy the company of students and graduates. With Louisa McDonald (first principal of Sydney University’s Women’s College), she attended the first congress of the International Federation of University of Women in London in 1920. Back in Sydney permanently from 1922 after Bernard was appointed Challis professor of philosophy at the University of Sydney, she helped establish the university women’s movement in Australia and was elected president of the Sydney University Women Graduates’ Association (1923-26) and the Sydney University Women’s Union (1927-28). She later became an executive member of the Sydney University Settlement. After her husband’s death in 1926, she helped to form the Institute of Industrial Psychology in Sydney, and lectured in psychology for the University Extension Board. Mildred Muscio’s association with the National Council of Women of New South Wales began in 1922 when she was invited to help organise the Good Film League of which she became vice-president. She joined the Council’s executive as press secretary in 1924 and served as president from 1927 to 1938. A woman of perspicacity and vision, she brought a modern understanding of women’s roles to the Council, arguing that ‘No gulf separates the interests of the professional woman from those of the non-professional woman’, for ‘education, science, logic and experience of the outside world’ were now inseparable from ‘the fundamental interests of the home and family’. Muscio was also the second (and final) president of the Federal Council of the National Councils of Women of Australia (predecessor to the National Council of Women of Australia) from 1927 to 1931 and led the Australian delegation to the Vienna conference of the International Council of Women in 1930. Her clear vision, logic, organisational skills and courage were the crucial factors in the decision of the Federal Council conference in 1929 to recommend to the states the formation of a fully national body to represent Australia at the ICW. In light of the states’ jealous protection of their autonomy and direct links to ICW, this was a major achievement. The minutes of conference record that Muscio left the chair, taking control of the argument for a national Council and dealing effectively and firmly with all the traditional sources of opposition and fear. She remained federal president as each state debated and eventually ratified the decision (WA excepted) by July 1931, and she continued to hold the fort during the transition period before new officers were elected in October. During the Depression, she defended the right of women to employment and a fair wage, and maintained that a separate women’s movement was necessary to ensure that gains hard won were not lost as was occurring in European nations. In 1931, convinced of the need to challenge conservative attitudes to women participating in Australian politics, she announced her intention to stand as a candidate for the Senate but did not proceed. Mrs Muscio served on the Commonwealth royal commission on child endowment in 1927. The minority report she submitted with John Curtin called for the immediate introduction of federal means-tested endowment for third and subsequent children. She also served on the state government committee inquiring into the system of examinations and secondary education in 1933. Before the 1934 inquiry into the NSW Child Welfare Department, she stressed the need for welfare officers trained in psychology and advocated the establishment of counselling clinics. In 1929, in the wake of the NCW’s campaign to establish a university social work course, Muscio had become a founding member of the Board of Social Study and Training, which, in conjunction with the University of Sydney, issued a certificate for professional training in social work. When the two-year diploma course was taken over by the university in 1940, she continued on the supervisory board. In view of her role in social work education and her experience in the Sydney University Settlement, Muscio was also elected vice-president of the Council of Social Service of NSW from 1938 to 1943. Among her many other activities, Mrs Muscio wrote occasional reviews and articles for the Australian Quarterly on politics and education and undertook radio broadcasts on topics of interest to women. She was also president of the Lyceum Club 1929-35 and chair of the women’s council and vice-president of the NSW Society for Crippled Children, and worked for the Racial Hygiene Association, the Australian Red Cross Society, the NSW Bush Nursing Association, the Australian Aerial Medical Services, the Travellers’ Aid Society, and various theatrical groups. She chaired the Women’s Executive Advisory Committee for the NSW sesquicentenary celebrations in 1938. Active in the state branch of the League of Nations Union, she was appointed alternate delegate for Australia at the League’s general assembly at Geneva in 1937. A friend of Margaret Bailey, for many years she served on the council of Bailey’s Ascham School where her sister, Eva, was senior mathematics mistress from 1917 to 1945. Mildred Muscio was appointed OBE in 1938. As her ADB biographers write, she was a gifted speaker, fluent, logical and persuasive, and was also admired for her organising ability, generosity, impartiality and ‘sympathetic spirit’. She died in hospital at Ryde on 17 August 1964. Prepared by: Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Events 1929 - 1935 Lyceum Club (Sydney) Published resources Resource Section Muscio, Florence Mildred (1882-1964), Foley, Meredith, and Fulloon, Gillian, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100633b.htm Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Journal Article Education: Paper Read before the Australian Federation of University Women, Hobart, January 1930, Muscio, Mildred, 1930 Review: Thoughts that Breathe, By P. Board, Muscio, Mildred, 1932 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection National Council of Women of NSW - program for the launch of the Centenary Stamp Issue and a complete set of the issue, 1996 National Council of Women of New South Wales further papers, 1895-1981 National Council of Women of NSW Inc. - further records, 1926-1927, 1937-1990 Papers relating to National Council of Women of New South Wales, 1895-1897 National Council of Women of New South Wales further records, 1895-1997 National Council of Women of New South Wales records, 1895-1976 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 8 October 2008 Last modified 23 October 2015 Digital resources Title: Mildred Muscio Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Jan Wilson’s political experience encompassed both local and state politics. She served as the member for Dandenong North in the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian parliament from 1985 until her retirement in 1999, and was a City of Dandenong Councillor from 1978-86. Educated at Graeme High School, Falkirk, Scotland, Jan Wilson worked as secretary to the member of the House of Representatives in the Australian parliament for Holt from 1972-75, was executive officer for the Westernport Regional Council from 1975-76 and state organiser for the Australian Labor Party from 1978-85 before entering parliament. Events 2017 - 2017 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Victorian Parliamentary Handbook / prepared by direction of the President of the Legislative Council and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, 1989 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Champion of her community and of a rejuvenated 'dish lickers' industry, Copley, Andrew, 2010 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 June 2005 Last modified 5 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A lifelong activist in social and industrial politics, Grace Scobie became disillusioned with Labor politics during the First World War, and subsequently concentrated on women’s organizations and children’s welfare. She stood for the Soldiers and Citizens Party in the election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Eastern Suburbs in 1920. Twelve years later she was an Independent seeking election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Bondi. Daughter of Robert Scobie, Labor MLA for Wentworth 1901-04, and The Murray 1904 to his death in 1917. Like her father, Grace was a member of the Labor Party until the conscription split, when she campaigned for conscription. She was appointed an industrial inspector with the Department of Labour and Industry in 1916, and became a member of the State Children’s Relief Board. Generally considered by the labour movement to be pro-employer, she was censured by Labor News in 1920 for condoning the harsh treatment of illegitimate children. During her campaign for the State electorate of Eastern Suburbs in 1920, for the Soldiers and Citizens Party, she was described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘the incarnation of vivacity and feminine vigour’. From the 1920s she concentrated on women’s politics, becoming active in a number of more conservative women’s organizations, such as the National Council of Women, and the Professional Women Workers’ Association. Her independent campaign for the State electorate of Bondi in 1932 was supported by the United Associations of Women. She was an office bearer in both the Australian Federation of Women Voters and the Feminist Club. Grace worked as an Inspector of factories and shops and received an OBE in 1918. Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Section Scobie, Grace Locke (1876 - 1957), Taksa, Lucy, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110557b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 audio cassettes (ca. 180 min.)??Craig talks about her family background; childhood memories; schooling; experiences at Gallery School; membership of the group, Women Painters; her Collins Street studio and the painting done of her by Rupert Bunny. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letters from Sir Robert Helpmann, 1955-1965; telegram from Helpmann, 1962; photocopy of a postcard from Vivien Leigh, February 1965; newspaper cutting from the Sun-Herald 29 September, 1991 “Hepburn: I was first of the new women”. Also included are letters from Katharine Hepburn, 1955-1990 in security binding. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 30 June 2008 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Author Susanne Gervay specialises in children’s fiction and is national co-head and New South Wales Assistant Regional Advisor of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). As a mentor, entrepreneur and networker-extraordinaire, Gervay has used her charm, compassion and intellect to benefit the world of children’s literature. Gervay’s published books include Butterflies, a story about burns disability; The Cave, a rite of passage novel for boys; and I am Jack, which deals with bullying in schools. Her books are endorsed and used by organizations including the Children’s Hospital Sydney, Life Education Australia, the NSW Cancer Council, Better Buddies (The Alannah and Madeline Foundation), and the Cancer Council. They have also been highly commended in Children’s Literature Prizes for Peace and the Family Therapists’ Award for Children. Formerly a consultant and anti-drug educator, Gervay is qualified to speak on children’s development and has spoken voluntarily in Outreach programs for the Westmead Children’s Hospital’s Burn Unit, as well as providing free anti-bullying consultancy services for Life Education Australia. An entrepreneur, Gervay owns The Hughenden Hotel in Sydney, and readily offers it as a venue for writers, illustrators, librarians and teachers. The Hughenden houses a permanent exhibition of Australian illustrators, and here Gervay has hosted exhibitions, book launches and international authors, usually at her own expense, as a way of showcasing and supporting new talent. She belongs to ‘Network’, a creative arts group, and acts as a mentor, reviewer and interviewer of less experienced authors. She promotes Network authors and illustrators by listing them on The Hughenden’s website. Equipped with a double Masters degree, Gervay is frequently drawn upon as a key note speaker at conferences for librarians, writers, teachers and parents alike. She was a finalist in the AWG/Film Commission Mentorship scheme and the recipient of a Literature Board Fellowship at Varuna. Other works by Gervay include Superjack (2003); Victoria’s a Star (1996); Shadows of Olive Trees (1996); Next Stop the Moon (1995); and Jamie’s a Hero (1994). In 2007 she released That’s Why I Wrote This Song, a story with music, in collaboration with her daughter. She was nominated for the Nan Chauncy Award in 2006 by Hazel Edwards (National Literacy Champion 2006), Krista Bell and Jen McVeity. Events 2011 - 2011 Awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) ‘for service to children’s literature, and to professional organisations.’ Published resources Book Butterflies, Gervay, Susanne, 2001 The Cave, Gervay, Susanne, 2002 I am Jack, Gervay, Susanne, 2000 That's Why I Wrote This Song, Gervay, Susanne, 2007 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 May 2007 Last modified 16 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "15 interviews (ca. 1009 min.)??Interviews with Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Virgil Thomson, John Butler, Walter Trampler, Jac Murphy, John Cage, Carlos Surinach, Oliver Daniel, Ralph Backlund, Roger Glanville-Hicks, Esther Rofe, Bernard Heiden, Coca Heiden, Robert Graves. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Miscellaneous correspondence from John Bannon addressed from the Electorate Office; Mike Rann; C Laughton; G Klepinski; Michael Bollen; Len Amadio; Vini Ciccarello; Anne Levy; Lesley Black; History Trust of SA; Elke Schmitz (Embassy of FRG) Jane Mitchell; Henry Ninio; Florence Jenkinson; M Anderson; Shirley Cornish; Michael Harrison; Pat (Mayor of Salisbury); Ainslie Hudson; Bob Linke; Enfield Councillors; Mike Stock (Mayor of Enfield); Norton Summit Primary School; Brian Powell; Children’s Television re Garth Boomer; Ray Jones; David Elder; Alan Jones; Alan Luff; Sturt campaign; Kit Stevens; Samela Harris re Charles Bannon; Help at Home; Robin Marrett; George Gatenby; Wright sub-branch; John Coates; John Miller; Don Matson; Mark Thomson; Bruce Guerin; Rod Matheson; Bruce Thomas; Bill Haydon; Welfare rights centre; Lynn Arnold; Kerry Jaggers; SPARK; Cedric Gregory; Robert Freak; Simon Langsford; Lyndon Owen; Peter Smith (HDH); Channel 9; Roger Drennan. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Tuesday afternoon group was formed in 1972 for older women interested in feminist issues. Over the years the group has included s Molly Brannigan, Eulalie Tapp, Alison Gent, Ruth Sullen, Constance Frazer and Barbara Polkinghorne. They were active in raising the issue of housing for older women. They also supported many women’s issues in third world countries fighting against social injustice. They have been active in the International Women’s Day Marches. The Tuesday Afternoon Group of Women’s Liberation (TAG) started in 1972 It was primarily for women living in domestic situations but is open to all women. Its main purpose was for older feminists and the issues they faced. The women lobbied for older women’s housing and shelters. The women went away on weekend camps together. The Group has been represented in all the International Women’s Day Marches in Adelaide since 1972. In 1988 they sponsored older feminists, Louise Fanos and Lynett Aried to perform at the Fringe Theatre Club, ‘Older Women Ready or Not’. TAG meetings are held in the Women’s Advisory Service each Tuesday where women can enjoy the company and conversation. The group supports and fights against social injustice. The women have included Molly Brannigan, Eulalie Tapp, Alison Gent, Ruth Sullen and Barbara Polkinghorne. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newsletter Liberation, 1970 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Tuesday Afternoon Group International Women's Day Committee Research Project : Summary Record [sound recording] Interviewers: Celia Frank and Kirstin Marks Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 17 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Thesis (M.A. Hons), University of Sydney, 1965. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Frances Provan was one of the first 14 females posted to HMAS Harman, the communications station in Canberra, on 28 April 1941, making her one of the first members of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS). After completing her education, Frances Provan worked as a trainee-teacher, nurse and governess. She moved from Queensland to Sydney and trained as a wireless telegraphist with the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps, which had been established by Florence McKenzie. Provan was one of the first 14 females posted to HMAS Harman, the communications station in Canberra, on 28 April 1941. Her official number was WR/1. In September 1941 Provan was promoted to leading telegraphist and then petty officer telegraphist in December 1942. She attended the first WRANS officers’ training course at Flinders Naval Depot, Victoria and was appointed third officer on 15 February 1943. In June 1945 Provan was posted as officer-in-charge of the only draft of WRANS to serve in an operational zone, in Darwin. During her time in the navy she also served at bases in New South Wales and Queensland. Provan was stationed at HMAS Lonsdale, Melbourne, when she was discharged on 17 October 1946. After the war she travelled to England and became manager of the London office of the Melbourne firm, Jackson’s United Meat Co. Pty Ltd. In 1963 after Provan had made a business trip to Melbourne, she died (21 June) while on her way to visit her mother. Published resources Resource Section PROVAN, FRANCES BETTY, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=N&VeteranID=1157284 PROVAN, FRANCES BETTY, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=N&VeteranID=1194954 Provan, Frances Betty (1911-1963), Jennings, Rosemary, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160043b.htm Book W.R.A.N.S. : the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Curtis-Otter, M, 1975 Ships belles : the story of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service in war and peace 1941-1985, Fenton Huie, Shirley, 2000 Resource Belconnen Wireless Station, Duntroon, Harman & RAAF stations 1943, http://www.canberra.starway.net.au/~jwilliams4/x43_04.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Members of the first WRANS Officer Training Corps. Senior WRANS from HMAS Harman Naval Wireless Station at the fourth birthday of the service Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 March 2003 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Frances Provan Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The letters, dated November and December 1967, are addressed to the Superintendent, Radio Branch, Postmaster-General’s Department, Sydney. Miss Hammond refers to her application for an Australian Ship Station Licence for the British registered ship, ‘Pankina’, moored at Church Point, Sydney. Miss Hammond and companion Miss Marriott lived aboard the ship. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 June 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tape (ca. 120 min.)??Kinnear was removed from her mother at the age of 3 and placed at Koonibba Lutheran Mission, S. Aust. She later attended Concordia College in Adelaide. After graduating as a nurse in 1964, Kinnear worked at Port Augusta Hospital. She describes the effect of removal on her life and her reunion with her mother. Kinnear also discusses the Bringing Them Home Inquiry and Sorry Day. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 February 2013 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Itinerants Literary Society began as a result of a dispute with the Hamilton Literary Society in 1894 when a group of members broke away to form a separate society. They are ‘itinerants’ in that they meet at each member’s home in turn. The Society’s rules set out the number of members, hours of meeting and terms of membership. At each meeting, members present papers which range widely. The minutes show how themes and topics are chosen and reveal a close adherence to the rules. Early subjects discussed included famous writers and political topics (including women’s suffrage), ‘women who have made history’ (including Jane Franklin, Sarah Bernhardt and Sonia Kovaleski). the records preserve a little-known aspect of Hobart women’s cultural and social life. Members appear to have been generally conservative. For example, few supported women’s suffrage. There is also a poem written in 1954 exhorting electors to vote for Liberal Party leader Robert Menzies. Of particular interest, then, are the papers by Ida McAulay. Her paper on Women’s Suffrage expressed disappointment that so few members supported this move. For her the vote for women both a right and a necessary social reform, especially to achieve change in laws relating to divorce and custody of children. Her paper on education asserted the intellectual of women and extolled the study of science and mathematics for both sexes. She also supported sex education the need for women to restrict the size of their families. While advocating equality of education, she believed that girls should also be trained for motherhood—outlining an extensive curriculum including physiology, hygiene, first aid, nursing, cookery and domestic economy. Published resources Journal Article The Itinerants - a Ladies' Literary Society, Alexander, Cynthia, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Archives Office of Tasmania Minutes of meetings, Hobart Author Details Jane Carey Created 20 February 2004 Last modified 16 March 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 sound files (ca. 189 min.)??Pat Turner speaks about her family history, childhood and education; her public service career; her experience of bureaucracy relating to both women’s affairs and indigenous affairs; role models; working for the Welfare Branch of the Department of the Interior in the Northern Territory; the Aboriginal Task Force at the South Australian Institute of Technology; the election of the Whitlam government and major changes to the administration of Aboriginal Affairs; her commitment to self determination for Aboriginal people; rejecting assimilation; working as the first Aboriginal woman welfare officer in the Department of the Interior; the importance of community controlled organisations for Aboriginal people; proposing new ways to deal with young offenders; developing a court education program; community activism; working for the Institute of Aboriginal Development; the Civil Rights Movement and Women’s Liberation; the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern; the importance of a sense of identity; the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI); the Aboriginal Progress Association and Aborigines Advancement League; her student union involvement at the Australian Institute of Technology (SAIT); Northern Territory Land Rights and uranium mining at Ranger Mine; the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS); the Public Service Board; the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Aboriginal Childcare; the Aboriginal Health Branch of the Department of Health; the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC); government attitudes to Aboriginal issues; the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Melbourne in 1981; being a member of the Papal Taskforce for Pope John Paul’s visit; organising the 5th Festival of Pacific Arts in Townsville in 1988; being Deputy Secretary in the Department of Health; Centrelink; leadership and integrity; mentors and role models; the importance of financial security. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 February 2013 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jess Prain was one of the first fourteen women to join the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1941 and was stationed at Harman. From here she was drafted to Kuttabul where she was the first Petty Officer in Sydney. She did an Officer Training Course and returned to Harman as Third Officer. After her discharge in 1946 she was a welfare officer for Berlei and was recalled to the Navy in 1951 to train new recruits. Prain was Officer-in-Charge Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) at Flinders Naval Depot until 1954 and retired as First Officer. Married to Denis, Jess Doyle became Appeals Officer for Legacy (Sydney). [1] The following is from the Ex-WRANS newsletter Ditty Box Mrs Jess Doyle (Prain), WR8, died very suddenly on 8 July 1988, aged 67. Jess served from 1941-1946 and 1951-1955, and was a First Officer on discharge. A WRANS telegraphist, who tapped out the message to RAN ships at sea that Australia was at war with Japan, has died suddenly in Sydney. She was Mrs Jess Doyle (née Prain) who was aged 19 when she joined as one of the first 12 telegraphists in the WRANS in 1941. [2] By war’s end, there were more than 2,500. She died in Sydney on July 8, aged 67. Burial at Botany followed a service at the Naval Chapel, Garden Island, conducted by Principal Chaplain Bill Rosier. Late of Clovelly, she leaves husband Dennis, sister Hazel and Jack, Carol and Michael. Jess Doyle’s naval involvement began in 1941 as one of the “Mrs Mackenzie’s girls”. She was commissioned in 1944 and served until the completion of World War II when the WRANS were disbanded. In 1951, with the Korean crisis looming, she was invited back as Duty Director WRANS with the appointment of Officer-in-Charge, WRANS at the Naval Training Establishment at Flinders Naval Depot. She began to re-establish the Administration, Recruit and Officer training programs which set the foundations of training in the first years and established the service as a permanent and integral part of the Royal Australian Navy. In 1954, she was offered the position the Director of WRANS but because of family illness felt it her duty to return home. She retired with the rank of First Officer. After leaving the service she was employed as publications manager with the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, working with various voluntary groups of that organisation. Motivated by her service background, she joined Sydney Legacy as Director of Appeals – a position she held for seven years. In 1969 she was invited by the president of the Post Graduate Medical Foundation to raise funds to build the Sir Victor Coppleston Post Graduate School of Medicine, Sydney University. Jess was on the committee of the Ex-WRANS Association from its inception in 1961 and represented the association in many capacities. She also lead the WRANS contingent every year in the Anzac Day march. In most recent years she undertook the WRANS Window project. Her drive and organisation skills proved to be tireless. Her vision was that the window had to represent every WRAN, irrespective of rank or branch. The window was unveiled at the Garden Island chapel on September 21, 1986 – her last great naval achievement. [3] [1] Ships Belles p. 69 [2] There were 14 women in the first intake – all were qualified telegraphists but 2 offered to serve as cooks. [3] Ex-Wrans Ditty Box August 1988 p. 7-8 Published resources Resource Section PRAIN, JESS SCOTT, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=N&VeteranID=1194905 PRAIN, JESS SCOTT, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=N&VeteranID=1156899 Book Ships belles : the story of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service in war and peace 1941-1985, Fenton Huie, Shirley, 2000 W.R.A.N.S. : the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Curtis-Otter, M, 1975 Journal Article Vale - Mrs Jess Doyle (Prain), 1988 Book Section Willing volunteers, resisting society, reluctant Navy: The troubled first years of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Spurling, Kathryn Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra PRAIN JESS SCOTT : Service Number - WR/8 : Date of birth - 12 Apr 1921 : Place of birth - SYDNEY : Place of enlistment - SYDNEY : Next of Kin - PRAIN ROBERT PRAIN JESS SCOTT : Service Number - WR8 : Date of birth - 12 Apr 1921 : Place of birth - Unknown : Place of enlistment - Unknown : Next of Kin - PRAIN ROBERT Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Senior WRANS from HMAS Harman Naval Wireless Station at the fourth birthday of the service Panorama group portrait of members of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) at HMAS Rushcutter and two Navy officers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Senior WRANS from HMAS <I>Harman</I> Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Four members of the WRANS. Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0470gc.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0470gd.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Holzknecht studied languages of the Markham family of languages in Papua New Guinea, including the Wampar, Aribwaungg (Yalu), Musom, Labu and Aribwatsa (now extinct) language groups. The collection includes field notes and recordings of the languages including lexus, syntactic lists, grammar outlines, kinship charts and word lists, maps, publications and dictionaries of indigenous languages into German and English. Includes publications in German language. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MORNINGTON, VICTORIA, 1943. ARMY WOMEN’S SERVICES OFFICERS’ SCHOOL (AWSOS) BIVOUAC. FROM LEFT: CAPTAIN ROSAMOND DOWLING, MAJOR ELEANOR MANNING, LIEUTENANT ROSS, LT D. M. LLEWELLYN, LT ELSIE CAMPBELL OF THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S ARMY SERVICE (AWAS). (LENT BY C. DONNELL) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Canberra-born Rachel Stephen-Smith was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory as a Member for Kurrajong in 2016, after a career in public policy across Federal and ACT Governments and non-governmental organisations. She was appointed a Minister in the Labor Government, holding portfolios in Community Service and Social Inclusion, Multicultural Affairs, Government Services, Employment and Workplace Safety, Urban Renewal, Health, Disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, and Children, Youth and Families. She has a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the Australian National University and a Master of Real Estate Development from the University of Maryland in the United States. Rachel Stephen-Smith was born in the Australian Capital Territory in 1974. The daughter of two academics who moved to Australia from the United Kingdom, she grew up in O’Connor in Canberra’s inner north. She was educated at local public schools, O’Connor Coop, Turner Primary, Lyneham High and Dickson College. Stephen-Smith describes her upbringing as not lavish but fortunate and educationally privileged, and it was assumed and expected that she would attend university. She enrolled in a Bachelor of Economics at the Australian National University (ANU) in 1990 and graduated with a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) in 1994. She is the fourth generation of women in her family to receive a tertiary education. The book Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women was inspired by her unusually well-educated for their time female ancestors. Following university, Stephen-Smith was first employed as a Policy Officer at the Productivity Commission (1995-1997) and a Project Manager at Consumers’ Health Forum (2000-2001). She has been appointed to several public service roles and has worked as an advisor on health and community services to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (1997-1998, 2001–2003). She was Chief of Staff and Principal Advisor to Victorian Senator Kim Carr (2005–2009, 2014–2016) during his tenure as Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, which led to a posting as Minister-Counsellor at the Embassy of Australia in Washington DC (2010–2012) where she worked to promote Australian research and science. As an active member of Canberra’s equestrian community, Stephen-Smith is a qualified Riding for the Disabled Coach and was a Committee Member for the National Capital Horse Trials and ACT Equestrian Association (1992–2009), a Board Member for Pegasus Riding for the Disabled (2000-2004) and committee member of the Equestrian Park Management Group (2014-2016). She was President, Vice President and Event Director of the National Capital Horse Trials Association (2014-2016, 2004-2009) and has been involved in community activities as Treasurer, ANU in the USA Foundation (2012-2014) and Volunteer Project Manager and Construction Crew Leader for Habitat for Humanity of Washington DC (2012-2014). After leaving the Embassy of Australia, Stephen-Smith remained in Washington DC for another two years with her partner Michael and studied a Master of Real Estate Development at the University of Maryland (2012-2014). She moved back to Canberra in 2014, along with Michael, who returned to DC shortly after as he could not find work in Australia. Stephen-Smith was elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly as a Member for Kurrajong in 2016. Her inaugural speech paid tribute to Michael who took his own life in November 2015 at age 44. She was appointed a Minister in the Labor Government immediately following her election, holding the portfolios: Community Services and Social Inclusion (2016–2018), Multicultural Affairs (2016–2018), Government Services and Procurement (2018–2019), Employment and Workplace Safety (2016–2019), Disability (2016–2019), and Urban Renewal (2018–2020). She is currently Minister for Health (from 2019), Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (from 2016) and Minister for Children, Youth and Families (from 2016). Published resources Meet your assembly: Rachel Stephen-Smith, the diplomat, Burges, K, 24 April 2018, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6038569/meet-your-assembly-rachel-stephen-smith-the-diplomat ACT's newest politicians speak of family tragedy, childhood abuse during inaugural speeches, Fettes, J, 14 December 2016, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-14/loss-of-loved-ones-strengthens-resolve-of-new-act-politicians/8117968 Stephen-Smith, Rachel: Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory website, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/tenth-assembly-members/kurrajong/stephen-smith-rachel Author Details Clare McLellan Created 5 July 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound tape reels (ca. 56 min.)??Tennant recalls her earliest memories of childhood; circumstances surrounding the various novels she wrote; her thoughts on Australian literature. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The first Women on Farms Gathering was held in Warragul, Victoria, in 1990. The Gatherings have been held annually in different rural locations across the state since that time, with organisation handed over to an autonomous committee of local women each year. Women from Queensland, Tasmania and New South Wales attended the fifth gathering in Tallangatta in 1993, and the movement spread to Queensland and New South Wales in 1993, and Tasmania in 1994. Held over a weekend, the Gatherings bring together rural women to learn new skills, share stories and, especially in the beginning, to reaffirm their identity as farmers. They were a vital thread in the women in agriculture movement, providing a public collective space for women to build an alternative knowledge about their disadvantaged position in farming, and fostering a political voice."
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    {
        "text": "Ararat Shunters Section: Outwards correspondence, 1938-67, 1972 – 84; Notes, memorandum, correspondence, policies and other 1975-87; Minutes of stopwork meetings, August 1972 – August 1986; Victorian Railways Signal & Telegraph Catalogue, 1923 – 40; Country sub-branch correspondence inwards and Victorian Branch replies outwards, 1958 – 59. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pat Grimshaw has enjoyed a long and distinguished academic career. Having completed postgraduate studies in New Zealand, she joined the Department of History at the University of Melbourne in 1977. Pat is a Fellow of the Academy for Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Academy for the Humanities, and Deputy Editor of the UK journal Women’s History Review. She has been a member of the editorial committees of Australian Feminist Studies, Gender and History, Journal of Women’s History and Pacific Historical Review, and has supervised over 50 PhDs to completion. In her various roles as supervisor, mentor, lecturer, professor, Head of Department, Deputy Dean, and member of multiple academic and professional associations, she has made an extraordinary contribution to women’s history, to the history profession, and to the wider community. Her extraordinary (and continuing) contribution was recognised in 2017 when she was awarded an Order of Australia for ‘distinguished service to the social sciences and to the humanities through researching, documenting and preserving Australian history, and the roles of women in society’. Pat Grimshaw completed her postgraduate studies at Auckland University. Her seminal study of women’s suffrage in New Zealand was published by Auckland University Press in 1972. In 1977, Pat was appointed as a lecturer in women’s history at the University of Melbourne. Her new course, ‘Changing Concepts of Women’s Place’, remained central to the women’s studies program for the next twenty years. The establishment of the Women’s Studies Centre in 1988 owed much to her influence. Pat became renowned for her dynamism and enthusiasm as a lecturer, inspiring the hundreds of students under her tutelage. Pat’s academic work spans a wide field. Early research into American missionary wives in Hawaii sparked her ongoing interest in settler feminism, the civilizing mission, and the rights of white and indigenous women on the Pacific Rim. Later research focused on working mothers, families and social change: the co-edited Double Shift was published in 2005. Pat has co-edited several collections in women’s history including Australian Women: Feminist Perspectives (1981), The Half-Open Door (1982), and Women’s Rights and Human Rights (2001). Freedom Bound (1995, with Marian Quartly and Susan Janson) brought to light a large number of documents on women in colonial and modern Australia. Creating a Nation (1994, republished 2006) re-told the story of Australia’s settlement history with particular focus on the place of women and of Aboriginal Australians within that history. In 1994, Pat co-edited Colonialism, Gender and Representations of Race; in 2002, Letters from Aboriginal Women in Victoria; in 2003, Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights: Indigenous Peoples in British Settler Colonies, 1830-1910; in 2006, Collisions of Cultures and Identities; and in 2007, with Kate Darian-Smith and Stuart Macintyre, Britishness Abroad. Pat served as Head of the Department of History at the University of Melbourne for a decade (1992-2002) with just one year in respite, and became the Max Crawford Professor of History. She was Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1993 to 1996; reappointed in 2003. From 1995 to 2000 she was President of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History. As a Director of the National Foundation for Australian Women, she was instrumental in obtaining an Australian Research Council linkage grant to support the Australian Women’s Archives Project – one of approximately ten ARC grants awarded to her or to projects with which she has been involved. Loved and revered by countless students and frequently called upon for her skills in research, oratory, supervision and leadership, Pat Grimshaw’s official retirement in 2006 was a mere formality. In March 2008 Pat Grimshaw was inducted onto the 2008 Victorian Honour Roll of Women, a Government initiative which recognises and celebrates the achievements of women from all walks of life. In the same week the University of Melbourne announced the Patricia Grimshaw Mentor Excellence Awards, to honour her contribution as a mentor of postgraduate students and younger colleagues on their research projects and career development. Events 2008 - 2008 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1995 - 2000 International Federation for Research in Women’s History Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Journal Article In Pursuit of True Anglican Womanhood in Victoria, 1880-1914, Grimshaw, Patricia, 1993 Gender, Citizenship and Race in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Australia, 1890 to the 1930s, Grimshaw, Patricia, 1998 Colonising motherhood : Evangelical social reformers and Koorie women in Victoria, Australia, 1880s to the early 1990s, Grimshaw, Patricia, 1999 Caring for Country: Yuwalaraay Women and Attachments to Land on an Australian Colonial Frontier, Evans, J., Grimshaw, P. and Standish, A., 2003 Book Section A white woman's suffrage, Grimshaw, Patricia, 1996 Reading the silences: suffrage activists and race in nineteenth century settler societies., Grimshaw, Patricia, 1999 White women, Aboriginal women and the vote in Western Australia, Grimshaw, Patricia and Ellinghaus, Katherine, 1999 Book Women historians and women's history : Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1905-1990), Margaret Kiddle (1914-1958) and the Melbourne History School, Carey, Jane, 1972- and Grimshaw, Patricia, 1938-, 2001 Letters from Aboriginal Women in Victoria, 1867-1926, Nelson, Elizabeth, Smith, Sandra and Grimshaw, Patricia, 2002, http://hdl.handle.net/11343/42073 Colonialism, Gender and Representations of Race: Issues in writing women's history in Australia and the Pacific, Grimshaw, Patricia, 1994 Edited Book The Half-open door : sixteen modern Australian women look at professional life and achievement, Grimshaw, Patricia and Strahan, Lynne, c1982 Australian Women: Feminist Perspectives, Grieve, Norma and Patricia Grimshaw, 1981 Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, Darian-Smith, Kate, Patricia Grimshaw and Stuart Macintyre, 2007 Collisions of Cultures and Identities: Settlers and Indigenous Peoples, Grimshaw, Patricia and Russell McGregor, 2006 Creating a Nation, Grimshaw, Patricia et al, 2006 Double Shift: working mothers and social change in Australia, Grimshaw, Patricia, John Murphy and Belinda Probert, 2005 Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights: indigenous peoples in British settler colonies, 1830-1910, Evans, Julie et al, 2003 Families in Colonial Australia, Grimshaw, Patricia, Chris McConville, Ellen McEwen, 1985 Freedom Bound, Quartly, Marian, Susan Janson and Patricia Grimshaw, 1995 Women's Rights and Human Rights: International Historical Perspectives, Grimshaw, Patricia, Katie Holmes, Marilyn Lake, 2001 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives The Half Open Door National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Marilyn Lake, 1964-1999 [manuscript] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 23 August 2007 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ellen Koshland is the founder and president of the Education Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to stimulate new thinking about public education in Australia and fund innovative student projects in public schools. Ellen Koshland established the Education Foundation in 1989 to encourage community involvement in state schools that would contribute to a quality public education system and improve learning and life outcomes for young people. The Foundation works with other charitable foundations, businesses and individuals to fund programs that actively support students to develop their talents and foster a love of learning. The Foundation, under Ellen’s leadership, has raised more than $10 million to fund over 500 programs changing the lives of many thousands of state school students and teachers. It now operates on a national scale in all states of Australia and, in 2008, became a permanent division of The Foundation for Young Australians. Originally from the United States, Ellen was inspired by her grandfather, Daniel E. Koshland, who established the San Francisco Foundation. She moved to Australia in 1973. Already considering possibilities in philanthropy but unsure of how to begin, an approach by Jill Reichstein and a meeting with women from the Victorian Women’s Trust motivated Ellen to establish the Education Foundation. Ellen Koshland served as the Victorian Co Chairperson of Anti Poverty Week in 2007 and is currently an Education Ambassador for the Melbourne Community Foundation and a Director of The Foundation for Young Australians. In keeping with her interest in literature, she acted as judge for the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction in 2006, and the CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry in 2007. Events 2018 - 2018 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Ellen Koshland's MAD Day Speech, R.U.MAD? (an initiative of the Education Foundation), 2002, http://www.rumad.org.au/EK_speech.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Bid to help private schools go public, Green, Shane, 2005 Journal Article Feature Interview: Ellen Koshland, Koshland, Ellen, 2008 Article Equity, Excellence and Effectiveness: Moving Forward on Schooling Arrangements in Australia, Koshland, Ellen, 2005, http://www.educationfoundation.org.au/Downloads/Research Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 19 October 2006 Last modified 23 March 2018 Digital resources Title: Ellen Koshland Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sue Pennicuik was elected Member of the Legislative Council for the Southern Metropolitan Region in November 2006, representing the Australian Greens (Victoria). She was re-elected at both the 2010 and 2014 elections. She has held the position of Victorian Greens Whip in the Legislative Council since 2006. Sue Pennicuik holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Environmental Science from Monash University, as well as a Bachelor of Applied Science and Diploma of Education from the University of Western Australia. She worked as a fitness instructor, a secondary teacher, an Environment Officer for the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, and as Coordinator for the Occupational Health and Safety Unit of the ACTU before embarking on a political career. Pennicuik was a founding member of the Port Phillip Branch of the Australian Greens Victoria. She was Convenor of the Victorian Electoral Campaign Committee in 2001-2003, and a candidate for the Senate in 2004. She was elected MLC for the Southern Metropolitan Region in 2006, and that year was the Victorian Greens State Spokesperson on arts & heritage; climate change; gay and lesbian rights; industrial relations; marine; party issues; and transport, ports and freight. Pennicuik is a member of Greenpeace, Earthcare St Kilda, Esplanade Alliance, the Australian East Timor Association, and Friends of the ABC. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 26 July 2007 Last modified 10 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, cuttings, copies of articles written for the Macleay Argus. Created 30 October 2008 Last modified 10 November 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jane Wilkinson Created 29 August 2003 Last modified 31 January 2013 Digital resources Title: Group portrait at 21 Medical Clearing Station Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Annual reports, 1936-1986 (1 vol.). ?Minutes, 1936-1986 (1 vol.). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letter to the Chief Secretary from Anne Bon complaining about the conditions for Aboriginal people at Coranderrk Mission Station Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2005 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "25 minutes??Mary Frost was born in 1907, attended Miss Carter’s School, East Adelaide School and St Peter’s Girls School, went to Adelaide University to do English, travelled to England and remained there during World War II teaching at a school in South Devon, returned after the war and flew home in a flying boat, taught English at St Peters, very British focused curriculum, won two Tennyson medals at the school, became head of the English Department, and in 1972 she compiled ‘A History of St Peter’s Girls’ School from 1894-1968?. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Account of an Italian girlhood with reference to various customs, emigration to Australia, and life on a farm in southern N.S.W. with an extended Italian Australian family. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Noreen Hay was an active ALP member even before her election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Wollongong in 2003. She was re-elected in 2007, 2011 and 2015. In 2016 she served as Opposition Whip. Noreen Hay was born in London, to Irish migrant parents Tadg and Nora Herlihy. She married Christopher Martin Hay, and with their two daughters and two sons, they emigrated to Australia c.1982. She worked for Home Care Service, joined the Miscellaneous Workers’ Union, and became a delegate, official, and sub-branch secretary of Wollongong MWU. In 2002, she defeated the sitting member Colin Markham for ALP preselection. She is the first woman elected for the seat of Wollongong Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 30 January 2006 Last modified 16 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Eva Campbell was a once-only candidate for parliamentary election but a successful local councillor being elected to the Camden Council from 1995 to 2008 and appointed Mayor and Deputy Mayor at one time. She stood as an Independent in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Camden in 2003. Eva Campbell was well known in the electorate when she ran in the election following the retirement of the long-serving member, Liz Kernohan. She had served as Deputy Mayor and Mayor during her terms on the Camden Council. She helped initiate the Council’s opposition to an airport at Badgery’s Creek, and had campaigned for the retention of Camden Hospital, and the building of the Macarthur BMX track and the Equestrian Park. Eva Campbell is married, with one daughter. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rosemary Budavari is currently (2016) the Senior Solicitor for Disability Discrimination Law at Canberra Community Law, a position she has held since 2013. She has played an important role in Australian community law services and, in 2010, she was recognised for this role when she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the law through the advancement of human rights and through the Women’s Legal Centre of the ACT. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Rosemary Budavari for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Rosemary Budavri and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Rosemary was born in Sydney in September 1957, the youngest of three daughters of Alajos and Rozalia Budavari, who had come to Australia as Hungarian refugees in 1949. Alajos had a doctorate in law from the University of Pecs in Hungary and had practised as a lawyer in Europe. However this was not recognised for admission as a legal practitioner in Australia and his circumstances were such that he was not in a position to complete admission requirements. However, he completed a librarianship degree and became the Law Librarian at the University of Sydney. He and Rozalia were immensely proud when Rosemary decided to pursue a career in law. Rosemary was educated at Our Lady of Mercy College in Parramatta and completed her Higher School Certificate in 1975. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978 at Macquarie University. In 1979 and 1980 she worked for the Tertiary Catholic Federation of Australia, the national representative body for Catholic students in Australian tertiary institutions. She returned to Macquarie University and completed her Law degree in 1982 and was the recipient of five academic prizes that year. While studying at Macquarie University, Rosemary became involved with a group of academics and students who established the Macquarie Legal Centre in Parramatta. This involvement began a long association with community legal centres and other forms of legal assistance to vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians. It also reflected a strong commitment to social justice and the Australian community. Rosemary volunteered at Macquarie Legal Centre and was a member of its Management Committee during her studies. On completion of her studies and Practical legal Training Certificate, Rosemary moved to Alice Springs with her husband Paul Burke, a fellow young lawyer, who was working at the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Service. Rosemary commenced work as a Legal Officer at the Australian Legal Aid Office in Alice Springs in 1983. She appeared as a duty lawyer daily in the Alice Springs Court of Summary Jurisdiction in criminal matters and also conducted summary proceedings in that court. She also conducted pleas; appeals from the Court of Summary Jurisdiction and family law matters in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory and instructed counsel in serious criminal trials in that court. In 1987, Rosemary and Paul’s first child, Mark was born and their second child, Helen was born in 1990. In 1989 and 1990 Rosemary worked in private practice with Dittons in Alice Springs conducting a range of civil and family law matters. In 1991, Rosemary taught a number of law subjects at the Alice Springs College of TAFE. In 1992, Rosemary and Paul moved to Canberra to be closer to their families. Rosemary undertook a Master of Laws degree by thesis at the Australian National University. Her thesis, “SuperMabo Orders: An Analysis of the Federal Scheme for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection” reflected Rosemary’s interest in environmental law and the close relationships that she and Paul had developed with several Aboriginal families in Alice Springs. One of the case studies in Rosemary’s thesis related to the protection of a sacred site in Alice Springs that would have been destroyed by the development of a dam there. In 1997 Rosemary was able to pursue her interests in environmental protection and the community legal centre sector further when she commenced work as the Co-Ordinator and Solicitor at the Environmental Defender’s Office in Canberra. She advised individuals and groups who were seeking to protect the environment in the ACT. She prepared law reform submissions and appeared before ACT Parliamentary Committees in relation to reviews of environmental impact assessment, nature conservation, utilities and tree protection legislation. She prepared a comprehensive set of Fact Sheets on ACT environmental legislation and policies. She actively participated in the national network of Environmental Defenders’ Offices. She was a member of the Planning and Environment Committee of the ACT Law Society and a committee member of the National Environmental Law Association during this time. In 2000, Rosemary took up a position as Co-Ordinator and Principal Solicitor of the Women’s Legal Centre in Canberra. She supervised a number of staff and volunteer solicitors in this community legal centre which focussed on discrimination, employment, family law and victims’ compensation matters. She supervised the preparation of law reform submissions in relation to bail, discrimination, employment, family, human rights, restorative justice and victims’ compensation laws. She appeared at parliamentary inquiries in relation to these submissions and represented the centre at meetings with the ACT Government in relation to these issues. She also supervised the centre’s community legal education activities including a ‘Lawsupport’ course for community workers about domestic violence and family law and the centre’s annual public ‘Women and Justice Forum’. During her time at the Women’s Legal Centre, Rosemary also contributed to a number of ACT and national committees and groups including as: Convenor of the National Network of Women’s Legal Services from 2000 to 2002 ACT Representative and Treasurer for the National Association of Community Legal Centres from 2000 to 2006 A Member of the ACT Government Intersectoral Expert Reference Group on Women and Corrections from 2001 to 2004 A member of the National Relationship Support Network from 2003 to 2007 A member of the ACT Law Society’s Pro Bono Clearinghouse Steering Committee and Law Week Committee from 2004 to 2007 A member of the ACT Family Pathways Network and the ACT Domestic Violence Prevention Council Law Reform Sub-Committee from 2004 to 2007 A member of the Family Court Self-Represented Litigants Committee and Chief Justice’s Consultative Committee in 2005 In 2007, Rosemary took up a position as a policy lawyer at the Law Council of Australia, the peak representative body for Australian lawyers. She prepared policy statements and submissions in a range of civil law matters before moving into the criminal law and human rights division where she became a Co-Director in 2008. She undertook advocacy in relation to anti-terrorism laws; anti-money laundering legislation; and serious and organised crime legislation. She also undertook advocacy in relation to anti-discrimination legislation, immigration and other human rights legislation. She was involved in the Law Council’s advocacy in the cases of David Hicks and Mohammed Haneef. In 2010, Rosemary was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the law through the advancement of human rights and through the Women’s Legal Centre of the ACT. In 2013, Rosemary returned to the community legal centre sector in her current position as the Senior Solicitor, Disability Discrimination Law at Canberra Community Law. She represents people with disability in discrimination complaints to the ACT and Australian Human Rights Commissions and in proceedings before the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Published resources Newspaper Article Canberrans awarded for service to the community, Allen, Craig, McKlintoch, Penny and Evans, Kate, 2011, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-01-26/canberrans-awarded-for-service-to-the-community/309788 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Rosemary Budavari Created 6 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Rosemary Budavari Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Summary of aims, events, branch officers (1950-1971); summary of events (1974-1983). Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 November 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letters relating to Australia from an album of papers of Sir Henry Barkly, c. 1856-1889. Letters from Sir Rowland Hill, William Howitt, Charles La Trobe and Nellie Melba among others. Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom papers. Includes material relating to the Australian Federation of Women Voters. Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 December 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Violet Josephine Bulger (née Freeman) was among the first Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families under New South Wales’ Aborigines Protection Act, 1909. She raised eight children on her own near Yass after being widowed in 1939 and went on to raise many of her grandchildren. She was respected as an Elder in the Canberra Aboriginal community until her death in 1993. Aunty Violet Josephine Bulger (née Freeman) was born on 25 August 1900 at the Aboriginal Station, Brungle, New South Wales (NSW). Her Wiradjuri parents, Frederick Freeman, tracker and stockman and Sarah Jane Freeman (née Broughton), midwife, had moved to Brungle from Gundagai where their first two children were born. Brungle was a large managed station in Wiradjuri country near Tumut where the Freemans were a significant family and Fred Freeman was a well-known “Black Tracker” (Read, 2000, p. 56). (Wiradjuri are Australian Aboriginal people “originally from the land that is bordered by the Lachlan, Macquarie and Murrumbidgee rivers in Central New South Wales. The name Wiradjuri means, ‘people of the three rivers.” See http://about.nsw.gov.au/encyclopedia/article/wiradjuri-people) As a child Aunty Violet was forcibly removed from her parents under the Aborigines Protection Act 1909 and placed in the Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls. Aunty Violet’s daughter, Ngunnawal Elder – Aunty Agnes Shea, described her mother’s response when they asked what it had been like in the Girls’ Home: “She only told us a couple of things. She said she didn’t want to poison our minds. … She said she’d get up at four o’clock in the morning, and she’d have to go and milk the cows with another young girl. She said they had no shoes, and on a cold frosty morning her feet would be nearly frost bitten, and they used to have to wait until the cows urinated so they could stand in it and warm their feet.” (Brown, 2007, p. 93). Aunty Agnes said her mother would say, “We went through it. We survived, and we were lucky enough to come home and find our families and our parents” and then she would ‘close like a book.’ (Brown, 2007, p. 93). Aunty Violet subsequently spent much of her life working in domestic service apart from one period when she worked as a stockwoman on her traditional lands and assisted her father in rounding up brumbies (Auslit, 2011). During the times she worked with her father he taught her to play the autoharp, button accordion and piano accordion. Aunty Violet was 25 years old when she married Edward Walter ‘Vincent’ Bulger at Brungle on 13 October 1925. Presbyterian Minister A. Crowther Smith celebrated the wedding; the witnesses were Ada Rose Freeman and Aunty Violet’s father, Fred Freeman. Aunty Violet and Vincent Bulger moved to Oak Hill near Yass where they lived in a one-roomed earth floor gunje with no electricity or running water in open land on the stock route. For warmth they lined the gunje’s stringy bark walls with corn bags from the local mill and newspaper supplied by the bread deliveryman. Water for washing and bathing was collected from a local dam. Around 1938 the family were moved to the Hollywood Aboriginal Reserve (commonly referred to as the Hollywood Mission) in Yass where they were provided with improved housing. (“In 1883 the Aborigines Protection Board was established to manage the reserves and control the lives of the estimated 9,000 Aboriginal people in NSW at that time. The Board took over the reserves at Maloga and Warangesda. After the Australian Capital Territory was established in 1911 the Board compelled all Aboriginal people in the Territory (including those who had been granted land for farming) to move to the Egerton Mission Station at Yass. When that mission closed two years later the residents became fringe-dwellers on the outskirts of Yass until another forced move to Hollywood Mission in 1934. The few Aboriginal children who lived in the ACT came under the control of the NSW Protection Board.” See http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/bth_report/report/ch3.html for more detail.) At a time when Aboriginal women were not permitted entry to maternity hospitals, Aunty Violet’s mother Sarah ‘Sal’ Freeman (née Broughton) who had been trained as a midwife by a Tumut doctor, taught her daughters midwifery skills so that they could handle emergencies on the reserves where they lived. Many women at the Hollywood Reserve benefited from Aunty Violet’s skills. Vincent Bulger died suddenly on Christmas Eve 1939, leaving Aunty Violet with eight children ranging in age from teenagers to toddlers. She was given special permission to take on domestic work in town. When rheumatic fever forced her to give this up, her second eldest son – Vincent Bulger junior, left school so he could work and support the family. The family was able to stay together at this time thanks to the intervention of the Reserve schoolteacher who encouraged Aunty Violet’s eldest daughter, Agnes (now Ngunnawal elder, Aunty Agnes Shea) to bring the preschool siblings to school with her. Once Aunty Violet had recovered, Aunty Agnes recalls “the authorities came and told her she had to be moved off the Mission, because she was now a single mother and she was a bad influence on the rest of the community. So they moved us.” (Brown, p. 86. This was clearly the family understanding. To date research has not found a record of any such official policy but unofficial local policies were not unknown on Aboriginal Reserves.) Aunty Violet and her children moved to Oakhill on the outskirts of Yass where they “managed to build a rudimentary house… Times were tough for a widowed mother with young children.” (Catholic Voice, September 1993). There was no social welfare provided in those days. Aunty Agnes Shea recalls that “mum was lucky enough to get recognised and respected by the community and was given permission to do domestic work for non-indigenous families by the authorities.” (AIATSIS NTRU Conference 2010 ). Son, Vincent Bulger, laughed when he remembered how they supplemented their diet with what they could catch – “You’d go out and get two rabbit, clean them and salt them and have them for Sunday dinner in the camp oven.” (Locke, 2010). Aunty Violet’s eldest child, Walter, was taken away from the family when he was a teenager because the authorities deemed home conditions unsuitable for him. Walter was placed in homes in Goulburn and then Sydney where he died. Aunty Agnes Shea remembers visiting her brother in the homes, and her mother’s heartbreak that she was not permitted to care for him at home. Some of Aunty Violet’s family had moved back to the Tumut-Brungle area in the 1940s and she followed them there in the 1970s. Later, during the mid-1980s “as advancing years and ill health took their inevitable toll” (Catholic Voice, September 1993), Aunty Violet moved to Canberra where she was respected by the local Ngunnawal people as an Elder. Initially she lived on her own at Isabella Plains, then with her younger son Joseph before moving to Monash where she lived with her daughter Aunty Agnes Shea. Aunty Violet’s declining health coincided with health issues for Aunty Agnes who, after family consultation, established her mother at Morling Lodge in Red Hill where the family organised a roster that ensured Aunty Violet had family for company every day. Aunty Agnes says her mother was treated by Morling Lodge staff with as much respect as if she were a queen. Aunty Violet died in Red Hill, Canberra on 31 July 1993 leaving her five (of eight) surviving children, fifty-six grandchildren, 196 great-grandchildren and fifty great-great-grandchildren. The Catholic Voice reported that “the large numbers of people at her funeral, at St Augustine’s Church, Yass on Friday 6 August was testimony to the love and respect Violet Bulger inspired.” (Catholic Voice, September 1993). Two of Aunty Violet’s children are respected Aboriginal Elders and activists. Daughter, Aunty Agnes Shea OAM, is a Ngunnawal elder in the ACT and son Vincent Bulger OAM is a Wiradjuri elder in Tumut NSW (Koori Mail, 2007, p. 4). (Wiradjuri Elder Vince Bulger, of Tumut, was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the community of the Tumut Shire through activities promoting Indigenous culture, tradition and reconciliation, teaching appreciation of the natural environment, and through support for elderly and infirm people. Mr Bulger performs traditional smoking and Welcome to Country ceremonies. He has been a foundation member of the Tumut Shire Council’s Aboriginal Liaison Committee for many years. He is also a current foundation member of the Brungle/Tumut Aboriginal Land Council and a former ATSIC regional councillor. The subject of a documentary ‘A Walk With Uncle Vince – A Matter of Respect’ by J Walker and M Campigli, Mr Bulger speaks to schools and community groups about Aboriginal culture. He organises housing, transport and shopping for older Aboriginal people.) In December 1993 under the ACT Public Place Names Act 1989, a 5787m2 park between Marungul Avenue, Patten Street and Samuels Crescent in the then new ACT suburb Ngunnawal was named Violet’s Park in Aunty Violet’s honour. Published resources Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Book Section Agnes Bulger Shea, Brown, Carl, 2007 Freedom and Control on the Southern Institutions, New South Wales, 1879-1909, Read, Peter, 2000 Newspaper Article A Life Lived for Love of Family, 1993 Honours for Two Elders, 2007 Public Place Names Act, 1993, http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/gaz/1993-S263/19931215-34935/pdf/1993-S263.pdf Magazine article Deaths - Bulger, Mr Vincent, 1940 Resource Section Stolen Generations Factsheet, 2012, http://reconciliaction.org.au/nsw/education-kit/stolen-generations/ Wiradjuri People, http://about.nsw.gov.au/encyclopedia/article/wiradjuri-people/ Bringing Back the Inland Fish, Locke, Sarina, 2010, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/content/2010/s2823285.htm Meet Some Elders - Agnes (Bulger) Shea OAM, 2010, http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/ntru/nativetitleconference/conf2010/culturalprogram.html Report Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Report: Bringing them Home, Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, Australian Human Rights Commission, 1997, http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/bth_report/report/ch3.html Book Aboriginal Women's Heritage - Brungle and Tumut, Hamilton, Fiona and New South Wales Department of Environment and Conservation, 2004, http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/nswcultureheritage/AboriginalWomensHeritageBrungleTumut.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Niki Francis Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 22 July 2014 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lady Bridges to Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, ‘Rosemount’, South Yarra, 6 June [1916], p. 7999; Lady Bridges to Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, ‘Holmwood’, Brighton, 11 August [1917], pp. 8000-1. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 15 January 2019 Last modified 15 January 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Including Rose Wight and Susan Mitchell of the Adelaide Festival, May-Brit Akerholt of the Australian National Playwrights’ Centre, Currency Press, Gale Edwards, Kingston Anderson of Hunter Valley Theatre Company, Marion Sinclair of Marian Street Theatre, David Marr, Elizabeth Butcher, Peter Cooke, John Clark and Kerry McConnell of NIDA, Barbara Dreyfus and Tom Strickler of ICM, Anne Schofield of STC, Veronica Kelly of the University of Queensland, Geoffrey Gibbs of WAAPA, Ross Clark of WARANA Writers’ Week and drafts of Enright’s outgoing correspondence. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Launched in 1933, the Australian Women’s Weekly is the most widely read magazine in the history of Australian publishing. The brainchild of George Warnecke, who was editor-in-chief of the magazine 1933-1938, the Weekly was originally owned and operated by Douglas Frank Hewson Packer, entrepreneur and newspaper proprietor, and Edward Granville (Ted) Theodore, former Federal Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister in the Scullin Government. As a ‘women’s interests’ publication, the Weekly offers feature articles on lifestyle, home decoration, cooking, fashion and beauty, parenthood, health and wellbeing, and current affairs. Today it enjoys a readership of 2.5 million, including well over half a million men, and it forms an important part of the Australian Consolidated Press holdings."
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    {
        "text": "Katrina Ann Hodgkinson was a National Candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly by-election for Southern Highlands in 1996. In 1999 and then again in 2003 she was successfully elected to the Burrinjuck seat in the NSW Legislative Assembly. She was re-elected in 2007 and 2011. An electoral redistribution before the 2015 election, meant that she stood for and won the new seat of Cootamundra. Katrina Hodgkinson served as Minister for Small Business from April 2011- April 2014; Minister for Primary Industries from April 2014- April 2015 and Assistant Minister for Tourism and Major Events from April 2014 – October 2014. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Section The Hon. Katrina Ann Hodgkinson, MP, 2011, http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/6c569b4ba197ed7bca2569000003f60f/29e4ea4c7b9d74524a256760000caa0e?OpenDocument Hodgkinson, Ms Katrina speeches in Hansard, 2011, http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3HHBSpeaker?Open&vwCat=Hodgkinson||%20Ms%20Katrina Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 30 January 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "About 300 documents dealing with emigration from Ireland to Australia. Includes: 1) Letters , 1850-1853 to Lady Monteagle, 1836-1848 including correspondence of Lord Monteagle with various politicians and government official such as Sir Robert Peel and Lord Clarendon; letters, 1848, 1849 from Caroline Chisholm; letters, 1851 from the N.S.W. Association for Preventing the Revival of Transportation; reports on emigration; printed material and a list of emigrant ships to Australia in 1848 noting the number of emigrants, date of embarkation and captain and surgeon of each vessel. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 March 2005 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Includes minutes 1914-1994, annual reports of the Catholic Women’s Association and the Legion of Catholic Women and correspondence. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 19 February 2004 Last modified 19 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jocelynne Scutt has worked consistently in her capacity as lawyer, activist and writer to improve the lives of women generally and by changing the laws on rape and domestic violence. She founded the feminist publisher, Artemis and was a member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby in both Canberra and Sydney. A graduate in law from the University of Western Australia in 1969, Scutt undertook postgraduate studies in law at the University of Sydney, Southern Methodist University and the University of Michigan in the United States, and Cambridge University in England. She has worked with the Australian Institute of Criminology and as director of research with the Legal and Constitutional Committee of the parliament of Victoria. From 1981-82 she worked at the Sydney Bar and then was Deputy Chairperson of the Law Reform Commission, Victoria. In 1986 she returned to private practice in Melbourne. She served as the first Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of Tasmania from 1999-2004. In 2007 she accepted a judicial post on the Fiji High Court. Scutt is a member of the UN Committee Against Trafficking, a International Alliance of Women (IAW) representative on International Criminal Court Coalition (ICC Coalition) and a board member of the Women’s History Network in the United Kingdom. She was called to the English Bar in 2014. Jocelynne Scutt was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. An essay detailing Jocelynne Scutt’s career is in development. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 As a woman: writing women's lives, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1992 Glorious Age: growing older gloriously, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1993 Different Lives, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1987 Women's Voices, Women's Lives, Scutt, Jocelynne A. Living generously: women mentoring women, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1996 Book Breaking Through: Women, Work and Careers, Scutt, Jocelyne, 1992 Conference Proceedings Rape Law Reform, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1980 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jocelynne Scutt interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Jocelynne Scutt, 1982-2010 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Jocelynne Scutt, lawyer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 12 January 2010 Last modified 14 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kris Klugman was a one-time candidate (New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Northcott, 1978), and has contributed to public and cultural life as a board member on numerous cultural and other institutions, as well as being a published economic historian. In 1987 she was appointed an OAM for service to education and to the social welfare of the community. In 2003, and with her long time partner, Bill Rowlings, she co-founded and became inaugural President of Civil Liberties Australia, a national organisation started in Canberra ACT but with later strong local representation in Tasmania, WA, and NT particularly where earlier local civil liberties groups had collapsed. She and Rowlings co-authored an online history, Civil Liberties in Australia, published progressively in 2018-20 on the website www.cla.asn.au. Kris regards her work for civil liberties as the most important in her lifetime. Kristine Kay Klugman attended The Friends’ School, Hobart, as her mother (Eileen Geddes Barnard, nee Laverty) was the Quaker school’s librarian. Kris qualified as a trained nurse at Royal Hobart Hospital, then volunteered at a Quaker refugee aid project on Ping Chau island in Hong Kong for half a year, before completing midwifery at Crown St Women’s Hospital in Sydney in 1963. She married Dr Richard Klugman (later MHR Prospect 1969-1990), and was herself a one-time unsuccessful candidate (NSW Legislative Assembly, Northcott, 1978), both seats near their Parramatta home. They had three daughters, including Dr Jeni Klugman, who also ran for the NSW Legislative Assembly, Julie Klugman who managed Australian aid projects in eastern Indonesia for decades, and Kathy Klugman, whose DFAT service included High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives. The marriage ended in divorce. When her daughters were very young, she attended Macquarie University and completed a BA in History and an MA in Community Studies, during which she undertook a community health study of western Sydney. At Macquarie U, she and a fellow student, John Faulkner (Senator NSW 1989 -2015, Special Minister of State, Minister of Defence), jointly founded the Macquarie University Labor Club. Kris is a published economic historian (three-volume History of Burns Philp, the Australian Pacific trading company, co-authored with Prof Ken Buckley of Sydney University in the early 1980s), and has contributed widely and diversely to public and cultural life. For example, she was appointed to The Australian Museum Trust 1978, and became Deputy President in 1984 and the first-ever female President 1984-88. She served on the NSW Legal Aid Commission and was a researcher for the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. In 1982, she was appointed for five years to the first female board member and Deputy President of the NSW Board of Fire Commissioners (the NSW Fire Brigades), where she successfully introduced female firefighters, promotion by merit rather than seniority, and improved education study options for firefighters. She enabled the subsequent permanent home of the NSW Fire Brigade Museum at Penrith by negotiating with the NSW Government for the land. In 1987 she was awarded national honours, an OAM for service to education and to the social welfare of the community. Kris was a member of the Interim Council which scoped and planned the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney in the late-1980s for its opening in 1991. She lived in Melbourne for five years in the early 1990s, and undertook research for CIRCIT, a state-funded communications, telecommunications and IT body. After moving to a 15ha property near Tarago NSW in the mid-1990s, she undertook a PhD in Political Studies at the ANU in Canberra. In 2004-5 she co-curated with her then long-time partner Bill Rowlings (1945 – ) a Rotary Australia exhibition entitled A World without Polio at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, which also travelled to Sydney, Brisbane Melbourne and Perth. Also with him, in 2003 she co-founded and became inaugural President of Civil Liberties Australia, a national organisation started in Canberra ACT but with later strong local representation in Tasmania, WA, and NT particularly where earlier local civil liberties groups had collapsed. She and Rowlings co-authored an online history, Civil Liberties in Australia, published progressively in 2018-20 on the website www.cla.asn.au Kris regards her work for civil liberties as the most important in her lifetime. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Bill Rowlings (with Kris Klugman) Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 10 September 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "After being exposed to ‘sweated labour’ conditions while working in the Melbourne clothing industry during the 1880s, Jean Beadle was inspired to dedicate her life to the betterment of conditions for women and children. Known as the ‘The Grand Old Lady of the Labor Party,’ she was a founding member of the Women’s Political and Social Crusade and the Labor Women’s Organization in Victoria (1898), Fremantle (1905) and Goldfields (1906). She was also a delegate to the Eastern Goldfields District Council of the State Australian Labor Party. Beadle was one of the first women appointed as a Justice of the Peace in Western Australia, sitting for many years on the Married Women’s Court. She was later appointed to serve as an honorary Justice on the bench of the Children’s Courts. An official visitor to the women’s section of the Fremantle Prison, Beadle also was instrumental in the building of the King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women. She was secretary, of the King Edward Memorial Hospital Advisory Board, from 1921 until her death. In recognition of her dedicated service the hospital annually awards a Jean Beadle scholarship. Jane (Jean) Beadle was born on 1 January 1868 at Clunes in Victoria. She was a miner’s daughter. In Melbourne as a young woman she began her life-long activism for labour and progressive causes. She married iron moulder Henry Beadle on 19 May 1888 and had three children as she continued her political and industrial work. In 1901 the family decided to migrate to Western Australia to ‘make some money’. Jean organised the Women’s Labor League in 1905 at the port of Fremantle where she initially lived. When the family moved to Boulder in 1906, she formed the Eastern Goldfields Women’s Labor League, with meetings held alternately in Boulder and Kalgoorlie. Prejudice was strong in some quarters, the Sun newspaper labelling the meetings a ‘convention of cackle’. She knew that, if women were to play an equal role in the life of the labour movement, they had to be active in both political and industrial labour. And she had no time for the notion of women’s frailty, insisting that ‘sometimes, it’s the man who’s the clinging vine’. As well as promoting labour causes, Jean and the League campaigned for a maternity ward at the Boulder Hospital, the registration of nurses and a foundling home for abandoned babies. She organised the goldfields shop assistants to fight for better pay and conditions (chiefly shorter hours). She spoke at public meetings, organised fundraisers for strikers’ families, ran public lectures, travelled around the goldfields’ towns to establish League branches and represented the League on many labour bodies. Jean Beadle was a Labor leader, a fluent public speaker, excellent organiser and committed reformer and socialist. It was essential, she believed, to meet ‘the real needs of the people’ and to stop ‘the waste of human life, of human abilities and capacities’. When she left the goldfields in 1914 she donated her presentation purse of sovereigns to striking woodcutters. In Perth she became chairperson of the Labor Women’s Club, campaigning on issues including peace, disarmament, women’s health, education, maternity allowances, pensions and child endowment. She was a committed anti-conscriptionist during World War I. She joined the State Executive of the Labor Party in the mid-1920s. She was a special magistrate on the Children’s Court and a foundation member of the Women Justices’ Association. She was active in the establishment of the King Edward Memorial Hospital. For many years she was an official visitor to the women’s section of Fremantle Prison. In the 1920s she was vice-president of the Workers’ Educational Association. During the Depression, she served as treasurer to the West Perth Relief Committee. It was a lifetime of Labor activism. She died on 22 May 1942, aged 74. Events 1931 - 1931 Invited by the Labor Women’s Organisation to stand for Labor pre-selection for the Senate (unsuccessful) 1930 - 1935 President of the Perth Women’s Branch of the Australian Labor Party 2027 - 2027 Presided over the second Labor Women’s conference 1970 - 1970 Organized a Victorian relief committee for the Broken Hill strikers 1970 - 1970 Founding member of the first Labor Women’s Organization in Australia 1970 - 1901 Vice-president of Women’s Political and Social Crusade 1901 - 1901 Jean with her husband, Harry, and family move to Western Australia 2005 - 2005 Founding member of the first Western Australian Women’s Political and Social Crusade (later the Women’s Labor League) at Fremantle 2006 - 1911 Founding president of the Goldfields Women’s Labor League 1921 - 1942 Secretary of the King Edward Memorial Hospital Advisory Board 1912 - 1912 President of the first Labor Women’s Conference 1919 - 1942 Justice of the Peace 1915 - 1929 Honorary justice on the Children’s Court Bench 1930 - 1938 President of the Women Justices’ Association Published resources Resource Section Beadle, Jane (1868-1942), Birman, Wendy and Wood, Evelyn, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070222b.htm Book Section A Truly great Australian woman' : Jean Beadle's work among Western Australian women and children, 1901-1942, Oliver, Bobbie, 1999 Labor Women: Political Housekeepers or Politicians?, Joyce, Robin R., 1984 Feminism: an early tradition amongst Western Australian Labor Women, Joyce, Robin R., 1984 Journal Article In the thick of every battle for the cause of Labor' : the voluntary work of the Labor women's organisations in Western Australia, 1900-1970, Oliver, Bobbie, 2001 Conference Paper Potential inefficients at best, criminal at worst': The girl problem and juvenile delinquency in Western Australia 1907-1933., Kerr, R, 1998, http://education.curtin.edu.au/waier/forums/1998/kerr.html Book Uphill all the way: a documentary history of women in Australia, Daniels, Kay and Murnane, Mary, 1980 Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Jean Beadle : A Life of Labor Activism, Oliver, Bobbie, 2007 Thesis Feminism in Labor Women's Organisations 1905 to 1917, Joyce, Robin R., 1979 Women's Labour: Women's Power? Women in the Western Australian labour movement from the early 1900s to the Depression, Joyce, Robin R., 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Papers, 1899-1962 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood and Dr Bobbie Oliver Created 18 September 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Mrs Jean Beadle J.P. [picture] Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Cheryl Edwards was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. Elected to the Thirty-third Parliament of Western Australia for Kingsley (new seat) on 4 February 1989, she was re-elected in 1993, 1996, 2001. She did not contest the general election of 2005. Cheryl Duschka was born in 1950 at Mount Hawthorn, Perth, Western Australia, to Warren Duschka, a carpenter, and his wife Betty. She attended Tuart Hill Primary and Senior High School, then studied Law at the University of Western Australia, where she was awarded the Criminal Law Prize in 1980. She married Colin Edwardes in 1973. Cheryl Edwardes worked as a solicitor from 1984 to 1986, and entered Parliament in 1989 when elected to the Legislative Assembly for Kingsley. She was re-elected in 1993, 1996 and 2001, and did not contest the general election of 2005. In 1993, Edwardes became the first female Attorney General to be appointed in Western Australia. Events 2016 - 2016 Appointed Member (AM) in the General Division, Order of Australia: For significant service to the people and Parliament of Western Australia, to the law and to the environment, and through executive roles with business, education and community organisations. Published resources Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 31 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "398 items, and c.780 letters; Microfilmed as MF 210?Digitisation status: Partially digitised – with the exception of 1Ac16i – Diaries and note books, 1930-49 — 1Ba5 – Notes and word lists, mostly on social organization, including modes of address; marriage and kinship; disposal of body after death; illustrations with names of weapons, clothing and implements; notes on ground painting, 1Bc49 – Various notes and parts of manuscript drafts Map of country NW of Alice Springs, 1Cc1 – Correspondence [various 1931-39], 1I Maps, associated correspondence and notes 1933,1935, 1Pc Dried plants with information on use by Aborigines, 1Q6e Workers’ Educational Association of NSW [circular 1939].??Includes ethnographic material; data on culture; contact and living conditions of Aborigines, mainly Aranda and Warlpiri, with some Luridja, Arabanna and Pitjantjatjara material; correspondence and reports on Hermannsburg, Finke River, Mt Margaret, Tennant Creek, Aurukun, Oenpelli and Bathurst Island missions; notes on Ooldea; word-list from Yass, NSW; see finding aid for full details. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ann Shelton graduated in 1964, winning the Anna Brennan Memorial Prize for the woman placed highest in the final year law class at the University of Melbourne. She went on to be Victorian Parliamentary Counsel, where she worked with the legendary John Finemore. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Ann Shelton for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Ann Shelton and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I was born in Shepparton in 1942. My father, John Riordan, was a solicitor there. After 4 years as a boarder at Genazzano College, I matriculated and received a Commonwealth Scholarship. Prior to receiving the scholarship I had always thought ‘If I were a boy I would do Law’! I find this extraordinary now, but, I guess, being a country girl with no knowledge of any female lawyers, it wasn’t so silly at the time. I am eternally grateful I received that scholarship! In 1960, I commenced the Law course at Melbourne University (the only Law Course in Victoria at that time). In 1962 I was invited to join the Melbourne University Law Review, which of course I accepted. I completed my course in 1963 and on graduating in March 1964 I was awarded the Anna Brennan prize for the top female law student. I was delighted when, at this time, Columb Brennan gave me the wig of his aunt, Anna Brennan. Anna Brennan was the second woman, and the first Australian-born woman, admitted to practise in Victoria. I did Articles with my father, in Shepparton and stayed on there for another approximately 12 months. I loved my time there with Dad and it was all a great experience . Back in Melbourne, I worked for a short time, approximately 12 months, as one of the Solicitors in the free legal service of the RACV – and for the first and only time in my life, became an expert in one area of law – Road Traffic Law! From there, in the latter part of 1967, I moved to the Parliamentary Draftman’s Office, as it was then called. It was subsequently renamed the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office, and after this title change, the lawyers in the office all signed the Bar Roll. During my time in the PCO, John Finemore was the Chief. He was a great teacher and boss. I loved the work and John gave me many wonderful opportunities. I was part of the Victorian support team at meetings of the Standing Committee of Attorneys General. I found this interesting – both the work and the personalities involved. And I enjoyed the interstate travel it entailed. In 1970 I took 6 months leave of absence to travel in Europe. After about 4 months I was in Norway and received a letter from John Finemore asking me to stay on in London for approximately 6 extra months to do research. After some hesitation – I was all geared to be home after 6, not 12 months – I agreed. Thank God I did, as I loved every minute of that 6 months and it was an experience of a lifetime. In London I worked primarily in the Public Records Office, by the Silver Vaults. I was also in the Foreign & Commonwealth Library, opposite 10 Downing Street, and did some research in the Duchy of Cornwall Offices both in London and Cornwall. My research was into early correspondence between the Colonial Office and the various Australian states with a view to discerning the attitude at that time into ownership of the offshore areas of the country. I reported to Professor Daniel O’Connell in Adelaide and after my return home I flew to Adelaide to assist in sorting out the relevant parts of my reports. This resulted in a book, authored by Professor O’Connell & me, entitled “Opinions on Imperial Constitutional Law”, published by the Law Book Company of Victoria in 1971. In 1973, I was sent to the USA & Canada to study their Federal systems. I took my annual leave at the same time, and en route spent 2 weeks in London. Whilst there, I was roped into doing some more research – I don’t recall by whom or into what. But I thoroughly enjoyed being back in London and briefly working there again, and felt it made my whole trip worthwhile – at that time I had no interest at all in the USA and Canada. Before leaving Australia I had bought a Visit USA air ticket, for $50 US. With this ticket, before starting work, I flew all round the States, including Alaska, & by the time I’d finished, I was fascinated by the States & had quite forgotten London! My research work there took me up the east coast of the USA and to Ottawa and Toronto in Canada. I loved it all and again it was a wonderful experience, perhaps all the more so because I was there in the middle of the Watergate hearings! In addition to the interesting work and personalities, I was struck by the extraordinary hospitality I experienced. Although very much on the move from city to city, I was invited home for dinner virtually every night, until in the end, exhausted, I had to refuse! Later that year I was secretary to the Victorian delegation to the Constitutional Convention in Sydney. The purpose of the Convention was to look at the modern day working of our Constitution i.e. the reality at that time of the power sharing under the Constitution between the Commonwealth and States. John Finemore was very involved in the organisation of the Convention. It was a huge affair, including the Prime Minister and Federal Opposition leader, the Premiers and Opposition leaders of each State and numerous other elected representatives from government and opposition in the various Parliaments across the country – plus, of course numerous support staff. It was a huge amount of work but again, another wonderful and fascinating experience for me! In 1974 I married Frank Shelton, a lawyer who later became a County Court judge. Quite sadly, I retired from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office in 1975, just before the birth of our first child. I continued doing some drafting work at home, but, to my surprise, despite enjoying the work, I found working from home very sterile, and I realised it wasn’t just the work I enjoyed but the whole scene. Some years later, I did some work at home for Monash University. Then in 1998 I began part -time work in the Monash University Solicitor’s Office, drafting the statutes & vetting the regulations of the University. This was the perfect job for an otherwise busy mother of 5 and I thoroughly enjoyed my time there. I finally retired in 2009. From my father, I believe, I inherited a love of the law. And I wasn’t the only one of our family to do so. We were a family of 6 children, and 4 of us became lawyers. The youngest, Peter, was recently appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria. And this love of the law has even gone down to the next generation – we have two daughters in the Law, and my three legal brothers each have one or two young lawyers in their family. The law has certainly been very good to me and I am most grateful for all the wonderful experiences and enjoyment it has given me and for the continuing interest it provides. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Ann Shelton Created 27 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sylvia Parsons was a dressmaker and women’s fashion retailer who owned a popular dress shop in Kingston during the second half of the twentieth century. Parsons was active in the Canberra community and hosted regular fundraising fashion shows for local charities. Sylvia May Parsons was born into one of the capital region’s earliest settler families, the Johnsons, on a property near Gunning, New South Wales on 5 July 1911. She was a talented pianist and in 1935 was accepted as an associate into the Royal Victoria College of Music, London. She continued to teach piano until after World War II. In 1941 she married a Royal Australian Air Force officer, John Parsons, and moved to Canberra. At the end of the war, the Parsons purchased and built a red brick war service home in the newly formed inner-south suburb of Narrabundah. They had one son, Peter Parsons. During the war, Parsons taught Home Economics at Kingston Technical College, specialising in dressmaking and design. Immediately after the war, she worked for local businessman Stan Cusack in his Kingston furniture store. In 1948 she opened her own fashion house on Kennedy Street in Kingston, Sylvia Parsons of Canberra Fashions, where she offered a design and dressmaking service, as well as selling clothes off the rack. One of the first fashion salons in Canberra to make high quality women’s wear, Parsons’ shop was immediately successful. While the Kingston shop remained her flagship (and favourite) store, trading from 1948 to 1996, eventually the Sylvia Parsons enterprise expanded to include shops in three other locations across Canberra: Manuka (1950 – 1955), Civic (1955 – 1963) and Woden (1972 – 1990). Parsons is believed to have sold clothing to the Great Train Robber, Ronald Biggs, when he was on the run from the British police in 1966. Parsons’ canny business skills, spirited personality, and community consciousness ensured that she maintained a loyal clientele for almost fifty years. Throughout her career, Parsons funded and organised exactly 99 fashion shows to raise money for local charities, including Canberra’s first Gown of the Year parade. Parsons and her fashion shows were hugely popular, with the last parade drawing an audience of 1250 people. Parsons was also involved in the local chapter of the Soroptimists Club. In 1997 Parsons made a significant financial donation, as well as an oral history, to the Canberra Museum and Gallery. This contribution prompted the Gallery’s collection of historical materials relating to private commerce in Canberra. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Section Sylvia Parsons Collection, http://www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au/cmag/SylviaParsonsCollection.html Parsons collection, http://www.nma.gov.au/collections-search/results?search=adv&ref=coll&collname=Parsons+collection Fashioned Here, 2011, http://www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au/cmag/fashioned_here.html Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Sylvia Parsons, women's fashion retailer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0138 Heide Smith Photographs \"The Canberrans\" Author Details Annalise Pippard Created 18 February 2013 Last modified 3 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Following preparatory work and approaches to government by the National Council of Women (ACT) and the Nursery Kindergarten Society, the Emergency Housekeeper Service commenced in Canberra in April 1947. A Committee of Management, chaired by the National Council of Women, was established in February 1947 with representatives from the Canberra Mothercraft Society, the Nursery Kindergarten Society and the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). An organising secretary, Ella Buttsworth, was appointed in March 1947. In July 1977, responsibility for providing the service passed to the ACT Division of the Australian Red Cross Society. With ACT self-government in 1989, Home Help Service ACT adopted its own constitution, becoming an incorporated association. It now operates as a community sector not-for-profit organisation that provides quality in-home support to the elderly and people with disabilities and their carers in the ACT, under the Home and Community Care Program and the Veterans’ Home Care Program. The desirability of establishing an Emergency Housekeeper Service, along the lines of the NSW service, was first discussed at a meeting of the National Council of Women of the ACT in November 1943. Although there was support for the idea, nobody was willing to take the lead and it was not raised again until May 1945 when it became the Council’s first big project. The vice-president, Yseult Bailey, undertook to collect information about other State services and formulate a plan for presentation to the Department of the Interior. At the same time, the Nursery Kindergarten Society was collecting information about the working of housekeeper services and had advised the Minister for the Interior, Senator Collings, and Mr Daley in the Civic Administrator’s Office of their interests. On 26 September 1945 a joint meeting of interested groups, the National Council of Women, the Nursery Kindergarten Society, the Canberra Mothercraft Society and the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), was held to discuss an Emergency Housekeeper Service (EHS) for Canberra. In 1946 a delegation from the National Council of Women met with the Secretary of the Department of the Interior to urge that a subsidy be given by the government towards the cost of the service. In February 1947 the Council agreed to accept responsibility for the EHS, through a Committee of Management with representatives from the four organisations. An organising secretary was to be appointed (at first part-time) by the Committee to carry out the executive work of the service and to attend its meetings. The first organising secretary was a Canberra war widow, Mrs Ella Buttsworth who took up duty in March 1947. Helen Crisp and Loma Rudduck in ‘The Mothering Years’ reported that she helped to get the service off to a good start. Robbie Christian was the President from 1948 and held the position for eight years through the difficult formative years. The aim of the service was to enable young children or the elderly to be cared for when illness, accident or hospitalisation prevented the usual care-giver from carrying out the task. The main qualifications required of housekeepers were a knowledge and ability to care for and manage various types of households, the ability to understand and care for children, and good health. They were to live out, with the Committee responsible for finding accommodation. In November 1947, it was proposed that a social worker should be made available from the Department of the Interior to assist the EHS and, as a result, Canberra’s first social worker, Miss Horswell, was appointed. The social worker would advise on the conditions of employment of the housekeepers, investigate relative family needs and decide the amount which a family should be asked to pay for the services provided. The early years of the service were difficult with accommodation shortages and a lack of suitable housekeepers. Efforts were made to recruit post-war migrants as housekeepers and in 1950, Robbie Christian and Alice Halsey visited Bonegilla and selected two women for training. Although language proved a difficulty, the housekeepers were taken into Canberra homes where, with the aid of store catalogues and at least one German speaker (Dymphna Clark) they were able to manage within a short period of time. In July 1962, at the request of the Department of the Interior, the EHS offered an Emergency Homehelp Service that provided help on an hourly basis, mainly to assist people who because of age or poor health, needed some part-time assistance to enable them to continue living in their own home. Joyce McConnell took over the chair of the EHS Standing Committee on the retirement of Robbie Christian. The demand for both forms of the service was increasing rapidly with the growth in Canberra’s population and by May 1963, 25 full-time and part-time home helps were employed. The organising secretaries of both the Housekeeper Service and the Home Help Service resigned at this time. Following pressure from the Department of the Interior, the Committee of Management proposed to advertise for a Secretary for both services who would use her own car, use her home as an office and receive a salary of between one thousand and thirteen hundred pounds. Because of the growth in the service, an ever increasing subsidy was required and there was a constant tendency for the subsidy to lag behind financial commitments. The September 1965 Annual Report of the EHS reported that the Home Help division of the service had practically doubled in the previous twelve months. This hourly type service was increasingly used by pensioners and since charges were nominal, payments were meeting less than half of salary costs. The National Council of Women (ACT) recognised that it was becoming difficult for a voluntary committee to manage such a large community service. Financial problems continued, with outstanding debts and the costs of staff transport being particular issues of concern to the Committee of Management. In October 1966, the Council reported that the Department of the Interior had agreed to meet all administrative costs and that charges could be adjusted to New South Wales rates. A revised system agreed by the Department was also adopted to reduce charges depending on family circumstances. This new system would bring the EHS within the financial means of every applicant. After a trial period, the Committee recognised that the EHS was helping pensioners and the affluent but the Committee’s attempt to bring the service within the financial means of every applicant had been unsuccessful. Following approaches to the Department of the Interior, a new Committee was established from July 1971 to administer the Emergency Housekeeper and Home Help Service Inc. The Committee consisted of two nominees from the National Council of Women (ACT), one from the ACT Council of Social Service, one from the Association of Social Workers and two from the Department of the Interior. In July 1977, responsibility for providing the service passed to the ACT Division of the Australian Red Cross Society. With ACT self-government in 1989, Home Help Service ACT adopted its own constitution, becoming an incorporated association. On 1 July 2007 Handyhelp ACT Inc. and its programs were assimilated under its umbrella. On 1 July 2011 the organisation became Home Help Service ACT Limited. It operates as a community sector not-for-profit organisation that provides quality in-home support to the elderly and people with disabilities and their carers in the ACT under the Home and Community Care Program and Veterans’ Home Care Program. Published resources Resource Home Help Service ACT Limited, http://www.homehelp.org.au Home Help Service ACT - HACC Programs, http://health.act.gov.au Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Book Capital women : a history of the work of the National Council of Women (A.C.T.) in Canberra, 1939-1979, Stephenson, Freda, 1992 Archival resources Archives ACT Report from ACT Child Welfare Committee and Emergency Housekeeper Service; ACT Advisory Council 1963/6 National Council of Women [of the Australian Capital Territory]. Emergency Housekeeper Service. Author Details Anne Buttsworth Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 digital audio tapes (ca. 146 min.)??Katerina Clark & Axel Clark recall their childhood years; their parents’ background; family life in Melbourne, Canberra and, briefly, England; Manning-Clark House in Forrest, A.C.T; their parents’ influence; their careers. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Daniel Giles Rose; including bank books and legal documents; Frederick Rose; Mary Elizabeth Rose; George Daniel Rose; Aimee Rose and Henrietta Eliza Bertha Rose. They include correspondence, letterbooks, legal documents, genealogical information, family tree, newscuttings photographs and material relating to the Aylmerton Braemar Colo Vale co-operative Society Limited, the Agricultural Bureau of New South Wales, the British Orphans Adoption Society and the Country Women’s Association of New South Wales. The letters comment on topics such as World War I and life in Sydney in the early 1900’s Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 November 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Although the battle for woman suffrage began later in Australia than it did in Britain or the United States, success was achieved earlier. Concerted campaigns for woman suffrage in Australia date from the early 1880s and were supported by organisations and individuals representing a wide array of political and ideological platforms. In some ways, these campaigns signalled the start of women’s participation in the Australian political process. Although linked to and inspired by the international campaigns and context of the time, the Australian suffrage movement had its own distinctive, regional characteristics. Matters of race and class, of geographical proximity to Asia and the need to build a healthy white nation at the turn of the century, combined with universal concerns about justice and the rights of the individual to create a uniquely Australian movement. Australian women, who struggled for the franchise on a colony by colony basis, were amongst the first in the world to win the right to vote. South Australia women were enfranchised in 1894, a year after the women of New Zealand won the honour of being the first in the world to gain the right to vote. Their success was followed by victories in Western Australia in 1899, New South Wales in 1902, Tasmania in 1903, Queensland in 1904 and Victoria, finally, in 1908. The federal franchise was extended to all white women over the age of twenty-one in 1902, due in no small part to the success of the campaigns in South and Western Australia. The framers of the federal constitution agreed that it would be wrong to prevent women who already had the right to vote in state elections from doing so at a federal level. It was hoped that adherence to this principle would lead to consistency across the nation and that the remaining state legislatures would automatically confer woman suffrage for their own parliaments. This was the case for the women of New South Wales and Tasmania, although the women of Queensland and Victoria were required to struggle for longer. By the time they could vote in state elections, in 1908, the white women of Victoria has already voted in two federal elections. It is important to recognise that the Commonwealth Franchise Act did not enfranchise Indigenous women. At the same time federal suffrage was extended to white women it was specifically denied to Aboriginal Australians in those states where they had not previously been eligible to vote. In fact, although some states had granted these men and women the vote prior to 1902, full voting rights were not granted to Indigenous Australians until 1962, when the Commonwealth Electoral Act was amended to enfranchise Aboriginal Australians, men and women. Published resources Book That dangerous and persuasive woman: Vida Goldstein, Bomford, Janette M., 1993 Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 Votes for women : the Australian story, Lees, Kirsten., 1995 The Australian Woman's Sphere, 1900-1905 Book Section Modernity and mother-heartedness : spirituality and religious meaning in Australian women's suffrage and citizenship movements, 1890s-1920s, Smart, Judith, 2000 A white woman's suffrage, Grimshaw, Patricia, 1996 Resource 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition, Public Record Office Victoria, 2008, http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/1891_Women%27s_Suffrage_Petition Worth Fighting For!, Fryer Library with research by Yorick Smaal, 2005, https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20050708180233/http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/worth_fighting/ Archival resources State Library of Victoria The Goldstein chronicle, [between 1950 and 1973]. [manuscript]. Letters, diaries and lectures State Library of South Australia Women in Politics: A Forum in the Centenary Year of Women's Suffrage [sound recording] The University of Melbourne Archives Oke, Marjorie (1911-2003) Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers on various Australian women [19--] [manuscript] Vida Goldstein 1869-1949 January 1966 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Vida Goldstein, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Australian Historic Records Register Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria Inc. : community organisation records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection [Papers on women's suffrage / compiled by Rose Scott.]????????[Papers on women's suffrage / compiled by Rose Scott.] Scott Family (Rose Scott) papers, 1777-1925 [MLMSS 38/1-79] William Morrow - recordings of addresses given by Jessie Street, and interviews with Jessie Street, 1953-1960 [Pamphlets relating to Australian women's suffrage] State Library of New South Wales SUFFRAGE Group, 1902. Windeyer family papers, 1829-1943 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 September 2003 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Research notes, card indexes, photographs, slides, newscuttings, correspondence and other papers, ca. 1960-1986, accumulated by Roxburgh in the process of researching and writing the history of various colonial buildings in New South Wales, in particular Throsby Park near Moss Vale. This collection also includes a number of original documents, 1794 onwards, relating to the history of particular buildings. These documents include deeds, ledgers, licences, architectural drawing, letters and diaries. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 March 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Barbara Scott was elected to the Thirty-fourth Parliament of Western Australia as the Liberal Party member of the Legislative Council for South Metropolitan Region on 6 February 1993 for term commencing 22 May 1993. She was re-elected in 1996, 2001 and 2005 (for term commencing 22 May 2005). She retired 21 May 2009. Barbara Barnett was born in Merredin, Western Australia, in 1939, to Lesley Barnett and his wife Eileen. She attended Sacred Heart High School in Mount Lawley, then Claremont Teachers’ College, graduating in 1958. She married Michael Scott in 1969. Barbara Scott joined the Claremont branch of the Liberal Party of Australia in 1984, and was elected to the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia for the South Metropolitan Region in1993. She was re-elected in 1996, 2001 and 2005, and retired on 21 May 2009. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 30 November 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Short biographies of Georgiana Molloy; Kira Bousloff; Queenie McKenzie and Eileen Joyce written by Shirley Daffen as part of her research project “Writing women into Australian history” project; booklet, “The Daisy Rossi wildflower story”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Trained mathematician Dorothy Dolling devoted much of her life to the work of the South Australian Country Women’s Association. During wartime she worked with the Allied Forces Information Bureau. Dolling also enjoyed a long career in journalism, writing for the Adelaide Advertiser from 1936. Daughter of English-born parents, Edgar Scott Clarke and his wife Alice Jane (née Barber), Dorothy Dolling was educated at Otago Girls’ High School and the University of Otago. She completed a Bachelor of Science in 1918 and Master of Science in 1919. After two years teaching mathematics and physics at the University of Leeds, England, she returned to study advanced mathematics in New Zealand and married medical practitioner Charles Edward Dolling. In the years before the Second World War, particularly during the Depression, Dorothy occupied herself with the activities of the South Australian Country Women’s Association (C.W.A.), organising handicraft classes, fundraising for bushfire and flood relief, and distributing blankets and necessities. She became a member of the Women’s Centenary Council of South Australia and, during wartime, initiated a register of volunteer personnel. She served with the Allied Forces Information Bureau and Women’s Air Training Corps, and chaired the central welfare committee of the Women’s Land Army. After the war, Dorothy established leadership schools for C.W.A. officers in the interests of developing their education. From 1936, Dorothy had also begun work as a journalist, editing the women’s pages of the Advertiser as ‘Marian March’, and editing its weekly rural newspaper, the Chronicle, as ‘Eleanor Barbour’. She retired from the Chronicle in 1966. Dorothy Dolling died of hypertensive heart disease in 1967, survived by a daughter and a son. Her son founded the Dorothy Dolling memorial trust, assisting country women and their children to obtain further education. Events 1936 - 1966 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Section Dolling, Dorothy Eleanor Ethel Victoria Georgina Barber (1897 - 1967), Dolling, Alison M., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140019b.htm Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 25 October 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9333 comprises research material relating to Minefields and miniskirts, McHugh’s book about the involvement of Australian women in the Vietnam War as nurses, entertainers or army personnel. The papers include research files titled “Vietnamese in Australia/Vietnam”, “Articles and misc re Vietnam in general”, “Journalism”, “Singers”, “Vets families”, “Anti-war”, and “Nurses” containing correspondence, articles, clippings, transcipts of interviews and notes on interviewees. The collection also includes proofs, drafts, layout and contents notes of the book; scripts from ABC programs drawn from the interviews; reviews, newspaper clippings and publications; and, colour slide and black and white negatives of Vietnam, 1991 (4 boxes).??The Acc12.082 instalment comprises research notes, reviews, feedback and comments relating to McHugh’s radio documentary on mixed marriage and sectarianism presented on ABC Radio National Hindsight (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Germaine Greer established her international reputation as a feminist through the publication of The Female Eunuch in 1970. As an academic her expertise was in English Literature, having completed a MA thesis on Byron at Sydney University and a PhD on Shakespeare at Cambridge University in 1967. While in London, she wrote for the radical paper Oz, espousing controversial views on the nature of feminism in that period. She has continued to contribute to the feminist debate from a libertarian perspective, but it is difficult to categorise her feminist position. In 2003, Professor Greer received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Melbourne. She received a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of Sydney in 2005. Germain Greer was born in Melbourne, Australia on January 29, 1939. She was educated in Gardenvale at Star of the Sea College, a private convent school. In 1956, she was awarded a scholarship to enrol at the University of Melbourne where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English and French literature and language. After finishing university in Melbourne, Greer relocated to Sydney where she eventually received a Master’s degree in Romantic Poetry from the University of Sydney. Arguably, her experiences beyond university were just as important to the development of her thinking. She joined the bohemian Sydney Push movement and drifted into a series of beliefs that were anarchic and communist, identifying with each as a variant Marxist. Germaine Greer’s Master’s thesis The Development of Byron’s Satiric Mode would earn her a Commonwealth Scholarship, which she used to pay for her doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge. While in England, she joined the all-women Newnham College. She also joined the amateur acting group, the Cambridge Footlights. This group helped connect Germaine Greer to the world of art and media production in London. Greer began writing under the pseudonym Rose Blight for Private Eye, a satirical magazine. She also wrote under the pseudonym Dr. G. for the magazine Oz. In 1970, she published The Female Eunuch a call to arms that condemned gender-encoded norms and society’s expectations that women should live vicariously through men. It caused a sensation in Britain, the United States and Australia, and thereafter was forever being reprinted and translated. She is a vehement opponent of women who ape men and join their hierarchies to become ‘sisters in suits’. ‘If women can see no future apart from joining the masculine elite on its own terms, our civilization will become more destructive than ever’. Greer has written prolifically about the obstacles placed in front of women writers and artists, as they have attempted to pursue their careers. She chronicles the minor role of women poets in Slip-shod Sybils. Recognition, Rejection and The Woman Poet and offers an anthology of female artists in The Obstacle Race. She continued to publish in the popular press about things that matter, and in recent years, she has become very outspoken about environmental matters. In her address to open Perth Writer’s Festival in 2012, entitled ‘Eco-Feminism Then and Now’, she issued an environmental call to arms to women everywhere, to act to ‘stem the tide of eco-side’. Women, she said, had historically been at the forefront of the environmental movement but Greer called for the women of today to do more and follow the unlikely example of the growing activism of the Country Women’s Association against coal seam gas projects in Queensland and New South Wales. In 2001 Greer purchased a property in the Gold Coast hinterland in Southern Queensland and founded the Friends of Gondwana Rainforest charity which manages the Cave Creek Rainforest Rehabilitation Scheme in Southern Queensland. In 2013 Greer sold her archive to the University of Melbourne, with proceeds to benefit Friends of Gondwana. Since acquiring the collection, The University of Melbourne has invested significant resources into cataloguing and preserving the Germaine Greer Archive. In mid-2014 the then University Archivist, Dr Katrina Dean, went to Professor Greer’s house in Essex, England, to pack the carefully conserved collection up. This task took three weeks. Since then, additional deposits were made in 2016 and 2017. By March 2018, the entire archive had been catalogued. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Professor Germaine Greer, University of Sydney, 2005, http://sydney.edu.au/senate/HonGreer.shtml Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Book The female eunuch, Greer, Germaine, 1970 Sex and destiny : the politics of human fertility, Greer, Germaine, 1984 The obstacle race: the fortunes of women painters and their work, Greer, Germaine, 1979 The change: women, aging and the menopause, Greer, Germaine, 1991 Resource Section Publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch, 2012, http://www.abc.net.au/archives/80days/stories/2012/01/19/3411580.htm Germaine Greer Biography, 2012, http://www.egs.edu/library/germaine-greer/biography/ Article The Liberating of Germaine Greer, Keavney, Kay, 1972, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page4887572 Germaine Greer: A Portrait, Quilty, Ben, 2013, http://meanjin.com.au/articles/post/germaine-greer-a-portrait/ Greer Kicks Off Writers Festival, Bevis, Stephen, 2012, http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/13002256/greer-kicks-off-writers-festival/ Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Women's Electoral Lobby The Germaine Greer Archive National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Germaine Greer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of New South Wales Dale Spender - papers, 1972-1995 Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Julia Trubridge-Freebury further papers, 1960s-2004 Author Details Rosemary Francis and Nikki Henningham Created 15 December 2009 Last modified 15 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Larissa Halonkin Created 23 April 2014 Last modified 7 March 2019 Digital resources Title: An Australian Lady-Barrister Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records include: files relating to children (1921 – 1968); copy letter books; minute books; ledgers; cash books; press cuttings; printed material relating to the Children’s Services Acts and related matters; photographs; statistical sheets ( 1961 – 1970); and letters and press cuttings concerning St Martin’s and St John’s Homes ( 1936 – 1939) and Newhaven Boys’ Home (1934). In the view of Dorothy Scott and Shurlee Swain, this intact set of case records ‘provides a unique window into a century of child protection practice’. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 17 March 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Paddy Pearl talks about her family background, meeting Cyril Pearl in 1964, marrying him in May 1965 and travelling to China and England. Emphasis is given to talking about working with Cyril on his publications such as “Morrison of Peking”, “Dublin in Bloomtime”, “Hardy Wilson and his old colonial architecture” and “The Dunera scandal” and the travel involved in gathering information. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour??Kathleen Waterhouse worked as a district nurse with the Royal District Nursing Society from 1921 to 1923 following her return from military nursing in India during the First World War. She describes in detail her postings to Tailem Bend and Narrung, including descriptions of local people and their living conditions, and details about particular nursing cases. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Archives provides access to the extensive historical holdings of the School to students, staff and to the wider community, for research and general historical interest. Melbourne Girls Grammar, through its former students and staff, has made a significant contribution to girls’ education, and to the cultural capital of Victorian and Australian society. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 March 2019 Last modified 8 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Australian Red Cross has given special emphasis to Disaster and Emergency Services as part of the larger role of the Red Cross in caring for victims of natural disasters, conflict and human tragedies. The Australian Red Cross took up this role as a philanthropic organisation already able to operate within the armed forces and within State disaster plans. In the main, disaster and emergency services have largely been a State-based function of the Australian Red Cross, with national coordination developing over time. Their disaster preparation and response strongly involves local branches and communities, with women providing much of the ground support and assistance, such as catering and registration, and increasingly management for the Australian Red Cross. The first Constitution of the Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society made assistance in great public disaster, calamity or need one of its key objects, subject to the approval of its national Council. In an emergency, the President could authorise rendering of assistance, as Lady Helen Munro Ferguson did in World War I. The Australian Red Cross assisted in civil disasters within Australia after World War I, in terms of the influenza epidemic, but more so after World War II. According to Noreen Minogue, the Western Australian Division of the Australian Red Cross Society was the first State to move strongly into Civil Preparedness for Disaster. By the mid-1960s, however, each State Division of the Australian Red Cross had some affiliation with the statutory authorities in emergency and disaster services. Although State Divisions initially handled disasters on their own, large-scale events, like the Tasmanian bushfires of 1967 required the assistance of other Divisions. As a result, the Australian Red Cross Society formed a National Disaster Relief Committee, and the Disaster Services Department was formed in 1975. Its national officers focused on registration and care of victims, the provision of trained personnel, and a uniform pattern of disaster organisation and training throughout Australia. In the 1980s, an expert national and divisional committee was formed in Disaster Preparedness to advise, coordinate and support the development of services, known as the Disaster Services Advisory Committee in 2004. The area was often referred to as emergency services, and sometimes came under different Departments, such as the national Department of Services and Membership in 1999-2000. The Australian Red Cross’s Strategy 2005 again targeted disaster and emergency services as a core activity, with plans to improve the focus and coordination of the service, provide a national registration system and deliver effective disaster services which meet communities’ needs. Published resources Book 50 years service to humanity, Australian Red Cross Society, [1964] The More things change…The Australian Red Cross 1914-1989, Minogue, Noreen, 1989 Look what you started Henry! A history of the Australian Red Cross 1914-1991., Stubbings, Leon, 1992 Report Strategy 2005, Australian Red Cross, c2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian Red Cross Research and Information Service Records relating to community services, social work and welfare, and disaster relief provided by the Australian Red Cross The University of Melbourne Archives Annual Reports of the Australian Red Cross Minutes and Meeting Papers, National Council Annual Reports of Red Cross Divisions and Blood Service Author Details Penny Robinson Created 10 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia evolved from the seventeen individual congregations operating in Australia before 1981. It forms part of the world-wide network of Mercy Sisters. Catherine McAuley founded the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin, Ireland in 1841. In 1846 the Sisters of Mercy came to Australia. Ursula Frayne, a friend of Catherine McAuley, arrived with six Sisters and settled in Perth , Western Australia, later moving to Melbourne. By 1954 the seventeen distinct autonomous groups had emerged through the processes of amalgamation and division. In 1953 eight of the autonomous groups formed the Australian Union of Sisters of Mercy, and in 1957 the remaining nine groups joined to form the Australian Federation of the Sisters of Mercy, which by 1981 became the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia. The Mercy Sisters describe this structure as ‘a unique mode of governance continuing to express the traditional Mercy thrust towards decentralisation and unity but giving a clearer sign of the equally strong concern for a deep unity of spirit.’ The Sisters of Mercy are committed to those most vulnerable in our society and wish to share God’s loving kindness with others. The Congregations are located in Adelaide, S.A., Ballarat East, Vic., Bathurst, N.S.W., Brisbane, Q’land, Cairns, Q’land, Goulburn N.S.W., Grafton, N.S.W., Gunnedah N.S.W., Melbourne, Vic., North Sydney, N.S.W., Parramatta, N.S.W., Perth, W.A., Rockhampton, Q’land, Singleton, N.S.W., Townsville, Q’land, West Perth, W.A., Wilcannia-Forbes, N.S.W. and Papua New Guinea. Published resources Book The advent of the Sisters of Mercy, Bathurst, 1866, Meagher, Michael, 1931 Centenary, the Sisters of Mercy, South Australia, 1880-1980, Astbury, Helen, 1980 The labourer's friends: Sisters of Mercy in Victoria and Tasmania, Allen, Maree G., 1989 A delicate balance: pictures reflecting the living and working of the Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney, 1865-1990, Doherty, Catherine M., and Thompson, Nola A. ( Compilers), 1991 Centenary of Sisters of Mercy, Branxton-Greta Parish, 1886-1986, Bendeich, Fay B., 1986 Beginnings 1902-2002: 100 years of the Sisters of Mercy and Catholic Secondary Education in Shepparton, Murphy, Kierin, 2002 The Sisters of Mercy in the south east, 1880-1980: a local history of the Sisters of Mercy in the south east of South Australia, Sisters of Mercy ( compiler), 1980 Valiant women: letters from the foundation Sisters of Mercy in Western Australia, 1845-1849, Byrne, Geraldine ( Compiler), 1981 Beyond our dreams: a century of the works of Mercy in Queensland, O'Donoghue, M. Xaverius, 1961 Channels of Mercy: a history of Mercy schools in the South West of Western Australia, Cabrini Fontana, Mary, 1996 Held in our hearts: a story of the Sisters of Mercy of the Goulburn congregation, Casey, Eileen, 2000 These women?: women religious in the history of Australia, the Sisters of Mercy, Parramatta 1888-1988, McGrath, Madeleine Sophie, 1989 Ursula Frayne: a biography, Killerby, Catherine Kovesi, 1996 Resource Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia, Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia, 2003, http://www.mercysisters.org.au/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Music on the hill: one hundred years of the Sisters of Mercy and catholic education, Casterton, 2002, Wickham, Mary, 2002 Archival resources Australian Historic Records Register Australian Federation of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia: community organisation records Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia: community organisation records Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary De Merindol is a long term supporter of the Australian Democrats and represented them in the 1995 election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Vaucluse and in the Legislative Council elections of 2003. Mary De Merindol was born in London and educated at a convent school, which she left, at year 11, to go to Italy and learn Italian, a pursuit she has maintained ever since. She married Peter De Merindol in 1960, and they have four children. They emigrated to Australia in the 1960s, and Mary worked at many jobs, including as a secretary to the Chief Engineer of Bushells Tea, in various legal offices and as an organiser of conferences for Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick. Mary was elected to the committee of The Paddington Society in 2003, and is also a member of the Refugee Council of Australia, ChilOut, A Just Australia and Australians for native Title and Reconciliation. She is actively involved in providing support to refugees held in detention centres. She remains an active member of the Australian Democrats and with her husband now runs a bed and breakfast establishment in Paddington. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 7 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1994 Muriel Dick was 73 years old and running a farm in Southern Victoria. Her husband had died some fourteen years earlier and she was managing things herself. Muriel Dick’s mother was from the country (around Omeo in Victoria) but her father was from the city, working as a carpenter for the railways. He loved the countryside, though, and so retired to acres at Warburton, in Victoria. Her parents bought twenty acres, split them into blocks and built houses on them for sale. Muriel remembers the days of her childhood fondly. She liked the freedom and basking in her father’s pride. ‘He gave me strengths that are usually given in a male world.-, she said. ‘I had two dancing classes – skipping around and riding racehorses. It was a wonderful teenage life.’ Her father adored her. Her parents lost a son in a drowning accident and after that, the focus was her. Other children followed but she was the lucky one. After marrying, she lived in east Melbourne for a while, before coming back to the land. Her husband came from farming stock and channelled everything into getting a property. They purchased one in the early 1960s. Despite living on acreage as a child, Muriel acknowledges that she had never really had much experience of farming prior to moving onto their farm. Muriel’s husband was nineteen and half years older than her, with very firm views on who was responsible for raising their two small children. ‘Look, even a heifer can look after its calf’, he told her when she was at the end of her tether one day. Whilst the children were small, she had very little to do with the everyday running of the farm. ‘My place was in the house, really, and the garden, and with the children, but if he needed help, you know, you worked like a dog!’ Once the children were off to school, she started to get more involved . ‘I got quite fond of cows. I could pat them and talk to them, and I had an affinity with them, and I was glad. It filled in some part of my life, actually’. But still her life really centred around her children, the house, the garden, in the community and following the children though school. Says Muriel, ‘I was very keen, very ambitious, for my children too move on and I gave them all the support.’ When her husband died in 1980 she determined to stay on the farm and even though she didn’t have a lot of knowledge about how to run it she had done the books and so she had a ‘good functional idea of how things ran’. It wasn’t however, ‘without a lot of pain’ that she became a sole operator. All the same, she says, ‘it’s been wonderful, because what I’ve really done is walk into myself; I’ve found myself as a person’. She has an ‘alternative’ view of calving and running cows. She doesn’t like dogs chasing them and has a bit of an ‘open gate’ policy when it comes to caring for them because thinks that ‘a cow can look after its calf better than I can.’ She can afford to adopt this method, however, because she is older and her property is freehold. Muriel was very much into the women’s groups in the area. And believes she has been into ’empowering women … all my life.’ She remains involved in a group which is the continuation of the ‘Women on Farms’ groups established in the mid 1980s. Over the years, she has ‘Some of the women,’ she says, ‘were under the influence of their husbands but now they’ve moved out of the shadows into the sunshine a bit.’ Published resources Book Section Muriel Dick, Bowden, Ros, 1995 Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Muriel Dick interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording] Women of the land oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 March 2010 Last modified 8 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Annie Hitchcock, daughter of Wesleyan John Lowe, and wife and mother of Geelong businessmen and philanthropists George and Howard Hitchcock respectively, was a prominent, successful, and influential philanthropist and community worker in her own right. She was Victoria’s foremost Methodist fundraiser, and led the Geelong and Western District Ladies’ Benevolent Association for forty one years, a period when it became the leading organisation of its kind in regional Victoria. Annie Lowe, daughter of prominent Wesleyan John Lowe, married Geelong businessman George Hitchock, a founding member of the Geelong drapers firm Bright and Hitchcock, in 1859 at the age of 17. She shared his commitment to civil service, and the belief of their fellow parishioners at the Yarra St Methodist Church, that society could best be changed through hard work, success in business, philanthropy and high personal standards. Described as a woman who was ‘dominant, strongwilled, very efficient and with powers of initiative and leadership’ Annie became Victoria’s foremost Methodist collector for philanthropic and church objects. In 1891, she single-handedly raised £1683 for the new parsonage. She helped found the Geelong Branch of Christian Endeavour in 1890, and set up Junior Endeavour through the Sunday School. Annie was active in the Geelong and Western District Benevolent Society, becoming a committee member in 1868, and Vice President, and then President from 1875 to 1916. During this time the Association became the leading organisation of its type in regional Victoria, establishing the Austin, Haimes and Upton Homes, and the Yarra Street Mission School. Annie founded the Geelong branch of the Ministering Children’s League in 1890, and with her son Howard – a leading benefactor on whom she was a profound influence- bought a cottage for the League, at Queenscliff, in 1895. She was also interested in the YMCA, the Geelong Musical Society, the Geelong Horticultural Society, the Western District Agricultural Society and two women’s social clubs, as well as the Geelong Art Gallery and the Geelong Protestant Orphanage. Published resources Book Hitchcock Geelong's Visionary, Houghton, Norman, 2002 Resource Section Hitchcock, George Michelmore (1831-1912), Gunson, Neil, 2006, http://www.adb.online.edu.au/biogs/A040450b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Geelong Heritage Centre Geelong & Western District Ladies Benevolent Association Author Details Janet Butler Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour??Vera Gibbs was born at Port Adelaide, South Australia. For twelve years after leaving Unley High School she had an administrative role in her father’s bakery. She began training as a ‘Mental Nurse’ at the Parkside Mental Hospital in 1936. Training in general nursing followed at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, then she had an appointment as a charge nurse at Parkside. After infectious diseases training at Northfield and midwifery at the Queen Victoria Hospital Vera had country hospital appointments. In 1946 she was nominated by the Australian Nursing Federation for an appointment with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, which took her to Germany and Poland in the immediate post-war period. In 1947 she studied at the Royal College of Nursing in London and gained the Sister Tutor Diploma awarded by the University of London. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour??Pam Fulton trained as a nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in the early 1950s and as part of that training spent time in the Da Costa Ward, the gynaecological ward at the back of the hospital where women who were suffering the consequences of illegal abortions were admitted. She recalls her memories of that ward – the women she nursed, her own attitudes and feelings and those of the other nurses and doctors, and the general ambience of the ward. Later in her career, Pam Fulton has worked with the Family Planning Association in South Australia and at Sydney’s largest free-standing abortion clinic. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Typescript copy of a book, “Good-night, all-about”, by Hilda Abbott in which she describes her life in the Northern Territory after her husband’s appointment as Administrator in 1937. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence with Mr. K. Binns relating to the presentation of Mrs. Gunn’s manuscripts to the library, in 1937 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 December 2003 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Beryl Women’s Refuge was the first women’s refuge for women and children escaping domestic violence in the ACT. It provided accommodation and a range of legal, welfare and health services to a diverse range of clients. Inspired by the feminists who established the Elsie Women’s Refuge in Sydney, Julia Ryan, Elizabeth ‘Biff’ Ward, Pamela Oldmeadow and other members Women’s Liberation in Canberra formed a Refuge Committee in 1974 to investigate through local welfare organisations the need for a similar refuge for victims of domestic violence in the ACT. Their evidence-based funding submission to the Commonwealth Department of the Capital Territory resulted in the lease of a three-bedroom house in Adams Place Watson and a grant of $4,000 towards its running costs. On 8 March 1975 Pat Bryant, wife of Gordon Bryant the Minister for the Capital Territory in the Whitlam Government, officially opened the Canberra Women’s Refuge and handed its keys to veteran feminist and abortion law reform advocate, Beryl Henderson. In 1989, the refuge was renamed Beryl Refuge Inc. in her honour. Originally staffed by trained volunteers from Canberra Women’s Liberation and Women’s Electoral Lobby, it was managed by a Collective of the Refuge Committee, operating by consensus decision-making. In May 1976 the refuge moved to a two-storied duplex in Kingston, provided rent-free for two years by a Canberra businessperson, and received government funding for paid staff. Initially, all homeless women were accepted into the refuge but on 8 August 1983, Toora, a separate refuge for single women, was opened, allowing Beryl to focus on women with children. In July 1986 the Incest Centre (now Canberra Rape Crisis Centre) was established, initially as a subsidiary of the Canberra Women’s Refuge. In 1990 Beryl opened a halfway house for women and children awaiting priority government housing. A $40,000 government grant in 2001 allowed Beryl to run children-focussed programs and in 2004 further funding permitted the provision of a twelve-month outreach program for former clients. On 19 December 2005, Beryl Refuge Inc. was renamed Beryl Women Inc. In response to significant cuts in government funding the management of Beryl transitioned in April 2007 from a collective to a committee model of governance. Beryl increasingly employed ethnically diverse staff to better reflect the diversity of their clients and created two designated positions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. In 2015 Aboriginal woman Robyn Martin, Beryl’s Manager from 2005, was named ACT Woman of the Year. Published resources Edited Book Opening a new door : the herstory of Beryl Women Inc. 1975 - 2015, Choudhury, Farzana, 2015, http://www.beryl.org.au/assets/beryl-herstory-book.pdf Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Elizabeth Ward interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Elba Cruz-Zavalla interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Julia Ryan, 1947-1982 [manuscript] ACT Heritage Library Woman sorting clothes in the lounge room of a Canberra women's refuge Bedroom at the Canberra Women's Refuge, Watson, which is being used by an adult and five children National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive Escargo-go with Domestic Dirt - Canberra Women's Refuge Dinner Dance 1982 NULL Red Fems Collection - NJSN_AC-007 Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens and Patricia ni Ivor Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 24 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Drawings – 21 ink, watercolour & crayon drawings ; 48 x 76 cm. or smaller??1. ‘Enlist here join the Navy’ / Begg?2. ‘It’s my wife, nurse – she doesn’t like me being alone with strange women’ / Jean Cullen?3. ‘-and the judges have called for a photo’ / Les Dixon?4. ‘Caution curve. I told you so!’ / John Endean?5.’ Tell them to repeat the last couple of words’ / John Endean?6. ‘Could I talk to you a moment, there’s something I want to get off my chest’ / John Endean?7. ‘One day John Bugsby, you’ll carry your silly suspicions too far’ / M. Horseman?8. ‘New hand – Get back to bed, sir, you’re walking in your sleep’ / J. Jonsson?9. ‘There’s no need for me to go home early, my husband doesn’t eat breakfast’ / Lahm?10. ‘Look, Jim can you do this?’ / Emile Mercier?11. ‘All men are the same to me. It’s a wonder your husband stands it’ / Morrison?12. ‘Boss: business is bad but I suppose a man can’t have everything’ / Quinlan ’34?13. ‘You should consider yourself lucky – Mr Hallstrom would have given my 75 for it’ / Norm Rice?14. ‘Oh no! We couldn’t give you four years to pay – Why the furniture won’t last that long!’ / Norm Rice?15. ‘Hullo, Rhubarb! What are you doing these days?…’ / Jim Russell?16. ‘Bet you ten bob the bosses’ new secretary gets the bullet this week’ / Albert Smith?17. ‘Jus’ put yerself in my shoes, lady, an’ yer won’t ‘ave a care in the world’ / Unk White?18. ‘Hey! Who th’ell yer shovin” / Unk White?19. ‘Now then, that’s just wher you put your foot in it’ / Unk White?20. ‘Maisie, I insist you take this! Remember what happened last time you went for a car ride!’ / [Callett? / Hallett?]?21. [Caricature of ‘Mo’]?22-24. ‘Syb! If you and me had boyfriends…’ / [untitled artist, possibly Morrison?]?Plus two copies of ‘Smith’s Weekly’ (final edition), 28 October 1950, signed by cartoonists who worked on the newspaper. Includes signatures of artists featured in this collection Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 November 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Account book kept by Dame Nellie Melba’s accountant for her Australasian tour, 1902-1903 Author Details Clare Land Created 17 June 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Various materials on Helen M Schutt held by the Trust. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 May 2001 Last modified 20 January 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ester Baylis was a prize-winning Pictorialist photographer and an active member of the Adelaide Camera Club. Baylis’ focus was primarily architectural photography, having previously trained in architecture. Baylis initially used a Box Brownie camera, and with prize money purchased a Thornton Pickard enlarger and an Adams Minex camera. Baylis was the first woman photographer to be included in an Australian public collection. Esther Baylis was a prize-winning Pictorialist photographer who belonged to the Adelaide Camera Club. She was born in Largs Bay, South Australia. Her family moved to Unley Park, South Australia when she was two years old, and she lived there until 1925 when she moved to England. Baylis was given a Box Brownie camera at the age of 12, the age at which she also started developing and printing her own photographs. She was a student at the Hermitage Girl’s Boarding School in Geelong, Victoria which was a Private Grammar School owned and run by the Church of England. She left school at the age of seventeen, wanting to pursue a career in architecture but had to wait until she turned 18, so she returned to Adelaide where for a year she studied watercolour painting with Gwen Barringer. Baylis began her training in architecture at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries from 1917 to about 1921. This was a four-year course that included university subjects – she went to physics and maths lectures and architectural history lectures. However, with only two subjects to go, she decided not to complete her studies even though she had been named by the Woods, Bagot, Jory and Laybourne Smith Architects with whom she was an articled pupil, as ‘the most successful student in the Architecture department’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 19). Esther was to recollect that, ‘I had the distinct feeling that women were not welcome in the architectural society. One prominent architect said I would never be admitted’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 19). Her instincts turned out to be correct since she worked for Woods Bagot Jory and Laybourne Smith for four and a half years, completing her articles but without any prospect of the necessary registration to pursue a career as an architect. A draft of a letter written to her father by Laybourne Smith wrote of his concern that, [Miss Legoe] must be prepared to meet the various grades of people employed in the Building Trades and face any slight disabilities attendant on inspection of works such as mounting scaffolds. Disillusioned, Baylis turned her attention to photography and set up a darkroom and studio in the cellar of the family home. She was generally self-taught, apart from attending a number classes run by a member of the South Australian Photographic Society, of which she was a member. She entered her photographs in Kodak competitions and in competitions organised by the Australian Photography Review, winning prizes for her work. The prize money was used to purchase a Thornton Pickard enlarger, an Adams Minex camera and a voyage by ship to England, which she embarked on in 1922. In London she was offered a position with a photography studio but declined it as she was more interested in travel and in photographing gardens and architecture. In 1923 she returned to Australia and became a member of the Adelaide Camera Club, exhibiting her work at their annual exhibitions. Buildings were the main focus of her photographic work; she loved capturing the shadows and lines of the architectural forms she was photographing. As with the other members of the Adelaide Camera Club her photographs were in the Pictorialist style. Baylis said of photography that ‘the important thing is the know-how to “compose” a picture and one must see the picture at a glance in one’s mind for it to succeed’ (Hall 74). In 1925 she exhibited 24 of her photographs in the Exhibition of Pictures and Craftwork at the Society of Art, Adelaide. Fourteen of these were then included in the First Exhibition of Pictorial Photography organised by the Adelaide Photographic Society. Her photographs won her medals at the South Australian Chamber of Manufacturers All Australian Exhibition in 1925 and three of these photographs, Figure Study 1924, Louis XIV Chapel, Versaillesand Pastures, were purchased by the Art Gallery of South Australia. This saw her being the first woman photographer to be included in an Australian public collection. Baylis had travelled to England with her sister in 1925 and it was on this trip that she became engaged to Denis Baylis (the ship’s purser). They married a year later in England. The following two years saw her husband continuing in his purser’s position, while she gave birth to their first child and continued with her photography. The family was also able to travel around England and Europe. The Baylis family decided to return to Australia, settling in the south-eastern town of Binnum in South Australia, taking up farming and remaining there for the next twenty years. Ester had two children and continued her creative pursuits, attending painting classes in Adelaide, and this rather than photography became her main focus. The family moved to Balmoral, Victoria where Ester joined ‘The Gropers,’ a women’s art group whose motto was ‘groping for knowledge,’ which met at the Hamilton Art Gallery each month. She began working with oils and had five exhibitions after her children had grown up. From Balmoral she moved to Clifton Springs, Victoria where she continued painting, well into her eighties. Ester Baylis died in 1990, at the age of ninety-two. Technical Box Brownie camera, a Thornton Pickard enlarger and an Adams Minex camera. Collections National Gallery of Australia The Art Gallery of South Australia Events 1920 - 1930 2007 - 2008 Ester Baylis featured in A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography, 1840s-1940s. 1981 - 1981 Ester Baylis featured in the exhibition Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 1925 - 1925 Ester Baylis featured in the Exhibition of Pictures and Craftwork at the Society of Art. 1925 - 1925 Ester Baylis featured in the First Exhibition of Pictorial Photography, Adelaide Photographic Society. 1925 - 1925 Ester Baylis won medals at the South Australian Chamber of Manufacturers All Australian Exhibition. 1923 - 1923 Ester Baylis was featured in the Adelaide Camera Club Annual exhibition. Published resources Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 A century in focus: South Australian photography, 1840s-1940s, Robinson, Julie, 2007 CD Rom Dictionary of South Australian Photography, 1845-1915 [electronic resource], Noye, Robert J., 2007 Archival resources State Library of Victoria [Florado Art Exhibition: Australian Gallery File] [Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (Portland, Vic.) : Australian Gallery File] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 4 October 2016 Last modified 4 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Formerly a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, elected to North Sydney Council at a by-election in 1971, was Commissioner of Water Resources, State Member for North Sydney from 1988-91. This interview is part of Council’s ‘Planning History’ project and focuses on planning issues, local and at state level. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 November 2003 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 8648 comprises diaries, correspondence, biographical notes, concert programs, scrapbooks, press cuttings, photographs, music scores, teaching material for the Victorian College of the Arts, speeches and other papers. The papers relate mainly to Dame Joan’s career as an opera singer and teacher, but also cover such topics as Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Pymble, the loss of Dame Joan’s house in the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires, the Australian Opera, Victoria State Opera, golf, and Dame Joan’s friendship with Lolita Marriott (19 boxes, 2 fol. Boxes).??The Acc97.111 instalment comprises cards, letters, an appointment diary, address book, tributes, testimonials, photographs, souvenirs, cassettes and inscribed books. Also included are some large framed pictures and mementos (2 boxes, 3 fol. Boxes). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 May 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4 sound files (ca. 177 min.)??Mem Fox talks about her memories of her parents; their decision to go to Rhodesia; the family’s arrival at Hope Fountain Mission near Bulawayo, Rhodesia and her memory of the place; her early childhood friends being native Africans; her father training teachers for primary school roles; her education; understanding racism and being opposed to it; the Hope Fountain Mission in physical and social terms; being encouraged to read and to pursue literature; memorising poetry and her discoveries about words and language; the development of attitudes in childhood and of how lives are shaped; the BBC broadcasts and family discussions about what was heard; inspirational teachers; the reasons behind her leaving Africa to attend the Rose Bruford College in the UK; her love of acting and performance of plays at school; her reluctance to attend university; working as a volunteer worker at the World Council of Churches’ Conference Centre at Celingny, near Geneva; the nature of the work and those she met from a diversity of backgrounds; teaching at Rose Bruford and the strict regime there.??Fox speaks about the classes she attended and the many pressures faced by students; meeting Malcolm Fox, her future husband at Rose Bruford; their marriage in Rhodesia; both attending the University in Butare, Rwanda; finding life in Rwanda very difficult; leaving after 6 months, via England, for Australia on a government-assisted passage; the welcome at Sydney airport on 4 January, 1970; the birth of their daughter, Chloe (1971); the circumstances that surrounded their return to South Australia; the discovery of a melanoma and the effects on her and her family’s life; why she and Malcolm returned to university study and how their careers evolved; being urged to gain further tertiary qualifications and her studies at Flinders University; writing a children’s book; the journey of rejection by publishers; how Omnibus books came to publish ‘Possum Magic’; the book’s attraction to children and her pleasure in writing it. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Syllabus 1995-1996; Annual Report and Balance Sheets Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1912, Eliza Hall used her inheritance to establish the Walter and Eliza Hall Trust. Funds were distributed in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. A significant proportion of Victoria’s share went toward the establishment of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. Eliza Rowdon Kirk was born in Melbourne, the eldest daughter of George Kirk (a Yorkshire-born butcher) and his wife Elizabeth, née Wippell. In 1874 she married Walter Russell Hall. Walter was born in Herefordshire, England, and arrived in Sydney with little money. He became an agent for Cobb & Co., taking over the firm with James Rutherford and others in 1861. By the time he left Cobb & Co. in the mid-1880s he was a wealthy man. From here his wealth grew via an investment in the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Co. Ltd., registered with a capital of £1 million in 1886. Walter Hall made many anonymous donations to institutions and individuals including a gift of £1,000 to charities when his horse Reviver won the Metropolitan in 1900. He gave £5,000 to the Patriotic Fund during the war in South Africa and £10,000 to the Dreadnought Fund. Walter and Eliza had no children, but took care of two orphaned cousins. When Walter died in 1911 his estate was valued at £2,915,513 with Eliza his principal beneficiary. Shortly afterwards she put aside £1 million to benefit the community in commemoration of her husband. She was persuaded to link her own name with her husband’s in this endeavour, and the terms of the trust deed for the Walter and Eliza Hall Trust were made public in May 1912. The income was distributed according to the derivation of Walter’s wealth: half went to New South Wales, one quarter to Queensland, and one quarter to Victoria. The deed was drawn up under Eliza’s instructions and stipulated that income be used for the relief of poverty, advancement of education, advancement of religion (Church of England), and general benefit of the community. In each state, one third of the income was to be used for the benefit of women and children. A large share of Victoria’s allocation went to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Research in Pathology and Medicine in 1916. On her death in 1916, Eliza bequeathed her estate – valued at £1,180,059 – to relations, friends and servants, with a number of pictures and statues left to the Melbourne and Sydney art galleries. Published resources Resource Section Hall, Eliza Rowdon (1847-1916), 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090695b.htm Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Edited Book Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Dickey, Brian, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales King family further papers, being mainly of Dr Hazel King regarding Kelso King, ca. 1841-1982 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 8 December 2008 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hours 30 minutes??Profiles in South Australian Writing is a five part radio series featuring authors Barbara Hanrahan, John Bray, Doreen Clarke, Colin Thiele and Rosemary Wighton. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Marie Florence Whitlock enlisted in 1917 for service overseas in the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War I. She spent the next two years nursing casualties in Egypt. In 1916 she had spent a short time nursing at Duntroon Military College, Canberra. Marie Whitlock was born at Nymagee, about 80 km south of Cobar in western New South Wales in 1890. She was the second eldest of five daughters and one son of George and Louisa Whitlock. Her father had moved from Rutherglen in Victoria as a young man to run a business in Nymagee, the site of a prosperous gold and copper mine. By the time she enlisted in 1917, the Whitlocks were living on the family’s pastoral property, Baledmund, near Nymagee. All five girls in the Whitlock family trained as nurses; Marie graduated at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne in 1914. From 13 January to 16 February 1916 she was employed as a nurse at Duntroon Military College, ACT. On 11 May 1917 when she enlisted in Sydney she was aged 27, her religion was Catholic and she lodged her will with her sister Eva Whitlock who was nursing at the Mater Hospital, North Sydney. Classified as Staff Nurse in the Australian Army Nursing Service, Marie Whitlock embarked on RMS Mooltan on 9 June 1917. Although she travelled with the group of Australian nurses sent on to Salonika, Marie Whitlock stayed in Egypt until after the war ended. This may have been because nurses were expected to be in great demand to nurse Australian light horse battle casualties following the British offensive culminating in the battles of Beersheba, Gaza and Jerusalem later in 1917. After landing at Suez on 25 July 1917, Marie Whitlock was taken on the strength of the 14th Australian General Hospital (AGH) at Abbassia, Egypt where she nursed for nearly two years, apart from two spells in hospital as a patient. In October/November 1918 she was sick for a month with furunculosis (recurrent boils) and in February 1919 she was in hospital for about two weeks with septic tooth abscess. She travelled back to Australia on duty on the Orari from Kantara, an Egyptian port near Suez, and was discharged in Sydney on 3 August 1919. She was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal and is commemorated on the ACT Memorial. Major Alan Koeppen Wendt, AIF, a farmer born at Glenelg, South Australia in 1892, was travelling on the same ship. He had arrived at Gallipoli late in 1915, a Lieutenant in the 3rd Light Horse and served throughout the war as quartermaster in Egypt with the 3rd Light Horse Regiment. He was mentioned in dispatches and promoted to Captain then to temporary Major. Less than three months later, on 27 October 1919, Marie Whitlock and Alan Wendt were married in Adelaide. At the time of her father’s death at Nymagee on 10 June 1927, Marie was living in Adelaide and her three younger sisters were still nursing, Eva at Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Edith at Tumut District Hospital and Ally at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. Marie died in Adelaide in 1964 survived by her husband, two daughters and a son. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Book Section Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18. Vol. III: Problems and Services, Butler, A.G., 1943 Book More than Bombs and Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at work in World War I, Harris, Kirsty, 2011 History of the RMC Hospital, 5 Camp Hospital and 21 Dental Unit, Howarth, Ross, 2007 A Profession's Pathway: Nursing at St Vincent's since 1893, Sheehan, Mary, 2005 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra WHITLOCK Marie Florence : Service Number - Staff Nurse : Place of Birth - Nymagee NSW : Place of Enlistment - Sydney NSW : Next of Kin - (Father) WHITLOCK George WENDT Alan Koeppen : Service Number - Major : Place of Birth - Glenelg SA : Place of Enlistment - N/A : Next of Kin - (Father) WENDT H Koeppen Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (2 x 90 min.)??Sally Walker was Professor of Law at the time of this recording. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 18 August 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Loris Williams was a passionate advocate for the right of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to use archives as a means of reconnecting with their family, country and Indigenous identity. She was the first Aboriginal person from Queensland to gain professional archival qualifications and only the second Aboriginal person to do so. She spent the last 11 years of her life helping Indigenous people to reconnect with their Indigenous identity and encouraging her professional colleagues, non-Indigenous as well as Indigenous, to recognize the significance of this work. Loris Williams was a passionate advocate for the right of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to use archives as a means of re connecting with their family, country and Indigenous identity. She was the first Aboriginal person from Queensland to gain professional archival qualifications and only the second Aboriginal person to do so. She spent the last 11 years of her life helping Indigenous people to reconnect with their Indigenous identity and encouraging her professional colleagues, non-Indigenous as well as Indigenous, to recognize the significance of this work. Loris Williams was strongly connected to her Aboriginal heritage through her mother Agnes (nee Bell) who was from the Birra Gubba people of North Queensland; through her father Cyril who was from the Mulinjali people from Beaudesert south of Brisbane, and; through her personal and professional commitment to the wider Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community as well. She grew up in Brisbane in a strong family. She began work as a machinist and then joined Telstra as a telephone operator. At the age of 42, having been with Telstra for over 25 years, she was made redundant. She returned to study at the University of Technology Sydney and graduated Bachelor of Education with a major in Aboriginal Studies. In 1999 she commenced part time study for a graduate diploma in archives and records at Edith Cowan University graduating in 2004. In 1994 she began work assisting researchers at the Indigenous Resources Unit of the State Library of Queensland. In 1998 she moved to the Community and Personal Histories Section of the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy (DATSIP). Part of her working week was spent at the Queensland State Archives helping Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients to trace their family and community through the records. Apart from a short secondment to the State Library of Queensland in 2002, she remained with the Community and Personal Histories Section until she passed away. Loris was an early member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library and Information Resource Network (ATSILIRN) and organized the 1999 conference in Brisbane. She served as President of ATSILIRN in 2000. In 1999 she told the story of her own family’s journey through the archives at the Australian Society of Archivists’ (ASA) Brisbane Conference and spoke of the ’emotional rollercoaster’ that involved. She urged archivists to be aware of both the great happiness and the angry despair which Aboriginal people could experience as they traced their identity and she called on archivists to allocate the resources for indexing Indigenous records so that people could readily access their precious stories. Loris was a member of the Indigenous Advisory Committees of both the Queensland Museum and the State Library of Queensland. In 2003 she was involved in the National Indigenous Access to Records Workshop held in Brisbane. She also gave a paper which had been prepared by Kirsten Thorpe , Aboriginal Liaison Officer, State Records New South Wales at the Archives and Records Education Stakeholders (ARES) Forum. This led to the Forum recognizing that the education of Indigenous archivists was a critical issue for the profession. In 2004 and 2005 Loris was Convenor of the ASA Indigenous Issues Special Interest Group (IISIG). Under her leadership the group produced the brochure ‘Pathways to your future and our past: careers for Indigenous peoples in archives and records’ to encourage Indigenous people to train as archivists and records managers. Loris played a significant role in the concurrent official celebrations of the 40th anniversary of suffrage for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – both women and men – and the celebration of the centenary of women’s suffrage. She researched and prepared fact sheets which were made available on the web and in hard copy and spoke about the history of Indigenous suffrage at conferences. The artist Judy Watson was inspired by Loris’ work to create her artist’s book ‘a preponderance of aboriginal blood’ on the theme of Aboriginal suffrage. In 2005 she provided an Indigenous community perspective on access to archives at the ASA’s 30th anniversary seminar ‘Made, kept and used’. In 2006 the ASA held the inaugural Loris Williams Memorial lecture to commemorate her life and work. The lecture which will have a theme relating to Indigenous records will be held annually at the Society’s conference. The State Library of Queensland has named a room in honour of Loris and ATSILIRN has announced that an annual grant to assist an Indigenous member to attend their conference will be set up in her memory. Loris’ dignity and strength is warmly remembered within the archival profession, by the community she served and no doubt by the many Indigenous clients she helped. She was an effective advocate for her people’s right to have access to archives as part of a service which met their need for support on their journey into a difficult past and a mentor and friend to Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Jill Caldwell Created 26 February 2007 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Vance Palmer: a consideration of his career in Australian letters. Thesis submitted by S.B. Clark for the degree of Master of Arts in the University of Sydney, July 1967. Letters to Clark from Aileen and Helen Palmer, Frank Dalby Davison, Judith Wright and Tom Inglis Moore, 1967. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Jessie Street National Women’s Library is a specialist library which aims to promote awareness of the cultural heritage of Australian women. It includes a library and archival collection which focus on issues of importance to women, as well as documenting the lives and experiences of women. Its collection of books was founded by a donation of 500 feminist books. The collection now includes feminist journals, an oral history collection, fiction, posters and archival materials. Street address: Ultimo Community Centre 523-525 Harris Street Ultimo (crn Harris & William Henry Streets) Postal address: GPO Box 2656 Sydney NSW 2001 Tel: (02) 9571 5359 Email: info@nationalwomenslibrary.org Published resources Resource The Jessie Street National Women's Library, Shirley Jones and Women in Science Enquiry Network Inc, 1999, http://www.usyd.edu.au/wisenet/issue50/JStLib.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 State Library of New South Wales Irina Dunn further papers, 1943-1994 Author Details Clare Land Created 26 November 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Evan Luly’s Exercise book, 1909, Fairfield Primary Scholarship Class, containing lessons and homework in history, grammar, arithmetic, geography, science and English, 18 February – 5 October 1909; note-book inscribed “E. Luly Correspondence Branch, Lands Dept. …” containing notes and exercises in logarithms, trigonometry etc. Dated in pencil “possibly 1912-1913”. Gwen Luly: 3 Exercise books, Physics and Physical Geography 1912, Geography 1914. 3 photographs (Evan, Gwen and others, Gwen’s drawing). Biographical details on both by Lexie Luly. 3 books. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 27 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Annual reports (1954-1962); correspondence (1938-1973), including correspondence on International Women’s Day (1938-1969); minutes (1961-1972), newsletters and subject files on social, moral and political topics e.g. equal pay, Wooroloo Hospital controversy ; file of documents and correspondence relating to the State Editorial Committee for “Our women” magazine; photographs.?? Records ?Annual reports (1954-1962); correspondence (1938-1973), including correspondence on International Women’s Day (1938-1969); minutes (1961-1972), newsletters and subject files on social, moral and political topics e.g. equal pay, Wooroloo Hospital controversy ; file of documents and correspondence relating to the State Editorial Committee for “Our women” magazine; photographs. Includes eulogy, given by her daughter Olga on 15 May 1986, for Elsie Peders, a member of the Modern Women’s Club and the Union of Australian Women. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 August 2001 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joan Carden was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) on 13 June 1988 and an Officer (Civil) of the Order of the British Empire on 31 December 1981 for services to opera. The daughter of Frank and Margaret Ethel Gabriel (née Cooke) Carden, Joan Carden was educated at Prahran Technical School. She later attended Trinity College of Music (London) and the London Opera Centre. After graduating from the London Opera Centre she performed in the United Kingdom and Germany before joining the Australian Opera (now Opera Australia) in 1971. During her career Joan Carden sang Gilda (Rigoletto) with the Australian Opera, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the Glyndeborne Festival and the Metropolitan Opera and Constanza (The Abduction from the Serablio) with the Scottish Opera. In 1987 Joan Carden received the Dame Joan Hammond Award. She was the recipient of an Australian Artists Creative Fellowship in 1993 and is Patron of the National Voice Centre at the University of Sydney and the Victorian College of Arts Opera. Events 1981 - 1981 Performed with English Opera North 1980 - 1980 Performed at the Kennedy Centre, Washington 1978 - 1978 Preformed with the Metropolitan Opera Tour 1978 - 1978 Preformed with the Scottish Opera 1977 - 1977 Preformed at Houston, USA 1971 - 2003 Preformed with the Australian Opera (now Opera Australia) 1988 - 1988 Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) 1981 - 1981 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) (OBE) 1988 - 1988 Awarded the Dame Joan Hammond Award 1993 - 1993 Awarded Australian Artists Creative Fellowship 1982 - 1982 Performed with Miami Opera 1977 - 1977 Preformed at the Glyndebourne Festival 1974 - 1974 Preformed at Covent Garden Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 October 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sprinter Marjorie Jackson-Nelson was commonly known as ‘The Lithgow Flash’, after the New South Wales town in which she was brought up. Jackson-Nelson became the Governor of South Australia on 3 November 2001. She won two Olympic gold medals (Helsinki 1952) and seven Commonwealth Games gold medals for athletics. Jackson-Nelson also founded the Peter Nelson Leukaemia Research Fellowship, for which she has fund-raised since 1977. The daughter of William Alfred and Mary (née Robinson) Jackson, Marjorie Jackson was the first Australian woman to win an Olympic gold medal for track and field and the first Australian (male or female) to win an Olympic gold medal on the running track since 1896. During her athletic career Jackson broke world sprint records on ten occasions. In 1953 Jackson married Peter Nelson, an Olympic cyclist. Following his death from leukaemia in 1977 she launched the Peter Nelson Leukaemia Research Fellowship and has since dedicated herself to raising funds to sponsor research into fighting this disease. In 1988, Jackson was nominated by the Governor-General and the Prime Minister as one of 20 living members of the ‘200 Great Australians’ recognised by the Australian Bi-Centenary Committee. In 2001, Jackson-Nelson was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia and, as Governor, was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order by Her Majesty The Queen on the occasion of the Royal Visit to Adelaide in February 2002. Events 1953 - 1953 Appointed Member of the British Empire (MBE) for services to women’s athletics 2001 - 2001 Appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) 2002 - 2002 Appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) 1997 - 1997 Member of the South Australian Olympic Council 1998 - 2000 Member Sydney Organising Committee of the Olympic Games 1990 - 1992 Deputy Chairperson of the Adelaide’s bid to host 1998 Commonwealth Games 1998 - 1998 Athletes Liaison Officer for the Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur 1994 - 1994 General Team Manager for the Commonwealth Games Victoria (Canada) 1986 - 1986 Women’s Section Manager for the Australian Commonwealth Games Team 1982 - 1982 Women’s Section Manager for the Australian Commonwealth Games Team 2000 - 2000 Bearer of the Olympic Flame at the Opening Ceremony Olympic Games, Sydney 1998 - 1998 Nominated by Governor-General and Prime Minister as one of the 200 Great Australians 1999 - 1999 Voted as one of the Australians of the Century Herald Sun 1998 - 1998 Honoured by Australia Post on a postage stamp titled ‘Olympic Legends’ 1995 - 1995 Paul Harris Fellow Rotary 1985 - 1985 Admitted into the Australian Sporting Hall of Fame 1952 - 1952 Recipient of the Australian Sportsman of the Year 1952 - 1952 Athletics – 100m and 200m (world record) 1954 - 1954 Gold medal winner at the Commonwealth Games, Vancouver 1950 - 1950 Athletics – 100y; 220y; 440y Medley Relay; 660y Medley Relay 1977 - 1977 Founder of the Peter Nelson Leukaemia Research Fellowship 1995 - 1995 Legend for Australian Sport 1986 - 1986 Outstanding Athlete award from the International Amateur Athletics Association 1952 - 1952 Outstanding Athlete award from the Helms Foundation United States of America 1953 - 1953 Married Peter Nelson (deceased 1977) 2001 - 2001 Governor of South Australia 1954 - 1954 Athletics – 100y, 220y and 4 x 110y Relay Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 S.A.'s greats: the men and women of the North Terrace plaques, Healey, John, 2001 Resource Section Governor of South Australia, South Australian Government, http://www.governor.sa.gov.au/ Resource Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 March 2002 Last modified 11 September 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 February 2009 Last modified 11 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jill Griffiths Hall has enjoyed a distinguished career in local, state and federal politics in New South Wales, representing the Australian Labor Party. She has held the federal seat of Shortland since 1998. Jill Hall completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Newcastle as a mature age student, and was later a casual lecturer in rehabilitation counselling there. She worked as a rehabilitation counsellor with the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service, and as an employment officer and employment counsellor at the Commonwealth Employment service in Newcastle. She was a Councillor for Lake Macquarie City Council (1991-1995), during which time she served as Deputy Mayor (1993-1994). From 1995 to 1998 she was a Member of the NSW Parliament representing the seat of Swansea. She became the Federal Member for Shortland In 1998, and was re-elected in 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013. Hall was Deputy Chair of the Social Policy and Community Development Caucus Committee. She served on the House of Representatives Family and Community Affairs Committee, and was a member of the Joint Select Committee for the Republic Referendum in 1999. She currently holds the position of Opposition Whip in the House of Representatives. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Section Ms Jill Hall MP, Member for Shortland (NSW), Australian Parliament House, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=83N Jill Hall, Member and Candidate for Shortland, Australian Labor Party, http://www.alp.org.au/people/nsw/hall_jill.php Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 14 November 2001 Last modified 2 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Wilhelmina (Mina) Evangeline Volk married Albert (Bert) Johnson – a Canadian electrical engineer who worked on the Victorian State Electricity Commission’s Yallourn Power Station – and together the pair travelled extensively. From 1928 to 1937 Mina and Bert travelled throughout Queensland, including Brisbane, Emerald and Mt Isa, and any other place Bert was able to gain employment. In May 1937 Mina and Bert set sail on a world cruise on board the Juanita, which Bert had designed and built. They sailed to Port Douglas and Thursday Island, followed by Dutch New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies, before ending up in Singapore. The pair decided to head back to Australia however, after they set sail in March 1939, they were blown off course. Their ship was eventually grounded in Broome two months later. Setting off on foot to find help, Mina and Bert were located in dense scrubland days later. After recuperating in Broome, the pair headed back to Mt Isa, where Bert had been offered a job in the mines. The journey overland took them five months. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Wilhelmina Volk, circa 1930-1993 [manuscript] The adventurous life, 2010 [manuscript] : Wilhelmina Evangeline Volk, 26th March 1893-20th March 1993 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Inscriptions in ink on reverse: 1. “From left, Mollie Hill, Verlie Dudgeon, Hookie and Hookie’s niece in walk Birregurra to Lorne abt 1929”. 2. “On trip over Alps. I think I hold horses head. Look at sturdy female – Dorothy Dudgeon in the middle. She was about 19 then. Dungey’s track bet. Alps + Bogong High Plains – 1929?[Dorothy Dudgeon was born in 1902]. 3. “Burnt out Sth Gippsland. Early trip abt 1928. Dot Dudgeon in land jacket”. 4. “Verlie Dudgeon (centre) on cairn on top of Mt, Bogong. Jean Pallant (top) Leila (below)”. 5. “Just look at this. Self – Dorothy Dudgeon- in front of horses head. Our clothes tied on because of wind which hurled our belongings away. Taken on Dungey’strack between Alps and Bogong High Plains when 27”. 6. “Miss Creighton, Chic Fowler standing. Dishwashing on South Gippsland trip 1928/9 Easter (DD)”. 7. “1930 On trip to Mt Bogong via Bogong High Plains when 28. Second from left. Betty, self – Dorothy Dudgeon, Jean, Leila + Verl – Verlie Dudgeon. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 27 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letters, chiefly to Vivienne Rae-Ellis, related to “Queen Trucanini”; incoming correspondence; manuscript drafts of “Brown sugar”, “Queen Trucanini”, “Nin and the Scribblies”, and “The heart of the continent”; notes and research material. Author Details Clare Land Created 2 July 2001 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Files may contain material such as originals or photocopies of exhibition and auction catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases, correspondence, photographs and other items of ephemera relating to Australian and New Zealand artists and galleries. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 25 May 2016 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection relates to preparation and publication of “The Half Open Door”, a book of sixteen autobiographical chapters by sixteen women of various professions, most of whom were associated with the University of Melbourne. Patricia Grimshaw and Lynne Strahan were joint editors. Patricia Grimshaw wrote the introduction, Lynne Strahan was a contributor along with Barbara Falk, Therese Radic, Nina Christesen, Mary Macqueen, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Joyce Nicholson, Dame Kate Cambell, Helen Gifford, Alison Patrick, Beatrice Faust, Norma Grieve, Deidre FitzGerald, Mary Turner Shaw, Diana Dyason, Judith Lumley. The portrait illustrations were by Sandra Simon. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Photograph album belonging to Ola Cohn. Contains black and white photographs taken in Scotland and also includes some family photographs. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 March 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes manuscripts of poetry and prose, along with other personal writings and ephemera. Also includes materials relating to Derham’s attendance at the Locarno Conference on New Education, including: notes, conference ephemera and correspondence, postcards, and photographs. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Australian Federation of University Women (AFUW) was initiated in 1920, and formally established at the inaugural conference held in Sydney in September 1922. In December 2009 the AFUW changed its name to the Australian Federation of Graduate Women Inc (AFGW) to better represent the broadening of the organisation’s membership parameters. AFGW is an umbrella organisation for the state-based Federations of Graduate Women and provides a means for national organisation of these bodies working for the advancement and well-being of women and girls through education. As one of the members of the International Federation of University Women (an organisation which holds consultative status with the United Nations and its specialised agencies), AFGW has a voice through IFUW on international matters regarding protection of human rights and the status of women and girls. Amongst other things, the activities of the AFGW have involved the setting up of committees for special projects; the lobbying of Government departments; the presentation of submissions to Government; and the holding of conferences, originally biennially, later triennially. The AFGW also administers a number of fellowships, which are awarded to further the studies of successful applicants. Over the years, the AFGW has been involved in a number of important issues relating to the education and employment of women. Activities have included campaigns to obtain equal pay and equal employment opportunities for women and to eliminate discrimination against women in both education and the workforce."
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    {
        "text": "Cummeragunja Reserve was established in New South Wales in 1883 when some of the Aboriginal residents from Maloga Mission, five miles down the river, moved in order to be free of the strict religious lifestyle. It became a thriving and prosperous community and a site of Aboriginal activism in the early twentieth century. On 9 March 1984 the title deeds for the land passed to the Yorta Yorta people through the newly created Yorta Yorta Land Council. Today, many Aboriginal families reside on Cummeragunja. By the turn of the century Cummeragunja reserve was a prosperous community, and by 1908 it became a neat village with 300 residents. Its communal farming was appreciated by local farmers who persuaded the Aborigines Protection Board to commit funds to expand farm production on the reserve. However, in 1915 the local farmers committee was abolished, and the Board took over. The Aborigines Protection Act 1909 empowered reserve managers to remove residents for misconduct or because it was believed they should be earning their living elsewhere. Soon, the police started to remove ‘half-caste’ children to the Board’s training institutions. Many families responded by fleeing across the Murray to Victoria to live in riverbank camps. On 6 February 1938 about 170 residents walked off the mission in protest of the way they were treated by the Manager, and crossed the river to settle in Victoria. Some of the women were especially vocal, including Margaret Tucker, Geraldine Briggs and others. In 1953, Cummeragunja was closed as a station and reduced to reserve status. Despite the Board’s assimilation policies, the few remaining residents agitated for the right to begin farming again. In 1965, the company Cummeragunga Pty Ltd was registered. On 9 March 1984 the title deeds for the former reserve passed to the Yorta Yorta people through the newly created Yorta Yorta Land Council. Today, many Aboriginal families reside on Cummeragunja. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Book Barmah Chronicles, Hibbins, G. M. (Gillian Mary), 1991 Genealogical data on the Aborigines of Australia gathered during the Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition 1938-39, Tindale, Norman B. (Norman Barnett) with South Australian Museum, 1988 From colonial to state border : a federation history of the social construction of the border between New South Wales and Victoria as a frontier, barrier and contact zone, Pennay, Bruce, 2001 Videorecording Return to Cummeragunja: Hyllus Maris and her mother Mrs Geraldine Briggs speak26/8/85, 1985 Basket weaving/Cummeragunja, 1990 Journal Article Land rights in south-east Australia: the long struggle, Goodall, Heather, 1987 Aborigines in society: the man from Cummeragunja, Clark, Mavis Thorpe, 1968 An 'unfashionable concern with the past': the historical anthropology of Diane Barwick, Kijas, Johanna, 1997 Report Genealogies of Aboriginal families from Cummeragunja and Moonculla now living in Goulburn Valley and Murray River towns including Shepparton, Echuca, Swan Hill and Deniliquin and descendants now living in Melbourne and some ex Coranderrk families, Jackamos, Alick, 1987 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Nikki Henningham Created 4 October 2004 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Files may contain materials such as originals or photocopies of exhibition and auction catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases, correspondence, photographs and other items of ephemera relating to Australian artists and galleries. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 November 2016 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Susie O’Reilly was a popular family doctor and renowned as an obstetrician. She was co-founder of the New South Wales Association of Registered Medical Women in 1921 and became life governor of the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children in 1959. Susie O’Reilly graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science in 1903 and followed up with a Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery in 1905. Her application for a residential post at Sydney Hospital, made in January of that year, was rejected on the basis that there was no suitable accommodation for a female resident medical officer, a decision that caused much controversy in the local press. Between 1905-07 she worked as the resident medical officer at Royal Adelaide Hospital, the Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne and the Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington, Sydney. She joined her father’s medical practice in Pymble, Sydney in 1908. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section O'Reilly, Susannah Hennessy (Susie) (1881-1961), Mitchell, Ann M., and Steven, Margaret, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110105b.htm Journal Article Breaching the bastions. Susannah O'Reilly - pioneer Australian female doctor, Grose, Kelvin, 1998 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Dowell O'Reilly - Papers, 1884-1923, with additional family papers, 1877-1944 Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Evelyn Conyers was appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Commander (Military) on 22 March 1919 for nursing service with the army during World War I. She had previously been awarded the Royal Red Cross on 3 June 1916. Born and educated in New Zealand, Evelyn Conyers migrated to Victoria, Australia in the 1890s. After training at the Children’s (1894) and Melbourne (1896) hospitals she became matron of a private hospital in Melbourne in 1901. Active in professional nurse’s organisations, in 1903 she helped found the Victorian Trained Nurses’ Association. When the Queen’s Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital at Fairfield was established in 1904, Evelyn Conyers became the first matron. In 1907, she and Sister Jessie MacBeth opened a private hospital in Kew. An original member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in the Third Military District, Evelyn Conyers sailed on the Shropshire on 20 October 1914. Aged 45 years, she was appointed matron-in-chief, Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on 12 January 1916. She held this position until she was discharged on 6 March 1920. During this time she worked closely with the Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Service (QAIMNS) British Expeditionary Force (BEF) Miss (Dame from 1918) Maud McCarthy. Evelyn Conyers was appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Commander (Military) on 22 March 1919 for nursing service with the army during World War I. She had previously been awarded the Royal Red Cross on 3 June 1916. After the war Evelyn Conyers returned to ‘Lancewood’ Private Hospital in Kew, Victoria. She was appointed to the board set up under the provisions of the Nurses’ Registration Act (1923), was made a Life Member of the Royal Victorian College of Nurses, was a founder and director of the Victorian Trained Nurses Club Ltd, and a member of the Victorian branch of the Australian Nursing Federation. Evelyn Conyers also was a member of the board of management of the Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, a trustee of the Edith Cavell Trust Fund, and belonged to the Returned Nurses’ Club. On 6 September 1944 Evelyn Conyers died at Epworth Private Hospital, Richmond and was buried with full military honours in Boroondara cemetery, Kew. Published resources Book Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 Australian nurses since Nightingale 1860-1990, Burchill, Elizabeth, 1992 Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999, Reid, Richard, 1999 Nightingales in the mud : the digger sisters of the Great War 1914 - 1918, Barker, Marianne, 1989 Resource Section Conyers, Evelyn Augusta (1870 - 1944), Reid, John, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080104b.htm Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 November 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Digital resources Title: Matron Evelyn Conyers Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dawn Ryan was an anthropologist who undertook extensive fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. Dawn Ryan was brought up in the country town of Casino in northern New South Wales. Whilst still at high school, Dawn’s interest in anthropology began, brought on by her access to a library of books on Papua New Guinea at the local RSL. In 1955, after obtaining a Commonwealth scholarship and a bursary from the University of Sydney, Dawn began her anthropological studies. She graduated from the University of Sydney in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and went on to undertake an MA, with her research focusing on the Toaripi of the Papuan Gulf. Dawn’s thesis, Social Change among the Toaripi, Papua, was based on her research in the village of Uritai, conducted from March 1960 to March 1962. On completion of her Master’s thesis, Dawn worked as a research assistant with the New Guinea Research Unit in Port Moresby, from 1963 to 1964. This fieldwork formed the basis of her PhD thesis Rural and Urban Villagers: A Bi-Local Social System in Papua, which she completed at the University of Hawaii in 1970. Dawn lectured part-time in Hawaii in 1970, before taking up a lectureship at the newly formed Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University. She became a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Macquarie in 1974. Dawn passed away in 1999 after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in mid-December 1998. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Dawn Ryan, 19-- [manuscript] Rural and urban villagers: a bi-local social system in Papua Social change among the Toaripi, Papua [manuscript]/ Dawn Ryan Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Alma McKnight served overseas with the Australian Army Nursing Service in Egypt from 1917 to 1919. Before enlisting she had nursed briefly at Duntroon Military College Hospital Canberra after training at Dubbo Hospital. Alma McKnight was born in 1886 at Jerry’s Plains near Singleton NSW, a daughter of Thomas and Marion McKnight. She attended Warkworth Public School near Jerry’s Plains and trained as a nurse at Dubbo District Hospital. She was employed as a temporary nurse in May-June 1917 at Duntroon Military Hospital. Like some other nurses she probably chose to gain experience in a military hospital in Australia while waiting to enlist. Alma Alberta McKnight enlisted in Sydney on 15 June 1917. She was then nearly 31, her religion was Church of England and she named her sister Mrs Clara Redman of Jerry’s Plains as her next of kin. She spent her war service in Egypt although he route to the Middle East was more roundabout than most. She embarked in Melbourne on the Runic on 13 September 1917and travelled to Durban in South Africa where she waited nearly a month for a ship to Egypt via Bombay. By late 1917 nurses were in short supply in Egypt to nurse casualties light horse casualties following the battles at Beersheba, Gaza and Jerusalem. In January 1918 she was posted to 44th British Stationary Hospital at Kantara south of Suez, a main supply depot and hospital centre for British, Australian and New Zealand troops. In June she was sent to the 31st British General Hospital at Abbassia where she remained nursing until well after the war ended, apart from a spell in hospital as a patient in August 1918. On 20 July 1919 she was repatriated to Australia on HMT Morvada on duty and was discharged in Sydney in September. Her final rank was staff nurse; she was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. In 1928 she at Randwick she married Frank H. Hargreave. She is listed on the Honour Roll of Warkworth Public School, the Singleton Citizens’ Memorial and the ACT Memorial. She died in Sydney in 1967. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Book Section Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18. Vol. III: Problems and Services, Butler, A.G., 1943 Book More than Bombs and Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at work in World War I, Harris, Kirsty, 2011 History of the RMC Hospital, 5 Camp Hospital and 21 Dental Unit, Howarth, Ross, 2007 Sisters of the Valley: First World War Nurses from Newcastle and the Hunter Region, Bramble, Christine, 2011 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra McKnight Alma Alberta : SERN S/NURSE : POB Singleton NSW : POE N/A : NOK S Redman Clara Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Sister Alma McKnight (right) Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Institute of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan of the Order of St Benedict was founded by Archbishop Polding at Pitt Street, Sydney on 2 February, 1857. It was the first institute of religious women founded in Australia. Until 1866 the sisters were called Good Shepherd Sisters but the title was changed to avoid confusion with an older order of the same name. The people most in need in Sydney, in 1857, in the eyes of Archbishop Polding, were the destitute women of Sydney. With the aim of relieving their suffering he gathered together five women and formed a new religious congregation which he named the Sisters of the Good Samaritan of the Order of St Benedict. Their specific ministries were the care of needy women and the education of children, although Polding also wanted them to engage in general works of charity. The Sisters began working in a women’s refuge in Carters’ Barracks, an old building once used as a prison in Pitt Street, Sydney. They visited the sick and the poor and looked after orphans, initially at Parramatta, then at Manly and finally at Narellan from 1910. The work begun at the refuge in Pitt Street was continued at St Magdalene’s Retreat, Tempe, in Sydney, where the Sisters looked after girls committed to their care by the courts. Opened in 1887, Tempe closed almost 100 years later in 1983. Education was always a major area of activity for the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. The first school was set up in Sussex Street in the heart of Sydney in 1861. Later other schools were established in NSW and throughout Australia. Now, there are ten incorporated college across Australia, and one in Japan. Published resources Book The Good Sams: Sisters of the Good Samaritan 1857 - 1969, Walsh, Margaret, 2001 The Sisters of the Good Samaritan : one hundred years on the Cooks River, 1885-1985., Sisters of the Good Samaritan, 1985 The wheeling years : Sisters of the Good Samaritan, 1857-1957, The Sisters of the Good Samaritan, 1956 Only Love Survives: The Story of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan in Queensland 1900-1980, Birchley, Delia, Sr., 1979 Sisters of the Good Samaritan: Manly, a centenary of Christian education, Sisters of the Good Samaritan, 1981 Edited Book Documents and resource material relating to the episcopacy of Archbishop John Bede Polding OSB, Compton, M. Xavier, McKinlay, Peter Damian and Dyson, Doreen, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Sisters of the Good Samaritan Archives Archives of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of Sisters of the Good Samaritan Convent, Arncliffe, 1877-1948 [microform] Created 10 June 2009 Last modified 22 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Discusses her involvement with girl guides and rangers. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Millicent Bryant was the first woman in the in Australia to gain a pilot’s license. Millicent Bryant was 49 when she became the first woman in Australia to receive a category ‘A’ private pilot’s license, with her test undertaken at the Australian Aero Club of New South Wales on 23 March 1927. Millicent competed in the inaugural Ladies Oakes flying race on 6 October 1927 and came second with Margaret Reardon coming first and Evelyn Follett coming third in the three-entrant race. Millicent’s last recorded flight in her logbook was on 10 October 1927. Tragically Millicent was killed on 3 November 1927 in the Greycliffe ferry accident on Sydney Harbour. In 2001 Millicent was inducted into the National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame and in 2007 the Australian Women Pilot’s Association attached an official plaque to Millicent’s tombstone, to mark the 80th anniversary of her pilot’s license. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Millicent Bryant, 1927 [manuscript] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Discusses her lifetime involvement with Girl Guides, particularly trips to the North-West. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photocopy of typescript. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 November 2016 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gertrude Frances Lawlor served in 1918 with the Australian Army Nursing Service in India during the latter stages of World War I. She enlisted in 1917 after Canberra Hospital, where she was Matron, closed because of war restrictions. She resumed as Matron when the Hospital re-opened in 1921 and continued in the position until 1928. A substantially revised version of this entry, based on significant new research by Patricia Clarke, was published 2 February 2017. The Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad exhibition page contains a fully footnoted version of this entry. Gertrude Lawlor gained the nursing positions she held in Australia after reinventing herself, obliterating all traces of her background and creating a new persona while on a ship migrating from Ireland to Australia in 1913. Her claim to have been born in England, to be a member of a decorated military family, to be related to several members of the First AIF, to be a widow and a member of the Church of England, were all accepted without question by the Australian Army, the public services of Victoria and the Commonwealth, her superiors, colleagues and friends in Australia. Her life should be easy to document in the numerous official documents and other sources, many more than those available for most women at a time when most lived fulfilling but unrecorded lives. But checking Gertrude Lawlor’s records led only to mysteries and questions until her Irish background began to unfold. Gertrude Frances Lawlor was baptised on 1 October 1883 in the Catholic parish at Monasterevin, Co Kildare, Ireland. She was a daughter of Michael Lawlor, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Donaher and she had two older brothers Michael and James who were farmers. The names of the mythical army family she invented were the same but their status was different. She claimed she was the daughter of the late Captain Michael Lawlor R.E. and sister of the late Major Jim Lawlor R.E. and of the late Captain Michael Lawlor I.N. [sic]. She was a talented student and her family appears to have invested considerable resources into ensuring that she had a superior education and a high standard of professional training. In various statements Gertrude claimed to have qualified as a pharmacist at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin; to have a nursing certificate from Richmond Royal Hospital in England (this was probably the Richmond Surgical Hospital, Dublin); a course in Midwifery and Gynaecology from Holles St Royal Hospital, Dublin, and a qualification in infectious diseases. It has not been possible to check these qualifications because of the lack of surviving records but there is no doubt she was a competent, highly qualified nurse. On 20 June 1906 when she was only 23, Gertrude was appointed to a prestigious position as Assistant Matron in the Irish Prison Service. It is highly unlikely that she would have been appointed to this position, particularly at such a young age, unless she had the professional qualifications she claimed. She was posted to the prison at Derry where she appeared set on a powerful career path. On 15 May 1909, however, when Gertrude was nearly six months’ pregnant, she married Jeremiah Joseph Hayes, also an employee in the Irish Prison Service, at St Columb’s Catholic Chapel, Derry. Their daughter, Mary Gabriel Hayes, was born on 25 August 1909 at Holles Street Hospital, Dublin. At the 1911 Irish Census the Hayes family was living at Dundalk, Co. Louth. Jeremiah Hayes was recorded as a prison warder, aged 34, his wife Gertrude Hayes, was 22, and their daughter Gabriel Hayes was aged one. All were Catholics. The Hayes marriage appears to have reached a crisis in 1912 as later that year Gertrude was living on the Lawlor family farm at Mount Rice, Lackagh, Monasterevin, Co Kildare. Her promising career was over, her marriage had disintegrated and her husband appears to have kept the care of their daughter. In late December 1912, two separate cases in which Gertrude and her brother James were charged with assaulting each other came before the Kildare Court of Petty Sessions. Both cases were adjourned until the last session in February 1913, James being remanded on bail. When they came before the court, the case against Gertrude was dismissed and James was put on a good behaviour bond after providing two sureties totalling £20. Gertrude’s life in Ireland was falling apart, the humiliating court cases adding to her lost career and broken marriage. The solution for this ambitious young woman was to reassert herself by obliterating her life in Ireland and migrating to Australia. She landed in Melbourne in October 1913 as Miss Gertrude Lawlor, aged 24, occupation ‘domestic’. Within a short time she had been appointed to the Victorian Public Service as Nurse Grade III in the Lunacy Department and at the beginning of 1914 she began work at Sunbury Hospital for the Insane, north-west of Melbourne. In 1915, articles by Gertrude Lawlor, including ‘Treatment of Post- Partum Haemorrhage’, ‘Laryngeal Diphtheria’, ‘Acute Mania’ and ‘Compound Fracture of the Femur caused by gunshot’, were published in Una: The Journal of the Royal Victorian Trained Nurses’ Association. Each of the articles was awarded ‘The Miss Lyons’ Prize Essay’, establishing her reputation as a highly qualified nurse. During 1915 Gertrude joined the Bush Nursing Association and nursed at Edenhope, near the Victorian/South Australian border. While at Edenhope a man she claimed was a cousin, Harry Alfred James Linford, named her as his next of kin on his AIF enlistment form, allocated her three shillings per day from his army pay and made her beneficiary in his will, all actions implying that he and Gertrude were lovers. A former soldier in the British 9th Lancers, Linford served on Gallipoli until the evacuation then transferred to the Camel Corps. He was killed in action on 9 January 1917 in the Battle of Rafa during the Sinai/Palestine campaign. Following his death, Mrs Martina Johanna Elario Linford of Cape Town, South Africa, the mother of several children, came forward as Linford’s widow and his army record was changed naming her as his next of kin. Linford’s death occurred after Gertrude had moved to the position of Matron at Deniliquin Hospital in western New South Wales. After about a year at Deniliquin she was appointed Matron/Dispenser at Canberra Hospital. She appears in histories of Canberra and in reminiscences of life in the early decades of the National Capital as an exuberant, controversial and colourful Irishwoman. Described as ‘nearly six feet tall, with black hair, blue eyes, a very strong Irish brogue and a fiery temper’, she was warm-hearted towards friends, implacable towards enemies, but esteemed by her patients as a ‘very sympathetic nurse’. An official described her unselfish devotion in responding at all times of the day and night to accident and other cases in the construction camps. During her two spells as matron, she became one of Canberra’s best known figures, riding side saddle in tall, highly polished boots through thick mud to the workmen’s camps to care for her patients. A sociable and outgoing personality, in a city where there were few amenities, she made the hospital a social centre, entertaining visiting Ministers of the Crown, parliamentarians, heads of departments and other dignitaries at dances and social events. She was even known to dance on the kitchen table causing the cook to resign. Her first spell as matron lasted less than a year as construction work in the Capital slowed to a halt during World War I. When the hospital closed in October 1917, Gertrude’s employment ceased and early the following month she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in Melbourne. On her enlistment form, she stated that she was a widow, aged 29, born on 1 March 1879 at Grantham, England, her permanent place of residence was Sunbury, Victoria, and her religion was Church of England. She named her next of kin as her step-brother, Lt J.A. Underwood, AIF, of Seymour, Victoria, a claim which cannot be substantiated. Soon after enlisting, Gertrude boarded SS Indarra bound for Bombay to nurse in India. She was sick when she arrived on 18 December 1917 but after about three weeks in hospital she was posted to the Station Hospital at Bangalore on the Deccan Plateau in southern India where she nursed for about six months then cared for an invalid nurse on the ship back to Australia. She arrived in Melbourne early in September and was discharged in November 1918. She spent 1919-20 on Nauru as Matron and Dispenser working for the British Phosphate Commission and employed on part time work for the Australian military. Nurses were in demand on the island following the introduction of the influenza pandemic by passengers who arrived on SS Talune from New Zealand. The Australian Government sent HMAS Encounter on a relief expedition and the British Phosphate Commission sent a small medical party. The pandemic accounted for the death of 16 per cent of the population which was particularly vulnerable to the introduced disease. On 27 November 1920, days after her return from Nauru, Gertrude married Kenneth Macquarie Fennell, an analytical chemist employed by the British Phosphate Commission on Nauru, at the Union Presbyterian Memorial Church, North Melbourne. On her marriage certificate she stated she was a spinster, aged 29, born in Grantham, England. She gave her father’s name as Michael Lawlor, Captain Royal Engineers, and her mother’s name as Stella Seawright. Kenneth Macquarie Fennell was an Australian-born bachelor, age 30. Early in 1921 when Canberra Hospital re-opened Gertrude Lawlor, who had obtained an undertaking that she would be reinstated, returned as matron/dispenser. While she remained matron she kept her marriage secret: marriage would have disqualified her from appointment to any public service position due to the bar on married women that remained in force for nearly fifty more years. Gertrude Lawlor’s seven years as matron of Canberra Hospital was a continuous saga, dotted with complaints by, and about, her. When it reopened in 1921, the hospital was described by surveyor-general, Colonel J.H.T. Goodwin, who was also administrator of the Federal Capital Territory, as ‘only a First Aid Station’. There were no doctors on the staff and midwifery cases had to be sent to Queanbeyan Hospital. Gertrude believed that having no doctors above her left her in a commanding position as matron but this was a very different view from the official position. In her first communication to Colonel Goodwin, Gertrude itemised many deficiencies in the condition of the hospital including the dilapidated building, rusted operating table, badly soiled linen, dirty floors, missing medical items and the disappearance of most drugs. She continued to complain throughout her service about the inadequate accommodation and condition of the hospital for patients and nurses. All her communications were signed with the qualifications: BSc, PH.C., M.P.S., R.V.T.N.A. She also enlisted political support from Austin Chapman (later Sir), the Federal Member for Eden Monaro, who had been a minister in Barton and Deakin ministries, and Eric Kendall Bowen, Federal MP for Nepean, who took a keen interest in the Federal Capital, giving them specific instances of what she regarded as unfair treatment. These included the refusal to pay her allowances for her horse, her laundry and her dispensing duties or to pay compensation for a broken arm sustained when she fell off her horse. Many of her complaints centred on her treatment by the Surveyor-General Colonel J.H.T Goodwin. She resented getting instructions from him instead of the Secretary, Department of Home and Territories and she accused him of persecuting her over paltry matters. She told the departmental head her position was ‘fast becoming intolerable’. Concurrently with Gertrude’s complaints, her administration of the hospital and staff came under almost constant departmental scrutiny. She vigorously refuted claims against her by the all-male administration unused to dealing with a formidable woman and she continued to press for the rights and entitlements of herself, the staff and patients. When the Federal Capital Commission (FCC) took over the hospital in 1925 it was seriously under resourced with some staff accommodated in tents. The FCC began expanding the accommodation and appointed a superintendent, Dr John James, who took over much of the responsibility that had been Gertrude’s. Over the next two years problems escalated. On three separate occasions all the trained nursing staff resigned, there were disputes among the medical staff and the inadequacies of the hospital were magnified as the population increased with the transfer of public servants to Canberra when Parliament House opened in 1927. In 1928 the resignation of four nurses precipitated a Federal Government inquiry into allegations of maladministration and inadequate staffing at Canberra Hospital. Evidence indicated a dysfunctional hospital which Dr James attributed to the matron. Several nurses gave evidence of working and living conditions that would not be tolerated at other hospitals. When Gertrude was questioned closely about her relations with the nursing staff and the departure of so many trained nurses, she blamed the trouble on her having no status despite her superior qualifications and compassion and willingness to work 24 hours a day. The Inquiry recommended that the hospital be upgraded to a community hospital and become a training school for nurses. It acknowledged the Matron’s professional skill and care and solicitude for her patients but criticised her administrative methods and her relations with the superintendent and the trained nursing staff who had stated that they refused to work under her. Gertrude resigned on 2 May 1928. After she left Canberra about 500 residents out of a population of about 8000 subscribed to a testimonial that raised £69-8-0; this was forwarded to her in Melbourne with an illuminated address. She also received £600 from the Federal Capital Commission made up of half a year’s pay and compensation for the fall from her horse that had been the subject of an unresolved legal battle. Apart from a short appointment in Tasmania, Gertrude was unable to work from 1929. Repatriation files reveal that in the early 1930s she spent two years in a psychiatric hospital in Sydney after attempting suicide. She was granted a TPI (Totally and Permanently Incapacitated) repatriation pension in March 1944. During the early 1950s her admissions to hospital for treatment for coronary disease and mental confusion increased. In February 1957 she was admitted to Concord Repatriation Hospital but two months later she discharged herself against medical advice stating that she intended to return to England. She refused to sign a statement accepting responsibility for any detrimental effects. Soon after discharging herself, Gertrude returned to Ireland where she lived for some time at Brownstown, Co. Kildare, not far from where she was born. She died on 10 January 1959 at St Colman’s Hospice, Dublin, and was buried after a Requiem Mass. She was described in her death notice as ‘late of Sydney, Australia’. In electoral rolls during the 1940s and until her departure, Gertrude Frances Fennell, was recorded as an artist, residing in North Sydney with her husband. In the 1970s following her husband’s death, two of Gertrude’s works were listed for sale in the Australian Art Sales Digest. It is not known whether Gertrude contacted Gabriel Hayes, the daughter she abandoned as a baby in Ireland. Gabriel became a distinguished Irish sculptor undertaking many commissions for important buildings including ornamental carved panels for the Department of Industry and Commerce building in Kildare Street, Dublin, and sculptures for St Mary’s College of Domestic Economy. When Ireland adopted a new currency in 1971, she was commissioned to design the bronze coins. In 1936, she married Sean O’Riordain, a major figure in Irish archaeology. He and Gabriel had two children. Gertrude Lawlor abandoned a husband and child in Ireland, contracted an apparently bigamous marriage in Australia, yet managed to be appointed to the Victorian and Commonwealth public services and to join the AANS in World War I, all organisations that barred married women. She did this by adopting a new identity changing her birthplace from Ireland to England, changing her religion and creating a fictional family, while keeping secret her true background. It is noteworthy that she made an important exception by retaining her birth name of Gertrude Lawlor, the name under which her early career had flourished and a family name of which she was so proud that she attributed illusory military ranks to her father and brothers. The trigger that led to the breakup of her marriage and abandoning of her child remains unknown. The marriage may have been forced on her by pregnancy and been incompatible from the start. It may have been violent. The most probable explanation may be that Gertrude had such an urge to pursue a career that she could not contemplate the life-long role of housewife and mother. In Australia she was able to resurrect her career, reinventing herself as a person of high achievement, authority and self-esteem. She demonstrated these qualities as matron in Canberra in her resolute defiance of a male world that sought to dominate her. She does not appear to have ever recovered from the criticism of her at the Canberra Hospital inquiry. Her descent into mental and physical illness began soon after and lasted until her death. I am indebted to ADB researcher, Jennifer Higgins, for her research in Irish records that resulted in the unravelling of much of Gertrude’s history. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Book As I recall: Reminiscences of Early Canberra, Daley, Charles, 1994 With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia: The story of the Anzacs in Asia -The Australian Nurses in India, Burke, Keast (ed.), 1927 Royal Canberra Hospital: An anecdotal history of nursing 1914 to 199, Newman, Janet and Warren, Jennie, 1993 Canberra 1913-1953, Gibbney, Jim, 1988 History of Medicine in Canberra and Queanbeyan and their hospitals, Proust, A. J., 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18. Vol. III: Problems and Services, Butler, A.G., 1943 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra LAWLER Gertrude Frances : Service Number - Sister : Place of Birth - Grantham England : Place of Enlistment - N/A : Next of Kin - (Step Brother) UNDERWOOD J A Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Gertrude Lawlor Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Queensland’s Swim Queen A young Nancy Lyons would catch a tram across Brisbane three days a week after school to train in the Fortitude Valley Baths. “In those days, the 1930s and 40s, the pool was open only in summer and entry was two shillings,” recalls Nancy. “There were no lanes, so I had to zigzag to avoid frolicking, dive-bombing kids.” Nancy won her first junior state championship as a 9-year-old and triumphed in numerous state and national competitions. “I won all my races. No one could catch me as I was unusually fast!” says Nancy with a smile. So fast that she represented Australia at the 1948 London Olympics, 1950 Auckland British Empire Games and 1952 Helsinki Olympics after which she bid farewell to competitive swimming. Water babe “Our family always loved the water. When I was four, mum and dad would go swimming at Townsville’s foreshore; I’d be in a tyre tube frog-leg kicking away, an instinctive thing for a child to do. I believe that’s why my breaststroke kick was strong and came so naturally to me,” says Nancy. “We moved to Coorparoo, Brisbane and summer holidays were spent at a Surfers Paradise house on the bank of the Nerang River. We would walk to Northcliffe Beach and body surf for hours. There were no surf lifesavers there in those days. Afterwards, we’d swim, canoe and play in the river.” Silver streak Two 18-year-olds, Nancy and Denise Spencer from Roma, were two Queenslanders selected to represent Australia in the 1948 London Summer Olympics, the first games since 1936 because of the war. The community proudly supported them with fundraisers and donations to cover their airfares. Australia had nine female competitors – four swimmers and five athletes. “It was an eye-opener to see bombed-out London. We stayed in a West End hotel; the two top floors were renovated, but the rest was rubble,” remembers Nancy. “It’s unbelievable how the Brits managed to put on the Olympics.” In the 200-metre breaststroke, Nancy blitzed through the Empire Pool in 2 minutes 57.7 seconds, winning silver and breaking the Olympic record. She was Australia’s only female silver medal swimmer in a tally of thirteen medals for Australia – two gold, six silver, and five bronze. Flying boats, silver and gold Two years later, three Queensland swimmers – Nancy, Denise and Jeanette Holle – were chosen for the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland. Again, the community raised funds to support them. Nancy recollects the trip to Auckland, which should have taken about seven hours: “We left Rose Bay, Sydney at midnight in a flying boat. When I woke up, I noticed that the sun was behind instead of in front and realised we were heading back to Sydney. Engine trouble! Thankfully, we departed the next night.” Nancy seized silver in the 220-yard breaststroke (3m 3.6s) and won glorious gold in the 3×110 yards medley relay with teammates Judy Joy Davies and Marjorie McQuade (3m 53.8s). Swim queen The University of Queensland acknowledges Nancy Lyons (Welch) as their first Olympian and, in 2009 she was inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame. Leading up to the Commonwealth Games, Nancy joins other legends as a baton bearer in the Queen’s Baton Relay. “We will be watching the Games, especially the swimming, but in the comfort of home,” she says. Events 1950 - 1950 Swimming – 3 x 110y Medley Relay 1948 - 1948 Swimming – 200m backstroke 1952 - 1952 Participant at the Helsinki Olympic Games Published resources Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Avril Priem (Nikki Henningham) Created 10 March 2007 Last modified 7 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc11.129 comprises four CDs containing images of original photographs and documents relating to Cotton, many of which have been reproduced and annotated by Cotton’s daughter, Sally McInerney. They include correspondence (for example from Damien Parer) and photographs by Cotton, Jean Lorraine and others. The various subjects cover hand-painted pottery by Cotton’s mother and images of Spring Forest. The collection also includes scans of lantern slides collected by Cotton’s father in Japan in 1926 (1 folder). Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 November 2016 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Files created and maintained in the Australian High Commission, London, relating to the survey of manuscript holdings in Britain and Ireland relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific carried out by Mander-Jones and her assistants between 1964 and 1970. The records comprise research notes, manuscript, typescript and printed lists of holdings of archives, libraries, museums, learned societies and other organisations, correspondence and various drafts of Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. The correspondents include Phyllis Mander-Jones, Lindsay Cleland, Judith Baskin and Pat Millward. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 30 September 2009 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Kathleen Rachel Makinson studied at Newnham College Cambridge and it was during this time she participated in student politics in both communism and the Peace Movement. In 1939 she immigrated to Australia, after marrying physicist Richard Elliss B Makinson. Rachel held positions as Research Assistant in Physics at the University of Sydney (1939-1941); Assistant Lecturer at the University of Melbourne (1941-1944); CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Radiophysics Laboratory (1944-1945); Division of Physics at the National Standards Laboratory (1945-1950); and ICI Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds (1950-1952). Rachel joined the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in 1953. She was Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO from 1971 to 1977, and Chief Research Scientist from 1977 to 1982. From 1979 to 1982 Kathleen was Assistant Chief of the CSIRO Division of Textile Physics and later became the first woman to be appointed Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO. In 1981 Rachel was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and in 1982 was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Kathleen Makinson, 1945-1980 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Kathleen Makinson interviewed by Ragbir Bhathal for the Australian women scientists oral history project [sound recording] Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University K R Makinson papers National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dr K. Rachel Makinson, former senior principal research scientist with the CSIRO, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details ANU Archives (Alannah Croom) Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letters from Enid Derham, most to cousin Dorothy Derham, with one to Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, written while abroad, Jan – Dec. 1914 (15) Letters to Dorothy Derham and her aunt, Miss L.C. Taylor, from Mme Jauffret, Paris, giving with news of her family, occasional comments on in France, and compliments on DD’s French. 1919, 1922 and 1924 (4). Photograph of students in Tudor costume with autographs (DD not among them). Matriculation Examination Certificate, Carrie Taylor, Oct. 1885; Miss Rosenhain, B.A. (Melb.), teacher: advt. “Shakespearean Oracle” 1884 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The inaugural meeting of the Australian Women Pilots’ Association (AWPA), was held at the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales at Bankstown on 16 September 1950. Thirty-five women became charter members. Nancy Bird Walton, the catalyst for the formation of the Association was elected founding president, with Maie Casey wife of the Governor-General at the time, R. G. Casey, its patron. The aims of the Association include encouraging women to gain flying licenses of all types, maintaining pilot networks in state and local areas where women in aviation can meet and exchange information, promoting training, employment and careers in aviation and assisting in the future of aviation through public interest, safety and education. Full membership is open to any female pilot who holds or has held a pilot’s licence. The precursor to the formation of the Australian Women Pilots’ Association was the meeting of women pilots which Nancy Bird Walton had called in 1949 to discuss their work during World War II. As a result of this discussion the women pilots developed an interest in each other, which in turn led to the formation of the Association the following year. Maie Casey’s patronage assisted the Association in its attempts to gain widespread recognition and respect. In the view of Nancy Bird Walton the AWPA initiated the return of many old hands into flying as they wanted to regain their licences after many years on the ground. The AWPA operates with a national executive and state branches. Association members meet annually for a four day conference and annual general meeting, which is held in a different state each year. Nancy Bird Walton became patron after Maie Casey’s death in 1981. Published resources Book My God! its a woman : the autobiography of Nancy Bird, Walton, Nancy Bird, 1990 Australian women pilots., Australian Women Pilots' Association, 1995 Journal Airnews / Australian Women Pilots' Association, 1969 Federal treasurer's report / Australian Women Pilots' Association, 1975/76 Membership list / Australian Women Pilots' Association, 1967? Minutes of the… Annual General Meeting of the Australian Women Pilots' Association, 1975 Newsletter Newsletter Australian Women Pilots' Association, 1960 Booklet Careers for pilots., Australian Women Pilots' Association, 1996? Australian Women Pilots' Association twenty-one years of history from 16th September, 1950 / researched and compiled by Marie Richardson., Australian Women Pilots' Association, 1971 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Nancy Bird Walton, [1933?]-2005 [manuscript] Papers of Lady Helen Blackburn, 1944-1990 [manuscript] Records of the Australian Women Pilots' Association, circa 1950-2005 [manuscript] Sometimes the pilot wears a skirt 1920-1970 [manuscript] State Library of New South Wales Australian Women Pilots' Association scrapbooks, 1926-1980 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 October 2004 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The collection includes the unpublished autobiography of Ola Cohn, personal and business correspondence, many sketches including a large set of life drawings (MC 1, DR 4), and a set of her architectural drawings for Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden (MC 1, DR 5); also photographs; also an album of pictures of European sculptures (FB 18 (EX BOX 1031)). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 March 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Consists mainly of correspondence, but also includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, speeches, and broadcasts, manuscripts of her books So we take comfort, The old haggis and Among the carrion crows, invitations and programs. The correspondence is largely condolence letters from individuals and organisations following J.A. Lyon’s death in 1939. The remaining letters are from politicians, Tasmanian friends, and numerous organisations – mainly women’s groups, religious organisations, and the Liberal Party. This correspondence, and the speeches and broadcasts cover such topics as material and infant welfare, social services and abortion law reform. Author Details Clare Land Created 1 August 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Memoirs of members of the Melbourne Women’s Walking Club and taped interviews with Isobel Fielding and Isobel Eastwood. Also includes “A fortnights walk in pre-club days.” (Wayfaring No. 2 1936/7) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mervyn Davis commenced A Catalogue of Botanical Collectors and Delineators in 1955. She was elected first individual member and delegate for Australia to the International Federation of Landscape Architects in 1959, a position she held for ten years. Davis was the first woman elected a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Parks and Recreation in 1964, and in 1969 she was elected as the first Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. On 14 June 1980, Mervyn Davis was appointed a Member of the British Empire for her work in the public service. The daughter of Frank Dawson and Ida (née Bell) Davis, Mervyn Davis served with the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force during World War II. Following the war she commenced a Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme (CRTS) course at Burnley Horticultural College, Victoria. Davis graduated dux of the course in 1946. She was appointed technical assistant in the herbarium at the Melbourne and then the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. During 1956 to 1957, Davis studied under Brian Hackett at Durham University England, and gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Design. In 1957 she was awarded the first Fellowship of the International Agricultural Study Centre, Wageningen University, Netherlands, in Landscape Design and Allied subjects. Davis was employed as a landscape architect with Buchan, Laird and Buchan Architects and Engineers, Melbourne, from 1959 to 1961. She initiated moves to establish the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. In 1969 she became the body’s first fellow and in 1980 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). Davis worked as a private consultant before being employed as a landscape architect with the Commonwealth Department of Housing and Construction in 1963. Her work included landscape developments at the airports of Perth, Launceston, Canberra, Melbourne and Hobart. She retired from the department in 1980. In her retirement Davis continued working with Dr Jim Willis and Daphne Pearson on the catalogue of Australian Botanists and others who have contributed to the Collections and recording of plants in Australia. Events 1963 - 1980 Full-time employee of the Commonwealth Department, Central Office, Melbourne 1942 - 1945 War Service with the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force 1951 - 1956 Technical Assistant at the Royal Melbourne Botanic Gardens and National Herbarium Victoria 1956 - 1957 Post Graduate Diploma in Landscape Design, Durham University, England 1957 - 1957 First Fellow of the International Agricultural Study Centre Wageningen University Netherlands in Landscape Design and allied subjects 1959 - 1969 Australian Delegate to the International Federation of Landscape Architects 1960 - 1960 Initiated moves to establish Australian Institute of Landscape Architects 1964 - 1964 First woman Fellow of the Australian Institute of Parks and Recreation 1969 - 1969 First Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Published resources Journal Article A Guide and Analysis of Engler's \"Das Pflanzenreich\", 1957 Port Davey, South West Tasmania, 1955 Vale: Mervyn Davis M.B.E. Hon Fellow, 1985 Newspaper Article Landscape architect dies, Anne Latreille, 1985 Scope for landscaping, 1960 Westcoast floral specimens for Melbourne herbarium, 1954 Resource Section DAVIS, MERVYN TWYNAM, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=934760 Mervyn Davis, Hendry, Margaret, http://www.aila.org.au/directories/fellows/mervynDavis.htm Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1983, Draper, W. J., 1983 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, 1962-1970. [manuscript]. National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra DAVIS MERVYN TWYNAM : Service Number - 92177 : Date of birth - 22 Nov 1916 : Place of birth - ST KILDA VIC : Place of enlistment - HOBART : Next of Kin - DAVIS FRANK National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Mervyn Davis, landscape architect, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 November 2001 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Heather Gow was a Liberal Party member who only ran for election to Parliament once: in 1981 in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Seven Hills. She had more luck at the local council level where she was elected to the Blacktown City Council from 1974-1977 and was Deputy Mayor from 1975-76. Heather Gow was educated at North Sydney Girls High School and she went on to be the first woman elected Deputy Mayor of Blacktown Council (1975-76). Heather was a civil marriage celebrant and at the time of her campaign was a widow. In 1981, she had begun a communication course as an external student, but she had previously worked as a statistician and had spent 25 years in administration. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 4 August 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "6 sound files (approximately 7 hr. 36 min.) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 May 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Artist and feminist, Portia Geach was born on 24 December 1873 in Melbourne, Victoria. She studied design in 1890-92 and painting from 1893 to 1896 at the Melbourne National Gallery schools. Late in 1896 she won a scholarship to the schools of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where she studied for four years. She also worked in Paris and exhibited in England, Paris and New York. On her return to Australia she held numerous exhibitions first in Melbourne and then in Sydney when she moved there with her family in 1904. On her return to Sydney from a visit to the United States of America in 1917 Portia, influenced by a meeting of a housewives’ association she had attended in New York, founded and was president of the New South Wales Housewives’ Association. It aimed to educate women in the principles of proper nutrition and to aid them in their struggles against profiteering and rising food prices. In 1928 she reorganised the association as the Housewives’ Progressive Association. For many years she was also president of the Federated Association of Australian Housewives. Back in Melbourne in 1901 after extensive overseas studies, Portia held an exhibition in her Collins Street studio. Portraits became her specialty and she later painted Edith Cowan which hangs in Parliament House, Perth, and (Sir) John Quick which was accepted and hung in the National Library, Canberra. She also painted murals and was a member of the Victorian Artists’ Society. Around 1904 her family moved to Sydney, where in 1914 she exhibited mainly oils and watercolours of the shores of Sydney Harbour and Victorian rural scenes, with some portraits. In the Sydney Morning Herald and over the radio she frequently expressed her views on such subjects as buying Empire goods, the use of preservatives in foodstuffs, the date-stamping of eggs, the marking of lamb and the high price of milk and bread. Active on the committee of the National Council of Women of New South Wales, Geach was a delegate to the International Council of Women’s conference in Washington in 1925. She believed in equal pay for men and women and the right of women to hold public office. In 1926, while overseas, she exhibited at the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris. In 1941 of Portia was expelled from the Housewives Progressive Association after years of rivalry with its paid chairwoman of directors Eleanor Glencross. Geach also alleged that the association had been working in cooperation with the Meadow-Lea Margarine Co. Pty Ltd. In 1947 she formed the breakaway Progressive Housewives’ Association and was president until 1957. She also served on the council of the Australian Women’s Movement against Socialisation from 1947, and belonged to the Women’s Club, Sydney, and the Lyceum Club, Melbourne. Geach’s sister Kate provided in her estate for an annual £1,000 prize, known as the Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, for a portrait by a woman artist (for a complete list of winners, see http://www.trust.com.au/Content.aspx?topicID=71). Published resources Journal Article From \"Thrift\" to \"Scientific Spending\": The Sydney Housewives' Association between the Wars, Foley, Meredith, 1984 Resource Section Geach, Portia Swanston (1873 - 1959), Wright, Andree, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080650b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Progressive Housewives' Association - records, 1939-1970 Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 December 2004 Last modified 19 January 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Folder 1: Letters from Catherine Deakin to Stella, 1923-1925; postcard and short letter from Catherine Deakin to Wilfred and Alfred Brookes, c.1920s.?Folder 2: Poems selected and transcribed by Catherine Deakin; newspaper cutting with photograph of Catherine, 1934 and obituary, 1937. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 February 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Benevolent Society of New South Wales was the first charitable organisation to be established in Australia. It aims were ‘to relieve the poor, the distressed, the aged, the infirm,’ to discourage begging and to ‘encourage industrious habits’ among the poor and to provide them with religious instruction. In 1820 a Ladies Committee was established to attend cases of poor married women during their confinement. This service marked the beginning of the District Nursing service in Australia. In line with the changing needs of pregnant women, the Benevolent Society built and opened the Royal Hospital for Women in 1905 and was responsible for its administration until 1992 when it handed it over to the state government. The Society continues to work in the field of social welfare in New South Wales."
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    {
        "text": "Over the course of her swimming career, despite recurrent illness and injury, Petria Thomas won 3 Olympic Gold Medals, 3 World Championships, 9 Commonwealth Games Gold Medals, 13 Australian Championships, and 3 Pan Pacific Gold Medals. Her tally of eight Olympic medals (three gold, four silver, one bronze) is the best ever for an Australian woman, equal with Dawn Fraser and Susie O’Neill. Thomas was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport Swimming Hall of Fame in 1996, and was crowned the AIS Athlete of the Year in 2001 and 2002. She currently resides in Belconnen, Canberra, with her husband Julian Jones. Petria Thomas was raised in Mullumbimby, northern New South Wales, where she and her sister Stacey played sport from an early age. The warm climate was conducive to outdoor activity, and the girls took part in running, tennis and netball. Petria spent summer weekends with the Nippers at the Brunswick Heads Surf Lifesaving Club. Her parents, Denise and Alan Thomas, didn’t play sport but supported their girls – particularly Denise, who drove them endless kilometres to local clubs and events. Petria’s grandmother, ‘Nana Thomas’, had been a great skier and tennis player in her time, talented enough to beat her male counterparts. The Thomas family lived close to the beach and Petria began swimming at an early age, keen to keep up with her older sister. She was having formal lessons at the age of five and by 1982, aged seven, she was good enough to compete in the New South Wales State Titles. Watching the Olympic Games at Los Angeles in 1984, her own Olympic dream was born. Petria Thomas’ talent was obvious, and she began training at Ballina with Stan Tilley, who specialised in coaching her pet stroke – butterfly. A visit to Ballina by Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) coach Jim Fowlie led to the offer of a place at the AIS in Canberra in 1992. Thomas opted to continue her schooling full time despite the rigours of her training at the Institute. Living on a ‘B scholarship’, meaning that a portion of her expenses had to be covered by her family, Thomas was determined to swim for her country at an international event – this would ensure an upgrade to the all-inclusive ‘A scholarship’. She achieved the upgrade in just three months, qualifying in March 1993 for the Pan Pacific Swimming Tournament in Kobe, Japan. Thomas came home from the Tournament with bronze. She won gold at The Age National Championships the same year. Training at the AIS was gruelling for a full time student. Thomas would rise at 5 am and train at the gym or the pool for a couple of hours before school. After school she returned for more training before going to the study hall for her schoolwork. Away from her family, the reclusive Thomas began a long struggle with depression at the AIS. She felt immense pressure to perform and lacked social confidence. Making friends was difficult. Triggered by the suicide attempt of another swimmer, she approached sports psychologist Clark Perry for help. In addition to what would become severe depression, Thomas was set back by multiple serious injuries. The first of these manifested itself a couple of months before trials for the 1994 Commonwealth Games, when Thomas dislocated her shoulder. She qualified for the Games nonetheless, but shortly afterwards took an overdose of paracetamol. Lacking the confidence to express her sorrow in words, she felt this action might convey the depth of her misery to others. Denise Thomas flew to Canberra to be with her daughter and before long the redoubtable Petria had recommenced training. At the Games in Canada, she beat her friend and rival Susie O’Neill by three hundredths of a second to win the 100m butterfly. The victory was sweet, but Thomas remembers ‘it was a very short high, and then I came back down to earth with a thump’. In 1995 Thomas’ depression worsened, particularly after a European World Cup training trip in which squad members spent six weeks training in the middle of the European winter, before altitude training at Sierra Nevada. Over the 21 days at this high altitude, Thomas swam 220.5 kilometres with just one day off to go skiing. In the meantime, her relationship with coach Jim Fowlie – whose sense of authority and tough style didn’t sit well with her – was deteriorating. On returning, Fowlie gave psychologist Clark Perry and medical professional Warren McDonald responsibility for Thomas’ development. She was also being assisted by physio Peter Blanch. The trio became known as ‘Team Petria’. Thomas moved out of the AIS residences to live in a share house with other AIS athletes in McKellar, Canberra. Thomas swam well at the National Swim Titles and qualified for the Pan Pacific’s squad, but her depression continued and she was checked into the Woden Valley Hospital’s Psychiatric Unit to be monitored and looked after. She attended group sessions there through to May 1995. By July she was attending altitude training for the upcoming Pan Pacifics. This time the squad visited the Grand Canyon and Thomas was delighted with the trip. She was swimming well, but missed out on a medal in the final event. After the years of struggle and mixed results, Don Talbot – Head of Swimming at AIS – decided that Thomas would have to throw in the towel. He instructed Fowlie to tell her that her scholarship was over and she had to go home. Distraught, Thomas went to see Clark Perry who rang Talbot and told him the full history of her depression. Talbot softened and allowed Thomas to stay, but she would be coached by Gennadi Touretski, the head coach at the AIS, instead of Fowlie. Determined to show what she was capable of, Thomas trained hard under Touretski. In February 1996, at World Cup swim meets in both Germany and Italy, she won gold medals in the 100m butterfly. She gained entry to the Atlanta Games after swimming the 200m butterfly at the National Trials. Thomas’ coach Touretski could not be with her at the Games after a violent incident on an aeroplane left him with a fine of US$10,000 and a jail term that barred him entry to the United States. Mark Regan was sent to coach Thomas. Back in Mullumbimby, the manager of the local IGA store had organised a fundraiser so that Denise Thomas could watch her daughter at the Games, along with sister Stacey. Susie O’Neill and Petria Thomas were both set to race in the 200m butterfly final, against Ireland’s Michelle Smith de Bruin. Smith de Bruin, who had been achieving seemingly impossible results for a formerly average swimmer, was convicted some time later of tampering with a urine sample for a drugs test by FINA. Both O’Neill and Thomas beat her to the wall in Atlanta, winning gold and silver respectively. Shortly afterward, it was recommended that Thomas – a flexible girl, predisposed to injury – undergo surgery to tighten the ligaments in her right shoulder. This would be a potentially career-ending operation, as no swimmer had managed to return to the pool after shoulder surgery. Thomas was determined. She wore an immobilising brace for six weeks and couldn’t compete for a year, but began training as best she could. In the summer of 1997, she was teamed up with strength and conditioning coaches Harry Wardle and Julian Jones. Thomas and Jones, coach and former weightlifter, struck up a strong rapport and before long were romantically involved. The relationship boosted Thomas’ confidence, bringing her the kind of happiness she had not known for many years. She poured her energy into retraining in the pool, learning her stroke and technique all over again. By the National Championships at the end of 1997 Thomas was swimming brilliantly, shaving a couple of tenths of a second off her personal best. At the National Titles she came second in the 100m and 200m butterfly to qualify for the World Championships in Perth. There, in the heats, she swam her fastest ever time in the 100m butterfly, hitting the wall at 58.99 seconds and breaking the Commonwealth record. In the final, American Jenny Thompson won the gold but Thomas won bronze with another personal best of 58.97. She won silver in the 200m butterfly final behind O’Neill. At the Commonwealth Games in Canada, Thomas finally beat O’Neill to claim gold in the 100m butterfly. By January 1999, Thomas’ left shoulder was playing up. Swimming in a heat of the 50m ‘fly at a World Cup meet in Germany, she hit the wall at the 25m mark to do her turn and couldn’t move. The left shoulder had popped out of its joint. A second shoulder reconstruction was deemed necessary. The surgery was followed by excruciating pain. The severe discomfort lasted for eighteen months. Nonetheless, Thomas had begun training the moment her brace came off, and in January 2000 was swimming again. The Trials for the Sydney Olympic Games began in May. In the heats, Thomas swam the 100m butterfly in 58.05 seconds – a new Commonwealth record. She was selected for the Australian team in this event, as well as the 200m butterfly and freestyle and medley relays. A week before the Sydney Games, Julian Jones proposed to Thomas. The pair would be married in the gardens of Parliament House in Canberra on 15 December 2001. Thomas – perhaps affected by the hype surrounding the Games at home – was disappointed with her performance in Sydney. She came fourth in the 100m butterfly. She took bronze in the 200m butterfly (with a personal best time); and a silver each in the 4x200m freestyle relay and the 4x100m medley relay. She considered retirement, but felt she hadn’t swum her best race yet. She decided to aim for the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and try to defend her 100m butterfly title. In the meantime, the FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, were fast approaching. There, Thomas broke the Championship record in the heat of the 200m butterfly. She won gold in the final, setting another championship record with a time of 2:06.73. This individual event was followed by the 4x200m freestyle relay. Thomas was teamed up with Giaan Rooney, Elka Graham and Linda Mackenzie. By the time Thomas was swimming the third leg, the team were already on world-record pace. They cheered Rooney home and as she hit the wall, winning the race, the other three jumped into the pool. The timing was devastating – the last swimmer in the last team was under a second away from touching the wall when the girls hit the water, and they were disqualified. The media went wild and criticism was rife. Being the oldest member of the team and the first to jump, Thomas was given the blame. Pushing aside this criticism and the crushing disappointment, Thomas went on to win gold in the 100m butterfly final in a time of 58.27 seconds, making her a two time world champion. Two days later she became a three time world champion when she won gold with Dyana Calub, Liesel Jones and Sarah Ryan in the 4x100m medley relay. At the Goodwill Games in Brisbane, not long after the championships, Thomas suffered another injury, snapping three major ligaments in her right ankle. After an ankle reconstruction, her pain was compounded when an ultrasound revealed that she had three blood clots in her leg, one of which was 13 cm long. Again, Thomas pushed aside her injuries to compete. Her sights were set on the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, where she was listed to swim in seven events and hoped to become the first female swimmer to win three consecutive gold medals at three different Commonwealth Games in the same event (100m butterfly). Thomas swam like a true champion. Tying with Elka Graham, she took the bronze in the 200m freestyle final. She won gold in the 50m butterfly. She took silver in the 4x200m freestyle relay. She won gold in the 100m butterfly, defending her title. She also won gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay, the 200m butterfly, and the 4x100m medley relay. All up, Thomas returned home with a haul of five gold medals, one silver and a bronze. Still, though, Thomas felt she had not swum her best race and decided to train for Athens. She suffered a number of setbacks in the process. Experiencing agonising pains in her stomach and abdomen, Thomas was diagnosed with a severe case of endometriosis. Many of the treatments for the condition were unavailable to her because they contained substances banned by FINA. Later, in the test race for a car rally at the Melbourne Grand Prix, Thomas collided with a Mini Cooper driven by model Megan Gale. The impact dislocated her right shoulder (she continued with the competition regardless and came fifth overall, the first woman across the line). Though this incident was not responsible for it, Thomas had to undergo her third shoulder reconstruction in 2003. In 2002, Mark Regan had announced his departure from the AIS and Thomas was given a new coach, Glenn Beringen. Fortunately, Thomas enjoyed a terrific working relationship with Beringen and what might have been a badly-timed interruption was a serendipitous change. Thomas went through rehab once more, making it to the Olympic trials in March 2004 where she smashed records and made the team. In Athens, Thomas hit her straps. With Libby Lenton, Jodie Henry and Alice Mills she won gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay with a new world record of 3:35.94. She went on to win gold in the 100m butterfly, beating Dutch star Inge de Bruijn, and silver in the 200m butterfly behind Polish Otylia Jedrzejczak. Finally, Thomas, Giaan Rooney, Liesel Jones and Jodie Henry won gold in the 4x100m medley relay in world record time. In this last relay, Thomas swam the fastest split in history. AOC historian Harry Gordon writes that: Many believe her last event, the 4 x 100m medley relay, was her finest. When she dived in for her butterfly leg the Australian team was a body length behind the US, with the renowned Jenny Thompson out in front. Thomas swam the fastest ‘fly relay split ever, gave anchor swimmer Henry a lead, and the Australians won in world record time. Hers was truly a champion’s farewell. Events 2004 - 2004 Swimming – 100m Butterfly, Member of the 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Team, Member of the 4 x 100m Medley Relay Team 2004 - 2004 Swimming – 200m Butterfly 2000 - 2000 Swimming – 200m Butterfly 2000 - 2000 Swimming – 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Team, 4 x 100m Medley Relay Team 1996 - 1996 Swimming – 200m Butterfly 2002 - 2002 Swimming – 50m, 100m, 200m Butterfly, 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 100m Medley Relay 1994 - 1994 Swimming – 100m Butterfly; 4 x 100m Medley Relay 1998 - 1998 Swimming – 100m Butterfly, 4 x 100m Medley Relay Published resources Book Petria Thomas: Swimming Against the Tide, Shea, Andy, 2005 Resource Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 22 February 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Petria Thomas Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Folder of articles and newspaper/magazine clippings. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "For service to international relations particularly in the cause of peace, Stella Cornelius was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) on 26 January 1987. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 3 January 1978 for services to commerce. Co-director of the Conflict Resolution Network (established 1986), Stella Cornelius is a specialist mediator and conflict analyst. From 1984 to 1986 she was director of the Australian Government’s Secretariat for United Nations International Year of Peace. Stella Cornelius is a life member of the Australian Red Cross, a member of the National Consultative Committee for Peace Disarmament and member of the National Committee for Human Rights Education. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 October 2002 Last modified 31 January 2011 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection is No.67 of the Victorian Women’s Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archive (VWLLFA)??Articles; correspondence; leaflets; newspaper clippings; periodicals including ‘Time’, ‘Meat Employees’ Journal’, ‘The Postal Advocate’, ‘Vashti’s Voice’, Vashti’, ‘Women’s Liberation Newsletter’, ‘Womens’ News Service’, ‘Women Write Catalogue’; monograph; bulletin; handbook. Author Details Clare Land Created 16 August 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 album (88 photographic prints) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records consisting of files relating to various books written by Mem Fox, including ‘Possum Magic’, ‘Just Like That’, ‘Arabella’, ‘Hattie and the Fox’, ‘Sail Away’ and ‘Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge’.??PRG 822/1/1 : File: Manuscripts, published and unpublished. Handwritten, typed and photocopied.?PRG 822/1/2 : File: General letters from various publishers, 1985-1986.?PRG 822/1/3 : File: ‘Just like that’ and ‘Arabella’.?PRG 822/1/4 : File: ‘Hattie and the fox’ – AN letters, reviews, proofs, versions, etc. 1985-1987.?PRG 822/1/5 : File: ‘Possum magic’.?PRG 822/1/6 : File: ‘Possum rescue’.?PRG 822/1/7 : File: ‘Sail away’ – reviews, handwritten drafts, publisher’s letters, memorabilia.?PRG 822/1/8 : File: ‘Wilfred’ – drafts, galleys proofs.?PRG 822/1/9 : File: ‘Wilfred – the play’. Drafts 1 and 2. February 1987, May 1987.?PRG 822/1/10 : File: report of meeting between Mem Fox and author Leslie Rees, together with photograph.?PRG 822/2: Published material featuring Mem Fox and her writing. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "May Leatch is a leading environmentalist in the Shoalhaven area of New South Wales. She was also an avid Australian Greens supporter who ran for them in the following elections: House of Representatives, Gilmore seat, in 1993 and New South Wales Legislative Assembly, South Coast seat, in 1995. May Leatch is a resident of Nowra, NSW and has been a long time campaigner on many local environmental, planning and heritage issues, including Jervis Bay, Welcome Reef Dam and Bombaderry Creek. She works with the NSW Historic Houses Trust and manages “Meroogal”, one of the Trust’s most interesting properties. May is a member of the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Shoalhaven Branch. She waged a twelve year fight to save Bombaderry Creek Bushland, which she described as a recreational and educational resource and an amazing gem. It is the only place in the world where the Bombaderry Zeiria is known to grow. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series consists of scrapbooks, envelopes and folders of?newspaper clippings maintained by The Honourable Dame Annabelle Jane?Mary Rankin DBE. The collection was developed from articles in the?Australian and New Zealand press. It relates to Dame Annabelle’s?social life and interests and her political career (as a Senator for?Queensland, her fifteen years as Government Whip, and as Minister for?Housing in the Holt, Gorton and McMahon governments). It also covers?her diplomatic career as Australia’s first woman High Commissioner?(her appointment was to New Zealand), and latterly, her retirement in?Queensland.??The series also contains numerous articles written by Dame Annabelle?for the Downs Star, the Courier Mail and other newspapers. Among the?other topics of apparent interest to Dame Annabelle, and therefore?about which there are several clippings, was the sale of ‘Brookland’,?her old family home in Howard, the visits she made to New Zealand,?Canada and the United States along with her travels within Australia.??Apart from the newspaper clippings, many of the scrapbooks contain?telegrams, invitations, brochures and other mementos collected by?Dame Annabelle.? – Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 May 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 120 min.) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 November 2008 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records. For further information contact: Jenny Potten, Executive Manager Community Services, Anglicare Victoria, 12 Batman St, West Melbourne 3003, tel. 9321 6133. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 26 November 2003 Last modified 2 December 2003 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Doris McKellar was an amateur photographer based in Melbourne, whose photographs documented university life and the social activities of a wealthy professional family in Melbourne in the first half of the twentieth century. Using a Kodak No.3A Folding Pocket camera, she captured many aspects of life at the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne holds McKellar’s archive. Doris McKellar’s photographs depict life during the early 1900s. Her photographs, taken whilst she was a student at the University of Melbourne, capture University life, while her family photographs document life within a wealthy professional family, their social activities, their family holidays at the beach, and their excursions into the countryside. Doris McKellar (née Hall) was born into a wealthy professional family in Melbourne in 1897. She was the eldest child of Percival St John Hall, a solicitor, and Harriet ‘Hattie’ Louisa Hall (née Moore). They lived at ‘Glenmoore’ house, a two-storey villa in Elsternwick. Doris was educated at Cromarty School for Girls, in Elsternwick where she excelled academically, and in 1912 she was the dux of the school. McKellar went on to enrol at the University of Melbourne, where she studied Arts and Law from 1915-1921, graduating in 1922 with a law degree. It was around this time in her life that she became involved in the Princess Ida Club which was aimed at ‘promot[ing] the common interests of, and forming a bond of union between the present and past women students’ of The University of Melbourne.’ She continued her involvement with the University after graduating through her membership of the Victorian Women Graduates’ Association, an organisation in which she was very active. It was while she was at university that she became interested in photography, and using a Kodak No.3A Folding Pocket camera she began taking many photographs of the University grounds, the staff and students, and capturing various aspects of university life including social and sporting activities (tennis, cricket, and bowls). Being a keen amateur photographer, she recorded not only family social functions and holidays, but also cityscapes, landscapes and seascapes; her resulting images depicted life just after the turn of the century. Some of these images, especially the landscapes, were in the Pictorialist in style. As for her portraits, she was able to connect with the people she photographed to the extent that her portrait and group studies capture aspects of the sitters’ personalities. One also glimpses their feelings of vulnerability, a feature that is particularly evident in her portraits of the young men dressed in military uniform who were heading off to fight in WW1. McKellar was one of the few women in Australia to graduate with a Law degree in the early 1920s and to gain employment as a barrister and solicitor. In 1925 she married Rolfe Warren McKellar, a publisher with Stockland Press and soon after gave up her professional career but continued her involvement with the Victorian Women Graduates’ Association and then the University Women’s College (currently known as the University College). In 1932 her son, Ian Campbell McKellar was born. Doris assisted with the family’s publishing business during WW2 after her husband enlisted as an officer, however it is unclear if she continued in this capacity after the war or continued to pursue her interest in photography. Doris McKellar died in 1984. The University of Melbourne Archives hold a Collection of Doris McKellar’s photographs and memorabilia covering the periods 1915-1919, and 1934-1954. Technical The Kodak No.3A Folding Pocket camera was marketed to ‘glamorous young women’ and was quite expensive for the times, costing around five pounds in 1914. It came with a leather pouch and ‘used cellulose nitrate film instead of glass plates, making it more portable and easier to use’ (Laurenson 29). Collections Doris McKellar Photographic Collection held by the Archives Collection at the University of Melbourne Events 1915 - 1919 Worked as an amateur photographer 1934 - 1954 Worked as an amateur photographer Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives McKellar, Doris Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 4 October 2016 Last modified 4 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection consists of correspondence, interview transcripts, papers relating to Lowenstein’s writing, publishing and other professional activities, song lyrics and music, publications, photographs, fliers and posters. Correspondents well-represented in the papers include Russel Ward, Ron Edwards, Shirley Andrews, Warren Fahey, Bill Scott, Alan Scott, Drew Cottle, Danny Watson, Peter Hamilton (Wattle Recordings), John Meredith, Keith McKenry, Don Henderson, Dorothy Howard, Graham Seal and Harry Robertson. Author Details Clare Land and Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (ca. 150 min.)??Susan Crennan, QC and barrister, talks about her Irish Catholic background; schooling at St. Bernadette’s Primary, Ivanhoe and Our Lady of Mercy at Heidelberg; arts degree at Melbourne University, completion of law degree at Sydney University and admission to Bar in 1979. She then talks about her reasons for choosing law; moving to Melbourne; copyright and patent cases; work involved in after taking silk, such as the Tricontinental Royal Commission. Crennan then talks about her writings; committee work; difficulties involved in combining work as a barrister with family life and changes seen in the law. She then provides some biographical information about her great-great grandfather, Patrick Joseph Hogan, a student at the Royal Academy, and his art work. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 18 August 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series consists of general correspondence of the Australian Women’s Land Army, New South Wales. The records mainly cover administrative matters such as travel, uniforms, wages, health matters, food, training etc. Correspondence is mainly with government departments including the Manpower Directorate, the Department of Public Works and the Department of Commerce and Agriculture. A large proportion of the correspondence is with field officers and consists of returns and requisitions, reports on hostels, camps and members’ activities. Included is correspondence with private organizations e.g. the Red Cross and the Country Women’s Organization, and with private individuals requesting or offering assistance or advice. Copies of the Land Army monthly magazine from all states, and records of individual members of the headquarters staff are included in this series. Newspaper clippings, booklets, samples of fabric of uniforms and negatives are attached to a number of files. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 February 2003 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ruth Allardyce Steel enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1917 for service in World War I and was sent with a group of Australian nurses to Salonika. She became ill almost immediately with malaria and in 1918 returned to Australia. She had trained at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney and was a nursing sister there both before and after her enlistment in the military. Ruth Allardyce Steel was born in 1882, the third daughter of Reverend Robert Alexander Steel and his wife Amy (nee Barnet) at Bungendore, NSW, where the Steels were living while they waited for a manse to be built at Queanbeyan. Her father was a son of Reverend Robert Steel, minister of St Stephen’s Church Sydney and a moderator of the Presbyterian Church. Her mother was a daughter of the Colonial Architect James Barnet who was responsible for the design and construction of many public buildings in Sydney including the GPO, Customs House, Public Library and the International Exhibition building. He designed the Queanbeyan manse which became home for the Steel family of five girls and three boys. Ruth Steel’s connection with Canberra was through her father’s position as minister of St Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, Queanbeyan, whose far-flung parish included what became the site of the National Capital. During seventeen years at Queanbeyan Rev. Steel preached wherever services were required. This included monthly services at St Ninian’s Church on the Yass Road north of the Molonglo River (now in the Canberra suburb of Lyneham), at John McInnes’s farm at Kowen, at Richard Vest’s overseer’s cottage at Yarralumla, at Majura, Lanyon, Gudgenby and Booroomba, all now in the ACT. He also held an annual March tea followed by one in May with outdoor log fires in Canberra. After Amy Steel’s death in 1897, the Steel family moved to a new parish at Campbelltown. Later one of the Steel daughters, Ruby, married Rev E. Sydney Henderson who had been appointed minister at Queanbeyan and the family continued its association with St Stephen’s, Queanbeyan and with also with St Stephen’s Presbyterian Church Forrest ACT after it opened in 1934. Ruth Steel endowed a pew in St Andrew’s Warriors’ Chapel. In 1909, when she was 27, Ruth began training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney. In old age she recalled that nurses received no pay in their first year and only a nominal amount in the second year. Ruth was registered as a nurse on 4 August 1911 and continued nursing at the hospital. She wished to enlist early in the First World War but was dissuaded by the Matron who told her she was needed at the hospital. (English-born Matron Mabel Newill enlisted herself in 1917 and served at hospitals in England and at Wimereux in France before being discharged medically unfit. She remained in England after the War.) On 21 May 1917 Ruth Steel volunteered in Sydney in the Australian Army Nursing Service. On her enlistment papers she was described as 34 years 9 months, and a Presbyterian. Within a few weeks she embarked on the Mooltan in Sydney expecting to nurse in France but landed at Suez and was sent to Egypt and then on the Huntsgreen to Salonika. When she arrived in Salonika on 12 August 1917 she was assigned to the 60th General Hospital (BGH), a British tent hospital at Hortiach about 20 km from the city, high in the hills towards Bulgaria, but a month later was admitted to the 43 BGH with a serious attack of malaria. In 10 November, after treatment in hospital and at a Sisters” convalescent home, she rejoined 60 BGH. Just two weeks later, she was back in 43 BGH as a patient with recurrent malaria. On 26 November 1917 a Medical Board decided that she would be unfit for duty for at least six months and should be invalided back to Australia. She left for Australia from Egypt on the Ulysses on 15 February 1918. She recovered in Sydney and worked for a short time in the military hospital at Randwick before being discharged on 30 November 1918. She received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal and is commemorated on the City of Queanbeyan Roll of Remembrance in Queanbeyan and Bungendore and District War Memorial. Ruth Steel returned to Royal Prince Hospital as sister in charge of a ward, her service at the hospital both before and after the First World War totalling 28 years. Later she did private nursing. In her late eighties while living with her youngest sister Mary in Neutral Bay she still attended Anzac Day services although blind. She died in Sydney in 1971 at the age of 89. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Mettle and Steel: the AANS in Salonika, Wadman, Ashleigh, 2015, https://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2015/01/13/mettle-and-steel-aans-salonika/ Book More than Bombs and Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at work in World War I, Harris, Kirsty, 2011 Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 And this Stone: The Story of St Stephen's Presbyterian Church Queanbeyan, Armour, Jan, 1974 Resource Section Barnet, James Johnstone (1827 - 1904), McDonald, D.I., 1969, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barnet-james-johnstone-2939/text4257 Steel, Ruth Allardyce, 2013, http://nurses.ww1anzac.com/st.html Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra STEEL Ruth Allardyce : Service Number - Staff Nurse : Place of Birth - Bungendore NSW : Place of Enlistment - N/A : Next of Kin - (Sister) STEEL Amy Roberta Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 24 March 2016 Digital resources Title: Sister Ruth Steel Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "52 minutes??The original unedited interview on which the first part of the Radio 5UV program ‘Profiles in South Australian Writing’ was based. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Ward was an evangelist who preached Christian values to ‘fallen women’ in the back streets of Sydney in the late nineteenth century. The ‘good Mrs. Ward’ published her autobiography, Out of Weakness Made Strong, in 1903 ‘at the earnest request of many friends’. From somewhat inauspicious beginnings, Elizabeth Ward came to spend much of her time doing ‘good works’ and campaigning for womanhood suffrage. Ward’s father, William Garland, was a farrier on George Street, Sydney. Her mother took Elizabeth and her three siblings to the Church of England three times on Sundays. By the age of fifteen, however, Ward was an orphan. In successive years, her father died, then her mother, then her younger brother, who drowned in a waterhole aged nine. Ward married in 1863 and bore seven sons, but in 1882 one son, Arthur, was run down by the steamer Fairlight and killed with the paddlewheel, and ten years later a second son, Frank, fell to the bottom of a lift-well and died. Remembering these events in 1903, Ward assured her readers that ‘God who comforteth those that are cast down, comforted and upheld his servant, and after a while I resumed my usual Christian work’. That Christian work included district visits on Castlereagh Street – from Bathurst Street to Goulburn Street – while her husband taught at the local Sunday School. Ward was a member of multiple committees. She was involved in the Sydney Woman’s Prayer Union from 1883, petitioning Parliament with a request that theatres and concert halls be closed on Sundays (agreed), and that parliamentary sittings be opened with prayer (declined). She joined the Y.W.C.A. in Sydney from its early days, and inaugurated the Surry Hills branch in 1890, where she ran bible reading, prayers, and lectures. Ward served on the committees of the Queen’s Jubilee Fund and the third Australasian Conference on Charity, as well as the Sydney Ladies’ United Evangelistic Association, the Women’s Federal League, and the City Mission. She worked with the City Mission’s Rescue Committee ‘to reach the fallen women of the city’ by holding midnight meetings. Ward was not a wealthy woman. She established her own millinery business in King Street, later moving it to Oxford Street, Sydney, and advocated giving away a tenth of one’s income – moreover, giving it away cheerfully. By 1903, she was living in the Blue Mountains and had retained her posts as vice-president and State press superintendent and correspondent for the Sydney Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. She was media savvy, and well known for her letters to the newspaper in support of Federation. Published resources Resource Section Ward, Elizabeth Jane (1842-1918), Godden, Judith, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120427b.htm Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Book Out of Weakness Made Strong: Being a Record of the Life and Labours of Mrs E.J. Ward, with Photos., Ward, Elizabeth Jane, 1903 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Edited Book Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Dickey, Brian, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 9 December 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Newsletter June 1995: Lyceum Club Brisbane Incorporated. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Collier sisters – Annette, Alice and Edith – came to public notice in 1954 with the endowment of the £1.25 million Collier Charitable Fund. By 2007, the corpus of the fund was worth $88 million. Alice, Annette and Edith Collier were daughters of Jenkin Collier, who arrived in Melbourne from Wales in 1852 at the age of 23. Jenkin Collier worked in the building trade, constructing railway lines from Melbourne to Echuca and Deniliquin to Moama, and became involved in the pastoral development of Queensland. The Colliers lived at Werndew, a mansion on Toorak Road. The three sisters were educated at Melbourne’s Presbyterian Ladies’ College, while their brother Herbert attended Melbourne Grammar School. Jenkin Collier died at the age of 91, leaving his estate to his family. His daughters were devoted to one another, and never married. They travelled extensively but lived an otherwise unpretentious existence, attending St. John’s Church regularly and spending very little of the substantial annual income that they received from the Collier estate. They gave generously to charity, but always insisted on anonymity. The wills of Annette, Alice and Edith Collier – who died in 1947, 1950 and 1954 respectively – held that two-fourteenths of the Collier Charitable Fund’s annual income be given to the Lord Mayor’s Fund. By 2006, the Lord Mayor’s Fund alone had distributed over $30 million to various hospitals and charities using its share of the Collier money. Published resources Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Report Lord Mayor's Fund News Report, Lord Mayor's Fund, 1995 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Resource Section Collier, Jenkin (1829 - 1921), Hone, J. Ann, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030411b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 15 December 2008 Last modified 27 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Life and career as a Member of Parliament 1974-83, Minister for Lands and Forests and Minister for Local Government etc. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "17 hours 35 minutes.??Interviews with women, doctors, members of the police force and an abortionist concerning the experience and issue of abortion in South Australia prior to 1970 when abortion was legalised under certain circumstances under the provisions of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act Amendment Act, 1969. Most of the interviewees are identified only by pseudonyms and the transcripts have been edited to remove names of people and places which might specifically identify the interviewees or others about whom they speak who were involved in illegal abortions. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 June 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Biographical file of information on Dame Nellie Melba comprising: “Dame Nellie Melba. A centennial review” by Warren Perry (published in Victorian Historical Magazine, vol. 31, no. 4, May 1961); “A Dame Nellie Melba centenary oration” by Dr. Colin Macdonald (published in Victorian Historical Magazine, vol. 31, no. 3, February 1961); “Portrait of a Prima Donna”, radio broadcast for the centenary of Melba’s birth on 19 May 1961 by John Thompson; press cuttings; one photograph; and references to other newspaper articles on Melba. Author Details Clare Land Created 17 June 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Drawings – 13 watercolour & ink drawings (mounted on 2 cardboard sheets) ; 21 x 29 cm. or smaller – 42.9 x 32 cm. or smaller (mount)?Photographs – 1 photoprint ; 25.3 x 20.2 cm. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 November 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Patricia ni Ivor Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 27 October 2020 Digital resources Title: Mary Owen Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Manuscript of We of the Never Never (1908). Personal details and correspondence. Correspondents include letters from – John McLennan, “Sanguine Scot”; Henry V. Packham, “The frizzer”; Mrs. Henry Leahany (sister of William Neaves, who died at Elsey); Thomas A. Pearce, “Mine host”; Mr. C. Price Conigrave; Cheon (Mrs. Gunn’s Chinese cook); Jack McLeod, “Quiet stockman”; M. Millar; Sister Elsey King; Constable Reed, Jock McCarthy, “Irish Mac”; H.H. Bryant, “The dandy”; Letters relating to the Cemetery Reserve; appreciative letter from Lord Kintore. Printed sheet of book reviews for The little black princess. Notes on characters, entitled “Details in lives of my bushfolk of We of the Never Never, until June 24th 1937”. Details concerning manuscript of We of the Never Never. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 December 2003 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Two manuscripts entitled: “Presentation of the Speaker’s Chair” (8 p.) and “The opening of Parliament at Canberra” (8 p.). Both were broadcasted by Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd Radio Station 2CH by Hilda Abbott – the first broadcast (dealing with the presentation of the Speaker’s Chair for the House of Representatives by the Marquis of Salisbury on behalf of the British government in 1926) on the 16th April, 1951 and the second (relating to the 1927 opening of Parliament) on 23 April, 1951. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sue Deane is a political activist with strong interest in social issues, particularly youth affairs. She was an ALP candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for The Hills in 1988 and for Ku-ring-gai in1991. She also ran for the House of Representatives seat of Berowra in 1987, 1990 and 1993. Educated Miss Hales Business College and at Macquarie University (BA 1990), Sue Deane worked as a secretary at ABC Radio, and later Channel 7, Sydney. She joined ALP in 1975. She became an active party member, and held many positions including Branch secretary and delegate to annual conference. Sue studied part time at Macquarie University, while raising children and working with intellectually handicapped people. She later became a youth worker in Sydney’s west. She is married with three children. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes Advisory Board papers to 1986; Board of Management papers 1986-2000; miscellaneous materials Created 9 January 2013 Last modified 9 January 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Female Orphan School was set up in George Street, Sydney, by Governor King in 1801 to house destitute young girls. When it was officially opened on 17 August, 1801, 31 girls aged between the ages of 7 and 14 were in residence. By 1829 the population had grown to 152 and included some Aboriginal children. On 30 April, 1850 the Male Orphan School, which had been relocated at Liverpool in 1823 was closed. The remaining residents moved to the Female Orphan School site at Parramatta and the two establishments amalgamated to form the Protestant Orphan School, which operated until 1886. The Female Orphan Institution (also known as the Female Orphan School) was established in 1800 by Governor King to care for orphaned and abandoned children in the colony of NSW. Located in Lieutenant William Kent’s house in George Street, Sydney, the orphanage was supported financially by port duties and the income generated from allocated parcels of land (a secular equivalent of the glebe). When it was officially opened on 17 August, 1801 31 girls aged between the ages of 7 and 14 were in residence. The girls were taught spinning and sewing and some were taught reading and writing. Evidence given by Governor Bligh to the British Select Committee on Transportation in 1812 suggested that there was little emphasis on education, and that the Institution had instead become a clothing factory and a source of domestic servants for colonial households. In 1813 Governor Macquarie laid the foundation stone for the new Female Orphan Institution, a grand, purpose-built building on the northern bank of the Parramatta River. It was opened to pupils in 1818. The George Street, Sydney site became the Male Orphan School. By 1829 the female orphanage housed 152 girls from a cross-section of colonial society-including Aboriginal communities-though most girls had convict parents or mothers. Many had one parent living. Girls were accepted from two years of age (lowered from the original age limit of five), they received a basic education and were placed as domestic servants at thirteen. Supervision of the orphanage was initially the responsibility of a voluntary committee of distinguished individuals appointed by the Governor-magistrates, government officials, clergy and settlers. The first committee was comprised of two Anglican Chaplains, Rev. Samuel Marsden and Rev. Richard Johnson, Mrs King (the Governor’s wife) and Mrs Paterson (wife of the Lieutenant- Governor), the surgeon William Balmain and John Harris, surgeon, magistrate and officer-in-charge of police. In March 1926, the management, care and superintendence of both the Male and Female Orphan Schools became the responsibility of the Clergy and School Lands Corporation. From 1833 the Female and Male Orphan Schools continued under the control of the Colonial Secretary. A resident Matron (and her husband, the Master) was responsible for the daily management of the orphanage. The first Matron was Mrs John Hosking (1800-1820), followed by Mary Collicott, Susannah Matilda Ward (1821-) and Sarah Sweetman (1823-1824). The Wesleyan missionary William Walker and his wife Cordelia Walker (nee Hassall) took up the positions in 1825, bringing with them a number of girls from the Blacktown Aboriginal settlement, where they had previously worked. They resigned following difficulties with Archdeacon Scott, the official Visitor of colonial schools, and were succeeded in mid-1827 by the Reverend Charles Pleydell Neale Wilton and his wife. Wilton was succeeded in turn by Captain Alexander Martin, RN, and his wife. On 30 April, 1850 the Male Orphan School, which had been relocated at Liverpool in 1823 was closed. The remaining residents moved to the Female Orphan School site at Parramatta and the two establishments amalgamated to form the Protestant Orphan School. Published resources Book Children of the back lanes : destitute and neglected children in colonial New South Wales, Ramsland, John, 1942-, 1986 Tears often shed : child health and welfare in Australia from 1788, Gandevia, Bryan, 1925-, 1978 The Female Orphan Institution, 1814, Rydalmere Hospital, 1986, Collison, April J., [1986] Thesis The education and care of destitute, orphan, neglected and delinquent children in New South Wales, 1801-1890 [manuscript], Ramsland, John, 1944-, 1982 Journal Article The Female Orphan School Paramatta - the influence of location, Liston, Carol, 1999 Family policy and orphan schools in early colonial Australia, Snow, Dianne, 1991 Book Section Parramatta's female orphan institution : Mary Collicott, the convict's well-born Wife, Earnshaw, Beverley, 1980 Resource Section Agency Detail - Female Orphan School, 2000, http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Details/Agency_Detail.asp?Entity=Global&Search=clergy%20school%20land%20corporation&Op=All&Page=1&Id=398&SearchPage=Global microform NSW Orphan School index 1817-1833, Reakes, Janet, 1952- 2002 (compiler), 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Lilias Stuart Humphreys collection, ca. 1800-1987, compiled ca. 1960-1987 View of Female Orphan School near Parramatta. 1st June 1825 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Rachel Roxburgh, 1794-1896, (bulk 1960-1986) [manuscript] Author Details Carolyne Carter Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hours 23 minutes??Two oral history interviews concerning the Port Adelaide Casualty Hospital created as research material for the published history. PRG 1262/11/1 is an interview with Betty Bradwell; PRG 1262/11/2 is an interview with Doris Pepper. Both are former matrons of the hospital. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Caroline Elizabeth Newcomb ran the early Port Phillip properties Boronggoop, then Coryule, in partnership with Ann Drysdale, from 1840 until after Ann’s death in 1853. In 1855 she founded and became the inaugural president of the Geelong Ladies Benevolent Society, now Geelong and Western District Ladies Benevolent Society. In 1861 she married the Rev James Dodgson. Caroline Newcomb was the daughter of the British Commissary in Spain. She arrived in Van Diemen’s Land in August 1833, at the age of 20, and moved to Port Phillip with the Batman family in April 1836, as governess. She moved to Geelong as governess to the Thompson family, where Ann Drysdale met her upon her own arrival in the colony in 1840. The two women formed a successful partnership, running first Boronggoop,on the Barwon River, which they extended to Leep Leep near Lake Connewarre, then Coryule, building both homesteads. A devout Methodist, she joined the Wesleyan Church Society in Geelong on 4 January 1839, and was the first secretary of the Methodist Church at Drysdale, the town named after her partner. On Ann Drysdale’s death in 1853, Caroline inherited the property, which she continued to manage. She took an active interest in local affairs, giving land for the Wesleyan Church in Drysdale, and seeking the formation of the Port Arlington Road Board, becoming its Secretary, and presiding over its first meeting. In June 1855 she formed the Geelong Ladies Benevolent Society, and became its inaugural president. She married Rev. James Dodgson in 1861, and followed him on his circuit, passing away at Brunswick Wesleyan Parsonage in 1874, aged 62. In 1956 the Geelong suburb of Newcomb was named after her. Published resources Resource Section Drysdale, Anne (1792-1853), Martin, Jean I. and Brown, P.L., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010314b.htm Book The Lady Squatters: Miss Ann Drysdale and Miss Caroline Elizabeth Newcomb 'Boronggoop' and 'Coriyule', Richardson, John, 1986 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Geelong Heritage Centre Victorian Pioneers Cutting Book vol.1 State Library of Victoria Diaries of Anne Drysdale 1839-1854. [manuscript]. Author Details Janet Butler Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 24 August 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 45 minutes??Kathleen Waterhouse was born at Clare, South Australia. She also lived in other country towns where her father was stationed as a mounted policeman. In 1914 she commenced training at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital. In 1917 Kathleen joined the Australian Army Nursing Service, and was posted to India until after the end of the war. Back in South Australia Kathleen’s nursing experience included midwifery at the Queen’s Home, district nursing and infant welfare. She also travelled to the United States and nursed there. In 1930 she was appointed Deputy Matron of the ACH, and in 1945 she became the Matron of that hospital, until her retirement in 1952. Miss Waterhouse was active in nursing affairs, and was a Foundation Fellow of the College of Nursing, Australia. She also served on the Council of the SA branch of the Australian Trained Nurses’ Association. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Australia’s largest provider of first aid services was the initiative of a woman. In 1914, Lady Helen Munro Ferguson appealed to women and men with first aid and nursing training to enrol in voluntary first aid detachments. The service has steadily developed to become not only an important dispenser of first aid, but a major provider of first aid training. Women have played an important leadership role in the service since its inception."
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection consists of intermingled papers from three publicly active members of the Leeper Family in Melbourne – Alexander Leeper, Valentine Leeper and Geoffrey Leeper – although it also contains correspondence with other siblings and relatives in Melbourne and the UK as well as of Adeline and Mary Leeper, Alexander’s wives. With the exception of Geoffrey Leeper s papers [see 2018.0113], the remaining documents are difficult to separate, and have been retained in their received order and the contents of each box listed. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 March 2019 Last modified 7 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 7599 includes diaries, speeches, articles, administrative files, invitations, official and personal correspondence, press cuttings, publications, awards, photographs, slides, film and notes documenting the lives of Sir Harold White and Lady Elizabeth White, especially Sir Harold’s career in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library and National Library of Australia, and Lady Elizabeth’s community work particularly for the care of the elderly (116 boxes, 1 fol. Box, 1 elephant fol.). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Country Women’s Association of Australia including minutes of annual conferences from 1946 to 1953, biennial conferences from 1955-1969, and minutes of the 31st National Conference, July 2003. Office records, consisting of correspondence, reports, circulars, etc. form the bulk of the collection. Some financial records are also included. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 March 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letters written by Mrytle Rose White to her daughter, Mrs Doris Chambers; most are undated but are in the 1950’s and 1960 and 1961. A small collection of letters received by M.R. White from Mary Gilmore and others; photographs, typescript drafts of published works, Beyond the western rivers (1956), From that day to this (1961) and unpublished works, “Led by new stars” and “Narangeri boss”. Also includes a cartoon by Albert Smith, no date. Signed by Mary Gilmore and Miles Franklin. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 February 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Tailors Society minutes 1890-1903; Federated Clothing and Allied Trades Union minutes 1908-1961; Federal Council financial accounts and general Secretary’s reports 1933-1955; other state branch correspondence and reports; accounts and finance e.g. balance sheets, statements, cash books; membership material; awards and determinations; agreements with contractors; complaints; affiliations inc. ACTU, ALP, VTHC, Victorian Prov. Trade and Labor Councils; subject files e.g. broadcasts, disputes, women, equal pay, war; newspaper clippings; publications; photographs. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers mainly relate to Arnot’s bibliographic work. Also including are files on various functions, the ‘Freedom from Hunger Campaign’, the National Women Archives (National Library), the Anit Liquor Campaign 6pm closing (1969), and the International Bible contest, 1963-64. Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 November 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound files (119 min.)??Andrew Clark, born 1948, discusses his childhood and education; his parents; the family background and influence of his Lodewyckx grandparents (Dymphna’s parents); memories of Canberra; his cadetship at The Age in 1966; family life; people who visited the Clark home; living in Oxford; the development of his craft as a journalist. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "As an early-career academic, Marian Sawer experienced first-hand the difficulties encountered by women in a male-dominated workplace. After establishing equal employment opportunity programs at the Australian National University and the Department of Foreign Affairs in the 1980s, she pursued an academic career as a political scientist at the University of Canberra and the Australian National University, becoming head of the Political Science Program in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in 2000 and being promoted to professor in 2003. From 2002 to 2008 she led the Democratic Audit of Australia which assessed the health of Australian democracy and produced over 200 discussion papers and reports. Marian took a leading role in Women’s Electoral Lobby campaigns in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly around equal opportunity legislation, women’s policy machinery and tax reform. She has authored or edited around twenty books, including a history of the Women’s Electoral Lobby. Marian Sawer was born in New Zealand but moved to Australia for her secondary schooling. She studied at the Australian National University being awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in 1968, a Master of Arts degree in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975. Marian was awarded an Australian National University postdoctoral travelling fellowship on completion of her doctorate, although two small children made overseas travel somewhat difficult. In general the 1970s posed difficult problems in combining career and family (three daughters by the end of the decade). Such issues received little formal recognition in Australian universities at a time when the absence of married women from academic positions was regarded as normal. For Marian there were the stresses of commuting to Adelaide for a postdoctoral fellowship, to Sydney for a short-term lectureship and cutting short visiting fellowships at Stanford and Columbia Universities. In 1979 Marian surveyed the status of women in political science departments around Australia, finding that the most common pattern was for there to be one woman on the academic staff and that a common attitude was ‘why would one need more?’ In that year she co-founded with Carole Pateman the Women’s Caucus of the Australasian Political Studies Association. She has continued to play an active role in the research and policy role of the Women’s Caucus from this time and was responsible for initiating the Women and Politics Prize in 1981. She was also actively involved in the establishment of other professional bodies such as WISENET (Women in Science Enquiry Network), of which she was made a life member. By 1983 when she became full-time Equal Employment Opportunity consultant to the Australian National University Marian had accumulated a wealth of first-hand experience as well as knowledge of the barriers to equal opportunity for women in academic employment. She was also able to build on an earlier report by Gwenda Bramley and Marion Ward, commissioned by the ANU in International Women’s Year. Her own report could be more forthright, with federal legislation on its way to require universities to remove barriers for women. She also helped establish an association of women employees to provide a political base for the report’s recommendations. There was still strong resistance to ideas, for example, that there should be career structures for women in keyboard positions or formal selection criteria for positions in the research wing of the university. Too often there had been a pattern of homosocial reproduction that resulted in women holding only six of the tenured research positions in the whole university at the time of Marian’s report. Marian took her ANU experience with her to the Department of Foreign Affairs, where she developed another path-breaking equal opportunity program in 1985. Her edited book of that year, Program for Change, was intended to allay some of the fears surrounding equal opportunity both in universities and public sector employment. It was launched by newly appointed Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pam O’Neil. Reflecting the policy relevance of her books, many have been launched by Ministers, including Senator Susan Ryan, Carmen Lawrence MP, Prime Minister Paul Keating and former Minister Peter Baume. But she was also receiving recognition for her academic and professional contribution and in 1985 became President of the Australasian Political Studies Association. In the latter part of the 1980s Marian combined work in Foreign Affairs and the Office of the Status of Women in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet with a senior research fellowship in the social justice project headed by Pat Troy at the ANU. This enabled her to reflect on the meaning of the feminist institution-building that had been taking place in Australian government, exemplified by the wheel model of women’s policy machinery and the women’s budget process for which she had responsibility in the Foreign Affairs portfolio. Her pioneering book Sisters in Suits provided empirical information about what had been happening in Australia as feminists engaged with the state. It was a revelation for many and became a building block for international theory and practice regarding ‘state feminism’. Outside her work as public servant and academic, Marian took a leading role in Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) campaigns in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly around equal opportunity legislation, women’s policy machinery and tax reform. As well as writing WEL submissions she provided briefs on women’s policy machinery for United Nations and other transnational agencies and served on government advisory bodies. One highlight was workshops for national and provincial governments in South Africa on the eve of Nelson Mandela’s launching of women’s policy machinery in that country. Closer to home she was able to ensure the new ACT Anti-Discrimination Act became a model for reforms to the Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act. In 1990 Marian left the public service to take a position at the University of Canberra heading the politics discipline. In addition to her applied research, Marian was developing a new interpretation of the Australian liberal tradition, emphasising the influence of Thomas Hill Green and not simply that of Jeremy Bentham. Green’s social liberalism made the provision of equal opportunity the central responsibility of the state. His followers played a major role in putting this into practice in Australia through the creation of conciliation and arbitration machinery and other state initiatives. Green’s philosophy (and his own feminism) lent itself to addressing gender as well as class obstacles to equal opportunity, although this extension was slow to arrive in Australia. Marian’s work in this area began influencing historiography in the 1990s, but more significantly with the publication of her book The Ethical State? Social Liberalism in Australia published in 2003. In the meantime Marian took up a visiting position in the Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in 1998 to work on centenary of federation projects. She became head of the Political Science Program in 2000 and in 2003 was promoted to professor. At this time she was also engaged in major centenary projects on parliamentary representation and electoral administration, with two books published in 2001. They led to further collaborative projects with the Electoral Council of Australia and to the initiation of the Democratic Audit of Australia with Australian Research Council (ARC) funding in 2002. This was part of an international program of democracy assessment auspiced by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance in Stockholm. The Audit assessed the health of Australian democracy, examining how its institutions measured up against core democratic principles of political equality and popular control of government. Some of the key problems included a relatively laissez-faire attitude to party financing. The Audit found the principle of political equality was being undermined by the effects of corporate donations. As leader of the Democratic Audit Marian oversaw the publication of some 200 refereed discussion papers and 10 Audit reports, as well as co-authoring Australia: The State of Democracy (2009). The Audit regularly appeared before parliamentary inquiries and provided advice to ministers. In addition to contributing to reform of political finance and electoral enrolment arrangements, the Australian Audit also contributed to the methodology of democracy assessment, particularly in areas relating to legislative-executive relationships, intergovernmental decision-making and the mainstreaming of gender-impact assessment. She was also continuing to undertake research projects for WEL, both a documentary history of the abolition of the Commonwealth Marriage Bar (1997) and, with the help of Gail Radford and ARC funding, Making Women Count: A History of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (2008). Marian is now an Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, ANU and an ANU Public Policy Fellow. She publishes widely on issues relating to gender and politics and democratic institutions including co-publishing with past and present PhD students. She has led a number of projects relating to how social movements sustain themselves over time, as well as a project on women and leadership in movements for social change, part of an Australian Research Council Linkage project headed by Professor Pat Grimshaw of the University of Melbourne. Much of Marian’s work has aimed at bringing gender-inclusive approaches into ‘mainstream’ political science. She has continued to research the gendered nature of the discipline, co-authoring Australian and international reports on the subject and becoming one of the leaders of an ANU-based comparative project. She has also been able to use her membership of the Executive of the International Political Science Association and her role as IPSA Vice-President for Asia and Oceania (2009-12) to promote respect for a plurality of regional and methodological approaches. Her election was only the second time Australia had been represented on this peak political science body (the first time was when Carole Pateman was elected). She is also able to promote a more inclusive discipline through her membership of many editorial and research advisory boards and her current role as co-editor of the International Political Science Review. During her career Marian has received important forms of acknowledgment both for her advocacy work and her contribution to political science. In 1994 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia and two years later was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. In 2009 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Political Studies Association for her longstanding contribution to political science and to the advancement of women in the discipline. Published resources Book A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia, Sawer, Marian and Simms, Marian, 1993 Towards Equal Opportunity: Women and Employment at the Australian National University, Sawer, Marian, 1984 Working from Inside: Twenty Years of the Office of the Status of Women, Sawer, Marian and Groves, Abigail, 1994 Femocrats and Ecorats: Women's Policy Machinery in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, Sawer, Marian, 1996 The Ethical State?: Social Liberalism in Australia, Sawer, Marian, 2003 Australia: The State of Democracy, Sawer, Marian; Abjorensen, Norman and Larkin, Philip, 2009 Making women count : a history of the Women's Electoral Lobby in Australia, Sawer, Marian, 2008 Sisters in Suits: Women and Public Policy in Australia, Sawer, Marian, 1990 Journal Article The Impact of Feminist Scholarship on Australian Political Science, Sawer, Marian, 2004 Report Women's Advancement in Political Science, Cowden, Mhairi, McLean, Kirsty, Plumb, Alison and Sawer, Marian, 2012, https://ssrn.com/abstract=2110687 Site Exhibition Women Who Caucus: Feminist Political Scientists, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2017, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/caucus/ From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Edited Book Socialism and the New Class: Towards the Analysis of Structural Inequality within Socialist Societies, Sawer, Marian, 1978 Socialism and Participation, Sawer, Marian, 1980 Australia and the New Right, Sawer, Marian, 1982 Program for Change: Affirmative Action in Australia, Sawer, Marian, 1985 Removal of the Commonwealth Marriage Bar: A Documentary History, Sawer, Marian, 1997 Representation and Institutional Change: 50 Years of Proportional Representation in the Senate, Sawer, Marian and Miskin, Sarah, 1999 Elections: Full, Free and Fair, Sawer, Marian, 2001 Speaking for the People: Representation in Australian Politics, Sawer, Marian and Zappalà, Gianni, 2001 Us and Them: Anti-elitism in Australia, Sawer, Marian and Hindess, Barry, 2004 Women's Movements: Flourishing or in Abeyance?, Sawer, Marian and Grey, Sandra, 2008 Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance, Sawer, Marian, Haussman, Melissa and Vickers, Jill, 2010 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian National University Archives Papers relating to the development of the ANU Equal Employment Opportunity Program 2012 Emeritus Professor Marian Sawer: Feminism for the 21st century Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Marian Sawer Collection National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Women and politics [sound recording] : an ANU Convocation luncheon address given on 22 July 1982 by Marian Sawer ; introduced by Senator Susan Ryan Interview with Marian Sawer, political scientist, feminist and Associate Professor of Politics, University of Canberra, 1993- [sound recording / interviewer, Sara Dowse National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Australasian Political Studies Association, 1956-1996 [manuscript] Records relating to the Pamela Denoon Lecture series, 1989-2013 Author Details Marian Sawer and Maggie Shapley Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 14 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Marian Sawer Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: WAPSA_2011AGM_OldParltHouse_Canberra.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Zora Cross was, among other things, a poet and author of children’s verse. She wrote for the Brisbane Daily Mail as a freelance journalist, and was drama critic for the magazines Green Room and the Lone Hand. The daughter of Australian-born parents, accountant Ernest William Cross and his wife Mary Louisa Eliza Ann (née Skyring), Zora Cross was educated in Sydney from 1905. She began work as a primary school teacher, but left the profession to give birth to a daughter who died as an infant. She married actor Stuart Smith in 1911, but insisted upon living separately. The marriage was dissolved in 1922. Zora gave birth to a son, Norman Garvin, in 1914, after a ‘mysterious love affair’ (ADB), and later had two daughters – Davidina and April – to her de facto husband, Bulletin ‘Red Page’ editor David McKee Wright. The eldest, Davidina, predeceased her mother in 1941. Zora’s first book of poems, A Song of Mother Love, was published in Brisbane in 1916. That same year she attempted publication of her first novel, on an Aboriginal theme, but was unsuccessful. In 1917 she published a second collection of poetry, Songs of Love and Life, comprising sixty love sonnets: ‘the first sustained expression in Australian poetry of erotic experience from a woman’s point of view’ (ADB). A number of poems were published in the Bulletin. The Lilt of Life, published in 1918, ran along similar lines, but the inspiration behind the poems – Zora’s relationship with David Wright, who had four sons to Margaret Fane – was the stuff of scandal. Zora also wrote verse for children, including The City of Riddle-mee-ree in 1918, and Elegy on an Australian Schoolboy, in memory of her soldier brother, in 1921. When David Wright died suddenly in 1928, Zora supported herself and her three children by working as a freelance journalist (particularly for the Brisbane Daily Mail), teacher of elocution, actor and drama critic. She attempted to write a trilogy of novels on a Roman theme, but never completed the work. She died of heart disease in the home she had shared with Wright at Glenbrook, in the Blue Mountains, and was buried at Emu Plains. Events 1930 - 1960 Published resources Book The City of Riddle-me-ree, Cross, Zora, 1918 Daughters of the Seven Mile: the love story of an Australian woman, Cross, Zora, 1924 Elegy on an Australian Schoolboy, Cross, Zora, 1921 The Lilt of Life, Cross, Zora, 1918 Songs of Love and Life, Cross, Zora, 1917 The Hectic Age, Cross, Zora, 1944 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Cross, Zora Bernice May (1890 - 1964), Green, Dorothy, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080175b.htm Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, 1800-1936. [manuscript]. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 25 October 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Photocopy of exercise book into which letters and extracts from letters were copied by one of her granddaughters. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Olive Pink letter to TGH Strehlow enquiring about a mission for the Warlpiri people and how it would be run, with references to mining, A. Elkin and E. Chinnery. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Cheryl Davenport was elected to the Thirty-third Parliament of Western Australia as the Australian Labor Party member in the Legislative Council. for South Metropolitan Region from 22 May 1989. She was re-elected in 1993 and 1996 and retired 21 May 2001. Cheryl May Crockenberg was born in Pinjarra, Western Australia, in 1947, to Edith May and Frederick Crockenberg, a small business owner. She attended Pinjarra Senor High School before completing a Diploma of Business Studies at Underwood Business College in Perth. Crockenberg joined the Australian Labor Party in 1968, and was secretary of the Mandurah branch from 1971-1973, then later became State Secretary of the Western Australian Branch. She married Philip Davenport in 1975. Cheryl Davenport was elected to the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia for South Metropolitan Region in 1989. She was re-elected in 1993, 1996, and retired on 21 May 2001. Published resources Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 30 November 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jeni Klugman, who came from a political family, is a distinguished international economist. She was an ALP candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Carlingford in 1988. In 2019, Klugman is a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Women in Public Policy Program at Harvard University and Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security. She recently became VicHealth’s second leading thinker, together with Professor Iris Bohnet, under an initiative that aims to make behavioral insights practical and accessible for Victorian government, industry and not-for-profit organizations. Previous positions she has held include Director of Gender and Development at the World Bank, and director and lead author of three global Human Development Reports published by the UNDP. Klugman sits on several boards and panels, including for the World Economic Forum and the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Australian National University, and postgraduate degrees in both Law and Development Economics from the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Daughter of Dr Richard Klugman (MHR 1969-1990) and Kris Klugman (also a candidate for the NSW Legislative Assembly), Jeni was educated at Burnside Public School and Cumberland High School. She graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours in Law and Economics, winning a Rhodes Scholarship from New South Wales to Oxford University. She joined the ALP in 1979 and has held various offices in the party at branch and electorate level. She has been a delegate to Annual Conference and was a member of several policy committees. She was on the Executive of Young Labor 1986-87. In 1996 Jeni commenced a Ph.D. with the Centre for Economic Research, Australian National University and in 1998. “Jeni Klugman is a senior adviser at the World Bank and a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program. She currently serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council on Benchmarking Progress and Advisory Board on Sustainability and Competitiveness. Previously, Klugman was director of Gender & Development at the World Bank Group, where she served as lead spokesperson on gender equality issues, and was responsible for developing strategic directions to support the institution’s gender and development priorities.” Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 12 September 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "WILPF ACT is a branch of the Australian Section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom-the longest-surviving international women’s anti-war organisation. The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) was formed in 1915 at the height of the First World War. A congress of 1,200 women was held in The Hague, Holland where women from both sides of the conflict came together to advocate for alternatives to war when settling disputes between nation states. WILPF is the longest-surviving international women’s anti-war organisation and continues today to work for peace, disarmament and human rights. It is committed to emphasising the need for women’s equal participation in all aspects of international defence and security decision-making, as well as the essential role of women in conflict prevention and peace building. WILPF is in consultative status with the United Nations, its Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and has special consultative relations with the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Labour Organization and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). In Australia, there are WILPF branches in four states and the ACT. Internationally, WILPF has national sections in 32 countries, across all continents, and international offices in Geneva and New York. WILPF’s Australian branch has its genesis in the local social justice organisation Sisterhood for International Peace, which formed in Melbourne in 1915. In 1919, some of its members travelled to a WILPF conference in Zurich and on their return reconstituted as WILPF’s Australian branch. The ACT branch of WILPF Australia was founded in 1982 at the height of the Cold War. Its first activity was to send delegate Nancy Shelley to New York, in June 1982, to participate in the million strong anti-nuclear rally in Central Park, held prior to the United Nations Second Special Session on Disarmament. On her return Shelley addressed Palm Sunday Peace Rallies and inspired many community groups with her message of the urgent need for disarmament and the power of people to bring about change. WILPF ACT women have been involved directly or indirectly in all of WILPF Australia’s activities since 1982. These campaigns and events have included: 1988: Joining in opposition to visits of nuclear-armed ships to Australia during the Bicentennial celebrations 1994: Sending a mission to monitor the elections in South Africa 1995: Sponsoring a Peace Train journey from Helsinki to Beijing arriving in time for the UN World Conference of Women 1997: Participating in the Australian Reconciliation Convention 2000: Coordinating Australian participation in the World March of Women 2003: Sponsoring the Children of the Gulf War photographic exhibition, on the effects of depleted uranium on children in Iraq, shown around Australia 2010, 2011 and 2012: Participating in the global 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence Campaign, emphasising the intersections of gender-based violence and militarism. Other significant activities have included: 1986: Participating in the national organising committee of the International Year of Peace, and recommending construction of a Peace Memorial in Canberra 1989 and 1991: Taking part in national protests against the AIDEX Arms Trade Fairs in Canberra, leading to a ban on such trade fairs in Canberra 1993: Assisting in the development of the Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women (CAPOW!), a network of national women’s organisations, which later coordinated women’s participation in the 1995 Beijing UN Women’s Conference. 1998: Attending the national Women’s Constitutional Convention, drawing attention to the need for a non-belligerency clause similar to that in the Japanese Constitution 2001: Coordinating a Coalition of Women for Peace formed in spontaneous response to Australian participation in the US led invasion of Afghanistan which evolved into a ‘women building peace’ e-list that still functions today 2005: Celebrating WILPF’s 90th anniversary, together with Women in Black and a Chorus of Women, with a week-long Festival of Peace held in the ACT Legislative Assembly. Margaret Bearlin, Hellen Cooke, Barbara Meyer and other members of WILPF ACT published a full report of the event, funded by the ACT Women’s Grants Program, copies of which were sent to all schools and libraries in the ACT. 2008: Writing WILPF’s national submission in response to the Defence White Paper and speaking at the Canberra public consultation 2009: Organising a silent vigil on Anzac Day at the Peace Memorial which has become an annual event and is intended as an opportunity to reflect on the grief, suffering and waste of war. From 2002 onwards, WILPF ACT has played an important role in the development of Australia’s response to the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 ‘Women Peace and Security’. WILPF ACT formed the national WILPF 1325 Working Group who have since organised workshops for women’s organisations, locally and nationally, spoken at international conferences within Australia, and launched the www.1325australia website, funded by a grant awarded by the Office for the Status of Women. In August 2012, WILPF ACT members participated in the launch of the Side by Side DVD and educational toolkit on UNSC Resolution 1325 at Parliament House in Canberra. At this launch WILPF received a vote of thanks for its leading role in the development of Australia’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012-2018. WILPF ACT and the Australian branch work closely with related organisations such as the United Nations Association of Australia, the Medical Association for Prevention of War, Women in Black, UN Women, A Chorus of Women and the Equal Rights Alliance. The work of WILPF is funded by members and supporters and is independent of governments. Published resources Edited Book A Record of a Festival of Peace: Celebrating 90 years of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: 'Supporting each other in building peace', 17-24 October 2005, Bearlin, Margaret; Cooke, Hellen and Meyer, Barbara, 2007 Resource Section Peace and Freedom Journal, http://wilpf.org.au/stay-informed/peace-and-freedom-journal/ Side by Side - Women, Peace and Security, 2012, http://youtube.com/watch?v=dzNlBgWnAUg&feature=plcp Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, http://wilpfact.wordpress.com/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1973. [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Margaret Bearlin interviewed by Biff Ward [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Australian Section, 1943-2014 [manuscript] Author Details Annalise Pippard and Margaret Bearlin Created 20 February 2013 Last modified 7 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Moya Dodd is a lawyer and former international footballer with the Matildas, now making a contribution to sports governance in Australia and internationally. She was named one of World Soccer magazine’s People of the Year in 2013, and listed in the top 100 Women of Influence by the Australian Financial Review in 2012 and 2014. Born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia at a time when organised sport for girls was very limited, Moya Dodd discovered football (soccer) when her family bought a television set when she was 10. Within a few years she was playing enthusiastically for her local team, Port Adelaide, later joining the Adelaide University Soccer Club when she enrolled in Law at age 16. She edited the university student newspaper On dit (1986), and gained an Honours degree in Law, before working as the Associate to Justice Michael White at the Supreme Court of SA (1988). It was during this time that she participated in FIFA’s first ever World Tournament for women in China 1988, helping Australia to a famous 1-0 victory over Brazil and achieving a quarter-final placing. In 1989 she moved to her mother’s home town of Sydney where she completed her admission requirements and worked at Mallesons Stephen Jaques, while continuing to play on the national football team. She later worked as in-house counsel at Telstra, including as General Counsel of Telstra’s Multimedia business unit during the rollout of pay TV in Australia and the establishment of the FOXTEL joint venture with News Corporation. After an ACL knee injury in 1995, she retired from the Matildas and completed an Executive MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management. Her interest in media and telecommunications converged in the dot-com boom, when she took up a business role at leading publisher Fairfax, including serving as Content Director for masthead websites smh.com.au and theage.com.au. After a period working as an economics consultant, Moya returned to the law in 2007, joining Gilbert+Tobin as Special Counsel (later Partner) and working extensively on broadband, mobile and NBN issues both in Australia and overseas. During this period she also joined the board of Football Federation Australia, which was re-establishing the game in Australia under chairman Frank Lowy following the demise of the former national governing body. Australia had moved to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), which co-incidentally had just created quota positions for women in each region. Moya was co-opted onto the AFC Executive Committee, and later elected as the confederation’s first female Vice President, and the first woman in the world to hold such a role. She also joined AFC’s Legal Committee and Women’s Football Committee, serving through a difficult period of corruption allegations during which the AFC President received a life ban. She also worked with then FIFA Vice-President Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan, in overturning FIFA’s ban on women wearing the hijab (headscarf) in international matches. In 2013, FIFA held its first ever election for a female Executive Committee member. Moya was nominated as Asia’s candidate and ran second in the ballot, but was appointed as a co-opted member of the FIFA Executive Committee where she became a vocal advocate for women in football, chairing FIFA’s Women’s Football Task Force and presenting ten key principles for women’s football development to the approval of the 2014 FIFA Congress. She also travelled extensively to developing football regions to advocate for greater women’s participation in sport, including to a refugee camp near the Jordan-Syria border; and to Tehran, where she and FIFA President Sepp Blatter spoke out against the bar on women entering football stadiums. While scandals consumed much of the media airtime about FIFA, she became known as one of only three members of the FIFA Executive Committee who did not accept $25,000 gift watches while in Brazil for the FIFA World Cup in 2014. In 2014 she joined the International Council for the Arbitration of Sport (the governing body of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, chaired by John Coates AC) as an athlete representative. Moya was named as one of World Soccer magazine’s People of the Year in 2013, and listed in the top 100 Women of Influence by the Australian Financial Review in 2012 and 2014. Published resources Newspaper Article Women finally receive call-up to football's top team, Dodd, Moya, 2013, http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/women-finally-receive-callup-to-footballs-top-team-20130207-2e1dw.html Moya Dodd is goal driven, McGuire, Michael, 2014, http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/football/moya-dodd-is-goal-driven/story-fnii0fc4-1226848198238 Moya Dodd scores for women's soccer, 2014, http://www.smh.com.au/fifa-world-cup-2014/moya-dodd-scores-for-womens-soccer-20140530-zrsju.html Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Moya Dodd Created 27 April 2016 Last modified 31 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Moya Dodd Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Details of founders and organisers names and addresses. List of rules governing the organisation and membership Author Details Helen Morgan Created 15 January 2019 Last modified 15 January 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Formed in Canberra in 1984, the Capitals have won several Women’s National Basketball League titles under coaches Carrie Graf and Tom Maher. Many Capitals players have also played for the Australian Opals at Olympic level. The Capitals have enjoyed great commercial success, and maintain a grass roots relationship with the developing teams and players of the Canberra region. Formed in Canberra in 1984, the Capitals won the Australian Women’s Basketball Conference in 1985, and entered the Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL) in 1986. The introduction of coach Carrie Graf in 1999 saw the Capitals win their first WNBL title in the 1999/2000 season. This win was followed up with several more in 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010. The 2003 win was coached by Tom Maher. Many Capitals players have also played for the Australian Opals, including Tully Bevilaqua, Jenny Cheesman, Sue Geh, Lucille Bailie (Hamilton), Fiona Robinson, Shelley Sandie, Jenny Whittle, Eleanor Sharp and Lauren Jackson. The Capitals have been named ACT Team of the Year four times and Carrie Graf has been ACT Coach of the Year three times while coaching the Capitals. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2004, the WNBL announced an anniversary team of 10 players and coach. Three Capitals were included in the honorary team: Lauren Jackson, Shelley Sandie and Jenny Cheesman, with Capitals coach Tom Maher named anniversary coach. In 2012, the Capitals were given a plaque on the ACT Honour Walk, located on Ainslie Place between London Circuit and City Walk in Civic, celebrating their contribution to the Canberra community. The Canberra Capitals are owned and managed by ACT Basketball Incorporated, a part of Basketball Canberra which oversees all ACT basketball programs. This association allows the Capitals to maintain a grass roots relationship with the developing teams and players of the Canberra region. The team has enjoyed great commercial success, drawing the largest crowds in the WNBL and unequalled sponsorship agreements. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Canberra Capitals, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra_Capitals Club History, http://www.wnbl.com.au/index.php?id=351 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Greg Bell Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 21 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Anne Conlon was an outstanding activist and scholar whose career was cut short by her untimely death. She was an ALP candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Mosman by election in 1972. Anne Conlon was the daughter of John and Patricia Carden. She was educated at St. Joseph’s Convent Neutral Bay, and Monte Sant’Angelo College North Sydney where she was dux in 1956. She won a Teachers’ College Scholarship to the University of Sydney, living at Sancta Sophia College. She graduated BA in 1961 and MA 1973. She taught at public high schools from 1961 until 1968, but spent 1964-65 on a postgraduate scholarship at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. In 1967 she married Telford Conlon, with whom she had two children. In 1968 she became research assistant to Professor John M Ward, at the University of Sydney. She was a founding member of the NSW Women’s Electoral Lobby, and in 1973 was a convenor for its first national conference in Canberra. For WEL, she wrote a submission to the Henderson Commission into Poverty, and with Edna Ryan, to the National Wage Case of 1974. This was later expanded into Gentle Invaders: Australian Women at Work, published in 1975. She was one of the few women in WEL who belonged to the ALP, and was an active member of the Mosman branch. She contested the 1972 Mosman by election as a Labor candidate. In 1976 she was appointed a lecturer at the Trade Union Training Authority, and in 1977 she became a founding member of the NSW Women’s Advisory Council. From 1978, she worked as a public servant on women’s issues, including amendments to the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act of 1977. The NSW Women’s Advisory Council holds an annual lecture in memory of Anne Conlon. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Conlon, Patricia Anne (1939 - 1979), Windschuttle, Elizabeth, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130530b.htm Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 22 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence (mostly letters from Dame Mary Gilmore), clippings and farm diaries. Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sue Ellery, a current (2009) Western Australian Parliamentarian, has served since 2001 in the Legislative Council for the Australian Labor Party. Sue Ellery is a member of the Legislative Council, Western Australia, for the Australian Labor Party. She was elected to the Thirty-sixth Parliament of Western Australia for South Metropolitan Region on 10 February 2001, and re-elected in 2005 (for term commencing 22 May 2005). Ellery was again re-elected 6 September 2008 for term commencing 22 May 2009. She is the Minister for Child Protection, Community Services, Women’s Interests, and Seniors and Volunteering. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Sue Ellery: Media Statements, Ellery, Sue, 2008, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/88569/20080905-1741/www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/CurrentMinistersSearch983f.html?minister=Ellery&admin=Carpenter Conference Paper Homelessness: not just a short term solution : the Western Australian State Homelessness Strategy, Ellery, Sue, 2003 Report Ellery Report, Ellery, Sue, 2004 Report of the Select Committee on Workers' Compensation in relation to the Workers' Compensation Reform Bill 2004, Ellery, Sue, 2004, http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/commit.nsf/(Report+Lookup+by+Com+ID)/C07134C4B442E3F048256F17000CF8CC/$file/wc.wcp.040921.rpf.001.xx.a.pdf Disability Services Act (1993) review : options paper / prepared by the Review Steering Committee...[et al.], Ellery, Sue, 2002, http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/search~S1?/Xellery+sue&searchscope=1&SORT=D/Xellery+sue&searchscope=1&SORT=D&SUBKEY=ellery%20sue/1%2C8%2C8%2CB/frameset&FF=Xellery+sue&searchscope=1&SORT=D&SUBKEY=ellery%20sue&6%2C6%2C Pamphlet Redress WA: acknowledging the past : message from the Minister, Ellery, Sue, 2008 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers of Margaret Kiddle consisting of two groups:- 1. Papers relating to her book Caroline Chisholm including manuscript copies, notes, and correspondence connected with research into the life of her subject. Also included are photocopies of Caroline Chisholm’s letters, articles, etc. Also printed copies of the title page and introduction to “The witchery of earth 2. Papers of A. G. Steven, including drafts of poems, prose articles, published works, portraits, etc. Also printed copies of the title page, contents and introduction to “The witchery of earth” by Alex. Gordon Steven, George Robinson, Sydney (shelved at MS FB 6 (EX BOX 284/1)). Includes several photographs of Chisholm and a plan of the routes of Chisholm’s recorded journeys (undated) (MCFB 4). Includes four portrait photographs of Alexander Gordon Steven (undated) (MCFB 14)?The papers also include press cuttings of notices of Furphy’s “Such is life” (at MS BOX 280/6 (e)). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 March 2005 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9406 comprises correspondence, notebooks, journals and diaries, drafts and other papers relating to Stasko’s poetry, prose, articles and reviews. Also included are manuscripts for Abundance, Black night with windows and Stasko’s prose work, originally called “Half Moon Bay”, but later published as The invention of everyday life. Amongst the correspondence are letters from friends, other writers and publishers, including Inez Baranay, Bruce Beaver, Beverley Farmer, Norman di Giovanni, Lynn Hard, A.D. Hope, Alane Rollings, Veronica Brady and John Kinsella (13 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc06.163 instalment comprises diaries, correspondence, manuscript and typescript drafts of writings, notebooks, notes, research material, printed material, publicity material and grant applications, together with some drafts of writings by others. Much of the draft and research material relates to Stasko’s book Oyster: from Montparnasse to Greenwell Point (15 boxes, 1 fol. Bag). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jean Hay is a respected local councillor for the Manly Municipal Council (1987-2007). She was elected Mayor from 1999-2003. The Liberal Party hoped Jean Hay would defeat the sitting independent member in the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Manly, but she was unsuccessful. Jean Hay was born and bred in Manly and has been active in local affairs all her adult life. She was first elected to the Manly Municipal Council in 1987 and was elected Mayor from 1999 to 2003. She has served on all major Council committees and chaired At the time of her campaign, she was the Chair of Friends of Bear Cottage committee, a children’s hospice; Chair of the finance committees of the Sunnyfield Gateway Project and the Northern Beaches Life Education Program. She holds the Paul Harris fellowship for outstanding community service, the highest award given by Rotary International and the Distinguished Service Award from the Surf Life Saving Movement. She was appointed AM in 1998 for service to the community. Jean Hay is married to David Hay, himself a former Councillor and Liberal Party MLA and Minister. They have three children. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 30 January 2006 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc01.076 comprises correspondence, cuttings, drafts, articles, research material and reviews. Topics represented in the papers include Community of thieves, Gross moral turpitude (Orr case), The white rajah, Till apples grow on an orange tree, The devil and James McAuley, Island magazine, Tasmanian Writers’ Union and the Darville-Demidenko case (7 boxes, 3 cartons).??The Acc01.150 instalment includes cuttings and photocopies of articles on the Orr case (1 box).??The Acc09.053 instalment comprises correspondence, personal papers, literary drafts, research material and press cuttings of reviews. Correspondents include Kate Jennings, Warren Osmond, Gwen Harwood, Beverley Farmer, Carmel Bird, Linda Jaivin, Dick Watkins, Giles Hugo, Matthew Kneale, Nicholas Shakespeare, Ronald Wright and Richard Flanagan (10 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "40 minutes??Phyllis Crompton talks about her family. Her grandfather came to SA on the ship ‘Fatima’ and lived at Stonyfell. Her father worked for him in the business which sold skins, wool and olives. She and her sister were born in her parents house at Malvern and after her brothers were born they moved to Parkside. She attended Creveen school at North Adelaide and caught the tram to school. Father died of a ruptured appendix. Phyllis and her sister went to London and attended the Queensgate boarding school for a term, then for a year to a school in Paris and then the Sorbonne. Went to Adelaide University and studied history. Became honorary secretary of the Junior Red Cross and joined the Lyceum Club in 1928. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Minute books of the Diocesan Council of the Girls’ Friendly Society (1893-1953); of the Executive Committee (1917-1967); of the AGM (1933-1959). Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 February 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers relating to the Queen Victoria Women’s Hospital are incorporated with those of the Monash Medical Centre, which is part of the Southern Health organisation. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 March 2005 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 60 min.)??Bate speaks of her childhood in Sydney; living on a property in the west and joining the Country Women’s Association; she speaks of her interest in politics and the social conditions facing women in isolated country towns. Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 November 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Susanne Elizabeth Schreiner (Sue) was born in Sydney in 1939 of parents who left Vienna before the outbreak of World War II. She spent her early life in Canberra and was in the year of the first graduates (in Law) of the Australian National University (ANU) in 1962. She also completed a Diploma in Criminology from the University of Sydney. Schreiner signed the High Court roll as a barrister and solicitor in 1962, the same year she was admitted to practise at the NSW Bar. She was the first female barrister to appear in the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and the fourteenth woman admitted to the NSW Bar. She had difficulty gaining articles in NSW and this led to her finally gaining employment as a solicitor in Canberra with Mr J. D. Donohoe. She stayed with him until 1964 when she went to Sydney. She practised at the Bar there until 1975 when she was appointed a NSW Magistrate. She was the second woman appointed as a NSW Magistrate and the first person to be so appointed from outside the Public Service. Her appointment caused great outcry as it heralded a big shift in the way in which NSW Magistrates were appointed. Schreiner is the co-author (with K.B. Morgan) of ‘Probate practice and precedents’. She did some law reporting as well as research for Butterworth’s into the feasibility of an Australian version of Halsbury’s Laws of England, the existence of which is now a fact. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Sue Schreiner for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Sue Schreiner and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. As a magistrate, Sue Schreiner presided in almost all courts in NSW, both metropolitan and country. A highlight is the eight years she spent sitting at Redfern Local Court where she had the good fortune to become a close friend of MumShirl (the Black Saint of Redfern) who became a mentor in Aboriginal affairs and in life with all its challenges. Schreiner was Assistant City Coroner for two years. As a result she authored a study, called ‘Ultimate Isolation’, into the circumstances surrounding people who died alone and lay dead for days, weeks, months, sometimes years, with a view to helping the community understand how this might be prevented. Her first mine deaths inquest caused some much consternation when she was not allowed access to the site because according to tradition “women are not allowed below ground because it is bad luck”. This attitude was changed with good grace when it became obvious that it was not going to prevent her carrying out her coronial responsibilities. Schreiner presided over the Broken Hill Circuit Court for two years, which provided a good opportunity to see large areas of NSW, particularly the far west, and to understand and try and ameliorate the challenges faced by those communities, particularly in the predominantly Aboriginal towns. Her work as a magistrate gave her wonderful opportunities to engage with people from many areas of life. She became involved with children and helped form the Homeless Children’s Association; was the first Patron of South Sydney Youth Services (now Weave), a wonderful organisation which helps young people in inner Sydney with the myriad problems they face. She was President of Glebe House, a halfway house for men leaving jail with drug and alcohol problems and no family or other support. She was also involved in changes to NSW Mental Health legislation. Schreiner retired from the bench in 2000 but returned for five years as an Acting Magistrate. For several years she served as Chair of the Serious Young Offenders Review Panel (SYORP) which concerned itself with juveniles serving sentences for serious crimes and was an adviser to the Director General on matters such as conditions and leave. Also on her retirement, she was invited to join the (NSW) Premiers Council on Crime Prevention for one year which gave her an opportunity to speak at the highest political level about issues faced by various communities. After retiring from paid work, Schreiner and her partner, Alan, moved to Canberra where she is at present (2016) engaged in a number of community based organisations as well as following her passion for classical music as a listener and pianist, whilst learning to be an ‘older woman’. She has also developed a growing interest in and concern for animal welfare and ethical issues. She completed the first Animal Law Course at the University of NSW, and presently assists the RSPCA as a member of the Approved Farming Scheme Panel, a body which seeks to improve the lives of intensively farmed production animals. She has served for some years on the Boards of Vets Beyond Borders and Delta. Published resources Book Probate practice and precedents, Schreiner, Sue and Morgan, Kevin, 1971 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Sue Schreiner Created 6 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Sue Schreiner Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photograph album of the Gilruth family and activities carried out whilst J A Gilruth was Administrator 1912-1919 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 October 2002 Last modified 10 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Caroline Wilson has been chief football writer for The Age newspaper since 1999. She was the first woman to cover Australian Rules football on a full-time basis and is a multiple winner of Australian Football Media Association awards, including most outstanding football writer and most outstanding feature writer (2000, 2003, 2005). Wilson was also voted the AFL Players’ Association’s football writer of the year in 1999. Prior to working for the age, Caroline Wilson worked for the Melbourne Herald for 12 years, spending three years working in the UK and Europe where she covered four Wimbledons and three British Opens, the FA Cup final and the British soccer riots. In 1982 at The Herald she became the first woman to cover Australian Rules Football and in 1989 she became the first woman to win the AFL’s gold media award. Caroline has also worked in radio hosting the afternoon program for 3AW between 1994 and 1996 (winning the national RAWARD in 1995 as best current affairs commentator). She had five years with the Sunday Age between 1989 and 1994 and was voted that newspaper’s journalist of the year in 1993. Events 2008 - 2008 ALF BROWN TROPHY for the football media’s most outstanding performer. 2008 - 2008 WINNER MOST OUTSTANDING NEWS REPORTER (PRINT) 2008 - 2008 WINNER MOST OUTSTANDING COLUMNIST 1980 - 2013 - 2013 Coverage of a Major News Event or Issue – Essendon drug scandal (with Richard Baker, Nick Mckenzie, John Silvester, Jake Niall and The Age team, The Age 2013 - 2013 Commentary, Analysis, Opinion and Critique – ‘Would you want your son playing AFL? Right thing for Hird to do is step down, Blind pride drove couch’s denial and the bodies piled up, The Age Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 October 2008 Last modified 5 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Eileen Cammack was an outstanding citizen, active in local government, health and community organisations. She was a Liberal Party candidate in the Penrith elections of 1973 and 1976, and was appointed Alderman to the Penrith City Council in 1972 (to 1991) and Mayor from 1975 to 1978. Eileen Cammack was born in Sydney, the daughter of Reginald and Mary Scott-Young. She was educated at Monte Sant’Angelo College, North Sydney and the University of Sydney, from which she graduated in Science (BSc, 1936) and in Medicine (BS, MB,1940). She was a resident medical officer and senior resident medical officer at St George Hospital 1940-41, and was a Captain, in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AIF) 1941-46. She married Dr, William Cammack in 1944 and they had two sons and a daughter. Eileen Cammack established the first pathology service in Penrith and the first pathology laboratory at Nepean District Hospital in 1948. She was honorary pathologist at Nepean Hospital from 1948 and was Government Medical officer for the Nepean District from 1961. She was elected to the Penrith City Council in 1972 and became the first woman Mayor of Penrith for three terms, 1975-78. She was the patron of many local organisations, including the Nepean Historical Society, the Girl Guides Association, and the St Marys and Penrith Associations. She was commodore of the Nepean Canoe Club, foundation president of the Business and Professional Women’s Club, Penrith and president (1981) and life member of the Penrith and District Chamber of Commerce. She was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Silver Medal in 1977, made an OBE. 1978 and made a Paul Harris Fellow (Rotary’s highest award) in 1980. The Eileen Cammack Sports Fields, Penrith, are named in her honour. Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes and draft minutes, 1925-987 (14 vols). ?Minutes and draft minutes, 1925-987 (14 vols). ?Photographs of patron, presidents, celebrations, and buildings 1930-1986 (10 photographs). ?Miscellaneous records including constitution, rules, handbooks, creed, song, anthem, poem, pamphlets and brochures, c1930-1976 (1 box). ?Birthday book 1932 (1 vol.). ?Visitors book 1936-1962, 1962-1980; 1980-1987 (2 vols). ?Financial records, including receipt books, deposit books, petty cash, cheque books, and branch reports 1941-1943; 1959-1980 and audit reports 1979-1987 (15 vols). ?Annual reports for branches in the Capricornia Division, including Caudal, Rockhampton, and Port Curtis, 1955-1971 (9 vols). ?Correspondence and letter books, 1965-1987 (1 box, 11 vols). ?Countrywoman, 1973-1981 (26 vols). ?Scrapbook of news releases and newscuttings relating to branch activities, 1978-1986 (1 vol.). ?Drafts, autobiographical notes of members and final draft of an unpublished history of the Branch, 1924-1987, compiled 1981-1987 (25p.). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Premier John Bannon sends greetings to the International Women’s Day Committee and attendees at the International Women’s Day luncheon. He also comments on the status of women and his government’s support for women. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The daughter of former Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, and wife of public official Herbert Brookes, Ivy Brookes played an active part in Australian political life. She occupied a central role in the National Council of Women; the Housewives’ Association; the International Club of Victoria; the Women’s Hospital; and in various boards and committees at the University of Melbourne. A talented musician, she won the Ormond Scholarship for singing in 1904, and played first violin for Professor Marshall Hall’s Orchestra at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Back home from the United States in 1931, the ‘clever, attractive, Titian-headed’ Mrs Brookes, auburn hair swept across her forehead and a posy pinned to her lapel, was profiled by the Dominion. The strong features and somewhat sombre expression belied a ‘fluent speaker’ who was ‘brimming with a keen sense of fun’, and the author couldn’t help but note ‘what a great help she must be to her clever husband, a woman with brains, charm, and filled with the desire to help everything in need – nothing could be more suited for the wife of a trade diplomat’. Ivy Brookes was the eldest daughter of Alfred and Pattie Deakin. Her husband, Herbert, was secretary of Austral Otis, later Chairman of the Chamber of Manufactures, and served on the Commonwealth Board of Trade. He was appointed Commissioner-General for Australia in the United States from 1923 to 1930, and was Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Ivy was involved in charitable work from an early age. Her mother, Pattie, gave much of her own time and energy to child welfare services and to charities for Australian servicemen and, like Ivy, took part in the kindergarten and playgrounds movements. When Ivy returned in January 1931 from that fifteen-month stay in the United States, she reported to the National Council of Women and the Children’s Welfare Association on her extensive investigation of child welfare services there. Ivy’s particular passion, though, was for music. She relinquished the Ormond Scholarship at the University’s Faculty of Music upon her marriage to Herbert in 1905, but continued to support the Faculty, serving as a council member from 1926 to 1969. Described by Professor Bernard Heinze as the ‘fairy godmother’ of the Conservatorium of Music, Ivy was responsible, with Herbert, for financing a new wing there in memory of Marshall Hall in 1935. Alongside Sidney Myer, Keith Murdoch and Norman Brookes, both Ivy and Herbert were members of the Orchestra Advisory Committee which was convened in 1933 in order to oversee the amalgamation of the Marshall Hall Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Ivy was also a member of the Lady Northcote Permanent Orchestra Trust Fund, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ladies’ committee. In 1924 she was credited by Sir James Barrett, Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, with having increased the funds of the Lady Northcote orchestra from £4,000 to £10,000. An article in the Australian in 1928 claimed that ‘Mr and Mrs Brookes have shown their practical sympathy with musicians who are finding it not an easy matter to get their feet on the ladder of fame, just as their collection of the works of Australian artists is testimony to their practical patronage of another field of art’. In addition to supporting music and the arts, Ivy and Herbert Brookes were strong supporters of the University of Melbourne, and of intellectual life in general. Ivy was a member of the Board of Studies in Physical Education at the university for thirty years, and a member of the Board of Social Studies for over twenty-five years. She was involved with the women’s auxiliary for International House, a residential college. Herbert was a representative of donors to Trinity College. Indeed, the Brookes home in South Yarra, Winwick, was described by Trinity’s warden, Alexander Leeper, as ‘the chief intellectual power house in Melbourne’. There Ivy and Herbert held the musical and literary activities of their T.E. Brown Society. In 1928, Ivy hosted a visit from Miss Royden of England, the ‘world-famous woman preacher’ who edited The Common Cause, the official organ of British women suffragists. Ivy took an active part in social and political life. She joined the League of Nations Union and the National and International Councils of Women. She was founder of the International Club of Victoria in 1933, serving as president until 1958. She was a member of the Women Justices’ Association, and of the Playgrounds’ and Housewives’ Associations of Victoria. She served on the board of the Women’s Hospital for a monumental fifty years. Between 1931 and 1961, Ivy served as Director of the Bureau of Social and International Affairs. She was honorary secretary of the women’s section of the Commonwealth Liberal Party until the National Federation formed to incorporate all sections, at which point she concluded that the new organisation did not give fair representation to women. Ivy Brookes was involved with just about every voluntary organisation open to her. An overview of her activities paints a valuable portrait of the times. It is illustrative, in particular, of a leaning toward American influences, a shift in philanthropic priorities, and a strengthening independence in women’s philanthropy. Events 1931 - 1961 Director of the Bureau of Social and International Affairs 1933 - 1958 Founder and president of the International Club of Victoria 1927 - 1929 President of the Royal Women’s Hospital Board 1934 - 1938 President of the Royal Women’s Hospital Board 1944 - 1970 President of the Playgrounds & Recreation Association of Victoria 1915 - 1915 Founded the Housewives’ Co-operative Association of Victoria 1938 - 1970 Foundation member of the Board of Studies in Physical Education at the University of Melbourne 1941 - 1967 Foundation member of the Board of Studies in Social Studies at the University of Melbourne 1908 - 1960 Executive member of the Lady Northcote Permanent Orchestra Trust Fund 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1903 - 1915 First violin with Professor Marshall Hall’s Orchestra 1904 - 1904 Winner of the Ormond Scholarship for Singing 1939 - 1945 President of the National Council of Women of Victoria 1948 - 1952 President of the National Council of Women of Australia 1952 - 1960 Commonwealth member of the Import Licensing Committee 1945 - 1963 Vice-president of the United Nations Association of Victoria Published resources Resource Section Brookes, Ivy (1883-1971), Patrick, Alison, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070709b.htm Newspaper Article Ivy Brookes, Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 2003 Portraits in Cameo: Mrs. Herbert Brookes, 1936 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1968, Legge, J S, 1968 Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Report Resume of the second conference, Women's Division, Brookes, Herbert (Mrs) and Goodisson, L E (Mrs), 1915 Annual report, National Council of Women of Victoria Book Nation builders : great lives and stories from St Kilda General Cemetery, Eidelson, Meyer, 2001 Liberal women : Federation to 1949, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2004 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 2003 Jessie Webb, a memoir, Ridley, Ronald T, 1994 The Early years of the Housewives Association of Victoria, 1915-1930, Oldfield, Robert, 1989 So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Champions of the impossible: a history of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1902-1977, Norris, Ada, 1978 Journal Article A Mission to the Home: The Housewives Association, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Protestant Christianity, 1920-1940, Smart, Judith, 1998 The Politics of Consumption: The Housewives' Associations in Southeastern Australia before 1950, Smart, Judith, 2006 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Victorian Honour Roll of Women List of Inductees 2001 to 2011, Department of Human Services, Victoria, http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/for-business-and-community/community-involvement/women-in-the-community/women-as-leaders/victorian-womens-honour-roll Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Alexander Gore Gowrie, 1835-1987 [manuscript] Letter, 1967 Oct. 26 [manuscript] Papers of Alfred Deakin, 1804-1973 (bulk 1880-1919) [manuscript] Papers of Herbert and Ivy Brookes, 1869-1970 [manuscript Papers on various Australian women [19--] [manuscript] Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1936-1972 [manuscript] Author Details Jane Wilkinson and Barbara Lemon Created 29 August 2003 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Ruth Gibson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Mrs Brookes addressing the 1952 Conference of the Australian National Council of Women Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: board-1952.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This collection contains scripts of ‘London and AmericanLetters’, a series of regular reports broadcast from London and America on the ABC’s ‘Women’s Session’. The ‘Letters from America’, reporting on social, political and wartime life in the United States were compiled by Jean Wilmot Bemis. The reports compiled by Jean Wilmot Bemis date from July 1943 through to December 1945, and then from January 1948 through to December1951. The ‘Letters from London’ follow a similar format to those forwarded from the United States. The earlier reports give a detailed coverage of the effects of war on English life, while the later letters give more coverage to social, cultural and political events. Maie Stevens compiled the London letters from January 1940 through until December 1945. She resumed this duty again in January 1948 and forwarded regular reports until March 1951. The role of London correspondent was taken up by Phyllis Duncan Brown in May 1951 and she continued to forward regular reports to the Women’s Session until September 1951.It is assumed that the ‘Letters from London’ series was concluded at this point. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 October 2008 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Donna Petrovich was elected Member for the Legislative Council for Northern Victoria in November 2006, representing the Liberal Party. She resigned from state parliament on 1 July 2013 in order to stand as a candidate for the seat of McEwen at the 2013 federal election, but was unsuccessful. Formerly Mayor of the Shire of Macedon Ranges, Donna Petrovich has particular interests in town planning, rural infrastructure, and sustainability. She is vice-president of the Woodend Sustainability Group and a member of the Woodend Lions Club; the Woodend Pony Club; Bullengarook Adult Riders; and the Hanging Rock Advisory Committee. Qualified with an Associate Diploma of Business Administration, she was Sales Manager for Bynon Industries and Marketing Executive for the Central Victorian and Hanging Rock Racing Clubs. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 26 July 2007 Last modified 8 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Director of WWW Communications Pty Ltd, a social policy and philanthropic consulting company, Marion Webster joined the board of the Melbourne Community Foundation in 1997. Marion Webster was the founding Executive Director of the Australian Association of Philanthropy (now Philanthropy Australia) from 1988-91. She led ANZ Charitable Trusts for over 5 years, first as National Manager, then Manager Corporate Relations. In 1997, Marion was a founding director of the Melbourne Community Foundation (MCF), Australia’s first independent community foundation. Funds from MCF are directed to meeting areas of community need identified through research, community consultation and discussion. After five years of operation the Foundation could boast a capital of $12 million. By 2006 it had 83 named sub-funds, one of which – EastWeb – is co-managed by Marion’s son, Alistair. Marion has worked in the areas of child, family, and migrant welfare and advocacy. She serves on the boards of a number of community organisations in welfare, the arts, medical research, international relations and philanthropy. She was a founding director of Community Foundations of Australasia, and now chairs the Disability Employment Action Centre (DEAC). Marion spent nine months as Locum Director for Community Foundation Network in the United Kingdom and recently completed a Senior Fellowship with the City University of New York, studying community foundation sustainability. In August 2006 she spoke at the Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS) Congress about opportunities for community sector collaboration. Published resources Resource EastWeb, http://www.eastweb.org.au/library/ Changemakers Australia, http://www.changemakers.org.au/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Small steps, big differences, Halliday, Claire, 2006 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 19 October 2006 Last modified 12 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lorraine Stumm wrote her name in the history books as the first Australian female to cover the Second World War in New Guinea. Her journey into the theatres of war was most unlike that of her contemporaries. While Stumm was an incredibly motivated woman, it was her desire to follow the man she loved – Harley Stumm – that took her from university in Brisbane to London, and ultimately to India. As a war correspondent and a soldier’s wife, Stumm’s writing provided a rich mixture of human interest stories and hard-line battle updates. She wrote for London’s Daily Mirror and Sydney’s Woman magazine. Stumm’s career as a journalist abroad began in London in 1936. Engaged to the love of her life and struggling to make ends meet, she secured employment with London’s Daily Mirror, having ‘crashed in on the night editor and managed to convince him that I was worth a month’s trial. I told him that if I was no good he could sack me. He laughed at my cheek and agreed.’ [1] In 1938, Harley and Lorraine enjoyed a truncated sojourn at home in Australia. Barely six weeks after their wedding, Harvey was forced to leave his new wife to answer the call of duty and embark on a vessel destined for Singapore on August 29th 1939. For the second time in her life, Stumm was grateful for her father’s insistence that she become a journalist as her career choice ‘enabled her to sweep away any obstacles that threatened [hers and Harvey’s] happiness together.’ [2] Having earned the requisite funds for the boat fare, Stumm was reunited with her husband in October 1939; a time when the war was far from Asian shores. Returning to work as a journalist, she wrote for the Malaya Tribune. Such was Stumm’s determination to report what she saw as she saw it that her candour almost had her deported with 24 hours notice. The contention was based on her ‘defaming’ of the Governor Shelton-Thomas who was in violent opposition to the ‘Buy a bomber for Britain’ scheme; a wartime proposal supported by the Tribune. Unwilling to accept the governor’s rash decision, Stumm confronted him in a private interview. She managed to retain her tenure, with the governor’s acknowledgement that the situation was a private matter between them. Stumm’s writing for the Tribune continued uninterrupted until 6pm on June 22nd 1941, when she made the journey to Singapore General hospital where she gave birth to her daughter Sheridan at one minute past midnight. Such was her good fortune that Lorraine barely had time to fret over her husband’s involvement in an aircraft accident whilst she had been in labour. Harvey Stumm swaggered virtually unscathed into the maternity ward just moments after his daughter’s birth. Almost six months later, on December 8th, Stumm found herself crouched beneath an air raid shelter, Sheridan in her arms. Singapore had become a Japanese target. The day after the air raid, Stumm received a telegram from the Daily Mirror in London reading ‘Delighted to know you are safe. Can you become our accredited war correspondent and start filing stories immediately?’ Stumm seized the opportunity to take an active part in the war effort and rushed to obtain her official accreditation as a war correspondent. She resigned her post at the Tribune and offered temporary services in the employ of the British Ministry of Information. The appointment was cut short when she was seen with her baby daughter in her arms and was immediately ‘released from duty.’ [3] Early in 1942, Stumm decided that the time had come to take her daughter home to Australia. Escape from Singapore meant a smooth flight to Java where mother and baby spent the night in a dingy, bat-infested hotel room before making the long airborne trek to Brisbane, via some unfriendly accommodation in Darwin and Townsville. Back home, Stumm wrote a number of retrospective pieces illustrating the pre-war situation in Singapore which had since fallen prey to the Japanese. In August of that year, she contacted the Daily Mirror with regard to some outstanding payments. She was well-pleased by the reply which read ‘All delighted you are safe. Money following. Can you represent us at General McArthur’s HQ in Brisbane?’ [4] Not one to refuse a golden opportunity, Stumm hurriedly made the arrangements to have herself re-accredited under the Australian licence system and thus became the only female correspondent based at General McArthur’s Brisbane headquarters. This appointment inevitably led to the chance for another sojourn in the field, but not before her passage to New Guinea had been refused on two occasions. It just so happened that Stumm was present at HQ in Brisbane when General McArthur asked who was willing to cover an attack on the city of Rabaul. Lorraine’s hand shot up in the air, the General smiled at her and said, ‘You can go tomorrow.’ [5] Stumm’s arrival however, was a point of fierce contention for the Australian military authorities who had previously barred the way for her. The acting head of Public Relations, Colonel Rasmussen was shocked to hear of her travel to New Guinea and campaigned for her immediate removal from the front lines and the absolute ban of her writing from any Australian publication. Fortunately there was little that Rasmussen could do to veto the wishes of General McArthur, and Stumm spent her time in New Guinea bunking with US army nurses. Meanwhile, Harvey had been posted from Singapore to Sumatra then Sri Lanka and India. Making use of professional connections, Stumm was able to arrange for her employment with the British Ministry of Information in New Delhi. She was also determined to travel with Sheridan who, at the age of almost three, had not seen her father since she was six months old. Arranging for passage from Brisbane to Delhi proved problematic for Stumm, who had been warned against making the journey with a small child in tow. At a meeting prior to her departure, General McArthur gave her a final gift: ‘I’ve trusted you absolutely since you’ve been with us and now I’m going to tell you highly secret information that may be of use to you in your new job.’ He told Stumm ‘strictly off the record’ about a projected Andaman Islands campaign designed to free Burma from the Japanese. He outlined the details of the British thrust on Burma and said it was to be led by Admiral Mountbatten. I was amazed to be trusted with this information.’ [6] The family were briefly reunited before Harvey was forced to relocate to Northern India, to fill a Commander’s position. Shortly after he left Lorraine was overcome by a feeling of unease which threatened to swamp her at 5 o’clock one Sunday night. This anxiety did not abate as she arrived at the Ministry on Monday to find a telegram on her desk at 10am. The missive read: Deeply distressed to inform you that your husband Wing Commander Harley Stumm DFC was killed in an aircraft accident while on active service with 45 Squadron at 5pm on 13 May 1945. Years later, Stumm noted in her memoir: ‘I still believe that in his last moments of consciousness Harley was trying to say “Goodbye – I love you”‘. [7] Following the tragedy of Harley’s death, Lorraine and Sherry based themselves in Sydney where Lorraine’s sister Kate was living with her family. As the war came to an end, Stumm was seconded to serve as a war correspondent once more with her coverage of the Japanese surrender. Her plans encountered a significant setback when she contracted pneumonia and pleurisy. On account of her ill-health, Lorraine missed the Japanese surrender aboard the Missouri by two days. It was, she later reflected, ‘the greatest disappointment of my career as a journalist.’ Nevertheless, Stumm arrived in Tokyo in time to be the first Australian woman to witness the devastation of Hiroshima six weeks after the atomic bomb had been dropped. Stumm spent a month in Tokyo, and took twice as long to return home via Japan, Okinawa, Hong Kong, Singapore, Manila, Borneo, and finally, Darwin. After the war, she met General McArthur once again when he awarded her the Asiatic Pacific Service Star for services as a war correspondent in New Guinea. As such, Stumm was one of only two women war correspondents to be decorated in the south-west. This entry was researched and written by Isobel Prowse. Published resources Book I Saw Too Much, Stumm, Lorraine, 2000 A Handful of Hacks, Sekuless, Peter, 1999 Newspaper Article Moresby from the inside', 'I took part in an \"invasion\"' (and other articles), Streeter, Lorraine, 1942/3 Adventurous mum was first female war correspondent, Dwyer, Nan Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 6 September 2007 Last modified 31 July 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Eddie Butler-Bowden’s research and drafts of chapters including: oral interviews on 20 cassettes; floppy disk with book; photographs used in book; some secondary sources. North Bendigo Railway workshops: copies of correspondence and miscellaneous items, 1940s to ’70s; and, Minutes 1943-53, 1964-65, 1973-76, 1979-81, some rough, eleven books in all. Membership levy books 1962 – 74 (broken); Various Publications, 1960s-1970s; Account book 1946 to 1951; Membership levy charts, 1950s to 70s (some Gaps). State Council Minutes(incomplete); copies of Shop Committee News.??Quantity: 7 archives boxes; 1 outsizes Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Consists of pamphlets on womens liberation issues such as equal pay, sex education, abortion, living conditions, discrimination, International Women’s Day, family planning, Communist Women’s collective, child care, trade unionism, pre-school education, sexism in schools, and contraception. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Australian Women in Agriculture Movement had its beginnings in the state of Victoria. It involves a number of interconnected organisations, networks and community groups that emerged in Australia in the 1990s, although its roots spread back through the previous decade. It was driven by the desire of farm women for visibility and recognition of their contribution, for a greater role in decision making, and for a hearing for their broader concerns, which focussed on community, social justice and the environment, as well as productivity The impetus for the mobilisation of Victorian farm women in what came to be known as the Women in Agriculture movement was the farm crisis of the 1980s: severe drought in 1982- 83 combined with contracting world markets, reduction in government support, overproduction and declining terms of trade. Women took over the labour of previously employed farm workers, or took paid work off-farm to support its financial viability. At the same time, their concerns for the pressure of the crisis on community, family and the environment, and their proposed solutions, were not being heard, and male-dominated industry bodies did not provide an outlet for their leadership. Second wave feminism was having an impact at Government level, through femocrats appointed to advance the interests of women, and in Victoria in particular the agenda of the state government complemented that of the farm women. The farm women received funding and femocrat guidance and support through the Department of Agriculture. Networking, sharing and uniting has been a feature of the movement. It comprised inter-connected events, organisations and activists, of which the following is a brief, but not exhaustive, list.: 1979 Conference, in Melbourne: ‘The Woman in Country Australia Looks Ahead’. This conference was convened by Brian Clarke, of the McMillan Rural Studies Centre in Warragul, which would be the launching pad for the Women on Farms Gatherings. 1982 Conference in Melbourne: ‘Women in Agriculture: Expanding our Spheres of Influence’. This conference was organised by two Victorian farming women, Lyn Johnston and Alison Teese. 1984 Fifty seminars held by Department of Agriculture and local groups across Victoria, in response to a need noted by Frank McClelland of the Department to help women to gain practical and financial skills, and support in the drought and rural recession. 1985 Self-help groups such as Women in Agriculture – Victorian Mallee Group (Jan Adcock, co-ordinator) emerged out of the seminars. 1986 The Rural Women’s Network set up under the auspices of the Office of Rural Affairs. Women who were sensitive to rural women’s needs were in power in the Cain government. 1987 Farm Gate Learning program began in North-East Victoria to allow women to increase skills. Community based education centres in the 1980s had responded to this need. 1988 Women on Farms skills courses developed for women in West Gippsland, and held in Warragul. Women on Farms discussion group convened. 1990 Inaugural Women on Farms Gathering held in Warragul. 1992 Julie Williams authored a government-funded report entitled, ‘The Invisible Farmer: A Summary Report of Australian Farm Women’. Women made clear their wish to be acknowledged as farmers. – Liz Hogan, of the Rural Women’s Network, convened a state-wide meeting, in Ballarat, of activists, academics and women’s group leaders, from which arose the Australian Women in Agriculture peak organisation, and the committee which organised the First International Women in Agriculture Conference. 1994 First International Women in Agriculture Conference held at the University of Melbourne in July. A second peak body, Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women created on last day. From Victoria, the movement in all its forms spread interstate, then overseas in the form of the international conferences. In post-conference activities, the needs of women identified at the conference for leadership and business skills, for recognition, and for greater participation in decision making were addressed in workshops and forums, classes and gatherings at local, national, international levels. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Report The invisible farmer : a report on Australian farm women, Williams, Julie, 1992 Book Breaking Through the Grass Ceiling: Women, Power & Leadership in Rural Australia, Alston, Margaret, 2000 Journal Article 'Managing the Woman Issue: The Australian State and the Case of Women in Agri-Politics', Pini, Barbara, Panelli, Ruth and Sawer, Marian, 2008, http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/434932_751304851_793284390.pdf Article 'Time-Space Geometries of Activism and the Case of Mis/placing Gender in Australian Agriculture', Panelli, Ruth, 2007, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/117996681/PDFSTART Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Archival resources Private Hands (these records may not be readily available) Making Rural Women Visible: A \"Living\" History of the Victorian Women on Farms Gathering (WOFG) Community Melbourne Museum Women on Farms Gathering Heritage Collection National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Mary Salce, 1976-2007 [manuscript] Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Tennant speaks about collecting material for her book “The Honeyflow”, and reads a passage from the book. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Valma Ferguson (Australian Labor Party) was a Member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia between 1993 and 1997. Valma Ferguson (Australian Labor Party) was a Member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia between February and May 1993, during which time Parliament did not sit, and she was not sworn in. Ferguson was returned to the Upper House in April 1995 to fill a casual vacancy after the resignation of former ALP State President Tom Butler. Ferguson served out the remainder of her term, which expired in 1997. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 7 October 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Research materials on population, agriculture and natural resources in the Pacific Islands. Includes census data and government reports for Kiribati, Samoa, Vanuatu and Niue; newspaper articles, government and academic papers relating to Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Tuvalu, Western Samoa, Micronesia, Tonga, including topics on nuclear testing, colonialism/postcolonialism and economic development. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 104 min.)??Wendy Craik speaks about her early career in academia; her enjoyment of change management; her family history, childhood and schooling; attending the Australian National University; doing a PhD in Vancouver; working for the Department of Environment; working for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA); GBRMPA’s establishment; living in Townsville; collecting data about fish movements on the reef; surveying recreational and commercial fishermen and diving surveys; dealing with the Queensland government and agencies; meeting her husband who worked for the GBRMPA in Townsville; the importance of the survey work; the impact of the Crown of Thorns Starfish; her husband’s work on tourism in the area; the commissioning of research; doing the Australian Public Service Executive Development Scheme; working at the Australian Government Printing Office; industrial relations issues and challenges associated with a culturally diverse workforce; taking on a variety of division and branch head roles the GBRMPA; being appointed head of the GBRMPA; attitudes to the environment and the government in Far North Queensland; communicating with all the stakeholders; oil spills and putting a response plan together to deal with them; developing a 25 year strategic plan for the Great Barrier Reef; the challenges and advantages of working in a statutory authority; the tension between protection of the reef and enabling development; her leadership experiences; working as the Executive Director at the National Farmers Federation (NFF); lobbying Government for the NFF; representing all the organisations within the NFF; Native Title; the Wik decision in 1997; the Melbourne Waterfront Dispute in 1998; implementing board policy and advising the board; managing the move into the Goods and Services Tax; attitudes to rural women and their role in rural organisations; her role as CEO of Earth Sanctuaries; chairing the Australian Fisheries Management Authority; her appointment to the National Competition Council; consultancy work; her position in the Murray-Darling Basin Commission; streamlining administrative processes and effectively using funding; chairing the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation; trust and leadership; risk taking. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 February 2013 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Isabel Fidler was tutor to women students at the University of Sydney. She was an office bearer in all the university women’s societies. She was also active in a range of women’s groups including the National Council of Women (New South Wales Branch.) Education Isabel Margaret Fidler attended Emily Baxter’s Argyle School in Surry Hills. She enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney in 1895. She graduated in 1898 with first class honours in English, French and Latin. Career Fidler taught briefly at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Croydon. In 1900 she was appointed tutor to women students at the University of Sydney, a position she held until 1939. Activism/Community work Fidler was an office bearer in all the university women’s societies, as well as several non-university groups. Events 1900 - 1921 Sydney University Women’s Society (Sydney University Women’s Settlement) 1921 - 1932 Sydney University Women’s Society (Sydney University Women’s Settlement) 1932 - 1945 Sydney University Settlement 1945 - 1952 Sydney University Settlement 1939 - 1939 For services to education 1903 - 1908 Sydney University Women’s Union 1915 - 1921 Sydney University Women’s Union 1912 - 1937 National Council of Women of New South Wales 1912 - 1932 National Council of Women of New South Wales 1928 - 1933 Board of Social Study and Training 1934 - 1940 Board of Social Study and Training 1923 - 1925 Sydney University Women’s Union 1927 - 1928 Sydney University Women’s Union 1929 - 1939 Sydney University Women’s Union 1920 - 1952 Sydney University Women Graduates’ Association 1928 - 1928 Sydney University Women Graduates’ Association 1946 - 1946 Sydney University Women Graduates’ Association Published resources Book Pioneer Women Graduates of the University of Sydney 1881-1921, Bygott, Ursula and Cable, Kenneth John, 1985 Resource Section Fidler, Isabel Margaret (1869-1952), Jacobs, Marjorie, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080519b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 10 September 2009 Last modified 19 November 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jo Cheers served with 10 Force Support Battalion in East Timor and was posted to Sydney early in 2002. She was presented with a Meritorious Unit Citation in the 2002 Australia Day Honours list (for sustained outstanding service in the provision of logistic support to warlike operations in East Timor) by the Commanding Officer of her present unit in the presence of military and civilian members of the unit. Meritorious Unit Citation Warrant Officer Class Two Joanne Cheers We extend our very sincere congratulations to Jo Cheers on receipt of the Insignia of the Meritorious Unit Citation earned for her service with the 10th Force Support Battalion during warlike operations in East Timor. The 10th Force Support Battalion (10 FSB) was awarded the Meritorious Unit Citation in the 2002 Australia Day Honours list for sustained outstanding service in the provision of logistic support to warlike operations in East Timor. 10 FSB became the Army’s first logistics Unit to be awarded the highly prestigious citation and is only the second unit in the Army to receive the citation. The Governor of Queensland, Major General Peter Arnison awarded the Citation during a parade at Lavarack Barracks on Saturday 13 April 2002, and members representing units of 10 FSB were presented with the Citation. A group of former members of 10 FSB were also on parade to receive the Citation and eligible former members not present on 13 April 2002 were presented with the Citation by their respective Commanding Officers. Jo Cheers served with 10 FSB in East Timor and was posted to Sydney early in 2002. She was presented with her Award by the Commanding Officer of her present unit in the presence of military and civilian members of the unit. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 23 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Morgan Created 25 November 2002 Last modified 8 January 2019 Digital resources Title: Margaret Stones Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A thesis submitted to the Graduate Division of the University of Hawaii in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Philosophy in Anthropology. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Port Adelaide Girls Technical High School was established from the Port Adelaide Primary School and the Central School for Girls in 1940. In 1962 the school was moved to the a new building opened by Lady Bastyan, the wife of the governor. The Port Adelaide Girls Department was part of the Port Adelaide Primary School (1925), while the primary school it self was opened in 1862. The School was known as the Central School. The Port Adelaide Girls Technical High School was established in 1940. The School operated on two sites. In 1962 a new building brought the two sites into one. Lady Bastyan opened the Port Adelaide Girls Technical High School, which was the first time the spouse of the Governor had opened a school. Principals included Marg Beagley and Carolyne Ryan. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Magazine Port Adelaide Girls Technical School magazine, http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:80/record=b1163933~S1 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection Port Adelaide Girls Technical School Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Between John Bannon and Reverend Stuart Langshaw, Sir Condor Laucke, Mr Mark Lawrence, Mr Bart Lea, Mrs Shirley Leverington, Anne Levy, Mr Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Mr Richard Llewellyn, R J Lloyd, Mr and Mrs R Lewis, Mr David Lewis, Professor John Lovering (Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jill Reichstein is Chair of the Reichstein Foundation and an advocate of social change philanthropy. Mentor to many Australian women philanthropists, she is a member of the Committee of Management for Changemakers Australia and has served on the boards of the Melbourne Community Foundation, the Foundation for Young Australians, the Community Support Fund Community Advisory Council, the Trust for Young Australians, the Mietta Foundation, the Koori Heritage Trust, and Philanthropy Australia. The only child of industrialist Lance Reichstein, Jill grew up in Toorak, self-conscious about her family’s wealth. She was never taught skills in money management by her father, who distrusted the political groups with which she was involved. Jill took part in the anti-Vietnam War and anti-apartheid movements. She studied Liberal Arts in the United Kingdom, and was in Paris during the manifestation of 1968. Back in Melbourne, she completed studies in sociology and anthropology at Monash University. She worked at a women’s refuge in Kew – the first community-based halfway house – and was greatly influenced by the women’s liberation movement. She also worked in community-based childcare for the Brunswick Community Group, and for the Brunswick City Council. On his death, Lance Reichstein left the majority of his substantial fortune to establish the Lance Reichstein Foundation. Jill, then twenty-five years old, was appointed to the otherwise all-male board of trustees. Frustrated by the board’s preoccupation with the investment of funds, as opposed to their distribution, she instigated a change of personnel. Over the next eight years she replaced board members with experienced women passionate about social change, and became Chair at the age of thirty-five. Lance Reichstein’s own philanthropy had been traditional in style, with donations to established charities and hospitals. His trust deed stipulated that funding should go to welfare and educational endeavours. It was sufficiently broad to allow Jill and her new board to undertake some more ambitious projects. Jill established the Social Change Network in the 1980s. In part, the group was made up of people with ‘a strong belief that society should be more equitable. Others have just felt a discomfort at having too much’. She set out to change the public perception of philanthropy and philanthropists, insisting that traditional charities were addressing the symptoms rather than the causes of society’s problems. She was quoted in the Good Weekend in February 1989: ‘I think a lot of women who inherit wealth have never been taught the modes of managing their money or ways of dealing with solicitors and accountants’. Jill was also involved in Women in Philanthropy, which began as a support group for women who felt uncomfortable with their wealth or were seeking ideas for philanthropic activity. Inspired by an American publication, Robin Hood was Right, she arranged for donor activist and philanthropist Tracy Gary to visit Australia and speak to the group. From the outset, Reichstein has specialised in funding programs deemed high risk. Of her training scheme through the Aboriginal Health Service in 1989 she noted ‘the Health Commission wouldn’t touch it’, but the program successfully trained 27 people per year. Four years later, the Good Weekend was writing about the Reichstein Foundation again, discussing its funding for a support group for truckies’ wives; a sports program for Aboriginal youth; the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture; and a theatre group of former women prisoners (Somebody’s Daughter). Today the Reichstein Foundation is worth $12 million. Jill Reichstein speaks regularly about her work at seminars and conferences (see conference proceedings from Philanthropy Australia) and her daughter Lucy and son Tom are members of the board, which is comprised of four women and two men. Priority funding areas are Indigenous people; people with a disability; refugees and asylum seekers; environment; human rights; and the criminal justice system. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Resource Section A Great Form of Love: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Lemon, Barbara, 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/ Newspaper Article Big Hearted Australians, Cadzow, Jane, 1993 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records, 1975-2001 [manuscript]. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 May 2007 Last modified 14 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Jill Reichstein Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Edith ‘Edie’ Robinson made Australian Olympic history in Amsterdam in 1928 when she became Australia’s first female Olympic track and field athlete. She took up running at the age of 14 (she ran for the St George Athletic Club in Sydney, New South Wales.) Selected to compete in the 100 meters, she did not make the final, but did run a personal best time in the semifinal, which she finished in third place. Robinson also ran in the 800 meters, but did not complete the race. Given that she had never trained for the event before, let alone competed in it, the fact that she made the 600 meter mark before withdrawing was an extraordinary effort. Edith was a very popular member of the small team that travelled to Amsterdam, and because she had a background in dressmaking, she was popular and much in demand by male athletes who needed badges sown to their shorts! She officially opened the Olympic athletes village in Homebush, Sydney on September 2, 2000. Considering what the athletes had to endure in the lead up to the games, Edith Robinson’s effort in 1928, by anyone’s standards, was extraordinary. The Australian team travelled by ship for six weeks to get to Amsterdam and during this time, most of the team put on weight. ”We couldn’t train, we couldn’t even walk on the first class deck,’ Robinson reported in later years. ‘We weren’t even allowed to use the tiny canvas pool on board.’ The situation did not improve much once they arrived. The accommodation was more than twenty miles distant from where they could train, and training ‘sessions’ could last anything up to twelve hours once travel time was included. The Australians were also quite unhappy with the greasy, inappropriate meals they were served. According to Robinson, their best meals were often those prepared by women team members after they had arrived back late from training. Robinson was also involved in an event that was so controversial, it was banned from the Olympics for the next thirty-two years. Despite never having trained for the event, let alone competed in it, Edith ran in the 800 meters, after her male team-mates encouraged her to enter. She pulled out, exhausted, at the 600 meter mark. Other women were similarly challenged, but this is hardly surprising; the 800 meters is one of the most strenuous events in track and field. Nevertheless, the sight of these physically drained women was too much for some Olympic officials. So adverse was the publicity in the press about the matter that no race longer than 200 meters was run by women at the Olympics until 1960. The fact that photographs that accompanied some of the more sensational press coverage of the event were actually of women completing heats of the 100 meters only serves to highlight the extent to which public understandings of feminine behaviour impacted upon female athletes ability to perform at their best. Events 1928 - 1928 Edith Robinson participated in the Amsterdam Olympic Games Published resources Book A Proper Spectacle: Women Olympians 1900-1936, Daniels, Stephanie and Tedder, Anita, 2000 Edited Book Australian Sport Through Time: The History of Sport in Australia, Cashman, Richard (Senior Consultant); Olds, Margaret and Etherington, Kate (Managing Editors), 1997 Resource Section Women's 800 Metres Running: Too Female to Run, Too Good to Stop, Bellert, Marianne, 2000, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/2000/S2000-Mar-2/http://brisbane-stories.powerup.com.au/women_sport/women_frames.htm Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Eileen Wearne - photographs and papers mainly concerning the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 29 December 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Town planning files spanning Dr Feilman’s professional life in Western Australia, including Albany, Bunbury, Busselton, Perth Metropolitan Area, Cockburn, Corrigin, Esperance, Kojonup, Narrogin, Northam, Plantagenet, and Waroona . The files include correspondence, plans, invitations, newspaper clippings, minutes, reports, petitions, jottings, photographs, minutes of the Country Shire Councils’ Association of W.A. conferences (1961-1977), and minutes of the South West Road Board (later South West Shire Councils’ Association) biennial conferences (1930-1973) A letter dated 1890 from Fred Barlee, Colonial Secretary, is included in the Busselton Road Board papers (ACC 7210A/9). Also includes Dr. Feilman’s architectural and town planning drawings, mostly of Western Australia and England. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Brockway discusses her lifelong involvement in the Girl Guide Movement. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jarrett speaks of her happy early years and her preference for country life, her love and early aptitude for sports, how she learnt to swim and her sports prizes giving her self-confidence, left school at 16, work at her uncle’s film laboratory and her enduring love of photography, how her interest in writing about championship swimming lead to a job on the Herald as a sports journalist, her cadetship days under Keith Murdoch and Sidney Deemer, playing cricket herself on tour with women cricketers, how she became Women’s Editor of the Sun, how she came to go overseas to the United States and met Dick Casey, Australian ambassador, in Los Angeles who offered her a job as his press agent, her life in Washington with the Casey family in 1940-1941, how America’s entry into WWII finished Casey’s Washington posting, her decision to return to Australia and become a war correspondent, requiring the rank of captain. Jarrett also speaks about her decision to rejoin the Caseys in Calcutta in 1944, how the Caseys handled the Indian unrest, how she organised for Ghandi to meet with Casey, her impressions of the Viceroy Wavell and wife as well as the Mountbattens, how she was sent to the Front to interview Generals Slim and Merserbe on the recapture of Mandalay before returning to Australia with the Casey children, how she got Rohan Rivett back to Australia, how they travelled together after Casey was decommissioned at the end of the War. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 30 June 2008 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Leaflets, newsletters, invitations, bumper stickers, conference publicity, posters, reports, song lyrics, and event notices. Some of the organisations may only have one item. Also includes leaflets with no organisation named. Also includes material on the anniversary of women’s suffrage in Queensland. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Texts of addresses to various bodies 1935-1961. Bound volumes of Women’s Employment Board Decisions and Indexes, 1942-1947. Special Session 4.12.1962 of Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, as tribute to memory of Hon. Mr. Justice Foster. Notes and memoranda 1942-1944 concerning manpower situation and Women’s Employment Board. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "History and work of Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association; biography of its Director, Freda Glynn Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 July 2008 Last modified 26 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This is a collection of records collected for the Queensland Women in War Exhibition in 1995, as part of the general ‘Australia Remembers’ project.??It consists of transcripts of women’s stories about their experiences of World War II, in photocopies and typescripts. Envelopes hold stories posted by women in four different Queensland regions: Ipswich, Mackay, Townsville and Brisbane. The collection also contains a photocopy of an unpublished history of Voluntary Aid Detachments in Queensland. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 June 2004 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Curriculum Advisory Board and Course B. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Shelley Hancock was a Liberal Party candidate who was elected to parliament at her first attempt in 2003. She became the Member for South Coast in the South Wales Legislative Assembly. She was re-elected in 2007, 2011 and 2015. In 2016 she was the Speaker in the Legislative Assembly, the first female to assume this position. Prior to this she was a successful local councillor, having been Alderman at the Shoalhaven Council from 1987-2001 and Deputy Mayor 2000-01. Shelley Hancock grew up in Chatswood, one of two daughters. She was educated at Chatswood and Artarmon Primary Schools and North Sydney Girls’ High School. She also completed a B.A. at the University of Sydney. She has lived in the Milton area for nearly thirty years. She taught English, History and Drama at Ulladulla High School for 26 years while also being a partner with her husband, Ossie, in a small business in the tourism industry (motel and horse-riding) at Milton. She has three children, all educated at local schools and involved in local activities. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 30 January 2006 Last modified 16 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "21 photographs and 2 negatives.??ONCY 78?Negatives of Constantine Francis Bolton, District Surveyor of Wagga District and interior of Tomago House, Tomago, New South Wales??PXA 1492?Includes Windeyer family photographs; stereographic view of Tasmanian Aboriginal Australians; Ruth Fairfax bookplate; carte-de-visite of Constantine Francis Bolton, District Surveyor of Wagga District; interior of Tomago House, Tomago, New South Wales; cabinet card of J. Avis, Sydney bookbinder in the 1880’s-1890’s and Lawrence Hargrave’s house in Rushcutters Bay Road, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney.??This pictorial material is part of the Windeyer family papers, 1829-1943 at MLMSS 186. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 December 2017 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A documentary surveying the policy and practice of removal of Indigenous Australian children from their families. The film is an historical account based on personal testimony, and examines the reasons why the policy of assimilation and removal of Aboriginal children was introduced and maintained for so long. It reveals some of the long term effects of the policy and shows why the stolen generations are as much a part of our present as they are of our past. — General notes: The documentary combines intimate interviews with archival footage and still photographs and subtle recreations. — Source of information: FFC publicity notes.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1972, Phillipa Hallenstein was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the community and to women’s organisations. The following is an extract of the Appreciation Dinner Speech made by Dame Phyllis Frost AC, DBE, DSocSc (Hon) for the National Council of Women of Victoria Inc. on Thursday, 18 March 1993. Philippa Hallenstein was the daughter of Mr and Mrs J Plottel who were a professional couple – her father an architect and her mother a doctor of medicine. After matriculating from Melbourne Girl’s Grammar School in 1935 she was in residence at Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne where she successfully completed a Law degree and later obtained a Master of Laws. Whilst at the university she was an active member of the University Ski Club. She completed her Articles with Hedderwick, Fookes and Alston and in 1943 was admitted to the Bar. During the Second World War, Australian women were Australian citizens and British subjects but our Nationality Act said that when an Australian woman married, she lost her Australian nationality and took the nationality of her husband. This created enormous difficulties for Philippa as she had met her future husband, Rolf Hallenstein and wished to marry. Her intelligence made her probe and research the situation and she discovered that Germany had withdrawn citizenship for Jews and this made Rolf a stateless person, so she was able to marry in 1943 and Rolf became an Australian citizen. Philippa took an active interest in organisations and was an elected member of the National Council of Women of Victoria (NCWV) for 21 years – 1958-1979. A remarkable and outstanding woman, devoted to the cause of mankind, she was a dedicated member of NCWV for more than 35 years, being a delegate for the Victorian Women Lawyers Society. Mrs Hallenstein was President of NCWV 1968-1971 whilst at the same time being Vice President of NCW Australia from 1968-1971. She gave generously of her talents to NCW worldwide as she was Convenor of the Laws Standing Committee NCWV, as well as Vice Convenor and then Convenor of that Committee Australia-wide. From 1979-86 she convened that Committee worldwide for the International Council of Women. She always supported NCWV and its work in rural Victoria and was instrumental in founding in founding the branch in Mildura (Sunraysia). Philippa always encouraged the branch members as well as the members of the Council in Melbourne to express their views and thoughts and so benefit all of the community and society. Her contribution was outstanding and she was elected an Honorary Life Vice President of NCWA in 1991 and up until her death she was a very supportive and loyal Honorary member of NCWV. Mrs Hallenstein also took an active interest and working role in being a member of the Council of the Melbourne State College, Victorian Post Secondary Education Committee, Board Member of the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital and a Member of the Fourth University Committee. She was a member of the UN Status of Women Committee, as well as being Foundation President of the Australian Local Government Women’s Association Victoria in 1963 and with her long time friend Dame Phyllis Frost she was on the Victorian Women’s Prison Council for 24 years. She also lectured in Forensic Pharmacy at the Pharmacy College for 6 years. Mrs Hallenstein was a keen and vocal supporter of women being able to serve on juries, married women having a share of property and women in local government. In between all these volunteer activities she was a ruthless bridge player and devoted to her game of golf, although she had earlier played tennis and hockey. Philippa was devoted not only to her delightful husband Rolf, but also her wonderful family, Hal (State Coroner Victoria), Colin who has worked around the world mining and daughter Josephine in Family Law. Philippa was a women who gave much encouragement to younger women to explore and express their talents and was always supportive of all women whether in the workforce or working voluntarily in the community. She will be remember as a truly remarkable, outstanding and supportive women who was ahead of her time. Events 1968 - 1971 President of the National Council of Women of Victoria 1968 - 1971 Vice-President of the National Council of Women of Australia 1958 - 1973 Convenor of the Laws and Suffrage Standing Committee for the National Council of Women of Victoria 1964 - 1979 Convenor of the Laws and Suffrage Standing Committee of the National Council of Women of Australia 1979 - 1986 Convenor of the Laws and Status of Women Standing Committee for the International Council of Women 1979 - 1986 Vice-convenor of the Laws and Status of Women Standing Committee for the International Council of Women Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Valuing the Volunteers : An Anthology for the International Year of Volunteers 2001, National Council of Women of Victoria Inc., 2001 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Journal Article 'Sit down girlie' [Obituary: Phillipa Hallenstein], Lateral, Una, 1994, http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AltLawJl/1994/104.pdf Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Philippa Hallenstein, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 June 2002 Last modified 11 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes research papers, correspondence, photographs, thesis, newspaper cuttings, reports, cartoon caricatures by Dean Alston.??ACC 8160A/7-9, 11-15, 18-28 transferred to State Records Office 10/3/17 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Una Mitchell was Headmistress of Canberra Girls’ Grammar between 1937 and 1947. She left Canberra to return to her home state to become Headmistress of St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls in Mosman Park in Perth. She retired in 1967 and was appointed Chairman of the Conference of Independent Girls’ Schools of Australia. She was an inspiring Science teacher and highly respected principal, who had high educational and moral standards. She dedicated her life to ensuring the girls in her care were prepared for what she saw as a rapidly changing and modernizing world. She taught them to have ‘a high regard for personal integrity’, to be adaptable as well as to have ‘enquiring minds and the spirit of adventure’."
    },
    {
        "text": "Alice Mayo was a third generation Australian, the daughter of William Mayo and Mary Ann Warwick. Her grandfather, Albert Mayo, had arrived as a convict in 1839 and lived and worked in the Duntroon area. Alice Mayo married Harold Vere Chumleigh in 1913. They were divorced in 1934 and she married Ferdinand Lomax in 1935. She worked as a schoolteacher as well as running a florist shop in Double Bay and a lingerie shop in Penfold’s Buildings in Sydney. She played the piano as well as tennis. She grew up in Majura and lived between there and Sydney until the time of her second marriage. She and Ferdinand Lomax ran hotels at Boree Creek and Brown Mountain before retiring to Batehaven. Ferdinand Lomax died in 1969. Alice Lomax lived to the age of 101, only moving to a Nursing Home at the age of 99. Alice Mayo had one brother and seven sisters, one of whom was married to Claude Lomax. She also had extended family in the Canberra area; several uncles having settled there. She seems to have come from a family of independent women. Her mother was a postmistress in Canberra before her marriage in 1880, while in 1907 the ‘Misses Mayo’ were running the Majura Refreshment Rooms in Queanbeyan. A year later another ‘Miss Mayo’ offered board and residence in the same town. In 1911, Alice Mayo’s sister, Elizabeth, took up a position as a probationary nurse at Queanbeyan Hospital. Alice Mayo’s first husband, Harold Vere Chumleigh was a soldier, a colourful character who appears to have reinvented himself and had several wives. Alice Chumleigh sued for divorce in 1934 on the grounds of desertion. Her husband had been transferred to Townsville in 1928. Alice Chumleigh was living with her sister, Ethel Sells, who had divorced her own husband in 1922, in Marrickville in Sydney. Published resources Resource Section Chumleigh, Harold Vere (1880 - 1970), Fielding, Jean P. And Thyer, J. H. Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Alice Christina Lomax, Canberra pioneer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Catherine Bishop Created 8 January 2013 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letters to her when she was a senator for Western Australia. Detailed finding aid available (link below). Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Born in Claremont in 1915, acclaimed Australian painter and illustrator, Elizabeth Durack, achieved both fame and controversy during her lifetime. For most of her life, Durack’s success rested on her extensive body of paintings, drawings, and book illustrations, depicting outback life and Aboriginal settlements in Australia’s remote north-west and which reflected her childhood experience. In recognition of her service to art and literature, Elizabeth Durack was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1966 and the Order of St Michael & St George – Commanders (CMG) in 1982. In 1997 Elizabeth Durack achieved fame of a different kind when she exploded into media prominence upon admitting to entering work into Aboriginal art exhibitions under the name ‘Eddie Burrup’. Despite the controversy Durack continued to paint under the nom de brush ‘Eddie Burrup’ until two weeks before her death on 25 May 2000. Elizabeth Durack was born on the 6 July 1915, the daughter of one of the few old pastoralist families in the Kimberley region with a reputation for not shooting Aboriginal people in the 19th century. After a childhood in remote Western Australia, Elizabeth was educated at the Loreto Convent in Perth. In the mid 1930s she travelled to Europe where she studied at the Chelsea Polytechnic in London. Throughout her life Elizabeth Durack travelled widely in Australia, Africa, US, the Indian Ocean, Oceania, the Pacific and Asia, her extensive travels always providing inspiration and featuring prominently in her art. Elizabeth Durack’s early life on cattle stations in the northern Kimberley region of Western Australia unquestionably provided an inspiration for some of her earliest drawings which were published in The Bulletin in 1935. Both Elizabeth and her sister Mary were influenced by both the landscape and their encounters with Aboriginal people on station properties, something that is reflected in their collaborative and individual work. Elizabeth illustrated many books, which were published in conjunction with her sister, Dame Mary Durack. In 1939, Elizabeth Durack married Francis Clancy and moved to Sydney, but the marriage was short-lived and Elizabeth returned to Western Australia in the mid 1940s. In the 1950s and 1960s Elizabeth attained recognition for her work featuring the Miriuwong people in the Ord River area. She was one of the first white painters to adopt indigenous painting techniques in her work and began painting pictures on Aboriginal themes long before the Aboriginal art boom of the 1970s. The ‘Eddie Burrup’ controversy in 1997 supposedly stunned Elizabeth who was bewildered by the storm that erupted following her admission. Although it is true that her ‘Eddie Burrup’ confession was made voluntarily, by way of friend and art historian, Robert Smith, it was perhaps a little disingenuous of Elizabeth, given the contretemps surrounding issues of cultural appropriation at the time, to claim surprise at the heated response it received. If, as Smith says, Elizabeth’s decision to confess was made ‘because she feared the situation was getting out of hand’, it is hard to accept her naïve bewilderment about the ensuing controversy. Despite the tempest her confession wrought in the art world and beyond, Durack continued to paint under the nom de brush ‘Eddie Burrup’ until two weeks before her death. In recognition of her service to art and literature, Elizabeth Durack was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1966 and the Order of St Michael & St George – Commanders (CMG) in 1982. She died at her Perth home, aged 84, after a long battle with cancer on 25 May, 2002. She is survived by her two children, Michael and Perpetua. Published resources Resource Section Controversial artist Elizabeth Durack dies, Peacock, Matt, 2000, http://www.abc.net.au/am/s131252.htm Elizabeth Durack b.1915, http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/LW/waywewere/durack.html Power, Desire, Interest, Nicholls, Christine, 2000, http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/activities/conf_ab_masquerade.html Resource The Art of Eddie Burrup, Durack, Elizabeth and Clancy, Perpetua, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/2000/S2000-Aug-15/http://www.ozpages.com/eddieburrup/index.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Artist Elizabeth Durack dies after cancer battle, 2000 Obituary [Elizabeth Durack], 2000 Death of an artist and her alter ego [Elizabeth Durack], Day, Michael, 1995 A Critical Evaluation[Elizabeth Durack], Day, Michael, 1995 The Paintings of Elizabeth Durack, J.M.B., 1949 Book Seeing through Indonesia, Durack, Elizabeth, 1977 The art of Elizabeth Durack, Angus & Robertson, Durack, Elizabeth, 1982 Derivations and Directions: The Work of Elizabeth Durack 1930s to 1950s, Catalogue of Exhibition 9 March – 30 April 1995., Gooding, Janda, c1995 Notable Australians: the Pictorial Who's Who, Hamlyn, Paul, 1978 The International Who's Who of Women: A biographical reference guide to the most eminent and distinguished women in the world today, 1972 The Canker at the Core [motion picture], 1981 Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Contemporary Australians 1995/96, 1995 Edited Book Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book Section Caught up in the Signs of the Times?: Elizabeth Durack, Pedersen, Annette, 1999 Travel hopefully: The Duracks, Browning, Julie, 2002 Journal Obituary [Elizabeth Durack], Pederson, Annette, 2000/01 Journal Article Elizabeth Durack: Pictorial <i>Tachiste</i>, Hutchings, Patrick, 1963, https://westerlymag.com.au/digital_archives/westerly-82/ Obituary, Pederson, Annette, 2001 Conference Paper Elizabeth Durack/ Eddie Burrup: Reconciliation, art fraud and the limits of dominant Australian law, Behrendt, Larissa, 2001 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources Australian Dictionary of Biography Elizabeth Durack National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Elizabeth Durack interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] Elizabeth Durack interviewed by Helene Charlesworth for the Battye Library collection [sound recording] Australian National University Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts Sketch-books University of Western Australia Westerly Archives Curtin University of Technology, T L Robertson Library (WCU) Seeing through Indonesia / by Elizabeth Durak State Library of Western Australia Papers 1936-1981 [manuscript] Durack family papers, 1886-1991 [manuscript] The University of Melbourne Archives Rio Tinto Zinc Mining and Exploration Department Business Papers and Durack Lithographs Murdoch University [Irene Greenwood Library Resources Trust] : Food for Feminism Dinner, November 7th, 1986 Author Details Judith Ion Created 12 July 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Medal card of Forster, Laura Author Details Alannah Croom Created 25 December 2017 Last modified 25 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A fairytale with the ambivalence and logic of a dream. A Cinderella is plucked from a Fairy Training School and transported to the world of a writer’s imagination – Wagga Wagga, Australia.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 8864 comprises correspondence, diaries, notebooks, production files, scripts, sheet music, business papers, teaching notes, scrapbooks, press cuttings, theatre programs, magazines, ephemera and a sound recording. Correspondents include Ron Blair, Jennifer Compton, Barry Dickins, Bob Ellis, Nick Enright, Louis Nowra, Richard Wherret and David Williamson (23 boxes, 3 fol. Boxes).??The Acc09.208 instalment comprises theatre programmes for Nimrod Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare Company performances, some signed; 21 photographs, including John Bell in costume as Oedipus in 1958, Richard III in 1962 and ca. 1992, Hamlet in 1963 and William Wills in 1972; a studio portrait of Bell aged 18; and, photographs of Bell receiving his honorary doctorate from Newcastle University in 1994. There is a letter from Tony Gilbert to John Bell dated 13 June 1963 reviewing Bell’s performance of Hamlet. Also included are speeches given by Bell on various occasions, 1996-2006. There is a scrapbook compiled by Joy Bell, John Bell’s mother, containing press clippings, concert and theatre programmes, elocution test results, telegrams, letters, prize certificates and awards, photographs, children’s artwork and other Bell family ephemera. The collection also includes personal letters from John Bell to his sister Carmel Leonard. Three audio cassette tapes of interviews with Bell, including an interview with Glen Menzies about The comedy of errors in 1978 are included. Serials, including the Nimrod banner and theatrical advocate, the Nimrod banner, Theatre Australia, Theatre Australia supplement for Cyrano de Bergerac (1980) and the Australian magazine. There are also press clippings relating to John Bell, 1961-2007 (1 box, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers include a collection of letters from Melba to her sister ‘Tib” (Mrs T. A. Paterson), and her mother. Includes single letters to Tib from Melba’s mother and sister Clara, and other letters to Dame Nellie. There are four signed and inscribed portrait photographs, three other portrait photographs, and two postcards of Melba. Also includes an embroidered silk evening bag with the name “Nellie” picked out in spangles, and three commemorative programmes, printed on cloth (Royal Opera, Covent Garden, 23 June 1897; Royal Opera, Covent Garden, 11 June 1907; and Town Hall, Melbourne, 27 September 1902). Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lorraine Salmon was a successful businesswoman who worked in public relations and advertising after establishing a career as a script writer for the Australian Broadcasting Commission during the second world war. A longtime member of the Communist Party of Australia, she held the position of secretary of Actors’ Equity for some years. She travelled to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) with her husband, journalist Malcolm Salmon, in the late 1950s. She freelanced and assisted local media outlets to establish a presence, working, for instance, with her husband for the English-language service of Radio Hanoi. On her return from North Vietnam she resumed a business career but continued to pursue her literary interests, regularly reviewing new theatre productions. Lorraine Salmon learnt how to write during World War 2 when she took up script writing with ABC Radio and the Victorian Commercial radio station 3UZ. On the strength of this work, she was offered a position in the Rationing Commission in the Publicity Unit. She worked there until the commission closed in 1947. She says that in her first year with the commission, she produced ‘almost a million words’ communicating with the Australian public about issues relating to rationing. When the Commission was closed down she began working for ICI Australia and New Zealand conducting radio sessions. ICI had just developed the raising agent ‘Aerophos’ and Salmon, or Marjorie Carter, as she was known to her audience, a mythical home economist, used these sessions to explain, amongst other topics, the various ways that Aerophos could be used in cooking. These sessions were broadcast to a wide and diverse audience and Marjorie Carter became a household name. She worked for ICI for six years, before taking on the position of secretary at Actors Equity. Lorraine married her second husband, Malcom Salmon, in 1957 and travelled with him to North Vietnam. Pig Follows Dog is her account of her time there. Her aim was to portray the people of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam as something other than ‘communist hoards’. Events 1940 - 1965 Published resources Book Pig Follows Dog: Two Years in Vietnam., Salmon, Lorraine, 1960 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Salmon family - papers, 1927-1986, being mainly of Malcolm and Lorraine Salmon Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 20 May 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mena, Egypt. c.1915. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marie Kirk was a leading figure in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union both in Victoria and nationally and helped to establish the Victorian Union in 1887. She held numerous executive positions in the organisation. She was also a strong supporter of women’s rights, a member of the Victorian Women’s Franchise League, and helped to establish the National Council of Women of Victoria in 1902. She supported equal pay, raising the age of consent for girls, and also took a keen interest in the welfare of women prisoners and in the kindergarten movement. Kirk (nee Sutton) was born in London in 1855 and married Frank Kirk (an ironmonger and later bootmaker) in 1878. Reared as a Quaker, she worked as a missionary in London’s ‘slums’ and became active in the British Women’s Temperance Association. In 1886 she represented this group at a meeting held in Toronto to organise the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. She moved to Victoria that same year. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Section Temperate Feminists: Marie Kirk and the WCTU, Hyslop, Anthea, 1985 Newsletter The White Ribbon Signal: Official Organ of the Woman's Temperance Union of Victoria, 1891-1931 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition, Parliament of Victoria Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre Women's Suffrage Petition 1891 Author Details Jane Carey Created 14 December 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Atlantic Ocean. 1946-06. Major Deasey sewing on a victory contingent colour patch for Private Partridge VC, on board HMAS Shropshire en route to London. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1. Caroline Chisholm papers, c1833-c1953. 2. Dame Nellie Melba papers, c1885-c1920. Both papers on the same microfilm reel. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elly Barton lives in a barren suburban housing estate where there is only one tree left standing. Now the neighbours want to cut it down, but what no-one seems to understand is that it is Elly’s tree – and she is not going to let anybody touch it. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Copies of “Four Lights”, Vol. 1, No. 5 1941 – Vol. IX, No. 8, February 1950; publication list of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; pamphlets; miscellaneous publications. Author Details Clare Land Created 23 November 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Winifred Moore was a prominent Brisbane journalist in the early twentieth century. She edited the women’s section of The Brisbane Courier (later Courier-Mail), from the early 1920s through to the 1940s, and remained with the newspaper as a columnist until the early 1950s. In addition to her literary and arts interests, Moore was a founding member of the National Parks Association of Queensland. Although generally politically conservative, she had a keen interest in women’s affairs and a range of social welfare issues of the day. Winifred Moore was born in England but moved to Queensland (probably after both her parents died) to be raised by her elder sister in Ingham, North Queensland. She was a teacher of music, and travelled to her students by sulky. During the First World War, Moore joined the staff of the Daily Mail. In 1921, she was appointed Social Editress of the Brisbane Courier (later the Brisbane Courier-Mail). For two decades, Moore edited the women’s section for the paper, contributing her own anecdotes and observations in her column, ‘Between Ourselves’, under the pseudonym ‘Verity’. She remained a columnist for the paper until the early 1950s, and was responsible for the expansion of the Courier-Mail Christmas Toy Fund. Under Moore in the 1920s, the weekly women’s section of the Brisbane Courier – ‘Home Circle’ – combined London gossip, Paris fashion, recipes, poems and riddles, serialised novels, cartoons, domestic tips, news of Australians abroad, a children’s section, and a ‘how-to’ column with instructions for making everything from knitted slippers to ‘a pretty cretonne work-box which can be used also as a seat’. The section also included a political column of sorts, profiling prominent public personalities – from statesmen to sportsmen – in Australia and overseas. In November 1922, Sir Walter Edward Davidson, governor of New South Wales, was listed alongside the ‘picturesque and romantic figure’ of the Maharajah of Jaipur. Moore used her own column to discuss topical questions around women in parliament, women and marriage, and women’s organisations, or to offer personal anecdotes and tips in domestic economy. An early column discussed the proposed introduction of a League of Skilled Housecraft in England which, if successful, might be emulated in Queensland. Women could sit for an examination to demonstrate elementary knowledge of general housework skills (cooking, needlework etc), and go on to sit an advanced exam to receive a diploma, and full membership of the League: ‘It is believed that such a hallmark of efficiency will go far towards giving such women the status of their sisters who are certificated teachers or district nurses’, wrote Moore. By the 1950s, the Courier-Mail‘s ‘Women’s Interests’ section was a far more splashy affair, dominated by photographs of women engaged, married or going abroad. Its editor complained that ‘the ranks of Brisbane’s society girls are thinning out so quickly with the steady stream making for England, that soon it will be necessary to go overseas just to find out what Brisbane people are doing’. Pages were dedicated, magazine-style, to society gossip and fashion. A caption in February 1950 described the ‘unusual fashion accessory’ of one Mrs. John Down, who arrived at a supper party wearing a ‘fascinating cloche hat, complete with a full-size bird draped under her chin’. By this time Moore was no longer heading the section, but she continued to submit a weekly column on Wednesdays entitled ‘Speaking for Women’. Again, her discussion was wide-ranging. One week Moore was writing about the shortage of trained nurses, or the need for women to assert themselves in the workplace, and the next, she was illuminating her readers on the subject of vice-regal etiquette and how to present oneself. According to historian Patience Thoms, Winifred Moore ‘wrote as a woman, not a feminist, but as one conscious of the contribution women could make if they had the will’. Events 1920 - 1950 Published resources Book Section They Wrote as Women, Thoms, Patience, 1994 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource, 2002, http://www.austlit.edu.au/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon and Nikki Henningham Created 28 November 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Albums, drawings and photographs of the family of the family of James Atkinson and Charlotte Atkinson (born Waring), including their daughter Caroline Louise Waring Atkinson. Presented to the State Library of New South Wales by Janet Cosh in 1961, 1975 and 1981. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 5 August 2019 Last modified 5 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. 1943-03-22. V81999 Captain W. J. J. McGee, assisted by VF500148 Major A. R. Appleford, member of the Red Cross, MM; Assistant Controller of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS), Victorian Land and Communication Area, examining kit and records of members of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS) posted to operational areas. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1951 Dr Kate Campbell, a specialist in children’s diseases, was the first person to prove the link between retrolental fibroplasia (a blindness in premature babies) and oxygen levels in humidicribs. She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire (Dames Commander) on 1 January 1971 for services to the welfare of Australian children. Along with Norman Gregg she was co-winner of the first Encyclopaedia Britannica award for medicine in 1964. Dr Campbell had previously been recognised for her services to medical science when appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Commander (Civil) on 1 January 1954. The daughter of Donald and Janet (née Duncan) Campbell, Kate Campbell was awarded scholarships to attend both the Methodist Ladies College and the University of Melbourne, where she obtained her Bachelor of Medicine (MB), Bachelor of Surgery (BS) in 1922 and Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1924. Dr Campbell became resident medical officer at the Melbourne Children’s and later the Royal Women’s Hospitals. In 1927 she established a general medical practice and ten years later became a consultant paediatrician. Dr Campbell was appointed medical officer to the Victorian Baby Health Centre’s association, a position she held for over 40 years. She was also honorary paediatrician at the Queen Victoria Hospital (Melbourne) (1926-1965), consultant from 1965 and honorary paediatrician at the Royal Women’s Hospital (Melbourne) from 1965. From 1929-1965 Dr Campbell lectured in neonatal paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. Together with Vera Scantlebury Brown and A Elizabeth Wilmot she wrote the Department of Health’s Guide to the Care of the Young Child. In 1951, she wrote a paper on the cause of blindness in premature babies, for which she received worldwide recognition. A member of the Lyceum Club, Kate Campbell was also awarded an honorary LLD (Melbourne) in 1966. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 The Half-open door : sixteen modern Australian women look at professional life and achievement, Grimshaw, Patricia and Strahan, Lynne, c1982 Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Resource Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet.pdf Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book A guide to the care of the young child, infant and pre-school ages: for students of infant welfare, Brown, Vera Scantlebury, 1947 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 2003 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Section Campbell, Dame Kate Isabel, McCalman, Janet, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170180b.htm Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives The Half Open Door Scantlebury Brown, Vera (1889-1956) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 5843 consists of xerox copies of letters, principally from Angela “Nina” Spasshatt (ne?e Nixon), wife of Dr Percy Spasshatt of Tumut and Armidale, and others written to other members of her family who were living on the Tweed River, New South Wales, 1861-1876; a typescript essay titled “My early bush experiences, 1853-1874”, by Archibald W. Chapman; an indenture between Alexander McDonald and John McDonald of Uriarra Station dated 1869; details of the Nixon, Spasshatt and Dougan families dating from 1692-1878; a manuscript note by Bruce Moore on the history of Uriarra, 1973; miscellaneous items, mostly press cuttings which mention the Hyles family; a photocopy of the Chapman family tree; a day book labelled W.H. Wheatley, Goulburn, December 1911-February 1918; and, a typescript biography of Reverend Robert Chapman by Judith Fitz-Henry, 1988.??The collection also includes 44 black and white photographs (some as postcards) of Canberra in 1925 including views of the Cotter River prior to first dam, the spillway, Cotter power house, a ford on the Molonglo River, Duntroon House, a steam train used in the construction of Canberra, St John’s Church and School, Ainslie Presbyterian Church, St Ninian’s Church, and the Hall Hotel. There are also five photographs of the construction of Old Parliament House taken by one of the workmen, 1924-1925, and photographs of churches and memorials in Goulburn, Yass and Queanbeyan, 1925 (1 box, 1 fol. box). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 26 April 2017 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 4 September 2008 Digital resources Title: Mary Daly Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Research files created by Burgmann during the writing of Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the NSW Builders Labourers’ Federation. Includes correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, including records of NSW Branch of the Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 25 July 2017 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lauren Jackson is widely regarded as Australia’s greatest female basketball player ever. She has led the nation’s team, the Opals, to three silver medals at successive Olympic Games in Sydney (2000), Athens (2004) and Beijing (2008) and a much cherished bronze in London in 2012. She was chosen to carry flag for the Australian Olympic team in London in 2012, which was, she says, ‘the proudest moment of my sporting career’. Lauren Jackson is widely regarded as Australia’s greatest female basketball player ever. She has led the nation’s team, the Opals, to three silver medals at successive Olympic Games in Sydney (2000), Athens (2004) and Beijing (2008) and a much cherished bronze in London in 2012. She was chosen to carry flag for the Australian Olympic team in London in 2012, which was, she says, ‘the proudest moment of my sporting career’. Born in Albury, New South Wales, in 1981, Lauren Jackson says that at the age of four she had already hatched the plan that would take her to representing the Australia at the Olympics. While there is no doubt she had the genetic pedigree and family support to make the plan a reality (both her mother and father had represented Australia in basketball) it was her mental strength and determination combined with a deep love of the game that made the difference. By the time she was in Year 7 she knew she loved the game enough to want to leave home and attend the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). In 1997 at the age of 16 Jackson was awarded a scholarship to in 1997. In 1998, she led the AIS side that won the Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL) championship. In 2000, she was playing for the national team, the Opals, at the Olympic Games in Sydney. For the self-confessed homebody, the pathway early in her career was not always an easy one; she missed her home and family keenly. She also had a little bit of a chip on her shoulder about always being the youngest member in the team, that might have made her more aggressive at times than she needed to be. But the influence of her teammates helped her to settle in and to settle down. ‘The team back then was full of beautiful souls,’ she says. She was lucky to have ‘good hearted people like Rachel Sporn, and Sandy Bondello around her. Strong personalities like Michelle Timms and Robyn Maher were also very important to her development as well. Robin Maher, in particular was very strong willed and challenged her to be the best she could be. ‘My early days and the support I received from my teammates made my early years very, very special.’ Jackson joined the AIS in the same year that the U.S. Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) began competition (1997) so she knew that if she worked hard and the breaks fell her way, there was a professional pathway for her. She made herself available for the WNBA draft in 2001 and was an automatic first choice for Seattle Storm. She has been named as winner of the WNBA’s Most Valuable Player award for the Storm three times (2003, 2007 and 2010) and has helped them to victory in the national Championships in 2004 and 2010. She has also played in Spanish and Russian leagues throughout the course of her career, while remaining committed to the national team, always making herself available (when fit) for Olympic Games and World Championships. While never being able to claim the ultimate prize at the Olympic Games, in 2006 Jackson led the Opals to victory over Russia for the 2006 World Championship crown. In 2012 Jackson become the youngest person ever to score 6000 points in the WNBA, needing 32 games fewer than any others who have achieved the milestone. She claims that although she is proud of the achievement, it’s probably more meaningful to people other than herself, after all she was younger than most when she started playing. Christina Keneally, the CEO of Basketball Australia, thinks Jackson is selling her achievements short. ‘She’s the greatest player in the American league and the fact that she wants to play in Australia speaks volumes about her commitment to her country. It’s a great show of leadership’. Keneally was referring to Jackson’s decision to return to play for the Canberra Capitals in 2009 when discussing this commitment. Jackson returned to Australia to play out the 2009/10 season, a season that saw the Capitals win the National WNBL title and Jackson announced the Grand Final MVP. It was a very meaningful victory, one that she has not been able to replicate since, due to commitments overseas and frustrating injury problems. In an interview conducted in 2012, Jackson expressed her frustration: ‘Canberra has been my second home since she was 15. I want to be part of the community and help the team. I am looking forward to playing for a team I love in a city I love.’ Jackson admits that there have been sacrifices along the way, particularly in the area of her personal life. ‘True love and a family’ are hard to establish and sustain if you are a professional sportswoman playing a global sport. Thus far, she has chosen basketball over her personal life, but she has no regrets and believes there will still be time for her to pay attention to what she has missed out on, personally. Although hardly preparing to throw in the towel yet, Jackson is preparing for life after sport. Whilst on the playing circuit, she began a gender studies degree and found that the content just clicked with her, as she began working through how feminism informs her own decisions and how she can make a difference in life after basketball. She discovered that she wants to assist women suffering from domestic and sexual violence and is now a patron of the New South Wales Rape Crisis Centre. She wants to play a part in empowering women who need to make the decision to leave violent and abusive relationships, and hopes that associating her name with the organisation is an early, first step in that process. Lauren Jackson is arguably Australia’s greatest ever basketballer, although she would never accept the title without sharing the spoils with those who have supported her, especially her parents. ‘My mother gave up a lot for me,’ she says. ‘She was a real pioneer in the game as well.’ In her view, her central role in putting Australian basketball on the map globally would not have been visible without the talented players who have already surrounded her and nurtured her. To achieve any success, as an individual and as a leader, she says, ‘you have to have great people around you’. Events 2000 - 2000 Member of the Opals, the Australian Women’s Basketball Team 2004 - 2004 Member of the Opals, the Australian Women’s Basketball Team 2008 - 2008 Member of the Opals, the Australian Women’s Basketball Team 2012 - 2012 Member of the Opals, the Australian Women’s Basketball Team Published resources Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Resource Section Angela Pulvirenti interviews Australian Opal Lauren Jackson about her life in basketball and her experiences in and out of competition., Pulvirenti, Angela, 2013, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-08/inside-edge-lauren-jackson/4456976 Lauren Jackson, Gordon, Harry, 2012, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/athlete/lauren-jackson Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 March 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Lauren Jackson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE2380b.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) was established in Melbourne in 1972 by Beatrice Faust. She was inspired by feminists in the United States who had been rating presidential candidates. The organisation quickly spread to Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra and in 1978 WEL Australia was formed as a coalition of state, territory and regional groups. Primarily a women’s political lobby group, WEL surveyed political candidates and their policies affecting women, wrote submissions and developed media skills for women to lobby for the inclusion of women in the area of government policy. Originally the WEL campaign was based on six demands: equal pay, equal employment opportunity, equal access to education, free contraceptive services, abortion on demand and free 24-hour childcare."
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection includes correspondence (mostly with G.A. Bishop), research material, notes, cuttings, ephemera, printed material and other papers relating to the Federal Pacifist Council, conscientious objectors, War Resisters’ International, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Pacifist Movement of Victoria, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Peace Pledge Union, Religious Society of Friends, International Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Peacemaker and other pacifist and peace movements. Author Details Clare Land Created 23 November 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mrs W. B. MacDougall was a keen amateur photographer. She was active in the Girl Guide movement and lived on Aboriginal missions with her missionary husband. Mrs W.B. MacDougall was an avid amateur photographer who developed and printed her own photographs. When and where she developed an interest in photography is unclear; neither is it clear if she had any formal training. The location her photographic archive is uncertain. Some photographs may be part of the Walter Batchelor MacDougall Collection, held at the Museum of South Australia. MacDougall was said to be an attractive woman who loved flying and other activities. She was involved in the Girl Guide movement, as a Captain, Cubmaster and Scoutmaster. She set up a Girl Guide group for Aboriginal girls at the Port George IV Mission, c. 1934. Little is known of MacDougall’s early life, except that from 1928-1931 she lived in North Queensland, and then moved to Kunmanya Presbyterian Mission, Western Australia in 1931. She moved with her husband, the missionary Walter Batchelor MacDougall; the couple also spent time at the Port George IV Mission. The MacDougalls lived in Ernabella, in the north-west of South Australia, from 1940-1946. In 1947 Walter was appointed as the Native Patrol Officer at the Woomera Rocket testing range, while Mrs MacDougall worked as a teacher. In 1953 they moved to Emu and Maralinga during the atomic testing was conducted there. Photographs that Walter and possibly his wife created are part of the Walter Batchelor MacDougall collection held at the South Australian Museum. The MacDougalls moved to Victoria following her husband’s retirement in 1971. Collections Walter Batchelor MacDougall Collection, South Australian Museum Published resources Newspaper Article Hopes To Turn Abo. Girls Into Guides, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132005094 Australian Inland Mission, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32786166 Guiding in the North-West, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10942016 Resource Memories of Woomera, Whitburn, Nigel, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/20449/20020319-0000/homepage.powerup.com.au/_woomera/memor4.htm Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 29 November 2016 Last modified 29 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel was established as the Homecraft Hostel in 1929 by the Association of Headmistresses of Independent Schools of Victoria (now the Association of Independent Girls Schools of Victoria). (Source: University of Melbourne Archives) See Association of Heads of Independent Girls’ Schools of Victoria Published resources Book Feminine Singular: a history of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools of Australia, Hansen, D E and I V, 1989 A Woman's Place: A History of the Homecraft Hostel 'Invergowrie', Gardiner, Lyndsay, 1993 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Described as ‘one of the great treasures of the Bega Valley Shire’, Moira Collins has been involved in a broad range of issues and interests since she arrived in the district over fifty years ago. She was a winner of the Rural Woman of the Year award in 1997 for the South East district in New South Wales. She began her career in agriculture as a diary farmer with her husband Jim, and along the way re-instituted the Bega branch of the Australian Primary Producers’ Union in 1961. She serves as a member of the executive of the NSW Dairy Industry Conference and the Bega Dairy Farmers’ Action group. As well as being active in the politics of dairy farming for over 25 years, Moira Collins played an active role in other Bega community activities. She was on the Mumbulla Shire Council and, in the 1980s and the 90s, she campaigned strenuously to save the local forests from logging. In the 1970s, she and her husband Jim were instrumental in setting up the Tulgeen Group, an organisation that continues to provide services and opportunities for people with disabilities. Other services to the community include many years of service to the Bega District Hospital as a member, chair and vice-chair of the hospital board and membership of various committees and action groups that culminated in the announcement of a $100 million new hospital. She and her husband were founders of the Bega Valley Advocates for Timor Leste, with Moira continuing to serve as the secretary of that group. They have committed a great deal of time and money to this cause, selling their Bega Co-op shares to fund various projects. In 2009, Moira Collins was awarded a Bega Shire Medal. In 2010 she was named Bega Valley Shire Citizen of the Year. Events 1997 - 1997 2009 - 2009 2010 - 2010 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section 1997 ABC New South Wales Rural Woman of the Year Award Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/nsw.htm Article Bega valley shire medal, 2009, http://www.begadistrictnews.com.au/news/local/news/general/bega-valley-shire-medall/1592614.aspx Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 29 March 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Contents include correspondence and bookplates of Ella Dwyer and a collection of letters and works of Vera Dwyer, and newscuttings re the family. Letters of Vera and Capt. W. Coldham Fussell are Restricted??Include additional consignments:?MLMSS 1540 ADD-ON 94?MLMSS 1540 ADD-ON 100?MLMSS 1540 ADD-ON 649?MLMSS 1540 ADD-ON 700?MLMSS 1540 ADD-ON 718?MLMSS 1540 ADD-ON 1008 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hr 53 min 10 sec. Oral history. Audio cassette; TDK AD60; TDK AR100; two track mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Acquisition Focus: Records generated by the administrative body of the FCJ Sisters and institutions for which they are or have been responsible.??Major Holdings:?- In-house documents from Province administration of the FCJ Society. These may be restricted for public research?- Correspondence relating to the establishment and conduct of FCJ institutions or ministries?- Historical documents and letters?- Photos, videos, slides, audio cassettes/CDs, memorabilia reflecting the works of the Society?- Publications, newsletters, journals.??Heritage Room: Contains memorabilia connected to the life and mission of the Society. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 August 2009 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "40 minutes??Thelma Johnston was born in 1908 at Norton Summit and attended Norton Summit school until she was twelve years old. The family then moved to Adelaide and she went to the Methodist’s Ladies College. Thelma was interested in craft work such as china painting, jewellery, enamelling and spinning and weaving and during World war II did work for the Red Cross shop and afterwards the “Acorn” craft shop. She and her husband were members of the Royal Yacht Squadron and Legacy. During the war she set up a kindergarten for children sent down from the islands because of the fear of a Japanese invasion. She was also involved with Flower Day and coordinated the Lyceum Club flower roster for 4 years and worked for many years for Meals on Wheels. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joan Hammond on her return to Australia to star in “Salome” and “Madame Butterfly” during the Sydney opera season at the Elizabethan Theatre. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "In recognition of her philanthropy and social welfare work, Stevenson was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 31 December 1960, a Commander of the Order of the British Empire 8 June 1963 and a Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1968. Daughter of Hugh Victor McKay, the inventor of the combined harvester, Hilda Mabel was born at Ballarat and educated at Clarendon College and Presbyterian Ladies’ College. Her first marriage was in 1916 to Cleveland James Kidd (deceased 1923), and in 1936 she married Colonel George Ingram Stevenson. They were to have one daughter. Hilda Stevenson was for many years associated with the committee of management at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. Dates conflict but it is suggested that she was a member of the committee from 1938, and served as vice-president from 1951-73. In 1958, she donated £100,000 for the establishment of a Chair of Paediatrics at the hospital, to be administered by the University of Melbourne. Dame Hilda was a generous benefactor. She was founder and trustee of the Sunshine Foundation, which she chaired after the death of her brother Cecil. She gave significant sums to her alma mater, PLC, and to the Victorian Arts Centre as well as to the Children’s Hospital and the University of Melbourne. She was a member of the Alexandra and Peninsula Golf Clubs as well as the Lawn Tennis Association of Victoria. In recognition of her philanthropy and social welfare work, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 31 December 1960, a Commander of the Order of the British Empire 8 June 1963 and a Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1968. In 1973 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by the University of Melbourne in recognition, according to the Sun, of her involvement with the institution for several decades and her gifts to university projects including the Florey Laboratories and International House. An article in Woman’s Day, 3 September 1979, quipped ‘Dame Hilda’s a Starter in a Race for Equality (but she doesn’t want to be first across the line)’. Dame Hilda was, the magazine reported, the only woman member of the Victoria Racing Club to have full voting rights, but did not act on her entitlement to use the men-only bars and seating areas, saying ‘I think the men deserve their domain’: ‘Equality is not one of her strong beliefs’, said the magazine, ‘”Men are just born different”, she says’. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1983, Draper, W. J., 1983 Book The Royal Children's Hospital: A History of Faith, Science and Love, Yule, Peter The Alexandra Club : A Narrative 1903-1983, Starke, Monica, 1986 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Newspaper Article Dame Hilda's a starter in a race for equality (but she doesn't want to be first across the line), 1979 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Person Author Details Anne Heywood and Barbara Lemon Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 19 November 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Album documents activities of the Ski Club of Victoria including Victorian championship events at Mount Buffalo in 1930, the Sharpe Brown Cup events, 1930, skiing at the Bogong High Plains in 1930, at Mount Buffalo in 1931, at Mount Hotham in 1932, the Interstate and National championships at Mount Hotham in 1932, showing members of the New South Wales team, events in the Kosciusko region, skiing at Mount Feathertop, and a visit to Mount Hotham in 1934. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 April 2019 Last modified 30 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ruby Duncan was a social and political campaigner, particularly for women and children. She stood as an Independent candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Drummoyne in 1932. Ruby Duncan worked as a typist in an importer’s office. She campaigned, with Millicent Preston Stanley, for change in the law to give mothers equal guardianship of children. She was very involved with Housewives’ Progressive Association during period that membership grew from hundreds to 80,000. She also worked for alleviation of Depression distress among unemployed women, and on a scheme for placing women on small land holdings in buses with kitchenettes and verandahs for homes. She was the first President, and a life Vice President, of the League of Women Voters, which organization marked her 90th birthday with a reception in her honour. She died in Armidale, aged 98. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Michaela Fogarty was a once only candidate. She stood for the ALP in the 2003 elections to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Northern Tablelands. Michaela Fogarty moved from Kangaroo Island in South Australia where she was working as an eco-guide to Armidale in the New England region of NSW to study law (LLB). Originally trained as a teacher, Michaela has taught in primary and secondary schools in five states. She completed her law degree in 2002 and finished her legal training with the Kamilaroi Aboriginal legal Service. She had previously worked in hospitality, education and as a farm hand. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The archive consists of early Catholic Women’s Suffrage Society material as well as more recent accessions from the St. Joan’s International Alliance, both its own papers and those of Joan Morris, a prominent member.??St Joan’s Social and Political Alliance: minutes of the committee and the annual general meeting (1911-1952, 1958-1976, 1984-2004); copy minutes with some agendas and papers (1971-1989); Annual General Meeting report (1912, 1913, 1915, 1946) and attendance sheets (1946), agendas and draft minutes (1966-1979), agendas and other papers (1980-1983, 1988-1989); Accounts: annual (1967-1983), cashbook (1958-1973), petty cashbook (1955-1973, 1980-1983), Miscellaneous accounts ([c.1945], 1981-1983); membership mailing lists c1950-1990; biographical notes on members (1940-1984); notices of meetings and circulars; reports of meetings including northern branch (1973-1983), minutes and agendas of Merseyside branch (1959-1961); notes of arrangements for the papal visit and press release; newsletters, publicity leaflets, booklets, sample stationery; newspapers, menus, ephemera. St Joan’s International Alliance: Council meeting minutes, programmes, reports, papers, accounts, correspondence, resolutions (1968-1991, 1999); reports, correspondence and papers of committee and other meetings (1965-1966, 1978, 1981-1984, 1985, 1987-1989); copies of constitutions, by-laws and papers on amendments (c.1970-1982); newsletters, leaflets; correspondence files of officials (1969-1985); general correspondence; St Joan’s Quincentenary appeal, booklet and autograph volumes; awards certificates; correspondence, papers and press cuttings regarding film ‘The Tower and The Dove’ and supporting tour of the Far East; biographical notes; research notes, drafts, typescripts and translations of ‘The Hidden History of Women’; copies, drafts, notes, proofs, typescripts and illustrations for ‘Pope John VIII. An English Woman’, with lecture notes. Typescripts, research notes, copies of ‘The Pentecost’, ‘Dual Cathedrals in the Middle Ages’, ‘History of the Role of Women in Church Government’, ‘Women Doctors of the Church’ (with lecture notes), ‘Eucharistic Celebration by Women’, ‘The True tradition of Women in the Church’, ‘Women in Male Disguise; texts of lectures and published articles; research papers and notes on sources; reports on meetings.??Subject files on ordination of women, women in the Church, revision of canon law, liturgical language, women’s Action Day (1980), International Women’s Day, sex equality, abortion; Bulletin of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Section (1984-1986, 1989, 1990); accounts, mailing lists, correspondence, copies of articles sent for publication, paste-ups and editions (1987-1991) of The Catholic Citizen; publications of French, Belgian, Canadian and United States’ sections. Papers and correspondence regarding St Joan’s Alliance participation in United Nations Commissions and conferences including reports, leaflets, programmes, publicity materials and cuttings. Photographs of members and groups and illustrations; press cuttings, unmounted and in volumes. Newsletters, information sheets, papers, reports and conference reports, publications, periodicals and leaflets issued by other religious organisations and groups dealing with status of women. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 April 2004 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mosman, Sydney. 2 April 1966. A pre-dinner chat for Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) officers, left to right: Major Lucy Crane of Eastern Command, Sydney; Colonel Dawn Jackson, Director of WRAAC; Honorary Colonel May Douglas, WRAAC Honorary Colonel, and Major Dulcie Verender, Chief Instructor of the WRAAC. They were among fifty officers at a dining out night at the WRAAC Officer School, Mosman, in honour of Colonel Douglas, who retires this week. Guests at the dinner represented all States of Australia. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of meetings 1982-1884 and correspondence 1983-1984. Also copies of the Australian Federation of University Women, South Australian Branch newsletters 1984-1985. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Research papers compiled for the writing of ‘The WAAAF in Wartime Australia’. Includes correspondence, notes, photographs, scrapbooks, and contributions by former WAAAF members. (Item list available in box 1). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 June 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Judith Fletcher is remembered for being one of the first women portrait photographers to work in Sydney (along with May and Mina Moore) and to establish her own studio. Judith Fletcher was born on the 30 June 1886 in Katoomba, NSW, into a large family of five children. Fletcher’s father was the headmaster of Katoomba College and her mother, Ann Marion Fletcher, was an accomplished embroiderer. One of her mother’s embroideries, designed by Blamire Young, was exhibited in the 1907 Women’s Work exhibition in Melbourne and won first prize in its section. Her mother’s embroidery skills were passed on to Judith as she was growing up. The family moved from Katoomba to Greenwich, Sydney, where Fletcher lived until her marriage. Fletcher’s involvement with photography was initially as an amateur. She developed a range of technical skills, and studied aspects art photography while exhibiting in photographic salons. Fletcher became a professional photographer in 1908 and worked in her North Shore studio from 1905-1930. APR reported her successful transition from amateur to professional in 1908, praising in particular her ‘at-home portraits especially of women and children’ (cited in Hall 37). Fletcher later established herself amongst the socialites of Sydney, and made important connections with artists such as Arthur Streeton, whom she photographed. Fletcher also associated with photographers including Frank Bell, and Mina and May Moore. From 1916-1918 Fletcher was advertising her ‘art photography’ and George Street studio in Sydney Ure Smith’s publication, Art in Australia. The advertisements featured full-page photographic portraits of celebrities and socialites. Fletcher was also a fashion photographer. During the 1920s Fletcher worked from her Greenwich home; she continued to participate in photographic salons until the 1930s. Her photographs were published in The Australian Women’s Weekly, The Sydney Mail, The Sunday Times and The Land from the 1920s-1930s. Fletcher was a theosophist and during the 1920s became involved in in the Krishnamurti Star Movement amphitheatre at Balmoral Beach. She married Gerard Paszek, a Polish violinmaker, before the outbreak of WW2. They initially lived in Mount Kuringai, and later moving to Glenorie. After her wedding Fletcher maintained little connection with her old friends and associates, as her husband was said to be ‘an extremely possessive man’ (Design and Art Australia). Judith Fletcher died in 1971 Sydney, NSW Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales National Library of Australia State Library of New South Wales Events 1907 - 1930 1903 - 1904 Judith Fletcher exhibited in a variety of salons prior to 1905. 1995 - 1995 Judith Fletcher’s work was featured in Beyond the Picket Fence Published resources Resource Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women's Art in the National Library's Collection, Carr, Sylvia and National Library of Australia, 1995, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/36337/20030703-0000/www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fence/picket.html Resource Section Judith Fletcher, 1995, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ann-judith-fletcher/biography/? Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Book Section Judith Fletcher, Newton, Gael, 1995 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Archival resources National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive [Judith Fletcher : Art & Artist Files ( Australia and New Zealand)]. Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 22 November 2016 Last modified 15 December 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection includes: newsletters; correspondence; draft constitution; submissions; and press cuttings. A Guide is available at the repository. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 2 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Diaries, brochures, receipts, tickets and correspondence written and collected by Anne Von Bertouch while travelling in Europe between 1975 and 1978. Also, one bon voyage card with original artwork. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection comprises a small number of exhibition catalogues including some annual exhibition catalogues for the Society of Women Painters, solo and group exhibitions by Stephens and other artists; invitation cards, calling cards, programmes and notices, correspondence, loose press clippings and one large scrapbook of press clippings. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 April 2019 Last modified 30 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Dowson speaks of her family background; childhood memories of Perth and country Western Australia; school memories; the Depression; local area and community of Peppermint Grove; business college; employment experiences; recreation and entertainment; lifestyle; interest in and involvement with dance and dance teaching. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour??Lucy Retalic was born in 1910. Her mother was in the Red Cross and during WWI Lucy performed in concerts when she was 4 years old. She went to St Peter’s Girls’ School and joined Heather Gell’s Eurythmic classes after school. Miss Gell staged shows at the Tivoli theatre. Lucy became a kindergarten teacher and her first appointment was at the Riverside school. She became Director of the Lavis Kindergarten in Adelaide and then left teaching to work with doctors in Melbourne. In 1937 she went to England to work with ophthalmologists for 15 months. She returned home via Europe and during World War II worked with the RAAF trainee pilots to pass their eye tests. She married in 1948. Lucy was involved in the circles in the Lyceum Club and was leader of the Garden Circle. Lucy did a lot of overseas travel which she enjoyed. Lucy worked with ophthalmologists to provide screening for people in outback Australia to identify eye disease. This was organised through the Lions Club Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Archives contain records, generated by the general administrative body of the Dominican Sisters, the Sisters themselves, and the ministries of the Sisters since 1867. They take the form of papers, photographs, slides, films, videos, DVDs, legal documents, plans, maps and artefacts. There is also a large collection of digitised photographs.??There are limited records, in the form of enrolment registers, annals and some photos, for St Mary’s Maitland, Star of the Sea Newcastle, St Mary’s Elm Court, Moss Vale, All Hallows College Bathurst, St Dominic’s Priory Tamworth, School for Deaf Girls Waratah, St Mary’s Delgany School for the Deaf Portsea, St Lucy’s School Homebush – schools which no longer exist.??The holdings include no files relating to the professional history of staff members of the schools and colleges currently sponsored or previously administered by the Sisters. Similarly, the Congregational Archives do not contain personal records of past or present students of these institutions. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 August 2009 Last modified 11 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Constitution (1894); minutes (1894-1981); correspondence and files (1897-1954); invitations (1899-1944, mostly 1899-1902); manuscripts on history of the Club; newspaper cuttings (1894-1944); other miscellaneous records. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 July 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Nash-Boothby was a professional photographer known for her portraiture studies and her high society clientele. Elizabeth Nash-Boothby was born c.1890 into a middle class Methodist family of six girls and three boys, in Camden, NSW. She did not like being called Alma and was nicknamed ‘Gran’ by her brother due to her quiet and sedate manner (Marshal 1), as well as her ‘stately airs’ (Australian Women Photographers 24). Initially the family moved to Cootamundra where it became evident that she had above-average abilities and wanted to pursue a career as a musician, with an intention to study abroad. Her father did not believe in women furthering their education and her mother was not keen on her leaving, so the family moved to Sydney to provide her with greater opportunities as a musician as she was a talented piano player. During 1908-1909 Nash-Boothby travelled to Fiji to teach the girls in one of the mission stations. She kept a diary of her life there, recording her observations of the inequalities experienced by the natives, the Indian Fijians and the collies. She was particularly concerned by the exploitation of women. She returned to Fiji in 1910 and was greatly influenced by the humane and farsighted opinions of Rev. J. W. Burton, who provided her with a solid grounding in politics and the economics of colonialism. On her return to Sydney she was not satisfied with being a ‘home girl’ and wanted to pursue a career of her own. She moved to Melbourne where she trained as a portrait photographer at Mina Moore’s studio in 1913 and also worked at Ruth Hollick’s studio. Nash-Boothby went on to set up her own studio, the Nash-Boothby Studio at 361 Collins Street, Melbourne, which attracted the ‘cream of Melbourne society’ as well as glamorous actors from J. & N. Tait Productions (Australian Women Photographers 24). She also took numerous photographs of soldiers who were heading off to war. She was well known for her portraiture, which had been greatly influenced by her training with Mina Moore; it was said that her work was ‘modern with crisper, cleaner outlines.’ Her photographs appeared in magazines and newspapers of the time, including The Age, Table Talk, Punch, and The Argus; these were used as part of advertisements and to illustrate articles. They were also used in a number of publications of music scores. The American actor Guy Bates Post, as well as Sara Allgood from Dublin’s Abbey Theatre encouraged her to move to the USA, claiming her talents were being wasted in Australia. She had started making plans for her trip when she met Eric Marshall in 1916, and the following year, on 15 March 1917, they married. Nash-Boothby cancelled her travel plans, and the couple remained together for 47 years. Soon after her marriage she ceased her photographic work, settling in Camberwell, a leafy eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. Here, she turned her focus and energy into becoming an activist and socialist. She was a member in a number of community groups, assisting and organising the unemployed (in particular women) during the Depression. She was involved in advocating, and rallied against the Australian Government’s post-war deportation of Indonesian nationals. Nash-Boothby also was actively involved in the foundation of the Australia-China Society. Elizabeth Nash-Boothby died in 1964. Collections National Gallery of Australia Part of Eric Milton Nicholls collection [picture]. [c.1910-1966] National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3700063-s7 (Last accessed 7 Oct 2015) Events 1913 - 1918 2000 - 2000 Elizabeth Nash-Boothby’s work featured in Mirror with a Memory: Photographic Portraiture in Australia 1981 - 1981 Elizabeth Nash-Boothby’s work featured in Australian Women Photographers Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book That Soothing Serenade was Just Written for me., De Costa, Harry, 1918 Dumpty-deedle-dee-dum-dee, Donaldson, Walter and Crane, Hal, 1918 By the Big Blue Billabong: Australian Rag, Hall, Frederick, Cole, P. C. And Nash-Boothby, Elizabeth, 1919 It Pays to be White, Marshall, Eric, 1973 Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Mirror with a memory: photographic portraiture in Australia, Batchen, Geoffrey and Ennis, Helen, 2000 Resource Section Elizabeth Nash-Boothby, http://www.daao.org.au/bio/elizabeth-nash-boothby/ Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 15 November 2016 Last modified 15 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence received by the General Secretary of the Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia from P.J. Sheehan concerning the Clothing Trades (1957) Award. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 December 2017 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Typescript drafts, with manuscript corrections, of a story for children by Vera G. Dwyer, entitled Children of the Shoe, later changed to The House that Dad Built. One of the three drafts is incomplete. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc03.266 comprises files of correspondence and papers concerning Guy Boyd, Donald Friend and Noel Counihan; drafts of several books by Anne von Bertouch, including a manuscript of Before it was a gallery; extensive diaries, reports, correspondence, memorabilia and photographs concerning the First Fleet Re-enactment of 1987-1988, and von Bertouch’s 1991-1992 circumnavigation of the world in the “Soren Larsen” (1 box, 5 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jenny Mulholland stood as an Independent candidate in the Legislative Assembly seat of Ivanhoe at the Victorian state election, which was held on 25 November 2006. Elected in 2000 Jenny Mulholland is a Councillor representing the Banyule City Council and served as Mayor from 2003-04 and Deputy Mayor in 2005. She is serving as a committee member of the Victorian State Executive of the Australian Local Government Women’s Association from 2008-10. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 13 August 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The bulk of the material about the Women’s Collective comes from administrative files kept by the Union. This includes affiliation forms, membership lists, minutes of annual general meetings, reports on activities, and financial statements. The Archives also holds audio recordings of a seminar held by the Collective in August 1977 on “Women and Health”. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 3 September 2009 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Draft manuscripts of book ‘We answered the call’ by Eileen Tucker (nee Reilly), a history of the Western Australian Branch of Australian Women’s Army Service during Second World War (approx. 190 pages) – published 1991. Includes research materials, correspondence, references and biographical notes. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 June 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lilias Lenne specialised in darkroom work. She also photographed weddings, and is said to have been the first photographer to fully document weddings. Lilias Lenne was the only daughter of Hugh Lenne from Ardmona (near Shepparton), Victoria, and Mrs I. Lenne of Hepburn Springs, Victoria. They lived at ‘Guilford’ house in Ardmona. Lenne was educated at Merton Hall in Melbourne, where photography was taught as a subject. After attending a photography demonstration given by a Kodak representative Merton Hall, Lenne became so inspired to follow a photographer’s career path that she decided to leave school. She enrolled in a secretarial course at the Melbourne Technical College but decided that she would prefer to study photography instead. Lenne particularly enjoyed darkroom work. After completing her studies in 1941, Lenne gained employment working as a printer at Athol Shmith’s studio. She also found work with Ron Cowan. Lenne joined the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) in 1942 and worked for the army as a printer. She also worked as a freelancer, photographing women and servicemen’s families. Following the war she opened up her own studio in Hepburn Springs, where she specialised in wedding photos and children’s portraits. Lenne is thought to be the first photographer to fully document weddings. In 1949 she married the photographer Clement Stewart Scale in Melbourne. They couple opened a studio together in Footscray. Lenne gave up her work at the studio after the birth of her first baby due to concerns about the health risks about infant exposure to darkroom chemicals. However, Lenne continued to take photographs, and also made Super 8 films and videos of her family. Collections Private Collections Events 1941 - Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Family Notices: College Chapel Wedding, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22762550 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 22 November 2016 Last modified 22 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Oodgeroo Noonuccal was born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, on Minjerribah (the Stradbroke Islands). Oodgeroo Noonuccal means Oodgeroo of the tribe Nunuccal; spelling variations include Nunuccal, Noonuckle and Nunukul. In 1970, Oodgeroo Noonuccal (under the name Kathleen Walker) was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for services to the community. She returned it in 1987 in protest against the forthcoming Australian Bicentenary celebrations (1988). Oodgeroo Noonuccal has written about her life and work in several publications, including a short account in Roberta Sykes’s 1993 Murawina: Australian women of high achievement. In addition, extremely numerous publications by and about Oodgeroo Noonuccal are available in most libraries. Janine Little has compiled a bibliography of Oodgeroo’s verse, prose and other works, reviews and critical works on her work, obituaries, and audiovisual and performance material featuring Oodgeroo. See ‘Oodgeroo: A Selective Checklist’ in Oodgeroo: a tribute (Shoemaker (ed), 1994). Oodgeroo Noonuccal was born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska on 3 November 1920, on North Stradbroke Island, country of the Noonuccal tribe. She attended Dulwich Primary; left school and became a domestic in Brisbane at the age of 13. As an Aboriginal person, she said, ‘there wasn’t the slightest possibility of getting “a better job” [even] if you stayed on at school’ ( Murawina, 1993). Oodgeroo served in the Australian Women’s Army Service (1942-1944). She published her first book of poetry, We Are Going, in 1964, going on to become a trailblazer in published Aboriginal writing in Australia. Oodgeroo was Queensland State Secretary of FCAATSI for ten years in the 1960s and from 1972 was managing director of the Noonuccal-Nughie Education Cultural Centre on Stradboke Island. Throughout her life, she was a renowned and admired campaigner for Aboriginal rights, promoter of Aboriginal cultural survival, educator and environmentalist. She stood as the Australian Labor Party member for the electorate of Greenslopes in the 1969 State election. Although voting rights had only been in place four years, Oodgeroo decided it was time to ‘[s]how our black faces in parliament.’ Oodgeroo’s work has been recognised by numerous awards, including the Mary Gilmore Medal (1970), the Jessie Litchfield Award (1975), the International Acting Award and the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Award. She also held an honorary doctorate of letters (Macquarie University) and was awarded the degree of Doctor of the University from Griffith University. In 1970, Oodgeroo (under the name Kathleen Walker) was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for services to the community. She returned it in 1987 in protest against the forthcoming Australian Bicentenary celebrations (1988). It was around this time that she reclaimed her traditional name, Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal Tribe. Oodgeroo originally accepted the nomination as MBE after discussing the honour with members of the Brisbane Aboriginal community who felt that acceptance of the honour could ‘open doors that were still closed to the Aborigines’ (‘Why I am now Oodgeroo Noonuccal’, Age, 1987). However, Oodgeroo came to reconsider her acceptance. In her own words: ‘Since 1970 I have lived in the hope that the parliaments of England and Australia would confer and attempt to rectify the terrible damage done to the Australian Aborigines. The forbidding us our tribal language, the murders, the poisoning, the scalping, the denial of land custodianship, especially our spiritual sacred sites, the destruction of our sacred places especially our Bora Grounds … Next year, 1988, to me marks 200 years of rape and carnage, all these terrible things that the Aboriginal tribes of Australia have suffered without any recognition even of admitted guilt from the parliaments of England … From the Aboriginal point of view, what is there to celebrate?… I have therefore decided that as a protest against what the Bicentenary ‘Celebrations’ stand for, I can no longer, with a clear conscience, accept the English honour of the MBE and will be returning it to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England, through her representative, the Queensland State Governor, Sir Walter Campbell.’ Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Australia 1980, Draper, W. J., 1980 Resource Section OODGEROO NOONUCCAL (Kath Walker), 2002, http://www.abc.net.au/btn/australians/noonucca.htm Guide to the Papers of Craig Powell, Diehm, K., 2000, http://www.lib.adfa.edu.au:85/web/speccoll/finding_aids/powell.html WALKER, KATHLEEN JEAN MARY, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2003, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=97434 Book Murawina : Australian women of high achievement, Roberta Sykes ; photography by Sandy Edwards, 1993 The black Diggers : Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War, Hall, Robert A., 1997 The matriarchs: twelve Australian women talk about their lives to Susan Mitchell., Mitchell, Susan, 1987 Aboriginal betrayal poster : land rights (makarrata) [Poster], Kath Walker [Oodgeroo Nunuccal], 1981 Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal, custodian of the land Minjerribah [sound recording; broadcast on 3/1/1994], Stuart, Ellen and Remedio, Theresa, 1994 Shadow sister [motion picture], Frank Heimans; Geoff Burton; Jenny Baird Nussinov, 1977 Kath Walker: This is your life. Series 6 ; ep. 1 [videorecording], 1980 Dream Time Machine Time [videorecording], Joanna Penglase; Don Featherstone, 1987 Fringe Dwellers, Bereford, Bruce; Oodgeroo Nunuccal [actor and script consultant], 1986 Australian literature : an historical introduction, McLaren, John, 1989 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Australia's unwritten history : more legends of our land, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, c1992 The dawn is at hand : poems, Kath Walker [Oodgeroo Noonuccal], 1966 Father Sky and Mother Earth, Kath Walker [Oodgeroo Noonuccal], 1981 Legends of our land, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, c1990 My people, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1990 Quandamooka, the art of Kath Walker, Ulli Beier, 1985 The Rainbow serpent, Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Kabul Oodgeroo Noonuccal, c1988 The spirit of Australia, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1989 Towards a global village in the southern hemisphere, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1989 Stradbroke dreamtime, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1993 We are going, Kath Walker [Oodgeroo Noonuccal], 1964 Talkin' up to the white woman : Aboriginal women and feminism, Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, 2000 You'll be sorry!, Howard, Ann, 1990 Some Aboriginal women pathfinders : their difficulties and their achievements, Beeson, Margaret J (compiled by), [1980] The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Newspaper Article Kath Walker makes a stand in the sitting-down place [Oodgeroo Nunucccal], Roberts, G., 1987 The struggle goes on. -In death as in life, controversy continues to surround Oodgeroo Noonuccal-, Roberts, Greg, 1993 Kath Walker, activist, artist finds a new medium for her cause. - playing the old woman in the film <I>The Fringe Dwellers</I>, Neller, Shelley, 1985 It's 'bloody minded revenge', says Kath Walker. - Queensland State Lands Administration refuses to alter tenure of land on Moongalba Reserve-, Roberts, Greg, 1984 Utopia Australia [Series of six parts] Part 6: A republic in which we all share. -Interview with Kath Walker-, Broadbent, David, 1983 Neville Bonner takes on the role of elder, Stokes, Charles, 1982 Born to be a poet: 1982 James McAuley Memorial Lecture: Kath Walker. - Interview-, Errey, Howard, 1982 Stradbroke dreamtime and beyond: conversations with Kath Walker at Moongalba, Shiels, Rosa; Leimbach, Claire, 1981 Kath Walker and the bridge to the Dreamtime, Barnes, Mick, 1980 Why I am now Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Oodgeroo Nunuccal, 1987 Poet swaps name in protest, Roberts, Greg, 1987 Honours for Aborigines, 1971 Details of pioneers in Aboriginal movement., Horner, Jack, 1972 Aboriginal Writers in Australia, Beston, John B., 1976 Journal Article They spoke out pretty good: the leadership of women in the Brisbane Aboriginal rights movement, 1958/ 1962, Darling, Elaine, 1996 The role of teachers in the Year of Indigenous People: Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal (Kath Walker) interviewed by Rhonda Craven, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1994 Obituary: Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal, Collins, John, 1994 Oodgeroo as friend and artist, Beier, Ulli, 1994 Oodgeroo in China, Nicholas Jose, 1994 From Kath Walker to Oodgeroo Noonuccal?: ambiguity and assurance in My People, Eva Rask Knudsen, 1994 Oodgeroo Noonuccal/Kath Walker 1920/ 1993. [Obituary], Cochrane, Kathleen J., 1993 The poetry of Oodgeroo. -With poem \"Mudrooroo Remembers Oodgeroo\"-, Page, Geoff; Mudrooroo, 1993 Kath Walker: an extraordinary life. -An interview by Christine Hogan-, Hogan, Christine, 1987 I used my art for sanity's sake. -Comments on the author's drawings-, Walker, Kath [Oodgeroo Nunuccal], 1986 Kath turns to painting. -Poet Kath Walker-, 1985 Looking at Australia from both sides of the fence. - Article based on an address given to an \"Action for Aboriginal Rights\" meeting in Melbourne-, Walker, Kath [Oodgeroo Nunuccal], 1985 Harmony in education. -Excerpts from an address to Action for Aboriginal Rights-, Walker, Kath [Oodgeroo Nunuccal], 1985 Where are my first born?: Aboriginal education. - Transcript of the Charles Joseph La Trobe Memorial Lecture for 1983-, Walker, Kath [Oodgeroo Nunuccal], 1984 A showpiece for what?: the Commonwealth Games, Tweedie, Penny, 1982 A look at the seventies, Walker, Kath [Oodgeroo Nunuccal], 1979 Kath Walker at Moongalba: making the new dreamtime, Lauer, Margaret Read, 1978 Interview: Kath Walker, Davidson, Jim, 1977 The Aboriginal poets in English: Kath Walker, Jack Davis, and Kevin Gilbert, Beston, John, 1977 Oodgeroo: A Selective Checklist, Janine Little, 1994 Citizenship as Non-discrimination: Acceptance or Assimilation? Political Logic and Emotional Investment in Campaigns for Indigenous Rights in Australia, 1940 TO 1970, Lake, Marilyn, 2001 Book Section Oodgeroo Noonuccal: writer, poet and educator, Oodgeroo Nunuccal, 1990 Kath Walker. -An Aboriginal writer: interview by Candida Baker-, Candida Baker, 1987 'Recording the cries of the people': an interview with Oodgeroo (Kath Walker). -Edited version of an interview conducted 28 Jan 1988-, Oodgeroo Noonuccal; Gerry Turcotte, 1988 Aboriginal women and economic ingenuity [Changing white perceptions of Aboriginal culture and the role of women in that culture], Langton, Marcia; Barry, Kristen, 1998 Aboriginal women, Richards, Michaela, 1988 Recollections, Walker, Kath [Oodgeroo Noonuccal], 1987 Outsiders: Aboriginal women, Barwick, Diane, 1969 Journal Oodgeroo, a tribute, Adam Shoemaker, 1994 Resource Guide to the Papers of Frank Hardy, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-415824983/findingaid Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Worth Fighting For!, Fryer Library with research by Yorick Smaal, 2005, https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20050708180233/http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/worth_fighting/ Conference Proceedings Reports and resolutions, Conference on Aboriginal Affairs (8th : 1965 : Canberra, A.C.T.), 1965 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Papers related to the publishing of The Spirit of Australia, [1988?]-1989 Papers relating to Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poems, [manuscript] Oodgeroo Noonuccal Papers Kath Walker interviewed Special Collections, Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA Craig Powell manuscript collection National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Frank Hardy, 1931-1988 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Kath Walker interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] The University of Melbourne, Special Collections Aboriginal charter of rights / by Kath Walker National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Oodgeroo Noonuccal, poet, conservationist and Aboriginal community worker, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Aboriginal National Theatre Trust Limited - files, 1902-1991 AIATSIS Books and Printed Material Collection The Aussie image : the language of the image makers Author Details Clare Land Created 26 August 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Teacher, kindergarten activist, and philanthropist, Ada Mary a’Beckett was born in Adelaide in 1872. Throughout her career she worked as a demonstrator and lecturer in biology at the University of Melbourne as well as teaching at various schools throughout Victoria. She was very closely involved in the kindergarten movement, helping to establish the Kindergarten Training College in Kew. Ada was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 3 June 1935, and had a kindergarten named after her the following year. She died in 1948 in Melbourne. Ada Mary a’Beckett was born in Norwood, Adelaide on 18 May 1872. She was educated at the Advanced School for Girls in Adelaide. Between 1893 and 1900 Ada worked as a teacher at several different girls schools in the Melbourne and Geelong area as well as at the Working Men’s College. During part of this time she was also a student at the University of Melbourne, where she was awarded the Wyselaskie scholarship in natural science (biology) and the final honours scholarship in biology. She was Annie Grice Scholar in 1892-1893 and a founder of the Victorian Women Graduates’ Association. She graduated with a BSc (1895) and a MSc (1897). Ada maintained strong ties with Melbourne University throughout her life, working there for varying periods as a demonstrator and lecturer in biology – especially during World War I. From 1912 until 1920 she also worked as teacher at the Church of England Girls’ Grammar School in Melbourne. In 1921 Ada was appointed head of the biology department at Scotch College, a position she held until 1937. She had a significant impact on her students, many of whom entered medicine or allied professions. Ada’s involvement in the kindergarten movement began in 1908 when she was elected a foundation president of the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria. In 1916 Ada helped establish the Kindergarten Training College in Kew. Between 1920 and 1923 she helped develop the training course there for kindergarten teachers and lectured in physiology and hygiene. Ada was also the resident of the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria from 1919 to 1939; and the president of the Kindergarten Training Council from 1926 to 1939. In 1936 she founded the Australian Association for Pre-School Child Development. In 1935 Ada was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her philanthropic work and in 1942 had a kindergarten at Fisherman’s Bend named after her. She died of cancer in Melbourne in 1948. Published resources Journal Article Obituary: Ada A'Beckett, 1948 Article Women's Views and News: The Woman's Part, Mrs T. a'Beckett, 1927, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3838849 Obituary: Mrs A. M. a'Beckett, 1948, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22539782 Edited Book Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Resource Section à Beckett, Ada Mary (1872-1948), Marginson, Julie, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070005b.htm A'Beckett, Ada Mary (nee Lambert) (1872 - 1948), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000996b.htm Book A historical sketch: The growth and development of the Free Kindergarten Movement of Victoria, a'Beckett, Ada Mary, 1939 Degrees of liberation : a short history of women in the University of Melbourne, Kelly, Farley, 1985 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives University of Melbourne. Office of the Registrar Registrar's Correspondence Institute of early childhood development The Ian Potter Museum of Art Mrs T.A. a' Beckett, CBE, MSC Author Details Judith Ion Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 9 October 2003 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Shauna Forrest is a longstanding environmentalist and member of the Australian Greens Party. She was their electoral candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Lane Cove in 2003 and for the Lane Cove Municipal Council in 2004. At the time of her campaign, Shauna Forrest had lived in the Lane Cove area for 22 years and was well known in environment protection groups for her work as publicity officer of the Lane Cove Bushland and Conservation Society. She coordinated the bush regeneration project at Greenwich Public School and was a founding member of the Lane Cove Women’s Action and Information Group. She was active in the successful campaign to save “Nutcote”, May Gibbs’ house, from redevelopment and open it to the public. She is the mother of four children, and in 2003 was studying politics and anthropology at Macquarie University. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 8 December 2005 Last modified 14 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pauline Griffin was a Commissioner of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission from 1975 to 1990 and a member of the Australian National University Council from 1978 to 1998. She was chair of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation in the 1980s and a member of the 4th National Women’s Consultative Council in the 1990s. Pauline Griffin was born on 21 December 1925 in Sydney. She attended Abbotsleigh School in Wahroonga, completing her leaving certificate in 1942. She graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in 1946 and a Diploma of Social Studies in 1947. She began her career as a social worker with the Local Board of Health, City of Adelaide in 1947 and then moved to the Commonwealth Department of Immigration in Sydney from 1949 to 1951. In 1953 she became a personnel officer, later personnel manager at Bradmill Industries Limited, where she worked for the next twenty years. The then Managing Director and Chairman (and later, Chancellor of the University of New South Wales), Sir Robert Webster was a pioneer in the 1940s in the appointment of women to management and technical positions. She undertook further studies in personnel and production management at the Sydney Technical College in 1954 and in industrial administration at the University of Melbourne in 1956. She participated in HRH the Duke of Edinburgh’s Second Commonwealth Study Conference in Canada in 1962, an International Conference on Social Work in Brazil also in 1962, and an OECD meeting on the problems of women workers held in Paris in 1973. Pauline Griffin took up the position of personnel manager at Ethnor Pty Ltd in 1973 but left in 1975 on her appointment as a Commissioner of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (from 1988, the Industrial Relations Commission) where she served until retiring in December 1990. During her time with the Commission she served on a number of government committees: 1976-1979 as a member of the Commonwealth Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, and 1982-1986 as Chair of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. She attended an ILO Panel Meeting in Geneva in 1974 and was an adviser to the Australian government delegation to the International Labour Conference in Geneva in 1985 on discrimination in employment. From 1990 to 1993 she was a member of the Fourth National Women’s Consultative Council and from 1992 to 1997 a member of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s National Advisory Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. She also served as a member of the Management Committee for Barnardos Australia (1981-1997), as a councillor and honorary fellow of the Institute of Personnel Management, NSW Division, as a board member of Zonta International, Sydney Branch, as Patron of the Industrial Relations Society of NSW (1994-1999) and was a member of the Board of Directors, Australian-American Educational Foundation (Fulbright Foundation) from 1994 to 1999. Her involvement with the Australian National University began with her appointment to the ANU Council in 1978 and she served in that capacity until 1998. Her committee memberships from 1990 to 2000 included being a member of the Higher Degrees Committee, the Governing Body of Fenner Hall, the Appeals Committee (Deputy Chair and Chair), and the Buildings and Grounds Committee. She took a lead role in the organisation of the University’s 50th anniversary celebrations in 1996 as Chair of the Public Affairs Committee. She was elected Pro-Chancellor in 1991 and continued in that position until 1998 which also marked the end of her appointment as an ANU Council member and her election as an Honorary Fellow of University House. She was appointed by the NSW Government as a Senior Executive Service Grievance Mediator from 1998 to 2002. From 2003 to 2005 she chaired the ANU Foundation for the Visual Arts. She was appointed a member of the Order of Australia in 1988 and received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Macquarie University in 1990. In 2002, the University Student Services building at the Australian National University (which had previously been known as the Chancellery Annex) was renamed the Pauline Griffin building in her honour. Published resources Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian National University Archives Pauline Griffin papers Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 4 January 2013 Last modified 23 October 2015 Digital resources Title: Pauline Griffin Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The MLC School Archives contain the official records and memorabilia of the school, its associations – such as the Old Girls’ Union, the MLC School Foundation and the P&F – as well as those of individuals who have been selected by the School Archivist for preservation because of their administrative and historical significance. Created 21 March 2019 Last modified 21 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The records comprise APSA annual conference papers, 1958-1994, the APSA newsletter, 1956-1963, APSA monographs, 1958-1981, and other APSA publications, microfilm cumulative indexes of the APSA journal Politics, 1966-1975, papers from meetings held overseas on microfiche, various British political science and International Political Science Association (IPSA) material, and, administrative records and correspondence, 1990s. The records constitute prime source material for the investigation of the origins and development of political studies in Australasia, and for research on key figures in political science and the social sciences generally. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 May 2017 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mabel Irene Coles was associated with the Royal Women’s Hospital for twenty-nine years, and was president from 1968-1972. She was appointed as Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1965 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 12 June 1971, for charitable services. Mabel Coles, the daughter of E Johnston, worked as a secretary at C J Coles before marrying Edgar Coles (later Sir Edgar), one of the five Coles brothers, in 1927. She had three children; a son Robert, and two daughters, Lois and Jennifer (Eldridge), seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Apart from her sustained commitment to the Royal Women’s Hospital over a period of twenty-seven years, serving as its president from 1968-1972, and being associated with two $1,000,000 appeals, Dame Mabel Coles was patroness of the Family Planning Association of Victoria and Chairman of the Asthma Ladies Appeal Committee in 1965. She held the position of trustee of the Mayfield Centre from 1975-1989. Other charities and appeals for which she worked included Yooralla, the Berry Street Babies’ Home, the Girl Guides, the Save the Children Fund and the Menzies Boys Homes. She was president of the Australian Women’s Liberal Club in 1965. Her club memberships included the Alexandra Club, the Peninsula Country Club and the Frankston Golf Club. Her other recreational interests included dogs, horses and walking. Dame Mabel Coles died at Mount Eliza on 17 June 1993. Published resources Newspaper Article Grand dame of charity dies, 1993 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1991, Howie, Ann, 1990 Book Debrett's handbook of Australia, 1989 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sue Vinnicombe is one of only a handful of women endorsed by the National party and its predecessors over eight decades. She was their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly election for the seat of Tweed in 2003. Sue Vinnicombe took part in the 8th International Women in Leadership Conference held in Western Australia in 1999, giving a paper on problems of women in management. In 2003, Sue Vinnicombe was one of three women endorsed by the National Party. For the election, She produced her own action plan for the Tweed area, which stated that the Tweed had been neglected on essential services such as hospitals, schools, roads and police. She was in favour of sustainable development but she avoided any detailed development plan, not wishing to be linked to the local Council’s actions which had been investigated by the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Department of Local Government. In the event, Sue Vinnicombe was narrowly beaten by the sitting Labor member. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 16 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Australian Women’s National League (AWNL) was a conservative women’s organisation established in 1904 to support the monarchy and empire, to combat socialism, educate women in politics and safeguard the interests of the home, women and children. It aimed to garner the votes of newly enfranchised women for non-Labor political groups espousing free trade and anti-socialist sentiments, with considerable organisational success. At its peak, it was the largest and arguably the most influential women’s organisation in the country. By 1914 the AWNL claimed 52,000 members in three states. Closely associated with the United Australia Party, the financial and organisational support of the League was a key factor in the foundation of the Australian Liberal Party in 1944. At this point, the majority of members reconstituted themselves as the Women’s Section of the Liberal Party. The League continued in a much reduced state. The initial impetus for the formation of the Australian Women’s National League came from moves by the Victorian Employers Federation in 1903 to form a conservative women’s political organisation. Janet Lady Clarke was approached to sponsor this new group and held a meeting of three hundred women at her home in August 1903 to discuss forming an organisation. Nothing definite emerged, however, until the following year when another meeting, organised by Clarke’s sister, Evan Hughes, was held at the Melbourne Town Hall in March 1904. A provisional committee was elected and the following month the League was formally established and Janet Lady Clarke was appointed first president. Throughout its existence the Leagues aims were: • “Loyalty to the Throne • To counteract Socialist tendencies • To educate the Women of Victoria to realise their political responsibilities • To Safeguard the Interests of the Home, Women and Children.” Numerous suburban and country branches were subsequently formed. From 1909, the League’s activities were extensively documented in its journal The Woman. An issue which attracted the early attention of the League, apart from combating left-wing politics was the provision of domestic science education for girls in schools and the establishment of domestic science as a university course. From 1905-1945 the League organised the Empire Day celebrations in Melbourne. During World War I The Woman acted as a rallying point for women in Melbourne. It encouraged women to cultivate medicinal herbs and plants, to make garments and towels for fund-raising stalls, to donate old linen, blankets, towels, bandages, toiletries and pipes to the Red Cross Society and gave advice on ‘rural industries for women’: poultry farming, gardening and even pig raising. After the war, the League’s activities expanded considerably into the areas of women’s and children’s welfare. In 1918, the League inaugurated ‘Baby Week’ in Melbourne, which included the exhibition of healthy babies from charitable homes, displays of baby foods, pure milk and sample diets, and lectures by doctors and nurses. This led to the formation of advisory centres which contributed to the establishment of Baby Health centres and pure milk supplies in Victoria. From 1906 it ran classes in public speaking, debating and branch work for its members. The League was initially very much committed to the belief that men and women had different, ‘natural’ spheres of interest and activity. Although working to provide a voice for women’s specific concerns and offering some political influence for women, the League did not support the idea of women taking on political leadership. It was not until the 1920s that it endorsed the entry of women into parliament. Both its important place in conservative politics, and its strong commitment to representing women’s interests, are evident in its role in the formation of the Australian Liberal Party. In return for the support of their membership and considerable financial backing, the AWNL obtained two key undertakings from Robert Menzies: there was to be equal gender representation throughout the Liberal Party, and that the AWNL be permitted to continue within the new party’s structure, as the Women’s Section. Most League members thus left to form this new section of the Liberal Party. Some members, however, felt strongly that it was important for women to retain autonomous organisations and they continued the League in its original form although with greatly reduced numbers. Published resources Book From Vision to Reality: Histories of the affiliates of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1987 Women of influence: the first fifty years of women in the Liberal Party, Sydenham, Diane, 1996 Out of the doll's house; women in the public sphere, Encel, Sol and Campbell, Dorothy, 1991 Liberal women : Federation to 1949, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2004 History of the Australian Women's National League A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia, Sawer, Marian and Simms, Marian, 1993 Book Section The Australian Women's National League: A Theoretical and Historical Reconsideration, Scobie, Doug, 1997 Alfred Deakin and the Australian Women's National League, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2001 'Most eminent woman' : Lady Janet Clarke, Bartle, Claire, 1998 Australian Women's National League, Smart, Judith, 1998 Eva Hughes: Militant Conservative, Smart, Judith, 1985 Journal Article A sacred trust: Cecilia Downing, Baptist faith and feminist citizenship, Smart, Judith, 1995 'For the good that we can do': Cecilia Downing and feminist Christian citizenship, Smart, Judith, 1994 Homefires and Housewives: Women, war and the politics of consumption, Smart, Judith, 2004 Thesis The 'Woman Question' in Melbourne, 1880-1914, Kelly, Farley, 1983 'Conservative Female Endeavour': The Australian Women's National League 1904-1914, McCarty, Elizabeth, 1985 Conference Paper Conservative feminism in Australia: a case study of feminist ideology, Simms, Marian, 1978 Pamphlet Constitution of the Australian Women's National League Journal The Woman, The Australian Women's National League, 1907-1934 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Australian Women's National League State Library of Victoria Papers and history, 1920-1969 [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Dame Elizabeth May Ramsay Couchman, 1913-1970 [manuscript] Papers of Dame Ivy Wedgwood, 1928-1972 [manuscript] Geelong Heritage Centre Australian Women's National League, Geelong Branch Author Details Clare Land and Jane Carey Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 14 August 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Australian actress in the early silent films, most notable for her success when she went to the United States. Also went under the name of Louise Cowen. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence sent to Wallis Foggarty and Co., 1942, NTRS 1862; letter card sent to Senator B. Kilgariff, and diary notes, 1972, NTRS 880. Author Details Clare Land Created 26 November 2001 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records, c. 1905-1982. Includes correspondence, minute books, financial records and miscellaneous papers. Also includes records of the Quamby Club, 1918-1967. Plans for alterations to the Club building and club regulations and notices (MC 5, DR 1). Architectural plans of proposed additions etc. for the Alexandra Club, April 1926 (MC 5, DR 6). Located at MCFB 5 is the Times War Atlas Gazetteer. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Susan Ryan was appointed the first Labor Senator for the Australian Capital Territory, in 1975. In the Federal Parliament she was the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister Bob Hawke on the Status of Women 1983-88 and the Minister for Education, 1984-87. She presided over the passage of the federal government’s Sex Discrimination Act 1984 and the Affirmative Action (Equal Opportunities in Employment) Act 1986. She later worked in the plastics industry, and in superannuation. From July 2011 to 2016 she held the newly created position of Age Discrimination Commissioner with the Australian Human Rights Commission. She was also the Disability Discrimination Commissioner from July 2014 to 2016. Susan Ryan passed away on 27 September, 2020. She was a woman of many firsts; a trailblazer for Labor women in parliament. As former prime minister, Julia Gillard, observed, ‘Every Australian’s life has been improved by her leadership on gender equality.’ Susan Ryan was awarded her BA from the University of Sydney in 1962, and MA in English Literature from the Australian National University in 1972. She worked as a school teacher in 1963 and then tutor in English Literature at ANU between 1970-72. Ryan was a founding member of the Belconnen Branch of the ALP in 1969, and was later Vice-President of the Branch. She was delegate to the ALP ACT Branch Council between 1973-76. She was also a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby, ACT Branch. Ryan attended the World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975 and the United Nations Decade for Women Conference in Copenhagen in 1980. She was a member of the ALP Federal Policy Committee on Women and Education Officer of the International Women’s Year Secretariat. Elected as one of the first of two Senators for the ACT and the first Labor Senator for the ACT in 1975, Ryan served on a number of parliamentary committees between 1975-83. She was a member of the Council of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies 1981-83; member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry, Dec 1977-March 1983; Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, Hawke Labor Government, 1983; Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women, 1983-88; Minister for Education, Dec 1984; and Special Minister of State including responsibilities for the bicentenary, the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse and the implementation of the Australia Card program. She advocated for the Senate to pass the Sex Discrimination Bill 1982 and enact the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination, the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 and the Affirmative Action (Equal Opportunities in Employment) Act 1986. Ryan resigned as Minister and Senator in January 1988. She was awarded the Order of Australia in 1990. Following her resignation she worked as Publishing Editor of Penguin Books in 1988, Executive Director of the Plastics Industry Association Inc in 1989 and CEO of the Association of Suerannuation Funds of Australia from 1993 to 1997. She was also the Independent Chair of the IAG and NRMA Superannuation Plan, President of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees from 2000 to 2007 and a member of the ASX Corporate Governance Council from 2003 to 2007. She also held a number of positions at the University of New South Wales. She was Pro-Chancellor and Council member from 1998, Chair of the UNSW Risk Committee from 2002 and Chair of the Arts and Social Sciences Advisory Council from 2010. After retirement from politics, Ryan also remained involved in progressive causes, including as deputy chair of the Australian Republican Movement from 2000 to 2003, and as an advocate of an Australian bill of rights. She remained committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination, returning to the public sphere in 2011 to do so when she was appointed the inaugural Age Discrimination Commissioner. She expanded her remit to include the responsibilities of the Disability Discrimination Commissioner when the two roles were merged in 2014. Susan Ryan pssed away on 27 September 2020. In later life, when reflecting upon her role as the architect of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, which outlawed discrimination on the basis of sex, marital status, and pregnancy, she observed that is was “probably the most useful thing I’ve done in my life”. Published resources Conference Paper Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy: The Task of Opposition. Catching the Waves: Susan Ryan at the Hawke Institute, Ryan, Susan, 1999 Resource Section Person Description - CP 435 - Susan Maree Ryan Law, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CP+435 A long wave still rolling, Bilney, Gordon, 1999, http://www.alp.org.au/laborherald/june99/wave.html Book Catching the Waves, Ryan, Susan, 1999 Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Susan Ryan, author and politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Susan Ryan interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Mass media regulation, 1980 Jul by Senator Susan Ryan. National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Julia Ryan, 1947-1982 [manuscript] Papers of Peter Ryan, 1927-2010 (bulk 1962-1996) [manuscript] Papers Kathleen Abbott, 1964-1990 [manuscript] Correspondence, 1967-1983, including letters by Thomas Shapcott, Geoffrey Blainey, Michael Costigan, Senator Susan Ryan, Les Hiatt, Mary Tully, Beau Riel, Colin Scrimgeour, Austin Byrne. Papers of Craig McGregor, 1961-2005 [manuscript] University of South Australia, Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library Archival Collections Statement by Bob Hawke on ministerial arrangements Australian National University Archives Sound recordings State Library of Western Australia Perth PEN Centre records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Pat Richardson scrapbooks relating to the Women's Electoral Lobby and women's events, 1977-2002 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 12 September 2000 Last modified 28 September 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "41 loose typed mimeographed pages outlining the history, rates of pay, conditions of service for Australian Army Women’s Services, (Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Army Nursing Service and Australian Army Medical Women’s Services). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 June 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Taped interviews for broadcast on 3RRR program, Film Buffs’ Forecast. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The MS 9486 collection consists principally of secondary material on a wide range of issues relating to women, human rights and the environment. It includes some correspondence, circular letters, newsheets, articles and speeches, conference documents, printed ephemera, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous journals. There are a few pages of notes written by Meredith Stokes on different topics, and two published poems and the draft of an article by her also.??The activities and publications of several organisations are documented in the collection. They include the Women’s Electoral Lobby, Canberra and South East Region Environment Centre, Canberra Programme for Peace, Canberra Women for Survival, Registry of Women Artists, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Australian Section) and the Committees in Solidarity with Central America and the Caribbean (13 boxes, 17 fol. Items).??The Acc10.127 instalment comprises a small group of photographs, slides and negatives documenting Stokes’ participation in events relating to political, environmental and human rights issues. Included are photographs and slides of the Kanak Independence Protest, French Embassy, Canberra; Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Conference, University of Canberra; East Timor Rally, Canberra; Anti-Apartheid Rally, South African Embassy, Canberra; Pine Gap Peace Rally, Alice Springs; and the Anti-Nuclear and Nuclear-Free Pacific Conference, Fiji. There are black and white negatives of ANC representatives in Canberra speaking to free Nelson Mandela and end apartheid; Bicentennial Aboriginal demonstrations, Parliament House, Canberra; W.I.L.P.F. Conference, University of Canberra; opening of the Conflict Resolution Service, Acton, Canberra; and, supporters of a Nuclear Free Independent Pacific, speaking in Canberra (1 folder, 1 packet). Author Details Clare Land Created 23 November 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The National Women’s Advisory Council was established as a new channel of communication between the Women’s Affairs Branch of the federal government and the wider community of women. Chaired by Beryl Beaurepaire it had Aboriginal, migrant, rural and trade union women among the members. The National Women’s Advisory Centre research budget enabled the conduct and sponsorship of a number of research projects into women’s economic circumstances, migrant women, mothers of disabled children, and the aged. It provided ongoing funding for the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne. Published resources Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Conference Paper Femocrats and Ecorats: Women's Policy Machinery in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, Sawer, Marian, 1996, http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/(httpPublications)/D1A254C22F3E5CC580256B67005B6B56?OpenDocument Report Migrant women speak : a report to the Commonwealth Government, National Women's Advisory Council, 1979 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Joyce McConnell, 1960-1989 [manuscript] Records of the Women's Electoral Lobby, 1952-2010 [manuscript] Papers of Elizabeth Reid 1963-1981 [manuscript] Papers of Sara Dowse, 1958-2007 [manuscript] Records of the Women's Electoral Lobby, 1952-2010 [manuscript] State Library of Victoria Records, [ca. 1970-ca. 1984] [manuscript] Papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1985 [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Ephemera Collection [National Women's Advisory Council : ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia] The University of Melbourne Archives Victorian Women's Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archive Newscuttings State Library of New South Wales Lena Gustin and Dino Gustin papers, 1909-1992 State Library of South Australia Laurel K. McIntyre : SUMMARY RECORD Union of Australian Women : SUMMARY RECORD Sylvia Kinder : SUMMARY RECORD National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Establishment of a National Women's Advisory Council Office of the Status of Women - Abolition of National Women's Advisory Council Cabinet documents for the Office of Women's Affairs, single number series with alphabetical prefix Author Details Elle Morrell Created 6 September 2000 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Originals held by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau.??Minj diaries, 1954-55; correspondence, 1953-1968; Dept of Health circulars, 1954-55; correspondence with S H Christian, 1955-1970; Malaria Control Section, Public Health Dept, Mapamoiwa, patrol records, 1957-1960; press cuttings, 1958-1962; Subject files, 1952-1980; photographs, 1954-1961. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Printed material, newsletters and research notes relating to trade unionism and the Eureka Stockade. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 25 July 2017 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joyce Daws was appointed to the Order of the British Empire, Dames Commander, on 14 June 1975 for services to medicine. Joyce Daws was born in England in 1925 and settled in Australia in 1956. She was educated at the Royal School for Naval and Marine Officers’ Daughters, St Paul’s Girls’ School (Hammersmith), the Royal Free Hospital and University of London. In Melbourne she worked at the following hospitals in the field of thoracic surgery: Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital (1958-1985), Royal Melbourne Hospital (1958-1967), Prince Henry’s Hospital (1967-1975) and C J Officer Brown Unit at the Alfred Hospital (1970-1985). Since 1974, Daws was a member of the Victorian Nursing Council of which she was chairman from 1983-1989. Also in 1974 Joyce Daws became president of the Victoria Medical Women’s Society as well as being Honorary Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Medical Association. In 1976, Joyce Daws was president of the Cancer Institute of Victoria and a board member from 1978 to 1980. She was a board member of After Care Hospital (1977-1987) and president (1980-1985). In 1984 she was chairman of the Academic and Professional Panel. A member of the Lyceum Club and Soroptimist International (Melbourne), Dame Joyce Daws enjoyed opera, swimming, travel and proteas (from 1987 to 1996 she was chairman of the International Protea Association). Dame Joyce Daws died in 2007 and left $10000 to the Nurses Board of Victoria. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dame Joyce Daws, thoracic surgeon, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 7 February 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4 hours 21 minutes??Mary Miller was born in Yorketown, South Australia and spent her childhood on Yorke Peninsula. Her work in munitions factories during the Second World War led to her involvement as an organiser in the iron workers’ union and a life-long commitment to the labour movement. In the mid-1950s she qualified as a primary school teacher and became active in child welfare and Aboriginal education as well. She speaks about a range of organisations and activities including the United Trades and Labor Council, the Forty Hour Week Committee, the Australian Peace Committee, Australian Labour Party, Communist Party of Australia, Adelaide New Theatre, Adelaide Film Society, the Australian Workers’ Union, the Aborigines Advancement League, Aboriginal Progress Association, and the Aboriginal Education Foundation. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Garden Island, Sydney. 1945. An informal group of members of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) on the wharf at Garden Island. They are probably welcoming home the 6th Division, AIF and they are from left to right, back row: Maree de Haan; unknown WRAN; Nance Priddle; Betty Bowen. Front row: Val Gissing; Helen Hawe; unknown WRAN; Grace Griffith. The WRANS were working at HMAS Kuttabul at the time. (Donor G. McDonald) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Barbara Ross was a historian and a former staff member of the National Library of Australia (NLA). Prior to the NLA Barbara worked as a County Record Office archivist in England and as an archivist with the Commonwealth Archives Office in Canberra. For a time she also worked as a valuer under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme. Barbara Ross grew up in the English countryside near Birmingham. She attended Stourbridge County High School and was head girl during her final year. Barbara won a scholarship to Manchester University, which she attended from 1947 to 1950 and majored in languages. Afterwards she enrolled in the archives course at University College, London, and her first job upon graduating was at the Shropshire Country Record Office. Barbara met her husband, Douglas Ross, on an archaeological dig and the pair married in 1955. Two years later they migrated to Australia, living for a short time in Melbourne, before settling in Canberra. From 1961 to 1964 Barbara worked at the Australia National University Archives (later the Noel Butlin Archives Centre); she was their first professional archivist. In 1964 she returned to her love of medieval history by joining the new medieval history unit in the ANU History Department. Unfortunately the unit was discontinued four years later. Initially working in the Archives Division of the National Library of Australia (now the National Archives of Australia), Barbara went on to spend nearly twenty years working part-time as a medieval specialist in the manuscript department. Here she curated several small exhibitions, compiled guides, and answered enquiries. In addition to her paid work and research, Barbara spent time volunteering at Monica House, a St Vincent de Paul women’s refuge in Canberra. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection A guide to the illuminated addresses in the National Library of Australia, 1862-1968 [manuscript] The accounts of the Talbot household at Blakemere in the County of Shropshire, 1394-1425 [manuscript] Papers of Barbara Ross, circa 1960-1996 [manuscript] Records relating to St. Benedict's School, 1955-1980 [manuscript] ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0049 Barbara Ross Papers National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Barbara Ross, author, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Audrey Dau interviewed by Barbara Ross on the history of St. Benedict's School, Narrabundah L.F. Fitzhardinge interviewed by Barbara Ross [sound recording] Nora Randall, Mrs. Gowing and Mrs. Cuppins interviewed by Barbara Ross on the history of St. Benedict's School, Narrabundah Father Hilton Roberts, Margaret Wilson, Judy Agnew and Mary O'Donnell interviewed by Barbara Ross on the history of St. Benedict's School, Narrabundah Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mathilde de Castrone Marchesi (Melba’s teacher) was grandmother to Baron Podhragy, who had in Vienna inscribed books, letters, photos etc. relevant to the life of the singer. This address outlines her life from these, with a brief outline of events leading to the author’s discovery of them. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "7 sound files (ca. 408 min.) Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Brooks discusses an incident on 24 Jan. 1945 was summoned by Inspector Burke to Port Augusta where she as a South Australian policewoman was assigned to escort Daisy Bates located 300 miles away in an isolated region in South Australia. It was feared that she was sick and in need of hospitalisation. Brooks conducted her from her campsite to Tarkooba and then by train to Port Augusta giving a detailed account of her somewhat eccentric behaviour towards her and others. She then encountered her once more circa 1947 when she was called to remove a difficult woman from the Governor’s home. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Florence Rodan, a member of the League of Women Voters and its president from 1961-63, stood for the Victorian parliament three times; in 1945, 1952 and 1955. She stood as an Independent in the Legislative Assembly seat of Borung at the 1945 state election, represented the Australian Labor Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Camberwell in 1952 and the seat of Balwyn in 1955. Florence Victoria Rodan (nee Lamb), and her brother George Hamilton Lamb, twins, were born in Epsom, Bendigo on 1 January 1900. Their parents were William Edward and Sarah Victoria Lamb (nee Irwin). William was an auctioneer and school teacher and Sarah Lamb was a teacher at Fineview, Dooen and Pomonal. The family settled in Stawell in about 1912. Florence completed her secondary education at Stawell High School and later gained a Diploma of Music and completed Drama courses. She married William James Rodan at Christchurch, South Yarra in 1928. Florence came to Horsham from Canberra when her husband was appointed town engineer in 1940. After a teaching career, her brother, George Hamilton Lamb went on to become a state Member of Parliament in the Legislative Assembly seat of Lowan for the Country Party from 1935 until his death in 1943. He joined the Australian Imperial Forces in 1940 as a private but was quickly promoted to Lieutenant, sent overseas, captured and died from malnutrition in a Prisoner of War camp in Thailand in December 1943. William Rodan died in July 1944 as a result of World War One injuries. Florence was left to rear her three children, Brian, Marie and Erskine and her brother’s three, Winston, Anthony and Ainslie. The Lamb children’s mother died in 1940 before Hamilton left to go overseas. Florence moved to Melbourne in 1950 for the children to continue their education. Florence’s father died when she was in her 20s and her mother came to live with her during the 1940s. Florence’s brother Hamilton impressed upon her the importance of women being interested in politics. I was a busy wife and mother with three very young children – a baby and two toddlers. I had no time for outside interests, until one day my brother visited us at our little home in Canberra and gave me my first lesson in political philosophy. When he spoke of it I said that I was too busy to discuss such things as politics. He said ‘If you don’t think of these things, you will have no home to be busy about.’ From that time onwards I read in my spare moments, listened to debates in the House, studying everything I could get hold of (in between washing clothes and cleaning up after the children ). I learned the fundamental truths. I learned why women should interest themselves in the affairs of the State and the Nation. She followed her brother’s example even when she had the responsibility for the care of six children. She stood as an Independent candidate for the Legislative Assembly seat of Borung at the 1945 state election. She also stood for Horsham Council twice, unsuccessfully. She joined the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and stood as a candidate for Camberwell at the 1952 election, with the slogan, ‘Rodan is right- Cain is able’. She topped the poll, but was defeated on preferences. She was the only endorsed woman candidate for the ALP at that election. She stood again in 1955, but for the seat of Balwyn. An active member of the Australian Labor Party in the 1950s and 1960s, Florence was a member and president of the Labor Women’s Central Organising Committee during the 1950s and stood for ALP pre-selection to the Senate in 1956. In an article in the Melbourne Sun newspaper she was reported as urging women to become active in politics. ‘They’ll have to come out of their kitchens and think if they want to get anywhere.’ She accused women of being mentally lazy. She served as president of the League of Women Voters from 1961-63, acting president in 1966 and was president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Victoria. She published a volume of her brother’s writings entitled Poems and Essays in 1945. She was president of the R.S. L. Women’s Auxiliary in Horsham before moving to Melbourne in 1950. Published resources Book Poems and Essays, Lamb, Hamilton, 1945? Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 18 July 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Digital resources Title: Florence Victoria Rodan Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Typescript copy of a biography of the Reverend John Mathew by his son R.Y. Mathew. Based on family records and recollections it contains copies of photographs, extracts from letters, a genealogical table of the Mathew family extracts from the “Dictionary of biography” and a copy of an article by J. Mathew on Aborigines.??The Reverend John Mathew was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1889 and he spent thirty four years as Minister of Coburg (Vic.). He was elected Moderator for the Church in Victoria in 1911 and Moderator General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in 1922. He was also involved in work concerning the life and language of the aborigines. He was married to Wilhelmina Mathew, a stalwart of the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Group portrait of Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) nurses, who were former prisoners of war (POWs), on board the hospital ship Manunda on its arrival in Australia. Most of the group were staff members of the 2/10th and 2/13th Australian General Hospital (2/10AGH and 2/13AGH) and the 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station (2/4CCS). Known to be in the photograph are: Christien ‘Chris’ Oxley, Jean ‘Jennie’ Greer, Beryl ‘Woodie’ Woodbridge, Florence ‘Trot’ Trotter, Eileen ‘Shortie’ Short, Jessie Blanch, Valerie Smith, Violet McElnea, Betty ‘Jeff’ Jeffrey, Nesta James, Pat Blake, Janet P ‘Pat’ Gunther, Jess Doyle, Cecilia E M ‘Del’ Delforce, Iole Harper, Sylvia Muir, Joyce ‘Tweedie’ Tweddell, V Haig, Wilma Oram, Jean Ashton, Jessie Simons, Ada C ‘Mickey’ Syer and Veronica R Clancy. The woman in the centre wearing the dress uniform and hat is Colonel Annie M Sage, Matron-in-Chief of the AANS. The woman in the foreground, standing behind the two seated nurses on the right, is Captain E Mavis Hannah (later Allgrove) and the tall woman third from the right holding flowers is Sister Vivian Bullwinkel (later Statham). A number of the nurses are holding bouquets of flowers that have been sent by their families. Many of these nurses became prisoners of war (POWs) when they were captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Bullwinkel was the sole survivor of the massacre of 21 nurses on Radji Beach, Banka Island, on 16 February 1942. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ruth Lane Poole was an interior designer whose most notable commission was to design and furnish the interiors of the Prime Minister’s Lodge and the Governor-General’s residence in Canberra in time for the opening of Parliament House in May 1927. She also designed the interiors for Westridge House in Yarralumla, which was the residence for the Principal of the Australian Forestry School, a position held by her husband Charles Lane Poole from 1927 to 1944. Ruth Johnstone Pollexfen was born in Limerick, Ireland, one of eleven children of Henrietta and Frederick Pollexfen. When her parents separated in 1900, she became a ward of her cousin Susan Mary (Lily) Yeats, sister of the poet and playwright William Butler Yeats, and moved to London. In 1902, Ruth returned to Dublin with her cousins Lily and Elizabeth (Lollie) who founded the Dun Emer Press workshop where Lily ran the embroidery section, with Ruth as her apprentice, and Lollie who had trained in printing at William Morris’s Kelmscott Press managed the Press. In 1908, the sisters founded Cuala Industries at nearby Churchtown, which ran the Cuala Press and a workshop where Ruth taught young women various crafts so that they could earn a living. Samples of Ruth’s embroidery, and publications produced by the two presses, are held by the National Gallery of Ireland. Ruth met Charles Lane Poole in Dublin and he proposed to her by letter from the Transvaal in southern Africa. When they married in Dublin in July 1911, she was given away by her cousin, WB Yeats. Ruth remained in Ireland while Charles worked in Sierra Leone for five years, then they both moved to Perth in 1916 where Charles took up the position of Conservator of Forests. When they left Western Australia in 1922, they had two daughters Charlotte (born 1913 in London) and Mary (born 1918 in Perth). A third daughter Phyllis was born back in Ireland in 1922. Ruth and her daughters remained in Ireland while Charles worked in Papua and then in New Guinea. When Charles was appointed the Commonwealth’s Forestry Adviser in 1925, charged with setting up the Australian Forestry School (among other things), the family returned to Australia and lived in South Yarra in Melbourne. In September 1925 Ruth Lane Poole designed a room featuring craftwork in Australian timber and wool in the Melbourne Town Hall for the Victorian Arts and Crafts Society, and began contributing articles to the Australian Home Builder (later renamed Australian Home Beautiful). In the following years she wrote regularly on interior design for magazines and newspapers, and advised clients of Melbourne’s Myer Emporium on interior decoration. In March 1926 she was commissioned by the Federal Capital Commission to design and furnish the interiors of the Prime Minister’s Lodge and the Governor-General’s residence in Canberra. This involved designing the interior colour schemes, selecting and ordering all the furnishings (including glassware, tableware and household linen) and designing furniture and supervising its construction. Both residences needed to be ready for the opening of Parliament House on 9 May 1927 for their occupants: Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce and his wife Ethel in the Lodge, and Lord and Lady Stonehaven, with their guests the Duke and Duchess of York, in the Governor-General’s residence, Yarralumla. The Lane Pooles moved to Canberra at the end of 1927 and moved into Westridge House in Banks Street, Yarralumla in early 1928. Ruth also designed the interiors for this building as it was the new residence for the Principal of the Australian Forestry School. Her husband Charles was the Acting Principal of the School and Inspector-General of Forests for the Commonwealth Forestry Bureau, positions he held from 1927 to 1944. While living in Canberra, Ruth Lane Poole was prominent in developing the social and cultural life of the national capital. Ruth organised tennis parties and balls for students at the Australian Forestry School, creating decorative schemes for the annual balls. She designed and created the flag for the Australian Forestry School, featuring a large tree and the motto ‘Mihi cura futuri’ (I have a care for the future). The design also features above the entrance of the Australian Forestry School Building, opened in November 1927, in the Canberra suburb, Yarralumla. The Lane Pooles moved to Manly in Sydney in 1945. Charles died in 1970, and Ruth four years later, aged 89. Published resources Book A brief history of the Australian Forestry School, Carron, L.T., 2000 Resource Charles and Ruth Lane Poole, Dargavel, John, 2006, http://uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/lane-poole Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Living with Ruth Lane Poole: An Interior Legacy, 2010, http://www.craftact.org.au/projects/dccc/2009/ruthLanePoole.php Key items on the Lane Pooles, http://uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/lane-poole/key-items-on-lane-poole.aspx Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Australian National University Archives Correspondence files School flag National Gallery of Ireland, Yeats Archive Ruth Lane Poole collection National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Furniture designs for Prime Minister's Lodge and Government House, Canberra [picture] / Ruth Lane Poole National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Charles Edward Lane Poole, 1905-1970 [manuscript] Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 11 January 2013 Last modified 20 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The creche was named after its Founder, President and Patron Dame Marjorie Parker. The Launceston Creche was formed in 1945, as a unit of the Launceston War Memorial Community Centre. On 25 November 1948, a temporary Creche was opened by the Governors’ wife, Lady Binney. It operated from two small rooms at the Albert Hall for the next seven years, but was forced to close when the rooms were required for other purposes. The Creche opened in Cameron Street, in June 1956, after the Tasmanian Minister for Health, Dr A J Turnbull, assisted the committee by making provision for the Creche service on part of the first floor of the new Child Health Centre. The Creche found a permanent home in November 1977, when it moved to its current location. (Source: Information supplied by Sally Von Bertouch, Director Dame Marjorie Parker Creche) Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2002 Last modified 4 July 2003 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This documentary focuses on the lives and experiences of several people who suffer or have recovered from an anxiety disorder. Everyone experiences anxiety at some stage in their lives but for an estimated ten percent of the population, this anxiety will become all consuming and debilitating to the point of illness. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Studio portrait of Major (Maj) Chudleigh Garvice DSO, Commandant of the Alexandria Police. Maj Garvice received his DSO while serving with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers during the Boer War. In 1920 he married Dr Martha Isabel Ormiston, a Tasmanian born doctor who graduated from the University of Sydney. Maj Chudleigh died within a year of their marriage. Dr Ormiston had been working with the Red Cross in London before enlisting and was attached to the Queen of the Belgians’ Hospital at Ostend and La Panne (1914-1915), Wounded Allies’ Relief (W.A.R.) Hospital Montenegro (1916-1917), British Red Cross Depot Egypt (1916) and W.A.R. Hospital, Limoges. She was awarded the Montenegrin Red Cross and Orders of Danilo and the Nile. She later took up the position of Senior Lady Medical Officer, Egyptian Ministry of Education and in 1928 was awarded an MBE. She died in July 1958 in Australia. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 December 2017 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Eleanor Joan Lyndon was born in Sydney in 1938. She went to school at Somerville House, Brisbane, before studying English at the University of Queensland. Joan married James Kerr in 1960, after which time she became increasingly interested in art history. The family (which now included two children) moved to Switzerland in 1963 and then on to London. Here, in 1966, Joan enrolled in a two-year diploma in medieval art and architecture at the Courtauld Institute. Joan and her family returned to Australia in 1968 and the following year she undertook studies in fine arts at the Power Institute, Sydney University. After successfully completing her courses, Joan was offered a tutorship in fine arts, a position she held for five years. Joan then completed a Master of Arts on colonial church architecture before enrolling in a doctorate at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies at the University of York in 1974. Her husband James had also applied for a doctorate at the University of York, and after undertaking initial fieldwork in Australia, the pair set out for York in August 1975. The Kerr’s returned to Sydney in December 1977. Despite being accepted for the position of Senior Education Officer at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Joan did not take up the position. Instead the family moved to Canberra, where James had been appointed Assistant Director of the Australian Heritage Commission. Joan applied for a job in fine arts at the Australian National University and was offered the position of tutor. Whilst living and working in Canberra, Joan also worked on projects in Sydney, as well as writing reviews of exhibitions on architectural themes. She also contributed to the exhibition Colonial Gothick: the Gothic Revival in NSW 1800-1850, which was held at Elizabeth Bay House during March and April 1979. The catalogue for the exhibition was published as a book, entitled Gothick Taste in the Colony of New South Wales. In 1981 Joan began a probationary lectureship in fine arts at Sydney University, in addition to becoming a member of the architectural Advisory Panel of the National Trust of Australia. It was around this time that Joan began writing and editing one of her most significant works: The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. At the time of its publication in 1992, the text contained almost 2,500 entries. Another of her major works, Heritage: the national women’s art book, was released in 1995. Joan was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1993 and two years later she was awarded the National Trust senior heritage award. In 1994 Joan moved to the University of New South Wales, where she worked as a research professor in art history and theory at the College of Fine Arts. She left this position in 1997 to become inaugural professor and convenor of program in Australian art at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University. Joan eventually returned to the College of Fine Arts as a visiting professor. In 2001 Joan Kerr was awarded the Centenary Medal ‘for service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of Australian arts’. Additionally, in 2003, she became the second woman to be granted an honorary life membership of the Royal Australian Historical Society for services to Australian History. On the 14th of June 2004 Joan was also awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) ‘for service to education and to the arts, particularly through research in the fields of architecture and art history, and through encouraging the study and recognition of Australian women artists’. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Joan Kerr, 1980-2005 [manuscript] Papers relating to the National Women's Art Exhibition 1995, 1992-1995 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Joan Kerr interviewed by Martin Thomas [sound recording] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 4621 comprises correspondence, drafts of novels, plays, poems, broadcasts, travel books, an autobiography and short stories, press cuttings, diaries, photographs, invitations, programmes, notes, posters, personal documents such as certificates and passports, drafts of “Triple concerto”, foreign periodicals and booklets, and many other printed items. The collection also includes three typescript drafts of “Nurse no longer grief”, draft of “My experience as a high school teacher”, manuscripts and galley proofs of “Dymphna” by Freehill and drafts of “The tide is running out”. Also, photographs of Guyra, New South Wales and USSR (49 boxes, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 16 September 2009 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A comprehensive collection of administrative records of the National Florence Nightingale Committee, including correspondence, financial information, minutes, reports, conference proceedings, newsletters and press cuttings, together with papers relating to the Florence Nightingale National Scholarship and Florence Nightingale Oration. Also documented is the Committee’s association with the Royal Australian Nursing Federation and the Federation’s working party, the National Steering Committee and Task Forces for Implementing “Goals in Nursing Education”. Author Details Judith Ion Created 5 August 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Two part miniseries adapted from novel by Dymphna Cusack and Florence James about one week in the lives of three women friends working in a beauty salon during wartime Sydney.??There is documentation associated with the production of the miniseries held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ethel Marian Sumner (Maie) Ryan was born on 13 March 1891 in Brunswick, Victoria, to parents Charles Snodgrass Ryan and Alice Elfrida Sumner. She was privately educated by a governess, before being sent to board at St George’s School in Ascot, England. Her formal education was completed at a finishing school in Paris and after attending the Westminster School of Art, London, she returned to Melbourne in 1910. In England during World War One, Maie volunteered at Douglas Shield’s Hospital for Wounded Officers and then with Vera Deakin’s Australian Wounded and Missing Inquiry Bureau. After the war she acted as hostess for her brother Rupert in Germany. Maie returned to London in 1924 and after becoming reacquainted with Richard Gavin Gardiner (Baron) Casey, the pair married at St James’s parish church, Westminster, on 24 June 1926. They had two children, the second of which was born in Melbourne in 1931. On 21 December that same year, Richard was elected member for Corio in the House of Representatives. It was around this time that Maie began to paint and she occasionally attended classes at an art school in Melbourne. Then, after experiencing flying whilst in England in 1937 for the coronation of King George VI, Maie and Richard obtained their licenses, bought a yellow Perival Vega Gull and built an airstrip at ‘Edrington’ in Berwick. Between 1940 and 1946 the Casey’s lived in various countries overseas as Richard fulfilled his many appointments, including London, Cairo, Washington and Calcutta. Back in Melbourne from 1946, Maie began public speaking, in addition to her passions for art and flying. She also became a patron for young Australian artists, such as (Sir) Sidney Nolan. In 1950 Maie was named inaugural patron of the Association of Women Pilots of Australia. In October 1953 she flew her Miles Messenger in Australia’s first all-woman air race and the following year she became a member of the Ninety-Nines. Also in 1953, Early Melbourne Architecture, a book she had collaborated on with various other people, was published. From this time, Maie received increased recognition as a writer, publishing numerous texts and verses. In 1965, with the appointment of Richard as governor-general, the Casey’s moved into Government House. Maie set about converting the house into a salon for artists, musicians and writers. Maie was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1979 and was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) ‘in recognition of service to the community, art and literature’, in 1982. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Maie Casey, 1831-1987 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Maie Casey interviewed by Hazel deBerg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive [Maie Casey : Australian and New Zealand Art Files]. / Maie, Casey State Library of Victoria [Maie Casey : Australian Art and Artists file] Papers of Lord and Lady Casey, n.d. [manuscript]. National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Ethel Marian Sumner Casey, widow of former Governor-General, Lord Casey, artist, writer, aviatrix, publisher, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of New South Wales Papers of Lady Maie Casey : [manuscript], 1959-1982. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Vera Scantlebury Brown, commonly known as Dr Vera, was appointed the first Director of Infant Welfare for the Victorian Department of Health in 1926. She remained dedicated to this position until her death. The position was only part-time due to her marriage, a custom of the time when it was considered that married women did not need to work outside the home. Vera Santlebury Brown was honoured with her appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 9 June 1938 for her work in the fields of infant and maternal welfare. Vera Scantlebury, the daughter of George James and Catherine Millington (née Baynes) Scantlebury, was educated at Toorak College before entering medical school at the University of Melbourne. She graduated Bachelor of Medicine (MB) in 1914 and became resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital. Dr Vera then moved to the Children’s Hospital in 1915, where she was appointed senior medical officer before leaving for England in 1917. In England she was attached to the Endell Street Military Hospital. Dr Vera returned to Victoria in 1919 and worked in a variety of honorary positions including: honorary anaesthetist at the Women’s Hospital (1920-1922), honorary clinical assistant at the Children’s Hospital (1920-1924), Honorary physician and surgeon at the Queen Victoria Hospital (1920-1926) and medical inspector Church of England Girls’ Grammar School (1920-1946). Dr Vera also was associated with the Victorian Baby Health Centres Association and the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria. In 1921, Dr Vera was appointed part-time medical officer in charge of the city baby health centres and in 1924 she was became a doctor of medicine. In 1925, together with Dr Henrietta Main, she was sent by the Victorian Government to conduct a survey of the welfare of women and children in New Zealand and Victoria. Their report led to the establishment of the Infant Welfare Division in the Department of Public Health. Dr Vera married University of Melbourne lecturer (later associate professor) Dr Edward Byam Brown on 18 September 1926, and they had two children. A month following her marriage she accepted the appointment of part-time director of the newly formed Infant Welfare Division. She remained in this position until her death. In 1937, following Dr Vera’s report on infant welfare for the National Health and Research Council, the Commonwealth Government allocated 100,000 pounds for the benefit of pre-school children, from the Coronation Commemoration Grant. The Argus newspaper reported on 15 July 1946, in an article ‘Death of Dr Vera Scantlebury Brown’ ‘In 1938 the Australian Association of Pre-School Child Development was established, together with the Lady Gowrie Child Centres. The splendid preventive work carried out at these centres in all states was largely the result of Dr Scantlebury Brown’s efforts. She received an OBE in 1938 in recognition of her distinguished work in preventive medicine. ‘In 1944 pre-school activities including payment of subsidies to free kindergartens were also placed under her supervision, and her vision and enthusiasm achieved a further success in 1945, when the State Government decided to bring under the Health Department the care of expectant mothers and all children to six years of age.’ Vera Scantlebury Brown died on 14 July 1946, after a long battle with cancer. She is buried in the Cheltenham cemetery. Events 1926 - 1946 Director of Infant Welfare Victoria at Department of Public Health 1914 - 1915 Resident Medical Officer of the Melbourne Hospital 1915 - 1917 Resident Medical Officer and Senior Medical Officer of the Children’s Hospital Melbourne 1917 - 1919 Attached Royal Army Medical Corps, Endell Street Military Hospital, London, England 1920 - 1920 Resident Medical Officer of the Women’s Hospital, Melbourne 1920 - 1922 Honorary Anaesthetist of the Women’s Hospital, Melbourne 1920 - 1926 Honorary physician and surgeon, Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne 1920 - 1924 Honorary Clinical Assistant, Children’s Hospital, Melbourne 1920 - 1946 Medical Inspector, Church of England Grammar School, Melbourne 1925 - 1925 Appointed with Dr Henrietta Main, by the Victoria Government, to report on the welfare of Victorian women and children 1921 - 1921 Part-time medical officer in charge of city baby health centres 1924 - 1924 Awarded degree of doctor of medicine 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book A guide to the care of the young child, infant and pre-school ages: for students of infant welfare, Brown, Vera Scantlebury, 1947 Pre-school child : \"model exhibit\" of sample toys and occupations for children of different ages up to 5 years of age, Brown, Vera Scantlebury, [1943] The Royal Children's Hospital: A History of Faith, Science and Love, Yule, Peter 'This Mad Folly!': The History of Australia's Pioneer Women Doctors, Hutton Neve, Marjorie, 1980 Australian nurses since Nightingale 1860-1990, Burchill, Elizabeth, 1992 Journal Article Obituary, Vera Scantlebury Brown, Graham, H Boyd, 1946 Newspaper Article Death of Dr Vera Scantlebury Brown, 1946 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1944, Alexander, Joseph A, 1944 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Double Time: Women in Victoria - 150 Years, Lake, Marilyn and Kelly, Farley, 1985 Resource Section Brown, Vera Scantlebury (1889 - 1946), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P001348b.htm Scantlebury Brown, Vera (1889-1946), Campbell, Kate, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110543b.htm Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre Maternal and Child Health Services (Infant Welfare) Reports Maternal and Child Health Services (Infant Welfare) Publications and Resources Maternal and Child Health Service (Infant Welfare) Photographic Collection National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dr Vera Scantlebury Brown, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] The University of Melbourne Archives Scantlebury Brown, Vera (1889-1956) Papers and Memorabilia of Vera Scantlebury Brown Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 July 2002 Last modified 26 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Hannah Buckley was South Australia’s first Catholic social worker. She ran the Catholic Social Service Bureau in Adelaide. After working at the ACSSB, Buckley made a significant contribution to policy development in the area of medical social work. She joined the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1948, and later the South Australian Tuberculosis Association. In 1959, Buckley moved to the Queen Victoria Hospital and fought to transform the attitudes of doctors there toward social work and social workers. She held an executive position in the South Australian branch of the Australian Association of Social Workers. Published resources Thesis The Professionalisation of Australian Catholic Social Welfare, 1920-1985, Gleeson, Damian John, 2006, http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:1178/SOURCE1?view=true Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 December 2008 Last modified 11 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Wendy Fatin was elected to the House of Representatives in the Australian Parliament as the Member for Canning, Western Australia at the federal election, which was held in 1983. She was the first woman from Western Australia to be elected to the House of Representatives. At the 1984 election, following an electoral redistribution, she won the new seat of Brand, which she held until her retirement in 1996. Her Ministerial appointments included Local Government from 1990-1991 and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women. In December 1991 she was appointed Minister for the Arts and Territories, remaining in that position until after the 1993 election. Wendy Fatin qualified as a nurse in 1962 and subsequently gained a Bachelor of Applied Science (Nursing) at the Western Australian Institute of Technology. A feminist, she was one of the founders of the Women’s Electoral Lobby in Western Australia in the early 1970s and in 1989 was a member of the core founding group of the National Foundation for Australian Women with Marie Coleman, Helen L’Orange and Ann Symonds. She served as an Advisor to the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation and Minister for Social Security from 1974-1975. She is an honorary life member of the Australian Reproductive Health Alliance. Published resources Book Nursing and the politics of health care, Fatin, Wendy, 1986 Resource Section Fatin, Wendy Frances (1941-), Smith, Ailie, 2007, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004231b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Wendy Fatin, first WA woman to be elected to the House of Representatives, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Wendy Fatin] [sound recording] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 7 April 2009 Last modified 7 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "One of a series of interviews used by Barbara Kearns in “Stepping out for peace”, a twenty year history of the Campaign Against Nuclear Energy and People for Nuclear Disarmament in Western Australia. Jo talks about her involvement in CANE from 1978, in PND from 1982, and her decision to run as a candidate for the Parliament in 1984 as Australia’s first Greens Senator. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Auxiliary of Marymead Child and Family Centre is a volunteer group established in 1966 to raise funds in support of the services provided by Marymead to Canberra children and families in need. Over the ensuing years the Auxiliary initiated Canberra’s first Walkathon which, together with an annual Button Day and numerous other fundraising activities, raised significant sums annually to help Marymead’s work with disadvantaged and vulnerable children. In the process, the Auxiliary has galvanised the active participation of thousands of members of schools, businesses, sporting and service groups and embassies across the Australian Capital Territory. It continues today to be a major source of non-government funds for the agency."
    },
    {
        "text": "Judith Graley was elected as Member of the Legislative Assembly for Narre Warren South in November 2006, representing the Australian Labor Party. In 2002 she stood as a candidate for the Australian Labor Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Mornington, but was unsuccessful on that occasion. She was re-elected to Narre Warren in November 2010 and in November 2014. She held the position of Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy premier in the Labor Government, which came to power in November 2014. Graley did not seek re-election at the 2018 state election, and retired from parliament in October 2018. Before her entry into state Parliament, Judith Graley served as a local government councillor for the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council from 1997-2003 and was its mayor from 2000-2001. Judith Graley completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) at La Trobe University, and a Diploma of Education at the University of Melbourne before working as a Tutor in the Department of Politics at both institutions over a number of years. Graley also worked as a secondary teacher at Footscray High School and a Company Director for Graley Chiropractic Services. She became Mayor of Mornington Peninsula Shire Council in 2000, when she also served as a board member for Peninsula Health. In 2002, Graley worked as Electorate Officer for Alistair Harkness MLA, and in 2004 she took on the same role for The Hon. Tim Holding MLA. Graley was elected MLA for Narre Warren South in 2006. Graley is married with three children. Her special interest areas are health, schools and kindergartens, child care, environment, and community resources. She is a member of the Western Bulldogs Football Culb; Emily’s List; Southern Women’s Action Network; Union of Australian Women; National Union of Workers; Community and Public Sector Union; Friends of Los Palos, Timor Leste; and the Victorian Local Governance Association. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 26 July 2007 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records relating to Mrs Estelle Collmann’s work for the Australian Federation of Women Voters, the Katafilian Club of Melbourne, International Year of the Child (Victorian State Committee) and related organisations, also includes papers and relating to the League of Women Voters of Victoria ; Includes correspondence and papers relating to the League of Women Voters of Victoria and the Australian Federation of Women Voters, Minutes from the International Year of the Child. Victorian State Committee, Papers on the Katafilian Club of Melbourne, various song/music books and newspapers clippings (MS BOX 4166/1-7 – onsite) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "4 hours 19 minutes??Interviewer’s summary: Miss Walker lived in South Australia most of her life, was a trained kindergarten teacher, knew Miss Lillian de Lissa, ran her own kindergarten, Greenways, from 1921-1944. All her life she belonged to, helped organise and was active in women’s organisations such as the League of Women Voters. She published a book of poetry. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Malcolm Salmon – papers, 1927-1986?Lorraine Salmon – papers, 1931, 1954-1970?Peta Salmon – papers, 1974-1986, being correspondence, chiefly letters received from Malcolm Salmon, 1974, and a copy of Orations for Malcolm Salmon, 14th July 1986, and copy of poem, To Malcolm?Pictorial material, 1941–ca. 1981, being mainly photographs featuring Malcolm and Lorraine Salmon in Australia and overseas on assignments as journalists.??This collection comprises 4 record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 20 May 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Log book, accounts, Court of Honour, minutes Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 9 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Victorian Women’s Suffrage Society, the first women’s suffrage society in Australia, was founded in 1884 largely due to the efforts of Henrietta Dugdale and Annie Lowe. Dugdale, very much a ‘freethinker’, claimed to been Victoria’s first activist for women’s suffrage-having publicly advocated women’s suffrage since 1868, along with married women’s property rights and the admission of women to the universities. In 1883 she published a utopian novel, A Few Hours in a Far Off Age, which she used as a vehicle for her then radical ideas about education, marriage, Christianity and rational dress for women. The Society’s platform was ‘To obtain the same political privileges for women as now possessed by male voters’. It had both male and female members. Archival note: As of 2003, it appears that there is no specific collection of papers relating to the Society. Its activities were, however, extensively reported in the Melbourne press and women’s journals, particularly, for the years 1900-1905, Vida Goldstein’s The Australian Woman’s Sphere. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 Votes for women : the Australian story, Lees, Kirsten., 1995 The Australian Woman's Sphere, 1900-1905 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Scott Family (Rose Scott) papers, 1777-1925 [MLMSS 38/1-79] Author Details Jane Carey Created 11 February 2004 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Attendance Rolls of Executive and Finance Meetings, 1990-2002; Minutes of Officers Meetings, 1987-2000; Minutes of Eduction Committee 1983-2003; Minutes of Convertions and Reports of Conventions, 1894-2003; Finance Committee Minutes 2001-2002; Income and expenditure records, 1951-2001; Records of Local Unions; Memorabilia. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marion Lê has advocated on behalf of refugees since the arrival of the first Vietnamese boat people in the mid-1970s. She has received a number of awards for her tireless work over three decades, including the 2003 Human Rights Medal. Marion Lê was born in the village of Richmond, near Nelson, New Zealand on 29 January 1947. Her father, Noble Tasman Roderick, a hairdresser, was born in New Zealand of Irish, Scottish and Portuguese descent. After serving in World War II with the New Zealand Army as a truck driver in Egypt, he married her mother in 1945, London-born Grace Eileen Tallon. Marion had three younger brothers. She was educated at Richmond Primary and Waimea Intermediate and College, then attended teachers’ college and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. She emigrated to Australia in 1971 and taught in Sydney and Brisbane and travelled until 1974, when she began a Bachelor of Theology at the Alliance College and a Bachelor of Arts at the Australian National University, completing both in 1978-79. In 1979 she married Tong Lê, a chef and former Vietnamese soldier who arrived on the Song Bê in 1977. They have three children and cared for four stepchildren, a Vietnamese foster son, a Vietnamese ward of the Minister, and several other children from camps and detention centres. In 1980 they opened a Vietnamese restaurant in O’Connor and another at Belconnen ten years later. Marion worked in both of these, as well as teaching in Canberra for 19 years. From 1977 Marion was active in the Indo-China Refugee Association of the ACT, which was later used by the government as a model for its Community Refugee Settlement Service. She completed a Graduate Diploma in International Law at the ANU in 1994 and now works as a consultant and registered migration agent. She was named as the Bicentennial Canberra Citizen of the Year in 1988, awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1990, the Austcare Paul Cullen Award for Outstanding Contribution to Refugees in 1994 and the Human Rights Medal in 2003 for her work in promoting human rights over the last three decades. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Interview with Marion Le [sound recording] / interviewer, Ann-Mari Jordens. National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Marion Le, 199- [manuscript] Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 16 June 2005 Last modified 18 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises material mainly concerned with pre-school or early childhood development associations and child welfare organisations in Victoria. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection includes: Conference programs (various) , newsletters (June 1982 -June 2003), correspondence, a typescript history of the association, various historical notes about the Australian Women’s Armed Services, photographs, newscuttings, minute and account books, annual reports??The John Oxley Library is in temporary accommodation until 2006. Most material is kept off-site. Researchers wishing to use the manuscript collection should contact the research librarian prior to visiting the library to confirm the availability of the material. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 June 2004 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "3 year training program for 33 Aborigines; Language Services Unit; establishment of Imparja Television; interview with Freda Glynn.??Aboriginal Employment News, 1988; no. 16, p. 4-5 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 July 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Catalogues of various exhibitions of Florence Higgs, and colour photocopies and photograph of her works. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Handwritten note from Anne Levy to John Bannon enclosing press statement; Minors (Consent to medical and dental treatment) Act 1977; ‘Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Minors (Consent to Medical and Dental Treatment) Bill, 1977/78’; Legislative Council meeting minutes, 30/11/1977. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Adelaide Laetitia Miethke began training as a teacher in 1899, and soon became active in women teachers’ and union affairs. She was the first woman vice-president of the South Australian Public School Teacher’s Union in 1916, and in 1924 gained both her Arts degree and her position as the first female inspector of high schools. She was South Australian state president of the National Council of Women from 1934, and national president, 1936-1942. Miethke was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 1 February 1937 for her role as President of the South Australian Women’s Centenary Council, particularly in organising the Pageant of Empire on 27-28 November 1936. Miethke went on to work with the Royal Flying Doctor Service, and establish the School of the Air for outback children. Adelaide Miethke was the second president of the National Council of Women of Australia and remained in office from 1936 to 1942, a period extended beyond the normal 5-year term owing to the wartime disruption of meeting and conference schedules. Before the war, Miethke-renowned for her organisational skills and clarity of vision and the first national or federal president from outside the dominant states of NSW and Victoria-worked hard to establish more systematic communication between the state Councils and to provide financial assistance to delegates travelling to NCWA conferences from the most distant states. Miethke was a South Australian schoolteacher and inspector, and her role in union affairs resulted in significant gains for the state’s women teachers and for girls’ domestic science and commercial education. It was her role in the union that led to her association with the NCW. As well as serving as NCWA president from 1936 to 1942, she was NCWSA president from 1934 to 1940. Like her immediate predecessors as federal/national president (Mildred Muscio and May Moss), Miethke chaired her state’s Women’s Centenary Council (1936) and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 1 February 1937 for this work. Unlike all of her predecessors and many of her successors at the helm of NCWA, Miethke was in fulltime paid work for most of her period as president. On resigning from the South Australian Education Department in 1941, she assumed direction of the SA Schools Patriotic Fund and from 1941 to 1946 edited the magazine, Children’s Hour, distributed monthly to South Australian schoolchildren. Part of the funds raised for the centenary in 1937 and for the wartime Schools Patriotic Fund went to establishing the Royal Flying Doctor Service of which Miethke was state president. She also went on to establish the School of the Air for outback children in 1950. Adelaide Laetitia Miethke was born on 8 June 1881 at Manoora, South Australia, sixth daughter among 10 children of Rudolph Alexander Miethke, a Prussian-born schoolmaster, and his wife Emma Caroline, née Schultze. Educated at country schools and Woodville Public School, in 1899 she became a pupil-teacher and between 1903 and 1904 attended the University Training College; she soon became active in women teachers’ and union affairs. In 1915, Miethke was founding president of the Women Teachers’ Progressive League. The following year, she became the first woman vice-president of the South Australian Public School Teachers’ Union. From her first appointment to the Le Fevre Peninsula Primary School, she rose steadily through the ranks in the Education Department, while also helping to open career opportunities for women and wider educational choices for girls through her leadership in teachers’ unions and her speeches and articles. In 1915, Adelaide Miethke addressed SA’s Women’s Non- Party Political Association, supporting the view that ‘technically gifted girls should have a chance of developing their bent’ to the same extent as boys. Like many teachers of her generation, she studied part time and, in 1924, she gained both her BA and her position as the first female inspector of high schools (girls’ departments). In 1925, Miethke initiated technical schools for girls (central schools), which focused on domestic science and commercial education, training girls for careers in office work, millinery and dressmaking as well as for home life. By the late 1930s, she was on the executive of the New Education Fellowship, which explored progressive methods. She also took up the cause of the Girl Guides Association, becoming commissioner of the schools division from 1925 to 1939. In 1920, Miethke joined the newly re-formed NCWSA as a delegate from the Women Teachers’ Progressive League and was elected president of the state Council from 1934 to 1940. In 1936, this led to her being one of 2 women appointed to the State Centenary Executive Committee and president of the Women’s Centenary Council of South Australia, which, as a memorial to pioneer women, raised £5000 to establish the Alice Springs base of the Australian Aerial Medical Service (later the Royal Flying Doctor Service). It also built the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden in Adelaide and produced A Book of South Australia: Women in the First Hundred Years. On 27-28 November 1936, Miethke produced a grand ‘Pageant of Empire’, her stentorian voice being suited to rallying 14,000 costumed schoolchildren on the Adelaide oval. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 1 February 1937 for her centenary work. Adelaide Miethke became president of the National Council of Women of Australia in 1936 and served in this role until late 1942. The first NCWA or federal president from outside the dominant states of NSW and Victoria, she worked hard in the early years of her office to establish more systematic communication between the state Councils through the launching and distribution of a typescript ‘Quarterly Bulletin’ and to provide financial assistance to delegates travelling to national conferences from the most distant states. Issues she fostered in addition to the ongoing ones of equal pay and uniform marriage laws included a national policy for Aborigines and equality of provision for married women in the projected national insurance legislation. During the first part of her presidency, it was also anticipated that the International Council of Women conference scheduled for 1942 would be held in Australia (along with the conferences of the Country Women’s Associations of the World and the International Federation of University Women) but the outbreak of World War II in 1939 stymied these plans, and the ICW suffered serious disruption in the ensuing years. When the scheduled national conference took place in January 1941, Miethke was elected for another term of office in the context of the wartime need for stability but subsequent restrictions on travel in Australia, especially to and from the smaller states, limited communication between the Councils and, in July, Miethke and her board suggested they should hand over to a Sydney-based board. It was another 16 months before this occurred. A conference planned for Easter 1942 in Sydney had to be abandoned and the new board was not elected until a meeting could be held in Melbourne in November. The broad prewar concerns had dissipated in these early wartime conferences as the state Councils all turned their attention to local war work and policy issues related to the war effort. After completing her terms as state and national NCW president, Miethke continued to work for the Australian and SA Councils from 1943 to 1948 as convenor of the national and state education standing committees. In 1944, she was made an honorary life member of NCWA and honorary life vice-president of NCWSA. In 1941, Miethke retired from her position as an inspector in the South Australian Education Department to general praise. She had been both respected and feared by teachers. Some associates found her abrasive and excessively managerial. An ex-pupil recalled: ‘You couldn’t get away with much with Miss Miethke. They had authority in those days’. Although she was a stickler for formality, her outspoken methods helped to improve teachers’ industrial conditions and to raise the status of women in the Education Department. From 1941 to 1946, in the wake of her retirement, she directed the Schools Patriotic Fund, just as she had during the Great War. Part of the £402,133 raised went to establishing Adelaide Miethke House, a city hostel administered by the YWCA for country girl students, and part to the Royal Flying Doctor Service of which she was state president. She also served on the Women’s War Service Council and edited both the magazine, Children’s Hour, distributed monthly to South Australian schoolchildren, and the newsletter of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Air Doctor. In her role as president of the Flying Doctor Service, Miethke observed outback children’s shyness, and, in order to ‘bridg[e] the lonely distance’, she inaugurated the world’s first school of the air. It began operating as a branch of the Flying Doctor Service from the Alice Springs Higher Primary School in 1950, using individual pedal-wireless sets on remote homesteads to link the children. In 1942, she was founding president of the Woodville District Child Welfare Association, which established 4 pre-schools. The Adelaide Miethke Kindergarten (opened 1953) still flourishes. 1949 saw her last organising feat-the United Nations Appeal for Children. Miethke once admitted, ‘I fear work has become almost a disease with me!’ She maintained unabated her appetite for clubs and committee work, and was active in the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Adelaide Women’s Club and the Catherine Helen Spence Scholarship Committee. She was also the first honorary life member of the Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society in 1941. Miethke continued her involvement in most of these organisations until her death on 4 February 1962 at her home in Woodville. Prepared by: Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Events 1936 - 1936 Women’s Centenary Council of South Australia 1915 - 1915 Women Teachers’ Progressive Leauge 1942 - 1942 Woodville District Child Welfare Association Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Miethke, Adelaide Laetitia (1881-1962), Edgar, Susan and Jones, Helen, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100484b.htm Edited Book S.A.'s greats: the men and women of the North Terrace plaques, Healey, John, 2001 Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book Six years with the SPF / story of the Schools Patriotic Fund of South Australia, Jan. 1940-Jan. 1946, Miethke, Adelaide L, 1946 Nothing seemed impossible : women's education and social change in South Australia, 1875-1915, Jones, Helen, 1985 Greater than their knowing: a glimpse of South Australian women 1836-1986, National Council of Women of South Australia, 1986 Report Patriotic work in our schools : a report on the South Australian Children's Patriotic Fund ... showing administration of funds and some phases of the work, Sept. 1915-17, Miethke, Adelaide L, 1917 Book Section Adelaide Miethke, Edgar, Suzanne and Jones, Helen, 1988 Journal Article The City as a Site of Women Teacher's Post-suffrage Activism: Adelaide, South Australia, Trethewey, Lynne and Whitehead, Kay, 2003 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Archival resources State Library of South Australia Notes and letter on the characters in 'We of the Never Never' National Council of Women of S.A. : SUMMARY RECORD National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Author Details Clare Land Created 26 November 2002 Last modified 24 October 2013 Digital resources Title: Adelaide Miethke Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Joan Christie was promoted to the rank of Major during the Second World War. In 1943 she worked in New Guinea supervising members of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service. Joan is acknowledged as the driving force behind the establishment of both the Orana Community TAFE College and the Dubbo campus of Charles Sturt University. Major Joan Christie was selected to act as an Assistant Commandant to go to the Middle East with a second draft of Voluntary Aids in 1941. The operation was cancelled due to Japanese military activity in the South West Pacific area. Based at 113 Australian General Hospital as a Company Commander Joan Christie became a full-time Voluntary Aid in November 1941. She transferred to the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service ( A.A.M.W.S.) when it was formed in December 1942, and was promoted to the rank of Major on the 1st March 1943. That same month she was appointed Deputy to Lt Col. Kathleen Best who was, at the time, the Adjutant-General of the Women’s Services. Having relinquished her command at 113 A.G.H. in March 1943, Major Christie went to New Guinea in charge of the first draft of A.A.M.W.S. in December 1943, and shortly after her arrival she was appointed Assistant Controller, South West Pacific Area. She was responsible for over 400 women in the Pacific region. When she returned from New Guinea in 1944 Major Christie resumed her command at 113 A.G.H. In May 1946 she represented the A.A.M.W.S. as part of the Australian contingent in the Victory Pageant. She married in 1947 and raised four children, along with having an active life in the local community, serving as a local councillor. She was a great supporter of adult education and the Technical and Further Education system. Events 1966 - 1980 Co-founder and Chairperson, Dubbo Educational Association 1972 - 1972 Member, National Urban & Regional Development Authority | Cities Commission 1968 - 1980 Inaugural Member, Council of Mitchell College of Advanced Education 1971 - 1977 Alderman, Dubbo City Council 1973 - 1974 Member, Open University Committee – Karmel Report 1974 - 1980 Deputy Chair, Management Board, Orana Educational Association 1975 - 1977 Member, Macquarie Regional Library Committee 1975 - 1979 Member, Board of Continuing Education, University of New England 1978 - 1983 Member, TAFE Council NSW 1979 - 1983 Member, Board of Adult Education NSW 1984 - 1984 ‘Joan Flint Park’ (adjacent to Dubbo TAFE College) named by Dubbo City Council 1989 - 1989 Awarded the Inaugural National TAFE Gold Medal | Mayoral Civic Reception, Dubbo 1990 - 1990 Joan Flint Building’ – Opening at Orana Community College, Dubbo campus 1994 - 1994 Awarded Doctorate of the University (honoris causa), Charles Sturt University 2001 - 2001 Died in Dubbo 1972 - 1979 Deputy Chairperson, Council of Mitchell College of Advanced Education 1979 - 1979 Chairperson, Council of Mitchell College of Advanced Education 1918 - 1918 Born to Wilfred and Beatrix Christie in Dubbo 1934 - 1935 Captain of Coolabah House, Dubbo High School 1935 - 1935 Captain and Dux of Dubbo High School 1940 - 1940 Ladies Doubles Hardcourt Tennis Champion, NSW 1939 - 1940 Co-founder and Commandant, Dubbo Voluntary Aid Detachment, No. 226 1941 - 1942 Officer-in-Charge, Australian Army Medical Womens Service, 113 AGH 1943 - 1943 Aide-de-Camp to Lady Zara Gowrie, wife of Govenor General of Australia 1943 - 1943 Officer-In-Charge, AAMWS, New Guinea force 1943 - 1943 Assistant Controller, AAMWS, South West Pacific Area 1943 - 1943 Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Women’s Service, Australian Army 1944 - 1944 Officer-In-Charge, AAMWS 113 AGH Concord Repatriation Hospital 1946 - 1946 Representative AAMWS Officer, London Victory March, June 1946 1947 - 1947 Married Robert Ellice-Flint, St Andew’s Presbyterian Church Dubbo 1947 - 2001 Mother of four boys – Gordon ’47-, Ken ’49-’52, Wilfred ’53-, David ’55-’79 1965 - 1980 Member, Dubbo Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Committee 1980 - 1983 Chairperson, Orana Community College Council 1984 - 1984 Awarded Medal of the Order of Australia – for services to Education & Community Published resources Resource Section CHRISTIE, JOAN LORA, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=186379 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1947, Chisholm, Alec H, 1947 Book From blue to khaki: The enlisted voluntary aids and others who became members of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service and served from 19421-1951, Mount-Batten, Betty J, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Honours and Awards - Recommendations for New Year Honours List 1946 Lieutenant G. Mainwaring, war artist, painting Major Joan Christie, AWAS, on board HMAS Shropshire Swimming carnival Members of the Australian Victory Contingent on a visit to Berlin, in front of Frederick the Great's Palace, 'Sans Souci', Potsdam Members of the Australian Victory Contingent on a visit to Berlin Winners of the nurses and Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) championships chat together after their victories Squadron Officer Doris Carter, Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force; Squadron Leader P. Swan DFC; Flight Lieutenant J. Hooke DFC, RAAF, and Major Joan L. Christie of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra CHRISTIE JOAN LORA : Service Number - NX76591 : Date of birth - 04 Nov 1918 : Place of birth - DUBBO NSW : Place of enlistment - NSW : Next of Kin - CHRISTIE WILFRED National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office Army Medical & Dental Corps. Nurses and Specialists [Applications for a Commission in the A.A.M.C. Voluntary Aid Detachments (V.A.D.)] - J L Christie [Box 69] Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Date unknown; Literary mss. and newscuttings of published works (Call No.: K 22144)?1856, ca.1911-1946; Correspondence, including letter from Norman Lindsay, 1941; extract of will of Samuel Holman; miscellaneous papers of Miss Una Kidgell (sister of Ada Holman) (Call No.: K 22145)?Date unknown; Literary mss. together with scrap books and photographs (Call No.: K 22146) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 December 2007 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Conference papers (1974-1979), constitutions (1959, 1968), correspondence (1971-1979), files (1978-1979), financial records (1957-1975), minutes (1973-1977, 2003). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2004 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Memorial unveiling Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0759gd.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Report – Department of National Resources, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Record 1975/83 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 February 2013 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "From working at the meatworks of Qeerah, Queensland, Rose Colless went on to be Queensland Commissioner for Aborigines and manage a centre for the rehabilitation of alcoholics before being presented with an Order of Australia Medal and an Australian human rights award. Daphne Rosina (Rose) Colless grew up in Ayr and Cairns, Queensland. She was offered a high school church scholarship, but her mother was persuaded by other children’s (non-indigenous) mothers that this would be a waste of time. Rosina left school to do housework for ten shillings a week. Colless worked at the meatworks at Qeerah from 1961 to 1973, becoming a union delegate before taking the position of Liaison Officer with the Department of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs, and later with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service, visiting communities throughout north Queensland. In 1977 she became a Queensland Commissioner for Aborigines and advised the state government on indigenous issues. Her criticism of government actions on Aurukun and Mornington Island led to her losing this job. In 1974 Colless became a director of Douglas House, a centre for the rehabilitation of alcoholics. In 1978 she became its manager, acquiring a farm on the tablelands and setting up meals in the park for the destitute. Colless was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 1984, and in 1987 received an Australian human rights award. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Book Murawina : Australian women of high achievement, Roberta Sykes ; photography by Sandy Edwards, 1993 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 27 July 2005 Last modified 8 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Cricket has been played by women in Australia since 1874. Organised competitions have existed at State level since the early 1900’s and National level since 1931/32. The first International game was played in 1934/35, against England. The Australian Women’s Cricket Council (AWCC) was formed in March, 1931 to administer and develop the game at the National level. The original members of AWCC were Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland with South Australia and Western Australia affiliating in 1934. Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania affiliated in 1977 and 1982 respectively. In recent times ACT has amalgamated with ACTCA and Tasmania disbanded in 1992 and reaffiliated in 1998. The AWCC was incorporated under the Victorian Companies Code in 1973 being one of the first women’s sporting bodies to incorporate and protect its members. It adopted the business name of Women’s Cricket in Australia (Women’s Cricket) in November 1995. In October, 1997 Women’s Cricket changed its status to become an incorporated association Women’s Cricket in Australia Inc. Australia has been affiliated with the International Women’s Cricket Council (IWCC) since 1958 and is one of eleven countries currently involved in international competition. Australia is the No. 1 ranked international team in the world in both one day and Test Cricket. The first World Cup One Day Series was played by women in England in 1973, two years before the World Cricket concept began for men. The official name of the National Australian Women’s Cricket Team is the Southern Stars"
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        "text": "Premier’s speech notes at Anne Levy’s celebration (to introduce Dr. Anne Summers), 7/03/1986 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "St Peters Women’s Community Centre was established in 1977 and provides a meeting place for the women of the St Peters/Norwood area of Adelaide. The Centre offers childcare and courses for women including fitness self defence, crafts, yoga, maintenance. It also has a strong volunteer program offering women the opportunity to gain new skills before entering the work force. St Peters Women’s Community Centre was established to provide a venue for the women in the area as part of the International Women’s Year Initiative. A survey of the women were undertaken in the area to demonstrated a need for the Centre. Two and a half years of meeting mostly weekly, saw the women trying to organise the accommodation funding and structure of the centre. The St Peters Council granted the funding and a building and the women worked to renovate the old house in which the Centre was officially opened in 1977. The Centre offered a meeting place, and a series of courses that would run for a term where child care was provided. Grants were given for the Arts Grants Advisory Board for the craft courses and Early Childhood Council for the child care worker. The courses included yoga, self defence, fitness, craft, massage and assertiveness training. A walking group and free film were also part of the Centre. The strong volunteer program offers women’s work skills to help with paid employment. In 2007 the Centre was involved in a campaign to preserve the 100 year old cottages they occupy and were successful. Some of the women involved in the Centre over its long history are, Chris Beasley, Mary Nettle, Sally and Monica O’Wheel, Suzi Jones, Viv Szekeres, Mary McLeod, Myra Betschild, Trish Fairley, Connie Frazer, Bernice Cohen, Sue Hetzel. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Booklet St Peters Women's Community Centre, McGrath, Sue, 1984, http://www.wccsa.asn.au Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) St Peters Women's Community Centre Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Illustrated typescript of a memoir by Benison Rodd, transcribed by Janette Newman. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Largely correspondence, including letterbooks, 1958-1961; also history of the Gnowangerup CWA, pictorial history of ACWW, register of members (1979) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Emily Dorothea Pavy was an advocate for the welfare of factory workers before becoming a lawyer to pursue women’s issues. Known for her dedicated and meticulous work, Pavy was a trailblazer both as a sociologist and a lawyer. Read more about Emily Dorothea Pavy in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Dorothea was born on 19 June 1885 at North Adelaide. Her parents were strong advocates for women’s rights. Dorothea’s mother had been a non-graduating student at the University of Adelaide before women were admitted to degrees and her father advocated higher education for women. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Adelaide in 1906 and became a teacher. At this time she was active in the Progressive Club for factory girls. In 1912 Dorothea Proud won the first Catherine Helen Spence scholarship for sociology. She left next year for the London School of Economics where she investigated the industrial conditions of female factory workers, graduating from her Doctor of Science in 1916. She believed that welfare measures could enhance the ‘recognition of individuality’ and the standard of living. Dorothea drew her research from factory visits across Britain and observations in Australia and New Zealand. Proud’s thesis contained an enthusiastic preface from Prime Minister Lloyd George, then Minister for Munitions. When Lloyd George asked Seebohm Rowntree to organise the welfare section of the Ministry of Munitions, Dorothea was appointed to assist in 1915-1919. In 1917 the British government appointed her CBE. Dorothea married Lieutenant Gordon Augustus Pavy from Adelaide on 10 November 1917 in London and had two children. Two years after they married, the Pavys returned to Australia and Dorothea began legal studies at the University of Adelaide. She was articled to her husband, a lawyer, from 1924, and admitted to the Bar in 1928. The Pavys shared a partnership in general legal practice. Dorothea was a member of the Catherine Helen Spence scholarship selection committee until 1962 and convened the law committee of the State branch of the National Council of Women. She lectured social science and worked on a study of divorcees’ children. She retired in 1953 and died on 8 September 1967. Published resources Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Section Pavy, Emily Dorothea (1885-1967), Bourke, Helen, 2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pavy-emily-dorothea-7987/text13913 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nicola Silbert Created 23 April 2014 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. 1943-07-05. SFX30364 Major Mary Douglas (seated) formerly of the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) who has just received her appointment as Controller of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS) with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Writings by Dorothy Crozier and related papers, in particular her unpublished edition of Mariners Tonga; correspondence; course, conference and teaching files; Pacific Islands social services survey project files; Tonga social services survey files; WPHC archives administration and working files and related publications. See Reel List for details. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Gayle Tierney is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since November 2006, representing the Western Victoria Region. She was re-elected in 2010 and again in 2014, when the Labor Government, which was defeated in 2010, was returned to power. She currently holds the position of Deputy President of the Legislative Council. Tierney studied politics and Asian studies at the Flinders University South Australia, before entering the trade union movement. During the early 1980s she worked for Australia Asia Worker Links (AAWL), promoting research and study tours in South Korea, The Philippines, Japan and Hong Kong, focusing on union, human, indigenous and women’s rights in those countries, and encouraging Australian companies active in Asia to maintain proper standards of care. Following her period at AAWL Tierney was a Federal Industrial Officer with the Australian Public Service Association and held that position until joining the Vehicle Builders Union in 1989. Tierney was the first woman to become State Secretary of the traditionally male-dominated Vehicle Division of the Automotive, Metals and Engineering Union (now part of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union), serving in that role from 1993 to 2006, and serving as its Federal President from 2000 to 2006. Tierney also served on the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 2000 to 2006. Tierney is a keen advocate for regional development and is currently Deputy Chair of the Victorian Rural and Regional Parliamentary Committee. Apart from regional infrastructure and employment, Tierney is also a strong supporter of environmental sustainability, gender representation, social inclusion and community development. Tierney is married and has one adult child. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 26 July 2007 Last modified 10 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Virginia Walker has had a life long passion for social justice and has worked through many organizations to achieve it. As an Australia Party candidate she contested the elections for the House of Representatives seat of Phillip in 1972 and 1974 and for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Waverley in 1973. She joined the Australian Labor Party in 1976 and stood unsuccessfully for the Woollahra Municipal Council in 1980 and 1983. In May 2000 she was awarded the McKell Inaugural Award for services to the ALP. Virginia Walker was born in Sydney and educated at Ascham, Sydney, and New England Girls School, Armidale, NSW. After some years of work she became a mature age student at East Sydney Technical College and the Universities of NSW and Sydney, graduating BA 1980 and Dip Criminology 1985. Virginia worked at clerical jobs in Sydney 1955-60, London 1960-63, and Sydney 1963-72, before moving into administration in the NSW Public Service, working with the Department of Housing, the Parole Board and the Department of Corrective Services. She was appointed in 1982 to the Board of the Langton Centre, a drug and alcohol treatment and education body, and later became treasurer and vice-president. She was active in abortion reform, penal reform, and the environment movement from her return to Australia in 1963. She was a member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby from its foundation in 1972 until 1976, a member of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties and a member of the Australia Cuba Friendship Society 1984-91. Since her retirement in 1998 Virginia Walker has volunteered as a teacher’s aide at Forest Lodge Public School, and at the University of NSW Alumni Association. She is a co-founder of, and volunteer worker for, the Bridge for Asylum Seekers Foundation (www.asylumseekersfoundation.com) which raises money to support asylum seekers waiting for determination of their claims for asylum. This organization had raised $266,000 in 2004. Members also assist asylum seekers at court and in detention centres. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 February 2006 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Documents relating to the history of the Alice Springs branch of the CWA with considerable detail regarding people and including wartime activities, 1933-1959 (60-70 items). Correspondence in and out regarding issues such as establishment of CWA of the Air and School of the Air and various CWA places, events and peoples, 1940s-1980s (c800 items). Notes (original handwritten) from Constance Bradshaw, daughter of Thomas Bradshaw who was postmaster in Alice Springs Telegraph Station in early 1900s, regarding early life in Alice Springs, 1899-1908, undated, c1950 (1 item).?Photographs used or considered for the Country Women’s Association (CWA) history of Alice Springs first published in 1952, 1952-1970s (c50 items).?Membership book, 1953-1973 (1 item).?Correspondence regarding the history of the Alice Springs CWA-written history, including a letter from the then Director of Northern Territory Welfare (Harry Giese) regarding Aboriginal policy, 1959 (10 items).?Minute book, 1965.?Scrapbooks of programs, news articles, activities, transcripts, photographs regarding history of Alice Springs CWA, 1970s (1 book). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of Irene Bell, peace activist, comprising three International Women’s Day Committee circulars, International Women’s Day Committee life member’s badge, Medal of the Order of Australia with investiture programme and citation, postcards, photographs of Irene Bell and of portrait presented to Irene Bell and eulogies of Irene Bell. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc11.020 comprises letters by Camilla Wedgwood to her family, primarily her father, sister Helen Pease and niece Dora, with some responses from Helen; a handwritten list of the correspondence of Camilla Wedgwood by Anne W. Oppenheim; a copy of her last will and testament; a news cutting regarding Wedgwood’s field trip to Manam; the Wedgwood family magazine titled Deluge, no. XVII (Xmas 1915), featuring letters, writings, drawings and photographs by the Wedgwood family (1 packet).??The Acc11.125 instalment comprises a journal of writings, poetry and plays by members of the Wedgwood family titled Deluge, VII (Easter 1913) (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "ARU catering committee minutes 1983-1985; ARU Branch Council seminar claim; Jolimaont Shop Committee material; Peter Dyer address; A.J. Cregan’s papers; publications 1939-1970; election ballot papers; arbitration and awards; subject files; copies of the ARU Gazette; ACTU child-care kit 1984. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Constitution and minutes. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Bound volume of copies of the “Sun-News Pictorial” containing articles written by Pat Jarrett during the Royal tour of 1954. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mary Hayter (known always more formally as Mrs. Hayter or, in wartime, as Lieutenant Hayter) was an active community worker and nursing sister who served with distinction in WWII. Mary Hayter was the daughter of English-born Thomas Edward Adams and his Australian wife, Marion Bruce Gales. Aged 18, she began nurse’s training at the Tenterfield District Hospital. She worked as a nursing sister at the Glendore Private Hospital, Gympie, Queensland, before enlisting for service in WWII (Service Number QX23505 (Q70253)). During the War, as Lieutenant Hayter, she was attached to 12 units and served in England, the Gaza Ridge, and Nazareth. En route to Singapore from Nazareth, the ship carrying her unit was diverted to Colombo and Bombay as news arrived of the fall of Singapore. The nurses spent over seven weeks on the water before reaching Port Moresby, and were subsequently shunted from port to port. In 1944, Mary married Eric Herbert Barnard Hayter (1900-1988) at St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane. They had one daughter, Erica Mary Hayter, born 11 November 1946. Mary was heavily involved in her local community, offering her time to the All Souls’ Anglican Church; the Red Cross; the R.S.L, the A&I Society, the Poultry Society, Friends of Feros, the Church Army and St Luke’s Private Hospital in Sydney. In 1974 she was awarded an MBE for services to the community. Mrs. Hayter suffered from a stroke shortly after her 90th birthday, in June 2000, and passed away in the Byron Bay Hospital in September of that year. Information for this entry was provided by Harold Bruce Edmonds, son of Hayter’s cousin Dorothy Ada Edmonds (née Greaves, 1906-1989). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 6 September 2007 Last modified 15 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The archive of the Rural Australians for Refugees represents the activities of local rural and regional groups around Australia as part of a campaign to change government policy on asylum seekers and in support of refugees whilst in detention and living in the community on temporary visas. The records of MS Acc08.200 were collected together by Southern Highlands RAR member, writer and historian Ann Beaumont. The records include: administration and financial records; correspondence including letters from detention centre detainees; minutes of meetings; lobbying and publicity material; publications including RAR newsletters; “Welcome book” material (ie. Kits supplied to refugees on arrival in rural communities); papers relating to the sinking of the SIEV-X, detention centres, deportations, fundraising and a “Freedom quilt” project; submissions; photographs; papers and audiovisual material relating to Human Rights Day and World Refugee Day and Week; papers relating to barrister Julian Gormley’s representation of Mahammad Kazim Kazimi in the Federal Court, 2004; research material; guides and education kits; and video and audio material on refugee themes (57 boxes, 1 elephant folio).??The Acc10.037 instalment comprises a large bound volume titled “Australia shamed: a list of dissenters” (2002) containing a “Statement of dissent” by Richard Flanagan and a list of signatures of petition against government policy towards refugees (1 fol. Box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.?National Library of Australia holds microfilm master.?1. Letters of Joseph Banks, 1815, William Cobbett, 1830 and William Wilberforce 1823. 2. Account by William Pare of visit to female convicts at Newgate, 1834. 3. Details of John Warrow, convict, 1834-8. 4. Letter from Dr. Richard Flatter, Vienna to J.H. Pafford, 1957 re deportation to Australia in Dunera and internment camp Tatura. 5. Letters to Herbert Spencer from Sir George Grey, N.Z., 1882-4. 6. Charles and Mary C. Booth papers, 1900-1937 re tour of the picture “The Light of the World” to Australia, 1906, etc. 7. Letters from Caroline Chisholm and Count Paul Edward de Strzelecki to Lord Overstone, 1851-4. 8. Papers of Samual Tolansky, physicist 1947-72 re Australian mica. 9. Papers of Charles Bennett, 1834 re John Callaghan, convict. 10. Plans of property in Singapore. 11. John Pollitt papers, 1899-1952 re car industry in Australia and N.Z. 12. University of London Registrars collection, 1886-1900 re colonial examinations, etc. 13. Frederick Simms, papers, 1891-1936 re car business, Australia. 14. Thomas Sturge Moore papers, 1909-27.?Microfilm copy of originals held by London University Library. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 March 2005 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes, 1937 – 1957 Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 February 2004 Last modified 19 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers of MS 4955 include a considerable amount of correspondence about literary, business and personal matters, drafts of poems, drafts of reviews, index cards, press cuttings, sketches, material about writers’ festivals, details of seminars, papers relating to Moscow trefoil and Seven Russian poets, papers relating to Francis Webb and information about poetry competitions. Major correspondents are Margaret Horder, Christina Stead, Francis Webb, Nan McDonald, Geoffrey Bingham, Claire O’Brien, Elizabeth Marsh, Denise Levertov, Ray Mathew, Alan Tregaskis, Lady Casey, Patrick White, David Marr, David Campbell, R.D. FitzGerald, A.D. Hope, Douglas Stewart, James McAuley and Judith Wright (25 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 December 2012 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Hon. Dr Robyn Layton has been a champion of social justice and rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, refugees, women and children. A former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia, Layton was the third woman to take silk in the State. She is a former Judge and Deputy President of the South Australian Industrial Court and Commission, and a former Deputy President of the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal. She was the reporter and author of the landmark Child Protection Review into South Australian Child Protection Laws in 2003. Layton has the distinction of having been the first Australian to be appointed as a member of the International Labour Organization’s Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, and its first female Chair. In 2012 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for services to the law and to the judiciary, particularly through the Supreme Court of South Australia, as an advocate for Indigenous, refugee and children’s rights, and to the community. Robyn Layton was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Robyn Layton graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Laws in 1967. Admitted in 1968, she worked in private practice, predominantly in the areas of industrial, criminal, civil, personal injury and family law. She commenced her court work acting pro bono for demonstrators and conscientious objectors to conscription during the Vietnam war and later for Aboriginal people charged with criminal offences. In 1972, Layton was appointed by the Commonwealth as solicitor to the Central Aboriginal Land Rights team; the experience kindled in Layton what would be a life-long commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the law. The team’s achievements would also make a valuable contribution to the later work of the Central and Northern Land Councils. The following year, in a departure from her usual legal work, Layton accepted an offer from the Rolling Stones’ tour promoter: “to shadow the Rolling Stones on their tour of Adelaide, and provide any legal advice if needed”. While Layton remembers it as a ‘surreal’ experience, it was said that “[d]espite the legal safety net created, the tour went off almost without a hitch” [ABC News]. In 1978 Layton was appointed a Judge and Deputy President of the South Australian Industrial Court and Commission; in 1985 she became the Deputy President of the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal. She returned to the legal profession and the South Australian Bar and was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, the third woman to take silk in South Australia [UNI SA]. Layton was the first Australian to be appointed as a member of International Labour Organization (ILO) Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, and its first female Chair. This prestigious Committee of international jurists monitors and reports on government practices on international labour standards world-wide. She sat on this body in Geneva from 1993 to 2008. [UNI SA]. Between 2002 and 2003 Layton reviewed and reported on a whole of state government response to child protection in the landmark Child Protection Review into South Australian. This Report found that Family and Youth Services was ill-equipped to deal with child abuse and called for more funding for child protection and major reforms, including a paedophile register [MX]. In June 2004 the South Australian Premier commended Layton’s report, committed further funding to her recommendations and observed that her comprehensive review had provided a guide to rebuilding child protection in South Australia [Weatherill]. Layton was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia in 2005, the fourth female judge in South Australia. A year later she and two fellow female judges made legal history in South Australia when they sat – an all-female bench of three – in the State’s Court of Criminal Appeal [James]. During her time at the Supreme Court Layton developed an international reputation as an expert in the field of education for judges and lawyers on labour standards [The Australian]. She was also active nationally on judicial and legal education on the issues concerning children in court. In 2010 Layton resigned from the Supreme Court. In her farewell speech Layton advocated for more funding for judicial education and indicated her commitment to continue her efforts in this area [The Australian]. In 2011, Layton continued in her judicial education capacity internationally with ILO. In relation to a judge’s role, Layton has observed that it increasingly complex: “It is not just knowing the law and how to apply the law in an academic sense”, “[t]here is now a greater need to connect with the community, to keep public confidence; the need to have the public feel that the judicial system is part of their community, to make decision making understandable to people other than lawyers. In particular in the criminal law, to ensure that the sentencing process is fair and it is understood both by the defendants and victims” [Hunt]. In 2012 Layton was also appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for her services to the law and to the judiciary, particularly through the Supreme Court of South Australia, as an advocate for Indigenous, refugee and children’s rights, and to the community. In the same year she was recognised in the Australian of the Year Awards as the “South Australian of the Year” for her social justice advocacy for Aboriginal people, children and refugees. Thereafter, further awards followed in 2013, an Honorary Doctorate, D.Univ. University of South Australia and the Justice Award by the Law Society of South Australia; and in 2016 the Australian Woman Lawyer of the Year by the Australian Women Lawyers Association. Layton’s skills were further extended to benefit not only Australians but women in communities further afield, as evidenced in 2012 to 2013, when she became the team leader for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Project on good legal, social and economic practices to reduce poverty and increase employment for women in Kazakhstan, Cambodia and the Philippines [The Australian]. In 2014 Layton became Chair of the Panel for the Review of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act 1981. This Review required undertaking an intensive consultative approach to report on recommendations to reform the governance of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yunkunytjatjara Lands (APY Lands). Many visits were made to the APY Lands to obtain views on how Anangu people wanted governance structures to operate on the APY Lands [SBS]. Layton is a patron of the Australian Migrant Resource Centre, Junction Australia, Women’s Legal Services SA, and the International Women’s Day Committee. She chairs the Advisory Council for the Australian Centre for Child Protection and the Justice Reinvestment SA Committee. She is also member of many bodies and organisations concerned with social justice and is active at the University of South Australia as an Adjunct Professor in the Law School. During her lifetime, Layton has made a considerable contribution in the areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights, the rights of refugees and children, and the advancement of women’s economic empowerment. She has done much to increase the profile of judicial and legal education in Australia and is internationally recognised as an expert in the field of international labour law. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Robyn Layton interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Robyn Layton Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection consists mainly of correspondence relating to Australian literary interests and figures, particularly to Joseph Furphy and his writings. The main sections are letters from Furphy to his mother, to Kate Baker and to William Cathels; from Kate Baker to Margaret Boyd and A.K. Wilson; and from A.G. Stephens to Furphy and Baker. Correspondents in the collection include: J.S. Neilson, Guy Innes, C. Winterbottom, Vance and Nettie Palmer, Miles Franklin, Charles Bryde, Gerald Bryne, J.K. Ewers, H.B. Grattan, F. Wilmot, the editor of the Bulletin, the Australian Literature Society and publishers and booksellers such as Angus and Robertson. Other items include photographs, presscuttings, typescript copies of articles, MS copies of poems by J. Furphy and Kate Baker’s Silhouettes – articles about such Australian literary figures as Ada Cambridge, J.K. Ewers, J.S. Neilson, Alice Henry, R.H. Croll, D.O’Reilly, Canon Hughes, Vance & Nettie Palmer, Dame Mary Gilmore Hubert Church, B. O’Dowd, A.G. Stephens, C. Winterbottom, C. Bryde, M. Franklin, G. Byrne, Edith Coleman, E. Coulson Davidson, C. Lang, C. Strong and Victor Kennedy. Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers include the Constitution, reports, statements of receipts and payments, correspondence, an invitation, guest list and the Traveller’s Aid Society prayer. Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 December 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Margaret Colman stood for Parliament only once and ran a minimal campaign as a Democratic Labor Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Kirribilli in 1973. Margaret Colman, the mother of four children, announced she would be the voice of reason and reform if elected. At the time of her campaign, she was described as a housewife. Her husband stood for the DLP in Davidson at the same election. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Cindy Cagney was a once-only candidate who stood as an Independent in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Camden in 2003. She was however a successful local councillor, having been elected to the Campbelltown City Council. As a resident of Bradbury, a suburb of Campbelltown, Cindy Cagney was strongly in favour of improved infrastructure in the area. She stressed that neighbourhoods should be built with schools, shops, playing fields, walking and cycling tracks and adequate public transport. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Thesis for M.D. Degree. Typewritten copy. 117 leaves : ill. (col.), tables ; 33 cm Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Agenda for A.G.M. (1980); certificate of change of name (1984); constitution (1965); history “Origin of the West Australian Housewives’ Association” written by Elsie E. Morgan; membership list (1974-1975); minute books (1971-1984); report of Acting Secretary (1981) Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 November 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Written by Ivy Weber’s grand-daughter Vicki Davies in 1979. Also included are press cuttings relating to Lady Peacock, M.L.A. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 March 2005 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "NS354/1/80 Girls Friendly Society: Associate’s Book or Register of members??NS354/1/81 Girls Friendly Society: Candidates Register??NS354/1/82 Girls Friendly Society: Roll Book and Journal??NS354/1/83 Scout Troop: Minute Book 17/4/1931 – 31/10/1938 (includes Cash Book for Group Account 1931) Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 February 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marion Hearnshaw was a wife and mother whose life was inextricably connected to politics and social action. She was a Liberal Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Parramatta in 1962 and an Independent in the 1965 Eastwood elections. Marion Hearnshaw was the daughter of a Methodist minister and married the Reverend Dan Oakes, a Methodist missionary in New Guinea who was lost on the Montevideo Maru, in 1942. In 1947 she married Eric Hearnshaw, (English-born 1893-1967), who was the Liberal member for Ryde and later Eastwood in the NSW Legislative Assembly. They had 6 children, 3 sons and 3 daughters. Marion Hearnshaw and Lady Barwick (wife of the Liberal MHR for Parramatta 1958-64) frequently held morning teas in their respective homes for their husbands’ constituents, though they maintained the guest list was non-political and non-sectarian. With her husband, she visited every school in the Eastwood electorate annually and wrote a column in the local paper on mothers and children and their problems. She also regularly took small groups of women to Parliament House so they could see the parliamentary system in action. When she stood for the state seat of Parramatta in 1962, it was held by the ALP and she was pleased to carry the Liberal banner. Eric Hearnshaw, who was Opposition Whip, lost the Liberal preselection in 1965 to J. A. Clough, who had previously been the MLA for Parramatta (1956-59) and in the 1965 election, Marion Hearnshaw ran as an independent against the endorsed Liberal. Her campaign stressed that she had been active in the public political life of the Eastwood Electorate for 18 years, without mentioning the infighting. She was particularly concerned with education, training and apprenticeships. She died in June 2000 and left her body to the University of Sydney. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 30 January 2006 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Justice Mary Finn of the Family Court of Australia is a second-generation woman lawyer (third generation lawyer). Her mother was Clare Foley, Queensland’s fourth woman solicitor, who, in turn, was the daughter of an Ipswich lawyer, Edward Pender. Appointed to the bench of the Family Court in 1990, Justice Finn retired on her seventieth birthday, in July 2016. Finn’s reputation as a drafter and developer of legislation, established during her career in the Federal Attorney-General’s office, was renowned. Lionel Bowen, federal Attorney-General 1984-1990, described her advice as both ‘practical and accurate’; he was known to ask regularly, when confronted with legislative challenges, ‘What would Mary think?’ Finn is well known for her contribution to the review of the Family Law Act 1975, completed in 1980, and for her contribution to committees established to implement the report’s recommendations. Her public service experience established her credentials as an expert in family law; at the time of her appointment to the bench in 1990 she was regarded as one of Australia’s leading experts on the Family Law Act. Both of Finn’s children, Wilfred and Eugenie, are fourth generation lawyers, with Eugenie enjoying a special and rare status in Australian law as a third generation woman lawyer. Born in Brisbane in 1946, Mary Foley was educated by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart at her mother’s (Clare Foley) alma mater, Stuartholme. She recalls receiving great encouragement, ‘academically and intellectually’ from the nuns who were ‘wonderful teachers’. She loved to read and enjoyed history, but because she did not fancy either of the career options that a straight Arts degree offered women at the time – teaching and librarianship – she looked to her own family history and decided to study a combined degree in Arts Law. She started study at the University of Queensland in 1964; one of seven women among one hundred first year students in her law cohort and one of only three who graduated. She completed her Arts degree three years into her six year combined course and began work as a law clerk in the Queensland Office of Crown Law. Her first public service job created a precedent; in 1967 the only public service classifications open to women in the Crown Law office were in the secretarial stream, but Mary was the first woman to be employed in the office in a legal capacity. As a legal student studying at the University of Queensland but working in the Crown Law office, according to the practice at the time, she was admitted as a barrister without the requirement of articles and with few additional requirements once her degree was completed. She was, therefore, exposed to court work during her years at Crown Law, although her superiors were reluctant to expose her to criminal law, fearing she would be upset by what she heard and saw. ‘Protected’ from criminal law, Mary spent most of her time in the common law section of the Crown Law office, but she also had to the opportunity to develop her legal research skills undertaking a variety of projects for the Queensland Attorney-General, Solicitor-General and Crown Solicitor. This experience prepared her for a major part of her career to come because it involved proof-reading draft Commonwealth-state uniform legislation, being developed for the first time in the late 1960s. She was working in the Crown Law office in 1969 when she was admitted to the Queensland Bar, the sixth woman in the state to accomplish the feat. In 1969, Mary Foley married Paul Finn, who had been in her year at law school. The couple travelled overseas so that Paul could further his studies. Whilst abroad in Britain, Mary found work as a legal advisor for a mining company with operations in Zambia, a job she found fascinating. When the family returned to Brisbane, she took that experience with her and worked for eighteen months as head of the mining section at solicitors Feez Ruthning. In 1977, the Finns moved to Canberra; by 1979 Mary was again employed as a public servant, working on the review of the Family Law Act 1975, an area of law that was entirely new to her. Thus began her long career as a public servant dealing with family court matters, as legal researcher, adviser, expert drafter of legislation and judge. She was seconded to the Law Reform Commission in 1986 to work on matrimonial property legislative reform, holding positions at that time on the Family Law Council and Board of the Institute of Family Studies. She spent a year as Commonwealth coordinating officer for the Standing Committee of Attorneys-Genera, before moving to the Trade Practices and Competition Policy branch of the Attorney-General’s department. She was a member of the Film Review Board from 1988 until her appointment as a Judge of the Family Court of Australia in 1990. Finn’s appointment as a judge was unusual given her relative lack of experience appearing in the court as a barrister. Appointments to the Bench directly from the Attorney-General’s department were rare, but Finn’s considerable experience and deep knowledge of the Family Law Act were valued highly by her peers. In 1993 she was assigned to the Appeal Division of the Family Court, further testimony to ‘her skill, and to the wisdom of those who appointed her’. Before her retirement in July 2016, she was the senior judge (after the Chief and Deputy Chief Justices) on the Appeals division. Outside her court and family responsibilities, Mary Finn contributed to external boards and tribunals. She was a member of the Council of the Australian National University between 1993 and 2002, an era of great transition and change in the Australian tertiary education sector. Published resources Book Section Clare Foley and her daughter Mary Finn, Gregory, Helen, 2005 Conference Proceedings Key issues in family law : papers presented at symposium 1994 held on 4 - 6 March, 1994 / papers presented by Mary Finn, Phil Theobald, Michael Habermann, Finn, Mary, 1994 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Justice Mary Finn, Family Court judge in Canberra, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Helen Gregory (with Nikki Henningham) Created 21 June 2016 Last modified 31 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Christine Sharp was born in London in 1947, daughter of Alfred and Phyllis Sharp. She completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours at the University of Sheffield, and a Master of Arts (Political Science) at the University of Kent. Sharp came to Western Australia in 1973, later completing a PhD at Murdoch University on politics and ethics. She founded the Golden Valley Tree Park in Ballingup, and has a long history of involvement with tree farming. Sharp was a founding member of the Greens (Western Australia) Party in the early 1990s. She was elected to the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia for South West Region on 14 December 1996 for the term commencing 22 May 1997. She was re-elected in 2001, and retired in May 2005. Christine Sharp was born in London in 1947, daughter of Alfred and Phyllis Sharp. She completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours at the University of Sheffield, and a Master of Arts (Political Science) at the University of Kent. Sharp came to Western Australia in 1973, later completing a PhD at Murdoch University on politics and ethics. She founded the Golden Valley Tree Park in Ballingup, and has a long history of involvement with tree farming. Sharp was a founding member of the Greens (Western Australia) Party in the early 1990s. She was elected to the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia for South West Region on 14 December 1996 for the term commencing 22 May 1997. She was re-elected in 2001, and retired in May 2005. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 25 November 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Two volumes of handwritten transcripts of letters on botanical matters received by Captain Mangles, many from the Swan River, written by Georgiana Molloy, George Fletcher Moore, Captain R.G. Meares, Ellen Stirling, J. Drummond, H.M. Ommanney, Sir R. Spencer and others. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marian Wilkinson won a Walkley Award in 1989 for Best TV Current Affairs reporting, while working for the program Four Corners. In True Believers she interviewed four Liberal Party MPs after the Andrew Peacock leadership ‘coup’ that removed John Howard from the Liberal leadership. The judges commented in 1989 that she provided a ‘new angle on the story…it was well presented…with unbelievable interviews. The impact of this programme is still being felt on the national political scene’. Marian Wilkinson was brought up in Brisbane and graduated from Queensland University. She helped set up Brisbane’s first alternative FM Radio Station, 4ZZZ-FM, and helped run its first newsroom. She was hired by The National Times in Sydney covering politics and organised crime before becoming the paper’s Washington Correspondent. On her return to Australia she joined ABC Television’s Four Corners as a reporter and later became the program’s executive producer. Since then she has worked at The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald in reporting and editing roles. In 2002 she was appointed Washington Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age and reported the 2004 presidential campaign. She returned to the Herald in Sydney as a senior reporter covering national security and Cole inquiry into the Oil for Food scandal. She is the author of several books on Australian politics including: The Fixer, the Unauthorised Biography of Graham Richardson and Dark Victory with David Marr. She has received numerous awards for her journalism including a Walkley and a Logie. Events 1989 - 1989 Best Television Current Affairs Report – ‘True Believers’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1980 - Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (Australia) - records of the W.G. Walkley Awards, 1956 - 1999 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 17 October 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "An active and hard-working member of the Liberal Party, Christine Bourne stood as a candidate in the 1995 Port Jackson elections and in the Mulgoa elections of 1999 and 2003. She was later elected Alderman of the Leichhardt Municipal Council. Christine Bourne has held many positions in the Liberal Party at local and state level, including being President of Glebe branch (1993-7) and secretary of the Drummoyne Branch (1991-3). She was a delegate to the State Council 1994-7 and has worked in the building industry since 1993, consulting on environmental matters. Christine completed a BA at the University of New England and later a Masters in Environmental Management. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Heather Reid has been instrumental in forming, developing and promoting opportunities for women and girls in sport and physical activity, predominantly through football (soccer) since 1978. She has a sound knowledge of the cultural, social and political complexities of the Australian sport industry. In 2004, she was the first woman appointed as CEO of a State football federation, at Capital Football. Since then she has led the integration of all aspects of football in the ACT – for male, female, junior, indoor and outdoor players along with referees and coaches. She has won numerous awards in recognition for her outstanding service to sport in Canberra and at a national level. In 2006, she won the Australian Sports Commission’s Margaret Pewtress Memorial Award for her contribution to women in sport. Heather Reid is the daughter of migrants from Scotland who spent most of her childhood growing up in the Snowy Mountains, as the Snowy Mountain Hydro-electricity Scheme grew up around her. As a result, she gained an understanding of cultural diversity long before many Australians in cities experienced its pleasures. She also gained an appreciation for the game that Australian Rules Football and Rugby obsessed Australian’s called soccer, but the rest of the world calls football. With all those European close at hand, it was impossible not to. Reid showed leadership potential at school and was named School Captain at Tumut High School in 1973. Upon completing school, she worked in Canberra as a public servant and enjoyed periods of extensive travel overseas, where she connected with family in Scotland and another branch who migrated to Canada. She always enjoyed playing competitive sport and Canberra was the right place to be for someone so inclined. Public service units established regular competitions and Reid was an enthusiastic participant in softball and football teams. Reid decided to take her enjoyment of football a step further when she became a foundation member of a club and then a state association that started organized football competitions for women in 1978. She has had continuous involvement in the sport since then and has seen the development of the sport from 10 teams in 1978 to 62 teams in 2005, with girls participation growing at a rate of about 18% per annum. If there has been a significant development in women’s soccer in Canberra, indeed nationally, Heather Reid will have been involved in some capacity. She held the position of National Executive Director of Women’s Soccer Australia between 1986-1993. She introduced state representative teams for women in 1980, coached the first ACT Under 15 teams in 1983, pioneered the establishment of a women’s world cup and successfully lobbied for the inclusion of women’s soccer in the Olympic Games. In 2003 she was appointed to the position of General Manager of Women’s Soccer Canberra and in 2004 she was appointed CEO of Soccer Canberra (now Capital Football) thus becoming the first woman to lead a State football association. Since 2005, she has led the integration of all aspects of football in Canberra – male, female, junior indoor and outdoor players, referees and coaches into this one organisation. She is in charge of an organisation that administers the needs of 18,000 players, 450 referees and hundreds of coaches. In 2008 she was instrumental in obtaining the licence for Canberra United Football Club to compete in the Westfield W-League, the Football Federation of Australia’s national competition for elite women. To say that Heather Reid has a passion for creating opportunities for women to participate in sport of all kinds, not just football, is an understatement. She has been involved in several committees and advocacy organisations on a volunteer and professional basis. Between 1990-1992 she was a Director of Womensport ACT, National Executive Director of Womensport Australia 1994-1998 and was a member of Australian Womensport and Recreation Association 2007-2012. She was the longest-standing member of the ACT Sport and Recreation Council when she resigned in 2002, having joined in 1991. Between 2003-2008 she was a member and chair of the ACT Advisory Council on Women and Sport and was a member of the ACT Sport and Recreation Council in 2008-2012. Heather has also worked for the Australian Sports Commission, as a consultant to the Women and Sport Unit 1999-2001 and as a project officer, Ethics and Women’s Sport between 2002-2003. Numerous reports and recommendations on the state of women’s sport have been completed under her guidance. In 1993 Gender Equity in ACT Sport – Not Just a Women’s Issue was the culmination of a review of development plans for 33 sports conducting on behalf of the ACT government. Many initiatives arising from the report are still in operation. Mentor as Anything – guidelines for implementing a mentor program came out of a national project examining the training and leadership requirements to increase women’s opportunities to take on leadership roles in sporting organisations. Heather Reid has been recognised for her outstanding service to sport in Canberra and at a national level. In 2000 she was the ACT Sport Star of the Year in the administrator category and in 2001 she received an Australian Sports Medal for her contribution to soccer and community sport. In 2006, she won the Australian Sports Commission’s Margaret Pewtress Memorial Award for her contribution to women in sport. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Report Gender equity in A.C.T. sport - not just a women's issue!, Reid, Heather, 1993 Mentor as anything! : guidelines for developing and implementing a mentoring program for women in the sport and recreation industry, Reid, Heather, 1999 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Heather Reid interviewed by Nikki Henningham [sound recording] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 16 April 2019 Digital resources Title: Portrait of Heather Reid during an oral history interview with Nikki Henningham at the National Library of Australia Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 digital audio tape (ca. 40 min.)??Clark, a translator, discusses comments which have been made about Manning Clark being a Russian spy or agent of KGB and that he received the Order of Lenin. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1927-1995; Photographs of her social and professional activities in Australia and overseas, including her travels around N.S.W., 1927-1930, and functions with, among others, Joan Sutherland; oil painting, 35.8 x 25.5 cm, by Diana Gai Mary Fitzgerald, 1992, being an allegorical depiction of Jean Arnot’s career, with related notes and letters to Jean Arnot, 1991-1995; and documentation concerning King’s Coronation medal, 1937 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/16) 1993-1994; Photographs concerning Jean Arnot’s 90th birthday celebrations at Parliament House, Sydney, 1993, including album of photoprints (col.) with enclosed pen and ink and watercolour card presented to her from Dr Maurine Goldston-Morris, President of the Women’s Club; and the Jean Arnot Annual Luncheon, Parliament House, 8 Apr. 1994 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/17) 1937, 1965; King’s Coronation and MBE medals (Locn No.: R 871) Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Canberra Branch is the oldest of four located in the Australian Capital Territory. All four belong to the Monaro Group of the Country Women’s Association of NSW. The Canberra Branch was founded in 1946. By March 1953 the members had raised enough funds to build their own rooms on the edge of what was then the Central Business District of Canberra. In the early 1980s high-rise office blocks were being built next to the rooms and the branch was able to negotiate the sale of its lease to a developer who provided the branch with a large area of the ground floor of a new building on Barry Drive. The branch provides education, health and social welfare support to its community with the funds it raises and through its crafts and cooking. The Canberra Branch of the CWA was formed in 1946. At its first meeting on 20 November in the Lady Gowrie Services Hut in Manuka, Wilga Ryrie was elected president. The other founding office-bearers were Mrs A D Campbell, Mrs Jeremy, Mrs G Campbell, Mrs Garrett, Mrs R Reid, Mrs O Dixon, Mrs R N Hancock and Mrs L Baird. Early activities included food parcels for England and donating books to the Bungendore Library, then run by the local CWA branch. The Canberra Branch started to provide afternoon teas at the annual sheep sales and the races (at a racecourse which is now under Lake Burley Griffin). Other afternoon teas, cake stalls and street stalls raised more funds. A ball raised money for the Seaside Homes and a fete was held at Government House, both within the Branch’s first two years of existence. As early as April 1948 the Branch decided to lodge an application for land on which to build rooms. An offer of a block of land in 1949 had to be refused due to insufficient funds. The Branch met in various places around Canberra, including in the premises of the Young Women’s Christian Association. By April 1951 its building fund contained £530. Some of this had been earned from the sale of wool donated by graziers and some came from functions, including a fete at the Prime Minister’s Lodge. The CWA State Executive offered to lend the Branch £600 towards a building, estimated to cost £1360. Bertha Mac Smith, who had opened the Branch’s first meeting in 1946, was invited to open the new building on Moore Street, Turner, on 14 March 1953. The final loan from the State Executive was £1000, at bank interest, paid off only two years later. By 1959 the Branch had so many members and activities that extensions to the building were needed. At this time there were few alternatives for women in Canberra who were not in the workforce. Again, members’ fundraising paid for the extensions. Dame Pattie Menzies was Patron of the Branch from 1955 to 1962. Dame Zara Holt (later Dame Zara Bate) succeeded her in 1967. Alice Pedley held the position from 1974 to 1981, followed by Dorothy Buckmaster in 1986 to 1988 and Joan Huston from 1989. By the early 1980s high-rise office blocks surrounded the CWA building and the desirability of its location was obvious to all. A committee of the Branch investigated how best to deal with the development pressures. In May 1985 their single-storey building was demolished. This time the Uniting Church Hall in Reid became the temporary home. The Branch was able to move into its new premises on Barry Drive in Civic on 6 February 1988. The opening was performed by the State President, Audrey Hardman OAM. The Branch now awards grants to Year 12 students and young carers in Canberra. The funds come from the interest derived from investing the bequest to the Canberra Branch by the late Salme Koobakene who was a strong supporter of secondary and tertiary education, and showed a keen interest in the welfare of young carers in the Canberra community. The number of scholarships and carers’ grants is dependent on the interest from the bequest in any given year. The interest is divided equally between the Canberra Branch and the Monaro Group. This Group uses its share to provide scholarships along similar lines. These scholarships are additional to scholarships provided by the Canberra Branch from normal funds. A nursing student at the University of Canberra also receives a grant from Canberra Branch funds each year. More traditional Branch activities include knitting bootees and beanies for babies in the neo-natal unit in the Canberra Hospital and knee rugs for Canberra’s hospice and its nursing homes. Members prepare bags for patients admitted to Canberra through its emergency departments. They collect goods for women in country areas affected by drought or floods. They make and bag biscuits several times a year for the St Vincent de Paul Night Patrol Van. As well, they participate in the activities of the CWA of NSW, including those aimed at changing government policies at the State and Federal levels. An international program has been a tradition first introduced by the CWA in 1938. The Canberra Branch’s early food parcels for England were followed by silver coin donations for Holland. The first country of focussed study was New Zealand in 1947. More recently, members have helped with aid programs in Timor Leste, while Morocco is the latest focus. Participants in the Canberra Branch’s cultural program entertain every Social Day on the first Friday of the month. They can provide their own musical or dramatic presentations or invite in guest speakers and performers. The Canberra School of Music, the Canberra Youth Orchestra and the local Scottish dancers have provided particular enjoyment. The three younger branches of the CWA in the urban Australian Capital Territory are known as Belconnen, Canberra Evening (formed in 1988) and Gunghalin. A Weetangera Branch existed but had closed before the Canberra Branch started in 1946. A Tharwa Branch was opened in 1957 but closed four years later. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Country Women's Association of NSW, Canberra Branch, Know Your CWA, 2011 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection History 1959 [manuscript] Records of the Country Women's Association of Australia, 1945-1969, 2003 [manuscript] Author Details Ann Tündern-Smith Created 20 February 2013 Last modified 1 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "15 sound files Author Details Helen Morgan Created 12 October 2018 Last modified 12 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Founded in 1896 (the first such council in Australia) the National Council of Women of New South Wales is a non-party, non-sectarian, umbrella organisation for a large and diverse number of affiliated women’s organisations. It functions as a political lobby group, particularly for the interests of women and children, attempting to influence local, state and federal government, and as a coordinating body to enable concerted effort on specific issues. The Council emerged as a largely middle-class women’s organisation and, until the 1940s at least, was a major focal point for such women’s activism. Although not overtly feminist, the Council has campaigned for a wide range of social and political reforms. The National Council of Women of New South Wales was founded on 26 June 1896 at a public meeting in the Sydney Town Hall. Its formation was largely instigated by Margaret Windeyer, its first honorary secretary, supported by Rose Scott, who was a member of the executive committee from 1896-1921 and also served as International Secretary. The eleven original affiliated groups outlined a very broad agenda: • ‘To promote the social, civil, moral and religious welfare of the community; • To work for the removal of all disabilities of women, whether legal, economic or social; • To promote such conditions of life as would assure to every child an opportunity for full and free development.’ By 1936 it included 68 organisations; rising to 108 by 1978. Although encompassing a diverse range of organisations, the Council has always been dominated by women of the middle and upper classes. Its first five presidents (1899-1918) were wives or daughters of the incumbent governor of New South Wales. Like all National Councils of Women, it operates though a standing committee system whereby specific issues are brought before the Council and, if there is general agreement that a question should be taken up, a subcommittee is established to investigate the matter. Women’s suffrage was the first issue taken up by the Council and its early concerns included the provision of Domestic Economy class in public schools; temperance; the need for Women Factory Inspectors; improved working conditions for women; the establishment of Kindergartens and Nursery Schools. In 1908 they established the Alice Rawson School for Mothers out of which emerged the Baby Health Clinics administered by the Department of Health from 1914. Later they concentrated on legal reforms such as the Nationality of Married Women and Guardianship of Children. In 1929 the Council established the Board of Social Study and Training which pioneered the training of social workers until it was taken over by the University of Sydney. Other fields of activity/interest for the Council have included: the extension of health and education services; widows pensions; integration of migrants; children welfare and social welfare; nursing standards; family maintenance; legal marriage age; youth problems; consumer protection and standards of quality; unemployment insurance; road safety; welfare of the aged; hire purchase; drug addiction housing and town planning; welfare of Aborigines; a Women’s Bureau; community centres; parks and playgrounds; shopping hours; women police; children’s flammable clothing; driver’s licences (women’s); apprenticeship for girls; marriage guidance; prison reform; film censorship; care of the ‘feeble minded’. Published resources Report Report of the National Council of Women of New South Wales of an Informal Conference with Mrs May Wright Sewell, President of the International Council of Women, Vida Goldstein, 1902 Book Endeavour: Women's organisations in New South Wales, 1896-1978 / National Council of Women of New South Wales, [1980] Seventy five years, 1896-1971, 1971 Pamphlet White Slave Traffic (Petition from certain officers of the National Council of Women of New South Wales Against), 1913 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection National Council of Women of NSW - program for the launch of the Centenary Stamp Issue and a complete set of the issue, 1996 National Council of Women of New South Wales further papers, 1895-1981 National Council of Women of NSW Inc. - further records, 1926-1927, 1937-1990 Papers relating to National Council of Women of New South Wales, 1895-1897 National Council of Women of New South Wales further records, 1895-1997 Box 09: Fry family - papers of Edith Fry, 1881 - 1940 National Council of Women of New South Wales records, 1895-1976 Jean Arnot Memorial Luncheon - Book of Honour, 1994-1997, being a selected compilation National Council of Women of New South Wales further records, ca. 1891-2002 State Library of New South Wales Scott family - Manuscript and pictorial material, 1777-1925 Rose Scott papers, 1862-1923 Windeyer family - Papers, 1827-1928 Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 September 2003 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Title devised by cataloguer from inscription on photograph. Inscriptions: “Tilly Aston”– signed on upper left corner of 1 photograph. “Tilly Aston”–on mount bottom centre of second photograph.??Condition good. Two copies of the same photograph. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 February 2006 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Judith Edwards was an Australian Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. She was elected to the Thirty-third Parliament of Western Australia for Maylands at the by-election on 26 May 1990, held to fill the vacancy consequent upon the resignation of Hon. Peter M’Callum Dowding. Re-elected in 1993, 1996, 2001, 2005 she did not contest the general election of 6 September 2008. Judith Mary Edwards was born in 1955 in Beverley, Western Australia, to Brian and Patricia Edwards, a farmer and nurse respectively. Edwards completed her secondary education at Loreto Convent, Claremont, and graduated from the University of Western Australia as a medical practitioner. Undertaking study towards a Masters degree in public health, she began practicing in the Mount Lawley area of Perth, and became involved with a number of community-based health services, including the Sexual Assault Referral Centre and the Aboriginal Medical Service. After joining the Australian Labor Party, Edwards entered the Legislative Assembly in the Western Australian Parliament for the seat of Maylands after the by-election of 26 May 1990, held to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Hon. Peter Dowding. She was re-elected in 1993, 1996, 2001, 2005, and did not contest the general election of 6 September 2008. Published resources Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Material prepared primarily for submission to members of the N.T. Legislative Council, prior to their consideration of proposed amendments to the Aboriginal Ordinances; Present needs of Aborigines, land, education, a future on their own within the framework of the Aust. Cmwealth; Comments on effect of white contact on Walbiri. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 7973 comprises newscuttings, typescripts, research material, correspondence and other papers relating to Cyril Pearl’s historical research, work as a journalist and other activities. The papers include some material relating to Pearl’s time as a student at the University of Melbourne. The newscuttings include copies of articles written by Pearl for The Sunday telegraph, 1939-1947, and his “On the margin” column in The Sydney morning herald, 1968-1971. There are subject files on the University of Melbourne, 1930s; inventions; flying; food; Dr L.L. Smith; Thomas Watling; jargon; Mafeking; Adelaide Ironside; Wood Jones; Hugh Robertson; housing; Richard and Anne Hughes; Ireland and the Mole tank invented by Lancelot de Mole. The collection also comprises a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of articles written by Pearl for The Star newspaper, 1933-1935, and edited copies of articles (3 boxes, 1 fol. Item).??The Acc09.202 instalment comprises drafts, research notes, reviews, press clippings and correspondence relating to various of Pearl’s books; copies of articles written by Pearl; illustrated articles by Irma Pearl; photographs and slides of family, travel and professional; correspondence with eminent public figures including Norman Lindsay, Russell Drysdale, George Ernest Morrison, Maie Casey; correspondence with broadcasters and publishers; biographical material including obituaries and interview transcripts; personal correspondence with Paddy Pearl; documentation on Campania House and George Gunning; diaries; and, personal documents including passports and marriage certificate (11 boxes).??The Acc10.137 instalment comprises published material and photocopies of newspaper articles relating to the Dunera boys (2 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc11.145 instalment comprises one painting depicting a portrait of Cyril Pearl by Fred Leist. Also, draft typescripts and photocopies of drafts of “Ellis diary 1875-1890” (Item 1/Part 1); research papers including photographs of Colonel Arthur Lynch; estrays and a personalised block for printing Cyril Pearl’s business cards (1 fol. Packet, 1 elephant folio).??The Acc11.164 instalment comprises mockups of two books written by Pearl, “The girl with the swansdown seat” (1956) and “ANZAC newsreel: a picture history of Gallipoli” (1963) (1 folder, 1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "To be advised Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 March 2004 Last modified 11 March 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Anne-Maree Whitaker has moved from work as a public servant and political staffer, to a career as a professional historian with a special interest in Australia’s Irish and Catholic history. An ALP member, she was a candidate in the House of Representatives election for Wentworth in 1987 and in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly election for Bligh in 1991. Anne-Marie had more success in local politics being a member of the South Sydney Council between 1989-1995. Anne-Maree Whitaker came to Australia in 1977, joined NSW public service and worked in policy and public relations fields. She was appointed to the personal staff of Ken Gabb, Minister for Mineral Resources and Aboriginal Affairs and joined ALP in 1983. Anne Maree Whitaker holds Masters degrees in both European and Australian history (East Anglia UK, 1977; MA Sydney 1985). She also has a BA (Canterbury NZ, 1975) and a PhD (Macquarie, 1993). At the time of her campaign for Wentworth she was working as a broadcaster and programmer with the Irish Heritage program of 2SER-FM.She became an independent researcher and historian, with extensive publications and consultancies. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hours 50 minutes??Gladys Tanner was born in England and came to South Australia with her parents in 1925. Her mother died when Gladys was twelve, and from that time, until commencing training at Naracoorte in 1940, she looked after her father and three brothers. She completed training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1944, and was a charge nurse there until 1949 when she did midwifery training in Sydney. In 1951 she received a scholarship to study nursing administration at the new College of Nursing, Australia, in Melbourne. She was appointed Assistant Matron, then Deputy Matron at the RAH and in 1958 became the first Matron of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at Woodville. She remained in this post until her retirement in 1982. Gladys was also involved in the Nurses’ Board, the Royal Australian Nursing Federation and the Royal College of Nursing, Australia. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9491 comprises diaries; manuscript drafts of novels, “The pursuit of happiness”, “She came unarmed” and “Fifth century Athens viewed from her dramas” and short stories, “Tadpoles and veuve clicquot” and “All because of a missed connection”; cuttings of Margaret Clarke’s articles in newspapers and newspaper clippings and correspondence on Marcus Clarke; letters and photographs; Clarke’s will; listing of ABC musical performances and four books each sent by its author to Clarke with either an enclosed letter or signed. The books are: The orange tree and other stories / Helen Shaw, The hill of content / A.H. Spencer, Suspicion / E.J. Landon, and Men of Dunwich / Rowland Parker (3 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 February 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Official Bulletin issued by the strike committee, Brisbane, 1912, report of the All Australian Trade Union Congress, February 1930, The Worker, 1908, 1910, 1922, 1929. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 March 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Geelong and Western District Ladies Benevolent Association is a non-sectarian philanthropic organisation, whose aims on formation were to provide emergency relief to the poor, in particular to women, and homes for ‘aged helpless females’. The demands on their services rose and fell with economic circumstances such as the collapse of the land boom. The advent of the aged pension, and later the extension of Government welfare, reduced the call on their services in the early – mid-twentieth century. The Association is still in existence, providing assistance during illness and other misfortunes. The Geelong and Western District Female Benevolent Association was formed on 23 June, 1855, with Miss Caroline Newcomb of Coryule as its inaugural President. Money was raised through government grants, subscription fees, donations, including bequests, and fundraising, though not by public appeal. Subscribers referred cases to the committee for consideration. Homes were built through grants from the government and charitable trusts (Baxter Homes, in 1983), personal bequest (Haimes Memorial Houses, in 1895-6) and personal endowment The homes endowed by Elizabeth Phillips Austin, erected in 1887, were, as Heritage Victoria notes, endowed by a woman, and owned and managed by a charitable institution run by women, for the benefit of women in reduced circumstances. The Society ran a free kindergarten in Yarra Street for nearly 100 years, and Upton House in Queenscliff, to provide holidays for women. Published resources Resource Victorian Heritage Database, Heritage Victoria, http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/vhd/heritagevic Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book A History of Geelong and Corio Bay, Brownhill, W. R., 1955 Archival resources Geelong Heritage Centre Geelong & Western District Ladies Benevolent Association Author Details Janet Butler Created 24 August 2009 Last modified 4 January 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes of the various committees: House Committee, Finance Committee, Royal Hospital for Women Committee, Conjoint Board, Medical Advisory Committee, Medical Appointments Advisory Committee, the Scarba Committee, Annual General Meetings, Miscellaneous Sub-committees, the Renwick Committee, Sub-committees, 1863-1981.??Business papers and Agenda books, 1878-1968.??Record of Centenary Celebration, May 1913.??Acts, by-laws, rules and regulations, 1902-1976.??Registers: General staff, 1887-1938, Life Governors, 1890-1971, Bequests, legacies and mortgage loans, 1895-1968, Special appeals, 1932, Subscriptions, Jan. 1937-Dec. 1940, Public contributions and endowments, Jul. 1959-Feb. 1966, Assets, ca. 1902-ca. 1958, Gas and electricity consumption, Aug. 1937-Nov. 1946.??Financial records: Salaries and wages books, 1881-1886, 1930-1941, Ledgers of income and expenditure, 1903-1952, Financial statements, 1905-1916, 1918, 1921, 1930-1950, Stores books, 1930-1933, 1936-1943.??Newscuttings, 1919-1988.??Inmates and Patients records: Index to Admissions and Discharges, 1932-1937, Obstetrics journals: form for admission of waiting patients, 1909-1914, “Pupils book” 1885-1897.??Royal Hospital for Women: Certificates of Nursing, Renwick Hospital for Infants and Royal Hospital for Women, 1904-1906, 196?-1962, Medical and clinical reports, 1917, 1937-1949, 1966-1968, Information booklets and promotional pamphlets, 1922-1929, after 1949, Invitations and programs, 1929, 1941, 1976-1989, Patient registration cards, after 1929, List of Honorary Medical Officers, 1894-1989, Rules and regulations, Aug. 1938, Minutes of the Honorary Medical Staff, 1939-1949, 1955-1960, Minutes of the Senior Medical Staff Committee and Sub-committees, 1961-1991??Renwick Hospital for Infants: Register of baptisms, 1902-1964, Post mortem register, June 1957-Jan. 1965, Register of surgical operations, Mar. 1962-Mar. 1965, “Infants Hospital History Book” ca. Feb. 1911, Patients’ medical records, 1937, 1955-1956, Visitors’ books, Aug. 1911-Nov. 1916, President’s report ca. Sept. 1918-Oct. 1918, Matron’s diaries, 1918-1927, Commemorative photograph album, Nov. 1921, Minutes of the Honorary Medical Staff, 1939-1964.??Scarba House: Matron’s diary, Mar. 1964-Apr. 1969, Sister’s day and night report books, 1966-1971, Daily report books, 1970-1974, Doctor’s report books, 1969-1972, Scarba House index, 1965-1968, 1972-1974, Scarba House register, Jan. 1965-Jan. 1970, Admissions register, Apr. 1969-Jan. 1971, Refused admissions book, Mar. 1968-Sept. 1972, “Scarba” statistics – daily record book, May 1967-Sept. 1973, Payment register, 1970-1971, Visitors’ book, 1969-1972, Register of voluntary workers, Nov. 1969-Aug. 1971, “Scarba House for Children, Memorial gifts”, 1923-1959, Receipt book, Dec. 1965-Apr. 1967, Maurice O’Sullivan Day Care Centre, House rules.??Community and welfare services: “Christmas parcels”, Jan. 1968-Nov. 1972, “Vouchers for cheques”, Mar. 1969-Jul. 1971, “Food relief vouchers”, June 1968-Apr. 1971, Samaritan Fund forms, Jan. 1969-ca. May 1971, “Unmarried mothers survey”, June 1968-Sept. 1968, Social Workers’ case files closed cases, 1968-1971, Director of Welfare Services files, 1969, 1976-1979, 1980-1983, Senior Citizens exit files, 1982.??Secretary’s correspondence and subject files: Alphabetical index to correspondents, 1932-1959, and 1963-1965, Subject index to correspondents, 1961, 1963, 1965-1966, “Index to files”, Jul. 1966, Secretary’s correspondence, 1844-1847, Secretary’s correspondence and subject files, 1936-1982. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc05.107 includes files of press cuttings, correspondence, reviews and awards for the years 1978 to 1995; handwritten menus and wine lists covering every evening meal at Berowra Waters Inn between 1977 to 1995; special banquets and culinary events; produce order and contact books 1987-1995; wages file covering the years 1994 to 1995; 34 volumes of restaurant guides that include references to Berowra Waters Inn; kitchen dockets for the last weekend of business for Berowra Waters Inn; restaurant bookings for Berowra Waters Inn covering the period January 1995 through to the closure of Berowra Waters Inn on 26 March 1995; and, a file covering the sale of Berowra Waters Inn (11 boxes).??The Acc06.091 instalment comprises correspondence, menus, wine lists, clippings, architectural plans, administrative papers and related material. The papers primarily relate to Bennelong Restaurant at the Sydney Opera House, 1994-1998, together with some material relating to Berowra Waters Inn, 1982-1997, and a large assortment of menus from various restaurants, 1970s-1990s (3 boxes, 1 fol. Box, 1 fol. Packet).??The Acc09.088 instalment consists of papers relating to Bilson’s restaurant Bennelong at the Sydney Opera House, including news clippings and ephemera containing reviews; letters of compliment and complaint from patrons and copies of Bilson’s replies; correspondence dealing with planning for official functions; drafts and published versions of menus and wine lists; news clippings and menus from the 1970s about and from Bennelong (2 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes, office files re correspondence and conference records, annual reports, membership records, notices of meetings, publications and historical material. One file of records of the Woden Business and Professional Womens Club 1985-1986. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 17 December 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1929, Dr Lucy Bryce founded the first Australian blood service on the lines of the British Red Cross Society in London. By 1931 the Blood Transfusion Service, based in the Victorian Division of the Red Cross, was the recognized medium for metropolitan hospitals to obtain donors. The following year, it was operating around the clock. In 1938, the first Red Cross Blood Bank was established at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, with a number of its medical consultants, from the onset, being women. Shortly before World War II, the Australian Red Cross Blood Service was extended by the formation of an Emergency Transfusion Service, used by the Australian Imperial Forces and Royal Australian Air Force and the State Emergency Council. In 1941, the Australian Red Cross Society organised a National Transfusion Service for military and civil defence, based on the Victorian model. Since the mid-1950s, Australian governments have reimbursed the Australian Red Cross society for over 90% of its spending on blood transfusion with the remainder coming from Red Cross appeals and donations when possible. This infusion of government funds led to the establishment of a Suburban Mobile Unit, a Branch at the Royal Women’s Hospital and a chain of Regional Blood Banks throughout Victoria. By the mid-1960s, the National Blood Transfusion service extended to every part of the Australian Commonwealth. In 1996, its management structure changed, and it has been known as the Australian Red Cross Blood Service since. In 2004, it exists as a largely independent operating division of the Australian Red Cross with its own Board of Management and a Chief Executive Officer who reports to the Board. The Australian Red Cross Blood Service is the sole agency in Australia to collect blood from voluntary donors, provide quality blood products to hospitals and other health institutions for the benefit of the community. The work of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service is linked to the Australian Red Cross mission of protecting life and health. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book 50 years service to humanity, Australian Red Cross Society, [1964] The More things change…The Australian Red Cross 1914-1989, Minogue, Noreen, 1989 Report Strategy 2005, Australian Red Cross, c2002 Archival resources Australian Red Cross Research and Information Service Records and publications of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service The University of Melbourne Archives Annual Reports of the Australian Red Cross Minutes and Meeting Papers, National Council Annual Reports of Red Cross Divisions and Blood Service Author Details Penny Robinson Created 10 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "55 minutes??Millie Rowe was born near Kadina in South Australia. She recovered from tuberculous peritonitis in her late teen years, and was accepted for nursing training at the Wakefield Street Private Hospital in 1917. On completion of training Min did midwifery at the Queen’s Home and later returned to Wakefield Street as Theatre Sister. In 1926 she became Matron of that hospital, a position which she occupied until her retirement in 1946. She was an active member of the Australian Trained Nurses Association. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "(1) The Seventy-sixth Annual Report and Balance Sheet for the twelve months ended 30 Jun 1995 of the Lyceum Club Brisbane Incorporated; (2) “Newsletter”, Oct 1995, Lyceum Club Brisbane Incorporated. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nesta Griffiths wrote Point Piper: Past and Present in 1947, followed by Some Houses and People of New South Wales in 1949 and Some Southern Homes of New South Wales in 1952. The stories of various well established families recounted in each publication were partly informed by society gossip, and partly by research conducted by Griffiths in Sydney’s Mitchell Library. Glynde Nesta Griffiths – always known as Nesta – was the daughter of London-born merchant Frederick Close Griffiths and his wife Annette Agnes. Nesta and her sister Gwendolen were raised at Point Piper, near Sydney. Neither married, and they lived together at Bellevue Hill from 1929 until their deaths, just five months apart, in 1968. The Griffiths sisters (known ‘affectionately and disrespectfully as the Griffs’ according to Helen Rutledge) were members of the Royal Sydney Golf Club. Passionate about family history and heritage, they supported the National Trust and Nesta was a member of the Royal Australian Historical Society. Her books on southern and northern homes in New South Wales were sometimes self-published and not well edited, but their value lies in the author’s personal acquaintance with her subjects. The sisters, who had received little inheritance, came to live quite comfortably thanks to a number of Gwendolen’s shrewd investments on the stock market. Both made significant contributions to Sir Lorimer Dods’ Children’s Medical Research Foundation during their lifetimes. In her will, Gwendolen provided for Dods’ grandchildren, while Nesta bequeathed her residual estate – valued at $300,000 – to the Foundation itself. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Griffiths, Glynde Nesta (1889-1968), Rutledge, Martha, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140379b.htm Book My Grandfather's House, Rutledge, Helen, 1986 Some Houses and People of New South Wales, Griffiths, Glynde Nesta, 1949 Point Piper: Past and Present, Griffiths, Glynde Nesta, 1947 Some Southern Homes of New South Wales, Griffiths, Glynde Nesta, 1952 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Griffiths, Nesta (1) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 December 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "7 minutes 30 seconds??Video made for the State Library of SA’s Barbara Hanrahan Memorial Exhibition, narrated by Isabel Storey. Features the author reading from ‘The scent of eucalyptus’. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Julia Irwin was elected to the Australian Parliament as Member for Fowler, New South Wales, in 1998. She was re-elected in 2001, 2004 and 2007. She was not a candidate in the 2010 federal election. Born and raised in Western Sydney, Irwin left school at the age of 16 to work in a bank and while studying at night. During the early 1970’s she worked for a number of Trade Unions and participated in the equal pay campaign. In 1976 she was appointed electorate secretary to NSW Deputy Premier Jack Ferguson. From 1989-1998, Irwin worked as an electorate officer for Federal Schools, Vocational Education and Training Minister, Ross Free (1989-1995) and Member for Fowler, Ted Grace (1995-1998). Since entering parliament she was Deputy Chair of the House of Representatives Environment and Heritage Committee (1999 & 2000) and a member of the Joint Standing Committee on Migration and the House of Representatives Family and Community Affairs Committee. Irwin is also a member of a number of Caucus Committees – Living Standards and Economic Development, National Security and Trade, Social Policy and Community Development and is Secretary of the Status of Women Caucus Committee. Married to Geoff (Member NSW Parliament 1984-1995), they have two children and her interests are centred on the community and family. Sources: http://www.juliairwin.org/biography.htm accessed 14/11/01; http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/biography.asp?id+83Z accessed 14/11/01; http://www.labor.net.au/emilyslist/candidates/can_irwin.html accessed 14/11/01; http://www.alp.org.au/people/people.html?seat+Fowler accessed 14/11/01 Published resources Resource Section Mrs Julia Irwin MP, Member for Fowler (NSW), Australian Parliament House, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/biography.asp?id+83Z Julia Irwin: Candidate for Fowler, Emily's List, http://www.labor.net.au/emilyslist/candidates/can_irwin.html Julia Irwin, Member and Candidate for Fowler, Australian Labor Party, http://www.alp.org.au/people/people.html?seat+Fowler Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 November 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Collection includes files and other material concerning Robyn Read’s years as an alderman of North Sydney Council, 1987-1991 and as Executive Director of City Services for the ACT government, 1995-1997:??BOX 1?Correspondence with executives and unions, newscuttings and planning records relating to changes to the ACT public service and re-structure of Department of Urban Services, 1995-1997??Legal and personal correspondence and records relating her employment contract, changes to contract arrangements for executives and resignation from her position as Executive Director of ACT City Services, 1995-1997. Includes correspondence with solicitors??Three appointments diaries 1992, 1997??Newsletters, printed procedures, slides and policy documents for ACT City Services, 1995-1998??Uncorrected proofs of ‘The More Things Change’, by Robyn Read, 1995??BOX 2?Legal document and letter indicating intention to run for as Independent candidate for to North Shore by-election campaign, 1994??Newscuttings, printed ephemera, volunteer list and media releases relating to North Shore by-election campaign, 1994??Ephemera distributed by Jillian Skinner, Liberals, other candidates and associations for state by-election, 1994??Correspondence, ephemera, research material and list of volunteers for election campaign, 1991??Letters from Robyn Read enclosing ephemera, letters and documents distributed by other candidates during state elections, 1991 and 1994??Letter signed from Robin Read as Member for North Shore to constituents introducing herself as representative on the NSW Parliament, 1990??Report ‘Power to the People democracy?’, ca. 1990??Newscuttings, letters, copies of photographs, minutes, insurance documents and flyers relating to student protests/rallies against proposed education reforms organised by Secondary Students Coalition, 1988??Newscuttings relating to North Sydney Council, 1972-1975??Correspondence relating to her appointment and role as Deputy Mayor of North Sydney, 1974??ELECTRONIC MATERIAL?21 mini-disks of parliamentary correspondence, ca. 1989-??2 floppy disks, 1994 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 November 2003 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Hedda Morrison was an ethnographic photographer who worked extensively in China, Borneo and later Australia, where she settled in 1967. She was influenced by Neue Sachlichkeit, or the ‘new realist’ style. Morrison’s photographs were widely disseminated in books, including the seminal Sarawak: Vanishing World, and Travels of a Photographer. Morrison was a resourceful photographer, using two car batteries to power her portable enlarger while without power for six years in Sarawak, and storing her negatives in an airtight chest using silica gel as a drying agent to overcome the perils of a tropical climate. Morrison worked largely in black and white, except for in the early 1950s. Hedda Morrison worked extensively in China and Borneo in the period 1933-67. She moved to Australia later in her life and settled in Canberra where she died in 1991. She was well known for her photographic work in Asia, which was considered ethnographic in its focus. Morrison’s photographs were widely distributed in the form of books. Two of her major publications include: Sarawak: Vanishing World (1957) and Travels of a Photographer in China, 1933-46 (1987). She was born Hedda Hammer in Stuttgart, Germany in 1908. Her father worked for a publishing company and the family enjoyed a comfortable existence in a large house. Her only sibling, a brother, was the favourite in the family. In 1911, aged only three, she contracted polio, which left her a cripple with ongoing health problems. Following a major operation, which she had as a teenager, she was able to gain some mobility, walking with a limp (as her right leg was shorter than her left); she needed to wear specially designed shoes to get about. This however did not deter her from pursuing her interest in travel. Morrison was given her first camera, a Box Brownie, when she was 11 years old. It gave her so much pleasure that she was inspired to set up a small darkroom in the family bathroom. In 1929 she completed her secondary school education at the Queen Katherine Convent in Stuttgart and then moved to Austria to study medicine at the University of Innsbruck. Dissatisfied with medicine, she convinced her parents to allow her to study photography instead and in September 1930 she moved to Munich, enrolling in the Bavarian State Institute for Photography. Morrison completed the two-year course, her final certificate referring to her outstanding outdoor photography skills and the fact that she had received third prize in a student competition. As a student she became familiar with the ‘new realist’ (Neue Sachlichkeit) photographic style of the time, which was characterised by the capturing of close up shots of everyday objects. It was a style that was to influence the photography she produced in her later career. Some of her earliest works, especially those taken while she was still a student, embodied this style and they were published in a book entitled Making Pottery by the potter Walter de Sager. For the book she documented the various stages of his work by focusing on close up shots of the potter’s hands. With little work available for photographers during the Depression years, Morrison volunteered to work at the studio of Adolf Lazi in Stuttgart. The studio specialised in architectural, portrait, landscape and advertising photography in the ‘new objectivist’ style that in Weimar Germany was the photographic manifestation of modernism. Only 44 negatives have survived from this era. All were portraits and all were entitled ‘Trachtenfest’ (folk costume festival) and dated Stuttgart 1931. She kept these negatives with her throughout her life taking them with her from Germany to China and Borneo and then to Australia. They reflected her interest in capturing details, shapes, textures, but also her lifelong interest in the exotic. Morrison spent five months in Hamburg. Aware of the rising strength of the Nazi Party and its policy of co-opting photographers for their propaganda campaigns, she decided to travel to Yugoslavia. These plans did not eventuate as she saw an advertisement in a German photography journal for a photography position in China. Even though she knew practically nothing about China, she submitted an application and was successful. In 1933 she arrived in Peking and immediately began working as manager of the Hartung Photo Shop, a German owned commercial photography studio. The position required coordinating the work of the 17 Chinese photographers who worked in the studio. The studio was well-established and the clientele powerful, being for the most part diplomats and foreign residents; indeed, the studio was situated in the diplomatic quarter of the city in a two storey building at 3 Legation Street, East Peking. She held this position for five years, after which she worked as a freelance photographer from her home in Nanchang Street. The photographs she produced were theme-based, encompassing handicrafts, temples, imperial palaces, ‘lost tribes,’ and so on. An especially popular line of work she offered was whole albums filled with her photographs. Her European clients would either order an album or make selections of their own. From 1938-40 she worked for Caroline Frances Bieber (a wealthy British woman), who was a dealer in Chinese arts and crafts for the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Morrison’s knowledge about China was invaluable to Bieber and the partnership proved financially beneficial to Morrison. It was through this connection that she met an American writer by the name of Beatrice Kates. Kates, Bieber and Morrison worked on a project together documenting Chinese household furniture and the group finally published a book in New York in 1948. Morrison took photographs for the book in 1937-1938, with George Kates (Beatrice Kates brother, who was the director of the Brooklyn Museum in New York) writing the text. Morrison produced two major books relating to her time in China. Both were aimed at capturing the ‘Old Peking’ that Westerners enjoyed reminiscing over, and they ignored the changing nature of the city, in particular those aspects of life relating to the social, political and economic impact of the Japanese occupation. Nor were the poverty, civil unrest and social conflict that resulted from the Japanese occupation depicted in these books. Hedda Hammer, as she was then called, met Alastair Morrison (an Australian) in 1940, and in 1946 they married in Peking but left the country soon after due to the increasing political unrest in China. They travelled to Hong Kong where they stayed for six months and then moved to Borneo, where they settled on the island of Sarawak. Alistair worked for the British Colonial Service, eventually being appointed as the district officer of Sarawak, the Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. During 1960-1966, Hedda worked for the Information Office in Kuching, in the photographic section on a part-time basis. Her work involved training government photographers, setting up a photographic library and taking photographs. In 1965 the Sarawak Government awarded her the Pegawai Bitang Sarawak (Officer of the Order of the Star of Sarawak) for her work. She apparently did not see herself as a photojournalist. Instead, she felt her work had an ethnographic emphasis, her focus being to depict traditional cultures in the process of change. In line with this her subjects included landscapes, architecture, portraits, and handicrafts. She produced two major books during the time spent in Sarawak, the first entitled Sarawak (1957) and the second Life in a Longhouse (1962). These documented the traditional lifestyle and culture of the Iban people who live on Sarawak. They are ethnographic books capturing the people’s traditional practices and documenting the changes brought about by the British Colonial administration as well as the Malaysian Government. Hedda Morrison recalled that, ‘[w]henever I visited longhouses I was conscious of the fact that the longhouse way of life is in the course of changing. I have tried to record faithfully in photographs whatever was typical of people, and which might not be there to photograph at all for very much longer’ (Powerhouse 9). Morrison had a strong affinity with Asian people. She was known to be respectful and polite and was able to convince people to allow her to enter their homes so as to take the photographs she had in mind. In 1967 the Morrisons moved to Canberra, Australia, and Hedda continued her photography, producing 24 albums of photographs as part of her Views of Australia 1961-1988. These captured views of the ACT, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, the subjects including public buildings, suburbs, people and landscapes. Hedda Morrison died in Canberra, in 1991, aged 82 and a year later her husband, Alastair Morrison donated an important collection of her photographic works to the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. In 1995, eight of her photographs capturing the Flinders Ranges (c.1971) were included in the Beyond the Picket Fence exhibition held at the National Library of Australia. An exhibition entitled Old Peking: Photographs by Hedda Morrison 1933-46 was held at the Art Museum of the China Millennium Monument, Beijing in May – June 2002 and at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney in November – December 2002. Technical Morrison’s first camera was a Box Brownie. She went on to use a 6 x 6 cm twin lens Rollei camera for most of her shots and this was to become her favourite camera. On arriving in China she used a 9 x 12 cm Linhof hand camera which she kept throughout her life. She was known for her inventiveness and whilst in Sarawak used two car batteries to power her portable enlarger as they were without power for six years. She kept her negatives in an airtight chest using silica gel as a drying agent to overcome the perils of a tropical climate. Morrison worked largely in black and white, except for in the early 1950s. She found that the Ektachrome 120 format roll film which was widely used up until that time, was limiting and it also faded. Collections Division of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University. Over 5 thousand of Hedda Morrison’s photographs are held in this collection, encompassing the period 1933-1946 that she spent in Beijing Hedda Morrison, Views of Australia, 1961-1988, National Library of Australia National Gallery of Australia Hedda Morrison photographic collection, Powerhouse Museum Hedda Morrison, Germany/China/Sarawak, 1928-1968 archive, Powerhouse Museum Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia Events 1965 - 1965 Hedda Morrison was awarded the Pegawai Bitang Sarawak (Officer of the Order of the Star of Sarawak) for her work by the Sarawak Government. 1930 - 1988 Hedda Morrison worked in China, Borneo and Australia. 2002 - 2002 Hedda Morrison’s work featured in Old Peking: Photographs by Hedda Morrison 1933-46. 2002 - 2002 Hedda Morrison’s work featured in Old Peking: Photographs by Hedda Morrison 1933-46. 1995 - 1995 Hedda Morrison’s work featured in Beyond the Picket Fence. 1993 - 1993 Hedda Morrison’s work featured in In Her View: The Photographs of Hedda Morrison in China and Sarawak 1933-67. 1994 - 1994 Hedda Morrison’s work featured in In Her View: The Photographs of Hedda Morrison in China and Sarawak 1933-67. 1990 - 1990 Hedda Morrison’s work featured in Travels of an Extraordinary Photographer: Hedda Morrison – A Retrospective Exhibition, organised by the Canberra Photographic Society. 1986 - 1986 Hedda Morrison’s work featured in An Asian Experience: 1933-6,organised by the Asian Studies Association of Australia. 1967 - 1967 Hedda Morrison’s work featured in Peking: 1933-1946 – A Photographic Impression 1955 - 1955 Hedda Morrison’s work was included in The Family of Man at the Museum of Modern Art. 1949 - 1949 Photographs by Hedda Morrison. 1940 - 1940 Hedda Morrison’s Chinese Photographs 1931 - 1931 Hedda Morrison won third prize in a student competition State Institute for Photography Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 The Family of Life UNESCO Memory of the World, Steichen, Edward, http://www.steichencollections.lu/en/The-Family-of-Man Book Nanking, Hoffman, Alfred and Morrison, Hedda, 1945 Chinese Household Furniture, Kates, George N. and Morrison, Hedda, 1948 Children of Melugu, Morrison, Hedda, 1969 Life in a Longhouse, Morrison, Hedda, 1962 A Photographer in Old Peking, Morrison, Hedda, 1985 Sarawak, Morrison, Hedda, 1965 Travels of a Photographer in China, Morrison, Hedda, 1987 Vanishing World: The Ibans of Borneo, Wright, Leigh R., 1972 Fair Land Sarawak, Morrison, Alistair, 1993 Women Photographers at National Geographic, Newman, Cathy, c2000 Journal Article Craftsmen in a Harsh Environment, Morrison, Hedda Educating the Peoples of Sarawak, Morrison, Hedda Jungle Journeys in Sarawak, Morrison, Hedda The Lost Tribe of China, Morrison, Hedda Some Musical Instruments of China, Morrison, Hedda Tribal Crafts of Borneo, Morrison, Hedda Chinese Toggles: A Little Known Folk Art, Morrison, Hedda and Morrison, Alistair Hedda Morrison in Peking, Morrison, Alistair, http://www.eastasianhistory.org./sites/default/files/article-content/04/EAH04_03.pdf In Her View: Hedda Morrison's Photographs of Peking, 1933-46, Roberts, Claire, http://www.eastasianhistory.org/sites/default/files/article-content/04/EAH04_03.pdf Archival resources Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences Hedda Morrison photographic archive Harvard-Yenching Library The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China 1933-1946 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 5 October 2016 Last modified 4 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Commonwealth Archives of Dame Annabelle Rankin.?Comprising 14 series, covering her 34 year career in government and subsequent role as high commissioner for New Zealand. Also includes some personal papers and memorabilia, including scrapbooks and newspapers cuttings. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 May 2002 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection contains correspondence 1932-1975; unpublished autobiography Ch.1-4; material relating to an unpublished book on the depression of 1929-1935; working files. Also includes a collection of newspaper clippings (Box 10 and MC 8, DR 6). Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 18 November 2008 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Megan Lawson was an ALP candidate who ran only once for election to parliament; that was in 1999 at the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Hawkesbury. She had greater success that same year when she ran for local council and was elected to the Hawkesbury City Council from 1999-2004. Megan Lawson worked in the electorate offices of Bob Debus, MLA, and Maggie Deahm, MHR. She was an executive member of the Local Government Association. Megan later worked for the NSW Cancer Council. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9190 comprises correspondence with Australian and overseas writers and illustrators, children, literary agents and publishers; papers relating to the Wombat Book Club; drafts of 17 books, including Possum magic and other writings; scrapbooks, photographs and cuttings; and, papers relating to Mem Fox’s academic career. The major correspondents are Terry Denton, Lorraine Ellis, Morris Gleitzman, Andrea Goldsmith, Vivienne Goodman, Kilmeny Niland, Pamela Lofts, Patricia Mullins, Craig Smith, Barbara Wels, Paul Jennings, Julie Vivas, Nancy and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (parents), Jan Delacourt (sister), Caroline Lurie of Australian Literary Management, Omnibus (publisher) and Harcourt Publisher. Copies of many of Fox’s letters are included (30 boxes, 1 carton).??The Acc07.011 instalment contains drafts and correspondence relating to various projects, including: The green sheep (2004), 2002-2006, Hunswick’s egg (2005), 1996-2006, A particular cow (2006), 1995-2006, The magic hat, 1995-2002, The hungary giant/Horatio the hungry, 2003-2005, and, the new edition of Possum magic (2004). There is also an expanding file of letters to and from Fox, 2001-2006, a letter from Tim Winton (1995), press clippings, an artwork by Nicholas Wilton, an expired passport, handwritten financial records, 1995-1998, papers relating to Fox’s Flinders University Convocation medal, publications, including audio books, and promotional material such as photographs, articles, stickers and a toy (4 boxes, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Le Lam was a Unity party candidate in the 2001 New South Wales Legislative Assembly Auburn by-election. In 2005 she was elected to the Auburn Council and appointed Deputy Mayor. Le Lam had been involved in the successful campaign to save Auburn Hospital and her campaign in 2001, stressed her interest in improved health services. She was also concerned with education and rising crime rates. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The bulk of the papers comprise Hilda Abbott’s drafts of books, articles, broadcasts, and correspondence. The latter includes letters from Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies, Sir Keith Officer, H.L. (later Sir Harold) White, J.S. Collings, Lady Gowrie, Sir Keith Walter, Sir Hudson Fysh, Richard (later Lord) and Maie (later Lady) Casey, Lord Vestey, Baroness Stonehaven, and Dame Enid Lyons. Also letters, reports, MSS notes and printed items relating to C.L.A. Abbott’s years as a Member of Parliament, and as Administrator of the Nothern Territory. Also includes correspondence including letters from Sir Robert Garren, Cardinal Gilroy, Edmund de Rothschild and Prime Minister Bruce. Also typescripts and manuscripts of poetry by Hilda Abbott; typescript draft of “Family background: The Upper Hunter Abbotts” and photographs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Manuscript of The little black princess (1905) with pencilled corrections by the publishers. Personal data concerning manuscript of The little black princess containing details of publishing the work. Letter by Professor W. Baldwin Spencer to Mr. Slade after reading the manuscript. (MS and typed transcript) Proof copies. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 December 2003 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The National Foundation for Australian Women was established in 1989 by the bequest of Canberra feminist, Pamela Denoon. NFAW objectives are: to advance and protect all interests of Australian women in all spheres; to ensure that the aims and ideals of the women’s movement and its collective wisdom are handed on to new generations of Australian women. The foundation seeks to strengthen and support women’s groups by: sponsoring research and advocacy; working to increase support for feminist goals in the community, and improving communication among women’s groups. NFAW founded the Australian Women’s Archive Project in 1999. The National Foundation for Australian Women promotes the rights and interests of Australian women. It is non-party political and independent of government funding. The NFAW relies on the voluntary work of its members, including its Board. NFAW has individual and organisation membership. Individual members are entitled to attend all Board meetings, put forward issues for consideration and vote or stand for the Board. Organisations are welcome to join and will receive all entitlements except voting rights. NFAW produce Broadside newsletter quarterly. Marie Coleman was the founding Secretary. NFAW held the first National Women’s Conference in Canberra 1990. Founding sponsors Diane Bell, Eva Cox, Virginia Dowd, Elizabeth Evatt, Barbara Flick, Rhonda Galbally, Margaret Guilfoyle, Jill Hickson, Elizabeth Jolly, Eva Learner, Tobsha Learner, the Hon. Dame Roma Mitchell, Ann Morrow, Anne O’Byrne, Elizabeth Reid, Edna Ryan, Kaye Schofield, Kerry Schott, Judy Small, Ann Symonds, Pat Turner, Margaret Whitlam, Judith Wright. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Records of South Australia GA1109 Hon. Anne Levy, Member of Parliament National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Edna Ryan, 1948-1993 [manuscript] Records of the National Foundation for Australian Women, 1988-2009 [manuscript] Papers of Judith Wright, 1944-2000 [manuscript] Papers of Margaret Reynolds, 1973-2005 [manuscript] Records of the Australian Women's Archives Project, 2001-2012 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Julia Ryan interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] State Library of New South Wales Irina Dunn further papers, 1943-1994 Author Details Patricia ni Ivor Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Melba’s letters are written from a variety of locations, including Coombe Cottage in Victoria, Chicago, Sussex, Paris and London. There are 7 in all, mainly written to a Thomas Cochrane. Two are incomplete. Also included is an Order of Service for the unveiling and dedication of a window dedicated to the memory of Dame Nellie Melba in the Church of St. Sepulchre’s, Holborn, England, in 1962. Also included is a typescript copy of an indenture between James Watson and David Mitchell (Melba’s father) 13 November [18]46. Also, a letter from Beverley Nichols in Surrey to John Hetherington in Melbourne 8 August 1964 re. Melba. Author Details Clare Land Created 17 June 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Copyright held by The Herald & Weekly Times Limited. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 November 2008 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 32 minutes Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Recommendations for the Royal Red Cross Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 February 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Collier sisters – Annette, Alice and Edith – came to public notice in 1954 with the endowment of the £1.25 million Collier Charitable Fund. By 2007, the corpus of the fund was worth $88 million. Alice, Annette and Edith Collier were daughters of Jenkin Collier, who arrived in Melbourne from Wales in 1852 at the age of 23. Jenkin Collier worked in the building trade, constructing railway lines from Melbourne to Echuca and Deniliquin to Moama, and became involved in the pastoral development of Queensland. The Colliers lived at Werndew, a mansion on Toorak Road. The three sisters were educated at Melbourne’s Presbyterian Ladies’ College, while their brother Herbert attended Melbourne Grammar School. Jenkin Collier died at the age of 91, leaving his estate to his family. His daughters were devoted to one another, and never married. They travelled extensively but lived an otherwise unpretentious existence, attending St. John’s Church regularly and spending very little of the substantial annual income that they received from the Collier estate. They gave generously to charity, but always insisted on anonymity. The wills of Annette, Alice and Edith Collier – who died in 1947, 1950 and 1954 respectively – held that two-fourteenths of the Collier Charitable Fund’s annual income be given to the Lord Mayor’s Fund. By 2006, the Lord Mayor’s Fund alone had distributed over $30 million to various hospitals and charities using its share of the Collier money. Published resources Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Report Lord Mayor's Fund News Report, Lord Mayor's Fund, 1995 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Resource Section Collier, Jenkin (1829 - 1921), Hone, J. Ann, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030411b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 15 December 2008 Last modified 27 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 78 min.)??Deirdre Hyland born 1936 in Peking (now Beijing), speaks about her parents; evacuating to Australia, Brisbane (1941); her brother; her schooling at Ashford, Kent, England (1946); her family migrating to Australia in 1950; school netball and hockey in England; Brisbane Girls Grammar; her interest in Teachers College, Physical Education (PE); her scholarship at University of Queensland for PE (1955); University of Queensland and lecturers; teaching at schools; itinerant PE experience, Townsville; National Fitness Council; her teenage years; Netball umpiring; her professional career; training general teachers to take PE; changes in Netball administration; becoming Qld. President (1974-1980); National Fitness Council courses; first Netball Association to seek sponsorship; government funding; Netball National President 1978-1988; establishing relationships with New Zealand; International netball, meetings 1963; Perth championships; netball name change (1970); International Federation of Netball Associations(IFNA); 1979 Trinidad International championships.??Hyland talks about Ann Clark; coaches; Australian Institute of Sport (AIS); national league discussions; recognition as Olympic sport; increased finances; General Association of International Sports Federation (AISF); men in netball; dominant countries in netball; World Youth Cup; AIS Board Member role and function; netball for people with physical and intellectual disabilities; National Coaching Directors; player payments; netball in Commonwealth Games, since 1990; Mobil Super League 1991; netball for women; pioneers of netball in Australia as players, coaches, administrators; Joyce brown; Carlton Football Club; ABC radio; Fox television; netball promoting individuals; journalists; commentators; drugs in netball; knee injuries; changes in rules; her honours and awards; furthering academic studies. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 31 May 2016 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Boy and girl in sailor hats standing on the front verandah of their home. This photograph shows Evan and Gwendolen Luly on the front verandah of their family home, 68 Spring St Preston, 1902. They were William and Mary Luly’s children. Gwendolen Luly trained as a nurse at the Alfred Hospital towards the end of World War I and became Theatre Sister there in the 1920’s. She later ran and owned her own Private Hospital, St Clements, on the corner of Southey and Byron Streets St Kilda South. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 27 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Janice Crosio was the first woman Cabinet Minister of New South Wales, and first woman to serve on the executive at all three levels of government – local, state and federal. She was elected to the House of Representatives (ALP) for the seat of Prospect, New South Wales, in 1990 and retired in 2004. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on 30 December 1978 for services to local government. Parliamentary and Local Government Career Local Government: Fairfield City Council (New South Wales), 1971-80. Elected Mayor in 1974, 1977-1980 State Government: MLA Fairfield (New South Wales), 1981, 1984; MLA Smithfield (New South Wales), 1988 Federal Government: House of Representatives, Member for Prospect (New South Wales), 1990 Retired: 2004 Janice Crosio served on the Fairfield City Council (NSW) from 1971 to 1980 and became the first female Mayor of that council in 1974. She was re-elected in 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980. She transferred to the NSW State parliament in 1981 when she was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Fairfield. She held that seat from 19 September 1981 to 22 February 1988, moving to Smithfield from 27 April 1988 until she resigned on 17 February 1990. Crosio was Minister for Natural Resources from 5 April 1984 to 6 February 1986; Minister for Local Government from 6 February 1986 to 25 March 1988; Minister for Water Resources from 4 July 1986 to 25 March 1988 and Assistant Minister for Transport from 26 November 1987 to 25 March 1988. After entering federal parliament in 1990 she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Environment, Sport and Territories from 23 December 1993 to 25 March 1994 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Security from 25 March 1994 to 11 March 1996. In 2001, she was elected Chief Opposition Whip in the House of Representatives. Crosio was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Medal in 1977 and the Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1980. Events 1993 - 1994 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Environment, Sport and Territories, New South Wales 1993 - 1993 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Arts and Administrative Services, New South Wales 1987 - 1988 Assistant to New South Wales State Minister for Transport 1986 - 1988 Minister for Water Resources, New South Wales 1974 - 1975 Mayor of the Fairfield City Council (first woman), New South Wales 1972 - 1972 Deputy Mayor of the Fairfield City Council, New South Wales 1971 - 1980 Alderman of the Fairfield City Council, New South Wales 2000 - 2000 Member of the Co-ordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians of Inter-Parliamentary Union 1976 - 1993 President of Meals on Wheels 1980 - 1980 Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1977 - 1977 Awarded the Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Medal 1978 - 1978 Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) (MBE) 1990 - 1990 Member of the House of Representatives (Australian Labor Party) for Prospect, New South Wales 2039 - 2039 Born Janice Ann Gustard 1994 - 1996 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Security, New South Wales 1986 - 1988 Minister for Local Government, New South Wales 1984 - 1986 Minister for Natural Resources, New South Wales 1988 - 1990 Member of the Legislative Assembly (Australian Labor Party) for Smithfield, New South Wales 1981 - 1988 Member of the Legislative Assembly (Australian Labor Party) for Fairfield, New South Wales 1984 - 1984 First woman elected a Cabinet Minister, New South Wales 1977 - 1980 Mayor, Fairfield City Council, New South Wales Published resources Resource Section The Hon. Janice Ann Crosio (1939 - ), Parliament of New South Wales, http://www.anzacatt.org.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/6ec131612f24824cca256ce70004b1b2/e70bcc376da233edca256a94001a9de9!OpenDocument Report Janice Crosio Testimonial Dinner, Whitlam, Gough, 2004, http://www.whitlam.org/collection/bydate_index.html Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Janice Crosio, former suburban mayor and NSW government minister, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Janice Crosio interviewed by Judith Winternitz for the Cultural context of unemployment oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 14 November 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dame Enid comments on her husband’s schooling, interests and persuasiveness; George Pearce; Joe’s “illiteracy”; his character; myth of support of Victorian establishment; his relationship with Casey; his qualifications for political eminence ; her conversion to Catholicism; accusation of her dominating Joe; conscription; Father O’Donnell; her early life in Tasmania; King O’Malley; educational changes in Tasmania; Mr Neale; honeymoon at the Premiers’ Conference; Mrs Holman; the Labor Party and class consciousness; interest in politics; Blackburn interpretation; problems faced by Joe as Premier; relationship with trade unions; Lyons entry into Federal government; difference between Federal and Tasmanian Labor Parties; Lyons as Acting Treasurer; break with Labor Party; standards of values in politics; Theodore; Albert Ogilvie; conversion of loan campaign; Nationalist Party; relations between UAP and Country Party; Frank Green; Catholic education; Australian Women’s National League and United Australia party; preparing Australia for war; Lyons’ relationship with Menzies; Menzies and Murdoch; Menzies and Mussolini; Munich Crisis; Germany and Czechoslovakia; Chamberlain; Lyons’ death; the Baldwins; her running for Parliament; opposition from the Labor party; Dorothy Tangney; attitude of colleagues to women in parliament; Calwell and immigration; her relationship with Menzies; Menzies’ attacks on Curtin; her maiden speech; workload as a politician; endowment for first child; inclusion in Cabinet; Henry Gullet; leakages from Cabinet; retirement from politics; experiences in journalism; Australian Broadcasting Commission; Boyer; being made Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 August 2001 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9965 comprises office files; Interim Board, Governing Body, NFAW Board and Subcommittee minutes and supporting papers; legal papers relating to the setting up of the Foundation and associated Trusts; financial records; photographs, correspondence and other papers relating to the NFAW’s 1990 National Women’s Conference, the 1989 NFAW Launch and the organisation’s newsletter, Broadside. The office files comprise the major part of the collection and include administration and financial records, Board meeting papers and those of regional NFAW groups and the Coalition of Participating Organisations of Women (CAPOW), legal documents, Trust and Award papers and Broadside administration records (28 boxes, 1 fol. Item).??The Acc13.064 instalment comprises records of the National Foundation for Australian Women, documenting their activities in support of women’s interests, including: newsletters; event, award and project documentation; Board, committee and Annual General meeting minutes; membership lists; administration files; financial statements; funding records; and two banners. Many of the project files relate to the Australian Women’s Archive Project, and the activities of the Social Policy Committee include a focus on women’s health, industrial relations and women with disabilities (4 boxes, 2 fol. Items). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 December 2003 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Alannah Croom, Helen Morgan and Maggie Shapley Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 19 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This second volume of Gwen Luly’s biography covers the period from the 1920s to her death in 1988. In 1929 Gwen setup St Clement’s Private Hospital in Southey Street, St Kilda. Letters relating to this transaction and photographs of the property are included, along with a copy of the Victorian Register of Midwives for 1932, and Certificates of Registration. In 1939 Gwen cancelled the hospital’s registration and she spent the war years running the Altona Air Raid Precautions. Material on Altona includes photographs and brochure of the opening of the Civic Centre in 1963, tide tables and the Altona Elderly Citizens’ Club, of which Gwen was a one time President. Ill health forced a move to her friend Lily Beer’s home in Rosanna, to a granny flat. She died in a Macleod Nursing Home on 23.05.1988. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 27 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dr Nancy (Nan) Giese was a pioneer of education and the visual and performing arts in the Northern Territory. She was strongly involved in planning and setting up the first tertiary institutions and for ten years was elected Chancellor of the Northern Territory University, now Charles Darwin University. Born in 1922 in Brisbane, Queensland, to Robert and Daisy Wilson, Nancy Giese was a champion of education and the arts and one of the Northern Territory’s most important leaders. The extent of her contribution to community life is reflected in the numerous honours she received, culminating in her 2004 award of Doctor of Education, honoris causa, from the university she was instrumental in founding, and which she served as Chancellor for ten years. The citation described her as ‘a true pioneer within our community, recognizing needs and then taking the lead in the creation of amenities and institutions to meet those needs.’ Other awards include Officer of the Order of Australia in 1997, OBE in 1977, the Centenary Medal and the Administrator’s Medal in 2003, and Tribute to Northern Territory Women in 2005. Educated at Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School and the University of Queensland, as a young teacher she joined the flying squad travelling around the state’s schools promoting health and fitness. Her boss was Harry Giese, the first Queensland Director of Physical Education (1944-47), whom she married in 1946. Their dynamic partnership powered their years in Darwin from 1954, through pioneering initiatives in education and health. Nan Giese saw immediately that families were leaving the Northern Territory, ‘good citizens lost to a developing society that badly needed them’, because their children could not matriculate. She lobbied tirelessly for full secondary education and for ‘amenities that were the most modern in Australia when they were built’, as Trevor Read, Principal of Darwin High School, noted. She became a key member of groups such as the Graduates’ Association demanding tertiary education for Territory students as part of the full range of opportunities from pre-school to post-graduate research available to other Australians. In the late 1960s a Commonwealth government report looked to the successful American model of community colleges, and recommended an independent tertiary institution which could offer both higher education and technical courses. She was a member of the planning committee and later Chair of the Council of the Darwin Community College (DCC), the prototype community college in Australia. Its labs and trade workshops, classrooms, art studios, a library, a theatre and student accommodation, opened in 1974. At the end of that year, Cyclone Tracy swept them all away. But this was just the beginning. Nan Giese and others persisted, and in January 1989 the Institute of Technology that succeeded the DCC amalgamated with the embryo University College to form the Northern Territory University, now Charles Darwin University. Bridging courses and scholarships for Indigenous people were set up and education for regional and remote areas became a priority. From the 1960s, Nan Giese was on the founding committees and led arts organizations such as the Arts Council of the Northern Territory, the Darwin Performing Arts Centre Board and the Museums and Art Galleries Board of the Northern Territory. The Arts Council flew in international groups from the Barangay Dancers from the Philippines to the Polish Chamber Orchestra, and toured them throughout the Territory from Milingimbi to Alice Springs. The performing arts centre and the waterside museum and art gallery opened just after Territory self-government. They are large and beautiful buildings and thriving community hubs. They enhance the modern city that has replaced the post-War frontier town of Darwin. In all these initiatives ‘there seems to be this one link, this thread right through from the beginning, the one person who’s been a driving force through all those years when others have come and gone, either left Darwin or given up’, said Nan’s friend and fellow pioneer of Territory tertiary education, Joyce Cheong Chin. Events 1969 - 1973 Member of the Darwin Hospital Advisory Board 1970 - 1972 President of the National Council of Women, Northern Terrority 1968 - 1972 Vice-President of the North Australian Eisteddfod Council 1938 - 1946 Teacher, Queensland Education Department 1968 - 1983 Founding committee member of the Arts Council of the Northern Territory 1989 - 1993 Deputy Chancellor of the Northern Territory University 1984 - 1993 Director of the Darwin Performing Arts Centre Board 1993 - 1993 Life member of Darwin Performing Arts Centre Board 1983 - 1985 Commissioner of the Northern Territory Vocational Training Commission 1976 - 1985 Chairman of the Darwin Community College Council 1975 - 1980 Vice-President of the Arts Council Australia; also served on Music Board 1972 - 1976 Member of the Darwin Community College Interim Council 1969 - 1971 Committee member of the Darwin Community College 1964 - 2000 Founding committee member of the Museums and Art Galleries Board, Northern Territory 1972 - 1985 President of the Arts Council, Northern Territory 1993 - 2004 Chancellor of the Northern Territory University 1997 - 1997 Appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) 1971 - 1971 Appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) 1977 - 1977 Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) 2001 - 2001 Northern Territory Senior Australian of the Year 2004 - 2004 Doctor of Education, honoris causa, Northern Territory University Published resources Resource Section Nancy Giese, 2016, http://hdl.handle.net/10070/218077 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources Arafura Research Archive, Charles Darwin University Nancy (Nan) Giese Collection Biographical cuttings on Nan Giese, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 28 October 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes correspondence, minutes, annual reports, financial statements, membership lists, press cuttings, printed material, photographs and miscellaneous items. Issues covered in papers include equal pay, discrimination against women doctors, and health and welfare of women and children. The publication ‘Women physicians of the world: autobiographies of medical pioneers’ ed. Leone McGregor Hellstedt (Washington, Hemisphere Pub. Corp., c1978) is included in MS BOX 1877/8. Author Details Clare Land Created 23 August 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Shirley Randell is an award-winning global mentor, educator, trainer, author, company director, public speaker, change activist, ambassador, patron, and campaigner for human rights. She is a long-time activist for gender equality and women’s empowerment in education, employment, public service and civil society in Australia, the Pacific, Asia and Africa. Randell was educated at Perth Modern School and the Universities of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), Canberra, New England and London where she took degrees in education and philosophy. After teaching Aboriginal children in isolated schools in Western Australia, Randell had four children before moving with her family to Papua New Guinea for nine years where she lectured at Uniting Church teachers’ colleges, completed her Bachelor of Education degree and was Director of the Teaching Methods and Materials Centre at UPNG. Returning to Australia, Randell began a 15-year career in the Commonwealth Public Service, including the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Public Service Commission. She was made a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators for contributions to the administration of major national initiatives in rural education, disadvantaged schools and professional development as Director of Commonwealth Schools Commission Programs. While Director of Programs in the Australian Capital Territory Department of Education she became a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. Her appointments before starting her own consultancy business in 1997 included Executive Secretary of the National Women’s Advisory Council, Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Ballarat, Chief Executive Officer of the Council of Adult Education and CEO of the City of Whitehorse, where she was awarded Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. As a leading expert in Gender Mainstreaming, Public Sector and Institutional Reform in Developing Countries, Randell has provided specialist technical assistance to several governments in the Asia Pacific Region and in Africa over 20 years. In 1999-2000 she was Performance Improvement Advisor with the Public Service Commission in Vanuatu after completing a project in the Solomon Islands as Local Government Consultant with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on a Provincial Government Review for the Solomon Islands Department of Provincial Government and Rural Development. In 2001 Randell was Advisor to the Vanuatu Government’s Decentralisation Review Commission and undertook training assignments with the Departments of Agriculture and Forestry. She also lectured Thai, Chinese, East Timorese and Indonesian students at the Research Institute of Asia and the Pacific at the University of Sydney. Randell has written books on Ni-Vanuatu Role Models: Women in their own right, Girls Can Do Anything, Women on the Move, Pacific Creative Writing and Raising Awareness on Domestic Violence in Vanuatu. She has undertaken projects with development agencies including The Commonwealth, UN agencies, AusAID, NZAID, World Bank, ADB, European Union, Global Rights Partners for Justice, UniQuest, Philippines Center for Development, Management & Productivity, InfoTechs-I/D/E/A/S Sri Lanka, WD Scott International, Overseas Projects Corporation of Victoria, URS Pacific, Maxwell Stamp and IDP Education Australia. These included ADB studies in skills development for the PNG Government as a Women, Youth and Non-Government Organisation specialist in 1997 and the Sri Lanka Government as Quality Assurance and Gender & Development (GAD) Specialist in 1999. In an AusAid funded project for the Fiji Government’s Department of Customs & Excise in 1998, Randell was consultant for GAD, Performance Management Systems, Business Process Re-engineering Training and Human Resources Management. In 2004-2005 Randell was UNDP’s Chief Technical Adviser for the Capacity Building in Gender Mainstreaming Project in public service training institutions in Bangladesh, working closely with the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs. From 2006-2008 she was Senior Adviser, Gender and Governance for SNV Rwanda, East and Southern Africa Region with the Netherlands Development Organisation. In this role she was instrumental in engendering Rwanda’s Economic Development Poverty Reduction Strategy 2008-2012 and supporting the 2007 Women’s Parliamentary International Conference on Gender, Nation Building and the Role of Parliaments attended by over 600 people. At the end of her contract with SNV, women parliamentarians invited Randell back to Rwanda to become the Founder Director of the Centre for Gender, Culture and Development at the Kigali Institute of Education (now Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Rwanda. Randell has spoken at a wide variety of Australian and international conferences, given talks, occasional addresses, openings, launches, lectures, seminars and workshops for parent associations, teacher organisations, industry groups, community groups, universities, schools, adult education centres, neighbourhood houses, government departments and service organisations, and been a frequent speaker at luncheon and dinner meetings about international, educational, ecumenical and women’s issues. She has written extensively on public sector reform, education, gender empowerment and human rights and been a regular broadcaster, particularly for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Among her many government, community and university committee roles, Randell has served as President of the Australian College of Education and Phi Delta Kappa Australian Capital Chapter; Chairperson of the Australian Council of Churches Commission on International Affairs, Healthy Cities Canberra and the Sexual Assault Working Party for the Central Highlands Wimmera Region; foundation member of the National Board of Employment, Education & Training and the Schools Council; and a company director of the YWCA of Australia, the National Foundation for Australian Women, the Sir John Monash Business Centre, the Institute of Public Administration Australia and the Australian Institute of Management. She is co-founder and mentor of the Vanuatu Association of Women Graduates, the Vanuatu Women Writers Association and the Rwanda Association of University Women. Her voluntary work includes a role as Vice President of the International Federation of University Women, Convener and member of Graduate Women International’s Bina Roy Projects Committee, and Coordinator of Australian Graduate Women. Randell is an active member of Rotary in every country she works in. In 2000-2001 she was President of the Rotary Club of Port Vila in Rwanda and in 2004-5 Director of International and then in 2015-16 Vice President of the Rotary Club of Dhaka North West in Bangladesh. Among many awards Randell became a Member of the Division of the Order of Australia in 1988 for contributions to public service, particularly in education, and an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2010 for distinguished service to international relations, particularly through the promotion of human rights of women and through public sector reform in developing countries. In 2018 she was the inaugural winner of the Institute of Managers and Leaders Australia and New Zealand’s Sir John Storey’s Lifetime Achievement in Leadership Award. Randell has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of New England, Armidale, and is distinguished alumni of UNE and the University of Canberra. Since Randell’s return to Australia in 2016 she works for not-for-profit organisations as an ambassador for the Australian Centre of Leadership for Women, FairBreak Global, Dignity Ltd and National Older Women’s Network, patron of Sunflower Foundation, board director of indigo foundation, and vice chair of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia. She is Conjoint Professor of Practice, Faculty of Education and Arts, School of Education at the The University of Newcastle and Adjunct Professor of Education, Faculty of Education, The University of Canberra. Shirley maintains her interest in her Public Sector Reform consultancy businesses in Sydney and Rwanda, and in physical fitness, the arts, cinema, theatre, music and travel, four adult children and their spouses, 17 grandchildren and four great grandchildren living in Townsville, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Perth. A complete list of Randell’s awards, publications and speeches can be found on her website: www.shirleyrandell.com Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Shirley Randell (with Anne Heywood) Created 27 March 2002 Last modified 7 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Joanne May is a loyal member of the One Nation Party. She stood for the party at the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Lane Cove in 1999 and for Wyong in 2003. Joanne May gave her address as Harbord (a suburb of Sydney) when she ran for the seat of Wyong, on the central coast of New South Wales. She did not respond to the Newcastle Morning Herald’s request for information and so her candidature appeared to be nominal only, in order to maximise the vote for Pauline Hanson herself, who was running for the New South Wales Legislative Council. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Clair O’Brien was the State winner (for the Northern Territory) of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1996. She is a pastoralist and community worker with a strong commitment to improving the lives of women and children in remote and isolated communities. Clair O’Brien says that being announced the Northern Territory winner of the ABC Radio Rural woman of the year award in 1996 came as a ‘huge surprise’, but a marvellous one all the same. In her view, it wasn’t only her twenty-five year career in the bush that had been recognised, it was those of all the families living in regional and remote Australia. Running a cattle station at Carmor Plains, 210 km east of Darwin at the time, Clair believes that it all comes back to family. ‘When you are as isolated as we have been, family is your only support network’. Little wonder, then, that the vision for the future she articulated for the judges of the ABC Award was family-centric! ‘The successful family unit is my vision for rural Australia – there is no more practical support mechanism than THE FAMILY.’ Her own physical isolation, however, has not stopped Clair from making sure that other people in remote and isolated locations can learn from her experiences. ‘People think our lives in the bush must be quite boring,’ she observes, ‘but their eyes pop out when they see how much we’ve got to cope with.’ Her consistent effort to offer advice and guidance to others in her position, helping them to cope, has been her hallmark. Even when that effort came in the form of a regular newspaper column, it came from someone who truly believes that ‘sharing the knowledge’ is the best way to lead people through tough times. ‘I know I am nothing special,’ she says: There are plenty of other women living and doing exactly what I am doing and raising a family and trying to keep them and their business on an even keel. I do feel special though in the fact that I have the opportunity to share some of my family experiences in a way that may help another rural woman somewhere, realise that she is not alone; that she can relate to what I have to say in my column – that she too has ‘been there done that’ – and that then she also feels some sort of achievement and recognition. As a winner of the ABC Northern Territory Woman of the Year Award, Clair O’Brien was eager to share the glory, with her family, here community and with all the other rural women she knows are doing amazing things in just getting by. A native of Northern Queensland, Clair is the middle one of three sisters brought up on sugar cane farms around Cairns in the 1950s and 60s. The first in her family to complete senior high school, Clair planned to go to teacher’s college in Brisbane once she completed school. A short stint in the city, however, taught her that it was never going to work. Brought up in space, she needed it to thrive and so decided she wouldn’t live in town if she didn’t have to. She returned to her family home near Cairns and secured a position as governess on a property at Mt Garnet, roughly 1000 kilometers west of Cairns. She has moved from Mt Garnet to the Northern Territory, but since that short sortie into Brisbane, Clair has never lived south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Clair met her husband, Michael, while she was a governess at Mt Garnet and he was working on the next door property. The married in 1970 and she moved to the property he and his family established from scratch in 1964 in the Valley of Lagoons region, Craig’s Pocket. Clair was used to outback living, but it would be fair to say that the conditions at her new home were rough. There were no services, including no running water, which needed to be fetched from the creek. Wood stoves in searing heat, kerosene fridges and pit toilets were the appliances available. Cows, chickens, pigs and vegetable gardens were the ‘supermarket’. It was 1976 before they had a home generator for power on the property; 1989 before they had a telephone. The two way radio was their lifeline, functioning as an emergency services provider, educator, business facilitator and social network. ‘You wonder how we managed to run a business,’ she says, ‘but we did and quite successfully, it seems’. You also wonder how she managed to run a family! If anyone understands the challenges faced by parents of children in remote and isolated locations, it is Claire O’Brien. With four children under the age of five, Claire had her work cut out for her. They were all distance educated for their primary schooling, and Claire played a major role in that, recruiting a governess at times for assistance. The children ‘attended’ the School of the Air and had their lessons supplemented by correspondence classes. The classes were generally looked forward to, although Claire soon realised that there was little to no coordination between what was being taught over the airwaves and through the mail. Her first foray, arguably, into campaigning on behalf of families in remote Australia, was when she lobbied for the improvement of the delivery of education to children in isolated communities. Claire’s experience also demonstrates how hard it is for parents in isolated communities to gain access to a range of services and experiences that urban dwellers take for granted. One of her children had a speech impediment that health authorities claimed was behavioural and that would improve if she changed her behaviour. They offered her no support or assistance, and the experience was both worrying and demoralizing. Living in isolation, and without a network of support or a basis of comparison, it was hard for her to argue against this diagnosis, or ask for the advice of other parents in the community. Nevertheless, her instincts told her that she should persist and get a second and third opinion. Eventually, she found someone who confirmed her suspicions that the impediment was the result of a physical condition that could be fixed through a course of speech therapy. The unhappy battle with health authorities knocked her confidence about and reinforced the importance of organisations such as the Isolated Children’s Parents Association (ICPA), of which Clair is now a life member. Through the airwaves, she was actively involved in a number of organisations, including ICPA, the Country Women’s Association and the Parents and Citizens Association of the School of the Air. These organisations, she says, were as much a lifeline to the members as the airwaves that carried the meetings. They helped isolated women to keep in touch and to gather the confidence to trust their instincts. After establishing a successful business in northern Queensland, the O’Brien’s decided to transport their operations over the border into the Northern Territory. Carmor Plains, in the Northern Territory flood plains, shared a border with Kakadu National Park and presented the O’Brien’s with a series of challenges and interests that were not part of the Mt Garnet experience! Being less isolated geographically made it easier for Clair to become involved in community organisations in a ‘hands on’ and practical way. Smaller distances, better roads and cars meant sharing knowledge with real people could be a reality. Clair was elected President/ Secretary of the Lower Mary River Landcare Group, and also represented Coastal, Rural and Horticultural Groups on the Landcare Council of the Northern Territory, where she was a member of the regional and state assessment panels for the National Landcare Program submissions. Her environmental concerns became personal; she embarked on a mission to rid the country of feral pigs and make money out of it. ‘Feral pigs degrade the land, but rather than leaving them, we’ve decided to use them as an export product and put the returns back into the property.’ They must have made good eating – she served some up an Australian Women in Agriculture dinner one year, much to the appreciation of the diners. It was while she was living at Carmor Plains that Clair won the Northern Territory Rural Woman of the Year Award. It was very important to her, not only as a measure of recognition of her own community involvement and vision, but because it focused attention and resources on other Territory women. Like other winners, she got an enormous amount out of the Canberra awards ceremony and training program, especially the networking opportunities that it provided. ‘Everyone who attended was a winner,’ she said. She is certain that it encouraged more women to get out, speak their minds and get involved in community organisations, although she points out that, due to the relatively small population, the Territory has always provided opportunities for women that might not be possible in other states. It encouraged her to continue developing her own leadership skills so that she can be a better advocate for and on behalf of rural women. She participated in the Australian Rural Leadership Program in 2002-3 and was elected Deputy Mayor of the Roper Shire Council in 2010. After several years at Carmor Plains, the O’Brien family decided to move in 2001, to drier country where they would focus again on cattle. They now manage properties in the Roper Valley district, at Coodardie and Numul Numul stations, not far from Mataranka about halfway between Darwin and Tennant Creek. They lease land from traditional owners with whom they have an excellent relationship. Says one traditional owner of the sharing of knowledge between the community and the family, “It’s really, really good I think. I’ve been a stockman all my life ever since I was very young, 20 years old. [The O’Briens] show me what they’re doing out in the paddock and I think that’s alright.” Clair suspects that the mutual respect and trust comes on the back of mutual appreciation of family. But then again, for Clair, it has always been about family. Events 1996 - 1996 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section 1996 ABC Rural Woman of the Year State Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/pastwin.htm#96state Newspaper Article Family the key to rural woman's win, 1996 Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Clair O'Brien interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 October 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Described as ‘the greatest winner in women’s World Cup aerial skiing history’ by the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia, Jacqui Cooper has eighteen World Cup events to her name. She won three World Cup titles in consecutive years between 1999 and 2001. Jacqui Cooper began skiing at the age of sixteen. She competed at the Winter Olympic Games at Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994 (placed 16th) and Nagano, Japan, in 1998 (placed 23rd). In 1999 she won the World Championships at Meiringen, Switzerland. Between 1999 and 2001 she won the World Cup title every year. Severely injured with a shattered knee while training a week before the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002, Cooper couldn’t compete in the Games. After a long recovery process she made a come-back at the Mt Buller World Aerials in 2004, winning silver. Cooper went to the Winter Olympics in Torino in 2006 having clocked up 113 World Cup starts; 81 World Cup top ten results; 28 World Cup podiums; and 15 World Cup victories. She came first in the qualifications, but 8th in the finals, and suspended plans for retirement until her results better reflected her abilities. By the 2006/07 season, Cooper was clearly in top form. At the World Cup in Mont Gabriel, Quebec, she scored 116.64, beating her own world record of 114.81, set just a fortnight earlier at Park City, Utah. Had she been competing in the men’s competition, with these scores Cooper would have been placed second at Utah and fifth at Mont Gabriel. The first woman to do the triple-twisting triple somersault, Cooper intends not only to continue competing but to master the very difficult quadruple-twisting triple somersault and the triple-twister. She is considering competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Cooper’s awards include Victorian Sportswoman of the Year 2000; Victorian (Sport) Young Australian of the Year; Female Victorian of the Year; Australian Snow Sports Athlete of the Year (1999 and 2000); Australian Freestyle Skier of the Year (1998, 1999, 2000); Special Achievement Award Australian Snow Sports Awards 1997/98. Published resources Newspaper Article Cooper back from the brink to fly high again, Paxinos, Stathi, 2004 Cooper a record-breaker in anyone's language, Magnay, Jacquelin, 2007 Cooper vows to fly like the men, Jeffery, Nicole, 2007 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 8 February 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Shaw is a qualified company director and holds degrees in arts and law as well as a Masters of Public Policy. She currently (2015) serves as the President of UN Women Australia, Deputy Chair of Global Voices, and as a Director of Inclusion WA. She has been recognised with an Australian Leadership Award from the Australian Davos Connection, and a West Australian of the Year Award. Elizabeth Shaw works as a Manager in KPMG’s Advisory practice. She also holds leadership roles in the not-for-profit sector, currently serving as the President of the Australian National Committee for UN Women and the Deputy Chair of Inclusion WA. Elizabeth’s role as President of the Australian National Committee for UN Women reflects her long-term commitment to increasing gender equality, in Australia and around the world. She has presented at sessions at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York and written on gender issues for the Australian Financial Review and The West Australian. Elizabeth completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Western Australia, where she served as the President of the Law Students’ Society, Editor of the UWA Student Newspaper and Editor of the UWA Law Review. Elizabeth started her career as a solicitor for the State Solicitor’s Office in Western Australia (2007 – 2010), winning the Golden Gavel competition in 2010. In 2008, Elizabeth was selected to be the Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, consulting with over 5,000 young Australians before presenting her findings at the UN General Assembly in New York. Elizabeth’s passion for engaging young people in the community continued through her support of organisations working with young people, including her work as a director of ReachOut.Com (2009 – 2013), a Trustee of the UN Youth Foundation (2013 – 2014) and Deputy Chair of Global Voices (2013 – 2015). Elizabeth worked as the Executive Director of the UN Association of Australia (2010 – 2014). During this time, she completed a Masters in Public Policy at the ANU, receiving a scholarship to complete coursework at the University of Oxford and interning for United States Senator Richard G. Lugar. Elizabeth has a keen interest in politics and international relations, and was selected to participate in the State Department’s International Visitors Leadership Program, the Australia American Leadership Dialogue and the Australia India Youth Dialogue. Elizabeth has been recognised with an Australian Leadership Award from the Australian Davos Connection, a West Australian of the Year Award (Youth) from Celebrate WA and as a ‘Global Leader of Tomorrow’ by the University of St Gallen in Switzerland. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Elizabeth Shaw Created 6 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Elizabeth Shaw Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920 Author Details Niki Francis Created 20 October 2015 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Programmes and memorabilia from various theatrical events, inclu- ding ballet, opera, plays, films, recitals, musicals and orchestral concerts. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Includes correspondence, annual reports, minutes of meetings , finalised bequests and legacies, photographs and miscellaneous material relating to the club. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 October 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Contents include: administrative records related to the medical social work curriculum including copies of minutes of meetings of the Medical Advisory Committee, correspondence and working papers, curricula of courses, and lists of students; papers relating to organisations to which Ogilvie belonged including New South Wales Institute of Hospital Almoners, Australian Association of Hospital Almoners, Australian Association of Social Workers, National Heart Foundation Cardiac Rehabilitation Committee, Council of Social Service of NSW, Sydney Hospital, Old People’s Welfare Council of NSW, and NSW Council for the Aging, Advisory Committee Working Party; personal letters related to her retirement (1965); personal papers related to J. Paton (Red Cross) and Joan Lupton (1937-1950). Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 17 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Personal and professional correspondence, 1926-1988; lectures and academic addresses, 1938-1982; research material, 1940-c1984; manuscripts of her publications; book reviews written by KF, 1961-1985; photographs; eulogies, 1990. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 309 comprises business and general correspondence relating to theatrical ventures, 1905-1958; personal correspondence of James Nevin Tait, London, 1945-1950; letters to Rangatira Pty Ltd (Wellington, New Zealand), 1949-1954; weekly summary of attractions, 1918; J.C. Williamson performance contracts, 1910-1954; personal financial records of Sir Frank Tait, 1954-1967; correspondence of Sir Frank and Lady Viola Tait, 1960-1990; typescript draft of “A family of brothers” by Lady Tait, ca. 1970; and, miscellaneous clippings and objects relating to theatre productions (19 boxes).??The Acc10.006 instalment includes theatre programmes and related ephemera, news clippings, theatrical journals and research notes. Topics represented include actors, directors, instrumentalists, dancers, singers, circuses, colonial opera, theatres and theatre companies, including J.C. Williamson, Melbourne Repertory Club, Dame Clara Butt, John Farrell, Dorothy Hammerstein, Robert Helpmann, Yehudi Menuhin, Gladys Moncrieff, Maurice Moscovitch, Nat Madison, Anna Pavlova, John Charles Thomas, Lawrence Tibbett (1 fol. Box). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 February 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Edith Mary Harrhy was educated at Shenley House School, London, and took her first Trinity College examination at the age of seven. Later she entered the Guildhall School of Music as an Ernest Palmer Scholar and here she studied piano, singing, harmony, counterpoint and opera. During this time she was the recipient of a number of annual scholarships and prizes. In 1914 Edith went on tour with English violinist Mary Law and it was during her travels that she met William Constant Beckx Daly in Australia. The pair married on 8 April 1919 in London, before returning to Melbourne. During the 1920s Edith travelled with her husband for his work, all-the-while performing for charities, clubs and societies. From 1930 to 1933 Edith and her family lived in London, where she continued giving recitals. On her return to Melbourne, she began her work with amateur and semi-professional musical-theatre groups. She was involved with Gertrude Johnson’s Australian National Theatre Movement from its inception in 1935, and was its musical director in 1940-48. She also worked as musical director with the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria, the Q Guild and the Lyric Light Opera Society. Edith also worked as staff coach and accompanist for the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Opera Society from 1950. Edith was also a life governor of Prince Henry’s Hospital and a member of the Lyceum Club. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Edith Harrhy, 1902-1992 [manuscript] Harrhy, Edith Subseries 9-12. Other collections, 1896-1984 National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Edith Harrhy, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of South Australia Manuscript of music Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Janet Isobel Gallagher was one of three female members of the Gallagher family who served overseas with the Australian Army Nursing Service during World War I. She was a niece of Flora Gallagher and Evelyn Gallagher and like them was born at Browns Flat, a farming settlement near Burbong between Queanbeyan and Bungendore in New South Wales, now within the eastern border of the Australian Capital Territory. She enlisted in 1916 and spent most of the War nursing in India with service also in Egypt and England. Janet Isobel Gallagher (also known as Jennette) was born on 15 January 1880 to Eliza Jane Gallagher, the eldest daughter of John and Mary Ann Gallagher of Browns Flat in what is now Kowen Forest near the eastern border of the ACT. Janet was raised from birth as their child by her grandparents, John and Mary Ann Gallagher and when she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service, she gave their names as her next of kin. Janet trained at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney and was registered as a nurse on 14 July 1915. She nursed for about three months at the military hospital, 4 Australian General Hospital (AGH) at Randwick, before joining the Australian Army Nursing Service when enlistment opened to those who were nursing in Australian military hospitals to volunteer for service in India. When she enlisted on 13 June 1916 she was 35 and her religion was Catholic. She and her aunt Evelyn Gallagher enlisted on the same day and they spent much of the war in the same hospitals. She was among several hundred Australian nurses sent to India at the request of the British Government to nurse in military hospitals in India. As a result many were staffed mainly by Australian nurses who cared initially for sick and wounded evacuated from Mesopotamia, until facilities could be established near the fighting, and for British troops of the Indian Garrison. The Australians were assured that because of the severe Indian climate they would serve there only for six months and then be sent to nurse Australian troops in France or Mesopotamia which is what they wanted to do but this did not eventuate. Many of their patients in India were victims of tropical diseases. Two Australian nurses died of cholera in India. Janet Gallagher sailed on the RMS Kashgar and arrived in India on 27 September 1916. Her first posting was to the Gerard Freeman Thomas Hospital in Bombay. In May 1917 she was sent to Deccan War Hospital, a 1500-bed hospital in Poona where she remained for about 18 months. She was promoted to Sister although her promotion does not seem to have been noted officially until late in 1918 after she had left India. In October 1918 she left Bombay for Egypt where she nursed at 31st British General Hospital (BGH) at Abbassia until she left for England at the end of the year. In England she was attached to 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (AAH) at Southall and very briefly to 1st Australian General Hospital before being admitted to hospital sick. She was not fit to resume nursing for nearly three months when she joined 3 AAH at Dartford. Janet Gallagher returned to Australia on duty on HMAT Orsova arriving in Sydney on 6 September 1919. She was discharged in Sydney on 23 October 1919 with the rank of Sister. After the war she was told after corresponding with the government that she was entitled only to the British War Medal as her long service in India was not regarded as being in a war zone. She is commemorated on the ACT Memorial and the City of Queanbeyan Roll of Remembrance. After the war Janet Gallagher continued nursing in Sydney including as a midwife at South Sydney Women’s Hospital and later in the northern suburbs of Sydney. She died unmarried at North Sydney on 30 December 1957. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Section Gallagher, Janet Isabel, 2013, http://nurses.ww1anzac.com/ga.html Book The Long Travail, Gallagher, N. J., 1987 With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia: The story of the Anzacs in Asia -The Australian Nurses in India, Burke, Keast (ed.), 1927 Book Section Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18. Vol. III: Problems and Services, Butler, A.G., 1943 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Gallagher James Fitzpatrick : SERN 4809 : POB Glen Innes NSW : POE Casula NSW : NOK W Gallagher Janet Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Janet (Jennette) Gallagher Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joanne Jones is a once only candidate for election: she was an Independent in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Rockdale in 1999. At the time of her campaign, Joanne Jones had lived in the electorate of Rockdale for 12 years. She had been involved in the fitness industry for 18 years as an exercise physiologist and athletics coach. Her campaign stressed local issues, such as the installation of air treatment systems in the Turella stack connected with the M5 road tunnel, and cleaner water in Botany Bay. She is married. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Inspired by her newsreel photographer father, Adelie ‘Front Page’ Hurley is known as a pioneering woman press photographer; she was one of only three Australian women press photographers working in her time. She was fearless in pursuing her shots, and also fearless against the gender discrimination of her field, lasting over two decades in press photography. Her photographs include a diverse range of subjects, from army photography, vice squad busts, life at outback stations and taipan hunting. Adelie Hurley was born on 21 May 1919, in Sydney, to Antoinette Leighton and Frank Hurley. She had an identical twin sister named Toni, a brother, Frank Hurley, Jr., and another sister, Yvonne. Her father was a newsreel photographer who was well known for his Antarctic and WW1 photography. He had a huge impact on her; she believed that, ‘it was inbred … born within me to become a photographer. I think it was a destiny. To me, he was the master, and to have his approval meant the world to me’ (Australian Story 2001). From an early age (Adelie was eight at the time), the children would assist their father in the development of his prints. When he was away on various expeditions, Adelie took it upon herself to teach herself photography. In 1930, when she 11 years old, Hurley won a school photography prize for photographs she took of the school fete using a Box Brownie camera and an ‘old bellows enlarger in the bathroom’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 17). Hurley enrolled at the Sydney Technical College, where she studied commercial art for 18 months but dropped out as she found it ‘too narrow and too conforming’ (Sydney Morning Herald). She began her career working as a model but preferred taking photographs herself. By 1938 she began working as a freelance photographer for Pix magazine (there were only two other Australian women press photographers working at that time), and in 1939 she became a member of the Australian Associated Press (AAP) staff. She was known for her adventurous spirit and taking risks to capture the images she wanted. One of her adventures saw her stowing away in an overland troop convoy to travel up to Darwin. After being discovered she had to hitchhike to Darwin on her own. This adventure enabled her to produce a series of photographs about the army, which were published in the Daily Telegraph before the civilian evacuation. On another occasion, Hurley managed to photograph a raid of an opium den in Sydney by climbing a ladder to access the first floor of a Chinese laundry and ‘jostling’ with ‘burly Vice Squad police.’ The resultant photographs were a scoop and made the front page of The Sunday Sun newspaper and became known as ‘Front Page Hurley.’ During 1941-1943 she travelled to the USA, working as a freelance photographer for Pix magazine. On her return to Australia Hurley began working full time as a casual photographer for The Sun. The management of The Sun did not employ her as a staff photographer as they claimed that ‘there were no women’s toilets on the photographic floor of the building’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 18). Hurley decided to leave Sydney and for the next couple of years travelled and worked as a freelance photographer. She went onto work for the magazine A.M. (which was edited by Cyril Pearl) in 1950. When the magazine closed in 1953, Frank Packer employed her to work for the Australian Consolidated Press. She also worked for The Daily Telegraph and The Women’s Weekly, which during the period 1956-1963 saw her travelling overseas, covering stories in Fiji, India and the USSR. She also travelled within Australia photographing life on outback stations, Aboriginal people, Aboriginal sacred sites in Arnhem Land and taipan hunting. Adelie Hurley was to marry three times and did not have any children, moving up to North Queensland with her last husband, where they managed a resort in Bowen. Here, she took up portrait painting. She died in 2010 Adelie’s career as a professional press photographer spanned the period 1938-1960. During that time her male colleagues resented her work as they felt she encroached on their domain. This resentment manifested to such an extent that her camera equipment was often sabotaged; in the end she had to keep her own photographic equipment under lock and key. ‘I’ve taken literally millions of pictures. It was a great life but a lonely one in newspapers. I had a lot of acquaintances but not many friends. I married a few times over the years. Being a press photographer suits my personality: I’ll go anywhere, anytime.’ Technical information Hurley’s first camera was a Box Brownie camera Collections National Library of Australia Events 1938 - 1960 1930 - 1930 Adelie Hurley won a school photography prize for photographs she took of the school fete. 1981 - 1981 Adelie Hurley’s work featured in the Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 Published resources Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Newspaper Article Pioneer in Female Journalism: Adelie Hurley, 1919-2010, Byrnes, Flip, http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/pioneer-in-female-photojournalism-20100318-qi6j.html Farewell to Adelie, Scott, Belinda, http://www.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/news/farewell-to-adelie/482724/ Book Section Adelie Hurley, Irving, Winton, 1995 Resource Section Out of the Blizzard, Latham, Rebecca, 2001, http://www.abc.net.au/austory/transcripts/s305854.htm Magazine article A First For Women Photographers in Australia: Quick Thinking and Ladders Got the Top Shots, Bowen, Jill, 1981, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55457051 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Adelie Hurley, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 9 November 2016 Last modified 9 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This extensive collection of personal papers includes inter alia:?1. Inward and outward correspondence sorted chronologically and by name, 1935-1978. Principal correspondents include Eric Harrison, Lord Casey, Harold Macmillan, Leo Amery, Clive Baillieu, Owen Dixon, Alfred Stirling, Jack Fingleton, Fred Alexander, Walter Crocker, Lionel Lindsay, Alexander Douglas Home, Will Ashton, Anthony Eden, Jack Cato, Winston Churchill, Alexander Downer, Alan Herbert, James McGregor, Hubert Opperman, Leon Trout, Ralph Richardson, Frank Richardson, Justice Felix Frankfurter and Colonel F.H. Wright.?2. Press cuttings, speeches, statements and broadcasts, 1917-1976.?3. Diaries, 1935-1963, including those kept on overseas trips and office appointment diaries.?4. Research material and drafts of writings.?5. Personal medical, legal and financial records.?6. Family papers, including those of his wife Dame Pattie Menzies.?7. Liberal Party correspondence and printed material, 1944-1974.?8. Family and official photographs?9.Papers relating to specific topics including the Communist Party, the 1956 Suez Crisis, defence, cricket, elections, Rhodesia and South Africa, banking, economics and the Churchill Memorial Trust.?10. Papers relating to Menzies’ appointment as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1965-1971. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 May 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marion Ward lectured at Auckland University in 1960 before going to England and lecturing at the University of Reading until 1967. On 10 October 1967 Marion was appointed Senior Research Fellow, New Guinea Research Unit, Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. She was promoted to Field Director (Senior Research Fellow) from May 1970 to February 1972. She was also an editor of the New Guinea Research Bulletin. Between 1973 and 2002 Marion worked on or led 80 missions to developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, working at the community, regional and national levels to resolve transport, communication, water supply and sanitation issues. She has published extensively and worked as a consultant since the early 1970s. Archival resources Australian National University Archives Marion Ward papers relating to transport systems in Papua New Guinea National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Marion Ward, Dr., academic and researcher, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details ANU Archives (Alannah Croom) Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Files may contain material such as originals or photocopies of exhibition and auction catalogues, invitations, press clippings, articles, media releases, correspondence and other items of ephemera. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 November 2016 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Notebooks, examination papers and experiments 1923-45 from North Sydney Girls High School and the University of Sydney; printed material relating to Women’s College 1928-41; Sydney University Extension Board lectures 1936; students’ festival programmes 1927-32; personal records including biographical notes and records of the Sydney Technical College, Radio Engineering Diploma course 1941-45; photographs [1 m, Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 24 September 2009 Last modified 24 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Diana Howlett completed her PhD in Geography in the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University (ANU), in 1959. She was Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at ANU from 1982 to 1996, and appointed to Chair before her retirement. Diana’s research focused on the geography of Papua New Guinea and she has published widely in the area. The Diana Howlett Prize was established by Professor Diana Howlett on her retirement from the ANU Department of Geography. The Prize is awarded to the student with the most outstanding result in Honours in Geography. Archival resources Australian National University Archives Pacific research papers on human geography Author Details ANU Archives (Alannah Croom) Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "E.M.R. Couchman, Hopes of Australian women. Copy of account of women’s views as supplied to the Ministry of Information by request (1945); The Australian Women’s National League (1904-1945) (Historical notes, with addendum). Autobiographical notes (1970). Federal election campaign leaflet (1941) for endorsed U.A.P. candidate for Melbourne, Mrs E.M.R. Couchman; Australian Women’s National League records: Explanatory leaflet (1937); programme for Empire Day Celebration (1945); statement authorized by the Executive (1945); Newspaper cuttings ca. 1934-1945; Photograph of delegates at the Liberal party of Australia Inaugural Conference, Albury, Dec. 1944. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 May 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jane Juliana Pell was the wife of Morris Birkbeck Pell, the first professor of mathematics and philosophy at the University of Sydney. Jane Juliana Pell was the wife of Morris Birkbeck Pell, the first professor of mathematics and philosophy at the University of Sydney. The couple married in England on 17 February 1852 before migrating to New South Wales to take up the appointment. Pell had 11 children between 1859 and 1869. However, the marriage was not a happy one and she returned to England in 1873. She subsequently came back to Australia but lived in Hobart, estranged from her husband. When Morris Pell died in 1879, he left an annuity of £80 to her, with the provision that she did not return to Sydney. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources University of Sydney, Archives Personal archives of PELL Morris Birkbeck [1827-79], Jane Juliana Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Phyllis Johnson was prepared to go to gaol for her political beliefs. She stood for the Communist Party of Australia at the 1947 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Paddington. During the second world war, sale or possession of communist literature was an offence carrying the penalty of three to six months gaol. Those apprehended were usually invited to enter into a bond to observe the regulations for the duration of the war. Phyllis Johnson reused to do this when she was prosecuted for an anti-war address at the Sydney Domain and spent a month in Long Bay prison as a result. Published resources Book The Reds: the Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality, Macintyre, Stuart, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Evelyn Gallagher served from 1916 to 1919 with the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in World War I in India, Egypt and England. She was one of three female Gallagher family members from Browns Flat, a farming settlement between Queanbeyan and Bungendore in New South Wales later part of the ACT, who served overseas as nurses in World War I. After the war she was matron of a private hospital at Nowra. Evelyn Melita Gallagher, often known as Eva, was born on 12 June 1877 at Browns Flat, a farming settlement near Burbong between Queanbeyan and Bungendore, NSW, now in Kowen Forest within the eastern border of the ACT. She was the youngest daughter of John Gallagher, farmer, and Mary Ann Gallagher (born Craig) and a younger sister of Flora Gallagher and aunt of Janet Gallagher, who both also served as nurses overseas in World War I. Evelyn reached the rank of Charge Sister while serving in India. Evelyn Gallagher trained at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and was registered as a trained nurse on 6 August 1909. From 1913 she was on the Australian Army Nursing Service reserve but apparently waited to enlist until her niece Janet Gallagher, who had been raised as her sister, was qualified and they could enlist together. She and Janet enlisted on 13 June 1916 in Sydney after both had been nursing for nearly three months at 4th Australian General Hospital (AGH), the military hospital in Randwick. When she enlisted Evelyn gave her age as 31 but was probably 38; she was a Catholic and she named her mother Mary Ann Gallagher as her next of kin. She was among several hundred Australian nurses sent to India at the request of the British Government to nurse in military hospitals in India. As a result many were staffed mainly by Australian nurses who cared initially for sick and wounded evacuated from Mesopotamia, until facilities could be established near the fighting and for British troops of the Indian Garrison. The Australians enlisted following a call to nurses serving in Australian military hospitals while waiting for a chance to volunteer. They were assured that because of the severe Indian climate they would serve there only for six months and then be sent to nurse Australian troops in France or England which is what they wanted to do. This did not eventuate. Many of their patients in India were victims of tropical diseases. Two Australian nurses died of cholera in India. Evelyn travelled on RMS Kashgar arriving in Bombay on 27 September 1916 and was sent to nurse at the 1000-bed Gerard Freeman Thomas Hospital in Bombay. In May 1917 she was promoted from Staff Nurse to Sister and posted to Deccan War Hospital, a 1500-bed hospital at Poona. At the beginning of 1918 she was transferred to the 100-bed Station Hospital at Belgaum about 500 km south of Bombay and promoted to Charge Sister. Station hospitals were maintained by the Indian Government and were often poorly equipped. Their patients were mainly sufferers from tropical diseases including cholera, dysentery and plague. Evelyn Gallagher remained at Belgaum until towards the end of September when she was transferred to Egypt and posted to the 31st British General Hospital (BGH) at Abbassia until the end of the year. Early in 1919 she moved to England where she nursed briefly at 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (AAH) at Southall before being sent to 1AGH at Sutton Veny in Wiltshire, a holding hospital for patients waiting to return to Australia, which also treated many victims of the Spanish flu pandemic. In July 1919 Evelyn left to return to Australia on HMAT Orsova on duty and landed in Sydney on 6 September 1919. She was discharged in Sydney on 23 October 1919 with the rank of Sister. She received the British War Medal and Victory Medal and is commemorated on the ACT Memorial and the City of Queanbeyan Roll of Remembrance. After the war Evelyn Gallagher was matron of Bridge Road Private Hospital in Nowra, NSW where she nursed until close to her death at Burwood in Sydney on 19 July 1946. She is buried in the Catholic cemetery, Rookwood. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Section Gallagher, Evelyn Melita, 2013, http://nurses.ww1anzac.com/ga.html Book The Long Travail, Gallagher, N. J., 1987 With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia: The story of the Anzacs in Asia -The Australian Nurses in India, Burke, Keast (ed.), 1927 Book Section Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18. Vol. III: Problems and Services, Butler, A.G., 1943 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Gallagher Evelyn Melita : SERN Staff Nurse : POB Queanbeyan NSW : POE N/A : NOK M Gallagher Mary Ann Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ada Armytage was the daughter of the wealthy pastoralist Charles Henry Armytage who owned Como House during the period 1865-1959. Her photographs document life within the stately house and amongst the social elite of the times. Ada Armytage was born in 1858. One of eight children, her father was Charles Henry Armytage and her mother was Caroline. They lived at Fulham Station on a large sheep station outside of Geelong. Her father purchased Como House in 1865 and the family moved there; her mother was to have another two children, one of whom died. The family oversaw the renovation and refurbished Como house but by 1876 Charles Armytage died. The family was very wealthy and travelled to the continent on a number of occasions, each time acquiring artefacts to bring back to Melbourne. They were known for the many parties and social events they hosted. Caroline Armytage was keen for the children to be educated – the girls as well the boys – and she sent them abroad to be educated. In May 1906 Caroline Armytage married Captain Arthur Fitzpatrick, who was the aide-de-camp to the governor of Victoria. The couple moved to England but soon after her husband left her, taking the 70 thousand pound dowry with him. She returned to Melbourne and never married again. Ada took her niece, Edna Armytage, to England in 1913 to see her sisters Constance and Leila but ended up being stranded there with the outbreak of the WW1. The three sisters were middle aged at the time – Ada 55 years old, Constance 43 and Leila 39 – but they joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) in England for the Red Cross and were sent to France to assist with the war effort. They returned to Melbourne after 11 years’ absence. Having been greatly affected by their war experiences the sisters went about making changes to Como House; their renovations saw the house losing its Edwardian grandeur. Exactly what inspired Ada to develop an interest in photography is unclear, as is when this took place, as well as whether she received any formal training. What is certain, however, is that she had a keen interest in photography and documented the Armytage family’s life at Como House over the years. Ada’s photographs and her sisters’ diaries, letters and journals make up the Armytage family archive, which preserves the significant moment in history. Ada died in 1939. In 1959 the Armytage family sold Como House to The National Trust of Victoria. Collections Armytage Family Collection, University of Melbourne Archives Published resources Thesis Living at Como: The Armytage Sisters and Their Relationship to Como Between 1863- 1959, Dawe, Fiona Elizabeth, 1997 Resource Section A Case for Photographs, Benjamin, Jason, http://library.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/1378871/benjamin.pdf Como House and the Armytage Family, http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/built-environment/como-house-the-armytage-family/ Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 9 November 2016 Last modified 7 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Conservation campaigner Audrey Fay Sutton grew up in Geelong, Victoria. In 1948 she graduated from the University of Melbourne having studied zoology, economic geography and politics. Fay became involved in the environment movement during the early 1970s. From 1979 until her death, Fay was a council member of the Australian Conservation and was also instrumental to the formation of Greening Australia. Fay was an executive councillor of the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales from 1980 to 2000 and was involved in several other groups and committees whose focus was on environmental issues. Archival resources National Library of Australia Papers of Fay Sutton, 19-- [manuscript] [Biographical cuttings on Fay Sutton, enviromentalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Contains postcards assembled by Ola Cohn, mostly unused, but some with letters addressed to Cohn, 1904-1950 and undated. Most of the illustrations depict carvings and sculpture from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The volume includes a bookplate by Ola Cohn. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 March 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, 1931-1954, incl. letters from R.G. Menzies, J.B. Chifley and A.W. Fadden; drafts of speeches and reminiscences, n.d.; papers relating to Pitt’s deceased estate, 1955-1995; publications and newscuttings; photographs.??Henry Arthur Pitt was born in Colac in 1872, the son of a rural school teacher. The financial repercussions of his father’s early death forced Henry to abandon his plans to study law and instead he entered the Victorian Public Service. After working ten years a clerk of courts in Omeo, he was promoted to the State Treasury in 1909. He studied accountancy part time and made a rapid advancement up the Public Service ranks, serving as Manager of the Australian Wheat Board from 1916-1922 and then Under Treasurer of Victoria, later retitled Director of Finance. He was Agent-General for Victoria in London for a brief period in 1927 and in 1935 he was appointed to the Royal Commiss- ion into Australia’s ‘monetary and financial systems’. He retired from the Public Service in 1937 and became a partner in the stockbroking firm of Ian Potter & Co. He also served on the boards and committees of the Lawn Tennis Associations of Victoria and Australia, Georges Ltd., the Royal Children’s Hospital and University College. In 1899 he married Gertrude Augusta Buxton, with whom he had four children; one was the historian, Kathleen Fitzpatrick. Henry Arthur Pitt, C.M.G., O.B.E. died on 3 August, 1955. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 January 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Hilda Foster was a Double Certified Nurse when, at the age of 35, she successfully applied to the board of the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) to work at an outback field centre in South Australia. Born and raised in suburban Melbourne, she had been inspired by stories told to her by other missionaries about the fulfilment to be gained working amongst Aboriginal communities. Given her religious faith and nursing skills, she believed she could make a difference. She worked in Oodnadatta in South Australia for two years (1937-1939), followed by a stint in Innamincka in New South Wales in 1940-1942. Before she became a nurse, Hilda Foster trained to be a Sunday School teacher and was a member of the Sunday School Council of Victoria. She completed first aid courses run through the Presbyterian Deaconesses Institute in Carlton, Victoria, and in 1930 successfully applied to become a trainee nurse at the Austin Hospital for Incurables, in Heidelberg. She commenced her training there in 1931, before moving to the Women’s Hospital in 1933. In 1934 she had six months at the Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, before returning to the Austin, where she was employed when she sat her final exams in November 1934. Her combined skills made her a most attractive option for the Australian Inland Mission. As well as being multi-skilled as a nurse, she provided religious instruction and spiritual ministry to members of the community, some of them Aboriginal. Published resources Conference Paper 'Joy that has no bitter springs': Sister Hilda Foster and the Australian Inland Mission 1937-1942, Wilson, John R, 1995 Book Not to be ministered unto: The story of Presbyterian deaconesses trained in Melbourne, Ritchie, Catherine I., 1998 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 June 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents include personal correspondence (1911-1960); awards (1935-1962); printed material and press cuttings (1934-1975); photographs ascribed to K. Gordon Gooch, photographer in the Geology Department (1910-1975); photographs of geology excursions (c1910-1975). Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 17 September 2009 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Not a grey hair among us, a brief history of the foundation and development of the Lyceum Club of Melbourne in the years 1912-1959, a talk given to “The Catalysts”, Lyceum Club, 15 September 1970, by Joan Gillison. Also, notes and correspondence of Joan Gillison, 1970-1975, relating to the Lyceum Club. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 October 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Theatre and concert programmes including drama, opera, ballet, musical comedy; also autographed programme from Alfredo Campoli recital in Broken Hill 1950. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers, 1971-1987, including correspondence and unpublished articles on women’s issues and commune life; scrapbook of press cuttings 1969-71 and miscellaneous published material on women’s liberation. Author Details Clare Land Created 23 August 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Autograph book 1913-1914, belonging to Gwen Luly, and containing the autographs of friends. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Genevieve Bolton was born in Bendigo Victoria but spent most of her childhood growing up in Brisbane. After graduating from Mount Saint Michael’s College in Ashgrove, Brisbane she undertook her Bachelor of Law Degree at the Queensland University of Technology graduating in 1994. She then spent a year in Melbourne undertaking a social justice volunteer placement run by the Jesuits and Sisters of Mercy where she was placed with the then Refugee and Advice Casework Service now Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre (RILC). In that role, she provided legal assistance to onshore asylum seekers and people seeking to sponsor relatives from refugee situations abroad. She quickly learnt that she wanted to pursue a career in the community legal sector. In 1995, she completed her legal practical training at the Leo Cussen Institute in Melbourne and was admitted as a Solicitor and Barrister in Victoria and obtained her first paid legal job with then the Victorian Immigration Advice and Rights Centre now known as RILC. Genevieve has also been admitted as a Solicitor in Queensland and the ACT and is on the High Court roll. Genevieve Bolton is currently (2015) the Co-ordinator/Principal Solicitor at Canberra Community Law which provides free legal services to disadvantaged and vulnerable people. Genevieve Bolton was born in Bendigo Victoria but spent most of her childhood growing up in Brisbane. On graduating from Mount Saint Michael’s College in Ashgrove, Brisbane she undertook her Bachelor of Law Degree at the Queensland University of Technology graduating in 1994. Yearning to find a satisfying and rewarding path which would enable her to make a difference, she spent a year in Melbourne undertaking a social justice volunteer placement run by the Jesuits and Sisters of Mercy where she was placed with the then Refugee and Advice Casework Service now Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre (RILC). In that role, she provided legal assistance to onshore asylum seekers and people seeking to sponsor relatives from refugee situations abroad and quickly learnt that she wanted to pursue a career in the community legal sector. In 1995, she completed her legal practical training at the Leo Cussen Institute in Melbourne and was admitted as a Solicitor and Barrister in Victoria and obtained her first paid legal job with the then Victorian Immigration Advice and Rights Centre now known as RILC. Genevieve has also been admitted as a Solicitor in Queensland and the ACT and is on the High Court roll. During the period 2000 to 2003, Genevieve was the Principal Solicitor of the then Welfare Rights Centre in Brisbane, now known as Basic Rights Queensland. During this time she managed a large casework practice and ran several test cases in the Social Security jurisdiction. During this period she was also an active member of the Refugee and Immigration Legal Service’s Management Committee and was one of two integral members who put together a migration training program for the services’ migration agent volunteers. Currently, Genevieve is the Co-ordinator/Principal Solicitor at Canberra Community Law which provides free legal services to disadvantaged and vulnerable people. In this role she manages the Centre and its legal practice whilst continuing to provide front line legal services to some of the most marginalised and disadvantaged people in the ACT community. Under her leadership, Canberra Community Law has successfully established a number of innovative programs including the Street Law program and a multi-disciplinary practice model which combines legal and social work advocacy to prevent homelessness. Genevieve was also instrumental in the establishment of the Centre’s Community Law Clinical Program in partnership with the Australian National University (ANU) and has led the ongoing development of the program. The program is regarded as the ANU’s flagship clinical program. Genevieve is currently the chair of the ACT Community Legal Centres Association and a member of the National Association of Community Legal Centre’s (NACLC) Advisory Council. She has recently been appointed as a Commissioner to the Legal Aid ACT Commission Board. Genevieve was an inaugural member of the National Welfare Rights Network Inc (NWRN) from 2002 to 2008 and played a leading role in the establishment of NWRN as a national peak body in the area of Social Security law. Whilst NWRN’s National Liaison Officer, Genevieve also undertook a scoping study on legal need in the Northern Territory in 2007 which resulted in the funding of four welfare rights worker positions in the two Aboriginal Legal Services in the Northern Territory. Genevieve helped set up the Pro Bono Clearing House in the ACT in 2005 and continues to serve on its Management Committee. She is currently the Secretary of the Tenants Union (ACT) Management Committee and the ACT Representative on the NACLC’s Professional Indemnity Insurance subcommittee. Events 2016 - 2016 Medal (OAM) in the General Division, Order of Australia: For service to the law, particularly to welfare rights. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Genevieve Bolton Created 6 October 2015 Last modified 28 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Genevieve Bolton Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Zali Steggall was the first Australian to win an individual medal in the Winter Olympic Games. Skiing from the age of five, Zali Steggall represented Australia at the Winter Olympic Games in Albertville in 1992, aged seventeen. She went on to compete at Lillehammer (1994), Nagano (1998), and finally Salt Lake City (2002) where she announced her retirement. In 1997 at Park City, USA, Steggall became the first Australian woman to win a World Cup alpine event. The following year, in Nagano, Japan, she became the first Australian to win an individual Olympic medal, taking bronze in the slalom. She went on to win the World Championship skiing title in Vail, Colorado, in 1999. Steggall went to the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City having finished in the top ten at World Cup level eleven times, twice on the podium. Zali Steggall won the Australian Skier of the Year award for 1999. Chosen from 53 other nominations, she was inducted as a member of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, only the second skier to receive the honour. In January 2007, Steggall was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to alpine skiing, and to the community through support of a range of charitable groups. Events 1998 - 1998 Slalom Skiing Published resources Newspaper Article That's it for snow - Zali's going to wriggle her toes in the sand, Pearlman, Jonathan, 2002 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Zali Steggall, sportsman, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 8 February 2007 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 39 min.)??Goodman speaks of her lifetime interest in music; her seven years, from 1935 to 1942, as the only woman in practice at the New South Wales Bar; working in divorce law; her foray into the Industrial Commission Courts; fighting for the equal pay cause; women in the war effort.??Digitised Sound reel tape – approx. 39 minutes??Interview conducted in 1981 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 31 May 2016 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "AWLA service record book, letter describing work at Batlow, NSW, copy of formal message concerning demobilization, poem entitled “Australian Women’s Land Army”, four cartoons of AWLA activities and brief history of the women’s services. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 60 min.)??A compilation of a series of radio interviews done with Enid Lyons expressing her views on various matters, including anecdotes, quotes and comments about her by others who had worked with her over the years. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 August 2001 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Sharon Grierson was elected as the Member for Newcastle, New South Wales, in the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament at the federal election, which was held on 10 November 2001. She was re-elected in 2004, 2007 and 2010. Born and raised in Newcastle, Grierson completed her teacher training at Newcastle Teachers’ College. Prior to entering parliament she was a principal at several Newcastle schools. Source: http://www.alp.org.au/people/people.html?seat=Newcastle accessed 14/11/2001 Published resources Resource Section Sharon Grierson, Candidate for Newcastle, Australian Labor Party, http://www.alp.org.au/people/people.html?seat=Newcastle Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 November 2001 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interviews and memoirs of members of the Melbourne Women’s Walking Club, 1920 to 1980.??Included are Jean Aird, Elsie Albury, Isobal Eastwood, Isobel Fielding, Merle Griffin, Freda Hollis, Mollie Levy, Lorna Trengrove and Pat Wadsworth. Donor: Hazel Merlo Keywords: Aird, Jean, Eastwood, Isobel, Elsie, Albury, Fielding, Isobel, Griffin, Merle, Hollis, Freda, Levy, Mollie, Merlo, Hazel, Trengrove, Lorna, Wadsworth, Pat, Walking Club, Melbourne, Women, Victoria Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 December 2017 Last modified 27 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 10116 comprises papers documenting Jan Fullerton’s career at the National Library of Australia, including her role as Director-General of the Library and her work as a representative of the Library in international for a. The material comprises correspondence, photographs and certificates. The correspondence includes letters of congratulation on Fullerton’s appointment in 1999 as Director-General and her reappointment in 2002, letters of thanks from people who were invited to Library functions or who were sent copies of Library publications, and letters from former National Library colleagues and from other librarians overseas.??The photographs largely record Fullerton’s attendance at international library conferences, congresses and seminars, including the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), the Congress of Leaders of National Libraries of Asia and Oceania (CONLAO), the Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL) and the Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL). In addition there are group photographs of National Library staff on the Library’s steps, and photographs of senior managers, including Fullerton, with former Director-General Warren Horton on his day of retirement. Others depict Fullerton with the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce AC, and with Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge. The certificates are for an ALIA HCL Anderson Award (2010) and Fullerton’s inclusion on the Victorian Honour Roll for Women (2001) (1 box).??The Acc10.192 instalment comprises material relating to various farewell events held in honour of Jan Fullerton’s retirement as Director-General of the National Library of Australia in 2010. It comprises three of Fullerton’s name badges; a photograph of the staff of the Library in front of the National Library building, 23 September 2010; an invitation to farewell drinks, 23 September 2010; and an invitation to and menu for a farewell dinner, 5 November 2010 (1 packet).??The Acc10.215 instalment comprises handwritten notes for Jan Fullerton’s speech at the farewell dinner held in honour of her retirement as Director-General of the National Library of Australia, 5 November 2010 (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Georgie Somerset was nominated for the 1997 A.B.C. Rural Woman of the Year Award, for the Wide Bay district of Queensland. At the time of her nomination Georgie was a member of the founding executive of the Queensland Rural Women’s Network and continues to support this organisation in publicity and media activities. She was instrumental in developing the state and national Host Farm Associations and was co-ordinator of a beef marketing group in the Durong area. Georgie also organised the Women in Leadership Seminar at Beef 97 in Rockhampton. She was also co-ordinating local personal development courses for women. Since 1985, Georgie has been involved in marketing rural Australia to urban communities. One project involved developing a website to provide information on events, industries and communities in rural Australia. The project was designed to give city dwellers a gateway to the bush so they can learn about the rural lifestyle. Georgie believes in life long learning and has continued to develop her own skills, mentor other women so that they have the confidence to develop their own skills, and work at breaking down the rural/urban divide. She is actively involved in a family owned beef property in southern Queensland and the mother of three pre-teenage children, and currently sits on the National Rural Advisory Council (NRAC), and the Queensland State Planning Group for the State and Australian Government funded FarmBis program. Events 1997 - 1997 2020 - 2020 For significant service to primary industry, to women, and to the community. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article VIP Mum Georgie Somerset, 2010, http://www.motherinc.com.au/magazine/community/vip-mums/477-vip-mum-georgie-somerset Resource Section 1997 ABC Queensland Rural Woman of the Year Award Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/qld.htm Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 October 2010 Last modified 5 March 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Special episode of “A Current Affair”, focussing on events rising out of the International Women’s Year Conference in Canberra. The episode has more women’s content, with Claudia Wright standing in for Mike Minehan as compere. Bob Hawke, as ACTU President, is interviewed about women’s rights. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 November 2008 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Scrapbook relating to Dame Nellie Melba, kept by her personal assistant. Comprises newspaper cuttings, photographs and performance programmes. Includes a series of articles “Melba’s life story” published in the Herald newspaper (Melbourne), September 1925. Photographs include portraits of Melba, views of Coombe Cottage (her home near Lilydale, Vic.) and scenes of her arrival at Perth on the R. M. S. “Orsova” in 1914. Author Details Clare Land Created 17 June 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The ACT Women’s Consultative Council was established in 1989 by the then chief minister Rosemary Follett to advise the chief minister on the status of women and women’s issues. It ceased operation in 2001. The ACT Women’s Consultative Council was established in 1989 by the then chief minister Rosemary Follett. The Council was given the following terms of reference: to advise the Chief Minister on the status of women in the ACT; to develop a broad overview of women’s status in the ACT, with a particular emphasis on identifying gaps in programs or services and on advising priorities for attention, acknowledging that all programs, services and policies affect women to a greater or lesser extent; to provide to, and receive from women, and the organisations involved in women’s issues, information about issues of concern to women; and to prepare a yearly work program for approval by the first ACT Women’s Consultative Council under these terms of reference. The following women were members of the Council: First Women’s Consultative Council, 1989-1992 Pamela Cahir (Convenor to April 1990) Susan Bambrick (Convenor September 1990-March 1991) Maureen Bromfield (to May 1991) Danielle Hyndes (Convenor March 1991-May 1992) Gillian Boyd Kathryn Cole Elizabeth Grant, AM Winsome Hall Margaret Munro Koula Notaras Vanda Podravac Alison Purvis (to July 1991) Karen Richards (to May 1991) Julia Ryan Margaret Timpson Second Women’s Consultative Council, June 1992-June 1994 Julia Ryan (Convenor) Ann Quadroy (Deputy Convenor from December 1993) Dorothy Broom (until March 1994) Grace Coe Jennifer Bradley Beverly Ch’ng Jacklynn Draper Jane Grace Gwen Gray Charlotte Palmer Jayne Pilkinton (until February 1994) Heather Ponting Felicity Rafferty Betty Searle Lorraine Weatherall Third Women’s Consultative Council, July 1995-June 1996 Jenny Morison (Chair) Danielle Hyndes (Deputy Chair) Robyne Bancroft Paula Calcino Margaret Carmody Betty Craig Elizabeth Grant, AM Donna Holden Ingrid McKenzie Anne Ranson Dennise Simpson Jean Thomson Lita Vidal Fourth Women’s Consultative Council, July 1996-March 1998 Danielle Hyndes (Chair) Elizabeth Grant, AM Margaret Carmody Jean Thompson Betty Craig Karen Sorensen Dennise Simpson Linda Crebbin Ingrid McKenzie Robyne Bancroft Lita Vidal August 1998-June 2000 Karen Fogarty (Chair) Jacqueline Pearce (Deputy Chair) Aysun Adams Libby Bell Myriam Bonazzi Betty Craig Margaret Head Cathi Moore Glenda Munro Julia Nesbitt Margery Smyth, OAM Megan Thompson Jean Thompson Lulu Turner Ann Wentworth, AM July 2000-September 2001 membership as above, with the addition of: Matilda House Published resources Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Patricia ni Ivor Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 8 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Two photographs of Mrs Dolly Bensen (Bett-Bett) and her family and a typed copy of an article written by Mrs Gunn which appeared in The Age, 15(?) January, 1955 (1 folder). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 December 2003 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 9506 comprises papers relating to Karobran: the story of an Aboriginal girl, which was published posthumously in 1978. Clare wrote the original manuscript, but died before completing final editing. Jack Horner and Mona Brand undertook editing and publication of the book, under a grant from the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council. Included is a carbon copy of the original manuscript, and a typescript incorporating Horner’s amendments. The collection also comprises a typescript draft of Karobran, and correspondence and drafts regarding Clare’s Australian dictionary of biography entry (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Judy Lambert was a once only candidate for election to the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales when she stood as a Greens candidate in 1999 for the seat of Manly. She has however, been a local government councillor for two terms (Manly Council, 1999-2007) and is an outstanding environmental scientist. Judy Lambert was born in Benalla, Victoria and educated at Benalla High School and several universities. She. Holds a B.Pharm., Victorian College of Pharmacy (1969), BSc (Hons) Melbourne University (1971), PhD (Pharmacology) Melbourne University (1975), Grad Dip Environmental Management, Mitchell CAE (1989) and Grad Dip Business Admin., UTS, (1998). Judy Lambert has worked as a consultant to the Federal Environment Minister (1990-1992), an environmental advocate with the Wilderness Society (1987-1990) and as a research scientist in both the USA and Australia (1971-1987). From 1967 to 1974 she was a pharmacist at Royal Melbourne Hospital. Since 1993 she has been a co-director of Community Solutions. Judy Lambert was elected to the Manly Council in 1999 after having achieved 5% of the formal votes cast. She has lived in Manly for 25 years and is a partner in a consultancy business specialising in strengthening links between communities and decision makers. As a Councillor, she has been a member of many committees including the Manly Sustainability Strategy Management Group, the Landscape Management and Urban Design Committee, the manly Visitor and Community Board, the Manly Coastline Management Committee and the manly Scientific Advisory Panel. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Collier sisters – Annette, Alice and Edith – came to public notice in 1954 with the endowment of the £1.25 million Collier Charitable Fund. By 2007, the corpus of the fund was worth $88 million. Alice, Annette and Edith Collier were daughters of Jenkin Collier, who arrived in Melbourne from Wales in 1852 at the age of 23. Jenkin Collier worked in the building trade, constructing railway lines from Melbourne to Echuca and Deniliquin to Moama, and became involved in the pastoral development of Queensland. The Colliers lived at Werndew, a mansion on Toorak Road. The three sisters were educated at Melbourne’s Presbyterian Ladies’ College, while their brother Herbert attended Melbourne Grammar School. Jenkin Collier died at the age of 91, leaving his estate to his family. His daughters were devoted to one another, and never married. They travelled extensively but lived an otherwise unpretentious existence, attending St. John’s Church regularly and spending very little of the substantial annual income that they received from the Collier estate. They gave generously to charity, but always insisted on anonymity. The wills of Annette, Alice and Edith Collier – who died in 1947, 1950 and 1954 respectively – held that two-fourteenths of the Collier Charitable Fund’s annual income be given to the Lord Mayor’s Fund. By 2006, the Lord Mayor’s Fund alone had distributed over $30 million to various hospitals and charities using its share of the Collier money. Published resources Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Report Lord Mayor's Fund News Report, Lord Mayor's Fund, 1995 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Resource Section Collier, Jenkin (1829 - 1921), Hone, J. Ann, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030411b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 15 December 2008 Last modified 27 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 50 minutes Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Frances Alice Robinson served in Egypt, France and England and on hospital transports nursing soldiers being repatriated to Australia during her service with the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War I. Before enlisting she had been matron at Jerilderie and Queanbeyan hospitals in NSW and at Duntroon Military Hospital, ACT. Frances Alice Robinson (known as Alice) was born at Pompapiel north of Bendigo on 1 August 1882, daughter of William and Catherine Robinson. She trained at Bendigo Hospital and was registered as a trained nurse on 2 July 1909. She had been matron at Jerilderie Hospital for about four years when, in 1913, she beat six other nurses for appointment as matron of Queanbeyan Hospital. In Jerilderie she had cared for a young nephew following the death of his mother but this arrangement appears to have ceased by the time she reached Queanbeyan. Obviously a countrywoman, she was described as ‘a good shot with a rifle’ when she offered to join the AIF as a field nurse in 1914. She resigned as Queanbeyan Hospital matron in April 1915 to enlist in the Australian Army Nursing Service and, while waiting to be called up, nursed at Royal Military College from 8 May to 30 July 1915. While still waiting she returned briefly as matron of Queanbeyan Hospital as her replacement had been unsatisfactory. Her enlistment as a staff nurse in the Australian Army Nursing Service dated from 13 October 1915. She was farewelled at the Protestant Hall Queanbeyan and presented with a gold watch and later with £13/8/6 to purchase a uniform. When Frances Alice Robinson enlisted she was 33 years, her religion was Church of England and she named her father William Robinson, ‘Birthday Villa’ of Malmsbury Victoria, as her next of kin. Birthday Villa is now a boutique winery in the Macedon Ranges, named after a nearby mine discovered on Queen Victoria’s birthday. Frances Alice Robinson left Sydney on HMAT Orsova on 10 November 1915 bound for Egypt. Her first posting was to 2nd Australian General Hospital (AGH) at Ghezireh Palace Hotel outside Cairo which had been taken over to add to the accommodation at Mena House when it was overwhelmed by the great numbers of sick and wounded being evacuated from Gallipoli. The two hospitals comprising 2 AGH had a total of 1500 beds. In January 1916 she travelled to Lemnos to nurse Gallipoli patients being evacuated by ship from 3rd AGH during its closure and relocation to Egypt. For the following seven months she nursed at the British Choubra Military Hospital, Cairo, an infectious diseases hospital at that time specialising in enteric (typhoid) cases, and then briefly at 3rd AGH at Abbassia on the outskirts of Cairo. At the beginning of September 1916, Robinson joined HMAT Ascanius, a hospital transport ship, at Suez to nurse patients on the return trip to Australia. Hospital transports took ‘non-cot patients’ and were fitted with hammocks and double-tier bunks. After leave in Sydney, she nursed briefly at the Garrison Hospital before returning to London on HMAT Benalla. During the first half of 1917 she was attached to 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (AAH) in Southall near London which specialised in the fitting of artificial limbs and then at 3rd AAH, Dartford, Kent, where war neuroses and nerve cases were treated. On 20 July 1917 she was again posted to a hospital transport, joining HMAT Euripides to make another trip back to Australia nursing returning soldiers. She had leave in Sydney then worked briefly at the 4 AGH Randwick before returning to Britain on HMAT Demosthenes. After landing at Glasgow at the end of 1917, she was attached briefly to the 2 AAH Southall but became ill with cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder). Alice Robinson returned to Australia on HMAT Euripides arriving on 21 March 1918. She was discharged medically unfit on 21 September 1918 with the rank of Staff Nurse. Alice Robinson did not return to nursing after the war. After working as a knitting manufacturer she ran a haberdashery and manchester shop at Belgrave in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne. On 18 June 1930 while living at Belgrave she married Harvey Alexander White of nearby Upwey. Her husband died about seven years later and she had three other long-term relationships. During the latter years of World War II she had a confectionery and grocery shop in Brisbane where she had relatives then returned to live in the Melbourne suburb of Canterbury. She died in an aged care home in Kew on 17 March 1973 at the age of 90 years 7 months. Frances Alice Robinson was awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal and is commemorated on the ACT Memorial and listed on the Queanbeyan World War I Roll of Honour. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Book History of the RMC Hospital, 5 Camp Hospital and 21 Dental Unit, Howarth, Ross, 2007 More than Bombs and Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at work in World War I, Harris, Kirsty, 2011 Book Section Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18. Vol. III: Problems and Services, Butler, A.G., 1943 Resource Section Robinson, Frances Alice, 2103, http://nurses.ww1anzac.com/ro.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Robinson Frances Alice : SERN S/NURSE : POB Bendigo VIC : POE N/A : NOK F Robinson William Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Frances Alice Robinson, AANS Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hours 10 minutes??Videorecordings of secondary school students interviewing Barbara Hanrahan, Mem Fox, Colin Thiele, Christobel Mattingley and Max Fatchen for ‘Authors on Display’ as part of ‘Allwrite!’ literary component of ‘Come Out 87’. The interviewers were Joan Knelias and Ellen Hornhardt, Thebarton High School [Barbara Hanrahan]; Tiffany Richter and Helen Phillips, Gawler High School [Mem Fox]; Michelle Harvy and Georgina Swift, Cabra Dominican College [Colin Thiele]; Kristin Hayward and Justine Butterworth, Aberfoyle High School [Christobel Mattingley]; and Eliza Pontifex and Rebecca Francis, Woodlands School [Max Fatchen]. The series was made in conjunction with Modbury High School Media Studies Group. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Newsletter June 1996; Budget for consideration for 1996-97 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The MS 3788 collection includes 45 letters written by Alan Watt in Washington, D.C., to colleagues in the Department of External Affairs including Colonel W.R. Hodgson (Secretary) and John D.L. Hood (Acting Secretary). Lady Watt’s papers consist of typed copies of her diaries written in Moscow, 1947-1949, Malaya, 1954-1956, Japan, 1956-1959, and Germany, 1959-1962, written en route to Australia from Cologne in 1962 and to Japan, Moscow, the Hague and London in 1963, written in Papua New Guinea in 1967 and in China in 1974. Also included are typescript copies of her literary manuscripts. The collection includes a copy of the 1969 publication by Robert F. Randle, Geneva 1954: the settlement of the Indochinese War (4 boxes).??The Acc09.023 instalment comprises transcriptions made by the son of Sir Alan and Lady Mildred Watt, Peter James Vallack Watt, “From the diaries of Lady Mildred Mary Watt, Germany, April 1959-February 1962” and “An account of the years spent in Moscow (June 1947-1949)”. There is a bound paper copy and an electronic version on CD-ROM (1 packet).??The Acc13.165 instalment comprises transcripts on CD-ROM of 6 diaries and 1 letter of Lady Mildred Watt written in Moscow (June 1947-October 1949); Singapore (1954-1956); Japan (March 1956-December 1959); Germany (April 1959-February 1962); journey to Australia from Bonn by way of Vienna, Belgrade, Athens, Ankara, Istanbul, Greece and Rome (March-May 1962); trip to Japan, Delhi, Tashkent, Moscow, The Hague and London (September-October 1963); letter to family (August 1954). Transcriptions completed by Lady Watt’s son, Peter James Vallack Watt (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "I. ARTHUR ASHWORTH ASPINALL?? 1904-1906; Correspondence mainly with William Epps (Secretary, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney) and Professor T. P. Anderson Stuart (Call No.: MLMSS 7118/23/3)?? II. JESSIE STRAHORN ASPINALL?? 1903-1908; Papers, including correspondence, testimonials, newscuttings and photographs of Hobart General Hospital. Correspondents include Agnes Alsworth-Smith, William R. Charlton (Editor, The Sydney Mail), J. P. Cochran (Secretary, Sydney Labor Council), William Epps, Annie Golding, Louisa Macdonald (Principal, Women’s College, University of Sydney), Professor M. W. MacCallum and Professor T. P. Anderson Stuart (Call No.: MLMSS 7118/23/4) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 20 November 2008 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Fay Surtees Marles AM (née Pearce) is a former Australian public servant. She served as Victorian Commissioner of Equal Opportunity from 1977 to 1987 and Chancellor of the University of Melbourne from 2001 to 2004. The daughter of Percy Willam Pearce and Jane Victoria Crisp, Fay Marles completed her secondary education at Ruyton Girls’ School, before attending the University of Melbourne. Marles graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1948 with a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Social Work. She subsequently became a social worker in Queensland. However, after her marriage to Donald Marles in 1952 she was subjected to the marriage bar and forced to resign her position. She and her husband had four children, including politician Richard Marles. In 1977, Marles was appointed the first Commissioner for Equal Opportunity in Victoria. She retained the position until 1987, when she established Fay Marles and Associates, a consultancy specializing in dispute resolution and human resource management. Fay Marles was first elected to the University of Melbourne Council in 1984 and became Deputy Chancellor in 1986, before her appointment as Chancellor in 2001, a position she held until 2004. She was the first woman to hold the position. After retirement the University of Melbourne established the Fay Marles Scholarship in recognition of her strong commitment to social justice and human right. It is offered to research students from Australian Indigenous descent or students who are experiencing compassionate or compelling circumstances. Events 2010 - 2010 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 A decade of Mary Owen dinners, Waterfield, Dorothy, 1995 Book Dilemma at Westernport, Bate, Weston, 1978 Workplace Approach to Sexual Harassment, Marles, Fay, 1990 Report Being a member of a profession : implications for teachers, Marles, Fay, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 March 2002 Last modified 15 July 2020 Digital resources Title: Fay Marles Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This series contains notes for and texts of speeches,?transcripts of media broadcasts, press releases and material provided?to the media for the preparation of articles and broadcasts. The?material covers the period when Dame Annabelle was Senator for?Queensland and includes the time when she held the Housing portfolio.??A variety of subjects are covered in the speeches and articles. The?majority of the series concerns the housing portfolio and related?issues such as accommodation for the aged, and the building industry.?A significant amount of material relates to social issues in?Queensland and includes speeches to local voluntary and service?organisations. Local celebrations of the Cook Bi-Centenary and the?opening of exhibitions were specific events at which Dame Annabelle?spoke. Some election speeches dating from Dame Annabelle’s early?campaign for the Senate, the 1967 Geelong by-election and referenda?in 1967 are also included. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 May 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jill Crossley is regarded equally as a commercial and an artistic photographer. In addition to freelance advertising photography, Crossley has taken photographs in collaboration with ABC productions, the Craft Council of Victoria, and an Australian archaeological team in Pompeii. Crossley’s style has been described as an interplay of realism and abstraction. Her early camera was a 116 folding camera, and in 1959 she used a Mamiyaflex and a Fujica camera. In recent years Crossley has worked with a small digital camera with a zoom lens. Jill Crossley is known equally for her commercial and artistic photography. She grew up on her parent’s sheep station at Katanning in Western Australia 277 km south-east of Perth. Her father was known to take photographs of his stud sheep and to process the photographic prints using Pyrex dishes and a washbasin. Jill and her brother Michael would watch on – their intrigue so great that they used their savings to buy a camera when Jill was only nine years old. Brother and sister consequently learnt how to develop films and print photographs using improvised equipment, just like their father. Jill remained at home after finishing her schooling so she could pursue her interest in photography. She used a 116 folding camera and a cheap enlarger, setting up a darkroom in the bathroom using dishes made of wood which were painted with bitumen that sat on planks of wood placed over the bath tub. The first public showing of her work occurred when she submitted her photographs for display at the local agricultural show. Crossley set her mind on becoming a portrait photographer and received some training in negative retouching from Mattie Hodgson. This led to her obtaining work with the photographer Susan Watkins in Perth in the period 1949-1950. She also worked in the studios of Allan Gough and John Dent. This experience made her realise that with her shy disposition she was not ideally suited to portrait photography. Crossley moved to Sydney in 1954 intent on becoming an occupational therapist but before long she went back to photography. From 1957 to 1958 she worked as an assistant to Max Dupain in his Sydney studio and she was later to remark that his aesthetics and high standards were an inspiration to her. 1959 saw her becoming a freelance photographer working in a mainly commercial capacity. For a while she worked for the ABC taking still photographs for their productions and photographs for the advertising industry; however she continued to make portraits of children and to produce photographs that were used for book illustrations or were published in magazines such as Art in Australia . Then throughout the 1970s and 1980s she collaborated with the Craft Council of Australia, producing a number of instructional resource kits relating to weaving, woodcraft and leatherwork. In the 1970s she also accepted an assignment in Papua New Guinea, which saw her travelling to New Britain and New Ireland; she accompanied an Australian archaeological team to Pompeii, Italy taking photographs of excavated artefacts. Jill Crossley went onto have a number of solo exhibitions, starting in the 1980s at the Australian Centre for Photography (1980), and the David Reid Gallery in Paddington (1981). On the latter, Max Dupain commented ‘[i]t would be safe to say that this little exhibition of photographs is one of the most consequential of its kind we have witnessed for some time.’ She also exhibited at the Studio Gallery in Brisbane (1982). Well into her eighties Jill Crossley continues to photograph and exhibit her work, with her exhibition at the Kerrie Lowe Gallery drawing praise from the art critic Robert McFarlane, who described her as ‘a tenacious, talented, photographer.’ In 2013 her exhibition Beyond Looking opened at the Arthere gallery. This was followed by her Unreliable Witness exhibition, held at the Stanley Street gallery in Darlinghurst, NSW, 2015, and consisted of studies of the natural world, plants, the water, the style being an interplay of realism and abstraction. Technical Her early camera was a 116 folding camera, in 1959 she used a Mamiyaflex and a Fujica camera. In recent years she has worked with a small digital camera with a zoom lens. Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales Edmund and Joanna Capon Research Library and Archive Deakin University Powerhouse Museum State Library of Queensland University of Western Sydney State Library of Victoria Events 2015 - 2015 Jill Crossley featured in the exhibition Jill Crossley Unrealiable Witness Headon Photo Festival 1949 - Active as professional photographer 2013 - 2013 Jill Crossley featured in Beyond Looking Photographs 2010 - 2010 Jill Crossley exhibited her work at the Kerrie Lowe Gallery. 1997 - 1997 Jill Crossley featured in the exhibition The Studio of Max Dupain 1983 - 1983 Jill Crossley featured in the Lady James Oswald Fairfax Memorial Competition 1982 - 1982 Jill Crossley featured in the Cumberland Art Show 1982 - 1982 Jill Crossley exhibited her work in a Solo Exhibition 1981 - 1981 Jill Crossley exhibited her work in a Solo Exhibition 1981 - 1981 Jill Crossley featured her work in the Wilderness Exhibition Published resources Newspaper Article Up Close and Botanical, http://www.southsydneyherald.com.au/up-close-and-botanical/#.ViR9kH4rLIU Beyond Looking in the Analogue Age of Post-war Australian Photography, Jill Crossley was One of the rare Female Spirits, Fitzgerald, Michael Book Australia's Craft Heritage Old Crafts in a new Land: Estonian Basketry, Abraham, Felicity, Crossley, Jill, Soobik, Kalju, Scott, Judith and Crafts Council of Australia, 1982 Woodcraft goes to the Opera [slide], Crafts Council of Australia, 1985 Woodcraft Goes to the Opera II, Crafts Council of Australia, Information Service, 1988 Dale Frank: University Gallery, the University of Melbourne, 1 August-31 August 1984., Frank, Dale, Taylor, Paul. Crossley, Jill et al, 1984 Photographs for the Book 'Hilda Rix Nicholas', McArdle, James, Lord, Derek., Weight, Gregg, Crossley, Jill, Busby Geoffrey et al., 2000 An Extension of Identity: A Representative Collection of Aboriginal Art, Miller, Steven, 1990 Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Picture Posters (2), 'Australia Clay', Chan, Kevin and Israel, Kevin, photography by Jill Crossley Photograph Greek Rug Weaving [slide], Crafts Council of Australia, photography by Crossley, Jill, 1970 New Work [slide], Crafts Council of Australia, photography by Crossley, Jill, 1983 Designing Your Rug [slide], Feddersen, Jutta, photography by Crossley, Jill, 197? Leather for Living [slide]., Papadaki-Klavdianou, A., Photography by Crossley, Jill, 1978 Resource Section Jill Crossley, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jill-crossley Jill Crossley: Unreliable Witness Headon Photo Festival, Ryan-Clark, Fiona, http://stanleystreetgallery.com.au/exhibition/jill-crossleyunreliable-witness20th-may-6th-june-2015/ Archival resources Edmund and Joanna Capon Research Library and Archive, Art Gallery of New South Wales [Jill Crossley : Australian Art and Artists file] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 11 October 2016 Last modified 12 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Paul Anderson: The Citizens Welfare Service of Victoria, 1887-1987; a Short story. Melb., 1987. 33 pp. by Paul Anderson: UniM Archives call number 361.809945 ANDE??The Greig Smith Social Work History Collection; A Bibliography and Guide. Melb., 1987. 81 pp. UniM Archives call number 061.361994 ANDE Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 19 November 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Sussan Ley was elected to the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Australia, representing the electorate of Farrer, New South Wales, on 10th November 2001. She was re-elected in 2004, 2007 and 2010. Ley’s experience includes: working as an air traffic controller at both Mascot and Tullamarine airports, she has her commercial and aerial stock mustering pilot license. Since 1986 she has helped on the family farm. After obtaining a degree in Economics and her Masters in Taxation and Accounting, Ley worked at the Albury Branch of the Australian Taxation Office as Director, Technical Training. Married to a fourth generation family farmer, they have three children. Published resources Resource Section Farrer: Sussan Ley, NSW Liberal Party, http://www.nsw.liberal.org.au/campaigns/candidates/ley.cfm Sussan Ley: Liberal for Farrer, Country Liberals, http://www.countryliberals.com/sussanley/sussanley.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 November 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series consists of files of correspondence, decisions, policies, reports and newspaper cuttings regarding the assimilation, welfare and education of displaced persons who migrated from Europe to Australia, internees and prisoners of war.??This series is one of seven classes of correspondence files maintained by the Department of Immigration and its predecessors from 1939 to 1950, or for a portion of those years.??The seven classes are:-?A659, Correspondence files, class 1 (general, passports) 1939-1950;?A433, Correspondence files, class 2 (restricted immigration) 1939-1950;?A434, Correspondence files, class 3 (non-British European migrants) 1939-1950;?A435, Correspondence files, class 4 (naturalisation) 1944-1950;?A436, Correspondence files, class 5 (British migrants) 1945-1950;?A437, Correspondence files, class 6 (aliens registration) 1946-1950;?A438, Correspondence files, class 7 (general administration) 1949-1950.??The retention/disposal status of this series is still unknown at present, however a note in the series file by Peter Scott, probably from around 1969, has ‘Assessment: Retain all files permanently’.??All items in this series in the custody of the National Archives as at May 1998, have been entered onto the item level database, ANGAM II. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 January 2013 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "As the International Committee of the Red Cross has been the ‘guardian’ of the Geneva Conventions on armed warfare, International Humanitarian Law is the basis of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. As a result, Australian Red Cross national Presidents and other leading women, such as Philadelphia Robertson, have been prominent in this field and in international conferences of the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement. As ‘guardian’ of the Geneva Conventions, national Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, along with government signatories, have had a unique mandate to disseminate these laws to the community. The dissemination of International Humanitarian Law has therefore been a core function of the national office of the Australian Red Cross, which responds to changes in these laws and protocols, as in the 1970s. In 1978, the Australian Red Cross formed a National Dissemination Committee, and both State and national committees, were particularly active from the 1980s. From this grew the national Department of International Humanitarian Law. Dissemination has changed according to the Geneva Conventions in place, and the status of the Australian Red Cross. The Australian branch was first constituted as a branch of the British Red Cross Society in accordance with the 1906 Geneva Conventions. In 1919 the Australian Red Cross was accepted as a member of the new League of Red Cross Societies, with Lady Helen Munro Ferguson offering the highest support through her attendance the following year. In 1927 the Australian Red Cross became independent and recognised as such from the International Committee of the Red Cross. In 1938 the Geneva Conventions of 1929 were ratified by the Australian Government, and in 1957 the Geneva Conventions of 1949 were ratified by the Australian Government. The international treaties currently at the heart of International Humanitarian Law are the four 1949 Geneva Conventions and their two Additional Protocols of 1977. In the 1980s, expert national and divisional committees were formed in International Humanitarian Law, reporting to the relevant executive committees. The statute of the International Criminal Court, which has the power to act on International Humanitarian Law, came into effect in July 2002. International Humanitarian Law, also known as the law of war, aims to limit the suffering of victims of armed conflict and prevent atrocities. International Humanitarian Law also protect those who are not, or are no longer fighting and restrict the means and methods of warfare. Published resources Report Strategy 2005, Australian Red Cross, c2002 Australian Red Cross Society Reports, Australian Red Cross Society, c. 1973 Book The More things change…The Australian Red Cross 1914-1989, Minogue, Noreen, 1989 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Annual Reports of Red Cross Divisions and Blood Service Annual Reports of the Australian Red Cross Author Details Penny Robinson Created 10 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Val Dyer was the Northern Territory winner of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1994. At the time of her award, Val Dyer had been involved in primary production for over twenty years. In her two decades on ‘Hayfield Station’ Val has been responsible for business management as well as improving the productivity and quality of animal production and staff employment. She has been involved in improving technological services to the School of the Air, and has been involved in the Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association. Her industry association involvement includes membership of the Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association, an organisation she was president of in 2002-2003. Val was the Country Liberal Party’s candidate for the seat of Barkly in the 2005 N. T. Legislative Assembly elections. Events 1994 - 1994 Published resources Resource Section 1994 ABC Rural Woman of the Year State Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/previous94.htm#sta Book Section Val Dyer, Bowden, Ros, 1995 Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Val Dyer interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording] Women of the land oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 March 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "53 minutes??Mollie Dutton was born in Adelaide. Her parents opposed her desire to nurse. She conducted a kindergarten as a young woman, but made her own decision to seek nursing training at the age of 28. She began training at the Adelaide Hospital in 1924, and subsequently did midwifery at the Queen Victoria Hospital. Experience as a registered nurse included several years as a charge nurse at the RAH, and eleven years as matron at a Western Australian hospital. After a short term in charge of the Magill ward of the RAH Mollie Dutton enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service and as a matron served at RAAF hospitals in Darwin and Laverton, Victoria. After the war Miss Dutton returned to the RAH and was Sister in Charge of Bice Ward until 1954, when she retired to care for her elderly mother. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Michelle Roberts was elected to the Thirty-Fourth Parliament of Western Australia as the Australian Labor Party member for the Legislative Assembly seat of Glendalough at the by-election held on 19 March 1994 to fill the vacancy consequent upon the resignation of Dr Carmen Mary Lawrence. The electorate was abolished in the redistribution of 1994. She was elected to the Thirty-Fifth Parliament for Midland (new seat) on 14 December 1996 and subsequently re-elected in 2001, 2005 and 2008. Michelle Hopkins was born in Perth in 1960. Her parents, William and Frances Hopkins, were both business managers. She attended Mercedes College, then graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education. In 1983 she began teaching at John Curtin Senior High School, and married Gregory Roberts in the same year. Roberts had joined the Australian Labor Party in 1978, and subsequently became prominent in the Teachers’ Union, and held a variety of branch positions within the Labor Party. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia for Glendalough at the by-election held on 19 March 1994 after the resignation of Dr Carmen Mary Lawrence. This electorate was abolished in the redistribution of 1994, and Roberts was elected to the Thirty-Fifth Parliament for Midland (new seat) on 14 December 1996. She was re-elected 2001, 2005, 2008. Michelle Hopkins Roberts’ page on the Parliament of Western Australia website is at http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament%5CMemblist.nsf/WAllMembersFlat/Roberts,+Michelle+Hopkins?opendocument Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Michelle Hopkins Roberts: Media Statements 2005-2008 (Online), Roberts, Michelle Hopkins, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/88569/20080905-1741/www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/CurrentMinistersSearch7869.html?minister=Roberts&admin=Carpenter Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Select file content list :-?The Yunan exhibition 1987 : Wagner Gallery, Sydney ; Chisholm Gallery, Chisholm College, Latrobe University, Melbourne. (1 folder with various sets of stapled sheets : background material on the visit of the Yunan delegation ; brief introduction to the Painting Academy of Yunan ; Itinerary ; Curricula vitae of the visiting artists ; curricula vitae of the artists represented in the Chisholm exhibition ; lecture leaflet ; copies of lectures : Modern fine arts of China /Zhang Jian-Zhong ; Traditional Chinese painting / Wang Jin-Yuan ; Yunan national folk art / Wan Qiang-Lin).?Four exhibitions on view – new paintings, pastels and prints – Margaret Ackland, Stephen Kaldor, Matthew Perceval, David Preston, June 20-July 9 1989. [invitation]. (one sheet, [2] p.). (2 copies). Contains biographical information on each artist.?Four Australian painters living in the U.S.A. – Judith Cotton, Virginia Cuppaidge, Robyn Hill, Alison McMaugh, 30th June-25th July, 1992. [poster invitation]. (one poster folded to [6] p. ; col. ill.). (2 copies).?Pascale Cailleaux (France) :[31 May-31 July, 1994]. [invitation]. (1 invitation card, ; col. ill.). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 25 minutes??Betty Bradwell, nee Pyman, was born in Adelaide, South Australia. She spent her early years in Hawker and came to the Adelaide High School for secondary schooling. In 1932 she began training at the Hawker Hospital, and finished at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. After appointments as staff nurse and charge nurse at the RAH, she went to Western Australia for midwifery training. Betty was called up to the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1940. In April 1941 Betty sailed with the 2/10 Australian General Hospital for Malaysia. After the withdrawal of forces from Singapore in February 1942, Betty and some of her fellow nurses reached Australia, while many of their companions suffered ship-wreck, internment, and in some cases death. Betty’s army career continued with postings to New Guinea, and in Australia. Betty married after the war and left nursing for ten years, then resumed work at the Port Adelaide Casualty Hospital until her retirement in 1974. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In her role as an agricultural scientist with the Department of Primary Industries Victoria, Maria Rose was one of the femocrats whose work was vital in both empowering rural women, and supporting initiatives of the Women in Agriculture Movement, particularly the First International Women in Agriculture Conference, for which she was Program Co-ordinator. The daughter of German and Ukrainian migrant parents, Maria Rose completed a degree in Agricultural Science in 1981, before joining what is now the Department of Primary Industries Victoria’s Maffra office (in eastern Victoria), where she faced challenges because of her urban background and gender. In 1989, Maria joined the Office of Rural Affairs (ORA) in the Department, seeing the move as an opportunity to empower rural communities. Women farmers were often hesitant to ask basic technical questions in front of male counterparts. When a colleague of Maria’s in the Warragul district, Mick Maguire, began to run women-only courses, Maria extended them to more isolated areas, where she perceived an even greater need. In 1991 she brought the two groups of women together, in the first use of the term ‘Women on Farms Gathering’ which was later used for the annual gatherings of farm women across Victoria and then Australia. In 1992 she was seconded to the Committee organising the First International Women in Agriculture Conference as program co-ordinator. With assistant Catherine Noy she organised 130 presenters, worked at the conference itself, authored a post-conference report for the Department of Agriculture, which made specific recommendations for future engagement with farm women, and was an editor of the proceedings. She attended the second and third conferences, in Washington and Madrid, as a presenter, and participant, respectively. Maria completed a Masters of Applied Science at the University of Western Sydney in 1993 and is completing a PhD on exploring social processes in farmer education methods focusing on water use efficiency. Her current role with the Department is with the Dairy Extension Centre as a practice change agent in irrigation water reform. Published resources Conference Proceedings Women in Agriculture: Farming for Our Future, Women in Agriculture 1994 International Conference Committee Inc., 1995 Resource Farmers Best Teachers, Raston, Kate, 2003, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/vic/stories/s893053.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Report Project Report: International Women in Agriculture Conference, Rose, Maria, 1994 Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Mary Salce, 1976-2007 [manuscript] Author Details Janet Butler Created 24 August 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Women’s Liberation Movement submission on equal pay was delivered in 1969 to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in Melbourne, by Sylvia Shaw. Sylvia Shaw was co-founder (with Mary Owen) of the Melbourne Working Women’s Centre and a member of the Melbourne Women’s Liberation Movement. The Movement had branches in Glebe, Sydney, where members included Sue Bellamy and Diane Graham; and Canberra, ACT, where they included Suzanne Dixon, Carol Ambrose and Elizabeth Ward. Autobiographical reflections by each of these women can be found in Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt’s Different Lives: Reflections on the Women’s Movement and Visions of its Future (Penguin Books, 1987). Please note: this entry is incomplete. Published resources Edited Book Different Lives, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1987 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia International Women's Day Committee Research Project : Summary Record [sound recording] Interviewers: Celia Frank and Kirstin Marks Betty Fisher : SUMMARY RECORD Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection First Ten Years of Sydney Women's Liberation Collection, ca. 1969-ca. 1980 State Library of New South Wales Jill Lennon and Gwen Bloomfield interview some foundation members of the Women's Liberation Movement, 1995 Author Details Robin Secomb Created 5 February 2004 Last modified 6 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of meetings, organiser’s files 1912-1913, arbitration and awards 1912-1961, membership material 1952-1956, unemployed members 1914 textile demarcation material, elections 1954-1961, outwork campaigns 1958-1968, international peace and nuclear disarmament 1961-1973, ACTU material, subject files, publications, newspaper clippings. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Small handwritten notepad containing minutes beginning February 25, 1961-September 23, 1961 about fundraising activities for the Melbourne Cultural Centre which later became the Victorian Arts Centre including the National Gallery of Victoria. The minutes were kept by Mary Crean. The collection also includes a copy of the Melbourne Advertiser, Port Phillip, Australia dated Monday February the 19th,1838, vol. 1, no.8. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 45 minutes??Judith Wotherspoon was born in Melbourne and came to Adelaide with her parents at the age of eight. She was educated at the Presbyterian Girl’s College, and began nursing training at St Andrews’ Presbyterian Hospital in 1962. On completion of training she worked at Cowell on Eyre Peninsula, and then trained as a midwife at the Crown Street Women’s Hospital, Sydney. After nursing in Papua New Guinea, Britain and Canada, Judith studied at Flinders University for a Bachelor of Arts degree. Subsequently she worked in the field of community health and as a part-time lecturer at Sturt College. Between 1982 and 1985 she was senior lecturer in nursing at the Darwin Community College, then went to the University of NSW to complete a masters degree in health planning. At the time of the interview Judith was about to take up an appointment as lecturer in nursing at the South Australian Institute of Technology. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "To be advised Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 16 March 2004 Last modified 16 March 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A former World War II refugee from Latvia, Zenta was asked to work at the CSIRO to assist communication between a Ukrainian refugee entomologist and his work colleagues. Working in CSIRO Entomology, specialising in assisting those working with Diptera (flies), became the rest of her life’s work. Her assistance was so valued that there are now at least two genera and 19 species named in her honour. Zenta’s mother died at her birth so she was brought up by a grandmother and an aunt. The aunt worked for the government-run telephone company while her father, from a farming family, had become a shopkeeper in Riga. When Zenta was aged 13, her life was interrupted by war: Soviet troops entered her homeland on 17 June 1940. In June 1941 at least 15,000 Latvians, identified as ‘anti-Soviet elements’ were deported to Siberia, and shortly afterwards, the Germans drove out the Soviet forces. Zenta’s older brother was conscripted into the Latvian Legion, part of the Waffen SS, the armed wing of the Nazi Party, and was killed by the Soviets outside Riga in 1944. In October 1944, an opportunity arose for Zenta to leave Riga when two German soldiers entered her father’s shop for cigarettes and, seeing her in tears, advised her to be at their ship next morning, as it would be the last to leave Riga. Before dawn she walked with her aunt across Riga to the Daugava River bridge where the ship was preparing to cast off. Zenta departed Latvia on 4 October 1944 through the Soviet shelling of the city and its harbour, through the minefields of the Baltic, to the north German coast, as a deck passenger. She found her way to southern Germany and a transit camp in Dachau, near Munich, then further west to a munitions factory in the village of Leibi, near Ulm, until the end of the war. In 1945, she was sent further west again to a camp for displaced people in the town of Schwabische Gemund. From there she was able to continue her education at the nearby Göppingen Latvian High School. In 1946, she moved further west again, to the Esslingen displaced persons’ camp where she finished high school and completed the qualification course for Swedish massage. She did not practise massage, working instead in the American Army Special Service Club in Esslingen as an assistant librarian. There she heard that the Australian Government wanted to resettle a group of the displaced persons. She saw it as a challenge to go to the other side of the world, as fulfillment of her aspiration to be an archaeologist, in which she had always expected a professional career of world-wide travelling. Within two weeks, Zenta was on the ship to Australia. In this short period of time, she had travelled from the Esslingen camp to the Butzbach camp where a three-man Australian team was interviewing. Having been accepted and having passed her medical and security checks, she returned to Esslingen to pack her few belongings and from Butzbach was then sent north to a former Luftwaffe base near Bremerhaven. The shipload of refugees assembled there was the first group of migrants of non-British origin ever to be selected by the Australian government. Their ship was the USAT General Stuart Heintzelman. It had been built as a troop transport for the US Army, so it was operated by the Army while crewed by the US Navy. Even though the four-week voyage was more like a holiday after seven years of war, there was military discipline on board. All of the passengers were expected to undertake some work such as translating the daily newsletter into their mother tongues and staffing the ship’s library. In addition to reading, recreation focussed on music making, chess and nightly films and dances. The voyage ended with the disembarkation of the Heintzelman’s passengers at Fremantle on 28 November 1947. After four nights in Army camps in Perth, they boarded the Kanimbla, a former coastal steamer still under the control of the Australian Navy. They arrived at Port Melbourne on 7 December 1947 and disembarked the next day. By 9 December they were settling into another camp routine, this time at the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre, near Wodonga on the Murray River. Zenta’s Bonegilla record card shows that she was sent to Canberra to work as a waitress at Acton Guest House only nine days later. She spent the rest of her life in Canberra. After the Acton Guest House, Zenta moved her workplace to Lawley House. It was there that she got talking with one of the residents, Dr Sergey Jacques Paramonov, who had worked in the Zoological Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Science. During the war, he was deported to Germany together with other staff of the Academy, and after the war, found himself in Paris. Through a contact in the British Museum, he was offered a taxonomic position in the CSIRO’s Entomology division and had arrived in Canberra in March 1947, some months before Zenta. Paramonov had sufficient English to read the scientific literature but not much practice in spoken English. Later, Zenta’s boss wrote that Paramonov ‘was a highly cultured man, fluent not only in his native Russian but also in his mother’s French and the German of his science: but his English was awful! No doubt Zenta’s general education played a part: but it seems very likely that her fluent German greatly influenced her next step, to a post as Paramonov’s assistant in the Division of Entomology.’ Zenta commenced work with CSIRO as a temporary Laboratory Assistant in the Museum Section on 6 February 1950. Her position was made permanent after she obtained Australian citizenship on 11 June 1953. She used the application for citizenship to change her surname from Liepa-Liepins to Liepa. Don Colless, her supervisor, described her working life thus: ‘During the next 10 years Paramonov passed on to Zenta his great skill and meticulous standards in the collection and preparation of specimens, as well as a wide acquaintance with the taxonomy and biology of the Diptera. In lab and field she served him faithfully while together they built up a magnificent collection of Australian Diptera. And from May 1960, she found herself attempting to pass on her acquired skills to Paramonov’s successor (Colless) who arrived with a specialised knowledge of mosquitoes and little else! Nor did her service to Paramonov end there; for another 7 years she acted as his part-time assistant and especially during his last long illness, his factotum and loyal friend. ‘Apart from these technical services, Zenta established two important projects: a card catalogue of Australian Diptera and (on her own initiative) a gazetteer of Australian place names … Talents of this kind enabled her also to publish a valuable bibliography of Paramonov’s voluminous taxonomic output (1969), and later to do most of the hard work in our co-authored catalogue of Oriental Mycetophilidae (1973). Eventually she became largely responsible for searching the current literature for taxonomically important papers and dealing with a wide variety of requests for material or information. For these services regular promotions brought her in 1982 to Senior Technical Officer Grade 2, the effective ceiling for her post.’ In 1962 Zenta took up part-time studies at the Australian National University, majoring in History and Political Science and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967. She enrolled in a Master’s degree course in 1968 but did not finish it. She became involved in Liberal Party politics both on and off campus. Don Colless said that her studies and political activities did not bring ‘any reduction in the enthusiasm she brought to her work. She had, in fact, an enormous capacity for work that interested her. Perhaps her case might warn us, against too rigidly favouring the scientifically trained as assistants to taxonomists.’ Her particular skill as an assistant was in sharing specimens of Diptera with her supervisors’ colleagues. The upshot of this collaboration is that Zenta Liepa has had at least two genera (Lieparella and Zentula) and 19 species of flies named after her. In the case of Lieparella zentae, both the generic and specific names honour her. The list includes: Anabarhynchus liepae, Anagonia zentae, Aphyssura zentae, Aphyssura liepae, Austrothaumalea zentae, Axinia zentae, Diplotoxa liepae, Lieparella zentae, Dolichopeza zenta, Drosophila zentae, Exeretonevra zentae, Helina liepae, Merochlorops liepae, Molophilus zenta, Orthogonis zentae, Paramonova zentae, Phytobia liepae, Stylogaster liepae, Tanytarsus liepae, and Zentula vittata. In addition to her political interests, Zenta was also an officer-bearer of the Institute of International Affairs. Her spare-time interests included volleyball, hockey (playing for Canberra), horse riding, lawn bowls, cricket, amateur theatre, stamp collecting, knitting, crochet, tapestry and weaving. She also wrote poetry, but should not be confused with another Latvian poet of the same name, born 11 years earlier in 1916, who continued to reside in Latvia. Having been introduced to smoking by the freely available cigarettes in the American Zone of postwar Germany, Zenta developed lung cancer. She retired from the CSIRO on the grounds of ill health on 6 August 1986 and died fourteen months later, on 25 October 1987. In her will she left $68,680 to the Canberra Branch of the Latvian Relief Society Daugavas Vanagi. Published resources Journal Article Obituary: Zenta Rosalia Liepa, Colless, D, 1988 Lists of the Scientific Works and Described Species of the Late Dr SJ Paramonov, with Location of Types, Liepa, Z.R., 1968 A Tribute to SJ Paramonov, Riek, E.F., 1967 Newspaper Article Liebelei, Schnitzler, 1950 Book A Rich and Diverse Fauna: The History of the Australian National Insect Collection 1926-1991, Upton, Murray S., 1997 Edited Book Kanberas Latviesu Saime Piecdesmit Gadi 1947-1997 (Canberra Latvian Community, Fifty Years, 1947-1997), Stipnieks, Gints, 1998 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra LIEPA-LIEPINS Zenta DOB 22 January 1927 National Archives of Australia, Various Locations Name Index Cards, Migrants Registration [Bonegilla] Author Details Ann Tündern-Smith Created 20 February 2013 Last modified 26 June 2013 Digital resources Title: Zenta Liepa Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MLMSS 6130?Attendance book and transcript of the service held in the Dixson Room, State Library of New South Wales, 5 October 1995??MLOH 203/1-2?Jean Arnot memorial service Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Professor R.M. Berndt talking to D. A. Montefiore at U.W.A. 30/11/1984 — Letter to Maggie Brady dated 25/8/80 by Marion Green — [Harrie E.] Green’s account of the end of Ooldea –Letter re Olive Pink 29th Nov 1946 signed by Deputy Director, Attorney-General’s Dept Investigation Branch — The rocket range, Aborigines and war / Charles Duguid — The Long Range Weapons Project : statements by the Minister for Defence John Dedman on 22nd Nov 1946 and 10th March 1947 — Letter to Flinders University Psychiatry Dept by Harrie Green dated received Jan 1979 — Letter by Daisy Bates dated 4/9/32 — Newspaper articles on Maralinga — Transcript of phone conversation between Len Beadell and Maggie Brady 5/9/79; meeting with Len Beadell at Defence Research Establishment Salisbury : 10 Sept 1979 – Various newspaper articles on health effects of 1953 atomic tests. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dianne Guise was elected to the Thirty-sixth Parliament of Western Australia as the Australian Labor Party Member for the Legislative Assembly seat of Wanneroo. She was re-elected in 2005, but defeated at the general election of 6 September 2008 and succeeded in Wanneroo by Mr Paul Terrence Miles (Liberal). Dianne Guise was born in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1952, and arrived in Western Australia in 1970. As a member of the Australian Labor Party, she was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia for Wanneroo on 10 February 2001, and was re-elected in 2005. Guise was defeated at the general election of 6 September 2008 for Wanneroo and succeeded by Mr Paul Terrence Miles (Liberal). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 30 November 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Includes drafts, notes and research relating to Vera Whittington’s books Gold and typhoid : two fevers, Women of compassion (2 parts), Sister on patrol, and, Sister Kate; her short stories, scripts for her school broadcasts, 1965-1970 with related correspondence, newspaper cuttings, and photographs used in her various books, publications and book launches. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Hilda Margaret Turnbull was a National Party of Australia member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. She was elected to the Thirty-third Parliament of Western Australia for Collie on 4 February 1989, in succession to Thomas Henry Jones (retired). She was re-elected 1993 and 1996 and was defeated 10 February 2001. Hilda Margaret Morcombe was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1942. Her parents, Tom and Betty Morcombe, were farmers in the wheat belt. She attended Methodist Ladies College and then the University of Western Australia, graduating in 1965 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. Hilda married James Turnbull in 1965, and worked as a general practitioner in partnership with him in Collie for twenty-five years. Her vigorous involvement in the Collie community included eleven years on the Shire Council, and twenty-five as Chairperson of the Collie Welfare Council. Dr. Hilda Turnbull was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the National Party of Australia representing the Collie electorate on 4 February 1989. She was re-elected in 1993 and 1996, and defeated on 10 February 2001. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 2 min.)??Reid introduces recorded statements by first Manning Clark and then Dymphna Clark as members of the Aboriginal Treaty Committee, both expressing support for the need to first formally consult and compensate native Aboriginals whose land is sought by company and government interests. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 December 2012 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In light of her future career as a journalist and literary editor, Pat Rappolt’s early education was somewhat remarkable. Living in the Cooktown region in Far Northern Queensland in the early twentieth century limited one’s options – she never received a formal education and was home schooled with her brother and two sisters by her parents. This did not stop her from enjoying a lengthy career in journalism, one which extended across four decades and four states and territories in Australia. Pat’s first journalist posting was on a Queensland provincial paper; her last was as the literary editor for the Canberra Times. Her importance in this role was acknowledged when a prize for young short story writers was named in her honour – The Canberra Times Pat Rappolt Literary Award. Pat Francis was born in Frome (Somerset, UK) in 1905, and migrated with her family in 1909 to the Cooktown region in Far North Queensland. Her father was advised, for health reasons, to move from England to a warmer climate, so the family moved to the jungles of North Queensland to join his brothers, who had established a tin mining venture there. Pat’s mother, Nancy, was a writer who wrote many poems and articles about life on Cape York Peninsula, several of which were published in the Cairns Post, the Bulletin, the Brisbane Courier Mail and the Melbourne Argus some of which were collected and published in 1947 under the title, Feet in the Night. Nancy encouraged her children to write and it appears that Pat’s talent was recognised at an early age. She had her first poem published in the Bulletin at the age of thirteen. Pat was still a teenager when she took the boat from Cooktown to Cairns, travelling inland and up the mountains to settle in Atherton, where she was a secretary with the Maize Board until 1942. In this time she continued to write short stories, articles and poems for Australian publications. She married, had two children, and was the main breadwinner during the Depression. Writing, however, was in her blood, and it was what Pat wanted to do. Indeed, her family history suggests she was destined for the job. Her mother, father and a sister were country correspondents for Queensland newspapers for many years after 1930. (Indeed, one of her granddaughters, whose father was a journalist, Juliet Middleton, has worked as a reporter and sub-editor on provincial newspapers in Queensland and New South Wales.) Pat’s chance came in 1942, when her application as a general reporter was accepted by the Daily Mercury, Mackay. A by-product of the Second World War was that in the absence of the men, who had joined the armed forces, women filled their positions – Pat was one such woman. Under these conditions, it became apparent to editors and newspaper proprietors that women, too, were capable journalists who were able to report on news beyond the women’s or social pages. They could cover court cases and important meetings, conduct interviews and review plays. Pat very quickly gained an excellent reputation for accurate and precise reporting. She was never interested in contributing to the social pages, and made this known to her employers. Pat became a sub-editor before 1948. In 1956 she decided it was time for a change and, with her family now living in the south, Pat obtained a sub-editorship with the Wangaratta Chronicle, where she stayed for two years before moving to newspapers in Sale, Horsham and Mount Gambier. As a writer for provincial papers she had occasion to set the agenda for the metropolitan papers. In 1957, as acting editor of the Wangaratta Chronicle she authorised a story which about animal cruelty at the Wangaratta stock sale yards, and wrote the accompanying editorial. Under the title ‘Are we really civilised?’, Pat called for greater monitoring of the handling of cows and calves as they were penned and then transported, many of which suffered enormously from dehydration, mal-nourishment and appalling injuries as a result of the conditions there. She argued that any society that mistreats the vulnerable is not entitled to call itself civilised. ( Wangaratta Chronicle, 12 August 1957). The article and editorial hit a raw nerve with the local community and letters of support began to come in. two days later, on August 14, the Melbourne Herald made the story its front page lead. The Melbourne police responded by sending several officers to the Melbourne markets to meet the trucks from Wangaratta, where they found dead calves, inspected the dying and injured, along with the starving and under-aged. By 1961 Pat was in Adelaide, where she was Associate Editor with News Review Publications and Young Modern (Australia’s magazine for the younger set, according to its banner). Later she was a sub-editor on the Adelaide Advertiser, her first break on to a metropolitan newspaper. She eventually became the paper’s literary editor. Early in 1971 it was time for yet another move, to Canberra, where she had family, and where the Canberra Times offered her the position of Literary Editor. She enjoyed this job until her sudden death in 1978. Pat Rappolt was an all-round journalist, reporter, sub-editor, feature writer, theatre critic and book reviewer, highly respected by her editors and colleagues. Events 1942 - 1978 Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Pat Rappolt, journalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 November 2008 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Isabel Coe, a Wiradjuri woman, was born in Cowra. A stalwart of the Aboriginal rights struggle, and a leading figure in the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, she was also the lead litigant in Isabel Coe v the Commonwealth, an unsuccessful but important legal challenge which sought to assert the sovereignty of the Wiradjuri nation. Isabel Coe, a Wiradjuri woman, was born in Cowra, New South Wales, and grew up in the Erambie Mission. She moved to Sydney in the late 1960s. She was one of the Aboriginal activists involved in setting up the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in January 1972, along with her husband Billy Craigie, Michael Anderson, Tony Coorey and Bertie Williams. The four men began the Tent Embassy by planting a beach umbrella on the lawn in front of Parliament House (now Old Parliament House) on 26 January 1972 to protest the then Federal Government’s refusal to recognise Aboriginal land rights. The beach umbrella was soon replaced by several tents and supporters came from all parts of Australia to join the protest. Isabel was also instrumental in keeping the Tent Embassy going in the 1990s when it was rumoured that the Federal Government wanted to remove it. It has remained a focus of Indigenous protest and at its 40th anniversary commemoration in 2012 Isabel Coe said after four decades the plight of Aboriginal people had not improved: ‘In fact everything’s gotten worse for Aboriginal people’. She played a key role in setting up many of the Aboriginal organisations in Redfern in Sydney including the Redfern Aboriginal Children’s Service, and other housing, medical and legal services, including the National Aboriginal Council on HIV/AIDS. She was the lead litigant in Isabel Coe v the Commonwealth, an unsuccessful but important legal challenge which sought to assert the sovereignty of the Wiradjuri nation. The 1993 High Court decision rejected the claim on the grounds that it sought to challenge the sovereignty of the state. Her brother, Paul Coe, had made a similarly unsuccessful challenge in 1979. She was a member of the Indigenous Advisory Council supporting the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families whose report Bringing Them Home was released in 1997. Aunty Isabel, as she was known, gained international prominence as an Aboriginal activist in the lead-up to the Sydney 2000 Olympics. ‘From the Tent Embassy, we’re calling for a boycott on the Olympic Games if things don’t improve here in Redfern,’ she said at the time. Isabel Coe suffered from diabetes and in later years used a wheelchair but remained active in political protest until her death at the age of 61. Her funeral was held at the Erambie Mission in Cowra. Published resources Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Section Isabell Coe - Lest we Forget 'Determined' Aboriginal campaigner Isabel Coe dies, Kerin, Lindy, 2012, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-12/aboriginal-campaigner-isabelle-coe-dies/4366472 Indigenous activist Isabel Coe dies at 61, 2012, http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2012/s3630728.htm Activists pay tribute to Aunty Isabel Coe, 2012, http://tracker.org.au/2012/11/activists-pay-tribute-to-aunty-isabel-coe/ Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Created 14 February 2013 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jillian Bradbury was a once only candidate who ran as an Australian Democrats candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Campbelltown in 1978. Judith Bradbury promised to be available to the electors at all time if she were elected. She saw the construction of a new bridge over the Glenfield causeway as the major campaign issue. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1948-1950; Rough minute book, 13 Apr. 1948-17 Oct. 1950, and minute book, 3 Feb. 1948-17 Oct. 1950, with statement of income and expenditure as at 30 June 1948?1947-1949; Correspondence and reports. Correspondents include New Housewives’ Association. Central Committee?1948-1950; Correspondence and reports. Correspondents include New Housewives’ Association. Central Committee and Willoughby (N.S.W. : Municipality). Council?1948-1949; Issues of The New Housewife, Feb.-Mar. 1949; no. 5 Apr. 1949; no. 6 June 1949; no. 7 Oct. 1949; no. 8 Nov. 1949; no. 9 Dec. 1949, and The Housewives’ Guide: The Official Organ of the New Housewives’ Association, Mar. 1948?1948-1949; Minute book, 25 May-23 Nov. 1948, and notebook, 1948-1949, including rough minutes, of the Chatswood-Willouhby Prices Committee?1948-1949; Correspondence of the Chatswood-Willoughby Prices Committee Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 November 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sally Sievers has been a lawyer in the Northern Territory since 1988, practising within government, in private practice and as a Relieving Magistrate from time to time. She was appointed the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner for the Northern Territory in January 2013. As commissioner, she has focused the Commission’s activities in the areas of race and disability discrimination and women’s equality, in particular the impact of discrimination against women and families. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Sally Sievers for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Sally Sievers and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I was born in 1965, the third child of a young Tasmanian family, which over the next six years would increase from three children to six. I grew up in the rural surrounds of Launceston with my brothers and sisters and an array of foster children coming through our home. It was a happy and secure childhood with a stay at home Mum and Dad working in sales. I attended a variety of local public primary schools and then the local high school when we moved into Launceston city. There was no expectation that I would attend school past year 10 as my older siblings and vast number of cousins had not. Tasmania’s low high school retention rate remains an issue even today. I had always been a very active and physical child, which paid off when my ability to kick a ball a country mile was noticed by the school hockey coach, and thus my involvement in hockey began. Hockey at both school and club level gave me an exposure to a whole different world of opportunities. Most influential were a number of young women, including Penny Gray who returned to Launceston after being away at university with stories of adventure and plans for the future. Luckily for me, dual Olympian Penny Gray, whose history I was unaware of at this time, picked me up and ran me to and from hockey training. In our conversation on the way to and from training a whole array of options opened up for me and as a result for the first time I began to entertain the idea of university. From there my journey to university was set. It began with convincing my family that attending a matriculation college was a good idea. It was in my second year at Alanvale Community College that I came across legal studies. The course was presented in an engaging way, with newspaper clippings of cases which peaked my interest in law and justice. Not having any idea where my access to education would take me, I asked the teacher what I would need to do to become a legal studies teacher like him. He responded that if I was not going to consider being a lawyer he wasn’t sure who in the class would. It was all the encouragement I needed, although I had never met a lawyer at that stage, nor did I until I started at the University of Tasmania. The University of Tasmania at that time only had a campus in Hobart. A big hurdle for my family in my decision to go to university was leaving home to study; until that time my older siblings had only left home once married. Another considerable factor was how this was to be funded. I am totally the beneficiary of the very limited window in Australia’s history of free education. As a child from a low income family, with no income after my father lost his last paid employment a week or so into my university degree, my studies were largely funded by Austudy, holiday jobs and living very frugally. Only two or three other students from Alanvale ended up with me at residential college and at the University of Tasmania in 1982. Over the next five years I completed a pretty conservative arts/law degree. It was a time of social change in Tasmania the rise of environmental movements such as the Franklin Dam blockades etc. I was exposed to many great lecturers, including present Tasmanian Governor Kate Warner. Hockey was still a very significant feature in my life, providing role models, strong women and also opportunities to travel in representative teams. Fortunately for me this included a trip to Darwin in my last year at university, playing hockey for Tasmania. I did not play a lot of hockey being second goalkeeper to the current Australian keeper. However in this time I decide that Darwin was the place for me to begin my professional life. In the 1980s the Northern Territory (NT) offered an articles program over twelve months, far better than what was on offer to me in Tasmania. I was not sure how I would fare in the established legal fraternity in Tasmania as, apart from my lecturers and a few hockey-playing lawyers, I had still never met a working lawyer or been to chambers or an office. I was offered and took up articles with the NT Department of Law. There were four article clerks that year. We rotated through different areas of the Department including, commercial, litigation, policy and prosecutions. I also took up the opportunity to spend three months in the Alice Springs’ office. My time in Alice Springs coincided with sittings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in Alice. I had the opportunity to observe great advocates. I also had the opportunity to do some very minor appearance work in Coronial Inquest. This was a great first exposure to Central Australia, which included travelling with the court to Yulara, with Magistrate Denny Barrett (famous for his involvement in the Chamberlain matter and part of NT legal history). A unique feature of NT practise at this time was the solicitor in charge of the Department of Justice offices had his Harley Davidson in pieces in library of the office. I returned to Darwin at the start of 1989 and was admitted to practise as a Barrister and Solicitor in the NT in April 1989. The first years of my career were as a prosecutor for NT prosecutions and then Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. This was a tough environment for a 23/24 year old appearing in summary prosecutions and travelling to bush courts. There were very few women prosecutors. I observed what worked best in a male dominated work place and with an array of police officers. Lindy Jenkins now a Western Australian Judge, was the only senior female prosecutor, a great example of integrity and hard work. Sally Thomas was then the Chief Magistrate and I appeared in front of her frequently. She was always courteous, generous and instructive in the reasons for her decisions. I have been extremely fortunate that my career has intersected with hers on many occasions prior to her recent retirement as Administrator of NT. She signed my current appointment. The police prosecutors and senior prosecutor Dick Wallace were generous with their time, skills and knowledge during this time. As my skills developed I was being allocated a lot of child sexual assault indecent dealing matters. The memory of sitting under a tree in Katherine, trying to establish rapport to elicit evidence from a young, eleven-year-old girl who had been sexually assaulted and whose life was changed forever still sticks with me. There is a spot in Katherine that I still find very difficult to walk past. I was steered away from this area of practice by Dick Wallace who let me instruct him in a fraud, white collar crime cases. I then prosecuted these cases myself. This was an area I enjoyed as preparation of documentary cases does not take such an emotional toll. Once prepared the evidence does not change. We worked our way through a number of scams that existed in the NT at this time. An opportunity then arose to move and work at the Australian Government Solicitor’s offices conducting Commonwealth prosecutions in 1994. The cases were very diverse: arguing cases re: the scope of Australian’s jurisdiction for fishers, tax fraud, dental fraud etc. I had the opportunity to work and travel to Kakadu, Broome, Uluru and Christmas Island training various agencies. During this time in my life hockey took a back seat as I discovered the joy and flexibility of triathlons. Whilst working for the Commonwealth I worked on a large heroin importation matter. I worked with in my opinion one of the best Counsel I have ever seen current Supreme Court Judge of NSW, Elizabeth Fullerton. She was always prepared to share her knowledge, strategy and approach to the case, during the conduct of the lengthy Supreme Court trial. However there were also extensive preparations, committal, trial and then guilty pleas of the remaining accused, which consumed a good year, and half of my life. I was awarded the Attorney-General’s Australia Day Award for my work on this matter. As well as generously sharing her legal skills, Judge Fullerton also swung into action, helping me decide what my next career move would be. After exploring numerous options she paved the way for my introduction to David Farquhar who would be my professional mentor and good friend for the next 10 years as we worked together at Cridlands, a private firm in the NT. The work was again diverse, as the practise of law is in NT. David Farquhar and I first worked together as counsel assisting the Coroner in a series of deaths in custody in Alice Springs, and then on numerous health matters including for the medical and health professional boards. With his guidance I moved through the ranks to special Counsel over the next 10 years. During this time I was also involved in a number of community organisations. Between 1998 and 2003 I filled numerous roles on the Top End Women’s Legal Services management committee. I was a Tribunal Commissioner for the AFL NT Tribunal, and member of the Legal Aid Review Committee. I was also Director and Secretary NT Division – National Heart Foundation. Early in my time at Cridlands I was given the opportunity to Relieve as a magistrate. During this time I also had two children, and was well supported by the firm and given great flexibility. This ranged from going home for naps during the day in the last months of pregnancy and then signing on remotely, to the very practical gift of six months nappy service for my second child. While working at Cridlands my clients, primarily in the health and allied health field, were also incredibly supportive during each of my pregnancies and my return to work part time. I was Counsel in numerous coronial inquests into deaths of those in the mental health system, and also appeared in matters in the Supreme Court where people with a disability or people with a mental health diagnosis had come into contact with the criminal justice system I was also involved in medical negligence matters, a review of the mental health legislation and work health matters both prosecuting and defending, companies after work place deaths During my ten years at Cridlands my knowledge and interest in the areas of mental health and disability increased. The issues colleagues and other women around me faced after having children and returning to the work force also piqued my interest. The experiences were so variable. In 2008 I followed the work I had been doing back into government, working again primarily in health law, mental health, disability and medical negligence matters. During 2012 and the beginning of 2013 I also had two long periods as a Relieving Magistrate with the privilege of working in the alcohol and drug court, using a therapeutic model. I also spent time in the youth court, as well as travelling to remote communities for circuit court. On 30 January 2013 I was appointed to my current role as NT Anti-Discrimination Commissioner. It has been a challenge; I took over in a time of change for the small office. I have concentrated on establishing relationships and determining and focussing on key priorities for the small team; passionately using social media and also modernising the ADC’s webpage. It has been a great privilege to be appointed as Principal Community Visitor a program I had come across previously in my work with mental health matters. This program has expanding into disability and during the first 12 months of my appointment has taken up the role of monitoring and oversight of the NT’s Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Program. The Community Visitor Program (CVP) ensures those who would not usually complain to bodies such as the ADC are given a voice. Access to mechanisms on a day-to-day basis to resolve issues they have at the lowest possible level. The CVP advocates to ensure those compulsorily detained have their human rights respected. Dedicated people with a service focus staff both the ADC and CVP teams. Last year with great buy-in from the NT community, we launch the Inaugural NT Human Rights Awards “The Fitzgerald’s”, partly to honour the memory and achievements of long term NT Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Tony Fitzgerald and to recognise the amazing work being done on a day to day basis by people and groups in the NT. It was also established to raise the profile of human rights in a time when they seem to be under attack across the community. The people I have met through my role are leaders in their fields, and have been generous with their support and knowledge. I would like to thank Graeme Innes OA for social media tips and numerous visits to the NT, and Liz Broderick who has shared her experience and approaches to difficult issues. I would also like to thank people in the NT willing to share knowledge and experience such as Priscilla Collins, the head of NAAJA and Brenda Monaghan, fellow Independent Commissioner for Information and Open Disclosures. I look forward to the challenges of a career of great diversity over the next twenty years as our four girls make their way through school and university. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Sally Sievers Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The 35 bound volumes include correspondence between members of the Lindsay family (Mary Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay, Philip Lindsay, Jack Lindsay, Raymond Lindsay, and Robert Lindsay), Harry Chaplin, A.G. Stepehens, The Bulletin, John Tremearne, Kenneth McKenzie, Peter Hopegood, Francis Crossle, Hugh McRae, and Fanfrolico Press correspondence. A detailed catalogue of the correspondence is also available. Created 25 February 2019 Last modified 25 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Michelle Calvert was Alderman in the Ashfield Municipal Council from 1991-95 and active in environmental issues. She later ran for the No Aircraft Noise Party in the Ashfield elections of 1995 and in the House of Representatives for Lowe in 1996. Michelle Calvert grew up in Stanmore and went to school in Annandale and Petersham. She worked as a Police Prosecutor and as a senior investigator with the War Crimes Unit of the Commonwealth Department of the Attorney General. In 1996 she was working for LEAD, an organisation committed to reducing the risk of lead poisoning, especially in children. She was President of the Haberfield Association for 10 years and was active in local environmental and community issues. She is married and has four children. Her election leaflet reported that she lived under the flight path in Haberfield, which may explain her candidacy in 1995. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 28 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Meredith Henderson only ran for election once, but she continues to promote the protection of the environment. She represented the Australian Greens in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Wollongong in 2003. Meredith Henderson grew up and was educated in Wollongong where she completed a B.Sc.(Hons). Her doctorate study (PhD) at the Victoria University was the impact of fire on threatened Victorian grasslands. She had previously qualified as a fire fighter with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. At the time of her campaign, she was working in Hurstville, though living in Fairy Meadow in the Illawarra, so transport inadequacies featured in her campaign statements. Meredith was active in campaigns to protect threatened species in the area and to protect Jervis Bay from nuclear-powered warships. In 2003, after the election, she moved to Adelaide to take up a permanent position with the South Australian government, as Senior Fire Research Officer in the Department of Environment and Heritage. In 2004, Meredith was involved in the organization of the Ecology Society Conference. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 30 January 2006 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Access open for research, personal copies and public use.??Cassandra Pybus speaks about why she became a historian; school experiences and influences; growing up in Tasmania; her parents; the move to the mainland; her attitudes to feminism; her education, tertiary and PhD studies; university life in the 60s, 70s; joining the Victorian Public Service as an advisor; Island editorship (1987-1993)(Tasmania);her first book publications; her thoughts on Tasmania; travel to North America for further studies; American politics and society (2008); Australia in comparison; the demise of print culture; her current aspirations; her ancestor, Richard Pybus; academic freedom; Orr case; the background to her book, White Rajah; her Canadian connections; the East-west divides; the quality of Canadian writing.??Pybus discusses her book, Till Apples Grow on Orange Trees; the movement towards a new historical approach; Colonial history, settler societies; her book, The Devil and James McAuley (biography) and the public reaction; politics and literature; “Raven Road”; Colonial history and its audience; Negros on First Fleet; America’s fascination with its own history and Australian indifference; gender and intellectuality; culture wars; history publishing; the consequences of racial essentialism; where we are today; the forthcoming American elections; her career, life and writing; her plans for the future; spinoffs from her book, Epic Journeys of Freedom and after; her search for emotional contentment. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 April 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Major Projects Unit is responsible for major projects assigned to it by the Government. The modus operandi of the Unit is for the Government to formally assign responsibility for specified approved projects to the Unit. Any liabilities arising from Government approved activities are the responsibility of the State. The Minister responsible formally assigns responsibility in accordance with the Premier’s order of 13 February 1987 and Section 4 (1) (c) of the Urban Land Authority Act (No.9320). Initially there were eight projects managed by the Unit, all of them important to the development of inner Melbourne. In 1989, there were thirteen projects reflecting the Government’s determination to accelerate the development of government-owned land.??The Unit works closely with all the relevant government departments (Ministry of Planning and Environment, Ministry of Conservation, Forests and Lands and the Ministry of Transport). The Unit brings together people with management skills from a number of departments and agencies and uses the services of consultants and contractors. Recruitment is primarily through secondment and contract employment.??Each project is headed by a Project Director, supported by a small project team assembled from the and public sectors. Project Directors report through the Director of the Unit to the Minister and are supported by a core staff which provides legal and financial expertise.??In accordance with the provisions of the Annual Reporting Act 1983, the annual report of the Unit is submitted to the Minister Responsible for Major Projects. The Minister, as chairman of the Special Committee for Major Projects, reports to the Economic Committee of the Cabinet.??Functions??The functions of the Unit include acquisition, consolidation and preparation of sites. Its task is to facilitate the development of large strategically significant areas of government-owned land for commercial, tourist and residential purposes. It is responsible for major state projects assigned to it by the Government. It provides a central contact point for developers interested in investing in major government projects.??The Unit has the authority to invite tenders, evaluate competitive development proposals, select developers, facilitate planning approvals, execute financial and legal agreements and supervise construction.??Some of the projects managed by the Unit as at March 1989 were:??Bayside?Lynch’s Bridge?South Bank?Prince Henry’s Hospital?Jolimont Railyards?Willesmere Hospital Site?World Congress Centre?Redevelopment of the State Library?Docklands (proposed Olympic Games Village)?Queen Victoria Hospital?Museum?Old Treasury??Location of Records??Only a small quantity of records has so far been transferred to the Public Record Office. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 March 2005 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Minutes, 1941 1973. Author Details Jane Carey Created 19 February 2004 Last modified 19 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Scrapbook relating to Caroline Chisholm, creator unknown. Microfilm copy of original ms. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 March 2005 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc09/66 comprises papers accumulated by Grace Gorman during the course of her work to help refugees. There are letters to and from refugees held in detention camps, mostly in Port Hedland, Western Australia, but also several on Nauru; correspondence with politicians; case notes; newspaper cuttings; ephemera; and, a small amount of correspondence with Refugee Action Collective (2 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Val Colyer was well known as a local and community activist who ran as a Liberal Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Kogarah in 2003. Val migrated with her parents as a refugee after World War II. She is married with three children and has been active in Parents and Citizens Associations of her children’s schools. From1999 to 2003 she was President of the Hurstville Chamber of Commerce. Val has also sat on many Juvenile Justice Committees in her area, and in 2003 was the Youth Director and President elect of the St. George Central Rotary. She was a Director on the Board of the Sydney YWCA for 9 years and is an Inbound Tour Operator. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Teacher’s certificate (1902); correspondence between Sewell family (represented by Gordon Blake, son of Christina Sewell) and Minister for Lands about land owned or leased by Frederick Sewell and his descendants (1965); minutes of the Special Committee of the National Travellers Aid Society of Australia (1951); newspaper cuttings about Travellers Aid Society (1945-1952) of which she was National President; note book kept by her during 1927 election campaign for Leedervill-North Perth (1927); reminiscences (1961-1963); photographs. Author Details Jane Carey Created 10 December 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Heritage 200 was a project established by the Australian Bicentennial Authority to identify and honour the 200 people who have made “the greatest positive contribution to making Australia what it is today”. It developed as a sister project to 200 Unsung Heroes and Heroines. A committee chaired by Dame Beryl Beaurepaire and Mr Alan Coates was set up to select the Heritage 200. Selections were restricted to those whose major contribution had been made before 1970. Submissions were received from 250 individuals and 350 organisations. Author Details Clare Land Created 30 September 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Hon. Margaret Nyland AM was the second woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of South Australia. One of only three women admitted to practice in the State in 1965, Nyland obtained articles and in time became the senior partner in her own law firm. She later enjoyed a successful career, where her area of specialisation was family law. Subsequent appointments included Inaugural Chairperson of the Commonwealth Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SA) (1975 to 1987); Chair of the South Australian Sex Discrimination Board (1985); Deputy Presiding Officer of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal (1986); District Court Judge (1987) and Supreme Court Judge (1993). After retiring from the Supreme Court in 2012, in 2014 Nyland was appointed Commissioner to the Child Protection Systems Royal Commission (SA). Nyland was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the judiciary, human rights and the equal status of women, and to the community through a range of cultural organisations. Margaret Nyland was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. The Hon. Margaret Nyland was born into a family which was keenly aware of the power of education to change society. Nyland’s father was a self-educated and prominent trade unionist who was awarded an Order of Australia for his services to trade unionism. From early on, Nyland benefited from being surrounded by strong, high achieving women, beginning with her teachers at Gilles Street Primary School, and later, at Adelaide Girls’ High School [McNamara]. Nyland undertook a Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Adelaide; she was one of just 15 female undergraduates in the Law School at the time [Attorney-General]. At university her Family Law lecturer was Roma Mitchell (later Dame); in time the two would became close friends and Mitchell a mentor to Nyland. Upon graduating in 1965, Nyland was one of only three women admitted to practice that year, the other two being Jenny Litchfield and Jay Sandow. In the same year Roma Mitchell’s place in Australian legal history was cemented and an inspiring example for aspiring female lawyers set, when she became the first woman to be appointed to a Supreme Court bench in Australia [Attorney-General]. Nyland was articled to Pam Cleland; theirs would be a long partnership and close friendship at a time when it was difficult for women to undertake a legal career [Attorney-General; Maguire]. In 1966 Cleland established her own practice and Nyland joined her as a solicitor and later became a partner in that firm. When Cleland left the firm to join the separate bar, Nyland took over the practice and conducted the successful family law practice of Nyland, Haines & Co. From 1975 to 1987 Nyland was Chairperson of the Commonwealth Social Security Appeals Tribunal in South Australia and in from 1985 to 1987 was Chair of the South Australian Sex Discrimination Board and subsequently Deputy Presiding Officer of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal (SA). In 1987 Nyland was the second woman to the District Court of South Australia. An appointment to the Supreme Court of South Australia followed in 1993. Nyland became the second woman after Roma Mitchell to serve on that court. In her judicial capacity she was Director of the Australian Association of Women Judges (1994 to 2001) and was Chair of the Law Foundation for 17 years. In the Supreme Court she participated in all aspects of the work of that Court but her particular expertise was in the criminal jurisdiction where she presided over many high profile trials, including that of Peter Liddy, a magistrate charged with historical sexual offences against children. In 2000 Nyland made history at the Supreme Court when she employed the first female tipstaff. She made history again in 2006 when, together with Justice Ann Vanstone and Justice Robyn Layton, she presided over the first all-female bench of the State’s Court of Criminal Appeal. In 2005 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to the judiciary, human rights and the equal status of women, and to the community through a range of cultural organisations. Coincidentally, Nyland was honoured with this recognition 25 years after her father, Jack Nyland, received his Order of Australia for services to trade unionism [Maguire]. In 2011 Nyland chaired the Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission (SA) before retiring from the Supreme Court of South Australia in November 2012, thus bringing to an end 19 years on the Supreme Court bench. On her retirement the Attorney-General remarked on Nyland’s ‘sensitivity and skill’ when dealing with ‘the convoluted human problems to be solved in people’s lives’ and also observed how Nyland’s listening skills, diplomacy and humour combined to give her “a superb ability to very effectively manage people in [the courtroom] environment” [Attorney-General]. In 2009 she was awarded the Woman of Achievement Award for services to the legal profession. In 2013 she was made an Alumni Fellow of the University of Adelaide in recognition of her contribution to the John Bray Law Alumni. Nyland was appointed to the South Australian Women’s Honour Roll in 2013; like her mentor, Dame Roma, Nyland was chosen for her efforts to support and recognise the contribution of women in diverse roles in the community, as parents, carers and community members. She was also recognised for demonstrating great compassion and respect in her engagement with women in the community. Perennially encouraging of the progress being made by women in the legal profession, Nyland was critical of the state of judicial equality in South Australia in 2013. Observing a decrease in the number of female Supreme Court judges since her retirement, she remarked: “It’s all very well to sit back and say the situation will change in time. The problem is this – there have been more women coming out of law school for years… a lot of time seems to have passed without a great deal of change” [Akerman]. In 2014 Nyland, together with Professor John Williams, was instrumental in establishing the Dean of Law’s Fund at the Adelaide Law School to assist students who may be in crisis as a result of straitened financial circumstances. Nyland continues to be the Chair of that Fund. On education, Nyland has noted that: “learning is not a static experience but a lifelong commitment” [Adelaide]. Nyland’s retirement from the judiciary was short-lived, as in August 2014 she was appointed to lead the Child Protection Systems Royal Commission. Her report to reform the child protection system in South Australia was delivered on 5 August 2016. [Novak]. Nyland’s service to the legal community includes her former role as Chair of the Commonwealth Social Security Appeals Tribunal; Chair of the South Australian Sex Discrimination Board; Deputy Presiding Officer of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal; Chairperson of the Law Foundation of SA Inc; Former President of the Australian Association of Women Judges; current Fellow, Australian Academy of Law; and Individual Member, JusticeNet. She is past President of the John Bray Law Chapter and is current Patron of the Women Lawyers’ Association South Australia and Roma Mitchell Community Legal Centre. Nyland’s interests beyond the law can be seen in her roles as former Chairperson and Inaugural Life Member of the Australian Dance Theatre [Taylor]. She was on the Board of the Art Gallery of South Australia for four years; she is a current Advisory Member to the Kennedy Arts Foundation and is the Patron of the Adelaide High School Old Scholars’ Association. A long time follower of the South Adelaide Football Club, Nyland is a patron of the Panthers Club and was a Member of the SANFL Boundaries Commission in 2013 She was also a long-serving Council Member and subsequent Fellow of St Ann’s College and in 2016 became a Governor of the St Ann’s College Foundation. Well-known for her trailblazing example, and as mentor to young female lawyers, Nyland at her retirement sitting commented while Dame Roma Mitchell (as the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of South Australia) undoubtedly did it better, she – that is Margaret Nyland – with 19 years of service, was able to say that she at least did it longer.[Fewster]. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Margaret Nyland interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 7 April 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: The Hon. Margaret Nyland AM Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Four letters written by Sylvia Townsend Warner to Mrs Marjorie Dobson (mother of Rosemary Dobson). The letters contain news of Rosemary’s marriage to Alex Bolton, the sad news about Rosemary’s first baby, as well as news of people they knew. Also includes a letter from Norman Lindsay to Marjorie Dobson, 1967, concerning a portrait of Rosemary Dobson. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 December 2012 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Merran Martin has taught English to migrants and refugees in Canberra since 1985. From 1973-75 she worked in the Department of Immigration teaching English in a migrant hostel, as a shipboard education officer, and in its Migrant Education Section in Canberra. Fluent in French and German from childhood she also taught English in Europe in the early 1970s. She is currently Education, Placement and Referral Officer, Special Preparatory Program Manager and Home Tutor Scheme Coordinator in the Adult Migrant English Program at the Canberra Institute of Technology. Merran Martin was born on 6 February 1948 in Canberra, the daughter of Les Smith and Mauva Carney, whose ancestors had been pioneer settlers in the district. Her father served in the Navy during the war before joining the Commonwealth Public Service, becoming one of the founding officers of the Department of Immigration upon its formation in 1945. Merran was educated at St Patrick’s primary school in Canberra before attending a French school and the International School in Geneva for three years when her father was posted to the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration in 1958. She returned to Canberra in 1961, fluent in French and German, and completed her high-school education at Canberra Catholic Girl’s High School, Braddon, now know as Merici College. On leaving school, Merran trained at Sydney Teachers College and taught languages in NSW high schools for three years. From 1971-72 she travelled in Europe, teaching English and learning Italian in Rome. On her return to Australia she completed a degree in modern languages at the University of New England, and joined the Department of Immigration teaching migrants and refugees at the Endeavour Hostel Coogee, NSW, before undertaking a voyage as a shipboard education officer in 1974. On her return to Canberra she worked in the Migrant Education Section of the Department of Immigration, resigning in 1975 to raise her four children. After completing further training in English as a second language at Canberra College of Advanced Education, Merran taught English to migrants at Bruce TAFE from 1985 to 1988, when she joined a commercial firm teaching English to international students. She returned to teaching at the ACT TAFE (now the Canberra Institute of Technology) in 1991 where she taught newly arrived students and initiated a program of English tutorials for traumatised refugees at TRANSACT, now known as Companion House. Merran is currently Education, Placement and Referral Officer, Special Preparatory Program Manager and Home Tutor Scheme Coordinator in the Adult Migrant English Program at the Canberra Institute of Technology, and intends to retire at the end of 2007. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Merran Martin interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording] Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 6 September 2007 Last modified 1 March 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers 1902-1957. Includes diary written on a Grand Tour, 20 December, 1902-15 May, 1903. Beginning with a voyage on the S.S. Tsinam from Sydney to Yokohama. Describes experiences in Manila, Hong Kong, Canton, Thursday Island, Yokohama and Kyoto, voyage on the S.S. Korea from Shimonesko to Port Arthur, mentions interest in Australia shown by Dahny residents due to proposed trade and transportation links with Darwin through the Trans-Siberian Railway. Describes horse-drawn sledges from Muskovain to Bakail (on a trip on which she was the first woman passenger), train life, sightseeing in the Crimea, voyage on Korniloff to Constantinople and trip through Russia, Poland, Austria, Hungary and Italy. Also, memorabilia from tour, curriculum vitae, personal documents, testimonials, photoportraits, holiday snapshots, newspaper cuttings. Includes a passport document of Violet Chomley, dated 23rd December 1902 ; Photograph of Violet, December 1902 (MC 6, DR 5) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "11 sound files (approximately 8 hr. 48 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 January 2018 Last modified 5 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Minute Book, Maryborough Branch 1901-1909; Financial Statements, 1970-75; Staff Salaries and Wages, 1965-1970; Correspondence regarding Railway Discipline Board, 1968; Historical Data, including registration with C&A Court, membership tickets, Labor Paper shares, Trust deeds, receipts, insurance & guarant- ees (c1910-55). Material re CE O’Neill (Goods foreman) and NT Mills (Goods guard) c 1915-30. Photographs c 1930. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers relating to Dunne’s appointment as broadcaster for Radio Ethnic Australia and SBS, her work as a council member for the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs, her work on the Committee of Review of the Special Broadcasting Service, and her involvement in Irish Australian cultural activities; research files, recordings with Aboriginal Australians and drafts relating to Dunne’s book People under the skin: an Irish immigrant’s experience of Aboriginal Australia; material concerning an ABC radio programme, Mary MacKillop: no plaster saint; files containing numerous scripts for television, radio and film projects and articles for magazines; and, material relating to Dunne’s activities in NSW prisons. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Brief overview of the history of International Women’s Day; Labor government policies improving the social conditions of women, including equal pay; introduction of women’s and childrens services; no specific mention of Indigenous women Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Minute books, 1939-1988 (6 vols).?Correspondence, 1939-1988 (1 small tin trunk).?Accounts, 1939-1988 (1 folder). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "During her career Ruth Gibson served on the University Public Examinations Board, the Technical Schools Curriculum Board and the Social Studies Committee. As well she was a foundation member and honorary treasurer of the Australian College of Education, a member of the foundation committee of the St Ann’s College and a president of the South Australian Women Graduates’ Committee. Over many years Gibson was a committee member or office-bearer in the National Council of Women of South Australia; the National Council of Women of Australia; the International Council of Women; the Royal Flying Doctor Service (SA Section); the Adelaide YWCA; The Adelaide College of Education; the Status of Women Commission; the Soroptimists’ Clubs; the SA University Women Graduates’ Association; the Australian Association United Nations; the Good Neighbour Council; St Ann’s Women’s University College; the Junior Red Cross; the Australian Broadcasting Commission; the Churchill Scholarships Foundation; and the National Fitness Council. Ruth Gibson was the second woman from South Australia to hold the national presidency of the Australian National Council of Women (1953-1956). As president, one of her main actions was to pursue the issue of federal legislation to bring about equal marriage and divorce laws and, with her finely honed negotiation skills, she was successful in persuading the constituent councils of ANCW to adopt a clear and united position on this matter. During her period of office she was honoured to represent Australian women at the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953, and played a leading role in welcoming the Queen to Australia during the royal tour of 1954. She also served as the South Australian Council president 1951-1954, as a vice-president of the International Council of Women 1953-1956 (before being elevated to its Committee of Honour), and as Australia’s delegate to the UN Status of Women Commission (CSW) in Geneva (1956) and New York (1957) when she acted as rapporteur. Both the national and South Australian NCWs marked her contribution to their work with life vice-presidencies. Gibson’s main area of expertise and interest was education. Trained as a teacher, she was mentored by and succeeded Adelaide Miethke as South Australian inspector of schools (girls’ departments) in 1941. Aged only 39 at her appointment, she served in this position until 1953 when she was promoted to inspector of secondary schools, the only woman among four men at this level. She continued in this work while also leading the state and national NCWs and serving Australia at the CSW, until her retirement from the Education Department in 1961. Thus, like Miethke, she was unusual in combining her ANCW and other Council work with fulltime paid employment. She took on other leading roles in a number of educational areas and was appointed a Fellow of the Australian College of Education in 1963. Gladys Ruth Gibson, women’s rights activist and educator, was born on 29 December 1901 at Goodwood Park, Adelaide, the eldest of four children of James Ambrose Gibson, a travelling collector for the South Australian Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution, and his wife Emma, née Keeley. Gibson was educated at Goodwood Public and Unley High schools. Her mother died after three years of illness in 1923, when Ruth was 21. Ruth assumed most of her responsibilities and became a source of strength in a close-knit family for the rest of her life. Gibson began work in 1919 as a student teacher at Goodwood. She later taught at a number of primary and secondary schools in Adelaide and the country, studying part-time for her diploma from the Teachers’ Training College and her degree at the University of Adelaide (BA, 1937, Dip. Ed. 1940), before being appointed an inspector of schools (girls’ departments) in 1941 at the unprecedentedly young age of 39. She served in this capacity until 1953 when she was promoted to inspector of secondary schools, the only woman among four men employed at this level. She held this post until her retirement in 1961. Her predecessor and mentor as inspector of girls’ departments, Adelaide Miethke, provided a model for much of Gibson’s subsequent career, though Gibson reached beyond her in many ways, especially in her international activism. It was as a delegate from the Women Teachers’ Progressive League that she first joined the NCW of South Australia in 1936. Then, when a new organisation, the Women Teachers’ Guild, was formed as a breakaway group from the Public Sector Union in 1937, Ruth was elected secretary. On her return from a trip overseas in 1939, she addressed its first conference on ‘Women in Education Abroad. She became secretary of NCWA from 1939 to 1941 during Miethke’s presidency. During her career in the SA Education Department, Gibson brought energy, dedication and commitment to women’s education and to improving conditions and status for women teachers. She was a founder of St Ann’s College (for women attending Adelaide University) and also later played a leading role as president (1960-1961) in the South Australian Women Graduates’ Association (state branch of the Australian Federation of University Women). Like Adelaide Miethke, she promoted the careers of promising young teachers in the Education Department. Gibson believed that the ideal teacher showed ‘good humour and tolerance for others’ and flexibility with regard to syllabuses and timetables. In her annual report of 1942, she wrote of ‘the important part that education should play in the shaping of the post-war world’; she believed that ‘actual participation in activities calling for tolerance and co-operation’ would foster ‘knowledge of the privileges and duties of citizenship’ from ‘the child’s earliest years’. A member of the Public Examinations Board (1942-1963) and of the Technical High Schools Curriculum Board, she convened the English and social studies committees of the latter, foregrounding these objectives and a child-centred approach. As a founding member of the Australian College of Education (later Educators) in 1959, she served as honorary treasurer and was appointed a fellow, the highest honour the College could bestow, in 1963. Though her educational work was of great importance, Ruth Gibson is chiefly known for her leading roles in the National Council of Women at the state, national and international levels. She did, however, bring her educational expertise into the Australian Councils as state and national convenor of their education standing committees, where she expounded on education as a key factor in national achievement and international understanding. As South Australian Council president from 1951 to 1954, Ruth Gibson’s term in office was extended to include the royal visit, during which she arranged and presided over a women’s welcome to the Queen. From 1953 to 1956, Gibson was also president of the Australian National Council of Women, and, in recognition of her role as a leader on Australian women’s issues, the Commonwealth government selected her as one of Australia’s official guests at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in June 1953. A key issue during Gibson’s presidency of ANCW was the pursuit of federal legislation to bring about equal marriage and divorce laws. Experienced in negotiation and in dealing with different sensitivities simultaneously, she was successful in persuading the constituent councils of ANCW to adopt a clear and united position on this matter at the 1954 conference. While reiterating the mantra that ‘the home is the very foundation stone of national life’, she argued patiently that, with regard to divorce, ‘marked inequalities exist in law as between men and women and as between States’ and that establishment of ‘an Australian domicile and of uniform divorce laws’ was not ‘only fair and just’ but would also institute more effective protection. Some frustration with the slowness of progress on matters of equality is evident in her further comment that, although ‘the Council is not an “anti-men’s” society’, ‘we must … begin to prepare more of our menfolk to accept the idea of a partnership between men and women in national and international life … it is sex rather than ability that determines much if not most or all of the policy of this country’. Gibson’s interest in the International Council movement began early in 1938, when she was one of ten Australian delegates to the Jubilee Conference of the International Council of Women in Edinburgh, Scotland. On her return, she told the members of the Women Teachers’ Guild that they were ‘in tune with the highest inspirations of the International Council of Women since it [the Guild] aimed … at the removal of all disabilities of women in the teaching service’. Her ICW activism culminated in her election as vice-president from 1953 to 1956, and, when her term of office expired, her elevation to the Council’s Committee of Honour. Gibson’s view that her chosen career, education, was also a precondition for the expansion of international awareness and tolerance promoted by organisations like the ICW was reflected in a paper she gave – ‘Education’s Part in Developing International Understanding’ – at a conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Institutes of Inspectors of Schools, held in Perth in 1954. Ruth Gibson’s international experience and awareness were recognised by the Australian government in its decision to appoint her its representative at the 10th and 11th sessions of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women held in Geneva in 1956 and New York in 1957. At the latter, she was elected rapporteur to the Commission. The business of these sessions included the access of women to education and economic opportunity, tax and legal questions and the nationality of married women. In later years, Gibson travelled extensively overseas to attend conferences and executive meetings of the ICW and UNESCO, including in Istanbul, Tehran, and Rio de Janiero. Ruth Gibson’s ongoing commitment to the Council movement in her home state was reflected in the key role she played in the decision to purchase NCW House (‘a home of our own’) in Adelaide in 1957. Her contributions at state and national levels were recognised with life vice-presidencies of both the NCW (SA) and ANCW. But her active involvement in public life continued. Directly after her retirement from the Education Department in 1961, Gibson was appointed to the South Australian Equal Pay Commission, which reported to the premier, Sir Thomas Playford, in 1964 and included an appendix arguing the ‘Case for Equal Pay for Men and Women Teachers in South Australia’. Equal pay for equal work for women teachers was conceded by the Industrial Court and implemented between 1966 and 1971. Miss Gibson’s broad interests also led her to play a leading role in the SA division of the United Nations Association of Australia; the Soroptimist (president) and Lyceum clubs, Adelaide; the Good Neighbour Council of South Australia; the state section of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (senior vice-president); the Adelaide YWCA (president); the Adelaide College of Education; the Junior Red Cross; the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the National Fitness Council. She was also a founding trustee and second chairman of the NCW Memorial Fund and on the state council of the Girl Guides Association for many years. In addition, she served on selection committees for Churchill fellowships and Florence Nightingale Memorial Scholarships. These duties never overshadowed her concern for individuals, shown in her many practical acts of kindness and consideration. Ruth Gibson, like many women of her generation, found much of the inspiration for her public work in religious faith. She was a devout Anglican and a generous supporter of her church. Although not radical in her views, she was a feminist of her day and a staunch believer in social justice. Her ADB entry describes her as ‘tall and strongly built’, with impeccable dress sense and a ‘considerable presence’. No position she held was a sinecure, it says: she worked at all of them, and was impressive both as a chairwoman and a public speaker. Some found her intimidating, but those who knew her appreciated ‘her intelligence, warmth and humour, her generous and unpretentious nature, her skill as a hostess and her attachment to her family’. Gibson was awarded the OBE in the coronation honours list 1953 and was elevated to CBE in 1970. She died of cancer on 23 August 1972 at Belair. The women of South Australia erected a sundial in her memory at the Adelaide Festival Centre in 1973 and a Ruth Gibson Memorial Fund administered by NCWSA has since 1979 provided assistance to successful applicants for projects of benefit to South Australian women. Ruth Gibson was also honoured in 1986 for her contribution to education and the NCW by a plaque on North Terrace near Kintore Street, Adelaide. In his address at her funeral, the archdeacon of Adelaide, paid this tribute: ‘Ruth Gibson … was no militant suffragette but was ever ready to put all her tremendous energy and efficiency into any cause which she believed would be in the interest of women generally and to raise their status in the world’. Prepared by: Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Events 1937 - 1937 Obtained BA from the University of Adelaide 1940 - 1940 Obtained DipEd from the University of Adelaide 1941 - 1941 Appointed inspector of girls schools 1952 - 1952 Appointed inspector of secondary schools 1954 - 1954 Delivered a paper, ‘Education’s Part in International Understanding’ at the Australian and New Zealand Association of Institutes of Inspectors of Schools conference, held in Perth. 1942 - 1963 Member of the Public Examinations Board 1963 - 1963 Fellow of the Australian College of Education 1960 - 1961 President of the South Australian University Women Graduates’ Association 1974 - 1974 A bronze sundial was erected in her memory at the Adelaide Festival Centre 1977 - 1977 The Ruth Gibson memorial award establish to assist women to further their studies and careers 1961 - 1961 Retired from teaching 1954 - 1954 Arranged and headed a South Australian women’s welcome to Queen Elizabeth II 1953 - 1953 Selected by the Federal government as an official guest at the coronation 2053 - 2053 Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1970 - 1970 Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the advancement of women 1950 - 1954 President of the National Council of Women of South Australia 1952 - 1961 Inspector of Secondary Schools, South Australia 1921 - 1941 Teacher with the Department of Education, South Australia 1938 - 1938 Delegate at the International Council of Women 1939 - 1941 Honorary secretary of the National Council of Women of Australia 1952 - 1956 President of the National Council of Women of Australia 1957 - 1970 Vice-president of the International Council of Women 1970 - 1970 Member of the Committee of Honor for the International Council of Women 1969 - 1969 Senior vice-president of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, South Australia section 1960 - 1961 Chairman of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Soroptimist Clubs of Australia and New Zealand 1958 - 1959 President Soroptimist Club, Adelaide 1956 - 1956 Australian representative at the Status of Women Commission, Geneva 1957 - 1957 Australian representative at the Status of Women Commission, New York Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1971, Legge, J S, 1971 S.A.'s greats: the men and women of the North Terrace plaques, Healey, John, 2001 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book Section Ruth Gibson, Fletcher, Philippa L, 1988 Remembered by Many, Smith, Erica, 1986 Resource Section Gibson, Gladys Ruth (1901-1972), Fletcher, Philippa L, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140303b.htm Ruth Gibson: a 'Mighty' South Australian Educator, Lokan, Jan, 2012, https://austcolled.com.au/sites/default/files/archival_brief_14_ruth_gibson.pdf Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book In her own name : women in South Australian history, Jones, Helen, 1926-, 1986 Newsletter NCWA Quarterly Bulletin, National Council of Women of Australia, 1972 Archival resources State Library of South Australia National Council of Women of S.A. : SUMMARY RECORD National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 August 2003 Last modified 29 August 2016 Digital resources Title: Ruth Gibson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jaala Pulford was elected Member for the Legislative Council for Western Victoria in November 2006, representing the Australian Labor Party. She was re-elected in 2010 and in 2014. She is currently serving as Minister for Agriculture, Regional Development and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council in the Labor Government, which returned to power in 2014 after its defeat in 2010. Jaala Pulford joined the Castlemaine Branch of the Labor Party at the age of 16 in 1990. She was an active Young Labor member, and was a Young Labor delegate to the ALP National Conference. Over the course of her political career, Jaala has served as State and National Conference Delegate; member of the Labor Women’s Network National Executive; president of the Women’s Policy Committee; and vice president of the Victorian Branch of the Labor Party. In 1994 Jaala became the youngest participant in the inaugural ACTU traineeship for Union Organisers. She began working in this capacity with the National Union of Workers, Victorian Branch, in 1995. She has also worked as an Organiser for call centres, representing a predominantly female workforce, and has used her industrial relations experience to improve the working conditions of staff at her community child care centre. Pulford was elected MLC for the Western Victorian Region in 2006. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 26 July 2007 Last modified 10 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Norma Kirkby was 105 years old when she died. With her husband, Gordon, she built up the Success Poll Hereford Stud and Reno Poll Merino Stud. She supported numerous charitable organisations in the Moree district for over fifty years. Born to Arthur and Annie Louise Eather, Norma was the eldest of five children including Athol (who died at Gallipoli), Eugene, Arthur and Ella. She was educated in Moree before studying at Sydney’s Conservatorium of Music. Norma married Gordon Kirkby, son of a local grazing family, in 1924 and the couple settled at ‘Success’ on the Goondiwindi Road. They were to have three children: Merle, Fred and Mary. By 1935 the family had moved to ‘Wilga’ on the edge of Moree. Here Norma began creating a magnificent garden, and entertained guests ranging from World War II evacuees from Hong Kong to Rotary exchange students, governors-general and state governors. While running the Hereford and Merino Studs with her husband, Norma became involved with numerous charitable organisations including the Country Women’s Association, Inner Wheel, Torchbearers for Legacy, the Royal Blind Society, the Australian Red Cross, Moree Hospital Ladies Auxiliary, Moree Girl Guides Association, the Handicapped Children’s Association and Far West Children’s Health Scheme. She used her musical talent to accompany silent movies at the Moree picture theatre, and played the organ in the Anglican Church. A passionate rugby union supporter, Norma was also president of the Moree Golf Associates. Gordon Kirkby died in 1973. The following year, Norma was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Gordon had received his own MBE in 1966. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 28 September 2006 Last modified 7 June 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pharmacist Liz Grant was a foundation member of the ACT Division of the Australian Liberal Party and was elected a Liberal Party member for the electorate of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) House of Assembly from 1979 to 1982. She maintained an active and prominent role in the Liberal Party for several decades thereafter, as well as close involvement in women’s affairs, health policy and social affairs in the ACT and nationally. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1987, a Life Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia in 1991, and awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Monash University in 2005. Mary Elizabeth Grant – known affectionately to all as Liz – was born to Les and Mary Allen on 23 February 1930 in Mornington, then just outside Melbourne. She completed her schooling at the selective entry Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School in Melbourne where she was a House Captain and a swimming champion. Liz followed in her father’s footsteps as a pharmacist, training at the Victorian College of Pharmacy from 1947 to 1951. She was then apprenticed to her father in his Melbourne pharmacy. Liz married Howard Grant in 1952. They had two children Allen and Sue and eventually four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. She continued to work and in 1958 took a radical decision to open her own pharmacy in Greensborough, a Melbourne suburb, becoming one of the first female pharmacy owners in the State. This meant long hours getting the business up and running while also raising a young family, but Liz persisted and the business was very successful. Pharmacy and the potential for the pharmacist to play an integral role in the development of communities became an underlying driver for many of the activities and roles Liz took on over the next 65 years. She always said she was a pharmacist first, and then a lot of things thereafter. She proudly maintained her registration and membership of both the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia until her death in 2023. Liz sold her pharmacy when the family moved interstate in 1963. While she never owned another pharmacy, she continued her work as a pharmacist in hospital and community pharmacies in Mt Gambier, Melbourne and Canberra for many years. In 1985, Liz and Howard established Commerce Management Services – a family company dedicated to providing secretariat services and administrative support to associations, industry groups and small businesses. She maintained an active involvement in the business almost until her death. When she moved to Canberra, Liz became a foundation member of the ACT Division of the Liberal Party. From 1977 to 1984 she was Convenor of the ACT Division of the Liberal Women’s Committee, and in 1979-1982 served as a Liberal Member elected to the seat of Canberra in the ACT House of Assembly. In 1977 she also became a member of the Federal Women’s Committee of the Liberal Party, and chaired that Committee from 1980 to 1985. She stood for election (unsuccessfully) in the federal seat of Fraser in the ACT at the 1983 election. During and after her term in parliament, Liz played a prominent role in many of the ACT’s health-related boards and councils, notably as Chair of the ACT Health Services Council (1981-1985), member of the ACT Hospital Services Board (1986-1987) and its Chair in 1989, and Chair of the ACT Health Authority (1987). Liz maintained her active involvement in women’s affairs after she left politics, as President of the ACT Division of Business and Professional Women (1986-1989), and member of the ACT Women’s Consultative Council (1989-1998). She remained a strong advocate for women in the Liberal Party and was much respected and loved for her kindness and supportive mentorship across the political aisle. She was greatly encouraged in this advocacy by attending the United Nations Women’s Conference in Copenhagen in 1980 where she met women from all over the world with one common agenda – to promote women at all levels. Liz was very active in other areas of ACT society as well. From 1981 to 1999 she chaired the ACT Australia Day Sports Carnival. She was a member of the ACT Parole Board during her term in the Assembly (1982-1985). She chaired the Canberra Festival Inc. in 1987, and in 1997 became a member of the ACT Centenary of Federation Committee. She was a Board member of the Council of the Ageing (ACT) from 2000 to 2016 and Chair from 2005 to 2011, and also a director of COTA Australia for several years. She chaired the Gorman House Community Arts Interim Management Committee for many years and maintained her interest in and support for Gorman House for over 40 years. Liz was a driving force for Care Financial Services in Canberra for 30 years, the majority as the Chair, as a Board Member and the organisation’s Patron; she maintained an active interest and engagement until her death. At national level, Liz was appointed to the National Health and Medical Council (NHMRC) from 1982 to 1985 – one of only two women on the Council. She developed a particular interest in the ethics of health care and animal-related research, becoming a member of the NHMRC Animal Experimental Ethics Committee in 1998 and Chair of its Animal Welfare Committee in 2000. In Canberra, she joined the ACT Department of Health and Community Care Ethics Committee in 1997 and she was a member of the ACT Health Human Research Ethics Committee from the late 1980s to 2009. Liz Grant was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1987 in recognition of her service to health administration and the community. In 1991 she was made a Life Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by Monash University in May 2005. She died in Canberra on 7 February 2023 at the age of 92. Published resources Elizabeth Grant, Liberal politician and health advocate, remembered as dedicated Canberran, 29 March 2023, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8139859/elizabeth-grant-liberal-politician-and-health-advocate-remembered-as-dedicated-canberran/ Grant, Mary Elizabeth: Australian Encyclopaedia of Science and Innovation, https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004240b.htm Author Details Louise Moran Created 14 April 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sarah Ann George was the daughter of Thomas Wilkinson, the ‘father of Brunswick’, and Louisa Wilkinson. In 1856, at Geelong, at the age of seventeen, Sarah Ann married Joseph George, a pharmacist. Joseph had established a pharmacy in Sydney Road, Brunswick, in 1853, and Sarah worked with him as his assistant, eventually becoming registered as a pharmacist herself. She is believed to have been Victoria’s first lady pharmacist, and one of the first to be registered. Sarah first registered in 1882, stating that she had been in business in Victoria before the required registration date of 1876. At this time, she was 43 years old, and her nine surviving children ranged in age from five to twenty-five years. Like her husband, who was a member of council and Mayor of Brunswick from 1884-5, Sarah was active in the Church of England, and interested herself in philanthropic work. She was President of the Boarding Out Committee in Brunswick for thirty years, and also of the Australian Women’s National League both in Brunswick, and in Portland, where she instigated the branch. Sarah Ann Wilkinson was born in Launceston in 1839. Her father Thomas was at the time Catechist to prisoners in Launceston and Private Secretary to Major Ryan, Commandant of Launceston. The family moved to Port Philip in 1840, buying land in Brunswick in 1841. After a 10 year sojourn in Portland, they returned to Brunswick. In 1856 Sarah Ann married pharmacist Joseph George, and became a qualified pharmacist herself. The couple ran the pharmacy in Sydney Road until 1905 (Joseph dying in 1903), bringing up nine children to adulthood and losing three as infants. In 1915, as Thomas’ last surviving child, Sarah erected a drinking fountain in his memory. It still stands at the corner of Park Street and Sydney Road, Brunswick. Sarah’s strong political views were reflected in her presidency of branches of the Australian Women’s National League, and her pride that all eligible male relatives had enlisted in the Great War. She was regarded as a woman of fine business instincts. Sarah’s profession, like that of her husband, is declared on her tombstone in the Melbourne General Cemetery. This entry was written with the assistance of Jennifer Hearn, Linda Schulz and the Brunswick Community History Group. They would be grateful if anyone with more information about Sarah George could contact them: details obtainable through the AWAP contact form. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Brunswick Stories and Histories: A Collection of Articles From Fusion, Folk-Scolaro, Francesca (ed.), 1999 Thomas Wilkinson: a Pioneer of Principles and Conviction, Shultz, Linda M, 1994 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Wilkinson/George/McHenry Family Records State Library of Victoria Records, [manuscript]. Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre Pharmacy Board of Victoria Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Research papers and essays on the Western Pacific, particularly Tonga and Fiji; correspondence, course, conference and teaching files, project and survey files, reports, Foreign Office confidential prints 1888-1890, British legislation concerning the Pacific Islands 1872-1953, archives administration files, WPHC shelf lists, inventories and calendars, publications and photographs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 January 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "44 minutes.??Originally broadcast 6.1.79 as an ABC Coming out show documentary.?Australian Broadcasting Commission: 79600101027.??’Ros Bowden talks to members of the Association about conditions in the country before the CWA was formed and changes that came about as a result of the basic support it gave to women in remote areas’. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 March 2004 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4 sound cassettes (approximately 237 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2003 Last modified 6 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Lieutenant Elva Baikie Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Choir in St George's Chapel Adelaide River, NT. Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0466gc.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0466gd.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Mayor of Port Adelaide, R.A. (Bob) Allen, receives his ten year service certificate from Anne Levy, MLC, Minister for Local Government Relations. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Janice Crosswhite has experience in sport and recreation at a local, state and federal level, having taught physical education, been a sports administrator and a sport and recreation consultant. Janice was the founding president of Womensport and Recreation New South Wales and is now a board member of Womensport & Recreation Victoria. She is also on the Executive Board of the International Association for Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women. She is the founding and current (2007) president of the Australian Womensport and Recreation Association. Her OAM recognizes her services to the community and women’s sport. Janice Crosswhite has a long history of involvement in sport as a participant. She represented Victoria in softball, basketball and hockey and the University of Melbourne in track and field. She competed in women’s open and Master’s basketball tournaments. In 1994 she won a gold medal for foul shooting at the World Masters Championships and her masters team has won a number of Australian Championships. Janice also has extensive experience in the sports administration. She has been a physical education teacher, adviser and lecturer in Victoria. In the ACT she worked for ACHPER (Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation), the Australian Sports Commission and the ACT Government. In NSW she has been employed by local governments, sporting associations, clubs and companies. As a volunteer Janice has made a considerable contribution to sport as a coach, an administrator and on various educational and sporting boards and committees. She was awarded an Australian Sports Medal 2000 for services to basketball (past President of Manly Warringah Basketball Association and Life Member) and in 2002 was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to the community (Company Secretary of the Northern Beaches Indoor Centre project, etc) and women’s sport. Published resources Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 May 2007 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Paintings – 1 oil painting on canvas, gilt frame – 78 x 89 cm. framed; 85 x 62 cm. inside frame – glass front Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 December 2007 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Speech notes for Anne Levy in representing the Premier at the 30th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising, 19/10/1986. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 174 min.)??Sue Salthouse, born in 1949, discusses her family background; her childhood in McKinnon, Melbourne; her schooling and early leadership roles; her university studies in Agricultural Science (1967-); undertaking her Diploma of Education (1972-); various teaching appointments throughout Australia; some of her Indigenous students later becoming Indigenous leaders; challenges for women working in agriculture and teaching; travelling, living and working overseas; marriage and children; a horse-riding accident and her subsequent disability and use of a wheelchair (1995); leaving teaching and becoming involved in disability advocacy (ca. 1997); the Disability Rights Movement; her approach to her disability and the opportunities that it has provided.??Salthouse discusses working for Women with Disabilities Australia; the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the Women’s Electoral Lobby; working with Aboriginal women as part of the Women in Adult and Vocational Education program; Aboriginal women’s leadership within the community; women with disabilities in the workforce; violence against women; sterilisation of women; the importance of financial independence, choice and celebrating achievement for people with a disability; her leadership style and its attributes; her role models, influences and how she learnt to be a leader; different models of leadership; the challenges of leading an advocacy organisation; succession planning and developing leadership capacity in the disability sector. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 February 2013 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "With accompanying papers and press clippings. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Dr Gail Radford, member of the Women’s Liberation and founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL), speaks about her career in the Australian Public Service; her appointment to the Public Service Board’s Equal Employment Opportunity Section; her time overseas; her marriage; her family background; her schooling and education; the Whitlam dismissal; School of Politics & International Relations, Australian National University; her book: Making Women Count; feminism; child care; the Rudd stimulus program; women’s policy. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 14 January 2013 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mary Genevieve Gaudron, born 5 January 1943, was the first female justice of the High Court of Australia, and the only one in the Court’s first 100 years. She was born into outback NSW Moree’s working class railway community adjacent to a camp of dispossessed Aboriginal Australians. Both communities held the status of battlers, somewhat apart from the rich white business community on the other side of the Mehi River. Fittingly, she became one of the High Court justices who decided Eddie Mabo’s landmark case on Aboriginal land rights. Throughout her career Gaudron, a colourful and lively personality, remained down-to-earth, proud of her working class origins, and humble about her achievements. On her retirement from the High Court in 2003, Gaudron accepted a part-time appointment on the International Labour Organisation’s Administrative Tribunal in Geneva. She served a term as its President before retiring in 2012 to her Sydney home. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Pamela Burton for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Pamela Burton and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Mary Gaudron was the first child of Edward and Grace (née Mawkes). Her father, known as Ted, worked on the State railways. Mary’s mother, known as Bonnie, was dux at the Intermediate level of the Moree Public School in 1933. She and Ted married at St Henry’s Catholic Church, East Moree, in 1942. Unfortunately, the couple lost their second child, a boy, as a baby from illness. They had two more girls and a boy. Mary’s childhood was an unlikely one for a future High Court justice. However, the town and her church were good to her. Whilst at St Francis Xavier primary school, she won a Diocesan Bursary that funded her high school education as a boarder at St Ursula’s College, Armidale. She matriculated with straight ‘A’s and, at just sixteen, secured a Commonwealth scholarship to attend the University of Sydney in 1959. She was further assisted by a £50 prize from the Moree and Bullaroo Council. Gaudron’s life reads as a list of successful ‘firsts’ and ‘youngests’. With determination and brilliance she confronted and overcame many obstacles to women embarking on professional careers. She married Ben Nurse in 1962 and received her BA the same year. She graduated in Law with first class honours in 1966, becoming the first part-time student to be awarded the University medal in law, and only the second woman. Even more remarkable, she was also working full-time and was a mother, Danielle having been born in 1964. There were fortuitous events and circumstances that fostered her ambition to become a lawyer. Doc (H.V.) Evatt’s visit to Moree in 1951 was an impetus. He was campaigning from the back of a blue Holden Ute for the ‘no’ vote which would block a Constitutional amendment to outlaw the Communist Party. Mary was a curious kid who wanted to know what a Constitution was. From the crowd, she put her hand up and asked him. The exchange between the driven man and the young girl resulted in Evatt sending her a copy of the Constitution. She waved it around at school telling the kids that she ‘knew’ what she was going to be when she grew up – a lawyer. Not just a lawyer, but a barrister. When she was later told by a local solicitor that she was aiming too high – girls don’t do law and she should consider a job in the telephone exchange – she wanted to prove him wrong. Gaudron commenced practise at the Sydney Bar in October 1968, and in 1972, became the first woman appointed to the NSW Bar Council. Sadness beset her when, like her mother, she, too, lost her second child. Ben died in 1971, aged two; just weeks before her second daughter, Julienne, was born. In 1972 Gaudron successfully appeared in the Equal Pay Case before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, becoming the first woman to appear for the Commonwealth in a national wage case. In 1974, aged 31, Gaudron was appointed to that Commission as a deputy president, the youngest person to become a federal court judge. While there, another career highlight was her participation in the 1978 Maternity Leave Case. It can be argued that, for Mary Gaudron, a ‘disadvantaged’ working class environment aided her in this success; it gave her cause to think; to question things she observed around her. Both her family and her Catholic education encouraged that. From a young age she was curious about the way the world worked and how people behaved. It also helped that, as a child, she had the benefit of being immersed in a sub-community that was welded together by union solidarity; something she no doubt recalled when resolving workers’ wage disputes as a judge of the Commission. In early 1981, at only 38, she was appointed NSW Solicitor-General, the first female State solicitor-general and she became Gaudron, QC. She married her second husband, John Fogarty, and later that year, their son, Patrick, was born. NSW State solicitor-general was a job she enjoyed, despite some rocky moments. She was attracted to the Wran government’s agenda of social reform but it was sidetracked by crime and corruption issues that would not go away. This was the time when the so-called ‘Age tapes’ revealed dicey dealings of magistrates, police and politicians with crime bosses, gamblers and drug dealers. Gaudron became a controversial figure. Yet an analysis of her opinions confirms that she was ‘frank and fearless’ in the advice she gave. Those who worked with her marvelled at the speed with which she could carefully study and absorb mountains of briefing material, arrive at the essence of a problem, and provide firm and correct opinions. Premier Neville Wran always followed her advice. ‘Gaudron’s law’ was a powerful force behind the scenes. In this role Gaudron displayed a high level of understanding and expertise in Australian federalism and the interaction of State and Commonwealth powers – a capacity that became one of the reasons why she was later recognised as suitable for appointment to the High Court. She appeared before the High Court in several significant constitutional cases. In 1982 in the Commonwealth v Hospital Contribution Fund, a case concerning the arrangements within the State courts for the exercise of federal jurisdiction, she persuaded the court to overrule the two previous High Court decisions on the point. Other significant constitutional cases in which she appeared before the High Court included Hematite Petroleum v Victoria and Stack v Coast Securities (No 9) in 1983 and Gosford Meats Pty Ltd v New South Wales in 1985. She also appeared in Miller v TCN Channel Nine in 1985, a case concerning the constitutional guarantee of free trade and commerce between the states (section 92). Importantly, she appeared in the Tasmanian Dam case in 1983, a landmark in Australia’s constitutional history over the use of the Commonwealth’s external affairs power. In February 1987 Gaudron was appointed to the High Court of Australia by the Hawke Labor Government. She participated in many cases contributing significantly to the development of Australian law. A number of her decisions were recognitions that discrimination, often disguised or indirect, had to be exposed and eliminated, and that due process had to be followed, if a fair system of justice was to be achieved. She did some deep thinking about the meaning of equality, and how it differed from ‘sameness’. She incorporated the concept of discrimination to develop the notion that people with differences that mattered should not be dealt with in the same manner if equality was to be achieved, and that differences that didn’t matter, should be disregarded in order to give equal justice. Put simply,” ‘Equal justice’ is justice that is blind to differences that don’t matter but is appropriately adapted to those that do.” In 1998 she stated frankly that the racism she saw directed towards indigenous Australians while she was growing up sensitised her towards all forms of discrimination. While legalistic in her approach, not liking to strain the language of enactments, and obedient to precedent, she was noted for reaching many decisions that represented a shift in the law that accorded with current social expectations. By way of example here, her joint majority judgement with Justice Deane in the case of Banovic provided a legal analysis of indirect discrimination which demonstrated that equal treatment did not equate with non-discrimination. The case concerned the employer’s practice of ‘last on, first off’ for retrenching workers. On the surface it was not discriminatory, as more men than women were retrenched. However, a group of eight retrenched female workers successfully claimed they were discriminated against because of the employer’s preference for recruiting men. They waited longer to be employed and lacked employment seniority, and were therefore more vulnerable to retrenchment. The majority of the court agreed that the ‘last on, first off’ formula was flawed in a workforce that was predominately male. Gaudron was also attuned to discrimination against women in domestic situations, and in the case of Van Gervan v Fenton she added persuasion to her reasoning. In that case the Court considered the method of assessing the notional value of the time spent by a wife who provided attendant care services to her injured husband. The majority held that compensation should be measured by reference to the market value of the services provided rather than to the family member’s forgone earnings. Gaudron agreed, but took the opportunity of strongly dispelling assumptions behind the argument that deduction from the market value should be made for the domestic services previously provided by the injured man’s wife. She said that the argument that services given by his wife before the accident were ‘needed’ by her husband, rather than being part of a normal domestic relationship was an assumption that implies ‘incompetence and selfishness of a very high order.’ The argument was that the injured man already had the services of a wife and, therefore, to the extent that the accident gave rise to a need for those services, no requirement for compensation for those services arose. ‘At best’, she said,’ that equates a wife to an indentured domestic servant – which she is certainly not’. Gaudron’s legalistic approach permitted an effective block to various attempts by the Federal Government to restrict the right of review of administrative decisions concerning immigration. She was influential on later courts in developing reasoning to the effect that, if an administrative decision ignored principles of procedural fairness, it was not a ‘decision’ from which a review could be prohibited under Commonwealth law. Helpful here was what she called the ‘genius’ of the Constitution – ss 75(v). This gives to everyone in Australia the right to approach the High Court to compel Commonwealth authorities to perform their constitutional and statutory duties, and to prevent them from acting in excess of their powers. Understanding its intricacies is not easy, she conceded, as this ‘small subsection … has been known to reduce grown men to tears’. In its application it ‘guarantees the rule of law’ in Australia, because it operates to ensure that the right to a hearing is not thwarted by arbitrary decisions. She has enshrined ss 75(v) by having her few words about it stencilled into the portrait commissioned from artist Sally Robinson by the NSW Bar Association. Throughout her career, Gaudron remained troubled by the way Australia treated its Aboriginal peoples. Perhaps the most publicised case of this time is Mabo No 2 about which so much has been written. Justices Deane and Gaudron came under particular criticism for what has been described as a ‘moralising tone’ in their joint judgement in describing the dispossession of the Aboriginal peoples of most of their traditional lands as a ‘national legacy of unutterable shame’, and ‘the darkest aspect’ of Australian history. The Aboriginal land rights case of Wik followed, and was perhaps more important in practical effect. Gaudron, like Justice Gummow, utilised her special knowledge of equity principles in their application to real property rights and entitlements, and in her separate majority judgement demonstrated her analytic textual approach and application of logic to reach what might be described as a social justice-oriented outcome. A more insightful perspective on Gaudron’s life is that, from childhood onwards, she developed a set of guiding values that remained with her throughout her professional life, strongly influencing her decisions as both lawyer and judge, and serendipitously, shaping the opportunities which came her way. While it was a driving motivation throughout her legal career to prove she was intellectually equal to the best of the men who had made it, there was more. She wanted to achieve social change, and recognised the law as a tool for achieving social justice. Her complex personality and her strong views on how people should treat each other have their roots in a colourful and extraordinary life story. Gaudron’s decisions on immigration, citizenship and refugees are amongst many where applications of her principles have effected increased protection for the vulnerable. Gaudron’s analysis and development of concepts of ‘equal justice’ and the intertwining notion of ‘discrimination’; decisions concerning implied rights in the Constitution; and her concern for fair trials and procedural fairness are part of her legacy to Australia’s legal history. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section Mary Gaudron, Brodsky, Juliette, 2011, http://www.nswbar.asn.au/the-bar-association/pioneering-women/#/16_mary_gaudron Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Resource Pioneering Women at the NSW Bar: 1921-1975, New South Wales Bar Association, 2011, http://www.nswbar.asn.au/the-bar-association/pioneering-women/ Book From Moree to Mabo: the Mary Gaudron Story, Burton, Pamela, 2010 Newspaper Article Justice left hanging in the breeze, Brown, A.J., 2011, http://www.smh.com.au/national/justice-left-hanging-in-the-breeze-20110401-1crbg.html Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Pamela Burton Created 8 February 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes 3 letters, 23 December 1862-17 September 1878, with cheque dated 1 October 1874 and newscuttings Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 June 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "One of Australia’s early radio clubs, the 2WG Women’s Club was an important fundraising group as well as an essential communication tool for women in the Wagga Wagga region with its twice daily broadcasts and weekly meetings especially for women. Established in the 1930’s, the club ran daily broadcasts for women from its Wagga Wagga station through to the 1960’s. Using code names where preferred, women joined the club to exchange greetings or news items on air during the two 45-minute daily sessions allocated to them. Each Thursday members met at the radio premises for a ‘Bushell’s Tea Party’, sharing afternoon tea and a sing-a-long. Fundraising was the focus of the 2WG Women’s Club, and members continued to help finance local facilities in times of economic hardship. The Haven Nursing Home, which was established to provide local care for the elderly and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2004, is testament to this prodigious fundraising activity. The full history of the 2WG Women’s Club – a history that “records the contribution of isolated and rural women in the middle decades of the twentieth century to the social fabric of the community” – can now be explored using the Wagga Wagga City Library’s archival holdings. Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Wagga Wagga City Library 2WG Women's Club Collection Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 22 July 2005 Last modified 11 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Gibson ran theCentral Queensland News for nearly twenty years in the 1960s and 70s. Established by her mother in 1937, who convinced some local businessmen that they should become shareholders and help her to purchase the Leichhardt Weekly (to be renamed the Central Queensland News), Gibson took over the running of the paper when her mother became ill in 1963. She was the first woman to be elected President and life member of the Queensland Country Press Association in 1978/79. Like her mother before her, Margaret Gibson was an enterprising woman who was very much involved in community affairs in Emerald, where she lived. She became the first woman to be a member of the Emerald Shire Council, serving from 1970-1979. As deputy chair of the council from 1973-79 she represented the shire at regional and state government conferences. She was very influential in the Emerald Arts Council Committee and was foundation president of the Emerald Pioneer Cottage. Events 1960 - 1980 1980 - 1980 Published resources Thesis Women in Central Queensland: A study of three coastal centres 1940-1965, Johansen, Grace, 2002, http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au/thesis/adt-QCQU/public/adt-QCQU20060921.120038/index.html Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 October 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Collection relating to the Novelty Manufacturing Company which produced wedding and bridal accessories. Includes financial records, business registration certificate, business cards, rubber stamps, samples of wares and of equipment used in the manufacture of these wares, and an advertising sign used by the company (in map case 8, drawer 2). Also, newsletters and notes concerning Coburg East Training [Primary] School, ca. 1944-1964. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers relating to working conditions for women in Australia, the disputes, and the abolition of the Women’s Board are in this subseries. Also included are the statutory rules and regulations under the National Security Act, the code of working conditions for women war workers and women unionists. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2018 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Beth Smith is a committed Christian activist who stood for the Christian Democrat Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly election for Cronulla, 2003 and in the House of Representatives election for Cook, 2004. At the time of her first campaign, Beth Smith had been a resident in the Cronulla area for 11 years and a teacher for more than 30 years. Her campaign stressed the protection of Kurnell and opposition to over development in the Sutherland Shire. Educated at the University of New South Wales (B.Sc. Dip.Ed.), Beth Smith began her teaching career in country NSW. She completed a Bible College Diploma and became a full-time Religious Education teacher at Jannali Girls High School. Her position was funded by local churches and she held it for 10 years. Beth and her husband Ian Smith adopted two children with intellectual disabilities and through them became involved with the Special Olympics movement. By 2004, she and her husband ran a network marketing company. They were long term members of the Christian Democrat Party, and were very active in their church. Beth Smith stressed her concern about a decline in moral standards. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 2 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photographs taken at Mparntwe/Alice Springs Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 July 2008 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Type Resource Author Fowler, Jennifer URL http://www.impulse-music.co.uk/fowler.htm Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 3 January 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Guide and index to correspondents compiled in the Mitchell Library [10ff] (Call No.: MLMSS 231/1)??I. CORRESPONDENCE, 1884-1923?1905-1917; Correspondence with Maria O’Reilly, 1913-1917; and with her mother Louisa Miles, 1905-1916 (Call No.: MLMSS 231/2-5)?1891-1920; Correspondence with Maria O’Reilly and her mother Louisa Miles, 1905-1917; correspondence with Lady Helen McMillan, 1891-1920 (Call No.: CY 4202 [MLMSS 231/6])?1891-1922; Correspondence with Lady Helen McMillan, 1891-1921; correspondence with John Le Gay Brereton, 1899-1922 (Call No.: CY 3763 [MLMSS 231/7])?1899-1923; Correspondence with John Le Gay Brereton, 1899-1922; correspondence with Sir David Ferguson, 1905-1923; correspondence with William Morris Hughes, 1905-1922 (Call No.: CY 3120 [MLMSS 231/8])?1884-1923; Miscellaneous correspondence. Correspondents include: Christopher John Brennan, 1915-1919; Dame Mary Gilmour, 1912-1923; Sir Hubert Murray, 1893-1923; Sir Henry Parkes, 1893-1894; Rose Scott, 1906-1922; A.G. Stephens, 1902-1922; and Ethel Turner, 1903-1917 (Call No.: CY 3121,CY 3122,CY 3123 [MLMSS 231/9-11])??II. LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, ca.1884-ca.1922?ca.1884-ca.1922; Literary manuscripts include: stories, 19–1920; articles, 18–19-; poetry, ca.1884-ca.1922; play, date unknown (Call No.: MLMSS 231/12-13)??III. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, ca.1899-1922 (Call No.: MLMSS 231/13)??IV. PAPERS OF MARIE O’REILLY, 1913-1944?1913-1944; Papers being mainly correspondence relating to Dowell O’Reilly. Correspondents include: John Le Gay Brereton, 1923-1928; Dame Mary Gilmour, 1923-1924; Nettie Palmer, 1923-ca.1935 (Call No.: CY 4203 [MLMSS 231/14])??V. MISCELLANEOUS AND INCIDENTAL PAPERS, 1877-1924 (Call No.: CY 4203 [MLMSS 231/14]) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 18 June 2008 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Clippings and correspondence. Minutes, etc., from the New Melbourne Art Club. Material relating to the Victorian Artists Society, Contemporary Art Society, Bread & Cheese Club, Melbourne Society of Women Painters. Two scrapbooks of press cuttings, one on the Art Gallery of NSW, the other on the British Art Gallery, Brisbane. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 22 May 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Fiona Richardson was an Australian politician, who joined the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in 1991. She was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly for Northcote in the Parliament of Victoria in November 2006, was re-elected in November 2010 and again in November 2014. She served as Minister for Women and Minister for Prevention of Family Violence in the Labor Government after they were elected in November 2014. She oversaw the establishment of the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence in 2015, which tabled its report to Parliament in 2016. Richardson passed away at the far too young age of 50, from breast cancer. Fiona Richardson migrated to Australia with her parents and two brothers in 1969. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree at the University of Melbourne, majoring in Politics and Psychology. Richardson worked at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital before travelling to the United Kingdom. She returned to Australia in 1994 when she began work for the VACC, advocating on behalf of service station operators. From 1996 Richardson worked as an Electorate Officer for Mary Gillett, Julia Gillard, Gareth Evans, Martin Ferguson and Stephen Conroy. She was elected MLA for Northcote in late 2006, and became Parliamentary Secretary for Education. Richardson served the Victorian people as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Northcote for eleven years (2006-2017). Her important contributions to the status of women in Victoria cannot be underestimated. She oversaw the establishment of the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence in 2015, which tabled its report to Parliament in 2016. On 25 June 2013, it was announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She went into remission and returned to parliament. On 7 August 2017, Richardson announced she was taking medical leave from parliament.[9] On 22 August, she said she would be extending her leave after being diagnosed with several tumours and would retire at the next election,[10] but she died the next day, 23 August 2017, aged 50. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 26 July 2007 Last modified 21 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Peta Seaton has extensive experience as a political adviser and shadow minister in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. As a Liberal Party candidate she successfully contested the Southern Highlands 1996 by-election and was re-elected in 1999 and 2003. Peta has been Shadow Minister for Environment 1999-2002; Parliamentary Secretary to Shadow Cabinet from 2002; Chair Opposition Policy and Reform Committee; and Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Planning, the Illawarra, and reform of government 2004. She retired at the 2007 election. Parliamentary and Local Government Career State Government Elected, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Southern Highlands 1996 by-election, 1999, 2003 (Liberal Party) Shadow Minister for Environment 1999-2002 Shadow Minister for Competition and Consumer Protection, Small Business, Insurance Regulation 2002 Parliamentary Secretary to Shadow Cabinet from 2002-2003 Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Planning, and for Reform of government 2003-2004 Shadow Minister for the Illawarra 2003- Shadow Treasurer 2005 Shadow Minister for the Reform of Government and Assistant Shadow Treasurer 2005- Peta Seaton was educated at the Woodford School, Solomon Islands, Wenona School, North Sydney and the University of Sydney. She ran a small television production company 1983-85 and then worked as a television producer for Clemenger, Sydney, 1985-87. She was Press Secretary for the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council, Hon. Ted Pickering, 1987-88 and then worked on staff of Nicholas Greiner, when Leader of Opposition and Premier, 1988-92. In 1992, she worked for Premier John Fahey. Peta Seaton worked in Canberra as Adviser and Programme Director for Leader of the Federal Opposition, 1992-93. She is a partner in small farm at Boorowa, New South Wales. In 1990 she married Lachlan Paterson, and they have one daughter, Unity, born in 1996. From 2003 to 2005 she was Shadow Treasurer, and from September 2005, she was Shadow Minister for the Reform of Government and Assistant Shadow Treasurer. Events 2017 - 2017 Received for significant service to the Parliament of New South Wales, to the community of the Southern Highlands, and to higher education. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 29 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party from 1972, Kay Setches served as the member for Ringwood in the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian Parliament from 1982-92. She held the portfolios of Conservation, Forests and Land from 1988-90, Community Services from 1990-92 and was Minister Responsible for Child Care 1991-92.On the abolition of the seat of Ringwood she unsuccessfully contested the seat of Bayswater at the state election, which was held on 3 October 1992. Daughter of Eric Joseph Earl, a wharf labourer, and Lilian Mary, a spinner, Kay Setches completed her primary education at St Joseph’s, Collingwood and Cromwell Street State School, Collingwood. She completed her secondary education at the Collingwood School of Domestic Arts and subsequently worked as a sales assistant. On 2 November 1962 she married Denis Norman Setches, a local government officer. They had two children, a son and a daughter. Kay Setches lived in Croydon from 1964. Her community involvement included the position of co-ordinator of the Maroondah Halfway House from 1977-78, president of Boronia Technical School Council from 1979-83 and member of the Croydon Conservation Society. Her ministerial responsibilities included: 13 October 1988-2 April 1990 – Minister for Conservation, Forests and Lands. 2 April 1990- 6 October 1992 – Minister for Community Services. 17 January 1991-6 October 1992 – Minister responsible for Child care. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Victorian Parliamentary Handbook / prepared by direction of the President of the Legislative Council and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, 1989 Resource Section Setches, Kay Patricia, 2005, http://tex2.parliament.vic.gov.au/bin/texhtmlt?form=VicMin.sum&minname=SETCHES%2C+Kay+Patricia&keyword=%28All+Portfolios%29&tfrom3=&tto3= Edited Book As a woman: writing women's lives, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1992 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 17 June 2005 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Professional papers relating to Laby’s education as a student in the Natural Philosophy Department at the University of Melbourne, and as a lecturer at the RAAF Academy Point Cook including teaching materials relating to practical laboratory work and several volumes of student work reporting on their practical work ((late 1960s) and other curriculum material from the RAAF Academy. The collection includes notebooks containing scientific data, photographs, publications, technical reports and brochures, computer data print outs, subject files M1-M30, correspondence about collaboration with University of Wyoming and Climate Impact Assessment Program, and contracts with the Office of Naval Research. Among the records are notebooks relating to atmospheric research including balloon experiments in regional Australia (Coffs Harbour), and study/research visits to the US and South Africa. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 May 2018 Last modified 31 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "War crimes – Banka Island – Massacre of 21 Australian nurses and murder of Australian Trade Commissioner Mr Bowden [Supplementary search terms: Major Tebbutt, Sister James, Sister Bullwinkel, Major Ringer; includes 18 photographs, 1 map; 8 components] [1] Massacre of 21 Australian nurses and murder of Australian Trade Commissioner Mr. Bowden [component 1 of 8] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 December 2002 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Artefacts & folder, receipt, training & cash books etc. Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 June 2004 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Susan Caroline Bambrick graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) degree in 1965. She received her doctorate from the Australian National University (ANU) in 1970 and was one of the first married female PhD students at the university. Susan gained employment in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at ANU, where she specialised in the field of industry economics. In 1972 Susan set up the first undergraduate course in mineral economics at the university and in 1981 she was sub-dean of the Faculty of Economics. Susan was appointed to the Trade Development Council in 1979 and the following year she became the first female appointed to the council’s executive. Then in March 1981 Susan was elected president of the Australia Institute of Energy; the first woman to hold the position. She was also a member of the Uranium Advisory Council since its inauguration in 1981 and a council member of the National Library of Australia Also in 1981, Susan completed a year-long appointment as the director of studies for the Public Service Board and she also worked on their interchange program. In November 1982 Susan became the first Fulbright Australian Scholar-in-Residence at the Centre for Australian Studies, School of Mineral Sciences, at Pennsylvania University. For a time, she was also director of studies for management training courses run by the Australian Mineral Foundation. On 31 December 1982 Susan was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ‘in recognition of service to education in energy and resource economics’. Between March 1984 and January 1987 Susan was Dean of Students at ANU. Susan was appointed Mater of University House at the Australian National University in 1987 and later she became Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Head of the Albury Wodonga Campus of La Trobe University. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Susan Bambrick, 1999-2010 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dr. Susan Bambrick, appointed to a Ministerial Working Party and being Master of University House, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Australian National University Archives Correspondence files of Dr Susan Bambrick as Master of University House National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Australia's resources [sound recording] : an ANU Convocation luncheon address given on 15 November 1979 by Susan Bambrick Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Follows a young woman on her first country teaching appointment. The school’s principal is a woman whose affection for the children and countryside has led to her acceptance of a solitary life in the town. A relationship grows between the two women and the gossiping eyes are quick to notice and suspect dangerous implications for the children. (Source: State Film and Video Library Catalogue S.A. 1982.)??Documentation relating to the production of the film is held in the NFSA collection Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A recorded discussion about women and the Peace Movement. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary established Marymead Children’s Centre (now Marymead Child and Family Centre) in 1967 as a specialised facility to provide residential care for children of families in temporary crisis. In the early years this might include a mother in hospital, a family breaking up, a child neglected or in danger. As the city grew rapidly so did demand for government-funded social services to provide for more complex needs requiring professional as well as community support. The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary withdrew from Canberra in 1986, transferring ownership of Marymead to the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn. Since then, the agency has grown steadily, staffed by professional welfare workers (predominantly female), to become one of the major social services agencies in the ACT. By 2012 it was providing support, in the home and through out-of-home care, to vulnerable and disadvantaged children and their families across the Australian Capital Territory and the surrounding New South Wales region. Canberra grew rapidly after World War 2 as public service departments were moved to the capital (especially from the 1960s). The rapidly growing population was young: throughout 1950-1975, almost 40% of the population was under 21. Few people had an extended family base nearby to help with family burdens or crises, and social networks were insufficient to compensate for that lack. Moreover, government policy, specialist social services and funding for welfare assistance did not keep pace with the rapid growth in population and complexity of needs for support. One area particularly poorly served in the 1950s was provision of support for children who could not live with their parents or other family members due to a temporary crisis or longer term problems caused by poverty, illness, neglect, domestic violence or family breakup. Such care and protection services as existed were provided by New South Wales, and Canberra had no facility of its own to provide long or short term out-of-home care or specialist support for children and teenagers. Pressure was increasingly exerted on the Commonwealth government by local magistrates, church members and, indeed, leading public servants and their wives, to address the obvious need for such services. An early change came in 1963 when Dr Barnado’s Homes opened a group house but, from the outset, it could not keep up with demand. About the same time, the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM) proposed to open a house in Canberra and undertake welfare work, especially among the poor. The FMM were founded in India in 1872 and came to Australia in 1942; their work focused on the poor and disadvantaged in society. They proposed a centre in Canberra which would provide out- of-home care for children of families in temporary crisis, plus a hostel for young working women coming to Canberra to join the public service (this was intended to provide a continuing income stream but, however, was never built). Seven nuns arrived in January 1963, moving initially into a house and backyard caravan in the suburb of Narrabundah. The first superior was Mother Columcille, a dynamic, formidable 70-year-old Irish nun who became famous for her determination and selective deafness to responses (especially from public servants) that were not the ones she wanted. She quickly obtained the support of several senior public servants well-positioned to persuade relevant ministers (including the Prime Minister, Bob Menzies, Senator John Gorton, and Doug Anthony who all became Marymead supporters) to adopt and fund the proposal for a child welfare and hostel facility to be called Marymead (‘Mary’s meadow’ in Gaelic). Their wives, meanwhile, began fund raising activities, forming the Marymead Auxiliary which continues in strength into the 21st century. By the mid-1960s the Commonwealth had assumed responsibility from NSW for directly funding and overseeing welfare services in the ACT but the funding levels and arrangements were greatly affected (into the 1990s) by differences of opinion on the extent to which government should directly manage welfare services or outsource them to charitable organisations. In the 21st century, government policy has settled firmly on the outsourcing model, typically within stringent government guidelines. In 1965 the Commonwealth finally agreed to provide funding towards establishment by the FMM of a child welfare centre and land was allocated in Narrabundah. Marymead opened in 1967 with a convent and six residential cottages, each with a house mother and up to a dozen children, led by the Centre administrator, Sister Rosalie McNaughton (Mother Columcille, her indomitable foundation work completed, retired to Ireland). The house mothers were the nuns and, over time, a number of lay women as well. Gardens were created with help from a local Lions Club, the children began to attend local schools, and a family-like community was created. By 1980 the nuns estimated they had cared for over 5,000 children, predominantly through periods of residential care at Marymead. The nuns themselves now included a professional social worker, a sign not only of increased complexity in the needs to be met but also of higher standards being set by the government in relation to expertise and qualifications of those working in the welfare sector. Under the nuns, Marymead’s primary function was to welcome children of all races and religions who required care. Children were admitted in various times of crisis including distress following accidents or sudden illness, poverty, a parent hospitalised, a family break up, disruption of the home or child abuse or neglect. Children were either placed voluntarily by parents or referred by welfare or health officials. Occasionally the police would also bring children to Marymead at night or over the weekend if a sudden emergency arose. Funding continued to be a major constraint through the 1960s and 1970s: real costs per child rose as salaries and living costs increased and the need increased for professionally trained personnel who could provide appropriate support to children with challenging behaviours or complex needs. By the early 1980s, the FMM’s own priorities in Australia turned more to health and aged care services. This, combined with significant financial difficulties in operating Marymead, led the nuns to withdraw from Canberra in 1986. Marymead then came under the auspices of the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn. From the late 1980s more and more attention was paid to supporting children at home, in their family contexts. One of Marymead’s great strengths in the last 20 years has been its emphasis on an integrated approach to supporting both the child and the family as a whole. This strength has been accompanied by steady and substantial growth in the number of clients, number and variety of services offered, and introduction of innovative strategies that have influenced government policy trends in social services. By 2011 Marymead was, inter alia, overseeing a large foster care program, disability support programs, residential care for young people with high and complex needs, child protection support, programs for families in trauma or having broken up, support for carers, counselling services, and family skills programs. Marymead has remained a community-based, not-for-profit agency whose primary concern is to care for vulnerable and disadvantaged children and their families (over 1000 a year by 2011). As is common throughout the social services sector, its workforce has mostly been women. It has become an integral part of the Canberra community, touching the lives of a large proportion of the population either directly or behind the scenes or through its fundraising activities. Published resources Report Annual Report 2010-2011, Marymead Child and Family Centre, 2011, http://www.marymead.org.au/publications Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Marymead Child and Family Centre Marymead Child and Family Centre - Uncatalogued papers Author Details Louise Moran Created 9 January 2013 Last modified 20 February 2013 Digital resources Title: Marymead Child and Family Centre Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Elvira Lyons was a founder of Sydney’s Catholic Welfare Bureau in 1941. The daughter of a schoolteacher, Elvira Lyons was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and embarked upon a business career, working for Nestles until 1928. In 1934, Lyons completed a Certificate in Social Studies at the BSST. She became secretary of the Royal Society for Mothers and Babies (later known as Tresillian), and continued to serve the Society until 1955. Lyons also became a member of the CTSWA and an executive member (later president) of the NSW branch of the Australian Association of Social Workers. She was a founder of Sydney’s Catholic Welfare Bureau in 1941. Throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, Lyons and her sister Kathleen offered support to new migrants seeking employment and housing in Sydney. Published resources Thesis The Professionalisation of Australian Catholic Social Welfare, 1920-1985, Gleeson, Damian John, 2006, http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:1178/SOURCE1?view=true Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 December 2008 Last modified 8 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Florence Taylor was the first woman architect, structural engineer and civil engineer in Australia. For her contribution to architecture and civil engineering, Taylor was appointed an Officer of the British Empire on 8 June 1939 and later a Commander of the British Empire on 10 June 1961. Florence Taylor, the eldest of five daughters, of John and Eliza (née Brooks) Parsons immigrated to Australia with her family. She attended Presbyterian Ladies’ College (Sydney), and commenced clerical work at an architectural and engineering firm, after her father passed away suddenly. Realising that draftsmen received a higher scale of pay, she decided to obtain the qualification and enrolled in evening classes at Sydney Technical College – the only female in the class. Between 1900 and 1902 she was apprenticed to the office of Sydney architect Edmund Garton, where she was allocated the less interesting menial tasks. In 1902 she transferred to the office of John Burcham Clamp where she remained until she completed her studies in 1907. In that year her employer Clamp nominated her for associate membership of the New South Wales Institute of Architects. Her membership was granted 13 years later in 1920. On 3 April 1907, she married George Augustine Taylor, an architect-engineer, whose hobbies included aviation and gliding. Florence Taylor, who shared her husband’s interests, became the first woman to attempt a glider flight in Australia, on 5 December 1909. She flew from the Narrabeen sand hills near Sydney, in a guilder built by her husband, to became the first woman to fly a heavier-than-air machine in Australia. Upon marriage the Taylors established their own company, the Building Publishing Company, a producer of trade and professional journals. Also the Taylors were founding members of the Town Planning Association in New South Wales in 1913. After her husband’s death in 1928, Florence Taylor continued to manage the company until she retired due to ill health in 1961, although she scaled down the company publishing list. Throughout her life Taylor continued to produce town planning schemes. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section Taylor, Florence Mary (1879-1969), Ludlow, Christa, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120195b.htm Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1968, Legge, J S, 1968 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Sound recording Architects of Australia, Freeland, J M, c1982 Book The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Florence M. Taylor - illuminated address presented to Florence M. Taylor by the Australian American Co-operation Movement, 1946 Kerwin Maegraith - recording of readings from his autobiography 'Little moments with big people', n.d., together with readings from his biography of architect Florence Mary Taylor, ca.1969 Taylor family photographs, ca. 1884-1968 Lorelei Booker - papers, ca. 1890-1991 National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Florence Mary Taylor, engineer, architect and publisher, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 July 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gail Radford’s first career was in veterinary science. In 1970 she joined Canberra Women’s Liberation and was the first Convenor of WEL-ACT. In 1973 she was appointed to the first National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. In 1975, she was appointed to the Office of the Public Service Board in Canberra as the Director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Section. For fifteen years Gail shaped and led EEO policies and programs, firstly from the Public Service Board and later from the Public Service Commission. In 1992, Gail was appointed to the position of Chief of the Human Resources Development Division in the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris. At the conclusion of her contract, she returned to Australia in 1994 to become a Member of the Immigration Review Tribunal in Sydney. In 2001 she returned to Canberra to research and write at the Australian National University on the history of WEL and EEO. In 1985, Gail became a Member of the Order of Australia for her services to women’s affairs and EEO. Born in Melbourne on 30 April 1941, Gail was the only child of Phyllis Royal Radford (née Bickford), a high school teacher, and John (Jack) Gordon Radford, a journalist and, after the war, an intelligence officer. While Jack was away at the war, Gail and Phyllis lived with Phyllis’s mother Alice Hannah Bickford née Baggs. Gail’s mother, grandmother and aunt, Dame Ada May Norris, were all strong women and feminists. Under their guidance Gail became an independently minded feminist. Dame Ada, with her work on the status of women, people with disabilities and immigrants, was to be a mentor for Gail when she commenced similar work in later life. Gail attended Fintona Girls’ School in Balwyn. She started studying for a science degree at the University of Melbourne but transferred to second year veterinary science at the University of Sydney in 1961. Here Gail lived in Women’s College, joined in student politics as a keen debater and was a Director of the Board of the Women’s Union. Her particular interest was in providing support for women who, like her, were studying courses where women were under-represented and not fully accepted. She graduated as a Bachelor of Veterinary Science in January 1966, completed an internship in cardiovascular research at the Animal Medical Center in New York City in 1967 and graduated from Ottawa University in 1971, as a Master of Science in Cardiovascular Physiology. Gail’s career as a veterinarian included periods of small animal practice in Australia and overseas, manufacturing Swine Fever Vaccine with a United States aid team in Saigon during the height of the Vietnam War and teaching small animal surgery at Sydney University. In Canberra she worked in a small animal practice in the Woden Valley and carried out research for a doctorate on the physiology of social stress in wild rats in the Zoology Department at the Australian National University. On her return from Canada in 1970, she joined the newly formed Canberra Women’s Liberation and, as a member of its action workshop, organised the first meeting of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) in Canberra in May 1972. She was the first Convenor of WEL-ACT and combined lobbying for reforms for women with her veterinary career for the next few years. In May 1973, she was appointed to the first National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation, as the member with special expertise on the employment of women, and continued to serve on this Committee until she was appointed to the Australian Public Service (APS). In October 1975, she was appointed to the Office of the Public Service Board in Canberra as the Director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Section. This was the first position of its kind in Australia. Gail was, in essence, the first EEO Officer in Australia. She was given responsibility for the formulation and implementation of EEO policies for women, migrants, Aboriginals and the handicapped, and the avoidance of discrimination in APS employment. Gail worked in the Public Service Board in Canberra until its abolition in 1987, being promoted to the Senior Executive Service in 1978 and receiving further promotions in 1983 and 1984. In 1987, she was appointed to a senior position in the newly created Public Service Commission. For fifteen years Gail shaped and led EEO policies and programs, firstly from the Public Service Board and later from the Public Service Commission. She developed policies for the Commonwealth’s 300,000 employees and influenced the direction of priorities in State Government and private sector employment. Under her guidance the approach to providing employment opportunities in the work place, for women and members of minority groups, developed from a series of ad hoc anti-discrimination initiatives to a systematic one, with the provision of properly structured EEO programs supported by legislation. Gail sat on numerous interdepartmental committees and chaired two subcommittees of the Joint Council, the peak body that carried out negotiations with staff associations in the APS. She chaired the Joint Council Subcommittee on Women and Joint Council Subcommittee on EEO (Minority Groups) and it was in these subcommittees that she negotiated agreement on all EEO initiatives. She was also a member of the National Labour Consultative Council’s Committee on Women’s Employment. In 1980, this Committee released Guidelines for Employers on EEO for Women, which were to pave the way for acceptance of EEO legislation in the private sector. In 1985, Gail became a Member of the Order of Australia for her services to women’s affairs and Equal Employment Opportunity. In 1992, Gail was appointed to the position of Chief of the Human Resources Development Division in the headquarters of the United Nations Organisation for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) in Paris. This position had been especially created for her to assist UNESCO implement reforms in its human resource management systems. At the conclusion of her contract with UNESCO, she returned to Australia in 1994 to become a Member of the Immigration Review Tribunal in Sydney. Following the abolition of the Tribunal in 1999, she resigned from the Australian Public Service. Gail returned to Canberra in 2001 to research and write at the Australian National University on the history of WEL and EEO. She worked with Professor Marian Sawer on the Australian Research Council funded project on the History of the Women’s Electoral Lobby. Their book Making Women Count: A History of the Women’s Electoral Lobby in Australia was published by UNSW Press in 2008. Papers and research reports written by Gail can be found on the ANU History of WEL website (http://wel.anu.au/). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Book Making women count : a history of the Women's Electoral Lobby in Australia, Sawer, Marian, 2008 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Women's Electoral Lobby, 1952-2010 [manuscript] National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Office of the Public Service Board Public Service Commission National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Gail Radford interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Author Details Gail Radford Created 14 January 2013 Last modified 20 July 2020 Digital resources Title: Gail Radford Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence with constituents in electorate concerning issues and queries. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Pauline Hanson was elected to the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament as the Member for Oxley in 1996. Originally a Liberal Party candidate for the seat, the Party disendorsed her in February 1996, less than a month before the election. She contested the seat as an Independent and was successful. She remained in Parliament for one term only, suffering defeat at the 1998 election. Before entering the Federal Parliament, she served for one year as a Local Government Councillor for Ipswich City Council. She continues to hold political ambitions, and has stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Australian Senate in 2004 and was a candidate again at the Queensland state election, which was held in March 2009. Pauline Hanson grew up in Woolloongabba and was educated at Buranda Girls’ School and Cooparoo High School. She was a small business operator before entering the Federal Parliament. In 1997, during her term in Parliament she formed the One Nation Party and served as its National President until January 2002. As a result of her involvement in the Party’s affairs, she was convicted of electoral fraud and sent to gaol in 2003. She spent eleven weeks in prison, until her conviction was overturned. Pauline Hanson became a controversial political figure as she was accused of racism in her attitude to asylum seekers and immigrants. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Off the Rails, the Pauline Hanson Trip, Kingston, Margot, 1999 Untamed and Unashamed: Time to explain, Hanson, Pauline, 2007 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Pauline Hanson, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 April 2009 Last modified 22 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Medal card of Ormiston, Isabel Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 December 2017 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mirka Mora discusses her friendship with artist Joy Hester and memories of Hester’s life. — General note: Title of transcript has Mora’s surname incorrectly spelt as ‘Mona’. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 45 min.)??Garner speaks of her childhood, growing up in a suburb of Geelong ; her Melbourne University years ; the influence of Glen Tomasetti on her writing career ; her introduction to unionism while teaching ; how she began writing her novel “Monkey grip” and her method of work ; her thoughts on the film based on that novel ; living in Paris and writing her second book “Honour, and Other people’s children” ; problems encountered when writing on matters very close to her. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "General Sir Thomas Blamey inspects units of the Australian Women’s Army Service at their headquarters. With him is Major Kathleen Deasey, commandant of the Victorian area. Major Deasey is a well-known educationist, a graduate of both Melbourne and Cambridge universities. She has three brothers serving in the Australian army. (negative by Cranstone). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Annual Reports/Correspondence & Newscuttiings/Minutes & Constitution Author Details Janet Butler Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 24 August 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Yarra Valley, Vic. C. 1943-09. In the outdoors, the Director WAAAF, Group Officer Clare Stevenson (second from left) and a WAAAF Wing Officer (in dark uniform) conversing with WAAAF officers who conducted a four-day bivouac for a group of WAAAF officer trainees in an area near Launching Place, as part of their training course. Third from the left is Squadron Officer Margaret Blackwood, the officer in charge of the bivouac and on the extreme right is Flight Officer Doris Carter, a staff instructor for the bivouac. On the latter’s right is her assistant, Section Officer Helen Palmer. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9331 comprises the following items: Thirty undated letters written by Nellie Melba to her friend Lady Susan Fitzclarence, ca. 1908-1917, from Australia, New Zealand, London, Paris and New York; several photos, including two large autographed photos of Melba; three menus, all dated 1917, autographed by Melba and her fellow diners, including Charlie Chaplin; programmes from several of Melba’s concerts, including the Grand Melba Concert at Royal Albert Hall on 7 May 1910 and her farewell concert tour in 1926; a small number of press clippings relating to Melba; a typescript account of a meeting with Melba, by Ailwyn Best, entitled “How I sang with Melba”; and, “Panoramic Sydney”, a booklet of panoramic photographs of Sydney published in the early 20th century (2 folders, 1 security binder, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Clare Land Created 19 August 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ninette Dutton published a number of books on the Australian landscape and gardening which she often illustrated with her own botanical drawings. Ninette also studied art in both Europe and America, establishing herself as an enamellist and often holding exhibitions of her work. Ninette Dutton was educated at Creveen School, North Adelaide, and later at Woodlands, before studying Social Science at the University of Adelaide. During World War Two Ninette served as a driver with the Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force. In the 1950s Ninette worked in Oxford and studied at the Ruskin School of Art. She then went on to learn enamelling in Kansas during the 1960s. From the 1970s to the 1990s Ninette published books and delivered radio programs on cooking, flowers, gardening and the seasons. She also wrote a weekly column titled ‘The passionate gardener’ for Adelaide’s Advertiser. Ninette Dutton was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 1994 in recognition of service to the community and to the arts as an artist, particularly as an enameller. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ninette Dutton, 1890-2007 [manuscript] Correspondence from Geoffrey and Ninette Dutton, 1982 Records of Curtis Brown (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1962-2002 [manuscript] Geoffrey and Ninette Dutton 1980-1984 Records of the Holdsworth Galleries, 1969-1996 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Ninette Dutton interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Ninette Dutton, artist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Academy Library, UNSW Canberra Ninette Dutton manuscript collection Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 15 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9585 comprises copies of articles, scientific papers, press cuttings and correspondence relating to the life of J.H.L. Cumpston. The correspondents include Bryan Gandevia. The collection also includes papers relating to the closure of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney, 1955-1980 (1 box).??The Acc02.156 instalment comprises further papers of Dr Margaret Spencer (4 boxes).??The Acc11.012 instalment comprises family history materials pertaining to the Cumpston and Spencer families and bound volumes of writings and publications by and pertaining to Dora Margaret Spencer. Family history material contains the manuscript of Spencer’s memoir, research notes, family photographs, academic transcripts and conferred degrees, writings, memorial orders of service, correspondence and newspaper clippings. People represented in a notable way within the collection include Trevor Cumpston, Terence Spencer and John Howard Lidgett Cumpston. Includes bound, hand written manuscript version of John Cumpston’s autobiography (4 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elsie Women’s Refuge was the first refuge set up in Australia for women and children escaping a violent home who had nowhere to sleep. The refuge offered advice and assistance in relation to the legal, welfare and health systems. When a group of Sydney feminists met to celebrate International Women’s Day at the Teacher’s Federation auditorium in Sussex St Sydney on 10 March 1974, the speakers at its forum ‘Women in a Violent Society’ addressed a crime then not recognised in law and generally ignored by police – domestic violence. Three Women’s Liberation members, Anne Summers, Jennifer Dakers and Bessie Guthrie responded immediately. On 16 March, armed only with broom handles and shovels, they broke into two adjoining terrace houses in Glebe, ‘Elsie’ and ‘Minnie’ (73 and 73 Westmoreland St), left vacant due to the NSW Builders Labourers ‘green ban’ on the then Askin Government’s redevelopment of a number of Sydney’s architectural and historic sites. There they established the first domestic violence refuge in the world. Elsie’s founders conducted extensive media interviews to raise public awareness of this service, and raised money in whatever way they could. Donations of food, white goods and playground equipment quickly followed. The visit of Bill Hayden, Minister for Social Security in the Whitlam government, resulted in the refuge receiving a one-off Commonwealth government grant of $24,250, enabling its move to more spacious premises in Derwent St, Glebe. By mid-1975, eleven women’s refugees had been established by volunteers nationwide, initially without government funding. The thousands of women and children seeking protection in these refuges convinced the Whitlam Government to respond to this previously unacknowledged social need by funding them from 1975. In 1981, under Premier Neville Wran, the NSW Government became the first Australian government to conduct an inquiry into domestic violence. While this led to significant policy changes, funding remained uncertain and inadequate until 1985, when refuges were granted secure funding through the Commonwealth-State Supported Accommodation Assistance Program. By 1999, 25 years after the opening of Elsie, there were over 300 refuges Australia-wide. On 29 August 2014, the management of Elsie Women’s Refuge and 44 other shelters in New South Wales, was outsourced to the St Vincent de Paul Society under the NSW Government’s Going Home Saying Home policy. Published resources Article Australian Women's Refuge Funding - a New South Wales Case Study: 1970 to 1990s, Melville, Roselyn, 1998c Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Ducks on the Pond: An Autobiography 1945-1976, Summers, Anne, 1999 Resource Section Memorable Summers, Summers, Anne, 1999 Forty years of the Elsie Refuge for Women and Children, Gilchrist, Cathie, 2015, http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/forty_years_of_the_elsie_refuge_for_women_and_children Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Elsie Women's Refuge records, ca. 1974-2014 Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection First Ten Years of Sydney Women's Liberation Collection, ca. 1969-ca. 1980 Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens and Elle Morrell Created 5 September 2000 Last modified 24 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Addresses, articles, conferences, constitutions, correspondence, declarations, extracts, histories of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, information sheets, minutes, notes, papers, poems, policies, plays, press releases, programmes, reports, submissions, tributes, writings. Author Details Clare Land Created 23 November 2001 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contains photocopies of newspaper articles (2 sheets), Malcolm Press Kit card folder including information sheets, Cast list on pink paper, crew list, location list, filming information sheets, and a cast and crew list.??There is additional documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Three looseleaf papers and handwritten copies relating to the establishment of the Women’s Land Army in Launceston, Tasmania in 1940. Included is a handwritten organisational chart of the Women’s Land Army (WLA), Tasmania from registered rural women up to the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture and Manpower and the Commonwealth War Organisation of Industry; a handwritten itemised list of the categories of women who were required to be listed on the ‘Compulsory Register of rural women’ and, typescript copies of minutes of a meeting held on June 28, 1940. Present at that meeting were three members of the Country Women’s Association, Tasmania, Mrs Belmont Clark, Mrs Alice Jean Thomas OBE, Mrs V. (Edith Ranson); Mr Guy Parsons, probably Tasmanian Primary Producers Union; Mr Francis Forster, Tasmanian Member of House of Assembly and probably President of Tasmanian Farmers, Stockowners and Orchardists Association and, Miss Agnes Hodgson for whom there are brief biographical details. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 June 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On the 31 December 1977, Mary Durack was appointed to the Order of the British Empire, Dames Commander, for her services to literature. In acknowledgment of her accomplishments she was also honoured with an AC (1989) and OBE in 1966. Dame Mary Durack is remembered as being the author of publications that includes Kings in Grass Castles, To Ride a Fine Horse, Sons in the Saddle and Swan River Saga: Life of Early Pioneer Eliza Shaw. Born in Adelaide South Australia, the daughter of Michael Patrick and Bessie Ida Muriel (née Johnstone) Durack Mary’s childhood was spent on the Argyle and Ivanhoe stations in the West Australian East Kimberley area. After being educated at Loreto Convent in Perth she returned to the family properties. During her lifetime Mary became a prolific writer, with her first known work being Little Poems of Sunshine (1923). Mary and her sister Elizabeth, who also became a noted author, completed their first book together Allabout: The Story of a Black Community on Argyle Station, Kimberley in 1935. Mary also wrote under the name of ‘Virgilia’ for The West Australian newspaper. In 1987 Dame Mary Durack became a Fellow of Curtin University and was commended by the Childrens’ Book Council in 1965 for The Courteous Savage: Yagan of Swan River (1964), illustrations by Elizabeth Durack. The title was changed to Yagan of the Bibbulmun (1976), illustrations by Revel Cooper, a Bibbulmun descendant, as ‘savage’ was now considered racist. Dame Mary Durack was a director and patron of the Stockmans’ Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre, and a former executive member of the Aboriginal Cultural Foundation. She was a member of the Australian Society of Women Writers, The Royal Western Australian Historical Society, the National Trust and honorary life member of International PEN Australia. The Australian Irish Heritage Association of WA conducts the Mary Durack Memorial Lecture commemorating the distinguished writer and their first patron. In 1979 the Western Australian Shires of Mundaring, Kalamunda and the Cities of Armadale and Swan established the Mary Durack Award. On 2 December 1938 Mary married Capt. Horace Clive Miller OBE (died 1980) and they had six children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Pilgrimage : a journey through the life and writings of Mary Durack / edited by, Millett, Patsy and Millett, Naomi, 2000 Sound recording Conversation with Mary Durack, Durack, Mary, 1913-1994, 1976 Book The End of Dreaming, Drysdale, Ingrid, [c1974] The matriarchs: twelve Australian women talk about their lives to Susan Mitchell., Mitchell, Susan, 1987 Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Book Section Travel hopefully: The Duracks, Browning, Julie, 2002 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources State Library of South Australia Yarn spinners [sound recording] State Library of Western Australia Durack family papers, 1886-1991 [manuscript] Perth PEN Centre records National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Mary Durack Miller interviewed by Stuart Reid for the Battye Library collection [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Nancy Cato, 1939-1995 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Florence James - papers, 1890-1993 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Conference and seminar papers; PhD thesis; course material; field work tapes, notes and interview; correspondence; drafts; collection of articles and chapters on Pacific women, Christianity in Melanesia, Australian Aboriginal history and Aboriginal women, anthropological theory and miscellaneous theory, New Caledonia and Polynesia. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 25 July 2017 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Helen Ryrie was born in Scotland in 1876. She married George Dugdale in Perth in 1912. Helen was a Registered Nurse who had worked as a matron of a women’s institution, and been employed as an Inspector for the State Children’s Department prior to her employment with the police force. A widow when she was appointed In 1917, she along with Laura Ethel Chipper, was a one of the first two Women’s Police constables appointed to work with the Western Australian Police Force. They began what was primarily welfare work in Perth but also worked in Kalgoorlie. Helen served in Perth and was transferred to Kalgoorlie in 1933. She served there until her retirement on the 10th of April 1939. Helen died in Kalgoorlie 1952 and is buried in the Kalgoorlie cemetery. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section First Women Police - 1917, Skehan, Peter, http://policewahistory.org.au/HTML_Pages/First_women.html Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 15 August 2012 Last modified 19 February 2019 Digital resources Title: Police Force, Roe Street Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Helen-Dugdale-circa-1917.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Sydney Female Refuge Society was established in 1848 and had premises in Pitt St and at Glebe. It aimed to assist prostitutes abandon their work by cutting them off from the world and by requiring them to conform to the aims and practices of the institution. The middle-class Ladies’ Committee enforced strict moral codes coupled with religious instruction to rehabilitate the Refuge inmates. By providing them with laundering and needlework skills they were enabling them to find alternative work once they left, but at the same time required them to work at those tasks while at the Refuge. The minimum period of stay was eighteen months, although the actual time inmates stayed varied. Although nominally under the control of men, in practice the Society was administered by women. Constitutionally the Ladies’ Committee was an ‘advisory body’, but became increasingly powerful and by 1870 the women were firmly entrenched and resisted encroachment on to their sphere. In accordance with Protestant evangelical ideas all members of the Ladies’ Committee were required to be married as a way of presenting to the inmates of the refuge the ideal of the respectable marriage. The tasks of the Ladies’ Committee were numerous. For example two women visited the refuge twice a week; four met as a subcommittee each week and all met once a month. The Ladies’ Committee employed and determined the salaries of all the employees, for example a matron, teacher, bible woman and laundress, supervised their work and made all the decisions affecting the domestic economy of the refuge. They decided upon the admission and discharge of each inmate, found work for those who required it on discharge and supervised the progress of each inmate. The Men’s Committee produced the annual reports, ran the annual meetings and the subscriptions were generally made in the husbands’ names only. Published resources Journal Article Sectarianism and purity within the woman's sphere: Sydney refuges during the late nineteenth century, Godden, Judith, 1987 Report The annual report of the Sydney Female Refuge Society, Sydney Female Refuge Society, 1849- Thesis Philanthropy and the woman's sphere, Sydney, 1870-circa 1900, Godden, Judith, 1983 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Sydney Female Refuge Society records, 1863-1911 Author Details Rosemary Francis and Carolyne Carter Created 18 May 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Gertrude Cosgrove appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander on 1 January 1947 for public service in Tasmania."
    },
    {
        "text": "Siobhan McHugh conducted these interviews while researching the book ‘Cottoning On’. The book is about the development of the cotton industry in New South Wales and the changes it has brought to the community and the landscape. It investigates, in particular, the effects of pesticides and cotton growing on the environment.??MLOH 461/1-2?Interview with Harvey Baker, Environmental Director of the Australian Cotton Foundation??MLOH 461/3?Interview with Pearl Davern, former cotton chipper??MLOH 461/4?Interviews with Dr. Kate Short, environmentalist and member of the community watchdog organisation National Toxics Network, and Marg Mercer and Jan Douglas, both Gunnedah residents??MLOH 461/5?Interview with Roger Toffolon, Registrar of Chemicals in New South Wales??MLMSS 8533?This collection contains manuscript drafts of selected chapters, with annotations; letters from Gunnedah residents relating to the effect of spray drift on health; notes, newsclippings and ephemera relating to the book ‘Cottoning On: Stories of Australian Cotton-growing’; and slides produced by the Australian Cotton Foundation, entitled ‘Natural Threads’. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 May 2017 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sara Dowse is a prize-winning writer of reviews and Canberra-themed fiction. A feminist and women’s rights activist, she was a member of the Women’s Liberation Movement and the Women’s Electoral Lobby-ACT. She became the inaugural head of the Women’s Affairs Section of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (now Office of the Status of Women) for the Whitlam government. (This entry is sponsored by generous donation from Christine Foley.) Born in Chicago, USA, Sara Dowse (nee Rosenthal) grew up in Hollywood, the daughter of an actor mother and celebrity lawyer father. Born of Jewish parents, she experienced anti-semitism in her early years, and left for Australia at nineteen (in 1958) when she married a visiting Australian footballer. She studied Arts at Sydney University, and after experiencing sexism as a pregnant student and in society generally, she became what has been described as an ‘old-style feminist’. She arrived in Canberra in 1968 and worked as a journalist, publisher’s field editor and tutor at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. She was a member of the Women’s Liberation Movement and the Women’s Electoral Lobby-ACT, and became the inaugural head of the Women’s Affairs Section of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (now the Office of the Status of Women) for the Whitlam government. At the time of her appointment, she was dubbed ‘Supergirl’ by the press. Dowse became spokesperson for 130 organisations that opposed the removal of lawfully performed abortions from the medical benefits scheme. After a publicised resignation from the public service, she worked as a teacher at The Australian National University, a reviewer for newspapers and journals, and became a writer of novels and short stories. She has also been an interviewer for the National Library of Australia’s Oral History Program. She was forty-five when her first novel, West Block, based on her experiences in the Prime Minister’s department, was published in 1983. Dowse’s other books include Silver City (1984), Schemetime (1990), Sapphires (1994) – a largely autobiographical work about rediscovering Jewish roots – and Digging (1996). She has contributed to Worth Her Salt: Women at Work in Australia (1982); Leaving School, It’s Harder for Girls (1983); Women, Social Welfare and the State (1983), Sisterhood is Global (1984) and Home Grown Anthology (1993). She was a member of Seven Writers – a group of seven Canberra-based writers whose work vividly portrayed life ‘beneath the surface of Canberra’ – and as part of this collective she contributed to Canberra Tales (1988), republished as The Division of Love in 1996, an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. The work received an ACT Bicentennial Award. Dowse has also been awarded the AIPS/APSA Women in Politics Prize (1982); 3M/Royal Blind Society Talking Book of the Year (1994); ACT Book of the Year (1995); ACT Book Reviewer of the Year (1995 and joint winner in 1997 with Marion Halligan). She was short-listed for the Steele Rudd Award (1995) and long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Prize (1996). She has also been the recipient of an Australia Council fellowship; a Harold White Fellowship (1991) and an ACT Literary Fellowship (1996). Sara Dowse has five children. Published resources Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 The Division of Love: Stories, Barbalet, Margaret et al, 1995 Digging, Dowse, Sara, 1996 Sapphires, Dowse, Sara, 1994 Schemetime, Dowse, Sara, 1990 Silver City, Dowse, Sara, 1984 West Block: the hidden world of Canberra's mandarins, Dowse, Sara, 1983 Conference Paper Femocrats and Ecorats: Women's Policy Machinery in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, Sawer, Marian, 1996, http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/(httpPublications)/D1A254C22F3E5CC580256B67005B6B56?OpenDocument Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Elizabeth Ward interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Elizabeth Reid interviewed by Sara Dowse Susan Ryan interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Julia Ryan interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Interview with Lyndall Ryan, Professor of Australian Studies, University of Newcastle [sound recording] / interviewer, Sara Dowse Interview with Gae Margaret Pincus, lawyer [sound recording] / interviewer, Sara Dowse Interview with Helen Garner, author [sound recording] / interviewer, Sara Dowse Kathleen Taperell interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Meredith Edwards interviewed by Sara Dowse in the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia collection [sound recording] Amirah Inglis interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Cassandra Pybus interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Carmel Bird interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Linda Jaivin interviewed by Sara Dowse Anne Summers interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Sara Dowse, public servant, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Seven Writers group, between 1986 and approximately 2000 Papers of Brenda Walker, 1989-1996 [manuscript] Papers of Drusilla Modjeska, 1959-2006 [manuscript] Papers of Dorothy Green, 1943-1990 [manuscript] Correspondence, 1972-96; Amirah Inglis, Geoff Page, Amy Witting, Marion Eldridge, Sara Dowse, Les Murray, Philip Hodgins, 1988-94. Includes congratulations on Banjo Award for To the burning bush. Papers of Marion Halligan, circa 1970-circa 2003 [manuscript] Papers of Elizabeth Reid 1963-1981 [manuscript] Records of Curtis Brown (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1962-2002 [manuscript] Papers of Ann Turner, 1901-2009 (bulk 1975-2004) [manuscript] Papers of Sara Dowse, 1958-2007 [manuscript] ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0131 Word Festival Canberra Records HMSS 0154 Majura Women's Group Records Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 September 2000 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes of the Airline Hostesses’ Association and the Australian Flight Attendants’ Association (1957-1992), correspondence and subject files of Federal Office, NSW Branch and Overseas Branch, case files, rules, press cuttings, manuals, audio tapes of conference sessions, badges and printed material. There are some records of the Flight Stewards’ Association/Australian International Cabin Crew Association relating mainly to elections and rules (1968-1992) and the Membership Assistance Service (1984-1987). Records from 1992 onwards are created by the Flight Attendants’ Association of Australia Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1. Minutes, 1980; 2. History of Red Fems; 3. Papers, 1973-1980; 4. Statistics, 1966-1979; 5. Canberra Women’s Refuge Annual Reports, 1974-1977; 6. Canberra Women’s Refuge correspondence 1976-1977; 7. Canberra Women’s Refuge Statistics 1976-1977; 8. Canberra Women’s Refuge papers 1976-1977; 9. Canberra Women’s Refuge Research project c.1977; 10. Canberra Women’s Refuge publications 1977-1978. Author Details Clare Land Created 26 November 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Louise Lovely, actor, discusses her early days on stage and how she got started in film. She talks about some of the people she worked with and films she performed in, relating relevant stories. During the recording she discusses various other topics, such as the training of people in the film industry and the film industry in America. — General notes: Information from recording and cassette label. Interview is still in progress when the recording finishes, making the interview incomplete. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 5 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jane Fletcher published a number of books on nature and nature study, and broadcast on 7ZL Hobart and 3LO Melbourne. In 1934 she became the first woman to lecture to the Royal Society of Tasmania. She was an outstanding bird observer with a particular interest in crakes and rails. Jane Fletcher began work on an aunt’s farm in Wilmot, north-western Tasmania, from 1892-96. From 1896 she worked as a sewing teacher (initially without pay) at West Kentish Primary School. By 1899 she had qualified as a head teacher and was appointed to set up a school at Upper Wilmot. She later taught at Cleveland (Tasmania), Springfield, Woodbridge and Forcett. Fletcher undertook fieldwork for Gregory Mathews (q.v.) until 1936. She was the first woman to deliver a lecture to the Royal Society of Tasmania (in 1934), of which she was a member. She was a foundation member in 1901 – and life member from 1945 – of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union. She wrote a number of children’s books, including Stories from Nature (London, 1915) and Little Brown Piccaninnies of Tasmania (Sydney, 1950), her most popular children’s book. She also wrote books and articles for adults on Tasmanian history, Aborigines and ornithology, her final book being Tasmania’s Own Birds (1956). On retirement, Fletcher opened part of her house at Eaglehawk Neck as a Youth Hostel. Published resources Book First in Their Field: Women and Australian Anthropology, Marcus, Julie; Lepervanche, Marie de; McBryde, Isabel; Prior, Mary Ellen Murray; White, Isobel; Morris, Miranda; O'Gorman, Anne; Marcus, Julie and Cheater, Christine, 1993 Resource Section Fletcher, Jane Ada (1870-1956), Wall, Leonard, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140198b.htm Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection OM67-02 Jane Ada Fletcher Papers 1915; 1917; 1933; 1939 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lilian Louisa Pitts (L.L.P.) was a professional photographer working in northern Victoria. L.L.P was known for her thematic photographic albums, her postcards, and for capturing the life of the community in which she lived. Lilian Louisa Pitts (L.L.P.) was born in Bairnsdale, Victoria, into an affluent Methodist family. She was one of eight children. Her father owned a flour milling business which was greatly impacted by the Depression of the 1890s. As a result the Pitt family was forced to move away from Bairnsdale, and join other pioneering families in establishing a small community in northern Victoria. The family introduced irrigation into the area and set up a stone fruit orchard. L.P.P was between 17 and 20 years of age at this time. L.L.P. was heavily involved in the church and broader community: she was the church organist, taught Sunday school classes as well as a bible class for young men, gave piano lessons and led the choir. L.L.P wrote mini-musicals with witty songs, and was involved in the production, direction and costuming of these works. However, she was apparently ‘too modest to perform herself’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 25). In 1920, L.L.P. developed a kit for the teaching of music entitled Retain Theory, which she patented and advertised in music magazines. She also marketed it by producing postcards. Despite these efforts the kit was not a commercial success. L.L.P.’s earliest photographs can be dated back to 1904, when she was 30 years old. These early works show her considerable technical ability and understanding of composition. She was also known for her improvisational ingenuity. After forgetting the black cloth required for a session, ‘she hopped behind some bushes and took off her black petticoats’ (Australian Gallery Directors Council 26). In 1907, L.L.P began studying still-life painting under the tuition of A.M.E. (Alice) Bale in Melbourne. By 1908, L.L.P.’s photographic skills had developed to the point that she was producing postcards of substantial quality depicting her neighbours, family and friends; these were often in series format. The fees she sought for her work as a photographer were reported to be quite modest. L.L.P produced 100 photographs and a number of large thematic albums – these are now held by the National Gallery of Australia. Thematically, these albums depicted people in the landscape. Eight of these have survived. L.L.P. also produced a number of smaller albums which depicted special events, such as a holiday to the snow, a trip to Tasmania or even fictitious trips, in which she featured her nieces and nephews. L.L.P. did not drive a car herself, so most of her photographs were taken while on trips with her family, or at picnics. She travelled around Victoria using a horse and buggy, capturing landscapes and creating genre images of the outdoors. L.L.P. sometimes staged her photographs to make them appear as if they were taken indoors. L.L.P. entered her photographs of children into competitions such as the MacRobertson’s Chocolates Christmas Stocking competition, in which she won a prize. Some of her photographs were also published in newspapers such as The Weekly Times. L.L.P developed a close friendship with the photographer J.P. (Jas) Campbell, who would visit L.L.P. in Merrigum during the period 1908-1914. The two would travel together on photographic expeditions, where they would exchange ideas and critique each other’s work. L.L.P. had built a cottage for Campbell, but he did not return after WW1. In the 1920s L.L.P’s photography centred on recording the lives of her nieces as they grew up. Over the following 20 years photography became less of a focus for L.L.P’s artistic practice. It is possible that the impact of the Great Depression and the costs involved with practising photography may have affected her choice of work. L.L.P. eventually shifted to teaching oil painting to young women. One of the last photographs attributed to L.L.P. took for a subject her painting group, with their easels set up in an orchard. Lilian Louisa Pitts died in 1947. Technical L.L.P. used a 4 x 6 ½ inch plate camera, possibly a Thornton Pickard, and a tripod and black cloth. Her practical versatility has been well noted. Her darkroom was set up in her parents’ cellar (Australian Gallery Directors Council 26). Collections Museum of Victoria National Gallery of Australia Events 1904 - 1920 1981 - 1981 Lilian Pitt’s work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 Published resources Book Merrigum Frank, Pitts, Lillian Louisa, 1989 Three of Us and Mount Buffalo, Pitts, Lillian Louisa, Palamountain, Irene and Potts, Winifred Annie, 2004 Unremarkable Women? The Life and Times of Lillian Louisa Pitts, Photographer, Cook, Valda Dorothy, 1992 Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Magazine article A First For Women Photographers in Australia: Quick Thinking and Ladders Got the Top Shots, Bowen, Jill, 1981, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55457051 Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 22 November 2016 Last modified 15 February 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Song “The Land Girls’ Lament” by Ben Dover (Miss E W Thurecht). Deals with the daily life of the members of the Australian Women’s Land Army. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 June 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The material in these various accessions includes correspondence files, photographs, memorabilia and a film of a garden party. The Archives holds related material in both its oral history and publications collections. Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 3 September 2009 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Joan Coxsedge was the first Labor woman to be elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as the Member for Melbourne West Province in July 1979. She served until 1992. While in office she wrote and produced the newsletter, Hard Facts For Hard Times, from her Footscray office, in which she offered a left view of current local, national and international events. (Source: Historical Note Melbourne University Archives) Joan Coxsedge was born in Ballarat, Victoria, daughter of Roy Selwyn Rochester, clerk and Marjorie Gordon. She was educated at Ormond State School, Gardenvale Central School and MacRobertson Girls’ High School. A professional artist, she held four exhibitions of pen and wash drawings of historic buildings and undertook a commission for the Builders’ Labourers’ Federation drawing Green Bans buildings around Australia in 1975. As a member of the Save Our Sons Movement which opposed conscription for the Vietnam War, she went to gaol in 1971 for anti-conscription activities. She campaigned against Ustashi in 1972 , opposed secret service organisations and was founding Chairman of the Committee for the Abolition of Political Police in 1973. A member of the Australian Labor Party from 1967, Coxsedge contested unsuccessfully the Legislative Assembly seat of Balwyn in 1973 and stood for pre-selection in Richmond in 1976 against the Leader of the Opposition, Clyde Holding. Coxsedge was elected to the Legislative Council in July 1979 and served until 1992. Published resources Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Coxsedge, Joan Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2002 Last modified 15 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Neva Wendt ran for election only once and as an Australia Party candidate she failed to gain election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Miranda in 1973. She did however, go on to a successful career in international affairs. Neva Wendt lived and worked in the Pacific for 20 years from 1983. Originally based with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community in Noumea, New Caledonia and later based with the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme in Apia, Samoa, she has had extensive experience working with the 22 Pacific Island countries and territories. Neva Wendt returned to Australia in 2002 and took up the job of Policy Director – Pacific, in the Australian Council for Overseas Aid. By 2005 she was the Policy Co-ordinator at the Australian Council for International Development (formerly ACFOA) in Canberra. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 16 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 9305 comprises the personal papers of art dealer Gisella Scheinberg relating to the artist Donald Friend. The papers include correspondence, exhibition catalogues, press cuttings, price lists and business papers. The correspondence includes over 50 letters from Friend to Scheinberg. Also included in the papers is an unpublished manuscript by Friend, and papers relating to the art critic and artist Paul Haefliger (4 boxes).??The Acc05.100 instalment comprises letters of Donald Friend, 1969, 1974-1975 and 1977, and a photocopy of changes made by Friend to his will, as dictated by him to Scheinberg on 20 June 1989 (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of AGM, 1994-1998??History of the Association, 1969-1999. Speech presented at the Zjazd Zjednosenia kola Polek w Australii I Nowej Zelandii, held 9 Jan. 1999. In Polish??Historia biblioteki / Sylvia Anna Fordymacka. [Perth] : S.A. Fordymacka, 1999. In Polish. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 March 2019 Last modified 15 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joyce Goodes was a well-known Canberra personality who made a substantial contribution to the cultural and community life of the capital between the mid-1940s until her death in 1990. In the late war years she instigated meetings for the establishment of the city’s first kindergarten at Acton in 1944, and her teaching at Canberra Girls’ Grammar School over thirty years culminated in her single-handedly setting up the new library of 10,000 books at the Junior School, built in 1973. But Joyce Goodes is best remembered for the quality of her body of work as a local theatre producer, director and actor, first at Canberra Repertory Society in its early days and, from 1960, with her own group The Theatre Players. The legacy of this work resides in an award, The Theatre Players Scholarship, granted yearly to assist a promising young person from the ACT undertaking their tertiary education in any aspect of theatre craft. Joyce Nancy Goodes was born on 14 July 1916, the second youngest of the seven children of a Scot, businessman James Smith Anderson and an Irishwoman, teacher Annie Anderson (nee Gunson) of Victoria Park, Perth. From early childhood days, while her father occasionally played the organ at the city’s Presbyterian Church, she took part in religious plays and cantatas, and became an avid reader. Her girlhood teacher and mentor was Perth’s celebrated theatrical identity, Florence Dane; it was under her skilled tuition that Joyce Goodes’ stage talents were nurtured. Formal secondary education took place at Perth Modern School for five years from 1929. At 18 she was playing Shakespeare while completing a teaching degree at Claremont Teachers’ College and continuing with her drama training at Perth Technical College. Psychology, one of her degree subjects, remained a lifelong interest that informed her work both in theatre and education. Her first teaching assignment was in Wagin, south of Perth, in a primary school for Aboriginal children. In 1939, Joyce Goodes married Herbert John Goodes, a British immigrant and economics and accountancy graduate of the University of WA, who was then a statistician and officer at the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. When he was seconded to the Commonwealth Treasury for the wartime government in 1943, they moved to Canberra with two-year-old daughter Jayne and another daughter, Dinah, was born in 1944. Joyce Goodes soon joined Canberra Repertory Society, an amateur theatre group started in 1932 that further concentrated the rarefied character of the capital’s population. In those heady times, under the impetus of life during war – and well before the advent of television – the group produced a feast of international plays, classic and contemporary, first at the 2CA Theatrette, then the Albert Hall and eventually in their own home at Riverside. Joyce Goodes threw herself into this creative hub, acting, directing, designing sets and creating costumes. A woman of an intense kind of energy, her view was that each play must be approached from a fresh, original viewpoint to meet its audience with impact and meaning. In February 1943, in response to the growing community awareness of a need for childcare services including a nursery school, Joyce Goodes wrote to the Canberra Mothercraft Society (established in 1927) suggesting that action now be taken to bring this about. She became part of a sub-committee to harness the enthusiasm of other mothers and friends for the cause and undertook a survey. She herself was also keen to seek the provision of day care to free women up for the war effort but the consensus at that time was to focus on a nursery school. In April, the report was accepted then presented by a deputation to the Minister for Health. After further work by the Council and its committees, a nursery school was opened at Acton in 1944. By this time Joyce Goodes was setting a benchmark at Repertory, notably with the acting role of the wife in W.O. Somin’s Close Quarters in 1945, her costume execution and the production of her first full-length play for the Society, Clare Boothe Luce’s The Women in 1948. She remained prominently involved until a year after the Society’s move to Riverside in 1953, when she left for Melbourne. After taking up teaching posts at Preshil, Melbourne’s progressive primary school, and Taylors Business College (in English for foreigners), she immediately joined Brett Randall’s Little Theatre, a semi-professional repertory troupe known for its consistently high standards, where she acted and directed, amongst other plays, Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht. Back in Canberra in 1957 and reinstated as a Repertory council member, she became vocal in the push towards a small professional company for Canberra housed in its own permanent, intimate theatre. This remained a firmly-held aspiration when she left the Society to form her own group The Theatre Players in 1960, founded on 35 pounds won at the National Eisteddfod for an act from Hendrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Joyce Goodes went on to produce more than 30 plays for The Theatre Players from the first Old Time Music Hall in Canberra through plays of Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Tennessee Williams, N.F. Simpson, Tom Stoppard, Jerome Kilty and many others. Often presented in-the-round, her favoured form when the venue was suitable, the Players also collaborated with other groups such as the University Dramatic Society at the ANU, the Spanish Society or the Polish Club. These arrangements provided performance space and a wider audience, while cutting costs. Joyce Goodes had always been keen to promote Australian writing. In 1964, her adaptation of Eve Langley’s The Pea Pickers was presented for a 3-week season in Canberra, the first solo performance of an adapted Australian book in the country. Written in 1941, it is a picaresque-style, mostly autobiographical account of two young women dressed as boys who wander through Victoria undertaking seasonal work on farms in the 1920s. Joyce went on to perform it in Sydney and in London at Australia House later that year, sponsored by the Society of Australian Writers. In 1962 a building fund for the construction of a permanent home for the company was launched. Despite setbacks from the abandonment of a previous plan, developed in conjunction with commercial interests to build a theatre as the ground floor of an office or residential block, Joyce Goodes remained fervent about finding a home. Her ideal was a small theatre with a seating capacity of 300-500 people, purpose-built solely for drama. However, as by 1973 a theatre had not eventuated, the funds were invested in order to finance the first Theatre Players’ Scholarship, awarded almost every year since. It is designed to provide financial assistance to a worthy young person enrolled in a full-time drama or theatre-related course, who is a current or former resident of the ACT. Many winners have gone on to have successful professional careers both in Australia and abroad. Between 1952 and 1981, Joyce Goodes taught for varying periods at the Canberra Girls’ Grammar School, where she also became librarian in latter years. She was the person responsible for the modern library in the Junior School after the new building was built in 1973, dealing with 10,000 books, cataloguing, binding and guiding the girls. In its tribute to her on her death in 1990, the school’s magazine Burrawi noted: ‘Her contribution to CCEGGS was invaluable and present and future students will share in the benefits of her drive and enthusiasm.’ Joyce Goodes had always supported women’s causes such as the movement for equal pay in the sixties. Although she did not espouse the term ‘feminist’, she embraced ideals of financial independence, social equality and ‘a room of one’s own’. She also felt strongly about maintaining the integrity of Canberra’s environment as it underwent change, often supporting local community battles. After The Theatre Players was wound down, Joyce and Herbert Goodes left their spacious, comfortable house in Forrest, the scene of so many ardent rehearsals, for a townhouse in Kingston in the early 1980s. Throughout her life Joyce remained widely read and was a great talker, with forceful opinions. A dogged determination and intransigence at times were balanced by her generosity, large sense of humour and capacity for friendship. Joyce Goodes may never have garnered formal honours or got her professional theatre or even a permanent home but she generated much artistic stimulation, vibrant theatre and sheer entertainment of a high standard over a long period. She had been a big presence who left an indelible imprint on the Canberra of her times. Joyce Goodes died in Canberra on 11 March 1990. Published resources Newspaper Article Canberra Cameo: Women Today - Joyce Goodes, Phillips, Anna, 1962 Book The cost of jazz garters: a history of Canberra Repertory Society, 1932 to 1982, Edgeworth, Anne Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Jayne and Dinah Goodes Created 3 January 2013 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Joyce Goodes as Lady Bracknell in <i>The Importance of Being Earnest</i>, 1960, a Theatre Players' production Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Buttrose speaks of her work as Commissioner of the Planning Appeal Board ; she speaks of her beginnings as a writer ; her childhood in South Australia ; winning first prize in a poetry competition ; teaching geography ; joining the State Planning Office in 1957 ; she describes the way she writes ; her studies in town planning. Buttrose reads the poems: “Writing office”, “Man”, “A day in the south”, “John McDowall Stuart”, “The growth of love by telephone” and “The look of love”. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "20 minutes??Peg Gooden was born in 1900. Her father died when she was young so she and her mother lived with Peg’s grandparents in North Adelaide. She went to St Peter’s Girls’ School. In 1923 she married Harvey Lawton and they lived at Lower Mitcham and joined St Columba’s Church in Hawthorn. Harvey Lawton died in 1930 and Peg remarried Lance Gooden in 1935. During World War II Peg joined the Comforts Fund committee and worked on the sock table. Music played a large part in Peg’s life and she played at Lyceum Club lunches. She was also an active member of the Bowden Kindergarten Committee which helped underprivileged children. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 cassettes, 120 minutes, and 31 page transcript. Dame Annabelle Rankin speaks of her childhood; travelling overseas after leaving school; her welfare work during the war years; standing for the Senate and election campaigns; becoming the first woman Whip in Parliament; her appointment as Minister for Housing (1966) and the problems associated withhousing at this time. Dame Rankin recalls her appointment as High Commissioner to New Zealand, and the duties of this position. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Album documents activities of the Ski Club of Victoria showing ice skating and skiing at Mount Buffalo in 1928, a party at en-route to Mount Hotham for the Ski Club of Victoria championships at Mount Hotham, the winning team in fancy dress in a decorated car from the Glaciarium Carnival of 1928, including interior views of the Glaciarium with skaters, and excursions to Mount Donna Buang and Lake Mountain in 1929. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 April 2019 Last modified 30 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Long-time community service leader in education, government and the arts, Eda N Ritchie AM is a former University of Melbourne Council Member, Chairman of Victorian College of the Arts Foundation and Trustee of the R E Ross Trust. Eda Ritchie has held positions as the inaugural Chairman and board member of Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, Board member of Melbourne University Publishing, Rural Finance Corporation, Howard Florey Institute and various government organisations involving natural resource management, health and local government. Ritchie stood as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Warrnambool at the Victorian state election, which was held on 1 October 1988. Eda Ritchie Ritchie was educated at Clyde School in Woodend and received an Associate in Music (AMEB), and later a Graduate Diploma of Business (Agribusiness) at Monash University. She has a farming and business background and has worked in natural resource management and coastal strategic planning. She has a record of strong commitment to the community through local government, the arts and as Trustee of the R E Ross Philanthropic Trust. She has been a member of the Environment Conservation Council whose recommendations on Marine Parks have been adopted by Victorian Government, a member of the Trust for Nature Board and chairperson of the Western Region Coastal Board. She has served as chair of Rural Ambulance Victoria, and as a member of the Rural Finance Board. Ritchies has had a ong history of engagement with the University of Melbourne. She has been Chair of the Victorian College of the Arts Foundation since 2011 and a member of the University’s Foundation and Trusts Committee since 2018. She was a member of University Council from 2004 to 2014. She has also been a Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art (2005 – 2014), a Director of Melbourne University Publishing (2006 – 2013) and a Director of the Howard Florey Institute (1993 – 2000). In 2018 she was nominated for the Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) in recognition of her long history of distinguished public service in several sectors, and particularly for her contributions to the arts at the University of Melbourne, in Melbourne and in rural Victoria Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 7 November 2008 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Charmian Eckersley is a committed environmentalist and an active member of regional and local organizations. She ran as an Australian Greens candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Swansea in 2003. The following year she was a candidate for the Lake Macquarie City Council. Charmian Eckersley is a manager in the Network for Innovation in Teaching & Learning group at the University of Newcastle, where she has worked since 1991. She is co-coordinator of the implementation working group for the management action plan adopted by the University Council to revitalise academic values. As a librarian she has extensive experience in teaching and learning support for both students and academics especially with respect to information literacy. Assuming a more specific responsibility for academic support, especially in relation to the effective use of technology in teaching and learning, she has particular insights into the effective adoption of technology in the higher education environment and the need for effective support frameworks. She is the co-convenor, with Suzanne Ryan, of the implementation group for the Academic Integrity project. Charmian, at the time of her campaign, had lived in the Lake Macquarie area for 12 years, and was involved with Landcare , walking and kayaking groups. She is a founding member and has served as president and secretary of Earthcare Park. She is a member and supporter of unions, and sings with the People’s Chorus, Newcastle’s Union choir. Charmian Eckersley is the mother of a grown up daughter. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Tailors’ Trade Protection Society registers, 1870-1899; minutes (with the Tailoresses’ from 1905), 1903-1907; Tailoresses’ strike book 1883, registers 1888-1893; Pressers’ Union minutes 1888-1902; Victorian Clothing Operatives’ Union records 1902-1907; Victorian Branch minutes 1908-1909; Tasmanian Branch balance sheets 1918-1938; Federal Council minutes 1907-1949; copies of branch minutes 1923-1949; Federal correspondence 1913-1956; arbitration material 1907-1959; financial papers 1921-1949. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 December 2017 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elsie Lambton is best known for her commercial work. Trained by Ada Driver, Lambton opened two photographic studios in Townsville during the Depression and WW2. Elsie Lambton was a talented musician and a photographer working in Queensland. She was trained by the photographer Ada Driver at the Ada Driver Studios in Brisbane. In 1921 Lambton opened her own studio after working for W. J. Laurie as an operator and artist, taking over a studio that had been run by Messrs Stacey and Stacey in the Municipal Buildings. She opened her own studio, the Elsie Lambton Studio in Townsville in 1923, and advertised her talents in the Townsville Daily Bulletin, accentuating her specialisation in ‘the very latest in portraiture,’ with a particular focus on photographs of young girls. By 1927 she opened another studio, The Townsville City Studio, in the New City Building, with the photographer Jack Biehl. Lambton promoted her work as ‘artistic’ and again emphasised her specialisation in portraiture. During the period 1921-1930 her studio was reported on in local newspapers Townsville Daily Bulletin and Cairns Post, which carried advertisements and notices that featured her studio and work. It is not clear as to when she ceased her work as a professional photographer. Collections Jeffrey Collection, City of Townsville Library Events 1920 - 1930 Published resources Book Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Newspaper Article Elsie Lambton Studio, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62471025 Little Ladies: Elsie Lambton Studio, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61817513 Little Ladies, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61817513 Public Notice, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60721257 Students' Recital, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40500723 Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 15 November 2016 Last modified 15 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 5729 comprises 15 numbered folders of correspondence, files on other clubs, and conferences, 1955-1973 (folder 12 was not received); The soroptimist (Great Britain) (1970-1977); minute books, 1955-1969; miscellaneous publications; a folder of miscellaneous extension papers. Also includes one folder of publications, two cassettes (transferred to Oral History collection), and British Federation minutes and circulars.??The Acc04/248 instalment includes minutes, correspondence, programs, conference papers, cuttings and other records.??The Acc06/107 instalment comprises correspondence, agendas, photographs, reports, press cuttings, minutes of meetings, dinner programmes and other records.??The Acc06/170 instalment includes minutes, reports, magazines and other records, 1958-c. 1989. Also included are records of Soroptimist International of Cooma, 1959-2001, including minutes of meetings, attendance records, visitor’s book, history of the club and other records. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 July 2003 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The great bulk of MS 5574 is correspondence files with various subject headings. There are also minutes, financial records, maps, plans, photographs, news cuttings, printed material. All aspects of the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) are represented, including history, the Aerial Medical Service, hospitals and hostels, United Church in Northern Australia, National and State Councils, publicity material, Far North Children’s Health Scheme, Federal Methodist Inland Mission, patrol padres, Reverend John Flynn and Reverend Fred McKay. There are also several artefacts and pieces of AIM equipment (509 boxes, 14 fol. Boxes).??The Acc12.048 instalment comprises correspondence, articles, notes and biographies of key leaders, newsletters, brochures, committee notes, statistics, reconstruction and construction specifications and designs, legal files relating to bequests and labour disputes, minute books, annual reports, business plans, patrol reports, property negotiation papers, agreements and project plans all documenting the history of the Uniting Church in Australia with particular focus on the AIM and Frontier Services.??The instalment also contains plaques, photographs, and substantial sets of maps, building designs and diagrams, and promotional and reporting audio visual kits about the operations of the church in remote areas of outback Australia. Of interest are records pertaining to various hospitals, hostels, aged care facilities, kindergartens as well as relationships between the church and indigenous Australians and links with mining companies (12 boxes, 12 map folios). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 August 2009 Last modified 30 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Palma Alfirevich was born in Boulder, the sixth child of Katica Rulyancich. Katica Rulyancich had migrated to Kalgoorlie from Yugoslavia with her husband Jacov in 1909 in search of work and a better life. Jakov died of Spanish Influenza virus in 1919, leaving Katica as a single mother with five children. After the death of her husband, Katica received the Mine Workers’ Relief Pension, which was discontinued when she entered a relationship with Palma’s father, Dan Nazor, a miner. She had two children with Dan Nazor, Palma and her brother, Joe, but never married again. Dan Nazor lived and worked at the Dusted Miners’ Settlement at Southern Cross, and later died of silicosis. Palma attended the Boulder Primary School, but her education was disrupted during the 1934 Boulder riots when the family home was burnt down and she had to miss school for some months. She left school at 14 and worked in a boarding house in Boulder, where she met her husband Bob Alfirevich. Palma married Bob Alfirevich in 1942, they had two sons. Palma worked with her husband in Kalgoorlie and later in Perth, where they opened a local delicatessen and grocery store. Palma retired to Mandurah and died in 2015. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 13 August 2012 Last modified 31 March 2017 Digital resources Title: Palma Alfirevich Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Palmira-Alfirovich-and-her-family-after-the-riots-in-Kalgoorlie-.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Alongside her work in Aboriginal child welfare, Irene Stainton has long been an advocate for Aboriginal cultural heritage, holding a series of advisory positions at state and national levels. Following her father, who was Manager of the Aboriginal Advancement Council in Perth, Irene Stainton became deeply involved in indigenous affairs. She worked in child welfare for many years with the Yorganop Aboriginal Child Care Agency in Perth, becoming secretary of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care. Stainton’s interest in Aboriginal culture was deep-seated and twice she presented discussion papers to the United Nations (Geneva, 1994; Switzerland, 1995). She was the Registrar of Aboriginal sites before being appointed Chairperson of the Aboriginal Cultural Material Committee in the Aboriginal Affairs Department. In this capacity she presented a paper for the Indigenous Heritage Workshop of the National Trust’s State Heritage Convention in Western Australia in 1999. Stainton serves as a board member for both the Western Australian Museum (Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee) and the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia. She was an Aboriginal Council member for the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. Published resources Report Western Australian Aboriginal Affairs Dept., Annual Report, Stainton, Irene, 2000 Book The Black Grapevine: Aboriginal Activism and the Stolen Generations, Briskman, Linda, 2003 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 15 June 2005 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Joyce Stevens was a prominent member of the Sydney Women’s Liberation Movement, a socialist feminist member of the Communist Party of Australia, and a historian of the women’s movement. Joyce Stevens née Barnes was born in Cullen Bullen, NSW, to parents James and Lucy Barnes. Stevens’ father worked as a railway fettler and the family lived in various tents and tin huts along the railway lines of NSW. Stevens attributes much of her initial political and feminist education to her working-class background, as well as to the influence of her mother. Stevens was a motivated member of the Communist Party of Australia, joining in 1945 and later becoming the National Women’s Organiser. During this time, Stevens was interested in socialist-feminism, or the connections between socialism and Women’s Liberation. As a Liberationist, Stevens was dedicated to promoting equal pay for women, establishing women’s health centres and refuges and campaigning for abortion reform. She joined the Working Women’s Group and in 1972 helped produce the booklet What Every Woman Should Know, to educate female high school students about women’s health and methods of contraceptives. The next year this work soon grew into Control, a women’s abortion referral service provided by Women’s Liberation. That same year the Leichardt Women’s Health Centre was opened. Throughout this time, she also helped to produce and Mejane and Scarlet Woman, a feminist newspaper and magazine respectively. During International Women’s Year, 1975, Stevens was granted $6,000 by the National Women’s Advisory Committee to hold a number of forums throughout suburban Sydney. These commissions, organised by Stevens and other Sydney activists, aimed to encourage women of all backgrounds to share their personal experiences with discrimination and prejudice as a form of ‘consciousness-raising’ and promoting a feeling of sisterhood amongst the attendees. These forums culminated in ‘What has International Women’s Year Done for Women’, a Sydney-wide commission. With a desire to document the activities and progress achieved by the Sydney Women’s Liberation Movement, Stevens worked as part of a collective to create the First Ten Years of Sydney Women’s Liberation Collection, work which began in 1978 and completed in 1999. In addition to this collection, Stevens has authored a number of books including A History of International Women’s Year in Words and Images (1985), Taking the Revolution Home: work among women in the Communist Party of Australia 1920-1945 (1987), Lightening the Load -Women and Work – A History of WEAC 1982-1989 (1991), and Healing Women: A History of Leichardt Women’s Community Health Centre [1995). Stevens’ poem Because We’re Women, written for Women’s Liberation Broadsheet, International Women’s Day, 1975, remains one of her most prominent works. In 1996 Stevens was a made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of her social justice activism and her work as a writer. In 2002 she was a recipient of the Edna Ryan Award. Joyce Stevens passed in 2014. Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection First Ten Years of Sydney Women's Liberation Collection, ca. 1969-ca. 1980 State Library of New South Wales Jill Lennon and Gwen Bloomfield interview some foundation members of the Women's Liberation Movement, 1995 Joyce Stevens papers, 1912-2005 National Library of Australia Biographical cuttings on Joyce Stevens, feminist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals Author Details Dana Pjanic Created 13 October 2020 Last modified 13 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 sound cassettes.??Eddy talks about grazing in the White Cliffs area and Polpah. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 August 2017 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pamela Louise Colville held a number of positions throughout her career at the University of Melbourne. At various times, Pamela was employed as a technical assistant, in various senior administration roles, and also in the Zoology department. She was awarded a Bronze Medal to mark 25 years’ of service to the university, despite briefly retiring twice. Pamela Louise Colville nee Braund is in the rare position of having been awarded a Bronze Medal to mark 25 years’ service to the University, despite having twice briefly resigned. She was, during her long periods of employment in different Departments, however, regarded as someone whose work made that of all who worked with her more efficient and frequently more enjoyable. When the Head of the Department of Zoology put the case for her reclassification to a higher grade, the note read in part: Mrs Colville is not the sort of person who settles for compromise or improvisation: she works out the best way of running a system and puts it into practice. She is an efficient and enormously energetic worker who makes things happen… She has steadily put all our resources… onto a much better-organized and more easily accessible basis. As an example, the note recorded her readiness to assume tasks outside her formal duties such as organising the tea club, laundry and blackboard cleaning. Pamela Colville came to the University in 1971 as a Technical Assistant in the Department of Genetics, having spent the previous year as a secretary with Commercial Union Insurance. She worked her way steadily up the scale, taking her Certificate of Applied Science in 1977 and her Animal Technician Certificate the following year. From 1980 to 1986 she worked in Zoology with responsibility for undergraduate practical classes, care and storage of equipment and for museum specimens. She left in 1986 because of ill health, but finding herself in her own words ‘going mad at home’, in 1989 entered the Department of Engineering, occupying a succession of senior administrative positions in Academic Services and the Office of the Dean. In 1996 Pamela Colville was appointed to Property and Campus Services, initially as a Research Officer and Committee Secretary of the Planning and Development Committees.[1] She moved to coordinating client services, a position requiring a high level of interpersonal skills and organisation. When she retired, she noted that while she had thoroughly enjoyed laboratory work and interacting with students, her best career memory was of climbing the Old Quad Building with the architect George Tibbits and discovering some stonework from an old City building. [1] Further information on this Department can be found in Juliet Flesch. Minding the Shop: people and events that shaped the Department of Property & Buildings 1853-2003 at the University of Melbourne. Melbourne: Department of Property & Buildings, 2004. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sybylla Feminist Press was established as a printing cooperative in 1976 and since 1982 has run a small publishing program producing titles that explore feminist and left perspectives. The publications include fiction and non-fiction by women, with a special interest in new writers and work that is innovative in style. Sybylla’s list includes Working Hot, winner of the 1989 Innovative Writing Prize in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and She’s Fantastical, shortlisted for the 1995 World Fantasy Awards. While occasional grants have been awarded for particular publishing projects, Sybylla receives no recurrent funding from government or other bodies for its operations. Due to escalating costs the printery was relinquished in 1988, and since then a small group of women have contributed their unpaid labour to maintain Sybylla’s publishing venture. In the context of increasing concentration of media ownership in Australia, Sybylla is committed to independently owned, alternative publishing. Although Sybylla continues to publish unique pieces of fiction and non-fiction, the titles from its early years still speak to the current cultural, political and social landscape, and many have seeped their way into the Australian cult canon. In the 1990s Sybylla has established a working relationship with Spinifex press, another Melbourne based feminist publisher. Sybylla and Spinifex work together in the areas of distribution and cross-promotion. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 VWLLFA ARCHIVES - Biographies: Archive No. 25 Sibylla Press, Victorian Women's Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archives Inc, 2009, http://www.vwllfa.org.au/bios-pdf/arch25-sybylla.pdf Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records, 1976-2003. [manuscript] Author Details Elle Morrell Created 14 February 2001 Last modified 24 November 2014 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This deposit includes secretary’s correspondence 1929 – 1944, a cash book (1931 – 1936), draft articles on education matters (1943 – 1949), photographs (1926 – 1931) and printed materials (1937 – 1968). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Negatives of eighteen photographs covering the Eureka Youth League from its inception in the early 1940s (q.v.); 1949 Budapest Youth Carnival for Peace, Australian delegates; Australian Delegates to Berlin Youth Festival 1951; and Australian Youth Carnival For Peace, Sydney, 1952. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Essie Coffey was a Muruwari woman born in southern Queensland. She was co-founder of the Western Aboriginal Legal Service and served on a number of government bodies and Aboriginal community organisations. Born at Essiena Goodgabah in southern Queensland, Essie Coffey and her family were fortunate to avoid forced relocation to a reserve. Instead they lived on the move, following seasonal rural work. Coffey went on to be co-founder of the Western Aboriginal Legal Service and the Aboriginal Heritage and Cultural Museum in Brewarrina, serving on several government bodies and Aboriginal community organisations including the Aboriginal Lands Trust and the Aboriginal Advisory Council. She was an inaugural member of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. Coffey was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) on 10 June 1985, for service to the Aboriginal Community. She was nominated for an MBE but refused it, explaining “I knocked the MBE back because I’m not a member of the British Empire”. With Martha Ansara, Coffey made the award-winning film My survival as an Aboriginal (1978), which she gave to Queen Elizabeth II as a gift at the opening of Australia’s new Parliament House in 1988. The sequel, My Life As I Live It, was released in 1993. Coffey also appeared in the film ‘Backroads’. Essie Coffey and her husband, Doc, had 18 children, 10 of whom were adopted. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Newspaper Article Building bridges of hope for blacks, Plater, Diana, 1988 Resource Section Memorial to a great woman, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/car/2000/4/wtpage28.htm Australia looses Essie Coffey, Bush Queen of Brewarrina, 1998, http://www.atsic.gov.au/News_Room/ATSIC_News/March_1998/bush_queen.asp Book My life as I live it [videorecording], Coffey, Essie, Ansara, Martha and Guyatt, Kit, 1993 My survival as an Aboriginal [videorecording], Coffey, Essie et al, 1979 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Earthworks Poster Collective silkscreen posters, 1974-1980 Ros Bowden - interviews conducted for radio programs and documentaries, ca.1975 - 1989 National Film and Sound Archive My Life As I live It Big Girls Don't Cry My Survival As An Aboriginal : [NFSA Restores] [Coffey, Essie : Interviewed by Martha Ansara, 1992 : Oral History] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Essie Coffey interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Essie Coffey, Aboriginal activist and country and western singer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Clare Land Created 10 September 2002 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Most of these concern the period 1900-1940, with reference to the lives and careers of Edward and Mary Charlotte Bage, Dr Charles Bage, Freda Bage, Ethel Bage and Jessie Eleanor Bage. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Henry Hyde Champion, and later his wife, Elsie Belle Champion, were Shaw’s Australian theatrical agents. The letters discuss business matters, Shaw’s work, old comrades, Vida Goldstein and Walter Murdoch.??Some of the letters are from Shaw’s secretary, Blanche Patch.??Originals held in the University of Texas library. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Margaret Sturge Watts was involved with numerous organisations working for women, peace, children’s welfare and displaced persons. She was founding President of the City Girls’ Amateur Sports Association. Margaret Sturge Watts was born Margaret Sturge Thorp, daughter of James Herbert Thorp, a medical practitioner, and his wife Anne Sturge, née Eliot. The Thorp and Eliot families were Quakers and Margaret was raised and educated in the Quaker tradition. In 1912 she travelled to Australia with her parents. During World War I Margaret was involved in peace movements in Australia and in 1919 travelled to Europe where she undertook postwar relief work with the Society of Friends. After returning to Australia she was appointed first welfare superintendent at Anthony Hordern’s department store. She was involved in the formation of the City Girls Amateur Sports Association and was the first president. In October 1925 she married Arthur Watts, and in 1930 was appointed welfare officer to the New South Wales Society for Crippled Children, a position she held until 1946. In 1947 Watts volunteered for service with the Quakers in the postwar reconstruction of Europe and during 1948 she worked in Germany. On her return to Australia she was appointed Executive Secretary to the Good Neighbour Council, working for many years with migrant groups around Australia. In 1957 she became a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 13 June 1957 for her work in the ‘assimilation of new settlers.’ Before her death in 1978 Margaret Watts donated her personal papers to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia. These papers, now held in the Mitchell and Dixon Libraries Manuscripts Collection (State Library of New South Wales), relate to her work with the Society and with many other organisations working for women, peace, children’s welfare and displaced persons. They include material about Margaret Watts which was collected by others interested in her work. Published resources Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Section Hinder, Eleanor Mary (1893 - 1963), Foley, Meredith and Radi, Heather, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090310b.htm Watts, Margaret Sturge (1892 - 1978), Rutledge, Martha, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160604b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia - papers concerning Margaret Watts, 1914-1982 Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia - recording of Margaret Watts reading two chapters of her unpublished autobiography 'Faith My Shield', ca.1970?Watts reading two chapters of her unpublished autobiography 'Faith My Shield', ca.1970 Ros Bowden - interviews conducted for radio programs and documentaries, ca.1975 - 1989 Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mary Austin contributed to the community through her involvement in the Red Cross Society and the Liberal Party. She was Superintendent Regional Commandant of the Red Cross in the Victorian Division. She was appointed to The Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander on 16 June 1979 for Community and welfare services. Mary Austin, the daughter of Admiral P H Hall Thompson, was educated in New Zealand at Marsden College, Wellington. She married Ronald Austin on 9 June 1925, and they had one son. She worked for the Red Cross Society, reaching the rank of superintendent, regional commandant. She was active in the Liberal Party and was vice-president of the Liberal Party and national vice-president from 1947-1976. Dame Mary also held an honorary life membership of the Victoria League. Published resources Book Section Austin, Dame Mary Valerie Hall, DBE, 1983 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1980, Draper, W. J., 1980 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 15 September 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jean Stevenson was General Secretary of the Melbourne Young Women’s Christian Association 1915-1919 and was Industrial Secretary of the National Young Women’s Christian Association for a time before resigning in 1922/24 [exact dates are disputed by sources]. She continued her work with the Young Women’s Christian Association at a local level, becoming General Secretary of the Auckland Association. With a background as a factory worker, Jean Stevenson was trained by the Young Women’s Christian Association in Adelaide and by the same organisation’s American Training School in New York. A vociferous advocate for women’s rights in the workplace, Stevenson is understood as instrumental in pushing active support for the 1920 Champery (Switzerland) Young Women’s Christian Association Conference, which had recommended campaigning for: eight hour days for women; public employment bureaus for women; and maternity benefits for married women. In support of this ‘Women in Industry’ campaign, Stevenson requested all Australian Associations to submit studies on the impact of industry on workers. None did. Stevenson is noted as expressing disdain for this lack of action and the 1922 Young Women’s Christian Association Australasian Convention resolution, despite advocating the Swiss Conference’s resolutions, resulted in what seems to have been interpreted by Stevenson and others as a vote of no confidence for the Industrial Secretary: the motion was moved to leave the Department Secretary position vacant for a period and to reduce National administration to a minimum. In particular, delegates seem to have been uncomfortable with the National staff’s push for Industrial and ‘girls work’- a response Warne sees as indicative of a nation – wide internal fear of the ‘politicisation’ of the Young Women’s Christian Organisation. Stevenson resigned in protest after the 1922 conference and became local General Secretary of the Auckland Young Women’s Christian Association. Published resources Book The Dauntless Bunch : The Story of the YWCA in Australia, Dunn, Margaret, 1991 Y.W.C.A. 1882-1982 : Melbourne pictorial history, Durrant, Leoni, 1982 Thesis The Mother's anxious future : Australian Christian Women's Organisations meet the modern world, 1890s-1930s, Warne, Ellen Mary, 2000 Resource Stevenson, Jean 1881 - 1948, Coney, Sandra URL: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/, 1998, http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/DNZB/alt_essayBody.asp?essayID=4S45 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Hinder, Eleanor Mary (1893 - 1963), Foley, Meredith and Radi, Heather, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090310b.htm Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Young Women's Christian Association of Australia Author Details Francesca Bussey Created 24 May 2004 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jean was born in Kalgoorlie to Mary Elizabeth Scott (nee Downey) and Thomas Cleghorn Scott. Her father moved to Kalgoorlie as a 21 year-old in 1896 to work on the water supply prior to the construction of the Eastern Goldfields pipeline. He worked on the condensers, which distilled water from the salt lakes outside Kalgoorlie and delivered it door-to door to the townspeople. When scheme water arrived he became a meter-reader. Her siblings were Tom, Frank and Bill. There were two other siblings, one a girl who died as a toddler and the other a boy who died at a few months, both of typhoid in an epidemic in 1906, leaving Jean as the only daughter. She attended primary school and secondary school in Kalgoorlie. When she was in her 4th year at high school her mother became ill with gall bladder disease and Jean (as the only daughter) was required to stay at home as housekeeper, thereby missing several months of schooling and impressing on her a sense of indignation at having been selected out of the family to forego education because she was female. Despite this she continued to the end of her 5th year and achieved a conceded matriculation enabling her to enrol at the Claremont Teacher’s College in Perth for two year’s training as a primary school teacher. On graduation from teachers’ college she was posted to a one-teacher school at Wishbone in the wheat belt of Western Australia. Her next posting was to the Fairbridge Farm School and then back in Kalgoorlie at the North Kalgoorlie Primary School where she taught the middle grades, until she married Arthur Thomas Musk on 5 October 1940 and was required to resign to comply with Education Department policy on the employment of married women. Although she did subsequently return to teaching for many years it was only ever as temporary staff/casual employment. As a result of the employment policies of the time married women could not be employed as permanent staff and every year there was great angst in the family until a job became available for her. Jean had three children, Francis Alfred in 1942 and twins Arthur and Alexander in 1943. The family moved to Perth at Easter 1945 for more secure employment for Arthur. There was a great shortage of teachers in the post-war period and Jean was invited to return to teaching in mid-1947. Jean continued to teach, wherever a teacher was needed. Jean also took on the teaching of English as a second language to post-war migrants (‘New Australians’). Initially she did this in the evenings at the Queens Park School but the environment was inhospitable and she persuaded the Education Department to allow her to conduct the classes at her home. Many lasting friendships resulted including all the family members. Jean retired from teaching in 1967 aged 60. Her background in Kalgoorlie and her personal qualities equipped her to make an important contribution to Western Australia. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Archival resources Private archives held by Professor AW Musk Papers regarding Jean Mary Musk Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 6 August 2012 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 195 min.)??Marie Wood talks about her early life and schooling; her tertiary studies in teaching and nursing; teaching at Bidura Children’s Home, Glebe; the institutional culture at Bidura, play equipment and the building; Bidura Children’s Court; teaching at Ormond Training School for Girls, Thornleigh; the girls, classrooms, class size, letters home, censorship and activities; Parramatta Girls Home; Elizabeth Bay Gaol; the Privilege Cottage; health care; remedial teaching; curriculum; teaching materials and library; bullying; school holidays; returnees; length of stay; leaving Ormond, and her subsequent teaching career; her reflections on Ormond; Bringing Them Home Inquiry; Forgotten Australians Inquiry; Kevin Rudd’s apologies; Aboriginal Embassy; Old Parliament House; the families of Forgotten Australians; the legacy of institutionalisation. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 August 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Typescript of a Speech delivered by Viriginia Spate at the Australian National Gallery, October, 1991. Part of the Qantas Birthday Lecture Series Created 8 September 2020 Last modified 8 September 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 hours 29 minutes??Doreen Winton, nee Hodge, was born at Loxton, South Australia and grew up on her family’s wheat and sheep farm at nearby Nangari. Doreen was thwarted in her hopes for high school or vocational training, and helped her mother at home after leaving school. In 1940 the farm had to be sold and the family took on a shop in Loxton which Doreen’s grandmother had established. Doreen did a dressmaking course and took orders for knitting to earn pocket money. Doreen met her future husband, who was in the army, through the pen friend column in the Chronicle. They married in 1946 and bought a market garden property at Mylor which they converted to a dairy. To help finance this development, her husband began work at a Mount Barker tannery and stayed for thirty years, with Doreen taking most of the responsibility for the herd. For three eventful years in the 1960s she also worked at the tannery. Doreen and her husband Leo had two sons and a daughter. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Catalogue of Army Films 1968 and Catalogue of Audio Visual Training Aids 1973: AC 123. Shows many of the duties performed by members of the WRAAC. Clerical, signals, transport (including driving and maintenance) storewomen, map making, and cooking. Scenes at WRAAC School during officer cadet training. Concludes with a boating trip enjoyed by members during leisure hours. 15 mins. Colour. AMF. 1960. Classification B (Obsolescent) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc08/114 comprises diaries and diary transcripts, photographs, correspondence, nurse’s uniform, awards and diplomas, flight plans and sheets, speeches, published and manuscript biographies, press cuttings, paediatric handbook (annotated), and video tribute (5 boxes, 3 fol. box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sarah Jane Gladish nee Blumfield would have been familiar to generations of University of Melbourne staff and students. She was the wife of Frank Gladish (1847-1929) who joined the staff in 1876 as a Medical School Porter. After being promoted to Head Porter, a position he occupied from 1894 to 1902, he became the Medical School Library Clerk. He retired with his wife to Surrey Hills in 1925, at the age of seventy-eight. Sarah and Frank Gladish married in 1877, but did not move into the University of Melbourne Lodge for another seventeen years. A son, Charles Emery, was born the year after their marriage and died in 1879. Their daughter Amy Victoria was born in 1880. She attended Presbyterian Ladies’ College, matriculating in 1899, took her BMus in 1902 and died, aged only 25, in 1906. They had no other children. The Gladish family were not accommodated immediately in the University grounds, and are listed from 1880 to 1882 as living at 2 Malvina Place, off Grattan Street, subsequently moving into a cottage in the grounds near the old Medical School on Swanston Street. They moved into the Lodge at the Grattan Street gate in 1894 and remained there until 1925. By this time, it had acquired the east and west gabled wings added to its original central room, although a laundry and bathroom were not added until 1962.[1] Mrs Gladish gave the University Lodge as her business address when she advertised her services in University publications such as Speculum, Alma Mater and the University Gazette as ‘University Robe Maker’. She hired and sold academic dress to students ‘at the University Lodge, Grattan Street’, with gowns available from £1.10 and trenchers from 10/6 – ‘Barristers’ and Clergymen’s Gowns a Speciality’.[2] Sarah Gladish remained in Surrey Hills after her husband’s death. She was buried with her husband and both of their children in the Baptist section of the Melbourne General Cemetery. [1] Philip Goad & George Tibbits. Architecture in Campus: a guide to the University of Melbourne and its colleges. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003. [2] See, for example, Speculum. May 1913:59. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of Sister Alice Ross-King who served with the Australian Army Nursing Service during the First World War. The collection consists of her three diaries, a typed transcript of the diaries, a Florence Nightingale certificate and three Red Cross citations. The diaries cover the years 1915-1919 when she worked in Egypt (1st Australian General Hospital), Rouen (1st Australian General Hospital), St Omar (10th Stationary Hospital) and Armentieres (2nd Casualty Clearing Station). In one entry Alice Ross-King recounts events for which she earned a Military Medal while working at the 2nd Casualty Clearing Station.?1. Three diaries, covering January 1915-February 1919, written by Alice Ross-King during service as a nurse with the Australian Army Nursing Service during First World War, and post-War voyage home to Australia.?2. Typed transcript of diaries (90 pages).?3. Certificate for award of Florence Nightingale Medal (1949).?4. Three citations from various Red Cross offices for the Florence Nightingale Medal. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 August 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection comprises – 5 cassettes – 4hrs 30mins.??Interviews with people who knew Ida Leeson. The interviews are mainly concerned with personal aspects of Ida Leeson’s life, such as her appearance, her interaction with staff and colleagues and her relationships with friends.?1985; Interview with Jean Arnot of the Public Library of New South Wales, later the State Library of New South Wales discussing Ida Leeson and the history of the Library. (Call No.: CY MLOH 23/1; CY MLOH 23/4)?1985; Interview with Alexander Dix who worked at the South Pacific Commission from 1951 to 1956. (Call No.: CY MLOH 23/1)?1985; Interview with Daphne Gollan, an employee of the Public Library of New South Wales, later the State Library of New South Wales. (Call No.: CY MLOH 23/2)?1985; Interview with Sir John Kerr, who was a member of the ‘think-tank’ at the Directorate of Research during World War II. (Call No.: CY MLOH 23/3)?1985; Interview with Nancy Phelan who was at the South Pacific Commission with Ida Leeson. (Call No.: CY MLOH 23/5)?1985; Interview with Wilma Conlan and her son Telford who knew Ida Leeson during her time at the Directorate of Research. (Call No.: CY MLOH 23/5) Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Irene Mavis Kinsman nee Moffat spent almost all of her working life at the University of Melbourne from which she took her BA in 1950. Before moving to Melbourne Church of England Girls’ Grammar School, she attended a state primary school which she recalled with affection and respect: The time was the late 1920s. Miss Trollope taught the whole curriculum (three grades (some 35 boys and girls aged seven to nine) in a big airy room. Within the three groups there was a weekly shuffle of desks. Those with good marks the previous week sat at the back of the group and those with poor marks sat in front. Here they were closer to Miss T who could give them more help; but I suspect the-front row pupils saw this arrangement as punitive rather than philanthropic.[1] In 1940 Irene Moffat married Arthur Kinsman (1913-1994), an American who from 1966 to 1978 was the University’s Staff (later Principal) Engineer.[2] She began work as a typist in the Psychology Department under Oscar Oeser in 1951, was promoted to Senior Secretary in 1964 and reclassified as an Administrative Assistant the following year. Irene Kinsman was, as her 1981 article demonstrates, a frequent writer of Letters to the Editor, sending noticeably progressive missives from addresses in blue-ribbon Conservative electorates: Not being able to afford regular haircuts during the Kennett regime will at least ensure that workers have a forelock to tug.[3] She was also, as the Newsletter of the Lyceum Club recorded in 2008: A woman of strong beliefs… particularly interested in women’s education and considered that her old school and the Lyceum Club played an essential part in helping women gain and maintain their independence.[4] Roderick Buchanan noted that the labour-intensive nature of secretarial work of the time, with women required to copy and transcribe large amounts of material, ensured that they learned a good deal about both psychology and those who taught it. [5] Irene Kinsman endowed the Irene and Arthur Kinsman Award for Postgraduate Studies which provides financial assistance to female graduates of the University of Melbourne enrolled full-time as graduate coursework students at the University of Melbourne in a Social Sciences discipline, who are in very difficult circumstances. It provides three small grants per year. [1] Irene Kinsman. ‘Thank You, Miss Trollope’. Age. 24 April 1981: 14. [2] Juliet Flesch. Minding the Shop :people and events that shaped the Department of Property & Buildings 1853-2003 at the University of Melbourne. Melbourne: Department of Property & Buildings, 2005.p. 209. [3] Irene Kinsman. ‘Right Style’. Age. March 15, 1993. [4] Janette Bomford. Circles of Friendship: the centenary of the Lyceum Club, Melbourne. Melbourne: Lyceum Club: 2012. p. 319. [5] Roderick D. Buchanan. A Fiftieth Anniversary History the Department of Psychology the University of Melbourne 1946-1996. Melbourne: Department of Psychology School of Behavioural Science, University of Melbourne, 1996. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 16 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "26 min?Oral history?audio cassette; TDK AD60; two track mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 sound files (ca. 208 min.)??Van Huynh talks about her early life in Vietnam; her family memories of the Japanese occupation; life in Saigon (1951-66); relations with the French and the Viet Minh (1945-54); her education in the 1950s; her first job; the American economic influence on Saigon; working in the Electricity Authority; harsh living conditions; abandoning her law studies; the Saigon social life under Americans; the Tet Offensive in Binh Duong (1968); her father’s death; her marriage; her husband’s background; living with husband’s family; the fall of Saigon (1975); life under the Viet Cong; restrictions on public servants of former regime; reasons for escaping Vietnam; organising escape; leaving family behind; boat journey to Malaysia with her ill sons; encounters with Thai pirates; swimming ashore to a Malaysian island; being rescued by United Nations (UN) after three days; her ill children treated on UN hospital boat.??Huynh speaks about choosing a country of refugee; what she knew about Australia; the crowded Pilao Bidong camp in Malaysia, health problems; leaving Pulao Bidong; arrival in Australia; Ainslie Church of Christ; their new home; losing contact with other refugee families; early experiences in Canberra; husband’s employment; her son Thach’s school experiences at Ainslie Primary; support from Department of Social Security; studying at Bruce College; Migrant Resource Centre; her son Kim’s English learning; learning Vietnamese as an adult; working at the Mint; contacting family in Vietnam; her sons’ Thach an actuarial consultant, and Kim an ANU lecturer; Kim’s Ph.D and book on her and his father; preserving family history; Australian citizenship the best thing in their lives. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 April 2009 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mrs Chisholm organised and supervised the canteen. Egypt: Suez Canal, Kantara. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 September 2002 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Typescript biography of Jennie Scott Griffiths. Includes her poem: Why shouldn’t you die? Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 28 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Gloria Schultz is a one time candidate for election but has spent much of her married life involved with politics. As a Liberal party member she stood for election in 1999 to the seat of Burrinjuck in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Gloria Schultz married Albert John (Albie) Schultz, (MLA 1988-98, MHR 1998-date) in 1962 and they have two sons. She was educated at Echuca High School, Victoria, and then worked as a dental nurse for 11 years. Gloria has campaigned for several breast cancer research foundations, and is Chairman of the Mobile Mammography Appeal. She is active in community affairs, particularly the Blind Society and the Girl Guides Association. She has held office in the Liberal Party at branch and electorate Council level and has been a delegate to Women’s and State Council. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2003, De Micheli, Catherine and Herd, Margaret, 2003 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 14 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Hedwig Benz was the first full time interpreter at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital – a hospital for women – in Melbourne. Benz was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1972 in recognition of service to migrants in Victoria, for her work at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital. She played a valuable role in removing the responsibility from English-speaking children of migrants in liaising about their mother’s illness with hospital staff. According to her immigration records, Hedwig Schläpfer was born in Brig, Switzerland and lived in Switzerland most of her life until immigrating, with the exception of a year or two in Italy when she was 18. She arrived in Melbourne on the S M Almkerk in July 1949, intending to work as a housekeeper and a nurse. She then moved to Canberra, where she spent three years, returning to Melbourne in 1953. She married William Benz, another Swiss migrant, in Melbourne in 1954 and received her certificate of naturalization in 1958. In 1956 Benz began working full time at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital as an interpreter, where she remained until retiring in 1971. By 1977 the couple had moved to Queensland. Hedwig Benz died in 2006. Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office Benz, Hedwig Author Details Helen Morgan Created 3 December 2019 Last modified 3 December 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Women’s Voluntary National Register, Queensland State Council, was established by a gathering of representatives from Queensland women’s organisations at a meeting in Brisbane, Queensland on April 26th 1939. It was part of a federal government scheme to determine how many women would be able to provide ‘manpower’ and national service, if required, when the nation went to war. The list of organizations associated with the register provides evidence of the large number of women who were members of clubs and organizations in the interwar period. The Women’s Voluntary National Register testifies to the extent to which Australian women were organized into clubs and societies prior to the outbreak of World War II. When Australia went to war, the Federal government wanted to arrive at an understanding of how much ‘national service’ women (17 years and over) would be able to provide, if it was necessary. The most efficient means of doing this was to tap into the pre-existing network of women’s clubs and organizations, and call upon their membership to provide the information. Clubs that affiliated with the register would collect the details of (eligible) volunteers from within their membership base and forward that information to the central register. Women would then be classified according to the type of work available, and the type of work they were suited to do. Women who weren’t members of an organization could still volunteer through the state council headquarters, but clearly, ‘outsourcing’ much of the work to the organizations was a cost and time efficient method of operation. According to the official regulation book, the objects of the council were: 1) To co-ordinate methods and generally direct the war activities of the various bodies that will participate in the registration. 2) To ensure uniformity in methods of registration 3) To act as the medium between Government authorities and the women’s organisations who will complete the register. In 1939 there were 72 affiliated organizations. Forty-six were metropolitan based and twenty-three were from the country. Affiliated organizations included: Australian Comfort Fund Bardon Women’s Club Brisbane Women’s club Catholic Daughters of Australia Creche and Kindergarten at Highgate Hill Lady Musgrave Lodge Lyceum club District Nursing Association League of Women Voters Methodist Women’s Emergency Group National Council of Women Mothercraft Association Playground Association Women’s Electoral League Queensland Women’s Club United Protestant Women’s Association Toch-H league of Women Helpers QCWA British Jewish Women’s Guild and Benevolent Society YWCA New Settlers league WATC Business Women’s Social Association Protestant Women’s Club Catholic Women’s Comfort Fund WCTU Bush Book Club Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection TR 2108 Bardon Women's Club OM72-57 Women's Voluntary National Register, Queensland State Council Records 1939-1945 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 June 2004 Last modified 25 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Viola Tait, singer, speaks initially about growing up in Paisley, Scotland, and her early training at the Royal Academy of Music, Scotland. She goes on to talk about her employment with the Carl Rosa Opera Company and the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. She speaks about accepting an offer from Nevin Tait to join J. C. Williamsons on a tour of Australia performing Gilbert and Sullivan works, and administrative developments within J. C. Williamsons and Australia-New Zealand Theatres. She discusses the Tait family, Minnie Everett, performing in The Dancing Years, her retirement, and her favourite roles. Tait also speaks about the purchasing of overseas shows by J. C. Williamsons, Tikki Taylor and Bill Newman, Edouard Borovansky and the relationship between the Borovansky Ballet and J. C. Williamsons, the engagement of the de Basil’s Ballet Russes companies by J. C. Williamsons, the reasons behind the collapse of J. C. Williamsons, and the Sutherland-Williamson Opera Company seasons. She then speaks about the death of her husband Frank Tait, her children and grandchildren, and closes with a discussion of her collection of theatrical memorabilia, with particular reference to costume designs and the designer William R. Barnes. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The social activism of quite young women is graphically captured in the activities of the Girls Social and Political Union, which flourished between 1914 and 1917. It was a discussion group formed by Ellinor Walker in 1914, when she was just 18, with a friend, and around 20 other young women. The aims of the group were to promote mutual awareness of matters South Australian, Australian, Imperial and international to make the most effective use of their voting rights. They discussed a wide range of social, political and economic topics, some of which bear currency today—’large pensions being granted to Government servants at the present time of so-called economy’; sweated labour; the wheat scheme, land values taxation. The Union’s endeavours shows the interests and concerns of a group of high-minded, young middle-class women who were concerned with self-education and self-improvement. Several members of this informal group went on to become involved in the Women’s Non-Party Political Association. According to the State Library’- of South Australian’s Reference Archivist Prue McDonald, ‘The minute book of the girls union shows issues of concern to the socially and politically aware young women of the day, and are remarkable for the time.’ Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Girls Social & Political Union : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Jane Carey Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 22 July 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Illuminated address presented to Amy Castles on March 16th 1911 from the Bendigo Miners Association and Watson Sustentation Fund for being involved in a charity concert in Bendigo on January 25th 1911. Also includes a photograph of the Association. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 May 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MLMSS 75/vols. 1-19?Series 01: Notebooks, correspondence and photographs. MS:?A. Mainly miscellaneous notes and extracts from the logbooks of maritime expeditions and surveys – Australia and the South Seas, c. 1770-1840.??MLMSS 75/vols. 20-22?B. MS copy of Bligh’s logbook, H.M.S. Providence, 1791-1793. Includes photographs charts and illustrations.??MLMSS 75/vols. 23-24?C. MS copy of N. Portlock’s logbook, H.M.S. Assistant, 1791-1793. Includes photographs and plates??MLMSS 75/vols. 25-28?D. MS copy of exploration journals of G. Caley, 1802-1804, and Allan Cunningham, 1817-1819, transcribed from British Museum. Includes letters by Cunningham to Banks & W. Aiton, 1817-1821.??MLMSS 75/Box 29?Series 02: Correspondence of Ida Marriott, 1898-1922, mainly re her publications, including letters from Linlithgow, 1905, Dr. W. S. Bruce, 1917 and Admiral J. Moresby, 1920:?A. 1901-1922, including illustrations and photographs.?B. 1898-1916, miscellaneous letters.??MLMSS 75/vol. 30?Series 03: Miscellaneous material:?A. MS of chapters from ‘Logbooks of the Lady Nelson’ by Ida Marriott. Typescript with MS. annotations?B. Readers tickets – British Museum.?C. MS fragments and newscuttings relating to Ida Marriott.??The collection includes pictorial material (Pic.Acc.970) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 October 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "These early files may contain references to Zoe McHenry. Author Details Janet Butler Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Between 1889 and 1920 miners at Broken Hill took part in four major strikes, always with the strong support of Broken Hill women. In 2001, a memorial was erected in the centre of the city to acknowledge the role of women in the development of the city and particularly in the resolution of industrial disputes. The women of Broken Hill played a pivotal role in the strikes that shaped the unique industrial history of Broken Hill, offering physical and moral support to their mining fathers, husbands, brothers and sons. The first major industrial dispute erupted in November 1889 when trade union members refused to work with non-unionists. It lasted a week. Women were active in street demonstrations and assisted in picketing the mining leases. They formed a Women’s Brigade open to “all matrons and maids who are in sympathy with the union” in order to “do something towards supporting the men now on strike”. At the Brigade’s first meeting on the 12th November, the women decided on a swift and unanticipated course of action, descending upon the strike-breakers that very evening. Reports tell of a 400-strong party of women who, armed with washing sticks, brooms and mops, attacked non-unionists and left tents raided and torn in their wake. Women played a similarly influential role in the major strike of 1892, sparked by a decision on the part of several mining companies to introduce a contract system for ore excavation. Women were numerous among the estimated ten thousand protestors who congregated at the Broken Hill Proprietary mine office on August 25. Once again they participated in street marches and joined union picket lines, preventing strike-breakers from entering the mines. During prolonged industrial struggles women bore the brunt of increasingly difficult household duties, exacerbated by food shortages and the lack of income. During the five-month 1909 Lockout, the first industrial dispute to take place in Broken Hill for sixteen years, women formed a Relief Committee to help those struggling to feed and clothe their families. The ‘Big Strike’ that lasted 18 months from 1919 to 1920 was an extremely trying period. Co-operative depots were established by the unions, supplying housewives with basic food such as bread, margarine, potatoes and onions. Many mothers saw their children suffer from malnutrition. Miscarriages due to poor diet and anxiety were common. The Big Strike was the last major strike that the women of Broken Hill had to endure. It was finally called off on 10 November 1920 after both the unions and mine managers agreed to the recommendations made by the President of the New South Wales Industrial Court, Justice Edmunds. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Book Broken Hill: A Pictorial History, Kearns, R.H.B., 1982 To Broken Hill and Back, McNally, Ward, 1975 Thesis Rebel Women: Women and Class in Broken Hill, 1889-1917, Bloodworth, Sandra, 1996 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: 1892 Strike Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Broken Hill Relief Committee 1909 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Broken-Hill-Relief-Committee-1909.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: 1889-Strike.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On 3 June 1919, Matron Adelaide Maud Kellett was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military) for nursing service in World War I. Kellett had been twice mentioned in despatches during the war. She was awarded the Red Cross Medal (23 February 1917), and the Florence Nightingale Medal. Adelaide Kellet trained at the Sydney Hospital and served with the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) during World War I. She left Australia with the first convoy of Australian Imperial Forces (AIF). Kellett was matron of Choubrah Hospital, Egypt (1914-1916), before nursing at the No. 2 Australian Army Hospital in Southall, England, from 1916-1917. Later she was matron at the No. 25 General Hospital in Hardelot, France (1917-1919). Returning to Sydney, Kellet nursed at the No. 4 Australian General Hospital in Randwick (New South Wales) in 1920. She was the first matron with the Department of Repatriation Hospitals in New South Wales. From 1920 to 1926 she was principal matron of the Australian Army Nursing Service 2nd Military Base in Sydney. Kellet retired in 1944 after 23 years as matron at the Sydney Hospital. Events 1916 - 1917 Matron of the No. 2 Australian Army Hospital, Southall England 2019 - Appointed Commander (Military) of the Order of the British Empire 2017 - 2017 Awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal 1921 - 1944 Matron of Sydney Hospital 1914 - 1916 Matron of the Choubrah Hospital, Egypt 1920 - 1920 Matron of the No. 4 Australian General Hospital, Randwick NSW 1920 - 1926 Principal Matron of the Australian Army Nursing Service 2nd Military Base, Sydney 1917 - 1919 Matron of the No. 25 General Hospital, Hardelot France Published resources Resource Section Kellett, Adelaide Maud (1873-1945), Mitchell, Ann M., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090548b.htm Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1944, Alexander, Joseph A, 1944 Book Nightingales in the mud : the digger sisters of the Great War 1914 - 1918, Barker, Marianne, 1989 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 October 2002 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On 10 June 1961, Ida Spencer was appointed a Member to the Order of the British Empire for services to the Country Women’s Association in Western Australia. The sixth child of James and Phoebe (née Hymus) Christie, Ida Spencer grew up in Fremantle and Perth and was a youth leader with the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). After completing a business college course she at first worked in a solicitor’s office. Later she worked with the state office of the Returned Services League (RSL) before spending five years as business secretary for the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) from 1936. She joined the Darkan Country Women’s Association (CWA) following her marriage to a sheep farmer, John Spencer. Drawing upon her musical background – she had previously sung in church choirs, eisteddfods, hospitals, elderly persons homes and charity concerts – Ida Spencer organised the Darkan branch choir competition in 1951. The competition was to later develop into an annual Choral Festival. Ida Spencer became the Western Australian state president of the CWA in 1955. During her reign she established the Western Australian CWA branches of the air enabling women in isolated area to attend meetings, without leaving their homes, by using a pedal-radio link-up. Spencer became national president of the CWA in 1957, a position she held until 1959. In 1958 she was awarded honorary life membership of the CWA. On 10 June 1961, Ida Spencer was appointed a Member to the Order of the British Empire for services to the Country Women’s Association in Western Australia. Dedicated to the community Ida Spencer organised Darkan’s first Anzac Day Service with the RSL. She was awarded the thirty years’ service medal from the Red Cross and supported junior farmer organisations. She helped established Darkan’s kindergarten and assisted in welfare work with deserted wives. Spencer also was a member of the Good Neighbour Council, the Royal Historical Society of WA and Collie Repertory Club. Published resources Sound recording [Interview with Ida Spencer], Spencer, Ida, 1977 Book The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Darkan's early days : one hundred years of Darkan's history, 1862-1962, Spencer, Ida 1900-, 1966 Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Journal Article [Ida Spencer awarded MBE; past state president of CWA], 1941 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dame Raigh Roe interviewed by Gail O'Hanlon in the Australians of the year oral history project [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Country Women's Association of Australia, 1945-1969, 2003 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2002 Last modified 28 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Pastoralists and farmers. Edward Hamersley (born 1810) arrived in Western Australia in 1837 and settled at Pyrton and Lockridge in the Swan district. Bought grants and established horse breeding stations at Toodyay, York and Williams. Left for Europe in 1843 and returned in 1850. Took up large leases in the Irwin and Greenough districts. Director of the first W.A. Bank in 1841. Held many town allotments in Perth and Fremantle. Served on the Committee of the W.A. Turf Club. MLC for Swan 1857-1865. Member of the Guildford Board of Education 1861-1867. Died 26 November 1874. His daughter Margaret married John Forrest, later the first premier of Western Australia. The collection contains correspondence, including letters sent and received by Margaret Hamersley, later Lady Forrest, and her husband Sir John Forrest; leases and other papers connected with land holdings; photographs; other miscellaneous papers. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Annie Henrietta Allen began as the first Health Inspector for Broken Hill in 1913 and was instrumental in drastically decreasing the number of cases of infectious disease by 1924. Annie Allen began working as a nurse at the Bristol Royal Infirmary in November 1906. After becoming the nurse in charge at an isolation hospital and receiving her certificate from the Royal Sanitary Institute in London, Annie was appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Borough of Leicester for two years. She worked with the Health Commission in Worcester for three years before being made the Health Visitor for the city of Birmingham and became a member of the Public Health Committee. After the death of her husband, Annie moved to Australia, arriving in Sydney in May 1913. In July of the following year she became the first Health Inspector for Broken Hill, a position created by the city council in order to reduce instances of infectious disease such as diphtheria and typhoid. The council had cause for concern as the Health Department reported 704 cases of infectious disease in Broken Hill in 1916 alone. In February 1919, an outbreak of ‘Spanish’ or Pneumonic Influenza threatened Broken Hill and Annie was responsible for establishing an isolation ward at the Broken Hill Hospital and for organising for the miners to be inoculated against the disease. With the co-operation of the city’s medical practitioners, Annie succeeded in reducing the number of cases of diphtheria, typhoid and scarlet fever to just 73 by 1924. Annie resigned from her role as Health Inspector in November of the same year. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Association of Queensland Women’s Forum Clubs was established in 1947 to operate as a central administrative and supervisory body for the growing number of Women’s Forum Clubs that formed in Queensland after 1945. The first of these clubs was established in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1941, with the aim of fostering public speaking amongst women. The club maintained a non- party political, non-sectarian stance, and was unaffiliated with any other organizations, except The National Council of Women. The association still exists, under the name of Forum Communicators Association Inc. It acts as the umbrella body for twenty-three (in 2004) forum clubs across Queensland. On July 22nd, 1941, a number of prominent Brisbane women called a public meeting of women to discuss the possibility of forming a club for women who were interested in learning public speaking skills. The idea was received enthusiastically by the assembled group, and the first Queensland Women’s Forum Club was established on July 30th, 1941. The first ordinary meeting of the new forum club was held on August 20th, 1941 in the blue room at the hotel Canberra. The objects of the Queensland Women’s Forum Clubs were: 1. To improve the standard of speaking among women, 2. To provide opportunities for women to learn and practice meeting procedure and duties of office-bearers of clubs and organizations, 3. To maintain freedom of speech, 4. To encourage a continued interest in education, 5. To demonstrate to the community the value of loyalty and truth, clarity of thought and the love of the English tongue 6. To promote loyal fellowship. 1945 was a year that saw massive growth in the number of clubs across Queensland and the first regional club was established in Mackay. Many clubs began a series of luncheon meetings, as well as the traditional evening meetings, to assist members who found it difficult to get away from home in the evenings. As the number of clubs grew, so did the need for a central administrative body. The Association of Queensland Women’s Forum Clubs, known as the Dais, was formed as were, eventually, regional councils. Published resources Report Secretary's report, 1965-1997 Book Syllabus, 1950-1997 Constitution, by-laws, standing orders and brief history of the Association of Queensland Women's Forum Clubs, Association of Queensland Women's Forum Clubs, [1969?] Information Handbook, Association of Queensland Women's Forum Clubs, [1974?] Speaking in Public, Rathus, Elise Renee and R.L. Morelle, 1973 Newsletter Forum newsletter / Association of Queensland Women's Forum Club, 1965-1990[?] Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection OM68-19 Association of Queensland Women's Forum Clubs Records 1943-1968 28646 Association of Queensland Women's Forum Clubs Records 1960-2013 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A member of the Liberal Party from 1946, Dorothy Goble served as the member for Mitcham in the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian Parliament from 1967 until 1976. Daughter of Arthur Robert Taylor, Clerk and Ada Elizabeth Deumer, Dorothy Goble completed her primary education at North Richmond and Canterbury State Schools and her secondary education at University High School. On 4 October 1934 she married Kenneth George Noble, stationery manufacturer. They had a son and two daughters. In addition to her period as a parliamentarian, she worked as a secretary at University High School from 1928-34, and as a housewife from 1934-67. During that period she served as president of the Hartwell branch of the Australian Comforts Fund from 1939-45, and as a Director of Goble and Simmons Pty Ltd from 1962-67. On her retirement from Parliament she lived at Mount Martha on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. Published resources Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1968, Legge, J S, 1968 Resource Section The Liberal Party of Australia Federal Women's Committee: History and Achievements 1945-2003, 2003, http://www.liberal.org.au/documents/fwc_history.pdf Goble, Dorothy Ada, Starcevich, Judith, 2007, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/goble-dorothy-ada-12547/text22585 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 3 June 2005 Last modified 3 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Macpherson Schutt, who was charitable in life, bequeathed the majority of her considerable wealth to Victorian charities on her death in 1951. The Helen Macpherson Schutt Trust subsequently donated to hospitals, art galleries, museums, aged care homes, educational institutions and medical research bodies throughout Victoria, according to the stipulations of its benefactor. In 2001, the Trust marked the 50th year of its operation by publishing a brief biography of its benefactor, and by changing its name to the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust in order to honour her family, and recognise the origin of her wealth. Helen Macpherson Smith was the only child of Scottish-born Robert Smith, a timber merchant, and his wife, Australian-born Jane Priscilla (née Macpherson). Jane’s father was also Scottish-born and had large landholdings in the Western District of Victoria. Both of Helen’s parents were wealthy. The Smiths lived in Melbourne from the year of Helen’s birth, residing at Fitzroy for seven years before travelling in Australia, Britain and Europe. Helen received part of her education at boarding schools in Scotland and Germany. On her return to Melbourne in 1889 she attended PLC for one year. In 1901, Helen was married at Toorak Presbyterian Church to William John Schutt, a barrister who also played football for Essendon. Their home, a villa in Toorak, was a present from Helen’s parents. In 1919 William became a Supreme Court judge. Helen was by this time a supporter of the Missions to Seamen; the Royal District Nursing Service; and the RSPCA. In 1923 the couple left Melbourne and sailed for London. Helen – due apparently to a fear of seasickness – never returned to Australia. Her husband returned to visit her regularly for ten years until he fell on board a ship leaving England and died from concussion of the brain in 1933. William was given a ship’s burial in the Red Sea. Robert Smith had died on June 17, 1904, and his wife Jane Priscilla on December 2, 1914. Most of the personal family estate was left to Helen. Little is known about her life abroad. She was secure financially and divided her time between Switzerland and the south of France. She stayed in touch with people at home with the occasional postcard, and paid the school feels of some younger family members. She spent her later years at the Hotel Majestic in Cannes, France, and died from pneumonia at the age of 77, but on her death was buried in a pauper’s grave at Marseilles with her name spelt incorrectly in the local register. Many years later her body was exhumed and her remains cremated. Helen’s estate was valued at £406,121. Of this she left £275,000 to establish a charitable trust for the benefit of Victorians. Named the Helen M. Schutt Trust, it became the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust in 2001 to better reflect the origins of the wealth behind it. In her will, Helen stipulated that her Trustees consider some of her favoured organisations but gave them wide discretionary powers for investment and distribution of income. The Helen Macpherson Smith Trust continues today with a capital of over $78 million. Its policy is to make grants in the fields of education, public health, medical research, general cultural activities and social welfare – particularly for disabled and aged persons. In recent years the Trust provided funding for the Melbourne Genealogy Centre, housed within the State Library of Victoria. Published resources Article The Invisible Samaritan: Helen M Schutt, Sandilands, Jane, http://www.netspace.net.au/~hshassoc/helessch.html Book Helen Macpherson Schutt, Sandilands, Jane, 2001 Resource Section Schutt, Helen Macpherson (1874-1951), Sandilands, Jane, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10429b.htm Newspaper Article Memorial to Helen Macpherson Schutt, 2002 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Helen Macpherson Smith Trust Helen Macpherson Schutt Author Details Elle Morrell and Barbara Lemon Created 3 May 2001 Last modified 1 June 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes 1856-1894. Correspondence 1862-1936. Annual reports 1890, 1891, 1896. Some financial papers and press cuttings. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 17 September 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers of Charles Perkins contain correspondence, cuttings, subject files, reports, meeting papers, cassette tapes, copies of official records, inquiry transcripts, speeches, and printed matter documenting his life and career from his early sporting achievements in the 1950s until his consultancy work in the early 1990s. The collection contains material relating to Perkins’ involvement in a range of Aboriginal organisations including Student Action for Aborigines, the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI), Aboriginal Publications Foundation, National Aboriginal Sports Foundation, Aboriginal Hostels Ltd and the John and Anna Memorial Trust Fund. There are also papers on his career in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Aboriginal Development Commission. Also included in the collection are papers relating to Perkins’ involvement in soccer, both as a player and administrator, and legal papers relating to defamation cases and the inquiries into the administration of Aboriginal affairs. Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minute books, 1939-74 (4 vols.); Receipt book-annual dinner, 1958. Correspondence (a) Inwards 1940-76, (b) Outwards 1952-1976. Membership lists 1960-61, 1964-66; Completed questionnaires on Retention of Girls Schools ca. 1961-70. Miscellaneous discussion papers, reports and submissions relating to retention of girl’s schools, co-education matters in general, ca. 1960-1968; Australian Teachers’ Federation reports 1965-66. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 September 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection contains poetry, prose, speeches, and reports; correspondence; photographs, newspaper cuttings; press releases; invitations; programmes; research material; and plans. Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Justine Saunders was a member of the stolen generations of Aboriginal people. She became a professional actor in 1974 and was important to the establishment of Aboriginal theatre groups in the 1980s and 1990s. Justine Saunders, of Darumbal descent, was born next to a railway track during floods around Quilpie in Queensland. Her mother Heather was a stockwoman and belonged to the Woppaburra people from the Kanomie clan of Keppel Island. At the age of 11, Justine was taken from her mother and spent five years in a convent school is Brisbane. Here she had her first acting experience in productions of Finian’s Rainbow and Annie Get Your Gun. She joined the Aboriginal Black Theatre Art and Culture Centre company in Redfern soon after it was established, her first part being in Bob Merritt’s play The Cake Man . Her television debut was in the ABC production of Pig in a Poke. Saunders became a professional actor in 1974, although she later complained about stereotypical Aboriginal roles at the time. Her first film appearance was in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), followed by Women of the Sun (1982) and The Fringe Dwellers (1985), the latter being the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust’s production of Not the 1988 Party, a revue run as a counter to the official bicentenary celebrations. She also had a part in Lorna Bol’s play A Special Place (1989). In addition to acting, Justine helped establish the Black Theatre and the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust, taught drama at the Eora Centre, and participated in the 1987 and 1988 national indigenous playwrights conferences. She was declared the Aboriginal Artist of the Year by NADOC in 1985, and received an Order of Australia Medal for her service to the performing arts and national Aboriginal theatre in 1991. In 2000, though, she asked Aboriginal senator Aden Ridgeway to return her medal after the Federal Government denied the term ‘stolen generation’. Justine Saunders died in April 2007 at the age of 54 after a series of illnesses. She is survived by her partner, Peter Whittle. Published resources Book Women of the sun, Maris, Hyllus and Sonia Borg, 1985 Review Women of the sun: setting the record straight, Lewis, Stephanie, 1982 Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 25 May 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The International Women’s Day (IWD) Collective is not to be confused with the IWD Committee which was formed in 1938. The IWD Collective was formed by the second wave feminists and was concerned with the IWD March; the festival or picnic after the march and the IWD Dance. They organised themes for the day and speakers. They also produced posters, badges and t-shirts. The International Women’s Day (IWD) Collective, [not to be confused with the IWD Committee formed in 1938] was form by second wave of feminists and is concerned with the IWD march the festival or picnic after the march and the IWD dance. They organised permits to march, hiring of halls, picnic grounds, the speakers and have themes for the day, produce posters badges and t-shirts. The picnic has entertainment, speakers on different issues as well as feminist organisations providing goods and information to people. The first rally organised by the Women’s Festival Committee in 1974. By 1977 the IWD Collective was formed. The IWD Collective events are less formalised and enable all women to participate. There have been many women involved in the collective but includes, Silver Moon, Carmel O’Reilly (O’Loughin), Fij Miller, Annie Dugdale, Lotus Cavagino, Marilyn Rolls, Marg McHugh, Dawn Mc Mahon, Francis Phoenix (Budden), Claire Flarety, Janet Giles, Connie Frazer (often spelt Fraser), Joan Russell, Molly Brannigan, Margie Fischer and Polly Summer. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newsletter Liberation, 1970 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection International Women's Day Collective Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 37 minutes??Elizabeth Nghia Bui was born in North Vietnam. Her family fled to South Vietnam in 1954 and settled in Saigon. Elizabeth entered the order of the Lovers of the Holy Cross and trained first as a teacher and then as a social worker. In 1975 at the time of the fall of Saigon she was in charge of an orphanage which came under Communist control. Elizabeth escaped on board a fishing boat with 31 others in June 1976. After two weeks they were rescued and taken to Japan. From there Elizabeth decided to come to Australia. She was sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy and arrived in Adelaide in September 1976. Elizabeth then helped to form the Indochinese Australian Women’s Association and for several years worked in a voluntary capacity to provide welfare services while the Association battled for funds. Elizabeth describes the wide ranging services of the Association and the positive impact it has had on refugees and the wider community. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Membership lists, 1941-1987 (3 vols). ?Register of club colours, 1941-1987 (1 vol.). ?Administrative records of clubs in recess, especially first minutes, 1940s-1980s (43 vols). ?Newspaper cuttings, 1960-1984 (1 vol.). ?Dais minutes, 1961-1987 (9 vols). ?Conference minutes, biennial, 1961-1983 (2 vols). ?Constitution, 1967, 1969, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1983 (6 vols). ?Syllabus, 1968-1987 (40 vols). ?Newsletters, biannual, 1969-1987 (31 vols). ?Photographs, 1978-1979 (2 albums). ?Manuscript history of the Association, 1941-1985, written in 1985 (1 vol.) Author Details Jane Carey Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 21 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ivy Shore won the Portia Geach Memorial Art Award (Australia’s richest and most prestigious art award for women painters only) with her first entry – a portrait of Della Elliott- in 1979. She went on to win “Most Highly Commended” prizes in the ‘Portia’ three times thereafter, making her the top winner in the history of the award. Ivy Shore was born in Brunswick, Victoria on 14 January 1915. She was the youngest of seven children born to New South Wales engineer John Williams and Elka (née Zandover – who came originally from Warsaw and was a leading light in the South Australian suffragette movement. Ivy remembers a photo of her mother being carried shoulder-high by other suffragettes, on the front page of an Adelaide newspaper). Ivy’s parents moved often because John Williams was employed in jobs that varied from manager of the government battery at Mt Leonora in Western Australia to managing building projects in Victoria. When he died of influenza in 1919 the family was living in Melbourne, but after John was buried in Coburg Cemetery Elka took the children to Adelaide and settled near the beach at Glenelg. This was where Ivy grew up, in a big house always full of visitors and a happy environment always filled with friends. Ivy’s childhood friends (like Lillian Appleton) always called her Billie. After finishing school Ivy trained as a seamstress. In 1936 Ivy met Irvine Alfred (Ray) Shore (b.13 Feb 1903 in Rosatala, South Australia) who was a rising star in financial management. When Ray pursued Ivy, she rejected him at first and ran away to Sydney with her best friend Lillian. But Ray followed her there, and they were eventually married at St Jude’s Church of England Randwick on 12 November 1938. They initially lived in Carrington Road, Randwick, and Ray established the offices of Ray Shore Pty Ltd (Financiers) in Castlereagh Street Sydney. Ray’s business prospered and by 1950 they had two boys Harvey (14 February 1947) and Russell (29 April 1949) and had moved into a big house at 1 Black Street, Vaucluse. But the marriage did not proceed smoothly, and by 1957 it was failing. Ivy was encouraged by her friends to seek an interest outside the Vaucluse home. Some of them had recently enrolled for art classes with a new painter in Sydney who had just been made a fellow of the Royal Art Society and sold his first Archibald entry to the Art Gallery of NSW. They encouraged Ivy to enrol in his classes too. The new painter was Graeme Inson. In 1960, Ivy and Ray Shore separated. The home in Vaucluse was sold, and Ivy bought a house at 29 Ocean Street Woollahra. She lived there until she died in 1999. Ivy’s relationship with Graeme Inson now strengthened. In 1962, Ray Shore died. Soon afterwards, Graeme also moved into 29 Ocean Street and it also became his home until he died in 2000. Ivy looked after Graeme’s domestic needs and shared his professional and social life. Their relationship was extremely harmonious in almost every aspect. Through the 60s Ivy continued to develop her artistic skills under Graeme’s tutelage, and he in turn eventually dubbed her “my greatest student.” Ivy painted many landscapes and still-life, but always loved portraits best. Graeme was a strict teacher, who allowed little variance in his Meldrum Method of tonal impressionism. But Ivy was brave enough to follow her own instincts, and develop her own artistic technique beyond the strict Meldrum Method. She also wanted to enter art competitions, but she felt that entering major competitions like the Archibald would put her in conflict with Graeme. So instead she focused on the Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, Australia’s richest art competition for women painters only. In 1976, Ivy entered the ‘Portia’ for the first time with a portrait of Margaret Shore. This was selected by the judges for hanging, and it now hangs permanently at Cheltenham Girls High School where Margaret became a celebrated headmistress.) In succeeding years Ivy continued to enter the ‘Portia’ with portraits of actress June Salter (1977) and Lorna O’Regan (1978). Her portraits continued to be hung every year. In 1979, Ivy won the Portia Geach Art Award with her portrait of Kondelia (Della) Elliott, wife of celebrated communist leader of the Australian Seaman’s Union Elliot V. Elliott. Ivy’s winning entry in the ‘Portia’ was also her first departure from the strict Meldrum Method taught by Graeme Inson. This departure charmed the ‘Portia’ judges (including John Coburn and Lady Fairfax) but annoyed Graeme to the extent that he actually walked out of the family celebration and went to live in his studio (which by now had moved from Rowe Street to a building in Sussex Street that had once been The Dundee Arms Hotel.) He later apologised and returned home after a week. Graeme claimed he had been upset by Ivy’s departure from the Meldrum Method. Others said he was just miffed that Ivy had beaten him to win a prestigious award, though this does not seem likely because the ‘Portia’ is open to women artists only. Whatever the reason, they agreed to differ in their styles, and Ivy continued to develop hers, and to enter her developing style in the Portia Geach each year. Her 1980 portrait of Cranbrook School teacher George Woodger was again hung in competition. Her 1981 self-portrait was again hung and was specially ‘Commended’ by the judges. Her 1982 self-portrait Triptych was again hung and won the ‘Highly Commended Award.’ So too did her 1986 self-portrait. Ivy’s paintings continued to be hung in the ‘Portia’, and were also hung on many occasions by the judges of the Royal Easter Show Art Prize Exhibition. She was approached often to enter portraits for the Archibald Prize, but her teacher Graeme Inson was also competing for that prize, so Ivy typically chose harmony over honours and left the Archibald to him. Graeme declared that Ivy’s work had achieved a ‘unique excellence’, and took pride in calling her ‘my greatest student’. But he continued to express displeasure at her developing style. So Ivy used her ‘Portia’ prize-money to have a studio built to her specifications by architect Peter Moffitt above the garage of her Woollahra home, and did all her painting from there – away from Graeme’s sight. This allowed harmony to remain in their relationship. However a continuing resistance from Graeme eventually slowed Ivy’s output. She last entered the ‘Portia’ with a self-portrait called “Looking Back” (1992), which showed herself looking at the floating images of her face from previous ‘Portia’ self-portraits. In 1993, she painted “Influences” – a tribute to the five people who had most influenced her developing style. It showed Henry Henke, Robert Haines, Justin O’Brien, Graeme Inson and Lloyd Rees at a dinner table, with Graeme Inson holding forth as usual with a wine glass in hand. This painting now hangs in The Dundee Arms Hotel with others, including Graeme’s most loved portrait of Ivy herself, as part of a permanent exhibition mounted as a tribute to Inson and Shore by the Sheraton Group, following their acquisition of the building in 1985. With this portrait, Ivy ceased painting. She later said it became a choice between her art and her relationship with Graeme Inson – and she chose her relationship! Happily this endured. Ivy continued to look after Graeme’s affairs and his classes when he began to travel overseas on extensive painting trips. Their extensive correspondence that resulted from these trips was compiled into a manuscript by Graeme and is now preserved in the archives of the Art Gallery of NSW. Ivy also looked after Graeme when he was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 1996 and successfully operated on. In 1998, Ivy herself became ill with a swollen spleen. This was eventually removed, but during the operation (at St Vincent’s Hospital in Paddington) cancer was discovered. This developed quickly and, sadly, Ivy died on 25 August, 1999. She was cremated in the North Shore Crematorium and her ashes were scattered by Graeme and her two children on the Rose Garden at Centennial Park where she had often taken her children when they were small so they could feed the ducks in the nearby pond. Graeme Inson continued to live in Ivy’s home – for just nine months. On 9 May, 2000 he became suddenly ill while teaching a class of his students, and was rushed to St Vincent’s Hospital where Ivy had died nine months earlier. He spent a peaceful night. But on the following morning – 10 May – Graeme suddenly had a massive heart attack and died. His friends said he died from a broken heart! Graeme was cremated in the same chapel as Ivy, at the North Shore Crematorium, and his ashes were scattered beside hers on the Rose Garden in Centennial Park by his step-sons Harvey and Russell Shore. Their mortal remains now rest together on a bed of roses – a requiem this artistic couple – who always loved laughter – would have truly appreciated. Her work hangs in many galleries and private collections around Australia and overseas in the United Kingdom and in Paris (France). Ivy was cherished to the end of her rich life and beyond by her sons Harvey and Russell, by many in the Arts community, and by an extraordinarily large circle of loving friends. Love life and share it, and remember that you are the hero of your own story. IVY SHORE. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 March 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound files. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 February 2013 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joy Warren was a tireless fundraiser and patron of the arts in Canberra. She was the owner-director of Solander Gallery since 1974 and ran a public relations business geared towards the arts. She had been an arts journalist and spent fifteen years with Canberra Repertory Society. On 26 January 2001 Joy Warren was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the arts, particularly in the Australian Capital Territory. As a child Joy Warren sang, danced and performed on radio. She was educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Melbourne, and went on to perform with the National Theatre in Melbourne. She and her husband arrived in Canberra in 1955 and in her own words ‘entered Canberra’s cultural life two days after I arrived’, by being cast in a play. She then spent fifteen years as a leading lady with Canberra Repertory Society and played a public-service wife in a film aimed at encouraging cadet diplomats with the Department of Foreign Affairs to move to Canberra and new overseas posts. Warren undertook courses in art at the Australian National University and interviewed artists for the Canberra-based Courier newspaper and the Canberra Times. She trained as a journalist and worked as a B-grade journalist with John Fairfax Pty Ltd from 1959 to 1962. She is the author of several articles in art magazines. In 1963 Warren opened a public relations business, Joy Warren Promotions, oriented towards art and theatre, but her husband’s consulting work with the United Nations took them overseas to live in the 1960s. In Irian Jaya she organised concerts and collected Asmat artefacts, and in Jordan she taught yoga to harem wives. She was a United Nations secretary in Indonesia from 1969 to 1971 and founded a newsletter, Projectile. On returning to Canberra in the early 1970s she found artists seeking her help for exhibitions and so revived her public affairs business. At that time there was only one gallery in Canberra and she found enormous demand from artists all over the country wanting to show in Canberra. Organising shows and doing public relations for artists led her to open the Solander Gallery in 1974 in Yarralumla. The gallery has also brought exhibitions of Aboriginal, Papua New Guinean, Indonesian, African, Eskimo, Turkish, Mexican Peruvian, Indian and Japanese artists’ work to Canberra. Warren was president of the Arts Ball Committee from 1961 to 1970, organising around nine balls to make money just for artists, was a board member of the Canberra Festival in 1975, and was appointed to the Board of Governors of Australia 77 in 1975. She was also a Commonwealth Valuer under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme. She was an Opera Board member in 1984 and vice-president of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association from 1983 to 1984. She is a life member of the National Press Club, a life associate of the Canberra Yacht Club and a member of Canberra Bridge Club. Warren’s tireless fundraising and patronage for the arts saw her awarded a CAPO prize in 2002 for services to the arts community of Canberra. Warren and her husband have two sons. Events 1961 - 1970 President of the Arts Ball Committee, Australian Capital Territory (ACT) 1984 - 1984 Member of the Opera Board 1977 - 1977 Board member for the Canberra Festival 1983 - 1984 Vice-president of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Canberra 1991, 1991 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Ros Russell Created 27 February 2004 Last modified 12 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Migrant selection documents for displaced persons who travelled to Australia per General Stuart Heintzelman departing Bremerhaven 30 October 1947 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2013 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 tape reels (ca. 64 min.)??Ms Andrews speaks of meeting Jessie Street; the Victorian attitude to aborigines; Jessie’s authoritarianism; aboriginal Acts; social justice issues; Dr Duguid; Jessie’s attitude to Dr Duguid; Mary Bennett; polarities in attitude; missionaries; communism; Council for Aboriginal Rights; Federal Council’s first meeting; Don Dunstan’s handling of difficult situations; her role in FCAATSI; duplication of resolutions in FCAATSI; the Namatjira appeal; campaign to get the vote for aborigines; Jessie’s relations with people; Doris Blackburn; union influence; Perkins’ impact on NSW aboriginal affairs; the U.N. conference in Canberra; Jessie’s overseas trips; results of the referendum; FCAATSI’s non-involvement in welfare work; the need to look for new ways to do things. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In June 1946, following the establishment of a War Widows’ Craft Guild in Victoria, a Guild was formed in New South Wales. The purpose of the Guild was to enable war widows in NSW to live their lives with dignity and support to meet their ongoing and emerging needs. With the setting-up of the Guild, craft work got under way almost immediately, commencing with sock and glove-making classes. By November, the guild shop was opened in Rowe Street, to sell craft goods made by members and other saleable goods. Although Victoria was planning a guild shop, NSW was first to establish one. The NSW Guild closed its handicraft school in December 1951 and sold the equipment to members, but the shop was to remain open, a good money-spinner for the Guild, until September 1960. [1] From 1953 to 1988, the Guild in NSW built 13 blocks of units at nine locations. After selling two housing properties, at the time of writing (April 2003) the Guild provides a total of 198 self-care, one-bedroom units of retirement housing in seven Sydney locations. In 2002 and 2003, President Marie Beach and Chief Executive Officer Patricia Campbell represented The War Widows’ Guild of NSW Inc. on the Women in War Project working group. On 4 June 1946 at a meeting held in the Conference Room of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows by the Women’s Services, Jessie Vasey was a guest speaker. She spoke about the aims of the War Widows’ Craft Guild and the setting-up of the craft classes. A decision was taken to form a New South Wales Guild. At a further meeting held on 19 June, a committee was established and 100 members enrolled. [2] In 1951 Maylee Morrisey (Honorary secretary 1948-1961) and Jean Cunningham (President 1950-1952) visited the North Coast to establish sub-branches (later called Guild Clubs) for the Guild. The Clubs formed at Lismore and Newcastle still continue and are now (2003) over 51 years old. The NSW Guild, while based on Victoria’s framework and example, and though always completely supportive of national policy and prepared to battle for that policy, has always had some dissimilarities. [3] From the start their branch admitted to membership widows from both world wars as designated war widows by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, excepting those who have remarried. Allied Countries war widows are also eligible if they receive a war widows’ pension from the country of origin. Finally, Defence Widows under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 and Defence Widows compensated under the Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 are eligible for Guild Membership. Since 1998 the Guild has been a company limited by guarantee, governed by a Board of Directors, two-thirds of whom are members, and subject to the regulations of the Corporations Act 2001. It provides a range of services to its members including advocacy, information, support, friendship and a telephone support line. It organises high profile events such as a large members’ Christmas Party, a War Widows’ Walk and a travelling exhibition; as well as publishing the Guild Digest, a quarterly magazine for members. Each year a Memorial Service is held in St Andrew’s Cathedral several days prior to Anzac Day, followed by Dedication of a Field of Remembrance and the planting of official crosses. The idea originated with Mrs C J Pope, who was impressed while visiting London by a Field of Remembrance held each year in the old churchyard of St Margaret’s, alongside Westminster Abbey, and inaugurated by the Royal British Legion Poppy Factory Ltd, at which small wooden crosses are planted in memory of the fallen. Supported by voluntary labour of Guild members, Mrs Pope organised the Field each year until her death in 1963. [4] The Governor of NSW, who is also Patron of the Guild, plants the first cross, followed by representatives from the City of Sydney, the New Zealand Government, the three Armed Services and the War Widows’ Guild. The Field is then open to other associated bodies and members of the public to plant small crosses. The Field remains open until sunset on Anzac Day. In the year 2002 The Guild of NSW had over 14,300 members, with most being in their late 70s and 80s. The Guild now regards itself as a ‘sunset organisation’, which in 10-15 years will become a much smaller organisation with around 1,000-1,500 members. [1] No Mean Destiny p. 60 [2] ibid p. 61 [3] ibid p. 66 [4] ibid p. 64 Published resources Book No mean destiny : the story of the War Widows' Guild of Australia 1945-85, Clark, Mavis Thorpe, 1986 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) War Widows' Guild of Australia NSW Limited Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2003 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dorothy Rhodes Taylor was one of the first women employed in the Department of Geography at the University of Sydney. She co-authored The Geographical Laboratory (1925) with her better known brother, Thomas Griffith Taylor. Dorothy Rhodes Taylor was born in Serbia where her British father, James Taylor, was employed as a mining engineer. She migrated to New South Wales with her family in 1892/1983. She attended Abbotsleigh College, Parramatta. Taylor began her career in geography when, in 1921-22, she held the position of map drawer attendant in the Department of Geography at Sydney University. From there she enrolled in a Bachelor of Science, studying geology and geography and graduating in 1928. Whilst an undergraduate, she worked as a demonstrator in geography at Sydney University. Also as an undergraduate, she co-authored, with her brother, Associate Professor Thomas Griffith Taylor, The Geographical Laboratory . After graduation she was appointed acting lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Sydney in 1929. She remained a demonstrator in the department until 1931. She enjoyed temporary stints as a temporary assistance at Fisher Library at Sydney University in 1948, 1950 and 1953. Published resources Book The geographical laboratory, Taylor, Griffith and Dorothy Taylor, 1925 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources University of Sydney, Archives Personal archives of TAYLOR Dorothy Rhodes [1882-19??] Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 14 September 2009 Last modified 19 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gertrude Concannon was a highly successful Australian-trained lyric soprano. Later in her life she contributed to Australian music with equal significance through her teaching, composition, and encouragement of younger musicians. Born in Maryborough, Queensland, to English migrant parents, Concannon was placed at the age of three into the care of the local convent following the death of her mother. She completed her education at the convent and had her first vocal training from a Mr Charles Kenningham. In 1918, she entered the Garcia School of Music, Sydney, as a student of the distinguished teacher Madame Ellen Christian, whose mentorship had an inestimable influence on the young singer. Remaining at the School for seven years, Concannon completed singing and piano diplomas and gave numerous public recitals, concerts, and radio broadcasts. Concannon subsequently embarked upon an international career spanning nearly 15 years. She departed for the United States of America in 1925, where she sang and learned her craft with a number of opera companies. She moved to England in 1928 and in the ensuing decade maintained a busy opera and recital schedule. She also toured extensively in Europe, Africa, India, Singapore, and Burma. All the while, Concannon was acutely conscious of her Australian identity. She deliberately programmed Australian works in many of her recitals. She also wrote of her travels in newspaper and magazine articles and in her unpublished autobiography, Around the World in Song, intending to relay her experiences for the benefit of others. On her permanent return to Australia at the outbreak of the Second World War, Concannon commenced a busy vocal teaching practice in Sydney, establishing a studio of her own in Darlinghurst in 1939 and taking over the students of the late Madame Christian two years later. She also became actively involved in the eisteddfod movement as an adjudicator. She married Jack Degnian in 1943. Concannon’s settlement in Sydney allowed her to renew her passion for songwriting and composing. She had commenced composing in her teens, and one of her songs, At Evening, was published in 1924. Concannon joined the Bread and Cheese Club Songwriters’ and Composers’ Group in the 1940s, and in 1950 was president of the NSW branch. She received numerous prizes from this group for her works, including prizes presented in 1950 by Alfred Hill in serious and light ballad categories for her songs The Swing Song and Lullaby. Published resources Resource Gertrude Concannon, National Library of Australia - Music Australia, 2005, http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-ANL%3AMA~Converted-matthew-215 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series of records consists of files labelled ‘Personal Correspondence’, created by Justice Evatt between 1973-1993. They include letters received, copies of replies or notes of action taken, and additional material related to some correspondence such as newspaper cuttings, conference papers, newsletters and pamphlets. The files contain correspondence with friends, colleagues, members of community organisations, and members of the public. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Microfilm copy of ‘Ruckblick in die Vergangenheit fur meine lieben kinder aufgezeichnet’ – ‘Memories written for my children.’ The memoirs cover the period ca.1839-1911. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 7537 comprises diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, papers relating to Carole Deagan’s work on women’s issues and children’s services, manuscripts of Deagan’s unpublished works, various reviews and articles by Deagan, and radio scripts. Some of the correspondents are Arthur Barratta, Drusilla Modjeska, Pam Ledden, Narelle Carey, L. Davis, Rosemary Wighton, Pearlie McNeil and Eva Byrne (14 boxes, 2 map folios). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elsie Women’s Refuge records, ca. 1974-2014, including papers, photographs, printed material and objects.??BOX 1?Ten Years On 1975-1985 Evaluation of Women’s Refuges in N.S.W. by Jenny Noesjirwan. Women’s Refuges Magazine, 1979. An Evaluation of Thirty Six Women’s Refuges in N.S.W. and Canberra by Jo Perry, Mary Waterford and Erst Carr. Her Story, copy, in ring bound folder, ca. 1978, including loose and captioned photographs ca. 1975-ca. 1985??BOXES 2-3?Photograph albums, Elsie Women’s Refuge residents, accomodation and activities, ca. 1986-ca. 1996??BOX 4?Elsie Women’s Refuge 30th Anniversary commemorative plaque, 2004. Large format photographs, ca. 1974-ca. 1994??BOX 5X?Silk screen printing frame and stapled mesh, 42 x 33.5 x 3 cm, with original ‘Elsie Power’ design??BOX 6X?Large archival boxed folder of printed documents and photographs related to the history and administration of Elsie Women’s Refuge, ca. 1974-ca. 1994. Includes Collective Members 1974-1987, correspondence, 1974-ca. 1978, posters, architectural plans, Elsie original application for incorporation, 1988, 20th Anniversary mailing list, 1994, Public Officer information, Stamp Duty certificate, 1998, Supported Accommodation Assistance Program allocation of funds for NGO’s, ca. 1984, 1985-1986 Audit, recollections of members, 1994??BOX 7X?Large archival boxed folder of printed documents and photographs related to the history and administration of Elsie Women’s Refuge, ca. 1977-ca. 1985. Includes various issues of feminist magazines, posters, ephemera, government publications and financial papers??BOX 8X?Large format printed material including newsletters and story boards related to the history of Elsie Women’s Refuge, ca. 1977-ca. 1994. Series of large project boards with affixed photographs related to the history of Elsie Women’s Refuge, ca. 1977-ca. 1994 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "To be advised Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 July 2004 Last modified 2 July 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "TYPE OF WORK Literary Work : APPLICANT Elizabeth Kenny : DATE OF APPLICATION 12 Mar 1937 : DATE COPYRIGHT REGISTERED 19 Mar 1937 : WORK ENCLOSED? [Yes] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 December 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records of the Association of Civilian Widows, Kadina branch, consisting of minute books, cash books and certificate of appreciation. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 July 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Brinsmead, Australian author for children and young people, describes the influence of her Blue Mountains, NSW childhood; reading interests; blur between writing for adults & for children; Long Time Passing; schooling; early yearning for city life; wanting to be a writer; teaching course; studying journalism by correspondence; story planning, methodology; character development & plot; Echo in the Wilderness; symbolism; writing pattern; rewriting; influence of poetry on writing style; Who Calls From Afar; unpublished story about Lake Pedder; appeal of her stories to girls; criticism; research; settings; liaison with illustrators; overall theme of her books; expressing points of view in her writing; dialogue; slang; contact with other writers; admiration for writing of Rumer Godden; contemporary literature for young people; The Blue Crane; rejected novels; current projects. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 10 minutes??Gwenneth Ballantyne talks about growing up in North Adelaide and Torrensville, World War I, actress Mimi Mattin, the Depression, attending Scott’s Business College, job as a typist with the Freemasons under Mr Charles Glover, acting in ‘A Portrait of a Gentleman in Slippers’, secretary for the Little Theatre Company, marriage and children, World War II, husband Colin’s return, theatre involvement, the Hut theatre, teaching drama at the Wilderness School for 27 years, joining the Lyceum Club, performed ‘Victoria Regina’ at the Club, trip to Europe, working with John Bishop to establish a Festival Theatre, became President of the Lyceum Club in 1978, and in 1985 resigned as leader of the Play Reading Group. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This is a collection of newspaper clippings, brochures, photographs, research papers and interviews recording the life of Isabel Letham. It includes photographs of her grandmother and a small amount of other family history items. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 27 December 2006 Last modified 9 October 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letters and a postcard written to Ellinor Walker and an invitation to a party sent from Ellinor and Lawrence Walker. Also includes five blank art postcards that belonged to her, five coloured art prints on literary themes, three pages from the Dickens Calendar for 1912 and an image of Mt. Blanc viewed from Geneva. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anna Maria Bligh was elected as Premier of Queensland on 21 March 2009, thus becoming the first woman in Australia to be elected in her own right as Premier. She was sworn in as Premier of Queensland on 13 September 2007, following the resignation of Peter Beattie, and was then Queensland’s first female Premier, a position she held until Labor’s electoral defeat in 2012. She was appointed Deputy Premier of Queensland in July 2005 – the same month she celebrated 10 years as Member for South Brisbane. As Deputy Premier she was also Treasurer and Minister for Infrastructure, running the $33 billion Queensland State Budget and leading construction of the $9 billion South-East Queensland Water Grid. She was formerly Minister for Finance, State Development, Trade and Innovation. Prior to that she was Queensland’s first female Education Minister spending almost 5 years overseeing the most significant reforms to the State’s education system including the introduction of a preparatory year of schooling and requirements for all young people to be “learning or earning”. During that time she also had responsibilities for the Arts portfolio, overseeing construction of the Millennium Arts Precinct. Following the election of the Beattie Labor Government in June 1998, her first ministerial responsibility was as Minister for Families, Youth and Community Care and Disability Services. In 2017, Anna Bligh was made a Companion in the General Division of the order of Australia ‘for eminent service to the Parliament of Queensland, particularly as Premier, to infrastructure development and education reform, as an advocate for the role of women in public life, and to the not for-profit sector’. Anna Bligh grew up on the Gold Coast, attending Catholic primary schools and Miami State High School, before completing the last six months of her schooling at Nowra State High School. Prior to her election, on 15 July 1995, she worked in many community organisations and in the Queensland Public Service, in employment, training and industrial relations policy. Ms Bligh graduated with an Arts Degree from University of Queensland in 1980. Ms Bligh and her family have lived in South Brisbane for more than 20 years. She is married to Greg Withers, a senior public servant, with whom she has two sons, Joe and Oliver. Apart from spending time with her family, Ms Bligh’s hobbies include running, reading, and cooking. Parliamentary Service includes: Premier of Queensland from 13 September 2007. Elected as Premier 21 March 2009 Member, Standing Orders Committee from 11 October 2006 Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Infrastructure 13 September 2006 – 13 September 2007 Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for State Development, Trade and Innovation 2 February 2006 – 13 September 2006 Deputy Premier and Minister for Finance, Minister for State Development, Trade and Innovation 28 July 2005 – 2 February 2006 Minister for Education and The Arts 12 February 2004 – 28 July 2005 Minister for Education 22 February 2001 – 12 February 2004 (first woman in Queensland to become Education Minister) Leader of Government Parliamentary Business 22 March 2001 – 9 August 2005 Member, Standing Orders Committee 3 May 2001 – 15 August 2006 Minister for Families, Youth and Community Care and Minister for Disability Services 29 June 1998 – 22 February 2001 Shadow Minister for Families, Youth and Community Care 17 December 1996 – 26 June 1998 Member, Estimates Committee G 1997 Shadow Minister for Public Works, Administrative Services and Public Service Matters 27 February 1996 – 17 December 1996 Member, Estimates Committee F 1996 Member, Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee 15 September 1995 – 2 April 1996. Party activity includes: Member State Administrative Committee Member Labor Women’s Organisation State Conference Delegate Branch President, Kurilpa (1993-1995) Branch Secretary, Fairfield (1987-1988) Convenor Social Justice Policy Committee (1991-1994) State Council Delegate. After her resignation from the Queensland parliament in 2012, she was appointed CEO of the YWCA NSW in 2014, then CEO of the Australian Banking Association in 2017. Published resources Book Mending matters: an anthology of reflections and flights of fantasy prompted by one hundred years of women's suffrage, Lyall-Watson, Katherine, 2005 No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 Resource Premier Anna Bligh - Biography, Queensland Government, 2009, http://www.thepremier.qld.gov.au/about/bio.aspx Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 15 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records in scrapbooks, correspondence, glass plate negatives and related notes.??Collection consists of 2 bound vols. of materials by and on Robert Christison, explorer, pioneer and owner of Lammermoor, North Qld. Also included : material on the Dalleburra Aboriginal Tribe of North Qld; folder containing letters from various overseas institutions to Mrs. Mary Bennett concerning her donation, and other letters from friends re her book “Christison of Lammermoor”; 20 glass negatives from 1856-1910 of views of the Station and of the Aborigines of the Dalleburra Tribe.??Preservation copy of glass negatives held on microfilm and CD. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In 1970, The Australian Women’s Weekly published an article entitled ‘The Quiet Millionairess’. It was this same year that Vera Ramaciotti established the Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundation in memory of her brother – who died three years previously – and herself, with $6.7 million in proceeds arising from the sale of the Theatre Royal in Sydney, left to the siblings by their father Gustavo. The magazine claimed that Vera was ‘Australia’s least-known millionairess’ and ‘possibly the most private woman in Australia’, adding that she ‘physically shrinks from seeing her name in print’. Vera was born to Gustavo Ramaciotti and Ada (née Wilson). Gustavo had migrated to Queensland from Italy with his parents. He worked as a legal clerk with William Knox Darcy (‘the Mount Morgan millionaire’), then went to Sydney to work for law firm E.P. Simpson and Co, with whom he stayed for 25 years. He served as a major-general in the army in WWI, and became Inspector-General of Administration in the Australian Defence Department in 1917. Ramaciotti bought shares in the J.C. Williamson theatrical empire and acquired the historic Theatre Royal, in Sydney, around 1913. He died from a heart attack in 1927, aged 66. Vera Ramaciotti was educated at the Sydney Church of England Girls’ Grammar School, where she boarded. The Women’s Weekly wrote that ‘Miss Ramaciotti’s girlhood was spent in rather upper-British-class, genteel fashion’, and pointed out with some astonishment that she owned no car, and always travelled by boat, never by aeroplane. Her first trip abroad was in 1911 for King George V’s coronation. Vera told the magazine: ‘I’ll take a very keen interest in the Foundation, but I’ll have nothing at all to do with its administration’. The multi-million dollar gift was handed to Perpetual Trustees, with a stipulation that $4 million go to benefit NSW specifically, and $2 million for Australia-wide projects, with most of the money to be directed toward medical education and research. Vera’s appointment as a governor of Sydney Hospital influenced her choice, as did a request that she subscribe to the Walter and Eliza Hall Foundation – she explained to The Australian in 1970, ‘I thought I’d have one of my own, rather than give it to somebody else’s. Melbourne doesn’t mean very much to me… I was born and raised in NSW, I live in Sydney, and I prefer it’. Vera Ramaciotti made a rare public appearance in 1970 to sign papers in the office of Perpetual Trustees for the benefit of photographers. Since then, the Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundation has contributed over $38 million to more than 3,000 biomedical research projects. Published resources Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 12 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Marie Andrews has been a long-term unionist and Labor representative in the Legislative Assembly. She was successfully elected as a member for Peats in 1995, 1999 and 2003. She represented the electorate of Gosford from 2007 until the 2011 election, when she retired from Parliament. Marie Andrews was educated at St Mary’s College, Grafton, NSW. She became private secretary to the NSW branch secretary of the Australian Railways Union. She is a Life Member of the Australian Services Union (Clerical and Administrative Branch), and has represented the union at the NSW Labor Council, and the ACTU. In 1995 she was Deputy President of the NSW Clerical and Administrative Division of the ASU. Elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1995, she was a member of the Parliamentary Library Committee, and the Joint Select Committees on Victim’s Compensation 1999, and Threatened Species Conservation 1999. She was Deputy Chair of the Healthcare Complaints Commission, and a member of the Standing Committee for Public Works, and Joint Parliamentary Library Committee 1999-2003. Marie Andrews joined the ALP in 1960 and has held a range of elected positions. She is a long standing Secretary of the ALP Aboriginal Affairs Policy Committee. Published resources Book Contemporary Australian Women 1996/97, 1996 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2003, De Micheli, Catherine and Herd, Margaret, 2003 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 2 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "15 sound files Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Katharine Susannah Prichard, author, pacifist, Communist, indefatigable political activist, chose to live on the outskirts of Perth, Western Australia, for fifty years, from 1919 until her death in 1969. Her life is one of courage, determination, hard work, great joy and satisfaction, and tragedy. During her lifetime she developed an international reputation as a novelist, she was recognised as one of Australia’s foremost writers, and she established an almost legendary reputation locally as a political activist whose initiatives made a profound impact upon the lives of many West Australians. In the midst of such physical isolation and unsophisticated conservatism, how was her brilliant light able to shine so readily? Katharine Susannah Prichard was born on 4 December 1883, the first child of Edith Isabel Fraser, a talented painter, and Tom Prichard, a journalist with the Fiji Times. In her autobiography, Child of the Hurricane (1964), she attributes her own strength of character and political idealism to the complex interaction of the immense securities and insecurities of her early childhood. The Prichard and Fraser families had migrated to Australia from Britain on the sailing ship Eldorado in 1853, a ninety-four day sea voyage of astonishing hardship. Tom Prichard was the second youngest son of ten Prichard children, 4 years old on arrival in Australia; Edith Isabel Fraser was the fourth of nine Fraser children but the first to be born in Australia. Katharine Susannah recalls that her father used to say he had fallen in love with Edith when she was a schoolgirl, and made up his mind then that she was the girl he wanted to marry. The Prichard and Fraser families had remained warm friends after their long and hazardous sea voyage to a new land : they became inextricably linked when the eldest of the Prichard sons married one of the elder Prichard girls, and a younger Fraser boy married one of the Prichard girls. Tom Prichard’s marriage to Edith Isabel Fraser added to the complex interrelatedness of the family: for Katharine Susannah, growing up in the centre of a large and loving web of aunts, uncles, cousins and their relatives meant great security. By her own definition, Katharine Susannah Prichard was a child of the hurricane. In her autobiography, published in 1964, she describes her birth on 4 December 1883 in Fiji thus: Dawn threw wan light on the devastation caused by the hurricane; the township bashed and battered as though by a bombardment, the sea-wall washed away, the sea breaking through the main street, ships in the harbour blown ashore or onto the reef, coconut plantations beaten to the ground. But in that bungalow on the hillside, natives gazed with awe at the baby the hurricane had left in its wake. “Na Luve ni Cava,” they exclaimed. “She is a child of the hurricane.” Born into a charmed circle of calm out of a wild and tempestuous night, Katharine Susannah Prichard seems to have been able to combine these two qualities – passionate criticism of social injustice and determination to expose and rail against unjust laws, with a sweet and gentle disposition. In her autobiography she stresses her strong will, and her early ability to charm through the sheer force of her personality. She attributes many of her later characteristics to the early Fijian experience – particularly her love for the natural world, and her instinctive sympathy…for people of the native races. She was particularly attached to her devoted Fijian carer, N’gardo. Maybe N’gardo is responsible for the instinctive sympathy I’ve always had for people of the native races. It is, I think, a tribute to that dark, protective presence in my early life. But tragedy struck early in her life : the decision for the 2 year old Kattie to travel to Victoria with her mother for the birth of her brother Alan left N’gardo inconsolable, certain she had gone forever, and in his grief he died. This was the first of several tragic deaths of significant men in her life. During Katharine Susannah’s childhood, following her journalist father’s searches for work, her immediate family moved from Fiji to Tasmania and finally to Melbourne, establishing always a lively circle of friends and acquaintances for whom ideas were centrally important. Her awakening to injustice is recorded in one of her early novels, The Wild Oats of Han, in a scene recalling her own family trauma where Han and her brothers are returning from a delightful picnic with a servant to find cartloads of the family furniture rolling down the hill, sold because the family could no longer make ends meet. Unemployment, injustice, ill-deserved poverty – all troubled the young Katharine. This incident seems to have bred in the young girl a desire to be strong and influential in her adulthood. She felt helpless and yet responsible for finding a way out of their troubles. From this time on Tom Prichard’s mental health was precarious , and a constant source of worry to the family. Her autobiography suggests it was the combination of being so well loved, and yet insecure because of her father’s unpredictably uncertain health, which caused Katharine Susannah to be so determined to right the world’s perceived injustices. This determination, accompanied by a prodigious intelligence fostered at appropriate times, a thirst for knowledge, an eye for detail and an early desire to write, created a woman whose passionate idealism shaped all that she did. Katharine Susannah Prichard’s literary talents were displayed early. Before the family left Tasmania she published her first short story in the children’s page of a Melbourne newspaper. Her second story, “The Brown Boy”, won a prize, and caused quite a stir in her family. Most importantly of all for the young Kattie, she had earned a guinea for the story, which she proudly passed on to her father. She decided then to become a writer. Although neither parent took her stated ambition seriously at that stage, her mother fostered in her a love for words, for rhythms, for imaginative writing, by keeping up a constant supply of books by British poets and novelists. The love of learning and for ideas thus instilled, remained with her throughout her life. At age 14 Katharine Susannah won a scholarship to South Melbourne College. There, under the tutelage of the principal, J. B. O’Hara, she embarked upon the happiest and most valuable years of her school life, and was greatly encouraged in her writing. Her determination to be a writer seems to have guided her from this time on. Although she wanted to go to University, there was not enough money in the Prichard family for all four children to go, and in spite of the relative emancipation of the family’s views, as a girl Katharine Susannah stepped aside to allow her younger brothers Alan and Nigel to have a university education. Instead she went to night school, and kept in close contact with those of her friends who had gone to university. In 1904, aged 21, determined to broaden her experience of Australian people and landscape, Katharine Susannah Prichard took a series of jobs as a governess in outback Australia, all of which provided useful material for her writing. After several years she returned to Melbourne to live with her family and became a journalist. ln 1907 her father committed suicide. In 1908 she was sent to London to cover the Franco-British exhibition for the Melbourne Herald. This taste of cosmopolitan life exhilarated her, and in 1912, aged 29, she returned to London, hoping, as Drusilla Modjeska points out, like so many other talented Australian women of her generation, to find ways of living professionally and independently in the comparative freedom of London. Although life was hard, for Katharine Susannah it was a life full of passionate exploration of ideas. She became part of a circle of artists and writers, and embarked upon a systematic study of socialist ideas, so providing a great background for her subsequent study of Marxism. Her pacifism was confirmed when she travelled to northern France and saw the atrocities of war at first hand. As a writer the climax of her London stay came in 1915 when she won the prestigious Australian section of the Hodder and Stoughton All Empire novel competition with The Pioneers. For this she won 250 pounds, a considerable sum, and with renewed confidence in her Australian future as a radical writer she returned to Melbourne. Here, in spite of her clearly articulated controversial views, she was welcomed back into the bosom of her family – support she considers worthy of recording in her autobiography: Kattie’s had the opportunity of learning more than we did, Lil,” Mother replied placidly. “Perhaps the old ways and ideas are good enough for us, but she belongs to a different generation.” That was how mother reconciled my unorthodox views to her own conceptions of right and wrong. So wise and gentle she was in her acceptance of the sincerity of my convictions, even when she didn’t sympathize with or understand them. Her love and loyalty always defended me if anyone dared in her presence to criticize what I thought and did. Such family harmony was disrupted when tragedy struck again with the death of her beloved brother Alan on the battlefields of France. In 1917, Katharine Susannah was greatly affected by news of the Russian revolution. In her autobiography she writes: That the revolution was an event of world-shaking importance, I didn’t doubt….press diatribes against Lenin, Trotsky and Bolshevism indicated that they were guided by the theories of Marx and Engels. I lost no time in buying and studying all the books of these writers available in Melbourne…Discussion …confirmed my impression that these theories provided the only logical basis that I had come across for the reorganisation of our social system. My mind was illuminated by the discovery. It was the answer to what I had been seeking : a satisfactory explanation of the wealth and power which controlled our lives – their origin, development, and how, in the process of social evolution, they could be directed towards the well-being of a majority of the people, so that poverty, disease, prostitution, superstition and war would be eliminated; peoples of the world would live in peace, and grow towards a perfecting of their existence on this earth In London Katharine Susannah Prichard had met a dashing young Australian soldier, Hugo Throssell, who had been awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery. On his return to Australia in 1919 they married and together went to live at Greenmount, a hills suburb on the outskirts of Perth, Western Australia. Here, in the most isolated city in the world, she lived for the rest of her life, passionately committed to her writing and her political activism, balancing these activities with the inevitable demands of home, family and friendship. Drusilla Modjeska records that when Katharine Susannah Prichard arrived in Perth in 1919, two major industrial disputes, one on the goldfields and one on the waterfront, were reaching their climax. Trades Hall was flying a red flag, and arrested miners from the Kalgoorlie goldfields were being brought to Perth for trial. These were turbulent times. The wharfies’ strike in May 1919 resulted in the conservative Colbatch government ordering mounted police to advance on the barricaded strikers. One striker was killed and seven were wounded. Katharine Susannah Prichard, as one of the first Marxists to arrive in Perth, was quickly in demand as a public speaker. Her talks on the waterfront with the strikers were amongst the first encounters between a Marxist and these striking workers. Drusilla Modjeska records that Katharine Susannah Prichard’s first political pamphlet The New Order (1919) was written in response to the demand for accessible information on Marxism. It was reputedly anecdotal and descriptive, rather than being analytical and politically sophisticated, but it was optimistic and enthusiastic about the possibility of revolution. With like-minded people from the Eastern states of Australia, Katharine Susannah Prichard had been a founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. At all times her husband supported her political stance. This was not always without complication. In her autobiography she recalls a time immediately after their arrival in Western Australia when Hugo Throssell was being hailed as a war hero, and was invited to speak at the Armistice Day celebrations being held at his hometown of Northam. To the assembled crowd in the street he described the horror and misery of war, and declared that the suffering he had seen there had made him a socialist. These sentiments from a national war hero, son of a respected conservative former State Premier, were radical indeed. By 1922, Katharine Susannah’s hopes for revolution in Australia had diminished. In May 1922, Katharine Susannah Prichard’s and Hugo Throssell’s only child, a son, Ric Throssell, was born. For the rest of that decade, she devoted herself to her writing and her family. It was not until 1933 after Hugo Throssell’s tragic death, that she threw herself headlong into fulltime political activism again. Katharine Susannah Prichard’s first decade in Western Australia seems to have been an exceptionally busy, fertile and happy period of her life. During this time she wrote what are considered to be her best novels : Working Bullocks (1926), Coonardoo (1928), and Haxby’s Circus (1930). Intimate Strangers was completed by 1933, but not published until 1937. Literary critics who hail the novels from this period as her best, allude frequently to the creative tensions found here in the blending of a romanticism and elemental sexuality whose origins lay in the work of D. H. Lawrence, and an Australian realism motivated by a desire to portray the real lives of Australian women and men. For Katharine Susannah Prichard, committed as she was to the Communist Party and its ideals, writing fiction served a political as well as a literary purpose. She wrote about class and race relations, and about the relationship of white and black Australians to their landscape. She took her research seriously: for Working Bullocks she lived with the timber cutters in the south west karri forest; for Haxby’s Circus she travelled with Wirth’s Circus; and for Coonardoo she stayed on a station in the northwest, becoming familiar with the landscapes and the people inhabiting them before using them as settings for her novels. Her pride in Australia and her focus on the harsh realities and extraordinary beauty of the Australian bush, forest and desert earned her the admiration of other writers and intellectuals. Drusilla Modjeska, whose focus as a literary critic has been on Australian women writers prominent in the 1930s, tells us that these writers assumed a central position in Australian cultural life because they, Katharine Susannah Prichard especially, helped develop a sense of national identity, and deliberately raised in their novels cultural questions which had not been raised before. Coonardoo provides one of the earliest articulations of the indigenous Australian people as real human beings capable of genuine human emotion, morality and intelligence. In this novel, set in the vast cattle country of the northwest of Australia, the heroine, Coonardoo, is a young Aboriginal woman whose attraction for the young white landlord, Hughie, is posited as elemental, instinctual and inevitable. Hughie’s failure to follow his instincts and to accept Coonardoo as his lifelong partner is frequently read as a metaphor for the invading Europeans’ failure to understand or develop empathy for this ancient and harshly beautiful land. Coonardoo was serialised by the national journal The Bulletin in 1928, but such was the conservative and imperialist nature of the white Australian population that it caused an uproar of indignation and protest. Although her writing met thus with public protest, Katharine Susannah Prichard’s skill and courage in writing about crucial and controversial issues earned her the admiration of contemporary critics. Thematically and stylistically her work was admired by her literary colleagues. Drusilla Modjeska records that as early as 1925, writer Louis Esson wrote to colleague Vance Palmer that he and Hilda Esson were reading the manuscript of Working Bullocks and found it astonishingly good. It is most unconventional, and it is less like an ordinary story than like actual life. You feel you are living in the karri forests. On reading the novel himself, Vance Palmer wrote excitedly to the poet Frank Wilmot: I hope the book gets a good spin in Australia, for something tells me it marks a crisis in our literary affairs. Nettie Palmer shares their excitement, giving it a more detailed assessment: Working Bullocks seems to me different not only in quality but in kind. No one else has written with quite that rhythm, or seen the world in quite that way. The creative lyricism of the style impresses me more than either the theme or characters. From slang, from place names, from colloquial turns of speech, from descriptions of landscape and people at work, she has woven a texture that covers the whole surface of the book with a shimmer of poetry… It is a breakthrough that will be as important for other writers as for KSP herself. Later, in 1953, the critic Wilkes wrote in the Australian journal Southerly, Vol 14 No 4…[KSP] has become the foremost of the school, the novelist who has striven most consistently to make the continent articulate through her writing. The critic H.M. Green wrote of Working Bullocks as having …a kind of warmth and glow which seems to be a reflection of heat and light and the colour-effects of the landscape. Much later, in 1960s, as Ric Throssell records, Vance Palmer wrote: Young people of today may not be fully aware of the flood of new life which KSP poured into our writing… If a change has come over our attitude to the Aboriginals it is largely due to the way KSP brought them near to us. Intimate Strangers is the only one of her novels to deal explicitly with white middleclass marriages and relationships, and is thought by many critics to be significantly autobiographical. It was written at a time of crisis in her marriage. Hugo Throssell was deeply troubled: his employment prospects had been severely damaged by his and Katharine Susannah’s very public political activities, and he was plagued by financial worries. Once again the novel plays out the tensions between romanticism and realism, but this time it has tragic consequences. The bankrupt husband in Intimate Strangers kills himself and Elodie is thus freed to pursue a more satisfactory sexual liaison. Katharine Susannah had completed this manuscript before travelling to Russia for six months in 1933. In a cruel replay of the events of her earlier family life, on her way home from Europe she learned that her husband, deeply troubled by terrible financial debts, had suicided. She was devastated. Thirty years later in her autobiography she wrote: I could not have imagined that…he would take his own life. I had absolute faith in him and don’t know how I survived the days when I realised I would never see him again. The end of our lives together is still inexplicable to me. After her husband’s death, Katharine Susannah Prichard took up political activism with renewed intensity. The cumulative world crises of the 1930s – the Depression; fascism with its assault on freedom of speech, its censorship and brutality, and its persecution of German and Italian writers living in Australia ; and the Spanish Civil War – made a huge impact upon Australian writers. Katharine Susannah Prichard was one of the founding members of the Movement against War and Fascism which had been inaugurated in Amsterdam. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War she organised the Spanish Relief Committee in Western Australia. During the 1930s the Fellowship of Australian Writers was taken over by the Left, and Katharine Susannah Prichard was supported in her opposition to fascism in Europe and a reactionary government at home. One of the rallying points of this period concerned the visit to Australia of the internationally renowned Egon Kisch. Kisch had come to Australia to speak at an anti-war congress in Victoria in 1934. He was refused entry into Australia by a conservative and frightened government who went to extraordinary lengths to exclude him, using a language test in Gaelic to exclude this highly cultured and educated man who was fluent in seven languages. His exclusion offended the hospitality and international solidarity of Australian writers. Katharine Susannah Prichard was reportedly on the Fremantle wharf to greet him, and, when his ship docked in Melbourne, she was amongst a small group or radicals who spirited him away after he had jumped onto the wharf, breaking his leg. The incident captured the public imagination, and Kisch addressed huge public meetings in the Eastern States of Australia. In spite of the apparent public support for freedom of speech, however, in the early 1940s the Communist Party was outlawed in Australia, and individuals were persecuted and arrested for having Marxist literature in their possession. There was no doubt that at this time mainstream Australia disapproved of the ideals which Katharine Susannah Prichard passionately believed in. One of the fascinating aspects of Katharine Susannah Prichard’s life was that although she undoubtedly sought and received support for her political views from around Australia and indeed around the world, in Western Australia her activism was specific, practical and widely admired. One of her most significant initiatives for local women was her establishment of The Modern Women’s Club in the 1930s. This group met in central Perth for lunch one day each week, and guest speakers were invited to stimulate discussion on an enormous range of social issues. Here women from the Left mingled with much more conservative women whose desire for peace, or for the overturn of some perceived social injustice, had brought them together. This club continued for decades. My own oral history research indicates that the networks thus established arguably had a profound impact upon the lives of individual Western Australian women, and fed directly into the Vietnam Moratorium movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the establishment of the Women’s Liberation and Women’s Electoral Lobby of the early 1970s, and the more broadly based peace and Green movements of the 1980s and 1990s. The literary work of Katharine Susannah Prichard after the 1930s is often considered by critics to have been undermined by her adherence to the Communist Party and its Stalinist directives that all literature reflect socialist realism. Certainly in the trilogy The Roaring Nineties (1946), Golden Miles (1948), and Winged Seeds (1950) the earlier focus on sexuality gives way to a focus on work. Perhaps the most significant conflict for Katharine Susannah was that whereas writing demanded solitude, Communist activism demanded collectivity. Ironically, friends and associates of Katharine Susannah Prichard’s have suggested that the smallness and isolation of Perth, which many residents found limiting, may have been one of the most significant factors in her being so visible and may well have contributed to the local community’s acceptance of who she was and how she chose to express her marvellous gifts. Katharine Susannah Prichard, for all her gentleness, was a larger-than-life figure. She belonged to a world community. In 1943 she became a member of the Communist Party’s Central Committee. In 1959 she was awarded the World Council’s Silver Medallion for services to peace. When she died in 1969, aged 86, her coffin was draped with the Red Flag and she was given a Communist funeral. Her ashes were scattered on the hillslopes near her home at Greenmount. Published resources Resource Section Prichard, Katharine Susannah (1883-1969), Hay, John, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110299b.htm Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary, Ferrier, Carole, 1999 Archival resources Murdoch University Irene Greenwood talks with Grant Stone State Library of Western Australia Records, 1938-1973 [manuscript] Papers of John and Roma Gilchrist, 1927-1984 [manuscript] Papers, 1935-1969 [manuscript] Perth PEN Centre records National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Katharine Susannah Prichard, 1851-1970 (bulk 1908-1969) [manuscript] Papers of Katharine Susannah Prichard, [1899-1974] [manuscript] Papers of Nancy Cato, 1939-1995 [manuscript] Papers of Nancy Cato, 1939-1995 [manuscript] Papers of Hazel de Berg, 1959-1963 [manuscript] Records, 1928-1994 [manuscript] Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Ian Turner Collection James Cook University of North Queensland, Library Archives Jean Devanny Archive Author Details Lekki Hopkins Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Katharine Susannah Prichard Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4 sound files (ca. 337 min.)??Megan Davis speaks about her early childhood in Qld.; her parents background; her siblings and their careers; interracial marriage; schooling and experiences in the education system; racial discrimination; the Indigenous and South Sea Islander identity; religion and spirituality; career choices; political influences; the Whitlam dismissal (1975); her early interest in Constitutional law; transition to university life (1993), life in residence at Duchesne College, studies of politics, Latin, Ancient Roman history and Australian history; studying law in her second year, experience as Indigenous woman at law school; a legal cadetship at ATSIC and her experiences; reflections on class, race, education and disadvantage; gender and law, influence on later Masters study; her United Nations Indigenous Fellowship at the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, supervisors, connections, role models and mentors; completing legal workshop and training in Canberra at ATSIC; travelling as an ATSIC advisor; leaving ATSIC to commence a Masters degree in Law at Australian National University in 2000; working with George Williams on Bill of Rights project; her first academic teaching experience; racism and sexism in the workplace; her resignation from ATSIC; her experience at Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Sydney; her United Nations work while at Jumbunna; her return to University of New South Wales law school as Director, Indigenous Law Centre.??Davis discusses her PhD studies while working as Director and as a Commissioner on New South Wales Land and Environment Court (2007); research projects undertaken at Indigenous Law Centre; Constitutional law reform project; the drafting of United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Persons; working with Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA); working as United Nations consultant with UNESCO, UNITAR and WIPO; 2007 One Future Forum; her involvement in Reconciliation Australia as legal advisor; her work with Australian Human Rights Commission; her appointment to N.S.W. Sentencing Council; her involvement in Ngara Yura Indigenous Committee of N.S.W. branch, Judicial Commission of Australia; her involvement in new Indigenous peak representative body, the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples and Co-Chair of Ethics Committee; nomination as Australian representative on United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the selection process, taking up position for three year term; studying and completing her PhD at Australian National University, academic and other mentors; Human rights law, sentencing law, native title law; class relations in Australia; parent-child relationships; her relationship with Indigenous women; her leadership style; UNSW Indigenous Law Centre; her plans for future; Indigenous scholarship and perceptions of Indigenous scholars; Aboriginal women leaders. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "9 sound cassettes (9 hrs.)??MLOH 589/1?Interview with Martha Ansara, 6 June 1995??MLOH 589/2?Interview with Janne Ellen, 3 March 1995??MLOH 589/3?Interview with Margaret Elliot, 3 June 1995??MLOH 589/4?Interview with Dimity Figner, 30 May 1995??MLOH 589/5?Interview with Lesley Lynch, 5 March 1995??MLOH 589/6?Interview with Joyce Stevens, 7 June 1995??MLOH 589/7?Interview with Josefa Szobski, 5 March 1995??MLOH 589/8?Interview with Marie Tulip, 9 March 1995??MLOH 589/9?Interview with Sue Wills, 31 May 1995 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Josephine Bedford worked tirelessly to improve the lives of impoverished woman and children in Brisbane. She was instrumental in founding the Crèche and Kindergarten Association in 1907 and the Playground Association in 1913. The Bedford Playground in Spring Hill commemorates Josephine’s outstanding contribution to Queensland children. Josephine volunteered with the Scottish Women’s Hospital when World War I broke out and served in Serbia for 12 months as head of the ambulance service. She was awarded the fifth class of the Order of St Sava by the King of Serbia. Josephine Bedford arrived in Brisbane in 1891 with her longtime friend and companion Dr Lilian Cooper, with whom she shared accommodation during their student days in England. She helped Lilian establish herself as Queensland’s first female doctor while pursuing her own interest in improving the welfare of the state’s women and children. As the city’s population rapidly grew, Josephine noticed that the inner-suburbs, with their unpaved and unsewered streets, were unsafe for children to play. This realisation, along with the help of the local Reverend, led to the creation of the Crèche and Kindergarten Association (C & K) in 1907. By 1911, four centres were operating in Brisbane and a college for kindergarten teachers had been established. On an extended trip overseas, Josephine studied the concept of ‘supervised play’ and returned to Brisbane in 1918 to help open two supervised playgrounds (in Paddington and Spring Hill). Miss Bedford was a committee member of the Queensland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty, first provisional secretary of the National Council of Women in 1906 as well as a member of the Queensland Women’s Electoral League. Another of her interests was the Women’s Auxiliary of the Hospital for Sick Children. Dr Lilian Cooper died in 1947, leaving all her assets to Josephine. To commemorate the work of Queensland’s first female medical practitioner and her lifelong companion, Josephine Bedford donated their historic home, “Old St Mary’s”, at Kangaroo Point to the Sisters of Charity, on the proviso that it be used to build a hospice for the sick and dying. Published resources Book Section Lilian Cooper (1861-1947) and Bedford, Josephine (1861-1955), Grant, Heather, 2005, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1900/index.html#item-josephine-bedford Cooper, Lilian Violet (1861-1947) and Bedford, Mary Josephine (1861-1955), Moore, C. R., 2001 Resource Section Lilian Cooper and Josephine Bedford: Lifelong companions who travelled against the tide, State Library of Queensland, 2008, http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on/exhibit/online/travelling/cooper_bedford Lilian Violet Cooper, Cazalar, Lorraine, 2006, http://eresearch.griffith.edu.au/brisbanememories/index.php/Lilian_Violet_Cooper Lesbians in 1900s Brisbane, Carole Ferrier, 2005, http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/Act_Centenary/lesbianbrisbane.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Greenwood’s early memories of Subiaco, Perth Modern School and various other influences on her life. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Australian Union of Sisters of Mercy: records relating to religious governance, including constitutions, guides to customs and the movement towards unification of Australian Mercies, 1863-1981 (29 vols); Australian Union of Sisters of Mercy: miscellaneous records including reports, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia and manuscripts by sisters, 1913-1981 (30 vols); Australian Union of Sisters of Mercy: news communications including newsletters and news from overseas Sisters of Mercy, 1952-1981 (11 vols); ?Australian Union of Sisters of Mercy: official reports, including financial and statistical reports and a statistical survey of the Union, 1954-1980 (17 vols); Australian Union of Sisters of Mercy: chapter records including proceedings, correspondence and minutes of general and provincial chapters, 1954-1981 (40 vols); Australian Union of Sisters of Mercy: general administration records including minutes, correspondence, dispensations and documents relating to the foundation of the Union, 1954-1981 (26 vols); Australian Union of Sisters of Mercy: records relating to sisters and houses, including a register of sisters and individual house histories and correspondence, 1954-1981 (25 vols); Australian Union of Sisters of Mercy: records relating to formation, including surveys of vocations, seminar reports and minutes, 1955-1975 (8 vols); Australian Union of Sisters of Mercy: minutes and related papers of the Australian Mercy Hospitals Committee, 1973-1981 (1 vol); Australian Federation of the Sisters of Mercy: general administration records, including correspondence, financial account books and minutes of Federation Council meetings, 1955-1981 (10 vols). Australian Federation of the Sisters of Mercy: correspondence and papers relating to the drafting of new constitutions, 1966-1972 (2 vols); Conference of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia: general administration records including financial accounts, correspondence and minutes of Council meetings, 1967-1981 (9 vols); Conference of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia: records relating to religious governance, including new constitutions and the movement towards national unification, 1970-1979 (5 vols); Conference of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia: official reports, including statistical surveys and congregation reports, 1976-1980 (7 vols); Conference of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia: miscellaneous records, including correspondence, reports, photographs and manuscripts of sisters, 1976-1980 (21 vols); ?Conference of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia: records relating to sisters and houses, including a register of sisters and reports and correspondence concerning Aboriginal missions, 1976-1981 (19 vols); ?Conference of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia: correspondence and reports from committees and commissions dealing with the issues of health care, education and social justice, 1976-1981 (9 vols); ?Conference of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia: records relating to formation, including surveys, seminar reports and minutes of National Mercy Foundation Committee, 1976-1982 (7 vols); Conference of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia: news communications, including newsletters and news from overseas Sisters of Mercy, 1976-1982 (3 vols). Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 February 2004 Last modified 5 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (ca. 213 min.)??Edwards talks about her father, John Wear Burton, and his influence on her achievements; effect of Petrov controversy on family and school life. She then talks about her tertiary studies in economics at Canberra University College and University of Melbourne; marriage in 1963; time spent in Malaya and Bangkok; teaching managerial economics at Canberra College of Advanced Education and difficulties encountered in doing her PhD on the income unit for tax and social security and whether it should be the individual, family or household. Edwards then discusses her involvement in the women’s movement, joining WEL (Women’s Electoral Lobby) in 1973 and producing “Financial arrangements within families”.??She joined the Public Service in 1984 and she describes the various departments that she has been involved with such as Dept of Education, Prime Minister and Cabinet, head of Social Policy Div. in Dept of Social Security, Dept of Education, Employment and Training, Director of National Housing Strategy and Deputy Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Edwards then discusses the changes and developments in Australia’s economic situation; balancing demands of family and working life and the current role of the Office of the Status of Women. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Several boxes of material including drafts of novels and research material for Great Australian Girls; GirlZone Adventure Stories (to be published in 2001); and letters from contributors to Regarding Jane Eyre. Author Details Patricia ni Ivor Created 3 May 2000 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hours??Jessie Goodes, nee Tate, was born in Salisbury, South Australia. She attended St Peters Girls College for her and married in 1939. Experience working in her husband’s St Morris delicatessen meant that she was able to gain employment in a Salisbury grocery shop when she was widowed with three children. There were no government services available for support. Jessie attended a local meeting arranged by the Apex Club in 1958 to form a South Australian branch of the Civilian Widows Association, and was elected President – first of the local sub-branch, and in 1959 of the state branch. Two weeks later she was in Sydney for the formation of the national body. Jessie explains the structure of the association, its successful lobbying activities, and the early, intrusive administration of the civilian widows’ pension. She also describes the Association’s declining constituency and its current activities. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Folder contains material on issues of interest to Issy Wyner occurring within the Leichhardt Municipality, 1987-1995.??Box 27/2/1: Light Rail: Various documents including Council reports and newspaper articles relating to the possible introduction of a light rail transportation system in the inner-western and south-east suburbs of Sydney. Includes report on the S.R.A. depot site at Minogue Crescent, Glebe (1987); Glebe Society Submission on Light Rail proposals : Inner west (1988); Glebe Society Occasional Monograph No 3: Report by J.P. Gerofi, Enersol Consulting Engineers “Better public transport in Sydney’s inner western & south-eastern suburbs” [1988], 1988-1995.??Box 27/2/2: Bus services: Various documents including council reports , correspondence and newspaper articles re bus services in the Balmain area including bus stops and bus routes; Council report on review of Council’s community bus service (1989); Mort Bay Area Bus Service; Submission by Mort Bay Tenants’ Association and Friends, 1987-1989.??Box 27/2/3: Bus services : Various documents including council reports, correspondence and newspaper articles including alteration to bus routes; State Transit Authority “Busplan” – a proposed comprehensive alteration of bus routes in the inner-west; Supply, erection and maintenance of bus shelters; Information folder from State Transit Authority of NSW, “State Transit” which includes Paper edited by Sharon Laura, “Introducing the South & West Division of State Transit” and plan of proposed bus routes, 1990.??Box 27/2/4: Bus services: Various documents including reports, correspondence and newspaper articles including changes to bus services in Balmain East area; Correspondence from Sandra Nori, Member for Port Jackson providing a report prepared by Yvette Stern, University of NSW, “Port Jackson public transport questionnaire” (1993), 1991-1995.??Collection donated by Isadore (Issy) Wyner (1916-2008) to Leichhardt Library, Balmain branch in November 2007. Mr Wyner served on Leichhardt Council 1959-1974; 1977-1980; 1984-1991. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1. Research notes and correspondence concerning Daisy Bates, 1981-87. 2. Production files, drafts, working papers, correspondence, photographs, press clippings, theatre programs, scripts, speeches and other papers accumulated by Witcombe during forty years spent working as a dramatist and script writer. The papers document her involvement in 9 projects for children’s theatre; 47 children’s radio drama projects; 108 adult radio drama projects; 32 television drama projects; 10 film projects; and 9 theatre projects. 3. Research notes, correspondence and drafts for various prose and non-fiction writing projects. The prose work dates mainly from the 1940s. 4. Four private journals, 1941-48. 5. Correspondence, minutes and other papers on Witcombe’s involvement in the Australian Writers Guild and other writers’ associations, 1948-87. 6. Miscellaneous biographical papers, 1941-85, including photographs, personal references, interview transcripts, curricula vitae and awards. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nerina Beccarelli talks about her Italian family background and parents; memories of Gwalia, W.A. and Boulder W.A.; her stepfather Martin Bonazzi; her schooling at South Boulder School; speaking Italian at home; baseball and sport at school; leaving school at 14; her eldest brother working with the De Campi’s in the market garden; money given to the household; other brother working in the mines; her first job as housecleaner and later work at the Cornwall Hotel; the Kalgoorlie riots; trips to Kalgoorlie from Boulder by tram; the Kalgoorlie murders (1926); her working day and uniform; Cornwall Hotel dances; her marriage at 21 to Frank Beccarelli; their first home at Norseman, W.A. and the birth of her children; WWII and her husband’s enlistment and active service; living with her mother during the war and working at the Cornwall; ration coupons; an Air-raid shelter in Boulder; shops; post war, husband working in fruit shop and machine mining; the deaths in the family from Silicosis; pensions; her children’s work; money and relationships. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 7 August 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Professor Rosalind Croucher AM is a leading legal academic and current (2016) president of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC). In 2014, she was the inaugural winner of the Australian Woman Lawyer (AWL) Award. She was described as: ‘an inspirational leader in the legal community, making a distinct contribution to law reform and legal education across the national stage. She has enthusiastically taken on ‘tough’ roles with great success and is a true institution builder. Prof Croucher restored the reputation of Macquarie Law School and successfully steered the ALRC through two inquiries which threatened the ALRC’s very existence. At the ALRC she has led seven inquiries of great public policy significance, including on family violence, older workers, and disability. She is also an exceptional mentor, with a deep and abiding commitment to fostering the careers of others, particularly women.’ Professor Croucher was appointed President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, 30 July 2017, for a seven year term. The following additional information was provided by Rosalind Croucher and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Early years I was born on 14 November 1954, at Rosslyn Hospital, Arncliffe, Sydney, the eldest of four girls born to Frank Roland McGrath AM OBE and Amy Gladys McGrath (née Cumpston) OAM, and a Scorpio. I grew up with the value of education imprinted in my DNA-particularly on the maternal side. My mother is one of four sisters and three brothers. Her father, Dr John Howard Lidgett Cumpston CMG, was the first Commonwealth Director General of Public Health-the numberplate ACT 4 is still in the family. His mother, Elizabeth (née Newman) was a pioneer kindergarten teacher. Sadly, my grandfather died the year I was born so I never got to know him. He had a profound commitment to education-and that his daughters would have the same opportunities as his sons. For women in the 1930s and early 1940s this was still pretty unusual. My grandfather said to his children that he could not leave them ‘capital’, but he would give them an education. In my mother’s generation this was an exceptional standard to create as ‘the norm’ for his children. This is not ‘normal’ for many, but it did influence me profoundly. Three of them gained PhDs (the eldest, in 1998, at the age of 82), one became a Reader in History at Birkbeck College, University of London (Dr Ina Mary Cumptson); one an entomologist and researcher in PNG on mosquitoes, with her medical doctor husband (Dr Margaret Spencer OAM); another, my mother, a poet, playwright, novelist and all-round extraordinary woman. The youngest, Maeva Elizabeth Galloway BEM, had the prospect of doing medicine, but, as she said to me, she wanted to get married and medical study was not amenable to married women at the time, so she did physiotherapy instead. Later she spent many years managing the Canberra Symphony Orchestra. I was named after the character Rosalind in Shakespeare’s play, As You Like It. It was Shakespeare’s largest role for a female character and one in which she is even given the Epilogue. (My sister Leone Celia Lorrimer, was also named after a character in the play, Rosalind’s cousin, Celia. She is an architect and now CEO of a large architectural practice in Australia.) When I was four years old we moved from Grand Parade, Brighton-le-Sands to ‘Purfleet’, in Billyard Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, an historic house on the waterfront side of Arthur McElhone Reserve and Elizabeth Bay House (although not on the waterfront). After attending kindergarten in Rushcutter’s Bay, opposite Trumper Park in Roslyn Gardens, Sydney, I went to Sydney Church of England Girls School in Darlinghurst until the end of third class. I remember catching the bus from our home in Elizabeth Bay to William Street and then walking up Forbes Street. I took my younger sister, Leone, who was in the class behind me. We would only have been about 7 and 8.Our mother had two small children, our younger sisters Eloise and Vivian, so she trusted us to be responsible in getting ourselves to and from school. For the most part we were, although I do recall our walking up a gutter full of rainwater. (If you had wet shoes you were allowed to take them off!) My mother tells me that the Headmistress suggested I should go to a school where I could get more competition-or perhaps she wanted to get rid of me! One of my school chums from my SCEGGS days was Jenny Morgan, now Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne. I did move school, to Woollahra Demonstration School, in fourth class. My teacher was Mr Miller. The cane was still used regularly, even for girls (although very rarely by Mr Miller). I participated in lots of extra things, the Gould League (for bird lovers), the junior Red Cross, which had a lovely uniform, and the school choir, led by Mr Armstrong. (At Sunday School at All Saints Church, Woollahra, I joined the Girls’ Friendly Society-yet another uniform that mother happily purchased). I was once summoned to the Headmaster’s office at Woollahra (Mr Nicholson). I had thrown a blackboard duster at a boy who was being a bit of a wag, but the dust had got in his eyes and caused him suffering. I remember the sickening feeling both of knowing I had caused injury but also of that conversation in the Headmaster’s office. The test in fourth class saw me catapulted into the Opportunity Class for the final two years of primary. The two years with Miss Conlon were a wonderful experience. I was also elected girls Vice-Captain in 6th class. Two of my classmates I still see regularly-the Hon Justice Anna Katzmann of the Federal Court and Professor Vivienne Bath of the University of Sydney. At the end of my years at Woollahra I went to Ascham school in Edgecliff, while my peers went in different directions-a number to Sydney Girls High and some also to SCEGGS. My years at Ascham were a wonderful period. (It could have begun much earlier, however. My mother said that she took me for an interview when I was very small and that, after somersaulting off the chair in the Headmistress’s office, or other antics, I was not enthusiastically given that first opportunity of enrolment). I ended as dux of the school and Chairman of the School Committee. We didn’t have ‘prefects’ and ‘school captain’ but we had a School Committee, with a Chairman and Secretary. I remember one particular meeting of the School Committee that I chaired. There was quite a lively discussion and, to inject some order into the proceedings, I said, ‘would you please direct your questions through the chair!’ The Headmistress, Miss Roberts, was quite surprised. What she didn’t know was that I was an avid listener of parliament. My ‘dream job’ in my teenage imaginings was to be Speaker of the House. Music was largely whatever the music master, Mr Ken Robbins, could arrange. Choir was always fun, especially the joint choral works we did with a boys school, Cranbrook or Sydney Grammar. Mr Robbins also organised an ‘orchestra’, a handful of those who played something. I had played recorder at Woollahra and volunteered. There was a senior girl who played oboe, and I thought the sound was wonderful. A Canberra cousin of mine had an oboe and lent it to me and I was hooked. My first experience playing oboe in the orchestra was very challenging: ‘He who would valiant be’, in Eb major-three flats. But it got easier. The first big, and paid, ‘gig’ I did was to play in the orchestra for ‘The Mikado’, being performed by Sydney University Musical Society (SUMS). By the HSC I undertook 1st Level Music as an independent study, as I could not do it at school. Throughout high school I attended as many music camps as my holidays would allow, first at Sydney Grammar School under the music leadership of Peter Seymour, and then national music camp. I completed what would now be regarded as a huge load for my HSC, and all at 1st level: English, German, Geography, Modern History, Maths and Music, plus the General Studies subject that everyone had to do. All through my high school years two things I remember, apart from school things, were my mother’s PhD and the theatres. Mum won a scholarship, about the same time as father was appointed a judge, to undertake the history of medical organisation in Australia. From this emerged a whole range of whitegoods (clothes dryer etc) and school holiday trips in our red and white Volkswagen microbus to all parts of Australia where mum did research on her thesis. She used a manual typewriter. The tap-tapping of the keys punctuated many evenings over many years. She graduated in 1977. The second thing was that mother had a theatre in our backyard-the Mews Playhouse-as a tryout theatre for Australian playwrights, once we moved from Elizabeth Bay to Centennial Park. I recall actors like Lex Marinos, Lynne Rainbow and John Meillon, to name but a few, performing in plays. My sister Leone and I often helped with stage management. (One mistake was to use real whiskey instead of cold tea, which is the usual stage substitute!). The Mews developed into a much bigger project with the establishment of the Australian Theatre in Newtown. Playwrights like David Williamson and the Indigenous writer, Kevin Gilbert, had try-outs of their plays either at our home in Martin Road, Centennial Park (down the road from Patrick White), or in Newtown. The opera director, David Freeman, was assisted in the beginnings of his career when he directed when of mother’s music theatre pieces on Sir Walter Ralegh, and another on the Children’s Crusade. I performed in a couple of the musicals at the Australian Theatre: ‘Crusade’ and ‘A Bunch of Ratbags’, set in the 1950s. Mother was regularly organising special events, often associated with fundraising for the theatre, and on one occasion the actress, who was to read some poems, was unable to perform at the last minute. I was rapidly ‘press-ganged’ into the task. A huge enterprise was a music theatre symposium which saw her bringing Stephen Sondheim, Tim Rice, Alan Jay Lerner and several other incredibly famous music theatre luminaries from around the world to Sydney. That was all part of the normal of our lives at Martin Road! Father, meanwhile, was appointed to bench in 1966 (the Workers’ Compensation Commission, later Compensation Court), chaired the Arts Council of NSW and endeavoured to get his teenage daughters into sailing, through the Double Bay Sailing Club. In the latter endeavour he was much more successful with my sister Leone, a keen and excellent sailor now, than me. (When my father retired from the bench at the age of 72, as Chief Judge of the Compensation Court, he also undertook a PhD, in history at the University of Sydney-he had been the University Medallist in history when he completed his BA). University With my HSC result I could choose whatever I wanted to do. I had no inclination to study Medicine (although many of my mother’s family were doctors), but wanted to do Law, like my father. I won a much-coveted National Undergraduate Scholarship at the Australian National University, which paid for absolutely everything. I note that the dux of the year ahead of me at Ascham, Hilary Penfold (now the Hon Justice Hilary Penfold of the ACT Supreme Court), also went to ANU on these excellent scholarships). I went to Burgmann College, a co-educational college, and embarked upon Arts/Law. I also joined the Canberra Symphony Orchestra. Just before I went to Canberra in early 1973, my oboe teacher enlisted me as her Deputy, to play in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney (bedecked in mission, now ‘Superstar’, brown). I played the Friday and Saturday shows. I was able to continue this after going to Canberra, flying down for the purpose. (I remember the return student airfare was $14). I had underestimated what the shift to Canberra would involve and returned to Sydney at the end of first year, but keeping my options open with ANU for another year. In 1974 I commenced studies at Sydney University in second year of Arts/Law. I played in the Australian Youth Orchestra at the end of that year. During my second year of university study my musical involvement took me to audition for the ABC Training Orchestra and I won a scholarship that I took up in 1975. I also joined the Renaissance Players at the University under the amazing Winsome Evans OAM BEM. My involvement in the Training Orchestra meant that I only continued my History Honours study in third year, doing no law subjects that year. During 1975 Training Orchestra the position of second oboe/cor anglais became available in the Elizabethan Theatre Trust Orchestra, later the Opera and Ballet orchestra, and I was successful. In 1976 I was playing in the opera house but also was undertaking History Honours. It was a very full year. After six months in the opera house orchestra I left that position, preferring the variety of musical involvement in the Renaissance Players and opting to finish my law studies. I kept playing in casual positions for the orchestra as needed for a further two years. And in 1976 I married Michael Jeffrey Atherton, a lute player and multi-instrumentalist in the Renaissance Players. I entered my final two years at law school in a minority – I was married. I completed History Honours, with a thesis on a renaissance diplomat, Sir Nicholas Thockmorton, continued with the Renaissance Players and plugged away at my law studies. My aim by this time was to follow my father’s example and to go to the Bar, after a period of practice as a Solicitor. But when I was at the College of Law, doing my Practical Legal Training course in 1980, I found out that I was pregnant. When I was admitted as a solicitor in December 1980 in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, it was not as a ‘lawyer’ but as ‘a solicitor, proctor and attorney’ of ‘this honourable Court’. And Sir Laurence Street as Chief Justice had a famous invocation to any mother with a crying baby, deployed at each ceremony: ‘Madam, do not feel you have to leave, this is a family occasion!’. When my daughter, Emily Alexandra McGrath Jones Atherton, was born in March 1981, I was utterly clueless about motherhood. Although I had worked two years part-time with a firm of solicitors, as successor to my classmate in my law studies at Sydney University, Susan Crennan (later Justice of the High Court), in a research/devilling role, obtained my practising certificate, and could have continued there, the demands of motherhood came as a real shock. They were incompatible for me at that time. So I held a practising certificate for only one year. I also left the Renaissance Players. My career journey then took a different turn. Academic years When my daughter was nearly a year old I applied for a position in teaching at Macquarie University. I got it. Curiously, what secured me the teaching position, at the age of 27, was none of the things that a career path would have mapped out. Not a higher degree-I hadn’t even thought about that one yet, the PhD would come later, although I did have an Honours degree in History which evidenced research ability; not publications-I didn’t have any of those-all essential these days even to start in the academic world. But I did have teaching experience-in music. I had taught a residential summer school in early music, with a group aged from 17 to 70. It was a great background for teaching distance students, who came in for weekends at a time on campus. It was quite an enlightened approach to appointments, by the late Professors Jack Goldring and John Peden – two inspiring men, both passing away long before they should have. Then the teaching was like a duck to water. I loved it. I built an academic career from that accidental starting point. I completed a PhD in legal history at the University of New South Wales, graduating in 1994-as Sir Gordon Samuels’ last doctoral conferral in his role of Chancellor of UNSW before taking up the position of Governor. I embarked upon publications and became a Professor and Dean in 1999 at Macquarie University. My doctoral study took ten years, worked around fulltime work and my children, including in 1987 my second child, Marc Edward John McGrath Jones Atherton. The two early years at Macquarie were during an intensely controversial time in its history. It shared the tension of left/right arguments that had been dividing English, Economics, Politics departments as well as law schools in the US, the UK and Australia for a number of very troubled years. I was elected to Chair the School meetings, just in my second year as a Tutor-the youngest on staff. In my naïveté it never occurred to me that this had anything other than to do with my abilities. But I did take it very seriously, learned a lot about chairing and had my eyes opened to university (and broader) politics. In 1984 I was appointed to the University of New South Wales and then in 1990 to Sydney University, where I move into a number of increasingly senior leadership roles, including as Head, Department of Law (Jan 1996-Feb 1997); Acting Dean (June 1994, July 1995); and Interim Dean (Feb 1997-March 1998). In 1998, I was elected as Deputy Chair of the Academic Board of the University. At the end of 1999 I took up an appointment as the first externally-appointed Dean of the Law School at Macquarie University, a position in which I served for over seven years. I have now done a circuit of three major Sydney law schools: two years at Macquarie, seven at UNSW, nine at Sydney and then back to Macquarie for seven. I accidentally got on another track and it opened up a whole new career path. 25 years, including the last seven years of it as Dean of Macquarie Law School, and over a year as Interim Dean at Sydney Law School (the first woman in that position). In 1995 I sang in a small group of lawyers organised by the Hon Justice Peter Hidden, known as the Bar Choir. It is still going and I am still singing with them, 20 years later. (Many of the barristers who sang in the choir in the early days are now on the Bench, and many are still singing in the choir too.) In 1994 I auditioned for the Sydney Philharmonia Choir and joined the Alto section. After singing in the Symphonic choir for three years I was invited to join the Motet choir-if felt like being in ‘the first eleven’. With this choir I sang at the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 and as part of The Proms at Albert Hall, London, singing Mahler 8th symphony, which we had also sung in Sydney. In 2001 my marriage to Michael Atherton was dissolved. In 2004 I married Professor John Sydney Croucher, a statistician, of Macquarie University, and became the second ‘Professor Croucher’. (We have now been married for over eleven wonderful years.) Australian Law Reform Commission The opportunity to join the Australian Law Reform Commission came in 2006, after I had been Dean of Law at Macquarie for seven years. The position of Commissioner was advertised. I was appointed for three years. The Hon Philip Ruddock MP was the Attorney-General. At the end of 2009 the position of President became vacant and the then Attorney, the Hon Robert McClelland MP appointed me for five years. This was renewed by the Hon Senator George Brandis QC for a further year to December 2015. I am now up to my fifth Attorney-General! I retain my chair at Macquarie University, which has kindly given me leave for the duration of my appointment at the ALRC. At the ALRC I was the Commissioner in charge of the following inquiries: Capacity, Equality and Disability in Commonwealth laws, ALRC 124, 2014 Access All Ages-Older Workers and Commonwealth Laws, ALRC 120, 2013. Family Violence and Commonwealth Laws-Improving Legal Frameworks, ALRC 117, 2012. Managing Discovery-Discovery of Documents in Federal Courts, ALRC 115, 2011. Family Violence-A National Legal Response, ALRC 114, 2010. Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia, ALRC 112, 2009. Privilege in Perspective, Australian Law Reform Commission, ALRC 107, 2008. Other reports I have overseen as President, with another Commissioner in charge: Connection to country: Review of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), ALRC 126, 2015 (with Commissioner Professor Lee Godden, University of Melbourne) Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era, ALRC 123, 2014 (with Commissioner Professor Barbara McDonald, University of Sydney) Copyright and the Digital Economy, ALRC 122, 2013 (with Commissioner Professor Jill McKeough, UTS) Classification-Content Regulation and Convergent Media, ALRC 118, 2012 (with Commissioner Professor Terry Flew, QUT) I am currently leading the inquiry into encroachments on traditional rights, freedoms and privileges in Commonwealth laws. My work at the ALRC draws upon all the various aspects of my academic and management experiences and adds to it a wonderful layer of intersection with government, through its various departments, and the parliament itself-particularly the twice-yearly Senate Estimates appearances (which, perversely perhaps, I enjoy greatly). Pro bono roles I have undertaken many pro bono leadership roles-including as Governor of Ascham School for nine years; Councillor of St Andrew’s College; as a board member of the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs; Chair of the Council of Australian Law Deans, 2002-2003; Vice-President of the International Academy of Estate and Trust law 2000-2005; and as Chair of the Projects Committee of the Australian Academy of Law 2012-. I have also been involved with the NSW Women Lawyers in committee roles over the years, particularly in relation to career aspirations. Honours I was honoured in being elected to the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, 1993; as a Fellow, Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 2000; a Member, Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences, 2004; a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in 2007; and elected to the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners in 2008. My contributions have also been acknowledged in a number of honorary appointments: Honorary Fellow of St Andrew’s College of the University of Sydney (2002); Honorary Fellow of the Australian College of Legal Medicine (2004); ‘Rapporteur’ for the 8th biennial conference of the International Association of Women Judges, 2006; and honorary life membership of the Women Lawyers’ Association of NSW (2013). On St Andrew’s College I was the first lay woman appointed to the College Council, while the Rev Theodora Hobbes was appointed the first female member of the Presbyterian clergy-we were part of the Council that moved the College from an all-male College to a fully co-residential one. (The very-much missed Theodora, who passed away in 2011, also conducted the marriage proceedings when John and I married, by Macquarie University’s lake, in 2004-the first time she had married anyone ‘in a paddock’, she said. I was delighted to present the St Andrew’s College Lecture in 2013 in honour of her.) In 2011 I was recognised as one of the 40 ‘inspirational alumni’ of UNSW. In 2014 I was acknowledged for my contributions to public policy as one of Australia’s ‘100 Women of Influence’ in the Australian Financial Review and Westpac awards; and for ‘outstanding contribution to the legal profession’ in supporting and advancing women in the legal profession I was awarded the Australian Women Lawyer’s award. In the Australia Day Honours list, 2015, I was conferred the award of Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for ‘significant service to the law as an academic, to legal reform and education, to professional development, and to the arts’. My husband, Professor John Croucher, also received an AM on the same day, ‘significant service to mathematical science in the field of statistics, as an academic, author, and mentor, and to professional organisations’. ‘What are the odds?’, we asked each other! Publications My text on Succession law, Succession: families, property and death, (with Prue Vines) was first published in 1996, and is now in its 4th edition (2013). I have edited seven books, including Families and Estates: A Comparative Study, Kluwer Law International, 2005; Law and Religion-God, the State and the Common Law, with Peter Radan and Denise Meyerson, Routledge Publishing, 2005; and written 20 book chapters, including most recently: ‘Towards a common legislative base for inquiries’, in Royal Commissions & Public Inquiries: Practice & Potential , S Prasser and H Tracey (eds), Connor Court Publishing, 2014; and ‘Family law: challenges for responding to family violence in a federal system’, in Families, policy and the law: Selected essays on contemporary issues for Australia, A Hayes and D Higgins (eds), Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2014. I have a long list of journal articles and conference papers as befits a University Professor. I have also written the lyrics for three choral works, composed by Michael Atherton: ‘Songs for Imberombera’, with W Porter-Young and M Atherton, for work commissioned by the Gondwana Voices choir. First performed January 1997. ‘Exhortation’ Contemporary Singers. First performed July 1996. Review in Opera Australia, Aug-Sept 1996: ‘splendidly poetic text’. ‘Namatjira’ for work Australian Voices Choir 1996. First performed 1996. Recorded on The Listening Land – Australian Choral Music, VOICES CD 1002, 6m 11s. Other interests I greatly enjoy my garden, restoring and extending the garden at our Blue Mountains home, ‘Weroona’, a former boys’ home that John and I bought in May 2013, complete with its own cricket pitch and a spare house, ‘The Lodge’, which my parents live in on weekends (my father still driving at age 93). I continue to find enormous pleasure in choral singing and in playing my oboe and recorder in chamber music. I am also a proud grandmother to Alessandra and Cara Montuori. Published resources Article Rosalind Croucher - On the Couch, Ackland, Richard, 2010, http://www.justinian.com.au/featurettes/rosalind-croucher.html Resource Section ALRC President wins legal accolades, 2104, https://www.alrc.gov.au/news-media/alrc-president-wins-legal-accolades Commission welcomes new President, 2017, https://www.humanrights.gov.au/news/stories/commission-welcomes-new-president Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Rosalind Croucher Created 4 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Rosalind Croucher Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Leonie Christopherson gave up a promising career in advertising to marry into the army. She turned her talent for communication to the service of political and community organisations: the Liberal Party of Australia, and the National Council of Women. She served as president of National Council of Women of Australia from 2003 to 2006 at a time of great change for the association, and her consensual style of leadership provided a secure basis for it to move forward. In 2006, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia, and, in 2013 she was invested as a Dame of Honour in the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller, honouring her for her services to the community. Leonie Christopherson is the second daughter of Frank Pryke and his wife Millicent (née Winchester), born on 4 November 1939 in Sydney. Her father’s employment with Mobil Oil meant frequent relocation for the family, and Leonie attended 5 different Anglican schools in 3 states. At 16 years of age, she left school to work in advertising, reaching management level by the age of 18. At 20 she ‘married into the army’. Christopherson believes that ‘there is no finer training for public office than having been an army wife’. She married Geoffrey John Christopherson on 18 April 1960, and they have 3 sons. Geoff Christopherson’s army service has taken the family to 20 different locations in 5 different countries. Leonie worked when that was convenient, in promotion and advertising, and educational administration. She also moved into community service, acting as honorary secretary to the Army Wives Association in Queensland and initiating a range of support activities. In the middle 1970s, the family settled in Victoria, and Christopherson completed a BA in Language and Literature at Swinburne University. She was a founding member of the Boroondara Writers’ Group. She took an interest in local community affairs, becoming chairman of the Ashburton Community Centre. She also became active in the Women’s Sections of the Liberal Party (Victoria), working as a campaign manager in local government elections and serving as vice-chairman of the Central Council of the Women’s Sections. In 1993, Christopherson’s success in the backrooms of the Liberal Party inspired Gracia Baylor, then president of the National Council of Women of Victoria, to invite Leonie to join her executive as honorary secretary. When Baylor became president of the National Council of Women of Australia in 1997, Christopherson was appointed to the Board to take charge of communications, redesigning publicity material and editing the NCWA’s Quarterly Bulletin and other publications. In 2000, the International Council of Women invited her to become editor-in-chief of the ICW Quarterly Newsletter, which she published in three languages, printing and distributing it from Australia. She is currently (2013) the ICW advisor for arts and letters. Leonie Christopherson served as national president of NCWA 2003-2006. At the beginning of her term, the association faced a major funding challenge with the establishment by the Howard government of 4 coalitions representing Australian women to government, and the cessation of direct government funding to women’s organisations except for specific projects. The challenge was met by rigorous economies, by sharing projects and funding with one of the new groupings, the Australian Women’s Coalition (which NCWA had helped form), and by seeking projects with alternate funding sources. Two of these projects produced booklets that proved to have strong and lasting community impact. Breathtaking Women: Asthma Awareness and You was produced by NCWA and the Asthma Foundation of Victoria, and funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging and the Asthma Foundation of Western Australia. Funds were also found to produce versions in Greek and Italian. What Now in Contraceptives? was published under the imprimatur of NCWA, and financed by commercial interests; it proved a valuable guide for young women to the kinds of contraception available to them. Christopherson’s philosophy of leadership is to ‘always lead from behind’, valuing the workers ‘for the gold they are’. She believes that the most valuable achievement of her period of office was a qualitative change in relations between the national executive and state NCWs: the end of an atmosphere of ‘Us and Them’. Christopherson’s army connections have led her into unusual roles for a member of the NCWA. She has worked through the Defence Reserves Support Council, Victoria, to encourage the enrolment of women in the Army Reserves-‘not in the crush/kill/destroy capacity but as peacekeepers’. And she has served on the Firearms Appeals Committee, Victoria, the tribunal that hears appeals from people who have lost their gun licences. Christopherson’s publications include as author What’s Politics, Nan?, a book for children, Forceful Females, a play in one act celebrating the centenary of Victorian women’s suffrage, and Teresa Angelica: Nurse Winchester, a biography of her grandmother. She has also contributed as author to anthologies, That Once We Lived, This Bit Is for Me, and The Fabric of Life, and has edited 2 anthologies, From a Camel to the Moon, produced by NCWA for the International Year of the Older Person, and Valuing Volunteers, produced for the UN Year of the Volunteer. She has also edited the NCWV’s and the AWC’s monthly newsletters. In 2006, Leonie Christopherson was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the development of national policies relating to issues and concerns of women, particularly through the National Council of Women of Australia, and to promoting the equal status of all in the community. In the same year, Christopherson was chosen as one of NCWV’s ‘celebrated women achievers’. On this occasion, Gracia Baylor described her as ‘a wonderfully warm, enthusiastic person who has a great sense of fun and who can handle anybody or any situation, whatever the circumstances may be’. In 2013 she was invested as a Dame of Honour in the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller, honouring her for her services to the community. Leonie was quoted at a NCWA conference as saying: ‘we’re here to save the world on issues relating to women and their families. We only have two and a half days to do it, but as women that will not be a problem’. Published resources Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Pearce, Suzannah, 2006 Journal Article Women Achievers, 1999 Resource Leonie's C. V., 2008, http://christopherson.50webs.com/bio.html Notre Dame Medical School Welcomes Women's Council President, The University of Notre Dame Australia, http://www.nd.edu.au/news/media-releases/2006/20060524_womenscouncil.shtml Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] NCWA Papers 1984 - 2006 Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) So Proud to be Australian State Library of Victoria National Council of Women of Victoria Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 21 July 2014 Digital resources Title: Leonie Christopherson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "(1) Letterbooks 1862-1882, containing letters from women emigrants to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and letters from Harriet Herbert. (2) Cuttings 1880-1895, from English and Canadian journals and newspapers, re women’s emigration. (3) Minutes of the Finance Committee of the United Englishwomen’s Emigration Association, 1885-1886. (4) Correspondence, 1949 with G.F. Plant re the history of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society and the Colonial Intelligence League. (5) Minutes of the Council and some sub-committees of the United British Women’s Emigration Association, 1896-1901. (6) Addresses: Maria S. Rye, Emigration of Educated Women (1861) and Jane E. Lewin, Female Middle Class Emigration (1863). (7) Annual report of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society, 1861-72, 1874-79 and 1883-85.??Originals in the possession of the Women’ Migration and Overseas Appointment Society, London. Author Details Jane Carey Created 29 October 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This collection of Australian Red Cross Society files consists of three main subseries: general correspondence and administration files; records of the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau; and records of the Australian Red Cross Prisoner of War Department. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A series of articles written by Daisy Bates and published by The Herald in 1934. Articles have been glued into a hardcover book possibly by Tom Austen Brown. Book also contains articles on other individuals such as Mussolini and Hitler Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "May Jordan McConnel was the first paid female union organiser in Queensland, elected Secretary of the newly-formed Tailoresses Union on 5 August 1890. The Brisbane Women’s Union met for the first time on 27 August 1890 and discussions focused on securing fair wages, fair hours and equitable conditions in the workplace for women. In Brisbane on 17 December 1893, May delivered an address to suffrage supporters, celebrating New Zealand women’s success in attaining the right to vote. In February 1894, a public meeting was held and the Woman’s Equal Franchise Association, a strong supporter of women’s suffrage, was founded. May was elected as Treasurer. In 1910, the McConnel family left Brisbane for the United States, leaving their Indooroopilly house, ‘Robgill’, as a gift to Queensland. This house became the Methodist Church’s first institutionalised home for orphans in the state – the original Queen Alexander Home for Children. The family never returned to Australia and May died in California in 1929. Mary Emma (May) Jordan was the eldest daughter of Henry Jordan, a medical missionary and dentist who became one of Queensland’s first parliamentarians. May was qualified in both teaching and nursing. She taught at Petrie Terrace and South Brisbane state schools, both of which were attended by children from working class families. May’s decision to fight for the rights of the working class is thought to have emanated from her teaching experiences. May was the driving force behind the formation of the Brisbane Women’s Union. It was founded among growing outrage over unsatisfactory working women’s conditions and as a result of the intense lobbying of high profile supporters such as Emma Miller and William Lane, editor of the Worker newspaper. Unionism was a new concept and the advantages of fighting as a group, as opposed to one-on-one, was stressed to working women. Due to increased criticisms of unsafe workplaces and poor treatment of workers, the Queensland Government called a Royal Commission into Shops, Factories and Workshops. May, now married, was included as a representative on the commission. The commission’s report, of which May was a signatory, put forward a number of recommendations, but sadly no action was taken as far as implementation until 1896. May married into the pioneering McConnel family of Cressbroke on 24 December 1890. The McConnel family moved to the United States, relocated to England, and then returned to California during World War I. May spent the rest of her life in California. Published resources Book Section May Jordan McConnel (1860-1929), Grant, Heather, 2005 Resource Section May Jordan McConnel (1860 – 1929), Grant, Heather, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1890/index.html#item-may-mcconnel Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection May Emma McConnel (nee Jordan) May Emma McConnel (nee Jordan) Mary Emma McConnel (1860 - 1929) Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 26 September 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Elizabeth Drozd was born in Poland and arrived in Australia in 1982 under the Special Humanitarian Program. She has worked in a paid and voluntary capacity for the Polish community in Victoria for many years and currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of Australian-Polish Community Services (APCS). She is also an Executive Member of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria. Under Elizabeth Drozd’s leadership, Australian-Polish Community Services has undertaken to conduct research within the Polish community that has significance beyond this group. Projects have looked at problems for elderly people isolated in aged-care units, the incidence of depression within the community and other mental health issues as well as providing help and advice for the victims of domestic violence. As well as promoting initiatives in these welfare areas, Drozd has maintained a keen interest in promoting an appreciation of Polish heritage and culture within the community. Of particular concern to her is the drift away of young people from heritage based organisations. Published resources Resource Polish Migrants' Stories, Wiench, Monika and Drozd, Elizabeth, 2006, http://apcs.org.au/attachments/publications/polish_migrants_stories.pdf Polonia in Australia: Challenges and Possibilities in the New Millenium, Drozd, Elizabeth and Cahill, Desmond, 2004, http://www.apcs.org.au/attachments/publications/Polonia_in_Australia.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 June 2006 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Folder contains material such as listings of papers etc compiled by Nancy Robinson Whittle for the Manuscript Section of the NLA. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Scrapbooks of newscuttings and photographs, 1976-1986 (4 scrapbooks and 4 ringbinders). ?Newsletters Women who want to be women, 1979-1986 and Endeavour forum, 1986-1987 (40 issues). Author Details jane carey Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 13 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Elizabeth Broderick AO was Australia’s longest-serving Sex Discrimination Commissioner, from 2007 to 2015. She was also Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination from 2007 to 2011. A former head of legal technology at law firm Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst), where she practised for nearly two decades, she became the firm’s first part-time partner and later served as a member of its board. In 2001 she was named Telstra NSW Business Woman of the Year; she also received the Centenary Medal. As Commissioner, Broderick instigated the, ‘Male Champions of Change’ strategy, to help advance gender equality in Australia. It has since been replicated across the country and achieved international prominence, thanks in part to Broderick’s subsequent appointment as Global Co-Chair of the Women’s Empowerment Principles Leadership Group, a joint initiative of the UN Global Compact and UN Women. On behalf of the Commission, Broderick also conducted the first independent Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force. Broderick was named overall winner of the Australian Financial Review and Westpac 2014 ‘100 Women of Influence Awards’ in acknowledgement of her achievements while in office. Broderick is Principal of Elizabeth Broderick & Co., Senior Advisor to the Australian Federal Police Commissioner on cultural change and Special Advisor to the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Executive Director of UN Women on Private Sector Engagement. She serves on a number of boards and continues to advocate for societal change. In 2016 Broderick was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia. She was also named 2016 New South Wales Australian of the Year. She has honorary degrees from the University of New South Wales and The University of Sydney, and the University of Technology Sydney. Elizabeth Broderick was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Elizabeth Broderick was born in 1961 in Hobart, Tasmania; she has a twin sister and a younger sister. When she was a child, the family moved to New South Wales. From a young age, she observed her parents, Margot and Frank Broderick, sharing the housework and supporting each other’s careers. Learning from this display of equality, she also absorbed from her parents the value of community responsibility [Executive Style]. Broderick had her first taste of public leadership when she became head girl of Meriden Anglican School. She went on to graduate from the University of New South Wales with Bachelor of Arts (Computer Science) and Bachelor of Laws degrees. Far-sighted, Broderick recognised early on the significance which technology would have to the provision of client services; between 1985 and 1987, she worked overseas, exploring how technology could be used to manage evidence in litigation cases and complaints systems. [Gome and Ross]. After joining the research department of the Sydney office of Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) in 1987, Broderick began employing technology to help lawyers retrieve documents more efficiently [Gome and Ross]. In 1991, Broderick established the firm’s legal technology group, providing services in-house and externally to clients. In 1995 she broke new ground, revolutionising the firm’s culture, when she became the first part-time partner, and head of legal technology and the first member of the Board to work part-time. [Executive Style]. An innovator, Broderick thrived on her work and her output was correspondingly prodigious: among other things, she created commercial computerised legal products in such fields as environmental law, occupational health and safety, and workplace discrimination; she also set up an online service – Virtual Lawyers – for legal enquiries. Her achievements led to her being named “2001 Telstra NSW Business Woman of the Year” [Gome and Ross]. She also received the Centenary Medal, for service to Australian society through business leadership. Between 2003 and 2006 Broderick was a board member of Blake Dawson Waldron. When she departed the firm in 2007, 10 per cent of the partners were part-time and 20 per cent of employees had adopted flexible work arrangements [Gome and Ross]. Appointed Sex Discrimination Commissioner in 2007, Broderick backed the prevention of domestic violence against women and sexual harassment; she also championed lifetime economic security for women. Another preoccupation was the balancing of paid work and unpaid caring responsibilities, while yet another was the promotion of women to positions of leadership. She also sought to strengthen laws relating to gender equality and agencies. Broderick was a strong proponent for Australia’s national paid parental leave scheme [Human Rights]. Seeing the provision of opportunities for both men and women as critical to achieving a fair society, Broderick has advocated for flexible working conditions for both sexes, arguing for “more senior part-time roles filled by men and women” [Nader]. In April 2010, Broderick initiated the ‘Male Champions of Change’ strategy; she remains its convenor. Broderick has said of it: “This initiative engages powerful and influential men from all sectors to stand beside women and lead tangible action to promote gender equality and social change” [Broderick LinkedIn]. The program began with Broderick asking 12 male ‘captains of industry’ if they would promote gender equality within their workplace. Its success has seen it replicated around the country and also introduced to audiences overseas. Although it has been criticised for relying on men to advance women’s interests, Broderick argues that: “what we need to do is recognise where power sits in this country, and that is clearly in the hands of men. So if we want to move to a model where power is shared, we need to work with those who hold it” [Marie-Claire]. Broderick’s work with the Commission took her around the country and across the world, including representing Australia each year at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. In 2009 she was part of an Australian delegation which included Aboriginal representatives of the Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women’s Resource Centre who attended the 53rd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women [Human Rights Leadership]. Charged by the Australian Government with leading the first independent Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) following allegations of sexual misconduct in the ADF’s Academy in 2011, Broderick tabled her fourth and final report on women within the ADF in 2014. [Sydney Morning Herald Defence]. Broderick was twice reappointed as Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner in 2012 for 2 years and for a further year in 2014. In embarking on her new term, she sized up the state of gender equality in Australia thus: “… the pay gap is the largest it’s ever been at 18.2 per cent. Violence against women is still a significant issue: 1.2 million women today will be either currently living or have recently done so in a relationship characterised by violence. And we still have very few women at leadership level across Australia” [Kerin]. In October of the same year, Broderick was named overall winner of the Australian Financial Review and Westpac 2014 ‘100 Women of Influence Awards’. A unanimous choice as winner, the judges were impressed by Broderick’s communication skills which allowed her to engage with and influence a broad cross-section of people for the betterment of society, and what they considered her transformation of the role of Sex Discrimination Commissioner [Sydney Morning Herald Discrimination]. The following month, she was conferred with an honorary degree from the University of Sydney [University]. She also has honorary degrees from the University of New South Wales and Sydney University of Technology. When her term as Sex Discrimination Commissioner ended, in September 2015 Broderick founded Elizabeth Broderick & Co. She was later appointed 2016 New South Wales Australian of the Year. In 2016, Broderick was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for her advocacy with respect to human rights and family violence [Guardian]. She was also appointed Special Advisor to the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Executive Director of UN Women on Private Sector Engagement. In this role she is helping the UN to improve engagement with the private sector with the aim of producing more gender-diverse organisations [Huffington Post]. Broderick is a member of the Australian Rugby Union Board, International Services of Human Rights Board, University of New South Wales Law Advisory Board, Australian Defence Force Gender Equality Advisory Board and the Victoria Police Corporate Advisory Group. She is also a Senior Adviser to McKinsey and Company. She was formerly a member of the World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development and was Partner Co-Director with NATO on Women, Peace and Security. Broderick has garnered widespread respect for her skills as a communicator and leader with demonstrated strengths in cultural and organisational change. She has been a social innovator and visionary who has championed important matters concerning gender equality which have led to improvements in Australian society. Published resources Newspaper Article Australia Day honours: David Walsh and Elizabeth Broderick among recipients, Davey, Melissa and Brereton, Adam, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jan/26/australia-day-honours-david-walsh-and-elizabeth-broderick-among-recipients Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Elizabeth Broderick interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 9 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Elizabeth Broderick Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers reflect Meitka Gruszka’s involvement in the Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia, the Catholic Migrant Centre and the National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council, and her concern generally with issue relating to multiculturalism. A number of records from the three organisations are included in the papers, which comprise brochures, business’ corporate plans, financial statements, grants, minutes, newsletters, posters, programmes and reports.??Detailed listing available; MN 1801 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 August 2006 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 6531 comprises a commonplace book kept by Nettie Palmer in which she transcribed favourite pieces of poetry, extracts of prose writing, brief diary entries and personal reminisciences for the period 1907-1910, 1913-1914, 1918-1921 and 1936. Loose clippings, a drawing and manuscript notes inserted (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Alison Bailey was an Australian Democrats candidate for Kogarah in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (2003) and in the House of Representatives for Banks (1996) and for Cook (2001). She was and elected member of the Hurstville City Council from 1991 to 1995. Alison Bailey is a pharmacist by profession and has worked in many Sydney suburbs. By 1996, married, with twins, she was working as a desk top publisher from home. She was elected to the Hurstville City Council in 1991 as a representative of the Hurstville Residents Association and campaigned against inappropriate development of the area. She reported to the Association and edited their monthly Newsletter from 1991. Alison Bailey joined the Democrats in 1994. She is a member of the St George Community Services, and was honorary secretary of it in 1996. She was closely involved with parent committees of the Oatley West Public School, which her children attended. Alison Bailey is a keen and competitive canoeist and is closely involved with the organisation of the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic which raises money for medical research. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This series consists of the Building and Building Finance Committee files of the Katherine Branch of the Country Women’s Association. The main building project was the addition of a rest room to the CWA hostel in Katherine, which was opened in 1976. Included is the file from the Architect (File title: Architects’ File) which contains building account receipts, minutes of meetings, contracts, plans and specifications of the rest room and hostel. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Overview of the history of Victorian Aboriginal reserves and details of individual reserve sites; Buntingdale Wesleyan Mission; Goulburn Protectorate Station; Keilambete; Merri Creek School; Mordialloc Reserve or Westernport; Mount Franklin Station; Mount Rouse Protectorate Station; Naree Naree Warreene Protectorate Station; Neeriman; Warrandyte; Yarra (Government) Mission; Acheron Station; Bacchus Marsh Reserve; Coranderrk Station; Dergholm Reserve; Duneed Reserve (Geelong); Elliminyte Reserve (Colac); Framlingham; Gayfield Reserve Murray River; Kangertong Reserve; Karngun Reserve (Winchelsea); Lake Boga Mission; Lake Condah; Lake Hindmarsh Mission – Ebenezer; Lake Moodemere or Wahgunyah Reserve; Lake Tyers Station; Maffra Aboriginal Reserve; Ramahyuck Mission; Steiglitz Reserve (Werribee); Tallageira Reserve; Tangambalanga Reserve (near Kiewa); Yelta Mission Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 5 October 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In 1933, probably for the first time in the history of Australian Criminal Court practice, Patricia Hackett became the first woman barrister to appear in the defence of a man charged with murder. After a short career in the law, Hackett went on to open theatre company, the Torch. She went on to appear in, direct and produce many plays in Adelaide. Patricia Hackett, theatrical producer, actress and lawyer, was born on 25 January 1908 in Perth, the second of five children of (Sir) John Winthrop Hackett (d.1916), newspaper proprietor, and his wife Deborah Vernon, née Drake-Brockman. In 1918 Deborah remarried and the family moved to Adelaide. Educated in 1919-22 at Church of England Girls’ Grammar School (The Hermitage), Geelong, Victoria, and for two months in 1923 at Woodlands Church of England Girls’ Grammar School, Adelaide, Patricia matriculated by private study in 1924. Next year she passed two subjects towards a law degree at the University of Adelaide, but was dismissed for sitting her sister’s Latin examination (Peoples). In 1927 Patricia went to London where she passed her final examination in law in 1929. Called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1930 and admitted to the South Australian Bar that year, she practised in Adelaide; Don Dunstan was to share her chambers from 1952 (Peoples). In 1933, probably for the first time in the history of Australian Criminal Court practice, Patricia was the first woman barrister to appear in the defence of a man charged with murder. Creating intense interest, the trial of Salem Mackaad, a Syrian storekeeper, charged with the murder of Richard Joseph Supple, whose dead body was found last June on the bank of the Torrens river, commenced in Adelaide (The West Australian). Patricia acted as the defence counsel for the accused with the legal firm, Matthews and Patricia Hackett of Adelaide. According to a report from the West Australian Newspaper from July 1933, “In her early twenties, Miss Hackett, in conjunction with her partner, Mr. L. B. Matthews, has already conducted successfully a number of cases in the Adelaide Courts but had not previously appeared in a trial of the present magnitude” (The West Australian). Patricia went on to produce and perform in many plays in Adelaide. She opened her own theatre company, the Torch. She was an actress of ‘remarkable purity’, although her performances were occasionally marred by pretentiousness. By nature she was generous, witty, flamboyant, temperamental, outspoken and fiery. Her drive and energy were astonishing (Peoples). Patricia’s last play, Legend, comprised much of her verse and was performed as a fringe production during Adelaide’s inaugural Festival of Arts (1960). She died of coronary thrombosis on 18 August 1963 at Hackney and was cremated. In 1965 the University of Western Australia established the Patricia Hackett prize, awarded annually for the best creative writing published in Westerly magazine (Peoples). Published resources Resource Section Hackett, Patricia (1918-1963), Peoples, Jo, 2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hackett-patricia-10385 Newspaper Article Woman Barrister, 1933, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/33329630 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 19 May 2016 Last modified 9 August 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection consists of records accumulated by successive committees between the early 1970s and 1998. It includes documents relating to the formation and constitution of the Society, Executive minutes, reports and correspondence, State branch reports, membership lists, newsletters, manuscripts submitted for Society competitions and workshops, grant submissions, conference papers and legal and financial papers. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 September 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers relating to Frances Burke. They comprise correspondence to Frances Burke, articles on Interior Design, newspaper articles, and home magazines. Author Details Clare Land Created 6 November 2002 Last modified 1 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Judge Kathryn Kings Created 11 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Kathryn Kings Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Suzanne Ashmore-Smith was a once-only candidate (ALP for Bligh in 1978), who later had a varied and successful career. Suzanne Ashmore-Smith was educated at Santa Sabina College, Strathfield, and the University of Sydney, where she graduated in Arts (BA) and obtained her teacher’s certificate. She later completed a law degree at the University of New South Wales (LLB). She taught in schools in Papua New Guinea and Thailand and was a part-time tutor in politics at the UNSW for three years. In 1978 she became Assistant Research Officer with the Australian Taxation Office, later rising to become Assistant Commissioner. Suzanne Ashmore-Smith joined the ALP c.1960. After returning to Australia from a long residence overseas, she rejoined the party and was elected a delegate to various party councils and to the Labor Women’s Conference. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 2 August 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Wendy Machin was the first woman National Party member of the Legislative assembly of New South Wales and is an outstanding figure in many fields. She has successfully contested the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly Gloucester, 1985 New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Manning, 1988 New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Port Macquarie, 1991, 1995 (resigned August 1996). During her long period in politics Wendy was Chairman of Committees from 1989-93, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Minister assisting the Minister for Roads and Minister assisting the Minister for Transport 1993-95. Prior to entering state politics, she was Alderman of the North Sydney Municipal Council from 1983-85. Wendy Machin was educated at Wingham High School and the NSW Institute of Technology (BA). After graduation, she worked as a Young National Party field organiser for a year and was Communications officer for the National Party of Australia 1981-2. She was elected to North Sydney Municipal Council in 1983, and in 1985 to the NSW Legislative Assembly for Gloucester, becoming the first woman to be elected for the National Party to the Legislative Assembly. Subsequently, she won the seats of Manning and Port Macquarie, and was MLA for Port Macquarie until her resignation in 1996, after the birth of her second child. Wendy Machin was Chairman of Committees 1989-1993, Minister for Consumer Affairs, and Minister assisting the Minister for Roads from1993-5. She was Shadow Minister for Consumer Affairs, Roads and Fisheries 1995-1996. She was vice chairman of the Australian Republican Movement in 1998-2000 and was one of its delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1998. She was President of the Save the Children Fund 1996-2000. In 2005 she was appointed by the Insurance Council of Australia to review their general insurance privacy code. Also, in 2005, she was appointed to the Board of the NRMA. She is a member of the Migration Review Tribunal. She married David P. Bell on 20 July 1991, and they have one son, and one daughter. She owns and runs a beef cattle property near Wingham and runs her own consultancy business, Machin Consulting. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1998, Neto, Maryanne (researcher), 1997 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "NS1253/1/67 St Marys Mothers Union Minutes Book??NS1253/1/68 St Marys Mothers Union Minutes book-Moonah, Glenorchy Branch of Mothers Union??NS1253/1/69-73 St Marys Mothers Union Minute book Author Details jane carey Created 18 February 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Margaret Berry’s distinguished career in the Australian armed forces began in October 1941. She was one of the original officers of the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) and was in charge of the first AWZS training school at Mt Lofty. Other posts included being Assistant Controller with the Tasmanian Line of Command Area, the Second Australian Army and the 4th Military District. Upon leaving the AWAS in 1947 with the rank of major, Berry travelled to Britain and joined the Women’s Royal Army Corps (WRAC). Commissioned with the rank of captain, she is thought to be the only Australian woman to have achieved this. Her experiences in the WRAC included: company command in Northern Ireland, commanding officer in Kent, promotion to lieutenant-colonel with a posting to Egypt where she commanded a WRAC battalion of 400 women, service as adviser to the Commander-in-Chief on matters relating to women, a tour of duty to Cyprus, including the 1956 transfer of the WRAC to Cyprus. Margaret Berry returned to Australia in 1958 and devoted much of her time to caring for her mother and then her brother. She died in the same North Adelaide street she was born in, in September 2000. Her family remembers her as ‘an incredibly worldly woman, always up to date yet timeless.’ Margaret Berry was educated at Yoothamurra Private school, Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide Kindergarten Training Teaching College and Medway School of Art, Rochester, England. She worked as a Kindergarten Director in Australia, India and England before joining the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) during the Second World War. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1947, Chisholm, Alec H, 1947 Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 9 October 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises: public inquiry into migrant women; notes relating to English classes for women; brochures from the Women’s Humanitarian Organization and the Women Refugees Education Network; promotion of a public meeting at the Migrant Resource Centre; papers relating to the formation of the Australian Migrant Women’s Working Group; press releases on immigration; mailing list for the National Network of Migrant Women; correspondence; leaflets on the federal government telephone interpreter service; WEL SA submission to the Secretary to the Committee to Advise on Australia’s Immigration Policies; newspaper cuttings; draft WEL policy on immigration and ethnic affairs; mailing list from the Office of Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs; papers relating to Hindmarsh Island, Sorry Day, Women and Reconciliation and Ngarrendjeri women; an invitation to the Indigenous Mother’s Day Dinner; and a letter from The Hon. Jenny Macklin, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs responding to Betty Fisher’s letter outlining the insights of the late Gladys Elphick into the importance of indigenous language in education. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Grace Sydney Vaughan served in the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1974 to 1980. She drew on her extensive experience as a community and social worker to campaign on issues concerned with poverty, unemployment and welfare. Grace Sydney Ingram was born in Neutral Bay in 1922, the daughter of Archibald James Ingram (postal worker) and Grace Parker Morgan. She was educated at North Sydney Girls High School, then at the University of New South Wales (Diploma of Sociology) and the University of Western Australia, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts and Masters in Social Work. She married Walter Vaughan in Sydney in 1942; they had three children. Her second marriage was to Walter Yewers in 1975. Grace Vaughan grew up during the Depression in the 1930s, and experienced directly the poverty that resulted from her father’s unemployment. Over the years she worked in a variety of capacities in the fields of social welfare and community planning, as a trainee nurse, at Sydney radio station 2UE, and as a mail contractor when her husband was out of work during the 1960s. Vaughan moved to Western Australia in 1968, where she worked as a family welfare officer for the Department of Community Welfare, and also as a community social worker and planning consultant. She was elected to the Legislative Council to represent the Australian Labor Party for the South-East Metropolitan Province in 1974. An unfavourable redistribution of electoral boundaries contributed to Vaughan losing her seat in the 1980 election, after only one term. While in Parliament she gained a formidable reputation for speaking forthrightly on unemployment, welfare, poverty, and related social justice issues. She also spoke passionately about the State’s position on abortion, and introduced a bill to decriminalise homosexuality. Vaughan, in the face of considerable opposition, was also responsible for the installation of a women’s toilet off the Parliament House corridor; previously women had to go down at least one floor to use the bathroom. Grace Vaughan died suddenly after a short illness in Perth in 1984. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Journal Article 'Motherboards and Desert Sands - Stories of Australian Rural Women', Dale-Hallett, Liza and Diffey, Rhonda, 2006, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/frontiers/ Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Grace Vaughan, president of the International Federation of Social Workers, 1982-1984, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of meetings of the Social Welfare Commission of the Interim Committee of the Commission, from May 1973 until February 1976. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "I. Personal correspondence, 1933-1996?II. Miscellaneous personal papers, 193–198-?III. Publishing correspondence, 1954-1989?IV. Literary manuscripts, with working papers including correspondence, 1866-1996?V. Records concerning Filmstrips, 1947-1950?VI. Papers concerning service with South Pacific Commission, 1947-1961 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 14 September 2006 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Australian Service Nurses National Memorial was unveiled on 2 October 1999, 100 years after the first Australian nurses paid their own way to the Boer War, by the then Governor-General Sir William Deane. The Australian Service Nurses National Memorial, designed by Sydney-based sculptor Robin Moorhouse, commemorates the role of more than 10,000 Australian service nurses who have served in times of war, including 102 who died while on active service. The Memorial is constructed from translucent blue glass and has the words ‘Beyond all praise’ on the front. It consists of two curvilinear glass walls which are etched with text and images, in a timeline sequence, portraying the history and contribution of Australian Service Nursing. Also included is a collage of historical photographs and extracts from diaries and letters, in the original handwriting. Included on the west side of the memorial are the insignias of the Royal Australian Navy, the Australian Army and the Royal Australian Air Force. Unveiled on 2 October 1999, the ceremony was attended by over 1000 nurses, some from World War II who were in their 80s. A fly past by the Royal Australian Air Force Roulettes and royal salutes by officers from all defence services were included in the ceremony. A march by nurses carrying 102 Australian flags in memory of the nurses who fell in service plus one other flag in memory of civilian nurses who had lost their lives was also included. Other nurses wore vintage uniforms from previous war campaigns and wreaths were placed at the foot of the memorial by several dignitaries, service and civilian nursing groups from across Australia. Published resources Article Service nurses honoured with long awaited memorial, 1999 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2003 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 audiocassette + master Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Miss Irene Foster, journalist and reviewer comprising of correspondence arising from review written by I.M. Foster Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A number of compositions by Louis Lavater. Score and working notes for John Antill’s Corroboree 1956. Trio in G for flute, clarinet and piano and Heroic elegy for orchestra by Miriam Hyde. Also includes photos of Louis Lavater’s memorial. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "I. CORRESPONDENCE, 1945-1996?II. SUBJECT FILES, 1875, 1969-1997?III. PRINTED MATERIAL, ca.1945-1994?IV. SOUND RECORDINGS, 1997?V. VIDEO RECORDINGS, 1975?VI. PORTRAITS, ca. 1957, 1993 Author Details Clare Land Created 19 November 2002 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Information about the Isaacs family and Margaret River and Fernbrook. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 November 2002 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 10207 comprises a poem titled “Bird songs at St. Laurent sur Mer” written by Miriam Hyde, 13-14th May 1980, inspired by her visit to the American Saint Laurent Cemetery in Normandy, France (now known as The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Register of teachers – female (includes appointments etc. 1876 – 1903/1904, c.y.) Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Invented in Chicago in 1887 and derived from the game of baseball, softball was introduced to Australia in 1939 when Canadian Gordon Young became director of physical education in New South Wales and promoted the game in schools. The game found its way to Victoria during the Second World War, when U.S. Army Sergeant William Duvernet organised softball as a recreational activity for U.S. nurses stationed there. Another American, Mack Gilley, brought the game to Queensland in 1946. Softball associations soon formed in all three states, and in 1947 Queensland issued invitations for the first interstate championship in Brisbane. The Australian Women’s Softball Council (now Australian Softball Federation, or ASF) was formed at the second interstate softball championships in Melbourne. Today, championships are played at both state and national level each year for Open Women and Men; Under 23 Women and Men; Under 19 Women and Men; Under 16 Girls and Boys; and Masters teams. The championships are held in each State in rotation, and include: the Mack Gilley Shield; the Elinor McKenzie Shield; the Esther Deason Shield; the John Reid Shield; the Nox Bailey Shield; and the women’s national club championship. The Australian Softball Federation affiliated with the International Softball Federation in 1953. Australia hosted and won the first Women’s World Softball Championships in Melbourne in the mid-sixties. By 1990, twenty-one nations were playing in the world championships, now known as the ‘world series’. Softball was introduced as an Olympic sport – for women’s teams only – at the Atlanta Games in 1996. Australia’s Open Women’s team won bronze that year, followed by a second bronze in Sydney (2000), and silver in Athens (2004). Australia has not won a women’s world championship since the inaugural championship in Melbourne, but its Women’s team is nonetheless ranked third in the world. Australia’s Men’s team is also ranked third in the world, and Australia is currently ‘the world’s best softball nation’, according to Softball Australia. Today, an estimated 20 million people are playing the game worldwide, and 150,000 are playing the game across Australia. No less than 127 national associations now make up the International Softball Federation. Published resources Book Batter up!: the history of softball in Australia, Embrey, Lynn, 1995 Diamond duels: women's softball in South Australia, Correll, Kathleen and Lorraine Mildren Booklet 1982-1983 official softball rules as adopted by the International Joint Rules Committee on Softball, Australian Softball Federation, 1982 Official softball guide and playing rules of the Australian Women's Softball Council, 1961 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Resource Website for the Australian Open Women's softball team, Softball Australia, 2009, http://www.softball.org.au/default.asp?Page=21993&MenuID=High_Performance/4019/0/ Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Wendy O'Connell, softball player, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] [Biographical cuttings on Sharna McEwan, softball player, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] [Biographical cuttings on Joyce Lester, softball player, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 January 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Digital resources Title: Australian women's softball team on world tour Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Australian women did not attend the Olympic Games until the Stockholm Games in 1912. Sarah (Fanny) Durack won gold in the 100m freestyle at the those Games. Another Australian woman did not win a gold medal until the 1932 Los Angeles Games, when Clare Dennis won the 200m breaststroke. This entry includes gold medallists from both the summer and winter Olympics. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 April 2019 Last modified 7 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 tape reels (ca. 44 min.)??Jack and Jean Horner talk of meeting Jessie Street; her knowledge of aborigines; discriminatory clauses in the Act; the referendum; petitions organised by the Federal Council; Jessie’s family history and involvement with the local aborigines; the Feminist Club; refuge at Glenville; how Jessie organised practical ways to help women; the first FCAATSI conference; Doug Nicholl’s refusal to speak on the same platform with Jessie; Jessie’s links with the establishment; feminist support for the Federal Council; Jessie’s concern for the living conditions of aborigines; Jessie’s definiteness about what she wanted and how it should be done; the Melbourne Conference at the Temperance Association; aboriginal affairs and the U.N.; Jessie’s bluntness; resistance to political parties by the Fellowship. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 5 September 2000 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 23 min.)??Sykes, a marriage counsellor, speaks of her counselling career, move to Dubbo, working as Coordinator for Family Life (a relationship counselling and adult education organisation), her experience in relationship counselling, her communications skills training for rural communities and consequent relationship counselling, main types of relationship problems faced by rural families, complicating factors in family breakdowns, and current financial, environmental and human resource implications for farm businesses. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Folder containing family tree and notes. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Newsletters of organisations including Melbourne Women’s Liberation, Women’s Action Committee, Women’s Electoral Lobby , Abortion Law Repeal Association and Women for Survival. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 10 October 2000 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 60 min.)??Anne Gilfillan speaks of her farming background, her childhood (a combination of school and helping on the farm), her violin lessons, their domestic arrangements, the choice of farming as a career, the effect of World War II on the farm, the 1945 drought, 1940s and 1950s farming practices, her marriage, combining raising children and helping with the farm work, women farmers and general lack of recognition, Rural Women’s Award, agricultural politics, coping and learning after her husband’s death, the bank manager’s reaction, the farm management course, current arrangements for working the farm, being financially organised. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Working Women’s Centre is a Statewide information, support advocacy and referral service for the working women of Tasmania The Working Women’s Centre provides assistance on a one-to-one basis, and conducts information sessions on a wide range of issues including: • Pay and leave entitlements • Redundancy • Occupational health and safety • Unfair dismissal • Flexible work arrangements • Superannuation • Maternity leave • Traineeships • Employment contracts • Discrimination and harassment • Worker’s compensation • Enterprise bargaining • Workplace bullying Published resources Resource working women's centre - Tasmania, http://www.tased.edu.au/tasonline/wwc/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Archives Office of Tasmania Working Women's Centre Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 October 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers, comprising a “Peninsula diary”, 17 Oct.-31 Dec. 1915; two letters to his mother, 13 Jan. and 1 Oct. 1916; a photograph of his sister Patricia, an A.I.F. nurse, on a hospital train in Egypt, 1916; and Sister Blundell’s three medals. The diary describes his voyage to Lemnos and Gallipoli; the daily routine in the trenches, 24 Oct.-10 Dec., especially at Chatham’s Post; a rest spell on Lemnos, 12-24 Dec., which included a reunion with his sister who was nursing there; and return to Egypt, 26-31 Dec. The letter of 13 Jan. 1916 was uncensored, having been sent home via a civilian friend, and includes a frank discussion of poor British performance at Gallipoli; the ineptitude of the military authorities; and his approval of the decision to evacuate because of the impossibility of surviving a winter at Gallipoli. Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 26 August 2015 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "After nine years playing for both Victorian and Australian netball teams, Lorna McConchie coached Australia to victory at the first netball World Tournament in 1963. A member of the International Federation of Netball Associations for twenty-five years, McConchie was added to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2004. Lorna McConchie was educated at East Kew Primary School and University High School. She studied physical education at the University of Melbourne and began lecturing in dance, movement and teaching practice. McConchie was involved in the establishment of the University’s prestigious physical education course, drawing students from all over the world. From 1931 to 1940, McConchie played for the Victorian and the Australian netball teams She was vice-captain of the Australian team in 1939, but a planned tour to New Zealand had to be cancelled after the outbreak of WWII. From this time, McConchie became more involved in the administration of the sport. By 1949, she was representing the Australian Physical Education Association at the first women’s conference in Denmark. Ten years later she was the Australian delegate at the Inaugural Conference of the International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA), where an international constitution was accepted. Convenor of the initial IFNA Rules Sub-committee from 1963 to 1967, she remained a member of the Federation for twenty-five years and was awarded the IFNA Service Award in 1991. McConchie continued her involvement with the game itself despite her administrative duties. In 1956 she had become Australian coach and manager of the first women’s touring netball team to visit England. In 1963, once again in England, she coached the undefeated Australian team at the first netball World Tournament. Lorna McConchie was nominated as a member of the Netball Victoria Team of the Century in 2000, and in 2001 was inducted into the Netball Hall of Fame. She died the same year. Netball Victoria has named the State League Umpire Award in her honour. Events 2004 - 2004 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2004, Office of Women's Policy, Department for Victorian Communities, 2004, http://women.vic.gov.au/web12/rwpgslib.nsf/Graphic+Files/2004_Honour_roll/$file/2004_Honour_Roll.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book An examination of some aspects of sports administration in Victoria, Gill, E.E.P. and L.J. McConchie, 1976 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Edited Book How to play netball, McConchie, Lorna, 1975 The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives University of Melbourne. Department of Physical Education University of Melbourne. Board of Studies in Physical Education Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Netball Australia - Papers Author Details Barbara Lemon and Nikki Henningham Created 25 January 2007 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Merilyn Gieskam ran for election unsuccessfully twice. She was an Independent candidate at the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bligh in 1971 and for the House of Representatives for Sydney in 1975. Merilyn Giesekam was an art student when she ran in 1971. She campaigned as an individualist in favour of a Bill of Individual Rights, unrestricted trading hours, the repeal of censorship laws, and free competition in transport, prisons, garbage collection, sewage removal, education, postal services, hospitals and other public utilities. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Box 1. Letters from: Lord Talbot de Malahide to Margaret Stones, Arnold Hinson, H.J. King, Frank Ludlow, George Sherriff to Margaret Stones. Letter from Stones to Muriel Gossman. Box 2. Letters from Winifred Curtis to Stones and from Stones to Winifred. Tasmania collection notes (1969-1975). Notes for “Endemic flora of Tasmania” (EFT); financial material for EFT; photograph and press clippings of Stones; appendix on cultivation by Lord Talbot; press cuttings on the death of Lord Talbot, Frank Ludlow and Major G. Sherriff. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 March 2003 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personnel dossier for second Australian Imperial Forces ex-service members, 36pp. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 February 2002 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Notebook comprising research and planning for Bonney’s pioneering flight between Australia and England in 1933. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 4 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Laureate Professor Emeritus Cheryl Saunders AO is an eminent law teacher and legal scholar with specialist interests in constitutional law and comparative public law. The first woman to be appointed as a professor to the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Law, Cheryl Saunders’ legacy lies not least in the legions of students she has taught both in Australia and around the globe. It is also evinced in the immense volume of publications she has contributed in the areas of constitutional law, administrative law, constitutional reform, comparative constitutional law, and federation. For many, Cheryl Saunders’ name is synonymous with the Melbourne Law School’s Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, which she pioneered as founding director and with which she has been closely involved since its establishment in 1988. For many years Saunders has been active in public debates concerning constitutional matters in Australia and also overseas. A reflection of the esteem in which her expertise is held abroad can be seen in the many occasions she has been a visiting academic; and in the involvement she has had in constitution building processes on other countries. She is author of a number of submissions and reports, of which a notable example is the 1994 report she was asked to undertake into significant Aboriginal areas in the vicinity of Goolwa and Hindmarsh during the Hindmarsh Island Bridge controversy. Saunders has been a member of, and held senior positions with, such organisations as the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) (2008 – current); the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL), where she has been a President Emeritus since 2007 after having been president from 2004; the Judicial Remuneration Tribunal (Vic) (2005-2010); International Association Centres for Federal Studies (president 2005 – 2010); Commonwealth Archives Council (1984 – 1988); and of the Administrative Review Council 1981 to 1993. She has been a foundation member of the Australian Academy of Law since 2007. Between 1991 and 2000, Saunders was deputy chairman of the Constitutional Centenary Foundation, chaired by the Rt Hon. Sir Ninian Stephen. In 2009, in recognition of her services – particularly to the IACL and to the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) – France conferred upon Saunders the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. In Australia she had been awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003 “(f)or service to constitutional law and as President of the Administrative Review Council”. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1994 “for service to the law and to public administration”. Saunders was born in Quetta, India and came to Australia in 1949. She was educated at Melbourne Church of England Girls’ Grammar School and the University of Melbourne (BA 1966, LLB(Hons) 1967, PhD Law 1976). She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Cordoba, Argentina. She is married to the Hon. Ian Baker, a former Australian politician and journalist. She has two surviving children from an earlier marriage, to David Wells, and six grandchildren. In 2016, Melbourne Law School launched the ‘Cheryl Saunders Scholarship’ which will support students enrolled at Melbourne Law School who have demonstrated both academic merit and financial need. Published resources Resource Section Melbourne Law School academic awarded Legion d'Honneur, 2012, http://newsroom.melbourne.edu/news/n-868 Cheryl Saunders Scholarship Launched, Banks-Anderson, Liz and Roselina Press, 2016, http://law.unimelb.edu.au/news/MLS/cheryl-saunders-scholarship-launched Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Marina Loane Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 31 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Background material and correspondence concerning her research into the history of childhood; reviews; correspondence, research and material regarding ‘Learning and Teaching’; correspondence, articles, research, notes; photographs; replies to newspaper enquiries regarding Terry family research; correspondence with Hume Dow; correspondence with Ian Maxwell; additional research; transcripts; reviews. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 October 2003 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The bulk of MS 365 is the manuscript of Daisy Bates’ work “The native tribes of Western Australia”, written during her period of service with the Western Australian Government from 1904 to 1912. It comprises 99 “folios” split between Sections I to XIII. Each page has been item-numbered within the “folios”. Many of the drafts have been annotated by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, a British social anthropologist (53 boxes, 2 fol. Boxes). Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Barbara Ross has collected material concerning calligraphy and the history of handwriting, as well as articles on Women’s history and copies of her lectures, talks and published articles. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of the Women Against Rape Coalition (WAR) comprising biographies; histories; correspondence; reports; submissions; a banner; and material distributed to women during a protest rally. See below for more details. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jan Davis has been an activist all her life. As a member of the Australian Greens she ran in the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Maitland in 1995 and 1999. House of Representatives, Patterson, 1996, 1998 Candidate, Senate, NSW, 2001 Candidate, Legislative Council, 2003 Jan Davis is a foundation member of the Maitland Greens, having helped to found the group in 1993. She has been an active political and community campaigner all her life, working for the Vietnam Moratorium movement and Women’s Liberation in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2003, when she ran for the Greens for a seat in the Legislative Council of New South Wales, she was involved in the ‘No Sydney Waste in the Hunter’ campaign. Jan has always been active on local community committees, notably ones involving women and children, such as the Maitland Women’s Refuge Committee. She also worked on the Friends of the Lower Hunter campaign to prevent an aluminium smelter being built among the Hunter Valley vineyards. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 23 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "WINDSOR, NSW. 1940. MRS NANCY BIRD-WALTON WITH LADY WAKEHURST, WIFE OF THE GOVERNOR OF NSW, IN FRONT OF SQUADRON LEADER F.C. MACKILLOP AND GWEN STARK ON AN INSPECTION OF AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S FLYING CLUB AND WOMEN’S AIR TRAINING CORPS (WATC) MEMBERS. (DONOR MRS NANCY BIRD-WALTON). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "History files 1895-1984, constitution, committee material, correspondence, conference material, immigration files, subject files, projects, surveys, finance material, war services, personnel, training files, World Council files, World YWCA files, regional YWCA files, publications, scrapbooks, memorabilia, photographs, films, slides, public relations files, training records. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 May 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Clare Stevenson was appointed Director of the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force on 9 June 1941. Thus she became head of the first Women’s Service formed in Australia for ground-staff duties with an armed force. After the war Stevenson returned to her executive position with Berlei Ltd. Also she became involved with community work. For forty years she was affiliated with the Services Canteens Trust Fund. Clare Stevenson, with a group of friends, helped initiate the Scholarship Trust Fund for Civilian Widows’ Children. She also helped establish the Kings Cross Community Aid Centre as well as the Carer’s Association of New South Wales. On 11 June 1960 Clare Stevenson was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for social welfare services on behalf of ex-servicewomen. On Australia Day 1988 she received the Member of the Order of Australia award for service to the community and to the welfare of veterans. Born at Wangaratta, Vic., Clare Stevenson was the second youngest of six children and moved with her family to Essendon when she was four years old. Her education commenced at Winstow Girls’ Grammar School, Essendon and later Essendon High School. Passing her School Leaving Examination in February 1922, she was one of 116 young women out of a total of 501 who that year signed the matriculation roll at the University of Melbourne. Clare Stevenson was admitted to the Faculty of Science and during her time at the university she was active in campus activities. A member of the Students’ Representative Council and the Science Club, Clare Stevenson was a hockey blue and in 1925, president of the Committee of Melbourne University Women. During the final year of the degree she failed chemistry and enrolled for the Diploma of Education, which she obtained at the end of 1925. She commenced her working career with the Y.W.C.A. and in 1932 became a training and research officer at Berlei Ltd. On 9 June 1941 Stevenson was selected as director of the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) a position she held until she retired on 18 March 1946. At the end of World War II she returned to her position at Berlei Ltd and remained with the company until her retirement in 1960. In her retirement, Clare Stevenson continued her involvement with community associations. Affiliated with the Services Canteens Trust Fund for 40 years, she and a group of friends helped establish the Scholarship Trust Fund for Civilian Widows’ Children. Clare Stevenson helped establish the Kings Cross Community Aid Centre as well as the Carer’s Association of NSW. In 1960 she was awarded the MBE for her services to the community. Clare Stevenson never married and died in Sydney on 22 October 1988. Events 1926 - 1928 Organiser of night classes and clubs for day workers Y.W.C.A. (Sydney) 1988 - 1988 Awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) 2060 - 2060 Appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire 1929 - 1931 General Secretary of the Y.W.C.A, Rockhampton 1932 - 1932 Joined Berlei Ltd to take charge of staff training 1935 - 1939 Senior Execuctive at Berlei Ltd, London 2041 - 2041 Selected as Director of the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force with rank of Squadron-Officer 2041 - 2041 Promoted to Wing-Officer 2042 - 2042 Promoted to Group-Officer 2046 - 2046 Retired from Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force 1946 - 1960 Senior Executive at Berlei Ltd Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 Double Time: Women in Victoria - 150 Years, Lake, Marilyn and Kelly, Farley, 1985 Unsung heroes & heroines of Australia /edited by Suzy Baldwin, Baldwin, Suzy, 1988 The W.A.A.A.F. book, Stevenson, Clare and Darling, Honor, c1984 Resource Section STEVENSON, CLARE GRANT, Department of Veterans' Affairs, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=1070264 Book The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, Thomson, Joyce A, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre [Department of Information - Broadcasting Division:] Talks by Wing-Officer Clare Stevenson Director of WAAAF, Clare Stevenson (middle), and Warrant Officer Gwen \"Starkie\" Stark (obscured) on inspection of No. 5 Operational Training Unit, RAAF. Group portrait of a number of WAAAF officers who attended the first annual conference of WAAAF staff officers. In the outdoors, the Director WAAAF, Group Officer Clare Stevenson, and a WAAAF Wing Officer conversing with WAAAF officers who conducted a four-day bivouac. Stevenson, Clare Grant (Group Officer, Director WAAAF) Group portrait of four \"original\" WAAAF officers with the Director WAAAF Group Officer Clare Stevenson after a WAAAF Staff Officers conference at Air Force Headquarters, Victoria Barracks. National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Clare G Stevenson - Honour STEVENSON CLARE GRANT : Service Number - 351001 : Date of birth - 18 Jul 1903 : Place of birth - Unknown : Place of enlistment - Unknown : Next of Kin - STEVENSON A State Library of New South Wales Clare Grant Stevenson - papers, 1941-1947, concerning the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force Clare Grant Stevenson - further papers, 192--1988, mainly concerning the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, with the papers of Joyce A Thomson concerning Clare Grant Stevenson, 1941- 1992 Clare Grant Stevenson papers, ca. 1917-1988, together with unidentified business records, 1848-1876; and the papers of Stella Florence James, 1919-1971; Marian Macleod Hamilton, nee Grant Stevenson, 1898-1979; and Ada Pollie Grant Stevenson, 1934-1938 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 December 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Wing Commander J. R. Gordon with members of the WAAAF. 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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 12 December 2002 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) officers Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Newsletters, minutes of meetings, annual reports, financial records, correspondence and related material. Boxes 1 — 5 contain papers related to the 15th I.F.U.W. Conference held in Brisbane in 1965. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 January 2010 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes; circulars; tapes and cassettes; posters; circulars; car stickers, broadsheets; forum papers. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Typescript of speech given by Lady (Elizabeth) Wilson at the seminar of the Cornish Association of South Australia, 13 May 1977. The subject of Lady Wilson’s address was the Bonython family in South Australia. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes and related papers concerning the events planned for the celebration. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Hard Facts For Hard Times, Newsletters No. 1-24, May 1980-May 1992, written and published by Hon. Joan Coxsedge, MLC, Melbourne West Province. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rebecca Vassarotti was elected as a Greens member for the seat of Kurrajong in the ACT election of October 2020 and was subsequently appointed Minister for the Environment, Parks and Land Management, Minister for Heritage, Minister for Homelessness and Housing Services and Minister for Sustainable Building and Construction. In March 2024, following a ballot of Party members, she was elected Deputy Leader of the ACT Greens. Rebecca Vassarotti was born and raised in Canberra; one of six children. Her mother Therese (née Holland) was a teacher; her father, Kevin a public servant. With Italian Irish family heritage, her maternal ancestors the Keefe and Cullen families were some of the original settlers in the ACT region. Her paternal ancestors migrated from northern Italy in the 1890s. Vassarotti’s parents moved to Canberra from Sydney to work in the public service. In her inaugural speech, Vassarotti noted that “while things were far from lavish, we were never in any doubt that we were privileged and we needed to think about how we could contribute to our community.” She credits her parents for fostering her sense of social justice, leadership and activism. Educated at Saint John the Apostle Florey, Saint Francis Xavier Florey and Hawker College, Vassarotti has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Political Science (1994) and a Masters in Environmental Law (2000) from the Australian National University. After completing university, she worked as a graduate in the ACT public service, later being appointed Executive Director, YWCA Canberra, Deputy CEO Australian Council of Social Service and Executive Director, International Network on Hepatitis and Substance Use. She formed her own independent consultancy and served as a community member of the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal and a range of voluntary board roles including with Community Housing Canberra, the Early Morning Centre and the Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy. She was a co-founder of the Canberra Gambling Reform Alliance. Through her work with the YWCA and organisations such as the Council of Social Service, Vassarotti became passionate about issues of social exclusion, disadvantage and marginalisation. Her belief in taking responsibility and contributing to fixing problems led her to depart from advocacy and become directly involved in political life. First running for the Greens in 2016, Vassarotti was elected in 2020 for the seat of Kurrajong, having displaced former Liberals member Candice Burch. With six Greens winning seats, Vassarotti was appointed Minister for the Environment, Parks and Land Management, Minister for Heritage, Minister for Homelessness and Housing Services and Minister for Sustainable Building and Construction. In March 2024, following a ballot of Party members, she was elected Deputy Leader of the Greens. Vassarotti has three children, twin sons and a daughter. Family is extremely important to her. She is passionate about her local community and excited about pushing herself to do new things. She loves travelling and exploring new places; karaoke, dancing and keeping fit. Published resources Vassarotti, Rebecca: Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory website, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/tenth-assembly-members/kurrajong/vassarotti-rebecca Rebecca Vassarotti: ACT Greens website, https://greens.org.au/act/person/rebecca-vassarotti Rebecca Vassarotti inaugural speech to the ACT Legislative Assembly, https://greens.org.au/act/news/rebecca-vassarotti-inaugural-speech-act-legislative-assembly Rebecca Vassarotti Wikipedia entry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Vassarotti First Sydney, then the world: How new minister Rebecca Vassarotti realised Canberra had everything she needed, White, Daniella, 28 January 2021, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7102475/first-sydney-then-the-world-how-new-minister-realised-canberra-had-everything-she-needed/ Author Details Margy Burn Created 16 August 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of Marjorie Tipping, including correspondence relating to the Australian Ballet Society (1975-1978), Friends of the Victorian College of the Arts, International Social Service – Australian Branch (1978,79,84), the Lyceum Club (1970-1985) Melbourne and the Place Names Committee (1975-1984) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Leslie Taverner was recognised, together with her husband Owen and son John, for her contribution in managing and conserving the buildings and grounds of Manuka Pool in the Australian Capital Territory from 1955 to 2012 by their inscription on the ACT Honour Walk in 2016. Leslie Taverner was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2016 following the Taverner family inscription on the ACT Honour Walk. “Leslie Ellen Taverner was born on 20 February 1925 in Griffith, NSW, the fifth of fourteen children of Margaret Gladys (nee Wilson) and Arthur Kelly. When she was two, the family moved to Boorowa, where Arthur had a butcher shop. They then moved to Queanbeyan and Canberra, where they initially lived in the former Molonglo Internment Camp in Fyshwick, and Leslie began school. When they later moved to The Causeway, she attended St Christopher’s School in Manuka. Her father initially worked at the Yarralumla Brickworks until 1937, then later at the Kingston Power House, where he stoked the furnaces. Her family lived in one of the three weatherboard cottages on site until Arthur died in 1942. Leslie left school at 15 and worked as a waitress in a cafe in Kingston where she met Owen George Taverner, at that time enlisted in the Army. They married in 1943. On his discharge from the Army in 1945, Owen worked in Canberra as a bricklayer and builder. He was a volunteer lifeguard at Casuarina Sands on the Cotter River and from 1947 at the Manuka Pool. After the Olympic Pool opened in Civic in 1955, the Department of the Interior leased Manuka Pool and in 1956 Owen became its first leaseholder. At that time the Taverner family lived in Bougainville St, Manuka. As the mother of three children, Leslie was busy with home duties during the week but on weekends, when the pool was often crowded, she worked as cashier and sold ice creams at the pool. As the pool initially had no refrigerator, the ice creams were kept cold in canvas bags filled with dry ice. In 1980 their son John, previously a gardener at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, was recruited to help manage the pool. When Owen retired in 1990, John became its second leaseholder. Owen died in Canberra in 1999 aged 75. Leslie died in Canberra on 13 December 2012 aged 87. The contribution of the Taverner family to Canberra in managing and conserving its buildings and grounds from 1955 to 2012 was acknowledged by their inscription on the ACT Honour Walk in 2016.” Archival resources Interview with Leslie Taverner Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 23 February 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "AT SEA. C. 1946-05. LIEUTENANT G. MAINWARING, WAR ARTIST, PAINTING MAJOR JOAN CHRISTIE, AWAS, ON BOARD HMAS SHROPSHIRE ON ITS WAY TO CAPE TOWN ON THE FIRST LEG OF THE VOYAGE TO LONDON. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Candice Burch was a member of the ACT Legislative Assembly from 2017 to 2020, representing the electorate of Kurrajong for the ACT Liberals. She was the Shadow Minister for Transport and Public Sector Management from February 2019 to October 2020. After losing the seat in 2020, Burch worked for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia before returning to Sydney in 2023 to work as a senior manager in Corporate Affairs for AstraZeneca. Candice Burch was born in South Africa in 1988 and came to Australia in 1990. She grew up in Kalgoorlie and Sydney, before moving to Canberra in 2007 to study at the Australian National University (ANU). She was awarded Bachelor degrees in Economics and Arts from ANU and a Master of Business Administration from Deakin University. She worked in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from 2011 to 2012 and the Commonwealth Department of Finance from 2012 to 2017. Burch has been a member of the Liberal Party of Australia (ACT Division) since 2007 and was President of the ANU Liberal Club (2010) and President of the ACT Young Liberals (2014 – 2015). She worked as an adviser to Alistair Coe MLA (2009 to 2011) and Zed Seselja MLA (2011). In 2017 Burch won a seat for the electorate of Kurrajong in the ACT Legislative Assembly. Steve Doszpot had been elected to the seat in 2016 but died in office in November 2017. A countback from the 2016 election preferences resulted in Burch gaining the seat. Burch’s election marked the first female-majority Liberal opposition in Australia. Burch was Chair of the Estimates Committee in 2019 and Deputy Chair of the Environment and Transport and City Services Committee from February 2018 to October 2020. She was the Campaign Manager for the Canberra Liberals from November 2018 to May 2019. In the 2020 election Candice Burch again ran for the seat of Kurrajong but lost her seat when she was narrowly defeated by Greens candidate Rebecca Vassarotti. During the campaign hundreds of her advertising corflutes were destroyed as part of what appeared to be an internal party dispute. A Liberal Party inquiry into those events following the election led to the suspension of two members. When running for the Legislative Assembly Ms Burch identified the three key barriers to gender equality – workplace flexibility, access to affordable childcare, and violence against women. She also called for better support for women when entering and returning to the workforce and greater flexibility for both men and women in the workplace to enable women to better juggle work and family life and ensure that men also have the flexibility to take on greater roles as carers. She stated her commitment to equality of opportunity which she saw as largely beginning with access to education. Her background in finance led to her commitment to ensuring value for money from government spending. In her spare time, Burch’s interests include listening to podcasts, rollerskating and taking her dogs to the beach. She supports the Sydney Swans in AFL, the CBR Brave in ice hockey, and Canberra Cavalry in Baseball. Published resources Candice Burch: Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory website, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/ninth-assembly-members/kurrajong/candice-burch Call for apology to Candice Burch exposes Liberal divisions, Bushnell, Ian, 13 December 2021, https://the-riotact.com/call-for-apology-to-candice-burch-exposes-liberal-divisions/520214 Author Details Sue Tongue Created 14 August 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes recording social functions arranged by the undergraduate committee 1925-1933, 1937-1941; accounts. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence, mainly to and from members of the Hopkins family including with her husband, Francis Hopkins, her children and grandchildren. In addition there are photographs of Hopkins, a small group of financial papers, press cuttings and a small amount of family history material. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence; working papers; pamphlets; constitution, charter and other policy material; co-ordinating committee minutes; general minutes; conference material; election campaign material; submissions; International Women’s Year material; newspaper cuttings; Victorian broadsheets; interstate newsletters; publicity material. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Coralie Joy Rockwell undertook her tertiary studies at the University of Sydney, receiving an Honours degree in music in 1966 and a Diploma of Education in 1967. Coralie won a scholarship to UCLA and completed a Masters Degree in ethnomusicology in 1969. After returning to Sydney, Coralie sang alto with the Leonine Consort, the Sydney University Renaissance Players and the ANU Choral Society (SCUNA) in the 1960s and 1970s. She taught at high schools and colleges in Sydney and Canberra, and was instrumental in the foundation of the first non-Western music course at the Canberra School of Music, where she also taught. She undertook research in Indonesia and South Korea, specialising in the kayagum (12-string zither). In 1975 Coralie returned to Canberra to study Chinese and later completed the Chinese major at CCAE. She spent three years with her husband Michael Sawer in Shanghai and Beijing, teaching English, studying Chinese language and researching Chinese music. From 1988 to 1990 she undertook doctoral research at the University of Sydney. Sadly, this work remains incomplete. Coralie was an active member of the Musicological Society of Australia (MSA), serving as President of its ACT Chapter from 1987 until 1989. She worked hard to forge links with the Shanghai Conservatorium, and to establish a gamelan ensemble at the School of Music and ANU, linked with the Indonesian Embassy. She also published widely and contributed to various MSA conferences, seminars and publications. After her death in 1991, the Coralie Rockwell Foundation was formed and raised funds to purchase an Indonesian gamelan orchestra for the Canberra School of Music. Archival resources Australian National University Archives Papers and recordings of Coralie Rockwell Author Details ANU Archives Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) was formed in March 1941 after considerable lobbying by women keen to serve and by the Chief of the Air Staff who wanted to release male personnel serving in Australia for service overseas. The WAAAF was the first and largest of the World War II Australian Women’s Services. It was disbanded in December 1947. During the early years of World War II the necessity to make use of women in many new avenues of employment became apparent. Despite resistance from some members of the War Cabinet, bureaucrats and the Service, in February 1941 the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) received approval to create the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF). Wireless telegraphists were urgently needed to assist in meeting a temporary deficiency of male wireless telegraphists. A senior WAAAF officer was appointed from 24 February 1941 with more appointed from 10 March 1941 and a WAAAF Training Depot was established at Malvern, Melbourne. Recruiting commenced on 15 March 1941 and on 17 March the first nineteen airwomen reported at the Training Depot, ten of them being teleprinter operator trainees. Although recruiting continued it was officially slowed down until Japan entered the war in December 1941. Following this event, the three Defence Services recommended the greater employment of women in order to release men for operational duties. By the end of 1941 some 1500 were serving. This number grew to a peak strength of 18,667 officers and airwomen by October 1944. They served in all states of Australia, from Cairns in Northern Queensland to Geraldton in Western Australia. Airwomen were accepted into 73 different musterings (trades), including highly skilled technical employment on aircraft. In addition to telegraphists, women became armament workers, electricians, fitters, flight mechanics, fabricworkers, instrument makers and meteorological assistants, besides using skills in many clerical, medical, transport, catering, equipment, signals and radar fields of employment. Over 700 women held commissioned rank and like airwomen, worked in a great variety of administrative, technical and professional tasks. A number commanded units in operations rooms, at General Douglas MacArthur’s Headquarters in Brisbane dealing with intelligence matters, at Operational Units, in RAAF Hospitals, Aircraft Depots, Radar Stations, RAAF Bases – wherever they were needed, they served. Airwomen were paid two-thirds of RAAF male pay for equivalent positions. The officers were paid a good deal less than male officers of equal rank. Although members were enrolled when the service was first formed, the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force was constituted as a part of the Permanent Air Force by the Air Force (Women’s Services) Regulations (Statutory Rules 1943, No. 69) which came into operation on 24 March 1943. In due course members were given the choice of signing a form of enlistment or attestation in which they volunteered for the duration of the war and twelve months thereafter or returning to civilian life. Very few resigned. Every WAAAF, like the men of the RAAF, was a volunteer. Listed at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra are the names of 57 WAAAF who died while serving. Approximately 27000 women saw service in the WAAAF between March 1941 and July 1947 when the last member was discharged from the Force. They proved, together with the women of the Navy and Army and those who worked in munitions factories, the aircraft manufacturing industry, on the land and in all areas where women had been manpowered to replace men, that women could fulfil tasks and roles previously undertaken solely by men. Group Officer Clare Grant Stevenson was appointed Director of the WAAAF with effect from 9 June 1941 and retired from the Service on 18 March 1946. Her unsparing efforts, in helping to weld the WAAAF into an effective component of the RAAF, were an inspiration to all members. Lady Gowrie, wife of the Governor-General, was the first Honorary Air Commandant of the WAAAF and was followed by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester. The WAAAF was the first Women’s Service to be formed in Australia (excluding the Nursing Services) and members were greatly disappointed that, other than several official visits made by a few to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Northern Territory, they were not permitted to serve outside Australia. The value of the work and the skills of the WAAAF during a period when thousands of men needed to be released for operational duty overseas and Australia itself was at risk, encouraged the formation of the Women’s Royal Australian Air Force (WRAAF) in 1951. This branch of the RAAF was disbanded in 1977 when its members became an integral part of the RAAF. Published resources Book The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, Thomson, Joyce A, 1992 WAAAF at war : life and work in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, Robertson, Elizabeth M., 1974 Resource Section WAAAF - an Aussie wartime success story, Doidge, Amber Amber Doidge, 2001, http://www.defence.gov.au/news/raafnews/editions/4404/story10.htm The WAAAF, Joyce, J, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0236.html WOMEN'S AUXILIARY AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE (WAAAF) IN AUSTRALIA DURING WW2, Dunn, Peter, 2002, http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/waaaf/waaaf.htm RAAF Museum Point Cook Home Page, RAAF Museum Point Cook, 2002, http://www.raafmuseum.com.au/ Women in Air Force, RAAF, 1995, http://www.defence.gov.au/raaf/history/women.htm Journal Article Introducing the W.A.A.A.F. : An account of Australia's first Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Johnston, Esme, 1941 Newspaper Article Still fighting 40 years on, Kissane, Karen, 1982 Dreaming of the Wild Blue Yonder, Opitz, Lee, 1991 WAAAF 'Mob' well met again, Gillies, Fiona, 1991 The Way We Were, 1991 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre In the outdoors, the Director WAAAF, Group Officer Clare Stevenson, and a WAAAF Wing Officer conversing with WAAAF officers who conducted a four-day bivouac. Doing a grand job! Join the WAAAF Keep them flying! Thomson, Joyce A State Library of New South Wales Clare Grant Stevenson - papers, 1941-1947, concerning the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force Clare Grant Stevenson - further papers, 192--1988, mainly concerning the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, with the papers of Joyce A Thomson concerning Clare Grant Stevenson, 1941- 1992 Shirley Emilie Shennen - papers, 1923-1991 Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection W.A.A.A.F. history and other documents, 1943-1946 Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc W.A.A.A.F. at war Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 December 2002 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Flight 20E of WAAAF rookies Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Keep them flying! There's a job for you in the WAAAF Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0400gc.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Edna Phillips is a once only candidate for election. She stood as the One Nation candidate in the 2003 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Wallsend. Edna Phillips gave her address as Ashfield, a suburb of Sydney, when she ran for the seat of Wallsend in the Hunter Valley Region. She did not give any further information to the Newcastle Morning Herald, and although placed first on the ballot paper, polled only 3.3% of the votes cast. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Page proofs, working papers and notes connected with the writing and publication of the Silver Jubilee Book by the Parents and Friends Association of St. Benedict’s School. There is a section on the history of the school written by Barbara Ross and a section on the present school written by the current principal Ambrose Hardy. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "6 albums (ca. 1,200 photographs)??The collection by the anthropologist C.H. Wedgwood includes photographs of natives, ceremonies, costume, dances. with interleaved index. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 November 2003 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Liberal Party records including the former Australian National League, Liberal Union, Liberal Federation and Liberal and Country League, comprising minutes, subject files, electoral papers, membership lists, reports, press cuttings, posters, publications, films, videos, sound recordings and photographs together with records of the Liberal Club Ltd and of the Young Liberal Movement. Also includes minutes and financial records of the Eyre State Electoral Committee. A selection of 57 photographs from series 1/58 has been digitised and is available to see on the South Australiana Database; do a NUMBER search on SRG 168/1/58/2-100. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 25 February 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letters (1907-1940); correspondence with L. Glauert (of the W.A. Museum) concerning specimens while at Ooldea native camp (1922-1935); several drafts of “The passing of the Aborigines” with notes used in the preparation of the mss. The bulk of the National Library of Australia’s Daisy Bates collection is the manuscript of her work “The native tribes of Western Australia”, written during her period of service with the Western Australian government from 1904-1912. Many of the drafts have been annotated by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, a British social anthropologist. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 sound files (approximately 185 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 August 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "History files 1895-1984, constitution, committee material, correspondence, conference material, immigration files, subject files, projects, surveys, finance material, war services, personnel, training files, World Council files, World YWCA files, regional YWCA files, publications, scrapbooks, memorabilia, photographs, films, slides, public relations files, training records. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 May 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Probably WINDSOR, NSW. 1940. MISS NANCY BIRD, AVIATRIX (RIGHT), WITH FLIGHT LIEUTENANT MCKILLOP AND GWEN STARK. MISS BIRD WEARS UNIFORM OF THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S FLYING CLUB – FORERUNNER OF THE WOMEN’S AIR TRAINING CORPS (WATC) AND WAAAF. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Margaret Alayne Elizabeth Davis was an early Liberal member of the Legislative Council of NSW. In 1962 (-1963) she was elected to the Bankstown Municipal Council, and in 1966 was indirectly elected to the Legislative Council. She resigned from that position in 1978 to run for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Waverley. She did not gain election. Margaret Davis was married, the mother of three young children, and living in Chester Hill, when she won Liberal Party preselection for the Legislative Council against 41 other candidates. In 1978, she resigned from the Legislative Council and was preselected for Waverley, defeating five others. She was then living in Rose Bay. She needed a 7% swing and failed to get it. She is unusual in giving up an upper house seat and then failing to win the lower house seat she was preselected for. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 14 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection consists of letters to both the Scotts, newspaper cuttings, handwritten drafts of lectures and articles, journals and other printed items containing articles by Sir Ernest, photographs, and books. The letters include many from Lord and Lady Novar, and a large group from Sir Ernest to his wife. In addition, there are notes, lectures and articles by both Scotts, and a collection of photographs relating to the Dyason family of Bendigo. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Black and white photocopy, and typed transcript, of diary written by Matron Sage (2/2 AGH) covering April to July 1940. Describes journey on troopship; entertainment; shore leave at Colombo; nursing duties, sightseeing, shopping, and movements through Egypt and Gaza. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Queens Birthday 1971 [Brig P L Tancred; Col D F W Engel; Lt-Col S L Devlin; Lt-Col J F Patrick; Maj J Copeman; Maj E K Hales; Maj F McAskill; Maj S J Gardner; Capt. W Kelly; Capt. D J Lobb; WOI A J Bowie; WOII J Creamer; WOII W D Kennedy; WOII A E Weaven; WOII C A Henwood; Sgt R Donaldson; S/Sgt R J Green; Sgt J A Wallace; Sgt A Awibabara; Sgt M Martin; Sgt J T Neilson; Sgt R J Tasker; Cpl P H Wilson; Capt. N C James; WOII W D Kennedy; WOI L Wildman; Cpl B Wain; Maj D E Verinder; WOII L R Symons; S/Sgt A A Skinner; Capt. L R Smith; Lt-Col R B Rogers] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 February 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Manuscript drafts of “Hugh Stanford’s Luck” (Sydney, Cornstalk, 1925) and “Robin” (London, Ward Lock, 1926). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 October 2003 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Folder containing two articles by Gladys Vance. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personal papers of pioneer aviatrix Delores Bonney (1897-1994) including (-1) scrapbooks, 1932-1937, (-2) logbook of flights to England and Africa, 1933, 1937, (-3) photograph album of flight to Africa, 1937, (-4) published articles by Bonney, 1933, 1938, draft of article by Bonney, n.d., (-6) maps and charts, c1926-1935, 1954, (-7) ‘Notices to Airmen’ (Civil Aviation Branch, Department of Defence), 1929-1937, (-8) correspondence, 1918-1984, (-9) photographic prints and negatives, 1913-1980s, (-10) press clippings (post flying career), 1952-1984, (-11) essays by schoolchildren about Bonney, 1934, (-12) recorded conversations with Bonney, 1984, (-13) official or legal documents, 1947-1965, travel souvenirs and accommodation records, 1933-1967, (-15) printed material, 1933-1984, (-16) printed announcements and commemorative material, n.d. and (-17) promotional material, c1970s-1980s. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises company reports and investment data, Also, reports and publications of the many organisations Nancye Perry was associated with, booksellers catalogues, and her student notes. Also, replies to inquiries , notes, and correspondence relating to her employment as an entomologist. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 28 December 2017 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Fran Bladen was elected a State Member (ALP) for Franklin in Tasmania and held her seat from 1986 to 2002. She held several ministerial portfolios from 1989 to 1992, and returned to the ministry as Secretary to Cabinet in 1998. She resigned from the Legislative Assembly in 2002 to unsuccessfully contest the Legislative Council seat of Huon. Fran Bladel graduated with a BA (Honours) degree from the University of Tasmania. She became a teacher at Rose Bay High and Bridgewater High and a coordinator of the Tagari Project from 1970 to 1985. From 1989 to 1992 Bladel was Minister for Consumer Affairs, Administrative Services and Construction and Minister assisting the Premier on the Status of Women. She was a member of the Administrative Committee of the Australian Labor Party, the Australian Education Union, the Tasmanian Council of Social Services, the Working Women’s Centre, the Community Enterprise Employment Project (Clarendon Vale), the East Derwent Branch of the Tasmanian Arts Council, the Management Committee of the Housing Assistance Service, the Tasmanian Writers Union and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She was Patron of the Eastern Shore Table Tennis League, the Risdon Vale Community Centre Management Committee and the Bridgewater Police, Citizens and Youth Club. Bladel was a founding member and secretary of ‘A Taste of the Huon’ Festival Committee, Chairperson of Bridgewater/Gagebrook Skillshare Inc and a foundation member of Emily’s List (Tasmania). Events 2006 - 2006 Inducted into the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2001, Herd, Margaret, 2000 Resource Fran Bladel - Member for Franklin, http://www.tas.alp.org.au/people/franklin_1.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Fran Bladel, teacher, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Jocelynne Scutt, 1982-2010 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 October 2001 Last modified 14 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 13 min.)??Palu, an agricultural lobbyist, speaks of her background as an agronomist and her contact with country women, setting up rural women groups in mid-1980s in the Darling Downs region, how as a journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Commission she observed a common lack of involvement of women in rural associations because of low self-esteem, how she initiated in 1992 a state award recognising country women’s contribution to agriculture and how this developed into a national award, the importance of such an award, her family’s cane farming background, her interest in government policy on agriculture, her new role as a lobbyist for the Queensland Farmers Association, her involvement in the Australian Rural Leadership Program, and her future hopes. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Parliamentary files transferred include General Information Files, International Information Files, General Correspondence Files, Pre-1994 General Information and Women Files, Australian Labor Party, Women, Australian Labor Party and Women, Australian Labor Party Committees, Budget papers and Election Material, Parliamentary Matters and Statutory Authorities Review Committee, Industries Development Committee, Family Planning Association & Miscellaneous, Ministerial Notes, Tax Substantiation, National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW), President of the Legislative Council, Consumer Affairs, Cabinet Sub Committees, University of Adelaide, Election Policies and Budgets, Arts, and Various Reports.??The records were transferred by Ms Levy to State Records on the 9 May 2000. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 10 October 2000 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Ann Mitchell has been associated with women’s cricket as a player (state and national level), manager, coach, journalist, and administrator for nearly fifty years. She contributes regularly to cricket journals and has provided commentary for Sydney radio and ABC television. She has also had a long association with women’s university sport, once again as a player and administrator. Most recently, as Executive Director of Sydney University Women’s Sport and Deputy Director Sydney University Sport, Mitchell has made a significant contribution to the status of women in sport, particularly by promoting gender equity in university sport. Over her lengthy career as a volunteer and employee in the sport industry, she has been instrumental in developing opportunities for women in university sports as well as non-playing roles including administration, coaching and sports medicine. Through her representation on numerous sports boards including Women’s Cricket Australia, International Women’s Cricket Council and Australian University Sport, Ms Mitchell has raised the profile of women’s sport in the community. In April 2010, Mitchell was made an Honorary Fellow of Sydney University in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, in recognition of her ‘extraordinary contribution to the University, to cricket and to Australian women’s sport for nearly five decades.’ Ann Mitchell first played cricket with the Sydney University club in 1962. After working as manager of the New South Wales junior and senior cricket sides, she became manager of the Australian team in 1977. Mitchell has served on the board of Australian University Sport and was president of the International Women’s Cricket Council for six years. She served as president of the Australian Women’s Cricket Council from 1988, and is a now life member of Women’s Cricket Australia. In 2005, Mitchell was awarded the Margaret Pewtress Memorial category of the 2005 Ausport Awards for developing and promoting opportunities for women in sport. She was praised for having ‘made a significant contribution to the status of women in sport, particularly by promoting gender equity in university sport’. In August 2006, as Co-ordinator of the Women in Sport Media Group, Mitchell played an active role in the Inquiry into women in sport and recreation in Australia. Today, Sydney University offers the Ann Mitchell award for Most Outstanding Performance at Australian University Games or Australian University Championships. Mitchell was awarded the OAM in 1990. She was executive director of Sydney University Women’s Sport Association in 2002 when members agreed to combine with the men at the Sydney University Sports Union to create a new body called Sydney University Sport. About this move, she said, ‘some members may have had regrets [about the decision] but combining resources was seen as the best way forward.’ Published resources Resource Section Women's Sport: Underpaid, underrated and under the radar, O'Regan, Mick, 2006, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/sportsfactor/stories/2006 Article Women deserve sporting chance: Ellis, Magnay, Jacquelin, 2006, http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Resource Honorary awards Honorary Awards: Helen Ann Mitchell OAM, University of Sydney, 2010, http://sydney.edu.au/senate/HonMitchellH.shtml Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Ann Mitchell interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Sport oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 25 January 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Annie Carl operated the ‘Travellers Rest’ lodging house in Silverton, New South Wales. She was one of the first teachers in the town. Annie Walsh migrated to Australia with her parents, Mathew Walsh and Frances Ann (nee Kennedy), on the Victory in March 1854. Theirs was a large family. Annie moved to South Australia with her sisters, one of whom – Elizabeth – married George Miller in 1869. Miller was licensee of the Menindee Hotel, and offered employment there to Annie and another sister, Jane. On 26 June 1877, Annie married Charles Carl, known in the district as German Charlie. Charles and Annie Carl became licensees of the Small Thorns Hotel at Mt Gipps in 1877 and remained there for four years before moving to Silverton, where Charles built the Nevada Hotel. The Carls had five children: William (born 1878), Julia (born 1879), Wilhemina Margaret (born 1881), Jullian (1883) and Geraldine Ann (born 1887). Only William and Wilhemina survived infancy. Charles Carl died in 1904. In Silverton, Annie ran the Travellers Rest lodging house, helped with community projects, and held evening classes to teach illiterate adults to read and write. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Silverton: A Brief History, Kearns, Richard Hugh Bell, 1973 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 23 January 2009 Last modified 20 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "[Correspondence concerning Lt ANDERSON, Major Jean NFX180285; Lieut CULLEN, Mavis Claudia NFX180290; Lieut CALLAGHAN, Eileen Mary NFX180289; Lieut KEAST, Daisy Carden NFX180286; Lieut PARKER, Kathleen I A; Lieut WHYTE, Lorna Margaret NFX180288. Also contains POW list AC 859 and related correspondence][5 pages] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 March 2003 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Tennis Australia began as the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia in 1904, when it was housed in Sydney, New South Wales. At this time, the Association was affiliated with New Zealand for the purposes of organising the Davis Cup and the Australasian Championships, but the two national bodies separated in 1922. In 1926, the Association moved to Melbourne where it became the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia and was presided over by (Sir) Norman Brookes until 1955. Following a worldwide growth in open tennis in the 1970s and 1980s, the Association became a company in 1984 and was renamed Tennis Australia in 1986. The first Australian Open was held in Melbourne in 1905 with just seventeen entrants. In 1924 it was designated a national event, and was rotated around State capitals until 1972. It has been held in Melbourne each year since. Ladies’ singles and doubles were not included in the championship until 1922, and professionals could not compete until 1969. The Open is now an international Grand Slam event. Notable Australian women tennis players include Evonne Cawley (Goolagong), who won Wimbledon, and Margaret Court (Smith), who won twenty-four Grand Slam titles in the twelve years before 1973. Nancye Bolton (Wynne) won twenty Open titles, and ten national doubles titles with Thelma Long (Coyne). Published resources Book Court on Court: a life in tennis, Court, Margaret Smith, 1976 An illustrated history of Australian tennis, Whitington, R.S., 1975 Great players of Australian tennis, Metzler, Paul, 1979 Grand slam Australia: the story of the Australian open tennis championships, Johnson, Joseph, 1985 Edited Book Gender, theory and sport: the formative years of tennis and snowboarding, Warren, Ian, 2005 The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 January 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Memo: General Inspector David Ewart to Undersecretary J. G. Anderson??Kindergarten, correspondence re pupils, teachers, programs reports, 2 centres, and minutes of proceedings of Committee on infants schools 1910 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Folder containing newspaper clippings. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 February 2009 Last modified 13 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Published 7 May 1975, p. 16. Jaycees of the ACT are collecting non-perishable foods through major Woolworths and Lil’Owl supermarkets to support the refuge. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 sound cassettes (ca. 1 hr. 27 min.)??Hewett speaks of her background, her schooling, her first job, her first encounter with sheep, her parents, starting on a farm, meeting her future husband, love of farming, breeding program with sheep and rams when the Australian Merino Society was still young, Artificial Insemination program (AI), teaching students about training rams, rams’ sexual behaviour, criticism from men in the industry towards a woman who is a rams’ breeder, using a computer to calculate fleece and body weights, setting up two laboratories of wool testing and invaluable help received from CSIRO and the W.A. Dept. of Agriculture. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 2683 comprises: 1. Personal and family correspondence, 1914-1967. 2. Personal documents, 1934-1967, and other papers. 3. Drafts and other papers relating to Jessie Street’s autobiography, Truth or repose. 4. Papers relating to Street’s feminist activities, 1916-1968, including the United Associations of Women. Correspondents include Bessie Rischbieth, Irene Greenwood, Linda Littlejohn and Robert Menzies. 5. Material relating to the peace movement, 1931-1966. 6. Papers relating to the United Nations, 1945-1966, including material on the UN Commission for the Status of Women.??7. Papers relating to Street’s membership of the Australian Labor Party, attempts to gain election to federal parliament and subsequent resignation from the ALP because of her refusal to abandon her pro-Soviet stance. 8. Papers relating to Street’s interest in and numerous visits to the Soviet Union including material on the Australian-Soviet Friendship Society, 1946-1968, and the Russian Medical Aid and Comforts Committee, 1941-1945. 9. Papers relating to the Women’s Forum for Social and Economic Reconstruction, 1941-1945, Immigration Advisory Committee, 1940s, and National Social Insurance, 1930-1952. 10. Papers relating to Aboriginal rights and race relations, mostly 1956-1968, including the 1967 Aboriginal Referendum (31 boxes, 3 fol. Boxes) Author Details Elle Morrell Created 5 September 2000 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Photographs – 15 slides, col. – 35 mm.?1442. Assembly Hall, Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs Centre, 810-812 George Street, Sydney?1443. Mr. R. Burns, caretaker, Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs 1444. David Burns, son of caretaker of Aboriginal Affairs Centre?1445. Gregory Nye, grandson of Mr R. Burns, caretaker for Aboriginal Affairs Centre?1446. Mr Jacob Roberts at Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs Centre?1447. From left: Messrs Jacob Roberts and Steve Dodd at Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs?1448. Mr H. Simms, manager, Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs Centre?1449. Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs Centre 1450. Assembly Hall, Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs Centre?1451. Miss Joyce Mercy, welfare officer, Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs?1452. From left: Harry Williams and Chikka Dixon at the Aboriginal Foundation?1453. Boomerangs at Aboriginal Foundation shop 1454. Didgeridoos at Aboriginal Foundation Shop?1455-1456. Drawings at Aboriginal Foundation Shop Author Details Clare Land Created 19 November 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lists compiled by Miss Bainton for the Captain Cook Bi-Centenary Celebrations, Women’s Pageant of Endeavour Exhibition at Sydney Town Hall, April, 1970. Letter from Miriam Hyde, Liberty Hall, 12 Kelso Street, Enfield, to Beatrice Wines. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1997; Recording of oral history interviews with Faith Bandler. Interviewer Carolyn Craig. Interviews recorded between Apr. and Oct. 1997. 15 cassette tapes. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 November 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her service to education, particularly in the field of history, on 26 January 1989, Kathleen Fitzpatrick was the first woman council member of the National Library of Australia, and a foundation member of the Australian Humanities Research Council (later the Australian Academy of Humanities). Fitzpatrick was educated at Loreto Convents (Albert Park and Portland), Presentation Convent (Windsor) and Lauriston Girls’ School (Melbourne) before attending the University of Melbourne. Following completion of her honours degree, in 1926, Fitzpatrick went to Oxford to complete another undergraduate degree – a common practice at the time. Returning to Australia she found employment at the University of Sydney before becoming a tutor in the English department at the University of Melbourne in 1930. Upon marriage, in 1932, to journalist (later historian) Brian Fitzpatrick, she had to resign her position at the University. Following the failure of her marriage, Fitzpatrick was advised by the University Appointments Board that ‘the only demand for female workers was for good secretaries’. It was recommended that she become proficient in typewriting and shorthand if she wanted to find employment. She enrolled at the Melbourne Technical School (now the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), completed the required subjects and became a teacher of Shorthand and Commercial English at the school. In 1938 Fitzpatrick was offered her old position at the University of Melbourne. Before retiring in 1962 she held positions of lecturer, senior lecturer and associate professor of history. During World War II Fitzpatrick was president of the Council for Women in War. She negotiated with employers on behalf of University of Melbourne women students working at Shepparton under Manpower regulations. In her retirement Fitzpatrick concentrated on research and writing and was disappointed in not being able to find a publisher for her magnum opus, a book on the novelist Henry James. Former student, professional historian and close friend Manning Clark read the eulogy at the Requiem Mass for Kathleen Fitzpatrick held at St Thomas Aquinas, South Yarra on Friday 31 August 1990. Events 1942 - 1948 Senior lecturer of History at the University of Melbourne 1938 - 1942 Lecturer of History at the University of Melbourne 1956 - 1956 Foundation member of the Australian Humanities Research Council (later Australian Academy of the Humanities) 1930 - 1932 Tutor in the English department of the University of Melbourne 1929 - 1929 Temporary lecturer in the history department of the University of Sydney 1935 - 1935 Separated from her husband 1936 - 1936 Became a student in the business section of the Melbourne Technical School (now the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) learning typing and shorthand 1937 - 1937 Teacher of shorthand and commercial English at the Melbourne Technical School 1989 - 1989 Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for her service to education, particularly in the field of history 1949 - 1949 Publication: Sir John Franklin in Tasmania published by Melbourne University Press 1958 - 1958 Publication: Australian Explorers published by Oxford University Press 1975 - 1975 Publication: PLC Melbourne: The First Century published by PLC (Melbourne) 1948 - 1962 Associate Professor of History at the University of Melbourne 1928 - 1928 Graduated BA from Oxford University 1933 - 1933 Graduated MA from Oxford University 2032 - 1940 Married Brian Fitzpatrick a journalist and later historian 1926 - 1926 Graduated BA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne 1983 - 1983 Publication: Solid Bluestone Foundations and Other Memories of a Melbourne Childhood, 1908-1928 published by Macmillan Published resources Book 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 2003 Australian explorers : a selection from their writings with an introduction, Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1905-1990, 1958 Martin Boyd, Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1905-1990., 1963 PLC Melbourne: the first century, 1875-1975, Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1905-1990., 1975 Sir John Franklin in Tasmania, 1837-1843, Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1905-1990. Solid bluestone foundations and other memories of a Melbourne girlhood, 1908-1928, Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1905-1990., 1983 The letters of Lorna Maneschi to her family in Australia, Maneschi, Lorna., 1999-2000. Melbourne University portraits : they called it \"The Shop\", Paper-Clip Collective., 1996 History for the homeless : Kathleen Fitzpatrick's vocation and ours., 1995 Shameful autobiographies : shame in contemporary Australian autobiographies and culture, Dalziell, Rosamund., 1999 Women historians and women's history : Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1905-1990), Margaret Kiddle (1914-1958) and the Melbourne History School, Carey, Jane, 1972- and Grimshaw, Patricia, 1938-, 2001 The Ballad revival in the XVIIIth century, Pitt, Kathleen Elizabeth, 1925 Edited Book The Half-open door : sixteen modern Australian women look at professional life and achievement, Grimshaw, Patricia and Strahan, Lynne, c1982 Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 Dear Kathleen, dear Manning : the correspondence of Manning Clark and Kathleen Fitzpatrick 1949-1990, Clark, Manning, 1915-1991., 1996 Australian lives: an Oxford anthology, Hooton, Joy W. (Joy Wendy), 1935-, 1998 Resource Section Webb, Jessie Stobo Watson (1880-1944), Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120473b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Manning Clark, 1907-1992 [manuscript] The University of Melbourne Archives Pitt, Henry Arthur University of Melbourne Department of History University of Melbourne. Department of History Correspondence of Kathleen Fitzpatrick The Half Open Door Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Elizabeth (1905-1990) National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Kathleen Fitzpatrick, writer and historian, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 October 2003 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "40 minutes??Max Fatchen speaks about his cousin Irene Foster. Irene Foster died before the oral history project began. Max Fatchen talks about Irene’s family the death of her brothers in the Northern Territory and her sister at an early age, being a telephonist at the GPO, being a writer and contributing to Desiderata, wrote book reviews for thirty years, Henry Handel Richardson, encouragement of Australian women writers, relationship with Max, marvellous perception of literature, MBE for founding the Civilian Relief Centre at Gawler, poet John Shaw Nielson, Daisy bates, Dame Mary Gilmore, preliminary judge for the Advertiser Literary Competition, Barbara Ker Wilson and parties in her back garden, leader of many circles in the Lyceum Club including the Literature Circle, excellent critic and a great contribution to literature. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 audiocassettes + master + notes Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A. Minutes of meetings, with related papers, 1963-1981?B. Financial records, 1963-1978?C. Correspondence files, 1963-1981?D. Subject files, 1963-1981?E. Community Aid Abroad (Australia). Southern Africa Group, 1981-1987 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 14 September 2006 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "30 minutes??Helen Winnall talks about marrying in 1923, moving to a sheep station on the Murray River called Maylands, living conditions, problems in the depression, joining the CWA, Country Baby Train, paddlesteamer Pyup a floating emporium, lagoon on the property, correspondence lessons, shearing accident, Point McLeay Aboriginal encampment, Aboriginal relics, skeletons and ochre drawings on Runka station, canoe trees on Maylands, breaking of the drought, illness, and moving back to the city. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers emanating from the couple’s involvement with many community, government and voluntary organisations. Papers include correspondence, minutes, reports, submissions, press cuttings and publications. There are also papers of a more personal nature, such as letters, appointment diaries, mementoes and slides. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Bibliographies, reports, biographical notes, newspaper and magazine cuttings, and photographs re feminism. These relate to American feminists and feminism in general., The material covers an extensive collection of American feminist publications, magazine and newspaper cuttings, notes, and biographical sketches on prominent American feminists.??Publications include material by the National Women’s Trade Union League of America, United States Department of Labor, Amalgamated Centre-Chicago and Chicago Women’s Clubs., Other papers include the Women’s Charter, and material on trade unions and International Congress of Women.??Miscellaneous items include world-wide literary, political and historical references to women in society.??These include: “A bibliography of the woman movement: a guide to reading”: extracts published in ‘The Suffragist’, 1920, entitled a “Bibliography of feminism”.??Reading list – “Women in industry” (advance proof).??Report on the questionnaire sent out by the International Council of Women regarding the status of women in literature and journalism in Australia, submitted to the Press, Letters and Arts Committee of the National Council of Women, Victorian Branch.??Papers, 1895-1942: these include correspondence, published and unpublished articles by Alice Henry and miscellaneous Australian and International feminist papers.??Papers, 1898-1940 on the Playgrounds and Recreation Association of Victoria (P.R.A.V.), Playground Association of Queensland, First International Recreation Congress, 1932, recreational organizations and correspondence schools in Australia.??These include:??Letters signed by Miss E. D. Kelsall; annual report of P.R.A.V.??Report on demonstration playground; 15th and 16th annual report of the Playground Association of Queensland, official re-opening of Paddington Playground, 1936.??American papers re First international Recreation Congress with Alice Henry as a delegate representing Australia, extracts from papers delivered at the Congress, including abstract of address by E. S. Marks, entitled “Recreation in Australia and sports played”; other papers relate to New York Women’s Trade Union League; Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; World Council of Youth and the Tenth Olympiad.??Papers re correspondence schools include newspaper cuttings, booklets re lessons, ‘Round-up’ magazine, 1939; “Education for sparsely populated areas” article by Clarence Lewis, 1935; “Primary education by correspondence” article by K. S. Cunningham, 1931.??Report from Hobart Education Office, 1939; copies of correspondence between Alice Henry and Departments of Education in each Australian State and New Zealand; miscellaneous notes on history of correspondence schools.??Extract of annual report of the League of Nations re education in New Guinea, 1939; two unpublished papers by A. Henry entitled “Johnnie and Mary, a hundred miles from school” and “Schooling in the back-blocks of Australia”,25 photographs of children attending correspondence schools in South Australia, and notes on schools in Adelaide under supervision of Miss Twiss.??Includes nine photographs of Australian Inland Mission and magazine cutting on John Flynn.??Bibliography of the works of Australian women writers.??General papers on feminism include biographical sketches of prominent world-wide feminists, esp. Emmeline Pankhurst, Katharine Bruce Glasier, Eglantyne Jebb, Rosikia Schwimmer.??Legal status question, booklets re illegitimate children in Norway and World Friendship Among Children.??Extracts from ‘The Vote’ and ‘Pax International’, and newspaper cuttings re socialist and trade union issues.??A collection of photographs which include wards of the state in South Australia, 1903.??Old and invalid men, 1903.??Feminists: Elizabeth Maloney, Margaret Bondfield, Susan B. Anthony, Rose Scott, Laura B. Garratt, Annie Lister Watson, Lillian Locke Burns, Mrs R. Macarthur, Ethel Snowden, Dr Kate MacKay, Mrs T. Billington-Greig, J. Forbes-Robertson and Dr John William Yorke Fishbourne. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 6 November 2002 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers relating to the Society of Women Writers of New South Wales, the first women’s literary Society in Australia, founded in 1925. The papers include lists of members, constitution rules and newspaper cuttings. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 September 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Edith Bryan was appointed head teacher of the school section of the Queensland Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution in Brisbane, Australia, in 1901. In 1918 the Queensland government assumed responsibility for this charitable organisation and initially Edith retained her position with the institution. Following an increase in class numbers as a direct result of introduction of the Blind, Deaf and Dumb Instruction Act of 1924, which made the education of deaf children compulsory, it was deemed appropriate in 1926 that a male should take control of the school. Edith retained charge of the deaf section of the school until she retired in 1937, after which she continued to work for the deaf community. An active member of the Queensland Adult Deaf and Dumb Mission which she had helped to establish in 1902, Edith chaired a parent support-group which she had also promoted. The mission named Edith Bryan Hostel in her honour. Educated at the local council school, in 1887-91 Edith served as a pupil-teacher at the Royal Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, Derby. Having obtained a diploma (1892) from the College of Teachers of the Deaf, London, she taught in Ireland at the Dublin Institute for the Deaf, then at the Jews’ School for the Deaf, London, before returning to Derby in 1893. Edith arrived in South Australia in 1895 where, on 29 June at St James’s Church, West Adelaide, she married Cecil Charles Bryan, another teacher from the Derby Institute, who was appointed senior teacher at the Blind, Deaf and Dumb institution, Brighton. Following her husband’s death in January 1897, Edith took a private teaching post at Port Rush, Antrim, Ireland, and then returned to England in 1899 to teach at the Deaf school, Bristol. Edith arrived in Brisbane on 12 November 1901 to take up her position with the Queensland Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution. Upon determining the aptitude of a student, Bryan would then place each child in either an oral or sign-language group. She had been deeply influenced by the work of Thomas Arnold and used his textbooks in training pupil-teachers. Edith was an advocate for change in Queensland in accordance with the 1889 recommendations of the Royal commission on the condition of the blind, the deaf and the dumb in the United Kingdom. She supported early compulsory education for the blind and the deaf, and recommended appropriate teacher-training. The deaf community had great faith in her integrity and competence. Due to her proficiency in sign language Edith was frequently enlisted as an interpreter. Published resources Resource Section Bryan, Edith (1872 - 1963), Swan, Geoffrey, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130320b.htm Book The Edith Bryan Hostel : a commemorative history of the Queensland Deaf Society's residential services, Wilson, Susan G, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Workshop of the Queensland School for the Deaf at Dutton Park, Brisbane, ca. 1935 Queensland State Archives Registers of Letters Received Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 13 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "21 hours 15 minutes??Conducted under the auspices of Filef (the Italian Federation of Emigrant Workers and their Families), the project focuses on the experiences of marriage and emigration of women born in Italy and now living in South Australia. The interviews are designed to give the interviewees the opportunity to reflect on their experiences and to express their thoughts about the future. The study also attempts to emphasise that Italo-Australian women were not passive victims of emigration but that they responded creatively and resourcefully to an alien society and in so doing have become active members of it, although their activity has of necessity assumed forms that have not been visible to members of the mainstream society. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "NS1241/1/53 St John the Baptist Goulburn Street Minutes of meetings of Mothers Union??NS1241/1/54 St John the Baptist Goulburn Street Minutes of meetings of Mothers Union (also contains reports 1951-1960)??NS1241/1/55 St John the Baptist Goulburn Street Minutes of committee of Mothers Union??NS1241/1/67 St John the Baptist Goulburn Street Annual reports of Mothers Union Author Details jane carey Created 18 February 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The MS 8237 collection comprises manuscripts of Harrower’s novels, short stories and plays and a large quantity of personal correspondence with fellow writers and artists. The correspondents include Bill Cantwell, Dorothy Green, Antigone Kefala, Cynthia Nolan, Nancy Phelan, Christina Stead, Judah Waten, Patrick White and Christine Williams (21 boxes, 3 folders, 1 security binder).??The Acc06.016 instalment comprises manuscripts of short stories, reviews, correspondence with publishers and agents, general correspondence, newspaper cuttings, circulars and photographs. Also included are typescripts and correspondence of her cousin, Margaret Dick (4 boxes).??The Acc06.142 instalment comprises an extensive series of letters from Shirley Hazzard to Harrower, spanning almost forty years, 1966-2005. There are also several letters written by Francis Steegmuller and a number of cuttings, mostly relating to Hazzard’s life and career. Included in the instalment are letters from Hazzard’s mother, Kit Hazzard, to Harrower for the period 1966-1981 and letters to Harrower from Hazzard’s sister, Valerie Barnes, for the period 1976-1981. A small envelope contains miscellaneous letters and/or cards from correspondents including Dorothy Green, 1989, Ron Geering, 1990-1997, Colin and Ruby Madigan, 1989 and 2004, and Nancy Phelan, 1989 (4 boxes) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A once only candidate, who went on to successfully follow her profession. Therese McGee stood as an ALP candidate in the 1981 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Northcott. Educated at Loreto College, Normanhurst, Terry went on to the University of Sydney where she graduated with first class honours in Medicine (MBBS). She did her residency at Concord Repatriation Hospital then worked with the Aboriginal Medical Service in western New South Wales and with the Workers’ Health Centre at Lidcombe. She worked for some years in Zimbabwe, where she indulged in her love for obstetrics. On her return to Australia she completed her specialist training and became of member of the Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Terry McGee was an office holder in the ALP at local and state electorate level, and was Vice President of Young Labor. She was also an elected delegate to the Labor Annual Conference and the Labor Women’s Committee. By 2003, she was on the staff of the Adolescent Health/ Medicine at the Children’s Hospital Westmead and working as an obstetrician and gynaecologist. A serious hearing problem and the subsequent search for hearing improvement has meant that by 2005 she was working part time in her specialty. She is the author of a novel based on her experiences, Misconceptions: a novel of birth, death and what happens in between, published in 2003 by Pan Macmillan. Terry McGee is a member of the Doctors’ Reform Society. In July 2005 she was appointed to the Federal Government Committee charged with making an independent review of Assisted Reproduction Technologies. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 1910 comprises a collection of poetry and prose written by Nettie Palmer during a stay in Germany as part of a resolve “to write something everyday… some sort of original stuff” (1 v.). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "I. JOHN FAIRFAX, 1804-1866? 1855; Letters received (2) from William Timothy Cape, 4 June 1855 and Alfred Pope, 29 Sept. 1855 (Call No.: MLMSS 459/1X)? 1804-1866; Miscellaneous printed material (Call No.: MLMSS 459/1X)?? II. SARAH FAIRFAX, nee READING, 1840-1857? 1840-1857; Subscription book for the erection of the new Congregational Church, Pitt Street, Sydney, 1840-1857 (Call No.: MLMSS 459/1X)??III. SIR JAMES READING FAIRFAX, 1853-1918? 1853-1917; Letters received (19) from John Fairfax, Sarah Fairfax, Edward Wilfred Fairfax, Emily Ross and Oswald Brierly (Call No.: MLMSS 459/1X)? 1855-1918; Miscellaneous papers, including a memoir of John Fairfax, 1878 (Call No.: MLMSS 459/1X)? 1873-1889; Diaries concerning his trips to England and Europe, 20 Apr.-5 May 1873, 27 Apr.-1 Nov. 1889, 30 June 1890-3.Feb.1891; diary containing reminiscences of his family’s arrival in Australia in 1838, 15 May 1915 (Call No.: MLMSS 459/2)??IV. LUCY FAIRFAX, nee ARMSTRONG, 1888? 31 Dec.1888; Circular letter received from Lady Carrington (Call No.: MLMSS 459)??V. MARY ELIZABETH FAIRFAX, 1879-1943? 1879-1941; Letters received (6) from James Reading Fairfax, Rev. John G. Fraser, Charles Lloyd Jones, W. Farmer Whyte and Percy S. Allen, 17 Feb. 1879-6 Mar.1941; together with newspaper cuttings concerning the Sydney Morning Herald centenary and J.F. Fairfax’s ‘The Story of John Fairfax’, 6-14 Feb.1941 (Call No.: MLMSS 459/2)? 1881-1943; Diaries concerning her trips to England and Europe, 28 Aug.1881-22 Sept.1883, 27 Apr.-31 Dec.1889; diary concerning her trip to India, 2 Nov.1896-10 Jan.1897; pocket diaries, 1942-1943; address book, date unknown; miscellaneous papers found loose in diaries (Call No.: MLMSS 459/2)??VI. CHARLES BURTON FAIRFAX, 1919? 1919; Letters received from James Reading Fairfax (Call No.: MLMSS 459/3)??VII. EDWARD WILFRED FAIRFAX, 1932? 1932; Letter received from Mary Elizabeth Fairfax (Call No.: MLMSS 459/3)??VIII. MARY MARGUERITE FAIRFAX, nee LAMB, 1948? 1948; Letter received from Charles Lloyd Jones enclosing copies of letters from David Jones and his wife Jane to their children, 1849 (Call No.: MLMSS 459/3)??IX. JOHN FITZGERALD FAIRFAX, ca.1941-1947? ca.1941; Draft ms. of chapters VIII-XI of ‘The Story of John Fairfax’ (Call No.: MLMSS 459/3)? 1946-1947; List of contributors to the Bega District News, 5 Dec.1946-16 Jan. 1947 (Call No.: MLMSS 459/3)??X. JAMES GRIFFYTH FAIRFAX, 1936? 1936; Newspaper cuttings of article and poems (Call No.: MLMSS 459/3)??XI. ANNE ARMSTRONG, 1900-1901? 22 Oct.1900-21 July 1901; Letters received (4) from Mary Elizabeth Fairfax (Call No.: MLMSS 459/3) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jane Connors has had a distinguished academic career in which she has dedicated her scholarship and work as an international law practitioner to the betterment of United Nations (UN) treaty mechanisms and the rights of women and children. After studying law and arts at the Australian National University in Canberra, she taught at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (now University of Canberra) before travelling to England, United Kingdom. There, she taught at the Universities of Nottingham and Lancaster, and at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. Drawn to the UN, in 1996 Connors was appointed Chief, Women’s Rights Section in the Division for the Advancement of Women in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN. In 2009 she became Chief, Special Procedures Branch of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; she was also later Director of the Research and Right to Development Division. Connors retired from the UN in March 2015. Her commitment to international human rights continues with her role as International Advocacy Director Law and Policy for Amnesty International based in Geneva, Switzerland. She regularly teaches at universities around the globe, including at the London School of Economics where she is Visiting Professor in Practice. Jane Connors was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Born in Sydney in 1953, Jane Connors was the first of eight children of Patricia, a nurse, and her husband, John, a surgeon. John Connors’ medical studies took the family to Britain for a time; when they returned to Australia, Connors was educated in Canberra at St Benedict’s Primary School, Narrabundah, followed by St Clare’s College, Griffith. Encouraged by her father to choose a career which would allow her to be independent, Connors enrolled in Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts degrees at the Australian National University [Connors and Rubenstein]. At university in the mid-1970s, a women law students’ organisation did not exist. Connors became the first woman to be elected as President of the Law Students’ Association at the University. This was an exciting time to be a student on campus and being head of the Association meant Connors enjoyed a ringside seat of events. In the midst of the historic Whitlam Government dismissal, for instance, Connors (as President) invited the then Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, to be guest speaker at the Australian Law Students’ Association dinner [Connors and Rubenstein]. While it was commonplace for female students to leave university in order to get married, Connors avoided going down this path, crediting the late Alice Erh-Soon Tay – then her tutor in Soviet and Chinese Law – for providing her with support and encouragement to continue her studies [Connors and Rubenstein]. Having completed her undergraduate degrees, Connors then embarked upon a masters degree at the Australian National University, undertaking the Legal Workshop in 1979. In 1980 she began teaching in the Law Department of the Canberra College of Advanced Education (now the University of Canberra). She then went to England where she accepted teaching posts at the Universities of Nottingham (1982) and Lancaster (1983) [Connors and Rubenstein]. Keen on the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Connors moved to London and in 1983 she began teaching at SOAS. A requirement of SOAS’ academics being to specialise in a region, Connors chose Malaysia and began teaching Malaysian family law and human rights in Southeast Asia [Connors and Rubenstein]. This experience had a profound impact on the subsequent course of her career, ultimately leading her to the UN. In 1987, to mark the UN Decade for Women, Connors wrote a manual which aimed to help women in Commonwealth nations to deal with sexual abuse, sexual harassment and domestic violence [Canberra Times]. Connors was also part of the Commonwealth Secretariat Delegation at the World Conference on Women, Nairobi, Kenya, and worked on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). During this period she married and had two daughters [Connors and Rubenstein]. In 1996 Connors was appointed Chief, Women’s Rights Section in the Division for the Advancement of Women in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN, and moved to New York. Connors has written a history of this time in Commentary on CEDAW, Oxford University Press [Connors and Rubenstein]. Pursuing an interest in treaty mechanisms and women’s human rights, in 2002 Connors moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where she became Senior Human Rights Officer in the Human Rights Treaties Branch. In 2009 she was promoted to Chief of the Special Procedures Branch of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Connors then went to work as Director of the Research and Right to Development Division at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She retired from the UN in March 2015. Connors’ commitment to international human rights continues with her role as International Advocacy Director Law and Policy for Amnesty International based in Geneva. She also remains a trustee of the United Kingdom charity, Keeping Children Safe, and regularly teaches at universities around the world, including the London School of Economics where she is Visiting Professor in Practice. In her capacity as an academic, international law practitioner, and adviser in the UN, Jane Connors has made a significant contribution to human rights treaty bodies, raising their profile to end violence against women and children and to promote the human rights of women. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jane Connors interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 7 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Jane Connors Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Archive & Heritage Collection of the Australian Red Cross, Victoria holds a wide range of records and artefacts relating to the organization in Victoria – in line with its Mission -?to ensure that items and records that document the history of the Australian Red Cross in Victoria are retained, kept securely and made accessible for research.?The Collection includes Australian Red Cross publications, books of news-clippings from 1915-1996, minutes of meetings (Divisional, Regional and special purpose committees to regional and rural branches), annual reports, a range of documents, reports & letters, some special collections (photograph albums, scrap books) of prominent people and collections of miscellaneous papers and ephemera. Two traveling exhibitions, ‘Being There’ (highlighting the activities in different eras) and ‘Red Cross Remembers WW2’ have been mounted and toured many regional areas of the State.??A project to record the location of Australian Red Cross Victoria Branch records retained locally or held in other repositories was begun in early 2004. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 9 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 tape recorder : metal and bakelite ; 21.5 x 34.5 x 45.5 cm. Author Details Clare Land Created 22 October 2002 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence, transactions, diaries, and related material on the emigration to Australia (1832 – 50), first mission at Lake Boga and its abandonment (1849 – 57), beginning again in Gippsland (1858 – 70), correspondence associated with Lacepede Bay, Yorke Peninsula, Lake Condah, Kopperamanna, Coranderrk, Brisbane, Boorhooyanna (1865 – 89), Ebenezer and Ramahyuk (1858 – 1906), and North Queensland, Weipa, Aurukun and Mapoon (1885 – 1916)?Copied from originals in the Archiv der Bruder Unitat, Herrnhut, Germany Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 7 October 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series consists of the administration and correspondence files of the Katherine Branch of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) and includes membership lists, presidents’ reports, treasurers’ financial reports, minutes of meetings, auditors’ reports, and correspondence relating to the building works on the rest room at the CWA Hostel in Katherine. NTRS 2321/P1 includes minutes and reports of the Building and Building Finance Committee (File title:1972 to File title:1982-84, boxes 1-2), correspondence in relation to the Country Women’s Association of the Northern Territory Inc conference held for the first time in Katherine (File title: 1974, box 1), correspondence in regard to the closure of the Katherine branch including property and lease arrangements (File title:1985 – 1988, box 2), and Cyclone Tracy correspondence (File title: 1975, box 1). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Natalie Baini was a once-only candidate who ran for the Liberal Party in Canterbury in 1999. Natalie has been active in the Young Liberals and in the Party as a whole. President of the Ashfield Young Liberals in 1999, she was also a delegate to the State Council of the Liberal Party Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sound recordings – 7hrs 40mins.??1953; Recording of the 50th anniversary celebration of women’s suffrage in Australia, including a welcome to delegates, speakers include Dame Mary Gilmore and Henrietta Greville, 16 December 1953. (Call No.: CY MLOH 52/1)??n.d.; Recording of Jessie Street in conversation on nuclear disarmament (Call No.: CY MLOH 52/2)??1960; Recording of Dr Linus Pauling and Mrs Pauling speaking at St Pancras Town Hall, England, on why the world must disarm, 17 July 1960 (Call No.: CY MLOH 52/3)??1959; Recording of the Deserted Wives Conference, speakers include Jessie Street (Call No.: CY MLOH 52/4-5)??n.d.; Recording of Jessie Street speaking on aspects of China; and a recording of a news item in which Jessie Street comments on allegations that the Conference on Disarmament was a communist initiative. (Call No.: CY MLOH 52/6)??n.d.; ‘A World without War’, being a recording of the British Peace Party National Conference on Disarmament (Call No.: CY MLOH 52/7)??n.d.; Interviews by Jessie Street with suffragettes including Lilian Lenton, Charlotte Marsh, Eileen Casey and Mary Leigh. They recall being in prison, confrontations with the police, and hunger strikes. (Call No.: CY MLOH 52/8)??n.d.; ‘Women of Britain. The Story of their Struggle’, by Nancy Brush, read by Pat Burke; and interviews by Jessie Street with Charlotte Marsh, Eileen Casey and Mary Leigh (Call No.: CY MLOH 52/9)??n.d.; Recording of Jessie Street speaking about China including illiteracy, living conditions and nomadic minority races (Call No.: CY MLOH 52/10-12) Author Details Jane Carey Created 29 October 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Katy Le Roy is Parliamentary Counsel in the New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office. An expert in constitutional law, federalism, governance and Pacific legal systems, she has undertaken a number of consultancies for the United Nations Development Program. Le Roy was formerly Consultant Legal Counsel and Parliamentary Counsel for Nauru. Katy Le Roy was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Dr Katy Le Roy was born in 1974 and spent her early life in Bayside Melbourne. She attended Mt Eliza Primary School before receiving her secondary education at Mt Eliza High School and St Margaret’s School, in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Berwick. In 1993 Le Roy enrolled in arts and law degrees at the University of Melbourne. While studying, she worked as a research assistant to Bryan Keon-Cohen QC, compiling and annotating archives of Mabo, the watershed Indigenous land rights case, which were subsequently presented to the National Library of Australia. She was also engaged as an editorial assistant on the Public Law Review and undertook research with the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, working closely with the then Director, Professor Cheryl Saunders AO. Collectively, these experiences fuelled her deepening interest in public law. Enjoying the exposure to student politics that university life offered, she became interested in the Resistance and Labor Parties, and was ultimately elected President of the Law Students’ Society. After graduating with an LLB (Hons) and a BA, she spent a period in Japan, Europe and South Africa before returning to Australia and beginning articles of clerkship at law firm Holding Redlich. She was articled to managing partner Peter Redlich AO, and worked mainly on personal injury claims. While completing her articles of clerkship full-time, Le Roy also did her honours year in Arts, majoring in politics and public policy. During this period she continued to work part time for the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. In 1999, a few months after her admission as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Le Roy left Holding Redlich and moved to Germany, where she commenced as legal counsel with Allianz Asset Management. Intent on a career in public law, however, in 2002 she returned to Australia to take up the position of Assistant Director at the University of Melbourne’s Institute for Comparative and International Law (now Institute for International Law & the Humanities). In 2003, encouraged by Saunders, Le Roy began a PhD at the University on the topic of public participation in constitution-making in Fiji and the Solomon Islands. She became a Senior Fellow in the Law School’s Graduate Program, lecturing in Common Law and Constitution Making. From 2006 Le Roy’s career took her back overseas, her PhD research instrumental in her assuming the role of adviser to Nauru’s Standing Committee on Constitutional Review on behalf of the United Nations Development Programme [University of Melbourne]. She also undertook further consultancies on Nauru’s Constitutional Review Project, and on Federalism in Sri Lanka. During this time Le Roy met her new partner, a member of the Nauru Parliament and later Minister for Education in the Nauruan Government, Roland Kun, and moved to live in Nauru. In 2007-2008 Le Roy was retained by the Institute of Federalism at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) to undertake a project from her new homebase in Nauru, translating a legal treatise from German to English (T Fleiner and L Basta-Fleiner, A General Theory of State: constitutional democracy in a multicultural and globalised world, Springer Books 2009). In 2008 Le Roy also worked as Consultant Legal Counsel to the Nauru Government. She provided legal advice to Cabinet and the Minister for Justice on a range of legal issues, including legal policy and legislation. In October 2008 Le Roy took on the full-time role of Parliamentary Counsel: she was head of the Office of Parliamentary Counsel and responsible for legislative drafting; she also provided legal advice to the Speaker, parliamentary committees and government. In a piece published by the University of Melbourne Law School in their alumni magazine, Le Roy remarked that “the workload is unwieldly but there’s never a dull moment” [University of Melbourne]. In 2010 the people of Nauru held a referendum on some of the proposed amendments arising from the Constitutional Review Project which Le Roy had conducted for the United Nations in 2006. When the referendum failed, Le Roy was philosophical: “In Australia we know it is notoriously difficult to pass a referendum. In Nauru the requirement is the approval of two thirds, which is an even higher bar. But throughout the constitutional review process, ordinary Nauruan citizens have been engaged; they have learned about their existing constitution and thought about new possibilities. Many people now have a much better understanding of responsible government and how their system ought to work. That is a huge gain for Nauru, and that alone might result in improvements in the way politics operates, because politicians are going to have to account to a more informed public. Hopefully it will become a good example of the wonders of education” [University of Melbourne]. The valuable reform work undertaken by Le Roy in Nauru found further expression when she oversaw the Legal Information Access Project from 2010 to 2012. This project aimed to strengthen human rights and good governance in Nauru; to strengthen the capacity of Nauru’s legal and judicial system; and to improve access to Nauruan legal information [OPC Annual Report 2011-12]. It resulted in, among other things, a complete consolidation of the laws of Nauru and a new government website hosting a free online database containing up-to-date, official versions of all laws in force in Nauru. It was towards the end of this project, in 2012, that Le Roy also submitted her PhD thesis. In 2013 Le Roy’s role as Parliamentary Counsel for Nauru came to an abrupt end a few weeks after the election of the Waqa government. Following the removal of the Secretary for Justice and the Police Commissioner (both Australians), Le Roy too was removed from her position. Several senior public servants in Nauru were effectively forced to resign around the same time. Later in 2013, Le Roy travelled to Melbourne to do consulting work for Bendigo Bank, and to give birth to her third child. At the very beginning of 2014, while she was in Melbourne with her newborn baby and the rest of her family, Le Roy learned that her Nauruan residence visa had been cancelled. In her absence, the Government of Nauru declared her a prohibited immigrant, thus preventing her return to the country. The Nauruan Government also expelled its Resident Magistrate (an Australian national) and would not permit its Chief Justice (also an Australian) to return [Lee]. Unable to return to Nauru, Le Roy accepted a permanent position as Parliamentary Counsel in Wellington, New Zealand, and moved to live in New Zealand with Kun and their 3 children in May 2014. A week after arriving in New Zealand Kun, an opposition MP, was suspended from Parliament after criticising the Nauru Government’s removal of judicial officers [Lee]. He and other opposition members remained suspended for more than 2 years of the 3 year parliamentary term they had been elected to serve. In June 2015, Le Roy’s husband Kun travelled to Nauru for a 4 day visit, primarily to talk to the Speaker of Parliament about the situation of the suspended members. During the visit, the government of Nauru cancelled his Nauruan passport. Kun became stranded on Nauru for more than 12 months, effectively a political prisoner [Taylor]. Legal academics from Australia and New Zealand wrote to their respective countries’ foreign ministers to urge them to intervene to reunite Kun and Le Roy, expressing concern for the infringement of Kun’s international human rights and for the deterioration of the rule of law in Nauru [Lee]. On 10 July 2016, Kun slipped out of Nauru on a New Zealand passport, finally able to join Le Roy and their children back in their Wellington home. An elected member of the Council of the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel (CALC) since 2011, Le Roy has commended that CALC provides important opportunities for Pacific members to further improve the standard of legislative drafting in the Pacific [OPC]. Le Roy is currently serving a 2 year term as Vice President of CALC, and is chair of its conference program committee. In 2015, Le Roy co-taught a third year LLB subject on legislation in the Law School at Victoria University of Wellington, and will likely to continue to teach in this program in alternating years. Le Roy has previously served as chair of the Working Group on The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII) and was a member of the interim board of the PacLII Foundation. She has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Pacific Islands Law Officers’ Network and a member and founding treasurer and legal officer of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies. Le Roy has made a significant contribution, at an early stage of her career, to the study of comparative public law and systems of governance in the Pacific region. She has demonstrated immense dedication to education and public participation in government reform, transparency and access to government information, and to the rule of law. Her commitment to reforming constitutional systems in the Pacific and holding the Government of Nauru to account to maintain the rule of law has come at a heavy personal cost to her family. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Katy Le Roy interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 13 February 2014 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: leroy_IMG_4711.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Aussie Spirit Softball, the nickname for The Australian Open Women’s softball team, is one of Australia’s most successful sporting teams. Since softbal1996, Australia has medalled at all four events with Bronze in Atlanta (1996) Sydney (2000) and Beijing (2008) and Silver in Athens (2004). Australia won the first ever International Softball Federation’s Women’s World Championship in 1965. Four Australian players have been inducted to the International Softball Federation Hall of Fame. Members of the Australian bronze medal-winning team from Atlanta, Jenny Holliday and Joyce Lester, were inducted in 2001. Joanne Brown and Kerry Dienelt who both won bronze medals at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics were inducted in 2005. Events 1996 - 1996 Softball – Women’s: Team included – Joanne Brown, Kim Cooper, Carolyn Crudgington, Kerry Dienelt, Peta Edebone, Tanya Harding, Jennifer Holliday, Jocelyn Lester, Sally McCreedy, Francine McRae, Haylea Petrie, Nicole Richardson, Melanie Roche, Natalie Ward, Brooke Wilkins 2000 - 2000 Softball – Women’s: Team included – Joanne Brown, Fiona Crawford, Kerry Dienelt, Peta Edebone, Sue Fairhurst, Selina Follas, Kelly Hardie, Tanya Harding, Sandra Lewis, Sally McCreedy, Simmone Morrow, Melanie Roche, Natalie Titcume, Natalie Ward, Brooke Wilkins 2004 - 2004 Softball – Women’s: Team included – Marissa Carpadios, Fiona Crawford, Amanda Doman, Peta Edebone, Tanya Harding, Natalie Hodgskin, Sandra Lewis, Simmone Morrow, Tracey Mosley, Stacey Porter, Melanie Roche, Natalie Titcume, Natalie Ward, Brooke Wilkins, Kerry Wyborn 2008 - 2008 Softball – Women’s: Team included – Jodie Bowering, Kylie Cronk, Kelly Hardie, Tanya Harding, Sandra Lewis, Simmone Morrow, Tracey Mosley, Tracey Mosley, Melanie Roche, Justine Smethurst, Danielle Stewart, Natalie Titcume, Natalie Ward (c) , Belinda Wright, Kerry Wyborn , Published resources Resource Website for the Australian Open Women's softball team, Softball Australia, 2009, http://www.softball.org.au/default.asp?Page=21993&MenuID=High_Performance/4019/0/ Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 December 2009 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of N.R. Whittle comprising working papers for her book on Blanche Mitchell, including photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks, copies of maps and plans and miscellaneous material. Box 5 includes papers of J.E. Jones (1919-1971) given into Mrs Whittle’s keeping. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pamela Anne Beggs joined the Australian Labor Party in 1977 and sat in the Parliament of Western Australia as member for Whitfords from 1983 to 1993. Pamela Anne Austin was born in Inverell, New South Wales, to Horace Joseph Austin, a tin miner, and Thelma Ruby Wilson. In 1951 the family moved to Greenbushes, Western Australia, a tin mining town about 200 kilometres south of Perth. Pamela was educated at Bridgetown High School and St Joseph’s college in Bunbury. Austin spent four years in the Women’s Royal Australian Air Force, reaching the rank of commissioned officer, after which she worked for Western Mining and Trace Element Laboratories. She married Thomas Glennie Beggs in 1972; they had three daughters together. Pamela Beggs credits the Vietnam War with stirring her into political activity, and she was involved in the moratoriums in the early 1970s. She joined the Balcatta branch of the Australian Labor Party in 1977, and began participating actively in election campaigns. She won the seat of Whitfords for the Labor Party in 1983, and in 1985 was instrumental in having significant amendments made to the Sexual Assaults Bill, an achievement of which Beggs was particularly proud. While Minister for Housing and Planning (1989-1990) she tackled the shortage of affordable housing, and was involved with the construction of the Perth to Joondalup railway when she held the Transport portfolio. Beggs was appointed Minister for Tourism, Racing and Gaming in 1986. She retired from politics after losing to Liberal candidate Rob Johnson in 1993. Published resources Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Newspaper Article Stirred by War into a Political Career, The West Australian, 5 March, 1986, p. 67., 1986 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 17 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A survey of Daisy Bates correspondence and how it illustrated her work and her life. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 1 October 2003 Last modified 29 April 2009 Digital resources Title: Commandant Janice Webb (later Hilton), Australian Red Cross (ARC), and Wing Officer Betty Docker, Matron of 4 RAAF Hospital at Butterworth, Malaysia Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Red Cross Archives Series Reference: NO1.?This series is comprised of approximately 60,000 cards used by the Central Bureau for Wounded, Missing and Prisoners of War of the Australian Red Cross to trace the welfare and whereabouts of members of the armed forces, and some civilians, during the Second World War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. The series represents one of the Red Cross major wartime services: assisting family members to know the fate of armed forces personnel and others displaced by war.?In early 1940 the Australian Red Cross began to rapidly scale up its divisional (i.e. state-based) missing persons tracing services which had been largely dormant since the end of World War I. The organisation also established a Central Bureau at its National Headquarters. This service operated from the Royal Australian College of Surgeons premises in Melbourne. The state bureaux were most often the first point of contact for members of the public seeking information about a family member, and directly handled some enquiries without reference to the Central Bureau. However all enquiries regarding missing members of the armed forces and prisoners of war, and some other inquiries, were forwarded to the Central Bureau. Often, next-of-kin first received notification from the Army, Navy or Air Force that a relative had been wounded, taken prisoner or killed. They then turned to the Red Cross in an effort to learn more about their family member s fate. The Central Bureau used channels of communication with the armed forces, other national Red Cross societies and its own searchers on the ground to gather information.?It appears that two events gave rise to the creation of a card. Some were created when an inquiry was received from a divisional bureau on behalf of a relative. Others were created when a person was named on a casualty or missing list. The Central Bureau subsequently added details of its investigations and further information received about the person. A small percentage of the cards records that the next-of-kin were informed when the status of the subject of enquiry was determined. (e.g. deceased).??Red Cross reports about the operations of the Bureau during the Second World War indicate that the Bureau also created a file for each missing person and used these cards as a summary of the information and transactions recorded in the file. The files are no longer extant.??The vast majority of cards in this series date from 1940 to 1945. Of these, most relate to missing AIF personnel. The cards record their name, rank and service number ( reg no. ), and the name and address of their next-of-kin. For confirmed Prisoners of War, the cards also include a POW number. An entry was added to the card each time information was received, verified or sent onwards to next-of-kin. Entries are heavily abbreviated: a list explaining some abbreviations is available via the University of Melbourne Archives Online Catalogue. At the top of each card a summary of the person s status was recorded, for example: POW , deceased , repatriated , safe , recovered , located or liberated . These terms were crossed out or overtyped as new information about a person s welfare was received.?During World War II Australians also sought Red Cross help to find displaced civilians both Australian and foreign citizens. A small number of cards from this period relate to civilians living overseas who were caught up in the war in either Europe or the Pacific. In these instances cards will record the person s last known whereabouts or residence instead of a military service number.?In 1946 the Central Bureau and most state bureaux were wound up, and a National Tracing Bureau was established as part of the Red Cross extensive post-war work of assisting displaced persons and refugees. This continues to be a core function of the Red Cross and records associated with it are still held by the Red Cross (as at 2016).?The card index was used again during the Korean War (1950-1953) and the Vietnam War (Australian involvement 1962-1973). Approximately 5000 cards relate to these conflicts and these are interfiled with cards from World War II into one alphabetical-by-surname sequence.??Each card bears an index number allocated by the Red Cross. Common prefixes are K for the Korean War and SEA and V which both indicate that the card dates from the Vietnam War. Approximately 300 cards bear index numbers prefixed with F . It is not clear what this stands for, however these cards relate to World War II civilian prisoners of Nazi internment camps. These appear to have been added to the series some time after the end of World War II. The significance of other index number prefixes requires further research.?Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War records dating from World War I have been transferred by the Red Cross to the Australian War Memorial. These have been digitised and are available online (refer to AWM series 1DRL/0428) These include inquiry files, which provide an indication of the type of inquiry files which the Red Cross used during World War II in conjunction with this card series.?The cards were digitised by the Red Cross prior to transfer to University of Melbourne Archives in 2016. Digitised copies of cards dating from World War II are available to researchers online. The University of Melbourne Archives has used card index prefixes to identify those that date from the Korean and Vietnam wars (see above) and these are not currently available online (as at 2016). However individuals who are the subject of an index card, or in some cases their next of kin, are invited to make an inquiry with the University of Melbourne Archives (archives@archives.unimelb.edu.au)?More information about the operations of the National and Divisional Bureaux can be found in various records series held by the University of Melbourne Archives, including UMA Series 2015.0027 Annual Reports of the Australian Red Cross Society (See in particular reports for 1939-1940 (p22), 1942-1943 (p17) and 1946-1947 (pp18, 19, 36)); and UMA Series 2015.0033 Correspondence Files, National Headquarters (search on bureau or tracing ) and history and operation of the unit from 1939-1940 in Item 2016.0054.00004. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Family tree of Veronica Condon (nee Syme) the youngest daughter of Violet Addison Garnett and Geoffrey Syme. Includes descendants of David Syme, owner of The Age newspaper. Covers period 1662-1992. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers are mainly research material for her books; Daisy Bates: Queen of the Never Never, The lost impressionist about John Peter Russell the Australian painter, Helpman and others. There is correspondence with people who knew Daisy Bates, material on Dame Edith Sitwell mainly newspaper clippings, and photocopies of correspondence by Rodin, Van Gough, Monet and some MS of Percy and Allan Russell. There is also the unpublished MS of her novel Tails she dies and other published detective stories: Once upon a tombstone, The voice of the peacock, Will to survive, and Silver rain. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mrs Aeneas Gunn was the author of The Black Princess, published in 1905, and We of the Never Never, published in 1908. During and after World War I she worked tirelessly to support the servicemen of Monbulk, Victoria who she referred to as “my boys.” She was awarded an OBE in 1939, “in recognition of her services to Australian Literature and to the disabled soldiers and their dependents.” In 1948 she began to work on a book recording all the details of the volunteers from Monbulk who had served in the Boer War, the Boxer Rebellion and World War I. Gunn presented her completed manuscript to the Monbulk RSL in 1953 and the book, My Boys – A Book of Remembrance, was published for the first time in 2000. Mrs Aeneas Gunn was born Jeannie Taylor on 5 June 1870 in Melbourne, Victoria, the second youngest of six children. She was educated privately by her mother and at seventeen matriculated at the University of Melbourne. In 1888, Gunn opened a private school in their home in Hawthorn with her sisters. Named Rolyat, Taylor backwards, the school was regularly attended by 50 – 60 pupils until it closed in 1896 when one of her sister’s married. Gunn then became a visiting teacher and her subjects included gymnastics and elocution. She married Aeneas James Gunn in 1901. Just before their marriage he had become a partner in Elsey, a cattle station on the Roper River, 483 km south of Darwin, so the newlyweds soon set sail for Port Darwin. While her husband worked as the station manager, Gunn impressed those who said a woman would be out of place on station with her sense of humour and fine horsemanship. She took an interest in the lives of the Aboriginals who lived and drifted through the station, displaying a true sympathy and affection for their way of life. Unfortunately, outback life lasted only 13 months, Gunn returned to Melbourne after her husband died of malarial dysentery in 1903. Back in Melbourne, she longed for the quiet bush life and found solace travelling with her father to Monbulk, a settlement in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges. Encouraged by friends who had read her letters and heard her tell stories to their children, Gunn wrote The Little Black Princess, which was published in Australia and England in 1905, and was about Bett-Bett, an Aboriginal child she had befriended at Elsey. In 1908, her second book We of the Never Never, was published. Although it was entitled a novel, it was a recreation of actual events. The book went on to became an Australian classic, it was used in schools and translated into German. During World War I and after, Gunn became active in welfare work for soldiers and their families, especially in Monbulk. She virtually adopted all the men who enlisted to serve in the war from Monbulk, referring to them as “my boys.” She sent parcels and letters to them while they were overseas, knitted socks and kept a photo of every single one of her boys on her mantelpiece. After the war, Gunn worked tirelessly for the welfare of the returned servicemen, becoming an unofficial liaison between them and the Repatriation Department. In 1925 she became patron for the Monbulk diggers T B Sailors and Soldiers Assistance Relief Fund and she did not miss a function in the next 21 years. Gunn helped to organise a clubroom and library for the Monbulk sub branch of the Returned Sailors Soldiers and Airmen’s Imperial League of Australia. She received an OBE in 1939, “in recognition of her services to Australian Literature and to disabled soldiers and their dependents.” In 1948, Gunn embarked on a project to record the efforts and sacrifices of Monbulk during World War I. It was her intention to record the service details of every volunteer from Monbulk who served their country in the Boer War, the Boxer Rebellion and World War I. She said of the book that it was “not an honour roll – it is definitely a record of each man’s service to his country.” Gunn presented her completed manuscript to the Monbulk RSL in 1953 and the book, My Boys – A Book of Remembrance, was published for the first time in 2000. Mrs Aeneas Gunn passed away on 9 June 1961, four days after celebrating her 91st birthday. 200 mourners packed Scots Church in Collins St, Melbourne for her funeral. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 Book Victoria, the first century : an historical survey, compiled by the Historical Sub-committee of the Centenary Celebrations Council, 1934 A History of the Lyceum Club Melbourne, Gillison, Joan M, 1975 My boys : a book of remembrance, Gunn, Aeneas, Mrs, 2000 The little black princess : a true tale of life in the Never-Never land, Gunn, Aeneas, Mrs, 1906 We of the Never-Never, Gunn, Aeneas, Mrs, 1907 Flynn's Outback Angels: Casting the Mantle - 1901 to World War II, Rudolph, Ivan, 2001 Resource Section Gunn, Jeannie (1870 - 1961), O'Neill, Sally, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090134b.htm Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Derham, Dorothy Lush State Library of South Australia Notes and letter on the characters in 'We of the Never Never' National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of the Gunn family, 1841-1912 [manuscript] Papers of Norman McCance, 1894-1972 [manuscript] Papers of Mrs Aeneas Gunn, 1955 [manuscript] Manuscripts and correspondence of Mrs Aeneas Gunn, 1905-1937 [manuscript] Correspondence, 1937 [manuscript] Manuscripts and correspondence, [19--] [manuscript] Author Details Jane Wilkinson Created 23 September 2003 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Leembruggen was a once only parliamentary candidate, but a successful local government councillor. She was Alderman at the Ashfield Municipal Council from 1987-1991 and an Independent candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Ashfield in 1988. Anne Leembruggen was raised in the Sutherland Shire and attended Jannali Girls’ High School. She trained as a Special Education teacher and for 5 years taught intellectually handicapped adults and children. She then taught at a primary school in Strathfield, before becoming an Adult Basic Education teacher in the TAFE system. She also lectured at the Institute of Technical and Adult Teacher Education, teaching teachers how to teach adults with language and reading problems. Anne Leembruggen joined the Summer Hill Action Group in 1985 and this led to her successful election as a councillor on Ashfield Municipal Council. While on Council, she was influential in setting up Vacation Play Centres and she set up a working party to investigate community services needs. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Yvonne Bain was a woman who respected tradition while enjoying new challenges. She was passionate about education, for herself and for others. She was appointed to the governing council of Griffith University, and to a range of national and state advisory committees on aspects of education. Griffith University awarded her an honorary doctorate of the University in 1998. Bain was also passionate about the rights of women, working for decades in the Queensland National Council of Women and the National Council of Women of Australia. She served as the national president 1991-1994. In 1990, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to women’s affairs, particularly through the National Council of Women. During her presidency of NCWA, Bain persuaded the Australian Bureau of Statistics to include the categories of work in the home and volunteer work in the national census data, allowing the calculation of the value of unpaid work within national productivity. This is perhaps her most lasting contribution to the Australian women’s movement. Yvonne Bain was born in Brisbane in 1929, the daughter of Jeffrey and Helen West. She was raised in Rainworth where she was the dux of the local primary school. At Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School, she proved to be a good netballer, an academic prize winner, and dux of the state in history. At her mother’s insistence, she left school without completing her final year to join the Post-Master General’s Department where her father worked. She enrolled in night classes at the Central Technical College and gained a Diploma in Civil Engineering, the only woman in her class. She met her husband, Thomas, in the drafting department of the PMG, and married him on 16 June 1951. The young couple lived in the Bain family home, Gowrie House, an old colonial mansion in the centre of Brisbane. Yvonne Bain turned the front wing into professional rooms, leased mainly to speech and drama teachers, and the ballroom into a space for amateur theatre. When the house was demolished for roadworks in the 1960s, Bain established a second Gowrie House nearby, allowing the speech and drama teachers to stay together. Bain’s two children, a son and a daughter, were born in 1955 and 1959. Bain served on the Parents and Citizens Association at their school, Brisbane Central, for 10 years, much of the time as president. She researched the history of the school and led a campaign to recover its original foundation stone. She was also actively involved with the Brisbane Girls’ Grammar Old Girls and, in 1968, she was appointed to the school’s board of trustees, serving till 1990, with 4 years as vice-chair. She was chair of the school’s development fund and later its centenary building fund, negotiating grants from government and reviving her engineering skills. Brisbane Girls’ Grammar named one of its new centres in her honour. It was as a delegate of the BGG Old Girls’ Association that she joined the National Council of Women of Queensland. In 1979, after her children had finished their schooling, Bain returned to study as a mature-age student at Griffith University. In the same year, she was appointed to the Queensland Planning and Finance Committee of the Commonwealth Schools Commission, serving until 1985. It was also in 1979 that she took up the twin roles of treasurer of NCWQ, and treasurer of NCWA on Laurel Macintosh’s Queensland-based board. In 1980, Bain was appointed to the Australian Statistics Advisory Committee, and she gave a talk to NCWQ on the topic ‘Statistics as a Means of Communication between Individuals and Public Authorities’. Thomas Bain died in 1981. Thereafter, Bain’s studies at Griffith University became more central to her life. She completed a Bachelor of Administration in 1983 and a Master of Philosophy in Administration in 1988. In 1994, her continuing interest in the university was recognised by her appointment to the university council, and she served there until 2000, chairing the university’s library committee and funds committee and assisting with the establishment of the university’s eco centre and multi-faith centre. Yvonne Bain continued to work with NCWQ, as vice-president and then as president from 1986-1990. A highlight of her presidency was the creation and furnishing in 1989 of Ballard Cottage, showing aspects of the history of Queensland pioneer women: ‘a project which will enable children of the future to understand the life of our pioneers’. The project was developed in close co-operation with the Queensland Department of Education, a link that was strengthened in 1990 with Bain’s appointment to the minister for education’s Advisory Committee on Non-State Schooling and, in 1991, to the Advisory Committee on Gender Equity. On 26 January 1990, Yvonne Bain was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to women’s affairs, particularly through the National Council of Women. In 1991, Bain became the president of the National Council of Women of Australia. Her presidency was distinguished by her exceptional ability to advance the interests of the Councils-and of Australian women-through close co-operation with politicians and bureaucrats. Bain and her fellow Board members became expert at writing submissions, winning grants, and delivering the outcomes bureaucrats wanted. Thus a seminar in February 1993 on Women and Ecologically Sustainable Development presented the results of 2 major research projects carried out by NCWA in co-operation with the National Women’s Consultative Council. Another important submission came out of a national seminar on Care for the Carers, NCWA’s principal activity for the International Year of the Family. Women’s unpaid work was also a major concern of Bain’s presidency. It was Bain’s lobbying that persuaded the Australian Bureau of Statistics to include the categories of work in the home and volunteer work in national census data, allowing a degree of systematic assessment of the value of this work to the community and the economy. It was at the end of her presidency in 1994 that the necessity to re-incorporate NCWA to conform with new federal legislation about liability saw a rewriting of the national constitution, which resulted in the omission from the articles of membership of the clause providing for one constituent council only for each state or territory. In by-law C7 of the 1994-1997 constitution, it seems that Launceston appeared for the first time as a constituent council rather than simply an autonomous one. This compounded the ‘Tasmanian problem’, which had been festering since 1946. In the international sphere, Yvonne Bain and her Board produced a series of well-researched and well-written submissions for International Council of Women committees and enquiries, with the effect of strengthening NCWA’s international profile. The ICW 1994 Paris conference, which Bain attended, adopted an Australian resolution that rape should be recognised as a war crime, a formulation later included in the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and other UN instruments. Bain served the ICW as the International Convenor in Economics, enabling her to take her campaign for the recognition of women’s unpaid work to a global audience. Yvonne Bain contributed to a wide range of community activities beyond the National Councils of Women. She worked as president and chairman of the Queensland Arts Council and director of the Arts Council of Australia. She was also a senior associate of the Australian Institute of Management and an active member of the Australian Federation of University Women. She continued her long association with Anglican education by serving on the council of the All Saints Anglican School at Mudgeeraba from 1987 to 1989. From 1990 to 1999 she served on the Anglican Schools Commission, and from 1988 to 2000 on the Anglican Schools Systems Council. In April 1999, Griffith University conferred on Yvonne Bain a doctorate of the university for her services to education. She also received a medal from the retiring archbishop of Brisbane, Peter Hollingworth, in recognition of her services to the archdiocese in education. Yvonne Bain held a firm faith, and was a traditionalist who loved the liturgies of the church. She died in Brisbane in May 2004. Retiring as NCWA president in 1994, she welcomed the future as ‘a time for the formulation of positive plans and strategies to cope with future changes, future technologies and the future multiple roles women will have opportunity to fulfil in the next century’. Events 1968 - 1990 Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School Board of Trustees Published resources Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Book The National Council of Women of Queensland: The Second Fifty years 1955 - 2005, Buckley, Daphne M., 2005 Journal Article Yvonne Bain, Pickers, Georgina, 1980 Newspaper Article Pressman's L5161, Unknown, 1949 Weekend Weddings, Unknown, 1951 Women's rights advocate tireless behind the scenes, McNamara, Cecelia, 2004 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] NCWA Board Minute Books and NCWA Papers John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 7266 National Council of Women of Queensland Minute Books 1905-2004 Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 7 May 2019 Digital resources Title: Yvonne Bain Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Debbie Kilroy OAM is a former prisoner, qualified social worker and practising lawyer. Debbie spent much of her teens in youth prisons, and several years in adult women’s prisons, in Queensland. Since its establishment in the 1990s, she has led Sisters Inside Inc, an organisation that advocates for the human rights of criminalised women in Queensland. She was admitted as a Legal Practitioner in Queensland in 2007 – the first former prisoner to achieve this. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Suzi Quixley about Debbie Kilroy for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Suzi Quxley and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Debbie Kilroy’s commitment to being an agent of positive change is reflected throughout her professional career – initially as a Social Worker and Gestalt Therapist; and, since 2007, as a Legal Practitioner. She currently divides her time between being CEO of Sisters Inside and Principal Lawyer at Kilroy & Callaghan Lawyers. Debbie is Australia’s leading voice on the human rights of criminalised women, and has actively contributed internationally through a variety of United Nations forums (where Sisters Inside has NGO Consultative Status) and lecture tours of the USA and Canada. Raised in a solid working class family in Kedron in Brisbane’s north, Debbie had a rebellious streak from a young age. As she moved into puberty, she became a handful for her bewildered parents – wagging school, disputing everything, hanging out with the wrong crowd, and disappearing for days at a time. Debbie’s life changed when, at age 14, she was imprisoned – not for a criminal offence, but for a four-week psychiatric assessment which, her parent hoped, would identify a ‘solution’ to her ‘uncontrollable behaviour’. She was now under the control of the State. Hence followed a revolving door of imprisonment, progressive criminalisation and brief periods of freedom throughout her teens. From the outset, Debbie was aware of the deep injustice of her initial incarceration which continued to be reinforced by a litany of abuses within the youth ‘justice’ system. This fuelled her increasing anger and, ultimately, her engagement with violence and crime. By age 18, Debbie was a mother herself and deeply entrenched in a violent domestic relationship. But, she did manage to stay outside the adult criminal justice system for several years. During this time, she left this violent relationship and ultimately married Joe Kilroy (to whom she is still married) in 1986. They had a further child together. Her break from the system came to an abrupt halt when Debbie was charged with drug offences and sentenced to 6 years in prison (of which she served 3 years). During this, her last period of imprisonment, Debbie became determined to improve the situation of women and children with lived prison experience. She began training as a social worker whilst in prison and following her release in 1992 set out to build an organisation to respond to the needs and human rights of criminalised women and affected children – Sisters Inside. The organisation exists to advocate for the human rights of criminalised women and respond to gaps in the services available to these women and their children. Since it was established in the early 1990s, Sisters Inside has grown from a largely voluntary group to a community-based organisation which provides services to many Queensland women and children (both inside and outside prison) each year. During this time, Debbie has completed her legal training and a Graduate Diploma in Forensic Mental Health. She was ultimately admitted as a Legal Practitioner in Queensland in 2007 – the first former prisoner to achieve this. Debbie’s lived experienced drives the outspoken voice of Sisters Inside on issues affecting criminalised families. She is a passionate contributor to public debates and policy development impacting the human rights of criminalised women and affected children and issues of public safety. She has been a tireless advocate for the rights of disadvantaged women and children on a wide variety of issues including violence, homelessness, racism, mental health, substance abuse, poverty, child protection, sexual assault, systemic failings and imprisonment. She is driven to reduce the criminalisation and imprisonment of women and children; address the serious over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women at all levels of the criminal justice system; and mitigate the impact of mothers’ imprisonment on their children. Debbie has also contributed widely to collaborative legal and civil rights activities, including long term service as an Executive Member of the Queensland Council of Civil Liberties (since 2001) and ex-officio Chairperson of the Youth Affairs Network of Queensland (since 1997). She has served as a member of the Criminal Law Committee, Law Council of Australia; Criminal Law Committee, Queensland Law Society; Equal Rights Alliance; Australian Women Again Violence Alliance; National Coronial Reform, Federation of Community Legal Centres; and Criminal Justice Network. She has also been appointed to working groups at a state and national level in areas including remand reduction, drug policy, research, Indigenous issues, crime reduction, and homelessness. Debbie has also contributed to international forums, including meetings convened by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to develop draft UN Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-Custodial Measures for Women Offenders; sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women; and conferences on crime prevention and criminal justice. Debbie’s achievements have been recognised through a variety of honours and awards, many of which were awarded to a former prisoner for the first time. These include being a shortlisted Queensland nomination for Australian of the Year (2016), Churchill Fellowship (2014), Emergent Woman Lawyer of the Year (2010), Peace Women Award (2010), Australian Human Rights Medal (2004), and Order of Australia Medal (2003). She was also the subject of an ABC Australian Story (2004), biography (2005), Archibald Award entry (2005) and portrait by Ai Wei Wei (2015). Published resources Resource List of resources, Sisters Inside Inc, 2016, http://www.sistersinside.com.au/resources.htm List of speeches, Sisters Inside Inc, 2016, http://www.sistersinside.com.au/speeches.htm Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Suzi Quixley Created 4 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Early in 1900 the Victorian Women’s Post and Telegraph Association formed to ensure that the higher salaries paid to the colony of New South Wales postmistresses and female assistants were the ones that were adopted by the Commonwealth Department at Federation. Under the New South Wales Civil Service review of classifications in 1895, postmistresses were awarded equal pay with men, wherever the classifying authority considered that they were performing the same duties. Banned from joining the men’s Post and Telegraph Association in Victoria postmistresses and female telegraphists, led by Louisa Dunkley, established a committee during the 1890s. Members of the committee, mainly from the Melbourne chief telegraph office, appeared before the Victorian colonial service Classification Board to argue the case for equal pay. They received increases in salary, though not equality with men telegraphists. Following the classifications of the New South Wales Civil Service in 1895, where postmistresses were awarded equal pay with men, the Victorian Women’s Post and Telegraph Association was established. Postmistress Mrs Webb was elected as president (1900-1906) and telegraphist Miss Louisa Dunkley as vice-president and spokesperson of the Association. Dunkley was elected delegate to the all-colonies conference of telegraphists held at Sydney in October 1900. Although the conference endorsed the principle of equal pay and status, not all delegates, especially R J Meagher the Tasmanian representative, agreed. He and Dunkley and “L’Inconnu”, pseudonym of one of the Victorian female members, used the federal association’s journal Transmitter and newspapers to voice their opinions. Also members of the Victorian Women’s Association, supported by the new federal organisation and the Transmitter, commenced a campaign of letter-writing, public meetings and the lobbying of the newly elected Federal politicians. The first Commonwealth Public Service Act of 1902 embodied the principle of equal pay for postmistresses and women telegraphists. The association continued its existence within the Australian Commonwealth Post and Telegraph Association as a state association and then a state branch of the federal body until 1920. Published resources Book Communicators and their first trade unions : a history of the telegraphist and postal clerk unions of Australia, Baker, John S. (John Simms), 1980 Journal Article Pioneers of our industrial : The women telegraphists of Melbourne and their union, 1895 - 1920, Baker, John S, 1978 Book Section Women in the Victorian Post Office, McCuskey, Claire, c1982 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 December 2003 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lorna Mitchell talks about her family circumstances, her mothers work as a dressmaker and grandmother’s boarding house; her stepfather; a move to Kunanalling; her schooling at South Kalgoorlie State School and at Kunanalling; their hessian house at Kunnanalling; refrigeration; neighbours; prospectors in the vicinity; the Stamp Battery; collecting wildflowers; life being free; the Kunanalling Post Office and store; their first car; moving to Coolgardie; Coolgardie State School, Hospital and hall; dances in Coolgardie and the picture theatre; studying at night school; her first job; work being hard for women to get; the riots in Kalgoorlie (1934); her work in the Railway Hotel with Mrs Lewis the owner; meeting her husband Rex, a mining registrar and Secretary of National Football League; their marriage at Kalgoorlie Cathedral (1934); her daughter; working for Red Cross during WWII; collecting blood for the war; Dr Oxer; Committee of the Red Cross; post war Kalgoorlie; working with disabled students; teaching mentally handicapped children; Ethel Miller; being paid by the Education Department; School of the Air children; Fresh Air League; her twenty years of teaching; her retirement; standing for the Kalgoorlie Council, being the first woman to be elected; improvements for Kalgoorlie; support from her husband and her satisfaction with her life. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 7 August 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 41 minutes??Christobel Oldfield, nee McInnes, was born at Millicent, South Australia and grew up on a farm west of Lucindale. Chris explains how she became politically conscious through her parents’ legal challenge about drainage rates. Chris began her education by correspondence and then attended local schools before finishing at Scotch College in Adelaide. She married in 1977 and had two daughters. Chris did further studies part-time and in 1985 breached the male bastion of the Greenways branch of the United Farmers and Stockowners to gain insight into issues she was studying in Psychology. Assisting in her mother’s Lucindale shop gave Chris a wider understanding of the impact on families of the rural crisis. In July 1993 Chris and five other women formed Rural Women for Justice to educate outsiders and set up legal aid and mediation services. Chris describes the intensive activities that achieved these aims, and her strong motivation to continue to help rural women. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9140 comprises press clippings, subject files, diaries, notebooks, correspondence, articles, drafts of books, conference papers, submissions and publications on issues such as equal pay for women, employment conditions, child care, abortion and trade union matters. People, organisations and events mentioned include: Anne Conlon, Wendy Fatin, Wendy McCarthy, Mary Owen, Pat Richardson, Mum Shirl, Gough Whitlam, Women’s Electoral Lobby, Australian Labor Party, National Foundation of Australian Women, Women’s Trade Union Commission, International Women’s Year Conference (1975) and National Women’s Conference (1990) (43 boxes).??The Acc09.172 instalment is in two parts comprising correspondence, news cuttings, photographs and writings. The first segment is largely correspondence between Edna Ryan and journalist Barbara Curthoys regarding Jack Ryan, Edna Ryan’s husband, and the Communist Party of Australia, but also includes photographs (uncaptioned), family correspondence, a small publication on “The writings of Norm Jeffery” and a copy of an article, “Communism in Australia in the twenties: the career of Jack Kavanagh”. The second segment consists of letters from Edna Ryan to her daughter Julia Ryan, including news cuttings and a copy of “One is enough, a drama in seven scenes” by Edna Ryan (1 box). Author Details Elle Morrell Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound files (105 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records relating to formation, including surveys, seminar reports and documents of the National Formation Committee, 1981-1984 ( 3 vols); chapter records including correspondence, proceedings and minutes of national and provincial meetings, 1981-1987 (10 Vols); general administration records including minutes and correspondence of the national executive council, 1982-1985 (8 vols); records relating to sisters and houses including a register of sisters and details of Australian Mercies in foreign missions, 1982-1985 ( 4 vols); newsletters and news from overseas Sisters of Mercy, 1982-1985 ( 4 vols); official reports including statistical reports to Rome, 1982-1985 ( 3 vols); records relating to religious governance, including drafts of constitutions and statutes, 1982-1985 ( 2 vols); correspondence and reports from committees and commissions dealing with health care, education and social justice, 1982-1986 (12 vols); miscellaneous records, including details of national and international Mercy meetings and conference reports, 1982-1986 (22 vols) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 February 2004 Last modified 4 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 sound files (ca. 325 min.)??Eve Mahlab, born in Vienna, Austria (1937) discusses her family background; emigration to Melbourne (1939); her childhood; schooling; the development of her Jewish identity and feminism; law school (1954) and articles; marriage and children; working for the N.S.W. Public Solicitor; balancing motherhood and work; working in family law and business law; starting a recruitment agency; expanding her business into costing and publishing; joining the Women’s Electoral Lobby (1972); the Women Lawyers Association; discrimination against women in the workplace and hiring practices; the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth); the Victorian Inquiry into the Status of Women (1975); joining Monash University Council; working with the Liberal Party of Australia; the YMCA; being featured in a book; the Australian Plan of Action Conference; the UN Decade for Women; being awarded Australian Businesswoman of the Year (1982); Femmes Chefs D’Entreprises; founding Sydney Carols in the Domain; founding the ‘Know Biz’ business education project; joining the Victorian State Training Board (1988).??Mahlab discusses being awarded the Order of Australia (1988); the 1988 Constitutional Convention; the sale of her recruitment and costing businesses (1989); work in television; joining the Board of Westpac Banking Corporation (1993-2002); the Jewish Commission for the Future (1991); the 4th UN World Conference on Women (1995); working with Victorian Women Lawyers (1996); receiving a Monash University Honorary Doctorate (1997); working as Deputy Chair of Film Australia (1998); anti-discrimination and equal opportunity law; the Victorian Women’s Trust; the Victorian Land and Environment Court; consultancy; a potential nomination to the position of Governor-General (2001); the Centenary medal for Business and Commerce; joining the Office for the Status of Women (2002); the appointment of Justice Susan Crennan to the High Court of Australia (2005); founding the Australian Women Donors Network (2007); reflections on her contributions to public life; reflections on law and being a lawyer; Jewish identity, immigration, belonging and self-worth; influences and role models; her plans for the future. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nee Driver. History of Albany and its families and the emancipation of women in W.A. from 1909. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Appointed as temporary lecturer in the department of dentistry, University of Queensland, in 1961, Mrs Marlay joined the department staff in 1965 as lecturer in oral biology. She was awarded a Ph.D. in 1969 for a study of the incident of dental caries in adolescent girls; her project also contributed to knowledge about tests of buffering capacity of saliva and the ability to predict dental caries increments. On 1 January 1971 Dr Marlay was made a senior lecturer. On 6 August 1943 at St John’s Anglican Cathedral, Elaine Wilson married Mervyn Marlay, a 24-year-old soldier in the Australian Imperial Force. When the war ended, her husband’s employment in banking took them to various country centres where she worked as a part-time or full-time dentist. In the late 1950s they settled in Brisbane. Throughout her professional career, Marlay endeavoured to further her education and to promote the role of women in a male-dominated profession. A skilled and persuasive debater, she was president (for two years) of the Amara Study Group, a society of female dentists. In 1975 she contributed a chapter on women in dentistry to a book commemorating International Women’s year. Taking study leave in 1976, she examined schemes for the continuing education of women dentists in the United States of America, Europe and England, and presented a report recommending that similar measures be implemented in Australia. While abroad, she represented the Australian Committee on Overseas Professional Qualifications as an official visitor to dental schools at universities in Paris. Following several years of research and consultation, Marlay completed the final draft of History of Dental Education in Queensland 1863-1964 (Brisbane, 1979). Despite holding strong views on the changes that had occurred in the university’s department of dentistry from the time she had graduated, she refrained from expressing her opinions in writing ‘because she was part of the history she recorded’. The department published her book after her death. Published resources Book A history of dental education in Queensland 1863-1964, Marlay, Elaine, 1979 Newsletter University News, 10 October 1979, University of Queensland, 1979, http://library.uq.edu.au/search~S7?/tuniversity+news/tuniversity+news/1%2C4%2C10... University News, 18 May 1977, University of Queensland, 1977, http://library.uq.edu.au/search~S7?/tuniversity+news/tuniversity+news/1%2C4%2C10%2CB/frameset&FF=tuniversity+news&2%2C%2C3 Resource Section Marlay, Elaine (1915-1977), Harrison, Jennifer, 2006, http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150359b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections Elaine Marlay Papers Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In September 1960, seven months after the death of Mary Bertha Raine, the Sunday Mirror was reporting with incredulity that ‘The singing barmaid of a dilapidated outback New South Wales pub became the woman who left most of her £439,626 estate to the University of Western Australia Medical School. The bequest will bring her total gifts to the University to nearly £750,000’. Mary Bertha Carter, eldest of thirteen children of Putney storekeeper Charles Carter and his wife Mary Bertha (née Appleyard), began her working life at the age of fourteen earning 2/6 per week. According to the Mirror she saved for singing lessons as a teen and won a contract at Drury Lane, but lost her voice after an attack of typhoid fever. Mary and her sister Daisy sailed for Queensland in 1900 with £100 between them and worked as barmaids in Brisbane and Sydney. After a successful stint managing the ‘tumble-down Nyngan Hotel’, Mary was asked to take over a brewery that was in financial trouble, but licensing laws barred single women as licensees and she returned to Sydney. In 1904 the sisters’ return trip to London was curtailed by Daisy’s seasickness, forcing them to disembark at Fremantle. Working once more as a barmaid on £1/10/- and keep, Mary saved £100 and bought a property in Subiaco. In 1905 Mary Carter married William Morris Thomas, seventeen years her senior, in Perth’s Wesley Church. The couple farmed south of Perth but kangaroos ruined their crops and the marriage was a failure. Mary returned to Perth. William Thomas was killed when he fell from a horse in 1918. In Perth Mary took advantage of the 1920s property boom. She bought Gordon’s Café and Hotel on William Street, renaming it Hotel Wentworth, and by the beginning of WWII was owner or part-owner of five hotels alongside other properties. During the war the Hotel Wentworth provided accommodation for American submarine crews and was a site of tension between Australian and American servicemen. In 1943, aged in her mid-sixties, Mary married Arnold ‘Joe’ Yeldham Raine and made him her business partner. Joe was ten years younger than Mary and absolutely devoted to her. According to John McIlwraith, Mary’s philanthropy was ‘inspired by her husband’. [1] In the mid-1950s the Raines contributed to an appeal for the launch of a medical school at the University of Western Australia. Plans for further contributions were cut short by Joe’s death, from arteriosclerosis, in 1957. Mary was his sole beneficiary. In mourning, she decided to preserve his memory and help find a cure for the illness which had killed him by founding the Arnold Yeldham & Mary Raine Medical Research Foundation in August 1957 with a £500,000 lump sum. A history of the Foundation writes: It is an indication of the simpler and more innocent times in which this was achieved that a personal approach to the then State Premier, Bert Hawke… and another to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, released the estate from death duties and probate, providing significantly more money for research.[2] On her death, Mary bequeathed the bulk of her estate to the Foundation, bringing her legacy to nearly £1 million. She directed that income ‘be applied towards seeking, diagnosing and investigating the nature, origin and causes of diseases in human beings, with the initial emphasis on arteriosclerosis and allied diseases, and the prevention, care, alleviation and combating of such diseases’.[3] In 1991 the Foundation had distributed grants totalling over $7 million. Published resources Report Three decades of service: the Arnold Yeldham andamp; Mary Raine Medical Research Foundation, Arnold Yeldham and Mary Raine Medical Research Foundation, 1991 Resource Section Raine, Mary Bertha (1877-1960), McIlwraith, John, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160057b.htm Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Newspaper Article Ma Gave Away £750,000: From Bush Pub to W.A. Fortune, 1960 Book The Mary Raine Story: From Putney to Perth, Sangster, Meg, 2001 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 14 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Veronica Lesley (“Bonny”) Barry was an Australian Labor Party member for the seat of Aspley. She was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 2001 and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education and Training and Minister for the Arts, Rod Welford. Barry lost her seat in the state election held 21 March 2009. Veronica is a registered nurse with over twenty years experience. Career Highlights: Australian Labor Party Caucus Chair from 28 March 2001 Temporary Speaker from 28 September 2005 Published resources Resource Barry, Veronica Lesley (Bonny), Queensland Parliamentary Library, 2006, http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/legislativeAssembly/documents/memberBio/BarryVeronica.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 5 August 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Ann Robinson was Chief Judge of the Youth Court of South Australia and was appointed a judge of the Family Court of Australia in 1998. Margaret Ann Clare Robinson nee Colquhoun spent most of her professional life in South Australia, but she ranks as one of the University of Melbourne’s most distinguished law graduates. She took her LLB in 1967 and joined the firm of Gillott, Moir and Winneke, where she was to become a partner in 1970. Following her marriage she left in 1971 for South Australia. Her obituary paints the picture of a person with a zest for life and considerable energy: Her studies at law school were something that Ann fitted in between a hectic life devoted to skiing and social pursuits. She was the Melbourne University downhill skiing champion. She was then among the top five women skiers in Australia.[1] In Adelaide Ann Robinson and her husband, an agricultural scientist, had two daughters. Rather than placing them in childcare, she took them to her office at Finlaysons, one of Adelaide’s largest and leading commercial law firms, managing to look after them between clients. After many years of successful practice with Finlaysons and later at Robinson & Mason, the firm she established with Janine Mason, she left in 1997 to take up appointment as Chief Judge of the Youth Court in South Australia’s District Court. In 1998 she was appointed a justice of the Family Court of Australia. As a family lawyer she was noted for her skill in negotiating custody litigation to the benefit of the children and both parents. Ann Robinson led a busy life outside her profession, chairing the state’s Classification of Publications Board (in her own words the ‘Porn Board’) from 1980 to 1986 and serving on the Gaming Supervisory Authority from 1995 to 1997 and the Board of Child and Youth Health from 1996 to 1997. She was a member of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Board for five years. She was also a member of the Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, an international and ecumenical Christian Order of chivalry that aims to sustain and defend the Christian faith, to promote and maintain the principles of Christian chivalry, to work for Christian unity and to follow the teachings of Christ. She was an active member of the Judicial Officers’ Aboriginal Awareness Committee, spending time on Aboriginal lands and with Aboriginal women. [1] Bruce Debelle. ‘Justice Ann Robinson (20/02/1943-19/06/2002). Law Institute Journal. v. 76 no. 8(2002): 35. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 8 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "20 sound files Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "I. SUBJECT FILES, 1982-1987?Subject files include correspondence compiled by Clover Moore as Independent Alderman from Redfern on the Sydney City Council?1982-1987; Files include:MEU (Municipal Employees’ Union); Monorail; Moore Park Urban Forest; N Miscellaneous; Newsletters; Nuclear Free Zones; O & P Miscellaneous; Ombudsman; Oxford St; Parking Meters; Parks; Peace Committees (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/1)?1982-1987; Files include: Petitions; Planning; Press Clippings; Price Point Site; Pyrmont Bridge and Housing Project; Pyrmont Point – Housing Project; Q & R Miscellaneous; Rachel Forster Hospital; Mural Redfern; Redfern St., Redfern; Rocks, Friends of (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/2)??II. CORRESPONDENCE WITH RELATED PAPERS, 1988-1989?Created by Clover Moore, MP, Independent Member for Bligh?1988; Correspondence, August 1988 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/3)?1988; Correspondence, September 1988 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/4)?1988; Correspondence, October – 7 November 1988 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/5)?1988; Correspondence, 8-30 November 1988 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/6)?1988-1989; Correspondence, December 1988 – 16 January 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/7)?1989; Correspondence, 18 January – February 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/8)?1989; Correspondence, March 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/9)?1989; Correspondence, April 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/10)?1989; Correspondence, May 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/11)?1989; Correspondence, June 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/12)?1989; Correspondence, July 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/13)?1989; Correspondence, August 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/14)?1989; Correspondence, September – October 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/15)?1989; Correspondence, November – 14 December 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 5530/16) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records consisting of minutes of meetings. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 July 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Plays and stories written by Ellinor Walker.??PRG 1019/1/1 Play ‘A Rose that lost her Thorns’, in three acts. 1906.?PRG 1019/1/2 Story: ‘And a Little Child shall lead Them’. 16 December 1906.?PRG 1019/1/3 Story: [No title]. Note by the author. Nonsense story written about 1908. To while away a wet afternoon Lois Templer and I vied as to who could write the best ‘blood and thunderer’ [In the back of volume with item 2 at front].?PRG 1019/1/4 Dialogue: ‘Cousins’, ca.1906.?PRG 1019/1/5 Dialogue: ‘A Modern Pupil’. 1906.?PRG 1019/1/6 Dialogue: ‘Holiday Lessons’. 18 May 1907.?PRG 1019/1/7 Dialogue: [No title]. 23 May 1907.?PRG 1019/1/8 Sketch for Recitation: ‘Doris’s Plan’. 29 December 1907. [In the back of volume with item 7 at front].?PRG 1019/1/9 Story: ‘The Vanity of Phoebe May’. 16 June 1907.?PRG 1019/1/10 Volume of poems and stories: ‘By the Sea’, poem 9 November 1908; ‘Triolet’, poem 10 November 1908; ‘The Shattered Rose’, poem. ‘The Literary Microbe’, transcription, 10 November 1907; ‘What happened to Lois’, story, 1907.?PRG 1019/1/11 Play: ‘Sylvia’ ca.1907.?PRG 1019/1/12 Play: ‘Sylvia’, December 1906.?PRG 1019/1/13 Novel: ‘Sir Wilfred”s Heir’, first four chapters, ca.1907, with explanatory note by the author of much later date.?PRG 1019/1/14 Play: ‘Dick Whittington and his Cat’, in four acts, December 1907.?PRG 1019/1/15 Story: ‘A Broken Dream’, December 1908.?PRG 1019/1/16 Story: ‘Shadow-time’ ca.1908.?PRG 1019/1/17 Story: [Untitled, in French] written for French class with Madam Lion, ca.1910.?PRG 1019/1/18 : Silver Lily Children’s Club, begun March 8th, 1905. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 4557 comprises literary manuscripts of: Pastures of the blue crane, including a typescript draft, galley proofs and a shooting script; Who calls from afar, including a typescript draft and galley proofs; Isle of the sea horse, including typescript draft, galley proofs and notebook; The honey forest, including the typescript draft; Beat of the city, including galley proofs; Echo in the wilderness, including the first typescript drafts, galley proofs, notebook and newspaper clippings, a map and correspondence relating to the book. Other correspondence in the collection includes letters from M.E. George of Oxford University Press, R. Ramberger and Peter Seeger relating to the publishing of Hesba Brinsmead’s books and containing suggestions and comments on her works (2 boxes).??The Acc03.244 instalment comprises typescript drafts (some annotated) of novels, short stories and poems, together with galley proofs, page proofs, illustrations, photographs and cuttings of Brinsmead’s autobiographical article “Myself when me” (2 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9257 comprises diaries, 1976-1998, personal papers, autograph books, an appointment book for 1986, and a degree thesis titled “Women who do not prioritise relationships”, 1995 (4 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Cham worked with Philanthropy Australia for ten years, officially retiring as National Director in 2006. She was a Fellow at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies in Melbourne where she researched the early history of philanthropy in Australia. In 2017, Cham completed a PhD undertaken at the University of Technology in Sydney (UTS) on Australian grant-making philanthropic foundations that are administered by trustee companies. Dr Cham is an Associate Fellow of the UTS Business School. Cham was active in the establishment of the National Roundtable of Non-Profit Organisations, an independent, non-partisan group representing more than 20,000 NFP organisations across Australia, to facilitate consideration of regulatory, taxation and sustainable financing issues and coordinate engagement with the Australian community and public policy processes. Born in a displaced persons camp in Germany on Christmas Day, 1948, Elizabeth Cham was the daughter of Polish prisoners of war. Her parents, Jozef and Aniela, were shipped to Germany following the 1939 invasion of Poland. While working on a German farm, her father was sent to the infamous Buchenwald as punishment for listening to BBC radio. He remained there for five years. Finally, in September 1950, the family were able to migrate to Australia. Initially dispatched to Bonegilla in Victoria’s north-eastern region, the Cham family moved to Ballarat where Jozef was posted at the White Swan Reservoir for two years, as a condition of entry to Australia. Eventually the family built a home at Ballarat where Jozef took on work at the paper mills. Elizabeth was educated at Loreto College. Later, a temporary position at the University of Melbourne’s Department of the History and Philosophy of Science encouraged Elizabeth to consider taking on academic studies herself. Her colleagues were supportive, and she enrolled in a political science degree. It would be the first of several tertiary qualifications. On graduation, Elizabeth quickly found work as personal assistant to the Prime Minister’s principal private secretary. She worked for Gough Whitlam until 1977, well after his dismissal. Imbued now with a thorough understanding of the machinations of government, her next post was research assistant to Professor Manning Clark. She began studying for a Masters degree in the late 1980s, supporting herself in part with paid work for the Felton Bequest and the Buckland Foundation – prominent benevolent trusts still in operation today. By 1996, she had been offered the position of National Director for Philanthropy Australia (established by the Potter and Myer Foundations in 1975). A poorly resourced secretariat at the time, the organisation has grown at the astonishing rate of 17 per cent per annum and now serves as the national membership body for grant-making foundations and trusts. Elizabeth’s contribution to philanthropy and the non-profit sector cannot be underestimated. Since her inception as Director, she has worked to raise the public profile of philanthropy and its contribution to Australian lives, and to change a persistent cultural attitude which dismisses philanthropy as self-aggrandisement or a tax dodge for the very wealthy. More tangible change she has brought about by way of the tax law, which until the time of her appointment was a disincentive to large-scale giving. By initiating meetings with the Prime Minister, Elizabeth sowed the seeds for the creation of the Prime Minister’s Business Community Partnership. Support from this roundtable led to the creation of new laws around the establishment of foundations which saw an estimated extra $1 billion dollars in philanthropy by 2011. Elizabeth Cham married in 1987. She is the parent of three children and mother of one, and lives in Melbourne. Published resources Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Memoirs of Anna Ey, wife of Rev. R. Ey (Lutheran pastor of Lobethal) covering the period 1839-1914, describing her early life in Germany, the voyage to Adelaide on board the ‘Geller’ in 1847, life at Lobethal and the pastoral and teaching work of Rev. Ey. Original in German and an English translation by Laura Heidrich and Dora Freund.??Original German manuscript D 4956(L) on microfilm. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series comprises texts of addresses given by Justice Evatt between 1973 and 1990. Included are some articles for publication in journals and forewords for books (on legal and non-legal subjects). Some of the speeches were delivered at conferences in Australia or overseas, while a few were occasional addresses such as those given at Conferring of Degree ceremonies at a university. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The youngest child of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (q.v.) and Sir Keith Murdoch, Janet Calvert-Jones follows the family tradition, established by both of her parents, of being involved in business as well as philanthropy. Like her mother and older sisters, Janet was educated at Clyde School (Woodend, Victoria). While travelling abroad she met stockbroker John Calvert-Jones and the pair were married on February 3rd, 1962. They were to have three sons and a daughter. Following the birth of her son, Robert, who suffered from impaired hearing, Janet Calvert-Jones co-founded the Advisory Council for Children with Impaired Hearing, and served as its Chairman from 1973 to 1995. The board established ‘Taralye’, an early intervention centre for hearing-impaired children, in Blackburn, Victoria. Since 1988 Janet has also been a Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, of which her mother is Patron. In 1989, Janet Calvert-Jones became chairman of The Herald and Weekly Times Limited, the same company her father ran from 1929-1952. She is also a member of the State Library of Victoria Foundation Business sub-committee. In recognition of her charitable work, Janet was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) on 8 June 1998. On 26 January 2006, she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to the community through philanthropy and support for medical research, access to education in rural areas, development of significant cultural and botanical collections, and to the print media. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Book Section A Winning streak: The Murdochs, Browning, Julie, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Janet Calvert-Jones, chairman of the Advisory Council for Children, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 January 2003 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Margaret Ogg is best known for her extensive political, social and feminist activities. Additionally she was a poet, writer and an accomplished musician, playing viola in the family quartet, as well as holding membership with the Musical Association. A staunch monarchist and anti-socialist, Ogg actively toured outback townships in Queensland promoting women’s suffrage, and encouraging pioneer women to become involved in state and national affairs. As founder, co-founder and member of many Queensland women’s organisations, she was consistently at the forefront of political and social campaigns to secure reforms for the Queensland’s women and children. Ogg remained an active member of the Brisbane political and cultural scene up until her death. Margaret Ogg was born in the manse of the Presbyterian Church, Anne Street Brisbane to Charles Ogg, Presbyterian minister and his wife Agnes, née McKellar. She was one of ten children and first attended school in South Brisbane. Later Margaret attended the Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School where she became proficient in languages. For a number of years she was editor of the women’s section of the United Grazier, a New South Wales publication for country folk. She wrote under the pseudonym “Ann Dante” (Andante). Ogg loved wildflowers and as a result of outings to the Daffodil Farm at Sunnybank and many picnics to Mt Gravatt, St. John’s Wood and Petrie, she wrote the poem titled “Out in the Bush”. She was active in Brisbane literary circles and also sub-edited the Presbyterian Austral Star. Miss Ogg joined the Women’s Christian Temperance League in 1886 when it established a Queensland Branch of the organisation. Primarily concerned with controlling alcohol abuse in the State, the League’s broader agenda was the welfare of women and children, as well as women’s voting rights. In 1891 Margaret helped the Women’s Christian Temperance Union form a Colonial Suffrage Department but stressed their non-political involvement. Through the Women’s Christian Temperance Union she was instrumental in setting up the Mission to Seamen. Ogg in 1903 became a founding member and secretary for the Queensland Women’s Electoral League (QWEL), a position she held for 30 years. The QWEL campaigned for such things as equal pay, the establishment of bush nursing homes, and a chair of domestic science. They also lobbied the Premier to raise the age of consent to 17. Upon Margaret Ogg’s death in 1953 the QWEL honoured her by creating a fund to assist women candidates into public office. Margaret co-founded the Brisbane Women’s Progressive Club in 1908 which changed its name to the Brisbane Women’s Club in 1912. At a meeting in 1909 Miss Ogg raised the following points of interest: (a) equal divorce laws; (b) equal pay for equal work for men and women; (c) making seduction a criminal offence; and (d) a deputation to be sent to the Minister for Education to ask that Domestic Science be a compulsory subject for girls in state schools. The Brisbane Women’s Club established a scholastic bursary in memory of Margaret Ogg, and continues to award bursaries to music students at the conservatorium. On Friday 2 May 1919, Ogg presided at a meeting of the Brisbane members of the London Lyceum Club to discuss founding a Queensland Branch of the Club. That evening a general committee was formed with nominated members assigned to draw up a constitution and rules. Margaret Ogg was elected President and May Paten Honorary Secretary. At various stages of her life she was the only woman executive-member of the National Political Council, organising secretary of the women’s central committee of the Queensland Deaf and Dumb Mission, and co-founder of the Queensland Bush Club. Her advice and organisational ability assisted Irene Longman into parliament in 1929. Through persistently lobbying the State government, Ogg was instrumental in having the Criminal Code Amendment Act 1913 passed, as well as the Testators’ Family Maintenance Act 1914 through which widows were entitled to a proportion of the husband’s estate. Margaret Ogg was multitalented, intellectual, community minded, indomitable, and quick witted. Shortly before her death, in a letter dated 28 October 1946, Miss Ogg wrote: “No woman can do more than her little bit – often falling far short of intention, but it has been my privilege to have as co-workers some of the finest women in Queensland, and the success and development which attended our efforts was, and is due to their loyalty and self-sacrifice, without which no sure foundation can be laid”. Published resources Resource Early Days of Brisbane Lyceum, Mittelheuser, Dr Cathryn AM, 2006, http://www.lyceumbrisbane.org.au/History.htm Margaret Ogg, Brisbane Memories, 2006, http://eresearch.griffith.edu.au/brisbanememories/index.php/Margaret_Ogg Lyceum Club Brisbane Incorporated, Lyceum Club Brisbane Incorporated, 2006, http://www.lyceumbrisbane.org.au/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Ogg, Margaret Ann (1863 - 1953), Crouchley, Betty, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110073b.htm Newspaper Article Queenslander 17 November, 1927 Newspaper Courier Mail 20 May 1953, 1953 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection R 1694 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc Records TR 2080 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc. Records 1998-2000 R 1453 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc. Records R 1229 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc. Newsletter R 1600 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc Records 1995-1996??R 1600 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc Records 1995-1996??R 1600 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc Records 1995-1996 R 1218 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc. Records 1931-1994; 2013 Margaret Ann Ogg and Williamina Anderson Ogg Margaret Ogg and Ernest Briggs at the Brisbane residence, Dunrobin Margaret Ogg Fund: List of names for appeal letters: 1953 Margaret Ogg, pioneering campaigner for women's rights : [suffragette movement in Queensland] OM83-01 Ogg, Margaret Ann Manuscript 1824-1962 28405 Brisbane Women's Club Records 1908-2013 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 18 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 sound tape reels (ca. 283 min.)??Mrs Rich details her family background, childhood and education; speaks of her travels to Europe and America to further her musical studies; staying in Davos, Switzerland during World War I; her involvement with the Feminist Club in Sydney in the early 1920’s; the background of the Feminist Club and its achievements; her involvement with the Family Planning Association in 1933; Mrs Rich speaks of her many involvements with various associations and organisations. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 July 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Medical Women’s Society of New South Wales records, 1970-2003. The collection comprises reports, membership records, correspondence, conference papers, brochures, newsletters, printed material and a colour photograph.??BOX 1??Manila folder: ‘MWS Treasurer’s correspondence’, being correspondence, 1995-2000; financial statements, 1993-1998, 2000; photocopy of Certificate of Incorporation of Association, 1994; MWS NSW Committee meeting minutes, 1994-1998 [incomplete]??Manila folder: ‘MSW Treasurer’s correspondence: unfinancial’, being correspondence, 1995; subscription forms, 1995; statements of receipts and payments, 1995-1998??Manila folder: ‘MSW’, being correspondence, 1998-1999; MWS NSW Committee meeting minutes, 1998-2001 [incomplete]; financial statements, 1996-1999??Manila folder: ‘MSW of NSW’, being miscellaneous flyers, updates, newsletters etc., 1995-2003??Membership records including mailing lists, application forms, alphabetical index book with membership details of past and present members, ca. 1998??Conference papers, conference programs, flyers and related ephemera, 1970-1996??Envelope containing colour photograph, n.d. and paper: ‘Acknowledging the unspeakable: past sexual victimization as an issue in the healthcare of women’, Dr Margaret Moody, Yarrow Place, Rape and Sexual Assault Service, Adelaide, Australia, May 1995.??Victorian Medical Women’s Society papers, being directory of members, 1995; newsletters and flyers, 1995-1996; ‘Book of memories’, n.d.; conference papers and program, 1996??’MSW NSW Newsletter’ 1997-2001 [incomplete]??Papers concerning the ‘Constitution of the Medical Women’s Society of New South Wales’, 1987, including proposed changes, 1997??Printed material: ’70 years: Medical Women’s Society of New South Wales’, 1991??Typescript notes: ‘Chapter 2: formation of the Rachel Forster Hospital’, n.d.??BOX 2??Folder of correspondence, 1991-1992; minutes of meetings, 1990-1991; President’s annual report, 1991, flyers, newsletters, etc., ca. 1991-1992??Folder of correspondence, list of incoming correspondence, notices, flyers, newsletters etc., 1990-1991??Manila folder: ‘Bid for 1989 MWIA Congress’, being notes, correspondence, proposal to the organising committee, ca. 1984??Manila folder of miscellaneous papers including flyers, leaflets, information brochures, notes, ca. 1991??Report: ‘Vocational registration of general practitioners, August 1989 / Senate Select Committee on Health Legislation and Health Insurance’, Canberra : Australian Govt. Pub. Service, 1989.??Correspondence and copy of MSW NSW’s Submission to the Senate Select Committee, Community Services and Health Legislation Amendment Bill, 1989??Printed material including Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association, 1966, 1968; Meetings: the conference newsmagazine, 1984 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Irene Crespin was a micropalaeontologist. After graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1919, she worked for the Geological Survey of Victoria, describing macro and micro-fossils found in sediment on the Mornington Peninsula. In 1927 she was appointed assistant palaeontologist to Frederick Chapman in the Geological Branch of the Department of Home Affairs. In 1936 she succeeded him as Commonwealth palaeontologist at half his salary and was located in Canberra. During her career as Commonwealth palaentologist, Irene Crespin made many field trips within Australia to collect fossils and in 1939 travelled to Java and Sumatra to consult with micro-palaentologists in the government service and industry regarding the problems of Tertiary correlation in the Indo-Pacific region. In 1951 she visited the USA where she had been invited to address the American Association of Petroleum Geologists . In Canberra she was secretary and president of the Royal Society of Canberra; secretary from 1952 of the Territories Division of the Geological Society of Australia and chairman in 1955. She was a charter member of Soroptimist International of Canberra in 1957. She had to retire at age 65, but continued to work on a contract basis. She received many honours including the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1956; a DSc from the University of Melbourne in 1960, honorary membership of ANZAAS 1976 and OBE 1969. The Bureau of Mineral Resources Bulletin no 192 – ‘The Crespin Volume’ – was published in her honour. She died on 2 January 1980. Published resources Resource Section Crespin, Irene (1896-1981), Bartlett, Margaret E., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130593b.htm Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book Memoirs of a Micro-palaeontologist, Crespin, Irene, 1980 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources Geoscience Australia Ramblings of a micropalaeontologist Author Details Barbara Lemon and Rosemary Francis Created 29 September 2008 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers relating to Thea Exley. The collection comprises research material including papers, cards and press cuttings for her thesis, “Art competitions in Australia in the Twentieth Century”. Her PhD involved tracing the history of art competitions in Australia during the 20th Century and their effect on art and artists. This collection is being processed. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2013 Last modified 1 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Annabelle Pegrum held the position of Chief Executive of the National Capital Authority from 1998 to 2008. Prior to this she held a number of senior executive management positions with the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government. Pegrum has been involved in several architecture organisations, and has served as President of the ACT Chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. She was the 1998 Telstra ACT Business Woman of the Year and received a Centenary Medal in 2003. In 2008 she took up an appointment as a professorial Fellow at the University of Canberra and is the University Architect. Annabelle Pegrum was educated at the Holy Cross College, Woollahra, and graduated with an Honours degree in Architecture from the University of Sydney, winning the Leslie Wilkinson Prize for Design History and Theory. She was in private practice as an architect before joining the then National Capital Development Commission, where she made a strong impact on the capital works program. She left in 1986 to take up a lecturing position at the University of Canberra but rejoined the ACT Public Service in 1990, and has worked as an architect and town planner with the National Capital Authority. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, was President of the ACT Chapter and has been a member of the Architects’ Board of the ACT since 1992. She has been an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the University of Canberra since 1999. Pegrum has held a number of senior executive management positions with the ACT Government, including General Manager of City Operations from 1994 to 1995, Executive Director of the Cabinet and Policy Co-ordination Office in the Chief Minister’s Department in 1996, and Chief Executive of the Department of Business, the Arts, Sport and Tourism ACT from 1996 to 1998. She has described herself as an advocate for the private sector and assisting partnerships to deliver economic and cultural developments for the ACT. As a departmental head she has been credited with significantly raising morale and refocusing staff. She was a member of the ACT Centenary of Federation Committee from 1998 to 2001. In 1998 Pegrum was the Telstra ACT Business Woman of the Year, and won the MobileNet Corporate and Government Award. She received a Centenary Medal in 2003. She is the mother of two children. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2004, 2004 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Ros Russell Created 27 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Suzanne Orr was first elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly in 2016, representing Labor in the electorate of Yerrabi. She was re-elected in October 2020. Following her secondary schooling, Orr worked for a decade in the hospitality and tourism sector. Having gained degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Canberra, she worked as an urban planner before election to the Assembly. Suzanne Orr was born in Canberra in 1982, the child of Beverley (nee Pratt) and David Orr who were both public servants. Orr grew up in the suburb of Giralang and, in her inaugural speech to the ACT Legislative Assembly, cited the joys of neighbourhood cricket and attending Brownies. She completed her primary schooling at Scullin (which became Southern Cross) Primary and Lyneham Primary and her high schooling at Lyneham High. The connection to place and community which infused her inaugural speech had deep family roots with Orr paying tribute to both her grandfathers for their strong contributions to their communities. She acknowledges the formative role played by her grandmothers, particularly in the development of her values. Orr’s maternal grandparents lived in Canberra, and she admired her grandmother who, although paralysed, lived her life to the fullest. Orr has noted that over the course of her life her family fostered more than 200 children. Her mother, Beverley Orr, has been recognised in the ACT and nationally for her work as an advocate for marginalised and vulnerable children. Orr has observed that the care of her grandmother and sharing her life with other children taught her that ‘we can do a lot to help each other, but sometimes we can’t solve all the problems ourselves’ and that ‘government has a big role to play in helping when people need extra support’. Following schooling, Orr embarked on a decade long career in hospitality and tourism in Canberra. Her first job, in the town centre of Belconnen was with Sizzler with later jobs including cafes and restaurants in the suburb of Manuka and in the retail travel industry. Given a strong wish to stay in Canberra and sensing limited opportunities in hospitality and tourism, Orr began her tertiary studies in her twenties. She gained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Australian National University, a Graduate Certificate in Public Administration from the University of Canberra and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning, also from the University of Canberra. She worked as an urban planner in the Australian Public Service for almost four years preceding her election to the Legislative Assembly. Having briefly been a member of Young Labor while at university, Orr joined the Labor Party in 2013 when the policy area in which she worked was dismantled following a federal change of government. She was soon involved in organising the ACT Branch to work with 350.org campaigning to persuade the ACT Government to divest from companies involved with fossil fuels. The success of this sparked an interest in representing her community and a broader involvement in political life. Entering the ACT Legislative Assembly in October 2016 and then re-elected in October 2020, Orr has served as Government Whip (October 2020 – ), ALP Parliamentary Caucus Secretary (September 2018 – 2019) and Assistant Speaker (September 2018 – September 2019). Between August 2019 and October 2020, she held the ministerial portfolios of Community Services and Facilities, Disability, Employment and Workplace Safety, and Government Services and Procurement. Her service on standing and select committees has included those on Economy and Gender Economic Equality, Environment and Transport and City Services, Estimates, and Planning and Urban Renewal. Unsurprisingly, given her training as an urban planner, Orr has been particularly interested in the strategic development of Canberra, in improving active travel and public transport and in preserving and nurturing the Territory’s natural environment. There are three pieces of legislation, all private members bills, about which Orr is particularly proud both professionally and personally: the Carers Recognition Act 2021 formally recognised and promoted the role of unpaid carers; the Period Products and Facilities (Access) Act 2023 made the ACT the first Australian jurisdiction to ensure period products are freely available in schools, libraries and other suitable locations across Canberra to reduce period stigma; and the introduction of the Disability Inclusion Bill 2024 which will promote the inclusion of people with disability in the ACT community. Private by nature, it is only recently that Orr has used the platform provided by her public role to advocate for awareness and change on issues vitally important to her. She identifies as part of the LGBTIQ community and, in the lead up to the 2017 plebiscite on same-sex marriage, campaigned door-to-door to raise awareness of the issues at stake and seeking support for the ‘yes’ vote. In 2022, twelve years after being diagnosed with and treated for the autoimmune disorder, Immune Thrombocytopenia, Orr spoke publicly about her condition to raise awareness of it and of the paucity of information available to those suffering autoimmune disorders. Her recreational interests include cooking, movies, balcony gardening, upcycling furniture, swimming, and yoga. She has also been responsible for the celebrity status achieved by her cat, Portia. While never setting out to be a role model, Orr accepts that she may have become one by default and is determined to use her public role to focus on what needs doing and doing it well. She is pleased to have contributed to the ACT but considers that her major achievements on its behalf lie ahead. Published resources Orr, Suzanne: Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory website, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/ninth-assembly-members/yerrabi/orr-suzanne Suzanne Orr: My autoimmune diagnosis was a relief that changed my life, Twyford, Lottie, 25 March 2022, https://the-riotact.com/suzanne-orr-my-autoimmune-diagnosis-was-a-relief-that-changed-my-life/543266 It's not just a survey, it's personal, Orr, Suzanne, 9 October 2017, https://hercanberra.com.au/life/not-just-survey-personal Suzanne Orr Wikipedia entry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Orr Author Details Anne-Marie Schwirtlich Created 14 August 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Formerly President of the War Widows’ Guild of South Australia, Janet Mayo was elected National President of the War Widows’ Guild of Australia following the death of her predecessor, Jessie Vasey, in 1966. The daughter of A. Simpson CMG, CBE who was Mayor of Adelaide at the outbreak of World War I, Janet worked with the Girl Guides’ Association and the St John Ambulance Auxiliary before her marriage to Eric Mayo. They had two sons. At just 26 years of age she became a war widow, loosing her husband, a torpedo officer on the HMAS Sydney, when his ship was sunk in the Indian Ocean by the German raider Kormoran on 19 November 1941. [1] One of the Vice-Presidents of the interim committee, Janet continued in this position when the War Widows’ Guild of South Australia was launched on 21 November 1946, later becoming South Australian State President. She held this post for over 20 years. Following the death of Jessie Vasey in 1966, Janet was elected the new National President. She retired in 1977. On 31 December 1976, Janet Mayo was appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Commander (Civil) for community service. She was awarded an OBE in 1967 for her work as National President, War Widows’ Guild of Australia. [1] No Mean Destiny by Mavis Thorpe Clark p. 71 Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Book No mean destiny : the story of the War Widows' Guild of Australia 1945-85, Clark, Mavis Thorpe, 1986 Greater than their knowing: a glimpse of South Australian women 1836-1986, National Council of Women of South Australia, 1986 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1988, Cadman, Kerith A, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Janet Mayo, former national president of the War Widows Guild, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2003 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Inscriptions: “Please acknowledge Falk” –Stamped on reverse. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Trained in Adelaide, Dr Ethel Ambrose applied to the Poona and Indian Village Mission established by Tasmanian evangelist Charles Reeve. Ambrose worked at the mission hospital in Nasrapur from 1905, moving to Pandharpur in 1909 where she led fundraising efforts for a hospital. By the time of her death in 1934, the mission’s medical program had reached over 300 Indian villages. Ethel Ambrose was the daughter of William and Helen Ambrose, both of whom died when she was young. Her grandparents, Pastor and Mrs Finlayson, were Scottish Baptists who lived in Adelaide in order to carry out Aboriginal mission work. Ethel was raised by the Finlaysons and educated at Unley Park School and the University of Adelaide, where she completed her medical studies in 1903. She attended the Zion Chapel. An active member of the University Christian Union, Ambrose applied to the Poona and Indian Village Mission along with her sister Lily, a trained nurse. She travelled to Nasrapur in Poona, India, after completing residencies in Perth and Melbourne in 1905. From 1909 Ambrose was concentrating on medical care for women and children in Pandharpur, and conducted fundraising campaigns in Australia to raise money for a hospital there. Ambrose was back in Adelaide in 1919 working as the RMO at the temporary influenza hospital. By the time of her sudden death in 1934, the medical mission program had reached over 300 Indian villages and was employing Indian staff. Published resources Edited Book The Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Dickey, Brian, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 22 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 13 minutes Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jessie Street and the 1943 election, an essay submitted for the Master of Arts qualifying course, Australian National University. Also present: “Jessie Street: a rewarding but unrewarded life”, corrected typescript; correspondence with publishers re. book, etc.; letters to and from Laurence Street, Philippa Fingleton (1976) and Belinda McKay (closed during lifetime of writers); 1 folder of correspondence, speeches etc. with a dealer relating to the launching of “Jessie Street”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Feminist Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG) was formed in November 1982, initially as an organisation which enabled women to demonstrate their solidarity with the women of the Greenham Common Peace Camp. Central to FANG’s philosophy was a non-hierarchical structure, where women were free to feel empowered and express their desire to work toward the common goals of peace, social justice and a nuclear-free future. The group organised several actions, including a peace camp at the US Base at Smithfield, and a 2-week vigil in support of the Pine Gap Peace Camp. The group also coordinated women’s only spaces at Roxby Downs actions, as well as information and film nights to educate women about worldwide peace movements and anti-nuclear actions, to educate its members about non-violent direct action techniques. FANG was formed in November 1982, initially as an organisation that enabled women to demonstrate their solidarity with the women of the Greenham Common Peace Camp. Central to FANG’s philosophy was a non-hierarchical structure, where women were free to feel empowered and express their desire to work toward the common goals of peace, social justice and a nuclear-free future. Their aims were for all countries to disarm, to end nuclear fuel cycles, a commitment to non-violence, and an end to patriarchal oppression. The group organised several actions, including a peace camp at the US Base at Smithfield, and a 2-week vigil in Adelaide in support of the Pine Gap Peace Camp. The group also coordinated women’s only spaces at Roxby Downs actions, as well as information and film nights to educate women about worldwide peace movements and anti-nuclear actions, and educated its members about non-violent direct action techniques. They sent letters of support to the Women’s Peace Movement in England, Italy and Sweden, and some members of FANG (including Briony Monahan) travelled to and lived at the Women’s Peace Camp at Greenham Common, and later to the Peace Camp in Comiso, Sicily. FANG received much correspondence from international women’s peace groups, including a banner from a Swedish women’s peace group. FANG decided not to support the Women’s Peace Camp at Pine Gap in 1983, citing a lack of communication with interstate organisers, and thus exclusion from group processes and decision-making. FANG was concerned about the effect of the Peace Camp’s presence on the traditional owners of the site at Pine Gap, as well as women activists of Alice Springs, and a concern regarding violence towards these groups in particular. As an alternative, FANG proposed a National Day of Women’s Peace Action on the 11th of November (intended to be the start of the Peace Camp) and held vigils and actions in Adelaide instead. These actions included a daily vigil on the steps of Parliament House, the Pillowcase Protest (where women were encouraged to create an image of their dreams of a nuclear future on a pillowcase- later used as an installation at Rymill Park) and daily peace picnics at Rymill Park for women and children only. FANG worked with Women for Survival to organise an action in Victoria Square, Adelaide, in April 1984, as an indication of their support for the trials of the women that were expelled from the Comiso Peace Camp, called the “Flying Web Action”. The web was a frequently used symbol indicating the interconnectedness of women around the world within their visions of a nuclear-free future, where the web of communication and connection between women demonstrated their unity, diversity and as well as strength and fluidity of structure. It was also a symbol used by the women of Greenham Common, and within other Peace Actions around the world. The group had regular correspondence with other peace organisations, such as Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE) and Campaign Against Nuclear Energy, Women’s Action Against Global Violence (WAAGV) and Women for Survival. FANG also received financial sponsorship from the Seaman’s Union of Australia (SA Branch) and the 1984 crew of various ships, as well as the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Waterside Workers’ Federation. The group operated out of the Women’s Liberation Movement offices at 6 Mary Street Hindmarsh, holding regular meetings where they sought to evenly distribute the balance of power, by rotating the meeting coordinators and facilitators. As a group, FANG initially struggled with numerous issues regarding their “women only” status, as well as concern surrounding their appearance to outsiders (whose interest and involvement they sought to attract). Issues rose regarding whether or not the term ‘feminist’ was ‘scary’, and whether members felt they should conceal their lesbianism in order not to isolate or offend non-feminist/non-lesbian women. FANG sought to gain the attention of surrounding people via ‘active action’- moderate civil disobedience – in an effort to retain the support of people who came along, without setting themselves apart as being ‘too militant’. Some of the women involved included, Connie Frazer, Marg Hypatia, Barbara Baird, Marg Madden, Annie Dugdale, Briony Monahan, Deirdre Knox, Nadine Williams, Jan Crawford, Bobbi Willow and many others whose first names have only been recorded. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newsletter Liberation, 1970 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women Against Nuclear Energy Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection Author Details Katey Bereny Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 sound files (approximately 129 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Rosalie Gascoigne, an artist, talks about the development of her art work which she took up in her fifties, early exhibitions and the gathering of raw materials for particular installations. Particular pieces are discussed in some detail. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 19 February 2013 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection contains New South Wales election campaign material of Preston-Stanley, newspaper articles, biographical information, unpublished novels written by Preston-Stanley (1930-50), as well as two copies of the play, Whose Child, which was performed at the Criterion Theatre, Sydney in 1932. A folder of correspondence regarding the establishment of a film company, Quality Pictures Limited, is also included and a number of manuscripts of Crawford Vaughan’s novels, The last of Captain Bligh, (1950) and Golden wattle time, (1942). Author Details Jane Carey Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence to Craig Powell from writers including Tom Shapcott, Les Murray, Francis Webb, Michael Dransfield, Judith Wright and Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker). Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Publications, reprints of periodical articles, monographs, conference proceedings, conference papers, book reviews and audio cassettes of interviews with her. Also includes unpublished papers, seminar papers, correspondence relating to national and international conferences and material relating to social work in the health field in Australia.??Bulk of papers 1960-1984. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 September 2003 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party from 1969, Judith Dixon served as the member for Boronia in the Legislative Council of the Victorian Parliament from 1982-88. Daughter of Cecil Bowins, dairy farmer and Constance Chamberlain, Judith Dixon completed her secondary education at University High School and her tertiary education at both Melbourne ( Bachelor of Arts) and Monash ( Diploma of Education) Universities. During her ten year secondary teaching career, she was a Higher School Certificate examiner in English. Later she worked as a research assistant for the member of the House of Representatives for the electorate of La Trobe. Her community interests were reflected in her membership of the following organisations: founding member of the Knox-Sherbrooke Movement Against Uranium Mining; committee member of the Congress for International Co-Operation and Disarmament and People for Nuclear Disarmament; member of the World Peace Council, the Australia-China Friendship Society; on the Management Committee of the Knox Wage Pause Job Creation Program. Published resources Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1983, Draper, W. J., 1983 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 3 June 2005 Last modified 13 November 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "These interviews were recorded for, but not used in, the documentary project ‘Thanks Girls and Goodbye’ a viewing copy of this film is available from Screensound Australia Author Details Clare Land Created 3 September 2002 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises papers read by members at monthly meetings; Miss Doubleday’s bound copies of papers; minute books, 1910-2010; notices of meetings; financial records; correspondence; press cuttings; and biographical information about early members.??This collection is continually added to. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 17 September 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Winsome McCaughey had the distinction of becoming the second female lord mayor of the City of Melbourne. She served in that capacity from 1988-89. Winsome McCaughey was an active member of the women’s movement during the 1970s in Melbourne, advocating for child care facilities. After serving on the Melbourne City Council, she took on the position of Commissioner for the Melbourne bid for the Olympic Games for 1996. Unfortunately it was unsuccessful. She then assumed the senior position of Chief Executive Officer of Greening Australia, a position she held for four years. Her subsequent employment was as Chief Executive Officer for the Australian and New Zealand Food Authority and later again as Executive Director of the Australian Business Arts Foundation. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Building relationships and securing donations : a guide for the arts, McCaughey, Winsome, Mathews, Kirsten, editor, Gadd, Nick, 2005 Community child care : resource book for parents and those planning children's services, McCaughey, Winsome, Sebastian, Pat and staff of Community child care, 1977 Edited Book Community child care : guidelines for establishing children's services, McCaughey, Winsome and Sebastian, Patricia, 1974? Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Winsome McCaughey, ex-Lord Mayor of Melbourne, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 5 August 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Ailsa Thomson Zainuddin, privately held (to be transferred to National Library of Australia, Canberra). Records include personal and family records, correspondence, publications and related working papers, diaries and journals, subject files, photographs. For more information, see “Archival Sources” in Introduction to Bridges of Friendship. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 October 2017 Last modified 6 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "On July 22nd, 1941, a number of prominent Brisbane women called a public meeting of women to discuss the possibility of forming a club for women who were interested in learning public speaking skills. The idea was received enthusiastically by the assembled group, and the first Queensland Women’s Forum Club was established on July 30th, 1941. The first ordinary meeting of the new forum club was held on August 20th, 1941 in the blue room at the hotel Canberra. The Chermside Forum was established in the 1960s. The objects of the Chermside Women’s Forum Club were: 7. To improve the standard of speaking among women, 8. To provide opportunities for women to learn and practice meeting procedure and duties of office-bearers of clubs and organizations, 9. To maintain freedom of speech, 10. To encourage a continued interest in education, 11. To demonstrate to the community the value of loyalty and truth, clarity of thought and the love of the English tongue 12. To promote loyal fellowship. 1945 was a year that saw massive growth in the number of clubs across Queensland and the first regional club was established in Mackay. Many clubs began a series of luncheon meetings, as well as the traditional evening meetings, to assist members who found it difficult to get away from home in the evenings. As the number of clubs grew, so did the need for a central administrative body. The Association of Queensland Women’s Forum Clubs, known as the Dais, was formed as were, eventually, regional councils. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection OM68-19 Association of Queensland Women's Forum Clubs Records 1943-1968 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Selina McHugh was the first woman blacksmith in the Broken Hill district. Selina was the seventh daughter of John McHugh and Elizabeth Melbourne. With her nine siblings, she grew up in South Australia and was married in Adelaide to John Frederick Hearn. The couple moved to Silverton, but John passed away several years later, in December 1898. As a widow Selina began work as a blacksmith – she was the first woman blacksmith in the Broken Hill district. In September 1903 Selina married Joseph Boundy, an early settler in Broken Hill who had established a dairy and a blacksmithing workshop of his own. Their combined blacksmith business remained open until 1931. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letter to Capel Brockman (nee Bussell) on the Warren. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Broken Hill Munitions Annexe opened in 1942 for the manufacture of wartime munitions and employed dozens of Broken Hill women. Mirroring a trend that took place throughout Australia, unprecedented levels of female participation in the workforce were attained in Broken Hill during World War II. A significant employer of women in wartime was the Munitions Factory that opened in Broken Hill in 1942. In January 1941, members of Broken Hill’s peak union body, the Barrier Industrial Council, and of the Unemployed Union organised a demonstration in favour of the establishment of a factory in order to create jobs. The project to build Munitions Factory received the financial support of the Mining Managers’ Association on condition that the building be used to house a permanent trade annexe after the war. From September 1941 the site for the building in the Duke of Cornwall Reserve was leased to the Broken Hill Technical College by the mining companies, and building commenced in June of the following year. In August 1942, a Women’s Employment Office was established at the Broken Hill Court House, and married women were also able to register for employment, despite a long-standing and strictly abided union policy that women would not work after marrying. The factory opened in November, employing over 300 women and 80 men to create nose cone assemblies for 25-pound shells. When interviewed by the Barrier Miner newspaper, the manager of the factory, Mr J. L. Mayson, assured its readers that there was “no strain attached to the work” and that the “work standard [was] quite within the reach of an average girl”. The women employed were responsible for overseeing the smooth operation of the machinery and for checking the quality of the finished part. Photos of the women at work supervising the munitions machines and on their lunch break in the canteen give a strong impression of the sense of pride, enjoyment and accomplishment that these women would have experience. (see Gallery Tab) In 1946, the building was handed over to the Technical College and became know as the Broken Hill Technical College Annexe. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Broken Hill: A Pictorial History, Kearns, R.H.B., 1982 Newspaper Article Manager's Praise for the Broken Hill Ammunition Factory, 1942 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Minutes of the Broken Hill Technical College Advisory Committee Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Munitions Factory Canteen 1944 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Munitions Annexe Canteen c1943 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Canteen-c1943.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Official records of the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria and associated organisations such as the Victorian College of Pharmacy and the Metropolitan Chemists’ Association. Comprises the Society’s letterbooks 1879-1921; minute books 1857-1955; ledgers 1890-1913; membership registers 1871-1931 and annual reports. Enrolment lists and examination papers of the Pharmacy College of Victoria c.1881-1921. Recipe books, prescriptions and price lists 1848-1921. Files on individual pharmacists and local associations, press-cuttings and photographs. Author Details Janet Butler Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection comprises minutes, membership registers, receipt books, financial statements, certificates and loose files for Queensland Women’s Year. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 October 2017 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers cover the period 1937-1937. They contain mainly correspondence relating to the establishment and operation of the Elizabeth Kenny Clinics in various states of Australia, and Elizabeth Kenny’s efforts to gain recognition for her methods of treatment. The papers also include copies of specifications for equipment used during treatment, copies of lecture/address notes, invitations and newspaper clippings Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 20 May 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "During World War I Grace Wilson was Principal Matron of No 3 Australian General Hospital serving in Egypt, Lemnos and France. She was appointed a Commander (Military) of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1919 for army nursing service in France. Grace Wilson was mentioned in dispatches five times as well as being awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal (2 May 1916) and the Florence Nightingale Medal. After being educated at Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School, Grace Wilson commenced her nursing training at Brisbane Hospital and continued at Queen Charlotte Hospital (London). Upon completion she became a sister at Albany Memorial Hospital (London) and then returned to Australia to be Matron at the Brisbane Hospital. During World War I Wilson was Principal Matron No. 3 Australian General Hospitals in Egypt, Lemnos and France. She then became temporary Matron-in-chief for the Australian Imperial Forces (AIF). Wilson was mentioned in dispatches five times, awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal and Royal Red Cross Medal as well as being appointed a Commander (Military) of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1919 for army nursing service. In 1937 she led the A.I.F. Nurses’ Contingent to the Coronation. During her career Wilson was matron at Rosemount Military Hospital, Brisbane, and the Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, and was sister-in-charge at Somerset House Private Hospital, Melbourne. From 1933 to 1940 she was matron at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, and at the outbreak of World War II became matron-in-chief of the Australian Army Nursing Service (A.A.N.S). From 1940 to 1941 Wilson was matron-in-chief of the Nursing Service with the A.I.F., before becoming executive officer with the Nursing Control Section at the Manpower Directorate. Matron Grace Margaret Wilson died in 1957. Published resources Book Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 The Diggers : makers of the Australian military tradition, Coulthard-Clark, Chris, 1993 Australian nurses since Nightingale 1860-1990, Burchill, Elizabeth, 1992 Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999, Reid, Richard, 1999 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 Who's Who in Australia 1944, Alexander, Joseph A, 1944 Article \"What is the ANZAC spirit?\", Kirlew, Franziska, 2002, http://www.pa.ash.org.au/afssse/simpson/prize2002/essays/kirlew2002.htm Resource Section Visit Gallipoli, http://www.gallipoli.gov.au/5environment/nurses.html Wilson, Grace Margaret (1879 - 1957), McCarthy, Janice, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120587b.htm Resource RSL Returned Sisters' Sub-branch Thanksgiving Service, 100 Years of Australian Army Nursing, 2002, http://www.perthcathedral.org/ Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 October 2002 Last modified 17 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Miss Grace Wilson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: ANF.UDS2012382-1_Page_31.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Documentary about the ever-increasing incidence of kidney disease amongst Indigenous people, young and old. — General notes: Produced in association with SBS Independent; developed and produced with the assistance of the Indigenous Unit of the Australian Film Commission; produced with finance and assistance from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Commission. — Broadcast as part of the SBS TV series ‘Australia By Numbers’. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gwendoline Nessie Foster was educated at Toowong State School and Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School. After school, Gwen studied piano and composition and gained a music teachers diploma. She was also the organist at All Saints Church, Brisbane. Gwen taught for a brief period before obtaining a position as a typist in the War Damage Commission in 1942. After Gwen’s marriage to linguist William Harwood in 1945, the pair moved to Tasmania, where Gwen taught music, worked as medical secretary and raised a family. From the 1960s, Gwen’s poetry and writing frequently appeared in Australian literary journals, and her first poetry volume was published in 1963. In 1973 Gwen received a Literature Board Grant, which enabled her to devote much more of her time to writing. In addition to poetry, Gwen has also written libretti and choral works, some still unpublished. A number of her poems have also been set to music. Altogether, Gwen has published approximately 430 works, some of which have been published under pseudonyms. Gwen served as president of both the Tasmanian Branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the Lady Hamilton Literary Society. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Victorian Premiers Award (1989) and the 1990 Age Book of the Year Award. Gwen also received honorary doctorates from La Trobe University, the University of Tasmania and the University of Queensland. In 1989 Gwen was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) ‘for service to literature, particularly as a poet and librettist’. She was also inducted into the inaugural Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 1995. The Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize was established in 1996. Events 1989 - 1989 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards – The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry 1975 - 1975 Grace Leven Poetry Prize 1960 - 1960 Meanjin Poetry Prize 1959 - 1959 Meanjin Poetry Prize 2005 - 2005 1994 - 1994 Cholmondeley Award 1978 - 1978 Patrick White Award 1977 - 1977 Robert Frost Medallion 1990 - 1990 The Age Book of the Year Award – Non-Fiction Prize 1990 - 1990 Festival Awards for Literature (SA) – John Bray Award for Poetry Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Gwen Harwood, 1889-1982 [manuscript] Correspondence 1954-1960 [manuscript] Letters from Gwen Harwood, 1976-1991 [manuscript] Papers of Cassandra Pybus, 1956-2008 [manuscript] Literary papers 1969-1981 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Gwen Harwood interviewed by Suzanne Walker [sound recording] Gwen Harwood interviewed by Diana Ritch [sound recording] Gwen Harwood interviewed by Alison Hoddinott [sound recording] Gwen Harwood recites poetry in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] Gwen Harwood reads her poetry for the Australia Council [sound recording] / recorded by Roger MacDonald National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Gwen Harwood, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Archives Office of Tasmania Minutes, copies of papers, scrapbook, attendance lists and associated records Academy Library, UNSW Canberra Gwen Harwood and Ann Jennings manuscript collection Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Gwen Harwood Papers, collected by Tony Riddell Father Alan Farrell Correspondence Helen Mills Papers Alison Hoddinott Papers Gregory Kratzmann Papers Letter, 1968 Jan 11 South Perth, Western Australia to Gwen Harwood. Gwen Harwood Papers Letter, 29 Apr 1986 : to Revd. A.P.B. Bennie. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 March 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photocopy of newspaper cuttings which gives birth and death dates of Griffiths family. Cuttings relate to the New Australia colony at Cosme, Paraguay. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Helen Garner is an award-winning Australian novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. After graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1965 she worked as a high school teacher. While teaching, she contributed to journals and worked in theatre. Her first novel Monkey Grip was published in 1977. It was an instant success, winning a National Book Council award in 1978 and being filmed in 1982. Garner has successfully written both fiction and non-fiction. Considerable controversy attended the 1995 publication of The First Stone: Some Questions about Sex and Power, an examination of allegations of misconduct in a University college. In 1993, she won a Walkley award for her feature article on the sad death of a small child, Daniel Valerio. Garner has written three scripts for Australian films: Monkey Grip (Cameron, 1982), Two Friends (Campion, 1986) and The Last Days Of Chez Nous (Armstrong, 1992). Along with her novels, short stories and journalism, these films have cast Garner as a central figure in the history of Australian film and literature. She has written three true-crime books: first with The First Stone, about the aftermath of a sexual-harassment scandal at a university, followed by Joe Cinque’s Consolation, a journalistic novel about the court proceedings involving a young man who died at the hands of his girlfriend, which won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Book, and again in 2014 with This House of Grief, about Robert Farquharson, a man who drove his children into a dam. Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She attended the Manifold Heights State School, Ocean Grove State School and The Hermitage. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English and French. She then worked as a high school teacher between 1966 and 1972. In 1968 she married Bill Garner and was divorced in 1971. In 1972, Garner was fired by the Victorian Department of Education for her publications in the magazine, The Digger. Throughout the 1970s, Garner also published in the Women’s Liberation journal Vashti’s Voice. Her first novel, Monkey Grip, was published in 1977. The book was very successful, winning the National Book Council Award in 1978. In 1982, garner wrote the script for the feature film Monkey Grip (Cameron, 1982). The film followed the lives of a small group of inner city people and how sex and drugs impacted their lives. In 1980, she married Jean-Jacques Portail and divorced in 1985. She has also married and divorced Australian writer Murray Bail. In 1986, her collection of short stories, Postcards from Surfers, won the 1986 NSW Premier’s Literary Award and her novel The Children’s Bach won the 1986 SA Premier’s Literary Award. Also in 1986, Garner wrote the script for Two Friends (Campion, 1986). In 1991, Garner wrote the script for the dramatic comedy The Last Days of Chez Nous (Armstrong, 1992). Produced by Jan Chapman, the film explored the relationship between two very different daughters and their father. In 1993, her novel Cosmo Cosmolino was nominated for a Miles Franklin Award. In 1995, her non-fiction The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power, caused intense uproar amongst feminists. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1993 - 1993 Best Feature Writing, ‘ Why Did Daniel Have To Die?’, Time Australia 2005 - 2005 Non-Fiction Book, ‘Joe Cinque’s Consolation’, Pan Macmillan 2017 - 2017 Feature Writing Long – ‘Why she broke: The woman, her children and the lake’ – The Monthly Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Magazine article Why Did Daniel HaveTo Die?, Garner, Helen, 1993 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Section Helen Garner (1942 - ), Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 2002, http://www.unimelb.edu.au/150/150people/garner.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Manning Clark, 1907-1992 [manuscript] Papers of Helen Garner, 1990-2005 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (Australia) - records of the W.G. Walkley Awards, 1956 - 1999 Women's Redress Press - book files, 1976-1996, including correspondence, contracts, readers' reports, reviews and photographs National Film and Sound Archive [Garner, Helen : Interviewed By Steve Stockwell] The Last Days of Chez Nous : Original Release Monkey Grip : Original Release Two Friends : Original Release [Australian Film Commission : Documentation] : [Australian Film Commission : Script Laboratory : Women's Programme : Group Shot of Participants] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Helen Garner interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] Interview with Helen Garner, author [sound recording] / interviewer, Sara Dowse Author Details Nikki Henningham and Hollie Aerts Created 14 November 2007 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mrs Alice Chisholm (left) and her daughter, both of Woollahra and Pennant Hills, NSW, standing in front of the canteen that they established for the benefit of Australian, New Zealand and British soldiers on leave from active service in Egypt. The sign reads “Empire Club for Naval And Military”?Black & white – Film copy negative?Egypt: Suez Canal, Port Said Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 September 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 sound files (ca. 200 min.)??Helen McCue a nurse and aid worker talks about her education; her nursing work in the Middle East with Palestinians (1981-83); founding APHEDA to train health workers in war situations (1984); training Palestinian nurses in Australia and Lebanon; establishing WREN; her PhD at the University of N.S.W. on Muslim women; her involvement in the Reconciliation Movement in the Southern Highlands; her publications and awards; community activities in the Southern Highlands; the foundation, development and organization of Rural Australians for Refugees (RAR); RARs objectives and aims; local street reactions to RAR; the spread of RAR nationally; its newsletter, website and email network (2001-02); national conference’s; refugee resettlement in rural areas; rural sponsorship scheme; local volunteer English teachers; insufficient cultural support; the Tampa awards; RAR groups locating refugees; respite holidays for refugees; rural medical and psychiatric services for refugees.??McCue discusses school and TAFE responses; RARs relations with Centrelink and State housing authorities; the repatriation of failed asylum seekers; RARs contacts with the Department of Immigration; finances and fund-raising activities. Links with other refugee related organisations; RARs political lobbying and media work; RAR regional conferences; the position of the Churches on refugees; lobbying State governments; shift in public opinion by 2005; the power of one democratic empowerment; use of local and national radio; impact of RAR, its successes and failures; its impact on rural racism; awards to RAR; its success in public education on refugee issues; economic impact of refugees on country towns; some important RAR supporters; creative responses to refugees; the Afghan soccer team. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 May 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "41 min?Oral history?Audio cassette; TDK AD60; two track mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jean Laby was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in Physics from the University of Melbourne. She combined a lectureship in the Department of Physics with a senior lectureship in the RAAF Academy at Point Cook, Victoria. Jean was the only woman on staff at the Academy. Jean was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2009. Jean Elizabeth Laby not only spent all of a long and distinguished working life at the University of Melbourne; she spent much of her childhood there as well. Her career was one of firsts. From 1927 to 1943 her father, the Professor of Physics Thomas Laby (1880-1946), occupied the house at the Grattan Street end of Professors’ Walk known as ‘Towcett’, which was later occupied by Professor Amies.[1] Apart from her school years at Melbourne Church of England Girls’ Grammar School her education was at Melbourne University. She took her BSc in 1939 and MSc, with a thesis on her investigations for the war-time Optical Munitions Panel on the thermal conductivity of water, in 1951.[2] Her PhD thesis, produced as part of her work with Victor Hopper on atmospheric winds and cosmic rays at balloon altitudes, was awarded in 1959.[3] She was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in Physics from the University of Melbourne. In an interview recorded for the Australian Academy of Science, Jean Laby noted that living in the grounds was as convenient for herself and her sister as undergraduates as it was for her father as Professor and recalled night-time visits to his Department and the embarrassment of attending his lectures. The outbreak of war meant that instead of taking a position in the Bureau of Meteorology, she took one as part-time Demonstrator in the Department of Natural Philosophy.[4] Jean Laby combined a lectureship in the Department of Physics with a senior lectureship in the RAAF Academy at Point Cook, Victoria, the functions of which were later assumed by the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra. Her colleague Victor Hopper was the inaugural professor of physics and dean of university studies at the Academy and Jean Laby was the only woman on the staff. Her research included radar meteorology and balloon-borne cameras as well as cosmic radiation measurements. In collaboration with the University of Wyoming, as part of the Climatic Impact Assessment Program from 1972 to 1980, she measured atmospheric aerosols, ozone and water vapour in the stratosphere. The work involved sending balloons up to 30 kilometres above the Earth. Jean Laby was inducted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2009. [1] Physics was originally known as Natural Philosophy. [2] Jean E. Laby. The Thermal Conductivity of Water and Some Measurements with Other Liquids. Thesis (MSc). University of Melbourne, Department of Science, 1951. [3] Jean E. Laby. Atmospheric Winds and Cosmic Rays at Balloon Altitudes. Thesis (PhD). University of Melbourne, Office of Research, 1959. [4] Jean Laby interviewed by Nessy Allen in 2000 as part of the Australian Academy of Science Interviews with Australian Scientists. https://www.science.org.au/learning/general-audience/history/interviews-australian-scientists/dr-jean-laby-1915-2008-physicist Events 2009 - 2009 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1961 - 1980 University of Melbourne Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Jean Laby Papers Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Bardon Women’s Club was formed in 1926 with the aim of providing a vehicle for community involvement for the women in this suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, as long as they were not Catholic. The initiative of Mrs. Vera Jones, a local mother and an ex-schoolteacher with a Masters of Science from the University of Queensland, the club was open to non-Catholic women who wanted to ‘widen their own horizons’, who wanted ‘a voice in the community’ and also needed some entertainment and ‘a social focus’. The club amended its constitution in 1996 to allow membership to non-Protestant women, in accordance with State government anti-discrimination legislation. It ceased operation in 1998. The inaugural meeting of the Bardon Women’s Club took place on November 19, 1926. Mrs. Vera Jones, in consultation with Mrs. Elizabeth Exley, a local resident with a long involvement in community service in the Brisbane, Queensland, area formed the club with the belief that it was vital that women take an interest, and have a secular voice, in community matters. A well educated woman who moved in academic circles, Vera Jones has been described as ‘representative of the “new woman” who was emerging after World War 1’, in that she was ‘interested in women’s affairs and aware of the need for women to have a voice in community affairs, but not necessarily through the churches as had been the case in the past.’ Most of the founding members were young mothers who brought their children with them to the meetings. Affiliated with the National Council of Women, the Bardon Women’s Club’s first achievement was the establishment of a member’s library. Club members read voraciously and took an interest in the activities of other organizations, such as the Ithaca Benevolent society, the Mother’s Union, District Nursing, and the Temperance Movement. Many of the founding members were involved in the Lyceum Club, the kindergarten movement and the campaign for a University Women’s College, to name a few. Its list of guest speakers at meetings reflects this range and type of interests. During the depression of the 1930s, members worked closely with the Ithaca Benevolent Society and other relief organizations. They also took an active interest in events happening in Europe, although members did not choose to affiliate with the Queensland Women’s Peace Conference in 1936. Along with most affiliates of the National Council of Women, however, they joined the Women’s National Volunteer Register during World War II. After the war, the aims and activities of the club changed somewhat, as it moved from being a community service organization that provided women with a social outlet to a much more ‘social’ club. The founding members were getting on in age and their attendance at meetings was less frequent. New members were still young mothers but, according to an anonymous member who wrote a short history of the organisation ‘domestic help was not so readily available as it had been prior to the war.’ Perhaps post-war women in the suburbs didn’t have the time and resources to devote to community involvement that the previous generation did? Nevertheless, even as a social club, the Bardon Women’s Club served the suburban community well. It experienced its highest membership numbers during the early 1950s. By the early 1990s, the club was struggling for membership, and committee members felt that is was unlikely that ‘new, young, and active members’ were unlikely to join. As one member in 1993 said ‘young women have different interests and are either working or busy with small children.’ The club amended its constitution in 1996 to allow membership to non-Protestant women, in accordance with State government anti-discrimination legislation, but this did nothing to halt the slide in membership numbers. After seventy-two years the Bardon Women’s Club held its final meeting in 1998 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection TR 2108 Bardon Women's Club OM72-57 Women's Voluntary National Register, Queensland State Council Records 1939-1945 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 June 2004 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 47 minutes??Dr Susan Beal was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen’s Birthday honours list, 1997, for service to medicine, particularly in the fields of paediatrics and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) research. Susan Beal, nee Ross, grew up in Sydney, New South Wales. She studied medicine at Sydney University and specialised in paediatrics. She married in 1959 and had five children between 1960 and 1970. The family moved to South Australia in the early 60s. Dr Beal began working at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital as research registrar in neurosurgery and then running the Cerebral Palsy Clinic. In 1970 she was asked to investigate the incidence of SIDS in South Australia. Since then Dr Beal has been involved in research and public awareness campaigns that have led to a dramatic decrease in deaths. Her work included home visits following every death between 1973 and 1989. At the time of the interview, she was working for the Crippled Children’s Association with a caseload of over 50 families. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Textual Records, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs??Contains three series. Created 13 October 2020 Last modified 13 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 45 minutes??Valmai Webb, nee Glover, was born at Tumby Bay, South Australia and grew up on the family farm at Yeelanna. She attended the local one teacher school for her primary education and then went on to Cummins Area School for three years. Valmai stayed at home for the next seven years until her marriage in 1960 and describes her busy social life in the interim. She discusses the birth of her youngest sister in 1951, when Valmai was 14, and the likelihood that illegitimacy would have been suspected had she been boarding away from home at the time. Valmai joined the Country Women’s Association soon after leaving school and took a great interest in home crafts. She and her husband Richard moved to a property at Ungarra after their marriage. They had one daughter and three sons. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photographs taken at Roseby Park, 1915-1919 and Brewarrina, 1920-1929 during the periods when the Burns family managed the missions. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 September 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes of Mildura Branch of the Victorian Women Graduates Association 20 July 1949-11 November 1959; 9 March 1960-13 September 1967; 13 September 1967-7 March 1979. Volumes include Membership lists and Annual accounts. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Posters – 136 silkscreen prints – Ranging from 14 x 30 cm. to 96 x 120 cm. Created by the Earthworks Poster Collective in the 1970s. Individual posters on topics including civil & political rights, community art projects, feminism, gay rights, uranium mines. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Originally broadcast on Radio National.??Hon. Wendy Fatin, Minister for Arts and Territories, and Minister Assisting Prime Minister for the Status of Women, talks about her life and what has helped shape her beliefs, and her work as a politician in a male dominated profession. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 7 April 2009 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dutch silver jam spoon with an irregularly-shaped bowl. Silver marks impressed into the underside of the handle, indicate that the spoon was made in 1905 from Dutch second standard silver.?Associated with Sister Pat Gunther, 2/10 Australian General Hospital, who served in Malaya and Singapore. She was captured by the Japanese when they sunk the SS Vyner Brooke, the ship on which she was being evacuated, near Banka Island, in February 1942. The spoon came from a Dutch residence where she was initially held with other nurses for ten days. She retained the spoon throughout the rest of her captivity at Palembang in Sumatra. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mabel Louise, Lady Grimwade, nee Kelly was the daughter of George Colman Kelly, a pastoralist, councillor and one of the original shareholders of Broken Hill Proprietary Limited. He left his two sons and daughter in comfortable circumstances and ‘Miss Mabel Kelly’ figures frequently in the social pages of newspapers of the early 1900s. In 1909, just two months before her father’s death, she married Wilfred Russell Grimwade (1879-1955). They were to have an enduring impact on the University which from which Russell Grimwade had taken his BSc in 1901. Mab Grimwade’s enormous support of the Russell Grimwade School of Biochemistry lasted well beyond her husband’s lifetime, but it was by no means her only interest. Her presence is noted in the newspapers at theatre performances, notably one of The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll on 5 October 1956 to which overseas athletes were specially invited.[1] She inspired the ‘Hats through the Ages’ pageant in Melba Hall compered by Myra Roper and Joseph Burke (the first Professor of Art History in Australia) to raise money for the University’s Centenary Appeal.[2] Mab Grimwade’s interests and patronage extended well beyond the University of Melbourne. The inventory of her papers in the University Archives lists correspondence with the National Gallery Society of Victoria, the Alexandra Club, the Royal Horticultural Society, London, the National Trust of Australia (Victoria), the Society for Growing Australian Plants, the Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria, the Australian-American Society, the Australian Ballet, the Australian Elizabethan Trust, University House, the Native Plants Preservation Society of Victoria and the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria. The Mab Grimwade rose, bred in 1937 by Alister Clark, is a yellow hybrid tea rose, with rich orange, coppery buds and large double blooms of salmon pink flushed with orange.[3] Proceeds from its sale were donated to the National Rose Society of Victoria. On her death, the University received the bequest now known as the Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah Fund, which included ‘Miegunyah’, the house in which the Grimwades lived and all its furnishings, an extraordinary collection of books and paintings and funds for publications of the Miegunyah Press. [1] ‘A Dream Night for Playwright’. Argus. 6 December 1956: 8. [2] Freda Irving. ‘Brains in Her Hats’. Argus. 2 July 1955: 41. [3] There appears to be some doubt about this date, which is given in various sources as 1927, 1937 and 1947. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Alexander Gore Gowrie, 1835-1987 [manuscript] Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 7 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate Library School in candidacy for the degree of Master of Arts. University of Chicago, 1956. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Notes on pottery in Canberra, letter from Corbett Ashley to a Mr White re Vida Goldstein, and one folder of material containing: Canberra Pre-school Society- A record 1943-1960; Canberra Pre-school Society- Talk 1967 Aug. 8 by Loma Rudduck; German report by Loma Rudduck; photograph; publications; notes on the opening of Canberra Nursery School, 1944; and “Now I’m a brother” (Original manuscript, 12 p.). Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Details of the lives and careers of Edward and Anna Newsom Bage, their sons, Charles and Edward, granddaughter Freda Bage, daughter-in-law, Mary Charlotte Bage and reference to Alice Anderson., Includes ‘Memoir of Anna Newsom Bage’ by Charles Bage, a detailed account of the settlement in Victoria of Edward and Anna Bage, and later public life of Anna. Also includes miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, and notes signed by A. F. Haydon. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Australian Reproductive Health Alliance worked for the improvement in the well-being and status of women and the development of reproductive health. ARHA promoted knowledge, education and research relating to the development of family planning and other reproductive health services, paying particular attention to the needs of indigenous people, both within Australia and internationally. It ceased operation on 30 September 2011. The establishment of ARHA and ARHF followed from the UN Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in 1994. The outcomes of this conference included a shift from a purely demographic focus for the UN’s population programs to a woman-centred approach, recognising the rights of all women to access quality reproductive and sexual health services. The importance of education for women and girls was also recognised as was access to good maternal and child health services. ARHA aimed through public education and advocacy to ensure that Australia met its obligations as per the Cairo agreement. It acted as the secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population and Development. Similar groups exist in Europe and the UK and have been extremely successful in keeping population and related issues on the public agenda. The ARHA mission statement was: 1.To promote public support, both within Australia and internationally, for improvement in the well-being and status of women and the development of reproductive health in families and individuals by means including the production of educational materials the organisation of seminars and workshops the preparation of briefing materials for members of the press networking with parliamentarians, government departments and other interested parties as requires the support and promotion of alliances of opinion makers with comparable aims and objectives. 2.To promote knowledge, education and research relating to the development of family planning and other reproductive health services, paying particular attention to the needs of indigenous people, both within Australian and internationally. 3.Where appropriate, to identify and support reproductive health, and enhance the status of women and girls, either working independently or with partner organisations. 4.To promote, maintain and extend the interest of ARHA members in a broad range of issues concerning reproductive health and its role in development. Published resources Finding Aid Guide to the Records of the Australian Reproductive Health Alliance, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-255696487 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Australian Reproductive Health Alliance, 1992-2011 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Recording or Virginia Spate presenting an Art Forum lecture on 28 March, 2000 Created 8 September 2020 Last modified 8 September 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Frederica Georgina Wheeler was born on 29th January 1897 to Phoebe Clarke (nee Morgan) a boarding house keeper and Frederick George Wheeler, a commercial traveller, storekeeper and miner. She attended school in Echuca in Victoria and at the age of 18, on 12 October 1888, she married widower Robert Cooke aged 40 in Melbourne. She had two stepdaughters, Jean and Bella and three children of her own, Clive, Phoebe (Tottie) and Frances (Fanny). Robert died of bronchitis and pneumonia in 1904 leaving her a young widow with no particular skills to support herself. She trained as a midwife, because as her granddaughter wrote, ‘Faced with the need to support her family she decided against shopkeeping. Domestic service was beneath her dignity.’ In 1904, leaving her youngest daughter Frances in Victoria, she moved to Boulder in Western Australia to take up her profession. One of her first patients was her daughter Tottie. ‘ Nurse Cooke attended the birth of over a thousand babies and never lost a mother or a full term child’. She briefly conducted a small private hospital, but most patients preferred to be delivered at home, so she continued to give women that service. In March 1917 she married again to a farmer James Glasson but found life on the farm too primitive, so returned to practise midwifery in Boulder and to care for her grandchildren. She died in 1955. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book The Misfortunes of Phoebe, Erickson, Rica, 1997 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Author Details Dorothy Erickson Created 6 August 2012 Last modified 12 December 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lib. Has Sept. 1902-June 1903 ; Vol. 2, no. 1 (Sept. 1903)??Issued from Sept. 1902-June 1903 as a “manuscript magazine” (mimeographed). Final issue published by J.H. Sherring, Lithographer?Edited by and with contributions from Alice Grant Rosman and Grace E. Burrows Author Details Christine Donald Created 10 June 2010 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Frances Gertrude Kumm (nee Cato), influenced by her mother F.J. Cato and sister Una Porter (nee Cato) – both ardent Young Women’s Christian Association supporters – joined the Young Women’s Christian Association’s National World Fellowship Committee in 1931 and was made president of the Young Women’s Christian Association of Melbourne (1943 – 1945). Kumm held the office of National president from 1945 – 1951, visiting ‘all local associations’ throughout Australia during this time. She attended the World Young Women’s Christian Association Council meetings in China (1947) and Lebanon (1951) and was ‘for some time’ Vice President of the World Young Women’s Christian Association Council. Instrumental in early Young Women’s Christian Association immigration committees, Kumm was elected to the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council in 1949 and was President of the Victoria National Council of Women. She received an OBE in 1948 and made the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Served on numerous committees: National World Fellowship (joined 1931); National Extension (1938-40); Southern Regional (1944). It is claimed in the sources that she had an ongoing interest in immigration issues, which led to her election to the Immigration Advisory Council. Published resources Resource Section Kumm, Frances Gertrude (1886-1966), McCalman, Janet, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150057b.htm Book The Dauntless Bunch : The Story of the YWCA in Australia, Dunn, Margaret, 1991 Thesis The Mother's anxious future : Australian Christian Women's Organisations meet the modern world, 1890s-1930s, Warne, Ellen Mary, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Young Women's Christian Association of Australia Author Details Francesca Bussey Created 24 May 2004 Last modified 8 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO8]??Comprises National Awards Committee administration (1949 2004) which includes meeting minutes, procedures, nomination forms, citations, invitations, as well as correspondence pertaining to the management of the ‘National Awards,’ recognising the contribution recipients made in the service of the organisation. Awards include the Honorary Life Membership, Distinguished Service Award, International Service Award, Distinguished Staff Award, Distinguished Team Award Outstanding Service Award, Meritorious Service Award and the Youth Meritorious Service Award.?Also comprises applications and citations for awards presented by the Australian Red Cross for time based service in the organisation including: Distinguished Service Award, Outstanding Service Awards, Long Service Medal, Laurel Wreaths and Honorary Life Membership.??Awards relate to the Divisions of Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory and Papua New Guinea.??Records are listed at file level arranged by award name and year awarded, there are also lists per state or territorial Division. In most instances recipients of these awards have a citations and completed nomination forms.?Also contains a small number of records pertaining to nominations and citations for International Red Cross awards: Florence Nightingale Medal (1947-1991) and the Henry Dunant Medal (1989-2003).??Further records relating to awards can be Annual Reports of the Australian Red Cross (2015.0027) previously known as NO.13; also Correspondence Files, National Headquarters (2015.0033) previously known as NO.33.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Alice Berry understood the problems of living in rural Australia and was committed to finding ways to improve the lives of women and children in rural areas. Through her work in the Country Women’s Association in Queensland, and in the Associated Country Women of the World, she made a lasting contribution to the provision of services in country areas. She was appointed to The Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander on 01 January 1960 for Service to country women. Alice Berry spent her early years in country New South Wales and attended a one-teacher school at Cobar, where her father, Charles Roy McKenzie, was the gold-mine manager. She continued her education at the Waverley Superior Public School, Sydney and later attended business college, where she gained secretarial skills. Her first position was as secretary to a real estate agent at Wentworthville. She married Henry Berry, a wool classer, grazier and merchant, on 6 June 1921. He had served in World War I in the First Light Horse Regiment in the Middle East. They had two daughters and moved to a sheep property near Tumut, where they remained until 1927. Their next move was to Queensland for the health of one of their daughters and they settled on a property in the Mount Abundance District, near Roma. It was here that Alice Berry came to understand the problems women encountered in rural areas; for example, lack of facilities, poor roads and communication, spasmodic mail services and inadequate health care. She was aware of the role of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) in improving life for women and children in rural Australia, and in 1928 she became a founding member and Secretary of the Mt Abundance branch of the CWA of Queensland. The family moved to Woolabra in 1932, a 42,000 acre (16997ha) property in the Charleville district and Alice Berry continued with her CWA activities as well as her domestic duties. A self-reliant woman, she worked energetically for education, mothers’ hostels, the aerial medical service and access to seaside cottages. During World War II she extended her activities to include work for the Red Cross Society and the Australian Comforts Fund. She was also a Commissioner of the Girl Guides’ Association. Due to her husband’s ill health they returned to live in Brisbane, but she remained the CWA’s councillor for the Western Division in Queensland. In 1948, she was appointed state international officer and after Henry’s death took over the management of Woolabra. Her appointments included deputy president of the state CWA (1951-1952), president of the associated Country Women of the World (1953-1959), president of the Queensland CWA (1961-1962), and national president of the CWA in 1962. She was appointed OBE in 1954 and DBE in 1960. In 1971 she was made a member of honour of the Australian Country Women of the World (ACWW). On retirement in 1963, she worked for ten years on the Country Women’s Association’s archives. Published resources Book Section Berry, Dame Alice Miriam, DBE, 1965 Book The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Section Berry, Dame Alice Miriam (1900 - 1978), Taylor, Helen, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130202b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources NULL Alice Berry Cuttings Collection National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Country Women's Association of Australia, 1945-1969, 2003 [manuscript] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Louisa Briggs, of Woiworung descent, was born on Preservation Island, Bass Strait. Around 1853 she and her husband, John, went to the Victorian goldfields. Then they worked as shepherds in the Beaufort district until 1871 when the family was admitted destitute to Coranderrk Aboriginal Station. There Briggs acted as nurse and midwife. In 1876 she was appointed matron and became the first Aboriginal woman to replace a European on salaried staff. She became the spokesperson for the residents and succeeded in securing the reappointment of the popular first manager. She fought the Aborigines Protection Board’s plans to sell Coranderrk and remove residents to other reserves, and gave evidence to the 1876 inquiry but was eventually forced off the reserve and moved to Ebenezer Aboriginal Station. After yet another inquiry in 1881 she moved back to Coranderrk where she was reappointed matron. When her sons were forced off the reserve under the Victorian Aborigines Protection Act 1886, she moved first to Maloga Mission, and in 1889 to Cummeragunja reserve. Late in life she moved to Barmah and finally to Cummeragunja where she died in 1925. Louisa Briggs was a strong-minded, hard-working woman, a regular church-goer, remembered for her humour, audacity and courage. Published resources Resource Section Briggs, Louisa (1836-1925), Barwick, Laura, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10057b.htm Book A life together, a life apart : a history of relations between Europeans and Aborigines, Bain Attwood ... [et al.]., 1994 Book Section This Most Resolute Lady: A Biography Puzzle, Barwick, Diane E, 1985 Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Newspaper Article Plaque Honors Aboriginal Woman, 1986 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 26 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound cassettes (ca. 155 min.)??Mulcahey, resident of Hillston, N.S.W., discusses her early family life; her childhood and education growing up in country towns; how she trained to work in a bank; the effects of the Depression; married life and farm life from 1943; her retirement; detailed account of typical town and country life under non-affluent circumstances; describes education over a number of generations; country women’s life and recreations; health and child-rearing; small farm management and the growing use of cropping; the impact of new technology. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 August 2017 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party from 1971, Margaret Ray served as the member for Box Hill in the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian Parliament from 1982 to 1992. She was defeated at the state election, which was held on 3 October 1992. Daughter of Edward Leslie Vercoe, a Methodist minister of religion, and Thelma Alice Tickner, Margaret Ray completed her primary school education at Camberwell State School in Victoria. She completed her secondary education at Hamilton High School in Victoria and Devonport High School in Tasmania. She trained as a secondary school teacher in Victoria, gaining a Bachelor of Arts degree ( Honours) and a Diploma of Education from the University of Melbourne. Her teaching appointments included Wangaratta High School 1956-57 and Greythorn High School 1968-81. On 31 August 1957 she married George Wilson Ray also a schoolteacher. They had a son and two daughters. She was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the seat of Box Hill in 1982 and retained it until 1992. She was a member of the Standing Orders Committee of the Victorian Parliament, 1982-92. Her community activities included: secretary of the Blackburn Lake Primary School Committee 1964-69; women’s registrar of the Victorian Amateur Gymnastic Association 1978, 1979; and elder of the Uniting Church in Blackburn. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2004. Events 2004 - 2004 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1983, Draper, W. J., 1983 Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 June 2005 Last modified 14 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Olive Hadden was born in Kalgoorlie, the daughter of Florence Campling Hadden (nee Hunt) and Gilbert Carlile Hadden. Her father, Gilbert, was a mine manager. Olive’s maternal grandfather, Charles Louis Hunt, had also been a mine manager. Olive has six siblings; Florence (Adeline), (born 1901), Alice (born 1904), Dorothea (Dorothy) (born 1906), Gilbert (Bert) (born 1908), Jean (born 1913) and Roy (Bunny) (born 1915). Adeline died at the age of 42 and Dorothy at 29. Olive attended primary and secondary school in Kalgoorlie. The family lived at 148 Campbell Street at one stage and, at another time, near the trotting track, situated half-way between Kalgoorlie and Boulder. Olive’s mother, Florence, died in 1923 (aged 48) while Olive was attending Teachers’ College. Olive’s sister, Alice, was required to stay at home, to care for her father and brother, Roy, and to carry out domestic duties. After completing high school, Olive worked as a teacher’s monitor at North Kalgoorlie Primary School in 1921 and 1922. In 1923 she attended Teachers’ College in Perth. Teachers’ College records described Olive as having “a bright, vigorous personality” and “she gives considerable attention to the individual”. Her first placement as a teacher, in 1925, was to Leonora. In July, 1926, she was transferred to North Kalgoorlie Primary School where she remained until the end of 1933. She then worked at Boulder Primary School, 1934-1936, and returned again to North Kalgoorlie in 1937, the year in which she resigned and was married to Francis (Frank) Palmer Scott (born 1903). Frank worked for the “Goldfields Firewood Supply”, at Kurrawang, approximately 16 kilometres west of Kalgoorlie, as a bookkeeper/paymaster. In 1937, the Kurrawang township was moved when the company moved their operation to Lakewood, approximately seven kilometres south-east of Boulder. While living at Lakewood, Olive and Frank’s first child, Tom, was born (in 1940). Olive returned to teaching for short periods at the Lakewood Primary School in 1944 and 1945. In 1946, their second child, John, was born. At Lakewood, Olive often provided after-school tutoring for individual students who were having difficulty at school. Olive and Frank had an attractive garden at Lakewood with roses, deciduous trees and fruit trees. Life in the harsh Goldfields climate was difficult at times, with very hot, dry summers and many dust storms. Winters were very cold with frosty mornings. There were no fridges or washing machines during the family’s early years at Lakewood, with “Coolgardie Safes” and ice-boxes, a wood stove and pan toilets. A “copper” was used to heat up water for baths and for washing clothes. A Willy’s Tourer was the family’s mode of transport until 1952 when they bought their first sedan, a Ford Prefect. Olive returned to teaching in 1952 at Boulder Infants School. Olive gained permission to travel to Boulder in the “Lakewood Taxi”, a car service provided by the Education Department, primarily to transport secondary students from Lakewood to attend schools in Kalgoorlie and Boulder. Olive’s teaching contract lapsed in December each year and she had to wait until the following February to find out if she had a job again. Frank became severely affected by Parkinson’s Disease and had to resign from his job at Lakewood. As a consequence, it was necessary for Olive to continue working, at least until John completed his high school education. In 1957 Olive became the teacher of the “Special Class” where students with “special needs” or learning difficulties were placed. It was in this role that Olive “made her mark” and was able to utilise her knowledge and special skills – patience, empathy, and a nurturing, encouraging teaching style – with great success. Olive earned a reputation, among parents and teaching colleagues, of being a highly respected and effective teacher. Olive played the piano and taught the students how to “Dance the Maypole” for school concerts and assemblies. She retired from teaching in 1967. The family moved to Richardson Street, Boulder in 1958. Olive broke her hip at home, and this event set her back a great deal. Frank passed away in 1969. Olive then moved to Perth and resided at James Brown House in Osborne Park. During her time there she did a lot of knitting and other craft work. Unfortunately, Olive fell and broke her arm while walking to the shops and this was another major setback for her. She was them moved to another Anglican home, St Georges Hospital in Mt Lawley. Olive passed away in November, 1980. Published resources Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 13 August 2012 Last modified 30 October 2012 Digital resources Title: Olive Scott Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Olive-with-her-son-Tom-at-the-Lakewood-woodline-camp-circa-1940s.-Courtesy-Tom-Scott.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Betty Cuthbert was the first Australian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal on Australian soil. Nicknamed the ‘Golden Girl’ of Australian athletics, she was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 as an Athlete Member for her contribution to the sport of athletic. She was elevated to “Legend of Australian Sport” in 1994. Betty Cuthbert was so unsure that she would make the Australian Olympic Games team in 1956, she bought tickets to attend the Games as a spectator."
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    {
        "text": "The ABC broadcast an interview with Audrey Blake on 29 November, 6 and 13 December 1986. The tape is an interview adducing reminiscences of the Communist Party of Australia and the politics of the period. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This deposit contains state council minutes and executive minutes for the Technical Teachers’ Union of Victoria, the Federated Teachers’ Union of Victoria and the Victorian Teachers’ Union. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Feminist Club of New South Wales was formed in 1914 to work for ‘equality of status, opportunity and payment between men and women in all spheres.’ They group concerned itself with a broad range of issues, including child welfare, adoption, divorce laws, women’s influence in politics and ‘Aborigines.’"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Olive Pink Botanic Gardens, located in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory were established in 1956 by their founder, anthropologist Olive Pink. Originally named the Australian Arid Regions Native Flora Reserve, an then the Olive Pink Flora Reserve, Miss Pink and her Warlpiri assistant gardeners worked for nearly two years to establish a public area for the appreciation of central desert native fauna. Olive Pink lived in the Tanami desert in Central Australia with Aboriginal people for 36 years before starting work on a Floral Reserve at Alice Springs in 1956. Miss Pink worked on the development of the sixteen-hectare reserve with the assistance of Aboriginal gardeners until her death in 1975. The Olive Pink Botanic Garden opened to the public in 1985. The following is a summary of an article by Stuart Traynor, Trustee of the Olive Pink Flora Reserve, appearing in The Australian Garden Journal: “The Olive Pink Flora Reserve…is situated on the east bank of Alice Springs’ dry Todd River. The 16ha reserve was gazetted in 1956. Olive pink was granted an occupational lease on part of the reserve on condition that she act as honorary curator. She lived there in a galvanised iron shed until she died in 1975 at the age of 91. “It was Miss Pink’s intention that the reserve contain representative specimens of the desert flora of Central Australia. It was to this end that she and her Aboriginal gardener Jonny Jambijimba Yannarilyi worked. Following her death the reserve was renamed Olive Pink Flora Reserve and is managed today as a tribute to her vision and tenacity. It is currently Australia’s only established arid zone botanic garden despite the fact that nearly three quarters of the continent is arid land. “The reserve has over 300 of the Centre’s 800 plant species on display. Sections of the reserve are being developed to represent distinct habits within Central Australia. These include a sand dune system, mulga woodland, a rocky waterhole and, below it, a creek flood out area. These areas are enhanced by the original vegetation of the rocky hills which surround much of the reserve. “The reserve aims to increase appreciation of Australia’s arid zone flora and encourage the use of indigenous native vegetation in Central Australian gardens and landscape design.” Published resources Journal Article Miss Pink's Garden: The Creation of an Arid Zone Botanic Garden, Marcus, Julie, 1998 The Olive Pink Flora Reserve, Traynor, Stuart Author Details Clare Land Created 30 January 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dorothea Rebecca Coverlid taught German at the University of Melbourne. She was appointed tutor in 1923, reader in 1959 and from 1964 to 1968 she lectured part-time. Dorothea Rebecca Coverlid took her in BA and Dip Ed in 1918, sharing the Dwight Prize in Education and was awarded her MA in 1920. A hint to her future career can be found in the fact that as well as gaining honours in French and German, in 1917, Dorothea Coverlid was awarded Second Prize in the Brunning Prizes for Botany awarded for the best plant collection. Appointed as a Tutor in German in 1923, she had attained the position of Reader in 1959. From 1964 until 1968 she continued to lecture part-time, retiring in 1969. For many years Dorothea Coverlid was employed specifically to teach Science German. At her funeral Professor Richard Samuel remarked: This may appear a dry, even an unrewarding assignment but she made it a live and stimulating subject, and still today many physicists, botanists, geographers and doctors remember her as their teacher. She was a born teacher, a superb teacher because teaching meant to her contact with people and helping people to achieve a goal. Dorothea Coverlid took a continued interest in school teaching of German and served on the Council of University Women’s College, was a member of the Lyceum Club, the Victorian Women’s Graduate Association (acting as Secretary in the 1930s), the Victorian Schools Board, on the Selection Committee of the Society for Australian-German Student Exchange and secretary to the Goethe Society. She made many trips to Germany. In 1949 she attended the Goethe bicentenary celebrations at Frankfurt as the representative of the Australian Goethe Society and her work was described in the Australian press: Miss Dorothy Coverlid, lecturer in Germanic languages at Melbourne University, who has been doing splendid work for the British Government with the educational section of its administration in the British zone in Germany.[1] On her return she gave a lecture at the University of Tasmania on post-war German schools and universities and spoke of the work of the Allied Commission in the British zone, especially among young people.[2] Dorothea Coverlid edited two books and published several translations, including Ernst Wiechert’s eloquent plea to German youth to accept a degree of guilt for remaining at best, passive onlookers at the advance of the Nazi regime.[3] [1] Elizabeth Auld. ‘More Food in England But Quality Poor’. Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate. 14 September 1949: 5 [2] ‘Lecture on German Schools’. Mercury. 14 October 1950: [3] German Science Texts. Edited by Dorothea R. Coverlid and Fritz P. Loewe. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press in association with Oxford University Press, 1943; Richard H. Samuel. Selected Writings. Edited in honour of his 65th birthday by D.R. Coverlid … [et al.]; with a foreword by W.H. Bruford. Melbourne: Dept. of Germanic Studies, University of Melbourne, 1965; Wiechert, Ernst. ‘We Are Guilty ‘. Meanjin. v.7 no.4 (Summer 1948): 259-263. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 7 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jill Bolte was appointed a Dame (Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander) on 01 January 1973 for public service to Victoria. She was associated with many community organisations, and participated in official duties, while her husband, Sir Henry Bolte, was premier of Victoria for 17 years. Jill Elder daughter of Daniel Fowler MacKenzie and Lilian May (née Moss) Elder, was educated at Skipton State School and Methodist Ladies College (Kew). She married Henry Edward Bolte (later Sir Henry) on 24 November 1934. Her husband was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly (Liberal) for Hampton in 1947. Henry Bolte became leader of the Victorian Liberal party in 1953, and on 7 June 1955 the sixty-first Premier of Victoria. He served a total of 6288 days before retiring on 23 August 1972. Jill Bolte’s voluntary work included positions as member of the State Council, Girl Guides Association (Victoria); State Council member Red Cross Society (Victorian Division). She was president of the Meredith Red Cross from 1949 to 1960 and treasurer from 1939 to 1949. An honorary member of the Women’s Gallery Committee and Victoria League, Jill Bolte was also a member of the Alexandra Club, Royal Commonwealth Society, Liberal Club and Barwon Heads Golf Club. Her leisure actives included gardening, tennis, golf and fishing. In 1960 the Australian Red Cross awarded Jill Bolte with a long service medal (20 years) and she received her first Bar in 1974. She also she received the Beaver Award from the Girl Guides Association. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Australia 1985, Draper, W. J., 1984 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Red Cross Archives series reference: NO15 Comprises media releases from the Public Affairs Department of the Australian Red Cross National Headquarters as well as the Victorian Division Red Cross. These pertain to Australian Red Cross activities in Australia and overseas relating to projects, appeals for funds and volunteers as well as how the Red Cross will respond to specific natural and humanitarian disasters through the distribution of funds, supplies and expertise. These function as a circulation on current activities, information and disclosure of funds. Media Releases (previously known as Press Releases or ‘News Flash’) were administered by the National Office, Public Affairs Department (1991-2000), and later National Communications Department (2001 – present). See also: Series (2016.0063) ‘Press Clippings’ series which is a chronological record of Australian Red Cross citations within the Australian Press. This includes both reports published by the Red Cross as well as discussions of their activities. Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern he use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 9 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Edis trained at the Coolgardie Hospital and served in both World Wars; after World War II she held a number of senior administrative positions and was awarded an MBE and the Florence Nightingale Medal. Margaret Edis was born in Kyabram, Victoria and moved to Kalgoorlie in 1896. Her early memories were of the lack of water, then the garden competitions after the Mundaring to Kalgoorlie pipeline was completed in 1903. She also describes elaborate picnics to Bardoc, north of Kalgoorlie, in the wildflower season and singing and dancing classes. Her first experience of the medical profession was a three day stay in hospital with tonsillitis when “the nurses put me in a cap and took me round with them and I was fascinated by it”. When she left school she attended a talk by the matron of the Kalgoorlie Government Hospital who suggested she become a nurse. Margaret began her training at the Coolgardie hospital in 1911 where she was initially told she “would never make the grade” and was in trouble for refusing to eat her porridge on her first day. She worked in the TB ward where she was not allowed to speak to the patients, and then transferred to the Northam and Albany hospitals before returning to Kalgoorlie to continue her training. On 10 August, 1915, at the age of 25, she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service and was sent initially to Egypt, later nursing on the Western Front. Her unit was so close to the front line that at one time they found themselves in no-man’s land during a night-time Allied retreat. After the war Margaret took a midwifery and child welfare course at King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women in Perth, specialising in the care of premature babies. With another war, she was called up in July 1940 and served as principal matron, Western Command (Western Australian Lines of Communication Area) until April 1943. Ten years later she was awarded an MBE “in recognition of her outstanding public service in the interests of persons suffering from incurable diseases”. In 1965, a year before her retirement, she was awarded the Florence Nightingale medal by the International Committee of the Red Cross. As president (1945-1950) of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Trained Nurses’ Association, she helped to establish (1949) the College of Nursing, Australia. She was also State president of the Trained Nurses’ Guild (1947-1949) and of the Australian United Nurses’ Association (1949-1953), and served (1943-1953) on the Nurses’ Registration Board. Margaret Edis died in Perth on 14 August, 1981. Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Resource Section Edis, Margaret Dorothy (Dot) (1890 - 1981), Gare, Deborah, 2007, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/edis-margaret-dorothy-dot-12453/text22397 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Margaret Dorothy Edis, nurse] [sound recording] National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920 Author Details Anne Skinner Created 3 August 2012 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Includes:, copy of introduction from programme of the Opening Ceremony; list of office bearers; copy of a series of articles written by Mrs E. F. Allen (Vesta) for the ‘Argus’ describing the Exhibition in detail from 15th October to 2nd December, 1907,details of crèche facilities, preparations, costs, exhibits and demonstrations, overseas contributions and overall achievements of the Exhibition., An interesting account of ‘women’s work’ in the early twentieth century. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Contains records of: the United British Women’s Emigration Association, 1888-1901 ; the British Women’s Emigration Association, 1901-19 : Colonial Intelligence League, 1910-19 ; and the Women’s Migration and Overseas Appointment Society, 1919-67. Also contains personal papers of: Mary Billinghurst, 1891 ; Teresa Billington-Greig, 1942-54 ; Elsie Bowerman, 1948 ; Josephine Butler, 1885-1902 ; Kathleen Courtney, 1937-54 ; Vida Goldstein, 1902-19 ; Edith How-Martyn, 1872-1951 ; Norman Mackenzie, 1945-60 ; Helen Nutting, 1947-59 ; Agnes Maude Royden, 1928-53 ; Patricia Shaw, 1948 and Louisa Twining, 1858-61. Also includes an autograph collection of correspondence relating to suffrage, 1906-56 ; general women’s movement, 1862-1949 ; emancipation, 1888-1951 ; general/personal, 1862-1972 and industry, 1957-58. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This deposit includes minutes of meetings of the Victorian State School Teachers’ Union (1901 – 1926), Federated State School Teachers’ Association of Australia conference and council meeting reports (1934 – 1937) and minutes of Victorian Teachers’ Union meetings (1926 – 1980). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Julie has had a long involvement with Zonta, a worldwide organization of executives in business and the professions working together to advance the status of women. She is currently President of the Zonta Sydney Breakfast Club, Director of the National Foundation for Australian Women and Founder, Alumni Association of Social Ecologists. Educated Welfare Certificate, Hornsby Tech. and MA Applied Science (Social Ecology), University of Western Sydney (1999). Managing Director of EnterTrainers & Speakers, a speakers bureau that works with organisations to provide trainers, consultants, facilitators, speakers and entertainers, 1992 – present; Field Support Manager and Training Manager for l’Arome 1989-1992; Manager, City Training & Education Centre personnel agency 1987-1988; Account Manager, Salons for James Richardson & Co 1985-1986; Manager of AdStaff, a subsidiary of Centacom, 1980-1982; published a tourist magazine on the Central Coast 1976-1979; Account executive for a small advertising agency and recording studio 1973-1975; Copywriter and part-time announcer at a Central Coast radio station 1971-1973. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 14 February 2001 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Copy of Audrey Blake’s manuscript, ‘Notes on the development of the Eureka Youth League and its predecessors’, 1956, with a new introduction 1993. This is a copy of the manuscript presented to Mr Jim Adams, former administrative secretary of the EYL, with an acknowledgement from Audrey Blake. Mr Adams has included a dedication to the University of Melbourne Archives and a brief history of his involvement in the EYL. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "For over fifty years from the 1850s, Mary Fortune worked as a journalist and author of serialised fiction. The vast majority of her work was published in the popular magazine, the Australian Journal, under the pseudonym of ‘W.W.’ or ‘Waif Wander’. Fortune’s particular interest was in writing crime stories, and, over the course of her writing career, she produced no less than 500. According to New Zealand-born writer and academic Lucy Sussex, no other woman, with the exception of the American Anna Katharine Green, wrote so much crime fiction in the nineteenth century. What is more, Fortune was the first woman to write crime fiction centred on the detective as ‘the narrator and hero of her stories’: ‘In this aspect, as in many others such as her realism, her reliance on police procedures and almost forensic depiction of violence, she anticipates much of the later crime fiction produced in the nineteenth century’. Mary Fortune was born Mary Helena Wilson in Belfast, Ireland, the daughter of Scots-Irish Protestant parents, civil engineer George Wilson and his wife Eleanor (nee Atkinson). Eleanor Wilson died in Mary’s infancy, and father and daughter immigrated to Montreal, Canada. As a teenager, Mary married surveyor Joseph Fortune, and gave birth to a son – Joseph George, or ‘Georgie’ – in 1852. In 1855, Mary’s father George Wilson left Canada for the goldfields of Australia. She followed him shortly afterward, arriving in Melbourne with her young son on the Briseis on 3 October 1855. Passenger lists show no record of her husband travelling with or after her, and Joseph Fortune died in Canada in 1861. Nonetheless, when Mary gave birth to a second son in Australia in November 1856, she registered his father’s name as Joseph Fortune. Mary joined her father – then working as a store-keeper – on the goldfields of Kangaroo Flat, and moved with the tide of hopeful diggers to Buninyong, Chinaman’s Flat and Inkerman. On leaving Canada, she had been commissioned to write a series of articles on the goldfields for The Ladies’ Companion magazine, but she soon abandoned the idea as economically unviable: ‘Who would write pages at fifteen shillings’, she asked, ‘when one paid nine shillings per day for milk, and for a “woman’s” magazine, too! Nay, there was nothing of the namby-pamby elegance of ladies’ literature in our stirring, hardy, and eventful life on the early goldfields’. Instead, Fortune published sketches in the Buninyong Advertiser and poetry in the regional goldfields paper, The Mount Alexander Mail, under the acronym ‘M.H.F.’ Her work impressed the editor of the Mail sufficiently for him to offer Fortune a job as reporter and sub-editor, but he retracted the offer upon discovering her gender. In January 1858, Fortune’s son Georgie died, most probably from viral meningitis caused by poor living conditions on the goldfields. In October that same year, she married Percy Rollo Brett, a mounted police constable. The marriage was a failure and Brett moved to New South Wales, where in 1866 he married (apparently without obtaining a divorce) Mary Ann Leek, but his occupation triggered Fortune’s switch to crime writing. Already she had been sending poetry and short romance fiction to the Australian Journal from her home in Jericho (later Wehla), a gold-crushing settlement in the Avoca district of Victoria. Now forced to provide for herself and her young son, she moved to the township of Oxley and began writing in earnest, producing a number of serialised novels for the Australian Journal in 1866: Bertha’s Legacy, Dora Carleton, The Secrets of Balbrooke and Clyzia the Dwarf. This last can best be regarded, says Sussex, as ‘a late and extreme flowering of the Gothic, with Clyzia a deformed witch-gypsy, possessed of a snake necklace which on command comes alive and bites her victims’. It was a departure from Fortune’s usual style – the first novel centres on a defrauded heir; the second on a heroine whose raffish husband redeems himself by catching a bushranger – and by 1867 she had settled firmly into crime writing. Her detective stories were ‘realistic, gritty, and considerably removed from the excesses of “Clyzia”.’ Increasingly they centred on the character of detective Mark Sinclair, who became the narrator of the longest-running series in early crime fiction. The Detective’s Album, ‘a collection of mug-shots’ whose stories were compiled and recounted by Sinclair, ran for forty years. In 1871, seven of the stories were published as a book, also called The Detective’s Album. In 1868, Fortune moved to Melbourne and branched into journalism for the Australian Journal. Her trip from Oxley to Melbourne in a carrier’s wagon (she paid £3 for the privilege) was the basis of her article, ‘Fourteen Days on the Roads’, published in November of that year. Fortune wrote with a light and humorous style. The trip, she confessed to her readers, had taken eleven days, but fourteen sounded better for the article. She described her conditions: Take three coils of heavy rope, a broken box of Epps’ cocoa, two brass-knobbed trunks of unequal height, one butter-keg and a patent churn. Having procured these articles, carry them one hundred and fifty miles in a carrier’s wagon, at every township requiring something to deliver which happens to be directly at the bottom of the wagon. When all this has been accomplished, and you have delivered all the articles save those enumerated, take the remainder as a resting place for your mattress, and you will have some idea of the comfort I enjoyed on my first night on the roads. A second article, published January 1869, was ‘Down Bourke Street’. Here Fortune brought to life the sights and sounds and smells of Bourke Street, Melbourne, on a Saturday night. There were confectioners with their treats, fruiterers, jewellers’ window displays, drapers, pie-sellers, and bonnet shops brimming with lace, ribbon, flowers and feathers. The street was a feast for the senses, and flooded with light: ‘Stretching away down in brilliant star-like rows, and sweeping up the distant acclivity where Bourke Street West leaves the noble Post Office behind… those brilliant lamps stand like dusky soldiers with radiant helmets guarding the wide thoroughfare, and the wealth-full emporiums that line its sides’. Fortune had a talent for character description, and a keen eye for the peculiar modes of conversation and mannerisms of various social groups: ‘I wish I could write down some resemblance to that so frequently heard sniff of disdain which cannot be written’, she said, ‘I should take out a patent for it’. In the early 1880s, Fortune dug out the notes she had taken all those years ago on the goldfields for the Ladies’ Companion articles that were never written. With these she produced a memoir, Twenty-Six Years Ago; or, the Diggings from ’55, later reprinted by Sussex as The Fortunes of Mary Fortune. It was a detailed account of her first years in the colony: ‘a blending of genres, part travelogue, part fictionalised… memoir, and part crime melodrama’. Fortune’s foray into journalism was sporadic – she published approximately 17 articles over eight years – and in the last twenty years of her writing life she produced only short fiction. Her career was brought to an end by failing eyesight. Fortune suffered from alcoholism, her second son was a habitual criminal, and she never stopped struggling for financial survival. Despite her prolific output, she remained anonymous to her readers: not until the 1950s was the name behind the pseudonyms revealed by book collector J.K. Moir. The Australian Journal provided Fortune with an annuity in the last year of her life, and, upon her death, paid for her burial – but in another person’s grave. Where and when she died remains unknown. Events 1970 - 1900 Published resources Resource Section Fortune, Mary Helena (1833-1911), Sussex, L., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10167b.htm Edited Book The Fortunes of Mary Fortune, Fortune, Mary, 1989 Booklet Mary Helena Fortune ('Waif Wander'/'W.W.'), c.1833-1910: A Bibliography, Sussex, Lucy and Elizabeth Gibson, 1998 Book Coee, and Other Poems, Fortune, Mary, 1995 The Detective's Album: Tales of the Australian Police, Fortune, Mary, 1871 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon and Nikki Henningham Created 20 November 2007 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nancy Stevens was born on 23 December 1903 to Guiseppa (Jessie) and James (Jim) Stevens. Nancy’s parents had travelled separately to Western Australia from Victoria, Jim arriving in 1893. They met at a band concert in Kalgoorlie and were married in the Anglican Church Kalgoorlie. Jim worked as a winder driver and later a tributer and prospector. He was also a member and a regular performer at the Boulder Liedertafel and the Goldfields Operatic Society. Nancy was the eldest of seven children. Alan, Jessie, Ada, David Edith and Ted. The family lived on a mining lease in Trafalgar and even when the water scheme came to Kalgoorlie their domestic facilities were rudimentary. Nancy went to school at the Trafalgar and later the Kalgoorlie Central School, where students knitted balaclavas and socks for the Red Cross war effort. Her class was then transferred to the newly-opened Eastern Goldfields High School. Her ambition was to become a teacher and she began as a monitor at the Trafalgar School and the Kalgoorlie Central Infants School as an Assistant on Supply. She also furthered her studies and was the first women to study at the School of Mines, where she successfully passed chemistry and geology. She left teaching in 1929 upon marriage. She met businessman Charles Manners, and they married on the 19 September 1929. Both were active in church and community life on the goldfields. Nancy Manners had two children, Ron and Frances, and although she did not return to teaching she continued to contribute to the education of her children and their friends. Nancy died in 1980 in Perth. Published resources Book Never a Dull Moment, Manners, Charles; Manners, Nancy and Manners, Ron, 2002 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Ron Manners Created 9 August 2012 Last modified 12 December 2012 Digital resources Title: Nancy Manners with her children Ron and Frances Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Ron-Mother-1928.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound file (approximately 46 min.). Recorded with Olya Willis. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 August 2017 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 33 minutes??Mary Martin, nee Moody, was born in Hahndorf (her mother’s home town) and grew up as an only child on her parents’ farm at Hansborough, South Australia. She went to the local school for her primary education and then spent two years at boarding school in Adelaide until the outbreak of the Second World War when she returned home to help on the property. Mary met her future husband at a ball after he had taken up a bank posting at Eudunda when he returned from the war. She goes on to compare the social attractions of nearby Eudunda and Kapunda in this era. After they married in 1947, soon after her father’s death, Mary’s husband took on the running of the family property. Mary remained much involved in community activities, including the Eudunda Branch of the Country Women’s Association which she first joined when it reformed in 1947. Mary and her husband Alan had a son and two daughters. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Cathy Burgess was active in the Australian Greens movement in the Hunter Valley area. She was their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Port Stephens in 1995 and in the House of Representatives for Newcastle in 1996. Cathy Burgess was a member of the Tomago Sands Action Group (TSAG) which campaigned in 1996 to stop the mining company, RZM from destroying old growth forests, polluting the aquifer at Tomago and threatening endangered species. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 12 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "35 minutes??Second part: approximately 15 minutes. Interview by unnamed female interviewer (in the background) with Heather Gell, in which she recounts her early years as a presenter of Music Through Movement on ABC Radio for school children over the period 1938-1958. She mentions that radio was an ideal form for listening by children, allowing them to be imaginative and responsive. The ABC was extremely cooperative with providing “live” music from its musicians, and she was free to do whatever she needed for programming. Teaching was always live to air, with the expectation that children in their class room would respond to or imitate instruments through movement. She had her own television programme on Channel 9, Playroom, which ran from 1958-1967. She enjoyed her years living and working in Sydney and was glad to be back at the time of this interview. Each Christmas she presented a dramatic production similar to the English pantomimes (The Blue Bird, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Enchanted Tree) using her eurhythmics students, in aid of charity , eg “Bundles for Britain” or the Kindergarten Union. These were very popular and J.C. Williamson theatre organisation was an important part of the promotion of these productions. She believes that the ABC Radio broadcasts were important to country children who had less exposure to music and drama than children in the cities. As an elderly person she took Meals on Wheels and was happy to learn some of the people who delivered her meals had enjoyed her ABC Radio school broadcasts when they were young. Before the ABC made her programme a national broadcast Miss Gell did two terms on Adelaide radio. The first part of the recording, approximately 18 minutes, is a whole segment from her Music through Movement programme, in which the presenter asks the children listening on radio to respond to music played by a violin and piano at different tempos, and teaches a series of movements while the music played is Grieg’s “Dance of the Gnomes”. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "This series consists of the policy and working files/records of the former Directorate of Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (DWRAAC) of Army Headquarters/Army Office. It was arranged and maintained by members of the WRAAC Corps Committee to serve as one source of research material for a book to be commissioned on the History of the Corps.??Originally these records were maintained in individual files arranged under a two number system, but they have been rearranged [and judging from the quantity also culled] a number of times since the?Directorate was disbanded during 1980. Consequently a single number control system was imposed on the remaining items by Australian Archives. These include binders containing material from a number of previous Directorate files, entire former files and parts of former files having the same original number. Item [1] is an index to them. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "53 min. Oral history.??Ursula Garner, Australian Women’s Land Army, interviewed by Dan Connell for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Phillipa Maddern studied medieval English history at the University of Melbourne. In 1985 she took her Doctor of Philosophy at Oxford University, before returning to Melbourne in 1986. Phillipa took up a position at the University of Western Australia in 1989, where she became a much-loved and respected lecturer on medieval history, as well as a teacher of English to newly-arrived migrants. She was also a mentor to many. In 2009 Philippa became a Winthrop Professor of History; a position one step above Professor. Two years later she became the foundation Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for History of Emotions. Philippa Catherine Maddern died at the height of her scholarly career. From her early studies at the University of Melbourne her academic work was in medieval English history, with a steady focus on women and everyday life, and she took her research well beyond the ivory towers. She gave extension courses, wrote for the newspapers and in the words of one obituary, ‘enthralled everyone with her tales from the past, even the nursing staff in hospital.’[1] Pip Maddern was born in Wodonga, the daughter of Ivan Maddern, principal of Morwell High School and his wife Elsie, described by friends as a ‘woman of great empathy, strength and energy, with a wicked sense of fun. In different circumstances she could have run the country’.[2] She shared her family’s musical talents, singing during her University years with the Queen’s College choir and later studying the violin. Having graduated from Melbourne Pip Maddern took her DPhil at Oxford in 1985 with a thesis published as Violence and Social Order: East Anglia 1422-1442.[3] Returning to Melbourne in 1986, she took up a position at the University of Western Australia in 1989. There she became a much-admired lecturer and public speaker on medieval history as well as a teacher of English to newly-arrived migrants and mentor to students and young friends. She published widely in scholarly journals, notably Parergon and co-edited several monographs. In 2009 she became Winthrop Professor of History, a position introduced as part of a new academic career structure for UWA and defined as one career step above that of Professor. In 2011 she became the foundation Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for History of Emotions. The Centre investigates how European societies thought, felt and functioned from 1100 to 1800 and the impact those changes have on life in Australia today. It is based at the universities of Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney and Western Australia with activities ranging from conferences and exhibitions to performances of Baroque music. The Centre noted that she led an innovative program of research with a major transformative impact on the field through a strongly interdisciplinary approach.[4] She was frequently heard on the ABC, for example, in 2012, in a broadcast entitled ‘What, Can’t I Stand Here? History of Emotions, Europe 1100 to 1800’.[5] [1] Charles Zika & Susan Broomhall. ‘Philippa (Pip) Maddern (1952-2014)’. Australian Historical Studies. v. 45 no. 3(2014): 450-451. [2] Matthew Champion & Michael Champion. ‘Remembering Pip’. University of Western Australia. University News. July 2014. [3] Philippa C. Maddern. Violence and Social Order: East Anglia 1422-1442. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. [4] Australian Research Council Centre for the History of Emotions. ‘Memorial Page for Founding Director Philippa Maddern’. Http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/about-the-centre/memorial-page-for-founding-director-philippa-maddern [5] Encounter, broadcast Saturday 18 August 2012. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/encounter/what2c-can27t-i-stand-here3f/4202460. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Informal portrait of Mrs Chisholm sitting at a table in her room at the canteen which she organised and supervised. Opposite her sits an unidentified British staff officer. An Arnotts Biscuits box sits on the dresser.?Glass original half plate negative.?Egypt: Suez Canal, Kantara. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 September 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 digital audio tapes, 4 sound files (ca. 329 min.) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 May 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Bound scrapbook of poetry (68 poems). Included are several pages of biographical information written by her son. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letter to Pat Gunther while a POW at Palembang, Sumatra. Refers to communications from Sister Gunther and current news of two men. Newspaper photograph after release from captivity Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Anne Harrison spent the duration of her professional life in the medical library of the University of Melbourne. She joined the staff as Assistant Librarian in 1948 and was promoted to Librarian in Charge the following year. She completed her librarianship studies in 1966. At a time when most library staff were employed as ‘general staff’, Anne’s staff record notes that she was a ‘Senior Librarian (Lecturer Status)’. Anne planned and executed the Central Medical Library Organization, which won her national acclaim. She also helped pioneer Medline in Australia and was a foundation member of the Australian Medical Librarians Group. Anne Harrison, who took her BA from the University of Western Australia, spent her professional life from the age of 25 until her retirement at the age of 60 in the medical library of the University of Melbourne, which was named the Brownless Medical Library when it moved into its own building in 1966. She joined the staff as Assistant Librarian in 1948 and was promoted to Librarian in Charge the following year, completing her librarianship studies in 1966. Her influence extended well beyond the confines of the University Library as K.F. Russell notes in his history of the Medical School.[1] Her standing with the Medical Faculty is perhaps indicated by the fact that at a time when even the most senior Library staff were employed as General Staff and not entitled to the ‘sabbatical leave’ granted to academic staff of the period, Anne Harrison’s staff record notes that she was a ‘Senior Librarian (Lecturer Status)’. The project which won her national acclaim was the Central Medical Library Organization, planned and executed by Anne Harrison and established in 1953. It was intended, in a pre-digital age when the cost of essential journals (especially in science, technology and law) was rapidly overtaking the capacity of library budgets, to allow institutions to exchange duplicate material and to consolidate complete sets in a central location. Membership was open to all Melbourne medical libraries that employed a librarian. The University contributed a subscription of £300 with the other 18 libraries each paying one of £25. In the first year no fewer than 289 bound volumes of journals, 523 complete unbound volumes and 2952 unbound issues were obtained by exchange and distributed to libraries requesting them. The CMLO became an indispensable part of Melbourne’s medical library services. Anne Harrison helped pioneer the introduction of Medline into Australia and was a foundation member of the Australian Medical Librarians Group. She was made a Fellow of the Australian Library and Information Association in 1989. The Anne Harrison Award of ALIA Health Libraries Australia was established to commemorate her work, and to encourage others to make their own contribution to the development of health librarianship. [1] K.F. Russell. The Melbourne Medical School, 1862-1962. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1977. p. 189. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 29 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Born and raised in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Patricia (Pat) Turner ‘s long association with Canberra began with a temporary position with the Public Service Board, leading to the Social Policy Branch of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs (DAA) in 1979. Joining the Australian Public Service (APS) in Alice Springs as a switchboard operator in the Native Affairs Department , she moved to Canberra in 1978, joining the senior executive ranks of the public service in 1985, when she became Director of the DAA in Alice Springs, N.T. (1985-86). Pat then became First Assistant Secretary, Economic Development Division in the DAA, and in 1989, Deputy Secretary. She worked as Deputy Secretary in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet during 1991-92, with oversight of the establishment of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and with responsibility for the Office of the Status of Women among other matters. Between 1994 -1998, Pat was CEO of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, which made her the most senior Indigenous government official in Australia. After stints in senior positions at the Department of Health and at Centrelink, Pat Turner left the APS and Canberra in 2006, returning to Alice Springs with her mother to live. There, she has continued to advocate on the behalf of indigenous people, including taking on what she described as ‘one of the best working experiences of my life’ as CEO of National Indigenous Television (2006 -2010). (Interview) Other memorable experiences include the period when she was Festival Director of the 5th Festival of Pacific Arts in Townsville, Queensland (1987 -88) and when she held the Chair of Australian Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC (1998-99). Turner holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of Canberra where she was awarded the University prize for Development Studies. Pat Turner, the daughter of an Arrente man and a Gurdanji woman, was born in 1952 and raised in Alice Springs. She had three Aboriginal grandparents and one white grandfather and asserts that ‘[t]he only thing I inherited from the latter was his surname’. (Closing the Gap) From the other three she inherited a strong sense of family and Aboriginal identity that has been a constant source of strength and support throughout the course of her life, regardless of where she was living. She is related to Aboriginal activist and public servant, the late Charles Perkins though her paternal grandmother’s family line. The third of five children, Turner was a good student who loved to read anything and everything. A book about the Russian ballerina, Anna Pavlova, was one of her favourites, a fact that now makes Turner laugh. ‘I can see the humour,’ she says, ‘in a little Aboriginal girl in the desert idolising a graceful dancer from Russia, but I can’t really explain it!’ (Interview)Life during term was a disciplined one with her mother and siblings, attending school, doing chores and homework and helping out her grandmother after school. During holidays, she would travel out bush with her Dad while he erected windmills on far flung properties. He was one of a handful of Aboriginal men who fought the odds to establish his own business. Although it meant he spent substantial amounts of time away from the family, it made a significant financial difference, not the least being the stability of home ownership. The family was able to gather the resources to build a brick home on the east side of town, away from the fibro cottages at ‘The Gap’ to the south. In 1963 the family was shattered by Alec Turner’s death in an accident at work. Apart from the obvious emotional trauma brought about by his death, the family experienced extreme financial hardship, as their mother experienced great difficulty in the search for permanent employment. As a widow, Emma Turner was entitled to welfare but the lack of respect she was accorded by the welfare officers charged with determining her fitness to receive a widow’s pension had a profound impact on young Pat, who bristled with indignation and their intervention. Her mother’s courage and grit in the face of such difficult circumstances was a constant source of inspiration. She was one of many strong women leaders in their community, says Turner, who kept their families together against many odds and with little assistance. ‘Their integrity, courage and family values were second to none. They knew when and how to use their authority.’ (Interview) Another source of inspiration was that provided by the example of Uncle Charlie Perkins. In 1965, Woman’s Day magazine provided funds for thirteen-year-old Pat and her Nanna Hetty Perkins to travel to Sydney to attend his graduation from Sydney University. The graduation ceremony had a very big impact on her and the importance of the model provided by her uncle, who stressed the importance of education to improving the lives of indigenous people, cannot be under-estimated. Pat determined that she would get a good education herself, and approached the local welfare branch in Alice Springs with her high school reports, telling them she wanted to go to school in Adelaide. In her third year at high school, and with a day’s notice to travel, they agreed to her request. Living in a Church of England Girls’ Hostel that mainly housed white girls from the country, Pat began school in Adelaide at Adelaide Girls High School. She missed her family, but was not isolated from extended family. Indeed, she would attend Aboriginal Progress Association meetings with her Uncle John Moriarty, and met Don Dunstan on one occasion. Her time in Adelaide introduced her to Aboriginal politics and the history of their struggle for self determination and she brought that interest and commitment home when she returned for holidays. Turner transferred her enrolment to Nailsworth Technical College in her last two years so she could get some practical education in commercial subjects that she thought would help her to get a job. After obtaining her leaving certificate, she and some friends embarked on a working holiday around Australia. She stopped long enough in Melbourne to complete her matriculation through the Council of Adult Education. Turner’s career in the APS began in the early 1970s. Returning to Alice Springs from Melbourne, she joined the Department of Interior (Welfare Branch) as a switchboard operator. Her tenure coincided with the election of the Whitlam Federal Government in 1972 and the subsequent extensive changes to the administration of Aboriginal Affairs in Australia, including the creation of a specific Department of Aboriginal Affairs. One of Turner’s first acts as a public servant keen to influence the agenda was to request the role of driver for the Minister, Gordon Byrant, whenever he came to town, so that she ‘could talk to him directly about the way things are’. (Interview) She was still in Alice Springs when her talent was spotted and she was selected to receive training in a new program to establish community welfare offices. Upon completing this education, she moved from administration into a role as a welfare officer, the first Aboriginal woman to hold the position in Alice Springs. She became adept at rolling out programs to assist Aboriginal youths at risk and worked hard at building collaborative links between branches of the public service in order to achieve better outcomes for the public. This was a skill that she was renowned for throughout the course of her career, whether the tasks be working as a liaison officer at the Commonwealth heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Melbourne, in 1981, a member of the taskforce set to manage the Papal visit to Alice Springs in 1986, or directing the 5th Festival of Pacific Arts in Townsville, Queensland in 1987-88. As time went by and her experience developed Turner became more committed to the politics of self determination for Aboriginal people over the assimilationist policies that prevailed. At a professional level, this meant being a firm supporter of community based service delivery of health and welfare programs for Aboriginal people. It also meant that she became increasingly frustrated by the tertiary studies in community development and social work that she undertook in 1976 at the South Australian Institute of Technology. Moving with a radical group of students, she found the subject offerings did not engage deeply enough with need for real social change, instead offering ‘band aid solutions’ that weren’t relevant to Australian conditions. The mid to late 1970s were a time of deep political engagement for Pat, as she connected with the politics of women’s liberation, the union movement, the anti-uranium movement and the struggle for social justice and land rights for Aboriginal people. She was elected Vice President of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) in 1976, and worked hard in the position to get students involved in Aboriginal politics. The organization itself underwent some stressful times, as the nature of Aboriginal politics changed and as funding for organisations became far more competitive. Pat eventually presided over the winding up of FACAATSI in the late 1970s. She moved to Canberra in 1978 and got a temporary job with the Public Service Board in the Equal Opportunity Branch, undertaking an audit of APS positions to identify those that should be filled by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This gave her an ideal opportunity to learn and understand the APS pecking order, and the authority to shake up the thinking of some old heads. After meeting the human resources manager at the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, she was dismayed to be told that of a staff of two hundred, only twenty positions would be suitable! ‘As a junior officer, I found myself telling quite senior staff to reassess their thinking’.(Interview) She also learned how resistant many individuals were to change. She used the time to observe, campaign, learn who was important, who had the power to get results, and how to get money to fund programs she was interested in. It was time well spent, because it provided demonstrable prove that a well prepared, effective public service could affect real change for the good. The summary note (above) indicates just how effective Pat was as a public servant. Determined to use her position as a place where she could demonstrate her value while encouraging new ways of thinking about the administration of Aboriginal Affairs, Turner never described herself as a rebel; rather, she was an administrator who was prepared to speak up and put racists in the public service in their place. She learned the value of good preparation, of treating staff and colleagues with respect and stressed the importance of diversity; of people, and experiences, to the public service. And while she argues that people like Lowitja O’Donoghue and Charles Perkins were the real Aboriginal leaders in the public service, she accepts that her climb through the ranks did provide her with positional leadership opportunities that gave her the power to influence policy matters. She was lucky to be able to combine her personal interests with positional leadership, but was careful to never abuse this privilege, through her scrupulous attention to process and her devotion to hard work. Leadership, for her, was balancing the best interest of the government with the best interests of Aboriginal people. As a public servant, she was always driven to serve Aboriginal people to the best of her ability while fostering open lines of communication with the minister of the day and providing full and frank advice. Turner retired from the APS in 2006, not particularly happy with the state of the organisation she was leaving, but happy about the prospect of spending more time with family and focusing on grass roots projects. She worked on the development of the recently launched (2013) National Indigenous Television until 2010. In 2011, she was appointed to the advisory council of the Australian National Preventative Health Agency. Her much loved mother, whose courage and commitment to family were a constant source of support, passed away in 2010. Turner now lives back in Alice Springs with her sister and niece. And no matter how dissatisfied she might feel about how her career in the APS ‘wound down’ she is, deservedly, very proud of her own career. ‘I’ve had a wonderful career,’ she says, ‘and I am grateful for the opportunity I had to contribute to nation building’. (Interview) Published resources Resource Excerpt of speech by Lowitja (Lois) O'Donoghue, Lowitja O'Donoghue, 1998, http://labor.net.au/emilyslist/news/speeches/980321Lowitja.html Patricia Turner, AM, Women's History Month, 2000, http://www.nwmc.org.au/history2/biogs/turner.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Journal Article Farewell to a freedom fighter [Tributes to the late Charles Perkins 1936-2000, at his State Funeral at Sydney Town Hall and eulogy by Patricia Turner], Patricia Turner, 2001 Public policy in indigenous affairs: no miraculous solutions [Garran Oration, Institute of Public Administration Australia. Conference (1996)], Patricia Turner, 1997 The human rights approach to development assistance: an indigenous perspective, Patricia Turner, 1995 Mission possible. -Bureaucrat Pat Turner is winning a private battle in the public fields of race and government, Cole Adams, Kate, 1993 Newspaper Article Aboriginal Leader who can shake up, stand up, McLean, 1994 Turner Sounds Right for ANTIC task, Kavanagh Conference Paper Administration and self determination. -Paper presented at the Aboriginal Peoples, Federalism and Self Determination Conference (1993: Townsville, Qld ), Patricia Turner, 1994 Indigenous Australians and tourism: conference issues revisited, Patricia Turner, 1993 Closing the Gap: When and How will Australia Ever Become Truly Liveable for Indigenous Australians?, Turner, Pat, 2008, http://www.ourcommunity.com.au/files/cic/PatTurner.pdf Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Pat Turner interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Women and leadership in a century of Australian democracy oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Clare Land and Nikki Henningham Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Collection comprises – 5 cassettes – 4hrs Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Australia’s first female athletic star, Decima Norman won five gold medals at the 1938 Empire Games (later known as the Commonwealth Games) in Sydney. She won gold medals in the 100 yards, 220 yards, long jump and two relays, and in winning the 100 yards she beat the world record-holder. She might well have won Olympic gold in 1940 if those Games had not been cancelled. Decima Norman was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1982 for her services to sport. Decima Norman won five gold medals at the 1938 Empire (Commonwealth) Games, stamping herself, according to another athlete who competed in Sydney as the star of the games’; Australia’s first real ‘Golden Girl’. Placing her effort in historical perspective, it was a record that remained unbroken until 1998 when one of Australian’s greatest female swimmers, Susie O’Neill, won six gold medals in the pool at Kuala Lumpur. The only male swimmer to beat her mark is Ian Thorpe, who also won six medals in 2002. When we see what it took to beat her record, it becomes clear that we are talking about an amazing athletic performance, in anyone’s terms. Decima’s performances did not emerge from a vacuum and would not have surprised those who knew her well. This does not mean that the effort she put in to achieve them was any less extraordinary. Coming from Western Australia, where the infrastructure to support women’s athletics was severely lacking relative to that enjoyed by athletes in New South Wales and Victoria, Decima Norman helped to create the infrastructure, as she prepared herself for a successful career in national and international track and field competition. Decima Norman was born in 1909 in West Perth, Western Australia. Decima’s biological parents are unknown. She was adopted by Francis and Elizabeth Norman who lived in West Perth and had a farm at Yorkrakine (near Tammin). After Francis died in 1923, and Elizabeth in 1933, Decima lived with their son (and her brother by adoption), Andrew, and his family. Francis and Elizabeth sent Decima to Perth College, and were very supportive of her schoolgirl sporting endeavours, which were many and various. Decima was Perth College’s champion athlete in 1923, going on to become the Western Australian interschool triple jump champion. She captained the school basketball (netball) team, played hockey exceptionally well and competed for the school in swimming and tennis. After she finished school she competed in a variety of surf lifesaving events. Like many women involved in competitive sport as schoolgirls in the 1920s, the absence of organized competition once they left school, particularly in athletics, was a source of frustration and disappointment. The situation in Western Australia for track and field athletes was even more dire than it was for their counterparts in New South Wales and Victoria, where organizations such as the Sydney City Girls’ Amateur Sports Association were recently established to fill that void. There was, however, a strong, developing hockey competition and, given her speed and athletic ability, Decima enjoyed success in this sport. She travelled with the state team to the eastern states in 1935 and gained her first impressions of life outside Australia’s southwest at this time. Hockey, however, was only ever really a distraction from her first sporting love. Even though there was no organized competition, Norman continued to train herself, in the hope that there would eventually be one. While doing so one evening in 1932, she was approached by a man named Frank Preston, a former footballer, who, despite thinking that she ‘looked like a hen in flight’ when she ran, nevertheless decided that someone who was prepared to train so hard in a sport that offered her little opportunity to compete was worth taking a punt on. He offered to coach her. Decima immediately agreed and the two began preparing for the Western Australian amateur women’s State Championships, to be conducted for the first time in a month. She won both the 100y and 220y races in respectable times. Admittedly, the opposition wasn’t world class; it was comprised mainly of schoolgirl champions. But the signs were sufficient enough for Preston to encourage Decima to keep training. In the meantime, Norman and Preston continued to campaign off the track. Norman tried to drum up interest in forming a club for women in Perth, but found the task difficult as other, more popular sports attracted the accomplished athletes. She continued to train and, at the State titles one year later in 1933, improved her time in the 100y and 220y considerably, knocking off a second from her previous years effort in both events. Preston believed she deserved a chance to represent Australia at the Empire Games, to be staged in London in 1934, and wrote to the Women’s Amateur Athletic Association of Australia (WAAAA) asking how this could be arranged. After all, she was running times that were comparable to those of Olympians Eileen Wearne (1932) and Edie Robinson (1928). The news was not good – the WAAAA advised him that this couldn’t happen unless Decima was a registered member of the association. However, to become a member of the WAAAA, she needed to be registered with a women’s athletics club that was, in turn, registered with a state association. If she was going to officially represent Australia, then she needed to establish a local club for her to join first. This did not happen in time for Decima to compete in London in 1934 or, as it turned out, at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. They persevered with the campaign of raising the profile of women’s athletics in Western Australia. Thinking outside the square in 1935, Norman and Preston came to an agreement with the Subiaco Football Club, who permitted them to run a series of amateur women’s races during a men’s professional series held at the club grounds. These races attracted interest and support and, most importantly, women athletes keen to form amateur clubs in Perth. Eventually, three clubs were established (Perth, Surf and Cottesloe) and they affiliated to form the Western Australian Women’s Athletics Association, which then affiliated with the national body. Western Australia sent its first ever team, coached and managed by Frank Preston, to the National Championships in Melbourne in 1937. The way was paved for Norman to compete internationally. The members of the small Western Australian contingent were popular with the Melbourne press and the other athletes. The struggle they had undergone to obtain the right to be there, the knowledge that their home training facilities were nowhere near the standard that women in the eastern states enjoyed, the difficulty raising money for travel and accommodation, the experience of the long trip over on the train, all these story lines created sympathetic interest in the fledgling team. Needless to say, Norman’s victory on the first night of competition in the 220y final, in wintery conditions, heightened their interest. The prospective teams to compete at the 1938 Empire Games didn’t look particularly strong, but Norman’s star appeared to be on the rise, and all of a sudden, so did that of the Australian track and field team. By the end of the meet, the whole Western Australian team had impressed. Norman won the 100y final with Joan Woodland surprising everyone by making it in for third place. Joy Barnett took third place in the 440y and the Western Australian team won the 4 x 110y relay. This victory surprised everyone, even Norman herself. ‘We were like miniatures compared with some of the very husky maids from the other states’, she observed some years later. Her performance at the national championships earned Decima a place in the team to compete in the Sydney Empire Games in February the following year. She returned to Perth for Christmas, returning to Sydney by sea early in the new year. The ship’s captain gave her and Joan Woodland, who was also selected in the team, full run of the Promenade deck for an hour a day to train, which helped to keep her in top form. So impressed was her coach by her form, her coach was certain that if she could reproduce it in Sydney, she would come back to Perth as an Empire Title holder. When they arrived in Sydney, it was clear that the training facilities they enjoyed on the boat were better than those arranged for the competing women athletes by the games organizers! They were literally non-existent. Preston found space for them to use at Rushcutter’s Oval. Furthermore, there were no change or massage rooms available in the competition venue (the Sydney Cricket Ground) and the group had to procure a spare room in the basement of an old building across the road. Once these practicalities were sorted out, the women’s team trained well and kept their eye on the drills and methods of the competition, believing that they would learn something from the host of international athletes. Instead, they thought that they might, in fact, be able to teach the visitors a thing or two. ‘To a degree we were disappointed, and regarded our own methods, if anything, a little more advanced,’ Norman recalled later on. Her results over the next few days of competition proved this to be the case. Born with natural athletic talent, Norman trained for seven years to establish herself as an athlete of international standing. She was the first Australian to win a gold medal at the games when she crossed the finish line in the final of the 100y in first place in a time of 11.1 seconds. She then ran the final (110y) leg on the victorious Australian 660y medley relay team to take her second gold medal. She won the broad jump when she smashed the Empire record with her best ever jump of 19? 0 ¼ (5.80m). Having come within .1 of the world record for the 220y in the semifinal, she led an Australian clean sweep of the final the following day. After that win, she ran the first (220y) leg on the winning Australian 660y relay team. Decima Norman won every event she entered in the games an established herself at the premier athlete of the event; Australia’s first athletics ‘golden girl’. We can only guess how Norman might have matched it against athletes from the rest of the world. Having made the decision to move to Sydney in 1939 to train for the Olympic Games the following year, events in Europe and the Pacific intervened; there were to be no Olympic Games in 1940. She immediately redirected her efforts towards a successful campaign at the National Championship, to be held in Perth for the first time, in 1940. Competing as a member of the New South Wales team (she now lived in Sydney), Decima won the Long Jump and set an Australian record in the 90y Hurdles before assisting the NSW team to a win in the relay, also setting an Australian record. This was the last time she competed in an officially sanctioned athletics competition. After she finished with competition, she retained an interest in women’s sport and helped by raising funds, and providing financial and other advice. She continued with the secretarial career that she established before she began competing, and she held interests in a restaurant and night club. She met Eric Hamilton in Sydney and after several years they returned to Albany in Western Australia to retire. The pair never officially married, however Decima did change her last name to Hamilton via deed poll in Western Australia. The couple never had any children. In 1982, Decima was appointed the official custodian of the Commonwealth Games Baton and was flown to Britain to accept it directly from the Queen, ensuring its safe passage to Brisbane, where the games were held. The same year she was an awarded an MBE; the following year she died of cancer. She was nearly 74 years old, in 1983. Decima Norman finished her competitive career as member of the NSW team, but it is with the development of athletics in Western Australia that she will always be closely associated. The formation of the Western Australian clubs and association was primarily due to her and top quality athletes such as Joan Woodland. Her Empire Games successes inspired other great Western Australian champions such as the post-war champion Shirley Strickland de la hunty, who said of Decima ‘ She was a brilliant athlete with great speed, power and determination and a natural talent that was largely undeveloped, as was shown by her winning without having trained for it.’ In 1985 she was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame; in 1986 she was admitted into the Western Australian Institute of Sport’s ‘Hall of Champions’. Not bad result for an athlete whose coach had the following to say about her, ‘Her leg action was wrong, her arm action was wrong. She did not run sufficiently on her toes and her balance is not good. Her breathing has to be corrected.’ Fortunately, she was happy to be corrected. 1938 Sydney Empire Games (now called Commonwealth Games) 100 yards (gold medal) 220 yards (gold medal) Long jump (gold medal) 440 yards medley relay (gold medal) 660 yards medley relay (gold medal) Australian Championships 100 yards: 1937 220 yards: 1937 4×110 relay: 1937 90 yards hurdles: 1940 4×110 relay: 1940 Long jump: 1940 Events 1938 - 1938 Athletics – 100y; 220y; Broad Jump; 440y Medley Relay; 660y Medley Relay Published resources Edited Book Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book 101 Australian Sporting Heroes, Andrews, Malcolm, 1990 Australia at the Olympics, Andrews, Malcolm, 2000 Book Section [Brief account of W.A. athlete's career.], Phillips, Dennis H., 1940-, 1996 Decima Hamilton (nee Norman), MBE., Mitchell, Glenn, 1998 Decima Hamilton (nee Norman), MBE., [2002] [Decima Hamilton - profile of champion track and field runner], 1989 Resource Athletics Gold: Track and Field Athletics in Australia, Thomas, Graham, 1996, http://www.geocities.com/geetee/index.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 October 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 51 minutes??Martha Kernich, nee Scherer, was born at Cambrai, South Australia, the daughter of a Lutheran minister and one of 11 children. When she was 18 she moved to Adelaide to enter domestic service, first at Immanuel College and then private homes until she married her sister in law’s brother in 1942. They moved onto his family’s farm on Eyre Peninsula. Martha and her husband had three sons and a daughter and Martha became involved in the local branch of the Country Women’s Association and in exhibiting at local shows. Martha and her husband separated in 1956 and she and the children settled in Freeling. She remarried in 1963. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "32 min 17 sec. 8mm standard/colour (Kodachrome)/silent??On 9 June 1951 the late Major Peggy Williamson led the final parade of eight members of the Womens Australian Army Corps for the jubilee celebrations in Canberra. Later in June 1951 King George VI approved the title “Royal” and the Corps were designated the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps. Southern Command Barracks. WRAAC on the side of the Albert Park Lake road marching. First recruit course in Victoria at Lonsdale 9 July 1951 Gwen McCarken polishing car. Kath Fowler, Margaret Todman, Bryal Longuir and Verna Wilson. South Australian WRAAC’s Peg Pine and Pam Gosling. Rennie Griffin and Bryal Muir run along parade ground. Shirley Watkins, Mabs Middleton talking to W/O Alma Young, Jackie Leavy. Lieutenant Gosh talking to recruits. Captain Pat Pitt C.O.. Joan Cousins holding camp mascot “Scottie”. Corporal West. WRAAC School Mildura CO Major Dawn Jackson. NCO WRAACS playing softball against Officer cadets 1953. Supervised by Captain Joan Melton. Sergeant Ruby Brown drill instructor and officer cadets practicing the slow march. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Pat was born in Hornsby, Sydney, New South Wales on 20 June 1910, the eldest of the four daughters of Dr Robin Tillyard and Patricia Tillyard (birth name Craske). Her sisters were Faith, Alison Hope and Honor. She attended Abbotsleigh School from 1917 to 1920 when the family moved to Nelson, New Zealand where she attended Nelson Girls’ College, successfully completing her university entrance examinations. Despite the protestations of the daughters, the family then moved to Canberra in 1928 where her father, Dr Robin Tillyard, took up the position of first head of the then Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Division of Entomology. She won one of the first three Canberra Scholarships to attend the University of Sydney. She stayed at the Women’s College and was a member of the Students’ Representative Council in 1930. In 1932 she gained an Arts degree with second class honours in Latin. She was an active hockey and cricket player and gained a hockey Blue. She captained the university hockey team and later played international hockey in England. Pat went to England in 1933 to complete an MA but due to her father’s ill health and resulting financial pressures on the family she obtained a teaching position at Liskeard County School in Cornwall where she stayed until 1936. She took the opportunity to travel extensively in the UK where the family had relatives, and also in Europe. She travelled on her trips in the car she christened ‘Matilda’ and fell in love with Cornwall. She wrote lengthy and frequent correspondence to her parents reporting on every detail of her life. She was also a meticulous diarist. While she was returning to Australia in early 1937 her father died in a motor vehicle accident. Hope was driving the car when the accident happened near Goulburn. On her return from England she and Hope lived in Canberra with her mother, Patricia at the Dial House in Red Hill, ACT. She was employed first at the fledgling National Library and then at the Parliamentary Library. She had senior roles with the Girl Guides. Pat returned to England in mid-1939 to study for a Diploma in Librarianship but the course was cancelled with the start of World War II. As part of the war effort she and her sister Hope drove ambulances. As Hope was not well they returned in August 1940 to Australia on the SS Rotorua escorting evacuee children. Later that year Pat was employed as a Research Librarian with the Department of Commerce. From 1942 to 1946 she was a commissioned officer in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF), stationed successively at Uranquinty, Point Cook and Evans Head. She gained the rank of Flight Officer and at her discharge was WAAAF Commandant at Air Force Headquarters. After the war she lived at her mother’s new house ‘The Spinney’, 2 Mugga Way, Forrest, ACT, where she helped set out the garden. Following her service with the WAAAF Pat joined the Department of Post War Reconstruction where she was on the first Wheat Costs survey in the area of the department that was to become the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. In 1953 she was a foundation member of the Canberra & District Historical Society (CDHS) for which she worked tirelessly for 38 years. She was Newsletter Editor for nearly 30 years until 1982, a Councillor for 20 years (1960 to 1980), President 1965-67 and Vice-President 1970-71. She was heavily involved in the organisation of excursions, giving talks and helping with the upkeep of Blundell’s farmhouse, then operated by CDHS. She was made a life member in 1983. Her services to community history were recognised with the award of the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 1990. In 1955 Pat married Robert Norman Wardle, Director of Veterinary Hygiene, Department of Health. They lived at 49 Melbourne Avenue, Forrest, ACT and in 1963 purchased a 40 acre property near Murrumbateman which they named ‘Maitai’ after the Tillyard’s family home in Nelson, New Zealand and where Bob bred and raised horses. After his death in 1979, Pat continued to visit the property until her death. In 1981 she moved to a new house at 8 Couvreur Street, Garran, ACT which was designed by her niece Hilary Hewitt, daughter of Hope and Lennox Hewitt. In her seventies she made an overseas trip to England (especially to her beloved Cornwall), Scotland, Norway and Gallipoli. She was strongly involved with St John’s Church, Reid, particularly through the St John’s Women’s Movement and she had many other interests including gardening, natural history and writing. She co-authored with A.W. Martin Members of the Legislative Council of New South Wales’ (ANU, Canberra, 1959); edited A Visit to Blundell’s Farmhouse (CDHS, 1972) and wrote the introduction and notes for Eirene Mort’s Old Canberra: A sketchbook of the 1920s (National Library of Australia, 1987). She also contributed many chapters, journal articles and newsletter entries. Pat died in a motor vehicle accident on 22 April 1992 when driving her small red utility registration ACT 70. She had lived in Canberra for 56 years. Published resources Journal Article Patience (Pat) Australia Wardle nee Tillyard, Temperly, George, 1992 Newspaper Article Obituary: Patience Australia Wardle, Burgess, Verona, 1992 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Canberra & District Historical Society The Papers of Patience Australie Wardle Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 21 June 2012 Last modified 19 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Pat Wardle Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Bronwyn Brown is a committed environmentalist who ran for the Australian Greens in the 1999 elections to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Willoughby. Bronwyn Brown had been involved in previous campaigns to preserve the amenity of the Willoughby area, before she stood for election. She was active in the successful opposition to a large-scale marina proposed for Sailors Bay and in her campaign, stated that the Greens would work for the codification of public interest rights in planning laws. She has graduated with a MA. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes one letter from Warsaw in 1946 describing the state of the city, and five letters written between 1974-1983 discussing history of RAAF Nursing Service. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 14 February 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Diary of Margaret Hamersley (1874); letters sent to or written by Margaret Hamersley from her family and friends (1860-1879); letters exchanged between Sir John and Lady Forrest (1879-1907); letters mainly written to Lady Forrest from her nieces and nephews (c. 1907-1921); letters to Lady Forrest mainly from English friends (1906-1913). Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Gladys Vance was Superintendent of Nurses at the Broken Hill Hospital from 1943 until her retirement in 1967. She was awarded Her Majesty’s Coronation Medal as well as the Citizen Certificate for the City of Broken Hill. The eldest daughter of John and Harriet Vance, Gladys was educated at St. Joseph’s Convent School. In 1920 she was employed as a telephonist in the Broken Hill and District Hospital, but transferred into a three-year nurse training course at the age of 20. Having completed her examinations in Practical and General Nursing, Hygiene, Invalid Cooking and Anatomy and Physiology, Gladys was employed as a staff nurse for four years. She moved to the Clare Hospital in Adelaide, then the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney where she undertook a midwifery course in 1930. Gladys became the Senior Sister at the Rosslyn Private Hospital in Arncliffe where she stayed until her return to Broken Hill in 1936. She was initially appointed to the position of Relieving Afternoon and Night Superintendent of the General Hospital and the Obstetric Unit at the Broken Hill and District Hospital. She went on to serve as Relieving Ward Sister, Tutor Sister and Deputy Matron before her appointment as Matron and Superintendent of Nurses in 1943. For services to nursing, Gladys was admitted as a Fellow of the College of Nursing in July 1949, and was made a Foundation Fellow of the New South Wales College of Nursing in 1952. In 1953, Gladys was awarded Her Majesty’s Coronation Medal and, after retiring in 1967, was awarded the Citizen Certificate for the City of Broken Hill. She was an Honorary Member of the Institute of Nursing Administrators of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory from 1967 until 1982. Gladys died aged 86 at the Royal Adelaide Hospital after a motor accident. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Journal Article Reflections on Nursing Training, Vance, Gladys, 1983 Nursing Administration, Vance, Gladys, 1983 Newspaper Article A Case of Caring for All, Vance, Gladys, 1983 Death of Miss G. Vance, Vance, Gladys, 1989 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Vance, Gladys Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Speakers including Kate Darian Smith, The Hon. Mr Stephen Charles QC, Associate-Professor Charles Coppel, Sir James Gobbo AC CVO KstJ QC, Alan Gregory AM, The Hon. Howard Nathan, Dr Ailsa Zainu’ddin Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 October 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Eileen Dawson was appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) on 31 December 1976 for services to golf. Eileen Dawson travelled throughout Western Australia with other women golfers and professionals encouraging new players and helping to establish clubs for women. In 1969 she was appointed chairwoman of a new sub-committee of the Western Australian Ladies Golf Union, which assisted in developing junior girls’ golf. The committee organised for golf to be added to school sports curriculums, and for students to be coached by professionals, also arranging golf holiday camps. An Australian Champion golfer in 1959, Eileen Dawson was Western Australian Ladies Amateur Champion in 1955, 1961 and 1965. From 1947-1949, 1951-1955 and 1957-1969 she was a member of the Western Australian State Team and in 1960 played with the Australian team. She later became non-playing captain of the Australian team. Published resources Journal Article Eileen Dawson - Chairman of the course, Kyle-Little, Sydney, 1991 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Book Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2002 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The film opens with an intertitle signed by screenwriter Agnes Gavin: “In appreciation of that noble yet silent body of men – the Police – whose ever present protection makes possible our peaceful daily life”. The ensuing plot has the actors emoting without any real substantial dramatic action. Essentially a film about a bush policeman and his son who carries on the family tradition in the city, the plot further involves a family quarrel and tragedy and ultimate rediscovery of a long lost granddaughter. General notes: Originally begun in 1926 as “The Key of Fate”, the finished film included two long action sequences from previous bushranger films: “The Kelly Gang” (1920), and “Robbery Under Arms” (1920). Censors deleted a scene showing the death of Sergeant O’Brien’s brother by bushrangers. There is a sub-plot including young O’Brien and his childhood Aboriginal friend Moori. The Aborigines depicted in the film are broadly caricatured, and played by white actors in black face. The intertitles combine dialogue, prose and verse in telling the story. The film was popular with audiences but not with critics who found it lacking in dramatic insight. Scenes originally believed to be in the film, including police training filmed with the assistance of the Commissioner of Police are no longer there. Total cost of production was 1000 pounds. Originally 5500 feet of 35mm, survives substantially complete at 5220 feet of 35mm. Running time: 77 mins @ 18 fps. [Survives at 1936 feet of 16mm, 81 mins @ 18fps]. Access copies: 16mm, 35mm 1/2 inch video.??There is documentation relating to the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Thea Mary Hogg was born in 1925 to dentist Owen and his wife Kathleen (McDonald). After contracting bovine tuberculosis as a girl, resulting in damage to one eye and some facial paralysis, Thea finished primary school at Blue Mountains Church of England School in Springwood, New South Wales. Thea won a scholarship to attend Kambala girls school in Rose Bay and there she received her Intermediate Certificate in 1940. Despite her studies, Thea’s father decided she should train for employment rather than go on to university study. Thea passed the matriculation exam at a business college however she suffered a relapse of tuberculosis and was bedridden for months. Through fear of becoming blind, Thea began to learn braille. After her recovery she volunteered at the American Officer’s Club. Soon after, Thea obtained employment as fashion editor for Tops in Fashion, and in 1944 applied for a scholarship to Wellesley College in Massachusetts, United States. Unfortunately her application she was unsuccessful due to her eye condition. After gaining an advertising diploma in 1948, Thea sailed to England on the same ship as her soon-to-be husband Thomas William Waddell. The pair married in London in 1950 and honeymooned in France, Switzerland and Italy. Afterwards, Thea worked with the Festival of Britain. Back in Sydney in 1951, Thea worked with Voice, an independent monthly review of current affairs. She also went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree at Sydney University, majoring in English literature and language. Thea sat on the Kambala school council and became a life member of the National Trust. She also wrote the text for Hidden Gardens of Sydney, which was published in 1977. In 1972 Thea became a volunteer at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She also supported the Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Institute of Dramatic Art, and was the director of the Sydney Theatre Company. Thea was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia on Australia Day, 1994, ‘for service to the Art Gallery of New South Wales’. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Thea Waddell, 1963-2000 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Thea Waddell interviewed by Helen Topliss [sound recording] National Library of Australia Correspondence from Thea Waddell, 1984 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 24 min.)??Coffey speaks of the Murrawarri tribe from the Warrigo Ranges and the demise of black Australia; her involvement with the Aboriginal movement; making the film “My survival as an Aboriginal”. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jenny Morgan is a feminist legal scholar with a particular interest in theories of equality, reproductive issues, especially abortion law reform, and violence against women including sexual assault and the use by men of the provocation defence. She served as a member of the Committee for Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne from 1988. Jenny Morgan was born in 1954 in Sydney, daughter of Elizabeth ( Betty) Morgan ( nee Taylor), a canteen supervisor and cook, and Rowland Bonner Morgan, an accountant. She has an older sister Ann -Marie. She was educated at the Sydney Church of England Girls’ Grammar School in Darlinghurst and finished her secondary schooling in 1972 at the Anglican girls’ school in Wahroonga, Abbotsleigh. She enrolled the following year at the University of Sydney, originally studying Science and then transferring to Arts, majoring in Psychology and Anthropology. She graduated BA Honours ( first class) in 1977. After a year in the Federal Public Service she commenced a part-time law degree in 1979, first at the Australian National University and then in Sydney, graduating LLB at the University of New South Wales in 1984. Meantime she held the position of Research Officer at the Law Foundation of New South Wales from 1979 to 1982. The main project she focused on was an evaluation of the system of newly established dispute resolution centres. This was followed by study for an LLM at Yale University from 1986-87, where she read feminist legal theory. Jenny was appointed to the Faculty of Law at Monash University from 1985 to 1987 as Tutor/Senior Tutor, and to a lectureship in the Law Faculty of the University of Melbourne in 1988. The various roles she carried out within the Law School included work on staff mentoring and equal opportunity issues, including during her period as Deputy Dean 2003-2007. She was appointed interim Dean in July 2017 while the search for the new Dean occurred. She undertook also, a number of tasks across the University, including serving on Arts, Medicine, FBE Professorial Appointments Committees, and Promotions Committees and the University Appointments and Promotions Committee. She served on the University Equal Opportunity Committee and Affirmative Action Committees; drafted the staff-student sexual relationships policy and assisted in various iterations of the sexual harassment policies; and she is currently on the University Appointments and Promotions Committee. Her external roles have included serving on the Government Bodies: the Social Security Appeals Tribunal; the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; the Australian Law reform Commission (reference on equality for women before the law); Member, Sentencing Advisory Council; Member, Police Registration and Service Board: various committee roles at VicHealth on their violence against women portfolio. She has also served on the management committee or chaired the boards of various organisations including CASA House( Centre Against Sexual Assault); Women’s Domestic Violence Crisis Service; and the Women’s legal Service. Her most recent publications include the media coverage of violence against women. Jenny Morgan lives in Melbourne with her partner Peter Hanks, QC and has two step-children, Tom and Caitlin. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 September 2017 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women (now BPW Australia) was formed in 1947 as an umbrella body for the then six existing Business and Professional Women’s Clubs across the country. The first Club had been formed in Melbourne in 1925. Membership was initially open to women holding responsible positions in a professional, business, industrial or educational organisation, and to women giving distinguished service to the community. It thus largely represented the interests of middle-class women. It is now open to women in the workforce more broadly. The Federation was very involved in campaigning for equal pay and equal opportunities for women in employment. By 1980 the number of clubs in the Federation rose to almost 100, representing over 3500 members, although it has since declined. Since its inception the Federation has been affiliated with the International Federation of Business and Professional Women (now BPW International). The Federation continues to work to elevate the status of women generally, remove discrimination and to present the views of business and professional women to government. It still also operates to provide a space for women’s networking. Issues of equal pay and opportunity have historically been the primary concerns of the Federation, and, from the 1950s to 1960s, they brought three cases before the Commonwealth Industrial Courts on the issue of equal pay. In 1978 they brought a test case for unpaid maternity leave. They have also been active on numerous other issues, such as: jury service for women; uniform divorce laws; removal of the marriage bar; provisions for child care; sole parent benefits; the establishment of the National Women’s Advisory Council and encouraging women to a great role in politics. It has also supported various United Nations projects and has been active in encouraging girls to continue with higher education. As of 2004, the BPW Australia website described itself thus: ‘BPW is * a federation of affiliated Clubs and Members at Large; * nonpartisan and promotes aims and objectives without distinctions as to race, language or religion; * the voice of women in the paid and unpaid workforce; * affiliated with BPW International, which is represented by Clubs and Affiliated members in over one hundred countries worldwide; * in partnership with organisations worldwide expanding its representation to over ten million women Vision Statement To achieve a just and equal status for women in all levels and areas of society where decisions are taken in true partnership with men, based on mutual respect, for a more balanced and peaceful world. Mission Statement Knowledge is power, Power is a means of influencing future policies, Policies affect the lives of women, men and children. BPW International works to develop a comprehensive framework of structures to provide the necessary education, training and opportunities for women to achieve economic independence and assume their rightful place in work and business, the professions and in all decision-making process. BPW is the organisation for women in the workforce Aims and Objectives To organise business and professional women in all parts of Australia for the attainment of the following objectives: * High standard of service in business and professions * Stimulate and encourage in women a realisation and acceptance of their responsibilities to the community – locally, nationally and internationally * Encourage women and girls to: * acquire occupational training and advanced education * use their occupational capacities and intelligence for the advantage of others as well as themselves * Work for * equal opportunities for women in the economic, political, social and cultural life of Australia * the elevation of the status of women * the removal of discrimination * Promote world-wide co-operation between business and professional women of all ages *To collect and present the views of business and professional women to the public, government, local authorities and business, to the Division and to the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women’s aims and objectives. *To promote any other objectives in keeping with the aims which the Club considers desirable. Activities BPW Australia representatives actively participate in the consultative and policy process of government. Ad hoc Committees are formed from time to time to deal with specific issues that may arise.’ Published resources Book Milestones? Equal Pay? Probate: The Front Runners, Buswell, Val and Chris Rapp, 1988 The first 25 years, B.P.W. Australia: The History of the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Thoms, Patience R, comp, 1972 Business and Professional Women's Club, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 1929-1979, Parry, June, 1980 Highlights of twenty-five years : North Sydney Business and Professional Women's Club, 1959-1984, 1984 The rate for the job, Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, 1965 History Swan Hill B. & P.W. Club 1957-1990, 1990 The Business and Professional Women's Club of Perth : Perth : the first half century : 1946-1996, Herbert, Penny A., 1996 Our story: B.P.W. Bunbury 30th : 1969-1999, Wright, Maureen, 1999 The Business & Professional Women's Club of Wollongong: History from 25 years onwards 1978 to 1984, Harrison, Win, 1984 A bright idea : 35 years of Burnie BPW history, 1967-2002, Bingham, Iris R., 2002 From Vision to Reality: Histories of the affiliates of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1987 Book Section \"Polite lobbying\": the Australian Federation of Women Voters and its allies in the Australian post-war women's movement., Martin, Elaine, 1999 Newsletter Australian Federation of BPW: Victorian Division news, 1977[?]-1985[?] BPW Australia, 1949[?]-1986[?] Federation news (Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women), 1960[?]- Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Victorian Division. Newsletter, Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Victorian Division, 1969-1977[?] B.P.W. News, 1961- Bunbury B.P.W. Bulletin, 1970[?]-[?] Newsletter (Donnybrook Business and Professional Women's Club), 1989- BPW NSW News, 1969- Edited Book A history of the clubs of the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Eagle, Vera J., 1976 A History of the Clubs of the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Eagle, Vera J., 1985 Report Annual report of the executive committee, 1959-1978[?] Reports of the honorary secretary and chairman of standing committees, 1950-1979[?] Report of the ... [Biennial] Conference of the Division of New South Wales of the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, 1969-1988[?] Conference report / Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women, ... Conference of the Tasmanian Division, 1971-1988 Report of the ... conference / Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, [?]-1978 Annual general meeting and election of office bearers / The Business and Professional Women's Club of Sydney, 1956-1968 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jean Arnot interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording] State Library of Western Australia Papers, 1882-1966 [manuscript] Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Lady Phyllis D. Cilento Papers Archives Office of Tasmania Records of the Hobart and Clarence Branches?Records of the Hobart and Clarence branches Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Business and Professional Women's Club of Canberra Records deposit Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women Victorian Division deposit Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women deposit Geelong Heritage Centre Geelong Business & Professional Women's Club Records Author Details Jane Carey Created 17 June 2004 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Folder contains a tan coloured pouch labelled by Percy Grainger “Melba Letters – Mrs Patterson’s letter to Rose Grainger”. Folder contains only letters from Nellie Melba to Percy Grainger. One telegram and 6 ms letters in Melba’s hand. Most are undated, however some can be identified by the postmark on envelope. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 October 2017 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Biographical details of women who have contributed to Albury/Wodonga, with names of informants Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 20 January 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Darriea Turley is chair of the National Rural Women’s Coalition and a member of the Premier’s Council for Women. Darriea was the first HIV/AIDS worker in the Broken Hill region. Elected to local government in 1995, she has served on numerous local and state government boards and ran for mayor in Broken Hill in 2004. In 2008, she was nominated for New South Wales Woman of the Year. Darriea currently works as Community Engagement Manager for the Greater Western Area Health Service. City Councillor and former Deputy Mayor of Broken Hill, Darriea Turley has a strong family connection to the Barrier Ranges region of New South Wales. Her father’s family owned the Fowler’s Gap Hotel and had extensive property holdings at Pooncarie. Her maternal grandfather migrated from Arabia and ran a camel train between Bourke, Broken Hill, Port Augusta and Alice Springs. With his Scottish Catholic wife, he made his home at Broken Hill. The youngest of four siblings, Darriea was educated at St Peter’s and Paul’s School, Willyama. Encouraged by her mother and her brother to excel in her studies and go on to university, Darriea left Broken Hill to study but returned part way through and took up a nursing course at the Broken Hill Hospital. Realising that nursing was not her vocation but that she had a strong interest in the mental, social and physical wellbeing of patients, she commenced a Diploma of Welfare. In 1990 she became the first HIV/AIDS community worker in the Broken Hill region, and began to implement prevention and education programs. She was awarded the Gallipoli Fellowship in 1991 and travelled to Florence, Italy, to attend the 7th International Conference on AIDS. She visited HIV/AIDS services in England, and in 1994 won the Cavell Trust Scholarship to attend the 10th International Conference on AIDS in Japan. In 1993 Darriea completed a Graduate Diploma in Sexual Health Counselling, and in 1996 she was appointed Sexual Health Coordinator for the Far West Area Health Service. She held the position for ten years, and currently works as Community Engagement Manager for the Greater Western Area Health Service, strengthening community participation in the provision of health care programs. Darriea’s passionate political involvement has obvious roots. Both parents were members of the Australian Labor Party. Her father was a staunch unionist and great orator, though he passed away when she was eleven years old. As a teenager, Darriea was handing out how-to-vote cards in Broken Hill and was involved in political rallies there, the most notable of which occurred during a visit from Doug Anthony, former leader of the Country Party and Deputy Prime Minister. Elected to local government in 1995, Darriea was Deputy Mayor of Broken Hill in 1997-1998 and 2001-2002. She ran for mayor in 2004, but her campaign was stifled by deliberate cross-referencing among male candidates. Voting results were extremely close despite this, but the incumbent Mayor held his post. From 2004-2006 Darriea was a member of the New South Wales Local Government Association Executive. She has served on dozens of local committees including the Broken Hill Base Hospital Planning Committee, the Broken Hill Line of Lode Committee, the Australian Local Government Women’s Association, West Darling Arts, the Broken Hill Youth Advisory Committee and the Tourism Review Committee. Darriea is currently Chair of the National Rural Women’s Coalition and a member of the Premier’s Council for Women. She has been Vice-Chair of the New South Wales State Record Authority and a member of the CEDAW Working Group; the Commission on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Working Group; the Australian Local Government Women’s Association National Board; the Australian Local Government Women’s Association New South Wales (president 2004-2006); the National Steering Committee for implementing The Way Forward; the Centrelink National Community Reference Group; the Arts Advisory Committee, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery; and the Broken Hill Sister Committee. Darriea lives in Broken Hill with her husband, Darryl. They have two sons, Jonathon and Curtis. Events 2008 - 2008 National Advisory Committee for Rural Women’s Summit 2007 - 2007 Chair of National Rural Women’s Coalition 2004 - 2006 New South Wales Local Government Association Executive 2001 - 2002 Deputy Mayor of Broken Hill 1997 - 1998 Deputy Mayor of Broken Hill 1995 - 2007 Member of Local Government 1990 - 1996 Broken Hill Family Support Management Committee 1990 - 1996 HIV Policy Review Committee 1996 - 2000 Broken Hill Base Hospital Planning Committee 1999 - 2001 Founding member and Chair of Youth Advisory Committee 2001 - 2003 New South Wales Department for Women’s Grants Committee 2003 - 2004 West Darling Arts 2004 - 2004 Australian Local Government Women’s Association – National Board Member 2008 - 2008 Member of the Premier’s Council for Women 1995 - 1995 Recipient – inaugural World AIDS Day Awards, New South Wales 2008 - 2008 Broken Hill Executive Woman of the Year Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Darriea Turley Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Darriea Turley Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pam Lord moved to Thackaringa Station in outback New South Wales with her husband John in 1948. Conducting regular hospital visits since 1965, she has offered more than forty years of continuous service to the Flying Doctors auxiliary in Broken Hill. Pam Peters was educated at Girton College (now Pembroke) in Adelaide. At sixteen she began to visit the Lords, family friends living at Thackaringa Station in New South Wales, 40km from Broken Hill. She and John Lord became firm friends and were married several years later, in 1948, at St Peter’s College Chapel in Adelaide. Pam willingly gave up her university Arts course and moved to Thackaringa to take on the role of station-owner’s wife, a world apart from the Adelaide social scene of beach holidays and Friday night dances. Already a competent horse rider, she relished station life and soon turned her hand to cooking for eight men, cranking the engine for electricity and, on the odd occasion, dispatching with poisonous snakes. John and Pam had two children, Sally and David. After several years of South Australian school correspondence lessons they attended boarding school in Adelaide. Pam Lord joined the Flying Doctors auxiliary in 1965, volunteering for hospital visits. In those early years she was delegated to provide patients with cakes and sweets, toiletries and even cigarettes, or to run errands for them and write letters on their behalf. As the number of auxiliary members dwindled, Pam became the sole hospital visitor for the Flying Doctors in Broken Hill, and has remained so for the last 20 years. Today the auxiliary has a stronger focus on fundraising and finds terrific support in this endeavour from Broken Hill residents. In 2008, it was able to raise $65,000 for the Flying Doctors. One of the auxiliary’s biggest fundraising campaigns is the Christmas Pudding Drive – 25 women bake for two weeks to produce and sell 2,000 Christmas puddings. In 2008, John and Pam Lord celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary – 60 years. Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (these records may not be readily available) Interview with Pam Lord Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 9 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Willie McKenzie ; Namatjira ; Son of mine ; Acacia Ridge ; Frustration ; United we win ; Companionship ; The boomerang ; My love ; Love blossoms. Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personal papers, 1936-1986. Correspondence; photographs; diaries; memorabilia; personal files; WAAF papers; Women’s Graduate Centenary Committee; Newham College rolls; publications; photograph of unidentified University students, c. 1890’s; B.A. degree certificate with seal attached of Ada McKay. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 January 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute books; minute books from various Victorian branches; sample books; National WCTU Department of Natural Fruit Juices and Wine Production books; membership registers; memorabilia; pamphlets; World Women’s Christian Temperance Union reports; certificates; budget reports; annual convention reports; enrolment registers; summary of talks; cash books; photographs; models; publications; bound copies of ‘The White Ribbon Signal’, the official organ of the WCTU of Australia. A separate listing has been made of photographs within this collection and a number of photographs are available online. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 September 2003 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The bulk of the MS 9503 collection comprises papers relating to both published and unpublished works by Jack Horner, most of which concern Aboriginal rights issues. The papers include correspondence, research material and edited drafts. There are papers relating to the involvement of Horner and his wife with the Australian Council of Churches Commission on Aboriginal Development. These include agenda, minutes of meetings and related documentation. A small amount of correspondence is included in the papers, most of which relates to research for and publication of works by Jack Horner. Correspondents include Faith Bandler, Rev. F.G. Engel, Bill Gammage, Lex Grey and Dame Enid Lyons (10 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc06.134 instalment comprises papers accumulated by Jean and Jack Horner reflecting their roles in the Aboriginal rights movement including their involvement with the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship and the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI). The instalment includes correspondence, draft articles and publications prepared by Jack Horner, research files, press cuttings, newsletters and minutes of FCAATSI (51 boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 2 card drawers). Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Title inscribed in blue ink by William E. L. Crowther??”A birthday present to dear Mama from the other side, July 29th 1869???Anne Blyth was born 23rd Jan. 1853, seventh daughter of William and Elizabeth (nee Crowther) and was christened Margaret Ann Blyth ; at the time of the photograph she was 16 yrs old ; married a Mr. Bignell and became the first registered female chemist in Victoria. Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Louisa Ardill was matron-superintendent of the Home of Hope for Fallen Women (later the South Sydney Women’s Hospital) in New South Wales. Louisa Wales directed a number of evangelical missions in England before migrating to New South Wales in 1884 to join George E. Ardill’s Blue Ribbon Gospel Army. Once in Australia, she joined the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and travelled throughout New South Wales promoting temperance and campaigning for women’s suffrage. On 8 September 1885 she married George Ardill and joined in his evangelistic endeavours. She was an active member of the Sydney Rescue Work Society, and co-editor of its magazine, The Rescue. Louisa Ardill became matron-superintendent of the Home of Hope for Fallen Women. Based in Sydney, it was connected with the Home Training School and Lying-in Hospital, where Louisa – who held a Diploma of the London Obstetrical Society – ran training courses for midwives. The home was renamed the South Sydney Women’s Hospital in 1905. George and Louisa Ardill had two children: Dr Katie Ardill-Brice and George E. Ardill, Junior. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book The Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Dickey, Brian, 1994 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 4 January 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Rhonda Sharp is a leader in the field of feminist economics, nationally and internationally, in both academia and applied policy work. Rhonda Sharp has many years experience working with gender budgets and public expenditure policy. She has worked as an economist and public policy analyst for the government of South Australia, and has acted as gender budget advisor for various governments including those of Fiji, Barbados, Sri Lanka and South Africa, as well as heading up a large project for the Asian Development Bank which involved developing youth and gender budgets for Pacific Island governments. In addition, Sharp has provided consultations on gender budgets (a key equality tool in policy making) for UNIFEM and the UNDP; the Commonwealth Secretariat; the Asian Development Bank Institute; the Norwegian Government, the Basque Government, the Swedish Institute for Development Aid (SIDA); and AusAid. Rhonda Sharp has played a valuable role in challenging the perception that economics is ‘gender neutral’, bringing a feminist perspective to a traditionally patriarchal arena. In a personal capacity she has also been a valuable mentor for a number of young feminists who, without her support, would not have had the career opportunities they enjoy today. This entry was written and researched by Tahnya Barnett Donaghy for Women’s History Month 2003. Events 1973 - 1974 Trainee economist at CSR; Sydney 1976 - 1976 Awarded Diploma of Education from the University of New England 1976 - 1990 Lecturer for the School of Business at the South Australian College of Advanced Education 1982 - 1982 Awarded Master of Economic Studies from the University of Queensland 1985 - 1986 Seconded to be an economist for the Women’s Advisers Office with the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia 1991 - 1997 Senior lecturer for the School of Economics, Finance & Property at the University of South Australia 1997 - 1997 Awarded PhD from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Sydney 1998 - 2000 Director of the Research Centre for Gender Studies at the University of South Australia 1974 - 1975 Economics Tutor at the University of New England 1975 - 1975 Awarded Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of New England Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Short-changed : women and economic policies, Sharp, Rhonda and Broomhill, Ray, 1988 Women and economic policies, Sharp, Rhonda, 1999 How to do a gender-sensitive budget analysis : contemporary research and practice, Budlender, Debbie and Sharp, Rhonda ; with Kerri Allen, c1998 The economics and politics of auditing government budgets for their gender impacts, Sharp, Rhonda, 2000 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 February 2003 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of Betty Fisher comprising papers relating to the life and career of Irene Bell; the International Women’s Day Committee; the Australian Labor Party; the Women’s Studies Certificate at TAFE; the Printing and Kindred Industries Union; the Women’s Suffrage Centenary; the South Australian Association of State School Organisations; the Women’s Liberation Movement; Raven Publishers; the Conservation Council of South Australia; the Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport; the National Fitness Council of South Australia; the Town and Country Planning Association; the Union of Australian Women; the Vietnamese Women’s Tour Group; and the Women’s Information Switchboard Support Group; correspondence relating to the publication of “Women in bustles or people in history?”; personal papers of Betty Fisher; newspaper and magazine cuttings compiled by Betty on feminism and politics; an oil painting by Aboriginal artist Rosalie Andersen and film; and family history papers and photographs of Betty Fisher relating to the Dawson and Booker families. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A collection of papers relating to the literary careers of Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland. Among Ruth Park’s papers are documents relating to her books including The Road Under the Sea, Swords and Crowns and Rings, Playing Beattie Bow, The Muddleheaded Wombat series, The Big Brass Key, The Harp in the South and Callie’s family. D’Arcy Niland’s papers include notebooks, short stories and journalism.???BOX 1?Notebooks, including those from Boronia Street, Redfern, 1939-1943 and pocket notebooks re: Les Darcy, 1930s-1960s / D’Arcy Niland??Printed books, being a Sunday missal and a ninepenny dictionary / D’Arcy Niland??BOX 2?Registers of manuscripts (4), including title, when and where submitted for publication, result (accepted or rejected), comment and price paid, 1942-1966 / D’Arcy Niland??Register of i.e. Royalties re English and Foreign editions, 1955-1961 / D’Arcy Niland??CHILDREN’S BOOKS?Callie’s Family (edited typescript) /Ruth Park??The Road Under the Sea?Includes corrected typescript, notes, newscuttings of research articles and letter received from Ure Smith Pty Ltd, 2 Mar. 1962 re manuscript, 1959-1962 / Ruth Park??Quiet Holiday?Include outline of story; 1st, 2nd and final versions, being corrected typescript and carbon typescripts; printed copy from School Magazine, Vol. 42, No. 8, Oct. 1957-Part 3, pp. 248-253; enlarged version, being corrected typescript, for Hodder and letters received from NSW Dept. of Education, 1952-1953, 1957; with a radio play, The New Year at Billyboona, being carbon typescript; and synopsis of The Mystery of Acorn Hill, 1952-1957 / Ruth Park??Merchant Campbell [Robert Campbell]?Includes working notes, chronology, corrected and edited typescripts and correspondence with Anne Bower Ingram, Collins, 1974-1975 / Ruth Park??BOX 3?CHILDREN’S BOOKS?The Gigantic Balloon?Includes corrected typescript and correspondence with Anne Bower Ingram (Collins), 1974 / Ruth Park??When the Wind Changes?Includes corrected typescript / Ruth Park??The Big Brass Key?Edited typescript and letter received from Jane Ferrier, Hodder & Stoughton Australia, 14 Dec. 1983 / Ruth Park??Roger Bandy (This was published but never appeared in bookshops)?Includes corrected and final typescript versions; original artwork; correspondence, 1975-1976, with Tess van Sommers, Editorial Consultant, and Rigby Ltd; with note by Ruth Park, 12 Oct. 1993, 1970-1976 / Ruth Park??Come Danger, Come Darkness?Edited typescript and letter received from Margaret D. Hamilton, Hodder & Stoughton Australia, 16 Sep. 1985??BOX 4?Swords and Crowns and Rings (1977)??Working notes, chronology, copies of agreement between Ruth Park and Nicholas Beauman assigning rights to Swords, 1984, and film script of ‘Cushie & Jack’ by Peter Smalley (typescript) based on the novel (option lapsed) / Ruth Park??Publisher’s shorter edited copy, typescript, carbon typescript, 812 pp. / Ruth Park??BOX 5?The Jackaman Archives [One Man’s Kingdom], being television script for 13 episodes. Includes working notes, drafts and final version, One Man’s Kingdom, being typescript and correspondence, 1962-1969, with i.e. Australian Broadcasting Commission, Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and Henri Safran, 1962-1973 / Ruth Park, D’Arcy Niland??No Decision (winner of the Associated Television Ltd Play Competition, 1961)?Includes corrected typescript, reviews, and correspondence with Curtis Brown Ltd., London, 1961-1962 / Ruth Park, D’Arcy Niland??Correspondence, being mainly letters received, re Harp in the South (1948) (winner of the 1946 Sydney Morning Herald novel competition). Correspondents include Jon Cleary, Eleanor Dark, Beatrice Davis, Jean Devanny and Tom Hungerford, 1945-1953 / Ruth Park, D’Arcy Niland??Newscuttings mainly re SMH Competition, and of The Harp in the South, and Sunday Herald posters advertising serialisation of Poor Man’s Orange, 1946-1950s / Ruth Park??Newscuttings of articles and reviews re Ruth Park and her work, with b&w photograph of book display of Ruth Park’s Pink Flannel (1955), 1946-1977 / Ruth Park??BOX 6?How I survived the Scott Ordeal by Prof. Griffith Taylor as told to D’Arcy Niland. Cavalier Magazine, Sep. 1961, pp. 27-31, 70-76, with typescript note by Ruth Park [1993] / D’Arcy Niland??Aerial Pioneers?Printed. Walkabout, 1 May 1951, pp. 33-37 / D’Arcy Niland??Champion Axemen (Typescript) / D’Arcy Niland??Men of the Shed, The Reveller’s Homecoming and Christmas Eve at Whissonsett, being signed typescript verse / D’Arcy Niland??Shearing Shed Days: Aventures in the Outback (III), King Among the Jumbuck Barbers (Shearing Shed Days) being typescripts / D’Arcy Niland??Blue Tongues and Greasiers and The Jumbucks Are … Number 2?, being rough typescripts on reverse of letters received, 1943-1944, from i.e. ABC, Angus & Robertson and Australia National Journal / D’Arcy Niland??The Maker of Cities by Rupene Ruapapere [pseud].?Includes notes, typescript and printed copy from Argosy magazine with a radio feature, A Maker of Cities’ (carbon typescript), with note by Ruth Park, Oct. 1993 / D’Arcy Niland??The Shiralee – Ballads?Includes fragments and draft of letter from Darcy Niland to Beatrice Davis, 20 Feb. 1955, with note by Ruth Park, Oct. 1993 / Darcy Niland, Ruth Park??Papers re South Australian Film Corportion’s television rights to The Shirilee?Includes correspondence, 1987-1988, with Phillips Fox, Solicitors and Curtis Brown, London and letters received by Darcy Niland from Angus and Robertson Ltd, London , 1959, 1964 / Ruth Park, D’Arcy Niland??The Tasmania We Love (1987) by Ruth Park and Cedric Emanuel?Includes notes, worksheets, maps, index roughs, photocopied typescript and correspondence with Cedric Emanuel, 1985-1987 / Ruth Park??BOX 7?3 Muddleheaded/Wombat Books/complete files:?The Muddlehearted Wombat Stays at Home. Includes notes, rough drafts, corrected and edited typescripts??Wombat Picturebooks Nos 1-3:?1. The Muddleheaded Wombat and The Bush Band?Carbon typescript and copy of letter from Ruth Park to Angus & Roberson Ltd., 27 July 1972?3. The Muddleheaded Wombat and Clean-Up Day?Carbon typescripts (2) (finished 2.7.74)??The Muddleheaded Wombat and the Invention?Carbon typescript and Wombat in the Dry Weather, being corrected typescript of earlier version??The Muddleheaded Wombat is Very Bad (carbon typescript)??Playing Beatie Bow (1980)?Includes notes, family tree of characters, corrected and edited typescripts and letters received / Ruth Park??Correspondence re Beatie Bow tour of The Rocks, Sydney, 1985 / Ruth Park??Papers re: dispute over payment from South Australian Film Corporation, 1985-1986 / Ruth Park??BOX 8?Short Stories?Include ‘The Last Assignment’, and ‘A Cargo for Topacki’ with notes by Ruth Park, 1978, 1993, 1930-1960s / Darcy Niland??Short Stories 2, being further stories, with notes by Ruth Park, 1978, 1993 / Darcy Niland??Reviews of D’Arcy Niland’s stories and mentions in newspapers, with programme for ‘Harp in the South’ a play in 3 Acts’ by Ruth Park and Leslie Rees at The Independent Theatre, North Sydney, 1949, 1944-1966 / Darcy Niland??The Penguin Best Stories of D’Arcy Niland (1987)?Includes edited photocopied typescript / Ruth Park??BOX 9?The Harp in the South, being television scripts for six episodes, dramatised by Eleanor Witcombe, with revisions by Ruth Park and George Whaley (photocopied typescript) / Ruth Park??BOX 10?Papers re television production of ‘The Harp in the South’ by Anthony Buckley Films Pty Ltd. Includes script amendments, shooting schedule, memoranda to cast & crew and ‘News Bulletin No. 2 : A report to our Investor, March 1986’ / Ruth Park??Further papers re television production of ‘The Harp in the South’, inscribed ‘File Commenced 30.10.83’, with notes by Ruth Park / 1983-1986 / Ruth Park??Scripts, including cast offs of ‘Harp in the South’ (photocopied typescript) / Ruth Park??BOX 11?Ghosts Along The Quay (Famous old clipper ships in Sydney Harbour) by Cyril Hume and D’Arcy Niland, being a radio documentary?Corrected typescript and carbon typescript D’Arcy Niland??Walkabout folder:?Correspondence, 1965-1966, with Brian McArdle, Editor.?Walkabout; notebook and photographs re Frank Hurley and boxing / Darcy Niland??Boy With A Dream?Carbon typescript and printed copy from A.M., Jan. 1953??Ruby Robert and the Rubber Ball?MS., corrected typescript and carbon typescript, and printed copy from A.M., 12 Jan. 1954??The Great Hackensmidt?Corrected typescript, carbon typescript. Published as ‘The Russian Lion’ in A.M., 31 Mar. 1953??Old Battlers Lived Longer?Typescript, carbon typescript and printed copy from A.M., 21 July 1953??A Nice Boxing Day All Round?Includes notes, drafts of earlier versions ‘ A Very Nice Xmas All Round’ and ‘An Unusual Xmas Round’, and letter received from Walkabout, 11 Mar. 1966??The Small World of Jamesy Rice?Notes, drafts and printed copy from Walkabout, Dec. 1966??Geraldine by Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland (shortlisted ATV competition) (typescript)??Printed Books (10)?The Adventures of the Muddle-Headed Wombat (A&R Commemorative edition, 1986), and Swedish, German, Norwegian and Finnish editions??BOX 12?Reviews and publicity material mainly, Call me When The Cross Turns Over (1957), Make Your Stories Sell (1955), Be Your Own Editor (1959), The Big Smoke (1959), Pairs & Loners (1966), The Apprentices (1965) and Dead Men Running (1969) / Darcy Niland??Reviews of The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Tree Tops (1965) and The Muddle-Headed Wombat at School (1966) / Ruth Park??The Drums Go Bang (1956)?Includes notes, corrected typescript and carbon typescript of previously titled ‘A Welcome To Wits’ End’; correspondence, 1954-1955, with Woman’s Choice; and corrected proof copy / Ruth Park, D’Arcy Niland Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Stasia Dabrowski voluntarily ran a mobile soup kitchen from 1979, providing hot soup, bread, drinks, clothes and blankets to the homeless and needy of Canberra, and was dedicated to the welfare of young people. For nine years she raised the funds herself to purchase ingredients for the soup kitchen. She was the 1996 Canberra Citizen of the Year, and the 1999 inaugural Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Senior Australian of the Year. Stasia Dabrowski passed away at the age of 94 in August 2020. Stasia Dabrowski arrived in Canberra in 1964 and raised two children. Her second son became addicted to heroin and this led to her commitment to assisting young people in need. One of her son’s friends, a recovered drug addict, asked her to help him set up a soup kitchen. The mobile kitchen, run from the back of a van, was possibly the first of its kind in Australia. The friend married and left Canberra, and she continued to provide the service with the help of her son. Every Friday night since 1979 she provided hot soup, bread, drinks, clothes and blankets to the homeless and needy of Canberra. On an average Friday night the soup kitchen provided several hundreds of loaves of bread and a similar quantity of soup to over 300 people in need. Dabrowski was particularly concerned with the welfare of young people and the lack of love and security many experience, but did not discriminate as to who she provided assistance to. For nine years she raised the funds herself to purchase ingredients for the soup. In later years she received some Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government funding and some businesses provided surplus food. The ACT Government 2000 Budget document, Canberra: building social capital, described Dabrowski as ‘one particularly strong example’ of ‘many quiet achievers … volunteering their time and often their money to feed people who are homeless, unemployed or have drug problems’. In 1996 Dabrowski was the Canberra Citizen of the Year and featured on the ABC’s Australian Story. In 1999 she was honoured with the inaugural ACT Senior Australian of the Year, receiving the award for her twenty-year dedication to the homeless and needy on Canberra’s streets. She was the 2017 ACT Local Hero of the Year, the same year that her likeness was captured in an artwork by Jenny Blake. Stasia Dabrowski passed away in Canberra in August 2020. Her grandson is intent on keeping his grandmother’s legacy alive, having taken over her soup kitchen in recent times. ‘No matter what’, he says, ‘I want to continue on the legacy.’ Published resources Book Canberra : building social capital : Australian Capital Territory budget 2000, Australian Capital Territory Government, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Ros Russell Created 27 February 2004 Last modified 28 August 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Ainslie Tennis Club was formed by local residents in 1928 following the construction of the tennis courts in Corroboree Park, Ainslie.??The Club was formed to manage the use of the courts by the local community with day to day management of the physical maintenance of the courts remaining with the appropriate Commonwealth Department.??The Club was incorporated in 1985. It was granted a 20 year Crown Lease for the courts in 1992. The Crown Lease was extended for a further 20 years in 2012. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 20 February 2013 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE) was formed as a result of a growing feminist concern about, and a desire for action on, uranium and nuclear power issues. WANE’s objectives included educating and activating women as citizens rather than as mothers and carers. The exclusion of males was felt to better enable this, providing women with an environment free from the constraints of sexism that were felt to be inherent in the hierarchical structure of other anti-nuclear groups. WANE aimed to work with women’s groups in unions against uranium. The group also supported investigation into finding alternative energy sources. WANE believed the implications of a solar future were inherent in feminist theory (for example, people before profits). WANE maintained strong links to Campaign Against Nuclear Energy (CANE) and helped organise Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND). WANE’s objectives included the education and activation of women, beyond appealing to them as mothers and carers. The exclusion of males was felt to better enable this, providing women with an environment free from the constraints of sexism that were felt to be inherent in the hierarchical structure of other anti-nuclear groups. WANE aimed to work with women’s groups in unions and to give support to their actions against uranium mining; work with migrant women to spread information; promote alternative energy sources and provide extensive anti-nuclear resources, such as books, slides, films nights, seminars, and group discussions with guest speakers. WANE sought to offer women an environment and the skills to develop confidence in public speaking, so that women could then promote their anti-nuclear message to other women within the community. The group also sought to develop and promote the feminist perspective within Campaign Against Nuclear Energy (CANE) with which they retained close ties, and sought to overcome the sexism that in part motivated the establishment of WANE. WANE was borne from a conflict that arose in 1980, when the trade union movement had organised an anti-uranium march on the same day as International Women’s Day. For the members of WANE, this conflict emphasised the need for independent mobilisation against nuclear energy, and to gain the support of the women within the trade union movement for the anti-uranium movement. WANE evolved in to an action group that, while sharing many of the same members, were not formally affiliated with CANE. WANE members felt that it was important to retain their relationship with both groups in order to ensure that CANE operated in a non-sexist manner. WANE members sought to self educate, in order to better educate others, particularly other women’s groups, and women that were otherwise isolated within the community. There was particular emphasis on issues such as low-level radiation, the nuclear fuel cycle, the ethics of nuclear power, direct action and civil disobedience. WANE believed the implications of a solar future were inherent in feminist theory (for example, people before profits). The group publicised themselves via Women’s Liberation Newsletters, radio (5MMM), the Women’s Art Movement, the Women’s Resource Centre, as well as producing a newsletter for its members. WANE held dances and film nights to raise money, and supported the Sound Women’s Peace Camp in Cockburn Sound in Western Australia, and the Pine Gap Peace Camp. WANE also helped organise Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND). Some of the women involved include Connie Frazer, Mary Nettle, Liz Bluff, Sue Maywald, Brenda Rayner, Jan Phadke, Jill Chapman, Dee Neagle, Margaret Lee, Stephanie Goss, Vickey Page, Heriette Riis Jorgenson, Doris Horvath, Heather Crosby, Maria Zadoroznyj, Nadine Williams, as well as many others. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Feminist Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG) records Women Against Nuclear Energy Author Details Katey Bereny Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A collection of letters, newspaper cuttings, and typescript articles on women’s status, including letters from Jessie Street and Barbara Jones. Subjects include: women and careers, working mothers, equal pay, women in politics, social welfare, women graduates, and Apprenticeship Enquiry 1965-1966. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 15 min.)??Brinsmead speaks about her early childhood; how she began writing poetry; her book “Pastures of the blue crane”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers of this organisation are currently (in January 2007) in two locations. The University of Sydney Archives House the bulk of the material created between 1910 and 1996. Material created after 1996 is held at Sydney University Sports Union. Those interested in using the collection should contact the reference archivist for information. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 20 December 2006 Last modified 2 January 2007 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "List of holidays Ellinor Walker took with a companion 1954-1969. Written on reverse side of entrance ticket to a League of Women Voters and Status of Women entertainment. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Civilian Widows Association comprising minutes and reports of the National Division and South Australian Division, together with conference papers and an article about the establishment of the Association. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 July 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers, correspondence, notes, draft essays, photographs, printed material, and realia 1943-1994, related to a number of significant issues and organisations with which Irina Dunn was associated. Includes material related to Jessie Street and the Jessie Street Women’s Library, 1943-1989, the National Foundation for Australian Women, 1990-1994, the Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing in 1978 and subsequent Ananda Marga conspiracy case, 1978-1991??BOX 1?National Foundation for Australian Women membership list for 1990, National Foundation for Australian Women New South Wales Branch membership list for 1991, National Foundation for Australian Women ‘Broadside’ newsletter questionnaire for membership survey, 1992, National Foundation for Australian Women folder for the National Women’s Conference, 1990, National Foundation for Australian Women ‘Broadside’ newsletter, November 1989 to May 1994.??BOX 2?National Foundation for Australian Women Coordinating Committee minutes and correspondence, 1990-1993, vol. 1??BOX 3?National Foundation for Australian Women Coordinating Committee minutes and correspondence, 1990-1993, vol. 2??BOX 4?National Foundation for Australian Women Coordinating Committee miscellaneous documents, 1990-1993??BOX 5?Jessie Street’s monogrammed bound original copy of the ‘Australian Woman’s Charter 1943’ signed by the participants of the Australian Women’s Conference 19-22 November, 1943. Jessie Street’s monogrammed bound original copies of the ‘Australian Women’s Digest Vol. 1, no.s 1-12 (signed by some of the contributors), Vol. 2 and Vol. 3. Photograph of Jessie Street with Miss Shu-Ling Zung (China) drafting a resolution at the Second Session of the Status of Women Commission at Lake Success, New York, in January 1948. Photograph of Jessie Street drafting a resolution at the Second Session of the Status of Women Commission at Lake Success, New York, in January 1948, with a cigarette hanging from the corner of her mouth. Signed photograph of Jessie Street taken at the Conference for Essential Social Services 18-19 June 1934 with Dame Enid Lyons and other participants. Articles written by and about Jessie Street and material relating to the formation of the Jessie Street Women’s Library.??BOX 6?Personal papers of Irina Dunn relating to the Jessie Street Centenary Committee, 1989??BOX 7?Papers and photographs related to the 1978 Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing and Ananda Marga conspiracy case and the campaign exposing the frame-up of Tim Anderson (CEFTA), 1978-1991. Also includes court transcripts, photocopies of Hansard, and transcripts from television programs and interviews related to the case against Anderson.??BOX 8?Academics for Justice, including newsclippings, notes, reports, correspondence, publicity material, newsletters, journal articles, photocopies of newspaper articles, annotated draft copy of ‘Conspiracy’ by John Jiggens and printed copy of ‘The incredible exploding man. Evan Pederick & the trial of Tim Anderson’, 1991.??BOX 9?Printed copies of ‘The prison struggle’ by George Zdenkowski and David Brown, 1982, ‘Wilful obstruction’ by Tony Vinson, 1982, ‘Walled garden, poems from NSW prisons’, 1978, ‘Im not for Women’s Lib but’, 1976, ‘Legal Resources Book (NSW), 1978, ‘Report of Royal Commission into N.S.W. Prisons’, 1978, 25 metal political lapel badges, 1960-1990??BOX 10?’A natural legacy’ correspondence, 1977, ‘The true story of Rum Jungle’ university lecture, 1990. Various printed comic books, ca. 1960-1980, including issues of ‘Matilda’, ‘Barry McKenzie’, ‘Freak Brothers’ and ‘Zap’.??BOX 11(X)?Printed copies of ‘Time & Life’ newspaper of prisoners of New South Wales jails, 1977, ‘In Jail Print News’, 1977-1980 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Baiba Berzin’s complete interview on cassette tape is available at MLOH 34/1 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Citation 1968; History; Journals 1962-72; Minutes 1953-86; Registers 1976-82; Scrapbooks 1955-86 Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 July 2004 Last modified 31 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 sound files (approximately 225 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The records consist of legal papers, administrative files and personal material. They include conference papers, correspondence with the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Michael Kirby, minutes of meetings, invitations, personal references for colleagues, cuttings, photographs, cartoons and personal mementos. Several files relate to Justice Evatt’s association with various community organisations, and to seminars in which she participated. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Diary details mission life including daily interactions with Aboriginal people there. Later moved to Adelaide as pastor’s wife for 16 years.?Collection comprises a hand written diary in old German script with 2 published books and 1 privately published pamphlet.?Journal of a Life of Many Moves by Luise Homann (transl. Lotte Liszewski) Ed. Olga Homann. Adelaide, 1965 [privately printed pamphlet – further publishing details not known]?Zugveger kennen ihre zeit: Als Missionarsfrau in vier Erdteilen Verlag der ev. – Lutheran Mission Missionshandlung Hermansburg, 1987?Like a Bird on the Wing: The story of Luise Homann based on her journal and other sources. Olga Hardy (nee Homann) Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide, 1984 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 29 January 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Born in 1944 in Kampong Cham province, about 120km from the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, Piphal Engly arrived in Australia in 1977 with no money and very little English. Raised by a mother who instilled the importance of education and an active life in all her children, Piphal matriculated in 1962 at age sixteen, when most others were doing so at twenty. She obtained numerous medical diplomas and Licence des Lettres from Cambodian and European academies. She worked as a teacher in the Public Health Model Centre, applying and implementing Public Health to the rural districts around Phnom Penh. Operated by the World Health Organization, the Model Health Centre focused on women’s health needs by providing neo natal care and training rural midwives. In the early 1970s, Piphal was employed as a coordinator for the World Health Organization, and as a Pharmaceutical and Medical Supervisor. She was also employed by the Department of Public Health as an International Public Relations Officer, thanks to her French language fluency. Piphal married in 1963. Twelve years later, in 1975, her husband was selected by the Department of Commerce to travel to Australia for training. Later that year the Republican Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge and his scholarship was cancelled. Piphal managed to join him in Melbourne in 1977, but without their two children, whose whereabouts remain unknown. Piphal initially took on casual work as a cleaner, but was unaware of her rights under Australian industrial law and was exploited. Nine months later she enrolled in English classes at a Migrant Resource Centre. She eventually completed her High School Certificate and worked as a teacher assistant and as an interpreter for the Health Commission of Victoria and the Victorian Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. Enraged by racism toward Cambodian students in one school, Piphal set herself a two month period to make those students sufficiently literate to keep up with their schoolmates. She succeeded, and her efforts won her widespread respect within the Melbourne Cambodian community. Today Piphal lives in Canberra. She retains links with her country of birth through the Meada Khmer Development (MKD) Organization – a non-government, non-profit, non-sectarian, non-political organization which aims to improve the lives of disadvantaged women in Cambodia. (The MKD Organization is located at: N° 54 Samdech Sothearos (St. 3), Phnom Penh 12207, Cambodia. Ph: 012 728 049; Email: tepsavery@online.com.kh) Published resources Book The Royal Family of Cambodia, Corfield, Justin J. with Piphal Engly, 1990 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 18 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The records comprise board minutes, annual reports, funding applications, membership records, dramaturgical programs, events and commission files, audio-visual material, financial records, mentorship and residencies files, correspondence, insurance files, photographs, press and administration files, grant files and publications. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Author and committee member Maybanke Anderson was a vociferous advocate for women. She founded and edited the fortnightly paper, Woman’s Voice. Maybanke Susannah Selfe, as she was born, married Edmund Kay Wolstenholme in 1867. They lived in Balmain, then Marrickville, before Wolstenholme deserted his wife in 1884. Maybanke established her own school, Maybanke College, and built up a solid reputation based upon the success of her pupils. She formally divorced Wolstenholme in 1892. From 1891, Maybanke Wolstenholme was a foundation vice-president of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales, becoming president in 1893. She was also a member of the Women’s Literary Society. From 1894 she began publishing and editing her own fortnightly paper, Woman’s Voice. She was connected with both the Playgrounds Association and the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales. In March 1899, Maybanke Wolstenholme married (Sir) Francis Anderson, professor of philosophy at the University of Sydney. She became active in the National Council of Women of New South Wales, and heavily involved with the activities of the University Women’s Society. Maybanke Anderson published Mother Lore in 1919, a handbook on the education of young children. The following year she wrote a chapter on the position of women for M. Atkinson’s book, Australia: Economic and Political Studies. From her travels in Europe, accompanied by her husband, Maybanke sent a series of articles to the Sydney Morning Herald. She died in Paris, predeceased by four children, but survived by two sons from her first marriage. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section Anderson, Maybanke Susannah (1845-1927), Kingston, Beverley, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070061b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book Mother Lore, Anderson, Maybanke, 1919 Maybanke, a Woman's Voice: The Collected Work of Maybanke Selfe-Wolstenholme-Anderson, 1845-1927, Anderson, Maybanke, 2001 Australia: Economic and Political Studies, Atkinson, Meredith, 1920 Pamphlet The Root of the Matter: Social and Economic Aspects of the Sex Problem, Anderson, Maybanke, 1917 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Woman's suffrage 1924 [manuscript] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 25 September 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary Salce is a dairy farmer from Gippsland, in Victoria. She has been actively involved in agricultural politics since the 1960s, often, in the first twenty years, as the only woman on industry boards. By the mid-1980s, Mary had emerged as a leader of the Women in Agriculture movement. She was instrumental in establishing the Rural Women’s Network, and her role in organising and convening the First International Women in Agriculture Conference was pivotal in the process of securing a voice in decision making for rural women nationally and internationally. Her leadership and influence has resulted in profound change in the profile of rural women: in the acknowledgement of their contribution to the rural sector, in their empowerment though the development of their leadership skills and confidence, in the development of a co-ordinated voice airing their particular concerns with social, welfare and sustainability issues, and in their role in strengthening communities. Mary Salce was born on a dairy farm in Cromvoirt, Holland, in 1945. Her father was a noted Friesian breeder. The family emigrated to Australia in 1954, bringing the cheese plant for a European-style cheese making venture. They ran dairy farms in Yarragon and Nilma in Gippsland. Mary began her working life with the accountancy firm Manning and Perry, studying accountancy at night. In 1968 she married dairy farmer Reno Salce; she herself worked in 1968-9 for the Drouin Co-operative. Mary began to attend farmer’s meetings, becoming the first woman secretary of the United Dairy Farmers of Victoria in 1976. Her background in accountancy led her to question figures being quoted in regard to prices being paid to farmers for milk. The difficult economic circumstances of the 1970s in the rural sector – falling prices, and rising interest rates, fuel and labour costs – were followed by drought in the early 1980s. Though individual women raised their voices to draw attention to their concerns and possible solutions, Mary realised that they were not being heard, that women’s significant contribution to agriculture was not being acknowledged and that their perspective – which focused on social, welfare and sustainability issues – was being ignored. The formation of the Women’s Drought Support Network and the Women in Dairying Group in Gippsland saw the first networks formed amongst rural women in Australia, at a moment in time when government was receptive to their needs. Against this background Mary emerged as a leader. Chronology: 1976 (-1990): United Dairy Farmers of Victoria – Sale Branch, Inaugural Secretary/Vice-President/District Delegate/State Conference Delegate 1985: Mary was instrumental in the formation of the Rural Women’s Network with the support of the state government. 1987: Board Member, Victorian Dairy Industry Authority 1991: Attended the National Farm Women’s Conference in Canada, representing the Gippsland Women’s Network, and realised that the lack of recognition of women’s contributions to agricultural sector was worldwide. 1993: Guest speaker, Sixth National Canadian Farm Women’s Network Conference. 1994. Headed the Steering Committee for, and convened, the First International Women in Agriculture Conference, which attracted 860 delegates from 33 countries On the last day, in response to a motion from the floor, an ongoing body was created – the Foundation for Agricultural Women – and Mary was appointed the first President. She would be instrumental in the organisation of the second conference, in Washington in 1998, and a member of the organising committee of the third in Madrid. She has been a keynote speaker at all four conferences. In October Mary organised the Victorian Women on Water Forum, calling for ‘social impact studies of water reform’. 1995: Presenter, Workshop Facilitator, Women in Agriculture and their Participation in Development of Agriculture Technologies Conference, Beijing, China Mary, as president of the FAAW, was a Steering Committee member for the first National Rural Women’s Forum, which addressed the key issues of the movement: the visibility and recognition of rural women, access to participation in decision making, networking, women’s contribution to agriculture and environmental sustainability and to viable communities, women’s education and training needs and social justice issues. In April she was a keynote speaker at the Swan Hill Women on Farms Gathering. 1996: Mary coordinated the Achieving Your Goals Seminar in Bairnsdale, for 200 women, one of a series of initiatives aimed a developing women’s skills, including leadership skills, and encouraging their industry participation. From this seminar the East Gippsland Business Women’s Group was established. She was listed in the Who’s Who in Agriculture Top 100, Australian Farm Journal (one of five women). In this year she also lobbied the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington to hold the Second International Conference on Women in Agriculture in the USA. She addressed a reception hosted for the FAAW by the Australian ambassador, John McCarthy. 1997: National Chair, Uniting Our Rural Communities Cultural and Community Leadership Project. 1998 : Facilitator of, and an opening speaker at, the Second International Conference on Women in Agriculture in Washington, chaired by Jill Long Thompson, United States Under Secretary for Agriculture. National Chair, Salute from Australia Event, at the conference. 2001: Inducted into the Victorian Women’s Honour Roll, for her role in gaining respect and recognition for farming women in Australia and around the world. In this year, as Chair of the Women in Rural Communities Taskforce, she was a committee member of the ministerial Advisory Committee for Victorian Communities, 2002: Member of Organising Committee for the 3rd World Congress of Rural Women, one of six Australian women invited to present. Recipient, International Women in Agriculture Award for Vision, Courage & Leadership. Met in Basque Region, Spain, with Co-operative representatives. Met in Rome with Senior Italian Government Officials and NGOs to discuss possible global regional forums re Women and Water. 2003: Recipient, Centenary Medal, for service to the community through women’s services within the rural and agriculture sector 2004: Mary was a participant, as a community activist, representing the Gippsland Women’s Network, in the Women and Water Forum, New England . 2005-2006: President of the Gippsland Women’s Network. This body had been a loose collectivity of local women from the beginning of the movement. It was incorporated in 2004. 2006-2009: Member, West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority Board. 2007: Keynote speaker, 4th World Congress of rural Women, Durban South Africa. Met with senior ministers, Winnie Mandela, and with African rural women in their communities. Other Organisations: Mary has also been involved with the following organisations: Southern Rural Water Licensing Business Forum (Current Member); A Future for Rural Australia Inc. (Current Member); Rural Women for Community & Economic Development Inc.(Inaugural Steering Committee Member, 1999-2000); Southern Rural Water Avon River Stream Management Plan Project Group (Current Member); National Reference Group – Rural Women for Cultural and Community Leadership (Chairperson, 1996-1998); Victorian Eastern Development Association (Member, Steering Committee, pilot program, ‘Achieving Your Goals’, 1995-1998); Gippsland Community (SCOPE) Leadership Program Steering Committee (Committee Member, 1995-1997); Lake Wellington Rivers Authority, Victoria (Deputy Chairperson, 1995-1998); Avon-Macalister Implementation Group (Member, 1995-1998); Federal Special Rural Task Force – Impact of Assets Tests on Rural Customers (Member, 1997); Women Chiefs of Enterprise International – Victoria Division (Current Member); Department of Primary Industry and Energy Canberra – National Rural Women’s Co-ordinator Selection Panel, Representing FAAW (May 1995); Gippsland Water Quality Group (Member – River Management Representative, 1993-1995); Avon Macalister River Management Board (Member, 1991-1995); Gippsland Lakes Implementation Council (Member – River Management Representative 1992-1994); Lake Wellington Catchment Salinity Management Plan Community Working Group (Committee Member – Community Representative, 1993); Business and Professional Women’s Association (Finance Chairperson, 1985). Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Breaking Through the Grass Ceiling: Women, Power & Leadership in Rural Australia, Alston, Margaret, 2000 Women of The Land: Stories of Australia's Rural Women as told to Ros Bowden, Bowden, Ros, 1995 Resource Salute to Mary Salce, Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women, http://www.faaw.org.au/pubs/d2002s/04a.htm Women Shaping The Nation: Victorian Honour Roll of Women, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet-2.pdf Conference Report, National Rural Women's Forum: Parliament House, Canberra, June 7-8, 1995, Alston, Margaret, http://rsj.e-contentmanagement.com/archives Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Conference Proceedings Women in Agriculture: Farming for Our Future, Women in Agriculture 1994 International Conference Committee Inc., 1995 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Pearce, Suzannah, 2006 Report Agents For Change: Farming for our Future, Dietrich, Laurene (ed.), 1995 Project Report: International Women in Agriculture Conference, Rose, Maria, 1994 Booklet The Salute From Australia at the 2nd International Conference on Women in Agriculture, McDougall, Valerie (ed.), 1998 Book Section Mary Salce, Bowden, Ros, 1995 Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Laurene Dietrich, 1990-1994 [manuscript] Records of the Gippsland Women's Network, 1994-2006 [manuscript] Papers of Mary Salce, 1976-2007 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Mary Salce interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the Land oral history project [sound recording] Women of the land oral history project Mary Salce interviewed by Nikki Henningham Author Details Janet Butler Created 24 August 2009 Last modified 22 August 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Interview covers Greenwood’s childhood in Albany Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound files. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "9 sound files (approximately 11 hr. 28 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Literary notebooks, 1934-c1948 (15 v.) — General correspondence and correspondence with Joseph Furphy, Mary Fullerton, C. Hartley Gratton, Dymphna Cusack, Florence James — Family correspondence: Barton-Cotteril, Franklin Family, Graham-Lampe, Maxwell-Wilkinson — Novel: Within a footstep of the goal, 1896 — Novels: Incomplete drafts and notes for various novels, [c189-]-[19–] — Novels, For sale to the highest bidder, 1896 — Short stories, [189-]-1901 — Plays, 1945-[195-] and verse, 1897-1940 — Research materials re Catherine Helen Spence, 1853-1939 –Papers re Joseph Furphy, 189?-1907 –Joseph Furphy research material, 1867-1939 –Novels, 1899-193-: My brilliant career, Some everyday folk and Dawn, Old Blastus of Bandicoot — Various published and unpublished novels and sketches — Brent of Bin Bin novels and stories; Personal correspondence and papers, 1929-53 — Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1841-1950; Family papers.??Originals held by the State Library of New South Wales at Z ML MSS 364 (various parts), 445/2. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 September 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers in MS 9835 relate mostly to Marie Louise Uhr’s involvement with the movement for the Ordination of Catholic Women (OCW), and the academic aspects of her religious campaigns. The collection includes OCW papers; scripts for speeches; book manuscripts; personal documents, including a curriculum vitae; scripts for lectures; university assignments, lecture notes and readings; liturgies; music; obituaries; correspondence and various other items. Correspondents include Elaine Lindsay, Elaine Wainwright and Elfriede Harth. Some of the papers are stored electronically (3 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Lyceum Club Brisbane, founded in 1919, was directly modelled on the London Lyceum Club. It is a club for women interested in the arts, science, contemporary issues and the pursuit of lifelong learning. The club is apolitical and non-sectarian. Membership of the club is open to women who have university, conservatorium or other tertiary qualifications of a standard approved by the Management Committee; have published original work in literature, science, art or music; or have given important public service"
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        "text": "Register of births (1921-1969); register of deaths (1923-1969); admissions to Graham Children’s Home (1931-1966); endowment of cottage folk (n.d.)??Some originals still in private ownership. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Janet Biddlecombe ran her father’s estate at Golf Hill, Victoria, from his death in 1888 to her own in 1954. She pioneered the breeding of Herefords in Australia. As a pastoralist Janet was remarkably successful, and proceeds from her Hereford Stud went to any number of charitable causes – usually as anonymous donations. Born in Melbourne, Janet was the youngest of eight children of Scottish-born George Russell (pastoralist) and Euphemia Carstairs. Having lost her mother in infancy, Janet became a close companion of her father and lived with him at Golf Hill until his death in 1888. She took a keen interest in the estate and, dissatisfied with her brother Philip’s management of it, obtained his consent to oversee Golf Hill herself and restored the property to its former prosperity within a few years. Janet married English-born naval officer John Biddlecombe in July 1900. The pair had no children. Following his retirement from the Commonwealth Naval Forces, John took over management of Golf Hill with his wife. By 1906 they had registered their Hereford stud, buying pedigree cows and bulls descended from females of elite Hereford families in the United Kingdom. When Charles Reynolds sold his Tocal Stud in 1926, Janet instructed her buyer, Mr A.J. Tanner, to purchase the ‘pick of the catalogue’. Janet continued to run the stud successfully after John’s death in 1929, despite a manpower shortage during the Second World War forcing her to sell half of her cattle. Tirelessly she organised exhibitions and sales, bringing home a myriad of awards. In 1947 her cattle won every group prize in the Hereford section at the Sydney Royal Show. In 1950 she sold her ‘surplus females’ – eleven heifers and thirteen cows – at the Royal Melbourne Show, fetching up to £1,000 for each. A further sale in 1953 saw her world-famous cattle bring in proceeds of £125,000, all of which reportedly went to charity. Indeed, Janet had long maintained a tradition of anonymous philanthropy, begun before her husband’s death. Significant amounts of money went to building projects at the Geelong Church of England Grammar School (now standing at 50 Biddlecombe Avenue, Corio), as well as to the Shelford Presbyterian Church; the Australian Red Cross Society (Geelong branch); and the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. On her death at Golf Hill in 1954, Janet bequeathed her £554,585 estate to a number of charitable organisations including the Bethany Babies’ Home (Geelong), the Victorian Association of Braille Writers, and the Victorian Society for Crippled Children. Devoted to the stud until the end, Janet kept photographs of her prize cattle and detailed notes of their pedigrees. In 1953, the year before her death, she produced The History of Golf Hill Herefords, dedicated: ‘To the Hereford Breed in Australia’ (National Library of Australia). Published resources Resource Section Biddlecombe, Janet (1866-1954), Langmore, Diane, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130211b.htm Booklet The History of Golf Hill Herefords, Biddlecombe, Janet, 1953 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 12 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 40 minutes??Elizabeth Furner, formerly Laurenson and Guy, was born in London, England. Her parents separated when she was a child. Elizabeth married a soldier in 1941 and they emigrated to Australia in 1952 with their four year old son. They came to Adelaide, via Tasmania and Sydney, in 1961. It was at this time that Elizabeth began taking an interest in both writing and local government, stimulated by her disgust about the discriminatory franchise laws. She joined the Australian Local Government Women’s Association, rising quickly to President of the South Australian Branch, and did much public speaking as well as standing for council in North Brighton. In the early 1970s Elizabeth founded the Brighton Writers’ Workshop from which the South Australian Branch of the Society of Women Writers was formed. She describes the society’s aims and activities and her own writing, which reflects her interests in ‘history and humour’. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photographs of the dignitaries present at the dinner to launch the Irene Greenwood Library Resources Trust.?Author: Brickwood, Jennifer. 10 photos (in album) : col. ; 29 cm Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Tara Cheyne was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory, representing the electorate of Ginninderra, in October 2016. She was re-elected in October 2020. Cheyne was Government Whip from October 2016 to 2020 and has held various portfolios since 2020. Cheyne was born in Cairns, Queensland on 30 December 1986. She graduated from Rockhampton Grammar School in 2003 and studied for a Bachelor of Arts/Journalism at the University of Queensland. During that period, she became a member of the Australian Labor Party. After graduating, Cheyne took a position at the Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet, before moving to Canberra in 2008. She worked for the Attorney General’s Department from 2008 to 2016 and the Department of Finance in 2016 until her election to the Legislative Assembly. She has been active in the Canberra community and arts sectors for over a decade, including as President of the Belconnen Community Council in 2014–15 and as a board member of the Belconnen Arts Centre. In her inaugural speech to the Assembly in August 2016, Cheyne recalled her proudest achievement of that period was encouraging the local community to have their say on the Belconnen Town Centre Master Plan. In 2011, she published a popular blog ‘In the Taratory’ which promoted and reviewed services and events in the Canberra region. Initially a collaborative project, Cheyne took over as sole author in 2012. In 2013, she graduated with a Master of Business Administration from the University of Canberra. Cheyne has held a variety of ministerial portfolios, including Arts, Multicultural Affairs, Business and Better Regulation (2020–23); Human Rights, Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, City Services, Government Services and Regulatory Reform (from 2023). As the Minister for Human Rights, she championed the Australian Capital Territory’s Voluntary and Assisted Dying Bill, which was passed by the Assembly in June 2024. She has served on various committees, including as Deputy Chair of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response (2019–20) and End of Life Choices in the Australian Capital Territory (2016). Published resources Cheyne, Tara: Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory website, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/ninth-assembly-members/ginninderra/cheyne-tara Tara Cheyne MLA website, https://taracheyne.com.au/ In the Taratory blog, Cheyne, Tara, https://www.facebook.com/InTheTaratory/ Author Details Jen Coombes Created 1 August 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "While most Philippines-born settlement in Australia is comparatively recent, contact between indigenous Australians and Filipino sailors in the north of the continent extends back well before Europeans arrived. Early census data shows that some of the sojourners stayed for good: there were approximately 700 Philippines-born persons in Australia at the turn of the century, mainly in Western Australia and Queensland. The Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 led to the introduction of policies excluding non-Europeans from entry to Australia (colloquially known as the ‘White Australia Policy’). This resulted in a significant decrease in the number of Philippines-born settlers in Australia. The number of Filipinos was down to 141 at the time of the 1947 Australian Census, and it was not until the 1950s that the population began to increase. Significant numbers of Filipino students were allowed entry to Australia under the Colombo Plan and many chose to stay after graduation. An immigration policy reform in 1966 allowed well-qualified non-Europeans to immigrate to Australia. The Filipino population approximately doubled between every Census (every 5 years) to 1991, making it one of the fastest growing overseas-born populations in Australia. The final repudiation of the ‘White Australia Policy’ and the declaration of martial law in the Philippines in 1972 led to rapid growth in the Philippines-born population in Australia over the next two decades. During the 1970s, many Filipino women migrated as spouses of Australian residents. Since then, most of the Philippines-born settlers have been sponsored by a family member. Most Filipino migration occurred during the 1980s, peaking in 1987-1988. In the 1990s, settler arrivals began to decline and the growth in the Philippines-born population slowed. The 1991 Census recorded 73,673 living in Australia. The latest Census in 2001 recorded 103,990 Philippines-born persons in Australia, an increase of 12 per cent from the 1996 Census. The 2001 distribution by State and Territory showed New South Wales had the largest number with 52,240 followed by Victoria (22,500), Queensland (15,450) and Western Australia (5,400). The median age of the Philippines-born in 2001 was 38.2 years compared with 46.0 years for all overseas-born and 35.6 years for the total Australian population. The age distribution showed 8.9 per cent were aged 0-14 years, 15.9 per cent were 15-24 years, 43.6 per cent were 25-44 years, 27.0 per cent were 45-64 years and 4.7 per cent were 65 and over. Of the Philippines-born in Australia, there were 35,840 males (34.5 per cent) and 68,150 females (65.5 per cent). The sex ratio was 52.6 males per 100 females. In 2001, of Philippines-born people aged 15 years and over, 58.8 per cent held some form of educational or occupational qualification compared with 46.2 per cent for all Australians. Among the Philippines born, 38.3 per cent had higher qualifications* and 10.0 per cent had Certificate level qualifications. Of the Philippines-born with no qualifications, 25.8 per cent were still attending an educational institution. At the 2001 Census, the rate* of Australian Citizenship for the Philippines-born in Australia was 93.5 per cent. The rate for all overseas-born was 75.1 per cent. Published resources Report Mail Order Brides: A West Australian Study on Filipino Australian Marriages, Vogels, Guido, 1984 The Situation of Filipino Brides in the Northern Areas of Western Australia, Scaramella, Maria Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records, ca. 1983-1991. [manuscript] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Files concerning Meredith Edwards’ work as the Director of the National Housing Strategy set up by the Minister for Community Services and Health. The final report was presented in December 1992. Also includes papers relating to Youth Income Support and the publications and unpublished papers by Dr Meredith Edwards. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A. Papers, ca. 1800-1987, chiefly compiled by Lilias Stuart Humphreys, ca. 1960-1987??B. Pictorial material (inc. photographs, drawings, etching & seals), ca. 1850-1935 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Bev Reaston has practised law in Cairns since 1980 and was the first lawyer in the city to combine fulltime work with mothering after she had her first child in 1983. She has practiced exclusively in the area of Family Law in Far North Queensland for over thirty years, developing expertise across a wide range of areas including complex children’s matters, international relocations and high end property cases. She is (in 2016) the Queensland Representative of the Family Law Council of Australia. She was one of the first appointed Independent Children’s Lawyers in Cairns. As well as working in private practice (most recently in partnership with her husband, Jim, and Deanne Drummond at Reaston Drummond Law) Reaston has been engaged with a number of community organisations, ranging from local kindergarten and sporting committees to community law services. She has served terms on the management committees of the Cairns Regional Domestic Violence Service, Legal Aid and the North Queensland Women’s Legal Centre. Bev Reaston was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. Trailblazing comes in a variety of forms and it doesn’t always involve a ‘crash or crash through’ moment. As befits her style and priorities, Bev Reaston’s trailblazing involved quiet achievement while combining work and family responsibilities. Admitted to practice in Queensland in 1980, she moved with her husband to Cairns the same year and established her own practice. When her first child, Kelly, was born in 1983, Bev took her to work in a bassinet; formal childcare was non-existent in Cairns at the time, as was the presence of working mothers in the legal profession. Bev Reaston was the first solicitor in the city to combine full time work with being a mother, and then the first pregnant mother to practise. She is an old hand at managing the work/family/life balance that professional families continue to negotiate. The juggling act was never an easy one, especially when her three children were babies. Memories of leaving court after giving submissions, to be told that there was baby vomit down the back of her black jacket, or of the anxiety that consent orders needed to be obtained between four hourly feeds are laughing matters thirty years later. But the arrival of each child heralded social and cultural changes that made the practicalities of combining work and family easier. The daughter Reaston took to work in a bassinet in 1983 is now a lawyer, with children of her own. ‘Things are so much easier now for her, as they should be,’ says Reaston, who never would have imagined that she would not only blaze a trail for working mothers in the legal profession but, perhaps, be first in a dynastic line of Far North Queensland women lawyers! The only girl right in the middle of four male siblings, Bevlee Reaston (nee Waters) was born in Darwin in 1956, did her early schooling in Raymond Terrace, New South Wales and completed high school in Townsville. Her father was in the air force, hence the moving around; her mother worked on phonograms, ringing through telegrams. Sporty and quite competitive – ‘that’s what having four brothers does for you’ – Reaston was a very good student and was school captain in her final year. She did well enough academically to earn a scholarship to ANU but her parents simply couldn’t afford to send her. She was lucky enough to attend Townsville State High School, however, which ran some innovative teaching programs, including a special social justice program. The teacher who ran the program was married to a partner in a local law firm. This teacher helped Bev to get a position at the firm so that she could complete legal studies via the articled clerk route, a course undertaken by many people in regional Queensland. In 1974 she began her articles at Wilson, Ryan and Grose, making her the second woman the firm had ever taken on as an articled clerk. Reaston knew people who went away to study law at university and doesn’t think she was disadvantaged by not doing so herself. Perhaps she missed out on a bit of theoretical background, but she was well served by the practical education she received from practitioners in the region. As well as learning the nuts and bolts of the system, they were tutored by people who came up from Victoria, bringing perspective from a different jurisdiction, and local experts, some of who went on to become Supreme and District Court judges. The collegiality amongst the clerks at the firm was an added bonus. Despite being paid a pittance for the very hard work she was doing, she knew her friends at university ‘weren’t having the fun [she] was having as an articled clerk’. Reaston says she never felt gender discrimination within the context of the firm; it was when she moved into the courtroom it became observable. After a certain amount of time and experience, articled clerks were allowed to appear for adjournments or consents in the Magistrates Court and that was where she saw differential treatment. Magistrates gave women representatives a ‘harder time in court’, and some of them struggled. ‘It was a bit unfair…you learnt you had to put that bit of extra mileage in to be acknowledged.’ Later on, even as a lawyer with a number of years experience, she discovered that some law firms adopted discriminatory practices they would never get away with today. Hoping to return to work after her second child, a partnership offer was withdrawn when she refused to accept one of the terms; that she would not have any more children. Fortunately, an opportunity emerged with another firm where maternity was not regarded as a problem. Once qualified and admitted, Reaston discovered there were still some parts of Far North Queensland where women lawyers weren’t welcome. Bev married Jim Reaston, who was a year ahead of her in completing his articles at Wilson, Ryan and Grose. He was offered a job in Mackay and asked if there were any openings for Bev, who would be qualified soon. ‘Oh no,’ he was told, ‘Mackay’s not ready for a female lawyer yet!’ Jim turned the job down, and Mackay’s loss was Cairns’ gain. A bigger centre offered more possibilities and while work didn’t come to Bev immediately once they moved to Cairns in 1980, it wasn’t her gender, so much as her marital status, that deterred potential employers. ‘We can’t have you practise with us while your husband works for another firm,’ she was told. ‘Clients wouldn’t like it.’ Gender and regionalism combined to create a difficult situation for a woman lawyer married to another lawyer, wanting to practise law in the 1980s. Fortunately, Farrellys Lawyers, who employed Jim, found her a position and this was her foothold into practice in Cairns. After Farrellys, Reaston established a general practice with Bruce Johnston. They set up a legal advice service at Rusty’s market on market days, working out of a set partitions and sitting on deckchairs, building their business at a time when distances were huge and there were no such thing as computers, digital communication and the internet. Given that much of their work included Administrative Appeals work and Personal Injury cases, often for people on remote Indigenous communities, this posed significant challenges that practitioners coming to practise now could not imagine! Reaston began to establish expertise in the field of Family Law, building upon experience she developed in Townsville even in the era determined by the Matrimonial Causes Act before the Family Law Act (1975) was passed. Many of the large Cairns firms in the 1980s referred work to her; as a labour intensive area of practice that was complicated to bill, they were happy to pass her the work, although things have changed and the large firms have big family law departments now. As a cross-vested jurisdiction, Family Law has often thrown some very complex cases her way, with many farming families owning multiple farms and trusts across the region over which decisions must be made. In more recent years, international relocation orders and custody matters have created additional complexity, as Cairns becomes a global tourist destination, attracting people who form relationships, have children, experience relationship breakdown and then want to leave. A lack of family law experience at the local bar saw her running many of the arguments herself, a situation that worried her at times. ‘We had Chief Justice Nicholson coming up…and [solicitors] are running arguments and I’m thinking: what do they think of the Cairns practitioners?’ In time, the local experience at the bar grew and southern barristers and judges were attracted to work in the north, particularly in the winter months! Reaston notes that the family court judges and counsel who came up were struck by the complexity of the cases confronting them, especially those involving children. Her commitment to protecting children’s interests and their rights explains why Reaston was one of the first practitioners in Cairns to take on work as an Independent Children’s Lawyer. Working on behalf of the children is satisfying, but it can also be extremely frustrating as she observes the, often destructive, behaviour of the parents. There have been occasions, for instance, when she has been watching her own children playing junior sport in teams where children she represents have also been playing. It is heartbreaking when that child runs to her, instead of either parent, for help or encouragement. ‘Can’t they see what they are doing?’ she asks. A child does not need to be the victim of abuse and argument to feel personal pain and suffering. In over thirty years of practice in Cairns, Reaston has seen many changes to the way family law is practiced, some for the better and some not so beneficial. She is concerned about the amount of self-representation that happens; particularly its impact on women whose partners have been abusive. She is deeply worried about the expanding role that substance abuse has in the breakdown of families and the way this affects children. But she is glad for the focus on mediation that has become more common between opposing advocates and she is grateful for the increased levels of support – never adequate, of course! – that can be called upon from professional experts and other women practitioners. Of particular importance to her have been Townsville barrister, now retired, Wendy Pack S.C., and Brisbane based senior counsel Dr. Jacoba Brasch Q.C. and Kathryn McMillan Q.C., who will come up to run cases from time to time, offering assistance and expertise preparing complex cases, often for little recompense. ‘They pick me up so much’, says Reaston, ‘they remind me why I am doing this work.’ She now (2016) does the work in a newly established partnership with her husband, Jim Reaston and Deanne Drummond, who she met years ago when she was working at Farrellys. Beyond work and devotion to family, Reaston has been active in a number of Cairns community organisations, ranging from local kindergarten and sporting committees to community law services. She has served terms on the management committees of the Cairns Regional Domestic Violence Service, Legal Aid and the North Queensland Women’s Legal Centre. When she needs to think or de-stress, she goes into her garden, a work of art that has featured in the local press and on national television. It has grown and evolved as her career and family life have; paths and shelters created when her children were little now accommodate a dinosaur cave built for her grandson. ‘You change as you go along,’ she says. And, like all gardeners, she knows that experience teaches that what might have failed in one part of the garden might work in another. Good advice for any lawyer, it would seem. Published resources Magazine article Gardens of Life, Carter, Denise, 2016 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Bev Reaston interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 June 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Bev Reaston Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letters to Daisy Bates from Andrew Lang (10), Frank Harris (3), Rudyard Kipling (1), A. Chichester Bradon (1), H. Linlithgow (1), J.A. Gorges (1), Kingsley Fairbridge (2), M. Gibney (3); Receipt for one pound as a donation by Daisy Bates to the Child Emigration Society signed Kingsley Fairbridge; Poem about Lloyd George (part of a letter?) unsigned; Obituary on Andrew Lang. London, July 22. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Desley Boyle was an Australian Labor Party politician who represented the electoral district of Cairns in the Queensland Legislative Assembly. She was first elected in the 1998 State Election and is currently (2009) the Minister for Local Government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships. Desley was formerly Minister for Tourism, Regional Development and Industry, Minister for Child Safety, as well as Minister for Environment, Local Government, Planning and Women. Desley’s Boyles professional background is as a senior psychologist in her own practice, Desley Boyle and Associates. She holds Masters Degrees in Business Administration and Psychology. Desley has a long history of involvement in the Cairns community: from 1988 to 1994 she was on the Cairns City Council, serving for two years as Deputy Mayor. Desley has been actively involved with the following organisations: President, FNQ Employment; Chairperson, FNQ Family Resource Service; Spokesperson, FNQ Friends of the ABC; Board Member, Lifeline FNQ; Chairperson, Peninsula and Torres Strait Regional Health Authority; Chairperson, Northern Australia Development Council; Board Member, Cairns Port Authority. Northern Australia Development Council and Lifeline FNQ; Australian Institute of Management; Cairns Chamber of Commerce; Published resources Resource Boyle, Hon Desley Carole, Queensland Parliament, 2009, http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/legislativeAssembly/documents/memberBio/BoyleDesley.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Desley Boyle - State Member for Cairns, 2009, http://www.qld.alp.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=363 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 8 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Migrant Women Workers Project was, arguably, the first occasion when feminist concerns combined with ethnic rights multiculturalism to highlight the precarious position of women of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and the inadequacy of settlement services to assist them. The report produced by the project, ‘But I wouldn’t want my wife to work here…’: a study of migrant women in Melbourne Industry, drew attention to the plight of migrant factory workers in a sustained fashion that had hitherto been unseen. It also served as a vehicle for further involvement from the union movement in the struggle for equity for migrant women workers."
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        "text": "A once-only candidate, Anne Bi ran for the Unity party in the 2003 Baulkham Hills elections. Anne Bi arrived in Australia in 1989 as a student. In 2003 she was married, had three children and ran her own company. Anne was the honorary Chairperson of the NSW Chinese Welfare Migrant Association. Her election literature stressed funding for childcare facilities, improved transportation, smaller classes and support for teachers, improved public hospitals and multiculturalism. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 7 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hr. 30 min.??Arrived Kalgoorlie as small child with family; impressions of Kalgoorlie; wildlife; lack of water; housing; opening of water supply scheme; C.Y. O’Connor’s suicide; father’s interest in music; social outings; career in nursing; nursing routines; move to Northam; transfer to Albany; return to Kalgoorlie; Kalgoorlie hospital; nursing experiences; enlistment in army; journey on the Orontes to Egypt; experiences in Egypt; transfer to France; description of Paris; return to Western Australia; work with Matron Walsh at King Edward Memorial Hospital; adopts a boy from the orphanage, involvement with Home of Peace Women’s Auxiliary; interest and membership in Australian Trained Nurses Association. Miss Edis was familiarly known as Dottie. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 3 August 2012 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Tess Epis talks about her Italian background and family history; her mother losing first husband in accident at Great Boulder Mine (1921); her second marriage Giovanni Furia (1924); father left mine work due to Silicosis; the family bought the Cornwall Hotel; travelling to Italy (1937); her early memories of Cornwall Hotel; delivery of beer in barrels and pumped with a hand pump; how the family lived upstairs in hotel; her mother’s work; Ted Clarke; a gold stealing case and murder of detectives; her schooling at St Josephs Convent; studying shorthand and bookkeeping at Technical School; riots in Kalgoorlie, the Hotel Cornwall burnt down, rioters focusing on Dingbat Flats; there being no racism at school and no awareness of lead-up to riots; how the government built a makeshift hotel on the side whilst hotel was rebuilt; mother running the hotel after her husband’s death, her death in the 1970s; the sale of the hotel sold (1990); working for an accountant as a stenographer until her marriage; women as barmaids; Cornwall pub, dances every Saturday night; Sunday, accordion music and singing in the bar; her mother feeding and helping men during the Depression; Italians being interned in Kalgoorlie during WWII; meeting her husband at school, Mario Epis, an assayer, his background; their marriage (1947); husband working as a prospector, pegging ground and selling to mining companies; their children; Kalgoorlie brothels. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 7 August 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers contain diaries, log books, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, citations, certificates, invitations, air schedules, aircraft manuals, invitations, air schedules, aircraft manuals, pilot’s certificates and licences, passports, aircraft account cards, flight maps, radio scripts and other papers, medals, a slide rule, and a photograph of Thompson beside her aircraft. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 13 November 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dorothy Edwards was the first Tasmanian woman to be elected president of the Australian National Council of Women. It is significant that Edwards’ base was in the Launceston branch of the NCW, for her election thus had implications for the status of the NCW of Tasmania, based in Hobart and acknowledged in the ANCW constitution as the official state Council. Edwards held office in the Launceston Council as secretary and president before election to the ANCW presidency 1960-1964. Her period in office was notable for her forthright engagement with government on issues such as equal pay and for her enthusiastic promotion of the International Council of Women’s new ‘twinning program’ and, in particular, for fostering close relations between the Australian Council and the Councils of Thailand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea. Her presidency also saw the holding of an ICW regional seminar on international understanding in Brisbane in 1964. She went on to serve in the ICW as convenor for finance, vice-treasurer and vice-president, and travelled overseas regularly to executive meetings and triennial conferences until 1996. She was made an honorary vice-president of both the Launceston and Australian Councils (1974 and 1973) and admitted to ICW’s Committee of Honour (1979). Dorothy Edwards was also the first woman to be elected to the Launceston City Council. She served as an alderman for 15 years and was mayor 1955-1957, the first woman city mayor in Australia. She was subsequently admitted as an Honorary Freeman of the City of Launceston (1984). She was also awarded an OBE in 1958 and a CBE in 1979, and was entered on the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 2005. Dorothy Edna Annie Edwards was born 20 June 1907, the daughter of Percival James Marshall Fleming and Edna Annie Rydale (née Best), in Deloraine, Tasmania, where her father was the town clerk. She was educated at Launceston High School, the University of Tasmania and the London School of Economics where she earned a Masters of Arts. Dorothy taught Latin and literature at Launceston High School for many years. A gifted teacher, she was remembered with respect, admiration and affection by many of her former students. She married Rex S.C. Edwards, a fellow teacher, on 20 May 1933 and had 2 sons. In keeping with the regulations of the time, she was forced to resign from the Education Department on her marriage, but, once her sons were at school, she found many other outlets for her talents and leadership qualities. Dorothy Edwards was a remarkable individual who broke new ground for women in many areas and was an outstanding ambassador for the Council movement worldwide. She joined the revived National Council of Women of Launceston as secretary (1947-1956) and was active in the campaign to force the Launceston City Council to amend the Corporations Act to allow women to stand for election as aldermen. Edwards had a long-standing interest in local government given her father’s career as a council clerk. The Corporations Act was amended in 1945 and, in December 1949, she became the first woman not only to seek election for the Launceston City Council, but also to be elected. Edwards served as an alderman for 15 years and was mayor from December 1955 to December 1957, the first female city mayor in Australia. She counted among her achievements the building of the City Baths at Windmill Hill, flood prevention measures and the opening of a by-products plant for the Killafaddy Abattoirs. Dorothy Edwards’ contribution to the National Council of Women was significant at the local, national and international levels. In addition to her contribution as secretary to the Launceston NCW for nearly a decade, she was president from 1958 to 1960. She went on to become the first Tasmanian president of the ANCW, serving in that role from 1960 to 1964. Although Hobart’s Emily Dobson had played a crucial role in founding state Councils and encouraging interaction between them, and though she led, and therefore was president of, Australian delegations to the ICW up to 1921, she was never president of the Federal Council or ANCW. It is significant that Edwards’ base was in the Launceston branch of the NCW, which, though recognised as an autonomous Council in 1946, was not a state Council. Since her presidential base was Launceston, her election gave credence to the view that Launceston NCW was equivalent in status to NCW Tasmania, based in Hobart, and thus helped perpetuate the stand-off over the constitutional position of the 2 Tasmanian branches. Only one member of NCWT, Vee Couche, served (as treasurer) on Edwards’ board, albeit briefly. Rivalry between the Tasmanian Councils festered for the rest of the century with serious repercussions. It is, however, indisputable that Launceston was a more vibrant Council than NCWT at the time of Edwards’ ANCW presidency and that she was a particularly forceful, influential and innovative national leader. She showed considerable initiative in ensuring the financial viability of her board and funding the extensive regime of travel she undertook to all states by arranging for the Launceston City Council to cater for an International Rotary Conference held in Launceston and organising 3 public exhibitions. Edwards’ period in office was notable for her enthusiastic promotion of the ICW’s new ‘twinning program’ and, in particular, for fostering close relations between the Australian Council and the Councils of Thailand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea. She arranged for visits to Australia by the president of Thailand’s NCW, Princess Prem Purachatra, in 1962, and later helped finalise the twinning relationship with Thailand in 1967. She also persuaded the administrator of PNG to consent to 2 New Guinea representatives attending the 1962 and 1963 ANCW conferences, and gained Australian government financial assistance to bring 2 PNG women, 2 Northern Territory Aboriginal women and representatives of 7 Asian nations to the ICW regional seminar on international understanding in Brisbane in 1964. After the 1963 ICW conference, she expressed the view that ‘our work over the next Decade [designated by the UN the Decade of Development] should be largely that of increasing our International contacts, particularly with the new Councils, which are anxious to participate fully in I.C.W. . . The future of millions of people may depend on the relationships we establish now’. The focus of the 1964 regional seminar was ‘the responsibility of woman to herself, her home, her community and mankind, as seen by people of different cultures’. With regard to Australian issues, Edwards pulled no punches, attempting to jolt the Councils into more activist pursuit of their objectives as distinct from just paying lipservice to them with the same or similar resolutions passed year after year. ‘I often doubt’, she said, ‘if even our own members are really behind us’. They needed to ensure that goals such as equal pay and the lifting of the marriage bar in the public service had ‘a large informed body of public support behind them’, and they should start this work with their own affiliated societies. Edwards’ frustration on the issue of equal pay, for example, was evident in her response to the Liberal Party women senators’ failure to vote for a Labor Party amendment to the Public Service Bill to provide for equal remuneration within the Commonwealth Public Service. In 1961, her board wrote a letter of protest to the 4 senators (3 of whom had close ANCW connections) sharply reminding them that had they voted for Senator Willesee’s motion it would have been carried. The letter concluded: ‘This protest is in conformity with ANCW’s policy on equal pay for women’. Edwards clearly believed the outcome would have been different if the senators had felt the pressure of public opinion. In line with these views, Edwards made concerted attempts to expand the Australian Council movement, arguing that it was time to go beyond the previous emphasis on consolidation and unity, and noting the formation of a Townsville branch in Queensland as well as the successful extension into large country towns in Victoria to make NCWV a truly state-wide organisation. ANCW itself had now helped establish a provisional Council in Darwin and Edwards requested support from the state Councils to sustain it. She also suggested speeding up decision-making by giving more power to state Councils’ officers or to the ANCW board and using modern forms of communication to disseminate information more effectively. Encouraging individual associate membership might help rejuvenate debate and bring in new talent, and choosing convenors of standing committees on the basis of merit rather than state representation might increase efficiency and initiative. More systematic and routine communication between state, national and international convenors was necessary for the committee system to operate smoothly. The extent to which these aims were achievable in a volunteer organisation was another matter but Edwards’ board was certainly a very well-oiled operation and its records were meticulously kept. She was appointed a life vice-president of the National Council of Women of Australia in 1973. At the 1963 triennial ICW conference in Washington, Edwards was elected vice-treasurer (1963-1970) and vice president (1963-1979) of the International Council of Women, as well as convenor of the Finance Committee. After relinquishing the ANCW presidency in 1964, Edwards made ICW work the centre of her continuing Council activity. She was appointed to the ICW Committee of Honour in 1979. Her attendance at ICW conferences and executive meetings extended from 1963 to 1996, and, like her Tasmanian exemplar, Emily Dobson, she rarely missed one of these gatherings. Dorothy Edwards worked actively with many other organisations for extended periods before and after her retirement from Launceston City Council. She was a member of the ABC Board (1962-1975); the State Library Board (1953-1978); the Decimal Currency Committee (1959-1960); the Queen Victoria Hospital Board (1958); the Tasmanian Orchestra Advisory Committee (1953-1954); vice-warden of Convocation at the University of Tasmania (1963-1965) and chairman of the Interim Board of the Launceston General Hospital (1971-1972). She was also a member of the Women Graduates’ Association and the Business and Professional Women’s Club, and was president of the Launceston branch of the United Nations Association of Australia (1967-1979). Dorothy Edwards was awarded an OBE in 1958 and a CBE in 1979. She was admitted as an honorary freeman of the City of Launceston in 1984 and was entered on the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 2005 in recognition and acknowledgment of her distinguished service to Tasmania through her long association with local government, community and cultural organisations. Her distinguished service, wisdom and leadership over nearly 60 years in so many areas of community life was legendary and so was her capacity for open, warm and forthright interpersonal relations. She eschewed false modesty and any pretension, and, unlike most of her predecessors in the Council movement, openly enjoyed a cigarette and a glass of sherry or whisky with friends and colleagues. Events 1963 - 1979 International Council of Women 1963 - 1970 International Council of Women 1958 - 1960 National Council of Women of Launceston Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1962, Alexander, Joseph A, 1962 Report Report 1963 - 64, Australian National Council of Women of Launceston, 1964 Annual Report, National Council of Women of Launceston, 2006 Resource Section Dorothy Edna Annie Edwards CBE, Tasmanian Government, c.2006, http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/cdd/programs_and_services/tasmanian_honour_roll_of_women/inductees/2005/dorothy_edna_annie_edwards_cbe Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 3 May 2016 Digital resources Title: Dorothy Edwards Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: board-1964.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Previous control number : 903-1-B1 to B10?Envelope contains 10 black and white 120mm negatives Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 July 2018 Last modified 31 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "After 21½ years Marie Fisher retired from the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps, Australian Regular Army (WRAAC ARA) on 23 July 1974 and was placed on the retired list. During her service she qualified and was promoted from Private to Captain having served in New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria. Following her discharge from the WRAAC Fisher returned to study at both the Technical and Further Education (TAFE) college and the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where she was later employed before retiring in 1991 aged 65 years. Before enlisting in the WRAAC ARA on 9 January 1953 Marie Fisher worked with the New South Wales Public Service in the Office of the Department of Motor Transport and later with the Department of Supply. After completing Recruit school at Queenscliff, Victoria, Fisher was posted as a typist/clerk at Eastern Command Troops, Randwick (NSW) and then with the School of Military Intelligence (North Head, Sydney). In 1956 she was stationed in Tasmania and Victoria and was promoted to Lance Corporal, Corporal and Sergeant. On 4 November 1959 Fisher graduated from the Officer Cadet School at Georges Heights, Sydney and Lieutenant Fisher was posted to Fort Largs in South Australia. She was then transferred to 1 Recruit Training Battalion (Wagga Wagga); 10 WRAAC Barrack (Brisbane); 3 WRAAC Company (Victoria) 5 Signal Regiment (Dundas) and the School of Artillery (North Head, Sydney). In 1965 Fisher qualified and was promoted to Captain. Aged 48 years Fisher retired on 23 July 1974 and was placed on the retired list. She had served with the WRAAC ARA for 21½ years. Returning to study, Fisher completed a TAFE course after which she enrolled at the UNSW. She then worked with the University before retiring in 1991. In 1977 Fisher joined the WRAAC Association (NSW) with her sister Nora Fisher. A staunch supporter of the Association she attended meetings and functions as well as attending Anzac Day marchers, when she proudly wore her father’s medals from World War 1. Marie Fisher died on 5 October 1995 aged 69 years. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 September 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series consists of correspondence files of the Office of Multicultural Affairs in Tasmania. They detail the liaison of the Office with the Central Office of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and with the State Government, Tasmanian ethnic groups and other agencies. Upon closing of the Office in 1995 the files were transferred to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. Information found on file includes administration of Committees and projects, information from outside agencies and groups, planning matters, reports and miscellaneous correspondence, finance matters, requests for information, staffing, accommodation, stores and services matters and policies and issues relating to the ethnic communities of Tasmania. There are no known index cards for this series.?These records were originally held in the Hobart office of the NAA and were transferred to the NAA, Chester Hill, NSW in February 2005. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 June 2006 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "I. Twenty-three page corrected and annotated typescript account of a caravan journey from Melbourne to Perth. Describes the places and people encountered on the journey, paying particular attention to the Nullarbor Plain. The typescript also includes notes on the vocabulary of Aborigines in the regions passed through. II. Two page typescript notes by Robert Hill (Ernestine’s son) on the same journey describing the visit to Daisy Bates who was staying with the Mathews family on a farm at Streaky Bay, South Australia. III. Photograph of Daisy Bates, Ernestine Hill and the Mathew family taken by Robert Hill on the same journey. IV. Photographs of Daisy Bates and Aborigines. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 sound cassettes (ca. 79 min.)??”Elizabeth Harrower (born 1928 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian novelist and short story writer. She spent her childhood in industrial Newcastle, New South Wales. She lived in London from 1951 to 1959. On her return to Sydney she worked as a reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald, for the ABC and in publishing. Her novels show “a psychological fascination with deep-seated human motivations, fears and obsessions”.” Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "An ALP candidate whose other life as a historian and teacher was distinguished. Judith Mackinolty was a candidate for the Hills Shire Council elections in c.1962 and in the 1973 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for the Hills. Judith Macinolty was born in Melbourne in 1931, the daughter of a pharmacist, Les Allen and his wife Mary. She won a scholarship to MacRobertson Girls’ High School, from which she matriculated to Melbourne University in 1949. By this time she had also been a member of the Victorian state swimming team and had won a state backstroke championship in 1947. She represented Melbourne University and Victoria in interstate competitions and remained a life long swimmer. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BA, then MA with majors in English and history, with a particular interest in Australian history. In 1953, she married John Macinolty, then a country solicitor in Gippsland, later Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. They had two children. Judy Macinolty taught at Northmead and Doonside High Schools, and was Head Teacher History at Doonside 1970-73. In 1972 she began a Master’s degree, her thesis being published as Sugar Bag Days; Sydney workers and the challenge of the 1930s depression. She was President of the NSW and Australian History Teachers’ Associations. During the 1970s and 1980s she lectured at the Macquarie and NSW universities and held a research fellowship at the University of Sydney. Her last formal work was as a project officer with the NSW Bicentennial Council. She was associated with many activities concerned with reconciliation, and worked to achieve agreement between white and Aboriginal communities around Myall Creek which resulted in a memorial acknowledging the massacre there. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This series comprises church baptism, marriage and burial registers along with administrative records for the Parish of Cooee. All the churches which formed part of this parish are represented in these records. They include St David’s, Cooee; St Barnabas, Somerset; St James, Waratah; St Mary’s, Yolla and St Pauls’, Elliott. The series also contains records of parish organisations such as the Women’s Guild and Men’s Society. A twenty year sequence of the Yearbook of the Church of England in Tasmania is also included.??NS1666/1/54-58 St Wilfrid’s Church, Mothers Union Minute Book Author Details Jane Carey Created 18 February 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "I. CORRESPONDENCE, 1960-2000 (Call No.: MLMSS 7362/1-13)?II. SUBJECT FILES, 1970-1999 (Call No.: MLMSS 7362/16-27)?III. NEWSCUTTINGS, 1996-1999 (Call No.: MLMSS 7362/14-15)?IV. LITERARY PAPERS, 196–1999 (Call No.: MLMSS 7362/28-30)?V. PRINTED MATERIAL, 1974-2000 (Call No.: MLMSS 7362/31-33)?VI. VIDEO RECORDINGS, 1977-1999 (Call No.: VT 1047-VT 1109)?VII. AUDIO TAPES, 1984-1999 (Call No.: MLOH 508/1-77) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Calendar was published annually for the coming year. Apart from a calendar of principal dates, the contents include: a description of the University and the work of the Departments of the Research Schools, lists of Council and Committee members, academic staff, senior administrative staff, graduates, research students, and members of convocation, legislation, statutes and rules, benefactions, and a list of staff publications. For 1971 (Part 1) and 1973 the publication was called General Information. A duplicate set for general reference use is located in the reading room. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 22 June 2012 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Three folders of papers covering the periods 1977-1987, 1987-1989 and 1989-1990 respectively, during the period of Joy Lindrum Gillan’s presidency of The Society of Women Writers Australia. The papers are related to a dispute between The Society of Women Writers Australia and the New South Wales Branch. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 September 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Gallagher AO is a lawyer, practitioner, teacher and scholar, specialising in human rights and the administration of criminal justice. She obtained a BA and LLB from Macquarie University; a Masters of International Law from the Australian National University; and a PhD from the University of Utrecht. After teaching international law for several years at ANU, Anne sat for the national competitive examinations to enter the United Nations and was recruited in 1992 to the UN’s human rights operations. From 1998 to 2002 she was Special Adviser to Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland. During that time Anne was at the forefront of developing the new international legal framework around transnational organized crime, migrant smuggling and human trafficking. Since resigning from the UN in 2003, she has been working with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its ten Member States to strengthen legislative and criminal justice responses to human trafficking and related exploitation. This Australian-government funded program – the world’s largest and most ambitious criminal justice initiative against trafficking – has been acclaimed for its impact on laws, policies and practices within and outside the ASEAN region and Anne’s contribution has been widely recognized, including by the ASEAN Secretary-General. Anne has combined her career as a UN official and high-level development professional with a vocation as a teacher and independent, self-funded scholar. She has published widely in the areas of human rights and criminal justice and is, according to the United States Government, “the leading global authority on the international law on human trafficking”. Her publications in this field include articles in major journals including Human Rights Quarterly and Virginia Journal of International Law; the official legal commentary to the UN Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking; and the sole legal reference text on this subject, The International Law of Human Trafficking, published by Cambridge University Press and awarded the 2011 American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit – Honorable Mention. The companion volume, The International Law of Migrant Smuggling, was published in 2014 to high acclaim. Anne continues to advise the United Nations and is the author of many UN and ASEAN documents, handbooks, research reports and training materials on human trafficking, human rights, criminal justice and the rule of law. From 2012-2015 she led in a multi-year research project, mandated by the United Nations Crime Commission, focusing on problematic elements the international legal definition of human trafficking and is currently leading a similar initiative examining the international legal definition of migrant smuggling. During the period 2011-2015 Anne was an invited guest lecturer at Cambridge University; Oxford University; the University of Glasgow; the Australian National University; the American Society of International Law; Harvard University; American University; Johns Hopkins University; Duke University; and Stanford University. In 2014 she was appointed Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Presidential Task Force on Trafficking in Persons. Also in 2014 she was made a member of the High-level Advisory Group to the Director-General of the International Organization for Migration and, in 2015, a Member of the Track II Dialogue on Forced Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region. In 2016 Anne joined Doughty Street Chambers, the UK’s leading human rights and civil liberties chambers. In November 2011 Anne was awarded the inaugural Australian Freedom Award for her international work against contemporary forms of slavery. In June 2012 she was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), the country’s second-highest civic honor. This appointment was made for her: “distinguished service to the law and human rights, as a practitioner, teacher and scholar, particularly in areas of human trafficking responses and criminal justice”. Also in June 2012, Anne was named a “2012 Hero” by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “for her ambitious work in the global fight against modern slavery”. In 2013 she received the inaugural Australian National University Alumni of the Year award and, in 2015, the “Peace Woman of the Year” award from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Published resources Book The International Law of Human Trafficking, Gallagher, Anne T., 2012, http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/law/human-rights/international-law-human-trafficking Resource Section Anne Gallagher, Worldwide Hero, Class of 2012, 2012, http://www.tipheroes.org/anne-gallagher/ Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Anne Gallagher Created 11 May 2016 Last modified 9 August 2016 Digital resources Title: Anne Gallagher Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rewriting Aboriginal history through oral history, presented by May O’Brien at the Oral History Association of Australia conference, 19 April 1990. Author Details Clare Land Created 22 October 2002 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1968-2004; Personal papers of Joan Bielski including files, papers presented at conference etc., papers written by Bielski, newscuttings, correspondence, published articles. (Call No.: Box 9 to part of Box 10)?1992-2003; Papers relating to Women into Politics including submissions, correspondence, minutes, material relating to annual dinners, local government elections, and conferences. This material was presented to the Library by Joan Bielski as secretary/agent of Women into Politics. (Call No.: Box 1 to Box 8)?1969-1999; Papers relating to Women’s Electoral Lobby including correspondence, newsletters, material relating to education, child care, women’s welfare, health, abortion and marriage, conferences, discrimination, equal pay, federal elections, the Melinda Leves case and women engineers. (Call No.: Part of Box 10- Box 16)?Charlie Francis Bull, his life and line Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helene Chung is an Australian Chinese, fourth generation Tasmanian who, in 1974, became the first non-white reporter on Australian television. A former Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Beijing correspondent, she was also the first female posted abroad by the ABC. The product of a less than conventional childhood (except, perhaps, the bit where she attended St Mary’s Catholic School for girls in Hobart) Helene Chung’s career in journalism began when she covered what it might be said is the quintessentially Tasmanian story, the alleged sighting of a Tasmanian Tiger. A post graduate student in history at the time, luck and family contacts led to her October 1968 appointment to interview a Sandy Bay butcher, taxi vouchers and tape reorder in hand. The following morning, the interview was broadcast on ABC radio’s national program, AM. ‘A new world opened up,’ she said. ‘Like a stray pup, I’d been tossed a ball by a stranger, caught it in my jaw and now, with tail wagging, I wanted to run with it.’ She ran with it for thirty years, retiring formally from the ABC in 1998. In between times she worked in radio and television; she freelanced and did bureau work in Australia and abroad; for the BBC, CBS, Hong Kong radio, NPR and NZBC; in Europe, Asia and Egypt. She has been witness to, and part of, some of the major changes that have transformed Australian culture and society, from the age of assimilation to the era of multiculturalism. Helene Chung’s childhood, for better or worse, has made her what she is today. It was hard enough growing up Chinese in Hobart in the 1950s, let alone growing up the child of the first Chinese divorce in Tasmania (according to Truth Magazine). Compound that with the embarrassment of having a mother who earned a living through nude modelling for art students at the local technical college and who also lived with a partner who she was not married to, and one can begin to appreciate the challenges. She developed a relatively thick outer skin and dealt with her difference through performance- life at the University of Tasmania for her was as much about acting and directing for the Old Nick Theatre group as it was about her studies, a BA (Hons) in history. She was rarely confronted by the ‘limitations’ created by her Asian face whilst on the stage; although they were rather rudely rammed home one year when she wasn’t cast as Queen Elizabeth in the revue Vote No. And her Chinese identity created troubles for her as well, at times. Relatives warned her that other Asian students complained because she didn’t mix with them. University days were a time when the conflict between her inner and outer selves was, perhaps, at its most pronounced. Upon completing her undergraduate degree, Helene began an MA in history, because she was not quite sure what else it was that she wanted to do. She had a beautiful speaking voice and the capacity to teach, but was told by someone that Australian’s don’t want to be taught English by a Chinese person. The suggestion that she should learn Chinese in order to enhance her career opportunities was regarded as a sign of madness in the family friend who offered it. So dusty volumes of Punch and Hansard dominated her life until the Sandy Bay butcher emerged on the scene. The rest, as they say, is history. Once she metaphorically picked up that journalists ball, she worked as a freelancer for the ABC, three mornings a week, while she completed her MA. She then worked freelance for three years overseas, in Singapore, Hong Kong, London and Cairo, and thus commenced a career characterised by a lot of firsts. In 1971 she made headlines with the first radio interview granted by Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne. (The Melbourne Herald account of the interview entitled it ‘She Put Anne on Tape’.) Back with the ABC, she made them again in 1974 when she switched from radio to television (much to the annoyance of her then manager) and joined This Day Tonight, so becoming the first non-white reporter on Australian television. In 1978, she appeared on the cover of truth when a story broke about the ABC’s intention to remove her from her television post, because she looked too Chinese. The plan to remove her (dubbed the ‘White’ plan, after Derek White, the ABC executive responsible) proved unsuccessful, as the Australian Journalists’ Association and the Commissioner for Community Relations, Al Grassby, ‘rattled their sabres’. She weathered that storm and then went on to be the first woman posted abroad by the ABC, as Beijing correspondent 1983-1986. The ABC had employed women overseas before as freelancers, but they had never actually appointed someone to perform the task and the significance of this was never lost on Helene. During a whirlwind briefing in Sydney, a worried news chief warned, ‘There’s a lot riding on your appointment.’ It was clear that if I failed, it would be a long time before another woman would be given a chance overseas.’ Clearly she did a good enough job for them risk sending other women overseas in later years. The China posting, as well as throwing up extraordinary work opportunities, required Helene to once again confront the identity issues that had troubled her in the past, in an entirely new context. ‘I arrived in China not feeling Chinese but conscious of my Chinese heritage,’ she wrote some years later: ‘However, my role as ABC correspondent almost obliterated any identity I may have felt with the motherland of my ancestors. I never felt more Australia – and less Chinese -than when living in China: I was an alien in the motherland.’ She was a foreigner, she and her husband lived as foreigners, and they were treated as foreigners. She didn’t even make the category of ‘overseas Chinese’. The experience made her conscious of how little she knew about her ancestry; this in turn made her realise how little she really knew about the land of her birth, and how her ancestry fitted into its history. When she returned to Australia, she and her husband spent much time tracing these roots, and the family members she had never met. She also published Shouting From China, which tells of her adventures and tribulations as a foreign correspondent. A 1989 edition includes her coverage of the democracy demonstrations. In 1993, the love of her life, John Martin, died after a battle with cancer. Helene published Gentle John My Love My Loss in 1995 as a private memoir to help her deal with her loss. In 2004 she published an edited collection of his letters home from China, written while she was foreign correspondent, entitled, Lazy man in China. Since losing John and leaving journalism formally, Helene Chung has continued to write and engage with ideas and, very importantly, family. Her most recent publication, Ching Chong China Girl: From fruit shop to foreign correspondent is her most recent, public expression of this engagement. But be careful if you choose to read it. As Helene Chung Martin says , the book should not be read by convent girls not wearing their gloves! Events 1968 - 1998 Published resources Book Ching Chong China Girl: From fruitshop to foreign correspondent, Chung, Helene, 2008 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Helene Chung Martin, journalist and author, interviewed by Diana Giese in the Chinese Australian Oral History Partnership collection [sound recording] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 November 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Comprises documents, letters and notes relating to Mavis Thorpe Clark’s association with International P.E.N., the Australian Society of Authors and the National Book Council. Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Nikki Henningham Created 7 October 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sally Bowen, who lived most of her adult life in Wollongong, was a prominent union, political and community activist. During her life Bowen was involved with Miners’ Women’s Auxiliaries, the Women’s Centre in Wollongong, the Union of Australian Women, the Save Our Sons movement, the Jobs for Women Campaigns and the Environmental Movement. The fourth child and only daughter in the share-farming Phipps family, Sally Bowen’s first job was droving sheep. She later helped her mother run a guest house. For the period of World War II she was employed at Lysagt’s factory, where the Owen Gun was produced. Here she became a shop steward for the Federated Ironworkers. A member of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), she became an organizer of socials and fundraising for the party, the Red Cross and for Soldiers’ Parcels. From 1944 until 1947 Bowen worked for Berlei, leaving to look after her elderly parents. To supplement the special benefit [now carer’s pension] she became a dressmaker and in her spare time participated in CPA activities. During the 1949 coal strike she helped organize activities for children of the striking miners. In 1950 she was elected the secretary of the South Coast District Committee of the CPA. She met her future husband, miner David (Dave) Bowen (died 1984) , when she spoke at Balgownie against Menzies’ referendum to ban the Communist Party. They married in 1954 and had two children. Bowen resigned as district secretary of the CPA in 1955 but remained on the committee, later to become president. She worked with the Women’s Centre in Wollongong and Miners’ Women’s Auxiliaries. It was the auxiliaries that initiated the celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD) on the South Coast in 1938. In 1964 Bowen led a CPA women’s delegation to the USSR. A member of the Save Our Sons movement, Bowen was one of the participants who chained themselves to the railing in the gallery of Parliament House (Canberra). She also demonstrated against Australian Iron and Steel, a subsidiary of BHP, for the Jobs for Women campaigns. Bowen was involved in the environmental movement and was prominent in promoting aged care issues. She became chairperson of the Healthy City Aged Task Force for the South Coast area. In 1994 Bowen recorded her life experiences in the publication A Garland of Poetry. Aged 81, Sally Bowen died at Lawrence Hargrave Hospital, Thirroul on 25 February 1999. Published resources Article Sally Bowen, 1918-1999, http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1999/352/352p4e.htm Book A garland of poetry, Bowen, Sally, [1994] motion picture Kemira: diary of a strike, Zubrycki, Tom (Producer), 1984 Book Section Sally Bowen, 1996 The women of Wollongong, 1984 Sally Bowen: Political and Social Experiences of a Working-Class Woman, Robertson, Sally Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 December 2003 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Rabia Siddique is a criminal and human rights lawyer, a retired British Army officer, a former terrorism and war crimes prosecutor, a professional speaker, trainer, MC, facilitator and published author. In 2006 she was awarded a Queen’s commendation for her human rights work in Iraq and in 2009 was the Runner Up for Australian Woman of the Year UK. More recently Rabia was named as one of the 2014 Telstra Business Women’s Award Finalists and one of the 100 most influential women in Australia by Westpac and the Australian Financial Review. She was also announced as a finalist for the 2016 Australian of the Year Awards. After starting life as a criminal defence lawyer and youngest ever Federal prosecutor in Western Australia, Rabia moved to the UK in 1998 where she eventually commissioned as a Legal Officer in the British Army in 2001. In a terrifying ordeal that garnered worldwide attention, along with a male colleague, Rabia assisted with the rescue of two Special Forces soldiers from Iraqi insurgents in Basra. Her male colleague received a Military Cross for outstanding bravery, while Rabia’s part in the incident was covered up by the British Army and Government. In a fight for justice she brought a landmark discrimination case against the UK Ministry of Defence, and won. She went on to become a Crown Advocate in the British Counter Terrorism Division, which saw her prosecuting Al Qaeda terrorists, hate crimes and advising on war crimes prosecutions in The Hague. Please click on ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Rabia Siddique for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Rabia Siddique and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Rabia Siddique was born in Perth, Australia in 1971 and spent the first five years of her life in India. She is the eldest child of an Indian Muslim father and an Australian mother. In 1976 her family migrated to Perth where she then grew up, was educated and remained until her mid twenties. Rabia’s first experiences of social inequality and injustice were at a young age when she witnessed first-hand the difficulties and discrimination faced by migrants in conservative 1970s suburban Australia. At the tender and vulnerable age of nine she also experienced abuse for the first time, which quickly robbed her of her childhood and her innocence. These experiences undoubtedly informed decisions and choices Rabia later made in life. Rabia obtained a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Western Australia and started her legal career at Legal Aid WA, where she practised predominantly as a criminal defence lawyer. She then moved to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, where she became one of the youngest federal prosecutors in Australia. In 1998 Rabia moved to the United Kingdom with the intention of expanding her legal practice to the fields of International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law. In September 2001, after re-qualifying as Solicitor Advocate of England and Wales and travelling through Eastern Africa, Europe and South America, Rabia commissioned as a Legal Officer in the British Army, a rather unexpected career choice! Her career in the Army took her to England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Germany, Italy and the Middle East. Rabia later became the Army’s recruitment ‘poster girl’ by promoting equality and diversity within the British Armed Forces. In a terrifying ordeal, whilst deployed to Iraq in 2005 Rabia, along with a male colleague, assisted with the rescue of two Special Forces soldiers from Iraqi insurgents during a hostage situation that garnered worldwide attention. After the Iraq hostage incident Rabia’s male colleague was awarded a Military cross for outstanding bravery for his part in the incident, while Rabia’s involvement was covered up by the British Army and Tony Blair’s Government. In her fight for justice she brought a successful landmark race and sex discrimination case against the UK Ministry of Defence. In 2008 Rabia left the British Armed Forces and went on to become a Crown Advocate in the British Counter Terrorism Division of the Crown Prosecution Service, which involved working on some of the most high profile terrorism and hate crime prosecutions, as well as advising on war crimes cases. This role also took Rabia to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. In 2008 Rabia and her husband welcomed their precious triplet sons into the world. Parenting triplets was to become Rabia’s biggest and most rewarding challenge yet! In 2011 Rabia decided to move to back to Australia in order to provide her family with a safe, balanced and healthy lifestyle. So far the return to Australia has not disappointed! Rabia worked as a Senior Government Lawyer and inHouse Counsel for both the Corruption and Crime Commission of WA and more recently Legal Counsel to the Commissioner of WA Police, whilst also juggling tutoring and guest lecturing commitments at the University of WA. In 2014 Rabia transitioned from a part-time to full time professional speaker and facilitator, following the publication of her best-selling book, ‘Equal Justice’. In a relatively short period of time Rabia has gained an International reputation as a passionate human rights advocate and inspiring motivational speaker. She has appeared in various television, print and radio interviews in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and the focus of her career is now on promoting Women in Leadership, resilience, values based leadership, equality and diversity in our workplaces and communities. She is passionate about the transformative effect of education, particular for girls, and sees education as the vaccine against oppression, violence and ignorance. Rabia speaks English, French (conversational), Spanish (poorly) and Arabic (worse)! She has run the London marathon and walked a one and a half marathon for charity, undertaken human rights and community aid work in the Middle East, South America, South East Asia and Australia, was awarded a Queen’s Commendation for her humanitarian work in Iraq in 2006 and was Runner Up Australian Woman of the Year UK in 2009. In 2014 Rabia was a finalist in the Telstra Australian Business Women’s Awards and was named as one of Australia’s 100 most influential women. In October last year Rabia received a standing ovation from 1700 people at her TEDx talk entitled ‘Courage Under Fire’ where she spoke about the power we all have as individuals to create the change we wish to see in this world. In March 2015 Rabia was nominated for the WA Women Lawyer of the Year Award and the work she has done in the area of equality and diversity was used as a case study at the most recent UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York. Rabia is a member of the Australian and British Red Cross, UN Women Australia, Law Society of Western Australia Equal Opportunities and Human Rights Committee, an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (WA) and a member of the International Institute for Humanitarian Law. She is also an Ambassador of a number of Women and Children’s based charities and a Board Member of Wesley College, Perth. Rabia was recently appointed as a Director of the International Foundation of Non-Violence. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Equal Justice: My Journey As A Woman, A Soldier And A Muslim, Siddique, Rabia, 2013 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Rabia Siddique Created 19 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Rabia Siddique Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letters to Hazel de Berg, 1960-1967, most of which concern her interviewing of artists, writers, etc.; Address book and lists of appointments for interviews; Literary manuscripts by Rodney A. Milgate: ‘Eleven poems’, ‘Inside Outside or Fifteen Poems etc.’; and by Mary Lisle: ‘Memoried Ways’, typescript poem (1 p.); ‘Out west its worse’ feature written and produced for ABC radio by John Thompson. Annotated photocopies (mostly invitations to art exhibitions and catalogues of exhibitions); Includes notes on recordings, interview notes, newspaper cuttings, handwritten indexes to recordings and lists of people interviewed; Correspondents include the National Library of Australia, Daryl Lindsay, Ray Lawler, Patrick White, and Ian Fairweather. Author Details Clare Land Created 22 October 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Hon. Catherine Branson QC grew up in rural South Australia and went on to have a distinguished career in the law. The first woman in Australia (and probably in the common law world) to be appointed Crown Solicitor, she was also the first woman to be appointed permanent head of a government department in South Australia. Called to the South Australian Bar in 1989, Branson took silk in 1992. An appointment to the Federal Court of Australia followed in 1994; she served on the bench until 2008. In 2008, Branson became President of the Australian Human Rights Commission and in 2009 she was appointed Human Rights Commissioner. Since retiring from the Commission in 2012, Branson has continued to work in the area of human rights at a number of organisations, including the University of Adelaide Law School, where she is Adjunct Professor, and the Melbourne-based Human Rights Law Centre, of which she is Director. Catherine Branson was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. The Hon. Catherine Branson QC was raised on a farm near Hallett in the mid-north of South Australia. Her parents, Max and Barbara Rayner, brought her up to be resilient, independent and community-minded [Wright]. She was educated at Presbyterian Girls’ College (now Seymour College) and the University of Adelaide, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws and later, a Bachelor of Arts. As a young woman, she was inspired by Roma Mitchell, who had recently become the first woman in Australia to be appointed to the judiciary, and by Mary Gaudron, who was Solicitor-General New South Wales and would later become the first woman to serve on the bench of the High Court of Australia [Lawyers Weekly]. In 1972, following a stint in which she tutored at the University of Adelaide’s Law School, Branson travelled to the United States and undertook voluntary legal aid work in Pontiac, Michigan. This experience, which brought her face-to-face with extreme social disadvantage borne by her mostly African-American clients, sparked what would be a lasting interest in human rights [Adelaidean]. Returning to Australia in 1973, Branson began articles of clerkship and completed her arts degree. In 1977 she entered the Department of Legal Services in South Australia, taking up a role as research assistant with the then Solicitor-General, Brian Cox QC. A year later, Branson, practising as a solicitor, joined the Crown Solicitor’s Office. Interested in gender and equal opportunity, she became a member of the National Women’s Advisory Council, advising the Prime Minister on matters concerning women. In 1984, Branson made history when a dual appointment saw her became the first woman in Australia to be appointed Crown Solicitor and the first woman to be appointed as permanent head of a government department in South Australia. She had not expected to be made the offer, and now sees it as transformative in terms of her later career [Lawyers Weekly]. Branson was called to the South Australian Bar in Adelaide in 1989; in her practice she specialised in administrative law, including discrimination law, and commercial law. In 1992, she took silk. An appointment to the Federal Court of Australia followed in 1994. During her time on the bench, Branson presided over a number of significant cases, which included the Yorta Yorta appeal for a native title claim and the Wilderness Society’s appeal on Gunns’ pulp mill in Tasmania. Branson also delivered many papers addressing equality and gender issues, and the under-representation of women in positions of power. Branson served as President of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration between 1998-2000. Her interest in judicial administration and education resulted in her travelling to a number of developing countries, including the Palestinian Territories, Indonesia and Pakistan [Trove] to work with local judges. Branson retired from the Federal Court in 2008. In 2008 Branson was appointed President of the Australian Human Rights Commission. The following year she was appointed Human Rights commissioner. In her capacity as commissioner she expressed her support for a federal charter of rights and was signatory to the Australian Council of Human Rights Agencies support for civil marriage for same-sex couples; she also appealed for mandatory detention and offshore processing on Christmas Island to cease [Pelly; HRC; On Line Opinion]. Branson’s involvement with the Human Rights Commission saw her participation in human rights matters in the broader Asia region. During her presidency she travelled to Vietnam to attend an Australia-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue and to the Philippines to deliver the keynote address at the Australia-Philippines Policy Forum on Human Rights [Philippines Embassy]. Branson has been a strong voice for those who suffer due to discrimination or disability, among them asylum seekers, children in mandatory immigration detention and Indigenous Australians. She has spoken out on the subject of violence against women and the under-representation of women in positions of power in Australia. In recognition of her tireless work as an advocate for equality, Branson was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Adelaide for her contribution to Australian Law and Human Rights in 2011 [Adelaidean – Award]. Branson retired as president of the Australian Human Rights Commission in 2012. Her dedication to human rights in Australian society continues to find expression in a number of arenas, including at the Law School, University of Adelaide, where she is Adjunct Professor, and at Melbourne’s Human Rights Law Centre, of which she is Director. In addition to being a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, Branson is a member of the Council of the University of Adelaide; a Board member of Cancer Council SA; a member of the Advisory Board, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law; patron, NeuroSurgical Research Foundation and the Palya Fund; chair, South Australian Selection Panel, General Sir John Monash Scholarships; and a member of the Advisory Board, Public Law and Policy Research Unit, Adelaide Law School. In 2012 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by Flinders University in recognition of her ‘long and esteemed career in the law’ and in 2014 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Macquarie University for her services as a passionate advocate and supporter of human rights [Macquarie]. Branson has been quoted as advocating for a visionary society which “allows individuals the freedom to live responsible and fulfilling lives irrespective of gender” [Kenny]. She has been, and will continue to be, an inspiration to many in our society. Catherine Branson was interviewed in 2014 and 2015 by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Catherine Branson interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 21 June 2018 Digital resources Title: Catherine Branson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Contents include minutes books, correspondence, financial records, and pictorial material. Author Details Jane Carey Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photographs of the Ilona, Frank and Charles Hrubos aboard the “Anna Salem 2” enroute to Australia; written and photographic record of her family and life, entitled “Looking back on my life ; Looking for the roots of the family tree.” Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 August 2006 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 6422 consists of editorial correspondence with Australian and overseas poets, original manuscripts in all the stages through to publication in New poetry or by Prism Books, material relating to the leaflet/magazine Beyond poetry, and the series of poetry readings at the Opera House, and minutes of meetings of the Poetry Society of Australia, covering the years 1973-1976 when Cheryl Creatrix was secretary. There are also papers of the poetry tour of American poet Robert Duncan (12 boxes).??The Acc04.045 instalment comprises papers dating from 1973 to 2001 that include correspondence, articles, curriculum vitae, applications for jobs and grants, drafts of poetry, photographs, ephemera and publications. Correspondents include the poets Robert Adamson, Max Williams, Phil Collier, George Alexander and American poet Robert Creeley. There are also letters by Kevin Gilbert, David Gulpilil and Kate Lilly (Dorothy Hewett’s daughter). Other correspondents include Jane Abbey, Viki Dun, Edward Kaplan, Peter Rosson, Dennis Oliver, Andrew Moors, Daniel Arthur, Chris Edwards and Mark William Wilson (1 large carton).??The Acc08.136 instalment comprises photographs, correspondence (letters, cards and postcards), press clippings, exhibition catalogues, publications of poetry, including by Cheryl Creatrix, Robert Adamson and others, and copies of poetry journals edited by Creatrix (3 boxes).??The Acc10.157 instalment contains an array of manuscript material including complete and incomplete poems and stories, cartoons, postcards, correspondence, monographs, journals, photographs and negatives. A variety of themes are covered in the material. Some editions of New poetry from the 1970s are included with poems and articles by Rodney Hall, David Campbell and Robert Adamson, as well as an extensive amount of personal correspondence, notably a group of letters from the actor David Gulpilil. In addition, a number of personalised cartoons by Geraldine Searles are held in the accession (5 boxes, 1 fol. Packet).??The Acc10.178 instalment comprises photographs including of David Gulpilil, Robert Adamson, Peter Scheldahl, Greg Kirk, Jane Abbey; postcards and correspondence including from David Gulpilil, Frank Baarda, Chris Males, Dennis Gallagher, Bob Nangalala; three notebooks of poems, notes and drawings; various writings including poetry and short stories; birth and marriage certificates, as well as various ephemera relating to music, events and funerals (3 packets).??The Acc11.037 instalment comprises photographs including of Dorothy Porter, Chris Edwards, Nawal el Saadawi and a proof sheet of portrait shots of Robert Adamson and Cheryl Creatrix, 1975; a postcard from Murray Bail, 1980; and cuttings relating to David Gulpilil, ca. 1971 (1 packet).??The Acc11.057 instalment comprises ten slides which include images of Robert Adamson and Robert Harris (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "ca. 1940-; Notebooks (4) containing poetry, short stories and autobiographical writing by Nancy Keesing, together with copies of poems by other poets transcribed by Nancy Keesing. Short stories include The Dark room and Culture for the kids (Call No.: MLMSS 2828 ADD-ON 2091/1)?1940-; Miscellaneous literary papers. Includes copies of poems by other poets typed or written by Nancy Keesing, and poem signed by Elsie Carew.?Undated; Poems by Nancy Keesing. Includes Themes for love songs and Elemental night?undated; Short stories. Titles: Whose body?, The Strange thing that happened to Mrs Harrison, Psychic Griselda, Old cloudyhead, The Face, ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave…’, In the still of the night, The Frog in the bath-waste, Hobson’s choice, Unwillingly from school, The Way home, Dinner engagement, by ‘Florence King’?1955, undated; Radio scripts. Scripts for programmes about shearing songs, songs of the convict era and contemporary New Zealand poetry (Call No.: MLMSS 2828 ADD-ON 2091/2)?1964, undated; Articles and speeches. Includes articles about Ernest Favenc, Australian bush ballads and social workers; poem/speech for the English Association, 1964?1983, 1995; Design sketch, photographs and artist’s statement by Elisabeth Nagel, designer of the wallhanging presented by Nancy Keesing to Neptune Orient Line in 1984?1982-1989; Correspondence and research notes concerning Jewish history. Includes photographs taken by Nancy Keesing in 1982 of St Christopher’s Chapel near Rockhampton, Qld?1956-1992; Letters received by Nancy Keesing. Correspondents include Peter Opie and Elsie Carew. Includes poems by Elsie Carew (Call No.: MLMSS 2828 ADD-ON 2091/3 RESTRICTED)?1978-1996; Letters received by Mark Hertzberg concerning Nancy Keesing. Includes letter written by Nancy Keesing in 1978 concerning her biography of John Shaw Neilson (Call No.: MLMSS 2828 ADD-ON 2091/3 RESTRICTED)?1995; Papers concerning The Woman I Am: poems by Nancy Keesing selected and introduced by Meg Stewart (published 1995), being mainly letters received by Mark Hertzberg following the publication of the book (Call No.: MLMSS 2828 ADD-ON 2091/3 RESTRICTED)?June 1981; Cassette recording of Nancy Keesing interviewed by Mike Carlton on 2GB radio. Nancy discusses research for her book Lily on the dustbin: slang of Australian women and families (published 1982) (Call No.: MLOH 253/1) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "30 minutes??Gwendolyn Wilmot Griffiths talks about her family, schooling at MLC and Girton, holidays at Robe, studying music, travel to England, photography course at the London Polytechnic, working at the BBC, marriage to James Wilmot Griffiths, World War II, children, move back to Adelaide, husband the warden at St Barnabas College, return to England, move back to Adelaide when husband retired, Lyceum Club, flower ladies, embroidery circle, living in Adelaide. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Folders contain material relating to issues of interest to Issy Wyner occurring with Leichhardt Municipality, 1965-1994.??Box 83/1/1: Development – Balmain (Cush & Co site): Various documents reports and newspaper articles relating to the use of land bounded by Mullens, Parsons, Crescent and Mansfield Streets, Rozelle. Includes Council report, Item 2452, 12.02.1974 on H.H. Cush & Co. Pty Ltd, sawmillers, case makers and wood processors, requesting the rezoning of land bounded by Mullens, Parsons, Crescent and Mansfield Streets, Rozelle; Use of property by Lockrey & Cooper Hoardings Pty, Ltd. (owners Sydney County Council), on the corner of Mullens & Parsons Streets, Rozelle (1989); Petitions from local residents objecting to proposed development of site, 1-13 Parsons Street, 183-189 Mullens Street, Rozelle (1989); Council reports on the illegal use of the premises by Lockrey & Cooper for the storage, distribution, hiring and retail of timber hoardings, timber and other building material and the decision that Council institute proceedings in the Land & Environment Court (1990); Documents from the Rozelle Valley Residents Group re proposed auction of land on the corner of Mullens & Parsons Street, Rozelle in 12.03.1991; Council reports on the proposed rezoning of the land to allow residential development, open space and commercial activities (1992-1993), 1974, 1989-1994.??Box 83/1/2: Development – Balmain (51 Reynolds Street, Balmain): Correspondence and photographs re Council’s objection to the installation of an arched window at the premises, 1991.??Box 83/1/3: Development – Balmain (3 James Street, Balmain): Correspondence and photographs of submission to Issy Wyner from the owner of 3 James Street re proposed extensions to his residential property, 1988.??Box 83/2: Balmain Jazz & Blues Festival: Various documents including Council reports, newspaper articles and publicity material on the planning and conduct on the Balmain Jazz & Blues Festival, 25-27.03.1994.??Box 83/3: 10 Hancock Street, Rozelle: Various council documents, reports and newspaper articles on proposals of use of 8-10 Hancock Street, Rozelle (owned by State Transit) as a car park (1992) and proposal by Barcham (Balmain & Rozelle Chamber of Commerce) to purchase the buildings and land they occupy and restore the buildings (1994). Report tabled at an Extraordinary Meeting of Leichhardt Council, 07.02.1995 contains details of Barcham’s proposal, copy of a contamination report prepared by Analchem Bioassay Pty. Ltd, December 1994 and reports on application for a photographic studio on the site (1995).??Box 83/4: Balmain Association: Various reports, correspondence, minutes of meetings, publicity material and newspaper articles re issues of interest to the Balmain Association. Includes Council report on the National Trust’s request that area occupied by Dickson, Primer & Co. Pty. Ltd. and adjacent areas at Balmain East be rezoned as residential and that the house “Ewenton” be preserved as an historic building (1963); Correspondence to Issy Wyner, 06.11.1965 advising of a public meeting held at Balmain Town Hall 04.11.1965 with purpose of forming an association of residents and others interested in the district and attaching a list of the aims of the association to be known as the Balmain Association; Minutes of the Historical Sub-Committee; Eighth Annual report, August 1973; Typescript document, “Cockatoo Island : early days”; 1965-1989.??Box 83/5: Newspaper articles: Newspaper articles on various issues on interest occurring within Leichhardt Municipality, 1990-1995.??Box 83/6: Local issues: Various miscellaneous documents and newspaper articles. Includes an issue of “Rank Comment”, No 5, 1975/1 with article “Time to act at Leichhardt”; Correspondence from The Creative Leisure Movement with attached “potted history” of the movement, 1977; Copy of document, “A Council in operation” providing a comparison of procedures at Leichhardt council 1971-1974 with 1974-1977; Copy of “Tranby”, Vol. 1, No 1 containing a selection of material written by the students of Tranby Aboriginal Co-Operative, 1978; Newspaper article on Spike Milligan’s appearance at the Balmain Bijou theatre in 1976; Newspaper articles and Council report on Leichhardt Council’s investment with Nugan Hand Bank, 1980 and Municipality of Leichhardt Information to ratepayers leaflets for 1978, 1980,1981, 1975-1991.??Box 83/7: Bound volume: Contains material on ANL operations at Mort Bay and associated issues including traffic and pollution. Includes reports, newspaper articles and photographs, 1974-1975.??Collection donated by Isadore (Issy) Wyner (1916-2008) to Leichhardt Library, Balmain branch in November 2007. Mr Wyner served as an alderman on Leichhardt Council 1959-1974, 1977-1980, 1984-1991. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "45 minutes??Jean Cook talks about her childhood in Quorn, her parents, Hans Heyson, living in Perth, return to Adelaide, joining the Lyceum Club, music studies, teaching music, teaching at Girton, English Embroiderers’ Guild, embroidering the Coat of Arms for the new Law Courts, party at the Law Courts, and the embroidery circle in the Lyceum Club. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers, 1946-1988; comprising correspondence, papers, minutes, reports and submissions, arising out of surveys, consultations, forums and reviews on the topics of welfare services and social services in Victoria. Additional material covers the provision of social services in other states and other organisations and government departments working in the field. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Mary Goddé grew up on a farm in Western Victoria and put her experience driving tractors to good use when she joined he Australian Women’s Army Service on 8 September 1943. After her marriage in 1947, she moved to Myrtleford, in north-eastern Victoria, where she played a significant role in the Catholic Women’s League. Born in Port Fairy, Victoria, Mary Goddé (née Pye) grew up in the sheep raising district of Bessibelle in Victoria’s western district. She attended the local school leaving at the age of 14 to undertake domestic work. Pye along with her younger sister Irene (later Heywood), enlisted in the Australian Women’s Army Service on 8 September 1943. Four of the six children of Timothy and Catherine (née Cain) Pye, Joseph, Leonard, Mary and Irene, served with the Australian Army during World War II. Sister Monica (later Wilson) rode her older brother Joseph’s motorbike and completed his Post Master Generals’ Department (now Australia Post) mail contract during his army service. Younger brother Basil, stayed on the family farm to help produce much needed food products for the local and overseas markets. Mary and Irene completed basic training together before Mary Pye joined the transport division as a driver. In later years she would vividly recall the loading and unloading of army vehicles at railway stations. The army trucks arrived at the station on flat tray trucks, that were a couple of feet above the platform level. There were no synchromesh gears in those days, and Mary had to become quite skilled at double-declutching in first gear and riding the clutch, to be able to smoothly drive the large trucks off the flat tray to the ground below. Following her discharge, on 30 January 1947, Pye married farmer Charles (Charlie) Goddé on 18 December 1947. Goddé, who worked with his father on a dairy farm near Wodonga, Victoria, first noticed his future wife walking along the road, when he was delivering milk to the Bonegilla Army Camp. They eventually met at one of the local dances, and after marrying lived at farming proprieties in Wodonga, Buffalo River and Mudegoggona areas, before settling in the township of Myrtleford. Having never lost her love of country living, a house on the edge of town was chosen so Goddé could look out her back kitchen window and watch the farm animals grazing. Along with her sister, Goddé joined the Australian Women’s Army Service Association (Vic.) Inc. when established during the 1950s. She enjoyed attending the Association reunions whenever she was able. For many years Goddé also was secretary of the Catholic Women’s League Myrtleford branch. Mary Goddé died on 22 January 2000 and is survived by her husband and five of their six children. At her funeral members of the Catholic Women’s League formed a guard of honour, the Ode was read and a lone bugler played the Last Post. Published resources Resource Section PYE, MARY, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=617909 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Jane Wilkinson Created 17 October 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9943 comprises correspondence between Miriam Hyde and composer Geoffrey Allen regarding publication by his company, Keys Press, of various of her compositions (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Australian Greek Welfare Society (AGWS) was established in Melbourne in 1972 with the aim of lobbying for the rights of migrants and their children, and to improve services in the area of education, health, welfare, child care and language services. It’s continuing purpose is to empower members of the Australian-Greek community to reach their full potential, by undertaking service provision, advocacy, policy development and research in an innovative, culturally and linguistically appropriate manner. The AGWS is not a women’s organisation; nevertheless it has significant female representation in its executive and on its board and has historically advocated on behalf of women and their interests. The Australian Greek Welfare Society (AGWS) was established in 1972 as an outgrowth of the welfare subcommittee of the Greek Professional’s Association. Politically neutral from the outset, the AGWS differentiated itself from other organisations representing Greek-Australians in both aims and style; it existed to lobby ‘overtly and aggressively’ from a rights-based platform. While existing Greek-Australian communal and Church organisations were ‘defensively ethnic and more inward looking’ in their orientation and operations, AGWS was outward focused and political, not in terms of party allegiance but in terms of promoting public debate about important multicultural issues. The organisation has been very influential at times when crucial debates about ethnicity and multiculturalism have been running in the community at large. During the 1977 Federal election campaign, it was one of only a few ethnic organisations visited by the leaders of the three key political parties, a key measure of its influence at a time when multicultural issues were being placed on the national agenda. Some early AGWS initiatives directed towards the needs of women include the establishment of a child care centre and before and after school care programs. Further specific service development relevant to the women’s area was the establishment, after extensive lobbying, of a marital guidance counselling position at the agency in 1981. From 1981-86 the agency was able to continue the running of this programme which met the very specific needs of the Greek community. Related to this, the AGWS also provided important counselling and information services for single parents who, in the Greek community bore the stigma of divorce and separation, as well as the loneliness and isolation experienced by single parents in the broader Australian community. Published resources Resource Australian Greek Welfare Society: Twenty Years, Australian Greek Welfare Society, 2006, http://agws.com.au/history.asp Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Report Greek Women of the Mass Migration Period Today, Australian Greek Welfare Society, 1988 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Inscriptions: signed “To Mr. Stringer, With Many Thanks. Sincerely, Marilyn Jones” in lower right. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 20 November 2002 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of Mrs Amy Wheaton, Director of Social Studies, University of Adelaide. Comprising 3 volumes of press cuttings relating to social welfare and social studies Author Details Clare Land Created 19 November 2002 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour??Merla Garrett was born at Sudan, near the Barossa Valley. She attended Immanuel Lutheran College for secondary schooling and in 1951 began training at the Memorial Hospital and later did midwifery training in Hobart. After two years overseas she worked in Sydney and then Mount Pleasant. In 1962 she left South Australia for Papua New Guinea where she served as a missionary nurse for 18 years. During this time she studied at the College of Nursing, Australia (Queensland Branch) and qualified as a tutor sister. Since 1981 Merla has been a lecturer at the School of Nursing, Sturt College (now Flinders University of South Australia). Her extra curricular activities include several assignments with the World Health Organization. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc11.056 comprises three letters to Malcolm Southwell from Miriam Hyde, and two original music manuscripts by Miriam Hyde titled “Seven Piano Pieces for Malcolm Southwell” and “My First Schoolday: a suite of ten easy pieces for left hand”. These pieces were commissioned for Southwell as a child to accommodate for his lack of a right hand (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Described as ‘one of our greatest and unluckiest’ athletes, Marlene Mathews set a world record of 10.3 seconds for the 100 yard sprint in 1958. Her best times for the 100 metres and 200 metres, set over forty years ago, would have won both titles at the 2005 Australian Athletics Championships were they repeated. Having missed selection for the 1952 Olympic Games due to a leg injury, Mathews was selected for the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Canada, only to be forced to withdraw from sprint events due to injury once again. Two years later, she was able to compete at the Olympic Games in Melbourne and won bronze in the 100 metres and 200 metres behind Australia’s Betty Cuthbert and Germany’s Christa Stubnick – though many expected her to win. Disappointingly, Mathews was not selected for the 4x100m relay team that year. The team, comprising Shirley Strickland, Norma Croker, Fleur Mellor and Betty Cuthbert, won gold. At a post-Olympics meeting, Mathews was part of a relay team that broke world records for both the 4×220 yards and 4×200 metres. In 1957, Mathews set the inaugural world record times for the 440 yards and 400 metres. The following year she set her world record of 10.3 seconds for the 100 yards sprint (breaking the 10.4 second record held jointly by Betty Cuthbert and Marjorie Jackson) and of 23.4 seconds for the 220 yards (breaking Cuthbert’s 23.5 second record). She is reputed to have run a ‘wind-assisted 10.1 seconds’ in the 100 yards at the Australian titles. Mathews went on to win the 100 yards and 220 yards at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Wales in 1958. She ran in the relay team that won silver in the 4×110 yards relay. After making the semi-finals in the 100 metres at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, Mathews retired from competition and took up an administrative role. She was an Assistant Manager of the Australian Olympic Team at the Olympics in Munich in 1972. Marlene Mathews became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1979 for her services to athletics, and an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1999. A Trustee of the Sydney Cricket Ground, she is recognised in its Walk of Honour. Mathews was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985. Born in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1934, Marlene Mathews was a prodigiously talented junior athlete who went on to become one of Australia’s best, but most unlucky, sprinters. Developing as an athlete throughout the 1940s, she ran against such stars as Marjorie Jackson and Shirley Strickland. She was a serious contender for Olympic team selection in 1952 at the age of eighteen after some impressive racing during the 1950-51 season, including coming second in the 100y at the New South Wales Championships, behind Marjorie Jackson but ahead of Shirley Strickland. She followed this up by setting a junior record for the race in March 1951, a feat that saw her place on the team virtually guaranteed. Unfortunately, she suffered a severe muscle tear injury at the beginning of the 1951-52 season which ruled her out of competition and prevented her from regaining top form for another three years. Bad luck struck again in 1954 at the Empire Games in Vancouver when she badly pulled a muscle in her heat of the 100y. She withdrew from all competition, running in the relay team which was regarded as an unbeatable gold medal favourite. Despite this series of disappointments, Mathews was determined to get fit enough to compete at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956. Reigning Olympic and Empire Games champion Marjorie Jackson had now retired, and Mathews was regarded as her successor; her window of opportunity was about to open. Everything seemed to be going to plan throughout 1955-56. She was running fast times, even equalling Jackson’s 220y world record time of 24.0 in March 1956; it all appeared to be an excellent lead up to the Olympic Games. Despite this, she performed well below expectation at the 1956 National Championships held in Brisbane. She came third in the 100y, behind Wendy Hayes and veteran Shirley Strickland and second in the 220y behind a new rival, Betty Cuthbert. Admittedly, the conditions in Brisbane did not suit Mathews; it was rainy and slippery, and even ay the best of times she much preferred to run on a hard track. But from that point until the Olympics, it seemed like she was always playing catch up to the rising talent of Cuthbert. This time she made it to an international competition without suffering debilitating injury. She was fit, firing and, after winning her semi-final, favourite to win the 100m. In her own words, ‘she felt better than she had felt in a long time’. Inexplicably, she fluffed the start in the final – nerves got the better of her and unfortunately she chose that particular time to fail in, what she called her ‘application to the task’. ‘The gun went, and I just saw bottoms in front of me go off before it had actually registered that the gun had gone off.’ She managed to make up the ground she let slip away in the first fifty meters in the second fifty and run third. Her disappointment was compounded when she ran third in the 200m. Cuthbert won both events, while Germany’s Christa Stubnik ran second. In retrospect, Mathews now realises that not winning made a better person of her. It helped her to realise that ‘unless you really apply yourself, it’s not going to fall into place.’ She said that ‘after that my whole attitude changed’. She never got beaten in the 100m by Betty Cuthbert again. Mathews thought her disappointment at the Melbourne Olympics was over once she had finished her individual events, because, barring a poor baton change, her chances of gold in the 4 x100m relay were extremely high. Sadly, the worst was yet to come. To this day, Mathews does not know why she was not selected to run in the relay, although she does know that not being selected was the ‘most bitter pill I ever had to swallow’. Fleur Mellor didn’t make the final of the 100y at the Australian Championships in March or the Australian Olympic trials in October, but she was selected to run instead of Mathews. The decision was controversial, no official explanation was offered at the time, but those who made it considered themselves vindicated when the team, comprising Mellor, Betty Cuthbert, Shirley Strickland and Queenslander Norma Croker won the gold in world record time. At the time, there were rumours that in some quarters, Mathews had developed a reputation as a poor relay runner. Given that she had more top level relay running experience than most other Australian women sprinters, this seems an unlikely explanation. Perhaps there is something in the story that Fleur Mellor had been personally mentored by one of the officials who made the decision, Nell Gould. Whatever the reason, Mathews was deeply cut by the decision. I stood up in that stand watching the race, tears were pouring down my face, and I was actually wishing the English girls would win it. I’d never felt so cheated in all my life. What hurts is that except for Shirley Strickland and Betty Cuthbert, the other two girls became Olympic gold medallists, and they’d never done anything else. All they did was run in that relay. It still hurts deep down. After the Olympics, Mathews hit some of the best form of her life. She won at the National Championships, creating world records in the 400m and 440y events in 1957, and the 110y and 220y events in 1958. In 1960, she seemed primed for a good Olympic campaign in Rome, proving herself fit after suffering another soft tissue injury early in the year. It was not a great time for the Australian women’s track and field team. Mathews later said that it was the first time they realised how disadvantaged they were geographically in terms of their training. Coming from the Australian winter to a Roman summer was an enormous shock to the system, and the lack of top line competition to race against in the lead up left them underprepared. ‘Betty and I thought we were running reasonably well until we got over there,’ she says, ‘We hadn’t had that top class international racing competition to really finish us off.’ Her performance in exhibition events in the months afterwards, in England and in Africa suggests that she might have a point; ‘the more they ran, the better they got’, including running second to the Olympic Champion, Wilma Rudolph in London. Mathews finished her running career a winner, running in Africa in 1961 as part of the celebrations for Nigerian independence and winning the 100m. Married for four years, she decided that it was a good time to hang up her shoes and start a family. She had three boys in quick succession and moved into a new suburban development in Sydney’s ‘Hills’ area. There were no athletics clubs in the area, so she started her own. This inevitably brought her back into the fold of athletics at a state level. In 1965, she returned to the new South Wales Amateur Athletics Association (NSWAAA) as an official starter; two years later she became an executive member of the NSWAAA. At the same time, through the club she had formed, she started to try her hand at coaching and sports teaching. Mathews loved being a runner, but focusing on her track career in the 1950s had come at the expense of her education. Around the time she was training for the 1952 Olympics, family friends encouraged her parents allow her to leave school and concentrate on her athletics training. ‘She’ll get more education if she’s fortunate enough to travel the world with athletics then she would staying here and doing her leaving’, they advised. So she left school at the end of fifth year, didn’t get her leaving certificate and, as it turned out, didn’t get to go to Helsinki. At the time, this didn’t worry her, but later in life she realised she was envious of her friends who had gone on to teachers college to become physical education teachers. She desperately wanted teach sport and encourage young athletes, but without formal qualifications, her options were limited. Her chance came in 1968 when a local catholic school offered her the position of sports mistress while the regular teacher was on leave. A number of the girls from the school were members of her athletics club and she had developed a good reputation for her coaching and teaching amongst the parents in the area. Plus, she freely acknowledges that her name still carried some kudos. The position at the school offered her a foot in the door to a new career, Sadly, that particular teaching experience didn’t quite live up to her expectations. Neither the students or staff took an interest in the classes, or in physical fitness in general. It was an uphill battle just trying to get them to participate. But the experience did teach her a lot about girls’ attitudes to sport and fitness. These insights would be developed the longer she stayed involved in coaching. In time, her understanding of the NSWAAA administrative structure combined with her understanding of how an athlete’s mind works saw her being offered a position in 1972 as the Assistant Manager (Women) of the Australian Team at the Munich Olympic games. In 1973 she was offered a position as Athletics Coach with the Rothmans Sports Foundation, a position that involved taking on responsibility for the newly formed Australian Track and Field Coaches Association. The significance of her breaking into these roles, at this time, cannot be underestimated. Sports management and coaching remain male dominated areas of the sports industry, although numbers have improved since Mathews started out. It’s very important for women to be present she says; there are simply some things that young girls starting out would not feel comfortable talking about with male coaches, the obvious thing being the impact of her menstrual cycle on her track performance. But there are also attitudinal differences that a female coach can bring to the table. Dawn Fraser, for instance, believed that some of her problems arose when she was competing because all the officials were men who expected the young female swimmers in their charge to be totally submissive while allowing a different standard of behaviour from the men. Yet top class athletes by definition are not ‘wired’ to submit. In Mathews terms, they need more that a will to win, they need a killer instinct. Sometimes the same drive that took them to the top in their sport also produced wilful behaviour, behaviour that was regarded as masculine, and therefore inappropriate in women, in the eyes of officials. Mathews argues that women have to be involved at this level, in order to educate men and show the range of behaviours and achievements that women athletes, even the ‘bolshy’ ones, are capable of. In an ideal world, then, there would be many more female coaches and involved in all forms of sport, not just athletics. In theory, there are no workplace barriers to their involvement; indeed, the obstacles confronting women who want to be officials and coaches are more likely to be found in the home. Mathews experience of professional coaching is that it is a ‘full-time job, seven days a week’. There are schedules to be drawn, research to be done into the latest techniques, consultations with doctors and parents, paperwork to complete; the task list goes on. Then, of course, there are the daily coaching sessions to run. Most women with families can’t spend six nights a week down at the track, unless they have exceptionally supportive husbands and organisational structures to support them. ‘I used to race home from work, throw the dinner on the table and go down to the track,’ says Mathews, ‘There was no life with my family, and in the end there was no life for me either.’ Eventually, the life took its toll on her marriage. Her first husband, although very helpful in terms of caring for the children while she was at work, came to resent the time she spent away from her family. ‘Travelling and things like that broadened my outlook on life,’ she said, but her husband became increasingly threatened by this person who did not conform to his expectations of what a wife and mother should be. Mathews could not stay at home; she was riddled with guilt on occasions because this meant leaving her family for long stretches of time, and she was sad that her husband came to hate the public recognition she received through her continued involvement in sport. Ultimately, however, she believed that if she hadn’t coached and worked in the sport she loved, she would have been a dreadfully unhappy person. She could have ‘submitted’ and given into the expectation that she would be a stay at home wife and mother, but when it became clear to her that this would only make her family situation worse, not better, she stopped feeling guilty. ‘I was given a talent, I made the most of my talent, why should I have to apologise for it?’ she asks. Very few male track and field athletes or coaches would have even thought to ask that question in the first place. Mathews is to be admired not only for her exceptional talent as an athlete, but for her bravery in moving into a field where being a man was virtually a prerequisite to success and, when challenged, unapologetically defending her right to be there, and not in the kitchen. Events 1956 - 1956 Athletics – 100m and 100m events 1960 - 1960 Competed in Rome 1958 - 1958 Athletics – 100y and 220y 1979 - 1979 Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) ‘for service to the sport of athletics’ 1999 - 1999 Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) ‘for service to athletics and sports administration, particularly through the Australian Track and Field Coaches Association, and to the community’ 2001 - 2001 Awarded an Australian Sports Medal for ‘services to the Olympic Movement – Administrator – QLD Olympic Icon’ Published resources Article Lithe teenager our first gold medallist, 1956, http://150.theage.com.au/ Edited Book A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia's Sporting Life, Cliff, Paul, 1999 Book Winning Women: Challenging the Norms in Australian Sport, Mitchell, Susan, 1985 Resource Athletics Gold: Track and Field Athletics in Australia, Thomas, Graham, 1996, http://www.geocities.com/geetee/index.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Marlene Mathews interviewed by Neil Bennetts [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Marlene Mathews (Aust.) winning heat of 100 m. (W) in 11.5 sec. equalling the Olympic record, Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games [transparency] / Gerard Sellars Princess Alexandra greets Australian athletes [picture] / Australian News & Information Bureau photograph by John Tanner Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 January 2007 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc02.093 comprises diaries Terese Moore kept from 1955-1998 recording day-to-day activities and her extensive travels when she lived in America and Europe. The collection also includes a selection of letters from son Peter, 1950-1959, family and friends, 1984-1988, while in the United States from 1949-1951 and letters from her husband while at war, 1942-1945. There are also papers relating to Moore’s involvement with the Canberra Repertory Society, of which she became a life member, dating from before the Second World War (1 box, 6 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 28 min.)??Dyer, a company director and farmer, speaks of her family, her childhood, her background as a teacher, starting on the farm as a bookkeeper, her property, her involvement with the Northern Territory Cattleman’s Association and the CSIRO Advisory Committee and her involvement, in the past, with the Isolated Children’s Parents Association. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The records of MS 3683 comprise correspondence, 1972-1988; financial records, 1978-1989; Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) national conference records, 1973-1982; records relating to WEL involvement in other conferences such as the National Women’s Tax Summit, National Agenda for Women Conference and the United Nations Decade for Women; records relating to WEL activities such as lobbying federal parliamentarians, the production of the WEL national bulletin, submissions and press releases; and, subject files on a wide range of WEL interests including childcare, affirmative action, equal employment opportunity, the Family Law Act, maternity leave, wages and the Sex Discrimination Act. The collection also includes a small quantity of records of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (ACT) and the Women’s Centre Inc. (63 boxes).??The Acc98.302 instalment comprises additional records of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (20 boxes).??The Acc99.169 instalment comprises further records of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (7 cartons).??The Acc10.116 instalment comprises records that are categorised as follows: WEL in the media; WEL Australia (National) archive; WEL submissions; WEL ACT (Australian Capital Territory); and Women’s Liberation. WEL in the media comprises news cuttings. A substantial portion of the WEL Australia records consists of research and working papers on women’s issues and legislation relating to women, such as affirmative action, casual and part-time workers, childbirth, contraception, abortion, divorce, domestic violence, feminism, health, human rights, parental leave, pregnancy, reproductive rights, sexism, sex discrimination, single mothers and tax reform.??WEL Australia records also include: papers relating to conferences and other events conducted by WEL; correspondence; posters; election material; WEL National Management Committee minutes and correspondence; newsletters; photographs; policy documents; funding papers; WEL history papers; and records reflecting relations between WEL Australia, various women’s organisations and WEL state and territory branches. WEL submissions, to which there is an extensive index, document the organisation’s lobbying activities at both national and state level. The small component titled Women’s Liberation contains newsletters (58 boxes, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Elle Morrell Created 10 October 2000 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "On 11 June 2001, Haines became a Member of the Order of Australia ‘for service to the Australian Parliament and to politics, particularly as Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Democrats, and to the community.’ Haines was appointed to the Senate to fill a casual vacancy in South Australia in 1977. In 1986 she became the first woman to lead an Australian political party when she was elected leader of the Australian Democrats. (Source: http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours_list/resultDetail.cfm?awardsID=709341 accessed 17/04/2002 and Emma Grahame in Australian Feminism: A Companion.) Haines spent her early family years growing up in country South Australia, settling in Adelaide by the time she attended Brighton High School. She was elected Deputy leader of the Australian Democrats in 1985; elected to the position of Federal leader in 1986 which she held until 1990. Since 1990 she had taken on a number of roles; as a freelance writer and speaker; involvement in a number of organizations; as a member of Parliamentary delegations to South Africa and Iraq. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of South Australia Papers of Janine Haines AM National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Interview with Janine Haines, Federal politician 1977-1990, freelance writer and speaker [sound recording] / Interviewer Jenny Palmer National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Janine Haines, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Parliamentarians' questionnaires, 1982-1983 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Pat Richardson scrapbooks relating to the Women's Electoral Lobby and women's events, 1977-2002 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 April 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Includes by laws, annual reports, minutes; financial records; case histories, court committals, fostering and adoption records of children under the care of the Society; correspondence relating to children under the control of the Society and the administration of the Society; some published records of the Society, press cuttings and photographs. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 October 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 49 min.)??Beal, a farmer, speaks of her schooling, her work in Canberra for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, her return to Brisbane working at the Department of Primary Industries, her decision to go farming to grow lucerne hay, becoming a hay-making contractor, her involvement in the Landcare committee, her care and concern for land degradation, the dry land salinity, how to get rid of salinity, the Landcare Movement, the disappearance of the farming area, her full-time work at the university, how computers are not used to their full potential amongst farmers who own them, the lack of education amongst farmers, greater awareness from farmers to deal with their own finance and banking. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound tape reels (ca. 62 min.)??Street speaks about her early childhood in India ; the quality of life for women in Australia at the beginning of the century ; her family history ; her university years ; England during the war years ; working with prostitutes in New York ; thoughts on trade unions and female membership; about how she prepares for her speeches ; Street reads a passage from her book “Truth or repose”. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 5 September 2000 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Judith Wright expressed her love of Australia and its people in her poetry. She was also a respected writer on poetry. Later in her life Wright was well known as a conservationist and campaigner for Aboriginal rights. Wright, a descendant of a pioneering pastoralist family, began writing poetry at the age of six for her ailing mother. At the age of 14 she became a boarder at the New England Girls School, and it was during her time there that she decided to become a poet. After completing an Arts course at the University of Sydney, Wright worked in a variety of positions including that of research officer at Queensland University, where she helped Clem Christesen to edit Meanjin. In 1975, Wright was the first woman appointed to the Council of Australian National University as the Governor-General’s nominee. She was founder and later president of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, and member of the National Parks Association of New South Wales and the South Coast Conservation Council. Wright was a patron of many organisations including: Campaign Against Nuclear Power (Queensland); Townsville Women’s Shelter; Amnesty International (Victoria.); Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland and the National Forests Action Council (Victoria.). In 1991, Wright became the second Australian – after Michael Thwaites in 1940 – to receive the Queen’s gold medal for poetry. Joan Williams concludes her obituary on Judith Wright in The Guardian on July 5, 2000 with: “Judith Wright is not a romantic, but makes her judgement on changes in the economy and lifestyle, the growth of industry and the swing from country to city. In her own way she has taken a step further for us in the expression of Australian national, spiritual and environment values in her poetry.” Judith Wright, who died in Canberra of a heart attack, had spent much of her time there from the early 1970s when her daughter Meredith went to study at the Australian National University. Her long relationship with H.C. ‘Nugget’ Coombs was an added incentive for her to be close to Canberra. In 1973 she was appointed Chairman of the Australia Council. In 1975 She bought the property Edge 100 kilometres east of Canberra and spent much of her time there. By 1998 she was living in a small flat in Canberra. Events 1980 - 1980 Awarded the Alice Award by the Society of Women Writers of Australia 1980 - 1980 Awarded the Order of the Golden Ark, degree of Ridder by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands 1984 - 1984 Awarded the Indian Asan World prize for poetry 1992 - 1992 Awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for poetry 1970 - 1970 Awarded Fellow Australian Academy of Humanities (FAHA) 1980 - 1980 Awarded Hon. Life Member Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) 1938 - 1942 Stenographic and secretarial work in Sydney 1972 - 1972 Awarded the Grace Leven Prize from the Braidwood Historical Society 1962 - 1976 President of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland 1964 - 1972 Council member of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) 1975 - 1979 Council member of the Australian National University (ANU) 1979 - 1983 Member of the Aboriginal Treaty Committee 1963 - 1963 Foundation council member of the Australia Society Authors (ASA) 1973 - 1974 Member of the Committee of Enquiry into the National Estate 1949 - 1949 Awarded the Grace Leven Prize from the Braidwood Historical Society 1976 - 1976 Awarded the Robert Frost Memorial Award from the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) 1949 - 1949 Awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fund Fellowship 1976 - 1976 Awarded the Senior Anzac Fellowship 1965 - 1965 Awarded the Encyclopedia Britannica Prize for literature 1977 - 1979 Awarded the Senior Writers Fellowship by the Literature Board of the Australia Council 1944 - 1948 Statistical research officer with the Queensland University Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Biographical register : the Women's College within the University of Sydney, Annable, Rosemary, 1995 Who's Who in Australia 1998, Neto, Maryanne (researcher), 1997 Book The Moving Image, Wright, Judith, 1946 Woman to Man, Wright, Judith, 1950 The Gateway, Wright, Judith, 1953 The Two Fires, Wright, Judith, 1955 Birds, Wright, Judith, 1960 Birds, Wright, Judith, 1960 Five Senses, Wright, Judith, 1960 Selected Poems, Wright, Judith, 1963 The Other Half: Poems, Wright, Judith, [1966] Collected Poems, Wright, Judith, 1971 Alive, Wright, Judith, 1972 Fourth Quarter, Wright, Judith, 1976 Fourth Quarter, Wright, Judith, 1977 The Generations of Men, Wright, Judith, 1955 The Nature of Love, Wright, Judith, 1966 Preoccupations in Australian Poetry, Wright, Judith, 1964 Because I was Invited, Wright, Judith, 1976 Charles Harpur, Wright, Judith, 1978 The Cry for the Dead, Wright, Judith, 1981 The Oxford Book of Australian Verse, Wright, Judith, 1954 New Land New Language, Wright, Judith, 1956 Witnesses of Spring: unpublished poems by John Shaw Neilson, Wright, Judith (Editor), 1970 Kings of the Dingoes, Wright, Judith, 1956 Range the Mountains High, Wright, Judith, 1960 The Day the Mountains Played, Wright, Judith, 1959|| 1976 The River and the Road, Wright, Judith, 1963 Documentary The Coral Battleground, Wright, Judith, 1977 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Guide to the Papers of Judith Wright, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233793961/findingaid Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Resource Section Guide to the Papers of Craig Powell, Diehm, K., 2000, http://www.lib.adfa.edu.au:85/web/speccoll/finding_aids/powell.html Judith Wright's Biography: A Delicate Balance between Trespass and Honour, Brady, Veronica, 1996, http://www.nla.gov.au/events/doclife/brady.html Vale Judith Wright, Koval, Ramona (presenter) and Donisthorpe, Suzanne (Producer), 2000, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/bwriting/stories/s143393.htm Australian poet Judith Wright (1915-2000): an appreciation, Cornwell, Tony, 2000, http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/aug2000/wrig-a31.shtml Judith Wright, Williams, Joan, 2000, http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve2/1007jw.html Newspaper Article Lines from the bush, Cadzow, Jane, 2004 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Dymphna Clark, circa 1930-2000 [manuscript] Papers of Dorothy Green, 1943-1990 [manuscript] Papers of Judith Wright, 1944-2000 [manuscript] The generations of men [manuscript] / [by] Judith Wright Papers of Judith Wright, 1949-1951 [manuscript] Letters, 1986-1989 [manuscript] Papers of Nancy Cato, 1939-1995 [manuscript] Papers of Elyne Mitchell, circa 1928-2002 [manuscript] Papers of Nonie Sharp, 1980-2000 [manuscript] Correspondence of Barbara Blackman with Judith Wright, 1950-1998 [manuscript] Literary papers 1969-1981 [manuscript] Papers of Patricia Clarke, 1887-2010 [manuscript] Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Papers relating to Oodgeroo Noonuccal Special Collections, Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA Craig Powell manuscript collection Nancy Cato manuscript collection 1967-1992 National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dymphna Clark interviewed by Heather Rusden and Elizabeth Cham [sound recording] State Library of New South Wales Southern Africa Defence and Aid Fund in Australia - records, 1961-1981, together with the records of Community Aid Abroad (Australia). Southern Africa Group, 1981-1987 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2001 Last modified 12 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "On 25 February 2003, Monica Gould was elected 18th President of the Legislative Council of Victoria. She was the first female to hold this position and retained it until November 2006. Educated at Vaucluse Convent in Richmond, and Macleod Technical School, Gould was a member of the ACTU Executive (1991-1993) and General Vice-President of the National Union of Workers (1980-1993), before entering Parliament. In 1993 she became MLC (ALP) for Doutta Galla province, and held the position until the end of 2006. Toward the end of this period she served as Minister for Industrial Relations (1999-2002) and Minister for Education Services and Youth Affairs (2002). She was Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council (1999-2002), Shadow Minister for Aged Care (1996-1999) and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council (1999). Gould maintains an interest in the Australian Human Rights Society, the Heidelberg Emergency Housing Group and Australian Rules Football. Events 2018 - 2018 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2002 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Reba Meagher has been a Minister in the Carr and Iemma Labor governments of New South Wales. She was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Cabramatta in the 1994 by election. She gained re-election in 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2007. During this time Reba was appointed Minister for Fair Trading, and Minister assisting the Minister for Commerce (2003-2005) and Minister for Youth and Minister for Community Services in 2005. She retired from the New South Wales Parliament on 17 September 2008. Reba Meagher was educated at Endeavour High School, and the University of Sydney, graduating BA in 1989 and M Labour Law and Relations, 1992. From 1990 to 1992 she worked as electorate officer to Paul Elliot MHR, and then as an Industrial officer for the Transport Workers Union from 1993 to 1994. She was President of NSW Young Labor 1992-1994, delegate to NSW Labor Council for Transport Workers Union 1993-1995 and delegate to ACTU Congress 1994. Reba was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1994 for the seat of Cabramatta, at the by election following the murder of the sitting member, John Newman. She has held the seat at each election since then. Before being elected to the Ministry she was Parliamentary Secretary assisting Minister for Transport from 1999 to 2002. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 2 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The game of hockey was brought to Australia by British Naval officers stationed around the country in the late 1800s. By 1900, according to Hockey Australia, the game was being played in private girls’ schools. Being a non-contact team sport, it was considered ideal for women. The first women’s hockey association was formed in New South Wales in 1908. Two years later, women’s clubs from Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia were competing alongside clubs from New South Wales at an interstate tournament at Rushcutter’s Bay, and from this tournament came the establishment of the Australian Women’s Hockey Association in July 1910 – fifteen years before the Australian Hockey Association (AHA) was formed in 1925. State hockey associations for men had been formed in South Australia, 1903; Victoria and New South Wales, 1906; Western Australia, 1908; and Queensland, 1920s. This division in the administration of men’s and women’s hockey continued in subsequent years. The Australian Women’s Hockey Association affiliated with the All England Women’s Hockey Association, and joined the International Federation of Women’s Hockey (IFWH) in 1927. The first All Australian women’s hockey team was selected in 1914 and played against England. Max Solling writes: The dress and behaviour of women playing the game were strictly controlled. They were required to wear long skirts, starched blouses, ties, and stockings, and no player was to be seen on the street in her uniform unless covered by a long buttoned overcoat. In 1930, three years after a crushing defeat by the English women’s team on home soil, the Australian women’s team embarked upon its first overseas tour, visiting England, South Africa, Rhodesia, Belgium, Germany, Holland and France. International competition continued when the IFWH organised the first World Women’s Hockey Tournament in 1933, though Australia did not participate until 1936. Australian hockey teams were entered in the Olympics for the first time at the 1956 Games in Melbourne. In recent years, Australian women’s hockey teams have enjoyed tremendous success at the Olympic level, winning gold at the Seoul Games in 1988; the Atlanta Games in 1996; and the Sydney Games in 2000. The game of hockey continues to be popular today. Solling notes the dominance of Western Australia in competitive hockey post-war, particularly women’s hockey, with Western Australian women’s teams winning the national title thirty-eight times between 1946 and 1990. By the late 1990s, an estimated 200,000 women and girls were playing hockey across Australia. Published resources Book The Game that Grows, Browne, Fred, 1960 A History of the New South Wales Women's Hockey Association 1908-1983, Hodges, Lena and Mollie Dive, 1984 Booklet Seventy fifth anniversary souvenir 1903-1978, South Australian Hockey Association, 1978 Resource Trader 12 MySpace site, Trader 12 (Sarah), 2007, http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=96720217 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 January 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Digital resources Title: Three Australian women athletes: Betty Cuthbert, Marlene Mathews and Norma Croker? Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE2274.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lydia Markiv is a South Australian Magistrate who developed a reputation for expertise in Child Protection Law and in 2010 was appointed a Magistrate in the Adelaide Youth Court. She graduated with an LLB from Adelaide University, LLB (1972-1975) and was awarded a GDLP from the University of South Australia in 1976. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Alan Moss about Lydia Markiv for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project The following additional information was provided by Alan Moss and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Lydia Makiv is a first generation Ukrainian Australian whose parents migrated to South Australia in 1949. They had fled Western Ukraine in the latter stages of World War 11 and finally ended up in a refugee camp in Germany. Her parents’ new life in Australia was not initially easy as they had no English or money upon arrival and were forced to take on long term unskilled work as the father’s university studies in Europe were not recognised. Lydia’s parents were determined that Lydia and her older brother, Emilian, would have a good education and made sacrifices to ensure that occurred. Emilian became a dentist and practised in Victoria and Lydia became a lawyer. She believes that her parents’ example and opportunities at university motivated her to succeed. Lydia joined the South Australian Crown Solicitor’s Office in 1977 when the Office had a strong reputation for professional excellence. It provided a high standard of ethical and professional training for its practitioners and produced many of the State’s judges and magistrates. Lydia valued the strong mentorship within the Office and subsequently, became a generous and committed mentor to junior practitioners. She remained at the Crown for nearly 30 years, steadily rising through the ranks to become a senior solicitor. Although her experience there was very broad and included administrative law and appellate work, it was in the area of child protection law that Lydia excelled and established a strong professional reputation acting both as solicitor and counsel in her cases. She conducted numerous lengthy, complex and sometimes controversial trials, earning in the process the respect of social workers, doctors and psychologists, the courts and opposing practitioners who knew that her word could be completely relied upon. Lydia also conducted a large number of international child abduction cases and represented South Australia at national conferences on child abduction. In 2007, Lydia was appointed a magistrate and in 2010, a magistrate at the Adelaide Youth Court where she works in both the criminal and child protection jurisdictions of the court. In 2014, Lydia was elected national secretary of the Australian Association of Magistrates. She is also a member of the Adelaide Chorus, the Ukrainian Women’s Association in SA and the Australian Women’s Judges Association. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Alan Moss (with Nikki Henningham) Created 12 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Alison Turtle was the first person to write detailed historiographies of Australian psychology. Alison Turtle was the daughter of Charles Turtle and his wife Margery. She went to school at the Methodist Ladies College where she was Dux in 1955. Continuing to the University of Sydney she was awarded a Double first class honours in Psychology and History in 1961and an MA in 1963 with a thesis on evolution and psychology. She then went to London to study but returned in 1968 to a lectureship, which she held until she retired in1999. Amongst other things she studied and published on the first women psychologists in Australia – Lorna Hodgkinson in New South Wales, Constance Davey in South Australia and Ethel Stoneman in Western Australia. Her research on the historiography of psychology in Australia for the first time put the studies in a cultural context. She was interested in the teaching of psychology in the UK as well as Australia. Alison bought a house in Arundel Street next to the university main campus that was a focus for her many friends. Often described as ‘forthright and fearless’ Alison from the start spoke her mind writing to the University News in 1971 about a proposed new Arts Building: ‘Does the University want to increase its facilities and population indefinitely, at the expense of the quality of the environment it is providing for its members?’ She was focussed on teaching and always very concerned about the needs of students, both day and evening at the university. At different times she worked on specific issues such as their problems with AIDS and the pressures of part-time study. For several years she was active in the Sydney Association of University Teachers and was particularly involved with the struggle over superannuation and the position of women. In 1980 she started the Association of Women Employees of the University of Sydney for women inside the university. She was very attached to her dogs and concerned about the ways in which canines were treated. After many years of retreating to Mount Wilson when the pressure became too great, she bought a home there in Farrer Road called Boikunumba, which she laboured to turn into a small native paradise. From this time on, she was active in Mount Wilson affairs. In 1985 she developed cancer, but through chemotherapy and care survived. The cancer returned twenty years later in an aggressive form and she died in April 2006 and was buried in Mount Wilson. A collection of psychology material was assembled at the university in her memory and was named for her. Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Research of Alison M Turtle Author Details Alannah Croom and Sybil Jack Created 16 April 2019 Last modified 9 December 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Scrapbook of the Women’s Environmental Action Group (WENG) comprising letters; photographs; homemade paper; and leaflets. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "WINDSOR, 1940. LADY WAKEHURST, WIFE OF THE GOVERNOR OF NSW, SQUADRON LEADER F.C. MACKILLOP AND GWEN STARK MAKING AN INSPECTION OF THE WOMEN’S AIR TRAINING CORPS (WATC). (DONOR MRS NANCY BIRD-WALTON). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Publications and books. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 May 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) was established in April 1941 when the Royal Australian Navy enrolled 14 women at HMAS Harman, the wireless telegraphy station near Canberra. It was a non-combat branch of the Royal Australian Navy that, like many of its sister services created during the Second World War, alleviated manpower shortages resulting from men being assigned to combat roles. WRANS performed a variety of duties, including working as telegraphists, coders and clerks; but also as drivers, education officers, mechanics, harbour messengers, cooks and sickberth attendants. They worked for intelligence organisations and as domestic staff at Government House, Yarralumla. The Service was temporarily disbanded in 1948, but was re-formed in 1951 to help the RAN cope with manpower shortages. By 1959 the organisation was incorporated as a non-combatant (and thus non-seagoing) part of the permanent naval forces. Women were permitted to serve aboard Australian naval ships in 1983, which meant that WRANS personnel were fully integrated into the Royal Australian Navy. This being the case, 1984 the WRANS was permanently disbanded. The Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) was initially established with 14 females trained by Florence McKenzie as wireless telegraphists. The Royal Australian Navy enrolled the first 14 girls in April 1941 at HMAS Harman Wireless Telegraphy station. Later on 1 October 1942 they were sworn into the Navy as enlisted personnel with enlisted status. This is regarded as the formal foundation date for the organisation. The First Fourteen at HMAS Harman WR 1 Frances Provan WR 2 Joan Furley WR 3 Pat Ross WR 4 Denise Owen WR 5 Marion Stevens WR 6 June McLeod WR 7 Daphne Wright WR 8 Jess Prain WR 9 Joan Cade WR 10 Joan Hodges WR 11 Billie Thompson WR 12 Judy Alley WR 13 Shirley Drew WR 14 Elsie Colless – did not enlist in the Navy but took her discharge. Four months later the number was increased to 1000. [1] Patsy Adam-Smith, author of Australian Women at War, states that the service never exceeded 3000 women enlisted at one time. In the WRANS women worked as telegraphists; coders; writers (typists and clerks); transport drivers; car drivers; office orderlies; dental mechanics; cooks; sickberth attendants; stewardesses; press relations officers (which included escorting the press to sea on trials); boarding officers; almoners; dome teacher operators (visual aids used for instruction and entertainment); education officers; vocational guidance; sea transport officers; and air liaison officers (moving RAN officers and ratings to all parts of the globe). There were harbour messengers; an accountant officer; supply assistants; medical, clothing and general stores; a postmaster; a postal clerk (delivering mail to ships in port and on anchor); and watch keepers. There were WRANS working as Translation Interpreters in the Allied Translation Section of General MacArthur’s main ‘Order of Battle’. Some worked on the degaussing range (assessing the magnetic attraction of vessels as they crossed the degaussing range); they worked in ciphers; visual signalling; signals and communications; radio telegraphy plotting; and as messengers. Others were with the Radar Counter-measure, Allied Intelligence Bureau and Censorship Officers. They were at the Gunnery School, small arms range. One job was to handle all Safe Hand Mail for the port of Sydney, while another was to correct and issue charts to both merchant and naval ship’s masters. There was an Assistant to the Staff Officer (Operations) Brisbane and another to the Director of Victualling. Many WRANS were engaged on technical duties of a secret nature, working long hours under exacting conditions. For many, this meant absolute silence about their work, even after demobilisation, while the end of the war meant that others were released from secrecy. While the most senior men were adamant that WRANS would not work as mechanics, they did indeed work in ordnance artificers’ workshops. Several women wore WRANS uniform merely for convenience or safety against the event of their being discovered and, as a civilian, being treated as a spy. [2] The last wartime WRAN was discharged in 1948 when the WRANS were disbanded, but the service was reconstituted in 1951. By 1959 the WRANS were part of the Permanent Naval Forces, but Government policy of the day was that servicewomen not be employed in combat duties, and members of the WRANS were excluded from seagoing employment. In 1985 women became fully integrated into the Royal Australian Navy and the WRANS were disbanded by an Act of Parliament. [3] [1] Ships Belles pp. 67-70 [2] Australian Women at war. p. 215, pp 376-377 [3] http://www.gunplot.net/wrans/wrans1.htm accessed 2002-11-28 Published resources Book Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Ships belles : the story of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service in war and peace 1941-1985, Fenton Huie, Shirley, 2000 We also served, far north coast N.S.W. ex-servicewomen 1939-1945, Buckley, Martin J., c1995 W.R.A.N.S. : the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Curtis-Otter, M, 1975 Resource Section Australian Women and World War ll: Kit, http://infocus.sl.nsw.gov.au/res/resdesc.cfm?res_code=1269 The mobilisation of women into active services / the 'Yankee' invasion / How the war affected women, http://infocus.sl.nsw.gov.au/res/resdesc.cfm?res_code=1272 Australian Servicewomen's Memorial, Southwell-Keely, Michael, 1999, http://www.skp.com.au/memorials/pages/00018.htm Book Section Willing volunteers, resisting society, reluctant Navy: The troubled first years of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Spurling, Kathryn Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Archbishop Daniel Mannix, Catholic Chaplain General of the Australian Army with three unidentified representatives from the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), Women's … Members of the first WRANS Officer Training Corps. Senior WRANS from HMAS Harman Naval Wireless Station at the fourth birthday of the service Panorama group portrait of members of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) at HMAS Rushcutter and two Navy officers. An informal group of members of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) on the wharf at Garden Island. Huie, Shirley Fenton Heather Stella Starr (previously Blair), Leading Telegraphist, Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, interviewed by Dr Ruth Thompson for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45 Australian servicewomen's memorial Margaret Curtis-Otter, Acting First Officer, Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, interviewed by Dr Ruth Thompson for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45 National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Enid Conley interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 November 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: They also served (Two Wrans 1941-85) Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0387gc.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Statement relating to the formation of the Association, May 1911; Minutes 1911-1987; Newscuttings 1940’s; Gladswood Home (for aged and needy women) Committee minutes 2 July 1950-6 October 1950 and 1st Annual Report; Central Council of Benevolent Societies Minutes 1931-1939. Caulfield Ladies’ Benevolent Society Minutes 1935-1972. Preston Ladies’ Benevolent Society Minutes 1937-1965. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 14 November 2003 Last modified 27 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Thesis (M.A.) – Australian National University, 1970. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 10117 comprises correspondence, school records, certificates, newspaper clippings such as obituaries and interviews, photographs, articles and a booklet by Helen Waldsax on the history of the Watford Branch of the National Council of Women. The papers relating to Sir Herbert Kingsley Paine largely document his schooling at the Collegiate of St Peter and then the University of Adelaide, together with papers relating to his death, including an obituary, tributes from colleagues and friends and family history material. The papers relating to Helen Waldsax include reports and other papers from her schooling at Poltoonga St Peters, Girton Proprietary School for Girls and the University of Adelaide, together with material relating to her early career as an almoner, her life in Watford, Hertfordshire after her move to England in 1945, and her involvement with the Watford Branch of the National Council of Women. There are also papers relating to her death, including an obituary and orders of service for her funeral (1 box, 1 map fol. packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Two letters, Pamela Thornley, Queensland – Katy Richmond 13 Nov. 1992; Ann Latreille – Mary Owen 16 Nov. 1992; gramophone record “Labels for Ladies” (WEL Media Action Group c. 1975), 2 copies of 1 x 33 1/3 12? and cassette copy); brochures, memorabilia (WEL balloons, matchbook, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre Shilling Fund stickers); programme for WEL Green Guide picnic at Caulfield Park, 22 Nov. 1992 (20th anniversary of 1972 Federal Election candidate attitude survey published as supplement to the Age; Herald advertising poster 14 August 1973. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ravlich speaks of her personal background and earlier life in Yugoslavia; migrating with husband to Australia; lifestyle and living conditions in Broken Hill; the Depression; changes to Broken Hill; her assimilation. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letter from Mary Grant Bruce to “Marie” , 10 December, 1929, concerning the death of her son, Pat Bruce; two letters from Pat Bruce to “Marie”, 7 April, 1927 and 21 January, 1928 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 October 2003 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Catherine Winifred (Kate) Dwyer was one of the most prominent women in New South Wales in the early twentieth century. An avid Labor activist, Dwyer stood for election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Balmain in 1925. Catherine (Kate) Dwyer was born on 13 June 1861 at Tambaroora, New South Wales, the second daughter of Joseph and Ann Golding. She was educated at Hill End Public School and became a pupil teacher in 1880, holding positions in country schools until 1887. She married another teacher, Michael Dwyer, and in 1894 they moved to Sydney, where she became prominent in the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales and campaigned for the vote for women. She co-founded the Women’s Progressive Association in 1901 and, with her sisters Annie and Belle Golding, worked for the rights of women in all spheres. She was a fine public speaker and a prolific writer on questions of interest to women. She was the first president of the Women’s Organising Committee of the Political Labor League from 1904, and a member of the State Labor Executive in1905. Kate Dwyer worked tirelessly to improve the working and living conditions for women and for a minimum female wage. In 1911 she assisted A. B. Piddington on the royal commission into female and juvenile labour and from 1911-13 she sat on the royal commission of enquiry into food supplies. She represented the Women Workers Union (which she had helped to form) on Wages Boards and in the 1920s she was on conciliation committees. She opposed conscription in 1916 and 1917. Kate Dwyer was a fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney from 1916 to 1924, and from 1910 was a member, later vice president of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales. In 1921 she was one of the first women to be appointed a justice of the peace. She was on the boards of two hospitals for women and children, and a trustee of the King George V and Queen Mary Jubilee Fund for Maternal and Infant Welfare. She was a life long member of the Labor Party. Kate and Michael Dwyer had three sons and two daughters. Published resources Resource Section Dwyer, Catherine Winifred (Kate) (1861-1949), Gallego, Viva, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080412b.htm Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales SUFFRAGE Group, 1902. Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A talented artist, May Harding was a member of the Field Naturalists’ Society and taught at the Broken Hill Technical College. She devoted years of her life to helping the sick and needy in Broken Hill. May Harding was the daughter of Florence May Boyle and Frederick Joseph Harding, a foreman and moulder by trade. She had two siblings, Doris and Frederick, both born in Broken Hill. Early in life May developed a passion for the natural world and began collecting and identifying plants. She learnt to draw the various species of flora around her home, and became an accomplished artist. During World War Two, May held art classes for local children each Saturday and she taught at the Broken Hill Technical College. She was a founding member of the Willyama Art Society and a member of the Field Naturalists’ Society for 45 years. In 1965 she was selected to open the Festival of Australian Wild Flowers in Canberra. May Harding spent much of her time caring for those in need and was awarded the M.B.E. for a lifetime of service. A section of the Broken Hill Art Gallery was named in her honour and a Field Naturalists’ flower show was dedicated to her after her death in 1971. A portrait of May Harding by C.G. Samuels of Coolabah, South Australia, was presented to the Broken Hill Historical Society and hangs in the museum at the old Silverton Gaol. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 February 2009 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 16 December 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Digital resources Title: Friendship Court Plaque Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers in MS 9396 cover the period 1982-1994 and comprise various stages of drafts of books and articles edited, written and compiled by Scutt. Scutt’s publications concentrate on legal and feminist issues. The collection includes a number of original works by Scutt and contributors prominent in the women’s movement and other fields. The papers also include detective fiction that Scutt wrote and compiled under the pseudonym Melissa Chan featuring feminist detective heroine Francesca Miles. The papers document the methods of modern publishing as well as providing an insight into the creative writing process and feminist movement (32 boxes).??The Acc04.240 instalment includes reports of the Anti-Discrimination Commission of Tasmania, a business plan, conference and workshop papers, and leaflets (1 box).??The Acc04.250 instalment comprises papers relating to Scutt’s role as Commissioner of the Anti-Discrimination Commission of Tasmania, including annual reports (on posters), correspondence, conference and workshop papers, and leaflets (1 large carton, 1 poster roll).??The Acc04.255 instalment comprises papers relating to Scutt’s role as Commissioner of the Anti-Discrimination Commission of Tasmania as well as her involvement with the National Council of Women of Tasmania, including correspondence, notebooks, conference and workshop papers, memoranda, reports, newspaper cuttings and other printed material (1 carton, 4 large cartons).??The Acc12.016 instalment comprises papers pertaining to Scutt’s studies in film and interests in activism relating to Iran, Cuba and women. The instalment includes work towards production of video installation titled “Covered”; speech drafts; correspondence; ticket stubs and event flyers/brochures; academic papers; and script drafts. Organisations and events of note include Women Worldwide Advancing Freedom and Equality (WWAFE), Camp Ashraf (Ashraf City), British Film Institute (BFI) and the London Film Festival (2 boxes) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 12 January 2010 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour (to date) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 March 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 3 December 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Unity & Service flag Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minute book 14 August 1984 – 14 July 1987, Committee and General. Book also includes newscuttings and photographs Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Eleanor Mary Hinder (1893-1963) was a pioneer in the field of industrial welfare in Australia with her appointment as Superintendent of Staff Welfare for the department store, Farmer & Co. Ltd, in Sydney during WWI. She later achieved international prominence in this field. From 1926 to 1928, Hinder assisted in the development of the new industrial department of the National Committee of the Young Women’s Christian Association of China, in Shanghai . She held the position of Chief of the Industrial and Social Division of Shanghai Municipal Council from January 1933 until August 1942, when the Japanese occupation of Shanghai forced her repatriation to Britain. Hinder’s next appointment, from December 1942 to October 1944, was to the International Labour Organisation. in Montreal where she served as Special Consultant on Asian Questions., and she subsequently held several other positions with the United Nations. Outside of her professional life, Hinder was also involved with a numbers of women’s organisations. Eleanor Hinder broke new ground in industrial welfare in Sydney before she went abroad to develop her expertise in this field, and to administer humanitarian and technical programmes in China and Southeast Asia. She was born at Maitland, N.S.W., into a family of pioneer pastoralists and teachers on her father’s side. In her later years Hinder discovered she also had American forbears of pioneer New England stock through her maternal line. She was educated at West Maitland Girls’ High School and Sydney University (B.Sc., 1914). During World War I she served as Assistant Mistress of Science at North Sydney Girls’ High School and lectured concurrently in the University’s Tutorial Classes, continuing in the latter position until 1924. From 1919 to 1925 she was Secretary of the Sydney University Women Graduates’ Association, in which capacity she was instrumental in organising the Australian Federation of University Women and arranging its affiliation to the International Federation of University Women (I.F.U.W.). Over the same period Hinder was Superintendent of Staff Welfare for the department store, Farmer & Co. Ltd, in Sydney. She was co-founder of the Sydney City Girls’ Amateur Sports Association, established to provide recreation and organised sport for women in business and industry. In 1923 she had been granted a year’s leave from Farmer’s to study industrial welfare work overseas. Her first time abroad, she visited Shanghai, Japan, Canada, the United States, England , Switzerland and Norway. Her itinerary included attending the I.F.U.W. Convention in Oslo, a conference of industrial welfare workers in France, and visiting the International Labour Office (I.L.O.) in Geneva. She returned to Sydney in October 1924. At the invitation of the National Committee of the Young Women’s Christian Association of China, Hinder assisted in the development of its new industrial department in Shanghai from 1926 to 1928. She was engaged in efforts towards the amelioration of industrial conditions, particularly for women and child factory workers. During this time she met Addie Viola Smith, U.S. Assistant Trade Commissioner in China and Secretary of the Joint Committee of Shanghai Women’s Organizations; the pair became lifelong friends. After serving as Organizing Programme Secretary for the First Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference in Honolulu in 1928, Hinder returned to Australia. In October 1929 she attended the Kyoto Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations as a member of the Australian delegation. In March 1930 she rejoined the Y.W.C.A. of China as International Education Officer, becoming engaged in research and writing, including a series of articles in the North China Daily on the recently promulgated Chinese Factory Act. Later she assisted the Chinese sociologist Dr Chen Ta in an examination of this legislation, carried out under the auspices of the Employers’ Federation of Shanghai. During the first half of 1932 Eleanor Hinder travelled to the United States, England and Switzerland to observe new methods of factory inspection and to study new labour legislation. In July that year she accepted an offer from the Shanghai Municipal Council, the governing body of the International Settlement, to develop a division to be concerned with working conditions. She held the position of Chief of the Industrial and Social Division of Shanghai Municipal Council from January 1933 until August 1942, when the Japanese occupation of Shanghai forced her repatriation to Britain. Hinder’s next appointment, from December 1942 to October 1944, was to the I.L.O. in Montreal where she served as Special Consultant on Asian Questions. In November 1944 she was seconded to the British Foreign Office to be its representative on the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (U.N.R.R.A.) Technical Committee on Welfare for the Far East in Shanghai, and to advise on labour matters. She was associated with U.N.R.R.A. until the close of its China operations in January 1948. She was then requested by the Foreign Office to join its staff as British Liaison Officer for U.N. activities in the Far East, which position she held until March 1951. She had been a member of the British Delegation at the inaugural Session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (E.C.A.F.E.) in Shanghai in June 1947, attending each succeeding Session, with one exception, until the Seventh Session in February 1951. In May 1950 she had been a member of the British Delegation at the first meeting at ministerial level in connection with the Colombo Plan convened at Lapstone, N.S.W.. Hinder was appointed O.B.E. a month later. In August 1951 Hinder was appointed to the staff of the Technical Assistance Administration of the United Nations, serving as Chief of the Project Planning Division, and from February 1953 to 1955 as Chief of the Office for Asia and the Far East. In 1955 she visited the U.S.S.R. as adviser to a study tour of senior Indian Government officials to observe development and training in water and power, agriculture, forestry, mining and other fields. In 1956 she administered the U.N. programme of technical assistance for Latin America. From 1957 to 1959 she was in the service of the U.N. Statistical Office, responsible for organising and administering a special programme of assistance to Asian governments in connection with their 1960-1961 censuses of population and of agriculture. From 1960 to 1961 she was Coordinator of Technical Assistance Programmes under the Statistical Office. Eleanor Mary Hinder died on 10 April 1963 in San Francisco while en route to the U.N. to take up another short-term appointment. Published resources Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Section Hinder, Eleanor Mary (1893 - 1963), Foley, Meredith and Radi, Heather, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090310b.htm Watts, Margaret Sturge (1892 - 1978), Rutledge, Martha, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160604b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Eleanor M. Hinder - papers, 1837-1963, together with the papers of A. Viola Smith, ca. 1850-1975 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ruby Rich, 1943-1948 [manuscript] Author Details Jane Carey Created 28 July 2004 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Honours and Awards – Recommendations for New Year Honours List 1946 [Col C H Simpson; Col E Gorman; Col A W Wardell; Col A E McCausland; Col N M Loutit; Col F R Burton; Col (Matron-in-Chief) Annie M Sage; Lt-Col A H Hellstrom; Lt-Col J M McGowan; Lt-Col R B Madgwick; Lt-Col P A Parsons; Lt-Col W J M Sedgley; Maj C B Laffan; Maj Joan L Christie; Maj Maude K Deasey; Maj H M Lewis; Maj Lady Winifred I E MacKenzie; Maj Mabel J Mackerras; Maj G W J Marshall; Maj Joyce M Snelling; Maj T G Woore; Honorary Maj Eleanor Manning; Capt. V L Leggett; Capt. A A Guy; Capt. W H Hackfath; Capt. Margaret L Leishman; Capt. Beverley C Barrenger; Maj R Z Huppatz; Maj Margaret J Oddie; Capt. Beatrice I Hayes; Capt. Mina I Macmillan; Capt. Thelma L Umpherston; Pte Eileen H Esdale; Sgt C D Mitchell; Cpl E J Martin] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Tracey Whetnall’s lifelong dedication to making a difference through supporting Aboriginal people was recognised by her inclusion on the ACT Honour Walk in 2020. She had been appointed the first Indigenous Official Visitor to the Alexander Maconochie Centre in 2011 and also conducted many cultural awareness workshops for staff of the Australian Federal Police and ACT Corrective Services. Tracey Whetnall was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2020. “Tracey Fowler Whetnall was born in Sydney Women’s Hospital on 30 June 1963, one of the six children of Iris Fowler (nee Dixon), a Dharawal woman, and John Fowler, a Scottish man. Until her marriage in 1981 she lived in Ashcroft, a south-western suburb of Sydney. On leaving school, Tracey joined the Department of Defence, first as a trainee and later with the Army Reserve, where she worked as a cook and met her husband. In 1983, she enrolled in Tranby Aboriginal College, Glebe, where she gained her Year 12 High School Certificate. She joined the NSW Public Service Commission in 1984 where her duties involved supporting the career development of Aboriginal public servants. She divorced her husband that year. In 1988, Tracey moved to the ACT where she undertook various roles in the Australian Public Service. She gave birth to her only child, Shara Fowler, in 1990 and a few years later opened her successful business, Tracey Whetnall Consultancy, designed to promote Aboriginal Cultural Awareness. Throughout the 1990s, Tracey worked intensively with the Australian Federal Police, conducting many training workshops. Conscious of her family’s anxiety in dealing with police, she became an Interview Friend, being frequently called to the watch house to ensure that Aboriginal people felt supported during interviews. In 2009, the ACT established its first prison for both male and female detainees, the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC). In 2011 Tracey was appointed the AMC’s first Indigenous Official Visitor by the Minister for Justice, to whom she reported directly at quarterly meetings. She was empowered under legislation to undertake independent inspections of adult correctional facilities in the ACT, and places outside correctional centres where detainees worked or participated in activities. She received complaints from detainees about any aspect of their detention and was obliged to investigate all such complants. She made recommendations to the Justice and Community Safety Directorate and provided written reports to the Minister on the outcome of such complaints. The Annual Report of the Justice and Community Safety directorate in 2014-15 described its Official Visitors as ‘the eyes and ears of the Minister’. Tracey was on the Board of the Gugan Gulwan Association Youth Corporation, established in 1992 to support young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families in the ACT and surrounding regions. In 2012-13, for example, Tracey’s Consultancy facilitated 11 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Awareness Training Programs, attended by 187 of its executives and staff and all operational members of ACT Corrective Services, as part of their induction. During NAIDOC Week that year she addressed the 35th Annual Aboriginal Hostels Limited’s function in her role as AMC Indigenous Official Visitor. In 2014-15 she reported that she had visited adult correctional centres twice weekly on 43 occasions and found a significant rise in the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander detainees. The following year the number of her visits had risen to 96. She attributed this to a futher increase in the number of detainees and recidivists. She believed that many of the detainees’ complaints, particularly about their interactions with Indigenous case managers, related to the heavy workloads of these staff members and detainees’ misunderstanding of their role and responsibilities. A number of complainents, she observed, seemed unaware of the programs available to them and how participation in those programs could assist in their parole applications or their reintegration into the community. Tracey concluded both her annual reports with the comment ‘Most Issues that I have raised over the year are being dealt with by Corrections staff to the best of their abilities …(they) are very approachable about any concerns that I have’. Tracey officially resigned as Official Visitor in 2019 due to ill health. A passionate supporter of the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Tracey was also fundamental to the success of Narrabundah’s Boomanulla Oval. She was immensely proud of her family’s history, reporting that her great-aunt, one of the Stolen Generations, was placed as a domestic for Dame Nelly Melba and that her Indigenous great-grandfather served as a Light Horseman in the First World War, sadly without recognition. Tracey died of cancer on 10 July 2019 aged 56. Her lifelong dedication to making a difference through raising cultural awareness and her achievements as the ACT’s first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Official Visitor and the longest serving in Australia was recognised by the ACT Government by her inclusion on the ACT Honour Walk in 2020.” Published resources Annual report / Justice and Community Safety Directorate, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-632550458 Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 1 August 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Six lectures on Womens’ Affairs given by Coppel 1945 to 1970: titles include “Women and her Image”, “Writing the Lives of Writers”, “Characters and Character”, “Learning to Feel”, “Amateurs and Professionals”, “A Literary Quartet in Four Places”; biographical note. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 30 min.)??Guthrie, a farmer and business proprietor, speaks of her background, helping to manage a caravan park, returning to their wool property, managing both their own and her parents’ property, improving her knowledge through reading, attending meetings and managing farm finances, developing their own high grade knitting yarn, early difficulties getting established, expanding the product range, assistance provided by technology, the growing rural/urban gap and the need for increased education in schools regarding rural life. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personal papers from WEL activities particularly Finance Action Group. Material including minutes; submissions; correspondence; press cuttings; newsletters. Also file on the Women’s Party Platform and Policies 1977 and the WEL Forum Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Catholic Diocese of Maitland was established in 1886 with the Right Rev Dr James Murray serving as Bishop. Presiding over the spiritual well-being of Catholics residing in a geographic area that spread north all the way to the Queensland border and west as far as far as could be reached, Bishop Murray knew the task was enormous, much too big for the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, who arrived in the area two years earlier, to deal with on their own. Recognising the tradition of the Dominicans as educators, and acknowledging Catholic education in the diocese as a priority, he called upon their Irish leaders to support a long term plan. Dominican Sisters provided a unique possibility. Not only could they continue the work of the schools for the less fortunate, as did the Josephites and Good Samaritan Sisters, but they could also educate young women who would have the financial backing and social standing to become the first of generations of Catholic teachers for the people of the Maitland Diocese. Upon the arrival of the Dominicans, the Good Samaritans left and returned to Sydney. For the next eight years, the Dominicans remained the only Congregation of women in the Maitland diocese. Within fifty years their ranks grew to include a further twenty-six Irish women and 138 Australian Sisters. They had founded communities and schools in Maitland, Newcastle, Tamworth, Sydney, Moss Vale and Mayfield and set up a school for children with impaired hearing at Waratah. In contemporary times the range of activities of the Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia and Solomon Islands has expanded beyond New South Wales to include ministering in the A.C.T., Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania and the Solomon Islands. Australian and Solomon Islands Sisters are involved in education at all levels, administration and research; country and city parish ministry; hospital and university chaplaincy; in nursing and family planning; retreat centres and spiritual direction; pastoral care, counselling and welfare; working among aboriginal and migrant communities; with the materially poor, with those who have a physical or intellectual handicap, drug and alcohol dependency and Aids; with the homeless; with those in prison and their children and with asylum seekers. Published resources Resource Website of the Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia and Solomon Islands, Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia and Solomon Islands, 2009, http://www.opeast.org.au/index.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Dominican pioneers in New South Wales, O'Hanlon, Mary Assumpta, 1949 Ancient tradition - new world : Dominican sisters in eastern Australia 1867-1958, MacGinley, Mary Rosa, 2009 Archival resources Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia and the Solomon Islands Archives Archives of the Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia and the Solomon Islands Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 August 2009 Last modified 12 August 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Isabel Ormiston had been working with the Red Cross in London before enlisting in the war effort in World War I. She worked at the Queen of the Belgians’ Hospital at Ostend and La Panne (1914-1915), the Wounded Allies Relief (W.A.R.) Hospital Montenegro (1916-1917), British Red Cross Depot Egypt (1916), and the W.A.R. Hospital Limoges. Dr Ormiston was awarded the Montenegrin Red Cross and Orders of Danilo and the Nile. She later took up the position of Senior Lady Medical Officer, Egyptian Ministry of Education and in 1928 was awarded an MBE. A graduate of the University of Sydney, Dr Isabel Ormiston joined the Wounded Allies Relief Committee in London and set up in Ostend’s hydro-spa hotel, Le Kursaal, in late September 1914. She was in charge of 14 staff and a 60-bed hospital. On October 15, Isabel, along with the English Matron and Belgian Dr Emile Van de Watte, remained at her post in The Kursaal as a 60,000 strong German army marched over the fine bridge that spanned the Ostend harbour. For her ‘conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty’ during these events, Isabel received the King’s medal, the Order of Leopold of Belgium. In 1920, Isabel married Major (Maj) Chudleigh Garvice DSO, Commandant of the Alexandria Police. He died within a year of their marriage. After the war, Isabel worked a senior medial officer for the Ministry of Education, Cairo, Egypt. Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Studio portrait of Major (Maj) Chudleigh Garvice DSO, Commandant of the Alexandria Police Studio portrait of bride Dr Isabel Ormiston on her marriage to Major (Maj) Chudleigh Garvice DSO, Commandant of the Alexandria Police. John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Martha Isabel Ormiston The National Archives, Kew Medal card of Ormiston, Isabel Corps: French Red Cross Rank: Doctor Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 December 2017 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "University Children, by Audrey Cahn. Privately printed, 1987?. 54 pp. Contains photographs. University Children is an account of the lives of the children of Professors and other officers of the University who lived in the University grounds, including Mrs Cahn’s student days of the 1920s. The narrative covers the years 1899 – 1956. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Barbara Curthoys was an important figure in the history of Communism, feminism, the peace movement and the campaign for indigenous rights in Australia. An activist in the middle of the twentieth century, she was ‘one of that small band of women who fearlessly campaigned for racial and social equality and world peace at a time when it was politically risky to do so’. Born in Grafton, New South Wales, on 21 June 1924 to John Archibald and Eda McCallum (nee Lockwood). Moved to Sydney in 1932, parents divorced. Educated at Canterbury Primary School and Fort Street Girls’ High School. Joined the Ashfield Branch of the Communist Party after finishing high school. Joined the Women’s Australian Auxiliary Airforce (WAAAF) in 1942 as a wireless telegraphist, subsequently becoming a Medium Frequency Direction Finder. Married Geoff Curthoys in 1944. Gave birth to Ann in 1945 and Jean in 1947. Moved with her family to Broken Hill, New South Wales, in 1946, where she helped to establish the Happy Day Kindergarten. It still exists today. Moved to Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1953, where she became a full-time Communist Party of Australia Activist. Joined the Newcastle Branch of the Union of Australian Women in 1954. She was secretary of the Branch between 1954-1960. and was elected to the organisation’s national body in 1960, 1963 and 1970. In the 1960s, she also served as secretary of the Newcastle Trades Hall Council Equal Pay and Aboriginal Advancement committees. She was also a founding member of the Newcastle Peace Forum. She returned to study in the late 1960s as graduated with honours in Psychology in 1973. She became a practicing psychologist at the Stockton Hospital where she worked until 1982. She was the first Australian invited to use the Comintern archives when they were opened in 1990, as reward for her loyalty to Moscow after the Communist Party of Australia split in 1970. Received the Peggy Hill Peace Award in 1991 in recognition of her active commitment to world peace. Throughout the 1990s she wrote up the fruits of the research she completed in the Comintern archives. She also co-wrote a history of the Union of Australian Women. In 1993, she and Geoff moved to Manly, a beachside suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. Barbara Curthoys died on September 28, 2000. Published resources Journal Article Obituary - Barbara Curthoys: Communist Activist and Researcher, Ryan, Lyndall, 2001 Book More Than a Hat and Glove Brigade: The Story of the Union of Australian Women, Curthoys, B. (Barbara) and McDonald, Audrey, 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Newcastle Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections Unit: Communist Party of Australia Archival Material Barbara Curthoys Collection State Library of New South Wales Barbara Curthoys - interviews with members of the Union of Australian Women, 1995 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2004 Last modified 19 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 43 min.)??Marje Bollinger, a farmer, speaks of her background, her childhood, working with her father in the corner store and delivering the goods with him, working as a farmer, breeding goats, involvement in the mohair industry and the dairy goat industry, marketing goat milk, Ross River fever, hardship, bushfires, her son involved in a car accident, forming the Highway Safety Action Group as a result, her involvement with the alternative compliance scheme which is self-regulation of the heavy vehicle industry, being a mediator between road transport companies and the RTA, her active participation within the committee. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Notes of trip by ship via Adelaide, Perth, Colombo, Suez and Marseilles (expenses); notes from reading on Spain; Italy. 1925. Notes of trip to India, December 1952 – January 1953. Includes newspaper cutting from Lucknow National Herald, 3 January 1953 and leaflet advertising “All the History of Benares and Sarnath …” by B.N. Roy. Exercise book inscribed “Isabel C. Cookson, Newman College, Carlton” with “M.Sc. added, containing labelled diagrams of parts of the body magnified. n.d. Thirteen photographs of Isabel Cookson from childhood to late middle-age; passport issued 1947 (latest stamp 1965); photograph of mother, Elizabeth Somers Cookson, 1882, and father, John Cookson, n.d. Register, University of Manchester, congratulating her on her Lever- hulme Research Grant which has been reported to the Council and Senate, the University always taking “a warm interest in the welfare of its members”. Birthday Book of Isabel Cookson, November 1906, Photocopy of Isabel Cookseon’s birth certificate, 25 December 1892. MS. notes on Dr. Cookson by Mrs. Archer, 2 pp. Photocopy. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In her long life since her birth in 1923, Dawn Waterhouse has been a participant in the development of the Canberra community and the city’s evolution as the National Capital from the transfer of the Commonwealth Parliament to Canberra in 1927 to the present day. Dawn Waterhouse was inscribed on the ACT Honour Walk in 2019. “Dawn Waterhouse, community historian, Canberra identity, housewife, mother, community participant, laboratory assistant, was born Allison Dawn Calthorpe in Queanbeyan New South Wales in 1923, the younger daughter of Della and John Henry (Harry) Calthorpe. Dawn’s mother, Della Ludvigsen, was born in Sydney of American and Norwegian parents. Her father Harry Calthorpe, born at Drake near Tenterfield New South Wales, lived in Glen Innes and Cootamundra as a young man. He gave his occupation as pastry cook when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on 19 August 1914 just three weeks after the beginning of World War I. He trained in the Middle East and was seriously wounded at Gallipoli on 2 July 1915 while serving with the 1st Light Horse. Struck in the lower jaw by a fragment of high explosive, his jaw shattered and he lost all but two teeth, leaving him unable to chew solid food. After treatment in several army hospitals in Egypt for his injuries and shell shock, Harry was repatriated to Australia towards the end of 1915. After extensive medical treatment in Concord Repatriation Hospital, he became a recruitment sergeant in the Southern Tablelands. Harry married Della Ludvigsen in Sydney in 1917 and they had two daughters, Del and Dawn. Dawn described her mother as a modern woman who loved Sydney where she was a roller-skater and dancer. She hated living in Braidwood but became proud of Canberra, she hated horses but loved cars. She did not like talking about unpleasant things such as the war. Dawn’s father suffered very much from his war injuries, but he was a happy person, a good swimmer and horse rider and he played the cornet. After walking off a soldier settlement block at Braidwood, which was on poor farming land infested with rabbits, Harry Calthorpe became a stock and station agent in Queanbeyan. Soon after, he joined a firm begun by William George (Bill) Woodger and his brother Tom, which became Woodgers & Calthorpe. The firm was joint auctioneer at the auction of the first group of Canberra business and residential leases, held in Sydney in 1924. Registered as a limited company in 1927, Woodgers & Calthorpe continued acting for the Commonwealth in the sale of Canberra leases for the next 35 years. When Dawn was three, she attended the opening of the Provisional Parliament House (now Old Parliament House) on 9 May 1927 by the Duke of York. A couple of years later she remembers being taken for a joy ride with her family by pioneer aviator Charles Kingsford Smith when he flew to Canberra in his famous aeroplane the Southern Cross. By then the Calthorpe family had moved from Queanbeyan to their Canberra home, which was built at 24 Mugga Way on a block Harry Calthorpe bought at the first auction of house leases. Dawn remembers Canberra as just a paddock, but her father assured her, ‘One day this will be a city’. The town’s 9000 residents struck hard times during the Great Depression when the development of Canberra virtually ceased. In an effort to combat moves to abandon Canberra as the National Capital, Bill Woodger and Harry Calthorpe joined a small group named the Kangaroo Club which aimed to ‘keep Canberra hopping’. Both invested in Canberra businesses and, through the Canberra Building & Investment Co. Ltd, were active in the development of the Sydney and Melbourne buildings, the nucleus of Canberra’s future city centre. Dawn’s childhood memories are of riding bikes, looking for fossils at Mugga, swimming in the Cotter River and roaming wherever she liked. One day she walked from Red Hill to Mount Ainslie and back, a ‘long way’ and ‘such an adventure’. The opening of Manuka Swimming Pool in 1931 is a very clear memory as a sign of the advent of a modern city. ‘Dad bought us season tickets at the cost of 12/6 … it was absolutely wonderful.’ There were films at the Capitol Theatre Manuka, concerts at the Albert Hall, and celebrations for Empire Day and Wattle Day. The Calthorpe family house was designed by Oakley and Parkes, who had won a national competition to design houses suitable for the national capital. They were designers of the Prime Minister’s Lodge – the Lodge and theirs had identical bathrooms. Della Calthorpe ordered furniture and household items from the Sydney firm Beard Watson & Co. Dawn grew up in a comfortable and fashionable house with her own bedroom where she kept her toys and in the backyard there was a special cubby house furnished with a wood stove, chairs and boxes for toys. Originally one of the huts built as temporary accommodation for Canberra’s early construction workers, Harry Calthorpe bought it as a playhouse for his daughters. Their home was very cold – it was Dawn’s job to get the kindling – they had big fires but the warmth hardly reached the bedrooms and chilblains were common. The Calthorpe children were brought up strictly, punctuality being very important, and they were caned for any infringements of rules. The meals centred around red meat – fish and poultry were rarely eaten – with vegetables and fruit from the garden and mushrooms picked in nearby paddocks. Dawn began her schooling at Telopea Park public school in Barton and remained a student at the school during the Great Depression. She resented that her older sister, Del, was at St Gabriel’s, a fee-paying school opened by Anglican nuns in Melbourne Avenue, Deakin in 1926 and that her parents kept her at the school after it became the Canberra Church of England Girls’ Grammar School in 1932 (now the independent Canberra Girls’ Grammar School). Through her earlier years, Dawn maintained a competitive relationship with Del who was about five years older and a high achieving student. When Dawn asked her father what ‘prosperous’ meant, he said it was when you could afford to go on holidays. The family’s holidays at Narooma ceased during the Depression but her parents used say, ‘Oh well we’ve got a lovely garden, we’ll holiday in the garden’. In 1937, when there was more money after the stringent times in the Depression years, Dawn, who described herself as a daydreamer as a student, was enrolled at Girls’ Grammar. That year she was a member of the Junior Athletics team and in 1940 she was a prefect. She loved Grammar and remembered the teachers through the years. When she left school, ‘all the boys were heading off to the war so the girls got the jobs’. Dawn was employed as a laboratory assistant at the entomology division of CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the forerunner of CSIRO). She did lots of experiments feeding mosquitoes and grasshoppers and she learnt how to crutch sheep and drive a gas producer, an improvised wartime attachment that enabled cars to run without relying on petrol, which was rationed. Part of her work on grasshoppers took her to Trangie in the central west of New South Wales. Her boss was her future husband, entomologist Douglas Woodhouse, and she worked with him on research on blowflies. Waterhouse became chief of CSIR’s entomology division during World War II and served as a captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps. He was posted to Cairo for about six weeks from the beginning of December 1942 and to the mouth of the Lakekamu River in the Gulf Province of New Guinea from August to October 1943, testing mosquito repellent and engaged on other medical research projects. He was the inventor of the insect repellent known commercially as Aerogard. Dawn Calthorpe and Douglas Fred Waterhouse, who was the elder son of Professor and Mrs E.G. Waterhouse of the Sydney suburb of Gordon, married in St John’s Anglican Church, Reid, ACT in March 1944. Eighty guests attended the wedding reception held at the Calthorpes’ home in Mugga Way. ‘Doug was a very plain man,’ Dawn said years later, ‘but absolutely the most witty and very clever. I loved him so much.’ Once she married, Dawn, like all married women, was barred from returning to work in any government job. She was lonely, particularly when Doug went to Cambridge, and she spent the time knitting and reading. They built a house in Dominion Circuit Deakin, which remained Dawn’s home until quite recent years. After the birth of their daughter Jill, Dawn suffered several miscarriages and the births of the three boys, Douglas, Jonathon and Gowrie, occurred over the next seventeen years. In the early 1960s, the family accompanied Doug to Yale where he had an academic appointment. While raising a family, Dawn had a job with the blood bank, joined the Red Cross, the Canberra & District Historical Society and was a member of the first committee of the Children’s Medical Research Foundation. In 1954 she was invited to arrange the flowers for the visit of Queen Elizabeth to the Provisional Parliament House. Then she was asked to do the flower arrangements for the Queen Mother’s visit and Princess Margaret’s visit. ‘I had a bit of a flair with flowers,’ she said. After Harry Calthorpe died in 1950, Dawn’s mother remained living in the Mugga Way house until shortly before her death in 1979. In the mid-1980s, with increasing awareness of the loss of Canberra’s heritage, the Commonwealth Government bought 24 Mugga Way. Now one of three heritage houses administered by the ACT Heritage Houses Trust, Calthorpes’ House is preserved as a window into a family’s life in the 1920s–1950s period. It follows a historical timeline from the ACT’s other heritage houses: Lanyon from the convict and squatter era and Mugga Mugga from small settler times. Calthorpes’ House is a treasure house of domestic history. It houses the gramophone, pianola, records and bridge cards reflecting the family’s entertainments and pastimes, and the original furniture. The Calthorpes bought some new household gadgets, a toaster, iron and fan, but they persevered with an ice chest with blocks of ice delivered regularly and a wood-fired copper with a copper-stick to transfer the boiling clothes to the laundry sink, and a bag of blue for bleach. In harmony with Canberra’s planned garden city design, their house is set on a large block with a formal front garden and a large back garden with vegetable plots and an orchard, and they kept chooks which it was Dawn’s job to feed. Near the back fence is the wartime air raid trench and shelter which was big enough for two families in event of an enemy attack prior to a feared invasion during World War II. Dawn describes the early 1960s, when Canberra began a decade of rapid growth, as an exciting era. The sleepy Molonglo River was dammed, ready for the rains that turned it into Lake Burley Griffin. A new Commonwealth Avenue bridge straddled the lake and the low-level river crossings were submerged. The Defence departments began the long-planned move to the National Capital and their staff and families, at first reluctant to leave Melbourne, came to like living in Canberra. There were more embassies and Dawn attended embassy cocktail parties and arranged women’s programs for ca couple of conferences. Construction was happening everywhere, the National Library on the southern shore of the lake, more buildings at the Australian National University on the northside, and the Royal Mint and new Defence buildings in other directions. Dawn developed an interest in Japanese flower arranging and met the Japanese ambassador’s wife. She felt she was at the top of Canberra society. She worked for school fetes and many other causes, including Legacy and the Red Cross, and at the same time she made clothes for her children. In the early 1970s Dawn recalls that John Molony, historian at the Australian National University, and several Aboriginal people came to tea at 24 Mugga Way and Gough Whitlam, whom Dawn knew from schooldays when he was a friend of Del’s, raised the Aboriginal flag marking the first Aboriginal embassy. In 1972 the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established opposite the Provisional (now Old) Parliament House. It is now an Australian Heritage site. Dawn was surprised by the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government with its new ideas in 1975. She believes Julia Gillard did well as Prime Minister; her view is that women are part of men’s strength and ideas. A Canberra patriot all her life, a few negative comments have made their way into Dawn’s published observations in recent years, beginning with her firm view on handling isolation during the Covid pandemic. Speaking from her long experience of living through the Great Depression, World War II, bush fires, drought and epidemics, particularly recurrent polio epidemics when no vaccine was available, she remarked: ‘When I was young and had chickenpox or measles, we had three weeks’ isolation. I think they are letting people out too early.’ In another interview she lamented the poor planning that had allowed parts of Canberra to be overwhelmed with concrete buildings. ‘I don’t like cement. I don’t like the overcrowding and I don’t like what seems to be disrespect for the city’s poorer citizens,’ she said. ‘Where has our community spirit gone? I’m so proud I’m a Canberra girl. If only they would stop building with concrete, they have lost the plot.’ On 14 June 2021 Dawn received the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for her service over many years to community history. Stylish and always carefully groomed, Dawn defies her age. In 2022, when she gave a talk at the October meeting of the Canberra & District Historical Society, she was offered a chair and a microphone but did not need either. Her topic was ‘Canberra and Blowflies’, and her collaboration with her late husband in his work on the eradication of blowflies. Dawn’s secret for a long life is ‘always be involved in something’ and face life with a ‘positive attitude’ – ‘keep busy’. “ Published resources Dawn Waterhouse recalls a bygone era and rich memories of Canberra’s past, Genevieve Jacobs, 2020 Dawn’s seen it all, but not like this, Sally Pryor, 2020 Feisty, fond memories from Dawn of Canberra, Belinda Strahorn, 2021 A “dead end” has plenty of soul’: Canberra had few early admirers but it did have happy inhabitants says Dawn Waterhouse, Dawn Waterhouse, 1991 Dawn Waterhouse OAM, 2021 Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 1 February 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Val Plumwood was an eminent Australian environmental philosopher. Val Plumwood was born on 11 August 1939 in Terry Hills, Sydney. She started her first year of philosophy at Sydney University in 1956 and, after a short break, resumed her studies in the 1960s. Val taught at Macquarie University, Murdoch University, the University of Tasmania, North Carolina State University and the University of Montana. She published widely during the seventies, including papers with Richard Routley (her second husband) and four books. At the time of her death, she was working on a further two manuscripts. In the 1970s Val was a prominent member of a group of philosophers at the Australian National University who formed the first wave of Australian environmental philosophy. She was also an important environmental activist, and in the 1970s and 1980s was instrumental in a campaign to save rainforests in eastern Australia. Val received a PhD from the Australian National University in 1990 was a member of the university’s Social and Political Theory Program, Research School of Social Sciences. She held visiting professorships at the University of California-Berkeley in the US, McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, the University of Lancaster in the UK and the University of Frankfurt in Germany. Val was also a Fellow at the Australian National University, first as an Australian Research Council fellow and later as a Visiting Fellow of the Fenner School of Environment & Society. Val passed away in late February 2008. Archival resources Australian National University Archives Papers National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Val Plumwood, philosopher, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Judith Wright, 1944-2000 [manuscript] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes of committee and general meetings 1863-1879, 1892-1916, 1922-1977; financial records including cash books, ledgers, accounts, donations, annual reports, cheque butts, passbooks; miscellaneous reports from other Benevolent organisations including Footscray, Yarraville, Sandringham and Malvern Benevolent Societies 1968-1969. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 hours 15 minutes. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 March 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Franziska Schlink served the Broken Hill community as a General Practitioner from 1936 through to the 1950s. She was one of the few women allowed to go underground when she demanded access to treat miners who were injured or unwell. Franziska Schlink was the daughter of Albert Joseph and Mabel Ann Schlink. Like her brothers Carl and John, Franziska completed a medical degree and she began work at the Royal Melbourne Hospital before moving to the Ballarat Base Hospital, the Royal Perth Hospital, and finally the Broken Hill and District Hospital in 1936. As one of the town’s first women doctors she had to withstand a hostile reception from resident surgeons Samuel Barnett and Wilhelm Dorsch, but she and Dorsch went on to become firm friends. From 1951, Dr Schlink moved into private practice with Dr Brian Funder and Dr Edmond Thomas Walsh. Franziska Schlink was president of the Broken Hill branch of the Australian Medical Association. A heavy smoker, she contracted lung cancer and after many years of service in Broken Hill returned to Wodonga, where her father had once owned a general store. She died at the age of 55. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 February 2009 Last modified 13 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Constitution, charter and other policy material; co-ordinating committee minutes; general minutes; correspondence; conference material; election campaign material; submissions; forum papers; membership records; Victorian broadsheets (and drafts); interstate newsletters; publicity material; publications. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "I. Diary and address book?1989, undated; Appointments diary for 1989 and note book containing addresses and telephone numbers (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/1)?II. Correspondence?1. Personal correspondence?1977-1984, 1988; Letters from Lynne Spender to Dale Spender and copies of letters from Dale Spender to Lynne Spender. RESTRICTED (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/1-2)?1976-1984, 1987-1990; ‘Family letters’. Correspondents include Dale Spender’s parents and other family members. RESTRICTED (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/3)?1980s-1994; Cards. Mainly birthday and Christmas cards received. RESTRICTED (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/4)?2. Professional correspondence?1988; ‘Early Feminist Writers’ Correspondence’. Correspondents include Janet Turner Hospital. RESTRICTED (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/5)?1987-1988; ‘Women 1988’. RESTRICTED (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/5)?1988-1992; Correspondence with Cheris Kramarae. RESTRICTED (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/5)?1990-1992; Correspondence with Lisa Bellear. RESTRICTED (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/5)?1987-1995; General correspondence mainly concerning conferences, workshops, feminist organisations, talks, publications etc. Correspondents include Nancy Cato (1988, 1990), Beth Yahp (1991), and Thea Astley (1992). RESTRICTED (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/6-7)?III. Literary Manuscripts?1. Books?1979; ‘Man made language’ (1980). Draft (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/8)?1972-1988; ‘There has always been a womens’ movement this century’ (1983). Draft chapter on Rebecca West, correspondence with Rebecca West’s secretary, newscuttings. (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/8)?1986-1989; ‘The writing or the sex?’ (1989). Notebook, drafts and correspondence. Correspondents include Marilyn French. (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/8-9)?1985-1989; ‘British women writers’ (1989). Research materials including articles and biographical and bibliographical information. (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/10)?1983-1991; ‘Diary of Elizabeth Pepys (1991). Proposal, drafts, notes and book jackets. Also includes photocopies of two books: 1. The diary of Mrs Pepys by John Harold Wilson, 1934. 2. The private life of Mr Pepys by F.D. Ponsonby, 1960. (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/11)?1986-1990; ‘Knowledge explosion’ (1991). Notes & drafts, correspondence with contributors, editorial correspondence, correspondence with co-editor Cheris Kramarae, Pro-forma materials, manuscript enquiries, proofs. (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/12)?1990-1991; ‘Life lines’ (1992). Correspondence, proofs, notes, ‘articles on women’, transcripts and photocopies of letters and diaries of 19th century women, photographs for the book. (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/13-14)?1989-92; ‘International encyclopaedia of women’s studies’ (unpublished). Correspondence. (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/15-16)?1990-1991; ‘Heroines’ (1991). Notes, draft of introduction, editorial correspondence, autobiographies of contributors with associated correspondence. Correspondents include Barbara Hanrahan, Janette Turner Hospital, Barbara Jefferis, Elizabeth Jolley, Finola Moorhead, Elizabeth Riddell, Judith Rodriguez and Beth Yahp. (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/17)?1992-1994; ‘Weddings and wives’ (1994). Proposal, contracts, biographies of contributors, correspondence with contributors, correspondence with Rosemary Tribe, drafts, corrected proofs. Correspondents include Debra Adelaide, Jill Ker Conway, Anna-Maria Dell’oso, Yasmine Gooneratne, Kerry Greenwood, Germaine Greer, Marion Halligan, Gillian Mears, Dorothy Porter, Rosie Scott and Nadia Wheatley. (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/18-20)?1993-1995; ‘Nattering on the net’. Drafts, notes, research material including articles and conference papers. (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/21-22)?2. Articles and Talks?1982-1993; Articles, talks, lectures, forewords and book reviews. Drafts and published works. Includes ‘West Coast Tour 1989’ comprising drafts of talks, promotional material, schedules and information sheets. (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/23-24)?IV. ‘Pandora Press’?1984-1991; Seven of a collection of thirteen stories on the pleasures and iniquities of intellectual life; typescript of ‘Feminism – a reader’ by Maggie Humm; stories by Susan Hawthorne and other writers. (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/25)?V. ‘Lynne’s writings’?undated; Drafts of two untitled works by Lynne Spender (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/26)?VI. Photographs?undated; Black & white portraits of Dale Spender and one colour portrait (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/26)?VII. Printed material?1987-1994, undated; Brochures, flyers, book jackets, catalogues, programmes etc. Book: The lady down the road by Jill Morris (1994), inscribed by the author. (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/26)?VIII. Newscuttings?1977-1993; Articles about Dale Spender and feminism and reviews of her books (Call No.: ML MSS 6274/28, 29, 30X)?IX. Audio material?1995; Cassette tape recorded by the ABC. Dale Spender: The words to say it (Call No.: MLOH 258/1) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 12 January 2010 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 13 December 2002 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Join the AAMWS Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0415gb.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound cassettes??Caskey talks about grazing along West Darling and Fowler’s Gap and its contribution to research. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Co-ordinating committee and Annual General Meeting minutes Conference files Membership records Subject files Broadsheets from branches in other States Copies of QANGO-type material for culling Some Right to Choose Coalition files. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Miss Sage was the Matron in Chief of the Australian Army Nursing Service – awarded CBE [Commander of the Order of the British Empire]. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "WINDSOR, NSW. 1940. MISS NANCY BIRD (LEFT), WEARING THE UNIFORM OF THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S FLYING CLUB, WITH SQUADRON LEADER F.C. MACKILLOP, GWEN STARK AND LADY WAKEHURST, WIFE OF THE GOVERNOR OF NSW. (DONOR MRS NANCY BIRD-WALTON).?Black & white – Print silver gelatin Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Helen Morgan and Nikki Henningham Created 3 February 2011 Last modified 14 February 2011 Digital resources Title: Romaine Rutnam Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sue Dethridge was a popular and influential local councillor for the Bellingen Shire Council from 1987-2003. She served as Mayor from 1991-1999. Dethridge stood unsuccessfully as an Independent for Coffs Harbour in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1995. Susan Dethridge was a freelance journalist and inveterate writer of letters to the editor on many subjects. As Mayor, she produced a regular column in the Bellingen Courier Sun, drawing attention to local issues with the use of amusing or poignant anecdotes. On being diagnosed with breast cancer, she fought for improved support and treatment of cancer patients. Dethridge was a long term local councillor and was the popularly elected Mayor of Bellingen from 1991 to 1999. Having moved to the town of Dorrigo in 1974 and seen it revived by tourism, she was active in promoting tourism as an antidote to the decline of country towns. She was a member of the Regional Development Board from 1997 to 1999, and Australia’s Holiday Coast Regional Development Council from 2000 to 2002. Dethridge was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2003 for services to local government. The award was made early due to the state of her health. She died, of breast cancer, that same year and was survived by her husband Barry Dethridge and their three children. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Folders of newspaper clippings Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Acc01/261 comprises papers relating to Ross’s activities as a valuer under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme.??The Acc03/89 instalment includes material relating to Ross’s M.A. thesis titled The accounts of the Talbot household at Blakemere in the County of Shropshire, 1394-1425; widowhood; and, Dorothy Cottrell. Also, manuscript and literature collection assessments made for various institutions, under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, 1982-1998. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Joyce Moylan was a once only candidate for election, and achieved only 1.4% of the vote. She stood as an Australians Against Further Immigration candidate in the 2003 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Wyong. Joyce Moylan had retired from work when she stood for the seat of Wyong in 2003. She said her motive in standing was her concern for the future of her grandchildren. She believed there were already too many people and not enough jobs in New South Wales. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The collection includes the following: 1. Personal items such as correspondence (1928-1954) passport, diary, etc. 2. Items dealing with education and teaching of various disciplines such as history, social studies and so on; mass literacy; education in Papua New Guinea (government policy, organization of schools); training of nurses, teachers, midwives, etc. 3. Lecture notes on anthropology, Baganda, Chukchee, funeral rites and kinship. 4. Various papers to do with people living in the Pacific area. 5. Six volumes of photographs, Dec. 1932 to 1954, of life in Manam Island, Territory of New Guinea and in Nauru Island. Typescript drafts, with manuscript interpolations of Miss Wedgwood’s work titled “A background documentary survey on the education of women and girls in the Pacific”. Five typescript papers by other authors concerning theories and problems of native education in New Guinea. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 November 2003 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jessie Cooper talks about her family; early life; education; first job; Dorothy Knox; her interest in politics; the Lyceum Club; her entry into politics; her fight to gain a position in the legislative council; what her job involves and her concern for prison reform. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 25 February 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 25 November 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Untitled Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Carmel Tebbutt was a very successful ALP politician who made the transfer from the upper to the lower house of the New South Wales parliament. However, before she entered state politics Carmel was a councillor in the Marrickville Council from 1993- 1998 and their Deputy Mayor from 1995-1998. She entered state politics when she was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1998 and subsequently re-elected in 2003. During this time she served as Minister for Juvenile Justice (1999-2003), Minister for Ageing, Disability Services and Minister for Community Services (2003 -2005) and Minister for Education and Training (2005-2007). Carmel Tebbutt resigned from the Legislative Council in August 2005 to run for the seat of Marrickville in the Legislative Assembly by-election, which she won. She was then appointed Minister for Education and Training (2005 – 2008). In 2008 she became the state’s first female Deputy Premier and subsequently held the portfolios of Climate Change and Environment and in the Keneally Government, that of Health Minister. She retired from parliament at the 2015 election."
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    {
        "text": "Joan McIntyre was an active member of the Liberal Party and ran for election once on its behalf: in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly election for Riverstone in 1999. Joan McIntyre was active in local affairs when she ran for election to parliament. She holds a Certificate Welfare, and an Associate Diploma Social Science from TAFE, Blacktown. She has also held many offices in the Liberal Party at local and electorate council level. She has been a delegate to State Council, Women’s Council and a Legislative Council pre-selector. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 13 December 2005 Last modified 13 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1990 Joan Kirner was elected the first woman Premier for the State of Victoria. She held the position for two years but her legacy will extend for much longer. As the Premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews said in a statement after her death: “Through her decades of advocacy for gender equality, [Joan Kirner] fundamentally changed [The Victorian ALP] and our society. In the process, she raised a generation of Victorian Labor women – one of whom became Prime Minister… She fought every day for fairness. Our state is stronger for her service and our lives are greater for her friendship. She was our first female Premier and because of her work, she won’t be the last.” Kirner entered the Victorian Parliament in 1982 as an MLC (ALP) for the Province of Melbourne West. Between 1985 and 1988 she was Minister for Conservation, Forests and Lands. In 1988 she moved to the Lower House as the member for Williamstown and was appointed Minister for Education (1988-1990) and Minister for Ethnic Affairs (1990-1991). She served as Deputy Premier from 1989-1990 and in 1992 became the Leader of the Opposition. Kirner resigned from parliament in 1994. That same year, she was appointed Chair of the Employment Services Regulatory Authority (which position she held until 1996), and Chair of the National Committee to Celebrate the Centenary of Federation. In May 2001, as a member of the Victorian Committee for the Centenary of Federation, she organised the Women Shaping the Nation event and presentation of the Victorian Honour Roll of women in the Victorian Parliament with 756 women present. Kirner’s interest in social justice, equity for women, the arts and landcare was lifelong. With Moira Rayner, she co-authored the best selling Women’s Power Handbook, published in 1999 and illustrated by Judy Horacek. Kirner was a co-convenor of Emily’s List, a Board member of the Australian Children’s Television Foundation, and a member of the Playbox Theatre Board. She supported a variety of organisations including the Living Museum of the West, the Women’s Circus and Positive Women. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 As a woman: writing women's lives, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1992 Living generously: women mentoring women, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1996 Conference Paper Economic Statement: A Statement, Victoria, 1991 A Positive Partnership: Affirmative Action in the Australian Labor Party, Australian Labor Party (Vic. Br.); Kirner, J (Joan); Douglas, Mary, 1994 \"But I'm only a Mum;\" \"On Deleting the Word Only.\", Victorian Federation of State Parents' Clubs; Kirner, Joan E, 1977 Book Hon. Joan Kirner, Education Speeches, 1973-1984: \"From Mum to Minister.\", Kirner, J (Joan), [1996] Ministerial Statement on the VCE, Kirner, J (Joan), 1989 The Women's Power Handbook, Kirner, Joan and Moira Rayner, 1999 No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 Resource Section Women in Australia's Working History, 2003, http://www.australianworkersheritagecentre.com.au/07_education/working_women.htm Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Victoria's first female premier Joan Kirner dies aged 76, Dow, Aisha, 2015, http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/victorias-first-female-premier-joan-kirner-dies-aged-76-20150601-ghefxh.html Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 3 April 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: The Honourable Joan Kirner Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0359gb.gif Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Pauline Armstrong was a long time activist and her later work as a researcher and historian resulted in the publication of her historical and biographical book Frank Hardy and the making of Power without Glory (2000). She was passionately involved in the Save Our Sons movement during the Vietnam War. Born in 1928, Pauline Armstrong came from a politically active family. Her grandmother and mother protested against Billy Hughes’ attempts to introduce conscription during World War I and were disenchanted Labor Party members, later joining the Communist Party. Armstrong herself was introduced to the Eureka Youth League of the Communist Party by her uncle, Paul Mortier. She joined the Communist Party in 1947 and worked as a legal secretary from 1949 for lawyer Cedric Ralph, who represented the Communist Party at the royal commission into its activities in 1949-50. In other arenas she was active in campaigns for improved local services, and passionately involved in the Save Our Sons movement during the Vietnam War. Armstrong’s son, Karl, was jailed twice during the Vietnam War for refusing to register for the draft. At the age of fifty-six she entered university as a mature age student. She gained a Bachelor of Arts (Deakin University) – Literature, Philosophy, Professional writing; a Master of Arts (Monash University) – Australian Studies; and a Doctor of Philosophy (University of Melbourne). She was a member of the Fellowship of Australian writers and the Australian Society of Authors. The publication in 2000 of Armstrong’s book Frank Hardy and the making of Power without Glory was a major achievement and the culmination of 8 years of research. Armstrong also wrote feature articles for newspapers, short stories and made journal contributions. She collaborated with Rebecca Maclean on content for Maclean’s documentary S.O.S. Movement, which was informed by Armstrong’s MA thesis on the history of the Save Our Sons movement. From her youth, Armstrong was involved in political activities, school and library formation committees, folklore and folk music promotion. In the 1940s she assisted on committees to remove restrictions on Sunday sport and promote daytime training for apprentices, and equal pay. Armstrong was also a trade union, Communist Party and Eureka Youth League activist. Published resources Thesis A critical biography of Frank Hardy, Pauline Armstrong, 1998 A history of the Save Our Sons movement of Victoria: 1965-1973, Pauline Armstrong, 1991 Book Frank Hardy and the making of <I>Power Without Glory</I>, Pauline Armstrong, 2000 Report The formation of municipal libraries, Pauline Armstrong, n.d. Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Pauline Armstrong, 1990-2002 [manuscript] The University of Melbourne Archives Armstrong, Pauline State Library of New South Wales Audrey Blake and Jack Blake further papers, 1937-2004 Author Details Clare Land Created 13 September 2001 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Include minutes of meetings, correspondence with authors, subject and publication files, manuscript readers’ reports, and membership and financial records. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 5 September 2000 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 17 min.)??McShane, a , sheep farmer, speaks of growing up in a semi-rural area of Sydney, moving to Tasmania with her family, teaching at Oatlands, Tas. After her training, marrying a farmer, and raising 5 boys on their rural property “Cassavene” which runs mostly Saxon/Merino/Corridale-cross sheep to produce high-quality wool for knitwear, running the property jointly with her husband from 1983, taking up machine knitting as a hobby which then grew into a wholesale business supplying a niche market with woollen garments made from the wool from their own sheep, her hopes for the future. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Laura Vickers is the founder of Nest Legal, Australia’s first online after-hours law firm. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2006 with first class honours in law and since then has practised law in everything from conveyances to High Court appeals. Vickers has worked as a Principal Solicitor with the Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office, where she represented the State of Victoria in the constitutional challenge to chaplains in schools and was the legal advisor to the Victorian Floods Review, assisting former Chief Commissioner Neil Comrie AO, APM. She has also worked for top 20 firm Maddocks and local Clifton Hill law firm Elliott Stafford & Associates, taught undergraduate law at La Trobe University, chaired the Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee at the Law Institute of Victoria and volunteered with the Fitzroy Legal Service. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Laura Vickers for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Laura Vickers in June 2015. Laura Vickers is the founder of Nest Legal, Australia’s first online after-hours law firm. Laura grew up in Castlemaine, Victoria. She ran a number of businesses as a child, including a roadside egg stall, coordinating birthday parties and playing functions with her string quartet. In 2000, she moved to Melbourne for university to study a double degree in law and communications. Throughout her university studies, Laura worked as a skincare consultant, copywriter, pyjama model, secretary and conveyancing clerk in Melbourne and London. She had planned to finish her degrees, get admitted as a lawyer and then return to Europe to pursue a career in communications. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2006 with first class honours in law. She then lived for three months in Paris at Shakespeare & Co bookshop, supplementing her writing income by teaching French children to sing English nursery rhymes. In 2007, she undertook her articled clerkship at Maddocks, coordinated the marketing for the inaugural Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, and wrote a column for Richard Ackland’s Justinian. By the time of her admission to the legal profession in 2008, she had made three discoveries that adjusted her life plans: it was a hard slog earning an income as a writer, she didn’t mind legal practice and she was rather fond of a handsome prosecutor in the firm’s Construction Law team. In 2009, when the global financial crisis hit and Laura’s state government commercial practice dried up, the prosecutor (who she would ultimately marry) helped her develop a practice prosecuting dog and brothel owners for local councils. After the novelty of this wore off and the prosecutor went to the Victorian Bar, Laura accepted a position as a constitutional lawyer with the Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office (VGSO). Laura worked at the VGSO from 2009 until 2013, during which time she acted as the legal adviser to the Victorian Floods Review, taught undergraduate law at La Trobe University, performed with her band at various Melbourne live music venues, completed a Graduate Diploma in Government Law and chaired the Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee of the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV). In 2013, her son Rufus was born. Whilst he slept, Laura created and managed the VGSO blog. At the end of 2013, unable to secure enough childcare to enable her to return to fulltime work at the VGSO, Laura started Nest Legal. Its services are designed to meet the needs of busy working parents who do not have time to visit a lawyer’s office during the day. It provides after-hours Skype consultations, advertises its fixed fees online and obtains initial instructions via secure web forms, which can be provided at the client’s convenience. This not only suits her client base but enables Laura to do the bulk of her work at times when her son is asleep or her husband is home to assist with childcare. The firm’s law clerks collaborate with Laura via the cloud, working at times that suit their own personal commitments. The firm grows through word of mouth on social media. Nest Legal has been heralded as a blueprint for lawyers thinking creatively about technology to better serve their clients and parents continuing to practice law meaningfully after having children. In 2014, Nest Legal received the LexisNexis Legal Innovation Index award and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Law Institute of Victoria’s Law Firm of the Year (less than 50 partners). Laura now mentors other lawyers wanting to develop online law firms and sits on the LIV’s Technology and the Law Committee, which guides the profession on the use of technology. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Laura Vickers Created 12 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Laura Vickers Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Netball is said to be the largest participant sport for girls and women in Australia, with four hundred thousand players registered with the All Australia Netball Association by the late 1990s, and an estimated further three hundred and fifty thousand not registered. It was a foundation sport of the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra in 1981. Ian Jobling and Pamela Barham suggest that the popularity of netball among women can be attributed to its versatility (it can be played on all surfaces at all age and skill levels), and its organisation by women for women. Netball began as a derivation of the American game of Basketball (and in fact was known in Australia as ‘women’s basket ball’ until 1970). As early as 1890, the game was introduced to England where it was taken up with some enthusiasm by the ladies: In England in 1895, ladies using broomsticks for posts and wet paper bags for baskets played the basketball game on grass. Their long skirts, bustle backs, nipped waists and button up shoes impeded running and their leg-of-mutton sleeves restricted arm movement making dribbling and long passes difficult. The ladies decided to adapt the game to accommodate these restrictions. (Source: http://www.netball.asn.au) By the early twentieth century, the game was being played in Australian primary and secondary schools, presumably introduced by teachers from England. Interschool competitions had begun by 1913. In 1926, the first recorded interstate match took place between Melbourne and Sydney teams, and the following year saw the formation of the All Australian Women’s Basket Ball Association (AAWBBA). After Australia’s first international match against New Zealand in 1938, the Association took steps to introduce international rules for the game incorporating Australian, New Zealand and English codes of play. In 1956, after negotiations with the All England Netball Association, an Australian team was selected to tour England. They clocked up an amazing sixty-four wins, with just three losses. This tour led to the establishment of the International Federation of Basketball and Netball Federations (now IFNA) as a body to preside over the standardisation of playing rules. In 1960, the Federation proposed an international netball tournament to be held every four years. The first World Netball Championship was held in Eastbourne, England, in 1963. Australia was victorious over ten other teams and continued to dominate the competition in subsequent years. Australian teams have claimed eight of the eleven championships held to date. Published resources Booklet Golden Jubilee Souvenir Booklet, 1927-28 - 1977-78, All Australia Netball Association, 1978 Book Netball Australia: a socio-historical analysis, Jobling, Ian and Pamela Barham, 1988 A Netball History in Tasmania: 'The First Bounce' - An Account of the History of the Sport in Tasmania, Barker, Pauline, 2005 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Netball Australia - Papers Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 January 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Edwina Kennedy was the first Australian to win the British Women’s Amateur Golf Championship. She has represented Australia in four world amateur team championships. Kennedy won the Australian Women’s Amateur Golf Championship in 1986. Allegedly presented with her first set of golf clubs at the age of two, Edwina Kennedy enrolled at the Wentworth Falls Golf Club at the age of seven and had been carded under 100 by the following year. Wallacia Golf Club still holds Kennedy’s scorecard from the Junior and School Girls Championship when, aged nine, she competed with a handicap of 28. At sixteen, Kennedy won the Australian foursomes (with Sue Goldsmith), and proceeded to win the Australian junior championship four years in a row. In 1978, on her nineteenth birthday, Kennedy became the first Australian to win the British Women’s Amateur Golf Championship. That same year, Kennedy’s team (including Lindy Goggin, Jane Lock and Patricia Bridges as captain) won gold at the International Golf Federation Women’s Championships in Fiji, competing against thirteen others. The team won silver at the same event in North Carolina two years later against 27 others. In 1979, Kennedy became the first woman to compete in the Australian universities team championship, winning each of her matches from the men’s tee, and today the Edwina Kennedy Trophy for women’s individual stroke play is awarded regularly at the Australian University Championship for Golf. Kennedy has competed at the Espirito Santo world championship, the Commonwealth series (Australia versus Japan), and the Asia Cup. She won the Australian Women’s Amateur Golf Championship in 1986. Kennedy retired from competition in 1993. Published resources Article Edwina Quits, 1993, http://newsstore.theage.com.au Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 January 2007 Last modified 12 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A 2776- A 2777?Vols. 1-2?Minute book, 1907-1919??A 2778-A 2779?Vols. 3-4?Scoring book, 1908-1916 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Commandant Janice Webb (later Hilton), Australian Red Cross (ARC) (left), and Wing Officer Betty Docker, Matron of 4 RAAF Hospital at Butterworth, Malaysia, standing on the airstrip tarmac beside a United States Army refuelling truck. The two women had just supervised the pre-flight care and loading of sick patients and wounded servicemen being evacuated (medevacs) aboard an RAAF C130-E aircraft.?Colour – film copy transparency. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Judy Jackson was elected to the House of Assembly in the Tasmanian Parliament representing the electorate of Denison in 1986. During her parliamentary career, she held the ministerial portfolios of Health and Human Services from 1998-2002 and Attorney-General from 2002 until her retirement in 2006. Educated at Glenorchy Primary School and Hobart High School, Judy Jackson graduated from the University of Tasmania with a BA, DipEd and LLB. She worked as a secondary school teacher (1969-1983) and as a lawyer with the Crown Law Department (1984-1985) before launching a political career in 1986. Jackson was the Shadow Spokesperson for Health from 1986-1989. In 1989 she was appointed Minister for Community Services and Minister for Parks, Wildlife and Heritage and in 1991 became Minister for Roads and Transport. She held these portfolios until 1992. Leader of the Opposition in the House from 1992-1996, she was also Shadow Minister for Social Justice (1993-1995); Parks, Wildlife and Heritage (1993-1996); Environment and Planning (1994-1996); Local Government (1995-1996); Status of Women (1996-1998); Justice (1996-1998); and Shadow Attorney General (1996-1998). In 2002 she became Attorney General in Tasmania. Her community interests include being on the boards of Euphrasia and Glenorchy Skillshare. Published resources Resource Section Hon. Judy JACKSON MHA, Electorate: DENISON, Inaugural speech: 19 March 1986, Jackson, Judy, 2001, http://web.archive.org/web/20010305221140/http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/ha/ISJacksonJudy.htm Judith (Judy) Louise Jackson, 2009, http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/csr/programs_and_services/tasmanian_honour_roll_of_women/inductees/2009/jackson||_judith_judy_louise Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Judy Jackson, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood and Rosemary Francis Created 3 October 2001 Last modified 22 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection is arranged into 8 series which include the following: I. Women’s Electoral Lobby, 1972-1981; comprising correspondence, newsletters, reports, submissions, conference papers, speeches, press releases, bumper stickers and policy statement. The main correspondents include Hon. A.A. Street, James McClelland, Shirley Sampson, Clare Dunne, Fae Ray, Ita Buttrose and Enid Pendergast. II. Subject files, 1961-1977; containing reports, meeting minutes, circular letters, press releases and press clippings, discussion papers and photocopies of publications. III. Other series; includes reports and discussion papers, conventions and conferences, royal commission papers, publications, articles on women’s issues, newspaper clippings, and papers relating to Working Women’s Centre and Jumbunna contained within the miscellaneous papers. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 10 October 2000 Last modified 27 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 22 October 2002 Last modified 31 January 2013 Digital resources Title: Sister Vera Torney Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 30 min.)??Bennetts, the General Manager of the Farm Shed and farmer, speaks of her father’s dairy farms, her childhood preoccupations and entertainment, her love of farming, working on her Uncle’s vineyard and saving for her business studies, working as a secretary, her marriage and juggling a trucking business and dairy farming, husband’s illness and moving back into the workforce, working at the tourist-oriented Farm Shed and being involved in overseas promotions, and walking in order to stay in shape and in touch. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The bulk of the MS 6163 collection comprises research material, drafts, reference cards and other papers relating to Rae-Ellis’ publications: Lively libraries, Menace at Oyster Bay, Queen Trucanini, The tribe with no feet, Louisa Anne Meredith, Trucanini: queen or traitor?, The Cavendish affair, and, Black Robinson, Protector of Aborigines. Also included are business, personal and family correspondence, 1968-1983; drafts of scripts written for ABC radio, drafts scripts of her film “The Midland pubs”, programs, short stories, cuttings of reviews, and a box of household receipts issued to Louisa Anne Meredith, 1870-1880 (23 boxes).??The Acc09.175 instalment comprises research notes, transcribed interviews, lists of contributors, case histories, correspondence, card indexes and subject files for books on reincarnation, coincidence, ghosts; typescripts at various stages for Never say die, Coincidence, ghost books, Whaling, Black Robinson and others; various unpublished romances; research materials on such topics as whaling, thylacines, Antarctica; maps and pictures used in publications; financial papers including receipts of expenditure and tax returns; articles by or about Vivienne Rae-Ellis; a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings; and, slides and travel materials relating to Egypt, Israel and Bethlehem (38 boxes, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Opening address at 6th biennial Conference of the Australian Association of Social Workers, August, 1957, by Amy Grace Wheaton. 21 pages. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 November 2002 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Acc11.094 instalment comprises six letters from Miriam Hyde to Carmichael, 1997-2001 (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour??Kate Brown was born in South Australia. She attended school at Borrika and Karoonda in the Murray Mallee. On leaving school she worked at the Kate Cocks Babies’ Home at Brighton until beginning training in 1947, at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Midwifery training followed, then country hospital nursing in various parts of Australia, and nursing overseas in Britain and South Africa. After 1973 Kate turned to community health nursing. She was a student in the first course in this field conducted by the Hospitals Department (later the Health Commission) and was a nurse at the Clovelly Park and the Morphett Vale community health centres, before she retired in 1990. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "8 tape reels (ca. 240 min)??Jones speaks of her current work in formulating an Australian dance syllabus; teaching dance; her childhood and family; her ballet training in Australia; training at the Royal Ballet School in London; touring with the Sadlers’ Wells company; returning to Australia to dance with the Borovanxky Company; performing with the de Cuevas company in France; Garth Welch; Raymondo Larrain; joining and performing with the Australian Ballet Company; fellow dancers; her children; Peggy van Praagh; parts she has performed; appointment in 1978 as Artistic Director of the Australian Ballet; the Dancers Company; dancers strike in 1981. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 20 November 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Irene Pye enlisted in the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) on 8 September 1943. Following basic training she worked in a number of administrative positions and was posted with the 3rd Psychology unit at the time of her discharge on 11 February 1947. A member of the Australian Women’s Army Service Association ( Victoria.) Inc., since its inception, she attends functions and reunions. Irene Pye, the fifth of Timothy and Catherine (née Cain) Pye’s six children, was raised in the Victorian western district farming area of Bessiebelle. She attended the local school and after achieving her School Merit Certificate, the highest grade available at the school, she worked at a variety of positions in the district. In 1943, Pye was given permission by her father and Mrs Milliard, the local school mistress for whom she worked, to join the AWAS. On 8 September 1943 Irene Pye and her older sister Mary (later Goddé) enlisted in the Australian Army together. After attending basic training together Irene was posted to administration and Mary to transportation. Irene Pye served in a number of administrative positions before being discharged on 11 February 1947. Following the war Irene Pye established herself in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, and worked for the Commonwealth Government at the Australian Taxation Office. She married James Henry Heywood (1922-1963) a serviceman she met during the war on 5 October 1948. They had five children. After her husband’s death, Heywood called upon the skills she obtained during war to help raise her children. A member of the AWAS Association of Victoria she attends functions, reunions and keeps in contact with other members of her unit. Heywood is also a member of the Blackburn Legacy Widows Club. Published resources Resource Section PYE, IRENE, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=617919 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Jane Wilkinson Created 17 October 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contains documents related to a speech By Bob Hawke to the Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS) annual luncheon, held in Mt Isa, Queensland, on 13 October 1976. Includes correspondence, copies of the speech entitled ‘Social Welfare and the Trade Union Movement’, and draft copy of the speech (with handwritten annotations) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hour 32 minutes Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The two main components of MS 5260 are original music scores written by Miriam Hyde and over 140 detailed letters Hyde wrote to her family while studying at the Royal College of Music in London from 1932-1935. There are several files of general correspondence from members of the music profession or relating to it. Individual correspondents include John Carmichael, Selma Epstein, David Galliver, Ruth Gipps, Hilary and Charles Groves, Rex Hobcroft, Gordon Jacob, Derek Jones, Max Keogh, David Lockett, Mary Mageau, Joseph Rezits, Peter Sculthorpe, Victor Sangiorgio and Kendall Taylor.??Organisational correspondents include the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Australian Music Examination Board, Canberra School of Music, Music Teachers’ Association and the National Film and Sound Archive. There are also notebooks containing drafts of Hyde’s poetry, a detailed journal kept by Hyde on board ship while travelling from Adelaide to London, 1932, and correspondence with Currency Press regarding the publication of her autobiography, Complete accord (11 boxes, 3 fol. Boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Folders contain material on issues of interest to Issy Wyner occurring with Leichhardt municipality, 1967-1975.??Box 33/1/1: Child care : Balmain: Correspondence, reports and newspaper articles on Balmain Child Care Centre including information on Foundation stone, Child care centre at Balmain Town hall and playground area, parking and fencing at the Child care centre, 1974-1975.??Box 33/1/2: Child care : Birchgrove: Correspondence, plans and reports on playground space at Birchgrove Public School and proposal to use vacant land at end of Gow Street owned by Howard Smith Industries; Birchgrove Creative Leisure Movement, 1971-1974.??Box 33/1/3: Child care : Glebe: Correspondence and reports on the Hilda Booler Kindergarten, 1972-1975.??Box 33/1/ 4: Child care : Leichhardt: Leichhardt Council report on Leichhardt Baby Health Centre, 23 Norton Street, Leichhardt, 1967; St Francis Pre-School Kindergarten, 62-64 Styles Street, Leichhardt, 1974, and general information on schools within Leichhardt municipality.??Box 33/1/5: Child care: Bound volume of reports, correspondence, leaflets and newspaper articles. Includes information on Balmain Child Care Centre; Creative Community Centre, Louisa Road, Balmain; Proposed establishment of child care centres by Council; Creative Leisure Movement; Long Nose Point Community Creative Centre.??Collection donated by Isadore (Issy) Wyner (1916-2008) to Leichhardt Library, Balmain branch in November 2007. Mr Wyner served on Leichhardt Council 1959-1974, 1977-1980, 1984-1991. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes correspondence with friends and authors; papers concerning the Literature Board of the Australia Council; drafts of writings, including poems, prose, reviews, and of speeches and talks; papers concerning her periods as writer-in-residence at various tertiary institutions; and printed material, including association copies of books. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 tape reel (ca. 30 min.). Recorded for radio, original held by ABC.??Devised for the Talking history program following the official opening of the National Library’s new Oral History and Sound Preservation studios and reading room. The program also features the Hazel de Berg Oral History collection, held in the National Library. Those recorded include the Governor-General Bill Hayden, Mark Cranfield – chief Oral History Officer (N.L.A.), Diana Rich (De Berg’s daughter), Harold White (former National Librarian), Hazel De Berg and Dame Mary Gilmore. Author Details Clare Land Created 22 October 2002 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Anna Rakoczy left a promising legal career behind to establish a business in the San Francisco area with ex-medical doctor, Chloe Chen. ‘Homemade’, a cooking program which focuses on making healthy food to lose weight, was launched in August 2013. It germinated as a project the pair worked on in a Stanford Business School class. After the class had ended, they continued developing the project. Rakoczy originally travelled to the United States, courtesy of a Fulbright Scholarship she received in 2011 in order to complete a Master of Laws at Berkeley University. Her thesis made recommendations for enabling Aboriginal Australians to achieve improved economic participations levels, in terms of income and employment outcomes. Anna Rakoczy worked as a commercial litigation lawyer for seven years, and was awarded both the Australian Young Lawyer of the Year and WA Young Lawyer of the Year awards in 2008 for her outstanding contribution to the community and the legal profession. While working as a lawyer, Anna focussed on strategies to reduce Aboriginal disadvantage in Australia, specifically through improved economic participation. Her experience includes acting as the pro bono lawyer for the Australian Employment Covenant and Generation One, national movements to support equal employment and life outcomes for Aboriginal people . Anna has also volunteered in the Tiwi Islands Aboriginal community with the Red Cross, with the David Wirrpanda Foundation, True Blue Dreaming, the Burnaby Youth Prison and SHIFT, a New York based corporate social responsibility consultancy. In 2012, Anna was awarded a John Monash Scholarship to undertake a Master of the Science of Law at Stanford Law School. Her focus was on considering the policies and laws which impact on the supply of food and resulting health implications, particularly for Indigenous peoples, minorities and underprivileged groups. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 May 2016 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Comprises original manuscript and drafts of the book “Pastor Doug : the story of Sir Douglas Nicholls, Aboriginal leader”. Also, research files containing correspondence, clippings, published material, photographs, and notes. Also material relating to a proposed television documentary on Sir Douglas, and material on Aboriginal issues and land rights. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 7 October 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Shirley Stott Despoja was the first woman to be employed in the general news room at the Adelaide Advertiser. She was that paper’s first ever Arts Editor, appointed at a time when the arts were of enormous political and economic significance in South Australia. She brought the arts to the front pages of the newspaper in a manner that had not been achieved before. In 2010, Shirley Stott Despoja was the inaugural winner of the Mary MacKillop Award at the twentieth annual Catholic Archbishop’s Media Citations. She was nominated for her regular column, The Third Age, published in The Adelaide Review. According to Archbishop Wilson who presented the award, it was a pleasure to honour such an esteemed writer and champion of equality and social justice. “Mary MacKillop herself was a great correspondent and also challenged the social norms of the day,” he said. “Ms Stott Despoja’s efforts to break the stereotypes of ageing and challenge her peers to be feisty and opinionated would undoubtedly be applauded by Mary.” Stott Despoja also won a United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award in 2010 for the same column, for excellence in the promotion of positive images of the older person. Shirley Stott Despoja was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the May 2013 South Australian Media Awards, honoured by her peers for an outstanding contribution to the South Australian media. In 2017 she was awarded on Australia Day with an OAM, ‘for services as a journalist to print media’, a citation to bury the lede, if ever there was one. In November 2018 she was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame. Shirley Stott Despoja is variously described as ‘an inspiration’, ‘a pioneer’, ‘gutsy’, ‘an arts editor who changed the city’ (Adelaide) and ‘a great lady of a great age of print’. But above all, Stott Despoja is best known as a journalist for being ‘principled’. Three things brought me to journalism,’ says Shirley Stott Despoja. One of them was experiencing ‘the lovely link between the written word and the printed word’ while working in the office of The Anglican newspaper in the 1950s. Another was befriending Margaret Knightley, sister of journalist Philip Knightley, at school in the 1940s. A third, earlier influence had been a book by Lilian Turner, Betty the Scribe. And maybe, even before Betty, there was the ‘Opportunity C’ class for bright girls that she attended in Hurstville, Sydney, an educational opportunity that provided her with a chance to dream about a future where a woman’s intellect was valued and her ability to lead assumed. No doubt, it would have been easier for Shirley to play the part of a girly-girl, the ‘pet who wasn’t a threat’; to take the easy pay cheque that any self-censoring journalist can earn. This simply wasn’t an option for Shirley, whose integrity and professionalism would not permit this course of action. Instead, throughout the course of her professional and personal life, she has insisted upon standing up for herself, complaining about injustice and corruption and speaking out on behalf of others who didn’t have her opportunities, and can’t make themselves heard. This has inevitably made her unpopular and, at times, very unhappy. But never untrue to herself, or unappreciated by women (and a handful of men) who know how tough it is to be a trail-blazer. The chronology of Shirley’s career is a familiar one for women finding their way in journalism in the 1950s and 60s (i.e. start on a small, perhaps provincial newspaper or magazine and then move through a series on reporting and subediting roles on metropolitan dailies) except for the small but very important fact that she never once took a job on the women’s pages. She began on the small, but very influential church newspaper, The Anglican, run at the time by the charismatic Francis James. There she learned the important practicalities of the newspaper business, leaving a degree at Sydney University unfinished in order to learn what she needed to learn there. There, in that ‘world of ideas’, where writers like Donald Horne moved, she was known as the ‘young atheist on staff’, an epithet she initially found very much to her taste. After six months at the Anglican she chose to move on. Unfortunately, there was nowhere in Sydney for her to move onto; the men’s journalist club closed ranks, to teach the little girl from Rockdale a lesson. There was work available in Canberra, at the Times. Shirley moved there and loved it. There were other women to do the women’s pages, and two good years of working general news, with some features and arts criticism. There was also a political awakening. Working as a general reporter, she covered the courts and ‘began to learn a lot more about what was done to women and how men were excused from it’. She says that it was then that she saw that the gender barrier and violence fitted together like a hinged tool to control women. She also learned that, no matter how good she was at her job, she would never get better jobs, because she wasn’t a man. The editor who employed her told her, in no uncertain terms, that she wouldn’t be taking them away from the men. At about the same time she decided it was time to leave Canberra, she received an offer from the Adelaide Advertiser of a C-grade with no women’s work. She was to be the only woman working in the general reporting room in a conservative newspaper that nevertheless had impressive talent working on it and was the early journalistic experience for many young men who later became very famous. She initially felt there was an illusion of equality. And in the 70s, with Don Dunstan as Premier of South Australia and a crop of younger editors, including Des Colquhoun, everyone who worked on the Advertiser felt they were creating something special, with an influence beyond the State. Shirley enjoyed the work, was good at her job and was recognised as such; she was to be posted to London to write news and features. Unfortunately, this possibility was never communicated to her in a timely fashion and London in the 1960s was an opportunity lost. When Shirley married she moved to the literary pages. She used the pages to promote important and radical ideas, as they were being discussed in books. She commissioned interesting people, including the young Anne Summers, to write reviews; independent commentators who were not beholden to The Advertiser for their income, who weren’t afraid to say what they thought and who brought something fresh to the process of reviewing. Reputations were unimportant; it was the ability to think critically and write independently that mattered. Literary journalism had never been so political or popular. It was work she truly enjoyed: it was exciting and she knew, even in her marginalised position, that she was making a difference. Not long after her daughter was born, she moved back to Canberra to be with her husband, who had moved there for work. She continued to write features for The Advertiser, The Canberra Times and other publications, looked after her daughter, had another child (a son) and ultimately ended her marriage. The then editor of The Advertiser, Don Riddell, offered her a job as the Advertiser’s first arts editor in an era when the arts in Adelaide needed to be recognised as a growing political and economic issue as well as of enormous cultural significance. The influence of the Adelaide Festival had changed the scene, and the amount of money being poured into the arts, in Adelaide, enormously. She wrote controversially about the festival directors and took them to task. She wrote reviews that demonstrated critical spirit. She upset people, and got the Arts onto the front page as a result, identifying the existence of an Adelaide ‘arts mafia’ and demanding that they be accountable to the public, given the significant amounts of money that they received from them. She poked and prodded for a number of years, until the Festival Centre organisers decided to retaliate by withdrawing advertising from the Advertiser. But many people recognise that this was a period in which the arts were given prominence and encouragement in the newspaper as never before, and provincial quarrels only lent more spice to the dynamic coverage. Shirley returned to the literary pages, with a wide-ranging writing brief. Under the stewardship of John Scales the intellectual ferment of the paper continued. It was still a place where ideas could be expressed. Later, she had her column Saturday Serve, a space where she explored serious, expressive writing within journalism and could continue to write politically. Initially she did so covertly, using metaphors referring to her cats and garden to convey her message. But as time went by, she became more overt. In the column and other opinion pages, she wrote about domestic violence and child abuse, women’s shelters and barriers to women’s achievements, and when the spirit of the paper changed under new ownership, she was often abused for her views. She continued to stand up to bullying and, within the limits of the law, has continued to speak out for what she believes in and against those who discriminate. Since leaving metropolitan journalism Shirley Stott Despoja has turned the blow torch onto those who discriminate against the hearing impaired. Des Colquhoun once told Shirley, ‘You know, if you were a man, Shirley, the sky would be the limit.’ Shirley knew very early on in her career that she was up against a gender barrier that was so thick she was never going to break through in her time. This didn’t stop her from trying, and for the fat lot of good it did her, you have to wonder why she didn’t give up. I suspect it might have something to do with the two decent and talented children she was bringing up at the same time. If chipping away at that barrier meant that they might break through it, then there was a point to it. If that is the case, then we should all be grateful to her for her courage, her ability to enrage and her preparedness to weather the ensuing storm. And we should all marvel at her ability to retain her warmth and generosity of spirit. I imagine she would thank her children for that. Events 1960 - 1990 Published resources Resource Shirley Stott Despoja interviewed by Matt Abram, ABC Radio Adelaide, 2017, https://soundcloud.com/abc-adelaide/shirley-stott-despoja-oam?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Breaking Through: Women, Work and Careers, Scutt, Jocelyne, 1992 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Article Journalist Honoured With Catholic Media Award., 2010, http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=22518 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Shirley Stott Despoja interviewed by Nikki Henningham [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Shirley Stott Despoja, advertising journalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 November 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This series consists of three letter books kept by the Katherine Branch of the Country Women’s Association during it’s period of affiliation with the Queensland Country Women’s Association (1937-1960). The letter books contain copies of correspondence about the building of the Katherine CWA hostel, administrative letters to the Queensland Country Women’s Association, and local branch matters. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Carol Atkins was a once only Independent candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Monaro in 2003 and a Councillor in the Queanbeyan City Council from 1999-2001. Carol Atkins was described by the Sydney Morning Herald as a “conservative independent” when she ran for the electorate of Monaro. She had been involved in a public dispute with the General Manager of Queanbeyan City Council and was granted leave by the Council during the dispute. When she later was absent from three successive Council meetings, her seat was declared vacant and a by election held. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A local activist and community worker, Pippa McInnes has been a Councillor in the Blue Mountains City Council from 1991-1992 and again since 2004. In 2003 she represented the Australian Greens in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections. Pippa McInnes is a long time resident of the Blue Mountains, and in 2004 is a Blue Mountains City Councillor, having served her first term on council from 1991. She has worked as a casual teacher, teaching High School English, and (after completing a commercial cooking course) hospitality and food technology. She joined the Greens in 2001, and has attended their State and Federal Conferences, and is a member of the Fundraising, State Election and Management committees. She has four children, and became involved in public education issues through membership of the Parents and Citizens Committees of her children’s schools. She also supports a child in Nepal. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 23 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound tape reels (ca. 83 min.)??Adamson, publisher and editor of “New Poetry”, speaks of the magazine and of her interest in publishing poetry ; about meeting Robert Adamson ; about contacting poets to publish their works ; the issue of copyright ; her involvement with the Poetry Society. She speaks of her daily work and teaching career, and provides biographical details. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Box one of the collection contains a history of the centre.??Records, photographs and cassette tapes. Records include correspondence, minutes, financial records, submissions, journals, annual reports and membership lists; also, material relating to migrants, employment, women, education, youth and health.?Descriptive list available for reference Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 August 2006 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Original badge designed for Australian Red Cross Society, signed by Helen Munro Ferguson while President of Australian Red Ross Society. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 February 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Robyn Bicket has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the Commonwealth public service. She has represented the Australian Government in the United Kingdom and at the United Nations in Switzerland. She was the first lawyer in the Australian Department of Immigration to be posted to the Australian High Commission in London as First Secretary Immigration. She also has the distinction of having been the Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s very first chief lawyer. She has made a significant contribution to immigration and humanitarian policy, governance, public sector reform and management in Australia. In 2001 Bicket was awarded the Secretary’s Public Service Medal in the Australia Day Honours List, for services to the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Robyn Bicket was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Robyn Bicket was born to Matthew and Heather Bicket in the New South Wales Riverina town of Leeton in 1964; she was the youngest of six children. She retains vivid memories from her early life in that farming district of the environment and landscape – floods, droughts, scorching heat in summer and corresponding cold in winter, thunderstorms, dust storms, billowing grain crops. Her childhood recollections also include sleeping outside on the lawn in summer because it was too hot to remain indoors, the orchard, the vegetable garden, the snakes, spiders, mice plagues, swimming in the dams, bushfires, brilliant sunsets, and the starlit skies with satellites visible [Bicket]. Raised in a religious family where reading and an interest in the wider world were strongly encouraged, Bicket’s formal education began at the two-room, two-teacher local public school: Grong Grong Primary School. At the age of 11, Bicket entered Scots School in Albury as a boarder; however, she was only there for a term before the family moved to eastern New South Wales in search of a better farming climate [Bicket]. After attending Kooringal High School in Wagga Wagga, and with a budding interest in history, politics and international affairs, she enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Australian National University; she also took up a Bachelor of Laws. (At the Law School in the 1980s, she recalls few female lecturers but was impressed by those who were there, including the late Phillipa Weeks). Bicket was interested in women’s issues, including the Reclaim the Night protests, and was, to some extent, politically active. She admired the work of Hannah Arendt, Jean Elstain and Helen Caldicott [Bicket]. Having graduated in 1987, in 1988 Bicket joined the Department of Immigration: she would devote the next 25 years of her life to working there. In 1991, in a reflection of her rapid rise within the organisation, Bicket was posted to the Australian High Commission in London as First Secretary Immigration – the first lawyer in the Department of Immigration to achieve this distinction. Although it meant she was in London during the IRA bombing campaign, Bicket enjoyed her work there and managing the cases which came across her desk, including a refusal to grant controversial historian David Irving a visa to travel to Australia [Bicket and Rubenstein]. Bicket came back to Australia in 1994 and was Director, Legal Policy Section, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. In 1997, she was appointed Counsellor (Immigration), Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva. At the UN, her work was concerned with humanitarian crises, including the Kosovo crisis and evacuation; conflict in East Timor; the 2001 September 11 bombings in the United States; and the Tampa crisis. In 2002, Bicket returned to take up the position of Director, Asia Pacific Section, International Cooperation Branch at the Department of Immigration. In this role, she looked after regional cooperation arrangements with Indonesia as well as other regional engagements. In the same year, she was promoted to Assistant Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs; in this position, she was responsible for policy and delivery of Australian Refugee and Humanitarian Resettlement programs, overseeing refugee resettlement for Africa, Nauru and Manus Island. A promotion in 2005 saw Bicket become the Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s very first chief lawyer. Now a central member of the Department’s executive, with responsibility for legal services on all immigration-related matters, including domestic and international law, advice, litigation and legislation, she also managed one of the largest – comprising 200 lawyers – in-house legal areas within the Federal Government [Bicket]. During this time (2007 and 2008), Bicket represented the Department of Immigration at a high-profile Senate hearing regarding the government’s liability for the illegal detention of refugees, including Cornelia Rau, who was found to be a German-born Australian resident wrongfully held in detention [ABC]. In 2010 Bicket accepted a position as Chief Counsel with the Department of Human Services; this resulted in her leading legal services in the areas of social security, Medicare, child support and related government programs [Bicket]. Three years later, having overseen a service delivery reform agenda achieving savings based on restructured services in Centrelink, Bicket returned to the Department of Immigration as Special Adviser in the Refugee, Humanitarian and International Policy Division. She finally retired from the Commonwealth Public Service in 2015 [Bicket]. These days, Bicket is occupied writing on people movement issues and consulting on regulatory reform and immigration matters. Currently undertaking a certificate course in positive psychology with the Wholebeing Institute, USA, she is interested in using positive psychology to assist the legal profession [Bicket]. Bicket has said of her career: it “has been wonderful and varied” [Harrison]. She has devoted herself to managing policy, service delivery and public sector reform in the areas of immigration, refugee, international and humanitarian law. She has also applied her knowledge and skills to the important area of human services. As a senior executive in the Commonwealth public service, Robyn Bicket has made a significant contribution to immigration and humanitarian policy, governance, public sector reform and management on behalf of the Australian Government. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Robyn Bicket interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Robyn Bicket Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 26 September 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "55 minutes??Dzidra Erna Knochs was born in Latvia in 1930. The interview focusses on her migration experiences and her settlement in South Australia. The interviewer conducted the interview as part of tertiary course studies. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "NS1703/1/53-55 Church of St Barnabas, Scottsdale Minutes of meetings of Mothers Union Author Details Jane Carey Created 18 February 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Olwyn Bernice Mackenzie was Alderman in the Ryde Municipal Council from 1968-71 and in the Bellingen Shire Council from 1985-91. In between these two stints in local politics she ran as an Independent in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Eastwood in 1971. Olwyn Bernice Mackenzie was born in Petersham, Sydney on 25 September 1920, the eldest of three daughters of Gwen and Thomas Arkinstall. Her father abandoned his wife and children at the start of the Depression and the girls were brought up by their mother to struggle and care for others. Olwyn was encouraged by her musical mother and developed a talent for singing and piano at the Conservatorium of Music, where she was a contemporary of June Bronhill and Lily and Olga Kolos. She studied under Isolde Hill, daughter of Alfred and Miri Hill, the well known Australian composers. In 1937, she and her sister, Carol, joined the communist-led New Theatre League and subsequently the Communist Party. She remained a member until the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, but she had long disapproved of the Party’s attitude to women’s issues. Having left school early, she studied for her Leaving Certificate as a private study candidate and achieved it in 1950. She went on to graduate from the University of Sydney, Bachelor of Arts with honours in linguistics and social anthropology. Olwyn Mackenzie was the first woman to be elected to the Ryde Municipal Council and made a substantial contribution to the Council’s efforts to clean up the Parramatta River. She was elected to the Bellingen Shire Council in 1985 – 91 and was Deputy President for one term. She was Vice President of the Country Public Libraries Association, President of the Northern Zone in 1991, Member of the Bellinger River Hospital Board, on the Management Committee of the Bellinger River Senior Citizens Centre and the Bellinger River Catchment Management Committee. She was Chairperson of the Gumbaingirr Aboriginal and Community Liaison Group in 1993 and was one of the driving forces behind the 1993 historic 40-kilometre “Back to Bellingen” walk over the Bowraville mountain, which helped to heal the scars left by the expulsion of the Aboriginal community in the 1920s. In the 1990s she lived in the Potts Point area of Sydney and was Chairperson of the Kings Cross towards 2000 committee, a body which focused on making Kings Cross a healthier and safer place. She was also a Member of the National Council of Social Service; helped to establish the NSW Aged Care Alliance; was a member of the Central Sydney Area Health Service Board, the Council on the Ageing, the Kings Cross Community Drug Advisory Team, and helped to establish the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre. She was State Secretary of the Combined Pensioners’ and Superannuants’ Association from 1994 to 1996. She was awarded the medal of the Order of Australia in 2005 for services to the community particularly in the central Sydney Area. When she moved back to the Bellingen area in the late 1990s to be close to family, she remained active, being an executive member of the Board of Warrina Women’s and Children’s Refuge, Vice President of the Coffs Harbour branch of the Country Women’s Association and a member of the Coffs Harbour Committee of Reconciliation Australia. Olwyn Mackenzie was survived by five of her six children. At her funeral, members of the Gumbaingirr nation performed a smoking ceremony to help her spirit on the way. It was the first time this had been done for a white person in the region’s history. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 21 min.)??Harrower speaks about her childhood ; her studies ; writing novels ; her method of work ; Harrower reads a passage from her novel “The watch tower” ; she speaks about her hopes for the future. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sue Arnold is a committed environmentalist. She ran as a member of the Timbarra Clean Water Party for Ballina in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1999) and was a Democrat candidate in the New South Wales Senate in 1990 and in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Coffs Harbour in 1991. Sue Arnold was born in Melbourne, and was educated to matriculation at Frensham School, Mittagong. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Communication from the University of Western Sydney. Sue worked as a journalist for the Fairfax group of newspapers in Sydney from 1975 to 1990. She was the Secretary of the Sun-Herald Koala Fund, and in this capacity travelled widely defending the habitat of koalas. She also worked as a freelance journalist. Sue Arnold is the co-ordinator of Australians for Animals, a Byron Bay based international environmental group specialising in cetaceans and the marine environment. She has extensively lobbied the European parliament and NATO on noise issues and her group has initiated two legal challenges against the US government over sonar experiments on whales. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The MS 9507 collection provides a comprehensive record of Julie Lewis’ literary career. The bulk of the papers relate to her work as a biographer. For most of her biographies there is a mixture of typescripts, correspondence with publishers, research material, reviews, and papers concerning the launchings. There are many letters relating to research enquires and responses about Lewis’ biographies. There are many notebooks containing research notes, drafts and random jottings. The correspondence includes a long series of letters from Elizabeth Jolley and other Australian writers. There are also letters from publishers, agents and literary and cultural organisations. Other material includes audiotapes, photographs, scrapbooks and publications. In addition, there is correspondence and other papers relating to Lewis’ involvement with the Fremantle Arts Review and Australian Council.??The Acc01/237 instalment comprises correspondence and further research material, including papers relating to Lewis’ book Mary Martin, a double life: Australia-India, 1915-1973 (1997).??The Acc03/90 instalment includes entries written by Lewis for the Australian dictionary of biography. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 November 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Pauline Truong came to Australia with her extended family as a refugee baby. She studied Science/Law at the University of Melbourne and went on to be the first person of Vietnamese background to be awarded the prestigious Justice Lionel Murphy International Postgraduate Award for attendance at UCLA Law School to complete postgraduate studies. Her thesis (with empirical research) on international and comparative law at UCLA Law School received top score from a world-renowned and distinguished Law Professor from Columbia Law School and UCLA Law School. Described as a socio-legal entrepreneur, Pauline is working on some interesting innovations for global commercialization and impact. Honored in the Worldwide Who’s Who VIP, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in American Law and the Queen’s Trust, Pauline Truong is originally a Vietnamese Boat Person with over twelve years global experience in international law, business, education, public-speaking and a track record of awards. She is one of, if not the first, Australian-Vietnamese woman to receive Honorable Order (U.S.A.) for her global innovation, leadership and contribution. The prestigious honor has been including President Bill Clinton, President Ronald Reagan, President George Bush, President Johnson, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, John Glenn, George Clooney, Elvis Presley, Johnny Depp, Betty White, Muhammad Ali, Whoopi Goldberg & Billy Ray Cyrus. Pauline is featured on Forbes (USA & Global), MOGUL (USA), Examiner (USA), The Boston Globe (USA), Postgraduate (EU), Social Media Week (USA), Nagoya News (Japan) and other media globally. She will be the first person of Australian and Vietnamese origin to be inducted into the Millennium Global Woman of Honor. As a Vietnamese refugee fleeing Vietnam after the war with her extended family, Pauline is very grateful for all the opportunities that the global leaders and community have offered her. Her family first migrated from China to Vietnam, and then a generation later risked their lives to reach Malaysia from Vietnam on their family boat after the war. They were blessed to receive refugee status in Australia and expanded internationally thereafter. At each transition, it was necessary to ‘re-build’ part of their lives and businesses. Whilst it was challenging initially, this later became an asset for the globalization of her work, businesses and lifestyle. As a minority woman, Pauline studied and worked very hard, winning scholarships and awards frequently (since childhood) to attend selective schools and be with the top people around the globe. Pauline attended MacRobertson Girls’ High School, winning the General Excellence, Oreads and Melbourne Community Chest Awards. Upon graduation, she studied Science and Law at the University of Melbourne, on the E. Richards Scholarship, where she was the Convener of the Cultural Collective and Polyglot Magazine. At Law School, most of her friends’ parents were judges, partners in law firms, owners of well established businesses and/or other distinguished professions. As a migrant student, she realized that her career could be interesting by being ‘different.’ Whilst completing her studies, she undertook community and advocacy work for various state and national Ethnic Community organisations, and government organisations to promote access and equity to the law. Pauline also initiated and developed new community educational programs with the Equal Opportunity Commission. She also guest lectured at various government organisations and at Melbourne Law School whilst taking on many leadership roles and other public speaking engagements. After graduation from Melbourne Law School and a period of legal practice, Pauline was the first person of Vietnamese background to be awarded the prestigious Justice Lionel Murphy International Postgraduate Award for attendance at UCLA Law School to complete postgraduate studies. Her thesis (with empirical research) on international and comparative law at UCLA Law School received top score from a world-renowned and distinguished Law Professor from Columbia Law School and UCLA Law School. Pauline has served as a Young Ambassador where she worked with the United Nations, State Law Office & Parliamentarians on U.N. Conventions, human rights, gender and diversity issues. She has been an Editor and Board Member of the prestigious Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs (JILFA) and Asian Pacific American Law Journal (APALJ) and Vice-Chair of the Los Angeles Bar Association. Described in Forbes (USA) as a ‘Dynamic Entrepreneur Shaping the Global Economy,’ Pauline is a passionate Founder and C.E.O. of Ascendo International Group and a share- and stake- holder in a conglomerate of global companies, specializing in innovations to help global clients in: Innovation & Start-Ups, International Legal, Government, Investments, Trade & Business, Strategic Internationalization, M & A’s, Immigration and Real Estate. Her peers and colleagues now ‘witness the business acumen, strategic vision and networking expertise she brings to her clients.’ (Todd Moster – Attorney & Author) As a socio-legal entrepreneur, Pauline is working on some interesting innovations for global commercialization and impact. She is also the Founder of ShePreneurs.com, a global platform endorsed by celebrities that empowers and celebrates global entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds in a ‘different’ way. MOGUL describes Pauline as having had ‘a true dream career that has spanned across multiple areas’ and ‘an inspiration who is giving back to the community.’ She is honored to be a Global Adviser to famous Public Figures, global Guest Lecturer & Public Speaker, at UCLA Law School, international universities, professional conferences & events and Philanthropist. She is also an Ambassador and regional representative for UCLA Law School for the U.S.A., Australia and Asia. Moster Esq states that ‘even in a world brimming with talented people, Pauline brings a breathtaking energy level and generosity of spirit to the table that is truly unique.’ Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Pauline Truong Created 11 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Pauline Truong Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Canberra Branch of the Society of Women Writers existed for four years, 1984-87. Upon the demise of the Branch, members joined the Fellowship of Australian Writers. The records include correspondence, minutes, newsletters and subscription lists. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 September 2004 Last modified 22 September 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection includes teaching materials, publications, material relating to the theatre and travel, as well as family photographs and objects, including items of academic dress. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 22 June 2012 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Maureen Giddings has worked with a wide range of community organisations, many connected with the National Council of Women. She served as president of NCW NSW from 1970 to 1974, and as president of the National Council of Women of Australia from 1988 to 1991. She also worked for many years with the Liberal Party, serving as president of the Women’s Council of the Liberal Party of Australia (NSW division) from 1974 to 1979 and chairman of the party’s Federal Women’s Committee from 1977 to 1980. She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1974, in recognition of service to the community. Maureen Giddings was born in Melbourne, the only child of Eleanor Bell Quinton (née Wilson) and Frederick Robert Quinton, a manufacturer of electroplated metals. She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College, East Melbourne, the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the University of Melbourne. Her university studies were interrupted by enlistment in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF), where she trained as an orthoptist. On 30 January 1946, she married her fiancée, Major Niels Giddings, whom she had known since Sunday School. The couple had two daughters. Both of Giddings’ parents were involved in voluntary and philanthropic work; her mother was active in the Federation of Mothers’ Clubs and the National Council of Women of Victoria. On her mother’s advice, she joined NCWV: ‘It gives people the opportunity to put their point of view. And the government will listen to you’. Maureen joined as an associate, and, on moving to Sydney, transferred her membership to NCW NSW where she was elected to the executive as the associates’ representative. In 1970, she took on the NSW presidency, and became vice-president of the National Council of Women of Australia when Jessie Scotford formed her NCWA Board in the same year. She remembered the highlights of those years as the NCWA activities associated with the opening of the Sydney Opera House and the organisation of the ICW regional conference, both in 1973; Board meetings were ‘fun and productive’. The political awareness learned from her mother also led Giddings into long-term membership of the Liberal Party. She was president of the Women’s Council of the Liberal Party of Australia (NSW division) from 1974 to 1979 and chaired the Federal Women’s Committee from 1977 to 1980. Giddings’ work in NCWA led her into leadership roles in other organisations. From 1973 to 1975, she was deputy chairman of the NSW International Women’s Year committee. In 1978, she became chairman of the Status of Women, Committee United Nations Association of Australia (NSW branch) then president of the UNAA (NSW) and vice-president of the National UNAA. In July 1980, she was chosen by the Australian government to attend the forum at the NGO UN Decade of Women conference in Copenhagen. In 1988, the NCWA Board returned to NSW under Giddings’ presidency. Issues taken to government by her Board included paid surrogacy, which NCWA strongly opposed; and the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which they strongly supported in line with ICW policy, despite ‘widespread disquiet’ in the state Councils. Projects included a report on ageing and a seminar that led to the adoption of the Seniors’ Card in NSW; and a report on women’s unpaid work for voluntary organisations and within the home, which moved the Australian Bureau of Statistics to undertake a national survey. Other highlights of Giddings’ presidency included a visit to the USSR as a guest of the Soviet Women’s Committee in 1989, and the leadership of the Australian delegation to the ICW conference in Bangkok in 1991. In the same year, she was appointed a life member of ICW. Maureen Giddings has contributed to many community activities during her life. She was honorary secretary of the Captain Cook Bicentenary Women’s Committee 1968-1970, deputy chairman of the Festival Women’s Committee for the opening of the Sydney Opera House 1972-1973, a member of the Royal Flying Doctor Service NSW 1971-1974, president of Child Care Week 1974-1978. Giddings has also contributed to other organisations and causes as president of the Australia-Britain Society (NSW), councillor at Enterprise Australia, deputy chairman at the Volunteer Centre (NSW), chairman of the Intellectually Handicapped Organisation of NSW, a member of the Board of Management of Chatswood Sheltered Industries, and vice-president of the NSW Torch Bearers for Legacy and president emeritus the English Speaking Union of NSW. She was a life governor at the Rachel Forster Hospital and a member of the Wahroonga Preparatory School Council, the Wahroonga Progress Association, Meals on Wheels, the Heart Campaign, and the committees of the Asthma Appeal and the Churchill Appeal. In August 1971, Maureen Giddings wrote in the NCW NSW’s NCW News about the past, present and future of NCWA: ‘Australian women, while enjoying a formal equality, do not as yet possess a complete practical equality … Confidently we look to the future, proud of our past achievements but remembering one of the objects of the National Council is that we must promote the interests of women and secure their proper recognition in the community’. Events 1973 - 1975 NSW International Women’s Year Committee 1968 - 1970 Captin Cook Bicentenary Women’s Committee 1972 - 1973 Festival Women’s Committee for the opening of the Sydney Opera House 1974 - 1979 Women’s Council of the Liberal party of Australia (NSW) 1974 - 1978 Child Care Week Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1983, Draper, W. J., 1983 Newspaper Article Like Mother Like Daughter, Vesta, 1946, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22223871 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] NCWA Papers 1984 - 2006 Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection National Council of Women of New South Wales further records, ca. 1891-2002 Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Maureen Giddings Interview with Betty Davey Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 1 November 2013 Digital resources Title: Maureen Giddings Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4691A/1?Correspondence?16 April 1935 – 11 January 1954?Correspondence with various people concerning his proposed biography of Daisy Bates.??4691A/10?Maps?1901, 1902, 1906?Perth Lands Office map showing pastoral leases in the Pilbara region held by D. Bates.??4691A/15?Notebooks?Notes concerning book by Daisy Bates 15 May – July 1928??4691A/21?Publications?Published 1944?”Passing of the Aborigines” by Daisy Bates. With annotations by A.O. Neville. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Gentlewomen’s Aid Society was established in 1894 in the Williamstown home of Mrs John Clark, wife of the Reverend Clark, in an attempt to assist the many ‘gentlewomen’ who were left destitute as a result of the 1890s economic depression. Eligibility for membership rested on a recommendation from a committee member, a medical practitioner or a clergyman stating that the applicant was in genuine need of the Society’s assistance. The Society held two Sales of Work a year in a public hall to enable ‘those ladies who are dependent on their own exertions to sell their work’ and were either too frail or too old to battle the commercial world. The Society depended on donations and subscriptions to assist with operating costs. It remained in existence until 1989, when it was dissolved as a result of dwindling membership and declining demand for assistance the Society offered."
    },
    {
        "text": "The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) was a division of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. It was established early in 1987 to advise the Prime Minister directly on issues relating to Australian multicultural society. The purpose of the office was to be that of a ‘bridge-builder’, linking community and government to further the policy of multiculturalism. To that end, it had a liaison and Community Information Branch and a Policy and Research Branch. The focus of the community information program was on building upon research undertaken and evaluating ongoing projects. Although most staff were located in Canberra, there were Regional Coordinators in each State and in the Northern Territory, so there was some attention to decentralised services. In early 1995 the functions of the OMA were to be transferred to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. For administration purposes, OMA officially ceased to be part of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on 26 January 1995. The Office of Multicultural Affairs aimed to: Promote acceptance of and respect for cultural differences; Improve communication between community groups and Government; Ensure equal access and equity for all groups to government services and programs, including health, social welfare, employment, training and education; Develop a National Agenda of practical long-term strategies for multiculturalism; Advise Government on multicultural programs and services after consultation with community groups; Provide information on multicultural policies. The OMA’s first head, Peter Shergold, adopted the view that, as a bridgebuilder, the agency would be best served by appointing community workers to the regional coordinators’ positions. It is said that he believed that is was easier to teach community advocates how to be bureaucrats than it was to teach bureaucrats how to liaise with the community. This type of thinking led to Beryl Mulder being appointed to the position of Regional Coordinator for the Northern Territory. It also led to innovative programs, such as employing bilingual officers to run the OMA’s consultative programs. This meant that consultations could be managed in community languages, but reports could be written in English. This process resulted in a series of Policy Options Papers, many of which informed debate about access and equity to services for women of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Published resources Report Issues for non-English speaking background women in Multicultural Australia/ Australian Office of Multicultural Affairs Policy Options Papers Series, Eliadis, Maria; Colanaro Rosetta and Roussos, Patricia, 1988 Resource Section Dr Peter Shergold, Foundation Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, looks at the role of the Office, and ethnic support., Shergold, Peter, http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/library/library.php?mediaCode=vid&mode=Category&myOption=Interview Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Sydney Office Correspondence files, Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet, annual single number series Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 June 2006 Last modified 17 September 2009 Digital resources Title: The Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, and Staff of the Office for Multicultural Affairs at the launch of the National Agenda for a Multicultural Society in 1989 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Pamela Buchanan was a parliamentarian who represented the Australian Labor Party in the Pilbara region of Western Australia from 1983 until 1992. Pamela Anne Slocombe was born in Perth in 1937 to Walter Scott Slocombe, musician, and Doris May Brittain. She was educated at Scarborough Primary School, Perth Girls High School, and later at Perth Senior Technical College. In 1957 she married George Maitland Buchanan, and later had two daughters. From 1967 to 1976, Buchanan worked as a pre-school administrator at Roebourne, Western Australia, and during this time ran two kindergartens for indigenous children. She was also in charge of the Aboriginal Adult Education centre. Later she worked as senior personnel secretary at Cliffs Robe River Iron Associates, and then as electorate assistant to Peter Dowding (Member of the Legislative Council) at the Karratha office. Buchanan had joined the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in 1976, and entered Parliament in 1983 when she was elected for the seat of Pilbara with a swing of 18%. She was the first woman to win Pilbara, which was considered a ‘tough’ seat in a largely pastoral and mining electorate. During her parliamentary career Pamela Buchanan demonstrated a strong commitment to equal opportunity, and had a particular empathy for the unique problems faced by Australia’s indigenous population. She had also personally experienced discrimination in the workplace (denied a promotion because she was a woman) and vigorously supported the Equal Opportunity Bill in 1984. She also fought to arrest the spiralling cost of goods in her isolated northern electorate, which was largely a problem of transport costs. Buchanan was also government whip from 1986-1990. She resigned from the ALP in 1990 after losing her Cabinet position in a ministerial reshuffle, standing then as an Independent. Ill health forced Buchanan to retire from Parliament in early 1992, around a month before her death in March 1992. Published resources Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Pam Buchanan: Her Story, Weightman, Llyrus, 1995 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records made in Eucla district; descriptions of ceremonies observed including emu dancing and instruments used; words of songs in unidentified language; describes body painting and decoration; lists names of dancers and singers; myth associated with distribution of fire; ceremony named as Wanji; Wanji and Wanna-wa. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
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        "text": "A politically active and socially involved medical practitioner, Tuntuni Bratati Bhattacharyya ran as a Democratic Socialist candidate in the 1999 Marrickville elections. Tuntuni Bhattacharyya completed her MB and BS at the University of Queensland in 1990 and is involved in women’s and workers’ health. She has been active in abortion pro-choice campaigns, the International Women’s Day collective and Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 7 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1) Letterbooks 1862-82, containing letters from women emigrants to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and letters from Harriet Herbert.?2) Cuttings 1880-95, from English and Canadian journals and newspapers, re women’s emigration.?3) Minutes of the Finance Committee of the United Englishwomen’s Emigration Association, 1885-1886.?4) Correspondence, 1949 with G.F. Plant re the history of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society and the Colonial Intelligence League.?5) Minutes of the Council and some sub-committees of the United British Women’s Emigration Association, 1896-1901.?6) Addresses: Maria S. Rye, Emigration of Educated Women (1861) and Jane E. Lewin, Female Middle Class Emigration (1863).?7) Annual report of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society, 1861-72, 1874-79 and 1883-85 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Irene Greenwood talks about her school days at Perth Modern School and the history of the school. Interview explores history of education in Western Australia and women’s history.?1 cassette (ca. 60 min.) : mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 31 March 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 44 minutes??Joanne Willmot was born at Cherbourg, Queensland. Living at the mission and later attending a state high school at Ipswich raised her political consciousness. Joanne moved to Adelaide when she was 17, bringing her baby with her. She began work as a secretary with the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement and recalls both the excitement of being at the hub of Aboriginal activism and her growing awareness of sexism. Joanne left ALRM in 1976 to care for her family but maintained involvement in many Aboriginal organisations before taking up full time employment again with the Women’s Information Switchboard in 1983. She speaks about a variety of programs she has been involved in during the last decade, and emphasises the importance to her of meeting the indigenous women of other countries. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc07.103 comprises materials relating to Hawley’s feature articles on numerous eminent Australians and international events, including research notes, photographs, transcripts, memoranda, drafts, items given to Hawley by the interviewees (sketches, drawings, paintings, letters, memorabilia), correspondence with interviewees, notebooks. People represented include notable Australian artists, authors, actors, playwrights, politicians, film makers, indigenous Australians, composers, architects (18 boxes).??MS Acc13.075 comprises interview notes relating to a wide range of topics and individuals, including Dr Trevor Anderson, Geraldine Brooks, Charles Blackman, Francis Bacon, Judy Davis, Chris Lilley, Bill Henson, John Olsen, Ben Quilty and others; manuscripts, proofs, and interview notes for Hawley’s books Artists in conversation and Encounters with Australian artists; correspondence; articles and stories written for Australian newspapers, including The Age, The Sydney morning herald and The Australian; and papers relating to 13 Royal Tours between 1970-1977 (16 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Transcripts of Schwab field tapes 1-9 held in AIAS tape archives.?Margaret Brusnahan, Spencer Weetra, Kenny Hampton, Avis Gale, Doris Katinyeri, Dora Hunter, Margaret Hayes, Veronica Brodie, Geraldine Mason relate experiences of childhood and youth 1940s, 50s, 60s in Largs Bay orphanage, St Francis Boys Home, Colebrook, Mulgoa, Tanderra, Fullerton Girls Home, Millswood; harassment by Aborigines Protection Board and exploitation in the work force as domestics Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Nikki Henningham Created 20 September 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "6 sound files Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Only daughter of Sydney newspaper proprietor Sir James Reading Fairfax, Mary Elizabeth played an active part in Sydney society, lending her support to numerous charitable and women’s organisations from the RSPCA to the YWCA. Born in Sydney to Lucy (née Armstrong) and (Sir) James Reading Fairfax, newspaper proprietor, Mary Elizabeth was the eldest of seven children and the only girl. From 1877 the family lived at Ginahgulla, with the exception of two years abroad, and from 1884 they spent the summer months at their country house in Moss Vale. Mary was educated at home. Mary Fairfax never married and had no children. Known as Miss Mary from childhood, she became ‘the quintessential maiden aunt’ according to Caroline Simpson in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Fairfax was, says Simpson, ‘among the last of the great Victorians’. She was a foundation member of the executive of the Queen’s Jubilee Fund in 1887, and was councillor of the University of Sydney’s Women’s College from 1893 until her death. She was associated with the RSPCA, the YWCA, the Kindergarten Union, and District Nursing Association (Sydney) and the Bush Book Club. She was a State council-member of the Girl Guides’ Association. During both world wars Mary worked for the Australian Comforts Fund and the British (Australian) Red Cross Society. She joined the Victoria League in England and was a founder of its New South Wales branch in 1917. Mary was president of the Society of Arts and Crafts of New South Wales from 1912-19, and was a foundation member of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Ladies’ Committee in 1936. In 1925, Lucy Fairfax passed away and Mary inherited the properties at Ginahgulla and Moss Vale, as well as 2,196 shares in John Fairfax & Sons Ltd, publishers of the Sydney Morning Herald. She took a keen interest in the paper and visited its offices regularly. She was known for her hospitality at Ginahgulla where she entertained leading society figures. During wartime her dining room was used to billet servicewomen. Mary’s ‘spontaneous generosity’ leads Simpson to surmise that ‘the full measure of her philanthropy will never be calculated’. On her death, most of her £428,278 estate went to the Fairfax family, along with bequests to charities and employees, including £1,000 for the Women’s College. Published resources Resource Section Fairfax, Mary Elizabeth (1858-1945), Simpson, Caroline, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140137b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Book Some Houses and People of New South Wales, Griffiths, Glynde Nesta, 1949 The History of the Women's College within the University of Sydney, Hole, W. Vere and Anne H. Treweeke, 1953 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Fairfax family - papers, 1804-1948 Sir James Reading Fairfax - papers, 1871, 1882-1883 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Draft manuscript “Teaching the Aborigines” by M.M. Bennett (typing, writing, shorthand by Mrs M. Schenk); arithmetic workbook of Reggie Ninggeerr (Johnston), student of Mrs Schenk; recollections of Mount Margaret. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Julie Attwood is an Australian Labor Party member (MP) of the Queensland Parliament for the seat of Mount Ommaney. She was elected 13 June 1998. Julie is currently Parliamentary Secretary to the Queensland Treasurer. Prior to her parliamentary career Julie was a manager at the Commonwealth Employment Service at Indooroopilly. She has a Graduate Diploma of Case Management and Client Service with Deakin University in Melbourne, Victoria. Julie Attwood is actively involved in many local organisations and issues. She is a member of the Community Advisory Committee at Sir David Longland and Wolston Correctional Centres and the Juvenile Detention Centre, in Brisbane, Queensland. Julie volunteers as a pastoral care worker at the Canossa Aged Care Complex in Brisbane and as a community speaker for the Queensland Cancer Fund. Julie is on the Branch Council of the Scout Association of Australia, Queensland Branch Inc. and assists Guides Queensland with their “Women of Substance” mentoring program. She is also patron of many local organisations such as the Centenary and Districts Chamber of Commerce, the Centenary Meals on Wheels, Corinda State School Parents and Citizens, the Oxley Swimming Club, West Brisbane Falcons Basketball Club, the Centenary Junior Rugby League Club, Centenary Suburbs RSL Sub Branch, Centenary Table Tennis Association, and Centenary State High School P&C. Her Parliamentary Service includes the following: Member, Estimates Committee E, 2008 Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer from 13 September 2007. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Child Safety 21 September 2006 – 13 September 2007. Chair, Estimates Committee G, 2006. Chair, Estimates Committee B, 2005. Chair, Estimates Committee B, 2004. Chair, Estimates Committee F, 2003. Chair, Members’ Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee 3 May 2001 – 15 August 2006. Chair, Estimates Committee G, 2001. Member, Members’ Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee 30 July 1998 – 23 January 2001. Chair, Estimates Committee C 2000, Member 1998 and 1999 Published resources Resource Attwood, Julie Maree, Queensland Parliamentary Library, 2006, http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/legislativeAssembly/documents/memberBio/AttwoodJulie.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Julie Attwood - State Member for Mt Ommaney, Australian Labor Party, http://www.qld.alp.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=358 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "– Children in the Catholic section of the Parramatta orphanage, 5 April, 1877-11 March, 1884.?- St. Magdalene’s Women’s Refuge, Tempe, N.S.W., 17 October, 1887-18 December, 1920.?- Accounts book: expenditures & receipts, 17 October, 1887-January 1948. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 16 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Discusses all aspects of her life, decade by decade. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "4 sound files. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "5 sound files. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes, reports and newsletters of the South Australian Division Executive and state conferences, and of the National Division conferences and annual general meetings.?Reproduction Note Duplicated typescript and xerographic copies.?Location of Originals/Duplicates Note Association of Civilian Widows – S.A. Branch, 301 North Terrace, Adelaide.?Holdings?NUCOS ZGCM?ZGCM Mortlock Library of South Australiana, State Library of South Australia SRG 52 Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 July 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jacinta Allan was the first member of the Australian Labor Party and the first woman to be elected to the seat of Bendigo East in the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian Parliament at the election of 1999. She held several ministerial portfolios before becoming Deputy Premier in June 2022. Allan was elected unopposed as the Leader of the Labor Party and 49th Premier of Victoria on Daniel Andrew’s resignation in September 2023. She is the second woman, after Joan Kirner, to lead the state of Victoria. Jacinta Allan was born and raised in Bendigo, Victoria. She undertook secondary studies at Catholic College Bendigo before completing her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at La Trobe University, Bendigo. A member of the fourth generation of her family to have lived in the Bendigo region, Jacinta maintains a proud family tradition of active community involvement. She has been a member of the Committee of Management for the Bendigo Community Health Service and the Loddon Mallee Women’s Health Service. Jacinta worked in the office of Neil O’Keefe, Federal Member for Burke, and Steve Gibbons, Federal Member for Bendigo, before entering Parliament in 1999. She was re-elected in 2002 and held the ministerial portfolio of Education Services and Employment and Youth Affairs. On her re-election again in 2006, she held the portfolios of Rural and Regional Development and Skills and Workforce Participation. Successful again at the November 2010 election, but as the ALP was narrowly defeated, she was a member of the Opposition until the ALP’s return to government and her re-election in November 2014. She held the portfolios of Public Transport and Employment and Leader of the House in the Legislative Assembly from December 2014. In June 2022, she became Deputy Premier. Following the resignation of Premier Daniel Andrews on 23 September 2023, Allan was elected unopposed as the Leader of the Labor Party and 49th Premier. She is the second woman, after Joan Kirner, to lead the state of Victoria. Published resources Book Victorian Parliamentary Handbook, no. 8, the 55th Parliament, 2004 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Jacinta Allan MP, Member for Bendigo East, 2005, http://www.jacintaallan.com Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 16 September 2005 Last modified 15 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Newscuttings relating to the Australian Women Pilots’ Association, Vols 1-4, 1950-67. (Call No.: MLMSS 7595/1X)?Newscuttings relating to the Australian Women Pilots’ Association, Vols 5-7, 1969-77, together with a pre-association scrapbook titled “The Old and the Bold”, 1929-77 and another scrapbook titled “Early Pilots and Overseas”, 1926-80. (Call No.: MLMSS 7595/2X) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items for Australian performing arts organisations, Australian artists performing overseas, professional productions performed in Australia (including those featuring overseas performers) and overseas performances of Australian plays, music, etc. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Marguerite Baptiste-Rooke left her home in the Seychelles and arrived in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, in 1989 with her husband and three children. She began volunteer work at the Migrant Resource Centre (MRC) of Central Australia assisting new migrants with the settlement process. She went on to serve as president of the MRC for seven years."
    },
    {
        "text": "Ein viel bewegtes leben’ ‘A life of many moves’ by Mrs Luise Homann. The wife of Pastor E. Homann (2nd husband), the manuscript describes a Lutheran pastor’s household in Australia and overseas. Includes brief references to Killapaninna and the Lutheran church in Adelaide. (Two parts – original German version and English translation). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "These records relate to the Chancellorship of the University of Newcastle, a position held by the Honourable Justice Elizabeth Evatt from 1988 to 1993. The series includes files on amalgamation, correspondence with Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of other universities, University Council minutes, and material relating to graduation ceremonies, finance and staff issues. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Songs with words written by Ellinor Walker.??PRG 1019/7/1 ‘Song of the Red Cross Corps’, 1915, with music by Mrs Frances S. Walker OUTSIZE 7.?PRG 1019/7/2 ‘Land of the Blue and Gold : A Song of South Australia’ ca.1936, with music by Frances S. Walker (2 copies). Includes a word sheet with ‘The March of the Women’ and ‘Land of the Blue and Gold’. OUTSIZE 7.?PRG 1019/7/3 ‘Lullaby’, n.d. with music by Ruby E. McCulloch. OUTSIZE 7. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of Lois Quarrell, journalist, comprising thirteen scrapbooks of articles written by her on women’s sport in ‘The Advertiser’, together with a presentation copy of ‘Feminae Ludens: Women’s competitive sport in South Australia, 1936-1956 and the influence of sports reporter Lois Quarrell’ by John A. Daly. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 December 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letters from Oxford University Press regarding changes and drafts of Once there was a swagman. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Joy Burch was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory representing the electorate of Brindabella in October 2008. She was re-elected at the 2012 and 2016 elections. She has held the position of Speaker since 2016. Before her appointment to Cabinet in November 2009, Joy Burch was Government Whip and ALP Caucus secretary. Her ministerial portfolios have included: Ageing and Community Services (2009–2012), Multicultural Affairs and Women (2009–2015), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (2011–2012), Arts and Racing and Gaming (2011–2016), Children and Young People (2012–2014), Disability and Education and Training (2012–2016) and Police and Emergency Services (2014–2015). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 29 September 2009 Last modified 12 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1992; ‘ICAC – Court of Appeal decision transcripts’, ‘Metherell Affair’, ‘Metherell Affair correspondence Round 2’, ‘ICAC/Metherell pro’, ‘ICAC ANTI correspondence’ (2 folders), ‘ICAC mix correspondence no address supplied’, files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/1)?1991-1992; ‘Port Macquarie Hospital’, [various bills considered in Parliament in 1991 & 1992 and relevant notes, memos, faxes & correspondence, filed by name of legislation], parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/2)?1991-1993; [Further Port Macquarie Hospital documents], parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/3)?1987-1991; ‘Housing crisis – Homelessness Inquiry’, ‘Housing organisations’, ‘Housing Information & Referral Services’, Sydney Tenants Advice & Referral Service (STARS)’, ‘Real Estate Institute’, ‘Housing policy (to 1990)’, ‘Public tenants’, ‘Residential Tenancies Act (to 1991)’, files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/4)?1988-1992; ‘John Sparre’, ‘Court papers re Westpac vs Christine Robilliard nee Moore’, ‘Court papers re Gamester Pty Ltd/Barbara Ann Cameron’, ‘Files from Walter Di Qual’, being files (5) concerning the Darlinghurst Residents Association and the development of the ABC site in Williams Street Darlinghurst. (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/5)?1988-1991; ‘Water Board’, ‘Ethnic Affairs’, ‘Health/Hospitals’, ‘Mental Health 1988-1991’, ‘Housing representations’, parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/6)?1988-1991; ‘Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust Amendment Bill 1988’, ‘Environment – National Parks & Wildlife Service’, ‘Mental Health 1988-1991’, ‘Aborigines: land rights’, ‘Aboriginal Land Rights Bill 1990’, ‘Attorney-General’s’, parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/7)?1986-1991; ‘Schools 1986-1990’, ‘NSW Schools 1989-1991’, ‘Education Reform Bill 1990’, ‘Education: Changes: School Closures 1988-1990’, ‘Education and Youth: HSC 1988-1990’, ‘Skillshare 1987-1989’, parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/8)?1988-1991; ‘Family & Community Services including Youth: general 1988-1991’, ‘Duty of Draw Poker Machines 1989’, ‘Constitution Amendment Bill 1990’, ‘Summary Offences Bill 1988-1989’, ‘Prostitution, Defamation, Crim[inal] Bills 1990’, ‘Administrative Services: asset sales 1989-1991’, ‘Property Services Corporation Bill 1989’, parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/9)?1986-1992; ‘Police & Crime: child prostitution 1988’, ‘Child Prostitution Bills and related bills 1988’, ‘Minister: Police and Emergency Services 1989-1991’, ‘Police & Crime: general 1986-1991’, ‘State Emergency Services: fire brigades 1989’, ‘Kings Cross Community Consultative Committee 1988-1990’, ‘Police & Crime: Kings X – Police 1988-1991’, ‘Police – residential parking/parking patrols 1989’, ‘Police Woolloomooloo including police station 1989-1990’, ‘Fred Nile rally 1990’, ‘Premier 1988-1990’, ‘Roads representations 1992’, parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/10)?1987-1991; ‘Deputation to Clover Moore MP from the Neighbourhood Centre’s Forum March 26th 1990’, ‘Home Care 1990-1991’, ‘Family and Community Services (incl. Youth): Child Care 1987-1989’, ‘Community service needs: forthcoming meetings – interested parties 1989-1991’, ‘Education & Youth – general 1988-1991’, ‘Community Services grants programme 1989-1991’, ‘Minister – Family and Community Services 1988-1991’, ‘Adoption 1989-1991’, parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/11)?1990-1992; ‘Centennial Park & Moore Park Trust (Amendt) Bill 1992’, ‘Lord Howe Island 1990-1991’, ‘Children (Care & Protection) (Child Employment) Act 1992’, ‘Commonwealth Powers (State Banking) Bill 1992’, ‘Consumer Claims Tribunal 1992’, ‘Environmental Education (Metherell) 1992’, ‘Environmental Planning and Assessment (Contributions Plan) Amendment Bill 1992’, ‘Environmental Planning and Assessment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 1992’, ‘Fisheries and Oyster Farms (Closure of Waters) Amendment Bill 1992’, ‘Government Printing Tribunal Bill 1992’, ‘Homebush Abattoir 1991’, ‘Hunter Water Board Corporatisation 1991’, ‘Land Acquisition (Just Terms) Bill 1991’, ‘Legal Aid Commission (Amendment) Bill 1992’, ‘Legal Profession (Practising Certificates) Amendment Bill 1992’, ‘Lotto (Amendment) Bill 1992’, ‘Meat Industry (Game Meat) Amendment Bill 1990-1992’, ‘Motor Accidents (Third-Party Property Insurance) Bill 1992’, ‘Nattai National Park Bill 1991’, parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/12)?1990-1992; ‘Periodic Detention of Prisoners (Amendment) Bill 1992’, ‘Petroleum Onshore 1991’, ‘Prisons Segregation 1992’, ‘Reef Beach 1992’, ‘Rivers & Foreshores Improvement (Amendment) Bill 1991’, ‘Sentencing 1992’, ‘Sick Leave Amendment Bill 1992’, ‘Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 1992’, ‘Summary Offences (Prostitution) Amendment Bill 1992’, ‘Supreme Court Video Link 1992’, ‘Tamworth Tourist Information Centre 1992’, ‘Telecommunications Bill 1991’, ‘Traffic (Offences) Amendment Bill 1992’, ‘Intractable waste: independent panel 1991-1992’, ‘Water Board 1991’, ‘Water Board consultancies 1990-1991’, ‘Submissions Gun Law Reform Committee 1991’, ‘Fire Arms legislation 1991-1992’, ‘Fire Arms 1991-1992’, ‘Firearms amendments 1991-1992’, ‘Firearms legislation (amendment) bill 1992’, parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/13)?1989-1992; ‘Trackfast 1992’, ‘EPA [Protection of the Environment Administration Bill] 1991’, ‘Protection of the Environment Administration (No. 2), 1990-1991’, ‘Industrial Relations 1991’, ‘Disallowance Regulation 1989-1992’, ‘Government Insurance Office (Privatisation) Bill 1991-1992’, parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/14)?1989-1992; ‘Tobacco 1991’, ‘Pool fencing – Swimming Pools bill 1992’, ‘Urban consolidation 1989-1992’, ‘Elcom 1991’, parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/15)?1988-1992; ‘Pool fencing’, ‘Casinos’, ‘Poker machines 1993’, ‘Treasurer 1988-1992’, ‘Transport 1991-1992’, ‘Police 1992’, ‘Minister [Pickering] “Confidential” 1990’, ‘Planning: Environment Planning & Assessments Act amendments ’89’, ‘Crown Land laws 1989’, ‘Natural Resources – representations 1992’, ‘Local Government 1992’, miscellaneous files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/16)?1993; ‘Penalty rates 1993’, parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/17)?1992-1993; ‘Glenreagh/Dorrigo railway bill 1992-1993’, ‘Boxing Day letters 1992’, ‘NSW Government Cleaning Service (letters, sale tender, videotape), 1993’, parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/18)?1988-1992; ‘Transport – ministerial representations (to 1992) 1988-1992’, ‘Transport: U.T.A. 1988-1990’, ‘Transport: S.R.A. 1988-1991’, ‘Transport: Roads and Traffic Authority 1988-1991’, ‘East-West Tunnel 1990-1991’, ‘Minister Transport 1988-1991’, ‘Liquor Amendment Bill 1988-1990’, ‘Tourism 1988-1989’, ‘Sport, Recreation & Racing – general 1988-1991’, parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/19)?1987-1991; ‘Pubs & Clubs 1989-1991’, ‘Palmer Street Action Group – Eastern Distributor 1987-1988’, files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/20)?1988-1993; ‘Election/Post Election 1988’, ‘Walsh Bay 1988-1990’, ‘Woolloomooloo Residents Action Group 1988-1989’, ‘Women’s issues – Women’s Enterprise Support & Development Network 1992’, ‘Draft Ski Management 1991’, ‘Paddington (Jersey Road) Day Care 1989-1990’, ‘Regional environmental plan: Sydney harbour/foreshores 1989-1991’, ‘Seven Shillings Beach (Point Piper) 1989-1991’, ‘Lawrence Hargrave’s house (Roslyn Gardens) 1989-1991’, ‘Daily report sheets Electorate of Bligh 1991-1993’, files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/21)?1982-1992; ‘State Bank (Demolition of Rural Bank building) 1982’, ‘Education – discipline (corporal punishment) 1991-1992’, ‘Darling Harbour 1984’, ‘Bodyline 1992’, ‘Radar 1990-1992’, files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/22)?1991-1992; ‘Telephone record sheets October-December 1991 & February-December 1992’, ‘Achievements & work reports 1991’, ‘Staff meeting early 1992’, ‘Correspondence re Charter, Industrial Relations & other parliamentary issues 1991-1992’, files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/23)?1976-1993; ‘Planning & housing 1984-1987’, ‘Council independents 1985-1987’, ‘Rosehill racecourse Lord Mayor’s Cup 1982’, ‘Road closures – Redfern 1986’, ‘City Engineer 1985’, ‘Dogs 1984’, ‘Design Advisory Committee 1985’, ‘Council meetings 1986’, ‘Council survey 1983’, ‘Auditor-General’s report L[ord] M[ayor’s] expenses trip to San Francisco 1984’, ‘Letters to aldermen 1984-1987’, ‘Council sacking 1987; Proposed ward changes 1983’, ‘Lord Mayor’s trip to South Africa 1985-1987’, ‘Delegated authority 1987’, ‘B miscellaneous 1985-1987’, ‘Anthony Hordern building 1985-1986’, ‘Council finances 1993’, Sydney City Council files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/24)?1976-1983; Redfern Community Concern files: ‘Archives 1978-1981’, ‘Agenda & minutes 1980-1983’, ‘Press clippings 1976-1982’, ‘Maps’, files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/25)?1976-1986; Redfern Community Concern files: ‘Petitions & photos traffic damage [in Bourke Street]’ 1976-1979, ‘Resident parking 1983’, ‘Various miscellaneous working papers 1981’, ‘Traffic 1977-1982’, ‘Road closures 1984’, ‘Requests to Council & State bodies re various matters 1976-1985’, ‘Mailing-Distribution 1984-1985’, ‘Reschs [old brewery site] petitions [no date]’, ‘Redfern railway station 1983-1984’, ‘Petitions 1978-1979’, ‘Letters to newspapers 1977-1985’, ‘Agenda & minutes 3/8/77 – 8/11/83’, ‘Agenda & minutes 10/1/84 – 4/3/86’, files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/26)?1984-1992; ‘Local Environment Development Plan 1990-1991’, ‘Independent aldermen 1990’, ‘Mayoral election 1990’, ‘Moore Park: Sydney Football Stadium 1985-1989’, ‘Moore Park: netball courts 1988’, ‘Motorcross 1989-1991’, ‘Demolition control 1984-1988’, ‘Kirkton Road Centre 1990’, ‘Cleansing including recycling 1988-1990?, ’40 Oxford Street (amusement arcade) 1992’, ‘General 1989-1992’, ‘Community consultation 1992’, ‘Traffic 1991-1992’, South Sydney Council files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/27)?1987-1992; ‘Woolloomooloo Community Centre 1987-1991’, ‘Resident parking 1988-1989’, ‘Paddington Markets 1988-1991’, ‘Kings Cross Tunnel 1988-1989’, ‘Kings Cross 1987-1990’, ‘South Sydney Council – various issues 1992’, ‘Daily message records Electorate of Bligh 1992’, ‘Electorate files 1992’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/28)?1989-1992; ‘Woollahra Open Space including foreshore land 1989-1991’, ‘WMC various 1991-1992’, ‘Woollahra Council – traffic 1991-1992’, Correspondence alphabetical by writer or organization: ‘K, L, M, P, S, T, W 1991-1992’, electoral files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/29)?1986-1992; ‘Housing: youth: homelessness 1986-1990’, ‘Police violence – muggings & bashings (contents mainly gay bashings); Richard Johnson Memorial meetings 1990-1992’, ‘Kids in Justice 1990’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/30)?1985-1991; ‘Electoral Forward Planning Committee Part 2 1/1/90 to 28/8/90 1990’, ‘Electoral Forward Planning Committee Part 3 28/8/90- [26/9/90] 1990’, ‘Electoral Forward Planning Committee [Part 4] 10 Jan 1991 [sic] 1990-1991’, ‘Submissions to the Electoral District Commissioners September 1990 1990-1991’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/31)?1989-1993; ‘Woollahra Council area: various representations 1989-1993’, ‘South Sydney Council area: various representations 1991-1993’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/32)?1988-1992; ‘Double Bay development File 1, May 1988, January-October 1989 [no other files]’, ‘Traffic “S” Lane 1989’, ‘Paddington: West Street 1989’, ‘Queen Street: zoning review 1988-1989’, ‘Environment – recycling, incinerators 1989-1990’, ‘Cleaning 1989-1990’, ‘Rush Street and Ormond Street 1988-1990’, ‘Woollahra Council [general] including press cuttings 1990-1991’, ‘Traffic: Paddington parking 1988-1989’, ‘Scots College land 1991-1992’, ‘Resident parking 1988-1989’, ‘Railway station lands 1990-1991’, Woollahra Council files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/33)?1988-1993; Constituent files re housing: ‘Constituent representations 1991-1993: A-H; I-P; Q+’, ‘Strata Plan 18997 127 Cook Road Centennial Park: letters 1992’, ‘Constituent enquiries re Dept of Housing 1991-1993’, ‘Water Board representations 1991-1993’, ‘Eastern Suburbs Tenants Association 1989-1992’, ‘The Pottery 1989-1990’, ‘Tenants Union 1988-1990’, ‘Housing issues 1989-1992’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/34)?1987-1991; Constituent files re housing: ‘Housing: general 1987-1990’, ‘Minister [of] Housing 1988-1991’, ‘Clisdell Street killings 1990’, ‘Care of homeless people report by Noreen Towers 1981-1990’, ‘Housing crisis “think tank” 1989’, ‘Housing crisis part two 1989-1990’, ‘Tenants issues 1989-1991’, ‘Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement 1989’, ‘Woolloomooloo Dept of Housing tenants’ meeting 1990-1991?, ‘Housing allocations: transfer/request 1988’, ‘Co-operative Housing Societies Association 1988-1991’, ‘Dept of Housing – tenants issues 1988-1991’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/35)?1988-1992; ‘A file 1988-1991’, ‘ Abortion 1988 – 1991’, ‘Aged & Anti-discrimination Act 1990-1992’, ‘Ageing 1989-1991’, ‘Commonwealth Govt: Airport (Third Runway) includes R.O.R.T. 1988-1991’, ‘Albury Hospital 1992’, ‘Amnesty International 1988-1992’, ‘Australia Post 1988-1989’, ‘B 1992’, ‘Balmain Peninsula 1992’, ‘BARG (Building Action Review Group) 1991-1992’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/36)?1987-1992; ‘Brad’s general correspondence 1992’, ‘Brougham Hostel 1991-1992’, ‘C 1988-1993’, ‘Carers Association 1988-1989’, ‘Catholic Church (Coonamble) 1990’, ‘Chelmsford 1991’, ‘Churches: St Canice 1988’, ‘Disable Peoples International (NSW) Inc 1988’, ‘E 1991-1992’, ‘Eastern Distributor 1989-1992’, ‘Environment: Organisations: Australian Conservation Foundation 1987-1991’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/37)?1985-1992; ‘Environment: Nature Conservation Council of NSW 1988-1991’, ‘Environment: Total Environment Centre 1988-1990’, ‘Environment: Urban Environment and Planning Coalition 1985-1991’, ‘Environment: urban environment Sydney 1985-1988’, ‘F 1988-1993’, ‘Fluoridation [Blue Mountains] 1992’, ‘Free Speech Committee 1989-1990’, ‘Gay community: AIDS Council of NSW 1988-1992’, ‘H 1991-1992’, ‘I-J 1988-1992’, ‘Lead 1992’, ‘Local Community Services Association 1991’, ‘Local government – general 1990-1991’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/38)?1987-1992; ‘Local government: Oxford Street issues 1988-1991’, ‘Mental Health Act [including her speech] 1990’, ‘NSW Adult Literacy Council 1989’, ‘Past patronage 1988-1992’, ‘Planning – monorail 1988’, ‘Randwick Council: Raleigh Park 1989’, ‘Royce Sutcliffe 1987’, ‘Womens issues: Right to Life 1988’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/39)?1988-1992; ‘C 1988-1992’, ‘Centennial Park Trust/Moore Park 1990’, ‘Childcare letters 1992’, ‘Churches – general 1988-1991’, ‘Churches: St Francis 1989-1991’, ‘D 1991-1992’, ‘Darling Harbour 1988-1990’, ‘Drugs & alcohol 1990-1992’, ‘E 1988-1990’, electoral files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/40)?1988-1992; ‘Aboriginal Affairs’, ‘Arts’, ‘Attorney-General’, ‘Chief Secretary’, ‘Community Services’, ‘Conservation and Land Management’, ‘Consumer Affairs’, ‘Education, Training and Youth Affairs’, ‘Health’, files of ministerial representations (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/41)?1988-1992; ‘Education [including speeches] 1988’, ‘Education – Disadvantaged schools’, ‘Glenmore Road Public School’, ‘East Sydney Tech’, ‘Teachers’, ‘Environment’, ‘Environment – Nuclear’, ‘Pollution/Sewerage – Beach & Sydney Harbour’, ‘Toxical chemicals & pesticides’, ‘Recycling’, ‘World Heritage Areas’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/42)?1988-1993; ‘Gay Issues’, ‘H’, ‘Heritage’, ‘J’, ‘Jesmond Centre’, ‘Jewish Welfare Society’, ‘Justice’, ‘K’, ‘Kings Cross Chamber of Commerce’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/43)?1984-1992; ‘L’, ‘Local government: rates’, ‘Luna Park’, ‘M’, ‘St Margaret’s Hospital’, ‘N’, ‘National Trust’, ‘NCOSS [Council of Social Services of New South Wales] conference 1991’, ‘O’, ‘Old weekly Parliament agendas 1992-1993’, ‘Ombudsman’, electorate and parliamentary files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/44)?1989-1992; ‘P’, ‘Paddington Public School’, ‘Parents and Citizens’, ‘Pharmaceutical benefits’, ‘Planning: minister’, ‘Planning (State): demolition control’, ‘Plunkett Street Public School’, ‘Enquiry into police’, ‘Police: fire ordinance’, ‘Police: gay and lesbian relations’, ‘Paddington police’, ‘Police representations’, ‘Police and crime: Public Offences Act’, ‘Public Works Department’, ministerial representations and electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/45)?1988-1993; ‘R’, ‘Racism & violence’, ‘Radar’, ‘Radiation Control Bill’, ‘Regent Theatre’, ‘Doug Rendell’, ‘Report on crime in Bligh, prepared by Helen Barry for Clover Moore, 1990’, ‘Australian Republican Movement’, ‘Riley Street Infants School’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/46)?1981-1992; ‘Roads’, ‘St Peters Church petition 1981’, ‘Salvation Army’, ‘Salvation Army – Salvo Care Line’, ‘Save Our Signal Station (South Head)’, ‘Smith Family, View & Spastic Centre’, ‘Social Security: Commonwealth Govt’, ‘Strickland House 1988-1992’, ‘Sydney County Council’, ‘Sydney Girls’ High’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/47)?1988-1992; ‘Thank-you’, ‘Transport: general’, ‘Bus routes’, ‘Universities’, ‘University of NSW’, ‘V-W’, ‘Village Bazaar (Eastside Parish) – Paddington Church (Uniting)’, ‘St Vincents Hospital’, ‘Very Fast train route investigation bill 1989’, ‘Watsons Bay/Simon University’, ‘Welfare – general’, ‘Welfare Rights Centre’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/48)?1981-1992; ‘Women’, ‘Women in politics’, ‘Women’s bank’, ‘Womens issues: abuse/sexual assault’, ‘Womens issues: Women’s Development Foundation’, ‘Women’s issues: Women in politics: Local government’, ‘Health: Women’, ‘Women – equal opportunity’, ‘Woollahra’s submission to Minister West 9 March 1989 [re use of former naval depot land, Rushcutters Bay]’, electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/49)?1988-1991; ‘Backpackers file 3 June 1988 to October 1990’, ‘Backpackers Bill November 1990’, ‘Minister: Corrective Services’, ‘Prisons’, parliamentary and electorate files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/50)?1988-1992; ‘Forestry Amendment Bill 1989’, ‘Freedom of Information Bill 1988’, ‘Industrial Relations – representations etc’, ‘Industrial Relations – Workers Compensation Bill’, ‘Justice’, ‘Minister: Local Government’, ‘Minister: Natural Resources’, ‘Planning issues (to 1991)’, ministerial representations, parliamentary and electoral files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/51)?1985-1993; ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D, including Double Bay ferry’, ‘E, including East Sydney Tech – fashion courses’, ‘F’, ‘G’, ‘H’, ‘Harbour Tunnel’, ‘L’, ‘Sid Londish’, ‘Local Government: planning powers’, ‘Local Government: constitutional recognition’, alphabetical files A-L (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/52)?1988-1993; ‘M’, ‘National Trust’, ‘NCOSS: Council of Social Service of NSW’, ‘O, including Ombudsman’, ‘P’, ‘Paddy’s Markets’ (in 2 files), ‘Police & crime: prostitution (including McLachlan Street)’, ‘Prostitution – material from Pat Rogan June ’89’, alphabetical files M-P (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/53)?1988-1993; ‘S’, ‘T’, ‘Tobacco’, ‘Uniting Church, Jersey Road’, ‘V-Z’, ‘Royal Hospital for Women, alphabetical files S-Z (no ‘R’)’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/54)?1983-1994; ‘Arts’, ‘Attorney-General’, ‘Chief Secretary’, ‘Community Services & Aboriginal Affairs’, ‘Conservation & Land Management’, ‘Consumer Affairs including Canine Council correspondence’, ‘Education’, ‘Energy’, ‘Environment’, ministerial representations and related files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/55)?1988-1993; ‘Family & Community Services & Administrative Services’, ‘Health’ (in 3 files), ‘Hordern Pavilion (correspondence to various departments)’, ‘Industrial Relations’, ministerial representations and related files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/56)?1983-1993; ‘Justice’, ‘Local Government including Boundaries Commission’, ‘Multicultural & Ethnics Affairs’, ‘Parliamentary – general’, ‘Parliamentary: questions’, ‘Police’, ‘Premier’s’, ‘Public Works’, ‘Sport, Recreation & Racing’, ‘Transport’, ‘Treasury’, ministerial representations and related files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/57)?1990-1993; ‘Woollahra Council’, ‘South Sydney Council’, ‘Victoria Street closure’, ‘Victoria Street meeting 25.3.92’, local government files (Call No.: MLMSS 7452/58) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Cornish immigrant Mary Wills Grigg selected and was granted a Mallee leasehold of land in 1885 in Victoria, and farmed sheep in Boort until her death at the age of 70. Mary Wills Grigg was born in the parish of Braddock (also known as Broadoak), Cornwall, a farming community, in 1821. Her father John Grigg was noted as a labourer, woodman and farmer in various documents. Mary was the second daughter of John and Grace Grigg. Her mother Grace (64) and younger sister Jane (26) both died in 1850, leaving a household of five adult children headed by John at the 1851 census. John was recorded as a farmer, his eldest daughter Catherine as housekeeper, his sons William, Nicholas and Joseph as farmer’s sons and Mary as a farmer’s daughter. John died in 1852 (68) and Catherine (36) died in 1853. By the 1861 census Mary was part of her unmarried brother Nicholas’s household, noted as housekeeper. Nicholas was a farmer employing one man. Their younger brother Joseph lived with them, along with a servant. Together the three siblings left Cornwall and emigrated to Australia in 1863 on the ship Istanboul, arriving in Melbourne in June of that year. Mary was 41. At the age of 63, in 1885, Mary had a Mallee lease granted, which she selected herself, and farmed there until her death in 1892, aged 70. It may be that the earlier insolvency of one of her brothers prompted her lease application. While her death certificate stated her occupation as ‘spinster’ and ‘domestic duties’ – the informant was her younger brother Joseph – Mary’s will and probate documents reveal that she was a ‘spinster’ and ‘farmer’. In her will she left all her estate and personal property to another local Boort farmer, Henry Scott Lanyon. Lanyon ‘did not know why she left it to him’. Joseph Grigg claimed it was only ‘in trust till such time as he obtained a certificate of discharge from his debts, being at the time an insolvent’. Perhaps Mary wasn’t confident in the ability of her brothers (both of whom she predeceased) to execute her will as required. Mary’s personal estate consisted of the Mallee leasehold, stated to be 960 acres with fencing, shrubbing and clearing improvements, a water tank and shed, wheat crop, 55 sheep, two horses and worn out farming implements. Mary died on 13 September 1892 of debility and pneumonia in Boort, Victoria, and was buried in Boort Cemetery with Wesleyan rites. Archival resources Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre Mary W Grigg - Will Mary W Grigg - Probate and Administration Files Mary W Grigg - Probate and Administration Files Author Details Helen Morgan Created 10 January 2019 Last modified 10 January 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Founded 25 March 1909 the Women’s Service Guilds of Western Australia formed a core feminist connection for the exchange of feminist strategies and ideas with international feminism for much of the twentieth century. While typified as conservative, the Guilds anticipated many radical trends and were at the forefront of activism which challenged the political and social boundaries that excluded from participating fully in society. They worked to raise the status of women and improve the welfare of children, primarily through legislative reform and initiated a wide range of campaigns on local, national and international levels. From its inception the Women’s Service Guilds shared interests, and in many cases memberships, with other key Western Australian women’s organizations agitating for women’s rights. The Guilds saw the education of women as the most effective way to improve women’s legal status and give them entry into the public sphere. At the local level they lobbied for the direct representation of women in politics, the appointment of women to the judiciary, better conditions for female prisoners, and for women to take key positions in the courts and in welfare work with girls and prostitutes. After many battles they secured the establishment of a maternity hospital that admitted single and married women. In the 1920s the Guilds began a long association with Aboriginal Affairs and campaigned relentlessly to end the injustices experienced by Aborigines, particularly in relation to equality before the law. The Guilds insisted on having a say in shaping government policy and one outcome of many years of political activism was the opening of the first Western Australian Women’s Parliament in 1946. Their interests in environmental preservation pre-dated the conscious raising campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s by more than 60 years. The Women’s Service Guilds of Western Australia affiliated with many international feminist organizations and acted as a conduit for the dissemination of ideas and information coming into Australia. Published resources Book Women on the warpath : feminist of the first wave, Davidson, Dianne, 1997 Sixty years of progress : highlights of the history of the Women's Service Guilds of W.A. Inc., 1909-1969 : as presented on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations, Greenwood, Irene, 1899-1992. (compiled by), [1969?] March of Australian women : a record of fifty years' struggle for equal citizenship., Rischbieth, Bessie Mabel, 1875-1967., 1964 Women's Service Guilds of W.A. : founded 1909 and incorporated 1924 (non-party) : golden jubilee 1909-1959 : digest of growth, activities and achievements, milestones in 50 years of community work., 1959 Journal Article With Ready Hands and New Brooms : The Women Who Campaigned for Female Suffrage in Western Australia, 1895-1899we, Reekie, G, 1981 War, Sexuality and Feminism: Perth's Women's Organisations 1938-1945, Reekie, Gail, 1985 Book Section Greenwood, Irene, Caine, Barbara, 1998 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia records Papers, 1909-1991 [manuscript] Miss Sheila McClemans [picture] Isabel Johnston [picture] Dame Florence Cardell-Oliver [picture] Papers, 1876-1985 [manuscript] Papers, 1920-1944 [manuscript] Author Details Denise Tallis Created 25 March 2004 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records consisting of minutes and roll books. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 July 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Haete Weiner is an environmental activist and a once-only candidate. She was the Green’s candidate for Vaucluse in 1999. Haete Weiner was a Bondi resident when she ran for the seat of Vaucluse. She was a long-term social justice and environment activist and had campaigned for improved public transport and against the Jabiluka uranium mine. She was concerned about the damaging consequences of over-consumption and development. In 2005 she was the Project Coordinator of the Corporate Responsibility Index of the St James Ethics Centre. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 29 August 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Box 2. Portraits 25-47. ID No. 26 – Sylvia Parsons Author Details Alannah Croom Created 18 February 2013 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Beryl Evans was a Liberal Member of the Legislative Council in the New South Wales parliament from 1984-1995. She later ran unsuccessfully for the Senate as an independent, and for the New South Wales Legislative Council as a member of the Seniors Party. She was an official candidate for the 1998 Constitutional Convention, representing the One Australian Monarchist League, but was not elected. During World War Two, Evans served in the Royal Auxiliary Australian Air Force with distinction. She became president of the WAAAF Branch of the RAAF Association New South Wales Division on 25 March 1997. Parliamentary and Local Government Career Candidate: New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Burrendong, 1973 (known as Bowman) Elected: MLC, 1984-1995 (known as Evans) Candidate: Senate, NSW, 1996 Candidate: Legislative Council, 1999 (known as Evans) Party: Liberal, 1973,1984-95 Party: Independent, 1996 Party: The Seniors Party, 1999 Beryl Evans was elected as a Liberal Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1984. During her 11 years of service she was chairman of the Privileges committee and a member of the Stay Safe committee. From 1990 to 1991 Evans was Government Whip. Upon her retirement in 1995 Her Majesty the Queen granted the title of the Honourable to Beryl Evans for life. On 12 November 1942 Evans joined the Royal Auxiliary Australian Air Force. Serving as a drill instructor and physical training instructor she obtained the ranks of corporal and sergeant before being commissioned in 1944. Beryl Evans was discharged on 25 September 1945 with the rank of section officer. Beryl Evans became president of the WAAAF Branch of the RAAF Association NSW Division on 25 March 1997. She is a vice-president of the RAAF Association, a member of the Council and executive and national executive representative to Australian Veteran Defence Services Council. Events 1962 - 1971 Councilor for Coolah Shire 2042 - 2045 Served with the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force 1984 - 1995 Member of the Legislative Council (Liberal) for New South Wales 1976 - 1976 Married: Richard Kelywack Evans 1981 - 1981 Graduated with Economic Degree from University of New England 1944 - 1944 Married: Kenneth Graham Bowman and they had two sons 1988 - 1995 Government representative on the Governing Body of the University of New England Published resources Resource Section BOWMAN, BERYL ALICE, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=1069578 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1988, Cadman, Kerith A, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: The Honourable Beryl Evans Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "These records comprise: Correspondence of Jessie Street Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Hindmarsh Women’s Community Health Centre was the first women’s health centre in South Australia. The Women’s Liberation Movement recognised the need for a separate women’s health centre from the number of health related calls and personal enquiries it received and lobbied the government for assistance. Funding was granted in 1974 and 6 Mary St, Hindmarsh was officially open in 1976. The Health Centre became a teaching centre for women’s health in late 1975 and produced pamphlets on both general and gynaecological health. The Rape Crisis Centre evolved from the Health Centre. Funding came through the state government and as a result there were some clashes between the bureaucracy and the feminist executive over how the centre should be run. This was further complicated by the clashing politics of the various feminist groups involved in the centre, which was run by a feminist collective. Conflict with the State Health Department eventually lead to the withdrawal of funding. After the intervention of the Women’s Adviser to the Premier, who argued the case for the need for specialised women’s health services, the centre was moved to North Adelaide and became Women’s Health Statewide. The Centre then became known as the Welling Place, providing alternative health including a vegetable patch for the community. 6 Mary St was demolished in 1989 to make way for the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. The work of the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s called for a separate women’s health education centre to inform women about basic gynaecology, reproductive health and psychological health. A group called Body Political put out a newsletter on women’s health and presented a program ‘Our Body Ourselves’ on radio 5UV at Adelaide University. The submission for funding was made in 1974. Funding was granted in 1974 and 6 Mary St Hindmarsh was officially open in 1976. Hindmarsh Women’s Community Health Centre was the first women’s health centre in South Australia. With the public funding of the Centre there was a struggle between what the feminist wanted to achieve and the South Australian Health Commission with its limiting rules. The feminists wanted to teach women about their health but because they were not an accredited institution they had to be granted the right to teach. The Centre produced pamphlets on both general and gynaecological health. They did become a teaching centre for women’s health for a time. Because funding was through the state the feminist way of running the centre as a collective with members of the centre and the bureaucracy and its requirements often clashed. This was further complicated by the feminist groups involved in the centre. The conflict with the Health Department eventually led to the withdrawal of funding. With the intervention of the Women’s Adviser to the Premier the need of Women’s Health Centre was argued and the centre was moved to North Adelaide and became Women’s Health Statewide. Hindmarsh Women’s Health Centre continued with the Medicare payments to support other work of the centre. The Centre then became known as the Welling Place, providing alternative health including a vegetable patch for the community. 6 Mary St was demolished in 1989 for the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. The Rape Crisis Centre evolved from the Health Centre. Some of the women involved include Margaret Mc Donald, Mary Nettle, Vicky Papadopolois, Karen Weir, Maria Radoslovich, Sylvia Kinder, Trish Leigh, Helen Bock and Silver Moon. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Pamphlet A Piece of the Cake: a celebration and herstory of metropolitan women's health centres in South Australia, Radoslovich, Helen, 1994 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement : SUMMARY RECORD Hindmarsh Women's Community Health Centre Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records of the South Australian Women’s Memorial Playing Fields Trust Incorporated comprising minutes, reports, correspondence, leases, legal agreements, plans, 1981 memorial service address, various papers relating to the Trust, film and notes prepared in the S.A. Archives on the history of The S.A. Women’s Amateur Sports Council and Playing Fields Trust. Also includes constitutions, newspaper cuttings, financial papers, plans and specifications, papers relating to the Australian Women’s Council, booking sheets, diary, donation details. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: In the outdoors Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "With her husband, clergyman Mervyn Archdall, Martha pushed for the establishment of a deaconess institution at Balmain, New South Wales, in 1885. Bethany was opened in 1891 with Canon Archdall as director. It was Martha who opened a parish school, and by 1900 Bethany had schools at Balmain, Lewisham, Dapto and Bega. Martha Kaasow was born at Stettin, Germany – now Szcenin, Poland – and married Mervyn Archdall in 1882. The pair moved to Balmain, New South Wales, where they instigated the building of a deaconess institution. Mervyn Archdall was rector at Balmain, and became director of the deaconess institution, ‘Bethany’, when it opened in 1891. Martha opened the parish school, with school fees and one quarter of her husband’s stipend supporting Bethany. By 1900, new schools in Lewisham, Lawson, Dapto and Bega were also supporting the institution. Martha Archdall ran an employment agency in Darlinghurst and developed another in Balmain for women and children from the Bethany Homes. She moved to Melbourne after the death of her husband in 1917. Published resources Edited Book The Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Dickey, Brian, 1994 Journal Article Attitudes to the ministry of women in the diocese of Sydney: an historical study 1884-1893, Rodgers, M., 1980 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 23 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Research notes for the history of the Canberra Croquet Club, 1928-1998; annual general meeting minutes, 1945-1947, 1975-1976; annual reports, 1947-1955; AGM minutes and annual reports, 1955-1963, 1964-1968; committee meeting minutes, 1932-1949, 1963-1971, 1971-1980, 1980-1987, 1987-1991; photographs and newscuttings, 1930s-1960s; photograph album, 1932-1979; bisqueing book, 1971-1972; letters from Daisy, Lady Isaacs, wife of Governor General Sire Isaac Isaacs, 1932-1933 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 20 February 2013 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rosemary Follett was born in Sydney in 1948 but is Canberra in her heart, describing herself as ‘in lock step’ with the city. (Interview) ‘It’s a peaceful, tolerant place’ with a ‘sense of spaciousness and community’ she says. (Interview) It is also the place where she, as the Australian Capital Territory’s (ACT’s) first chief minister, in 1989 became the first woman to lead an Australian state or territory government. As ALP leader, she presided over 3 ministries and remained in parliament until 1996 as the member of Molonglo. Her portfolio responsibilities included Social Justice, Treasury and Public Service, Attorney-General, Law Reform, Consumer Affairs, Police and Emergency Services. Follett described herself as belonging to the Left faction of the ALP and came to power with a platform of open accountable government, social justice and a policy that half of all positions on government advisory boards and committees should be filled by women. After leaving politics she served as the ACT Discrimination Commissioner from 1996 until 2004. Rosemary Follett came to Canberra in 1952 and was educated at the former Catholic Girls High School (now Merici College, where a wing is named after her). Her mother and father were both from the Canberra region (Cooma and Bungendore) , met as members of the armed services before the start of the Second World War (father was in the army and mother in naval intelligence), married at the end of the war and moved to Sydney for work after the war. They were from very different backgrounds, and this was a source of tension, as it was for many couples in early twentieth century Australia who crossed the sectarian divide. Rosemary’s mother’s family were Catholic, intellectual and high achievers; her aunt was a doctor who, for a time, was the highest ranking woman in the navy. The Follett family, on the other hand, had no pedigree for education and were Anglican. Judith Lusby, a BA from the University of Sydney, and Aubrey Follett, a court reporter, married in a Catholic church in Sydney and the Follett family did not attend. The family moved to Canberra when Aubrey Follett obtained work as a Hansard reporter. While work brought them to Canberra, the promise of a house in Canberra was a key motivation. The housing crisis in Sydney was so acute, the Follett family decided they had been shown enough houses with dirt floors and took the plunge and headed towards a duplex in Yarralumla. Rosemary’s mother’s family provided ample models of educated women demonstrating what could be achieved by women with a good education. The aforementioned aunt, an ancestor in the nineteenth century who nursed in the NSW Northern Rivers District, even Rosemary’s mother, who battled her conservative husband for the right to enrol in a teaching degree at the Australian National University (ANU) when her daughters were at school, all presented Rosemary with models of women who combined work with family. Education was a priority for members of the Follett household. And because of her father’s job, Follett received a unique perspective on political life. Dinner table conversations often revolved around the day’s happenings in parliament, and the admirable qualities of the few women who sat. These conversations broadened into more general discussions about policies, and what differentiated the parties. As she grew older, she began to understand that the Labor Party was the party of reform. Follett’s education was a catholic one, and although she enjoyed primary school, where she excelled, the same could not be said of her experience of secondary school. She was young when she started and acknowledges that she was academically ready but socially and emotionally unprepared. The transition was difficult and it wasn’t helped by the unevenness of the teaching in the catholic system for girls. ‘Many of the nuns did not appear to be all that happy : they seemed to be ‘the nuns that could be spared’ by their orders.’ (Interview) They terrified the girls with their stories of martyrdom and sacrifice, rather than inspire them with the stories of Mary McKillop or other nuns who worked for social justice in the church. If not for the encouragement of her mother and Mother Gonzaga, who allowed her to read whatever she wanted to read, surviving school would have been close to impossible. After school, Follett earned an Advanced Diploma in Secretarial Studies and joined the public service. She left home at 18 and travelled with a friend to Darwin in 1966. Working for the Chief Geologist in a ‘frontier’ town was an eye opener, especially for the lack of a female presence in public spaces. After Darwin, she moved to Sydney where she worked for a mining company. While working in the mining industry, she began to develop a sense of the power of capital, and how poorly the existing Occupational Health and Safety Legislation protected working people and their families. While in Sydney, she met someone (from Canberra) and got married. (In a strange twist, her sister married her husband’s brother!) She came back to Canberra, got married and continued working as a secretary for some years, while her husband studied, although, as a married woman , she was no longer permitted to work for the public service. In 1973, she returned to study too, taking advantage of the free university education introduced by the Whitlam Government elected in December of 1972. In the 1970s, Follett became increasingly interested in the variety of social movements that were bubbling along at the time. She found her sympathies generally aligned with Australian Labor Party (ALP) policies and, after the sacking of the Whitlam government in 1975, joined Ginninderra branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in 1975, becoming its president from 1983 to 1984. She admits that in the early days, she was very quiet at meetings. As someone who’d had a sheltered life and upbringing, she found the militancy of some other members very confronting. ‘I thought my mother’s modest way of making change was more appropriate’. (Interview) In 1984 she was elected women’s co-ordinator for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) branch of the ALP and this gave her experience in the women’s policy committee and the feminist caucus. From 1985 to 1986 she was a member of the ACT House of Assembly, and by 1987 was elected ALP ACT Branch president. She completed her degree and rejoined the Australian Public Service (APS) through their graduate recruitment program. She became a highly active workplace delegate with the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association. It took her a while to find a position that she enjoyed and felt useful in, but she found it in the Office for Women’s Affairs (OWA) when it was located in the Department of Premier and Cabinet, working to establish the newly formed National Women’s Advisory Council (NWAC). Working in this environment helped to develop her understanding of feminism and the feminist movement. Heavily influenced by Germaine Greer’s ‘The Female Eunuch’, Follett learned more from the staff at the OWA, from impressive women such as Sara Dowse. She was committed to the feminist movement and felt for other women in the office forced to navigate the tension between feminism and bureaucracy on a daily basis. Not long after the OWA was moved to the Department of Home Affairs, Follett changed areas and began working in the Cultural Heritage area, where she was encouraged to take part in the APS Executive Leadership Program. Climbing further through the ranks of the APS she came to the conclusion that being an executive public servant might not actually be as interesting as doing the hands on work of someone a couple of rungs down. At around the same time that she was forming these conclusions, she was asked if she would be interested in filling a casual vacancy in the House of Assembly in the run up to self government. She accepted the invitation, was preselected and took on the role as the opposition (ALP) Member for Fraser. Follett then took on the ACT ALP Presidency and became well known as a good negotiator who was able to consult with all the factions of the ALP, as well as the opposition parties; a very important skill to possess at a time when the goal of self-government in the A.C.T was still being worked towards. She was determined to ensure that the ALP could be viewed by the electorate as a viable alternative in government. She was clearly successful in her determination; in 1989, Rosemary Follett was elected first Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory which made her the first woman to lead an Australian state or territory government. In 1990 a Canberra Times – Datacol opinion poll put her popularity at a high 73 per cent. Despite this, her first term was very short; she lost a vote of no confidence in 1990 after a year in office, returned in 1991 and then re-elected in 1992 into a much more stable political environment. In 1995 she was defeated by the Liberal Party of Australia under Kate Carnell. Follett resigned from the ACT Legislative Assembly in December 1996. After leaving politics, Follett was appointed the ACT Sex Discrimination Commission, a position she held until 2004. That she was the first woman to lead a state or territory did not hit her hard until she attended her first commonwealth heads of governments grant commission meeting where she was the only woman. In fact, she says, ‘there wasn’t much positive publicity about it at the time. My opponent used to refer to my ministry as ‘a powder puff government”. (Interview) She was surprised by the level of obsession that the public had with her appearance, and appalled by the sexism of some media coverage. In the A.C.T. the chief minister is also treasurer. A journalist had the gall to ask her how she was going to manage the budget! But as time went by, some things improved. In 1992, more women (Joan Kirner and Carmen Lawrence) were at the state and territory leaders meetings. The scrutiny on her appearance and private life, however, did not abate. She was once told by a journalist that that they were relying upon her for two stories a day, which could have been useful if the focus was on policy and not her wardrobe. ‘There was consistent commentary about what I wore, rather than what I was doing,’ she says.(Interview). Which was a lot; Follet acknowledges that the amount of work was extraordinary and sometimes overwhelming, but she was determined to stay in charge as long as she could because there major policy areas she wanted to achieve, especially in the area of occupation health and safety legislations, consumer protection laws and pursuing feminist policy initiatives. Her hard work took its toll personally. She ‘can’t imagine how she would have done the job with children’ and admires women such as current (2013) Chief Minister Katy (Interview) She could not have achieved what she did without the support of excellent mentors in her party and the close, critical friendship of her two sisters. Follett was always comfortable with leadership, saying that ‘she works best when she is in charge’. (Interview) While always comfortable with the responsibilities that come with leadership she found learning to accept the judgments that come with political leadership took longer. ‘All political careers end in defeat’, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pursue them! (Interview) The personal satisfaction of achieving meaningful change for the good, and bringing people through with you, to reach consensus on an important policy matter, cannot be under estimated. Nor can the opportunities for further career development. Since leaving politics, Follett has been: deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Canberra; Chair of the Vocational Education and Training Authority; a member of the University of Canberra Council; member of the Sentence Administration Board and Chair of the Board of Senior Secondary School Studies. She led a trade mission to Japan and was instrumental in bringing about the ACT’s sister-city relationship with Nara and was a member of the Milk Authority of the ACT 1996 and the Canberra Labor Club, Canberra Tradesmen’s Club and the Fabian Society. ACT politics has provided Rosemary Follett with a rich and interesting life. Which no doubt reinforces her enduring love for the city of Canberra. Speaking for herself, and countless others, she says ‘Eighteen year olds will always leave Canberra but they will always come back. Even retirees return!’ (Interview) Events 1983 - 1984 President of the Australian Labor Party, Ginninderra Branch 2017 - 2017 Received for service to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly through influencing the development of self-government and as an inaugral Chief Minister, and to community development, human rights, and the advancement of women. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2004, 2004 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Rosemary Follett interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Women and leadership in a century of Australian democracy oral history project [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Rosemary Follett, former Chief Minister of the ACT, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Ros Russell and Nikki Henningham Created 27 February 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Portrait of Rosemary Follett Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Constitution, minutes, attendance books and past copies of newsletter Ditty Box Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 November 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Box 1. Papers of Ethel Turner 1881-1954. Letters received 1890-1954 School reports 1884-1887 Birthday book, published 1881 Autograph book c.1910-1946 Speech for jubilee dinner of S.G.H.S. Old Girls Union, 6 Oct. 1943 Scrap book of book reviews, 1894-1895 Miscellaneous papers and newscuttings??Box 2. Papers of Sir Adrian Curlewis 1934-1966. Letters received, 1941-1966 with 1925 letter to Mr Curlewis Shark Advisory Committee – Minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports, etc. 1934-1935 Council of 8th Div., A.I.F. – Food Parcel Appeal 1946-1949 Red Cross Society, Correspondence re resignation 1952, and reports 1948-1952 W.A. – Royal Commission re Claremont Asylum for the Insane 1950 Roentgen #ration and related correspondence 1955 National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis – Reports 1955-1960 National Playing Fields Association 1957 Miscellaneous including Sydney University examination papers 1888, and printed material??This collection includes 26 bookplates of Ethel Turner and Ian Curlewis Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 45 min.)??Walker speaks of her family and of their totem ; her views on the educational system for Aborigines ; about working as a domestic from the age of 13 ; her beginnings as a poet ; involvement with the civil rights movement ; she speaks of the destruction of the Aboriginal race ; she talks of her two books: “The dawn is at hand” and “We are going”. Walker reads the poems: “Son of mine”, “The dawn is at hand”, “Biami”, “The past”. Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes correspondence, minutes, reports, constitutions, conferences, seminars, newsletters. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 18 September 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photograph by Reese Scannell Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Biographical questionnaires arranged alphabetically by name. Parliamentarians represented include Sir Garfield Barwick, Peter Baume, Kim Beasley, Florence Bjelke-Peterson, Nick Bolkus, Gordon Bryant, John Button, Clyde Cameron, John Carrick, Joan Child, Donald Chipp, Douglas Everingham, Ken Fry, John Gorton, Al Grassby, Margaret Guilfoyle, Janine Haynes, Paul Hasluck, Peter Howson, John Kerin, Douglas McClelland, William McMahon, Alan Missen, Gordon Scholes, Barry Simon, Billy Snedden, Dorothy Tangney and Gough Whitlam. The questions cover basic biographical data, and also seek information on political influences, aims and achievements, perceived improvements to the political process, the Parliamentary committee system and career since politics. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 January 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Barkandji people, Fiona Bates is an artist, tour guide, and member of the Broken Hill Aboriginal Justice Group. Fiona Bates is the second daughter of Muriel Riley and lives at Broken Hill, New South Wales. As a child she lived for some time with her uncle, accomplished artist Badger Bates. Accompanying him on field trips, she learned about the Aboriginal way of living, Aboriginal stories, and how to express the meaning of those stories through art. Fiona’s own style of art encompasses sketching with lead pencil, watercolours, pastels, charcoals, acrylic paints and ochre, as well as lino cuts. In 2008, Fiona won first prize in the open section of the Far Western Emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Prize for her sketch of a canoe tree that was carved by her own great-grandmother. Fiona has three children. She is a member of the Broken Hill Aboriginal Justice Group and works as a tour guide, informed by a detailed knowledge of the Aboriginal art found in and around the Broken Hill region and created by members of up to seven different tribes in far western New South Wales. Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Fiona Bates Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers relate to the writing of the book, Oodgeroo, by Kathie Cochrane. Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Doreen Rosenthal is a national and international leader in research on adolescent development. This led to innovative and sustained research on adolescent sexuality and sexual health at a time when the HIV/AIDS epidemic had become a significant problem for public health. She served as a member of the Committee for Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne from 1986. She was made an Officer of the Order of Australia , is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and is on the Victorian Honour Roll of Women. Doreen is an Honorary Life Member, Victorian AIDS Council. Doreen Rosenthal was born in Melbourne in 1938 into a family of European origin. Her grandparents, all born in Russia, immigrated to Australia in the mid 1920s, with their children. Her mother, Judith, once married, maintained a traditional role of homemaker and her father was a manufacturer then retailer of women’s clothing. One of three daughters, Doreen attended Elwood Central School where she was School Captain and House Captain in her final year. From 1952-55, she attended MacRobertson Girls’ High School, then as now a selective girls only high school. She matriculated in 1955 having been Prefect and House Captain in her final year. After withdrawing from Pharmacy College, she worked as a receptionist until her marriage in 1958 to Jon David Rosenthal. Her three children, Mark, Simon and Joanna, were born before she commenced a Diploma of Social Studies at the University of Melbourne. After one year, her interest in psychology led her to switch to an Honours Degree in that subject. She graduated in 1972 with a First Class Honours Degree, winning the Dwight Prizes for First Place in Arts ( Psychology). Following completion of her PhD in 1975, she began as a lecturer at Melbourne State College. In 1980 she returned as an academic to the Psychology Department at Melbourne University where she became a Reader in Psychology. During this time she was a member of the newly formed Committee for Gender Studies, a group of women academics from may disciplines that supported and encouraged equal opportunity policies and practices within the university. Doreen was also founding President of the Association of Women on Campus at the University of Melbourne, formed to provide women with a formal voice within the institution. She became Founding Professor and Director of a new VicHealth funded Centre for the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, now the Australian research Centre in Sex, Health and Society ( ARCSHS). The Centre became pre-eminent in multidisciplinary social research, focusing on HIV prevention and education, with significant funding from the Federal Health Department. During her time there, she encouraged the inclusion of gender issues in Centre research and its dissemination. After several years as Associate Dean ( Research), in the Faculty of Health Sciences at La Trobe University, Doreen took a five-year post as Professor of Women’s Health at the University of Melbourne as Director of the Key Centre for Women’s health in Society that had become part of the new School of Population Health. In both Centres a key focus was on ensuring that research outcomes were included in policy and practice agendas wherever possible. In 2008, following her retirement, Doreen was made Professor Emerita in the School of Population Health. Since retiring she has co-written four books, three of these focusing on women’s roles in later life – as grandmothers ( New Age Nanas: Being a Grandmother in the 21st Century: Grandparenting: Contemporary Perspectives), and as retirees ( Women in Retirement: Challenges of a new Life Stage). Doreen has been a member of key national and state advisory committees that provide policy advice to relevant ministers. She was a Deputy Chairperson of the Australian National Council on AIDS, Chairperson of the Council’s Education and Prevention Sub-Committee and a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee. In Victoria she was a member of the Victorian Ministerial Advisory Committee on AIDS and Deputy Chairman of its Education Working Group. In these roles she played an active part in helping to shape Australia’s HIV/AIDS policies, in particular, those policies focussed on prevention education. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 September 2017 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sister Elsie Simper was the Matron of Warrawee Private Hospital in Broken Hill from 1933 until 1943, and was the founder of the District Nursing Service. Elsie Simper grew up at Smythesdale, Victoria, the eldest of five children of Alfred Simper, an alluvial gold miner, and his wife Elizabeth. She began her nursing career in 1925 at Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital in Melbourne where, after completing two and a half years of general training, she became a senior nurse. The prospect of gaining higher wages and of working with Dr. Kneebone, a very well respected surgeon, convinced Elsie to move to Broken Hill in 1928. There she undertook general and midwifery training at the Broken Hill and District Hospital. In 1933 and with only £15 to her name, Elsie bought the Warrawee Private Hospital on Oxide Street, which had been operating since late 1924. At first, Sister Simper was on call 24 hours a day as there was no night sister. Her tireless work paid off, as the 6-bed hospital was soon too small to house all of her patients. In 1937 Elsie bought the Cable Hotel and converted it into a new 12-bed hospital. During her ten years as Matron of Warrawee Private Hospital, Elsie delivered an average of 110 babies a year and was proud to report no maternal deaths and only five stillborn babies. In 1942, after the opening of the new wing of the Broken Hill and District Hospital in September 1941, Warrawee closed. After taking a course in Infant Welfare at Tresillian in Sydney, Sister Simper returned to Broken Hill and in 1943 she founded the District Nursing Service. She ran the service for three years from the Broken Hill and District Hospital. Elsie left Broken Hill in 1946 to visit her parents in Ballarat, and there she accepted a permanent position at the Maternal and Infant Welfare Service. She retired in 1971 and subsequently undertook voluntary work with several organisations including Meals on Wheels, the Day Centre for the Blind, the Walker Street Spastic centre and the Quota Club. She died in 1999 at the age of 94. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The papers in the collection were accumulated over the course of Elyne Mitchell’s long life and career. There are drafts of nearly all her published works, including for The silver brumby, letters from many fans of her writings, correspondence with publishers, reviews of her published works and a large group of royalty statements. Of particular interest are lengthy runs of informative letters from two of her early literary mentors, Judith Wright and her cousin, Ethel Anderson. There is also a large collection of black and white photographs and negatives of the Australian alpine landscape dating from the 1930s-1940s (61 boxes, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Janet Butler Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Folder contains photocopies of letters from Nellie Melba to Percy Grainger (most of which appear in folders 02.0020 & 02.0021). Also contains a photocopied concert program (Dorum Acquisition) and typed copies of letters to Percy Grainger from Melba and Percy Grainger to Melba. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 October 2017 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Women’s Literary Society was formed in Sydney in 1889 with the object of ‘mutual help in the study of general literature’. Later its activities were defined as ‘searching out and bringing before the meetings such matters as shall be of interest and improvement to members. Discussion upon important topics of the day. Papers upon various matters of interest, criticism upon literary or artistic work or theories upon practical matters.’ It is believed to be the first Australian women’s group to meet at night. Prominent members included Rose Scott, Maybanke Anderson and Dora Montefiore. In 1891 members of this group were instrumental in forming the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales. All members were encouraged to present papers and discussions covered topics from Mary Woollstonecraft to socialism to ‘Suggestions for the Improvement of affairs for Wage Earning Women.’ In one paper, Montefiore suggested that the Society ‘brought together the floating feminine intellectuality.’ By the end of 1893 it claimed 125 members and at this stage there was some conflict between members who wished to admit men and those who did not. Published resources Report Annual Report/Report, Women's Literary Society, 1892-1896 Book Rose Scott: Vision and Revision in Feminism, Allen, Judith A., 1994 Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 Edited Book Women in Australia : an annotated guide to records, Daniels, Kay, Murnane, Mary, Picot, Anne and National Research Program (Australia), 1977 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Women's Literary Society - Minute book, 15 Aug. 1892 - Aug. 1893, with annual reports 1893, 1896 Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Notebooks and diaries 1940-1990 0.54m?Collection spanning 1963 to 1990, together with several University of Melbourne lecture notebooks for 1940.??Research and teaching papers 1945-1992 5.58m?Files related to work at Monash including courses taught and students supervised. Also included are files related to earlier studies at University of Melbourne, and files related to research arising from MLC history, in particular the Corr family. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 October 2017 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Fay Newell was a nursing sister at the Broken Hill and District Hospital. She was named Broken Hill’s Citizen of the Year in 2008 in recognition of her contribution to the community. Fay Newell began her general nursing training at the Broken Hill and District Hospital on 12th July 1954. The four-year course that she undertook involved courses in Medical, Surgical, Paediatric, Accident and Emergency, Infectious Diseases and Operating Theatre procedures. After graduating as a Single Certificate Nursing Sister in 1958, Fay completed her midwifery training at St. Margaret’s Hospital in Sydney before working at the Royal North Shore Hospital. Upon her return to Broken Hill, Matron Gladys Vance made her the sister in charge of the Women’s Medical Ward. Fay continued to further her education, gaining a Certificate in Coronary Care from the Royal Melbourne Hospital and matriculating in Broken Hill in 1979. She also received a Diploma in Teaching from the University of Newcastle in 1981. In November 1991 Fay retired from nursing, and from 1994 to 2004 became a Palliative Care volunteer. In 2008, she was named Broken Hill’s Citizen of the Year in the annual Australia Day awards for her contribution to the community. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Lecture My Memories in Nursing: An Overview, Newell, Fay, 2006 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Early and later drafts of “A friend indeed : Louisa Clifton of Australind W.A.”; mss. Of two radio plays on the Fenians (Voices from the tomb, and Fenian feelings); scrapbook containing photocopies of articles in manuscript form and those published in newspapers in England and Australia, reviews, letters to the press; map of Bishop Salvado’s voyages, correspondence, university assignments written by Russo’s students, historical writings on Western Australia. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 1518 comprises a folio of cuttings, pamphlets, letters and photographs named “Poland 1946”, including “Copy of community letters from Poland 1946”, war photographs and the typescript titled “Welfare services in Poland”; scrapbook with certificate inside cover stating “This records the loyal and valued services of Muriel Knox Doherty to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration… 31 December 1946” containing papers, official letters, newspaper cuttings and photographs; typescript extracts from the Polish bulletin (Dec. 1951-Sept. 1952), on the Katyn war murders; two circular letters relating to “Youth auxiliary for European relief”; and, a large four-page newssheet from The Sydney morning herald (Sept. 2, 1939) (1 box, 1 fol. Box, 1 map folio). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 14 February 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "RTZ Mining and Exploration Department files on Australia. Contain correspondence as well as technical reports and maps. ZC London: Records relating to the boards of NBHC Ltd, Southern Power Corporation P/L, Interstate Oil Ltd, IOL Petroleum Ltd and NBHC Holdings Ltd??This collection consists of records relating to Australia from the RTZ (London) Mining and Exploration Department. They have been arranged in four series as sent from London:?1 Subject series?2 Numerical series?3 Oversize series?4 Maps?An additional series contains drawings by Elizabeth Durack of CRA Exploration activities on Bougainville Island.??The first four Series seem to have been amalgamated from previous series from other RTZ subsidiary or associated companies to become the RTZ Mining and Exploration Department Files. For example some files in the Subject Series are identifiable as having belonged to Rio Tinto Finance and Exploration Ltd., a subsidiary of RTZ. Other files in the Subject Series are of the RTZ Mining and Exploration Department proper.??The reasons for, and date of, the amalgamation of files into the existing Series is unknown, although it probably occurred some time after Consolidated Zinc Corporation Ltd. and Rio Tinto Company Ltd. amalgamated to form Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation Ltd. in 1962. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Organisational papers (newsletters, admin papers); Publicity; Still Image Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection comprises – 3 cassettes – 2hrs 30mins. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Cordelia Gundolf, who taught Italian, and headed the department from 1971 to 1982, had, like many immigrants to Australia, an extraordinary life. Her father, Friedrich Gundolf (1880-1931) was a renowned literary critic and university professor, her mother, Agathe Mallachow (1884-1983) a pianist. Brought up in the heart of the German cultural elite, she learned to speak English, French and Italian as a child. She also became very competent in Latin and Ancient Greek, Spanish, and taught herself to read Modern Greek, maintaining it was not very different from Ancient Greek, once one got the hang of it. When Hitler assumed power in Germany, her mother, conscious of the peril in which her Jewish father (even after his death) might place her, asked Albert Einstein for advice. They met in Paris and following his suggestion, mother and daughter went first to Capri, where they were used to spending the summer, and subsequently to Rome. In 1935 her Italian diary, Myrtles and Mice: leaves from the Italian diary of Cordelia Gundolf was published by John Murray.[1] Cordelia Gundolf took her doctoral degree from Rome’s La Sapienza University with a thesis on Germans in Naples in the 18 th century. In 1944 she married Fred Manor and at the end of the War she was employed by the Allies translating German documents into Italian. Divorced and with two young children, she took up a lectureship in the newly-established Italian Department in 1960. The Age reported the arrival of a ‘dark-haired, dark-eyed’ new lecturer who ‘has a quick, ready smile and speaks English in a series of quick, rapid phrases’, noting also that she was bilingual in German and Italian and had translated a biography of Konrad Adenauer.[2] She continued to publish scholarly articles and translate books from both English and German into Italian, among them Friedrich Meinecke’s Die Entstehung des Historismus.[3] Cordelia Gundolf’s principal interest lay in Italian literature rather than language teaching and her wide knowledge and approachability made her an engaging teacher. Both of her daughters are University of Melbourne alumnae. Olivia Manor took her BA in 1968 and DipEd in 1969. She taught Italian at a number of secondary schools for almost 40 years and, with her mother’s help, published two Italian text books for junior and middle secondary school.[4] Delfina Manor graduated BA DipEd in 1974. She runs Good Reading Secondhand Books in Benalla. [1] Cordelia Gundolf. Myrtles and Mice: leaves from the Italian diary of Cordelia Gundolf. Translated by R.W. Reynolds. London: John Murray, 1935. [2] ‘Translator is House Hunting’. Age. 14 April 1960: 6; Edgar Alexander. Adenauer e la Nuova Germania. Naples: Politica Popolare, 1959. [3] Friedrich Meinecke. Le Origini dello Storicismo. Florence: Sansoni, 1967. [4] Olivia Manor. Dimmi una Parola. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1983; Olivia Manor. Dimmi un’altra Parola: an intermediate Italian course. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 15 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Typescript memoir (98 pp) titled “Eastern Interlude”, written in 1998 by Janet ‘Pat’ Darling (nee Gunther) covering her Second World War nursing service in Malaya and, following the sinking of the ‘Vyner Brooke’ off Banka Island, subsequent experiences as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Sumatra (Palembang). Also included is an illustrated publication ‘Portrait of a Nurse: Prisoner of War of the Japanese 1942-1945, Sumatra’, by Pat Darling (nee Gunther), MID, signed by author (published by Don Wall, Moss Vale, ISBN No 0 9585418 1 7). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of Jean Whyte, librarian and teacher, comprising family papers, letters from friends, newspaper cuttings relating to the family and Dame Roma Mitchell, and photographs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Biographical cuttings files contain cuttings, e.g. articles, obituaries, from Australian newspapers and journals from the early 20th century to 2000. Created 17 November 2020 Last modified 17 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Ladies Drawing Room was formed in 1956 to organise social functions for women members and the wives of members of University House. The group took its name from the Room so dedicated in University House, ANU, Canberra. The Ladies Drawing Room enabled creation of a community of likeminded women which resulted in lifelong friendships, and provided intellectual stimulation in a city which was initially small and lacking in social or cultural facilities. The Ladies Drawing Room continued to hold regular lunches and other social activities for nearly 50 years until the age of remaining members, and lack of new membership, caused the group to wind up its affairs in 2003. Its story is a microcosm of the social history of the women associated with the University who played a significant but typically discreet part in creating the community and culture of the ANU. When University House was opened at the Australia’s National University (ANU) in 1954 Canberra was a small city of 28,000 people with few social facilities. Rented houses were often too small for entertaining, and opportunities were rare for women to meet up with other women away from their home duties and childcare responsibilities. In 1954 the Governing Body of University House decided to help offset those limitations by dedicating a room – named the Ladies Drawing Room – for the use of women members of the House and, mostly, the wives of academic members. Mrs (later Lady) Mary Melville, wife of the Vice Chancellor, convened a meeting of interested women in July 1956 which created an Ladies Drawing Room organising committee. Its membership reflected the ANU’s structure with representation from each Research School and the Administration and, after 1960 (when the ANU amalgamated with the Canberra University College) the School of General Studies. The Committee’s membership over the next 47 years reads as a Who’s Who of the wives of the University’s creators and leaders. The first gathering (a morning tea) attracted nearly 80 women. By the early 1960s a pattern was established of monthly formal lunches, usually with a speaker. The events were both social and intellectual. Early speakers were members of the Drawing Room – e.g. Rosalie Gascoigne, Honor Maude and Nancy Parker. Later on they were drawn from elsewhere in the University and beyond, and covered an eclectic range of topics. The Ladies Drawing Room enjoyed its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s as the ANU expanded. University House was central to the University community overall and the Ladies Drawing Room was considered the most club-like aspect of the House. The Ladies Drawing Room came to play a significant part in its members’ lives – lifelong friendships were formed which continued long after retirement. The longevity and loyalty of the membership indicates the significant role the Ladies Drawing Room played in their lives. Many served as Convenors or Committee members for five or more years; a few for many more – e.g. Pat Back (14), Lena Karmel (15), Belle Low (10), Jean Moran (20), and Joy Wilson (16). By the 1980s many of the University’s early academic staff were retiring and the membership of the Ladies Drawing Room became both older and smaller. Canberra’s social amenities and cultural hubs had grown apace; younger women tended to work and had little free time. In the 1990s members of the ANU Club for Women (founded in 1961 with a considerable overlap in membership with the Ladies Drawing Room) joined in some luncheons but by the end of the decade it was clear that the Ladies Drawing Room had served its purpose and the ladies wound up the organisation in March 2003. However, in recognition of the importance of the group in the life of University House and ANU more broadly, the House itself instituted a program of three reunions a year which continues to attract some 30 women. Published resources Resource ANU Club for Women Inc, http://clubforwomen.anu.edu.au/ Book University House as They Experienced It: A History 1954-2004, Waterhouse, Jill, 2004 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Australian National University Archives Research Material for the 50th anniversary history of University House Author Details Louise Moran Created 21 June 2012 Last modified 14 February 2019 Digital resources Title: Planting a Japanese maple, gift of Ladies Drawing Room to University House in its Jubilee Year 2004 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "4 min. Home movie.?8mm standard/Colour/silent??Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) Training Company Queenscliff. RAANC and WRAAC marching together. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "46 minutes??Mr and Mrs A. L. Walsh were amongst the original residents of the Cabin Homes at Salisbury and have remained in the district ever since. Mr Walsh, a carpenter, came to Salisbury earlier in the war years to build munition factory buildings. He was able to bring his family to Salisbury when the first of the Cabin Homes were available. Mrs Walsh remembers Salisbury at this time as one of the ‘unfriendliest country towns’ she’d ever been in and they both describe the problems involved in the lack of facilities and services provided to the new residents. Mrs Walsh became involved with the Progress Association and after the war helped the migrants moving into the area through her activities with the Country Women’s Association, the Red Cross and the Good Neighbour Council. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of Heather Gell, pioneer of eurhythmics and dance teacher, comprising lesson notes, scripts, music scores, including original music scores for ‘Heritage’, correspondence, papers relating to the Dalcroze method and the 1936 production of ‘Heritage’, photographs, programmes, scrapbooks, certificates and sound cassettes. Also included are some papers relating to the 1991 exhibition of ‘Heritage’ designs and photographs, an album relating to Miss Enid Campbell’s Albion Street Infant School eurhythmics class, Paddington NSW, Heather Gell’s theatre productions, an interview with her recorded by the ABC and including a copy of an ABC Music Through Movement radio broadcast for schools programme, and papers relating to her father Harry Dickson Gell. Originals of photographs in RESERVE collection with copies available for reference. For details of series 1-59 see attached series list. For series 60 onwards see under items below. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Esther Scholem is a once only candidate who stood for the Australian Democrats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Blue Mountains in 2003. Esther Scholem moved to the Blue Mountains of New South Wales in 1991 and became involved professionally and voluntarily in community activities there. She is a Past President of the Blue Mountains Migrant Residents Association, on the Management Committees of the Blackheath Area Neighbourhood Centre and the Blue Mountains Wildplant Rescue Service. She is a member of the Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group and Australians for native Title and Reconciliation (ANTAR). She campaigned for more funding for community services and for the Blue Mountains area to be treated as a region in its own right and not just a part of the Greater Western Sydney Region. As an Australian Democrat she stressed the need to create a fairer civil society based on social justice, environmental sustainability and economic responsibility. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Autobiography of Jennie Scott Griffiths. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 9551 comprises correspondence, diaries, notes, minutes, newspaper cuttings, photographs, artwork, circulars and publications, mostly dating from the period 1930-1950. They deal in particular with Joan Kingsley-Strack’s strong interest in Aboriginal culture and welfare and her involvement in the Committee for Aboriginal Citizenship, the Oxford Group and other organisations. The correspondents include Mary Gilmore, Alfred James, A.W. Platts, William Ricketts, Pearl Gibbs, Albert Thompson and Michael Sawtell (13 boxes, 1 fol. box, 2 map folios).??For information on Helen Baillie, see Series 8. Committee for Aboriginal Citizenship, 1935-1953 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 202 min.)??Merran Martin speaks about her pioneer ancestors and early life in Canberra; her schooling in Geneva (1958); her education; her European trip (1971); teaching English in Germany; returning to Canberra and finishing degree in Modern Languages; learning to teach Situational English to migrants; Endeavour Migrant Hostel; her role as Shipboard Education Officer (1974); training volunteers; nationalities taught; migrants knowledge of Australia, the hostel system; Government subsidised travel; working in Department of Immigration, Canberra (1974); her resignation (1975); working at Bruce TAFE; changes in teaching methods; her reasons for leaving Bruce TAFE (1988); teaching overseas students; returning to the Canberra TAFE (1991); working part time at CIT; dealing with conflict between Serbian and Croatian students; dealing with traumatised refugees; changes in teaching methods in the 1990s; computer literacy; Visa categories eligible for free English training.??Martin talks about learning of refugees’ experiences; employment difficulties; effects of current funding arrangements of the Adult Migrant English Program of the CIT; exclusion from Commonwealth funded AMEP program of people on Temporary Protection Visas; ACT Government funding; changes to CIT citizenship education; migrants and refugees with good English; access to citizenship courses; ACT Government funding for TPV or Bridging Visa holders; unsupported refugees; role of community based organisations; new roles of CIT; career planning; CIT funding arrangements; her current functions; Home Tutor Scheme; Social welfare information; cultural awareness; gender differences in English learning and teaching; childcare facilities; cultural assumptions about learning; students illiterate in own languages; older students; main obstacles to learning English; teaching beginner classes; social harmony; socially isolated students; refugees’ issues; her greatest satisfaction in her work; the importance of language. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 May 2009 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Diane Lemaire was the first woman to take her Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Melbourne in March 1944. Diane worked as a Technical Officer in the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Division of Aeronautics and after the war took up a position at the National Physical Laboratory in England. In 1962 she received the Amelia Earhart Fellowship, despite not being a member of Zonta International. Diane retired in 1986. Diane Adrienne Lemaire left St Catherine’s School in 1939 having won a prize for mathematics and lived in Janet Clarke Hall until 1943. She was the daughter of Lionel Henry Lemaire, who served in the AIF and was mentioned in despatches. In March 1944 she became the first woman to take her Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Melbourne. Despite this distinction she attracted a certain amount of press publicity, some of which seems both sexist and extraordinary today. In 1946 the Argus reported on a party she and her brother Peter, at the time an Agricultural Science student who graduated in 1950, hosted for some 130 ‘Ex-University students, a group of young doctors, and some service types’ and the following year, the Northern Argus reported that: ‘About one mile South of Penwortham on the Main North Road on the night of May 27th, two cars driven by women drivers came into collision. The headlights of both vehicles were on.’ Although there appear to have been no injuries both drivers and all passengers, including Diane Lemaire, were carefully named.[1] Another brother, James, took his LLB in 1940. She took a position as Technical Officer working in experimental stress analysis in the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Division of Aeronautics, later the Aeronautical Research Laboratories, running the low speed wind tunnel used in missile testing and other aircraft studies. After the war, she worked for two years at the National Physical Laboratory, in England. Although not a member of Zonta International, in 1962 she received their Amelia Earhart Fellowship. In America she took her MSc from Cornell University in 1964 with a thesis entitled ‘On the Question of the Existence of a Homogeneous Solution to the Equation for the Flow over the Shroud of a Ducted Propeller’. Returning to the Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Diane Lemaire published several more reports before her retirement in 1986. She was an active member of the Lyceum Club and bred Lhasa Apso dogs. She made several generous bequests to the University, including one to the Department of Engineering, which supports the Diane Lemaire Scholarship and another to the University of Melbourne Veterinary Hospital as well as to the Janet Clarke Hall scholarship programme and Zonta International. Sadly, she was notoriously camera-shy, so a really good photograph of her proved impossible to find.[2] [1] ‘At 9 Darling Street.’ Argus . 5 October 1946: 13; ‘Two Women Motor Car Drivers in Accident.’ Northern Argus. 5 June 1947: 13. [2] Personal correspondence, Dr Elizabeth Flann to Juliet Flesch, 23 January 2015. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 29 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hr 2 min. Oral history. Audio cassette; TDK AD60; two track mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 85 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ephemera: EYL scarf, badge, tie pin and ‘plank’ sold for 2/- each to raise funds for Camp Eureka. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Born in Perth in 1906, Dame Rachel Cleland lived an active life which was centred around politics and community organisations. At one time considered the matriarch of the liberal party, in her later years Dame Rachel was very vocal on her opposition to the logging of old-growth forests. She insisted that the Liberal party under Menzies would never have taken the same stance as the current party on such issues. Dame Rachel’s community work with women and children was recognised in 1959 when she was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and again in 1966 when she was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 1980 Dame Rachel became the only western woman to be appointed as a Dame of the British Empire (DBE) by the government of Papua New Guinea for the volunteer work she did for many Papua New Guinea organizations and for helping involve women in public affairs. I enjoy now whatever is happening – my idea is you can’t enjoy tomorrow, and you can only enjoy yesterday if you are enjoying today.’ At 90, Dame Rachel Cleland was still keeping audiences entertained with her words of wisdom born of a life of political activism and community work. Born in Perth beside the Swan River, the oldest of six children, Rachel Cleland remembers her childhood as being happy and free-ranging. She, like her brothers and sisters, was encouraged to take an interest in social issues from an early age and was given a range of regular chores to do that encouraged them to be independent and resourceful. Dame Rachel’s background and her later training and work as a kindergarten teacher stood her in good stead for the expatriate life she eventually embarked on in Papua New Guinea. Her husband, Sir Donald Cleland, was Administrator of Papua New Guinea for 15 years from 1951. Like many expatriate wives in the 1950s, Dame Rachel identified with her husband’s work, which in turn provided her with the opportunity to get to know and help the local people. She was well liked and respected by the local people who appreciated her contribution to organisations like the Red Cross, Girl Guides, Country Women’s Association, and Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) as well as the integral role she played in establishing pre-schools throughout Papua New Guinea. Not surprisingly perhaps, recent research also indicates that Dame Rachel was more involved than was earlier thought in Papua New Guinea affairs via her husband’s work. After Sir Donald’s retirement the Clelands decided to remain living in Port Moresby, never seriously considering moving back to Australia. Sir Donald died in 1975, two weeks before Papua New Guinea’s independence ceremonies. Dame Rachel stayed for a further three years before eventually returning to her extended family in Australia, where she felt herself to be something of a displaced person. She had, by then, lived in Papua New Guinea for 27 years. She continued to make trips back to her expatriate home country for the rest of her life, making a total of eight visits between 1979 and 2000. Dame Rachel was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1959 and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1966 for her work with women and children. In 1980 Rachel Cleland became the only western woman to be appointed as a Dame of the British Empire (DBE) by the government of Papua New Guinea for services to the country she had lived in for so much of her adult life. She was honoured for the volunteer work she did for many Papua New Guinea organisations and for helping involve women in public affairs. Dame Rachel died peacefully in Goondiwindi, Queensland, aged 96, on 18 April 2002, after a heart attack. She had only a week earlier moved there from Perth to be near her son Evan and his family. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Condolences to Cleland Family, 2002, http://www.pm.gov.pg/pmsoffice.nsf/7/f3 Dame Cleland dies at 96, 2002, http://www.thenational.com.pg/0419/nation3.htm Dame Rachel Cleland, 2002, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0||||60-321874||00.html Australian Story Online Forum about Dame Rachel Cleland, 1999, http://www2.abc.net.au/austory/april29/default.htm Nothing Like A Dame, Holmes-A-Court, Janet, 1999, http://www.abc.net.au/austory/series4/9911text.htm Cleland, Sir Donald MacKinnon, Nelson, H N, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130486b.htm Newspaper Article Conscience of the Libs, 2002 Obituary [Dame Rachel Cleland], 2002 Dame Rachel Cleland dies at 96, 2002 Dame Rachel, 78, still calls Papua New Guinea home, 1984 Lady Cleland to Live in Perth, 1978 Liberal Matriarch Dame Rachel Cleland dies, 2002 Liberals lose matriarch, 2002 Making a difference [Dame Rachel Cleland], 2002 Poverty requires \"community help\", 1996 Stalwart won praise of party leader, 2002 Liberals mourn the loss of Dame Rachel, 2002 Mayman, Jan, Old-growth forests inspire old-guard crusader, 1999 Caring Grand Dame who went at life full tilt, Farquarson, John, 2002 The Dame Who Was Game for Anything, Farquarson, John, 2002 Obituary [Dame Rachel Cleland], 2002 PNG friend dies, 2002 Book Grass roots to independence and beyond: the contribution by women in Papua New Guinea 1951-1991, Cleland, Rachel, 1996 Papua New Guinea: pathways to independence: official and family life 1951-1975, Cleland, Rachel, c1983 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Nancy Lutton, 1918-2007 (bulk 1960-2007) [manuscript] Papers of Dame Rachel Cleland, 19-- [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dame Rachel Cleland, Community worker and wife of Sir Donald Cleland, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Rachel Cleland interviewed by Nancy Lutton [sound recording] State Library of Western Australia Community Kindergartens Association records Author Details Judith Ion Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 27 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, circulars, references, statements, opinion papers, reports, notes, forms, ephemeras. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Born England 1903, arrived Western Australia in 1930; volunteer work with YWCA during the Depression; handicraft classes; Country Women’s Association; tours to group settlements in the South West; radio talks on 6WF; work with Women’s Service Guilds; formation of the Civilian Widows Association; League of Home Help; the Red Cross; work with handicapped children; association with Princess Margaret Hospital; Marriage Guidance Council; appointment as a Justice of the Peace; work with Citizens Advice Bureau; Council for the Ageing; Telephone Samaritan Service. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 digital audio tape (ca. 55 min.)??At the launch of the 1995 ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award, Debbie Thiele, farmer and 1994 ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award winner, discusses the varied and changing role of women in rural Australia, noting increases in female participation in agricultural education and in industry utilisation of information technology. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 August 2017 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nerina Beccarelli was born in Gwalia the youngest child of Maria Tavalli nee Calneggia and Mick Calneggia. Her parents had migrated from Italy to Western Australia, where her father first worked on the Lakewood Woodline and then the Sons of Gwalia Mine. In 1919 her father Mick died of an infection in the Leonora Hospital and the family moved to Kalgoorlie where her mother worked as a cleaner and was paid from the Mine Workers’ Relief Fund. Maria Tavalli married coal miner, Martin Bonazzi, who died of silicosis in 1940s. Nerina attended the South Boulder Primary School, playing baseball and other sports. She continued to speak Italian at home, but speaks of other Italians as foreigners. She left school at fourteen to work as a domestic and she later worked as a waitress at the Cornwall Hotel. She married at twenty one to Frank (Francesco Becarelli), a miner, and moved to Norseman. They had three sons, Louis, Albert and Frank. Post-war, Nerina helped her husband work in a market garden in Sommerville. In 1983 her husband died of silicosis. Nerina died in Esperance in 2018. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 10 August 2012 Last modified 11 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Nerina Beccarelli Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Florence Stuart wrote regular columns for the Westralian Worker under the pseudonyms of ‘Hypatia’ and ‘Adohr’. The Westralian Worker was published in Kalgoorlie from 1900 – 1912. Florence Collings was born in Brighton, England, the child of Quaker parents, c.1872. She moved to Queensland with her parents in 1883. She was a committed socialist and an accomplished singer who performed at the opening of the Brisbane Trades Hall. She married Julian Stuart soon after his release from imprisonment for his part in organizing the 1891 shearers’ strike and they moved to the eastern goldfields of Western Australia in the late 1890s. A political activist, she helped to organize the Eastern Goldfields Women’s Labour League and was elected secretary to the first Western Australian Labor Women’s Conference in 1912. Under the pseudonym ‘Hypatia”, Florence wrote fierce columns on socialist, feminist and labour issues in the Westralian Worker (December 1904-April 1906, August 1907-February 1908, and July 1911-September 1911). She exhorted all socialists to raise their children to be class conscious. She damned those Labor Parliamentarians for attending government house functions in frock coats and top hats, ‘I am sick and tired of finding excuses for the average labor member’s want of backbone and dignity’, and for forgetting that their first loyalty should be to the workers who had turned out to elect them. She was equally hostile to those workers who wasted their time on sport, in gambling on dogs and horses and in reading ‘trashy literature’. On other occasions she reflected on the working conditions of meat packers in Chicago and of local bar-maids. She fiercely rebuked anyone who purchased any article at all – even an ice cream – from an Asian person and warned those who had cheered the victory of Japan over Russia that they would live to regret their attitude. Florence admired the honesty of ‘Guido Fawkes’ (Guy Fawkes) and the sober example of Paul Kruger, President of the Boer Republic. When she left the goldfields to live in the seaside suburb of Cottesloe, she applied her verbal scourge to the ‘ladies’ whom she encountered on train rides to Fremantle. She condemned the action of labor men who supported Australia’s involvement in WW I as a ‘shuddering blasphemy’. Florence raised five children and died in 1932. Published resources Journal Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey; assisted by Mozley, Ann and Simpson, Patricia, 1990 Resource Section Stuart (nee Collings), Rhoda Florence (c.1872-1932), http://workinglives.econ.usyd.edu.au/stuart.html Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Andrew Gill Created 3 August 2012 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO11]??Comprises publications from the Australian Red Cross including pamphlets, newsletters, bound books, training handbooks and retail catalogues. Long run newsletters include Monthly Reports (1916-1923); Australian Red Cross Quarterly (1923-1960) and Notes on Activities (1940-1956).??Single issue information manuals relating to Administrative Instructions, Nursing, Management of Convalescent Homes, Volunteer Aid Detachments (VAD), Mental Health, the Blood Transfusion Service, AIDS, Information Bureau Service, Uniforms, Child Management, Facts for Speakers, Membership Drives, Fundraising Programmes, Retail Catalogues (1966-2000), Driving and Mechanical hints, Rules & Regulations, Disaster Relief & Precautions, Emergency Catering Manuals, Meals on Wheels, Knitting Patterns, Unemployment, Foreign Language Medical Phrases, quick fact books about the International and Australian Red Cross activities, What You Should Know About the Atomic Bomb (1953) Personal Protection relating to gases used in warfare (1943) and exercise manuals for stretcher bearers (1940-1949).??Contains National, Divisional as well as International publications. This series is described at item level, with some items consisting of a full annual year of publications. See also Annual Reports series (2015.0029) and Junior Red Cross and Red Cross Youth series (2016.0051).??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Helen Blaxland spent much of her life working for charitable institutions, particularly the Australian Red Cross Society, for which she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1967. Her other interests included flower arrangement, on which she published two books. She was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 14 June 1975 for service to the community in recognition of her contribution to the National Trust (New South Wales) and the Parramatta Properties Committee. Helen Blaxland was the daughter of the late Brigadier General Sir R M McCheyne Anderson. She was educated at Bedales in England and later at Frensham in Mittagong, New South Wales. She married Gregory Blaxland on 10 November 1927, and had one daughter, Antonia, who became a photographer. She worked in several charitable organisations, including the Australian Red Cross Society. She was appointed OBE in 1967 for her contribution to the Society and awarded the Order of the Red Cross Society in the same year. She was foundation chairman of the Women’s Committee of the National Trust (New South Wales), the Lindesay Committee and the Parramatta Properties Committee, which was concerned with the restoration of Experiment Farm Cottage and Old Government House, Paramatta. She published two books on flower arrangement, entitled Flower pieces (1946) and Collected Flower pieces: on the arrangement of flowers (1949), for which her daughter Antonia took the photos. Published resources Book Flower pieces, Blaxland, Helen and Haxton, Elaine (decorated by), 1946 Collected flower pieces: on the arrangement of flowers, Blaxland, Helen, 1949 Book Section Blaxland, Dame Helen Frances, DBE, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 29 January 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records include conference papers, constitutions, correspondence, financial records, minutes, membership lists, histories and reports; also includes material relating to the Australian Federation of University Women and the International Federation of University Women. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Distinguished librarian, trade unionist and feminist, Jean Fleming Arnot, worked at the State Library of New South Wales from 1921 until her retirement in 1968. During her life Arnot was a member and leader of numerous women’s organisations. Arnot was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 12 June 1965 for her community services in Sydney. She died in Sydney on 27 September 1995, at the age of 92. Born at Pymble, New South Wales, Jean Arnot was educated at Fort Street Girls’ High School. She never married. Her distinguished career in librarianship was served with the Public Library of New South Wales from 1921 until her retirement in 1968. She was extension librarian in charge of services to country areas, 1944-1948; head cataloguer, 1950-1968; and acting Mitchell librarian, 1956-1958. In 1948-1949 Jean received grants from the British Council and the Carnegie Corporation of New York to study library services in Great Britain and North America. She was a member of the Australian delegation to the First International Conference on Cataloguing Principles, held in Paris in 1961. A founding member of the Library Association of Australia (LAA) in 1949, she was convenor of its Cataloguing Code Revision Committee, 1962-1968, and elected Fellow in 1963. With the LAA’s precursor, the Australian Institute of Librarians, she had served as a councillor, general secretary,1941-1943, and president of the New South Wales branch, 1941-1942. After she retired, Miss Arnot became honorary librarian of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1975-1980. Her expertise remained much in demand; she advised on the cataloguing of private libraries and assisted the booksellers, Berkelouw. From 1937 Jean became an active campaigner for equal pay for women. In 1944 she was the recipient of the Gold Medal of the Public Service Association of New South Wales. An accomplished and popular public speaker, Miss Arnot addressed a range of issues ranging from the historical to the contemporary. She had honed her debating skills through her involvement with the women’s service organisation, the Kooroora Club, in the 1930s. The Club’s affiliation with the National Council of Women of New South Wales led to Jean’s long-time association with the latter, becoming president from 1960-1966, and elected honorary vice-president in 1972. In 1959 she was the only female representative at the Conference on Unemployment, convened by New South Wales Premier, R. J. Heffron. She was also prominent in the activities of several other organisations. Arnot was president of the Business and Professional Women’s Club, 1953-1954 and 1959-1960; president of the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women, Division of New South Wales; founding member in 1961 and executive council member of the Australian Freedom from Hunger Campaign; vice-president of the League of Women Voters, 1974-1980; longtime member of and fund-raiser for the Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association; and multiple office bearer of the Women’s Club (Sydney, New South Wales). Jean Fleming Arnot was appointed MBE in 1965 for services to the community. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Ros Bowden - interviews with people who knew Ida Leeson, former Mitchell Librarian, 1985 State Library of New South Wales - Jean Arnot interviewed by John Macallister about her career in the State Library of New South Wales, 1991 State Library of New South Wales - Jean Arnot interviewed by Rosemary Block about her life after she retired from the State Library. She also speaks in some detail of her colleagues Miss Nita Kibble and Miss Nita Dobbie, 1994. State Library of New South Wales - Jean Arnot interviewed by Rosemary Block, 1994 Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 Jean Arnot - interviews, 1974-1994 Jean Arnot Memorial Luncheon - Book of Honour, 1994-1997, being a selected compilation Jean Arnot Memorial Service - papers, 1995 Jean Fleming Arnot - pictorial material and medals, 192--1995 Jean Fleming Arnot papers, 1931-1976, mainly relating to equal pay and status of women Jean Fleming Arnot papers, 1907-1988, including files relating to librarianship, bibliography, social issues and invitations received Ros Bowden - interviews conducted for radio programs and documentaries, ca.1975 - 1989 National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jean Arnot interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording] Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 14 September 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 20 November 2020 Digital resources Title: The Honourable Dame Margaret Guilfoyle Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "An Annotated Guide to the Alice Henry Papers held in the RHSV Manuscript Collection, researched and compiled by Holly de Kretser while on placement (History Undergraduate). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 16 January 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Carmen Lawrence Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Summer Nights, Boyd, Anne, [1999] Created 16 January 2002 Black Sun, Boyd, Anne, [1996?] Last modified 26 April 2007 Concerto for Flute and Strings, Boyd, Anne, [1996?] Revelation of Divine Love Choral, Boyd, Anne Angklung for Solo Piano, Boyd, Anne, c1976 My Name is Tian for Soprano, Flute, Viola, Harp and Percussion, Boyd, Anne; Kim, Don'o (text by), 1982 Goldfish Through Summer Rain for Flute and Piano, Boyd, Anne, 1980 Sound recording [Conversation with Anne Boyd], de Berg, Hazel (interviewer), 1969 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A general view of Mrs Chisholm’s canteen. A greatly appreciated canteen conducted by two Australian ladies, Mrs Alice Chisholm and Miss Verania (Rania) MacPhillamy, afforded the nearest home comforts available to the troops in Sinai and Palestine. This canteen was originally founded by Miss Rout, a New Zealander, who was forced through illness to relinquish it. Rania MacPhillamy, born in 1889, was the daughter of a wealthy squatter from Forbes NSW. In 1915 she trained as a VAD and went to Egypt to help nurse the wounded from Gallipoli. After the death of her sweetheart, Ronnie MacDonald of the 1st Light Horse Regiment, Rania stayed on in Egypt and formed a remarkable partnership with an older Australian, Mrs Alice Chisholm. Together they ran a canteen for the Light Horsemen at Port Said, and in early 1917 took over the running of another canteen at Kantara, a busy railway junction on the Suez Canal. Known as the ‘Empire Soldiers Club’, this became one of the best-known and best-loved institutions in Egypt. Thousands of soldiers were able to enjoy low-cost meals and friendly hospitality on their journeys to and from the front line: the club was open 24 hours a day and operated without a break from early 1917 until after demobilisation. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 September 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "52 min. Oral history. Audio cassette; TDK AD60; two track mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Valda May McRae nee Heraud entered the University of Melbourne in 1953 with a scholarship that bonded her to the Victorian Education Department for three years after the completion of her BSc and BEd in 1956. She taught at McLeod and Numurkah High Schools before returning to the University of Melbourne in 1960, working part-time in the Department which was to occupy virtually all of her working life. She took her PhD on some reactions of antimony pentafluoride and related compounds and spent 1966 to 1968 at the University of Leicester, one of the few universities where it was possible to continue her study of fluorine chemistry on a postdoctoral fellowship. Back in Australia she worked in the Science Faculty Office of the University of Melbourne, as Assistant to the Sub-Dean and as Sub-Dean herself. In 1974 she took a position in the Chemistry Department as principal tutor and was appointed lecturer in 1984 and senior lecturer in 1988. Her research was in analytical and radiochemistry. In 1995 she took the position of Executive Manager of the School of Chemistry, principally responsible for its academic administration, with considerable emphasis on the planning and organisation of timetables, tutorials and practical classes. When Valda McRae retired in 2000 she continued direct contact with students through examination supervision of people with special needs, but her main interest was recording the history of the Department of Chemistry and Melbourne University Chemical Society. Three publications resulted. She published the Lady Masson Lectures to 2001, which listed all the lectures and provided the text on CD-rom. Her exhaustive history of the Department from 1960 to 2000 began where Joan Radford’s earlier history had finished. In the course of writing it she was in direct personal contact with virtually every living graduate, thoroughly enjoying renewing old links. From Chalk and Talk to PowerPoint provided an account of the first 1000 meetings of the Melbourne University Chemical Society.[1] Valda McRae took a sustained and serious interest in the University of Melbourne at large. She was President of University House from 2000 to 2002 and donated the herb garden in its eastern garden in 2011. From 2008 to 2011 she was a representative of the Science Faculty on the Committee of Convocation. She was honoured as a Life Member of the Friends of the Baillieu Library in 2012. The first Valda McRae Memorial Lecture of the MUCS was delivered by Emeritus Professor Don Cameron in April 2014, entitled ‘What Possible Use Can Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Have for Chemistry?’ [1] Joan Radford. The Chemistry Department of the University of Melbourne: its contribution to Australian science, 1854-1959. Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1978; Valda M. McRae. The Lady Masson Lectures, 1949-2001. Melbourne: School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, 2003 (pamphlet and CD-rom): Chemistry @ Melbourne 1960-2000. Melbourne: School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, 2007; From Chalk and Talk to PowerPoint. Melbourne: University of Melbourne, School of Chemistry, 2013. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 7 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9917 comprises files on Australian artists (alphabetical from Barossa Studios to A.R. Betteridge) (1 packet).??The Acc05.156 instalment comprises the “Index to Professor Joan Kerr’s files on Australian art history, 1788-2003” in both printed format and on floppy disk (1 folder).??The Acc05.163 instalment consists of files that contain original research and secondary material, much from obscure articles and catalogues, which are difficult to access in the original. The consignment includes catalogues of exhibitions, extracts from auction sale lists, copies of newspaper and journal articles, reproductions of images, letters and draft articles. Some of the material was intended for use in the two dictionaries which Kerr edited: The dictionary of Australian artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 (1992), and, Heritage: the national women’s art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial time to 1955 (1995) (113 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Megan Sampson only ran once for election to the New South Wales parliament but was a multiple candidate for the Federal parliament. In all but her 2002 campaign, when she ran as an Independent, Megan was an Australian Democrats candidate. She ran in the following elections: House of Representatives for Cunningham in 1980, 1990, 1993 and 2002 by-election. New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Wollongong in 1981. New South Wales Senate in 1983. House of Representatives for Macarthur in 1984. Megan Sampson holds the honour of being the Democrat candidate who came closest to winning a seat in the House of Representatives. In 1990, she took the sitting member (and Minister) Stewart West to preferences and the final figures were West 52.4% and Sampson 47.6%. By 2002, when she ran in the by-election following Stephen Martin’s resignation, she ran as an independent, having left the Australian Democrats. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Clara Saunders, accompanied by her mother and younger sister Susan, arrived in Southern Cross in Western Australia in 1892. She worked for her brother in law Tom Farren at the Club Hotel. In 1893, aged fifteen, she travelled alone to Coolgardie to take up a new job at the Exchange Hotel assisting the housekeeper Mrs Fagan. Clara and Mrs Fagan also provided nursing care for miners ill with dysentery and typhoid, feeding them nourishing food and caring for them in clean and comfortable surroundings. One of these miners was the successful mining pioneer Paddy Hannan, who discovered gold at Kalgoorlie. He gave Clara a gold nugget in recognition of her service to him. Clara continued to work in hotels, running the dining room at the Great Western Hotel in Bayley Street where she met her husband Arthur Williams who ran the billiard room at the same hotel. Clara married Arthur Williams on 1 July 1894. She was the first settler woman to be married in Coolgardie. She wore her gold nugget mounted on a brooch for good luck on the day. Arthur and Clara moved to Goongarrie, where she continued to nurse and care for ill prospectors and act as a midwife to local women. She had two children, Lillian and Mary. Arthur died in 1902 and Clara took over the licence of the Mt Morgans Hotel, running the business. Successfully until her second marriage to Joseph Lynch. Clara, Joseph and their two sons John and Edward sold the hotel and began farming in Narrogin. They lost their farm during the Depression and Clara opened a boarding house in Marvel Loch. Joseph died in 1939 and in 1944 Clara married for the third time to John Paton. She died in 1957 at the age of 80. Published resources Resource Section Coolgardie Wedding, 1894, http://www.outbackfamilyhistory.com.au/Coolgardie/coolwed.htm Clara Saunders - a pioneer of Coolgardie, 1894, 2006, http://www.valuingheritage.com.au/learningfederation/5509.html Book Daughters of Midas. Pioneer Women of the Eastern Goldfields, King, Norma, 1988 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Dorothy Erickson Created 2 August 2012 Last modified 12 December 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "War Establishments and Amendments – [Colleges and Schools:] [Divisional Battle School; Royal Military College; School of Signals; School of Tactics and Administration; Royal Australian Army Service Corps School; Officer Cadet School; Army Technical School; School of Land/Air Warfare; Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps School; Personnel Seconded or Detached and Long Term Students; BCOF Fire Fighting School; Central Army Training School BCOF] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jean Blackburn speaks of her parents’ backgrounds which modelled her socialist & feminist views, how the contrast between her early public school & her later experience at a selective high school has lead her to advocate the critical importance of good quality teaching & resources in shaping childrens’ lives, why she was dissatisfied as a primary school teacher completing her matriculation at night school, her involvement in the Melbourne Univ. Labour Club later joining the Communist Party, how she majored in economics in 1940 becoming a research assistant for the Dept. of Economics, her work for the War Organisation of Industry as an economist giving her experience in policy advice, married in 1943 leaving work and had a child in 1945 moving to Adelaide, her involvement with Winifred Mitchell in organising the New Housewives’ Association to overcome isolation of housewives, how she educated herself as a feminist through the Public Library, her rejection of communism how she completed her Dip. Ed. in 1964 & wrote a book, seconded in 1969 by Peter Karmel as a consultant to the Committee of Enquiry into South Australian Education issuing the Karmel Report in 1973, appointed Vicechair of the Schools Commission established by Whitlam to improve govt. funding of schools, later retired from the Education Commission in 1980, how she in 1983 conducted a public enquiry into Victorian senior secondary education issuing the Blackburn Report in 1985, current educational issues. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 44 minutes??Kay Harding, nee Cowan, was born in Adelaide, South Australia and grew up in her family’s large home in Tranmere in the eastern suburbs. After finishing high school she trained at the Adelaide Kindergarten Teachers’ College for three years and then worked briefly in the country as a governess. She found that she enjoyed teaching older children and asserted her independence by gaining primary school teaching qualifications after a further year studying at the Adelaide Teachers’ College in 1939. She was appointed first to Burra, where she recalls refugees from the Darwin bombing, and then to Black Springs where she was the only teacher. Ilsa met her future husband at a local dance. They married in 1944 and settled in the district. Ilsa joined the Country Women’s Association, an involvement which has led to her taking up writing as well as participating in CWA activities on an international level. Kay and her husband Gordon had a daughter and a son. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Felicity Boyd has been an active member of the Australian Democrats. She stood for them in the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Davidson in 1991. New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Port Stephens in 1999 and 2003. Felicity Boyd was born in Sydney and went to school at Hastings-on-Hudson High School, New York. She attended Briarcliff College, New York and the University of Sydney (Grad Dip Soc St (1958)), living at the Women’s College. After graduation, she worked as a social worker for the NSW Society of Crippled Children and as a market research interviewer and analyst. She was social worker at St Joseph’s Hospital, Auburn, 1977-82 and from 1982-1987 at the Spastic Centre of NSW. She did locum work at various hospitals and at the Office of the Public Guardian, 1988-1995 and 1995-2002 she was a court visitor. Felicity Boyd married Ian Boyd in 1961 and they have three children. Published resources Edited Book Biographical register : the Women's College within the University of Sydney, Annable, Rosemary, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 24 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Agnes Mary Lions, personal records and records relating to the New South Wales College of Nursing Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 February 2002 Last modified 22 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Drafts of The battle of the galah tree, No gun for Asmir, The birthday tooth, Black dog, The long walk, Queen of the what castles and Tiger’s milk. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1914-1969; Correspondence, being ms. and ts. letters received and carbon ts. letters sent along with miscellaneous notes, cards and ts. reports. Letters sent include carbon ts. letters and reports written by Watts and sent from Germany during 1948 describing conditions in Berlin for the civilian population and describing relief work undertaken by Watts and others. (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/1)?1914-1973; Papers of Margaret Watts, being ms. and ts. notes, correspondence and miscellaneous photographs. Papers include family papers concerning Watts parents and brothers and sisters. (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/1)?1919; 1935; 1948; Diaries, being ms. diaries with detailed entries: diary, 1919, includes description of peace work in Europe after World War I; travel diary, 1935, with notes and illustrations, includes detailed description of Watts travel around Europe and America; diary, 1948, includes description of post war reconstruction work in Germany. (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/1)?ca.1974; ‘Faith My Shield’, an unpublished autobiography by Margaret Watts, being three incomplete ts. and carbon ts. draft versions along with ms. and ts. fragments and notes. (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/2)?1920-1968; Passports and travel permits of Margaret Watts (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/2)?1945-1976; Printed material, including The History of the New South Wales Society For Crippled Children (Sydney, 1976) inscribed to Margaret Watts, Handbook of Practice and Procedure (Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia:Sydney,1967) and various printed brochures and booklets (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/2)?1917-1977; Scrap books of Margaret Watts, being 2 vols. including newscuttings, notes, letters and cards received (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/3)?1978-1982; Papers concerning Margaret Watts, including Quaker testimonies, newscuttings, letters sent to Eileen Barnard Kettle concerning Margaret Watts and a Memorial Service sheet. (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/3)?1973-1978; Biographical notes concerning Margaret Watts (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/3) Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "An significant part of the collection relates to communism, including the records of the West Australian Branch of the Communist Party of Australia which closed in 1991. Other papers concern women’s issues, human rights, Eureka Youth League, civil liberties, Vietnam anti-war protests, world peace, disarmament, anti-nuclear campaign, Aboriginal issues, and China. Papers of individuals include Les Bloomfield, Kevin Healy, Paul Robeson, Joe Chamberlain, Bill and Dorothy Irwin, Paddy Troy, and Katherine Susannah Prichard.??Also available as a published monograph entitled: Well read : a bibliography of Communist Party & other sources collected in Western Australia by Annette and Duncan Cameron / compiled by Michal Bosworth. Author Details Lisa McKinney Created 17 April 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Small, brown, compressed fibre suitcase with steel clips and carry handle. The inside lid of the case has a typed sheet glued to it outlining the ‘simple requirements’ contained within. The case interior has been partitioned into sections using wooden slats. The medical case contains the following supplies. One bottle of ‘Acriflavine lotion’; one box each of ‘BEX’ and ‘VINCENTS’ powders; one tube of zinc cream; one tube of ‘TANNAFAX’ tannic acid jelly; thirty four assorted steel safety pins; a white calico medical tool roll containing four pairs of tweezers, two pairs of scissors and a mercury thermometer stored in a chromed brass tube; a small sealed packet of oiled silk; an assorted bag of eleven rolled, open wove bandages; bag of two ‘Boric Lint’ antiseptic dressings; one small bottle of ‘Epsom Salts’; one medicine glass; one tin of ‘Caress’ talcum powder; one blue and gold ‘Clayton’ brand first aid tin containing a small bottle of ‘MELANYL’ ink, a small tin of ‘Potassium Permanganate’, a small glass jar of ‘Boracic ointment’, a small glass jar of ‘Solidified iodine’; a small tin of ‘Boric ointment’ and a small cork stopper; a bag containing four types of cotton wool; one hand towel and face washer; six assorted sized cotton slings; two cotton calico bags marked ‘Dressings wool and Gauze’; one cotton calico bag marked ‘Dressings’; one cotton calico bag marked ‘Dressing towels’; one cotton calico bag marked ‘Sundries’; one bag containing two reels of white cotton thread, a packet of steel needles, two loose steel needles and a roll of white cotton tape; one bag containing some discarded cellophane wrappers and a blue and white paper label; one bag containing a newspaper clipping, titled ‘Medicine Chest to meet emergencies’. The clipping lists how a well stocked medicine chest is made up.??Used by Maud Ethel Smith while serving with the Voluntary Aid Detachment in Australia during the Second World War. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kathleen Rose Funder is recognised for her significant contribution to the Australian Institute of Family Studies, which she joined in 1983 as a Principal Research Fellow. During this time, Kathleen led and participated in research pertaining to the issues that determine family wellbeing. She published widely on her findings. Kathleen was also an influential public speaker, and regularly contributed to journals, government investigations and the mainstream press. In 2008, the Kate Funder Scholarships were established. The scholarships provide support for two medical students at the University of Melbourne’s Newman College. Kathleen Rose Funder nee Brennan took her BA in 1963, MA in 1982 and PhD in 1993.[1] She is one of the relatively small number of women to have a Canberra Street named in her honour. Funder Street in Bruce was proclaimed in 2005. The citation notes that her research had direct practical implications and changed the lives of many. After graduation Kathleen Funder taught English at Geelong West Technical School and the Emily McPherson College before joining the Department of Education as a psychologist and, with her husband John (Director of the Baker Medical Research Institute from 1990 to 2001), brought up three children, Anna, Hugh and Joshua, all University of Melbourne graduates. She joined the Australian Institute of Family Studies as a Principal Research Fellow in 1983, beginning a fifteen-year career during which she led and participated in research into the issues that determine family wellbeing – including divorce, single parenthood, care of children, and property rights. She was an influential voice in public debates, contributing to scholarly journals, government investigations and the mainstream press. Among her many publications were Settling up: property and income distribution on divorce in Australia.[2] She was principal author of Settling down: pathways of parents after divorce and the sole author of the third title in the trilogy, Remaking Families: adaptation of parents and children to divorce informed by research for her PhD dissertation.[3] Many of her contributions to Family Matters deal with the rights of children of separating parents, the complexities of access, conflict resolution and the responsibilities of practitioners. She was a frequent speaker at national and international conferences addressing the meetings in South Africa, Europe and the United States and the Chinese Academy of Social Science in Beijing. Much admired for her skills in both research and debate, she was described as possessed of ‘a rare ability to analyse and convert the driest of statistical collections into a blueprint for change’.[4] The Kate Funder Scholarships were established in 2008, providing support for two medical students at Newman College. In recognition of Kathleen Funder’s early wish that she had been able to study medicine, the scholarships are normally awarded to women. [1] Kathleen R. Funder. Relationships between Expressed and Inventoried Career Choices in Adolescence: a cross-lagged panel correlation analysis. Thesis (M.A.) — University of Melbourne, 1983; Kathleen R. Funder. Adaptation to Divorce: a longitudinal study of parents and children. Thesis (PhD) — University of Melbourne, 2001 [2] Settling up: property and income distribution on divorce in Australia. Compiled by the Australian Institute of Family Studies; editor-in-chief, Peter McDonald. Sydney: Prentice-Hall of Australia, 1986. [3] Kathleen Funder, Margaret Harrison, Ruth Weston. Settling down: pathways of parents after divorce. Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies, 1993: Kathleen Funder. Remaking Families: adaptation of parents and children to divorce. Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies, 1996. [4] John Faulks. ‘Researcher Shed Light on Families in Crisis: Obituary, Kathleen Rose Funder’. Australian. 11 July 1998. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 29 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Additional papers from the estate of Jane Macgowan (daughter). The collection contains correspondence as well as manuscript and proof copies of Lady Casey’s books “Tides and Eddies” and “Australian story”. Correspondence, notes, photographs, posters and articles relating to the book “John Cotton’s birds of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales, 1843-1849. Also correspondence and articles written by Lady Casey about John Cotton. Correspondence and catalogues about the Cottonian Collection held at the Plymouth City Art Gallery and Public Library. The collection aslo contains a poster advertising John Cotton’s birds of the Port Phillip District and 6 coloured lithographs of birds. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of the Women Justices’ Association and the International Association of Youth Magistrates (Victoria). Includes correspondence, minutes, agendas, annual reports, newsletters, attendance roll and related items. Also, minutes, reports and newsletters of the National Council of Women of Victoria and the Australian Local Government Women’s Association (Victorian Branch). Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 September 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Currently held privately: collection of press clippings and speeches, subject areas include getting women into politics Author Details Clare Land Created 15 December 2001 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "These early files may contain references to Zoe McHenry. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 November 2017 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO39]??This series comprises deeds of trust, amendments to the deed, minutes of the board and sub-committees, circulars, annual reports, correspondence, financial documents, terms of reference with Curtain University of Technology, historical account of the scholarship, press cuttings, newsletters, ephemera, brochures as well as publications pertaining to profiling trust fund recipients. The AIF Malaya Memorial Nursing Scholarship established as ‘a living memorial’ to the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) Malaya personnel who lost their lives during World War Two. The annual scholarship supports the education and training of Malayan and Singaporean nurses in Australia who then return to their communities to practice. Prior to 1988, this consisted of in-service hospital courses in institutions across Victoria – thereafter the scholarship has been hosted in conjunction with Curtin University of Technology, Perth. http://www.aifredcross.com.au/a-living-memorial/ See also: Correspondence Files, National Headquarters (2015.0033)??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Judith Anderson was the first Australian-born actress to be conferred with the title of Dame. On 01 January 1960 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander, for services as an actress. daughter of James and Jessie (née Saltmarsh) Anderson. Frances Margaret Anderson, attended Norwood High School, South Australia. Her acting career commenced at the age of 17. Using the name of Francee Anderson she appeared, with English actor Julius Knight, at the Theatre Royal, Sydney. Three years later, she travelled to the United States and worked with the Fourteenth Street Theatre in New York and the Emma Bunting Stock Company, in 1918-1919. In September 1922, using the name Frances Anderson, she made her debut on Broadway, in On the Stairs. After changing her name to Judith Anderson, she appeared in Cobra (1924), Interlude (1928) and Mourning Becomes Electra (1932). As Judith Anderson, she later played female roles in Medea, Hamlet and Macbeth. Anderson’s film credits include Mrs Danvers in Rebecca, for which she was nominated for an Oscar. Others films in which Anderson acted are Edge of Darkness, The Ten Commandments, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Man Called Horse and Star Trek 111. For her two performances of Lady Macbeth, Anderson was the first recipient of two separate Emmys for two separate performances. Also Anderson received the Women’s International Centre (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1986. Dame Judith Anderson, who was twice married, died at the age of 93 in Santa Barbara, California in 1992. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 2 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes material on pre-history of the Centre from 1962-5, the Second Vatican Council; steps taken to implement the ACU Research project in Women’s History, Theology and Spirituality as the first step towards the establishment of a Centre; the activities of the Project period including its annual biannual newsletter, and the history of the centre to date. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 May 2004 Last modified 14 May 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Daughter of Frank Aloysius Mumme and Annie Miller Fraser, Lillian Annie Mumme was born in Boulder on 5 December 1906. The family moved to Collie in Western Australia for Frank’s work. Lillian completed her nursing training at the Kalgoorlie Government Hospital, and later worked in Busselton Hospital. In WWII she served with the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF) enlisting in Moora Western Australia, she then from 16 October 1942 served with the 2nd/4th Australian Army Nursing Service in Queensland as Lieutenant. She was discharged from service on the 11 February 1946. Lillian never married but continued to work as a nurse at various hospitals in Western Australia. She died on 20 November 1989 in Bicton Private Hospital in Fremantle at the age of 82, and was buried in Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia. Published resources Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Various Locations Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947 Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 6 August 2012 Last modified 5 October 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mary Smith nee Steedman was the first white woman to live in Bardoc, approximately 30 km from Kalgoorlie. She ran the Bardoc Hotel from 1896 until 1924. Mary Dudley left Victoria for the goldfields of Western Australia in 1893 with her husband Lionel, her brother Timothy Steedman and her four children Lionel, Fred, Adelaide and Rene. The family travelled by boat, The Bothwell Castle, by train to Southern Cross and by wagon to Coolgardie. The journey to Coolgardie took eight days. In 1894 the family moved to Bardoc, where Lionel sold liquor to miners from a wayside shanty, building the more substantial Bardoc Hotel two years later in 1896. Lionel died that same year leaving Mary to run the hotel with the help of her family. She married miner William Smith in January 1900 and in 1903 a daughter Kathleen Mary was born. She continued to run the Bardoc Hotel cleaning, cooking for boarders and tending the bar. Even a dose of Spanish Influenza in 1919 failed to deter her. Her daughter Kathleen worked as a housemaid and waitress. Mary’s second husband died in 1916, but she remained at Bardoc, leaving only when the mining population dwindled and it became unprofitable to continue. In 1924, after a lifetime of hard labour, Mary sold the hotel and retired to Perth with Kathleen. She was 64. Published resources Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Robyn McLean and Kevin Imms Created 8 August 2012 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 48 min.)??Folkloric recording. Pam Fielding, born 1945, has spent her entire working life in farming. Fielding talks about her early life, education and starting work on the family property; the changes in agriculture over the years and her thoughts on farming in the current era including the growing of opium poppies in Tasmania; her love of music and playing keyboards in the Woodfield’s orchestra. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 August 2017 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lily Beaurepaire was one of Australia’s first women Olympians, when she competed at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics in swimming and diving. She was the first Australian woman to compete in diving but was unplaced. The only woman in Australia’s small team, she joined her brother Frank and they were the first sibling Olympians. Frank, (later Sir Frank Beaurepaire), was already an Olympian from the 1908 Games. During WW1, the 1920s and into the 1930s, Lily, Frank, and May Cox, the Education Department of Victoria’s Supervisor of Swimming and Lifesaving, promoted swimming and diving at exhibitions which raised patriotic funds and supported the Victorian community through charity events. A strong swimmer, over short and long distances, Lily competed in the sea, surf and swimming baths, was a fearless high diver and leapt off bridges into rivers. In 1910, Lily was one of the first people to be qualified as a lifesaver when she gained the Bronze Medallion for Lifesaving awarded by the Royal Australian Lifesaving Association. For a decade she was sometimes the only lifesaver at Lorne surf beach. In 1933, aged in her forties, she won fame for a dangerous lifesaving rescue of three men in rough seas. In 1967, Lorne’s Lilian Beaurepaire Memorial Swimming Pool was opened. Lily Beaurepaire was born in 1892 in Albert Park. Her parents were Francis Edmund de Beaurepaire, a sailor, tram-conductor, trader and a hotel proprietor and Mary Edith, nee Inman. She attended Albert Park State School until she was 15 years old. Her brother, Frank was one year older, and as students they were State Swimming Champions. Aged 17 in 1908, he represented Australia at London’s Olympic Games. Lily was a strong, versatile swimmer and award-winning diver. She was coached at school by her teacher May Cox, who would go on to be the Education Department of Victoria’s Supervisor of Swimming and Lifesaving. For decades, Lily, Frank and May collaborated in the promotion of swimming and lifesaving across Victoria. Albert Park State School was famous as it was Victoria’s leading swimming school. Since 1898 it regularly won state championships. Lily was in the school’s championship team in 1905, 1906 and 1908, winning First Prizes for swimming and diving in the state championships. After leaving school she raced as a teenager in open state and interstate competitions, over varied distances, and in diving. Aquatic events were popular, and many competitions were organised at Hegarty’s and Stubbs Baths, in St Kilda, and other centres, including Richmond, Brunswick, Williamstown, and the City Baths. Local and interstate newspapers regularly reported on swimming carnivals. By 1910, aged 18, Lily had won 16 state level championship medals. Her swimming skills and physical strengths were rewarded further in 1910, when she was one of the first people in Victoria to qualify for the Bronze Medallion for Lifesaving and in 1911, she gained the Royal Life Saving Society’s Award of Merit. Swimming and lifesaving clubs held regular events. During WW1 they organised swimming carnivals to raise funds for charities and the patriotic war effort. In 1916 The Brunswick Baths held a carnival, for the St John’s Ambulance Association. In 1917, Footscray Swimming Club held a gala on the Maribyrnong River and in 1917 the Richmond Ladies Life Saving team displayed lifesaving techniques. Lily was the Albert Park Ladies Swimming Club’s (APLSC) efficient Honorary Secretary for nine years. It involved managing, fund raising and organising. During the World War 1 years (1914-1918) fewer swimming events were held, due to male swimmers serving in the forces. The 1916 Olympic Games were cancelled. Women swimmers, led by Lily Beaurepaire, considered that they should keep the sport ‘before the public’. The APLSC requested to join the Victorian Amateur Swimming Association. Their request was refused so they formed the Victorian Lady’s Amateur Swimming Association (VLASA) The women’s clubs, after some negotiation all joined in 1916. From then the VLASA conducted its own championship races. This pioneering organisation was influential as it promoted women’s sport and raised funds to send women swimmers interstate and overseas. Lily was the VLASA ‘s inaugural honorary secretary. She continued as the APLSC’s secretary too. In 1917, as the VLASA’s honorary secretary, Lily wrote in the Weekly Times that swimming and lifesaving should be compulsory for girls in schools. She argued that it needed to be properly taught and it was important for developing a ‘fondness for physical recreation’ which was ‘beneficial’ to health and could prevent drowning. The VLASA affiliated with interstate women’s associations and in 1917, held its first state championships at the City Baths. Lily easily won the 220 yards which qualified her to represent Victoria in the national championships. Unusually for a women Lily used the trudgeon stroke for racing. Swimmers in the Olympic Games used it for Freestyle events because it was the fastest stroke and eventually it developed into the ‘Crawl’ or ‘Freestyle’. Lily was beaten in national racing by the seasoned competitive swimmer, and Olympian, Fanny Durack. She had won a gold medal in 1912, making her the first Australian woman to win a gold medal for swimming at the Olympics and the first woman in the world. In early 1920, the VLASA decided to support Lily to compete in the next Olympics to be held in Antwerp. The Australian Olympic Council whose membership was representatives of male amateur sporting bodies, had already decided not to send a team of women swimmers due to lack of funds so she would need to pay her own way. The VALSA established an appeal for £100 to defray her living and general expenses. Newspapers advertised for donations. She paid her own ship-fare and was chaperoned by her mother. As Frank was in the men’s Olympic team, they were the first siblings to represent Australia in the Olympics. A few months earlier though, Fanny Durack had intended to defend her 1912 title. As the Olympics were cancelled in 1916, 1920 was her first opportunity to do so. However, Fanny became very ill before she left Australia. She had an emergency appendectomy, followed by typhoid fever and pneumonia. Luckily Fanny recovered but retired from competition. Lily had come second to her in the last Australian championships. The VLASA described her as ‘a thorough amateur and a credit to her country’. At the Olympics she raced in the 100-metres, and the 300-metres freestyle events as well as the 10-metre platform diving but failed to win a place. While overseas she competed in England, South Africa, the United States and Canada. On the way home Frank and Lily gave swimming and diving exhibitions in New Zealand. Upon her return, she retired from competitive swimming. Unfortunately, most of her swimming feats were left unrecorded other than unofficially in newspapers, as it would be 1930 before women’s swimming times were recognised by the Victorian Amateur Swimming Association. In 1922, Lily moved with her parents from Albert Park to Lorne. She assisted with managing the popular Carinya Guest House and later the large Cumberland Hotel. However, she continued swimming and lifesaving pursuits. At Lorne’s surf beach Lily was often the only lifesaver and she was credited with 50 rescues. Organising swimming and life-saving demonstrations with local swimming clubs, including Torquay, Rippleside and Geelong, she supported charities such as the Lorne Bush Nursing Hospital. When available she worked on Education Department swimming and lifesaving programs for teachers and students. Aged 41, she famously rescued three men in rough surf at Lorne, in 1933. Described by newspapers across Australia, as a thrilling rescue, there were three men who were dangerously carried out to sea on a Hawaiian surfboard. Lily brought them in from 300 yards out. Newspapers across Australia reported the rescue. In 1936, Lily married Herbert Clarke and from then she was rarely found in the public record. However, in 1967, the Lillian Beaurepaire Memorial Swimming Pool was proudly opened for community use on the Lorne Foreshore, by her nephew Ian Beaurepaire, a Melbourne City Councillor. Partially funded by the Beaurepaire family who had worked in Lorne since 1922, she attended the opening with her husband. Aged 89, she died in 1979 at Chesterfield Private Hospital, Geelong. Sadly, it was recently revealed that the memorial pool was updated and renamed the Lorne Sea Baths. However, early in 2021 the Surf Coast Council announced their intention to name a new road, Lillian Close, in her honour. Local Councillor, Gary Allen said ‘Lillian was a strong but humble person who served our community well, and its with a great deal of pleasure that I move this motion’. Events 1920 - 1920 Author Details Deborah Towns OAM Created 4 October 2021 Last modified 4 October 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Georgina Sweet was Australia’s first female Acting Professor (Biology, University of Melbourne, 1916-1917). She was Associate Professor of Zoology at the University of Melbourne from 1920 to 1924. Sweet’s research included the zoology of Australian native animals and the parasites infesting Australian stock and native fauna. She was appointed OBE – Officer of The Order of the British Empire (Civil) – 3 June 1935, for services to women’s movements. Georgina Sweet was born in Brunswick, Melbourne, the eldest daughter of George Sweet and his wife Fanny (née Dudman). Both parents were born in England. George was a tradesman and later ran the Brunswick Brick, Tile and Pottery Company. Georgina Sweet was the University of Melbourne’s first female Associate Professor. She was a member of the Royal Society of Victoria and the Australian Association for Advancement of Science. She was highly intelligent and ambitious enough to use her talents. She won the University of Melbourne’s MacBain scholarship and completed her Bachelor of Science, then a Masters and finally her Doctorate in 1904. Though Sweet reportedly never felt disadvantaged by her sex, she was a strong supporter of women’s rights. She pushed for the admission of women to the University senate and worked to establish the University Women’s College. She served as Australian president of the YWCA (1927-1934); vice-president of the world YWCA from 1934; foundation member of the Victorian Women Graduates’ Association; and first president of the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association (1930). Having inherited some wealth from her father, Sweet’s philanthropic gifts were largely directed toward the University of Melbourne and the Methodist Church. Publicity material from the University states that Sweet left ‘a generous bequest to endow fellowships in geology, zoology and medicine’. In fact, her original gift of £22,500 is now worth over half a million dollars to the institution with a further $200,000 in accumulated income. The Georgina Sweet bursary in social studies was established in 1946, the year of her death, in her memory. Published resources Journal Article Georgina Sweet: A Brilliant Career, Anderson, F, 2000 Obituary: Dr Georgina Sweet, Agar, W. E., 1946 Resource Section Sweet, Georgina(1875-1946), MacCallum, Monica, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120168b.htm Sweet, Georgina (1875 - 1946), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000820b.htm Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Degrees of liberation : a short history of women in the University of Melbourne, Kelly, Farley, 1985 Jessie Webb, a memoir, Ridley, Ronald T, 1994 Book Section Garden Parties and Politics : The Victorian Women's Graduate Association 1920-1945, Ruljancich, Sally, 2000 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Sweet, Georgina (1875-1946) Webb, Jessie Stobo Watson Museums Victoria Collections Georgina Sweet - Records National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers on various Australian women [19--] [manuscript] Author Details Helen Morgan and Barbara Lemon Created 20 October 1993 Last modified 15 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The poster text includes: Equal education, work & pay opportunities – free contraception – child care – welfare benefits . . . Women’s Electoral Lobby, Box 442 Camberwell 3124. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minutes of the State Council (1980-1990) and Executive (1980-1987), correspondence, subject files, meetings with other unions files, and printed material. Minutes and other records of branches: Avoca, Bendigo, Bunyip, Traralgon, Yallourn, Women’s, Head Teachers’, High School, Infant Mistresses’, Infant Teachers’, Male Assistance, Metropolitan Technical Men’s, Metropolitan Technical Teachers’ (microfiche), Primary Men’s, Primary Principals’, Primary Women’s, and Technical Women’s Branches, and of affiliated organisations: the Association of Teachers of the Intellectually Handicapped, the Kindergarten Teachers’ Association of Victoria, the State School Teachers’ Union of Victoria (1895-1897, microfiche), the Technical Teachers’ Association of Victoria (some microfiche), the Technical Teachers’ Union of Victoria (some microfiche), the Victorian High School Principals’ Association and the Victorian Secondary Teachers’ Association. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Central Executive report 1956-1957; Central Executive meetings including agendas, minutes and correspondence; ALP Victorian Branch Womens’ Central Organising Committee including circulars and correspondence; miscellaneous statements on communism, Suez Canal crisis, politics; minutes of the Foreign Policy, Defence and Immigration Rural and General Committee; ALP conference material; notes on Flinders Campaign; memorabilia; 1948 Referendum material; miscellaneous articles. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A series of seven five minute films for television produced for the Women’s Program of the Australian Bicentennial Authority. They celebrate and promote past and present Australian women’s achievements and their diverse contributions to the evolution of Australian society. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "NS1024 Scrapbooks, letters and photographs of Dame Mabel Miller Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 28 August 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Council consisting of a floppy disc and hardcopy which records the results of a research project undertaken on compiling a list of names of the South Australian women who served in World War II. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, publications, notes, minute book, miscellaneous material Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 26 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Faith Bandler & Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders?Conference on Aboriginal Affairs, 9th, 1966; 10-11?Located in Series 11, Item 2 of MS 3759?Includes information on wages, welfare, education, unions, reserves, seasonal workers, and work of organizations Author Details Clare Land Created 3 September 2002 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence (1940-1965); diaries; manuscripts, including unpublished manuscript entitled “Moment of light” (1966), as well as various versions of “Voyage to disaster”; notebooks; material used when writing “Voyage to disaster”, including microfilm copy of Journal of the ship “Batavia”; newspaper cutting relating to a biography of Caroline Chisholm (1950); photographs; poem from her son Paris (1947) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Barrett Reid is interviewed about his memories and perceptions of artist Joy Hester. General note: The information gleaned from this interview was used to formulate the script for the documentary ‘The Good Looker’. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mildred Manning was a full-time staff member at Wesley College (Perth) from 1930 until her retirement in 1970. The College named the biology laboratory in the then new science block after her in December 1963. On 1 January 1964 Mildred Manning was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) (MBE) for services to education in Western Australia. Mildred Manning was the daughter of Ernest Le Souef, planner and director of the Perth Zoo, and his wife Ellie. One of four children who all grew up with the animals and birds of the zoo as playmates, Mildred Le Souef completed her education at Perth College and the University of Western Australia. After graduating with a science degree in 1923, Mildred Le Souef taught biology part-time at Wesley College and Presbyterian Ladies’ College. In 1930 she became a full-time teacher at Wesley College, a position she held until 1970, and then helped the new science master until 1976. During World War II she was at first a receiver of messages, and then a spotter with the Volunteer Air Observer Corps at Crawley. In 1951 Mildred Le Souef married Bernard Manning (deceased 1961) – a Gilbert and Sullivan actor who also founded the Gilbert and Sullivan Society in Perth in 1951. Mildred Manning was a member of the Young Womens’ Christian Association (YWCA) and the Science Teachers’ Association of Western Australia, who made her a Life Member in 1970. Published resources Book Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2002 Last modified 18 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Margot White was born and raised in Broken Hill, New South Wales, where she worked as a comptometrist and as a clerk. Margot is a dedicated member of the Broken Hill Family History Group and does other voluntary work in the community. The only daughter of Cecil and Nydia Edes, Margot attended Morgan Street Infant School, North School, Central School, and finally Broken Hill High School, where she remained until the age of 16. On leaving school, she travelled to Adelaide to undertake a four month course in comptometry at the Peacock Brother’s Business College. Back in Broken Hill, Margot spent four years in the employment of accountant Jack Firth before taking up a position at the Zinc Corporation. In 1956 she married Ray White. Despite union laws discouraging married women from working, Margot was equipped with comptometry skills and returned to the workforce in 1958 – had a qualified single girl applied for her job, she would have had to relinquish it. Margot’s responsibilities included calculating the ‘lead bonus’ each month for employees of the mine. This was a payment made in addition to the regular salary and based on the price of lead on the London metal exchange. In 1967, Margot resigned from her job to travel overseas with Ray and gave birth to her daughter the following year. In 1970, when her daughter was two years old, she somewhat reluctantly recommenced work for accountant Eric Minchin, who desperately needed help with an audit. In between looking after her daughter and doing the housework, Margot would work from home on the dining room table. Margot retired in 1997 at the age of 64, and is an active member of the Broken Hill Family History Group. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These records may not be readily available) Interview with Margot White Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letter to Miss M. St. Clair Layman thanking her and her family for their support during the recent elections. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Association of Women’s Forum Club of Australia was established in 1941 with the aim fostering public speaking abilities in women. By 1988, some eighty clubs had been established although only thirty seven were currently active. In 1997 the Association, by now limited entirely to the Association of Queensland Women’s Forum Clubs, was renamed the Forum Communicators Association and was no longer exclusively a women’s association. The Association produces constitutions, syllabuses, newsletters and holds biennial conferences. On 22nd July 1941 a public meeting was called of women interested in the formation of a Club to foster public speaking amongst women. The first President was Miss Ruth Don OAM. The three original Founders of Forum, Lady Groom, Mrs Marjorie Puregger and Miss Ruth Don remained active members throughout their lifetime. During 1945 a movement grew for the establishment of further clubs and the organisation grew throughout Queensland. It became apparent that a supervising committee would be necessary and in October 1947 the Association of Queensland Women’s Forum Clubs was formed, known as the Dais and eventually regional councils were formed. In 1997 the name was changed to Forum Communicators Association Inc. In 2004 there are 23 Forums in various locations in Queensland and the organisation described itself as: ‘an organisation for you to increase your self esteem and gain confidence through learning specific skills; effective communication; club administration; chairing meetings; leadership; the duties of office bearers – all in an atmosphere of support and encouragement.’ Published resources Report Forum: 50 golden years, 1941-1991 / The Association of Women's Forum Clubs of Australia, [1991] Secretary's report, 1965-1997 Conference Proceedings Biennial Conference / The Association of Women's Forum Clubs of Australia, ?-1997 Conference / Forum Communicators Association Inc., 1999- Book Criticism: A guide for critics' circle and other members, 1977 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian Historic Records Register The Association of Women's Forum Club of Australia Author Details Jane Carey Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The series consists of Executive and General Committee minutes from the original Australian Federation of University Women South Australian Branch Records. The first minute book records the inaugural meeting of the Women Graduates’ Club held in 1914 where “it was proposed to form a Graduate sub-society to promote social intercourse among graduates and to deal with questions primarily affecting graduates”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 October 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Australian Branch Annual Reports 1914-39 and Victorian Division annual reports 1914-39. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "For over fifty years, union policy in Broken Hill prohibited married women from taking on paid employment unless they were professionally trained. Clerical and retail positions were to be kept open for young unmarried women or widows. By the mid-1920s Broken Hill had become a fully unionised city and all workers, whether they worked on the mines or in town, had to have an ‘O.K.’, or union ticket, to be eligible for employment. Union tickets were distributed by the powerful peak union body, the Barrier Industrial Council. With the exception of the six years during World War Two when the bar on married women was lifted, the Barrier Industrial Council excluded women from paid employment after they married. The policy was intended to encourage young women to stay in Broken Hill by ensuring that there were positions available for them when they left school. An article in the Barrier Miner in March 1957 explained the policy as an attempt to ‘combat the difficulty of girls leaving school and struggling to find work’. The article also described the three-point-plan devised and adopted by the union: employers were requested not to offer employment to married women; to dismiss women if they married and make their position available for a single girl; and to put off married women first in cases of retrenchment. Teachers and other professionally trained married women were allowed to continue working on condition that there were no qualified single women available for the role. Women working in unskilled or low-skilled professions such as shop assistants, receptionists and domestic staff would lose their jobs upon marriage. This long-standing union policy was challenged in 1981 by Mrs Jeanine Whitehair, who was employed as the most senior of five dental assistants at the Town Dental Clinic in Broken Hill. After her marriage in November 1980, Jeanine was one of three people who lost their jobs at the clinic purportedly for economic reasons. With the support of the New South Wales Equal Opportunities Board, Jeanine was successful in her attempt to seek reinstatement. This was a landmark case which not only engendered a significant shift in the nature of women’s employment in Broken Hill, but also signalled the beginnings of the erosion of the power of the Barrier Industrial Council. This entry was researched and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Newspaper Article Union Closes Book: Ban on Married Women in Shops, 1957 Women Against the Barrier - SMH, 1981 Jeanine looks back on a turbulent time, 2009 Fighting for what's right, 2009 Women Up Against the Barrier, Hope, Deborah, 1981 Conference Paper Exploring Peak Union Purpose and Power: The Origins, Dominance and Decline of the Barrier Industrial Council, Ellem, Bradon and John Shields, 2000, http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/departments/Strategy%20and%20Human%20Resource%20Management/Airaanz/old/conferce/newscastle2000/Vol3/ellem.pdf Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Book of newspaper cuttings relating to Victorian pioneers. Author Details Janet Butler Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 24 August 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contains: Set of 22 negatives taken c.1915. Includes: New York 1915 trip, Kate Howarde with the Barretts, streetscapes and journey on the steam ship. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Emma Kearney was awarded the 2018 Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) Best and Fairest medal at the W Awards. She was also awarded an AFLW All-Australian guernsey in both 2017 and 2018. In addition, Emma won both the 2017 (alongside Ellie Blackburn) and 2018 Western Bulldogs AFLW best & fairest award. She was also the recipient of the 2018 Shadforth Financial Group AFL Coaches AFLW Champion Player of the Year, tying with Adelaide Crows co-captain Chelsea Randall on 42 votes. Emma Kearney grew up on a sheep farm in Cavendish, a small town in western Victoria. As a child she enjoyed many sports, including football, cricket, basketball and hockey, however she was forced to give up football at the age of 12 due to league rules prohibiting her from playing with the boys. She attended high school at Monivae College, Hamilton, and then completed a teaching degree in Ballarat. She currently works as a physical education teacher at Mount Alexander College in Flemington. Emma plays both football and cricket professionally. She is a midfielder for the Western Bulldogs women’s AFL team and is signed to the Melbourne Stars for the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL). Prior to her work with the Melbourne Stars, Emma played for the Essendon-Maribyrnong Cricket Club and was chosen for the VicSpirit team in 2013-14. Emma was a member of the Western Bulldog’s women’s team when exhibition games started in 2013 and played a key role in the Western Bulldogs All Girls Auskick Centre. Previously, Emma played football for the Melbourne University’s women’s team. It was announced in April 2018 that Emma had accepted a position with North Melbourne for their inaugural AFLW season. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (S.A.), 1972-2000, comprising: articles of association; agendas and minutes of meetings; minute books; correspondence; and papers of various Action Groups within WEL. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interview with Gwen Roderick, AM, Perth, January 2012, transcript in possession of Leonie Christopherson, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 12 September 2013 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MLOH 81/1-3?1. Includes excerpts from ABC archives for Irina Dunn’s film ‘Fighting for Peace’?2. Original soundtrack for her film ‘Frame Up. Who bombed the Hilton, who didn’t?’ (1983)?3. Music by Judy Small, Devishti and Jan Preston for Dunn’s movie ‘Fighting for Peace’.??This collection includes video recordings at VT 123-176 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS Acc09.119 comprises correspondence, legal and financial papers of the ANZAC Fellowship of Women and other papers documenting Fellowship activities. The collection includes newsletters, songsheets and a diary containing meeting details and news cuttings. The correspondence includes a letter addressed to Dr Mary Booth in relation to Anzac Day 1918 (1 packet).??The Acc09.143 instalment comprises an autograph book belonging to Herbert Philpot. Contents of the book include signatures, recipes and poems. It was apparently taken on board a ship transporting soldiers from Australia to Europe during World War I. Many of the entries comprise name, rank, serial number and brigade details of persons on board, along with the phrase “On service abroad” or similar (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Photographs of and relating to Nellie Walker. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Diary talks of early life in Germany including persecution of Lutherans. Also talks of first impressions of South Australia with details of daily life and religious upbringing. Discusses daily parish life and politics. Mentions Hermannsburg Mission in South Australia.?Collection consists of a published memoir: D.M & A.P.H. Freund, Early Lutheran Congregations in South Australia: Memoirs of a Pastor’s Wife – Anna Ey. Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide South Australia, 1986; a notebook with two typed translations and some miscellaneous papers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This series comprises records created by the Chief Justice’s Chambers of the Family Court. Records in this series were created by the Honourable Justice Alastair Bothwick Nicholson and his predecessor the Honourable Justice Elizabeth Evatt. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sandra Nori, a member of the Australian Labor Party, was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Member for McKell in 1988. That seat was abolished in 1991 and she won the newly established seat of Port Jackson in 1991 and was re-elected in 1991, 1995, 1999 and 2003. She held the ministerial portfolios for Tourism and Small Business 1999-2003; for Women 2002-2007; Sport and Recreation 2003-2007. She retired from the New South Wales Parliament in 2007. Sandra Nori was born in Newcastle, of Italian parents. She was educated at Petersham Girls High School and the University of Sydney (B.Ec.). She worked as co-ordinator, South Sydney Women’s Health Centre 1976-78, Health worker, Leichhardt Community Health Centre 1981-2, and Research Officer to Peter Baldwin, MHR, 1983-4. She was a member of the NSW Social Security Appeals Tribunal 1987-88. She married John Faulkner, and they had two children, Bonnie and Lachlan. The marriage ended in divorce. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Photos, passports, entrance tickets, and newspaper clippings. Also letters written to family members from the League of Nations Assembly in 1933, and the women’s alliance meeting in Instanbul in 1935. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MLMSS 10057?BOX 1?Personal papers and correspondence of Rev. Alison Cheek and Rev. Barbara Harris, 1974-1989. Includes publications and records relating to Episcopal Church in USA, 1974-1989?Correspondence, meeting minutes and articles of Episcopal Women, 1985-1989?Women of Vision (WOV) Presenter’s manual?Records and correspondence of Sydney Diocesan Synod, 1984-1992, including order of business for Diocesan Synod of 1987, Presidential address to Synod 1987 and Opening Service of the 7th General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia, 25 August 1985?Legal records and correspondence of the Appellate Tribunal of the Anglican Church of Australia on the ordination of women to office of Priest Act 1988 of Diocese of Melbourne, 1986-1990, and Presbytery of Sydney Inquiring into Sermon Preached bv Reverend Dr Peter Cameron 1992?Meeting minutes, research papers and publications relating to Ordination of Catholic Women (OCW), 1990-1997??BOX 2?Correspondence, minutes and agendas of MOW Sydney, 1983-2009?Correspondence and records to Patricia Brennan, 1983-1996?Research papers, notes, submissions and records re MOW Sydney Committee and Womens studies, 1980-1987?Financial records of MOW National, 1986-1992?Correspondence and submission by MOW National to National Consultation & Assistance Programme for Women, Office of the Status of Women, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet for research grants and funding, 1985-1987?Newsletters articles, publicity material, notes, conference and research papers, meeting minutes and correspondence relating to MOW National Network and National Conference for the Ordination of Women, 1985-1997?Contact lists of the MOW, ca. 1986-1994??BOX 3?Publications, newsletters and articles, including letters to members 1981-1999?Newspaper articles, research notes and correspondence MOW, 1983-1989?newsletters, newspaper articles, 1987-2006??BOX 4?Lecture notes, research material and news clippingss relating to Anglican Female Conservative and MOW, 1975-2009??BOX 5?Prayers, poems and sheet music?Annotated script of ‘The Bride’s Pie’?Liturgies, church order of services for ordination ceremonies of women, 1985-1992?Draft notes for MOW speeches, talks for media, events and conferences, ca. 1967-1993?4 sound cassette tapes: Pat Brennan Pressure Point ABC, 16 May 1985; Cassandra Tape 1; Pachelbel Canon; Harmonic Convergence Aug 1987 – Earth Note?Patricia Brennan letters to members of Australian Feminist Theology Foundation, MOW Sydney, 2007-2008?Anthea Johnstone Eyres research papers, typescripts and notes 1987 1988?Photographs National Network Canberra, March 1987?Minutes of National Network, 1986-1995?Conference papers and records of National Conference of the Movement of the Ordination of Women, 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1995??BOX 6?Newspaper cuttings, research papers, articles and notes, ca, 1980- 2003?Minutes and agendas of MOW Sydney Committee 1983-1993, and MOW National Network, 1985-1988?Correspondence of publicity officer and minutes of MOW Committees, 1983-1986?Newsletters of MOW, 1983-1989??BOX 7?Membership records, correspondence and applications MOW Sydney, 1983-1989?Conference notes and papers from N.E.A.C. 1981, Women in Leadership 1968-1990. National Conference 1988 and Collaroy 1989?National Constitution 1985 & Incorporation?Correspondence and papers relating to MOW organisational development, objectives, process and self analysis papers, 1985-1990 and letters to and from Patricia Brennan on MOW beginnings, 1985-1988?Bibliography re Women Priests?Letters from Monica Furlong, 1984-1985?Photographs MOW Conference, ca. 1985-1986?Postcards 1987-1993??BOX 8?Newsletters, articles and letters re MOW International Network UK, 1986-1993?Letters from General Synod Action Committee, 1989-1993, and protest creed?Papers, correspondence and minutes of Priesthood Committee, 1982-1983?Newspaper clippings, magazines and media articles, 1971-2002?Correspondence, mainly letters to and from Patricia Brennan, 1981-1994?Legal records relating to legal challenges and MOW National Constitution, 1986-1992?Members address lists, 2008-2009?MOW meeting notices, newsletters, pamphlets, fliers, ca. 1985-1994??BOX 9?Notes by Patricia Brennan?Research papers, essays, book excerpt, ca. 1980?Conference papers, programs, minutes, notes and letters Women Authoring Theology Conference WATC 1991, MOW National Conference 1985 and MOW Annual Conference 1987?Newsletters, correspondence, reports of MOW Victoria 1984, Canberra-Goulburn MOW 1988, MOW Brisbane 1987-1990 and MOW SA 1986-1987??BOX 10?Media releases, 1987-1993?Newspaper clippings, articles and correspondence, ca. 1983-1994?Letters to Patricia Brennan, 1980-1993??BOX 11?Poems?Newsletters, media releases and minutes of MOW Sydney, 1985-1992?Minutes and agendas of MOW National Network, 1984-1991?Ordination Papers 1987?Correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles and manuscript notes relating to New Women Romantic Love History & Ideas, 1989-1994?Contact list of Women Deacons 1990?Minutes, newsletters and surveys of Aust. Womens Assembly Committee / WATAC, 1989-1993?Press releases of MOW Sydney, 1987-1992?Conference proceedings and records of MOW National Conference, 1985?Newsletters, correspondence and minutes re MOW Sydney AGMs, 1986-1999??BOX 12?Research papers and reports, articles and news clippings on ordination of women in Australia and feminism, 1987-1992, and lecture notes 1972?Pamphlets and flyers and MOW London records ca. 1980-1984.?Prayer diary for MOW National?Membership and conference flyers, 1980-1990?Copy of letter to Bishop Browning from Rev Betty Bone Schiess with two photographs, ca. 1988?Report ‘A summary of the Appellate Tribunal’s Decision on the ordination of women as deacons’ Keith Mason QC. June 1987?Program ‘Women spirit rising: toward wholeness’, Lambeth 1988??BOX 13?Letters to Patricia Brennan, 1989-1993?News clippings, 1975 -1994?Research notes and papers, ca. 1988-1994?Correspondence, newsletters, workshop papers and flyers, ca. 1984-1988??BOX 14?Letters to Patricia Brennan from the public, ca. 1987-1988?Correspondence and conference papers relating to Lambeth Conference, 1988?Correspondence and records relating to General Synod, Womens Commission, Doctrine Commission,1985-1991?Records and papers of MOW Sydney, 1983 and 1986?Research paper and flyers re Women Against Ordination, ca. 1975-1984?Letters, papers and notes re Monica Denison and Goulburn non-ordination, ca. 1992?Notes and research papers re documentary film Fully Ordained Meat Pie, ca. 1987-1988,?Play scripts and notes for street plays and dramas ‘The Ordination’ and ‘Checkmate’, 1983-1984??BOX 15?Papers and records Patrician Brennan, 1982-1990?Letters to Secretary Australian Feminist Theology Foundation, ca. 1990-1994?Finance records, receipts and cashbooks, 1989-1994??BOX 16?Records and correspondence Angela, Stroud Monastery, Gunya Chiara, Clare Library, ca. 1989-1998?Comics?Records, correspondence and research papers of Australian Feminist Theology Foundation, ca. 1984-1996??BOX 17?Newsletters, pamphlets and flyers, ca. 1975-1992?Financial records, bank statements and membership applications Australian Feminist Theology Foundation, ca. 1992-1995?Letters to Patricia Brennan and Eilleen,1985-1999??PXD 1477?Folder 1?Photographs??Folder 2A?uPtlhaocra rDdes?taPiolsster – August 1987: Anglican General Synod, Rite time for women Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This extensive collection contains material relating to Barbara Curthoys professional and political life. There are reports, notes, minutes and correspondence relating to the Union of Australian Women for the period 1953-1997; papers relating to Curthoys’ membership in the Communist Party of Australia and the Socialist Party; correspondence and documents relating to her membership of the Newcastle Peace Forum and the Australian Peace Committee in the mid-1980s, papers relating to the Newcastle Housewives Association and numerous interviews with women who were past members of the Union of Australian women. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "May Holman was the first Labor Party woman parliamentarian in Australia. Representing the Legislative Assembly seat of Forrest, she was also the first Labor woman MP to serve more than ten years in parliament. May Holman was the eldest of nine children of John Barkell Holman, miner, and Katherine Mary Holman (nee Rowe). The family lived at Broken Hill, New South Wales, before moving to Cue in Western Australia. May was educated at the Sacred Heart Convent in Perth. On leaving school, she found employment at the Perth Trades Hall and the Westralian Worker. In 1914 she married Peter Joseph Gardiner, a Labor Party member for the State parliament, but the marriage could not withstand their varied professional commitments and ended in divorce in 1920. Holman’s mother was an active member of Labor women’s organisations in Perth. Her father was a Labor politician and member of the Timber Workers’ Union. After his death in 1925, May Holman became secretary of the Union and won preselection for her father’s seat, Forrest, where timber was the dominant industry. She was instrumental in formulating the Timber Industries Regulation Act in 1926. Holman retained her seat through four elections. She was president of the Labor Women’s Central Executive from 1927; secretary of the Parliamentary Labor Party from 1933; and member of the royal commission into sanitation and slum clearance in Perth in 1938. May Holman was involved in a car accident on 17 May 1939, the eve of the 1939 election. She died three days later on 20 May 1939. She was buried in Karrakatta cemetery. Published resources Newspaper Article Miss Holman's Death, 1939, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46375817 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers on various Australian women [19--] [manuscript] State Library of Western Australia Holman family papers, 1893-1965 [manuscript] [Interview with Sheila Moiler (nee Holman)] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Jennie Carter] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 October 2008 Last modified 7 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "An activist for health, equality and the Australian Democrats. Candidate for Vaucluse in 1991, for the House of Representatives, Wentworth in 1984 and 1987, and Councillor for Waverley Municipal Council from 1987 to 1991. At the time of her State campaign (1991) Yvonne Jayawardena was a widow, with one son, and was working as a researcher in health services at the University of NSW. She had previously had a career in nursing care and health administration, and had been awarded the Queen’s silver medal for nursing. She was particularly opposed to discrimination on the grounds of race, sex or religion, and was in favour of increased participation by citizens in the decisions that affected their lives. She was a keen environmentalist. While a councillor , she served on the NSW executive of Australian Local Government Women’s Association. She continued to take an interest in public affairs in later life and made submissions to Senate committees of enquiry. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 13 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contains records of the ANF Victorian Branch, predecessors and special interest groups, some of which relate to material in other collections. ANF Victorian Branch Records, 1927-2001; Occupational Health Nurses Special Interest Group 1958-1990; Maternal and Child Health Nurses Special Interest Group 1984-1998; Royal Victorian Trained Nurses Association Minutes and Business Correspondence 1914-1961; Royal Victorian College of Nursing student nursing association 1942-1951; UNA, Journal of the Royal Victorian Trained Nurses Association and successors 1903-1973; On the Record, Journal of the ANF Victorian Branch 1990-1996. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 May 2013 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records comprising the papers of Janine Haines AM, including files gathered and developed throughout her political career with the Australian Democrats. Subjects include women’s issues and equality, health, international issues, privacy, human rights, political processes and campaigns. Also contains papers from her association with the various committees, groups and charities which she was a part of, and from the Adelaide University where Janine was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor. Includes diaries and notebooks, literature reviews, media releases, biographical notes, information regarding speaking engagement and speeches, and a personal invitation to the opening of the New Parliament House, Canberra. Also contains photographs of Janine in her personal and political life, portrait drawings, and photographs of Australian Democrats Senators and candidates from South Australia for the 1987 and 1990 elections. Includes the typescript of ‘Suffrage to Sufferance: a hundred years of women in politics’, 1992 and preparatory research, and a personal annotated published copy. Contains Australian Democrats artefacts such as badges, stationary, a mug, along with a pair of Janine’s iconic eyeglasses. Includes congratulatory letters on achieving her Order of Australia, and sympathy cards sent to the family after Janine’s passing in 2004. See Box List for a complete description of box contents. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Women For Survival was a national feminist peace coalition. It was formed in 1983, as an umbrella organisation to bring together the various feminist peace groups around Australia in order to coordinate the Pine Gap Women’s Peace Camp planned for November that year. The two week vigil in November 1983 at Pine Gap, just outside of Alice Springs, sought to demonstrate support for the women of the peace camps at Greenham Common (United Kingdom) and Comiso (Italy), and to bring to public attention the secrecy of the US Base and Australia’s vulnerability as a nuclear target. It maintained a philosophy of collectivity, consensus and collaboration, using non-violent direct action and creativity in its approach to protest. WFS published a newsletter – Survival News – and held national conferences. Another national protest was organized the following year at Cockburn Sound in Western Australia – the Sound Women’s Peace Camp in December 1984. Local actions by branches coincided with the peace camps, and continued in their involvement in protests against Salisbury Defence Centre (South Australia), Roxy Downs (South Australia), Lucas Heights (New South Wales), and the hosting of United States nuclear-capable warships. Women For Survival was part of an international women’s peace movement at the end of the Cold War with the formidable threat of nuclear war. Women For Survival was a national feminist peace coalition. It was formed in 1983, as an umbrella organisation to bring together the various feminist peace groups around Australia in order to coordinate the Pine Gap Women’s Peace Camp planned for November that year. It initially included: Feminists Against Nuclear Energy (FANE) in Sydney, Feminist Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG) in Canberra and Adelaide, Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) in Perth, Campaign Against Nuclear Energy (CANE) in Perth and Adelaide, and Women’s Action Against Global Violence (WAAGV) in Sydney which formed by Ananda Marga women. As Women For Survival (WFS), many more branches were established outside of the metropolitan centres, including in Townsville, Cairns, Atherton, Nimbin, Armidale, Uralla, Alice Springs, Darwin, Brisbane, and Hobart. The organization published regular newsletters – ‘Survival News’ – which were the edited by various branches on a rotational basis to update members on plans for the peace protest. Those members in Alice Springs had the responsibility of negotiating with the local community as well as planning the practicalities of the Pine Gap action. They liaised with local Indigenous groups out of respect and support for the Aboriginal land rights, and Aboriginal women participated in key moments of the protest. Some high profile Aboriginal activists like Shirley C. Smith, known as ‘MumShirl’, came from Sydney to lead the march on the first day beside local Indigenous women. The two week vigil in November 1983 at the Joint Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap, just outside of Alice Springs, sought to demonstrate support for the women of the peace camps at Greenham Common (UK) and Comiso (Italy), and to bring to public attention the secrecy of the US Base and Australia’s vulnerability as a nuclear target. Women For Survival felt that the base at Pine Gap symbolised global violence, being part of a continuum of violence against women and children systemically embedded in patriarchy and imperialism. The protest was a massive organizational feat, which drew around 800 women to central Australia in the November desert heat. It was organized around principles of collectivity, consensus, and collaboration, with every woman belonging to an affinity group for support, security, decision-making processes and cooperative domestic tasks. Workshops before the protest were conducted on non-violent direct action, racism, the law, and media management. It was a particularly creative culture, using dance, song, theatre, installation, silence, tea parties, balloon releases, workshops and speeches as modes of protest. A Double Our Numbers banner project enabled women who were unable to attend to paint themselves or a heroine life-sized on a banner, which was then taken to the event and displayed. On November 13th women scrambled over the fence and held a Boston Tea Party on the green lawns of the Base. When they began walking toward the buildings 111 women were arrested for trespass, each giving their name as ‘Karen Silkwood’, an important anti-nuclear campaigner. The Peace Camp gained much media attention nationally and abroad, particularly the mass arrest. Complaints of police mistreated were made around the arrests, and a Human Rights Enquiry followed. After the success of the Pine Gap action, the first of a number of annual national conferences was held in 1984 over the Easter in Adelaide. Another national action was planned for later that year: the Sound Women’s Peace Camp. A Sound Women’s Collective was formed and the event was organized through the Western Australian group, WAND. It was held in December 1984 at Point Perron in Cockburn Sound, near the HMAS Stirling Naval Base on Garden Island and close to Fremantle where nuclear capable US warships frequently docked and utilized the services of local women for ‘rest and recreation’. An innovative Peace Train was organized with the railways and unions to bring women from the Eastern states for this action, but the costs became burdensome; the Peace train was transformed into a Road Train, a cavalcade of buses travelling together, but even this proved impossible to coordinate. The memory and idyll of the Peace Train remains however in posters and newsletter images, which are testament to its ingenuity. This was the last national peace camp, although national conferences continued for some years after. Local actions continued to be organized by branches. For example, Adelaide WFS established a women’s camp at Salisbury Defence Research Centre on International Women’s Day for Disarmament on May 24, 1984. They were also involved in the Roxby Downs Blockade organized by Campaign Against Nuclear Energy (CANE). Sydney branches were similarly involved in actions at Lucas Heights. Darwin WFS picketed the wharf to prevent the export of uranium, Perth mounted protests against US navy warships docking, and Canberra rallied during the ALP conference in 1984. Branches conducted simultaneous actions during the national protests. Members of Women for Survival members include Biff Ward, Briony Monahan and Barbara McLennan. Archival material for WFS is lodged at the following (the first 3 contain the bulk of material): Jessie Street National Women’s Library (Sydney) Melbourne University Archives (Victorian Women’s Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archive) Women’s Studies Resource Centre, Adelaide Fryer Library (UQ) Murdoch University Library (GALAWA Collection) James Cook University Library (Trewern Collection) National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame (Alice Springs) National Film and Sound Archive Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Elizabeth Ward interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] NULL ACT Feminist Anti Nuclear Group - FANG - Collection - NJSN_AC-023 The University of Melbourne Archives Women's Liberation Movement Author Details Katey Bereny and Alison Bartlett Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Fanny Cohen was headmistress of Fort Street Girls’ High School in Sydney from 1929 to 1952. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1962 for her services to education. She was an inspirational teacher and leader with firm views about the importance of streaming gifted students and ensuring that talented girls were given the same opportunities as boys. Fanny Cohen completed her secondary education at Miss Emily Baxter’s School in Sydney in 1904, matriculating with the Kambala Prize for Women. In 1908 she graduate with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney. She followed up the following year with a Bachelor of Science and the University Medal in Geology also from the University of Sydney. In the same year 1909 she was appointed demonstrator in geology at the University of Sydney. Whilst working as a demonstrator, in 1911 Cohen became the first woman to receive the Barker Graduate Scholarship for Applied Mathematics. The scholarship allowed her to travel to the United Kingdom, where she took up further study in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. However her studies were cut short by the ill health of her mother. In her return to Sydney in 1912 she joined the mathematics staff at Fort Street Girls’ High School. Whilst teaching Maths, she completed a Master of Arts at the University of Sydney in 1913. After ten years at Fort Street, she left to take up an appointment as deputy headmistress of North Sydney Girls’ High School in 1922. She did not stay long in this position: in 1923 she accepted the appointment of headmistress of the Maitland West Girls’ High School. Three years later in 1926, she returned to Sydney where she was appointed headmistress of St George Girls’ High School. In 1929 she returned to Fort Street Girls’ as headmistress, a post she retained until retiring in 1952. Between 1937-1952 she represented the Secondary Teachers’ Association of New South Wales on the Board of Secondary School Studies. Cohen was also involved in educational community service outside schools. She was a Fellow of the Senate of University of Sydney in the periods 1934-1944 and 1949-1959. Between 1936-1944 and 1949-1959 she served as the University Senate’s representative on the Council of Women’s College. Between 1953-1959 she was Director of the Sydney University Women’s Union. Soon after her retirement in 1952 Cohen became involved in the Royal Blind Society of New South Wales. In 1955 she obtained a braille writer’s certificate and for some years translated books, helped to produce a monthly magazine for the blind, and trained other people in braille transcription. In 1962 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to education in New South Wales. Published resources Resource Section Cohen, Fanny (1887-1975), Turney, Cliff, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080054b.htm Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book Pioneer Women Graduates of the University of Sydney 1881-1921, Bygott, Ursula and Cable, Kenneth John, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources University of Sydney, Archives Personal archives of COHEN Fanny [1887-1975] Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 17 September 2009 Last modified 16 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "5 MMM was a public radio broadcaster that presented a number of women’s programs, including; Women’s Weekly, and Sunday Monthly . The programs had female presenters at a time when commercial stations did not. The women produced, wrote, presented and were the audio engineers. A small collective organised the programs’ content, time lines and themes. The station became 3D radio in 1988. 5 MMM was a public radio broadcasting which presented a number of women’s programs like Women’s Weekly, and Sunday Monthly. It was one of three public radio stations at the time run by Progressive Music Broadcasting Association on 93.7 MHZ. The programmes had female presenters at a time when commercial stations did not. The women produced, wrote, presented and were the audio engineers. Sunday Monthly interviewed women from feminist organisations like Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL), Women’s Information Switchboard and Women’s Studies Resource Centre. A small collective organised the programs time lines content and themes. On the 8th March 1980 the women took over the station and ran 24 hours of women’s programmes. They organised a concert with Margaret Roadknight, Jeannie Lewis, Janine Conway, Jan Cornell and Elizabeth Drake. Some of the women involved included, Barbara Baird, Nikki Page, Collette Snowden, Vicki Wilkinson, Jade McCuthen, Sally Carter, Barbara Farrelly and Gay Walsh. The station became 3D radio in 1988. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newsletter Liberation, 1970 Archival resources State Library of South Australia 5 MMM FM Community Radio [ephemera collection] Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Helena Marfell was the inaugural national president of the Country Women’s Association of Australia in 1945. Marfell was a foundation member of the Warrnambool branch of the Country Women’s Association (1931), and twice president of the South-Western Group. She was also a member of the Victorian State Executive, and state president from 1942 until 1945. President of the Women’s Section of the Victorian Country Party, Marfell stood unsuccessfully for the federal seat of Wannon during the election in 1949. During World War II Marfell was senior superintendent of the Warrnambool district for the Red Cross Society. She donated a silver teapot for use when the Country Women’s Association served refreshments at the railway tea rooms to recruits leaving Warrnambool. On 1 January 1968 Helena Marfell was appointed an Officer to the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for services to social welfare. She was honoured by being made a Life Governor of the Warrnambool Base Hospital and the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind. Events 1970 - 1970 Born daughter of Archibald Glen 1949 - 1950 President of the Women’s Section at the Victorian Country Party 1942 - 1945 President of the South-Western Group of the Country Women’s Association 1942 - 1945 State President of the Country Women’s Association 1945 - 1946 National President of the Country Women’s Association 1946 - 1946 Member of the Corangamite Regional Committee 1943 - 1943 Member of the State Relief Committee 1943 - 1943 Member of the State Broadcasting Committee 1939 - 1945 Senior Supertindent of the Red Cross in the Warrnambool district 1938 - 1939 President of the South-Western Group of the Country Women’s Association 1949 - 1949 Country Party candidate for the electorate of Wannon at the Federal election 2018 - 2018 Married Henry G Marfell, they had two children 1931 - 1931 Helped found the Warrnambool Branch of the Country Women’s Association 2068 - 2068 Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1962, Alexander, Joseph A, 1962 Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 Book The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Country Women's Association of Australia, 1945-1969, 2003 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 March 2003 Last modified 8 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Items held are 1958/59-1972/73; 1976/77-1985/86 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 January 2007 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Letter written by Mrs Jeannie Gunn to Miss Adelaide Miethke, 24 October 1927 discussing what became of ‘We of the Never Never’ characters. (Typescript copy only). Also includes notes on (and photographs of) the characters in ‘We of the Never Never’ along with biographical notes on Mrs Gunn. Author Details Clare Land Created 26 November 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sawer talks about how far women have come in Australian politics; problems faced by women; stereotyping; the ALP’s aim of proportional representation for women; problems faced by a women MPs in obtaining a suitable portfolio. She then answers questions from the audience regarding attitudes of male politicians; importance of affirmative action progress in Australia; value of radical feminists in Parliament and the role of women MPs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2013 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "BOX 1??Folder 1?My sister Sif: preliminary notes, personal research and observations, ca. 1980s??Folder 2?My sister Sif: 1st draft, editorial discussion with Robert Sessions, Penguin Books, ca. 1980s??Folder 3?My sister Sif: photocopy of final manuscript, letters and newscuttings, ca. 1980s??Folder 4?Hiroshima: brochures and personal Japanese notes, ca. 1980s??Folder 5?’Interesting letters Part 1? including letters regarding publishing permissions, letters from school children and letters about research on Eve Langley, ca. 1990s??Folder 6?’Interesting letters Part 2? including letters regarding publishing permissions and letters from school children, 1992-2000??BOX 2??Folder 1?Notebook with pasted-in press clippings of poetry, short stories, playlets and articles by Ruth Park. Some appear under the names of Jean Ingram and Chris Barlow, presumably pseudonyms used by Park. Clippings are undated but appear to date from before her departure from New Zealand. The earliest clipping gives her age as 12, 1929-1960s??Folder 2?Account book used by Ruth park and D’Arcy Niland to record income from writing. Details include source, story and amount, 1964-2001??Folder 3?D’Arcy Niland clean copies of 24 short stories, part 1. Some annotations possibly by Ruth Park, ca. 1980s??Folder 4?D’Arcy Niland clean copies of short stories, part 2. and Wooloomooloo – radio script, ca. 1960s-1980s??Folder 5?1930s Depression. Research material for Swords and crowns and rings. Includes newscuttings, interview and book research notes as well as reminiscences of various people’s experiences of the Depression including a sailor, a Sydney artists’ model and W. Ellis of Five Dock, ca. 1930s-1970s??Folder 6?A century of headline news. Compilation of front pages from the Evening Post, Wellington New Zealand, 1965??Folder 7?The night traveller: research notes and newscuttings about psychiatry, ca. 1969-1980s.??Folder 8?Mog’s mountain: research notes, press clippings and small tourist publications about the eruption of Mount Tarawera and the destruction of the Pink and White Terraces at Rotorua, ca. 1940s to 1970s??BOX 3??Folder 1?Glimpses of true love, carbon and typed manuscript, 1983??Folder 2?Glimpses of true love, clean copy, ca. 1980s??Folder 3?Glimpses of true love, major notes, ca. 1980s??Folder 4?Glimpses of true love, research material includes assorted handwritten and typed notes and newscuttings and some also used in Playing Beatie Bow and Pink flannel, ca. 1960s-1980s??Folder 5?Research material – early colonial notes including newscuttings, including handwritten and typed notes, ca. 1961-1975??BOX 4??Folder 1?Ruth Park and Harold Stewart correspondence. They discuss personal news, poetry, her work, Buddhism and eastern philosophy, life in Japan, his regrets about the influence that the Ern Malley hoax had on his subsequent reputation, clean copies of three of his poems, ca. 1981-1984??Folder 2?Ruth Park and Tess Van Sommers correspondence regarding Harold Stewart’s will and archives and possible publication. Letters from Peter Ackland and the National Library and a copy of Harold Stewart’s will, ca. 1995-1996??Folder 3?Correspondence between Harold Stewart’s sister Marion, Ruth Park and Tess Van Sommers about Harold Stewart’s papers, copies of photographs of Harold Stewart, as well as a copy of the National Library’s guide to the Harold Stewart papers, 1996??Folder 4?Notes for an article about Harold Stewart and Kyoto, ca. 1989??Folders 5-8?Ruth Park letters to her friend Nancy Bruce in Wanganui, New Zealand. Topics include personal news, writing and the death of D’Arcy Niland. Inlcudes a letter from D’Arcy Niland reporting the birth of their son, ca. 1949-1998??BOX 5X??My Sister Sif: original final draft; Glimpses of true love: carbon copy of typed manuscript with andwritten corrections; Glimpses of true love: discards and rewritten notes, ca. 1980s Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Photograph, inscription and other papers relating to a cairn erected by the people of Crosshouse, Scotland, in memory of Andrew Fisher. Also includes a scroll presented to Senate President Margaret Reid from the Community Council and villages of Crosshouse on the Centenary of Federation and an article and Hansard extract relating to the presentation. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hours??Diana Elizabeth Penniment, nee Thomas, was born in Adelaide, South Australia. She attended Methodist Ladies College for her secondary education. Her family could not support further studies, so she worked in a bank until her marriage in 1956, when she moved with her husband into a two room cottage on his father’s property at Wirrega, near Bordertown. Diana had four children and she describes her growing involvement in public affairs, from school activities and craft groups to helping form a local branch of the Women’s Agricultural Bureau. Diana rose to State President of WAB in 1986. Highlights of her term included organising two international conferences. Diana also explains her long term participation on the South Australian Rural Advisory Council. In 1991 she decided to focus on local issues and stood for the Tatiara District Council. She emphasises the importance of contributing skills and enthusiasm for the betterment of one’s community. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "From the time of her election to parliament, Franca Arean was hopeful of forming a “network” of women of all backgrounds who could meet informally, exchange ideas and help and support each other. In January 1984, she sent a letter to twenty to thirty women asking them to come to a meeting at Parliament House. They met in Feb 1984 for the first time, and the Women’s Network – Australia was born. The first Women’s Network guest was Frederika Steen, the head of a newly established Women’s Desk at the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Canberra. The women who gathered for the 1984 meeting decided that there was a need for a women’s network so that women from the older established groups, such as Anglo-Celtic, the Italian or Greek women, who had gone through the difficulties of the early years could advise and be supportive of the new groups of women, such as the Indo-Chinese, Laotian, Central American and Moslem women. They decided to meet for a few hours every two months, to have guest speakers and to be completely unstructured. Meeting in parliament house was regarded as symbolically important , as many of the women felt it was a seat of power from which they felt alienated and, at best, intimidated by. ‘Meeting the ministers’ was a regular event at the network gatherings. Sometimes these meetings happened away from parliament house. There was a social evening in 1985, a Chinese dinner in honour of the then Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs was arranged.. Nearly 200 women attended, but the minister didn’t talk. Instead, five women were chosen to speak on a range of issues, including the problems encountered by Isolated Arabic speaking women, migrant women in the bureaucracy, Multicultural education, Child care in the Western Suburbs and Tenosynovitis. None of the women had ever spoken in front of a minister before. By 1985, the number of members of the network had grown to 300. Published resources Book Section Double Disadvantage: Migrant and Aboriginal Women, Sawer, Marian, 1990 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Franca Arena - papers, ca.1960-2000 State Library of South Australia Papers of the Migrant and Indigenous Women Action Group State Library of New South Wales Franca Arena - correspondence, 1984-1996, concerning the Women's Network Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Lee became Leader of the Opposition in the ACT Legislative Assembly in October 2020. She was first elected to the Assembly in 2016, representing the Canberra Liberals in the electorate of Kurrajong. Lee was the first Asian-Australian to be elected to the Assembly and the first person of Korean heritage to be elected to an Australian parliament. She is the first Asian-Australian to lead a major political party. Before being elected, Lee practised as a lawyer in government and private practice and was a law lecturer at the Australian National University and the University of Canberra. She has also worked as a fitness instructor. Elizabeth Lee was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2016. “Elizabeth Lee was born in Gwangju, South Korea on 30 August 1979. She migrated to Australia with her family in 1986, aged seven. Lee has two younger sisters, Rosa and Sara. The family spoke Korean at home. Her father John worked on construction sites, as a cleaner and ran several small businesses; her mother Cecilia worked as a cleaner, in takeaway shops and as a homemaker. The family lived in Merrylands and Blacktown, in Sydney’s western suburbs where Elizabeth attended Sherwood Grange, Shelley and our Lady of Lourdes Primary Schools and Girraween Selective High School. Lee has lived in Canberra since 1998 when she began tertiary studies at the Australian National University. She has a Bachelor of Law and Asian Studies (Japanese) degree, a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and a Master of Laws (Government and Commercial Law) degree. Prior to entering the Legislative Assembly, Lee worked in the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, the office of the Australian Government Solicitor and as a commercial litigation lawyer at Meyer Vandenberg Lawyers. Lee lectured in law at the Australian National University and the University of Canberra. Lee served as Chair of the ACT and Australian Young Lawyers Committees and Vice President of the ACT Law Society and volunteered for the ACT Legal Advice Bureau. She also worked as a fitness instructor and is a Les Mills qualified instructor for several fitness courses. Lee ran unsuccessfully for the Legislative Assembly electorate of Molonglo in 2012 and for the Commonwealth House of Representatives seat of Fraser in 2013. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 2016, representing Kurrajong. ACT electorates have five members; Lee was the highest-polling Liberal and the only one to be elected in Kurrajong. She was the first Asian-Australian to be elected to the Assembly and the first person of Korean heritage elected to an Australian parliament. Lee delivered her inaugural speech on 13 December 2016, speaking Korean in the closing moments to acknowledge her parents’ sacrifice as they sought better opportunities in Australia for their daughters. She also expressed pride in being a member of the first female majority parliament in Australia. Lee was Assistant Speaker from December 2016 to October 2020 and has held several shadow portfolios, including for Education and Disability. The Canberra Liberals elected her as Opposition Leader in October 2020, when she became the first Asian-Australian leader of a major political party. As leader, she has held the shadow portfolios of Attorney-General (2020–22), Treasury (from 2020), Economic Development and Major Projects (from 2020), Climate Action (from 2020) and Housing Affordability and Choice (from 2022). As Shadow Minister for the Environment, Lee successfully advocated for the Canberra Liberals agreement to achieving net zero emissions by 2045. She has consistently supported policies to improve gender equity and in 2020 introduced Australia’s first anti-stealthing laws, leading to the amendment of provisions in the ACT Crimes Act providing for consent to be negated if condom use is misrepresented. Similar laws were later introduced in other Australian jurisdictions. Lee attended the March 4 Justice protest at Parliament House Canberra in 2021, having previously revealed her experience of sexual harassment. She has also spoken personally about pregnancy loss. Lee’s daughter Mia was born in 2019 and her second daughter, Ava in 2023. Lee was the first Australian leader of a political party to take formal maternity leave from parliament. Her partner, Nathan Hansford, is a consultant. Lee has often spoken about the importance of being a role model, arising from her political leadership as a first generation Asian-Australian migrant: ‘If I can do my small part in inspiring other young Asian-Australians to pursue a role in politics, that’s a special thing … I also hope that I’m setting a good example for my girls, that women can do whatever they set their minds to and they can play leadership roles and make a lasting contribution.’” Published resources Newspaper Article 'Bat Lady' remembered, 2015 Elizabeth Lee named ACT Opposition Leader, 2020, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-27/canberra-liberals-leadership-elizabeth-lee-alistair-coe/12816470 Canberra Liberals leader Elizabeth Lee on the importance of speaking out about injustice as a woman in leadership, Harry Frost, 2021, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-21/elizabeth-lee-on-women-in-leadership-speaking-up/100019116 Resource 'Australian Women in Agriculture Speaker Profiles: Lyn Johnson', The Regional Institute, http://www.regional.org.au/au/awia/speakers/p-16.htm Lee-Elizabeth, Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/tenth-assembly-members/kurrajong/lee-elizabeth Inaugural Speeches - Lee, Elizabeth - Page 77 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 13 December 2016, https://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/9th-assembly/2016/HTML/week01/77.htm Elizabeth Lee: a Letter to my Daughter, Elizabeth Lee, 2019, https://hercanberra.com.au/life/elizabeth-lee-a-letter-to-my-daughter/ Humble Lee looks to building a better future, Belinda Strahorn, 2020 Archival resources 'A Secondary Education for All'?: A History of State Secondary Schooling in Victoria 'Albert Park State School Swimming Champions' Author Details Margy Burn Created 3 September 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 32 minutes??Kathleen Margaret Forte, nee Johnston, was born in London, England. Her widowed mother emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand when Margaret was seven and supported her three children working as a teacher. Margaret’s education included three years boarding at a Friends’ School. Margaret worked as a journalist in Sydney and Vancouver before settling and marrying in Adelaide. She gave up working with the News in 1950 after the birth of her second child. Margaret quickly became involved in many voluntary activities, including the South Australian Peace Council. Seeking an organisation with a commitment to total pacifism, she became Secretary of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in the early 1960s. She describes their energetic opposition to the Vietnam War and the suspicion with which WILPF was viewed at the time. She also discusses WILPF’s changing role from being the women’s voice in the peace movement to the peace voice in the women’s movement. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "4 sound files (approximately 4 hr. 52 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Jones was Literary Editor for the Herald and worked as a journalist in the London and New York bureaus of John Fairfax Ltd, before becoming Foreign Editor for the Sydney Morning Herald in the 1970s. She reported from North Korea and North Vietnam, and was staff correspondent in Peking, China. Described as a ‘trailblazer for women journalists’, Jones wrote for the Herald newspaper for a total of thirty-three years. Margaret Jones was the youngest of six children. Her father, John, worked on the Rockhampton Harbour Board for 40 years. She received a Catholic education at Rockhampton and spent a period at teachers’ college in Brisbane, before working as a journalist on the Mackay Mercury and as a stringer for the ABC. Moving to Sydney, she worked on The Daily Mirror. In 1954, despite ongoing prejudice against women in journalism, she joined the Herald. Two years later she resigned to work in England and Paris, before joining The Sun-Herald in 1961. In 1965 she received her first foreign posting, to the Herald‘s New York offices. There she worked, though not entirely in harmony, with Lillian Roxon. The following year she became the paper’s first Washington correspondent. Barred from the National Press Club because of her sex, and consequently deprived of access to important functions and major speeches, her work was hindered, but she managed a successful stint in Washington, covering Lyndon Johnson’s presidency and the Vietnam War. In 1969 she moved to London, covering subjects from the IRA to the Beatles. She returned to Sydney to become literary editor of the paper. By the early 70s, the ratio of women to men on the staff had risen from 1:11 to 1:6. In 1972 Jones joined the successful campaign to allow women full membership of the Sydney Journalists Club. The following year, she was appointed foreign correspondent in Beijing (then Peking), the first to hold the position for the Herald since WWII. In 1976, Jones gave the Paton-Wilkie-Deamer Newspaper Address organised by the Journalists’ Club, Sydney, and the New South Wales branch of the Australian Journalists’ Association. She was the first woman journalist to be invited to do so. According to Jones, ‘the integrity of the press, or lack of it, is among the most topical of all subjects today, arising out of the upheavals in the Government of Australia over the last year or so’. Her primary concern was the tendency – on both sides of politics – to use the press as a ‘whipping boy’, carrying the blame for all misfortune. The credibility of the press, said Jones, was ‘at a pretty low ebb – just about the lowest I can remember’, but censorship or greater control of the press was not the solution. Jones used the address to reflect upon the dangers of a controlled press based on her own experiences as a reporter in China from 1973. China’s two national newspapers, the Renmin Ribao and the Kwangming Ribao, were the only newspapers that foreigners were permitted the read. The papers were under the strict control of government, and could only report positive news – great feats, economic gains, general prosperity. Foreign correspondents, too, were carefully monitored and not permitted to write about any subject that touched on the health of Chairman Mao, dissension in the leadership, or defence. A ‘warning system’ ensured their compliance – after two warnings, foreign correspondents would be forced to leave. In 1980 Jones returned to London as European correspondent. Following her retirement in 1987, she served on the Australian Press Council from 1988-98. Her publications include Thatcher’s Kingdom, The Confucius Enigma, and The Smiling Buddha. Published resources Book Thatcher's Kingdom: A View of Britain in the Eighties, Jones, Margaret, 1984 The Confucius Enigma, Jones, Margaret, 1979 The Smiling Buddha, Jones, Margaret, 1985 Lecture Pressures on the Press, Jones, Margaret, 1976 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Southern Africa Defence and Aid Fund in Australia - records, 1961-1981, together with the records of Community Aid Abroad (Australia). Southern Africa Group, 1981-1987 Nancy Phelan - papers, 1866-1996?Nancy Phelan - literary manuscripts, with working papers including correspondence, 1866-1996 Salmon family - Malcolm Salmon - papers, 1927-1986 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 14 September 2006 Last modified 12 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Coloured photos of Irene Greenwood and friends taken during the filming of life story.?7 photos (mounted ; in envelope) : col. ; 26 x 38 cm Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Una Prentice (nee Bick) was the first woman law graduate admitted to the Bar of the Queensland Supreme Court, first woman admitted to the Bar of the High Court, and first female Commonwealth Prosecutor. Having already completed her Bachelor of Arts, Una Prentice (nee Bick) was one of four people to enrol in the newly established law course at the University of Queensland in 1936. On 29 April 1938 Una Prentice became the first female graduate from the Faculty of Law at the University of Queensland. Over the next two years legal firms showed no interest in her, as either a solicitor or barrister. Finally Una received an offer from the University of Queensland to catalogue the vast book collection of Sir James Blair, who had just retired as Chief Justice. This collection became the nucleus of the Law Library of the University of Queensland. When World War II broke out, and because of an associated skills shortage, Una was offered a job with the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor. In 1942 she became the first female lawyer to be employed in the Department, performing legal duties as well as being the office bookkeeper. Despite her prestigious position, Una was paid as a typist – the only salary scale the department had for women. After a few years Una eventually was paid a proportion of the legal officer’s scale. Una joined the Brisbane firm of Stephens & Tozer in 1946. She then became Australian President of the Business and Professional Women’s Association and attended an international conference, touring England for eight months talking about the status of women in Australia. Una married Tony Prentice, a barrister, in 1946 and they both practised law until Una’s legal career was cut short, due to the birth of their son Roger. With no provision for working mothers at that time, Una was contented to stay home and raise her son and actively involve herself in a number of community organisations. Published resources Book Section Una Prentice, Nissen, Judy, 2005 Una Prentice (1913-1986): Queensland's first law school graduate, Grant, Heather, 2005 Resource Section Una Prentice, Supreme Court of Queensland Library, 2003, http://www.sclqld.org.au/schp/exhibitions/witl/biographies/prentice.htm Una Prentice, Grant, Heather, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1930/index.html#item-una-prentice Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Una Prentice, Dr., first woman to graduate in law from the University of Queensland, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 28 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Unionist, and activist, Madge Cope was born in Yorkshire, and came to Australia in 1915, settling on a farm in Midland with her family. She discusses her childhood and early life in Midland. She married the next door neighbour, also an English immigrant and had 4 children. They made pies and sold them to shops until the war began. They later grew tomatoes and flowers for sale, but times were hard. She got involved with the Communist Party in Guildford and became a communist. In 1966, she lost her husband in a car accident as a result of his drinking problem. After joining the Peace Movement, she joined the Union of Australian Women and discusses their functions and activities. Transcript includes illustrations and obituaries. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary was known for her selfless work in the Brisbane community. She was a member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and became founding secretary of the Brisbane Benevolent Society, which helped people in distress following the disastrous floods in south-east Queensland in 1893. She was honorary secretary (vice-president 1912-28) of the committee of Lady Musgrave Lodge, a home for nurses and single female immigrants. As Queensland representative for the Travellers’ Aid Society, she maintained contact with the British Women’s Emigration League. She served on the ladies’ management committee of the Hospital for Sick Children in 1894 – 1924. Mary was president of the Young Women’s Christian Association of Brisbane (1902-12), honorary president to 1921, then honorary life president. She was vice-president of the Queensland division of the British (Australian) Red Cross Society during World War I and in 1921 patroness of St David’s Welsh Society of Queensland—Sir Samuel had been founding patron in 1918. Other organizations to which she contributed her intelligence and energy were the National Council of Women, the Brisbane City Mission, the Queensland auxiliary of the London Missionary Society, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Queensland Women’s Electoral League, the Protestant Federation, the United Sudan Mission and the Charity Organisation Society. In 1911 she was appointed a lady of grace of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem and was invested at Government House, Brisbane. Mary was the third of five children of Rev. Edward Griffith (Congregational minister) and his wife Mary, nee Walker. She was also the older sister of (Sir) Samuel Griffith, premier of Queensland and first Chief Justice of Australia between the years 1845 – 1920. When Edward (Mary’s father) accepted a call from the Colonial Missionary Society to found a Congregational Church at Ipswich, he and his family moved to Australia, New South Wales (Queensland). Mary was a gifted writer who contributed articles to church magazines, often anonymously, and compiled a tribute to her father, Memorials of the Rev Edward Griffith (Brisbane, 1892). Published resources Newspaper Article Brisbane Courier, 10 July 1925, p. 17, 1925 Brisbane Courier, 13 December 1911, p. 11, 1911 Brisbane Courier, 2 May 1927, p. 14, 1927 Brisbane Courier, 29 July 1930, p. 18, 1930 Book Samuel Walker Griffith, Joyce, R. B., 1984 Widening horizons: the YWCA in Queensland 1888-1988, Gillespie, Aline, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection OM90-37 Griffith Family Papers 1811-1932 ANU University Archives Miss Mary Griffith The Other Griffith - Mary Harriett Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4 sound files (approximately 4 hr.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers of Margaret Sutherland, composer, including news clippings, catalogues and miscellaneous items referring to Dr Sutherland and the Sutherland family of artists. Author Details Clare Land Created 6 November 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anna Brennan, member of a talented Victorian family, was a devout Catholic who actively pursued the cause of women’s equality throughout her life. She was one of the earliest woman to graduate in law at the University of Melbourne in 1909 and practised as a solicitor in her brother’s legal firm for fifty years. She was a foundation member of the Lyceum Club in 1912 and president from 1940-41. The Victorian Legal Women’s Association was established in 1931 with Brennan serving as president. A founding committee member of the Catholic Women’s Social Guild in 1916, later the Catholic Women’s League, she served as president from 1918-1920. She joined the Victorian branch of St Joan’s International Alliance, holding the office of president from 1938-1945 and again in 1948 until her death in 1962. Anna Brennan was the thirteenth child of Michael Brennan, farmer and his wife Mary nee Maher. She commenced medical studies at the University of Melbourne in 1904, but was not permitted to continue as she was ‘too nervous to do the dissections’. She commenced the law course in 1906, graduating in 1909. At the university she became a member of the Princess Ida Club for women students, was an office bearer from 1907-1909 and remained a committee member until 1913. She represented the Princess Ida Club on the national Council of Women in 1912 She became a partner in her brother Frank’s firm, specialising in the matrimonial field and campaigned for more equitable laws in relation to divorce. She was the second woman in Victoria to be admitted to practice. Her commitment to her Catholic faith was evident in her involvement with the Catholic Women’s Social Guild, lecturing and writing for its publications Women’s Social Work and its successor Horizon. Joan of Arc was an inspiration to her and she joined the forerunner of the St Joan’s International Alliance, the Catholic Women’s Suffrage Society in London. She was an inaugural member of the Victorian chapter of the St Joans’ International Alliance when it was established in 1936 and was president from 1938-45 and 1948-62. Published resources Book Horizon in retrospect, 1916-1986, 1985 The Lyceum Club, Melbourne 1912-1962., Gillison, Joan, 1962 Resource Section Brennan, Anna Teresa (1879-1962), Campbell, Ruth and Morgan, Margaret, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070404b.htm Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Journal Article Anna Brennan…the Valiant Woman, Blackall, Alice, 1963 Tributes to a Medical Missionary Pioneer: Dr Mary Glowrey (Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart) - First C.W.S.G. President, Brennan, Anna T, 1957 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources State Library of Victoria History of the Lyceum Club, and papers, 1970-1975. [manuscript]. NULL Records of the St Joan's International Alliance The University of Melbourne Archives Melbourne University. Princess Ida Club Melbourne University. Princess Ida Club Author Details Rosemary Francis and Anne Heywood Created 19 November 2003 Last modified 15 July 2020 Digital resources Title: Ann Shelton Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "An activist in local government and party politics, Jacquie Argent was an ALP candidate for Oxley in 1999, a member of the Hastings Council to 1999 and Deputy Mayor from 1998-1999. While a Councillor on the Hastings Council, Jacqui Argent chaired the Mid North Coast Council for Social Development, the Consultative Protocol Committee, The Mid North Coast Regional Economic Development Organisation, the Legal Aid Review Team and the Youth Accommodation Group. She graduated with a BA and has three children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "An active local councillor and small businesswoman, well known in her electorate. Valerie Marland was Alderman of Queanbeyan City Council from 1966-1995 and Councillor on the Southern Tablelands County Council from 1967 -. She was also a Liberal party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Monaro in 1976. Valerie Marland was educated at Gulgong Public School, Bowral Public School and Bowral High School NSW, and Fort Street Girls’ High School, Sydney NSW. At the time of her campaign she was a Senior Vice President of the Australian Local Government Women’s Association, and was elected the first President of the Local Government Association in 1984. She was active in business, local government and community organisations in Queanbeyan NSW. In 1976 Valerie Marland was appointed a MBE. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 7 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "25 hours 10 minutes??A series of 17 interviews commissioned by the Libraries Board of South Australia concerning the experiences of children, nuns and priests living and working at the St. Vincent de Paul’s Orphanage, Goodwood from 1922 until the institution’s closure in December 1975. The project was supervised by the Oral History Officer, J. D. Somerville Oral History Collection, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "NS656/1/58-60 Minutes of meetings of Mothers Union, including both annual and committee meetings Author Details jane carey Created 18 February 2004 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Reminiscences of a woman migrant from Latvia, 1944-1948. Includes details of life in Germany under American occupation, and the voyage from Germany to Australia on the S. S. Sovereign, 4 August – 29 October 1948. Also includes reminiscences of the author’s mother-in-law as a Latvian refugee in Germany in 1944. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 August 2006 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A graduate of the University of Western Australia Faculty of Law, The Honourable Judy Eckert was the first woman to serve as president of the Law Society of Western Australia (1995-6). She was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1981 after completing her articles with Northmore, Hale, Davey and Leake (now Minter Ellison). In 1986, only four years after her admission, she became that firm’s first female partner. In 1991, Eckert joined the WA Crown Solicitors Office, where she practised for eleven years and where she conducted a major review of the WA Legal Aid Commission. She joined the WA bar in 2002, the year she was also made a Life Member of the Law Society of Western Australia. In 2005 she was appointed a Judge of the District Court of Western Australia as a prelude to her appointment as Deputy President of the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT), sitting in the Human Rights stream. Regarded as one of Western Australia’s top legal minds, Eckert had a significant role to play in drafting the SAT legislation package which, at the time, was the largest piece of legislation ever to pass the WA parliament. In 2011, ill health led to Eckert’s early retirement. In 2012, she was honoured at Women Lawyers Western Australia’s annual dinner for her contributions to advancing the status of women in the Western Australian legal profession. Her Honour has three children and a husband who, she says, made it possible for her to pursue her legal career as far as she did. ‘I certainly would not have been able to become president of the law society if my husband hadn’t stayed home with the kids,’ she observed in 2004. Work/life balance issues are not ‘women’s issues’, she insisted: ‘they are management issues’. Judy Eckert was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. A longer essay detailing Judy Eckert’s career is in development. Published resources Newspaper Article Playing the game on the front foot, Jacobs, Marsha, 2004, https://www.businessnews.com.au/article/Playing-the-game-on-the-front-foot Article Overview of the SAT Legislation, Eckert, Judy, 2005, http://www.wabar.asn.au/images/WABAR_Issue_1.pdf Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Judy Eckert interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A once-only candidate in the unwinnable seat of Upper Hunter for the ALP in 1995. At the time of her campaign, Pat Baks was studying for a Bachelor of Social Science Degree from the University of New England. She is a long-time member of the Mudgee District Environment Foundation and a founding member of the Mudgee Women’s Refuge Committee. Pat was President of the Mudgee ALP branch in 1995 and also President of the Upper Hunter State Electorate Council. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound files (ca. 195 min.)??Robyn Tredwell talks about her family background; growing up on a farming property in Eudlo; Old Ted the swaggy; moving to town near Nambour for work; becoming a student nurse; developing a world view through contact with refugees, migrants and seasonal visitors; living in Mooloolaba (1960s); life in the nurses’ home (1960s); moving to Cairns; working as a station cook; working with Aboriginal people on Gunnawarra; observing changes to life for Aboriginal people; going to New Zealand to work as a nurse and an Encyclopaedia salesperson; moving to Manchester, England for work (1970s); moving to Saudi Arabia to work as a neo-natal nurse; living and working in Saudi Arabia; the Saudi royal family; training nurse in Saudi Arabia; travelling to the Himalayas; preventative medicine; devising a health care program; running a clinic that used cleanliness, mega-vitamins, nutrition as the platform for improved health; illness and stress; importance of vitamin B; building a hotel in Tibet.??Tredwell speaks about the Institute of Ecotechnics; studying ethnobotany in the Amazon; studying botany in London and Paris; knowledge of cultures under threat; holistic healing; link between health and the environment; the reconstruction project at Birdwood Downs; the changing technological environment; running a theatre company from the property; holding an arts workshop program involving Kalahari Bushmen (1997); creating a space for cross cultural communication and sustainability; using management, science and artistic expression to create sustainability; winning the ABC Rural Woman of the year Award (1995); ABC’s Landline program made on Birdwood Downs; her involvement in women’s organisations; her concerns for the future if money becomes the only standard for production; her son; her health; going to Canberra for the award; having well established international networks; the common links across rural communities around the world. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 27 April 2011 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Louise Vardanega PSM is Chief Operating Officer of the Australian Government Solicitor (AGS), a role she has held since 2009. Louise joined AGS (then known as the Deputy Crown Solicitor’s Office) in 1975, and with the exception of 6 months attending legal workshop and 3 months with the Justice and Family Law Division of the Attorney General’s Department in 1977, has been with AGS throughout her career. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Andrew Sikorski about Louise Vardanega for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Andrew Sikorski and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Early life Louise grew up in the town of Griffith in New South Wales, where she attended Griffith High School. Her father Pompeo (known as Bob) Vardanega immigrated to Australia from Italy in 1928. Her mother Evelina (known as Lina) Vardanega (nee Cappello) arrived in Australia from Italy in 1938. Bob and Lina were married in 1939 amidst much celebration – the associated festivities lasted 3 days. Bob, along with 2 partners, started a plant nursery under the name of ‘Premier Nurseries’, which ultimately grew to be one of the largest nursery businesses in New South Wales. Bob was also a key player in starting up the Coronation Club – an Italian social club that became the social hub for many Italian and Australian families in Griffith. Louise is the youngest of 3 siblings. Her brother Roger is a lawyer, who Louise credits with opening her mind to the possibility of pursuing a career in law. Her sister Silvana took over the running of Premier Nurseries when her father retired. Education Louise studied Law at the Australian National University from 1970 to 1975, graduating Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Arts. It was during the course of her studies at ANU that she developed a strong interest and determination to practise in government law. Career at the Australian Government Solicitor Louise was admitted to practise as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory in 1976. After joining AGS in 1975, she spent 10 years working in various areas of law, including general litigation, administrative law and advocacy matters. Much of her practice included appearance work as counsel and the handling of significant matters in both the ACT Magistrate’s and Supreme Courts. During this period, she also gained high-level expertise in handling administrative law matters for government departments and agencies in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Federal Court of Australia and High Court of Australia. She also practised for several years in the criminal law jurisdiction appearing in many prosecution matters before the ACT Magistrate and Supreme Courts. Louise became Director of AGS’s Canberra City office in 1991, and was appointed Director AGS Canberra (incorporating the Canberra City and Barton offices) in 2000. She was also National Practice Manager of the Litigation and Dispute Management Practice Group from 1999 until mid-2003. From 2003 to 2005 Louise was National Director of AGS’s Clients and Market Office. In that role she led the national team responsible for developing client relationships and coordinating the strategic marketing and business growth of AGS. In 2009 AGS’s corporate structure shifted to an integrated national model, and Louise was appointed to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Professional associations Louise has always maintained a very active profile in the local professional community as a member of the ACT Law Society since 1976. She has served continuously as Secretary and a member of the Council since 1991 and has been a member of a number of the ACT Law Society’s committees. In 2014, the Council of the ACT Law Society conferred Honorary Life Membership on Louise for outstanding service to the legal profession. In his speech conferring Honorary Membership on Louise, Law Society President Martin Hockridge said: ‘Through a combination of calm good sense and expert advice, she has played a central role in the stability of the Society and its effectiveness as a regulator of the professional conduct of its members, to the benefit of the profession and the community in general.’ She is also a member of the ACT Legal Practitioners Admissions Board, on which she has served since 2014. Client Service Louise is well-known across the government legal community for her passionate commitment to excellent client service. She is the embodiment of, and driving force behind AGS’s client service culture, making it her business to ensure that all in AGS have the knowledge, tools and support they need to provide great service. Her irrepressible energy and enthusiasm are infectious, providing a rich source of motivation and inspiration to many of her colleagues. She brings a formidable sense of fun and creativity to her work. Nevertheless, she takes her role in AGS, and her responsibility to the government of the day extremely seriously – a fact that is clearly apparent to anyone who comes into contact with her. In 2007, she developed the AGS Client Care program and introduced the AGS client service expectations, which form a key part of initial orientation and continuous skills development for all AGS staff. In 2014 she introduced the AGS Client Listening program. Designed to support all staff in understanding and meeting client needs to the highest possible standard, the program provides ongoing communication training across AGS. She also publishes a regular internal blog on the topic of client care, presenting AGS staff with information and encouragement to support them in providing first-rate service. Louise’s genuine zeal for client service, and her affection for AGS and its people are manifest in the personal warmth that permeates her interactions with colleagues and clients. Her ability to blend empathy, humour and spirit with exemplary professionalism is exceptional. Leadership Louise’s legal skills are clearly evident in the many successful outcomes she achieved as legal adviser to a great variety of clients, particularly in the early stages of her career. Her qualities as a leader are equally impressive, and have long been recognised and appreciated by those around her. Louise’s role in AGS has been largely that of a leader – setting AGS’s strategic direction, and guiding and motivating AGS people to achieve their full potential. Former Chair of the AGS Advisory Board (2000-2013), John Allen said this about Louise: ‘One of the memories that I will carry away from my twelve and a half years here is that in the number two, Louise Vardanega who has been number two all the way since I’ve been here, AGS has a leader – not with great titles to reflect that but clearly the number two person to both [former AGS CEOs] Rayne de Gruchy and Ian Govey. I’ve watched how people follow her in my classical definition of leadership. I’ve also watched how well she works with the number ones, both Rayne and Ian and I’m always aware of watching two leaders interacting.’ (Presentation to AGS’s Leadership Group, 23 May 2013) Mentorship Louise takes great satisfaction from her role as a mentor to AGS staff. Although she has largely moved away from hands-on legal practise, she sees herself as a ‘facilitator’ of outstanding legal services to government. She makes it a priority to identify lawyers with outstanding potential, and to guide their professional development. In doing so, she is more inclined to provide people with opportunities and encourage them to stretch themselves, than to dish-out proscriptive guidance. If (as 1 AGS lawyer has said), ‘a truly great mentor is someone who points you to possibilities and gives you the courage to explore them while giving you complete ownership of the choices you make’, Louise certainly fits the bill. Tom Howe QC, Chief Counsel AGS Dispute Resolution, shared the following thoughts about Louise: ‘For the whole of my 30 years in AGS I have worked closely with Louise. She leads, first and foremost, by example. Minute by minute of every day, of every week, over each of those 30 years she has been scrupulous in her judgment, unstinting in her effort, and selfless in her commitment to achieving the best outcome for the people around her. I am often asked how Louise manages to maintain her loyalty and commitment to AGS, and to public service more generally. I think part of the answer lies in the heartfelt pleasure she takes in ‘growing’ those around her, and then watching them take their place in the world. I am a very grateful beneficiary of this extraordinary generosity of spirit. There are innumerable others.’ Sarah Court, former Director AGS Adelaide, now an ACCC Commissioner, said: ‘…the ball of energy that was Louise, motivated me, encouraged and challenged me – and gave me so many wonderful opportunities. To this day she has remained an inspiring role model and mentor, as well as a close friend.’ (AGS Alumni Newsletter, December 2012) Awards and honours In January 2000, Louise was awarded a Public Service Medal in the Australia Day 2000 Honours List for outstanding public service through leadership and management of the AGS’s ACT office. As Director of AGS Canberra, Louise was instrumental in AGS being named ‘Best Canberra Law Firm’ in the 2007 Business Review Weekly Client Choice Awards for professional services. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Sam Miley Created 18 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Louise Vardanega Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The collection comprises concert, opera and lecture programmes, journal articles, publicity material and programmes for productions directed by Miss Lawrence or staged by her pupils. There are some references to Percy Grainger in the publicity material. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 October 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 1985 chiefly comprises eight scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings collected by the Australian Women Pilots’ Association about women fliers, particularly in Australia during the 1950s and 1960s. The collection also includes newspaper cuttings, letters and photographs relating to Jean Batten’s visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1970. A photocopy of an article on Pat Toole, and her flying in the Territory of New Guinea, is included. There is also the Charter that records the pilot licence numbers and signatures of foundation members of the Association who were present at the inaugural meeting held at the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales on 16 September, 1950 (1 folder, 1 fol. Box, 1 elephant folio).??The Acc10.058 instalment comprises a comprehensive scrapbook containing biographical notes, photographs and newspaper cuttings relating to various women pilots from the mid-1920s to the mid-1980s (1 elephant folio).??The Acc12.151 instalment comprises a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings titled “Australian Women Pilots’ Association- Book 8, 1965-1980” (1 fol. Box) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 8 October 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A framed oil painting on board (38 x 48 cm) by Mona Elliott depicting the interior of the dining room of the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1930. At this time the club was located in the National Mutual Building in Queen Street, Brisbane. The artist was a member of the club. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Joyce McConnell was appointed to the Order of the British Empire on 12 June 1976 for community services. She was an active member of a number of national women’s groups and Australian Capital Territory associations. McConnell was President of the National Council of Women of Australia, member of the National Women’s Advisory Council, National Women’s Consultative Council and the Federation of University Women. In 1976 McConnell was Australia’s delegate to the International Council of Women conference in Vancouver. Joyce McConnell represented Australian women to government with an even-handed professionalism that achieved lasting results. She was president of the National Council of Women of Australia 1973-1976 and a member of the peak national advisory bodies the National Women’s Advisory Council and the National Women’s Consultative Council from 1978-1986. Joyce Marion McConnell was born on 21 August 1916 at Wollstonecraft, NSW, the daughter of L.J. Smith. She was educated at North Sydney Girls’ High School and Sydney University. At the time of her marriage to Hugh McConnell on 31 August 1939, both she and her husband were studying economics as evening students, and both were active student politicians. Joyce served as a director of the Women’s Union and vice-president of the Student Representative Council. McConnell graduated with a Bachelor of Economics. Her husband’s work as a teacher took the family into country New South Wales, and later to Canberra. The marriage produced two sons and two daughters. McConnell became active in women’s affairs in 1957, joining the Canberra Association of University Women and becoming its delegate on the National Council of Women of the Australian Capital Territory. As convenor for housing and civic affairs, she was responsible for the first 2 surveys carried out by the Council in Canberra, seeking information regarding government housing and consumer prices. She served as honorary secretary of the Council in 1957-1958, resigning to accompany her husband overseas. On her return, she held the presidency of the Council from 1962 to 1964, raising funds to establish the first Senior Citizens’ Club in the ACT. Other voluntary work in community organisations at this time included chairing the Emergency Housekeeper Committee and the Anti-Litter Campaign, and helping found the Churchill Appeal. From 1964 to 1969, Hugh McConnell was posted to Argentina. Joyce McConnell joined the local University Women’s Club, and became a committee member of the Mission to Seamen in Buenos Aires. In 1973, McConnell became president of the National Council of Women of Australia. Hers was the first National Board to be located in Canberra. McConnell predicted correctly that its strength would be ‘in the very nature of Canberra-in the relative accessibility of those who sit in the seats of power and who are the architects of our national policy’. McConnell quickly established good working relationships with the emerging women’s bureaucracy inaugurated by the Whitlam Labor government and, despite her active membership of the Liberal Party, communicated effectively with politicians on both sides of the parliament. She worked equitably with representatives of newly vocal groups like the Women’s Electoral Lobby in planning for Women’s Resource Centres and Rape Crisis Centres, and in preparations for International Women’s Year. McConnell was one of the delegation of 10 women sent by the Australian government to the International Women’s Year Tribune held in association with the World Conference on Women in Mexico city in 1975. In 1976, she led the Australian delegation to the ICW Triennial Conference in Vancouver. In 1975 McConnell, on behalf of NCWA, proposed to Prime Minister Whitlam that he establish a representative Women’s Advisory Council. The suggestion was taken up by the Fraser government, and, in 1978, Fraser appointed McConnell to the newly constituted Council, reappointing her in 1982. When Prime Minister Hawke abolished the Council and replaced it with the National Women’s Consultative Council in1984, McConnell was again appointed: the only woman to serve both governments in this capacity. In 1979, as the NatWAC convenor in Canberra, she had to negotiate extreme opposition from right-wing radical women during the mid-decade consultations for the UN Decade for Women. She continued to work with NCWA, becoming an honorary life vice-president in 1979 and accepting the national convenorship of the Economics Standing Committee in 1980. She also returned to the leadership of the Australian Federation of University Women, organising their national conference in 1981. McConnell was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1976 for service to the community, and awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 1978. Joyce McConnell died of a massive stroke in 1991, a few days before her 75th birthday. Prepared by: Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Events 1978 - 1980 Member of the National Women’s Advisory Council 1979 - 1979 Honourary Life Vice-President of the National Council of Women of Australia 1973 - 1976 President of the National Council of Women of Australia 1962 - 1964 President of the National Council of Australian Capital Territory 1957 - 1958 Honourary Secretary of the National Council of Australian Capital Territory 2039 - 2039 Married Hugh McConnell and she bore four children 1978 - 1978 Awarded Queen’s Jubilee Medal 1984 - 1986 Member of the National Women’s Consultative Council 1976 - 1976 Member of the advisory committee on the Australian Government Contribution to the United States Bicentennial 1976 - 1976 Leader and Australian delegate to the International Council of Women conference in Vancouver 1962 - 1964 Chairman of the Emergency Housekeeper Service in the Australian Capital Territory 1976 - 1976 Appointed to the Order of the British Empire 1980 - 1980 Convenor of the Economics Standing Committee for the National Council of Australian Women 1981 - 1981 Council member of the Australian Federation of University Women 1975 - 1975 Vice-chair of the National Committee for the International Women’s Year for the United Nations Association of Australia 1975 - 1975 Member of the delegation of ten women sent by the Australian government to the United Nations Tribune for International Women’s Year in Mexico City 1957 - 1957 Member of the Australian Federation of University Women (ACT) 1965 - 1969 Member of the University Women’s Club (Argentina) 1976 - 1976 Member of the Women’s International Club (ACT) 1964 - 1964 Member of the First Garden Club (ACT) 1973 - 1973 Associate member of the Royal Canberra Golf Club 1974 - 1977 Vice-president of the Australian Pre-School Association 1965 - 1969 Committee member of the Mission to Seamen in Buenos Aires 1964 - 1965 Member of the Churchill Appeal committee in the Australian Capital Territory 1982 - 1984 Member of the National Women’s Advisory Council Published resources Newspaper Article Active life in women's affairs, 1991 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Australia, 1988, Cadman, Kerith A, 1988 Who's Who in Australia 1974, Legge, J. S., 1974 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Book Beryl Beaurepaire, McKernan, Michael, 1999 Capital women : a history of the work of the National Council of Women (A.C.T.) in Canberra, 1939-1979, Stephenson, Freda, 1992 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Joyce McConnell, 1960-1989 [manuscript] Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1936-1972 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Joyce McConnell, former president of the National Council of Women of Australia, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 January 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Joyce McConnell Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Begum1963.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records comprising papers relating to the Union of Australian women’s involvement with the Panhellenic Women’s Movement in South Australia, an organisation formed to assist Greek migrant women with everyday problems. Papers include correspondence and an organisational constitution. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Olley is known as one of Australia’s most prized interior and still life painters. She first came to public attention as the subject of Sir William Dobell’s winning Archibald portrait in 1948. These days she is regarded as an Australian national treasure. In 1997 her work was the subject of a major retrospective organized by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Margaret Olley began her career painting sets for various theatre groups, before displaying her painting in exhibitions at Royal Queensland Art Society and the Under Thirties Group in Sydney. Her painting New England Landscape won the inaugural Mosman Prize in 1947. Margaret later travelled to Europe where she studied art at La Grande Chaumiere in Paris and, in 1952, she exhibited a collection of favourably-reviewed paintings. She returned to Brisbane in 1953 and was commissioned by the Queensland Art Gallery to paint a mural of Paris’ Place de la Concorde for an upcoming French art exhibition. She soon received commissions to paint murals in other Brisbane landmarks such as the Grosvenor and Lennon’s hotels. Since then, Margaret has travelled the globe gaining inspiration for her bold still-life paintings and viewing exhibitions of classic artists such as Van Gogh, Matisse, Miro and Manet. Margaret is regarded as a generous benefactor, having donated many of her works to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 1990, she established the Margaret Hannah Olley Trust to produce other artists’ works for public donation. In 1994, Olley’s generosity to the gallery was celebrated in the Great gifts, great patrons exhibition to which she donated works of Donald Friend, Arthur Boyd, Walter Sickert, Edgar, Duncan Grant and Mathew Smith. Margaret has earned countless art prizes and awards for her many works shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide. In 2006 Margaret was elevated to Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for her service as one of Australia’s most distinguished artists, her support and philanthropy to the visual and performing arts, and her encouragement of young and emerging artists. In 2007 she was appointed a Fellow of the National Art School. Published resources Resource Section Margaret Olley, 2008, http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/margaretolley/ Margaret Olley, France Christine, 2007, http://www.daao.org.au/main/read/4898 Margaret Olley AC (1923 ), Queensland Government, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1940/index.html#item-margaret-olley Margaret Olley, Extract Biographical Notes, Bacon, Philip, 2007, http://www.philipbacon.com.au/artists/MargaretOlley/notes.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Portrait of a life well lived Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letters from Daisy Bates to the Reverend John Mathew concerning the ethnology of the Aboriginal Australian people in Western Australia. Newscuttings of articles by Daisy Bates (1 folder + 1 medium folio box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The experience of Greek-Australians is an integral part of Australian History. Since first arriving in the late 1810s, Greeks have made significant contributions to the nation’s cultural diversity and prosperity. Today, descendants of the earliest arrivals, immigrants, and their Australian-born children inhabit vital communities throughout the country, the inheritors of a vigorous Greek culture secured through the determined efforts of their forebears. The first significant stream of Greek migration to Australia began in the 1850sthe lure of gold attracting a small stream of settlers to Australia. Early Greece-born settlers mainly worked in mining camps, on the wharves or on coastal ships. The total population at the turn of the century was small – the 1901 Australian Census recorded 878 Greece-born people. Many were owners or employees in shops and restaurants. Some were cane cutters in Queensland. There was a substantial increase in immigration between the two World Wars, caused in part by the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor in 1922 23 and immigration quotas imposed by the United States in the early 1920s. By the 1947 Census, the number of Greece-born was 12,291. After the Second World War, with the active encouragement of the Greek Government, struggling with post-war reconstruction, large numbers of Greeks migrated to Australia. The migration of Greeks to Australia especially increased after 1952 when the Australian Government provided assisted passage to tens of thousands of Greeks. By 1961 the number of Greece-born people in Australia had reached 77,333. Greek migration continued to expand rapidly throughout the 1960s and at the time of the 1971 Census there were 160,200 Greece-born in Australia with about 47 per cent living in Melbourne. The latest Census in 2001 recorded 116,530 Greece-born persons in Australia, with Victoria (57,780) still being the most populous state, followed by New South Wales (36,910), South Australia (11,690) and Queensland (3,990). The median age of the community in 2001 was 59.3 years compared with 46.0 years for all overseas-born and 35.6 years for the total Australian population, a significant statistics that carries important implications for the provision of health and aged care services. Over time, the sex imbalance has decreased to a point where the ratio is almost equal. No more need for ‘bride ships’, or specific drives to encourage women to marry the many bachelors who were attracted in the post-war wave of migration. Despite keenly preserving and supporting their own cultural heritage, Greece-born Australians have also committed to their Australian identity. At the 2001 Census, the rate of Australian Citizenship for the Greece-born in Australia was 98.0 per cent. The rate for all overseas-born was 75.1 per cent. Published resources Report Beyond the Rolling Wave: A Thematic History of Greek Settlement in New South Wales, Turnbull, Craig and Vakiotis, Chris, 2001 Greeks In Australia: 100 years of History, Costadopoulos-Hill, Maria, 1979, http://www.cybernaut.com.au/greeksinoz/ Edited Book The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Jupp, James, 2001 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Sotiria Liangis interviewed by Marg Carroll in the Centenary of Canberra oral history project Matina Mottee interviewed by Nicola Henningham [sound recording]. State Library of South Australia Postcards from Home: Interviews with Thebarton Women from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds : SUMMARY RECORD [sound recording] Interviewers: Members of Thebarton Community Arts Network Interview with Maria Gaganis [sound recording] Interviewer: Marjorie Roe Papers re: Panhellenic Women's Movement Greek Orthodox Community of NSW Cultural Centre Papers of the Greek Orthodox Community of New South Wales Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Papers Of Vivi Koutsianidis-Germanos State Library of Victoria Music of migrant groups in Australia, [197-?]. [sound recording]. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 17 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Young Greek Girls Dancing Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: spanish.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial located at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens features a granite wall listing the names of Australian Prisoners of War (POW). The listing is by surname and initials and shown by war. Between the Boer War (1899-1902) and the Korean War in the 1950’s 34,737 Australian servicemen and women (59 World War II nurses) were incarcerated in POW camps. The monument, designed by sculptor Peter Blizzard, is intended to provide ex-prisoners of war, their descendants, visitors and future generations with a reflective experience. The design of the POW monument uses the basic idea of a journey through and an experience of time and place. The start of the pathway is long and straight heading off into the shape of railway sleepers, a reference to the Burma Railway. Running parallel to the pathway is a polished black granite wall, 130 metres long etched with the names of all Australian POWs. Standing in a reflective pool are huge basalt obelisks up to 4.5 metres high with the names of the POW camps. The columns are out of reach and across the water symbolizing that all the POW camps were away from Australian shores. Further on, there is another wall with the words ‘Lest we Forget’ engraved, allowing for an area of contemplation and reflection after the “journey”. The Memorial’s dedication took place on 6 February 2004. Nurses listed on Memorial Anderson, M J Ashton, C J Balfour-Ogilvy, E L Beard, A M Blake, K C Blanch, J J Bridge, A J Bullwinkel, V Callaghan, E M Casson, F R Clancy, V A Cullen, M C Cuthbertson, M E Davis, W M Delforce, C E M Dorsch, M H M Doyle, J G Drummond, I M Elmes, D G Fairweather, L F Freeman, R D Gardam, D S Greer, J K Gunther, J P Halligan, C I Hannah, E M Harper, I Harris, N Hempsted, P B Hodgson, M I Hughes, G L James, N G Jeffrey, A B Keast, D C Keats, E L Kerr, J McElnea, V I McGlade, M E Mittelheuser, P B Muir, S J M Neuss, K M Oram, W E F Oxley, C S M Parker, K I Raymont, W R Salmon, F A Short, E M Simons, J E Singleton, I A Smith, V E Stewart, E S J Syer, A C Tait, M M A Trotter, F E Tweddell, J Whyte, L M Wight, R J Wilmott, B Woodbridge, B Published resources Article 34,737 PoWs...we will remember them, O'Connor, Angela, 2002, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/11/1034222594951.html Newspaper Article All expectations surpassed despite unexpected heat, Ellery, David, 2004 Thousands eager to search for names, Ellery, David, 2004 Memories shared by generations, Best, Catherine, 2004 Resource The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ballarat Botanical Gardens, http://www.ballarat.com/memorial.htm Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 September 2003 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0569gb.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A graduate of the University of Adelaide, Her Honour Judge Sue Oliver was admitted as a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court of South Australia in 1978 and then promptly moved with her (then) husband to Darwin, where she has lived ever since. She was appointed to the Northern Territory Magistrates Court (now called the Northern Territory Local Court) in 2006, after having practised law in a variety of public and private sectors contexts. As managing magistrate of the Northern Territory Youth Justice Court in the Northern Territory, she has a particular interest in and has published widely on matters relating to the complex issues surrounding the management of young offenders. Since arriving in the N.T., Oliver has also contributed her time and energy to a variety of community and national organisations. These include the Family Planning Association, the YWCA, the International Legal Services Advisory Council, Commissioner for the NT Legal Aid Commission, committee member NT Law Society and Board Member of the Australian Women Lawyers. She is presently a member of the Country Women’s Association in Katherine. Sue Oliver was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Sue Oliver was the first person in her family to go to university, a beneficiary of the free tertiary education system introduced by the Whitlam Labor Government elected in 1972. Nineteen years old and working her way up northern Australia at the time of the election, the prospect of free tertiary education was enough to bring her back to Adelaide, complete her Higher School Certificate, and qualify for university entrance. She originally thought about studying medicine, but realised she didn’t have the maths/science competence to get the mark required. She settled on law, and has never looked back. ‘The best thing about being a lawyer, is the intellectual challenge of the law,’ she says. ‘The best thing about having a legal career …is having the opportunity to meet people you wouldn’t otherwise have met and to better understand their lives.’ After completing her degree at the University of Adelaide in 1978, Oliver completed a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice as an alternative to doing articles. Not having any connections in the Adelaide legal families, she had no connection to the networks necessary to getting a position in a good firm. She never felt disadvantaged by taking this route – if anything she was glad to be moving in less conservative circles. Having once been asked by some students conducting a survey whether her background was ‘Upper class, upper middle class, middle class, lower middle class, lower class,’ Oliver responded with out-rage and indignation, ‘Anybody ever heard of working class?’ She was glad for the more progressive opportunities that the graduate diploma offered. Despite being admitted as a solicitor and barrister to the Supreme Court of South Australia, Oliver did not begin her career there. Her then husband was offered a job in the Northern Territory and the opportunity to move into a jurisdiction that was rebuilding and developing was too good to refuse. She began her professional legal career in 1979 as a legal adviser to the Territory Government before moving to the North Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service. From there, she moved into further government work, including in the Office of the Deputy Crown Solicitor, the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and the office of the Australian Government Solicitor, before embarking on a career in academia. Oliver is a former legal academic with a Master of Laws from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, U.S.A. (1994). In 1998, after many years in teaching and administration in the Faculty of Business at the Northern Territory Institute on Technology, she was appointed the first Dean of the Faculty of Law, Business and Arts at what was then the newly restructured Northern Territory University. Subsequently she was Director of Legal Policy and Acting Executive Director of Legal Services in the Territory’s Department of Justice immediately prior to her appointment to the Bench in 2006. As an academic, her teaching areas included contract, employment law and defamation. As Director of Legal Policy she developed the Freedom of Information and Privacy legislation and the reform of the Criminal Code, including the reform of mandatory life sentencing. In recent years, Oliver has been managing magistrate of the Northern Territory Youth Justice Court in the Northern Territory. In this capacity she has been working with a variety of services towards building a better framework to enable the court and services like the Department of Children and Families and the Youth Justice Division of Corrections to communicate with each other and manage cases better. Information on young people in the system has been ‘siloed’ for years – ‘nobody’s talking but everybody’s got information’ – and she has been working on systems that share that information between services while protecting the rights and privacy of the young person. According to some youth justice advocates familiar with the Northern Territory, Oliver’s efforts with the Katherine youth court have been successful. Words like ‘holistic and ‘user-friendly’ have been used to describe the system. According to some advocates, ‘It’s less punitive’ with ‘less onerous bail conditions’, than past, and some present, court systems have been. In March 2007, Oliver was one of five women who presided over Darwin courts for the first time, the largest female jurist contingent ever to sit in one place in the Northern Territory, a noteworthy occasion indeed. Justice Sally Thomas, Chief Magistrate Jenny Blokland, Acting Magistrate Tanya Fong Lim and Magistrates Melanie Little and Sue Oliver were referred to as the “five sisters in law” in a report in the Northern Territory News and the journal of the Northern Territory Law Society. As well as acknowledging the experience and expertise the group of five possessed, the article noted that between them, there were eleven children, with Oliver mother to four of them. Maintaining work/life balance has involved constant juggling and even though opportunities for women to work in the legal profession have improved markedly over her time, Oliver can’t see anyway around the juggling. ‘I think the same challenges will always be there,’ she says. ‘You want an intellectual life for yourself. You want a career for yourself but you want to balance that against bringing up your children, giving them the things that they want and seeing them, you know, blossom into life. I can’t see that ever changes.’ With support, however, the juggling act is manageable. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Sue Oliver interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Her Honour Judge Sue Oliver Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "May Freeman was born into a privileged Geelong, Victoria, family. Her great and lifelong contribution to her local community was as a committed volunteer leader and member of community organisations. May was a Sunday School teacher, and was involved in the Guides and Brownies from their earliest days in 1925 until her death. She was a committee member of the Girls Unity Club, which provided education, recreation and support for Geelong’s working girls, and was a member of Rotary, the YWCA, the Red Cross, the Victoria League, The Royal Commonwealth Society Women’s Group and the Trefoil Guild. May Freeman attended The Hermitage (Geelong Church of England Grammar School). Her diaries, from 1917 to 1983, document the full attendant lifestyle of social calls, sports, and involvement at church. Upon leaving school at the end of 1918, she commenced work in an office, typing and preparing trial balances. She was a member of a number of recreational groups: her school’s Old Girls Association, and Reading Circle, as well as, in later years a Film Society. For six and a half decades, her diaries reflected her commitment to a large number of community organisations, primarily, but not exclusively, centred on the Girl Guides, the Presbyterian Church and the YWCA. She made a trip to England in 1936, to attend events hosted by the English patrons of the Guides. May never married, and died in September 1988, aged 88. Published resources CD ROM Federation Index, Victoria 1889-1901: Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages in Victoria, McBeth Genealogical Services/ Coherent Software Australia/The Crown in the State of Victoria, 1997 The Federation Index. Victoria 1889-1901, Victoria, Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1997, https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/index-search?action=getHistIdxSearchCriteria Microform Geelong Eastern Cemetery, Funeral Service Deceased Listings, Geelong Cemeteries Trust, 1996 Newspaper Geelong Advertiser 19-21 September 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Geelong Heritage Centre Geelong Girls Unity Club Geelong Kindergarten Girl Guides Company Girl Guides Association of Victoria. Aberdeen Street, Geelong, Vic. Branch Freeman, May - Collection Author Details Janet Butler Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lorna Sharp, born in Gnowangerup, Western Australia (1934), discusses her father’s experiences in WW1; her father being a ‘soldier settler’ and being allocated land at Jerramungup (1920); her mother and siblings; the farm and its buildings; the Depression; domestic hardships; her father’s death (1939); moving to Albany; schooling; WW2; moving to Kalgoorlie (1946); her and her family’s various employments; expected careers for girls; descriptions of Kalgoorlie; her mother’s death; nurse training at Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital; the facilities and her duties; waitressing; bookkeeping; women’s wages; widow’s pensions; marriage and children; her husband’s employments; accommodation; transport; domestic finances; self-sufficiency; alcoholism and gambling; domestic chores, tools and routine.??Sharp discusses entertaining friends; illness; studying to be a real estate agent; the real estate business and laws in Kalgoorlie at that time; being the first woman real estate officer in Kalgoorlie; her husband’s reaction to her work; buying properties; business difficulties; mentors; her relationship with the business community in Kalgoorlie; her current business and employees; women in real estate today; grief; the effect of the resources boom on Kalgoorlie; a description of Kalgoorlie and its inhabitants today; learning to drive; reflections on women in education and paid employment; completing an Accounting Degree; political involvement; her enjoyment of the real estate business Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 7 August 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Diane Beamer has represented Western Sydney at local and state government level and become a Minister of the Crown in New South Wales. As an ALP candidate she initially missed election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Badgery’s Creek in 1991, but was successful in 1995. She was re-elected in 1999, 2003 and 2007, but as Member for Mulgoa on the abolition of the Badgery Creek electorate. She left the Ministry following the 2007 election and retired at the 2011 election. Diane was also a Councillor in the Penrith City Council (1989-95), Penrith’s Deputy Mayor (1992-93) and Mayor (1993-94). Diane Beamer was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1995, having been a Penrith City Councillor for six years. From 1995 to 1999 she was a member of the Standing Committee on Public Works, and the Regulation review Committee. She was Temporary Chairman of Committees from 1999 to 2003. In 2003 she became a Minister, and has held the portfolios of Minister assisting the Minister for Infrastructure and Planning, Juvenile Justice. Prior to her election to Parliament, she was Electoral Officer for the Hon., John Brown, M.H.R. (then Minister for Sport and Tourism) from 1985-89. In 2005 she was the Minister for Fair Trading, Western Sydney and Minister assisting the Minister for Commerce in the Labor government led by Morris Iemma, MLA. Diane Beamer completed a BA at the University of Sydney and was married to Stephen Hutchins, then David Humphries. She has four daughters and two sons. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2003, De Micheli, Catherine and Herd, Margaret, 2003 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Thelma Metcalfe was president of the Australian National Council of Women from 1957 to1960. She also held office in a variety of other organisations, including as president of the NCW of NSW 1948-1960. During her term of office as national president, she stressed the importance of regional activism and work towards improving social and economic conditions, particularly for women in the Asia-Pacific area, most urgently in Papua New Guinea. Metcalfe’s presidency also saw ANCW attention directed towards redressing inequality issues relevant to women, varying education standards in Australia, the declining value of child endowment, and the financial hardships of deserted wives. In light of her extensive community involvement, an ANCW obituarist claimed she was regarded as ‘the best authority on the women’s organisations in NSW’. Thelma Constance Vagg was born on 10 September 1898 in Fitzroy, Melbourne, the daughter of Victorian-born parents Harry Vagg, farmer, and his wife Emily Anne, née Sallery. She was educated at Albury District School and the University of Sydney (BA, 1922; Dip. Ed. 1923). She taught languages in NSW public schools before marrying John Wallace Metcalfe, deputy principal librarian of the State Library of NSW, on 3 March 1934. She then accompanied him on a 6-month tour of libraries in the USA and Europe, for which he was funded by a Carnegie Corporation of New York travel grant, and thereafter worked with him in the Free Library Movement, a citizens’ group formed in 1935 to lobby for a system of public libraries to serve the needs of all the people. In November 1935, the Sydney Morning Herald published an article she wrote on ‘Andrew Carnegie: Father of Libraries’. Thelma remained John’s loyal supporter in his many library activities as deputy and principal state librarian, founder of the Australian Institute of Librarians (now Australian Library and Information Association) and director of the first university library school at the University of NSW. Thelma’s teaching experience, interest in languages and libraries, and her overseas travel fostered a commitment to education and international awareness that she brought to her leadership roles in the National Council of Women. Thelma Metcalfe was an office bearer in the NSW and/or Australian NCW for 40 years. In the NSW Council she was secretary (1941-1948) under Ruby Board’s presidency, then president (1948-1960), a regular delegate to ANCW from 1946, and state convenor for migration from 1962 until 1981. It was through her hard work and dedication as Council secretary in the war years that the Nutritional Advisory Council was set up in1942, and, in cooperation with president Ruby Board, she helped found the Housekeepers’ Emergency Service in 1943. Meals on Wheels in NSW began as a pilot project in the early 1950s, operating from a church in Newtown. Under the sponsorship of NCW NSW, led by Metcalfe, the program grew to become a statewide community service. She was also instrumental in establishing the Children’s Film Council in 1950 (later the NSW Council for Children’s Films and Television) and presided over it during her period as NCW NSW president. The Council provided valuable comment and guidance for parents in a period of rapid growth in the film and television industries. Metcalfe’s NCW and other work was acknowledged by an MBE awarded for community services in 1956. In 1970, NCW NSW marked her 30 years of service to the organisation with an honorary life vice-presidency. Metcalfe was elected to represent the Australian National Council of Women at the Jubilee Women’s Convention in 1951 and served as president of ANCW from 1957 to 1960, then as national convenor for migration 1962-1964. During her presidency, ANCW focused on redressing discrimination against married women in the workforce; increasing representation and participation of women in local, national and international forums; urging government ratification of the 1951 ILO convention on equal pay as well as putting its conditions into effect; lobbying state and federal governments for correlation of standards between state education systems; and agitating for measures to deal with the declining value of child endowment as well as the financial hardships of deserted wives. Metcalfe’s particular interest and expertise in migration saw her represent the ANCW at the 10th and 11th annual Citizenship Conventions in Canberra in 1959 and 1960, and on the National Executive Committee of World Refugee Year 1959-1960. In 1959, Thelma Metcalfe also represented the International Council of Women at the conference of the UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE, now Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific or ESCAP) held in Brisbane. This experience and her involvement in the Pan Pacific and Southeast Asian Women’s Association led her to stress the importance of regional activism and work towards improving social and economic conditions for women in the Asia-Pacific area. All Councils were especially urged to focus on education in Papua New Guinea. The final conference of Metcalfe’s ANCW presidency in 1960 saw discussion of the possibility of an ICW conference or executive meeting being held in Australia, or, alternatively, a regional conference. Metcalfe favoured the latter, believing it would gain government financial support in helping cement good relations with Asian countries. Although it did not eventuate during her presidency, an Asia-focused ICW seminar on International Understanding was held in Brisbane in 1964, with some support from the federal government, and the idea of a larger conference simmered in Council circles and came to fruition in an ICW regional conference on population issues in 1973, held in Sydney and supported financially by the UN and the Australian government. Thelma Metcalfe also held office in a great many other organisations, remaining active in most till her last illness. She was a long-term member and president of the Lyceum Club, a founding member and, later, president of the Good Neighbour Council of NSW, an early member of NSW Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association from its re-establishment in 1954 and its president from 1963 until 1968, and for many years the Council delegate to and vice-president of the NSW branch of the UN Association of Australia. She was also active in the British Drama League, the NSW committee for International Children’s Book Week and the Arts Council of Australia, NSW. She once remarked that she was the ‘best Annual Meeting attender in Australia’. Her NCW obituarist, Jean Arnot, wrote that Thelma Metcalfe would be remembered for her ‘significant work … in the cause of human welfare, for her perseverance, for her tolerance, for her good humour and for her great capacity for objectivity’. She died on 18 May 1984 at Emu Plains after suffering physical disability for some years. Events 1963 - 1968 Pan Pacific and S. E. Asia Women’s Association NSW Published resources Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1959, Alexander, Joseph. A, 1959 Resource Section Metcalfe, Thelma Constance (1898-1984), Jones, David. J., 2012, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/metcalfe-thelma-constance-15096/text26160 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 14 October 2013 Digital resources Title: Thelma Metcalfe Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Claudia Wright was a trailblazer for talkback radio in Melbourne, Victoria, in the 1970s. A committed feminist and fighter for social justice, she worked in print, radio and television journalism throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s until she was affected by the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Even when ill, she allowed herself to be the subject of documentaries that brought attention to the impact of the disease on patients and their carers. Claudia Wright resigned from Melbourne Radio Station 3AW, during an on-air broadcast, in February 1977, when she was at the peak of the Melbourne media ratings, and one of the two most widely listened-to radio broadcasters in Australia. (The other was John Laws of Sydney.) She announced there had been a campaign to sack her, and that she would rather resign in protest than tolerate the lack of support from the Macquarie network. The clash which led to her resignation began in late 1976, after a fiery run-in with the Macquarie network’s advertisers, ethnic and religious lobby groups, and a change of station manager, who was fearful of her role in controversial broadcasts relating to Catholic Church doctrine, the Arab-Israeli conflict, language acceptable for public broadcast, and other issues. In response to Bishop Fox of Sale’s denunciation of divorce, contraception, abortion and other ‘moral perversions’ at a Catholic women’s conference, Wright urged women in her radio and television broadcasts to fight back, criticising the ‘narrow views of the ‘antique Catholics’. The church fought back and Claudia, in particular, was targeted for special criticism due to what Father Patrick Murray of Drouin described as her use of ‘coarse speech and emotional screeching to talk down her opponents’. Pulpit sermons were ordered by the Church, calling on Catholic advertisers to withdraw their advertisements from 3AW. Following an on-air debate between Father Murray and Wright, mediated by John Tingle, which the station promoted to the hilt and which was one of the most highly rated broadcasts of the time, various sponsors threatened to withdraw their advertising. A number of controversial broadcasts followed, including one where she made satirical comments about Governor-general Sir John Kerr’s wife. She had broadcast and written acerbically about the “constitutional putsch” of November 1975, in which Kerr had dismissed the Labour Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Whitlam was one of Claudia’s long-time supporters, and he and many others joined the public protests that ensued, after the February 1977 resignation. Wright told the station manager to “fuck off” as she left the station-door. She wore her sacking as a badge of honour, later telling a journalist from the Melbourne Age that she regarded it as ‘…a compliment…a perverse recognition of my talent.’ Broadcasting in order to tell people how to ‘bake cakes and cut their chook’s toenails’ was simply not Claudia Wright’s scene. So what was Claudia Wright’s scene? The statement issued after her sacking by the Women’s Liberation Movement gives us more than a subtle hint. Calling for her reinstatement, the spokeswoman for the movement alleged that she was: ‘the latest in a long list of articulate women who had been robbed of their livelihood because they spoke the truth about women in society…for women everywhere who had not voice, Claudia was that voice.’ Claudia Wright’s ‘scene’ was to provide a platform for ‘the underdog’ to have her day. Whether it was convincing the Macquarie network management to broadcast live for twelve hours from the 1975 Women and Politics Conference in Canberra, highlighting concerns about East Timor in the mid 1970s, discussing such taboo subjects as incest and rape on prime-time radio, or using the word ‘cunt’ on air in a poetry reading and interview with Anne Summers about her new feminist history ‘Damned Whores and God’s Police’ ( an utterance ruled permissible by the broadcasting authority because it was ‘in context’), Claudia Wright was committed to creating radical news, in a responsible fashion. Off air, and without public fanfare, she met regularly with prisoners at Melbourne’s Pentridge prison; helped publicize women’s health and self-help organizations to deal with breast and cervical cancer, and marital violence; assisted the campaign for the “disappeared”, victims of the military junta in Argentina; supported the East Timorese refugee organizations; and assisted her home-town and its Chinese community. A product of her times, her journalism reflected the enormous social changes of the 1960s and 70s, especially as they impacted feminism and political life in Australia. And, as her good friend and former radio producer, Julie Copeland, said after her death in 2005: ‘There was no-one else quite like her – we got away with probably doing the most radical programs ever heard on commercial radio – I don’t think we’ll see her like again’. Claudia Wright was born in Bendigo in 1934. Of poor, multicultural stock (her grandmother was Chinese), she attended school in Bendigo and worked her way up the journalist ladder, her first foothold being a job with the local Bendigo paper. From there, she moved to the Melbourne Herald, and worked on the paper’s fashion and social pages, eventually taking on the role of editor of the Women’s Section. New to Melbourne society, she took great delight in critiquing the conduct, hypocrisies and corruption of some its members, especially the vice-regal pretensions of the Government House set. She hobnobbed with them at the Melbourne Cup, was great friends with some of the most influential among them, making writers as well as friends of some like Lilian Frank, despite their political differences. After creating a profile and public following at the Herald, she was ousted by Rupert Murdoch, the newspaper proprietor, after there were complaints that she was giving voice to causes that had not been publicized in the Melbourne media before. Murdoch then asked her to serve as a special reporter for the London wedding of the Prince of Wales and Princess Diana. She told Murdoch no, and excoriated him in public print for years. She remained on friendly terms, however, with Prince Charles. Thirty years later, she returned to attack Murdoch, and in one of the last acts of her life, as she was dying, she authorized a defamation suit against Murdoch’s paper, the London Times, for reporting, falsely, that she had been a Soviet spy. After leaving the Herald, she moved to join Melbourne radio station 3AW. One of a team of morning presenters that included radio stalwarts Ormsby Wilkins and Norman Banks, Claudia (or Claws as she was widely nicknamed) contributed to a program that consistently topped the morning ratings for many years. Listeners loved Claudia, or loved to hate her. In particular, they loved to tune in at 8:30 am to conversations/arguments between Norman Banks and Claudia. Although Banks did not conceal his public and personal animosity, Claudia did not reciprocate, and acknowledged privately that she felt sorry for Banks. Radio was never boring when Claudia was involved, because Claudia herself got bored easily, a characteristic that made her a challenge to produce for at times. Claudia asserted her feminist politics loudly and proudly; as indicated by the protests against her sacking, her position at the pulpit was greatly appreciated by the majority of feminists. There were some in the movement, however, who didn’t entirely approve of her because, despite her feminist credentials, Claudia committed the cardinal sin of attending to her appearance. Claudia was attractive, stylish and glamorous – she wore make-up, jewellery, and couture clothes. She saw no reason why maintaining appearance conflicted with feminist aims, and this sat uncomfortably with some feminists of the time. She was a career-long friend of Germaine Greer, and of US and UK leaders of the feminist movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Between her run-in with the Catholics and her resignation in 1977, Claudia travelled to the Middle East, where she reported sympathetically on the Palestinian position and interviewed Arab leaders, including Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, Yasser Arafat of the PLO, and leaders of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Oman, becoming one of the first western journalists to do so. She also interviewed prominent Israelis, such as General Moshe Dayan. At the time of her exit from 3AW in 1977, she was living with her husband, John Helmer, with whom she had a son, Catullus. She had two other children with first husband, journalist Geoffrey Wright. She moved to the United States, settling in Washington D.C., where she broadcast occasionally on National Public Radio, and was the Washington correspondent for New Statesman, for the French Catholic weekly, Temoignage Chretien, and for the leading Greek newspaper, Ta Nea. Her work was published in many of the leading US newspapers, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, as well as in the leading foreign policy journals of the US, including Foreign Affairs. She was honoured with the award of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at the US Smithsonian Institution. In 1983, although she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, she delayed a life-saving operation, in order to return to Melbourne at the invitation of 3AW, and present a series of 4-hour morning radio programs during the six-week summer season. She replaced presenter Derryn Hinch, who, out-rated, tried to sabotage her return. Her last active journalistic link with Australia was as Washington correspondent for Vogue. Her radical journalism resulted in her being accused of treason in the Australian Senate in the early 1980s, and then, in later years, in bizarre accusations about her being a spy for the Soviets. Her accuser, a KGB major, who was dismissed from his service for alcoholism, had been incensed when his superiors listened to tape-recordings, in which Claudia had told her husband of the agent’s attempt to grope her sexually at a restaurant in Moscow. On the tape, Claudia was heard to say that she had told the agent to “get that little thing out of me”. Published retractions and apologies in the UK and London put an end to the claims, until they were resurrected in the Times in January of 2005, when the newspaper was promoting a new book by one of its correspondents, and believed Claudia was dead, and therefore safe to libel. The two rounds of allegations came at a time when her ability to speak for herself about them was limited. In 1988, Claudia Wright was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease; she was just 54 at the time. Her treatment was aided by experimental drugs provided by her friend, the Prime Minister of Greece, Andreas Papandreou. She lived with the illness for another seventeen years. During that time, she was, characteristically, far from silent. Through the “Sixty Minutes” television programme, she organized the first ever-television documentaries in Australia to show what impact the disease was having on her, launching thereby a national campaign for funds to aid Alzheimer’s Disease research. That fund is ongoing at the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria. She also fought against the conditions of her hospitalization, and for the rights of institutional patients, taking to tribunal hearings the Presbyterian Church, which operated the centre where she spent her last decade, as well as the Victorian state Office of Public Advocate and the Guardianship and Administration Board, for mistreatment. Her claims were all dismissed. It was an unfair and unfitting last chapter for an incredibly fit woman with a powerful commitment to giving the unvoiced a voice. Her grave is in the village cemetery of White Hills, where her Chinese relatives also lie, outside Bendigo. A memorial service was held the week after her death, on February 5, 2005, at Como House, which was across the street from Claudia’s last Australian home, and over-looked the park where she would jog every morning. A film compilation by her son Catullus, including excerpts of the famous 1976 radio debate with the Catholic priest, was presented. Eulogies were given by London writers Greer and Scarthe Flett; Helmer; Copeland; and Frank. A death notice placed in the New York Times on February 3rd 2005 in a few well chosen words told the world exactly what Claudia Wright’s scene was: ‘She wrote, she fought, she loved.’ Events 1960 - 1990 Published resources Resource Vale Claudia Wright, ABC Radio Overnights Program, 2005, http://www.abc.net.au/overnights/stories/s1299213.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Documentary Film Alzheimer's and Claudia Wright, Alec Hodgkinson, 1999 Claudia, Jeff McMullen, 1990 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources State Library of Victoria Claudia Wright interviewing Mr John Kaputin, Port Moresby, New Guinea [picture] National Film and Sound Archive A Current Affair. 1975.09.19 National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Claudia Wright, journalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 November 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 7 minutes??A collection of eight interviews conducted by pairs of Year 5 students at Seymour College Junior School as part of their school work during 1988. The interviews were entered in ‘Voices of the Past: An Oral History Award for Schools’ which was organised for the first time in 1988 by the Oral History Association of Australia (South Australian Branch). The interviews concern old scholars’ recollections of Presbyterian Girls’ College (now Seymour College) during their school days. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound tape reels (ca. 81 min.)??Hyde speaks of her career as a composer, poet and songwriter ; the importance of music in her family environment ; her musical studies ; her method of work when committing music to paper ; her piano piece “Humoresque” ; publishing her three booklets of verse ; the meaning of music to her. Hyde reads her poems: “To the waves”, “Rain in Rome”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "As a writer and editor, Peg Job contributed to a number of Australian newspapers and magazines. She published on subjects ranging from human rights to travel and literary criticism, and produced short stories, poetry and one novel, The Dying. From Latin America to Braidwood via Narrabundah and from writer and editor to marriage celebrant, in Peg Job’s life of variety her commitment to community has remained a constant. Graduating from the University of New South Wales in 1989 with a PhD in Latin American literature, Job was so struck by the kind welcome she received from her Narrabundah neighbours on her arrival in the suburb in 1990 she paid tribute to it in ‘In Praise of Narrabundah’, a short story in the 1992 collection Stories of the Inner South.[1] Working to earn enough money during this period – as a columnist for the Canberra Times, a freelance reviewer and an adult-education coordinator – Peg Job’s true needs were to read, think and write: ‘A good book – which in my case is most commonly a novel – is a way of grappling with the meaning in life, with the essence of being human. What could be a more important responsibility for a thoughtful citizen than pursuing these questions?’.[2] As a contributor to numerous Australian newspapers and magazines, she has published in a number of genres: literary criticism, human rights, travel writing, a novel The Dying, short stories, and has even tried her hand at poetry written in Spanish. Her love of literature and a move to Braidwood, 109 kilometres east of Canberra, was manifested in the opening of ‘Peg’s Books’ on Monkittee Street in 1997. While ‘Peg’s Books’ suffered an early demise due to the introduction of GST on books in 2000, Job’s involvement with books and writing has continued. As Editor with the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) Peg Job currently produces their journal Dialogue and various Academy publications. The Academy is an autonomous, non-governmental organisation devoted to the advancement of knowledge and research in the social sciences. Peg Job’s commitment to social and community betterment is demonstrated by her endorsement of the Wellbeing Manifesto that takes as its starting point the belief that governments in Australia should be devoted to improving our individual and social wellbeing. As an inhabitant of Braidwood, a township which has been classified by the National Trust in its entirety, Peg Job is well able to exercise her passion for creating inclusive and active communities. Activities such as belonging to the a capella group Madrigala, and acting as a qualified civil marriage celebrant enable her to embrace the communion of life and love in a rural township. This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Peg Job passed away in 2017. Published resources Book The Dying, Job, Peg, 1986 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Women's Redress Press - book files, 1976-1996, including correspondence, contracts, readers' reports, reviews and photographs Author Details Roslyn Russell Created 25 May 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Acc05.066 instalment comprises photocopies of letters to Wilcher from Miriam Hyde, 1972-2004 (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A Greens senator and environmental activist, Kerry Nettle first attempted to enter politics in 1999 when she contested the New South Wales Legislative Assembly election for Miranda. In 2001 she was elected as Senator for New South Wales, taking her seat on 1 July 2002. She is an active member of a great many Senate committees and is a member of the Senate Select Committee on the Administration of Indigenous Affairs since 2004. Within the Greens party, Kerry Nettle has been a delegate to the State Council and the National Council from 1999 and was a delegate from Australia to the Greens Global Conference in 2001. Kerry Nettle has spent most of her adult life in the cause of improving the environment. She completed a B.Sc. (Hons) at the University of New South wales and was their Student Guild Environment officer in 1996. She became Co-ordinator of the Public Transport Conference 1997-98 and was the Greens office co-ordinator in 1998-9, when she ran for the seat of Miranda. In 1999-2000 she worked as a youth worker and co-ordinated the campaign Stop the Women’s Jail. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 1 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "5 cassettes (ca. 450 min.)?? Walker, dance director, administrator and choreographer, speaks on her childhood in Bendigo and Eaglehawk; dance class with Edouard Borovansky; work producing, directing and choregraphing for New Theatre; Berlin Peace Arts Festival, 1951; visit to U.S.S.R.; Aboriginal dance; dance for children; her adopted children; teaching folkdance at the Roseville Dance Centre; touring schools with the Company Dance Concert; the administration of Dance Concert Ltd. And Walker’s sacking from the company; and subsequent involvement with the Margaret Walker Dance Centre and dance camps at Narrabeen, N.S.W. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "25 minutes??Dorothy Angove talks about her childhood in Semaphore and Perth, her parents, trip to Europe in 1905, BA degree from University of Adelaide, marriage, children and being left a widow, teaching at St Peters College and Girton, 1939 became President of the Lyceum Club, helping Jewish graduate refugees, teaching at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital, Dr Barnado’s Homes Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Our Gladys Moncrieff/Music by Edith Harrhy. Words by Humby Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Subject files; posters; diaries; day books; newspaper cuttings; minutes; newsletters; broadsheets; correspondence; surveys; public forum papers; political surveys; tapes. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 sound discs (CD-R), 12 digital audio tapes (ca. 742 min.). Interviews conducted by Peter Cochrane (Tapes 1-7); Katherine West (Tape 8); Frances Thiele (Tapes 9-14).??Ms Clarke, granddaughter of Alfred Deakin, speaks about Melbourne society in the early 1900s; her early memories of her grandfather Alfred Deakin (Australia’s 2nd Prime Minister); her travels to America in the 1920s with her family when her father Herbert Brookes was appointed Commissioner-General to the U.S.A.; her interests in music; her work as a social worker in Port Melbourne, Vic. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 November 2003 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 9153 comprises about 7,000 files relating to the exhibition and sale of artworks. Separate files exist for each artist or exhibition. They contain correspondence with the artist and with other galleries and clients, draft and published catalogues, invitations, guest lists, price lists, sale documents, loan agreements, insurance arrangements, newspaper clippings and reviews, photographic prints and slides of artwork (186 boxes, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The St Peters Women’s Community Centre was officially opened in 1977 and provides a meeting place for women. The women’s services they provide included a term by term program of activities for women. There is also a volunteer program for women to learn new skills as a step to paid employment. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 18 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Primarily flyers with some programmes of plays, musicals, pantomimes, opera and ballet held in venues such as Criterion Theatre, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Theatre Royal (Melbourne, Sydney), Palace Theatre. Also includes venues in Brisbane and New Zealand. Touring companies include J.C. Williamson’s Dramatic Co., Prince of Pilsen Co., New English Musical Comedy Co., Grand Opera Co., New Musical Comedy Co., Quinlan Grand Opera Co., Imperial Russian Ballet, Gilbert and Sullivan Repertoire Co., Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Co. The artists include Tittell Brune, H.B. Irving, Charles Waldron, Ola Humphrey, Margaret Anglin, Carrie Moore, Nellie Steward, Muriel Starr, Florence Young, Marie Tempest, Oscar Asche, John D. O’Hara, M.B. Figman, Fred Niblo, Adeline Genee, Julius Knight, Adams and Waters, Barry Lupino.??Includes programmes to the Melbourne (Sept. 1913) and Sydney (Oct.-Dec. 1913) seasons of the complete Ring of the Nibelung.?”Boomerang by Winchell Smith”: v.3, p. 83.?”Sign of the Cross by Wilson Barrett”: v., p. 15, 64 ; v.3, p. 92, 113 ; v.4, p. 223.?Includes six programmes of Dame Judith Anderson’s early career under the name Francee Anderson: v.3, p. 90-92, 97, 110, 113.?Gladys Moncrieff appears with the Royal Comic Opera Co.: v.4, p. 192, 207, 214, 232, 234, 235, 246, 255, 265, 274, 289, 299.?Amy Castles appears in opera: v.1 ; v.4, p. 236, 237, 242-245, 247, 249, 258-259, 261.?”Digger-Pierrots”: v.4, p. 262-263.?Includes flyers to the Melba Grand Opera Season, 1911: v.1, p. 126-132 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 20 May 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. 1942-08-03. Group portrait of a number of WAAAF officers who attended the first annual conference of WAAAF staff officers held at No. 1 Training Group HQ, Grimwale House, Merton Hall, South Yarra. The conference was opened by the Air Member for Personnel, Air Commodore F. W. Lukes (centre) and presided over by the Director WAAAF, Group Officer Clare Stevenson (standing, third from left). Seated on the left (in drab uniform) is Squadron Officer Gwen Stark who had travelled from Townsville for the conference. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1943-1, MEMBERS OF THE FIRST WRANS OFFICER TRAINING CORPS. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, BACK ROW: CHIEF WELLS (INSTRUCTOR), MARION EGAN, JEAN THOMPSON, MARY BUTLER, MARGARET CURTIS-OTTER, SHEILA MACCLEMANS, BLAIR WILLIAMS-BOWDEN, JOAN FURLEY, NANCY SPIER, CHIEF HARDING, FRONT ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: LORNA BRADFORD, BETTY BRADFORD, JOYCE MEDCALFE, JOAN COWIE, COMMANDER BALDWIN, COMMANDER PHELP, FRANCES PROVAN, EDNA GOULSTON, ALICE GOULD, THELMA FENTON. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 February 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Diary recording Bonney’s participation in the search for a crashed Stinson aircraft in Queensland in 1937. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Philippa Poole is the grand daughter of Ethel Turner who complied The Diaries of Ethel Turner in 1979. Philippa Poole was the daughter of Betty Carr and Sir Adrian H F Curlewis. Married to Adrian she was the mother of two sons and two daughters. Published resources Book The Diaries of Ethel Turner, Poole, Philippa (compiled by), 1979 Of Love and War: The Letters and Diaries of Captain Adrian Curlewis and His Family 1939-1945, Poole, Philippa, 1982 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Philippa Poole, author, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 October 2001 Last modified 13 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret McIntyre was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for services to education on 1 January 1948. She was the first woman Member of Parliament in Tasmania and was killed in an air crash three months after being elected to the Legislative Council seat of Cornwall as an independent. The daughter of Tannatt William Edgeworth and Caroline Martha David, Margaret McIntyre was educated by her mother and a governess. She attended the University of Sydney and in 1907 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. She married William Keverall McIntyre in 1908 and moved to Tasmania. They had four children. Margaret McIntyre became involved with community work – especially helping women develop a sense of self-worth. She was state commissioner of the Girl Guides (1940-1948), and vice-president of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) and the Anzac Hostel Women’s League of Remembrance. McIntyre became the first northern president of the Women Graduates’ Association, served on the board of the Queen Victoria Hospital, the Community Association Council and the ABC advisory committee. Involved with the Launceston Progressive Education Group and the establishment of Brooks Community School, McIntyre established a youth drama group and was president and producer of the Launceston Players. Awarded an OBE on 1 January 1948 for services to education, in that year McIntyre also became the first woman in Tasmanian Parliament when she was elected to represent the people of the electorate of Cornwall in the Legislative Council. Three months after being elected she died in an air-crash whilst returning from a National Council of Women Conference. Published resources Resource Section McIntyre, Margaret Edgeworth (1886-1948), Ferrall, R.A., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150746b.htm Margaret Edgeworth McIntyre, http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/csr/information_and_resources/significant_tasmanian_women/significant_tasmanian_women_-_research_listing/margaret_edgeworth_mcintyre Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Guide to the Papers of the David Family, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-340662829/findingaid Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Book No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Margaret McIntyre, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of the David family, 1823-1992 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents: 1st 1940-2nd 1941; 4th 1943-13th 1952; 15th 1954; 17th 1956; 19th 1958; 21st 1960-47th 1986. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 October 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Army Nursing Service Reserve was established in 1899 and attached to the New South Wales Army Medical Corps. This was the first official female army nurses’ organisation in the Australian colonies. Nurse Nellie Gould was appointed lady superintendent of the Reserve. On the 17 January 1900 Nurse Gould left with thirteen nursing sisters to serve in the Boer War as part of the British Army. The nursing contingent returned to Australia in 1902. The Reserve was replaced by the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), that was formed post Federation. New South Wales Army Medical Corps attached to Imperial Draft Contingent – Roll of individuals entitled to the South Africa Medal and Clasps: Gould, Ellen Julia – Lady Superintendent Johnstone, Julia Bligh – Superintendent Austin, Anne – Sister Frater, Penelope – Sister Garden, Anna Gardiner – Sister Hoadley, Emily – Sister Lister, Elizabeth Ward – Sister Martin, Marion Philippe – Sister Matchett, Annie L – Sister Newton, Nancy – Sister Nixon, Elizabeth – Sister Pocock, Mary Annie – Sister Steel, Mabel – Sister Woodward, Theresa E – Sister Published resources Book Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999, Reid, Richard, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Various Locations Nominal rolls and lists of medals and clasps for New South Wales Military Forces who served in Boer War Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Informal portrait of three nurses who accompanied the Second Contingent to the Boer War as members of the NSW Army Medical Corps. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 December 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Nancye Perry’s records cover all aspects of her life, from her education and scientific career, to her later life as an artist and her interest in dog training. The collection includes a large quantity of correspondence with family members, friends and colleagues in England and her husband. Nancy also conducted detailed research on her family lineage, and there are extensive records about the Leahy and Kent family lines in particular, including photos and copies of shipping records. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 28 December 2017 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Sherryl Garbutt was elected to the seat of Greensborough in 1989 at a by-election following the death of Pauline Toner; the seat of Greensborough was abolished in the 1990 redistribution. She was the Member (ALP) of Parliament for the Bundoora electorate from 1992-2006 and held the portfolios of Environment and Conservation and Women’s Affairs from 1999-2002 and Community Services from 2002-06. She did not contest the 2006 election. Sherryl Garbutt completed her BA and DipEd at the University of Melbourne and her B.Ed. at La Trobe University. She worked as a secondary school teacher (1970 -1976) before she went to work as an Electorate Officer to the Hon. Pauline Toner, Member for Greensborough, in 1982. She was elected to the seat of Greensborough in 1989 at a by-election following the death of Pauline Toner. After winning the Greensborough by-election, Garbutt became a member of the Education Caucus Committee and the Conservation and Environment Caucus Committee from 1989-92. She was also a member of the Natural Resources & Environment Parliamentary Committee (1991-1992) and the Community Development Committee (1992-1996). In 1992 Garbutt became the Shadow Minister for Community Services and a year later the Shadow Minister for Women’s Affairs. She held both these positions until 1996 when she was made Shadow Minister for Environment, Conservation & Land Management and Shadow Minister for Water Resources from 1996-1999. The mother of two adult children, her interests include bushwalking, camping and travel. Events 2016 - 2016 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Minister for Women's Affairs, http://www.women.vic.gov.au/owa/owasite.nsf/pages/minister Sherryl Garbutt, MP Member for Bundoora, http://home.vicnet.au/~archa/garbutt/profile.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 October 2001 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 60 min.)??Price, a farmer and rural journalist, speaks of her farming background, career in rural journalism, running her own rural publicity business, impact of having children, local networks, being accepted in a male-dominated industry, the children’s educational prospects, virtues of family farms versus farms managed for a wage, and her currently limited social life. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The bulk of the MS 7365 collection comprises papers relating to Sara Dowse’s work as a writer, including research material, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and drafts of her novels, reviews and short stories. There are papers relating to her work as head of the Office of Women’s Affairs, papers relating to grant applications, and personal correspondence with family and friends. There are extensive files on West Block, Canberra tales, Schemetime and Silver city, and also on the National Women’s Advisory Council, Australian Labor Party, and Australian National Word Festival (150 boxes).??The Acc08.112 instalment comprises draft chapters of the unpublished manuscript “Bessarabia” based on a visit to Russia and Moldova in 1993; three poems, two unpublished, “The lady in the spoon” published in The Canberra times?; drafts and photocopies of articles by Dowse; and, articles about Dowse (1 box).??The Acc08.120 instalment comprises drafts and research material for articles, essays, stories, speeches and an unpublished novel. There are also papers associated with Dowse’s chairmanship of the judging panel for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2006, and correspondence (2 boxes).??The Acc08.149 instalment comprises 19 boxes of 3.5 inch floppy disks, including, in various forms email correspondence; early drafts of Schemetime, Sapphires, Digging, and Reading the Peninsula; current and “backburner” projects – Liza book/s, Hollywood essays, “Path to Fortune” thriller, Van der Velde novel; essays, stories, APA project, lectures, poetry, book reviews; transcripts of Russian, Israeli and US interviews; visual images. Two audio cassettes: one containing a recording of an interview of Dowse by Margaret Throsby, the other a recording of a talk given by dissident Chinese Dai Qing to Canberra PEN (1 box).??The Acc09.180 instalment comprises papers reflecting Dowse’s career as a writer. They comprise diaries, correspondence, notes, research notes, newspaper cuttings, photographs and drafts of her writing, including fiction, biography, articles and early and unpublished stories. There are papers relating to a National Library of Australia Harold White Fellowship, grant and job applications, conferences and public appearances, and personal correspondence with family and friends. Literary papers include extensive files relating to a biography of Lisa Fitch; drafts of Hollywood, Sass, Border crossing, Sapphires and Fleeting; and, scripts of West Block. Some of these titles are accompanied by written comments from members of the Seven Writers’ group (also known as “The Canberra Seven”) and Penny Pollitt (14 boxes). Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 October 2000 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Commonwealth Games medallist and Olympian Jenny Donnet comes from a family of champion divers. Her mother, Barbara Donnet (née McAulay), is a former Commonwealth Games gold medallist, and both parents worked as Olympic diving coaches. Her sister, Barbi Donnet, is a diving coach and a World Masters triple Gold medallist and Australian champion. Today the family run the Donnet Diving Club in Queensland. Jenny Donnet is the only Australian diver to have competed in four Olympic Games. Her Olympic debut was in 1980 at the Moscow Olympic Games. She went on to represent Australia in the 1984 Los Angeles Games, the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games and the 1992 Barcelona Games. She was the flag bearer for Australia at the Opening Ceremony in Barcelona, only the third Australian woman to have had the honour. In 1982, Donnet won gold in the 3m springboard diving event at the Commonwealth Games. She won silver in 1986, and gold in 1990. Several decades earlier, in 1954, Donnet’s mother Barbara won a silver medal in the same event and a gold for the 10m platform dive. Today Jenny is a diving coach and is president of the Australian Masters Association. She has coached 2 World Masters medallists; 9 national championship medallists; 41 national level divers; and 20 Victorian championship medallists. Events 1982 - 1982 Diving – Springboard 1990 - 1990 Diving – 3m Springboard Published resources Book The Making of Champions, Bryceson, S., 1992 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 17 January 2007 Last modified 27 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dorothy Roche became Australia’s oldest gold medal winner when she competed in the women’s fours at the Auckland Commonwealth Games at the age of 61 years and 10 months. Dorothy Roche took up competitive lawn bowls in 1975 when she was nearly fifty years of age. In 1979, she won the Champion of Champions (singles) competition and the Alpha Romeo Sport-Star of the Year. In 1984 she played a round-robin match with Merle Richardson against the leading male players, beating world champion David Bryant. Throughout her career, Roche won a State-level game every year. In 1988 she was captain of the gold medal-winning team at the Melbourne World Championships. Two years later she competed in the women’s fours in Bowls at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games and won gold, becoming Australia’s oldest gold medal winner. That year, Roche was granted the ‘Freedom of the City of Paramatta’ and was awarded the OAM for services to lawn bowls. Events 1990 - 1990 Lawn Bowls – Fours Published resources Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 January 2007 Last modified 5 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kate Howarde, born Catherine Clarissa Jones in England and migrating to New Zealand as a child, was the first woman to direct a feature film in Australia. She married the musician William Henry de Saxe in April 1884 and their only child, Florence Adrienne, was born not long after on 5 December 1884. William Henry de Saxe left soon after Florence was born and died c.1899. Catherine de Saxe adopted the stage name Kate Howarde in the 1890s. By the late 1890s, her theatre production company, the Kate Howarde Company was based in Australia and was reported to be extensively touring through New Zealand and all Australian States. In addition to managing the tours, Howarde controlled all finances, wrote and directed many of the performances, songs and pantomimes and performed herself. Her biggest success was the comedy Possum Paddock (1919). Written, produced and presented by Howarde, the play told the story of the financial and romantic problems of a bush family. The success of the play convinced Howarde to turn the play into a film which she starred in, produced, co-scripted and co-directed with Charles Villiers. This made her the first woman in Australia to direct a feature film. Australian censors removed a scene from the film in which an unmarried mother imagines drowning her baby. The film was released in Sydney on 29 January 1921 and was well received throughout Australia and New Zealand. The Kate Howarde Company included Kate’s two younger brothers and one of her two sisters. Her brother Billie Howarde and brother-in-law Harry Craig ran the company when she travelled overseas. Howarde travelled to San Francisco in 1906 and made a living writing theatre reviews for newspapers. She then travelled to London, where, it is reported, she married her second husband, vaudevillian Elton Black. Between 1914 and 1917, the Kate Howarde Company presented successful weekly shows at the National Theatre, Balmain, Sydney. These shows included her own productions The White Slave Traffic (1914) and Why Girls Leave Home (1914). Howarde’s biggest success was the comedy Possum Paddock (1919). Written, produced and presented by Howarde, the play told the story of the financial and romantic problems of a bush family. The success of the play convinced Howarde to turn the play into a film which she starred in, produced, co-scripted and co-directed with Charles Villiers. This made her the first woman in Australia to direct a feature film. Australian censors removed a scene from the film in which an unmarried mother imagines drowning her baby. The film was released in Sydney on 29 January 1921 and was well received throughout Australia and New Zealand. The success of Possum Paddock financed a ten month tour for the entire company throughout South Africa, the United States and Great Britain. Upon the company’s return to Australia, Howarde made no further films, however continued to tour with her theatrical company and continued to write her own plays. These plays include the comedy Gum Tree Gully (1924), and the dramatic works The Limit (1921), The Bush Outlaw (1923), Find Me A Wife (1923), Common Humanity (1927) and The Judgment of Jean Calvert (1935). Howarde died 18 February 1939 from cerebral thrombosis. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Celebrating Kate Howarde, Bertrand, Ina, 2002, http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/22/howarde/ Resource Section Howarde, Catherine Clarissa (Kate) (1864-1939), Bertrand, Ina, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10235b.htm Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive Possum Paddock : Original Release [Howarde, Kate : Documentation] : [Howarde, Kate : Set of 22 Negatives] [Howarde, Kate : Two frames showing two people talking to a couple in a car : Film fragment] Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Interview with Iris Clayton about the Police Reserve settlement at Darlington Point ca. 1950 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Alannah Croom Created 16 April 2019 Last modified 13 June 2019 Digital resources Title: Girls prefer soccer Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A.B. Higgins to A. Henry, 23 April 1908 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 September 2015 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 audiocassettes (approximately 155 min.)??Broadcast on ABC’s Sunday Night Radio Two on 26 June 1977.??Interviews:?- Mary Edgeworth-David, daughter of the famous scientist and Antarctic explorer?- Edna Ryan, long time feminist, union activist and author?- Arthur Ellis, plumber?- Shirley Smith (MumShirl), welfare worker for Sydney’s Aboriginal community?- Herbie Marks, piano accordion player. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Edna Walling is best known for her contribution to Australian landscape architecture design. She was also a talented amateur photographer, and used the many photographs of gardens she took to illustrate the books and articles she wrote. Walling also created portrait photography. Edna Walling was born on 4 December 1896 in Yorkshire, England, and was the second daughter of William and Margaret Walling. Her father was a businessman, who had been keen on having a son; when Edna was born he was disappointed on having another daughter. He treated her as he would a son, involving her in exploring the countryside around Devonshire and woodworking. In 1911, when Walling was 14 years old, the family moved to New Zealand. Shortly after this relocation her father travelled to Australia on his own, and in 1914 the whole family joined him there. From 1916-1917 Walling trained at Burnley Horticultural College; following this she gained employment as a gardener, and eventually commenced a career as a landscape designer. She designed gardens for some of Melbourne’s wealthiest families, such as those owned by Dame Nellie Melba, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, Mrs Harold Darling, Sir Clive and Lady Steele and Sir William and Lady Irvine, many of whom had large country properties in the Western District of Victoria and the Riverina in New South Wales. Her landscape designs followed the English tradition and were influenced by the work of Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson. Walling photographed these gardens as a means of documenting her work, and she used these photographs in her illustrated books on gardens, and to complement the many articles she wrote. She also worked as a journalist, writing for a number of magazines, including Australian Home Beautiful, as well as for many newspapers on gardening and landscape design. She produced numerous illustrated books – Gardens in Australia (1943), Cottage and Garden in Australia (1947), A Gardener’s Log (1948) and The Australian Roadside (1952). These titles featured her drawings, garden plans and photographs. She also designed and built her own house at Mooroolbark, east of Melbourne, which she called Sonning. The house was burned down during the 1936 fires, but she rebuilt it and purchased more land to create the Bickleigh Vale village on 18 acres. In 1948 she purchased a property near Lorne on the Great Ocean Road, on which she built a cottage. Walling wrote about this property in The Happiest Days of My Life. During her lifetime Walling designed a number of villages but unfortunately few were built. In 1967 she moved to Queensland, settling in Bendles, at Buderim, where she designed an Italian inspired village (but was not able to build it due to her advancing age). Walling died on 8 August 1973 in Queensland. Technical Edna Walling used a Rolleiflex camera with a twin lens and worked in black and white. Collections Edna Walling Collection, State Library of Victoria Private Collections Content added for original entry in the Register, last modified 4 May 2009 The Walling family lived in the village of Bickleigh, Devon, before migrating to New Zealand, and then to Australia in 1914. In Bickleigh, Edna Walling’s father William had trained his daughter in woodwork and honed her skills in perspective and scale. Father and daughter also enjoyed walking together through the English countryside. Walling’s future garden designs were to reflect elements of this countryside, and of the various English gardens they visited. After completing a course in horticulture at Burnley College in 1917, Walling commenced work as a jobbing gardener. In 1921 she purchased three acres of land at Mooroolbark and built her first home from local and second hand materials. This home was named Sonning after Gertrude Jekyll’s Deanery Garden of the same name, which she had visited in England. In 1922 Walling purchased a further 18 acres of land adjacent to Sonning. The houses she built became the village of Bickleigh Vale. Between the 1920s and 1960s Walling’s commissions included designing the lily pond for Coombe Cottage, Dame Nellie Melba’s residence in Coldstream, Vic.; Durrol for Mrs Stanley Allen, Mount Macedon, Vic.; and the Cruden Farm garden for Mrs Keith Murdoch (now Dame Elisabeth), Langwarrin, Vic. She also undertook commissions in Hobart, Tasmania, and designed villages at Port Pirie, South Australia (never completed) and Mount Kembla, New South Wales, for Broken Hill Associated Smelters Pty Ltd. During this period Walling wrote four books: Gardens in Australia (1943), Cottage and Garden in Australia (1947), A Gardener’s Log (1948) and The Australian Roadside (1952). She wrote articles for The Australian Women’s Mirror, The Australian Home Builder and The Australian Home Beautiful. In a letter held by the State Library of Victoria’s Edna Walling Collection (La Trobe Australian Manuscripts), Walling declines an invitation to join the Australian Society of Authors by saying: ‘Actually, you know, I am not a writer. I merely made a record of the work I had done, which the Oxford University Press published. I also wrote The Australian Roadside as my contribution to conservation work of this country… The books were only achieved through the great help of my teacher friend, Miss Lorna Fielden, without whose assistance I doubt if they would ever have seen the light of day. And so, much as I appreciate the honour you have bestowed on me I don’t really think I have any right to be counted amongst the illustrious names appearing in your Society’ Walling’s ABC Radio talks include On Making a Garden (1941), Improving the Farm and Curing Erosion and The Farmers’ Friends (1951). In 1967, Walling moved to a cottage – ‘Bendles’ – at Buderim, Queensland. She died there in 1973. Events 1995 - 1995 Edna Walling’s work featured in Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women’s Art in the National Library Collections 1995 - 1995 Edna Walling’s work featured in The Living Sculptures of Edna Walling Published resources Book Gardens in Australia: their design and care, Walling, Edna, 1943 Cottage and garden in Australia, Walling, Edna, 1947 The Australian roadside, Walling, Edna, 1952 Country roads : the Australian roadside, Walling, Edna, 1985 Edna Walling's year, 1990 Letters to garden lovers, Walling, Edna, 2000 On the trail of Australian wildflowers, Walling, Edna, c1984 The vision of Edna Walling : garden plans 1920-1951, Dixon, Trisha and Churchill, Jennie, 1998 Gardens in Time : In the Footsteps of Edna Walling, Dixon, Trisha and Churchill, Jennie, 1988 Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 The Happiest Days of My Life, Walling, Edna, 2008 Edited Book The Edna Walling book of Australian garden design, Barrett, Margaret, 1980 The garden magic of Edna Walling, Barrett, Margaret, 1988 A gardener's log, Barrett, Margaret, 1985 Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Resource The Edna Walling Website, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Cinemedia, State Library of Victoria, 2001, http://www.abc.net.au/walling Edna Walling, Landscape Designer, Gardening Australia, 2000, http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s147137.htm Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women's Art in the National Library's Collection, Carr, Sylvia and National Library of Australia, 1995, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/36337/20030703-0000/www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fence/picket.html The Markdale Experience, http://www.markdale.com Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Edna Walling, 1995, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/edna-walling/ Walling, Edna Margaret (1895-1973), Watts, Peter, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160566b.htm Book Section Edna Walling, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Play Edna for the garden, Spunner, Suzanne, 1989 Newspaper Article Mooroolbark village given heritage protection, Boulton, Martin, 2004 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of Victoria Exchange of correspondence and accounts, 1937 Feb. 5-Aug. 14. [manuscript]. Papers, 1962-1970. [manuscript]. Papers, 1937-1964 [manuscript]. Papers of Jean Galbraith, 1900-1990. [manuscript]. [Edna Walling: Australian Art and Artists file] Papers, ca. 1940-ca. 1970. [manuscript]. The University of Melbourne Archives Cuming Smith & Company Limited University of Melbourne. Photograph Collection National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Edna Walling, architect, and horticulturalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Ephemera Collection [Walling, Edna: photography related ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 19 September 2001 Last modified 17 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Country Women’s Association of Australia was founded on 7 June 1945. Delegates from the six State Country Women’s Associations, voted to form the national body. The purpose of the newly-formed body was to: “enable Country Women’s Associations throughout Australia to speak with one voice on all national matters, more especially concerning the welfare of country women and children”. The first state branch of the organisation had been formed in New South Wales in 1922. All other mainland states followed suit by 1928 with the Tasmanian branch being founded in 1936. It is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group working in the interests of women and children in rural areas. Given its national scope, large membership and longevity, it was arguably the most influential Australian women’s organisation of the twentieth century. As of 2004, the Association comprises44,000 members and 1855 branches. It is the largest women’s organization in Australia. A national federation of the existing Australian state-based Country Women’s Associations was first proposed in 1928. Discussion continued the following year with the formation of the first international rural women’s organisation-the Associated Country Women of the World. But the state organisations were wary of losing their independence and identity to a national body. These fears and problems were resolved during several wartime meetings and the Country Women’s Association of Australia was officially founded in 1945. It was agreed that the federal body would consult with all state organisations on issues of policy and that the presidency, and annual national conference, would rotate between the states. The foundation president was Mrs Helen Marfell, then the Victorian state president. In each state, numerous local branches formed in rural areas, and metropolitan branches were also formed. There were considerable differences between the various state branches in terms of their activities and priorities. The National body, however, allowed concerted action on issues on which there was general consensus. The CWA is a generally conservative organisation with an almost exclusively white membership. Historically, it was, however, also a progressive force in many ways. Particularly in its encouragement of country women to take an active part in public affairs. It has also been outspoken on environmental issues. As early as 1936, for example, the NSW branch passed a resolution in favour of equal pay for women. Although advocating a greater public role for country women, the organisation also in many ways defended traditional gender roles. Early issues which attracted the attention of the national body in the 1940s included: the provision of basic utilities in rural areas; provision of home nursing; married women’s right to retain their own nationality; the introduction of domestic science into the university curriculum. More recent concerns have been rural poverty and unemployment, and strengthening rural families. As of 2004, its aims are ‘to improve the conditions for country women and children and try to make life better for women and their families, especially those women in rural and remote Australia.’ Its functions are: 1. To enable the Member Associations to speak with one voice on national and international matters through the National President. 2. To represent the concerns of Member Associations to the federal Government, Non-Government Organisations (NGO’S) and other national bodies. 3. To do such lawful things as are incidental or conducive to the above aims or any one of them, as considered necessary or desirable by the required majority of Member Associations. And its aims and objectives are: TO RAISE the standard of living of rural women and families through education, training and community development programmes. TO PROVIDE practical support to its members and help them set up income generating schemes. TO GIVE rural women a voice at international level through its links with UN agencies. Given its national scope, large membership and longevity, it was arguably the most influential Australian women’s organisation of the twentieth century. The organisation flourished in the years after WWII when many other urban women’s groups went into decline. It is only in recent years that its position has become somewhat less secure-with the emergence of other rural women’s organisations. Nevertheless, as of 2004, the Associated Country Women of the World (with which the Country Women’s Association of Australia is affiliated) is the largest international organisation for rural women in the world with around nine million members across 70 countries. Published resources Edited Book Directory of Australian Associations, Heywood, Anne, 1998 Book The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Getting things done : the Country Women's Association of Australia, Country Women's Association of Australia, 1986 She's no milkmaid : a biography of Dame Raigh Roe, D.B.E., Erickson, Rica, Haywood, Rona and Oldham, Jan (sketches by), [1991?] Finding Aid Guide to the Records of the Country Women's Association of Australia, National Library of Australia. Manuscript Section, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-245100431/findingaid Report Life has Never Been Easy: report of the survey of women in rural Australia / Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Office of the Status of Women and the Country Women's Association of Australia, 1988 Book Section A view of the Australian consumer movement from the middle of the Web, Brown, Robin and Panetta, Jane, 2000 Journal Article Second wave feminism in rural Australia. -The main elements and characteristics of the rural women's movement of the 1990s-, McGowan, Cathy, 1997 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dame Raigh Roe interviewed by Gail O'Hanlon in the Australians of the year oral history project [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Country Women's Association of Australia, 1945-1969, 2003 [manuscript] State Library of Victoria The Country Women's Association [sound recording] : Australia's largest women's organisation / researched and presented by Ros Bowden Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 25 October 2002 Last modified 27 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound cassettes (ca. 60 min.)??Paterson, a farmer and 1994 Tasmanian ABC Rural Woman of the Year, speaks of her historical farming background, the family’s links to Pearn’s Steam World, type of crops and livestock on the current farm, her considerable involvement with the local (and growing) AGFEST, importance of rural Australia, bridging the city/country gap with education, difficulties facing Australian farmers (low margins, high costs and taxes), hopes for her daughters, changes in the rural sector, the contribution to be made by women, and the opportunities presented by the Rural Women of the Year Award. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Comprises illustrated autobiographical notes of Mary Grant Bruce and Ernestine Hill Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 October 2003 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Nancy Wake Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 10127 comprises diaries, papers, silver tray and poster relating to Maude Bonney’s life and aviation career, including her pioneering Australia-England flight, and involvement in the search for the missing Stinson aircraft (7 boxes, 2 fol. Boxes, 1 fol. Item).??The Acc13.070 instalment comprises photographs of Maude Bonney and an interview on tape made by the Powerhouse Museum, of Maude Bonney at 90 years of age talking about her flying experiences before World War II (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Tipping speaks of her family background ; her childhood interests ; her diaries ; her interest in theatre ; university studies and involvement with the Fine Art Society ; her marriage and work during the war years ; getting back into civilian life ; her husband’s work as a journalist ; going to the U.S. ; about her mentally handicapped child ; the studies undertaken in the U.S. ; working on a book about convicts ; her interests in Australian history. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In March 2000, the National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) established the Australian Women’s Archives Project (AWAP) in order to support the preservation of Australian women’s archival resources. The project is a joint venture with the University of Melbourne, with staff in the School of Historical Studies providing assistance in the area of historical research, and the eScholarship Research centre providing technical innovation and support. AWAP is now an authoritative resource for information on women and their roles in Australia’s history. The activities of the AWAP include: Conducting original research and compiling information about women’s history Making that information available on the web through the Australian Women’s Register. Celebrating groups of women including sportswomen, migrants, scientists and parliamentarians in the AWAP Showcase. Encouraging Australian women and women’s organisations to discover and preserve their stories by depositing their records in archives and libraries for the use of further generations. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Australian Women's Archives Project, 2001-2012 [manuscript] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 13 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Army swimming championships for Allied Forces stationed at Port Moresby. Identified personnel: Rasmussen of Richmond Victoria, Hyde of Enfield, NSW, Major Joan Christie of Dubbo. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lily Agnes Smith completed a science course at the University of Queensland in 1919. Her scores qualified her for medicine at the University of Sydney. Instead, she moved to Melbourne so she could simultaneously study medicine at the University of Melbourne, and art at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School. Months shy of completing her medical degree, she married fellow art student Justus Jörgensen, and the pair immediately moved to France to live the bohemian life of artists. She became ill while travelling and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The pair moved again, this time to London, so Jörgensen could complete her medical studies. She enrolled at the London School of Medicine for Women in 1926. Jörgensen was to be the bread-winner, allowing Justus to concentrate on his art. In 1928 they returned to Australia. Jörgensen secured an anaesthetist’s position at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital in 1929, becoming the hospital’s first woman anaesthetist. A severe relapse of multiple sclerosis saw her resign in 1933. She moved into private practice, closer to home, with a focus on contraception and psychoanalysis. In supporting her husband’s art practice, Dr Lily Jörgensen also supported the building and development of Australia’s oldest artists’ colony, Montsalvat. Author Details Monica Cronin with Alannah Croom Created 3 March 2019 Last modified 6 July 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Minute Book, 8 September 1987-6 March 1990 .. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 38 min.)??Kearney, a , dairy farmer, is a regional winner of the 1994 Rural Woman Award and speaks of her background, joining a religious order in 1961, starting the dairy farm in a very difficult period caught between the drought of the 1980s, the high interest rates and the fall of the price of milk, getting unemployment benefits, looking after the crops, sharing the dairy farming duties, involvement of her husband in the United Dairyfarmers of Victoria (UDV), keeping up with ongoing education, financial difficulties and its consequences and the rapid growth of the rural counselling network. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Professor Patricia Easteal AM PhD is an academic, author and advocate, best known for her research, publications and teaching in the area of women and the law. Her primary research areas are: rape law, domestic violence, sexual harassment, bullying in the workplace, cyber bullying and access to justice for women. She was the Australian Capital Territory’s Australian of the Year for 2010. Professor Easteal was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2001 and 2010. Professor Easteal was born and educated first in Canada and then the United States earning her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and coming to Australia in 1987. From 1990 to 1995 she was a Senior Criminologist with the Australian Institute of Criminology and from 1995 to 2001 a Visiting Scholar at the Australian National University. She then joined the Law School at the University of Canberra becoming a Professor in 2009 and Emeritius Professor in 2018. Professor Easteal has published 24 books and reports and over 180 journal articles and book chapters. Her authored and edited books include Rape Law in Context: Contesting the Scales of Injustice (2018), A Multidisciplinary Approach to Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: Prevention, Recognition and Intervention (2017), Domestic and Sexual Violence Against Women – Law Reform and Society: Shades of Grey (2014), Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Survivor Support and System Change (2014), Women and the Law in Australia (2010), Real Rape, Real Pain: Help for Women Sexually Assaulted by Male Partners (2006), Less Than Equal: Women and the Australian Legal System (2001), Balancing the Scales: Rape, Law Reform and Australian Culture (1998), Shattered Dreams, Marital Violence Against Women: The Overseas-born in Australia (1996), Voices of the Survivors (1994) and Killing the Beloved: Homicide between Adult Sexual Intimates (1993). In 2010 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia ‘for service to the community, education and the law through promoting awareness and understanding of violence against women, discrimination and access to justice for minority groups’ and she was ACT Australian of the Year in 2010. Other recognition for Professor Easteal’s work includes the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for Teaching Excellence in 2008, the Carrick Institute Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2007, Finalist in the Community Award (Individual) Australian Human Rights Commission 2012, the ACT Women’s Honour Roll 2012 and an ACT Women’s Award 2001. She runs Legal Light Bulbs, a consultancy business, which illuminates social injustice and opportunities for change. It specialises in violence against women, workplace abuse and access to justice and provides research, training and expert court reports. Published resources Australian of the Year Awards website, https://australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/professor-patricia-easteal Book review cuttings on the works of Patricia Easteal 1993-98, National Library of Australia Author Details Sue Tongue Created 25 April 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Family papers 1869-1913; correspondence; invitations; cards; photographs; newspaper clippings; map of Paris and environs; publications on sketching and art i.e. “The Studio” 1899, “Art Journal” 1876, “The Studio” 1918; miscellaneous artist material including sketchbooks, Austral Handwork packets, “How to Draw Animated Cartoons”. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Art Bulletin of Victoria, No. 28. National Gallery of Victoria 1987, pp. 135, accompanied by covering letter form Sonia Dean, Editor and Principal Curator, to F.S., 31 May 1988. The issue was published in Dr. Hoff’s honour, and contains, inter alia, a bibliography of her publications. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Josephine Zammit emigrated to Australia from Malta with her husband Charles in 1952. In the late 1960s the couple became Australian representatives of the Malta Emigrants’ Commission and Josephine became involved in radio broadcasting as part of her welfare work with migrants. She was a pioneer of ethnic station 2EA in Sydney and continued her active involvement with ethnic radio broadcasting until the mid-1980s. In 1978 she was awarded an MBE in the ‘ethnic community’ category, the first Maltese woman in Australia to be honoured in that way. Josephine Darmenia was born into a middle class family of six children in St Julian’s, Malta, on 6 August 1925. Axis bombing of Malta’s south-east coastal cities led to the children’s evacuation inland. After the War, she became a school teacher and in 1947 married Charles Zammit, of Hamrun, who ran a building company. Josephine Zammit (nee Darmenia), MBE, emigrated to Australia from Malta with her husband Charles in 1952. In the late 1960s they became Australian representatives of the Malta Emigrants’ Commission and Josephine became involved in radio broadcasting as part of her welfare work with migrants. In the 1960s, she was involved with the Malta Single Young Women’s Scheme which assisted young women travelling alone in their settlement in Sydney and Melbourne. Her Maltese broadcasts in Sydney began in 1971 with station 2CH, run by the NSW Council of Churches. During the Whitlam government years, with ethnic radio now supported by government, she was a pioneer of ethnic station 2EA and continued her active involvement with such broadcasting until the mid-1980s. A woman of immense energy and perseverance, in the early 1970s, she established the Maltese-Australian Women’s Association and later the Maltese-Australian Social and Welfare Association. She was a foundation member of the NSW Ethnic Communities Council and the NSW Ethnic Consultative Council which later became the NSW Ethnic Affairs Commission. In 1978 she was awarded an MBE in the ‘ethnic community’ category, the first Maltese woman in Australia to be honoured in that way. While personally socially conservative and a devout Catholic, Josephine was typical of the new Maltese women after the War who did not want to be tied to the home. Her faith and her mother’s example of kindness and joviality led her to devote herself in Sydney to the service of newcomers in need. She died in Sydney on 14 May 1988. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Josephine Zammit, 1964-1985 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Josephine Zammit, Maltese community worker, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Barry York Created 16 January 2018 Last modified 31 August 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dorothy Dickson left Australia in 1949 and made a career in the British film industry under her stage name, Dorothy Alison. She won two BAFTA awards (1952 and 1956) and one Logie award for her role in the film version of A Town Like Alice (1981). Dorothy was the daughter of William Edward Dickson and Alice Cogan. William had migrated to Australia from Lancashire, United Kingdom, at the age of 20. He found work at the South Mine in Broken Hill, but left the mine during the 1919 strike. William and Alice were married in 1922 and William worked for a time at the Barrier Daily Truth before moving to Sydney as Advertising Manager for the Daily News. He was elected to the Legislative Council in 1939. Dorothy was the elder sister of Beth, Wendy and Marion – two other siblings died in infancy. As a child she took dancing lessons in Broken Hill and took part in theatrical productions. Once in Sydney, she trained with Doris Fitton of the Independent Theatre. Finding employment in commercial radio, she changed her name to Dorothy Alison. After working for film producers Charles and Elsa Chauvel, she appeared in two Australian films, Sons of Matthew and Eureka Stockade. In 1949 she left Australia for London, but found little work until 1952 when she played Miss Stockton in Mandy, earning herself a BAFTA award for Most Promising Newcomer. She won a second BAFTA – for Best British Actress – four years later for her role as Nurse Brace in Reach for the Sky. Subsequently, Dorothy’s career encompassed film, television and stage productions. She returned to Australia in 1986 and toured with Lauren Bacall in Sweet Bird of Youth. The link with Australia continued, and Dorothy won the 1982 Logie Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Single Drama or Mini Series for her role as Mrs Frith in A Town Like Alice. In 1988 she starred opposite Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain’s mother in Evil Angels (or, A Cry in the Dark). Dorothy Alison’s full filmography can be found on the Internet Movie Database at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0019704/. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Alison, Dorothy (actor) : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 16 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, articles, cards, photographs, publications, typescripts, manuscripts, booklets, notebooks, diaries, theatre programmes, agendas, constitutions, minutes, reports, receipts, accounts, legislation, research material, notes, press statements, propaganda, submissions, tapes, posters, plans, family history, map, Aboriginal flag.??Bulk of papers from 1961 to 1982.??This collection may contain culturally sensitive words or descriptions, some of which might not normally be used in certain public or community contexts. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 January 2010 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nina Bills wrote the social page and the women’s page for Broken Hill’s Barrier Daily Truth in the 1930s. Nina Bills was the daughter of Albert Henry Bills and Hilda L’Estelle (nee Nankiville). She had one sister, Winsome Francis, and two brothers, Gordon Henry and Alan Maynard. Gordon contracted diphtheria at the age of seven and passed away in 1913. Nina had her own brush with serious illness when she contracted polio at the age of two. She continued to use a walking stick most of her life. Nina was educated at Broken Hill High School before moving to Adelaide to attend the Presbyterian Ladies’ College, and finally Adelaide University. On her return to Broken Hill she became a journalist for the Barrier Daily Truth, and wrote the regular social page under the pen name ‘L’Estelle’. She reported on many and varied social events including the Movie Star look-a-like competition. Nina also produced the weekly page for women, covering engagements, weddings, births, fashions and art. She broadcast on subjects of local interest at the ABC (2NB) radio station on Friday mornings. In the late 1930s, Nina and her sister Winsome opened a florist shop, Thelma, but closed in 1941 when Winsome was expecting her first child. Nina married James Robert Adam on 12 March 1943 at the Broken Hill Registry Office. They had two children: Jeanette Margaret (born 1947) and James Alexander (born 1949). Events 1930 - Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Roslyn Watson is an Aboriginal Australian ballet dancer and choreographer of international renown. Born in Brisbane of Biri descent, she has danced in a number of Australian companies since beginning her career in the early 1970s. She has danced internationally, and with international companies, including the prestigious Dance Theatre of Harlem. Roslyn Watson was born in 1954 in Brisbane, of Biri descent. She commenced classical ballet training at the age of twelve in Brisbane. In 1969, she was awarded an Abstudy grant and entered the Australian Ballet School, Melbourne, where she studied under Kathleen Gorham. After graduating in 1972, she joined the Dance Theatre of New South Wales (later the Sydney Dance Company) and, having moved to New York, the following year she danced with the prestigious, all-black Dance Theatre of Harlem. Returning to Brisbane in 1975, Roslyn danced with the Queensland Ballet for three years before joining the Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) in Adelaide. She subsequently toured Southeast Asia and Europe with the ADT, and performed with the company at the Edinburgh Festival in 1980. Leaving the ADT in late 1981, she took up a tutoring position at the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre in Sydney. She went to Paris in 1982, and after mastering the language, she formed her own dance group, Company Brolga, which performed Images of Our Dreaming, which Roslyn herself had choreographed. She returned to Brisbane in 1987 and has appeared in a variety of shows and has worked as a choreographer. In 1991, she established the Murri Dance Theatre in Brisbane, and in 1993 she worked on the production of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ballet, titled Green Butterfly . Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Book Murawina : Australian women of high achievement, Roberta Sykes ; photography by Sandy Edwards, 1993 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Nikki Henningham Created 20 September 2004 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kathleen Deasey was appointed assistant-controller Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS), Southern Command in November 1941. Prior to joining the AWAS, Deasey was lady superintendent at Melbourne’s Ladies College, Melbourne. Following World War II, Deasey worked with the Department of Immigration, after which she studied at the Sorbonne, Paris. Later Deasey returned to teaching and was a senior tutor in education at the University of Melbourne and then became Principal of St Ann’s College, University of Adelaide. The second of six children to Anglican clergyman, Rev. Denis Murrell and Maude Williamson (née Watt) Deasey, Kathleen was educated at Geelong Church of England Girls’ Grammar School. She obtained a BA (1931), MA (1933) and DipEd (1935) from the University of Melbourne, and a BA (1937) and MA (1946) from Newham College, Cambridge. She taught at Frensham, Mittagong, NSW and became lady superintendent at Methodist Ladies College (Melbourne). In November 1941 Deasey was appointed assistant-controller, Southern Command and was promoted to Major on 28 January 1942. Initially she established the service’s structure in Victoria and then supervised the enlistment and training of recruits. In May 1943 she was transferred to First Army Headquarters, Toowoomba, Queensland as assistant-controller and later to the Australian Army Chaplains’ Department, Land Headquarters, Melbourne. In 1944 the Chaplains’ Department published, Readings and Prayers for Members of the Army Women’s Services, a booklet that Deasey compiled. After the war she represented the Australian Women’s Army Service at the Victory march in London (1946) and then returned to Australia and drafted a history of the Service. After being discharged from the army Deasey worked with the Department of Immigration, spent time studying at the Sorbonne, Paris, followed by administering an agency sponsorship scheme for the World Council of Churches. From 1960 to 1961 she was a senior tutor in education at the University of Melbourne and then became Principal of St Ann’s College, University of Adelaide, until 1966. Returning to Melbourne in 1967, she joined the staff of Larnook Domestic Arts Teachers’ College, Armadale. Kathleen Deasey, who never married, died on 6 September 1968 and was buried in Boroondara cemetery, Kew. Published resources Resource Section DEASEY, MAUDE KATHLEEN, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=604369 Deasey, Maude Kathleen, MacIntyre, Eileen (1909-1968), 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130671b.htm Book Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 A History of the Lyceum Club Melbourne, Gillison, Joan M, 1975 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office Deasey, M K Maj - appointment as LC between AA Ch D and Australian Army women's services National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra DEASEY MAUDE KATHLEEN : Service Number - V345001 : Date of birth - 26 May 1909 : Place of birth - MELBOURNE : Place of enlistment - MELBOURNE VIC : Next of Kin - DEASEY D National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on M. Kathleen Deasey, college principal, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Honours and Awards - Recommendations for New Year Honours List 1946 General Sir Thomas Blamey inspects units of the Australian Women's Army Service at their headquarters Major Deasey sewing on a victory contingent colour patch for Private Frank John Partridge VC, on board HMAS Shropshire Major M. K. Deasey, Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) Portrait of Major Kathleen Deasey who in November 1941 was appointed Assistant Controller in Victoria of the Australian Womens' Army Service. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 December 2002 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Major Kathleen Deasey Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, 1936-2002; appointment diaries; research notes; slides; postcards.??These items have been recorded on the finding aid at 1986.0059 – please refer to that finding aid to identify the correct unit/s. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Working documents and copies of minutes and committee papers of bodies on which Ms Berger served. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "HMAS KUTTABUL, SYDNEY, 1946-05-17. GROUP PHOTOGRAPH OF PERSONNEL AT HMAS KUTTABUL. FIRST ROW: (SEATED) FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, PETTY OFFICER IDA WILSON, LIEUTENANT COMMANDER HEWISH, PETTY OFFICER FRANCES ALLSOP, COMMANDER SHAW, PETTY OFFICER GAIL FRECHER. SECOND ROW: FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, WRITER DENISE SHIELDS, WRITER PAMELA MORRIS, WRITER JUNE JORDAN, UNKNOWN, UNKNOWN, WRITER BETTY WILLIAMS, WRITER LESLIE SIMMONS. BACK ROW: FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, UNKNOWN, WRITER JOAN ROACHE, UNKNOWN, WRITER RUTH RAMMAGE. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL.) first formed in Victoria, 1972. Conducted on a voluntary, non-profit basis, the W.E.L is a political pressure group that seeks to remove the economic and social disadvantages of women in Australia, to end discrimination against women and to promote equal opportunity. The W.E.L was constituted with a double purpose – to carry to the elected representatives of the community the views and requirements of female electors and to inform those female electors about their representatives’ standard of consciousness of women’s issues. Since 1972, W.E.L. activities have diversified around the central lobby theme. Sexual harassment, birth control and abortion, child care, parental benefits and child abuse, family law and women in jail, domestic violence, emergency housing, women’s health (including mental health), offensive advertising and pornography, education and employment, environmental concerns, the rights of Indigenous women and religion are some of the areas addressed by W.E.L. As well as a large body of members, monthly newsletters and annual National Conferences, many ad hoc action groups were developed including environmental, law, media, health, women in detention, women in education and the dangers of gambling. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women's Electoral Lobby (S.A.) : SUMMARY RECORD Papers of the Migrant and Indigenous Women Action Group Papers relating to the Women's Information Switchboard (later the Women's Information Service) Author Details Robin Secomb and Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 13 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Liz Dawson trained and worked as a speech therapist and teacher and her early social activism related to school education. Later in life, she lobbied through the organisation Common Ground to provide permanent, safe and supported homes for the homeless and for low-income families in Canberra. She was nominated as Canberran of the Year and ACT Local Hero in 2012 and was awarded an Order of Australia Medal ‘for her tireless work providing for homeless individuals and their families’ in the Queen’s Birthday honours in 2013. Liz Dawson was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2014. Elizabeth (Liz) Dawson was born on 28 May 1936, the daughter of Olga Mary (nee Barton) secretary and later newsagent, and David Francis Lewis, a judge in the New South Wales District and Quarter Sessions courts. Educated at a private boarding school in Tamworth NSW and later at Ascham school, Sydney, she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at Sydney University and a Licentiate of the Australian College of Speech Therapy in 1958. She worked as a children’s speech therapist in Brisbane. Following her marriage to Peter Dawson on 8 June 1963 at St John’s Anglican Church, Balmain, she moved to Canberra where she worked in the Commonwealth Public Service. She accompanied her husband to Indonesia when he was appointed Trade Commissioner and to his next posting in Kenya. The couple returned to Canberra in 1969 with their two daughters, Julie and Kate, where their third daughter, Sophie, was born. Liz’s life reflected her passion for social justice, education and gender equity. After graduating with a Diploma of Education from the University of Canberra in the mid 1970s, she became a primary school teacher and in 1997 was awarded a Master of Education from that university. She and Peter became involved as parents in the Association for Modern Education School. Operating in Canberra from 1972 to 1996, the independent, progressive school encouraged students to develop their individual talents rather than following a set curriculum. In 1989 she received an ACT Government Achievement Award for her innovative work as a teacher at Duffy Primary School and for promoting gender equity in education. Active in the ACT Teacher’s Federation and the Labor Party, of which she was a life member, Liz initiated a political campaign to have class sizes in the ACT reduced to 20 at the kindergarten level, a policy later adopted by the Labor Party and extended to all ACT primary schools. In 1990 Elizabeth joined the Public Service Commission as its Women’s Advisor. She subsequently worked in the Department of Education until her retirement in 2005. In the early 2000s she completed a Graduate Diploma in Community Counselling at the University of Canberra, while working part time at Marymead, a support agency for families, and at a women’s refuge. This experience made her determined to support homeless people. As an employee of the Salvation Army, she initiated and developed a dental support program for pensioners amd arranged for Canberra hairdresser, Angelo Cataldo, to provide free haircuts to clients to boost self-esteem. Despite undergoing bouts of chemotherapy for bowel cancer from December 2010, and blindness suddenly brought on by temporal arteritis in March 2011, Elizabeth remained undaunted in her social activism. She was nominated as Canberran of the Year and ACT Local Hero in 2012 and was awarded an Order of Australia Medal ‘for her tireless work providing for homeless individuals and their families’ in the Queen’s Birthday honours in 2013. Her name was inscribed on the ACT Honour Walk in 2014. Elizabeth tirelessly lobbied the ACT Government to establish permanent, safe and supported homes for the homeless and low paid workers in the ACT, such as those first established by Common Ground in New York in 1980. Similar centres were already operating in Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide. She gained support from the Snow Foundation and from Tanya Plibersek, Federal Minister for Housing in the first Rudd government. A persistent lobbyist, Liz observed: ‘The great thing about having terminal cancer is no one ever says no to you’. Common Ground ultimately received a $4 million grant from the Commonwealth and a further $7.5 million from the ACT government, enabling it to build 40 secure, self-contained, one-bedroom apartments in Gungahlin. Twenty apartments were for people who had experienced chronic homelessness, the remainder reserved for people on low incomes. The complex opened on 3 July 2015. Elizabeth worked with the Gungahlin Community Council to enhance community support for the project and promote better understanding of homelessness. She obtained funding from the Thyne Reid Foundation to make three films featuring local homeless people, each launched by Andrew Leigh, ACT Labor Member of the House of Representatives. Elizabeth used her experience of blindness to help fellow Canberrans with visual impairment. She formed a drumming group, The Groves, served on the Board of the Blind Society and in 2014, with the aid of her daughter Kate, published a book, Where is my left eyebrow?: Losing my eyesight overnight that described her battle with cancer and gave practical tips to people with impaired vision. Elizabeth died on 16 November 2014, survived by her husband, daughters and six grandchildren. In his tribute, read in the House of Representatives on 27 November 2014, Andrew Leigh remarked: ‘Liz was just a firecracker for change … She saw that parliamentarians were not to be feared but were to be used’. The Chief Minister of the ACT, Katy Gallagher, described her as a friend and the Member for Canberra in the House of Representatives, Gai Brodtmann, said in her speech to Parliament: ‘Liz inspires us to be the best we can be. To act on disadvantage. To better contribute to our community’. Published resources ACT Honour Walk, ACT Australia's Local Hero Nominee 2012, https://www.communityservices.act.gov.au/women/awards/act-womens-honour-roll/2014/elizabeth-dawson Queens Birthday honours 2013, 2013, https://the-riotact.com/queens-birthday-honours-2013/106843 In Memory of Elizabeth Dawson, 2014, https://andrewleigh.com Elizabeth Dawson with Kate Dawson, Where is my left eyebrow? Losing my eyesight overnight, 2014 Hansard, Statements by Members, Statement by the Hon Gai Brodtmann MP re Dawson, Ms Liz OAM, 2014 Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 25 April 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 60 min.)??Thiele, a farmer and 1994 ABC Rural Woman of the Year, speaks of farming background, her supportive family, love of the water (skiing, sailing, etc.), education at Waikerie High School and Roseworthy Agricultural College, teaching agricultural science, farming life and its advantages, pressures on rural families, sheep farming, the mouse plague, rural stereotypes, a “typical day”, achievements, overseas travels, and being awarded the inaugural ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Melbourne Exhibition Certificates; Buchanan & Nodrum 1880-1881; U.S newspapers 1906 reporting the San Francisco earthquake; theatre posters and programmes 1906. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "May Victoria Brown was a miner, publican and business woman who played a pivotal role in the Northern Territories social and economic development, particularly in the areas mining industry. She was a flamboyant and outspoken woman who led a very colourful life. May Brown made her first trip to the Northern Territory in June 1890, where she helped her sister and brother-in-law run the Terminus Hotel in Darwin. She made several visits to the Territory between then and 1901, when she married George Seale, a former Australian amateur boxing champion. May and George had their first and only child George in 1902. Her husband died in March 1906 after suffering from pleuro-pneumonia for seven weeks. A little over six months later, May married James Burns, one of the partners in the rich Wolfram Camp mine near Pine Creek in the Norther Territory. May and George arrived in the Territory in January 1907. Their wealth from the mine enabled May to travel regularly and widely. May helped her husband work the mine and eventually the pair bought out their partner. In 1912 James died from alcoholism and May inherited everything. However, within seven months of James’ death, May married Charles Albert ‘Bert’ Brown. With the outbreak of the First World War the demand for wolfram increased rapidly, as did the price of May’s mine. By 1916 it was acknowledged as the richest mine of its kind in Australia, at a value of 20,000 pounds. May helped the war effort in many ways; she joined the Red Cross and helped raise much-needed funds. Mining from Wolfram Hill had virtually ceased by July 1919 and in need of an income to support her extravagant lifestyle, May turned to the hotel trade. She won the lease of Darwin’s Hotel Victoria when the Gilruth administration had ended its hold on the hotel trade in 1921. In 1926 Hotel Victoria was offered to Christina Gordon, who obliged but also transferred her lease on the Playford Hotel in Pine Creek on to May. In the same year, her beloved Bert died of malaria in Queensland. Unfortunately May was reckless with her money and by 1934 she was in great financial trouble, with her extravagant lifestyle and the Great Depression both taking their toll. By February she was forced to forfeit both her Wolfram Hill and Crest of the Wave Mines for ‘non-payment of rent and non-compliance of labour conditions’. May eventually moved to Sydney and on 23 July 1939 she passed away, virtually penniless. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Manuscripts of, and papers relating to, the publication of the book, “Ludwig Becker: artist and naturalist with the Burke and Wills Expedition ” by Marjorie Tipping. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Berlin, Germany. June 1946. Pictured, left to right, foreground: A Petty Officer of the RAN; Squadron Leader P. Swan DFC; Flight Lieutenant P. Coffey DFC, RAAF; Major Joan L. Christie, Australian Army Medical Women’s Service, and Squadron Officer Doris Carter, Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Diary of Miss Ina Higgins, 1933. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 September 2015 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A collection of photographs taken at the site of the old Cootamundra Girls Home. Collection includes internal and external views of buildings as used by current occupants (Bimbadeen College) as well as derelict sections and artefacts dating from the 1940’s. Photo portraits of some former residents are also included.??Peter Kabaila; deposited 29 September 1994 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Methodist Order of Deaconesses was established in 1942 as a result of the inability of the Methodist Church in Australia to implement the principle affirmed at the General Conference in 1929 that women who believed that they were called by God to a wider (professional) ministry in the Church than was available to them at that time, could offer as candidates for the ministry under the same regulations as men. Its establishment led to marked changes in the opportunities available to women in the life of the church. Significantly, it offered structure, support and status for women’s ministry by providing a professional pathway. It created opportunities for women’s ministry at home, not just in international mission fields. By helping to create a context whereby men and women worked together, it enabled the Methodist Church to come to the view that women had a place in the ordained ministry. The idea of establishing a Deaconess Order in South Australia was mooted as early at 1922 by the Reverend John Pearce, superintendent of the Home Mission Department. The 1935 General Conference decisions to establish such as order found a most enthusiastic supporter in Kate Cocks, who was well known in South Australia as an advocate on behalf of women and children’s rights and welfare. A study trip to New Zealand to investigate the work of Deaconesses in that country convinced her of the need for a similar organisation in South Australia. Her recommendations were endorsed at the Annual Conference in 1937. Although the outbreak of war delayed further decisions, it also highlighted the need for women’s ministry and a training institute to support it, as women rushed to fill the gaps left by men who went off to fight. But in 1942, the order was established. Published resources Booklet A History of the Methodist Deaconess Order in South Australia, Hancock, Bethany, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 August 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "In 1990, the Australian Bowls Council (now Bowls Australia Inc.), the national administrative body for men’s bowling, was affiliated with 2,225 clubs. The Australian Women’s Bowling Council was parallel, with 2,185 affiliated clubs. By the late 1990s, Australia could boast 43% of the world’s bowling population. Popular in Britain, bowls was introduced to Australia for male members of the colonial elite in the nineteenth century. Public greens were formed beside hotels, with membership fees introduced later to control the clientele – the respectability of the sport was constantly emphasised. Private clubs developed early, and the first recorded game took place at Sandy Bay, Tasmania, in 1845. In 1864, the Melbourne Bowling Club in Chapel Street became Australia’s first formalised club. Women had been bowling at Stawell in Victoria since 1881 and a ladies’ tournament was organised there in 1896. The Colac Club was set up by eight women in 1899, but later became a men’s club, and on the whole the sport of lawn bowls was a white male-dominated scene until the twentieth century. The Fitzroy Club’s invitation to the Aboriginal cricket team to play in 1866 was an anomaly. After Australia’s first interstate match between New South Wales and Victoria in 1880, those two States established their own Bowling Associations. Associations were likewise formed in Western Australia in 1898; South Australia in 1902; Tasmania in 1901 and Queensland in 1903. All States amalgamated to form the Australian Bowls Council in 1911. The Australian Women’s Bowling Council was formed much later, in 1947, and the first Women’s National Championship was held in 1949. The first World Bowls Championships were held at Kyeemagh Bowls Club in New South Wales in 1966. Published resources Book Lawn bowls: the Australian way, Pollard, Jack, 1962 The first one hundred years of the Royal Victorian Bowls Association 1880-1980, Henshaw, John, 1979 Centenary: the history of the Royal New South Wales Bowling Association, 1880-1980, Guiney, Cyril, 1980 The first fifty years: a brief history of the growth and development of the Queensland Ladies' Bowling Association, 1930 to 1980, Morelle, Lettie, 1980 Bowls west: a centenary history of the Royal Western Australian Bowling Association, 1898-1998, McDonald, Gilbert, 1998 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Archival resources National Library of Australia Annual report / Federal District Women's Bowling Association Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 January 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Digital resources Title: Lawn Bowling ASC AOZ Active Australia Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Vivian Bullwinkel was the sole survivor of the 1942 Banka Island massacre. Post-war, she was Matron of Melbourne’s Fairfield Hospital. Vivian Bullwinkel grew up in Broken Hill, New South Wales, and Adelaide, South Australia. Her father had migrated to Australia from Essex in 1912 and worked as a jackaroo on a station near Broken Hill before he married and took on a clerical post with Broken Hill South Pty Ltd. Vivian’s grandfather was William John Shegog, a member of the South Australian Police Force. At the age of nine, she moved to Adelaide to live with her grandparents but returned to attend Broken Hill High School when she was thirteen. In 1934 she began nursing and midwife training at the Broken Hill and District Hospital. From February 1939 she was working at the Kia-Ora Hospital in Hamilton, Victoria, but moved to Melbourne to enlist at the outbreak of war and worked for a time at the Jessie MacPherson Hospital. In May 1941, Bullwinkel volunteered for the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and sailed for Singapore, assigned to the 2/13th Australian General Hospital. In February 1942, she boarded the SS Vyner Brooke with 65 other nurses to flee Singapore following an invasion by Japanese troops, but the ship was sunk by Japanese aircraft two days later. A large number of passengers, including 22 nurses, made it ashore to Radji Beach on Banka Island and decided to surrender to the Japanese. They were joined the following day by about 100 British soldiers. Upon being discovered by Japanese soldiers, however, the men were killed and the nurses ordered to wade into the sea where they were machine-gunned from behind. Bullwinkel was struck by a bullet but feigned death until her persecutors had left. The sole survivor of the massacre, she hid for twelve days before surrendering and spent a further three and a half years in captivity. Bullwinkel served in Japan in 1946 and 1947 before resigning from the Army as Captain, but she rejoined the Citizen Military Forces in 1955 and served until 1970, when she retired as Lieutenant Colonel. Post-war, Bullwinkel spent 16 years as Matron of Melbourne’s Fairfield Hospital and continued as Director of Nursing there until 1977. In that year, she married Colonel F.W. Statham and moved to Perth. She was a member of the Council of the Australian War Memorial, and president of the Australian College of Nursing. In 1992, she returned to Banka Island to unveil a shrine to the nurses who died there. Vivian Bullwinkel was appointed to the Order of Australia (AO) on 26 January 1993, appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on 1 January 1973 and awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal on 6 March 1947 for service to the veteran and ex-prisoner of war communities, to nursing, to the Red Cross Society and to the community. She was also the winner of the Florence Nightingale Medal. Photographs, newspaper articles and memorabilia relating to Vivian Bullwinkel were exhibited at the RSL in Argent Street, Broken Hill, in 2000 and the foyer of the Broken Hill Health Service has been named in her honour. Events 1993 - 1993 Order of Australia (AO) 1973 - 1973 Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) 1947 - 1947 Royal Red Cross Medal 1961 - 1977 Matron of the Fairfield Hospital, Victoria 1956 - 1960 Assistant Matron of the Repatration General Hospital, Victoria 1940 - 1941 Staff member of the Jessie McPherson Hospital, Melbourne 1939 - 1940 Staff member of the Hamilton Private Hospital, Victoria 1941 - 1941 Staff member of the 13th Australian General Hospital, Australian Infantry Forces 1942 - 1942 Sole survivor of Banka Island, where 21 Australian army nurses were massacred by Japanese soldiers 1988 - 1989 Warden of Western Australian State War Memorial (first woman to be appointed) 1973 - 1978 Member of the Council of Directors of the Royal Humane Society 1973 - 1977 Member of the Council College of Nursing Australia 1973 - 1974 President of the College of Nursing Australia 1972 - 1974 President of the Soroptimist Clubs, Victoria 1964 - 1973 Deputy Principal of the Commandant Australia Red Cross Society 1992 - 1992 Honorary Life Member of the Australia Red Cross Society 1963 - 1977 Trustee of the National War Memorial, Canberra 1977 - 1977 Married Col. F W Statham OBE, ED 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section BULLWINKEL, VIVIAN, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=790630 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EULOGY GIVEN BY THE HON BRUCE SCOTT, THE MINISTER FOR VETERANS AFFAIRS AND MINISTER ASSISTING THE MINISTER FOR DEFENCE ON BEHALF OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA AT THE STATE FUNERAL FOR THE LATE VIVIAN STATHAM nee BULLWINKEL, 2000, http://minister.dva.gov.au/media/speeches/2000/july/bullwinkel.htm Vivian Bullwinkel AO; MBE;ARRC; ED; FNM; FRCNA 18.12.1915 - 3.7.2000 Survivor of the Bangka Island Massacre, Angell, Dorothy, http://www.angellpro.com.au/Bullwinkel.htm Nurse survivors of the Vyner Brooke, http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/nurse_survivors/bullwinkel.htm Book Uncommon Australians: Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery, Faigan, Julian, 1992 Twentieth-Century Women of Courage, Escott, Beryl E, 1999 Australian nurses since Nightingale 1860-1990, Burchill, Elizabeth, 1992 Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999, Reid, Richard, 1999 A Woman's war : the exceptional life of Wilma Oram Young, AM, Angell, Barbara, 2003 Portraits in Australian Health, Best, John, 1988 Our War Nurses: The History of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps 1902-1988, Goodman, R.D., 1988 Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Broken Hill, Kearns, Richard Hugh Bell, 1974 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1998, Neto, Maryanne (researcher), 1997 Resource RSL Returned Sisters' Sub-branch Thanksgiving Service, 100 Years of Australian Army Nursing, 2002, http://www.perthcathedral.org/ Brave Women, Angell, Barb, http://www.angellpro.com.au/women.htm Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Nurses revisit war hell (Bangka Island, Singapore), Warnock, Steve and Chapman, Barry (Photographer), 1993 Tributes pour in for the hero of Paradise Road, 2000 WWII nursing heroine dies, 2000 Heroic wartime nurse Vivian Bullwinkel dies in hospital, aged 84, 2000 Butchery on Bangka, 1977 Lasting testimony to local war hero, Murray-Wilson, Brad, 2002 Bullwinkel honored as World War Two hero, 2001 Exhibition highlights wartime survivor, 2000 Nurse's bravery example to others, 2000 State funeral farewell for Sister Bullwinkel, Mayes, Andrea, 2000 Third Anzac arrives home, 1997 She looked for a warm place to die, 1972 Nurses Four Years' Ordeal, 1962 Article Service nurses honoured with long awaited memorial, 1999 Journal Article Vivian Statham, nee Bullwinkel: Eulogy for State Funeral, St Georges Cathedral, Perth, Monday 10 July 2000, Scott, Bruce, 2000 Lecture Speech on the occasion of the dedication of the site of the Australian Service Nurses' National Memorial Canberra, Scott, the Hon. Bruce MP, Minister for Veterans' Affairs, 1997, http://www.dva.gov.au/media/speeches Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre [War Crimes and Trials - Affidavits and Sworn Statements:] List of Awards for Services rendered whilst Prisoners-of-War [War Crimes and Trials - Affidavits and Sworn Statements:] [Campaign in Malaya and Singapore - Escape before and after capitulation and evacuation of civilians:] Official Historian 1939-1945 War, biographical files Group portrait of Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) nurses, who were former prisoners of war (POWs), ob board the hospital ship Manunda on its arrival in Australia National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office Bullwinkel, V Sister - International Military Tribunal Bullwinkel, Vivian National Archives of Australia, Sydney Office [Radio talk presented by ABC war correspondent Haydon Lennard] Release of nurses & civilian internees Sumatra (Including Sister Vivian Bullwinkel) [18 pages; box 7] Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Bullwinkel, Vivian Author Details Anne Heywood and Barbara Lemon Created 3 April 2002 Last modified 5 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers of Mary Grant Bruce include personal and family documents; newspaper cuttings relating to her career; correspondence, mainly with publishers; manuscripts and typescripts of literary works; photographs and other items. The papers of George Evans Bruce include correspondence with publishers and family members; manuscripts and typescripts of literary works; miscellaneous items. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 October 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents include minutes, correspondence, annual reports, constitution, news sheet and newspaper cuttings Author Details Elle Morrell Created 5 September 2000 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 33 min.)??Brenton, a , farmer, speaks of her family coming from Scotland to a Group Settlement Scheme in Western Australia, her schooling, the early days of the Settlement, the monthly shopping trip to Perth, life during World War II, her marriage, acquiring their farm, Government clearing of the timber, early days on their farm, building the dairy herd, keeping pigs, gardening, her four daughters, qualities of a good farmer, problems associated with farming, community involvement (incl. Farmers’ Union, sports and dances), picnics on the beach, decision making on the farm, conversion of the dairy into their house, still feeding cattle, recent holidays, potato growing, and the Bed and Breakfast venture.??Recorded in 1995 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Professor Meredith Edwards AM has enjoyed an extensive career as lecturer, researcher and policy analyst in economics. She is best known for developing policies around AUSTUDY, Child Support, HECS and long-term unemployment initiatives. She is currently Emeritus Professor, Australia and New Zealand School of Government ( ANZSOG) Institute for Governance at the University of Canberra. Born in Sydney and the eldest of three sisters, Meredith Edwards was educated at Canberra High School where she was Vice-Captain. She went on to complete a Bachelor of Commerce (Degree with Honours) at the University of Melbourne (1963) and later, in 1983, a PhD in Public Finance at the Australian National University. Edwards began her academic career from 1963 with a post at the University of Malaya, followed by the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education. She also served on government-appointed consultative committees and was seconded to the Office for the Status of Women in 1983. She went on to work in the Commonwealth Public Service until 1997. Edwards worked in many departments: as Special Advisor on Youth Allowances in both the (then) Department of Education and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (1983-1985), focussing on rationalisation of Australia’s youth allowances and the introduction of AUSTUDY; in the Department of Social Security (1986-1990) assisting a Cabinet Sub-Committee on Child Support Policy and as Head of the Social Policy Division; in the Department of Health, Housing and Community Services (1990-1992) as Director of the National Housing Strategy; and in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (1993-1997) as Head of a Taskforce on long term unemployment issues and later as Deputy Secretary of that Department. She was a member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby, with particular focus on childcare and economic matters, and often acted as WEL’s economic spokesperson. In addition, Edwards was a member of the Wran Committee on Higher Education Funding (1988-1989). She is a member of the Australian Statistics Advisory Council, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (FAIM), a Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for International and Public Law at the Australian National University and was President of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand (ACT Branch) from 1994-1996. She was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra in August 1997 -2002 when she also became Professor. In 1999 she became Director of the National Institute for Governance at the University of Canberra, a position she held until 2004. In 2008 she was made a Member of the Board of the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and since 2009 she has been Chair, Board of Closing the Gap Clearing House as well as Member, Committee of Experts on Public Administration, United Nations. Professor Edwards has published numerous articles and presented many papers in the area of policy development and analysis, particularly in the areas of economics and tax in the family, child support, housing, poverty, women in government, and governance. Her recent book Social Policy, Public Policy: From Problem to Practice is based on case studies taken from her time working with the Commonwealth Public Service. Professor Edwards was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) in 1992. Published resources Book Social policy, public policy : from problem to practice, Meredith Edwards with Cosmo Howard and Robin Miller, 2001 Inside agitators : Australian femocrats and the State, Hester Eisenstein, 1996 Sisters in Suits: Women and Public Policy in Australia, Sawer, Marian, 1990 Newspaper Article Face to face: the power of sisterhood, Jane Cadzow, 1987? The Burton girls, Marion Frith, 1994 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Meredith Edwards, 1974-2002 [manuscript] Papers of Julia Ryan, 1947-1982 [manuscript] Records of the Women's Electoral Lobby, 1952-2010 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Meredith Edwards, academic, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Meredith Edwards interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia collection [sound recording] Meredith Edwards interviewed by Sara Dowse in the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia collection [sound recording] Author Details Clare Land Created 13 September 2001 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "48 sound cassettes, in 4 folders??Project coordinator: Wilma Kippers?”Yarn spinners has been funded by the Australian Bicentennial Authority as part of its program for older Australians” Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes and agendas 1977-1981, reports, consultants, material on major womens’ organisations, conferences including Women’s’ Trade Union on the problems of working women and labour. Also subject files on women’s’ welfare issues including education, employment, health and safety and equal opportunity. Subject files and photographs.??Mainly offprints, cuttings etc., of articles and papers relating to aspects of women and work – unionism, equal pay, etc. includes copy of material about the First Exhibition of Women’s Work, namely: 1 Copy of introduction from programme of opening ceremony; 2 List of office-bearers (includes JW Barret) 3 Series of articles written by Mrs EF Allan for the Argus describing exhibition in detail15/10-1/121907 NB A full catalogue of the First Exhibition of Women’s. Work is now available on microfiche at the Latrobe Library??Outwards correspondence files, 1975-1977??Subject files:- Women: Health; Education; Family Planning; Technology; Occupational health and safety; Equal pay; Discrimination; Other.?Accession No 80 70, 86 89, 86 134, 88 102, 88 93 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 6 September 2000 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 30 min.)??McMillan, a farmer, speaks of her childhood on a dairy farm, working as a herd tester after finishing school, share farming, buying a farm in 1980, division of responsibilities between her husband and herself, the use of artificial insemination and bull farms in herd management, the importance of efficient irrigation systems in farm management, her extensive involvement in local committees (the local branch of United Dairy Farmers of Victoria, District Council of United Dairy Farmers of Victoria, East Gippsland Rural Financial Counselling Committee, the board of the School of Primary Industries of TAFE and the VCAH Course Advisory Committee), and her plans for the farm. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood, Clare Land and Nikki Henningham Created 3 October 2001 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This is an interim record. This collection has not been fully sorted or listed. Please consult Manuscripts Collection staff before placing an order.??Account books 1917-1961, newsletters etc. from the Australian Guild of Realist Artists 1977-1988, and material relating to the Friends of the La Trobe Library 1967-1991. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 28 December 2017 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Natalie Atherden stood as a candidate for the Australian Greens Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Polwarth at the Victorian state election, which was held on 30 November 2002. She stood again for the same party and in the same seat at the election which was held on 25 November 2006. Natalie Atherden lives outside Colac on an extended family small permaculture farm. She has two children. She is a tertiary student and performing artist and is a member of Arts Colac Incorporated, Colac Kana Festival Incorporated and the Colac-Otway Soccer Association. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 6 August 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jane (Lindsay) Mountjoy was a courageous fighter for the underprivileged. She stood as a Communist Party of Australia candidate in the 1930 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Leichhardt. Jane (Lindsay) Mountjoy married Wilfred Athelstane Mountjoy (known as Bill) in 1927 at Bankstown, a suburb of Sydney. He was also a Communist Party candidate at the 1930 election, for the seat of Parramatta. Lindsay worked as an organiser in the textile industry in Sydney in the 1930s, and edited The Working Woman. (Sydney 1932-5) Speaking to the Tenth Congress of the party, Lindsay Mountjoy noted that “the Communist Party is not a bohemian club”, and said that the sexual indiscretions of Communist women caused working class women to stop their husbands from joining the party. She was arrested at a demonstration in support of the unemployed in November 1930, charged with riotous behaviour, assault and damage to a constable’s watch. She was sentenced to 8 days gaol. In her article describing the experience she said if necessary she would do it again. She later moved to Western Australia with her husband when he became organiser there, and later State secretary of the CPA, until he was disgraced and removed from the Central Committee in 1940. He ran for the House of Representatives seat of East Sydney at a by-election in 1931 and for the Senate in Western Australia in 1934. Published resources Book The Reds: the Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality, Macintyre, Stuart, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sandra Levy is an Australian film and television producer. Levy has held a number of head positions in the Australian television industry, including Director of Television at ABC. In 2007, Levy was appointed CEO of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. Throughout her career, Levy has produced a number of iconic Australian films including High Tide (Armstrong, 1987), Police Rescue: The Movie (Carson, 1993), The Well (Lang, 1997), Secret Men’s Business (Cameron, 1999) and Serenades (Khadem, 2000). Sandra Levy studied English literature at the University of Sydney. At university, Levy became a fringe member of the left wing political set, the Push. After Levy graduated, she began to make small budget films. In 1978, Levy co-produced the short film Showtime with Jan Chapman. Showtime tells the story of a young woman who takes a teaching position in a small country town. The townspeople, however, begin to suspect a relationship between the young teacher and another woman. The short film raised questions about how the town believed this relationship would have dangerous implications for the school children. In 1986, Levy produced High TideHigh Tide. The film was directed by Gillian Armstrong and written by Laura Jones. Judy Davis won an AFI Award for her performance as the lead character, Lili. Lili is a back up singer for an Elvis impersonator who gets stranded in a small coastal town. While stuck in the town, Lili befriends a teenager girl who is in fact the daughter she left as an infant. As a trainee at the ABC, Levy became experienced in script editing and production: ‘I just thought I’d landed on the moon. It was like all of the skills that I had, all of the interest I had in ideas, and the literary, intellectual, political, creative interests came together. From that moment, that was it.’ From 1987 to 1989, Levy was Head of Drama at ABC. From 1989 to 1998, Levy was Head of Drama at Southern Star. In 1997, Levy produced The Well (Lang), a psychological thriller written by Laura Jones. The Well is about two very different women who form a tender, yet manipulative, relationship. When one of the women runs over a stranger on the road near their house, a battle of wits between the two women in triggered. Between 2001 and 2005, Levy was Director of Television at ABC. Her time at ABC was successful, with an audience increase of 24 per cent, and the introduction of popular television shows including: Kath and Kim, New Inventors, Spicks and Specks, Enough Rope with Andrew Denton, The Chaser, and many more. In 2002, Levy produced the successful film Serenades (Khadem). Serenades tells the story of Jila, the daughter of an Afghan father and Aboriginal mother. Jila grows up in a mission and is best friends with Johann, the son of the Lutheran pastor. After the death of her mother, Jila is taken from the mission and raised a Muslim by her father. As adults, Jila and Johann meet again and fall in love, however are restricted by their cultural backgrounds. In 2006, Levy was Head of Drama at Channel 9. In 2007, Levy was appointed CEO of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. Levy has been married and divorced twice and has one son. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Look At Me!: Behind The Scenes Of Australian TV And The Women Who Made It, Hogan, Christine, 2006 Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Film, McFarlane, Brian, Mayer Geoff and Bertrand, Ina, 1999 Article It's her ABC, 2004, http://www.smh.com.au/news/TV--Radio/Its-her-ABC/2004/12/03/1101923328002.html Resource Section The Knowledge - Sandra Levy, Urban, Andrew, 2010, http://www.aftrsmedia.com/CSB/the-knowledge-sandra-levy/ Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive The Well : Original Release Showtime [Women Working in Television Project. Interview with Sandra Levy] Come in Spinner National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Sandra Levy, film producer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 8 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rosina Raisbeck enjoyed a successful career in London and performed on the club circuit across Australia in the 1960s, before joining the Australian Opera in 1971. She was still singing with the company at the age of 72. Raisbeck was born in Ballarat to English and Italian parents, and grew up in Maitland. After success on the club circuit in New South Wales, she entered the New South Wales Conservatorium in 1942. Raisbeck won the Sun Aria and ABC Concerto and Vocal competitions in 1946. She auditioned at Covent Garden, London, and performed her debut role as Maddalena in Rigoletto the following year. Raisbeck was a soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as part of the Queen’s coronation celebrations in 1953. She sang with Sadler’s Wells Opera in London, and with the Elizabethan Trust Opera Company at home in Sydney. In 1961, after her divorce from James Laurie, she returned to Sydney with her son, Jim. She joined the Australian Opera company ten years later. Raisbeck’s last public appearance was at the 80th birthday concert of Dame Joan Sutherland, her friend and colleague, in October 2006. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Ephemera Collection [Raisbeck, Rosina (singer) : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia] State Library of New South Wales Royce Rees collection of Sydney theatre photonegatives, 1946-1967 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 18 January 2007 Last modified 12 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Coloured photographic portrait of Annie Moriah Sage as Matron Author Details Helen Morgan Created 15 February 2002 Last modified 6 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Appointed lady superintendent of the New South Wales Army Nursing Service Reserve (NSWANSR), Nellie Gould left Australia on 17 January 1900 with thirteen nursing sisters to serve in the Boer War as part of the British Army. The nursing contingent returned to Australia in 1902. On 27th September 1914 Nellie Gould enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and served in Egypt, caring for Gallipoli casualties, followed by service in France and then England. She returned to Australia in January 1919 and was discharged on 3 March. She was unfit to take up nursing duties again and from 1920 she received a war service pension. In 1916 Nellie Gould was awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal (1st class) for her war work. Nellie Gould was born to Henry and Sarah (nee Baker) in Wales, her mother died when Nellie was 18 months old. When she was four the family moved to Portugal where she received her early education. Later the family returned to England and Nellie attended Mildmay Park College. She was a teacher and governess before moving to Sydney in 1884. On 19 January 1885, Nellie commenced a two-year nurses training course at the Royal Alfred Hospital, Sydney. She stayed on at the hospital for two years after finishing the course. Nellie was then appointed matron of St Kilda Private Hospital at Woolloomooloo and in 1891 she became matron and superintendent of the training school of Sydney Hospital. She resigned in October 1898 to join the New South Wales Public Health Department and was matron of the Hospital for the Insane at Rydalmere in 1898-1900. In February 1899 Matron Nellie Gould was asked to help form an Army Nursing Service Reserve attached to the New South Wales Army Medical Corps. On 26 May the nurses were sworn in and Nellie Gould was appointed lady superintendent. In charge of 13 nursing sisters, Nellie Gould left in the Moravian for the South African War (Boer War) on 17 January 1900. She returned to Australia in August 1902. Upon their return, Nellie Gould and her friend Sister Julia Bligh Johnston opened Ermelo Private Hospital at Newtown, Sydney. She also organized the Army Nursing Service Reserve in New South Wales and was appointed principal matron of the 2nd Military District. After Ermelo was sold in 1912, both Nellie Gould and Julia Johnston joined the Public Health Department. On 27 September 1914 Nellie Gould enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and served in Egypt, caring for Gallipoli casualties, followed by service in France and then England. She returned to Australia in January 1919 and was discharged on 3 March. She was unfit to take up nursing duties again and from 1920 she received a war service pension. Nellie Gould was involved in founding the Australasian Trained Nurses’ Association (ATNA) and was a council member from 1899 until her retirement in 1921. She also initiated the publishing of the ATNA journal in 1903 and served on the editorial committee. Nellie Gould died at Neutral Bay on 19 July 1941. Published resources Book Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999, Reid, Richard, 1999 Nightingales in the mud : the digger sisters of the Great War 1914 - 1918, Barker, Marianne, 1989 Edited Book Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Resource Section Australian nurses in the Boer War, Chamberlain, Max, 2002, http://users.netconnect.com.au/~ianmac/readroom.htm#nursing Gould, Ellen Julia (Nellie) (1860 - 1941), McCarthy, Perditta M., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090061b.htm Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre [Nurses Narratives] Principal Matron Ellen Julia Gould Informal portrait of three nurses who accompanied the Second Contingent to the Boer War as members of the NSW Army Medical Corps. [Nursing Services:] Notes on Australian nursing sisters in the history of the Australian Army Nursing Service, by Matron Ellen J Gould RRC National Archives of Australia, Various Locations Nominal rolls and lists of medals and clasps for New South Wales Military Forces who served in Boer War National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Gould Ellen Julia : SERN Principal Matron : POB Monmouth Wales : POE Cairo Egypt : NOK Harley B A Mrs Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 December 2002 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Gould, Frater and Bligh Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "David McKenzie Dow report on a history of the Optical Munitions panel, papers relating to court action by Sir Robert Menzies against the Herald and Weekly Times. Correspondence to Hume and Gwyneth Dow, 1934- 1980s. Material relating to University affairs and Faculty of Education course changes. Research notes and drafts of publications including _Landfall in Van Dieman’s Land, the Steel’s quest for greener pastures_ Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 October 2003 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gwendoline (commonly known as Gwen) Plumb was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) on 13 June 1993 for services to the entertainment industry [1]. On 1 January 1973 she was appointed Order of the British Empire (Civil) for service to the community and charities. During a career that spanned six decades, Gwen Plumb featured in radio, television and stage productions. She played Emmie in the ABC radio serial Blue Hills and also was a radio presenter for Radio 2GB. She played Ada Simmonds in the television series The Young Doctors, and featured in Richmond Hill and Harp in the South. During World War II, Plumb joined the Australian Women’s Land Army and worked in cherry-picking as part of the war effort when many men were called to service [2]. One of the founding members of the Belvoir Street Theatre (Sydney), she starred in the first Australian production of Steaming in 1983. In 1993 Plumb announced her retirement at a reunion of the Independent Theatre. She passed away at her home at Kirribilli on 5 June 2002. Published resources Book The golden age of Australian radio drama 1923-1960 : a history through biography, Lane, Richard, 1994 Newspaper Article Vivid vaudevillian, Fisher, Rodney, 2002 Plumb Crazy all these years, 2002 Plumb lines of excellence, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Patricia Dixon was the first aboriginal woman elected to local parliament in New South Wales, and the first Aboriginal woman federal candidate for the ALP. A Dunguddy woman, Patricia Dixon was born on the Macleay River near Kempsey, New South Wales and raised on a reserve near Bellbrook. Her extended family included many aunts and uncles, nine sisters and three brothers, but Patricia was separated from her family at the age of 13. Sent away by the Aboriginal Welfare Board, she worked in domestic service in a wealthy private home in Sydney. As an Aboriginal person growing up in the 1950s, she was excluded from high school, but attended primary school, and eventually returned to study as a mature-age student. After working in Sydney for several years, Patricia married Doug Dixon and had two sons, Graham and Douglas. The family soon moved to Armidale, where Patricia worked as a cleaner. She joined the Labor party in the late 70’s, and her involvement in local politics began. Much of her work since then focussed on enhancing Aboriginal involvement in local governance and mainstream civic affairs. In 1983 she was elected to Armidale City Council, becoming the first Aboriginal person elected to local government in NSW. Working with Lowitje (Lois) O’Donoghue, she saw numbers of Aboriginal people participating in local councils nationally build to over 600 in 1998. Dixon spent over 17 years in local government, serving on the Armidale City Council as a member and, for three years, as Deputy Mayor. She also worked for the Australian Local Government Association (Canberra) and the Department of Local Government in NSW. She served as Chairperson of the Armidale & District Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place; was a member of the NSW State Committee for Reconciliation; and was the Chief Executive Officer of the Aboriginal Medical Service in Armidale at the time of her death. In 1997, Patricia Dixon was pre-selected by the Australian Labor Party in the seat of New England, becoming the first Aboriginal woman federal candidate for the ALP. She passed away just before the 2001 Federal Election was called. Published resources Resource Excerpt of speech by Lowitja (Lois) O'Donoghue, Lowitja O'Donoghue, 1998, http://labor.net.au/emilyslist/news/speeches/980321Lowitja.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Journal Article Hope for us all. -The importance of local government in strengthening Aboriginal communities., Pat Dixon, 1993 Newspaper Article Uphill Battle for Stronghold Seat, Hill, K., 1997 Author Details Clare Land Created 18 October 2001 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Diary kept by Maude Bonney which includes an account of her crash on a Malaysian island in 1933. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Suzanne (Suzy) Orme has only run once for election to parliament. That was in 1999 for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Lane Cove. Suzy Orme is the senior consultant in an environmental consultancy, Enviroease, which specialises in environmental safety advice, products and training. In addition to her degrees (B Bus, P/G Dip Env. Stud), she is a qualified workplace assessor and trainer. She is an executive member of the Sydney Environmental Education Network Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "MS 8363 comprises correspondence, drafts and research material relating to Clarke’s books The governesses: letters from the colonies 1862-1882; A colonial woman: the life and times of Mary Braidwood Mowle, 1827-1857; Pen portraits: women writers and journalists in nineteenth century Australia; Pioneer writer: the life of Louisa Atkinson, novelist, journalist, naturalist; Tasma: the life of Jessie Couvreur; Life lines: Australian women’s letters and diaries, 1788-1840 (with Dale Spender), and Rosa! Rosa!: a life of Rosa Praed, novelist and spiritualist. Also contains correspondence with Janet Cosh (43 boxes, 1 carton).??The Acc06.025 instalment comprises papers relating to Clarke’s role as editor of Judith Wright’s autobiography, Half a lifetime, published in 1999, including material from Judith Wright, correspondence, notes, drafts, reviews and obituaries, ca. 1997-2000; research material on proposed writing on wartime censorship, ca. 1983; research material, ca. 1984-1988, for the chapter on Government House in Gables, ghosts and governors-general: the historic house at Yarralumla, Canberra (1988); and, papers, articles and talks, ca. 1989-2005 (4 cartons).??The Acc11.100 instalment comprises papers reflecting Clarke’s activities as a writer, editor, public speaker and member of academic and historical societies. They include material from Judith Wright, correspondence, notes, drafts and reviews relating to Clarke’s role as co-editor, with Meredith McKinney, of The equal heart and mind: letters between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney (2004) and With love and fury: selected letters of Judith Wright (2006); papers relating to Steps to Federation (2001), which Clarke edited; Australian dictionary of biography research material, correspondence and drafts; and other papers relating to Clarke’s PhD. Thesis, articles and talks. In addition there is correspondence, minutes and other records documenting Clarke’s roles in the Independent Scholars Association of Australia, the Canberra and District Historical Society and other organisations, between ca. 1950-2010, and papers relating to her Medal of the Order of Australia (10 boxes). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 November 2003 Last modified 6 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence; membership material; minutes; campaign notes; constitution; newsletters. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. C. 1945-04. Group portrait of four “original” WAAAF officers with the Director WAAAF Group Officer Clare Stevenson after a WAAAF Staff Officers conference at Air Force Headquarters, Victoria Barracks. Left to right: Wing Officer Margaret Blackwood (at rear); Director WAAAF; Wing Officer Dorothy Hawthorn (front); Wing Officer Mary Rawlins; Wing Officer Gwen Stark. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sharon Davies is a committed Australian Democrats party member who ran in the following elections: House of Representatives for Patterson in 1996 and 1998. NSW Senate in 2001. New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Maitland in 2003. Sharon Davies was a single working parent of three children and a part time student at the University of Newcastle when she ran for the seat of Patterson in 2001. She chose to run for the Australian Democrats because she was disenchanted with the major parties’ adversarial style and preferred the Democrats’ efforts to create confidence and self-esteem in all Australians. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Tuesday Afternoon Group are a group of older women who joined the second wave of feminism in the 1970s whose issues were outside the main stream of feminist concerns of that time. These women were politically active both on older women’s needs such as housing, but also international political issues facing women in the third world. Molly Brannigan had attended the Decade of Women Conference in Mexico in 1975 and had gained a greater understanding of the needs of all women world wide. The women met at the Women’s Advisory Service to discuss issues each Tuesday Afternoon. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 18 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection includes: 1. Minutes, memoranda and correspondence relating to the position and working conditions of women in the Commonwealth Public Service, 1948-1952. The correspondents include Jean Arnot, G. A. Jeffries and Jean Payne. 2. Papers relating to the Canberra Branch Equal Pay Sub-Committee, 1951-1964. 3. Transcripts of the proceedings of the Female Rates Case before G.B. Castieau, Public Service Arbitrator, 1951 4. Miscellaneous papers on equal pay, 1958-64. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "[Published and manuscript items by Dr. C.H. Souter and Edith Harrhy. See also Series 25.] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 digital audio tapes (74 min.)??Professor Suzanne Cory, Director Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, talks about her family background; undergraduate degree at University of Melbourne; PhD at Cambridge on a particular transfer RNA and the research environment at Cambridge. She then discusses her reasons for choosing to work at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in 1971 and some of the research undertaken at the Institute. Cory then talks about the Human Genome Project; her plans for the Institute as its Director; views on women in Australian science and her plans for the future. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 audiocassette + master + notes Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "20 minutes??Patience Howard talks about her family home called Wachanappi, moving to Bungaree in the country, schooling at Miss Dow’s boarding school at Glenelg, 1912 at “The Hermitage” in Victoria, and from 1914 at Frensham’s girls’ school in NSW, attending Bedford College in London to study history, 1920s attending an International Students’ conference in Prague, returning to Adelaide in 1924, becoming a teacher at Woodlands, then Girton where she met Mabel Hardy and they set up Stawell School at Mt Lofty, marriage in 1928 to Roy Howard and his early death, moving her children to Bungaree and then buying a house at Kensington Park, joining the Labor Party, working for meals on wheels, joining the lyceum Club and trips to Europe. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence, newspaper clippings, programmes, photographs, studio portraits, printed items, legal documents, notes, music and ephemera relating to the career of Beatrice Tange as a concert pianist. Includes manuscript music by Miriam Hyde (‘Magpies at sunrise”, 1952) and Thomas B. Pitfield (‘Sonatina for piano’, 1942; and ‘Toccatina (The birds) for harpsicord or piano’). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Tilley’s Devine Café may not rival its namesake in the arenas of vice and criminality, but in Canberra and beyond, this institution has been celebrated for providing originality and flair for over twenty-two years. Named after the colourful Tilley Devine, Sydney’s infamous madam and ‘Bordello Queen’ of the 1920s, the café was established on the corner of Wattle and Brigalow Streets in Lyneham in January 1984 by owner and manager, Paulie Higgisson. On opening night a seating capacity of 60 was swamped by an eager crowd of 420. With elegant, dark wood fittings, a moody, deep red colour scheme, and soft jazz wafting between the old-fashioned booths lining the walls, there are some things essentially nostalgic and cinematic about Tilley’s romantic atmosphere, reminiscent of a Hollywood film noir. Its timeless in a way that’s hard to emulate in a youngish, fickle town like Canberra, where high turnover of night spots seem inevitably dictated by the relative hip-factor of the décor, the DJ and the cocktail menu. However, Tilley’s has achieved more than just create a creative ambience and space of effortless charm; it has been blazing a trail on multiple fronts from its inception. Initially established to create a safe and comfortable environment for women, Tilley’s caused its first commotion by banning groups of men drinking inside unless they were accompanied by at least one woman. ‘I just didn’t want a room full of blokes’, Higgisson told the Canberra Times in 2003. Despite the uproar (generated generally by men) this door policy was maintained for two years, solidifying a non-threatening atmosphere, a considerate client base, and in the process unintentionally racking up a good deal of free publicity. Tilley’s is also in a field of ‘firsts’, being the first licensed outdoor venue in Australia and the first bar to ban smoking indoors, eight years before any laws were introduced to enforce such a scenario. As a mecca for serious music appreciation, Tilley’s has over the years developed a formidable reputation within the industry and wider public. An awesome array of Australian and international artists have presented a continuous program for twenty-one years. Again an idiosyncratic policy of not serving food or drinks during performances so as not to detract from the show through the hubbub of drinking and dining marked Tilley’s as a connoisseurs’ choice. While not originally conceived as a live music venue, Higgisson’s skill and background as a music producer and sound engineer meant this side of the operation grew almost by osmosis. As an offshoot it became a remarkably strong trump card with Higgisson maintaining, in keeping with the Tilley’s legend, that in the last eighteen years she has never had to try and book a musician. Instead there has been a steady stream chasing her – among them have been guitarists Jose Feliciano, Slava Grigoryan and Karin Schaupp, Canned Heat, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, legendary acts like the Animals, and songwriters like Jimmy Webb. Unfortunately, this approach has become a victim of its own success – ‘Keeping Music Live’, at least on a regular basis, is now untenable. As Higgison explained in an article in the Canberra Times, ‘The day the music died’, ‘We’ve had a fabulous reputation for our concerts and one of the reasons is that we keep the place pin-drop silent. It’s an environment that both artists and audiences won’t get anywhere else, except perhaps in a theatre. But by definition, it’s financially an unproductive time for us, all in the name of the civility of the gig.’ For this reason, plus escalating overheads and the unrelenting nature of planning such a series of events, Tilley’s famed weekly schedule of concerts ended with the ‘Last Hurrah’ on Sunday 30 October 2005. The news of Tilley’s live music demise has been greeted with much dismay across Canberra and beyond. However the stage has remained and Higgisson intends to stage live gigs from time to time, such as for the Multicultural Festival in February 2006. This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Article Brief biography of Tilly Devine, The Australian War Memorial, http://www.awm.gov.au/fiftyaustralians/15.asp Prostitution regulation in colonial and early federal Australia, Perkins, Roberta, http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/lcj/working/ch2-1.html Resource Section Transcript of 'Razor Gang Feuds: Tilly Devine vs Kate Leigh', http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s485143.htm Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 25 May 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Read more about Alana Johnson in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. The following text is reproduced in full and with permission by ABC Open. It was originally published in May 2017 as part of an online exhibition associated with ‘The Invisible Farmer’ Project (LP160100555) at https://open.abc.net.au/explore/196247. It may no longer be available online. From ‘farmer’s wives’ to farmers : the generation of change Alana Johnson, born in the mid-20th century is fifth generation farming in Victoria. Her growing up on a sheep and cattle property near Hamilton was significantly shaped by her mother’s role as a post war farmer’s wife and the post-depression hard work and ‘making do’ of her grandmother. Alana reflects on how our lives are determined by the era and conventions of the time we happen to be living. Feeling constrained by the geographical isolation and the social expectations of rural (and Catholic) girls in the early 1970s, Alana was desperate to expand her life. The provision of free university education by the Whitlam government in 1974 profoundly changed rural Australia. Thousands of young women like Alana were given an unprecedented opportunity to become first generation female university graduates in farming families across Australia. Following heady years of capital city university, life during the peak of second wave feminism and Germaine Greer, Alana like many of these young women returned to farms and rural communities not wanting to live the same lives as their mothers. They returned as agricultural scientists, veterinarians, teachers and social workers, with tertiary qualifications their male farming partners did not have. They had choices their mothers did not have, they could decide when and how many babies to have, they could earn an independent income, they determined what work they would do on their farms, they would no longer be relegated to being a ‘farmer’s wife’ and they lead the biggest social change in Australian farming history. In 1981, Alana chose to retain her own family name when she married, unheard of in her rural town and considered an act of ‘extreme women’s liberation’. She was known to tell the shocked locals she offered her husband to take her name but he declined. From embryonic beginnings such as meetings in Alana’s lounge room in the early 1980s, over the next two decades the rural women’s movement spread across the nation. Alana was a member of the inaugural reference group for the Victorian Rural Women’s Network, was a founding member of Australian Women in Agriculture, presented to the first International Women in Agriculture conference at Melbourne University in 1994, has been a speaker at and organiser of annual Women on Farms Gatherings in Victoria and interstate, was the national president of the Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women and has served on Ministerial Advisory Councils to name but a few. For a quarter of a century, the Australian rural women’s movement was the global leader and Alana together with many other rural women travelled the world to share their experience and support other women to become activists. Following her dream as an 18 year old, Alana truly did expand her life. Alana Johnson’s story is the story of a generation, a story of opportunity grasped, the story of farm women networking together, becoming visible, commanding recognition for their work on farms and demanding their seat at the decision-making tables in agriculture, agribusiness and politics. Over the past 35 years, Alana Johnson and Rob Richardson have raised two sons and have been breeding Angus cattle and growing trees on their property near Benalla. Alana was Victoria’s Rural Woman of the Year in 2010 and national runner up, she was named in the inaugural 100 Women of Influence in Australia and the inaugural 100 Women in Agribusiness for Australia. She was the first rural women to chair the Victorian Women’s Trust. Events 2018 - 2018 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2020 - 2020 For significant service to women through leadership and advisory roles. Published resources Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Alana Johnson interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Rural and farm women oral history project. Author Details Alana Johnson (with Nikki Henningham) Created 23 April 2014 Last modified 5 March 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1977; Photocopied typescript of Wacvie?1984; Photocopied typescript of Welou, my brother?1989; Two typescript versions of History of FCAATSI published as Turning the tide (1989)?1968; 1 x 16mm film “This land of theirs” made by Lilian Castles. A documentary account of ‘Walkathon City’ La Perouse recording the celebration of the 1967 referendum which ended Constitutional discrimination against Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. The event was also to raise money for FCAATSI (Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders). A video copy is also included. (Locn No.: VT 522/1-2)?c.1986-1992; Twelve audio tapes of interviews with Faith Bandler. 1. ‘Faith Bandler on 8 Aug 1986 at Turramurra NSW by Sue Hardisty’. 2. ‘Surface Tension 86/26 – 6.9.86 Black Voices/White Ghosts’. 3. ‘Faith with Carolyne Craig Canberra 1987’. 4. ‘Faith with Mairi Nicholson 16.8.87’. 5. ‘Faith with Mairi Nicholson ABC’. 6. ‘Wacvie 1-6’ (3 tapes). 7. ‘Faith Bandler’s Lunch 16 Aug 91’. 8. ‘Daybreak Interview 14.10.92’. 9. Interviews with Peter Read ‘R12 and R13’ (2 tapes). (Locn No.: MLOH 242/1-12) Author Details Clare Land Created 19 November 2002 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Papers, 1906-1965, including correspondence and notes relating to Miss Waddell’s work with the Native Plants Preservation Group, c. 1950s; correspondence and documents concerning her education and awards of O.B.E., 1964, and Australian History Medallion from the Field Naturalists’ Club, 1965. Includes notes on native flora in Victoria; Citation accompanying award of the O.B.E.; Letter from chairman of Forest Commission of Victoria congratulating Miss Waddell on the award of the Australian History Medallion, 21 October 1965; Letter from W. H. Craig, Secretary of the Town and Country Planning Board congratulating Miss Waddell on the award of the Australian History Medallion, 1 November 1965; Also biographical notes on Miss Waddell; Certificate awarding her a first class pass in the Honour School of Mathematics, Trinity Term 1906; Commission granting Miss Winifred Waddell the Dignity of an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire, signed by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh as Grand Master of the Order and by H. M. the Queen. Also obituaries by O. S. Green and J. H. Willis. Author Details Ailie Smith Created 21 November 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 52 min.)??Miriam Hyde speaks of her writing and music; her autobiography; the relationship between words and music; setting poetry to music; her father’s gift for painting; influence of nature on her compositions; compositional style; her piece Trends; mathematics and music; Spanish influences; playing with an orchestra; publication of piano works. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 30 minutes??June Cochrane was born in Casterton, Victoria and moved with her family to Adelaide in 1944. She began training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in December 1950. This was followed by midwifery training in Melbourne. A chronic disability (spondylitis) prevented her from continuing in clinical nursing and June choose a career in nursing education. For nineteen years she was Principal Nurse Educator at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. She was also active in the professional affairs of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation, and council member of the Royal College of Nursing Australia. In 1981 June Cochrane left Adelaide to become Executive Director of the College. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Correspondence 1918-1934, papers and cuttings 1912-1922.??The nine letters from D. M. Bates are closely written on 4to paper and run from 2 to 7pp. Two letters 24 Dec. 1918 from Yulbari Camp and 30 Jan. 1919 are to T. E. Barr Smith. Four letters 1919-1922, chiefly from Ooldea, are to T. Gill. With them are three photographs taken at Ooldea 1919-1920. Letter 24 Mar. 1919 from Soldiers’ Home, Fullarton, returns enclosed proofs of a description of the Nullarbor by T. Brown with MS. Corrections by D. M. Bates. (T. Brown’s description is published in Procs R.G.S. A’sia S.A. Branch, v.l 9, pp.141-153.) Letter 7 Oct. 1919, 7pp. Is a description of Ooldea accompanied by typescript and printed sections with MS. Corrections. This description is published with two of the photographs mentioned above in Procs R.G.S. A’sia S.A. Branch, v.21, pp.73-78. Two letters 1934, with typescript copies, to T. E. Barr Smith concern the publication other Histories of the Native Tribes of South and Western Australia. Letters 1931 to or concerning D. M. Bates, with typescript copies, refer to her vocabularies of aboriginal languages.?The cuttings are pasted into a foolscap exercise book. They include a portrait of D M Bates. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The daughter and grand-daughter of Gippsland dairy farmers, Catherine Noy has always been involved in her local community. Based in Gippsland, she was at the geographical epicentre of the Women in Agriculture movement, and worked on the administration of the First International Women in Agriculture Conference, the Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women, and the projects of the Gippsland Women’s Network. After leaving her job at Agriculture Victoria in Warragul to raise a family, Catherine ran her own management administration service, and became involved at a critical moment in the administration of the First International Women in Agriculture Conference, with Maria Rose. She spent four years (1995-1999) as executive officer of the Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women, before moving on, as Networking Officer, to organise forums and skills workshops for the Gippsland Women’s Network, in response to needs highlighted by the conference. These included the Women Who Mean Business Project (2002-2004), the Uniting Our Rural Communities Cultural and Community Leadership Project (1997), and the Having Your Voice Heard Forum (2000). Catherine both experienced at first hand and witnessed the transformative effects of the Conference and its outcomes on the empowerment of rural women, and on their recognition of the importance of the links between them, and of their strengths. Women became innovators on family farms as a result. Catherine is currently involved in pastoral care for the aged, in counselling, and with Radio Print Handicapped. Published resources Conference Proceedings Women in Agriculture: Farming for Our Future, Women in Agriculture 1994 International Conference Committee Inc., 1995 Report Project Report: International Women in Agriculture Conference, Rose, Maria, 1994 Booklet The Salute From Australia at the 2nd International Conference on Women in Agriculture, McDougall, Valerie (ed.), 1998 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Mary Salce, 1976-2007 [manuscript] Author Details Janet Butler Created 24 August 2009 Last modified 22 August 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Hon. Justice Hilary Penfold has enjoyed a distinguished career in the public service and as a member of the judiciary. After becoming the first woman in Australia to hold the position of First Parliamentary Counsel, she achieved the further distinction of becoming the first woman to be appointed as Commonwealth Queen’s Counsel. She later became the first resident woman judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. Penfold’s contribution to the public service, to drafting and to the development of law in Australia has been immense. Hilary Penfold was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. The Hon. Justice Hilary Penfold was born in 1953 in Dunedin, New Zealand; she was the first of seven children. When she was three, the Penfold family immigrated to Australia and settled in Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. In 1963 Penfold’s father, John, a lecturer in adult education with the University of Sydney, again moved the family – this time to Southampton in England for a 12-month sabbatical. Upon returning to Australia, the Penfolds settled in Sydney and Hilary, having won a scholarship to attend, entered Ascham School in the eastern suburb of Edgecliff. After leaving school, Hilary Penfold undertook a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws (from which she graduated with first-class honours) at the Australian National University. Residing at Garran Hall during her studies, she was involved in a range of extra-curricular activities concerned with the University’s Department of Philosophy, the theatre club (of which she was secretary), the Federal Law Review (of which she was a member of the editorial board), and as a founding member of Radio ANU [Trove]. In 1977 Penfold began working at the Commonwealth Office of Parliamentary Counsel (OPC): she would remain there for 20 years. Early projects included taxation legislation, stevedoring industry work, and companies and securities work involving State/Commonwealth negotiations. She was the only woman drafter at the OPC for some time and consequently became the first woman to progress to each senior level of the organisation. In 1984, when she was just 30 years old, Penfold was appointed to head the Attorney-General’s Department’s Special Projects Division for nine months. (The Canberra Times announced that she was the youngest public servant in the new Senior Executive Service [Canberra Times]). Two years later, Penfold became Second Parliamentary Counsel. In 1993, Penfold became the first woman to be appointed First Parliamentary Counsel; she would hold the position for a decade. By 1993 she had three children. She is credited as ‘leading by example’ when it came to balancing work and home life, and initiating such family-friendly policies as reasonable hours and part-time work options for male as well as female employees. Penfold’s contributions to the OPC also included managing large and complex drafting projects including: the Tampa legislation, workplace relations reforms; as well as the constitutional amendments proposed to create an Australian republic in 1999 [NLA], all of which she personally drafted in whole or in part. GST legislation and the original and revised native title legislation were also drafted during her time as First Parliamentary Counsel. Penfold also promoted innovations in drafting – plain language and technology advancements and an exchange of ideas between drafting offices in Australia and overseas [NLA]. Penfold was involved in the work of the Parliamentary Counsel’s Committee (a committee of chief parliamentary counsel of Australia and New Zealand), and was President of the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel from 1999 until 2003 (an association of legislative counsel from across the British Commonwealth) [ANU]. She was also a member of the Board of Taxation from 2000 until 2004 [ANU]. In recognition of her significant contribution to legislative drafting for the Commonwealth Government, Penfold was awarded a Public Service Medal in 2000. The following year, Penfold was appointed as a Commonwealth Queen’s Counsel; she was the first woman to hold such an appointment [ANU]. In 2003, she chaired the Migration Litigation Review; commissioned by the then Attorney-General, the Hon. Philip Ruddock MP, the Review examined the increasingly large numbers of migration cases before the High Court, Federal Court and Federal Magistrates Court, and the very low success rate of applicants, and made recommendations for streamlining the appeal processes. In 2004 Penfold became Secretary of the newly-created Department of Parliamentary Services. At Parliament House she initiated an historic trial to determine how much water could be saved by turning down the building’s air-conditioning and oversaw the introduction of child care facilities in Parliament House [Peter Martin, NLA]. Penfold broke new ground again when, in 2007, she became the first female resident judge of the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court. In 2011, in further evidence of Penfold’s administrative expertise and the respect it has garnered, the Supreme Court changed aspects of its case management and listing practices with a view to reducing the time taken to finalise matters lodged in or committed to the Court, based upon her recommendation [AustLII]. There was a significant drop in waiting times for trials within the first year after the new system was implemented. Penfold is the Patron of the Australian Capital Territory Women Lawyers Association; Member of the Governing Council and Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference of Australia; and Member of the Advisory Board, Federal Law Review. She is a past member of the Rhodes Scholarship Territories Selection Committee. Hilary Penfold’s contributions to the public service, to drafting and to the law have been considerable and inspirational. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Hilary Penfold interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "For more than 20 years Sharon has reported on important stories both locally and internationally for ABC Radio. One of her documentaries prompted an Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry into the use of prison informers. She covered the first democratic election in South Africa for Radio National, and was present in the refugee camps in Macedonia when Kosovars streamed across the border to escape the war. Sharon has won numerous awards for her work, including three Walkley awards, the Human Rights Award, the George Munster Award for Independent Journalism, and the International Women in Film and Radio Award. In 2000 she was awarded an International Reuters Scholarship to study at Oxford University. In 1995 Sharon took leave from the ABC to work as a media trainer with disadvantaged groups in South Africa. She lived and worked there for three years. Events 1991 - 1991 Best Investigative Report -Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1993 - 1993 Best Investigative Report – ‘Playing With Fire’ – Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2003 - 2003 Radio Feature, Documentary or Broadcast Special – ‘Crime and Punishment’ – Australian Broadcasting Corporation (with Nick Franklin) 2007 - 2007 Radio Feature, Documentary or Broadcast Special – Australian Broadcasting Corporation – ‘The Search for Edna Lavilla’, with Eurydice Aroney 1988 - Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 31 October 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Laurel Macintosh served for nearly 40 years as an ophthalmic surgeon in Brisbane hospitals, working all the while for women’s rights and as a community activist. In her professional life, she chaired the Queensland Branch of the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists. Her community work took her to the presidency of both the National Council of Women of Queensland (1977-1979, 1994-1996) and the National Council of Women of Australia (1979-1982), and to membership of state, national and international committees with the capacity to influence government. An achievement of which she is proud is the winning of the case for late night shopping for Brisbane and Ipswich in Queensland’s industrial court in December 1978. Laurel Macintosh was born on 29 April 1924 in country New South Wales, the daughter of C.H.V. Macintosh, a 5th-generation Australian. She was educated at Sydney Girls’ High School and the University of Sydney, graduating in general medicine in 1946. She trained in ophthalmology at the Royal Brisbane Hospital 1947-1951, and then as a surgeon at the Royal Eye Hospital, London, 1951-1953. She entered private practice in Orange, NSW, 1954-1958, then moved to Brisbane where she became a visiting ophthalmologist with the Royal Children’s Hospital and, later, with the Brisbane Repatriation Department, the Princess Alexandra Hospital, and the Narbethong School for the Visually Handicapped. She joined the Queensland Medical Women’s Society and the Ophthalmology Society (later Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists) in 1958 and was made a Fellow of the College in 1995. She was also made an honorary life member of the Australian Medical Association in 1996, after 50 years in the profession, and of the Queensland Medical Women’s Association in 2004. Dr Macintosh joined the Quota Club, a service club for professional women, in Orange and then Brisbane. Her introduction to the National Council of Women came in 1960 when NCW Queensland asked Quota to find someone to take on the job of state convenor for women and employment, and Laurel was duly appointed (1960-1975). In 1964, she was recruited to serve as international secretary on Anne Hamilton’s ANCW Board; she remembers those Board meetings as ‘the most fun I [ever] had’. She took on the task of Australian convenor for women and employment from 1970 to 1973, and the ICW vice-convenorship from 1973 to 1979. Dr Macintosh’s work for NCW led her into broader leadership roles within the women’s movement: president of the Status of Women Committee (Brisbane) 1973-1976; vice-president of the United Nations Association Australia (Queensland) 1975-1978; chairman of the Queensland International Women’s Year Committee 1974-1976 and a member of the National UNAA IWY Committee, under the chairmanship of Ada Norris. In 1977, Macintosh became president of NCW Queensland and, on completion of this term in 1979, president of NCWA. She was rare among NCWA presidents in also holding down a full-time job, and only survived the workload by taking months of long service leave to allow her to travel within and beyond Australia. She remembers as a significant achievement of her presidency the development of close relations with the National Councils of Women of Thailand and Fiji-both ‘twinned’ with NCWA. The most memorable event of Macintosh’s presidency was the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, held in Copenhagen in July 1980. She was one of 4 women from voluntary organisations who attended as official Australian government representatives-a role she found restrictive. Macintosh enjoyed good relations with politicians, state and federal, and with the federal Office of the Status of Women. When the Queensland government established an Advisory Council of Queensland Women 1975-1976, she was a founding member. Dr Macintosh continued her involvement with Quota, holding the Queensland presidency from 1959 to 1961 and again from 1988 to 1989. She presided over the Queensland Branch of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists 1972-1973, acted as a federal councillor of the College 1972-1974, and, in 1995, became a Fellow of the College. She was twice elected president of the National Council of Women of Queensland-in 1977 for 2 years and again in 1994 for 4 years. As president of NCWQ, she was instrumental in obtaining late night shopping for Brisbane and Ipswich in December 1978, which involved appearing as an advocate in the industrial court where she encountered the opposition of unions and shop-owners alike. She also served on the Queensland Consumer Affairs Council. From 1982 to 1991, Macintosh was ICW convenor for the Standing Committee for Women and Employment and she continued to serve as a consultant from 1991 to 1994. During her many years of the involvement with NCWA and the ICW, she attended triennial ICW conferences in Nairobi 1979, Seoul 1982, London 1984, Washington 1988, Bangkok 1991 and Paris 1994, as well as executive meetings in Brussels 1981 and Kiel 1983. Dr Laurel Macintosh was awarded a Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 and appointed to the Order of the British Empire in 1980 for her services to women. In 1984 she was made a life member of NCWQ and, in 1988, an honorary life vice-president of NCWA in recognition of her long and distinguished service to the organisation. In the same year (1988), she was appointed a dame in the Knights Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus, an international humanitarian organisation, and in 2001 was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal for service to the community as president of the National Council of Women in Queensland. ‘All people should have the opportunity to develop what talents they have to choose the life they wish to lead while recognising the rights of others to choose differently. We need tolerance and understanding of each other.’ Events 1988 - 1989 Quota Club of Brisbane 1973 - 1976 UNAA Status of Women Committee (Brisbane) 1974 - 1976 Queensland UNAA International Women’s Year Committee 1975 - 1976 Council of Queensland Women 1959 - 1961 Quota Club of Brisbane 1958 - Queensland Medical Women’s Society 1965 - International Council of Women 1994 - 1998 Queensland Museum Advisory Committee on the Status of Women Published resources Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Book The National Council of Women of Queensland: The Second Fifty years 1955 - 2005, Buckley, Daphne M., 2005 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection NCWA Papers 1984 - 2006 John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 7266 National Council of Women of Queensland Minute Books 1905-2004 Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Laurel Macintosh Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 8 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Laurel Macintosh Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A prominent unionist and social justice campaigner, Aileen Winifred Beaver ran as a Communist Party of Australia candidate for Auburn in 1978, for Elizabeth in 1981 and for the seat of Sydney in the House of Representatives in 1977, 1983 and 1984. Aileen Beaver left high school aged 14 and has been a union activist all her working life. Towards the end of the 60s Aileen Beaver decided to seek work in the metal industry in a successful effort to build support for a campaign to reintroduce equal pay in that industry. Women metal workers had been given equal pay during the second World War ‘to protect men’s jobs’, but this was removed when the war ended. She is credited as a writer and performer in the 1975 documentary ‘Don’t Be Too Polite Girls’ which addressed these issues. At the first Women’s Liberation Working Women’s Conference in Melbourne, Aileen tabled questionnaires completed by women in her Malleys workshop. The data revealed that women workers were often as concerned about being treated with respect as workers as they were about pay. Another measure of her success was her role as secretary of the Shop Committee in the male-dominated workforce at Malleys. She was also active in the Building Workers’ Women’s Committee, and the Working Women’s Group of Women’s Liberation. Equal pay, peace, abortion rights, childcare and International Women’s Day were prominent in the activities of the groups in which she worked. While at Malleys, in cooperation with Turkish women in the community, Aileen also successfully campaigned to establish a childcare centre in Auburn for their children. She retired to the Blue Mountains where she remained a diligent activist and advocate for the regeneration of natural bushland. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Aileen Beaver oral history interview Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 6 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hr., 11 min., 28 sec.??Italian child migrants Maria Guidarelli and Margherita Stefani talk about growing up, working and married life in Gwalia. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 8 August 2012 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Catholic Women’s League Australia (CWLA) was established in 1975. It evolved from the Australian Council of Catholic Women, which began in 1928. Its major objectives are to enable women to participate more effectively in working for and building Christianity by promoting the spiritual, cultural, intellectual and social development of women. It aims to foster ecumenism and inter-faith dialogue and provides a national forum for the voice of the Catholic Women’s League Organisations in Australia. The member organisations comprise CWL South Australia Inc., CWL Western Australia Inc., CWL Tasmania Inc., CWL Victoria/ Wagga Wagga, Inc., CWL Queensland Inc., CWL NSW Inc., and CWL Canberra/Goulburn Inc. The CWLA is affiliated with the United Nations (UN) on a Roster Status. It is able to attend the UN meetings and conferences accredited to the UN as an observer. The CWLA conveys matters of social justice and issues relevant to women and the family to the Federal, State and Local levels of government. It also works with the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations, National Council of Women, Commission for Australian Catholic Women and the Office of the Status of Women. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources NULL Catholic Women's League Australia Inc. records Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 15 January 2004 Last modified 24 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A collection of letters received by Mrs. Mary Cunningham of Lanyon, A.C.T. from her father Edward Twynam (approximately 400, 1897-1923); from her sister Joan and brother Edward written on active service as an Army nurse and with the Light Horse, respectively, 1914-1919; Pulling and Cossington Smith families, including Grace Cossington Smith, and other correspondents. Also a letter from Edward Twynam to his sister in England (1858) relating to the family in England; and letters from S. Nicholson and W. Cunningham at the Boer War. Author Details Kim Doyle Created 22 June 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Membership registers, minutes, correspondence, reports, newspaper cuttings, and a history of the Association of Queensland Women’s Forum Clubs.??Box 16872: Members Register of Club No. 1 (Brisbane) commencing February 1964; Minutes of Dinner Club No. 1 (Brisbane) May 1972- May 1977; Minutes of Club No. 1 (Brisbane) June 1977- June 1978; Club No. 2 (Brisbane) Wednesday Luncheon Club Records 1962-1978; Club No. 7 (Gold Coast) Records; Club No. 17 (Coolangatta/Tweed Heads) Membership Lists and Reports; Club No, 17 Meeting Agenda 1961-1977; Club No.13 (Coorparoo) agenda and reports; Darling Downs Regional Council Minutes, November 1985 – April 1999.?Box 16873: Two Membership Registers (all clubs); South East Regional Council Reports 1983-1985 (very imperfect), 1994 – 2001; South East Regional Council Minutes October 2002 – May 2005; South East Region Combined Meetings Reports, Correspondence and Ephemera, 1996 – 2006; South East Regional President’s Reports and Conference to Dias, 1997 – 2005; South East Region Invitations and Programmes for various functions and events; Instructions for Regional Presidents.?Box 16874: South East Regional Council Leadership Workshop Material, 1997 – 2004. Box 16875 O/S A3: Newspaper Clippings 1960s to 1980s; Report of the Townsville Convention 30 May – 1 June 1968; “A History of the Association of Queensland Women’s Forum Clubs: Founded 1941”.?Box 19617: Dais meeting minutes 2 December 1961 – 8 March 1975. Box 19618: Dais meeting minutes 12 April 1974 – December 1984. Box 19619: Dais meeting minutes February 1985 – February 1992. Box 19620: Dais meeting minutes March 1992 – May 1996. Box 19621: Dais meeting minutes June 1996 – November 2000. Box 19622: Dais meeting minutes December 2000 – October 2005. Box 19623: Dais meeting minutes November 2005 – April 2009; Metropolitan Council meeting minutes 17 September 1969 – 6 June 1986. Box 19624: Membership lists for Central Council 1977-1999, Darling Downs Council 1977-2000, Metropolitan Council 1975-2000, Northern Council 1977-2000, South East Region Council 1977-1999, Wide Bay and Burnett Council 1977-1993, New Clubs Officer 1983-1999, and Distant Clubs 1977-2001.?Box 20766: Biennial Conference minutes 1961-1997. Box 20767: Biennial Conference minutes 1997(cont.)-2013. Box 20768: Annual Meeting and Special General Meeting minutes, 12 September 1998-11 September 2010; Decentralisation Minute Book 1965-1969; Folder of information regarding Forum Q150 events; Constitution of Forum Communicators Association Inc., 1999; ‘Speaking with confidence and style: six steps to speaking in public’ pamphlet; Newspaper clippings folder 1960-1975; Newspaper clippings 1960-1971; Price lists; Correspondence, 1972; Ephemera. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1948 Hazel Dobson was commissioned by the first Minister for Immigration, Arthur Calwell to investigate the living conditions and social problems of newly arrived refugees. Her report successfully recommended the employment by the Department of Immigration of professionally qualified social workers to assist migrants and refugees experiencing settlement difficulties. It also successfully recommended the enlistment of community organizations in helping new arrivals settle through what became the Good Neighbour Movement. She became the first Director of The Department of Immigration’s Assimilation and Social Welfare Section and continued in that role until her death. Hazel Dobson was born in St Leonards, Sydney, the daughter of Robert and Agnes Dobson. After completing her Leaving Certificate at North Sydney Girls’ High School, she trained as a nurse. She then commenced a course in what was then called Social Study, offered in Sydney from 1929 by the Board of Social Study and Training. She graduated from it at the end of 1939. During 1942, she and H.E. Howes undertook a study of the wartime living conditions in the NSW town of Lithgow, where the expansion of the Small Arms Factory had caused a major population influx. Their study was published by the Industrial Welfare Division of the Department of Labour and National Service in 1943. Hazel worked in Canberra with Arthur Calwell before his appointment as the first Minister for Immigration in 1945. In late 1948 she was asked to prepare a research report on the living conditions of aliens living in the community, and of refugees in the Department’s Reception and Holding Centres. Her report successfully suggested that the Department employ professionally qualified social workers to assist migrants and refugees experiencing settlement difficulties. On 1 July 1949, she was appointed the first Officer in Charge, Assimilation and Social Welfare, by the Department of Immigration in Canberra. Her Section started with 39 positions for professionally qualified social workers, initially in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Her report also successfully recommended that the Department co-opt community organisations to assist it in settling newly arrived migrants and refugees. The Good Neighbour Movement fulfilled this role Australia-wide from 1950 to about 1980, with Tasmanian branches operating still. Hazel Dobson was described by one of her staff as ‘a tall, handsome woman with shortish iron-grey hair, decisive but gently spoken, approachable and not at all intimidating, who was supportive of her staff and gave them a great deal of autonomy’. Based in Canberra, she headed the Assimilation and Social Welfare team until her death in about 1961. Published resources Book Redefining Australians: Immigration, Citizenship and National Identity, Jordens, Ann-Mari, 1995 Alien to Citizen. Settling migrants in Australia 1945-75 Allen and Unwin in association with Australian Archives., Jordens, Ann-Mari, 1997 Newspaper Article '\"Good Neighbor\" To Aid Migrants', 1949 'More Friendship Should Be Shown To Migrants', 1949 'Social Workers Appointments', 1949 'Plan To Assist Migrants: S.A. \"Good Neighbor\" Committee Formed', 1949 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Ann Tündern-Smith and Ann-Mari Jordens Created 8 October 2013 Last modified 13 February 2014 Digital resources Title: Hazel Dobson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nikki Henningham Created 13 June 2006 Last modified 4 September 2008 Digital resources Title: Photograph of Frederika Steen, head of the Women's Desk, Department of Immigration and Ethinic Affairs, 1984-7 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "35 letters by Daisy Bates to W. P. Hurst 1918-1922 (La Trobe No. Box. 595/Env. 3 Folder A); 30 letters by Daisy Bates to W. P. Hurst 1923-1926 (La Trobe No: Box/595/Env. 3, Folder B); 23 letters by Daisy Bates to W. P. Hurst 1927-1931 (La Trobe No. Box 595/Env. 3 Folder C); 30 letters (and fragments by Daisy Bates to W. P. Hurst 1933-1946 (La Trobe No. Box 595/Env. 4 Folder A); Articles by Daisy Bates (La Trobe no.: Box 595/Env. 4 Folder B); News cuttings 1919-1956 (La Trobe No. Box 595/Env. 4); Miscellaneous items (La Trobe No. Box 595/Env. 4, folder E); Miscellaneous correspondence (La Trobe No. Box 595/Env. 4, folder F) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ursula McConnel is recognised as an influential anthropologist of the Cape York Peninsula and a talented amateur photographer. McConnel used her photographs to illustrate publications of her research in magazines and ethnographic journals such as Oceania and Walkabout. She was also a collector of Indigenous artefacts. Content added for original entry by Lee Butterworth, last modified 11 June 2009 As one of the first students of A. R. Radcliffe-Brown’s Australian tenureship, Ursula McConnel conducted ethnographic fieldwork as a participant-observer in western Cape York Peninsula between 1927 and 1934. She worked chiefly among the Wik peoples, particularly the Wik Mungkan based at Aurukun Mission. As part of her anthropological study McConnel amassed a substantial material culture collection of over five hundred artefacts. Together with Donald Thomson’s collection from the same area, it forms a unique record of Wik Mungkan material culture from that period. In 2006 a large collection of professional papers belonging to Ursula was discovered and donated to the South Australian Museum. Ursula McConnel was an academic and a talented amateur photographer who used her photographs to illustrate her articles, which were published in magazines and ethnographic journals such as Walkabout. Ursula Hope McConnel was born at Cressbrook, Queensland on 27 October 1888. The eighth child of ten, her parents were James Henry McConnel and Mary Elizabeth (née Kent). They were farmers and graziers. She attended the Brisbane High School for Girls and went on to the New England Girls School in Armidale, NSW. A gifted student, she obtained first class honours in Philosophy at the University of Queensland. In 1905 she went to London where she took classes in history, literature and music at King’s College. Two years later in 1897 she returned to Australia and enrolled at the University of Queensland, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in 1918 and an MA with first class honours in 1921. Following this, in 1923 McConnel began a PhD in anthropology at University College in London, under the supervision of (Sir) Grafton Elliot Smith and William Perry. However, she did not complete her doctorate due to ill health and loneliness, and in 1926 returned to Australia. This was to prove a fateful decision, since it prevented her from ever attaining an academic position. She subsequently studied at the University of Sydney under the anthropologist Alfred Radcliff-Browne, who trained her in the techniques of fieldwork. Working under Radcliffe-Brown, the focus of her academic endeavour was an ethnographic study of the Aboriginal people of the people of the Cape York Peninsula and their culture. Beginning in 1927 she undertook five field trips to the Cape York Peninsula and conducted research into the Wik Mungkan. As part of her research project she took numerous photographs documenting the people and their artefacts. Joan Kerr in Heritage: The National Women’s Art Book has suggested that these photographs differ little from those taken by other male academics. She adds that there was little interest in women’s issues within the scholarly world at the time (Kerr 106). One such photograph is Food is carried in Dilly Bags Suspended from the Forehead’ (1936). Used to illustrate her article ‘Cape York Peninsula: Development and Control,’ it made no mention of women’s work, its only focus being the artefacts. She used the same photograph for her article ‘Inspiration and Design in Aboriginal Art.’ McConnel’s more ‘private, informal photographs,’ however, told a very different story to the official photographs. From these it is clear that she did indeed develop a particular interest in women’s artefacts and women’s business. The same photographs also show a more personal response to her sitters, their relaxed faces and postures reflecting the connection that had formed between her and the Indigenous people she met. McConnel published Myths of the Munkan (Melbourne, 1957) as well as numerous articles, many of which were published in Oceania and Walkabout. She was also a collector of Indigenous artefacts; these are held by a number of museums in Australia. While still working in Cape York, McConnel was awarded a Rockefeller fellowship to study under Edward Sapir at Yale University. Sapir was the pioneer of anthropological linguistics and this was consequently to become an important component of her fieldwork alongside photographic documentation and the collection and description of artefacts. McConnel never married, despite her striking good looks. At a time when most women were dependent financially on husbands, she made enough money to support herself through her investment in wool bonds and was able to retire in the mid-1930s. For the next 20 years she lived in Creswell. She died suddenly of a brain haemorrhage aged 69 in Brisbane on 6 November 1957. Sadly, academic recognition of and respect for her achievements only came after her death. Today, along with the work of Donald Thomson, her publications form the foundations of present-day anthropological research on Western Cape York Peninsula. Collections McConnel Collection, South Australian Museum Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales South Australia Museum Archives Ursula McConnel Collection, National Museum Australia Content added for original entry by Lee Butterworth, last modified 11 June 2009 Ursula Hope McConnel was born on the family property, Cressbrook, at Toogolawah, Queensland, to James Henry McConnel and Mary Elizabeth, née Kent. Her aunt, Mary Bundock, later Mrs Murray-Prior, was a significant early collector of Aboriginal artefacts from the Richmond River district of New South Wales and may have encouraged Ursula in developing a professional interest in the Aboriginal people of Queensland. After school at The Brisbane High School for Girls (Somerville House), and the New England Girls Grammar School, Armidale (New South Wales), Ursula went to London. She took courses in history, politics, literature and music between 1905 and 1907 at the women’s department, King’s College. Ursula enrolled at the University of Queensland in 1913, graduating BA with first class honours in 1918. She was appointed honorary demonstrator in the Philosophy Department where her brother-in-law, Elton Mayo, was professor. In 1922 she returned to London and enrolled as a PhD student in cultural anthropology at University College, London. In 1926 McConnel abandoned her thesis and returned to Australia to commence fieldwork among Aboriginal Australians in North Queensland with Professor Radcliffe-Brown of Sydney University. She stayed at the Presbyterian Mission at Aurukun as the guest of Reverend William and Geraldine (Gerry) Mackenzie, the friends and helpers of Frances Derham. McConnel, however, was publicly critical of the mission, and as a result she and other anthropologists were banned from it. In 1930 she received a grant from the Australian National Research Council and went to Cairns. From there, she and her friend Margaret Spence returned on horseback to Cape York, despite mission opposition. Although she published scholarly articles in Oceania and was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship to study under Edward Sapir at Yale University, Connecticut, United States of Americia in 1931, she was excluded from academic employment (which she bitterly resented) and denied a PhD on the grounds of insufficient publications. When research and fieldwork funding also dried up in the late 1930s, McConnel went into semi-retirement. She purchased a house at Eagle Heights, south of Brisbane in the late 1940s and continued to write up her field data on the Wik-Mungkana for publication, producing her book, Myths of the Munkan (1957), with help from her friend the poet Judith Wright, in the year of her death. The importance of McConnel’s scholarly contribution was recognized after her death. With those of Donald Thomson, her publications form the foundations of present-day anthropological research on Western Cape York Peninsula. She had devoted much of her life to this endeavour, driven by a sense of duty and justice towards the Aboriginals with whom she had worked. Published resources Book Native arts and industries on the Archer, Kendall and Holroyd Rivers, Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland, McConnel, Ursula H, 1953 Myths of the Munkan, McConnel, Ursula H, 1957 Journeys to the Interior, Rothwell, Nicholas, 2010 Brilliant Careers - Women collectors and illustrators in Queensland, McKay, Judith, 1997 First in Their Field: Women and Australian Anthropology, Marcus, Julie; Lepervanche, Marie de; McBryde, Isabel; Prior, Mary Ellen Murray; White, Isobel; Morris, Miranda; O'Gorman, Anne; Marcus, Julie and Cheater, Christine, 1993 Unexpected Treasure: Surprise Discovery of Early Anthropological Papers by Ursula McConnel in Adelaide, Sutton, Peter, 2006 Book Section The snake, the serpent and the rainbow : Ursula McConnel and Aboriginal Australians, O'Gorman, Anne, 1993 Ursula McConnel, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Only Sticks and Bark: Ursula McConnel - Her Collecting and Collection, O'Gorman Peruso, Anne, 2008 Resource Section McConnel, Ursula Hope (1888 - 1957), O'Gorman Perusco Anne, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150214b.htm Surprise Discovery of Early Anthropological Papers in Adelaide, Sutton, P, 2006, http://www.aas.asn.au/Newsletter/2006/103%20AAS%20Newsletter%20September%202006.pdf Ursula McConnel, Kerr, Joan, 2011, http://www.daao.org.au/bio/ursula-hope-mcconnel/biography/ Journal Article Cape York Peninsula: Development and Control, McConnel, Ursula Ursula McConnel : A Woman of Vision, O'Gorman, Anne Ethnographic Artifacts and Value Transformations, Henry, Rosita, Otto, Ton and Wood, Michael, http://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/29209/4/29209_Henry_et_al_2013.pdf Australian Anthropologists and Political Action 1925-1960, Sutton, Peter Ursula McConnel's Tin Trunk: A Remarkable Recovery, Sutton, P., 2010, http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/trssa/2010/00000134/00000001/art00007 Thesis Feminist Anthropology Thesis Topic: Re-reading Australian Women Ethnographers; a Feminist Appraisal of the Anthropological Work of Phyllis Kaberry, Olive Pink and Ursula McConnel in the 1930s, Leslie, Christina, 1995 Ursula McConnel: The Archaeology of an Anthropologist, O'Gorman, Anne, 1989 Perhaps if there had been more women in the north, the story would have been different: Gender and Race in North Queensland 1840-1930., Henningham, Nikki, 2000 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources The University of Adelaide, Barr Smith Library Rare Books & Special Collections Sir John Burton Cleland (1878-1971) - Papers, principally relating to anthropology and medicine South Australian Museum Archives Letters from Ursula McConnel to Fry Oceania vol. Xxl McConnel, Ursula Hope (AA 191) John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Ursula McConnel Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 4 July 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hours (approx. to date)??A series of interviews recorded to support a photographic collection held at the Latvian Museum, Adelaide called ‘A Window to Community Life of Displaced Persons before Migration to Australia.’ The stories focus on the experiences of displaced Latvians in Europe after the Second World War and the circumstances that led them to migrate to Australia. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Victorian Children’s Aid Society, originally named the Presbyterian Society for Neglected and Destitute Children, was established with the aim of rescuing ‘neglected and destitute children’. Its officers comprised a president, two vice presidents, a secretary and a committee. Although an initiative of the Presbyterian Church, by October 1894, it became interdenominational and independent, with its name changed to the Victorian Neglected Children’s Aid Society. The Society took in children, the majority of whom required temporary assistance and were the children of the ‘deserving poor’, and placed them with families in the country, who cared for them and educated them. Older children were taught household or farm work. It decided upon another name change in 1920, to the Victorian Children’s Aid Society. In 1991 it became Family Focus and in 1992 it merged with other children’s organisations to form Oz Child-Children Australia. As a result of a bequest Mrs Maria Amour left to Selina Sutherland, the Presbyterian Society for Neglected and Destitute Children was formed to continue the work that she and Selina Sutherland had begun in Melbourne. The founding president was the Reverend A Stewart. The Reverend J Thomson was the other man involved in the early committee. The founding committee comprised Mesdames Armstrong, Young, Sinclair, McCallum, Picken, Stewart, Hughes, Gunn, Munro, Roberts, Lambie and Misses Lorimer, Sutherland, Houston, Catt, Thomson, Sinclair, Gunn. Miss Selina Sutherland, as Agent of the Society, assumed responsibility for the care and placement of the destitute children. She was a Scottish nurse who had come to Melbourne via New Zealand, where she had been visiting her married sister. She met Mrs Maria Amour in Melbourne who had been involved in caring for homeless children. Selina Sutherland understood the importance of such work and decided to stay and assist with the children. As the Victorian Neglected Children’s Aid Society, it comprised five Honorary medical officers, and two Honorary Auditors. Mrs Bevan became president, with the Reverend Stewart as chairman. Miss Laws and Mrs McCallum were secretary and treasurer. The Council included Alfred Deakin, who was to become a prime minister of Australia, and Alexander Peacock who was premier of Victoria at the time of Federation. The Society worked from premises in La Trobe St from 1895 until 1901 when it moved to Swinburne House in Parkville. In 1908 Miss Sutherland left the Society and died shortly after in 1909. Courts committed children to the care of the Society or alternatively, parents or guardians signed the children over to it if they were unable to look after them. The Society accommodated these children in its home, but endeavoured to send them to approved foster homes in the country. Fostered children remained under the legal control of the Society and were visited by its Agents and social workers. As well as completely caring for children in this way, the Society also accepted children for short periods while their parents were in hospital or convalescing. In 1966 the Society removed its home and headquarters from Parkville to a new building at Black Rock. Published resources Book Selina's legacy: from VCAS to Oz Child, Hilton, Della, 1931-, 1993 Thesis The Victorian Charity Network in the 1890s, Swain, Shurlee, 1977 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records, 1893-1993 [manuscript]. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 October 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Records, comprising minutes, correspondence, reports and working files; also, documents relating to the Parliamentary Sub-Committee on the Philippines, 1985-1986, briefing papers, photographs and other documents of the Australian Human Rights Fact-Finding Mission, 1987; also, papers relating to the Philippines Action Support Group and Women in Solidarity with Women in the Philippines. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 August 2006 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Copies of the original typescript prepared by Margaret Kentley, entitled: “Sometimes the pilot wears a skirt”. This is a brief history of the development of aviation in Australia through the stories, experiences and associations of women pilots. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 8 October 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, personal documents, contracts, cutting books, photographs, radio scripts, and manuscripts of plays, novels and short stories. The correspondence includes letter written by Gwen Meredith to her family on her overseas trips in 1953, 1969 and 1973, letters relating to her research for ‘Blue Hills’, and papers documenting her long association with the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Correspondents include Ainsworth Harrison, John Blewitt, Gladys Blewitt, Beatrice Davis, W. Cousins, John Douglass, Charles Goldsmith, Sir Charles Moses, Frank Zeppel, James Pratt, F. D. Clewlow and Leslie Rees. There are incomplete sets of scripts of The Lawsons’ and Blue Hills’. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 October 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Rosalie Balkin is former Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) (London). While she held this position she also served as Secretary of IMO’s Legal Committee and for a time also as IMO’s Assistant Secretary-General. She was previously Assistant Secretary in the Office of International Law at the Federal Attorney-General’s Department in Canberra, Australia. She has held academic posts, including at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; at the University of Melbourne and University of New South Wales in Australia; and at the University of Cambridge, UK. Born in South Africa in 1950, Dr Rosalie Balkin completed her education (BA, LLB and PhD) at the University of the Witwatersrand. She emigrated to Australia in 1977, and was admitted as a Barrister, New South Wales Supreme Court and a Barrister and Solicitor, Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court in 1987. Between 1977 and 1987, she held a variety of short term, academic positions in Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada. Between 1987 and 1998 she worked in the Office of the Australian Attorney-General, first as Counsel; then Attorney-General Senior Government Counsel; then Assistant Secretary, Office of International Law. She joined the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in August 1998 as Director, Legal Affairs and External Relations Division and was promoted in 2011 to Assistant Secretary-General. She retired 31 December 2013. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Rosalie Balkin (with Nikki Henningham) Created 18 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound file (ca. 89 min.)??Sally Mitchell born in Cohuna, Vic. Talks about her father’s sawmill; her family background; the local timber source and the local state forest which is now a national park; the relationship between him as an independent miller and the forest commission; how the industry still operates in the area; the property she lives on ‘Wattle Creek’; learning her business skills from her mother; her education; getting a job in the National Bank; marrying; overseas travel, getting an illness which prevented her from working fulltime when she returned; leasing property at Gannawarra and Torrumbarry, running sheep and cattle; the purchase of a dairy farm; rural finance; her husband’s illness and death (1992); Austin Hospital; the birth of her daughter (India) in June 1992; working the farm with hired help; her nomination for the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award, winning the state award; public speaking; invitations to join boards and statutory authorities.??Mitchell discusses her involvement in the Victorian Women’s Advisory Council; how farm living should not be an emotional decision but a financial one; working at the Kerang TAFE with rural women; understanding the extent of rural women’s marginalisation; Cohuna Women in Agriculture Committee, teaching chemical handling and a women’s only Artificial Insemination course; her degree through Monash distance education, completing a Diploma in Education; meeting the other ABC Rural Woman Award nominees; Joan Kirner; getting involved in Agripolitics, United Dairy Farmers, Women’s Advisory Council, Target 10, Goulburn Murray Water; her Women in Agriculture involvement; being asked by IMG management group to join there stable of public speakers; women as agents of change in rural environments; Dairy Industry; horse riding being a very important part of their family life; Global Financial Crisis; her remarriage. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 27 April 2011 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A once-only candidate who ran for the Liberal Party in Lake Macquarie in 1981. Judith Ball studied medicine at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and community medicine in Hong Kong. At the time of her campaign she was a member of the Belmont Branch of the Liberal Party. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A prominent figure in New South Wales (NSW) local government, Barbara Armitage is credited with preventing Bondi Beach from becoming a high-rise precinct. She was an ALP candidate for Vaucluse in 1995, Alderman for the Waverley Municipal Council from 1979-1997 and Mayor of Waverley between 1987 and 1997. Barbara was appointed an OAM in 2002. Barbara Armitage was born in Sydney and was educated at Bondi Public School and Dover Heights Girls’ High School. She worked for the NSW Council of Social Services, as a Judge’s Associate and as a Project Officer to the Minister’s Advisory Service on Family and Children’s Services. Barbara joined the ALP in 1973 and has held numerous positions at branch and electorate level. In 2005 Barbara Armitage won the Local Government Outstanding Service Award. She was Mayor of Waverley for 10 years, the longest term served by a Mayor of Waverley in 150 years. Elected Mayor in 1987 with a policy to resist high-rise development on Bondi Beach, she implemented a Heritage Conservation plan. She also encouraged cultural events centred on Bondi, including the Festival of the Winds, Flickerfest and the Fringe Festival. She was Chairperson of the Sydney Coastal Councils. She was appointed to the Local Government Grants Commission, becoming Chairman in 1999. Barbara Armitage was a member of the Premier’s Crime Prevention Council and is an accredited mediator with the Community Justice Centre. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Charity Organisation Society of Melbourne was established in 1887 to help co-ordinate Melbourne’s charitable organisations and to foster the ideal of ‘self-help’ in the poor. The Society’s 21st Annual Report expressed the view that ‘to strengthen a man’s backbone rather than provide him with crutches, should be the aim of charity’. It has been claimed that it contributed to the development of social work as a profession, based on suitable training in appropriate disciplines. In 1947, the organisation became known as the Citizens Welfare Service of Victoria, reflecting a change in its approach towards casework counselling. It is now known as the Drummond St Relationship Centre. The Charity Organisation Society of Melbourne objects were to: encourage and organise charitable work and to promote co-operation within the different organisations; ‘to check imposture and professional mendicity, and to discourage indiscriminate alms-giving’; to inquire into all applications for assistance with the intention of determining if and in what way each case can be helped; to provide necessary relief during inquiry or pending arrangements with charitable institutions or assistance from other sources; to maintain a wood yard, or other labour test, so that the means of earning food and shelter shall be open to any applicant able and willing to work; to establish a loan fund; to keep records of all cases for reference and to maintain a Central Register of help given by all relieving agencies. The Society operated out of 47 Collins Place , Melbourne. It moved to premises at 197 Drummond St Carlton in 1947, when it changed its name to the Citizens Welfare Service of Victoria. The Society was administered by an Executive Committee which included the Office bearers and a committee of twelve, which the Council elected. No more than six of the Committee were to be ‘ladies’. Published resources Book Charity warfare: the Charity Organisation Society in colonial Melbourne, Kennedy, Richard, 1985 The Citizens Welfare Service of Victoria 1887-1987: a short history, Anderson, Paul, 1987 Report Annual report of the Charity Organisation Society of Melbourne, Charity Organisation Society of Melbourne, 1907 Journal The Charity review, 1909 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Charity Organisation Society Citizens Welfare Service of Victoria Citizens Welfare Service of Victoria Citizens Welfare Service of Victoria Citizens Welfare Service of Victoria Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 19 November 2003 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Cash books, 1977-1981; Correspondence, 1977-1981; Files, 1977-1981; Magazines, 1977-1981 (including Atelier); Press releases, 1980; Reports, 1980; Circulars. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 September 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1. Sonata for oboe and piano. 2. Trio for oboe and violins Author Details Clare Land Created 6 November 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Moira Rayner is a senior lawyer with particular expertise in workplace relations and anti-discrimination law, management and policy advice and investigations with a penchant for working closely with employers who appreciate the benefits of diversity and workforce participation. She chaired the Law Reform Commission in WA; was Commissioner for Equal Opportunity for Victoria; a Hearings Commissioner for the Australian Human Rights Commission; and an Acting Anti-Corruption Commissioner. In 2016 she is a practising lawyer, conciliator, mediator and educator: some of her research and other appointments have included Melbourne University (Advisory Board Labour Law Centre; Senior Fellow), Deakin (Adjunct Professor, Centre for Human Services), RMIT (Adjunct Professor School of Social Inquiry); Murdoch (Visiting Scholar), UWA (Lecturer, Senior Fellow Law School, Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre) and Curtin (Lecturer) and Australian Institute of Family Studies (Deputy Director, Research). Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Moira Rayner for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Moira Rayner and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Moira Rayner was born and educated in New Zealand. She was raised in a family environment of high academic expectations and Presbyterian values within a large network of extended family, in Dunedin. In her childhood New Zealand was socially, if not economically, a thriving and egalitarian country gradually coming to terms with its history of dispossession of the first Polynesian inhabitants and deliberate failure to meet its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi (1840). Moira’s family had been early settlers, and her great grandfather the Minister for Native Affairs, John Bryce, who was held responsible for much of the violent confrontations between Pakeha militia and Maori and especially for the dire consequences of imprisoning pacifist activists during the second wave of Land Wars in the latter part of the 19th century. In her final year at Columba College, aged 16, Moira’s family moved to Western Australia. At that time Perth was and seemed to her the most isolated capital city in the world. Throughout her subsequent career Moira has been and remains committed to the principle that every person has and should be able to exercise fundamental human rights at any age, whatever their personal characteristic such as social origin, ‘class’, race, disability and gender, particularly to participate effectively in the decisions that affect their lives. She established and ran her own law firm in Western Australia for 14 years, chaired the Social Security Appeals tribunal for 7; then chaired the Law Reform Commission in WA for 4 years, publishing reports on the evidence of children and other vulnerable witnesses, consent to medical treatment, laws prohibiting incitement to racial hatred and the authority of Justices of the Peace, among others. Moira Rayner became Victoria’s Commissioner for Equal Opportunity in 1990 and then a full time consultant to the international firm now known as Norton Rose Fulbright, where she established the firm’s Discrimination Law Practice, for 6 years while she was also a Hearings Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights Commission. After setting up the Office of Children’s Rights Commissioner for London (2000) she was appointed to the Anti-Corruption Commission and then its successor, the Crime and Corruption Commission before she returned to Victoria. She is (2016-2017) Chair of the Law Institute of Victoria’s Workplace Relations Section, which has 2700 members. Moira represents and advises employers on managing employee and management participation in workplace decision making as a solicitor in her current Melbourne practice. She has handled thousands of complaints and grievances as investigator, conciliator, mediator and arbiter; and conducted many law reform and quasi-judicial or investigative reviews including ethics and professional standards within the Anglican and Catholic churches; is an inspiring speaker, educator and trainer; mentors and supports people affected by investigations as well as managers affected by problems, and has also published two best-selling books. Career Highlights Moira established her own legal firm in WA (1975): this practice regularly provided free legal services to grossly disadvantaged people particularly mental patients, Aboriginals, migrants, children, and abused and battered women from that time, and she continued to do so at the Western Australian Bar (1985-1990). Founding member of the WA Association of Family Law Practitioners and of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia: as member of its then Courts (Federal) Committee was responsible for drafting the Council’s recommendations on the future of the Family Court (1987) under the chairmanship of the Hon. Daryl Williams QC later Attorney General in the Howard Coalition government. Vice Chair of the Welfare and Community Services Review (WA, 1983-1985) which, inter alia, caused a controversially adapted behaviour modification program in a children’s detention centre to be abandoned, introduced the concept of community-based services for children into the Department for Community Welfare, legislation and practice, and significant reform into the then child protection system (1983-84) Chaired the WA Child Care Planning Committee (1984-85) – this Commonwealth/State/non-government collaborative body was responsible for planning, implementing and coordinating the first ever provision by government of planned child care services in Western Australia. The Committee involved all three levels of government – Commonwealth (establishment and recurrent fees, sitting fees), State (provided land, architectural services and project management) and Local (support to centre management committees.) in a new collaborative model. Its Chair reported to both the Commonwealth and the State Ministers for Community Services. The Committee, with minimal resources, planned and eventually caused to be built and operate 11 community-managed child care centres/community houses with government-provided child care services, and changed the child care regulatory and inspection structure to enable a cost-effective model and an effective matching of supply and demand for child care across the community. Established Childright Inc, a voluntary association of lawyers for children and expert social workers, whose object was to improve the quality of decision-making by courts and tribunals affecting children in Australia, in 1986, on the model of the (then) effective Guardian ad Litem network in the UK After completing a Churchill Fellowship (1987) to study legal representation of children in the UK, established (with WA Law Society funding) the first training program for lawyers representing children in Australia (1988) through Childright. First woman Commissioner (full-time) (1986) and then first woman to be twice elected to chair the Law Reform Commission in Western Australia (second woman in Australia, after Elizabeth Evatt, to chair any LRC) 1988-90 Consultant to the HREOC Inquiry, Our Homeless Children, wrote a report on WA’s compliance with the Declaration on the Rights of the Child (1988). Helped establish and fundraised as well as chaired the Board of Directors of the National Children’s and Youth Law Centre Inc. (1993-2000) (based in Sydney) raising the profile of children’s rights and advocacy of their status and participation with government, including test cases on behalf of classes of children (Mt Druitt children’s successful civil action for defamation against a newspaper that profiled their ‘failure’) and individuals. Its website, Kidstuff, won international recognition (2000). Responsible for the report for the (federal) minister for Family Services, The Commonwealth’s Role in Child Protection, while Deputy Director of the Australian Institute of Family Services (1995) In 2000, established the Office of Children’s Rights Commissioner for London, which modelled effective participation of children in its own activities and at regional government level, by the Mayor of the Greater London Authority. This office also consulted effectively with children on their views of government and their city, published the first of a series of ground breaking research reports, The State of London’s Children (2001) and in partnership with the Greater London Authority, created the first children’s strategy for one of the world’s great cities to be predicated on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (2003, 2004) and which obliged the GLA to require consultation and evaluation of all mainstream strategies in terms of the Convention right of children to participate in decisions that affect them. As Acting Commissioner for Equal Opportunity, WA, 2002 introduced a public inquiry into the reasons for the persistent and rising rate of complaints by Aboriginal people about their access to public housing and allegations of discrimination against the State Housing Commission (2002) Was a commissioner of the WA Anti Corruption Commission (2002-2004) and an acting (occasional) commissioner of its successor, the Corruption and Crime Commission (until 2005). As Commissioner for Equal Opportunity in Victoria (1990-1994): Established the first Koorie community education and conciliation program by allowing it to be devised and run by Aboriginal staff to meet the unique needs of Aboriginal and TSI community in accessing equal opportunity complaints and a responsive community education regime By instituting proceedings for injunctive relief pending the resolution of the Commission’s finding that women prisoners detained in men’s prisons were subjected to discrimination, preserved the rights of women prisoners and ensured that government plans to close women’s prisons and collocate women with male prisoners were abandoned. The then Kennett government had proposed to close women’s prisons and co-locate men and women detainees in Pentridge Prison, in 1993. The Commission had conducted a formal statutory investigation into co-detention of women and men prisoners and concluded that such would be unlawful discrimination against women. Her public stand on this issue led to the proposal not being proceeded with, and her role being temporarily abolished. Rayner has been a social commenter and advocate of the rights and civil liberties of all peoples to participate fully and on terms of moral equality as citizens of their chosen communities, throughout her career. She has published and participated publicly on the proper uses of power in a representative democracy, civil society, ethics, and the human rights of disadvantaged groups, particularly children. Details of many of Moira Rayner’s published articles, conference papers, magazine and newspaper columns and speeches can be found at or through her website. Published resources Book The Women's Power Handbook, Kirner, Joan and Moira Rayner, 1999 Rooting Democracy - Growing the Society We Want, Rayner, Moira and Lee, Jenny, 1997 Article Feminist Fighter, Rayner, Moira, http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/FebMarch00/ray.html Book Section Foreword, Rayner, Moira, 2000 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Moira Rayner Created 12 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Moira Rayner Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Letters written by Kylie (Tennant) Rodd and her husband, L. C. Rodd to their friend Doris Chadwick. Most are written from Laurieton, N.S.W. and are undated. There are a small number of dated letters, 1942 to 1960, and press cuttings relating to Kylie Tennant. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A journalist with extensive experience in the print and electronic media Jill Singer has worked at all levels behind and in front of the camera and microphone across Australia for both commercial and public broadcasters. Jill has produced and presented radio programs from remote rural locations, and designed, produced and presented national television news and current affairs programs. As well as winning awards for television broadcasts on architectural and medical issues, Jill won the Walkley award in 1992 for best television investigative journalist and the Quill award for best television current affairs report in 1999. Jill Singer won the 1992 Walkley Award for best television investigative journalist for the story called ‘Baby M’. The story took six weeks to prepare and was described by the judges as ‘an outstanding report which investigated the circumstances surrounding very emotional issues – the death of a severely abnormal baby’. It was a story of national significance because it hinged on fundamental inadequacies in Australian law regarding the rights and obligations of doctors and parents in relation to the treatment of very disabled or sick newborn babies. In the course of producing the story, Singer negotiated exclusive access to doctors, specialists, Right to Life advocates and ‘Baby M’s’ parents. As a direct result of the story, the Victorian Law reform Commission drew up guidelines for parents and doctors so that the trauma endured by ‘Baby M’s’ parents would never be repeated. Events 1984 - 1992 - 1992 Best Investigative Report (Television), ‘Baby M’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1992 - 1992 Gold Award – Best Piece of Journalism, ‘Baby M’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Published resources Newspaper Article 'Inspiring' reporter and journalism educator Jill Singer dead at 60, Carmody, Broede and Lallo, Michael, 2017, http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/inspiring-reporter-and-journalism-educator-jill-singer-dead-at-60-20170608-gwmxi9.html Report The Media Report: Women in the Media, Warren, Agnes, 1995, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/mstories/mr161101.htm Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (Australia) - records of the W.G. Walkley Awards, 1956 - 1999 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 November 2007 Last modified 31 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Patience Rosemary Thoms was elected as the eighth president of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women at the Eleventh International Congress (1968) in London, England and held that position until 1971. She was the first International President from Australia, and also the first from the Southern Hemisphere. She had previously served as Australian President from 1960-1964. She was the Women’s News Editor of The Courier Mail for twenty years from 1956. As President of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women (IFBPW), Pat Thoms made it a goal to visit as many affiliates as possible to facilitate two-way communication. During her previous twenty-two years of membership, she had held many positions of leadership in both Brisbane Professional Women (BPW) Australia and the IFBPW and was well qualified for leading the organisation, founded in 1930, into its fortieth year. Although she lived 13,000 miles from International Headquarters in London, Australia’s geographical location meant that she had to pass over or through many countries in order to get to Headquarters. She therefore made it a point to visit as many affiliates as possible on her way to and from Executive Committee meetings. Logging over 200,000 miles during her term of office, President Thoms visited members in twenty-nine countries. The trip that was both the longest in distance and shortest in duration covered 29,000 miles in fifteen days! She wrote a history of the first 25 years of the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women’s clubs, 1947-1972. On her retirement as the Women’s News Editor of the Courier Mail in 1976 aged 60, she applied for admission to the Bachelor of Arts program in the School of Modern Asian Studies at Griffith University. She graduated in 1980. She worked part-time for the University as a public relations consultant from 1982 to 1986 before being elected to the University Council as a member of Convocation and an appointee of the Governor-in-Council. In 1981 she became first chair of the new Brisbane College of Advanced Education Council. In 1988, she was elected deputy Chancellor of Griffith University and held the position until 1990. She was admitted to the degree of Doctor of the University in 1990. Griffith University awards the Patience Thoms Indigenous Australian (Honours/Postgraduate) Scholarship annually. The scholarships are designed to assist Indigenous students moving onto Honours and Graduate studies at the University. Patience Thoms regarded herself as a feminist, “but not a radical one”. In an interview with a female journalist in 1995, she recalled: “the changes over the years since 1946 when I first became associated with the business and professional women’s organization are really quite extraordinary”. “Today’s feminists don’t think it’s changed enough, and it hasn’t. There are many things that still need to be done.” Associated organisations: Member of the Queensland Film Board of Review (1974-1985) Member of Ethics Committee of the Australian Journalists’ Association Member of the National Drug Advisory Council Member of the Council of Queensland Women Published resources Resource History: 1968 - 1971 Patience R. Thoms, BPW International, http://www.bpw-international.org/about-bpw/about-bpw-history-vol2-1968-1971.htm# Patience Thoms OBE DUniv, Griffith University, http://www.griffith.edu.au/office-vice-chancellor/pdf/thoms-plaque.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Madge Cope discusses the Union of Australian Women. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "8 sound files Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes, reports, correspondence, Medical Women’s International Association conference and congress material, mailing lists, financial records, press cuttings and printed material. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 26 August 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Federal Women’s Committee ( FWC) was established at the inaugural meeting of the Federal Council of the Liberal Party in August 1945. It is the peak body representing women in the Liberal Party and acts as a voice for women in the development of policy and party organisational matters. Its aims are to promote and encourage women to become involved in political life, to contribute effectively to the formulation of policy and to assist the Party in implementing its decisions through effective community interaction. Each State and Territory Division of the Liberal Party has a women’s section, with constituted powers and representation at senior Party levels. Another role of the Federal Women’s Committee is to act as a coordinating body of women’s work and activity within the divisional Women’s Sections, receiving and distributing information from the women in the Divisions and reporting to the Federal Executive of the Party through the President of the Committee. The President of the Committee is also a member of the Advisory Committee on Federal Policy. The voting membership of the Federal Women’s Committee comprises the Chairperson of each state and ACT Women’s Section, the woman Federal Vice-President of the Party, the President and Immediate Past President of the Federal Women’s Committee. The Committee usually meets in Canberra three or four times a year to discuss policy issues. The Liberal Party of Australia was the first political party in Australia to make provision for equal numbers of men and women in some of its senior Party positions, particularly in the Victorian Division, which has had a formal provision for equal representation at vice-presidential level. Published resources Pamphlet The Australian woman: her future and opportunity, Liberal Party of Australia, 1949 Book Beryl Beaurepaire, McKernan, Michael, 1999 Women of influence: the first fifty years of women in the Liberal Party, Sydenham, Diane, 1996 Menzies' child: the Liberal Party of Australia, 1944-1994, Henderson, Gerard, 1994 A Liberal nation: the Liberal Party & Australian politics, Simms, Marian, 1982 The Australian Liberals and the moral middle class: from Alfred Deakin to John Howard, Brett, Judith, 2003 Robert Menzies' forgotten people, Brett, Judith, 1992 Liberal women : Federation to 1949, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2004 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Liberal Party of Australia, Federal Secretariat, circa 1945-1990 [manuscript] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4 sound files (approximately 4 hr. 45 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Following the introduction of the Legal Practitioners Act of 1905, Agnes McWhinney became the first Queensland woman to be admitted as a legal practitioner in 1915. Agnes was also the first female solicitor to practise in Queensland. Agnes McWhinney wanted to be a doctor after she graduated from Townsville Grammar School. The nearest medical school was in Sydney and very expensive, therefore Agnes was persuaded by her brother Joseph, who had nearly completed his Articles of Clerkship in Townsville at Wilson and Ryan, solicitors, to take articles herself. In 1910 Wilson and Ryan accepted Agnes as an articled clerk which was a revolutionary step at the time. Northern Supreme Court Judge Mr Justice Pope Cooper was not impressed with the idea of a woman entering his legal profession and became distinctly choleric at the very mention of her name. Ultimately he was unable to fault her qualifications and conduct and found himself powerless to find any basis on which to refuse her admission. On 7 December 1915 Agnes was admitted to practise as a solicitor which was sufficient to make her a part of Australian history. Agnes undertook work of the same complexity and importance as that of her colleagues, however, she was paid the same as the unqualified office boy. Agnes did not stand for her bosses’ discrimination and her persistent protests resulted in her wage rising to 3 pounds ten shillings per week. Agnes continued to practise as a solicitor with the firm until 1919 when she married Lowell Mason Osborne on 23 March 1920. After her marriage Agnes did not undertake paid employment again but used her skills in community service. The Queensland Law Society’s award, which commemorates 100 years of women in the law, is named in honour of Agnes McWhinney. Published resources Resource Agnes McWhinney, The Supreme Court of Queensland Library, 2003, http://www.sclqld.org.au/schp/exhibitions/witl/biographies/mcwhinney.htm Agnes McWhinney (1891 - 1987), The State of Queensland; Department of Communities, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1910/index.html#item-agnes-mcwhinney Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Agnes McWhinney, Bird, E., 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 14 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Established in 1979, the Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia (FECCA) is the peak, national body representing Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. FECCA is a non-political community-based organisation that advocates, lobbies and promotes issues on behalf of its constituency to government, business and the broader community. Apart from its national office professional staff, it is supported by the work of a voluntary Executive Council. FECCA strives to ensure that the needs and aspirations of Australians from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds are given proper recognition in public policy. The organisation works to promote fairness and responsiveness to its constituency in the delivery and design of Government policies and programs. FECCA promotes Multiculturalism as a core value that defines what it means to be Australian in the 21st century. FECCA works to protect the fundamental rights of all Australians, regardless of cultural, spiritual, gender, linguistic, social, political or other affiliations or connections. The 1978 Galbally Review of post arrival programs and services for migrants set the scene for the establishment of the Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia (FECCA) in 1979. The report focused on migrant community concerns over the lack of equity in accessing education, employment, communication, legal and social services that particularly highlighted the inequalities in the labour market. A range of recommendations were documented, including the recommendation that ethnic communities themselves had a vital role to play in advancing multiculturalism in Australia. FECCA boasts a number of achievements but its strength lies in the number of key advocacy activities that include: The need for affordable translating and interpreting services, The need for English language services, adult migrant English programs and training and retraining programs, Recognition of overseas qualifications, The elimination of racial discrimination in any form, The need for media services to meet the needs of our diverse population, including SBS television and radio, community radio and multilingual media organisations throughout Australia, A non-discriminatory immigration policy, A balanced immigration program with particular emphasis on family reunion and humanitarian entrants, The abolition of the two-year waiting period for migrants to access social security benefits, Inclusive social policies, promotion of multiculturalism, and acceptance of cultural, linguistic and faith diversity, Strong social justice policies, The benefits of productive diversity by recognising and capitalising on our culturally and linguistically diverse workforce. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia Ethnic spotlight : newsletter of the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia FECCA congress report / Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia Inc. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 September 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence, curriculum vitae, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous papers. Includes papers regarding Bessie Mabel Rischbieth. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 March 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In the nineteenth century Italians priests performed missionary work in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory and the Italian linguist Raffaello Carboni played a significant role in the Eureka Stockade revolt of 1854. Small Italian communities catered to miners on the goldfields of Victoria and Western Australia. In 1885 a group of some 300 migrants from northern Italy established a traditional Italian community called ‘New Italy’ in northern New South Wales (NSW). Italian fishermen also established communities along the south coast of NSW, Port Pirie and Fremantle. During this period Italian labourers arrived in Queensland to work on the cane fields. By the late 1930s, one third of all Australia’s Italian migrants lived in the cane-growing regions of Queensland. Italians also became involved in market gardens, comprising about 40 per cent of Queensland’s market gardeners. In 1947 the population of the Italy-born was 33,632 persons and by 1971 the number had increased to 289,476 persons. Most of the Italian migrants came from Sicily, Calabria and Veneto and settled in metropolitan areas. Italy experienced economic buoyancy after 1971, and this prompted many Italians to leave Australia and return to Italy. This led to a decline in the size of the Italian population in Australia. The 1996 Census recorded a drop in the number of Italy-born persons to 238,216. The latest Census in 2001 recorded 218,750 Italy-born persons in Australia, a decrease of 8 per cent from the 1996 Census. The 2001 distribution by State and Territory showed Victoria had the largest number with 90,810 followed by New South Wales (60,640), South Australia (25,040) and Western Australia (23,090). The median age of the Italy-born in 2001 was 62.0 years compared with 46.0 years for all overseas-born and 35.6 years for the total Australian population. The age distribution showed 0.4 per cent were aged 0-14 years, 0.7 per cent were 15-24 years, 11.9 per cent were 25-44 years, 45.0 per cent were 45-64 years and 42.0 per cent were 65 and over. Of the Italy-born in Australia, there were 114,860 males (52.5 per cent) and 103,900 females (47.5 per cent). The sex ratio was 110.5 males per 100 females. At the 2001 Census, the rate* of Australian Citizenship for the Italy-born in Australia was 79.9 per cent. The rate for all overseas-born was 75.1 per cent. Published resources Edited Book The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Jupp, James, 2001 Journal Article Lena Santospirito - the Person, Santospirito, Tony, 2001 Book A profile of the Italian Community in Australia, Ware, Helen, 1981 Archival resources Italian Historical Society Santospirito Collection National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Franca Arena, 1959-2005 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Franca Arena - papers, ca.1960-2000 State Library of South Australia Italo-Australian Women in South Australia : SUMMARY RECORD [sound recording] Interviewers: Marina Berton & Caterina Andreacchio State Library of Victoria Music of migrant groups in Australia, [197-?]. [sound recording]. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "51 minutes??Kathleen Russell was born at Mount Gambier, South Australia. She came to Adelaide to live in 1936 and explains how involvement in the Housewives Association was one of the activities she turned to after she was widowed in the late 1960s. In speaking of the Association’s membership and activities, she describes ‘at homes’ held at the Adelaide headquarters where companies would demonstrate their goods in an effort to achieve endorsement. This aspect of the Association’s activities, and others such as lobbying government about prices, has declined markedly in recent years. A former Vice-President of the Housewives Association, Mrs Russell kindly offered to be interviewed because those who had most to do with running the Association over the last 20 years, such as Lorna Hausler, were either no longer alive or were too ill and unable to do so. Consequently, the interview is really an overview of the Association as Mrs Russell is aware of it. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Manuscript, photos, annual reports, minute books, unpublished typescript histories. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 5 February 2007 Last modified 5 February 2007 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Patricia Rawlings served with the WRAAC for 23 years. She has held executive positions with state and national WRAAC Associations."
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    {
        "text": "The Unemployed Women’s Union was a response to the economic downturn of 1980. The members wanted to debunk the myth of married women who were working as the cause of unemployment, to defend the right for all women to work, and to act as a support group for unemployed women. They picketed employers, published a newsletter, spoke at rallies, wrote letters to newspapers and politicians, and applied for jobs en masse. The Unemployed Women’s Union was a response to the economic downturn of 1980. They wanted to debunk the myth of married women working as the cause of unemployment, defend the right for all women to work, and as a support group for unemployed women. The picketed employers laying off women and published a newsletter called ‘Fury’. They provided speakers at rallies, wrote letters to newspapers and politicians, and applied for jobs en masse. They formed the Unemployed Women’s Union Support Group. The union liaised with the Working Women’s Centre on issues of discrimination, unfair dismal. Unemployed Women’s Union produced stickers, badges, pamphlets and made a banner for marches. They participated in the Beef March of 1980. This was a reference to a famous march of unemployed in Adelaide during the Great Depression. Some of the women involved included Silver Moon, Betty Fisher, Jillinda Thompson, Anne Farrer, Chris Wijesinha, Lyz Holdsworth, Claire Groves, Evelyn Dent and Dale Bacon. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newsletter Liberation, 1970 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection Unemployed Women's Union : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 6000 consists primarily of material collected by Andrews during her research into traditional social dance in Australia, although her political activism, medical research and personal interests are also represented in the collection. The collection comprises correspondence, handwritten notes, publications, photocopies of articles and book extracts, photographs and other graphic material (25 boxes, 1 elephant folio).??The Acc12.117 instalment comprises the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) Andrews received in 1994 for her contribution to Australian dance. The engraving on the medal verso reads “Shirley Aldythea Andrews” (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "BOX 1?Folder 1: ‘Correspondence to A Blake…’, 1949, 1966, 1990-2001, being correspondence, mainly letters received. Correspondents include Jan Blake, ca. 1984; Race Mathews, 1992; Joy Storie, 1996; Mavis Robertson, 1998; Jack Blake, date unknown; Mona Brand, 1997; Len Fox, 1997; Geoff Sharp, 2000; Elizabeth Harrower, 2001; Terry Irving, 2001; Wendy Beckett, 2001; Editors of Arena and Overland, 2000; Guy Rundle, 2001; Stuart Macintyre, 2001; Geraldine Doogue, 1997; Bruce Armstrong, 1944, date unknown; and postcards from Audrey in London and Italy to Mrs Williams, c/- Eureka Youth League, Sydney??Folder 2: ‘Correspondence during Jack’s last illness…’, 1990-2001, being correspondence, mainly letters received, with Geoff Sharp, 2000; Nonie Sharp, 2000, Amirah Inglis, date unknown; and Frank Stilwell, 2000??Folder 3: Correspondence of Jack and Audrey Blake, being mainly letters received, 1959-2001. Correspondents include Blake their grandchildren, David, Katy and Rick Sandblom; Jan Blake, date unkbown; Amirah Inglis, 1983; Stuart Macintyre, ca. 1998, date unknown; Joy Storie, 1991; Jim Staples, date unknown; Rod Shaw, date unknown; Elizabeth Harrower, 1990, 1998; Frank Stilwell, 2001; Bruce Johnson, 1991; Pauline Armstrong, 1998; Phillip Deery, 2000??Folder 4: ‘Blake – Higgins’, being correspondence with Stuart Macintyre, 1997, mainly regarding Esmonde Higgins??Folder 5: ‘Correspondence – & Family Stuff’, 1979-2002, including letters of condolence received on the death of Jack Blake. Correspondents include Elizabeth Harrower, 2000; Stuart Macintyre, 2000; Jim Adams and Jean Adams, 2000; Phillip Deery, 2001; Amirah Inglis, 1998; Bruce Armstrong, 2002; Geoff Sharp, 1998-1999; Audrey McDonald and Tom McDonald, date unknown; with postcards (3) from Audrey to Jack, date unknown; correspondence of Audrey Blake with Public Trust Offic, Vic., 1979-1982, regarding her late brother Reginald B. J. Boyd; notes by Audrey for obituary of Jack; and copy of income tax return of Jack Blake, 1972-1973??Folder 6: Letters from Audrey Blake to Edward John Walker and Margaret Walker, 1987-1998??Folder 7: Letter received by Audrey Blake from Margaret and Jack [Walker ?], 2000; photocopy of Stuart Macintyre’s obituary of Jack Blake, The Australian, 11 Dec. 2000; and note by Jack Blake for [or] regarding Evelyn Healy??Folder 8: Correspondence, 1969-2004. Correspondents include Blake grandchildren, 1987-1992; Helen Palmer, 1969; Mitchell Library, 1993; Amirah Inglis, 1979, 2002; Stuart Macintyre, 2002; Gavin Kitching; Ken Inglis, 2004; Phillip Deery, 2001; and Walter Seddon Clayton, 1992??Folder 9: ‘Family Personal etc.’, ca. 1980-2000, including letters received from grandson, David Sandblom, 1991, date unknown; passports (2) of Jack and Audrey Blake, 1980-1982; copy of Jack Blake’s death certificate, 23 Oct. 2000; and issue of Blake’s Humour and Satire Monthly, no. 1 Apr. [1983]??Folder 10: ‘Personal Stuff’, 1954, 1967-1994, including notes and writings by Jack Blake and personal documents, and letters to Audrey??Folder 11: Photographs of Jack and Audrey with family and friends, 1937-1994??BOX 2?Folder 1: ‘Audrey’, being photocopies of Eureka Youth League Syllabus 1945; issue of Young Engineer, issued by Melbourne District Youth Committee of Amalgamated Engineering Union, Apr. 1943; listing of Communist Party of Australia Victorian State Committee Collection at the University of Melbourne Archives; ‘If Those Walls Could Only Speak’ by Harry Stein in Jazz, Summer/Autumn 1986??Folder 2: Articles and speeches by Jack Blake, 1956-1991, including manuscript, typescript and printed versions, and list of articles written by Jack and Audrey Blake in Communist Review, 1950-1956??Folder 3: ‘Articles by JDB’, 1968-1972??Folder 4: ‘Writings & Speeches of A. Blake’, being photocopy of ‘The Death & The Funeral’, Sept. 1997, a critique on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales??Folder 5: ‘Notes & Speeches & Articles by JDB for the Mitchell Library’, 1950-1988, being photocopies of articles from Communist Review, 1950??Folder 6: Red folder of Audrey Blake papers, 1965-2002, including listing of Audrey Blake Collection, University of Melbourne Archives, Accession No. 96/60, and folder regarding the film Red Matildas, ca. 1985??Folder 7: ‘Odd Notes of JDB’, 1958-1997, including notes on multiculturalism, and ‘Notes on Patrick White’, based on discussion on the Left of White’s work with correspondence with Stephen Murray-Smith, 1962??BOX 3?Folder 1: ‘EYL Material / Students’ Labour Clubs / etc’, 1941-1954, 2001, including printed material and copy of ‘Vale Jim Adams’ by Bruce Armstrong, 30 Aug. 2001??Folder 2: ‘Songs, Youth, E.Y.L., Students’, 194-195-, including song books??Folder 3: ‘The Eureka Youth League’, 1954, 1964, 1996-2001, including copies of Constitution, 1954, 1964; obituaries of Pauline Armstrong (1928-2001) and Audrey Blake’s funeral oration for Rivkah Mathews, Feb. 1998; and annotated newscutting regarding EYL camp near Yarra Glen, Vic. From Sunday Herald Sun, 4 Feb. 1996??Folder 4: Friends’, including poem by Marjorie Pizer, May 1969 and presentation program of Penrith’s Q Theatre production of Reedy River, signed by the playwright Dick Diamond??Folder 5: Folder containing copy The Road to Peace (1954) by J. E. Owen??Folder 6: ‘Work in progress until 3 days before he entered hospital…’, being notes compiled by Jack Blake on aspects of Communist Party of Australia history??Folder 7: ‘Chronology attempts & material JDB was working on until 3 days before hospital’, 1945-1950, 1981, 2000, including notes and copies of his writings, and correspondence with Evelyn Healy and Kevin Healy??Folder 8: Reviews of Revolution from Within (1971-1972) by Jack Blake??Folder 9: Miscellaneous and printed material, 1967-2000, including draft of ‘Community Carnival or Cold War Strategy ? The 1952 Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship’ by Phillip Deery and copy of ‘Lithgow’s Last Years as a Steel Town’ by a. C. Clarke, Lithgow District Historical Society Occasional Papers, no. 15, Apr. 1980??BOX 4?Bound annotated volumes of Communist Review, 1949-1952, with photocopies from selected issues; issue of Communist Review, vol 4 no. 9, Sept. 1937; and copy of Bartlett Adamson (Mar. 1963) by Len Fox, being signed presentation received from the author Author Details Alannah Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sawer speaks of her upbringing in New Zealand, her parents’ background, the family migrating to Australia in 1958 and her subsequent academic education, early married life, scholarly pursuits, the increasing involvement in the Women’s Movement and gender politics, her appointment as Chair of the Political Science Program at the ANU’s Research School of Social Sciences, current academic interests, her involvement in key feminist campaigns such as the enactment of sex discrimination legislation in the A.C.T. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2013 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, manuscript, minutes, speeches, broadcasts, cuttings, publications, mainly relating to Ruby Rich’s involvement in numerous women’s, Jewish, cultural and international organisations. They include the Australian Federation of Women Voters, International Alliance of Women, Women’s International Zionist Organisation, United Nations Commission on Status of Women, Racial Hygiene Centre, Family Planning Association of New South Wales, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Judge Rainbow Memorial Appeal Fund, United Nations Association of Australia, Commonwealth Countries’ League, Australia-Israel Society for Cultural Exchange and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Correspondents include her sister Vera Wild and Bessie Rischbieth, Edith Hedger, Julia Rapke, Constance Davey and Maurice Schalit. Author Details Clare Land Created 26 November 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Boxes 27 (NCWA Board Minutes Books 1979 – 1982) and 28 (NCWA Papers 1984 – 2006). Author Details Elizabeth Daniels Created 6 September 2013 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Kerry Snell is a campaigner for equitable access to mainstream services and ensuring that people with disability are well represented through diverse leadership. Read an interview with Kerry Snell in the online exhibition Redefining Leadership. Born in Brisbane, when Kerry was young she experienced frequent extended hospital visits. Through this exposure Kerry became aware of the importance of good governance for institutions to ensure that people accessing them are treated respectfully and with dignity. As her eyesight began to degenerate she devised a myriad of workarounds that disguised her vision loss. This made Kerry adept at problem solving, and finding adaptations and solutions to the challenges vision loss presents. Kerry trained and worked as a teacher and went on to use these teaching skills as a consumer advocate. Holding governments and institutions to account for their policies and prejudices is an important facet of her community involvement. As an advocate for diversity in government and the community, Kerry is also wary of tokenism. A clear commitment to equity and social justice naturally made Kerry a feminist too. Women with disability suffer higher rates of disadvantage and stigmatisation. Created 21 February 2019 Last modified 21 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Judy Finlay has been treasurer of the Australian Women’s Land Army Association New South Wales since 1996. At the outbreak of World War II, Judy Finlay was working at M & J Frocks, a frock and suit manufacturer, as a junior finisher and machinist. She joined the Women’s Australian National Service (WANS) soon after it was established in 1940, and completed First Aid and Air Raid Precautions courses, while continuing to work in Sydney. Her first placement with the WANS was at the Scarborough Children’s Home. Here she worked four hour evening shifts twice a week helping staff take care of the children’s needs. After a couple of months she transferred to the WANS Land Army Section and was sent to the farming districts of Leeton and Wamoon. Her main task was to help farmers with the vegetable and fruit picking. Next she completed a six month course on a training farm for agricultural and dairying work. She was then posted to Barker College, Hornsby. Here the two Land Army girls shared the tasks of looking after the cows, fowls and a vegetable garden. Finlay stayed at the College until December 1945, when she returned to Sydney and her position at M & J Frocks. Following her marriage to Alex Finlay she continued working, eventually becoming forewoman with the responsibility of overlooking the retail division. While her two children were young, Finlay took in home sewing. She established a small retail outlet in which she sold the clothes that she produced. Later she began running a grocery/mixed business. In 1946 Finlay joined the newly established Australian Women’s Land Army Association N.S.W. She has held the position of treasurer for the Association since 1996. In October 2002, Judy Finlay represented the Australian Women’s Land Army Association on the Australian Women in War Project working party. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Interview with Judy Finlay, 2003, http://australiansatwarfilmarchive.unsw.edu.au/archive/22-judy-finlay Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 February 2004 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Although she only stood for election once (Council for the Defence of Government Schools candidate for Heathcote in 1971), Edna McGill spent a lifetime campaigning for public education. At the time of her campaign, Edna McGill had lived in the Heathcote area for more than two decades. She had been the Secretary of the Heathcote Progress Association for six years, the Heathcote Bush Fire Brigade, and the Parents and Citizens Associations of primary and secondary schools in the area over 15 years. Her interest in public education did not wane. In 2003, she was a member of the Board of the NSW Community Language Schools. In 2004, she shared the first Meritorious Service to Public Education award with Professor Tony Vinson and Mr Jim Harkin. The citation on the award stated that “for more than 40 years, Edna McGill has made an outstanding contribution to education in NSW …her contribution covers such areas as curriculum, support for multicultural education, the education of indigenous students and for anti-racism programs” She was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1986 for services to education and the community. She was a former Chair, Treasurer and member of Ethnic Communities’ Council, and in 2005 was a member of the Management Committee. She died at home on 24 August 2016 at home in the company of her beloved son Peter and friend, Julie. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 9 September 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sarah Hynes was the first woman to hold a government appointment in science in New South Wales. In 1934 she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Sarah Hynes was born in Danzig, Prussia and lived in England until migrating to Australia with her family in 1884, when her father became managing director of the Australasian Steam Navigation Co. She was educated at Edinburgh Ladies’ College, London, and at Chichester College, Sussex. She received a botanical certificate from South Kensington Museum, Science and Art Department. After travelling to Australia, she enrolled at the University of Sydney and graduated in 1891 with a Bachelor of Arts and a major in botany. In 1892 she became the first woman to join the Linnean Society of New South Wales, which promotes the cultivation and study of the science of natural history. She began her career in science as a teacher at Sydney Technical College in 1897. In 1898 she was offered a position as botanical assistant at the Sydney Technological (Powerhouse) Museum, thereby becoming the first woman to hold a government appointment in science in New South Wales. She later transferred to the herbarium at the Botanic Gardens but clashed with her male superior, ultimately leading her to transfer to the Department of Public Instruction in 1910. In 1913 she returned to teaching, first at Cleveland Street then at Petersham High Schools, seeing out her career in 1923 at St George Girls’ High School. In 1934 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Published resources Resource Section Hynes, Sarah (1859-1938), Hooker, Claire, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10242b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, 1926-1934. [manuscript] Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 10 September 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Peter Sekuless interviews Mrs Jean Thurlow as part of his research into the life of Jessie Street. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection comprises correspondence, draft chapters, final chapters, galley proofs and book reviews for “Sweet mothers, sweet maids : journeys from Catholic childhoods” edited by Dominica and Kate Nelson. The 20 contributors to the book were: Val Hawkes, Deirdre Cook, Veronica Brady, Pauline Toner, Eileen Balsamo, Anne Gorman, Lorna Hannan, Barbara Rooney, Babette Francis, Mary Larnach-Jones, Kerry Eccles, Therese Radic, Kathleen Curmi, Anna Rutherford, Caty Kyne, Lilyan Staniforth, Margaret O’Sullivan, Pamela Winter, Venetia Nelson and Amanda Lohrey. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mai Ho arrived in Australia in December 1982 with two small daughters and sixteen dollars. By 1997 she was Mayor of Maribyrnong. Twelve months later her daughter, Tan Le, was voted Young Australian of the Year. Raised in Saigon’s District 5 at the outbreak of the Vietnam War, Mai’s childhood was characterised by constant threats to safety in the midst of tremendous political unrest. Mai was strongly influenced by her anti-communist father, who published a controversial bilingual political magazine for American and Vietnamese soldiers. He encouraged her to understand and help others, and urged her to consider the possibility of escape from Vietnam. Aged sixteen, Mai married a wealthy pharmacist eighteen years her senior. By 1981 she was preparing to escape Vietnam by boat. In early morning darkness, she left with her daughters Tan and Min, her mother, sister and brother, and 161 fellow passengers. Her husband was to join her a fortnight later. An indescribably awful journey ended with rescue by an English vessel and transport to a Malaysian camp. Here Mai worked as a translator before gaining passage with her family to Australia. Housed in the Midway Hostel, Maribyrnong, Mai began work picking fruit to support her family. Her husband, she learned, did not intend to join her after all. The family moved to Footscray, where sheer persistence obtained for Mai a position in Quality Control for the Holden factory. She was the first female inspector at Fishermen’s Bend, Port Melbourne, where she earned more than the Vietnamese men working on the factory line. While raising two children and working full time, Mai took on and completed a Bachelor of Arts (human resource management) and tertiary qualifications in computer operations and health science (beauty therapy). In 1987 she opened her own computer business and prospered. By 1990 she felt secure enough to open her own beauty salon. Meanwhile, conscious of the struggles of those in her position, Mai set up a Vietnamese community support service. With her own savings she co-financed a venue, electricity and a telephone. At the age of twelve, her eldest daughter Tan was manning the telephone and helping people to fill out government forms. By 1992, Mai decided to stand for the local election. With strong support, she was defeated due to hundreds of uncounted informal votes. The following year she joined the Labor Party, and this time was victorious. She returned to her country of birth in 1995 with the Australian Consultative Delegation to Vietnam, the first delegation to investigate human rights there. By 1997 Mai Ho was Mayor of Maribyrnong. The same twelve-year-old Tan who was answering the telephone would become president of the Australian Vietnamese Services Resource Centre (as it is now known) by the age of eighteen. In this role she implemented counselling, training and employment programs, and refuge services for Vietnamese women. Despite some racist ridicule at school, Tan had maintained outstanding academic results and graduated to university at the age of sixteen. Awarded a KPMG Accounting Scholarship in 1997, she went on to complete a combined Bachelor of Commerce/Laws at Monash University in 1998 and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor two years later. In 1998, Tan’s contribution to community service was recognised nationally and internationally when she was awarded Young Australian of the Year. In 2000 she co-founded a wireless technology company, SASme. The company has grown to become a leading wireless technology provider in Australia, with branches in Asia and Europe. Still young, Tan’s has already been a distinguished career with appointments on the Australian Citizenship Council and the National Committee for Human Rights Education in Australia; as Ambassador for the Status of Women and Ambassador for Aboriginal Reconciliation; and as Patron of the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development Program. Her strong public profile and breadth of experience mean she is frequently called upon for public speaking engagements. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Created 23 September 2009 Last modified 2 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A community activist, Patricia Oakman was an ALP candidate in the 1973 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Clarence. She had better luck in local politics being elected to the Bellingen Shire Council in 1969. She held the position of Shire President from 1971-73 and 1976-80. Patricia Oakman was born in Coffs Harbour and educated at Urunga Public School and the Paddington Domestic Science School. She was first elected to the Bellingen Shire Council in 1969 and became the first woman to be a shire president in 1971. Patricia Oakman became the first woman director on the executive of the Hospital Contribution Fund of Australia in 1970, and the first woman president of the Hospital Association of NSW 1973-75, 1981.She was a director of the Bellingen Hospital Board from 1965, treasurer 1969-79, chair 1980. She was a member of the Sydney Farm Produce Marketing Authority in 1978. Patricia Oakman received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 1977 and was awarded an A.M. in 1978. She is married to William John Oakman (died July 2005) Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, photos, diaries, working notes, cuttings Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 21 November 2006 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Country Women’s Association of the Western is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group and service association working in the interests of women and children in rural areas. Although ostensibly non-party-political, in practice the group has tended to bolster conservative politics and has supported traditional family roles for women. Historically, it was, however, also a progressive force in many ways, particularly in its encouragement of country women to take an active part in public affairs, and also in its lobby for and provision of services to rural areas. Given its size and scope, it was arguably the most influential women’s organisation in Western Australia in the twentieth century. The formation of a country women’s association in Western Australia was first proposed in 1923 by Lady Forster (wife of the then Governor General). While visiting Perth she addressed a meeting of the National Council of Women at the Karrakatta Club about the recently formed New South Wales Association. A provisional committee was formed to set about establishing a Western Australian Association. Mabel Craven-Griffith sent hundreds of letters and travelled extensively to arouse interest in the proposal. The first meeting was held in Perth in early 1924 and by the end of the year four branches were operating. The first conference was held in March 1925, attended by the four founding branches, at which Craven-Griffiths was elected as the first state president. The original motto, ‘Honour to God, Loyalty to the Throne and Empire, Service to the Country, Through Countrywomen, for Countrywomen, by Countrywomen’ was also adopted. The first objective of most branches was to establish a Rest Room, where children could be fed and tea made when women from rural areas had to visit town, and as a space for meetings. By 1934 the Association claimed 124 branches, of which 24 already had Rest Rooms. Many were also used for a wide array of other purposes, for example: baby clinics and kindergartens; card evening and other social events; meeting rooms for Guides, Scouts and other groups; wartime canteens; polling booths; and some also provide accommodation. From 1933 into the 1940s the CWA arranged for the distribution of free fruit to children in outback areas where it was not grown and was too expensive to purchase. They also arranged holiday camps for outback children. From 1934 they produced their own newsletter, the Countrywoman of Western Australia, which became a formal monthly publication in 1940. They have also produced numerous cookbooks and local histories. Membership reached a peak of 12,000 across about 250 branches in the mid 1950s, declining to 9,000 by 1970, although the number of branches had increased. From 1928, Younger Sets (for girls and young women) were also established, reaching a peak of 50 ‘Sets’ by 1942, but these steadily declined and were eventually disbanded in the early 1960s. During the war years, as in other states, much of the Association’s energy was directed towards supporting the war effort. They initiated a War Relief Fund, which purchased materials that were made up into various garments for those in war-devastated areas by members of local branches. Some Rest Rooms were used as ‘spotting stations’ for Japanese attacks, often manned by CWA members during the day. They arranged accommodation, meals and entertainment for soldiers who were in training or transit. They launched a training scheme for girls to undertake work in rural areas where male labour was in short supply. They contributed to the CWA’s nationwide camouflage net making contract, as well as making up various woollen garments and other items, as well as sheepskin vests .After the war they continued to send food parcels and clothing to Britain. They assisted particularly with the Women’s Land Army, the nationwide CWA camouflage net making contract (of which 20,000 were made). Thousand of pounds were raised and donated to purchase medical equipment for the army, a trainer plane for the RAAF and to provide meals and other ‘comforts’ for soldiers in training camps, as well as large donations to the Red Cross. Almost every branch had an Emergency World Circle which made up various woollen garments and other items, as well as sheepskin vests. They also supported ‘Food for Britain Nationwide, CWA members made over 150,000 camouflage nets, as well as sheepskin vests for flight crews, and numerous other woollen garments. They also established a ‘Comforts Fund’ for soldiers and sent clothing and bedding to women and children in London. In the postwar years the Association’s activities expanded considerably. In 1946 a Club House was rented in Perth to provide both meeting rooms and accommodation, and in 1953 separate headquarter were built. Numerous holiday homes were also purchased and since the 1960s it has also established aged care homes for members. Handicrafts had been a strong feature of the Association since the 1930s, with numerous statewide exhibitions being held. In the 1940s and 1950s various handicraft schools were organised and the central Handicraft Committee sent out numerous packages of materials and instructions to outlying branches. In the 1950s numerous Association choirs were established, and from 1953 statewide drama contests were held. In 1974, to celebrate the Association’s golden jubilee, over two hundred histories of local branches were written and sent to the central office. A variety of welfare activities were also undertaken, with a welfare fund having being established in 1934, to assist members in need or times of emergencies and natural disasters. Various funds have also assisted rural children to attend high school, and have been donated to causes both in Australia and abroad. In 1935 an Emergency Housekeeper Scheme was established. This became a separate in 1937, but in 1969 was taken over again by the Association. From the 1930s it established and ran several hostels for country school students who needed to live away from home in regional centres in order to attend high school. Most of these were transferred to government control in the 1960s. The Association has also worked closely with numerous other organisations, particularly the Travellers’ Aid Service. It has also had representatives a diverse range of groups, including, for example, the State Housing Authority, the Good Neighbour Council, the Keep Australia Beautiful Council, the Health Education Council, the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the WA Association for Children’s Films and Television. As of 2004 the Association’s aim is: ‘To improve the well being of all people especially those in country areas by promoting courtesy, co-operation, community effort, ethical standards and the wise use of resources.’ It maintains holiday accommodation and retirement units; welfare and education funds; and an emergency home help service. Recently it has focussed particularly on the issue of aged care. Since 1988 it has run a rural information service, which monitors and disseminates information on rural services and assistance particularly relating to health, education and aged care. Published resources Book The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Getting things done : the Country Women's Association of Australia, Country Women's Association of Australia, 1986 60 years of the Countrywoman of Western Australia : official publication of the Country Women's Association of W.A. (Inc.), 1934-1994., [1994?] She's no milkmaid : a biography of Dame Raigh Roe, D.B.E., Erickson, Rica, Haywood, Rona and Oldham, Jan (sketches by), [1991?] A History of the South Eastern Division CWA, 1953-1996, Money, Louie, 199? Dalwallinu Branch History, 1974-1983, Country Women's Association of Western Australia, Dalwallinu Branch, 1984? Salmon Gums CWA, 1938-1978, Country Women's Association of Western Australia, Salmon Gums Branch, 1979? Country Women's Association of WA Inc., Wubin Branch History, 1974-1984, Country Women's Association of Western Australia, Wubin Branch, 1984? A History of the Jibberding Branch of Country-woman's Association of Western Australia, 1974-1984, Bowen, Rose, 1984? Country Women's Association, Buntine Branch History - 1974 to 1984, Country Women's Association of Western Australia, Buntine Branch History, 1984? Pithara Branch, 1974-1984, Country Women's Association of Western Australia, Pithara Branch, 1984? Carnarvon, November 1938- / C.W.A, W.A., Country Women's Association of Western Australia. Carnarvon Branch, 1993? Grass Patch, 1952-2002, Country Women's Association of Western Australia. Grass Patch Branch, 2002 History of Southern Cross Branch of C.W.A., 1934-1971, Forrester, Erna L. Silver Years in the Golden West, 1924-1949, Country Women's Association of Western Australia, 1949 Journal Article CWA : celebrating 75 years., 1998 Newsletter The Countrywoman of Western Australia, 1940- Journal South Coast Calling/CWA WA, Country Women's Association of Western Australia, Albany Branch, 1981?-1998 Edited Book A Continuing Story, Kelly, Barbara [et. al.]., 1999 Her Name is Woman, Erickson, Rica, Gibbings, Beatrice, Higgins, Lilian, 1974 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian Historic Records Register Gairdner Country Women's Association State Library of Western Australia Papers, 1902-1966 [manuscript] Papers 1990 [manuscript] Records, 1948-1980 [manuscript] Papers, 1887-1969 [manuscript] Country Women's Association of Western Australia : collection of ephemera material Papers, 1882-1966 [manuscript] [Interview with Winifred Kastner] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Jean Teasdale] Minute books, 1937-1954 [microform] History of Yerecoin Branch of the Country Women's Association, [198-] [manuscript] Country Women's Association of Western Australia records Papers, 1877-1951 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dame Raigh Roe interviewed by Gail O'Hanlon in the Australians of the year oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Documents, leaflets, newspaper clippings and correspondence on various topics, banners, badges, posters, periodicals, photo album, constitution and programmes, rules, minutes, agendas, cashbooks, reports of local branches and Queensland Branch of Union of Australian Women, newsletters. Date range extends from 1930s to 1998, however the bulk of the material relates to the period 1950-1998. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2004 Last modified 30 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Violet Jones enlisted with the Australian Army Nursing Service on December 15, 1941. She was attached to the 115 General Hospital in Heidelberg, Victoria. Following twelve months with the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), Violet Jones continued her nursing career in hospitals. She had ten siblings including one brother who was detained as a prisoner of war in Japan during the Second World War. Violet’s letter to him in 1942 is still in the possession of his daughter Kathryn Lucas. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra JONES VIOLET MARGARET : Service Number - V148279 : Date of birth - Unknown : Place of birth - CHILTERN VIC : Place of enlistment - HEIDELBERG VIC : Next of Kin - JONES CHRISTIAN Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 7 September 2005 Last modified 6 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "13 sound cassettes (13 hrs.)??MLOH 542/1-2?Mrs Ann Spellacy, 28 August 2002??MLOH 542/3?Sarah Walters, first woman City Librarian, 30 October 2002??MLOH 542/4?Heather Yelds, 24 February 2003??MLOH 542/5?Betty Eaton, 24 March 2003??MLOH 542/6?Beryl Johnson, 28 April 2003??MLOH 542/7?Dr. Maurine Goldston-Morris, past President of the Women’s Club, 19 May 2003??MLOH 542/8?Enid Payne, 26 June 2003??MLOH 542/9?Betty Davey, 30 July 2003??MLOH 542/10?Sheila Allan Bruhn, 4 May 2005??MLOH 542/11-12?Gay Daniel, 20 August 2003??MLOH 542/13?Elyane Lenthall, 30 September 2003 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 36 min.)??Scotford speaks of her work as the Executive Director of the Cultural Council of the City of Sydney ; of her interest in the National Trust and the International Council of Women. Scotford relates some details of her childhood and family environment. Author Details Elizabeth Daniels Created 12 September 2013 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Diaries, speeches, commissions, illuminated addresses and other papers.?(a) Lord Wakehurst?1937-1938; Diaries?1939-1948; Speeches and articles.?1936-1937; Commissions?1945; ‘Tour of northern and forward areas in and beyond Australia’?1937-1945; ‘No. 22 Squadron (City of Sydney) RAAF’?1939-1943; ‘Sydney University Regiment’?1937-1945; ‘NSW Australia – Misc. Papers’?1937-1945; Photographs?1937-1945; Illuminated addresses?1937; Panoramic photograph of Sydney Harbour?1937, 1940; Original cartoons?ca. 1940; Flag?1938, undated; Printed material?1942; 2 souvenirs of the sinking of the Japanese Midget Submarine, Sydney Harbour, May 1942?(b) Lady Wakehurst?1938-1945, 1960; Correspondence?1945; Diary?1940-1945; Speeches and messages?1939-1944; Album of blank invitations?1891, 1931, 1937-1946, 1957; Miscellaneous material Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 November 2002 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records of the Third Women and Labour Conference held in Adelaide 4-6 June 1982, consisting of correspondence, financial records, minutes and conference papers. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Scripts and associated material for three pageants ‘The Springs of Power’ (1933), ‘The White Ribbon Pageant’ (1936) and ‘Heritage’ (1936). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Typescript of paper co-authored with Tessa Milne, entitled Finding the founding mothers : a bibliographical essay (1997) 19 p. The essay discusses the role and the active participation played by Australian women in the Federation movement in the nineteenth century. The paper presents both the range of Federation activities involving women and provides a survey of the sources for this research. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Unpublished Honours Thesis, School of Historical Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 26 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Executive and Council minutes 1902-39. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The series consists mainly of publications collected by past AFUW-SA (1972-73) and AFUW President (1997-2000) Daphne Elliott. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 October 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Millicent Preston-Stanley was a politician and first female member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1925-1927. She was involved in a wide array of women’s groups and issues and was President of the Feminist Club from 1919-1934 and 1952-1955. She was also Australian delegate for the British-American Co-operation Movement, 1936-1938. She married Crawford Vaughan in Sydney in 1934. Parliamentary and Local Government Career Candidate Eastern Suburbs, 1922 Elected, Eastern Suburbs, 1925 Unsuccessful candidate, Bondi, 1927 Party: Nationalist Millicent Preston-Stanley was a politician and feminist. She was born on 9 September 1883 in Sydney and lived there until her death in 1955. Throughout her life she was involved in a number of women’s organisations, such as the Feminist Club of which she was President from 1919-34 and 1952-55. In 1925 Preston-Stanley became the first female member of the NSW Legislative Assembly, representing the Eastern Suburbs. During this time she campaigned on maternal mortality, reform in child welfare, amendments to the Health Act and better housing. She held her seat until 1927. She was the Australian delegate to America for the British-American Co-operation Movement in 1936 and undertook a lecture tour of America in 1937-38. In 1947 she was involved in the organisation, United Women Citizens’ Movement against Socialisation formed to oppose the Chifley government’s attempt to nationalise Australian banking. Millicent Stanley became Millicent Preston-Stanley after her father, Augustus Stanley, deserted the family and her mother (nee Preston) was granted a divorce, thereafter calling herself Preston-Stanley. A fine public speaker, she ran events for the Women’s Liberal League, and was critical of the Liberals’ neglect of women. After organising for political, feminist and other groups, she narrowly missed election for the multi-member seat of Eastern Suburbs in 1922. She was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1925. She dealt mercilessly with hecklers and interjections inside and outside the Legislative Assembly, continuing her campaigns on women’s and children’s health, welfare, housing and the care of the ‘mentally defective’. “I do not expect to be exalted into the Ministry, but I will say this, that any woman who gets into Parliament and does not make up her mind to control the Department of Health so far as it concerns the women and children of the State does not properly conceive her responsibilities, powers or duties” (Parliamentary scrapbook 1922). After leaving the Legislative Assembly she campaigned for women’s rights in child custody, writing a play about the notorious Polini case which was produced in 1932. She married Crawford Vaughan, former premier of South Australia, in 1934. She continued organising against socialism and communism, and warning against the threat from Japan. In 1937-8 she toured the USA, lecturing on behalf of the Pan Pacific Women’s Conference. During 1940-41 she was director of the Women’s Australian National Service, mobilising volunteers and training women for the services. Her portrait, by Jerrold Nathan, hangs in NSW Parliament House, and another by Mary Edwards is in the Dixson Library, Sydney. Photos appear in the Parliamentary scrapbooks for 1922, 1927. Published resources Resource Papers of Millicent Preston-Stanley (1883-1955), http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/9062.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Book No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 Liberal women : Federation to 1949, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2004 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of M. Preston-Stanley, 1925-1950 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Feminist Club of New South Wales records, 1928-1973 Author Details Jane Carey Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Plant biochemist Adele Millerd was one of Australia’s first female Fulbright Scholars. Alison (Adele) Millerd was born in Sydney in 1921. As both her parents were school teachers her family moved regularly, and Adele mostly attended schools where her father taught. In 1940 Adele won an exhibition to the University of Sydney and she lived at Women’s College while she studied chemistry for three years. During her studies, she offered tuition to other women who had not studied science at school. Adele worked for a time at the Riverstone Meatworks, however soon moved on to a private pathology practice where she was responsible for their biochemistry. When the University of Sydney became inundated with returned soldiers in 1945, Adele joined the biochemistry department and, as a teaching fellow, offered courses to medical and dental students. She enrolled in a masters course, majoring in biochemistry. She also lectured in that area. Adele received a Linnean Macleay fellowship for her research and after completing her masters, enrolled in a PhD. After a visit from Dr James Bronner of the Californian Institute of Technology, Adele applied for, and was awarded, a Fulbright scholarship to study in America. Adele was one of the two first female students, and the first scientist, to receive the scholarship. Adele returned from the United States in 1953 and was appointed a senior lecturer in the biochemistry department of the University of Sydney. She took study leave in 1959 at the McCollum Pratt Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Adele once again returned to Australia and took up an appointment in agricultural chemistry at the Waite Institute, South Australia. She joined the genetics section of CSIRO’s plant industry division in 1963 as a molecular biologist and biochemist, later transferring to the plant physiology section. During her time at the CSIRO, Adele took two periods of leave. First of all, she spent time at the University of California, San Diego, where she studied the accumulation of storage proteins in legume seeds. Adele also took leave after being awarded a Royal Nuffield fellowship, which saw her work as an overseas fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. Adele retired from the CSIRO in 1982. Adele moved to Sydney in May 2017 to be near her relatives. She passed away in December 2017 at the age of 80. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Adele Millerd interviewed by Alice Garner in the Fulbright scholars oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This is the screen adaptation of theatrical entrepreneur Kate Howarde’s very successful stage play. The incomplete footage goes some way to showing why the storyline was so popular, with struggling bushman Andrew McQuade having to sell off his precious 50 acre field ‘Possum Paddock’, to pay off his bank loan. The trials and tribulations of the paddock and of daughter Nancy, who is courted by both a gentlemanly neighbour and a cad happily resolve themselves. General notes: The film did well commercially after opening at the Lyric Theatre, Sydney on 29 January 1921. A scene involving the plight of an unmarried mother was cut by censors. Critics found the film a little long but likeable. Much of the stage cast was retained for the film. Originally 6500 feet, surviving 993 feet with some nitrate damage (16mm, 41mins 22mins @ 16fps). Access copies: 16mm, 1/2 inch video.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Valerie Ruth Skene Turnbull spent her entire working life in the University of Melbourne to which she came from St Michael’s Grammar School in 1943, taking her BA (Hons) in 1947. Initially employed as a Library Assistant, she became Acquisitions Librarian in 1953. For the next quarter of a century she was responsible for all aspects of the Library’s acquisitions, including relations with publishers and booksellers and maintaining the important exchange agreements between her library and those of other organisations worldwide. Her most important duty was allocating the funds of the Library so as best to satisfy the requirements of teaching and research in the University. It was never an easy task: despite significant donations and constant representations, funding never kept pace with demand. In 1978, following a reorganisation of the University Library, Valerie Turnbull assumed the newly-created position of Coordinator – Branch and Departmental Libraries. It was a fortunate choice. There were several dozen separate libraries to deal with, many independent of the University Library and many in which the collections significantly replicated its holdings. Valerie Turnbull, intimately acquainted with the librarians and academic staff, was ideally suited to the negotiation involved in trying to avoid unnecessary duplication of resources. She had not acquired this capacity through the Library alone. Val Turnbull was a dedicated supporter of the staff club, University House, as well as an organisation which may seem quaint today, the Staff and Distaff Social Club, which was established in 1928 for wives of University academics to welcome newcomers to Melbourne and provide a social network. Membership was subsequently widened to include female academics and non-academic staff. The final meeting was held in 1993.[1] Valerie Turnbull was also a committed member of the Friends of the Baillieu Library and of Zonta International. It is, however, as a social facilitator that Valerie Turnbull made her greatest mark on the University she served for 39 years, whether this was over lunch at University House, hosting dinners for publishers, booksellers or fellow librarians, at librarians’ conferences, or in her own house, she was a welcome and congenial companion. [1] Staff and Distaff records are held in the University of Melbourne Archives. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 8 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1979, Gracia Baylor became the first woman member of the Liberal Party to be elected to the Victorian Legislative Council when she was electedthe member for Boronia. That year, she was one of the first two women to be elected to the Upper House, the other being Joan Coxsedge of the Australian Labor Party. Baylor held her seat until 1985 when she resigned to contest (unsucessfully) the Legislative Assembly seat of Warrandyte. Gracia Baylor, daughter of Herbert David Parry-Okeden, a grazier and businessman and Hilary May Webster, was born in Brisbane, and educated in Victoria and Tasmania as well as Brisbane as a result of her father serving in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War Two. At the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne she completed a Diploma of Fine Arts and subsequently trained as a secondary school teacher. In 1950 she married John du Frocq Freeman. She worked at Mercer House, a training college for teachers in independent schools, from 1951-57 and at Hamilton College from 1957-59. She married again in 1959, to Richard Patrick Baylor, a Solicitor, with whom she had four children, three boys and a girl. She became a law clerk in her husband’s firm in Healesville Her interest in politics was sparked when she recognised the need for a kindergarten in the town of Healesville. She served as a Healesville Shire Councillor from 1966-78 and ultimately became the first woman president of the Shire of Healesville from 1977-78. This also made her the first female Shire president in the state of Victoria. During her time in parliament she assisted in the establishment of the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre. Over the course of her career, Gracia Baylor initiated the council approved baby capsule program which all new parents use to safely carry their infants in cars for the first few months. ‘Before this program, babies were just placed in the back of the car in a bassinet and if there was an accident, they didn’t have a hope,’ she says. Baylor was also instrumental in getting mammograms approved for the Medicare register and she saved the only remaining tower of the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital for women which is now a centre for Women’s Health. Baylor has been an active member of the National Council of Women at the national and state level, serving as president of the National Council of Women of Victoria from 1990-93 and of the National Council of Women Australia from 1997-2000. Events 1999 - 2002 Commnwealth Advisory Board for Equal Employment Opportunity for Women 1999 - 2002 Ministerial Advisory Committee to Minister for Women’s Affairs (Victoria) 2000 - 2001 ‘Women Shaping the Nation’ Centenary of Federation Committee 1990 - 2008 Dr Vera Scantlebury Brown Memorial trust 2003 - 2003 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1991 - 1999 Victoria Women’s Council 1999 - 1999 In recognition for her work in Parliament and women’s affairs. Published resources Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Resource Section Gracia Baylor, AM, 2003, http://www.women.vic.gov.au/web12/rwpgslib.nsf/Graphic+Files/2003_Honour_Roll/$file/2003_Honour_Roll.pdf The Liberal Party of Australia Federal Women's Committee: History and Achievements 1945-2003, 2003, http://www.liberal.org.au/documents/fwc_history.pdf Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] NCWA Papers 1984 - 2006 Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Gracia Baylor AM State Library of Victoria National Council of Women of Victoria Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 20 May 2005 Last modified 2 October 2020 Digital resources Title: Gracia Baylor Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "These describe personal, family, domestic and farming life on the Mornington Peninsula. An interesting impression of pioneering rural life from a woman’s perspective.?? References to raising of cattle, poultry and cultivation of crops??Rough notes of accounts and details of Boneo, Sorrento, Rosebud and Rye and social life.??The diaries have been fully transcribed. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The ‘Women’s Place Women’s Space’ steering committee was formed in 1989 with the aim of securing a building and funding to resource a women’s centre in Brisbane; a building that would provide ‘a space for women by women for women, in Brisbane’. An ex-director of the University of Queensland Health Service, Dr Janet Irwin, is credited with initiating the concept, which received the public support of 173 women’s organizations, representing 200,000 women throughout Queensland. The then Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Sally Anne Atkinson, gave the proposal her strong support After the World Expo stage in Brisbane in 1988 was over, prominent Queensland feminists argued that the women of Queensland, whose millions of hours of unpaid labour had made the event such a success, should be offered a ‘permanent thank you present’; an ‘indestructable well done’ in the form of a ‘Women’s space’. Initially, the concept built upon ideas that had been floated in the 1970s about the need for a National Women’s Research Centre, along the lines of the model offered by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). The proposed ‘Stockmen’s Hall of Fame’ was also a source of inspiration, with supporters arguing that ‘women are equally (more) important than stockmen with their ‘Hall of Fame’. The steering committee decided upon the concept of a multipurpose centre, of which a ‘Hall of Fame’ that focused on the achievements of women in the public and private sector, would be just one section. As well as the ‘Hall of Fame’, which was not to get ‘bogged down by an emphasis on inequalities and injustices’, but was to illustrate ‘the active role that women from a multiplicity of backgrounds have played or are playing in Australian society’, the space would include a gallery area, an auditorium, meeting rooms, a board room and a library. It was envisaged that revenue could be raised by leasing other areas to suitable tenants, such as health professionals, child minding facilities and counseling services. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 5519 Soroptimist International, South Queensland Region, Records 1966-2012 4094 Women's Place. Women's Space Steering Committee Plans June 1992 OM79-02/11 Womens' Community Aid Association Records 4497 Women's Place Records Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 June 2004 Last modified 11 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letter to Dr. J.S. Battye about books for the Public Library from the Forrest collection. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Christine Landorf is an architect and academic who grew up in Broken Hill. With David Manfredi, she designed the Visitors’ Centre there and three of her students – Angus Barron, Steve Kelly and Dario Palumbo – designed the Broken Hill Miners’ Memorial. Together, the Memorial and the Visitors’ Centre received the Royal Australian Institute of Architects’ Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design. The second daughter of Ross and Marion Landorf, Chris has a strong connection to Broken Hill. Both her maternal and paternal grandparents settled and worked in the city, though they came from quite different social backgrounds. Her paternal grandfather worked underground in the mines as a winder house driver, and her father Ross after him completed a fitting and turning apprenticeship before working as a mine manager. Her maternal grandfather was a surveyor who, after working in Southern Cross and Mount Isa, became the General Manager of New Broken Hill Consolidated. Chris’s mother Marion (née Hooper), was born in Southern Cross in Western Australia and worked as a comptometrist on the mines in Broken Hill before her marriage. Chris attended Alma Primary School and enjoyed an active childhood riding bikes and playing sport on the weekends. She spent two years at Willyama High School before moving to Adelaide to attend boarding school. After completing high school, she began a degree in Interior Design at the South Australian Institute of Technology, and at the end of second year transferred into Architecture on the advice of her lecturer. Chris was one of only two women in a class of 28, but never experienced sexism or discrimination. Although her father Ross held conservative views, he gave Chris his full support and never discouraged her from pursuing an atypical career in a predominantly masculine profession. Rather, Ross was proud that his children were studying at university as he had never had the opportunity to undertake tertiary study himself. After graduating Chris worked for a small practitioner, Russell Prescott, and then for the bigger firm of Rod Roach Architecture. At the age of 26 she was employed by the Adelaide City Council to work on the redevelopment of the town hall, a major project spanning several years. Having completed her Interior Design degree part time, Chris began teaching this discipline at the University of South Australia whilst undertaking a Masters of Business. After moving to teach architecture, she became a program convenor and was appointed Head of School for three years. Though she left Broken Hill at the age of 14, Chris maintained a connection to the town where she was born. She regularly returned to visit her parents until they left the Silver City in 1985, and researched Broken Hill’s history as part of a final year project for her architecture degree. While teaching at the University of South Australia, Chris initiated a summer elective study trip to Broken Hill. The project was set up in conjunction with the Line of Lode Association, which was interested in making a tourist attraction out of an old mine lease that had been donated back to the city. Chris’s students proposed a number of designs for a visitors’ centre, a restaurant and a memorial. The Association was thrilled by the proposals and, after receiving $1.84 million in Centenary Funding, was able to commission two of the projects: the Miners’ Memorial and the Visitors’ Centre. The walls of the Miners’ Memorial, designed by students Angus Barron, Steve Kelly and Dario Palumbo, are inscribed with the names and causes of death of those who died in the mines. The design for the Visitors’ Centre was conceived by Chris and her former student, David Manfredi. Its fractured roof and constricting walls simulate the experience of being underground. Both buildings were officially opened by the Hon. John Anderson, Deputy Prime Minister, on 21 April 2001. In December of that year they received the Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. Chris Landorf continues to teach architecture at the University of Newcastle while completing a doctorate in Industrial Heritage. Her PhD investigates the sustainability and preservation of significant industrial sites, combining the maintenance of the built environment with a respect for its heritage. It compares the management models of six industrial sites in the United Kingdom with the management model proposed for the city of Broken Hill, recently nominated for the National Heritage list. If that nomination is successful, Broken Hill will be the first Australian city to be heritage listed in its entirety. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Book Section What's left when the ore runs out, mate?, Landorf, Christine, 1998 Journal Article A Sense of Identity and a Sense of Place: Oral History and Preserving the Past the Mining Community of Broken Hill, Landorf, Christine, 2000 Managing for Sustainable Tourism: A Review of Six Cultural World Heritage Sites, Landorf, Christine, 2009 Conference Paper Silk Purses from Sows' Ears: An Argument for Industrial Heritage: The Cultural Significance of Broken Hill, Landorf, Christine, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Christine Landorf Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kerry Chikarovski is the only woman ever to have held the leadership of the Opposition in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. After her retirement from politics, she published her autobiography, Chika, in 2004. Since 2003 she has been Director, Infrastructure and Planning Australia Pty Ltd. Kerry Chikarovski was born in Sydney in 1956, the daughter of Greg and Jill Bartels. She was educated at the United Nations International School, Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood, Monte Sant’ Angelo, North Sydney and the University of Sydney (BEc LLB). She was President of the Sydney University Law Society 1978-1979 and a Director of the University of Sydney Union 1977-1978. After graduation, she worked as a solicitor in private practice 1980-1985 and as a Solicitor and Instructor at the College of Law, 1988-1991. She married Chris Chikarovski in 1979 (marriage dissolved) and has two children. Kerry Chikarovski ran unsuccessfully in the seat of Cabramatta in 1981, but won preselection for the Liberal Party for the safe seat of Lane Cove in 1991 on the retirement of the Attorney General, John Dowd, later Justice Dowd. She held the seat until 2003, when she resigned from Parliament. Kerry Chikarovski is the only woman ever to have held the Leadership of the Opposition in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. After her retirement from politics, she published her autobiography, Chika, in 2004. Since 2003 she had been Director, Infrastructure and Planning Australia Pty Ltd. Her parliamentary career is as follows: Minister for Consumer Affairs and Assistant minister for Education 1992-1993 Minister for Industrial Relations and Employment 1993-1995 Minister for the Status of Women 1993-1995 Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party 1994-1995 Shadow Minister for the Environment 1997-1998 Shadow Minister for the Arts and Women 1999-2002 Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Major Projects 2002-2003 Leader of the Opposition 1999-2002 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 31 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers comprise: 1. Correspondence (some of the correspondents include Harley Davison, Myra Morris, the publishers Angus and Robertson, Stuart Sayers, and Frank Johnson as well as family members). 2. Greeting cards and invitations. 3. Diaries and notebooks, including one from Lieutenant-Colonel (Dr.) J. Fergusson-Stewart, C.O. who fought in the Middle East and France during the First World War. 4. Various typescripts of her work. 5. Reports and correspondence of a number of literary associations, societies and organisations such as International P.E.N., the Theosophical Society, and Australian Society of Authors. 6. Drawings and sketchbooks. 7. Newspaper cuttings. 8. Travel brochures and maps. 8. The personal papers of Geoff Drake-Brockman including manuscript of “Adventure into memory” and a typescript of “The turning wheel”. 9. Jull family papers (Martin E. Jull and Dr Roberta Jull). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letter to Lydia Longmore congratulating her on her appointment as an Inspector of Schools. Includes notes on Miss Longmore’s career with the Education Department. Author Details Clare Land Created 3 September 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records include constitutions and by-laws; minutes, attendance books, subscription books, correspondence, including a letter from Roberta Jull to Edith Cowan (16 April 1916) and letter book, annual reports and other reports as well as other miscellaneous papers. Part of the collection relates to Edith Cowan, who was actively involved in the foundation of the Council, and was its president from 1913-1920. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Four scrap books: Australian Local Government Women’s Association press cuttings regarding women in local government, 1963-1980. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letters written by Alice Grant Rosman plus photograph and cutting. Ms Rosman was an early Mills & Boon author, lived in London during the war and travelled by ship to New York. She was born in SA. Her friends included Mary Grant Bruce and Margaret Preston. Author Details Christine Donald Created 10 June 2010 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Dame Mary Hughes was awarded the Order of the British Empire – Dame Grand Cross – Civil, on 31 December 1921 for public services to Australia during World War I. It was the highest award a woman could obtain, and she was the first Australian to receive it. Mary Hughes was the wife of the 13th prime minister of Australia, William Morris (Billy) Hughes (1915-1923), one of Australia’s longest serving parliamentarians. The daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann (née Burton) Campbell, Mary trained as a nurse before marrying Billy Hughes at the age of 37 on 26th June 1911 at Christ Church, South Yarra in Victoria. They had one daughter, Helen, born 11th August 1915, who passed away, aged 21, in a London nursing home. Fitzhardinge, in his biography of Billy Hughes in the Australian Biographical Dictionary advises that Dame Mary, “by her social gifts, tact and management, gave Hughes the domestic background he always lacked and provided precisely the feather-bedding that his restless activity and frail physique required.” The Hughes’ marriage was not always happy. Dame Mary did not get on with Billy’s children from his previous relationship with Elizabeth Cutts, who had passed away in 1906. She was also more frivolous with money than Hughes would have liked. Nevertheless Dame Mary was his constant companion, accompanying her husband during his parliamentary sessions to Melbourne and on domestic and overseas trips. It was during the overseas trips at the time of the First World War that Dame Mary became interested in the welfare of Australian servicemen and visited camps and hospitals in Britain, France and Australia. The honour of Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire was conferred on her, in the New Years honours of 1922, for her charitable and war effort work. After the war, Dame Mary continued with her charity work and became president of the Rachel Forester Hospital for Women and Children in Sydney in 1925. She was also an advocate for women’s rights. Dame Mary outlived her husband by six years. After Billy passed away, on 28 October 1952, she stayed initially at their Lindfield property. Then in September 1955 she moved to live with her niece, Miss Edith Hayes. Dame Mary Hughes died at the age of 83, at 8.30 p.m. on 2nd April 1958, at her niece’s home in Double Bay. Her funeral service was held on Saturday 5 April at 10 a.m. at St Andrew’s Cathedral, George Street, Sydney. She was interred in the Church of England section of the Marquarie Park Cemetery (incorporating Northern Suburbs Cemetery), with her husband and next to her daughter. Published resources Book Prime Ministers' Wives, Langmore, Diane, 1992 Newspaper Article Women Federation, James, Caron, 2000 Dame Mary Hughes Dies at 83, 1958 Death of Dame Mary Hughes, 1958 Resource Section William Hughes/Mary Hughes, National Archives of Australia, 2002, http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/meetpm.asp?pmId=8&pageName=wife Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Letter 1952 Nov. 27 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 sound cassettes (ca. 195 min.)??Carr, farmer, speaks of her birth on the land in Hay, N.S.W. while her father was away with the sheep, her education by tutors and governess unless there was a drought when they moved with their father to agistment area such as Albury, use of agistment a great deal such as access to rail transport, how the household was managed and food used, storage and cooking, how the water supply was managed domestically and for stock, the daily routine prior to World War I, the working hours and conditions of station hands, the conditions of Western Land leases, the state of pasture and timber, how they maintained their health, church services, mail and newspaper supply, how in 1928 there were drought-breaking rain but the sheep died because of grass not seen before, dengue fever and mosquitos, how rabbit plagues began in the 1930s, social life such as visiting, picnic races, balls, rabbit trappers and tramps during the Depression, how father died in 1931.??Carr speaks of her marriage in 1933 to John Carr of Moolbong, mother died in 1937, how John died accidently in 1942 leaving her with two children while they were living in the Hillston district, explains wartime property management as a widow with the use of a Land Army girl to assist, the education of her children, describes the history of that property ‘Wilga’ and the maintenance of the bores, stocking rates and pasture improvement, the motive for irrigation, how they learnt sheep management, changes in large land ownership from prior to World War II to a smaller household properties, coping with soil deficiencies, tree and pasture growth, the formation of the Western Lessees Association in the 1920s and the agitation to extend leases beyond 1943 and promoted the idea of a large ‘living area’, government responses to this idea, mouse plagues. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 August 2017 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Margherita Stefani ran the Amalfi Boarding House and wine saloon in Kalgoorlie with her husband. Margherita Stefani migrated with her mother and her sister Maria to Western Australia in 1940. The family had waited for nine years for their father to send money for their migration. Margherita’s mother, aged 38, had four more children in the eastern goldfields mining town of Gwalia, Western Australia. Margherita was forced by her father to remain at home helping her mother with the children and do ironing and washing for single miners until she was 21 when she went to work at the Leonora Hospital as a domestic. She married ex-miner and internee Romeo Stefani in 1953. He had bought the Kalgoorlie Wine Saloon and, after changing the name to the Amalfi, he and Margherita fed, cleaned and cared for young migrant Italians, visitors to Kalgoorlie and those wanting a good home-cooked meal. Margherita worked from 4 a.m. until 9 p.m. seven days a week, leaving her little time for politics or socialising. She was assisted by her mother, who helped in the kitchen and cared for her grandchildren, her sister Maria who worked as a waitress and other married women who needed part-time work and young single girls. Margherita’s work and that of the women who assisted her was essential to the operation of the mines of the Golden Mile because the many miners without family support would not have remained in the town without it. Margherita retired to Perth in 1983 after twenty years of hard work. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Interview with Maria Guidarelli and Margherita Stefani in 2003 Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 7 August 2012 Last modified 4 August 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Elizabeth Tindle was president of the Australian Women’s Weight Lifting Association, Adelaide 1964. She was a researcher at the UNESCO Charles Darwin Research Station, Galapagos Islands Ecuador, where she studied flamingos and flightless cormorants in 1976. She completed her doctoral thesis on Foetal Alcohol Syndrome and effects, and alcohol-related disabilities. Tindle was educated at Jarrow Grammar School 1957; London Institute of Education 1959; Adelaide University, BA and Dip Applied Psychology 1960-70s; and Queensland University of Technology, Doctor of Education 1999. She has worked as a high school teacher, 1959-70; school counsellor, 1971-76; researcher, 1976-79, 1981-83; University Lecturer, 1985-91; counselling psychologist, QUT, from 1989; and director of private practice in psychology. Tindle was awarded the Trailblazer award from the Office of the Status of Women, 1999. Published resources Newspaper Article Duo for remote island, Tilbrook, Kym, 1976 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 14 February 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Daily life and events of the people of Ernabella community. Subjects include: copy of ‘Australia Twice Travered’ by Ernest Giles; ‘Explorer’s stumps’; landscapes; remains of the Brown family home; children riding mules or hinneys; gathering and carrying spinifex; wiltjas (shelters); carrying load of wood; firelighting with woomera; hurling spears; harnessed camels; preparing for walkabout; Camp pup; Shirely Well; spinning thread; kneading damper; grinding stones – tjiwa (large) and tjungari (small); escarpment; camp scenes; camp shelters; views of the Musgrave Ranges; Kanini (sifting seeds or sand in a dish); acacia branch (used for kiti gum); plucking emu feathers; campfire; Kraal-type wiltjas (shelters); tecoma (for making spear shaft); making spear; making woomeras; kangaroo cooking; Ngintaka (perenti) goanna; silhouette of man standing in traditional pose on rock escarpment; spear heads; stone axe and stone knives; digging for witchetty grubs (maku?); digging for water; gathering mistletoe berries; milpali (small goannas); digging dishes; tjanmata (bush onion); wild fig; pitchi; grinding wakati; Witita – a fungus that grows on sandhills; honey ants; mangka milimili (hair style worn by mothers of adolescent boys); Ulpuru calling for ceremony; corroborees and ceremonies; nose peg (Septum piercing); ringkiliya – a pendant; traditional performance for the Elliotts’ farewell; childrens’ corroboree; dancing; carving lizard statues; wood carvings; MacHensley (rocky outcrop); Mount Carruthers; view of mission; mission and station buildings; community buildings – church, hospital, industrial school, airstrip, Top House (staff house), Manse garden; births; religious ceremonies including attending the opening of Flynn Church in Alice Springs with Prince Philip, creating artwork and displaying artwork at many Australian regional shows, winning awards for craft work, housing construction, children attending bilingual school; art; craft; artefacts; bush foods; mission areas; portraits; social activities Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This collection consists of the following five record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series.?1. Talks, articles and research notes, 1861-1907?2. Poems, date unknown?3. Correspondence, 1856-1909?4. Newspaper cuttings and proofsheets, 1876-1907?5. Printed material concerning the South African War, 1899-1902 Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Canberra Mothercraft Society (CMS) was established in 1929, one of many women’s organisations at the time which formed around the National Council of Women in the Australian Capital Territory to meet the needs of public servants being transferred to the new capital city, and of workmen engaged in building it. Canberra had been proclaimed capital of Australia on 12 March 1913 by Lady Gertrude Denman, wife of the then Governor-General. Initially the CMS provided its first mothers and babies health service in the same central Canberra premises housing the national newspaper, the Canberra Times. From these premises, visiting clinics were organised at workers encampments in the newly developing suburbs. Later the CMS also operated Canberra’s first crèche. The growth of Canberra was slowed during the Great depression of the 1930s, and during World War II, but the CMS continued to provide its services in partnership with the relevant Commonwealth Government agency, the Department of the Interior. After World War II the Federal Government under Prime Minister Robert Menzies acted decisively to speed the growth of the national capital, and many more Federal agencies, with their staff, were transferred from other Australian cities to Canberra. As Canberra’s population grew, so grew the need for services for mothers and babies. To mark the coronation in 1953 of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, a public appeal in Canberra raised funds to build a post-natal residential care service in central Canberra on land donated by the Department of Territories. The building was opened in 1953 by the wife of the Prime Minister, Mrs (later Dame) Pattie Menzies. Subsequently, the Commonwealth Department of Health through its territorial administration took on increased responsibility for the provision of infant welfare services. After self-government was granted to the Australian Capital Territory in 1989, the ACT Health department took over responsibility for child health services and clinics, and continued to work in partnership with the CMS in the operation of the QEII. Children’s day care services became more commonly provided through a range of community based and commercial agencies as the Commonwealth provided financial support for child day care services from 1972 onwards, accelerating after 1975. In 1999 the Territory Government provided a new building in Curtin, by now the demographic centre of Canberra, for the operation of the QEII under the aegis of the Canberra Mothercraft Society. This entry was researched and written by Marie Coleman Published resources Book The Mothering Years: The Story of the Canberra Mothercraft Society 1926-1979, Crisp, Helen and Rudduck, Loma, 1979 Report Annual general meeting, Canberra Mothercraft Society, 1994 Annual report, Canberra Mothercraft Society, 1995 Constitution of the Canberra Mothercraft Society, Canberra Mothercraft Society, 1935 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Helen Crisp, 1939-1983 [manuscript] ACT Heritage Library HMSS 0043 Canberra Mothercraft Society Records Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 19 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of the Mayo family comprising correspondence, biographical notes, addresses, papers relating to Mothers and Babies Health Association, St. Ann’s College and the Australian Federation of University Women of Dr Helen Mayo, correspondence, biographical notes, addresses and publications of Professor Elton Mayo, papers relating to John Christian Mayo, correspondence of Sir Herbert Mayo and papers of Mary Penelope Mayo. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Solly speaks of her family background ; family life and home ; school and childhood memories ; local area and community in Perth ; relatives ; family lifestyle ; religion ; the death of her mother ; lifestyle with father ; business college ; employment experiences ; joining the army ; sex education ; recreation and entertainment ; social life ; living conditions ; contact with Aborigines and migrants ; memories of the 1930s ; sport.??Recording is accompanied by a typewritten response by Solly to a questionnaire from the 1938 project concerning death. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 September 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Olga Masters began work as a journalist aged fifteen. Her passion was for human interest stories over and above the drama of front page news. Over the course of her thirty-year career in journalism, Masters also produced three novels, several unpublished plays, and two collections of short fiction. She won nine prizes for her short fiction including the prestigious award of the South Pacific Association for the Study of Language and Literature, shared with Elizabeth Jolley. Masters’ first collection of stories, The Home Girls, was published in 1982 when she was 63 years old, and won a National Book Council award. Olga Masters was raised on the southern coast of New South Wales, between Bega and Moruya. She left school early to help at home, and took on a cadetship with the Cobargo Chronicle. In 1937 she moved to Sydney, where she worked as a shorthand typist and copywriter in advertising for radio. She married schoolteacher Charles Masters in 1940, and, while raising her seven children, lived in a number of small towns in New South Wales. In Lismore she worked as district correspondent for the Northern Star. In the mid-1960s, Masters returned to Sydney. With her children grown, she recommenced her journalistic work in earnest, writing for the St George and Southerland Shire Leader (1966-1969), Liverpool-Fairfield Champion (1968-1971), Land (1969-1971), Manly Daily (1971-1977, then 1979-1983), and Sydney Morning Herald (1984-1986). In 1983, she received a grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council which allowed her to venture further into fiction writing in the last years of her life. Masters was fascinated by the study of human nature and derived most enjoyment from writing about people and organisations: weddings, births, deaths, fundraising events, sports days, community groups, concerts. Her biographer, Deirdre Coleman, notes that Masters lived through a time of dramatic change in the structure and dynamic of the Australian family: ‘the lives of women past and present, within the home and outside it, form the principal subject matter of much of her journalism and fiction’. At the Herald, Masters was employed to write the regular ‘Style’ column for women. Here she broadened her scope, discussing everything from writing, reading, art, housekeeping, fashion, etiquette, domestic economy and family dynamics, to the role of women in wartime. Masters used the column to observe, to reflect, and to provoke. With her trademark irony and dry humour she produced a number of pieces on the unjust lot of women including ‘Never fear, housewives – he’s here’, and ‘Don’t forget, mothers are human beings too’: ‘If you read every book on child bearing and rearing from any that came out with the First Fleet through Doctor Spock to the new ones like Making Love After Birth‘, wrote Masters in September 1985, ‘nowhere will you find it stated that part of a woman’s brain comes away with the afterbirth’. In her August 1985 column, ‘War gave women a first taste of liberation’, Masters noted: ‘It is true that war shapes our lives. Perhaps truer to say it reshapes them. Truer perhaps of women than men’. She reflected on the change in women since the Second World War: Not only were we [women] naïve by today’s standards, but downright ignorant. Jogging was something we did when the butcher was selling sausages without asking for meat coupons. Heroin would have sounded like the name of a bird. We never knew of a child dying of cancer. The pill was taken for constipation. Gay was the way we felt most of the time, even while twenty-two thousand Australian men and women were prisoners of the Japanese. Olga Masters’ reporting displayed a sympathy with the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people. According to her son, Chris Masters, her career began ‘not when her first book was published, but when she started taking an interest in her neighbours’. She died in 1986, aged 67. Events 1934 - 1986 Published resources Edited Book Olga Masters Reporting Home: Her writings as a journalist, Coleman, Deirdre, 1990 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 20 November 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joan Heenan studied law in Western Australia in the 1930s, moving to Kalgoorlie after her marriage in 1937. She was a partner in the Heenan and Heenan law firm, and was the only permanent lawyer in Kalgoorlie during the war years. She is particularly remembered for her assistance to Italian internees during this period. Joan Heenan was born in Fremantle in 1910 to Jessie Grace Townsend, a nurse, and Ezekial Benoni McKenna, an accountant for Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR). Joan’s maternal grandfather was Mayor of Bulong and her paternal grandfather a police inspector in Kalgoorlie, so she had familial links to the goldfields. Jessie McKenna volunteered to return to nursing in Fremantle during WWI, setting up the 8th AGH, for the wounded from Gallipoli, so Joan spent time being cared for by her paternal grandparents. She completed her schooling at Sacred Heart Convent in Highgate, where the nuns encouraged their pupil’s ambitions. As Joan recalled in an interview in 1989 the idea was ‘…if you had ability…you should use it’. She studied Arts at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 1927 and after graduation in 1930 worked as a primary school teacher. After experiencing teaching and deciding it was not for her, she enrolled to study Law at UWA in 1931, completing articles with O’Dea and O’Dea, staying with the firm until December 1936. Some firms in Perth would not engage women lawyers, so it was not easy to find a firm at which was willing to allow a woman complete articles. Despite the Depression there was plenty of work at O’Dea and O’Dea, who were at that time acting for prominent goldfields identity Claude de Bernales. Joan married Eric Heenan on 14 January 1937 and moved to Kalgoorlie. Eric had already been elected as Labor MLC for the North East province in 1936, taking in areas of what were then the Kalgoorlie and Murchison gold mining districts. Joan moved immediately into the ‘…midst of a very busy legal practice’ at Heenan and Heenan Law firm in Kalgoorlie as well as being closely involved in his electoral campaigns. She assisted her husband in court and carried out other legal work in the office. When war was declared, many men enlisted and Joan remained the only permanent lawyer in Kalgoorlie. Work in Kalgoorlie, which she described as a ‘man’s town’, was a formative experience for her. Joan’s clients were the workingmen and women of Kalgoorlie, and she is particularly remembered for her assistance to Italian internees during WWII. Although elections were postponed during the war she remained involved in the electorate and she encouraged her clients and local residents to enrol to vote. A son Eric was born in 1945. After his birth, Joan worked spasmodically at the Kalgoorlie offices and in 1950 the family moved to Perth, ‘…Kalgoorlie was no place for a woman’, and for her son’s education. She purchased new practice premises in 70 St Georges Terrace and with her husband’s encouragement, set up EM Heenan & Co, in Perth and also became the agent for the Kalgoorlie firm Heenan, Hartrey & Co. Eric continued to travel and work in the Parliament in Perth and in his Kalgoorlie electorate and legal practice. He left politics in 1968 but continued to practice law. In 1983 the family practice merged with Northmore Hale Davey and Lake and Joan continued to practice law until her retirement in 1991. She died in Perth January 2002. Published resources Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Joan Heenan] [sound recording] Author Details Eric Heenan Created 6 August 2012 Last modified 21 September 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Whilst initially of fundamentally religious character — inherited from founding principles (i.e. Emma Robarts’ Prayer Union founded 1844) – the Young Women’s Christian Association of Melbourne (YWCA of Melbourne) began as other Young Women’s Christian Association’s – predominantly in response to urbanisation and the particular challenges this posed for women (particularly working women). The Association’s life span (before a name change in 1999) saw that focus shift in concert with changing economic and social issues; from urban challenges, to suburban ones and finally to state wide issues (hence the name change to Young Women’s Christian Association Victoria). The Melbourne YWCA held its first official meeting on April 1 1883, with some encouragement (and very little financial support) from the Melbourne Young Men’s Christian Association. Forming some 3 years after the Sydney Young Women’s Christian Association (Sydney YWCA) became the first permanent representative of the organisation in Australia (there had been a Geelong association as early as 1872, however this collapsed from lack of membership in 1878), the Melbourne association began with a less economically driven objective to that of Sydney: “the spiritual, intellectual and social improvement of young women” was the original Melbourne objective, as opposed to Sydney’s explicit “a Home for women and girls who need it [and then] rooms [for] classes and meetings …[and then a] library”. This early objective, suggesting a favouring of the ‘spiritual’ over the physical and social wellbeing of young women, did not however preclude the Melbourne organisation from instituting a variety of practical ‘women helping women’ schemes – particularly as the urban and economic environment altered. Examples of these programs include: the Factory Girls program (instituted in 1885); the ‘Midnight Mission’ efforts (1890); the organisation as employment agency (1901); the Travellers Aid Society (1910); as well as a variety of sex and health education initiatives; and of course emergency and permanent housing (first hostel opened in 1887). In addition to these initiatives were those that encouraged sporting activity, domestic training and personal or ‘spiritual edification’. Social reform programs however, became predominant in the early 1900’s — particularly reform programs designed to address poor working conditions for women. The extent of these programs however, remained fundamentally responsive, fears for ‘politicisation’ of the organisation, keeping systemic approaches a matter of talk, rather than action. Accounts regarding this issue reveal tensions within the organisation (both at a sate and national level): see for example the resignation of Jean Stevenson from the National Young Women’s Christian Association in 1924/25 (Melbourne association General Secretary 1915-1919). This early tension, similar in scope to that between the exclusivity / inclusivity of the word ‘Christian’ within the organisation’s title, and also in the organisations approach to ‘non-white’ social issues, can be seen as defining aspects in the Melbourne organisations early history. The Melbourne association responded to World Wars 1 and 2 by assisting with accommodation and food supplies (the ‘Garden Army’ for example), whilst simultaneously maintaining community services intended to ‘build up citizenship and maintain sanity’. Post 1945, the Melbourne branch shifted its focus to accommodate changing ‘demands’. Suburban sprawl for example, acted as the impetus for a variety of in-house training programs aimed at alleviating women’s isolation in suburban settings (the Home Tutor Scheme, Green Circle, the Correspondence Program etc.). Similarly, migrant employment services became a responsive and defining focus, leading to an official relationship with the Department of Immigration, instituted in 1949. The last half-decade of the 20th century saw the Melbourne association maintaining its traditional activities (and introducing several new initiatives), whilst simultaneously developing a focus on children’s services. For example, in 1970 an after school care program was established in Collingwood and in 1985 a state wide childcare placement scheme was begun. This ‘family friendly’ approach, emphasised further by the 1975 opening of the ‘Family Y’ (family accommodation), characterise the Association’s post 1970’s activities. By the late 1990’s however, the organisation began to ‘actively campaign’ for more controversial social issues (the anti – sweatshop ‘Fairwear Campaign’ and the refugee children’s service are examples). It is interesting to note that this return to earlier more controversial concerns (workplace conditions and asylum issues), directly preceded a major shift in scope for the Young Women’s Christian Association of Melbourne: in 1999 –with Rosemary Hehir as Executive Director– the association reclassified itself as Young Women’s Christian Organisation Victoria (Y.W.C.A. Victoria). Published resources Book Dinna forget : stories from real life, Booth, S. C. (Sarah Crisp), 1844-1928, 1908 The Dauntless Bunch : The Story of the YWCA in Australia, Dunn, Margaret, 1991 Y.W.C.A. 1882-1982 : Melbourne pictorial history, Durrant, Leoni, 1982 Thesis The Mother's anxious future : Australian Christian Women's Organisations meet the modern world, 1890s-1930s, Warne, Ellen Mary, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Young Women's Christian Association of Australia Young Women's Christian Association of Australia Young Women's Christian Association of Australia Author Details Francesca Bussey Created 24 May 2004 Last modified 27 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4 hours 36 minutes??Margaret Atkins was awarded an OAM in 1982 for her service to education in special education. Margaret Edith Atkins was born in 1928 at Rose Park and grew up at Kensington Park where she attended kindergarten and small private schools despite the cerebral palsy and received regular physiotherapy and speech pathology. She describes her experiences at school and the difficulties she experienced with writing and mobility. After leaving school she enrolled in a playgroup course at the Kindergarten Training College and commenced voluntary work in kindergartens. She recalls dealing with her frustration from the limitations from the disability and her determination to be as independent as possible. She describes her employment in two kindergarten positions where she was successful in organising extracurricular activities and developing good relationships with the children’s parents. She later worked as an equipment maker for the Kindergarten Union and designed and made toys. Margaret later decided to return to study social work at university but was initially refused entry to the course at Adelaide University. She describes the circumstances surrounding her entry into the course and the new difficulties she faced in being allowed to tape lectures and write exams and lecture notes and managing the physical environment although she was able to get finance from the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Centre to complete her studies. Margaret talks further about her university studies and completing a Bachelor of Arts with Honours majoring in psychology. Margaret gained a full-time teaching position with the Education Department as a teacher of intellectually handicapped children and was also supervised by the Department’s psychologist to allow her to gain membership of the Australian Psychological Society. Margaret was employed at the Woodville Special School where she developed innovative teaching methods and designed equipment. During her career she held positions as Deputy Head at Strathmont Centre for Intellectually Retarded Children, Head of Barton Terrace and Kings Park special schools, and then in 1975 the Ashford Special School. Margaret recalls other activities and hobbies she was involved in outside of the school such as swimming and horse riding. She goes on to explain the circumstances surrounding her retirement on the grounds of invalidity in 1977 that led her to become a resident at the Julia Farr Centre. In 1982 Margaret was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her service to special education. While living at the Julia Farr Centre Margaret was funded by the Centre to undertake research into leisure activities for the residents and was able to travel overseas. After her health improved Margaret felt that she needed to return to a more home-like environment and was able to move to an aged care facility. She then became very active in community activities and events, WEA and University of the Third Age. Margaret continues to talk about the difficulties facing people with disabilities and particularly in social situations, discrimination and isolation. She then recalls the circumstances in 1996 that led her to require further operations and necessitated she move to another aged care facility. She talks about the stereotyping and stigma attached to people in aged care facilities and how she has lived with disability. She talks about how her life has been spent overcoming discrimination and how she has maintained a positive attitude through her life. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jacobena Angliss was appointed to the Order of the British Empire (Dames Commander) on 1 January 1975 for community and welfare services. She had previously been awarded a CBE on 9 June 1949 for her work as President of the Victorian Child Welfare Association. Daughter of Jacob and Frances (née Ladhams) Grutzner. Jacobena Grutzner married butcher and meat exporter William Charles Angliss (1865-1957) at St Columb’s Church, Hawthorn, on 31 March 1919. They had one daughter, Eirene Rose. Jacobena’s husband, William Angliss (who was knighted in 1939) was a member of the Legislative Council of Victoria between 1912 and 1952, had wide experience in industry management and accumulated great wealth through the establishment of a number of pastoral companies. In his will, he set aside £1 million for the creation of a charitable trust. Lady Angliss, who was also involved with several charity organisations, became chairman of the trust. Along with being the trustee of the William Angliss Estate she was chairman of the Bluff Downs Pastoral Company and Miranda Downs Pty Ltd. A member of both the Lyceum and Alexandra clubs in Melbourne, Lady Angliss enjoyed gardening and music. She was president of the Astra Chamber Music Society and director of the National Memorial Theatre. In 1975 she was appointed to the Order of British Empire (Dames Commander). Lady Jacobena Angliss died on 10 November 1980 and was buried in Box Hill cemetery with her husband. Her grand daughter, Diana Gibson (nee Knox), is today a prominent Victorian philanthropist and Chairwoman of the William Angliss Charitable Fund. Published resources Book Sir William Angliss : an intimate biography, Angliss, J. V. (Jacobena Victoria), Lady, 1897-1980, 1960 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Section Angliss, Sir William Charles (1865 - 1957), Beever, E.A, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070073b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dame Jacobena Angliss, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 20 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: V01]??Comprises newspaper press clippings relating to Australian Red Cross activities from Victorian metropolitan and country newspapers since its establishment in 1915. Early articles were published by the Australian Red Cross as a form of public accountability respecting financial donations and subscriptions to appeals. As the organisation became established it continued to produce content, but increasingly it was created by press agencies themselves.??This series provides an account of the activities of the ARC in war, peace and as it responds to national and international conflicts and humanitarian emergencies. It also documents the changing role and focus of the organisation over time. As the Victorian Division is in the same state as the National Office, it should be noted this series documents the Red Cross at a National and International level rather than exclusively the Victorian Division.??This series has been created by pasting newspaper press clippings into volumes, annotating the date and source. These volumes are compiled into country, suburban, metropolitan newspapers and ordered chronologically. Occasionally there are dedicated volumes to POWs, AIDS, Ethiopia and World Disasters. After 1989 newspaper cutting, or photocopies of newspaper cuttings, were collected into folders. There is an index of topics for 1990-2000. The series is incomplete as newspaper cuttings between 1921 and 1935 are not held by either UMA or ARC. See also ‘Media Releases’ (2016.0056)??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Oral History interview conducted by Carmel Rose for the North Shore Historical Society. Held in the Stanton Library in North Sydney.??Interview conducted in 1996. Created 7 September 2021 Last modified 7 September 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minute books of the Kyancutta Branch of the S.A. Country Women’s Association, 1936-1958 (5 volumes). Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Bendigo, VIC. 1957-05. Two members of the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC), attached to the Royal Australian Survey Corps, working on topographical survey maps. Note the Army Headquarters badges on their right arms. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The ephemera collection contains documents of everyday life generally covering publications of fewer than five pages. These may include: advertising material, area guides, booklets, brochures, samples of merchandise postcards, posters, programs, stickers and tickets. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Joan Forrest Gardner took up a position at the Department of Bacteriology (now known as the Department of Microbiology and Immunology) at the University of Melbourne in 1953. During her extensive career, she taught and researched in the areas of sterilisation, disinfection and infection control. Joan established and lectured in advanced training courses for infection-control nurses and the staff of hospital sterilising departments. She also played an important role in the establishment of standards for sterilisers and other related hospital equipment. She was an Honorary Life Member of what is now the Sterilising Research Advisory Council of Australia. In June 1992 Joan was declared an Officer of the Order of Australia. Joan Forrest Gardner came from a distinguished scientific family. Her uncle was Howard Florey, who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, her father served as a medical officer during the First World War and practised as a physician until his untimely death in 1928 and her mother, Hilda Josephine Gardner, a brilliant medical student, became one of Melbourne’s foremost haematologists.[1] Joan Gardner also had a brilliant undergraduate career, taking honours in most of her subjects. She took her BSc in 1940 and MSc in microbiology with a thesis on coenzymes the following year. On a part-time research scholarship from 1941 to 1946, she investigated enzymes in wheat flour in the Department of Biochemistry after which she left for the Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University, from which she took her DPhil and published two papers in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology.[2] Back in Melbourne in 1953, Joan Gardner took up an appointment in the then Department of Bacteriology, now the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and began a long period of teaching and research in sterilisation, disinfection and infection control. As well as writing two books on the subject with Sydney Rubbo and Margaret Peel, she established and lectured in advanced training courses for infection-control nurses and the staff of hospital sterilising departments.[3] She also played an important role in the establishment of standards for sterilisers and related hospital equipment. Her work was recognised by being declared, in June 1992, an Officer of the Order of Australia. She was also an Honorary Life Member of what is now the Sterilising Research Advisory Council of Australia. Outside her professional life Joan Gardner had many interests. She was a member of the Handknitters’ Guild and a longstanding supporter of the Lort Smith Animal Hospital. She was also especially interested in the riggings and sails of the different types of sailing ships. One of her obituaries mentions that as a child she liked to go to the docks and watch the movement of the ships in and out of the Port of Melbourne. [4] [1] ‘Hilda J. Gardner, MB BS’. British Medical Journal. 13 June 1953: 1336-1337. [2] Joan F. Gardner. ‘An Antibiotic Produced by Staphylococcus aureus‘. British Journal of Experimental Pathology. v. 30 no. 2(Apr 1949): 130–138; Joan F. Gardner. ‘Some Antibiotics Formed by Bacterium coli.’. British Journal of Experimental Pathology. v. 31 no.1(Feb 1950): 102–111. [3] Sydney D. Rubbo and Joan F. Gardner. A Review of Sterilization and Disinfection as Applied to Medical, Industrial and Laboratory Practice. London: Lloyd-Luke, 1965; Joan F. Gardner, Margaret M. Peel. Introduction to Sterilization and Disinfection. Melbourne: Churchill Livingstone, 1986 (2nd edition 1991; 3rd edition 1997). [4] ‘Leader in the fight against infection’. Prepared by Dr Margaret Mary Peel with assistance from Joan’s cousins, John (Jack) Sunter of Melbourne and Elizabeth Shephard of Adelaide. Age: January 17, 2014. http://www.theage.com.au/comment/obituaries/leader-in-the-fight-against-infection-20140116-30xmf.html Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hr??Discussing joining the Voluntary Aid Detachment; training; assignment to the 2/5th Australian General Hospital; change to AAMWS; nursing in New Guinea; contact with American servicemen in Papua New Guinea; nursing POWs; uniforms; working conditions; use of drugs for skin diseases; leisure.??Oral history?audio cassette; TDK D60; two track mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1983-1984; ‘Selected Poems – Pamela Brown’ Includes correspondence with Helen Garner, 8 May 1984, Kate Jennings and Pamela Brown (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/7)?1991-1992; ‘Body Lines [: A Women’s Anthology]’ Includes 4 colour photoprints (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/7)?1983; ‘Changing Voices – Victoria Foster’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/7)?1986-1987; ‘Claudia’s India – Irene Coates’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/7)?1984-1991; ‘Contracts – Gen[eral]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/7)?1976, 1983-1984; ‘The Dollmaker – Harriet [Harriette Simpson] Arnow’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/7)?1989-1990; ‘Dragon and Shadow Lunar Diary [Published by Dragon and Amazon, Hindmarsh, S.A.]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/7)?1989-1990; ‘Dragonshadow [by Rachael Bradley]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/7)?1985-1987; ‘The Dying [by Peg Job]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/7)?1986-1991; ‘Easy Come Easy Go [by Pam May (Pam May Nilan)]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/7)?1988-1992; ‘Give Me Strength [: Italian Australian Women Speak]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/7)?1983-1984; ‘Home Was Here – Mary Lang’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/7)?1992-1996; ‘Horror’ concerning Shrieks: A Horror Anthology (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/8)?1992-1996; ‘Illicit Passage – Alice Nunn’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/8)?1990-1994; ‘Jessie Street [: Documents and Essays]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/8)?1986; ‘Luxury [by Kate Llewellyn]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/8)?1987-1992; ‘Luxury’, with reader’s report of Growing Up in Australia (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/8)?1989-1990, 1993; ‘Mirrors [: Redress Novellas]’, with contracts for Shrieks (1993) (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/10)?1983-1984; ‘Mother’s Day – Leone Sperling’ Includes colour slides (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/8)?1987-1989; ‘Novella [Anthology] Correspondence (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/8)?1985-1986; ‘Occasional Visits [compiled by Catherine Chinnery]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/8)?1989-1993; ‘Performances [by Maurilia Meehan]’ Includes 3 silver gelatin photoprints (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/8)?1987-1992; ‘Private Party – Veronica Coopman-Dewis’ Includes 4 colour photoprints (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/9)?1983-1984; ‘Queenie – Pat Richardson’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/9)?1984-1989; ‘Room to Move – Suzanne Falkiner’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/9)?1989-1990; ‘Science Fiction Anthology / Never Published’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/9)?1988-1990; ‘SS [Speculative Science] Fiction [Anthology]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/9)?1983-1984; ‘She Moves Mountains – Colleen Burke’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/9)?1991-1993; ‘Song Book [The First Australian Women’s Song Book by Kerith Power][Not published]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/9)?1994-1996; ‘Spectrum [: A Bibliography of Women in Australia 1945 to the Present by Gisela Kaplan’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/10)?1987-1996; ‘200 Australian Women [edited by Heather Radi]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/10)?1985-1988, 1994; ‘Up From Below – Poetry Anthology [edited by Irene Coates, Nancy J. Corbett and Barbara Petrie]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/10)?1987-1995; ‘Vida’s Child [by Freda Galloway]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/10)?1977, 1983-1985; ‘Welou, My Brother [by Faith Bandler]’ Includes 4 colour slides (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/10)?1991-1993; ‘Who Do You Think You Are ? [edited by Karen Herne, Joanne Travaglia and Elizabeth Weiss]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/10)?1991-1994; ‘Who Do You Think You Are ?’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/10)?1988-1990; ‘Women Engineers [: 21 Professional Engineers talk to Joan Bielski]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/10)?1984-1991; ‘Your Hills Are Too High [:An Australian Childhood by Roslyn Taylor]’ Includes 16 photonegatives, 4 silver gelatin photoprints and a proof sheet (Call No.: ML MSS 6308/10) Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the publication “Survival In Our Own Land”, and the problems encountered; as well as research notes and bibliographic material used for a film script commissioned by the Art Gallery of South Australia on Women Artists of Australia (boxes 26-30). Series 1 (interviews) can be located on the database by doing a number search on PRG 824. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9154 comprises the “Application by Nurri Arnold Williams on behalf of the Ngunnawal people for a determination of native title for land in the Australian Capital Territory”. The applicant’s submissions and evidence includes information prepared on behalf of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council: 1. Ngunnawal native title claim historical overview, a selection of primary sources for Namadgi and the Ngunnawal, and Ngunnawal genealogies by Ann Jackson-Nakano. 2. Statement of evidence of the claimant, Nurri Arnold Williams. 3. Archaeological overview of Namadgi and other areas included in the submission by Steven Avery. The collection also includes Ann Jackson-Nakano’s thesis (1 fol. Box).??The Acc99.076 instalment comprises articles, 1978-1979, photographs and photograph albums, magazines, booklets, notebooks, research material, drafts, and other papers including personal papers from Jackson-Nakano’s time in Japan (8 cartons, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc00.138 instalment consists of further papers (1 box).??The Acc07.152 instalment includes correspondence, research material, media clippings and publications relating to indigenous history and issues. In addition, there is a copy of Jackson-Nakano’s book Ngambri ancestral names: for geographical places and features in the Australian Capital Territory and surrounds (2005) (8 boxes).??The Acc08.116 instalment includes correspondence, research material, publications relating to indigenous history and issues, and speeches for Matilda House (4 boxes).??The Acc08.145 instalment comprises research material on Ngunnawal family histories and sources in relation to the Ngambri (Kamberrai), Pajong and Wallabalooa. There is also correspondence, copies of birth, death and marriage records, articles and notes (2 boxes).??The Acc09.153 instalment includes research notes, publications, press clippings, ephemera and correspondence relating to the Ngambri people, and to Pajong and Wallabalooa families at Pudman and Blakeney Creeks (2 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Blanche Isobel Merz nee Chidzey took her BSc from the University of Melbourne in 1941. Born in Northcote, she came to the University from University High School where she had won an Honours certificate in her final year and was awarded a 1938 non-resident Exhibition worth £10 from Queen’s College. In deference to her father’s wishes she did not take up the place she was offered by the Faculty of Medicine, studying Science instead, with a view to a career in teaching. Armed with majors in Physics and Pure Mathematics as well as her Diploma of Education, she travelled to Glasgow as an exchange teacher in 1948. She was followed to Britain by Kurt Merz whom she had known in Melbourne and they were married in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral by Hewlett Johnson, the ‘Red Dean’ in 1950. Both Blanche Merz and her husband were active politically. Kurt Merz, born in 1921, was a refugee from Austria who had arrived in Australia in 1939 and was a member of the Melbourne University Labor Club. He completed his degree despite being classified as an enemy alien and wrote a number of pamphlets on religion and revolution and the place of the individual in Soviet Russia. He died in 1993.[1] On their return to Melbourne, Blanche Merz taught at Mt Scopus, MacRobertson Girls’ High School and St Catherine’s School before joining the staff of the University’s Faculty of Architecture and Building. In 1959, she gave a paper to the Mathematical Association of Victoria which was published in Master Classes in Mathematics, on the history of mathematical notation from the ancient to the relatively modern notations of the last three or four centuries.[2] Although she was initially appointed to contribute to the development of courses in mathematics and environmental science under the direction of Professor Brian Lewis and Elizabeth and Alan Coldicutt, Blanche Merz is best known for her work from the 1970s onwards in the physics of light and colour. She joined the Illuminating Engineering Society of Australia in 1968 and was elected its first female Fellow in 1987. She delivered several papers on the subject of colour at its meetings, the last in 2003. [1] See Pamphlets held in the Communist Party of Australia and McLaren Collections in Special Collections. http://library.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/1687503/CPA-Pamphlets.pdf [2] W.M. Stephens (Ed.) Master Classes in Mathematic. Melbourne: Mathematical Association of Victoria, 2006 Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 7 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "24 min?Oral history?audio cassette; TDK AD60; two track mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The MS 9601 collection comprises correspondence, drafts, speeches, photographs and papers relating to the Aboriginal land rights and environmental causes Rachel Cleland supported in Australia (63 boxes).??The Acc01.001 instalment includes files of papers, diaries and notebooks, “rare books” and tapes (11 boxes).??The Acc02.053 instalment comprises correspondence, family letters, drafts, speeches, reviews, photographs and photograph albums, files relating to the Save the Forests campaign and the Kimberley Land Case (12 boxes).??The Acc02.225 instalment includes papers that document Rachel Cleland’s life and the many organisations with which she was involved (8 boxes).??The Acc04.302 instalment consists of 20 cassettes and three movie films (1 box).??The Acc05.024 instalment comprises correspondence between Rachel Cleland and her family (1 large carton). Author Details Clare Land Created 10 September 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Summers speaks about the first time she met the artist Keith Looby; her reaction to the suggestion that he paint her portrait; she describes Looby’s technique to painting her portrait using photographs and sketches that he made of her; she describes what the portrait looked like in the early stages and how it changed each session; her opinion as to why Looby painted McGuinness in the background of the painting; discusses certain aspects of Looby’s works e.g. Looby using dolls as symbols in his work and also his habit of using ambiguous titles for his paintings. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Born in Boulder in 1899, Amy Ruth Harvey was one of six children of gold worker Philip Harvey and his wife Alice, a dressmaker. She was educated in Boulder and at the scholarship school of Eastern Goldfields High until 1915, and then Perth Modern School. Amy trained as a teacher at the Claremont Teachers College and was sent to teach in the country near Toodyay and then to Maylands Primary School. Here she met Flora Landells and became a student at her Maylands School of Art. In 1929 Amy transferred to the Correspondence school and became involved in educational radio broadcasting. In 1937 when she married Harold Peirl she was obliged to resign, as married women were not permitted in the Education department service. She was thus able to give more time to her art and she became a china painter of some note. Amy painted in two styles, the naturalistic and the geometric. In 1947 together with Ira Forbes -Smith (painter and fabric designer) and Bessie Saunders (painter) Amy held a major exhibition at Perth’s Newspaper House Art Gallery. She returned to teaching in 1951, when there was a shortage of teachers and taught at Girdelstone and Applecross High Schools. She retired in 1963 and died in Perth in 1990. Published resources Catalogue The Wildflower Image. The Painted China of Amy Harvey : An Exhibition - the Alexander Library Building September 2 to October 8 1991, O'Brien, Phillippa, 1991 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Dorothy Erickson Created 2 August 2012 Last modified 12 December 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Nance Haxton is a Walkley Award winning journalist who impressed the judges in 2001 with her coverage of the riots at the Woomera Detention Centre in outback South Australia. She has worked across a variety of media in both metropolitan and regional locations. Nance Haxton has little time for recent Australian feature films that represent the Australian outback as a place of fear and menace, a place where women are routinely snatched by psychopaths only to disappear into a vast, unfriendly landscape. Given her own positive experience of living and working in regional and remote locations, she is frustrated by cultural images that serve to deter women and girls from doing the same. Not a country girl herself, (Nance was born in Brisbane in 1971) she gathered many personal and professional rewards when she took on these imagined bush psychopaths in 1999 by taking the posting of ABC radio’s sole reporter in Port Augusta, South Australia. Tempting fate as she drove her four wheel drive around her patch (almost three quarters of the state of South Australia) she encountered no serial killers, just plenty of stories about people in remote and regional communities who she is proud to have given a voice. A journalist with a keen sense of social justice and the power of journalism to promote it, Nance Haxton’s award-winning career vindicates the efforts of many rural and regional based reporters whose ground-breaking work often goes unrecognised. Nance’s childhood and family life in Brisbane were happy and stable, although her brother’s intellectual disability created particular challenges for her and her parents, challenges that she has written about as a contributor to the book Siblings. Attracted to drama and performance as a youngster, she nevertheless decided she wanted to be a journalist at the age of ten and her secondary and tertiary education was geared towards achieving that aim. After completing her secondary education at Brisbane’s Somerville House in 1988, she completed a Bachelor of Business in Communications with a major in Journalism at Queensland University of Technology in 1991. She went on in 1992 to complete Honours in Communications, the first person to be chosen to do so at QUT, and graduated with a Masters in Journalism in 2001. Beginning with a cadetship with Quest Newspapers in Brisbane in 1992, Nance has worked in print and electronic media, at a local and national level, while dabbling in the arts. An accomplished vocalist and actor, Nance has also combined her career in journalism with one in the performing arts. The lead vocalist in a local jazz band, she sang the national anthem at Port Augusta’s official Australia Day ceremonies in 2000 and 2001, the same years her journalism was recognized by the Walkley judging panel. The quality of Nance’s work was first recognized while she was working for Quest Media in Brisbane when her investigation of cults on campus at the University of Queensland was recognized by the judging panel of the Queensland Media’s Hinchliffe award for suburban and regional reporting. Deciding she wanted to expand her horizons and move into the electronic media, she wrote to a number of women with national profiles seeking advice on how to implement such a move. Only one of them wrote back. Sandra Sully, a television newsreader at the time, graciously provided some advice and remains a mentor in an industry where female friendships appear to be difficult to cement and maintain. Nance successfully made the move to the electronic media when she took up the position of the ABC’s reporter in Port Augusta in 1999. Working in a one woman bureau without supervision, writing stories for television, radio and the internet, she overcame logistical issues that reporters working in metropolitan contexts could barely imagine. Despite the challenges that working independently in remote areas threw up, including the occasional bout of loneliness, Nance thrived personally and professionally in the environment. She established strong relationships with local people, indigenous and non-indigenous, and has used her position with the national broadcaster to bring their local stories to a broader audience. Her effectiveness in so doing is reflected in the range of media awards across a variety of subject matter that she has won over the last ten years. In 2000 her story about possible mining in the Gammon Ranges National Park was highly commended by the Walkley judging panel. In 2001 she was awarded a Walkley for Best Radio News Story for her coverage of the riots at Woomera Detention Centre. She received a United Nations Media Peace Award for Promotion of Aboriginal Reconciliation in 2003 for a report on the Northern Flinders ranges Aboriginal Community of Iga Warta. She received a South Australian Media Award in 2004 for the same story and another one in 2005 for the best coverage of Social Equity Affairs for a story about the fiftieth anniversary of nuclear tests at Emu Field in South Australia’s far north; the South Australian Institute of Justice also recognized this story in 2004. In the same year, the South Australian Law Society acknowledged her work as best radio reporter of the year with the Des Colquhorn Media Award. Most recently, she received awards for Best Sporting Coverage and Best Radio News and Current Affairs Reporting at the 2008 South Australian Media Awards. She was a Walkley finalist again in 2007 in the Best Radio Feature, Documentary or Broadcast Special. She is a finalist in the United Nations Peace Awards again in 2008 in the section Increasing Awareness and Understanding of Children’s Rights and Issues for her coverage of the Mullighan report into the abuse of children in state care in South Australia. Given the size of her patch, the range of stories Nance has covered is hardly surprising. She has reported on tragedies such as the Whyalla Airlines disaster and subsequent enquiry into the crash, and good news stories such as the initiative of one South Australian woman to coordinate a project that sees Australians donating bras to the help the women of Fiji. When asked to nominate her ‘favourites’ within her repertoire, the Woomera Detention Centre story rates highly because she was forced to draw upon all her resources to make it happen. Good local knowledge alerted her to the fact something was happening and where to go to find out; working independently enabled her to move quickly; a good grasp of the technology she had at hand facilitated her speedy response and the ability to accurately describe what she observes combined to produce a great scoop. The judges were impressed by Nance’s ability to not only sniff out the story but to respond with speed in such a remote location and to hit the ground running once she was there. Fifteen minutes after arriving at Woomera she had her first live cross, telling a national audience that: ‘I’m looking at the detention centre now and reports are filtering out that 80 rioters have destroyed four buildings, including the recreation building, dining room, school and ablution block, and have set fire to more. As well, they are using slingshots and spears made from fence pickets in an attempt to repel the guards. Detention centre guards have used a water cannon in an attempt to break up the group, however they are continuing to storm the perimeter fence which has a number of holes’. Nance painted a vivid picture of what was happening to detainees in the middle of the Australian desert, at a time when border and national security were staples of the Australian news diet. It is hardly surprising that a journalist should list such a news gathering and reporting tour de force as the Woomera story amongst her favourites. Another choice of favourites is perhaps a little more surprising. In 2007, Nance reported on the rise of the community ‘men’s shed’ in Australia. Her report focused specifically on the shed in Salisbury in Adelaide’s northern suburbs as a place where men might connect and ‘potter’ but was reported to a national audience via the ABC’s P.M. program. The audience response to the story was extraordinary as men and women contacted the station to determine the location of their nearest shed, or give information about the sheds in their own community. For Nance, the story was proof positive of the power of radio to bring meaningful, local stories to a national audience. Nance has moved beyond radio (she had a stint in ABC television as a researcher for Australian Story) and South Australia (moving to Broken Hill and Sydney for a period) in the course of her career. The fact that she has returned to both of them indicates the extent of her commitment to both, a commitment that is unlikely to waver. What is likely, however, is that if a young woman working on a suburban newspaper asks for her advice on how best to further her career, she will a) reply; and b) tell her to pack her bags and go remote. It has worked for her. Events 1992 - 2012 - 2012 Radio News and Current Affairs Reporting – ‘Justice system fails disabled victims of sexual abuse’, AM, PM and The World Today, ABC Radio Current Affairs 2001 - 2001 Radio News Reporting, ‘Woomera Detention Centre Riots’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Inspiring Women in Journalism, Haxton, Nance, 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/corp/communications/access/stories/s2432534.htm Resource Section Police battle to contain detainees at Woomera Detention Centre, Haxton, Nance, 2000, http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s168422.htm Coroner overturns previous Whyalla airlines crash findings, Haxton, Nance, 2003, http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2003/s909542.htm All Australian boys need a shed, Haxton, Nance, 2007, http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1944289.htm Bra charity giving Fiji women a lift, Haxton, Nance, 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2313784.htm Book Siblings: Brothers and Sisters of Children with Special Needs, Strohm, Kate, 2002 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive [ABC Radio News. 2001 : Woomera Detention Centre Riots] [ABC Radio. 2001 : Woomera Detention Centre] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 20 November 2007 Last modified 24 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Collection comprises – 1 cassette – 1hr??1994; This interview deals with Jean Arnot’s involvement with the National Council of Women in Australia. She became interested in the Council when she was a member of the Koorora Club which had started as an auxiliary for St Luke’s Hospital, Sydney, and ran for 40 years. She was most influenced by Ruby Board and was persuaded to stand for the presidency in 1960. When the Council was 75 years old Jean Arnot wrote its history with the help of Doris Mitchell. The contact with Councils in other states was of great interest to her. Jean Arnot was also president of the Business and Professional Women’s Club and although she was a member of the Library Association, this gave her further opportunity to connect with other professional women. (Call No.: CYMLOH 162/1) Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Elisabeth Clare Fabinyi worked as assistant secretary to the Spanish Relief Fund after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. She was also employed as a clerk at the ICI. In the 1960s she qualified as a librarian and taught briefly at Caufield Technical School. Throughout her life, Elisabeth held a lively interest in both politics and literature. Elisabeth Clare Fabinyi, nee Robinson was the daughter and granddaughter of Hansard reporters. The career of her father, Charles Herbert Palmer Robinson (1870-1945) bridged the transfer of the Commonwealth Parliament, which had sat in Melbourne since Federation, to Canberra, obliging him to commute weekly, well before the standardised railway gauge made this a relatively simple journey, between the new capital and his young family in Toorak. Her mother, Grace Robinson, took her Arts degree from the University of Sydney. Elisabeth Robinson attended several private girls’ schools and took her BA from Melbourne University in 1934. The writer Vance Palmer was a distant relative and during their undergraduate years Elisabeth was introduced to the Labor Club by Vance and Nettie’s daughter Aileen (1915-1988). After graduation she left for Europe to accompany two of her aunts one of whom, Josephine Paxton, was a painter who had studied at the Slade School of Art. Elisabeth spent time in Paris and two happy terms at the Foyer de l’étudiant attached to the University of Grenoble. On her return to Australia after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil war she worked as assistant secretary to the Spanish Relief Fund of which Aileen Palmer was President, raising money to support the republicans. She was also employed as a clerk at ICI. In 1940 she married Andrew Fabinyi (1908-1978) who had left Hungary in 1939. The first of their five children was born in 1942. Elisabeth Fabinyi lived a life dedicated to her family and the life of the mind. Her husband’s as role general manager of the publisher FW Cheshire and in bodies such as the Australian Book Publishers’ Association, the Library Association of Australia and the Australian Institute of International Affairs brought a constant stream of authors and artists to their house and Elisabeth Fabinyi’s lively interest in politics and literature were always in evidence. She qualified in the 1960s as a librarian and worked briefly at Caulfield Technical School. Always interested in other civilisations she continued to travel until late in life to Egypt, Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore, taught English to Japanese students and maintained a beautiful garden. Three of the Fabinyis’ children and one grandchild are, like their mother, graduates of the University of Melbourne. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "VAD’s march in Sydney before Lady Wakehurst. The 17th Brigade AIF is welcomed home from the Middle East in Melbourne.?1 min 21 sec?35mm – safety/b&w/sound Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Marlene Cummins is one of Australia’s foremost blues musicians, a lifelong Aboriginal rights activist and the subject of Rachel Perkin’s 2014 documentary Black Panther Woman . Marlene Cummins was born in the Queensland town of Cunnamulla, to Guguyelandji heritage on her father’s side and Woppaburra on her Mother’s. At 17 Cummins had made her way to Brisbane and joined the Australian Black Panther Party, the first chapter in the country. The party’s ‘Ten-Point Platform Program’ led to the establishment of the Aboriginal Medical and Legal Services, a childcare program and a free breakfast program for schoolchildren. Cummins notes that the latter two programs were largely run by women. Rachel Perkin’s 2014 documentary, Black Panther Woman, depicts Cummins’ reflections on her time as a Panther, her career as a musician and radio show host, as well as her attendance at the New York International Black Panther Conference. Additionally, Cummins reveals the abusive intra-party attitudes that prevailed towards female Panthers at the time, and the pressure felt to stay silent in order to protect the Aboriginal rights movement. She has remained vocal about violence perpetrated against Indigenous women in Australia, and the double minority burden that precludes justice for these crimes. Cummins incorporates these themes and personal experiences into her first album, Koori Woman Blues, the culmination of her long career as a songwriter, saxophone player and blues musician. Cummins additionally has worked as an actor, appearing in a short film Hush for the 2007 Indigenous Film Festival, and recently in Black Drop Effect at the 2020 Sydney Festival. For more than twenty years Cummins has hosted her show Marloo’s Blues on Koori Radio. In 2009 she won the Broadcaster of the Year award for her work at the Deadly Awards. Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra CUMMINS, Marlene The Black Panther Party of Australia Volume 2 CHILLY, Iris Suzanne Colleen ( aka CHILLY aka CHILE, Sue ) Volume 1 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Aboriginal Biographical Index Entry, Personal Subject: Cummins, Marlene. Author Details Dana Pjanic Created 13 October 2020 Last modified 16 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 min 22 sec?16mm/b&w/silent??More Regular Army troops flew into Hobart at the weekend to assist in the bushfire emergency, mainly on cleaning-up operations. Sixty-one of them arrived in a chartered Electra from Melbourne and among these were seventeen members of the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps and Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps. Ninety one members of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, were flown in by RAAF Hercules aircraft from Edinburgh, South Australia. They will take over many of the duties which have been performed by members of the Citizens Military Force, who completed their annual two week’s camp on Sunday. Among the burnt-out buildings, petrol bowsers stood with one-thousand gallons of gasoline still intact in underground tanks. The major task for the troops is on cleaning-up operations around destroyed homes and factories, like this sawmill at Bridgewater. A live hand grenade was found among the debris and later destroyed by an Army ammunition expert. Cleaning-up is a huge task even though brick chimneys are the only solid evidence that homes once stood in many of the burnt-out areas. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 51 minutes??Lorna Esme Adams, nee Eames, was born in Torrensville, South Australia. She trained at the Adelaide Teachers’ College and met her future husband after taking up her second teaching post at Black Hill in 1942. In 1945 they began dairy farming at Black Hill, moving to Paracombe three years later. After their infant son died of cystic fibrosis and their older boy was also diagnosed, they decided to settle at Ponde for the drier climate. Their second son died in 1955. Lorna has had three enduring interests; the Girl Guides movement and the Country Women’s Association, both of which she has represented at State level, and the Holstein-Fresian dairy cattle stud that she and her husband developed. Lorna and her husband Jack’s surviving daughter has had nine children. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Australasia (later renamed the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Australia) was formed in May 1891 at a meeting held in Melbourne for the purpose of federating the existing Colonial Unions. This was probably the first interstate gathering of women’s organisations held in Australia and the Union was the first national women’s organization in the country. The first branch of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) had been formed in Sydney in 1885. Although the primary objective of the organisation in Australia, and worldwide, is the prohibition of, and/or individual abstinence from, alcohol, the Union has been involved in a broad range of social and political reform activities. It was particularly active in the campaign for women’s suffrage in Australia from the 1880s, and the National Union included a Suffrage Department from its inception. The National Union functions as a coordinating body for the various State Unions, and sends representatives to international gatherings of the World’s Woman Christian Temperance Union. While the first local Union in Australia was formed in Sydney in 1882, the growth of the WCTU in Australia was strongly influenced by visit of Mary Leavitt, the first world missionary of the American Union, who arrived in Australia in 1885 and immediately set about forming local branches. During her visit, she formed five branches in Queensland, one in New South Wales, one in South Australia and three in Tasmania. Although not all of these groups thrived, the movement was reinvigorated by visits from the American Union’s second world missionary, Jessie Ackerman, in 1889 and in the 1890s. Jessie Ackerman particularly ensured that women’s suffrage was high on the agenda in the early activities of the Australian Union. Although in some ways a conservative organisation which promoted ‘traditional’ family values and roles for women, the Union was also a progressive force in many ways. Under its broader agenda of ‘home protection’ and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, and in its belief that the dangers of alcohol could not be tackled in isolation, the WCTU pursued a wide-ranging reform agenda mostly relating to the welfare of women and children. Importantly, influenced by its sister organisation in the United States, the Union became a major supporter of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Australia as it was believed that power at the ballot box was the only way to achieve their goals. It was also an early advocate of equal pay. By 1900, the Constitution of the National Union clearly outlined how these issues were intertwined for the Union: ‘We believe in total abstinence for the individual, prohibition for the state and nation, equal standard of purity for men and women, equal wages for equal work without regard to sex, the ballot in the hands of women, arbitration between nations … [the] Holy Bible as our standard faith.’ The Union consistently encouraged women to take on an active role in public life. WCTU members generally were middle- and lower middle-class women, many from non-conformist churches, usually ‘respectable’ married women with children. While at its most influential in the years up to WWI, the movement continues today. Recent priorities for the Union include: protection of the home from alcohol and other drugs; age of consent; euthanasia; pornography; prevention of prostitution and brothels; control of violence and sex in the media; moral standards; youth unemployment; youth suicide; gambling and the social issues arising from gambling; literacy and crime; Aboriginal equality; equal opportunity for both men and women; law and the status of women; women and ageing; health issues especially in regard to foetal alcohol syndrome and foetal effects syndrome; international relations and peace; and social welfare including alcoholism and smoking addictions with women. In 2003 the total national membership was 4,000 across the Unions in each state a Circle Union in the Northern Territory. For further details of the broader activities of the WCTU see the entries for each state Union. Published resources Journal Article Gender, Citizenship and Race in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Australia, 1890 to the 1930s, Grimshaw, Patricia, 1998 Book For God Home and Humanity: National Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Australia: Centenary History 1891-1991, Pargeter, Judith, 1995 Isabel, Harry, Millicent K. (Millicent Kate), 1991 Newsletter The White Ribbon Signal: Official Organ of the Woman's Temperance Union of Australia, 1931-1994 Our federation: Monthly official organ of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Australasia Publication Details Adelaide : , 1898-1903. Physical Description 6 v. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm., 1898-1903 Edited Book Title Pioneer Pathways: Sixty years of citizenship, McCorkindale, Isabel, 1948 Pamphlet Guard Your Race, Bromham, Ada, [1943] The Latest Prohibition Facts for poll 1st September, 1928 : vote out the liquor bar, 1928 Methods of work, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Ackerman, Jessie A., 1893? Report Report, balance sheet and minutes of the national convention/National Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Australia, 1891- Book Section Modernity and mother-heartedness : spirituality and religious meaning in Australian women's suffrage and citizenship movements, 1890s-1920s, Smart, Judith, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Sally Bowen was an early candidate for parliamentary election. She stood for the Communist Party of Australia in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bulli in 1953 (under her maiden name Phipps), 1962 and 1965. Sally Bowen (nee Phipps) ran for the NSW Legislative Assembly seat of Bulli three times as a Communist candidate. At the time of her two later campaigns, she was married to a miner and they had two young children. She was the Vice President of the South Coast District of the Union of Australian Women and a member of the Corimal Miners’ Women’s Auxiliary. She had played a leading roll in campaigns for local government reforms. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 14 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: V51]??This series consists of unbound booklets arranged chorological from 1979 to 2007; booklets for years 1982-1984 are missing.??These booklets list the Red Cross Victorian Division regions (1-27), maps indicate these regions and the units within.?Each region lists its units (branches), and the contact details of officers-bearers. These booklets were internally distributed as a contact list for the Red Cross Victorian Division. ‘Alterations and Amendments’ to the annual book are also within some files.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 27 minutes??Ene-Mai Reinpuu was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Queen’s Birthday honours list, 1998, for service to the Estonian community for more than 30 years, particularly as president and honorary secretary of the Estonian Society of Adelaide, and as honorary secretary of the Council of Estonian Societies in Australia. Ene-Mai Reinpuu, nee Prima, was born in Estonia. At 12 years old she left?Estonia as a refugee with her parents fleeing the threat of Russian invasion. They arrived in South Australia in 1949. At 20 years old she married Villi Reinpuu, also from Estonia and they had two children. She works within the Estonian community in South Australia, organising and participating in the many social and cultural activities of the community, and providing support for its members. Her work has also extended to support for the independence movement in Estonia and fundraising for an Estonian National Museum. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "22 sound cassettes (ca. 1300 min.) Author Details Judith Ion Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lilias Charlotte Maxwell nee Jackson was intimately connected to the University of Melbourne both before and after her marriage, although, as was typical of her time, in rather different ways. A graduate of the University of Melbourne, she married a University of Melbourne academic and their children are all Melbourne graduates. Lilias Jackson graduated BSc in 1911 and MSc the following year when she also won a Government Research Scholarship for work on fish from a nutritional perspective. In 1914, winning the University Scholarship in Physiology she was appointed a demonstrator, acting in Arthur Rothera’s position as Lecturer from August 1915 until 1919. Her scientific career was a promising one. She was elected to the Physiological Society, London in 1915, the first year in which women were admitted and published several papers.[1] In 1919 Lilias Jackson married another promising biochemist, L.A.I. Maxwell, known as Ivan and it is as Mrs Ivan Maxwell that her subsequent career was recorded. Although she left academia, Lilias Maxwell continued her involvement with the University through the Women of the University Fund and many benevolent societies concerned with the wellbeing of the troops in World War II. She was at various times President of the University Women’s Patriotic Fund, the Lyceum Club and the Catalysts. From 1935 to 1937 the family travelled in Europe. On her return, Lilias Maxwell gave lectures to organisations like Rotary and the Victorian Women Graduates’ Association on her impressions of Russia and Spain. In Russia she was especially struck by the contrasts in poverty and affluence among the people, noting that ‘in a railway waiting-room she saw a magnificent Persian rug but in shop windows she saw little attractive food or clothing’.[2] In Spain the most notable aspect was the January festivities continuing in Seville despite the Civil War: celebrating the feast of the three kings with a procession watched by a laughing crowd, which followed it into the great cathedral. Sweets were distributed to the children, and the night before the shops had been open late to sell toys for them.[3] In addition to serving on the committees of the Melbourne Hospital Auxiliary, St Andrew’s Presbyterian Hospital, the Scottish Mothers’ Union and the Parents’ National Education Union, Lilias Jackson managed two houses: ‘Narveno’ in Toorak, and ‘Rosmarin’ in McCrae. [1] Lilias C. Jackson, Leslie McNab and A. C. H. Rothera. ‘The Electrical Conductivity of Milk during its Concentration, with Suggestions for a Practical Method of Determining the End Point in the Manufacture of Sweetened Condensed Milk’. Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry. v. 33 no. 2 (31 January 1914): 59–60; William Alexander Osborne and Lilias Charlotte Jackson. ‘Counter Diffusion in Aqueous Solution’. Biochemical Journal. v. 8 no.3(June 1914): 246-249, etc. [2] ‘Suit Costs £48 in Russia: Luxury and Poverty’. Argus. 24 June 1937: 11. [3] ‘A Contrast: Spain in January, European Tour’. Sydney Morning Herald. 26 August 1936: 7. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 7 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Daphne Phillips, Australian Women’s Land Army, interviewed by Judy Wing for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-1945.?1 hr 58 min. Oral history. Audio cassette; TDK AR60; stereo Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Manuscript drafts of biographical papers on the following: Anderson, Mary (11 p.); Brennan, Jennie (7 p.); Couchman, Dame Elizabeth May Ramsay (13 p.); Deakin’s daughters, Brookes and Ivy Deakin; Rivett, Stella (Deakin) Lady; White, Vera (Deakin) Lady (14 p.); Goldstein, Vida (21 p.); Holman, May (16 p.); James, Britomarte (23 p.); Lyons, Dame Enid (17 p.); Rich, Ruby (19 p.); Rischbieth, Bessie Mabel (36 p.); Sweet, Georgina (22 p.); Waterworth, Edith (16 p.); Woinarski, Gertrude Zichy- (10 p.); Young, Jeanne (10 p.). Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc01/125 comprises correspondence with galleries and museums, drafts of the National Women’s Art Exhibition catalogue, reviews, cuttings, flyers and slides (4 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A guide to the material is available at MG mfm G 7743.??Microfilm copy of original documents in the Mitchell Library. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lady Joyce Ethel Price’s outstanding contribution to the Girl Guides both in Australia and worldwide was first recognised at a commonwealth level in 1968 when she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 1977 she also received the Girl Guide Fish Award; and in 1978 her efforts were further recognised when she was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George – Commanders (CMG). Joyce Ethel Price was born in South Australia on 8 August 1915. She attended Goolwa Primary School, Adelaide High School, and completed an MSc at the University of Adelaide in 1938. She married James Robert (Sir Robert) Price in 1940 (died 1999) and had three children: two daughters and one son. Lady Joyce was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968 and, a decade later, in 1978, was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George – Commanders (CMG) for her service to Girl Guides. In 1977 she also received the Girl Guide Silver Fish Award. Her longstanding commitment to the Girl Guides can be seen in a chronological listing of some of her work and committee appointments between 1938 and 1970. Events 1942 - 1944 Labour Officer, Ministry of Supply Explosives Factory, Scotland 1957 - 1960 Secretary, Australian Reading Union 1957 - 1962 Treasurer, Pan-Pacific Southeast Asian Women’s Association, Victoria 1960 - 1962 Executive Council Member UNAA, Victoria 1960 - 1970 Secretary, Australia Reading Union 1963 - 1968 State Commissioner, Girl Guides Association, Victoria 1968 - 1973 Chief Commissioner, Girl Guides Association of Australia 1972 - 1972 Chairperson of World Conferences, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, Canada 1974 - 1979 Vice President, Girl Guides Association of Australia 1975 - 1978 Chairperson, World Committee of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts 1977 - 1977 Addressed the memorial service for the late Lady Baden-Powell, Westminster Abbey, England 2006 - 2006 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1978 - 1978 Chairperson of World Conferences, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, Iran 1938 - 1940 Employee, Plant Physiology Department, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, South Australia Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources Australian Dictionary of Biography Lady Joyce Ethel Price Author Details Judith Ion Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 21 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Alice Henry was a feminist journalist and union activist who became a prominent and respected figure in the American women’s and trade union movements in the early twentieth century. Alice Henry was the daughter of Scottish born migrants to Australia who she credits with ensuring that she developed a passionate commitment to social justice issues. She received a good, progressive education but was denied access to a university education. Nevertheless, she accepted the need to support herself, so Henry first tried teaching but then turned to journalism after a serious illness. She published her first article in 1884. For the next twenty years she wrote for the Argus, the Australasian, and occasionally other newspapers and overseas journals, under her own name or a pseudonym, ‘A.L.F.’, ‘Wyuna’, or ‘Pomona’. At the age of 48 she embarked on an overseas tour which took in the United Kingdom and the United States. Unable to find work in England, she arrived in the United States in December 1905. Her knowledge of the Australian feminist and labour movements attracted the attention of the prominent reformer Margaret Dreier Robins. She invited Henry to work for the National Women’s Trade Union League of America (W.T.U.L.) in Chicago where, as lecturer, as field-worker organizing new branches, and as journalist, she became a key figure in the campaign for woman suffrage, union organization, vocational education, and labour legislation in the United States. In 1908, she began to edit the women’s section of the Chicago Union Labor Advocate, and in January 1911 became the founding editor of the W.T.U.L.’s monthly Life and Labor, where she remained as editor (working with Australian novelist Miles Franklin) until 1915. She served in a variety of ways and positions at W.T.U.L. including investigating the conditions of woman brewery workers (1910), author of The Trade Union Woman (1915), field organizer (1918-20), and director of the education department (1920-22). She returned to Melbourne temporarily in 1925 to address meetings and urge the importance of combining unionism and feminism. This visit inspired women to form an organisation similar to her own in Melbourne in July 1925, named the Women’s Trade Union League. Henry retired to Santa Barbara, California, in 1928. She returned to Melbourne in 1933 and died there ten years later. Published The Trade Union Woman, 1915 Women and the Labor Movement, 1925 Published resources Article Alice Henry Investigates, Cervini, Erica, 2000, http://fifth.estate.rmit.edu.au/November00/henry.htm Book Alice Henry : The Power of Pen & Voice The Life of an Australian-American Labour Reformer, Kirby, Diane, 1991 Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Henry, Alice (1857-1943), Kirkby, Diane, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090273b.htm Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Fred Coleman-Browne - papers, including papers of his wife, Eileen Powell, ca.1871-1968 Miles Franklin - Papers, 1841-1954 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Kate Baker, 1893-1946 [manuscript] Papers of Alice Henry, 1873-1943 (bulk 1873-1943) [manuscript] Papers of Alice Henry, 1873-1943 Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc Alice Henry 1857-1943 - Annotated Guide Alice Henry papers State Library of New South Wales Papers relating to Alice Henry, ca. 1901-1903 Author Details Elle Morrell and Nikki Henningham Created 14 February 2001 Last modified 7 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Maude Wordsworth James was born ‘at sea’ on 19 December 1855 aboard the ship Morning Star in the Indian Ocean approximately 2,500 kilometres south west of Western Australia. Her parents, Thomas and Alicia Crabbe, had sailed from Bristol in October bound for Melbourne as unassisted immigrants. When the couple boarded the Morning Star they had 3 children. Maude was their fourth. Between 1856 and 1871 Alicia bore another 6 children. Maude spent her childhood in Victoria moving from Williamstown near Melbourne, to Portland, Dunnolly and Maryborough. She met her husband, Charles Wordsworth Scantlebury James, in Maryborough and they were married at the All Saints Church in Bendigo on 3 November 1875. Maude was aged 19 and Charles was 25. Their first son, Cyril Haughton, was born in Bendigo, Victoria in 1878. Two years later Maude bore a daughter who died when only sixteen days old. The couple moved to Hobart at some stage between 1878 and 1883 where their third child, Tristram (b. 4/3/1883) and another daughter, Yolande (b. 15/7/1889) were both born. Maude’s husband, Charles, was a civil engineer who obtained work in Kalgoorlie in 1896. After working for one of the mining companies in Kalgoorlie for almost a year he telegrammed Maude asking that she and their children join him. As the town of Kalgoorlie expanded the financial position of the James family seemed secure. Maude’s husband Charles was now employed by the Kalgoorlie Municipal Council as the town surveyor and, while they had not made a fortune, life was more comfortable than when they first moved to Mullingar. By 1907 the ‘tent’ they inhabited in 1897 was a weatherboard cottage with a separate dining room and they could afford to pay a woman to help with the household duties. However, Maude felt that they needed more money and she took it upon herself to find a means of earning an income. She conceived an idea for Australian souvenir jewellery and she designed, patented and organised for the manufacture of her ‘Coo-ee’ jewellery. Incorporating Australian fauna, flora and indigenous motifs she sold brooches, bangles, cuff links, pins and spoons which were made from Australian gold and featured tourmaline from Kangaroo Island, opals from Queensland and pearls from Broome. These designs were registered in England and New Zealand, as well as in Australia. Maude proudly pasted in her journal articles about an exhibition in Perth in December 1907 that displayed her designs and a page from the Australian Jewellery Manufacturing Gazette that advertised her ‘Coo-ee’ jewellery. Published resources Book Section Introduction, Davis, Jane Edited Book Symbols of Australia, White, Richard and Harper, Melissa, 2010 Book Gold and Silversmithing in Western Australia, Erickson, Dorothy, 2010 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Author Details Dr Jane Davis Created 8 August 2012 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The collection consists of research works and papers by Shineberg; files of general research material arranged by subject including Andrew Cheyne’s Trading Voyages, cargo cults, decolonisation, Fiji, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Kiribati/Gilbert Islands, pacific labour trade, Marquesas Islands, Micronesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Vanuatu/New Hebrides; undergraduate teaching resources and lectures; correspondence, photographs, computer disks, microfilm prints, material related to Shineberg’s career, copies of archival material dating from the 18th century, card indexes and miscellaneous reprints. Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 25 July 2017 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Lesley Hall was a feminist and disability advocate who worked throughout her life to empower low income and indigenous people, and people with disabilities, to attain and assert their human rights. She dramatically increased the policy involvement of people with disabilities in Australian and international disability issues. On behalf of the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) she represented and involved people with disabilities in the consultation, lobbying and campaign to successfully achieve the National Disability Strategy and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Lesley Hall is well known for a radical form of activism in 1981, when she and other activists stormed the stage of the St Kilda Town Hall during the Miss Australia Quest. The act has been described as ‘the first public act to place disability as a feminist issue on the agenda’. Born in the Victorian country town of Port Fairy in 1954, Lesley Hall started her schooling at the local primary school. She then attended a special school (Yooralla) and completed her secondary schooling in Altona. She graduated with a BA and Dip Ed from La Trobe University in 1973-78. Lesley’s political evolution started at school, when she became aware of the equity (or inequity) issues associated with ‘special’ schooling. The process of being segregated and institutionalised as a young teenager was limiting, indeed, harmful, on many levels. Not only was the education sub-standard, it was socially inadequate. People in so-called ‘special schools’ often did not develop the interpersonal skills they might otherwise have developed in mainstream schools. Lesley began to develop a theoretical perspective on the experience of oppression when she became involved in disability politics in the late 1970s. She met Richard Berger and Eddie Ryan, who were involved in the newly forming disability activist movement, around 1979-80 and immediately clicked with the group. They were radical in their thinking and their perspective matched her own, which was that people with disabilities should not be segregated, but should be encouraged to be part of the broader community. Very importantly, they must be able to speak for themselves. An important step towards empowerment was the establishment of the Disability Action Forum (DAF) of which Lesley was a member. The DAF was a unique organisation of people from around Victoria with disabilities, united on a regional basis – not disability specific – to speak and act on their own behalf. As a member of this forum, Lesley was instrumental, in 1981, in establishing the state’s first Disability Resource Centre (DRC) in Brunswick, a place run by people with disabilities, where people could go to find information about services and their rights under law. It was one of her first jobs in the disability advocacy sector. This activity took place in 1981, the International Year of the Disabled Person. According to Lesley, this year was ‘crucial for people understanding that people with disabilities needed to be involved in and lead projects’. There was a lot of energy, and intense focus on organising and activism. This was also a time when people with disabilities were gaining the confidence to speak for themselves in more radical, publicly confronting ways. Historically, disability support services had come under the auspices of charities, such as the Spastic Society (now Scope). This was a bone of enormous contention for disability activists, who objected to the charity perspective of support on a number of fronts. Firstly, support offered by charities was generally provided in the form of segregation, in the guise of institutional living, sheltered workshops and special schools. The charity perspective oppressed people, says Lesley, because it ‘focused on people’s deficits rather than their strengths’ and treated people as ‘objects of pity’. So an important platform of political action for disability activists was to cut the nexus between charity and service provision. Their views on the matter were highlighted in the late 1970s in Victoria by a successful campaign of public protests aimed against the Yooralla Telethon and its depiction of children with disabilities as objects of pity rather than humans with agency. There was a feminist thread to this activism. Lesley was involved in feminist politics in the 1970s which took her to the disability movement at the end of the decade. Her interest in both streams, however, reinforced in her mind the inadequacies of both. There was ‘a lot of sexism around’ in the disability movement in the early 1980s. But the feminist movement’s response to the particular needs of women with disabilities was inadequate and unsatisfying. A significant number of women with disabilities shared her frustration They established the Women with Disabilities Feminist Collective (WDFC) which offered a space where women with disabilities could go and talk about their experiences and gain strength through doing so. It was also a political action group, involved in organising protests. The Anti-Miss Victoria quest working party was one activity, but there were others organised around housing, employment and transport. WDFC was busiest in the early to mid 1980s; less so in the late 80s to early 90s, although this was a time when other organisations with a gender perspective, such as Women with Disabilities Victoria and WWDA were beginning to take shape. Lesley was involved in a set of direct action protests that highlighted the gender perspective in the critique of public representations of people with disabilities. The Miss Australia Quest was a beauty contest that since 1954 had run as a fundraiser for the Spastic Society in Victoria. Feminist activists and lobby groups for the disabled had been protesting outside national finals throughout the 1980s. The International Year of the Disabled put the spotlight on opposition to the quest. As Lesley explained, the beauty quest as a form of fundraiser for disability charities was particularly odious, given its focus on physical perfection ‘as the norm all must attain if they are to be fully accepted into society’. Lesley was among a group of feminists and disability activists who got into the venue for the 1981 event. ‘The media sprang to life as soon as soon as we got on stage,’ she says. The protests received significant press coverage and provoked a range of responses, including strong support from people within the Spastic Society and other disability charities, to criticism from people with disabilities. There was still a very conservative group that believed segregation, and therefore, the charities that supported segregated services, to be the best way of providing for people with a disability. Despite the objections from this camp, the protest marked a symbolic shift in the mode of public thinking about the place of people with disabilities in Australian society. This was accompanied by a major policy shift in Victoria, initiated by some very progressive people in government, who were listening to disability activists and beginning to ‘get’ the issues. The 1981 protest action was, arguably, the first public act to place disability as a feminist issue on the agenda. Throughout the 1980s, the WDFC continued to highlight these issues. Like the women from the DPI (A) women’s network, they began to gather a more theorised perspective on the issues confronting women with disabilities especially when it came to women’s health and the problems of domestic violence. By the early 1990s, there was some crossover between the two streams. A decade of networking and deep discussion had created an environment where women with disabilities in Victoria knew they needed to do something. Lesley became involved with Women with Disabilities Victoria in the late 1990s. Her professional work as an advocate in the development of Attendant Care action and planning brought her into contact with members of the network, such as Keran Howe. Lesley was a member of a working party that was examining the issues associated with women with disabilities gaining access to women’s refuges, a problem that Women with Disabilities Victoria and WWDA were researching at the time. She lent her support to Women with Disabilities Victoria at a time when the organisation was on shaky ground, to help them return to a stable and sustainable position. She also lent her writing skills to Oyster Grit, the breakthrough publication of stories about women with disabilities, written by women with disabilities. Lesley was keenly aware of the transformative power of the arts for people with disabilities. She worked as an Arts & Cultural Development Officer at the City of Darebin where she promoted the inclusion of people with disabilities in all their artistic opportunities. She was a member of the Art of Difference 2009 Steering Committee and on the Board of Arts Access. She previously served on the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC) disability advisory committee and the Victorian Disability Advisory Council (VDAC). She also represented VDAC on the Department of Human Services Industry Advisory Group. In September 2008 she was employed as the CEO for the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) where she brought her experience, skills and long commitment to human rights for women, people with disabilities and indigenous people to the national and international work of AFDO. She was still working for AFDO when she passed way in 2013. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Lesley Hall interviewed by Nikki Henningham and Rosemary Francis in the Women with Disabilities Network oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 November 2020 Last modified 27 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO28]??Comprises draft and copies of the Constitution establishing Papua and New Guinea Division; as well as Regulations, Annual Reports, Activity Reports, Financial Statements, Workshop Reports and papers relating to Youth Voluntary Service Overseas in the Territory of Papua New Guinea.?See also records in the following series: Correspondence Files, National Headquarters (2015.0033); Australian Red Cross Royal Charter, rules and constitution (2016.0052); Awards, honours, medals, citations (2016.0053). As well as individual item: Junior First Aid for Papua New Guinea (2016.0051.00055); Australian Red Cross Society Regulations Papua New Guinea Division Adopted (2016.0052.00028); Halpim Pikinini (Helping Children) International Project Papua New Guinea (2016.0057.00012); Helping Hands: Reach out for PNG, International Project (2016.0057.00013); Official Record of the Unveiling of the Mount Lamington Memorial Popondetta Cemetery, Papua (2016.0057.00050); Gramophone recording of Papua New Guinea Red Cross Choir (2016.0077.0004)??The Papua and New Guinea Divisions was formed in 1939 and operated until the Japanese invasion in 1942. In 1949 the Australian Parliament passed legislation to unite the territories of Papua and New Guinea which meant Australia Red Cross was the governing body. Following Papua New Guinea’s independence in 1975, the Papua New Guinea Red Cross was established by an Act of Parliament (1976). Http://redcross.org.pg/??UM Archives holds a number of collections which pertain to Papua New Guinea. Enquire of our Reference Services, or search our online catalogue http://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/imu/imu.php?request=search??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Edith Anderson was the wife of New South Wales Governor, Sir David Murray Anderson, who held office for only a short time before he died in October 1936. Edith assumed many official duties on her husband’s behalf because of his continuing illness. She was appointed to The Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander on 11 May 1937 for public service in New South Wales. Edith Anderson, daughter of W H Teschemaker, married David Murray Anderson in 1908. They had no children. Her husband had a distinguished career in the British Navy before being appointed Governor of Newfoundland in 1932. Edith Anderson founded the Personal Service League in Newfoundland, which worked to relieve distress in the country. At the end of his posting in 1935, David Anderson received his appointment as Governor of New South Wales on 6 November. The newspaper report in The Sydney Morning Herald of 6 November 1935, which announced the name of the New Governor, quoted Edith’s London friends who ‘paid tribute to the social genius and delightful personality of Lady Anderson, who gives her energy and enthusiasm lavishly in social welfare work’. David Murray Anderson was sworn in as Governor in August 1936 and died on 30 October. According to a report which appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 October 1936, announcing the death of the Governor, Edith Anderson ‘won the admiration of the people of New South Wales for the manner in which she has relieved the Governor from many of his official engagements’. Published resources Resource Section Anderson, Sir David Murray (1874-1936), Naval officer and governor, Cunneen, Chris, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070056b.htm Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 11 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Originally established as the Sydney Foundling Hospital in 1874, it became the Infants’ Home in 1877. It assumed responsibility for the care of infants of single mothers and destitute parents and provided a temporary home for the mothers. Its management comprised an all female Board until 1973, when the first male joined. It was the first organisation to move from residential care to long day care in the early 1970s and the third family day care scheme to commence operations in New South Wales. The Family Centre of Early Intervention commenced in 1978. The members of the first committee comprised Mrs E B Parnell, President, Mrs Julia Bensusan, Secretary, Mrs G F Wise, Treasurer, Mrs (later Lady) E Deas Thomson ( daughter of Governor Bourke and wife of the Colonial Secretary), Lady Murray, Mrs Henry Moore, Mrs Fischer, Mrs Alexander, Mrs Holt, Mrs John Smith and Mrs St John. Mrs John Eales, Mrs Goodenough and Mrs Dumaresq joined in the first year. Rules for admission to the institution were laid down by July 1874. They required firstly for each application to be dealt with on its merits; secondly, for the infant to be no older than three months; thirdly for the mother to produce satisfactory evidence of her previous respectability and fourthly there had to be proof that the father had deserted the baby and be beyond the reach of the law to enforce him to support it. Published resources Book Betrayed and forsaken: the official history of the Infants' Home, Ashfield, founded in 1874 as the Sydney Foundling Institution, Lorne-Johnson, Susan, 2001 Journal Happenings at Home, 2001- Pamphlet Infants' Home Ashfield: constitution and rules, Infants' Home (Ashfield, NSW), 1993 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Infants' Home (Ashfield, N.S.W.) records, 1874-1966 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 May 2004 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Lina Furia owned and ran the Cornwall Hotel in Boulder with her husband Charlie Furia and her son Jack Osmetti from 1926 -1970. Lina Robustellini migrated to Western Australia in the early 1900s. Her first husband Jack Osmetti was killed on the Golden Horseshoe Mine and she supported her family by running a boarding house. In 1924 she married Charlie Furia and using the compensation money paid out after the death of Jack Osmetti, they purchased the Cornwall Hotel in Boulder. Young migrant miners stayed at the Cornwall, and dances were held for the community every Saturday. During the Kalgoorlie riots in 1934 the Cornwall was among many buildings belonging to migrants which were burnt down. Lina continued to sell alcohol to her customers and operated a bar from a corrugated iron shed next door to the remains of the hotel until it was rebuilt with compensation money from the government. Lina Furia provided employment for many young migrant women and men, including Nerina Beccarelli, who worked as a waitress in the dining room. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book One Hundred Women of the Eastern Goldfields, 2000 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Tess Epis interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald [sound recording] Nerina Beccarelli interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald [sound recording] Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 7 August 2012 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "In the Queen’s Birthday list (8 June 1968) Dorothy Tangney became the first Western Australian born woman to be appointed Dames Commander of the British Empire for services to the Western Australia Parliament. She was a senator for Western Australia in the Senate of the Australian Parliament from 1943 until she retired in 1968. A former schoolteacher Dorothy Tangney became the first woman member of the Australian Senate. An advocate for health and welfare, she served on the Joint Committee on Social Security 1943-1946 and served as a senator from 1943 until she retired in 1968. Dorothy Tangney featured on the 45c stamp (1973) and the electoral division of Tangney in Western Australia is named after her. Also in 1999 the street, formerly known as Administration Place (Canberra), was changed to Dorothy Tangney Place. In the Queen’s Birthday list (8 June 1968) Dorothy Tangney became the first Western Australian born woman to be appointed Dames Commander of the British Empire for services to the Western Australian Parliament. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Edited Book Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Who's Who in Australia 1983, Draper, W. J., 1983 Resource Section List of Electoral Divisions Named After Women, Australian Electoral Commission, http://www.aec.gov.au/history/women/women3.htm Journal Article Commemoration biography of Dorothy Tangney, Lawrence, Carmen, 1991 Book Section Dorothy Tangney - biography and reproduction of key parliamentary speech, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Thesis Australia's first woman senator: Dorothy Tangney B.A., Dip. Ed, Wall, Judith, 1962, http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/search~S1?/Xdorothy+tangney&searchscope=1&Da=&Db=&p=&SORT=D/Xdorothy+tangney&searchscope=1&Da=&Db=&p=&SORT=D&SUBKEY=dorothy%20tangney/1%2C11%2C11%2CB/frameset&FF=Xdorothy+tangney&searchscope=1&Da=&Db=&p=&SORT=D&6%2C6%2C Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Dorothy Margaret Tangney, 1938-1986 [manuscript] Parliamentarians' questionnaires, 1982-1983 [manuscript] State Library of Western Australia Dame Dorothy Tangney papers Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 January 2002 Last modified 15 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers c. 1920-1979, including Annual Reports, news clippings, newsletters and correspondence. Also material relating to the Australian Federation of University Women and the International Federation of University Women, as well as letters to then Secretary Mrs R. W. McKellar, 1936. Meeting notes of the Lyceum Club, Melbourne located at Box 2505/6(a). Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Hanna Neumann was Professor and Head of the Department of Pure Mathematics, School of General Studies, Australian National University from 1964-71. Previously she worked as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Hull and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1946-63. Neumann became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1969. Neumann completed her D. Phil. At Oxford in 1944. She typed her thesis on a card table by a haystack when the weather permitted. Much of it was written in a caravan by candlelight. This was the only accommodation she could find in Oxford during World War Two. She completed her education in Germany, at the Auguste-Viktoria-Schule and the University of Berlin. In 1938 she joined her fiancé, Bernhard Hermann Neumann in Britain. A Jewish refugee from Germany, he held a lectureship in mathematics at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff. They were married on 22 December 1938 and went on to have five children. In Australia as Professor of Pure mathematics at the Australian National University, she quickly became involved with secondary school teachers in the implementation of the mathematics syllabus for the Wyndham scheme in New South Wales. Together with a colleague in the first term of 1964, they ran a once-a-week course for teachers entitled ‘The language of sets in school mathematics’. She maintained a direct involvement with secondary teachers of mathematics for the rest of her life. Her own research was focused mainly on group theory; on problems related to free products with amalgamations, embeddings and varieties of groups. In her entry for the Australian Dictionary of Biography Kenneth Fowler stated that ‘she found joy and beauty in the study of mathematics’. Published resources Book Section Hanna Neumann (1914-1971), Newman, Michael F, 1987 Journal Article Hanna Neuman, Newman, M. F. and Wall, G. E., 1975 Hanna Neumann (1914-1971), Walker, Rosanne, 2001 Hanna Neumann [Includes list of publications], Wall, G. E., 1974 Article Neumann, Hanna - AAS Biographical Memoir 3 (2), 1975., Newman M.F. and Wall G.E., 1975, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/aasmemoirs/neumann.htm Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Adolph Basser Library Hanna Neumann Collection Author Details Elle Morrell and Rosemary Francis Created 14 February 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Box number 249 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Notes, articles and talks on a range of topics, including histories of the Karrakatta Club, Western Australian Branch of the British Medical Association, and the Western Australian Association of University Women; manuscript and typescript copy of Short sketch career of Roberta H.M. Hull; 2 photographs. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Josephine Conway is a feminist activist who has made a difference to the lives of women living in New South Wales’ Hunter Valley District for over thirty years. Best known for her long term involvement in the Right to Choose Abortion Coalition, she remains active in the Women’s Electoral Lobby, the Hunter Valley Home-Birth Group, Women’s Action against Global Violence, the Union of Australian Women, Jobs for Women and the Women’s Action Group. In 2005, as a mark of appreciation and respect for her commitment to the promotion of women’s issues, she was awarded the National Foundation For Australian Women’s Edna Ryan Award for Community Activism."
    },
    {
        "text": "Lillian Holt was a member of the first generation of Aboriginal high school and university graduates and had an impressive track record of full time work, study and concomitant achievements. She traversed new terrain in order that younger ones might follow. Lillian worked or studied full time since the age of 17. She worked as an educator in Aboriginal affairs and education “25 hours a day, eight days a week”! She was appointed as a University of Melbourne Fellow in 2003 -2005, prior to that she was Director of the Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne. Lillian Holt passed away on her birthday in February 2020, at the age of 75."
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    {
        "text": "1. Handwritten text by Oodgeroo Noonuccal, to accompany slide images for book. 2. Typescript by Paul Cliff of emendations to Oodgeroo’s text. 3. Edited typescript version by Paul Cliff, of Oodgeroo’s and Vivian Walker’s script for The Rainbow Serpent. This was performed at Expo ’88, Brisbane, and used as the introduction to The Spirit of Australia. Accompanied by letter from Paul Cliff to Oodgeroo and Vivian Walker, 19 Jan. 1989. (Note : Vivian Walker later became known as Kabul Oodgeroo Noonuccal.)??Paul Cliff worked as co-editor and author with Oodgeroo on the book, The Spirit of Australia. Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Minutes, constitution, policy, press releases, correspondence, submissions, reports, photos, speech, itinerary, historical notes, memorial service address for Ruth Gibson OBE, booking form to hear Moral Crusader Mary Whitehouse, manuscript of book edited by Helen Jones ‘Greater Than Their Knowing’, financial records and membership lists. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A film fragment, assumed to belong to Kate Howarde. The couple standing could possibly be Franklyn and Mabel Barrett. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gwen Meredith was the writer of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) radio serial Blue Hills. On 10 June 1967 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services to radio entertainment and on the 11 June 1977 an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to the Arts. Daughter of George and Florence Meredith, Gwen completed her secondary education at Sydney Girls High School and her tertiary education at the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts. From 1932 – 1939 she was the owner of the Chelsea Bookshop (which led to the development of the Chelsea Drama Club) before working as a freelance writer for four years. In 1943 Gwen Meredith commenced a 33-year relationship with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, contracted to write radio plays, serials and documentaries. For five years she wrote for radio serial The Lawsons, highlighting the problems of rural Australia in wartime. Her next serial, Blue Hills, depicted rural life in the wheat belt, the high country and the red centre, and ran for 5795 episodes over 27 years: ‘During the high noon of radio’s golden era’, claims Richard Begbie in the Canberra Times, ‘it was estimated that nearly half the Australian radio sets operating on 1pm weekdays were tuned to Blue Hills.’ Gwen Meredith married engineer Ainsworth Harrison on 24 December 1938. She enjoyed gardening and painting, as well as bush-walking and fly-fishing with her husband. Her publications include: Wives Have Their Uses (1944); Great Inheritance (1946); The Lawsons (1948); Blue Hills (1950); Beyond Blue Hills (1953), Inns and Outs (with husband Ainsworth Harrison) (1955) and Into the Sun. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Sound recording [Conversation with Gwen Meredith] / [interviewer : Hazel de Berg], Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1975 Book The golden age of Australian radio drama 1923-1960 : a history through biography, Lane, Richard, 1994 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Wives have their uses : a comedy in three acts, Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1944 Great inheritance, Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1945 The Lawsons, Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1948 Blue Hills, Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1950 Beyond blue hills : the Ternna-Boolla story, Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1953 Inns and outs, Meredith, Gwen, 1907- and Harrison, Ainsworth, 1955 Into the sun : a Blue Hills novel, Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1961 Upstaged : Australian women dramatists in the limelight at last, Arrow, Michelle, 2002 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Gwen Meredith, 1938-1987 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Gwen Meredith, author, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 October 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The United Associations of Women (U.A.) was one of the most radical feminist groups of the mid twentieth century. It was formed in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1929 by women who perceived a need for a more politically forceful alternative to the range of Australian women’s organisations already in existence. Concerned that groups like the National Council of Women and the Feminist Club had become, by the late 1920s, social clubs rather than political lobby groups, Jessie Street, who had been an office-bearer of both the aforementioned organisations, but had become increasingly frustrated by their conservativism, took action. A series of meetings late in 1929 involving Street and other like-minded women such as Linda Littlejohn, Ruby Rich and Adela Pankhurst Walsh culminated in the establishment of the United Associations on 18 December 1929. The UA was extremely active throughout the 1930s and 40s, and played a major role in organising the Australian Women’s Charter Conference in 1943. The interwar period saw Australian women establishing clubs and joining organisations at an extraordinary rate. The battle for woman suffrage had been won, but there was still much to be achieved by and on the behalf of women. By the late 1920s, however, many committed feminists felt that the existing women’s organisations were too conservative and not forceful enough in their attempts to achieve gender equality. Inspired by the activities of a group of similarly dissatisfied English feminists (The Open Door Council), whose singular aim was to focus on women’s economic needs and their rights to equal work for equal pay, regardless of marital status, a number of prominent Australian feminists joined forces to form the United Associations of Women Workers (UA). Jessie Street resigned from the Feminist Club in 1929 to become the UA’s first president. She was joined by the presidents of three other important New South Wales women’s organisations: Mrs. A Roberts of the Women’s League; Mrs Dougall-Laing of the Women’s Service Club and Mrs. Linda Littlejohn of the Women Voters’ Association. Jessie Street was elected president, with the leaders of the other organisations becoming vice presidents. In quick time, the membership of the organisation grew to well over 200. Mary Bennett, Ada Bronham, Dymphna Cusack and Ruby Rich were all members at one time or another. The new association operated under the motto ‘For freedom and equality of status and opportunity’ and had a wide range of objectives. They aimed to: 1. Achieve by legislation, administration, organisation or any other means considered advisable, a real equality of status, opportunity and liberties for mean and women. 2. Secure equal pay for men and women and equality in all laws, rules and regulations. 3. Secure economic independence for married women. 4. Improve the legal status of mothers. 5. Promote an equal moral standard for men and women. 6. Support the candidature of qualified women for public office, who shall have pledged themselves to support constitutional methods and who shall be endorsed by the Council. 7. To promote the welfare of children. 8. To promote the study of social, political and economic questions. 9. To promote international peace and understanding. 10. To secure an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia to provide that men and women shall have equal rights in Australia and all territories under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth Government. The women of the UA campaigned vigorously to achieve these aims in the 1930s and 40s. The highpoint of this political activism, arguably, was seen when representatives of over ninety women’s organisations met in Sydney, Australia, in November 1943, at the Australian Women’s Conference for Victory in War and Victory in Peace. Organised at a time when planning for peace was a politically bi-partisan priority, the conference focused on one over-riding question: how would women’s interests be advanced in the planning of post war reconstruction? An important outcome of the conference was the development of a charter of rights for women in the post-war world. The Australian Women’s Charter, regarded as a land-mark feminist manifesto, was endorsed by the conference and represents a moment in time when Australian women prioritised the single category of gender over other political categories. Once the war was over, however, this fragile unity was shattered as the politics of the cold war came to impact upon the politics of postwar feminism. Many of the more conservative women’s groups were confronted by Jessie Streets communist sympathies and chose to break ties with the U.A. For instance, the U.A.’s relationship with the Australian Federation of Women voters was harmed to breaking point by Cold War tensions. Furthermore, as time progressed, some of the U.A.’s causes were taken up my other political groups: the trade union movement, for instance, took up the struggle for equal pay. In the 1960s many of its objectives were met, as married women entered the workforce and some women achieved equal pay. A victim of it’s own success, the organization continued to assist with the major campaigns of the 1970s, however, its membership and financial base had by the late 1970s could no longer support it as an independent entity. Published resources Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 50 years of feminist achievement : a history of the United Associations of Women, Mitchell, Winifred, 1979 Book Section Girdled for War: Women's Mobilisations in World Wat Two, Saunders, Kay and Bolton, Geoffrey, c1992 Edited Book Jessie Street : documents and essays, Radi, Heather, c1990 Resource Section Information from Special Branch, New South Wales Police, 19 March 1957., National Archives of Australia, http://www.uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/record.asp?iID=279# Jessie Street to Prime Minister John Curtin, 6 April 1942 Jessie Street's complaint about staff of the Department of Air's response to a delegation, originally filed by the Prime Minister's Department., National Archives of Australia, http://www.uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/detail.asp?iID=351&lID=3&cID=29 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection United Association of Women - Records, ca.1930-1970 Kathleen M. M. Sherrard papers, ca. 1918-1975 United Association of Women - Further Records, 1930-1978 State Library of Western Australia Records, 1960-1991 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Jessie Street, circa 1914-1968 [manuscript] State Library of New South Wales Photographs relating to the United Associations of Women including portrait of Jessie Street, 1936-1949 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 29 June 2004 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection contains diaries, letter books, address books, photographs, invitations, school and university certificates and exams and other miscellaneous items belonging to the members of the Cribb family. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 October 2017 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A member of a stong Australian Labor Party family, Elaine Darling was the first woman from Queensland to be elected to the House of Representatives in the Australian Parliament in 1980. She was the fifth woman elected to the House of Representatives, and the second female Labor member of that House. She represented the electorate of Lilley until her retirement in 1993. When Elaine Darling first arrived in parliament in 1980, as one of three women elected, the custom was still to refer to parliamentarians as a collective as ‘The Honourable Gentlemen of the House.’ When the Speaker of the House, Billy Sneddon, called the House to order, he asked the Honourable Gentlemen to sit. Elaine Darling remained standing and, when asked to explain herself, said ‘Mr. Speaker, I am no gentleman’. That custom changed, and slowly, progressively, others did too. Elaine Darling was educated at the University of Queensland before becoming a teacher. She rose to the role of assistant to the Director of the Brisbane Kindergarten Training College. Her father, Jack Melloy, was a long serving member of the Australian Labor Party and member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. Her daughter, Vicki Darling, was a Member of the Queensland House of Assembly from 2006 – 2012. Published resources Book They spoke out pretty good: politics and gender in the Brisbane Aboriginal Rights Movement 1958-1962, Darling, Elaine, 1999 Journal Article They spoke out pretty good: the leadership of women in the Brisbane Aboriginal rights movement, 1958/ 1962, Darling, Elaine, 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis and Nikki Henningham Created 1 April 2009 Last modified 10 September 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Photographs, family recollections, notes prepared for study of Zoe McHenry; letters; certificates; Jennifer Gilmour Hearn, The Wedding Blessing: Ada Grace Rosa Brown, 1888-1973, self-published booklet detailing life of subject until her marriage. Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 20 January 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Edith Quin emigrated to Australia from England and, with her husband, was one of the first graziers in the Wilcannia district. With her parents and brothers, Edith Quin left England for South Australia in 1853 and settled in Adelaide. There her mother had three more children before Edith’s father died in 1860. At the age of eighteen Edith began work as a governess for the family of Mr. J. J. Bonnor, a solicitor living at ‘Strathalbyn’, 65 kilometres from Adelaide. After five months she moved to Wentworth to teach at the local school. In January 1871, Edith travelled up the Darling River to the budding township of Wilcannia, almost 200 kilometres from Broken Hill. There she was married, and with her new husband she moved in November 1872 to ‘Tarella’, a pastoral station 80 kilometres north of Wilcannia. Conditions were very tough at ‘Tarella’. The delivery of stores was reliant on river transport and in years of drought, low river levels caused long delays that often lasted months – the longest was two years. The Quins experienced extreme weather conditions including periods of drought, dust storms and floods, as well as plagues of grasshoppers, locusts, rats, mice and rabbits. Edith and her husband stayed at ‘Tarella’ until 1908, and eventually sold the property at the end of 1910 after moving to a farm in the Lysterfield Valley in Victoria. Before she died Edith composed a brief memoir, currently held by the Outback Archives in Broken Hill. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Book Section Memoirs to my Dear Children, Quin, Edith, 1979 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Edith Quin, wife of pioneering sheep farmer during the 19th century, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 25 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 tape reels (79mins)??Folkloric recording. Mildred Mattinson speaks about the two halls at Ecklin; her early life; her husband’s farms at Allansford and Ecklin; Ecklin school; her involvement with local organizations; Ecklin post office; local dances and card parties; the send off for she and her husband when they left the district; Ecklin store; other local families; celebrating Christmas and birthdays; and her involvement with the Country Women’s Association. Author Details Jane Carey Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Barbara Blackman discusses her memories and relationship with artist Joy Hester. General note: This is an audio recording of the filmed interview which was used in the documentary ‘The Good Looker’. Discussions between talent, producer and crew can be heard in between takes. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "SERIES 01?Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia (ANESBWA) records, 1985-2000, being mainly administrative and subject files??SERIES 02?Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia (ANESBWA) audio cassettes??SERIES 03?Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia (ANESBWA) pictorial material Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers relate to her service with the New South Wales Bush Nursing Association; with newspaper cutting. Xerox copy. This collection includes pictorial material ( see Pic. Acc. 3458 in Pic. Source File.) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 July 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "50 hours (approx. to date)??A series of informal interviews with members of the Adelaide Lyceum Club recorded by their peers. The interviews provide insight into members’ lives and careers as well as their participation in Club activities and many women’s organisations. The collection includes interviews with physicians, lawyers, health and welfare workers, judges and other professional women. The collection includes some other recordings of Lyceum Club events, particularly talks given by members. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Notes: ———- Jessie Street, feminist, pacifist, socialist and human rights worker. Part 2 includes her visit to the Soviet Union in 1938, and how her reputation was affected by Australia’s changing relationship with the USSR. Friends & colleagues speak about her and there are readings from her autobiography ‘Truth or Repose’. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Articles about women’s suffrage and a short story. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Mary Kalantzis migrated to Australia with her family in 1953. Against the wishes of her husband and parents she continued her formal education in Australia, winning two prestigious scholarships. Today Kalantzis is Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at RMIT University. Mary Kalantzis was born in 1949 in a village in the Greek Peloponnese, the daughter of agriculturalists without formal education. The family migrated to Australia in 1953, both parents starting life here as wage earners. The eldest of three children (one of whom was born here), Mary entered into an arranged marriage soon after completing high school. Not content with her life as a wife and mother at home, she decided to return to study, a decision that was not well received by her husband nor her parents, Nicholas and Diamondo. She persisted despite their objections, even as a sole parent after her husband left. Mary’s decision to continue with study has been vindicated by the extraordinary career she has since embarked upon. In 1982 she was the recipient of a Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award and in 1990-91 she was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the University of New Hampshire in the United States. She has since been appointed Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at James Cook University of North Queensland; Director of the Centre for Workplace Communication and Culture at the University of Technology, Sydney; and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Multicultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. She has been a part time Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and Chair of the Queensland Ethnic Affairs Ministerial Advisory Committee, set up to advise the Queensland Premier on all matters relating to multiculturalism. Mary Kalantzis is now a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at RMIT University. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 sound files (approximately 133 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Cutting from ‘The Advertiser’, 4 December 1939, heading ‘Women Voters’ Successful Dinner’. See also Series 4, Items 3, 13 and 18 for newspaper cuttings contained in papers relating to pageants devised by Ellinor Walker. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Originally a ballerina in Perth, Western Australia, Joan Dowson served throughout World War II as a nurse. She continued her association with the Australian Red Cross throughout her life. Born Dorothy Richardson, but always known as Joan, this one-time ballerina joined the Australian Cross in 1937. As well as entertaining servicemen with concert parties, she completed a course in home nursing during her first year. In 1941, Joan enlisted as a nursing VAD in the army and on 17 March 1943 joined the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service. She served in Egypt, Syria, Rehoveth and Gaza with the 9th Division and later in New Guinea. In 1945 she transferred to serve on the aircraft carrier HMS Formidable. She was discharged on 19 March 1945. After the war Joan Dowson continued working with the Australian Red Cross and Girl Guides. She joined the Western Australian Branch of the RSL and was a member of the State Executive for 20 years – she was the third woman to be elected to the executive. Joan Dowson also became a member of the Friends of Battye Library. On 14 June 1980, Joan Dowson was appointed The Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) (MBE) for services to the Red Cross and Ex-servicemen and women. In 1991 she received the RSL meritorious medal and was awarded life membership of the Red Cross in 1992. Joan Dowson was awarded the Medal of Australia (OAM) on 11 June 1996, for service to the community, particularly the RSL and ex-servicewomen, Red Cross, Girl Guides and as a member of the cancer crusade of Western Australia for 30 years. Published resources Journal Article Joan Dowson receives Order of Australia, Clinton, Barbara, 1996 [Receives Order of Australia award for community service], Clinton, Barbara, 1996 [Receives RSL meritorious medal], 1991 [Awarded Red Cross life membership], 1992 Resource Section RICHARDSON, DOROTHY JOAN, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=753722 RICHARDSON, DOROTHY JOAN, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=753722 Book Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dorothy Dowson interviewed by Victoria Hobbs for the Australia 1938 oral history project [sound recording] Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Miss Joan Bucknell and Miss Joan Richardson, two Australian Red Cross Society Representatives, returning home after being attached to HMS Formidable Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 January 2003 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Miss Joan Bucknell and Miss Joan Richardson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers of the Save Our Sons Movement comprising minutes, correspondence, newsletters and pamphlet material. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection includes pictorial material at Pic.Acc.6959 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Women and the Australian Church was established in 1984 as a means of changing the understanding of the role of women in the Australian church and in society. It was initiated by the women Religious within the Catholic church and has been supported ideologically and to some extent financially by the Religious Orders of both men and women. It has developed into a network of local and regional groups in the various states of Australia. Men are included in the membership. Although Catholic by origin, it encourages membership from other religious denominations. On its establishment as a national project of the Religious women and men of Australia, Women and the Australian Church Inc (WATAC) nominated the primary task to be consciousness raising of women on Christian feminist issues. It has a membership of approximately 2000. WATAC is committed to ‘a participative, inclusive model of church which commits women to work towards new forms of partnership with men and with each other in the church’, and to ‘the emergence of the feminine as intrinsic to an understanding of God, to human wholeness and thereby to church renewal’. The name, WATAC emerged from the ideas of the founding committee who wanted to include all women regardless of whether they were active members of an institutional church. Separate groups operate in the Australian states and territories. Published resources Book Woman and man: one in Christ Jesus: Report on the participation of women in the Catholic Church in Australia, Research Management Group, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Women and the Australian Church Women and the Australian Church records Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 March 2004 Last modified 22 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Maurene Horder was elected to the first Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly at its election in 1979. Representing the Australian Labor Party, she was one of the nine members from the electorate of Canberra. She was re-elected in 1982 but resigned in mid-1985 to take up an appointment as a ministerial advisor. Before entering the Assembly Horder was a primary school teacher and a public servant. Maureen Horder was the fifth of nine children born to Mary (neé Brown) and Mervyn Horder and was raised in Cabramatta, attending Bethlehem College in Ashfield. Her mother was an elected member and deputy mayor of the Fairfield Council in the 1970s and 1980s and her father was a postal worker. After completing her teacher-training at Salisbury Teachers’ College Horder taught in Brighton-Le-Sands. She moved to Canberra in 1972 and worked as a public servant in Treasury and the Department of Education and completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Applied Geography) degree at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. She changed her name from Maureen to Maurene by deed poll in the 1970s. In 1976 she married a demographer, Dr Graham Harrison (1949-2000) and their two children, Adrian and Virginia Harrison, were both born while she was a member of the Assembly. They lived in the suburbs of Garran, Swinger Hill and Holder. Horder was one of the eight ALP members elected to the part-time 18-member ACT House of Assembly at the election held on 2 June 1979. In the First Assembly (1979-1982) the ALP, with the support of the two Australian Democrat members and two independent members, gained a majority and was thus able to elect its President and to fill the plum positions representing the Assembly on ACT statutory and non-statutory bodies. Horder was appointed to the ACT Schools Authority and to the Canberra Week Committee, and was a member of the Assembly Standing Committees on Education and Finance. Horder made substantial contributions to the debate and criticisms of the Galbally Report, Migrant services and programs: report of the Review of Post-arrival Programs and Services for Migrants, tabled in the Commonwealth Parliament in May 1978. She felt there had been very little consultation with the ACT community on the provision of education programs for newly-arrived migrants, particularly for children and women. Other matters Horder discussed in the Assembly in her first term included the staffing formulae for ACT government schools, the need for a commercial tenancy disputes tribunal, and the poor quality of broadcasting services and programs for children in the ACT. She opposed the introduction of tertiary fees and with a Liberal member of the Assembly, Liz Grant, she presented a report on rape law reform. At the election on 5 June 1982 for the second Assembly the Liberal Party, together with the ultra-conservative Family Team, was able to form a majority, so Horder’s position on the ACT Schools Authority ended, although she was appointed to a new Police Liaison Committee to promote community involvement with policing. In a surprise move on 7 March 1983 Horder was elected leader of the ALP caucus, defeating Ken Doyle. The Hawke Government had been elected days earlier and it was believed that the new leadership would be able to build a closer relationship with the new federal government and with the incoming minister with responsibilities for the ACT. During the second Assembly (1982-1986) Horder was a delegate to the National Economic Summit in April 1983, convened by the newly-elected Hawke Government. She was active in opposing the closure of Watson High School, supporting measures to reduce the road toll and the campaign to keep the Belconnen Mall in public hands. She was one of the Assembly’s two delegates to the Constitutional Convention held in Adelaide in April 1983 and was a member of the Assembly’s Standing Committees on Business, on Development and Planning, and on Health, Housing and Welfare. In August 1984 Horder led a delegation to the Northern Territory, as chair of the Assembly’s Select Committee on the Transition of Power to a Territorial Government, for discussions with that Territory’s administrators. When foreshadowing the tabling that committee’s report in the Assembly Horder called for the federal government to release its White Paper on self-government as soon as possible. Further frustration with the difficulties, delays in providing a timetable and the lack of details from the federal government, coupled with the announcement by the Minister for Territories that the term of the Assembly would be extended by another year, contributed to Horder’s resignation from the Assembly on 24 June 1985. The following day her appointment as ministerial adviser to the Honourable Christopher Hurford MP, Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, was announced, a position she held until the following year. Within the ACT Branch of the ALP Horder was elected Vice-President at its annual conference in June 1980 and President in June 1981, retiring at the June 1982 conference. She stood unsuccessfully for ALP preselection for the federal seat of Fowler before the 1984 election and was also unsuccessful in gaining endorsement for the ALP for the by-election for the State seat of Liverpool in 1989. Horder left Canberra in 1985 and held the following positions: 1990 – 1998 Southeast Australian Manager, Plastics and Chemical Industries Association 1999 – 2008 CEO, National Marine Safety Committee 2008 – 2013 CEO, Migration Institute of Australia and a member of the Migration Registration Authority 2014 – 2015 Executive Officer (NSW), Planning Institute of Australia Horder has also served on the boards of Sunnyhaven Disability Services, the National Standards Development Organisation, and Clean-up Australia. Published resources Maurene Horder, Wikipedia entry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurene_Horder Author Details Janet Wilson Created 11 August 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Ratcliffe was a committed Christian activist. She first stood for election in 1995 as a Call to Australia party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Gordon. This was followed by two attempts at obtaining the seat of Bradfield in the House of Representatives in 1996 and 1998. The following year she changed political allegiance and contested the seat of Denison on behalf of the Christian Democrat Party. Margaret Ratcliffe was born in Sydney and educated at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College and the University of Sydney. She practised her profession of physiotherapy in Lane Cove for 38 years. She married in 1957 and had three sons. She was a member of the Sydney Philharmonic Choir. Margaret Ratcliffe lived on the North Shore all her life, and although previously a Liberal Party member, by 1995, had joined the Christian Democratic Party because of her concern about youth unemployment and lack of strong moral leadership. Her Christian activities included Sunday School teaching and scripture teaching in public schools. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 14 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Florinda Katharine Ogilvie was a pioneer in the developing field of medical social work, who served as a fellow of the University of Sydney Senate in the 1940s. Education 1923: Bachelor of Arts, University of Sydney. 1931: Studied hospital administration in the United States for two months, sponsored by Rachel Foster Hospital. 1933-34: Completed a course in medical social work in Britain and became an associate of the Institute of Almoners. 1950-51: Returned to Britain to study methods of teaching social work for six months, visiting the Universities of London and Oxford, the British Institute of Almoners, St Thomas Hospital and Radcliff Infirmary. Career highlights 1926-1940: Secretary, Chief Executive Officer and Almoner at Rachel Foster Hospital for Women and Children, Sydney. 1941-1954: Senior Almoner, Sydney Hospital; Director of Training for the NSW Institute of Almoners. 1954: Appointed to a temporary lectureship in the Department of Social Work at University of Sydney. 1957: Appointed to a permanent lectureship in the Department of Social Work. 31 December 1964: Retired. Community work 1943-1949: Fellow of the University Senate 1941-1950: Member of the Child Welfare Advisory Council 1950s/1960s: Member of the executive committee of the NSW Old Peoples’ Welfare Council. 1969: Member of the working party of the NSW Council for the Aging Advisory Committee on Accommodation and Care for the Aging. Ogilvie also held positions as: President, NSW Council of Social Service; Honorary Consultant in social work to the Australian Red Cross; Honorary Director, Family Welfare Bureau. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Ogilvie, Florinda Katherine, Gavan McCarthy, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P002073b.htm Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources University of Sydney, Archives Personal archives of OGILVIE Florinda Katherine [1902-1983] Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 17 September 2009 Last modified 16 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A small number of papers relating to the Congress of the Australian Peace Council held in Melbourne in 1950; included are the speech delivered by Jessie Street and letters and papers dealing with the visit to the Congress by Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury. Also included are the minutes of the A.P.C. National Executive Council meeting in 1955, and a typescript manuscript entitled “Notes on the history of the Australian Peace Council”, covering the years 1949 and 1950. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ms Print was established to provide inexpensive quality women’s work, to print women’s artistic work and to run workshops for sharing experiences. It operated out of the Women’s Studies Resource Centre from 1979 to 1983. Ms Print was established to provide inexpensive quality women’s work, to print women’s artistic work to run workshops to sharing experiences. It operated out of the Women’s Studies Resource Centre from 1979 to 1983. It applied for a Department of Arts Grant but was unsuccessful and thus they sold feminist books to raise money. The minutes of the meetings shows they had a high turnover in the collective membership and the relations with the Women’s Studies Resource Centre were strained. They sold books at conferences, on International Women’s Day and from the Women’s Studies Resource Centre. Some of the women involved include, Kate Barrett, Jillinda Thompson, Pat Gallasch, Jill Whithead, Suzi Jones, Karen Elliott, Jan Egan and Jan Phadke. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The papers comprise official and private correspondence, cables, genealogical and biographical papers, legal and financial records, speeches, broadcasts, photographs, newspaper cuttings and memorabilia relating to Lord Gowrie’s life and military and public career including his service in Australia as Governor of South Australia (1928-34), Governor of New South Wales (1935-36), and Governor-General of Australia (1936-44). Aspects of the life and work of Gowrie’s wife, Zara, and their son, Patrick Hore-Ruthven, are also detailed in the papers.??Amongst the fellow governors, politicians, military leaders, monarchs and other prominent individuals, from both Australia and overseas, whose letters can be found in the collection are Lord Kitchener, Joseph and Enid Lyons, Lord Baden Powell, Sir George Murray, Lord Bruce, Stanley Baldwin, Sir John Latham, Sir Keith Officer, F. M. Forde, R. G. Menzies, W. M. Hughes, General Douglas MacArthur, Eamon de Valera, Maie Casey, Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Lloyd Dumas, Sir Earle Page, Sir Robert Garran, Sir Winston Churchill, Lord Montgomery, Ben Chifley, Daisy Bates, Lloyd Rees, Lord Dudley, Joan Hammond, Sir Keith Hancock, May Gibbs, Lady Stonehaven, Ivy Brookes, Lord Slim, Paul Sorensen, Mab Grimwade, Emily Dutton and Sir Philip Game. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement Archive was established in 1984 by a concerned group of women who wanted to preserve the history of what was called the second wave of feminism. With the aid of the Community Employment Program and the feminist community, memorabilia was collected along with the papers of a variety of groups and individuals. The material was collected from late 1969 through to 2008. The Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement Archive gathered the memorabilia of women and groups who had been and were part of the Women’s Liberation Movement. The archive includes minutes, agendas, correspondence, films, photographs, video and audio tapes, posters, flyers, pamphlets, banners, badges, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks and financial records. A Collective was formed and they set about writing the rules of the archive and for collecting. They created forms for the donors, with reference to copyright and for biographies for the groups and individuals. However over the years a lot of material was just left as donations with little or no detail as to its provenance. As women’s organisations folded with the Fraser government’s cuts to women’s programs in the early eighties the archive was a safe alternative to the loss of these records. The organisations which contributes included the Women’s Liberation Movement. This material from the Women’s Movement includes daybooks for many women’s group, pamphlets, information, booklets, news clippings, posters – both theirs and those of other groups. The papers of Feminists Against Nuclear Energy Group (FANG) and Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE) were listed as the Women’s Peace Movement. Many women donated material on the Women’s Theatre Group, including film, video, audio tapes scripts and music along with photographs. The Women’s Art Movement (WAM) donated their records which includes, posters, minutes, correspondence, prints, and a newsletter. WAM was also involved with the Women’s Art Register so there are many slides of photographs of performance art and exhibitions along with a profile of slides showing the women’s artwork. The Women’s Advisory Unit donated their news clippings used for women’s policy development and in highlighting women’s needs. The Hindmarsh Women’s Community Centre, Women’s Studies Resource Centre pamphlets and information on a wide range of women’s services and issues. Individuals including Sue Sheridan, Molly Brannigan, Sylvia Kinder, Frances Phoenix, Suzi Jones, Annie Dugdale and Margaret King and Robin Eagle donated posters, information, and papers. Sandra Grimes donated her collection of audio and video interviews with bar women in Adelaide done for her Ph D thesis. Janet Maughan donated her scrapbooks on many feminist issues. Silver Moon donated the Women’s Environmental Action Group and the Unemployed women’s Union papers. The St Peters Women’s Community Centre now called the Women’s Community Centre donated records. The collection was documented until the late 1990s, when the collective was reduced to a few dedicated members. While the collection was accessed from time to time by various researchers the collective decided to hand the collection over to the State Library of South Australia in 2009. As part of the process of moving the Archive from the Women’s Studies Resource Centre to the State Library, the records of The St Peters Women’s Community Centre, now called the Women’s Community Centre, were returned upon their request. There is a separate entry to these records in the AWAP register. There were a number of journals and newsletters with the Archive and these have now been donated to various libraries in Australia including to the Women’s Studies Resource Centre. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection Sylvia Kinder : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "2 hours 6 minutes??Antonia Mary Turnbull, nee Richmore, was born in Japan where her father was stationed. Toni went to school in several countries and matriculated at an Adelaide Catholic girls school. She began Science at Adelaide University before transferring to Medicine. In her fourth year Toni married, and in her final year her first child was born. Toni describes experiences crucial to her later activism: participating in an abortion during her pregnancy, and caring for her baby as a resident at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Working for the Family Planning Association and in general practice, Toni became increasingly disturbed by the number of women seeking abortions for convenience. In the early 1980s Toni came to believe that God was asking her to speak out and she also became convinced of the extent of post-abortion grief. She discuss specific issues in the pro-life/pro-choice debate, as well as her identification with the women’s movement. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sarina Jan is a Bardi descendent (Nyul Nyul clan) from the Kimberley region (Family name: Hunter) and is strong in her Aboriginality, identity and culture. She is also of Chinese descent and is proud of her Asian ancestry. Sarina completed her Bachelor of Arts (Public Relations) and Bachelor of Business (Marketing) in 1996 making her the first Aboriginal person in Western Australia to graduate in both of these specialised fields. She later became the first Aboriginal person to become a member of both the Public Relations Institute of Australia and the Australian Marketing Institute. Since 1996, Sarina has successfully run her own small public relations and marketing business (SARJAN CONSULTANCIES) in Western Australia and in 1999, with a group of other like-minded Aboriginal professionals, helped to establish The Indigenous Business Institute Ltd. The Institute’s purpose is two-fold. Firstly, to specifically assist Aboriginal business people in gaining appropriate and professional business acumen and prowess so that they can cultivate greater Aboriginal independence and business commercialism; and secondly, to encourage linkages (strategic partnerships) between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal industries, governments, private and public sector businesses that will improve the status, value and asset base of the Institute and its 130 Aboriginal members. As the founding Director and Chairperson of this non-profit organisation, Sarina is responsible for facilitating the development and growth of Indigenous entrepreneurialism within Western Australia. Other positions Sarina holds include Chairperson of the Aboriginal Customary Law Reference Council (WA Law Reform Commission); Member of the WA Parole Board and the WA Mentally Impaired Board; Councillor for the Australian Marketing Institute (WA) and the University of Western Australia’s Research Centre for Women in Business & Management; and Justice of the Peace. Sarina’s professional logo “Strong woman bringing different people together for Business in a Meeting Circle” is reflected in her life’s philosophy: that she is “a cultural experience worth incorporating … “. For more information, write to: The Indigenous Business Institute Ltd: theibiltd@hotmail.com Sarina Jan: sarjan2@bigpond.com This entry was research and written by Philida Sturgiss-Hoy Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 February 2003 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection comprises papers relating to both Guy and Phyllis Boyd. There is correspondence with gallery directors, exhibition catalogues and photographs relating to the life and career of Guy Boyd. The main correspondents include Philip Bacon, Ron and Betty Beaver, Kim Bonython, Eva Breuer, Andrew Ivanyi, Gisella Scheinberg, Max Stern and Ann von Bertouch. Phyllis Boyd was actively involved with organizations covering a wide range of social, feminist and religious issues. There is correspondence, papers and subject files relating to this involvement, including with Women Who Want to be Women, The Australian Family Association and Women Against the Ordination of Women. There are also papers relating to the estate of Phyllis Boyd’s aunt, the artist Agnes McNamara. The Boyds were amongst the first to be involved in what was to become a national campaign for a judicial enquiry into the 1982 murder conviction of Lindy Chamberlain. There is correspondence, campaign ephemera and newspaper cuttings relating to the ‘A plea for mercy’ campaign which they initiated. Guy Boyd was executor of the estate of his uncle, the author Martin Boyd. Included in the papers is correspondence relating to the administration of the estate and the sale and distribution of Martin Boyd’s books. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Films and sound recordings relating to the Girl Guides movement in South Australia. Also includes minutes of various committees and groups, photographs, unpublished history, poster, scrapbooks, newspapers and reports. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Trained as a pharmacist in Brisbane, Kate Carnell came to Canberra in 1977, becoming one of the first woman pharmacy owners there in 1981. From 1982 she held positions in a number of professional organisations, including inaugural and first female president of the Australian Capital Territory Branch of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia 1988–94. Elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory in 1992 she became Liberal Leader in 1993 and Chief Minister from 1995 to 2000. Her subsequent positions include director of the NRMA and chief executive officer of the Australian Divisions of General Practice, the Australian Food and Grocery Council, Beyond Blue and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She was the inaugural Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman from 2016 to 2021. Kate Carnell was born in Brisbane on 30 May 1955, the eldest child of Dorothy née Grenning, and Donald Knowlman, an accountant and owner of a building company. Educated at Sherwood State School and St Aidan’s Church of England Girls School, between the ages of 14 and 17 she struggled with anorexia. Her experience with other disturbed adolescents in the psychiatric ward of a Sydney hospital gave her a life-long interest in mental health issues. She initially enrolled in medicine at the University of Queensland then transferred to pharmacy, graduating as BPharm in 1976. Following her marriage to Ian Carnell in July 1977 she moved to Canberra where she worked first as a pharmacist at Woden Plaza before becoming one of the first women in Canberra to own a pharmacy in 1981 when she bought the Red Hill Pharmacy. In 1984 she acquired a second pharmacy at Gowrie. Her children were born in 1984 and 1986. She held positions in a number of professional organisations becoming chair of the Southern District Pharmacists Company 1982–92, vice president of the Retail Industry and Training Council of the ACT 1987–91, the first female and inaugural president of the ACT Branch of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia 1988–94, member of the ACT Pharmacy Registration Board 1985–91, counsellor at the Australian Institute of Pharmacy Management 1990–91, member of the ACT Board of Health 1990–91, member of the Pharmacy Restructuring Authority 1990–91, national vice president of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the first woman on its executive 1990–94, and board member of the Canberra Chamber of Commerce 1991–92. Carnell joined the Liberal Party in 1991 and the following year stood successfully as a Liberal candidate for the ACT Legislative Assembly. Elected Liberal leader in 1993, she became Chief Minister of the ACT following the 1995 election. During the period 1995–2000 she held the portfolios of Treasurer, Business and Employment 1997–98, the Status of Women, Aboriginal Affairs, Health and Community Affairs 1995–98, Arts and Multicultural and International Affairs 1995–2000. She pursued liberal social policies legalising abortion, prostitution, non-commercial surrogacy and decriminalising marijuana. She unsuccessfully attempted to introduce a heroin injecting room in the ACT. She aggressively promoted business investment and tourism to Canberra and the settlement of skilled migrants and refugees, particularly those from Kosovo in 1999. Her government was severely criticised for its management of the implosion of the Royal Canberra Hospital in July 1997 that resulted in the death of twelve-year-old Katy Bender. In 2000 she briefly served as Minister for Business Tourism and the Arts before resigning as Chief Minister of the ACT on 17 October that year, following a no-confidence vote over the funding of the Bruce Stadium development. After leaving politics Carnell became Chief Executive of Development at the Canberra-based telecommunications company TransACT before being elected a director of the National Roads and Motorists’ Association (NRMA) in August 2001. She resigned from this position in 2002. In 2001 she was appointed chairperson of General Practice Education and Training Ltd by the health minister Michael Wooldridge and reappointed by his successor Tony Abbott in 2004. From 2001 to 2004 she was executive director of the National Association of Forest Industries. Between 2006 and 2008 she was chief executive officer of the Australian Divisions of General Practice and a board member of the Australian Red Cross 2006–11. She served as CEO of the Australian Food and Grocery Council 2008–12. Between 2008 and 2014 she was board director of Beyond Blue, a non-profit organisation supporting mental health and wellbeing and its CEO 2012–14. She was CEO of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry 2014–16 and in March 2016 she was appointed the inaugural Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, serving until March 2021. Kate’s marriage to Ian Carnell was dissolved in 1997 and in 2007 she married Ray Kiley. She was a recipient of the 2001 Centenary Medal and in 2006 was appointed Officer in the Order of Australia for her services to the ACT. In April 2013 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Canberra and in 2019 she was named one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 women of the influence in the Public Policy Category. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2004, 2004 Resource Section Carnell, Anne Katherine (Kate) (1955 - ), Biographical Entry, 2003, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004193b.htm Book Contemporary Australians 1995/96, 1995 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Shades of blue: Lunch with Kate Carnell, Maley, Jacqueline, 14 April 2012 Oral history interview with Kate Carnell 2006 Consultation, commonsense and commitment: A vision for the government in the ACT, 30 November 1993 Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 27 February 2004 Last modified 21 July 2024 Digital resources Title: Portrait of Kate Carnell at the National Library of Australia, 26 June 2006 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 22 minutes??Marina Elizabeth Anne Berton was born at Mildura, South Australia in 1948 to Italian-born parents who had emigrated in 1937. Marina describes the strong cultural traditions upheld by her close-knit family and her ‘deprived’ education at a local Catholic school. Marina moved to Adelaide to attend Wattle Park Teachers College in 1965. Early in her teaching career she became involved in English language adult education for migrants, and more recently in developing Italian language education for second generation Italo-Australians. Throughout, Marina has been much involved with the Italian Federation of Emigrant Workers and their Families (FILEF), including six years as its President. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The MS 9878 collection largely consists of research material collected by Pauline Armstrong during the preparation of her theses on the Save Our Sons Movement of Victoria and Frank Hardy. Included are correspondence, photocopies of articles and book extracts, photographs and other graphic material, audio-visual material, interview transcriptions, drafts and proofs. The collection was maintained and listed by Armstrong’s husband, Bruce Armstrong, and his lists and explanatory notes have been incorporated into the collection (25 boxes, 5 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour 52 minutes??Maria Luisa Sheehan, nee Drescher, was born in Italy. Her mother was widowed two years later. In 1945, when the region was occupied by Yugoslavia, the family moved to Trieste. Luisa’s mother married an English officer and in 1952 the family joined him in Khartoum. From there they emigrated to South Australia in 1955 where two of Luisa’s uncles had already settled. Luisa found work immediately and within two years married a fellow employee at Philips Electrical Industries. She left the workforce for 21 years while raising her family. In 1978 she returned to paid work as one of the six original staff members of the Women’s Information Switchboard. Luisa worked there as an information officer until her retirement in 1993. She discusses a range of the Switchboard activities and her responsibilities, including her role in relation to the Italian community. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS Acc07.148 comprises a range of material relating to Margaret Reid’s political career and official duties, including correspondence, speech notes, diaries, presentation plaques, photographs, press cuttings and ephemera (9 boxes).??The Acc08.083 instalment comprises photographs, ephemera from official functions, press cuttings, speech notes, correspondence, appointment diaires, notebooks, reports of parliamentary delegations and a VHS videocassette (10 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.)??Born in Pyrmont, Sydney, Ryan speaks of her early life; going to school; clerical employment; studying at business college; different homes in Sydney; strikes; family life; memories of and attitudes during WWI; memories of the 1917 general strike; the working classes; International Workers of the World (IWW); politics of 1910-1930; her political interests; street corner meetings; family reading material; memories of the Domain; life as a Socialist, meeting places and haunts; favourite speakers; socialists being framed for crimes; socialist/working class communication; social conditions, her own research of the period; the War Precautions Act; socialism and the Labor Party; her interest in, and reading of Lenin and Russia; Justice Beeby and working class leaders. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 29 August 2000 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Item 1?Petition to the Honorable, The House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, regarding the South African War, ca. 1901 (typescript carbon copy)??Item 2?Letter from the Victorian Women’s Federation, Melbourne, thanking Alice Henry for her assistance at the meeting of the Children’s Committee, 25 June 1903 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "4 sound files (approximately 258 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Annette Cameron was born in Middle Swan WA in 1920. Her interest in politics was sparked by the Spanish Civil War, prompting her to join the Modern Women’s Club, the Anti-Fascist League, and, in 1941, the Communist Party. She was an active campaigner for peace, human rights, and Aboriginal causes. Annette Elizabeth Moore was born in 1920 in Middle Swan, Western Australia. Her family had helped develop the area; her great-grandfather’s brother, George Fletcher Moore, had arrived from Ireland in 1830 and obtained a grant, which he called Millendon, on the Upper Swan. Annette’s grandfather, William Dalgety Moore, had represented Fremantle in the colony’s Legislative Council from August 1870 to May 1872, and in 1890-94 was a nominee in the first Legislative Council. Annette was educated in Perth, and gained a reputation as a rebel while attending St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls. Her interest in politics was aroused by the Spanish Civil War, and after attending meetings of the Modern Women’s Club and joining the Anti-Fascist League, Cameron became a member of the Communist Party of Australia in 1941. She then moved to Sydney, worked in the Party offices, and began what was to be a lifelong friendship with Katharine Susannah Prichard. She was jailed for a short time after her arrest during a campaign supporting Indonesian independence from Dutch colonialism. Annette moved back to Perth after the war, joining Sam Aarons, who she had met in Sydney. They had a son, Gerald, in 1949. In the late 1950s, when Sam was travelling in China and suffered a heart attack, the Chinese Authorities flew Annette and Gerald to China to be with him during his lengthy recuperation. Banquets were held in their honour, and Annette apparently made a lasting impression on Chairman Mao. According to Perth newspaper The West Australian, he was so impressed by her ‘beauty and intelligence’ that he ‘made it clear that a place was waiting for her as his consort.’ The Aarons family returned to Australia after about a year, however, and resumed working for the Party. Sam Aarons died in 1971, and Annette later married Duncan Cameron. Annette Cameron worked in many different capacities for the Communist Party, including painting political slogans and selling Workers’ Star and Tribune. She was also active on a number of committees, attended countless meetings, addressed audiences on the Esplanade, and directed the campaigns of political candidates. She stood as a Communist Party candidate in State elections, for the Senate in 1955 and 1958, and for the House of Representatives in 1966. In the 1960s, Annette was at the forefront of the Communist Party’s anti-Vietnam War marches. At the Vietnam War Moratoriums, which attracted thousands of people, Annette and Duncan became leading activists at large-scale rallies and assisted young men who refused conscription. Annette and Duncan also campaigned actively for Aboriginal rights. Annette Cameron suffered from multiple sclerosis for thirty-five years, making the years following the death of Duncan in 2005 particularly difficult. She died at the age of eighty-eight in 2008. Published resources Finding Aid Well read : a bibliography of Communist Party & other sources collected in Western Australia by Annette and Duncan Cameron, Bosworth, Michal, 1997 Book The first furrow, Williams, Justina, 1976 An Index to Parliamentary Candidates in Western Australian Elections 1890-1989, Black, David, 1989 Newspaper Article Mao took shine to Perth 'red' activist, Mendez, Torrance, 2008 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Records, 1938-1973 [manuscript] Cameron collection, 1919-1995 [manuscript] Author Details Lisa McKinney Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 17 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection contains some personal papers, but mostly reflects the Gilchrists’ involvement with various radical organisations. The papers at ACC 3532A, documenting their friendship with Katharine Susannah Prichard which began in the 1930s, includes diaries (incomplete) for 1964 and 1969, envelopes from various countries, films (including film from Katharine Susannah Prichard’s funeral) taken by John Gilchrist, letters from Prichard, manuscripts, publications, recordings and reminiscences about Prichard by John Gilchrist. ACC 3801A deals mainly with Roma Gilchrist’s involvement with the Women’s Movement, 1940-1982. ACC 3255A & 5894A include certificates; conference papers; correspondence (much with the Union of Australian Women, 1962-1982); press cuttings of reviews of plays by the Workers’ Art Guild (1954-1981); diaries of holidays in Europe, South East Asia, Japan and the USSR; files on the Humanist Society (1966-1968), disarmament, the Workers Art Guild, the Union of Australian Women and other subjects; histories; lists of the members of the Union of Australian Women and the Modern Women’s Club; memoir of organisations and people they worked with; newsletters; notes and notebooks; photographs; plays (some written by the Gilchrists); poetry of John Gilchrist; programs; publications on communism, socialism and the working classes; reports; scrapbooks; songs; specifications; and other writings.??The papers at ACC 3532A, documenting their friendship with Katharine Susannah Prichard which began in the 1930s, includes diaries (incomplete) for 1964 and 1969, envelopes from various countries, films (including film from Katharine Susannah Prichard’s funeral) taken by John Gilchrist, letters from Prichard, manuscripts, publications, recordings and reminiscences about Prichard by John Gilchrist. ACC 3801A deals mainly with Roma Gilchrist’s involvement with the Women’s Movement, 1940-1982. ACC 3255A & 5894A include certificates; conference papers; correspondence (much with the Union of Australian Women, 1962-1982); press cuttings of reviews of plays by the Workers’ Art Guild (1954-1981); diaries of holidays in Europe, South East Asia, Japan and the USSR; files on the Humanist Society (1966-1968), disarmament, the Workers Art Guild, the Union of Australian Women and other subjects; histories; lists of the members of the Union of Australian Women and the Modern Women’s Club; memoir of organisations and people they worked with; newsletters; notes and notebooks; photographs; plays (some written by the Gilchrists); poetry of John Gilchrist; programs; publications on communism, socialism and the working classes; reports; scrapbooks; songs; specifications; and other writings. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Kate Cable was the longest serving postmistress in Australia. On 1 July 1927 she was appointed postmistress at Macrossan, on the Flinders Highway, west of Townsville, earning 15/- per week. Kate outlived the official history records of the postal service of Queensland. Her 59 years service at the Macrossan post office officially ended when the exchange went automatic on 31 March 1986; however Kate continued to maintain her links with Australia Post and the district, acting as Community Mail Agent for the collection and distribution of mail. Her duties as a postmistress involved sorting incoming and outgoing mail, banking, money orders and operating the old cordless pyramid switchboard. The Divisional Manager of Australia Post, Don Watson, presented Kate Cable with a plaque depicting a sketch of the early type of pyramid switchboard, to commemorate her 59 years of service at the Macrossan post office. The cordless pyramid switchboard was removed when Macrossan became an automatic exchange in March 1986. The busiest time with telephone communications for Kate was when the Second Field Supply Battalion of the Royal Australian Air Force and the army established bases at Macrossan during World War II. The bases were connected to the Macrossan telephone exchange. The first subscriber to be linked to the exchange was Fanning Downs Station. The population of Macrossan fluctuated over time with the most significant decrease occurring in 1928 when the Burdekin Meatworks closed. The number of residents went from 300 to 30. In 1961 the town was once again revived when 300 to 400 men moved into the district to construct the new railway bridge and traffic bridge, which took approximately 6 years. Macrossan now only consists of 10 families. When she was 7 years old Kate had her leg amputated as a result of being bitten by a Black Whip snake when living near Ingham. Doctors told her parents that she would not live past 14, but the indomitable Kate proved them wrong and lived to 4 days short of her 100th birthday. She married Thomas William Cable, a direct descendant of Henry Cable and Susannah Holmes, convicts sent to Botany Bay in 1788. A parcel of goods valued at £20 belonging to the couple was plundered on the voyage, and Cable won damages of £15 against the captain, Duncan Sinclair, of the Alexander, in the first civil suit heard in New South Wales. Published resources Newspaper Article Townsville Bulletin, 16 March 1990, Anna Cahill, 1990 Townsville Bulletin, 9 July 1999, p. 3, 1999 The Northern Miner, 9 July 1999, p. 8 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Private collection of Carrie Bell, granddaughter of Kate Cable Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Meitka Gruszka is a member of the Polish community in Western Australia who has taken an active role in multicultural issues. As well as being a leader in the Polish community, having served as President of the Polish Association of Western Australia, she was involved in a number of multicultural organisations. At various times throughout the 80s and 90s she was a member of the Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia, the Catholic Migrant Centre and the National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council. Meitka Gruszka was born in Poland just before the outbreak of World War 2. As a baby, she was transported with her mother to the USSR where her mother worked in a Siberian forced labour camp. After the was, she and her mother travelled as refugees to Iran and then East Africa. They arrived in Western Australia in 1950. She completed her education here and became a primary school teacher, working for fifteen years in both the state and catholic school systems. She furthered her education by completing a Bachelor of Education, specialising in teaching English as a Second Language (ESL). In 1979 she was employed by the Catholic Education Office in the area of ESL and Multicultural Education. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Gruszka Mietka papers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 August 2006 Last modified 25 September 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Caroline Le Couteur served two terms as a Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly. She represented the electorate of Molonglo from 2008 to 2012 and the electorate of Murrumbidgee from 2016 to 2020 as a member of the Greens Party. Le Couteur entered politics as a seasoned campaigner for environmental sustainability, ethical business and investment practices, and improvements in community and social lives. She was a founding director of Australian Ethical Investment, an ASX listed company, and worked as their information technology manager. She also served as the Executive Director of the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, a not-for-profit organisation that fights to improve the sustainability of Australian businesses. She was a national councillor of the Australian Conservation Foundation and active supporter of several environmental groups. Caroline Le Couteur was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2008. Caroline Le Couteur was born in England in 1952 to Kenneth James Le Couteur and his wife Enid Margaret (née Domville). The family came to Canberra in 1956 when her father was appointed as foundation Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Australian National University. Caroline was the oldest of four daughters (the others being Penelope, Mary and foster daughter Marion Chesher) and was educated in Canberra and completed an economics degree at the ANU. She later went on to complete a Bachelor of Business at the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education (now Southern Cross University). She has one daughter and three grandchildren. Caroline is married to Guy de Vanny. Le Couteur moved to Nimbin after attending the Aquarius Festival there in 1973. Her daughter was born during the 11 years she lived in a community at Tuntable Falls, Nimbin. Becoming a mother led to Caroline joining with other parents to found a pre-school and primary school. She was an early adopter and advocate of renewable energy technology, becoming a retailer and installer of solar panels. Her experiences led her to become an active supporter from the 1980s of the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society and the Alternative Energy Association. In 1985 Le Couteur moved back to Canberra and worked for the federal and ACT governments, firstly in information technology and later in renewable energy policy. In 1991 she was one of the founders of now ASX-listed company Australian Ethical Investment. She was an executive director as well as its information technology manager. She remained a Director for over 17 years, seeing the company grow from one part-time employee to over 60 staff with over $600 million under management. Le Couteur’s deep concerns about environmental sustainability and dangers of climate change led to her involvement in the Australian Conservation Foundation. She served as the ACT Councillor on the ACF’s National Council from 1993 to 2008. In addition, she completed a Graduate Diploma in Environmental and Development Management at the Australian National University. Le Couteur joined the Greens Party in the mid 1990s and first stood for election to the ACT Legislative Assembly in 1998, as a support Greens candidate to then incumbent Kerrie Tucker. She remained active in the Greens Party over the next decade, holding various offices including convening the Party’s Donations Reference Group. She was elected to the seat of Molonglo in 2008. Three other Greens candidates also won seats at that election, giving the Party the balance of power. During her first term as an MLA, Le Couteur was the Greens spokesperson on planning, Territory and municipal services, business and economic development, Indigenous affairs, the arts, and heritage. She was Assistant Speaker; she also chaired the Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee and was Deputy Chair of the Planning, Public Works and Territory and Municipal Services Standing Committee. Le Couteur, Bresnan and Hunter lost their seats at the 2012 election. In 2013 Le Couteur became the first executive officer of the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, a not-for-profit organisation that uses shareholder action to improve the sustainability of Australian businesses and held that position till 2016, when she stood for the Greens again and was re-elected to the Assembly – this time for the new seat of Murrumbidgee. In her second term, Le Couteur was one of two Greens representatives and the Party entered a power-sharing alliance with the Australian Labor Party which gave the latter government. Le Couteur chaired the Assembly’s Planning and Renewal Committee, and sat on the Health, Aging and Community Services Committee and the Integrity Commission. Later she would express unease that the arrangement had diminished the Greens’ independent scope of action and capacity to exercise a real balance of power. In a 2019 interview with the Canberra Times announcing her retirement, Le Couteur pointed to her work on climate change as her proudest achievement in her time in politics. She helped pass the ACT’s ground-breaking legislation to achieve 100% renewable energy and a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2020. She put improvements in tree-planting and support for household food composting solutions on the political agenda, and worked for better public transport and expansion of access to affordable solar power. In addition, she pushed for more community involvement in planning and helped secure commitments to increased accessible and affordable housing, especially in new land releases and urban renewal. She also pursued improvements in the treatment of victims of sexual assault, including legislation around sexual consent and abuse of intimate images – often called ‘revenge porn’. In retirement Le Couteur continues her community work as a volunteer, in particular for the Friends of Mawson Ponds which aims to create a wildlife corridor in the Woden Valley. She is a member of the Brougham Street cohousing project and part of Cohousing Canberra. Published resources Caroline Le Couteur - Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Le_Couteur LeCouteur-Caroline - ACT Legislative Assembly, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/ninth-assembly-members/murrumbidgee/lecouteur-caroline Caroline Le Couteur | ACT Greens, https://greens.org.au/act/person/caroline-le-couteur Thank you for all your contributions, Caroline Le Couteur MLA, ACT Greens Member for Murrumbidgee | ACT Greens, https://greens.org.au/act/news/thank-you-all-your-contributions-caroline-le-couteur-mla-act-greens-member-murrumbidgee Caroline Le Couteur, the Greens politician with an activist investment portfolio, Kirsten Lawson, 2016, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6039459/caroline-le-couteur-the-greens-politician-with-an-activist-investment-portfolio Greens MLA Caroline Le Couteur to leave ACT Legislative Assembly, Daniel Burdon, 2019 Greens in government in the ACT – reflections on successes and challenges from a former MLA, Caroline Le Couteur, 2022, https://greenagenda.org.au/2022/04/greens-in-government-in-the-act Former ACT MLA says party is now too close to Labor, paying a high price for cabinet positions, Lottie Twyford, 2022, https://the-riotact.com/former-act-greens-mla-says-party-is-now-too-close-to-labor-paying-a-high-price-for-cabinet-positions/549780 Author Details Louise Moran Created 26 April 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Irene Greenwood talks about her mother, Mary Driver’s membership in the Women’s Service Guilds and some of the organizations early members. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "June Craig was a member of the Western Legislative Assembly from 1974 until 1983, and served also as a cabinet Minister. In 1994 she received an Order of Australia (AM) for her long and distinguished parliamentary and community service. Margaret June Lynn was born in Perth in 1930. She was three years old when her family moved to Mosman Park, where she was educated at St Hilda’s Primary School, and later at Presbyterian Ladies’ College. She preferred to be known as June, and was in her youth a champion tennis player selected for the Wilson Cup State teams in 1948 and 1949. June studied physical education at the University of Western Australia and University of Melbourne. In September 1951, she married Frank Craig, whose father, Leslie Craig, was a long-serving member of the Legislative Council. June’s great grandfather, Robert John Lynn, had also sat in the Legislative Council from 1912 to 1924. June and Frank Craig had three children, one of whom was tragically killed by a falling tree from a bushfire near Rockingham in March 1977. June Craig joined the Liberal Party in 1950, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the south-west seat of Wellington in 1974. After only one term in Parliament, she became only the second woman (after Dame Florence Cardell-Oliver) to achieve Cabinet rank in Western Australia, after which she held various Cabinet posts until losing her parliamentary seat in the 1983 State election. Craig was actively involved in a wide variety of community affairs and organizations, including the St Mary’s Anglican Guild, the Citizens’ Advice Bureau and Good Neighbour Council, the Save the Children Fund, the Karrakatta Club, the Commonwealth Games Association and the Western Australian Olympic Council. After leaving Parliament she was a partner in a children’s clothing business and served as senior Vice-President of the Forrest Division of the Liberal Party. In 1994 June Craig was appointed a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) for her long and distinguished parliamentary and community service. Published resources Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with June Craig] [sound recording] / [interviewed by R. Jamieson] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "6 sound files.??”Mary Hiscock is a graduate of the Universities of Melbourne and Chicago. She is a legal practitioner in Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales and in federal jurisdictions. She is an Emeritus Professor of the Law Faculty at Bond University. She has taught for many years at Bond University and the University of Melbourne, and in Europe, Asia, and North America. Professor Hiscock has represented Australia at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). She was an Expert Adviser to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for many years and also a Consultant to the Asian Development Bank. She is a member of the Boards of the Australian Journal of Asian Law and of the Melbourne Journal of International Law. She is a past Chair of the International Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, and a past President of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law”–‘Personal property securities in Australia’ (2010). LexisNexis; Chatswood, N.S.W., p. 106. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A tireless campaigner and activist for over fifty years, Irene Adelaide Greenwood’s interests in feminism and the peace movement were formed through her mother Mary Driver’s involvement with the Women’s Services Guild. The achievements of Greenwood’s life’s work are considerable and her commitment and energy was recognized in the many awards bestowed on her. These include Member of the Order of Australia, the first woman to receive an Honorary Doctorate at Murdoch University, recognition as the strategist behind the implementation of the Chair in Peace Studies at Murdoch University, the United Nations Association of Australia Silver Peace Medal and honorary life membership, Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal, appointment to the National Advisory Committee on Women’s Affairs in 1974 and the naming of the flagship of the State ship’s fleet M.V. Irene Greenwood in her honour. Greenwood was also a life or honorary member of many key international, national and state peace and women’s organizations. As early as 1916 Irene Greenwood was sensitized to issues of social justice sharing her mother’s concern for the oppression of Aborigines and women. In 1920 she participated in Perth’s first strike by civil servants marking the beginning of a long career in political activism. In 1931 she moved from Perth to Sydney where she began a career in broadcasting, at the same time developing a radical political consciousness and experience in the women’s movement. Returning to Perth in 1935 she worked on the ABC’s Women’s Session and then moved to commercial radio instituting the popular Woman to Woman programme. Greenwood retired from radio in 1953. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she intensified her involvement in the women’s and peace movements, traveling as a delegate to national conferences and forums and in 1965 to The Hague and Zurich for the Golden Jubilee Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She edited Peace and Freedom the official organ for Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom until she was into her seventies. Locally Greenwood was party to the formation of the Western Australian Council for Equal Pay and Opportunity and edited Equal Pay News for the duration of the organization’s existence. She participated in the foundation of Western Australian branches of the Family Planning Association, the Abortion Law Repeal Association, Women’s Liberation and Women’s Electoral Lobby. Greenwood expressed a special love for history, organising displays of the founders of the Women’s Movement and documenting the history of Western Australian women’s organizations and feminism. She bestowed a vast archive of unique and rare material relating to women and the peace movement to Murdoch University. (As Giles (1999) notes Greenwood publicly changed her date of birth to 1899 to coincide with the year that non-Indigenous women won the vote in Western Australia) Published resources Book The Irene Greenwood Collection : a classified list of holdings in Murdoch University Library of material received from Irene Greenwood as of May 1986, Murdoch University. Library, 1986 First lust, Greenwood, Irene, 1973 Women on the warpath : feminist of the first wave, Davidson, Dianne, 1997 On air : the story of Catherine King and the ABC Women's Session, Lewis, Julie, 1925-2003, 1979 Thesis The limits of authorship : the radio broadcasts of Irene Greenwood, 1936-1954, Richardson, John Andrew, 1988 Irene Greenwood: A Voice for Peace, Murray, K J F, 2002 Book Section Irene Greenwood, Cornish, Diana, 1978 Greenwood, Irene, Caine, Barbara, 1998 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Conference Paper Irene Greenwood: 1899(sic)-1992, a hero of the feminist movement, Giles, Patricia, 1997 Journal Article [Irene Greenwood - autobiography of feminist activist], 1992 [Irene Greenwood - obituaries for feminist and social activist], 1992 [Irene Greenwood - obituaries for feminist and social activist], 1992 [Irene Greenwood - obituaries for feminist and social activist], 1992 In Memoriam ; Irene Adelaide Greenwood 1992, Baldock, C V, 1993 Irene Greenwood; a hero of the feminist movement 1899-1992., Giles, Patricia, 1999 Newspaper Article [Irene Greenwood - interview with W.A.'s leading feminist], 1987 Irene Greenwood - obituaries for feminist and social activist], 1992 [Newspaper article about Greenwood: relationship with Broome], 1984 [Newspaper article about Greenwood: hears anti-discrimination bill introduced], 1984 Resource Section The Limits of Authorship: The Radio Broadcasts of Irene Greenwood, 1936-1954, Richardson, John, 1996, http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/Richo/RichCont.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Irene Greenwood, 1912-1981 [manuscript] Papers of Jessie Street, circa 1914-1968 [manuscript] Records of the Australian Federation of Women Voters, 1920-1983 [manuscript] Murdoch University The Irene Greenwood Collection [Birthday party at Cockburn Sound] [The Australian Bill of Rights] Irene Greenwood talks to Robin Juniper Irene Greenwood talks with Grant Stone Irene Greenwood talks with Angela Douglass [Irene Greenwood Library Resources Trust] : Food for Feminism Dinner, November 7th, 1986 [Irene Greenwood] [picture] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Irene Greenwood, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Irene Greenwood interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Irene Greenwood] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Nancy Lutton] [Interview with Irene Greenwood] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Nancy Lutton]. Interview with Irene Greenwood] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Rica Erikson] [Interview with Irene Greenwood] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Ken Spillman] [Interview with Irene A. Greenwood] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Clive Moore] [Interview with Mrs Irene Greenwood] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Gillian Waite]. [Interview with Irene Greenwood, feminist] [sound recording] Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 Lorelei Booker - papers, ca. 1890-1991 State Library of New South Wales Irina Dunn papers, ca. 1980-1984, with papers collected relating to early feminists, 1873-1983 Author Details Denise Tallis Created 26 March 2004 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Agnes Bannon was a committed Democratic Labor Party member who ran for election three times: for Burwood in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in1973 and for Lowe in the House of Representatives in 1969 and in 1972. Agnes Bannon was the mother of two sons and two daughters. She lived most of her life in the Strathfield/Burwood area, and had taught music there for many years when she first ran for election in 1969. She campaigned by inviting people to “information afternoons” at her home, which consisted of afternoon tea and a discussion of policy. She also door-knocked extensively in the Strathfield area. She was strongly in favour of state aid. In 1972 the Women’s Electoral Lobby ranked her responses to their questions as the second lowest of the nine candidates standing. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci and Helen Morgan Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 23 October 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Eva Cox papers, ca. 1974-ca. 1994, including material related to the Pearl Watson Foundation, ca. 1985-ca. 1995, personal papers, ca. 1974-ca. 1994, volunteer feminist advocacy work, 1990-1993, Women’s Peace Group, 1990-1991, The Women’s Academy, 1991-1994, Women’s Economic Think Tank (WetTANK), 1990-1993, Refractory Girl Collective, 1979-1993, Distaff Associates, 1990-1994, private consultancy, Sole Parents’ Union, 1979-1992, and draft manuscripts of lectures and books by Eva Cox. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Leah Cameron is a Palawa woman from Tasmania and the Principal Solicitor and owner of Marrawah Law, a Supply Nation certified Indigenous legal practice. Her primary areas of practice are native title, cultural heritage, future acts and commercial law. Leah Cameron’s passion for her work is unwavering and has assisted her in achieving six native title consent determinations to date. Her efforts were recognised in 2008 when she was awarded the Tasmanian Young Achiever of the Year Award in the category of Trade and Career Achievement. Her commitment has also led to her being awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia and the Robert Riley Law Scholarship whilst studying at the University of Tasmania. Her greatest honour was being asked to negotiate and repatriate her ancestors’ remains from the British Museum in London on behalf of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community. Leah is a regular contributor to the National Talk Black radio program presenting on topical legal issues. She is also a director of Access Community Housing and a member of the Queensland Law Society, North Queensland Law Association and the Far North Queensland Law Association. Some of her significant achievements in the field of law include: Acting for first Indigenous homeowner (99-year lease) under Indigenous Home Ownership program in Queensland; Acting as solicitor for the applicants in the Djiru People #2 and #3 native title consent determinations 2011; Acting as solicitor for the applicant in Wanyurr Majay People native title consent determination 2011; Acting as solicitor for the applicant Jirrbal People #1-#3 native title consent determination 2010; Supervising solicitors with the successful consent determination of the following native title matters: Muluridji, Djungan, Combined Gunggandji, Gugu Badhun, Jangga, Juru, Tableland Yidinji and Combined Mandingalbay Yidinji Gunggandji; Successfully preparing the first application for National Heritage listing for an Aboriginal site within North Queensland. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Leah Cameron Created 18 May 2016 Last modified 28 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Leah Cameron Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 7847 comprises manuscripts, typescripts, notes, newspaper clippings and correspondence relating to Clark’s work as a writer. The correspondence is mostly with publishers and editors, including, Cole Turnley, E.W. Cole, W. Heinemann, George Robinson, Edward Vidler, Derek Smith, Sir Donald Bradman, Zola Kay, Chris Tangey, Catherine Hennessy, and Jackie McDonald.??The MS Acc99.226 instalment includes notes and notebooks, talks given by Clark, newspaper cuttings, press releases and correspondence relating to several of her works, including, No mean destiny, They came south, Nowhere to hide, Blue above the trees and her autobiography, Trust the dream. In addition, manuscripts of various unpublished works, a scrapbook on Pastor Doug, and papers relating to conferences Clark attended.??The MS Acc05.016 instalment comprises correspondence, drafts, screenplays, royalty statements, agreements, files on Public Lending Right and Copyright Agency Limited, diaries and photographs. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 7 October 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Glen Tomasetti was born in Melbourne, Australia. An academically and musically gifted woman, she was well-known throughout the Australian folk music circuit, working on commercial television and cutting eleven albums in the 1960s. A left-leaning environmentalist and feminist, Glen was vehemently opposed to the Vietnam War and was a member of the Save Our Sons Movement in Victoria. In 1967 she made headlines when she was subpoenaed to court for withholding one-sixth of her income tax on the grounds that this was the exact proportion used by the Holt government to finance the war in Vietnam. She became a hero of the feminist movement in 1969 when she adapted the words to an old shearing gang ballad, ‘All among the wool boys’. Glen’s version ‘Don’t be too Polite, Girls’ was written to support the 1969 case for equal pay that was being heard by the high court. Glen Tomasetti had three children and believed that motherhood was the emotional core of her life. She has been described as “a woman of singular passion that found focus in motherhood, friendship, art, the environment and justice for the oppressed. Her creativity was multifaceted. She was a historian, poet, novelist and actor. She was formidably intelligent and her god had bestowed on her extraordinary physical beauty.” Don’t Be Too Polite, Girls Tune: All among the wool, boys Lyrics: Glen Tomasetti 1. We’re really on the way, girls, really on the way Hooray for equal pay, girls, hooray for equal pay They’re going to give it to most of us, in spite of all their fears But did they really need to make us wait for all those years? Chorus: Don’t be too polite, girls, don’t be too polite, Show a little fight, girls, show a little fight. Don’t be fearful of offending in case you get the sack Just recognise your value and we won’t look back. 2. I sew up shirts and trousers in the clothing trade Since men don’t do the job, I can’t ask to be better paid The people at the top rarely offer something more Unless the people underneath are walking out the door. Chorus 3. They say a man needs more to feed his children and his wife Well, what are the needs of a woman who leads a double working life When the whistle blows for knock-off it’s not her time for fun She goes home to start the job that’s not paid and never done. Chorus 4. Don’t be too afraid, girls, don’t be too afraid, We’re clearly underpaid girls, clearly underpaid. Though equal pay in principle is every woman’s right To turn that into practice we must show a little fight. Chorus 5. ‘We can’t afford to pay you,’ say the masters in their wrath. But woman says ‘Just cut your coat according to the cloth. If the economy won’t stand it then here’s your answer boys, Cut out the wild extravagance on the new war toys.’ Chorus 6. All among the bull, girls, all among the bull, Keep your hearts full, girls, keep your hearts full. What good is a man as a doormat or following close at heel? It’s not their balls we’re after, it’s a fair square deal. Chorus Published resources Book Thoroughly decent people : a folktale, Tomasetti, Glen, 1976 Man of letters : a romance, Tomasetti, Glen, 1981 Newspaper Article Brains, beauty and heart, Jones, Philip, 2003 A life's song for the heart and soul of Australia, Wright, Clare, 2003 Singer-writer Tomasetti dies, aged 74, Jackson, Andra, 2003 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Glen Tomasetti, author, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Portrait of Glen Tomasetti at her home in Armadale Vic., July 1970 [picture] / Mark Strizic Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 15 October 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Traditional music of migrant groups in Australia and other Australian Folk Lore. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 August 2006 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1. Anna Eckford Somers Cocks, 1876-1890, re marriages and family matters.?2. Papers of Arthur Somers Cocks, 1918-1937, 6th Baron. Includes official papers, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, declarations of loyalty and presentation addresses and masonic material. Most of the material relates to period while governor of Victoria, 1926-1931.?3. Lady Finola Somers papers, 1926-31.? Australian material including letters, souvenirs, programmes, menu, scrapbook, speeches and other papers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 February 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Evelyn Evans was a young English girl from a well-to-do family, who while in Australia as part of a world trip, met and married station manager Charles Maunsell in 1912. They lived at Mulgrave Station which was located on the frontier of far north Queensland. Evelyn endured incredible hardship, with pioneering forcing her to endure hazards that pushed her far beyond the traditional female role; that of mother, wife and homemaker. Her courage and resourcefulness helped further the position and importance of women in colonial society. A young Evelyn Evans left England on a ’round-the-world’ adventure and instead found love and a new life in Australia in 1912. She married property manager Charles Maunsell in Cairns, and they lived together at Mulgrave Station near Mareeba, in a tin shed with a concrete floor. Contrary to the soft grey of England, life in the Atherton Tablelands was hot, wet and isolated. Despite Evelyn striking up friendships with local Aboriginal children, and running a small school for them on the property, white settlers had a poor reputation among tribal Aborigines in the area. When Charles Maunsell was away mustering they invaded the station and Maggie, mother of the Aboriginal children, hid Evelyn under the bed in order to save her life. Evelyn also survived malaria and several miscarriages, proving to those around her she was no English rose. Later she and Charles set up their own dairy property on the Atherton Tableland. They retired to Brisbane where Evelyn became actively involved with the Country Women’s Association. In 1968 Evelyn’s one and only son Ron Maunsell, won a Country Party plebiscite and in March 1969, took a seat in Federal Parliament as Senator Ron Maunsell. The book, S’pose I Die (1981) was based on Evelyn’s diaries and her conversations with author, Hector Holthouse. Published resources Book Great pioneer women of the outback, De Vries, Susanna, 2005 S'pose I die : the story of Evelyn Maunsell, Holthouse, Hector, 1981 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Evelyn Maunsell, former pioneer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Jean Manuel was a dedicated local activist in southern Sydney, with a wide range of voluntary and community interests. She was a Councillor on the Sutherland Shire council from 1965-80, including stints as the Deputy Shire President from 1968-71 and 1977-78 and Shire President from 1978-79. Jean was less successful in state politics, having been an unsuccessful Independent candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Woronora in 1973 and for Sutherland in 1988. Educated Belmore North PS, NSW, St Joseph’s School, Belmore NSW, Burwood HS NSW Married Kenneth Manuel, 1946, two daughters and one son. Voluntary Red Cross worker, 1939-45, 1945-47. Infants teacher, St Joseph’s School Oyster Bay 1955-63. First woman councillor, deputy shire president and shire president in her long career with Sutherland Shire 1965-80. Australian Local Government Women’s Association office holder, records officer and historian, life member from 1970. MBE 1977. Patron of many organizations in Sutherland Shire, including Amelie House Women’s Refuge 1978-80. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "3 hours (approx. to date)??A project initiated by the Multicultural Communities Council of South Australia, aimed at giving migrants to Australia the opportunity to record the stories of their migration experiences. The interviews will form the basis for creating initiatives and strategies for developing greater community harmony and increased understanding of cultural diversity and how it enhances life in South Australia. The project aims to establish partnerships with a number of organisations including Federal and State Government, educational bodies, police, business, the media, industry and trade. The project commenced in 2001 and is a work in progress. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rendering for Australian servicewomen’s memorial design.?Drawing. Watercolour on card Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 February 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc09.159 comprises papers relating to Eleanor Harriett (Nell) Rivett (1883-1972) including invitations and cards, material relating to Women’s Christian College, Madras, autobiography and memories of childhood, letters, clippings and tributes to her father Albert Rivett, correspondence with London Missionary Society, and press clippings on Nehru. Also included are press clippings and eulogy on Nell Rivett and the Rivett family, information on the Eleanor and David Rivett Memorial Library, family letters, Children’s Library and Craft Club material. There are medals and associated materials including Kaisar-I-Hind gold medal for public service in India, University of Sydney prize medals (Doris Mary Rivett), Albury S.P. School dux 1904 (Olive Rivett); family photographs, albums and framed photographs; a portfolio of Indian art, and university certificates. Papers relating to Sir Albert Cherbury David Rivett (1885-1961) include letters, newspaper clippings, research publications, David Rivett memorial lectures and biographical materials. Documents and letters relating to Mary Matheson (ne?e Rivett), Christine Rivett, Else Rivett, Olive Long (ne?e Rivett), and letters from E.M. (Lil) Rivett (7 boxes, 2 fol. Boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Peg Lusink was the first Victorian woman appointed to the Judiciary and also the second woman appointed to the Family Court, when it began operations in 1976. Prior to her judicial appointment, Peg was a Partner at Corr and Corr, working principally in the areas of matrimonial causes and family law. She briefly practiced at the Melbourne Bar before becoming a Family Court Judge. Upon retirement from the Family Court, in 1990, Peg became one of the foundational Professors in the Law Faculty at Bond University. In 1996, Peg accepted another judicial appointment, becoming the President of the Commonwealth Professional Services Review Tribunal. In that same year she was appointed AM for law for services to the Family Court and the community. Peg Lusink was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. Peg Lusink was born in Tocumwal, New South Wales to Joan Rosanove QC and Dr Edward Rosanove. She was educated first at Loreto Mandeville Hall and then later at Merton Hall. In 1939 Peg enrolled at the University of Melbourne to study law. At age 16, she also made history by being articled to her mother, Joan Rosanove. Six months later, in 1940, she married Dr Graeme Larkins and went on to have three sons. Upon Graeme’s early death in 1959, Peg returned to the University of Melbourne in 1960, as a mature aged student, and completed a Bachelor of Laws degree. Admitted to the Bar in 1965, Peg went on to become a Partner at Corr and Corr, Solicitors working in the matrimonial causes area. She practised briefly at the Victorian Bar before becoming Victoria’s first female judicial officer and the second woman appointed to the Family Court in 1975. In 1984 Peg was appointed the Judge Administrator of the newly established Dandenong Registry of the Family Court and pioneered a progressive counselling approach to family disputes until her retirement in 1988. In 1990 Peg became one of the foundational Professors in the Law Faculty at Bond University, teaching family law and running the Moot Court Program. In 1996, Peg accepted another judicial appointment, becoming the President of the Commonwealth Professional Services Review Tribunal, and in that same year was awarded an AM for law for services to the Family Court and the community. The following essay was written with the cooperation of Peg Lusink in May 2016. Lusink, Peg (Margaret) AM Justice of the Family Court of Australia Peg Lusink was the first Victorian woman appointed to the Judiciary of a Superior Court of Record and also the second woman appointed to the Family Court of Australia, when it began operations in 1976. Prior to her judicial appointment Peg was a partner in Corr and Corr, Solicitors, working principally in the area of family law under the then Matrimonial Causes Act. She signed the Roll of Counsel and worked as a barrister for a brief period until taking up her appointment in February 1976 on the newly established Family Court of Australia, which was created within the newly introduced Commonwealth legislation, the Family Law Act 1975. In 1984, upon the opening of the new Dandenong Registry she became the Judge Administrator where she was given the opportunity by the Chief Justice of the Court, Justice Elizabeth Evatt to pioneer a more progressive approach to family disputes. Upon resignation of her commission in 1990 she became one of the foundation professors in the Law Faculty of the newly established Bond University and in 1996 accepted another judicial appointment as President of the Commonwealth Professional Services Review Tribunal. In that year Peg received the honor of an AM for law, services to the Family Court and to the community. Peg Lusink was born in 1922 in Tocumwal, New South Wales. Her mother was Joan Rosanove QC, the renowned trailblazing female barrister at the Victorian Bar. Her father, Edward Rosanove, was a General Practitioner in Tocumwal at the time of Peg’s birth, before the family relocated to Westgarth, in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne. Peg was raised by parents who had a ‘remarkable’ relationship being ‘absolutely devoted to each other’ in their support of each other’s professional careers (Interview Rubenstein). For a significant period of time Joan Rosanove was the only woman at the Victorian Bar and was unusual in pursuing a career in law at that time. Peg particularly adored her father who she says ‘allowed her mother to work and was ahead of his time’ (Interview Rubenstein). Peg’s father relocated the family to London, England in 1932 to further his studies in dermatology. Peg’s younger sister Judy was born in London, and when the family returned to Melbourne they lived in Toorak. Peg was enrolled first at Loreto Mandeville Hall and then later at Merton Hall. In 1939 Peg enrolled at the University of Melbourne to study law. This event was recorded by The Daily News in Perth as ‘legal history’ in the making with Peg articled, aged just 16, to her mother Joan Rosanove (Daily News). However, this period of time at the University of Melbourne and undertaking articles with her mother was short lived; she studied for six months and in 1940 married ‘the love of her life’ Dr Graeme Larkins (Interview Rubenstein). Peg went on to have three sons with Graeme and enjoyed many happy years of marriage living in Corryong, where life as a doctor’s wife in the country guaranteed much community work and a good social life. Peg returned to England, again living in London, as Graeme pursued his medical career. Graeme’s early death in 1959 left Peg bereft but nonetheless a young widowed mother with the responsibility for raising three sons. While law was never high on her list of priorities, and grieving the loss of her dearest companion and husband, Peg realised she had to provide an income for her family. Supported by her son John Larkins, who was already a law student at the University of Melbourne, in 1960 she returned to her studies in law. Completing her degree at the University of Melbourne as a mature aged student, Peg found support from then Dean Harold Ford and from lecturers such as Sir Zelman Cowen and Professor Robin Sharwood. Peg was one of only four female mature aged students at the Law School. In this environment she met another mature aged law student, Theo Lusink, a Dutch national who had re-located to Australia after World War 2 and joined the Royal Australian Air Force. In November 1964 she and Theo married. Soon after, at the beginning of 1965, Peg’s admission to practice was moved in the Supreme Court of Victoria by her mother Joan Rosanove Q.C with her son John Larkins as her Junior. As a solicitor, she commenced articles with the law firm of Corr and Corr (as it then was). Almost immediately she was asked to run the then small matrimonial practice which was conducted under the existing State legislation, the Matrimonial Causes Act. At this time Peg quickly found support and friendship with members of the legal fraternity and was inspired by many including the Hon. Esler Barber who was in the Supreme Court sitting mainly on family disputes. In the late sixties Peg was made a partner in the firm, becoming the first woman to do so in a large prestigious commercial law firm in Melbourne. In June 1974 Peg was called to the Bar reading with Bill Gillard, who would later become Justice Gillard of the Supreme Court. However, her time as a Barrister was short lived, as in February 1976 she was appointed a Justice of the Family Court of Australia becoming the first woman in Victoria to be appointed under the newly introduced Commonwealth Family Law Act 1975 and the first Victorian woman to be appointed to a Superior Court of Record. Peg was mentored among others by Chief Justice Elizabeth Evatt who she describes as “a woman of great intellect” (Interview Rubenstein). Peg further states that she was a woman of compassion and vision. However, the Family Court was in its infancy at a time of great excitement and anticipation, the radical reform legislation having been led and introduced by the Whitlam government. Peg recalls “”being thrown in at the deep end being given a whole new meaning” as a Judge of a new and unexpectedly popular Court. A court “without any mentors or experienced judges to tell us how to do it, no precedents to follow or assist, a brand new law to interpret and rule upon behavioural scientists who had had no training in the law and lawyers who had had no training in counselling. Having done a brief year of psychology -1 I was marginally better equipped- if you’d call it that and we were plopped in this commercial building and told to be a “nice friendly helping Court”” (Interview Brodsky). In the early months Peg was operating in this environment with three male judges enjoying with them the stimulation and challenge of riding a steep learning curve in the shaping of this new court and its law. In 1984 Peg was appointed to be Judge Administrator of the new Registry of the Family Court, which was established at Dandenong. It was an initiative of Chief Justice Evatt who provided five counsellors to one Judge, an unheard of ratio, and a more formalized Court setting with the idea of pioneering less adversarial solutions. This proved popular and very successful leading to Judges visiting at first from Melbourne, and later a second Judge being appointed by the Attorney General Mr. Bowen. During these years Peg was also invited by the Premier of Victoria to become Foundation President of the newly established Victorian Womens’ Trust. Until her retirement, aged 66 in 1988, Peg shared the Family Court bench in Australia with only a handful of women with whom she was on very friendly terms. These included Chief Justice Elizabeth Evatt and Justice Josephine Hemsley-Maxwell both from Sydney and Justice Kemeri Murray from Adelaide. Of this time historian Shurlee Swain observed “Justice Peg Lusink’s excitement at the prospect of change which the Family Law Act provided is shared by many of those with whom she worked during the early years of the Family Court. However much of the dream faded over subsequent years, they remain proud of the contribution they made to reforming the way in which the breakdown of relationships was managed in Australia. Hailed as the ‘fulfilment of possibly the most humane and enlightened social reform to be enacted in Australia since the Second World War” (Swain). Retirement from the law was to be a brief interlude. In 1990 Peg was approached by Bond University to join its newly created Law School. In these “exciting times” Peg taught Family Law and was instrumental in developing the Law School’s Moot Court program (Interview Rubenstein). In 1992 Peg and her husband returned to Victoria where she and some like-minded Solicitors provided mediation for matrimonial disputes as an alternative to the adversarial alternative. Although “mediation” was in its infancy this proved very successful. This was in Benalla in the North East of the State and was conducted whilst her husband Theo continued his passion for farming. Further appointments followed in 1996 with Peg becoming the President of the Commonwealth Professional Services Review Tribunal investigating medical professionals and Medicare fraud. Peg was also appointed a Member of the Adult Parole Board of Victoria and was awarded an AM for law for services to the Family Court and the community. In 2004, Peg was honoured with induction into the Victorian Women’s Hall of Fame as a leader in law, women’s health and education. Having spent significant periods of her life in regional Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, Peg has contributed enormously to the cultural fabric of rural communities, forming many lasting friendships. In 1992, she convened the Friends of the Library in Euroa and subsequently became Chairperson and Honorary Life Member of the National Friends of the Libraries of Australia. She has also been a board member of a number of local hospitals and was the representative of the Euroa Bush Nursing Hospital on the Victoria Bush Nursing Hospitals Association. Principally considered a trailblazer for her appointment as Victoria’s first female Judicial Officer of the Family Court and first female Partner in a Melbourne commercial law firm, Peg has been privileged, over nine decades, to observe tremendous social change and developments in the law. However, Peg’s greatest achievements must also be noted to include the deep and enduring relationship with her two adored husbands and three sons. As Peg observes of her life both inside and outside the law: ‘it’s a great history’ and ‘an extraordinary journey’ (Interview Rubenstein). Events 2004 - 2004 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Born in hope : the early years of the Family Court of Australia, Swain, Shurlee, 2012 Newspaper Article Law in Family, 1939 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Peg Lusink interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin with Peg Lusink Created 12 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Peg Lusink Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: lusink1980.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 cassettes (ca. 75 min.).??Orn in Eden, NSW, Symonds speaks of her family background ; parents’ background ; lifestyle in Eden ; Jewish customs ; the family moving to Sydney when she was 11 ; childhood memories ; family life, home and living conditions ; family shops in Eden and Sydney ; courtship and marriage ; her brothers and sisters ; her daughter travelling to Palestine after World War II ; her schooling ; family maids ; her husband’s background ; kosher foods ; employment in shoe shop ; social life before marriage ; picnics and recreation ; trip overseas with husband ; husband’s employment ; memories of World War I ; her children ; forming the first Council of Jewish women ; council activities, its purpose ; Jewish immigrants. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 September 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Pam Arnold had a long and successful career in local government as a Councillor for Shoalhaven from 1995-2004. She also ran as an Independent candidate for the South Coast in 2003. Elected to the Shoalhaven Council in 1995, Pam Arnold did extensive work on Council Committees, notably the Aboriginal Advisory Committee (1997-2004), Industrial Development and Employment Committee (1997-2004), The Shoalhaven Tourism Board (1997-2004), the Youth Advisory Committee (1996-2004) and the Works and Finance Committee (2000-04). Outside Council duties, she was also a member of the Animal Welfare Advisory Council, the National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council and was appointed by the Minister to the NSW Fire Brigades Advisory Council (1999-2004). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Carmel Galvin talks about her parents background; her schooling; religion and religious beliefs; the death of her partner; her first marriage; purchasing a brothel in Kalgoorlie, Questa Casa; her impressions of Kalgoorlie; characteristics of sex workers; the role of the brothel madam; Brothel containment and the lifting of that containment at a later date; accounts and finances; the number of working girls; brothel operations, police rules; description of the rooms; drugs; the number of clients in a shift; prices and services; clients; the number of mines around Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie; mature aged workers; amounts earned; the stigma attached to prostitution; the number of brothels in Kalgoorlie and closures of some houses; Langtrees; Dominatrix; the rights of working girls; difficult clients; changes in Kalgoorlie; Privacy Act and health checks; Worker’s compensation; leasing out the brothel during the boom; her return to take over running the brothel in 2000; tourists and brothel tours; dress standards; day and night trade; Women’s Liberation and brothel work; taxation classifications; licensing; the increase in the number of brothel tours. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 15 August 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The thesis ‘examines through a series of case studies the work of practitioners in the arts, individual patrons or supporters of particular artists or cultural groups, and networks of supporters. It explores the dynamics of respective movements initiated or driven by women within musical, artistic, literary and theatrical circles, and in the wider community of the culturally concerned’. In nine chapters the work explores the early patronage of Miles Franklin, 1900-1906; the role of the ‘Fairfax women’,( members of the prominent Sydney family), in the arts and crafts movement, 1899-1914; the Canadian born Ethel Kelly, who acted in Sydney theatre in 1903, and took up charity work after her marriage; Mary Gilmore and women writers of the 1920s; Ethel Anderson, 1924-1940; Lilian Frost, the Pitt Street Congregational Church organist, 1895-1949; Lady Margaret Gordon and the ‘little theatre’ movement, 1929-1939; the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Beatrice Swinson, Ruth Fairfax and Lady Gordon; and Mary Alice Evatt and the Art Gallery of N.S.W. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Victorian Branch of the Australian Railways Union (ARU), in contrast to many other male unions, did not encourage female rail workers to set up a separate section. In 1920 the Victorian Railways commenced employing women in sizeable numbers mainly as waitresses, barmaids, laundresses and cooks at various city and country railway stations. At this time, the Refreshment Services Branch was established with the introduction of new machinery into railway administrative offices, however females began to perform clerical work traditionally done by better-paid men. During World War II women began working in positions traditionally reserved for men. The Union participated in the Council of Action for Equal Pay, a body formed in 1937 to further the interests of female workers, as well as contributing to the Australian Council of Trade Union organized conferences on equal pay held in April and September 1942. Women paid junior rates for their union fees until equal pay was achieved. Victorian rail unionism began with the labourers’ Mutual Service Association of 1884. Others formed (of which the Locomotive Enginemen’s retained separate identity until 1990s), but moves to form an ‘all-grades’ union culminated with the establishment of the Victorian Railways Union (VRU) in 1911. Though attracted by the idea of One Big Union, VRU opted to become Victorian Branch of the Australian Railways Union (ARU) in 1920. The ARU in Victoria has long been militant and active in all major industrial campaigns of its existence. In 1993 it merged with Tram and Bus union and became a division of the Public Transport Union. Published resources Book In the service? : a history of Victorian Railways workers and their union, Butler-Bowdon, Eddie, 1991 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Union Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Museums Victoria Collections Banner - Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch, circa 1911 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Hamilton was the second Queensland president of the Australian National Council of Women. She held office between 1964 and 1967, having already served as president of the Queensland Council from 1961 to 1964. Her period as state president was notable for successfully hosting the ANCW triennial conference and the International Council of Women regional seminar on international understanding in Brisbane in 1964. As national president in the ensuing 3 years, she set up the twinning relationship between the Australian and Thailand NCWs-a program initiated by the ICW to encourage ‘reciprocal relationships between N.C.Ws of contrasting economic patterns’. Her period in office also saw continuing lobbying of the federal government for the lifting of the marriage bar on the employment of women in the Commonwealth public service (achieved in 1967), for equal pay, and for seeking Australia’s re-election to the UN Status of Women Commission (achieved in 1967). As president, she also encouraged state NCWs to include welfare of Aborigines in the considerations of their standing committees, succeeded in persuading the government to include the portrait of an outstanding Australian woman on the new $5 note, and agitated for liberalising the means test for pensions with the aim of its eventual abolition. Hamilton represented the ANCW and the ICW at the International Federation of University Women conference in Brisbane in 1965, and led the ANCW delegation to the ICW triennial conference in Tehran in 1966. Hamilton’s other major interest was the propagation and growth of Australian plants, and she served as president of the Society for Growing Australian Plants, Queensland from 1965 to 1966. Annie Dorothy Hamilton was born on 22 June 1910 in Kerang, Victoria, daughter of William James Norwood McConnell of Barham, NSW, hotel manager, and his second wife, Eliza Anne Hobbs of Strathbogie, Victoria. Anne (as she preferred to be known) was educated at Esperance Girls’ School in Victoria before embarking on a business course. She subsequently engaged in office work, apart from a short period as a dressmaker in partnership with an aunt in Swan Hill. On her return to Melbourne she met and subsequently married Charles A. Hamilton, architect, at the Gardiner Presbyterian Church, on 27 March 1936; they had 1 son, Peter (born 1938) and 1 daughter, Prudence (born 1947). Anne Hamilton’s first public activism occurred in the immediate postwar period when, in opposition to continuing wartime rationing, she joined other women in campaigning to elect the first Liberal Party member for the Victorian federal seat of Balaclava in 1946. The family shifted to Brisbane in 1947 when Charles was appointed deputy city architect to the Brisbane City Council. To overcome her sense of isolation and constriction at home, she joined Forum, a group for encouraging women in public speaking. It was as this club’s delegate that she joined the National Council of Women of Queensland. Like many women leaders of her generation, Hamilton found the domestic routine unstimulating, and NCW activities provided a more satisfying outlet for her talents and energies. She was elected state president in 1960. Her desire for effective and meaningful work is evident in her summation of the role as ‘trying to stir NCW women to logical, informed mental processes and consequent action towards community welfare’, and ‘to attract women of spirit and intelligence to work with an organization of some significance … by persuading them that what they did had some real effect’. Her energetic leadership was focused first on finding solutions to the parlous state of the Council’s finances, and, second, on shifting its headquarters from the ‘squalid rooms in Celtic Chambers’ to more comfortable accommodation in Ann Street. She was also responsible for beginning NCWQ’s news-sheet, NCW News, in 1961, for using NCW auspices to inaugurate the Children’s Film and Television Council and the Consumers’ Association of Queensland, and for establishing a Townsville branch of NCWQ. The Council’s new rooms were used to host the International Council of Women’s regional seminar on international understanding in Brisbane in September 1964, and Hamilton’s home and gardens in Bardon were made available for a luncheon for delegates both to the seminar and to the Australian National Council of Women triennial conference held in conjunction with the ICW meeting. It was at this ANCW conference that Hamilton was elected president for the ensuing triennium. As national president in the ensuing 3 years, Hamilton extended her interests into the international arena and was responsible for overseeing the setting up the long-mooted twinning relationship between the Australian and Thailand NCWs-a program initiated by the ICW to encourage ‘reciprocal relationships between N.C.Ws of contrasting economic patterns’. As Hamilton reported to the 1967 ANCW conference, the ‘joint association was a bit slow to get off the ground’ owing to communication problems, but face-to-face meetings helped overcome initial difficulties. In 1965, Hamilton’s ANCW Board set up a fund to help the Thai Council with developmental education programs enabling small numbers of village children in the north of the country to be brought to the city for a course of training at the University of Agriculture, so they could take necessary skills back to their communities, and for 40 village women to be taught to sew to provide school children with uniforms, among other things. Both programs were supervised by project committees established in the village, thus providing their members with administrative skills and experience. Hamilton visited the Thai NCW in 1966 and reported back that, as a result of these initiatives, the idea of education had been encouraged, and also the development of ‘self respect, independence and cooperation’. ANCW would continue to provide funds, she said, including for a scholarship to educate a Thai student in her own country. ANCW also hoped to continue its participation in UNESCO’s Study Tours for Women Educational Leaders and Leaders of Women’s Voluntary Organisations, having in 1965 sponsored a 3-month tour of Australia by Mrs Tameno, a teacher and member of the Kenyan NCW. Hamilton represented the ANCW and the ICW at the International Federation of University Women conference in Brisbane in 1965, and led the ANCW delegation to the ICW triennial conference in Tehran in 1966, where she attended the seminar on literacy held in conjunction with the conference. The main message she brought back to ANCW was that ‘the true development of nations depends on the state of advancement of women and their participation in their communities’, and that literacy, understanding and skills of communication formed the bedrock of the ability to participate. Like her predecessors, she had come to see support for the work of the United Nations as crucial for women everywhere, and her Board lobbied the federal government to seek Australia’s re-election to the UN Status of Women Commission (CSW), achieved in 1967. She also put consideration of CSW’s Draft Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the agenda for discussion at the 1967 ANCW conference in Melbourne. At the national level, Hamilton, like her predecessor Dorothy Edwards, was concerned to ‘to streamline methods of working’-‘If A.N.C.W. is to tackle social problems, our lines of communication have to flow still more smoothly, administration has to be firmer’. But she was forced to admit, as other Boards had also found, that progress was ‘slow and difficult’, largely because of the limitations on continuity imposed by reliance of voluntary workers and the inevitable high turnover of personnel. On policy matters, Hamiltons’s period in office saw continued lobbying of the federal government for the lifting of the marriage bar on the employment of women in the Commonwealth public service (achieved in 1967) and for equal pay. As president, she also encouraged state NCWs to include the welfare of Aborigines in the considerations of their standing committees, succeeded in persuading the government to include the portrait of an outstanding Australian woman on the new $5 note, and agitated for liberalising the means test for pensions with the aim of its eventual abolition. Her term in office is also notable for the evidence it provides of anxieties about changes taking place in social mores; in her 1967 presidential address, Hamilton expressed concern about an apparent growth in ‘selfish egoism’, reckless self-indulgence’ and ‘callous disregard for human life and for the rights of others’, reflected in problems as diverse as the rising road toll, offences against girls and women, and ‘the rising rate of illegitimate births’. Conference resolutions and standing committee reports also reflected this anxiety, protesting against smoking in public places, lowering of censorship standards, and an evident rise in ‘sexual promiscuity’ and venereal disease. These and other matters were the focus of a seminar, Ethical Standards for Modern Living, which followed the 1967 conference and at which it was admitted that: ‘Uneasiness and concern had been felt by NCW about the changing pattern of society’. Participants in the end fell back on old verities in confirming ‘the importance of the family unit for stability in society and the principle of one moral standard for both men and women’. In the years following her national presidency, Anne Hamilton began to withdraw from NCW activities as a consequence of a series of family crises including hospitalisation of her daughter for several months after a car accident in 1967, her own increasing incapacity from an old back injury and arthritis, and husband Charles’s severe heart attack in the mid-1970s. She focused her activities more on the Society for Growing Australian Plants (of which she had been president from 1965 to 1966, at the same time as she presided over ANCW) and, after Charles’s recovery, on the investment portfolio she started as part of the family company Charles set up to fund their retirement. After Charles’s death in 1986, Anne was able to continue living at home with the support of her daughter and son and their families until the mid-1990s. When the level of care she required increased beyond what the family was able to provide, she agreed to sell up and move to a retirement village at Taringa, then, as she deteriorated further, to the Tricare Nursing Home at Jindalee where she was still able to maintain a modicum of independence. She died there, aged 94, on 25 July 2002. Published resources Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Book The National Council of Women of Queensland: The Second Fifty years 1955 - 2005, Buckley, Daphne M., 2005 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1965, 1965 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 7266 National Council of Women of Queensland Minute Books 1905-2004 Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 28 October 2013 Digital resources Title: Ann Hamilton Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "On 1 July 2003 a dedication of a WRANS Memorial, formally recognising Harman as ‘The Birthplace of the WRANS,’ was held. The WRANS Memorial HMAS Harman is dedicated to those who have served in the Woman’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) and those females who have and are currently serving in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)."
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    {
        "text": "Part of a collection of recordings which originally accompanied the Papers of Christine Williams (MS 8065) held in the Manuscripts section at the National Library of Australia. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO2]??Comprises records of Australian Red Cross personnel who served as Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) or Field Force officers in Australia and overseas. The service cards are alphabetically sorted into groups Field Force Female A to D, Field Force Male J to M etc. They record the Army Number, Rank, Names & Addresses, places served and the period of service as well as dates that information was added to the card.??Also includes a register controlling the index cards, a small collection of passport sized photographs of personnel, list of the first official Australian contingent of VAD’s to serve in England and France in 1916 as well as a Register of Certificates awarded to Field Force personnel (1946-1961).??Formed in 1915, Voluntary Aid Detachments had basic medical and home nursing certificates and were tasked with administering first aid, nursing and domestic assistance and other support for returned and wounded soldiers in convalescent homes, hospital ships and in blood banks. In 1916, Australia Red Cross sent Voluntary Aid Detachments to serve in military hospitals in France and England under the British Red Cross, subsequently in 1918 the Australian Imperial Voluntary Aid Detachment (AIVAD) was formed. Upon their return from Europe VADs were tasked with assisting the temporary hospitals treating the influenza epidemic of 1919. http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0491b.htm??Red Cross Field Force officers were deployed during World War II with the Far East Land Forces (FARELF) and in subsequent theatres of Japan, Korea and Malaya. Field Force officers were attached to land based military units to meet operational commitments. The last Field Force officer returned to Australia following the closure of the Butterfield RAAF base in Malaysia in 1988.??Researchers should also refer to: ‘Voluntary Aid Detachment Membership Registers’ (1915- 1919) (2016.0074) Previous control V30 as well as ‘Correspondence Files, National Headquarters’ (2015.0033) Previous control NO.33.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "In 1924 a committee of middle-class women of Geelong, concerned that girls beginning work at fourteen were not fully prepared for life, met to form the Blue Triangle Community. Their stated aim was ‘to help Girls to find the best in life by offering opportunities to develop all their powers’. Employers provided support, including an annual donation. Industry-based teams played basketball on Saturday afternoons, and tennis clubs and a swimming club were formed. Club rooms were secured, and educational and social activities were held for Senior girls (those over 20) and younger ‘Girl Citizens’. They included sex education. A Friday night ‘At Home’ and Sunday teas were instituted. Volunteers visited workplaces each pay day to collect money to bank on the girls’ behalf, a summer camp was run to provide an annual holiday at a reasonable cost, and opportunities were provided for service to the community. Chronology 1929 & 1933: The Community tried closer co-operation with the YWCA. Though their concerns overlapped, the Blue Triangle Community had its own clearly defined purpose, and both attempts were abandoned. 1935: The name of the organisation was changed to the ‘Geelong Girl’s Unity Club’, to avoid confusion with the YWCA, and its ‘Blue Triangle Forward Movement Appeal’. 1936: Junior girls severed their connection with the Girls Citizens movement. 1927: The Club affiliated with the Women’s Peace Movement. 1939: A former members’ club formed, becoming the Unity Club Auxiliary. 1944: The club affiliated with the new branch of the National Council of Women of Victoria. 1942: The club instituted a luncheon hour for business girls to bring in lunches. 1948: ‘Teens Club’ begun. 1956: ‘Young Marrieds’ Club’ begun. 1963: ‘The Younger Set’ formed, in which Teens, Young Married and others combined for sporting events. 1965: With attendance down, the Club dissolved. The Unity Basket ball Association was self-supporting, and continued. It still operates today, as the Geelong Unity Netball Association Inc. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Archival resources Geelong Heritage Centre Geelong Girls Unity Club Freeman, May - Collection Author Details Janet Butler Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letters (1907-1940); correspondence with L. Glauert (of the W.A. Museum) concerning specimens while at Ooldea native camp (1922-1935); several drafts of “The passing of the Aborigines” with notes used in the preparation of the mss. The bulk of the National Library of Australia’s Daisy Bates collection is the manuscript of her work “The native tribes of Western Australia”, written during her period of service with the Western Australian government from 1904-1912. Many of the drafts have been annotated by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, a British social anthropologist. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Anne Heywood Created 1 October 2003 Last modified 9 January 2013 Digital resources Title: Matrol Margaret Lang, OBE Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Ann Drew settled in Toowong, with her husband Richard Langler Drew in the early 1860s. Over the next four decades Ann advocated and helped administer an array of welfare institutions. Most importantly, in April 1871 she founded the Female Refuge and Infants’ Home (‘Mrs Drew’s Home’) for young single mothers and their babies. Initially funded by Ann and her friends, the refuge eventually gained government assistance, however, this funding was withdrawn in 1900. As lady president of the Social Purity Society, Ann was involved in the establishment of Lady Musgrave Lodge (1891-1892) as a hostel and training place for immigrants and other ‘friendless’ girls. She also took part in agitation to repeal the Contagious Diseases Act of 1868 and held the position of secretary of the committee of the Lady Bowen Hospital from 1870 to 1879. In 1906 Ann Drew retired as ‘Foundress and Superintendent’ of the Female Refuge and Infants’ Home. On 21 December 1848 at St James’s Church, Exeter, Ann married Richard Langler Drew. The couple migrated to Victoria in about 1858 and after three years they moved to Queensland. In 1862 Richard Drew acquired land a few kilometers from Brisbane where he established the ‘Village of Toowong’. Considered the driving force behind the growth of Toowong, Drew made land available for the first Church of St Thomas the Apostle, and was one of its original trustees. Richard died on 8 October 1860. Published resources Resource Section Drew, Ann (Anne) (1822-1907), Routh, S J, 2006, http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10134b.htm Resource In Retrospect: Government Institutions, Child Safety Services, Department of Communities, Queensland Government, 2009, http://www.childsafety.qld.gov.au/publications/documents/centcareretrospect.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Female Refuge & Infants' Home, Brisbane, ca. 1885 Lady Musgrave Lodge, Brisbane, ca. 1910 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 30 October 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Eleven letters from Daisy Bates to the Fairbairn family in Perth, mostly written from her desert camps. The first letter (20 Sept. 1901) is to Robert Fairbairn, a magistrate, commissioner and governor of Freemantle Prison. Bates thanks Fairbairn for sending “the copy of the Govt Gazette containing your letter re the native question” besides other references. The second letter is addressed to Mrs Fairbairn (20 November 1912) and includes a detailed description of the journey and arrival at Eucla (WA). The other nine letters are addressed to their daughter, Ainslie, between 1913-1946. In the letter dated 16 October 1943, Bates describes this month as her “84th Birth month”, confirming the recent research in Ireland which established her birthdate as 1859, not 1863 as previously thought. In the letter she adds, “I have never asked the natives to work for me & do every last-least-littlest-duty myself. I never thought, from the beginning of my work amongst them, that it was fair to them, to expect them to wait on me, nor have I ever “trained” them to such work. Missions do these things …” Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Colleen is a former Washington correspondent for the Australian Financial Review (1996-1998) and was editor of the newspaper from 1998-2002. After completing a Bachelor of Economics at the University of Sydney, Colleen joined Arthur Andersen as an accountant. However, she was clearly destined for a life in the media and joined the AFR as a business writer just one year later. This marked the beginning of a distinguished media career stretching over three decades. Collen Ryan has achieved a number of remarkable positions throughout her career including: Papua New Guinea correspondent of the AFR (1976-1978); assistant editor of 8 Days Magazine, London (1979-1980); editor of the AFR’s Weekend Review (1980-1982); business editor of the National Times (1982-1986); and associate editor of the Sydney Morning Herald (1986-1996). Colleen’s work has been recognised with numerous industry awards including: Gold Walkley Award for Journalism (2004); Walkley Award for Best Business Report (2004); Centenary Medal for Services to Journalism and Publishing (2003); Australian Journalist of the Year (1992); and the Walkley Award for Best News Report (1992). Colleen has also published one book Corporate Cannibals: The Taking of Fairfax (1992), co-authored with Glenn Burge. Events 1993 - 1993 Best Coverage of a Current Story (Print) – ‘Spot of Bother Over at A’ – The Sydney Morning Herald – Fairfax (withKate McClymont) 1990 - 1990 Best Feature, ‘The Secret Society which sank Australia’ – Highly Commended – The Sydney Morning Herald – Fairfax (with Deborah Light and Paul McGeogh) 1975 - Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 31 October 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Angela Luvera is a committed socialist and activist. She represented the Democratic Socialist in the 1999 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Wollongong. Then in 2003 she stood for the Socialist Alliance party in the New South Wales Legislative Council. Angela is active in student politics and in campaigns against racism and violence. She has campaigned for abortion rights and is opposed to cuts in government services. At the time of her campaign for Wollongong, she was a member of Resistance and had helped lead school walkouts against racism in 1998. She was also involved in International Women’s Day collectives, and was a member of the national Union of Students Women’s Committee. In 2003 she was elected to the National Committee of the Democratic Socialist Party. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 31 January 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gwen Roderick was the first Western Australian woman to be elected president of the National Council of Women of Australia-63 years after it was founded. She brought to the presidency a passion for efficient management that served the association well during a difficult period in terms of its relationship with government. Gwen Roderick was born Gwendolyn Blanche Pearce in Toowoomba, Queensland, and educated at Fairholme Presbyterian Ladies College in that city. She trained as a secretary and held several administrative positions, including that of personal assistant for public relations to the Queensland manager of the ANZ Bank. She then travelled overseas, working in London and then Canada, where she was employed as an assistant producer for Canadian Television. Gwen married a Canadian geologist, Stanley Roderick, and had two children born in Canada. The family then spent 6 years in Brazil and 5 years in Queensland, finally settling in Perth, Western Australia, where she was a producer for community radio. Roderick joined the National Council of Women of Western Australia as a delegate from the State Women’s Council of the Liberal Party. In 1984, she became the state convenor of economics, in 1987 the honorary secretary, and, from 1991 to 1994, president of NCW WA. Relations with the state government were excellent during this period. When Roderick was elected president of the National Council of Women of Australia for the 1994-1997 triennium, she was the first Western Australian woman to hold this position, an indication that, after 6 decades, communication barriers with the state most distant from Canberra had finally become less significant within the NCWA. Furthermore, Western Australia’s minister for women’s interests assisted in facilitating communication with the eastern states by supplying an office and office equipment for the NCWA Board, allowing administrative processes to be modernised, with teleconferencing employed to overcome the remaining elements of the tyranny of distance. Roderick was always an advocate of bureaucratic and business efficiency. In 1995, she took the NCWA Board through a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) of the organisation. The major challenge was the rise of a new coalition of women’s organisations, CAPOW! (Coalition of Participating Organisations of Women) initiated by the Women’s Electoral Lobby, which, under the Keating federal Labor government, was displacing NCWA as the peak body linking government and women’s groups. Government funding of NCWA was also under threat. Roderick and the Board responded by developing promotional material, publicising the fact that NCWA represented some 500 organisations, looking to maintain a corporate image with a national logo, badges and stationery, cultivating bureaucrats and media representatives, producing high-quality submissions, and organising high-profile national seminars with prominent speakers on matters of public interest, such as women and technology. The election of the Howard Liberal-National Party government in 1997 undermined CAPOW!’s ministerial access and raised that of NCWA once more but failed to guarantee recurrent funding for non-government women’s organisations. Roderick’s Board faced a further challenge in the ongoing and growing antagonism between the Hobart-based National Council of Women of Tasmania and the National Council of Women of Launceston. An attempt was made by Launceston delegates to the Perth conference of 1997 to redirect and resolve this conflict by focusing on the principle of regional organisation but without success. The continuing conflict became the major challenge confronting Roderick’s successor as president of NCWA. As national president, Roderick represented NCWA at many national and international meetings. She has been a member of the Optus, Telstra and Austel telecommunication advisory councils, where she spoke as a consumers’ representative. In 1995, she was a delegate representing NCWA and Australia at the 39th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York. This was the final preparatory meeting for the Beijing 4th World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development of Peace, which she also attended in September 1995. Roderick then led the Australian delegation to International Council of Women conferences in Auckland and Ottawa in 1997, acknowledging the importance of putting Australia’s views to ICW although she emphasises that her major concerns were national ones and that ‘Australian women were my priority’. In August 1997, Gwen Roderick was one of 10 representatives from women’s organisations invited to meet with Prime Minister John Howard. The NCWA’s major areas of concern were economic security for older women, women on public service boards and committees, domestic and community violence, availability of clean water for all Australians and family-friendly workplaces. Roderick was also a member of the WA Censorship Advisory Committee, an executive member of the WA branch of the Order of Australia Committee, and a life member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Women’s Auxiliary. In 1998, Gwen Roderick received the NCWA Centenary Award, and, in 1999, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia, for ‘service to women, particularly through the National Council of Women of Australia’. ‘The challenges ahead are unlimited in the support of women and their families in the community.’ Published resources Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia National Council of Women of Western Australia records, 1911-2001 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection NCWA Papers 1984 - 2006 Private Hands (These records may not be readily available) Interview with Gwen Roderick Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 19 November 2015 Digital resources Title: Gwen Roderick Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lyndel Prott Created 11 May 2016 Last modified 27 February 2018 Digital resources Title: Lyndel Prott Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "File. Correspondents include Peter Sculthorpe, Arthur Benjamin, James Penberthy, Eugene Goossens, George Dreyfus, Miriam Hyde, Gerard Willems, Georg Pedersen, Patrick Thomas, Myer Fredman, Florence Taylor, Paul Dyer, Anne Boyd, Philip Swanton, Joseph Post, Eric Gross, Vincent Plush, Andrew Ford, Larry Sitsky, Colin Brumby, Richard Strauss, Winsome Evans, Roger Covell, Robert Pikler, William Lovelock, James Murdoch, Leo Schofield, Michael Askill, Robert Ampt, Neal Peres da Costa, Mark Walton, WG James, Donald Peart, Florence Taylor, Ken Tribe, Kenneth Hince, Isador Goodman, David Stanhope, Ann Carr-Boyd, Michael Dudman, Helen Bainton, Barry Jones, Bob Hawke, Gough Whitlam, Anne Goossens Obermer, David Helfgott, Roger Woodward, Arthur Jacobs, Christopher Dearnley, Sidonie Scott Goossens, Franz Holford, Tessa Birnie, David Ahern, Grant Foster, Albrecht Dumling, George Kraus, Rex Hobcroft, Stuart Challender, Simon Tedeschi, Peter Platt, John Gordon, Michael Dyer, Warren Thomson, Richard Goldner, Nicholas Routley, Nigel Butterley, Graham Abbott and numerous others, 1916-2009 – Box 3 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc13.074 comprises a two page letter from Miriam Hyde to Florence Simpson written on the 4th November 1966, describing in detail how she wrote the piece The nest in the rose bush, published by Southern Music Publishers in the same year (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Patricia Riggs became a cadet journalist on the Macleay Argus at the age of thirty-five. She went on to win two Walkley awards for provincial journalism and eventually became editor of the newspaper. She was a fighter for Aboriginal advancement long before the cause was a popular one. After retiring as editor, she became a Shire Councillor in 1983, a position she held until 1991."
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    {
        "text": "20 minutes??Anne Stanton was born in Adelaide and educated at the St Peter’s Girls’ School. On leaving school she attended the Conservatorium of Music and then joined the School of social studies. Her first job was with the Probation Branch and then she became a senior social worker for the Crippled Children’s Association. As Vice President of the Muscular Dystrophy Association she did many country visits and in Legacy she helped set up holiday camps for children. She was involved with the National Trust, Friends of the Gallery, opera, theatre and the Lyceum Club. In 1978 she was awarded the Australian Medal for her work with crippled children. She enjoyed ebing presented to the Queen Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records in this series were created by the Honourable Justice?Elizabeth Evatt when she was Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia. Included in the series are files of her associates, and records of the Pearl Watson Foundation, which was set up in 1985 in memory of the murdered wife of a Family Court judge.??Approximately half of the series contains administrative files arranged alphabetically while half of the records are subject based. The administrative files include bound files of photocopied correspondence with the Attorney-General, records of parliamentary debates, copies of family law legislation, conference papers, minutes of committee meetings, journal articles, press releases ?and cuttings. Also included are booklets and leaflets on family?law issues, and copies of publications on legal issues designed?for high school students.??The records in the subject-based files concern the history of the Family Court and problems faced by it, papers of the Chief Judges’ Committee and the annual Family Law Judges’ Conference, annual reports of the Court and its counselling services, and papers analysing legislation and Family Court practice. Included are desk diaries of Justice Evatt and three judges’ notebooks containing handwritten notes of family hearings.??The records of the Pearl Watson Foundation contain details of the setting up, funding and projects of the foundation, one of which was the publication of “A Guide to Family Law”. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 sound tape reel (ca. 63 min.)??Dutton speaks of her interest in enamelling and studies pursued in this field ; she describes the qualities and difficulties encountered when working with this medium and speaks of enamelling as an art form. Dutton recalls her beginnings as a writer and provides us with biographical details on her childhood, student days and married life. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Microfilm copies of Registrar’s correspondence. The original correspondence was damaged by a damp substance, mould and was too fragile to handle.??According to Ada Mary a’Beckett’s entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography information relating to her can be found in these records. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Comprises case files, ca. 1858-1959; minute books, 1845-1851, 1858-1863, 1882-1892, 1899-1935, 1938-1945, and 1948-1954; annual reports, 1854/1855, 1858-1919, 1921/1922, 1931-1952, and 1954-1956; scrapbooks, 1923-1976; admissions book, ca. 1850-1986; journal and letter book, 1858-1861; official register of inmates, 1887-1975; reports on apprentices, 1913-1917; account book, ca. 1917-1955; wills and other legal documents; war medals; and printing blocks. Further material added in 2013 comprising General Committee minutes to 1987, Library Sub-Committee minutes 1986-1987, and the Ladies Sub-Committee minutes 1931-1962. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 October 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO37]??The National Council of the Australian Red Cross Society established a Finance Committee in 1915, initially comprised of one representative of each state and territory division and additional office-bearers from national headquarters.??This series complements series 2015.0028 (Minutes and Meeting Papers of the National Council). For the pre- World War Two period there is some duplication between the two series, and some Finance Committee minutes which are missing from this series may be found in 2015.0028.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 17 August 2015 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Scrapbooks containing news reports, letters, cards, insignia and nominal rolls covering both wars. Letters regarding the nursing service. Photograph album presented to Matron Hetherington by patients at Reinga, 1916. Certificate of service, diaries. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 14 February 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Women’s Information Centre was established by the Women’s Officer of the Students Union. It had a collection of articles, books and information on women’s issues. It catered for the Women’s Studies Students and others interested in feminist issues. The Centre was a rallying point when there was a threat to the Women’s Studies course. It changed it name to the Southern Women’s Resource Centre and issued a newsletter, Connections. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 18 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Carol Dance ran unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for election twice: New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bligh in 1991. House of Representatives for Kingsford Smith in 1990. Carol Dance was at Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre in the 1990s. She co authored a collection of seminar papers on dispute resolution for the NSW College of Law. Her campaign in Bligh in 1991 was marked by full page advertisements in the local paper, The Wentworth Courier, and strong support from the then premier, Nick Greiner. She has graduated with a B.A. (Drew) and MBA (AGSM). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 25 September 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "WILLIAMSTOWN, SA. 1944-11. DIRECTOR OF WAAAF, CLARE STEVENSON (MIDDLE), AND WARRANT OFFICER GWEN “STARKIE” STARK (OBSCURED) ON INSPECTION OF NO. 5 OPERATIONAL TRAINING UNIT, RAAF. ALSO PRESENT ARE CORPORAL CLAIRE WEBB (FAR LEFT), AIRCRAFTWOMAN JEAN CURRY (2ND FROM RIGHT) AND BERYL LISTER (FAR RIGHT). (DONOR: C. SCHOMBERG) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 27 February 2009 Last modified 27 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jenny Hammett stood as a candidate for the National Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Morwell at the Victorian state election, which was held on 30 November 2002. She stood again unsuccessfully at the November 2006 election in the Legislative Council region of Eastern Victoria Jenny Hammett holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of i-Gain Quality Learning which is located in the Latrobe region of Victoria. It provides educational and training services and oversees the Gippsland Community Leadership Program. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 5 August 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Naturalisation Certificate: Helen Waldsax. From Germany. Resident in London. Certificate DZ3064 issued 25 August 1945. Note(s): Re-admission. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Patsy Adam-Smith introduced many readers to Australian history. Of her many publications three in particular stand out: The Anzacs (1978), Australian Women at War (1984) and Prisoners of War (1992). On Australia Day 1994 Patricia Adam-Smith was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to community history, particularly through the preservation of national traditions and folklore and the recording of oral histories. She also received an Order of the British Empire – Officer (Civil) (OBE) in the Queens Birthday Honours list on 14 June 1980 for her services to literature. The daughter of railway workers, Patsy Adam-Smith was raised in a number of small Victorian country towns. She enlisted as a Voluntary Aid Detachment during the Second World War and was the first female to be articled as a radio officer when she worked on an Australian merchant ship from 1954-1960. In Hobart from 1960-1967 she was employed as an Adult Education Officer before taking the position of manuscripts field officer for the State Library of Victoria from 1970-1982. In 1978 her book The Anzacs shared The Age Book of the Year Award and was made into a 13 part TV series. In 1980 she was the recipient of an OBE for services to literature. Prisoners of War won the 1993 triennial Order of Australian Association Book Prize. In 1994 Adam-Smith was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for her outstanding services to community history. Her autobiography was published in two parts – Hear The Train Blow and Good-bye Girlie. For Good-bye Girlie Adam-Smith won the 1995 Benalla Award for Audio Book of the Year, and the 1995 TDK Australian Audio Book Awards, Unabridged Non-Fiction Category. Events 1983 - 2001 Committee Member of the Museum of Victoria 1976 - 2001 Member of the Board of Directors for the Royal Humane Society Australasia 1973 - 1973 Federal President of the Fellows Australian Writers, Victoria 1973 - 1973 State President of Australian Writers, Victoria 1970 - 1982 Manuscript Field Officer for the State Library of Victoria 1960 - 1967 Adult Education Officer in Hobart 1954 - 1960 Radio operator on an Australian merchant ship 1993 - 1993 Received Triennial Award from the OBE Association 2043 - 2044 Served with the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service 1994 - 1994 Awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia 1980 - 1980 Appointed Officer of the British Empire Published resources Newspaper Article Patricia Jean (Patsy) Adam-Smith, AO, OBE, Lahey, John, 2001 The Anzac legend's great storyteller dies at 77, Johnson, Lyall and Cameron, Deborah, 2001 Anzacs author led us through our history, Ricketson, Matthew, 2001 Storyteller brought Anzac legend alive, Stanley, Peter, 2001 Leading Tasmanian literary figure dies, Wood, Danielle, 2001 Weaver of dreams, teller of our tales, Ebury, Sue, 2001 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2001, Herd, Margaret, 2000 Article Penguin Books Author Profile: Patsy Adam-Smith, 2001, http://www.penguin.com.au Patsy Adam-Smith AO OBE, 2001, http://www.saxton.com.au/speakers Adam-Smith, Patsy, (1926-, 2001, http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ Book Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, Adam-Smith, Patsy (collected and edited), 1969 Hobart Sketchbook, Adam-Smith, Patsy (text), Angus, Max (drawings), 1968 No Tribesman, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1971 Romance of Australian Railways, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1973 The Desert Railway, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1974 Neon Signs to the Mutes: Poetry by Young Australians, Adam-Smith, Patsy; Dugan, Michael and Hamilton, J S (edited by), 1976 Footloose in Australia, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1977 Historic Tasmania Sketchbook, Adam-Smith, Patsy and Woodberry, Joan (text); Angus, Max; Mather, Frank and Phillips, Arthur (drawings), 1977 Trader to the Islanders [There was a Ship], Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1977 The ANZACS, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1978 Islands of Bass Strait, Adam-Smith, Patsy (text); Powell, John (photographs) Victorian and Edwardian Melbourne from old photographs, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1979 Outback Heroes, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1981 The Shearers, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1982 When We Rode the Rails, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1983 Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Heart of Exile: Ireland, 1848, and the Seven Patriots Banished…, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1986 Australia: Beyond the Dreamtime, Keneally, Thomas; Adam-Smith, Patsy and Davidson, Robyn, 1987 Prisoners of War, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1992 Trains of Australia: All Aboard, Adam-Smith, Patsy, c1993 Goodbye Girlie, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1994 Patsy Adam Smith's Romance of Australian Railways, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1974 Moonbird People, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1965 Hear the Train Blow: An Australian Childhood, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1964 Across Australia by Indian-Pacific, Adam-Smith, Patsy, c1971 Port Arthur Sketchbook, Adam-Smith (text); Phillips, Arthur (drawing), 1971 Re-discovering Tasmania: The North-West Coast, Beckett, Pat and Piet Maree; Harris, Ian (ed.), 1955 There was a Ship, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1967 The Barcoo Salute, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1973 Tasmania Sketchbook, Adam-Smith, Patsy (text); Angus, Max (drawings), 1982 Launceston Sketchbook, Adam-Smith, Patsy (text); Phillips, Arthur (drawings), 1973 Tiger Country, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1968 The Rails Go Westward, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1969 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Resource Section BECKETT, PATRICIA JEAN, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=526213 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource, 2002, http://www.austlit.edu.au/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Patsy Adam-Smith interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office BECKETT, Patricia Jean [nee Smith] VFX124737 [6 pages] Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Interview with Patsy Adam-Smith (When the war came to Australia) State Library of Victoria Christmas letters, 1974-1995, [manuscript] / Patsy Adam-Smith Papers, 1993-1994 [manuscript] Papers of Patsy Adam-Smith, [not after 2000] [manuscript]. National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Patsy Adam-Smith, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] [Biographical cuttings on Patsy Adam-Smith, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Literary papers 1969-1981 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 September 2001 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Contents include minutes [1929-1968], annual reports, financial records, newscuttings and miscellaneous papers, correspondence and subject files on topics such as the Child Welfare Act and divorce laws. Author Details Jane Carey Created 5 September 2000 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 35 min.)??Ebsary speaks of her farming background, her current farm, the importance of diversification, her farm duties, raising an autistic child, hopes for the future, and the importance of the Rural Women of the Year award. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1895 Augusta Zadow was appointed the first female Factory Inspector in South Australia. Zadow was the daughter of Johann Georg Hofmeyer and Elizabetha Hemming. After finishing her education at the Ladies Seminar, Biebrich-on-Rhine, Augustine became a governess and ladies companion. She travelled through Germany, France, Russia and finally England, where she settled in 1868. In London she worked as a tailoress (or seamstress) and helped to reform the conditions for female clothing workers. She married Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Zadow in 1871 and together with their three-year-old son, John, the couple travelled as assisted migrants to South Australia six years later, in 1877. There they both became active trade unionists. Known as Augusta (having anglicised her name while in England), Zadow worked in a boot factory and helped to establish the Working Women’s Trade Union, becoming its foundation treasurer in 1890. She was a delegate to the United Trades and Labor Council as well as an active suffragist. In 1893 she established and managed the Distressed Women and Children’s Fund (later the Co-operative White Workers’ Association). Augusta Zadow was appointed an Inspector of Factories in February 1895. The following year she contracted influenza and on July 7, 1896, died of haematemesis in Adelaide. She was buried in the West Terrace cemetery. Published resources Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Resource Section Zadow, Christiane Susanne Augustine (1846-1896), Jones, Helen, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120677b.htm Augusta Zadow, http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/women_and_politics/sa1.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 April 2002 Last modified 24 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A life-time activist for Peace, Barbara (Babs) Fuller-Quinn has been a political and local government figure of distinction: She was elected to the Waverley Council as Alderman from 1977-83 and stood as an ALP candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Vaucluse in 1976 and 1978. Barbara Fuller-Quinn passed away in May 2020. When she died her family asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Aboriginal Medical Service Redfern. Babs Fuller-Quinn was educated at St Catherine’s and Kambala Schools. She married, Leo Fuller-Quinn, an advertising executive, and they have 4 children. Elected to Waverley Council in 1977, she was Chairman of the Works Committee. She remains a regular attendee at her local precinct committee. She was also active in the local area, being President of Waverley Action Youth Services, and a member of the Waverley Creative Leisure and Hobbies Centre. She was a member of the Advisory Board of the Centennial Park Trust from 1980. She was appointed Consumer representative, Builders’ Licensing Board c.1980 – 1986. Babs Fuller-Quinn joined the ALP in 1973 and was an office holder at branch, state and federal electorate council levels, as well as being a delegate to the Labor Women’s Conference. Barbara is best known for her service to the Peace movement, serving in various executive positions in the Sydney Peace Committee, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. With others, she was instrumental in establishing the Sydney Peace and Justice Coalition, which grew out of the Walk against the War Coalition in 2002. She has also contributed extensively to the movement for Reconciliation, and is Secretary of the Eastern Suburbs Organisation for Reconciling Australia (ESORA) and on the New South Wales Council of Reconciliation Australia. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 4 August 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Roxy Byrne was born in South Australia in 1912 and attended school in Adelaide. From 1922 to 1929 she attended the Methodist Ladies College (now Annesley College) where she developed her love of the theatre, as well as her skill in hockey. An excellent student (she was dux of the school in her final year) she went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts at Adelaide University in 1933, majoring in Botany and French. After graduation she joined the Adelaide Repertory Theatre, becoming a leading actress who played a variety of outstanding roles for a period of 40 years. She was active in a number of women’s organisations, including the Lyceum Club of Adelaide. She married Dr. Dudley Byrne in 1940 and had three children. 1912. b. Roxy Sims. (Her father, Dr. Roy Sims, was the first government dentist.) 1922 – 1929 – attended Methodist Ladies College (now Annesley College) and had a brilliant school career culminating as Head Prefect, Dux of the School and Captain of Hockey. 1930 – 1933 – attended the University of Adelaide, graduating with a Batchelor of Arts Degree and majoring in Botany and French. Won the Bagot Medal as the Botany Prize. Prominent as Secretary of the Adelaide University Theatre Guild and also Captain of Hockey. Played hockey for South Australia on multiple occasions and also for the All Australian Universities women’s hockey team against the English International side. 1936 – played a key role in a pageant play in called “Heritage” to mark the South Australian Centenary. 1951 – member of the cast of the Lillian Hellman play “The Little Foxes” with which the Adelaide Repertory Theatre won the Australian Commonwealth Championships in Hobart. President and then Vice President for many years of the South Australian Women’s Hockey Association. President of the MLC Old Scholars Association and served on the School Council. Seal Holder and a leading member of the Lyceum Club of Adelaide. President of the Women Graduates Association University of Adelaide and was a great supporter of St. Anne’s college. Active member of Subscribers Committee of the South Australian Symphony Orchestra. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Recording of reminiscences at Lyceum Club's 70th Anniversary Dinner [sound recording] Interview with Roxy Byrne [sound recording] Interviewer: Yvonne Abbott Interview with Roxy Byrne [sound recording] Interviewer: Kerrie Round Author Details Anne Heywood, Robin Secomb and Nikki Henningham Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 13 April 2007 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "14 sound files (approximately 891 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 August 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement Archive was established in 1984 by a concerned group of women who wanted to preserve the history of what was called the second wave of feminism. With the aid of the Community Employment Program and the feminist community memorabilia was collected along with the papers of a variety of groups and individuals. The material was collected from late 1969 through to 2008. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Champion marathon swimmer Susie Maroney set six world records in her eighteen year career. She was awarded the OAM and is an Australia Day Ambassador. Susie Maroney began competing in swimming carnivals at the age of seven. A successful endurance swimmer, she came second in the first Australian marathon (16 km) at the age of fourteen. At fifteen, she became the youngest person and fastest Australian to swim the English Channel. Two years later she was the fastest person to complete a return swim across the Channel. She won the Manhattan Island swim race three times: in 1991, 1992 and 1994. In 1993, the Maroneys became the first family to swim the English Channel. The relay included Pauline (50), Mike (26), Karen (24), Lindy (22), Susie and Sean (18). In May 1997, at the age of twenty-two, Maroney completed a 180 km swim from Cuba to Florida, the first person to do so. The following year she swam a record 197 km from Mexico to Cuba, the longest distance ever swum without flippers in the open sea, in 38 hours and 33 minutes. In Havana she dined with President Fidel Castro, who applauded her achievement. Maroney made the Guinness Book of Records for the longest distance swum in 24 hours (93.6 km) and was twice inducted into the International Hall of Swimming Fame. Twin brother Sean, a triathlete who often accompanied his sister on her marathon swims, died in 2002 and Maroney retired from swimming the following year. Published resources Book Susie: a mother's story, Maroney, Pauline, 2005 Resource Section Susie Maroney hangs up swimming costume, Nolan, Tanya, 2003, http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday Ministerial Statement: Marathon Swimmer Susie Maroney, Harrison, The Hon Gabrielle, Minister for Sport and Recreation, and Downy, Mr Christopher, 1997, http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/PARLMENT Ministerial Statement: Marathon Swimmer Susie Maroney, Harrison, The Hon Gabrielle, Minister for Sport and Recreation, 1998, http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/PARLMENT Article Marathon girl swims to Cuba, 1999, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas Dangerous swim for world record breaker, 1998, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 January 2007 Last modified 16 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Victorian Women’s Trust (VWT) was established in 1985 with a gift from the state government to the women of Victoria, in acknowledgement of their contribution to Victoria’s history and achievements. Now independent of government, it operates as both a philanthropic organisation and lobby group that champions the rights and entitlements of women. As part of Victoria’s 150th anniversary celebrations in 1982, $1 million was allocated to Victorian women in recognition of their contribution to the State. Though the Victorian Premier, the Hon. John Cain, announced that the money would be used for a women’s centre in the city of Melbourne, it soon became apparent that funds would not stretch to cover the purchase and upkeep of a city building and plans were abandoned in favour of a women’s trust fund. A specially appointed Implementation Committee fought hard to ensure that the Trust would be administered by an all-female board. They received strong support from the Hon. Joan Kirner and other female Labor caucus members. The establishment of the Victorian Women’s Trust in 1985 represented a departure from the traditional philanthropic foundation in several important ways: the Trust was government-funded, it was run by and for women, and none of the women involved in its establishment were wealthy benefactors. The original trustees of the VWT were the Hon. Mrs. Justice Peg Lusink, Heather O’Connor, Joan Baird, Jenny Florence, Fran Kelly, Jenny McGuirk, Loula Roudopoulos and Jean Tom. Early projects supported by the VWT focused particularly on assisting Victorian women to attain economic independence, but they also included inventive schemes such as the Women’s Garage at Ceres, equipping women with mechanical skills, or Oozzing Juices, a women’s drama group that performed in metropolitan housing estates and regional community venues. The emphasis on community involvement was strong from the outset. By August 1998, the VWT was launching its Purple Sage Project with the aim of gathering community groups for discussion around the politics of the day. At a time when companies were downsizing and the free market philosophy was dominating, the project offered a much-needed opportunity for communities to speak out about their concerns. 600 group leaders were appointed around Victoria, and findings were presented to the government. In recent years, the Trust launched another large-scale project of vital importance with Watermark, encouraging community discussion to raise awareness about Australia’s dangerous water shortage. With the Stegley Foundation and the Reichstein Foundation, the VWT founded a Women’s Donor Network in Melbourne. By the mid-1990s, this network had become Women in Philanthropy (WIP), an advocacy and discussion group with the aim of directing philanthropic funds toward women and girls. In recent years, WIP has been revived once more as the Women Donors Network under the direction of Eve Mahlab. The VWT operates multiple projects, dispensing something in the order of $100,000 annually. It relies upon philanthropic support from Victorian women. Recent programs include a Women’s Circus Workshop for women with histories of physical, sexual and emotional abuse; the Purple Room Support Service, offering mentoring and employment advice for young people who have completed custodial sentences; and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, sponsoring a women’s human rights worker to undertake legal casework for asylum seeker women. Published resources Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Book Creative Philanthropy: Toward a New Philanthropy for the Twenty-First Century, Anheier, Helmut K. and Diana Leat, 2006 Catalogue Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives, Victorian Women's Trust, 2001 Report Our Water Mark: Australians Making a Difference in Water Reform, Victorian Women's Trust, 2007 The Purple Sage Project, Victorian Women's Trust, 2000 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records, 1975-2001 [manuscript]. Author Details Anne Heywood and Barbara Lemon Created 3 October 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Papers in relation to original work on Caroline Chisholm and typescript of ‘Men of yesterday, academic life, tutorial notes, school broadcasts, etc. Papers included are related to ‘Moonbeam stairs’, ‘Defoe and his England’ (thesis), ‘The work of Caroline Chisholm’ as a bound vol. (MA thesis) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 December 2017 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassettes (ca. 13 min.)??Williams, a dairy hand and agriculturalist, speaks of growing up in Warrnambool, Vic., her dairy farming background, her qualifications and experience in agriculture, marrying a stockman and starting a family, her current involvement in a Dept. of Agriculture dairy farm management and lifeskills project (partly an extension of the Target Ten Project pasture management courses), her use of leadership skills training, her interest in travelling and meeting?Recorded in 1995. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "5 hours 45 minutes (approx.)??A series of recordings of Joyce Steele, the first South Australian woman Member of the House of Assembly. OH 368/1 is an informal interview recorded over five sessions in late 1990 and early 1991 by Meg Denton who had met Mrs Steele while researching the career of dance teacher Joanna Priest. Ms Denton agreed to help Mrs Steele record some of her reminiscences, and the interview ranges widely over her childhood and early work experiences in Western Australia (including anecdotes about an employer, woman orthopaedic surgeon Dr Radcliffe-Taylor), family history and experiences in politics. OH 368/2 is a recording of the speech made by Lance Milne at Mrs Steele’s eightieth birthday party in 1989. Her son Christopher Steele hosts the proceedings at which Mrs Steele speaks briefly. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 25 February 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Files of articles, newsclippings, leaflets and campaign material on women’s refuges and housing, Women against Rape Collective, women’s studies courses (establishment of), women’s health. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "In 1973, the first national conference on Sexism in Education was convened by the Women’s Liberation Movement, fuelled by concern for the position of women and girls in society and Women’s Studies courses were established at Flinders and Adelaide Universities. Teachers and Students quickly became aware of a shortage of materials in this area and a group of women educators began meeting in 1974 to redress this. In July 1975 the Women’s Studies Resource Centre was established at Wattle Park Teachers College funded by a grant from the Australian National Advisory Committee for International Women’s Year. After moving several times the WSRC relocated to its present address in the suburb of North Adelaide. The WSRC’s primary function is to provide resources that counter sexist assumptions in society while also providing non-sexist women’s studies, gender studies and feminist materials. The collection contains over 18000 items including fiction, non-fiction, videos, DVDs, CDs, cassettes, posters, journals and teaching kits. It also holds extensive records concerning many key women’s groups and organizations such as the Women’s Art Movement, Women’s Liberation Movement, Women’s Electoral Lobby, Rape Crisis Centre, and the St Peters and Hindmarsh Women’s Community Health Centres. There are also a number of items from specific issue groups such as Women Against Nuclear Energy, Association of Country and City Women Writers, Women’s Abortion Action Campaign, and Women’s Action Against Global Violence. These records take the form of minutes, financial records, submissions, articles, photographs, posters, pamphlets, constitutions, newsletters and more. Many significant activists are also represented such as Anna Yeatman, Anne Summers, and Jill Matthews. These records are mainly housed in filing cabinets and not all have been itemised. Additionally the collection contains many sensitive papers and so access and publishing permission must be sought. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Women's studies conference to be national event, 1985 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women's Studies Workshop, 1979-1981 : SUMMARY RECORD [sound recording] Sylvia Kinder : SUMMARY RECORD University of Sydney, Archives S94 Women's Studies Conference Committee Author Details Robin Secomb and Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 11 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "New Guinea. 28 November 1943. Winners of the nurses and Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS) championships chat together after their victories. Left to right: Private (Pte) Vivien Stranger of St Kilda, Vic, breast-stroke; Major Joan Christie of Dubbo, NSW, freestyle; Pte Marie Kimber of Mascot, NSW, backstroke. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joan Kellett’s community activism focused on the education and welfare of children in the ACT. In 1977 she established one of Australia’s first after-school programs and a home for the Australian Early Childhood Association in the Majura Primary School, Watson. She served as Chair of the school board at North Ainslie Primary School and on the boards of Lyneham High School and Dickson College. For 30 years from 1984, she was an executive member of the ACT Council of Parents and Citizens Associations. Her dedication to the sport of swimming as an administrator and official, and her contribution to the Canberra community, was recognised by the award of the Order of Australia Medal in 2003. Joan Kellet was inscribed on the ACT Honour Walk in 2018. “Joan Mary Kellett was born in Brisbane on 2 May 1929, the eldest daughter of Gertrude and Alec Bell. She lived with her family above their pharmacy in Logan Road, Greenslopes and attended the local public primary school. She completed her secondary education at All Hallows Catholic school in Brisbane before studying science at the University of Queensland. She worked as a pathology biochemist at the Mater Hospital, Brisbane, and at Lewisham Hospital, Sydney, before marrying Harry Kellett in 1957. Following Harry’s appointment to the plumbing department of Canberra TAFE, the couple moved to Canberra with their young son in 1960, settled into their lifelong home in Dumaresq St, Dickson, and subsequently had three daughters. Joan devoted the rest of her life to promoting the education and welfare of children in the ACT. Joan’s commitment to high quality public education and effective school management began in 1977, when she established one of Australia’s first after-school programs and a home for the Australian Early Childhood Association in the Majura Primary School, Watson. As resources officer she maintained a library on education strategies and policy. She served as Chair of the school board at North Ainslie Primary School and joined the boards of Lyneham High School and Dickson College. For 30 years from 1984, she was an executive member of the ACT Council of Parents and Citizens Associations and was awarded life membership of that body in 2003. In this role she formulated policy, prepared submissions and represented the Council’s views on several government advisory committees. From 1984-89 she was the Council’s elected nominee on the ACT Schools Authority (later the ACT Education Council), and took on the Teachers’ Union to ensure that parents’ representatives had a say in the appointment of school principals. She was a founding member of the Education Council’s Disability Working Group and for 12 years the Council’s delegate member of the Turner School Board, and for a time its Chair, retiring in 2015. Believing that drowning was one of the principal causes of children’s death, Joan was determined that all ACT children should be water-safe by the time they finished primary school. In 1967, the Kellett family joined the Dickson Swimming Club, with both Joan and Harry taking leadership roles in its administration and volunteering in coaching and officiating duties. Joan initiated a free Learn-to-Swim program at the pool and changed the focus of the Dickson swimming club from competitive swimming to be a more inclusive community-based body. Over the next 50 years Joan promoted the sport through leadership in several peak swimming organisations. From 1981 to 1985 she was an office bearer in the ACT Swimming Council, President of the Capital Territory Amateur Swimming Association (later Swimming ACT) in 1985, and its Secretary until 2004. In this role Joan had input into the construction of a number of public facilities, including the learners’ pool at Dickson. Noticing how few women were involved in sports administration, she became involved in the Women in Sport Committee for many years. As member of the Minister’s Advisory Committee for Sports and Recreation, and its Chair for three years, she lobbied for the construction of pools in Tuggeranong and Belconnen and was instrumental in the development of Swimming ACT’s program for people with disabilities. An accredited race official, she officiated at events from local club competitions and school carnivals to Special Olympic meets and country, state and national swimming championships, clocking up more hours officiating at swimming events than any other person in the ACT. A volunteer at the Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2000, she headed the swimming working party for the 2008 Pacific School Games. Her dedication to the sport of swimming as an administrator and official, and her contribution to the Canberra community, was recognised by the award of the Order of Australia Medal in 2003. In 2010 she received Life Membership of Dickson Swimming Club and was named Volunteer of the Year. In 2011 she was awarded the title of ACT Sportstar of the Year and given Associate Membership of the ACT Sport Hall of Fame. Joan also volunteered for 20 years with the Girl Guides as a Brownie unit leader and later Division Commissioner, served on the Board of the YMCA from 2002 to 2016 and volunteered with the social program run by Alzheimer’s Australia from 2006 to 2016. Joan stood unsuccessfully for the first ACT Government election in 1989 on the Residents Rally ticket. Before the election she had collaborated with the Rally’s founder, Michael Moore, in developing the Party’s philosophy relating to the balance of power. She was particularly influential in preventing cuts to the education budget and was, Moore observed, ‘a somewhat understated but powerful influence’ on Canberra’s politics. Her belief in the importance of community input to planning and development inspired her to chair the North Canberra Community Council in 1994-95 and 2004, and to become a member of the Majura Local Area Planning Advisory Committee. She attended hearings in the ACT Assembly and represented the Council in a variety of fora. In 2010 she helped form the Dickson Residents Group and remained a member for the rest of her life, working to maintain a balance between development and the preservation of the character and amenity of the neighbourhood. She valued Canberra’s heritage, serving as a committee member of the Friends of the Albert Hall for several years. She appreciated the cultural institutions of Canberra, holding long time memberships of the Friends of the National Library and the National Gallery of Australia. An unassuming woman with exceptional skills as a listener, her empathetic nature made her an effective and influential agent in her various spheres of action and earned her many friends. ‘I just see myself as someone who sees things to be done and thinks how I can do them’, she once observed. She died in Canberra on 20 June 2017, leaving four children and nine grandchildren. About 350 mourners attended her memorial service. Her name was inscribed on the ACT Honour Walk in 2018.” Published resources ACT Government website, https://www.communityservices.act.gov.au/women/awards/act-womens-honour-roll/2011/joan-kellett-oam Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 27 June 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Essay entitled: The circle of learning, or, The growth of encyclopaedic knowledge, with special reference to encyclopaedic attitudes to the arts and sciences. Used by Marjorie Tipping to support her application for membership of the National Library Council. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The ACFC collection now comprises 13 series:??HT 8466 Archive – ACFC Series 1, Card Files: Verbal Lore & Games, 1970-2004??HT 8467 Archive – ACFC Series 2, Folklore for Children (Multicultural), 1976-1987??HT 8468 Archive – ACFC Series 3, Dorothy Howard Collection??HT 8469 Archive – ACFC Series 4, Debney Meadows Primary School, Flemington, 1984??HT 8470 Archive – ACFC Series 5, Student Fieldwork & Essays, 1970-1999??HT 8471 Archive – ACFC Series 6, Children’s Folklore: General??HT 8472 Archive – ACFC Series 7, Collecting, Archiving & Studying Children’s Folklore??HT 8473 Archive – ACFC Series 8, ‘You’re IT!’ Collection??HT 8474 Archive – ACFC Series 10, World Play Summit??HT 8475 Archive – ACFC Series 11, Regional Collections of Games & Rhymes??HT 8476 Archive – ACFC Series 12, Exhibiting Children’s Folklore??HT 8477 Archive – ACFC Series 13, Aboriginal Children’s Play Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Alexandra Cameron was a music teacher, music educator, administrator and founder of a number of music performance programs in Victoria. As the first Inspector of Music in Victoria and through her publications, she influenced and shaped Victorian music education in the second half of the twentieth century. Alexandra Cameron was born on 8 February 1910 in Allora Queensland, the eldest of two daughters of Mary Cluitt and her husband John Kenneth Cameron, a policeman. The family moved to the nearby town of Warwick where her father was promoted to a Sergeant and in 1922 Alexandra was sent to Southport to attend St Hilda’s Church of England Grammar School. Cameron was a product of both examination and academic music training. Although she had no formal musical training prior to attending school, by the age of sixteen she had completed her ATCL (Associate Diploma from Trinity College, London), and the following year had passed the LTCL (the Licentiate of Trinity College London), the qualification which enabled her to teach music. After an initial career as a music teacher at Faith’s Church of England Grammar School, in Yeppoon, she turned her attention to academic music training (Brisbane Courier, 9 February 1929, p.25). She enrolled in Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music to undertake a bachelor’s in music performance, whilst teaching at Woodland’s Church of England School. With the outbreak of war, she enlisted in the Voluntary Aid Detachment, joining the AIF, where she was posted first to Alice Springs, followed by Katherine and Berrimah in the Northern Territory. A tiny woman, in order to see over the steering wheel, she required a box on her seat (Dumont). With the cessation of hostilities, she was seconded for a time as a rehabilitation officer for the returning troops based both in Lae, New Guinea and in Melbourne. Returning to University on a war service scheme, she supported herself through teaching at private schools, while she enrolled in the Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne, completing her degree, before undertaking Post Graduate studies with Harold Craxton at the Royal Academy of Music in London (Comte). She was awarded a Diploma of Education in 1953, after which she travelled to Europe to observe music education practices. Returning to Australia she taught in a number of Melbourne high schools. In 1956 she resumed her studies at the University of Melbourne undertaking a Bachelor of Education, whilst lecturing in the Faculty of Education. Balancing classroom teaching with academia, she remained a part-time lecturer in music method at the University of Melbourne in 1963-1964, and in 1965-1966 she taught Choral classes at the Conservatorium. Throughout her working life she was also involved with a number of professional associations, including: the Victorian School Music Association (1954-1964), the Victorian Music Teachers Association (1963-1967), the music representative to the Victorian Universities and Schools Examination Board 1965-, Chairperson of the Music Advisory Committee for Secondary Schools 1966-, Chairperson of the Secondary Schools Concert and Music Library Committee 1967-, Committee Member of the Australian Society for Music Educators (Victorian Chapter) 1968. Returning to the University of Melbourne, in 1970 she completed a master’s degree in education, wining the Harold Cohen Graduate Prize for Research. This passion for music education led to Alexandra Cameron writing and publishing on both the theoretical and practical applications of music in Music Appreciation for Australian Schools (1958), and Singing Together (1965) and The class teaching of music in secondary schools, Victoria, 1905-1955: an investigation into the major influences affecting the development of music as a class subject in Victorian secondary schools (1969). Her appointment as Inspector of Music in 1966 allowed her to initiate several innovations she had developed through her career and observed in her travels. Particularly important was the teaching of orchestral instruments. In an effort to improve music literacy, in 1967 the State Government introduced free instrumental tuition into government schools throughout Victoria. A number of Victorian schools, including University High and Blackburn High, were selected to develop significant music education programs, a program which was expanded by her successor Bruce Worland to include Melbourne High and MacRoberston’s Girls High School amongst others. Cameron was also a driving force in the establishment of the Victorian String Music Library, seconding its inaugural librarian Margaret McCarthy to the role. Supported by teachers, who at first Cameron convinced to volunteer their time, talented music students were encouraged and supported in developing their musical abilities through extra tuition and performance experience, initially at a program she established on Saturdays at University High School. Subsequently Cameron convinced the Education Department to pay her and the teachers as Emergency Teachers, an arrangement which continued until 1979. This resulted in the founding of the Secondary School Concert Committee and the Secondary Schools Orchestra in 1970, eventually becoming known as the Melbourne Youth Orchestra in 1971. This group of talented students rehearsed and performed across Victoria, as well as participating in international tours to England, Japan, Germany, Austria, Italy and France. These tours not only provided performing opportunities for the students but included opportunities for them to attend concerts by a range of international performers and orchestras, exposing the students to some of the most influential musicians and orchestras of their day. The tours also included music workshops with international orchestras and musicians. The impetus, organisation and at times funds for these ventures, came from the enormous strength and belief in social justice of Alexandra Cameron (Dumont). With Bruce Worland as conductor of the Orchestra, the group developed thirteen ensembles, including in 1972 the Melbourne Holiday Music Camp and throughout the 1970s the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, the Percy Grainger Strings, the Melbourne Youth Symphonic Band. The Melbourne Youth Choir, the Margaret Sutherland Strings, the John Antill Band and the Junior String School, engaging up to 600 music students (Comte, Worland). Although Alexandra Cameron ‘retired’ at 60, she continued to teach and act as honorary administrator of the Saturday Music School and Orchestra, later forming the Chamber Strings of Melbourne (Comte, Worland). Publishing several books on music education as well as a song book in the 1950s and 1960s, her final book A Story Culled from Happy Memories: Thirty Years of Music Making: May 1980-May 2010: the Chamber Strings of Melbourne, was published when she was over 100. In 1979, Alexandra Cameron was awarded an MBE for her service to music education and administration, and in 1996 she was awarded RMIT’s first Doctorate of Education Honoris Causa. For her 100th birthday, Alexandra Cameron arranged a concert at the Melbourne Town Hall to celebrate the Chamber Strings 30th anniversary and her final retirement. She left a bequest to the University of Melbourne to establish a scholarship for string or music education students to pursue further studies. Events 1979 - 1979 Author Details Sue Silberberg with Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 28 October 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Previous control number : 876-18-B1 to B7?Envelope contains 7 black and white 120 mm negatives Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "4 digital audio tapes (ca. 260 min.??RoadKnight speaks of her current projects such as teaching for Musica Viva, producing a programme called Out of Africa relating to the spread of African music, producing an ABC programme on gospel music, her experiences in performing, how her musical tastes developed while still at school, the folk music scene in Melbourne in 1962, the politics of the folk scene, her first regular gig at the Reata while working in the public service, coffee lounges in the 1960s and the other competition, the folk scene in Sydney, putting on her own concert and recording an album which won awards, singing with Frank Traynor’s band and Bentley’s Boogie Band, an Australia Council music study grant to visit the United States in 1974, her trip to China including an invitation to the Peking Conservatorium, her trip to a festival in Tonga as well as visit to South Korea, her interest in African music, her recording career and public exposure, her role as a singer in Australian society and the relevance of songs. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 12 January 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Photographs and other material. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "87/048?RURAL WOMENS NETWORK??Items in the series number VPRS 11790?With consignment number P0001?Unit Number 352 Author Details Janet Butler Created 20 January 2010 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "TBWL project team Created 29 June 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Berlin, Germany. June 1946. Members of the Australian Victory Contingent on a visit to Berlin, watching fellow members of the contingent putting a digger’s hat on one of the statues (not in view) around Frederick the Great’s tea-house in the gardens of ‘San Souci’ Palace, Potsdam. Included in the pictured are, left to right: Warrant Officer E. Maher, RAAF; Major Joan L. Christie, Australian Army Medical Women’s Service, and Squadron Officer Doris Carter, Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (formerly Australian Women’s High Jump Champion). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Descriptions of Marjorie Tipping’s life and achievements as well as programme pamphlets for Victorian Historical Conferences, a pamphlet about La Trobe Library, an issue of Victorian Historical Magazine (diamond jubilee issue), a letter of recommendation from Professor Joseph Burke, programme of the 1959 Australiana Festival. Centenary programme of the National Gallery of Victoria 1861-1961, Meanjin Quarterly Index 1940-1965 (compiled by Mrs Tipping) and Textile Treasures of the National Gallery edited and produced by Mrs Tipping. Also an obituary notice for her husband. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Described in obituaries as ‘a ruthless battler, hard to beat’, and ‘a fiery champion of the battlers’, Ethel McGuire was a founding member of the Australian Association of Social Workers. She married in 1953 requiring her to resign from her permanent position in the Commonwealth public service, but she returned as a full-time temporary officer by the early 1960s, eventually becoming Assistant Director of the Welfare Branch in the Department of the Interior. Ethel was the driving force in the establishment of social welfare services in Canberra and in 1963 was instrumental in the creation of the ACT Council of Social Service. She played key roles in numerous Catholic voluntary and professional activities including marriage guidance, adoption, the development of the Marymead Child and Family Centre and the formation of Catholic Social Services in Canberra. She was renowned for her formidable advocacy for people, especially children, in need. Ethel Clarice McGuire was inscribed on the ACT Honour Walk in 2020. Ethel Clarice Cannon was born on 1 June 1923, the eldest surviving child of Thomas and Jane Cannon of Sunshine, Melbourne. A devoted Catholic all her life, Ethel’s family background was a potent mix of Irish Catholic working class and Scots Presbyterian, and she grew up in an environment of heated discussions around the dining table about politics, religion, trade unions, the public service, and family matters. These laid the basis not only for her steadfast determination to help children in need, in particular, but also for her formidable debating and advocacy skills later on. Her father died when Ethel was 11 and she helped her mother to raise her younger siblings, taking on part-time jobs to help the family finances. She won scholarships to secondary school and the University of Melbourne where she pursued a BA degree and studies in social science while also caring for homeless women through the Legion of Mary. Ethel graduated with a BA from the University of Melbourne in 1946 and became a founding member of the Australian Association of Social Workers. She worked for the Department of Social Security in Hobart, Melbourne and Perth where she met fellow public servant Kevin McGuire and married him in 1953. The McGuires moved to Canberra in 1955 where Kevin continued his public service career. They had five children – Thomas, Peter, Dermot, Justin and Jane. Canberra grew rapidly after World War 2 as public service departments were moved to the capital. The growing population was young: throughout 1950-1975, almost 40% of the population was under 21. Few people had an extended family nearby to help with burdens or crises, and social networks were insufficient to compensate for that lack. There were very few professional social workers in Canberra, and most of them were married women who were unable to pursue their careers full-time because of the near-ubiquitous ‘marriage bar’. Government-funded child welfare in the ACT was originally handled by the NSW Child Welfare Department from its offices in Cooma and later in Queanbeyan. Their staff visited Canberra and supported a number of families who made their homes available for fostering and short term placement as family crises emerged. Similarly, church-based social services in the ACT were typically managed by their larger NSW service systems – e.g. the NSW Catholic Adoption Agency handled adoptions for the ACT archdiocese. These arrangements became unworkable as Canberra grew, and in 1968 the Commonwealth government enacted a Child Welfare Ordinance for the ACT, funded through and administered by the Department of the Interior. The ACT then withdrew from the NSW system. The widespread ‘marriage bar’ had required Ethel to resign from her permanent job but in no way stopped Ethel from continuing her involvement in social welfare matters when she arrived in Canberra, first as a volunteer and, by the early 1960s, as a full time temporary officer in the Welfare Branch of the Department of the Interior. After the marriage bar was removed in 1966, Ethel regained tenure as a permanent officer, ultimately becoming Assistant Director of Welfare until her retirement in 1989. Ethel’s 40-year career coincided with significant shifts in philosophies and practices in social welfare practice. In the 1960s, for example, she was involved in the adoption programs of both government and the Catholic church, but by the 1980s she was helping change the law to make it possible for children and their birth mothers to obtain information about each other. As the senior social worker and then Director of Welfare, Ethel had a particular interest in child welfare. Through much of her career, the policy of removing children at risk from their parents or their environment, typically placing them in institutions or foster care, was widespread and taken for granted. Ethel insisted that the ACT try to ensure that children of Indigenous background were adopted or fostered by other Indigenous families. Later in her career, as the awful consequences for many children of being removed and placed in situations of abuse and fear became much clearer, Ethel was an adviser to the Catholic church and various religious organisations in trying to help and compensate people who had suffered in such places. When Ethel arrived in Canberra in 1955, she found a very small number of other professional social workers, most of them married women who could not work full-time and so volunteered in various organisations (e.g. Ethel herself was secretary of the Catholic Marriage Guidance Council). She brought them together as the ACT Social Workers Group to encourage and support the growing number of social welfare and non-for-profit organisations that were serving the Canberra community. Under Ethel’s leadership, the Group obtained a grant of 10 pounds from the local chapter of the National Council of Women to help establish an ACT Council of Social Service (COSS) as a coordinating mechanism to lead local service development, promote positive social change, be part of policy debates and contribute to the national network of Councils of Social Service. At the inaugural meeting of the ACT COSS on 30 July 1963, Ethel was appointed the Honorary Secretary of the Executive Committee. Twenty-nine agencies became members. Ten years later that had grown to 74 agencies and 34 individual members; by 2000 it had risen to some 130 agencies. The COSS was run on a shoestring in the 1960s, relying entirely on volunteers (the first paid staff member was appointed in 1972). Ethel was its driving force from the outset, and through the COSS she was able to influence almost every aspect of policy and practice in social welfare in the ACT over the next 25 years. Importantly, she ensured a significant, if hidden, subsidy from the relevant Commonwealth departments which gave their staff flexibility in volunteering their time to the COSS and its activities. As it grew, the COSS, with Ethel’s close involvement, addressed issues ranging from initiation of mental health services, public housing and child poverty, to needs of the elderly, day care services, and services for children and families in crisis. Ethel also played a key role in the formation of Catholic social services in the ACT, as the powerful NSW Catholic Welfare Service and Catholic Adoption Agency withdrew and the ACT developed its own social welfare systems and services from 1968. In particular, Ethel was instrumental in enabling the establishment in Canberra in 1967 by the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary of Marymead Child and Family Centre as an out-of-home care facility for children of families in crisis, with funding support from the Commonwealth. Over the ensuing 20 years Ethel championed Marymead and its services behind the scenes and, on occasions, in fiery battles with authorities in the Department, the ACT justice system and the Archdiocese. By the time she retired in 1989, Marymead had grown substantially and had expanded into in-home care for disadvantaged and vulnerable children and their families. Ethel joined the Board of Marymead on her retirement, serving until 1998. Ethel McGuire was renowned for her formidable political and networking skills. As Jack Waterford, former editor of the Canberra Times, noted in his obituary, she had ‘an inside line to powers through Catholic, feminist, judicial, public service, civic or old mates, as well as the experience of having been in Canberra from the time it was a fairly intimate town of under 10,000. She helped develop many of them. She never hesitated to co-opt anyone to a purpose; if her motives were invariably pure, she was entirely ruthless in pursuing her ends.’ Ethel McGuire was awarded an MBE in 1976 for her public service. In addition to her responsibilities as a public servant, and voluntary work for Marymead, she served on other boards such as the YMCA and Outreach and was the first woman elected president of the ACT branch of the Professional Officers Association of the Commonwealth Public Service. Her name was inscribed on the ACT Honour Walk in 2020 in recognition of her contribution to the ACT’s social services. Ethel died on 14 March 2011. Bishop Pat Power, in his eulogy at her funeral, commented that ‘everyone here today would have witnessed Ethel McGuire standing up for the most vulnerable in the Canberra community. She used her professional skills, her vast experience and her considerable influence in the community to be a fierce and tireless champion of those people who would have been damaged or disadvantaged without her intervention.’ Author Details Louise Moran Created 30 April 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Dr Burns’ copies of World University Service Minutes, correspondence, subject files, notebook/diaries, WUS annual reports, copies of various issues of “WUS in Action” (periodical). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "One of a series, the Third Women and Labour Conference intended to encourage research and experience sharing which furthered women’s understanding of their participation in the workforce and Australian society. More than 100 sessions were conducted with papers and workshops covering topics such as women and work, technological change and its impact upon women’s employment, women and the family, the programs to assist women to take up “non-traditional” employment, migrant women, women’s studies, feminist theory and practice, lesbianism, women and ageing, women and the media, women and art, work and unions, feminist literary criticisms and the strategies for women in the 80s (discussed by guest speakers Deborah McCulloch and Bettina Cass). The conference aimed to ensure the participation of a wide range of women and to promote contributions on important topics. Approximately 1200 women from all states of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada registered. 57 papers were presented and 54 workshops were conducted covering the disciplines of anthropology, politics, philosophy and fine arts with the role of women in education, social work, science and health also being discussed. A two volume collection entitled “All Her Labours” (1984, Women and Labour Publications Collective, Hale & Iremonger Pty. Ltd) was compiled from selected papers from those presented at the conference. Proceeds from the books sales and conference profits enabled a trust fund to be established. Grants were available to any woman or group of women who were undertaking a project of benefit to women. Although surplus funds had been available since the first Women and Labour Conference held in Sydney in 1978, it was no longer limited to literary projects. By 1984, funds from the Third Women and Labour Conference had been dispersed among almost 30 successful applicants. Further funds were obtained by the end of 1984 following the publication of two more volumes of conference papers. Published resources Edited Book Worth her Salt: Women at Work in Australia, Bevege, Margaret, James, Margaret and Schute, Carmel, 1982 All Her Labours: Working it Out, Women and Labour Conference Publications Collective, 1982 Journal Article A touch of nostalgia at the Women and Labour Conference, Allen, Margaret, 1995 Warmth and unity with all women? Historicizing racism in the Australian Women's Movement, Murdolo, Adele, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women & Labour Conference : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Robin Secomb and Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement began at the University of Adelaide in 1968, with the women who were active in young labour, the anti-Vietnam war campaign questing their frustration and roles in these groups that were male dominated. Anna Yeatman, Anne Summers and Julie Ellis are credited with starting the newsletters Sisterhood, and Body Political by late 1969 they produced Liberation, the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Newsletter which replaced Sisterhood. Their first protest was against the Miss Fresher competition, which gain media exposer to their ideas of women’s liberation. Public meetings where called and the broader community involvement brought about the establishment of the Women’s Liberation Movement housed at Bloor House. They provided an environment where ideas for supporting women’s rights were fostered. From this the Women’s Liberation Movement in Adelaide was the catalyst for the establishment of the Women’s Health Centre at Hindmarsh, The Rape Crisis Centre, Women’s Studies Resource Centre, Abortion Action Campaign, St Peters Women’s Community Centre, Women’s Health Centers at Chrisities Beach and Elizabeth, lobbied for Women’s Studies to be part of Tertiary education, women’s representation in parliaments, Working Women’s Centre to Protect women’s working rights, the Women’s Peace Movement. Bloor House provided a space for women to express their personal political ideas and to get feedback and support. The Women’s Liberation Movement moved from Bloor House to Eden St in Adelaide and then to Mary St, Hindmarsh were it was closed in 1989.??Records of the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement including correspondence, publications, newsletters and newspaper cuttings. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "12 sound files (approximately 14 hr. 39 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 August 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of Kay Brownbill relating to research regarding painter Hans Heysen for an authorised biography. Includes letters, newspaper cuttings, catalogues and articles. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 February 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 68 min.)??Vickers speaks of problems due to the lack of rain, the 1980s drought, hardship on the farm, her family, her background as teacher, her learning experience on the farm, being flexible according to the weather, breeding goats, analysing goats’ behaviour, shearing goats for cashmere, testing fleece measurements, growing crops, her family. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letters to W. P. Hurst concerning her work among the Aborigines. Also, articles, press cuttings, photographs, and ephemera. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 28 December 2017 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Following the birth of her children, Beryl Beaurepaire became involved with charity work and the women’s organisations of the Liberal Party. She summarises her liberal feminist views as follows: ‘If you’re a feminist you believe in equal opportunities and rights for women, but you also believe that women accept equal responsibilities.’ (As cited by Emma Grahame in Australian Feminism: A Companion, OUP, 1998) Dame Beryl passed away at her home in Mt Eliza, Victoria, on 24 October 2018. Beryl Edith Bedggood completed her schooling at Fintona Girl’s School in Balwyn, Victoria, before becoming a meteorological officer with the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force in 1942. After marrying Ian Francis Beaurepaire in 1946 she became involved in the community and charity work of Melbourne’s society women. During the 1970s she was chairman of the Federal Women’s Committee (1974-1976), and later convenor of the first National Women’s Advisory Council (1978-1982) as well as being vice-president of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party from 1976 to 1986. Beaurepaire was a member of the Australian Children’s Television Foundation Board (1982-1988), the Board of Victoria’s 150th Authority (1982-1987), and a member of the Australian Bi-centennial Multicultural Foundation (1989-1992). From 1985 to 1993 she was chairman of the Australian War Memorial Council and then chairman of the Australian War Memorial Fund Raising Committee (1993). She is Patron to a number of community organisations including: Children First Foundation since 2000, Peninsula Hospice Service since 1999, Palliative Care (Vic.) since 1999, Victorian College of the Arts since 1999, Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria since 1999, Australia Against Child Abuse since 1999, Peninsula Health Care Network Foundation since 1996 and the Portsea Children’s Camp since 1996. Events 1980 - 1980 The Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander (DBE) 1996 - 1996 Patron of the Peninsula Health Care Network Foundation 1996 - 1996 Patron of the Portsea Children’s Camp 1993 - 1996 Chairman of the Australian War Memorial Fund Raising Committee 1985 - 1993 Chairman of the Australian War Memorial Council 1982 - 1993 Member of the Australian War Memorial Council 1988 - 1990 President of the Victorian Association of Most Excellent OBE 1989 - 1992 Member of the Australian Bi-centennial Multicultural Foundation 1982 - 1987 Board member of the Victorian 150th Authority 1982 - 1988 Board member of the Australian Children’s Television Foundation Board 1978 - 1982 Convenor of the National Women’s Advisory Council 1977 - 1977 Member of the Federal Women’s Advisory Committee Working Party 1974 - 1976 Chairman of the Federal Liberal Party Women’s Committee 1973 - 1976 Chairman of the Victorian Liberal Party Women’s Section 1973 - 1987 Chairman of the Board of Management of Fintona Girls School 1970 - 1986 Vice-President of the Citizens Welfare Service Victoria 1969 - 1977 Member of the National Executive, YWCA Australia 1945 - 1945 Commissioned Assistant Section Officer 1942 - 1945 Served with the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force 1977 - 1977 Awarded Silver Jubilee Medal 1946 - 1946 Married Ian Francis Beaurepaire 1991 - 1991 Companion Order of Australia (AC) 1975 - 1975 Appointed, Member of the British Empire (MBE) 2000 - 2000 Patron of the Children First Foundation 1999 - 1999 Patron of the Peninsula Hospice Service 1999 - 1999 Patron of the Palliative Care (Vic.) 1999 - 1999 Patron of the Victorian College of the Arts 1999 - 1999 Patron of the Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria Incorporated 1999 - 1999 Patron of the Australian’s Against Child Abuse 1976 - 1986 Vice-President of the Victorian Division Liberal Party 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section Australian Women's Honour Roll B, CAPOW, http://www.capow.org.au/Honourroll/honourroll-b.htm BEAUREPAIRE, BERYL EDITH, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=1069542 Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 A decade of Mary Owen dinners, Waterfield, Dorothy, 1995 Book Beryl Beaurepaire, McKernan, Michael, 1999 Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 The matriarchs: twelve Australian women talk about their lives to Susan Mitchell., Mitchell, Susan, 1987 The Alexandra Club : A Narrative 1903-1983, Starke, Monica, 1986 The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, Thomson, Joyce A, 1992 So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Resource Women and Politics in South Australia, Cadden, Rosemary, http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/women_and_politics/index.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article War veterans honoured, 2001 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1985 [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Heritage 200 entries, 1988 [manuscript] National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra BEAUREPAIRE BERYL EDITH : Service Number - 90770 : Date of birth - 24 Sep 1923 : Place of birth - CAMBERWELL VIC : Place of enlistment - MELBOURNE : Next of Kin - BEDGGOOD EDWARD Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 April 2002 Last modified 1 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 sound cassette (ca. 8 min.)??Clowse, a reporter and producer, speaks of the establishment of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award and its development from a local to a national award, her impressions on the type of women nominated for the award and the impact on rural women generally through the advantages of broader networking. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A. Correspondence, 1929-1936?B. Papers, 1890-1938?C. Visitors Books, 1934-1937?D. Printed material, 1917-1932???BOX 1??A. Correspondence, 1929-1936??Folder 1?1929; Letters received, being mainly letters sent by professional associates during Sir Philip Street’s visit to England. Correspondents include judges David Ferguson, James Campbell, Langer Owen, John Harvey, William Parker and Alexander Gordon??Folder 2?1929; Letters received, being letters sent by family members during Sir Philip Street’s visit to England. Correspondents include Kenneth Street, Jessie Street, Belinda Street, Philippa Street, Roger Street, Ernest Street and Norah Street??Folder 3?1926-1936; Letters received??Folder 4?1936; Cables received, being carbon typescripts of official cables sent by the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs on behalf of the British government during the abdication crisis of 1936??B. Papers, 1890-1938??Folder 5 / Items 1-3?1914-1921; Papers concerning Laurence Whistler Street (1893-1915), including Ms. transcript of letter written by Laurence W. Street describing landing at Gallipoli, 1915; letters of condolence; Commission as lieutenant in the AIF; studio portrait of Laurence W. Street in uniform??Item 1: Letter by Laurence W. Street describing landing at Gallipoli, and condolence letters, 1915, transcribed by Philip Street??Item 2: Official letters of condolence concerning Laurence Whistler Street, 1919, 1921??Item 3: Laurence Whistler Street photograph and papers, ca. 1914-1918???BOX 2??1890-1932; Miscellaneous papers, being invitations, menu cards, booklets and programmes including, official invitation ‘To commemorate the establishment at Canberra of the Seat of Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, May 9th 1927’??1914-1935; Papers of Philip Whistler Street, being miscellaneous papers and speeches given by Philip Street and others on his retirement in 1933??ca.1925-1938; Speeches given by Philip Whistler Street, being Ms. corrected drafts??1917-1932; Papers concerning the estate of the late Miss Harriett M. Poolman??1936; Bookplate, being bookplate designed by Gayfield Shaw for presentation to King George V. and including an explanatory letter to Sir Philip Street from Shaw??BOX 3??1908-1917; Cash book, being cash book of Philip Whistler Street??C. Visitors Books, 1934-1937?1934-1936; ‘List of Callers on His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor and Lady Street’, being three bound volumes??1933-1937; ‘Visitors Book of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor and Lady Street’, being one bound volume??D. Printed material, 1917-1932?1917-1928; Published journals, being ‘Hermes’ (1917-1918); ‘Blackacre’ (1926); and ‘The Pauline’ (1928)??BOX 4??1919-1923; Catalogues, being catalogues (3) of art exhibitions??1932; Newscuttings, being part of ‘Daily Telegraph’ 5 Feb. 1932 including article about Sir Philip Street Author Details Elle Morrell Created 5 September 2000 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Photo published on page 8 of the 3 May 1973 issue of the Canberra Times. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Australian Servicewomen’s Memorial was dedicated by the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, the Hon. Bruce Scott MP, on 27 March 1999. The Memorial, designed by Sydney sculptor, Anne Ferguson, commemorates all women who served, suffered and died in the defence of Australia."
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    {
        "text": "Nola Fraser was well known as a whistle blower when she ran in the Macquarie Fields by-election (New South Wales Legislative Assembly) in 2005. Nola Fraser was one of the whistle blowers who drew attention to the poor administrative and medical practices at Camden and Campbelltown Hospitals. She also claimed that at her meeting with Craig Knowles, the Minister responsible (and the man whose resignation necessitated the by-election) she had been threatened. At the ensuing Independent Commission Against Corruption Inquiry, her story was not believed. At the time of the by-election she had left nursing and was running her own beauty salon. She achieved a 12% swing to the Liberal Party but did not win. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Jager has worked as Executive Producer for the ABC’s Natural History Unit and the Head of Factual Division of Artists Services. She has also held positions as Documentary Manager at Film Victoria and Documentary Commissioning Editor for SBS Independent. Alongside these positions, Jager has managed the production company Arcimedia and has written, directed and produced numerous dramas, documentaries and television series."
    },
    {
        "text": "Raised in a small farming community at Moulyinning, the Pearce sisters – May, Jean, Morna and Caroline – came to prominence in women’s hockey in that State from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. May, Jean and Morna Pearce all went on to captain both State and national teams. Caroline ‘Tib’ Pearce played at State and national levels. May Pearce (Campbell, 1915-1981), was one of Western Australia’s greatest players, scoring 100 goals in interclub, interstate and international matches in 1936. She represented Australia from 1936 to 1948 before working as a coach and administrator. Jean Pearce (Wynne, 1921 – ), represented Western Australia from 1939 to 1953. She made the Australian team in 1946 and captained it to victory over England in 1953. Caroline Pearce (Ash, 1925 – ), played from 1946 to 1950 and was a member, along with May and Jean, of the unbeaten 1948 Australian team that toured New Zealand. Morna Pearce (Hyde, 1932 – ), played under her sister Jean’s captaincy in 1953, becoming Australian captain herself by 1956 when the next international tournament was played in Sydney. Morna won Western Australia’s first Sportsman of the Year award in 1956. Her son, John Hyde, is a member of the Labor Party and represents the seat of Perth in the Legislative Assembly. Published resources Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 January 2007 Last modified 12 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Melbourne, Vic. C. 1945. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "This collection consists of minute books which describe the weekly events in the Home including information about applicants, children and their families 1874-1965, other records of inmates 1875-1964, letterbooks, 1874-1896, a visitors’ book 1875-1899, Emily Trollope’s diary of the Home, 1875-1876, financial records, 1885-1893 as well as newscuttings 1877-1966 and photographs, ca. 1890. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 May 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sharyn Csanki is a loyal advocate for the Australian Democrats who ran for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in Wallsend in 2003. Sharyn Csanki lived in the Newcastle suburb of Waratah when she stood for the adjoining seat of Wallsend in 2003. She was candid that her standing would assist in increasing the vote for the Australian Democrats candidates in the Legislative Council. In the event, she polled 2.2 % of the vote and ran last in a field of seven. Sharyn Csanki led the Australian Democrats team in the 2004 local government elections in Newcastle Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Jane Lomax-Smith was elected to the seat of Adelaide in the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia at the election, which was held on 9 February 2002. She was re-elected in 2006. She held the Ministerial portfolios of Education, Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Tourism. She was defeated at the 2010 election. Before entering the State Parliament she served three terms as a Councillor for the City of Adelaide and two terms as Mayor. Jane Lomax-Smith was born in the east end of London. She qualified as a clinical pathologist, medical researcher and teacher and worked in those capacities in London, Boston and Adelaide. She set up her own practice as a Pathologist in Adelaide before entering the political arena. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 28 January 2009 Last modified 8 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Port Adelaide Girls Technical School was part of the Port Adelaide Primary School. The primary school was opened in 1862 and the Girls Department was established in 1925. This was also known as the Central School. In 1940 the School was renamed Port Adelaide Girls Technical High School and operated on two sites. In 1962 the new building was opened by Lady Bastyan. This was the first time that the spouse of the Governor opened a school. The school provided single sex schooling in a mainly working class environment.??The collection has a scrapbook with a list of teachers names and some photographs. The principals included Marg Beagley and Carolyne Ryan. There are some school magazines, education programs and history of the school. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Negatives, duplicate photographic prints and two computer disks used in the preparation of, A guide to the illuminated addresses in the National Library of Australia (3 v., 1993). The original guide is housed in the Special Collections Reading Room. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Comprises personal and family documents, and records of organisations concerned with health, welfare and aged care, e.g., Nappie Wash, Abbeyfield Society, Melbourne-South Yarra Group, Broadmeadows Community Health Centre, Melbourne District Health Council. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 November 2003 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Recounts the life story of Anne Ramsay (nee Spear), including her birth in Fitzroy in 1865; the early death of her parents; her childhood in the Melbourne Orphan Asylum with her two brothers; her work as a domestic servant; her married life in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, and in Castlemaine and Warrnambool; and her death in Kew in 1962. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 23 October 2003 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence; file of testimonials from medical practitioners and others in the United States and Canada; reports on her treatment method and summarised lecture notes; some patient case histories, biographical papers and newspaper clippings. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Tania Giles stood as a candidate for the Australian Greens Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Hawthorn at the Victorian state election, which was held on 30 November 2002. She stood again in the seat of Malvern at the 2006 state election, which was held on 25 November. Tania Giles served as a Councillor for the City of Happy Valley from 1991-97 and represented Local Government on the State Revegetation Committee from 1995-97. She stood as the Australian Greens candidate for the House of representatives seat of Bruce at the Federal election, which was held in 2004. A piano and violin teacher, Tania enjoys bushwalking, painting and ceramic sculpture. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 5 August 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Gemma Edgar is a once only candidate for election to the parliament of New South Wales: Australian Democrats ticket at the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Menai in 2003. Gemma Edgar attended the NSW Schools Constitutional Convention in March 1997, representing Caringbah High School. She is Co-convenor of Twenty 10, a gay and lesbian counselling service, opened in 2004. Gemma was appointed to the Special Commission of Enquiry into the Waterfall rail accident. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 12 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Minute books of council, policy committees, divisions and annual conferences, publication production files for THE LAMP, correspondence and committee files, reports, constitution and rules, and scholarships material. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 14 February 2002 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "3 sound files (approximately 200 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 7 August 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The series contains a collection of nominal rolls and lists of medals and clasps awarded which relate to contingents and individuals from the New South Wales Military Forces who served in the Boer War.??Folder 3B lists the members of the New South Wales Army Medical Corp who were entitled to the South Africa Medal and Clasp under the Army Order granting the Medal issued on 1st April, 1901.??Page 11 lists the Nursing Sisters. The Nursing Sisters accompanied the Second Contingent which departed on 17th January 1900 on board the ship Moravian. Four remained in South Africa, Lady Superintendent and the others returned. Nursing Sister Elizabeth Nixon was awarded the Royal Red Cross; and was mentioned in despatches in the London Gazette, 27.9.01, and Nursing Sister Mary Annie Pocock was mentioned in despatches, in the London Gazette 27.7.01. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 February 2003 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Records in this series relate to the Royal Commission into Human Relationships (CA 1891), established by Federal Parliament on 21 August 1974. The records in this series are subject based and consist of administrative files, incidental files, Open House hearings, consultants’ research reports, judge’s notes on hearings, exhibits and submissions. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "25 minutes??Dr Marjorie Casley Smith was born in 1901. She grew up in Malvern with two brothers and a nurse Clara. Interested in healing from the age of five when a Dr Harold gave her a handbook on first aid. She was educated at the Methodist Ladies’ College. After graduation she spent two years at home learning music and the domestic arts, then studied medicine. Graduated in 1927 and went to the Royal Adelaide Hospital as House Surgeon under Dr Sleeman. She did obstetrics at the Queen Victoria Hospital. In 1928 her father died and she spent two years caring for her mother. In 1930 she married Roy Frisby Smith a lawyer and they moved to Mylor for a year. Returned to live at her family home in Malvern with her mother and Clare. Husband died in 1938 so she returned to work at the School Medical Health Service. She became SA Vice President of the National Council of Women, in 1940 the convenor of Health for SA and then the Australian Convenor of Health. Dr Casley Smith started the Marriage Guidance Council, was active in the Asthma Association, and the Mental Health Association. She was involved with music, was a member of the Lyceum Club from 1920, and her son John was a Rhodes scholar in 1958. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection comprises two manuscript and pictorial record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "30 minutes??Nancy Bryn Jones talks about her schooling, marriage to Keith Jauncey, becoming a widow, marriage to Bryn Jones, moving to Keith, building their house, working on the land, CWA, Italian prisoners of war, return to Adelaide, member of the National Council of Women, United Nations Association, League of Women Voters, joy of the Lyceum Club Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Executive committee and general committe minutes; correspondence; reports 1972-1975, 1978-1982. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS Acc13.143 comprises three letters to the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra written by Miriam Hyde responding to requests for program notes on specific pieces, including “Lyric”, and “Heroic Elegy”. Also included in the letters are general biography and handwritten notes. The Strathfield Symphony Orchestra had a long history with the composer and performed a great number of Hyde pieces (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection includes adjudicators records, account books, agendas, correspondence, files (re Eisteddfords, Edgar Ford Memorial Lecture, Music Festival), financial records, lists of entrants, minute books, newspaper cuttings, registers of members and teachers, programmes, reports, rules, submissions, other miscellaneous records. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Seven letters from Arthur Bradford to Daisy Bates regarding funding for her work with Aboriginal people and Bradford’s liaison with politicians. Also, letters from H. S. Foll, on behalf of Senator Keane, Minister for the Interior, in response to representations from Bradford for assistance for Daisy Bates. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Winifred Piesse became the first woman to represent the Country Party in the Western Australian Parliament when she was elected to the Legislative Council for a six year term, beginning in May 1977. Her extensive experience in nursing ensured that health matters were high on her Parliamentary agenda. She was particularly concerned about issues affecting children and youth, and also urged the government to urgently fund research into breast cancer, especially its high incidence in young mothers. Winifred Margaret Aumann was born in 1923 to Frederick Benjamin Aumann, an orchardist, and Marguerite Gertrude Pettingill. She was educated at Narre Warren State School and Dandenong High School, and later completed certificates in Nursing, Midwifery and Child Health. Winifred worked as a nurse in Melbourne from 1944 until 1946, when she moved to Western Australia and worked in hospitals in Busselton and Narrogin. In 1947 she married Mervyn Piesse, a farmer at Wagin in Western Australia, about 230 kilometres south-east of Perth. Winifred Piesse joined the Country Party in 1948 and worked as both branch and divisional secretary. When her husband died in 1966, she returned to nursing and also managed farms in the Wagin area. She was the first woman to be elected to the Wagin Shire Council, in August 1971, and also became a Justice of the Peace in that year. Winifred Piesse became the first woman to represent the Country Party in the Western Australian Parliament when she was elected to the Legislative Council for a six year term, beginning in May 1977. Her extensive experience in nursing ensured that health matters were high on her Parliamentary agenda. She was particularly concerned about issues affecting children and youth, and also urged the government to urgently fund research into breast cancer, especially its high incidence in young mothers. Piesse lost her seat in 1983, her preferences helping to elect the Liberal candidate. After leaving Parliament Piesse served for three years on the local hospital board, and maintained her strong links with community organisations including the Country Women’s Association, Farmer’s Union, and the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Winifred Margaret Piesse, politician] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Gail O'Hanlon] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 22 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Rhondda Nicholas is an experienced employment lawyer at Nicholas Dibb, where she is the principal solicitor. She established OzPropertyLaw; the first legal practice in Australia to offer fixed fee conveyancing services online in every state and territory. A graduate of the ANU Law School, Rhondda also holds a BA (Hons) in political science from ANU and a Master of Philosophy from Griffith University, Qld in Australia – Asia relations. Rhondda Nicholas recognised early the possibilities for improving client service that was offered by the Internet. She also understood that consumers wanted lawyers who delivered service in plain English and who were open and transparent about their fees. Acting on these concerns, in June 2003 Rhondda established Australia’s first online or virtual law firm, Ozpropertylaw Pty Ltd, delivering residential and commercial conveyancing services direct to consumers. In developing Ozpropertylaw, Rhondda sought to set up an online legal service that was more convenient for clients in that they could communicate with solicitors and paralegals online and access their documents 24/7; which gave them certainty about the legal fees they would pay for the service up front; and which harnessed technology to provide a more efficient service. Consumers reacted by registering with Ozpropertylaw.com for their legal property services from its inception. Commencing practice in the ACT and NSW in 2003, Rhondda steadily added other states and the Northern Territory. By 2010 Ozpropertylaw Pty Ltd provided conveyancing and property legal services in each state and territory. Ozpropertylaw Pty Ltd is a pioneer of fixed fee conveyancing and consumers are able to obtain an instant online quote from its website. In 2015 that is still unusual in legal practice in conveyancing. Rhondda attracts and maintains a multinational staff to reflect her client base and so that clients are comfortable with Ozpropertylaw’s professional and administrative staff. Rhondda spoke about the pitfalls in online law firm service delivery in March 2010 at the Sinch Online Legal Services (SOLS) Conference in Sydney, Australia. At the SOLS Conference in Sydney in March 2011 she spoke about legal costs and online consumers. In March 2012 her presentation focussed on developments in UK conveyancing and lessons for Australia and in May 2014 Rhondda spoke about the need for lawyers operating in the online environment to develop business skills. As owner of the boutique law firm, Nicholas Dibb Solicitors, Rhondda advises employment law clients on difficult issues arising within the workplace and suggests solutions acceptable to all parties. Rhondda and her team have produced Fair Work compliant contracts for law firm clients and real estate agencies in several Australian states. Nicholas Dibb Solicitors practises in employment law, discrimination, commercial law and dispute resolution. Rhondda is presently working on innovating service delivery in other legal areas to facilitate client engagement with solicitors online. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Rhondda Nicholas Created 11 May 2016 Last modified 9 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Family and business papers relating to John Hamilton Mortimer Lanyon (1834-1863); business records of Lanyon (1834-1902); receipts for rent on runs, licence to occupy waste lands; Correspondence with John Davidson, solicitor of Goulburn, 1884-1886; Mining papers, 1888-1889; Bank records. Business letters and accounts relating to Moothumbil Station (on the Bland), Thomas Herbert and Andrew Cunningham, 1875-1880. Also includes a copy of P.G. Smith sermon and a copy of the Will of Mary Cunningham. Author Details Kim Doyle Created 22 June 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jessie Scotford was president of the National Council of Women of New South Wales (1967-1970), and national president (1970-1973). She brought to her work with the National Councils a strong sense of the importance of history and literature as the creators of national culture and identity. The same concern led her to join the National Trust, where she campaigned for ‘the importance of preserving not only the buildings, but the contents of the buildings’. In 1973, she ran in Sydney the first International Council of Women’s Regional Conference to be held in the Pacific region. Jessie Scotford was born in 1917 in Casino in outback New South Wales, where her father, Edward Vivian Timms, had taken up farming after returning injured from Gallipoli. The family returned to city life a few years later when Timms and his wife, Alma, decided he was better suited to a career as a writer. Timms went on to become a successful historical novelist; his best-known works are probably Forever to Remain (1948) and The Beckoning Shore (1950). Jessie Scotford remembered her country upbringing as a time when ‘we put down a lot of very good Australian roots’. Jessie attended Gosford High School, becoming the school captain in her final year. She went on to become an evening student at Sydney University, working by day at a number of jobs, including journalism. In 1940, before she graduated, she married Herbert Edward Scotford, at that time a sergeant in the AIF. For the next 6 years the couple were separated by war. Mrs Scotford was awarded a BA in 1942. After the birth of her children – twins, a boy and a girl – Jessie Scotford became involved in a range of community activities. She joined the Women Graduates Association and found herself preparing abstracts of United Nations documents on women’s rights for publication in the WGA newsletter. She joined the mothers’ association at her children’s school and soon became president. She worked as honorary archivist for the New South Wales National Trust for about 7 years, later joining its council. And, as president of North Shore group of the National Heart Campaign in its first year of operation, she became involved in fund-raising, event organisation, and public speaking. She became a speaker for the National Heart Campaign and subsequently for the Freedom From Hunger Campaign, discovering a talent for public persuasion. Advised by her husband that she needed a professional qualification, in 1955 Jessie Scotford undertook a Diploma of Education in the new education-by-distance program at the University of New England, again studying by night and teaching by day. A thesis written for this program became in Scotford’s words ‘a turning point in my whole life’. Taking a trunkful of 19th-century family letters, she analysed their potential as a means of teaching history. This innovative exercise also involved her in the new discipline of folklore studies, and the popular movement to establish folk museums for the preservation of ‘our Australian heritage’. After an overseas tour, during which she visited ‘all the major folk museums in the British Isles and on the Continent’, Jessie Scotford began to campaign through the National Trust ‘on the importance of preserving not only the buildings, but the contents of the buildings’. The idea was entirely new to the National Trust Executive Council and its members were difficult to convince. But Scotford established a large collection of historical costumes dating from early Sydney, and, by the mid-1970s, the Trust was persuaded to purchase these as the basis of a future folk museum. She was a council member of the National Trust of Australia (NSW) from 1974 to 1981. In parallel with this work on the heritage front, Jessie Scotford became involved in the national and international women’s movement. She joined the National Council of Women of NSW as a delegate of the Women Graduates Association, becoming convenor of the committee for arts and letters in 1965, and president of the Council from 1967. This led to her chairing the Women’s Committee of the Captain Cook Bicentenary Celebrations, and effectively managing a range of bicentenary events in 1970, including a women’s ‘Pageant of Endeavour’-an exhibition in the Sydney Town Hall demonstrating women’s contribution to the development of NSW. 120,000 people visited the exhibition. A series of ‘Life in the Home’ tableaux demonstrated ‘family life, costume, customs, household furniture and contents’. Scotford also collected and later published a collection of brief histories of all the 250 women’s organisations involved in the ‘Pageant’. In 1970, Scotford also became president of National Council of Women of Australia. As president she carried forward the reform programs of her predecessor, Ada Norris, including the long struggle for equal pay, finally achieved with the Arbitration Court decision to abolish the male basic wage in 1974. She initiated new programs to obtain equal treatment for women in the areas of pensions and taxation, and to improve the standard of care in child-care centres. She raised the issue of Aboriginal welfare within the National Councils, calling in 1972 for reports from all affiliates on the local treatment of Aborigines. In retrospect Jessie Scotford remembered as the major achievement of her presidency the staging of the 1973 International Council of Women’s Regional Conference in Sydney. She got funding for the conference from the United Nations Development Program in New York-‘probably the hardest thing I ever had to do’. Scotford was made a life member and a vice-president of ICW in 1979, in recognition of her skills and commitment in organising this and several later events for the ICW Board. She attended the United Nations Mid-Decade Conference for Women in Copenhagen in 1980, the United Nations World Conference for Women in Nairobi in 1985, the UNESCO General Conference in Paris in 1983, and the United Nations Conference on Decolonisation in Port Moresby in 1984. In Australia, Scotford’s work with the National Councils led her to undertake a range of voluntary positions: membership of the State Committee for Human Rights Year 1968; chair of the Sydney Opera House Festival Women’s Committee in 1973; membership of the board of governors of the Law Foundation of New South Wales, 1974-1977, the first non-legal woman so appointed; membership of the Council for the Royal Flying Doctor Service; and membership of the Standing Committee of Convocation at Macquarie University. In 1977, Scotford was appointed executive officer of the Cultural Council of the City of Sydney. This involved the organisation of the City of Sydney Eisteddfod, an event with over 20,000 entrants, and also a more general brief to promote the performing and creative arts in the city. In her later years, Scotford wrote a historical novel, The Distaff Side. It follows her ancestral female lines, to her great grandmothers and beyond. She wrote that ‘I wanted to honour my ancestors, not because they were great heroines, but because of the sort of people they were-steady, and good’. The book was published in 1996 by Harper Collins. Jessie Scotford was active for many years on the presbytery of St David’s church, Lindfield, and, with the union of the Presbyterian, Congregational and Methodist churches in 1977, she became an Elder in the Uniting Church of Australia-‘perhaps my greatest honour’. In 1976 she told an all-women service in St David’s that the impact of International Women’s Year was like a huge submerged ocean current whose force was not yet felt. Women are rising in slow persistent waves to effect a ‘revolution that is as vital a part of human progress as the discovery of the wheel, the invention of the printing press or the conquest of space’. Events 1973 - 1973 Festival Women’s Committee for the opening of the Sydney Opera House 1995 - 1995 Central West Region Women’s Committee of the National Trust of Australia NSW Published resources Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Australia, 1971, Legge, J S, 1971 Book The Distaff Side: An Epic Saga Spanning Five Generations of Women, Scotford, Jessica, 1996 Conference Paper A Super Achiever, Scotford, Jessie, 1995 Education for Citizenship, Scotford, Jessie, 1970 Journal NCWA Quarterly Bulletin, National Council of Australian Women, 1974 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection National Council of Women of NSW - program for the launch of the Centenary Stamp Issue and a complete set of the issue, 1996 National Council of Women of New South Wales further papers, 1895-1981 National Council of Women of NSW Inc. - further records, 1926-1927, 1937-1990 Papers relating to National Council of Women of New South Wales, 1895-1897 National Council of Women of New South Wales further records, 1895-1997 National Council of Women of New South Wales records, 1895-1976 National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jessie Scotford interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] NCWA Papers 1984 - 2006 Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 14 August 2018 Digital resources Title: Jessie Scotford Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Hean Bee Wee was president of the National Council of Women of Australia from 2006 to 2009 (the first Asian-born woman to hold the position) and a vice-president of the International Council of Women from 2012. She brought to both positions a passionate commitment to gender and ethnic equality, first learned in her birthplace, Penang, and developed through voluntary work undertaken in South Australia. Her work for NCWA and ICW also benefitted from Wee’s professional expertise in business and international education. Hean Bee Wee was born in Penang, Malaysia, on 23 March 1946, daughter of Gan Chin Huat and his wife, Khoo Hong Sean. After completing her secondary education, she came to Australia to study economics at the University of Adelaide. On graduating as a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) in 1969, she chose to become a secondary school teacher specialising in business education. She married a fellow teacher, Victor Wee, in Adelaide in 1970. In 1973, she completed a Diploma of Education at the University of Adelaide and, in 2003, an Advanced Diploma of Financial Services at the University of Technology Sydney. Within her teaching career, she developed further expertise in international education, teaching and co-ordinating International Baccalaureate programs and becoming an ambassador for South Australian schools in Southeast Asia. Wee is passionately committed to the principle of social equality, in terms of both gender and ethnicity. Growing up in a society where girls were valued less than boys, she became aware of gender inequity at an early age. When she was 11 years old, her best friend told her that she would have to leave school because her parents could not afford to pay for her to sit the entrance examination to secondary school, preferring to save the money to pay for her younger brother’s examination the following year. Hean Bee Wee was horrified, and paid the examination fees from her own savings. In Australia, Wee carried her passion for equality into a range of voluntary activities. In 1991, she joined the City Group of the Penguin Club of South Australia, initially to develop her skills as a public speaker. Wishing to share these benefits, she set about recruiting other women from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds to join the club, with considerable success. The same drive for equality led her to become a delegate for the Penguin Club to the National Council of Women of South Australia. She also joined the South Australian branch of the Asian Pacific Business Council for Women, serving on the executive in 1994-1995 and 1998-1999. From 1995 to 1997, she took on the position of commissioner for the South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission, and, from 1999-2003, she served as president of the Asian Women’s Consultative Council of South Australia. She has also served as treasurer of the South Australian Women’s Trust from 1999 to 2002. Her work on behalf of Asian and Non-English Speaking Women is ongoing. Within the National Council of Women SA, Hean Bee Wee soon undertook executive roles. From 2002 to 2004, she was economics adviser to the South Australian Executive and, from 2004 to 2006, vice-president. In 2006, she was elected president of the National Council of Women of Australia, representing the ACT Council and serving until 2009. Her proudest achievement as NCWA president was to obtain funding from the federal government for 2 projects, both directed to the advancement of women. The first of these worked to promote the well-being of Aboriginal women in Oodnadatta, the second to provide a culturally and linguistically appropriate leadership training course for Non-English Speaking women at TAFE; both have had successful outcomes. Hean Bee Wee has carried these concerns for education and equity into the international arena. In 2012, she was elected a vice-president of the International Council of Women, with responsibility for supervising a project in Samoa to establish a financially viable marketing structure for handicrafts produced by local Samoan women-a project bringing together the full range of her expertise and commitment. Hean Bee Wee is also the proud mother of Samuel and grandmother of 2, Sebastian and Annabel. Events 2012 - International Council of Women 1991 - 2012 Penguins Club of South Australia 1994 - 1999 Asian-Pacific Business Council for Women (SA) 1999 - 2002 South Australian Women’s Trust 1999 - 2003 Asian Women’s Consultative Council of South Australia Published resources Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 7 November 2013 Digital resources Title: Hean Bee Wee Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: introducing-Hean-Bee-Wee.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Recording of the Society of Women Writers (Australia), Fourth Biennial Conference, Perth, 1984. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sandilands family, life on the goldfields and as a country school teacher, Bolgart, her work as a naturalist and historian. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 14 August 2012 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Drawing book drawn and coloured by Billingee, from Jajjala near Broome, W.A. showing Aboriginal weapons, implements, and artifacts, with labels by Daisy Bates ; 2 letters from Daisy Bates to Sir Frederick Bedford. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: N017]??Comprises files relating to international projects where the Australian Red Cross responded to a humanitarian crises by providing assistance in the development of health plans; engineering and technical support in medical building projects; medical expertise and equipment; logistical advice regarding agriculture, water resources and sanitation. Other programs include health education programmes; first aid; the prevention of STDs; care and counselling for HIV/AIDS infections; English language programs; refugee support at transit camps and services for displaced and vulnerable persons. These programmes were managed by the Australian Red Cross, National Office – International Department. See also: Reports on project impacts in Africa and the Asia Pacific and Region http://www.redcross.org.au/program-impact.aspx?http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0722b.htm??These files typically contain legal agreements, correspondence, memoranda, studies, interim and final project reports including financial expenditure, publications, posters; some files contain photographs of project progress. Project locations include – but is not limited to – Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Botswana, Nigeria, Burundi, Senegal, Rwanda, Zaire, Sudan, Libya, Mauritania, Mali, Sri Lanka, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Nepal, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, East Timor, Panama, Lebanon, Afghanistan and East-Jerusalem.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 8065 contains manuscripts, proofs, correspondence, notes and photographs relating to Williams’ biography of Christina Stead and her later publication, Fathers & sons. For the biography of Stead, the correspondence is mostly with Stead’s friends and acquaintances. During the research Williams also corresponded with the Australian Archives, US Intelligence and FBI, Virago and McPhee Gribble. The chief correspondents are C.B. Christesen, Dorothy Green, Jack Lindsay and Kate Stead. Material for the book Fathers & sons includes correspondence, drafts of the interview manuscripts and photographs. The interviewees include Graeme Blundell, Ric Charlesworth, Marcus Einfeld, Michael Kirby, Lionel Rose, Norman Swan, Ted Whitten Jr., Robyn Williams and Michael Wilding (11 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc 05.121 instalment includes a typescript of Jiddu Krishnamurti: world philosopher (1895-1986): his life and thoughts, with related research material and correspondence concerning the publication. In addition, there are extensive extracts from Krishnamurti correspondence 1920-1986 and research on Krishnamurti’s visits to Australia, including transcripts of and notes on interviews conducted by Williams with people who attended Krishnamurti’s last (1970) Sydney meetings (4 boxes).??The Acc 06.174 instalment comprises papers associated with the research and writing of Green power: environmentalists who have changed the face of Australia (2 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "One of the original fourteen females to join the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Jess Scott Doyle (née Prain) was the inspiration for the creation of a lasting memorial to all those in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) during the war and later in peacetime. Under her direction a memorial committee raised funds and completed research and design details for the window memorial. Arthur Griffiths and Patrick Pearce of Celtic Studios completed the memorial in time for the RANS 75th anniversary ceremonies in 1986. The window symbolizes things with which every WRAN can identify without favour to rank or rating. There are two figures, one in the dark wartime uniform representing the dark days of the war and the second in the white summer uniform representing the peacetime service. They both face slightly to the right thus eliminating their category badges. Every category badge is incorporated in a surrounding roped border and across the base are the rank badges from leading hand to officer. The background shows distant rolling hills with radio masts and ships in convoy, as many WRANS, including the original fourteen, worked inland in Canberra maintaining radio contact with ships at sea and all over the world. HMAS Harman was the telecommunications nerve centre of the naval war in the Pacific. The foreground suggests the bow of a ship and a bollard to show the strong link the WRANS had with ships in port. The window was unveiled by Lady Stephen, wife of the then Governor General Sir Ninian Stephen at the RANS 75th anniversary ceremonies in 1986. Window Committee Nan Carrol Gwenda Garde Margaret Jones Nance McQueen Jess Doyle (Prain) Jean Nysen Sue Timbury WOWR M Christensen WOWR M Weir, OAM Published resources Book Ships belles : the story of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service in war and peace 1941-1985, Fenton Huie, Shirley, 2000 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 September 2003 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection consists of a diary for the year 1937 written by Aileen Palmer while in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, as well as a letter from Palmer to Mrs Thora Craig, written on 5th May, 1966. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Julie Duncan was a highly regarded journalist and journalism educator who developed some of Australia’s earliest journalism courses. Julie Duncan was born Julie Mary Badock in Launceston, Tasmania. Her career in journalism began at The Mercury in Hobart, where she won the Montague Grover Award for cadet journalists as well as the Alan Cane cadet award. She went on to work as a news reporter, features writer and public affairs journalist. In 1979, Julie married South Australian Attorney-General for the Labor Government, Peter Duncan, and moved to Adelaide, where she began lecturing in journalism at the South Australian College of Advanced Education (now the University of South Australia). Here she developed some of Australia’s earliest journalism courses. From 1986 to 1990, Julie Duncan was editorial training and development manager at The Advertiser in Adelaide. Under her management, the paper’s cadet training scheme enjoyed an excellent reputation as one of Australia’s best. Duncan promoted the hiring of The Advertiser‘s first indigenous cadet, whom she trained, and she worked closely with indigenous students and with Reconciliation Australia. She also championed the employment of the paper’s first female photographer. In 1987, Duncan convened and chaired the first national journalism education and training conference. She designed a three year training course, The Front Page and Beyond, which has since formed the basis of much journalism training in Australia. Those who knew Duncan noted that her passion for good journalism was unwavering. She was an active member of the Australian Journalists Association/Media Alliance, and served on state, federal, professional and judiciary committees. She had an excellent rapport with her students and relished teaching them. In 2003, Duncan received the Walkley Award for the most outstanding contribution to journalism. By then, having been diagnosed with cancer, she had returned to Tasmania to live with her parents. Her husband Peter was living in Lombok, Indonesia, following failed business dealings in Adelaide, but the pair were in daily contact. Julie Duncan died in February 2005, aged 52, survived by her husband Peter, her daughter Georgia, and her stepsons Macgregor and Jock. Memorial services were held in Hobart, Adelaide and Sydney – 300 people attended the Adelaide service alone. Today, the Julie Duncan Memorial Award for the best journalism student is offered as part of the South Australia Media Awards. The award is open to students of the University of South Australia’s journalism program whose published or broadcast projects reflect outstanding initiative and/or newsworthiness and technical skill, and adhere to ethical and legal standards. Events 2003 - 2003 Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism – Journalism Trainer and Educator 1978 - 2003 Published resources Journal Article South Australia: New Club and Technology, Duncan, Julie, 1986 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon and Nikki Henningham Created 6 November 2007 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "152 sound cassettes + 20 transcripts.??This is a collection of material from the Women’s Archives, Australian National University comprising women’s issues, lobbying and conference proceedings. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "9 hours 25 minutes??During 1988 and 1989 community workers in Aberfoyle Park organised a three part project to document the experiences of migrant women in the local area. The pilot project involved discussions with migrants from different countries of origin and the development of a questionnaire. The second phase of the project included the appointment of a part-time project co-ordinator and the services of two third-year social work students from the South Australian Institute of Technology on ten week placements who conducted ten interviews with migrant women. The final stage of the project was the publication of a booklet ‘Living the Difference’. The summaries of the interviews in the item entries to this collection are taken from the profiles provided in the publication. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Doris Chadwick Collection comprises school magazines and texts, primary readers, curriculum and syllabus material, plus reference material for both students and teachers. The material originates from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Great Britain and the United States, with publication dates ranging from the 1890s to the late 1960s. Nearly 5000 items are included in total. Many of the texts and readers are representative of the types used by Australian state Departments of Education (or Departments of Public Instruction). This collection represents a valuable source of information for research into the history of school education in Australia Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "A once-only candidate in the unwinnable seat of Wakehurst in 1995 for the ALP. Patricia Armstrong was born in Sydney and educated at Loretto Convent, Kirribilli, Queens Gate College, London and Seaforth Technical College. She has worked as an administrative assistant at the NSW branch of the ALP, a travel consultant at Mary Rossi Travel and research officer for Senator Kerry Sibraa. Patricia Armstrong was active in a range of environmental community issues, including the preservation of bushland in Beacon Hill and improvement in the condition of Narrabeen Lagoon. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "SERIES 01?Fanny Reading papers, 1905-1968??SERIES 02?Dr Fanny Reading photographs, ca. 1890-1965 / various photographers??SERIES 03?Dr Fanny Reading realia, ca. 1920’s Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 September 2004 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Carmel Meiklejohn and AGS (with Nikki Henningham) Created 12 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Correspondence:?1910-1991; Personal correspondence, miscellaneous business papers & correspondence, business correspondence with Angus & Robertson, Boobook, Golden Press, Kevin Weldon & Associates Pty. Ltd., Methuen, Rigby, The Carroll Foundation, fan mail (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/1)??Associated correspondence:?1967-1993; Correspondence to Pixie O’Harris estate (Halcyon & Vaughan Evans – daughter and son-in-law), miscellaneous correspondence, personal & business correspondence of Vaughan Evans, business correspondence of Bruce Pratt (husband), papers related to Rolf Harris (nephew) (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/2)??Journals & diaries:?1966-1974; 1966 utility diary, 1974 diary, undated Bathurst Hospital diary (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/2)??Literary papers (manuscript & typescript):?c.1920s-1980s; Poetry, short stories & loose jottings, novel notes, The Irish Girl (novel), Vennie (novel), songs & musicals, Marmaduke the Possum (play), poems by Alex Skovron, Betty Ogilvie & a photocopied speech by Patrick White (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/3)??Literary notebooks:?c.1930s-1980s; 12 notebooks, some only partially filled, of poems, ideas & miscellaneous writings (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/4)??Newscuttings:?1920s-1990s; Scrapbook (chiefly newscuttings) (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/5)?1977-1990S; Scrapbook (chiefly newscuttings) (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/6)?1930s-1980s; 7 scrapbooks (chiefly news & magazine cuttings), School Magazines, Art World newspapers, miscellaneous magazines & newspapers (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/7)?1930s-1980s; Loose newscuttings, loose magazine cuttings (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/8)??Printed & miscellaneous:?1930s-1980s; Copy of Childhood at Brindabella, inscribed by Miles Franklin, copy of Gems of English poetry, genealogy papers & documents, exhibition catalogues, publication lists & biographical notes, ephemera such as invitations & colouring competition forms, greeting cards with the author’s designs & miscellaneous printed items (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/8) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2002 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Letter from Mavis Thorpe Clark addressed to the Grade Fives of Blackburn South Primary School. Also a newsclipping showing her at Blackburn Library Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Nikki Henningham Created 7 October 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jillian Segal has held executive and non-executive positions in a variety of Australian corporations and across the financial sector. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors, Member of the Harvard Club of Australia, Member of Chief Executive Women and Founding Co-Chair, WomenCorporateDirectors (Australian Chapter). Jillian Segal has a BA LL.B from the University of New South Wales and an LL.M from Harvard Law School. She started her law career as an associate to The Right Honourable Sir Anthony Mason at the High Court of Australia after graduating from Law School with the University Medal. After completing her Masters at Harvard Law School and working in a New York law firm, Jillian returned to Sydney to become a Senior Associate and later a partner at Allen, Allen and Hemsley (now Allens Linklaters) in the corporate and environment fields. She then went on to become a Commissioner and later Deputy Chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). After completion of her five year term she was a review member of the Dawson Review into the Trade Practices Act. In 2003 she set out to pursue a non-executive career. Since that time, she has held a range of corporate and government advisory board positions. Jillian is currently a Non-Executive Director of the National Australia Bank and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. She is Deputy Chancellor of UNSW Australia, and Chairman of the General Sir John Monash Foundation, Australia’s national scholarship organization for postgraduate study overseas. Jillian is Chairman of the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce (NSW). She is a Trustee of The Sydney Opera House Trust and a Member of the Australian War Memorial Council. Previous roles have included a non-executive director of ASX Limited; Chairman of the Banking and Finance Ombudsman Board (now FOS), the Administrative Review Council and a member of the Federal Government’s Remuneration Tribunal. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Jill Segal (with Nikki Henningham) Created 18 May 2016 Last modified 30 January 2019 Digital resources Title: Jill Segal Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The collection contains: letters from poets and artists including Eleanor Dark, Henrietta Drake-Brockman, Sumner Locke Elliott, Xavier Herbert, A. D. Hope, Dorothea Mackellar, Ian Mudie, and Katharine Susannah Prichard; a transcript of tape-recordings (1 v.); typescript for book “All roads lead to Rome” by Frank Clune; a list of books received with the collection, catalogued and shelved in the Whelan collection; a curriculum vitae for Grace Cuthbert Brown M.B.E. M.B. Ch.M., F.R. O.G.; a transcript “about Virgil Reilly” and biographical data on Bart. J. Bok. Author Details Clare Land Created 22 October 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "A. LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, ca. 1923-ca. 1959?Manuscript and typescript copies of ‘Pilgrimage’, 1923-1924; ‘Prelude to Christopher’, c.1934; ‘Return to Coolami’, c.1936; ‘Sun Across the Sky’, c.1937; ‘Waterway’, c.1938; ‘The Timeless Land’, c.1937-1940; ‘The Little Company’, c.1945; ‘Storm of Time’, c.1944-c.1947; ‘No Barrier’, c.1953; ‘Lantana Lane’, c.1959. Also includes nauscripts of articles, lectures, plays and poems, an untitled manuscript concerning the Calder family and fragmentary literary manuscripts.??B. PERSONAL PAPERS, 1849-1980?Personal Papers, including diaries, 1936-1960; papers of the Dark and O’Reilly families, 1849-1978; research notes re historical trilogy, 1936-1960; bookjackets; newscuttings, including reviews of novels in American and Australian newspapers; printed short stories and poems, 1923-1978; correspondence, 1924-1980. (Call No.: MLMSS 4545/15-15)??C. PICTORIAL MATERIAL.?Photographs, drawings and locks of hair relating to Eleanor Dark, 1908-1967?Includes album of sketches, loose pencil and watercolour sketches, photographs (Locn No.: Pic.Acc.6073) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "An environmentalist and local and political activist. Jane Bange was an Australian Greens Party candidate for South Coast in 1999 and 2003, and in the House of Representatives for Gilmore in 1998 and 2001. She was a member of the Shoalhaven City Council between 1999 and 2004. Jane Bange grew up in Brisbane, and attended Queensland University on an Army scholarship to study Dentistry. After graduation she worked as an Army Dental Officer for four years, before leaving to travel overseas. She was later employed in private practice in Sydney and in the country. Meeting Bill Mollison and learning of the concept of Permaculture, led to her membership of the Greens Party and a change in the direction of her life. She retrained as a remedial massage therapist. She was elected to the Shoalhaven City Council in 1999 and during her term on Council, worked on many committees including the Development, Policy and Planning and Youth Advisory committees. Jane is an active member of local groups of Amnesty International, the Australian Conservation Foundation and Oxfam-Community Aid Abroad. She is also involved with Shoalhaven Women for Reconciliation and is Secretary of the Friends of the Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby. Jane was presented with a Certificate of Service to the Shoalhaven City Council when, in 2004, she decided not to seek re-election to the council. At the time she hoped to undertake a role as a dentist in East Timor. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence, drafts, original artwork and mock-ups, press cuttings, scrapbooks, photographs, costume design, ballet posters. Titles include Frisky, Alice in wonderland, Alice through the looking glass, Wippi, World of animals, and Yasmin the Yeti. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Meta Overman was a Dutch-born composer who studied piano and composition with leading figures in Rotterdam before emigrating to Western Australia in 1951. She earned accolades for her works, which included choral, instrumental, chamber pieces, ballets and operas. After lengthy sojourns in both Melbourne and Holland, she returned to Perth in 1978, where she remained until her death in 1993. Meta Overman was born in Rotterdam, Holland, in 1907. Her father made his living as an accountant but was also a violinist, and her mother was a professional pianist and teacher. It was she who gave Meta piano tuition until the age of nine, after which she was taught by Johan Kievid, who later became Professor of Music at the Hochschule in Berlin. At the age of eleven, Meta Overman played an arrangement for piano and orchestra of the Overture from Mozart’s ‘Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail’ (The Abduction from the Seraglio) with the Rotterdam Youth Orchestra. As a teenager, Overman studied piano and composition with Edward Flipse, Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. She also worked as an accompanist for two children’s choirs and began work on what was to be a substantial collection of compositions for children, including four operas. In 1937, Overman was able to devote more time to studying composition, which she did with Willem Pijper, Director of the Rotterdam Conservatorium, who helped develop her compositional talents and became an important mentor. The occupation of Holland by the Nazis in 1940 resulted in widespread bombing, which destroyed both the Conservatorium and Willem Pijper’s house, including many of his manuscripts. Meta Overman continued working and composing, however, and in 1944 married pianist Frank Russcher, and they toured together throughout Holland playing piano duets. Their son, Marius, was born in 1945. During this time, Overman’s compositions were being performed with increasing regularity, and were attracting significant accolades in the Dutch press. Due to a post-war shortage of housing, the family migrated in 1951 to Perth, Western Australia, to live with relatives. A move to Albany on the south coast provided an escape from the summer heat, and allowed Overman to begin a fruitful relationship with the Scots Church Choir, for whom she completed Saul and David, and The Image of the Cross in 1953. The most significant work completed during this time, however, was Psyche (1953), a three act opera. It was performed at the 1955 Festival of Perth; while reviewed favourably, was poorly attended and a financial disaster. Overman’s marriage to Russcher also broke down, and in 1957 Overman, Marius, and new partner Robert Hyner settled in Melbourne, where they remained until 1969. Here Overman forged strong friendships with other composers and artists, including Keith Humble, Robert Hughes and Margaret Sutherland. Overman retuned for Holland in 1969 for a short visit, which, due to poor health, ended up being a nine year stay. She returned to Western Australia in 1978 to be near son Marius, and began writing again, having composed little while back in Holland. She wrote increasingly for flute (Hyner was a flautist), and in Haiku (1983), for flute and electric piano, united her philosophical and avant garde interests. Overman also continued her long-standing interest in writing for children, composing and dedicating a number of works to her grandson. Her last work was Concertino for Five Flutes, written as her eyesight and health were failing in 1993. Published resources Thesis The Life and Music of Meta Overman, Thorpe, Patricia, 1988 Conference Proceedings Meta Overman, Her Life and Music: A Feminine Response?, Thorpe, Patricia, 1994 Book Section Meta Overman, Bebbington, Warren Arthur, 1997 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources University of Western Australia Meta Overman Manuscripts Collection Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 18 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Erika Feller has had an eminent career in international law, humanitarian protection and diplomacy. When she was appointed Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2006, she became the highest ranked Australian working in the United Nations at that time. In the ensuing years she undertook protection oversight missions to the large majority of the major refugee emergencies of recent years. She has been an ardent spokesperson for millions of vulnerable people throughout the world. Appointed a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs in 2013, in 2014 Feller was also named as Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at her alma mater, the University of Melbourne. In June 2021, Feller was awarded an AO for distinguished service to the international community, to the recognition and protection of human rights, and to refugee law. Erika Feller was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Erika Feller was born in 1949 in Melbourne, Victoria; the second child in the family, she grew up with an older brother and a younger sister. Her father, Karl, had come out to Australia as a German refugee; a graduate in architecture from the Milan Polytechnic, to practise in Australia he had to requalify, which he did after arriving in Australia, working in a blanket factory to support his studies. Feller’s mother, Elizabeth, was unconventional: a professional woman who worked as a pharmacist. Before her marriage she had led an independent and adventurous life, which included travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway. She was said to have been disappointed that she could not volunteer as a pharmacist in the Spanish Civil War. Karl Feller’s career took the family to Montreal, Canada, during Feller’s pre-school years. When they returned, to the Melbourne suburb of Armadale, Feller entered Lauriston Girls’ School – chosen by her mother because it placed emphasis on academic achievement and sending girls on to university. Feller enjoyed her time at Lauriston. As well as being good at her lessons, she was a sporty child who was happiest horse-riding and playing basketball and tennis. During Feller’s adolescence, her father was away from the family for significant periods while he worked overseas. His trips, and a family holiday to the United States during her teenage years, impressed upon the young Erika that the world was not something of which to be afraid, but to be embraced enthusiastically. In 1967 Feller, influenced by her mother who imparted a strong sense of social justice, began to study law and arts at the University of Melbourne. Immersing herself in student life, Feller attended Vietnam War demonstrations and became treasurer of the Australian/African Association, raising money and collecting for Biafra. Feller wrote articles for ‘Farrago’, the student newspaper of which she was also news editor. She also wrote for the University of Melbourne Law Students’ Society’s periodical, ‘The Summons’, which was edited by Philip Alston (now John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law). With her consciousness concerning women and the law growing, Feller wrote an article for which she interviewed Joan Rosanove, the first woman in Victoria to sign the Victorian Bar roll, about her experiences with discrimination. She was impressed by Rosanove as a professional woman. At the end of her university studies, Feller declined an offer of articles of clerkship from the commercial law firm, Arthur Robinson; instead, she joined the Department of Foreign Affairs. Had she taken up Arthur Robinson’s offer, Feller would have been the firm’s first female articled clerk: “I must have set the cause of feminism a few years back. The firm probably thought ‘Just like a woman, always changing her mind’!” [Hong]. “Lured by the promise of adventure it offered”, Feller moved to Canberra to begin her diplomatic career [Feller and Rubenstein]. Reality struck at a cocktail party signalling the end of the Department of Foreign Affairs’ recruitment process; she was taken aback to be told by a distinguished ambassador that the Department accepted women because they were “marriage fodder” [Feller and Rubenstein]. As women were expected to resign from the Department after marrying, there were few female role models for the budding diplomat. Feller’s first posting was to Berlin in 1973. While Berlin was not considered an important post for Australia at the time, Feller found her three years’ service stimulating, surrounded by dissident artists and writers [Feller and Rubenstein]. Her responsibilities included a visit by the then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, a guest of the East German government. Returning to Canberra following the completion of her posting, Feller became Assistant to the Legal Adviser of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Elihu Lauterpacht. She was subsequently despatched by Lauterpacht to the Australian National University to research Australia’s practice and policy in International Law. This was the first year in which Australian practice in International Law became part of the Australian Yearbook of International Law. Feller then transferred to the Department’s general legal area where her responsibilities included work on the Dillingham Mining Company legal case, which involved sand mining in Fraser Island. In 1980 Feller arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, after a nine-month posting in Rome to cover the Italian presidency of the European Community. In Geneva, Feller was posted as the First Secretary at the Australian Mission to the United Nations, and then promoted to Counsellor. It was here that she began to observe refugee and humanitarian concerns; she also had her first professional encounter with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Feller represented Australia as a lead drafter in the United Nations Convention against Torture. She credits this experience as being when she learnt about the power and limitations of international law. It was also here that she met and married her husband. They went on to have two children: a son and a daughter [Feller and Rubenstein]. Her posting to Geneva completed, in 1984, with her first child, Feller returned to Canberra to lead the relatively new human rights section in the Department of Foreign Affairs. Two years later, however, desirous to reunite her family, she returned to Geneva and accepted a secondment with the Protection Division of the UNHCR; it included roles as Senior Legal Advisor and Chief of the General Legal Advice Section. She was inducted into research work and reacquainted herself with international law; however, she also wished to be in the field and so, in 1991, she was deployed on her first mission for UNHCR to Tajikistan – then in the hiatus of a civil war – assisting with drafting a law on internal and external displacement, bringing into force a regime of law protecting refugees. This mission was her first experience of the misery, generosity and hospitality of displaced people. Feller was steadily acquiring a reputation as an outstanding lawyer; as a result, her field rotation opportunities were becoming more limited as her legal expertise was being sought in Geneva. In 1993, the High Commissioner, Sadako Ogata, in an attempt to increase Feller’s field experience, directed that Feller be posted to Malaysia to head the Program there as her Representative. Refugee matters were, at that time, very high profile, as Malaysia had declared it was closing camps and repatriating refugees to Vietnam, the announcement resulting in violent clashes inside camps. Feller saw first-hand the potential for refugee camps to be destructive to people, to erode incentive for individuals to take control of their own lives. Her experience in matters relating to resettlement in Southeast Asia galvanized her to help refugees living in protracted situations. In 1996, at the age of 47, Feller returned to Geneva to re-join the Division of International Protection, as its Deputy Director. She took over management of the Division as its Director in 1999. In 2001, she initiated and managed the 2001-02 Global Consultations on International Protection, which gave rise to the Agenda for Protection, the internationally-endorsed global “road map” on protection policy for the years ahead [Feller and Rubenstein]. These global consultations coincided with the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, generated an agenda for protection, reconfirmed global State support for the Convention and reinforced its value through updated interpretations of key provisions. Feller co-edited a book which brought these into a consolidated form. In 2006, Feller was appointed to the newly created role of Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, with the rank of Assistant Secretary General; she thereby became the highest ranked Australian working in the United Nations at that time. In the ensuing years Feller undertook protection oversight missions to the large majority of the major refugee emergencies of recent years, including in West Africa, Darfur and Chad, the Caucasus, the Balkans, Colombia, Timor and the countries which were the focus of UNHCR’s Iraq Operation. During these missions, Feller was instrumental in ushering in changes to ensure that matters concerning the protection of women and children became mainstream. Feller seized the opportunity occasioned by the 60th Anniversary of the 1951 Convention in 2011 to again raise the profile of women, convening dialogues concerned with the issue of pervasive sexual violence against them. She also used the event to draw attention to the anniversary of another important international convention: the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Significantly, Feller raised the matter of female statelessness – where women are unable to acquire citizenship or lose their citizenship through marriage or when their husband dies – in the international community’s consciousness on a number of missions. In 2013 Feller resigned as Assistant Commissioner for Protection. She was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs in 2013. In 2014, she was named a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at her alma mater, the University of Melbourne. During her career, Feller has been a powerful spokesperson for millions of vulnerable people throughout the world. She has contributed to initiatives to combat certain problems that principally affect women, such as sexual and gender-based violence, in the refugee setting. As she has remarked, her endeavours in the study and practice of international law have been a tool “for the betterment of people” [Feller and Rubenstein]. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Erika Feller interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 11 August 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Comprises minutes, correspondence, quarterly continuing education seminars, annual general meeting notices, financial statements. Also, papers from a forum held by the Melbourne Migrant Resource Centre, ca. 1990.??The Melbourne Migrant Resource Centre was the first body of its kind in Victorian and was set up following the recommendations of the Galbally Report. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 August 2006 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Gwyneth Dow was appointed as a Lecturer in the Education Faculty at the University of Melbourne in 1958, a Senior Lecturer in 1963 and Reader in 1970. She was an inaugural member of the Steering Committee of the Curriculum Advisory Board in Victoria, and fostered pilot schemes to introduce curriculum and organisational changes in secondary schools. She published several reports relating to these schemes. She introduced a Diploma of Education Course “Systems of Education” and was instrumental in introducing an alternative Diploma of Education Course, Course B, which concentrated on method and practical teaching in the first year. Gwyneth Dow, a descendant of the early colonial Terry family, began researching the family history in 1965 after writing an article on Samuel and Rosetta for the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Gwyneth Maude Dow, nee Terry took her BA and DipEd in 1957, her MEd in 1961 and DEd in 1984. Before beginning a long career in academia she worked as a personnel officer during the war as one of the first industrial welfare officers employed in Melbourne factories and taught in schools in Australia and England. She was briefly married to the journalist Rohan Rivett. The couple lost two babies. In 1947 she married Hume Dow, a member of the English Department and author of two books of University recollections.[1] Engaged as a Lecturer in the Education Faculty at the University of Melbourne in 1958 after part-time work in 1957, Gwyneth Dow rose to Reader in 1970. She was proponent of change in both the school curriculum and teacher education. As a foundation member of the Victorian Curriculum Advisory Board, on which she served from 1966 to 1970, chairing it for the last seven years, she wrote many of its papers, in which she emphasised teaching was an art and stressed the importance of care, human relationships, spontaneity, imagination and intuition in teaching. She also argued passionately against streaming, IQ testing, the use of ‘teacher-proof resources’ and the transmission of inert ideas in classrooms.[2] She introduced a DipEd course in Systems of Education, and 1973 saw the launch of the Course B she had designed and worked for some years to establish. This course placed Education students in schools for three days a week with a stress on interdisciplinary curriculum studies and methods work. Gwyneth Dow was also an active unionist, succeeding, through the Victorian Teachers’ Union, in achieving permanent status for married women teachers. In retirement she devoted much of her scholarly attention to Tasmanian and family history. A book based on her Master’s thesis had been published in 1964. In 1974 her biography of her great-great grandfather, Samuel Terry, a convict who became the richest man in NSW and one of the largest shareholders in the Bank of New South Wales, appeared.[3] In 1990 she and her husband published a history of an Oxfordshire yeoman family in Tasmania entitled Landfall in Van Diemen’s Land.[4] [1] Hume Dow. Memories of Melbourne University: Undergraduate Life in the Years since 1917. Melbourne: Hutchinson of Australia. 1983; Hume Dow. More Memories of Melbourne University: Undergraduate Life in the Years since 1919. Melbourne: Hutchinson, 1985. [2] Anne Longmire. ‘Revolutionising Education For All: Dr Gwyneth Maude Dow Educational Reformer and Historian. Age. 1 October 1 1996. [3] Gwyneth M. Dow. George Higinbotham: Church and State. Melbourne: Pitman, 1964; Gwyneth M. Dow. Samuel Terry: the Botany Bay Rothschild. Sydney: University Press; Portland, Or: International Scholarly Book Services, 1974. [4] Gwyneth and Hume Dow. Landfall in Van Diemen’s Land: the Steels’ Quest for Greener Pastures. Melbourne: Footprint, 1990. Published resources Resource Section Terry, Samuel, Dow, Gwyneth M, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020468b.htm Book Samuel Terry :the Botany Bay Rothschild, Dow, Gwyneth M, 1974 Learning to teach, teaching to learn, Dow, Gwyneth, 1979 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Dow, Gwyneth Dow Family Dow, Gwyneth Author Details Anne Heywood and Juliet Flesch Created 15 October 2003 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Greenwood speaks of her work as a broadcaster for the ABC commencing in 1936 ; about her involvement with the feminist movement ; her mother, Mary Driver, who was a founder of women’s groups in W.A. ; the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "5 sound files (approximately 7 hr. 20 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "6 sound files Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "BOX 1?Folders 1-2?Papers relating to meetings of the Historical and Archival Committee of the Benevolent Society, and the Royal Hospital for Women; newspaper clippings, minutes, correspondence, draft papers, research, etc. for a seminar on the history of the Royal Hospital for Women, ca. 1972-1990??Folder 3?Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Hospital for Women, Annual Report July 1984-June 1985; papers, correspondence, and publication on the Benevolent Society’s Early Intervention Programme; history of the Physiotherapy Department by Pat Fleming, 1980-1995??Folder 4?Papers, correspondence, and clippings relating to personal experiences and historical accounts of the Royal Hospital for Women, 1960-1996??Folder 5?Papers, clippings, etc. primarily relating to meetings of the Royal Hospital for Women Historical Committee, and for the writing of a history of the Hospital, 1962-1997??BOX 2?Folder 1?Papers relating to the aims and objectives of the Royal Hospital for Women ca. 1986, together with papers relating to the Benevolent Society relinquishing the Royal Hospital for Women, also includes 1987-1988 Annual Report, 1985-1997??Folders 2-3?Papers relating to the development of the Guide to the Papers of the Benevolent Society, including Heritage Council application and reports, correspondence, diary of meetings, and drafts, 1995-1997??Folder 4?Papers and correspondence, mainly between Dr Ian Cope and Alistair Gunn, Hon Librarian Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, relating to the obtaining of antiquarian books, which are now held by the State Library of New South Wales within the Benevolent Society/Gordon Bradley Lowe Collection, 1964-1992 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Catholic Migrant Centre has been crucial to the provision of support services to immigrants to Perth for over twenty years. The Catholic Episcopal Migrqation and Welfare Association was set up shortly after the end of World War Two to assist Catholic Children from the United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta who had been brought to Western Australia without their parents. In 1970, the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau was established to monitor the placement of these kids in various institutions; by 1972 it had developed into a general counselling and welfare agency, receiving funding from the Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs (DILGEA) to employ a dedicated migrant worker. In 1973, a separate Catholic Immigration Office was established, placed under the care of the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau. The Catholic Immigration Office grew and evolved, first changing its name to the Catholic Migrant Resource Centre and eventually becoming the Catholic Migrant Centre in 1984. In 1985 the Catholic Migrant Centre became an autonomous body accountable to the Western Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Report Mail Order Brides: A West Australian Study on Filipino Australian Marriages, Vogels, Guido, 1984 The Situation of Filipino Brides in the Northern Areas of Western Australia, Scaramella, Maria Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Gruszka Mietka papers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 August 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Estelle Thomson was a member of the Queensland Naturalists’ Club, contributing flowers, paintings and drawings to the club’s annual wildflower show. She published Flowers of Our Bush (1929), a guide to Queensland wildflowers, which described and illustrated coastal species. From 1929 to the 1930s Estelle ran a weekly ‘Wildflowers’ column in the Brisbane Courier, illustrated by her own line drawings. This was followed by her column ‘Nature’s Ways’ in the Telegraph which she maintained until 1950. Additionally, Thomson lectured at women’s clubs and schools, illustrating her lectures with delicately hand-coloured lantern slides. During the 1940s Estelle gave a series of children’s talks on wildflowers on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and produced a series of paintings of poisonous plants for the University of Queensland’s Medical School. She deposited specimens in the Queensland Herbarium, including some collected on the Granite Belt and at Caloundra. Estelle was also an expert on Queensland birds. Estelle Thomson was the daughter of George Comrie-Smith, photographer and artist, and Ethel, nee Thomson. Both her parents were keen naturalists. Estelle’s early love of nature was inspired by family visits to the Scottish Highlands and the Lakes District of Cumberland. She was educated at Calder House School at Seascale, Cumberland, and later at a school of physical culture at Dartford, Kent. Estelle was a teacher of physical culture and eurhythmics before her marriage in Glasgow in 1917 to her second cousin, the Queensland surveying engineer Aubrey Frederick Thomson (formerly von Stieglitz), then serving with the Australian Army in Europe during the First World War. In 1919 Estelle and Aubrey Thomson arrived in Brisbane, later to be followed by her parents. They settled on a farm, Wombo, at Eight Mile Plains south of Brisbane, where they raised poultry and small crops until forced to abandon the venture in 1923. The then unspoilt bush of Eight Mile Plains made a lasting impression on Estelle and she became an active member of the Queensland Naturalists’ Club from the 1920s. Estelle was vice-president in 1929-30 and president in 1930-31. She was to spend the rest of her life awakening public appreciation of Australian wildflowers, while also raising her four children. Published resources Book Brilliant Careers - Women collectors and illustrators in Queensland, McKay, Judith, 1997 Flowers of Our Bush: with an introduction by C. T. White, Thomson, Estelle, 1929 Resource Early Days of Brisbane Lyceum, Mittelheuser, Dr Cathryn AM, 2006, http://www.lyceumbrisbane.org.au/History.htm Lyceum Club Brisbane Incorporated, Lyceum Club Brisbane Incorporated, 2006, http://www.lyceumbrisbane.org.au/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection R 1694 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc Records TR 2080 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc. Records 1998-2000 R 1453 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc. Records R 1229 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc. Newsletter R 1600 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc Records 1995-1996??R 1600 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc Records 1995-1996??R 1600 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc Records 1995-1996 R 1218 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc. Records 1931-1994; 2013 6602 Estelle Thomson's Lantern Slides Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Madge Cope discusses the women’s movement in Western Australia. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "16 sound tape reels.??Ryan talks about her family background; political discussions at home; general domestic situation; bubonic plague in 1900 and growing up in Pyrmont, N.S.W. She then describes her introduction to the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World); anti-conscription campaign; impact of WWI and the Russian Revolution. Ryan also describes her Bohemian days; 1st jobs; Australian Socialist Party; timber workers’ strike of 1929 and her involvement with the Communist Party. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 29 August 2000 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "1 hour??Miriam Tonkin, nee Brunning, was born in Melbourne, Victoria. She left school at 13 years of age to begin work. She was very active in the Eureka Youth League as a teenager and describes an intensive period working on the Communist Party’s Guardian newspaper. Miriam married in 1950 and she and her husband moved to Adelaide with their five young children in 1958. In the late 1960s Miriam became involved in the peace movement and Women’s Liberation. Her belief in women’s right to control their fertility led to her involvement in organisations including the Humanist Society, the Abortion Law Reform Association and the Friends of the Pregnancy Advisory Centre. She also speaks about the current status of the abortion reform campaign. Miriam qualified as a kindergarten teacher in the mid 1970s and became active in her union and in education reform as well. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Read more about Tanja Lietdke in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. German-born Tanja Liedtke took her first dance and theatre studies at the age of 8 in Spain. Her dance training continued at Elmhurst Ballet School, Surrey, and Ballet Rambert School London, from which she graduated in 1995. Tanja moved to Sydney in 1996 and studied under ballet teacher Tanya Pearson. A fellowship took her to Canberra’s Australian Choreographic Centre in 1998 and the following year she joined the Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) in Adelaide. She worked with the ADT until 2003, touring across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. In 2003 Tanja joined Lloyd Newson’s London-based DV8 company and performed in the internationally acclaimed production The Cost of Living, which eventually became a Channel 4 film. In addition to her career as a dancer, Tanja was commissioned to create works for other countries, including Brazil, Germany and Scotland. Her first full-length work Twelfth Floor won the 2006 Australian Dance Award for outstanding choreography. Another of her productions, Construct, was premiered at London’s Southbank Centre in May 2007, followed by an Australian premier in 2008. Tanja was honoured with the prestigious Helpmann Award for Best New Choreography in 2008 for her work on this production. Tanja was appointed artistic director of the Sydney Dance Company in May 2007 however, before she could take up the position, Tanja was tragically killed in a road accident in August 2007. In 2017, to commemorate ten years since Tanja Liedtke’s passing, the Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) staged a second season of Construct. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Ephemera Collection [Liedtke, Tanja (dancer and choreographer) : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Tanja Liedtke, 1996-2012 [manuscript] Author Details Helen Morgan Created 23 April 2014 Last modified 7 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Monash University M.A. thesis on the Save Our Sons Movement in Victoria 1965-73 (1991); folder of copies of cuttings containing reviews, review articles and comments (at least one unpublished) on Pauline Armstrong’s book ‘Frank Hardy and the Making of Power Without Glory’. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "5 hours 26 minutes??Andi Sebastian was born in Bordertown, South Australia. She majored in English and Drama at university. In 1977 Andi joined the Women’s Unit of the Premier’s Department and established the Women’s Information Switchboard. She became involved in sex industry politics when she helped the Scarlet Alliance to make a submission to a Select Committee of Enquiry into Prostitution and became their media spokesperson. Andi discusses the defeat of the Millhouse reform bill in the early 1980s; her renewed involvement in the mid 1980s with the establishment of the Prostitutes’ Association; and the drafting and withdrawal of the Pickles decriminalisation bill. Andi describes changes in the sex industry during the 1980s; sex workers’ health programs of the late 1980s; and the organisation of a national conference in 1988. In 1990 Andi was appointed General Manager of the AIDS Council of South Australia, a position she held for three and a half years. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The War Widows’ Guild of Australia was formed in 1945 in Victoria by the late Mrs Jessie Mary Vasey OBE, CBE, widow of Major-General George Vasey. In 1947 the Queensland State Branch was formed. The Guild aims to watch over and protect the interests of war widows by lobbying politicians and offering its members friendship, empathy and comfort in times of need, particularly in the loss of a partner. Its motto is as relevant today as it was at the Guild’s formation over 60 years ago:- We all belong to each other We all need each other It is in serving each other And in sacrificing for our common good That we are finding our true life (Extract from an Empire Day Message from His Majesty the late King George the Sixth in 1949). It was Mrs Vasey’s belief in “self-help” that led to the establishment of the Guild through craft classes. The sale of crafts also augmented the widows’ meagre pensions. Queensland established a very successful weaving school under the leadership of Mrs Connie Hoffman who came up from Melbourne to teach. These craft groups brought the young widows together and gave them a purpose as well as the companionship of other widows. The first Sub-Branch was formed in Toowoomba on 8 August 1947, just four days before the State Guild. Today there are 24 Sub-Branches throughout Queensland and five Social Groups in Brisbane where volunteer war widows look after the interests of their members by living the words of the Guild Motto. Today the Guild not only provides a “listening ear”, it provides friendship, welfare advice, social functions and activities, new member orientation, tours, a quarterly Bulletin magazine, volunteer hospital visitor service, nursing home visitors, various scholarships to universities in Queensland, Maj-jong, Bridge classes and Alexander Technique classes (the art of gentle exercise). A further service the Guild provides is that of a Community Services Officer (CSO) who informs members and their families of services available in the community and how to access these services. The CSO will discuss any matters or concerns the members may have, either by a visit to the member’s home or by telephone, and make any necessary referrals. The Queensland Vasey Housing Auxiliary (War Widows’ Guild) was established in 1961 to provide suitable accommodation at an affordable price for war widows over 55 years of age and other eligible persons. Today the Auxiliary manages 6 blocks of units in and around Brisbane (110 units) as well as 2 holiday units at Caloundra on the North Coast. The Queensland Guild owes its success to the early foundation members. Those who took up the challenge at the inaugural meeting in 1947 were Mrs Hazel Sanders (Hopkinson) – President; Mesdames Betty Crombie (Deshon) and Edna Duff – Vice-Presidents; Mrs Doris Houston – Honorary Treasurer and Mrs J. Bird – Honorary Secretary. The subscription was set at one shilling a year. [1] Subsequent State Presidents Mrs Betty Crombie (Deshon) 1948-1950 Mrs Gertrude McKay 1950-1951 Mrs Margaret Gordon 1951-1954 Mrs Billie Hughes OAM 1954-1994 Mrs Jean Walters 1994-1997 Mrs Marjory Brown BEM 1997-2000 Mrs Alison Armstrong FCPA 2000 -2003 Mrs Norma Whitfield 2003-2006 Mrs Barbara Murphy 2006- Mrs Billie Hughes OAM held the position of National President from 1981 to 1986. Mrs Norma Whitfield is the current National President (2004 to date). Today the Guild is managed by a State Council of 25 comprising the State President, two Vice Presidents, Honorary Treasurer and 21 Council members. The Guild is represented on various ex-service committees and the State President attends several memorial services throughout the year to lay a wreath on behalf of war widows. Sub-Branch representatives lay wreaths on behalf of their local members in the regional centres. 2007 marks the 60th anniversary of the War Widows’ Guild in Queensland and members are proud of the achievements of the strong and dedicated women who have gone before them, particularly the earlier members who laid the foundations for the success of the organisation and the benefits that war widows receive today. To be eligible for membership, a widow must be designated “War Widow” by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, meaning that their partner’s death has been accepted as due to war causes. Re-married war widows, war widowers or Defence Service Widows in receipt of compensation from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs are also eligible. The majority of members are widows from the Second World War. As our members age, we are now looking towards our younger widows from subsequent wars as well as Peacekeeping personnel widows to carry on the wonderful work of our forebears and preserve Mrs Vasey’s aspiration to have all war widows living with dignity and security. This entry was provided by Veronica Kratzmann, State Secretary of the War Widows’ Guild of Australia (Queensland) Inc., April 2007. Published resources Book No Mean Destiny: The Story of the War Widows' Guild of Australia 1945-85, Clark, Mavis Thorpe, 1986 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 April 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Amirah Inglis was a devoted and active member of the Communist Party in Australia during the politically turbulent Menzies era. Her autobiographical works describe the difficulties and confusion of growing up a migrant in Australia, born of Polish-Jewish parents. She has also written essays, reviews and books on Papua New Guinea, and on the Spanish Civil War. The hammer & sickle and the washing up: memories of an Australian woman Communist includes descriptions of Amirah’s life in Canberra in the 1960s, and her marriage to academic Ken Inglis. Amirah’s father, Itzhak Gutstadt (later changed to Gust), migrated to Melbourne in 1928. Amirah and her mother joined him there in 1929. Two of her books tell the story of her life. Amirah, an Un-Australian Childhood, published by William Heinemann Australia in 1983 and reprinted 1984, 1985 and in paperback 1989, a ‘loving and sensuous account…paints a perfect sociological portrait’ (Weekend Australian) of Melbourne in the 1930s and 1940s. It portrays her loving, Polish Jewish Communist parents and the joys and difficulties of living as migrants. The Hammer and Sickle and the Washing Up, Hyland House, Melbourne, 1995, tells of her involvement with the Communist Party of Australia during the 1950’s and 60’s, including the Menzies government’s attempts to outlaw the Communist Party and the Petrov Affair. It is Amirah’s story: her struggle to balance political activism and family responsibilities. Amirah Inglis’ other books reflect a desire to understand the complexities of her world within the framework of the humanitarian, internationalist, European-based communist ideology of her migrant parents and the completely new world of Papua New Guinea where she lived and worked between 1967-1974. In 1998 in an interview with Sarah Dowse (4 digital audio tapes, held at the National Library of Australia) Inglis speaks of her current project, editing her Polish-born father’s memoirs; her family and her own childhood in Melbourne; her political activism as a member of the Communist Party of Australia; her marriage to Ian Turner and events surrounding their move to Canberra in the 1960s; her involvement with the Australian National University and her teaching position at Lyneham High School; her second marriage to Ken Inglis and how their move to New Guinea in the 1970s was the inspiration for her first book which launched her writing career.[1] Amirah Inglis died in Melbourne on 2 May 2015, aged 88. [1] Summary from National Library of Australia Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Not a White Woman Safe: Sexual Anxiety and Politics in Port Moresby 1920-1934, Inglis, Amirah, 1974 Amirah, an un-Australian childhood, Inglis, Amirah, 1983 The hammer & sickle and the washing up : memories of an Australian woman communist, Inglis, Amirah, 1995 Journal Article Coming of Age in Australia, Shrubb, Lee, 1984 Memoirs of a dutiful (Red) daughter, Inglis, Amirah, 1987 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Elizabeth (1905-1990) Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Amirah Inglis Collection National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Amirah Inglis, 1950-2005 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Amirah Inglis interviewed by Peter Biskup [sound recording] Amirah Inglis interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] State Library of New South Wales Audrey Blake and Jack Blake further papers, 1937-2004 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 February 2003 Last modified 15 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Mrs Amirah Inglis completing a book about the Spanish Civil War Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1 hour 39 minutes??Gaye Barnes, nee Robinson, grew up in Angle Park, Adelaide where her parents ran racing stables. Gaye explains how, within an eighteen month period aged 19 and 20, she had three abortions for personal convenience, and the severe psychological effects on her. She describes a life-altering religious experience arising out of continuing depression and her later determination to help others. In 1990 she and her husband Peter, also a Christian, had three children. They sold their home to establish the non-denominational Genesis Pregnancy Support service at Marden. She describes the centre’s publicity, fund raising, training for support workers, support groups, and its relationship to other organisations. Gaye also discusses the issue of post-abortion grief. She concludes by voicing her disappointment at the lack of support from some churches but also describing the rewards of seeing lives changed by her work. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Women’s Theatre Group was active in Adelaide from 1975 to 1989. The group wrote, produced, directed, scored, performed and built the stage for their productions. They performed cabaret and theatrical works. All-women productions were a first in Adelaide. The women worked through a collective. They won the Adelaide Festival Centre best production award for ‘Redheads Revenge’ in 1978. Other productions included ‘Christobel in Paris’ 1975, ‘Caroline Chisel Show’ 1976, International Women’s Day Concert and ‘Chores 1’ in 1977, ‘Chores 2’ and ‘I want I want’ 1979, ‘Out of the Frying Pan’ 1980,’ Onward to Glory’ 1982, ‘Margin to Mainstream’ and ‘Women and Work Women and Paid Work’ 1984, ‘Sybils Xmas Concert ‘1985, and 1989 ‘Is this Seat Taken?’, this last show explored relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women. The group included the Women in Education Theatre Group and the Feminist Theatre Group. During International Women’s Year (1975) a grant was awarded for a women’s cabaret called ‘Christobel in Paris’. The women formed a collective to produce, write, perform, manage, and build stages for their own plays and revues. In December 1976 the ‘Caroline Chisel Show’ written by Jenny Pausacker with musical direction and arrangement by Janet Seidel was performed. The following year they performed at the International Women’s Day Concert and produced ‘Chores’ which later became ‘Chores 1’. In 1978 Jenny Pausacker and Janet Seidel teamed up again for ‘Redheads Revenge’. This was performed at the Space theatre Adelaide Festival Centre and the play won the best production award from the Centre for 1978. ‘Redheads Revenge’ was based on the conventions of melodrama and its cast included Fran and Pat Kelly, Helen Bock, Minnie Applemy along with many others. ‘Redheads Revenge’ turned a profit and the collective created the Feminist Theatre Fund for future productions. In 1979 these productions included ‘Chores 2’ and ‘I want I want’. In November 1980 ‘Out of the Frying Pan’ collectively written by Jacki Cook, Jenny Pausacker, Miranda and Pat Roe, Sue Higgins [Sheridan], Andi Sebastian, Anne Dunn, Lindy Sharne and Judy Szekeres. The ‘Lonely Motherhood Show’ was produced in 1981. In 1982 Anne Dunn directed ‘Into the 30’s’. Women’s Education Theatre Group mounted a production in 1982 of ‘Onward To Glory’ at the Royality Theatre. Jenny Pausacker and Anne Dunn wrote ‘Margin to Mainstream’, performed in 1984. ‘Women and Work Women and Paid work’ and ‘Sybil’s Xmas Concert’ were performed in 1985. The final production in 1989 was ‘Is this seat taken?’, written by Jenny Pausacker and other collective members. This last show explored relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women. Many of the performances were videoed and or audio taped including post production meetings. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women's Theatre Group Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The collection comprises personal papers, including on Lutton’s studies and the Girl Guides; personal and work files from Papua New Guinea; personal and work files from Perth; records relating to Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (PARBICA); records from Lutton’s time in Canberra; research files including on Sir Donald and Dame Rachel Cleland; inward correspondence; and cassette tapes. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "MS 7583 comprises correspondence, board minutes, executive records, conference records and papers relating to submissions and campaigns. There are also papers relating to the International Council of Women (24 boxes).??The Acc GB 1993/1502 instalment comprises records of the National Council of Women of the Australian Capital Territory and includes minutes, correspondence, membership lists, reports, including annual reports for 1952-1990, photographs, cuttings and financial records (4 cartons, 1 small carton).??The Acc07/96 instalment comprises records relating to seminars and conferences, policy and the history of the National Council of Women of Australia, correspondence, publications, submission papers and meeting minutes (35 boxes).??The Acc GB 1993/1502 instalment comprises records of the National Council of Women of the Australian Capital Territory and includes minutes, correspondence, membership lists, reports, including annual reports for 1952-1990, photographs, cuttings and financial records (4 cartons, 1 small carton).??The Acc07/96 instalment comprises records relating to seminars and conferences, policy and the history of the National Council of Women of Australia, correspondence, publications, submission papers and meeting minutes (35 boxes).?The National Council of Women of Australia originated with various state councils, the first being formed in 1896 in New South Wales. In 1931 the Australian National Council of Women was founded as a non-profit organisation promoting women’s issues and social welfare. In 1970 the Council’s name was changed to the National Council of Women of Australia. The Council is an affiliated member of the International Council of Women, a federation of non-government organisations in many countries.?Manuscript reference no.: MS 7583, MS Acc GB 1993/1502, MS Acc07/96.??Associated materials: Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1936-1972 MS 5193. Author Details Elizabeth Daniels Created 6 September 2013 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sylvia Curley qualified as a nurse in 1926 and spent her early years of nursing in country New South Wales. She worked for the Canberra Community Hospital (later known as the Royal Canberra Hospital) from 1938 until her retirement in 1966 as deputy matron. In her ‘retirement’ years she ran a nursing employment agency in Canberra and was a strong advocate for changes to nurses’ education. In 1994 she donated her family home, Mugga Mugga, to the people of Canberra and oversaw its development into an environmental education centre. Sylvia Curley was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 8 June 1992 for her services to nursing, to local history and to the National Trust. Sylvia Curley was born into a pioneering Canberra family and grew up on Duntroon estate, before moving to Mugga Mugga homestead in 1913. She trained as a nurse at Goulburn for four years, and at Leeton and Narrandera she developed her lifelong commitment to patient care and student nurses education. As matron at Gundagai, in five years she changed a run-down hospital to one described by the then New South Wales (NSW) minister for health as ‘the cleanest and best of its size’, which she achieved through influencing administrators and community fundraising. During her time there she took leave without pay to further her training in New Zealand and Sydney. Curley returned to Canberra in 1938 to take up the position of sub-matron of the then Canberra Hospital, only to find that the hospital had been the subject of a royal commission. Staff morale was very low and a group of nurses had resigned in protest at the actions of the hospital board and the sacking of the previous matron. Not to be deterred, she set about improving the hygiene of the kitchen, management of food supplies, menus, diets and she paid from her own salary for a Coolgardie safe to be built when the hospital board refused. Curley also introduced the tray system for patient meals. Concerned at the lack of social lives and the rule of no visitors to nurses quarters Curley organised hospital balls and dances, largely funded from her own pocket, which were great successes and attracted up to 800 guests. She organised fetes and other fundraising events for a student nurses reference library, and for years she lobbied hospital management for improved nursing training and superannuation. Curley went on largely self-funded study tours to New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, and reported back on developments in hospital practice and nurse training, showing Australia to be behind the times. Her efforts saw the establishment in 1957 of the Nursing School in Canberra, the second in Australia, which was based on a model she had seen in New Zealand. In 1964 a nursing home on the site of the former nurses quarters at Canberra Hospital was named in Curley’s honour. In 1966, after twenty-nine years at the Royal Canberra Hospital, she retired from nursing, but without superannuation she was forced to continue working and she started an employment agency. This she ran for twenty years, during which time a dental nurse training course at Canberra Technical College was established at her suggestion and she lobbied for a medical records course for secretaries. On retiring she set herself the project of documenting the history of the Canberra region, most of which she knew first hand, and was anxious for children to understand how things were in Canberra’s past. At the age of 91 she was recognised with a Medal in the General Division of the Order of Australia for services to nursing, local history and the National Trust. After the death of her last family member, she maintained her family’s Mugga Mugga property herself in excellent condition, receiving praise from the Department of Agriculture on her management of the farm. In 1995 Curley bequeathed the historic 17ha property to the people of Canberra, and established an education centre for environmental studies and turned the homestead into a cottage museum, which she said was the only museum in Canberra to contain original pieces of property of a pioneering family. In 1998 her memoirs were published documenting her life at Duntroon and Mugga Mugga and her ‘three careers’ as a nurse, employment consultant and lessee farmer. At her 100th birthday thanksgiving mass, she described the Mugga Mugga education centre as her vision and dream. She died in the same year. Published resources Book A long journey : Duntroon, Mugga Mugga and three careers, Curley, Sylvia, 1998 Resource Section Curley, Sylvia (1898 - 1999), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004135b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Ros Russell Created 27 February 2004 Last modified 8 February 2013 Digital resources Title: Sylvia Curley Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of Mrs Grace (Gretta) Margaret Lewis, wife of Major Lancelot Lewis, comprising correspondence, papers on various topics, photographs, newspaper cuttings, diaries, notebooks, minutes of the Women’s Defence Services 1939-1940, and correspondence and newspaper cuttings on National Flower Day. Also comprising papers relating to the Girl Guides Association, prevention of Tuberculosis in Australia, overseas lectures on horticulture, financial correspondence, and obituaries and condolence letters. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Friendly Union of Soldiers’ Wives and Mothers was founded by Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, wife of the Governor General, Sir Ronald Crauford Munro Ferguson, later Lord Novar, soon after the beginning of World War I. The object of the organisation was: The promotion of a friendly feeling amongst the relations of members of the A.I.F., and the giving of mutual help and advice in any trouble or difficulty arising in connection with the Members’ affairs. The first president of the Union was Lady Bridges, wife of General William Throsby Bridges, commander of the First AIF. When General Bridges left his previous position as Commandant of Duntroon Military College in 1914, his wife Edith Bridges and family left Canberra to live at South Yarra in Melbourne. From Federation in 1901 to the opening of Parliament House in Canberra in 1927, the seat of government was in Melbourne and World War I was prosecuted from Victoria Barracks in St Kilda Road. This presence was reflected in the organisation of the Friendly Union which remained predominantly a Victorian organisation centred on Melbourne and drawing many of its senior members and office bearers from the wives of senior military officers. When Lady Bridges the first president resigned due to ill health to become one of the vice presidents, her place was taken by Lady Chauvel, wife of General Sir Harry Chauvel. The vice presidents included Mrs G.F. Pearce, the wife of the Minister for Defence, Mrs Legge, wife of General J.G. Legge and Mrs Sellheim, wife of General Victor Sellheim. The other vice presidents were drawn from women prominent in patriotic and women’s organisations in Melbourne. They included Mrs Eva Hughes, a prominent figure in women’s groups as well as charitable and patriotic organisations including holding the position of president of the conservative, anti-socialist group the Australian Women’s National League. The Friendly Union held monthly meetings beginning with a prayer at the Masonic Hall, Collins Street. Subscription rates were set at 1/- per half year for members and 5/- per half year for committee members. Specific roles were established covering the social and organisational aspects of the Union. There was an Organiser for Visiting, an Organiser for Clothing, a Musical Directoress, an Organiser of Social Teas as well as an Honorary Secretary, Assistant Secretary, and Treasurer. A system of District Visitors was set up with women appointed to cover each of the then major suburbs of Melbourne. Almost all the District Visitors lived in the more affluent suburbs in the south-east of Melbourne as did the Committee Members. These suburbs were all allocated visitors, but it is noticeable that for each of the less affluent suburbs, Brunswick, Coburg, Collingwood, Fitzroy, North Melbourne, Preston and Port Melbourne no District Visitor was named. The establishment of the Friendly Union by Lady Helen was well publicised in country newspapers in Victoria and there is evidence of branches operating in Wangaratta and Geelong. Towards the end of 1915 the Wangaratta branch persuaded Lady Helen Munro Ferguson to break her train journey from Sydney to Melbourne to attend a meeting of the Friendly Union. She urged the hundred women who attended the meeting at the Masonic Hall to draw closer together and seek to strengthen one another by their sympathy and encouragement and kindly words. She also urged them, when they wrote to the ‘brave men at the front’, to write cheerful and happy letters and not mention ‘the little worries at home’. Although there was a report that branches of the Friendly Union were being established in New South Wales, there appears to be no evidence of activity. Some meetings were held in Perth, Western Australia, but the organisation remained predominantly Melbourne-based. Meetings continued to be held after World War I ended and in Sydney a Friendly Union of Sailors’ Wives was active for some years. Archival resources Australian War Memorial Research Centre Friendly Union of Soldiers' Wives and Mothers, Australian Imperial Forces Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 14 February 2019 Last modified 18 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sylvia Kinder was active in both the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement and the Sydney Women’s Liberation Movement. As a teacher she was involved with the South Australian Institute of Teachers (SAIT) which questioned sexist teaching practices within schools. She helped bring changes in education standards designed to reduce gender discrimination, including the use of non sexist language in school and equal opportunities for girls. Sylvia was a member of the Australian Women’s Education Coalition (South Australian Branch). She was involved in the establishment of the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement, Women’s Studies Resource Centre, Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement Archives and the Hindmarsh Women’s Community Health Centre. She was a member of International Women’s Year National Advisory Committee 1974-1976. She wrote a book about the women’s liberation movement in Adelaide. The need for a women’s studies courses became apparent to Sylvia Kinder and other concerned teachers who, in response, set about establishing a women’s library as part of the Women’s Liberation Movement. Books and papers were donated and the Women’s Studies Resource Centre was created. She taught women’s studies at the Women’s Studies Resource Centre. She was a collective member of Liberation, Adelaide Women’s Liberation Newsletter. She served on the Status of Women’s Standing Committee from 1974-1976. Sylvia addressed International Women’s Day rallies or marches. She helped organise conferences including the Young Women’s Festival and the Women in Labour Conference both held in Adelaide. She was also active in gay liberation in South Australia. Some of the other groups she was involved with included Women Behind Bars, Salisbury Women’s Group Newsletter, Salisbury Women’s Health Centre, National Women’s Consultative Council, SAIT Professional Development Committee, International Women’s Day Collective. Women’s Theatre Group (South Australia). There is a collection of taped interviews with South Australian feminist including Pat Ronald, Liz Byard, Anna Yeatman, Judy Gillett, Betty Fisher, Connie Frazer, Deborah McCulloch, Jill Mathews, Sue Higgins (Sheridan) and Gail Tauscher. Sylvia Kinder wrote Herstory of the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement 1969-1974. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newsletter Liberation, 1970 Book Herstory of Adelaide Women's Liberation 1969-1974, Kinder, Sylvia, 1980 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Sylvia Kinder : SUMMARY RECORD Hindmarsh Women's Community Health Centre Women's Theatre Group Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement : SUMMARY RECORD Address by Sylvia Kinder [sound recording] Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 15 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personal papers. Correspondence and other papers relating to his parliamentary life, Australian Labor Party, election campaigns, work with Australia-China Council. Conference reports, brochures and publicity material relating to the international peace movement of 1940’s and later. Personal correspondence, diaries and press clippings relating to his overseas tours. Biographical files including details of the Lenin Peace Prize award in 1961. Associations: Australian Railways Union, Workers’ Political Organisation, Australian Labor Party, Australian Peace Council, World Council of Peace, Australian Assembly for Peace. Correspondents include: Lady (Jessie) Street. Large collection of photographs, including many of representatives at world conferences for peace and disarmament. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Genevieve Rankin’s commitment to social justice, peace and the environment has directed her career in local government, education and community activism. She first ran for parliament in 1991 as an ALP candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Sutherland. She re-contested the seat in 1995, but again failed. However Genevieve Rankin was successfully elected to the Sutherland Shire Council in 1991-2004 and was appointed Mayor from 1994-95. Genevieve Rankin grew up in the St George area of Sydney. She worked as a policy officer at the Australian Council of Social Service, and coordinator of Crossroads Community Care Centre at Miranda. In 1995 she was a lecturer at the University of Western Sydney in Political economy, community work and industrial relations. She was the first President of the NSW Welfare Workers Union and President of the Milperra Branch of the Lecturers’ Association of the NSW Teachers’ Federation. Genevieve has been active in her community, in school, community, peace and environmental groups. A long time member of the ALP, she has held a variety of positions at branch, FEC and SEC level. As Mayor of Sutherland Shire Council, and later as a private citizen, Ms Rankin was active in opposing the new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights, Sydney. She is married to Des, and they have two children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Photographs – 1 glass photonegative Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 December 2006 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The War Widows’ Guild Of Australia was established in Victoria by the late Mrs Jessie Mary Vasey CBE, OBE. The broad aims of the Guild were to watch over and protect the interests of war widows. Qualification for membership of the Guild was restricted to widows of men who were killed on active service or whose deaths were accepted as being war-caused and were therefore in receipt of a war widow’s pension. Later, widows of interned civilians who received a repatriation war widows’ pension were included, as were widows of allied ex-servicemen. The Guild began in Victoria and was founded by the late Mrs Jessie Mary Vasey CBE, OBE. Her husband, General George Alan Vasey, an army officer, commanded Australian forces in Greece and New Guinea during World War II. While on leave in 1945 he called on the widow of one of his men and was appalled at her living conditions. It was Major-General Vasey’s wish that after he returned from the battlefields he, with the help of his wife, would look after the families of the men who were killed while serving with him. On 5 March 1945, aged 49 years, Major-General Vasey was himself killed in an aircraft accident. Jessie Vasey formed the War Widows’ Guild of Australia on 22 November 1945. Qualification for membership of the Guild was restricted to widows of men who were killed on active service or whose deaths were accepted as being war-caused and were therefore in receipt of a war widow’s pension. Later, widows of interned civilians who received a repatriation war widows’ pension were included, as were widows of allied ex-servicemen. The broad aims of the Guild were to watch over and protect the interests of war widows. While maintaining that every woman whose husband’s death was due to war service should receive adequate monetary compensation from the Government, so that she and her family could maintain a dignified standard of living, Mrs Vasey believed that the surest way to rehabilitation was through self-help. To this end she organised the formation of craft groups. The women involved in these craft activities not only enjoyed the company of others in the same sad position as themselves, but they experienced the thrill of satisfaction that creativity brings and, by the sale of their work, were able to supplement the meagre compensatory pension at the time doled out to them by the Government. Through Mrs Vasey’s leadership, Guilds were formed in all States during 1946-1947 plus the Australian Capital Territory in 1966. All were united in a National Guild over which Vasey presided until her death in 1966. During this time she inspired the respect and devotion of a group of very able women in all States and through her efforts the lot of the war widow became better: many improvements took place in pensions, housing, children’s allowances and hospital care. In November 1947 Jessie Vasey called a conference of National Body delegates from all States to meet in Melbourne to form a federal body. While each State body is autonomous in domestic organisation, the Conference achieved unity and biennial congresses have been held ever since. Motto of the War Widows’ Guild We all belong to each other. We all need each other. It is in serving each other and in sacrificing for our common good that we are finding our true life. (Extract from an Empire Day Message from His Majesty the late King George the Sixth in 1949.) Kookaburra Badge The badge, made of silver and designed by Andor Meszaros, was introduced in 1951. The badge featured the kookaburra, an industrious and cheerful bird who mated for life, was fearless and aggressive in the defence of its young and the area of territory it regarded as its own. “The kookaburra goes for what he wants and fights for its family. Isn’t that what we are doing?” Mrs Vasey asked her girls. The bird also had a unique call, not a song but a laugh, a chortle of rollicking mirth. It was a call to win the war widow back to laughter. Published resources Book No mean destiny : the story of the War Widows' Guild of Australia 1945-85, Clark, Mavis Thorpe, 1986 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These records may not be readily available) War Widows' Guild of Australia Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Kookaburra Badge Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Written by Elizabeth Guy after the death of Ellinor Walker on 7 November 1990 aged 97 years Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Correspondence files of Laurence Pollinger Ltd relating to Christina Stead. Contains one autographs letter, one autograph postcard, 135 typed letters and several telegrams from Stead to Laurence Pollinger Ltd written from Surbiton, Canberra, New York, Sydney and elsewhere, 1969-1981. The letters are inter-filed with a least two hundred carbon copies of letters to Stead from the Pollingers and members of their staff together with related internal memoranda. Also includes two typed letters from David Stead, written after his sister’s death in 1983. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Records consisting of minutes of annual, monthly and committee meetings and annual reports, together with an unpublished history of the club. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 July 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Contents include minutes, alphabetical files, pictorial material correspondence relating to the Australian Women’s Digest, women in war, women in the Public Service and women and the Church Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 June 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "This collection includes (1) 9 minute books of meetings, Sept. 1946-Oct. 2000; (2) 3 attendance books relating to meetings, Feb. 1955-Oct. 2000; (3) correspondence, 1955-2000, including correspondence regarding the push allowing for A.W.L.A. members to participate in the ANZAC Day March; (4) photograph album, inscribed to Hazel Fenwick, dated 1945, including signatures at the front of the album of fellow workers from Hanwood, N.S.W. The photographs depict people as well as farms in Griffith and surroundings districts. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Includes correspondence, drafts, reviews, cuttings and other papers. Drafts include The golden fish, Mines and men, The division of love, Venom, Dream run and various short stories. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Louise Joy stood as an Independent candidate in the Legislative Assembly seat of Warrandyte at the Victorian state election, which was held on 30 March 1996. Her political career followed an important career in social work, locally and abroad. Daughter of medical missionaries, Louise Joy completed her tertiary education at the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor Arts (Honours) in History and a Diploma in Social Studies. At the conclusion of her Social Work studies at the University of Melbourne, Louise did her final three months Social Work placement at the Mental Health Centre CMC Vellore, South India. Louise and her husband Stewart, took their four children to India, spending time at Vellore and other scenes of her childhood. In her Social Work life Louise worked in hospitals and family support agencies in Melbourne and London. As a Social Worker from 1952-62 she worked with women who attempted suicide at the Alfred Hospital. After her marriage in the early 1960s she worked in Central London hospitals with single, pregnant women while her husband was based in the United Kingdom. She served on the Doncaster and Templestowe Council from 1990-94 after a period of establishing community services in Warrandyte. During the 1990s she spent ten years working for the Caroline Chisholm Society Pregnancy and Family Support which assisted women and young families in the western suburbs of Melbourne. In her community life Louise was a Local Government Councilor and started a range of groups in Warrandyte through a Coop. Louise has always been active in recruiting people for Vellore Dinners. She joined the committee Friends of Vellore Victoria in the late 1990s holding several positions including Secretary. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 September 2008 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Collection of articles about Australian tenpin bowler, Cara Honeychurch Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 December 2006 Last modified 4 December 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Record Repository State Library of South Australia Reference SRG 760 Date Range 1984 - 2001 Quantity 0 0.26 m Access No access to membership records prior to 2027 Records of the International Women’s Day Committee (SA) Incorporated comprising an outsize ‘Women’s Roll of Honour for the 20th Century in South Australia Volume 1’, compiled by Betty Fisher with artwork by Jenny Lee; and a circular letter sent by Betty Fisher for the International Women’s Day Committee call for ‘Reconciliation : women’s response from the non-indigenous community’. (A smaller printed copy of the honour roll is available for reference.) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jessie Street, Feminist, Pacifist, Socialist and Human Rights Worker. Part 1 Presents a commentary on Jessie Street from some who knew her and worked with her, and readings from her autobiography ‘Truth Or Repose’. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "40 minutes??Dr Winifred talks about her childhood in Broken Hill and Georgetown in the mid north of South Australia, bush schooling, Gladston and Adelaide High Schools, medicine scholarship, two other female medical students 1918-1922 – Dorothy Adams and Ricca Hubbe – Royal Adelaide Hospital, returned servicemen, marriage to Dr Fred wall, four children, private practice, World War II, specialising in anesthesia and working at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, committee involvement, President of the Medical Women’s Society, member of the Adelaide University Council, awards, and involvement in the Lyceum Club. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "National Archives Australia (Melbourne). ‘M’ – Mackie to Musgrove.??The Trust required that applications for grants be lodged on their prescribed application forms, the format of which varied slightly over the years, but which always requested the following general details: name and address of applicant, whether permanent resident in Victoria, date and place of enlistment, date and place of nursing training, hospitals worked in abroad, illnesses contracted abroad, name of medical adviser, occupation and details of any income, and reasons for application.??The applications are arranged alphabetically by surname of applicant in folders also alphabetically ordered. Applications made in 1975 at the invitation of the Trust in its attempt to disburse all remaining funds are mostly in letter form and contained in the folders of correspondence. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 tape reels (ca. 90 min)??Folkloric recording, Mrs Oldfield speaks about other local families; clearing the land; her husband Doug Oldfield; social activities; farm chores; living conditions in 1930s; her children; Ash Wednesday bushfire; her dressmaking business; her wedding celebrations; lack of medical services; and her involvement with the Country Women’s Association.?Part of a collection of recordings made by Helen O’Shea in the township of Ecklin South, Victoria in 1989 and 1990. The recordings aim to reveal the social fabric of life in a small rural community between 1900 and 1988. Author Details Jane Carey Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Two letters to Sapper W.E. Douglas Hamersley, 6th Field Co., Aust. Engineers, A.I.F. Frame, 20 October and 3 November 1918. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Mary Maguire was one of the first female presenters for ABC Local Radio in Broken Hill, New South Wales. Mary Maguire was born and raised in Broken Hill. Her mother, too, was locally-born but her father had come to Australia as a migrant from England and worked as a winder house driver in the mines. With her older sister Grace, Mary attended Morgan Street Primary School and North Broken Hill Primary School before completing her education at Broken Hill High School. On leaving school she found work at a grocery store owned by Mr. Dry and earned 10 shillings a week delivering groceries to customers’ houses by pushbike, enjoying the opportunity to meet different people in the Broken Hill community. After several years Mary gained employment at Wendt’s Jewellers in Argent Street as a shop assistant, and took pride in her smart red uniform with silver buttons down the side and a black skirt. Both she and Grace joined the Broken Hill Repertory Society, which opened in 1944, and relished the chance to act under the direction of Victor A. Bindley, who had worked with J.C. Williamson before moving to Broken Hill from Sydney. In due course Mary moved to Adelaide, where she continued to work for Wendt’s Jewellers. Again she became involved in theatre, this time under the tutelage of Jack Hume, and joined several productions for ABC Radio in Adelaide. After some years Mary moved to Sydney and began work at Proud’s Jewellers. During a holiday in Broken Hill she met the man she would later marry, and subsequently returned to Broken Hill to live permanently. In 1951, Mary became one of the first women presenters at the ABC Local Radio station in Broken Hill and worked on numerous programs including the West Darling Magazine and the Silver City Interlude. She compered talk shows such as the Today program, interviewing prominent people passing through Broken Hill, as well as people from the local community. Mary also contributed material for ABC Radio National, and produced a segment about Broken Hill for the women’s program. From 1982 she presented A Touch of Silver at 2NB in Broken Hill, focussing on issues relating to elderly citizens. Described as ‘a pioneer radio woman’, Mary Maguire died in July 2011 after a long illness. Her interviews and the sound of her voice are safely collected in the ABC Radio Archives. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. NB: Interviews with Mary Maguire are also held in the ABC Broken Hill audio archive. Published resources Newspaper Article ABC Celebrates 50th Birthday, 1982 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Mary Maguire Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 13 October 2011 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A cryptic drama of tensions and manoeuvres among a group of people. The film explores possibilities of expression outside traditional narrative. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Born in Poland in 1944, Anna Volska migrated to Australia with her mother when she was seven years old. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1962 and acted with the Old Tote Theatre Company for two years. It was there she met John Bell and they married in 1965. Following John’s career, they moved to England, where Anna spent three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-on-Avon. She was co-founder of the Nimrod Theatre and directed several of their productions. Anna has also directed productions for various other companies, including NIDA and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Anna and John set up the Bell Shakespeare company in 1990. Anna has appeared in many Shakespeare plays and Australian television drama series. In 1973 she won a Best Actress Logie for her portrayal of Helena Rubenstein in an episode of the ABC biographical series Behind the Legend. Anna and John have two daughters, Hilary and Lucy. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of John Bell and Anna Volska, 1935-2008 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Anna Volska interviewed by Michelle Potter in the Esso Performing Arts collection [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Anna Volska, actress, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Essie Coffey looks at life of the Aboriginal people in the NSW town of Brewarrina and reflects on how life as changed since she made the film, My Survival As An Aboriginal, in 1978. Subtitled by SBS Australia.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lillian Armfield was one of the first female plain-clothes detectives in Australia. She joined the New South Wales Police Force as a special constable in 1915 and retired 34 years later in 1943 as a special sergeant 1st class. During that time she helped runaway girls return home and dealt with female suspects or victims. Armfield was awarded the King’s Police and Fire Service Medal for outstanding service in 1947. Four years later, after her retirement, she was awarded the Imperial Service Medal. The daughter of labourer George Armfield and his wife Elizabeth (née Wright), Lillian Armfield was educated locally and became a nurse at the Callan Park Hospital for the Insane, New South Wales. In 1915 Armfield applied for a newly created position in the New South Wales Police Force. Recruited as a special constable, she was not supplied with a uniform or paid for overtime or expenses during her probationary year. A year later Armfield was enrolled as a special constable after she signed an agreement. The agreement denied her the right to compensation if she were injured while performing her duties or any right to superannuation upon her retirement. For Armfield, promotion was slow in her chosen career. Eight years after entering the police force she became a special sergeant, 3rd class and rose to 1st class in 1943, six years before her retirement. The basis of her work was with women and girls, often providing advice and dealing with crimes committed by or against women. In 1949, she retired from the police force, aged 65, and lived on an old-age pension until the New South Wales Government granted her a special weekly allowance in 1965. Lillian Armfield died on 26 August 1971, aged 86 years. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Rugged Angel: The Amazing Career of Policewoman Lillian Armfield, Kelly, Vince, 1961 Women Make Australian History : Women in Wartime 1914-1918, 1939-1945, Dugan, Michael and Gunter, Anne, 1996 Resource Section Armfield, Lillian May (1884-1971), King, Hazel, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070095b.htm Edited Book Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 October 2002 Last modified 19 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Farms Gathering Proceedings, Material Culture Icons, Banners, Newsletters, Programs, Cultural Partnership Agreement, Rural Women’s Network Events Kit Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret McLean, a founding member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Victoria in 1887, became Melbourne’s foremost advocate of votes for women. An active and well-known feminist, Margaret McLean was the first person to sign the Women’s Suffrage petition. She signed the petition as Mrs. William McLean, possibly to indicate the support of her husband, who was an influential Melbourne businessman. Despite receiving little recognition for her feminist activities, Margaret McLean was a strong political force for women’s rights in Melbourne throughout her life. Born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1845, Margaret was the eldest child of Andrew Arnot, builder and carpenter, and his wife Agnes. The family migrated to Melbourne in 1849 where her father became treasurer of the Melbourne Total Abstinence Society. Margaret became a teacher at the United Methodist Free Church School, Fitzroy in 1859 and as such, was one of the first trained teachers in Melbourne. She attended the Melbourne Training Institution for teachers from 1862-64, and worked as an assistant at Sa range of voluntary work, including visiting gaols, courts, and public houses, spending whole nights in slum areas, endeavouring to assist and protect young women. Margaret Arnot married William McLean, a hardware merchant on 10 March 1869 in Fitzroy. They later built and lived in Torloisk, East Melbourne. She was baptised by the Rev. James Taylor at the Collins Street Baptist Church in 1866. Her husband died some years before she did, in 1905. Margaret McLean became the founding President of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Victoria in 1887. She was the first president of the Melbourne Branch of the WCTU, and was the acting president and president of WCTU Victoria from 1891-1893 and again from 1899-1907. During these twelve years she travelled extensively throughout Victoria working for the WCTU. Her pamphlets Womanhood Suffrage (1890) and its sequel More about womanhood suffrage were circulated widely. She was instrumental in organising the Victorian Women’s Petition for the franchise, presented to parliament in 1891. The petition had 30,000 signatures, gained over 10 weeks, and Margaret McLean was the first person to sign it. In 1893 the WCTU made a plea for equal pay for women. Margaret McLean led a delegation to the Chief Commissioner of Police urging the appointment of women police and facilities for women at lock-ups. This was after learning that about 40 women were arrested each week as a result of protests against the prevalence of ‘sweating’ and a call for female factory inspectors. In 1900, she was the Australian delegate to the World’s WCTU Convention in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she also conducted a service in St Giles’ Cathedral. In March 1902, seeking the support of a wider constituency, she moved the resolution which began the National Council of Women in Victoria. This organisation, with the WCTU, pressed for women’s suffrage, juvenile courts, police matrons and other reforms, including raising the age of consent. She was appointed honorary life president of the WCTU in 1907 in recognition of her long and distinguished service to the organisation. This decision was made by a special resolution at the 1907 Convention of the WCTU. 1908 the right to vote was granted to women, and the age of consent was raised from 12 to 16 years. In retirement, Margaret continued to work for temperance, social reform and the Baptist Church. All photographs taken of Margaret McLean show her wearing a white ribbon tied in a bow, the badge adopted by the WCTU to symbolise purity. Margaret McLean died in Malvern on 14 February 1923, survived by eight of her eleven children. Six of her daughters’ lives reflected aspects of their mother’s career. Only Eva (1886-1968) and Jessie (1888-1964), a graphic artist, led domestic lives. Ethel (1873-1940) was head of staff at Lauriston Girls’ School, Melbourne. Winifred Lucie (1877-1944) was a nurse, Hilda (1879-1938) was a Baptist missionary in India, and Alice (1884-1949; Dr Alice Barber) graduated in medicine in 1906 and was a missionary in India for many years. Dr Barber also helped to run the Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, during World War I and later practised psychotherapy, making an influential contribution to its establishment in Melbourne. Published resources Resource Section McLean, Margaret (1845-1923), Hyslop, Anthea, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100322b.htm Mrs William McLean of East Melbourne, Wright, Norman, http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/McLean#Mrs_William_McLean_of_East_Melbourne Newspaper Article A Social Reformer (in the series 'Our Pioneers'), Brown, Basil S, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Jenni Colwill Created 18 March 2009 Last modified 26 September 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Folder contains a Percy Grainger labelled Envelope (marked 446 – 1,2,3 Melba to Rose and Percy Grainger) which contained letters to Percy Grainger and Rose Grainger from Nellie Melba. Most are undated (with archivists estimates). 10 original letters in Melba’s hand, 2 telegrams with Percy Grainger’s reply written on one and also with accompanying poem entitled “The Flag”, Also Percy Grainger’s typescript of an article from the Australian Musical News regarding Melba’s impromptu during a performance of his composition “Colonial Song”. Other Information: Many are undated and have previous archivists estimates of dates made from the contents of the letter. Also contains a photo image of the letter from Melba headed “Hotel Majestie New York”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 October 2017 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "The Australian Women’s Conference for Victory in War and Victory in Peace was held in November 1943, organised around the theme ‘A War to Win, a World to Gain’. In a feat of organisational excellence, given the restrictions placed on interstate travel during war time, ninety-one women’s organisations from around Australia met in Sydney, Australia, to discuss post war reconstruction and the ‘problems that will effect women and children in the post war period.’ The Australian Women’s Charter, which documents the resolutions brought forward during the conference and is considered a landmark feminist manifesto, was an important outcome of the conference. Described as ‘the largest and most representative feminist conference held until that time’, the 1943 Australian Women’s Conference for Victory in War and Victory in Peace brought together representatives of over ninety women’s organisations across a range of political ideologies to consider the problems of post war reconstruction, and the role of women within the ‘new order’ when peace returned. Organised by the President of the United Associations of Women, Jessie Street, the conference, held in Sydney, New South Wales in November 1943, has been referred to as ‘the high point of feminist solidarity and political mobilisation in the twentieth century’. Organised at a time when planning for peace was a politically bi-partisan priority, the conference addressed the complexity of women’s lives and interests but focused on one over-riding question: how would these be advanced in the planning of post war reconstruction? An important outcome of the conference was the development of a charter of rights for women in the post-war world. The Australian Women’s Charter, regarded as a land-mark feminist manifesto, was endorsed by the conference and represents a moment in time when Australian women prioritised the single category of gender over other political categories. The conference did not emerge from a vacuum. As early as 1941, the United Associations of Women (U.A.) had begun discussing the needs and roles of women in post war reconstruction. A Women’s Forum for Social and Economic Reconstruction was established; this forum held several important discussions. In 1942 the U.A. called a conference to consider ‘problems concerning women under war conditions’. Given the wide ranging subject matter which included: the status of Australian girls marrying American troops; the need for canteens in factories and schools; the provision of crèches and kindergartens etc. for the children of working women; the investigation of conditions surrounding rationing and the brownout, the conference attracted a lot of attention and left a lot of matters unresolved. The women of the U.A decided that a national conference was required. A separate committee, comprised of women from the U.A., as well as non-members with connections to a wide range of women’s groups, set about organising the conference. Preparation for the conference included consulting with as many women’s organisations as possible prior to the conference, in order to amass the resolutions which, when adopted, became the Australian Women’s Charter. After the conference, 20,000 copies of the Charter booklet were distributed to individuals and organisations in Australia and overseas. The Australian Women’s Charter Movement was established to provide concrete follow-up activity based on the resolutions outlined in the Charter. State conferences were organised, charter deputations lobbied members of the federal parliament on specific points and a follow up conference was organised in 1946. Representations of fewer organisations attended this conference, held in Sydney, New South Wales, in August 1946, however, there were a number of overseas delegates in attendance. Nevertheless, while it is true that the 1943 conference reflected the politics of unity that accompanied some forms of war-time political activism, the 1946 conference reflected the changes in the global political climate that developed in the post war period. Representatives of some of the more conservative women’s organisations had difficulty finding common ground with women like Jessie Street, president of the U.A., given their leftist connections. Maintaining a united feminist front became increasingly difficult as the world plunged into a new, cold war. In order to demonstrate the extent of unity amidst diversity that was present at the conference, the following list names all the organisations that were represented at the conference: New South Wales: Austral India League Australian Institute of Sociology Australian Railways’ Union – Women’s Auxiliary Australian Labor Party (Official) Australian Labor Party (State) Australian Labor Party (Concord West Branch) Australian Federation of Women Voters (N.S.W. Committee) Australian Association of Scientific Workers (N.S.W. Division) Australian Women’s Party Amalgamated Hospital Employees’ Association Amalgamated Engineering Union Board of Social Studies Balmain Council – Alderman Gallimore Bankstown Women’s Committee Communist Party Care of the Child in Wartime Committee Commonwealth Temporary Clerks Association Council for Women in War Work Christian Social Order Movement Domestic Employees’ Union Fellowship of Australian Writers Friendship with Russia League Federation of Infants’ School Clubs Friday Club Girls Friendly Society Glebe Council – Alderman Pitt Greenwich Women’s Committee Guildford Comforts Fund Granville Mothers’ Club Hairdressers’ Union Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees’ Union Humane Movement Ironworkers’ Union Municipal and Shire Council Employees’ Union National Council of Jewish Women New Education Fellowship Our New Order Presbyterian Women’s Federation Printing Industries Union Roseville Group, United Associations of Women Recreation and Leadership Movement Seamen’s Union, Women’s Auxiliary Sheet Metal Workers’ Union Sydney Women’s Cooperative Guild Teachers’ Federation Textile Workers Union Travellers’ Aid Society United Associations of Women Women’s Christian Temperance Union Watson Labor Women’s Auxiliary Widows of the A.I.F. Association Women for Canberra Y.M.C.A. Country Newcastle Housewives Association Newcastle Social Hygiene Committee Women’ Auxiliary, Coal and Shale Employees Federation, Newcastle Crippled Children Society, Newcastle Newcastle Trades Hall Council Katoomba P. & C. and Mothers’ Clubs Katoomba Crippled Children’s Society Katoomba R.S.S.I.L.A., Women’s Auxiliary Katoomba Congregational Church, Women’s Guild Lithgow Child Care Committee Democratic Housewives Association, Wollongong Goulburn A.R.U. Women’s Auxiliary West Maitland Branch, United Associations of Women Queensland National Council of Women Y.W.C.A. Women’s Auxiliary, Townsville Trades and Labor Council Women’s Auxiliary, Maryborough Trades and Labor Council Federated Clerk’ Union Storemen and Packers’ Union Town and Country Women’s Association Victoria Women’s Christian Temperance Union Council for Women in War Work Communist Party Munitions Workers Union Tasmania Housewives Association R.S.S.I.L.A. Guild of Remembrance National Council of Women Council for the Mother and Child Women’s International League South Australia Adelaide Jewish Women’s Guild Jewish Red Cross Society Women’s Christian Temperance Union League for the Protection of Aboriginal Women Communist Party West Australia Hotel, Club and Caterers’ Union Council of Churches Housewives Association Published resources Resource Section DRB Mitchell to Director, Commonwealth Investigation Branch, 7 June 1941, National Archives of Australia, http://www.uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/detail.asp?exID=93&iID=346&eID=&lID=3&cID=36 Jessie Street (left) with delegates to the second Australian Woman's Charter conference in Sydney in 1946., National Archives of Australia, http://www.uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/detail.asp?iID=367&lID=3&cID=29 Jessie Street, National Archives of Australia, 2018, http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/snapshots/uncommon-lives/jessie-street/life.aspx Edited Book Jessie Street : documents and essays, Radi, Heather, c1990 Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Book Section Girdled for War: Women's Mobilisations in World Wat Two, Saunders, Kay and Bolton, Geoffrey, c1992 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Records, 1960-1991 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection United Association of Women - Records, ca.1930-1970 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Jessie Street, circa 1914-1968 [manuscript] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 29 June 2004 Last modified 25 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Annual reports (incomp.); minutes 1980- Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "A. WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY GLADYS OWEN?1. The Bridge Workshops, 1930s?2. The Bridge, 1930s?3. Sydney Harbour, ca. 1950s?4. Convent at Vaucluse, ca. 1930s?5. The Bush Pool, ca. 1930s?6. The Shed, ca. 1930s?7. The Big Tree, ca. 1930s?8. The Bush Dairy, ca. 1930s?9. Camden Country, ca. 1930s?10. [Church in Spain], ca. 1920s-1930s?11. [Spanish town], ca. 1920s?12. [Spanish town with tower], ca. 1920s?13. [Spanish church], ca. 1920s??B. WOODCUT BY MAUD SHERWOOD?14. St. Peter with the keys, ca. 1920s-1930s Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 August 2002 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lillian Wells was the first moderator of the New South Wales synod of the Uniting Church (1977) . On 31 December 1977 she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (civil) for services to the church."
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    {
        "text": "Diaries (1886-1959); personal papers; correspondence, including that with her husband Martin Edward Jull; material re conscription referendum (1916), Royal Commission on administration of W.A. Health Act (1938), schools medical service (1920’s), University of W.A. (1922-1941), National Council of Women (1915-1939); and numerous articles, talks, etc. (1895-1942). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Lorna Bell was born in Kunanalling and went to school in Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie. She married Rex Mitchell in 1934 and they had one daughter, Jan. Rex died in 1985, aged 83. During the Second World war she joined the Red Cross where she became known as ‘Mrs Bottletops’ as she collected aluminium tops from bottles for recycling as part of the war effort. She met the Australian Troop trains full of soldiers going to or returning from the war, providing soup and other special meals. She ran the Parakeet Dance Hall to raise funds for ‘the boys’ and later met the trains carrying war brides on to Melbourne and Sydney and on to the US to provide a last touch of home in Kalgoorlie for the women. Lorna said that after a chance to change clothes and freshen up, ‘… many was the girl who cried on my shoulder before getting back on that train’. She also helped run the Blood Bank and assisted in the rehabilitation of the returned soldiers. After the war Lorna became involved in the Fresh Air League, a charitable organisation that gave underprivileged goldfields children the opportunity to enjoy a ‘fresh air’ holiday by the sea. From 1946 Lorna devoted much of her time as a voluntary aide assisting deaf children with their education. In August 1947 she became an assistant teacher – special education with the then superintendent recognising her incredible perception and ability to teach deaf children and others deemed ‘unteachable’ because of their disabilities. In 1951 as principal she opened her school dedicated to the teaching of these children. It became the greatest achievement of her life for 33 years, and in 1985 the school was named after her. For her work she received the British Empire Medal and as a further honour in 1998 for her continued work with people with disabilities the Active Foundation made her an Honorary Life Member and Life Governor. In 1969 she was elected the first woman to the Kalgoorlie town council and later became deputy Mayor. In a decade of service to the council and community affairs she raised the status of women and opened the door for many to follow. A select list of her other contributions to the community includes helping organisations such as the Citizens Advice Bureau, Women’s Health Care Centre, Friends of the Hospital, Police and Aboriginal Community Relations Committee, Goldfields Childcare Centre and Goldfields Aged Welfare along with active roles in social or professional organisations such as Business and Professional Women’s Association, Hannans Golf Club, Goldfields Repertory Club, president of the Senior Citizens and president of Prospect Lodge, Lorna is a Justice of the Peace and Kalgoorlie’s best fundraiser, ticket seller and tin rattler for numerous worthy causes. In 1996 she received the Order of Australia for services to the community. Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Book One Hundred Women of the Eastern Goldfields, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Lorna Mitchell interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald [sound recording] Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 7 August 2012 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "On 1 January 1954, Pattie Menzies was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (Civil). The official citation, conferring the GBE to her under her married name, Mrs R. G. Menzies, read: “In recognition for her years of incessant and unselfish performance of public duty in hospital work, in visiting, addressing and encouraging many thousands of women in every State of Australia, including very remote areas, and in the distinguished representation of Australia on a number of occasions overseas.” Daughter of John William (later Senator) and May Beatrice (née Johnston) Leckie, Pattie Mae Leckie was born in Alexandra, Victoria. The eldest daughter of a farmer turned politician she attended Fintona Girls’ School. In 1953 there she returned to open new buildings, along with her husband, the Rt. Hon. R. G. (later Sir Robert) Menzies. Pattie Leckie met Robert Menzies in 1919, and the couple were married on 27 September 1920. The Menzies had four children, one of whom died at birth. Throughout their 58 years of marriage Dame Pattie was involved with charitable work whenever possible. Dame Pattie was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her charitable work. She received this honour nine years prior to her husband receiving his knighthood (1963). On 19 September 1995, Kate Carnell, Chief Minister of the ACT, in a tribute to Dame Pattie, stated: “[Dame Pattie] had great concerns for her fellow citizens, particularly for women. She was mindful of the importance of recognising the role of women in the development of the nation…Dame Pattie excelled at making people feel at ease and was at home talking to people from all walks of life. She supported community work…I am sure many former girl guides and brownies…remember cleaning the silver at the Lodge for Dame Pattie as part of Bob-a-Job Week.” Dame Pattie’s life spanned 96 years. During that time she lived through two world wars, the depression and the postwar reconstruction of Australia. Sir Robert (1972) and two sons predeceased Dame Pattie. In 1992 she returned from Melbourne to Canberra, where she had spent many years during the time that Sir Robert was prime minister, to live with her daughter. Dame Pattie passed away on 30 August 1995. Published resources Sound recording The speeches of Sir Robert Menzies. Prime Minister Menzies and Dame Pattie Menzies giving their speeches at the opening of the T.I. Power Station , Tumut Ponds of the Snowy Mountains Scheme on October 31, 1959, Menzies, Robert, Sir, 1894-1978, 1959 Resource Section Robert Menzies/Pattie Menzies, National Archives of Australia, 2002, http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/meetpm.asp?pmId=12&pageName=wife Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Sir Robert Menzies, 1905-1978 [manuscript] Papers of Phillip L. Lawrence, 1928-1971 [manuscript] Papers of Hector Harrison, 1915-1978 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dame Pattie Menzies interviewed by Heather Rusden [sound recording] State Library of New South Wales Cutler family - papers, 1909-1995 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 12 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "In 1972 Pat Eatock became the first Aboriginal to stand for Federal Parliament in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). She participated in the Aboriginal Embassy and Women’s Liberation in 1972. In 1973 she became the first non-matriculated mature aged student at the Australian National University(ANU), graduating as a Bachelor of Arts in 1977. In 1975 she attended the 1975 Women in Politics Conference and the International Women’s Year World Conference in Mexico City. She has worked as a public servant, university lecturer, and established and managed the Perleeka Aboriginal Television, producing films for community television and training Aboriginal film makers from 1992-96. Pat Eatock passed away on 17 March, 2015 after a long period of ill health. Pat Eatock was born at Redcliffe, Queensland on 14 December 1937. Her mother, Elizabeth Stephenson Anderson, was a Scottish immigrant, and her father, Roderick Eatock was of Aboriginal and English descent. She had a disrupted education due to her father’s mental illness and she left school at 14 to work in various factories. At 18 she moved to Sydney and married a cousin, Ron Eatock. They lived in Green Valley and by the time she was 26 she had had two miscarriages and five children, one of which was profoundly disabled. She began to publicly identify as an Aboriginal in 1957 when she attended a meeting of the Union of Australian Women at which Faith Bandler spoke, but her political activities were limited by her family commitments until 1972, when she attended a FCAATSI land rights conference in Alice Springs with her sixth child. In 1972 she left her husband and, with her baby, joined the Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra and participated in the protests against its removal. She lived initially in the Canberra headquarters of the Women’s Liberation movement. She became the first Aboriginal candidate to stand for Federal parliament in the ACT when she campaigned, unsuccessfully, as an independent in the 1972 elections. Her platform, endorsed by the newly-formed Women’s Electoral Lobby, focussed on Aboriginal, women’s and children’s issues. In 1973 she enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts degree, becoming the first non-matriculated mature age student at the Australian National University. Majoring in Philosophy and History, she graduated in 1977. In 1975 she was sponsored by the government to attend the Alternative Tribune to the International Women’s Year World Conference in Mexico City, and also attend the Women in Politics Conference in Canberra that year. Her public service career included working as a Project Officer in the Department of Social Security’s Aboriginal Unit (1978-81), and in the EEO unit of the NSW Department of TAFE (1987-89). In 1991-92 she lectured in community development at Curtin University, Western Australia. In December 1992 she established Perleeka Aboriginal Television, which she managed until its demise in 1996. Through it she trained Aboriginal film-makers, produced films for community television, and unsuccessfully attempted to open an Aboriginal TV channel. She taught Aboriginal Studies at James Cook University in 1997, and in 1999 undertook a one-year preliminary course with the intention of beginning a Masters degree in history at the University of Queensland. In 2011 Pat Eatock came to public attention when she brought a case of racial discrimination against Andrew Bolt, journalist with the Herald and Weekly Times newspaper, the Herald Sun. The case was heard in the Federal Court of Australia. Bolt wrote a number of articles implying that people of fair skin who identified as Aboriginal did so for social and political advantage. Pat Eatock’s case was upheld and the court directed the newspaper organisation to print a corrective notice. Published resources Article Aunty Pat Eatock Passes Away Quietly After a Lifetime Of Glorious Noise Making, Graham, Chris, 2015, https://newmatilda.com/2015/03/17/aunty-pat-eatock-passes-away-quietly-after-lifetime-glorious-noise-making A History of Section 18C and the Racial Discrimination Act, Marlow, Karina, 2016, http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2016/08/16/history-section-18c-and-racial-discrimination-act Book Section There's a Snake in My Caravan, Eatock, Pat, 1987 Pamphlet A small but stinging twig : reflections of a black campaigner, Eatock, Pat, 1973 Journal Article Black Demo, Eatock, Pat, 1973 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Federal Court of Australia: Eatock v Bolt (No 2) [2011] FCA 1180, Federal Court of Australia, 2011, http://www.justinian.com.au/storage/pdf/eatock_bolt_2.pdf Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Pat Eatock interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording] Interview with Pat Eatock for the 'Interchange' programme December 21, 1977: a 2XX Radio Station broadcast [sound recording] / interviewer: Biff Ward. Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 16 June 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Red Cross Archives series reference: NO22 Comprises meeting minutes and papers from a range of National Office sub-committees including those administering: National Youth Committee, Youth and Education Advisory Committee, Women Personnel Sub-Committee, Florence Nightingale Memorial Committee, Conference of Directors of Welfare Services and National Publicity Conference. Some of these records pertain to funds and fundraising. This series has been artificially created and arranged by the Red Cross Archives, 2015. See also: Minutes and Meeting Papers, National Council (2016.0058); see also Minutes of the Finance Committee (2015.0030) Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 9 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Box number 249 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Margaret Farmer was a social worker and psychotherapist. She was a foundation member of a group of child care centres established in the 1970s in Caulfield, Victoria. She was a volunteer visitor for 17 years of the Anti-Cancer Council Breast Cancer Support Service. Margaret Farmer was awarded her B.A. Dip. Social Studies in 1956 and her B.Social Work in 1978, both from the University of Melbourne. She was a member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby, International Women’s Development Agency, Amnesty International, Coalition against Trafficking Women, Austcare, UN NA, Soroptimist International, Unifem and Genealogical Society of Victoria. Margaret is the daughter of Margery Johnson (née Warren), and mother of Felicity, Celia and David. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 14 February 2001 Last modified 5 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "The papers relate to her membership of the National Council of Women of Australia, National Women’s Advisory Council, National Women’s Consultative Council, Federation of University Women, and International Council of Women. Includes reference files, correspondence, minutes, speeches, press clippings and articles. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Papers of Winifred Hilliard comprising details about Ernabella designs and their development, copies of magazine articles, papers given, notes, report, biographies, letter and transcript of interview. (Photocopies only). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "1. Anonymous letter to Smith Elder & Co., 1853. 2. Estimate of character of C. H. Spence. 3. Letter to editor of Cornill Magazine, 1873. 4. Holograph postcard to Miss Windeyer. 5. Letter from E. Nanson to Miss Spence. 6. Letter from Emily Clark to Lady Windeyer. 7. Letter from Emily Clark to Henry Parkes.????A guide to the material is available at MG mfm G 7743.??Microfilm copy of original documents in the Mitchell Library. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Joyce, an Australian pianist, speaks about her first piano; school; music lessons; her hands; early life; Percy Grainger; conductors; her first concert; agents; her overseas tours; her interest in the harpsichord; her own pianos; studying in Liepzig; her teachers; her recording career; playing in films; Frank Calloway; Sydney Pianists Competition; her marriages; her Australian tours; and her repertoire. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Jan Marsh is a significant member of the trade union movement in Australia, arguing many of the Australian Council of Trade Union’s submissions in national wage and industry cases. Throughout her career she has advocated not only for the improvement of women’s opportunities in the labour movement, but also for more equal representation within Australia’s trade unions themselves. Jan Marsh graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Economics in 1969 and the following year joined the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) as an Assistant Research Officer. As part of a larger research team, Marsh assisted in developing the 1983 Prices and Incomes Accord, a series of agreements between the Labor Party and the ACTU which moderated wages demands in return for improved ‘social wages’, such as employment, Medicare, superannuation. Additionally, she successfully argued the case for unpaid maternity leave before the Arbitration Commission in Melbourne, securing leave of up to 52 weeks for Australian women. In 1978 the National Women’s Advisory Council was established to provide advice to the Fraser government on women’s issues, and Marsh was successfully selected as an initial member. With her extensive experience as a trade unionist, Marsh was able to contribute to the Council’s two annual reports, More Than A Token Gesture and An Equal Voice. In 1979 she was promoted to industrial advocate of the ACTU, a move which placed her in the, ‘most important office ever held by a woman in the history of the trade union movement’, (Veitch, ‘Jan wins time off for mothers’, People, 1979). From 1989 until 2008, Marsh worked at the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC), serving in the positions of Deputy President and Senior Deputy President. She was also a member of the first all-female bench in 1989. At the time of her resignation Marsh was the most senior female member of the AIRC. Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra National Women's Advisory Council - Jan Marsh (member) Trade, business and trades unions - Jan Marsh at the office of the Australian Council of Trade Unions National Library of Australia Biographical cuttings on Jan Marsh, unionist, ACTU chief officer and advocate, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals Author Details Dana Pjanic Created 17 November 2020 Last modified 17 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Research papers and notes on PNG elections, Kuma, Aboriginal Australians and gender relations; fieldwork notebooks, correspondence, draft manuscripts and completed MA thesis, sketches of kinship diagrams, reports and publications, financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, sound cassettes and reel tapes. Includes material from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS). Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 25 July 2017 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Nalda Searles is nationally recognised for her baskets and artworks using materials found in the bush. Working within the landscape her art reflects a deep commitment to nature and culture. Her inspirational workshops and involvement with Aboriginal women have seen new methods of making grass basketry and sculpture spread into remote indigenous communities. Nalda Searles was born in Kalgoorlie and went to the Boulder, then Bullfinch, Primary Schools before attending Northam Senior High. She left for Perth to study and work as a psychiatric nurse. Travel abroad gave her a deeper appreciation of the arts, and on return she undertook a brief course in macramé at the Midland Technical School. This quickly led to a life long commitment to working with fibres. Renowned potter and friend Eileen Keys encouraged Nalda to source her materials from the environment, and in 1983 a six-week bush camp in the Yilgarn resulted in an exciting collection of baskets made from bark, grass, flowers and sticks. This led to her first major solo exhibition Bush Meetings and Basketry (1985) at the Craft Council of Western Australia. In 1989 she featured in the ABC television series The Makers. A Fine Arts degree at Curtin University followed. In 1993, while working on the Wama Wanti Street Art Project for indigenous people in Kalgoorlie, she met senior Wongi woman Pantjiti Mary McLean. The two women became close friends, shared their skills, and collaborated in joint exhibitions of their work. Nalda has worked overseas as an artist-in-residence, and her works are held in numerous public and private collections. A major survey of her work ‘Drifting in my own land’ was held in 2009 at Curtin University, and has toured nationally. In 2009 her contribution to the arts was recognised by the state with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Published resources Edited Book Nalda Searles, Drifting In My Own Land, Nichols, Andrew, 2009 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Author Details Nalda Searles Created 9 August 2012 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Amalfi Restaurant, Kalgoorlie Boulder Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Mrs Marinka, waitress at the Amalfi Restaurant Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Maude Wordsworth James Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Pantjiti Mary McLean (sat down) and Nalda Searles Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Nalda Searles: Trading Teapot Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Mary-Nalda_ca-1990s.-Photograph-courtesy-of-Nalda-Searles.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: NaldaSearles-Courtesy-Nalda-Searles.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: tran9 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Reports of W.A.A.A.F. Officers, 26 Jan.-3 Oct. 1942 (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2)?’Letters to & from W.A.A.A.F. Officers 1-9-42 [7 Aug. 1942] – 1-6-43 [27 May 1943]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2)?’Letters to & from W.A.A.A.F. Officers 1-6-43 [17 May 1943] – 1-1-44? (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2)?’Letters to D. W.A.A.A.F. from W.A.A.A.F. Officers [being correspondence] 1-1-44 – 1-1-45 [17 Jan. 1945]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2)?’Unofficial letters to and from W.A.A.A.F. Officers 1-1-45 [27 Nov. 1944] – end [29-1-46]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/3)?’Letters from Sq/Off. [Edna] Speed 1-1-45 [9 Dec. 1944] – [7 Feb. 1945] (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/3)?’Unofficial letters from Ft/O [Jean] Lawson [19 Aug.-26 Dec. 1944]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/3)?’Semi-Private Letters to [and from] Sqdn/Off. C. Stevenson 1-8-41 [18 Aug. 1941] – 1-6-42 [18 Apr. 1942]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/3)?’Unofficial letters (G/O Stevenson) 1-6-42 [30 Mar. 1942] – 2nd Sept. ’42’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD 0N 2072/3)?’Unofficial letters (G/O Stevenson) 1-9-42 [17 June 1942] – 29-12-42? (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/4)?’Unofficial letters G/O/Stevenson 1-1-43 [12 Nov. 1942] – 1-6-43 [6 July 1943] (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/4)?’Unofficial letters to & from G/O Stevenson 1-6-43 [15 May 1943] – 31-12-43? (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/4)?’Unofficial letters to & from D. W.A.A.A.F. 3-1-44 [20 Dec. 1943] – 1-145 [10 Jan. 1945]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?’Unofficial letters to & from D. W.A.A.A.F. 1-1-45 [20 Sep. 1944] – [11 Apr. 1946]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?’Unofficial letters [correspondence of] S/Off. [Mabel Flora] Miller [1 Oct. 1942 – 23 Nov. 1943]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?’Semi-Private Letters [correspondence of] S/O [Eugenie Camille] Wickham Lawes [18 May-13 June 1942]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?’Semi-Private Letters to [correspondence of] Flt/Off. Sybil-Jean Burnett [10 June 1940, 6 Aug. 1941-22 May 1942]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?Correspondence of Clare Grant Stevenson, 1941-1946, mainly concerning the W.A.A.A.F., including letters received from Wing-Officer Audrey Beatrice Herring and Helen Palmer, and Department of Air Minute Paper concerning enlistment of W.A.A.A.F. personnel for duration of the war (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?Correspondence of Clare Grant Stevenson, 1942-1945, mainly concerning W.A.A.A.F. personnel, including letters received from Wing-Officer Audrey Beatrice Herring (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?W.A.A.A.F. Officer Trainees’ Essays, 1943 (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6)?’Broadcasts, Speeches and Newspaper Articles [mainly by] Group Officer C.G. Stevenson’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6)?’D. W.A.A.A.F.’s Invitations [and related correspondence]’, 1 Oct. 1944-Feb. 1946 (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6)?’Personal Receipts of Group Officer Stevenson 1-4-42 to [1946]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6)?’W.A.A.F. Publicity’, 1942-1946 (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6)?Parcel of papers, 1941-1945, including Royal Australian Air Force orders and handbook of administration; publications concerning the R.A.A.F.; reports and studies on, among other things, German psychological warfare, and fatigue; and officers’ accounts/biographies (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/7)?Notebook of D. W.A.A.A.F. visits to units, 1 Mar. 1943-11 Apr. 1945 (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/7)?Printed material, 1943-1946, being British and Australian publications concerning military service, demobilisation and postwar reconstruction (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/7)?Papers concerning An Investigation into the Selection, Training and Placement of Officers in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force, 1947, including report, completed questionnaires and letters received from ex-W.A.A.A.F.s (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/8)?Original wrappings of Clare Grant Stevenson’s personal W.A.A.A.F. files originally containing most of the papers at ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2-8 (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/8) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 May 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "[Red Cross Archives series reference: V30]??This series comprises two volumes containing details of those enrolled with Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachments and available for work at military, civilian and temporary hospitals as well as convalescent homes around Melbourne and surrounding districts from 1915 to 1919.??Established in 1915 Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) were members of the Australian Red Cross and the Order of St. John Members who received both first aid and home nursing instruction from St. John Ambulance Association. They performed duties such as a medical orderly or nursing assistant. http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0491b.htm?https://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/vad??See also to series FIELD FORCE AND VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENT SERVICE RECORDS (2016.0050).??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Personal File – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Created 13 October 2020 Last modified 13 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "3 digital audio tapes (ca.158 min.)??Prof. Kerr, art historian, recalls her upbringing in Sydney (late 1930-early 1950s), then onto Brisbane, Qld in 1951; her early education; her undergraduate study at the University of Queensland (late 1950s); meeting her future husband at the University and marriage in 1960; her husband’s job at QANTAS and their work related overseas travels in Europe and England; her work as a journalist under Donald Horne at the Weekend magazine, Sydney (early 1960s); motherhood; her developing interest in art and architecture, including her studies at Courtauld Institute and Birkbeck College, University of London; her studies and work at the Power Institue of Fine Arts, Sydney, expressing her views on the politics and administration of the Institute.??Prof. Kerr speaks about her doctoral studies on Australian church architecture at York, England; her work at the Australian National University, Canberra as a tutor and postdoctoral fellow; upon her return to Sydney, becoming a lecturer in Fine Arts, University of Sydney (end of 1981); along with Terry Smith teaching the first undergraduate course in Australian art at University of Sydney; her political attitudes and feminism; her research projects including the Dictionary of Australian Artists; her experiences in publishing her scholarly works; her move to the position of research professor at the College of Fine Arts, University of N.S.W. for 3 years; her views on the importance of good publications catalogues for exhibitions, etc; her general views on Australian art. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, notes etc. dealing with women’s achievements and rights, music scores, photographs, pamphlets, songsheets; minutes of the Equal Pay Conference, 1958; items about Vida Goldstein, British women police, Eleanor Mary Hinder, Henrietta Szold, and general women’s matters; postage stamps and a curriculum vitae. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 hr 59 min?Oral history?audio cassette; TDK AR60; stereo Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Monica Maughan’s acting career spanned many media and genres, including stage, television, cinema, comedy, drama and ballet. Throughout her career she was awarded two ‘Erik’ awards, three Green Room Awards and two AFI awards. Monica Maughan, was born in Tonga, where her father, Harold Alfred Wood (1896-1989) was head of Tupou College at Nafualu, near Nuku’alofa, Tonga. He later became Principal of Methodist Ladies’ College, Melbourne for almost thirty years. Her birth name was Monica Cresswell Wood. Few actors in Australia were better known in so many media and genres, covering stage, television and cinema, comedy, drama and ballet. Monica Maughan began her acting career while at the University of Melbourne, appearing with Barry Humphries, Robin Ramsay, Maggie Millar, Dennis Olsen, Germaine Greer and Richard Pratt. Her obituary in The Age noted that: The multi-award-winning Maughan, whose more than 100 theatre credits cover just about every memorable play produced by Australia’s leading theatre companies – plus nine stage plays in Britain – also appeared in four short films, 18 feature films, 42 television drama and comedy shows, and twice with the Australian Ballet.[1] She took her BA in 1960 from the University of Melbourne and spent 1963 to 1968 in Britain, returning to a stellar performance in the first production of the newly-renamed Melbourne Theatre Company (formerly the Union Theatre Repertory Company) as Miss Jean Brodie. The role won her the first of two ‘Erik’ awards. This annual award is named in honour of Erich Kuttner, a German refugee actor who came to Australia in 1939. The second was awarded in 1971 for her performance as Anna Bowers in Three Months Gone by Donald Howarth. Monica Maughan’s other awards included three Green Room Awards for best supporting actress, one for best actress and two AFI awards. Her television parts included roles in series on commercial television in The Box and Prisoner. The role of Monica McHugh in the ABC’s The Damnation of Harvey McHugh won her a Silver Logie as Most Outstanding Actress in 1995. She toured Australia between 1988 and 1992 playing Miss Prism in the MTC production of The Importance of Being Earnest with Frank Thring, Geoffrey Rush and Ruth Cracknell. As well as appearing twice with the Australian Ballet she played the piano live on stage in Justin Fleming’s award-winning Burnt Piano. One of her last and best-received cinema performances was in The Road to Nhill, the 1997 film directed by Sue Brooks. [1] Gerry Carman. ”Wonderful’ Thespian a Real Trouper’. Age. 9 January 2010. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 8 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "Glass photographic negatives of teaching aids, toys, crafts etc. at Errol Street School (one item October 1914); various photographs of children in kindergartens, with one of the Lady Gowrie Centre, Carlton, 1940, the Forest Hills Holiday Home 1937, and a children’ miniature theatre, 1887; photographic slides of “Mooroolbeek” and the Abbotsford Convent site; film ‹End of the Beginning”, 1979 and audio tapes of graduations etc., photographs of students 1930’s-1970’s; 78 rpm records of student recruiting talks; published reports; etc. Author Details Clare Land Created 10 September 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "83 min 14 sec??Mrs Adam-Smith became a Voluntary Aide working in hospitals in North Queensland for three years. The nursing consisted mostly of inoculations, malaria and worms were rife. Causalities were from New Guinea. Mrs Adam-Smith discusses contraceptives and their availability. Clare Stephenson is mentioned- she founded the Women’s Australian Airforce Corp. She discusses the problems encountered by girls who became pregnant. VD clinic lectures are mentioned as a total waste of time-incomprehensible in their presentation. Relations with the American servicemen are mentioned. Attitudes to women in the war- both civilian and servicewomen are discussed- servicewomen were well thought of. Mrs Adam- Smith comments on women having to give up work at the end of the war. There was no organisation for civilian women, like the ex-service women for after the war. Women’s war effort hasn’t been recognised. Identity cards for movement and rations are mentioned. She remarks that since General Macarthur was running the war here, this put Prime Minister John Curtin and General Blamey into difficult positions. Mrs Adam-Smith lists prominent women in the services- Clare Stephenson in the RAAF, Sybil Irving in the Army. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
    },
    {
        "text": "Rosemary Joan Brudenell Derham was the wife of David Plumley Derham, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne from 1968 to 1982. Rosemary took a keen interest and concern in local engagement and child welfare. She belonged to a number of women’s organisations and also served on the Committee of Management of the Royal Children’s Hospital."
    },
    {
        "text": "I. Alphabetical files, 1902-1991 (Call No.: ML MSS 6254/4-22)?II. Marbig PVC Divider Foolscap Files, 1988-1991, established in 1990 (Call No.: ML MSS 6254/23-24) Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "MS 9616 comprises five files of “whites”, ie. Copies of Jean Whyte’s official letters and minutes during her employment with the National Library of Australia, with letters and minutes of A.P. Fleming, the National Librarian 1970-1973, and drafts of articles. Colour transparencies taken at Whyte’s farewell from the National Library include Pauline Fanning, Dulcie Penfold, George Clark and Dr George Chandler, National Librarian 1974-1980. The collection also includes letters and poems of Donovan Clarke (2 boxes).??The Acc02.171 instalment includes notebooks from Whyte’s undergraduate days in the early 1950s, papers relating to her training as a librarian, and correspondence, references, talks, notes of meetings and reports dating from her time at the State Library of South Australia, Fisher Library, the National Library of Australia and Monash University. There are also diaries and audio tapes (2 boxes, 6 A3 cartons).??The Acc07.199 instalment comprises papers collected or created by Whyte for Uniting a profession including rough notes, draft chapters of the book, card indexes, lists of figures associated with the Australian Institute of Librarians and Library Association of Australia, and series of subject files containing original and photocopied manuscripts from the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) archives (7 boxes).??The Acc10.044 instalment comprises correspondence, appointment diaries, family papers, photographs, and poetry and other writings of Whyte (2 boxes).??The Acc11.052 instalment comprises unpublished articles on library themes written by Whyte, university newsletters and business correspondence (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Digitised soundfile (82 minutes). Interview conducted in Melbourne on 7 June 2010. Created 19 November 2020 Last modified 19 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "The Women’s Club was founded in 1901 by Dr Mary Booth to provide a place where women interested in public, professional, scientific and artistic work ‘might spend their leisure moments and associate together.’ The first committee also included Lady David and Rose Scott. It began with 100 members – rising to 807 by 1929. Within the Club there was a debating group and a Thursday Group, while the Sydney University Women Graduates Association and the Professional Women Workers Association were also associated with it. The annual reports of these last two associations are included with those of the Women’s Club. The preliminary meeting of the Club, called by Mary Booth, was held at the Women’s College of the University of Sydney and attended by more than 100 women. The first president was Lady Beaumont, wife of the Admiral of the British fleet stationed in Sydney. Published resources Report Annual Report and Balance Sheet, Women's Club, 1906-1987 Book Memorandum and articles of association of the Women's Club, as amended up to 31st January, 1963 and by-laws of the Women's Club in force as at 31st January, 1963., Women's Club, [1963?] Memorandum, 1920|| 1923 Rules, Women's Club, 1905|| 1917 The Story of The Women's Club: The first fifty years, Hooper, Florence Earle, [1964] Calendar Calendar, Women's Club, 1911-1914 Journal Article Cara David: A leading woman in Australian education, Kyle, Noeline J., 1993 Edited Book Women in Australia : an annotated guide to records, Daniels, Kay, Murnane, Mary, Picot, Anne and National Research Program (Australia), 1977 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Scott family - Manuscript and pictorial material, 1777-1925 Life stories presented by members of the Women's Club, 2002-2005 Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Box 09: Fry family - papers of Edith Fry, 1881 - 1940 Irene Victoria Read papers, pictorial material and relics, 1839-1951 Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 22 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "2 hours 20 minutes??Joyce Candy, nee Cope, was born in Magill, South Australia, where she grew up much involved in community activities, particularly sport and church. She met her future husband at a Liberal Country League meeting. They married in 1942 and Joyce left her job with the Government Printing Office to move onto the Candy family property at O’Halloran Hill. She maintained her community interests and was a foundation member of the Happy Valley Branch of the Country Women’s Association. The Candy’s began to subdivide the property in the late 1960s. Joyce and her husband Dick had a daughter and a son. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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        "text": "6 min 2 sec. Actuality footage, Television news footage.?16mm/b&w/silent??The first members of the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps to serve overseas since the corps was formed in 1951 have arrived in Singapore. They are Captain Heather Gardner of Malvern, Victoria; Lieutenant Pam Smith of Padstow, NSW; and Warrant Officer Mary Bulmer, of Brighton, Victoria. Captain Gardner and Warrant Officer Bulmer are working at Australian Army Headquarters, Far East Land Forces, in Singapore. Lieutenant Smith is employed at the 121st Signals Squadron, an Australian Army unit in Singapore. The three WRAAC members are the advance party of a larger contingent of the corps who are due in Singapore during December. A WRAAC sergeant, two corporals and four privates will also be employed at 121 Signal Squadron. The three members of the WRAAC spent their first week sight seeing and familiarizing themselves with the city. They visited Change Alley – line up of traders who deal in clothing, souvenirs, furnishings and even tool kits for tourists. Change Alley, where price bargaining is a way of life, is in the heart of the city’s major tourist attraction blocks. They also walked the outskirts of the city’s Chinatown where 80,000 people live in one square mile. The women, who are on clerical and administrative duties, are quartered in hired accommodation and with the British Women’s Royal Army Corps. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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    {
        "text": "Sue Chilly is a staunch member of the Aboriginal rights movement, progressing reform both as an activist of groups such as the Australian Black Panthers, and as a field officer of the Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs. Please note; this entry draws substantially upon an ASIO dossier on Sue Chilly. We understand that these files often say more about the notetaker than the subject. Sue Chilly was born in the country town of Nambour and moved to Brisbane at a young age to find work. She soon became involved in the Brisbane chapter of the Australian Black Panther Party, where she served as the Minister for Information. Within this activist group, she helped provide free medical, legal and childcare services for Indigenous Australians, and also travelled to several cities to speak at conferences on racism and inequality. She additionally participated in a protest which briefly established an Aboriginal embassy in King George Square, Brisbane. Chilly held a number of various positions in many political groups. In 1974, she was the President of the Black Community Housing Service and the Secretary of the Queensland Committee Against the Act. She was also appointed to assist in conducting an Aboriginal education scholarship scheme and was employed by the Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs as a field officer. The next year, she was elected the State Secretary of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. In 1976, Chilly was a member of the Australian delegation to attend the International Tribunal of Crimes Against Women, held in Brussels. She was sponsored in this opportunity by the Australian Union of Students. At the conference, Chilly presented two papers describing how, ‘By colonialism, racism and sexism, Aboriginal women’s status [have] been reduced to the lowest level in the hierarchy of Australian society’ (‘Crimes Against Women’, Les Femmes, 1976, p. 67). Chilly was dissatisfied with the scope of issues discussed at the conference, feeling the event to be dominated by a western European viewpoint. This sentiment would remain a common theme throughout Chilly’s career as a feminist and Aboriginal rights activist, as she experienced how the lack of intersectional values of Australia’s second-wave feminism and the women’s liberation movement would continually serve to exclude and sideline Aboriginal women. Archival resources Queensland State Archives Chilly, Sue National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra CHILLY, Iris Suzanne Colleen ( aka CHILLY aka CHILE, Sue ) Volume 1 CHILLY, Iris Suzanne Colleen ( aka CHILLY aka CHILE, Sue ) Volume 2 The Black Panther Party of Australia Volume 1 The Black Panther Party of Australia Volume 2 CUMMINS, Marlene National Library of Australia Biographical cuttings on Sue Chilly, delivered a paper at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals Museum of Australian Democracy Australian Black Panthers Poster #2014-0233 Author Details Dana Pjanic Created 12 October 2020 Last modified 16 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)"
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